The New York herald., 1869-05-03
ST. PAUl,s REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH.

Interesting Dedicatory Services by Rev. Cham
ceIlor Ferris, Rev. DIR. Eddy and Others.
This elegant place of worship, situated on For
tieth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, was
dedicated to the service OF God yesterday morning.
The building Is OF fair size and substantial in ap-
pearance, while the church proper in its finish is
marked with exceeding simplicity, yet with such
exquisite taste, as to elicit words OF commentator
from the congregation who participated in the
solemn proceedings. The pulpit which Is quite
spacious and elegantly furnished. was made addi-
tionaly attractive by being decorated with
large bouquets and baskets of rare ex-
otics, arranged with great artistic taste, two
OF these floral contributions having distinctly
displayed the words Jehovah Jesus" and "Jesus
Only' their centres, while outside OF the railing
and directly oppos te the head OF the main aisle
there rested another beautiful specimen OF floral
skill, being an anchor emblematical OF Hope, OF
mammoth proportions. The effect OF these decora-
tions was very pleasant. The pastor, DR.. A. X.
Thompson. was assisted in the opening ceremonies
by the Rev. Chancellor Ferris who led the dedica-
tory service by the Rev. Dr. Eddy. OF BROOKLYN, who
preached the sermon ana by the Revs j. b Thomp-
son, of Tarrytown, and Charles ii. whitehead, OF
New York. Passages OF Scripture from the Old and
New Testaments, being portions OF the twentieth
ISAIAH ISAIAH and "' the second chapter Of First
Peter, were read when, after responsiveiy
reading the S7th and 1920 Psalms the venerable
divine, Rev. Chancellor Ferris, arose, and with ex
pressions OF thanksgiving dedicated the house as
place or permanent worship, the Confession or
Faith repeated by the entire congregation standing
and the reverend gentleman's prayer, repete with
purity of thought and solemnity, will neither be
easily forgotten. Dr. Eddy then announced as his
text the twenty-secOnd ana twenty.third verses OF
the first chapter OF Paul's Epise to the Ephesians-
'And hath put all things under his feet, and gave
HIM to be the head over all things to the Church.
Which is his body, the funess OF him that heth all
In al.u This. said the reverend gentleman,
was one OF the apostles strong and sugges-
tive metaphors to unfold the analogy between
the human body and the Church Of Christ. rms
.opening remark was the basis of lengthy,
eloquent and argumentatiye discourse upon the
organization OF the Church, Its primitive condi-
ton and its condition at the present day.
He adverted to and argued with great zeal
that Notwithstanding the many religious sects OF
the world during eighteen centuries had enfeebled
the religion Of Christ and that 1t had been stained
and torn by schisms ana at times covered all over
with the rags OF discord, and despite the assertions
OF the literary prophets OF the day that orthodoxy Is
ghastly death head-that the Church is dead-lt Is
now giving demonstrations OF vitality as great as
when the apostles pleaded to the masses. exhorting
them TO holiness. These modern seers-whose only
recommendation seems to lie in the fact that they
can turn a sentence nicely-tell the world In their
shallow trnngs that faith Is extinct; but shall we
listen 10 their ravngs2 lie would and does brush
them aside, even as the ny whose monotonous bunz
Ill the summer evening simply annoys you.