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VOL. 49 NO. 62o BROOKLYN, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1889. SIX PAGES. THREE a more glorious temple where the Lord Qod shall Ho (the author) might havo add REOPENING TO BEGIN ABLY PIGOTT'S CRIME ITS GOOD WORK.

LIMITS OF WORK is like a mustard seed tho least of all seeds but it grows into the greatest of herbs. Wo are apt to disparage the present. We recognize its imperfection bv immediate contact. Tho charity of life seems private. Tho golden age lies enveloped in the mists of the past or concealed in the clouds of the future.

But the reality of the present is neither common nor unclean. It is God's ordering. It is a divine stage iu the life of Strange we never prize the musio Till tho Bweot voiced bird has flown Strange that we should slight the violots Till tho lovely flowers are gone Strange the Summer skies and sunshine Never Boem one half so fair, As when Winter's snowy pinions Shako the white down in tho air. If we knew tho baby fingers, Pressed against the window pane, Would be cold and stiff to morrow Never trouble us again Would the bright oyeB of our darling Catch tho frown upon our brow? Would the print of rosy fingers Vex ua then aa they do now? Ah those little ice cold fingers, How they point our memories back To the hasty words and actions, Strown along our backward track! How these little hands remind ua, As iu snowy graee.they lie, Not to scatter thorns, but roses, For our reaping by and by. THE LAW OF TEMPTATION.

ed, Ihe quality of every article brought to market suits itself to tho effectual demand, Now, Pigott was led to suspect, in fact, ho was given to understand, ho was made to know, that the very enlightened Lord Salisbury and the bright and gifted editors of the Thiie.t were iu eminent need of documents, epistolary or other wise, which would serve to damage Mr. Parnell his Irish aceolytes, and what could bo more nat ural than that Mr. Pigott should endoavor to sup ply the wants of so enlightened a statesman Lord Salisbury and so wealthy a journal as the London Timet, which is half tho Government 'The, head and front of his offending hath this extent, no Let us do justice to Mr. Pigot, If he had genuine letters of Mr. Parnell, he would nover have subjected himself to tho pain and la bor of evolving others out of tho resources of his inner consciousness.

We must always understand in considering this case, that Mr. Pigott is a con verted rebel, 'a brand snatched from the and like all converts, is inflame with a zeal which cold blooded loyalist: who never rebeled, are wholly incapable of ami they have not even a conception of. as tnere is more joy in heaven lor the conversion of one sinner than for ninety nine who uevor deviated into depravity, so there is more gratified feeling and cordial welcome in Downing stv.iv for a Fenian who has repented rebellion than for any number of vulgar and ordinary loyalists Bichard Pigott was regarded by Lord Salisbury as a prodigal son who had been lost and was now restored to his paternal bosom. It was therefore impossible tor his lordship, or, what is the same thing, his aides in tho TViiics office, to Hiispect forgery on Pigott's part. Let us do them justice A great deal can he said in defense of all the par ties connected with this affair.

Richard Pigott was well aware that the filibustering of the Irish members had brought parliamentary government into disreputo all over Europe. It has become a laughing stock to all the crowned heads of the continent. That form of government, so long the glory of Britons, is now the scoff of European statesmen and generally conilemncd as elfete and impracticable. Ho knew wha the ministers ot England have suffered at the hands of Irish members. What torture lias been inflicted on successivo premiers by tho in geuious obstruction of every measure which ministers could devise for the benefit of the empire and as his heart was burning with new born loyalty he could not restrain his inclination to relieve statesmen so respectable by means si simple, for, of course, if he had succeeded th Irish members would havo been expelled and the ministry relieved from the badgering to which they aro so constantly exposed.

Bichard Pigott naturally asked himself, Why should journal which is so willing to pay as the Tim: why should an administration so opulent as Lord Salisbury's, lie badgered by such men as Ireland sends to Parliament, when ready to pay for relief? Tho wisdom of Sanclio I'anza when ap pointed Governor of Barataria has always ex cited our admiration and sympathy. When a prisoner charged with larceny was brought beforo the governor ho listened patiently to the evidence which was perfectly conclusive. But instead of subjecting tho accused to punish ment lie sent tho plaiutttt to jail, ror the unan swerable reason that he had left tin stolen property in the defendant's way ami tempted him to commit the offense. This decision is perfectly applicable to Pigott's case. Ho would never have committed forgery in this case if not profoundly convinced that tho Times would pay him for it.

His poverty rather than his will consented to the crime. In my opinion it is tho seducer, who is enormously wealthy, rather than the seduced, whoia miserably poor, that should be subjected to popular indignation and lashed with journalistic scourges. It seems to mo that there must be some thing radically wrong or profoundly depraved iu the government of England and the journal which it subsidizes, when it has recourse to sn. monstrous expedients and encourages atrocious crime in order to obtain parliamentary sueces. If it were based upon honest principles like the Government of tho United States it would hav no occasion for forged documents in order to carry out flagitious purposes.

But if it be based upon crime it must, necessarily call criminals into existence in order to support it and Pigott must have many successors. With all his faults compared to those from whom ho expected payment Pigott was au honest man." "What about his connection with the Irishman and Flan of Ireland journals "Penis Holland, a Cork man, whoso real name was Mnlhollaud. was the original owner of the Irishman of which Pigott was believed to be the proprietor, was a physical force paper which preached the doetriue of pike aud rille with more vehemence, if with less talent than the nation did. The men who wrote it might be described as literary Kiblutimcn. It was often remarked that when Pigott was in difficulties the men who 'went bail for as they say in Ireland, were Tories tinted with Orange principles.

This of itself would have been enough to convince any reasonable man that he was playing fast ami loose with the party to which he was aililiatcd. This scoundrel has been sometimes confounded with a very different man, John Edward Pigott, son of the late chief baron, a highly educated soho'ar who wrote Eugene O'Curry's lectures on the 'Manners of the An cient ami the Materials of Irish for.although a rood taelic scholar, by no means excelled in English, and John Edward Pigott. clothed his Irish erudition in the tongue of. Swift and Goldsmith Beforo the insurrectionary movement his father had him removed to the West Indies where ho was safer than in Ireland. Such tasks as these the infamous Bichard Pigott never could accomplish, he was a mere politioiate, ami there is every reason to believe that he has betrayed every Irish movement since he was able to take a share in one." D0VGLA.SK SOCIAL ('M RKCBI'TiOX.

The Douglass Social Club, of South Brooklyn, gave one of its receptions Wednesday evening, at the residence of Mr. Thomas H. Ctillen, 7:2 Carroll street. The parlors wero handsomely decorated and dancing to mnsic by Professor O'Brien's orchestra was the main feature of the evening's enjoyment. Singing ami recitations passed tho time between the dances and a collation about midnight helped to make Ijjo a flair the success it was.

The management was in charge of Mr. George Taylor, assisted by the officers of the club, as follows: Joseph McCarrick, president; Joseph McWilliams, vice president; Joseph Murphy, secretary: Thomas Burke, financial secretary, C. Fogarty, recording secretary; Samuel Dinsdale, treasurer; George Curry, sergeant at arms. Among tho guests were Captain and Mrs. William Dinsdale, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas H. Cullon, Joseph Mnrnnne, Miss Katie Williams, George Mutoll, Miss Alice Fox, J. McCarrick, Miss Mc Maiiiis, George Taylor, Miss Maggio Kelly, C. Fogarty, Miss Mamio Berry, George Williams.

Miss Jenny Noonan, T. Burke, Miss Lizzie Cullen, Samuel Dinsdale, Miss Delia Gilroy, John Coyne, Miss Nellie Dunnigan, James Cleary, Miss Maggio Dinsdale, Captain and Mrs. Henry Whitney, C. Charles Hawkins, Jliss Addie Casenbrock, M. Dowd, Miss Mary Fitzpatriek, Gcorgo Curry, Miss Sadie Hess, T.

Murphy, Miss Annie West, Joseph Nelson, Miss Katie Cullen, Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkinson, James Darby, Miss Katie Green, Frank Hall, Miss Ida Taylor, Mr. and Mrs, John Biloy, M. Gilmartin.

Miss Nellie O'Conuell, J. Corcoran, Miss Bcllo Byan, T. Conroy, Jliss Mary O'Connor, George Kinney, Miss Jonnie Martin, James Kelly, Miss Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Jame3 Twomey, Mr.

and Mrs. John Downey, Jliss Lottie Mayers, Frank White, P. Canavan, Misi Nellie Bly, Mr. and Mrs. Muirhead, I.

May and MiBB Katie Sunderaom A ROCKTILLE CENTER EMERTAISMEST. The entertainment given in Athcnenm Hall last Wednesday evening for tho benefit of tho building fund of the Church of the Ascension was well attended. Tho different tableaux wero presented in such a manner as to give one a very pleasant idea of beautiful pictures highly colored and as natural as life. The committee of ladies to whom tlie success of the entertainment was duo wero Mrs. P.

B. Jennings, Mrs. MangleB, Miss Asman.Mrs. Smack and Miss Sprout. The costnmos for the grand tableaux, "The Interrupted Feast," were representations of the time of Charles and were the finest ever seen in Bockvillo Center.

The music, under the direction of Mrs. E. Sprout, was finely rendered. Tho Messrs. Bronson, of Richmond Hill, were applauded again and again in their base and baritone songs.

Miss K. Van Yleck sang several songs very acceptably and a hu morous recitation was given by Dr. H. Parker, of Lawrence, L. with excellent effect.

The ladies charge were highly praised for their suc cessful management of the affair. THE ROSEIIL'I) SOCIAL. An apron and necktie surprise party was tendered to Mr. C. Switzer, 2 t'J Tenth street, last Wednesday evening by tho members ot the Rose bud Social and their friends.

A very pleasant evening was passed with singing, recitations games and dancing. Tho committee in charge was composed of four young ladies, Miss Lena Lies enberg, Miss N. Primrose, Miss E. Lynch and Miss M. Wideman.

Among those present were Miss L. Liesenberg, Mr. G. Weber, Miss J.l Scully, M. A.

Gernandt, Mrs. Julia Connors, Mr. Church, Miss Dolancy, Mr. William Nugent, Miss L. Hvcr.

Mr. J. Fox, Miss Ericksoii, Jamea Dohorty, Miss C. Miller. Miss L.

Swualsky, Miss A. Modell. Miss C. Fischer, Miss O'Connor, the Misses Virginia and Viola Osborne, Miss N. Luko and II.

Luko, Mr. H. Braunsdorl, William Braunsdorf, William Pitman, Albert Bauers, Shay, G. Lindor, R. Lmdcr, George Young, of the Jerome Social; J.

Ommen, H. Faust, Daniel Sweeney, T. Scanlan, V. Erickaon, S. Ericksoii, of the Pleasant Valley Social, and many others.

SILVER mOOS SOCIAL. Tho Silver Moon Social held their third month ly reception at tho residonco of Mr. James Holl yer, 4.S5A Halsey street, last Tuesday evening, February 2G. Music by Professor Ogdon's or chestra. Supper by Dilliard.

TUo loliowmg members and guests were in attendance: Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ackloy, Mr.

E. Kano and Miss Emma Mailey, Mr. Charles C. Strang and Miss itnma Easton, Mr. Horace W.

Farrell and Miss Minnie Lord, Mr. A. D. Strang and Misa Adelaide Hollver. Mr.

Walter B. Angell and Miss Mabel Totten, Mr. George Hull and Mifla Emma Hollyor, Mr. J. C.

Hustod and Miss Jessie Healey, Mr. James H. Ilollyer and Miss Enoas, Mr. MarshaB Kano and Miss Vorsfolt, Mr. Walter Filmer and Misa Filmor, Mr.

Baxter and Miss Socor, Mr. Van Alstyno and Miss Floronco Althens, Mr. Ray Bailey aud Misa Carrie Angell, Mr. Will Barton, i Mr. E.

is A to ice ins torever reign. Ana tnon, when with one noart and mind, and with shoulder to shoulder, you go forth bearing the inesBage of salvation intoovery house, and scattering the seed of eternal truth by every wayside, you will see the glory of the Lord as never before, and you will exclaim, The glory of tins latter House is greater than that or the lor mer. Then you will bo able to completo tho actions of those ancient Hebrews rejoico. It is claimed that Psalms cxlvi. cxlvii, and cxlviii woro composed on the occasion of tho reopening of Zerubbabel's Temple.

They commence: ''Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, my soul The Lord oponeth tho eyes of tho blind; the Lord raiseth them that aro bowed down. Tho Lord doth build up Jerusalem." Aud then, as if gaining strength in recounting the goodness of God, the writer exclaims: "Praise the Lord, 0 Jornsalem; praise thy God, 0 Zion, for he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children with thco. Monn tainH and all hiilB. fruitful ti e.na unit nil p.ndnrs. beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying jowi, Kings oi niu eariu anu people, princes ana all judges of the earth, both young men and maidens, old men and children, let them praise the name of tho Lord, for his name alone is excel lent; his glory is, above the earth and heaven; praiBc ye the loiu." In the afternoon the Sabbath school, under Superintendent Thomas C.

Stokes, had a celebration. Mr. Stokes aud others made brief addresses. At tho evening service Hon. Stewart L.

Wood ford aud Hon. Silas B. Dutclior made addresses. ADVICE FOIt THE LE.NTE.V SEASON'. The Key, James Oonohoe, ot St.

Thoma Aquinas', on tlie Efficacy of Pciiaucc. In spite of the sloppy and unpleasant weather yesterday the Boman Catholic Church of St. Thomas Aquinas, on the corner of Ninth street and Fourth avenue, was comfortably filled at the 11 o'clock service with a well dressed and attentive imdieuco. The pastor, the Kev. James Dono hoe, has a great reputation for eloquence, and many peoplo other than his own parishioners attend the church whenever he is expected to speak.

Yesterday was the last Sunday before Lent, and the sermon was appropriate to the occasion. Father Douohoe took as tho subject of his discourse the efficacy of penance, and Baid among other things: In a recent encyclical of the Holy Father this passage occurs: "Thosn who speak to the people should carefully and clearly teach that, according not only to the law of the Gospel, but oven to tho dictates of natural reason, man is bound to govern himself and keep his passionsunder strict control, and, moreover, that sin cannot be expiated except by penance." I intend to treat the subject within the lines marked out by the Sovereign Pontiff. There are many outside the church who consider that Catholics impose an unnecessary burden upon themselves in keeping tlie Lenten fast: others think that we are a peculiar set of peoplo and that we do penitential works during Lent omt of sheer eccentricity; others, wlio are better enlightened, think that in practicing corporal austerities wo show great wisdom and fortitude and regret that their own weak wills and effeminate habits prevent them from imitating our example. Penance is a precept which God has imposed on fallen man. lie condemned him to earn his bread by the labor of his hands.

The Hebrews who received tlie divino revelation practiced fasting and abstinence from religious motives. Other nations, such as the Assyrians, the Egyptians, Indians, Greeks and Bonians, looked upon fasting and abstinence as a means of furthering civilization, of softening the manners of the peoplo and of preserving health. Even idolatrous nationshad their fast days which were never violated. Even in our own days, in the continent of Asia, thore are over one hundred millions of people who keep a perpetual Lent. The Brahmins never eat flesh meat at all, aud the Mohammedans never drink wine, and on certain occasions practiced the most austere fast.

All tlie great philosophers of the olden time inculcated the necessity of fasting. "When one is unfortunate enough to have done wrong," says Plato, "he must make expiation for it, otherwise it will be his eternal punishment." In the Fourth Cen tury the most learned philosopher bv tar was Porphyry. He was a great hater of Christianity and wrote several treatises against it. Here is how bo sneaks of fasting and abstinence: "The only means of coming to the end for which we wero created is to detach ourselves from the pleasures of sense. If men were more sober and more mortified they would be less unjust and less discontented with their lots and much less subject to diseases." Now compare with this the language of the Holy Father: "How many then; aro who love to live delicately and shrink tram what ever requires manly vigor and generosity; w'ho when ailments come, seek in tlieni.roason for not obeying the salutary laws ot the church, thinking the burden laid upon tbein more than they can bear when they aro told to abstain irom cer tain kinds ot food or to last diirmir few days in the year.

It is not to bo wondered at if, weakened by these habits of indulgence, they gradually give themselves up, body and soul, to the passions, always craving new gratifica tions." Leo and Porphyry are in Perfect accord and almost use the same language iu teaching the necessity of fasting an abstinence. It would be liute easy to snow tnat tlie greatest minds oi an tiquity taught a similar doctrine. The emperors Vespasian, Aurclius and Sevenis were in the habit of fasting several times every month. Cy rus, tne wisest, ruler oi tne Jiast, allowed but one meal a day. The doctrine of the fathers of the church concerning fasting and abstinence in every age is precisely the same doctrine that we now teach.

hey call fasting and abstinence tlie food of virtue aud of intelligence. Many of them wrote elaborate treatises showing that God revealed this precept to man after the fall, and that He often renewed it through the prophets whom He sent to teach the people. eon verted in tasting and mourning." Do penanr for sins," was the chief burden of prophetic preaching. lasting, anstinence and penance date back to the cranio ot the Human lam lly. 1 liaa and iuosos established the pro totype ot our own Lent, lliev conseern ed toi tv davs to fasting and penitential works, ihe seven penitential nsaiins ot uavid are.

a mon ument built out ol tears. Ihe kings ot ea the Maccabees, did penance in tlie desert before engaging in battle. How often did the entire pcopio of Israel cover themselves with sackcloth and ashes and spend long days in tasting and bewailing their sins. St. John came into the desert to preaoh tho baptism of penance.

When the itedeemer came He. too. preached penance and sent His aposiles through the world with this command: "Go ye intothe cities and preach penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." One day the apostles came lo Him and told Him that they failed to cast out a devil and He told them that this kind ot demon is cast outonlv bv praver and fasting, He Himself, although sinless, spent forty days in the desert in prayer and tasting. Penance as it is practiced by iitholies is prac tically unknown outside the church. It consists, according to St.

Augustine, in the daily chastisement of the good and faithful followers of Christ, who humbly strike their broast, begging forgive ness of their tresspasses. The world says, "Kii lov." The church says, J)o penance Which is right? Which will you follow? The very best wav for a Christian to hud out what he ought to do is to study what they did who lived with and commingled with our haviour when He was on ami. tseo Tit. rotor ins ran. no never neased weepiuir.

Two great streams of tears over flowing from his eyes cut deep furrows in his cheeks. When be saw the cross on which he was to be crucified that humbly penitent heart of his, broken, bruised, crushed with sorrowon accountof his denial of his Saviour, is once more melted with trrief. "Oh. crucify me." he said, "with mv head downward. I am not worthy to die as my Saviour died.

1 once denied mm. Geo now the Magda len wept. Not to multiply examples, see how St. Paul chastised his body. "I chastise my body and bring it into servitude, lest while I preach to others I myself become a reprobate." The church in ordering the 'Lenten fast has not made any new precept; it has simply determined the manner in which we can satisfy the precept of pen ance imposed by lion on man alter nis tan.

this iu mind; make no mistake about it. Penance is necessary for all of ns. We cannot save our souls without it. It is necessary whether we be in tho state of sin or in the state of grace. If we are in the state of sin, it is necessary to bend the divine justice in our favor.

It is the only plank that remains after shipwreck, lor, as the bcript uro says, we do not no penance, we snail tail into tho lianas or me living uoa. ii we nave recovered grace after falliug into sin, penance is still necessary. By absolution we havo only obtained the remission of eternal punishment due to Hin. Thorn remains a temporal punishment which is proportionate to the number and enor lllliy Ul uu, D1UO muoii uv uiumi ill this life or in the flames of purgatory. Would it not be better to do some penitential workB in this life than to bo plunged, it may bo for ages, into the devouring fire of nm irntorv.

Tn tho early ages those who had com mitted sin did public penance. They might bo seen at tho door of the church clothed in penitential garmentB craving the prayers of the faithful as they entered tho church, not daring to enter themselves. Princes and powerful monarchs formed no exception. Iu tho course of time the church had to change her discinhno on account of the number of sinners. It tho church no longer exacts public penance it is not because the necessity of doing pouanco is any less now than it'was then.

Evon if wo have never lost our baptismal innnonncn. nenance is neeessarv in order to repress our passions and to enablo ua to perse vero in virtue. The world, the devil and our own heart aro onemies which we must always fight. We may have never fallen, but if we are never to fall penance must be our protection. In thiB we have an example in tho patriarchs and Dronhets of the old law, in the chosen peoplo of God.

In our Saviour Himself, in the saints of the Nineteenth Century. Thero are no two ways of going to what was necessary for them is necessary for us. Am I not borne out in this bv thn crv of vour own consciences Why have yon fallen so often into sin? Why have you remained for years the slaves of certain vices? It is because you have never seriously practiced mortification. When a general wishes to take a fortified city, he begins by cutting off the sup ply of water and provisions. In the Bame way if you wish to conquer your passions, you must begin by cutting off tho supplies.

You miist mortify tho body by sobriety, by fasting and abstinence. If you gratify the llesh in everything, the flesh will become your master and the spirit weakened oy eneminacy win succumo. Tlie lent is now before yon. For some of ub it will certninlv be the last lent. If we attend all the exercises in church, hear mass every morning when we can and wuen we cannot, aiiunu in spirit, if we strike our breasts frenuently and lm plore the divine mercy to blot out our past sins and the.

divine rrnndness to save us from falling into sin in tho future, but above all practice the fasting and abstinence imposed by tue lenten regulations our salvation is secure, it may ne hard, yes it is hard. But think of heaven. Whatever elso wo lose we must not lose heaven. I beg of vnn not to make excuses, ion may have a slight headache the first time you fast. You may bo in had humor for a tew days, isat tuose tnings will wiHHAwnv.

Tho masterv which vou will have fained over your passions, will not pass away, he close friendship into'which your penance will bring you with God will not pass away. The eternal reward, the eternal crown will not pass away. Put away your effeminate habits this once. Bid adieu for once to softness aTirl love of case. Be strong 1 Be brave I Dare to take up your cross for seven weeks.

Never, never will you regret it. You will feel a new iov in your life von never felt before. You will nut away sin and sinful habits and God'S" sunny, warm graco will spring up in your soul. Yon will be preparing yourself for tho evm lnslini? invs of heaven. "If anv man will come after me let him take up his cross and follow mo." HOTEL ARRIVALS.

St. Geoeqe W. A. Road, Lowell; J. C.

Braeg and wife, Philadelphia; Mrs. H. J. Peck, Miss E. F.

Peck, New Haven; J. M. Parsons, Now Brunswick; M. Bamsay, Fordham, N. G.

B. Tiddon, Yonkore, N. W. A. Robinson and wife Washington, D.

W. M. Hall, Newport; G. O. Sack ett.

Providence; A. 0. Wall, Orange, N. F. A.

Keonoy, A. E. Pritchard, N. B. Simmons, R.

I. Stewart, Brooklyn. TO CONFER THE THIRD DEGREE. On Thursday ovoning, March 7, Long Island Lodge No. 382, F.

A. will confer tho Degree of Master Mason. R. W. E.

M. L. Ehlers, grand Bccrotary, and tho past district deputies of tho Third District will visit tho lodgo on this occasion. Woi Bhipful Brother Halsay will welcome ell the fraternity. I ty Base Ball Players Will Soon Engage in Field Practice.

The Clerk of tiic Weather the Only Obstructionist The Spring: Exhibition Games No Sunday Games at Kidge wood. The Ides of March aro upon us, and tho enthusiastic ball player, in poetical moo.l, exclaims: Come, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, come I And if his wish gave him power he would have the bright green turf spring up before him for immediate use. It may he set down as a fact that March is now the opening month of tho base ball season each year, and it depends upon tho weather as to field practice being commenced this mouth in this locality. Sonthward of ua practice on the field will begin next week, when the Philadelphia league team will open at Jacksonville, Fin. Of conrso, tho exhibition campaign will not be in operation until the first week in April, and not then if we have so late a Spring season as we had last year.

But from, this week base hall and the doings of its professional exemplars will be one of the most interesting topics for the readers of the daily papers, especially as this Spring bids fair to be the most eventful period in exciting base b.all events in tho Metropolitan District known iu the history of tho game. One of the interesting nuestions of Die day is: Where will the New York Club play its Spring exhibition games ond the answer now is: Either at Statcu Island or at the Polo Grounds. The latest rumor is that the effort of the club to defer the opening of One Hundred and Eleventh street through the Polo Grounds until November next is likely to be successful, and, if so, the club will play one more season at tlie old field. If not they must play on the St. George Ground at Staten Island, as thero is no other place they can use to any advantage.

A resolution will be laid before the New York Board of Aldermon next week which will settle the question beyond poradveu ture. If this resolution passes tho mutilated fences' will be repaired and tho Now York Club will make another bid for glory on hsolit. grounds. In view of this fact the question may be set down as ono of money only, and the club may as well prcparo at once to reoccttpy the old field ami get their usual number of Aldermanio deadhead passes ready. It lias been definitely arranged by the Brooklyn Club that their team in 18HU will not play any Sunday games at liidgewood Pari; and the patrons of these games will no longer have to tramp nearly a mile from the road at the Halsey street, station to reach the grounds or to travel an hour iu the lint horse cars.

In fact, the club will play on new grounds which are this next week to lie made ready for occupancy by tho last Sunday of this month, when the opening Sunday game will bcQilaycd with the Newark team. Where arc these new grounds located? is a natural question which Mr. Byrne will respond to on his return from the West next week, for which section he and President Wikoff left yesterday. The Philadelphia team under Harry Wright left New York for Florida last Friday. The veteran manager has taken time by the forelock and he intends that his men shall be in good training for the opening of the campaign in April.

Harry says: I am tailing the boys South simply because I do not believe that any team under the sun can get into proper shape inside of six weeks at tho least. They may shake off their stiffness in a few days and their muscles may become hnsd inA week or two, but much more time is requireiT when it comes to throwing and hatting. I have seen many strictly first class players who wore all at sea in both these points during tho first few weeks of tho regular season. This failing is a costly one to my club and, when it can be obviated by a stitch in tune, I see no reason why tho titch should not be taken." In this connection an interesting question arises aud that is, "What have tho New York ('lub's players have been doing this Winter?" Mr. f.angdon M.

Smith, the successor of Peto Donahue as base ball editor of the World, says of Ewing and Connor that 'wing is rather fond of an easy time, aud trom alt reports Ims become rather aMcrmanie. This has ever been the case with Buck, lie becomes as fat as a prize ox during the Winter, and repents in sackcloth and sweaters in the Spring. He is a hard trainer, and on bright Spring mornings can be heard loudly bewailing effects of Cincinnati beer as he Hots around the cinder path. linger Connor has been having high old times in Waterbnry this Whiter. He, too, has put on enough flesh to build an ordinary man outright, but Rogers colossal frame docs not seem hampered in tho least.

He has made ineffectual efforts for several months to reduce his weight by playing domi noes every night with a ehoico set of cronies, but has finally given up the scheme in disgust mil will go into a gymnasium next week." Of the others but few have done anything to prepare themselves for the important work in store for them during the coming exhibition campaign of next month. The reeeptiousto be given the returning tourists fter their arrival in New York and until they fini di their all round trip of a hundred and eighty odd days iu Chicago will be the greatest events of the kind known in the annals of the game in America. New York and Iii ooklyu open with a grand banquet; the AVto York Siiortiwj Times will send the Grand Republic to meet the tourists down the bay on the day of their arrival; tho I'liiladrijliia Siiitrlinrj Life will give them a jour nalists' banquet iu the Quaker City. What Boston will do the li rald of that city will announce in due time: but what a welcome they will meet with iu Chicago. The Baltimore Club will inaugurate their new Oriole Park on March on which occasion they will play the first of three games with Harry Wright's Philadelphia team.

Manager Barnie is getting his team together for tho occasion. Last week he signed Jack Farrell, Kilroy and Catcher Mr. Motl, tile Sjiortinj Life's Baltimore correspondent, places tlie American teams as follows: St. Louis lirst, Athletic second, Brooklyn third aud Cincinnati fourth, and adda that "Baltimore might take Brooklyn's place." i Thank ou, Mr. Mott.

Put it down as follows: fi Brooklyn, Athletic, Cincinnati and St. Louis, by way of variation; the latter estimate will oe nearer right by October. ManagerMutrie has telegraphed to tho membera of his team that it is important that they rc for duty at his office on March SO, Wedne.1 two weeks. James says: "Wo must get in dition to beat Brooklyn, and if wo do there will be something in it for all of us:" beside which, he says, "I will release you ten days earlier in tho Fall." So, if tho team beats our Brooklyn nine, they will share gate receipts with tho club and get ten days off next October. ThiB ought to urge Ewing and Connor to go in and got off Bomo of their superfluous flesh.

Swartwood is getting up a team to go to Florida to play against Harry Wright's Phillies at Jack sonville tho next fortnight. The battery will bo Galvin and Miller, with Beckly and Dunlap an base players, from Pittsburg. Tlie new editor of tho New York Sporting Times Bays, in yesterday's edition "When the base ball party roach Philadelphia they will be banqueted by onr valued contemporary of that city, Sporting ThiB is as it should be. Tho Sporting Times will welcome tho globo girdlers with magnificent reception edition." This is alMns it should be. The Sporting Times is to be congTSjj ulated on its getting rid of tho cheap John style of editorial referenco to rival papers which has hitherto characterized its referenco to the Sporting Lire.

It is one of the greatly improved feat ures of the Sporting Times. The trouble in tho Brotherhood's camp, which Mr. Blackhurst reported to John Ward, has led to the latter's securing from Mr. Spalding his consent to let John leave for New York by the French steamer which leaves on March 0, and by tho Oth iust. ho will probably reach New York.

Ward says in his dispatch to the World, dated From advices which I have received here I am convinced that it is imperative for me cave for New York, which I shall do tlie last of this week, abandoning the trip through Great Britain, much to my disappointment. I havo ar. rived at no decision concerning my future move ments, nor shall I until I reach home." Tho ball game in Paris will not be played beforo next Thursday. Tho party aro to reach London on March 11, and they will play before the Prince of Wales and a party of noble sportsmen on Wednesday, March 13. Mr.

John B. Day arrived at Washington yester day from tho South, feeling greatly improvod in health. He will stay in Washington until tho close of tho league schedule meeting on Wednos day. McClollan, tho Brooklyn's Becond baseman, has boon engaged by the Denver Club. They havo secured a good right field hitter, a lirst clasa base runner, an oxcellent infielder and a tip top outfielder.

Moreover, Mr. McClellan is a temperate man and an earnest team worker. Ho ia a valuable acquisition to the Denver team. Jimmy AVilliams has, with tho assistance of President Wikoff and Manager Schmclz, revised the constitution of the American Association so thoroughly that it will for onco appear in Reach's Guide for 1880 without a flaw. Harry Wright does not admiro Mike Kelly aa a captain.

He say3 that Kelly is largely responsible for the demoralization of the Boston team last season, and thinks his appointment to tho captaincy this seasou would he fatal to tho club's pen nant chances. The Sporlinrj Life Bays: "That Brooklyn team bouud to keep to tho front in one way or another. Both Terry and Pinkney, laBt week, had ins creases in their families. It's a boy iu each case. now battery, as it were." Chairman Barmo, of tho Umpire Committco, has signed John Kelly, thereby completing the association umpire staff.

The matter was ia havo been kept quiet until tho association meet ing at Columbus, as extra compensation for Kelly will havo to be arranged for. A SONO SERVICE. In spite of tho storm a largo congregation as eomblod iti Simpson M. E. Church, corner of Clermont and Willoughby avenues, last evening hoar Mr.

Hamilton preach. Tho services began with an organ voluntary by Professor George. Martin, and then followed a very delightful sorv of song and responsive roading, coniprohomJ tho trinity of faith, hope and loYO. The South. Second Street M.

E. Church, for Worship. Rev. Eflwin A. Blake, the Pastor, Preaches on the Building of tlie Temple Joseph F.

Kuapp's Generosity. The South Second Street M. E. Church, between Driggs and Boebling (streets, which has been in tho hands of mechamcB, undergoing exteusivo and costly alterations for the past few months, was reoponed for worship yesterday morning The event partook largely of the character of a jubilee service, for the old membera, now belonging toother churches of the denomination. were present to assist in the celebratiou.

Tho church is tho oldest Methodist one iu that section and fromit have sprung St. John's and the South Fifth Street churches. Forty years ago Mr. Joseph F. Knapp attended tho Sunday school of the church and later ho was superintendent of it Mrs.

Knapp also attended the chnrch and was a teacher in the school. AVhon St. John's Chnrch was started Mr. and Mrs. Knapp joined it.

Mr. Knapp always had a kindly feeling for tho old church, which showed itself in a practical way some months ago, when he arranged to have tho interior of tho edifice romodeled and decorated at his own expense. Work on it was completed last week. The alterations, the cost of which will not, it is said, fall far short of $35,000, aro thus described by the architect, Stanley D'Orsay: Tho main audience room has been made more Bpacious aud effective in appearance by heightening its dimensions from floor to ceiling. It is lighted by two large coronas of polished brass, containing 144 burners, with electrical attachment.

The galleries on either side have been lowered from their former positions. Tho organ has been re modeled, considerably enlarged and changed in position from tho rear of the pulpit to a recess on the east sido of the church. A music room has also been added. Uemml the pulpit a recess has been constructed, yi feet high by 14 feet in width, surmounted by a richly decorated canopy, from the top of which, concealed from the ordinary view, depends an illuminating reflector. The elfect of this rece3s is heightened bv a memorial window in stained glass.

On either sido of the pulpit tablets have been placed containing the Ten Commandiueiits.the Apostles' Creed, and tlie Lord's l'rayer. The furniture of the pulpit is in ash, upholstered in velvet. The lecture room has been remodeled, broad, spa cious entrances from the street, having been con structed, and special rooms for the librarian, secretary and others added. The infant class room has been remodeled and decorated. The front vestibule has been reconstructed, a broad staircase, 17 feet wuith having been added leading to the main audience room, tho galleries, the lecture room and the church parlor.

At the morning service tho chnrch was crowded Its altered appearance made it look like a now structure. The members of the congregation wore delighted, and Mr. Knapp's generosity was warmly praised. Mr. and Mrs.

Knapp were present, as was Mr. A. H. Creagh, also of St. John's Church.

The muaicul part of the services was arranged for tho occasion by tho pastor, Bev. Edwin A. Blake. Master Willie Sullivan, of St John's Church, rendered several solos. Bev.

Mr. Blake preached the Bormon from tho text Hagai 0: "And the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. Tho silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, saiti the Lord of hosts, and in this place will I give peace, saiih tho Lord of hosts." Mr. Blake said in part: My text contains at onco a prophecy and a promise.

1. The desire shall come. How long had been the desire expressed tor the rebuilding of tlie temple. During their tedious eaptivitvin a foreign land, the minds of the fathers had often turned to the. days when they worshiped at Jerusalem, and they pined for the hour to come when ag lin from Moriah's brow the pinnacles of a new temple should greet the rising sun.

1 hey told their children of the glories which once adorned it. untibcliilil and parent vied with each other in one universal prayer for the restoration of the demolished nation and place of worship. As wli the beacon light Hashes over the tempest wave, bringing joy to the hearts of beleaguered mariners, arousing hope aud inspiring courage, so when Cyrus issued the command to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild their walls a ray of joy and gladness shone in upon them that inspired courage and aroused their godly zeal. I wish I might count the prayers that have come up from many a Christian heart for the prosperity of this branch of God's Zion. Somo of those who uttered them have entered that temple not made with hands eternal in 'the heavens; they were class leaders: they ministered to the needs of the church's poor as stewards of God; they were mothers iu Israel, whose constant presence at the services here was a heavenly benediction abiding with the people: they were ministers of tlie Lord in holy things and as the anointed ol God watched over the interestsof his cause; they were children of he Sunday school who, though young in years; had learned to love the church, and at the wear' bedside asitcd tne (river or all gifts to remember tlie church in which they were reared.

These are all dead, but their pravnrs. like tlie in cense burning in the golden bowl and swinging before tho throne eternal, have through these long years come tip before God and this day they are answered. United with these prayers ot tne departed are the petitions oi inose who are sua unvu ann hup pray. Ah the years wearily rolled along from the dusty streets of Jerusalem, alighting from an ass' colt, pursued by an anxious and jubilant multitude, an unpretentious man was seen to enter the temple. 1 he sick had been restored by His divino touch, the lepers had been cleansed, the blind had been made to see and the lame to walk.

It was a joy ous occasion. As through the temple arches this man made his way from many a lip camo tho shouts of praise for what Ho had done for them and theirs. Tho little children, whose parents, forsooth, had received the healing balm, as first they caught the inspiration of the sight began to sing until the temple rang with note sublime. "Hosannah! hosaniiah to the sou of David." At once the carping Scribe and pretentious Pharisee ran to tho stranger's side, and, accosting Him, said: "Dearest thou not these children? Speak to them, that their voices cease to echo through these sacred walls." what a brief but curt reply: "Knowest thou not that out of the mouth of babes and sucklings God hath perfected praise?" And then waving to the little ones they continued, "Hosannah to the Son of David." Was not that moro glorious than tho former temple? Yea, with all its exterior proportions and interior disnlav. the latter Was more glorious than tlie former in that tho Christ, the Bedoemer of mankind, pressed its sacred, pavements, preached a more glorious uospei witiun its wans, xuis house of God, which tor the first time for many months we now open to the surging multitudes.

is not only more glorious than the former in its decorations and conveniences, but may be more glorious than the former in proportion as we let in the Christ, the Son of God, to our hearts and livoB. A church is strong in proportion as Christ is exalted. We aro exhorted to grow up into Him in all tilings, wnicn is wie neiiu. in mm we live and move and have our being. What is an American, unless there courses through his veins the patriotic blood What is a Christian, unless Christ dwells within: Christ formed within, tho hope of glory.

If this templo is to be moro glorious than the former, it will be because the desire of tho nations shall come iu through tho individual heart. My brother and Bister, it lies with you. Christ is ntottup.d with temnlea made with hands as a nlao.o of worship, hut if He is to work mighty worlts it it must he tnrougn your consecrated nearts. J. iJeace Tins desire or mo nations onngs peace Troubled by weary years of captivity, it must have been a great tnougnitnatpeaco wouiu uwen witnin the temple now dedicated to God.

And when we the Twonhecv in connection with thn coming of the Christ, tho great peacemaker, wo perceive more meaning, mane your me as ooau tiful as you may; surround yourselves as pleasantly as you can, and then bid the Lord to come in, and that latter life will bring greater peace. I wish we might linow the thousands that have in ibis church found peace since it was first estab lished in old WiBiamsburgh. In 1808 the first honso of worship was hnilt on the Wilhamsburgh and Jamaica turnpike, now North Second Btreet. Iu 1821 tho building was thoroughly overhauled and repaired. In 1S37 the bo eioty was so increased that it moved to this present locality and laid the foundation of the present structure, aeuicaten January 8, 1839.

In 1 875 it was again renovated in what was considered to be most thorough manner. From this as a center Methodism has received its impulse in this locality. This is considered as tho mother church of Wuliamsburgh Methodism Your snoiotv has always been amission sociotv and may it never lose its name. Preachers have been converted at its altars, and have gone forth to publish its great tidings all over tho country. What peace it has brought into the households of thin enmmnnitv.

Since this chufcli was formed other denominations have come in and tho work is somowhat divided, but the population has also 5n, ffl mill still there is work to do. Still there are sorrowful hearts that must have the balm of peace. Every year brings to our midst those who are strangers in a strango city They need help; they lieed peace of bou). What this church must do is to carry peace, the peace which iiassetn all nuaersiuiiuina to sucn as tneso. But as we this day for tho first time worBhip in this beautified nouse oi, uou, tins piace so iiai lowed by memories past, it should bo (1) a day of consecration.

We hear much of consecration in these days; consecration betoro which as preacher of the gospel I sometimes stand in amazement. We gather around our altars upon an invitation given to come forward and consecrate ourselves to God; some one loads us in prayer, and with a radiant smile upon our countenances, we return to our homes believing wo are all God's. When again we aro summoned to tho means of graco there seems to be but little advancement from the previous evening. Tho timo comes to contribute as the Lord has prospered us, and our ollenngs wouiu indicate but little pros peri tv. We assimilate with tho world, and our lips aro heard to utter just as many unchristian things.

aB evor. What have we consecrated 1 We have sufficient of consecration without anything being consecrated. What wo must do this day is, as did the returned Jows, give ourselves to God, ail we are and all we have. When this is done C2 we must use tho consecration. When the clar ion note of war summons our countrymen to enlist for the nation's preservation, and tens of thousands are enrolled, by this act they become consecrated to their country's good.

They become well equipped and woll drilled. As the ene annnnra to ha making readv for advancing upon them their commauder feels no little pride in them, believing that with such discipline and ifli uiinfi patriotism ho will find no difficulty. But what is his astoiiishniont when the first picket hue ib driven in to see uis wuolo army panic Hl.rifikfiii and fieeinc before the onemv. Those men enlisted, became woll disciplined, forsook all for the cause, took their Hvoh within their bauds, and ran with them at the first opportunity to savo them. I would not utter ono word against seasons of consocration, seasons when tho divine presenco 1111b the soul with His glory, and His radiance seraphic shines from tho very countenance.

Lot ns, while I am addressing you at thiB time, with ono heart and ono accord thus bring ourselves to God. But. brethren, if that is all: if wo bv our oneness with the Christ behold Him transfigured anu iook upon uis viiunint iaeo ami sinning garments ond thon forget to nso those consecrated powers, I ask of what avail tho consecration I want this old South Second Street Church to be a working church in a broader sonso than it has ever been before. Over these hills of Williams hnrgh there is work to do. I want to sneak to tho old men and women this morning.

Consecrate but consecrate something for work. Young men and women, go out two by two, visit theso houses until this community shall bo bo provoked to good works as it has never been before. Members of the Sunday school, teachers and scholars, conse nrntn nnr snlvBs this dav to the Lord for work. This ifj a beautiful templo, bat liare your hearts Discussed by the Eastern District Land League. The Collapse of the London Times' Detailed by President Kerwin Many Subscriptions Received at Yesterday's A largely attended meeting of the Eastern Dir.

trict Land League was held yesterday afternoon in Alhambra Hall, on Bedford avenue, near Grand street. The collapse of the Zondoit Times' charges against Mr. Parnell gave an impetus to tho movement of tho members to collect money, for a large sum was handed in, making the total amount subscribed $551.50. The treasurer, Bev. Sylvester Malone, will this week forward $500 to tho national treasurer.

Tho president, Mr. John Kerwin, occupied tho chair. Iu opening the meeting he said in substance: The news from the other side of the Atlantic this week is of tho most encouraging kind for all sympathizers with Mr. Parnell in his efforts to obtain Home Bute for Ireland. The ntter collapse of the charges made against the leader is rat her surprising considering that the wealth of tlie Government of England, with its power, was used to fasten them on him.

Friends of Homo Bule were confident from the start that the letters wero forgeries, but they feared that the conspirators would maintain to the last that they were. not. Tho wretched death of the miserable creature Pigott, by his own hand in a foreign land, is a warning to all men who would try to blacken the character of men who represent great principles. He, for a few pennies, tried to defeat the aspirations of millions of men for freedom, for the right to govern themselves, and a disgraced name aud a suicide's grave are the result. There is nothing in the career of the man which could lead others to follow his example.

The exposure is fortunate for the friends of Home Bule, for it will hasten this measure of justice which cannot at most be very long delayed. Mr. Gladstone will again attain power on a Home Bule platform and then we will have a parliament in College Green, Dublin. Applause. Then the world will hear the last of Irish traitors and a prosperous and contented people will no more appeal for aid.

The eyes of the English people aro now open to the practices of the Tory Government and manufactured news about Ireland and her people will not pass as it used to for gospel truth in England. The people, the men into whose hands Gladstone applause put the franchise, sympathise with Ireland, so when an appeal is made to the country again a sweeping Liberal victory is assured. All the indications point, in the vory near future, to the success of the Homo Bule measure if wo only keep our shoulders to the wheel ami furnish the sinews of war. I regret to learn through the newspapers that ii parade is going to take place in this city on St. Patrick's day.

If the men at the head of tlie movement meant well for Ireland they would adopt the suggestion of tho Buooklyn' Eaoi.is and abandon the parade and send the money it will cost, including the loss of salary and other incidentals, to Mr. Parnell. The parade, or parades, tor 1 understand there will bo two. can serve no possible purpose, so tar at least as the cause ot Ireland is concerned. Wo have done, very well this week without much effort, for we have 1 Ild.iJo.

Father Malone will send our first con tribution or to the national treasurer this week and I hope that we will have $500 next Sun day. Secretary Andrew Dalton read the following list of subscribers. John Loughrau, president of the Manufacturers' Bank, $10; ox Senator Domas Strong, $10: George W. Elder, $10: Adam Craig, S10; John J. Battery, f5: T.

C. Disbrow, John H. Perry, Michael O'Kcefl'e, S.V Pore man J. J. Mcf'ormick.

William Cnmmings, Frank Behill, Philip Schmitt, William llealey, Louis J. Kevnolds, J. J. Stanton, William Moser, H. A.

Eisner, John F. MeCormiek, i Louis Getz, 2: B. O. Hagen baeher, $'J; John Dohorty, Ernst Erdman, it; Timothy Phclau, George A. Hughes, Si; William II.

MeConniek. Si; James A. Martin. Joseph A. Gardner, John Asmns, SI Austin Cahill, Jl; William Howard, Jl; William J.

Brown, SI; D. F. Hersey, il; Peter Blake, of North Second street, $1 Thomas 1). Sedman, D. Amato Leonardo.

50 rents; Mrs. lingers, ar cents; M. D. Fitzpatriek. Michael J.

Blake, S. U. Crouin, SI; James ((viand, Si; Thomas J. Magee, $1: Mark Farrell, Philip Weidman, 51; Francis S. Tordoff, James Banuon, $1: Patrick J.

Larkiu, Thomas Friei, P. Smith, John Staplet.m, George ChristolYers, fl; Cash, 50 cents; Cash. 50 cents: Edward Fales, cj.50: Ywlliam II. Meyer, of Grand street. Hubert Dixon, A Friend, SI: George Shanlev, fl total, Previously subscribed, $415.25.

Grand total $551.50. Captain Michael Blake was called upon to di liver a recitation. He responded by reading two Irish poems, and was vigorously applauded. Mr. Martin Drennan was called upon for speech.

He said, among other things: "In the eyes of thinking men and in the eyes of the orphan children ot Km hard Pigott the I inn is responsible for Ids infamous crime aud ig noniinious death. 'The f.omlim said some time ago: Tt Mr. Parnell clears his character Englishmen will remember tlie patient dignity gentle forbearance and unflinching courage with which the greatest living Irishman has borne himself under a storm of calumny which would have broken many a brave spirit. He will forever rank among the most devoted. sagacious, loyal and unselfish statesmen that ever steered a country to honor and safety Ho has vindicated himself.

Applause. He has stood like a granite rock on the coast of his ow loved Wieklow, and though the waves of calumny were dashed against linn he stood conscious ot In innocence and retained flu; utVection of not alone the Irish people but all lovers of justice and of progress toward human iibertv. It is an outrage in this Nineteenth Century that tho prisons of England and Ireland should be allowed to bo ran sacked for unfortunates witling to per.ui re them selves, perhaps, for promised freedom, at least for prison privileges, bv defaming the character of the chosen leader of a people. Tho individual Englishman is just and bold, but when he be comes an agent of the government he is unjust. This is probably due to the fact that he was not until recently clothed with the right of suffrage.

Remarks were made bv Robert Gershiuskev Colonel McGuinness, Peter Langan, James Friel and others. 31r. Lawrence E. offered the following resolutions Wipreas. The Uncrowned King of Ireland thn Thunderer slurringlv called him.

Charle Stewart Parnell, has developed anew to the ad miration of the world those sterling qualities patience and perseverance in tho defense of the right which have commanded for him and the cause he represents tho respectful attention and consideration ot the hnglish people; and ff'lia eiix, The struggle for the recent conflict, with his Tory onemies and its ti umphant ending has refreshed the faith of the peoplo in the Irish National cause and the man who points out unerringly the road to ultimate success; and Wlifrwn, The immediate and abiding offset of the total collapse of tho Times Tory conspiracy will be to bring to the support ot the agitation ror Homo nine a eieur majority oi tne iMignsu eon stitneneios and thus secure tho peaceful estab liahincnt of parliament in College Greon: bo it Resolved, That wo, tho officers and members of the Eastern District Parliamentary Fund Asso ciation. tender our most sincere congratulations to Charlos Stewart Parnell in this tho hour of his triumph, and that we pledge ourselves to a renewed effort to hold up his hand against the common toe oi Ireland liberty ana prosperity: and be it further Iieeol pert, That we recognize in the action of our president, John l'ltzgerald, and tlu omcors of the Irish National Loaguo of America, and especially in the devoted attachment and deet) in torest shown by Patrick Egan in the defense of our great leader, a guarantee of thountiring zeal and patriotic self sacrifice in a just cause that has never yet in tne worm nistory iaueu to uriug about the signal and final triumph of tho national aspirations of a united peoplo. On the motion of Mr. Gorshinskoy a copy of tho resolutions were ordered to be forwarded to jur Parnell. Tho meeting shortly after adjourned.

He Knew Iliclmrd Pigott. Thero is probably no man in Brooklyn to day who is bo thoroughly acquainted with the in famous Richard Pigott and his history as Mr. 0 M. O'Keofe, who will bo remombored as having been connected with the American Protection So ciety during the lato Presidential campaign in this city. Mr.

O'Keofe is an old newspaper man and has also writton some very interesting works of fiction. An Eaole reporter called on him ro cently to ascertain his views about Pigott. He found the old gentleman in tho reading room of the Brooklyn Library, where all his spare time is spent. Know Pigott," he exclaimed; of conrso knew the scoundrel, and knew his father before him. You want to know something about him 7 Very well, then.

In tho office of the Arn(iou news paper. Lower Abbey street, Dublin, there was ono timo to be seen a fine, tall, good looking man with snowy hair, who, armed with a pen, stood con stantly beforo an enormous ledger, in which he diligently inscribed long columes of figures. He was the first person a visitor encountered on en tering tho office of tho Nation, and was book keeper to Charles Gavan Duffy, now Sir Charles Gavau Duffy, ex Premier of Australia, but then the editor, founder and owner of the Nation Duffy was a stirring ballad writer, and these bal ad.s may be Baid to have revolutionized the opin ions of the Irish people and subverted tho in fluence of Daniol O'Conuell. They were powerful appeals: Fling our banner to the wiud, Studded o'er with names of glory: Worth and wit and might and mind, Poet young and patriot hoary, Long shall make it shine in story. "Those doctrines might not have been quite true, but they wero better; they wero eminently salable, and, although unsuited to the circumstances of Ireland, thoy were eminently calculated to advance tho pecuniary circumstances of Charles Gavan Duffy, who, as a consequence, lived in Upper Bathmines, a fashionable suburb, and in comparative splendor.

Duffy's balladB worked on the martial feolingB of the Irish as tho sound of the trumpot on tho war horse in the Book of Job. It was an admirable speculation aud, though Ire land Buffered, Gavan Duffy throve. The circula tion of the Nation became prodigious and profit able aud kopt tho bookkeeper with the snowy hair constantly busy in entering in his ledger the incomes and disbursements of the office. This man's name was Pigott and ho was tho respectable father of a scoundrelly bou. All this occurred more than forty years ago.

think Pigott was a decidedly romarkable man; an imitative geniu3 of the first water, whoso testimony in tho Times caso haa riveted the attention of not only the British Empire, but of tho civilizod world tho observed of all observers. Ho has proved himself a master of fiction, gifted with a most fertilo imagination and endowed with an amount of creativo intolloct raroly equaled. I am persuaded ho is capable of producing as many romances as Scott or DnmaB, but unfortunately Bichard Pigott (tils) devotod himself to politics instead of literature: ho Bhould have woven tissues of romanco iustead of political forgeries. There ho might havo shone; but he Booms to mo to havo been excessively influ enced by tho doctriueB of Adam Smith and othor mastera of tho dismal science. All theso men assert that tho demand produces tho supply.

Why condemn Pigott? 'The Wealth of Nations 'ex pressly deelaroa 'The quantity of ovory commodi brought to market suits itself to tho effectual Anniversary Charity of the Church Foundation. Interesting Exercises in the Church of the Holy Trinity Yesterday Dr. Brewster Kends the Tliirty seTenth Annual Be port. The thirty seventh anniversary of the Chnrch Charity Foundation of Long Island was held last evening in tho Church of the Holy Trinity, on Clinton and Montague streets. The Rev.

Mr. Mc Guffy, assistant rector, read the first part of the service. Tho Bev. Dr. Charles H.

Hall read the first IcsBon. The Kev. Ohauncey B. Browster read the annual report and the Itev. Dr.

C. Tiffany, of Zion Church, Now York, preached the annual sermon. After reading the Scriptural lesson the Bev. Dr. Hall Baid: Wo miss to night the presence of tho bishop and pray God that tho object which causes his visit to distant portion of the island to night will lie successful.

The report which we are to hear to night will give us great satisfaction. We feci that we are doing a part, at least, of our duty. Tho reverend doctor of Grace church, Dr. Biows ter, will read that report to you. The report which Dr.

Brewster then read ia as follows: The Board of Managers of the Church Charity Foundation respectfully present this, its thirty seventh annual report: During the past year each department of the foundation has been maintained in efficiency. The Home for the Aged now shelters forty five inmates, while twenfv ilvo are awaiting admission. We are thankful to behold the rising walls approaching completion of a commodious addition to the home. This will provide a considerable increase of accommodations for the aged, an infirmary for the care of sick and infirm inmates, aud suitable quarters, at last, for tho chaplain of the Foundation. Increased facilities thus promised will of necessity involve a further need of means for their equipmoiit and maintenance, the Board is persuaded that many will bo glad to liberally support an institution, thus eli'cct iyelv ministering solace and comfort to the declining years of members of the Household of Faith.

'The Orphan House at present extends its protecting care to ninety four children forty four girls and fifty boys. An unusual number of children have during the year reached the age appointed for withdrawal from the house. Of this number ono boy has been transferred to the printing department, another adopted into a good home, the rest received by their friends. Twenty six elul dre.n have left, twenty three been added. One little girl, really ill when received into the home, has been removed by death.

The general health of the children, however (with the exception of whooping cough, for the introduction of which those in charge are not to be held responsible), has continued good. Many and gratifying are tho evidences of the blessed result of labor here for Christ's little ones. But who may estimate, or what statistics express all that is accomplished, in this work ot rescuing bovs and girls from distress or vicious environment, and training them in a Christian home to be upright men and good women, self respecting and respected in this life and partakers of the promises in Christ and His Church. The Orvlmn's continues to offer facilities for training our children iu the practical art of printing. Five boys and three girts are Uard at work.

The printing department has undergone a change the retirement, by reason ot tailing health of Mv. i iolden, Who lias ior sixteen years been the faith fill superintendent, and the entrance iiiion that oilice, iu Decembor, of Mr. JLcCabc. WV look with satisfaction upon the conception and with hope to the future promise of this agency of industrial education, which is in the line of the wisest thought of our For further information regarding these departments we would refer to the interesting report of the Board of Associates, to be printed with this report. John's Hospital lias had a somewhat eventful year.

A fatal case of erysipelas obstructed the surgical work and occasioned a considerable loss of income. Still more unfortunate have been the consequences of a case iu October which developed as yellow fever. Since then there have been no surgical cases in the hospital. The fact, that this dread disease gained entrance here, in spit of due precautions, illustrates the importance of that care and caution regarding admission, which arc sometimes complained of as red tape. Nevertheless, on the other hand, the fact that, under mod peculiar cireuni dances, the victim of the disease, a ship captain, a communicant of the Church of England, a sufferer in a foreign land, of his own motion seeking in his dire extremity refuge iu a church institution, was let turned away, but received, and in his last agonv lovingly tended for sweet charity's sake, and in Christ's name, reflects, we may justly claim, more honor upon the institution than a year ef unexampled financial prosperity could poisiblv have done.

'The case was completely isolated. The process of di dnfection has been most thorough and the hospital is now iu perfect sanitary condition and ready for its usual work, while those in charge have earned that encomium which is a benediction, "I was sick and a stranger, and ye took me in. Verily I say unto you ye did it unto Me." The statistics are as follows: Whole number uf patients treated diir'mff tin; year 18f iieiooiiuil 75 laiiu nvoif Ihiiiilnrovori lo Hie. I Ii If. nlflhiiiu; jff patients I I.

iieiiciaries fnli 1) vy.t uf t'tuu tvtiatmt 7, ftf The Atlantt'" Dispensary line, lias continued its ri at 848 Atlantic ave ular work through its callable corps of physicians and surgeons, and th" particulars of the work will appear in the usual printed annual report. The stall of physicians and surgeons, and still other physicians, merit the gratitude of all interested iu this corporate charity. The faithfully continued labors of the. Bev. Mr.

Hyde, as the chaplain of the' entire Foundation, merit our grateful appreciation, while they have won for him the love and confidence of those whom he has served as priest anil pastor. The varied ministrations of the Foundation, in tho Home for tho Aged, the Orphanage, the Hospital, have been continued under the wise, patient, tireless and loving care of the Sisterhood of St. John. The Sisterhood has sustained the loss of Sister Alice, and the Foundation one of its most devoted assistants, after several years of the most acceptable service and an example of patient, disciplined exercise, of qualities so eminently fitting in the i phore of a sister's life. Last year the Board appealed to the public for funds to erect a Sisters' House, which might be at once a central home for members of the order and a place for training candidates for manifold service in the institutions upon the foundation, aud in the Diocese under the bishop's direction.

This year the Board has the joy of reporting that fids long cherished hope is soon to be realized. Mr. George A. Jarvis, the praise of whose liberality was already in the churches, has crowned his benofaetions with the offer to the Board of fl 0,000 for this specific object. Wo gratefully recognize the generosity of the gift and the magnanimity which has marked tho manner of its giving.

Then follows a statement of the fiiianoes of the foundation, showing the total receipts for the past year to have been andthatthe.ro is at present to the credit of the Sinking fund rl. Further information in detail will he found i tho printed reportB under the proper heading It has lieen a vear of some trials and drawbacks. but of progress on the whole, of material addition and liberal benefactions. The year has broncht a heavv burden ot nerHonal loss. Already has been rendered many a tribute to Henry E.

l'lerrenont as the modest ana courteous gentle man, the public spirited and patriotic citizen, the pure and upright Christian, the loyal and devoted churchman. It remaius for us to say that he be came, a manacrer of the Church Oliaritv i'onncla 7 Tn OO oo mm in i no mm mini um oeaui, looo. served that canacitv with tne iaithluliioss, wisdom and devotion which were characteristic of him iu other relations of his honored aud fruitful life. The Board records its tribute of remembrance of that faithful member, Bev. Edwin Coan, late rector of Grace Church, E.

who departed this lite December 21! laBt. Still another loss has been sustained in the deatli John II. I'reoman, M. of the surgical stall', of whom a more full and appropriate tribute win appear in the report ol tho committee on St. jonn Hospital.

We are thus reminded that the time is short While we have time Ictus do good unto all men. The Board' of Managers are almoners for their brethren in the church and beg to impress upon them a sense of the privilege of thus recognizing hi' claims ot helpless age and childhood and snf. ferhig upon those who name the name of Christ. It lias been and is to day the signal glory of the church of Christ, in such ministrations, to con tinue ins won; in tne worm and stand, as ol old He stood, to heal the sick, comfort the distressed, console tho poor and bless litttle children. Herein lies the most convincing manifesta tion of the power of the blessed Gospel.

Here are arguments mightier than nil tho hnstian evidences printed the hooks. May the church in this great and growing city be not wanting to her opportunities and responsibilities in this regard. May many of her sons aud daughters in tho future, as in the past, thank God for the Church Charity Foundation. May many more, in contributing to sustain and multiply its ministrations, learn that it is more blessed to give than to receive. And may God, who has guided the.

course of this Foundation from very small beginnings to its present proportions, still give it His blessing; show His servants His work and grant them grace to do it according to His blessed will. Chauscev B. Buewsxeu, Gkoiioe PlIILUl'S, Carlos A. Buti.eu, Committee. The Bev.

Dr. 0. C. Tiffany then delivered the annual sermon taking as his text, "Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men havo well drunk, thon that which is worse: but thou hast kept tho good wino until now." St. John Men sometimes ntter unconscious prophecies, said Dr.

Tiffany. The Governor of the feast did it when ho spoke the words of the text. Ho thought ho was merely paying a compliment to tho bridegroom over whose wedding ho was presiding. In reality ho delineated a grand characteristic of Christ's religion, who, unknown to him, had wrought a miracle of life and blessing for tho guests. In this, tho first exercise of his wonder working power, our Lord had illustrated in germ tho constant effect of His presence and act.

He transmuted that which was common into a higher and richer refreshment. Tho water became wine and what was created by tho potency of His touch ox celled all that had preceded it. "Thou hast kept tho good wine until now." This is characteristic of Christ's action everywhere. In whatever way we look at His effect upon tho world or men, in it we shall see how out of common elements He creates the more excellent and that tho excellent grows bv development. Wo do not in Him get the harvest at first.

The ingathering increases as it proceeds; whatever tho wonder of tho beginning tho marvel expands in the end. It was so in His earthly lifo. He is the illustration of this in His own person. His first miracle was adding to the pleasure of a festive company. His last was tho restoration of tho dead Lazarus to the bereaved and mourning household.

And as in His word to men, so in His labor for them. In the beginning He preached the Kingdom, in tho ond He laid down His lifo to found it. First Ho bore our griefs and carried our sorrows, and hist Ho was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iiiiouiticB. And as with His humiliation so with His triumph. At His birth tho angels sang songs of heavenly rejoicing.

At His resurrection Ho w.ih doclared to be the Son of God with power. Tho angols became His ministering spirits sent forth to minister tn them who shal lm thn heirs ot salvation. Now. what our Lord illustrated in His own per son Ho has proclaimed as tho essontial characteristic of His kingdom. In His parablcB Ho sets forth tho nature of His kingdom under various figure, but always as au over uioriiaaine force, ft i men.

It speaks for a divine presence every dav everywhere. The modern knowledge of naturo called science brings us one chief book, tho recognition of tho correlation and transmutation of forces: tho great ono underlying energy transferred in appearance, moving ever on to complete realization of the cosmio plan. The spiritual forces are also thus interpenetrative. The living issue of the Fourth Century may have been clear thought the vital problem of the later day, the business of the chnrch today is shaping the life of tho community. But our best weapons to that ond are the truths elucidated in the old creeds and the order elaborated in the ancient discipline.

The very form of the existence of tho Church Charity Foundation says, "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." Its charity is not less beneficent because it is regulated, its good work not less fruitful. The Bev. Dr. Tiffany then reforren to the charitable institutions of the great cities and said they were all doing the work of Christ. They proved, he thought, that this age was equal to any other and that Christian principles were not being forgotten.

TIIE BREAD AND THE WINE, IZ. e. Inyrcrsoll Talks of the Eucharist and Its Spiritual Importance. There was a very largo attendance at the Puritan Congregational Church at yesterday morning's service. Thero were several additions to the society by letters from other churches, and Dr.

IngersoU, among the numerous notices of meetings and other affairs more or less intimately connected with the growing church work nndor his charge, invited the members of the congregation to a social reunion at his residence on Greene avenue on Thursday evening. In place of tho usual sermon Dr. IngersoU gave a talk on the sacrament of the Lord's supper. In beginning his talk the pastor referred to his subject as ono that in all ages many of the people of God had failed to fully comprehend. Beyond a certain limit of understanding there had been a cloud.

Dr. Ingersoll's remarks wero then in part as follows: Should I come here to point out to you something uew on this subject I should fail entirely. Tilings old and new come to each of us.otU of tho working of the power of this divine ordinance. But in the simplicity of it lies its strength and its variety. It was instituted by our Lord just bo fore His death, when He celebrated the Passover for the last time.

In the opinion of some it was a part of the Feast of the Passover, given during the celebration of that ancient service. Others hold that when the Passover was concluded He proceeded to institute the Lord's Supper as something entirely separate from the feast that had preceded it. However that may be, the one grew from the other. The Passover was the symbol of the Lord's Supper. It symbolized the deliverance of tho people of Israel from the bondage of slavery.

Annually it was celebrated by all the people of the Jewish nation. 'The Lord's Supper celebrates the deliverance of the human soul from the thraldom of sin. You can see how one steps out ot the other, me spiritual grew up out of the material. In the Lord's Slipper there are two elements, the broad and tho wine. The Lord set apart the Sabbath day to he a day of worship that Ho might convey the spirit of the day into other days.

Tho priest was given an intimacy of knowledge and communion with God, not that the priest himself uiiprht ho wor shined. but that ho might by his superior sanctity lift up the people. 'The Lol Vgave us the oread and wine, symbolizing divine 'omgs. time we might convey the spirit of them h. all tho movements of our lives.

But these are ci. (sen of Christ, and they combine in themselves many of the ingredients that point to the Holy One and His sacrifice Himself for us. The Corinthians abused the Lord's Supper. They believed that the Passover came before the Lord's Supper and that it must precede it in the obsei'Vftuco of the latter. These Corinthians had a feast called agapa, or love feast, and they made this the prelude to the Lord's Supper, and later this became the grand feast and the Lord's Supper merely au annex to it.

The great people gathered at this celebration bringing viands for a banquet. Tho poorer people some of them slaves stood by and saw the wealthy enjoy the meal wliue Uiey went hungry. The great men and women having drunk too much of wine a riot sometimes followed tho feast. So far did these people go in their revels that some sickened and died, so St. Paul declares.

If you a saere tiling and carry Hie spirit of the world into it vou make it far worse than a mere worldly tiling suborned. Make the Lord's Supner the chief of all things. Let it stand alone, like tiie monument of some grand deed like tho shaft at Bunker Hid, that speaks ot tho triumphal struggle ot our nation tor treciloni. iu tne early ecu tunes the people aid not understand what th Slimier meant as to the body of the Lord. Igmi tins, Justin Martyr and Ireuaius averred that tie mere bread and wine became in the eucharisi something higher, heavenly, though still remaining bread and wine.

The spirit of mysticism win about them. They thought tlie spirit of the Lord entered into tlie bread, aud in Home wav came into tlie nei nn eating it. lladbertus maintained that the bread and wmo, being eoiisecrat d. as by that act tr.uistoi'meit into ihe very body ot i nns which was born of Mary, nailed upon the Cross and raised from the dead. Even Luther was tine, lured by this belief.

He did not teach transub. but he did consubstantiation that through the power ot God an inexplicable wav the body and blood of Christ are present in, with and under the bread and wine, But when the Information came tairlyto work, Luther's fohow ers said the bread in tlie Lord's Supper was but i symbol of the body of Christ. As the material body lsipuokened by the breadandwiue, sothcsiuritnu being is quickened by Christ. hat is wnat tliei is in it and nothing more. It is.

good for us to have visible and symbolical evidence of great events. It makes vivid to us the remembrance and lessons of them. Three of my senses touch this bread my hand, my eyes and my taste. Oa: we not be so spiritual iu the life we lead that we will not bo dependent on what is visible No; wo would get spiritual strength and knowledg we must repeat the blessed truths and keep them ever before us. One says, "I do not need the church.

I make my religion out of deeds, not of Such a one will time lapse into in difference. Hero and there one inspired bv the hopes of early years may disregard these aids to spiritual development and hold his laith God and a hereafter, but the many who live sucli au existence come late in their lite to ask the ques tion. "Is there a heaven Thus does the hone of the kingdom become mist to them. We have need ot constant reminders, amid the distracting in Hucncesot i be world. We must do this remem brance of Him.

The sweet symbolic emblem is wrought of glorious things. That bread points me forward to tlie time when Christ will come. It puts me in a spirit of abasement, but redeemed by His blood I have hope of that glorious day when Ho slum come and my sorrow is sliot through with joy. My soul is lihed with the glory as I look forward to His advent. The Lord's Supper has the element ol communion.

Have you noticed how the bread is cut? One loaf, many pieces; cnt at the lop, together at the base, Many people, one experience. This truth brings us into communion with Him. Many berries pressed together make the wine. Individual responsibility and joy runs through it all; communion with God and with each other, Just as a foreign land we meet one of our countrymen and rejoice in his companionship, though wo had not known him before, so in the spirit we aro brought into fellowship and love inrougn mis communion. THE HOME FOR CONSUMPTIVES.

Its Latent Apparatus for Uio Relict Patients Described. of A large number of the friends of tho Brooklyn Homo for Consumptives assembled in the new building yesterday afternoon to inspect the new medical room and to listen to an address by Dr Edwin Beynolds, of Lafayette avenue, who is chairman of the medical staff. The room is ox cellently equipped and is complete in every de tail. Among some of those present yesterday were Mr. A.

J. Buch, Dr and Mrs. Benjamin Edsoti Mr. and Mrs. Willis, L.

Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. II. Burtis, Mr. and Mrs.

P. F. Van Eversen, Mi'B Byron W. Clarke. Drs.

Bnnker, Smith, Moffat and others. Ti announcing tho completion of the room Dr. Beynolds said: As one of the medical officers I havo been re nuestnd bv the friends of the institution to ox. plain the working of the now apparatus, which tlie goueroBity ot our lriona, jut. a.

j. l'ouch, has enabled us to place here. It may interest you to know why we have adopted this aid in preference lo otners. no speeine ior consumption nas yer. been discovered.

The nearest approach to it has been prevention, as practiced in Scotland several hundred years ago, when diseased or deformed children were killed and a consumptive man or woman marrying was executed. Chango of cli mate have been succossiui, out tins is a luxury tor the weaitny. n. uicmeo overcome rno waste with suitable been a successful form of treatment in a large number of cases. Becontly forced feeding has been practiced.

A long tube has been introduced into the stomach and a quart or two of concentrated food poured in. In some cases the weight has increased from fifteen to twenty pounds in a month or two, hut few persons will submit to this treatment for any length of time. In Germany an opening is made in the side and the diseased portion of the lung amputated, but this is rattier narsli treatment and its results have not been such as to lead to its adoption. In England the diseased cavity has been injected by means of a long, hol Jow needle. This cannot oo canon a success, although a few cases have been benefited.

Since the discovery by Koch of the never absent bu cillus tnberculosis in the lungs of consumptives phvsiciaiiH have been searching for some means with which to destroy this bacillus, but these ba cilli are probably the result or the disease, al thnmrh thev call propagate it, and in this wav consumption is a contagious disease. It was sug gested that tlie Pacini imgux oe destroyed oy Wi.iito bvnodnrmicallv some powerful germicide. but tho quantity necessary would kill thepatient. Then the injection of sulphnretod hydrogen gas lUVO VUU llUU.Stmen mm uiai.iiLi;u. an ill passing out through the lungs stimulated thorn andstonned putrefaction.

We gave this a fair trial in the home, but with no good results. An Italian physician discovered that another patho rrpniei nrp nniHTn. tlie bacterium termo. innocent in itself, would kill tho bacillus of consumption if it came contact witn it, so cue oaccerium cermo in large numbers was introduced into tho lungs by means of a spray and destroyed the consumption bacillus, as cats might destroy mice, but the bacterium termo caused other troubles, and tho treatmont cannot bo called a success. In the method of treatment which we have adopted as an additional aid to other forms of medication, we are able to destroy the bacillus by flirnpt nnntnet and at tho same timo coat tho dis eased surfaoeof the lungs with healing ointments, liniments or germicides, almost as readily as if the diseased surface wero exposed.

We do this by breaking up the medicine into extremely fine vapor and oausing the patient to inhale it for a sufficient length of timo to allow the air in tho lungs to bo completely changed. The vapor is bo tine and remains in thiB state for bo long a time that it does not condense in tho sido of the larger bronchial tubes and wherover the air goes the vapor must go with it. It is said that no vapor can penetrate to tho deeper parts of the lungs, hut, nil fllwavH contains waterv vapor and in dis secting diseased lungs I havo found wool dust, particles of iron and coal dust in tho deepor parts, and tho vapor being perhaps a thousand times as fine, and being of an oily nature, cau pasB into iiiiv nnrtinn of tho lungs. In our apparatus wo pump pure air from abovo tho roof, purify it by passing it through disinfected water and com press lii in a in tnu euinti iu uwui iruui ao to 120 pounds to tho square inch. It is thon eiirriod bv a nipo to this room, tho oint ments or other medicated suustauees placed iu the globes and a current of the compresBed air breaks it into a flno spray and throws it forcibly against the concave surface of the globe, whore it is broken up into tho finest kind of vapor, which the patient inhalOB until tho surfaco of the diseasod lung is thoroughly coiited.

Suppuration is chocked, and this gives tho physician n. r.loinp.ft tn nnt his patient in good condition. Three or drops of this substance is sufficient to fill a largo room with vapor. I feel convinced that we are on tho right track and that bofore the year is out it will bo the means of saving many lives, to tho honor and credit of this home. There is no snecifio for consumption, and this is only au addition to oar usual remedies.

Bev. Br. Behrends in the Central Congregational Church. The Power of the Spirit and Weakness of the Flesh The Silent Tear May Carry More Comfort Thau the Eloqnence of Ansels Prayer for the Two Presidents. Bov.

Dr. Behrends has discontinued the discourses in the series of "Bird's Eye Views of tlio Bible" until next Fall. Ho announced as the reason for this step that as he had reached that point at which the boohs of the prophets came in for treatment it would he impracticable to complete that part of the series before well into the Summer, when the usual vacation of both pastor and people would make an interruption. He preferred, therefore, to resume in the Fall, beginning' with the "Book of Isaiah." Meantime ho would devote himself to studies of the Psalms on Sunday evenings. Tho people of the Central Congregational Church yesterday listened to a discourse somewhat in line with the fact of the pastor's entrance upon the seventh year of his ministry here.

In his opening prayer he be Bceched God to remember our nation, and to give His blessing to tin; great event of to day: to deal graciously with him who is laying aside the honors and responsibilities of high office, and to prosper him in whatever plans ho contemplated for the future, and to overshadow him who was about to assume the exalted position of Chief Magis to guide and direct him, and to strengthen liltn nr the execution of every duty incumbent upon him by virtue of his oflirc. The text was, The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matthew Dr. Behrends spoke nearly as follows: No contrast can be greater than that between Gethsemane and the upper room where Jesus celebrate. 1 the last passover with His disciples. In the chamber He had spoken of His death with radiant face' and ringing words, and in His prayer had brought the heavens near; in the garden His soul is troubled to its secret depths, and lie shrinks from the cup of suffering.

It was only human. 'This is the law of all strong emotion from laughter to tears and from tears to laughter. You will recall Luther'H entry into Worms, ilefiant and strong, and the sleepless night given to agonizing praver before the immortal defense on the succeeding day. All wondered at the calmness of the monk of Wittenberg: they did not know that he had fought the battle on his knees. Even so does the agony ot the garden lie between the glorv of the upper chamber and the holy calm in Pilate's hall.

We see a similar reaction, though on a much lower auc, in the disciples. From sundown until midnight these men had endured tho severest mental and emotional strain. The entire week had been full ol excitement the entry into Jerusalem the cleansing of the t. mple, the debate with the scribes, the treaeherv of Judas. 1 heir sleep had been broken mid scanty.

There is no record of what was said or during the walk from the city to he fJiirdeii oihsemane. lie suceis were de serted, and I can see tho eleven with their Master walking in silence. The midnight is coming upon His spirit. Never was lie so wide wake, though He could sleep in a rockm and halt' submerged hnttt. He withdraws to pray, lint no sooner does His face vanish among the olive trees than the exhausted Iy exacts its rights from those who have been left to watch.

Even Peter ami John Bleep. Thev were not heartless; they were simply tired: and though wsdied once, Uiey could not keep their heavv eves open. I cannot blame them, for Christ did not, leaving them undisturbed when He came to them the second time. It made Him sud to tind that they could not watch with Him one hour; He saw and pointed out the peril to which then weakness exposed them, anil urged the necessity of vigilance and prayer; but the tones of His voice must have been full of gentleness when He spoke to them as the unwilling victims of bodily infirmity. I hey meant tn w.

itch, they slept spite of themselves. The. exhortation to watch and pi lupir.i izcs the danger of yielding too readily to the ease which the body craves; Die apology recognizes the fact that the body does impose limitations which no ardor of tin soul can surmount. We are not to permit the body to have its iv. and we are not to fret hecan.se we cannot transcend the limits which it imposes upon our eiiergv.

A very large part of our practical piety has to'do with tho proper cont.ro! of tin body. It call become your tvrant and you can make it your ivadv and useful servant. Paul l'rciUi ntly speaks of tin Christian as an athlete running a race, engaged in a wrestling mutch. Such a man. he reminds ii is temperate in all things.

Keeping his bodv under. 'The contrast betweeiilhe spirit and the flesh enters into the framework ol' tie great apostle's tho and while by tin uVsh he. tie queutlv means the whole man under th. power of sin. there lies back of this I' pi v.

ent.ition the idea of the bodv as the sphere within which sin most eas ilv assaults the know thai this is true. Drunkenness, gliit'ony, lust, indolence arc the vices iiiu widespread and destructive. There are snblter sins, such as sellishnc ss. arrogance ami pride, tougher in fiber and more difficult of conquest, but the sins of the body In near at hand. Their genera! form is that of indolenceletting the body have it way.

with iiocan for higher interests and no ivgar lor the nitnre. That is the essence of barbarism: anil there is a good deal of truth in the saying that laziness is tile original sin under whose eui tie i see has fallen. It lias surprise soinciimes how ln. of vigorous frame aceomniish lut.e. and how men of splendid phy ical energy achieve so much and live so long.

Ihe secret is in the inn i' ry which the wn! secures over the body: ami to inai exieni there is truth in the mind ''tire i lea, 'f lier, come: a time when it is tt for a man to jump out of bed and throw the medicines out id tin win. low. A resolute will breaks the force ol many a slight ailment, an turns Ihe scale in more serious diseise. No man can fiord to Ignore the la that tie. body is a drowsy giant who nm he always under the lash.

The dead line is r. a lied wlien you throw away the whip. I I'm I it harder everv year to u'ird myself for work with the pen, and tin temptation grows to take thin 's easy; but I mount tne saddle, dig in the spurs, until the blood leaps, and then I drop mv bridle in the swift and exhilarating race. The bodv nnir waits to be crowded: but crowd it von nm t. or its lethargy will drag you down.

Vet, on tin other hand, while the spirit is mightc. it not almighty. There are limitations to its activity. Everyone of us knows the truth of this also. stop sometimes from sliver exhaustion.

We read until tin page la comes blurred ami we fall asleep over the book. We think until we an confused and bewildered. It Is not the mind that is weary; it is the body that breaks under the strain. A few hours" sl i restores the wasted organs, but the old infirmity returns. Thus our mental activity is broken and we lose the momentum of incessant thought.

We must pie); up the threads we have dropped. How much more we could accomplish if we could always sit at the looms! Generations and conturi' are' required to make clear and plain the truth which a single decade might make current. At our bes i the body drags us. Yon are busy men. Von work at high pressure, and the world will not let von do anything else But your plans are always larger than your achievement, and.thc harder vou work the more there is to do.

The spirit is willing, the llesh is weak. Von are lovers of vour kind. The public good lies near your heart. The sins and the miseries of the world oppress vou. If vou could only have vour way the earth' would be a paradise at once.

The spirit in yon is willing. The prayer is on vour lips: "Thy kingdom come." You mean it. Vou do all you can. perhaps, to hasten its advent. But tho flesh is weak.

You are not master of the situation. You cannot bring others to your thinking. Vou must bear with evils which you hate. The saloon makes you shudder when you think of its infamous history and deadly ruin, but, you cannot close its door. Tho Sabbath desecration pains hut you cannot stop it.

Your heart bleeds when you think of the world's weight of suffering, but you cannot lift the burden. You do what yon can. but your hands are tied, and your means are limited. The flesh is weak. All this is as true of me as it is of you.

Everyday makes me more conscious of the limitations which the body imposes. There is so much that I want to to to i you and tiie thousands in tins city mat words of praise shame me, and I have no heart to review the pa t. I feel as if all my work wi re broken and partial, and the wonder to mo is that anything remains. I have my ideal, hut I am further from it to day than I ever was. I long to know you as members of a household know each other, i would know your griefs and your joys, and bring close to you the ministry of courage and patience.

The spirit is willing, but the llesh is weak, I cannot seek yon out: will you not come to me or send for me when you think that 1 can do you good? I am not here to win applause. I am here to speak the great Master's words and to make life sweeter for you all. There's not one of you, from the youngest to the oldest, in whose present and eternal welfare I am not deeply interested. It is enough for me to look into your eyes, and my heart prays for you. lint the flesh ih Weil, it is a comfort to know that the Lord only asks us to do wha't we can.

Nor have been witli you six years without discovering that you are rea iable and do not forgei that your pastor is human. And the more 1 reflect upon the imperfections of human service, the nl profound grows my i a i i that Jesus Chii i died for love of men and rose again, and intercedes and reign How soon our courage would fail were it not for Him who is never weary and whose eyes are never heavy I cannot help feeling that the limitation. which the fle. place upon the spirit is an Intimation that the soul's full and proper life belongs to another and a higher sphere. It is not a conceit of mine, but the sober statement ol the great Apostle, that the entire universe, grand and fair as it is.

is sadly ineeinpiete. It rests under the bondage of corruption. There is a shadow upon it which only Christ can remove. And we, he continues, ill whom the unconscious cry deliverance has become artieu at for eon 4 acini' redemption, the adoption if the hody. Not i iii 1 hiniuation the soul from the body, but the adoption or transfiguration of the body, is the goalof Christian hope.

This only satisfies onrnatiir.il am) healthv desire, that the body shall be tie perfect instrument of tlie spirit, uli eipi iily elastic, youthful and untiring. We w. re not made to grow old. Men try to hide tie fact from th' mselvi find pil farther and farther away th line of age. to the great amu emi nt of tho who are younger.

'Ihe secret dread is nature protest. It is not we who grow old; it is only the hair that whitens, only tin hands that grow tremulous, only lie feet that In come unsteady, as when an engine nm be slopped, not I because the steam has given out, but because an overheated axle compels a halt. 1 have seen a mail, in the full tios essiou of his meut.il powers, helpless as a child, because he had lost the power of muscular co ordination. Jle willed tu lift his hand to his face and it lh at right angles from his hody. What we call old age is the graduul losi of controlling and co ordinating power, ami when it comes every man regards it as a challenge and an invasion.

It ought not so to be. And it will not he so always. 'There will come a day when the body hafl perfectly answer the call of the soul, when thought shall not weary ami endeavor meet no check. Meanwhile, let us do what we can. Let us I make Die best of our opponnnites.

Let us touch the utmost boundaries of our limitations. Let us not surrender to sloth. Let not the magnitude of the work paralyze you. One ray of light does not make the Summer. One drop ot water does not fill the ocean.

One grain of sand does not make the beach. Hut no ray, no drop, no grain, can he spared. Not a grass blade is useless. Not a flower is superfluous. What we call waste is only a confession of our ignorance.

The work of the world will not suffer when you and 1 arc laid aside. But while we are here, wo must do our part of it bravi ly, and as well as wo can. And however deficient that may be in quantity let us see to it. that it is divine in quality. For love makes the dead great, and a silent tear may carry more comfort than the eloquence of angels.

Let us gather up the sunbeams Lying all around our path; Let us keep the wheat and roses, Casting out the thorps and chuff; Let us find our comfort, In the blessings of to day, "With a patient hand removing All tho briars from the way. Sermon by the Uev. IS. Price Collier In the luitariait Church of the Saviour. Notwithstanding tho threatening weather yesterday the morning services at the Unitarian Church of the Saviour, on tho corner of Monroe place and Pierropont street, was attended by a numerous and representative congregation of Heights worshipers.

The beautiful appearance of tho church, prettily decorated with festooned ropes of laurel leaves, was further enhanced by the Communion table with its draperies of pure white, its silver communion services and a largo silver vase, tilled with ascension lilies, standing on each end of it. The choir, consisting of a quartet with a chorus of eighteen, satis; the hymns iu style hardly to ho excelled in any church in the city. After tho usual Sunday service about seventy five of tho congregation partook of the Lord's Supper. The pastor, Kev. H.

Price Collier, preached on the law of temptation, and took as his text Genesis woman whom thou gavest to bo with me, she gave me of the tree and I did He sni among other things: It is interesting to find among the earliest records of the human Truce the story of a man blaming (rod for his own downfall. The woman whom thou gavest me, says the offender. She was no choice id' mine, she was put heix in spite of me and you see ihe consequences. There is a whole philosophy under that defence and one theological party uses the same plea in exlenna atiou of its conclusions. God allowed man to fall, therefore Clod will save him by a sacrifice.

That is the theology. There is no hone lor man; he has the seeds of evil in himaelt and does not and will not improve, that is the philosophy of pessimism. I wonder how often men wdio would repudiate the intimation that they were Calvinisls use the same argument to excuse themselves I wonder how many men reply to their consciences: It is no fault of mine, thus I was made?" A man shirks the responsibility and wishes to share it and puts it oil', therefore, as far as he can upon antecedent causes. It was the gift thou gavest me led me astray. It was the cunning world into which I was plunged without consultation that was too much for mo, and fell into its traps and was weakened by its luxuries and compromised by its attractions.

It was the tastes and temperament thou gavest me, says the voluptuary, what could I do I had no choice but to follow where I was led. The. very cleverness that made him a writer made him a forger, says the criminal. It was because 1 learned to read that I read myself into skepticism and indifference. You taught me to sneak your language, says the savage, and my profit from it is that I know how to curse.

All those are variations, but from the same root as that speech of Adam. This is tho sign Hint one liuds everywhere that man wishes to disavow his personal responsibility, to disclaim all accusations and excuse himself. Theie is something good even iu that. From Adam down men have tried to keep something in themselves whole and free from taint, and free from weakness. They have insisted all through history that the evil was forced upon them and not chosen, or if it was chosen that th' i' was already in them nredisnositloii to choose it.

1 oil seldom find people confessing that they love evil, but on all sides you hear excuses and explanations of evil. Home men claim sin is not sin, that, all men's faculties and frailties and appetites are there for a purpose. Other men say the world is such a muddle, right and wrong are so mixed up that it makes no dilf. nee anyway. Others say mv weaknesses are too much for but, thou gavest them to be.

with me and so on. You will hear if vou win but h. a chorus ol people saying just what my 'xt ays. 1 say it is good that men make these explanations because that shows at mice lhat they think explanations arc necessary. Who excuses himseif accuses himself.

If there is need of apology then there, right there, is the acknowledgment of the wrong. When a man begins to talk about his temperament and his father's bad temper, when you hear him i'e xvt ttitix he ii: so busy he cannot do this or that, or when he says his family wero suffering from his meagre income, therefore he stole, when be says iu short the circumstances, the condition, the inheritance thou gavest to be with me, these gave me the apple and 1 did. eat. When he says that lie says in the same breath, I knew i was wrong ami ought not to have done it. Kither my friend you must stand up and say I believe in stealing and propose to steal whenever it is necessary, either that or nothing.

Hither on must Miy I am first, lust and always an iuai and the animai must and shall have its way, must say owr nothing to the world, or you I plead a weakm the moment you admit yon are wrong. Even in that conscience centuries old before Christ was horn, there was the wish to palliate ihe fault, the feeling that the Creator Himself and not the creature was to blame for the folic The woman thou gavest to be with me; she "gave mi the apple and I did eat. It is a matter ol' some considerable interest to you and me to settle in our o.vn minds whether or not the Creator is to take the blaiim for what we do that is sinful, to determine whether we are personally i ospon ibio for our limits and follies and failures, or whether it was put in us to do the things. 1 here is only one way to solve the problem, only one jinvrv to make to yourself or aus' other man when the old excuse ot Adam is oHered, and that is to say that not only arc the weaknesses I here but also that we are personally responsible, mean by that, that in tie case of Adam it was intended, let us sav, that he should resist the temptation. That is ihe way the world is built.

First the young Hercules strangles a snake, then a lion," then he tights a man and so on, as he. advances in strength he is given more dillienlt things to do. As the man gets more power, more money, more fame, he is given harder things to do, heavier burdens t.v carry. If a man write one bonk that is good, then the next one cannot worse; he lias set up a standard and cannot fall below it. What wouid be a very good pei eh for the young man just in Parliament, for ir lirst time would scarce do for (ihid.stone.

Now ii would seem fair that a man who has won his spurs, who has his place, who has convinced his generation of his ability, should have a respite from the strain; but no, he must keep on doing weil. the task is ever more and more dillioult. He is called upon not to do the same thing with his increased strength, but to do greater things with his greater strength. it is in the sphere of human morals. 'Che temptations are suited to the stren Always something is given to strain Ihe moral muscle a little more.

One is under no temptation at to steal a handful of raisins, but one is not unlikely to be urged to take an unfair advantage of a rival or to steal a whole railroad. No in i tier what the paradise may be there will of ncccs iiy be in it a tree of which one should not cat, and there will be also a tempter, a temptation growing out of the very surroundings. If a man be idle then his idleness will swarm with evil thoughts and desires, and his imagination picture to him tree after tree of which he should not eat. If he be busy then he will be tempted into hastiness, superficiality, inattention to duties, of which there are some that a man has no right to be too busy to attend to. If he be poor and down in the world then he will be tempted to revolt, to be careless, to hate society, to think society hates him.

If he be up in the world then he is tempted to think much of himself, to fancy that alone he has accomplished it all, and that lie owes nothing to Ood or men. The busy man of a Hairs with a hundred things a day to occupy him seeks his rest and recreation in excitement or pleasures that make him forget. The man of books and ot quiet hours and peaceful thoughts finds ever and auon in his garden the snake that hisses of other things, and tho vory monotony of peace is the temptation for him. Ho I say that whatever the occupation, whatever kind or quality of man you have, you have also with him certain temptations, temptations that adhere to his very qualities. And it was perfectly true when Adam said, "The woman thou gavest to be with me, bhe gave me of the tree." It is pev iecuy line now uioKiiengm iron gave vou or in weakness, the peace of your profession or its excitements, these are the very things that shall offer you the tree.

More than that, deeper than mat: your disposition, your Temperament, your inheritance, your wealth or your poverty, your piaee in tne worm, ue sure tuat in uio garden will be Hometlnng Cod irave vou tenintiiiL' von to eat of the tree. It is no excuse to say of course it is so, it is expected, it is ono ot the laws of the universe, just as is the law of gravitation. There is bound to be a temptation for yon, and it is right there should be, and it is no possible excuse for a man's sin to say that the temptation was inherent in what lie was doing, that it was God given, therefore not a fair trial. Of course it was Ood given. It was no excuse then anil is no excuse now to say.

'I he woman thou gavest me. as though that made a difference. It is in. excuse now to say, The imagination thou gavest me, that led me to lie; The ambition thou gavest me, that tempted me to deceive my iriend: Ihe desires thou gavest me, they scat tered mv strength ami mined me: Die appetites thou gavest me, they led me into intemperance and debauchery. That same imagination wrote the Iliad, the Inferno, Paradise Lost, and molded the gates of Florence and won the battle of Oet tvsburg and invented the cotton gin, that imagination thou gavest me.

That same ambition made Demosthenes an orator and taught Abraham Lincoln enough to write the finest bit of English that this century has composed and led poor blind liowland Hill to organize the postal system of treat Britain, that ambition thou gavest me. The desires and appetites mastered by hundreds and thousands of men after bitter struggles and painful discouragements have redoubled their strength and made them trusty and tme as a blade that lias been fried in battle ami answered every call upon it. If it be true that the temptation is there it is also true that the strength is there, if there was danger in going into battle there was also glory there. If there were no friction the wheels of the locomotive engine would go round very much faster, but they would merely go round, they could not roll ahead. I said this law of temptation was as permanent and prevalent as the law of gravitation.

If the world depends upon the law of gravitation for its physical equilibrium, it depends upon its law of temptation for its moral equilibrium. One never complains that he is not strong when he takes no exercise. Of course he is not, so much goes without saying. Carry the matter into the moral world and it the same. Moral strength conies from moral exercise and it does not come in any other way.

Peace is not the absence of all strife, but it is strife put down and kent down, llepo.ie is not the absence of life and strength, but it is life and strength at their very best. It is the recognition of this law, the recog nition of the presence ot a temptation in whatever of good comes to a man and the acceptance of this that makes sane and strong men. Such men soon find that it is folly to ruu away from temptation or to try to destroy it. They see that it has its place and its part to play and that it is no accusation against God or against the integrity and fairness of the universe to say "The woman thou gavest to be with me, Hhc gave me of the tree and 1 did eat." When a man looks at life in this way he sees at once now an tuesc things, these temptations, these social troubles and the like must be handled in one way. Either they are here for tho education of the raco or the world is in a snarl and God an unknown quantity; and, the first beiiiG true, then it is follv to trv to olect men from thorn except by strengthening not the law or the prison but the men.

Whatever your troubles, your sorrows, your losses, whatever your triumphs and successes for these laBt are often hard enough to keep well in hand they arc not devils teasing you, hut angels testing your strength. This was an important part of Christ's life. There could have been no Christ without temptations. We are just entering upon the celebration of that season when thelLord of all men found in his very powers the Sateii whoso offers He must refuse. Believe now, my bSethren, in spite of our failings and setbacks, thoflgh lifo be a struggle, a series of temptations.

thoNcrh vou find your very talents and faculties it piste with temptations, these are given you to rifTist, and this resistance iB strength and this K.Jfength is peace, is the kingdom of heaven witifiui you of fuo Loruiiegiui mum. I I iFiilrti'ffiiiitTanlkrrMir''1' i i mT i ii irnM i rni 'i 'ii iiiinrMTff i illninr.