The New York herald., 1875-12-19
Pulpit Topics To-Day.

In presenting our city pulpit topics to-
day we find budget good, bad and indiffer-
ent. But as society is made up Of just these
classes of persons each will be suited. The
Baptist pulpit will be represented to-day by
DR.. Armitage, who will call upon his hearers
to take sides for Christ ere they come to the
swellings of Jordan by Drs. Sampson and
Simmons who will prove that Christian
heirship implies unlimited possession, and
sketch the early struggles of Baptists for lib
erty; by Mr.. Kennard, who will, in answer
to inviting voices, begin series of discourses
on scenes in our Saviours life with the
commencement of that life-the Nativ-
ity by Mr.. Knapp, who, in showing how
worldly trbulation is neutralized in Christ,
will present Gods mercy to those who visit
him by Mr.. Leavell, who will demonstrate
that all things work together for good to
those who have faith in God, and by Mr.
Jutten, who will present the cause of foreign
missions. The Methodist pulpit will be rep
resented to-day by Mr.. Lloyd, who will pre-
sent the ground of the believers security and
the modern analoges to Christ's wilderness
temptations In this theme young men are
interested. The Methodist pulpit will be
represented also by Mr.. King, who believes
and will so declare that the religion and
morality of the Gospel are inseparable by
Mr. Willis, who believes there is work for
the million, but he wants them to get on the
true foundation first by Mr.. Johns, who
thinks the Christian SO fixed is i'm
movable, and if he sows he will reap
great harvest by Mr.. Lightbourn,
who advocates the practice of the
higher life as found in the Bible; and by MIR.
Harris, who has been searching prophecy and
history to find out how near the millennium
is to US. He will give the results of his inves-
legations to-day. DIR. Talmage will lead the
Presbyterian pulpit by commencing a series
of sermons on public iniquities and Mr..
Phelps will apply the prayer test. DR..
Preston will represent the Catholic pulpit
with his closing lecture on the Eucharist.
which he will show is the fountain of light
as he has already demonstrated it to be the
fountain of life Mr.. Baker will uphold the
status of the Episcopal Church with a dis
course on the Bible in the schools, in which
he will take the position that to insist upon
its retention is an infringement of individual
liberty and opposed to the genius of
Christianity. Mr. Hepworth will pre-
sent the JOY and sadness of the Chris
tian life; Mr.. Alger will repeat the
history Of the weeping Of humanity and
present the distinctive characteristics of
orthodoxy and liberal Christianity; Mr.. Nye
will tell US something about the wise men of
the East and the star which led them to
Christ, and will give us some Of the best
methods for converting unbelisvers to tho
! Christian faith and life; Mr.. Giles will teach
4 his people how to walk in righteousness;
Mr.. Seitz will paint the Prodigal's appear
ance after his return home; Bishop Snow
will bring the judgment dispensation noar;
Mr.. Mccarthy will refute DIR. Diapers
science and DR.. Talmage's logic; Mr.. Lynn
will discuss the relations of Church and
State in America and Mr.. Brown will tell US
what unbeievers believ And here We may
rest for the present.