The New York herald., 1872-09-16

work day world. Let us come up to-day, reopen
remsmbernH whether H we have been across the
seas or sOjOurntng among our own mountains and
on our own seasides In the disastrous season OF
Summer just pasta season OF unusual heat, filled
with storms and tOrnadoes and checkered with
catastrophes-that above all is God OF sublime
order, OF Infinite wisdom, OF unlimited mercy, who
Mr. Greeley was present during the service.
PORTY-THIRD STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
etlta CHURCH. ".y ~
Woman's Mission I'm tho Church-Her
Right to Teach, Preach and ExhOrt
Proved from Scripture and Church
Usage-Sermon by Rcv. DIR. L. H. King.
couple OF weeks ago, during the vacation OF
DR.. King. the trustees Of the Forty-thrd street
Methodist Episcopal church invited Mrs. Van Cott,
the Now England evangelist, to preach for them.
She did so and almost literally like Paul at Tr0as,
continued her speech until midnight" without,
however, firing setting any to sleep, as the
Apostle did. Upon DR.. Kings return to the city he
heard what had taken place, and thereupon de-
clared that he would let the Church know what
he thought about such innovations upon
his own craft and upon the usages Of the
Church. This he did yesterday to q large
congregation, basing his remarks upon Acts H.,
17-"Your daughters shall prophecy" For ten
days, he said, the infant Christian Church waited
In Jerusalem for the promise Of the Saviour that
He would send the Comforter to abide with them
for ever. But the days passed and there was no
answer. Still they prayed and waited. That was
real, naked faith But 1t came at last from heaven
as of rushing mighty wind, and 1t filed all the
house where the little band OF Christians was sit
ting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like as Of nre, and It sat upon each Of them, and
they were all filed with the Holy Ghost and were
now ready for work, and God had the work pre-
pared for them. Jerusalem was filed with
people from all lands, TO whom the disciples
went forth and preached in divers tongues as
the Spirit gave them utterance. But the
old Pharisees came along and said the excitement
was caused by too much wine But Peter replied
1t was not s0-that 1t too early In the day, for
one reason, to find so many persons drunk in the
streets. But, said the old saint, this is the ulal-
ment OF prophecy delivered by Joel a long time
ago, in which 1t was declared that o time would
come when sons and daughters, old and young SER
wants and handmaids alike, should prophesy. And
now. said the Doctor, much depends upon the true
INTERPRETATION OF THIS WORD "PROPHEsY."
and s read % portion % % Of scripture I as have done here
this morning. Illustrations OF Drophesying or
pTsacSSng then given Philip
he met an Ethiopian eunuch reading a por-
the eanueh nSaSn RiTRasSS Philip got nto ns
carriage and preached unto him Jesus"
the passage that the colored man had Just reads
SSt It was good sermon 6ad converted ha the an
women take in preachingi The Bible has done
much for man, but 1t has done more for women.
to celebrate the birthday OF Tom Paine but the
greatest harm he the Doctor) could wish them
would be that they should live In some country
where Tom Pane's principles prevail. A converted
Indian chief had told him lthe Doctorl that he had
TN sss N their Sa rssre to Sat
their own mothers had not served them 80, rather
than have them grow up IN such misery and degra.
in its organization. 1t had three orders-namely
PRIESTS, JUDGES AND PROPHETS.
two were opened to them and were occupied by
them. Deborah dispensed justice and led an army
TO glorious victory. and afterwards delivered a dis
course which Is matched only by Him who spake as
never man spake. Hudah was prophecies also.
w se es Hn
the prophecies an old lady OF eightyfour years OF
age who was one OF the first to welcome the infant
Redeemer, went from house to house telling the
good news that Jesus, the Messiah, had come.
With Chrlsts coming tho order Of prophets and
replaced by deacons and deaconesses. And the late
Albert Barnes, ono OF the best and most impartial
DoVas @
deaconesses as well as Of deacons. Their work was
similar. il the deacon was to be the husband OF
one wife the deacOness was to be the wife or one
deacons preachY Most certainly. Philip and
stephen are bright examples. The Doctor then ex-
amined the prohibitory passages to women's
preaching by Paul so frequently quoted against
aTo % 1ne sa
suffered them not to teach, he contradictea both
his own words and his example ct other times and
In other places. In his letter to TituA Paul speaks
Of the aged women as teachers of good things"
and encourages them to "teach the young
Srsen9 To He s also SnGs ,oas dSOrs
with, him in the Gospel. SO that Paul
could not have meant to prohibit women preach.
hibit-accordng to DR.. Adam Clarke ana other COM
mentators-was that style OF discussion which pre-
and an M sys ana to aoS
But in proving that women should not teach in the
Gu We sa ehe GeS s So
| istence and very much oil It's power anu present
we have now in this country twelve bishops, 5000
| itnerants, 10000 local preachers and 1,500,0 900
Church members. ana all because 2 awoman-Bar,
cards and talked to him about Jesus and the resur
aR A1a SInSs Wsssy 5,S Ss e It's M eS
isrepresented as preaching with words Of dre. For
as great the end nsvo,,s Ss q
Circuit nS one year 1000 miles, Preaching and teach.
ing the things CONCERNING the kingdom Of God.
! Hester Ann Rogers, Dinah Evans and Grace Mur-
ray preached the Gospel. The latter was sent forth
by Wesley as an itinerant, and travelled on horse
back, and it is said that her horse knew great
| deal more than some OF our Methodist children
know, for 1t knelt to let her mount. Mary Barrett,
! who afterwards became Mrs. Taft, was
| o licensed local preacher, and in one place
in England oo in nine months, oo she
month Sarah Mailet also went forth as a preacher
licensed by Wesley himself. The Doctor then re.
| ferred to women entering the learned professions
! In these days, and contended that they had an
equal right to be teachers OF Christian truth. But
| women were the nrst to greet the Redeemer; they
| were His most constant companions through life {:
they followed Him to the cross and to the sepnchre
and one OF them, Mary, by the Saviour's command,
preached the 1rst gospel sermon that was ever
| preached-Jesus andth resurrection day that
lie rose from the dead. But while he lDr. King)
did not think women were called to be ministers In
| the same sense and TO the same extent that men