The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-26

physics.
Sermons from City and Country Par.
sons.
The moderately cool weather of yesterday
had but little influence upon the church con-
gregations Those who attended religious ser
vices were for the most part the regular
church-goers whose faces are always familiar
whether in Summer Or in winter. No changes
OF season or place can make any change in
their devotons and in their attendance at the
sanctuary on the Lords Day. But hundreds
and thousands not SO religious as they
crowded the excursion steamers and sailed
away for the towns and villages and groves
along the Hudson and the Sound, to spend the
day i'll pleasure or in quiet recreation, The
few who went to church received the instruc-
tons very generally of their own PASTORS who
have either finished their vacation or so nearly
finished it that they are able to spend the Sab
bath in the city. DR.. Foss, in st. Paurs
Methodist Episcopal church, reproved and re-
futed the current atheism of the day, which de-
MES the existence of a personal God and credits
luck or logic with doing everything that has
been or that is done in the world. The idea
Of the personality of God begins with the
opening chapter of Genesis and runs all
through the Bible to the end of it, and, as
DR.. Foss declared, elf there be not personal
God then the Bible is a stupendous fraud"
The relations of this personal God to man
were shown and faith in Him was urged as
necessity to salvation The Rev. j. +. Elder,
having returned to his Baptist church in Madi-
son avenue, undertook to fill the place in
tended to have been occupied by the great
Baptist orator and divine of Liverpool, Rev.
Hugh Stowen Brown, who arrived by steamer
yesterday from Liverpool, but too late to
preach. Mr. Elder presented the grandeur of
the doctrine of justification by faith, and con-
demned the doctrine Of inherent righteousness
as an unreasonable and "a se-jockey doc
trine." Man has no righteousness of his
own and is justified by the imputed righteous
ness of Christ.
Preaching is considered such an important
duty that we are apt to leave it to regularly
ordained class Of men. But after Rev. Mr..
Stewards definition Of it yesterday we pre-
sumo no one-young or old, ignorant or Gull
tured-will admit that he or she cannot preach.
Preaching" said Mr.. Stewart, sis talking
talking to sinners about a Saviour, and this
is the duty of every saved toward every I'M
saved sinner. Very Justly did this minister of
God condemn 'the intellectual gymnastics
of some speakers and preachers. Fasting does
not really amount to anything 1t will not
make man more spiritual or more penitent,
in Mr. Stewards opinion, and the only steps
to salvation are prayer, repentance, faith.
The two latter 60 hand in hand, and it was by
these that the people of Nineveh were saved
under the preaching of Jonah. The condition
of every sinner in bondage under the law and
his great deliverance by Jesus Christ were set
forth by DR.. Meade in ST. Ignatius' church.
Though delivered in the most advanced ritual
istic church in the city the discourse is emi-
nently and remarkably free from any faint of
ritualism. Salvation, according to Dr. Meade,
is all of grace and not at all by works. 1t is
Jesus Christ alone who became obedient unto
law that He might redeem them that were
under the law and held in bondage by it SO
that, after ALL it is rather the justice than the
mercy of God which unbars the door and set,
the sinner free.
New York is not the only place where church
people drop in to worship when and wherever
they please, as they would into beer garden,
without any regard to the convenience Of
others and the prophecies of the occasion.
We discover by the remarks Of Rev. John
Mccarthy that the Catholics of st. Pauls
church, Brooklyn, are accustomed to do just
this thing. And not only to enter. but to
leave the church whenever they please. We
need hardly remind such late visitors and easy
goers how much they personally lose by such
cratic attendance upon the sanctuary services.
And, as the reverend father minated the
blasphemers of the holy name of Jesus, the
Sabbath breakers and the drunkards and the
vicious generally, are not they who are found
in their places in church at the beginning of
service and who stay until its close. No, no.
The vicious keep as far as they can from the
church and from the altar. They will not
come to the light lest their deeds should be re-
proved, and we hope Father Mccarthy will
not have occasion again to rcprove his people
for laxity in this regard. And other church,
goers that we wot of might also take q hint
and be in time in their places on the Sabbath
Day and wait for the blessing of the Lord
DR.. Henry b. Chaplin let the Murray Hill
Presbyterians know that salvation is obtained
only after earnest seeking. 1t is, indeed, the
violent that take it by force Earnestness Of
purpose and intensity of desire are among the
conditions precedent to its giving or getting.
But when obtained it is worth all the agony Of
desire and all the perseverance of effort that
was required to get it,
|, From out of town we have sermons de-
lvered by Rev. 7. Sproule to the Presbyte-
Ar--.l...ex NJ V IN tho Ca,rior-,.