The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-20

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overhead induced many hundreds of persons
to attend church who, as they retired on Sat-
urday night, did not design to 60. The SER
vices were, therefore. generally well attended
and the congregations comparatively large
Such was the case in Steinway Hall, where
DR.. Hepworth preached; in St. Pauls Metho-
dist Episcopal church, where DR.. Dashiell
discoursed (; in the Cathedral and other places
of worship whence our reports come to-day.
Fla man is entangled in wilderness his
first thought Is as to the way out. The Israel
ties were in just such strait as that when
they left Egypt and came to the Red Sea.
The sea was before them and Pharaoh's host
was behind and the wilderness around them,
and the question Of vital importance to them
was how they should escape. Taking their
condition and surroundings as fair type of
the human soul trying to escape from the
bondage of the world and sin, MIR.
Hepworth yesterday pointed out ''the only
way out of the wilderness" to every
such soul-namely, through the atonement of
the Lord Jesus Christ There may be no
pillar of cloud or of fire now to guide and to
encourage the faith of the penitent soul striv-
ing after liberty; but there is with us better
covenant than they had-a covenant of grace
.s'ordered in all things and sure''-so that we
may walk by faith, and not by sight, as they
did
We have 30 often heard the s'naked truth"
described and talked about that doubtless
very many have come to think that all truth
Is nude. Not so, however. Mr.. rockingham
finds that truth is often clothed, as nature is
often clothed in garments of richest beauty.
Truth in nature is never unadorned, We
wake in the morning to see the twigs glittering
with diamonds. Even where nature has the
least chance, over the toughest rocks she
weaves fbres 80 fine and delicate that they can
Dnly be discovered by the finest lens. The
naked truth of man is, according to Darwin,
that he is the descendant originally of an
ape. But the original ape is now 80 COW
cred up with dress that you cannot see
him. He stands now on two feet, up
right, instead of crouching down. The miser
In Paris who boarded up his money and died
leaving fortune to found an orphan asylum
presented the naked truth to the world in his
niggardliness, but the clothed truth was that
he was wrapped about with human sympathy.
30 also the man who lived a miser in a down.
town garnet of this city, and died not long
lgo leaving o chest full of money to the $50
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. f"
Thus can we clothe truth and make it beauti-
iul to the world
Anglo-Saxons and Americans are as much
given to self-glorifcation probably as any
pther people. They have good reason for it |;
but, as DR.. Dashiell showed yesterday, the
great dignity and honor of those nations
and of this generation consist in their
having the financial and religious ability
10 send the Gospel to the heather and
to be the means in Gods hands of the world s
conversion. And the Doctor believes that
this work is to be done very largely by the
Methodist Church of the two countries. Hence
The faith of the American Methodist Mission
AIRY Society in appropriating over eight
hundred thousand dollars this year for
missions and the Doctors appeal for increased
subscriptions to the Society's treasury.
The condition of the Mexican people and
their readiness to receive Protestant Christi.
anity and the duty of American Christians to
send the Gospel and the missionaries to them,
were ably presented last evening in st. Anne 8
Protestant Episcopal church by Rev. Henry
G. Riley, who has spent years in that country.
and has helped to organize over hundred
societies in various parts of that Republic.
Yesterday was celebrated in the Catholic
churches as the festival of the Most Holy
Name of Jesus, and, as such, appropriate
sermons were preached. In the Cathedral
Father McNamee dwelt particularly on the
name Jesus" 1t is the title of honor of the
Son of God It is the title of His victory-tht
name acquired by his blood. 1t is the all
comprehensive name Of faith, and there shoult
be no heart so cold and frigid that it will no
be melted into SORROW and pity by the recol
lection of the love that Jesus bore to mankind
DR.. Henry A. Brann, discoursing upon tn
s'Sectarian Clamor' against the Catholi
Church, last evening showed that it aros
either from prejudice, ignorance or want O
discrimination. Taking each of these cause
separately, he further showed that each had
hand in causing and in maintaining thi
clamor DR.. Brann's address was illustrated
from history, poetry and the records of dali
life in the newspaper press.
If we were asked to define the character
istics and to name the form of religion whic
peculiarly deserves the name of 'the religio
of humanity weshould instinctively describ
and declare that Christianity is the thin
beyond q peradventure According to MI
Hume, however, it is quite another and dil
ferent thing altogether. But as Mr.. Hume, /
defining his '.rellgion of humanity" left out
view the first and last words of the quotation
his discourse will probably be acceptable
those who '1ook with contempt upon th
atonement'' of Jesus Christ for humanity