The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1879, Page 8

8 “TN THE VINEVARD. Topics Discussed by Popular Clergymen Yesterday. Len SEA TOW MEN SHOULD LIVE. The Glory of God Is Infinite and Not Susceptible of Increase. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE CONTINUITY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GOOD. MEN--SERMON BY THE REV, HENRY WARD BEECHER. ler prayed yesterday. morning that the might be cured of the conceit of “seeking to measure the world by the rod of the sanctuary,” whereby they themselves were filled with confusion, It was also observed that he omitted his usual media- tion for the President of the United States, Congress and the other coustituted authorities, The text of the sermon was Revelation, xiv., 13— “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them,” Commen- tators, said Mr. Beecher, generally had interpreted the phrase “their works do follow them,” asif it sig- nified that they accompanied them and went on with them into the life which was beyond them. But another rendering might beadmitted without vio- lence to the Greek original and more in cousonance with the preceding clause—namely, that their works follow on in the course which they have marked out; that the good which they have set in motion does not die when they die. At any rate, that was true whether the text meant to teach it or not. The sub- ject of the discourse was the perpefual continuity of the influence and the work of good men. The testi- mony to the fact was found in the Scripture under very many forms. There was something in the na- ture of goodness Which appealed to the gratitude of ihankind, to their generous sentiment, and which elevated the mind in contemplating it to a stage the furthest removed from animalism, It excited sym- pathy, admiration and love even in those who did not possess it. Good men, therefore, cast their uames on the generous side of hwnan nature, A good life was the writing of one’s owa memorial tablet day by day. On the other iund, men loathed wickedness—always in their neighbors, sometimes in themscives, unless there was a total disintegration of theimorsl nature. Evil examples were subject to all the distrust, the disiike and the hatred that in- heres in humanity. There was no reason why filth should be embalmed. Like the dirt in the sea, it tties to the bottom and is keen no more. So it was ed inen lose to after generations all their names rot and perish. If they survived it was only to become still more rotten. But men cherish and ‘take, as it were, to the bosom of tueir admiration the names of those who have bene- fited. their kind. Yhere were many names which could never go down below the horizon of glory. ‘Thousands and thousands who were stronger than they in their own day have yone out from the mem- pay 2 of the race and are not heard of now—not even as ady‘ng sound, ‘They have sunk into eternal silence. Jesus was the weakest mun of His age and yet the strongest, for He gave forth such conceptions of life, duty and eternity as have led the world from that day to this. He is an outcast, indeed, who does not join in the testimony of the ages that the one man of the world was Christ Jesus. Goodness was a pass- port to posthumous fame. SHAKESPEARE AND BURNS. All men who have made truth clearer have a title to our recollection which cannot be invalidated. ‘There are great men to-day who ore storming the high Places of ignorance. Although they do it at the cx- pense of their present ease, making of themselves targets for the ery arrows of contumely, yet their reward is sure, Artists who make life more joyous and more beautiful are doing works which wiil fol- low them. Cathedrals and temples are the mute forms of speech that, in their own way, declare the glory of God, just as do the mountains and the hills. Shakespeare—who can estimate the breadth of the joy and of the sympathy which he owes to his uni- vorsal pilgrim, whom every man counts as his fellow? Eugland may fall, but the English language shall live forever, and whoever sets it to strains which shall purity humanity, his work shall not die, Whoever rots stars of poviry in the firmament to light the worid need have no fear—even he who writes but one Winged bymas. Poe are God's priests, who clothe inlerior things with heavenly meanings. Over ali the faults of Burus there hus beeu cast a mantle of charity; so large a mantle that he might walk to and fro under it as under a tent. He bas lived a nobler and a sweeter lite since he died than while he lived. Inventors, too, shall lave a place, and their lives shall not be extin- ished. They who labor to better the inferior con- itions of soci to make the way of lite less flinty, giving to drudgery its ticket-of-leave, and they who ¥o around the globe unlocking the climes, bringing together the marts of the world, distributing the treasures of every region, grouping men in larger spheres of amity—these will leave behind them not a name, perhaps, spelt out in alphabetical characters, but what they have done will bave made them great: they are true princes. Not every oue knows who were the founders of Cansbridge and Oxford, yet all the world has felt the power of these consecrated much. Halt a dozen ministers got together, made putions of books and started Yule College, e they now and what ix it? But will theif work ever cease? Not when the concussions of a thousand ages have shaken down the monuments of material power which have been reared around it. A TRIBUTE TO WasHINGLON. ‘These thovights, continued Mr. Beecher, are fit for @ day like this, which stands so near the birthday of Washington. ‘He was a great man, not by intel- lectual endowments or remarkable genius, except in his rare good judgment and discretion, but he was untainted by personal umubition and’ kept himself pure in b gmininerne and tree from everything that savored of partisanship, devoted to the good of his kind and of the nation which was born under his brooding wing, patient and euduring in the darkest, hours, not alone courageous in battle, but calmly’ and hopefifily sustaining the weight of misfortune and adversity; incorruptible in’ personal morals, wise in all things pertaining to public affairs and wise in gathering about him counsellors who in their soveral spheres were wiser than he, and deriving trom them an increased brightness, like the light which 1s reflected in # coucave mirror—so he shone forth with ail the yathered virtues of his time. His name in the relation which it bore to the nascent tepublic is not so great, however, as the works vlich follow him, e have no guilty Napoleon, no ambitious Cosar, no fabulous Romulus and Remus, Dut a man of sympathy, patient, pure, large hearted, consecrated to the welfare of his race, a man of the commonwealth, THE CURSE OF PUBLIC MEN. ‘The curse of our modern public men has been that they have not put sny faith in the saving power of rectitude and goodness. Many men of gigantic power have fallen because they have yielded to the prejudices of the hour. To-day how ure the great fallen! How tre they fallen in the Senate. ‘They could not fall in the House of Revresentatives. (Laughter.) How are men of whom we have a right to ask that they should act up to our admiration—how have they, against their own judgiment, bowed down to tear a he outery of a ferocious mob which gives lawless expression to its passions! Daniel Webster would have been President of the United States easily and Hlustriously if be had believed that rectitude was always safely; but he quivered and fell before the tuce of the Moloch ot the South and never rose ‘Apu, ruption than @ No man who sit upon the duughill of eor- (1 puts @ crown upon his head can be other like thowe thut he feeds ton the earth the faith of manhood, of honesty, ty, courage to do right, benevolence and patriot ism. It is integrity, ingrained and vital, that carries a man through the storms of lite, and gives to it a meaning, a voice aud a leverage long after he is dead in the body. There are men whose whole course of life is transient, Who constantly rake to- gether what other men sow and reap, and who glow ‘With seif-consciousness, They leave no organized force of example, no subtle and invisible power working continually. There fs nothing in their career. * They are like the bussing flies of the Bumaner. I therefore appeal to those under my influence &yuinst the tendencies of our times; the rushing into the ways of lust, avarice, pride and self-seeking. It is right for men’ to be happy, but trae happiness comes out of influences and elements which make other men happy. He who gives a life to a man, and sotils him forth to be the master of causes and the producer of effects, lives in that man, and also in those whom that man influences. When he dies his ‘work is not lost. Live! Live larger lives; live for joy, for wealth, for literature, for political intiuence, for any form of power, but live so that all that you attain shall be reflected upon your kind, your nation and your aye, so that when you dis your name shall be great, even greater (han When you were alive. Piriii AY, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CHRISTIAN DULY—SERMON BY THE REV. DA, JOHN HALM, Dr. John Hall's sermon was especially addresseg to the communicants of Lis own chureh. “I would not go across the street,” ly eh ent Sabbaths, “to secure the attendance of that wandering class of churchgoers who have no regular eubuevtion with eny church. We should have our e said, in speaking of the large | 4 of people who attend different churches on dit- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUAKY 24, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. own place in our own church and make the most of it, Avolling stone gathers no moss in the church any more thanin the world.” ‘The text of the sermon was taken from Micah, vi, 8—tHe hath showed thee Oman, what is good; and what doth the Lord re- quire of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.” Referring first to the services of the preceding Sabbath, Dr. Hall said that’ while the occasion bad been one of solemn joy to him and, he trusted, to all the communicants in the chureh, yet there was always an clement of sadness | introduced by the absence of those who ought to make a public profession of their faith, but who did not, No Christian should despair of these, however, but it should be remembered that God was continu- ally pleading, ‘‘My son, give me thy heart.” Atten- tion was drawn to the obligations assumed by those who say, “God is my God.” Various suggestions had been publicly made, the preacher said, of the neces- sity for preaching morality to professing Christians, but while a wise man should always be ready to hear suggestions, no matter from whom they might come, yet there was no reason to suppose that the standard of morality among Christians was any lower than it had been. If che should take the pains to visit the various prisons of the country he would find that church members were @ very insignificant minority among their inmates. Atiention was frequently called by the press to the trials for various crimes of clergymen, and one Western newspaper had compiicd @ list showing fifty such cases within a year. Yet the ress yenerally had treated the question with great Eitness and had pointed out that the proportion of clergymen convicted of crime was less than in any other profession. ' If it was true that a profession of Christianity was a ground for suspicion there would be no hypocrites, for people would not care to counterfeit a trade mark that was considered fraudu- lent. It was true that unworthy people had adopted the label, but the presumption all over the land was very strong that a professing Christian was an hon- orable, upright man. God tells men what to do as well as what to believe. Dr. Hall then reviewed the circumstances under which the words of the text are supposed to have been uttered, saying that they were a reply to the petulant remonstrance of the people against serving God. The people said, “Mow Rial we come before God?” and recounted the cere- monies prescribed, as though they were a grievous burden. ‘The prophet rejoins, “Nay, but, O man, God is good,” There is no use in receiving His word in this spirit. We are to be just toward each other in our judgments of one another, and im our esti- mation of the motives and characters of men. by neglecting or refusing to do this great injustice muy be done. We are to be just in our words about others, A rash condemnation of another man once spoken may do incalculable and irremediable mis- chief. We should be careful about condemning others, especially in relation to their past history. Ip tamily matters we are required to do justly. . Has aman the right to do what he likes in his own fam- ily? Certainly not. ‘There are claims of equity there which must be regarded, and injustice in the house- hold may destroy the family. BELIGION IN BUSINESS. We are todo justly in our professions, no matter what the customs of the profession may be. In business life we are bound to act on principles of equity. No matter what the opportunity of gain by dishonesty may be, we are to do justly. But, says one, I don’t see how aman is to get forward if he acts thus. Well, then, don’t get forward. But, he auuy object, everybody does these thing . Perhaps that is the reason so few men succeed. It has been estimated that out of the men who embark in busi- ness only 6 per cent succeed, while % per cent fail. I don’t say, continued Dr. Hall, that honesty is the best Exact for the man who is hon- est merely on that principle is not honest in the sight of God. ButI say be honest because God ap- proves honesty. ‘The second command in the text is, “Love mercy.” We thus,find that two things are inculcated which are characteristic of God—justice and merey. Man is made in the image of God, and it is the function of religion to restore that image. The text does not say, Do justly and act mercifully, but ** Do justly and love mercy.” There should be about our merciful deeds the grace of spontaneity. God loveth ful giver. The church is a compound body; it is a family with many members, and we must live together and work together that we may finally, as we hope, blessed together. Because we are so licked t gather there ure opportunities for the love of mere} There are weaknesses thut wo must regard in their most favorable light. There are dangers that are to be pointed out in warning. There are friendships to be formed. One of the advantages of a liberal a tion is that by its means strongly marked. idiosyn- cracies and intolerant habits of thought are rubbed off, but there is far greater opportunity for this in church membership. There is also # field tor the love of mercy in our with the world around us. We may do much merciful work in many differ- ent ways. Among these ways.dro the employment of the pecuniary means we may have and our personal effort, but personal ‘effort is fur the most valuable. ‘There axe $0 many claims on us that a ian ix bound to look around for principles to guide him in his work. Among these principles it is well to remem- ber that, as between things are far off and those that are near us, it is best to’ choose those that are near. As between those that are picturesque and ro- mantic, and those that are plain and practical, it is best to choose the plain. As between those which are to be done in the sight of man and those which are only to be seen by the eye of God, it is best to choose the latter. HOW ALLEGED CHARITIES ARE SUPPORTED. We should especially remember these principles in this city, which is full of alleged charitable institu- tions, some of them fanciful in their objects and supported by public mouey, and some of them sup- ported by money wheedled from the public by means of ostentatious public amusements. We should do good because the Lord would have us, not in order that we may derive, perhaps, a merely sensuous enjoyment. The love of mercy implies the haured ot evil. An incident was tid in the papers last week which I was at some pains to verily. a neighboring city a gentleman applied for the sup- pression of a certain so-called theatre, on the ground that by its means his young son had been totaily ruined. The Mayor of the city said, ‘Sir, I am sorry for the boy, but lam not sorry for you, Years ago J introduced into the Legislature a bill for the sup- pression of this kind of resorts, and partly by moaus of your vote it was deteated.’’ A tolerance of evil in- stitutions brings always evil fruit. By the third part of the text we are commanded to walk humbly with God. ‘We are not to be crouching humbly like slaves, He hus raised us up to sit with His Son and we are to walk upright. We are to walk with God as Enoch and Moses did, in fellowship and communion, but we must walk humbly, for we are feeble and uced continual help. I noticed last San- day, when @ little child was held up in its father's arms for baptism, the strangeness of the place and the pageant alarmed it, and its mouth opened to cry. But the mother’s hand rested on the littie one’s hand and the cry was stilled. As one whom his mother comforteth, so is the true son of God comforted when he is terrified by perils around hum. He has but to say, “I want to go above,” and by the communion with his God he is strengthened. We have not to make the means of our salvation. God has given thom to us, and all we have to do is to use them. There are,ever ingenious and sanguine wen who think they have discovered perpetual motion, but there {s no such thing for the creature, for perpetual motion implies perpetual friction. So we are not ‘arted in the Christian life to go alone, for there is perpetual friction. God says, “Without me ye can do nothing.” But, “I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.” These things you must keep in mind if you would do as God requires ot you. y He bless you forever. CENTRAL M. E. CHURCH. THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON— SERMON DY DR, NEWMAN, Tev. Dr. Newman took his text from Nehemiah, vii., 2—“‘He was a faithful man and feared God above many. The Doctor began by saying that in the formation of @ new nation the character of the peo- ple is of the greatest moment, and then he asked where in all the mighty past, or tn all the living present, shall we find the prototype of American character? He then drew parallels between Wasb- ington und Aristides, Cyrus and Cwsar among the ancients, aud Peter the Great, Frederick the Great and Napoleon, and concluded that Washington possessed the wisdom and justness of Aristides with- out his follies, the magnanimity of Cyrus without his ambition, the executive ability of Cmsar with- his crimes, the otis of Peter the at without his vices, the energy of the Great without his atheism and the statesmanehip of Napoleon without his rashness, Washington's character was harmonious rather than brilliant, and his characteristics blended in beautiful proportions like the colors of the rainbow, He had temperance without austerity, caution without fear, bravery without rashness, constancy without stub: borness, serivusness without melaucholy, cheertul- ness without frivolity and hopefulness without pre- sumption. If he had not genius he had common sense. If he had not audacity he had modesty, He was aman of the deepest and strongest passions, and three times in kis official life lis emotional being was agitated to the wildest commotion, Then the great men of the Revolution trembled in his presence, aud dared not speak till the storm had subsided and he himself hud first broken the silence, WASHINGTON’S ENEMTYS, It is a mistake to suppose thet Washington was without enemies, 80 strong wae the opposition to htm at one time that in the House of Representatives there wae @ majority of ten against his administra- tion, He was declared without merit as a sollior and 4 statesman, He was char,@g with violating the constitution, of prope iating the public moneys to bie private use, and impeachment was publicly sag+ gested, Giles, of Virginia, in the House of Repre- sentatives, openly objected to that part of the House's reply ‘to Washington's larewell address which enlogized his character aud adiuinistration; and among the twelve members who voted wii Giles was Andrew Jackson, then a young man of y-uine, representing the newly admitted State Tennessee. But through all these triads he maintained himself with Christian fortitude. He was « sincere, devout aud earnest Curistian; he was a vestr; in two churches early life he drew a code of morais for the ment of his conduet in privete aud public. ie turned from life inthe camp without a stein, as comimander-in-chiet of the army, issued yen orders ayainst profanity, Sabbath breaking His gambling. He was a man of devout prayer, dying hour was full of divine composure, expired in the dream of ambition, shouting, “France, Franee, France, my son." The renowned General Lee expired in Philodelphia, amid the delirium of battle, exclaining, “Stand by me my brave gren- adiers,.’ but the sage of Mount Vernon bade adjeu to the scenes of eurth and time, saying, “I die hard, but Iam not afraid to die.” Tu conclusion the Doctor defended the fathers of the Republic against the charge of infidelity, and quoted from numerous documents to show their taith in Christianity, The Key. Bishop Foster preached in Dr. Newman's chureh in the morning an able missionary discourse, which was followed by a large collection, MASONIC TEMPLE, THE SPIRIT OF E£: ‘SIASM—SERMON BY MR. 0, B, FROTHINGHAM, . The theme of Mr. O, B. Frothingham's discourse in Masonic Temple was “Tho Spirit of Enthusiasm.” He said that it was bis sim to show that the age of enthusiasm has not passed nor is its spirit extinct or dead. On the contrary, 80 noble and grand is the new idea of enthusiasm which is taking the place of the old that its work 1s hardly entered upon. In speaking of the characteristics of this age Mr. Froth- ingham said that it is not an age of poetry, but of speculation and science, Indeed, there are those who think it hardly worth their while to be enthusiastic about anything. Enthusiasm and fanaticism, as de- fined in the dictionary, are said to be the same thing, the characteristic of both being described as deep émotion, The speaker looked upon enthusiasm as iunaticism on its good side and fanaticism as the worse part of enthusiasm. The, fanatic is the enthusiast gone mad, and the enthusiast is the fanatic with his claws taken out. But the true sentiments operate very differently on men’s minds; fanaticism broodingly looks behind the age, enthusiasm hope- fully looks forward to the generations not yet de- livered trom the womb of time; fanaticism is nar- row, exclusive and bigoted, but enthusiasm is wide, comprehensive, liberal, As fanaticism decreases en- thusiasm must grow apace. ‘The one sees no hope in. auything, the other perceives the door to heaven open through many avenues; the one is churacteristic of ages past, and the other of those that are tocome, Enthusiasm ave birth to that soul of truth manifested in new ‘iscoveries within the last. half century. Nothing like the progress made in that time was ever known formerly. ages passed the critic went about with his little talk, and each grand system of philosophy ‘was stigmatized as a gigantic imposition. The speaker concluded vy drawing a vivid picture of the new faith of love, which he believed to be founded in a true enthusiasm for the truth. He said it was superb, calculated to create tiew hope in the minds of those who had despaired, saying, “Now, at all events, the spirit, call it what you will, is one that is to make us fellow workers with the Eternal.’, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE GLORY OF GOD—SERMON BY REY. DB. ARMITAGE, mt ‘The Rev. Dr. Armitage preached on the subject of everyday religion and took his text from I. Corin- thians, x., 31, ‘Whether, therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” What is the giory of God? asked the reverend gentleman. The word glory carries with it the idea of illumination, brightness ‘and splendor? as when rays of light biaze forth from a centre to all parts of a circumter- ence, The apostle expresses it when he says, “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.” When tho word is applied to God it expresses all the excellencies of the divine nature in their perfection— that is, in absolute and infinite glory. When, there- fore, we are called upon to “‘glority God,” it is not a demand that we increase the splendor of God, but that we reflect honor upon him and his law by yield- ing an intelligent obedience to his known will, God being absolutely perfect. It were absurd to think of @ man adding anything-to his character, tor we may reverently say that God himself cannot add to his own essential glory. Being infinite and eternal, his glory isj not susceptible of increase, But ne can make known and has in many ways increased the munifestation of his glory by one disclosure after another in nature, Providence, His Son and the whole work of redemption. In this luminous selt-manifestation He associates Himself with His creatures. Exactly as when the warrior holds up his shicld of polished stecl to the sun to concentrate and reflect sun's rays in a dazzling brightness, so when man catches and reflects back the divine goodness and love and purity he is said to let his light shine before men, so that they see his ieee works and glorify his Father, who is in heaven. the great thougit is, in such case, that the soul’s rela- tion to God transcends all thesother rolations. If you ask why the great end of lie is to reflect the glory of God I reply that it is the only wim which is infinitely excellent, and, therefore the only end that is worthy of man’s existence. We see, then, that our text lays down the all- comprehending law of our existence, and that it is to be applied in the little and everyday deeds of life as well as in its more weighty transactions. We are to glorify God ‘tin eating and drinking” and what- ever we do, nothing being so simall as to exclude it from the operation of this law. ‘To eat and to drink” are among the most common and indispen- sible actions of lite, and yet the Apostle sets forth that God can be glorified in @n ordinary meal, in har- mony with the beautiful picture which Luke draws from the primitive Christians:—‘They did eat that meut with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people.” The of God had transformed their ordinary home fe, making even their common meals a contrast with the banquets of sin'and the toasts of gluttony by simplicity, gratitude aud brotherly love. THE TROUBLE US CHRISTIAN LIFE. One of the race ef troubles which many an honest Christian finds in his life is in the thought that he never can glority God at all. He is poor, be is un- educated, he moves in an obscure sphere, his talents are few, he has no means of doing anything for his Lord that can possibly honor him, and on the whole he is at an honest loss to know how it is possibie for him in any way to glority God. ‘foo often the scnsi- tive mind conciudes that a busy life is not compatible with true devotion. The result is that two ferent rules are adopted. One for the busy man and one for the man of leisure. Hence poor men, who daily Napoleon earn their bread, assume that they can only serve God in a very general and imperfect way, but that minuto personal disci ant elevated piety aro not for Our great mistake lies here. We divide life into sacred and secular, Whereas God's claims cover our whole being without regard to distinct departments. George Herbert hit the right when he said, “Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws makes that and the m fine.” With this standard in view a monarch may rule an empire basely, while dignified labor is done at the anvil, tho loom and the plough. The same God who glorifies Himself by feeding the fires of the sun an penne the sky with the rainbow ints the lily, rns the wing of the butterfly with Hiving diamond dust and counts the eands on the sea- shore, He ylorities Himselt by establishing new em- pires or overturning old dynasties and equally by self by blessing losst tand Bim: iis batley brews gloritying CHURCH OF MOUNT ZION. 18 CHRISTIANITY A FAILURE?—SERMON BY REV. 8. 8. SNOW. It was announced in advertisements that ‘a “‘con- verted infidel” would preach in Physicians and Sur- geons’ College, corner Fourth avenue and Twenty- third street (Church of Mount Zion), in answer to Kev. Dr. Frothingham’s question, ‘Is Christianity a Worn Out Superstition?” It appeared that the preacher was the second advent advocate, Rev. Samuel Sheitield Snow, who has been a converted infidel and a Christian minister for # period of some forty years. In the beginning of his discourse Brother Snow read @ long description of himselt, of his being converted to Christianity while an infidel or non-believer in the divinity of Christ under the teachtngs of Proph- ots Miller Hines, apostles of the second advent doctrine, in 1839, His subsequent gareer, his being threatened with mob violence for teaching second ad- vent doctrines, his persecution by Christian and Christian ministers, his support ot believers in Millerism from 143 to the present dey, Then inved his remarks toward the Kev. Dr. ngs 4 ium, and proceeded to show from biblical da’ the ‘divine origin of Christ and the promiso of Hix second advent. ‘To sustain his point he quoted from the fifty-third eh r of Isaivh, also trom II, St. Peter, iii, 1to4. The portion of the latter referring to scoffers he portrayed as personi- fying the Frothinghams and other Christian minis- ters. Ho tusisted that there was no superstition in the early fake concerning Christ, no matter t Mr. Frothinghaim might say to the contrary. jose ignorant scieutists who ‘guess’ at the in of things, in opposition to the Word of God—he who says God did not create Heaven and earth’—said the pene, with emphasis, “#peaks faisely, and the uth is not in him.” In describing the deluge he said the waters overwhelmed the earth, and not portion of it, as some of these geological scientists would make us believe. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. THE WELL IN THE DESERT, OR HELP FOR ALL—SERMON BY THE EV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, . Mr. Talmage preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the subject, “The Well in thoDesert, or Help for AIL.” After the usual opening hymns and religious exercises Mr, ‘alinage arose and began the sermon, taking his text from Genesis, xxi., 19—“Aud God opened her eggs and she saw a woll of water; and she went and™filled the bottle with water and gave the lad drink.” Moruing breaks on Beer-Sheba, said Mr. Talmage. There is wn early stir in the House of Abraham, Hagar loaves the premises with Ishmael, I suppose the voy bounded away inthe morning light. Boys always like achange, Crossing the dead lovel of the desert, how wearily and slowly the miles slip by. And so they go on day wfter day. They have lost thelr way. Ishmact! is dying of thirst. Hagar puts him under a shrub and goes off to weep. Her cr: strikes clear through the heavens. She looks up ani an angel of God comes and points out a well of water, where she fills the bottle for the lad, Tlearn from this Oriental scene, in the first place, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their 5 lace and yet too proud for their business. Hagar hed out her own happiness and threw Sarah into 4 great fret, and if she had stayed much longer in that household shewould. have upset Abrahuin's equilibrium, Our first duty is to find our sphere; our second duty is to keep it. The man who makes a plough is just as honorable as the man who inakes the constitution, provided he. makes the plough as well as the other man makes the constitution. [donot know but that the world would long ago have been saved if some of the men outof the ministry were in it and some of those who are in it were out of it. Half of the world may be divided into taro quarters— those who have not found their sphere and those who are ynwilling to stay im it. Again, I find in this Oriental scenea lesson of sym- pathy with wouian wien re goes forth trudging in the desert. Again, I find the fact that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. A great nation ia to be founded—a nation that is to stand tor thou- sands of years against all the armies of the world— the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness, Sho had no idea she was leading forth such destinies, Mother, you are this morning hoisting a throne or forging 3 chain—you are kindling a star or digging a dungeon, I also learn that every wilderness has a well in it. gave up to die, but she looked up and saw God’s angel pointing to a well of water. Here is some one who has been look- ing for the fountain a great while, but can’t find it. bee don’t you do as did—look up? If to-day, with one earnest, intense prayer, you would only look up to Christ, He would point down to the supply im the wilderness. Every wilderness has a well in it. I come to that well and I begin to draw water. I lay hold of the rope ‘of God’s mercy and begin to draw on that gospel well, and the bucket comes hy full of promises. Oh, come this morning to that fountain—the fountain open for sin and uncleanness, I will ‘ou the whole story in two or three sentencess lon for all sins, com- fort for all trouble, light for all darkness, and every wilderness has @ well in it. ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, PREPARING FOR LENT—SERMON BY THE REY. FATHER KANE, At the Cathedral the Rey. Father Mori celebrated the high mass, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Father Kane. In making the customary an- nouncements before the sermon Father Kane read a circular from Vicar General and Chancellor Preston announcing that by directions of ‘His Eminence the Cardinal the annual collection for the support of the Provincial Seminary of St. Joseph would take place inall the Catholie churches of the archdiocese on the first Sunday in Lent. The letter said:—No work can be more essential to the interests of religion than the education of students for the holy priest- hood. The wants of our own archdiocese are very great, and the largest share of the expenses of the seminary necessarily falla upon us. During the past few years the collection has not been sufficient for the proper support of our students and the honor of our religion, and the in- creasing needs of our missions demand from us all greater zeal and more liberal offerings.” It was also stated in the circular that during the past ycar the expenses for seminarians were $21,901 74, while the amount of the collection in October, 1877, was only $11,963 69. Father Kane urged npon the congrega- tion, ingompliance with the Cardinal's request, that the collection this year be an unusually liberal one, He then read the Apes Feemrepaty tor Lent,” pre- scribing as wsual the obligations and the reasons suflicient for excuse from the fast. ‘THE SERMON. The preacher took his text from the Lon of the duy—Quinquagesima Sunday—and said that as Lent would commence this week the Church appropriately selected that portion of the Scriptures for the mass which narrated how Jesus told the apostles of the sufferings He was to endure, and that on the third day He would rise again. But the aposties did not understand Him, for they could not comprehend why one so gentle and amiable should suffer nor why one who by His acts showed Himself to be, so mighty should be so humiliated. ‘The Church put on to-day the veil of sadness to com- memorate this sorrowful time in the Saviour’s his- tory, and invited ail her children to mourn with her over His sufferings. This was a time for repentance. At the beginning of Lent we would be reminded that this lite was but a fleeting passage to the grave. ‘The time was sure to come when we should have to answer before the throne of God for every thought, word and act, and this season of penitence was set apart for the purpose of spocial prayer and fasting, that we gs gain the pardon ot our sins. The preacher then went on to speak of the examples given in the Scriptures ot the temporal punishment which tollowed sin, and said that fasting was one means which God was pleased to accept as full satis- faction for this temporal debt. STANDARD. HALL. THE SOCIAL PROBLEM AND THE EFFICACY OF SELY-HELP—LECTURE BY PROFESSOR ADLER. We return to the figld of social ethics. On that field the battle of humanity will be fought in the future. . There the watchwords of truth and justice, which so often seem hollow #nd hackneyed, re- quire new and stirring applications, and the issues for which the contest is waged relate to the permg- nent welfare of the whole race. I wish to supple ment to-day what I have said on charity in some im- portant particulars. Wherever we go on the surface of poverty we hit upon the want of employment as the underlying evil. No charity will be radical whith does not cope with this evil. There is a permanent ‘impression that charity is a luxury, a kind of moral delicacy, which we may allow ourselves after having satisfied our appetite for more substantial things. But it should be regarded as a duty within certain limits that the State should have the right to make charity compulsory. The reason why there is this lack of system in our public charities and why our philanthropy has adesultory character is to be found in the inordinate value set by the American people on the principle of self-help. We may say in passing that the spread in free religion is in part due to the same quality of self-reliance. ‘The American tradition and the Christian tradition are in some sense antagonistic. The American tradition directs every one to rise by his own exertions. The Christian tradition tells men that in the most important affair of their lives they must rely com- pletely on the exertions of another. The American tradition is opposed to extrancous authority; the Christian tradition insists on the extraneous author- ity of dogmas and Church. It must not be forgotten that the political institutions of this country are silently fostering scepticism among the people. The principle of self-help being so deeply rooted among the American people it is natural that they should look with disfavor or indifference upon lary atic matters of relief. For a long time no o: Neved that there could be o question of pau forus. Buta change has come about with as' ing rapidity, be rd ‘SOCIAL PROBLEM. ‘The social Ey lem, 4 name barely known on this side of the Atlantic until recent times, has develo, into striking importance, and wild and foolish threuts and fears of anarchy are uttered. The cause is the existence of @ perinanent glass to whom the ES of self-help does not apply—who cannot elp themselves. And-this class is not composed of idle vagabonds, but often of honest working people, who would only be too glad to work if they could get work todo, To explain the existence of such a clues it is usual to refer to the inflation of the cur- rency, the enormous waste of capital during the civil ‘war and the insane extravagance of the people, which ‘was one of its most deplorable consequences, But there is ® deeper cause, tounded in our industrial vism aish- system itself, the consideration of which will show, I trust, that the American of self-help justly applies only within in limits, and must be sup- Ri mented by the Reet eg of mutual hay. ‘ages oxcillate about a c minimum point, that point being the minimum at which tho laborer will consent to live. If Neg vedtion'D below this point the supply of labor will be deci ed by death aud wages niust rise again. If wi rise above the minimum point the supply of ef will be increased by the attraction of higher remuneration, from the increase of marr: col jucnce will be that wages must in fall, There then, this oscillation about the minimum point. There is # constant alter- nation of industrial expansion and contraction. The introduction of machinery greatly heightens the dis- astrous effects of this process. With every expan- wion thousands of laborers are drawn into employ- ment, at every contraction they are thrown out of employment. ‘THR ARMY OF #PANVATION. ‘The question is, Where are they thrown to when they are out of employment? They are thrown into what has been appropriately called the “army of starvation’ —a large host dispersed among alicys and garrots in the nelyhborhood of our great industrial catublishments. Of this army few have the audacity to starve ay po They go about it in @ circuitous ‘They tall sick fast from want of food and then perish in their sickness, and their death does not shock the community as it would if men read “So many hundreds starved ;” but their death is reported under the head of some ordinary disease. Auothor part of this army become*tramps, Others are sup- ported by the State in prisons and penitentiaries, for the State does not acknowlodge ite duty to support a Poor man unless he can prove that iets at loust « thief. ‘To the host of the destitute we concede a two- gut—right to live and ht to aliving. The 6 is an inalienable right guaranteed by our arta to every citizen of the land. In ac- cordance with this right we should appoint a com- mission of specialists in charity and enact appropriate poor Inws—firet, to confine pauper- ism within manageable limits by making the poor of any town or county chargeable on that town or county; then, to adequately supply the bare means of subsistence to all the destitute; then, to attach such conditions to the reliet given that no one shall fail back upon it, seve as & last resort. But the main poiut would be not to support the army of starvation, but to rid ourselves of it. Since it is a ermanent institution, since the machine of indus- ry recularly, at certain intervals, custs off thousands of human bemgs, we must supply aa equally regular machinery for taking up those who are thus cast aside, I point to colonfzation as a saving remedy. Colonization might be made self-supporting and successful, as the Wakefield sys- tem isin the English colonies. By its means those who might otherwise rot, physically and morally, in our cities, are dispersed over the liberal lands of the West and that broad territory which nature has | provided for the United States as a safeguard against social anarchy, let us trust, for many generations to come. The congestion of labor’to the towns will thus be provi against, the wealth of the whole county increased and the individual emigrants re- Professor Adler closed by speaking of education and liberty of the working people. Free religion would yet find among the people its stanchest friends.” That is a glorious thought that the extremes of society can meet on moral ground, that the heart of the humblest and of the most privileged are alike opm to the same moral ideas, and that they can work shoulder to shoulder in the practical cause of right- eousness, The people will be on the side of freedom; the a to whom we have shown the humanity of our relizion will trust and confide in the religion of humanity. «IRISH NATIONALITY. PRESENTATION OF AN ADDEESS OF WELCOME AND CONFIDENOK BY MEMBERS OF THE IBISH REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERHOOD TO JAMES STE- PHENS, A meeting of the Inish Revolutionary Brotherhood and of exiles and refugees from Ireland, who had or- ganized under James Stephens, the well known revo- .lutionary patriot of the Green Isle, was held yester- day afternoon at Academy Hall, Twenty-third street and Third avenue. The hall was crowded, and Mr. Stephens, upou his entrance, was londly cheered. He took a seat at the right side of the chairman, Mr. ‘Thomas F, Roche. After a few preliminary remarks by the chairman, Mr. Thomas Masterson, Mr. Thomas Owens and others the following address ‘was read by the secretary, Mr. John Locke:— THE ADDRESS, We, members of the old I. R. B., welcome yon to Amer- ica, and entertain the hope that’ your arrival will be pro- ductive of great good to the cause to which you huve de- votod the best years of your life, At present the Lrish national cause in America is chaotic. For somo time past it his fluctuated between life and death, not from any want of faith in its adherents, but from a want of confidence in the Wapactty and iutegrity of the men who have assumed the control direction of its aifuirs, Unity and order are words of magic influ- eneo with, our countrymen, and under thelr inspir. ation feuds and prejudices were cast aside when, some years ago, a request was made to men entitled to confidence to take in hand the work of organ- ation, Unfortunately, the results have not justified the pectations. Instead of uiification there has been disin- The brotherhood bas been but # mask for per- mvsities,and more attention has been paid to sp ontroversies concerning claims to leadership arising from the past than to the real work of preparation for the future. Delusive, impracticable schemes have been invented to dazzle, and the lutest new departure is 4 treuch- erous attempt to substitute for revolution and independonce the sham and fraud of parliamentary agitation. Our min America to think r themselves and to judge by results rather than retensions. A great malority of them, es; y in New York and vicinity, repudiate the mon who have arrogautly claimed in the public press and on public rostrums the sole and exclusive right to control and ropresent the Irish national organizations. Here, then, is # wide field for work for which we know you are well qualified. We have had proof of your ability a» wn organizer. The Irish race has had pyoof of your Adelity to Troland. "We know that the men at home place implicit confidénce in you; we, on this side of the Atlantic, have no less faith. Then, in the name of Ireland, go to work, organize, con- date. ‘There is no lack of waterial or patriotiom. There apathy engenderéd only by mismanagement, which ‘enorgy and your ‘tness can dispel. We claim istinetion but that of having done for Ireland what y within our power wad, asthe I Kk. B. at home, we are ready to wait aud co-operate with you in whagever plan of organization may be decided on as best calculated Lo bene- fit the cause. Nigned by 150 members. The following resolution was adopted unanim- ously : Resolved, That we, in pablic meeting assembled, reiterate our confidence in the integrity, ability and patriotic dovo- tion of our worthy leader, James Stepheus, aud be it fur- ther resolved that we recognize him as the only tfue re- presentutive of the revolutionary party at home. Mr. Stephens, in reply, said that the great object of his lite had been and would continue to be to con- solidute and harmonize all Irishmen. He was in 4opes of establishing here the greatest organization that ever existed for the liberation of Ireland. He was huppy to see round him men of the good old times, aud he was ready to hoid out the right hand of brotherhood to all Irish organizations, whether they be Clan-na-gael, Fenian or Hibernian. A better time was dawning, ‘and he felt convinced that the rauk and file ot Irishmen would soon fall into the footsteps of the 1, R. B. While this organization was to be composed exclusively of men who had served the cause in Ireland, he wished all organiza- tions would work in harmony with it and encourage the patriots in the good cause. ST. PATRICK'S JAY.” DISSENSIONS IN THE BRANES OF THE ANCIENT ORDER + OF HIDERNIANS IN BROOKLYN—NEW FACTIONS IN THE YIELD. ‘There is considerable dissension and dissatisfac- tion existing among the various Irish socicties in Brooklyn attendant upon the ways and means of making arrangements for the celebration of St. Patrick's Day. The Mutual Alliance and the Father Mathew Total Abstinence societies of Kings county refrained last year from participating in the parade because of their inability to agree with the Ancient Order of Hibernians upon the all potent question of “Grand Marshal” and which society was entitled to “the right of the line.” -This year the Hibe: are divided among themselves in wo county. Patrick McGuire, the keeper of the rgue, lead one faction, while the rival faction is led by Fire Commissioner Ryan, Patrick Hayse, of the Board of City Works, and Phil Clare, meet at Sawyer Hall, Jay street. ‘Lhe latter division have been considering the election of Patrick Hayse as their grand marshal, but the election will not be held till Sunday next. They have obtained permission from the Board of Police and Excise Commissioners to parade on March 17. ‘The prospects for a lively celebration of the day set apart for “The wearing of the green” are said to be excellont, should the Board of Polico grant a second permit to the opposition patriotic faction. Yesterday afternoon the McGuire party met at their headquarters and helda lengthy and secret con- ference. . WORKING BY ELECTRIC LIGHT. Astar on the East River drow curious crowds last night to the sectional dock. Before its intense, un- wavering brilliancy the street lamps glimmered like tallow candles. Scon at close quarters it was found to be an clectric light, depending from tho side of an Inman steamship (the City of Chester, which is the largest vessel cver docked in New York). It shed broad, diffuse daylight over the crowd of workmen engaged in building a new rudder and repairing tho sternpost that was lately shattered in a gale when tho vessel was 300 miles from port. Beneath its steady blaze rivets are being fastened, clamps made fasc, bolts driven home, wood planed, nice measurements taken and exact diagrams drawn, The work had never ceased since morning, and the samo gang of men were performing the same set of operations at midnight as at noon. It was generally be- Hieved that a new sphere of usefulness has thus been opened to the electric ve] Hitherto the task of repairing ships by night been slow and laborious, working mainly with lamps, four |. mon were needed for the task that one could do by day. Del jobs were impossible, accidents fre- quent, delays numerous. e magnitude of the work’ required for the City of Chestei si the adoption of a new meth ot a. Every that tho vessel re- mained in dock she was calculated to lose $600, The Inmen Scumele demanded imperativel, at sho should be ly to sail next Thursday. the same time the repairs were to be thorough, the sternpost renewed from top to bottom, the stern trame entirely refitted and » uew rudder built, In this dilemma the contractors thought of the eectric light. They set up two small batterics in an adjoining workshop, worked them all night with a ninety-ponnd steam power and kept their forty, workmen in constant Seeoy mans, ‘Their success has been great. Their c! expense lay in the necessity of putting up the machine; but this once done the light was remarkably cheap. The ves- sel has been renovated with thoroughness and will ‘unquestionably sail on the appointed Du the evening one of th re; order, and the fitful glare of lamps which then streamed on one side of tho huge red hulk contrasted i a with the daylight which illuminated the er, THE VICIIM IN DURESS. pi saat Mr. Frank Forman, who lives in Eighth avenue, between Sixty-ninth and Seventicth streets, on the 20th February entered the store of Leonard Stein- buch, in West Sixty-seventh stroot, betwoull” Ninth and Tenth avenues, and, so he testifics, purchased of Steinbach @ policy check or slip for eleven cents. He failed to win a prize and thereupon applied to Justice Bixby, who issued a warrant for Steinbach. The latter we arrested and confined for several days awaiting the appearance of Mr, Forman, whose pres ence Was necessary in order to have the complaint verified. Yesterday the latter appeared in the Harlem Police Court and gave as an excuse for his apparent indifference that threats had been made against both his mother and himself, Justice Bixby thereupon required Steinbach te ive oats J 9000 oe jecce be Appoarauce for trial in the Cou o J Mondera was fund and Mr, Yorman was sent to use of THE JEWISH PASSOVER, HOW THE UNLEAVENED BREAD I3 PREPARET FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL tity ‘mustoRs AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HEBREW FES TIVAL. The most significant of the many celebrations honored by our Hebrew fellow citizens is that com- monly known as the feast of the Passover, significant because to the celebrants it commemorates the rescut of their race from extermination, ‘The deep reli gious ardor with which the devout Hebrew doet tribute to this occasion, therefore, can be understood, It is to him one of the most sacred festivals that the sun ever shone on. He feels himself a unit in the great result of the old escape of the first born from destruction. It was to glorify this escape that the ceremonies, with apart of which this article has to treat, were instituted, The feast of the Passover was instituted by Moses immediately preceding the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. The first celebrations took place on the idth of the first month of the Hebrew spring, when a sacrifice of lambs was made as the sun dipped. The meat, roasted, was eaten on the following night, together with bread from which all teaven had been sternly ex eluded, For the succeeding seven days all bread eaten by the Semites was also unleavened. ‘The cer- emonios preceding the Hebrew Passover are best de- scribed by an excerpt from their own ritual:— PREPARATIONS FOR THE PASSOVER, On the evoning preceding tho fourteenth day of the month Nisun, immediately after the evening service, prior tc entering on any other business wiatsvover, the master of every family is obliged to search the different apartments of his house for lewven bread, gathering all the leaven ‘ying in hls way. Before bo ‘ing the seurch he say: © Lord our God, King of the Univer ub with commandments and commanded us to remove “Blessed art Thou, who bis sanctitied + the leaven.”” He must not speak between the blessing and making the seareh, nor during the seare! ter lie hath done be secures the leaven which he hath gath AML ‘end si Tanner of Teaven that is in my possossiou, which v0 ‘nét seen, nor removed, shall be Dull aud accounted as the dust of the earth,” ‘On the fourtecnth day, after the fourth hour (about ten o'clock in the morning), ail manner of leaven imuyt be Te- fuoved, and that which way gathered. the proceding oven: ing must be burned, the master saying, “All manner of leuven that. is in my poxsession which I have soem and which I buve not seen; which Ihave removed and which f be null and uccounted us the dust If the master be not at home he annuls the leaven whor- ever heis. If the eve of the Passover happens on the Sabbath the soarch is made on tho eve of the 13th (i.e, on Thursday evoning), and everything is removed on the Friday before the Sabbath commences, reserving only two meals for the Sabbath, And after breakfast on the Sab- bath they must shake out the cloth on which they have eaten and put the utensils in the same place where tho others were put and if any leaven be left arter they have eaten, the master annuls it and covers it over with some vessel till the expiration of the first days of the feast and then removes it; but must not (on the Sabbath) give it to a Gentile. If « person find any Jeaven in his house during the Passover, if it happen to be the middie days of the feast, he must remove cit immedi. . ately; but if it be on the holy days he must cover it with some Vessel till night and thon remove it. “On the day preceding the feast (viz., the fourteenth) all the first born fast in commemoration of the deliverance of the first born of the uation, when God smote all the first born of the Egyptians; and In the amidal of the afternoon they say “Answer us, ur Father!” ‘THE AMERICAN PASSOVER. It was in pursuit of some information in regard to this most sacred of all Jewish observances apropos of the Passover sedson that aHeraub reporter went on Friday to find out how the matzas arf baked. In order to do so he visited No. 182 Delancoy street, cor- ner of Attorney, where Meyer Hauptinan conducts a bakery on strictly scientific principles. The baking of the bread, under the supervision of @ noted rabbi, was in progress at the time of the reporter's call. Six or eight individuals, all impregnated with the essence of furious activity, were lighted by the ruddy glow which filtered through the interstices of the oven, in fronte? which silhouettes of men, who looked like demons of the fire, were busied wor- rying with ee which scemed beef much like pitchforks, invisible somethings buried somewhere in the boweis of the leaping, growling, singing 63. ‘Thero were about eleven men engaged in the baking of the metcth meal, They were worried, flurried and floured: The Passover bread is pure dough and water, thoroughly mixed, and then is pounded by a wooden bar, at the end of Which » buman form acts us a lever, impressing the vagaries of his bouncings in the several shapes in which the passive dough takes form. In the second stage the dough passes over into the hands of the manipulator of a hopper. Eventually it becomes a thick roll like white veivet, in which condition it is shot into a something which looks like a printing press. What goes down as a sheet of dough about twenty-four inches wide and thirty inches long comes out in punctured disks. About half a dozen boys sit around the shoot through which the imatzas, this their primitive condition, pass, As soon as the urchins gather in their little handtul of the sacred a they burry off to the innermost recesses of the bakery and return to their original siab the relics which they have pilfered trom the first turnout of the matzas. And so it goes on from first to last. Nothing is lost, nothing is wasted. THE BAKING. As fast us the circular cakes are evolved from the machine they are picked up by the dexterous wield- ers of the long-handied pi les and immédiately shot into the red mouths of the two gaping ovens. They ure allowed to beat there three minutes, and then the Passover bread is achieved, ‘Two or three doors abové the bakeshop is the place where the goods are stored. While the proprietor was showing his establishment to the reporter an opportunity was taken to examine this warehouse, in which wag stocked the chief Passover means of subsistence of our local Hebrews. The most curious place of all was the packing room, There in serried arrays, running back like seats in a theatre, were masses of crackers. In the salesroom there was 9 measuring scale resembi. that in which a mau stands to ascertain his weight, and here the crackers were piled up until they met the require- ment of the buyer. They were sold at eight cents a pound and eighty cents a package. Tho meal which comes from the atirition of the cakes is purchased by the poorer portion of the Jewish community, who are anxious to observe the festival but have not the means to celebrate it in the manner they would wish, ‘The proprictor has already baked 450 barrels of flour, and expects betore the festival 1s over to consume as loast three times that amount. ‘ DEDICATION OF A CHURCH. St. Michwel’s (Roman Catholic) Church, a handsome brick edifice recently completed, on Bellevilie ave- nue, Newark, wasdedjcated yesterday with impree sive ceremonies in presence of a e COl ation. Bishop O'Reilly, a Springtcld, Stas, Comiciated principally at the dedicatory servico, while Bishop Co: of Newark, calebrated pontifical high masa, ‘The dedicatory sermon was preac! by Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn. COURT CALENDARS-THIS DAY. Suraeme Count—Cnambers—Held by Judge Dono- hue.—Nos. 17, 51, 56, 60, 63, 67, 88, 89, 97, 99, 105, 107, 124, 165, 181, 193, 206, 217, 216, 225, 227, 230, 232, 238, 240, 241, 247, 249, 47, 52, 63, 64, 66, T1, 36, 95, 96, 101, 103, 126, 162, i71, 174, 178, 180, 196, 204, 216, 217, 215, 231, 234, 235, 289, 242, » 245, 246, 248, 250, 251, Surneme Covrtr—Srecia Tenm—Held by Judge Van Vorst.—Case on, No. 878, Hollins vs. Morris et al. No day calendar, SUPREME Count—Crnourr—Part 1,—Adjourned for the term, Part 2—Held by Judge Lawrence.—Nos, 1151, 829, 4340, 2291, 2135, "86';, 2318, 1666, 2620, 1T75%, 18, 1956, 2900, 1890, 551, 2140, 2878,. 2874, 1522, 3711,e2736, 4396, 2764, 4340, 4177. Part 3-Hold by Judgo’ Van 'Brunt.—Nos. 3688, 1873, 12)4, 2970, 2071 3165, 25 2591 79, 2082, ia a a 8175, 3176, 3177, 4178, 9182, 3183, 8145, 3187, 3191. a oa Count—Gaskua Tuum.—Adjourned sine SUPER) Count—SreciaL TERM—! Speir.—No. Surenion Count—Taan ‘Trum—Par Adjourned ge the term. Sommor eNERAL Txnm.—Adjourned for the term. Common PLeas—Srxcian Tenm—Held by Chief Justice C. P, Daly.—No day calendar. Common og TE ‘mum—Hold by Judge Van Ho Nos. 12, 16, 7, 2 ComMon Pimab—Th 1—Held_; 100, 008, OTH 960, tae TOR Judge Larromore.—Nos. 1796, 968, 977, 980, ¥81, 1975, dual so0T, bos, 1497, 778, 805, 1292," 2004, 172, 17%, 2056, 956, 2090, 2032, 966, 982, S24, $26, 963, 964. “Part tied by Judge J: F. Daly.—Nos. 67, $26, 82, 890, 905, 1744, 1014, 1020, 885, 1025,987, 4115, 920, Yul, 925, 843, 878," 868, 950, Joo, 961, 063, O00, 1601, 1032, "1023, wih Comnt—GeNknaL Tenm—Hold by Judges Shea, McAdam and Goepp.—Appeals from orders— » B, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Ay is from judyments— Now ras f > i. 1 % io 1,13, 13, 14, 16, 1%, + 22, 28, 24, ‘20, % Vount—TRiaL Team—Parts 1 and 2—Ad- sournell for the term. Count oF GENKUAL SkssioNs—Part 1—Held by Judge Gilderslcove.—The Povple ve William: Hennessy, felonious assault and battery ; Same vs, James Maher, felonions assault and battery; Same vs. Samuel Perry, felonious assault and battery; Sane va. Jacob Gorman = Bolg oe lerangg: hia gg Teg IB v8. ‘Thomas Waaner, burglary; va. rs and James O'Neil, burw 'y; Same va, Wdward Smith, lary; Sane vs. James ‘Lompkins, bus y¥; Samo vs. Kdward Coleman, burglary; Same vs. James Smitir aud Owen Callaban, gran why; Same vs. Charles Rlerschaft, grand larceny; Some va. James Cangell, larceny; Same ve. James Viynn, petit larceny, fare 2Held by Judge Cow ing.—-The People vs. Pran- cis Finnegan, felonious assault and battery; Same va. bss pg ohm burglary; Same va. Edward Kyler, burglary; 0 ve. Samuel Husson and Joho n= nen, grand larceny; Same ve, Richard Fitayibbon, John ry, Charles Collins and Lewis Bunson, grand larceny; Same vs. bernard Gilloly, violation of law; Same vs. Anna Stack, violation of Ex- Teamintn—Held by Indgo Charles Bernstein gud Avra cise law. Count or Orre Barrett.—The People ham D, Freeman, arson.