The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-21

Services To-day.
pubic meeting OF the New York city Church
Extension and Missionary Society OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church will be held in the Seventh street
Methodist Episcopal church, near Third avenue, this
evening at past O'Clock. a. V. Stout.
President OF the society, will preside. short stale
ment OF the work will be made by the Rev. William
Ross, and address delivered by Rov. ]. S. Willis,
pastor OF seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal
church.
Rev. Andrew Longacre Will preach morning and
evening IN the Central Methodist Episcopal church,
Seventh avenue, near Fourteenth street.
Rev. DIR. J. p. Thompson viii. preach III the New
England Congregational church this morning, and
the pastor, Rev. Merrill Richardson, In the evening.
Rev. Thomas Street Will preach this morning and
evening IN the North Presbyterian church, Thirty
first street ana Ninth avenue. This evening the
subject Will be 'Frhe Three Hebrew Children"
Rev. John Il. Goodman breaches morning and
evening in Trinity Methodist Episcopal church,
West Thirty-fourth street.
'Internal Evidences OF Conversionr will be Rev.
DR.. Wescott's subject OF discourse this morning IN
plymouth Baptist church: "Sodom and Its Last
Night the evening subject.
Rev. Dr. Chccver VIII preach In Lexington ave.
nue. church corner Forty.syth street, to the Church
of the Purltans. this morning, on .The Establish.
ment Of Gods Word, from Malachi to Matthew"
Kev. DR.. Sanderson Will preach in the evening.
Rev. Charles p. Lee Will preach in Piimpton
Building tFifth Universalist church) to-day, .'St.
Paul, the Christ an Preacher
Rev. G. q. Foot will preach this morning in the
Christian church. Twenty eighth street, on "Jesus
a Complete saviour ana beginning OF the Church."
Rev. J. NJ. Pullman will give the second OF
course OF lectures TO young men at the Church OF
Our Saviour sixth Univcrsasu, Thirty fifth street,
this evening Subject, "A C0ward's Plca-I Don't
Profess" Usual service In the morning,
Rev. g. s. Narrower breaches morning and even
ang in ST. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, West
Forty first street.
meeting to further the exploration Of the holy
Land will be held in the Fourth avenue Prcsbyte-
rlan church, corner or Twenty-second street, this
evening, at eight O'Clock. DR.. Crosby VIII explain
the Moabite stone from large map. and give the
general results of recent explorations. Addresses
will also be made by Professor Hitchcock and DR..
J. p. Thompson.
Rev. Chauncey Giles win lecture on 1.-THE Matc.ial
universe Created Work Of CODA Mirror OF the
Dlvino Mind and OF the Human Soul,' in the New
Jerusalem (Swedenborgiam church. Thirty-nfth
street. Morning worship at eleven O'Clock.
Rev. r. 9. Ever Will preach this evening in Christ
Church the first OF a course of sermons on ..The
Evils Of the Day and Their Remedy"
R0v. DR.. II. Rylance, will preach this morning in
st Marks Church, Second avenue and Tenth street.
lectures on christianity and the Human Hearth
IL There Christian Sacrifice in the
Nineteenth Centurys
FLO TIE EDITOR THE HERALD:-
In your issue OF last Sunday you printed, under
the heading OF Sacrifice and Symbols Il letter
which must have stung Judaism to the quick, but
70 which none but Jews could have taken excep.
sion In fact, am confident that all good Jews
shared the pleasure l myself experienced In pc.
rusing 1t. 1t was refreshing too the great bib-
Cal tenet OF sacrifice so briefly yet invincibly
sustained For myself could have wished that c.
H. n. had gone a step or two further. For instance
Just where he sat down contented, the Romanists
set out in endless lltany OF alrmatlons out the
excellence and necessity OF sacrifice. They say IL
Is the of rehglon that itself says as
much; that there never was people but had its
own sacrifice; that religion witnout sacrifice Is
b solemn siam; that none but gifted priest like
Luther and o royal bigamist like old King Harry
ever could have planned such a farce as a religion
without sacrince There is something tanIalizng.
I must confess, in such stn and sweeping utter
anccs or course, one can smile at them, but
smiles are not argument and, really. after
all, even II they were not ont of
place serious topics, they are TOO cheap and too
nat. The great issue upon which seek Information
through your columns isis Chrisiendom to-day
without sacrincef If not what Is the Christian
out hesltancy or ambiguity, falling back upon the
mass We all know the Keen relish with which they
rg0 TO mass" Amid the crushing calamities OF
EGYPT, King Pharaoh sootbed the sorrows OF his
people with the well known panacea-"Go to
Joseph" Let KOmanlsts be hunted and harassed;
aet them be buried alive IN caacombs, relegated
10 dreary mountains or marsny swamps, they Will
Keep "gong to mass.o You may, they constantly
boast, seize and connscate goods; and you may,
III you wlll seek to stamp out our priesthood; but
pull down IFS affairs, is to quench the sacrlicia fire
which has steadily burned IN orr midst since the
might when IL was first kindled AT the Last SUPERB
Hence, when back-sding Romansts-ior there are
such-happen to miss going 10 mass" they really
amount OF champagne stife the real regret which
sits staring their returning consciousness Mon
snS,r ny 10 p ros m rsa tney believe
is the smallest part OF the trouble. The worst of 1t
As they seek to uphold the mass by the authority OF
the Bible and here Is where the shoe plliches every
true Protestant lover OF that most venerable book.
THE Romansts hold that Ia onerlng their sacrifice
trey obey The Bible "As often as you 90 this do IL
Tor O commemoration OF me-" They say that the
orering OF the mass is the perpetual iulhment
propnecy, IL being the only known thing realizing
tine prediction that there should be made a sacrifice
An any place from the rlsn. OF the to the going
down thereof Thus the Ronianst, returning on
sunday evening from ride IN the Central
PARK, cheers himself win the thought that
ms co-religionists at the Anupodes are abso-
tutely ''Going to mass" From such q position
e. Is worse than useless seeking to disodgc
OF simple ritual he Will stand any amount
yof qulzzing. so long az he can meet you
lR0manIst. viz non est IL H,le--you may try
your Utmost TO batter down Roman,sm. But tOucn
MIN on one OF his fundamentals "artcles OF be-
lief" and you will speedily discover, no matter how
1ntimatc you may he WIN HIM, thaJ you have been
t0ndlng an eicphan: who crush YOU NJ his plea
sure. 10 seems 10 me, Mr. Editor, that your Corre-
spOndent would benefit truth and opi9e many OF
your readers II he would give us a little OF his mnd
to the condition OF our nineteenth century Chris
tiaDIty respecting sacrifice. When Romanis,s dis
fnctly airm that without the great Christian sacri
tcc OF the the character OF the Redecmer is at
variance with Its prototype prophecy they are at
Jeast clear, candid and outspoSen. The Messiah,
hney say, was to be priest; ne was 10 be priest
Moreover, he TO ue priest or the order, not
lof Aaron, but OF Melcnlzedec. Now, the Lstm.
gushing characteristic OF this order was that It's
special elements OF sacrifice "hread and
iwine," the very same which Catholic priests en-
ploy at the mass, as they were those used AT the
Last supper. Our catholic trends tel That whcn
they, with their prlesis offer those elements on