The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-27
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Church Services To-Day-Herald Religious Cor
respondence-Religious Notes. Per-
sonal and General
Services To-Day.


viii take for his SUBJECTS morning and evening,
.sEnect OF Italian Unity on the Papacy;" "Catholic
and Protestant Doctrine Compared on the Worship
OF God, Saints Images, &c."
AT the Fifth Unversallst Church, Chickering Hall,
East Fourteenth street. Rev. Charles f. Lee PASTOR
will discourse this morning upon Sir Walter Scott,
the Christian Man OF Letters.
The Rev. Mr.. Cudworth viii preach the First
Uniyersais Mission Church. at Brevoort Hail. Fifty
fourth street. near Third avenue, this afternoon
services 10 commence at four o'clock.
Elder James Bicknen, OF Westmoreland. n. Y, will
preach for the Beuan Particular Baptist Church. 3o3
West Fourteenth street. In the morning at hafpast
ten o'clock and III the afternoon half past three
O'Clock
Bishop Snow will preach IN the University, Wash
ington square this afternoon O'Clock taking
Tor his sub ect 1.-The Future Destiny OF Man and Of
the Earth
Bishop Southgate will preach morning and eveE-
ing in Zion church. Madison avenue of Thir
ty-eghth street, services commencing at halEpast
ten and eight O'Clock.
Tue Church OF the Strangers Mercer street. be-
tween Waverey and Clinton place Rev. DR.. Deenes,
the pastor preacnes at hafpast ten O'Clock In the
morning and at qbarter TO eight CLOCK In the
evening.
There will be preaching morning and evening at
the Central Methodist Episcopal church, Seventh
avenue, near Fourteenth street, by The pastor, Rev.
Andrew Longacre. services TO C0mlnenc at nall
past ten and quarter to eight O'Clock.
Mrs. Sioddaru and Master Hough Will hold q
seance this evening demonstrate the power and
presence OF spirits, at l07 Fourth avenue, COM
menclng at eight O'Clock.
Scripture Homo opnthy-The New SacrR-
mental Theory.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Having noticed IN the HERALD several communi-
cations on baptismal regeneration the writer de-
sircs to present through your columns few ideas
the sacramens from new theory In course Of
preparation 1t is not designed in this article to
criticse the views advanced by any OF your CORE.
spondents nor condemn or uphold the course taken
by any minister OF the Gospel any class OF Chris
tians whose opinions may differ on this subject.
The present Church Is the fuldment of the
promise given our first parents that the
seed OF the woman should bruise the serpents
head, the Church being the visible body OF
Christ "And He is the head Of the body. the
Church, who is the beginning, the first born from
dead, that In all things He might have the pre-emi.
nence." The ark was the type Of the Church. Those
who were In the ark were saved; those without
persisted. As 10y water without faith all men with
out the ark persisted, so by water with faith shall all
be saved in Christ ''The like figure hereunto bap.
tlsm doth also now by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ" Baptism is the door by which we
enter the Church, by which are in Christ and be-
come members OF His body and have everlasting
life ''by the resurrection" 'Know We not that your
bodies are the members OF C1ristr ST. Paul said
to the Corinthians "Be not deceived" for certain
classes OF persons enumerated by him which
embraced "the unrlghteous," to which class
all men belong ''shall not inherit the Kingdom
OF God. And such the said) were OF you, but
ye washed' (baptzed), and being baptized
'are justified in the name Of the Lord Jesus" And
Christ said, The Pharsees and lawyers rejected the
of Cnl fhap,s Qlva. hotn hon
tized But wisdom is justified OF all her children"
AS the door was shut against those In the ark and
they became the elect Of God, secure from all danger
without so those who In Christ are secure from
all danger. "Ihey that trust IN the Lord shall be
Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abideth
forever. The Lord is round about His people from
hencelortn even forever" Christ said, Those
Thou gavest me IN baptsm) l have kept, and none
OF them is lost but the son Of .perdton, that the
Scriptures might be fulflied.' There is Just The
same certainty in the law OF grace as in
tue law Of nature, and that we might
this particular Christ gives the reason why the
son OF perditon was lost-namey, to fudl this very
law, to make the Scriptures complete. Death was
10 be destroyed by death-stletid Sf0lllf6uS c1ra,a
tT." The oeath of Christ which came through the
apostacy OF Judas, Was by tue resurrection" to de-
stroy the death originating in Adam. ''For as in
Adam (Dy The law OF our natural hle) all die, even
shall all made alive' .'Dy the resurrection AS
In the life OF Adam was hidden the seed Of death,
in the deaih OF Christ hidden the seed OF life.
Man Is a compound being, made OF matter and
MIND, having a body ana spirit ana II requires
body TO save body, spirit to save spirit flesh TO
save flesh Except man be born 0: water-the
material and the splrlt-he IMAM cannot
enter into the Kingdom OF Heaven. II there was
nothing out SOU or spirit TO be saved then the spT
have our .he1rts Tor sous) sprinkied from an evil
pare an To S aSea h
not spirit only but body also; therefore, II re-
sp a SSen the 5rs Which
born of the nesn is nesh that which is born OF the
generation is by the material. If the spirit is all
''My spirit shall not always strive with man." Adj
dressing reasonable beings he gives the reason
daIned from the beginning that sinful desh should
be restored redeemed, regenerated by 1.-THE ike
approved OF GOD. Through this man Jesus, and
through him only, comes the blessed Spirit to save
who was nesn,' "my flesh shall rest In hope.' II
God had not designed tnat ike should regenerate
ike the glorious plan of the kedeemer man would
not have been inaugurated to restore or redeem re-
bellous man But how can man be redeemed
the Pnariseos and lawyers rejected this
t let f requires some Outward ip pnysca
ACT well as inward conviction by which
because his Redeemer win not advance the price OF
redemption only Tor such as accept 1t according to
is bapuzed shall be saved' Tor redeemed). Faih is
the act OF the soul spiritual part OF man by which
physical act by which the oner is accepted. The
spirit comes 10 us men through CHRIST, the man
1.-The head" and unless we are Joined TO this man
and our bodies become members OF his body, how
can We be the recipients OF tins spirit no more than
the blood OF the natural body eau circulate In
member amputatei ff6m It, The israelites, as
they journeyed through the wilderness were bitten
the Lord SAID unto Moses, make thee a fiery
serpent and set 1t upon pole, aud 1t shall come TO
pass that every one That Is bitten when he ooketh
upon 1t shall lve" This is striking instance
record that the same means which destroy health
ana life either physical or moral are used 10 re-
store and establish them. Christ recognized this
principle for TO cure man who was poisoned Dy the
serpent (sin) in Adam The man Christ Jesus was
lifted up, that whosoeyer beiieveth In Him, "the
head of the, BODY, the Church." should not perish
lin DEATH but have 10y the resurrecuon eternal
life. Christ when speaking TO Nlcodemns on this
subject-the Church, Kingdom OF Heaven on
earih-sAid. III nave told you OF earthly Things