Year: 1872

The country parsons at the present time rise
in importance in the absence from home Of
the city preachers Hence our weekly budget
Of sermons will be found to have a large share
Of the pulpit productions of country churches.
The little Episcopal church OF Rockaway
beach was crowded yesterday as it is not wont
to be, and its pastor, Rev. Mr.. Pierson, made
the circumstances and the occasion profitable
by dilating on the character of the unjust
steward whose keen foresight in providing
beforehand for the time of want and trial is
impliedly commended by the Saviour in the
parable concerning him given by ST. Luke.
Mr. Pierson also made point of encouraging
and advising rich men to come forward and
pour out the stream of their opulence upon
their fellow men.


The Merrick camp followers were instructed
and greatly delighted with the eloquent dis
course of Rev. DR.. Eddy, delivered on their
grounds yesterday. 1t was one that en-
couraged them to Christian activity by the
assured fact that Christianity is not culture,
growth, development but creation. It is
the only system that declares its readiness and
ability to take 'that broken, battered, ruined,
debauched man and make him glorious in
God" And, did it not do this, how easy
it would be, said the Doctor, to blow Chris
tianity to the noon DR.. Eddy demolished
the culture theories of the liberal Christian
school, and showed how utterly impossible it
is for culture to develop the spiritual in man
or make him O new creature. The Sing Sing
camp people are enjoying themselves as
| greatly as untoward surroundings will admit.
Yesterday several hundreds of them in the
grove commemorated the Lords death, and
had good time iroiH early m0I:S: till late at
night. Bishop Harris was among them and
preached in the afternoon. The Denvi1le,
N. j., camp ground is already filling up, in
anticipation of the opening of the meeting
there on Tuesday. It will close just in time
to enable visitors to run to Ocean Grove and
spend few days there; and hence most of
the prominent Methodist pastors of the city
are reported to be there or going there.


The noblest of all the Christian virtues, &C.
cording to Rev. Mr.. Beaudevin, of Jersey City,
and the Bible, is divine charity or love. 1t
was to enkindle the fame of divine love in our
hearts that God created this universe and
decked it with beauty and loveliness; and it
was for that end also that He created man.
This charity or love is not sentiment; it is
obedience to the requirements Of Gods law
In this obedience we are to find our
highest happiness-a result that the Creator
greatly desires. This obedience leads to and
this happiness is found complete in the life
eternal; and how to obtain this life was the
query propounded and answered yesterday by
Rev. Mr.. Kearney in st. Patrick's Cathedral
The reckless life here of the worldly minded
man, the preacher declared, was ''a sure mark
of an intention to rob Almighty God of a soul
which rightfully belongs to him." Man is
very little; God alone is great. Man has
nothing which belongs to himself, and there
fore nothing to be proud of. How, then, can
he pretend to be independent of God, his Gre
ator and supreme protector This fatal PRIDE
and overbearing confidence prevent great
many from coming to q knowledge OF the truth
and of fulfilling their end, whereby eternal sal
vation is secured. The Episcopalians of Ho-
boken Yesterday laid the corner stone OF me-
mortal Church to be built by Mrs T. A. Stevens
in memory of deceased child, and to be
called the church of the Holy lnnocents
Short addresses we're made on the occasion by
Bishop Odenheimer and Revs II. G. Nevin
and n r Hartman, the latter of whom is to
become rector of the new church. The impor.
sance Of the ono talent Of religion, and the liar