The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-12
LYRIC HALL.
The Great Events of tho Past Summer-Ser.
mon by the Rev. O. Is. Erothinshag.

The Great Events of tho Past Summer-ser.
mon by the Rev. q. h. Rockingham.
The Rev. O. B. rockingham resumed services at
his hall, Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street,
yesterday morning. The congregation was nearly
as large as on ordinary occasions, and the choral
part OF the service even better than usual.
Mr. rockingham chose as the subject OF his dis
course "Wisdom." After c0ngratulating his nock
on their safe return from the country he remarked
that although the summer had been an idle one to
him and them vast changes had been wrought on
the other side of the sea- Thrones, said he that vc
supposed were founded on rock have been totterlnX
to the earth; the whole map OF Europe has been re-
cast, and during all the mighty events that
have been going on we have not been able to enjoy
the peace OF the country or the grandeur OF the
summer season. Every week, every day we have
lived the excitement OF tumult. 1t is the dread
full privilege that modern men may enjoy that
we cannot escape from the sufYerings and sorrows
and agonies OF all our kind. Our forefathers had
moments OF rest. There were hours when they wero
not compelled to feel, when their hear-strngs vera
not torn. The great events came to them slowly,
and when bad tidngs reached them from over the
water the distance had already deadened the shock,
and the calamity that raught with destruction
10 nation hardly stirred ripple the stream OK
society. How different now The telegraph wires
are knit In each one OF our heari.strings nothing
happens that
AN ELECTRIC THRILL
does not dart through each one OF our b0soms.
There Is no escape for It, Human we are ana human
lee ourselves to be- and II Is only through faith
and hope and love that we keep ourselves from
being overwhelmed by the pillows that sweep over
u.s. When summer began the Pope OF Rome was
ready TO announce his lnfaibiity with all the pomp
and show imaginable, and the declaration was SO
made. Every effort to make 1t unanimous ard uni
versai was put forth, and before the supreme coun
Gil the successor OF ST. Peter and the vicar Of
Christ on the earth raised visions OF spiritual
supremacy such as the able5t or his predeccs-
sofs had never entertained. He seemed TO
checked and doubt and disbelief reOuked; schsm
crushed inidelty baniShcd, expelled and brought
to nothing. He seemed 10 see himself and his
Church controlling the State, education, the civil
Institutions ruling over all the Ideas and controlling
the interests Of mankindoneg great spiritual power
and that his own word Scarcely has the sound Of
that proclamation gone forth than hear that his
throne Is menaced, II not utterly destroyed; the
army on whose support lie depended taken away;
the Emperor who was his best friend a captive.
The one nation IN Europe which his reliance
careless of what becomes OF him,
HIS DOGMA CRITICISED
within his own Church. and he hears the council OF
his own ADVISERS telling him 10 leave the imperial
city and become himself an exile 1lat very Pro-
teSiantlsn npon which ne thought he had set his
sea! once and forever rises In the person OF King
and nation that represents IL as IT'S crowniug prin-
ctple and has overshadoWed All Europe with us tre-
mendous power. Al the beginning OF the summer
! an emperor was preparing FOR stroke which was
10 consolidate MS authority over France forever and
! TO establish bis dynasty the French throne.
win endless plotting ana schemiug and chlcanery,
| with b0unclesS AMBITION, VITA Il trained and prac-
WHICH was TO make France supreme In Europe,
WHERE IS lie NoWY
! HIS throne overturned, his dynasty ut an end for
ever, hmEen captive. His images are torn down