The New York herald., 1871-01-02
Sermons ON Now Year'. Day.

Sermons ON New Years. Day.
In religious sense, the New Year opened
favorably. Yesterday all the churches were
well filled. Those devout people who could
not afford the luxury of o carriage con-
tented themselves with the street cars as far
as they could go and braved the half melted
snow the balance Of the way. It is gratifying
to us to report this. People who have not
been very good, but who possess
qualms of conscience, usually 'turn
new leaf" on New Years Day, and why shall
they not turn the religious leaf? Paris, the
gay, the beautiful, whom devotees of fashion
worship, probably began the year sadly
enough, If all the reports we have of the Ger
man big guns be correct. Must not the
thought of the approaching fiery ordeal
through which she must pass have fastened
the steps of the fair and Of the eye-glassed
exquisites who patronize our aristocratic
tabernacles to their velvet cushioned seats,
there to pray that she might not
be utterly destroyed And must not
the poor and lowy have felt so deeply CRATE
ful to Boss Tweed and Sheriff O'Brien (now
Sheriff no more) as to throng the churches
and there pray that the warmth bestowed upon
them on earth this winter might ne yer be in
flicted upon their beneiactors in the hereafter?
Neither must we forget supplications for the
salvation of ones own soul; for though these
must spring from interested motives they COM
prise the only kind of seliishness which rel-
gon and society approve.
We wish we could dare to hope that every
Sunday during the present year would be
marked by as little sectarian bitterness as is
reported in the HERALD this morning. Yes
nered men as ever preached sermons. The
conservation of st. AIMS Roman Catholic
church was an interesting event, and the ser
mon delivered by Archbishop McClos-
key able and instructive. At the Christian
Free church Rev. Mr.. Foote reviewed the
political, scientific and religious events of the
past year, showing what progress the world
had made in that brief porod of time and how
many things had come to pass of which we
had not dreamed twelve months ago. Rev.
aged, and rebuked some members of his con-
gregation who were in the practice of
seeking religious consolation from pulpit
celebrities every Sunday evening, instead of
attending their own church. Rev. Mr.. Sabine
was silent on the subject of his refusal to bury
Mr.. Holland; but as in his discourse he showed
''what Christians may expect by minding their
own business, we suppose he meant to con-
vey to inquisitorial and importunate interview
ers his desire for them to mind their own bus-
ness and not trouble them. But Mr.. Sabine
has aroused the indignation of the Christian
and charitable pastor Of the ''little
church around the corner" for that
gentleman, Dr. Houghton, together with Rev.
Mr.. Tying, did not hesitate to condemn his
action. AT Lyric Hall Mr. rockingham
preached on the new year, giving his own
peculiar ideas OF religion, and declaring tha.
Professionalism, like Catholicism, was going to
the bow-wows.
In Brooklyn Dr. Storrs baptized number of
children, aud afterwards presented each child
of seven years, who had been baptized in his
church, copy of the Bible as New Years
gift. This interesting event over, Professor
Green preached sacramental sermon. In
Washington and elsewhere reported the at
tendance was good and the sermons instruc-
tive.
NapoIeon's Review Of the French War.
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