The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-27
Opening Of Chrfst Church. Murray Hail.
Induction OF Episcopal Services


Induction OF Episcopal Servtcos-
According 70 public announcement, the church recently
occupied by society Of Bap. lists in the Fifth
corner Of Thirty fifth street, yesterday morning
opened for divine service according TO the rites Of the
church Of England called The beautiful building was
crowded with fashionable and attentive congregation;
great the rush for seats that after the early
part Of the morning service there pew
deal boards brought into requisition afford ac
commodation in the aises-and eventually the doors had
be closed to the ngress Of persons than
the church could possibly contain. Under all circum
stances the building crowded TO excess.
The Rev +. s. Wiley rector, performed the morning
service and read the Lessons the conclusion or which
the communion service Was performed BY the rector
and pr. Tying
The seventy ninth selected psalm then SUNG
With consent let all the earth
To God their cheerful voices raise
Glad homage pay with awful niifth,
And sing before him songs OF praise.
The Rev. Dr. TYING Of st. Georges church, S,uyvesant
square then delivered eloquent argumcntaveand inn.
prcssve discourse The reverend gentleman selected his
text from the 10th chapter Of ST. Mark the 18th
And he said unto them go ye into all the world and
preach the Gospel TO every creature" This said the
reverend gentleman the divine commission Of the
uistyhe work that they have to do,hc great business
upon which they into the world Their duty was
to proclaim the glad tdngs Of salvation 10 every
whom the message might come. And the great privi
cge of under the Gospel is to hear the glad tngs:
tnd further, II was privilege which he has right 10
demand and TO insist upon. whatsoever may be per
that shall to him the ambassador Christ il
l. the will Of God that he shall hear for him 10 know
what the things that freely given to him by God
have the aud the which
hese glorious tdngs Of salvation and peace give him.
that these opportunities Of delivering and hearing the
ncs Of love may and more abound the purpose
# collecting congregations and erecting churches,
for the instruction and salvation Of man and
consecrae that church--to make IL the place where
Christ shail be lifted mp tho great Saviour Of manto
gi,e sinful man the opportunity Of casting himself
the fountain Of His blood-that they had
there unite in prayers aud praise. What passage of
scripture could then be appropriate to the
than the divine command-'Go We forth into all nations
and preach the gosper There circumstance under
which il gathered Astounding light to assist in the inter.
probation Of the words sgad tdngs." As the disciples
stood around their Lord and witnesses OF his pas-
SON. they became the more capable to set forth tho first
of redeemng love; for the facts Of his
pcrencc aud the manifestations IL his glory the
subject of their to mankind And the close
q his earthly ministry, they stood around him, reooec
lions before them Of the scenes he had passed
through, and of the beniicence with which he had
dafed his sorrows The truths OF his life, his suffering,
his DEATH his glorious resurrection and asccnsion-a
these facts which paipabe 20 the early apostles and
witnesses the glad tidngs which they had preach
and to 90 into the distant lands repeat the story
over and over again. II their province and their duty
tell the guilty who lost In sin, that In the same
manner so would he be purged and purified by the great
Saviour who had died him. There the INCREASING
legation laid upon them oand continues from age age
of publishing the gospel the story OF Christ himself
things done for tho guilty and the things that he able
and willing TO do for the believing These facts contained
the glad tidngs Of salvation and under the acconpanyn
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unto salvation" But these tdngs could only be caei
glad In moral and spiritual sense, for there glad
IN the su1erDgs Of Christ and his holy apostles
sidercd absiractly. bot when IL viewed spiritually
how different the Every action in the life
suffering Of the Saviour Showed itself powerful tn
means towards mans deycrance from the bondage o.
and death that beyond suffering and sorrow af
fiction aud death, there would be happiness ia the
world TO come That wonderful power OF the Reecmcr
shown In the bursting OF the bars Of death. aud
e .sss-s ' i..rh-. eiars n".s u'e darkness of the
ne wit.
ness Of the truth, but the triumphant leader
q The armies Of God, ,reading the vino press Of
that brings IN Christ the representative God,
the whole history becomes instinct with gospel power.
What Law could do for through the weakness
Of human flesh, tina, hath God done for the human race
through Jesus Christ The reverend gentleman then spoke
Il the nature cf Christ, showing his equality with tho
Father In the Godbead What character save God him.
sell dared say, the lowy Jesus said 10 Martha an
tho resurrection and tho dc The highest arcbsngc cf
God becomes bis pLcner if he nsde u words like
these. q win not give NJ, glory another said the
mighty jehovah ages before thee words uttered
upon earth, and nothing but the essential ip,y "a
Christ can interpret their meaning The reverend
tenar then alluded to the peculiar ~ the Uns
risns and boldly condemned them. lasc philosophy
might eel mp notions which had ground in Cod word,
Int tbs could not prevail against The truth The Mao
Reans, N their dci.ucc II the unity II the Deity almost
far necessary 10 the ground. II
enough 60 shock the Christian whcn b. reflected the
nsabe Ihantasics which would give lhc divine Saviour
no higher place in the scheme % redemption than
that 81 mere man. No. Il could not h.. Dot when He
came nlo tho world Il WIS said. Z. ~ ~ the angee
&C tod worship him.. aud, s1by throne o God = for.
and ever; and these sounds akcn by the
gels with their celestial rumpet he then spoke II the
yatious sulefings q Christ and hi. triumph the
Powers &C darkness; Tor al his resurrection he said IN
90 e. Look 10 aud be saved all ~ ends o. the earth.
for afn Cod, and there Is else And thus the
tbr tan. With the soul of patient child believes, while
tic anxious spirit folds Ne wings like weary dove. and
Ia, itsclf Sotly down al Jesus Nor the sui
lerngs Of the saviour Manifestations Every step
~ BIZ evcniu life was necessary ~ the Frca plan &C
salvation In conclusion. the reverend gentleman spoke
alphabetically the duties 81 the ministers ~ The church
IL God They not lecturers Cor lncns gratih
CATION Such an office too They alnbas
sdars Cor Christ, else they iTo~torsihcy
diy.uely called end sent else they WE'RE miserable
hyteefi,eS, ready 90 he spucd q the mouth 81
aVrngug saviour To those who believed they were
of life unto life, ami o tho nbcirying saver 0f
death INTO death. Standing firmly the ground OF this
Office they prayed mankind be rec0nrei 10 God
that llillc children they might h. made
Isrtakcrs ~ heaven. Tho word gospel
wonderful term. the cry Of hcrads calling the
multitude 10 listen on The approach II the king,o preach.
"a tell, 10 proclaim. The message plain aud
awul ono: "fIe that bclieveth and baptized shall b.
saved he That bccvc,h shal b. damned lie dared
interpret these words tho Solemntv spoke for self
lie blessed God for the occasion that bad brought them
together that day Tor consccratng that church 70 God for
the proclamation OF salvation Long may the minister
appointed To watch thcm--icar him IN the hope
hs calling beloved son-be spared 10 declare those
INDY ng truths of the blessed Gospel " Cod aud may the
time approach when there shan ne csrange
ncnt but all may be gathered into te Ssviours bosom
AVID made paE'skis q his glory. fake heed then that