Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1879, Page 9

B4 RELIGIOUS. ‘ Another Article by Bishop Coxe on Bible Re- vision. 1t Must Be Treated from the Stand- point of Literature and Science, paptizing Converts in the Frozen Waters of a New Jersey Creek. peligious Celebration of the . Chinese New Year in San Francisco. Acalifornia Court Decides that the Testimony of Atheists Is Admissible. General Notes, Personals, Worldly Wis- dom, Services To-Day. BIBLE REVISION. ASOTHER LETTER FROM BISHOP COXX. New York Tridune. The subject to which, by your courtesy, I have teen allowed to guide the thoughts of many of your readers is attracting a ereat deal of atten- {ion aud wilt prove to be of no trausient inter- ot This interest will greatly Iocrease as soon athe revision appears, and it is very important, a0, 10 direct the minds of reflecting men twibe great caution which ought to be observed piiscussiog the matter. It would be vers casy sien tomake the appearance of the expeeted <t the oceasion of reviving in all their old ocor the quarrels of past generations. God febd that our anxiety to preserve or amend arveperable version shuuld have such a dread- flissue. Surely even a very considerable im- rovement of a Version s0 eminently excellent would be no advantaye if purchased at such a melancholy cost. Thsreurred that, so far ss possible, ood menshould treat the subject as one of scicnce ad literature, and reject anything likely to beget personal aud- religious animosities. Let s bring to the discussion what the Germans all 8 “scientific conscience,” und look at tie fits, the issues involved, and the practical advantapes or disadvantages, as far as possiole, with the passiopless inteilect of a mathema- fidan. Tt was in this spirit that in my former .later T took care to direct attention to one ynctical point only, to which the meeting of e “Maubattan Association? bad attracted sotice. 1 held mobody personally responsible for it, but quoted a respectable nmewspsper, throngh its reporter; and I took care to inti- oate that from other sources of in- formation I had learned that idcas tere atertained respecting the Bible Society which led me to suppose the report, in this par- tienlar, might not be without foundation, Other qarticulars I forbore to note, because I would zot credit them to the learned gentleman who was reporied to have expressed bimself joa maoper both unguarded and provoking. [ am ot a little gratified to learn by the letter of vour wrrespondent, dated from the *Bible House, Xew York, Feb. 15, 1879, not oniy that he de- dines respobsivility for the *newspaper report,” tut that, in fact, be agrees with me—that it is wemature to discuss the }usstion of the revis- k= with refereace to the future action of the Ridle Somel;'. It is, indeed;. +“not worth dis- asing now,” and should persons lcss discreet 5k otherwise I feel that there will Le little exer of their success so long as thicir uniwis- ém and imprudence are counterbalanced by tiesound judgment of no less a persovage than “the President of the American Bible Zesision Committee.” Neither this geatleman, nor the highly intelll- gent assoviation which he addressed, is to be 1 respousible, therefore, for anything in the “gewspaper Teport.’ ‘There may have been some free conversation (extending over the hour ol social reunion after tie lecture) whichreached e ear of the reporter, and all this when con- dessed into a paragraph becomes a practical tlunder of no inconsiderable dimensions. It is important, however, that such blunders be made impossible for the future, if from the impending discussions we are to reap the tinest of the wheat, 1nd not thiorns and thistles. Onee for all, then, athe whole matter is nowrendered impersonal, Amay be well to survey the perils which beset ‘this subject, at the very outset, if we refuse to feeat it a5 a Jiterary and scientific question ouly. Itwonld bea oreat mistake to conceive of this proposed revision as _the work of any one tassor school of divincs. Oue chief merit caimed for it is that a great diversity of opin- s have been harmunized 1 producing it. Bearing this in mind, it must be Temembered Amtifthis barmouy is to b immediately dis- urbed by the way ju which cach seperate school cams its own share and pives emplusis to the Ieetlianties which its influence has secured, e this merit disappears. and, in its place, we Leveqn gy that must break forth into a viper. me suppose, for example that, at a meeting 1 0xford, some unguarded observations in the movd shomd bayve begotten in the London Times 2 report someswhat as follows: gilwze remarked bythe eminent High Church +diguitaries wao expounded the merits of tne forth- ©nung version, tat it would have some claims a3 1tibatitute for King James', which were worthy ofconsideration. In the first place that version had 1 origin ju 2 concession to ihie Paritans, wno were atlsfied witn tne **Bishop's Bible,™ of whica Uey comptained at Rampton Court. Accordingly, Lbtre mieht be traced i it 2 Republican and. if the tem mioht be used, a Congresutional biss, little fupected indeed, at the tme. but made clearly Jialefu the Cromyeliau_wpoch which so soon fllowed. Thue, in the **Bishop's Bible' we had 1very gentle rendering of 8 passape harsh in any #2¢10 Royal cars, as it occurs u Ps. cx., 5, Shall emite even Kings in the day of His wrath, ™ Yhle the version of 1611 seems fairly to mensce ot hippened to_Cliarles 1..—so ticrcely does it ad, o follows: «Shall gtrike throngh Kings in e, dav of Mis wrath.” Then again, * in ca. Xiv., 41, we find the word ecclesiy :;“fll" rendered the asecmbly, and, a8 if Y, fuke it worse, in the same chapter, e 37 we have a word which refers 10 Jrathen temples rendered churches. very ofiensive- " and contrary to the judgment of ail who buve {fiticsed 1he Dassave. “Some of the translators ¢ undoubtedly atfected by the unconscious in- Bersces of prejudices, however honest msy have 3 their intentions. Lut now, it i3 almost a orvel that the Puritaas of Amerlca, descendants o n}th whoisilied tarce Kingdoms with the fire #%ord of rebellion, butchered our King and tarete, exiled our Princes, and, in America,” tor- foad Lung even poor ‘Quakers. should have fally consented to work With us High Conzch- b, Lirust in 2 epirit of love, thoush we meai to eender nothing that could render the version ac- Pitbie 10 our Queen 2nd aristucracy. y\ow, I sar, had sucha report 2 this foundits ,'I into the London Ziimes, who cannot say Llow ‘41 it must have been to pood feeling, unless ‘mediately repudiated? Utterly absurd and Emtultousiy offensive as it is, lowever, 1 dare 445 tat the members of the English Committee be somewhat surprised 1o read the equally haurd statements which a blundering reporter vontrived to lay at the door of an official lecturer in America. 1t reads as follows: o t81d that in the original travslation of the Old teqment there was & monarchical and—if e T izt be used—an Episcops bias, *-Sheikh, '\hle of an Arab Chief, was frequently render- T e word duse in Genesis, and *+ Episcopoi ™ degade tosiguify *-bishops, * when it was evi; Ig a0 Meant o convey tho fuea of °*overseers. doptoy,20 he onginal translators were un- of stedly affected by tne uncomscions influence fyyadtions, however honest may have been their It was almost a matvel, he thought, tions, Watthe Chnrch of Engiand, which bad exiled, ity ired, and roasted at the stake dissenters from Juith, should have opeaed a question in which Tog gerere wterested, and fnvited to thelr counsels s ceecendunts of Jon Bunyen and Baxter. It o marvel that the Enelish race should have thed American “advice. bLut it was dage, he reosily in & epirit of love. The revision will Tnginile beauties of Kinz James' version fn all Tesl-speaking countries, and the result will It ".’fl"leal_r be an increased interest in the Gib) cigg i e necessary ihst the American Bible So- Jis£hoald alter its constitution in _order Lo pub- 1o 308 proposed work, bat tafs will 1a no way tend e its puolicatios. -YOW, ull this is simply laughable, in view of e bidoders it contains and. Lhose jn which 1t l\.,m‘"’" but I nave quoted it entire because Ve Seen it shar;ly criticised by the press, Togsp 2Use it s0 adinirably illustzates what we oot all guard vurselves azainst il we wish to *5¢ U Do work 2 heip to good men aud unity, and not anoilier bone of contention. God forbid, when the examination of the labors of the revisionists begins in earnest. that any onc should take it up {n such bad taste and with 8o little common prudence. It remains, then, only to state the case before us ia the for which your cozrespondent’s letter seems to e tojustifs: 1. Any question as to_the Bible So- ciety und its constitution at this time is prema- ture and “not worth discussing.” 2. When the revised version appears its merits witl be left to the careful study or Christian scholars and men of letters.” 3. Asten years have been con- sumed by experts in their consideration of the endless delicacics of the case, it would be only falr 1o grrant the common sort of Biblical stu- dents twice as long to decide whether or not the whole can be received as an improved version. 4. The practical questions of accepting it in place of Kinir James’ version need hardly be cousidered by the men of this generation, as that would be a very premature inquiry, until ke utmost harmony of views shall prevail with respect to the previous question, Sueh are my conclusions; and_yet Iam not without hopes that if a fair and Christian spirit” sbould be allowed to continue, the expect- ed revision may be rich inre.ults to Libtical criticism and will contribute larieiy to u popular appreciation of the version nuw in our hands. How it may probably be made_auxiliary toa reasonable emendation of King James’ Bible, [ should be zlad to sugwest in another letter, by which it will appear that 1 do not makea tetich of my Englisn Bible, though I would guard it 2gaiust unnecessary aiterations. TRYING THEIR FAITIH. THE CEREMONY OF BAPTISM IN FROZEN PAPA- EATING CRIEK. Xew York Sun. ‘The miniature cove, with its shelving, pebbly bottom in Papakating Creek, near Deckertown, where Farmer Halsey Berrs waters bis horses, ‘was cleared of ice on Saturday afternoon with the aid of axes and 2 stout iron rake. This cove is now called the baptismal ground of the Flrsb‘Bnszst Church of the Town of Wantage, in Sussex: County, New:Jersey. Halsey Berry is the eexton. The Bantists of the village have todrive amile to their- meeting-house, which stands alone on a side hill a quarter of a mile from the creck. lts pastor, the Rev.J. G. Dyer, began a revival among the farmers early in December, in a school-house beyond the churet, and soon afterward a scparate revival was begun in the village. The week of praver at the beginning of the new year hud the effect of uniting the two movements, and a series of enthusiastic revival mectings was begun in the church. These were continued there until two wecks ago, when they were transferred to the opera-house in the village, where they are now being beld every other night. The net result of the religious movement is wioety converts. Fifteen of the couverts were baptized in Papa- kating Creek on Feb 23, and seven yesteraay. After the morning service, 8 long procession of wagons was driven down fromn the "church to the yard and fields about Halses Berrs’s house. The horses were blanketed, and the ocenpants of the niom thronged down to the creek to the number of about 500. The men, women, and children stood on the soft ground ‘us close to the margin as they could get, while the boys stood on the unbroken ice or crossed over to the other side. Some of them climped into the crotches of the oaks aud Maples, whose leafless Doughs stretehed over the little space of clear water. One of the Deacons ot the church kept the water clear from floating fce with a hund- rake. Brother Jess¢ R. Little placed bimself close to the edge of the pool, and then the pas- tor, clad to his breast in an undergarment of rubber, which was concealed by a long black robe, adyanced into the water. Two weelks ago be was obliged to 2o beyond the eddy of thie cove into the swift black current of the stream to find water deep esough for convenient im- mersion. Yesterday he wentonly to the middle of the cove, where, at a distance of a dozen feet from the shore. the water stood at his waist. He felt his way carefully with a stick; and when be Lad made sure of agood po: be threw the stick ashore. In the meantime the choir on the shore bad been singing: ** All Lail the power of Jesus’ pame.” When they bad finished the pastor lifted his face and made a prayer; then he held out bis hands roward the saore, wnere Mrs, Elizabeth Chadwick and Miss Maggie Giveans were waiting in their long black baptismal robes. Cotton was stuffed in their ears to prevent the ingress of water. Brother Little helped Mrs. Caadwick into the shallow water next to the -shore, and kept hold of one of her hauds until the pastor was able, by extending his arm, to grasp her by the other. The choir sane * fcsua, keep me near the cross.” No tune was lost. Tirst the pastor dipped one hand in the water and laid it on her brow. This was not a part of the religious ceremony. It was merely to prevent a rush of blood to the head from the_lower ectremities by a counter- acting chill, Next he turned the candidate so that ber back was up-stream, and then, taking her two hands, clasped before ber on her waist, {u nis left hund and placing bis right on her shoulders, be lifted his face and said: +¢ Sister, on confession of your faith, I baptize you into the nume of the Father, the Som, and the Holy Ghost.? As he uttered the last word, he gently pressed her backward into the water with bis left hand, while be supported her with his right. Her features, whichk had shown no sizn of fear or agitation, though clesely scrutinized by the 500 spectators, remaivned rigialy under control uutil the water closed over them. Her head was held resolutely in its natural position, and it appeared when she was immediately afterward lifted up as if her feey had never stirred from their po- sition on the bottom. Assoon as she arose, howerver, gasping for breath, her self-control for- sook her for half asecoud, und she began to strugele for the shore. Mr. Dyer seized her shoulders with both hands to stéady ber. His touch restored her presence of mind, and then she walked decorously outof the water, aided by the pastor and Brother Little. Here she was burriedly wrapped in blankets, helped into a sieigh, und carried to Air. Berry’s honse, 200 yards away. While she was going out of the water, Miss Giveans stepped boldly in without the aid of Brother Little. She maintained her seli-possession throughout the ceremouy, even in the trying moment when she was liited from the cold water gasping for breath and was oblized to meet the view of the multitude on the bauls. The blood rushed into her cheeks, and her light guburn hair glistened with the streaming water. The white collar and cafls that had tastefully relieved_ her sombre baptismal robe were now Jimp and shapeless. While she was being car- ried to the house wrapped in dry shawls, Hum- phrey Martin, son of ¢x-Ascemblyman Lebeus Martin, Sr., who was baptized in the same place on Feb. 93, stepped into the water clad in a Dblack baptismal robe, the choir singing, * Near- er, My God, to Thee.” His baptism was fol- Jowed b those of Frederick Gelston and Will- iam J. Lewis, also in baptismal roves. Edward Conklin aud Morris Fenner, two oiher young men, followed immediately afterward. One of these wore ordinary clothes and the other was immersed in his shirt-sleeves. The baptism of the seven young candidates occupied hardly more than seven minutes. The people in at- tendance were respectiul and orderly. Awmong these were the Rev. Mr. King, of the Methodist Church in Deckertown, and Deacon J. W. Gelston, of the Mount Salein Baptist Chureh, whose son, Frederick, was one of the seven can- didates. The Rev. Mr. King was formerly a Baptist, while the Rev. Mr. Dyer was tormerly a Methodist. Mr. Dyer eays that there will doubtless be about twenty-five other candidates baptized soon. There is no baptistry in his church, and the reason of this, be explains, is that the general sentiment of church people in that part of the country i3 fn 1avorof immer- sion in a natural stream._ He says that none of the persons baptized on Feb. 23 has since suffer- cd from colds, or otherwise; nor has he ever known of a case where injury bas been done by immersion in the whole course of bis ministry. MONGOLIAN PAGANISM. RELIGIOUS CELEDRATION OF THE CHINESE NEW-YDAR. San Francisco Chronicle. New-Year’s being the greatest festival in the Cbinese calendar, the worship of the gods and roddesses is more ostentatious and impressive ou this occasion than upon any other. Almost all the deities in the my:hology are propitiated at this season with various kinds of offerings, sacrifices, and observances, and Do one of the many imposing and impressive festivals through- out the year presents o better opportunity of witnessing Chinese worship. For several days previous to New-Year’s the usual preparations for the celebration were in active operation: stores were decorated, the cooks in the restau- rants and elsewhere were exercising their culi- nary skill in preparing the most acceptable and choizest viands, and Chinatown, in fact, was all bustle and expectancy. The two temples in San Francisco were visited during the weck by a great many worshipers, who had laid offerings of artificial flowers cut out of tinsel-paper and fastencd to thiu bamboo splints oo the shrine of the various divinitics exposed for waorship. The aivinities not so exposed, for waat of rooum,—all pecessarily in miniature,— were carefuliy laid awry on shelves, protected by iron wire, some distance in front of the stirines o each temple. The temple dedicated to the worship of the early Emperer. Suvreme THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1879—SIXTEEN PAGES Ruler—the Chinese Jupiter—on Clav street, be- tween Kearny and Dupont, opposite the Plaza, is kept in exsellent order, and contains, of course, all the sacred vessels and utensils ncces- sary for performing the cersmonies. 1t s a room in the third story, about twenty feet lonz and twenty feet wide, with two or three rvoms vebind it for ti:e use of the servants, and to which the priests sometimes resort for rest and smoking opiumm. In all Chinese cities of any conscquence the temple of this Deity is from 500 to 1,000 feet long, and several hundred fees wide.. On entering this small tempie in San Francisco the visitor stands in frout of two altars, oae behind the other, and behind both is the shrine or recess i which the God is seated o a throne, which is scarcelv pereeptible from tie profusion of -artiticial flowers aud various offerings of a more or less ornamental charac- ter, which are placed-at his feet and suspended around the recess, Alouz the walls, cight on one side and bing ‘on the other, are bronze croziers. Ou the first altar is o large bronze urn for burning iocense, and on either side of the urn are three laree flower-vases of_compo- sition metal, ecch three feet hirh, and immel ately behind the wrn pre three laree candles four feet long, together with alarre stick of fragrant incense.” Within this_altar, on a shelf covered with iron wire, are “the vumerous divinities above mentioned. ‘The sccond altar is in every way similar to the first, with the exception that the urn and flowes e are similar. From the roof, between the two altars,is suspended a chandelier, in which one or more lights are kept. constantly burning. We now come to the shrine in which the zod is enthroned. It isn recess about six feet hizh, four feet wide, and about three feet decp. The god himself, &s seated on his throne, is about three feet nah, the head adoroed with a crown of gold; that is 10 6ay, of gold-leal. The face of the god bas a contour of the best type of Mongolian physfog- nomy, a mild, benignant expressiou, and a thin, long Dlack beard und mustache failing ora fully over his chin and chest. Before the shrine is an urn, in which a taper is constantly burn- ing; on the right of it is suspended a bell as larze'as one of our church-bells, claimed to be a hunérea years old at least, and fixed ina frawe over the bell isa drum, both used in summoning worshipers on due oceasions to the tempie. Turning fo leave the temple we ob- serve to the right of the s‘aircase, in a corner, what looks like a very smail baker’s oven, with o small square aperture in each of its sides. This is used for burning mock money and mock clothing, - et Motk money is émall pieces of paper painted to look like silver or gold, as the case may be. The mock money or mock clothing or other mock article is forwarded to the spirits in Hades by their relatives on the earth by burning it {n the oven, where, by the potency of acertain formula of prayer, it is transmitted into the precions metal it represents, and so received by the spirit, who can parchase with it whatever he wants in the inferanl regions. The second temple is on Dupont street, and is dedicated to several 2ods and goddesses, who have their respective shrines, Jike that of the Eearly Emperor, Supteme Ruler, just described. ike the other temple, it contains a number of other divinities in miviature, who are kent on a shelf in the same mauner as in the temple of the ChineseJove. It alsocontains two altarsin {front of the shrines like those in the former, and in many respects slike, save that the sacred furniture and the temple itsell, and indeed the whole paraphernalia of sacred belongings, are of a kina much inferior to those in the temple of the pearly Emperor, Supreme Ruler. In this temple are three sbrines, cach docorated like that of thesChinese Jove, and each abount the same dimensions. Io the middie shrino are three moddesses—** Mother,” tiie greatest of all goddesses, being the middle divinity, hay- ing on _her right the s, of Mérey and on lwr left the Goddess of Sailors. _The divinities are ol wood, painted ina. dark color, about two feet high, of o particu- lar expression of countenance, and decked pro- fusely with artiticial flowers, and baving cacha robe of red-colored paper over lher neck aud shoulders. In niches on elther side of these divinities, but in_the same shrine, are the rod of peasts, the rod of war, the god confessor, the mod of water, the diviue tiger, the stop-deyil, with bell in band to frichten away evil spirits, aud the god of fire. In the shrive on the right is the zod of doctors, holdingr in his ‘extended right hand a red pill, and in the shrine on the Jelt the god of wealth, with a handful of gold, which, with a beni2n cxpression, he offers 1o his worshipers. In a niche in the wall, close to the door, is one of the ten kings of hell, a grimy idol two feet high, with a_langhing face, Who prevents evil spirits from entering the tem- ple, and in a little sbrive to the ‘right, ou the floor, is his policeman, the little devil, a slender imp two feet high, woo aids the King iniexclud- ing the evil ones; and on the left is the oven for burning mock money. Having now prepared the way for treating the cclebration of Ne Year's in its religious aspect, wnd of introducing some of the principal deities in Chinese mythol- ogy, it may be stated thus the festivities of the t day resolved themselves into five classes, vi ‘L'he sacrifice to heaven and-carth, the wor-~ ship of ancestral tablets or family gods, the worsbip of deceased aucestors, prostration be- fore living_parents and grandparents, and mak- ing New-Year’s culls. he sacrifice of heaven and earth was per- formed between 4 and 5 o’clock {n the mornins, by placing a buckettul of boiled rice on a table in the front eutrance of each dwelling, to- gether with ten bowls of cooked vegetables (no meats). ten cups of tea, ten cups of wine, two large burning candles, nud threc sticks of com- mon incense or one stick of fraerant incense, with ten pairs of chop-sticks stuck here and there in the rice. Mock money was burned and offered to the New Year with five kinds of frait and some loose-skinned oranges. When all these things were duly arranged in cach dwell- ing. fire-crackers were exploded far and near, announcing that New-Year festivities had just begun. After this the bead of each famil, holding in his hand a stick of lizhted iocense, kuelt und bowed his head three times before ihe table on which the viands were placed. This was thanking heaven and earth for past favors, and propitiating them for future bencfts. Then again was perforined the_ceremony of the explosion of fire-crackers aud the burning of mock money. The wors of ancestral tabiets followed, and the worship by juniors of the heads of their respective families, when the male portion of the poputation started out to make calls. ‘The first dav was abserved by rick wud poor alike; from the first to the fourth was kept up by persons in easy circumstances, while the rich abstain from all business, theoretically at least, for a whole ‘month. As a general rule no meats were used on the first day. Here jt may be stated, by an- ticipation, that the wods, who went to Heaven during the last days of the old year to report cartdly affairs to the pearly Emperor, Supreme Ruler, return on the 15th “of the month to re- sume their duties. Among the most inportant of these divioities are the God of the lLitchen, the God of Weaith, and the God of Joy, und these will be welcomed home with rejoicings and 2 festival called “offering the rice.” During the first week of this year and the expiring days of the last vne, the priucipal ods and goduesses receive each the homage die to him or her by appropriate offerings wud sacrifice. ‘The first sid greatest of ail, as alreadv stated, is the early Emperor, Supreme Ruler. This is the Yioneotian Jove. It is he who produces and governs all things in Heaven above and on earth beneath. e receives the reports of the higher =ods regarding the management of their various aepartments, inferfor deitics not being permitted to approach him, and examine into the meriis aud demerits of mortals, With the view to the rewards and punishments. ‘ihe maaner of wor- shiping him i3 by three kueetings uud wing Kknockings, that is, the worshiper kneels aud stands three times before him, and at cach knceling knocks his Lead thre¢ times on the floor. TESTIMONY OF ATHEISTS. A CALIFORNIA COURT RULES TIAT INFIDELS MAY TESTIFY. San Fyancisco Bullettn. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, the trial of Jobn II. Snow, formerly mate of the American bark C. 0. Whitmore, for the murder of James R. Elwood, on board that vessel in 1876 was resumed. The first witness called for the prosecution was Charles Wright, a shipmate of the deceased seaman. He testified that Snow did not go near Elwood after the begioning of his illness; that the Captain gave all orders in regard to the patient; that he had seen the mate strike the Geceased man on the head with a belaying-pin; that the Cgptaic vnce struck Elwood in the 1ace with bis bfnd; thut Elwood was confined in the Jazarette aund chained; that the chain was so short that it allowed him only a foot to move about in; that his condition was such that they removed him to the deck: that when taken out he was covered with sores; that oo his removal to the deck the Captain ordered that he should be scrubbed with salt water and saud; that be was then taken to the carpenter’s room sud placed in a bos four feet four iuches in length, \whiicts was 50 shors that he lay dousled up, and that, aftera few days’ sufferd be died. A foaded bae wos tied to his feetand his body thrown bverboad. His mind svemed clear until fust before his death, when be became delirious, calling for his wife und ciild. . Cnaries de Lacale _was called a3 1 wica the prosecution, and Mr. Baroes said he o challenge the competency of the witness on Tue ground that he does not belicvein n‘Dl: 5 1le was not aware that there Wwas any ruic Zov- rning such cases in statute law, but uuaer e i common-law rule he was entitled to examine e witness as to his beliel in a God. Our statute makes a distinction from comimon law. It maikes no distinction ,as toa mav’s compe- tency as a witness because of bis relizious be- lief, but the common law does. He did not know how far the United States Couris are overned by the State laws. ‘The Court said it was not ipclined to recog- nize that common-law doctrine as a rale of this day. Thelaw would be considered obsolete. Mr, Barnes gave the differedt rules prevailing in the several States under the statute law, and said he could vot eay what was the rulc of the ay. i ‘The Court did not doubt What the rule for- wmerly was, but many old rules bad been ex- foded. Ihe proposed ruld would exclude rofs. Tyndall aud Huxley as-witnesses. Ar. Barnes thought otherwise. He did not S that Prof. Tyndall was an a:heist. He believed in a God, but did not believe in the cflica Whena witness swears upon 1l the truth, the truth must rest with his conscience to his God. ‘I'e Court reasserted that therule had be- come abgsolete; if it had not, it oughtto be. The enforcement of sucha rule would be an outraze—to cut off, by a circumstance, very im- portant testimony. The motion wounld be over- ruled. What do'you mean by an atheist! Mr. Barnes—I will explaio ih 2 mnoment. ‘The Court—You can put LIF point in any for- mula you choose for consideration hereafter. ARCHBISHOP PURCELL. DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES |OF IIS FAILURE. ~ew York Natihn. Itissafe to say that no cousequence of the panic of 1873 has been so grptesque, as well as disastrous, 2s the appearanfe of a Catholic Archbishop in the charactar f a bankrupt sav- ings-bank. Ilis failure illusgrates in a curious way the nature of the magia—for thisis the proper word for it—which preceded the crisis and brought it about. s taking about $4,- 000,000 of poor people’s mongy, and keeping no books of account, or only vefy imperfect ones, and putting it all, or nearlyj all, into churches and monasteries and schopli—or, in other words, into unproductive] and practically unsalable property—is o very sivgular phe- vomenon. 1t is very singhlar, too, aftor making cvery allowance for the reverence of Catholics for High Church'ignitaries, that so many people should have been found willing to trust him with their funds, and should have be- lieved in bis ability to mavage them safely. 1t is true thata fecling of respect for the financial capacity of Bishops is diffused tbroush the Church by the absolute coutrol over the diocesan property with which they are entrusted,—so ab- solute, indeed, that we believed they are not called on for any public accounts. The Arch- bishop’s own views on this subject, too, were forcibly set forth in a circular which he issued 1n 1865 to the clergy of his diocese touching the management of church property. After show- ing that by the canons, by the consent of the faithtul in all ages,” aud by the Bible, this man- azement *is confided to the Bishops,” he zoes on tosay: Fourth—In the discharge of this duty he [the pistorof o congrezation, as represeatative of the hhon} may be advantageously assisted by lay counsellors selected from among men of the con-" gregation of well-known piety, probity, intelli- gence, prudence, and peaceableness. The evils done the Charch in the United States in times past, and the scandals given by Iy trustees, pave caused the lloly Sec ana all the true friends of religion to look with disfavor on the appoictment of laymen a3 managers of church funds. lence it is only when care bas been taken to guard agrinst unrea- sonadle and vain pretensions and unwarrmtavle a-sumptions of uuthority and dictation on their part that such appointments ure allowed. Chey are not the owners or. controllers of ecclesiastical property; they are not tne representitives oi the conaregfation, as has sometiuies been suppused, but siniply the assistants of the pastor in the care of the temporal aifaira of *the eongregation. Still, the knowledee that thie Archbishop had become liable for interest on an enorreous suin must bave been widely ssread for many - years, and spread, oo, in a community which is toler- ably well informed, eveu ‘in its’ most iguorang strata, about the conditions on which money can be made productive and repald when called for; and this without exciting alarm. . ‘There is nothing in the relations of the Catholic clergy to their flocks thai will account 1or this. The Chureh, especially since she Iost ber vast endow- ments, would doubtless haye.zladly undertaken in various countries th¢function of keeping and managing the savings of *the poor, if there Were 2mong The faithful anj strong general con- fidence in the finincial capakity of ~the clerzy; and this we think 1s:“true in spite of the probibition in many vdioceses of the receipt of Joans or deposits by the par- ish priest. I fact, cousidbring the readiness which she always_has shown~to undertake any duties which seedied likkely to give her influence, the inference that sbe woidld have widely en- gaged fn_the banking busiiess, if people had been willing to resort to herifor this purpose, is not an unfair one. ‘Ihe cicrey have shown great ability in accumulating church property zud in managiug it for church purposes, but this has not, somehow, satisfied the “world that they are 2o0d financial advisers or good persons to hold money * on call.” ‘I'he secret ot the Archbistiop’s success in pro- curing deposits undoubtedly. lay in the state of minc on the part of the pdblic, aud on the part of the lay financiers, which made possible the enormous investments in railroads during the seven years preceding 1873, and which during the same period plunged so many cities and towns into_the work of making *improve- ments.” His mental conditiou when receiving the deposits. and promising interest on them was probably, in its vazue hopefulness and distike of dry investization, very like that of the speculators who sold the bonds of all the now bankrupt railroads. He did not clearly koow how he was to provide the interest, nor they where the carnings on which they relied were to come from; but it was “in the air” that all would go well, and that real estate would rise, and tratlic erow, and population in- crease, and the good times nevercud. Between 1870 and 1878 a large number of speculators really believed thatan issue of bonds would mauke busioess for a railroad; that a bond wus not simply san Sevidence of debt but a ecre- ator of wealth. The editors of the religious papers had a feeling about a well-enzraved vond somewhat hike that of the Bishop of Gloucester about the effect of the Afghan War on the peo- ple of Indiz,—that if it were sold at cighty cents on the dollar it would in somc manner, however obscure or indivect, tend to the spread of spiritual truth. In those days the last thing a mau did was to probe anything to the bottom. ‘The investors mostly bad a financial adviser of 2 sanguine disposition in whom they believed mplicitly, and he in his turn was satistied that his scheme must be a good thing because so many peoble were willing to :put moncy in it. The Ohio people who carried their savings to the Archbishop doubtless in the same wav were satisfied that be and TFather Ed- ward bad the means of making it pay or they would not take it, and_be and Father Edward were doubtless persuaded, on theirpart, that they must be competent to take charze of it or people would not bring it to them. Any little doubts that may have risenin their minds were perhaps quelled readily by the contempla- tion of the riorious work tlie money was doing for the Church. But all the masses that can be sung in all the churches in Ameriea will not sutlice to drown at_the Supreme Tribunal the cries of the poor whose bearts bave been broken and whose trust in their fellow-meu has been shaken by this tremendeus calamity. Nothing in the affair is more exiraordinsry, in fact, than the amount of sympathy expended on the +safntly Archbishop’” and Father Edward, and the anount of sulicitude expressed for the pos- sible eflect of the aflair on the eredit of the Epis- copate, compared with the amnount of concern shown for the unhappy crowd who surrousd the doors of the Archiepiscopal restdence bewaiting the loss of what to a large number of them must have becn their sole defense against an old age of destitution. ‘The truth is that nothing in the financial crisis through which the country is wow passing Las been so unfortunate as_tlie blow it has given to tire prudence of the poor. To create this pru- dence is or ought to be_one of the chief vbjects of covervment and philantbropy. ‘The civiliza- tion ‘of a country 15 high or low ac- cording to the awmount of it which is to be~ found withm its borders. To en- couraze the poor to save, and to deny them- selvesin scasous of .prosperity, is to promote the national welfare in the bighest and best sense, as it is to raise the character of the peo- ple. ‘The result, therefore, of the panie which is most to be reeretted is not the bankruptey of traders and corporations, aud the losses of the rofessional classes, serious 28 these things are, ut the diffusion awonz the frugal and inaus- trious workingmen and women, throuzh the breaking down of savings-banks and insurance companies, of the feeling that there is no use in gaving, iuasmuch as there is no oneto whom they can safely entrust woney siter they have saved it. ‘I'he Jismal process of destroying th fidence was by Euor uegroes by the Washinzton Ri iraut period, when they plundered the Freedmen's Suvings Bank with the thoroughness and audacity of burzlars. 1t has been continued since by the widespread breal-down of savivgs-bunks und life-insur- auee compauics, largely throuza fraudulent management, and it may besaid to baye re- ceived the tinishing touch in the Tailure of ao Arehbishop for 4,000,000, without intellizible accounts. The worst of this mischief is that it canpot be all seen. It will drive, aud hasdriven, thousands into habits of improvidence, and iuto bitterness against the whole social order under which they live, and yet they will make no sign and ive no minister or philanthropist an oppor- tunity of touchiny the source of their reckless- ness or despair, MINOR TOPICS. A LITERARY CURIOSITY. ¢ Luitimore Sun. , The following, sent us by an intellizent lady correspondent, is one of the most remarkable compositions we have ever met with. It eviuces an ingenuity of arrangement peculiarly its own. Explanation: The initial capitals spell, *My *boast is in the glorious Cross of Christ.” The words in italies, when read from top to bottom und bottom to top, form the Lord’s Prayer com- plete: = Al known the Gospel truths. our father king, Yield up thy gracegtear Faffier from above, Bless us with hearts ithick feelmgly can si Our I'fe thou ar! for ecer. Gad of Love: Assuage our eriel ta Jove for Christ, we pray. Since the brivht prince of Heaven and glory died, Took all vur stus aud aallowed the display, Infant be-ing; first s man, and then was craci- fied, Stupencous God! thy grace and power wake known; Jn Jesus’ uame letall the world rejoice, Now labor in hy heavenly Kingdom own. That blessed Finadoum for thy saints the choice, ow vile to comie to thee is ail our cry. Enemies 10 thy self and ali that's thine, tess our will 7 we live for vanity, it the very be-ing, ecl! fu deatgn, 0 Goc. thy will be done from earth to Heaven; Recliniug on the Gospel, let us live. Tu cartle from sin defiver-¢d nnd forgiven. Oh! as thyself but tench us 10 jor: Unless it's power temptation doth d Sure is one fall into the defti of wo. Carual in mind, we've nof a glmpse of joy Ruised aguinst kearen ; in i, hone wé can flow, O give us grace and lead 'us on thy way: Shine on us with thy love and Self und ¢his sin that rise against us wiay Oh! grant each duy our respuss-es may cease, Forvive our evil deeds that oft we do, Convince ns daily of them to our shame, clp us with heavenly bread ; forqive us, too, Recurrent Justs, cud we'll idore thy nome; In thy foroie-ness we as sainis can die, Stuce for us and our trespusses so lgh, Thy Son, our Savior, bled on Calvar, AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIE The stated meeting of the Board of Managers was teld at the Bible-House, Astor place, on ‘Thursday, March G. at hali-past 3 p. m., Wiltiam H. Allen, Esq., LL. D., President, in the chair. Tue Rev. Albert 8. Hant, D. D., read the nineticth psaln, and opened the meeting with prayer. The Committee appointed at the last meeting of the Board presented a minute to the memory of the Hon. James B. McKean, which was adopted aud placed upon the records. “The death of the Hon. A. B. Hasorouek, who bad been for more than a auarter of a century a Vice-President of the Society, was announced, and Messrs: W. H. Crosby and Frederick H. Wolcott were 2ppuinted 2 Committee to prepare aminute commemorative of his character and services. Before the adjournment of the Board they presented a minute, which was adopted and placed upon the records. One of the Secretaries made o statement of the progress ol the Soctety’s work in the South and Southwest. as noted during his recent visit to that section. Respecting the colportage work in _Texas. particularly, he reported that during the last eighteen months the ageregate numbér of days of service rendered by the col- porteurs in that State was 4,250; miles traveled, 44,704 fanilies visited, 41,859; 'fomilies found without the Scriptures, 8,648; of these, 6,6i7 we-e supplied, and 25,000 yolumes ot Scriptures distributed. tirants of books -were made :\muuntin{ to 62,000 volumes, including 25,000 for the New York Bible Society, 243 for work in foreizn Jands, ten yoiumes in rabed letters for the blind, 16,000 for sale and distribution by the Soclety’s azents and colporteurs in the South- west, and to various societies und individuals in other parts of the country. ‘The receipts for the month of February were $39,037.17, Leiug an increase of $1,504.91 over the corresponding month ok the previous year. Covies of Scrintures issued, 54,235, being an in crease of nearly 10,000 over the month of Feb- ruary, 1878, NEAL DOW OX A LONDON PREACHER AGAIN. The New York Ubserver prints the following card from Neal Dow, of Maine: I thank yon very much for calling my attention to the many. articies Zoing the rounds of the press in England, as well a3 in this country, connecting my- name with thavof an eminent minister of the Gospel m Enzland. Some of these articles charze me with atiributing to thig pergon intemperate hab- ils, This Iy entircly untrue, beside the' fuct that my article contained 1o name, and was not intend- ed to be personal. At the”eaine time, what I said was cxactly true of the person Thad in mind, und it can easily be substantisted’on oath, if necessary, by most relinble witnesses, ButIdid not know when T wrote it that his habits are greatly changed, and 1 am the last man who would, in such s case, refer to the past. At the same time, perbaps it may be proper to say that, waen I was in Enelund, the personal exampie and influedce of the eminent person eluded to were regarded by temperance men 18 a very great obstacte in the way of The suc- cess of the cause. 1 rejoice heartily thatall this is now changed, and sincerely rezret tat thereshould have been n word in tuat article of mine which could poseinly indicate any particular individual as tie one slluded to, and am very glad to know that no possidle harm has occurred, O CAn_oCCur, 19 bim from it in any.wiy. Dot this unfortunste af- fair jias brouzlys out the fact that the eminen per- son alluded to 3 now an example of the ability of & laborious man to do the beat work withont alco- holic stimulants. 1am, most truly roy, ours, ‘NeaL Dow. GENERAL NOTES. ' The revival intercst continues without abate- ment at the Park Avenue M. E. Church, There arc meetings nearly every night, with encour- aging results. The first collection of Peter’s pence ever made publicly in the churches of Rome, Italy, was taken up on the first Sabbath in February, by order of the Pope. The Annual Conference of the Latter Day Saints, who claim to be the true followers of Joseph Smith, will*be held at Plano, Kendall County, 1IL., commencing April 6. A bill has passed the Conunecticut Assembly taxing all property of educational, religious, and ‘benevolent organizations not actuaily in use for the purposes of such organizations. A Tract Society has been formed at Shanghai, China, with Bishop Russell as President, Bishop Schereschewsky as one of the Vice-Presidents, and the Rev. J. M. W. Farnham as Correspond- ing-Secretary. Several natives are among the officers. ‘The apparition of the Virgin at Mette nbuch, in Buvaria, has been pronounced 2 fraud by Bishop Senestry. Great excitement was caused by the report of the avparition, and_many were astonished at the receptiou of a pastoral letter deoying that there was any supernatural ele- ment in the pretended miracle. Few churches hare enjoyed more successful revivals this winter than the Centre Street Metliodist Charch, of Elgin, whose pastor is the Rev. W. H. Burns. The converts number 200, and nearly 100 have already united with the church. Mr. Burns has been his own evangelist, with elfeetive 2id from a zealous membership and the converts. Rabbi Wise, of Cincionati, has written a let- ter on the question of mixed marri i e aonounces the following dictum grezation of Israel caunct relinguish ber con- Fiction, cannot forget her history, and cannot repudiate her religion, hence she cannot sanc- tion the intermarriaze of Jew and Christian, unless the latter embrace the faith and cause of Israel.” ‘The British Weslyan Methodists set out at the beeinning of the year to raise a special fund of $1,000,000 for church building, debts, etc., one- quarter of which they loped to raise in Great Britain, end the rest throuzhout the world. But already two districts in London have contributed more than the quarter, and now it is expected tirt 51,000,000 beside will be raised. This isno- ble giving these hard times. At the close of the mocning services to-day at the Sixth Presbyterian Church the. matter of erecting a chureh editice on their vacant lot ad- joining_ their present small building will be taken up, and if sufficient funds can be ob- tained to insure the building of a suitable church without incumbrance they will proceed at once 10 build, as their present seating ca- pacity is far too small for the present needs. The Union Theological Seminary of this city bas the larzest number of students of any sem- inary in America, and With one exception—thut at Leipsic, Germany—the largesi 1 the world, ncteen States are represented and fif- teen coilezes. Canada sends four siudents, and Turkey one. The entire number of students counceted with this seminary from its beginning 151,952, of whom 1,58 are supvosed to be still living; 107 kave become foreizn missionaries. Joseon Luff, a Mormon Elder laborinz in London, Ont., performs miraculous bealings ac- cording to e prescription gives in James v., 14, 15. His latest patient was a man named Rae, who was injured by falling into the Jarge glue pot used in an oil refinery cooper-shop, und sealded from bis head to his thighs, on Uie baclk, and a large place on his breast, as well as his arms, down below the elbows, The scald | in his formal resignation to the church here was deep and very sore. It occurred about a Tuonth azo, and the man fs now able to walk about the room at intervals, as well as feed hlm§nlf. and it is expected thut he will be fit for work very soon. At Hamadan, Persia, which is under the care of Teheran Station, where resiae the Rev. James Bassett and niece, Miss Saran Bassett, and other twissivonaries, there are fourteen families of Jews wha have broken away from the ancieat faith and declared their intention of becoming Coristians, Mr. Bassett, while o a visit there recently, baptized twenty Jews. Thereis a larze settlement of Jews there, descendantsof the captive Jews brought there by the Persiaa con- querors. ‘The Archbishop of Canterbury having refused license to a number of seceders from the Par- ish of Sideup for 2 new church. the members unavimouslv resolved to open it ns a Reformed Episcopal Church. The secession took place in counsequence of the dissatisfaction with the Vicar, and an iron church has been erected which seats about 350 persons. The building was crowded on the occasion of the dedication. ‘This is the first Reformed Epigcopal Church in the Diocese of Canterburs. The Rev. Christopher Cushing’s Congregation- al Quarterly bas reccived, as ‘he believes, its deatli-blow by reasan of the action of the” Na- tional Council of Congregational charches in providing for a Year Book of denominational sratistics. Of these statistics the Quarterly has hitherto had a monopoly, aud they have kept it alive. Its publication i§ now to be suspended. Meantime Dr. Cushing has beea chosen Treasu- rer of the Massachusetts Home Missionary So- ciety o place of Mr. Charles Demond. Fitz Noodle, the *champion bill-writer™ of the United States, cannot excel the following, waich is ¢lipved from un English newspaper: The Seventeenth Hammersmitn Corps will 1ake up arms asuinst the Devii's Kinzdom on Sunday next; firing to commence in the Sroadway st 10 oclock Every member to muster in_tne Broad— way at 6 for general attack upon the Enemy's Kinzdom, Capt. W, Bould, in preseuce of the Commander-in-Chief, will deliver his charze to the members of the corps, and will exvlain the many advantiges offered to those who will volun- 1eer to join the army. A Pope Leo XIIL. has ordered a zeneral jubilee: of the Catholic Church, to celebrate the anni- versary of his elcvation 10 the Papacy. The jubiiec season beray fust Sunday, Marcn 2, and will continue until Peutecost Sunday, "June 1. This proclaniation is in accordance with an old established custom, cach succeeding Pope wait- ing for one year after Lis election, when. it some time bas elapsed since a previous general jubi- Iee, hie declares a season of indulgence through- oue the entire Catholic world. The present is what is known as a special jubilee, the regular erand jupilee taking pface every twenty-five years, and the last having occurred in 1575. The programme for the World's Conference of the Evangelical Alljance at Baste, Switzer- land, has heen issued. The Conference will open Aug. 31 und close Sept. 7, and the pro- ceedings will be in French, thouzh English meetings, for British and American delegates, will be beld. Sept.1 therewill be reports on the condition of Protestantisii in the various countries represented, Dr. Schafl reporting for the United States. Evangelization will be the chiel subject for the second day, Christian edu- cation for the third, Protestantism and soviety for the fourth, Missions for the tifth, and Chris- tian union for the sixth. Amoug the nzmes on the programme are those of Van Oosterzee, Schaff, Scheele, Cremer, Godet, Lelievre, Stouhton, Flicdner, De Presscuse, Coristlich, Arthur (London), Hurst, and Stockmeyer. There is a lively inquiry in Anglican Church ‘papers as t0 whether the Prince of Wales sells his chureh livings or permits preseatees to do so. A correspondent of the Guardian asks: + By whose authority the incumbent of Lyd- ford-cum-Prince Town advertises for sale the incumbency of Prince Town, when, by reference to the Exeter Diocesan Ca’endar, we find that preferment in the gift of the Duke of Cornwall? Are we to understand the Duke permits his presentees to make money out of his prefer- ments? or that the reverend incumbent is ex- cueding his powers,—selling what is not hisown? for I sce by the Western Morning News the in- cumbent hiaa obtained other preferment. Hence this attempted sale.” Auvother correspondent writes that the agents who have the matter in haud distinctly state that they ‘‘acted simply and solely upon the instructions received from the patron.” A movement is fn progress amone the mem- bers of the Soclety of Friends in Philadelphia for the formation of settlements in the West, and active stops have already been taken. There have been many complaints, owing to the isola- tion of the members of the Society in different rnrts of the West, that they were gradually losing interest in the principles und customs of their sect, and by these settlements it is hoped to bring them together. It is the intention to form an Association which shall purchase tracts of land and seil farms aud Iots to Friends, or those in sympathy with. them, and also to aid persons Whose means are limited with help in the erection of dwellings and otther necessary things in their settlements. The Associstion will lay out roads and erect meeting-houses und school buildings. Inall deeds a clause will be inseried probibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as 2 beveruge. Rev. T. Pelham Dal, ove of the advanced sh Ritaalists, is kept very busy dodeing the officers of the Ecclesiastical Courts. Judement was pronounced agajnst him for Ritualistic practices. He made no defense, but simply took care to keep himself out of the way and to Teceive Do notices or papers counccted with the proceedings. Various plans were tried to reach him, but all without effect. A potice was in- closed in aregistered letter, but Mr. Dale sus- pected mischief, and refused to take it out of the postman’s bands. An officer of the court was sent to the front door, but Mr. Dale was too quick for bim, and ran down the back stairs and id himself in the basement of the house. His trust, it seems, is that the proceedings awainst him may by and by be proved to have been in some way irregular, aud he reserves his rigiut to take such steps as he may be advised for the protection of his just rights. One of the most remarkable religious move- ments just now going on in Boston has its cen- tre in the Advent (fpiscopal) Chureh. This is the one superlativeiy izt Church in new En- luud. And it could nat easily be hizher and stop this side of Rome. Just now it is holding & “mission,” with two.sermons, and a good many other things, every day. Lts ministers are celibates, and dress and live as nearly like Ro- man Catholic priests s vossible. Trwice a week they hear confessions; and the ““rusn? is said to be great. Their manual of prayer coutatning the order for confessious is said to be selling with rapidity. T'wo hundred copies were im- ported three years ago, and could hardly be given away. Now, within a comparatively brief period, 10,000 have been sold. The friends of the movement claim that it is doing much in the way of charities for the sick and the 8oor, and that its religious influence is steadily widening. The old house in the City of Dessau where Moses Mendelssobu was bora has been pur- chased by Israelites of Leipsic, and is to become an asylum for azed Jewish scnolars. Little is known of Moses Mendelssohn to the mass oL English readers. le was the German Jewish philosopher who was called the tGerman Socra- tes, Inhis “Phadon™ he wrote philosophical dialogues after the Platonic metnod, that have many admirers. He was the intimate friena of Lessiug, und the grandfather of Mendelssohn, the composer. The Jews have a saying that “between Moses and Moses there was but one Mosts,” meaning by the tirst the Moses of the Bible, by the second M@ndelssohn, and by the one that came between the two, Moses Maimon- ides. Moses Mendelssohn was a humpbacked mau of small stature znd bomely face, but by his enius, amiability, and conversational pow- ers attracted a large circle of charmed friends Irom among the most fawmous men of his time. USION PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. New Ilaren Journal urd Courier. March 5. The Rev. Dr. Noble has decided to accept his call to Chicazo, and has gent on bis lecter of ac- ceptance. The Union Park Congrezational Churcen, to which he zoes, has a membership of about 500, and its pulpit is one of the most in- fluential in Chicago. The church edifice is one of the finest in that city, and its location very pleasant,—facing Union Park. ‘The late pastor ot the church was Dr. Helmer, who resigned to goto Brouklyn, and is now tying” critically fll. ke Church 1s intimately connected with the wellare aud interests of the Chicago Theological Semiuary, and is & leading church in Congrega- tionalism io the Northwest. The Rev. Dr. ble has been pastor cf Ceatre Church about three and a half years, and leavesal circle bebind who will miss bim greatly and much re- gret the separation. He leaves a record for faithful vastoral work, devoted piety, and orilliant pulpic ministrazions, bever of the scpsational type, and always evidently dictated by a sincere and earnest consecration. He leaves his field in New Haven, as remarked yesterday to fricnds, with regret, and to the sandering of many strone ties, and only leaves from the conviction that such 15 bis duty, and that tbe church there is 10 just that condition where his services will be of the most benefit to the Master. The salary, $5,000, is less than he has received here, and he voluntarily reduced bis salary $1.000 some time azo. Dr. Noole’s services as Chair- man of the General Committee whicn sustained Mr. Moody, the Evangelist, io his work in New Haven a vear avo, is recalled with the liveliest satisfaction by pastors of this city who were co- Jaborers with hiw, and his relations with his brother pastors in this city have loog been the most cordial, and bis departare the clerzy generally express to be a ereat losa. He senas this sveek, and a_council of ministers will at once be called and a dismissal granted bim.- PERSONALS. The Rev. Joel Clark has resigned the rector- ship of St. John’s Church at Portage, Wis. It is lkely that the Rev. J. W. Keres, of Shirley, Mass., will accept a call to Pawtucket, R 1 Mr. F. H. Bartlett, a graduate of Andover, was recentiy ordained a ministor of the Contre~ gational Church. The Greek Archbishiop of Adrianople has been assaulted by some Bulgarians, though not killed, as at first reported. ‘The Rev. W. T. Whitmarsh, a Baptist divina of Ohio, has abandoued that demomenation to join the Episcopalians. _The Saturday Review says that John Henry Newman hus long beea resarded at Rome as “only half a Catholic.” Bishop Fallows, of the Reformed Episcooal Church, has refused to the seceding Bishop Gregg a letter dimissory. ‘The Rev. E. C. Bolles, D. D., of Salem, Mass., has declined a call to one of the Universalist churches of Philadelpbia. T Rer. G. L. [Valker, D. D., was recently nstalled pastor of the Cents i Chure at Hattord, Gomm o 00 Ereeaon The Rev. James Lavelle, Iate of the Protest- ant Episcopal Chbureh, has taken charze of St. Paul’s Retormed Eniscopal Church, Dizbs, N. 3. The Rey. S. J. McPherson, a Senior at Prince- ton Theological Seminary, has accepted a_call (rur{l the Fourth I'resbyterian Church at Indian- apolis. ' The'Rev. S..J. French has resiened the rector- ship of Trinity Church, Michigan City, and the Rev. C. J. Waod, of the Diocese of New York,. suceeeds him. The degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by the Trustees ot Princeton Collezs on the Rey. Edwin R. Bower, Professor of The- ology in Lincoln University. Catholic Bishoo of Louisville, Ky., has prohibited any more religious services over the dead in houses or churches. They must be per- formed hereafter at the wraves. ‘The Toronto Globe gives tlc following sketch of the Bishop-elect of the Diocese, the Kev. Arthur Sweatnam: The venerable Archdeacon Swestnam, M. A., was born in London. Enzland, and graduated a¢ Christ's College, Cambridze, receiving the decree of M. A. in 1562, For the next three years he occupied several distinruisned positions in En- clial edncational institntions. chiellv ut Ishngton, aud in 1865 was invited by his Lordship Bishop Mellmuth, then Deun 6f Huron, to the re<ponsible pasition of Heud-Master of Hellmath Doys' Coi- lege, which he filled with great avility and snc- cess. After severing his connection with that in- stitation, he held for some time the position of Mathematical Master of Uvper Cunadau College. In 1872 he received a call from the Bishop of Hurun to_the rectorship of Grace Church. Grant- ford, and this position he dllea for two vears with much acceptance. Ile then returned to Lon- don and was appointed Canon of the Cathedral. Two vears ago he wus solicited by the Bishop to take bis prescut position of Assistant Minister and Acting Rector of St. Paul's Church, Wuodstock, and was appointed Archbishop of Brant. He ifas uniformly for many years past been appointed Clerical Secretary of the Sviod. and was chosen 10 the important oftice of Secrefary to the Bench of Bishobs during tne Provincil Synod. While bis_Lordship tne Bishop of Iuron ias absent in ZEurope for several months past, Archbishop Sweatnam discharzed the dutles of ' Commissars. Those who know the new Bishop intimately speak hopetully of nis administering the affawrs of s diocese in a manner that will ot fail to command respect, win esteem, ana further ihe interests of a Teligion which bears ever_in mina that really the all inall1s ** Christand Him cracified. ™ SABBATH SMILES. Why should a layman care for a sitting {n the .charch? A minister in the course of a sermon upon: angels alluded to thetn as “*an extinct race.” ¢ Matthew, Mark!” said the old gentleman; «Luke, John, to your Acts,” added tke mother. When a $2,000 clermyman s offered a $3,000 pastorate it is styled a * call,” whereas. in point of.fact, it is not & *‘call,” but a “raise.” And’ he generally ‘“sees it.” A little boy, sged 6 years, whose father makes apractice of going fishing Sunday, was asked by his tedcher what God did on the seventh day. “He went fishing, I muess,” was the reply— Turner's Falls Reporter. A man passing throuch a gateway fn the dark; ran azainst a post. “I wish that post was in) the lower regions!” was his angry remark,' “Better wish it was somewhere else.” said bystander. * You might run against it again.” A very old lady, on her death-bed, tn a peri- | tential inood, said: *I have Leeu a rreat sinner more than eighty years, and didn’t kuow it.”? An old darkey woman, who had lived with ber long time, exclaimed: *Lors! I knowed it all thie Hime T SN G g There was a tide in the affairs of Noab, taken at the flood, which did not lead on to glorious fortupes, though the patri-ark maunazed to keep his head above water, and save *the only com-: plete colfection of wild and trained animals in the world.”—.Vew Orleans Picayune. . “Where do you expect to 2o when you die, young man?” said & minister sternly 1o 2n un- godly scoffer. **I expect,” was the reply, “to the grave, but the chances are that I'll pall up in some blamed medical colleze or other.” The oreacher retired to write 2 sermon on the flip- pancy of the times.—Toledo Commercial. Dean Stanley makes no gestures when preach- ing, and staunds quite still. The story goes that one Sunday, after returning from church, he asked bis wife why the people looked so intent)y at him during the service. She replied: * How could they help it, dear, when one of your gloves was on the top of vour head all the time?” 1t had dropped irom his bat. **Now, child,” said 2 Sunday-school Super- intendent, who had been talking to his scholars abott rood people and bad people, “when Pm walking in the street I speak to some persons [ mect., and I don’t speak to others: and what’s the reason?” He expected the replv would be, ** Because some are zood and others are bad,” but to his discomfiture the weperal shout was, “Because some are rich and others are poor.” A Northern memister was fntroduced t0 a col- ored minister, and inquired after bis work: I preach, sab, on Col. Gordun’s plantation.” * How muny colored peuple have you there¥? *\ell, sah, 'bout a hundred und seveuty-five.” “Aad how mauy have you in the church?”’ *“Dat *pends, sah, altozether on de time ob year. In de ’vival time dey’s all members. In de backsliding times der’s nobody mewbers but Uncle Billy, and old Aunt Katy.” My brudren, I was passin’ fru_de paster dis mawuin’ and 1 saw a mighty fine bush o’ huckle- berries, and [ thought I would tote sum of ’em bum to de ole Wwoman, aud Ibadu’t no basket nor nutfin to pick ’em fn, and I looked aroun’ and foun’ a shingle, und’ begun for to pitk olt’ de betries and put’em on dat shinggle; but® dey'd roll off jes’ as fas’as I put *emon, and [ brung no berries hum to de ole woman. Brud- Ten, your prayers is jes’ like pickin’ huckleber- rics on 2 shingle; dey roll rizht off; dey don’t none of ’em go hum to de Heabenly Farder. A sense of duty often causes some ludicrons mistakes, as the Tollowiny story will illustrate: Near Duimfries lived a pious family who had adopted an orpban who was regarded as half- witted. He bad imbiped strict views oa religious matters, however, and once asked his adupted mother if she did not think it wrong for the® people to come to church and fall asleep, \er no better regard to the service. She replied shie did. Accordingly, before zoing to church the next Sunday, be filled bis pockels with apples. Oue bald-headed old man, who invariably went to sleep duriug the sermon, particularly attract- ed his attention. Sceing him as last cvodding and eiving nasal evidence of being in the L of dreams,” be struck the astounded sleeper 2 blow with an apple oo the top ot ms Lald pate. The minister and arcused congregution at once turned round and gazed indignautly at the boy, who merely said 1o the preacner, as he took an- other apple in his hand, with a sober, hozest expressivn of countenauce: * You preach; I'li keep 'em awake.”? CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev, H. T. Miller will preach this morning in the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes and Oaz Dr. D. avenues. Subject: **Pedestrianism.’ S. Johnson will presch in the eveninz. ““The Children's Crussde of A. D. 1812." Tae Committee appointed to solicit funds for a new churca will reportat the close of the morning's service. - —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Ten- ty-first street, at10:30 8. m. Evenini services at the Railrcad Chapel, No. 715 State street, at 7:43 . m. —The Rev. W. C. Yonaz, will preach this morn- ingia the Fallerton Avenae Charch. —The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach this morn- ingin tne Forty-first Street Charch. —The Rev. J.Munro Gibsop will preach in the Second Churcd, corner_of Michizan avenus and Tuwentieth street, morning ond cvening. —The Rev. Abbot E. Kittredge will