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ELLEN'S LOTTERY PRIZE.

She very black AMI he was very pale. She
played policy regularly every day his Office. No. Is
Mnetta lane In fact, she was buying either .
HORSE" agig both together every day for three
months past, but she never anything until last
Friday afternoon. Then, Officer Seaman described
it, ''she struck him for A. H. a. which brought s27,
and she wanted to collect it. but this we're Smith
wouldn't put up for the winner"
Now, then, smith," Judge OtterDourg remarked.
'why wouldn't you pay this woman what she wont
You're the policy writer, aren't your
Eyes, sir, am
Didn't she VIM
To this query the prisoner replied at some length
and went into very intricate anu elaborate expaua-
ton of the lottery policy business The Court did
not seem to be mucn enlightened, however And
John smith did not establish his honesty
whats the matter with your facey' said Uis
Honor to the plaintiff Ellen Briscow who had n long
linen cloth swathcd about her jaws and head
well You 'Onah, DIS ycrc sniff when he donc
gone fuse To pay me my s27, got mad at me cos'
told him jes what tho't OF sch swiudlin cnncnrn
And AZ he took ccption 10 my obscryashups ne iest
retched over de counter You Onah mt his hand
back o my head and 70 could say Hal Darl' he bit
me on dc left check. He did, indeed! He did indeed
You 'Onahi'
John. what on earth did you do that for?' asked
Judge Otterbourg, with some severity.
Lord bless your soul, Jul ge. / didn't bite her A
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in the land Of peace wherein thou trustedest. they
wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swell
ing OF Jordan? She warned her hearers against
allowing themselves to grow tired to halt in the
path that leads toward heaven on the grounds that
every and relaxation of earnestness gives
to the tempter opportunity to increase his hold on
the heart. Satan goes about like roaring lion.
said She and he Is ready to devour hating in
the way or mapping in the shade. Even slight neg
lects have bad consequences and dangerous to
the young convert that the first of them may
be almost regarded irrevocable step
in the return to sim Forget neglect
your prayer meeting once, said she forget for
day TO offer your soul to God in the secrecy of
your closet. and you open the door by which you
will surely return to the darkness from which you
saved. You converts will at first be sorely
tried: but ST. Paul says there is temptation that
man cannot overcome ii he earnestly desires to do
Beware above all things of getting round the
cross" of making excuses for trhng sins and omis-
sions OF binding yourselves to your real duty for
these signs OF wearness of dislike for the way Of
Christ In concluding. Mrs. Van Colt addressed
few words OF farewell to her converts and the church
members and Mrs. Van Colt sang. I'VE Will Meet
Beyond the River"
At halfpast three O'Clock p NJ. Mrs. Van Colt con-
leyan Methodist Episcopal Chapel in Attorney street
About seven hundred people were crowded into the
small building. and the exercises were marked by
great enthusiasm.
In the evening Mrs. Van Colt preached at the Will
lett street Methodist Episcopal Church, where she
will tonight commence series OF revival meetings.
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ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.
PoNTIFIcAL HIGH MAss-oPENING OF A MIS-

A PONTIFICAL HIGH MASS-OPENING OF A Mis-
SION by THE JESUIT FATHERS
At the Cathedral yesterday, the special feast beirg
that Of the Immaculate Conception pontihcal high
mass was celebrated and mission by the jesuit
fathers which is TO continue for the ensuing two
weeks was naugurated. In honor Of the festival tle
high altar was deliberately decorated The choir WIS
also reinforced with large chorus. The
lected by Mr.. White the organst. Mozart in :,
the offertory piece being "Salvc Regina" by L.
most. which was sung by Miss Won Hcmburg. lis
Eminence the Cardinal. in full robes. occupied tie
throne during the service. assisted by Vicar Gcnenl
Quinn and Rev Father Farley. The ceebrant of tie
mass was the Rev. Father Kane; the deacon Rev.
Father Mort: the subdeacon, Rev Father Hogan.
and the master of ceremonies, Rev. Father Kearne.
Rev. Father Danen. who il to be helped during tie
mission by Fix other Jesuits. preached the opening
sermon taking bis text from Paul 10 the ThessaloI-
ians ill.,, A. He said 1t was encouraging e. in hoy
Bible Now He q shepherd tending His flock AMI
seeking out the lost to bring it again 10 the fold:
again He the kind Father receiving back the prod
gal son; again lie the mercitu Master. pity iig
and forgving Msgdalen But it on tn
cross that the subliInest manifestation OF lis
mercy to men. Even here lie prayed that His pers-
cutors might be spared from His Fathers wrath
Father. forgive them" The preacher then went On
10 explain the purpose OF mission such that h
were entering upon. 1t was. ne said cxtrao-
binary grace fron Coda grace that sought to b
effectuai when ordinary graccs had proved unavai-
ing. In the course OF his remarks Father Daina
LAID especial stress the miseries which result
from incompetence. He pictured the drunkardg
home the desoaton OF the family. the hunger If tn
children, the despair of the mother and then b.
sought those who were In temptation 60 hearken
the invitation extended to them TO get back thcr
manhood aud become Christians ia practice wa
AZ in name. When the Israelites approaching
the Promised Land they sent explorers befoB
them to investigate and report, and when these ma
returned they pictured the land
filed with abysscs and full Of dangers; bu
when, with caution and timidity, the land wa
reached and entered by the people IL found tina
IL the Promised Land indeed, the land OF the II
tree and the vine. So IL with those who ao
dicted 70 drunkenness They afraid that tn
lie Of a good Christian ful of troubles and dc
void Of peace, but they need only ask any VIII
had experienced the life Of good man. Of a ma.
reformed after abandoning the miseries Of the drunk
ards fate, and they would be told that there
peace no happiness like that which the soul fel
,Alnll tlIll a tho OF God.
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this shall aim to show that God Himself is the

this shall aim to show that God Himself is the
ALWAYS DOES RIGHT"
When men claim that God is Interchangeable in His
councils and purposes and that therefore, He
question whether they represent either God or prayer
in their true light and nature To begin with. they
nS any ne ~ ls no no,
liability which He claims for Himself. The
changeableness OF God consists, not in that He is
stoic but in that He always does what is right by
eternal rectude and that in doing He always adaps
His methods to the variety of actions necessities,
characters and dispositions among His responsible
creatures. The objection reduces God to a simple
machine by making His changelessness to consist
in always using the same exact methods of
doing right. however the and circumstances of
His creatures may alter Prayer recognizes alter
alton in of the suppiant. and ii answer would
would evnce changefulness. However, answers to
prayer not to be considered an unworthy yield
ing His part to Importantly, but instance
OF His changelessness in sutng His dealings to His
immutable rectitude. One Of the chief grounds OF
mistake, in this whole question arises from the
confused understanding which the objector at
taches to the word God" His general no.
ton of God is that of some stupendous
first cause in the shape of an impersonal law, mere
abstract and invincble dictator. He never sczcs
the idea that God is and real personality; or if
he lays hold OF the thought then he thinks Of God
as selfcontained monarch or judge infinitely above
all feeling sentiment and sympathy--hard impcrious
and frgid; in q word, he cannot be influenced or
moved by outside causes, but is divine stole. No
wonder that man with such an ideal can
not pray! Who could pray to a stern. cold,
Judicial aDStfactiOl! But THIS IS not the 0ou
that l pray to; this is the Christians God in
caricature. The Christians God blends power with
tenderness law with compassion. under the mercy OF
father. The Christian God is not the creation OF
philosophy physical science but has an infinitely
loving heart TO relieve the wants Of His helpless of
spring, and fully revealed i'll the person of Jesus
Christ. Had l no better God to pray to than have
those who despise prayer neither would pray. for
their ideal God is bound hand foot by law in nature.
The Father to whom pray is Natures lawgiver. and
is unbound by the laws which bind her in all her
realms No changeless purpose Of God excludes my
changeful conditions. Mans needs live on from gem
Grafton to generation and Gods changeless supplies
live with them, that the mmutability Of God
lodges in Him the tatherhood of prayer.
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FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
DIR. ARMrTAGR.

The Rev. DIR. Ar1nitage preached yesterday morn
ing on the subject of 1.-THE Percentage OF Prayer"
taking his text from Genesis. w.. 2G-''Then began
things said the Reverend Doctor, have their birth
record and this is the first line in the biography OF
prayer. What. then IL the origin parentagc OF
prayer? This question Families through its
whole philosophy, and exerts . vital influence
upon every Christian to its primal necessity.
Ii we can show how first came TO pray at all we
can then see why he needs to pray now and. as far
as we are informed this is the first record which
have of man at prayer. Up to this time prccept
enoining prayer had been given. so far as we know.
so that God neither avowed His prerogatye to de-
mand prayer nor made known His willingness TO
accept such address. At first everything seemed to
argue that such approach TO Him would be unac-
ceptable 80 far as His disposition could be inter-
preted by mans rebellion. At that time he could not
have reasoned out the willingness of God TO near
prayer-nay unbiased reason would have re-
parded prayer useless. Reason has raised
the same objections 10 prayer in all genera
tions that il presses to-day. We have nothing
new the subject. unless il be In the method OF
reasoning. This is the and substance Of all OBJ
lection to prayer-namely, III God Is all-wise, ALI
powerful and interchangeable human reason may draw
the conclusion that when He intends to interfere i'm
the affairs Of amount Of duplication can
prevent IT, and when He purposes not to interfere
amount OF snpplcatiOn procure His attention;
therefore all prayer ~ useless" Many GOd-fearing
troubled with such thoughts. their spiritual
vision is beclouded and their spiritual life enrvated
thereby; and desire to relieve their minds by
did handling Of the objection that they not only
be more willing but also more able to breathe out
theirsou at the throne Of grace. In attempting
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ANOTHER VIEW OF NEW YORK.

REV. W. +. HATFIELD DISCOVERS BRIGHT
SIDE TO THE METROPOLIS REASONS FOB RE-
JOGGING.
While DR.. Talmage IL parading the sins OF New
York before his Brooklyn congregations city pastors
presenting the silver lining to the dark cloud.
Yesterday the Rev. DIR. Hatfield preached to q large
congregation in the Eighteenth Street Methodist Eps
copa Church, on the causes for JOY which exist in
midst. He presented the brightest picture of
New York life tina. has yet been given. Basing his
remarks on Acts Will. Sand there great joy In
that CITY," he said so much had been said recently
about the crime and wckedness of New York that
people outside of the city reading those reports in
the HERALD and other city papers will think that
New York is not a safe place to visit nor to
live in. But that those who live ON the
other side of the East River may not
be unduly exercised and concerned about our moral
welfare and the welfare OF their friends who do bust
ness here but sleep there, and that tinid ones at
distance who have friends here may not be needcssly
alarmed and those who laboring for the cause of
Christ and humanity may take heart and labor on,
come, said Mr. Hatfield, to present few reasons
why we in New York should rejoice and be grateful.
II look at the city from the angle of vision from
which some have viewed IL we shall see nothing but
dram shops, dance houses. houses of i'll repute,
crime and infamy There will not be much cause for
JOY, but on the contrary. great for grief That
is the night side of New York But IL look ut IL
from another angle and our schools, hospitals.
churches aud missions. Christian associations tom
peranee reform movements, the benevolent institu-
tons and the provisions made for the protection Of
life and liberty. there is great hope and encourage
Inent for the future. And who have been cast
down by the unrest that prevails shall be lifted up,
because Of the good that abounds here This Ia tina
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STANDARD HALL.

RACE AND REIIGIoN-LEcTURE BY PROFESSOR
In announcing the subject Of Race and Religion"
said Professor Adler. have i'll mind particular race.
peculiar religion-Jews and Judaism. 1t has been
the strange fate of this simple people to be at once
blessed and cursed by the rest of mankind. On the
hand the great bulk OF civilized humanity have
for eighteen hundred years worshipped young
Jewish preacher even as God On the other hand,
if to atone for the extraordinary value set upon
one all the other members of the have been pro-
portionately debased in the public esteem. While
the writings and history of the ancient Jews
garded sacred book and have been spread to
every habable part of the globe and read for the
edifcation OF men. the profound paid
to the ancient Hebrews has been counterbaanced by
intense hatred for their modern descendants.
1t is due in the first place to ignorance. The
Jewish people have Asiatc blood in their viens.
Among the high bred members Of the race
the traces OF their Oriental origin are revealed in
noble qualities in brilliancy Of imagination. powerful
lyrical outpourings mpassioned eloquencc. Among
the uneducated and unrefined the tendency APP
pears in certain restlessness loudness of manner,
fondness of display. lack OF dignity reserve and
pose. But the whole race is unjusty judged because
Of the faults of its coarsest and least
members. A second cause OF prejudice is the moral
stigma that has been affixed upon the Jewish character
The Jews did not accept Jesus az the Messiah and if
the Messiah was to be sent they should have known
To overcome the force or their testimony they
represented worldly, vile and cruel They
accused Of sweetening their Passover bread with
Christian blood of dealing in the black art poison
ing wells in the time OF the black plague. These
fair and thoroughly unfounded charges against
which the Popes protested. were repeated from
generation to generation and it is not surprising
that the prejudice that has taken such firm root in
the hearts OF the vulgar should be hard to extrpae
A third cause Of prejudice is in the moral purity
Of the Jews themselves. plant put in the dark
droops 1t is wonderful that the Jews have sustained
little moral injury They were debarred by
stringent laws from the universities from almost
every honorable pursuit, from possession Of land;
yet gold they have to satisfy the rapacty Of their
plunderers Every German Emperor. upon his
accession, had the right OF conscating onethird Of
the property of every Jew in his dominions.
Professor Adler then set forth how the Jews had
been the promoters of science in the Middle Ages and
how their prophets the first to found the religion
OF conscience. The time brings new problems.
Those who unite on the simple basis of the and
great work of moral regeneration not destroying
but fulfilling the law OF the prophets. They carry
out what the Hebrew predicted; they offer in
the present the comforts of the millennial union
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PLYMOUTH CHURCH.


THE STEPS BY WHICH MEN REACH A CONCEPTION
OF GoD-sERMoS BY HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
Mans elevation above the vicisstudes Of life.
through spiritual union with God. formed the theme
Of Mr.. Beechers discourse yesterday. He did not
believe there such union consisted in the
mngling Of personalities thas nature entered
into another, Or in any such unexplained unity az
should make part of God. He believed
in unity of sympathy cooperation. subms-
sion and obedience. and he held that
might be united to God far more intimately
than affectionate child could be united to
a cherishing father and mother. Such n union
required in every sense Of the reality Of the
personality of God. The idea OF personal God Mr..
Beecher thought. was the very foundation of true
pety. The fear Of the Lord the beginning Of all
wisdom and the love ~ Him the end Of all wisdom.
That effort Of the mind which seeks in way to
bring God aud TO embody Him in some
palpable form had led the belief that the physical
globe God or part Of Him. The visible world
not God, but II represented the Creator a. a
picture a statue wen planned garden reminded
the spectator Of the artist and the mind by
study OF creation brought into conscious unity
and sympathy with God by appreciation. These
points Mr.. Beechsr illustrated by some anecdotes
drawn from his personal perence IN the art va
OF Europe. when he much impressed with
certain old pictures that the painters Of them
seemed to walk with him for hours afterward.
He thankful that he was endowed with the power
g. appreciate and enjoy the beauties OF nature.
Every living creature dispornR in the fields and the
woods for him stamped with the trade mark Of
Cod In all he his Fathers work. and il was an
unspeakable comfort 10 be out Of the presence
OF God. II he thought of God only spirit-and
that tho highest cunceptionthen the capacity TO
appreciate would depend on his spirit. and when the
tide went out under nervous influences he would be
left on the bare strand.
A DIVINE PROVIDENCE
In the visible world AZ IN human affairs there were
the works Of Divine Providence Some rejected the
idoa OF such a Providence because they did not be-
lieve there was anything but the order Of
natural law. Mr. I3eecher, however, thought
that natural law itself Providence,
apd, further, that there was always spe-
cial ordinance interfering with natural law-not
10 cut II short produce effects aside from it, but
10 use that natural law precisely use IL them
selves. By his knowledge VI the natural law Of seed
time culture and harvest the farmer transformed the
wilderness into garden and men generally become
exccutant In this lie by the knowledge and power
thev get from the use Of great physical laws. III
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AGED AND INFIRM HEBREWS.

The general annual meeting OF the members of the
Home for Aged and Inhrm Hebrews held yester-
day at the Home. corner of avenue A and Eighty
seventh street The meeting was largely attended
aud the contest for two of the official positions
quite animated. The following officers elected
for the ensuing year ;-president--Mr. Isaac
Hosenwald. Vice Presidont--Mr. Joseph Stincr;
treasurer, Mr.. charles H. Bernheim. Managcrs--Mrs.
jacob Schole, Mrs Lazarus Rosenfcli, Mrs. Henry
tiitterinan, Mrs. Louis Lavanburg Mrs. Jacob Eri.
man, Mrs. Sigmund klingenstein; Messra. William
Suzbacher Jonas Heller, Edward Iauterba h. Charles
Mnzeshcimer. Isaac Rosonfeld, Simon Borg. The
whole number Of votes cast 2D3 the above cand-
dates being elected by large maiorities.
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BRUTAL TREATMENT.

Mary Cain. of No. 402 Fast Twenty fourth street.
appeared yesterday in the Fifty seventh Street Court
against her husband Thomas. q charge of assault
and battery committed by him Saturday evening.
Cain returned from his work to And his wife drunk,
food for himself family and his children in
tears. He quarrelled with his wife, knocked her
down and beat her. He then kicked her in the face
cutting her cheek and breaking five of her teeth The
wounded woman was attended TO in bellevue Hos
pital, and enabled yesterday to press the charge
in court Cain. who had been and locked up
the previous evening in the Twenty second street
police station held In default of 0JO bail He
III forty years Of age.
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MRS. VAN COLT.

THE "wTDow' HOLDS REVIVAL SERVICES II
THREE CHURCHEs-CLosE OF HER LABoRs II
EAST ELEVENTH STREET.
The Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Churc'
was crowded 10 its utmost extent at the morning
vice, when Mrs Van Colt preached the last of lac
series of revival Service was conducted az
cordng to the Methodist formula By Rev. A. /
Morehouse. who just before the sermon announce
that collection would be taken up for the benefit (
the lady, who had for two weeks been laboring
zealously for the welfare Of the church.
The widows text was from jeremiah xiii, 90
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THE WORD SALVATION"

Miss Anna Oliver preached to large congregation
in the Seventh Street Methodist Church. yesterday
morning, the subject of salvation" which word,
she says. occurs LAT times in the Scriptures.
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w honry aud SsFa Water. Green
Street between Market and Main Str its
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nANSEREAU. H.. Physician. corner
~ st. Philip and st. Bridget Streets
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NObOCH. CLAY Attorney at Lar,
ofiice up stairs AGreen St, between
aFket and Leyee Streets.
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nAiN }. Mechanical Engineer and
msa"afdetare,' Of sugar 4ppefaims. and
'"mery-kesideuce. jackson street.
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HOOK ANp ADDER co.
No |. Regular meetings on the
arth Monday of each month. Regularex
an Uses on Sunday preceding the fourth
onday of every Month,
Vnleers- +. K. Mcbride Plesident j.
Me6re, VICE President, Il. Frost. Fore
aa L. AucQin lst Asst. Foreman CD.
Ina, Ind Asst. Foreman Ellis n.
aad. Treasurer; Henry Rivicre, leere
~; I'd. Perrin. Asst. Secretary: n.
saareapx, Warden II. Haffman, Jr. Ty-
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NUbLtNH, j. W. Cierk of the Cour
A-Thibodaux La.
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"r.niN. "., Mas. j. rdriety store, Store s
oas, ItR-,cars. Gc- Jackson street
pos'se St-Bridset st.
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TyHIBQpkTX, z. ~. Girl Engineer
L jackson Street, opposite st. Bridget
Street.