The New York herald., 1872-10-14
GI0US.
Another Day of Physical Rest and Of
Spiritual Activity.
Service, Song and Sermon in the
Sanctuaries Yesterday.
Dr.. Bellows Discourses on
Peace with God.
Professor Tyndall's Prayer Test and the Rev.
George II. lItpworih.
DIR. SCtJDDER AND EIS IRON CHURCH.
buckingham Shows How Error is the
Stepping Stone to Truth.
BEECHER ON THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.
nr S+arr,s ExpOSitiOn of the
DR.. sCJDDER AND His IRON CHURCH
rockingham Shows How Error is the
Stepping Stone to Truth.
BEscHER ON THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.
DR.. STAIRS Exposition of the
Gospel of the Day.
ALL SOULS CHURCH.
sermon by the Rev. Dr. Bellows On Peace
with God.

sermon by the Rev. dr.. Bellows on Peace
with God.
Dr. Bellows preached yesterday morning at All
Souls Church on "Peace with God.n The audience
was somewhat slim and still showed the influence
or the summer migration, but the exercises were
characterized by o fair degree OF earnestness DR..
lBelIows began by remarking upon the comparative
lstlessness with which men, except In occasional
crises of their lives longed for peace with God
Peace from their creditors peace from the exacting
cares OF daily life, peace from the competition OF
rivals in business or in reputation, and perhaps
as0 in some cases, peace from the fretlul irri-
tatiOn OF their wives-that kind OF peace
they all felt But their need OF peace with
God they Obstinately refused to recognize;
hhey needed not the voice OF conscience,
which constantly, sometimes IN thunder tones, told
them OF their natural condition. The voice OF con-
science was indeed like the chirruping OF the
cricket on the hearth or the singing OF the bird in
tle cage, which was unheeded In the rush ana
roar OF the busy day, hut at night, when the streets
were hushed and quiet and the lights had gone
put-and how sadly often The lives went out in this
life OF ours-rang out in the silence and the dark
mess, and seemed to shake the very walls of the
house. The original relation Of man to God was
pne of separation and OF alienation. And this was
Hhing % else, e, By THE the UNIVERSAL universal existence exist of
the religious instinct In human nature.
Ts udest ana most savage peoples rec,
with God, and barbarous and cruel as might be
tler rites Of worship and attempts at proptiaton,
the fact that this feeling existed proved that was
founded on truth. 1t might be called superstition; !;
but superstition itself was the evidence OF the no
lier and better side of mans nature, and proved
the spirituality Of and his superiority over the
prutes DR.. Bellows concluded his discourse by an
eloquent though brief tribute to the memory Of Mr..
Seward, whose closing words to his children as
they stood near him in his death chamber-"My
children, love one another'- showed that he
pad indeed made his peace with God.
pr. Bellows extolled the great services
Of the dead statesman In the cause
or human freedom and for the salvation Of the
Union, and remarked that these services had never
been adequately requitcd In 1860 no man had a
clearer title to the Presidency than Mr.. Seward
and tf he had been made President perhaps the
war might have been averted. But he allowed nc
selfish pique to interfere with what he felt to be
hls duty, and he checrully aided his innocent sup.
planter, the noble Lincoln. In the work Of saving
The life Of the nation. So, again, when Mr.. john
RON became President Mr.. Seward had remained
Mt the post OF duty even at the cost OF Obloquy and
suspicion. DR.. Bellows also alluded to the intclec-
tua greatness, the tender and afIecionae dlsposi-
tion and the courage and unsedshncss which
had marked Mr. Seward's character.