The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-15
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.

4 MR. BEEcHER BAPTIzING INFANTS AND ADvo-
| eating THE POLITICAL EQUALITY OF THE
sExEs-wHAT Is THE HOLY GHOST?
! The attendance at Plymouth church yesterday
as large usual That means 1t crowded to the
doors and that hundreds turned away the
| sermon a little girl of and six infants we're
baptized. One OF them held in the arms OF John
! L. HILL who Of Mr.. Beccher's counsel during
the great trial Among those who attentivcy watched
Mr. Beechcr as no sprinkled The little in front
OF the PLATFORM the ''sweet singer in Israel y
| Throughout the entire service Mr.. Sankcy the
most intensely interested spectator present His eyes
never left Mr. Beccher for q Even while with
eyes he bent his head in prayer he could be
| seen CHANGING between his outspread fingers at the
preacher.
In his short prayer Mr.. Beccher appealed heaven
that the efforts OF Mcssrs Moody and Sankey in Brook
Ign might DO successful and that when they away
they might leave behind them a religious fervor which
would not expire. At the conclusion OF the
prayer he announced that he would DO absent from the
city several days. but would return in time to attend
tho Friday evening prayer meeting He announced the
seventh annual meeting OF the American
woMAN's SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
to be held at stciuway Hall this week and referred in
most complimentary terms the ladies connected with
that association.
.Tho meeting win be attended, = said he ''by Lucy
Stone and other ladies, who while advocating larger
sphere for their sex make that beautiful by
their purity and excellence OF life. am that for
wisdom regulated by dccorum, and for domestic pru-
dence shall look far before find any more Gt
TO speak American mothers than Lucy Stone; / am
that shall look far before find any to
equal Mrs. Howe IN learning and genius, and i
that when asked what woman may
DO teacher upon the platform could
not do better than point TO Mrs. Iivermore
and say, They may be such | have lost nothing of
my confidence in the prupricty OF womans suffrage.
believe that no day will ever como in which public
and private and business affairs shall reach their maxi
mum OF earthly excellence until the ordinance of God
1t is not good for man TO be alone shall be fulfilled
in every ono of those departments believe that the
Joined and ntersphcring influence OF man and woman
will at last be as cleansing in the body polite 1t in
society, whatever may be the contusIons which will
occur the time of change and that in the end the
unity of and public affairs will work as
IL has wrought in the Church-not confusion, but ele
vation, and it has wrought in the houschod-not
confusion, but elevation. | deridc tread under
loot the whole doctrine Of Oricntalism in regard
accept with growing faith and confidence
the great Western doctrine, the
OCCIDENTAL TRUTHS,
that and women are, while not alike equal, and
that there Is perfect man until he has his companion
in woman, and perfect woman who has not her
panon in man. and no perfect family that has not over
all this head, made from two, and that that
which Is OF the household will be true, ultimately,
of human society. And therefore, in spite Of various
dsguremens and eruptions still believe and rejoice
in the progress OF everything that shall tend give
unity to the influence Of man and woman in public
i
! For the toxt OF his sermon Mr.. Becchcr chose the
fourth aud eighth verses OF the frs: chapter of Acts
He dwclt in special manner the last named verse,
In which Christ says his apostles But We shall
ccive power after that tho Holy Ghost is upon
you, - &c The Of our Saviours passion, said
he and had passed into history, though
then unrecordcd; His sleep had been awakened; He
had dwclt with His disciples for forty days showing
Himself in many ways aud proving to their conscences
consciousness that He the very Jesus that they
| had known and that he had risen from the dead And
now they had drawn together somewhere the Mount
\ OF Olives and they to have had there the final
conference In tho last the disciples asked whether
they about to enter upon their life work as
administrators the new Kingdom that they supposed
| was 10 be given 10 Israel The great master com
manded them to Jerusalem and there to wait.
The change they were TO wait Tor was unknown ana
mysterious to them. 1t power from on high.
| When the Lord went up into the misty clouds Of
heaven and disappeared from their sight they set their
! faces toward the city.
rnEy HAD NO CHARTER
and no directions but these -"Go back and wait, and
by and by there shall be gwen TO you power"
The preacher hero described the city of Jerusalem as
u appeared to the apostles their approach with s
mighty temples and palaces cleaning IN the sunlight
He also pictured the various classes OF its inhamanIs-
Tue Pharisces and Sadducccs the Athenans and
the Herodians with their religious worship
1000 years old, aud around the affairs
OF which was clustered all that venerable atrac.
tive IN their hstory-al that appealed to their patriot.
/ ism. And here, continued Mr.. Bccchcr. came
these eleven wandering men, accompanied by n lew
women perhaps and they to combat all Tins vast
system Their whole charter and equipment consisted
ofthis, eco; wait till you cndued with power They
were the humblost Kind OF men. Ii we except John,
there was was not ono of the original disciples that had
the slightest touch OF what call genius They aid
not even understand their tcstamentary Scriptures
they did not understand their own Master
| they did not understand the kidudou,
that He to establish They had Just let nll from
their lips "Wt thou now Israel tho king.
dom ~ expecting material kingdom to be ruled ny
them in the Jewish Church, and there is evidence