The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1878, Page 11

SCRIPIURE — LESSONS. Conversion Is Something More Than Mere Reformation. RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS. This Is an Age of Very Great Performances, ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH. LESSONS AND USES OF THE GREAT PLAGUE— SERMON BY REV. DR. WALTER W. WILLIAMS, At, St, George’s Churc, Stuyvesant square, yester- day, the rector, Rev. Dr. Walter W. Williams, offl- rated, and preached rmon upon the lessons of the prevailing epidemic in the South. His text was trom Paalms, xci., 5—The pestilence that walketh in dark- ness; the destruction that wasteth at noonday,” The reverend Doctor commenced his discourse by calling attention to the wonuerfully descriptive character of the words of the text as applied to the present state of things in the siricken cities of the South; how shrouded in mystery us to ite origin and progress in this epidemic; how it conceals itself from human Scrutiny, and treads with noiseless step tn its work ofdeath; bow it pervades the aimosphere, and yet Bo aualysia can find its cause, It decimates nations, and yet no search can unvell its starting Place, 1t walks inthe darkness of the night and wastes ip the noonday; it spreads overa city and sometimes travel @ continent; it marches along rivers and leaps over oceans; it has swept away muilliobs of the Face, and yet it remains an insoluble and inscrutable mystery. Weil does the psaimist name it ‘the pesti- Jence that walketh io darkness.” Never shall I tor- get the occasion when this expression had a terrible Vividuess of mvaning for me, suid the preacher, It was on a summer atternoon, iu Norfolk, in the month company with a friend ken city. We hud owe could see the beautiful har- reached a point wi but not a sail ora steamer was in view; pO sound was to be beard but the spiash of the water on the sand. Around us were silent Streets and deserted hous a cool, refreshing breeze was swelling in the trees and tho periume of lowers filled the air; the sun was grauuully winking to rest and edging the fleeey clouds with crim- sou aud gold, ana the bread expa of the distaut bay reflected its chauging buos and mirrored back the glory of the ris and yet the balmy air was laden with the nowom mic, and the bright suuset w. Iighting up a canbe of woe and death; whole hou: holds sini:ten down and not one able to suceor or iva cup of water to their ouruing lip: of. wealth with their dead unburied; coflins iniug dear ones luid upon the curbstone, to bo taken ap vy the dead cart in iis burried rounu; trenches and pits dug in the cemetery becaus: graves enough could not be nad; food getiing scarce and all Avenues of supply cut,ol—such was the condition of things in the plagueestrickun city, aud week alter Week the dread monotony of death went on! It must be Been to be realized tn all iis horrors, THE GREAT HISTORIZAL PLAGUES. The preacher thea turned Irom persoval impres- }Ous to tuke a broader view of the subject, beginning ih w few Feterences to tho great pluyues recorded ory, Pestileuco, he said, occupies a very Prominent place in the annals of mankind, Lt has Bot the grandeur and glory that bi does it dgu' jo lurgely im the pag: 1 the historian, but iu its uestructive effects it 1s scarcely joss ter- rible, War ut be detined “curnage adorned vy heroism,” pesitlence ig “carnage witlout heroism,?? 1t ts too’ palulal lor history to dwell upou; it 18 the Mouvtony of death und dvsoiation, History there- Jore suuns it andenly tvuches bere and there upou its ravages. But the place it occupies in history does DOL represent its real place, either in its extent or eflects, Pestilence flils a mighty place in the economy Of buman existence; it has been at work frow age to uge, und even to recapituinte the great plagues (hat bave desoluted the world would more than oc- cupy my allotted time; but, in order to obtai tnpreesion of the maguitude of the subj Recessary to recall a lew ot the greai Christian era, lo AD. 170 terrivie pesti Favaged all Europe, in kome height, 1t was estimated that the deatus were ut Teast a myriad (10,000) aday. Again, a cen.ury later, the whole Roman Ewpire, from Egypt to Scotland, Was swept over by # siugic pestilence. Gibbon cal- seines. that bali the human race perished irom iy jassiug over 4 great number of intervening plagues, Avother general pestilence went coursing buck und forth through Europe and the world ior a period of tity-eigut years, between A. D, 642 und A. D, to no climate, no season oi the yeur, { communication, but coming and going AL pleasure, with litle respect eer to mouns or remedies, Some cities w Jett without an tnbab- Itaut. Passing again o by destructive plague: 345, When we meet the “biack death,” extending from China to Ireland, lb mauy cities wine out of ten of the inoabitanis per- ished aud some were entirely depopulated, In Lon- dou 50,000 perished. Veuice lost 100,000 of nor in- abituot:. In Spain two-thirds of the population is Said to Lave perished. Three ceuturies later another pestilence desoiaicd Europe. lu Naples 240,000 out 01 290,000 people died ;1n Genoa, 80,000 out of 94,000, Fity yours alter anoier piague broke out and swept over Europe tor nine years, and a century later tho Choicra marched wround the world on its mission et Goan. & = TUR CAUSES OF THESE PLAGUES ‘The preacuer (usu proceeued to cousiver the cau: hd Objects of these terrible visitations, As certainly A8 God exists, Said he, 80 certainly does God main- Quin 4 periect government over the world, and there- fore ali events must Lave some detuite aim oF pure pose. We Cannot believe tor an instant that an Agency like pestilence, Operating on #0 wide a scale, And With such striking Unilormity iu tue economy of the world, as uo eud or purpose to periorm. Ad- biting tat pestilence is a physical fact, under the Bootro: of unkHOWN but constant laws, does it exist for itseli, or nas it, Under the government of God, moral ends to subserve? ln otber words, hus God brougnt this tearful agency of pestiieuce into the world without @ purpose? Is it destruct ly for the sake of destruction, or has 1 bighe a Moral purposes 1b view to justily and explain its ex- istence? Thi Question the preacher answered in tho eMrmative. He believed that God, in tue appoint Ment of “the pestilence that walketh in qurkovss and the destruction that wasteth at noonday” meant to fuvigorate the stock of tue race, Sin Las two ellects, e000 tas physical aud the other on the moral na tere, sna they uct aud react on each other, St. Paul, jn tho first chapter of Komaus, depicted the mou- Btrous vices of tu Of his time, wien dered uecessary blood by the Great pestiience of tn In a simt- Jar manner the preacher described the subsequent Breat epidemics as bo Muny struggles tor iife bowween Abe lower aud bigher physical types of mankind, at- Ways rosulling in the Victory of the latter and couse. quent beset to ail succeeding generations He ro- ferred to the origin of the epidemic in Africa us a Proof of the unity of the race, wiieh should carry Conviction to those who have denied their xiuship With the dusky tribe of that coutioont, TRIBUTE TO REDDING. After an eloquent appeai tor charity to the strieken ones o/ the South, emphasized by bis personnl recol- leet 1 the berote sacrifices made by Nertherd wen and wo preacher selected tho case of young Redding, lav HERALD Correspoudent at Grouads—a touching logy. The papers of the past Week, be said, tell us of & case whien, lor fearless courage, bigh seuse of duty ud sublime heroism deserves to be remombered. It Wasa young mao, Just bwenty-tureo, Lhe telegraph Operator at Grenada, Miss, When the lever first ap- peared there he anuvunced bis determination to stay $ bis post, und for a time bis despatches caine, Dright aud hopetul, but soon tbe dri uilerivg and woo work, Hashing eo for the relict of Norfolk tn 1955, the the diseuse increased aud tue scenes his two sisters; the corpse was that of bis child Two days more elapsed and bis patches came aloug as us only the woiul picture drawn in them inoreased in ite dark colors, There wus no hope at Grenada, but tit young Redat emained unlaltering in the tace by Wirea, The town seemed to bi The next vay ul ib aud With tis opening came th Ging is down with the fever,” the next day unot » he hero nad died « ost, Aud Many sack there are, Memplis, Now Orlewus and Vicksvurg bave to-day tuis noble army of martyrs and glorious company Of saints, laignial found 1p this dreav bour of dauger and death, laying Gown their lives in secking to save and succor the Smitten, May their devowon stir our hearts and their example quicken us to generous gilts! Notwithsinading the smaliness of the audience a large collection was taken up. CENTRAL .M. CHURCH. % PAUL'S CONVERSION—SERMON BY THE REY. DR. NEWMAN, Dr, Newman took his textirom Acts, xxvi., 19, 20, in tho following word Wueroupon, O King Agrippa, was not disobediont unto the heaventy Vision; bat showed first unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem, fod thea to the Gentil that they should repent turn to God and do works meot for repent Teverend doctor discussed the two ft tions:—First, the conve: natural changoof bie moral nature, and, second, that the incidents of the event and the subsequent iile of, _ NEW YO YORK — HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1878,—TRIPLE — SHEET. — the apostle furnished the most indubitable evidence of the occurrence of the event, ‘Ihe divine truth, said the Doctor, always appears in paira, form- ing an antitheses, Now, the antithetical doo trine of redemption is the fall of man’ aud the ecorrespoodicg of conversion 1s mun’s moral lapsed condition, Conversion is not ¢, although, 1t is true, that the heart physical organ, but this is used io + the centre of affection, cou- ion always tmplies reforma- more. 1t supposes church communion, but itis something higher, for it is the investment of power to obey the divine I pravity ts weakness and wickodness. Str substituted for tI ese for th Conversion is the vioos of the heart and tho habitual pi lence of tl opposite virtues, Meekvess has the mastery of r humility of pride and love of hatred. Convorsion 1s the restora- lion of man’s moral outure to a normal condition from an abnormal condition, which is sin, He whois saintly 18 in harmony with the Cosmos, and it is a beautiful thought that in the saintitic the dominant characteristics of the soul are left unchanged but re- ceive @ Dew direct AMMITION IN BOTH CONDITIONS, Paul was just as ambitious after bis conversion as before. Love of company, wealth and love of kno: and elevaied, The ig not in man, nor of notin the Church, wor of the Church, but 1s & super: importation. In tllustration of principles the reverend doctor Version of Jacob at the brook Jabok; Jailer in Philippi and Luther an Erturth,’ He thea pro- ceeded to describe with great lucidity and minute ness St. Paul’s journey to Damascus, and as the Doc- vor himseif bad been over that same journey threo times bis description of those places and historical associations was Vivid. Having fluished this desorip- Mon he proceeded to consider the evidence of St, Paw evnversion. Saul, said he, was a ripe ud could pot have been deceived, His entire nd relizious bigowry preciuded the poi £ deception, He bad murder iw his heart jo bis eye, and wat thout motive to e1ve otners, "To accept Christ was to sacrilice all worluly great- he could offer no excuse to his parents, to to Theophilus or to the Jews, Hud h i to apprebund the prisoners, or had ho ubandoned the journey, it would b: been different, But to ombrace the cause which he was sent to ae- Stroy was an Offence without pardon, His own course of persecution must bave given bim feariul appro- hensions as to his safety, seif-detence should have deterred bim; but be was Wo sincere to be governed by such a motive. His subsequent hfe ts an un- answerable argument of his sincerity, his open and avowed confession before kings and former and bi ation of tl simply big enemies establishes the proof without doubt or cavil We id have been sus. picteus of bim bad silent. of sommerce, in the centres of oing, in the pal- of kings, b od she Vision he bad seen on way to Dama: No in in the aunals of the Church exemplitied in tr life such Christian vir- tues as St. Paul, BROOKLYN TAB TABERNACLE. THE PLAN OF SALVATION—SERMON BY THE REV. MATTHEW HALE SMITH, Mr. Talmage was absent from bis pulpit yesterday morning, and bis place at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was supplied by the Rev. Matthew Hale Smish, who Preached on the “Pian of Salvation,” taking his text from Joshua, 11, 2l—“She put the scarlet line in the window.” The preacher said that be intended to preach simply aGospel sermon, The seuriet line placed in the window was a signal typifying the sym- bvelism of religion, Every commander had a phi necessarily a plan of salvation, 2 ‘eli= stem created to gave. Men were saved through the Gospel and byalte prac They talked ofthe death of Christ as if it ort of after. thought, ag if 1 were not thought of till after the Suviour was born, but St. John said that He wast Lamp slain from the foundation ot the world, The scarlet line was a symbol of faith. Their religion, said the preacher, wax bot the religion of forms. In their ministry the preaching of the Gospel was the grat thing All the ‘Tne scarlet symbol of Bational upity, In the Vatican palace at tome, the speuker said, the Papal flug and the Amori- cau flig were crosi jn the ane hall, while bo other pation was so honored, flag bad saved the Vatican from destruc. tion, Whea ibe Pope was driveo from Rome : mob advanced to tear down the Vatican. 0 cardinals went to the Caited States Consul and anced him to transier his office to the Vatican und protect 1b thus from destruction. ‘ihe Cousul asked why he did not uli upon the representatives of the English, French or Austrian governments apd was uvewered that they would pot be able to af- ford so much protection, seeing that danger was imminent the Consul consen:ed, the United States tug wa over tne Vatican aud preserved it irom destruction, ‘The symbol saved the building. So it was in religion. The scariet blood of the Lord Je Christ was the symbol which saved. Tho pr deciared his belief in the utility of symbols. He be- hheved in the cross a8 a symbol ot gion, and thought it at least as good a symbol to place on church buildings as a codfish or a pumpkin ora rooster, a8 be had seen on some churches. ib ex terior symbols were not enough to save. One should carry them in bis beart. Symbols also represented the Comiorts aud consolations of faitn—what every- body wanted and all would bave if thoy trusted in the Lord. pieynh CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. DENY THYSELF AND FOLLOW ME—sERMON BY REV. & H. TYNG, JR. In the Church of the Holy Trinity Dr. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., preached asermon from the text Luke ix., 23— “Aud he said to them all, If any man will come alter me jet him deny himself and take up bis cross daily and foliow me.” Christ, he remarked, is ever on the cross, and yet tne Church has nocrucifix. Perhaps, he added, this is the best form im which to put the truth concerning the preciousness and power of that which is symbolized aud of which be was to speak 10 the congregation—namely, the sufferings of Cnrist. itis a simple topia. {his life 10 Him is Hoished, John the Lamb on the throue i heaven, still pre- atonement that He had accomplished, e avad Christ was, indeed, laid in tue tomb but after three days Ho poke of the things of tho beter yng briefly reterred to the 3: invercession for us, and udded that superstition in all ages of the Church bas striven to recall the living one from Hisa-cension to glory and to fix Him agam to the matorial cross, Tho crucifix is bat the expression of this desire, But He ever in the heavenly places, the Lamb of God slain irom the foundation of the world, Golgotha cannot be disiiuguished on this earth, wod yut 1t exists im this boly lava of reveia- tion, and by tho spirit of this truth 16 made the por- pevually recarri offering. The crucifixion iu God’s great scheme of Very con. tinues to be a reality among men, comes to & present source of cetve daily forgiveness. Chri: living Christ aud realt bolical, This 1@ Dot tne usual construction or ex- position of this passage, but Dr, Tyng showed from the context aud the entire bearing of the samo that 1t is the true meaning. our day means to bear pation! tions. But to take up th cress in the circle of coin- panious with which Christ was sutrounded was to take the curse aod the soame and identified with It is to be daily taken. The tion in this passage. sim that wero ur Cross and bow ourselves with Him ours again. And now, im parte Bersbip with Him, we find it our own. Daily’ strengih will be given you for the datiy cross that is taken u; THIRD UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. THE AGE WE LIVE IN—SERMON BY REY. Cc. SWEETSER. The Rev. E. C. Sweetger, pastor of the Bleecker Street Universalist Church, greeted his congregation with the text—-‘the Charch of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth’? (1. Timothy, ii, 15). This being to tim and some of his hearers the first Sunday of a new yoar tho preacher invited their attention to some thoughts upon the relations ot the Christian Church and its minwirg tu the conditions of the age we live io, peculiar age,” said the preacher, didlering from all that nave gone bet kind has wider piace, zr inently a seie age, veut upon the it of ‘knowledge; @ thinking, investiqati A0 Age Of booKS ao PAapors, puvlic schools and colleges, Not only is knowled,o more widely diffused, vut the spirit of in. terrogation which produces knowledge is more active than ever vefore, People now are determined to ox- erciso what Leigh Hunt calle “the invaluable right of doubting aod toquiring,” and they spPy every direction and to all rorts of subjects, This tw o ah age ol great performances, au inventive dying out beowu its own hero, Tite TRIOMPH OF MUMaNtry. c are being broken duwa; giving Way; bitin and Utes aud arudcial dignity ure becoming of less and less wecount, and the Ment is iwereasing every day that “A man’s @ mau for a’ that.” Theo itis avery uneatieped age—an age Of restiessness aud discontent. This is partiy owiug to the transitioual eof society, to the contlet of new tdeas with old ooe8 and to the frie whieh 00, yutarn by baving Accomplished bumanily ts becoming work, has uo piace to fli iu this age, aud that it is superseded by the public school and the printing press. The Church aaa iuxury rather than ary, tere nevor was a gre 'y of the Church, The progress of modera society bas relreved ww inister Of some of the burdens tuat used to ve imposed upon him, but it has piacod on his shoulders otuers as weighty. Without the restraining and guiding influence of religion these mighty forces of darn society woula do more harm than good to the id. the Roman Catnone right tn saying that edueation without religion 18 a bane to Mankind, question had ‘ bim aod the thougotiul Protest proper way gl combining them, natural authority and not arroga Priestiy supremacy. Heconcluded with an encou aging review of ihe Universalist Church, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH THE GLORY OF GOD—SERMON BY THE REV. 7. SHEDD, D. D, ‘The services at the Firat Prosbytertan Church (Rev. Dr. Hall’s; were condacted by the Rev, W. T. Shedd, D. D., who chose for the text of nis discourse Isaiah, xhi., 42—*'1] am the Lord; that is my pame, and my glory willl not give to anoth neither my praise 0 graven images,’* After a few introductory sen- tences Dr, Shedd remarked that in the beginning Adam gave names to every beast of the field and fowl of the air, These names must have been expressive of their character and internal disposition, else he would not have been commanded by God to invent a nomenclature for the animal kingdom. God also bad a name, the speaker said, a name not given by Adan, but self-im, shalt say tothe chiidren of Israel, 1 A ‘then followed ‘ned disquisition ou the name of God as essential element in His spirit, All this was pre- Daratory to the application of the text, tho pur- pose of which was embodied in the inquiry, “What ts it to glortty Goat? Yo glorily Goa 1s man’s chiel eud. To do this wo must think of Him, speak of Him and recoguize His existence, This great Being ts ignorea by the world atiarge. Men forget God, but their forgetiuiness is an ivdignity, und {s 60 represented in the Scriptures— the vations which forget God. 1t is unconscious dis- hovor which arises from utter indifference, God must be recognized apontancously, wholly—' goes he must always feel, “Thou, Goa. Mas the frat cause. He says, “1 made this; I did #0 and so,” He worships bimselt, With most ol us the worship of another 18 only self-worsnip, and if the sume end could be obtained by showing dishonor to tl king or the amillionpaire each would be contemned by the men who now honor him. It is the selfishness Of man’s heart to worship the crea- ture instead of tue Creator, and it is difficult to ges rid of seif in coniessing God as the first cause, But God 1s also the last eud, In tlustrating this thoagus Dr, Shedd treated on tho theory of evolution, saying it every species was on adeud level man would Dave no right to subordinate other animals to bis want: cause ho 1 higher in the scale of creation tha has this right. Because God is so much greater than ail else _ be subordin- ated to Him. loss must serve the greater, and #0 iv ie that maf’ buss eink of, sckuow! dge and glorify God beiore be will be fit to staud in the celestial com- pany around the throne. CALVARY BaApPLlist! CHURCH. DANGER OF BAD MEANS EVEN %0 GOOD ENDS—SERMON BY REV. RB. 8. MACARTHUR, At Calvary Baptist Church in the forenoon Kev. R. 8, MacArthur delivered a discourse on the “Danger of Bad Means Even to Good Ends.” He took for bis text Govesis, xxvil., 13—-‘And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy eurse, my son; only obey my voice, and goand fetch me them.’ It requires, ho said, but @ moment’s thought tor usall to be con- Vinced that this was bad advice under any circum. stances, [t was especially bad when given by a mother toa favorite son, She could not trausler the curse to herself, neither could she bear it eveu if such a trans- fer was possible, Only Christ, who 1s mighty to suvo, could say “Upon me be the curse.” Esau had already sold his birthright, but bo expected when he did go that he would be none the poorer and Jacob none the richer; that his father would bequoath him not only his blessing but also bis possessions betore the aged maa was gathered to bis tuthers. “Only obey my voice,” said Kevecca, Iu this ee stuned; she wick- edly ceceived ber own busband, and she wickediy tempted her own son to do wrong. Probably 10 her Own conviction of duty she thonght sue was doing Tight, that the end she sought was in itself good, Let us glance at the circumstances, Isaac is now @ very 137 years of age—bis end ts drawing nour ing conferrea upon him by his father im—s blessing On which hinged the coming ol the Saviour and the occupation of the Labret ht carried away by aflection for nis son Esau, and would doubt! have be- queathea to bin "alt bad, Tuose possessious stould bave goue tothe elder son but lor a divine promise tbat the elder should serve the y 2uuger. Esau is ine Rob Roy of tue Bible. He ts a bravo, dasbing, reokiess, indiflerent man. He cares nothing for home or its surroundings. He loves the feld and lives in the excitement of tbe chase, But witbul ne was childish and simple minded, as we may ses by the mauuer in which be disposed of his birthright. Ho ngry and bartered it fora mess of pottuge. Wo cannot but admire Esav’s disposition, at ouce childish and #o brave, 1 pitiuble, ory, “Ble father.” aac loved Keau unduly and was a termined to givo nim the dissing. Kebeoca finding out that ner husband had asked Esau inte te sonar ans some veoisou wad prep is be (isaac) Might cat of it and viess Esau betore he died, steaithily culls ber favorite son, vacub, and impartiog to him the secretane bad accidentally loarned, told him of hertwo kias, By the witcnery of ber cookery she will make the kids to taste hke veui- son and thus deceive tho old man. The pilot now thickens, She wiil honor God, she ininks, and at the game time gratily herself, 80 she makes up her mind that Jacob, herlavorite son, suail be the recipient of juveu Jucob factions Ou one child, as being they should have been equaily dear to the bearts of vow, It should bo @ lesson to pareots that i 18 wrong to love ono child too much, Jacob was in all respec more fitted to receive the bicssing, for he wus “a Piwin mau dwelling in tents; and aside from its spiritual aspects, it had already been disposed of by and sale for a moment’s gratification by Esau had also taken Wives irom among the idolatrous natives, wad be cared noting for the Dirtoright be bad set aside, nor tor Gou’s wratn at bis course of life, Rebeees did not forget that God h Said “ihe cider shall serve the younger.” Her object Join Mendavie, her onds were yoou ; but the means she employed bad, and the goodness of the end will never sanctify (he badness of the meang Old punishment. Justity Rebeeca on the ground that she was ‘accomplishing tbe divine purpose; that bad B® divine inspiraion, But if she bad such an in- spiration it Was uot necessary lor ber Wo stoop to & doubie deception, Sho cheated ner dying husvava and tempted ver sou Lo wrongdoing. 1 of those Why would advance God’ by traud are more tho hanas of Uzz by ‘injustice, The woman would have soul, alchoagh bringing about God's purpos: ot alterward obtained forgiveness, aud Jacob would have rained bis soul for the part te acted in the de- ception of his futher had he uot also been forgiven, Lu the name of soctety and of religion the most wick: things have been done under tue excuse that + end justifies the means,” Now, in re; to the strike by car drivers inst week, there many people in the city wie may Wi with the drivers, the mo0- ment they uudertook to Violate the law by inauga- rating nob violence, they then alienated evory vest, of thesympatuy that had been extended io ‘There are (uousands of good people in tuis city who would wililugly pay #1X cents car fare instead of five it the overpius could go into the pockets of the pooriy drivers and conductors, but none of these would KIVe Oe Cent tO eLCLUrage meu bo BiFiKe OF Fosort to mob viol WEST HOBOKEN MONASTERY. ORDINATION O¥ TWO PRIKSTS AND THREE *UB-DEACONS BY LISHOP CORRIGAN. An ordination service took place yesterday mora- Ing, at the West Hovok Monastery, which attracted alarge number of visitors, The service begun at hall-past eight o’clock and was not coucluded anti! hait-past eleven, A pontifical bi; brated, Bishop Corrigan being the celebrant, his as- Rev. George ‘Rev. Thomas oH tite sab-descon, it Auselw Uarey as bub-deacous, very impr Iu the sanctuary the Boionging to the Monamery were Present in surpiice ana soutanes und the olficiaung Clergyinen Were clothed In the richest garmena The was clieily the solemn Gregorian chaut, she and a numver of Well traiued boys cuustitu- oir, Tue ordination of & place imueuta the most ity when the postuian’ able bow fali sudd ein Lhi® position the pres In the whou had Veeu deacons for 4 yeur, tue i hands by the Bisuop and subsequently vy 4 prosenteu 4 very solemn ceremony. nunion the Bishop ri ordained avd the service ol ad been expected that Bis preached at some of the servi expectation was disappointed, ing ab ball-past o'clock, iy presiding, Wheo a m™ to last for ton days opened by the Passiouist Fathers, the initiatory ou being preached by the Rey, Meuedies Mu- position of en of be Alter tho d ihe Charge to the newly din the usual way, 1b Corrigin would nave s Yesterday, bur this Vospors we HINANGLAL AND COMMERCIAL Transactions uf the Past Week at the Exchanges and in Wall Street. THE DECLINE IN GOLD. Course of Miscellaneous Stocks, Government, Stute and Railroad Bonds. THE MONEY MARKET. Wace Staxer, Suxpay, Sept. 8, 1878. The week ending with yesterday’s gong sound ox- hibits @ gratifying increase of business, the grand total of transactions being nearly douvle that of the week preceding. Without the incessant tintamarre, however, which the buzzing brokers kept up in the grangers, it 1s doubtful whether the rest of the list would have betrayed avy extraordinary sensitiveness it lett to tte own aceount. While the loaf of specula- tion was divided up among the traders in these securi- ties dealers in other stocks were obliged to put up with the crumbs, and go evidence of this wo find about ouve-halt of the week's business represented by transactions jo the two Wisconsin favorites, As it turned out, how- ever, the volume of ba: was io inverse propor- ion to the profits returned, tor, as the tilusive “stein” contains more froth than beer, so did tho week’s work show more gambling than gain. Though this paucity of result was unsatisfactory enough it was quite natural under the circumstances which con- trolled the course of prices. Chief of these was the antagonism of opinion entertained to the present valu a future prospects of the roads tn question. Arguments both pro and con were as plenty as mos- quitoes; one day the ‘pros’? had the call in tho betting, another day the ‘‘cons,” and, between the two, prices were kept peudulating within narrow limits, with no especial advantage to auybody. In this state of feverish uncertainty the granger specula- tion closed for th: ek, There was a dog in the manger feature about this speculation, however, which proved extremely burtiul to the rest of the market. Unable to advance, themselves, they thwarted a rise in other stocks, and so to speal it”? upon the Prevailing predisposition to higher figures, Some few of the jess prominent ones, however, managed to es cape tho pressure, and added, tn some cases, fractions, sod in some cases units, to their market values. Among these are to be named the Hannibal and St, Joseph, Central and Hudson, Michigan Central, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago and Alton and Wabasn, The large receipts of grain at Chicago, Buffato and Toledo—the shipments having already paid tribute to the roaus in question—weroe the vory proper ressous for the improvement, Lake Shore resumed its old place at the fore as a hot favor. ite, and, next after the grangers, secured the greatest number of transactions, Having pertinaciously ro- fused to yield to pressure, it bas responded to an ad- vance, as the natural result of the higher freight tariff and its growing local business. The coal car- r were moderately active, but without special change as to quotations. Like Micawber, the holders, who are mostly solid men, aro waiting for something to turn up in tho coal trade which will see them out of their dilemma, Considering the apathy of the bual- ness at pr and the poor outlook for the future, it 1@ probable they will have to possess their stocks as well as thelr souls with a due amount of patience, Apart from the unimportant vagaries of the share list nothing occurred in tho market to attract pubtic at- tention. RANGE OF FLUCTUATION, Following are the opening, highest and lowest prices of active stocks during the week, with the three F. M. closing prices of Saturday :— Low. ~-Cloring. est,” Bid, Asked. Atlantic and P. T. 28 ‘Bur., ©. Rand N 4 @— Chicago and NW 34%" 35 Chic. aud NW ph eee 00% 66 Chie. KL and P. ui 1x nox 1 Ce Chicago and Altoa Chicaco and Alt, Lack, and and Hudson © Ete Bastway «> on 13 Harlem rt 138" a 188 and Su Joseph, 13% 16% KOS 15% Hau and St J. pid.. 35% 40° 36 ae) Lilinois Central... Luke Sore... Michigan Central, Moiris aud Essex, Mil, and 3& Pau Mil, and St. Paul Quicksilver pro! 33% 33% oul, Ke Gand N, 45 +e 4% a » Stl., K. 0, und N pt 20% A 2% 2 2g St Louis and Saa F, 2% 3 = = Wabusn . Wy Wy 1 16K GI Ghig OH OG og 92 Oy 94M ‘THe STOCKS DKALT IN The whole number of snares sold at the Board dur ing the weck was 681,119. Ine most active stocks was Chicago aud Northwestern, 52,048 shares of com- mon and 102,900 shares ot the preferred being avait in, Ol the others there were sold-— Morris & Essex Mil & St Paul Ailentio & Paot dar kw tL & Pueitie. Ohio & Mississippi. Ontario silve Bacio Mel Cieveiaud 4 Pitts, Chicago & Alt Cuicage & Alton pt. Linck & Western, 61,320 are & hiudson. 368 Wal “ Union Paeitic . on T. Western U Lake shor Aileulgan Contrai:::7 11 suo THR MONEY MARKET. The money market was ensy during the week, & silght edvance in the rates, Most of the business jo call loans was do: it 144 to 3 per cont, although some transactions were reported at 4 and even 6 per ecnt. Oo time loans the rate has been 3 per cent tor thirty days, 3)¢ per cent for ninety days, and 4 to 434 per cent wotil January 1 Prime mereantie paper was quoted at 3)4 to 4)5 percent, The banks have veen also steadily sendi oy to the West, where it is in demand for moving the crops, Asa result the bank statement shows a decre: of $3,265,000 in legal Londers for the week, Aa 41 Jor loans 16 looked for, The detailed statement of the banks, published yesterday, ts as iollo' Average Loans Names of and is. Average Legat banks. “ | counts, of Specie. $9,086,200 $1,707,600 6,437,300 496,000 $24, 600 Assy, 600 882,200 1,310,400 875,000 1,201,900 209,100 uo 105,400 200 Chemical. . 571,000 781,200 Mer. Bx.., 210,000 sav, 740 Gallatio 156,600 229, 000 B, & DPS, 96,000 ‘7,000 Medlra., 19,000 1,022 000 Lz, 700 Tas 800 425,500 2,045, 300, 60,600 200.700, 84,100 | 800,800 405,600" 1,400,600 Am Bx, + 1a) 416.000 1,260,000 1,137,000 6, cow'r 1y/¥25,000 1,087,300 1,982,600 12,746,800 Broadway. 4,946,100 8,349,400 Meroanwie 4,406, v0 8,004,200 Pacite, , 006, 800 iepublie, Chatham,, People’s .. N. Amer... Hanover... APViDK o4e Moteur Citizens’... 1,498,400 4,118,800 1,635,400 18,500 1,750,000 908,000 926,200 8,484,700 2,200, 000 8,330,600 2,000,300 Coutia’al, 8,044,900 90, 400 4, 07,100 Average Loans Namesof and Die Average Legal Net De- Banks, counts, of Specie. Teniers. posits, y 20,700 150,000 1,069,000 Nigth Nat, 3,329,000 First Nat, 7,707 600 1,585, 200 yy 5,717,600 2,380,000 1,096,500 140 000 1,148. 100 205,000 1,118,200 — 819,800 2,103,000 178,500 = 214,000 1,881,000 Gon, ‘Thero was a declining tendency in tion, It opened at 10036 and sold at Wednesday noon, when it dectined to it was quoted until the close om Saturday, except uring a single hour on Friday when 10034. ‘Merchants will, ef cow they can,” ties op imports. We heur estimates will supply this demand. if th amount above this sum will tend to drive the market value of these dollars down to their bullion value. Tho bullion value of a 4123¢ grains silver dollar was to-day $0.8797 gold, or ubout 88 cen value of the ‘trade dollar,’ which contains 420 grains of silver, was to-day $0.8957 gold, cents. This com, not being # legal ever, worth less in the market than tue ‘dollar of the fathers? with 73¢ grains less silver." Tho business of the week at the National Bank of the State of New York is thus summ: ——- Balances. ——, Gold Coates Gold, Currency. September «$5,196,000 $512,513 $817,185 September 3... 6, ss 897,000 901,844 September 4.... 1,258,837 1,265,046 September 5. agate. on 1,009'500 1,003,909 September 6... 7,591,000 747,000 761,043 September 7 $'378,000 1,037,934 1,041,685 ‘The weekly statement of the Clearing House is:— Currency exchanges. Currency balance: Gold exchanges. Gold balances ‘The transactions at the Cl week compare as follows with those of the previous week:— Ciearmgs week ending August 31. Clearings week ending September Balances week ending August 3 Balances week ending Septemv: ‘The woek’s business at the Sub Treasury amounted to:— Paid on account of int Paid tor called bondi Received for custom VORRIGN KXCHANGK, te. The foreign exchanges were depressed and there was a decline in rates from 4.84 and 4.883¢ to 4.82 and 4.87 for prime bankers’ long and short spectively. The bond importers, wh Principal buyers, are now doing bu' consequently the demand fell off and prices declined. Reductions ranging trom 44 to 1 per cont were mado onthe nominal rates, which yesterday were as fol- lows :— Sixty — Three Days Days. Sterling bills on London, nominal +2B4 821 $487 B, w 481g 486 on London, commercial 5.18% ‘anes on Paris, comercial - nes on Antworp, bankers 520 Francs on Antworp, comercial . Frapes on Suisse. Reichsmark—Hamburg, Lremen, Bor- lin, Frankfort—bvankers’.. Reichsmark—Hamburg, Bremen, Bei lin, Feankfort—eommercial... Guilders ou Holiand, oank GOVERNMENT BONDS, Government bouds were Urm early in the weok, but declined slightly at the close, in sympathy with gold. The demand for four per cents has the Treasury issued another call for $5,000,000 fve- tweaty bonda, The amount of bon sold eurly in tho week was estimated STATE MORTGAGES. State bonds yesterday were firm, although there was but little demand, bids yesterday t— Following Rebame 8 A ee rand, WO 1900, ZL Ak7T LR& re sina, Mem & LR... 4 Georgia 7's Georgia Z's, ind ‘Mo 6's, due in ’8Y oF 190,108 RAILROAD BONDS, There wasa good investment demand for railway mortgages and prices were strong, tollows:— M a8, Mant a te, KU'Ud LOL W100 Ls bie. Mt West Pao Union Paw Union Pa Pae Kot RK of 4 € b Wr be te oxta’d, *82., 104g V dat, 1887 “10g Taw i m frie 4th m 76, "Be Erie th m 7°, 88 Doek bus, 1st The decline was attribated to the announce- ment that the freasury would exchange for currency $10,000,000 of 4123, grains silver dollar, get this silver as far as the Bulletin, “and will save the pre- mium on gold; they will then pay it into the Treas- ury, and will again draw it out provided the Trea: ury continues to exchange tt lor currency, Itisa question how much silvar will be needed to go around iu this circle and furnish all the ‘coin’ Uaion Peet Kot Mo Qu m, the gold specula- that dgure upuil 10034, at which it was quoted at BD ed for du- that $20,000,000 bo so, then the ts. The bullion or about 893¢ tender, is, how- arized:— + $343,022, 456 17,551,603 45,466,928, 6,082,443 for the Inst $285, 766,611 11 $45,022,456 02 $2,577,000 1,879,000 22 2,411,000 ring, re- Oo have been the + little business; been active, and as trom Lonaon ‘at $2,000,000, were the lat red.. THI Closing quota- ‘guar, jt “I 5, eet 109 Aids, 884, 100 bas, Loy Ie Vee mm, 188: LU hg TOL. Get Ma coupe... 10t Wt Stati, 6, gis " bee, L900, 1084 Wert Union bs r, 19u, Lud LOMESTIC MARKETS, Gauveston, Sept. 7, 1878, Cotton eneys middling, 10%e§ a ordain 1 a7. New Onnra ton fn fair demand: mivuling, 10? JOje: Kood ordinary, 1, gross, O11, kxporte fo Groat Britain, Stock, 4.040, Mon deman LL vate a Sotton easy; middling, low urdiuary, Wigs & 10%%e OU, Bhook, 4,722, Wiemisoron, N pirits of tarpentine quiet at ly ti rained, \ a 60,” Corn Flour wnehauged; sales 1,201 Western auvec. 61 W8)a; white 5 Not receipts, € # middiing, Nev receipts, Hddting, LOsge. 5 vain 8, Sept. 7, 1878, ae, | Low. mld 1 bales jes, 400, Sept. 7, 1978, Ligier grades 10d Exports’ cous 1.006, i“ apt. 7, 187%. tow mid. “0 miduiing, ' VIS vales + Sept. 7, 1878. Howie ‘fem at $1 O98 91 08) ted | $30,000.59" $17 por ton. Cun corn And rye, 64e. 65 to Albany, 32 ‘cor ber, 954 | 4,100 bushels barley, ¥.500 a Flour steady; sales bu-hels uin'er Onio odo. Kans: terma 2 West! at $1 ou bbls Flour aul and lower; sales 400 buis. Vow ptember, Com—Very little mauiry ; fio.s No f mixed, 3 for No. 1 white Flour Wheat opened duit Michigan, $1 U1Sg 3; Western Coru corn ushel Se. demand ; @ 7 sales 10,000 buy ny on private terms weal, Se; corm, Ze. 5 Fy York. Katiroad’ freights sheady + 9¢ to New York. 4, extra do. seller October, dle. 57 000 de. s Outs, 28.000 da. "Qats im fair demand ‘ws 2c, yady, with @ fair demand at dic. a S3C. No, 2 fall, $1 05, 8 $0 50. Bulk meats unsetiled ut 4ige. I or ay; No. 2 Tol 49e. : wasted, Rani ates 0S to" New 15,000 ao. Shipments Burrato, sept. 7, 1878, tes 500 1.000 bbls, | Wheat ac din & at “4oie.t a ‘000 duce in limited ere at 28e, Bal U7 # $1 OY for chy ‘ae. wheat Kailroad rece; asheis; corm, 1900" sick euinte points—Wheat, Derxorr, Sept. 7, 1878. vite ab white Michigan, $1 O2y fe! white $1 00% a 81 OOM: Cel my No. 1 yellow, eds Oats dull aud Wasettled as 2uKq b mixed. | Receiotere Topo, Sept, 7, 1878. aud lower, clowed f No’ 1 white amber, Ubije.; wil: high mixed, ‘le., asied; No, 2 ™ white, 44\c.¢ BBIGo, auil 6 ee asgn ' aretes” Win Lb "Yo. : ont, 34,000 dor CINNATI, Sept. 7, 1873, a ae red and am! 20,004 bash iy, with a talr demu is; corn, 41,000 ca dey ta te Pork dull for shoalders, rib und clear sides. Bacon p houlders, Ofgc, w Dsge.t cleur thu, Ohge. clear sien, U%G Luard in_good demand make, 86 60; nettle, Se a Bic, Whiskey steady, fulr‘denued “ae i UG.” Devter’ dull unc’ Sugar steady and unchanged. Hogs quiet, but steady: com- msn, $2 00 a $3 60, Ligue, $4 70 4 $4 15; packin $3.80 0 a butchers’, mt 1 BA 20, recwy ‘OMS ts, 1,935 de. lowers Nu. 2 red. $8 BTIyc., Uctobs ensh; 86 het mienty—Flour, 9.00 336,000 do. ¢" 0 11,000 do. Flonr quiet and uncha + wine 02, tive, but wouk sud lower; $3 .. Lara faactive and lower ‘Ustover. Abe orn La Br 4 Curcaco, Sept, 7, 1878, Ww .. Weak and orn inactive and lower; B5%%c. Te« September, S37c, Octover; but a shade | Septem! : November; rejected, tac. Barley dull, weak and a's 08, Septembs Por! 3O « $8 35, Buik meats easic short cl W) 000 bushel: mre 000 do.¢' barley, 39.000 do." Ship? bvis.; wheat, 149,000 bushels; corn, 89,000 do. ; “rye, 390 do.; barley, FINANCIAL AT REASON AEE RATES “MONTY ON AES or Endowment bought ut low jt ct arance of ait Binds socted with base ‘compaulos emiui J.J. HABRICH & CO., 165 Broadway ; box 1,830, “\ MERIGAN SILVER AND TRADE DOLLARS -wanted by MOLTB & DAVENPORT, 9 Walt st, ” 0. tw A coro, able to «i Property amounti but which will bee tun int persons who can pro Ck T16-<KATES I-16, YOUNG WIDOW Lat rary moder! meine come Cnet semua an: nig aaanea ND Go ATRY NOTES, FAIRLY Bb. Li BARON, 25 Pine st, 2 AND 56 BROADWAY, ray axcors ON MARGINS N PIANOS, FURNITURE, &C.—103 jest of Btn ay. (storage office), withous er immediate wid will please address, appointing tuterview, BE ATKICE, Herald office. i TRUST COMPAN' which I will sell to first eomer ab seve INT ROUDKBUSHt, 191 Pearl ot. To the holiers of the D: and Pekin, ani Ini Consolidated Firat Liu ‘The supplomental signed vy holders First Mort Trust Company. protecte! ia the sale, on thetl and dep 28th Of September, i mr Bonds of Uetubor next, m: their bouds in the’ Trust Company TON AND WESTERN ilo, Urbana, Bloomingtom, oe is, Kioomingtor id aud Socond Mortgage Bond agreement of July 25, 1878, has bee: of @ large majority of both classes of and deposited with the Cy woe have netand whe deuce 19 bp! the approaching sicn the agreements fore the 4 all chase of the ro int, UsTIN CORBIN, a Gices KoTAINTOR, } commis JOstAu'B, boUsNoM, § Om New York, Sept, 7, 1875. $200,000: money ut 6 per cent, N SJMs TO SULT. To Loa. a i 145 orsgane, Sve wih TO) LOAN ON CITY PROPERTY, @ $400, Oper Gout, years. JOHN KE ALLISON, 10 Fino it, room BUSINES, OF OPPOKTUNLTLES. 1 8 PXTRAOROTNARY CHANCE OPFERED TO OS ZN cure tait Luter Sb ie good eofituble yueale Warren.” ESTABLISHED peace USINESS CAS be secured by e party with smalls TNER WA tA iisi second floor. ny Y D'S, 4 Warren, IN OLD ESTABe NTED—WIIH $109, d eush business worth investigating 349 Bowery AA petout busi Now York given and required. A, city. Le on commission of any salable article o Address AUGUST nveT i eno. Th ppt ONAL CAPITAL FROCURKD FOR MERe nuiacturers; partac oppartunitios of all kinds. ND'> Agency, 36 Bookman at, WIT! $1,000, IN VARIETE good business. ' Address ROB» procured; mo USINESS Nor wholesale heating of dwell smbpedopevenemy on4 combo saa hae 00 i {ANGE GROVE eupttals ot 8 Mie “A PARI TD—a $600. Min month in lettin, of New York; 810, miner with the ab: imining property iver 000 and upward mi niy plantation (i the best section of Florida) TRBANU d dy eash ; TA NEW SYSTEM FOR THE - ia towns and elttes, nm sue All large towns are ready for ints npanies for this p will be granted to those ereett ato of the Union, For interview the NATIONAL GAS COMPANY, Piiiadelpnia, I BST INVESTMENT I wi fs THE YOR bnew, Addr se wy W. MU ony OSDERSIGNED WAVING 1 improwem: ould dispose ot For further ‘partical INVEST FRoM whieh ts in de- more capital Is mecess ‘Aadress M. U., box i i FOR A SHOW, WITKE ny risk, Apply, to-day, 361 Wost S0em BUY ioc load D LEARH OF Houves tet ‘ve M., box SETTLE If FOREVER [From the Awerican Register.) Th in the Atheneum, ubject of Byron's iamene: has been revived dinputants seems to Neither of w benware of the fact thet after the death of Colonel Milaman, the late owner of Newstead Abvey, bie widow presented the ‘iasts’? used vy the poet to local mus t Mansfeld, near Now would su examination of (hia pair of | fore the ways ou view, 4 Abbey. Awa ABRAM AN cFuit verwe ovtai Hooks, &q Call or M. MARKS, A ciation and ge prices paid (eas tity, Bouas, &e. S. BO Get w 1 1608 BRKOA 6 1008 Bromdway. JOWAKD Mii Ujviace, auvee i CASH BERG rT teolf Clothin, way aud O60 ay, (roversy proceeds further, A =ATTENTION | # wimost Value for en ‘They are ak s Kstawiiniaent mati ar ae o tor cau eft Clothines waren Me or Mra, ABKAMS, 101 OTH AV. OPPOSITE ort 8 the TH DWAY, NKAK sor St. BROAD. Mf Clothing, Jewelry, Books; Sl to 84 Address MINIZ, vit, O8 OTH AV, NEAK WAVBREB Mf Clothing. Gail's PAYS “WKOADWAY PRIOKS POR 1s 58 Wot Fist ot, between