Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-03-20
from the New York Herdld. |
PULPIT VARIETIES.

| reporters from the pulpleS Ol OUT GU
yesterday. The Rev. H. ID. North
rop began. the first of a series of ser
mons. in his Presbyterian church, or
"The Vices of New York" among
which he selected as the first an(
leading vice, amusements. There arr
! three kinds of amusemeDts-the abso
lutely pernicious, the harmless, anC
such as NAV have something said fol
and against them. The latter are by
far the most dangerous to the young
because they have amOral halo around
them. % You might as WE'LL" said
Mr.INorthrop, " Danish sunlight as tC
Danish all harmless pleasure; but tC
be a mere pleasure seeker is about the
I poorest life that any man can lead. u
/ The theaters, as conducted, he con-
4 sidered rs stepping to perdi-
I ton; but they might be :" so con-
structed as to damage no one any
more than it would 10 listen to dia-
! logue recited by Sunday school chill
/ dren." 1t will be a long lime, doubt
less, before we shall see such theatre
I in New York. s - 5r....
Special and general proyidences
were the theme of Mr.. Frothingham's
discourse, and after various illustra-
tiOns to show that Providence mani
! tests itself through human agencies,
/ he concluded that ' Providence is in
the workingman, in the labratory, in
the machine shop supplying all ouI
comforts and forming new ones"
| But as these Improvements cannot be
I carried on without wealth, wealth is,
/ therefore, the lever of Providence.
Fixed principles of belief are what
mankind is groaning and seeking af-
| ter. and they are what Dir. Hepworth
! talked about last night. Snatches OF
his own experience appear ever and
anon in his discourse. We can starve
/ the soul.tO death as we'll as the body,
and until the mind and spirit are sup
piled with the proper aliment they
are filled with unrest. Atheists and
infidels are spiritual dyspepties. Ne
cations in faith are TO the soul what
| improper and indigestible food is to
the physical system. Such, we pre-
sumo, Mr.. Hepworth found his Uni
tartan negations TO be. else he would
not have left that fold. And now
with mis- mixed principles of faith we
hope he may become strong and ro-
/ bust and valiant as captain of the
Lords hosts. t .rW .l
The sympathy of Jesus with suffer
| ing was the topic of discourse in Grace
church. 1t was q fitting subject fol
this solemn Lenten season, in which
! the Christian Church commemorate
the suffering of its Founder and Re-
deemer. This season suggested to DR..
! McGlynn, of St. Stephens church,
also the necessity of urging the duty
I of penance upon his peoplo-not, in
deed, as that word is too frequently
understood, to consist of formal acts
of devotion. but reconciliation to God,
the giving mp of the vaip things oi
the world and refraining from indul'
! gence in worldly pleasures, and the
| performance of deeds of charity and
! love. and "a simple abiding faith
/ in Gods great Justice and mercy
which shall bring our will into com
plete harmony with the Divine will
and make the possession of eternal
| Joy to be ours. Surely this is some
J thing worth seeking and nraying and
living for The mystery of the Eu'
charist. and the sympathy of the
/ Blessed Savior were themes suggested
] to Archbishop McCloskeyis mind by
the forty hours DEVOTION" in the
| Cathedral. Christ was represented as
/ inviting all. to come unto him, and
! He would give them rest, priest
and people, young and old, great anc
little, without distinction of rank, OF
I sex. or nation, or tongue, - Yes, thiS
is the kind of universal invitation
which Jesus extends TO the fallen
race, and those who are wise unto
salvation accept it and accept it now
Something like a religious " sensa-
toni was created in the Dominican
/ church, in Lexington avenue, by the
4 discourse. or lecture. of Father " Tom
Burke" as the good priest is faInil'
/ iarIy called. He gave a brief but
( comprehensive sketch of the founder
of his Order, st. Dominic, and then
taiked about heaven and hell, con-
! trasting the bliss Of the saved with
! the woe of the lost, and bringing the
/ pictures so vividly before his eongre-
| cation that a general weeping all oyel
the house was the result. s..
The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chi
cago, preached in the church of the
! Messiah, yesterday, on the lit
tie flock" of Unirarians with whom
persecution and social disability re-
main. although in modified form,
] in these later days" He praised the
denomination for the work which
I it had done and is still doing. = Ii
was the pioneer 10 the other sects.
and the orthodox are under great obli-
| CATION to its men of thought" II
was the only home of comfort and
/ sustenance to those who were longing
for q spiritual freedom from the bonds
of orthodoxy. Mr.. Collyer was ex-
pected and invited to preach doc
I trinal sermon, and be excused him
self by saying that all his doctrinal
manuscripts had been burned, and he
/ had had no time to write other SER
mons on such topics.
Foreign missions received honor
able notice from Rev. Andrew Long
acre, who urged the subject upon
I his hearers, upon the ground of a
common brotherhoOd-we are all our
brothers. keepers, and should seek the
elevation and ChristianiZation of the
heathen, for in their welfare our own
will be enhanced. rl ss
Mr.. beecher had a quiet talk on
practical religion and the duty OF
making the lower serve the higher
nature. The material should be the
servant and not the master of the
I spiritual. 'Our lower duties,u said
/ Mr.. Beecher, " may be made a chan
mel for our duty to God, or they may
| be made a substituted This is an
! important distinction. Men may
! be attracted by the truth of religion
who will abandon it as soon as they
see what labor the truth involves
the moment they are put to the test
/ of self denial, of poverty, of follow
I ing Christ through all things, they
are not willing to pay the price, Meh
are perpetually putting duties in the
way of their spiritual development.
Z 1t is always suffer me to do this or
/ that /; suffer me first TO take care Of
myself This constant, putting the
/ higher in subordination to the lower
I is demor3lizing. Nothing in the
world has a right to take the place Of
/ your spiritual manhood
DIR. Chapman, of st. Johns Meth
Odist Church, Brooklyn, preached on
the insufficiency of the law to work
salvation. He demonstrated this
proposition by showing that law is
supreme in nature, and that it has
mankind, soul and body, within its
grasp; that we are yiOlators of law,
and especially of moral law that we
are obnoxious to the EXTREMIST pen
alties of the law, and can neither
r,,od;fx, fbay, ond that co for oS Sai.