New-York tribune., 1870-04-25


indeed the past by sad experience but who can & tei
man himself ALI those complicated questions
OF honor and money which daily ana hou, when we
sneak the words of the text that are 70
govern ourselves without the aiu anu .n, ctdhood
There IL In this human nature OF ours from c%n % ,pa
until old age disposition resort to helps ana .ne
Kindness OF Others. Who cans hop US s Du. have VIZ
hat ne cannot snppyf our intellectual wants mas ne
not supplied them Who makes tne heos gou tb tba
ars sG and clothed the earth With beauty And those
religious wants, those yearInngs oi be so iargcrs
as wSil as wants But God holds them all in check They
cannot go farther than he wishes Ihere may ne po
but we must remember that He who sits In the heavens
laughs at the 1 are thew
when God protects youi Have we peIs; we can con con,
is bonrhf for us The future ought TO be as bright as
noonday to us. There is day that dawns In winch
he does not guard YOU He will ever ever to the very
end be faithful unto you He VIII lead you .nrout t
the valley Of the shadow of death yet would he not for
sake you. We sorrowful to-day because ppu mas
esSe Let MS believe that upheld by tho love of
Father the ntercesson of Saviour and the eneour
en- ain understanding shall st remain and abide with
us and lead us onward toward that heavenly land.
wOMAN's MISSION.
A discourse on WoInan's Mission was de-
lvered last evening by the Rev. r NJ Walton at tne
IRXlngtOnaNe.
st. The reverend gentleman selected his text rom
Acts * &c. He said that woman, in ages past had hed
places in the world OF trust and responsibility Queen
Elizabeth loved her kingdom and guarded tne InteiesS
OF the PrOtestants well as the shores OF
Catharne ruled with masculine hand and Joan OF Arc
marshaed armies in the field, and Isabella " ng9teu
Catholic and Queen Vetoria-the WIFE, ana the inolnel
and the QueeI~had each performed acts and duties when
would enrave their history upon the tablets OF he Woa
and would constitute OF the questions OF the DAY,
and that What was the relation OF women 10 ,ne
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rights in another sensein the sense OF her reaonshp
TO the church and her responsibilities to the church ana
and how far and in what manner they should be used
Woman had to some extent forgotten TO tne
ship to the Christian Church and especially TO e her
own sex Outside OF Christianity women ne re,fd9 %er9
had elevated them, and rendered their elevation
possible to their true position in which God had va
enter the religious field and accomplish great good, IN
patSy but she did not manifest that tenderness and
sympathy for the relief of human suffering that their
partners had d0e I0ey ar Serd Per the s so He
had objection to the ladies dress neatly and tasn
This was great evil he reOiced TO know that better
things expected. Woman had not so much thought
1t was true that the Church was to some extent
accountable for this, for they had neglected the the
lords kingdom. lie had found that women could run
places business and sell well as men, II not better
They had found that women had gone so far as 10 open
business in Wast. and theaters had also been estab-
shed in Philadelphia and he knew further than this,
that operas and all concerts would lose thelr enars
and would fail if it not for the talent OF women
They also became rsrate lawyers doctors and author
esses and where several women had mounted the pulpit
they speedily filed the churches to overhowlng me
churches should be UP ana doing ana shoad
list the ieryid and warm support , OF women Women.
ing 10000 women and this showed that they could,
if properly nurtured speedily be led TO take the field TO
evangeze the world and lead them into the way or sal
vaton Let them by all means be enlisted IN the service
of the Church They succeeded admirably in everything
i'm which they engaged let them work III the yneyar OF
the Lord and gather in the harvest that is ripe for the
| sickle.
TWO PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETIES UNITE.
Two Presbyterian congregations up town
have formed Church, called the Murray Hill Presby
teran Church The house of worship of the united
gregation continues be the old Forteth-st Church.
Lexngton-ave. The conjunction Of circumstance
which led 70 the union was that the Ebenezer Church
had no proper house ' Of worship, the eongre
while the Old Fortiethst- Church Congregation has
deprived Of its pastor By the designation moi OF the
Mr.. Anam has been In falling health for long time, and
IL was thought that tour In Europe would recuperae
him, He accordingly went abroad, but stl his
health declined and in last september he felt 1t neces-
teTy however thinking their pastor might recover did
Chambers who Ofciated for the Ebenezer CongTega-
united church The services commenced at n O'Clock.
sermon from the Words in the last chapter Of Matthew
"Lo am with you always, even unto the end OF the
banded about in our days-by with devotion and
intelligent reverence, by others with unmstakabe dis
affection. Those words were Chrlstlanlty and the
Church Sometimes and by certain class the former
is veed and obsered under another name
and the of spiritual apathy and death broken
sometimes by the cry that Professionalism is failure
When heard say that Professionalism which, prop
ery considered IL synonymous with Christianity,
failure, he could not but regard II as bold basphemy
against God. AS veil might Gods sunlight when some
times obscured called failure The real root Of the
evil lay in not recognizing sufficiently Christ real and
personal presence with the Church. - -
The Rev Dr. Alexander followed with statement ofthe
taken previous TO the installation Commission
ers sd from the ortehs Church and the EbeneZer
Church appeared before the Presbytery in relation TO
the proposed union of the two Churches into The
the two Churches Or last Monday night this Commits
sion met and by solemn vote declared the two Churches
The Rev Geo s. Chambers. The Rev. Mr. Chambers was
hero called before the pulpit and the usual interroga-
Then ser of nterrogatons put to tho congTega
ton, which they answered by holding up their hands
Le Rev. d. Alexander then delivered charge to the
pas1 touching the right OF performance or his
& aGs &e wee nest s nsed q TeS
are who were the corresponding church officers
The Rev. Dr. Thompson again offered PRAYER after
which the Roy Dr. Murray, TO whom the duty had been
asgned by tbe Presbytery delivered the charge to the
coneTegaton. The new pastor then gave out two
o the +Sth Hymn and the services wess ased
with benedlctAon.
THE BAPTIST LAY-PREACHING ASSOCIATION.
The second anniversary exercises of the
Baptist Lay Preaching Association held in the
chapel G1 the First Baptist Church. Parka. near For
tieth-st yesterday afternoon. Chas F. Goodwin pre-
sided NJ Jones read portisn of Scripture end Brother
Judson 0s in prayer. The Rev. Dr. Anderson delivered
an eloquent and stirring address in behalf OF the
The aDnll report was next read which shows that up
u November last, the 18th month OF lis exist there
were 80 .bers and three stations Ia these three
tions thene were 200 addresses made Sine) Novem-
be- there have been important additions to its
membership and two more stations formed. So the
work goes zvey and is the poreer OF Others. Ii is
portions OF this CITY, Short addresses were ade by
bers r. Hanson who inter2s sting account
of the origin o. this association, AMI the why IL
was called the lay Preaching Assocaton and Nj C.
verhezer who said there are two characters who stand
forward history prominently lay preachers, Of
secular history, B. e. 400, Socrates by naue, and the
mher Oh rist who model lay preacher.