The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-29
The Inspirations of the Pulpits.

The Inspirations of the Pulpits.
The delightful spring weather of yesterday
invited the people to gather in the Lords
house. and multitudes accepted the invitation
and were found in their places during the
hours of service, albeit they may have paraded
the avenue or enjoyed the clear sky and the
pure air and the warblings of the feathered
songsters of the Central Park between times
Yesterday was the twenty fourth anniversary
OF DR.. Chapin's passionate of the Church of
the Divine Paternity, and he INDUCED in a
restatement of some of the doctrines of the
Universalist denomination and a brief history
of the organization of the Church and of his
own connection with it. His theme of dis
course principally was the unity of God, which
he illustrated by the unity OF nature, where
everything centraliZes in the idea of unity
The great evidence of Christianity to-day
he declared, is its moral evidence--its mani
festation of Gods paternal love in Jesus
Christ. Take this away and We have but
Christianity of eternal vengeance-a fearful
thing The principle of parental justice, he
commended is utterly hostile to the idea of
eternal torture. Mr.. Carpenter, Of Boston,
demonstrated to his Unitarian audience, in the
Church of the Messiah, the necessity for and
the relation of reason to religion. Without
reason religion is an infant crying in the dark
Hence we ore to embrace the religion that APP
peals to our reason to-day. Weakness and
inanity will result when reason is separated
from religion. But, on the other hand, reason
needs religion too, for without it reason is
desert where the choicest flowers never grow
The sight Of the rose is reason the fragrance
Is religion. The Rev. J. w. Mckay,
fraternal delegate from the Irish Wesleyan
Conference to the General Conference
of tho Methodist Episcopal Church
In the United States preached plain
but thoroughly pious sermon, the relation of
Christ's death to the life Of the Church As
the death of the corn of wheat in the ground
is prerequisite to the organization and growth
and fruitage of the succeeding crops. even 50
was Christ's death necessary to give form and
life and power to Christianity.
The Italian patriot preacher Gavazzi, yes
terday pleaded the cause of his mission to this
country-the establishment Of free evangel-
ical Christianity in Italy-before Mr.. Hep
worth's congregation, in S.einway Hall. lie
brought the same fervid eloquence to bear
upon the people that was manifested in his
earlier ministry, and received the hearty ap-
plalse of his hearers as he sSetched the growth
of Professionalism in Italy from 1913, when there
WAS not one evangelical church member to be
found in that land, to the present time, when
there are one hundred congregations, ten thou
sand communicates and thirty thousand con-
slant hearers to be found in their Christian
temples every Sabbath day. He expects that
in 1880 there will bo three hundred conrega-
tons in the sunny land. The Free Church of
Italy starts out in the true path in ignoring
the isms which have SO long divided Christen-
dom, and III determining to know nothing but
Christ and Him crucifed, rs the great mis-
sionary to the Romans, Paul, declared eighteen
centuries ago he was determined to know
There is 80 much sorrow and suffering in the
world, and people are so universally inclined
to look at them as curse, and not blessing
it becomes necessary for the minister of Christ
at times to remind his flock that there is more
sunshine than shade, more JOY than sorrow,
more beauty than ugliness, in the world, and
that more of the former than Of the latter fall
to our lot. This was the sacred duty which
Rev. Father Kane performed yesterday toward
the worshipping congregation in st. Patrick's
Cathedral, and we hope that many were led to
see with the reverend gentleman, that God
does everything for the best, and that the
language of many hearts who may be called
during the present week to pass under the rod
will be. ''Thy will, O Lord, not mine be DONE.
In st. Alphonsus' church Father tom"
Burke addressed the Irish societies assembled
there to participate in the ceremony of blessing
the beautiful banner presented by the nuns of
Kenmare, Ireland, to st. Pairicks Mutual
Alliance of this city. In the same church
and ut the same hour Bishop Lynch, Of
Charleston, administered the rite of confrma-
ton to four hundred young persons.
Mr.. Beecher reset one of his old diamonds
in new setting yesterday. Life is conflict,
and suffering and reverses in business are
necessary to enable some men to get to heaven.
In this conflict of life all men do not start
equal, nor is the responsibility of all men
duty that lies nearest to him in whatever
position he may be placed Next Sunday Mr..
Beecher will receive into his fold one hundred
md twenty-five new members. Last evening
he dedicated another Bethel mission of his
church in thickly populated and neglected
part of the city of Brooklyn. Rev. }. Hyatt
Smith sent the Lee avenue Baptsts out into
- 4 Al DO,
how to be perfect and how TO abide in Christ.
As well might one go to the family record, he
declared, to see if he was born as go to the
church record to learn whether he was con-
verted or not. "The Spirit itself beareth wit
ness with our spirit that we are the children
of God