New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-03

EW;oodcock, the present choirmaster at Garden
| Slty, and since that time by Mcssrs. Eskuche lie
| Jeune. Delanc and its present master, Mr. Rhodes
| Bishop John W, Hamilton. Of San Francisco. pre-
Siding bishop Of the NewYork Conference for 1893.
| a meeting next Tuesday evening to be held at The
40 SaToy After the reception Bishop Hamil
| The Rev. Dr. W R. Huntington delivered the
| fifth in the series of talks on the Sermon on the
J Mount" at the MONDAY services at Grace Church
yesterday. He said
blessed are the mercful: for they shall obtain
Mercy is of two sorts the mercy which spares
| and The mercy which ministers He is a mercifui
case forbeaFs TO nniS the fa smeaae Rc5
me me law allows This IS the mercy which spares.
carried the day. holds back his soldiers from acts
than spread the horrors OF war This again is
any necessit 46 5aTeS IN hS5aeG case is there
6hng as compulsory mercy Take he graciousness
law would bear the judge. the military court
would sustain the general, in going exuremities;
were they to do so. Some one may say. This
oeattude IS not for me. for l am not in any such
or the general in the hed." True, you have
HRer IN the T of '? your Og DAILY haze SSn %2g
ngs? Blessed 'h are o2Pory 10 spare feg
and the merciful in comment. Blessed
the Informal judsme@ts Of daily life
sucA }oqsmenis as even glance OF the eye or
blessed they who in passing these trivial iudg-
to do they would be done by. There is scarcely
one action Of our lives that does not admit of two
have the gift Of ridicuIe, perhaps Of mimicry
read; gIft At que Circle f 0 hleft a
with the story of the faults weaknesses of an
lie It is more blessed thing 10 1 spare
who obtain it both in this world and in the
next Youth Is the fairer for the presence in it Of
this kindliness, middle age better cOntented old
Is,
Mer w VINCE spares me mere winch ministers:
IN action pity haTnessed 10 a load. There is a
which that frank writer owns up to the shallow
ness OF the emotions which swayed him before he
with which he attended the theatre, and especially
tears But what sort OF somPas1on Wss th il he
ff him T5T9 e moyeq nm to no need of mercy but
feelings had been touched? Listen also TO a greater
than st; Augustine: Then shall they answer him
Lord when saw We thee hungered or athrst or
s3nstT , or ,b SICK or in prison and did not
who have had fine feelings in their day. and they
50 much charitabi emotion Ras gone nqg that
ated But me n feelings do not necessarily make
TO them from the retoinder. For as much as
We did it not to one Of the least Of these We did
It not 10 me-
In response to the urgent request OF his people
DR. George P. Eckman, of ST. Paurs Methodist
Episcopal Church West End-ave. and Eighty-sixth-
s. has withdrawn his name nominee for the
chair OF practical theology in Drew Seminary, TO
whih he chosen by the Board Of Bishops.
Mencessohns Elijah will furnish the musical
selections for the service tomorrow evening St.
Pauls Solosts and a select chorus will render a
selected programme. Dr. Ecknan viii speak
the topic Making Up Ones Mind In the morn
ing he wiz preach on What NO Man Can Be"
Xavier AlImni Sodality, an organization COM
posed Of college graduates and members of liberal
professions connected with the Church Of st. Fran
els Xavier, in Vest Sixteenth-st, has arranged a
vesper service fol the evening Of December s. the
church. The sodslity will commemorate in this
way the fftieth anniversary of the PRONUNCIATION
OF the dogma OF tse Immaculate Conception set
forth by Pope Plus X Archbishop Farley Will pre-
side The Rev. Within OBrien Pardow. S. the
well known preacher, will deliver the sermon The
Vespers will be b. the choir of the church Of
81. Francis Xavier unoer the direction Of the Rev
John g. Young. S. j., with Castor NJ. Dethier
the organ. On this occasion three styles Of
church music recommended in the motu propJo
will be acknowledgement at the vespers the
ConVivium" by De Pauw, and Ave Maria" by
ArcadeIt and congregational singing Of the Tan
tum Ergo and hymn following the benedictiOn.
Tomorrow evening at St Andrews Church. Sew
enty-sixth-st west of Columbus-ave.. the Rev. An
drew Gilies will close his series OF sermons
Beyond the Grave with discourse based
the query. Shall We Know Eath Other TheleT