The New York herald., 1873-09-01

Solomon has put the query in the mouth Of
the sceptic, Wherein hath man pre-eminence
over the beastp Rev. Professor Aiken, of
Princeton, answered it yesterday to the Uni
versity place Presbyterian church. God hath
made man the lord of the earth and set him
over the works of His hands. But mans pre-
eminence, as well as his strength, consists in his
ability to love and obey God. Science comedies
with and corroborates Scriptural revelation in
the declaration that man was crowned with
glory and was manifestly designed for lord
ship among the other works of God But the
inspiration to success in this as in all other
things comes from God and is helped onward
by science All humanity, with its littleness,
feels the need of help from the Divine power.
Man must, therefore, Mr.. Aiken thinks know
nature and worship God. But fortunately for
the mass of mankind who have little or no
knowledge of nature, they can worship God
| too.
| 1t becomes an important question to every
one who expects to gain heaven to know what
degree of fitness God requireth Of us ere we
enter that blessed estate Rev. Dr. Chapin told
the Murray Hill Presbyterians yesterday that
they must have cleansed hearts and souls and
minds purer than they brought into the world
before they can enter therein. Heaven is the
| inheritance of believers, but it is not pur-
chased by gold nor earned by the sweat Of the
brow; it is ours because of our relationship to
| the great God our Saviour, whose it is and
who has prepared it for His people, and is
preparing them for it.
| After the summers vacation Father Bjering
resumed services in the Russo Greek chapel
yesterday, but did not preach. Next Sabbath,
however, he promises to give his congregation
and oil others who may attend an outline of
| the history and doctrine of the orthodox Greek
Church, founded by John Chrysostom and
Basil the Great This, of course, will be
something worth hearing, coming as it does
from priest Of the Church who is familiar
not only with it's theoretical but with its prac-
tical and spiritual beliefs also.
Rev. Mr.. MacFayden ministered to over three
thousand people in Leferts Park, Brooklyn,
yesterday, and called them all to repentance,
giving as q motive therefor that which John the
Baptist gave the thousands who waited on his
ministry namely, the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand 1t may not be always SO near-in-
deed, it may not be so near many who heard
the preacher yesterday, or the many more who
will read the sketch Of his discourse in the
HERALD to-day, and this Mr.. MacFayden
urged as O reason for immediate and heartfelt
repentance.
The Rev. Father Kearney discoursed about
the kind and the value of the education which
is to be impaired in the public schools of this
city from this day forth until the next sum-
mer vacation. He highly exalted Catholic
schools, and strongly urged the congregation
gathered in st. Patricks to send their chill
dren to those rather than to the public schools
of the city, and bade them be exceedingly
careful about their children attending Sunday
| school
The story of the healing of the ten lepers,
as related by ST. Luke xvii, was made by DIR.
McGlynn to typify ''the greater miracle of
cleansing mems souls from the leprosy of sin
in the sacrament of penance. The Saviours
command to them to show themselves to the
priest was made the foundation for the asser-
ton that ''priests are gifted with the power
bestowed by Christ when He breathed upon
them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost;
whosesoever sins ye forgive they are forgiven"
&c. Many seek the remedy and are healed, he
said but comparatively few are grateful
Rev. J. NJ. Freeman uttered some broad
catholic truths yesterday in St. Johns
Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, when
he said the business of a minister was not to
make men Methodists, or Baptists, or Presby-
terians, or Congregationalists but Christians.
Christ should be above sect or party in the
mind of every true minister, and He will be.
One thing is essential in genuine religious
life, and that is, that men seek Jesus and
follow Him from pure motives But those
who search the Scriptures for the purpose of
picking flaws and finding contradictions Mr.
Freeman declared were only seeking Jesus to
put Him to death again.
DR.. Even, of Philadelphia, preached at
Long Branch on the new birth, what it is and
what it does for men, 1t is a change in mans
relation to God, and by its development fits
man to become the peer of angels and the
brother of the Lord Jesus Christ. This
change can be effected only by faith in Christ,
through the influence of the Holy Spirit upon
the hearts Of men, The Doctor gave illustra.
tons of evidence of this change, and cited the
late Admiral Farragut as q shining example.
Rev. Father Moynahan, of New Orleans,
preached in st. Patricks church. Jersey City,
on the school question, giving the usual argu-
ments against the goddess common schools
and urging Catholics to send their children to
their own UNCONVENTIONAL schools But he
wants the State to pay them back the money
they have given it heretofore in taxes that
they may support their own religious schools.
This he thinks will secure increased
harmony between Catholics and Protes-
tants. The preacher paid deserved compli-
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