The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1878, Page 8

& ~ WORDS OF WISDOM, “Smite Society and You Smite the . Entire Community.” OUR BETTER FUTURE. cleanser aaiie “Beware How You Demoralize Any Human Being,” FIFTH AV. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THE DUTIES OF PASTORS AaND ELDERS—SER- MON BY REV. JOHN BALD. ‘The Rev. Jobu Hall, at the Fifth Avenve Presbyto- ian Church yesterday morning, took bis cext from L. Peier, v., 2—"Feed the flock of God which ts ainoug you, taking the oversight thereol, not by consiraint, Dut willingly; not jor filthy Jucre, but of a ready mind.” Tbe roverend preacher explained at length Yhe meaning of this message addressed to the piders Bhurch government had changed from this seriptural period, 1t wasa striking Hlustration of the influence of the Hevrew people upon Western ané modern church arrangements to see that pearly ail churches Still bad such elders; for, alter al), the worus pairi- arch, bishop, presbyter und elder meant very much the same thing. In poundivg the particalar Roope of the word rsight,”? used in the text, De, Hall said pastors and elders sbould deur in mind that their congregations were aot their flocks, but that they were Gods Jocks, It 1 think of tho congregation, safd he, 1 Wigot in a measure be permitied to look ws it us mine, Dot in reality it is God’s Hock and hot mine. Lum but Bis officer, put bere to feed His flock with spiritual and Moral nourishment; 1 am aceouatable to Him for the Periormance of tue duties wuich He bas intrusted to Ie, aud sure w Le met with His diving displeasure if L neglect or jailin the performance of these dutics. ‘The digmity, he coutiaued, which God had couierrest upon lis brocher elderr, aud “hick they should prop- erly feet, Was that they bad been constituted to eed Gou’s flock. Their auties shoula be executed “of Feady mind,” uot merely irom a periunctory dictate Of necessity, but cordisily aud With a will; for what. ever was doue by mere constraint was always done awkwardly ani couly. ‘THR “CALLING? TO THR MINISTRY. There was « loose and mistukeu sentiment afloat trom which peopie spoke of the “calling to (he minis- try,” as thougd a man must bave a superoataral Prompting to espouse the ministry, But the Coristiun Mipisier stood 1 LO Very Giflerent position ip (his re Bpect to the Christian lawyer, merchant or physiciua, ‘Who snouid all jeel that the Calling which they chose was the one for wutch they were bes fitted by God. “(his 19 what Gou wants me te do,” Laey should giy tir careiully deliberating over the choice of tueir ureuit, ‘ana’l shail do 1 for Him.” As to tue “fithy jucre,”” the reverend preacher explained that it was hut Ui'by im itself, bul ouly by beiug made the princi- pal aim of lile, He would evterta:m uo very biga res gpect for the Curistian lawyer, physician or merchant who pursued his vocation solely with an eye to the money be gaived. Ifthe minister made the pe- Bubiury results of nis labors mis highest pbject™ in life he, of course, failed to reach the ideal standard of a teacher the Gospel. This uved not exclude the minister from Making a liviog, Gou iwiended tue preacher who to ulso live vy the Gosjel. Would be drives \o illegitimate ways ol procuring the means 0: bis exisience, and £0 it was for tne best of the community that a minister also snouid be afforaed acequate means of sudsistence, He should leau God's fuck Lo the moral aud spiritual pastures. It Was great error lo suppose thut preaching was be main task of u winister, and that the prayers and devotioual exercises preceding the sermon should be mere empty jormadties, He should use the simplest And piaines: language in bis sermou, such language Qs he would koowW (he members ot bis congregat.ou would empioy themselves to appeal toeach other's feelings wud understandings. Me should not only preach to them, but pray with them aad praise with them, and jay his sacrifices, im common with his fuck, upon tue holy aitar. BROOKLYN ABERNACLE, @ay SUFFEWINGS OF THE WORKING CLASSES AND TUE REMEDY—SERMON BX THE KEY, 7, DE WIT ‘TALMAGE, Mr, Talmage preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Dn the remedies lor the evils that afflict the laboring classes, the sermon being a contiauation of that on Commanism delivered on the previous Sunday. The eburch was crowded to its utmost capacity, Mr, Taimage’s txt was taken fron L Cor., xit., 21—The eye cannot say to the band ‘1 have no need of thee,’”? Society, said Mr, Talmage, 1s a great piece of mech- anism, a thousand wheels, a thousand pulleys, a thousuud levers, but all controlled by one great and ever-revolving force—the wheel of God’s prov- for the Gospel showed us that lived m the Gospel idepee. So thoroughly 1s society balanced and Adjusted that if you harm one part you barm al! the parts. Ail the profeesions interde- pendest, all the trades intergependent, capital And jabor are iuterdependent, so that tue man who hives io the mansion on the hill and the man woo breuks cobvle stoves at the Joot of the bill aflect each Other's misfortane or prosperity. There is no such thing as indepepvence, Smite Society at auy one Point and you smite the entire commanity. Reliet May come to the Working classes of this country 4 Bevore tois contest gous much further it wi found that their interests are identical. What Jps ove Lelps boch; what injures one injures both. Bhow me any point in 6,000 years where © pital has prospered and you will lind lavor has prosperea, ot ®here jabor was oppressed you would fud capital op- pressed. Whats tne state of things now? Labor is its wit’s end to get Dread, and cupital 1s at its wii’s end to pay taxes. Every speech that expital makes Against labor or labor against capital is an adjourn- Mmeut of out national prosperity. STRIKES ARE EVIL. Every strike puts vack cupital and puts back Iabor. When the capital of the country maiigns labor it is the eye cursing the hand. Tue capitalists of the country, so far us 1 know them, are successiul labor- ars, ‘Tue distance between cupital and labor is not a reat guilt over which 1s swung & Niagara suspension ridge. Itis only a step, and the laborers will cross fF and become capitalists aud the capitalists will ross uver and Lecome laborers. Would to God they Would shake hounds while crossing! The combatancs in this great war between capital and labor are enielly, On the One wide, men of fortune, Who Lover have bee obliged to toil ard who despise labor, anv, on the Civer band, men Who could get labor but wou't have it. This evil ough! to cease. ‘ihe laborers are tho Highest kind of capitalista Their muscles, nerves, boves, mechanical skill and force are the highest Kind Of capital Again, roliet will come to the working classes of this country througn co-operative association, 1 ain ot Gow relerring to trade Wuions but to that plan dy Which lavorers become their own capitalists by taking part of their surplus earnings und putting them together in some industry. Pat tuto my band through « better understanding between capitat i lapors b: ‘what has been spent by the laboring classes for rum and tobaceo within the Ove years and I will start fn istituiion Of mouetary power that will eurpuss y other in the United states, This country expenas annuaily $10,000,000 tor tobacco and $1,500,050,000 jorrum. ine working classes add a great deal to this expendiiure. Kum und tebocco are their wore enemies. They would be wiser il they put the Muney they fling away into co-operative ussuciations, becoming their own cupitalists, Again, reiiet will come through more providential forecast, ' Hard times Dave noi always been and are pot always golug to Bewwoou folly and pauperism tsa very short p. There must be forecast and providence or our Giffcuities will never be gone. CHRISTIAN PROVIDENCE, I have no sympatuy tor akinilint saving, but I lend for Christian providence. Weare at the day- feac of nations! prosperity and L want ali to be ready for it ug is mean or magnificent accord. iug ¥+ it is for one’s own self OF for the help, comtort OF salvation of others, Relist to the work classes Will also come through the discovery on the part of Sinpigyers that it is Vest to let their employés know just Huw ma terssiand. When a man goes among is einploy és with a superciious air, a8 though he were the autocrat of the uDiverse, with the sun and moon in bis vest pocket, he will have strikes wad Incendiarism, Be frank’ with your employés and they will be fair with you. Whut is the interest Of one 12 the interest of ‘ail. Tue religious rectitiou- tion of Lue country Will alco bring revel, Labor is appreciated and rewarded just ia proportion as a country is Christianized, Siow me a community that is thoroughly infidel and 1 will “bow you a country where wages are small. The ptilosopuy of tuis 19 exsy. Our religion is a democratic religion, Lt makes the owner ot @ mill understand (hat be i a brother of the operatives of wnat mill, bori. of the saae ten ly Father, to le down in the same duet, No put pulehre oF at the judgment it came oul to feottiy all the wrongs of the world, and it will seitie this ques. tion of labor aud capital as certaimly as you si tuere and | stand bere. CENTRAL M. E, CHURCH. BIRUGGLE FOR LIPE—SHRMON BY Kiev, NEWMAN. ‘The Rev, De, Newman preachod yosworday morn. ing ou the subject of the strupgie for lite, taxing his Soxt from 1, Timothy, vi 12—"Fight we good Ggut of Jui.” Lile, eaia the reverend gentieiaan, ts a struggle Da. for bresd, tor knowledge aud tor puriy, This iste prdor and constitution of naiure, ond 't war eo in tho Hmeol man’s inuocency. ‘Alawyer who wus starved | | | every flower the | | Bess It is the same now, bus the | things sho from this, ithas no significance. Were human de- sires Sutisfed at the birth there would be nothing to call tte aeiiom the origin of our being, and life would — stag Yhere are more fools in the palace iu the hovel, and more philosophers in hovels than in palaces. ‘Yuko the reigning families of Europe to day, the off- spring of which have their Gesires satisfied at their birth; everything that soul could wish is gritified by eful nation or wrung from an oppressed people placed at the disposal of these royai chiluren, It 18 a Farity that an imperial mind is found perial home, Put the Prince of Wai willmeke a aseful man. Tho m their mark upon the world were born in poverty und Cradie¢ in want Theaasatisied huager of their de- sires Was & uccesrity and an inspiration to uction, tlization 18 VoL so much the creation of forethought piy artificial wants the result of the who hove mage jatare’s prerog ative is to develop; possibilities are ‘within the reac of all, The com- Mund comes ringing through the ages, Ull tbe soil, deive the mines, gull tie ocean, climb the mountain; catch the fsh, shoot the diras, slay the beasts, weavo your garm nd erect your dwellings. Man is to subaue the mighty forces of ture aud compel them to sadserve bis purpose, Men are got born puil- osophers, orators, pocts, statesmen and ®arriors, but they aie endowed with capacities which must be developed; ueither are men born saints and sinners, @an bas a moral capacity to be like Ubrist, who have excelled im any department tn life bave done so by development, The reason for this order of nature may cot be fully appareot, but | am inclined to b that our happiness is 1m toe means andano:in theend, If you piace the game in the hands of (he sportaman be wil! laugb at your folly, Th | for nis plasaure isin bringing down the game, The Bf the Church, and showed how little the forms of | pleasere 0} wea'th is im acquiring 1, There 13 4 keener pleasure iv seeking truth than in possessing it, Aud $015 In the great struggle lor fame, the chief enjoyment isin Lue struggle isell, This is the rexnson why men plunge into tue strife, for itis the intoxi- cation of the conflict whic delights, There isa higher happtness 1m the struggie for moral victory than the victory ttuell, MAN 19 NEVER BATISPIED, AQ this is cieur irom tt fact that man is never sati®ded, and, therefore, true happiness js 10 sence of a act rather than tn its consequence human mind demands sometbing beyond, ‘The sud- dest dav in the life of Alexander the Great was when he discovered that there were no more worlds to con- quer. Happimess 1s 10 have desires never satiated and aspirations wh: know no repietion, Heuven would be un eternal monotony were it uot for tLis priacipte. I would rather remain in the arena of mortal atri! Lhan enter such 4 monotonous piace as that. lvis historic fact that waatever 1s beaatitul in art, bevel. cent in science, salutary in law, noble tu charity and Goditke in religion 18 the product of human toil and suffering. Waat has the priceless boon of liberty cost mankind? Let twenty-three couturies proclaim its cost—irom Marathon to Yorktown, What hus it cost Germany, from the dethronement of Henry 1V. down to the compromise treaty of West phalia? Recall the 70.000 Frenchmen who of- fered. their lives on tho altars of liberty in the St, Bartholomew massacre. What bis it cost beautiful italy turongh two milenniums? What bag it cost England, irom William the Conqueror to Waterloo? and what bas it cost America, from licon- deraga to Yorktown and trom Cuarleston to Rich- mond? Let the mighty army of widows and or- phans, the dead heroes and maimed soldiers tell 1s priceless value. Tue history of Christianity 1s that of a perpetual struggle, How vast the army of her martyrs, No one bas attained to sainthood who has not tought the good fight ef faith. This, then, is the piilosophy ot liie—Let us figut the good fight of faith und wear tne victor’s crown. MASONIC TEMPLE. RELIGION’S DEMANDS ON ‘THE PEOPLE OF THIS GENERATION—-SEBMON BY MR. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM, ‘The address of Mr, Frothingham was directed to a refutation of the arguments advanced by those who declare that the day of religion is past, and that it has no claim upon the present age. As a preacher of religion he ventured to set forth its claim to respect andobedience. He briefly reviewed the benefit con- terred upon tho race by religion, It had been the Patron of art, literature and philosophy; it had been the teacher of mankind when they had no other in- structor; it ba umpion of the poor when they were po: d bad upheld the poople had taught social and its motto when indeed, when they were being crushed to earth; the brotherhood of man in ages torn with civil strife,and made ‘democracy’ aristocracy with armed legions flaunted its banners over the world, Tho preacher dwelt for some time upon the breadth and iree- dom o/ religion, and tuen asserted tuat a doctrine which forbids doubt and scepticism on any given point; which attempts to limit the human soul; that limits inspiration te a book; that confines the word of God to a speoial literature; that saya, “This, and this only 1s from heaven,” making the great litera- ture o! the world vordinate to ene Book—such a doctrine was essentially irreligious, This it was be- cause so tar it limited human nce, 80 far it coniined the baman mind, becai id to immortal reason, ‘Beyoud this line thou shalt vot step,” Ree ligion demanded that woen this Book was eulled sa- ered the same term should be applied to all the other books that bad sanctified the human mind. “IKRELIGIOUS’? RELIGION, To say that any ono sot of docirines constituted religion was, the preacher omphatioally epoaied, to be sentially irretigious, uddhw, Socrates and Moses he manwioned in a breath 48 the groat teachers of religion, He appeaied for a widoumg of the def- nition of tbat word, the seeking of new truth and the invocation of science and of paullosophy to make lurger aud larger our knowledge of divine things. ‘This had been in all times tue cry of true religion— that religion the object of which was to elevate ana ennovle man, Mr. Fretbingbam next devoted his attention to Sentimentaliain tu Charity, which he characterized as injurious, a8 demoralizing. Nay, he added, I etend bere and venture tovaffiria that the doctrine ot charity 48 preached by Jesus, the doctrine of the Sermon oo the Mount, is open to this charge, I afirm that tne New Testament, if taken at its word at this time, would be banetul to any reasonable distribution of buman affairs. Bai l gay that such are not the doc- trines of religion but of a certain teacher of religion. These dociriaes grew out of the time and were ad- dressed to a particular people under certain con- ditions. ‘THE TEACHINGS OF THR TESTAMENT. The doctrines of Jesus apphedto a generation that expected the world to come auy day to an end. said Mr. Frothingbam, live in a new world, under a new system, and we cannot aflord in the name of religion to pick out golden words from books like the Bible and make them the dictators of our live ol duty, Science, he went on to say, reacts from sentimentaliem and sets up the doctrine of sellish- ness, of the survival of the fittest—that ts, the toughest, strongest, most brutal religion took the midal ground, ‘It said, “What you do do wisely, how you demoralize or break down or Ww single human being. Butld the people up, more knowledge and develop thom, and y Beware ber that each weak, suffering creature is your brother and to be given help and sympaihy.’” This, said Mr, Prothingham, bud been the teacuing of truo religion in all tmos p come. it and would be for ail time to CHICKERING HALL. THE EYFECT OF FAITH—SERMON BY REY. MR, COLCORD. Rev. Mr. Colcord, at Chickering Hall, selected as his text Luke ix, 23—“lf thou canst betieve: all things are possible to him that believeth.’ His re- merks were devoted mammly to the power of a little faith, He spoke of the tatth of the disciples, aud especially that of Peter, and instanced several casos where belief had saved. Wo must tara jrom maa to God, he said, for without Him weean do notuing. God is our fatuer; He bas a fuiher’s beart, He haves sin, but He bas iwdpite love for sive ners. Jook at the Predyal Son returniag, footsore aud ia rags, the father goes out to meet him and throws himself, weeping, upom bis neck, La it sapposed because that son was & siuner that the father went forth to throw bimseil weeping upoo shoulders? No. Lt was to iiiuse trate the divine thougut of paternal merey—ol ior. giveness. We find to relerence to another part of the Go-pel that this Was an Only sop, aud how muca more tender and sweet must this recunciliaion have been with an only son! Yet 4 beneve, and every Chrisiau believes, that Chriet regarcs His children single ebildren to be tenderly re- gurded and ‘looked alter, and every trausgression must pain and every return to virtue must be re- joiced over as that prodigal sou was wept over aod rejoiced about In the Bible story, EIGHTEENTH STREET M. EB, CHURCH, DISSATISFIED PEOPLE—SERMON BY REV. W. Fy HATFIELD, At the Eighteenth Street Methodiat Episcopal Obureh, Rev. W. F. Hatdeid preached ou dissatisied people, or causes for our discontent, The text was se- lected irom P-aims, xv! 15—"1 shall be satisfied when | awake with tuy tkeness.’’ Mr. Hatteid begso by saying (hat man had been justly pro- nounced bo be the Hoviest of all God's creatures—tuat he possessed (wcuivies und powers that exalted him for above all O/uer created tnteiligeucos—aud yet, Io his prosont state, he i far from being satistied, There were reasoas for this Widespread discontent atvong peopie. Some were doable to enjoy tile, be- enuse tn i tuey experteaced so many lis, Lo them plucked Had Its (hora, avery cup of pieusare 1s drop of poison, and every sweet Its Vitter. Soctety i# not ‘congenial though 4 hud made man for society, yet (ere wus mech fm it that oftimes made bie This er * The thates, bao ud §=Customs c others often interfere with our happiness. We build Or rent 1 Must Fes peciable pare OF the City, and be- fore we are quite settied We discover that our neigh= bore indulge im those Habits ANd diversions that ins teriere with our enjoyment and that are wt variunce With good morals und religion, We see prive and poverty Walking side by Side, 1otetperance sirongIy amir 4, socitl and tworal eviis oxts ‘0 the face of law, and it te aot Strange thar loese cet hOwan Gappiooss, Man’ nacacal gain, agie is Wotesified by the disordered eondivon | desire lor f power and influence meke him pumant Ww aa the order of tniogs | divsatiefiod With Lis condition if lite, Not one ia to And complain of the hardvess of our lot, Lat nacure | thousand I6 sutisied with what he calls his own, fe inexorable and wo rust a pt the sitastion. He Wants more, e man Who is worth & milion He Who ie Wiser thaa (he Wise bos ordained (hat tt | Wanes another milion, ory Where We see moa od fesuits prove the Wisdom and benell- | amsvitiogs (0 Increase the oxsessious, Tuey com- {, God hoips him Who Helps bimsel!, | plas Of Luert Work—ot the number of hours required fore, look Lue f in tho face caretuuy, | lor work, Tue laborer fads fauli with (be capitatiet Inquire What tm conditions ‘e and how we may aud the apy siwith the laborer, pd throughout paw toe vietor’s crown. Our better Iniure lies be- | society the are murmurings nd discontent. yond Gelar oF toil and sufleriog. Man Was made jor He who builds a house jor hitasell fer 1 Action: Inf 16 au wrone fur buman usvelvpweas, asiue | 18 Muivhea —discove Wat certain alierntio NEW YORK Hub! would add mueh to its beauty convenience. The good man ts dissatisded with bis attainments, There aro some who feel that their mistakes hay eon few and who ure quite pleased with tpemselves, but the most of Capetinn pean have tittle cause for se'{-gratulation, They feel like humvimg themselves io the dust and supplicating tor pardon and jor help, uove be discouraged though they have net, alter repeated efforts, uttuined to that experience tor which they aim. lu the art galleries of Europe are men and women copying the pictures of the great masters, and though tuey may never equal the original, yet by erance and patience they will produce copies that immortal, and so We, in copy- ing al ver periectly imitate Him, yet we may so follow Hun w in the last day we shail arise in His likencss, saustied with His dealings with ua and the worid, though now by us so impertectly understood. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. LOYALTY AND LIBERALISM—SERMON BY REY. ROBERT HULL, The Rev. Mr. Hull preaoned on “Loyalty and Liber- alism” at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, taking ior his text L. Coriathfans, xvi, 13—"Stand fast in the faith.” He said the weakness of Christians to-day arises from distrust of God, We delight to affirm that “One with God is always a majority;’? but bow many are willing to be thatone? How few are willing to stand with God when they stand otherwise alone! As are individuals, so also is the Church, How many eburehes of prominence now dare make prominent their couvigtiona when those convictions run counter to fashion? From how many city pulpits will you hear denunciations of theatre-going, dancing, horse race and gambling? Where is the church which has not many members who indulge themselves in everything whieh the worla deems re- spectable? At is not surprising, therefore, that, with looseness of doctrine and lodseneas of practice pre- vailing in the charchos, the world shonld challeuge the verity of our faith and impuga our joyaity to our Lord and Master, The text bids us, in ringinz mille tary phrase, be faithful fo our Lord—be loyal to Christ. Thia loyalty will cause a man to stacd firmly against the prevailing looseness of doctrine. It1s popular, in this age of loose thinking and of reckless assertion, to belittie doctrine, They who do this forgot that doctrine and lite are as cuuse and effect, They forget that the Bible is a book of doctrines Where these doc- trines are laid down like foundation stones— firm, solld compact, These loose thinkers tell us that Lhe ‘different doctrines of differing churches are out the harness in which each cin bost work, Then those who were stoned, who Were 8.wa asunder, who were slain py the edge of the sword, who waudered in sbeepskins and goatskins, oving destiiute, afflicted, tormented, endured all this for abarness, Jobn Bun- ‘a8 Imprisoned swell sin Bedford Jail fora Roger Wiliams was driven ou: of Massachu- soi ts for believing in a harness, Obadiah Holmes was publicly whipped in Boston for preaching about a harness, Ab! no; doctrine was not thought a thing of no uccount, either by persecutor or persecuted, in those da; not the clamors of self-styled liber us, We can be no more liberal than t om mand- ments of God will allow as to be. That spirit ts not the true ove whicn seeks to lift so high the yoke of Christian obedience that the world may ceme in under {t without bending its aurepentant neck, To do that 18 to be ruined. lt is to place tue Cburch where, en ber most sacred obligatious are violated, she not, dare not utter a word of protest. Modern fashion confronts the Church and she isdumb. We must bid her speak; speak in the name of the Al- mightv—speak and let ber word sound alosg the battle jine of all the tfaith-clad hosts. In connection with looseness of doctrine there is a sentimentalism abroad which is unsound in i beginnings, unbealthy in all its growth aod ruinous in its flual outcome. Liberalism and sentimentalism are twin offshoots trom a single root. That root is laxness of soyalty to Christ. The favorite cry of sentimentalism, anda cry which seems to be very pious, is union.” This cry is vopular; it is captivating, and itis misleading, Shatl we not all be one, do you ask? Yea, and it will be when we are all ona io Christ we shall be one with each other, exactly in degree as wo aro one in God. No other union is possible or desirable, Struggio toward God, ther fore, should be our work, aud not struggle toward each ober, The radi: of acircie all diverge, come from different points, but they meot in the centre, God is our centre, Upward, then, toward Him; no cross paths before we get to Him, wo shall only I time and, perhaps, may lose our way. Upward evei one and all, singing, each, “Nearer, my God, to the WEST HOBOKEN MONASTERY. FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL —BLESSING THE STATUE OF THE ARCHANGKL IN THE WEST HOBOKEN MONASTERY. ‘The Feast o1 St. Michael, the Archangel, was cele- brated with great solemnity yesterday morning in St. Michael’s Passiopist Monastery, West Hoboken, ‘he celebration was enhanced by a ceremony very rare in this country—the Diessing of a statue of St Miebael, The figure is seven fect in height and eight feet two inches to the tips of the wings, and is the work of the Parisian artists, Froc-Rovert & Sons, St, Michaol is represented with a spear im the act of slaying a dragon, on whose neck his foot 1s planted, It stands on the top of the tabernacie, and, viewed {rom the main aisle, produces a fine effect. The form of eore- movy prescribed ia the rubric consists in eprinkli, with boly water and offering imcenge, Rev, Father Victor officiated, the entire clerical and lay staff of the Passionist Order being ranged in the sanctuary. A solemn high mass was then celebrated, Father Victor being cclebrant; Father Felix, deacon; Father Christopher, sut-deacon, and Father Stephen, master oi ceremonies, Tue | music was rendered by the St, Cecilia choir, of New York, who sung Concone’s mass, the organist being Mr. Anton Straun and the leader Mr. Braumao. The panegyric of the saint was preached by Futber James, who laid cow rived by Christians (rom tue the Almighty to St. Michael, “the chiel of tne host of archangels and angels’? Ho said that God has given Us teachers to instruct us in ali things—even to the consummation of the world. To veiieve the truths inculcated by these teachers Is the auty of every man. A man whe docs not so believe becomes separaied from God, Let St, Michael be our exatmple, and what the Church teaches let us accept, aud what the Cuurch condemns let us reject, It is iv Our power to occupy the thrones from which the ‘allen angels, headed by Lucifer, were driven by St. Michuel, and who are dany plottiug to draw us away trom God and plunge us into perdaition Wi must not simp!y learn, bul, haviag learned it, bold fust to the truch. As love of truth pertects the intol- Ject, so it perfects the ueart. Love is the tmpuise of the heart and the will of man. Man cannot do an evil action simply because the action is bad. He bas power to do evil or good. It 18 a question of liberty; but what do we mean by hiverty? We Americans boast of our liberty ; but whatisit of which w v0 justly proug? Does It mean that we can do as we please and that no one has aright to ovjeci? Surely You do not consider it slavery Lo be enjoined to gu to inaas On Suaday or to abstain trom the use of flesh on Friday. Liberty, rightly mterpreted, consists to the essessiou of trush aud freedom froin intellectual error. Lucifer lust hig tiberty. He abused it im not submit. ting to God. Waen he had the auaseity to claim equality with God be becime the veriest slave. Michael, the beroic leader of the grand host of heaven, was uot a slave, because he submitted bis will to that of the Almighty, if you use your liberty for tho purpose Of gratiiying your vaser passions you enlist to the ranks of Sutau’s army. ft you imiiate Michael you will Lave his powerful aid at the nour of death, LIPTLE SISTERS OF is deceive ‘HE POOR LAYING OF A CORNER STONE O¥ THEIR NEW CHAPEL. The cornor stone of the new chapel attached to the Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor, utieth street, cast of Third avenue, was laid yeasteruay aiter- noon by the Very Reverend Vicar General Quinn, assisted by the Rev, Father Farley, the Cardioal’s ecrotary; tev. Father Hatton, chaplain to the Couvent of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Brookiyn, and the Rov, Fathers Slinger, Daly, Mater, Coiling and MeGaraey, of the Domin- icon Chureb, In addition to the fourteen sisters who belong to the conventiu Seventicth street, there Were aixo preseut tue Provincial Moth vix sisters trom Brooklyn and tn aud two sisters irom Newark, A namber of the aco- lytes from tue Churca of St. Vinceut Ferrer, dressed in the waite robes velouging to the Order of Domin- 100s, Assisted at Lue wervice, Which look place oo a foundation walls, The Vicar Geaeral Quinn went through the greater part of the ritual peculiar tO this service and then ad- Gressed (he assemblage, reminding them that the work in Wuich (we g Od sisters were engagud ape to their kinder atiow. ihe inmates Tvation \oF Whicd they labored were poor, Id persons, Woo required as much attention and assi#iauce ag did Witle cuidren. Toe pew obapel Was Lecessury in Order to auppiy saMicient accom mo- du ton for these old people to ationd Lo their reli dues, In speaking on this mater the Viear den. eral look occasion Lo remark taat none were exclud {rom (he 1wstiLALion ov account of thete Feligio hef, and that every facrity was afforaed Protestant inmates to practice such religious observances as they believed im At tue conclusion of the Vicar General’s rewarksa colicction was wkeo up, ihe form of prayers prescribed in thi followed, With the usual formula of dep box containing records of the ip the vox were portraits of Kev. Fatuer Lepariiout and Rev, Mother Auguctine, of the Compassion, of Brittany, France, ‘be founder abd jowadress of the Uruer of the Litue Sisters of the Poor; # sinall statue of St. Josepa, m the vame of U Proviucial Motuer 0; Brookiyn and o! Rev. Moth wuo is in charge Of the Couventin Ss WILL copies of newspapers Yesterday Was the eighth anniversary of the open- iny of (h@ Vouvent of the Little Sisters of the Poor in this eity, Wen Work was begun by the sisters ina house ji Chirty-tourin sirect tueir efforts received by ciriZeus Of all denominat that witer a Suurt Lime they Were abio to ocoupy three tenement wouses ia iniriy-second street, aud in Apri, 1873, moved to the buiding in Whieb they now carry on Uieir chariiable work. There are at present 164 0 the Institution, ninety-one of whom are women. ihe new ebanel will bo of brick, 76539 feet ia aim avons, itual then {ALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBE DEAN STANLEY. Sermon by the Learned English Divine in Philadelphia. GOD’S WILL. Analysis of the Hierarchy of Heaven. PHILavenruia, Sept. 29, 1873. Tho Very Rev. Henry Veorhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, who will romain io this city woul to- morrow as the guest of Mr, George W. Childs, predched to-day at >t Jumes’ Protestant Episcopal Chureh, ‘The edifice was packed to its utmost ca- pacity, and hundreds wore unable to gain admission, The sermon showed great scholarship and researeb, and was listoned to with great attention, THE SERMON, The text was takyy from Matthew, vie 10o—fhy wih done on earth, a8 it 18 ip heaven’? Said the preacher ;--it 1s om the last part of these words 4 prow pose to dwell. re invited to do so by ihe .estival of this day—Michaelmas Day, But there is po time 1a whieh we may not reise our thoughts frum earth = to heaven, from the seen to the unseou, from the erring, coulused, imperfect ways of the per:ormance of Gau’s will in this trouolesome, per- plexed World, to the perfect and divine tulliiment in u better and bigher state. It is to thts that our thoughts shull be xed this morning, 1 do not pro- pose to dwell at any lepgth on wual Is told us con- cerning the holy angels. It 1s not easy nor necessary to sepurute what wo have Jeurued coucerning the un- gels trom the Bible aud what we nave learned irom the great representations of them in painting and in poviry. But the general idea which the belief 1m gels expresses 1s deeply rooved in the Christian heart and is full. of instruction, at our thoughts concerning them are drawn more irom Miltou thau the Bible, yer Milton bas tn bis splenuid poem laid hold of a solid doctring, at once Bibiicwl wud pbilosepbical. {he idea Ol the Reavenly Lest of angeis includes the opera- tious of Geu in the vast movements of tue universe, and His ministrations througu the spirits of men, whether now or hereddter, it iuciudes that’ ideal world to which the greatest of heathen plilosophers iondly looked as ibe sphere in waich re- Ride the great ideas, Lhe periect images, of which ull ribly Virtué aud beauty are but the ipperiect shadows, [i includes tue Lboughts of twat beautiiul upd lovely type of human character to which, for want of any other word, -we have in mod- ero wmes given tue uvame of angels or angelicul; supernuman, yet not diviue; not heroic nor aposiolic nor suinuly, yet exactiy what we cull seraphic or angelic, elevating, attracting with the Jorce of novievess and beauty. “Ho wuo hus seen iu man or woman,” says Lutner, “a peutieness Without el- fort, penetrating the whole nature througu aud tarough be bas seeu the colors wherewith be my paint lor bimeeif A sg ig meupt by an angel”? The idea be- Jonge to that uigh reign of thougut where religion aud poeiry combine. Religious delet has tur- mished the muteriaiz, but poetry bas wrougut and transformed them into ~ shupes waica primeval religion never knew, bu: whieh ibe latest «religious culture of mankind can never Coase to recognize. Lot us, therefore, trice, 80 far as we can, the outiines o! that perfect fuldimeut ot the Diviue will, of woich bere we see only the scanty and partial promises, First, the will of God is perieetly done im heaven because tt is, as we believe, done with the unbroken, un- interrupted seuse vf the presence ol Goi. Here we see this in a glass darkly—tnere, face to taco. It is weil to think bere vt what ts and what shall be there—to kuow, to do, to be in pertect sym- pathy with the will of God, to feet truly the litte ness of all that is little, and to tee! no less truiy the greatness of all that is truly great; to bave a just measure of what is transitory, partial, Secondary, indifferent, wod of what 1s eternal, perieci, primary and esseatial—to look beyond the nar- row present to Lhe far-reaching past aud the tar-reuch- ing future—this, which we may believe 18 the unvary- ing instinct o1 the biessed intelligences whicu stand around the throve of God, ought to be the aspiration, difficult aad arduous, yet not impossible, of those struggling here on earth, The Lord sitteta above the cherubim, be the earth neyer 60 unquie. We may strive to look upon things on curtb, us we imagine that He looks on them who sees their beginning, middioand end. This is the tirst ground for the be- lief of whieh we are speaking, 1M OUR FATURK’S HOUSB, Again, the Scripture speaks, und our own heart and reason respond, (bat, combined with the unt- ersal sense of Gou’s preseuce aud law, thore 1s tu the celestial world a wide diversiiy of gifts, and operations, Few and tar be- tween, inde as are those glimpses, yet they reveal to us such a variety of form and beauty as naturally bell. the pattern and exempiar of this unl 0 learfuily and wondertully maue, Ot this marve! jomplextty of humun souls and spirits— Created in ove divine image but in a thousand Ly pes— the seraph’s fire, we are taught to think, is different from a cherub’s strength, the archangel’s trump from the ministering ‘spirit’s whisper. The four living creatures before tho throne, contrasted each with each, as OX with eagle and cugie with lion and hon with man, one star differing from another ta glory, then a rainbow like un id, then the Hightuipgs abd thander ngs and the seven jamps burning before the turone, which are the seven spirits of God—there the gentie, guiieless, virgin souls, tollowing the lamd Whitnersoever be goeth; Were toe multitude, in whiie robes, with paim their hands, tha: have come out of great tribulation. there the armed soluiers ol heaveu on white horse: galiopping to victory, Truly in our Father's house are many mansions; Uruly,ihe gates of that city are open continually, day und ogut, In these many man- sions, through those open gates, by those divers gilts, our Fatuer’s will is done in heaven, 1t has been one bappy characteristic of the English arch that it bas ret ined beth of tue Curietiun Character within its pale, There is in Wostininster Avbey a window dear to American bearts, becau: erected by an honored citizea of Philadelphia, in which the;e two elements are presgnted and separated ; On the one eide the sacred poet most cherished by thy ecclesiastioul royulisi, priest-like phase of the churct, George Herbert; ou the otuer side cred poet, most cherished of the Peritan, austere, lay phase of the chureb, William Cowper.’ Thut diversity ts an example of ihe way in waich God's will 1s wrought on eurth as it is in Reaver, I bave suid that we dare hot speculate on the names or nature of t angels, yet a¢ sycabola of the Divine operations they may be most use/ul to us in the ravviical and mediwval theology this divinity used to ve repr sented by the manifold Litles of its various principal ities and powers, Most of these have now dropped out ofuse, But there are some few which, from their mention in the Bibiteul or rypual books or from tho transtiguring Of artistic or poetic genius, have survived, Mien: the leader of the uusts of heaven, tne champion of good, the immortal youth of Guido’s magnilicent pic- ture, trampling on the prostrate dragon, the backboue, as ‘it were, of the moral ‘worla; Gai riel, the pacific harbinger of glad tidiugs, the inspirer of heavenly thoughts, by wii yractous touch the greatly beluved prophet wa: d, the Fotiriug Stary encourazed, to whom the Araviau propuet in the cave looked tor inspiration, to whom itou agsignea the delighttul p ding the e , the socian! {, the travelling comp: good Tob: those angels whom, in mental form, we unawares. THR C&LESTIAL UIKRARCHY, Uriel, the regent of tue sun, the kaight of God, ih seen for a mowent io tue books of Knock and Esdras, but ip diilion’s poem tue givw- ing representation of the angel of ail knowledge, “ie 8 ‘pest sighted spirits of uli in heaven.’ Lthu- ricl, the eearcner, the diseovocer oO: truth, with the Spear whose touch of celestial tempor no taisevood can endure, Avdicl, (he everlasting example as long as the Eugiisu language lives of courageous isolation, the dread Among ¢) Among inpumeravie talse uni, Unshaken, unsuvdue |, unterrile For this was ull lis care, To stand approved in Judvod bim Such are the divine ideala which the angelic powers Fi present. They bring velore be summits of virtu As in heaven, then, let us learn, a, that no light, of however a different 1 from our own, be extinguished; that no etrecgih of purpose oF con. science, however diverse {row oure, be suut out; that piration «fter (ruth or duty, however wayward t of God though worlds uo spark, @ tuat of flax, be quenched ; that uo searing pinion be clipped in ite upward fhguc; that ot all the many-colured shades, of all’ the muluplying aiversities, Whether of English or universal Chrisien- dom, none be regurded ay useless or wortuless; that every good and perfoet gill, whether io man of natur whether in the Old World, with afl iv ancient ad Vouer«bie forms, or in New World, with all its, youth and vi be alike ‘bailed as sufling down trom tho Father ef Light, with whom 18 bo Variableness, neither shadow of turning. Not in the exclusivonoss of the courts of b 6 of any Bc ity Of All human characte bat by this inequality aad by our patient endurance of things beyvud our narrow vision, may wo rejoice now, ‘Every blessed spirit which ever existed’’—so wrote one of the best of tho reformers, to w prince bowed down by great bereavement und asking Quxiously concerning tha: unknowa siate be youd Lhe grave—“Everygulessed spirit whieh ever ox. isted, every holy character which ever shall exist, every faubiul soul living now, all those from the be- ginuing of the world even unto the comsummation tuerev!, thou Shalt hereaiter see in the presevcs of Aimiqnty God’? in that very lies the strength, the beauty, the atinl hierarchy. From the wrmed sbatt ot a thvesand fights down to tae infant coeruy of those little ones WHO see ihe lace oO} tueIr heavenly father; through all the innumerable company o| \ue spirits Of the just made perfect there is that one blessed thought tor tuture beaver, but a subject not blessed, if we Gould but Veleve it, in our present divided, distracied earth, Nor was it without a veep meaning that the vook of Daniel speaks of the avgei, tne us, as it Were, of exch particular empire and cient heathen woridadttose angol vos, the living R 30, 1878:-TRIPLE SHEET, jus of each State and nation, and which still meet in the commouwealihs of moiern limes, UNDERSTANDING GOD'S LAWS. Of these the whole family of mankind, of Christen dow 1s composed. We cannot spare any of & At the time when their characteristic diversities are most strongly brought out we see God's purpose in having allowed such diverse conformations among Hiscreatures, Tue angel of the old hemisphere and the angel of tho misphere are both dear tn the sight of Him who made them both, sand who designed tor each a work which none but they, aud they exactly, could have accomplished in the world, When the most majestic divine of the English Chureb was on his deathbed Le was found deep in contemplation, aud on bein od the subject of bis though's replied that he was he 4? tating the number ana nature of angels and their biessea obedience and order, Without Which peace could not be in heaven, and ob! that it might be so onearth. It was medi~ tution ul! of the same grand thougut whieh taspired his great works—tbe thought of the majesty o! law, ‘whose seat i,” ag be saya, “in the bosom of God and whose voice 1s the harmony of the universe.” ‘The very words by whicu tne angelic tntelligences are described, “ihroves, princtpaiities and powers,” the very connection into which they are brought with the unchanging laws of vature—“He maketh the winds His angels and the flames of tire His mint-- ters”’—brings before us the truib that by law, by order, by due subordination of means to as in the material, so uv the moral the will of God ‘Is best carried out. ‘This iruth gives a new meaning to those researches by wuleu the students of nature are enubled, by working with these laws, to work out the wil! of ‘their divine teucher; but it also gives a fresh force and 1aterost to those othar manifestations of law and the goveru- ment of States or churches by which there ulso on earth the will of God must be done as by those higher laws in heaven, By the lawof duty and the baman conscience, by the laws of nations, by the laws and constitutions which divine Providence bas, through the genius of man avd the progress of ar raised up in our asfferentcommonwealths— By such law the stars are kept from wrong, And the most ancient howvens, through it, are fresh and strom By such law all human socioties are kept from dts. order, partisanship, popular violence, despotic tyr- rany, By such law, by its supremacy, hos the Church ana siate of England bituerto oven guarded and guided to temperate ireedom and wholesome ductrine and solid unity, Outof such law has sprang tho great communities, which t their desceut from Eng land, this side tue Atlantic, Aad, ou! by the su- premacy of such law may we all continue to bo ruled, By such law may the passions of ine dividuals be restraiaeu, aod liberty of thonght and speech secured ‘and peace and . oraer and the whole community be maintained. By such order and by euch law may the wholo of modern s0- ciety on this aide the Atlantic or the other re main- taiged 1m (he stress and strain now laid on overy part of 118 complex community, Let justice, which Ia the soul of luw, prevail, thoagu heiven icselt should fali—or, ratuer, a8 heaven cannot fali if only justice Le done—let justice, which is God’a will in heaven 4s in earth, have its pertect work, Wak IN HEAVEN. ‘There is yet another thougbt saggested especialiy by (hatvoame whten gives ils ebiel meaning to the featival of Micheimas, “There was war iu heaven: Michael and bis ungels fought against the dragon,’ This is the tdeal side of the greatest of eurthly evils, ‘There 1s war even im beaveo, to ourry out the will of God 1 casting out evil from the world, aud so the same qualities are catled fort by war on earth iv 18 true that even in the midgt ol the carnage of pattie, even in the midst of the misery of brilliant hopes overtuned there is the likoness of the couflicts of the ceve-tial hopes, Courage, selt denial, dis pline—these ure tne gifts by which victories ; on earth, Courage, self control, discipline—these, if we may so say, are the gifts vy which Victories are won In heaven. So:me of us may remem- ber the compisint uttered in one of the mostsir k- ing works of American genius against the ‘amous Italian piocure, to which 1 bave beto |. tu which the archangel bestrides nis faliew enemy tv un- stained armor, with fair, wosrmed with azure vest, with unrufiied wings. 80,” he says, ‘should virtue look in its death strug- gle with evil, The archangel’s feathers should have been torn and ruffled, his armor soilou, his roves rei bis sword broken ut the hilt.” Even in the cont of heaven there must be strugyies. Oi those strug- gies earthly warfare gives us likeness and @ type. All bonor to the efforts of the peace which inspired the aims of that society of iriends to which this 8 existence; and yet it is. not gnificance that the only authentic portruit of foundor that which represents him asa gallant youth in complete armor and with the motto, “Peace Is sougut by war.” Peuce is the end, ia religion or politics, but con- flict must bethe means, Michael, the archangel, the leader of the beaveuly hosts, is the true examplar of Christian oeroism, no less than the geutle Raphael or tho gracious Gabrie, May Gou’s will everywhere and vy all of us bo carried out with the same uo- swerving, persevering determinution by mau’s will on earth ag by God's will in heaven. THE WORLD OF SPIRITS. Again, in tho deseription 0: the apocalyptic beavon, there 1s another feature much insisted upon. [tis the world of spirits, It is tue spirtiual whico unites and vivities the whole. These at least ontward forme of speech and worship and outward boundaries of oxtions either ceage altogether or cease to divide, In Ezekiel’s complicated vision of the angelic opera- tious of Divine Providence it is the spirit which isin the midst of the wheels. -‘Whithersoever the irit was to go they went, und they went every on raight forward, aud thoy turned not’? intoe vi- un Of Sq Joun all the worship js of the spirit of love. “{ saw po temple therein, aud the city had no need of the suo nor ol the moon to shine in it; ana tuere shall be vo more curse, for the tabernacle of God 18 amongst them.’? Doubtiese in our imperiect state ie will Goa not im this re. spect done earth is in he: to which wo all look forward muy help us more clearly to understand what should be tue aim aud object ot all earthly combinations and forms, whether o! language or of government or of wership. It is by the spiritand not by the letter; by the essential substance und not tue accidental oulward covering; by the better unui Stunding of ihe meaning that les beneatu the words. by the better appreciation ol inward unity umid out- ward differences; by the comparison not ouly of earthly things with earthly, vuc of spiritual things With spiritual, without respect of persons or of nas tons, that the unity of spirit, wuick 18 the unity of the blessed angels, can ever bo produced among earthly churches or pations, Much ot the course of this world may be carried on by colossal armies and by biood api fire and sword, vy gigantic commerce, by daring assertion of authority, by Ceremonial observance, by dogmatic exclusive- Bat ere is & bigher courso of carried on by the still small ef conscience; the union of intelligent minds by spirit; not matter by reason, not torce by mind and heart, and not outward polity. Each one i in this seuse & king to bimsell, more rin tue Sight of God than the conquest of nations 16 the con- quest of sell, which each man can achieve with Gou’s grace, ot enti it on a. Yot still the thought of that AZRAKL IN THR SOU’ The speaker then alluded again 10 terms of praise to the cbaracieriiics und methods of the Quakers, and, spoaking of Azrael, saiu;—The Angel of Death 1s passing over ihe land, | seem even now to hear the flapping of his wings, Not only in war, bat on every day ol every y some housebold or ocber that troad may bo felt, the rustling of those wings may be beard. But hard as it is to believe, that solemn visitant may be an angel un- cel ia what be brings and what he takes Angel of Death 12 ulso the angel of lite, \ddress was as lollows These, then, are the ways in whicn Goa’s will is done in heaven :— First—The consciousness of the Divine presence. Second—The majesty ot law, Third -~\ he divinity of divine gifts. Fourih—Uhe conflict wich evil, Vifth—The spiritual charactor of the service of heaven. Sizth—The divine beneiicence, May God grant that now and here, as we pray oar daily prayer, that His will may be done on earth as it 8 done in beaven—some one of these thoughts, 80 ad eXpressed, may take possessien oi our souls, THE ORTHODOX FRIENDS. Rroumoyp, Lad,, Sept. 29, 1578, Thirty thousand people attended divine service at the lodiana yearly meeting of the Orthodox Society of Friends, held iu this city to-a nent Kagish minisiers were pro: THOSE MISSING TRUNKS. ‘The search for Mr. Thomas Harland’s trunks yes- torday Wasa very tame compared with that of the previous day, The seven o’clock train at the Grand Ceniral Depot was met by ouly two officers, wuo had began to lose faith im the existence of Mr. Hariand or his trun&s, As for the baggage men, they even sneered at tbe possibility of the trunks coming to this city or the missing books being in them ii they did, This idea is beginming to gain ground among iue United Si officials tov, aud the listless way which the baggage was exumined — sho’ very conclusively that little hopo was entet tained = of ecuring the much wished ior evidence. The United States District Attorney’s office Was closed aud none of his assistants were at tue headquarters of the searching party during tho day. Lust evening it was said that iuiormation h n received leadiag to the belief that some ne And important evidence coucerning the missing trunks and books would be made public to-day. It was also hinted that tho truuksot Mr. Harland would Gertainly arrive from tue West to-day vy one of the express trains on the Erie or New York Ueatral rail- d nctivity Inat evening among the # detective ofllcera would seem to confirm ion (hat developments ure impending. At rola will be continued to-day, BREATHLESS LOQUACITY. Margaret Rooney was vory talkative in tho Fifty- seventh street Police Court yesterday us defeuduut in ® case Of assault and battery. She started off in loud, sbrill tone, and kept it up tor full ten minutes, No one was allowed to contradict or interrupt her. Gradually sie grew hoarser and hoarser, Then her vyouwe became wheesy and tt apd weaker and weaker, Wolil at lust it gave out, ana the poor womad was Voable to articulate asyllable. Her husband sat on tne by, ereacly amused, He fad eviwentiy become accustomed to such scenes, but had never hit upon the happy idea of letting ber have the field to horself, Then the Judge hela her in default of $500 bail to keep the peace, She could do nothing but look Unutiwrable things as she was escorted to the prigon veiw, SHOPKAR. How the Orthodox Jews Observed the New Year Festival. BLOWING THE RAM’S HORN. Interesting Services in the Nineteenth Street Synagogue. ‘The soiomn ceremonials observed in the temples of the orthodox Jews yesterday were tdentical with those performed in the synagogues of the children of Isruei three thousand years ago. Undisturbed in sequence, unchanged im vestment, with the same unvarying chant they have theo, sive and now remembered the words of Amos the Prophet:—"l have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were aaa firobrand plucked from the buraing; yet bave ye ny reiurned unto me, saith the Lord. Theretere thus O Israci, and because I will do this unto thee prepare to meet thy God, O Israel, For, jo! be that formeth the mpuntaing and createty the wind aud declareth unto man what is his tyought, that maketh the morning darkness and treddeth upon the high places of the earth, the Lord the God of Hosts is nia name.”” With this intent, “Prepare to meet tay God,” the 80,000 Jews of Now York rose early yesterday morn ing, and, although, iike the Chriatians, they have their schools and uiflerences, one and all, with envia- ble curnestuess, entered upon the observances of 8 period of seli-abasement, supplication and confession, It waa the second day of the new year, and in ull the orthodox Jewish synagogues there Were services from seven in the morning until Iate at night, The venerable patriurch, the sous and daughters, themselves beads of families, and ull the servants joined in the supplication, while tne veuerabie words of Amos met them at every turn, and not one dared forget tho appointment with his God. THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, ‘This long session of penitential thought ana feeling leads up to the gracious Day of Atovemont, the day when (usting and prayer are of no utility aniess they are attended by the liberal atonement for wrongs done, words said, sentiments entertained to tho detri- ment of others, Restitution ts necessary before the swindler can find atonement, Pardon must be asked before the ‘air fleld of an unseratched page can be pressed to the heart. Literal sorrow for wrong doge, confession that is good for the soul, and all that is included in the comprehensive expressiop “pen tence’? must be indicated and expre 1d and folt first, After that comes the Feast of the Taboruacle, and all the Jews are a8 good as new, a lo yesterday’s Heratp the unique rites in the Ghetto were described. [o-day tue ceremonies ta aristocrat‘c orthodoxy are recorded, The chiel sy Dagogues of this description are “the Remnant ot Tsraei,”’ on Nineteenth street, near Fifth aveou “he Gates of Pearl,’ on Forty-tourth street, u Broadway; “The Children of Geeshar,”” on Thi fourth street, near the same, and “Ibe Lovers of Peuce,”? ou twenty-ninth street, near Third avenn ‘Toward each o! these a crowd ol ucw batted, well dressed people turned at the early hour of seven zo terday morning. The temples were undraped. The sacred books Feposed safely iu the ark. At the hour the services began in the synagogue on Ninwteenth street a peculiar congregation was gathered, That synagogue ts the oldest as itis one of the wealthiest and most important in the United States. 1t was in- corporated about 1670, at the instigatien of Spanish and Portuguese retugees, who, fleeing trom the bos- Ulity of tue Inquisition, came, some by tho way ot Holland, some vy the way of Great Britain and othe: by the way of the W. to New York, where they assombied at \d selves under the Rempant of israel,” @ po- cuharly aristocratic temple and atiended by the exiremer orthodox Jews, who desire 19 worship attor tne Spanish end Portuguese fashion. Io the congregation at the present time are many vames well aud bonurably kno’ politan social and commercial circi Among otners are the Coens, Wolfs, seixas, Abecassis, Al- lens, Harts, Noues, Keershets, Hendrickses, Puilipses, Laurences,” Biezes aud Lanes, The Rev. Dr. H. Pe Mendes is chiet minister und the Rev. David Nicto is his aseistant, SOLEMN PROCEEDINGS. From soven untii balt-past ton the Rev, ar. Nicto led the cougregation in supplicatione, Not one of the pumerous throng had broken fast, There was great solemuity in the procecdings, The women sat tn the galleries and could easily ook at tue men, 1 men sat Oa beaches ou the ground fiver, and witho: effort could not see the women. Allworehats There was # noticeable absence of Jewels, teatuers und turbe- jows in general. At balf-pust ten the temple was crowded, Ub the tabar plaitorm sat Solomon L. Coben, presideut of tue vongiegation; Mr. Aurop Wolt, Vice pre-ident, and Dr. a from the ark, trom which be portions of the law pertaining to the fostr which he csiled several uemvers to the desk, in compliance with the Mosaic direction. Then followed the prayer for the goverument of the United States, iu which ali joiwed ucartily, Taking his stand in a little Wine glass pulpit, about ground aud at the left of the bis text—"Prepare to moet thy God”’—and pi briet, practical exnortation\to the people. The vices peculiar to the day then began, THE RITR. : ‘rhe minister resumea bis piace behind the tabar; in bis rear sat the officers of the congrezatt tween tim and the ark wore benches iuil of tavged oo whiie the women filied the gail the iemple above. Like the mioister, all the men wore pot unly the tall vk Bat, but the tallth, or robe, about their shoulders. Tuts robo is the one ordere by Moses, woo directed that it should be @ riage of biue n sneb deep arvund tom. On New Year’s Day and ihe Day of Atonement the minister wears his talith on bis bead daring part Of the public service. Tne particular rite about to be periormed is cal.ed Shophar, or blowing of the ram’s boro, Leading up to it were tue coufessions and Supplicutions, Standing at the tabar, or desk, oa which the law book rests, the minisier pulled hie talith up over his bar aod down tn froi pletely veiling bis {ace and covering the buvk, from which he read. The congregation held the book of the day in hand. At the proper time Dr, took two boo! Mendes begau in & low woaotone, as 10 achant, he occasionally varied, loud, now full, now shrill gatil the sonnd died to a whisper and was taken up by the old mon in the side seuts, the volume of which was gradually increased by the younger men aud the women tn the gallery. He read Aud ine people Fesponded. He told tne affecting story of Abrutuu and Isaac ana tne typical sacrifice of the euriy Hebrew days, and tho people called on the God of Israel to near their confessions, At times ti! souud was like that of a comiused uproar in the distance, then like a stormy session in toe Board of Brokers, where every mau secks to drowa the voice of bis neighvor; again the chaut was untiorm ana reguiar, like that of a well trained chotr, and ull to Hebrew. Nove of the congr " youngest, used the Kuglisn version, but followed the Uraditional text ip unison, THK Raw’s HORN, This chanting continued nearly an hour, at whicb time Edgar Paoillips, wun bis talith thrown grace fully avout his eheulders, ascended to th form and joived ta th & Very sweet baritone Then he covered bat aod head with the tauth and clevated tue ram’s Lora. ~ At this the entire cou- gregation rose, The horn was about a foot in leagth, nicely polished and curled at the eud, lt was the cébut of Mr. Phillips as a hornbiower, and his attempt evidently created a motion im the socrety. Brac: jug nimeell weil, bi jod the Lip horn to pi! lips and biew. At Orat a goutie little |d came forth, then @ good rotund noe with « flourish of Ofvamentation and trili that ended ia well susiained aod Vigorous tone At fret the ty of the se recalled the Congregation to its appreciation of soremn ne. This notitication vy the chazan forms the people o: Iseuel tuat the Day oi Atone: ment is approaching and that tho great day of expla- hand. Mr. Philips biew thirty times and congregation broke forth into snouts and #roans and sighs und sounds of lamentation Removing the talita from bis bead Mr, Pail lips re. suined hiv seat among the people, the additional rvice, Musapb, went on. Alter more prayers the minister summoned Counsellor Charles aud Solomon Seixas from th oat right d ders who supported Moses on Mount Sinai, while the minister proceeded with the supple. mental service, during whic the of the Shopbar was several times repeated, until the seoventieth horn call rang thi 'b the synagogue lik the Clear cut (one of a clurion bugle, There was posi- tive musie im thi id aL oxtraor 'y echo rulled through the gallery hke @ buman voieo—"Prepare to meet tuy God,” With thts many of the more devout, who had tasted neither lood por water ail day, rusned to lower reom, wuere they partook of ‘The urning, they contiqued tho observation of the 1vatle be tenth day is the Day of Atonement. Prior ta that time tuo days aro passed 1a peutionce and su, plication, Next Saturday wil be obser Sabbath of Repentance, and on Sunday vice of Atonement will begin, lastin P, M., to nine P. M., and conti « from six A. M. till sunset—a time of fasting, prayer and atouement. Four days thereatter comes the Feast of tue Tabernacie, when, purified of the past, WILD & perfect present, ali orthodox Jews start again with @ hoperal favare, ail of which will be rev poxted next your, Great y %8 extended by the officors and Iswacs, the sexton, to strangers who care to at. Nineteenth Street by orig oa Seats are ven them and books are offered, but every vis. ‘or is expected to look alter his owa bat by keeps ing it On nis own head,