The New York herald., 1870-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES IN NEW YORK.

There was o meeting OF Second AdventisW
yesterday morning and also In the afternoon az
room No. "a at the Cooper Institute. The attend
ance, as usual at these meetings, was not very
large; put Elder ]. B. Cook the speaker, was lis
tened to with most attentive interest. HIS morning
subject was 1.-The One Faith Illustrated for the
basis OF which was selected as text the eleventh
chapter Of Hebrews. In the afternoon 'The Ecu.
menical Council" was the selected theme for reli-
gious disQuistion. At the hands OF the dscoursfhg
Elder the Pope and Pontinoal potentates at Rome
did not come In for q very nattering notice.
At the st. Johns Methodist Episcopal church, in
Fifty-thrd street. near Eighth avenue there were
two services respectively IN the morning and even-
ing. Mr.. Samuel Holsted, leader OF the Praying
Band. conducted the exercises composed princi.
pally OF prayer ana singing, In which nearly all pre-
sent participated with lively zeal.
OmlttlnH his usual line OF sunday diScourpes OF
prophetic character touching the alleged speedy ter
miaasi0n OF suDunary affairs. Bishop snow yester-
day afternoon treated his auditors ut the New York
"Baaam and His Donkey as Types" which he treated
with new zeal and renewed eloquence.
AT the John street Methodist Episcopal Cnurch
Rev. VIM. r. C0rblt, the pastor, preached morning
and afternoon sermon. The attendance was unusu-
REV. Wayland Hoyt, OF Brooklyn, delivered last
evening religious discourse 10 young men 1t the
Young Mems Christian Association Building, corner
OF twenty third street aud Fourth avenue. He mad
large audience and was listened to with earnest
attention.
There were large congregations yesterday morning
aud evening In the Howard Rooms, corner OF SixSn
avenue aud FOrty-second street. Rev. ). N. John
so o. was ns
young people, the subject being ''Ihe SIX VICES oi
'N Yesterday the usual three O'Clock afternoon
religious exercises took place In the new and COM
mod0us chapel OF the Five Points House 0f Industry
There were several short but spirited addresses anu
the singing oy the CHOIR OF wv caildren was Ike
wise BplrlLed.
ut the Five Points Mission, there being several ad-
dresses and SINGING by large body of children IN
the morning aud evening there was preaching mere,
Al the Greene street Methodist Episcopal church.
herWeen Br0eme aud Spring streets. sermons we're
preached, morning and evening. by Rev. a. \.
Sanford the pastor. The evening service was l0l-
lowed BY prayer meeting.
At half-past Two O'CLOCK, IN the afternoon. IN tne
e key e. sna pose on
Monthly Review" There was preaching also N tne
evening.
Two sermons by two different ministers were
preached yesterday In the Jane street Methodist
Episcopal church. The preacher IN the morning
was Rev. W. Il. Ketchum and IN the evening Rev. d.
Rev. J. s. Willis preached yesterday morning In
the seventeenth strees Metno Episcopal church
on ''fhe neat and the Iares,n ana In the evening
on ''Tne DIVINE Splritn
The new pastor elect OF the Berean Baptist
church, corner or Bedford and Downing Streets
Rev. Philip L. Dawes lately Of the Tabernacle church,
Camden, N. j., preached there yesterday two scr
mons one IN the morning ana the otner III the even
Ing.
Under the auspices OF the American Christian Mis-
son. whose object Is 10 promote Christian work at
home instead OF enaeay0rng TO evangelize the
neatnen, there was public meeting neld last
evening at st. Paul's Reformed Dutch church
Fortletn street. between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
There was large attendance, and addresses dellv-
cred by Rev. William p. Sabln, Rev. George Min
gins, superintendent Of New York City Missions;
Rev. Alfred Z. koe secretary Of the Mission and
Rev. A. II. Thompson, pastor OF the church.
Rev. Nathaniel w. ConKling, OF Rutgers Presby-
terrain church, corner Madison avenue and Twenty
ninth street, repeated by request his sermon last
evening on "Tae DIVINITY or Christ" There was .
large and attentive congregation.