The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1878, Page 8

\ NEW YORK HERALD, MO NDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE NARROW WAY. Sermons Delivered in Some of the Churches Yesterday. LESSONS OF GOD'S JUDGMENTS, The Christian's Struggles and Final Victory. “BEHIND THE SCENES.” CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE LESSON OF GOD’S JUDGMENI§—SERMON BY THE REV. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH, Mr. Hepworth’s text, in the Church of the Disct- ples yesterday morning, was taken {rom IL. Peter, 111, 1O—*But the aay of the Lord willcome as a thiet in she night”? The preacher began bis discourse by remarking that God 18 continuully sitting in judg. meut on the acts of men as is proved by all the eveuts of life, These judgments como as stealthily as a thiet in the night. They are a continual disclosure of the Infinite plan and the fnfuite law. From childhood, a period of life which Mr, Heoworth painted in charac- teristic and prismatic colors, to old age, he said, life ts but a series of openings tor the judgmonts of God, Indeed, creams and visious, in woich these judgments aro manitested, Youth isa sleep; a wonderfully re- fresuing avd iwvigorating one. ‘Tre young man ts Bound asivep as to the reulities of lije, He builds his carties in the air, sees angels ascending and descend- ing, lays uis plaps for a great life, ana then comes some event with a rude shock and be awakens THE SLEEP OF MANHOOD. In maohood he sleeps aguin, but it 18 not so sound leep. tis the period of action, of struggle. His ambition 18 stirred, He can do anything and ne will do overything. He has business, he bus money, he has social position, he has children; but again be rudely shaken by stern tacis and the shadow oi a great sorrow fails to bis lot. As suddenly as a storm in a cloudless sky there comes a struggie and all is gone—be loses his money and 18 a beggar once more, Such are the judgments of Ged for our sins; but it ree quires a great trust in an overruling Providence to Delieve that such an event as that is for our good. Thivk of the poor people across the water, Mr. Hep- worth said, Who lavesied their money in the Glas- ihe bank was managed by men who, to their shame be it said, professed to be Chrietians. Tbe poor depositors thought their money was secure im the care of such men, and did what their judg- ment told them was best in placing it in the bank. They bad no meaus of knowing that the timbers in ‘ne ship were rotten. in our own country men often Bod their iittie fortunes swept away io an instant, Dh whata shaking up this is! And not only is the loss of property terribie; bat the loss of iriends, of ttle children, especiaily, is hard, I: 18 Jor us to say whetner such afflictions are to be for our good, A RUDE AWAKENIXG. Recurring agaiu to the theine, that life is a sleep feom which there are many rude awakenings, Mr. Hepworth said even deuth itself is a sleep. The Awaking from that sieep will be awlul to some. There are men who have builded only for tmis life, but who, afier Laving achieved success—even the highest suce cess in life—will be buried beneath the ruins of their own work. ir. Hepworth then described the oppo: Bite character, who, at the expense of worldly pros- perity, has dealt jusily and lived honestly, and to whom the sleep of death comes a3 a great glory. All this led ty tbe application of the text, that after the struggles of life will come to the judgment asa tMiet tn the night, and the sermon was ioliowed by a fervent prayer, in which the pastor bevongnt the Throne ot Groce that on that day atl migot be pre- pared for the coning of Christ. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. AFTERNOON MINISTRIES-—SEEMON BY JHE REY. DR. THOMAS ARMITAGE. The Rey. Dr. Armitage preached in the morning (bis Srst sermon since his arrivai trom Europe) on the subject of ‘Alternoon Ministries,’”? taking his text from Mark xi., 1l.—‘Now the eventide was come,’ The earthly )ile of our Lord, said the rev- eroud speaker, was extremely briet, numbering at dbo most but three-an/i-thirty years, and yet thethree last years of that life were devoted to public min- \stries. This brief ministry was distinctly marked by its opening, middle aod close, or, to use a figure, by its moruing, meridian and evening. Frem beginning to end it was pregnant with mighty Works and mightier words; yet there seems to Lave been times when His soul Jabored under an enthusias- tic momentum and an all-consuming energy to pueh more results into a given space of ime than at other periods of His Iavor, And this ® peculiarly trae of what we may venture to cali His uftcrnoon ministry. 1n treating of the great week you have frequently been reminded that at least one- hali and possibly two-thirds of His recorded utter- ances fell irom His hpa wiibin the limits of those seven wonder/ul days. No portion of Holy Writ is fraught with such importance to the universal Church tn all ages as that contained in Jobn from the tnir- teenth to tho eighteenth chapter. And yet Corist geve utterance (o this exhaustless treasure after sun- set om the jast day of His life. It would be tnterest- Ing if we bad the time to group together the words and acts of cortain days or parts of days in sis min- try for the purpose of suowing how He crowdea those days and hours to repletion, filing tuem with & special fulness even above the ordinary times of His froitia) ministry. “A DAY WITH cuntst.” This feature ts so marked that uo able living min- feter has recently tseucd «book entitled “A Day With Christ,” the object of which is ty show that the heal- jug ot the paralysic, the dispute with toe doctors, the Gali of the évonyeliet, Matthew, together with the feast whieb he prepored tor our’ Lord, and His table talk thereat, all took piace in one day; and that on the afternoon of tue same day He closed His work by the healing of Veronica, the raising trom the dead of the caugiiter of Jairus, tho healing of two men that were biiad and ive uispossession of the demon from the man who was dumb, Without bold assertion, L think it may easily be demonstrated that the true ministers of Jesus Carist uave veou so mfaenced by His exumpie in this respoct, whether seasiviy or in- sensibly, as to bave copied it 1m their own service. It would be wn intere&ting study to compare the moru- ing of youthful miolsteriai work of the Apostic Paul, jor example, with bis afternoon minisiries. And woiie in the first (here might appeur more pus, more Bre, more bulanese, even bordering om presumption, 1m the latter He uid the real work of His tlie by the mel lowness of sanctified thought, by the doctrival de- fences and pastoral insiructions of His pen, by the ripeness, ort nce and meekness wiih which Hoe eudared suflering for His Moster’s sal od by the tnpriut whien He Jett upon the evungelical and etvil Character o! (he Liman race jor ail coming ages, So itis with the jone traveller who hae bornag the heat and burden of t bat ts so dissatsted with iis progross that toward nightfall he girds up his loins es forward with bew Vigor to make an exira it is with the wary marioce who hag jorce of toe day im vattling with aaverse d8 and currents, thinking bimsell as lar a8 evor from ihe baven, Dut, catching ine more favoring breeze, spreads & into unexplored re shroud him, 50 the true minister of Jesu ¢ Leon, His struggles, iis houors, pprovels of bis Lotd, looks with greeter anxiety, now that “the solitude has come,” jor the closing of his Work in the Vineyard, 40 that tbe twellth pour shall not fail to bring tho cout stirring “Well done” trow His mastor, PAST AND FUTURE, Dr, Armitage, in a his success may ba Bis distinctions anu the Breturen, sald solemn and nffee- Honate tone, it is with some such leelings as these that Tresume the pastorsbip this woroing. The past bas been made what it is by gradual processes, oy the breatt ol imuch prayer, by the dise ip ot muCh discipline, by the tieswip of truth and we Chriatiauhova of ting use whieb | hoorts only can appreciate. itis how cone with forever, excepting for its Uses of caution against rea wakening iis mistakes and for its memory ot grateiul mercies. Tho past is 10 every mau (he most marvellous period of worki’s history, because it is the ume which be haus maic his eontriba- fn to the shaping of, the world’s ehuracier And destiny, Aud tuo future, like the psst, is ren dered importaut to him only by the ‘thought that he 1s to bave a band ja jts formation, Here you havea compound of responstbility and comlort—oi te our part of coming responsibiliy if we {nil to o history th an honorable, manly avd Cristian way, ‘and of comiort if we succeed 1 illuminating one page or fill one sentence With the bepediovion that God ana man bave aright to expect Ms the legitimate fruit of our MEMORIAL PRESBYLERIAN CHURCH. MISSION WORK IN THE EAST—ADDRESS BY REV, HENRY BH. JESSUP. Rey. Honry i. Jessap, who bas been for many yeors a missionary to Syria, dehvered an adoress in the morning in tho Memorial Church, Madison ave- nue and Fifty-tpird street, on tho work of the Christian missionaries in the Bi aod the peculiar features of the Mobammedan religion, He #atd tho Alerican missions in effective work and influence setdod abreast, It pot ahead, of all others, There are four Awerican colleges in (he Turkish Empire, with fn aygregate attendance of five hundred students, Bohvols were established in almost every dix rection, and the attendance was computed at life seems to be only a sleep, followed by | 7 11,000 scholars, 5,000 of whom were girls and 1,000 Mobammedans. The Bible, printed trom an Ameri- can made font of Arabic type, liad been distributed far and wide. Orders for it came from the most dis- tant partsof the earth. The speaker believed there Was bo other race or religion in the world capable of holding the eoniidence of the Mohammedaus hxke tho Anglo-Saxon race and religion, For the word of an Englishns Mobem: bas profound respect, aud therefore it 18 that the Euglish or American mis- lor the Turk sees no diflerence between an advantas in the work of spreadin; G@ The Motammedan believes that the Kor every word aod vowel sigh, by the finger of God, and consequently his unbounded veneration for what it contains. As itis hardly translatable it bas carried the Arabic language over the world. THE LATE WAR, During the late war between Russia and Turkey tho speaker used to hear the little boys at Beyrout chant @ prayer that God would tear the Russians to pieces and afterward griuu them to powder, There is now going on in the (turkish Empire an agitation looking toward a modification of this intolereat spirit. The party of progress 18 calied Young Islam, and now that Engiand hus extended a protectorate over Asiatic furkey this party will have encouragement to carry out its mission Of reform. When the war commenced the American Missionary Colony at Beyrout gave its sympathies to Russia; vut when the war ended and tt became a question between Russia and England, and the latter stepped forward and deciared she would undertake the protection of Asiatic Turkey and carry out a scheme of reform, they blessed her for ber interposition. PLYMOUBH, CHURCH. THE CURISTIAN’S STRUGGLES AND FINAL vWie~ TORY—SKRMON BY THE REV. MR. BEECHEu— AN APPEAL FOR HIS REGIMENT. “I give you notice that Rev. Hoary Ward Beecher will deliver his pew lecture on the ‘Reign of the Com- mon People,’ at the Brookiyn Academy of Music, on the evening of Wednosday week, for tha fund being raised by the Thirteenth regiment to detray its ex- penses to the Dominion ot Canada”? It was Mr. Beeeber himself, ebaplatn of the regiment, who read this notice from the pulpit before the morning ser- mov, “It was 1,” he continued, “who suggested this trip, on my returo from the Dominion recently, be- causo I saw a Vermont regiment there ona visit and noticed what good neighbora the Canadians are, I suggested we sbould pay the visit on the Queen’s birthday fext. Tho proposition was at once scized with great enthusiasm by the officers of the regi- ment, and they are drilling with the utmost diligence in order to be properly prepared to put all the British regiments to shame, (Laush- ter.) Now it wili take a gooa deal of money to get there and back again, and the membors of the regi- ment are endeavoring by every means in their power to fillup their treasury. You know the Thirteenth 18 the old Brooklyn regiment, and stands in the same rejation te the State Guard here as the Seventh does in New York. If you are gotog tosend a regiment you want to send a good one anda good chaplain along with it, (Laughter.) I bave, therctore, to ask not only your sympathy but your presence sad your Otty cents at the new lecture on Wednesday week, Tors is only the shadow of things tocome. We mean to make o personal solicitation of you all to give something to help Ml up the treasury. - Not on that occasion, but later, we ean to come to you, man by man, fora proper subscription. ‘This notice is given two Sundays in advance, that you may not overlay that date with any other appointment, THE SERMON Mr. Beecher’s sermon was an exposition of a portion of she soventh chapter of Romans, wherein St. Paul, alter describing a spiritual con- flict, none the less momentous because tnvisibie, exciaims, “I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lora!” ‘Commentators, Mr, Beecher said, had de- bated whether in this chapter Paul described the ex- perience of some otbers than himseli, and also, if it was bis own experience, whether it was betore or after bis conversion, Mr. Boechor a it was both, Alter his conversion, Paul set imselt before lis own mind again as he was in that preliminary stage, and i was not only re- counted by him as something that had been—although it had a historical significauce—but as sumething that would go oa more or less with him and all like him until the end of lie, Tt was thestruggie between the sense of right and an ineffectual endeavor to carry ILout, and then the generous seli-condemuation whicn foliows the conscious Fiolation of a man’s best in- tuitions, judgments aud purposes, This experience had beet treaied by preachers as one universaily nece essary to the Curissian, but Mr, Beecher hold it to belong only to a small class of men who mako self. i more jinportiance to themselves than thing else. The experience of Paul in this ¢ could belong only to those who had striven alter the ideal and bad constantly broken down. it nad nev- ertheless been tho attempt of teachers to bring every- body through this experience, which could come oniy to moral geniuses. The exciamation of Paul, which the preacher haa quoted as Lis text, was a pote of victory, “1 thank God, through Jesus Christ opr Lord. Wita the miod I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesn the jaw of «in.’? This was as much as to say—and the experience is ever tresb—that ve did sin, and yet bad ineflavle joy and peace, He confesges that ho 18 ‘stil committing £1D, and that the victory io Christ does not remove it, Mav’s natural passions and pro- pensities to sin could not, Mr. Beecner argued, be overcome bya mere singleeffortot the will, however strong; they ceald only be rooted out by education— by long continued, persevering eflori—and that was what Paul meant. The idea of a man having peace bee cause he was perfoct Mr. Beecher cailed absurd. No man ever lived or ever woula live who had peace through perfection, inasmuch as we live under a consti- tution in Which the sphere of our duty grows larger as we grow up pility of what we have yetto attain to grows coustautly keever, Men would con- Uoue to sia clear turough unto the end—until the ave OUl; so that tuere was tor passious, JUSTICE AND LOVE. The recognition of this fact was the light which through Jesus Christ broke ta upen Paul, He saw that God adapts himself to His owa creation ‘und that He isset over against His creacures, vot as a judge orasberiff (o tucxorably cniorce a jaw, but parentaliy, kind father watcning over bis chil- dren, not hating them ior their vices so loug ws they strive to do His will, but patiently teaching them to overcoine evil. In ocaer wor ‘aul bad a cousciouse ness that a man might be in sinand yet be at peace with Cnristit he dia his best to Oght ogaiast the ine herent weakness of his nature, ihe Saviour seuted an educaiing force in which love and justico were strongest. ‘Our Fatuer,’’ghe frat words of the universal prayer given to (he world by Jesus jur- niebed the keynote 0! the Gospel harmony. God, the preacher said, watched ever wen with tue yearning heart of & father, and When man realized tne iruth which Paul teachor, that God is conscious of every man’s personal struggles and aspirations and efforts to do right and beips bim upward, and that though he fail into sin be will be stilt siriving, be given rest in Christ at ast, then he is happy. wen be is Victorious, iin pertect thouh he b MASONIC TEMPLE. BEHIND THE S -ENES—SELMON BY MR. O, B. FROTHINGHAM, Tho subject choeen by Mr. O. B, Frothingham to {illustrate his sormon in the Masonic Templo was the porase “Beuind tne Scenes.” Ho said that all is not Dehipd the scenes what it seems before tuem—not ag fair of good as we are led to imogine. Tho phrase is borrowed from the stage, und may bo applied to the theatre of iif Be fore the scones there are lie, beauty, grace; richly dressed men and women, lords and ladies with the stately march of the tragic muse, Behiud the scenes are the dusty flours, uncarpeted p: sagoways, mon hurrying to and fro in thor shirt sleeves, the crouking pulleys and unsightly objects of reality. Before the scenes are epavgies and paintod pastebonrd, castles that are no castles and strocis that no man could walk in. The people on the atago not what they seem to be; they are acting thoir parts, Benind the seenes aro mon watching aod Weary aud struggling with the rea: work of the stage. In illustration of (he Life behind the scenes a somes whut notorioes brooklyn prescher occupies io painting the gumbler’s revels, the court hauote, Yes; but iit the veil a iittle higher and tn sail men’s ‘and women’s laugnier and revelry be brought to crying and wailing. Tarnivg to nature we see that men Admire beaniilul landscapes, gorgeous subsets, the pulpitatiog and surging of tne ocean's waves; yet toarawny tue mask from before the scons and What do we see? Karthquakes, tempesi«, death jn thousands of forms ptatking grimly triomphant from end to end of the planet in unknown forces, draguing innocent and tho best down to the grw nd making ther ye on this earth intolerable with agou. ture 1% the most bloody tyrant that can be ti 4. Look bo- hind this scone again, and Lift this veil, too, tor the gedificatioa of the generation. Nave utters her ane ‘ceasing protest against all Wickednesses, which are the (ransgressions of hee immutable laws and the cause o/ every agony, An atleutive ear can catch the MUFmUrtDogs Of HACUFE ngainst these Iniquitior, THK BRIGHT S1D¥ OF THK PLAGUE Natore tells the peopie to cultivate ihe ground that famine insy be pre’ nds & pos tienes eliow fever bas caused whe jos nd the sacri. flee of lives whose vue snd number coo never bo counted, But that fever is worti to the nation ail it has cost; for i tas powertully aided tho re-establiumont ef good teeling between the North and the Sousb, How many Durses and physiciand have saeriticed themselves in the noble mission whieh they assumed! Their num- befs will never be known; Dut, in this age of sceptt- cm and unbelel, they i them the nee of their Heroisin, Which i® wort tsums Of treasure aod num d. Probably this fe ar more of tives & jecennury to bring ws We are a cowardly, iazy race, tuat has to be driven by epur avd goad. Poverty, suffer ing, ditoase, Wretched ess, Want, are the sharp spurs that have ty be afiven tito the ies oF humanity to past us on to siturt. The American mvemtw pe: Cauks He 18 Compolled to dott, because a Handiul of people must subdite a continent, Cunuel ite moun. tang, briage ite rivers aod cultivate its landa 4 must be ecovomized and resources husban: Who drove Adum and Eve out of the garden? Not tne devil, for ne know they would have rotted from in- ertness hud they remaioed, Tho them out with a faming sword; tor the; become agriculturists, : THE GOOD CAUSED BY BAD MEN, Strange us it may seem, the tyrants of the world have been the civilizers it. Where would have br the ritice of Jesus Christ but for Tiberius? Where the glory of Lutner but for Leo X.? Who would have beard of Melanctbon and mauy ochers but “Bloody y?? Who of Garibaldi but for Austrian & Francis Joseph? These tyrani were pot tu themselves tyrants, but rather the vic! of circumetances, Torquemada = tle; but be was a Roman Catholic wno believed that outside of the Church there was no saivation; that Protestants would burn hereafter, and therefore said to his tollow inquisitors, ‘Let us burn them a little pow, so as to try and them pereafter.” Jona Stuart Moll, in early life, (ell into deep despondency, and it gaye him intenge delight to meditate apon the things af nature. suifering, thought and its possible realization a long way off, especially as it Would happen ina period when there could be po more cheating, stealing, lying or vice. There is, contended the preacher, an eternal po: which rules all; avd 1t is with us to say if we work for that power or against it, Trath. ma: crushed many times, but pever destroyed. 1: the Romans tried they might have crushed Christianity ; but in latter uges the seekers after new discoveries would havo jound and proclaimed it, JOHN STREET M. E. CHURCH. INTERESCING SERVICES COMMEMORATING ITS ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY. To the congregation ana iriends of the ola John Street Methoaist Church, the services in that venera- bie edifice were of a pocultarly interesting character, @8 they commemorated its 112ch anoiversary, The body of the church and the galleries were crowded to their utmost,capacity, lu the cbaueel on either side of the reading desk was a large bouquet of lilies, white carnations and tuberoses bearing in red letters the dates 1766 and 1878, ‘Tho services were of a most impressive character, Atnine o’clock inthe morning a “love feast”? was held, presidea over by Rev. J. L, Peek, presiding elder. I'he exercises consisted of prayer und the re- jution of religious experiences, The roguiar morning services were hicld at half-past ten, Bishop Harris presiding. Bishop Wiley, of Cincinnati, delivered the sermon, taking for tis text the words, “Fur the love of Christ constrainetb us.”? REUNION. At toree P, M., there was a reunion mecting of ministers and lnymen, at which were preseut Bisbops Harris, Peck,’ Wiley, Merrill, Scott and Haven; Chancellor Haven, ot the Syracuse Univer- sity; ex-Judge E, L. Fancher, of this city; Judge Reynolds, of Brooklyn; Rev. Dra, Tiffan: Weld and others. Bishop Harris occupied the chair. Adaresses were delivered by Cuancellor Havon, ex-Judge Fancher and Rev. Dr. Reid, former pastor of the church, ‘The singing dur- ing the aay servic conducted by Mr. J. W. Dykman, of Harlem, Miss Simpson taklug the solo parts. The exercises of tho day were concluded by a service of song in the evoning, conducted by Philip Philips, ‘the Sweet Singer of Isracl,”? who was as- sisted by the pastor, Rev. 8. T. Abbott, EIGHTEENTH STREET M, E. CHURCH. THE WITCH GF ENDOR—Si RMON BY THE REY. WILLIAM ¥, HATFIELD, Tho Rev. Dr. Hatfield preached in the Eiguteenth Street Methodist Epiecopal Church in the evening on the subject of “Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.’” His text was from I. Samuol, xxviii, 19 which ia re- corded Saul’s visit to the Witch of Endor, It wasin the dead hour of night, said the preacher, that Saul visited the Wiech of Endor and said, “I pray thee, divine unto me by thy familiar spirit and bring me bim up whom I shall name unto thee.” In obedience to this request Samuel appeared, aud the witch cried out as it stricken with horror, for she then knew who Saul was, and feared for ber life. Saul allayed ber fears and asked what sffe saw, aud she replied, “I see an old mao, coverod with a mantle,” and Saul knew that it was Samucl. Sucn 48 tho history as given in the Scriptures of one of the im mysterious events of which we have any ac- count, was iT A GHost? The reverend gentleman then roised the question as to whether the Wich of Endor did actually call up tho spirit of Samuel or whether it was an ocular deception, There are some, ho said, who deny the existence of witches or witchcraft, and say tbat al) such things merely exist in the imagination, but history, both sacred and proiane, proves that they have existed tn We bave accounts of almost every age of tho world. them in Egypt during the times of Pliny and in our own country, in Saiem, it is worthy of notice that th 1 nowhere cas- cribed to supernatural agencies; however, to be very mysterious. invisible world in which various orders of spirits live and act, aud there isa baro possibility of persons in the flesh to have intercourse with these infernal spirits by unlawiul arts and to employ in Jinited way their power and influenee. But the Witch of Endor had no power over Samuel, His ing was not the result of ber incantations, 08 was shown by her sarprise and alarm at his appearance, No incan- tations, a n@uvrings bebind screcns or around tables can avail over disembodied buinan epirite, and modern Spiritualism, that pretends to cenvey com- munications {rom doparted spirits to spiritein the flesb, 18 unworthy of beliel. THE VANDERMILT WILL CASE, The other day a witness in the Vanderbilt will case testifled to a communication coming from the James Fisk to tne Commodore in regard to cortal stocks. The Commodore, 1 was stated, had some doubt in regard to tho genuineness oi the revelation, and preferred to foliow his own judgment rather than the opinion of his departed rival, Had be followed \ivice pretended to come from tho deceased rhe might not have lett aa much to be qu: tives. Whocan bellove that through medium: sorts of crimos avd who havo been detect practising aecelt £0 barefaced that those who had been swiadled out of their moncy wero with difficulty restrained from sending tho tying mediom to join their pretended contederates in the invisibie world? Depend upon it, good spirits if they have anything to tell us will not communtcate through witches or through men and women who huvo bucksliden from God; who hate the Bibie and Christianity, aud who would, if they could, dissolve that most sacred reia- , the reintion of Surely God is not is pot in it wo ate the unseen world, ay CENTRAL M. E. CHURCH. THE PARABLE OF THE PEARL $*RMON BY ° THE REV. DR. NEWMAN. The Rev. Dr. Newmau preacuod on the subject of tho “Parable of the Pearl,” ing his. text from Matthew xiii, 45,46—The Kingdom of Heaven 1s like unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls, who, when hoe had found one peari of great price, weat and sold all that he had ana bought 1.” The divine Nowman, borrowed bis i!lustrations from ali nature, drew his arguments from all bistory and constructed bis parables from the familiar incidents of hife. Yo him the unsupported heavens were the symbols of faith; the falling sparrow taught the lesson of Providence, and the tjustard seed contained the signiticanoe of the Kingdom of Heaven. Tis parables ofe not f . They express what bas been or what may be in the course of wature; they instinet with re- ious ite, they are for the common people, who a him gladiy, Why dia tho Master select t pearl rather than any other precious stone to illas- irate the preciousness of Christianity? Because of ai] the precious stones the pearl iliustrates more of the great facta tn the religious itfe than any other, It ss the handiwork of God aud saggesie the diving origin of Christianity. Porfect and benutital as God has made it, it 1s the embiem of His purity and glory, So it i8 with the Gospel, to Which you can add nothing and froin which you ean take pothing. wutthe pearl mu Mg sought alter with much care and no little THE PRARL IN ittsTORY, 08 the peari has heen sacred to love and In the mythologies of the past lovers are represented as being unitea by a string of pearia, by which Hymen jeads them to the puptial aiar, So the Gospel pearl inthe emblem of the marriage of the sou) toGod. The man in the parable sold al that he had to purchase the one pearl of great prices. Painp LV. of Spain said to a pearl merchaot, “iow have you Ventured to put all your fortune into such a 8} object?” Tho merchant replied, “1 Knew there was the King of 8; to buy it of m elk of us to sell all forMbhrist. FIFTH AVE. PRESSYTERIAN CHURCH, “PRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD 18 ENMITY WITH GON" —~SERMON PY REV. UR. HALL. Dr. Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterion Church, preached from the Epistie of St. James, iv., 4—“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know yo not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoe soevor therefore will be a friend of the world ts the enemy of God.” A man who sought the affection of another's wile was the cnemy of her husband, end bis {ricndship to tho Wile was an enmity to that busband, So he who soaght the world way emy ot God, Io the Greek original the words conveyed the meaving still more strikingly. Whosoever was decided to be mindful of the World was therefore constituted an enomy of God. What was toe moaning of the ex pression, “A friend of the world?’ Tho word “world” did pot mean this globe whieh they inher {ho most imteligent servants of God were most deeply tuterested in its beauties & It aid hot mean pamanity, for minavd was (hat we should love our fel jow men, not only in a 801 tal but iu & practient mawnor. Df. Hall them Feerred Lo uis sermon ol & week mga, Ia WhICO be expuined tue monn ing tho word “ilesb,’ and eard that thore who bad beara tuat sermen would easily aadorstand what the moaning of this pare tenlar eXusexsion was, At comprehended. he suid, .) SO weare that complex idea of natural man in whose tastes, 10- clinations, pieasures, afflaities and appetites God ‘bad not His place. This natural creed was, ‘1am bere upon the earth and now tet me make tho best of 1t.’” ‘This, Dr. Hall argued, Sb A ignored the pas future, und took heed only of the like a guest who, being received witl kindness and love, only thought bow he could get the most out of bis host, VARIOUS FORMS OF WORLDLINESS. There was no one unilerm type of th the world alludea the text One man’s Was a coarse vebauc! third one served the world in fourth was for making money, but the same in ali—namely, the letting G counting Him out, as to let Him be the factor in thi entitled to be, Ot course, le; upon any of these forms of worldiiness was impos- sible; they could not be reached im that way, but only by Christian influences. The reason lor this was that tbis wordiimess generally lay in the beart, The preacher next demonstrated that friendship between tbe world aud God was impossible, God was alous lover, and tho workt was a Jealous world. sited ) ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. THE NECESSITY OF A LIVELY FAITH—SEBMON BY REV. FATHER KANE. Alter the gospel of tbe solomn mass which was cel- ebrated in St. Patrick’s Cathedral by the Rev, Father Morey tho pulpit was ocoupied by the Rev. Father Kane, who prefaced his sermon by a stirring appeal on behalf ot Cardinal McCloskey in aid of the fair now tn progress at the new Cathedral, Ho then read trom the Gospel according to St, John—“And there was a certain ruler whose son was sick at Capernaum, And Jesus said to him, ‘Go thy way, thy son liveth.’” The just man, gaid the preacher, liveth by faith, and in the gospel of to-day we have an assur- ouce of what a mao will reach if ho be only faitbiul, How does tt happen among practical Christians that their thoughts, desires and actions aro go different from what they believe? They have not chat spirit of faith which should govern all their actions, There never was a time when this spirit of faith was more necessary than the present. In what docs the spirit of faith consist? In a conviction 80 Vivid and go lively that it sbould always be upper- most in oor thoughts and the very life of our bodies, Tho soul that ta devoid of faith is dead. ‘hero are many souls weighed down by prejugico and passion, apd in these there can bo no spirit of faith, which should run through every tnought and action as blood runs through our veins, With it we have every virtue. The apostle says, Without faith it is impossible 10 pieaso God”? And again we are told that whatsoevor wo ask through faith wo shall receive, The apostlo declares that if we bave faith we can move moun- tains, All the miracies wrought by our Saviour were periormed 6 reward jor faitp, Fuith pre- senia a barrier to keep us from falling mto perdition, It was this th that made tho martyrs in ancient and the saints in modern times undergo every persecution, We are in fault in ihe first pinee trom want of thought, as the apostie says. ‘With desolation is tho land made desolate, pecausd there 18 nono that considers in his hear’? Some people are influenced by tbe opinions of their neighbors in this respect; bat 1 matters not what others may think of us if we ure in Javor with Cbrist, STANDARD HALL, HAVE WE 8TILL A kELIGION—LECTURE BY PROFESSOR ADLER. Professor Adler’s lecture in Standard Hall was en- titlea “Have We Still a Religioay” Bolore we can auswer that question, said the Professor, it will be necessary to determine what is religion. It wo consult the ideas of tho vulgar, it is @ superstition. When they speak of a “‘personal’’ God they mean “per- sonal’ in the grossest sense. It 16 not enough for them to havo aGoa whom they ean vencrate—they must needs bave a God whom they can photo- ‘aph, so to speak, They ascribe to Him an intelligence lke their own—love, hatred, and often an inordinate vanity, The valgar religion ja Dot only @ superstition buta fear, and not only a fear, but olten.a bargain, It ts related by the author of the book on “Christian Ethics’? that an astute merchant of Paris, in the last contury, requested the Detty to become a silent partner in his business, and annually sect aside for Him a stipulated share of tho | profits, asking in return only that the Deity would prosper their common affairs, Rich men sometimes build churebes and endow theological seminaries in order to purchase divine favor, ‘The popular conception ot religion is too gross, the rent puilosopbical idea of religion 18 too abstract, ‘Tue Girst cause of which philosophy speaks is a pal shadow of the mind, inconceivable, and what is mor undemonstrablo, We must seek tn an ethical r ligiou what we require. ihe qualities which mako up the moral ideal are abso.uie justice, absolute purity, absolute love, Tnquspiration alter this triple ideal is religion, If we interpret the question, ‘Have we sill a reiigiou ?’’ 1 this Sense We shall undoubs- edly answer, ‘More than ever have we a religion.” ‘Lhe aim of the Jiberul movement ts to touna « com- muuity within a community, which shail accept a fottior law of itic—a urotherhood dedicated to the triple dea of the just, the pure and the good. That 1a Our substitute for the old institutions, woich are paesing away, and which no God will save, AN ANNIVERSARY JIN NEWARK, The South Park Presbyterian Church, of Newark, N. J., celevrated the twenty-flth anniversary of its organization und tho installation of its pastor, Rev. James P, Wuson,D. D, There were three services during the day. In the forenoon Dr. Wil son preached the aoniversary sermon—an in- teresting historical reviow of the church, The afternoon service was devoted to Sunday school work. Addresses were delivereu by Rev. Dr. Poor, of Phim. delphin; Messrs, J. D. Doty ava F. N. Torrey, General Joseph P. Juckspu and Rev. Robert Bowen Cumphold, At the evening attendance addresses were made by all the clergymen who were present at the organiza- Vion of the church, THe BLUE RIBBON, The American Blue Ribbon Temperance Union bold their regular Sunday meeting at Cooper Institute yesterday afternoon, Mrs, Conklin presiding, as usual, and directing the exorcises, Siuging of bymns by the choir, reading a portion of Scripture and prayer marked the opening of the proceedings. Judge Culver was introduced by Mrs. Conklin to the moet- ing, and spoke at considerable length on the eubject of intemperance. He presented an array of statistical jucts and figures showing of gallons of alcoholic and ter- liquors munufactared and consumed in ud nation; Lhe amount of money spent for uumber of druukards, thi paupers and criminals Who bave beeu m temperance ani tue ureadtul consequences entalied ou society. Mrs, Nellie Brigham maue some remarks on the subject abd auswered some imprompiu ques- tions hauded up, both in prove and verse. She soon, however, went into hor favorite tueme of Spiritualism and modern philosophy and occupied considerable time in their development, the number mented HEBREW FRE SCHOOLS, The pupiis of the Hebrow treo schools of this city assembled at Stoinway Hall yesterday morning, and, in the presence of a Jarge audience, woro examined in all that pertains to the knowledge not only of tho Hebrow language but of the Jewish religion, On the platiorm e the loadit members ot the Jewish olorgy—Rev. Mr. Rubin, of the Filth Avenue Temple Rev. Mr, Weisob, of the Lexington Avenue Temple; Rev, Dra, Woiss, Mendes, Jacovs, Wasserman, Kart. schmirof! ond De. Isaacs; also the leading officers of the free echoola—Solomon Mehrbach, Myer 8. leaves, Max Ovttinger, Nowman Cowen, 1 Meimbard, J. iH. Schill, Adoiph Levy, U, Herman and Maurice Toch. Miss Rabin presided at the piano, and as class atter | Cinss of the various schools, numbering in all avout One thousand pupile, wos culled to the piattorm, the children, ronging trom eight to fourteen years, showed their preficiensy in Jewish bidlical history and 19 reuding the Hobrew text of the Bible, The programme of exerci: was enlivened by tho spirited rendering of various Jowish hymns, ol whien the “Jigaal” and “Avon Oiem” were sung by the cvildren of tho united schools, Recitations by bright lads and inteliigént \ooking gitis also inter- spersed the Various exercises. Mr. Myer 8. Isaacs led attention to the tact thatonly thirteen years ago No organized effort existed in erty to teach the Childres of poor Jewish parents the avotrines of their religion. Lao the Hebrew ree School Assoota- Liou all congrogations, whether orthodox or reiortn, meet onaAcommon platiornm, aod tue tnree aC are supporiod excinsively by voluntary coutributions, Without receiving one cent from the common scout fund or trom tho local government, The sohoois aro jocated at No. 42 avenue ©, No. 06 Bowery, 816 West Tuirtiotn street, and feis ma tory condition that each child must attend the pablo schools ot Now York, tho studies in the free schools taking place after tour o’cluck’ in the afternoon and on Studay furepoone. Master Morris Levy yesterday won the I Mofial mousy prio for best qualifention for admis. sion Lo the advanced Hebrew; the declamation prize Was awnrded to Alex: the Sobifl prize on Harrison; the Korn prize of the Bounett prizes, $6 bey to b 10 Louis Coven and 3. Alexander; the Rose prize ot § the Various prizes are de- tn trust for the boys aud ribus Iverbe All posived 10 the savings bank girls to Whom the awarded, After the at tion Of prizes ana certificntes of morit the & Wore Closed with a benediction ana the was disinissed. THE GATES OF HELL. Viewed from the Outside and In side by Dr. Talmage. WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. Impure Literature, the Dissolute Dance, In- discreet Apparel and Alcohol. ° The Brooklyn Tabernacle was agatn crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday morning with a multitude who had come to liear Dr. Talmage’s description of the “Gatos of Hell.” This isthe third of hissermons on the night side of city life, which are attracting so much attention from the circumstance of the preacher’s romantic wandorings among the haunts of vico in New York about five weeks ago in reh of subjects for his sermons and in order that he might first these places before doscribing them and Jearn their real dangers before warning people away from them. Yesterduy’s throng in the Tabernacte wi mon of the series. Morgan occupied hts usual place at the Orga, Arbuckle gavo several cornet solos and some hymns wero sung, after which Mr. Talmage gave out the weekly notices, Among them was one to the effect that next Friday night ho would lecture upon Brooklyn politics, so that his bearere might all Know whom to vote for in the coming oloction. Just before commencing bis sermon Mr. Talmago made tho following announcemont:—‘l wish that what] sayin my sermons should be received in s1- lence, as otherwise it disturbs some of the good poo- ple of my church, and disturbing them displeases me. I would be mueh obliged, therefore, it you would receive my words in silence.” After this in- Juuction the audience was comparatively quiet, only opplauding once and bursting into laughter twice during the sermon, Mr, Talmage took his text from 18—"The gates of hell shall not pre- and then began his sermon as fol- THE TIGER IN HIS DE! “It ia only ten o’clock,”? said the officer, as we got into the carriage forthe midnight exploration, “and itistoo early, for the theatres have not yet dis- missed’? The pia of iniquity are not ta full blast till the people have time to arrive from the theatres, So we loitered on and tho officor told the drtyertostop on the street where je ono of the costliest gambling houses of the city, Coming up in front all seemed dark; the blinds were down; the door was guarded. We were admitted and found around one table eight or ten men in mid-life and well dresaed. All was going on in Bilepce save the noise of the rattling chips on the guming table in one parior and the revolving bull of the roulette table in the othor, There wus some- thing awfully solemn in the silence, the intense gaze, the suppressed emetion. No one looked up. They bad money in therapids, Some of them may have seen horses and carriages and home and family rush- ing down into the vortex. Some of these men come in by private key, some by careful introduction, some aro taken ii by the patrons of the estavlisnment, A young man put his money down on the roulette table, aod lost; put more money down, and lost, Tpen ho felt in all his pockets for moro money, but found none, and severely silent he turned his back and passed out. While we eat there men Jost their property and souls, Merciless piace, Not once in all the years of that gambling house has there been one word of sympsthy uttered for the josers. When men have their property wrung out of them they go out, some to drown their griof in strong drink, some to ply the couuterfater’s pen to repair their fortunes, some to the suicide’s re- volver—all ol them down. 1 is estimated that every day in Christepuom $80,000,000 pass from hand to haod (through gambiing, or $123,100,000,000 every year. BAD BOOKS AND NOVELRTTES, “Bat,’”? I said, *1t ts eleven o'clock, and we must be off,” and our carriage rolied on toward the gates of heli. Who shall describe them? They are burcished until they sparkle in the guslight; they are mighty and set in sockets of deep und dreadiul masoury ; they are high, so that th toside may notcitmb over; they are heayy, but swing easily in to Jot those !n who would be destroyed, 1 wentin, anu I im bere this moruing to sketch them. We aid not stand looking @ outside, I shull tel you what these gates are made of, Gatethe First—Impure iiverature. A great deal of tho bad tiloratare 18 vot gripped of the law, but i is “im your parlors and your iivraries, Some of your chilaren read it at night alter tbey retire—tho gase burner *winging a8 Dear a8 possivie to the pillow. Much ot this literature 1s under the title of ecientilic inturmation. Is is ees toat men and wom who might get from tueir Jamily physiciun ail the useful information needed, aod without contumioation, should wave chin, deep sbroug accursed iiterature under the plea of getting usefal Knowleuge, und tbat privting presses, poping to be called decent, Jend themscives to this intamy. Fathers and mothers, be not deceived by tho title “medical work.”” Niue-teoths of such books come hot from the lost world. ‘Ihpn there are the povelettes flung over the land by the million. No ‘age novolette of the Virtue, Oh, this @ million men and woe Teading themselves to find whether jed on your parior One bad book or picture may do the work for ity. DISSOLUTE DANCING. Gate the Second—ine dissoiute aance. You know of what I spouk, di ts the tirst step to eternal ruin for a Great maltitude of both sexes, You know what pos- tures and figures are sug; d vy the devil. They who glide in the a 4 clined plane, and the dance is swilter and swifter and wilder and wild il, with the speea of hghining, they whirl off ages of adiecent lite into a fiery future, This gate ot hell is so wide that it swings across the Axminster of many a f:@Bionable parior und across the bairoom of the summer watering piace, You have no right to take any atsnude to the sound of music whieh would be unbecoming in the absence ol music, Gate the Third—Indiscreet attire, Tho attire of women for the Jast ow years has been beautiful, but which is rig! ndisereet. [ am told bocking to all righteousuess, 1 charge Christian women neiuer by style of dress nor adjustment of apparel to become ad- ministrative of evil, Verhaps no ove cise will dare toli you, so I wili teil you thai there are muitituacs of men who owe their ciernal damnation to boldness of womaniy attire. (Applause. ) RUM'S RAVAGHE Gate the Fourth—Aicvnolic Beverages.—In our mide Might exploration we found that all the wickedness were dune under the enchantm Wine cup. That was whut tuo walter carried op the platter; tht what glowed on the table; that he patrons who came in; that taggered the steps of the patrons as they went out, The wine cup is tue patron of impurity, Nearly all the meu who go toto the shambles of death go in- toxicated—the mental and spiritual abolished, the brate ascendant, Tei! me a young man arinks and L know the whole story, No mau ever runs aranken- tabi eter ness nione, That is a curMou crow that travelsin a flock, In other words the wine cup un balan ana one’s Vetter judgment anu jeaves him a prey t may choose to aliaht upon bis soul, United States to-day but finds its chiel abetter in the ehalices of inevriacy. Tio court that licenses the sale ol strong drink licenses gaming, Heenses Hberunism, Heenses dixeases, licenses death, licenses ail erimes, ail sufferings, a disasters, ali woes, Lt is the logis Jateres and courts that swing Wido open this grinding, roaring, stupeudons gate of the lost. THK FIRE ESCAPES “But,” you say, ‘tell us how tueso gatos swing out to allow the escape of the penitent? ‘Etepty but very tow Out of a thousand that go in hive snd ninety-nine perish. Suppose oue ol these wanderers snouid koock at your door, would you adint ter? Would you 1 troauce her ambng your acquaintances? Would take the responsiviliy of pulling on the outside of the of bell While she pusied on the inside of that gate, trying to get out? You would not. You write poctry over her sorrows aud woop over her mis- fortuue, but heip her you never will, There is not One persun OUL ot 5,000 iuat hus Come so near to the heart of the Lord Jeaus On ‘of thea eu soule. Are there no Ob, yes; three oF four, Ono 18 the se dingy, cold, bunger-blasted. treet that toads to the Bast Riv end of «ho ony Whari, The moon shining cowa on tho water makes it Jook £0 sinooth that she wWouders uo it is deep enoagn, It 18; nO voutman pear to hear the plunge, no watebman to pick ber out beiore ane sinks the third time, Another way of escape is by tho curve of tho Hudson River ftaliroad at the poimt where the ongt- heer of the lightning express train o+n’t see more than a hundred rods anead to the form th across the track, He may whistle down brakes, b Not son enough Lo disappoint the one who secks her death, Wil cot God torgive? Yes, but man wilt bn sit will, but Will fot. Father than cure, [i is not so touch that 1 may suade One that has fallen to craw! up a8 to warn those who are going too near the edger. THE £FPROTS OF M18 SRRMTONS, Hot what is the use of these setinons t Lsay—mueh, only surpassed on the occasion of the first ser-’ PERERA ER Ble at the almost universal fairness with which you have Presented what I have bad tosay. But of course Among the educated journalists Who sit at these tables and who have been sitting nere for four or ive 0 that don’t under. ) But thatou; rage the great. newspaper press or the Profession Which carries on the grea elterprises of ihe liverature of the day. I thank, also, those wi by letters cheered met in this work, Lotters bi been coming to We Jrom al! parts of the couatry, about one out of a hupdrec condempatory, One I got yesterday from a man whe suid he thought my sermons would do great damage as they wouid arouse suspicion in many families as where the head of the family spent his evenings. | was sorry the letter was anonymous. If I nad known whom it was Irom 1 would nave written to that maa’s wilo telling ber to pata detective on ber bus band’s track, for L know right woll he was going bo bud places. (Laughter.) ; THR FINAL BATTLE, You say there is uothing to do away with these iniquities; you cannot resist them, Stupid maa, what does my text cay? “Tho gates of hell shall no prevail agaiust it,” ‘These gates shall be prostrated, ‘Tbe Bible utters ita denunciation against sin, butrhe piety of to-day is such a namby-pamby sort of thing you csa’teven quote the Seripture without making somebody restless, As Jong wS this holy imbeciity reiges 61n Will inagh us to scorp, Now, allusion to sin must be in a tone apologetic! I putmy feosdowa n all tho conventional rhetoric on this subj tell you plainly that unless you give up y your doom 1s sea In the besiogement of the gates of Lell wo want no soft sontimeutalists, but men who are willing ‘to give tako ‘d knocks, ‘The gates of Gaza wore carried off. the gates of Thebes were batiored down, the gates ot Babiyon were destroyed aud the gates of hell sball be proctrated. A Coristianized printing pross shalt be rolled upas the ohief battering ram apd there will bo a long line of aroused pulpits which shail be the assailing fortresses and Gov’, red-bot truth shalt the flying ammunition of the contest. ‘Shen the sappers and the miners will lay the train beneath the foundations of sia and at just the right tine the Lord, who leads tho fray, will ory “Down with the gates," and the explosion beneath will be answered by allthe trumpets of God on high celebrating the universal victory. GoD WILL FORGIVE, There may bo in this house one wanderer who would like to have a word calling ber back, and [ can’t sit down till I bave uttered that word, | know that God wil have mercy on the wanderer who would like to come back to the Lord of infinite jeve, One cold Christmas night @ poor girl left ber father’s house, She was attracted by the warmth and light of achurcb ove night years atter and qatered, The miniater was preaching of Him who was wounded for her transgressions and braisea for her tuiquities, She went out and returned to her old home, It mother was glad to got ber back God was to get her buek. here sue lay dying, aod just vetore the moment of her departure she wept aud prayed that the mercy of God alight upon her sou!, And there sho lay upon the bosom ol ber pardoning Jesus. So tho Lord took back ove whom the world rejected, FASHIONABLE SINS. HOW THEY WERE DENOUNCFD IN A SERMON BY THE LEY. MR. COLCORD AT CHICKERING HALL. Chickering Mall was well filled yeeterday afternoon by the announcement that the Rev. Mr. Colcord would preach there ou ‘Day Lite in New York,” and would rebuke fashionable sin, His auditors, while they were of the better class of people, did aot gen. erally seem to be fasbtonable. The service began with “Hold the Fort’? and otuer woll known hymna, sung by the congregation, The text was taken trom Deutervnomy xxv., 16:—For all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto thé Lord thy God.” I intended last Sanday, said the preacher, to prevva on the bright side of lifo, but] could not preach then, and havecbanged the sab- jectsomewhat. My subject to-day isthe open sin, which needs to bo preached against because it 18 se common, I shall spoak plainly, and 1 hope God will enable me not to flinch, Wo need not seek for the that hide in the dark to find an abomination to God, The words of the text were spoken against the common wins of the day. The first 1 wish to speak against is the desecration of the Lora’s day. Multitudes vio- late tho sanctity of the Sabbatn, which 18 the poor man’s day, NO saBpatit. I havo lately been ia lands where there is ne Sabbath, 1n Brussels I found that though the streota were 1ull of pleasure seekers they were not the clerka and mechanics, The clerks bad to work sevea days, They bad nowday of rest, It was thoy with others had encouraged tho idea of desecrating tho Sabbath, In Paris, woen Christians would build an American cnapel, they had to pay the workmen for jaysa week, whether they had six or seven work done. Already, im America, many em- of railroads and hotels and other workmen uve to work seven di Working m jo you wieh to tose your day of rest? You will, if the Sabbath ta not observed. There are many capitalists who would ve glad to havo the money yield thom a revuro tos seven days instead of 3); ‘But it will be done vy the grinding of the poor, Weare appealed to to have Places of amusement open on Sundays for the sake of the workingmen, It ineans that some must work for others, Don’t tprow tne Bibie overboard. We may spare anything else, but nor that lt is our Magn Charta, 1t ts to guard our rights, We cannot ee ie “you LIK.’ Anotber common sin is lying “You liel’? were words that startied 0g the street the other day, 1 turned to se julter Knocked down, and th man who resen! Lying 1 gay they are not in whea you call. [tis a lie, Thoy are in, but do nat care to say 80, The pre-ont dopression ol business, men say, is caused by lack of coufidence, ‘This is due to lying. The man who lies is harmed Ho loses bis self-respect, and gets into t of lying, and it holds him as in o vise. er then toid a story about a clerk who was dis for not lying about flanne!, and who became could have paid more, He ought nave been branaed as hypocrite. Many mea creep intu the Church who ought to be out ol it, lia man would go to heaven he must be honest. Prot ably boone would cull dishonesty a respectable sin; but as long as a man #8 disnopest ib a respectavie ‘way he is recognized in society, Dishonesty 1s theft, and we should brand it as such, GRINDING THE YACK O¥ THE POOR. Another sin is the oppression of tue poor, Whena will trim a pair of pantaloons for eight ts and find hor own thread, it seems to me thore is @ppression somewhere, What the Church needs to-day i¢ manhood, There are good men who drink wine. 1 would not, for it 18a temptation to the weak. 1 know a young man who Was rutved vy the woman who joved him, He was a man of brilliant talents, bue-untemperance took hold of him. He rove trom the gutter and won a beautiiul woman, One New Year’s Day sho held out in ber jewelled hand a cup of ruby liquid, She said, “You will not rejuse to take it trom met from which he has ne’ found a arreetion, There are many woak o: who cannot drink wine. We bave no right to tempt them. There is tho sin of pride, What have we to be proud of? We are worms of the dust Seifishnest the speaker also denounced as atashionable sin. Por baps some in the congregation had beurd their owa eins relerrod to, They might say they could not help sinning; but they could, Tho great sin was the si of aubeliél in ethe Gospel of God. “Lhis Gospel I preach,”’ be said, ‘and 1 toyouall to you who wish to be uelivered from thraldem of sin I say come to Him, tor in Him there is eternal rest.” A FORTUNE AFLOAT. AN IRIsH MAID IN A PRINCELY FAMILY VISIT@ THIS COUNTRY TO CLAIM AN UNCLE’@ ESTAIE. A lady presentea hersclf at the office of Doputy Register Nagle on Saturday evening to inquire alter death of » quarter of a century ago. Sbe had come from Kurope to test her title to the effects of a de ceased relative, whose fate was somewhat myste rious and whose goods and chattels bad gone n¢ one knew where, Mary Faby, a native of Galway, and now a woman of middle age, is the applicant for the unaccounted for treasure, In her girthood she had heard of her uncle, Martin Malloy, who was admired by all the country round for his pluck = and —ppirit. His elder brother determined to give the scapegrace full reia and arranged to make hima captain, but Martioa averse to the discipline of the quarter deck aud at the first opportuniy escaped, taror up next ia Carotinas. Ho prosperea ouaren dd aeOur wo Lives urging them to orose the become partakers ui nis prosperity. yoy failed to do 80, however, and tn the station 1a New York where Maloy aliguted from the cara when about to revisit bis Lome he dropped dead stricken by heart disease, ADVERTISING FOR AN WSIR. Nothing Was known of bis anvecedonts, and advor- tisements wero published in the Now York Irish papers inquiring for bis hers ut they bad = go to Bagiand, oud were utterly oblivious th xood fotiune ull y afterward, when an old servant nequatuted thom with What had happened. But the news came aban inop- poriane moment Private alllictions engaged thett attention, and Mary Faby on assuming service under the Countess de Civille pave over any thoughts she had entertained regarding her relativo’s ostate. For a long time she lived with the noble indy at her ohateag io Normandy, aod afterward became muta t¢ the Pricess Gailtzen. Ali over Kurope ene accom panied (ho distinguished Russian; bus on the mar riage ot ber daughter tothe Due de Chaimes she trauslerred her allegiance to the iatter, ON THR TRAIL. Alter a sojourn in several of ihe Buropean capitals came to America at the instance of some Iriendé began inquiries into the disposition of ber dead uncle’s property, which Is estimated at extremely Jarge fures, Jay, ae statod, she eatled att Bureva of Vital Statisiies, records, which the jaton Will take piace thia w wo