The New York herald., 1876-02-20
Pulpit Topics.

Two of our Brooklyn pastors will address
the Order Of United American Mechanics to-.
day-Revs. w. @. Steele and s. Fl. Platt-on
the religious character of this Republic and
the danger that threatens it from Roman
Catholic influences Mr.. Clarke will tell his
people how they may be saved, and Mr..
Lloyd will take the man who wanted to be
saved in his chariot as an example for others
who are trying to serve Christ without leav-
ing chariots and every other worldly infu-
ence behind. AS Lent draws near Mr..
Brooks will show the importance of special
seasons and agencies of devotion, and in
view of the revival services now so generally
carried on Mr.. Leavell will urge his hearers
to seize the opportunity to be saved /; Mr..
Rowell will demonstrate that the salvation
offered in the Gospel is an uttermost saliva
ton and one that according to Mr.. Phelps,
makes the dry bones live spiritually, and in
that respect is, as Mr. Hepworth be-
lieves, very like an Old Testament re-
vival. Mr.. Johns takes the burning bush as
an emblem of the Church on fire, and when
it is thus ignited souls will be saved easily
and in great numbers or brought to Christ
as Mr.. Jutten puts it. But Mr. Sankey's
singing plays as important part in the
evangelists services as Mr.. Moody's preach
ing, and Dr. Rylance will take broad view
of the value of music in worship and in life,
and show its influence upon both. Mr..
Greene will urge his hearers to invite Christ
to their homes and will picture what happy
homes He will make them, and Mr.. Merritt
will state the price of human redemption.
DR.. Ever makes special plea for the seventh
gift of the Holy Ghost-holy fear-and Dr.
Armitage explains the symbolic meaning of
the meat offering of the Temple. Mr.. Bon
ham will give an account of the great revival
in the Church of England, and DR.. Schere-
schewsky will describe the growth of Chris
tianity in China DR.. McKim will compare
the functions of the Hebrew prophet and the
Christian preacher, and show wherein they
agree and wherein they differ. Mr.. Mccarthy
does not like the promiscuous blending of
the names of Jesus and Satan by Mr.. Moody,
and he will undertake to prove it unscrip-
tural. Mr. Seitz will show that pain is a
means of culture. DR.. Caldwell will de-
scribe the place of Baptists in the
history of religious liberty, and Mr.. Giles
will explain away the Scripture narrative
of the temptation and fall by showing that
the serpent referred to in that narrative
means the sensual principle in man and the
woman was his selflove. SO that after all
we are wrong in supposing that there was "a
woman in the case" or serpent either, and a
very little step further will do away with the
man also, and then there will be no need of
temptation or fall These two principles
Mr.. Giles thinks, caused man to arrogate as
self-derived his life and faculties, which are
from God alone. And this constituted the
fall, which was not sudden, but gradual
process, extending over ages. Bishop Snow,
too, has theory which will explain the new
heaven and the new earth and will give
choice lots to all applicants. Theories are
great anything can be proved by them.