National Republican., 1876-12-11
GODS SANCTUARY.
Dr.. Newman ON the Source and Re
KnonA IhiIifH nf the Rorld,a MlEerY.

spont1bfifty OF the NOrld's misery
Notwithstanding the extreme severity Of the
cold yesterday morning the Metropolitan church
was well filled, the President and many members
OF Congress being present. DR.. Newman spoke
| from Matt. xvi:7: "Woe unto the world because
| Of ofenses for it must needs be that offenses
come; but woe to that man by whom the offense
| cometh."
The speaker, after explaining the circumstances
under which the words were given, went on to
speak of the of the misery in the world, as
being in man himself Poets, historians, orators
and philanthror'sts deplore the evils Of the
world, and some men think the world is growing
| worse or that 1t is no better than when God de-
stroyed the antediluyians by a food or burned the
Sodomites with fire from Heaven. If we have
benefactors, we also have malefactors, and as in
works for good, so in evil some Of the greatest
malevolent movements have originated in the
mind OF some one Individual. Jeroham caused
the ten tribes TO go into idolatry; Caiaphas in
dueed the Jews to reject the Messiah; Voltaire
turned France from Christianity to infdelity,
briD ging the woe of the French revolution. David
Hume more than any other man in England gave
character and power to modern intdelity in the
eighteenth century. John q. Calhoun prepared
the way for sectional war IN this country through
which we have just passed. Men complain Of the
which follow, and in this unbeiief they irpeach
ity failure.
and responsibility of such evils and miseries are
in man himself. War is a calamity. 1t is dread
music of the Widows sighs and the orphans cries
Yet war follows as logical sequence, as natu-
raj effect from the moral condition Of society
Not that God has obtained either war or the con-
dtions Of man of which it springs; but it has its
fruitful source in vice. in ayarice in love Of power
society, in which war would be as much an i'm
possibility the return Of these States to
colonial dependence under Great Britain. a
street fight would not surprise me, but would
be surprised that two men, created in the image.
of God, would live in such a moral condition or
would render a street fight possible Such is the
moral condition Of some men in his presence as
to preclude the possibility of such a brutal en-
counter. They have courage; they have physical
powers; they may have the provocation, but they
have been transformed into the image OF him
who said: "Vengeance is mine and will repay
A general war in Europe to-day would he a sad
Indication that practical Christianity had not
been accepted, and is not practical in overcOm-
ing the injustice and jealousies of rival nations
But woe TO those who given the otfense and
cause the slaughteri
A resort to arms in this country would not be
proof that Christianity is failure but rather II
practice the pure and peaceable precepts of
Jesus. But woe to the man or men who give the
Mr.. Thomas P. Morgan, president of the
Board Of Fire Commissioners made written ap-
plication to the District Commissioners yester-
day to employ nine additional firemen tempo
rarily to make the number complete, during the
disability of about that number from sickness
perfect readiness during this cold snap for any
emergency.
The high wind on Friday night blew
off the roofs of houses Nos 145S and l455 Corcorau
street northwest. The wind also vented itself
upon a row of new houses in Kingman's Court
northwest, by relieving them of their roofs The
house on the corner of Thirteenth and f streets
northwest suffered from the effects Of the wind
storm. House l7l5 Fourteenth street northwest
was also damaged.
The cold snap of the last two days has
completely frozen over the river to such
tent as TO prevent navigation. Saturday morn
ing the steamer City of Washington attempted
to run her regular trip to Alexandria from her
wharf at the foot of Seventh street. but was
bic to do so account of the ice. The wind has
driven the ice in large blocks up along the
Wharves and docks.
Thursday evening the first of course of
lectures will be given at Waugh M E. Church
Rev H. r. Naylor, d. D., is announced to deliver
the first of the series, and will his subject,
"Brains and Buncombe" Arrangements have
been made TO make these lectures Interesting to
those who attend. The Doctor is pronounced O
fine speaker, and all wishing to spend an evening
of rare entertainment should attend.