The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1878, Page 5

“RISHERS OF MEN’ What Prominent Pastors Told Their Congregations Yesterday. THE RHALITY OF GOD. Religion in the World. and the Necessity ot a Higher Life. CHUROH OF THE DISCIPLES. CHBIST; THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD—SERMON BY BEY. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. “Onrist Pieading” was the subject upoo which the Rev. Mr; Hepworth discoursea yesterday morving. ‘The text was Revolations, i11,, 20—‘‘Behold, I stand at the door and kuock; if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with me,’? ‘These words irom a very familiar letter, said the pre , form one of the most beautiful and effective pictures of modern times, The Master, with lamp in band, is standing patiently and silently before the closed door. He Knocks for entrance, but cannot pass the threshold without an invitation trom the owner of the house, wie bolds the latch on the Inside, for the door opens from the Inside only. ask you 30 look at .this picture for a tew. moments and to ask certain pertinent ques, ions In connection with i—questions that nave Something fo do with our spiritual house, something todo with the bond of union betweon the faite and tite inflafte, something to do with the grand possiDbill- ties.of human life, something to de with the elimina- tom Of the disease of sin from the soul and the eradi- Gating of those thousand evils which have crept into our livesto mar and spoil them, Who is sbis thas would enter and be-our guest and by what right and what principle does He come? Ho tells as that Ho 1s the .light of the world. 1s it arrogance to be in- formed of that or is it merely a kingly prerogative? Jesus is to the moral world whut the physical. in is to the It te a8 @ king that He demands oar hearts Wal light, comfort and solace which ny can give, He who wai ill the hgbs of the world, WHENOB OAME HET . Whence came this peweriul monenes who knocks He came irom heaven, -It is a wondrous story and hard to believe. Why should God care so much for us as to send one tous Irom His paluce on high? 1s igastrange thing thataroyal persynago irom the family of the Eternal One should ever visit the toilers of this lower world to save sunken and wretched bu- manity, Bat if it be true that He has come trom the portals of tne sky then weshall find im His words, probably, celestiu! music, Listen while He speaks, and our soul hed by joys that we have uever heard af man ories Nazarcue puts Hie a on the be finds that the charm is broken, the spell 1 pelted, i abd he who never heard belo words of salvation, Tue moth the bier, and tho mother’s wail 1 Him and tears com voico that said * light, and: the dead man opens nis eye: more sails his mother to bis w: bosom. But tae, Mastor passes on as though it pothing tor bim todo, anu never thinks of it again. “Gou sent his only: begotten Son inte the world thac those who be- liege 4, Him might not perish but hav erlasting life’? Waat is the reception that is given to this royal personage who is Kuocking at our door? Ought we not to cease from whatever business greatly honoro she Prince ot Wi im tuis Country, and was as the rep ot a great kmgaom, every door was pt ery bone in the land, born North snd Sousb, sought to do him honor, and every word Build Waa recofded by the pr for future thougnt ind congratul: tomes, the, uni the’ Prince of Glory comes dosed—the ‘door 1s shat, And yet wh taere je between the two persuunges | The Prince of Vatos came that he might see Inace ot Giory came that ion, When the Prince of Wales rsal heart 18 open to receive him; hearts are frou you, but only that you may reecive Him, and He would give you smething worthy of Himeel!, somethiug that will be n golden gifte apd that will ne rt ro Ho will give such as you 4 ® lite toat shall ight Iike off, Yet, alas! He stands at the id the door ts not opened. “THK WOKDA OF CHRIST. Christ's words ure vet unostuble phrase obtoally. bauled to-day tho peadventure and ts as firm as t eath, You remember the narrativ: wwo—the M: ying, “Hossanal be: bteen centuries bave gone; the Roman Emp ie bat inevery sauctuary, in every gone the same old cry t Is it oxagg w of Jesus Christ is without any foundation of the iy tvat He is knock. gat the door una is here to-day? He may not be fisible to us, but Ho ta here. He Knocks at the door oar hearts 18 promising to as the most precious M gilts, Shail we not tpen open the door, invite tho Waster 1p and ke of the things that He has pro- n making exca: You ao not br ful. 4 ba PLYMOULH OHURCH. Ti NECESSITY Of LEADING A TWO-FOLD IFE—68ELMON BECUER, fou are, of course, not all expected to attend it,”” salir. Beecher, yesterduy, reierring to a lecture by Ke Dr. Courtenay, ‘since it i¢ addressed to the thing portion of tho community.” Tho effect of thie $title §=spoech os 6t0)6make = one. tht of the congtegati smile, another tut frown and the rem wr elovate their eye- bre, The subject of Mr. Beecher’s sermon was the extence of a spiritual reaim accessivie to all who str to reach it, and the nec ty that men should livia that Higher world in order to perform well thepart tn this lower one, 11 is, bo said, the uni. for teaching of the Old and Now Testaments that the two worlds intersphere ana that it is she duty dim the other, Two striking the sustaining power of this com- mwn Withy the invisible were iurnishod in Mo and Peat fhe jiormer, an aged man, cou never have endured forty years in thelderness with a borde of stifl-neck 6! who Dadi the vices of the Kgyptians without any ot thevirtues, except tor such support. “Hw endured allbiogs as sooing Him that 18 invisible”? Pawas secood in she ordor of effects produced. Heo who, above all others, had inspired BY BEY, HENRY WAxD Jeni upon the proier proceeded to call attention to the fact thas 1 want to | fe of men who were going up aud ip by yr of external forces aud hot by theit own ‘Such persons needea the anchor of faith to hold them. elondly ona heartack also needed this od Jooking {rom the winaows of pathy aud love, All lite and “seemed to havo hey should the heaven reacher, uot do to judge by the took of that oyster the price o! is within? Wao cau tel! by the crude look of im this hfe tho size of the pearl of immortality lodged in bim?? 46 might be asked how could this stato of existence whieh lifts @ maa above nis circumstances be reached? By the habit of forming ia the mind tho couception of a who possessed all lova‘sle and admirable attributes, Presouce of such a one constan companion posadssed of every jonce known to mankin second means of geting into the = spirit hfe was prayer. lt wii not aduty to pray, It was a privilege, The maa whe bad simpiy gooe over & Lord’s Prayer had not prayed, Noman had prayed except he that en- tered into @ Consciousness Of a present God, When floods came povple had to move from tho base- ments of their dwellings and go higher and higher as the wators rose. ‘Ob, that troubles would drive you from yourjmornl ground floors to the very armed tower of your strongth!" exelaimed Mr, Beecher, “You are hving too low; you @re living by the flesh!” CENTRAL M. ¥. CHURCH. RELIGION AND EVERYDAY LIFR—SERMON DY REY. DR. NEWMAN, The Rev. Dr. Newman preached on the subject of “Religion and Everyday Lito,” taking his text from Matthew, vii,, 21L—-‘Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall evter iato the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the wilt of my Father which is in heaves.” Christ, suid the pre: ir, offended the prejudices oc His age, both by what Ho said and what He did, His was an intensely religious ago, but deati- tute of justice, mercy and holiness, The household, the mart of commerce abd the social life aid not correspond with the devotion of the otuary, He charged the religioniste of shat day with making long prayers for a protence and devouring wiaow’s houses, He told them they compassed seas and Jand te make one proselyte aud then they mado him twofold more tnectiid of the devil than them- selves, He accused them of boing scrupulous of pay- ing tithes of mins, anise avd cummib, but thoy omitted the weightior matters of the law, such as judgment, mercy and faith, If He were to appear in the Church to-day he would repeat the same dis- courses, The great want of out ago is practioal Chris. tianity, bocause men have tulse notions of a religious life and) fancy that its @ mental abstraction, a holy tranee, a divine ecstacy; that it requires the intel- lect ot a philosopher’ to cemprehend it and retirement of a recluse to pruetice it, The idea is prevalent that time devoted to religion 18 lost to the secular purposes of lite. It is torgotten that the moral qualities Of an uction reside in the spirit of the actor und not to the action itself, and that bely actions become profane when tke impelling spirit ola is anholy, Atl lawful pursdits are as boly as the purest devotion when not segregated from religiun, 1 18 aiso a false notion that religion is the performance of a given duty to the exclusion of all Otuer duties. But piety is like the acto! breathing of the silent growth of aatute, which aré sinultane- Ous with all the actions of life. #1, PAUL'S KXAMPLE. When St. Paul was making tents fora living he ays in solitude, nd thereby mortily the deods of the flesh; but it 18 lat béiter to Wortify the deeds of the flesh by aveds of charity. I pr ko my chances for heaven amid the josthzg cares ol life than the purest devo- tion perfoimed in cave or cloister. also a com- mon device with others to divide time into secular aud sacrod—six uays for the world and one ior God is tne formuiated creed of too many, and thank God that Sunday comes but once a Ww: ich religious d are di¢agreeable; they like the debtors who reiuctantly iurn sheir attention depts. If we do not need less Sabbath piety Page forth the secret of his endurance ae pre- tisabat whieh supported Moses—‘We look nor at the ngs that are seen.” MATERIALISM OF THR AGR, Tirift of thought to-day, Mr. Bowol Wantho direction of an unwiliingn thimiritual Kingaom, and a feeling was growing ancipa us from ngs were superstit ubjected to physical te Men seomed $0 forgouen, while reasoning aboot wature and matand the uivine method in inatter, thus im all the nd world t Hot so much pature as there 18 10 single bumae soul, and (hatin ali the facts of phyil creation wuere no such facts an | 01 One well Kept soul; nature is more per- feoveell (han any mountains, strata, astronoiical mow of any of the puysical laws of the glove. ‘heel fact of nature is Mau, and man not to rela- Hombhe world ben with reference to tne worbove. “They have taken away my Lord and I Knot where thoy tave laid Him” woud be tue vad trem of the human race should men be robbed of € faith in the unseen, But Mr, Boecher how tho reaction irom the extreme materiali=m of Uy would plage tho Christian teaching on a bigttround thon it ever had veen belere. PMACTIVAL NECKMBITY FOR PAITH. 1b not given vo genius aloue so to live AB to B00 Him is invisible, bus to all mon, When men sootore God and glory of the eternal King. dom ould De iound that the intellectual capacity to this interior 1o the moral power of tbe allec- Woudtbose who suid they had no time jefe tor the Dighite, that thoir whole veing Was absorbed by busi, were assured by Mr. Bi fr that they mesbeded this upliit, No io made such iso of hig time in bi business as ye Wwas COO! and caim and had most compre- hepsxnd perspective views of lite, ‘Whenever you, man hot with iue pinebing cares und Aunojos,”” raid ho, “you may depend upon it he but aever or who chirps in tho bushe Hits self into the tall trees"? Mm sould get on In businoss without wWuolttolt. Mr, Beecher replied, you wour Whole lite to 1? Now you bring ourir apd animal nature ana isi A Man is Hot master of his but det cirenmarane: | Was cvoriastmmg, travelling wy 1 [monleg WW had avy pumber of ruprod wo need more week-day religion. Tothe good alltime 1s sacred, und be wiil not de on Sunday. such and sunctifies every appetite of the body, a pi of the mind tout is not subject fe That law 1s present th the family, it follows us imto social inte, it ds us in our business transaction, and enters into i our relations and duties as citi- uens, THE WIOKEDNKSS OF THE TIMES. But 10 view of the prevalent wickedness of the times we are forced to ask the question, Has religion any practical effect upon the cuaracter and conduct Of life, OF bas it Oeused to be ® Coaserving power on ene band and « cvrrective lorce on the othor? The truth must be he morality of the Church 1s radicaily delective. The Church ig rich and she 16 extravagant, Ibe pleasures of the world are more to her than the joys ot pi Hor love of gain is a byword, She ‘stretches ou islands of the sea, while th of devotion burn dimly on beraltara, Many a Church member, who uys “Lord, Lord,” would let a piece ol property joon where busbaad aad | spend tuerr time drink, or for a gambling place wh young men ruined, because be can command thereby a higher rent, 5ech a m bas uot curried religion into his busia h the same toing is sudly true touching large corporations, which are vast monopolies, controling immense sums of money aud holding in their grasp the consciences of thousands of Mén, because dependent upon them. In private trans. ti0u8 the mewbers .of such cerporatiois are wemed honest and jast, but im their assootkto capacity they curry on transactions Whioh enrich the few wok any Bull Such transactions will not ber the light of the day. The last judg- ment will reveal that corporations bave souls; vut, I ask, of what avail is all our proacuing if you ‘do not e what you ? How can you expect th id will obey God’s law if you do notses tho example? MASONIO TEMPLE, THE REALITY OF GOD—SERMON BY MR. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM. “The Real God, or the Reality of God,” formed tho subject of Mr. U. B, Frotnioghum’s sermon in Ma- sonic Temple, Ho intimated that his object was to show in what sense God is ng reality, He did not desire to dizcourse about the gods of mon, for that would bo to treat of success, woalth, pleasures, victory, which are the deities most preferred by human kind, There is a great diflerence between the gods of men and the God of the Scriptures. Mon will” talk of their deity and that of their neighbor giubiy ue if the subject were not oue of awiul seriousness, and hearing them talk you Oad out that it is som thing mean, dordid and of no roat value which most occupies their thoughts, Tne mass of mankind roaily bolt in a veritable, operative Deity, They eannot describe or deflue it, but they believe firmly in that incomprebensibie something whose real prosenco is felt in the sual, 1a the by ways of lito will be founda steady sincerity and truthtainess of faith accounted for only in the sense, feelt a impression that out- s1d0 of themselves there 16 a living power which com- pels the world to the obedience of its own ways, In the intellectual pursuits of solence, literature, the arts, men find this conviction for themseives, aud when ip (he natural state, face to face with nature, they bi nov Gulative but a really living God, Superstition is an agent that soesin an object a thing of horror of of loveliness, 1t is simply aa effort to cateh and retain the reulity of the Deity which go’ erns the world, The deitios of Greece were idols, and models of human bea BO, toe, the things sot up divine image, aad at last men came to Worsnip tue idol for the reality, TAK AkK BK, The ark of Mosos was vut romps to locailg) the We know indecd but liste of the Moses aoity 5 that Dis was.e purely inteli y—a ueity with- could was an atvempt Of time the hope trou upon that presaged good or Gou out of t up their dead by power, This was early Christian Charon gath beleveu that the omaipresent, omulpoteut Deny was ja tue an Jesus Chris Henev, a well known preacher bas gaia, “Cu: ny God; to Him alone L pray.”’ The Koman Uatooho Churen dia ite b realize God im the Sactament, in drops of water }» im bine GonsOUFaled Waler and the priest's he Water was a bond to consecrate the indi- the boy of ud io eating the Almighty in extrvme unction deity trickled irom the Mngers of the priest, Tuat was a delly Wat the people could appreciate, ior they could not conceive brend wloue to be God Himes The consecrated waier conveys to the /rovestant ihe idea of being biessed and conscoraied to Him who was God, fo the //rotestant the Bibie is a party of the Deity that he can put in his pocket, place in bis trank, and take wuerever he goes; in hols nd om sicambouts and railroads—every where it is 10 be socom io Fond the Bib.epis 1 participate in @ sanctitying act that 18 the vesi uociton for sinful souls. Tbe inst ofort to localize Deity 14 the atiempt Lo incorporate Gud in tue con tiou of the Uniied Staten lt ms to be the idea that the piaciug of His name'tuert woula be the potent means of beuriag the Amer navion Ou to unprecedented success, yre prosperity, Philip LL, of Spain made the vame mpt to utilize the name ot Deny, aod he was oO he worst of Who ruiued the tres empire then Napoleon the Great and Pope Ping $ ond? Did Napoleon change te fate that bound ae fo a barren rock, or did the feeble an of the Vativan arrost tue legions of Vietor Emmanuel w marched resistiessly onward vo reconstitute {taly a pation seiRIT, MOT THE NAME. Either the spirit of Gedis or is notin the breasis ef the American poople. If it ts not thére to wnat good will it ‘end to write the name of God on a piece Of papor? and if tt dwells im our bearts then how ua- necersary and fvolish it must be to print the name of Deity on purcbment! In ancient Préguo were ts a dark und dusty sabernacte, on the black wall of which the name of déhovah is mysteriously inscribed, and the dust of ages 1s never oleuned trom those, diugy stones for fear that the word ood would be obtiter- ated, How much boster woald it not ve soaieen |up the place, make God a rea! being and not-an indistinet definition? gtd Tyudali’s lectures obliged the confession thas all is ight and that we jm prisoued ib a world laminous with the dy rays. A Dae imall mouths fs shat of Edison, whose discoveries go to show that she uol- Verse is yoodl Wilh Narmonious sound; that the mélv- dious waves of sound, crossing abd cecrossing each other in Wewilderiog beaaty of movement, can be meusured and made to do service to socicty, The immortal Shakespeare, the great Goct a our own venerated Emerson have pit into their works grand thoughts that aro pregnunt with the worahip of Th great cities, tied ap as we binding, lot as reflect bi 50 vouether. ‘Toe supr e work: 80 many diverse things led us importancs than & wings of she wind, ngs to an offended Dicty must be put away sorever and that we be given the merit of senso in the appli- cation of ressou snust be thi gent map, Scienee in this g us to see the real, and to put oui of sight the unreal Deity, To talk of science b irreligious 18 tne height of irreverence to born Ol toinges Svience is tuings that perplox and annoy us, How v0 reason up correctly from When tue CT be telt as He is not now, and when His A with truch, justice, be: ry bbe all He become réal and ipdiyidual, and be the means leading to all graces and goodness, FIFTH AY. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. CBUCIZIXION O4 THE FLESH AND 1TS AYFEO- TIONS AND LUSTS—SEKMON BY BEV. JOHN HALL. The ReV. John Hail, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, preached upon the crucifixion of the flesh from Galatians v,,24:—‘And they that are Christ's Dave crucified tne flesh, with 18 affections and lusie.’? Christiane possessed different faculties, the preacher said, as their work was # varied ono; but this duty of crucify ing their flesb, their affections and lusts, be- longed to them all, In studyimg this passage it was proper v6 ask:—What was the flesh in its affections and lusta, what Was it te orucily it, and who wi they who wore expected to do this? Alter oxpluin- ing the Greek origin of the word, he gaid flesh, in tho language of the New Testament, meant the uuholy, unspiritda); it did not méwa'the bode only, but the bouy and spirit turnea away from God, The_word flesh described the man who was turned entirery to bimseif; the ahenatie of the Mind irom Gov, ‘The flesh dia Bot always act iu open hostility to God; it Was olten hot conscious of otit- wurd batted against Him, though the carosi mind acted substuutially in enmity to spiritual interests. It was speciully important to remember that this hosudity to God could exist without oxpregs con- sciousness of the fact, without feeling any positive ill- willie Jehovah, The smuggier of counseriener seis cial ii-will to the United States, particularly if he suffered to carry on his lawless operations, There were men who said they did not bate God, ana they rather admired Him as a CAE EU oy aud ade ministrator, But when He asserted His claim to their worship and obedicuoe they said:—‘Who is tho Lord whom | must oboy? 1, with these magnitioeas facul- ties, this my imperial will, 1, who um soveteign in my own department!”? This leoling was the perfeo- won of human vaatty and insoience, JUDGE THE YLESH BY 17S WORKS, i doubts are outertalhud us to what the flesh is let it be judzed by its\works ‘Take aquaatiy of guupowder and it looks omly like a dirty, browu powder, bat apply to !t the requisite spark and it will besvon known to be guupowuer by tueresul. The 8 Of mularia slumbering in the human system a WitbOUL DetDg heed Now, % diseases brenk out And thus tne tt dovs, The apostie in Xt is taken did not pre- all the results ta any regular They od more like @ mass of carriou down, t the offences to which the flesh fae could be subdivided into four diusses—tirst, adultery, loruication, and lasciviou: second, idolatry; third, wrath, fourtb, druukennes Por ial stress upon tue third point, because 1 were a guarrelsome, violent race, Now it ts uw meant tuat every man jn his carpal stat depraved nor that all these eflvcis are visibie in carnal mind, bat that mao io his nai largely under au impulse which 18 pot God nor gouly 5 that Le is not spiritaal or holy in consequence and only becomes 20 as he Comes wader tne impulse and nce of the Holy Ghost, Flosn may be amiable, 1, highly eduouted aud it miay be trained iato aa Ormor, artist or statesman, bat still be ouiside the in- fhueace of Gou just y be strong with the ly Viras of disease 10 Its Veins, So muy 8 wan great. und jamous the virus of un. godliness and immoraluy undermine bis spirit being. The preacher then spoke of the restraints wuicu society pat upou the flesh. A man could wor- old dollar 4a Lis room or get drunk in hw own 1; aud in these ouses society would still not in- teoriore, because It was not injured itsel, FLMSH AB A MALKFACTOR, laining tne crucifixion of ite flosh demanaed br, they cun do wh of which they flesh muat be Juoged vy whi the chapter from which th tend to oxum order. Decause he wae deemed o mal factor, an enemy, a laworer and 80 the flosh must bo crunified becuse itis u and iawbr abolish or change ph sical appetites, conscience aflecis them, fhe omild of God ered from the flesh; but by the help yr be in the state Of absoluie sub. jection to the flesh in which ne pad p. Me will simply be ablo to combat and successtully, and crucily It os the Saviour nas cone, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Dr, Armitage, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Bap- tiat Church, sailed trom Europe ten days ngo in the City of Berliz, and was confidently oxpectod home by nis parishioners yesterday mot ‘Yue pulpitand chancel were decorated with tne cheicost flowers, and every preparation bad been made to indicate the Joy of the congregation on the return ot their pastor, ‘The Cuy of Berlin, however, did not arrivd, and the pulpit was filled by the Rev, Arthar Murseli, who reuched from John, xiv.,6—‘Jesus sat uuto him, am tho way, the trush and the lite; no man comes upto the Fasner but oy mo,”’ ‘These words, said the preacher, were an svswer to doubting Thomas, and «till ihe expianauicn needs to be exviained untess we have the light to know and rstaud, They are the worde of a higher boing, and on any meaner jips would bo pro- iane, Obrist implies in these words that He haga higher claim thay that of a teacher, He says, in fact, Lam more than the highest teacher—1 am the ‘Truth iteelf, There are but iwo keys to unlock the way to roal life—atonement and mediation. Cormt, through His death, namitration and resurrec- tion, effected the atousment, aud He has been a ine- nee, Gre a the trutn and a ation, med Himselt to all tuen nd the life. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ALE CHOsEN— SERMON BY BEY, PATHER FARLEY. His Emtvence the Cardinal Archbishop was not at Su Pal Cathedral, in Mote street, yestorday, Indeed, he now rarely attends services ‘hore, aod when he dees it is without the slightest noiiication, At the hait-past tea o’clock mass Father Mor! was the celebrant, Fathor Farley vecupying the poipu. 1 mass sung Was Schubert's in B flat, and tor the off tory “Salva Regina” vy Bosarine, whieh was rendered in fine style by M Father Farley, belore his Tuesday next the gr Ca’ be opened und continue for a the city would be bv if Hy jospel of parable of tho king WHO pre; feast for bis son. Thia parabie ealle to story of our Lorws blessed ove tor the r na how he turoed from sien wo compel them to ihe oid story of our Lord's itude. It is to the closing 1 eall your at ied, but fow are chosen, mn terror to many & gully soul, Butshall we be namvered among th ? Ouly the Father knoweth. Kvyery one of us i we ouly wil, Who are these / holie Nights hi sul open to indiviadal Coureh or dened 4 tation is only among the chosen few, quoted in support of th of Joga Christ and ta ance, Favner F tion Co the congregation to let their hight shat at the last day they Would be fougd among tuo Chosen tow of the saviour, ST. TEREKSA'S CHURCH, St. Terena’s © , Rutgers and Heary sreots, wae crowded to its atmont oupaolty tor the celebration of the feast of the patroness of the chureh, wore splendidly decorated for the occasion, grent attraction of the festival was voe Pontifical a it 10 have been bi ptiked da the words of 1 Wo must put on tn iewiee tor safvernoon in Ul NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1878.~TRIPLE SHEET, mast, The eolebrant of she mass was the Right Rev Mgt. Fabro, of Montreal; efsssistant priest, Rev. Father Prendergusi, of Middletown, N. ¥.; deacon, Rev, Father P b-denson, Rev. Fatner Power Farral!; master of coromanies, Very Rev. Abvé Valors, ef Montreal, The Very Rey, Cacén Lesage, of Mon- troal, and the Rev. Fatuer M. C, O'Farrell, pastor of the churcb, oceupied seats in the sanctmary, The grand mass by Giorza was sung. theme of Fasner Kiely’s sermon was the life of St, sa. Born iv 1515 in Spain, she spent a hi of the most remarkabie devotion, and died at the of sixty-seven, ufler spending Ulty years 10 a cloister. Toward the close of her lite sho established an Order of Oarmelites so much more sirict 1m discipline than the order of that. name to which she had belonged that the hothe auttorities wodld sanction ita establishinent, With the sanction et Rome, how- ever, she succeeded, In lier religious life ner cou- stant prayer wasto suffer or todie. She grew ia piety until nally her prayer wasa union with God Him- sell, Imagine, said the preacher, the purity of soul and bappin youthful day, 6 which prayer brought to all of you io and contrast that sweetness of con- Sclence to the troubled, wearying feelings you now exs perience. There could not be feltim this world apy Joy like that which came trom God’s peace and from the dull hope of His nevor enting love: STANDARD HALL. THE NECESSITY OF EFFICIENT LEADERS—~ LECIURE PY. 2ROrESSOR ADLER. “Our Lenders’? was the titleof Protessor Felix Ad- ler’s discourse in Standara Hall, Parent,’’ said the lecturer, *a revolution in rdligion in the liberal ranks. At first iiberaltsm at- tacked not obly the Church, priesthood ana the idoldtrous worship of the Bible, but also religion in general, The conviction has now been matured that if we attack what men call ‘the religious? it 18 in the name of réligion that we mudét ao so. The capital deficiency of which wé cotiplain at present 18 lack of leaders, In tho Wostern States a willing: ness bag recently beon expressed to form so- cieties similar to our own., Coula we but send out capable mon the work of religious emancipation might bé éarried on With tonfold switt- ness, If we want leadérs we mast train them our- solves; we cannot rely om the divi schools, Lot us Consider who are the teachers of religion that now exist, We distinguish between the Jewish rabbi and the Christian minister. Rabbi m master; minis- ter means servant. There is a distinction deeper than the nam rabbies claim a loftier station by virtue of saperior scholarabip. The whole Jewish people may be likened to a elass engaged in a com- mon stady—the study of their sacred jaw. The rabvi is tne head scholar of the ¢lass; master, Dot ol the people, but of the task. The Christian m)nister has a diflefent office; ho is a servai a pastor of His erring flocks, commissioned to bring them back intothe heavenly field. He has souis in charge; he labors tor thé other world. We demund, 1m the taining of our leaders, freedom, honesty and adequacy, The Diviaty school ta hostile to real tib- erty, The stadent’s judgment 4 forestalied by the very fact of his belonging auch ab institu tion; Dé hears no impartial statemeiits Of the great is whereon the medern mind is. divided, The new demands of rehgiod require new institu. tions. There are sepogis ior the science of law, of Medicine, and so sbail there boa school for thescience of religion. Ere jong, it is bopéa, tne liberals throughout the United Ssates will be united for the purpose of founding sach an tustitutron @ higher Ollice of relig:ou is to preserve the mational honesty; but woe tu the nation if religion stsell, tn its repre- sentutions, bé¢omes dishonest. The seticol tor the science of religion is designed to secure absolute bonesty in the teacher. ‘he sitideats shall beur the confircting philosophies impartially presented; sheli study the history of religions; shall become familiar with social scienos. They sball have ah Opportunity of weighing opposing arguments aod thoroughly maturing their convictions, that they may not be disturbed — by secret doubts while in tho exercise of their protes- sion, that they may Dot hear the veice of conscience warning them that thoir undamental positions have been hastily assumed and that shoir taith 1s arbitrary. We want not students of the rr led law, not pas - tors of erring flocks, but truo leaders—far-sighted beachers of the sonscienge of mankind. IRELAND AND ROME. LECTURH BY BEY. M. J. FARRELLY IN st. VIN- CENT DE PAUL'S CHUKCH, BROOKLYN. A large audience assembled last evening in 81. Vin. cent de Paui’s Chureu,; North Sixth atreet, Brooklyn, E. D., to listen to a lecture by Rev. M. J. Farrelly, who bas jately visited ireland and Beme, The iec- turer first landod his hearers in Cork and after briefly alluding to the many beauties of tne harbor invited his audience to become his travelling compautens and visit tho ohburches of the city, Tne grave ot Mather Mathew was described and reference made to life and la- bors, A glowing tribute was paid tothe memory of the gentlo Geraid Griffin and thd lecturer passed on to Dublin, with tts ehutches, monuments, inatitay tions and patriotic asavotations, Outsias of Dubiia the lecturor visited the College ef Maynootn and hie own college of All Hallows, From Dublin to Druheda and the scene of the “Buttle of the Boyne” the speaker hantened just, ipping long enougn to ex- press she wish tuat all Ories Of bbie Dutsle Heid out of the minds of his countrymen. “I imosities may conde and that and the greea wiil meimbering that though dil- lunkett; to county Down and to ot with its iimen manu: Tho lecturer, after v: West of 1 Clare to ¢! Qn the way res, Was not negiccted, wg Derry, ¢rosred to the land and from this point returned through % Killarn ome the and saw in the now fi resented a lew yoars ago by the Catuolies of 4 . thor banner of Stars aod Stripea, ladies of Marylana, and a costly old dreland. Inthe Eternal Guy the es look at Leo XIIJ., and received ho charch in whieh the lecture was bis vieasiog tor delivered. “TEMPERANCE. The American Blue Ribbon Temperance Union held {te reguiar Sanday meoting at Cooper Instit in. Through the Gates.’ Mise Lacruix next sang “The Appeal of the Drankara’s Child” and was loudly ap- piauded, Dr, Lee read @ portion of Scripture and offered a prayer in bis usual impressive manner, Mrs, Conkiin then introdaced the Rev. Joba Parker, who sang propriate eomposition, under “Tho ganization as the fut oe Union. He also spoke at considerabie length oo subject ot tempera whrowing in now and yoine t ing anecdoies, showing jaccecded as it deserv: pala (as it married Ii 6 P iy 8) shat mach cot be husbands by eeonomy households, and gave the: a, w they shou exercis® that influence ng partners, , he sald, elp good work could pot be carried Fesalt of whron wae AMFRICAN TRMP)RANCR UNION, The American Temperance Union met yesterday Saventh Street Methodist Episcopal Charen, He was he would describe it as the voluntary blotting outof the intellectual being. it smites as @ withering binet Rov, G. U. Corey addrossea the audience, % ebil forolathers and become A b society, The great invelteot: our cities, and yet the law is more Inx here than ia rural districts It i» bigh time all Fespectabie oltt- zeus should march just this formidable foe. lt Church more than any other ate tho whole spirit of sotiety, tT way moral lore d the nation lalla ‘The Prosident, Mr, Wiitiam A. Mandy, aod the View Prosident, Chauncey Shaller, aehvered short ad- dresses, alter which many signed the pledge and took certWeates of membership. ROMANTIC, BUY Bad as she was he loved her. ina house of til famo away trom school in Joi REAL, accused py a police officer at Jefferson Market Potice Court yesterday morning, She gave the name of Liza Creighton. “Sue if a) suid Live wiloer to our “You're a tar!’ aneuted a voy of nineteea, with large blue eyes, Handsome (ace and Well dressed. “You are tinea $10 of committed (or tem duys for contempe of court, young ma aid the Justice, “she’s my witel’? sata the boy mm extenuation to the poliee Who wan taki ia to the “Doa't Jock me up! my parent are respe people in Brooklyn, will be distracted. i've no money,’” The gifi heard but did aot heed, He was jocked ap, white she, again went away inugbiag wito her man, husband wus hustled dows to tne colle, HAUNTS OF VICE. Mr. Taltiage Expatiates Further on + the Elephant. THE OLD FOLKS NOT AT HOME, What Brooklyn Has Done and New York Ought To Do. CAEN Ss The Brookiyn Tabetuacie was crowded yesterday morning by # meyltitude who had come to heat mr, Talmago’s second sermen on the “Night Side of City Lite”? Tne usual number of hymns and cornet solos by Arbuckle enlivened the services. The gist of the sermon was to ihe effect that houses of dissipanon wore chiefly supported by men of means abd heads of families; that the old folks needed looking atter mo! than the young ones, and that it was high time for a popular crusade against tho ovils which infest society, ‘he morality of Brooklyn wis éxtolida anda siarp rap Was given to a certain New York police captain by a revelation of the iniquities unchecked in bis pre, cipot. The possibility of the pastor’s eailing trom the pulpit the pames of prominent publie men who frequent such places was hinted. Loud applause and frequent laughtor greoted the proacher’s remarks, Yoicks' Oy THE mGnT. Mn Talmage tovk bis icxt irom Isaiah xxi, — “Policeman, what of the night? Policeman, what ef the night?” ‘The original of the text, said he, may be ifanslated either watcuman of puliceman; I have closén the latter word. The olden time cities we: all tous gdarded. King Solomon must have bad a large posse of police to look alter bis royal. grounds, for be had 12,000 blooded horses in his stables ana millions of dollars in his palace and 600 wives, and thuugh thé palace was Jarge no house was evor large ehough to hold two women marricd to the same man—(leughter)—much jess could 600 keep tho peace, Policemen more than any other people understand the city. Upon them are heavy burdens tor small pay. Théthoon looks down upon nine-tenths of the crime of Our great eities. What wondor, then, thata few weeks, ago in tbe interest of morality and re- higion, Lasked the question of the text, ‘Policeman, what of the nignt?’’ In addition to this powertul es- cort I asked two elders of my churcN to accompany me, not because they Were any better than the other elders, but beénuse they were more muscular. I wi resolved in any Ouse where anything more than spir- ital defence was nesessary to refer the whole matter to thoir hands. (Laughier.) I believe in muscular Christianity. Ido wish 1 could consecrate to the Lord 250 poutids of ‘avoirdupois weight. (Laugtier.) Bat, borrowihg the strength of others, I started out on my midnigut exploration. 1 followed in the foot- steps of Him who was derided by the hypocrites and sanhodrimes of the day, because Ho insisted in ex- Ploring the deepest moral slush of His day, going down among demoniacs und paupers und adultressea, Some of you have beon surprised that there was a great bue and cry raised about these sermons, 1 was not surprised. lu all our churcnes there are lepers who do not want theif scabs touched, and who tore. baw that I would show up some o! the wickedness and rosvenmese of What 1s calied the upper classes. The devil bowled because he knew I was going so bit him bard, (Laughter.) WEALTR’S DISSIPATIONS. I notteed tn my exploration that tnese haunts of ein are chiefly supported by men of means, men who come down irom the fusbionable avenues of New York and cross over irom some of the finest mansions of Brooklyn, and by prominent men from Boston and od Cincinnati and Chicago, I could call if prominent men in this cluster of three cities WHO patronize these places of iniquity, and I may Gall their names belere i get through this series of sermons, though the fapric of New York and Brooklym sodwty sheula tuinble into wreck. (Ap- piause.) You will find in these places stock brokets from Wall street, importers trom Broad- way, en, leather, cetton avd hardware me: chante, wholesale grocers and representatives from all the commercial and wealthy ctasses. ‘Tula about the boathemsm beiow Canal street 1b is of a worse Kiud above it 1 prefer that kind of neatuenism which waliows in filth and disgusts the beholder, rather than that which covers up its putre- a With a Camei’s bair shaw! und point luce, and Tides jo turnouts worth $3,000, liveried driver ubead and rosetied flunky benind. (Lauguter.) We have been talking so much about ibe Gospel tor the masses, now jet’s taik a littie about he Gospel for the lepers of suciety, the millionnaire sots, the portadle laza- Teitos of upper tendew, Lt 1s sue iniqaiiy thet comes own from the higher places of sociesy toast supports the haunts of crime, abd i@ gradually turoing oor sities into Sodome and Gomorrans, waiting tor the fito and brimstone tempest of the Lord God, who wheimed) the Cities of tue Piato, We waat about Olly men like Anthony Comstock, who walked into that Moloou tewple, that brown stote neil on earth, that place of the dumoed on Filin avenne, and if the ‘name of the eternal God, put An end 10 it, tts pricatess roireating by suicide into the lost world, ber bieeding carcass found in her own bathtab, May the eternal God have mercy on our cities! San, gtided sin, comes down trom these high places into tue upper circles of fuiquity, and then gradually down, wot to three or five years it ma tne whole pilgrimage, irom the marble pillar on the brilliaut ave: to tbe celiars of Water street. WHERE THE OLD YOLKS Go, ButT have something more amazing to tell you. Those piacus are supporied chivfly vy heads of tom- ies, lathers and husbands, wo, with tbe awiul perjury of broken marriage vows, with a niggardly spend left at home ior the support of their iemiies, have their thousands for the diamonds, the wardrobe aod tne equipage of iniquity, in the name of high heaven 1 denounce this popular vice. Lev ich men be hurled out of aecont cifcies. It the: il not reform, Overboard with them. 1 iit one-baif Fden of muiediction irom the unpitied head of ac aod burl itou the binsied pate of offending (Appiause.) Socie oma, By what law precipice of destruc while offending gloved—' nto fine circles, if hi meaus adVauees into public recogniuon, doors of high life opoa at th beaded cane. If you les one ov 6 back, If one must go down let both go down. (Ap- piause.) INCOMPATIBILITY OF TKAPER. hy friends, ve « reform in this matter Or Amor! Ay will go to pieces, Under head of ‘incom; lity of temper’? nine-teaths What aic you te incompatibie % ui” Then you ougot for making «tool of for twenty reporvers—( 8 and put th laugh. i in the next day's paper, a time they wouia BROOKLYN'S MORALITY. Bus you mect me with tue a: “why jo not ? rs ony Hail ‘thirty-eiant broken up, ut officials, mightier eecuted their work uptil within th bling heli, poliey abi ye in back On U8 Judicmi Bench such #00, Royholdy, MeCuo, Moore bon Mighty 1Mpaise upward toward God aad good morals, (Applause.) We have io the bigh pisces of this crly mien hke Superi ndeut Campoeil, nor ony lyn stands iniquity | But Broowlya bes a lw Where do the people of Brooklyn go they propose to com- mit abominations? fo 'New York. (Luuguter.) 1 Was told buat an New York there aro some plages al- most @nurely supported by mea and women trom Brookiyn. ‘WHo 18 To BLAMa? Why de nov the authorities ot New York extirpate places? Lwaut to say that tho ovstacies ia that Clty are grealer than in Any orher irom Porwiand to San Franorce, 1 te so vast; it te the landiog place 0! Kuropean tum gration ; fy Weal b 18 aMightiee bo es Wbhish and dejend places of (uiquity ; aud twice a year, for the fall and spring trade, \uere are iucursions from ail parte of the country, 1 there is an infinite fault aud immeusity of viame vo be divided between three parties, Firat, the potice of New York city, so far asl know them, #f@ eoarteous gontiomen. ave grom discouragomont Crom Witnesses rotuaing to Lestiy aod trom brought against tuem for dainages, bat they must take their share ot the biame, 1 have come to the Conciugion that there are captains of police Jn complicity with erime, me: a year for the 6 whil permit Dluces Of month alter mouth and year alter yea! that there are captains of police who of wine sold im tbe bat y get a revenue from all th death, What a state of Tweaty-Didth precinct of New York th 1 death night alter night, month af year after year, untouched. Wost Twenty deli HH an sands o woul on every bots and that th devs Street and $ siregs there iui. ured dens of darkness there are 2,500 pol bal} in which these offenders of society wor’ dauoed iv tho marquerad: vhere is low the responsibility. political aspirations and tena to ali of them, to give bun assi: sbali go down ui OURISTIAN ‘The third anu the morai and Christian guilty of most culpavie euvject, but wight atver inmates aud the Tombs with tile and Maron.?? (Laughter.) 1 cities, the time tu bitch Comptroller, and Superiatondent pled tnes stained judicial ermine su an extirpation of iniqui who shail get into pis str ! and who shall io one night swoop round aq lake ail the chiels of these places, saying, ‘1 will take 1 put amy privé aguinat the powers of darknes: be Mayor of the city of New Yor bb Presiddit of the Unised States, ‘The eecond part of the biame 1 must p door of the District Attorney ut stand there ure so many cases De bas uot me to at Jb isthe vusiness of New York and clerks uncil all these piaces wick retribution, Wuen tweed stoic nis millions ences Were assembled 11 Indiguation, Charies O’Conor Was retained, comwitiees o1 satety were appointed, ight there 16 a tuest aud burglary of city morals ag muck worse than Tweed’s turpitude to do its Work and send the police with revo! lauterus to turn off the colored jigtits of tlie daace aud mark jor confiscation their truoks ward. furpiture and soegery, and gether up all the and Mr prause)—and Sutuerianu aud Davis and Cu the United States Court Benen such men a: and Biateulord and Chuate, te fae Aniquit; things this ist Wenth street an There was @ m mascaiine and * poPticipanta, and the my ww York, 1 INDIFFERENCE, peuple of our cities, tudiftereneo on th us bis Was worse that that of the mon sbupiiite. New York wants nation mvetiogs to compel tho ia the ave 131 momh, In West Twonty-sixtn a West whole biccks that are “there are between five und 61x bane that eny of New Yor’ , fol. 1d would be fit to aud. com- indige trons und maréh them to rum sounding the **Rogue’s teil you tuere raging, underneatu our great cities @ Cotopaxi, a 5u bo, a Vesuvius, reauy tu bury under deep ashe: ashes aud scotia deepor | whelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum, Uine was come fof (ué ploughshare of popular inuig tins tion to push (Brough and np up and tara’ under shose { parts of New York, whieh are a Diague to th Oo shat On up the team to shit the she founaation ch Men as Gildersieey: Bb ty. Now is the tim which 1 wisp the ation | lodghs ©, now, When Mr. Kly is Mayur, and Mr. Kelly Nicholls Commissioner, Wallitig woars of office, and there 18 on tue judicial bench of New* York an array of the best Men that Dave ever usou- positions since ciy—Recotder Hickett, Police Magistrates Kilbrect and Waudeil und Morgan sud Dully badge of tue una with wn Mi aA and on odtos Now is tne time to make e tora eroat popular crusaue, and for all the people of our Cities, in great popular assemblages, Lo Say Lo the pos dice authorities, ‘Go ahead and we will back you web our lives, our iorvuues an a Our sacred bonor.’? CHURCH DEDICATION. BERMON OF BISHOP CORRIGAN IN CONSECRAT+ In@ a4 NEW GATHOLIC CHURCH aT WELL, N. J. HOPES [bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] © ‘TRENTON, N. J., Oot, 20, 1878, At the village of Hopewell, fourteen miics itom this city, to-day, Bishop Corrigan, of tne diocese of New Jei yy, dedicated a new Catholic church, ‘Lhe corner stone of the edifice was laid in July, 1577, A beautifdl structure bi dodicution attracted @ large crowd. “Higa n.#3 was colebrated by Father Poter Jachetti, of the Francis. can College, near this city. Bisvop Oortizan preacue the sermon ond the Cuoirol St. Maty’s Uburoli, Vd: this city, rendered some very flue music, THE BISHOP'S BKRMON. The Bishop in his sermon alluded 10 the great werk that bad been accomplished, inat of vatiding a courch 19 community work of great m the pouor of God w: traveller 1b tho desert. to people who to educate. The Bisuep pa free and great country, aud st a8 loyal to God us to it, he said, the free raculited them upon thele success, I composed of coun’ aguitude because We as were limited, Every new church reared to like # fountain of wat Great pfaise shoulda much desire to obtuin spiriiual Knowledge as the Knowledge Of the world, We are flesh and biood and should. ve children aod KS. scholars of the schoo! of Christ. Attor alluding to the Aposties and St whom the church is named, be cone! BUBSEQUENT KXK Alphouug, after luded, A collection was \aken up wi amounted to @ Considerable sum, In the alte Bishop aa- Miuistered the Sacrament vi Coufirmation to a large number of children in 31, Mary’s C snus city. of tois city, bas bee: fumenial in having tne churca in peweil erected, aud to nim the success of the enterprise velongs. HONORED BY ‘tHE POPE, BEY. PHILIP Gnacy, pocTror oF [ox TELEGRAPH OF NEWPORT, THE CHURCH, TO THE HERALD.) MADE Newroat, K. 1., Oot 20, 1878. Rev. Philip Grace, of St. Mary’s Roman Gatholio Churen, ef this city, has been nighly honored by the Pope, who bas appoioted bim a Doctor of the Charen, the necessary papers baving been bandea to Bishop Hendrickon whtle that geutieman was in Roine ree contly. The Bishop, assisted by the Vicar Geoeral of the diocese, wil invest Father Grace with the tn- signia ot bis office on fhursday eventug. This 18 the i Pope Leo, ‘THK AYPOINTHR, Father Grace is one of tue most talented men in the od bas, ducing 8 pastorage over St. DEDICATED, pointmeut of the Kind wick has beea made by Mary's od to pay off neariy $100,000 of ive Roman Catholic Charch of St Leo, at Irvington, three miles irom Newark, N.J., was dedi- cated by Right Rev. Bisnop Corrigan yesterday, The Rev. Josepu M. Flynn, chancolior of the diocese and is Jon. AN OLD CHURCH, pastor of 3t Patrick's Catuedral, preached the Atthe reopening of the Brighton Heights (3 £)_ Church yosterday the sixtieth anniversary of the lay- ing of kivsvillo w first Daveb cele! SUICIDE At 40B W. GREEN, A RET je corner stone of the old church at bi tT IRED DRUGOIST, having EIGHTY-ONE, Tomp- HANGS HIMSELF IN A Fit OF MENTAL ABERRATION, Job W. Green, an octogenarian, committed suicide yestet y torevoon at bis residence, No, 474 Warres street, Brooklyo, An inquest was held inst evening at which it wes ascertained that the deceased, who bas hada hallucination ti hat the owne: and others intended to torcibiy ejeo: himself and wite, is impression Was that ne was ponatiess, aud that starvation stared him iu the face, All efforts to persaade him that such was not the case proved futue, For the past three woeks ho had nottaken of | cave on the bed by hie attempt to come morning and bis wile noticed nothing Wousual in About ton o'clock he went into the frout i, whieh the couple Gevd as & mann vs beuroom, Sveruy botore noon Mrs, Urveu missed bor busva: i fud having Occusion to visit tbe bedruom found ta the ador was locked on th HANGING BY TI 0 inside, N wk, She called, but receiving no reply went oatside in front 0: the house and threw open ihe shutters, let tin, latter sv that it Jammeu sistance was body was cut Ar. Gree! own. oue loset dour, Ormiy heid the rope. rucured irom the oeighvors and tae ® flood of light The aged manu Was then seen . Ou bis Knees, hanging by « clovbesling whieh be nad throwa over jutting the | Aw had resided ia Broonlya tor twenty . 0 have been a descendent of the Greens it Green uated apotuecary and druggist, and when quite @ young man Went to Uinemmuats, Onie, Where fred on the Wholesale jater ears ho kept 1134 Bromuway, whom are married. verdict of * ental aberration.” The Greenwood vemovery, rendered a m id fis daughter in faxes rug . store 140 Whe lavoring fomatng Will be inte a Rey og The Gorvact's Jury? oar vusiaess, du, wadet Fred im.