Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-01-24

uob bnV Dehuty OF isaac ne was NOT u
promising son, and ldinodern times because
some children arc not promising, therefore
they are neglected. But take the history Of
the world and you Will find this 10 be true,
that some OF the brightest lumlnarles in the
armament OF art, and science, and govern.
ment In their boyhood were dull. In proof
OF this, DR.. Newman referred to many STIR
ing instances In history.
In reply to presumptlons that this deceit
and falsehood Of Rebecca initiates against
the bible he said that nowhere In the bible IL
kebeeca claimed TO be a saint; and we should
remember that tho wickedness she practlced
was reprehenslble In the sight OF God.
Truthfulnees should be inseparable from
womanhood. Paley has saidi al have sell
dom met person who has dlsregarded truth
In trihes who IL to beintrusted with matters
Of great Importance and Il was 10 the
triaes OF life that the speaker would call
their attention.
Lastly, DR.. Newman considered the re-
trlbutive disasters brought out In this great
transaction. God Almighty In his solemn
marches through tho world, and II the lsr
tdlioniS IL suspended on earth, J. must DO en-
forced In heaven. Perhaps he could not
sustain the asseyeratlon, but he thought that
history and biography and observation would
support him In this remark "that every
crime you commit against fellow.man,
some time In your life that crime will be
committed against you"
A closing thoughts How beautiful tho be-
Elnning-how sad the end Of Rebecca's life.
God alone knows the future. Lot young
women be reminded that there Ia only ono
hope, and that hope Ia God; and lot their
faith repose In him who stickeLh closer than
brother.
GRACE CHURCH.
Grace church, corner OF Ninth and d
streets, Island, Waa crowded to Overlooking,
and hundreds were compelled TO turn away
last night, II having been announced that
the Right Rev. 7. II. Atkinson, bishop
Of North Carolina, would administer the
sacred rite OF confirmation 10 large num-
Der OF candidates. Tho bishop preached from
Second Corinthians. vii . 10i "For Cody
sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not
to be rsponted OF" The necessity for re-
pontRnce had, he said, been tho theme OF
those who preached the gospel for ages. The
teachings OF Christ, our Divine Master, wero
largely OF Tepentancei John the Baptist and
Paul had also preached IL.
Amer showing the necessity Of repentance,
he proceeded to the inquiry! What Is repent
ance1 Neither sorrow for sin nor the fear
Of Its consequences, although both were
proper and both urged In the Bible, were re-
was about TO receive the punishment for his
crime, was not truo repentance. He sad
the painful presumption was that death-bed
repentance was OF this class. Neither was
romorse repentance. Remorse was feeling
Of pain which We feel after commission Of a
wrong, but II doos not lead US TO abandon
our evil course. We have reason to believe
that remorse Is one OF the means Of future
punishment for the wicked.
Confession was not repentance. OF this
we had q striking example In the case Of
Judas. He had remorse and he confessed
himself TO tho chief priests and elders.
There were those who believed because they
have privately confessed under the highest
seal Of secrecy to q priest, that they have re-
pented, but this man confessed openly before
all these chief men, yet we knew Of him and
Of him only that he was lost there was
possibility that every other man might have
been saved. Something may have occurred
behind the curtain which we cannot and
should not strive TO raise, but this man Paul
had called the son OF perdltlon, and Christ
had said OF him, II were better for him had
he mover beeu born. Yet this man was sorry
aud sought 70 repair the consequences Of his
sin, He then proceeded 10 define cody sor-
row, and quoted the language OF Daniel,
who exclaimed, notwithstanding his crimes
against his felloW-men, against thee, and
thee only, have l slnned," as expressive OF
the comparative magnitude Of his Sins
against Almighty God.
Cody sorrow was not repentance. Cody
sorrow worketh repentance. The workman
was not the work. The architect was not
the buildlng. Tho sculptor was not the
statue. Repentance was O renewal Of the
mind. This was the repentance preached by
John the Baptist, by Paul, aud he who was
greater than Paul. Il should be our con-
slant effort 10 DO delivered from tho power
Of Sin.
At the close Of the sermon he proceeded to
the confirmation of the candidates, forty In
number, o large proportion Of whom were
females.
Tho services throughout were Of o very
solemn and impressive character.
Bishop Atkinson also administered the
rite OF confirmation yesterday TO twenty-one
candidates at St. Marks memorial chapel,
on Capitol Hill, and also TO number at the
Church Of the Epiphany in the afternoon.