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BrevitieS and LevitieS.

Es> An Auburn fisherman had few
days since rather worse than the average
fsherman's luck. He was angling
through hole in the ice and supposed
that he had caught trout so large that it
could not be brought through the orifce.
So he gently played his fish with ono
hand, while with the other he chopped
the ice until the opening had been sufiI
Gently enlarged Then with skilful
49, j. ,,e byo..gi., out-a dead cat with a
-. = -. ~. nec!, Total weight of the
=. prize. rna pounds.
r,aale lecturer says the only
dqcana tj..l.s i.Hou,. Adam was rib, and
-i.a- " el, to ma!ie something better.
s ear. M cody tell why, when Eve
4,4- touaga nom one of Adams ribs, a
al.s =. wasn't made at the same time
- .g.d, ol ,ere
~ .ay little man. what are
you going to do fora living when you
grow up?'' inquired gentleman of a
little boy at the Four Courts this morn.
ing. go, am going to be a lawyer"
was the reply. ~ believe I wouldn't
be lawyer if were i'll your place."
said the gentleman. Eyes. my father is
lawyer and I intend to be one, too," re-
turned the little fellow adding in conf
dental whisper, eff you are law
yer the policemen can't take you up
O. nights"
My- The editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, after stating that he has "no
desire to engage in personal controver-
sy," proceeds to characterize the editor
of Il rival newspaper as "a drunken and
cowardly idiot, who disgraces journal
ism"
81 An Irishman telling another who
had just arrived, Of severe spell Of
sickness he had had, said, "Och, me
friend, was fiat of me back and spach-
less for six weeks and fourteen days in
the long month of August, and all my
cry was for wather, wather."
MD- "A Racine man who had been ar
rested for forgery got clear by agreeing
to marry the complainants daughter, a
cross-eyed old maid.
:,a A Memphis girl was married the
other day, and Immediately sold her pi-
ano, bought sewing machine, and made
her husband a suit of clothe and herself
two calico dresses, and now fourteen
young men are seeking the hand of her
unmarried sister.
G.f- 4 blessed old lady being asked if
she ever had her ears pierced by the
wall of distress, said she couldn't very
we'll remember, but sho believed it was
done with a fork. /
lstr. 4 boy pressed tho muzzle of a pis-
tol against his body in cooking it, and
the bullet camo out at his back.
ass- A man in Franklin, KY, recently
seriously injured, is getting we'll because
the surgeon brought with him Bible
by mistake for his case of instruments.
nss- A decidedly rough, looking. indi-
yidual applied for license as teacher of
a school not far from Troy recently. "Do
YOU think you can manage school?"
inq uired the.examiner. "Well, guess
So" said the applicant, imperturbably; {;
"if can't, 1 kin knock spots out of the
Youngsters" The vacancy still exists.
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Some old genius, who very evident
ly knows a thing or two" gives the
following advice to young men who
depended on father for their sup
portt.' ;. i
"0ome, off with your coat, cGnch
the saw, tie pillow handles, the axe,
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-17
PRAISE and PRBCRPT.
The Coed, Bad and Indifferent
Utterances from the Pulpits
of the City Yesterday.
The Vacant Chair of the Late,
Vicar General.
The Rev. Father KearTley
on the Rule Of Faith.
A MEDIATiNC MESSIAH.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke Find
ing Fault with All Churches
Except His Own.
The MIGHT OF TEE WIDOWS MITE.
Mr. rockingham on Society as 1t Is and as
1t Should Be-..Gaflney'S Fate.
The Bishop Elect of Savannah on the Vices
and Infldelity Of the Age.
SPAIN'S POLITICAL STATE.
Beecher on the Moral Economy of the Uni
.verse-Nothing Good Ever Lost.
.Talmage on the Dangers Of Delay in
Preparing for Eternity.
The Bishop Elect Of Savannah on the Vices
and Infldelity Of the Age.
SPAIN'S POLITICAL STATE.
Beecher on the Moral Economy of the Uni
verse Nothing Good Ever Lost.
Talmage on the Dangers Of Delay in
Preparing for Eternity.
WORSHIP IN WASHINGTON.

The following reports are sketches Of the prin-
Cpal sermons delivered yesterday nom the pulpits
OF the churches. The slush caused by the last
forty eight hours of snow and rain chilled the
piety OF too many church-goers, for the
most fashionable pews were found dismally
vacant and unadorned. However, the weak.
ness OF human nature which caused this
remissness in duty may perhaps be
a1oned for through the agency Of the HERALD if
these instructive columns are read with careful
and earnest attention. The stormy ana tempestu.
ous weather has never yet appalled, any OF its
intrepid reporters, and there is probability that
1t ever will. Through their fathfulness 1t is that
many religious minds are now given their usual
Sabbath food for fresh reflection though It come
rather late on Monday morning.
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TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY.

Preparing for Etcrnity-The Dangers Of
Deiay-An Earnest Discourse TO nm
Earnest Congregation.
The storm yesterday morning had the eject OF
somewhat decreasing the usually large attendance
at the Academy. The lower part Of the house,
however, was wen filed, aud the congregation was
very attentive one. Mr.. Talmage said that the
subject he had prepared for that morning was an
proprate to promiscuous audience and was NOT
appropriate to that before him, so he would take
another subject He thought that the audience
present was not promiscuous one but was COM
posed OF one class-of those who were in earnest
about their souls.
The sermon was based on the text-.To-dav ~
We VIII hear His voice, harden not your hearts ),
and was an argument to show the danger and rollv
Of deferrng preparation for eternity. Mr.. Tamace
said that there was a best time for everything.
There were some
GREAT BLUNDERERs IN LIFE
VINO ala the right thing, but they did IL at the
wrong time You could look back in your life aud
see that there were crises, that there was some
point III your life where you made very great mis-
take, and where, by one forward movement you
might nave made Your fortune You all acknow--
isusea tSat ~ matters oi the world there was
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ST. PAUL's REFORMED CHUECH.

Sermon by tho Rev. DIR. Thompson on
Christ as the Mediator Between God
and Man.
The first Of q series of services under the aus
pices OF st. Paul's Reformed Church, Rev. Dr..
A. r. Thompson, pastor, was held in Harvard
Rooms, on Sixth avenue, corner OF Forty-secOpd
street, yesterday afternoon. The object of these
services Is to bring under the influence Of the
Gospel that large proportion Of our population
which Is deferred from attending in the churches
owing to the expense Of pews and other considcra.
tons, and which comes under the general denomi-
nation OF ''Outsiders."
TIE SERMON ON CHRIST THE MEDIATOR.
After the usual religious exercises DR.. Thomp-
son announced for his text the passage found in
L. Timothy IT,, 5-"For there is one God, and
one Mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus" He first called attention to the force
of the particle "for'' in the text, as shown by
reading the preceding verse, as follows :-"Who
will have all men TO be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge OF the truth For there is one GOd,r
&C., thus establishing that
THE GREAT CENTRAL FACT OF SALVATION,
solid fo0thold OF hope for eternal life is based
on the Mediator, the man Christ Jesus. Without
come ea Cod aTe Sr OF rs the
first step, and there is no one save Him
to furnish a specific for our disordered condition.
While the text was one of many which carry their
own explanations with them, and which contain
within themselves the essence OF all Gospel truth
a lew considerations suggested by 1t might not be
Improbable. He first alluded to Christ as the sole
Mediator, recognized as such by all Christians, as
those who pray to the Virgin and to the saints be-
lieve that their mediatorial quality comes through
Christ He then proceeded TO show the separation
between God and man made through sin and
shown by the natural Discrimination of man toward
God and repusion which followed On a contem-
plation OF certain Of His attributes, as His power
and holiness. This established, he consdered, the
character Of Mediator
ONE WHO STANDS IN THE MIDDLE
Intervening between man and an offended Creator.
This Mediator had not only bridged over the
chasm which separated us from God, bat had filed
1t up, and so brought us i'm close communion
with Him. The heart OF man instinctivey cries
out after God. There is within him longing sur
vivlng the fall and this demand Of his heart is only
satisfied by being lead up to God through the Me-
diator, who pays our debt, makes up for our de-
fciencies, so that We may be reconclled with the
Lawgiver, though no iota OF the law be abated.
Alter referring to the double nature of this medi
alton and its unspeakable significance he exhorted
to the cultivation ola living faith, through which
the soul shall be strengthened in the glory of its
Champion and shall win to Ii that bessedness
which is without money and without price.
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consisted OF singing prayer and exhortation,
thirteen OF the band participating Brother Hal
stead Brother Turner and others made exhorta-

consisted OF singing, prayer and exhortation,
thirteen OF the band participating. Brother Hal
stead, Brother Turner and others made exhorta-
lions and earnestly urged the uncovered to
go forward to the altar and receive the prayers
OF the band. Brother Halstead said that Christ
had opened q way for all to go home to heaven.
God Ii good His Word Is good and 1t Is given us TO
prepare us for heaven. He had been struck by the
description given by the Rev. Mr.. Green OF great
revival he had witnessed, where the whole congre-
CATION divided into little parties and poured out
their spirit in prayer. He wanted to see the same
mere n IN the Seventh street church to-day good
0id Methodist revival ''You have been here now"
Want9 Do you want fresh baptism from on highg
Ihat mother says know what want; my
prayer Ii for my Children That husband says,
my prayer goes up for my unconverted wi e.
are Are You prayingf Yes you answer. Amen:
would to God 1t would come now
IL should come; 1t will come II you viii
pray for 1t. Wen love 1t, wen have 1t,
want you to come now, just as You are, and bow
at TINS altar and pray for the unconverted sinner
Tor your sons and daughters. Come up; dom hold
back" In obedience to the invitation about twenty
collected about the altar, and for twenty minutes
young man seemed the especial object OF prayer,
and when he knelt at the altar several fervently
exclaimed 80, Lord, let Thy grace come into his
heart" The services were OF a very earnest and
impressive character, and when the band and
those collected about the altar arose nearly all
their eyes were wet with tears. The services in
the evening were still more Affecting, and the band
thanked God In their prayers that sinners were
being led TO repentance.
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MADISON AVENUE REFORMED NCHURCH

Preaching by DIR. OrmastOn-The Love
OF God for His Chiidren-mcn Kings
by Divine Right.
There was an extra service at this churcn
yesterday afternoon, at haifpast three O'CLOCK.
The church was very partially occupied. the ser
vice began with the singing OF the elghty-nihtn
hymn. when Dr. Ganse, the regular pastor OF inc
church, pronounced prayer, after which announcer
hymn was sung and DR.. Ormiston advanced TO the
desk. His text was taken from Revelations
part OF the fifth and sixth chapters, beginning
''Who has made us kings and priests" The
reverend gentleman made very eloquent
and somewhat lengthy address to prove
that we were the real children OF God,
and that God by SO denominating us had acknowl-
edged that love was the most precious OF all the
precious stones which composed the kingly diadem
which encircled his brow. This idea OF love was
the main one with all the apostles. With John 1t
was the main point OF all his writings, and the
same idea existed with Paul. and also with Peter.
God loved us so that He gave us His Son, who came
on earth to wash US Of our sins. Before this we
were miserable creatures, without light, without
nope. Christ Jesus had restored all this to US by
His life and by His DEATH God had proved His love
ior us by word and by deed ana by thought. What
He had promised us He had gwen u.s. He had
brought US up from our lOwly, hopeless condition
to be His children, so that being sons of royal
Father
WE WE'RE ROfAL CHILDREN
and each OF US king God had endowed every
man with divine right to be king. and this was
the only divine right He ever had given men. Some
day when the blessed hour OF passing away came
He would take us up and place us in Heaven 10y His
side, and we should be all kings in Heaven. Here
was where the lOwliest man was as happy the
highest. AS a choice between the proud success
full man in His mansion, surrounded by oil the
comforts OF life, or the poor Old man lying in his
bed in garnet and about to give up the ghost,
which did Christian think the king OF the two,
the rich man or the poor, and in whose place
would we sooner beP Men generally little realize
the great care and
THE ENDURING LOVE
which God has shown for them. He was never
tired OF proving to us in some way the fact that
He never forgot us for one moment; in fact that,
In spite OF all our great ailings He was watching
over us and loving us constantly. There was no
question that we had done all we could to tire
out
THE PATIENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY,
but this was only another proof OF the deep love
that He bore u.s. The men who wrote about the
Son OF God and who lived with Him were ready to
bear witness that this was the most prominent
characteristic Of His life, and. more than all, the
most prominent characteristic of HIS death. DIR.
OrmistOn concluded by a very eloquent expana-
ton OF the beauties OF the passages of the Revea
tons from which he had taken his text At the
conclusion OF the sermon another hymn was sung,
and DR.. Ganse announced that on Sunday next the
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, OF Brooklyn, would preach
in the afternoon.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,
Sermon OF the Rev. Thomas ID. Anderson
on Faithfulness to the Word of God.

Sermon OF the Rev. Thomas ID. Anderson
on Faithfulness to the Word of God.
The First Baptist church, corner OF Thrty.ninth
street and Park avenue, was largely attended by
the congregation yesterday morning.
After the reading OF the morning lesson the Rev.
Mr. Anderson alluded in touching terms to the
sudden death fone OF the Sunday school children
who on the previous Sabbath was at his post in
school in the full enjoyment of life-and delivered
very tender prayer for the bereaved family.
Mr.. Anderson then took for his text, But He
said Rather blessed are they that hear the Word
OF God and keep it," In his opening remarks he
alluded to the Importance OF each Christian
performing the work set apart for Him in Christ,
and gave beautiful illustration of the entrance
OF Jesus into Jerusalem; how He set out on His
journey TO the great city, and sent before him His
messengers to proclaim to the people throughout
every town and village Of HIS coming, so that all
should see and hear Him; that thousands upon
thousands met Him on the wayside and hooted at
Him, yet He feared not He knew well that He
back, but rode into Jerusalem. Christ, he said,
knew that He would not be hailed as king; He
knew His MISSION and the great Messiah He was
going among the people TO proclaim the word OF
God. There was one among the thousands that
lifted up voice in his behalf
A CERTAIN WOMAN
amid the company lifted up her voice and
said unto Him, blessed is the woman that bare
luec " was tnere, lie continued anything more
Deautiin, more natural than the expression OF this
woman OF the happiness OF being the mother who
brought into the world the great MessiahS Mr..
Anderson alluded 10 the great good that could be
done by those who were blessed with wealth; yet
how few could be found aiding as they should in
the advancement OF
THE GREAT WORK OF CHRISTI
man who had but dollar and gave but a fraction
OIL was teniold happier than the wealthy man who
gave nothing. There were many who 20 to church
and call themselves Christians. DID they ever ask
themselves what their duties were as Christians2
lie reared there were many that did not. They might
DE heard 10 say, II have pew In the church; go
TO chnrch regularly; like to hear good sermon -
put that y all; IN iact, he claimed that was about
the end Of their Christianity. They hear the truth
preached, and perhaps the truth sometimes strikes
nome to them; they feel it, and. Al their hearts
not hardened, conviction touches them, and they
are mus led To embrace the saviour. lie claimed
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MEMORIAL SERVICE IN THE GREEK CHAPEL.

Yesterday, notwithstanding the dsagreeable
weather, the principal Russian and Greek repre-
sentaves in this city attended the services in the
Greek chapel in Second avenue. Among those
present were the Russian Minister, His Excelency
Baron D'Orenberg; the Russian Consul General,
Bodisco; General Gorlon. the military attache Of
the Russian Legation, and Mr.. Botassi,
the Greek Consul. The chapel was draped
in mourning, and the vestments worn by
Father Bjerng were OF sombre black The altar
and reading desk, and all the appur-
tenances Of the sanctuary, were 80 robed as to nd
cate deep sorrow. The services rendered, also,
were solemn and impressive. The occasion was
a memorial service for the late Grand Duchess
Pavoovna, who died In Russia few weeks ago.
She was born in January, 1901, and in 1924 married
the Grand Duke Michael. Her funeral Obsequies
were held in Russia, but memorial services will be
held wherever the Church has priests and priestly
authority. The regular Sunday services will be
rendered in English within couple OF weeks. Yes
terday afternoon the choir rehearsed the litany in
English, and preparations are gong forward asiast
as possible.
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picture OF the mother Of Perpetual succor. The
congregation were apparently moved to tears by
the words OF the preacher throughout, and his
manner OF address and style OF oratOry, together
with the truly impressive tone OF his voice and very
forcible power OF his gestures and attitude in the
pulpit make Father Gross master OF sacred eo-
quence second to no Catholic clergyman in the city,
The See OF savannah may rejoice over his nominal
ton as bishop, but the pulpit OF the humble priest
Will assuredy sustain a loss.
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a show: to attract attention. This was, ne SAID
false show OF Christianity, and he prayed, ior .rs
sake OF Christ, that they would search aeepy nAt0
given them and thus save themselves ere Sis too
In 70
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Christ and His religion would be permanent.
Forms ans words were made for man, but man
himself WIS made for truth, for love, Tor justice.
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SEVENTH STREET METHODIST CHURCH.


At the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church
revival services were commenced yesterday morn
ing, under the auspices Of the classical Praying
Band,r which is composed of about thirty laymen
attached 70 dinerent CITY churches, The SERVICES
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-25
ANOTHER RAILROAD SLAUGHTER.

The railroads and steamboats, are
doing their share to depopulate the
world. A number Of terrible accidents
have taken place within a few days. 1t
was no longer ago than Saturday that
an accident occurred onifthe Baltimore
and Ohio railfoad, near Wheeling, by
which three or four German emigrants
were, fatally injured and fifteen or
twenty wounded The accident was
caused by the spreading of the track,
which threw the tender, express cars
and one passenger car down an en-
bankment and all the coaches off the
track 's,N "a i"el ,.,., 'tu,i ,eq , ~ ~
& The coach that went over the bank.
some fifteen orgtwenty feet, with some
seventy or eighty men, women and chill
dren, turned bottom upwards. aI .ai Z
" Some of the emigrants became en-
ragged, thinking the engineer and con-
lductor were trying to kill them, and set
upon the officers Of the train with stones
| The officers had TO flee for their lives.
In an hour or. 80 after the accident
occurred, the express train, which, was
an hour and half late, came up, and
it's officers, directed by Captain Davis,
who was passenger, rendered all me-
cessary attention to the wounded. YER ei
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-25
COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS.
B, Wore Judge Rnnyon.


Frank II taison, colored Petit lar
ceny of pal OF shoes valued at two
dollars. PIE, sded guilty. County jail
thirty days.
Dennis Sullivan. Larceny of a coat.
Pleaded guilty. County Jail for thirty
days.
Nelson John son, and Mary his wife,
for larceny of gold watch valued at
one hundred and fifty dollars, a gold
chain valued at seventy-fve dollars, a
gold breastpin valued at five dollars and
a gold coin valued at five dollars, from
their employer, Mr. John p. Sayer at
Union, pleaded not guilty. Trial next
Saturday.
Z Dennis Sullivan. " Larceny of pair
Of pants. Pleaded guilty. County
jailIthirty days. Sentences concurrent.
William Bleekman, colored. larceny
Of money from Hannah Sands. Plead
ed not guilty. Trial on Saturday
Jenny Franklin Colored. Petit lar
ceny of white apron from Mrs. Lu.
cretia sTichenor4 Pleaded guilty. Coun-
ty Jail for fifteen days., rn. ..,, ss51a
IN Jenny Franklin. Co1ored. Larceny
Of yother articles from Mrs. Lucretia
Tichepor. n Pleaded guilty County
Jail fifteen days, sentence to be concur
rent. i tlotaaif5 ls41ia haQt1 tssA b
Hermann Gartz. Assault and battery,
with a knife. County Jail six months,
less one day. ' s Il1a i e.
John Anderson. Larceny of fifty
dollars in bank notes. Pleaded not
guilty. Trial next Saturday. 80 " ''''
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VA STEAMER BLOWN UP. !.

HELENA, Ark, q i August %. 1.-The
steamer George Wolfe blew up at; st.
Francis Island about two o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Twelve persons are
known to be lost and fifteen are wound
ed. The officers of the boat are all
saved except the second engineer, who
was Oh watch at. the explosion. He is
missing. ALI the lady passengers are
saved. Mr.. Nelson, from Shreveport
for Memphis, was. drowned. "a deck
passenger named Dawson, with his wife
and two children, bound for TupoIo,
Miss, were all killed. The cabin OF the
boat was blown to pieces, The hull
may be saved. 81 a.lya5aies 3 sI9asnya;
The passengers and crew of the
steamer Wolfe are still on Francis Is
land waiting for an up-river boat No
further particulars can be obtained AT
present. The spot where the steamer
blew up is known to river men as the
= e graveyard" being the same place
where the steamer Pennsylvania and the
St. Nicholas blew up and the I. I Il.
McGill was burned The George Wolfe
was from Shrewsbury, for st, Louis.
Captain Henry s. Carter was comman-
der, and Joseph Widen, clerk.aiiA ms-