The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1879, Page 2

SEEKING APTER TRUTEL Sermons Delivered in the Leading Churches Yesterday. PAUL'S IDEA OF PREACHING. The Morality of the Country as Inferred from Cities. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, PAUL'S IDEA OF PREACHING-—~THE PULPIT AND ITS POWER—SERMON BY THE REY. GEORGE H, HEPWORTH. When Mr. Hepworth announced the text as the basis of his discourse, the regular attendants among the congregation settled themselves into earnest listeners, for it had to them, in the light of current rumors, @ peculiar significance. The sermon, how- ever, had no personal reference to the preacher, and was only of a general character, The text was 1. Corinthians, ii., 1, 2—And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellercy of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God, For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crtfcified.” When a man comes into our midst, said Mr. Hepworth, properly authorized, for the purpose of embodying a new idea in any institution we listen to his first utterances with the most intense interest. St. Paul went to Corinth hoping to found there a church, and in the words he uttered we are led to discover the basis of his ministry, the source of his power, We-know that he was a man who had no * prepossessing appearance, no peculiar magnetic power with which to draw the crowd, and we wonder where he will get his inspiration and on what grounds he has aright to expect that a successful organization can be built up by him. ‘The words which I have chosen for my text this morning were the corner stone of the church at Corinth, the cen- tral impulse of St. Paul’s ministry, from the moment of his conversi to that of his death. When we look at the thought that is uncovered by the text we cannot help a feeling of surprise that so much good and so large aspiritual influence could have come from such acause. The Corinthians were a people who ented an unpromising theme for the reacher; they were not only wealthy, but given to luxury and vice, and it was @community that was corrupt politically and socially. ‘The people lived in- tensely, caring nothing for eternal truth, desiring only to have their appetites ade more keen by novelty of expression, by a strangeness of thought and by a copious rhetoric which always attracts but leaves no more effect behind than the passing of the wind, Paul had no desire whatever for what is called popularity; he did not intend to be pleased by numbers, but took great satisfaction to himself if his ministry produced results. His ob- ject was not to amuse but to winsouls, He was iven to earnestness in the last degree, full of the foty spirit, and gave utterance to the truth in a way that was at once simple and yet exceedingly forcible. He aroused the hearts of his hearers in order that he might make them look at another whose shoe latches he was not worthy to unloose. He desired to pro- duce a sensation without any of the machinery of modern sensationalism. It is one thing to entertain ‘people, but it is quite another thing to instruct them. bt. Paubsaid no sensationalism except that which be- longs to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. If the consciousness of sin should move men it is well, to move them in any other way is not well. WHEN THE PULPIT DOES GooD, ‘The pulpit has been productive of good in propor tion to its ability to take men’s hearts, and to fill men with the consciousness of their unworthiness and of the danger in which they stand, necessity of securing help from some the sun sets. did Whitfield; 5 tional as the moderu term of se stood, St. Paul used her words of rhetoric nor the theories of philosophy. He who preaches about Christ preaches to very little effect; he who preaches Christ as a present Saviour has his place in the world and is needed by sinful men. “The testimony of God,” said St. Paul, “I present to you, but not with worldly wisdom, not with a rhetorician’s power, but simply to be moulded into your own life, so that it shall become productive of your salvation.” ‘We area littie startled when we hear St. Paul say, “{ determined, as I had a definite purpose in my to know nothing among you except Jesus and Him crucified.” Wesley produced a sensation, and so ro, involves a great deal; itinvolves on our part a complete self-surrender, and in that surrender we must give up all—give up everything to Him. Christ says, “I will be respon- sible for you,” and in that saying is the philosophy of the Christian religion. Paul spoke from experi- ence—he had tried it, We know what Christ has done for the world. We can test Christianity only by living by its rules, ‘Test it in this way and see what it will do tor you. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. THE PERfis OF THE CITIES—SERMON BY THE REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. Mr. Talmage preached on the morality of the coun- try as inferred trom the condition of the cities. The sermon gave the pastor’s impressions from the points of resemblance between the principal cities of the Union, announcing that next week he would speak of their points of difference. The text was taken from Zechariah i, 17—“My cities, through prosperity, shall yet be spread abroad.”* The city, said Mr. Talmage, is no worse than the country. The vices of the metropolis are more evi- dent than the vices of the rural districts only because there are more people to be bad it they choose to be. Merchants are quite as good as farm- ers. There is no worso cheating in town than out of town, only that it ison a larger scale. The country copies the vices of the city in their meanest shape; and as to gossip, its heaven is the country village. Everybody knows everybody's business better than he knows it himself. The grocery store or the blacksmith’s shop at night is the headquarters of masculine tittle-tattle, and there are at least half a dozen women who haye their sunbonnets hanging ready, so that at any moment they hear an item of news derogatory to their neighbors they can fly out end cackle it allover town. Cain was the founder of the first city, and I suppose it took after him in morals, It is along while before a city can get over the character of those who founded it. New York will not, for two or three hundred years, escape from the good influence of its ‘founders. Cities are not necessarily evils, as has sometimes been argued. They have been the birthplace of civiliza- tion, and in them popular liberty has lifted up its vor There ought to be good will between cities, New York must cease caricaturing Philadelphia, and Philadelphia cease picking at New York, and there is room on this continent both for St. Louis and Chicago. God ordains each city for its peculiar mise Here is that large sion. No one can do the work of the other, the highway of our nation's prosperity. Up highway walks acity of broad foreliead ani brain—that is Boston; a city of deliberate mi: and orderly behavior—that is Philadelphia; with pockets full of change—that is New Y. cities going with a rush that astoun they are Chicago and St. Louis; while another city takes its wife and children along with it in the march, and that is Brooklyn; Cincinnati and Louis ville and Pittsburg, as well as’ the great Southern cities, all carrying their peculiarities of wealth or fashion or professional ability, No one of them can be spared. Hurt one, you hurt all, In all these cities Lam impressed with the fact that this life is a scene of toil and struggle. This great tide of human life that goes down the street is a rapid tossed, and turned aside, and dashed ahead, and driven back—beautiful in its confusion and con- fused in its beauty. In the carpeted aisles of the forest, in the woods from which the eternal shadow is uever lifted, on the shore of the sea over whose iron coast tosses the tangled foam, sprinkling the eracked cliffs with a baptism of whirlwind and tem- pest, is the best place to study God; but in the rush- ing, Swarming, raving street is the best place to study Man. Ayain, in all these cities you will be impressed with the fact that Life is full of ‘pretension and sham. What subterfuge, what double dealing, what two- facedness! Do all people who wish you good morn- ing really hope tor you a happy day? Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who inquire con- cerning it? Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know haif as much as it pre- tends to know? — Is there not many a wretched stock Of goods with a brilliant store window? OTHE IMPRESAIONS. il that there is a great fold for ng and want and wretch itis in the city hung: that w at Squalid and ties you are imp: is full of temptations. rasta him off. Let me say to you that there is no success even iu this world unless you take God as your por- tion and try todo right. Oh, it does pay to do right, young men, and it never pays to do wrong. ‘here is & reat iuistake abroad in’ the community, and that is the supposition that charity can conse- crate uniawiul gains, A man engaged in a most in- famous swindle gave a Jarge amount of mouey to 4 missionary cause, as it to compromise the matter with the Lord, as though saying, “Here, Lord, is part of that money that 1 me off.” (Laugiiter.) ; take this for yours and let The Chureb sf God is not a shop for the reveiyt of stolen yvods, If you have | tion NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. gotten anything by iniquity better return it, and if you can't return it go down to your furnace, heat it up until it is seven times hot, then throw in the roduct of your unlawful “gains. If you ave been much among cities you have noticed that they are full of temptations of a political character, When a man in the tear and love of God goes into »politics with the idea of r forming them, then he will come out uncon nated, In all these cities we haye noticed that bad literature isatwork. The child at school reads bad books while the teacher is looking the other way. One never gets over reading a bad book. Father's hand or mother’s or sister’s hand cannot wash out the stain. Only the blood of a sacrificing Redeemer can cleanse the soul. There are persons whose business it is to distribute these books. Agents of darkness, cormorants of perdition! What an eternity such men will have! PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE EVILS OF FRETTING, MELANCHOLY AND FEAR—SERMON BY MR, BEECHER, The traces of Mr. Beecher’s illness were yet upon him when he mounted the platform of Plymouth Church, but though-his cheeks were paler than their wont, they yet wore a warm and roseate hue, which in most people would be accounted an indication of the most perfect health, His manner, however, and the accents of his voice, as he proceeded to offer the opening prayer, showed that he had met and van- quished some unusual physical trial. In the very middle of this devotion Le seemed to feel an access of feebleness and spoke weakly and with effort. His words were at the same time as strong and original as they ever have been on a like occasion. ‘The text wis from St. Matthew, vi., 27:—‘Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature?” This, said Mr. Beecher, comes nearer to what might be called humor thgn any other passage that I recollect in the New Testament. Here we have an argument against the fret and worry to which humanity is prone, against the nameless forms of mental suffering which come from the attrition of life, Troubles were neither disdained nor magnified by the word of God, but in this passage it was assumed as a fact that in the movement of human life at large men squander happiness on occasions and for reasons unworthy of them. The word of God assumes that it is the duty of man tobe happy. The great ends and aims of life are to be sought through an atmosphere of happi- ness. “Fret not about to-morrow” would be a fair rendering of thiscommand. In proof that God in- tended that man should be happy on this earth Mr. Beecher outlined the general course of nature. In- stead of having faith in providence, men were too ready to disavow it. What good did it do to fret? It would not make one hair black. It might, however, make all of our hairs white. But it would not change our stature. Many could not be satisfied because they are dwarfs, How were they to help it? Fretting would not make them any tuller. It was the right of the soul to be happy, and no man ought for a single moment to forfeit this right. Fretting used up the nerve force and rendered the mind morbid. It enhanced those evils that were feared beforehand. If there was a slight inflammation in one’s eye the worst thing that he could do was to rub it. But men rubbed their troubles until they actually grew worse and they be- came almost blind to everything else. The nerve is the man. The whole of manhood lies in the brain and nervous system. All besides is but animal. To get them into a feverish state disqualifies a man from bearing any trouble with fortitude and a tend- ency of always looking upon the dark side of things grows upon him, It is the worst habit that could be formed. No person had a right to so pencil his mind that, like a scratched pane of glass, it distorted everything that was looked at through it. What would be thought of @ man who insisted upon form- ing @ more familiar acquaintance with nettles, thistles, thorns and briers—everything that could give him a good scratching? What of one who sought out every fruit that was sour or bitter or acid that he might taste it? What of one who went up and down, here and there, and to whom all flowers that are good for sweet purposes were as nothing if he could find some grievous stench in the air? ‘THE FOLLY OF FRETTING. It was a great folly to reject and put aside a hun- dred other means of happiness because one’s expec- tations in some one direction had been suddenly blotted out; to let one’s whole day be shadowed whihe the sun yet shone with ten thousand mercies on every side. Shoulda man who was hungry refuse a whole banquet because the one dish which he most loved was not on the table? Every man could be master of the economy of his own soul. How piti- ful, then, to reject the wealth of a universal service for the lack of some petty trifle! ‘Then, too, experience taught us that we suffer our- selves to be tormented about things that we could be just as well without. We made ourselves unhappy in order to seek unhappiness. On the other hand we often lament over a loss that did us no harm. If we looked back in life we should find that the easiest places were those which were now the most worthless to us. Wherever the mountains rose in stability and grandeur there did we encounter the greatest difficulties and troubles. Man was not made manly by softness, but by hardness. We would all like to bé ground on a sheep’s fleece, but what kind of anedge would it put on us? We did not like the grindstone and the anvil; but what were the tuings that were best but those which had come through the fire and from under the hammer? ‘THE WIDESPREAD INFLUENCE OF FEAR, Fear was one of the most widespread influences which disturbed love, labor and hope. Yet the wise man might console himself with the assurance that the things which we fear most constantly never happen. Fear would lie to us every day and hour, and yet will we still believe it. As it worked largely with the organ of invention it never was the same for two hours atonce. All that was accomplished under its influence was drudgery. It was not of in- spired work, Shame upon hii, then, who would sell himself to this devil. no one way did it help him, in every conceivable way did it hinder and hurt him, A tranquil soul was indispensably necessary to a true Christian atmosphere. A fretting person never knew the true Christian religion. God did not speak to men who had unhealthy, nervous systems. He only addressed the soul when it is in silence, calm and serenity. Men formed the habit of fretting far more than they know, and thus did they dull the pure mirror of their consciousness, blasting perpetually the very bloom of life. Men should not be in bondage to their business, but they should look down upon it. You are superior, »uid Mr. Beecher, to the effects which you can produce. No man is less than a son of God. Hold fast to yourself, to your better self, your higher self, You should also consider, what very few people ever think of, what disagreeable com- any we make of ourselves for God if we are ever earful and foreboding. MASONIC TEMPLE. WHAT IS THE BASIS OF VIRTUE?—LECTURE bY MR. 0. B, FROTHINGHAM. Referring to the old book of Ecclesiastes, in the course of his sermon in Masonic Temple, Mr. 0. B, Frothingham said that it was a singular thing for the Scriptures to admonish men to not be too righteous; but he contended that the words of the Old Testa- ment apply only to @ formal acquiescence with im, plied church rules—with what is called righteousness inside of the church, such as conforming to its dis- cipline and the bringing of gifts to the priests, In these times there are many complaints of fraud and dishonesty in the different walks of life. In fact» this age is hastily accused of being one eminently sceptical and immoral; but it may be asked if we are therefore to conclude that the quality of goodness is losing ground in the world. Is it not fair to conclude that the intellectual basis of morality has changed rather than that the moral standard is in any way altered ? Men are often led unknowingly into wrong, just as children playing on the edge of a stream are tempted into the depths of the watery ele- ment. First a little foot slides into the shining water, then another follows, a step is taken from the shore, the child is fascinated by the shimmer of the tide till it woes beyond its depth and the treacherous flood becomes its destroyer. What is the basis of virtue, and on what ground do men feel constrained to do good? ey were told through the traditions of generations that they ought to be honest and pay their debts. This excellent rule—for it is an excellent rule at bottom—has worked itself into every part of the business of lite. But the time now comes when the validity of the foun- dation is questioned, Some one asks by what right or title priests lay down this or that wholescme maxim or teach certain church dogmas. The right, in fine, may be acquiesced in by the multitude, but the authority is questioned by the many, What is the foundation of the clerical authority? A tradi- tion, a myth, dark uncertainty and stories handed down from mouth to mouth as to the origin of the Church, with whose later history we are cognizant. The Church orders mass to be said; no questions are to be asked, no doubt entertained about the propriety of this act; it is the rule of the Chureh, and you must acquiesce in it, Another theological assumption is that traditional morality never changes, ‘To-day the Roman Catholic Chureh ntinues, as it did more than three hundred years », to fulminate its decrees against Christianity. Pope Pius IX. did this, and there was no more rea- son in his fulminations lately than there was in tho#e of the pontitfs who preceded him. ‘The only reason given was that the Oburch said #0 and so, and this was devined sufficient, | goes on now im the same way, never once | casting a look at the great question of -woman's rights owfne way to remedy her wrongs, Where, | then, itmay be asked, is the moral rock of ages > | The answer is that it is in the soul; but this theory | will not bear critical investigation, If it is true that men’s consciences ought to be the basis on which to form their line of conduct. Do they contorm to it? No. There is no crime in the calens that not at some time and place been p a8 a virtue. What is right on one side of a given meridian may be wrong on the other, and what is wrong in a certain latitude might be considered quite right in a different one, The Church law will tell you not to steal, lie | or murder; but it makes no definition of what these crimes consist in, and herein exists the wrong. We must have a new moral basis to start out from, and this basis must be thought, but never tradition, ‘The infant who comes into the world and grows w man, subject to the thousand influences of tradition around him, must be taught liberty of thought and action, and reared up to be bold in his avo’ of the religion of humanity, which is based on a broad mo- rality only, It was one of the religious rules of the great August Compté that individuals should sink themselves and their interests for the sake of others, This idea soon overcomes the understanding and oc- cupies the entire man. Applying this rule to hon- esty, truth, righteousness, we find that he is the prince, the spotless warrior, the unconquerable sol- dier who will not yield to evil influences till the fatal bolt strikes him down. He is the embodiment of ines virtues which are being taught by the new re- ion, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. LIFE ABOUNDING IN CHRIST—SERMON BY REY. DR. ARMITAGE, The Rey. Dr. Armitage took his text from John x., 10—“I came that they may have life and that they may have it abundantly.” Nothing excites so quick and hearty response from the heart of man, said the preacher, as life. The lofty mountain, the laboring sea and the sketching sky, all challenge his admira- tion by their sublimity; but they do not stir his whole nature like things of life. And in ex- act proportion to the abundance of life is its stirring effects, A school of fish, adrove of animals, a flock ot birds or a crowd of men arouse our sympathies as an individual of these species cannot. Largeness of life either commands our love or alarms our fears. But we are charmed also with the strength and ful- ness of life in the individual. We say of the young lamb leaping in the field in the spring of the year, the trout leaping in the brook after its insect food, of the frolicsome boy and his dog and the thousand other things, “How full of life!’? and they give us de- light. Wecan pity the weakly, struggling for life, but succeeding only in making out a dwarfed, feeble, chilly existence; but we cannot admire their weak- ness. We like life that is restless, exuberant, run- ning over, brimful, laughing and running over again, crying, and again running over, In any way the ful- ness of life is a heavenly note breaking on the heart. It is this that makes the June forest so delicious. Its widespread branches, its large leaves, with their deep, glossy beauty ; its happy songsters, its graceful ferns and new flowers—even its scarlet winter ber- ries, which laugh in your face because their hardi- ness has outlived all the frosts and snows— make you happy by their abundance of life. The same is true of man, with profounder emphasis. In him there is notning that we love so little as slowness, inertness, stupidity, which makes him first cousin to a tortoise—haif alive people, who talk so slowly that you can anticipate them, sentence by sentence, sing so drawlingly that you think of a belated October wind crawling through a pine tree at Christmas, and creep along so sluggishly through life that you locate their birthplace in a salt marsh, the time of their birth being low tide, We feel somewhat the same about obtuseness of intellect, when men have no life in their thinking. They never can catch @ point on its first utterance. A figure of speech or a facetious re- mark must be all taken apart and explained before they can comprehend its bearings. We naturally turn to the man who sces out of open eyes, has @ quick perception, throws off the weights from his soul and evinces something of that true human greatness which rejoices in the fulness of life. ‘These illustrations help us to understand the force, naturalness and adaptation of Our Lord’s statement in the text. He speaks here of @ deeper, diviner life than we have spoken of, but He adopts the same great practical principle. There are times when even the leemer seems to labor under a sense of the poverty of human language in His at- tempt to express His fulness of meaning. The text is a notable instance of this kind. He not only declares that He came to give life, but he taxes words to their utmost to convey an infinite meaning by the word rendered here “abundantly.” He bestows life, but in a reater endowment than man has ever known it. is words carry a measure of comparison respecting the largeness and fulness of his gift in contrast with all ordinary modes of knowledge. ‘This being assured, our next duty is to find wherein this ditter- ence consists; we shall not go far astray if we say that the life ‘which he imparts is first abundantly more in its measure. ‘THE SCHEME OF REDEMPTION. ‘The Apostle Paul gives us a key to the sense of our text when he says, “Where sin abounded grace did much more abound.” However ruinous the sin of man has been in its consequences the scheme of re- demption makes the results of bis grace superabound o those consequences. With this interview the same apostle byba “The first Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam a lifegiving spirit; the first man was of earth earthy, the second man is the Lord from Heaven,” by which he means that Adam was a mere man, created out of the earth, but that Christ, coming down from heaven, was not created, but con- tained in Himself the fulness of lite intrinsically. ‘The Saviour never began His life, aud because He has become our Head He is our life eternal. Because wilful ignorance prevented it. Toward the close of his remarks he alluded teelingly to the accusations made that cither himself or his priests had been in any way forgetful of or unkind to the poor. For himself he could say, and for his associate priests, that there never had been extended to wealthy mem- bers of the congregation any more deference or atten- tion than had been habitually shown to the poor, Whether by day or by night they were called on to ad- minister to the poorest members of the parish they were always ready, and the patience or labor was never thought of nor mentioned, the only thought being to help the weary soul who’ needed the sacra- ments, He could say, not alone for himself and his associates, but for the priests of this city as a body, that the poor were not neglected by them, and that the ed were their faithful and devoted friends. In his parish there were three priests, with 10,000 souls in their care. Surely here was labor enough; and the great majority of all these were the poor. In concluding the pastor reminded the congregation that their pastor and his assistants expected from them justice. When Dr, Burtsell had got through Rev. Father Ryan, of the Paulist order, ascended the pulpit and preached a brief, pithy discourse, in consonance with the tor's remarks, He took his text from that inculcation of the royal psalmist which advises that a “door” be placed on the mouth, and went on to speak of the utility of silence and the foolishness of using the tongue too glibly, He suid that while of course there was @ time when it was wise to speak, still people generally forgot to ponder well before giving expression to opinions. ‘The wisest men had told us how precious was the rule of silence and had PE aaron out the dangers of too much talk, We all had noticed evidences of the wisdom of not saying too much. Generally people who talked a great deal made their neighbors the subject of their criticisms and it was a noticeable fact that those who were only just after being converted from some fault or failing immediately became teachers and critics and pronounced verdicts with wonderful assurance in themselves, It was a difficult thing to teach. With- out being specially called to the vocation of teacher it was better not to venture. But in regard to writing the danger was still greater, the less of that the better. And this was true in an especial way so far the newspapers were concerned, and in the case of one newspaper in particular. The newspapers of these days probed into the secrets of families, laying bare the domestic sorrows and trials, But, as @ rule, we should ever be on the watch, lest our tongue leads us astray. The fact was that jople who talked a great deal really did very little for themselves or anybody else, They exhausted their energies in talk, and had nothing leit in them by which they might accomplish anything. We should place a watch over ourselves constantly, that we may not sin, and remember how easy it is todo harm by speaking about things of which we are but imperfectly intormed. CENTRAL M. E. CHURCH. THE MORALIST—SERMON BY REY. DR, NEWMAN. Rey. Dr. Newman preached and took as his sub- Ject “The Moralist,” drawing his text from Matthew, xix., 20—What lack I yet?’ Morality, said the rev- erend Doctor, is the conformity of our actions to the relations in which we stand to each other in civilized life. It implies good citizenship, commercial integrity, temperance in all” things, friendship, do- mestic fidelity, the civilities of social life, culture, virtue and charity. Such is afair statement of the nature and excellences of morality. The standard is not too high, and it were welldf all who claim morality measured up to it; but not one ina hun- dred do. Yet high as this standard is, there is one higher up to which we must measure if we would obtain heaven, Wherein consists the insufficiency of morality for the final purposes of salvation? Tho reason for morality is not the divine will. Some men are moral on the principle that other men are His life is in us, as His members, therefore, though we wander from Him and grieve Him He will s' abide with us, to plead, alarm, convince and draw us; to guide and rule us; toenlighten and inspire us; to uphold: us against ourselves, and to stay our weakness upon His strength, our mortality upon His life. ‘He that believes on Him that sent Me has everlasting life, and shail not come into con- demnation; but is passed from death into life.” Your life in Christ will run into the abundance of @ perfect destiny. ‘Lhousands of years may pass with- out much change over the broad features of this world, The sun will rise every morning and run his race—the same stars will greet every evening and deck the midnight sky. One setot men will celebrate the effulgence of a birthday and another will weep at the tomb; but while your visible life will disappear from the earth, your real life will flow on and on, increasing With the increase of God, more and more abundantly. Oh, what an eternal progression there will be in the illimitable expandings of the soul’s faculties in @ life that has no bound but infinity, and no end but eternity. CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY. REY. DR. BURTSELL ON THE PEW RENTS OF HIS CHURCH—NO ADULTS WANTED AT THE NINE O'CLOCK MASS—FATHER RYAN ON GOLD- EN SILENCE. Atthe Church of the Epiphany, Second avenue, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, yesterday morning, especial attention was paid to the subject of the revenues of the church. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Burtsell, addressed his congregation atthe nine o'clock mass and at the high mass at half-past ten o'clock, being followed at the latter ser- vice by the Rey. Father Ryan, of the Paulist Church, in Fifty-ninth street, who spoke of the golden rule of silence. At the nino o’clock mass, which is especially for the children of the Sunday school, Dr. Burtsell spoke of the necessity there was for punctual attend- ance, and threatened that in future he would have the names taken of those who were late and would pub- lish them from the pulpit. Yesterday a milder method of bringing the children to church in time was adopted, and at the close of the pastor’s remarks some twenty girls and as many boys were marched up the centre aisle to the sanctu, ary railings, where they were filed off on either side in presence of the congregation, then retreating to such vacant seats as they could find. During the course of Dr. Burtsell’s remarks he spoke of the ne- cossity there was to sustain the church, and explained, how anxiously he had cared for those who were un- able to pay the admission fee by setting pews apart for their use at every mass except the nine o’clock mass, At the six, seven and eight o'clock masses the northern gailery was entirely tree, he said, and at the high moss half that gallery was entirely free to persons tnabie or unwilling to pay on entering. At all these earlicr masses only five cents was asked for @ seat in the body of the church, and at the half- past ten o'clock mass only ten cents for ® seat in any part of the edifice, the free seats on the northern gallery, of course, being excepted. At the nine o'clock mass, or the Su School children’s mass, fifteen cents was expect for a seat in either gallery, this being the only ser- vice where there were no free seats. And he now again requested all adults not to come to this mass. For years past, he said, he had been making this re- quest and urging it, andthe reason was simply this, that he desired the grown people of the parish to at- tend the high mass, at which an instruction was always given. Tho fifteen cents asked for at this mass was expecially put at that figure to p crowds from coming, and for the same reason no free seats were set apart in the ehurch, first gospel of the high mass, beginning at o'clock, Dr. Burtsell again addressed the nin a similar strain to that given above, them the immoral—because they are pleased so to be. Selfish- ness may underlie the severest morality. Ask that man why he is patriotic, honest, temperate. He replies, “Because I am_ there- by happy.” But other men think themselves so by being and doing otherwise. A man should be right and do right because God commands it. Where no such law is recognized morality is regulated by taste and circumstances, “It ye love me keop my commandments.” Love is always positive and demonstrative; its highest expression is in spiritual communion with the Father of our spirits, The sins of the moralist are those of omission. The moralist assumes that he can see no difference between his daily life and the daily life of the Christian, but he is looking for a difference where no difference exists. ‘The moralist eschews religious duties. He disregards the sacraments of the Church; his is a prayerless life; he offers no devotions to his Creator. ‘the moralist may claim that he is not as bad as other men and does not, therefore, feel his necessity for salvation; but the tendency of self-righteousness is to stupety the moral sensibilities. He may be better than other men, yet not fit for heaven. I have seen in Greece the ruins of a once magnificent temple wherein .remained some perfect columns, arch or lateral dome, Lh only the slight retouch- ing by the sculptor’s hand to restore its pristine beauty, So there are arches, columns and domes amid the ruins of our nature which need retouching by the Master Builder. The moralist argues that as sGod rewards him now for many good acts, and that asthe Lord loves the good principles from which such acts spring, therefore his salvation is sure. But he should remember that men are rewarded only so far as they go. Moralities are independent and their rewards are distinct. Physical morality has its reward in health, but that does not imply either patriotism or honesty. A careful cultivation of the intellect will be rewarded with mental vigor and extensive learning; so shall morality have its reward in commercial credit and high position in society. The morality of domestic lite is rewarded by all that is bewutiful ina happy home. The due restraint of the passions brings to the soul a sweet repose; but you cannot judge the social character of man from his busi- ness habits, nor his intellectual culture from his health, nor his domestic virtue from his public politeness. Morality is good as far it goes; but it does not go far enough. Here are two telescopes, one of which reveals to me the moon, the other the sun in all its glory—morality is moonshine, picty is sunlight, ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, THE EFFICACY OF FAITH—SEKMON BY REY. DR, M'GLYNN, ‘The lessons of the gospel of the day were brought to the attention of the congregation at St. Stephen's Church by Rey. Dr. McGlynn. The story of the leper who was healed by Christ and that of the cen- turion at whose faith He marvelled are told by St. Matthew in the eighth chapter of his gospel, and are, as the preacher thought, full of suggestiveness to the Christian, The hopeful confidence in the mercy and goodness of Christ shown by the poor stricken man who was shut out from all communion with his fel- lows by his dreadful disease and the great faith and deep humility of the centurion afford us two of the most striking examples of piety that are to be found in the sacred writings, it is a comfort to tho Christians of to-day to find it recorded that even amid the sneers of the learned and the condemnation of those reputed to be holy and reverend, the divinity of Christ shone out so brightly that a Roman, a centurion, aman ac- customed to command, was impressed with a sense of His power and majesty and came to Him saying, “Lord, Lam not worthy that thou should’st enter into my house; say but the word and my servant shall be healed, ‘The leper was in the most piteous plight that a man can fall into, Afilicted with the most loathsome of all diseases, and an outcast from the confines of human sdciety, he saw the Saviour, aud, trusting in His mercy, he came to Him and asked a boon—not some ordinary favor; not the sort of request he might make of 4n ordinary man— He asked his cure—« reversal of the ure. And Christ said, “Thy faith hath male thee whole.” What a heavenly assurance this is to the lowly, the outcast, the man diseased with sin! He began His work with one of the lowest of the race and showed the value that He set on this common humanity of ours that He himself assumed. In spite of sin and degradation man is the child of God and Christ recognizes in him @ brother. ‘Che leprosy of the text is, according to the typical language of the Scripture, the representative of sin, and the healing of the sufferer represents the sacrament of penance. “Go show yourself to the priest,” said Christ, and that is what He says to the man diseased in sin. Go show yourself to the priest with real faith and trust in his power and mercy and the Saviour will ag you, no matter how foul the leprosy of sin may Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father O'Callahan, Just before the sermon Dr. McGlynn alluded to the debt under which the church lies and exhorted embers of the congregation as had not already done #0 to contribute at an early day to the tund for its liquidation, ST. AGNES’ (R. C.) CHURCH. ‘The festival of St. Agnos, the youthful virgin and martyr, was colebrated yesterday (the Sunday within the octave) in the handsome church in Kast Forty- third street of which she is the patron saint, and of which Rev, H. A. MacDowail is pastor. All the pomp and splendor of the Roman ritual was lavished upon the functions at the high mass, ‘The singing was noticeably good. Tho sermon was preached by Myr. Seton, It was an cloquent picture of pagan Rome in the days of the infancy of the persecuted Christian Church. He “showed the civic and military virtues to which Rome owed her greatness, and the vices and kness which dermined ' her. Alter @ vivid skete sealed her taith y patrician girl who h her blood under the reign of Diocletian, he passed on to show how the qods before whose altars she refused to burn incense had passed away, while Koine itself soon passed under the mild sway of the Lord Jesus Christ. With a glowing description of the great church of St. Peter's, which was reared upon the spot sacred to Christian martyr dom, the preacher drew his sermon to @ close by affirming the truth of the words of the Lord that on THE CHURCH AND WOMAN'S RIGHTS. of receipts and | It is a remarkable fact that when the Christian and making this the sion of cou. Church became the established religion of the Roman | ments about the pew rents and the price of seats at Empire th was anend to legislation in the direc- | the different masses, Though Dr. Burtsell did not tion of legislation fayoring woman's rights. She | state explicity that he was referring to the corre- was again put under the foot of man and made sub+ | spondence on paying to hear mass, which the HkRaLD t to him in all things; for the morality of the | hax been publishing, it was plain to everybody in the Church has aiways been sed to the omancipa- | chureh that he meant his remarks to be explanatory tion of woman. During the stormy times of the | of the position of his church in this matter, He great French Revolution the radicals raised the | spoke very earnestly about the misconception question once more of emancipating woman from | which had arisen and reiterated his assertion the cffects of prejudices on the mere account | that the rules of the church, so often had of sex; yet after the days of the Revolu- | they been anpounced, should be known to the Church went om os betore, and |every member of the congregation except the rock of Peter He had built His Church and that the yates of hell should not provail against it, STANDARD HALL. THE FUTURE OF FREE KELIGION—LECTURE BY PROFESSOR ADLER. ‘Max Miller speaks of eight great religions, said Professor Adler in his discourse, and divides them into two classes, the missionary and the non-mis- sionary., Christianity he classes with the former, Judaism with the latter, But the distinguished scholar seems here to have been betrayed into a false distinction. Judaism also is, in the true sense, missionary, and claims to bea universal religion, but differs from its daughter, Christianity, as to the means and methods by which this end ought to be reached, Natures like Emerson’s can give to those unacquainted with the Jewish people an insight into their character. Emerson is pre-eminently a reformer, yet he shrinks from special measures of reform. Every practical worker in order to achieve success must compromise. Emerson will not compromise, he wil content himself with cultivating excellence and ful- filling the law of the universe in his own person. After a time the universe will come round to such as he, This has been the spirit of the Hebrews. They entertained high ideas of what life ought to be, but aid not believe the world ripe to receive them, They, therefore, contented themselves with holding high these ideas in their uncontaminated purity in their own midst, with keeping the light clear among them- selves. After ages the Gentiles would come to their light and kings to the brightness of its rising. ‘The watchword of the Hebrew people was to wait and trust. Far different is the spirit of the Christian missionary, He has an urgent work of salvation to push, Every soul that believes not will suffer everlasting torments. For pity’s sake, therefore, make men believe. It is not very dificult to be saved. One must only possess a ticket of taith and the doors of heaven will be opened. The great charge against Christian mission- ary work is its reliance onexternais. If a copy of the Bible can be forced on some unwilling heretic that is esteemed atriumph. If the savage is taught to re- peat the creed he is converted into @ Christian. An- other complaint against this species of missionar; work is its expensiveness. The British and Ameri- can missionary societies have an annual income of more than $6,000,000, Is the good they accomplish commensurate with the outlay? Within the last seventy-five years it has been calculated that more than one hundred and eight million copies of the Bible have been issued by Bible societies. How much lusting good might have been accomplished with the wealth that went to produce these 103,000,000 Bibles, how much sickness might have been a' A how many children saved from death, how many despairing souls made happy? Free religion is a necessity even from the standpoint of political economy. Iam well aware that there have been and are many excellent and noble men among the Chris- tian missionaries. Icall to mind Ulfilas and Boni- face, and their work among the Germanic tribes. I call to mind Ireland and her missionaries—Ireland that is now @ neglected corner of the intellectual field, but that was at one time the light of Europe, on Whose green island was concentrated the best cul- ture of the west. I regard with admiration the men who cross the steppes and penetrate the wilderness, and often sacrifice their lives for the sake of their faith. But the good they accomplish is incidental chiefly and is the acceptable fruit of their human- ity more than their Christianity. THE AIM OF FREE RELIGION, The missionary work of tree religion is, in the first place, a work of destruction. We mean, to destroy, with all the power we have to destroy, what is so strong and bad in the prevailing systems. We attack superstition, not only because it is contrary to common sense, but because it is deleterious to public morals, ' We put away from us the doctrine of hell, because such an example of vindictive hate in the person of Him who is esteemed the most adora- ble being cannot but react debasingly upon the senti- ments of those who believe such a doctrine. We condemn the doctrine of human depravity, because it contributes to make men depraved. We attack no less unhesitatingly those doctrines, ceremonies, forms of worship, rich in themselves, contain nothing contrary to goou morals, that were at one time full of beneficent influence, but that are now antiquated, that appeal to no living sentiments, that are, in one word, dead, We protest that churches and syna- gogues should not be made charnel houses for these dead things and for exposing the sickening process of their dissolution to the public view. And we affirm that we are better friends to religion in de- munding a decent burial for these usages, out of which lite has gone, than those who wo: retain their remains above the earth, strive to give the widest publicity to the criticism of the dominant religion and raise # movement without the churches that shall be felt within the churches, and shall compel them to accept the pro- sramme of more searching reforms. But after the deluge, what? ‘The question is asked, What substitute is there for that which is lost? Science can never be @ religion. All science is fragmentary. We aspire to the universal. The arms of spirit reach out tar beyond what is known or knowable to the ideal. This is the second great missionary work of free religion, to preach the ideal. If we destroy many parts of religion we seck to bring into yreater prominence that which has been the substance of every honest religion from the beginning—the aspiration after righteousness, the reiorm of life. The Hebrew propliets preached it; Jesus, the Nazzarine, preached it; Buddha preached it when he broke the chains of the 'schandalas, crying, “My law is law of grace for all men; my law is like the sky.’ So shall liberalism cry to the nations, “My law is like the sky!” ‘uking the great practical issues of the day for its illustra- tions it must seek to obtain a hearing tor the demands of highest justice. A people can prosper only by justice, a religion can live only if its teachers are ambussadors of justice, In conclusion Professor Adler remarked upon the means necessary to carry out the missionary work of free religion. He spoke of the necessity of establish- ing a powerful journal, extending a chain of trea Teligious societies across the entire country, and of causing by this means the thousands who are secretly with us to declare openly for us; lastly, of founding 4 college for the training of the teachers of free religion. He spoke of the demand that had come from Western cities for liberal leaders, and said that a rich harvest is awaiting the reapers. Professor Adler announced that’ next Sunday Mr. Francis E. Abbott, of Boston, would officiate in is stead, he having received a call to deliver a course of Jectures in Cincinnati, THE BEAST OF PROPHECY, DR. FULTON EXCORIATES HIS BRETHREN POTTER AND SAMSON—-HE KNOWS WHAT THE BEAST 18, WHERE FOUND AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT, It was very manifest that the sympathies of the Centennial Baptist Church, Brooklyn, were altogether with Dr. Fulton yesterday as he described the beast of prophecy, and over the back of that venerable crea- ture lashed one man who had the temerity afew weeks ayo to declare publicly that Catholicism was good enough for Europe, if not for America; and another man who more recently declared that the beast was not a beast after all, but only an “influence,” a “principle.” ‘The congregation would have ap- planded oft and again had not the Doctor curbed their infant enthusiasm, Many of them, however, at the close of the service requested that the sermon be repeated in the Academy of Music at some early day. Below will be found a digest of the discourse, It will be found to contain very little deference, as the Doctor remarked, to a man who could growl at the Stars and Stripes being wrapped around a pulpit. Dr. Fulton had evidently read the Hxnaup carefully and noted the reference therein to this incident, His text was, Revelations, xi, 7:—"And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them’— the saints. In commenting upon this text Dr. Fulton quoted Dr. Binney’s © (London) advice to young ministers to study popery anew; that the proper remedy against the threatened influx of papal power was to study afresh the tenets of the papacy; that its character is as immutable and its ruling’ spirit as fullof enmity toward God and all who refuse to wear the mask ‘of the beast ax its pretensions are arrogant, and that everywhere and always it has proved itself to be a thing that at once insults God and degrades man, This ad- monition, the Doctor said, deserves to be heeded at this hour, History is a bridge which spans the chasm between the present and the past. Keferriny to Dr, Samson's recent essay before the Baptist Conference Dr. Fuiton and the majority of people are as ignorant as though ® desolating fire had burned up thd records of the t and compelled the raco to enter the h of present dut: helped by the teachings of the fathers, Newspa- pers and novels occupy their time, and in this way alone can account for charlatanism passing for scholarship, and the “Beast of the Apocalypse” bein spoken as “principle” and not “a person, which began long before the Christian era, b The Doctor quoted from the Henanp of last Tuesday the summary of Dr, Samson's theory of the be which Dr, Fulton condemned as a statement that should not have been tolerate,d much less commended, THE LASH FOR DR. SAMSON, This, said Dr, Fulton, is to separate the beast the Apocalypse from the special work John ani Daniel foretold for him. It ignores the plainest de- ductions of the Word of God to the spiritualizing tendencies of Swedenborgianism, for the recognition ot th Catholic Chnreh as one of the Chet ing us to take the ground of the reformers, who never thought of unchurehing the Church ot Rome, though they freely declared it haderred, They, however, took their ordination from that Church, Pedo-Baptists may be forced this position, but Baptists during ail the past have contended that the Scriptures rebuke this pretension, It was this concession, linked to the admission of the tradli- tion that Peter visited Rome in A.D, 46, under Claudius, which was declared to be a surrender to Rome that could not be explained, save on the sup- position that a conservatism which prevents man occupying & prominent pulpit at the nation’s ‘apital through all the eritical years of the civil war from ever opening his mouth to 0 sar 4 word in favor of lib. erty, now enabled him to an essay which ignored each and the truth of Revelation, and which descr: Beast ophecy.as @ pri 5 ° fluence or anything that pm right, the marks of Which beast might be in ourselves or in any one, This, the Doctor said, is declared to be treason—to country, to good brecding, to justice and to right. But if 80 then Paul wap a traitor, for he withstood fer, Dr. Fulton then went on to explain the eleventh chapter of Revelations as giving @ Gace aey of Anti-Christ, in relation to ‘which he said an amount of ignorance exists. His exposition of the measurement of the city was that Romanism was to be contracted, and its followers who were not cone verted were to be given over as idolatrous. THE BEAST DESTROYED WITH CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY, In further elucidation of his theme the Doctor in- sisted that the churches of Christ were overcome by Anti-Christ, because they were silent. They con- sented to error or error would have been slain, And this being true, what shame and condemnation be- longs to the Churches of Christ! Had they been braver they would have been stronger, Had Luther and Calvin preached the whole truth, and had they refused to compromise with error Europe had been free and warring sects would have had no place on this earth. It we are weak to-day it is because we smother the truth, All who set themselves God's two witnesses, his ministers, are in |. The fire that threaten- proceeds out of their mouths denotes the ings to which those, who t testimony are exposed. Prayer enables them to shut up heaven, The Church is not weak when she exercises faith in God. But when they have fin- ished their testimony the beast will make war with em wand kill them. The beast has no power while God's children continue their testimony, There is no necessity of being overcome the wicked one, Measure him out, work him out and have no fellow- ship with the works of darkness. It 1s possible to build a dyke against the floodtide of evil. Because of the spirit of silence ip the churches some are riro.nea when Baptist ministers, who, of all men, might a4 their garments clean and unspotted, have grounde; arms in presence of the foe, and admit that Ro- manism, which has filled the earth with night, cav- ered Europe with the mists and fogs of supersti- tion—Romanism, the foe of enlightenment, educa- tion, Christianity- suited to the wants of ere and that our missionaries should be and our endeavor to give light to the Gentiles and to those who sit in darkness should cease. The Doctor quoted from Father Hecker and other authori- ties to show the spirit and purpose of Catholicism in America, An eminent Baptist minister, he added, cries “Let Uyptnes be bygones,” and contends that the beast of prophecy is a myth that has been ex- ploded and driven out by the superior informa- tion enjoyed by the learned. But tho beast is ready to destroy. The Doctor then brought forward an array of historical proofs that the beast is the Roman Catholic Church, which killed the Wal- denses, the Lollards, Huss, Wickliffe, &c., &c., only when they had finished their testimony. The con- duct of the beast was terrible, but the Doctor did not fear, and he bade his congregation look forward with hope, for the beast of revelation is no longer the terror of the Church, His teeth are broken, his power is gone. Daniel and Paul were called in as witnesses with John that the beast of prophecy is one, and its characteristics can bo ascribed only to the Church of Rome, and that when it1s overthrown there is to be rejoicing in heaven, “Church of God, be true!” exclaimed the preacher, “things of doep interest in the Church are pedarhe. ‘The Papal power is broken in Europe and is breaking in America, and ths should be cause of joy to every Christian heart. ” THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. The National Temperance Institute held its regular Sunday afternoon meeting in the hall of the Cooper Union yesterday. Special attractions were offered, and the hall was filled at five cents a head. Mr. J. B, Gibbs, the retiring president, opened the services with a few remarks, during which he spoke of a paragraph published in yesterday’s Herat under the title, “A Novel Temperance Scheme.” Mr. Gibbs scorned the idea of such a society, and said that the city didn’t want it. What the city did want was Peter.Cooper clubs to sustain the new Mayor. (Applause.) Mr, Gibbs told a graphic story of his encounter with an intoxicated ex-Alderman, whom he dubbed a ‘‘dirty skunk” and “pothouse politician,” Mr. Gibbs then introduced the Rev. W. R. Affleck, of the Helping Hand Church, Mr. Affleck, who is known as # “humorist temper- ance speaker” came to the front and was received with applause. Mr. Affleck’s remarks were few and were interlarded with anecdote. He advised his hearers to avoid bad company, a8 bad company led to bad habits. Mr. Affleck expressed his gisrervest of man who makes no enemies, and he also de- nounced half way men. “Them’s the customers I don't care much about, because I can’t tell which side they’re on,” said he. AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION. The meeting of the American Temperance Union comfortably filled the large hall of the Cooper Union last evening, and ® num- ber of persons came forward to sign the pledge. A large billiard table, upon which the tournament games are being played, stood, covered with a hand- some cloth, directly before the stage. The president, William Mason Evans, asked the congregation to assist the cornet and organ in rendering the hymn “Come to the Saviour.” After @ prayer by Key. John Kellar Mr. Evans de livered ® sermon on ‘Husks,” illustrating it with striking texts from life. Looking over the glimmering cornet layin, on the small organ, at the covered billiard table, he said:— “That table puts me in mind ot the seductive influ~ ence that billiards had once upon me in my yo days. Alcohol never had any charm for me, but we have given at one time halt I possessed to move about that table, sending the balls clicking against one another.” LECTURE BY MR, BEECHER, ‘rhe Rev. Father Maher, at St. Vincent Ferrer’s, yes- terday announced a lecture that is to be given by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, on Saturday night next, at the Terrace Garden Theatre, for the benefit of the East Side Dispensary, and requested all the parish- oners who cot afford it to patronize such a chari- table object. BREATHITT’S RESOURCES. {From tho Louisville Courier-Journal, Jan. 25.) Heretofore I have referred to the loop in the Ken- tucky River at this point, To-day I examined it my- self, and found I could easily throw @ stone across the dividing space. By measurement it is Just sixty- five feet. The river comes down, running around three sides of Jackson, then goes a distance of eight miles, when it turns and comes back, If the river were improved so that the boat could run up here it would be a small matter to cut @ canal through the sixty-five feet of ground mentioned, and it would save the necessity of running sixteen miles before gaining any real distance, If the canal was not made, passengers would at least always know what time to get ready for the boat, for it would have to pass Jackson twice going and coming. Sebastian & Co. have already tunnelled the cut-off for their mill. ‘This saves the necessity of a dam and other improve- ments, The late break in the river created havoo with the coalboats that were loaded ready for ship- ment. It is estimated that two hundred boats were destroyed, with their contents, Estimating their loads at only 2,500 bushels and the a; ate loss is 500,000 bushels, but they held more 1 pre- sume. To show how valuable walunt timber is, it may be said that those who haf and ship it to the East and to Europe do not even lose the sawdust after they begin to saw itup. The dust is carefully pre- served, and a composition is made out of it which makes beautiful knobs, and looks exactly like the walnut in piece, It would pay to improve the Ken- tushy River just for the immense amount of fine tim- ber » is in this — I never saw any stave timber equal to that which grows up here. The Splendid white oak trees grow as straight and free from Mpeg an Lene i hes a a Oye cannot pass between + lar, ‘pnd in fact all kinds of val bar ts simply inexhaustible. Nothing but ignorance of the vant wealth that is here will keep our next legislators from voting @ sufficient sum to put this pt ed direct communication with the outer world. fact that surprises mo is that the capitalists have not Jong ago seen the stores of inexhaustible wealth that are hore and improved the river or built @ railroad themselves. HUNDRED MEN COULD Do, Say 100 mon in Louleville should reo og $10,000 re. id raise Money enoug! improve tee tle uy all the coal and’ timber ands they wanted, They would then have the richest coal flelds in america. ‘The Pen ppediae Sale, be com k nt ut these on the market {s but a son, As inet py value is considered? For the past few weeks 1 have been burning cannel coal in my With it you never know what it is to have a poor fire, In the morning, if you have no handy, all you have to do is to break «lump into aaa pieces, light @ piece of paper and place jeces of coal over it in the grate, Tho oud, part of the Courier-Journal is enough to start it with ease, for I have tried the experi- ment. ‘The coal tmmudiately blazes up, in five minutes’ time you have a splendid fire, it does not burn out rapidly either. Place a good lump ‘on the fire before you go to bed at night, and then throw a few ashes over it, In the morning all you have to do is to stir it up and throw a some more coal, The supply of this kind of coal here is inex+ haustible, and yeins from two to eight feet thick can be found all through the country. I placed two lumps of it on the fire Lam now writing hy at ten o'clock to-night and it is now twelve. They have been burning ever since and have kept the room per- fectly pleasant, although it is @ bitter cold night. ‘They will burn yet tor an hour or more. ‘Those who are sceptical about the repated value of the Kentucky coal ficids should, to satisfy them- selves, come aud seo, Lam perfectly willing for the statements [ make to be thoroughly investigated, for I know I am giving the solid facts regarding the matter, If the Siate does not act very soon seme men with an to business will step in and the have some prize, and then we will Mackoys and O'Briens in Kentuck;