The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1867, Page 5

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. THE SYNAGOGUCS YESTERDAY. Corgregation Pocl Zedeck. ‘The congregation Poel Zedeck, which has been im existence some seven years, ha: ynagogue in the building on the northwest corner of Twenty- Binth street and Eighth avenue, the interior of which has been fitted out as a Jewish place of worship with great taste. The standing cougrega- ion, composed of German Israrlites resident ia tie vicinity, is small, and numbers only about Sifty. The congregation, however, increases gen- ~ pally considerably during Jewish festival and New Fear 's days, for the time —— Rey, Mr, Bern- stein is the Rabbi of this promising Jewish congre- , and he officiated at the servi yesterday, it no discourse was delivered, The services were f and of an ordinary character. The neual ebants and ceremonies were gone through, where- on the Sabbath prayera from the book of Gen- b 4 were read. Mr. E. M. Sperting is the President eof the congregation. Congregation B’Nai Jesherun. Asermon was delivered before the above con- gregation, in West Thirty-fourth sgreet, by the Rev. A. H. De Levante, lately from Kingston, Ja- maica, where he occupied the position of Jewish @inister and preacher for upwards of seventeen eeyears, The subject was onthe education of the vising generation and the duty of parents to rear ep their children to be true to their faith. His sermon was entirely extempore and of the ehoicest language. He said that religious priogiples should be so early instilled in the human mind, that a child should scarce semember wien it first began to learn or when it was without knowledge, so as to sssume the appearance of unborn, innate princi- les. His lecture was based on the example of pi manifested by Abraham of old. rT ‘now him,” says the in-pired historian, ‘that he witl command his children and his household after him to keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice @ud judcment that’ the Lord may bring upon Abratiam that which He hath spoken of him.” He arsed on the atte.tion of his hearers the natural ties by which their children were bound to them, to calculate the ruin wrought, tke respons.b lity disregarded, the author- ity ouwayed, and the confidence abused ‘by negiecti'g so importanta duty. With what a ingiy power he said, a parent’s love rules the fountain of the new born mind, that they may Make an early dawn by sowing good seed ere the ‘worid has sown its tares. He adduced as an evi- dence uf Divine retribution on the neglectful pa- Feut. the biblical illustrations of Hophni and Phineas, and of Absalom, whose conduct was so fe'ractory that they caused their parents to know and to feel the result of their past indifference; aad when the melancholy news of their death meached their parents’ ears, tiey exhibited the Most exiravagant and heart rending mani’ tions of sorrow. His remarks on the evils of ever indulgence as the very means of causing children to bring reproach on _ their Parenis for their over indulzence and mis- placed fondness, was exceedingly appropriate, and his concluding portion quite poetic in style. “+ Toil then,” he said, ** with the heart of a flori: Piant the seeds of virtue deep in childhood’ fruitful heart; cherish it and nurse it and ripen it % maturi y so that God may transplant it in the Gurden of Eden, there to rest till the resurrection of the uead, when some shall rise to everlawing Tige and some to everlasting shame and confusion.” The reverend gentleman is a candidate for the office of preacher in the congregation. elite Francais. A smal! audience assembled yesterday morning @t the synagogue No. 35 Sixth street, the occa- @ion being the usual ceremonial and sermon inci- dent tothe Jewish or rather the natural Sabbath according to. the Mosaic cosmogony. The edifice, pamed in Hebrew ‘'Shaarai Berocho,” is of Peculiar pattern and decorated with more strict regard to orientalism of feeling than any other Synagogue within the limits ef the city. Above what it would be fashionable to term shaped it or desk are some half duzcn inscriptions in Hebrew, ‘eurmounted with an aurevla symbolical of the revelation of Jebovah to hi: opie; windows re painted with strict reuce to tradi- tional types of decoration to remind one of modern days save that the organ bas supers:-ded the tinkling and tintinabulatiun of tlie cymbal, and pralms are set with regard the modern ratver than ancient musical expression. The ceremouial was opeved with the invocation, nd continued with strict adherence to the re- wieed Jewish li.urgy now , With few exceptions, in every one of the thirty or ‘orty synagogues ecat- tered here and there throughout the city. The serv- fees concluded, the officiating clergyman or minis- ter took his place at the desk, and delivered a brief discourse, poiuting out th: distinction between re- velatioc ‘pure and direct and revelation through pataral phen mena. The views of the orthodox Jews (ur couservat ves) 0] these several topics were explained in flurid Gallic, with all the Boridity of rhetorical illustration peculiar to that Bang: zB im sermon xe Pate I riot. not evcu oon ivery more alf an hour ; ani oui conclusion the thread of the services t taken up. An invocation, followed by cantil tions which were accompanied with the or, d the services-——with the exception of th of the day und the long Mosaic benedictio: ended, the sooprestige was dismissed and ar ‘all wended komew: » epuset. Services In the Brooklyn Synagogaes. ‘The usual services were held yesterday morning at the Jewish synagogue in Boerum atreet, which ‘Were aitended by a small congregation. ‘The ser- Won was in the German tongue, At the church of the Conuvregation Bethelohim, Pearl sireet, mar Concord, Rabbi Braudenstein eiliciated during the services which were held ered an address appropriate for chosen, There was @ fair congregation in attendance, Services were also held at the Hebrew church fe the Eastern District. to keep the Sabbeth until 3 a RCHE AND THE RODAN CHURCH. New Yous, Nov. 14, 1867, ‘To rae Eviror or Tus Hekaty:— ’ It will greauly aid our inquiry into the present Condition of the Church and the world, and of Romo in particular, to consider the rationa’e of feligion—why things have been as we read of them in times past, and why or how they Lave become what we now fiid them to be. ‘The orgin of evil has long perplexed tho @heologian and the philosopher as well as every thinking mind, and the truth on this subject has epparcutly eluded the searchings of the learned and the wise of every age. A few facts asre- veuled ia Scripture, carefully noted, will aid us fow in pursuing this question, ‘1 beheld Satan as lightning fall from ven,” Luke x., 18. “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,” Jude 6. From these two texts we learn where the evil commenced, and with whom—namely, in heaven, aud with the Qngels, the many foliowing one leader—Setan. ‘The next inquiry will be, why did God permit them to fail? and the evident answer is, because Be was dealing with intelligences, not with matter, ®or yet with instinct. In His material creations the Infinite has given to matter laws which cannot be evaded, and which enforce while they com- @aud obedience. Instiact is so slightly removed frow matter tuat the same line of reasoning elicits similar results; mere instructive beings would bey their ivstincts as matter yields itself to gravi- tation. Neither the one nor the other has option of obedience or disobedience. In the nature of things the philosopher will see that it wae different ‘with intelligences ; and, this admitted, the neces- pt Rat sano ‘that God should raise His in- te nces capacities fo 01 d fellowship with Himself, “beng. o “ This bei i then find the Almighty Creator carefull. Sroeed- ing towards this end, according to the inple imple ee to us in His own holy word. That found in His mode of proceeding i forming the surface of the earth, with all the surroundings of atnosphere, sun, moon aad stars, 80 as to make it a fit dwelling place for the being He intended to piace upon it, He commences at tie first neces- sity, and proceeds from step to # until flvally He creates man with aptitudes for noying all that He had ously made. After each se "1 t eo is ppl cag until wih entire satisfaction oes ioegres dais ond BOY than gp eral the NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1867.—TRIP LY SHEET. heavens, of which we are giveo en intimation in that beautiful in Job, charter xxxviii,, 4-Ll, “Where was’t thou when! jaidthe fo dations of the earth? Declare if thon hast under- standing. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line ? Whereupon are the foundatio s thereof or who laid the corner stone thereof: when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy,” &&, Observe the progression and the care, laying the founda- tion and the measures thereof, stretching the li upon it and fasteni the foundations ; then the music of the spheres as the creat orb, yielding to His impulse, swept into its own combination of law abiding influences, biriuoniousl: blending with them, and then the sympathy of the intelli- gences as all the sons of God shouted tor joy. Let us now apply this law of progression to the creation of intelligences, kee ing in mind the end to be attained—the raising of those intelligences to the position where they could appreciate the great ae and, with knowledge of Him in all His manifold wisdom and power, sympathize w th Him in all His work ; commune wich Him and have fellowship with Him in all things. ‘Tracing this progression from the first angelic formation until we come to Satan, the last and the hiches’, we find that the work is suspended becanse of the fall of that great and mighty spirit ; and the question arises, why did he fall? His leading away of a host and that host consenting to follow him show that we are justified in sup- posing that he was the highest and noblest spirit created by the Almighty; that very great- ness, in the absence of a certain knowledge of God, to which farther allusion will be made, filling him with the pride of conscious power, led to his rebellion against the yet but partly known Almighty Creator. What that ignorance of God was which, to the time of Satan's fall, existed in heaven among the intelligences we will now consider. Upon this point the Scriptures are clear and explicit. In Ephesians S11, it is written :— God, who created ail things by Jesus Christ, to the intent | that now unto ihe Brtsolpalities and powers in heavenly places might be (made) known by the Church the menifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which He pariome id Christ Jesus our Lord.” This passage ard -ntly points to a ‘‘manifo'd wisdom’ above that which was exhibited in the formation either of 1na- terial worlds or spiritual intelligences; with re- spect to which we find the sons of God in sympa- thy and “shouting for joy'’ at the success of the wonderful Worker w created all things. And as this ‘manifold wisdom” could be made known by the Church to the unfallen heavenly intelli- gences, and only by the Church, we are led back to the fiat command to man, upon which hung his immortality:—‘‘Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of geod and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dic.’ From these premises we now arrive at the conc'usion that it was the knowledg of evil which the inteliigences could not by auy means learn in heaven, where all was good; for every stage of creation, of matter or of spirit, God beheid that it was good. Consequently there was no display of the power ot Jehovah to cope with that evil in its operations, and to subdue even it to His will. It is in this respect that the experiences of the Church are found exhibiting His manifold wisdom; and for this reason it is that the angels desire to leok into the things happening here. The fall of Satan then proves that it was not possible to raise up the creature to that point of excellence which was necessary, and which, under the .hand of God and by His manifold wisdom, will yet be attained through redemption, in the absence of certain knoWledge among His crea tures of the infinity of the several attributes of the great eternal Father of Heaven, This knowl- edge is imparted to the angela of God by the Church; by God’s dealings with sin; by the utter destruction of the wicked one and } is hosts, and by the redemption of the world. The angels are made ‘‘ministesii pple sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.” (Heb. i., 14.) So that they have full oj ee of observing the workings of ain, and ivine grace, in tie be! gi aud deliverances of the peopte of God while exposed here to the assaults of the wicked one. This is the origin of evil, and these are the re- sults which God will attala while overruling that evil, in the exercise of His manifold wisdom and infinite attributes, What He will attain when the work of grace is completed and the kingdom of the Father re-established over all creation, it was His eternal purpose to attain. There can be no mishap to God, or mistake to be found tn His mani- fold wisdom. He knew from eternity every difi- culty in the way, aud in view of sata full and ce tlh eid Negron the ber nha ly hast thou prepared me; lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.” It will now be erceived that in order that these great aims be accomp ished, which aro “according to the eternal purpose which He pur- posed in Christ Jesus,” sin must be permitted to work fora certain . This certain time God has determined in His counsels, @nd at the ap- sees hour He will make a full end of it forever. en, with all the experiences derived from this true state, every created being will » Thy will be done,” for only so can order and happiness mpl i ce, and love, be made an eternal heritage in all tue wide domain of the Infinite. This end can only be sttuined by permitting evil to work ex ne the Mh pyec-eish A bess! wicked one; and allowing t ul n intelligences to perceive what is the fruit Seong forth by sin. If sino, under the guidance of the wicked one, could produce order, happiness, love, prosperity, why then the experiment was in 3 result is the opposite of these, and disorder, and misery, and hate, and ruin follow in its track, the wisdom of the Infinite is manifest in making the penaity of sin to be death. It is an absolute kecessity. No man will put an unsound piece into his work ; but will cast it away, or it would mar the whole. In man's wisdom, as in God's, the wages of sin is death—to be cast out forever. What, then, do we find at the present ripe period of the world’s history? That al” earthly overnments are vain; and that the wis- jom man, y sin, issues in “confusion worse cenfounded.” Asia, Europe, Africa und America cach brings its unwilling testimony to the inact. ** Men’s hearts are,” every- where, ‘failing thei for fear, and for looking after thore things which are coming on the earth.’’ And now if man were wise he would pray univer- sally that the folly of the Jews in asking a man for a king, when God was their King ; and the wicked- ness of man in making @ guvernment of majorities of wicked men be both reversed, and that God should again take tie government of the world and “reiga until He had put all enemies under His feet."’ Whether man desires it or not this is what God will do. When man rejects the soverei; ties on the prophetic platform—the divided Roman empiré—then the end is come; and God gives the Kingdom to the Son, “f belwid till’ the thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit.” Strange thut at this moment man, i the full pos<easion of his faculties and reason, cannot read this great lesson aright. Only the redeemed of the Lord who have believed oa Jesus, desire the coming of the Holy One; all the rest of mankind are for patching up. constitutions, and improving the forms of human governments, in the vain hope of @ tuture of peace and pro:- perity in the presence of that sin which God hates and will destroy, b. cause it desolates His creatures and ivsulte His divine ly. ‘this is the lesson of governmeuts; but darker and deadlier far are the stain and the sting of sin, seen in its operation ia the charches. When God called Abraham He said, “I will muke of thee @ great nation;” but eight years after this (according to our marginal chronology), we find Abraham saying, “ God, what wilt thou give me, seeing 1 go childless?” to which God replies, “ Look now toward heaven, and see the stars if thou able to number thei and He said unto him so shall thy seed be.” For sixteen years more had Abraham to wait and to live on these ‘¢ ises before isaac was born, Thue did God teach implicit faith to Abraham, so that when He makes ry Lope ee = be the delay or the seeming impossibility Performance (as in x 4 Abraham and ), there inp et to its al ods and demons in the very courts of 5 made for His own worship after the A heavenly, = in Re ¥ the of Man same people cruc it ‘hom, Isaac Faere all the promised Leet ‘ * Similar to this, but, if possible, even ef darker dye, is the sin of the ti grated into t! gentile church which was olive tree, and which of its root and fatness when the enura breaches were broken off, With the of the Lord ean cane the my cau express image person, w it of grace and truth; and with the mye | ot. aa endued with power from on high, we find the Christian Church, before the ministry of John was concladed, exhibiting ail the sins and wickedness reproved in the seven churches ot oo The rived} iniquity continned te wor! the last the Chareh, the woman who forth Jesus Rev. xii), flees away into the fn ene, herp re forgot his duty to the great Head of the Church as to sit, himself, in the temple of God, showing himself that he was Gol—the locum tenens or deputy on earth of Jesus Christ, who ix our ever present God; but thus falsely represented by this wicked ons as away from His people, over whom God has made Him to be head and chief forever. Time would fail to tell of the perversions of Christian truth tanght by this wicked one. Prayers to the Virgin Mary to infinence her son, a& Jesus hat spoken falsely when He iovit cone to Him, and promised that He would in no is if He had not shown His dying upon the cross that all who repert aud believe m Him might be saved, Purgatory, that miserable delusion whieh deceives down death in the vain hope that after the go'den bowl is broken at the fountain itimay be repaired in the unseen world of spirits; as though it had not been written, “The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin,’’ Transubstantiation, by which the priesta of Rome are represented as making God, in very deed, and eating him: that heaven is gained by eating, not by repen faith in the Lor| Jesus as the Savior sent o! to deliver from death every one who desires #1 vation from sin and death and believes in Him, How wonderful it must appear to the watching angels when thy see this charch, called of God, as were the Jews, falling, like them until this wicked one cansed the blood of tae saints to flow like water, while the visible and well known im- purities of the several Pones, while calling them- se'ves the Vicars of Christ, and sitting in the temple of God as Him, exece in filthiness and atrocity anything ever done in Sodom and Go- morrah; indulging in sina of the darkest dye, while claiming infallibiliry, and murdering the saints of God while claiming to be the Head of the Churen. His days are num- bered, thank God. He arose when the Romin empire was divided; his time is 1,260 years, then shall the saints escape out of his hands, for the ancient of davs will then appear, and*give the kingdom to the Son- (Dan. vii.) and then they will be taken by the angels to meet thé Son of God coming in the gl (Matt, xxiv., 30, 31, and Thes. iv., 16, 17.) Let os trace for a moment those risen saints during the time that the Lord Jesus is consuming and i t wicked one to the end. In Rev them taken from the earth and standing before the throne of God clothed m white praising the God of heaven, In Rev. xiv,, ¢, rd from heaven, cheering their voices are the Lamb as He stands upon the Mount Zion, in tha midst of His covenant “people, the twelve tribes of Israel restored to their nationality, In Rey. xix., 1, 3, we find them again praisng God on the fall of that harlot city, Rome, the mother of harlot churcl; when she is con- sumed by the ki ee of the xvii. chapter, who have no Inngdom yet, but reeeive power as Kings one honr with the beast—the Presidents of the “United States of Enrope This exuliation is not repressed; on the contrary, it is said in verses 5-7 that a voice came out of the throne calling upon them to praise God in still louder strains, and in answer it is written that “I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice ef many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings” (the apostle seems at a loss for words or similes to tell of the greatness of this rejoicing in heaven of the multitude which no man could number), “saying alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” Again, in xx., ll-l4, we find this mutitude of risen saints coming out of heaven un- der the command «and _leaders»ip of the Lord Jesus as He comes to reign for a thousand years:—‘And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine lisen, white and clean.” ‘The white linen is the righteousness of saints.” Again, xx., 4, “And T saw thrones and they sat upon them, and judg- ment was given unto them.” This is the history of the risen church while the Lord Jesus is pouring out the vials of His wrath upon Rome aud a, rebellious and wicked world, in accordance with the prophecy which went before. Isa. xxvi., 20, 21, ‘Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were fora little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.’ ‘There will be no concealment of crime in that day, for God ia judge ; and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of Hix ears, but with righteousness shall He e the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.” (Isaiah xi., 3, 4.) The Church is in the wilderness (Rev. xii., 14), but what, then, are those organizations called churches in this day’ They are composed of “the remnant of her seed which keep the command- God and have the testimony of Jeans Christ” (Rev. xii., 17) mixed up with @ worldly element from which it is vain to try to separate themselves, and undesirable if even possible. Could the true believers be all separated from the mere feasors, they to sustain e direct per- secution of Satan and the world, and to stand alone in the midst of ments surcharged with hate and wrath Thy bean needs the until it is ripe, and then if ‘wil! be planted in a holy land and oxphere. Wi! builds the edifices, supports the minlaters, pa,» all the expenses? Who foes for liberty of con- science and preserves it? ho eaintetas order and decorum as well as the various institutions for geen peace and repressing crime? I trow it the pod in much Lge roportion than the bean. Hence the folly of secking, py roarger Aeok obtaining, a-pure charch until the Lord Jes makes the separation and reigus in right: “Let both grow together until the har- Every Christian will of course attach himself to the o1 n where he can enjoy the aay teaching; and, us a lazar-house, avoid . Soon the command, “Come ovt of her, my people, that ye be not partaker with her sins; and that ye receive not of her pl es; for her sins have reached unto Heaven, and God hath remem- bered her iniquities,’’ will proceed from the nord Himself with authority and power. 1 will not now trespass farther upon your space, but on another occasion, if God will, may show some of the sbaurd departures of these organiza- tions from scriptural truth; which exhibit the power of error and sin in misleading the human mind viewed in its most favorable aspects. From what ia written J trast many Christians waiting for the Lord will see that the day is near when the Lord Jesus will come to take them to himself. Tue thrones are toppling ; the revolution is emoulder- ing, only to break forth with redoubled fury: and ‘then it will assuredly accomplish that which is written. ‘‘ When they shall say peace and safety ; then sudden destruction cometh upom them, as travail upon @ woman with child; and they shall not escape.” (1 Th v. 3.) The thrones will be cast down, and then the Lord will appear in his glory and will build upSion, Amen. May these words lead the thoughtless to reflect and to (| Jesus; and the believers to look up and r.joi their redemption draweth nigh. ele, INTERESTING CHURCH STATISTICS. The following statistics, gathered by the Ameri- can Christian Commission from the reports of city missionary societies, city census, Bible societies, &c., give a glimpse of the religious destitution existing in our country :—~ Leavenworth, Kansas, has a lation of hig The members of Protestant churches are 2,203. At most, not over 3,000 persons of Leaven- worth attend Protestant plac es of worship regu- larly, leaving 20,000 souls, or seven-eiguths of ‘the po lation, not re ularly reached by the Gospel. Joseph, Mo., haw a ulation of 19,000. It has ten Protestant churches, with a total mem- Lia 3 scastee and — freee « for 3,000, jeav 000 persons who could not be accommo- dated fa the Protestant churches. St. Louis, Mo., bas @ population of 204,327. Of these 171,743 are over five years of age. The sit- tings in the Evangelical etiurches number 23,329, leaving 148,404 persons over five years of age who could not be accommodated in the Evangelical churches; and yet those churches are seldom fully ocenpied. The mt if present, by actual count, in those churches on pleasant Sabbath in October, 1864, was:—Morn' service, 12,052; second service, 8,376; leaving—t service, 11,287 vacant seats; second servi 963, Waupacca county, Wis., with opulation of 12,000, has but 4, church-goers—leaving *,600, or OY aie of Population, anreached by the gospel. nox county, Ill., has a population of 34,401, of whom 27,861 are over six years of age. Total pumber of church members in the eounty, 5,094— leaving 22,767, or at least three-fifths of the popu: lation, over six years of age not connected with a Evangelical church, in Chicago, 160,000 persons are without the in- fluence of the Gospel, as prenened from the pul- pit. Of these, 40,000 spend the Sabbath in saloous and German gardens. Boston, Mass., has # of 192,000. te has 100 places of worship, avera, providing crommodations for 60,008, and leary 32,000 ‘whom there is no place in'the house of God. Trenton, with « Nation of 20,000, Protestant families Sib never elon caer 7 New Brunswick, with » population ef 11,000 Soh futiion whe Giterie nogloct the oaieey In New York City, ina recent canvass in twenty- two wards, containing 4,726 famill 1,925 families were found professediy attending evangelical churches, 2,112 attending unevangelieal churches, while 689 familios, by their own confession, at- tended no church whatever. New York city has a population of about 1,900, 000, It ras 375 Protestant churches, with sittings for 200,090 and a total membership of 64,000, It has 450 churches, chtpels and missions of all kinds, with accommodations for 300,000, leaving abont 700,000 in New York city on the Sabboth who could not attend religious services in the churehes if they desired, ani yet these clurches are seldom all fully ecenpied. The population’ of Cleveland, Ohio, is 69.279. The number of si tines fin all the churches, Pr teatant, Romanist and Jewish, is 27,200, leaving 42,078 persons in the city on the Sabbath for whom there is no room in the house of God, and et these churches show many vacant seat here are in that city 19,000 persons over fi years of age who are never fonnd in any place of public worship—1,231 families, no member of whieb attends any church. Mr. Amasa Walker, of Massachusetts, has taken the trouble to ascertain the salaries of 1,000 reachers of various denominations, living in 8 different States, They vary in amount from $300 to $5,000 a year. The salaries paid in 1860 and ‘n 1865 were taken by him for the purpose of comparison, Of the returns, 450 were sufficiently defnite and full to enable him to give the following result:— Average silaries in 1860, $772 35; average sala- ries in 1865, $907 average gratuities per year, $2377; averay: vance in salaries for 1860 to 1865, 17.4 per cent; average advance in salaries and gratuities, 21.7 per cout, Tt is nearly one hundred years since the rise of Universalism in America, It is probable t! at ite Centenary will be celebrated in 1870, which year will complete a century trom the landing iu thi country of John Murrvy, the father of the den nation. Itnow comprises about seven hundred ministers and about tive husdred organized x0 ties. Of these considerably more than two-thirds are found in New Engiand and New York. Tho States in which they seem to be strongest aro, in the order named, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Main Vermont and Siinois, in New Je whic! ms the honor of ‘the landing,” the re but four societies and three preachers. More than a million of dollars was raised by them the last year for educational and ovary purposes aud tor the erection of church edifices. Seven news: papers and three magazines are published in the interest of Universalism, aud the socicty haseleven | educational institutions in tuis country, some of them well endowed. The whole number of mi. the Reformed Dutch Churel i of whom 107 are without pastoral cha whole number of persons ad:ed to the 444 churches of this order during the past year is 4, or an average of about 10to aciurch, Tue sum o 0 tribated for purposes of general Christian ben volence during the year is $277,000. The receipts of the American Board for June Were $21,103, Last year, for the same month, they were $30,053. This shows an unpleasant falling off of avout $9,000 for the month. For the ten months of the year up to July 1, the receipts have been $309, Last year, for the sam period, they were $312,941. ‘The donations, how- ever, have fallen oft $22,833, while there has been & gain of $19,842 in legac.es. We learn that the receipts for the month of July pul no more fuvora- ble aspect upon the matter, CHURCHES OF THE UNITED STATE The report on the state of religion in the United prepired by Henry B. Smith, D, D ‘nion Theological Seminary, and pres to the General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance recently in session at Amsterdam, is a document of great interest and value, containing within ¢ small compass a vast amount of informa- tion in regard to the st.te and progress of religion in this country. We condense from the annexed statistics, which wiil be found convenient for ref- NUMBER OF CHURCHES, BTC,, IN THE UNITED BTATER, Churches, Communicants, Roman Catbol: 2, Methodists, - be Presbyter! 5.000 Congregation 2.780 Protestant Episcopal 2.300 German Reformed 1,160 Dutoh Reformed. 440 United Brethren about 3,000 societies. Moravians about 12,000 communicants. Anitarians about 300 charehes. Universalists include about 600,000 of the popa- lation. orthodox, about 54,000 Friends or Quakers, members, Friends or Quakers, Hicksites, about 40,000 membere, RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. The Chnrch of the Ascension in thia city has widertaken to establish @ new church, and have a'ready secured for temporary occupation a church in Thirty-fourth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, where services are held every Sunday morning and evening. The up town tendency of the population necessitates the change. The present beautiful edifice is to be maintained to ad- minister to the religious wants of the residents in its immediate vicinity. The rector is assisted in this enterprise by the Rev. Percy Browne, who has already established a reputation as one of the most earnest, impressive and intellectual of our younger preachers. The consecration of Bishop Walsh on the 11th inst. was one of the most imposing Catholic cere- monies ever witnessed in Canada. Ali the Ca: dian bishops present; also Bishop Conroy ot Alba da large number of Catholic dignitaries from the United States. The Archbishop of Que- bec, assisted by Bishop Lynch, administered the oath. The services lasted five and a half hours, and were of the most imposing character. ‘The Baptists of Lanark, lil., are about to erect a new house of worship, Rey. T. J. Sawyer, Universalist, has been ten- dered Professorship of Theology in Tatt’s College, Somervilie, Mass. He wili probably ac- cept. St. Nicholas Hall, Saratoga, has been purchased by the Congregational Society as a site for a church for $30,000. The Prebpene Convention and the Evangeli- cal Knowledge Society of the Episcopal Church, which were in session at the same time in Pintn-~ delpbia, fraternized. The Episcopalians belonged to the extreme Low Church pariy. The Con tient Churchman believes the whole affair was a sham, and remarks that Mr. Stuart, who welcomed Bishop Melivaine, did not call him Bishop, and that the Bishop on his part could not acknowledge the ordination of the Presbyterian clergy.’ There has been adebate on baptism at New- between Messrs. Jump, of the Metho- I, and Fil of the Chureh,"* at the conclusion of which all the Methodists wero couverted to sprinkling aud the Baptista to im- mersion. A great triumph for Messrs, Jump and Filippo !—Evangelist, The Rev. Dr. Jackson, President of Trivity Col- pas ew in Lurope, will sail for home on Novem er oO, The Rev. Dr. Weston, rector of Christ church, Stratford, has been eleeted to the rectorship of Christ church, Newton, N. J. The late Mrs. William H. Phelps bequeathed the sam of $5,000 to the parish of St. James, Winsted, and also her residence, to be used parsonage. They have o pleasant of meeting for wor- -~ in Iceland. They gal her about the church al welcomed by kisses The priest makes his appearance c each new comer all around. among them a8 @ friend; he ralutes them indi- viduaily, each member of flock, and stoops down to give his almost paternal kiss to the little ones who are to grow up under his pastoral charge. The offices of kindness performed, they all go together into the house of prayer. A new Methodist church at Tuckahoe, Cape May county, N. J., has been completed, the coat of the structure being $12,000, all of which has been paid. The church is finished and furnished in the beat style. The New Jersey State been in sea one bundred a The object of the Com eres Lo str weak in New Jersey, rin: have been expected for and fourteen young stadents been assisted. A new Methodist séminary is to be erected at Vineland, N. J. 1¢ will be one hundred and forty- four feet wide, with wings at both ends, extending fifty-six feet from front te rear, It is to be four stories high, surmounted by » cupola. Since the commencement of revival meetings in the Metbodist cin at Belvidere, N. J., one hundred and fahty. Persons have professed conversion one hundred and thirty have con- nected themaeives with the ehurch. The being represented, vention is the Tortaation of ing of those which are @ past year $5,000 arposes stated, for the ministry have 5 WITTICISMS. ialicions person and all the books belonging to | he Suoday school library we ruyed. The ev, James Fr pastor of the Bea aeRO UREN RE Unitariaa church in stun, wich the | Yrom the Eventug Teiegram Governor Andrew ‘wht s metuber, made, in OF) upon the watars—A cargo of peiroe ia. ‘ egs at the funeral, the follo country for Tivery-meu— Barns remarks: — Sneeessful cane! stew rye nicow waa the frat, Tb ¥ revolution—-Sprike among the ary goods Jouts of thir pry . Why is an a 2 " bee ae Iedian wairou! Be mtzena Wu had hoped .0 have here 1 ee 7 “ ot & dear friend of this, but bodes been | sacensue of the childrem of as neighbor yet let me read a few tines of bis Kuploy aa organ grinder dye minutes, e—“ frying as it fs te uo, aud exceedingty ch ry neka's are said to De the bess men to dis nul to refuse the request, Feannrt meet you and the | purse a crowd. n pail other revercud xoutlewan to-morrow me ’ oil} iate at a olecea erin tu Holy wo gh FA cal sd ian inentioued in 'be Bible? half-past twelve o'clock. It is a aclome Geownias wit | = Pharoats ma “ruler” of im, | autho! sesh st {might be ablo | porting man proposes to got @ race between | anage MALLETS 80 as toy ye ine aa Oppariauity Lo 4 od burri-caue, i nun Act of love and re toward the aacred | bute song, “To Greece we give oar remains of @ friend whom i nave loved and est } oben ades., - with an intensity of alle ¢ surpassed " with which 1 love my brothar, aorantor ‘ed by A fesvionabla party is now cailed a “daugbtereultura | dear tome. His coming to my house wlwaye show } ame Darmg the long spelis of wate whieh fam | athe dipper of a public pump, which al] may | subjected, bis visits, which were frequen!, did.me | driuk of but pone carry away, n hearty day's good. cannot ex what I feet about | in wants to 7 Ry bunt nave toes wrvionea aie cL aboat: | Aina i Tualatey sri Se eae et wthekey Re God help What ts this tite, a | At what time ahould an iunkeeper visit an iron found- | ry? When be wants a bar maid, Why mia with a termagant wife be con- sidered 4 fellow? Because lie’s # sbrew'd indi idua’ NEW WORK STATE The OGicial Vote for Seer RLS hh: ——— man marries his honsemat it may be wads ber to tue high measal aitar, wie, | Counties, ohean, , wnaccustomed to society, said to his part~ . a waltz, “Les me lake you Wo your supor- | ——-— — | sae! A cvritor, ‘0 speaking of bonnete, save the coal acuttie | Broome... o vogue when blushing was koowa, bul bon aie | Ca\tarangua s Cayuse 4,015 roy rats, eatob them ous by one, aud fatten Chautanqi 3.814 | their heads with ibe tomou squeszor. Chepanzo 8,930 | To drive fies out of the hou but your molasses bar- Cimon 3,689 | rel ond preserves iu the back yard, Im the sun, ln 4,533 | Ty kill cockroaches get w pair of big boots, then eateh CeEODNY: your covkroa:hes, pat (bem iu a barrel and dance oy’a asptration:—"0, how T wish I wet ain, for then I could always 98 play ing.”? Wack of the spostios was the best cvcket player? Yani, who “stood up beiore the eleven, aud was bold. Whon isa flea hke a locomotive? When it goes over the siespers. When will the laondresses strice? Whon the iron’s bot. It is the Jot of humanity to err at times, as the | 11121 | drunken wan said whea bo misiouk the pig sty for mie | RO bearoom, 3 Here 1s a French joke:—Costomer—‘‘Have you packed 4, stor Madam? Goqvea 6 that there will be | 2 Slorekeeper~ ‘On, wever fear, 1 bave | . | acrapod off all tue brimstone,” | 4 An editor became. martial, and was created captain | 7 On parade, iusiead of “ive paces in frou neo !"? | 2'479 | be unconsctorsiy bawled ous, “Cash—iwo dollara « | 1,073 | year—advauce |”? 3.145 | ‘Jallus, did you attend de last mecting ob de debat- 4,191 | ing society 7? “Yea, wir.” Well, woat was de tos 1.998 thing dat come afore de house?” “Why, it was a char. 3,114 | coal cart.’? ahs. LASt | «How do you and your wife geton?”? Oh, rather Suffolk, 3572 | padiy; sho gave me her band a wuile ago and I thankec Sullivan 3.521 | her: she gives it to mo mow every time I ypeak, and i'é sel estigat 3.982 | thank her not 10.” Waren. Lots | “What makes your cows s0 cross?” sald an old Indy Wasnrngion.. 8 to the mikinan the other day. + Cross, madam? they Savee i are ihe gontiest things m the world.’ *' Well, the milk Werichester, 8293 | always sour!?? tho matron replied sharpl Wyoming.......- 2,298 A democratic paper having asserted that " Genera) ree Sherman is the coming mau,” the La Grange (Ga ) Re- Total 4 285,540 | porter revilos:—We shail bo sorry if he comes this way doa't want tosee him. again; Democratic majority in above coun't 67 929 | A minister baving preached tho same discourse to bis Reput'ican majority in above counties in 1566. 2919 | peopie threo times, one of bis constact hearers said to Incroaso of d -mocratic voto, 74) hint after services: Doctor, the seriou you gave us De vease of republican vote, | this morning baa bad three several readings, Imove Total decrease in the vote in aties. . The thirteen counties from which no ollieia! returas have been received, gave 10 1866 81,930 votes for Fen- that it now be parsed.’ The latest style of bonnet has turned up at Richmond Ind © It is described as “consisting of two straws, ved i | together with a bine ribbon on the top sue head, and ton and 81,060 for Hoffman, being = majority of 810 | ret assels suspended at each ef the .our ends of the These, however, include nearly all of the counties tM | straws. Price $19, which the democratic gains have been largest, ahd the A lover wrote to a lady who rejected him, saying that vote is ertimated as fullows:—-McKean, repub'icaa, 73,500; | he iniouded to retire ‘to some sociud d spot ant breathe Nelson, domocrat, $9,490. Democratic majority, 15,090, | @¥S¥ Mis life ip sigs.” To which tho indy rephed, q quiring whether they were to be medium or larg size, anit Will probably be the full voto of tho | “We Gone know that our young men generally have catorn tm their eyes, but they bave & great many watorialls, Vote in 1967.......... ’, ,| eeeiiead We are advised to waich our tongues, but unforte rs peary pay rap nately thoy are #9 located that we can’t wee them, Total vote in 1867...... ‘The differonce beiween economy aud extras nee in a lady's toilet is said to be shows ia were cash aud Casb- mere. A cinart fad, hearing bi fond of music, exciaime mea drum??? ‘The reason why pretty women can't see their own de. fects is that toey are unwilling Wo pluck the beams ous Neleon, dem. McKean. rep. 320,411 375,236 Decrease im the wote...,.........5 ‘The vote cast for the democratic candidates at the recent élection was the largent ever polled by sny politi- cal party in the State, The folowing table showing the vote of New York on all elections of importance will be other remark that sho was shen Wuy don’t you buy intoresting :— | of their own bright eyes, ‘ort’, | Asentimental cld bachelor says a woman's heart i« sabe Ho pe irae | the “sweetest’’ tuing in the world; ia iact @ periec 361,986 6.749 | honeycomd—fu!! of celts, 352,526 13 189 ‘Tha young indy who burst into teara has been pur 375,336 “45,925 | togethor again, and is vow wearing hoops \o ent ibe majority, x recurrence of the accident, Is will be observed that the absolute democratic gain “Nancy,” said “which raii- road train do Nancy, “which “Marm, ma} a-fisbing?”* suid @ little, flaxen baired urchin. ‘Yes, sonny, but cout go Rear the water, And remember, if you're drowned 1 avail skin you ag sure as you're alive,”" A young lady with geiden bair, silvery voice, and « toveh of irony in her conversa ion, may be regardea, if Not too brazen faced, a beile of pretty high muttie ave Bot tikely to be ea ily mislead. In & graveyard in Lagrange, Tenn, is said to be o tombatog. wiih this inscripiva-— Hero les old twenty per cent: The more he got a he spent » More he got the mure he craved ; If he gets to heaven we'll ail ve sa°ed, The latest improvement im stock is a now breed of cain in Vermont, which have tails only an inch lone. ‘dhe advantages elaimed fur suc tails is What they cac- not get uoder a rocking chale or be stepped upon, a ‘Wat the door can be closed quicker when they gu out Why are women like churches? Firstly, because there is no living without one; secondly, vecause there is many a-spire to them; thirdly, becuase they are ob- jects of adoration; and ta-tiy, Bal by bo tivaus Irastly, ‘because they have a loud clapper in their upper siory. “Papa, plonse bay me @ muif when you go to Bow ton,’ said litile three year old Ruth, ier sister Minnie hearing this said:—*t You are too 1 le \o nave. a mull’ Lae Wo litle to be cod?” rejoined \ue sadiguant os A marriage notice having been sent to a paper for pub Heavjon, (he name of the bride being Aova Girdon, the parties were horrified the 4 gridiron.” Lhe feck might pave been so; but is was tne Lovey moon 10 be siaicd Will @ prospect tince Inst year is 22,810 and tho radical loss 29,904, or a 080; Fepliea ota! loss of 62,714. or. MYSTERIOUS AFFAR IN THE BOWERY. A Saloon Keeper Supposed to be Fatally Shot-The Perpetretor Arrested by . an Otticer and Relensed—AntceMertem State- mont of the Victin. A most mysterious and, probably , a fatal care of shoot- {ng occurred in the Bowery short!y before two o'clock yesterday morning. At the time mentioned a man, Whose name is unknown, apperred at the lager beer saloon of Jonn Stescer, 213 Bowery, as he was about closing the piace for the night, and, knocking at the Bowery entrance, demanded aamittance under the pre_ tence that be had lost his collar there carjier im the evening. The stranger was not admitted when he went to another door on Rivington street and altempted to break itopen. Tho reckloss intrader was Fequonted to make less noise, but, instead of doing so, he atiempted to strike Mr, Steiger, and atthe same time, drawing a pistol, discharged it, the ball entering the right side of the saloon kooper. Mr. Steiger ran out imto the street and fell on tho sidewalk immediately, efter which the man who discharged the pistol, as Steiger alleges, was arrested by an officer who ran from the Pourtcenth wari side of the Bowery, and confronted with bis victim, by whom he was fuliy identified. Bteigor says that the officer, who was in uniform, sub- requently released the prisoner, who thereupon made be pe, and is stil! at ierge, was couveved to the New York | The w map Hospital and placed under the caro of Dr Charios | kisses ‘Washbarp, oo n. De bern, on examin~ | but wi tng the woont his patient, foun the buliet hed entered tie on the right mde, between the third | _ A company phone and fourta ribs, passing inwards, downwards and back- wards, probably wound ng the lung avd otter vital organs, Mr, Steiger was yesterday nuffering from the shock sustained, end the surgeon considered Sim to to in a very critical Condition, wiih the ch ineas very much ageinat bis recovery, The wif and four clinuren of Mr Steiger wero yesterday iv atendacce upon him at tho me its of rival bnreaiw tonished ty the. exclaiming machine sbe knew who bouse the the best thresh in, Je of the ow y « J eap, 1) Mat Yeu, my boi male out of @ ; 80 we are hospital, tow.” “Well, Pil be banged if T beneve fy cause if— Vicilant efforts are now being mado to rearrest the | if we was, whee we swoat wouldn’Git be muddy 7? itty party, and ai80 to ascertain thefmame of the 4 Oa Saturday lasts now churen bell waa put into the officer. It is barely possibie that Mr, Stetaer tow 1 oF tne erwalist church at Kennebec, M out the askarsin baving heen arrested br | was rang for Grst time, 9 Metropul tan police aod divanarced by oald such be the case the name of th ofepder must certainly be known, Corauer Gover yo: terday proceeded to the hospital and took Mr, Stoiger ante mortem Ftatement as follow: 1 keep at 213 Bowery a lager beer saloon; this morn- ing at aboot a quarter 10 two o'clock as LT Wwax golog (0 close my_place some one Knocked ot the door on the Lowers; | opened it when a tall man with red whiskers and mousiachs, and three deep scare or‘ents onthe nght wide of tho nose, demanded admitiacce, saving be tad Jort bis collar in my piace; I had never seen the person before; 1 eaw that he had his collar om, aod told bim 80; 1 would not admis him, and be went around he corner in Rivington strevt where there ig another door lending to my place among (he vigiiant fremen, w their engines, when a man who understood the cme cried out to them, @rhat 1s the now bell of the Univer aalisis, aod there ie no fire about them '” Tne Kennebec (Me ) Journal relates two bank stor Locks ho wantet, stat desominaiions he would prefer, aud he was « Freewill oe So ond he guessed he'd take the bolt of them im that denomination, Arreats bave bean mate of the man who war intox- caled wih suceens, and tbe individual Who was Mtagger- ed by Lhe resuls, A traveller wat (pduced to go into a cook shop by this Inscription, * and bovled at iwo pence ® head,’ He was not a litle Risappomied by two courses of po laLoes ‘ A Wisconsin paper, doacribing a large farm which th« advertiser wants to soil, adda the folowiag:—"The sur: rounding counter 18 most beautiful; aisy two wagons and a yoke of steers.” and attempted to wick it in; I went and epenea the door, when the person ran back to the rear on the Bowery, asked an bour of the nigh me, aod I ran down to piace to . and tred to close the door, when [ was showin tio mght side by him; 1 the DO provocation to aboot me; | never bad Gificalty with him before, and never knew his being in my piace; Of all the specimens of German-English rapby 1 @o not koow who he in of what | the Teaw ht, that of a country tavern keeper in the name of the person who shot me; as room ag L | if the most ox jatiog, fe has *p od hin mn’? was nbot I screamed “Watch’ and “I arm shot,’ and ran | end it reads, “Deshdevele Nodrudhd’’—'Positively No ‘up ous of my piace; | fell on tne sidewalk, and white | | Trust’’ was lying there an officer brought the man to me who had shot me; | recognized the man and told the officer that he was the man xbo shot mo; I heard the officer ofterwards let the man go Iwas then brought te thie tat, “ evening, and after the above was written, Infor. mation wos received that it was officer Kellerd, of the Torth — precinet, bad mina Sept ite ated te 0 . boned ifthe bangs had been Sneaeke One T’ preve 20,"" was the reply, “tor T it to Unele Ben, and be told bie wife more than a week ago,’ wha arreated fo WR teesite Wen whom