The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-12

the brains of our college oarsmen than we
hope that July evening will on their muscles.
The Pulpit's Tribute to the Dead
JurIst.
Cloudy and forbidding was yesterday for
the fashionable church-goers many OF wnom
aired their silks and broadcloth in their pleas
ant places instead Of on the streets or in the
sanctuaries. The congregations were not as
large, evidently, as on the previous Sabbath,
save here and there at such churches as fur
nish the pure milk Of the Word by which the
people are nourished and strengthened regu-
larly, and which they could no more do with
out than they could live without their daily
bread. Among the topics discoursed upon by
those ministers whose utterances we present
to-day was the death of Chief Justice Chase.
The lessons of his life and character, as
brought out and elucidated by Rev. Mr.. North
rop, were that the dead jurist inherited very
much Of his noble character from his New
England ancestry, and therefore that some
thing is due to the stock from which o man
comes. If God visits the iniquities of the
father upon the children unto the third and
fourth generations the preacher saw no reason
why the virtues should not be visited or trans
mitted in like manner, as in oil probability
they are. Another lesson is the value of
riches born of poverty, and Of the prosperity
born of adversely, and the victory begotten of
trial and another, that it does pay, after ALL
for man to pursue a course Of action born
/ &c nd
ciple. Mr.. Northrop would have the poll
ticians gather round the coffin Of the great
Chief Justice and learn there that it is pos
sible for one to be q public man and yet be
| honest.
Mr.. rockingham could not find many more
fitting illustrations of wisdom of building
character upon solid bases than in the late
Chief Justice Of the United States and the
great English thinker John Stuart Mill The
former, though public man, never stained
another mans hands with bride nor allowed
others to stain his own told no lies and
wronged no one. He was statue that stood
out in full day. Toll and independence were
his two great characteristic points, and he
earned his own living and stood on his own
feet John Stuart Mill was one Of those rare
few whose advice is waited for by the commu-
munity. He showed himself imperial in his
capacity to serve. Every subject he took up
he mastered. While our Chief Justice was an
Episcopalian, Mr.. Mill belonged to no church
in particular, but to every church; still,
neither can claim supremacy over the other.
Both fulfilled all the conditions Of conduct
and character.
DR.. Bellows, treating of the significance Of
death, referred briefly to the late Chief JUS
tice, to whom death is precious, since it has
begun for him a new existence, both in history
and in his own individuality. Death is an
illusion; the soul denies its power. In
heaven there are only SO many bright, WELL
known faces waiting to meet u.s. The best
argument for the Immortality of man is found
in that inward principle which prompts him
continually to better his condition and to
improve upon nature; and all that the world
possesses to-day of artificial grandeur it owes
to man. But man would never have looked
up into heaven had he not been compelled to
look down into death. Hence the Doctor be-
lieves in the recognition of friends after death.
Rev. George Macdonald, the great Scotch
novelist, occupied DR.. Robinson's pulpit in
the Memorial Presbyterian church yesterday,
and preached about the ambition Of the two
sons of Zebedee to sit on the right hand and
left hand of the Saviour, and about His hu-
mility, as exhibited in girding himself and
washing His disciples feet. Self-abnegation
is necessity to the ambitious, while in the
service of God there is perfect freedom and o
possibility of reaching heaven. Many, he
said, come far short of due appreciation Of
how to obtain the kingdom of heaven, whose
apex rests upon one point, and that point is
the Son of Man. But to get near Him we
must go down, instead of up, and as o man
gets down nearest to the Masters grave he
gets nearer to the kingdom of heaven. Every
man who would serve God need never move o
step from his daily toll in order to give full
temple service to the Son of God. All of
which is true and Scriptural and expert
mental
Vicar General Quinn preached his first ser
mon in the Cathedral yesterday. 1t was little
else than eulogy of his predecessor and o
pledge that he would try and follow in the
footsteps of the late Vicar STAIRS.
Archbishop McCloskey laid the corner stone
of new Catholic church in Fourteenth street
yesterday and Rev. M. J. O'Farrell preached
sermon on the occasion. The pastor of the
new enterprise is Rev. Gabriel Healy, an
earnest, industrious pastor Ten thousand per-
sons, lis said, participated in the ceremonies.
Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, preached and
administered the rite of confirmation in st.
Johns Cathedral, in which he himself was
confirmed years ago. His discourse was con
the sacred beauty Of the Blessed Virgin
Mr. Reecher hantized a cluster of bal;aa