The New York herald., 1851-11-04

Father Matthew's last Sermon IA the Unis
ted States.
On Sunday morning, Father Mathew preached he
last sermon in this country in the beautiful church Of
Rev Dr. Pise Sidney place Brooklyn After bigh m.s.
Rev Dr. Pise introduced the Apostle OF 10
the congregation He raid at Is with infinite ds,,vbk
i introduce to you Father Mathew His presence thu
day. regard - q very high honor conferred ON this
church. Here before u.s. have Christian philsnthro.
pif-a vsnerated minister of the Catholic religion His
known to the church. and beloved in every quar-
ter Of the civilized world By birth and family he wss
entitled to the highest position among the nobility Of his
native land; but, like true apostle he devoted him
self to the service Of his fellow and the Of the
poor and distressed from their misery. Ills whole life
has been spent In the works Of benevoence and charity
frt in Europe and lastly in this great and glo
rous country where he has raised his pure and poess
banner OF temperance around which thousands and
Thousands Of freemen have voluntarily rallied His
Ieer has been march Of trumph-the triumph of hu-
many and religion He Is laboring under hoarse-
ness, but he will nevertheless address you.n
, Rev Mr. Mathew then took his text from Hsbbakuk,
H. TO- as follows -" The Lord Is in his holy temple let
all the earth keep silence before Him -
The reverend gentleman then sdversed to the temple
that this but type Of the temples and the atars Of
the Christian religion and he argued that the temple
Of Solomon guarded with such strictness that only
the High Priest could enter year and then With
the blood Of the sacrifice his hands with what reye
renee and purity ought the Christian to erter the house
OF Ged, and approach the altar which offered not
the blood Of goats and calves but Of Christ hmsef The
only time that the meek kedeemer showed indgua-
ton at the dehng of his Fathers lple In Jeru
salem How dreadful would be the wrath God a. the
defling Of the still nolier temples of Christianity
After the sermon the Apostle of temperance proceeded
to administer the pledge and called upon all who heaven
inspired had adopted the holy and sslutary resolution
He briefly addressed them and said You make sacr
fee by taking the pledge There is not blessing that
you cannot enjoy without strong drink Almighty God
instituted the first temperance society in the garden
Eden There the pure rivers OF water but there
was no intoxicating drink whstever in Paradise 1t does
not eonduce TO human happiness. Almighty God,
by his prophets and servants, az various times,
and IN divers manners, has condemned the use, CT
rather the abuse Of intoxicating liquors. lie estb-
ished the society OF the Nazerites, Of whose
principles to take strong drink from their very
birth upwards; and the Rechabies, Of whom he said
Of the house OF Rechab for everlasting Now repeat the
words Of the pledge after You shall regret it.
You will only lay the foundation Of your happiness
Tor no man prosper In this republic who
come unto me In your youth is the time to lay the
foundation Of virtue never knew insanc of chil-
dren who took the !edge in their early years. to violate
ip after lfe nrest YOU parents and guardians to
Induce your children to forward If they will take
tie pledge now, they will bring blush to your
face
The Rev gentleman then gave the words of the
pledge Those who took it, repeated II after him fol-
lows 81 promise, with the Divine assistance abstain
from ell intoxicating liquors, including all cordias cider
and malt liz uors, ard to prevent much possible by
advice and example intemperunce in o:heisp
The Rev gentleman marked all who took the pledge,
with the sign Of the and repeated his brief pointed
address to each batch together with the pledge they
came forward In succession. vast number OF persons
enrolled themtelves under the banner of nperance
ard among them persons Of the highest respe liability
After vespers, Father Mathew gave the pledge to
great multitude at st. Paus church in Court rtreet
The people showed the most extraordinary .nihusan
and sevotedness to this good man