New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-03

sinner thai repeDethn At least half the congregation
are away in the country.
The Rev. Henry r. Montgomery, pastor Of the
Church Of the Incarnation OF Madison avsnue,
of TweI tyeighth street preas ed yesterday morning
and evening. The church has been closed but one
Sabbath The church was about half filed and the
audience made up largely Of strangers.
CHURCHES IN BROOKLYN.
The cool and delightful weather yesterday served to
fiji the streets with church and those sancuaries
that during the Summer months had been cioS'a WHO
their pastors and congregations were out OF town,
were yell flied and the Rev A. d. Northrup resumed
his labors in the Park Congregational Ch"Tc' al'es
soiourn In Europe of few moths.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
IT.. po,, Henry Ward Beecher having returned
of,er b;s Summers vacation, commenced preaching
a;n YESTERDAY morning. II is useless to say that the
obrrcb uas crowded That is the rule, the very rare
sxception being to find any empty seat or even stand
;rO room The text on which the morning dlscon 'se
us based il part Of the II of the ith chap
of st. Paul's Epistle to tle Ephesians:
May grow up into him. in all things which is the
The apostle. said Mr.. Beeeher was stimulating a
stfe for fulpess of character and calling the disciple
10 Christien life which should be permanent broad,
and noble In this character are i've elemens persua-
SO, coOperOnanu harmony,
power, and lastly permanence. This wolk Of Christ
In the sou is 10 include every emsnt IN the soul ana
every element in human life. Some men think only Of
religion as something which gives them title to III ca
ven: as If the devil sneakiDg thing going
about 10 snatch from man his title to property. Or
as if man had estate, TO which another claimant
arose. The case ia contestEd and the who holds
the estate is adudged TO have it righ6uly. lie goes
back bome-is the estate improved are the fences re-
paired are the fields more fruitful No, 1t is the
same thistle grown old estate that it wac; but the man
reiocts and says, "Now know II il mine for have
got title" Other look on religion as provision
for the iuu like little estate laid by snugy for Them
10 which if ANYTHING should happen, they may retire
by and by, and enjoy themselves Still other mems
religion bears about the relation TO their whole
life szd character that farmers garden does TO his
whole farm Here he has finer vegetables and fruits
"a if anywhere flowers while all the fields are full
of marketable commodities. great many persobs
have gardens of pisty while the large fields of their
character are without flower or fruit. A man can
not parcel Off little place and say, here will have
my pety, and out there will have my business and
my politics it may DO in farming, but not in religion
There nus be Chris anization Of the SOUL ard Of
each of its separate faculties Worship must be Chris
tanned Under ancient influences churches have been
darkened aud worship made sombre and gloomy.
The outward life mu, alsO be made 10 conform to the
inward and both be regulated By the divine la q.
Mr. Beecher briefly skeche the progress of this work
in The soul and the nearness which attained TO
true whole Christian ieso as to almost foresee the
IN IRE and heavenly existence.
TIE communion service closed the morning exorcises.
There was preaching in the evening as Mr. Beecher
is lsbOIng under severe caaIh, rendering il very
difficult for him TO speak.
The Rev. A. A. Wilets, pastor of the Joralemon-
street Dutch Reformed Church, resumed his labors
yesterday.
The South Congregational Church, the Rev. Rufus
W. Clark pastor, was reopened, and the services at
tended by a very large congregation.
At the church on the Nights, the Rev. James Eels
preached in the morning and afternoon.
Services in the Mtlodia Churches were CONDUCTED
as usual having been uninterrupted by the heat Of the
Summer
CHURCHES IN WILIIANISBURGH
Many Of the churches in Wllismsburgh that have
been shut for the past six eight weeks were re-
opened yestesday-amoDg others, the New England
Congregational Church, the R7v. w. X. Tompkins
pastor, the Second Universalist Church, corner of
South Third and Fourth streets the Rev. ID. Peters,
and the Third Univsrsalist Church, at Geenpont the
Reformed Dutch Church, in Fourth street and St.
James's (colored), in Rem.en etreet.
THE RREPREssIBLE STREET PREACHER.
With the resumption of Divine worship yesterday,
after the close of the Summer solstice Edward Fal
coner the well-known and irrepressible temperance
lecturer and street preacher again maze bis appear
in that open tabernacle the Park and commenced
dilatng to crowd on the virtue and blessings of pure
Croton. At first his congregation was rather mcager
but as he waved warm on the subject Of una1ulter
s'ed Cioton,' his hearers Augment in point of nun
hers. Such affembages being in open violation of the
Ia w. the officer stationed in the Park reported the mat
ter at headquarters AID received instructions to appre
bend Falcorer which he did without delay. The &C
cused was taken before Justice Secrs aud held 10 bail
in the sum Of 1900 the charge of violation Of
the City Ordinance relative to the assembling of
crowd in the pubG, high way.