The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-01

Church OF the TRANSPORTATION was the otdIna-
ton of ten deacons and one priest, and q very
practical address to the novitates by one of
the bishops present. Yesterday being SIS.
Peter and Paul's day was duly celebrated In
the Catholic churches and remarks appro-
pirate to the occasion were made by Father
Kean in St Patricks Cathedral. The heat
and prolonged service in St Stephens church
prevented sermon being preached there. DR..
John Hall preached as usual q very simple and
practical sermon last night in Carmel chapel,
Bowery-a mission just opened there. His
text was the warning of Joshua and Moses to
Israel to prepare to meet their God. The Doc
tor pointed out the difference between God
meeting us and we meeting God and the time
and occasions Of such meetings He then APP
Piled the practical part of the text to his
audience-namely the preparations for meeting
God, first and chief of which Is faith in the blood
of Jesus Christ, which cleanseth us from all SIM
MIR. Beecher was inclined to be very practi-
cal yesterday, and he entertained his congrega-
ton with sermon on cheerfulness and charita-
bleness and peaceful disposition. There is,
bis people at this time than at any other, be-
cause when Christian people get away from
home and church life and throw off the re-
straints that bind them here they or their quasi
friends are apt to be hypercritical, and, per-
haps, sometimes unconsciously to themselves,
to set afoat tales and ISLANDERS that grow and
magnify with every repetition until that which
crime against the Church and against society.
Hence it was in this local and limited sense
that Mr.. Beecher applied ST. Paul's words to
the Romans-'If it be possible live peaceably
with all men," Talebearers and slanderers
were characterized by him as the DEVILS post
men, and he urged his hearers if they
knew or heard anything wrong about
anybody not to circulate it, but to keep it
to themselves until necessity compelled them
to reveal it. More injury to personal and
Christian character oftentimes comes from
fashionable summer gossip than from malicious
intent to injure, and hence the beginnings of
strife should be guarded against. The Rev.
Dr. Partridge, Of Christ church, Brooklyn,
pointed out some Of the reasons why the great
and the noble and the learned of our cities
do not enter the front ranks and lead the way
in moral reform They love morality and
respect religion, but they cannot look within
themselves nor allow the Gospel to regulate
their inner lives. They are hindered too,
from seeking this leadership by the incon-
sistent lives of leading professors, and by the
absence Of joy and cheerfulness, which should
always accompany profession of faith in
Christ. But many Christians talk and act
as if religion was burden and task instead
Of being a life of joy and peace in the soul,
perpetually renewed and frightened by the
hope and the promise of that which is to be re-
vealed, but which hath not yet entered the heart
of man to conceive. Christ followers, the
Doctor declared, had nothing to do with the
wilderness and the darkness except to make the
one bud and blossom as the rose, and make
the other radiant with the light of Gods coun-
tenance.
The Rev. Dr. Wild, late Of Canada, preached
yesterday to his new charge, Seventh avenue
Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn. Man,
he showed, is progressive creature, and the
only thing that can meet his wants is Chris
tianity, whose course in the human heart is
one of steady and gradual unfolding and de-
velopment until we stand perfect in Christ
Jesus The sermon had many practical and
useful suggestions in it, which we commend to
our readers.
The country pulpit is ably represented in
our columns to-day by Rev. E. E. Ledyard, Of
Rondout, N. Y, whose discourse on steward
ship we especially commend to the misers and
millionnaires of New York who hoard up riches
as if God gave them wealth for the sole pur-
pose of disqualification and not to be used by