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from Numbers, twenty-third chapter, tenth verse— “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.’» He said:—This is a natural and common wish, hope that our ends may be that of the just. How- ever we live, we hope that something is to hap- pen to us which shall ft us to die and for the life be- yond the grave. It seems to me the man whose gion; he had @ very great respect for it; he could pray as in the text, and he also could prophesy the final glory of God’s people. adopted atone of preparation for death not sound or good. This wish, common as it is, is not the best for usto have. It is good in its place, but by no means one thata man should take for the ruling of his life, I suppose we Have inherited some of the feelings of the Komish Church for extreme unction, and we are also infuénced by the Calvin. istic teachings on this point, After a long life spent ip devotion to .the world Inevitable sickness comes, and then, with death staring him in the face, the dying man at the last moment sends fora minister, who comes and preaches to him that Gospel which he has despised, for three-acore years and ten. A few broken ‘itence come from the suiferer, and God forbid I should It seems to me we have fast moment. God’s mercy He is patient with us, and even sinner’s last moments His arms are wful thing to think that i for possibilities and one is always over us; ay portunities which God in idence might deny us. More than once inmy have I stood at bedsides where that hope poor soul dritt out ithies of this world without that it trust in the mere; would have secured its salvation. ‘was disappointed. I have seen the beyond the Jast word to bi Then Jacob ut- FEE he cared about what he was doing from day to'd oo ig A if there was no Saviour? How many are there who until their last days without they hve, but buoyed up by the hope that ey live, but buoyed u; é ho} ry ay an opportunity for Fepe <i that last oppor- ‘ ity Many of them never comes. Do you think a man who hag been living sixty or sev the besarte of ven fee world for fit for the inherit a few brief words of repent- ance uttered on his deathbed fits him to enter defiled can come? many such, no doubt; but = Lge s “hope, cows Dy acts wl fe but his life i Wi any miracie than that God prince $334 Hi Eg eae ge ebe i grEy i 5 F 5 t : i ei i at i r} 33 So ie 28 ege a 55 ie g f s Ss oa Place not the power to help the al be supported ways be up| mattel Cathedral, where hign mass was celebrated by the Rey. Father McGean in the usual solemn manner. At the Gospel the Archbishop, who had been mean- while seated on the episcopal throne, ascended the pit and read as his text the twenty-second chap- ter of St. Matthew, first to fourteenth verses, inclu- sive:—“And Jesus answered and spoke to them in parables,” &c, The king spoken of in the selection, he sald, was meant tobe no other than the King of Kings, the Lord of heaven and earth. The son was ur Lord Jesus Christ and the bride was the Holy Church on earth. The wedding feast was the spiritual banquet for all invited within the house of The good things set 2 E : 3 & Bs z H E i iE HH cence was lost. Go where we would in this cit; outhful wickedness was manifest, jud, drunkenness, vice and crime ‘were everywhere to be seen. Was God going to gi Hie Le ee to taped ae Satan and contume- lio reatedphis serv: re} for It was evident such Heaven was for the led. God had appointed tend His paar were the many. ed and just. ee who were especiall, iriests, who were to rf ministers to teach His iked to make their offer- tical seminary of the dioc the priests were taught in the science an Knowledge requisite to prepare them for the work of Preaching the word of God. | Th men now at their studies. Their education entail the sick and dying, much less to w: os vineyersice sonis, Sea red that to enter the narrow gate both the word and the work. At the close of the ‘I Est’ the Archbishop Dathedal wae a very lorge and included the very tothe of from ex-Sheriil Keily. Ward Beecher, « Despite the unfavorable aspect of the morning the church was crowded to the doors almost before the ‘twenty-fifth vers: ‘And every man that striveth for the mastery 18 emperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain @ corruptible crown; but we are in- corruptibie.” The reverend gentleman proceeded to dilate upon the great self-denial practised by the ancient athletes'to obtain the honor of wearing @ wreath, and in siinding to the prize fighters of the shew ears corns onan ez ive Coy Re Sei id or, an proaching contin yt an houresnce half, attend with brutal results. But they had @ motive in jhus vigorously controlling them- selves, and the maanerin which they showed this ‘was mirvellous, How faithfully, too, dia @n¢ military men surrender the ton hardahip. ‘of every” asscrption, ‘and thas ever: tio! perhaps, for theem)ty motive of ambition, Commer- cial men, he said, practised self-denial to an extent that would be mos! commendabie in a better cause, tolling night and cay for the accumulation of wealth which they never eijoy, In other paths of life am- bition was the gree foal which men 60 1; sought, The writ ae of a former Preside: tad nad great effect upon hs mind in his boyhood. He was great man, endoved with many excellent qualities . of ar intellect inferior to few; but he was devoid, not of moral sentiment, but of moral sense. He of a broken heart, counting his whole life to have been & tal failure. And yet his was & great nature—a néture to be looked up to—but his whole life was speni in gooking. the Poot, paltry ofi0e that n le & man of the Presidency, m office over great there were toc many instances to show. r adverting to the socalled respectable religion highly characteristic manner the preacher concluded by exhorting the coagregation to practice self-denial with motives of a pure and exalted nature. The services terminated shortly after twelve o'clock. Trinity Chapel—Afdress by Bishop Talbot, of Indiana. A very large congregation was present at the mis- sionary meeting held last night in Trinity chapel in West Twenty-fifth street, At the commencement of the services the officiating clergymen and choristers, robed in white and chanting hymns, entered the chancel from the choir in procession. After the read- ing of the litany, the Rev. A. Schuyler entered the Pulpit and preached from Luke, twenty-third chapter and ninth verse, ‘Make to your- selves friends of the mammon of unright- eousness.” The preacher traced the practice or custom of offerings from its inception, and showed how mammon, which, he said, was the representative of any value a man might Possess that could be meas by a money standard might be used so that the term unrighteous would not Spply to it, The lon for money was one which should be carefully kept under. Those whom the Lord blessed with Prosperity should take the first fruits of their success, should draw out from their business the first profits, take from every suc- cessful venture @ part and give it so that it would bring down on the giver the blessing of the Lord. The Church should not ae it was at present, barely maintaining a pi ous footing against irre- ligion. It should be put.in a position to be aggres- sive, Ite missionaries and clergymen, instead of peep ‘with the world foratemporary maintenance and ing driven from place to place, should be anchored surely and permanently. At the conclusion of the sermon the Right Rev. J. peda Bishop of se) nee sa Sate: uA e ary progress in the gre: est. He scarce! ew Where he should to describe the Vast fleld for missionary labor which was presented there, It extended from the Missouri river to Cali- fornia, and embraced all the Northwestern States and Territories—Nebraska, Colorado, Dacotah, Wy- oming, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and others, Tt was a fleld for missionary labor 80 vast that it would uire ‘thousands of clergymen to spread the fl in every part of it. A ee ee of it was a wilderness, not adapt to cultivation, and consequently [el ogc around the great cities of le and business. The Bishop here related at le his expences there during six Sad minis- tration, and the anxiety of the people to have churches and clergymen in their midst. There was aiso another field for missionary labor in what he Would call the intermediate western country lying this fside of the Missouri river. .This was another great field in which missionary labor was much req .. He asked how were the mis- ‘or were they endowed in any way? No, they w sustained in a large by the clergy and ing'$ ona AA jces were 18, dY and whites “etacation and talents deserved $1,500 each annum. Now these men substan- tially subscri! as much to the cause of missionary labor as the contributions made here for the past year. He concluded by earnestly exhorting his hear- ers to aid the missionary cause by every means in their power. Church of the Holy Trinity—Sermon by Bishop ~ Johns, of Virginia. At the unique edifice located on the northeast cor- ner of Madison avenue and Forty-second street, which is styled the Church of the Holy Trinity and over which the Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., presides, the Right Rev. Bishop Johns, of Virginia, delivered an impressive discourse. The ordinary exercises pre- bed by the Episcopal ritual were gone through with under the ion of the reverend pastor and his assistants, after which the right reverend prelate approached the reading desk and read from the Gos- ra) ant according to St. John, the twelfth, thirteenth fourteenth verses of the first chapter. The di- vine orator confined his remarks entirely to the nad apd in a brief yet comprehensive discourse explain the meaning and acceptation of the terms of the Gospel and the necessity of receiving Christ as the eternal, self-exis' and omnipotent word, solely, entirely and undividediy. The sermon was ‘listened to Ngan marked attention by the congregation prea- ent Church of the Atonement—Sermon by Bishop Whittle, of Virginia. ‘The announcement that the Right Rev. F. M. Whittle, Assistant Bishop of Virginia, would deliver sermon at this church last evening was the cause of a crowded congregation. The services opened with the usual prayer and chant, then the nine- teenth chapter of II. Samuel:—‘David mourneth for Absalom’’—was read, as the first lesson; the first chapter of Peter was the second lesson and the Elguteenth Pealm concluded the introductory ser- vices. Bishop Whittle took for his text St. Luke xv., 1, 2:—"Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners, for to hear him. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, this sinners, and eateth with them.” The ‘was biblical in ite tenor and referred lessness of worldly goods in the eyes of the wee the heart and not the pocket of reinhim. If minister of the Gospel ‘were to-day, at a feast to which he was invited, to say to the host, that he who “humbileth himself shall be exalted, and he that exalted himself shall be hum- bled,” the world would sneer and rail at him. The services were concluded with the 1434 hymn, com- mencl “Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fy.”” The Midnight Mission—Sermon by Rev. James 0. Murray. The Rev. Jas. 0. Murray, D. D., pastor of the Brick church, preached yesterday evening, by invitation and on behalf of the “Midnight Mission,” in the neat and beautiful little Church of the Holy Trinity, Madi- son avenue, corner Forty-second street. He took for his text, “‘A wonfan in the city which was a sinner,” seventh chapter of the gospel according to Luke, The woman mentioned here sought Jesus in the house of the Pharisee and brought her box of oint- ment along with her to anoint his feet. Standing there by her compassionate Saviour and hearing those words, go in peace, 80 different from the stern- ness of the Pharisee, was the first dawning of love and grace on @ heart which bad been a stranger to either, To tell to others such as she just these words of kindly sympathy sadressed by the Saviour to Magdaten was the object of the Midnight Mission. ‘There is a class in the socicty of this city that have been sadly neglected by the home missions, It was true there were some great — erected by the hands of benevolence and charity; but the true Christian spirit should seek out vice and misery in their haunts and reacue from the depths of hopeless wretchedness women who once might have been pure and innocent as anges. Of course there was peril in doing this work, bat there is peril in doing kind of work in this world. We would not con- sider it without peril to into the midst of a crowded fever or cholera hospital, but to save the lives others it ts necessary that some should do 80. The crowning glory of a Christian should be the elevation of women. ‘The power and methods to ac- complish this are all within the grasp of the Christian Chureh, but he could not reconcile the consisteney of that Christian spirit which sent Bibles and Bible readers to the harems and cities of Asia and left the harems and piaces of sin and death here in their midst untouched. The social outlawry of these women who have fallen from virtue was one great barrier toward their rescue; yet society sends eae and adulterers to Congress and makes no distinction petween the chaste and the unchaste among men. The clase of women among whom the Midnight Mission labors is @ very abandoned one. They ile, they cheat, they steal, they drink and seem, Iike the snow In our streets in winter, to be re cles for all the moral filthiness around them. What makes the rescue of these women so dificult is this social Outiawry practised against them, ab | Scns al naa at BDEEEE Ba a i eo eee hee Aue creatures poverty to bring cold and heartless dens of pollution—off the cold and inhospitable streets—into the genial light and love of Christian society, ‘The City Mission. ‘The first public meeting of the season on behalf of the city evangilation was held yesterday evening inthe Madison square Presbyterian church. The building was crowded in every part soon after the opening, et bait-pat serge, ang Sbe gate nia ait the phoceeding ae He John |, Dr. Adams, the pastor of the church, and the Rev. George J. Mingins occupied seats behind the pulpit, The exercises of the evening having been opened by singing and prayer the ev. Mr. Mingin ascended the pulpit and proceeded to deliver his re- Be of the work done by the City Mission during the last nine months, He said that although a good work had been done and was progressing, many measures were neces- sary to reach the people with the gospel; those peo- Ble espe who never hear of God and His pro- nd who never attend esd of worship. The sun never sets on two hundred thousand people of New York en; in public worship and the ques- tion is, fl fore, what becomes the rest of the Population on the Sabbath day? Crowding the river steamers or hurrying to the Park. But this was natural. Thank God that they were moved by Providence to geek fresh air and tho freshness and greenness of the country side. He was not of these who would condemn them. No matter what preach- ers may preach, people will not go to churches where they are not interested and where they do not meet their social equals. To reach the thinking masses of the people who surge through the streets, open i Gnd appears to be the only way. 8 convinced ry ty oratory as the well bred, well dressed fashionables of uptown, required to have reine taught them in a style that was at once plain, direct and practica- ble. Thousands are kept away from churches be- cause of poverty and through the baneful influence of the corrupt ideas that permeate our social system, Mrs. Brown says to religious Mrs. donee, “How can I go to church in this abominable bonnet? Eyerybody would laugh at me; and these miserable shoes that peep out from under my gown will be the ridicule of Iny neighbors.”? Mrs, Jones may answer, with a long drawn face and a religious air, “God, my sister, will not mind the cut of your bonnet or the appearance of your shoes;” but if Brown i8 & homan woman she will “If God does not mind it I do” t ig human Dature, and the fight of Christianity should not be 80 Much against nature as with it, Bec le don’t go to churches because they don’t feel at homé in them. who crowd ‘around the mission stands Meet on a footing of equality. Mrs. Joi shawl or Mr. Brown’s boots are unnoticed in the crowd, and the minds of both are ng} any by considerations of standing. He had large ex-- Perience in street preaching, and he could say that never in his life had he addressed | rT oF more at- tentive and orderly congregations in the streets than during nis last nine months’ labor in New York. He could not recollect having noticed the slightest disturbances at any of his meetings. As for results he could that fifty thousand ple heard the word of this summer who, perhaps, never heard it before, that the meetings held under and the auspices of the City Mission were the best possible feeders to the regular stations. He related many anecdotes of his experience among the poor of the city of ‘a most instructive and interesting character, illustrative of the good street preaching, im connection with the mission hot is accom- = and concluded by giving some statistics of ne work already done. Dur the last nine months 2,660 persons visited the Mission, 480 were lodged, 782 were furnished with meals 408,048 tracts, 208 Bibles and 438 Testaments were distributed and 2,120 books were loaned; 1,802 children were gathered to) Sunday schools, 262 io public schools, 276 to Bible class; 17,834 people were in- duced to come to mission stations (of which there were 12, with 40 missionaries); 1,527 people took the pledge of temperance (of whom 500 were women); 2,600 attended prayer meeting; 8,520 be- came members of the missions; 493 joined churches, and 600 families were relieved from want at an-ex- pense of gon, Mr, Whitmore, Chairman of the Finance Commit- tee, then presented the financial report. He stated that up to the lst of January $30,000 had been re- ceived, but that $20,000 more would be required be- fore the expiration of the financial year, two months hence. An effort would be made to extend the mission to every ward in the city, A collection was then taken up, The Rey. John Hall, Dr. Adams and others after- wards delivered addresses, and the meeting was brought toa conclusion by the singing of an appro- priate psalm, Morning Star Mission. The opening of the Morning Star Mission Sunday School yesterday at Pike’s Opera House was an ex- tremely interesting affair. The room which has been secured for this new benevolent enterprise was densely packed, and many were compelled to go away for lack of standing space. The exercises were directed by the Superintendent, Dr. R. P. Perry, who has been mainly instrumental in bringing this school into existence, and consisted of ing, ad- dresses, &c. Rev. Dr. Anderson made some happy remarks in allusion to the name selected for the school; Rev. C. E. Blake, pastor of the Seventeenth street. iat Church, where Dr. Perry has long been engaged in Sunday school labors, referred feeling], to the separation which his new duties rend necessary. Rev. Dr. Pullman paid an eloquent tribute to the self-sacrificing devotion of Christian missi who seek to find and develop the germs of truth in the hearts of the lowly des- ised of God’s humanity. Mr. R. G. who well known as an indefatigable hain ght ef le wil by earnest enthusiasm, and it is safe to pronounce this new Christian enterprise a brilliant success, Missionary Meeting at St. Timothy’s Church. A missionary meeting, under the direction of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was held last evening at St. Timothy's church, Fixty-sixth street, near Eighth avenue. Similar services were held at the same time in all the churches of this denomination in the city; the fact of the sessions of the General Convention and of the Mission Board now being held rendering it pecu- Marly appropriate that such services should be held, and holding forth the additional advantage of the congregations being enabled Yo hear from the bish- ops, ministers and lay delegates from the various dioceses some account of the progress of evangeliza- tion in fheir respective localities. After the usual initiatory devotions Rev. Dr. Geer, oMciating, the Right Rev. 8. A, McCoskrey, of Michigan, said that this was indeed a remarkable nigtt in the history of the Church in America, no lesa than sixty meetings being held in the churches of this city and vicinity, and that it might well be accepted as a token to the people that the Lord had come down with the influences of His Spirit to stir up the hearts of Christians and make them feel the duties they owed to him. Rey. J. H. Elliott, of South Carolina, was then in- troduced and delivered a brief address on the sub- t of the missionary labors of the Protestant iscopal Church. He said the subject was three- told in its character, Leming | the domestic mis- sions, the foreign missions and the Freedmen’s Com- mission. He had to deal especially, however, on this occasion with the foreign mission and would present a fow statistics from the report of the secretary just submitted. The Church had established missions in the four great divisions of the globe—Europe, Asia, Africa and America. In Asia its stations were in China, and one was shortly to be established in Ja- an; in Africa the tions were on the western in Europe @ station had been founded in Greece, and in America at Hayti. There were in all twenty-eight stations on the roll of foreign missions, conducted by thirty-one missionaries, aided by forty- ts and forty-five teachers and catechists. ionaries seventeen were Americans and the remaining fourteen were natives of the various countries in which they labor. The Church contributed for the support of these mission workers during the past year about $64,000, This was all that had been subscribed for the maintenance of the gospe: among the vast hosts of heathendom, and the number stated comprised the feeble band sent out to a fleld of labor embracing nine hundred militons of people without any knowledge of Christ's gospel. The expenditures had amount to seventy-nine thousand dollars during the same period, showing a deficit of fifteen thousand dollars in current ex- Boara’ elt deeply depressed at the presen, stage ot at the mn 0} tions in lookin ‘gry this exnitne, and Was con- ie Church awakened to its duty vinced that unless it would be necessary to recall some of this feeble schools visited, 33; and pastoral visita, 1,078; Visits to thé sick, 101; fam- les distribul charge of city missions, New | pec the followin band. He now appealed to le to know if a pe it noble few they should have to recall any one of from their lic work. He knew he would be met at the outset by the objection that we missions, but he instead should first attend to our home try prosperity. was ‘ (es 5 at home,” Christ's injunction to his disciples to “Go into al! the the to every creature’ farther than now Ww PI ciple had always been carried out Christianity would have been for ever confined to the spot where it was first implanted and whence it eventually sp! » for who ever heard of a land where there was not plenty of work for Christianity to rm? But the crown- ing reason why the Church should move in this mat- ter could be found in the reflection that there still exists after nineteen centuries of Christianity 900,000,000 of heathens, to whom there has never been uttered the hope of a crucified and world. redeeming Saviour. No voice had ever awakened their savage solitudes with the cry of the evangelist— “Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make H Pn straight.” There had never been seen upon thet Mountains “the feet of them that bi lad tid 7 The reverend gentleman concluded by appeal to the people of the Church in this land to put forth some worthier efforts in the cause of evangelical truth, and was followed by Mr. William Welsh and tho right reverend prelate in words of enconut ent towards the same exalted purpose. The services were closed by singing the well known missionary hymn, From Greenland’s icy mountains, and the congregation was dismissed with a benedic- tion by Bishop McCoskrey, Society for the Increase of the Ministry. ‘The Soctety for the Increase of the Ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church held its fourth triennial meeting last evening in the Zion church, corner of Madison avenue and Thirty-eighth street. The Rev. Dr. Huntington, of Emanuel church, Boston, pre- sided. The usual religious services commenced at half-past seven, and at their conclusion the special business of the evening was introduced by the reading the annual report of the society. The total receipts of the year were stated at $23,006 34, and the amount expended $26,000. After the reading of the report the Rev. E, L. Brown, of St. Panl'’s church, New Haven, was introdu and addressed the congregatio1 ir. Brown stated that he had been connected with the society for eight years, had watched its growth from the time its yearly income was as low as $400 or $500, had been present at every meeting, and knowing how much good it had accomplished he felt great pleasure in addressing the congregation tn it half, Applying the text “the laborer is worthy of his hire’ to the clergy, the rev- erend gentleman made an earnest effort to convince his hearers that by mnlsiplying: the number of labor- ers they would increase the power of the Church, and concluded by exhorting them to give their richest and charities to the society. The next speaker, ie Rev. Mr. Garmann, President of the. Nebraska College, introduced himself to the meeting as one who been doing ‘ket duty on the frontiers of Christianity, He said that every man and woman who had the welfare of the Church at heart not only should but must assist the society, and that those who do not help to support the ministry are not practical Christians, The noxt ker said he did Dot belLeve there was anything which would afford Greater satisfaction and enjoyment to Christian men and women than eyes the young men who are now being educated for the ministry, and he hoped all present would do so. The Rev. Dr. Martin, of Terre Haute, Indiana, made a fervent appeal on be- half of the society, and concluded by saying:— “Shame upon such of you as take a single cent out of the building that you could afford to give.” A collection was then taken up, and after the contri- butions were handed in the Kev. Dr. Jackson, Prest- dent of Trinity College, delivered an address and Pronounced the benediction. New York City Sanday School and Missionary Soclety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The monthly meeting of this society was held on Friday evening last in the Broome street chapel, William W. Cornell, President, in the chair. Reports were read by the pastors in charge of the mission work for the last month. Rev. D. D. Marks, preacher in charge of city missions, New York Conference, resented the followin; re} 2; prayer meetings, 45; ort:—Sermons PB epee jass meetings, 64; Sunday inerals attended, 16; missionary ed with, 306; baptisms, 10; pases of tracts 6,778 Rev. George Hollis, preacher in ork East Conference, report:—Sermons preached, A rer meetings, $5; Class bypeven 48; Sun- Gay schools visited, 29; funerals attended, 4; mis- sionary and pastoral visite, 1,546; visita to the sick, 85; families prayed with, 310: baptisms, 2; pages tracts distribu’ 2,410. Outdoor pi the auspices of this society, is increasing in interest and promises to be productive of much good. Parish of the Epiphany. Yesterday at the Parish of the Epiphany, corner of Second avenue and Twenty-third street, high mass ‘was celebrated by Rev. Dr. Burtsell, pastor, and an eloquent sermon preached by Rev. Father P. Laugh- ran, assistant pastor, and lately ordained a priest. The text was, ‘All power is given to me in heayen and on earth. tizing them in the Go, therefore, teach all nations, bap- name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to ob- serve all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and behold 1 am with you all days even to the con- summation of the world.” Mathew xxvilichap., 30th ass, also “Min(s Sanctus and Agnus Dei’? was performed, the solos of which were admi- rably sung by Mrs. Traynor, who ia well known in musical circles. Miss Fiset, who by her beautiful and powerful soprano voice and high musical talents has all the requisites for an artist, and the basso was Mr. Purcell. At the offertory, the id trio @Attila Te Sol quest Anima was sung by Mr. and Mra. Traynor, and Miss Piset; the acconpaniement of the whole was played by Mrs. Burtsell, the pres- ent organist, St. Mark’s (Episcopal) Church, Williamsburg. After the usual services by the rector, Rev. Dr. Haskins, at the above church, yesterday forenoon, the Right Rev. Bishop Tuttle, of Utah, occupied the pulpit and detailed at length the present condition of the Protestant Episcopal Mission in the Territo- ries of Utah, Idaho and Montana. The Bishop thanked the congregation of St. Mark’s for their sym- | pe erheg] Salt Lake Mission and acknowledged he receipt of $300 from them at an opportune mo- ment. The mission there received some encoui ment from the residents, there being three clergy- men and eighty-seven communicants, and throug! out the Territories of Idaho and Montana there is willit on the part of the ple to co-operate with the missionaries in spreading the Gospel and advancing education, The Western merchants cheerfully contribute to build churches and school houses. In Salt Lake City the mission has Mormon- ism only to contend with, and tn Virginia City only Romanism. The Romanist missioi sare men of ability, piety ana determination, and they are untir- ing ‘at their work. They are our only com- schri for the _ | of the “ey 4 The inhabitants are julsively generous, but are not guided by principle in chari Among the mining population wickedness abounds ‘and drunkenness, gambling and licentiousness pre- vail. The Indians in the feild are at present peyond the evangelizing influence of the mission. The Chinamen, who are all heathens, have two temples, or Joss houses, with | ey a ‘congregations ‘There are 100,000 Mormons in the field, most of whom know no religion except Mormonism and no social life but poly; iy; but with the completion of the Pacific ly the consequent increase of the Christian pulation, disintegration would doubtlessly result in that exceptional community. The Bishop concluded by giving a statement of the financial condition of the mission, The East had ven it ad yet there is a debt on the rec’ at fait Lal ity of $2,500, He now wanted $10,000 to build 3 school house there and $6,000 to pay for land, A ther the mission needed $20,000, and the Bishop had no doubt about that amount bein; contributed before he returned to the extensive fie! of his labors. Catholic Mission in Jersey City. A mission was opened yesterday in St. Peter's church, Jersey City, by the Jesuit Fathers Smarius and Boudreaux, from Chicago. A solemn high mass was celebrated at half-past ten o'clock by the Rev. Pp. J. Sheaian. When the first gospel was concluded some announcements on parochial matters were made by the pastor, Rev. P. Corrigan, after which the Rev. Father Boudreaux ascended the pulpit and recited the order of exercises for the mission. To meet the wants of the laboring class mass would be Jebrated every morning at five o'clock, vo be fol- lowed bya snore instruction. The hours for the other exercises would be nine A. M. and three and seven P.M. The preacher defined a misston to be a certain number of spiritual exercises designed to excite In the soul @ recollection of its own unworthiness in the sight of God ana prepare the way for repentance, Cathoites were brought together and the truths of the Gospel unfolded to them that they might thereby be enabled to go with confidence to the throne of grace and find mercy. A mission was not intended for the wicked in particular, because there was no one Lamy | the congregation, however just he might appear in bis own estimation, but needed a supply of grace to fortify him against temptation. Even in monaste- ries and convents, where holy men and women devote their lives to God fn seclusion from the world, a mission, or as tt is asually called, aretreat, Is given annually; and the same fs the case among priesta of every diocese. He exhorted the eongregation to pray for the conversion of sinners cig A he exer- cises, especially for any of their own relations who might be going astray from the paths of virtue. To show them bow extended was the sphere of their of hing, under labors he would state that the fathers w muaione i Micha oly afew dave ago, B fiat, Prof ig waa er’s Mass, in Neuendorf presi at ‘St. Peter’s church has achieved ss repasetion forthe excellence of its chotr which places it one of the fore- most if not the very first amo c § pa ery Mg ecclesiastical eui- The morning instruction will be given by Fath: Boudreaux, and the evening serston by Father Smarius. Several other priests will attend during we miseion, which will continue during the ensuing wo Weel Antagonism of Spiritual Philosophy and Christianity. Horatio, the special dreamer upon themes philo- sophical, would have been somewhat puzzled, not to say startled, had he been present in the body—he may have been in the spirit, however—at the convo- cation of Spiritualists assembled yesterday afternoon in “conference” tn a side room at the Everett Rooms, corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth street. He would have found that philosophy, which those of ordinary ken given to looking through material me- diums and not to going wool gathering through the misty mediums of shadowless spirits suppose al- Ways true to itself and reconcilable to natural laws is, after all, very cross-grained and capable of very diverse twistings and interpretations. About fifty constituted the so-called conference and about fifty years was thelr average age—that special age of the lean and slippered pantaloon and spectacle on nose— to whom philosophizing is an attributed weakness. Some of the men sat with their hats off and more with them on, but around the gray and venerable locks and attenuated figures of all of them seemed to hover a dim, sepulchral light suggestive of their having to do with spirits other thar pale Bourbon or Jersey lightning, A few ladies were scattered about, but there certainly was nothing strikingly spiritual in their appearance, though what they are capable of doing in the spiritual way, either drinking sparkling Moselle or summoning spirits to thump on tables, or talk, or write at their imperious will, did not tran- spire on the present occasion. Mrs. Steele, a woman fair, fat and forty, to say the least, presided at the “conference,” whose Ingre- dients we have in brief terms set forth. She did her part with grace and dignity, and therein, though not saying a word, presented a mutely eloquent ar- gament in favor of woman’s rights, @ Bubject of iscussion, or of conference, as the people choose to call it, was announced as above, although embraced in more words and put with an interrogation point at the end. The chairwoman stated that each speaker could talk fifteen minutes. Several evinced an ambitious desire to talk first, but a gentleman cong his spectacles particularly down toward the tip of his nose was allowed the first say. His talk was about as transceydentally lucent as Carlyle or Ralph Waldo Emerson tn their most obscure moods, and whtn he came to speak of spirits he was as wildly dramatic and unintel- ble as Manfred in his sefuradon of the witches among the higher ape ‘he next speaker was clearer. He believed in Christianity; he did not believe in spirit manifestations, He talked out his be- lief in a straigtforward manner, and called Spiritual- ism what he believed it to be, charlatanry and hum- bug. The fourth speaker was equally emphatic in his denunciations of what he called the Christian scheme of salvation. He ridiculed the accepted account of the fall of Adam and Eve as @ snake story; he pronounced hell an invention of the dark ages, and roclaimed that no such being as Jesus Christ ever lived, Christians he declared to be tmpostors, woives in sheep's clothing all of them. Spiritualisin he avowed to be the only true Christianity. Follow- ing this speaker rose one who di himself “ap to the hub a Spiritualist, one of the Simon Pure sort;” but he believed in the Christianity of the Bible also, He recommended the last gentleman to read Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, The next speaker ventilated a good deal of mythological lore, but though well. up in the facta was poorly up in the pro- hunciation of the names he mentioned. Coming down to the subject under discussion he differed with all who had gone before him, as any one might have known he would from the fact of his putting his shoulders to his ears when he started and talking with the forefinger of hia dexter hand keeping time to his argument on the palm of his left hand, Other speakers followed in similar and dissimilar views, and at the close of the meeting each held tothe same optaion as at the opening. FARRAGUT. The Frigate Franklin in the Bosphorase—At Anchor and Visite—Matiimonial Specula- tions and “Juck”?. Delighted—Farragul’s Receptions—Message from the Sultas—An American General and Papers. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 28, 1868, At the moment of the departure of the mail steam- er that conveyed my last letter the Franklin, Com- modore Pennock, anchored in the Bosphorus direct- ly in front of the Imperial palace of Dolma Bagtche, ‘The frigate was delayed at the Dardanelles just a week while the question of permitting her to pass the straits was being discussed here. As I intimated in my last the majority of the diplomatic eorps were im favor of giving the permission at once; but the Austrian Ambassador and perhaps one of his colleagues demurred, and it is quite probable that but for the opposition of these dignitaries the Franklin would have passed tho Dardanelles without any de- tention. During the week thousands of persons have availed themselves of the opportunity to visit the ship, greatly to the satisfaction of some of the officers and to the annoyance of others who don’t like to have their oMcial duties and the order that usually reigns on board disturbed by such a motley crowd of infidels and the faithful. Jack is naturally delighted, as he is in a great measure denied the privilege of seeing the people of the Turkish capital in their dally haunts, to have them passed in review before him on board. Unfortunately the best society of the capital is at this seasom dispersed among the villages on the Bosphorus or are quietly pursuing the summer at their charming retreats at the Princes Islands, as no family that can possibly obtain a house tn the coun- try remains in town during the hot season. The ladies who spend the sammer in town are therefore nearly the only representatives of the fair sex who have visited the ship, and the young Perote, inter- preter, who has been left in charge of the consulate during the temporary absence of the Consul General (now in America on leave of absence), has found abundant occupation for himself and the ship’s boats in conveying his fair friends on board to see the frigate and trip the “light fantastic toe” with the officers. A year ago we had a case of love at first sight be- tween a young gentleman on board the steam- shi p Quaker City and @ Pera lady, which resulted in the immediate marriage and departure of the hay ‘ir for the home of the bridegroom in your city. Fhe marvellous accounts of the wealth and Tespectability of the family of the young bridegroom which have since reached here have had an electri. fying effect ae the ladies of these and they'are doubtless all on the qui vive to secure an American husband while the frigate is here, and it is to be feared that some of the visitors forget that young officers abroad, while quite ready for a flirta- Uon, are not all prepared to commit matrimony at such short notice. While the younger officers have employed their leisure in seeing the sights on shore and entertainin; their visitors of both sexes on board, the gailan Admiral and hus stat? have been fully occupied in a ep! the official visitors during the week. On Monday Mr. Morris, the American Minister resident, made his oficial visit, and was re- ceived with the customary salute. Halil Pacha, Chief of the Ordnance Vepartment, shortly followed, and examined with | eg Gpparent interest the ship’s guns. As this officer speaks English perfec well, Admiral Farragut took great pleasure in ex- plaining the merits of his big guns. Halil Pacha javing carefully examined all parts of the re- juested the Admiral not to salute, and left without customary honor bane ¢ aid him. On Tuesday Mahmoud Pacha, Minister of the Marine, paid his visit, Scoompanied by his staf. Wednesday was devoted the reception of the diplomatic corps. On this occasion the Admiral rey celved the visits of the British Ambassador, My, Elliot and Mrs. Elliot; the Russian General J and Madame Ignatieff; the French Monsieur By’irée, the Italian Bertinattl, the Swedish and Norvegian Chargé d’Affaires, Mr. Stennyson, all of whom re- ceived the usual oficial salutes, It has been remored at the Porte durit% tno week that the Sultan himself would honor tb% flagship by & visit, but o! ‘ednesday morning *, note was sent by Fuad Pac! order of the Swan, in which his jajeaty expt hts pleasure atfne arrival of the flagship and the visit of the Adyjiral here, and inti- mated that he should charge hy, Grand Chamberlain, Djemiti Bey, to visit the Admir4), and in his Majesty's name extend a cordial welcome to the Admiral and his oMcers. On Thursday (yesterday), accordingly Djemli Bey made his visit, which was followed by that of the Grand Vizier and Fuad Pacha, Some of the local papers are very persistent in as- = their readers ‘hat the Admiral and his officers intend giving @ grr.nd ballon board before leaving. I have reason to “now that the Admiral has no uch intention, and for two reasons:—But few ladies have called upon, Mrs, Farragut since she has been here, as she and Yhe ladies of the party are at the English hotel in Pera, and, as I before remarked, Pera is now deserted by all of its best society. Another very good rouson is that the Admiral has already during the cruise expended a@ sum which far exceeds bis salary in giving eutertainmentsa. The visit of the Admiral is now drawing to its close. The Ministers of War and Commerce will per- haps, go on board the frigate to-day, and in the meantime the preparations for departure will be made and to-morrow afternoon the Franktin, with her brave old Admiral, will commence her voyage homeward. She goes from here to the Pireus and thence, I think, to Corfu and Trieste. There is nothing now in local politics worth record. ing. I shall bave something to say about the restric- 3 tions placed upon the passage of shi at the Dardanelles in mny next and let your ood know what are being taken here about them. General Mott has just arrived here. It 1s said he Grand Vizier, and Dope. to obtains pectann fn ie fi 5 ol a amy, Position in the BROOKLYN LARCENY FROM THE PERSON.—A man named Henry O'Neil had his pocket picked of a wallet con- taining the sum of twenty-one dollars on Saturday night last, while in. company with one Mary Walker, Whose subsequent arrest he caused to be made. ‘The accused was locked up to await examination at the York street station house, GRaND LaRceny.—Robert Roley, twenty-three years of age, was arrested yesterday on complaint = ene Bicep l of Myrtle avenue, who charges im wi aving stolen $100 in money, one gold wraich and c chain and other articles of Jewelry ra e( fo! locked up for examination, ne nics Sener ape SERIOUSLY InsURED.—Robert Jackson, residing at the corner of Bedford avenue and Ross street, was thrown froma feed wagon in Skillman street on Saturday evening, and striking on his head received serious if not fatal injuries, fis fall caused concus- sion of the brain and hemo from the left ear. He was taken to the city hospit: FaTat BURNING ACCIDENT.—A little boy named John McDermott, whose parents reside at No. 5 Princestreet, was severely burned on Saturday after- oon in consequence of his clothes igniting by com- ing in contact with a bonfire, about which Re was laying in a vacant lot on the corner of Concord and Ince streets. He was coneerett to his home, where ne died yesterday morning. The deceased was in tho fifth year of his age. SWINDLED.—A young man about twenty years old called at the house of Mrs. Bergen, No. 237 Bridge street, on Saturday and represented that Mr. Gil- bert, a boarder and owner of the house, had sent him for the loan of twenty-five dollars. He stated that Mr. Gilbert was about leaving the city on urgent business and was too late for the bank. The land- lady gave him: sixicen doliars, ali the change she had, and he left. Mr. Gilbert subsequently returned to the house, when it was ascertained that the youn fellow was an impostor and that he had swindled Mrs. Bergen out of the money. BURGLARS EXCHANGE SHOTS WITH AN OFFICER.— Officer Bowers of the Forty-fourth precinct discover- ed two burglars in the residence of Mr. John T. Waters, No. 155 Carleton avenue, on Saturday even- ing, and endeavored to arrest them, but they man- aged to get away. The oflicer gave chase and fired twice at the rogues, who returned the fire. On reach- ing Clinton dock one of the fellows was arrested by @ citizen named Samuel Dunn, who held his prisoner until the policeman came, when he handed him over his custody. On being taken to the station house he gave his name as James Ryan, is twenty-one fbely of age and a native of Newfoundland. A num- er of skeleton keys, @ pick and a jimmy were found upon his person. CANVASSERS AND INSPECTORS OF ELECTION.—There ‘was @ méeting of the City Board of Supervisors held on Saturday evening at the County Court House for the purpose of arranging the list of canvassers and inspectors of election. Supervisor Osborn presided, and his honor Mayor Kalbfleisch was also present. A few alterations were made in the list of names, not altering the political caste, however, and the list was adopted by a two-thirds vote. ‘he Mayor refuted the assertion which has been made thap he was nota member of the Board of Supervisors aftd read the charter showing that he was a de facta member of that body bysvirtue of his office, and ag well entitled toa vote in the Board as any supervi- sor, Supervisor Little, of the Twentieth ward, argued that the recent action of the Board was un- fair and the meeting adjourned. SHOOTING AFFRAY ON MYRTLE AVENUE.—About half-past eleven o’clock on Saturday night a quarrel arose between @ party of political strikers, while discussing the merits of their repective favorite can- didates, standing on the corner of Grand and Myrtio avenues. Personalities were indulged in and a free fight ensued, and there was a pretty lively umo until oMcer Wormell, of the Forty-fourth precinct, came. So the scene. During the melée a laborer named William Mulligan drew a pistol and shot one James Brennan. The builet entered at the mouth and lodged in the back of the neck. It is a very pain- ful though not dangerous wound. Breenan was removed to the City Hospital. Mulligan ran away, but was pursued by oilicer Wormeil and after a chase of several blocks was arrested. Tue prisoner was taken to the Myrtle avenue station house and locked up to await examination on @ charge of felonious assault. ARREST ON SUSPICION OF SETTING FIRE TO A ScHOONER.—Between two and three-o’clock yester- day morning the attention of two policemen, of the Forty-eighth precinct—roundsman Webster and officer Forbell—was attracted by the flames which made their appearance on board a veasel lying out in Gowanus bay. The officers who were on patrol duty along Third avenue at the time promptly pro- cured a row boat, and, beading well to their oars, were soon alo) ide the object of their solicitude, which proved to be the schooner A. C. Havens. They stepped on board, and the steamtug Yankee, Cap- tain Hannessey, which happened to be in the vicinity at the time, came up and speedily extin- aished the fire, and then towed herin ww the Bay idge dock, where she is now moored. The damage occasioned by the fire was not serious. The schooner, which is an old one, was bonght for $2,000 a couple of ve and is insured for $1,800, It appeu enquiry thatshe had been on fire twice the night, and that It had been each time ed by passing steamboats. Taking all the stances into consideration, the police conciuded to arrest those who were on board the schooner Havens, consisting of Charles Hemken, captain anid owner, Casper ‘Menner and Julius Ferdinansea, who were making preparations to leave their ve when the omMcers came on board. They were ed up at the Forty-eight precinct station Louse to await examina-~ jon. ATTEMPT TO ComMIT SUICIDR.—The Police Surgeon, Df. Geo, Cochrane, was summoned about one o'clock yesterday morning to attend a young man named Daniel Beatty, about twenty-two years of age, who was suffering from the effects of poison administered for the purpose of committing suicide, at his residence, No. 49, It appears that Bea ty bad been in company with another man during the evening and had peen drinking rather freely. While with his (riend he rocured two drachins of corrosive sublimate at a rug store and then went into Joice’s liquor store, on Tillary street, where he called for a glass of rum. Upon befng handed the liquor he suddenly emptied the poison which he had just procured into the tum- bier, and, raising tt to his lips, was about to swallow it when his friend detecied the movement and knocked the giass out of hishand. ‘hey left the place together then and parted for the night at about eleven o'clock on Myrtie avenue. Beatty went home and remained there ashort while, when he again sallied forth and visited Mansing’s drug on Myrtie avenue, where he asked for two drachms corrosive sublimate, representing that he required it for the purpose of finishing pictures, he being a pho- tographi ‘This dose it was that he subsequently swallowed—large enough to kill half a dozen men, In this case it appears to have counteracted ita ef- fect, and hopes are entertained of the Hw of the unfortunate man. No cause can be asaig by his friends for the rash act, . ee THE SONS OF THE SOUTHERN CLERGYMEN. After the usual devotional exercises at the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Pacific street and Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, last night, @ meeting was held on behalf of the “syns of the Clergy Fund,” which is de- voted to the ¢iucation of the sons of clergymen de- ceased, of missionaries and of parish ministers. Bish- op Whiterouse briefly stated the great good which had bee’a accomplished by the society since its organ- izati¢in, and the necessity of supporting it well at the Pre’sent time. They were sending ministers to different Mountries, and there was@ demand for ministers ee Pa ant jucal 1e ne of uthera phe eater at the present time from the clergymen was throt the recent war the le had been ph. redur and were still sui vag from its Sects: This society had educated 400 sons of cler- gymen out of this fund, and 160 ministers of God were cast over our land. One hundred and sixty young men were now struggling to prepare them- selves for different callings; for the soctety did not bind them all to become ministers. It was impos sible for him to tell what 150 ministers would do in five a Td he compared their works and strengtn to the little acorn from which tall oaks and mighty forests grew. ‘The one hundred and sixty scholats now being edu- cated out of this fund were from thirty dierent dioceses, and if divided into four classes they would have from New England, thirty-four; Western States, forty-one; Southern, thirty-five, and from the Middle States, fifty. This appeal in behalf of the society, te stated, was especially to aid in educating the sons of the Southern clergymen. The Rev. Mr. CLARK was next introduced and mado a@ short address. The question might be asked, ho said, why should the sons of clergymen be educated in this Manner more particularly than any other clase? He would answer the question by remarking that the cailing of ministers precluded them from ever Vhat would they think to cumulating any wealth. find the clergymen in the daily market places and fol- lowing other avocations? Yet they must have min- faters of Christ. He preferred to come before them re~ gardiess of all territory, yet at the present time he Must say the Southern clergy were unable to provide for themselves. There were no rich men there now to help them, After some farther re 1 Rev. Mr. Lawson Was introduced and made short ad: to assist ti dress, appealing to the congregation society te its good Work. At the close of the meeti uite @ large collection was taken up for the sous the Southern ciergy.