The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-29
EIGHTEENTH STREET METHODIST CHURCH.


EIGHTEENTH STREET METHODIST CHURCH.
DIR. Newman, Chapiafn Of the Senate,
ON the Asperitics Of the Political Cam
Paign--The Evil That Is Born I'm Mem
Social Amnlties Observation-Disclosures
Dances and the Drama Denounced.
DIR. J. p Newman chaplain OF the United States
Senate, preached at the Methodist church on
West Eighteenth street yesterday to cOngrega-
ton unusually large and fashionable for the sum-
mer season In town. The reverend gentleman
took for his text the proverb or Solomon :-''He
that ruleth his spirit is greater than he that
taketh city"
Dr. Newman opened his discourse by strong de-
nuncaton of
THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER PRESS
Of the country for Its bitter asperites In the pend
ing Presidential campaign, and especially for the
partisan attacks upon the great and good men who
now administer the government He expatiated
upon the great power Of the press, the immense
forms which II is able to accomplish and has accom-
plished but demanded that It should be conducted
higher aims and motives and that it has not yet
come even within sight of the accomplishment OF
its great mission. The reverend gentleman, then
branching of upon
THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION
Of his subject, said The words, "Train up child
in the way he should CO." need to be read with
phasis on the word che" Study his temperament.
II ia OF course, understood that he should be
trained up to be virtuous. But you must train him
mp with especial reference to his disposition and
his temperament. You sometimes meet people in
whose company II Is
to remain--sOmetimes you meet others whose pres
ence Is az soothing and cheering as summers
morn.
even on first acquaintance, and again meet others
at whose presence all that Is pugnaclous In me
presence OF a man who would do me an injury The
man has never done me harm; but there Is that
| In him inconsonant with my own temperament. He
! jars upon me and cannot associate With him.
THE MUCH ABUSED DOCTRINE
OF social afinities s as yet in its infancy. 1t Is des
tined to be one OF the greatest agencies to bring
! about the millennium; and when we find men and
women assocating together In conformity with
THIS DOCTRIuE OF SOCIAL AFFINITY,
virtue will be the rule In every instance. Men
| are not made alike. God did not Intend them to be
alike. The reverend gentleman then briefly ana
| Caesar, David Hume aud voltaire, to show how DIFF
| ferently constituted men could be- and continued
WHAT WOULD SEND YOU TO HE'LL
| may send me to Heaven. Men spend their lives
| fighting against some passion that threatens to
| get the mastery. Other men spend their lives
Shaping and developing some latent virtue In their
! own temperaments which needs cultivatlng to
bring it forth into harmony and beauty. Some
| men are naturally given to cheating and swlndng.
OTHERS ARE NATURAL LIARS.
| They spend their existence in the low, grOvcng
way that suits their base ana sordid tastes. These
must be trained in the way they should go best
cacua ted to save them from their peculiar beset-
ting passion. Upon the subject OF
SELF DENIAL
do not mean the ascaticism OF the monk nor. In
| deed, the starvation Of the mser. I mean only
| that Christian self-denial which leads the true
Christlsn to ask limsef What shall surer that
% 9ss brother saa'' De Happy p so1S ssss ~ me
/ GLASS OF WINE
Is dangerous In itself, or that there IL really any
evil lurking within it's ruby depths know there
is not for our Saviour turned the water into blush.
| ing wine at Cana on one occasion. But If
| drink glass OF that wine | set au example for
some other man, who might drink dozen. There is
where the evil turks
TIE THgAIgE AND THE DRAMA
are not evil in themselves. j know they are not,
for the drama was once an adjunct Of the Church,
bur they have been perverted and put TO base uses.
| They have been pr0stituted, and although know
! there are some good men and women, who are vrtu-
| Gus and mOral-patterns oil virtue and morality. Ii
| may be-upOn the American stage, stu read in
.'Durand's History OF the English Stage such facts
as make me blush for the lack Of Christian virtue
among the greater portion of actors and actresses
would set bad example, therefore. were to at.
tend play or witness drama, because the uses
of the theatre have been perverted. 10 those who
It," say, "Let those who have polluted 1t return
depart from IT, TSen there is another evil, w
DANCING.
know dancing Il not thoroughly sinful In ITSELF
because 1t also was at one time an adjunct OF the
Church. Jesus speaks OF the JOY expressed on one
| perverted by those monstrous and most wicked
| things,
| THE ROUND DANCES.
am glad to see the Catholic Church, through its
! Archbishop, has denounced them.
The Doctor went on in this orthodox manner,
| drawing narrowing picture OF the terrible evils
attending round dances and the evils to which they
| were inductiye, until
Tag rLUrrrr OF LADIES' FANS
in the m MAS suggestive almost Of
uiSOelspt