The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-03-16
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

The CHURCHES YrsrERDAY-Our churches
'ere again well filled Yesterday, the Sabbath
cling beautiful and serene. All who ever at
ended church before were disposed to dc 50
yesterday, and the children passed cheerfuly
We took notes at several houses of worship, the
ubstance OF which we here append:
SERVICES AT THE rev. DR. nuTLERs CHURCH.
The services were opened at ~ o'clock last
vening, in this church, on the corner of Eleventh
nd II streets, with singing aud prayer. The
tey. DR.. Butler read part OF the 18th chapter OF
art of the 7th chapter of Acts, commencing at
he 18th verse. The reverend gentleman stated
hat he intended to preach series OF sermons,
4 view of aiding the young In forming their
haracters, &c. He read several verses from the
It'll chapter Of Hebrew, concerning the charac-
cry eloquent sermon. After few Introductory
emarks, he said, life Is worth nothing IL only
sod to perpetuate itself, He referred to Paul,
cad yet spesketh, and said we arc to study the
haracters OF the lives who bear upon the COM
lg Of the kingdom OF Christ, kingdom of JUS
Referring n to tie Bible, he remarked that we
iust have wars and rumors OF wars before the
omas Of that Rngaon HG related the
haroah trembled with HIS power when an East
rn monarch commanded that all male-born
laced him in an ark and east him upon the
rater, under the protection of God, to secure
i'm against those who seeked to destroy him.
ewas turned over to his mother. He said
,tephen tells us that he derived all his educa.
Lon S the but Ss; not %,vs So
hat win they not do in the aturel Mothers,
sSS Of T' Jesus on their hearts, &C., WHAT
.ial 1t was for the mothor of Moses to give him
p to the learned men. The prophet says tn at
,ah's daughter and spurned at the offer OF the
rown, and threw 1t upon the ground, choosing
ither to be a servant Of God.
mall i,.tp ralt any paI IA
the life of Moses while in Egypt, showing
lat he always stood up for right and Justice,
hich was the keynote to his history. The OPP
ression OF Moses was awful, he said, for eighty
ears, forty Of which were spent In Egypt and
,rty In the wilderness, before God appeared unto
i'm In the burning bush. The people of the
Guras. Moses was S1sI man Of eScitS6o pas S
ons, but yielded to the divine command. No
over can withstand that Of Gods, Let US, my
eople, see that we are on the Lords side. 1t Is
My when we write love, charity, Sc., on our
carts and In our laws that we win become
trong in the Lord. God meets out justice to
zen as he did then and to nations the same
loses had the power to turn water into blood
nd did many other mighty things, yet he had
OF the power Of God.
attire life, and died at the age of ono hundred
nd twenty years, forty of which he spent In
syPt, iortXin the wilderness, and forty as a
esutifui poem on the burial OF Moses, to a very
ttentiye audience.
He announced that his subject for next Sab
ath evening would be "the character and life
fJoshua," the successor of Moses.
The services were closed by singing doXology
The choir executed some ehoiee music In an
bic manner.
JEWISH sYSAGoGuE.
The jewish Synagogue on Eighth street, be
yeen II and I, was well hlled yesterday after
1on, to listen to the delivery OF An address by 3
roiL esq, on the life and services of Isaac Lee
". Mr.. Wolf 70 a pleasant speaker, and he'd
ldress. We regret that our space does not per
1t us to give the address entire.
The speaker said that both pleasant and pain
duty devoved upon him-pleasant because hi
as permitted to c0ptributc his feeble efforts tt
20 praise of so good q man, and painful because
man so sincerely beloved and grievously
ronged should have been cut on stthe age wher
sseryiees and talents were most needed.
Isaac Lesser was no ordinary man rev OF MI
,tempoTaries had less advantages OF education
influential surroundings. Poor in purse, un
sssessr nf
m with extraordinary powers OF language, ant
hat he lacked of scholarship was more THAI
ade up by broad, deep, and fervent humanity
,wAs al anomaly when his religion was con
mined, and his motives migjudged, Forty years
%, when LeessF commenced his labors, thu
raelits were few. and the public press unspar
e In Its oriticismj when Jewish orphan asylum
d hospitals were yet Embedded In their nativ,
larries; when the order OF Ben Berth had no
/ rIpenel Into plan OF charity, and when tn,
raeIites were mere cipher publicly ant
Under these circumstances Isaac Lesser com
Pnced his Iabors In the cause OF Judaism an,
ue humanity. lie was the pioneer lsrselite o
portunities to be public benefactors, or prov,
r faith by private acts OF charity and kindness
1t how few embrace the occasion. We are &C
lbraced with the material that the spiritual