The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1878, Page 8

8 THE SEVENTH DAY. Themes That Were Discussed in Yesterday’s Pulpits, IDEAL MANHOOD. Christianity and Progress—Re- ligion and Politics. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF MANHOOD—SERMON BY REV, HENRY WARD BEECHER. The freedom and novility of (rue Corisvian map. ood was the theme of Mr. Beecher’s discourse yesterday morning. The real eal! that Christ made, bs said, was “Follow me and I will teach you to live.” This fact was almost iost sight Of through the teachings of a suddea conversion, Qpd Lhat be who becomes a Christian becomes an heir Btonce, The Christian schoo! was one m which wo learned to live alter a certain ideal maphood, and iis truining embraced the whole of life, trom the very be giuming until theend, Mr. Beecher set forth in pig Bermon a certain aspect of (his school, basing bis teaching upow tue words of Paul to the Philippians— “Bocareful for nothing; but in everything, by prayer apd supplication, with thanksgiving, let your re. quests be mace knowu unto Gog.” This, the preacher remarked, was a command given by one of the abiest professors in the school of Christ; and be went on to (ell who Pau! waa, explaining that AL the time he wrote the cheeriul passage relerred tobe was aged, wearied by torty years of toil, of a bighly sensitive and proud spirit, lying in a Roman dungeon, from which be was never to escape, and was so de. Bpised by men that be declared himself to be the very Offscourings of the earth, THs THORN IN THE FLESH. Besides, bis body was insignificant, and be was afilicied in a way which mado nim appear contempti- bie in the sight of men, as was evident from the re- mark about the thora in his flesh, a point, by the wuy, about which men had since been ten thousand more curious than they were about how Christian life, “lL like Pau for taking care of his old body,” said Mr. Beecher, enlorcing the lesson that men should do pothivg to dishonor their earthiy tepementa, The ad- moniton, “Let your truth be known to all men,” the preacher satir:eally remarked, was obeyed by most people in spiritual things; but they gave the animal fuilrein, Mr, Beecher expressed bis d) Lat the teachings of tuose who teil us We are Irec to say that we are poor, miserable sinuers; that we are less (nao the worms of the carth; but who will not permit-one to say that he had grown in generosity or any good quality. ‘This order of things Waa ihe legacy party of tue ascetic school and partiy of a false theology. *4L aver,” said the preacuer, ‘*that if the grace of God be in man be will grow, and it ts his duty Lo bear wit times te lye a bess that be bas so ¢rown in spiritual things.” A loity spirit of seli-control, which ea. a man to Déur adversity and prosperity alike, uamimity, was Paul’s ideal of the mandood to be graduated ont ofthe schoo! of Ghrist Jesus, The times when wheo pould show himself a man were the times when others were swept away. Ou parade any soldier could make a good appearance; but the test eame when the breach was to be stormed. This ideal manhood ‘Was not to be attained by being simpiy converted, It could be attained neither easily mor rapidiy. Tae sevool of Christ was like every other schvol; ail sebolurs could not attain 40 the same degree of ‘pro- ficiency ; but tue idea! sot bolere all was 10 overcome, by the interior, ull conditions of iife exterior. So learned fast, some siow, and olbera never learned at al, ue school of Curist graduated as many aunecs asany other school, ® DISCIPLINE OF THB CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, People uid vor come Dut to be made fit to be saved. derection of this iti Rumvers tp times of “revival,” and alr. Boecher ad- mitted that there was ground for eriticism aud ridi- tule in many Oi these revivals, Tbe end, however, should be kept in view; Jor it one had never seen a Ged of goiden grain, Le migbt, ia like manner, ridi- ele ihe dirty-handed mao who apparentiy tore away bis sced into the open furrows, Mr, Beecher rejoiced thas wo live in an age of scepticism; but regrewed »tvat Curistians wore $0 uid in parting with old notions. “Trees,” he said, “know enougn to 8 Christians don’, and therelore they full of imsects and all Kivs of things that bark tat ought to crack and peal off. But they are afraid to let 14 go. Our conceptions of God ought to become enlarged and puriiled, ior ihe old monarehical demoniac spirit yet remains in many @f our ideds,’ Mew, be wept on to say, Were afraid of losing the Btbie who never made any use of lt, and many were Teady to figs for it who would notiive up to it, He was bot airuid of science. The couception of what « man suould be Was Dow established in tue world aad oven God Himselt could vot ebiiterate a jac. “A great goul to earnest,” be said, * tt to God, and if soul is brought under the power of the Holy Ghost no Beepticism can sweep it out of the world, If you sweep truth out of Christians then the Bibie god ine creeas bad bevter go too. Ged bad not laid down any specific method to be /ouowed 1D attaining to the ideal Christian spirit. Lt @ man could develop it by any otber instrumentality tuao the Church, he was at periect liberty to do so. But,” said Mr. Beccner, “if you have auy instrumentality by which you cau do (his vetier Laan the ways of tue Church for God’s uke let us Know i.” i1@ Went on to say that be was elf u witness of the elevauog and comioriung p there was in Christ, and repeated the words of the Baviour to yearning souls, ‘Come unto Ma’? TUS ASCETIC VIEW FALSE. If this was the conception of uuwan life and if Christian life were deveioped out of It any other vi of the Chrmtian religion must needs be falee. Tne ascetic View Was [a Toe Yen Commandments be longed to ab: ¢ state, und a barbaric stale supposes an under class of society. This class must always exist, so the Ten Commandments would ride Juviiaue in al! times, Lt would be wosiced that tuey Were a stringot megatives—“Thog shalt now”? —while, iu the New ‘Testament, jor the first time, uppeared the injunction “fou sualt.” One limived apimal iorco; the other opened up tue spiritual forces, The one series of commands vecessartiy preceded the other; but maa shoud 1@ whien tne n flaeuce o/ the positive aut nigher law. meut was toe jaw of oature, It was a to talk about “carrying the Cros them. Alter one had passed through the primary tage anu emerged jovo the Digher realm he should pot go through iife with tears and groans, \ooking lor bis reward only im the dile to come; he should, hike Paul. be nappy avd cheerful always aud uoder ali circumstances, ‘Any conception of the Divine natare and govern- Ment opposed Lo the developmout of this periect hope aud rest and trust io God was a { Beecuer believed in a God of J punish here and hereafter; bat wi jusifumentality to elevate, aud would be admin tered without destroying the oud geutieucas and ove. God se loved the He gave His only son io die for 16 CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. CHRISTIANIIY AND THE LAW OF PROGRESS— SKRMON BY REV. GEORGE HEPWORTH, | spire that stood ter browuerly love. ; corruption reign among men, and that the great Republic shoud keep tah even Lincoln, thi bis success to faith in God. fhe great Mazzini, a man whose name we can hardly metion wiihout tears, God; Justice, As Juhn Stua that these would-be reformers wi trols it, however, not men, Tu what God docs and What man essa: easily seeo. Mr, Hepworth bere desei ment aud law of the tides of the sex, to suow how clear, forcible aul inevitable were the works of God, and (hen went ou to say that God’s methods of pro- gress were always clear, Like the meoming wave they were im no baste, but they always a plished their work at last, ‘lhe methous of the retormer were like (he optgoing Wave, that always carried with it che débris and she filth of the snore, What were the profoundest impulses of real national advance- meni? Whatdoes uistory teach us? The preacher then gave a picture of Turkey, showing its corruption and superstition and coatrasied it with Russia and the Greek Church, The reason Tarkey was in this 4 corrupt condition was becsuse she had Principle, no morality ip her busine: Neyo for manhood Awbag her eltiaans t 1 baa tp & ple, and New York stood t fects, (he brightest ornament eriking exampie of the Lighest civilization, The sermon was concluded by an earuest and eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the Gospel in promoting and initiating the true progress aud advancement of national and individual lite, MASONIC TEMPLE. Z “THE PRACTICAL VALUZ O¥ THE YFAITH IN GoD"—-SEERMON BY MR, Q. B, FROTHINGHAM. “The practical value of the faith in God’? was the subject treated by Mr. 0. B. Frothinghag, in the Masonic Tempie. The idea ef God fills the imagina- tion of man, be said. Though undofined, it stands for all that 1s great, glorious and lovely jn the ideal world; and in the. material world it stands for a law that never cbanges—tor a previdence that weaves all things consistently into perfect erder and harmony. In the moral world it stands for a law that cannot be explained away, audig the spiritual world it ropre- sentsalove which is forever present to the soul, When we pass trom the ideal to the doctrinal a great change markathe transition; tor then no theory or dogma of .God does anything but affront the race; Ged is painted not asalaw, but asa violator or the law, The doctrines ia tne moral world represent God not asa universal spirit of justice, but as au ex- pression of wilfulnesa of what shall bo or what shall not. In the spirisua! world the doctrinal idea of Goa 1s not of majesty itself, but of the priest; not of per. fect beauty, butof aclouded divinity, glorious, bat dimly, darkly glerious; a being part of whom its in heaven anu part im hell; a being to be 1 ed and shrunk before—to be appruached upon bended knees, Atheism quarrels with men’s thougnis of Deity, nor with men’s aspirations; their batred is of the dogma, not of the idea. If the atheist takes Gud out of heaven be puis Him imto the breast of mau, or into the system oi the world; be does uot eradi- cate Him from the things that are, The practical value oj this deatbless Being, as a mere belict, is nothing; but as a belief of tus conscience and heart 1, seems priceless, Look at its importance as it bears Upon ourselves, Our political relations and spiritual inspirations, NERD OF A STANDARD. It seems that the one great thing needed among men is @ slandard to chow us that gooduess 14 duiy— that justice is m0 mere notion ef our! Jess beauty, u part of the universal 8: world. Our forefathers spoke of conscience being the voice of God, thus admitting the idea ot a personal character to the ideal God Public and private breaches of trust and dishonesty had been of late ex- plained away and so pushed into a corner that it was doubtiul now, in mauy places, whether there is such shing, as moral law, and bence the nec standard that shall not be puiled to piece: men 6 hasten to acknowledge. Reason, not 8 to determine if the standard ve right or is-meet that the tdea of duty shoulda be plain, simple and identical with the will which 18 to doit, Toe probiem in America sow 18 to,estab- lish, for the first time in diatory, a government founded on the rightsof mea, How we ty meet the requiremeats? 11 Is an historical fact that ali be- hevers in democratic ideas have been theists, Moses was @ theist; tue idea of God only would be use, Cromweil, a an even Bow not understood, owed his tremendous power to the name of God. Our own Washington was simply, purely, merely a dvist, Ap- parently be a Christian, bation bis beart of hearis he had only 1m the destiny of the American pi Une then amaz ng cry that an impartial justice showild ib the men of Tunis, Abrabam ol great love and great triais, owed conjured his countrymon Bot to lose their faith in recital of congregational history, O1 the twenty-one persons wiio origiaally composed the Berean congre- gation, Dut few retained to greet their olf pastor, Aud in their place the venerable cl syman found & Tather spurse congregation of ne mind bim of the da: . Perkins began bis the Jove mest o! us bavi We were born there, paid, 16 lection with many of Mt thi natural birtbplice, how mucn moro tr be of the pluce of our spiriital birth? forget the church whery 1 was converted, and he dwelt on this theme @one filled with the dearest memories, Becoming Wore geueral in bis remarks be said that the Churen ts the home ef our ueurest iriends—God’s people are these, He denied the nur- rowness that is sometimes attribuied to church con- nections, and in itlastrat.ng bis meaning recatiod a remark of old Father Sands when he was a youn; man, “We jove all who love the Lord, our bu st.” AL tho conclusion of fits 1 with the tor the place of our birth, a placo old place known as at the corner of Fourth aud Sixth avenoe, Mr, Perkins preuched first sermon the: October 26, 1838, Up to May, 1839, the meetings were heid in the stable, and for two yeurs afterward ‘the congregation wor- shipped in King street, Attbesame time with the eccupation of the King street house the Sanday schoo! was bezun, and it increawed se rapidiy that At the clogs of his five years’ pastorate it tad a mem- bership of 700 children, the largest in New York at that time, The church membership increas: greatly, the number of members ut the end of years being 843, Kev. John Q Adams, present pastor of thi Perkins in a iew ‘ke 2 followed Dr. 2 ling block iu their way—the foancial em- which hang over them. CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN QOHURBCH, OPENING SERVICES IN THE NEW EDIFICE— SERMON BY REV. JAMES D. WILSON AND AN ADDRESS BY BLY, WILLIAM ADAMS, D. D, Opening services were beld in the morping in the Pew edifice of the Central Presbyterian Cburen in Filty-seventh street, near Broadway, It will be re- membered that when this congregation decided to go up town they obtained Dr. Joun Hall’s old church, which formerly occupied the corner of Niveseeth street and Filth avenue, and moved 1, stone by stone, trom turret to foundation, and constructed the editice opened yesterday. Without the church looks as thougn it had stood in ite present pomtiou for years, the brown stone blocks of which it is composed hav- ing acolor only obtained by long exposure to the Within rything is bright and cheery, the cbaren con: 'y modern improvement in ec- Glesiastical arehitectu THS SSKVICES. The inaugural services were very informal Rev. Johu Spauiding, D. D., read the Seripture and the sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. James D. Wilson, who took for bis text Psaims, Ixxxiv.. 1— “How amiable are thy tabernucles, 0 Lord 01 hosts !?? Before udvressing himsolt to the text the pastor traced tue histery of the Cnarch from its tuception to the The words of the psalmist, said te pre with ew edifice, for in tact it wat able beuse of worship, The mankind, which the pastor logically, were dweit upon at concluded with an exbortati ruth concerning to the peopie to con- tinue the work now happily inaugarated. The Rev, William Adams, D. D., a former pastor ef the church, delivered a snort address, in whicn he spoke of the early anu continuous work of the church, je did not, he Gaid, recoguize in the vast congrega- tion before bim a single face that he had koown when his coanection with the chureb began; yet all were ie long p the work wher i ds work is ever being done. Hedrew a tigure tm the prop concerning the ness ol the second temple of rusaiem, and hoped thati tne pew church greater successes would be achieved than haa ever been known in the old ene, CHURCH OF ST. MARY THE VIR- GIN, THE BATTLE BETWErN RELIGION AND POLI- TIOS—tERMON BY REV, J, PINKNEY HAM- MOND, D. D. At the Uburch of St. Mary the Virgin, Forty-ffth street, between Seveith and Eighth avenues, tho Rev. J. Pipkney Hammond, D, D., a distinguished Southern divine, and rector of the Church ef St Mary, Baltimore county, Md., preached a striking tor if they did ali would be lost. Emiliv Cas. that eminent and eloquent Spaniard, belongs to ith, plea@e no Confession, but 1s simply a delist, while preaching. the great gospel of progressive ideas to tne Lverian peopie. REPUBLICANS MUST BE DEISTS. No State nas aver founded @ repuviic unless tt was founded by a deist. For this reason Rome could never found a republic; by reason of despotism ; ry cardinal ideas, thereiore, 11 could apt be republican, It requires that saints should rule the world; but we and therefore anavle todo it, It says tomt Christ 18 all in wil in the world, aud vat those who cannot accept the creed can bave no shure in the Kingdom hereafter. Atheism canaot raie the world; a deism compels us to bave @ republic, be- use it draws all wills iuto the same path of just nd equality. Republicans may differ on miovr poiats, but always agree on cardinal ones, {be question before society is, how men and wowen may 1’ logetber—suffer ana ice, in harmony With Ope another, aud nvt puil bother to pieces. Ina state of matur could never be brought about; for iorce rules there wituout Mili bas beautifcliy said, “If we are to copy nature we are to discard humuv- ity.’ Among the lowerorders of autmals barbarism, gavagery and afeexing stream of never drying diood reigns, to divide and to scourge them. But among ourselves we wisn to build up a society differently constituted. We are as a famiy of litle children stumbling along while making our way toward ry and more beautiful than what wo at tt be believed and admitted common father. Levas ik that any velit may Le euiertained because it is found to work well. Tne first question touching doctrine suoula be, is it true and cau ft maintain ise! besore the bar of Towson? There are probably not a dozen people who, believing ia God, discard the sub- Stance of tho belief aud cling to tbe idea, and it is always found (hat the earnest mon are tho most earnest believers. But though dozma may be dis- missed the substance of it will go on from strength to strength ana from glory to :lory forever. ST. THOMAS’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH. THe LIFE AND LIGHT OF THY BIBLE—seiMON BY BISHOP COXE. Right Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of Western New York, preached an eloquent sermon in St. Thomaw’ Epitcopal Church, on Jeremtubh, xv., 16— “Thy worfs were found and 1 did eat them, and thy word was unto mo the joy and rejoicing of mine heal The point enforced by the speaker was the great amount of cousoling light and hope and joy in the words of the Bible, and the necessity of assimilating tue promises and the wisiom con- tained thereia with the Christi daily life. He said that Jeremiah tu sacred art was properly enough represented sisting On the shadow of a broken arch in the midst of tae rains of his doar Jerusalem; and yei—though the spirit of Jeremiah, steeped in the darkest deptiis of gloom, was in stroug coatras to that of Isaiah whose vorco was attuned to sunshine and gladness—he, too, had gleams of spiritual joy, twapaporis ot heavenly rapture, and be says, “by sermon in the morning on the battle between truth and falsehood. He took his text from the ond epiatie of Timothy :—‘‘lo a great bouse there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honer and some to dishono: After eloquently depicting the struggle existing, from the very origin of the Church, between gooa and evil, truth and falsehood, the preacher said:— It is often said that religion bas noibing whatever to do with politics, but never was a greater mistake made than in adopting this Opinion, Bringing politics into the pulpit a making it take the place of the Gospel is one taimg; but couseientiously looking imto the great political questions of the day, and choosing sides from a sense Of right and justice and an earnest desire to promote the welfare, not of the party, bat of the scountry, is anotner thing. WHAT POLITICS SHOCLD BE, When by politics is understood tue mere aggran- dizement of a party forthe @ of carrying out party ends and securing a large share of party spoils; when it comprebends in ite deflastion bribery snd corrap- tion and slander and iaisenoodjand abuse, as is, alas! too often the case, it t wi to promote the true weliare ot the country and com. wheu it seeks to place the vest men tn the best offices, und uses these oillces, not as rewards lor those who most faithiuily suoservo the interests of the party aod do all the dirty work wnicn bad pore tice 18 @Ver ussigning to its volaries, but jor the of advancing law and order and securing Hi honest, up- I de uet say when at are now agi- gh That be to go be- youd wy province as a priest of Jesus Christ. Bar t do say that every man in choosing bis side should bo goverved by the bighest and most unseitish motives, and WhetLer in questions of politicos ur of religtoa I would rather.seu 4 mun take what! voliove to ov the wreng wide from & conscientioas sense of right than the right side irom wroug mepves. fo ypinir. pariy *pititim the Churen, be regretted (but such a siate of at as long as honesty aud sincerny two sides ihey can work to- in the couse of toeir com- But when wrong motives in- good aciiung then there is at contest beiween™ truth and faisenood, Smeerity is a quality always to ve respected even 10 th those Who do not wgree with us, and tuough my own sympathies are with those wuy ure contending tor What they believe tobe Cainolic truth and primitive opd honor (hose who Practices, | canmut bus to honestly” belie Pl have it | form of disease for violation of her laws; the fourty was spititus! pawisbment Con- eeroing the latter = the reveread Ken. Uemen combated the do that good could productive oi hor excessive, deny, was excessiy bell tended to ott Turiase 1 SOLDIERS AT CHURCH The members of the Twenty-third regiment, Na- tional Gaard, assembled at-their armory, in Clermont avenue, Broekiyn, last evening, and marched In a bady to the Classou Avenue Presbyterian Church, where they listened to the annual sermon of tneir chaplain, Rey, Joseph T, Duryea, D. D, The pulpit and gallery were adorned with American flags, Mr. A. L. Di presided id Preténeor Carl Sobst accompauiea Duryea selected his text trom the F1 Paul to the Corinthians, xvi, 43 A PRISON ALTAR. SERVICES af THE KINGS COUNTY PENITEN; TIARY—ONE HUNDRED CONVICTS RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION. Services of a most interesting character were held mm the chapel of tne Kings County Peattentiary yes- terday in presence of 4 large number of officials and prominent citize! of Brookiyn and vicinity, among whom were many ladies, The occa- sion was the blessing of a new and handsome altar which bas just been erected af that inautution, and which was resplendent witn lights and natural flowers tastetully arranged by the wile ot Warden Sheviliu, When the services were begun, short!y belore eleven o’clock, there were present Mayor Howell, Comptroller Burrell, Justices of the Peace Riley, Semle! jd Walsh, ex-Police Com- er inadequate one could ‘pity 10 @rush the soul of man or iD- missioner Pyburn, Sapervisors Byrne, Sexton, Stile well, Gubver, Williamson, Heuck, Clark and Snyder, General De Lacey and the membors of the State Prison Committee resident of Kings county, A choir rendered Glorges’ mass in & most excellent manner. Alter the blessing of the altara solemn bigh mass was celebrated by Rev, Michael Hiekie, chaplain of the Penitentiary, assisted oy Rev. L. F. Toi of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, as deacon, and Rey. Father O’Brien, of St, Stephen’s, as sab-dencon, Rev, Sylvester Malone, of the Church of St, Peter and st, Faui, Willlamsburg, ascended tne altar steps and preached a sermon, taking for his text Mathew, ix.,1, 8 Im prefacing bis remarks the reverend gon- tleman said thathe had not exnected to see so large & gathering of prominent citizens as were present upon this occasion, Yel !t was a pleasing evidence of tue interest man: id in services of this kind, not alone by those wh of the Catholic faith, but by so many who had como there te indorse the moral and religious influence of the Cbhuren. You are at id to this prison, said the reverend father, addressing bimself to the convicts, I am sat- Isfled, for good reason. [t is the privilege of the law to hear aud to kuow the truth. J speak plainly and in trath to you that you may profit by my words now, in order that inthe future you may, wheu released from this prison, became good citizens and worthy members of the Church of God. Every person accused of a crime against the law is tried by a jury of his fellow citizens, and thore is scarce an oxcep- tonal case where a man Dot guilty is punished. But the community which commitied you to prison and deprives you of t dexurest of boons, life’s liberty, would not © ere deprive you of happiness. For they say to you when yeu have served your term we will forgt a forget, The communi ou will ter leaving here, Cutholie and Protestant alike, 18 a noble com- munity, whieh rejoices in giving ussistance to the needy and to the weak, The characteristics of our administration, 1a the eyes of the world, {8 too much mercy, Then respect and obey the laws of the land that you may enjoy the heritage in whick the provi- dence of God bus so happily cast your fot in lite, The reverend speaker then dweit on the evils of in- To aving prigop he urged them to ge whero they { known, The coan- u ‘and he would advise them to go among strangers, and there, with fiteliy to their Charen, the luws of the State and fatiniulmess and truth in their intercourse with tneir feliow men, they would begin life anew and would enjoy the biessings which truth, virtue and ind "yy accord to ali who would love and serve God. Sach was the biessing he wishoa all the prisoners. z One bundred male and female convicts received Holy Communioo, and at the close of the services they were marched te their celis and the conzrega- tion was dismissed. In the aft Re Protestant vhaplain of th fore the Protestant cenvicts. THE GREGORIAN CHANT, IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT THE PAULIST CHURCH—FATHER YOUNG DECLARES AGAINST OPERATIC MUSIC IN THE CHURCH. In countries like this country, where the Catholic Church is, comparatively speaking, in its infancy the iustailation of choristers or chanters or, as the pentifi- cais style them, ‘*psalinists,” is a ceremony cntirely new. It ts not provided for im the rubrics as ts that of lector of exorcist ia the minor orders conterred upon candidates for the priesthood, but i bas approved and earnestly commended by the Gepgregation of Sacred Rites in Rome, It was entirely appropriate that the Church of the Paulist Fathers, on Fifty-ninsh street and Ninth ave. Rue, should be the scene of this ceromony yesterday afternoon, for it was within that sacred edifice tnat the rovival of that grand old Gregorian chant, seven Years ago, was crowned with signal success, and the Paalist Fathers’ example is deing followed throughout the country. The hour selected ior the sermon was half-past turee o’clock—the time at whieh vopors are sung. There was a large oongrogation, in- Ginding many non-Catnolica, The eeromo: moneed with a procession of acolyt: boys 1b red, purple and vinck soutanes and surplices, follewed by adult membors of the St, Cecilia Sing: Attached to the chureh, who wore oung, Tobed tn searlot eopes, processionists, who wero The Church, saia he, well af the expulsion and gaged in 16 service, In times gone by, when a clerie #0 tar forgot his obligations to the ministry as to jon, be was formally pr cnorisvers jon bad been 6 great privivege, The candidates by t deemed worhy to be prhioge the to be his assis God tm wnwon with ot the celestial the host, who are eternally singing, ‘holy, Lord God of Sabvactn, tue beavons tuli of Tay glory.” Those who come ato the sanctuary to sing the praises of God should do so from mere snow or to obtain comfortavie are not a Longe» f on of one’s is a sacrifice tm mauy of the blessed glad to possess, and this sacrifice applies to NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1878.-TRIPLE SHHET. INNOCENCE ABROAD: Dr, Talmage Visits the Elephant and Records His Impressions. NIGHT SCENES IN NEW YORK A Valuable Lesson to the Good People of Brooklyn, The long expected series of sermons oo the ‘Night Side of Oty Lite,” by the Rey. 1, DeWitt Talmage, D, D., was begun im the Brooklyn Tabernacle yestor- day morning. ‘The sermon bad been announced on the Sanday previous and during the week. ‘This, coupled with tne pastor’s pian of frst exploring all the haunts of iniquity before preaching about them, drew together a larger audience than the church had ever held before, Every seat was filled; the aisles were blocked with camp stools, the vacant spaces under the ries and behind the rows of pews wore crowdod with standing auditors, aud even the win- dow sills and railings ingide the church affordea room for late arrivals, Tne building bold over seven thousand persons, while «a surging crewd of two, thousand more blocked up Schermerboro street in front of tho church, preventing Vehicles from passing. <A great proportion of the audience was Composed of young men, and it waste them especially that Mr, Talmage addressed his ser- mon, But it any thera were who went to hear any apology for vice or any gilding of its allurements they were utterly disappointed. The preacher dealt ratber 4m, generalities, and rarely descended to detail, Ho portrayed the aw/ul consequences of sin tn some of the most vigorous word painting of which he is capable, His voice was clear and loud, so that he could be easily heard by the crowd in the corridors, and occasionally those outside could catch portions of the sermon. é Alter the jual preliminary exercises, during which the immense assemblage sang with vigor the hymns, ive us again” and ‘Jesus, lover of my soul;’’ and after Arbuckle haa played the usual cornet solo Mr. Talmage arose and began bis sermon, RESOLVED TO BXPLOKE. The text was taken from Ezekiel, wit, 8—“Then said He duto me, son of man dig now in the wall, ana when I bad digged tn the wall f beheld a agor, and id, goin and behold the wicked abominations that they do here, So i went in and saw, and behold every form of ereeping things and abomigable beaste.” So this minister of religion, Ezekiel, said Mr, Tal- mage, is commanded to make exploration of we sin of bis day, He did not stand eutside guessing what itwas. He did not say, 0, Lord, 1 dare not go, Please let me off,” but be went im and saw and re- ported. I,as a minister of religion, felt 1 bada divine commission to explore the iniquities of our ctties, so 1 went in, saw and beheld, As Mr. Talmage said this he outstretched bis arms belore the people, as much as to say, ‘‘And here 1 am, to tell you all about. it,”? causing great laughter and applaai Ps Brought up tn the country, he continued, I had never seen the hiding. places of iniquity watil this autumn. By the grace of God defended I have never sown any wild oats, (Laughter,) 1 somonow have been able to tell from books something about the iniquities of great cities, and to preacn against them. Busi thought there mast be an iniatuation about them thét had never been spoken about, and I said, “1 mill explore.” [paw sens of tuousands of men going down, and iM there were a spiritual concussion as oll, as ® physical concussion the whole air would be Milled with the crack aud ramble and thuoder of molition, I found the gate of the cemetery where souls are buried ana I said, 1 will expiore.’’ I, a8 an officer of tue army of Jesus Curist, went on this battic aid, If you bave alike semuuission, go; if not, stay away. Dol think this will iaduce ojhers to go there? J description .oi Tead people to go there. shall nos giid iniquity, aud while J shali not pus the faintest blush to the fairest cueek I will kindle ti cueeks of many a man into a conflagration and ‘will is @urs to tingle, You say don’t you know e papers are criticising you? 1 say yes, and dd you kuow bow I feel abou. it? (Laughter.) 1 judebdted tell you no living maa more to the newspapers than I am, My business ig to proach truth, and the wider audience 1 got througo she newspaper proses the wider my fieia, As the secular and religious papers of the newspaper press of the United States aud the Canadas, und of Evgland and Ireiand, aod Scoudand aod Australian, and New Zoalaud, are giving me every week 3,000,000 (vce for an audience lam indebted to the press 10 w. Se slash away, gontlomen. isn towel with which ever, ‘ubped down to ail bby pei introduction to appl public maa needs every cep healthful circalation. editors, with Lull permission near shrough my sermon irom jou. ISTO THR VALLRY OF DEATIL It was ten o'clock of a caim, cleur, siurlit night that our carriage rolled away with us from tne most beau- tiful part of the city down into the places where gamviing and crime and death hola dreadful carnival. AS the horses Halted we passed Into a world or which we were practically sgnornot. Not many signs of deatn, but tho dead were there. As I moved throdgh 1 id, “This is the home of lost sonls.’ uferno, Many thin eye with tears of pity. Toere rp! tho stair, corp: in the gallery, corpses in thw gardov. Leper met leper, but no bandaged mouth Kopt back tho breath ‘I felt as though sitting on an istand coast against woich a Eeroclyion bad driven ® thousaod dismasted hulks, and every moment more blackened huiks rolied in, and while I wus waiting for golng dows of the storm ana the luil of the sea I vethought mysel!, “This is an lasting storm; these billows always rage”? On each carcnss that strewed the beach aiready a vulture had hted—the jong-beaked, filthy vaiture of de: joW pecking into corraption and vow On Its Diack wing Wiping th: No lark, no robin, no chafflnen, bw x ures! First of the sacred report about the m: apocryphal. f paint ing, marveilous music, bewitehing fountains, unperial upholstery. Masterpieces? There was not a paiui- tng worth $6, laying aside the fexme. Great daabs of color—a crows between a chromo and aspiash of paint, Masic? Toe homeliest creatures | ever saw fquawked discord, aceompanied ov plunos oat of tune, Upboistery with two ousracters cup, ‘Tinsel, gewgaws, tawdriness, (rippery—: be jt at @ second hand furniture st sin is almost always poor. RURAL viotius. she ascended the other side of the ehugm, vot she scajed tue beguts, Ne eve bat the Slecpless eye of God bad watched ber the oue side or coming ap on tbe ot August night aud @ storm was gailiering. thudder woke her trom ter sompambu- tried to fly, but saw & deeper chasm She vent over the one and heard the ngs of the past. she beut over the otnel heard the portents of Ob, for my fatue inthe cottage of ) that f might di mbowering ‘honeysuckle! Ob, i worm of that August ted und wrote Ayden transgressor is nara under peal utierea, *W hicl foraaketh the gaide of her youth and forsaketb the covenunt of ber God—destroyed without remedy,” and the chasm bebind echoed 11, ‘Destroyed without remedy.” And the Ghasm belore ecnoed i, siroyed without remedy,” snd bleeding on aad ner long locks, washed over the other chagm. But by this t1me our carriage’bad roached the curb- stone of my dwelling and I awoke, and penold it was pair cust TASTE NOW, And there she perished, he edge of o1 VAN COTT ADDRESSES THE AMERICAN TEMPEBANCE UNION—-THE TEMPERATE TOP Under the auspices of the American Temperance Union u meeting was beld yesterday afternoon at the Seventh Street Methodist Church, when an address was delivered by Mrs, Maggie Van Cott, gratulating the members of the church on the im- proved condition of their building and expressing her n permitted to adaress a » she said that sbe would ri hoar the tamest speech over delivered from a sob apenkor than to hear one made by a mini: brightened bis wits at the wine oup. spoaking to temperance people—io oucrgetic temporance peopic; but they are extirely too tame; they do not ingint enough; they do not persist ia their efforts to save the fallen and rescue the lost, “I have had a loug vacation this summer,” said Mre, etter for ii—s better woman And let me suy to all of you gratification at bein, New York audien Mariposa trees sho growiog when the promise had been given to Abrah: that bis children snould be the sands oo the bunareds of old when Paul was preaching aud when jhe Saviour was walking (be earth, Even there, under the shade of these patriarchs of the Jorest, fur away trom civilization, the intoxicating bowl. jag tno pest of The vile {umes of brandy, kin and whiskey were smelt on tho breath of their She could not but exclaim Aad the answe! re tame and Lall-bearted. ?? »” said the orator, “that we to-day, who be Christians, could do something to has- sop she gloriots day* wuen Kemperance would wretched slaves of guides and their coachm “How long, O Lora, ‘Just 80 long as asunder ana tb the bottle be made fre Those who cannet do without their claret for dinner bud befter get out of the Church. They do more bari than good. And yet I was told in California that there were not twenty who did not uso Wine at I told them if that was tho cae the er then appealed to the m New York to stop the habit of treuting t! temperance pledge, which was after- ward circulated among tho audience, large number of signatures. BLUE RIBBON TFMPEBANCE. The American Blue Ribbon Temperance Union held their regular mecting in Irving Hall yescerday aftor- Boon, Mrs. Emma Gates Conklin in tho chair, W. Gibbs said thot whe rum dealers of the city bad wielded their power long enough, and it was about time for the temperance people to assert thoir « ing the union nominate candidates for the vgrious This proposition raised a storm olds and Vice 4 Venameotly protesting against Lb olitical machine, Mr. Gibbs rs. Couklin then introduced to tbe audience an lndian chiet, No sooner had this persdnage, who was daubed over with red ochre, ap- peared (han he was recognized as George Waldron, whe for years past ba« foothache and coro medicine in tne sirects. thing genuine avout ‘He cautioned the audience to boware peranee and then produced his lodian av wenty-five cents per box, dience, and after the doxolozy, Conklin declared the mecting nd nominating commit Z until hotil nali-past six o'clock P. M waich resulted tn the selection ot Mr, J, W. Gibbs ag tho next president of the Union. STANDARD HALL. ef objections, Counsellor J. President. Lam union beg used as a withdrew bis wotion. been engaged ‘18 completely TRUER DUTIES—PROFESSOR ADLER'S LECTUR: TO THE SOCIETY FOR KTHICAL CULTURE. Standurd Hall was crowded yesterday morning to overflowing by a highly in listen to the opening discours The puiptt was profusely decorated witn rare piaots and flowers, and the lecturer looke is Alter the introductory by tho choir Professor Adier began by recounting his experience on the Pacifie coast and his observatious of nature, It ig grauttying to observe sigus of ‘pormas neney in our undertaking. Wo are no longer a mere temporary phase of development, The soviety has ite main work must be sought beyend the limits of this hail, It hag orgavizod reliet works for the establishment of law It seeks to make infancy happy, io order that maturity may be cheerful, Our tree kin- arten, notwithstanding its spacious accommoda- tions, is insufficient to mect tho demands mado upon it The socicty bas identified itself with the cause of those struggling ciasses who a. and their posterity # moro fortunate and honorable position. Lt extends to them its sympathy, far as ites to its power. More than society has thus shacen off the cowardive 1 hitherto clang ectual congregation, te fessor Adler, among the poor, wking to win os and aids them the moral judg din their moral i stands for some pe pect of the moral pressed with equal clearness or powet The Hevrew religion presents the majesty of the jaw of duty; Buddoism, sympatoy; Cariste The system of education and agcording to their suvdivisious ted ta Lhe higher classes, 1 (be #ebOI are eXpecied Lo graduate into the society and form in time a rei Jauity, self-sncrifee, Ana groups, are adm represented by such men as Keimarus, in dd Thomas Payne, The watchword of th in England and America, was “Keason against the radiculiam hae beeo termed rationalism. Their cry was, “Reason und the Bidte.”? Tho third type is “Materialism,” The subject of Mr. Hepworth’s discourse was to the Lord of heaven and eartu, than u ss “ word was to me tl joy and rejoicing of ' Fegaiar attendance at the rehearsais. The growth I nave also, my friends, to report that in my mid- that of negation, fh Christianity and the Law of Progress,” and the text eae Dedisher ye tue prin. | Mill Larter bevtiied aud adorned from motives-ot | of the Gregorian chaat ia this country steadily cou. | night explora Ti saw Waa stasael tae mere Tinelosttessény't: waseb po Hy aR RG being 1 Pbiilipiaus, i1., 14—"1 press towara the mark 8) experience, they ‘who | Pride and @ base desire to pander to ths love of | wnues. Itisthe only music found im the books of | can teil, It will take prin to many benrts so of the old Cbristian dogtrine. As 0) Ou to . Jashion d Ostentation oh is the bight ana curse Jt te ‘0 @ shat bim- tne for the prize,”’ Saint Paul, said the preacher, seemed | Ob & blessed, and, trusting in of the present age. ho grocentg Soe pe apg ot augas oi ~ masie bim- all ner, on which is inseribed, Christ, though their horizon be vieck with the shadows The.loss of @ soul does not generally result trem solf, even Hie sick al ja the museum io wna of afllemation; not tue Rome wo have had a very curious idea of exchange, and one Y be found to-quy creed shail be leitto the ave the dark: of despair, He will ay na bring which 4p suould find it difficult to accord with, He | them forth in the radiavee of fis y. It is like | Some & 4 defiance of God's abt, be used to chastise romptings of private jadgments. Wi v that viaze of light that broke out Will, Dut irom Sereitmaay little ecte—nots of indil- as to direct she singing. Baste ot teat moral F mea which ‘any. curtis be called gave up earthy comfort for beavouly approval and ig ted in Bun- thought bimeelf a gainer. He purchased a crown ia glory by the paing of a lifetime and congratulated yav ‘deeus,* the Giaut Despair. Se’ uttered them Jeremiah found the word not live by vread sion d finding the Vending on the ons 10 kuow wunde us by it conironted evil bith immovavie, as much as to swy, “1 sia.” Then | saw fim conouling wit “OUR RELIGION.” Our religion is not ouly to do the good, but to strive for the accompir the better. Tae good whieh mightior in, Fhen tb 18, Goa will enlighten give an oo- humeeli On his good fortune. He endured straits, smed, Thy words were found spin © your awilies, in yout parisy, ta periormance Dim doubt the saadow of sad i» reanged under Ui x ord . 5 : o exinting 1 ; crosses and hardships for the promise of the unseen | and | did eat them,” in which expression there ts a spot fly Which you live, let it ever be your + of order. | reflection crossed his thoughts and some holy mem- Giauk goed. The veneration of car codes of sudan, ud thus attached bis own estimate to tuis | grandeur that grows apun the mind., It is ono of | Lignans all to be remur ive ws ile champion oF truin. | When we began the Gro m io this church | ory seemed to oail bin back. Goodness acd sv bad | the enlargement ol our Concepion of duiy—ihat is Ihe miel expbsage by saying, in bis leat momen What the oid p re called “King text | etien you may Wo baned (h Bisebeninar jporivvens wo we bad hardly a note of chant neard | a struggle, but sim triamphed. 1 saw him surronder | pu and core of our efloris The watchword of out , | cising av imperial nfvouce turoughout the r oie ‘ siwaysloving oud | guroaghout the United states, The poopie ridiculod the | to darkness and death—an ox tot ughier, Ub, | society i True duties,” If that be irreitgion, then “To die is gain,” He told the Puiliipians that the | Soripiures. devoted in tue housenoid, earnest and zenerous winded | iden tbat we could sugoeod, but to-day We lind it auopied wil is this the end of all th vice? Has | we are irreligious; HM that be athetsm, ten w oniy Fond to udvancement lay turougu danger and THE BIWLE CXORRVALURD. Sha pesiooetthal 1a 644 stbaiphstoreere ned Caneel | meeerenemmese Gathelal, ee bees 02 NOSE thrown | atheists. i We havo a duty to periorin he top of Calvary. There was no true advance. fhere i a general visposition oa pelitionns. the Mety ‘forward aod honest | the Catholic Coureb in the United States. ngaisy | toward ty fe come out from the o over the ary. n nee- | saya to undervalse the Bible, Sueers s po o_ The con jetwoeo truth and fa ot the Charen | music of God—n ath trample, the vinvag Vintuge of y v0 long been ident ment except that which was in accordance with the | «yous aliugions to ibare seen im DOOKS, magazines, hood way beet Hag ona} nan ey, bat truck ia tb Au article was publi ast July in Gou pity the country iad, unsuspecting aod | the former is ia danger of suffyring with Un trawl d dowa by tho great Tescher, Now in this, | newspapers, aod may be beard from che proiane lips | fie will aula the "Gataroas sual weer “ae rejoicing Henan containing @ copy of a letter | go eusily yed! O young man irom th We shall erect a life station on the shore of this ocean pineseenth centary, ¢ ff te Hiied with the toud ors and lecturers, Tey treat the book as aa | CoOee «5 io Vistas rdinal Preteot | house w wuy are you so bent on | of religious dowby to bring those who have ripoaraper deri Gogeess,. We ibe aymgers | wb ag; URL these driveliers : col euiing enya, you birth? 1 seu wome. | been wrecked in their Iaith into tho harbor of rt a8. Cry | who aseati the Bible miss soeir sim, Jor divive truths 1 . ont" thing on your forehead and on your 9 | moral satety. Wo have a duty also Lowar ye aie and evo hover be destroyed, The Angio. | BLEECKER STREEL UNIVERSALIST 0 vouple: should come to the enarch sud ea yourtect. ‘ls ts rea, Woar tei? The blood | wire bave Pemumed wininthe pale ol oxisung ins of one party; it is the war cry of another, and it is the Thore is a wild rush of to be ainused. ‘Six oborisiers, four raved with the ef n mother’s broken heart, Of what did she div? the | tutions to aid them in preserving thor morally, on mind all over the world is The pirit and Janguage of the Bible. CHURCH. warwhoop of still auother, It eaters into the whom wore boys, shen caine Presperisg. te by 38 YaeR, Sate farmers Will ask og they vie thett horses at tne rail i malcontents in the community lead by men who bave ing, and it is that which At the Caiversalis: Cuarch, corner of Bleecker and | forward two, and two, and received from Fathor Young eon the funeral day, 1c was neither intermittent | charches them: vover seriously thought about tho fundamental prin. | bos made the fuge the envy of the world t | Downing stroots, last wight, Rev, J, MM. Puiiman began | te bonks, eptitied & Thine cemieuaereeriee a Hor congestion, HOF ald uyo. In the ponderous | increase onjoct of consideration and importan + A t Almighty God it w e tne, siplos of social Organization, and who would rotorm | Pi Jt Of cobstetatien te od Ls the Bible and | 2 Slee Of six sermons on the jeading theological cou. eo tiine, “fake heed that what you “You kitl y oly on barre the world by tarning it up side down and reproducing | five by thom spiritually, the body lives by food, | troversios. Mis first sutjcot was “Sin and Punish. a tho inet item of this mornii jectaal sutplus of society. the chaos of the old me, f utter their ow» puerilo | taking them duly and constantly for nourismment | ment.’ The prevalent 1 icy Ww make light Fou to recess mnew only can bo sos apart to I sud imposing command, “Let there bo Night” Tuer | and streugth. Gt mete Ovi) he: ante whe te te 6 Veen ull tho anticipated remarks nboat this sermon, 1 wuese dovs the Church absorb tor her theory aug their purpose ia & redistribution of pr —— Md ’ bow unter Lave been atl tne supporitions that I it how m: i those Whom she hag erty, but tf you thiak of tt yee = bone 4 m - t “i BERLAN BAPLIST CHURCH, plored, The philosophy of materiiisim wi would 3 portray sin that it would be made atirac- ly socloty for the ox ais! arvings of Lard work whieh shall | deadening tho comimunity’s sense of sin, fT tive. ask you fair minded men and women | pense lavished upon thier traaing? How mai be given to thexe who have refused to work. Ail | AN INIERESSING ANNIVERSARY—BERMON DY | i ike, deatadaak dial Go: ean ce Whether 1 bave not porirayea sin this meruing | wuodo Hob make tuowselves u bit to progress? this i# done in the great name of roligion and Chie. | aie Ruy, pu, PERKINS, FIRST PASTOR OF aie a ot eae ie IP . "7 to be A creeping, diavusting thing, and so fur | Caurchos shuld teach honesty, at least; but too am progress, Social economy bas ibs progress aino, Ye BW PS , in doing wrong, The fandamental proposition was | TWENTY- YEARS <A BISHOP, | trom making young men go to places oi iniquity 1 | often they encourage the reverse, Y aonliemnas thet convictions eis acertaiu elass of people in the world who THE CHURCH. that there existed a moral order of universe disobe- - will aeK you If 1t has Hot been tue Whole driit of my | fe ? [hey neve . sermon to drive them awny from sia? Beiore L aud (Mat religion wit 4 ® me no distinet or deduite parpose in ¥ 0 their wild Au loteresting occasion was celebrated by the mem- | dieucoto whicu was sin. A belle! 1m the omuipotence The bili aT Leaahe ot 3° Conrecration of through, by tbe help of ph Buernal Uod, 1 will wane Sarrasen ¢ a mer Btierauce, you their Peal tendeney i# 10 break in | bers of the Rereau Baptist Couron, at the curuer of | of he devil was the original form of mony roiigions | he Right Rov. John Loughiin, D. D., as bishop will |} nd in the execution of ip to those witiiu Une p Upon (be sanctity of Our bome ley advocate 1 | pediord anu owning streets, Over the pulpit win a | ies seek mouse. Sareives im mod ovoRy In the | be celevraved on Wednesday, the 30th tps Ata a boll, insututions Who ure eager vmme. Line oraliby, WUC Call ic LY the Bate Of xOmMe superior " | doctrine of evernai panisuinent. isin Was (He want to Wiillagly javor wit erie hare ate nino tu ine world aoreauifc pro- | stleld oo which were diaptuyed the daive 1998-1875, | Gireqi oppesit®, ie thoory BeUe iN Lue omupos | Meeting Of Cainolle geutlemen Beld yostertay In the Vo aak that those wno are ifu.y loeral ‘ who deom i. their peeuliaf aud special mis- | the Ogures indicating that (he uay’s observances Were | tenes of God. ‘Sia ean bs Instanves of | ball of the College of 8% John the Bap. put off the attitude of indifference and stang, not ike Hou (0 ULLOF sarcus Against (He faith Of Lhe people | in honor U1 We lorie auniversary of tue chu its remediavility to be & all bands, Kee cor of Willoughby and Lewis avenger, 1 me, golog iM, a face in Which there was | spectators, Watobing the giadiators in the arena, bat and to bring ridicule ou things which vetore they bad Oe ag the Duipis w ie ate ferring Ww the pariebment for sin Mr, Pullman ermined that dress by the Only hall covered up bY AD assumed joy, Aid, themselves, in the Hunt ior wout 1s the dearest ad to 1DbFOdUCe GOVE) avetry that it jooupy ing ads Venerabie clergyman, Re said:—Pupishmedt i ibe reaction ef ai the forces jould be presented to the Bishop a 7 it like the | and most loyal treasure of the human soul—hoa eto experiment with. Thess are ele | Aaron Verking, D. D., tue frst pastor of tuis floek, | Of the Universe aguinst fin, | Here Weretour kinuy Ol | @ purse ae Well filled as the gonerowny and of | page of & book, Ovo wixtit, far away in a | omy. y of WhiCh We OU_HE bo stand im foer, | iy was ow. that Or, Perkins would review tho ook ihe first Was arbitrary, or that io fieved by | the people of the diocese id admit The meeting | sort of somnambuliam of waking sleep, & soul ‘ihe lesvurer coneiuded by stating that the kinder ‘of the passion with w 1agh OOP | i cecns of abe eheain for he naw jap > stot infraction of puolie rights Appointed ao executive committoe, Componed of a | forsook garton to Fort 16, Ie ’ atory ty years, but bia conventionn!, of thas Whien cons: revresentation from each church, who are to take an- OW open, aad no more Bo! ‘ WHAT THUR PROGIENR ta, discourse wae more tiko the talk of a tathor to bis | caste of repatation for ure ation, A finul mooting of the at a similar,tn gon ogated at the cure ‘Thore is such w bhibg as progross, in spite of all) cuildren ay & famiiy reunion thi mere commitice will net Sorday, Of avenue aad Fuura street,