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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YOKK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1900. "A UNIVERSAL DELUSION." If l5S'S 1 A Good Maxim is Never Oat of Season. COMING EVENTS. The second annual masquerade and civic ball of the United Lodges Krilshts and Ladies of Honor of the Greater New York will take pliPce at the Grand Central Palace, Lexington avenue, between Forty third and Forty fourth streets, Manhattan, on Saturday evening next. An entertainment will precede the ball and dancing will begin at 9:30 P.

M. Scriptures as the divinely authenticated and authoritative record of God's redeeming action remains undisturbed. I have not been ignorant of, nor have I been indifferent to, the critical debate of these years, 1 have listened to all that friend aad foe have had to say, and I have not been consciously or intentionally unfair. Cautious I have been, and for accurate knowledge caution is imperative. I am free to say that the assumptions and the methods of the critics have not appealed to my confidence.

There is as much that is fanciful and artificial in their procedure, that I cannot regard them as safe guides. And in all the sharpness of the debate, one fact has remained fixed, namely, that Jesus Christ TWO FUNERALS IN ONE HOUSE. There was a double funeral from the house at 2,996 Atlantic avenue at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The second floor is occupied by the family of Aaron G. Madtes, consisting of a widow and two children, one a girl of 10 and the other a boy of 4 years.

Madtes died on Thursday. For seventeen, years he had been in the employ of McKesson Robbins, wholesale druggists of Manhattan, but recently he left their employ and opened a shoe store on Atlantic avenue at the number mentioned. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the house, and the remains were taken to day to Beethville, for interment. Madtes was years old. On the third or top floor of the house lived Mr and Mrs.

James McCue and their 20 months old daughter, Julia. The child died of pneumonia on Saturday and was buried this afternoon in Holy Cross Cemetery. BIRTHDAY PARTY. A birthday party was given to Master Albert Trabold at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Trabold, 139 Prjuce street, Friday evening. and Paul used exactly tne same Old Testa ment which I read. For them it was already old and autnoritative. Tradition is not in fallible. But a uniform tradition carries more weight iu it than a literary guess.

I cannot believe that Deuteronomy is a pious forgery of a late age; I cannot believe that the Pentateuch is a collection of legends and of manufactured history to sive sanction to late priestly legislation; I can. jot believe that the Psalter contains few, if any, of David's hymns. I can understand thai the critical and literary Judgment of Christ's day may not have been infallible in all details, but I cannot believe that lie and His contemporaries were the victims of wholesale fraud and deception. Certainly, so far as the N'ew Testameat is concerned, the trustworthiness and truthfulness of the record is beyond successful impeachment. Zahn's great work, just from the press, makes that clear.

And that indirectly guarantees the trustworthiness and truthfulness of the older record. In both of them we may trace the str.ry of what God has done for the salvation of fallen men. Let me hasten to add, that ihe sicrintures impress me most profoundly when I wkhdra.v from all critical questions, when 1 le; them speak to my waiting heart in tceir o.va way. There is them a moral earnestness which makes cne tremble. There is in them an emphasis of righteousness which fills me with awe.

There is in them a passion for holiness which makes me cry out in agony. There is in them a fearless honesty and completeness of confession of moral weakness and wickedness which compels my assent. I am what they picture ale. I ought to be what they summon me to be. And there is iu thern so clear a revelation of the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ, that my heart responds to it i down and was incarnated in man and suf with an unutterable eagerness.

They shiae I fercd and died to save men" first took shape in their own light. They speak in their own in the N'icene Creed? That creed dates from tongue. When I deal with them in this sitn 325; a hundred and twenty three years after pic straightforward way, I am sure that thev I the death of Irc naeus. the latest church fath LIFE WILL BECOME STILL MORE STRENUOUS AT ALBANY. So the Distinguished Philosopher and Sociologist, Herbert Spencer, Characterized the Idea Repeatedly Advanced Nowadays by Seth Low and Other Eminent Reformers, That Education Is a Cure All for Political Evils Knowledge Alone Does Not Make Honesty.

One day last week a New York clergyman, whose "views" are more frequently printed than his sermons, announced to the public that what the world needs more than religion is education. The same idea, clothed in more platitudinous words than those used by the garrulous clergyman to whom I have referred, has been advanced by various leaders, teachers and wouid be lenders of men. In many of our large cities small bodies of earnest, well meaning and good men and women have undertaken the work of providing for the education of poor children who are not reached by the public schools, believing that is the way to make good citizens. On Manhattan Island Seth Low and other wealthy citizens, inspired by praiseworthy motives, have given personal and substantial support to the University Settlement scheme of educating the dwellers in the East Side tenement districts, and I recall one occasion on which the then Mayor Strong, said that the efforts of Mr. Low and his associates would lead to the redemption of the masses from the rule of Tammany; that the education of the poor would lead to the purification of politics.

Recently Controller Coler has been preaching the gospel of education as a cure for the evils of politics Hamilton W. Mabie, a prominent advocate of good government, is on record as saying: "The final and ultimate question in everything under God's heaven is education." Another educator says: "There is only one way in which to rid ourselves of rascals, and that is to step raising them. We have long and thoroughly tried every other method under the sun. We have fed them and philosophized over coaxed them and cuffed them, preached at them and pounded them; we have cursed them, blest them and wept over them; we have threatened them, arrested them, tried them, fined them, imprisoned them, hanged them. We have done everything but educate them the only thing which can ever diminish the stock of criminals and paupers the curse of the community and tho despair of legislation." The writer of this column does not desire to personally antagonize anything that has been said by those whose words have been quoted beyond saying that education of itself in the sense in which it is generally used will not make a man or woman honest.

For we need not go further than any police station house to confirm the truth of this statement; there you will see in the Gallery the pictures of many educated criminals. Some of the shrewdest and most unscrupulous operators in the marts of commerce in Wall street, indeed in many of the learned professions, are men of education. This may be regarded as the opinion of a religionist and therefore entitled to no consideration from those who do not believe in any religion. Permit me to quote the words of Herbert Spencer, that eminent sociologist and philosopher, who will certainly not be regarded as one whose views are dominated by priest, minister or theology: In 18S2, nearly twenty years ago, Mr. Spencer visited this country and received a hearty welcome at the hands of the most prominent leaders of thought in the United States.

He was tendered a dinner at Delmonico's and on the list of the diners that lies before me I read the names of William M. Evarts, Professor John Piske. Professor William G. Sumner of Yale (the Marriage is a Failure discoverer), the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Carl Schurz, Elihu Root, Parke Godwin, Charles A.

Dana, Andrew Carnegie and many others prominent in law, politics, financial, business and art circles. In the course of his speech of welcome to the distinguished English scholar Mr. Evarts said: "In theology, in psychology, in natural science, in the knowledge of individual man and his exposition and in the knowledge of the world, in the proper sense of society which makes up the world, the world worth knowing, the world worth working for we acknowledge your labors as surpassing those of any of our kind. This faculty of laying on a dissecting hoard an entire nation or an entire age and finding out all the arteries and veins and pulsations of their life is beyond any that our medical schools afford." Surely the views of such a man, before whom so great an intellect as that of Mr. Evarts bowed, are entitled to more than ordinary consideration.

Listen to what Mr. Spencer said in response to the following question put to him by a reporter: "Will not education and the diffusion of political knowledge fit men for free institutions?" "No," replied Mr. Spencer. "It is essentially a question of character, and in only a secondary degree a question of knowledge. But for the universal delusion about education as a panacea for political evils, this would have been made sufficiently clear by the evidence daily disclosed in your papers.

Are not the men who officer and control your federal, state and municipal organizations who manipulate your caucuses and conventions and run your partisan campaigns all educated men? and has their education prevented them from engaging in, or permitting, or condoning, the briberies, lobbying.1?, and other corrupt methods, which vitiate the actions of your administrations? Perhaps party newspapers exaggerate these things; hut what am I to pake of the testimony of your civil service reformers men of all parties? If I understand the matter aright, they are attacking, as vicious and dangerous, a system which has grown up under the natural spontaneous working of your free institutions are exposing vices which education has proved powerless to prevent." "Of course, ambitious and unscrupulous men will secure the offices, and education will aid them iu their selfish purposes; but would not those purposes be thwarted and better government secured, by raising the standard of knowledge among the people at large?" said the reporter. "Very little," responded Mr. Spencer. "Tho current theory is that if the young arc taught what is rlglrt, and the reasons why it is right, they will do what is right when they grow up. But, considering what religious teachers have been doing these two thousand years, it seems to me that all history is against tho conclusion as much as is the conduct of these, well educated citizens I have referred to; and I do not see why you expect better results among the masses.

Personal interests will sway the men in the ranks as they sway the men above them; and the education which fails to make the last consult public good instead of private good will fail to make the first do it. The benefits of political purity aro so general and remote, and tho profit to each individual so inconspicuous, that the common citizen, educate him as you like, will habitually occupy himself with his personal affairs and hold it not worth his while to light against each abuse as soon as it appears. Not lack of information but lack of certain moral sentiment is tho root of tho evil." Mr. Spencer repelled tho suggestion that he regarded our Republic as a failure, but ho SCeither is a. good family medicine, like Hood's Sa.rsa.pa.rMa..

It tones up ihe system, cures catarrh, rheumatism, scrofula, and all stomach troubles, and 'wards off sickness. All ivho are iveak and 'worn by ihe effects of illness or overwork find in its use appetite, strength and health. EJ.sorelerod stointicli "Isow a davs I can eat anytuing i. isu nwu cklsi 1 Parilla kee. mv stomach ln order.1 Stone.

Sherborn. Mass. Cmarrli "Hood's Sarsnparilla has cure4 my husband's catarfh troubles and given taa relief from sick headache." Mrs. J. Mounts, liingharntoii.

N. Y. Eoor ctaol The doctor said thern not seven drops of good blood in my body. Hood's Sarsaparilla built me up and made ni strong and Susie E. Bitow 16 Astor Hill, Lvnn.

Mass. Remember SoUafmUi Hood'' nlis cure liver ills, noil iT itatlng an4 cathartic tak.i with Hood's Sarsaparilla; and that He appeared from the dead! that He also ascended to the heavens, and wa glorified by the Father, and is the Eternal King; that He is tho perfect intelligence, tha Word of God. who was beg! ten before tha light! that He was the founder of the universe, along with it (the light), and maker of man; that He is all in all; patriarch among patriarchs, law in the laws, chief priest among priests, ruler among kings, the prophet among prophets, the angel am, ng angels, the man among men, Son in the Father, God in king to all eternity; the shepherd of those who are saved and the bridegrorm of tha church; the chief also of the cherubim, tha Prince of the angelic powers, God of God, Son of the Father, Jesus Christ." What now, in the face of this ny. becomes of the claim that the "belief that God cama er whom I have quoted. I might have summoned Origus and Tertullian, and Cyprian, the last of whom died in 25S.

nearly seventy years before the Council of Nice. But the voices to which I have asked you to listen proclaim, with one consent, that in Christ God was incarnate, suffered, died and rcsa again, for our salvation. That was the gospel seventeen hundred, and eighteen hundred, years ago, in Syria, in Asia in Northern Africa, in Italy, in France. What these men preached is still preached. What these men believed, is still believed.

I will not spend time in proving that this is the ancient gospel, fully expounded by Paul nnd deeply rooted in the sayings of Christ. What Paul taught Christ to be. you may learn from tha first eleven verses of the second chapter of the Epistle to the Philippics. What Paul believed concerning the death of Christ you may learn irom cue men cnaptci ui uo Epistle to the Romans. What Jesus Christ believed Himself to be, you may learn from the seventeenth chapter of the Cospel of John.

What Jesus Christ regarded as the meaning of His life on earth, you may learn from the first eightiwn verses of the tenth chapter of the Gospel of John, from the last chapter of the Gospel of Luke, and from the account of what Christ said when He instituted the holy supper. There never has been any other gospel than this, that in Jesus Christ God was incarnate, for the eternal redemption of a lost humanity. "These years have confirmed my faith in the holy scriptures as the Word of God, and in Jesus Christ as God Incarnate, dying for us sinners and for our salvation. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, Comforter and Guide of Souls, revealing to men the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, the divine agent in conviction, regeneration and sanctification. The Holy Spirit is tho executive of the Godhead.

He makes known and applies the finished work of Jesus Christ, just as Christ made actual in history the eternal purpose of God. And this simply means that God Himself la making effective the means of grace which He has provided. By their faithful use wa draw near to God. But the more blessed fact is, that in them God draws near to us. Through them we influence our children and neighbors to come to God, and through our use of them for that purpose God Himself is drawing our children and neighbors to Himself.

There is this difference between the scriptures and Christ on the one hand, and the Holy Spirit on the other: There Is no continuous production of holy scriptures. The Bible is complete. Nor is there anything to be added to the redeeming work of Jesus Christ. Our redemption is complete HIlP But th. work of the VIoly sPirit in the minds and hearts of men is continuous.

It cannot for a moment be suspended. He must touch the litis of the speaker, else his words will be as sounding brass. Holy Ghost preaching, as our Methodist friends call it, is tho only pre aching that tells. And He must touch the ears and the heart of the hearer, if the message is to provoke penitence and faith. Paul plant3, Apollas waters; God gives the increase.

That conviction masters me more and more. I survey the history of 1900 years, and I see great men inaugurating new epochs of religious life, conspicuous for their zeal, devotion and success Augustine, Bernard, Luther, Wesley, Edwards. Tiuney, Moody. One feature is common to them all. They are anointed of the Holy Ghost.

They are His messengers and agents. God is conspicuously in them, and their human influence incarnates the divine energy. But. conspicuous as they are, they do not possess the monopoly cf th Spirit's indwelling. He dwells in all believers.

He inspires all prayer. He provokes all praise. He directs and makes effective all service. Now and then a voice is needed to stir us all from our slumbers. But that voice is always intended to direct us to the ever present and ever active power of the Holf Ghost, iu whem alone is our strength and hope.

Such voices, too, are needed to call us away from the refinements of speculation, of which we are in as great danger as were the Ntcene Christians, and the centuries of scholasticism, to the simplicity of the gospel, tha truth as it is in Christ Jesus. An earnest soul like Moody makes short, sharp work with scholarly pretensions and perplexities. The tone is defiant, the manner is brusque, the scorn is withering. It seems the coronation of ignorance. But it is not.

It is tha seizure of the deeper, vital truth, bursting away from artificial and suffocating bandages. The letter still killeth; whether it be the letter of scholastic theology or the letter ot minute criticism. In both directions you can make dissection end in death. The Spirit maketh alive, and the quickening spirit is what we want; the Spirit who makes the face of Christ so luminous that we see only Him. and all things in Him.

It was a true note which Moody struck when he said that all the theology and religion he wanted was in Christ's own words: 'Come unto me, and I will give you In that simple and sweet message, the Holy Ghost speaks and works; and the more closely we adhere to the simple majesty of the gospel, the better will it be for us, and lor all. This doctrine IH I lie nuiy vtuubl, IUOUIUo WO llllVJ CLll 11UL1I, antl ov it cuilviCLint; 111c iJim, lias coma ti mean, for me. that Jesus Christ is the gospel of salvation and that whenever Christ is preached God is at work saving men. Our sole anxiety should be to make Christ known. 1 nat is our wnoie uuey.

uo not, ueeu to act as His advocates. The Holy Spirit will take care of that. And when we make Christ known we must rest in the assurance that the Holy Spirit is owning and enforcing our message. Men are not argued into religion. But Christ wins them.

We are in danger of for getting that. An iron logic leaves me nam and cold as steel. But wnen you ten ma who Jesus is. and what He has done tor you denounced him Ho wanted the gift for per sonal gain. And we may be as selush as he.

Tho gift is bestowed where mind and heart are captive to Jesus Christ. Let us continue to tell the story of His love, and never grow weary of it! For to be ahle to say, with Paul. 'I know whom 1 have though we be ignorant of all else, is better than to have all other knowledge and not bo able to; say this. For this is ihe faith that overeoni eth the world." Viennese experimenters have been con conducting blasting operations with the aid of liquid air. The result bae not heen entirely: satisfactory.

HOTEL ARRIVALS. The Plerrepont 11. Wallin. Philadelphia: Mr. and.

Mrs. Emll Thron. Brazil; George D. I "HI. Vernon.

N. F. T. Luslc. Plttsuurs; H.

Tliomp eon. Brooklyn; W. II. Mills, George Sill, John J. Mayo, New York.

St. George Mrs. V. H. Cary.

Miss u. Bement. Boston: W. K. Ruttan, New York; J.

Vvoocl, Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dayton, A.

M. Woodford. Newark, X. Marvel, Jsewburgh; Mrs. A.

F. Greeler. Mrs. L. It.

Johnson, Norwich, D. C. estenhaver, Martlnsburg; F. Vuller, Cambridge. J.

Morse. Mary A. Morse. New York; Minor, Ovster Bay; J. C.

Steely, Morristown, K. S. M. Bevin. Easthampton.

P. H. Flynn. Mrs. H.

Meht. Brooklyn; H. J. Hershingcr, J. C.

Beaumot, United States Marine Corps. Clarendon F. Flood. J. M.

Finley. Brooklyn; Miss Emmr. Hayes. Philadelphia. Mr.

and Mrs. J. A. Barnes. Morristown.

N. J. Mr. and Mrs. P.

Huntingdon, New York: Mr. and Mrs. F. II. Evans.

Princeton. N. C. G. Nakansaw.

Stamford, J. K. Holdin. Seymour, F. II.

Shepard. New York; H. J. Bodlne, James Watstm. Asbury Park.

N. H. C. Tripp. Rlehartz.

E. C. Flanagan. Edward Greene. D.

.1. Frost. C. N. Richardson, F.

T. Clewny. L. Hommedicu. Itlchard Blank.

E. C. White, Brooklyn: Mr. and Mrs. James Held, Ottawa; L.

K. Mansfleld, O. Mr. and Mrs. L.

Sully and son. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bojrert, New York: Mr. and Mrs.

Edmund Hayes, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. It. Jacobs. Brooklyn; Miss Tulane.

Miss De Bohmar. Miss Van Buren, Miss Annie Young, Miss Lizzie Young, Mr. and Mrs. B. D.

Stevens, S. V. Webber. J. M.

Welch. Miss Bessie Clayton. New York; Ellsworth S. Ward, Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Lvnde, Blue Point. L. 15.

F. Everett, Jamaica. L. Manuel Menendez, Havana. INSTITUTE CALENDAR.

This is the calendar of the Brooklyn Institute of A. ts and Sciences for to day: First in the scries of analytical pianoforte recitals, by Dr. Henry CI. Hanchett. The subject of the recital will be "The Fugue," illustrated by the playing of selections from Beethoven, Jthein berger.

Bach and Bach Liszt. Adelphi College, St. James place and Lafavette avenue. Entrance on Clifton place, I P. M.

Last lecture in the course on "The Thcorv of Sound and Its Application to Music," by Professor William C. Peck ham, M. A. Subject, "The Voice, Physically and Physiologically: the Proper Ur of the Voice in Speaking and Singing; P.ange and Parts in Singing," illustrated by apparatus, experimental demonstrations, diagrams and charts. Adelphi College.

St. James place and Lafayette avenue. Entrance on Clifton place. 4 P. M.

Lecture by James L. Bell on "The Development of Criminal Law." Art Building. 8:15 P. M. Second lecture in the course on "Light," by Professor John S.

McKay. Ph. D. Subject, "Shadows and Images; or the Bending of Rays of Light," illustrated by experimental demonstrations. Packer Collegiate Institute.

Joralemou street, P. M. REUNION OF THE FIFTY SIXTH. The eighth annual reunion of the veterans of the Fifty sixth Regiment will take place this evening in the Bedford Mansion, corner of Bedford and Willoughby avenues. There will be a delightful entertainment for the members' wives and daughters, to be followed by a dance and supper.

PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau, B3 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy ot Abraham Straus. Gown of tan cloth trimmed with rows of machine stitching. Belt and yoke of black panne embroidery. METROPOLITAN" OPERA HOUSE.

After giving two successive Sunday evening concerts, at which singers of more than average excellence entertained enormous audiences, the management of the Metropolitan Opera House presented a rather indifferent programme last night. The absence of notable attractions, coupled with the cold weather, had ao appreciable effect upon the attendance, which was small and not prone to be enthusiastic. As is customary, when she figures on such a programme, Schumann Heink was easily a prime favorite with her auditors, and her singing of one of the few beautiful things in "The Frophet," the "Ah, Mon Fils" song of Fides, made a. marked impression. The other soloists were Mme.

Suzanne Adams, Mile. Zelie de Lussan. Miss Susan Strong and MM. Scott i and Ooellier. The two baritones presented "The King of Lahore," which Scotti sang in admiiable style, and an aria from Massenet's "HeroJiade, which was M.

Ocellier's contribution to the programme. Suzanne Adams gave the well known waltz song D'om Gounud's "Mireille." while Miss de Lussan was heard in a Delibes number. Miss Strong chose a Brahms composition. The orchestra was tinder the direction of 13m.il Paur, who presented, among other selections from Schubert, Liszt and Mendelssohn. LIKES EAGLE CARTOON.

Whole Sermon on Immoral Plays in a Picture. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I wish to publicly express my approval of the able cartoon in the Eagle of February 23, scoring the "Sapho" controversy. It expresses the situation admirably. That is the kernel of the nut. So long as the public indorses such stage literature, so long as the people, the masses swell Ihe box office receipts and the "standing room only" sign is conspicuous, Just so 1 cuig will the managers strive to satisfy by just such productions the popular taste.

Our dramatic critics have written forcefully and analyzed the situation perfectly, but one such cartoon as that in the Eagle is a sermon of itself. WYNNE CHESTER. Brooklyn, February 2 1, 1900. STRANAEAN BILL DOOMED. To the Editor ot the Brooklyn Eagle: It now seems certain that the efforts of the Brooklyn Eagle and others have been successful In defeating the Stranahan bill, for which I am very thankful.

It had good features, but on the whole, I am sure was undesirable. LAW30N PURDY. Secretary New York Tax Reform Association. SUPERINTENDENTS' CONFERENCE. At the Williams Avenue M.

e. church, William's avenue, near Atlantic, there was a meeting gf Sunday school superintendents to devise mops for holding a public conference. All are superintendents of Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools in a district which is hounded by Howard avenue, Knickerbocker avenue, city line and Flatlands, and which contains a total of thirty two schools. E. D.

Hawley presided; and March was selected for the holding of the. conference, and the secretary was ordered to notify tho absentees. CASTOBIA Bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcheb.

Ia use for more than thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Boxiyttf. MARRIED. BYRON LITTLE On Febcuary 17, 1300, by the Rev. Dr. Jay Benson Hamilton of the DeKalb Av Methodist Episcopal Church, CHARLES BUDD BYRON of South Orange, N.

to NELLIE FRENCH LITTLE of Brooklyn, Jf. Y. DIED. r' ALLAN On Sunday. February 25.

ROBERT, second son of the late David and Mary Allan. Funeral services at the residence of his sister, Mrs. J. Gorden, 74 Johnson st, at P. Monday, February 26.

Interment private. BURR ITT At Englewood, N. on Monday, February 26, 1900, ANNA WOODWARD, widow of George H. Burrltt and formerly of Brooklyn, N. in the 64th year of her ago.

Funeral services on Wednesday, the 28th at the Moravian Chapel, New Dorp, S. I. Boat leaves foot Whitehall st, New York, at 2:30 P. M. 26 2 COCKS At Banksvilje.

N. on Friday, February 23, after a brief illness, LOUISA, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Cocks. Interment at Fair Ridge Cemetery. Chappa (iUa. 24 3 COOI'KR On Sunday, February 25, JAMES MAS TEN COOPER, aged 0 years.

Funeral service at 7:30 o'clock at his late residence, 101 Putnam av. Interment at Kingston. Ulster County, N. Y. CRAMER On February 2, 1300, JOHN CRAMER, father of John H.

Cramer, in his S6th year. Funeral services Tuesday, February 27, at 2:30 P. at the East End Baptist Church, Van Slclen av, near Glenmore. DE PICW On Sunday, February 25, 1900, after a long Illness, JENNETTE L. BOUGHTO.V.

beloved wife of James W. DePew. Funeral services at her late residence, 4.i3 Van Buren st, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening, February 2S, S.30 o'clock. Interment private. 26 2 ECKL On Monday, February 26, LOUISE M.

ECKL, at her residence, 14 Arion place. Funeral services Wednesday, February 28, at P. M. Funeral private. 26 2 EHRICH On Saturday.

February 24, BETSEY EHRICH, relict of Jacob Enrich. Funeral Tuesday, 27th at 2 P. from the residence of her son in law, Benjamin Croner, 53! Pacific; st, Brooklyn. Relatives and friends, the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Knox Council. A.

L. of are respectfully invited to attend. EVERSLEY At her residence, 3SS Washington av, Brooklyn, on Monday. February 26, JANE, widow of Charles Eversley. In her 93d year.

Funeral from her late residence on Wednesday, February 28, at 2:30 P. M. 26 2 FALK On Sunday, February 25, 1900. after a short illness, GEORGE, beloved husband of Caroline Falk, in the 77th year of his age, at his residence, 1.S49 Atlantic av. Brooklyn.

Notice of funeral hereafter. GILL, On February 24, at her residence. 157 Fur man st, ELIZA GILL, beloved wife of Bernard Gill. Funeral on Tuesday at 2 P. M.

GRADY On Saturday. February 24. 1900. at his residence, 2S Douglass st, Brooklyn, MICHAEL beloved liusband of Louise E. Grady.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush, on Tuesday, February 27. 1900, at 2 P. M. HALL On Saturday evening. February 24, 1900, ETHEL daughter of L.

Burton and Amelia T. Hall, aged 14 years 10 months. Funeral services at the residence of her parents, 278 Ryerson st, Brooklyn, Tuesday evening. February 27, at 8 o'clock. KELLY (nee Pierce) On Sunday, February 25, ANN.

widow of James A. Kelly and daughter of the late Captain Henry Pierce, aged 73 years. Funeral from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. B. Webb.

Fifth av and Eighty eighth st, on Wednesday, February 28, at 9:30 A. M. thence to St. Patrick's Church, Fifth av and Ninety fifth st. Fort Hamilton.

Eight children and numerous grandchildren survive. Galway (Ireland) papers please copy.) 26 2 JOHNSON At Gravesend Village. LENA, wife of John S. Johnson, in her 39th year. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend funeral services at Gravesend Tuesday, 2 P.

M. (Saugerties, N. papers please copy.) KLNGSBERRY On the 2ith WILLIAM R. KINGSBERKY. Funeral from his late residence, S6 McDougal st, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, 1:30 P.

M. LOUG HL1N Suddenly, on Sunday, February 25, MARGARET, beloved wife of Lough lin. Relatives and friends are respectfully requested to attend her funeral from her late residence, 5S9 Quincy st, Wednesday, February 2S. 26 2 LUIIRS On Sunday, February 25, EDNA MARIE, beloved daughter of Frederick P. and Gesina Luhrs, aged 5 years 7 months 12 days.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral sermon at 2 P. Wednesday, February 2S, at 1,136 Herkimer st, corner Sackmun, Brooklyn. N. 26 2 MILLAR On February aged JOHN D. MILLAR, Funeral service, 2 P.

M. Tuesday, at Ills late residence, 520 Gates av. OGDEN Suddenly, of pneumonia, on Sunday, February 25, Mrs. LILLIA G. OGDEN.

in her r.iid year, daughter of George O. Street. Funeral services at her late residence, 226 Union st, Brooklyn, at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, February PARMALEE On February 24, MOO, FREDERICK II. PARMALEE, beloved husband of Charlotte E. Parmalee, only son of Mary F.

and the late Samuel N. Parmalee. Services at his late residence, 336 Greene av, Tuesday, at 8 P. M. Interment at convenience of family.

PHILLIPS On Saturday, February 24. SARAH wife of the late Harmon Phillips. Funeral services on Monday, at P. at ner late residence, 289 Jefferson av. (Long Island papers please copy.) 24 3 ROBINSON WILLIAM, youngest son of William A.

and Sarah Robinson (nee McNally), aged 6 years and 10 months. Funeral from the residence of his parents. 269 Pearl St. Tuesday, February 27, at 2:30 P. Relatives anil friends respectfully Invited.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush. RUIZ Suddenly, of pneumonia. Monday, February 20, at his residence, 46 Eighth av, Brooklyn, RUIZ of Avlles, Spain. In the 72d year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter.

(European papers please copy.) THOMPSON On February 23, 190:1, JOSEPHINE, relict of William Thompson and daughter of the lute J. tz Morrison. Funerul. services on Monday evening, the 2Cth at 8 o'clock, Monroe st. 21 3 TWIDDY Suddenly, on Sunday, February 25, WILLIAM TWIDDY, beloved husband of Jennie O.

McMullen and eldest son of the Rev. Wlllinm Twlildy. Relatives and friends arc respectfully invited to attend the funeral services at his late residence, 456A Monroe st. on Tuesday, February 27, at P. M.

Interment at convenience of family. 26 2 WAMSLBY On February 25, 1000, at his residence, 301 Stuyvesant av, Brooklyn, WILLIAM EDWARD WAMSLEY. M. D. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, the 27th at 2:30 P.

at ills late residence. WEHll On Sunday, February 25, 130fl, WILLIAM beloved son of Mary F. and the lute Chut). F. Wehr.

Relatives, friends and members of Star of Hope Lodge No. 430, F. and A. M. Mystic Links Lodge No.

711, I. O. O. Mount Olive Hi bekah Lodge No. 117, I.

O. O. and attaches of Station Post Olllce, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of Ills mother, 1,327 Bushwlck.av. Wednesday, February 28. 2 P.

M. 20 2 WILLS At his resldencf, 834 Putnam av, Brooklyn, on Monday morning, February 26, 1M0, GEORGE W. WILLS, son of the late Captain Henry Wills and Caroline Wills. Notice of funeral hereafter. are to make me wise unto salvation, that holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

"I can say, with even greater emphasis, that these years have wrought in me an ever deepening conviction of what constitutes the essence of the gospel message. On many critical and theol gical, I am densely ignorant, where once I thought that I had some knowledge. On many other points I am not so sure of my ground as ia earlier years. But I know what God has done to save man. and that God's way is tho only way in which men can be saved.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. And what He did to save sinners is clearly stated when it is said that He died for our sins and rose again for our justification, that by His aeatn smners have ocen reconciled io uoa, that He gave His life a ransom for us, and that His blood was shed for tne remission of our sins. The incarnation and the atonement. These are the pillars of our Christian confidence and hope. These are the eternal piers upon which rests the bridge of salvation.

They have not given way and they cannot be shaken. With an ever increasing boldness of certainty do 1 confess that Jesus Christ is very God and very man, and that His atoning death is the procuring cause or ground of our forgiveness. I cannot make Paul say less than that. I cannot understand Christ to claim less than that. And what John says in his gospel has no meaning for me unless these things be true.

The New Testament collapses "when these foundations are loosed. Dr. Henry B. Smith was right when he summed up the gospel in this: 'Incarnation in order to The gospel is interpreted bv what Christ is and by what Christ has done. I cannot understand the dogmatism which tells me that man has been upon this planet two or three hundred thousand years, that there never was an Eden nor a fall; and then adds that neither the church fathers nor Paul nor Christ Himself believed that 'God came down and was incarnated and suffered and died' to work out 'an atonement for lost That was the one thing which thev all believed and taught with the utmost clearness.

We have a letter from Clement of Rome, written near the close of the first century, to the Church of Corinth, in which he writes: 'Let us look steadfastly to the blood of Christ and see how precious that blood is to God, which, having been shed for our salvation, has set the grace of repentence before the whole world. Or account of the love He bore us Jesus Christ our Lord gave His blood for us oy tne will of God, His flesh for our flesh and His soul for our soul. In the Enistle to Diognetus, written about the year 13fi, Christ is spoiten ot as tne Holy and incomprehensible Word, the very creator and fashioner of all things, by whom He made the heavens, by whom He inclosed the sea, whom the moon obeys and whom the stars also obey, who was given as a ransom for us, the holy one for transgressors, the blameless one for the wicked, the righteous one for the ur.richteous, the incorruptible one for the corruptive, the immortal one for them that are mortal. O. sweet exchange: O.

unsearchable operations: benefits surpassing all expectations: that the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous one. and that the righteousness of one should justify many Polycarp suffered martyrdom about" the year 150. He speaks of Christ as the 'Son of God. our everlasting High Priest, who for our sins suffered oven unto death, to whom all things are subject, the Judge of the living and the When the old man was being bound to the stake and before the torch was applied, he prayed, closing the prayer with these wcrds: 'I bless Thee, I glorify Thee, along with the everlasting and heaveniv Jesus Christ. T' Bfioved Son.

with whom to Thee and the Holy Ghost, be glory, now and to all coming Ignatius of Antioch suffered martyrdom. undr Trajan, at Rome, about the year 107. From him we have seven genuine epistles. These letters contain such sentences as these: 'There is one physician, who is possessed both of flesh and snirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death: both of Marv and of God even Jesus Christ our God. For our God.

Jesus Christ, was conceived in the womb of Mary, ot the seed of David, but bv the Holv Chest. He was with the Father before the beginning of time, and in the end was re vealed; who died for us in order, by believing in nis ueatn. ye may escape from death, The so called Epistle of Barnabas belongs to the first century. In It Christ is declared i to be. 'nft the Son of man.

but the Sen of God. who was manifested and came into the fiesh. who ordured to give ugf His flesh to corruption that we might be sanctified through the remission of sins, which is of 1 fected by His blood nf Instill Martyn died in lllj. lie spe aks of Christ as "he Word, who took shone anel became man. who is the cnly proper Son who has been be gotten of 'born of a virgin; being crtici lied and dead.

He rose agaiu. and havinc; i ascended into Ivaven. reigned. He came I man for our sakes. that becoming a partaker i of our sufferings He might also bring us healing.

Christ, the Son of God. who was before the mornin mitte(1 inenrm ie and be hn 1 a virgin of the family of David, in order that. by this dispensation, the serpen! id the nngeUs i i hint may be destroyed. 11 isteel as God before the ages, ami sulu: to be born, to bo crucified and to die; which He rose again and asetknde''l into i heaven. And us tbe blood of the Pasover aved those who wor in Egypt, sn also the i rlood rVrU, xrrul'.

thn, who have believed." Irenaeus of Lyons died in 202. From his voluminous writings I select a few reproscutative sentences: Tho only begotten word the human rat who is always present with i united to and minded th His own creation, aec rding to tbi Father's DR. BEHREHDS" LDHG SERVICE Pastor of Central Congregational Church Has Been Seventeen Years in That Pulpit. JUST HALF HIS MINISTRY. His Eaith and Why He Preaches It.

The Strengthening of His Early Convictions. The Rev. Dr. A. J.

F. Behrends, having completed seventeen years of his ministry in the Central Congregational Church, addressed his people yesterday on the subject, taking for his text the words: "For I know whom I have believed." II Timothy, His discourse was as follows: "The man who wrote that sentence was not far from 65 years old when he penned it. He wrote it in a Roman dungeon, and under sentence of death. He was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, a blue blooded Jew, and a Pharisee of the Pharisees. But in spite of its nationality his family had been honored with Roman citizenship; for he tells us himself that he was free born.

He belonged to the aristocracy of Tarsus, no mean city. He had been sent to Jerusalem, to sit at the feet of Gamaliel, the most famous rabbi of his time. There is good ground for believing that as soon as his age permitted, he was chosen to a seat in the Sanhedrin, the highest judical court among the Jews; for he tells us himself that when Christians were put to death he cast his vote against them. When one reads the story of his journey to Damascus and of his sudden conversion, it seems as if this man must have been carried away by a whirlwind of emotional excitement, likely to be followed by an equally violent reactioD. There is no evidence of any prolonged and painful mental conflict.

The change came with the swiftness of a bolt of lightning. No wonder that Ananias was incredulous. No wonder that the Christians in Damascus were amazed. They could not believe their eyes and ears. No wonder that tho Christians tn Jerusalem f1'6 ot hlm' nl be leVC that t'S bim hlf "1 ipt bu? not one of them, so far as we know, gave him their apostolic welcome.

James he met three afterward, upon his return from Ara ot if, t3nt in Jerusalem. For some time he labored in comparative obscurity, until a great revival broke out among the Grecians in the metropolis of Syria, when Barnabas hastened to Tarsus and brought Paul to Antioch. "Such testimony cannot be gainsaid. The weight of thirty years' experience 1,3 in it. Time is the fiercest sifter of systems and oi men.

And hence it is that in all the controversies which have raged about the origin and the divine authority of Christianity. Paul has had to be taken into account. His conversion and apostolic ministry, crowned with martyrdom, are as great a miracle as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Neither can be resolved into myth or legend. Within a year of the crucifixion.

Saul of Tarsus caete in his lot with the despised and hated Nazarene. He glories in the Croes. He knows only Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. The earliest literature of the New Tcftaraeut, and the greater part of it. issued from his hands.

The cry has been raised: 'Back to Chrict. an 1 to the But the gospels are of later date than the epistle. Three of the gospels are anonymous; the Pauline are not. The earliest Christian documents in circulation were the letters of Paul. Ycu cannot get to Christ except through Paul.

You cannot know the contents of the primitive gospel you consult Paul, and he pro clainu it with so fierce an intensity of persona! conviction that iic pronounces an anathema upon an angel from heaven who should dare to preach any other message. The ardor which suffers no abatement through more than thirty years of challenge and of critici5m. in the great cities of the Roman Umpire, and which, in prospect of mpenams ueuu. uc. iaie.

.1. nave uci eu, crtuuc.t ue iau, u. woltaer mat CCJ iui. Li.iti icacnci. since that time, has been an araent and admiring pupil in the school of Paul.

"But while Paul is conspicuous iu the weight which more than thirty years of Christian experience give to his testimony, he does not stand aieme. John, in his old age, writing the gospel which bears hi name, declares that sixty had not shaken his failh. I Polvcarp of Smyrna, wnen summoned to swear by the fortune of Caesar and to reproach Christ, replied: 'Eighty and six years have I served Him. and He never did me any injury. How, then, shall I blaspheme my King' and my And they gave him up to the lire.

So the (Uory runs, repeated through ixty gent rations, down to our own day, ami always with the same reoult the weight of years is with the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With this great array of witnesses I want this day to take my stand. Forty three years have nearly passed since Jesus Christ laid His hand upon my heart and gave me His peace. Nearly thirty five years have gone since I assumed the duties 01 the Christian ministry. Nearly half of that time has been spent in the service of this church, for this day com pletes seventeen years of my present pas tornte.

These years have been years of search lug and 01 silting. 1 ney nave neen years ot i mental stress and strain. But at the end of forty three years of Christian disciplcship, after thirty five years of ministerial activity, after seventeen years of pastoral service among you, I can say with Paul, and I am glad that I can 6ay it, 'I know whom I have "After all these years my faith in the Holy I 1 did say as a result of his observations of evils then existing (and they exist now): "You retain the forms oi freedom, but, so far as I can gather, there has been a considerable loss of the substance. It is true that those who rule you do not do it by means of retainers armed with swords; but they do it through regiments of men armed with voting papers, who obey the word of command as loyally as did the dependents of the old feudal nobles, and who thus enable their leaders to override the general will and make the community submit to their exactions as effectually as their prototypes of old. It is doubtless true that each of your citizens votes for the candidate he choost for this or that office, from President downward, but his hand is guided by a power behind, which leaves him scarcely any choice.

'Use your political power as we tell you, or else throw it is the alternative offered to tbe citizen. The political machinery as it is now worked has little resemblance to that contemplated at the outset of your political life. Manifestly, those who framed your constitution never dreamed that twenty thousand citizens would go to the poll led by a America exemplifies, at the other end of the social scale, a change analogous to that which has taken place under sundry despotisms." MUL. THINK IT IS A CLASSIC PLAY. Mrs.

Mary E. Craigie Believes That Women See Mistaking It for "Sappho." To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: "Honi soit qui mal pense." This motto, adopted on one of the old colonial seals of the City of Xew York, might well be revived as a good basis upon which to formulate out criticisms of to day. Some of our public instructors and clergymen admit they have read Daudet's "Sapho" and consider it an immoral book. There is a large field of literature from which to make our selections. Why did they voluntarily choose to read a book at least considered questionable? I ave neither read the bcok nor seen the play see the plav "Sapho," as thousands went to see the "Christian." mislead bv the title.

In the Sunday Herald a sarcastic comment is made on the fact that there existed in Brook ve5rs aK ub of womcu A With the revna! 01 interest Greek ar and Greek plays, suen as the "Antigone and the "Oedipus." if is quite natural that many people attend the theater expecting to see some dramatization of the Greek Sappho, the poetess, born 610 B. who rendered herself famous even in that early age when opportunities for woman's education were very few. Her verses were of the lyric kind and love was the general subject, which she treated with so much beauty of poetical expression that she acquired the title of the Tenth Muse. Her compositions were held in the highest esteem by her contemporaries. Roman as well as Greek.

She formed an academy of women who excelled in music. The Mytiler.es esteemed her so highly and were so sensible cf the glory they received from her having been born among them, that they paid her sovereign honors at death and stamped their money with her image. The Romans, also, erected a noble monument to her memory. By sotting aside the conventionalities of her time and departing from the narrow and accepted lines laid out for the women of her perird, she naturally drew upon herself public criticism and was classed, as were other virtuous women, among the courtesans of that period. Tl she was liekle or set a bad example in matters pertaining to love is disproved by her own for, possessed of an absorbing hive for tho beautiful Phaon.

after the ci her husband. C'ercala. and finding him ur'rue to her. unable 10 endure his neglect, she throw herself from a high precipice ever after called tho "Lover's Leap" and perished in the sea. What higher evidence of a belief in the power of true love could be given than the willingness to sacrifice one'.

Im rather tnan live tvitaout it? In her own life she gave an example of constancy, m'lu than inconstancy, of l.l.Vv tlvr a Giivf a And i. but pr.ii'usclv i 'ivcs; its 'ail. it has done trio littl. the Greek Sappho, if read time, and without. Mice, cannot but arouse impartial persons an ad icnitis of the woman; for The character in the light cf preconceived pr in the minds of miration for the there is in what remains ot ner tnemory something delicate, harmonious and impassioned to the lasi degree.

i have revived this brief sketch of her believing that the much criticised play is masquerading under the fame the classic heroine and that it is due to this and not to a depraved taste that many women attend the MARY E. CRAIGIE. Brooklyn. February 2 1, It'OO. MISS JOHNSON'S LECTURES.

It is announced that the regular lecture schedule of the Institute makes if impossible to mr.tinuo tho supplementary course of conking lectures on the same day and in the same place where the first course was given. Miss Johnson therefore requests iter audience to go to the Institute Building on Montague street. The lectures will be on Tuesday afternoons, begintiinp with March The time is changed to 3:30 to enable those desiring to do so to go to the usual Lenten fi o'clock service. The first lecture will he on the cooking of shell fish. "Where TtM re Is Rcsponnlblllty there care Is cxen Ised.

The EaRle Wart'hoilMe and Storage 3S Fulton ht, Brooklyn. usurp, and who became fiesh, is Himself and for me. my heart dissolves in thankful Jesus Christ our Lord, who did also suffer i ness and tears. In that message the Holy for us. and rose again on our behalf, and who Spirit works.

And that is always the message will come again in the glory of His Father, which monopolizes our speech, when the Holy to raise up all flesh, and for tbe manifesta Spirit has His way. We pray for the baptism tion of salvation, and to apply the rule of just I of the Spirit. It may be a selfish and anibl judgnient to all who were made by Him. tious prayer. Simon asked for that, and Peter He is tbe only begotten of the Father, the Word of God.

who be came incarnate when the fullness of time had come, at which the Son rimi hr.rl tn become the Son of man. For ftbe creator of tho world is trulv the Word of jGod; and this is our Lord, wlio in the last time was made man. existing in this world, and who in an invisible manner contains all things created, and is inherent in the entire creation; and therefore He came to His own in a visible manner, and was made flesh, and hung upon the tree that He might sum up all things in Himself." One fragment I venture to quote iu full: 'With regard to Christ, the law and the prophets and the evangelists have proclaimed that Ho was born of a virgin, that He suffered upon a beam of wood,.