We are assembled this morning, after our summer vacation, to resume our regular duties and our regular services in this city. It of course affords us the very greatest pleasure to behold so large a congregation, and to realize by your appearance, to say nothing of the thoughts and spirits that surround you and the spirit-influence that emanates from you, that you are glad to be in your accustomed places again, and to mingle one with another in the pursuit of truth. We desire to emphasize at the outset of this, our opening discourse today, the practical good which any public service can accomplish.

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