The New York herald., 1874-11-09
Wr. Talmage Denounces Theatres
Mr.. rockingham Extols
Little People.
HEAVEN, EARTH. PURGATORY, HE'LL
Eulogies of Bishop Baoon-The Great sacri-
fcs-Recognition Of Friends
in Heaven.
THE DEVILS TACTICS
LYRIC HALL.


The congregation at Lyric Hall was even larger
than usual yesterday. Mr.. rockingham delivered
an eloquent discourse All Souls Day He
said My subject last sunday was All Saints
Day. All Saints Day is nXed for the 1st OF Novem
ber and commentaries the saints; the I'd is
All Souls Day and commentaries the sinners.
The sentiment Of All Saints Day is that
OF honor, praise, reverence, gratitude IN
those who have shown perfect life and have
helped win signally IN the development OF their
characters the sentiment OF All Souls Day IS
that OF tender pity and compassion towards those
who nave struggled and failed and are struggling
now in search OF peace. The custom was early in
stituted, and meant simply this, tina: all believing
people should remember on a certain day those
In purgatory, and by masses and prayers do what
they could to shorten their torment. IL was nat
ural In the days when the belief was held that
morrals could avail with immortality by prayers.
This custom prevails no longer except in one
Church, where ignorance is the prevailing condi-
tion still 1t Is not altogether unmeet for u.s. who
have discarded the superstition, to remember
the day. Sometimes 1t is easy enough to
remember those who have enricned our lives
and 1t IS not hard either 10 remember those wBo
have wronged US, but TO think OF all-al the dead,
with the calm, consderate, even Judgment OF
Fellow pilgrims earth Is not easy, but 1t Is our
duty. IL Is great mIsrake to think o. the dead s
yanished--as unreal-absent. on they are very
real, more real often than the living are, for as
often as we remember them they are with US. and
until we are annhllated they VIII live. Death has
made them real, and they stand before US, pure
souls simple intelligences, consciences not dis
DEATH CREATES Angels AND SPIRITS.
Without death there would only be bodies How
present the dead are! they haunt the homes
o. the deads Doubt anything rather than that.
They are all-poweriul they are the rulers. The
great COniuCius, who has been shade Tor so
many centuries, IS living power, saviour IN
thousands OF homes IN the vast Empire OF China.
Moses and the grim, hagRard prophets have held
IN their sceptre hands the race OF Hebrews from
earnest times Till to-day Tue transdeured Christ,
0ead and buried, reigns supreme over all the word
Of Cnrlstendom AS we think OF these thugs is
1t not borne III upon US with tremendous power
subjects. and IS it not only u privilege to think OF
them, but a holy duty? Let us think oI some OF
the onlces the dead sun r perform ior or Us. lake,
who are conspicuous IN TINS world. they work
not with their hands, but with their hearts
they reveal tne strength OF laltn. the might oI
love. Tney teach Us TO cal God iather and
mother and men brothers. They are dead Let US
be thankful they are alive. Take u different class
OF the dead. Those who think ous divine things
theologans We call them. lneologans in these
days bear a very hard name. by hose who speak
kindly they are spoken OF as men who have lost
their way-men who went alter nothing and iound
1t. They who speak more sternly speak OF them
as deceivers, cheats aud tsraIts. Here we are to-
day to try anu throw oil the burden OF prejudice
dead, and we can afford 60 remember them gently.
and in thinking OF them we ought 10 remember
Two tnings-1rst we should be profoundly crate. re-
love or truth; second. that they nave
made It 50 much easier hssn to 10. nnd 1a t,a the
REMEMBER THE DEAD.
Ipass by the conspicuous figures and think OF the
vast armies OF the toiers and deiverS OF the earth
who have passed away and left no trace except
their works. honor August Compte tnat. IN max
fng his religion OF humanity in place OF the
Roman Catholic saints. he substituted Tor every
day OF tine year one OF these nard WORKING, t0ilDg
men A souls are are mne u satl 70 ,1s Lora are are
great; do we remember the littey Inc little nave
made the world not tae basai:o great: Is 5o TO
s' are very T'' few rhins how many there
are who have never heard OF Raphael or BeeLho-
ven. who die unnoticed and unknown, who read
but few books and see but few people, touching
priy the hands OF their Kindred about them. pass
through lie utterly ignorant or the immense re-
sources within their reach, and yet these myriads
of little people nave built homes and trained chill
dren generation alter generation, In endless sue
cession 10 tue present. We tnlnk or them as
mass we used to tnlnk oil the milky way; but II
yOu LOOK at TINS vast cloud OF dead and analY ze
them you Will see that each individual had mis-
sion-did stand ior something. faltn, rnat power
BY which humanity stretches forth It's hands alter
the unseen things, what Is u but the combined and
concentrated effect OF generations on generations OF
small men, VINO have been doing exactly that
thing and thus created the capacity IN ourselves.
WHAT Is nopes That power by which all men
Itrain Their eyes through tne DARK present TO
and yet that Is pu the concentrated radience tdat
men have shot forward Tor generations. charity
wnat Is 1t but the combined and accumulated
kinoness OF ali these generations. PatIence-the
rorce ny wnicn stand under difficulties and
dure what Is It but the result oil the innumerable
Efforts made by these little men TO hold them.
selves up. Truth-wnat Is 1t but the assurance
that yeracity Is what no ds men together. Justice
the Doua tnat actually holds men togc ther:
what Is 1t but the straiDlng oi all these
INVISIBLE people after some b md Of continulty In
all our churches TODAY the deau make the pray
ers which the lvIng murfnur. The dead wrote the
scriptures which tue living read. ''say nothing
Dur good OF the dead" is old proyerb. T.e
dead cannot say any tulng III their own defence.
Two orders OF angels wat upon manSnd-bngnt
angels wno lead toward bright lie and dark
angels VINO brighten them away from darkness
We being neither Catholic nor Protestant, stand
ing outside, are able the history IS 1t is Let
us nave our Gan sous Day." but let II not be a
single day IN the year, but every dav-every hour,
when. bv obeylDg the law OF klndness, can es-
tablish the love Of truth.