The New York herald., 1876-11-13
Sermons in Various Churches on the
Questions of the Hour.
A MESSAGE OF COMFORT.
The Blessed Virgin as an Inter
cessor for Sinners.
MAKING ELECTION SURE
Rev. William r. Alger on Dra-
matte and Ascetic Spirit.
ALL soULS CHURCH.

ALL SOULS CHURCH.
The DUTY OF CHRISTIAN CITIZENS IN PERIODS
OF HIGH POLITICAL ExcIrEMENr--THE
HEnALp's WISDOM, cASDoR AkD STATES
MAHsHp-A SERMON By REV. HENRY ".
BELLOWS. d. d.
In All souls church, yesterday morning, Rev.
Henry W. Bellows, d. d., delivered discourse
present peculiarly excited conditions oi the public
mind In, relation to tho Presidential contest. taking
his text from Isaiah xii. 20, 2l"And 1t shall come
10 pass in that day that will call my servant Elakim.
The son oil Hkah, and l will clothe him with thy
robe and strengthen him with thy grde, and
l will commit thy government into his hands and
he shall be n father to the inhabitants OF Jcru-
Salcm and TO the house OF Judah" Having
peated his text, he said:-Ihe threatened in
vasion OF Jewry by the Persans was the
occasion OF the excitement in Jerusalem, TO which the
chapter from which the text is taken refers There
we're those who wepi and mourned aud girded thom-
selves with sackcoth, and thero those who
nlled with joy and gladness and slew and sheep
and drank wne according as their sympa,hies went
with against the prospects of change of rulers.
The people mad with excitement "What ailcth
thee that thou art gone up 10 the housetops that
thou art full OF stirs; tumultucus city; ajoyous
city; thy slain men not slain with the sword
dead in batile?" Human nature IS very constant to
ITSELF wc have just been having in New York the
Iame state OF divided feeling that they had in
jerusalem OF hope and fear, of Joy and sorrow, OF
ieasting and fasting, according as the sentiment OF
party and patriotism, after their several forms of
opinion and preference, have been thrown
up or cast down by the conflicting and
shifting reports of victory and defeat In the scattering
sections OF our vast territorial and political Union,
vhi nj Of n has
been hung In the nearly and most uncertain bal
ancc Of the electoral vote Our slam men have not
been slain by tho sword but by the noiseless fall of
ballots but the fate of the conflict by artillery and
musketry, between two nearly equal armies, could
be anxious fuller Of intense interest than
the result OF this peaceful controversy to the hands
into which the people OF this country to commit
Tho government for the Presidential term The
vcrdc, is not yet declared, bat happily, nothing any
M Us say or do can affect the result
THE QUESTION SETTLED.
but how is It sctteds only complete returns tell
End IL may, good citizens will acquiesce In the
suit; let bad men impatient blind partisans on
sthcr side object and struggle against they may,
any undisputed decision will be better than
iurther counionance OF an excitement which
lnhames the coarser and low disciplined
minds Of the nation with violent animosites
and the desire to any means OF making their own
side victorious. Already there arc signs Of u dis
Hstrous disposition alcge fraud dispute legal
iurns to carry the question into Congress. These
challenges, however unhappy, must be met But do
sot hesitate to say that either party peacefully and
with the acquiesencc OF the other according power,
ID vastly TO be preferred TO prolonged struggle for
the mastery in electoral college, perplexed by pop
ular tumult MS 10 Its plain duty, or Congress made
up largely OF persons directly or passionatey In
serested the other side OF the dispute. What
moro OF infammatory discussion and dangerous sus-
pense as 10 the personal ana political character Of oCr
coming rulers In tho opinion OF many all the iear
ful evils accompanying disputed succession In
countries would be kely TO attend such
m uncertainty. LIT IL be our duty TO acknowledge
all the rca ilegaties or uncertainties but to olscour-
age all demagogica efforts TO dispute the rc-
turns when tney have lar show OF legality,
and TO pacify the angry passions that have
sher source only in mere party rage or personal
fisappoin menis the struggle for place. However
he Presidency is settled thing Is plsn the coun-
wy weight Of character being allowed for evenly
divided IN ITS preferences aud wishes that candor
must concede that neither party carries anything like
weighty moral majority, or has the authority Of an
overwhelming CONVICTION that its candidates and poll
cy greatly to be preferred and unquaiiedly
trusted. The nation has decided that the issues Dc-
lore clear enough and OF such obvious antag
snism that go with decisive and enthusiastic
Electoral magna,es into either camp. That has been
Jettled, and It perhaps, the most important thing
70 be settled even more important than the victory OF
nthcr party, that the most essential thing is the
satonai interests not In dispute The people have
Hearty said. by their nearly even electoral vote on
TmK ISSUES OF rnE WAR ARE NOT IN DANGER
whichever side prevails; that both parties
rhelmingly in favor OF maintaining the amendments
u the constitution; that tho pers of The southern
ilxms which have pressed so largely In the campaign,
have seemed to them real or substantial that the
Eraignment OF personal character ID the leading
ddates has not seriously affected their confidence,
being. they have judged, Of too vindclive or TOO
hypothetical nature. Above all, they have the good
sense TO what the excellent Governor Hayes mas
already said within a few days; that the commercial
and financial difficulties Of the country manly in
dependent n
gressiona policy. having their origin in much larger
and more general causes. affecting simultaneously
al commercial countries, and due 10 some
general msadIustment OF LABOR aud capital,
Or the disturbance caused by yield OF mines
H the stable measures OF value OF gold silver,
Or the greater production OF articles OF absolute
seccssity under the stimulus Of new power Of ma
shinery than the consuming ability OF The world JUS
nss or the diversion OF the people OF the world from
Nricutural to civic life or She vast standing armies
hat false policy has .a1 c.sd upon Tho great nations
i Europe Evidently main evils business has sui
lered here aud esew here OF purely political
Asture, and cannot be abated oy partisan politics AZ
any rate that Is the decision OF the American people
lhs present neutrAized result OF party pre,cnces
both sdea Whoever comes into Office nov. happily,
pomes 10 as President OF country prepared 10 believe
shat honest purposes and an impartial admin
ssration Of the constitution by the choice
Of either party must be and will be sale
and syropitious TO the general interests, let his
special views Of the only matters in dispute be what
sncy viii The grcA. matters evidently are not much
In dlspu;e Take the disturbed and distressing cond-
sion OF certain portions OF the southern country
tlcuiarIy South Carolina and Louisiana Is there any
fair minded man who does not now suspect that the
dncuitcs these states inherent and incurable
and that any action, want OF action the central
government, may proceed from the inevitable predom-
inancs OF the negro voter Will anybody deny that
great misfortune those states 70 be at the political
mercy OF
A HORDE RECENT SLAVES
niil mainly uneducacd and only half civilized II is
H much as can endure In the city OF New York TO
have the ol our local government and
State government too, manly decided BY the vote
p recently nauraixed foreigners, largely OF the unin-
lsiligont and undscplned klnd and drilled In
forms Of law the control OF our tax Offices and
Of our bureaus OF education, and lower our
DelitIcxl and moral liis by tue predom nance oil an
onIntelIgsnt or irresponsible and n vicious ruling
Blnsa Bui We submit to u, heavy aud morsiying as
Me burden is, because cannot cscape IL without
dsiyfpg pushing aside certSn constitutional rights
aud hocrtss which justly believe to be, IN their
81 Humanity VIII any body pretend that tho govern
ment OF majority, largely composed Of unthInkng