The New York herald., 1871-01-16

TO It's utmost capacity with devout worshippers of
the Most High and indefatirable followers OF the
latest fashion. Mr. Gallaher was In one Of his semi
funny moods. ana during his eloquent and some
what logical discourse said many things which
caused the greater portion OF MS audience to lose
for . moment or two their exact equilibrium. His
text was selected from Acts xviii, 11:--"These
were more noble than those In Thessalonica, in
that they received the word with AL readiness OF
mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether
those things were son The word enoDlei was not,
he ss,d psea M here ~ the general Or accidental sc
persons alluded to were born, OF high parent
age or that they were very wealthy; but it
searching the Word OF God, learning from, 1t
EVERLASTING TRUTHS,
ana because tney loved virtue and hated vice. The
noblemen OF this country are the politicians, who
grind the faces OF the poor and live by vice, and
said ne, may God ia Ills infinite mercy remsve them.
anywhere. any ywhere out OF the world.n The no.
bty OF England are quite difrerent from ours, and
are for the most part honorable men, who surround
her Majesty, and conduct, in great mea-
sure, the AFFAIRS Of the empire. But the noble
men referred to In the text were vastly diaerent
froh any OF them. for to read the Scripture as it
should be read and as these men read 1t was
to commune with God Himself 1t Is from the
Scriptures that we learn His wisest sayings receive
nothing but the kndest advice, and, In fact, are
taught all He wishes US to know. BY constant,
and to love Him we shonld. and by and by to be-
come likeness OF Him. We always Initiate that
WHICH We love mOSts ana 3 man Dy reAdlng tno
Scriptures and searching them diligently comes
TO love God and then to Initiate Him far as posi-
BE, and by SO dong makes himself more noble
than all else on earth. Reading the Bible, or,
In fact any good book not only makes better but
spurs us on to the performance OF gO0d works our
selves. There are many, very many novels, the
reading Of which win do any man or woman good,
for they teach love and virtue. He had
CRIED OVER MANY NOVEL.
and was not now ashamed to say it. He felt, he
knew, they did him . power OF good. "Whyn SAID
he, 81 remember sitting up all one night reading
Jane Eyre ana when the gray dawn Of morning
came bursting In through my chamber window It
found my eyes almost ch0ked with the tears could
not force back, and through which could scarcely
see to read. Read Dickens and Thackery, read any
OF the great authors Of good and instructive books
and they all have tendency to make one wiser,
better moro charitable, and, In facJ more Chris
tianly. But while these authors have written
t GOOD BOOKS,
books well calculated to make those better who read
them, the great God above has written one that
passes all OF them for we know that He mas q right
TO teach US and 70 command us, and that 1t Is not
like one sinner speaking to another"
Mr.. Gaaher thought that the best men and wo.
men In a community were those who read the Bible.
He found that by far the great majority OF MS church
members were frOm the Sabbath schools or from
homes where the Bible had been freely read, and he
thought that there In his congregation several
to whom the reading OF the Scriptures would do no
harm, to say The least.