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2 LABOR IN THE VINEYARD. THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. Man's Covenant With God--- Religious Sunshine. 4 CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. MAN'S COVENANT WITH GOD—SERMON BY REV. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH, Rey. Dr. George H. Hepworth began his sermon yesterday morning at the Church of the Disciples with an eloquent tribute to the Scriptures. The Bible, he said, contains arevelation of truth that is not more welcome than itis sturtling and unexpected, It is the Wonder Book of literature, It one who was acquainted thoroughly with all the longings of the human soul—its passions, temptations and aspfra- tions—was to write a book which should be helpful in every way he would simply reproduce the pages of that wondrous volume we call tho Bible, It is s book whose only intention is to educate the soul. It it is s book that chastens wo must not forget the hand that strikes; if it is a book that encourages us in every good direction we must remember that He who through it directs us desires us to live in His presence throughout an endless eternity. A COVENANT WITH GOD, There are two stars in the @iaaem of our faith, Mr. Hepworth said, to which he desired eypecially to call the attention of his hearers. We have 4 covenant with God, snd the fact that we can make a covenant with God’ is a corner stone of jasper on which woe may ereet & tabernacle of light. By this covenant witl God we are made a part of the Godhead so far as our poor human nature will allow, It is a wondertul thing thut Jehovah should consent to make a cove- nant with such as we are, but it is a sublime fact, God in us is sanetification—it is heayen on earth— it is tle highest good already attained. On the one hand, is mun—a little creature, but notconscious of his littleness? We are not more worth the notice of the Cretor of the universe than the little animalcule in a drop of water is worth our notice. But we are allowed the privilege of entering into the house of the King. On the other hand 48 one whose yoice is the music of human lite, whose eyes look into our hearts, but whom no mati bas ever seen or van see. Man 1s 40 dull of vision that bo can puly seo what is sible. God isa spirit and could only be made vis: ble by a miracle, a ‘THE PRESENCE OF GOD, It may be asked how do we know the presence of God when-wo cannot see Him? ‘fhe answer to this question tho preacher explained by an illustration drawn from science, The chemist, he said, deals with invisible agents all the time—invisible agents produc- ing tangible results. God reveuls Himself by a like miracle, aud says to all of us, “I will be your father, you shail be my child.” ‘Behind the burning bush is the living God, But it requires faith, indeed—high, glorious faith—to keep the compact to the end. . COMMUMION WITH GOD. The other star in our diadem is the possibility of communion with God through faith all the time, day by day, year by year, from the cradle to the grave. An invisible force moulds the soul into shape. Ob, wondrous power! God is present cverywhere— in, tho eye of the child which sleeps in its cradle, in the life of the old man who is just closing the pages of the book of life. Not o leat stirs without feeling the power of the invisible God— the central force of all being. We have just lost in our church, Mr. Hepworth continued, a good, old, gray-huired mau, who has yielded up his spirit to alga rid anae. dying’ with » smile on his lips through trast in Christ. In David’s heart there is still one song unsung—the song of human destiny. With an eloquent perpration aud invocation the ser- mon closed, and the vast assemblage which had gathered to hear Mr. Hepworth and worship in his thurch dispersed. ee BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, BUNSHINE—SERMON BY THE REV. 7.’ DEWITT TALMAGE, D. D. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was thronged yesterday morning, thero being more “standees” than for some weeks previous. It was expected that Mr, Tal- mage would preach in defence of his pectliar meth- ods, which appear to haye given so much offence to the good brethren of the Presbytery of Brooklyn, but on this point the sermon was rather general, Mr, Talmage chose for his subject ‘and announced his text from Proverbs, iii., 17—“Het ‘ways are ways of pleasantness.” You have often heard, said he, of God's only begotten Son, Have you ever heard of His daughter? She was born in heaven. One day sho camo down over the hills of our world, She had # queenly step, On her brow ‘was celestial radiance, Her voice was music. Her name was Religion, and my text introduces her, "Her ways aro yays of pleasantness and all her paths are*peace.” Much has been said of late con- terning my theories of religion, Are they orthodox or heterodox? I shall in this and ether sermons from time to time state my teligious doctrines. The effect of theological study on me is different from the effect on some. Every year I tear a leaf out ot my theology, until it has become a very brief statement, and 1 have only three or four leaves left. I give you a page of it to- day. The first clement of my religion is sunshine, As soon as I get into a room I havea passion for throwing open all the shutters, That, by God’s help, I mean todo to-day, We put so much of the sepul- ehral in our religion, and are so disposed to close the shutters and to pull down the blinds, that it is only through a crevice here and there thut the light streams, I want now to pull aside the curtain and flood your souls with eternal sunshine. Wherever I can get hold of a bell I mean to ring it. If there be those who have made up their minds to hug their misanthropy they had better yo now before the fairest and brightest aud gladdest being of the universe coimes in. God's Son has gone but his daughter is here. Give her room; come in, thou jueen of heaven. Make this house thy throne-rogm. air thou daughter of the Lord Almighty! aHOsk WHY LAUGH. I find much of the sunshine of religion in Chris- tian socioty. The most doletul people I have ever met are the perpetual fun-mukers, ‘They make the world langh, but thelr biographies and their auto- Diographies ‘tell us that there is down in their soul adeep disquietude, Laughter is no sign of happi- ness, The hyena laughs; the meine laughs; the loon among the Adirondacks laughs; the bacchanal, cra g his decanter ayainst the wall, laughs, From merely worldly mirth there is a dreadful re- action. Such men ure always cross the next morn- ing. There is more real genuine exhilaration among traly Christian people than any other class. ‘They have within them the supernatural vitality of the Christian religion. When # mau is filed with the peace of God he is uot only happy himself, but he takes all around him happy. Put # dozen Chris- tian people in ond room in social conversation, and between cight aud ten o'clock they will have more Pesounding glee, wore bright strokes of wit than all the worilly parties that will be gatheved for the next 4,000 Years. I mean that coming together of people who are inyited because it ise best under ail the circumstances that they be invited, und who go because under all the: circumstances it is best that they go, leaving their shawls on the socpnd tloor und their on. the third, archi in to. greet the yentlen old with sormal salutation, and theu spending the evening ia diseus- tion of the weather and apologies tor treading on Jong trails—(laughter)—and perpetual efiort to Loop the coruers of the mouth up to the appearance of pleasure, and go around with an idiotic “hee—heo”’ about nothing (iaughter)—till the late collation is rerved, then they return to the parlor to resume the weather topic there, with the assurance that they have really enjoyed the hour, starting home with a sense of relief that ig the chief satimsetion of the evening. (Laughter.) Young man just como to New York, take my advice and throw yourself body and soul into Christian society, Mind you, this is not the advice of « misanthrope+the world ia mag- hitivent; nor of a dywpeptic—my digestion is perfect ts x of 8 Must Who cannot understand a : or who prefers @ funeral, OMNES seem & HEREC. ‘lon oF a mysterious > it and the Uhristian f fhe vicirsitudes of o jess rig cipher. But God has a key has « key to it, and though we may have some diffi- culty in spelling it out, we shall yat enongh meantug out of itto Jearn that God is domg everything for the very best. DEPARTED SULUITS IN THE ALL, A man who rises and leaves the building after the opening yolanlars vf aconcert has been played and before the prima donna takes the platform ér the full orchestra has begun, has as yood an idea of the whole concert a# that man has of the pleasures of religion Is there no sunstiine in that? who thinks that they «top at the end of this life. We only have the firet note of the eternal oratorio. Unglove your hand and teke tine in congratulation of that heavenly scone. [feel as if Tcould shout, I will shout “Hallelujah!” Dear Lord forgive me that LT have ever complained about Saying. if ali that is coming, who cares for anything but God and heaven ? the crape off your door bell, your de- arted are vay for their health in the land am- | owever « , Thomas Hastings and Issac Watts ey, and pick out your beat hymns at joys colon! There ik no nbed that we post- pone Our heaven any longer. Let wa begin now. hoover -hath # harp let lian throm it. Whoever Charh Whoever hath an | down the air—spirits ! They ride through close by in cay: of inmph. ‘Their chariot wheels whirl in this Sabbath sunlight. ‘They come so near they must mean some of us to join the procession. Hail! armies of God! till we are ready to join the battalion of pleasures that never die, Oh, it would take as long as eternity to tell the pleasures of religion. I sect the sunshiny door open. Come in ye who have found that the ures of the world aro @ mockery. You disciples of the dance loek at the bounding fect of thi# oternul gladuess. Oh, ye disciples of sinful amusements behold this stage on which kings are the actors and # burning world the footlights and thrones the spectacular. Oh, ye dead in sin, it is resurrection, I pull out the trumpet-stop, “In Thy presence there is fulness of joy and at thy right hand there aro pleasures for evermore,” This is everlusting sunshine. EIGHTEENTH STREET M. E, CHURCH. SENSATIONAL PREACHING—SERMON BY THE REV. ‘W, F. HATFIELD. The Rev. W. F. Hatfield preached in the evening in the Eighteenth Street Mcthodist Episcopal Church, taking text from Acts xxvi., 25—“1 am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth words of truth and soberness.” The preacher commenced by say- ing that Paul had been arraigned before the Roman Governor on the charge of preaching doctrines that were contrary to the religion of the Jews, and at variance with tho laws and welfare of the State. His peculiar manner and more peculiar belief had created intense excitement in the city, and the priests and leading mon of the Chureh said, “It will never do to allow this fellow to proclaim his teach- ings publicly, for they are heretical and he will preju- ice the minds of the people against the teachings of the fathers. None can tell what the result will be.” So they determined to have him put down, Imme- diately he was arrested, taken first before Felix, then Festus and afterward the king. It was while Paul was delivering that musterly address to King Agrippa, in which he described his conversion, that Festus, who was greatly agitated by the words of the eloquent speaker, exclaimed, “Paul, thou art mad!” To which Paul replied'in the language of the text. There have been other men, said Mr. Hatfield, than Paul who have been thought mad for their manner of preach- ing. They have been charged with being sensational, with saying and doing things for the purpose of merely gathering a crowd. It is a very sensational age in which welive. There is sonsation in business, tn temperance, in amusements, politics and religion, A newspaper is dull without a sensatiunal report either of an execution, a murder, or a church scandal in which the pastor or some of the prominent mem- bers, or all, ure implicated. ‘THE TABERNACLE PASTOR, ‘There has been a great sensation recently created in a sister city by the peculiar subjects chosen and by the sensations of the !Paber pastor, and he is to be called to account for what he has been dotng. Some allege that he is very unorthodox in his preaching, and that the way the finances of the church are od reflect u; the pastor's moral character. If the brother done wrong of course he ought to-confoss and for- sake it; but if the great crime against him is that of being too sensational those who have undertaken to put him down have got » bigger job on hand than they ever had before. Sensational as hd now is, he will bes @ great deal more so, Greater will be the desire to hear him and Legged his Popu- ‘The question arises whether a preacher ought to be condemned for boing sensational in tho pain » This depends upon the methods he employs and the motives that actuate him in hia work. “A, minister of Jesus Christ, who, to draw a crowd for’ the sake of keoping up his reputation, oF to raise his salary, or to pay off a church debt, resorts to methods that are unchristian and is not worthy the position he oceupies. But when 4 minister sees wickedness all, agound him; society corrupt, the government im- perilied by corrupt lation, the young and the old going down to perdition, if he has the interest of the people at heart he will do his utmost for their salva- tion, He may advertise his text and topics, ho may provoke his audience to laughter, but he will not attempt to produce merriment for its own sake. ‘Tho moment a minister steps aside from the ordinary way, eprenches upon subjects not usually chosen, suys things differently from other ministers, there are some who are ready to call him @ seusationalist, to declure that be has ‘departed from the cus- toms of the fathers.” ‘This was the charge made against the Sayiour, It was made against Paul and the other Apostles, and against all retormérs. ‘The recent temperance revival in our city has been sharply criticised because of the excitement con- nected with it. Mr. Murphy and Mr. Sawyer have produced'a sensation by introducing religion into this greatest of all modern moral movements; but there is no power to save aman trom it of temptations but that of the Gospel, MODEWN WAYS OF ADVERTISING. Observe the various methods employed by those of other profesgions “to gather together the people. Managers present to the public those that the most sensational. Flaming handb’ ns covered with strange devices and persons in tuntastic aro seen along the strects. Men say, “This do for theatres and operas, and ‘places where wares are sold and money is wanted; but it will never do to resort to such methods to get Fey into the chureh to hear the Gospel preached. This is ucacred matter. He must. wear ministerial measured voice and o ministerial face, and preserve his dignity; he must be triendly, but not too familiar with poople.” We hear it said, continued the reverend gentloman, that the church has been built and thrown open to all who choose to enter, and if people will not come and hear the Gowpel after ail that has been done they must bear the responsibility and not the Church. ‘Who, think you, will be most responsible in the day of judgment, those who built the fine church and rented the pews and made no provision for the . who, when they come to the door, are informed thaé all the seuts aro taken, but that they may tind accom. modation at the “Little Church Around the Corner,”” or those who are poor and sbsent themselyes from the church because they feel they are not welcome? In conclusion, Mr, Hatfield i—"*Though I would ed, for drawing large congregations, for many of them do more harm than ggod, yet I would tavor any just and proper means, even if. it were called sonsational, to induce people to hear the Gospel preached,” MASONIC TEMPLE. THE SOUL OF HONOR—SERMON BY MR. 0, B. PROTHINGHAM. - A very numerous audience listened to Mr. O. B. Frothingham’s discourse in Masonic Temple on the subject which he called “The Soul of Honor.” Dur- ing his discourse he said that the word “honor” is one of the most digniticd and glorious in the English language. It suggests the grandest qualitios of the human being, such as firmness, tenderness, dignity, gentleness, and is synonymous with seneitiveness and kindred virtucs; it describes the moat exquisite feelings of the soul. It is associated with gentleness, but this is not often associated with the nobler quali- ties of the soul. Tho gentleman, who is supposed to be the impersonification of gentleness, is narrow minded, crooked, pompous, quarrelsome, super- cilious, always ready to put the worst construction upon other people’s words; always prepared, with sword in band, to kill men upon the smallest insti, gation. The gentleman is not s human being, he is an exotic, fantastic and made to ft s certain class. In his mind the word honor is not associated with honor, but with dnelling. In the olden time tho duel was a legal ordeal; the duellist took his life in his hand end ventured it upon the faith of his word. It was, in those days, an act of holiness and of valor; but the modern practice of duelling did not rise from this source of honor; it was iutroduced into Franco by King Philip the Yair, a narrow nunded mouareh, unserupulous in his Ways and efforts to extend his dominfon. The grandest instances of heroism are not asso- ciated with the ducl, but with gentioness, gooduess and Unseliishuess of soul. ‘Lo illustrate this view of the case, the beautiful tale told of Sir Philip Sid- ney may be related, who, whgn he was lying mortally ouch cup of water tat wan placed: to is. dying uch @ cup of water was lips until a Rounded soldier who lay near by had ie wants first supplicd. Here was an instance of The minister must be very devout. clothes, have humanity which ‘forgot self for the good of others, us, continued Mr, Frothingham, honor naturally rises to its own dignity, and becomes what it is, the last aroma of the noble in character; the latest achievement of the great in mind, What the piant is to the fragrance and bloom of the flower honor is to the minds of thowe who are noble in nature, Honor ts honesty transtigured. Honesty will make no false invoices, will not cheat the government, is hSatistied with the letter of the lew and the contract; but there it shuts down the and goes no further. Honor, on the co Teaches beyond the letter of the contrast, and, popes business to be business, kindness holds its piace. in 1 noo the We AND oureeaes bas aot olitics the honest politic! & winglo objoct im views Bis eye is on the emoluments of power; he meuns business; he will not do anything dishonest— to be ashamed of—or allow himself to be tripped up, but he will get what he can and remain honest. The man of honor goes turther; it is the weltare of the country that is in his mind; be gives his aid and co- operation, not for party politics alone, but in order that his honorable principles may be transmitted to future generations for the good of posterity, Mark the difference between honor and houesty! fhe one considers ouly the power of the ballot; the other the force and utility of great ideas, The one comes with his narrow prejudices to the pursuit of politics; the other brihgs vo it # wider range of thought and wecks to widen the horizon of his mental vision. The difference honor con- corns the integrity of .thd soul and oy that of the will, Here the speaker cited the dist religion, the oldest in the known world, to prove that it was the purpose of that faith trom the begin- ning, and of Chrisuauity to-day, to put down seitish- ness and to elevate unselfishness. Lhe bhuddists of | old and the Mystion of early Christianity believed tn while still hath a trumpet let him blow it. organ let isn give 16 Cull ‘They crowd the losing of the sense of selfishness in the contew- plation of God, The diterence between the ev: so hi sot oe MP ea es former I» yor that ‘ot your neighbor, wile. the latter" counsels us not to think of our own self or soul, but to lose them im trying to save our neighbor. ive up business, forsake your- Saif end ‘By to, the wilderness with the ‘Holy Spirit; the new method of faith teaches us to get r into society, not to get away from it; to con- sult the wants of our fellow beings, You chnnot get a better place imagination can paint then we would now bein heayen and we mons fomsener, to + and re things until happy result at shall vomo about. ‘When it does then the code of honor will be despised; everything that it will be indis- instead of the wo shall yield to the law of equity, and. the equity will be the law of love,”* CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY. THE PROBLEM OF LIFE—SERMON BY THE REV. E. H. CHAPIN, D. D, 3 The Rev. E, H. Chapin, D, D,, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, selected as his text Ecclesiastes, ii, 3—“I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, til I might see what was that good for the sons of men which. they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.” In this discourse, said the preacher, I wish to say something of the true idea of life. Ido not mean any theory of life, or any plun s man may set before him and then try to work it out, but the life a man lives, and ascortain if it is the best. In other words, to find if life is a practical problem that may be worked out, The writer of Lcclesi astes was familiar with this problemof life, The experiences brought forward here are very valuable. ‘Tho writer tried the problem of life, its objects and aiins, by an intellectual solution; and tailing, he then tried it by sensuous delight, He found that “sll ‘was vanity and vexation of spirit.” This, to uso modern phraseology, is tho testimony of an expert. We Ve & Wi ficld of observation than the writer in this our day, but the essential facts are the same. Something better than intellectual specula- tion or sensuous delight is needed. The logltiunate result of the inquiry as_to the best bape gd which to live is yood, Kel mn is the co mu of reason and is reasonable, If reason leads into error it will lead ps out of it. Mau isan undivided whole, and we cannot say he uses his intellectual faculties alone. ‘hero are some, though, whose learnin, brings to them no. moral results. No amount ot withont expericuce is of much avail in solving the problem of life. _We ean’t understand life from speculation alone, We must know of its bitterness, the blessing of pain which experiance gold, and its moral elements not understood by the speculative theorists...A wonder- ‘ul transformation comes over life upon the deveiop- it of the good that is in one, ‘Wo suppose the end of our being is in speculative wisdom ? SOWN IN WEAKNESS. ‘The higher ides of life cannot be brought out by mere intellectual speculation. Yot the weaker side must not be lost aight of. Do you never act against your judgment? Have you never come down from the house of pei and er and have all your good resolutions wafted away by the firat breath of temptation? Man wants something besides knowledge, as that alonc is not sufiicient to ‘the burdens of lite. The help of Christ is uired, ‘We nood not the testimony. wafted over ages that sensuous actions are not right. ‘the beep ar ig on all sides of us, It is the trembling frame bloodshot eye of the Victims that we daily pass, ‘The danger of worldly gain should not be forgotten. When one mp od that attemtion should be given to dive things there are some ko absorbed with the wish to ineroaso their worldly possessions that pon oy no. to spare tor serious thoughts. Spiritual obec jon and moral danger ure often the result of this great worldly gain, Men talk about the hard times. Tho frauds, the corruptions and peculations of the age have done much to make the times hard. The hinges of hon- esty have been unriveted that the greed of gain may be satisfied. We want something else to do that is better, We want the love and a reason that sees God. Religion will give us these. and the soul. 8T. TERESA’S CHURCH, PRIEST AND PEOPLE—SERMON BY THE REV. M. : A. HUNT. In St. Teress’s Church, corner of Rutgers and Henry strects, Very Rev. M. A, Hunt, O, M.L, of London, delivered a lecture in the evening before an immense congregation, the subject being “Priest and People.” The reverend gentleman said that the history of nations is great, but-how much more fruitful and vast is the history of souls, I have to speak to you tonight of s creation whose origin in eternity was e thought of eternal love, whose manifestation in time was thaw the world if the men and women | in it were what they omght to bo. If they were what the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. agree that it is only necessary to “cast our ‘bread upon the waters and it will come to us after many days.” Perhaps it will not, dnd it it does the question is, In what condition? It is by | means of the Church that the dominant religion Bropegsies. its teachings. Iask, What substitute can for the Church to those who have passed be- yond the limits of the ereeds? In a certain sense, there can be no substitute. People often base-their religion upon the desires of their hearts. But there are certain cravings of the spirit which, in the nature of things, remain unsati People come with the old desires which the dogmas were intended to - swer; and now that these dogmas prove uncertal and they have lost contidence in them they ask for, more dogmatic d . We are sorry that we can invent no new fictions to the Wo say, learn the great lesson that world is not arranged iew to your satisfaction—learn meckiless, There are three aspects of the Church wiyelt we may consider—its Lata 4 its philosophy, charity. We donot worshi the ‘gid sense, We will not admit that we are behind the creeds in reverence, but it is not such .reverence as concentrates itself on syeahos sa4 caste itself down before ® person. ia belie’ that the destinies of the world move toward @ mighty pi » and in £0 far we speak of Prov: but it is not that Providence which does not allow the hairs of our head to fal! unnumbered, It is a Pro which has great aims and does not scruple to. and torment us and let us perish for these aims, Wo know not why it is, but itisso. Prayer that asks for something is the only kind of a which I can | gnderstand, fut that is incompatible with the toach- ings of science. We have therefore no ritual with which to replace the old. Nor have weany symbolism with which te replace the old symbols. ‘Thoy haye ceased to snygest, are lifeless, dreary, resembling an array of wine bottles after the foast. MUSIC, TO DE PRESERVED, But there is one elcment of religious service which | We would retain and exalt into great minence— the msthetic element, chiefly music. ere is base, sonsual music; joyous, solemn music; pastoral, heroic music; 80, also, there is religious music. Music is never dogmatic, It stands for general, and | | not for special experience, It typities broad roaches of the emotions, uever any one emotional event. | The ‘De Profundis” can be sung by all who uro in the | depths of distress and who cry for redemption, The “Te Deum Laudamus”’ will find an ochoing responsein every heart that overflows with gratitude ; the “Gloria in Pacelsis” will be seneypously pealed forth by [oem 9 soul that has found its triumphant peace on heights of joy and light, But these ure externals. ‘A gravor question is, what now teachings for the old? 'Phey say thatin refusing to enunciate dog- mutically the existence of God we give over the world to the rnlo of chance. Nothing can be more untrue and unjust. In no system is chance more rigidly ex- eluded than in ours, Chance means the workings of 8 law not yet understood. ‘The very corner stone of our edifice is the conception of universal law, The difference between the old faith and’ the new Mes in the greater empRusis whieh the latter places on law. Morality docs not represent the will, the per- sonal wishes of the Deity. There is law without us, so ulso is there law within us, Morality is thatlaw. Whether there boa God on’ high or no, whether this ‘mortal will rc on immortality,” or whether we fade after death into nothing but the hollow memory of @ name, the moral law commands none thedess imperatively and tolerates no doubt.or disobedience. The difference between the old relig- dou and the new is that while the old religion says that laws cxist for mau, the new religion says mun exists for the laws. The old religion suys there is a Providence that causes the laws to work; for man's benefit; there is a mortal continuance for man; there ds ubsolute felicity for man. The new religion says, Not so. The pet of supreme importance is, not that the lawa oi the universe toil for our benefit, but that the great laws be fulfilled, who- ever is benefited; not that we continue immortal, but that the good grow without end; not that we have happiness, but that the bens destinies of the universe shall ripen into their fect bloom and fruitage at whatever cost and sacri to ourselves. Protessor Adler then went on of charit; as the inlfilment of the su, ‘Thi old tai ‘uses charity iil the sense ving and allevia- tion of distress. We lend to it u vaster mei . We are to be in # certain sense world builders. Wo cannot constcuct new planets and a new solar system and di: mat ht more widely, but, we can. ‘Construct a nobler social. system and diffuse mo: light more’ widely. To do this is our religion—its beginning, its end and all its substance. OUR AMBULANCE SYSTEM, THE WORKINGS OF A GREAT AND MERCIFUL IN- STITUTION—READY AT Ald, TIMES TO SUCCOR THE INJURED. The ambulance system of the Northern army during the civil war reached such a state of perfoc- tion that with little modification it is now in use with the cjvilized nations of the world, The appli- ances of such a service in times of peace originated - with the Department of Charities and Correction of this city im the month of June, 1869, One wagon, constructed with light springs, covered and cushioned within, was all it then boasted. It took but very little expericnce marked by love, and whose fe, still vigorous and | 0 demonstrate its advantages over the old method flourishing, is known everywhere by # no less noble | Of crowding badly wounded persons into carrisges character than that of most unselfish love, That creation is the Catholic priesthood, To love there- for, the pureat and holiest, I consecrate the words I come to utter, and I do so, as it seems to the, with special fitness, spcaking, as I am_ pri to do, to m; Trish countrymen, between whom and their t in we and woe, at home and abroxi, has subsisted and still subsists that love, “atrong as death,” which is the wonder and admiration of the world. While touching on the 8 of the Irish priesthood and the love between pri and people lecturer said they were of the same stock, spo! he continued, no institution more atta than the pricsth yet there none more aucient or ni » initated wherever destroyed, yet not to be repli: . Under it,a part of mankind has lost it perhaps forever. feein Mansion i rear purity, mee Bo She alone mi G upon it the sacrifice of celibacy. THREE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Three questions I propose to answer to-night: Why should there be a pricst? Where is ‘the true priest? ‘What is the true priest doing? ‘to the first I reply, because he is necessary for spiritual societ; cause he has become a part of our social‘and order and we cannot do without him, secoud I answer, which alone possesses ordination and ministry. res :—He continucs for the world the indi- vidual the work of Jesus Christ. He is ‘‘the way, tho trutn and the life,” the father and the frieud of the ple. The model of the priest is Jesus Christ, who lives in Hirh und acts in Him; and so he nover dics, Devause the duties of his office bind him inseparab) to the Chureh in her triple life, glorious, suflering, militant, and as her tf. ns Fost on “tho eternal ‘0 the that country, the- the or hastily accommodating them in rough carts or wagons, and in the year following the number was increased to four. At the present time there are eight ambulance wagons attached to Bellevue Hospi- talalone, Each ambulance is provided with conve. niences whereby two patients may be at once trans- ported, and it is not an unusual occurrence for two unfortunstes from different points to bo picked up by an ambulance on a single trip. These commo- dious and well constructed vehicles are supplied with all necessary surgical and medical appliances, and had one love; one fear, one effort—to | are invariably attended in these missions of mercy be to by is, | by a surgeon, whose duty it iu toapply such remo- dial or alleviative agents as the circumstances of the case may requiro, thus securing the donble advan- of reforming | tage of early attention and comfortable transporta- tion. Great difficulty was at first expericnced in tho handling of ‘badly. injured porsons in order to lift them into the ambulances; but even this was soon averted by the introduction of a sliding stretcher, aud now the most painful cases of fracture can bo attended without causing the sufferer ont unnoces- ¥,.,be | gary moment of pain. Many lives that would othar- wise have been jolted out of maimed and bruised in We — her sag bodies have been saved by means of ambulance 7 the ard walhan { | transportation, lot alone the great benefit of early medical attendance, : ALWAYS IN DEMAND. The froquency of accidents requiring their services would scarcely be believed, In 9 county town occur- Y | rences of the kind find their way into the columns of the local journal, but in the metropolis they sel- bills,” Like Jesus, her author, the pricat is “yeater- | dom appear iu print, unless they terminate fatally, day, to-day the same forever.” to outinto thestreets, into the crowded alloys, into the lonely attic, into the dungeon; ask bard ey pick, the imprisoned, “Who is your friend?” and the t the sick call como the sumo to him, Let the plague what “the of “re ves fe life for his heep.” Witness St. Charles Borromeo; the priests at home duri the famine; ‘our own priests lately in the Sou when he plague was raging. In the worda of an cloquent apologist, “It you would know what the ic riest has done ask the winds that heard his sighs, his prayors; ask tho carth that’ Las drank his blood, and oven they are published only when # censure of the | #0me person or corporation follows tho Coroner's inquest, It is only in the records of the city hos- pitals and of the Police Department that an ided can it matter: | be had of tho uumbor of persona who are daily in- jured either by accident or design. It is the duty of every patrolinan attached to the Police Department to report to his precinct tho particulars of every oc- currence wherein any person is injured. A brict de- spateh reciting the facts is telographed to the Police Central Office, at No, 300 Mulberry street, which is in ti by telegraph with the principal the ocean that has witnessed his death Cyin le hospitals throughout the city. hiv mission of mercy. Go to the shores of the North, where my brotner oblat® are, to the‘burnin; sands of the torrid’ zone and the bleached bones of the Catholic priest will tell you.” STANDARD HALL. DIFFERENCE. BETWEEN THE OLD RELIGION AND THE NEW—LECTURE BY PROFESSOR ADLER, BRANCHES OF THK SYSTEM, In addition to the eight ambulances located at Bellevue Hospital there are two connected with the New York Hospital, in West Fifteenth street, one with the Chambers street branch of that institution, and an ambulance and sick wayon ut tho Ninety- pinuth street branch. The city is divided into dis- tricts, and ordinary occurrences are Jooked after by the attachés of the hospital nearest at band. In ‘the down town precincts—the +First, Fourth, ay: when the There are threo courses of conduct possible with | seventh, Tweaty-sixth, Firth aud Seventh— Tespect to the Church, said Professor Felix Adler in | services of his Aiscourse at Standard Hall. They ave hearty agreement and submission—that is to be found among tho majority of the common people—carnost an ambulance are nevded a siznal of twenty strokes is sent to the Chambers Street Hos- pital, The Kighth, Ninth, Fourteenth and Fifteeuth recinets fall within the province of the St. Vineest’s jospital, in West Eleventh street, but wounded per- opposition in the interost of improvement and total | £0# Within thoso boundaries depend for trausporta- indiflerence. The number of those indifferent in re- | New York H Mgious matters is very large. In the State of Ohio it has been estimated that among the three million persons who constitute the population per"! precincts, St. Luke’ heaps one million aro in no way affiliated with any church or form of worship. Now, if free thonght in so widely diffused throughout the nm the ambulances attached to bellevue. Tho lospital extends its eare over tho Six- teenth and ‘I'wonty-ninth precincts, and the Roose- velt, which is located at Vitty-ninth street and Ninth avenne, looks atter thé Twentieth and ‘Twenty-second ‘s, in West Pi arth strout, and the Ninoety-ninth street branch ot Bellevue cover the rest of the upper portion of the islané, leaving the great cast sida, comprining the ‘Tenth, Floventh, Thirtoenth, Seventeenth, Ninetconth ond Twenty. tion wy community, why docs it not rise conspicuous to the | first precinets under the caro of surface? The reason is that those who style them- selved froo thinkers are often not at all free thinkers, | station house, fire eng! They may be in a measuro free, but they ate not thinkers.’ If you examine the manner in which they have arrived at liberalism: you will find that it was period is necossary hardly by dint of reflection and hard spiritual strug- | send for and couvey them to the institution nearest @les. They wero orthodox formerly by force of eir- St hand, cumstances; they are liberal now by force of cir- | hours of the cumstances. In this manner ® largo class has been | however urgent it formed of persons who are out of sympathy with the old religion, but who aro too indolent and ofre- | pheneti less to build wy) viet msolv dented heat of June, July and 187 te ella: im ba ocr from sunstrokes and pow, a may They are absorbed Often they are culture and take no pleasure in art. Well nigh the only trace of idealism to ve found in the Hves of these people is due to their domestio in matorial affections, The family is for them also the school of | by unselfishness, protects them from moral degenera- tion and is their safeguard in their present perilous | and Ninety-niuth street midway station between the old and the new. In the interest of the large class of indifferents, it is neces- hot believe im the ‘Divine pulley ot “dl if not believe in ine ot doing nothii do not shero that mi we the superstition will come right of theimssives, we do incapable of intellectual figene veo was i be organized, We do | alarm of fire, wi BV Tho signal statio: ON THE ALERT. | " y Bouse’ and re lara box brief in which to tion ‘Tho horses are kept harnessed and the at- tending surgeons and drivers are in readiness at all pein ginger ny Ay ‘au arm; battle. Sent of ‘the service ax stricken down ‘upon wtrevts. ceascless service, and the ut won’ often pepeaey and to ambulances attached to nt of Charities and institu A third spate ra ener! Sutaea conse ‘be useded, 5 A i bulliepi' FINE ARTS. THE WATER COLOR EXHIBITION—THIRD 4NO- ‘TICE—THE NORTH ROOM, Tho first number on the catalogue is that of A. 'T. Bricher’s “Study from Nature” of an apple orchard. Tt is by far the best of the artist's three rather un- important exhibits, is pure in color and has good sunlight. Of his other study (91) in the same room—s girl leaning against a stranded boat—we think ‘little, The figure lacks strength, and the pinkish white of the dress is most unpleasantly re- produced on the boat, whose color gradually changes to pure white at the furcherend, ‘Tho amount of! body color in the work is unpleasant, and Mr. Bricher would do well to avoid its uso entirely. Winslow Homer's “Husking,” the first of his landscapes which we come to, is strongly handled, but, like the majority of his work of this class in the exhibition does not comb up to his little figures in landscape settings, His “Oak Trees with Girl’ (7) is one of the exceptions. The wide-sproading trees are admirably given. H. W. Robbins’ “Mount Maglan, Switzerland” (10), does not do him as much credit as does his good “November, near Castleton, Vi.” (24), which is delicate in color and,well drawn. Baugnict’s “Is It Like ?” (19) has good story, and is as careful and as artistically uninteresting as his oil work. Good drawing, pure coloring and an cx- cellent tone are found in William Sartain’s “Ruo des Assassins, Algiers” (14). John Lafarge’s “Chinese Pi-Tong” (15), is a superb piece of color, and the flowers are in his ususl skilful and highly artistic manner, The inlaid and raised work on the Pi-Tong is finely given. Hugh Newell's “At the Mineral Spring” (16) is pleasing, ‘but does not reach a very high artistic level. W. Hamilton's “Nutting Timo” (17) is admirable and by far the best of his exhibits. There is much knowledge shown in the management of the thick woods, through which a glimpse is had into a little open space in full sunlight, which reminds ono somewhat of Diaz, W.8.Coleman’s “Spring” (20) is a charming, fresh little figure of a pretty child on a butterfly chase, The swoet little face is litclike, the figure is well drawn, a uoticcable point being the little legs, in their black stockings and white sli pers, which are so firmly placett on the ground. J. Tuzo's “study trom Nutare” (22) is good in color and harmonious in effect. The young lady in J. Wells Champney’s Pigren peg is wooden, ‘The small replica by Arthur Quartley of ono of his Academy pictures of last year, “Old Dock, Staten Is- land” (23), is nicely drawn and , but we pay think he can be with the aky. The lit! figure entitled “interrupted” (30), by Mrs. N. 8. Jucobs, is freshly and pleasingly treated, but. the left hand is wofully out of drawing. A chromo-like effect, good light in a sky which is pled,” are seen in Louis E. Delius’ «He! (34). RK, Riordan’s “Group of Willows, Neur New. t” he, pactesat nr on ae. ek, ‘# good example of F, 0. C. zy ores pod the man are admixed) drawn’ 904 full of character. Honry P."Smith’s ‘Surt at Land’s End” (60) does him much credit. The water is well drawn, the spray finely given and the picture has a good tone. P, Olliver’s ‘Paradise Rocks, New- rt? &) has about as much yalue artistically as a poy pee F. 8. Church’s “sketch from Nature” (57) is admirable. W, Hamilton Gibson's second work in this room, ‘Brown October’’ (52), though it possesses many of the good quulities noted in his “Nutting ‘Time,” is not go urtiatic-as a whole. ‘Yo William Mayrsth's ‘Lhe Cabin Home—Morn- ing” (58) we are no to return, How admirable is the fuce, with wi knowledge is the chemise with its many tolds and how skilfully drawn and modelied aro feet! The coloring throughout is harmonious, and full of strength kept well in hand, ‘Thomas Eakin's “A Quict Moment” (58) is a serious aud excellent work. A little “Street Sce1 (62) at Rouen does infinite credit to Alfred Fredericks, Compared to his previous exhibits the work which represents Charles #arsons this year is like that of a Strength fa tt nich are refreshing, W tg . a which are . We sug: gest, however, that the relations are not wo! kept, and that the skies are not properly subordinated to works in this North Room, ) and “Deal, N. J.” (64), the iter. Note the way the small trees strong {Go and "A" Country ‘Poreh (70) oat work. A little brouder treatmen more fiat wash and less small brush strokes, Mr. “An October Ng told in Hogh Ei It, Newell. z ‘Walter Satterlee had a charming idea in his mind when he decided to paint “Gossip und Tea” (71), and the girl who is listening is very croditabl Her companion, however, is not seated on sofa, and seems us afraid of it, as if some been pee under her, ‘Thero 's “Hollyhocks”, (76). G. Bonne” ig careful and Charles 8, Reinhart’ out of door study, “Long Island Oysterman” (77), is effective. We hardly seo ici 2 he should give us such an ugly girl in his neat little “Cinderella” (90). Kruseman Van Elten’s “Autumn, Lake Oscawana” is full of the feeling of « cool, gray day. The light is admirably diffused, the leaves, covering the water are finely rendered and the sky is luminous, Julius uterior of the Monastery Church at — Diessen’ is very clever: Agnes D. Abbot’s “A Lovely Day in Autumn” (30) is‘nicely drawn and colored and a creditable piece o: Marhman’s (89) ie a arrange- D. ¥, Wentworth’s “A June Day (92) shows somes, and there is nice feeling in his September Evening” (97). William Magrath’s Windmill” (94) is and picturesquo. R. M. Shurtleff shows up well in his “Through the Woods” (96). Granville Perkins’ “Raritan Bay’’ (107) looks like 8 first class chromo, and Henry Van Ingen’s “Barnyard in Brabant” (106), which below it, like a cheap one. “Gothic Mountain, udacks”? (109) is @ good little study from nature by Samuel Colman, Among the other works we note Edwin Ellis’ ptian Water Carrier” (91), F. 8. Cozzen’s “Ne Harbor” (18), R. Bruce Crane’s “Farm! Scheldorn’s > Yor! ington Meadows” {= Charles Montes’ “Solitude” \. Kruseman Van Elten’s “Landscape in New sey” (67), OC, Graham's “Newark Bay” (81), aud B, Bruce Cranc’s ‘Day in November” (102), PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON ON ENGLISH 4ND AMERICAN PAINTERS AT PARIS, The opening article in the International Review for February (A. 8. Barnes & Co.) is on “English and American Paipting at Paris,” by Philip Gilbert Ham- erton, the distinguished English art critic and artist. ‘Tho first allusion to America is rather uncomplimen- tary ;—“England and Americs differ most essentially from each other in what may be called the quality of artistic nationality. England has it in the supreme degree, and, so far as we were able to judge from the Universal Exhibition, America scarcely has it at all,”” After alluding to tho new and original spirit in Eng- lish art, which, ho says, derives from that of its an- eestor Flanders but the use of a fow processes, ho ssye:—"But tho resemblance between American and French art is much more than simply technical. The American students in Paris have imbfbed- not merely the processes of the French panes, but also thelr spirit, ahr do not simply paintas French- men paint, they think and feel as mchmen thiuk aud teel, and to such a degree thiut if their works were exhibited under French names and scattered through the rooms of a ¥revoh exhibition there is not critic in aoe who would be able with any certainty to pick out the American picture frem the mass. Lam not sure that in the interests of the fu- ture American school this can be considered a great misfortune, though it is destructive of originality tor the present. Every nation in which a new sehool is formed must learn to paint from some other nation which has already mastered the art. England learned the art trom Flanders, America is it trom France. is learning-it, do I say? » has aioady learned it, tor Parisian Amet i$ seem to paint Just au well ag the Fronch thomaolves, and I tuink the time has come for the do' ment of more national style on your side of the Atlantic. It ‘was well at the beginning, when you knew nothing, to go to those who did know aud get perm but now oon — A accor rep agreed (L moan of communicable know! ede ot quietly home and work out »our own Brtletio destinies fn your own ‘? We ‘wo come to the American painters who exhibited in Paris.” He writes Lesage pre nd of the lish exhibit and compares the state Se cer in 1861 and As To} nited in Paris in 1855, says that then and in 1862 and in 1807 the on the Continental mind was a disappointment. In 1878, however, it ‘was the reverse. After devotin, sesame pages to the Enylish exhibit he says that he hopes to resume his on & future occa- on contemporary artists sion, with special roference to the American school, GENERAL ART Nuwa, ‘W. 8. Macy, tho’ landscape painter, has returned to this city, after a residence of several years in Munich, ‘and will opon a studio, Ia Liumanera, the illustrated Catalan monthly, published here, contains as a supplement to its Feb- rhary number reproductions of « couple of fine pen drawings by Jimenes y Aranda of types of Valencian peasantry. A.V. 8. Anthony, the artist engraver of Boston, was in town s fow days ago. ‘ Sales are made cach day at the Water Color, and the exhibition will undoubtedly be aa great © sticcess financially as it is artistically, Tho attendance up to | —-ae n atlas ‘was botweon fourteen and fiftecn The Avt Int for the 6th inst. has « full design of trie viseeomes Dora erewel work. It is a wis 7 to that earnest aeulptor and sincere man, J. Q. A, Ward, in view of his recent severe afihietion, ‘Clinton Ogilvie yocs abroad in the spring to spend wa pepee en t Lake George,” in the Paper on “Camp Life at oy ** March Seriimer's, will bo illustrated by F. & Church, Among the gifts made to the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of Fine Arts during the past year are twelye Paintings donated by Mrs, Joseph ‘Hartixou—viz., “Christ by Benjamin West; full length ortrait of “Charles Wilson Peal in his Museum," by himself; “Ariadne in Napos,”' by John J. Vanderlyn; “Lhe Virst Ray of Sunlight After an Arctic Winter by J. B, Wittkamp; “Orestes Pursued by the Furies,” by W. Bouguereau; “Attack on Fort Fisher,” b Xanthus Smith; “Penn’s Treaty with the Indians,” by Benjamin West, and five portraits of English Gas pe Merz. Anne, George 1, George II. and Albany is to have “ ” tion of set and tho an “Art Union,” for the cultiva- jo) PUTNAM’S: RIDE. PROPOSED CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF GEN- ERAL PUTNAM’S ESCAPE YROM THR, BRivIsH— HISTORICAL (REMINISCENCES, Guxxxwicn, Conn., Feb, 8, 1879, Long before this beautiful little town was made famous by the presence of William M. Tweed and his Americus Club it. had @ namo in history as the scene of General Putnam’s daring gallop or plunges down the Horse Neck gorge to escape from a party of Hessians who were pursuing him, . Students of our Revolutionary history need not be told that Put- nam’s ride ocourred on February 26, 1779, though it may be nows to others. Occurring 100 years ago, it mow comes forward as a centennial event, and the good people of Grecuwich propose to celebrate it in loyal and patriotic fashion. ‘Lhe projected arrangenients are in good hands, the committee embracing some of the most imflueutial men of the place, The programme has not been completed, but it will have some interost- ing features. At sunrise a salute of 100 guns will be fired, tho bells being sung at the same time. Duriug . tho forenoon ® procession will be formed at the place where the British were firat discovered, and tho miurch will be taken up to Putnam’s Hill, a distance of nearly a mile. President Hayes, Generals: Sher- man, Hancock and Torry; Governor Hubbard, Gov- ernor Andrew aud staff; President Porter, of Yale, and Rey. Dr. Leonard Bacon have been invited torido in the procession, which will embrace military and civic organizations, Besides the cxercises at Putnam's Hill, there will be speeches, poems, &c,, at the Con- gregational Church, followed by a collation at the ‘Lennox House. The anniversary would be the 26th, but that being Ash Wednesday the committee voted % colebrate February 22, Washington's Birthday, thus noticing two historic events, and giving a botter opportunity for attendance. The entire Connecticut Legislature will probably be present, and the day be marked by patriotic fervor, PUTNAM’S OLD HEADQUARTERS, Visitors to Greenwich are invariably shown tho old building known as Putnam's Hantacertiens situated on the old Boston turnpike, about juarters C3 a.milo from the present railroad station. The build- ing hasbeen modernized and added to until it has become almost 4 new creation. It is a pile of small stone souHry mo! together, a a1 and a half high, ce te | ‘two entrances, one of which is shaded by a lat rch. A modorn chimney of fresh red brick somewhat shocks the antiquarian, but was no doubt necessary. The windows are very small, and to render it habitable cach contains tw ie diminn- tive but heavily framed panes of glass, ere is but one room in each story, the one on the givund floor peing spout 12 feet by 10. The addition to it, which forms steps, but through the glen, ground, pointed out with his whip the localities, PUTRAM’S OWN ACCOUNT, As a mattor of interest I append General Putnam's own story of his achievement, given in his report to headquarters. It is as follows:— -Caup at Reppixe, March 2, 1779, ‘A Aetachmont of the enemy at Kingsbridge, consisting of the Seventoonth, Forty-fourth and Fifty seventh Iiritish °. fossians and two of new levivs— neg for Horse Nock on the evening of the intention of engaging the troops at thut place and destroyfhy the salt works. A captain and thirty men were sout trom our advanced lines at Horso Nock, who discovered the enomy at Nuw Rochelle in ud- ired before discovered as far us t, the enemy observed and ‘themselves as well as pos to Sawpits (now Portches: ding of oy dot ‘ thew way tor), whore they touk advantage of » comman: ground and made some litle stand, ut the of the enemy them to retire to Tet cwcene hed am opportealcr ot renebing ti by that means an unity of reaching Meow in eutory ‘As Twas thoro myvolf to woo the aftuat I had the trogps formed on a hill by recet enamy as they that the do- Ives of a de force Byram Bridge they took up, meeting house roudly ic ve ¥ we tl ‘They came on briskly, and I xoon discovered a ‘n was to turn our flank and possess tl filo in our rear, which would offectually provent treat, herefore = out on with directions to give me information of their that we might retire (n season. In the meantime # column advanced by the main road, where the remaindel tro amountin, to gout sixty, were posted. ged some old field pleoes, which were thero, a fow ‘acd gave thom a smail fire of musketry, but without any considerable effect. Tho superior force of the enomy S900 obliged our small detnchment to abandon the place. I therefore directed the troops to retire and form on hill @ little distaneo from Horse Neek, while to Stanford (1 diatol; habitante of the principal part of Janse ® fow walt works, ® sinall sloop and store, on return. ‘Tho officer commanding the continental troops at Horse Nock misunderstood ny orders, and went much fur thor than T intended, so that he could not come up with them to any advantayo, T, however, few troops that came from Stanford to pursue them, think! they might have au vpportunity to plek up some a Jers. In ole F was not ma , ae Your Excellency will soe by jst of the eneloved ors. Teannoe toll ty whic tlealue rogimonts tity baton ‘One ammunition snd one bays ' ts of the 'The report govs on to give the content cap- and of prisoners, but nowhere “stanford” for reinforce stured wagons mentions that the ride to ments was in the least heroic, Mi SAD DESTITUTION. An intelligent and.comely woman, scantily attired, called at the Coroner's office yesterday and reported the death of her infant child, begging that the body LU | BATH vH 7 iy at Fe zee il Aa i i