The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-11
Services To-Day.


evening.
Anniversary Inauguration services of the Ameri.
can Free church, Rev. Charles B. SmyLh presiding,
will be held morning and evening.
Rev. Il. G. Sweetser will preach In the Blocker
street Universalist church this morning to
children, aud baptismal service this morning.
Rev. Andrew Longacre preacnes morning and
evening In the Central Methodist Episcopal church.
Seventh avenue
Rev. DR.. Goodman, DR.. A. G. Post and other pro-
minent speakers will address the Morning Star sum
day school this morning.
Rev. Thomas Street Will preach morning ana
evening In the North Presbyterian church. Ninth
avenue.
'The Mission Of Children" will be the subject Of
Rev. Charles F. Lees discourse to-day in the Fifth
lUniversalist church, Chickering Hall.
Rev. J. NJ. Pullman will preach this morning IN
the Church Of Our saviour on San Things Are Ours"
Services also In the evening.
The opening services in ST. Paul's church, York
ville on Eighty NTH street, west OF Third avenue,
will be held to-day AT haifpast ten divine service
and sermon by Rev. w. r. Cornell, the rector At
four O'Clock P. M. service and sermon by Rev.
stephen Fl. Tyng Jr., and at haf-past seven in the
evening sermon by Rev. Dr.. Tying, OF st. Georges
C Ha...ccss.
Rev. s. D. Brown will preach this ma-ning in st.
Lukes Methodist Episcopal church. and Rev. G. S.
Narrower In the evening
The anniversary services of ST. Barnabas house
and chapel Will be held this evening at 500 Mulberry
street Addresses will be delivered by Rev. Dr..
Gallaudet, Rev. Dr.. McVicker and others.
Rev. John E. Goodman will preach morning and
evening In Trinity Methodist Episcopal church.
procession in honor OF the feast OF Corpus Christi
will take place at st. Micnael's Passionst Monas-
terry, West Hoboken. N. j., to-day. Two military
brass bands will be in attendance with the benevo
lent societies of West Hoboken, Hudson City and
Union HILL The ceremonies will commence at three
Pm.
There will be memorial service in Hunters Point
Baptist church, Long Island City, this afternoon and
evening, commencing at half-past two O'CLOCK P. NJ.
Rev. Drs. Armtage, Backus, Simmons, WyckoT
Pendleton, Hoyt, PentecOst and others TO speak,
and the house of worship is to be offered, free
from debt, in prayer Of dedication.
Rev. DR.. Ever will this evening preach In Christ
church, Fifth avenue the fourth sermon OF the
course on "Tne Evils Of the Day and Their Lem
edy."
At the Church Of the Messiah Rev. A. Putnam will
preach this morning and Rev. George II. hepworth
in the evening on ''The Open Door,
Rev. W. II. Pendleton will preach morning and
evening In the Fifty. third Baptist chnrch.
Rev. J. II. Rylance win preach this evening in
~. MaTk'S church., OeCOuu avenue, Oh
on the Soul" Morning services as usual.
iDIyine services Will be held IN Zion church. Madi-
son avenue, morning and evening.
Rev. Thomas Gale Foster will speak before the
Society OF Spirtuaists at Lyric Hall this morning
and evening.
a Defender Of the Faith Of the Society Of
-. Friends.
70 THE EDITOR or THE hESA.D:@-
Satisfied that your paper does good in publishing
every Monday the principal sermons preached the
day previous, by difrusing them among all classes,
who are thereby enabled quietly to sift away from
"the opinions OF men," and see, after all, that
there Is but one Gospel for all denominations the
same that was preached by God himself to Cain In
the begnning-"why art thou wroth and why Is thy
'countenance 1alen' II thou doest well art thou
mot accepted, and II thou doest wrong sin lieth at
the door'-and presuming the burlesque attempts
occasionally made In your paper to enlighten your
readers In regard to Quakerism are more from
Ignorance OF the ways and views Of the Society OF
Friends than from any wish to bring them into
tempt among their fellow cltzens-I propose to give
You this article, illustrating their ground of faith
and practice, to be inserted In your paper II you
think It worthy Of place therein.
4 shall begin by stating that the foundation OF
their organization lies in firm belief In the authen.
ITCHY Of the scripture OF truth, which records the
dealings Of the Almighty with His creature man
from the beginning OF time, when 1t seems He talked
'''mouth to mouth" with man, telling him how he
was TO walk in life and reproving him when he went
contrary to His will, and showing Himself to be an
Interchangeable God, governing His Great ion by fixed
laws, oil which science has confirmed to us by the
knowledge It has impaired Of His wondrous and
mighty works, displayed to outward senses in the
unwearied revolution Of the solar system.
Now, knowing these great outward laws remain
the same now as they were In the beginning, we are
thereby led to believe that His moral laws or mode
OF communicating with the spirit created in man,
after His own image, must still be the same as 1t was
then. ana not changed as some assert, wnen Moses
wrote the law on stone Friends cannot understand
Changing the great natural laws OF creation, nor do
they think II likely God would have supplanted laws
written by His finger OF inspiration on the human
lieve that the impressions which good men In all
ages Of the world have expressed or communicated
In writing, eliclced from the common reason and
feeling OF humanity, can be less divine than those
contained In the books OF Moses.
Reading, then, these Bible truths under the same
inspiring influence by which they were written for
this we must do TO understand them, Friends are led
snS the iHs' p re- WITH and s
scipes spoke with God, so do we and that through
this means only whatsoever Is to be known OF God
thus believing, Friends in their mode Of worship,
cannot LOOK to any outward aid whatever such as
60 keep up on the Sabbath the carnal excitement OF
the week than get the mind into that quiet state in
whichpur first parent was In the cool OF the morn
Ing in the garden, after his transgression when
heard the voice, where art tnou Adam ~ or as IL
was with the prophet, under like circumstances,
ssWhat dOest thou here, Eliahf"
Friends consider that revelation never ceased
that the Bible teens with evidence OF this, from
Genesis to Reveatons and that 1t certainly had
not when the Saviour was mere on EARTH doing not
His own win, but the will OF His Father VINO sent
Him. Ia clear from His declaration to Peter, on the
memorable occasion when lie answered ei that lie
ssUpon this rock ! Will build my Churcn'
mot upon poor Peter who denied Him
when he said .for flesh and blood hath not revealed
1t unto thee but my Father which Is In heaven "
and lie asserted that the Kingdom oil God IL within
you,n clearly meaning that II was here ana here
only that Peter had got this knowledge.
,ar .nen upon TINS lonnaato1, rtenus xo s1
people 70 membership with them; all they dare do
the hearth .'quck and powerful.U 'the Christ the
power OF God to salvation and which their expert