Year: 1872

beginning to do their very best in the declam-
atory, oratorical and philosophical lines as
our columns to-day will attest. Yesterday,
being the feast of st. Michael the Archangel,
Father Doucet, of st. Francis Xavier's church,
was led into a train Of thought concerning
the nature and relations of angels and their
ministratons to mankind. Good men and
angels are brothers and companions in
arms, warning against the enemies of good
and of God and the great love which the
former draw from God they diffuse among
men, making us sharers in their happiness.
The great truth drawn forth from the narra-
tive in Matthew concerning the man found in
the feast without wedding garment on, by
Father Kane in the Cathedral, was that all,
without exception, are invited to a place at
the celestial banquet, and the terrible results
of treating that call with neglect or con-
tumely were alluded to in tones of warning.


Men are too anxious in these days about
worldly things to heed the Saviour's call,
and He calls, alas too often in vain
are cast into outer darkness-''into hells s
interminable woe" as father Kane very
forcibly put it. This wedding garment, given
to us by God, is His sanctifying grace in
our hearts, which draws an obvious line of
distinction between the saint and the sinner.
The certainty of death and the preparation
necessary for that event by every one
of us were the subject of discussion
by Rev. Father McQuirk in st.
Stephens church. Death and the future
life are subjects that we like to keep far away
from us but it is we'll sometimes that we be
reminded that our days are but span long
and our years are nothing in comparison with
the existence of God Our prayer, then,
should be, 'Lord, teach us to number our
days, that we may apply our hearts unto wis
DOM" 1t is the very climax of human folly 'to
attach ourselves to things which must so soon
perish, and sacrifice the good that endureth
forever" And yet this is the foolish part men
are taking in everyday life.


Father Gavazz the great Italian pulpit
orator, delivered his parting sermons to
American congregations yesterday. He
preached in Seventeenth street Methodist
Episcopal church, in the morning, on the
spiritual life which the believer receives from
and retains in Christ, and he warned his
hearers to beware Of the beginnings and
tendencies Of ritualism, and to keep close
to Jesus Christ, and to guard well the
faith Of the Pilgrim Fathers and of the Apos-
ties. DIR. Newman preached in Bedford
street Methodist Episcopal church on the
blessedness Of O pure heart, and, in
illustration of what it is to be o Meth
odist, he cited conversation between
two 1sraelites, one of whom defined q
Methodist to be one "who believes he is going
to Heaven alive" And so we do said the
Doctor. AS the eye of the owl was made for
darkness and the eye of the fish for water, so,
said DR.. Newman, ''man was made for lofty
and infinite companionship with God, and not
for this world


Yesterday was memorable one to the Ply
mouth church (Brooklyn) and pastor. It
was Mr.. Beecher's first appearance in his pull
pit since the beginning of summer, and he
received greeting that sovereign might
envy. During his vacation evidently he has
been studying human character very closely,
so that he had something to say yesterday
about its development and its relation to the
destiny of man. His text was very sig
nifcant one for the occasion, and his state
ment that ''the time will come when all lives
will have their golden threads running through
them must have aroused the longngs of
many hearts in his congregation for that
"happy time" The future of man, as q son
and companion of God and an equal with
Christ, as portrayed by Mr.. Beecher, is GER
tainly sublime enough to make careless natures
pause and think what they are and whittier
tending. 1t is sin only that separates us from
God, and of its strength and power, and also
of its death, DR.. Wild, of the Seventh avenue
Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, had
something to say. Nothing is more certain
and true than the statement made by the Doc
tor that ssth ara ara fnxv ooo1q or ayiiq that ad