The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-09
Practical and Theoretical Preaching
Yesterday.

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Yesterday.
AS these beautiful Fall days shorten the
month and bear us nearer toward its end our
city churches begin to fill up with their accus-
toned patrons and to wear their usual appear
ance. Our sermon reports to-day speak of
large congregations and-well filed churches
yesterday, and in some eloquent sermons were
delivered. st. Patrick's Cathedral and st.
Stephens Roman Catholic church and the
Church of the Holy Trinity are especially no.
ticed as having been crowded, or, OF least, well
filed with attentive and interested wor-
shippers In the Catholic churches yesterday
was commemorated as the natal day of the
Virgin Mother of the man Christ Jesus, and
as such was particularly noticed by DIR.
McGlynn, in St Stephens and by Rev.
Father KearneY, in the Cathedral It was.
as DR.. McGlynn declared o startling revelation
made by the angel to the Virgin ''that the
Saviour Of the human race was about to take
flesh; that while still remaining Gods own
uncreated Word He should become the gentle
Son of the Holy Virgin" She was, therefore,
blessed among women, and it is in keeping
with Gods own plan and in fulflment of
prophecy, the Doctor affirmed, that she should
be venerated. The reverend Doctor cannot
understand how those protesting to be Chris
tians can SO persistently refuse to honor the
mother of the Saviour. And while they
''admit that the Son of God became man and
was born of a woman, they will not admit that
the mother who bore Him was the Mother of
God" The Doctors own words here quoted
might give sufficient reason for this He but
recites what the Bible declares, that
the. Son Of God ''became man," and
the 'tman" only, not the God, was
born of the Virgin. According to Dr.. McGlynn
the Blessed Virgin lis our best intercessor, and
in her efficacy with her Son sinners find
consolation that leads to sorrow for sin and
reconciliation with God" Father Kearney
considered that Mary was the purest of Gods
creatures, and is entitled to respect and honor
not, indeed, in the sense in which we honor
and respect the memory or the name and fame
of distinguished individuals He would honor
her Gin unison with the Blessed Trinity"
When Jesus, about to be crucified, handed
over Mary to the affection and care of the be-
loved disciple John, ''He really entrusted all o.
us in the same special manner to the pro-
lection of Mary. She is all-powerful with
Christ nowAn heaven, and there is nothing
that she asks of her beloved Son but He is
willing to grant" The lesson drawn, there
fore, is that every one should pray to the
Mother to intercede with her Son for His bless
ings upon us.
Rev. Charles B. Smyth's recipe to make
churches as successful as theatres is to adver-
tise the church as thoroughly as the show and
to make the services in the former as interest
ing as theatrical performances. And having
discovered this and held the secret so long in
his own breast, there is no excuse for Mr..
Smyth not to have the. most successful church
in the metropolis. If, instead of reading
blossoms to the clergy" who never hear them
and don't very often see them, this reverend
brother would preach salvation full and free
to dying men and women, and display some of
that earnestness of manner of which he makes
such account in others, we have no doubt he
could accomplish great deal in q little time
for himself, for humanity and for God It Is
the practical part of Christianity that is want
ing in this day, and not the theoretical.
The great trouble with professors Of religion
to-day is, that there are too many theorists and
too few practical illustrations of the life and
power of goodness in the soul. The Rev. H
H. Garnet, having found in the disaster to the
steamship Bienville q good opportunity to
eulogize the heroism of the colored race in
their representatives, Amos Davis and Mr..
Garrison, seamen on board, improved the
occasion yesterday, and paid tribute of
respect to the memory of the former, whom he
had known intimately as an humble and liberal
Christian man. He was lost by the capsizing
of small boat
Mr.. Talmage, having returned from his tour
in Europe, saw there, as he had seen here be-
fore, God in all the affairs of life, and he so
presented the Almighty in that light yesterday
to his Tabernacle congregation that the stock
gamblers and money-lenders among his
hearers can hardly fail now to understand that
"God rules the money market, and has
q hook in the nose of the stock
gambler and there is no use in kicking
against Divine sllotments. What may seem
accidents are not such, for there are no acct
dents in the Divine mind. The reason of
Gods interference with moneyed men is that
they don't know when they have enough and
God does, and for their good He often takes
wealth away from them and gives it to others.
SO that we see the af1uent come to poverty and
the poor rise in this world.
Father McQuaid, of Jersey City, gave his
people some wholesome advice yesterday on
scandal-bearing. scandalmonger is, 40
cording to this divine, soul murderer and
one who robs Christ Of His elect The lesson
is too plain to need to be pointed out, that we
should be very careful in oil that we say about