Sunday being the Fourth of July, the Rev. Dr. John Stevens, the Pastor of Union Chutch, preached an appropriate sermon there before a crowded congregation. The Church was most tastefully decorated by Mrs. J. R. Hykes, Miss May Jansen, Mrs. J. F. Seaman, Mrs, Lunt, Mrs. Flagg, and Mrs. Lyman. The devotional exercises were conducted by the Revs. E. 'T. Williams and J. R. Hykes. There was a full choir, and the singing was very good. Mr. Voss presided at the organ. Dr. Stevens took for his text:—"'Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah, and they shall be one in mine hand." Ezekiel $7, 19.
The Preacher said—It will not, I trust and believe, be necessary for me either to excuse or justify the course which, minister of the Gospel, Iam about to take,
sist between the two great branches of the in hornie upon the relations which aube Anglo-Saxon people, and the bearing of those relations on the condition and destinies of the whole human race. There are two truths of great importance which, happily, are winning wider and fuller recognition among, Protestant Christians to-day than ever before. This is the first of them: That not alone in the history of t ages and among the Jews are we to look for the signs of God's presence and
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