The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1871, Page 6

\ : pe Saad METHODISM. Its Origin, Growth and Present Proportions. ‘The Wosleyan Methodists of Great Britain—Tho Methodist Episcopal Church of America~Its Rise and Progress—Literary, Educational and Benovolent Institutions—Poculiari- ties of Doctrines and Church Gov. erument—Interesting Statistics, The system of Church doctrines, government and polity Known as Methodism was forted into the world, and (id not arise notions or deep jatd schemes ot any man or bods men, It bad its inception in the nunds and hearts Of afew young men, of Whom te Wesleys subse Guentiy became the leaders and chief promoters of the movement. it was and ts a development sys tem, adapting itself tothe countri and communities among whom it Britain aud Coutiner primitive al Hurope it a simplicuy of government to a much greater extent than it does in this country, though | Jy Ma duectr es are ihe me everywhere, In 1729 Jolm Wesley tetis us that he saw Gospel the requiren ward holi- bess, and set himseli to ait Juste nm by futh in Je tia, he saw also tha nt of inwara ane ing se his ma preach the Gospel did not co: ) the parish | ot Epworth, The Saviour tad said to his disciples, | Go ve i Ae work the Gospel,’* | ry, ‘The im the | from any preconceived | cite of | and * nentieiauiaie could not.be Mayor of B'rmingham, or an alderman, | existence of a or a member of the Town Councilor a Lag mye | Saviour, Jesus ‘there were men who did hold such oftces, but that | the human race herein Involved; of a divine revel Was contrary to law, and every year a Oil! of tion of God's will to man; salvation by grace, just! indemnity was passed to excuse them for hav- ing brokea the law. ‘here were six miliious of Xo- | tainmeni of perfect holiness in this Ife; of a state Man Catholies in the Uni ed Kingdom, not one of of rewards and puwakment; a goncral’ judrment, Whom Was perinitted vo sit in the House of Com- heaven aad hell, ana the complements, sub- tt" mons, although elected by the largest consutuency — Visions and adjuncts of these, It gives greater da the Kingdom, And vot only were te mewbers — prom nence to the docrrines of free will, free grace, of the Rowan Catholic Charch thus treated, but Justineaon by fatth and fall satvation than your great town ttself, and the towns of Manehes- | perhaps any other Chriatlan denomination, ter, Leeds, Sheiieid and many other great (owns, and its arrows, when properiy — diree!ed, andall te porous of the metrepolis exe pt the — enter the Nearts and not the heads of men. se that city of London the borough of Southwark and the | the spiritual ive develops from within outward and city of Westminster were totally witnont Parhiemen- noc 'rom without inward, These doctrines are he'd tary power. Where do you wink ali the members | More or less tenaciously by Methodists all over the of Pariament came irom in those davs¢ i will | world of whatever name, put im some communities tel you. They were resurned by what were | and charehes one may be pabtorward more promi | called the ‘reften borougos’ and not by the popu. benitly than anouh Tals is a brief sketch of a | Jaton, That wax the suite of buings Which existed | peopl ani a movement to which the able historian | at the ume 1 speak 0%." of Methodism-nas deveved eight or ten voluines, and PICPAPLACE AMERICAN MPTHODTS! which ima century and a lait has literaliy spread The persecuiion of Protestanis in Germany and | its wings over the habitable giobe, and givewan lu France aller the iieiormation drove muny hondveds | petus to Christianity which notaing but the coming Of them woseek an asylum in ¢ Brite and | of the Sou of Man can check. Who, then, will de- heana. Im the last named comntry they settled | spise the day of small things? uy ie 70 “OUR SEPARATED BRETHREN.” aunerick, and the region where teir posterity The Living Werd of God—Which is Ity Ex onal, triune God, © va | there twenty years ago, aud | the » overnmenis | Nery sis. tn Great | ji ntains tts | Ine | by seeking first | 1 isterial commission to | 2iound in’ fipperary ts Known at this Gay as valanuine Elis,” near Baliingarry, and a great al region, ‘The direct desceadants of the old tnaie Chrisiau exiles were quite numexous ueariy every one of ’ othe ST ee ena’ wendacart anata pounder, the Bible or tho Charch @-S:rmon Methousis. The sparlings, Switzers, Dale by Parher Damen, aud ober like names will be Tone eon ‘The following discourse was detivered by the Rey. by those Who have been to that pari of | py ¢thadrde eee cons thin amine tank tts Father Daimen, of the Order of Jesus, at the Catholic of Awerigan Methowism Orst came, and the trst | Churen of St. Laurence, Eighty-tourth street, on suclly 0: five members was formed by Philip | Thursday evening tast, at a ‘mission’ there m pro- one of the Germa A dmmigran's, 1b ord 7 arg Bee th ck Syenty Tne tine Meee es According te invitation a large number of Lan Awevica was erected in vohn stre-t, | Protestants came to listen, He said:— r now stands, and was Man must adore God, His infinite justice, re Me cope reo - | His infinite wisdom. I worstip Him py wiil Who re,orted a memve! and intellect. In wil, because T must con. | form myself to God’s wil; and in intel i} lect, because IT must belleve what God has | ght. If, as lutitudinarians say, they are at liberty to reject or believe wiat they please, where | isthe use of God teachzng at all? Why, send forth | the Apostles, telling them to preach Christ cracifed and baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost’ Where, separated bre hveu, is the hs owe dist chu Urst generat conference w ullmore in 1784. Methodism on thts continent, willbe seen, began about the same time tuat vlomles were siriving for and attained telr in- | nreh ond Stu wer, and in’ their have’ become the — wo The extent of this county, srease Of population, 1o:et Lom? the parent Genoa But Ww 4 inpovauon rtae ib uuest Liat the Charen, “ a ane anu Ai aes | tne State should be indepenaent of Wie motuer coun. | Protestant Who disputes that? He must be- : : : Se gets iy Ae infant oth oust u - depend | lieve the reveixtion, which 1s the toaching of r, ist’ either give argely upon local pr the 8 : i ae ais $ or give up can or the the Gospel Westey and Whitetield ercs God, You will reca:l the pregnant prase, | . a 1 tan tie a (imeg, anid traver cavoard | “He that heareth you heareth me; who pecan ne: an Oe nttaerar aay found: | despiseth you despiseth me." ‘This vellef 1a the Kept on nis evan W aud ordaiiing muUsters and pred ; 5 o true fa nth: Mere slashes H iin sreat power, Their succes: was | "Pd Of God ts the irue faish, and without It there ‘ ase Velluus, notwiuustandl they e can be no salvation; in resisting it etervai damna- i hanevecihe contd (a ee zy couliy by thew brethren of otwe trom 1s the cost. God's Word must then be heard, Pa pei 1 1d Mel WAEL Some OpHosition als : : Saree ahaha aita tn rer Pan Now, Goa is just, and cannot ask man to atiempt ally expelled ne so corrupt and siher follow a fox hur VATLED nd the church The people were as sheey hey cared little for Gor among the mass were almost de having no shepie and less for 1 e Sabbath was devoted fairs ats and gene Wesle with the ashe to rais people” from mater k from the start »position, persecution, im- | prisonment and some death even awaited him | tn towns villages. Bu faith in God never | waver F ed he w loing the Lord’s will, 1) and that was all he was ed about. He con- | eudered himself stil 2 fa‘thiul member and mimster Chureb to organize them i Ments and other Christian o7¢ ministered them re; and hard a t * but the c his labor preve nlariy. We inst tits movement. His ere likely to : thing of the soct was don sprung up like mushroo! one or allover the land. But wo ministers could not louk aft ed Chureh was strong and | ¥ Were ordained bishops or {STENDENTS OF THE MerHODIST C Prica, abd Were seut hither, ot the Ber rs befor - | What be cannot comply with, He must have given aS Ee aD the means to Kuow what He has taught, and these er cqaey hed. pect | means must have been within the reach of all peo- died at sea, la May, | ples and at ali times, for all men have a right to ingina wo years Manne salvation. If the means pe above our reach, Virginia two 3 HALO, ag were succeeded by Kichara Wh: or if they be failivle, they are no means f ine British Wesleyan Conierence, or. | at all. ‘They must, then, ~—be_—sWithin ei @ bishop of the Methodist ipiscopai Cuuret | our grasp, and, above all, infaliible, and must be e die. ty Deiaware im 1806, te ie Was the last “or tue | 2dapted to all capacities and all intellects, Has he rinteudents seat trom Uke older side. Willan | given us such means, and if so, what are they? Our Irceord aned bishop I 1908, diet i iid | separated brethren say it is the Bibie; we Catholics ca mm 1su0, a eventy-c 3; noch George, ordaime ents 4 Ae eee ee rath Las aged okers novere | say itis the Church of the liviug God. Twill speak iiculubel Lobers, ordained 1a 18i, died ia India la | of the Prbie. L contend, in the tirst place, that tt 15 is4s, Aged =ixty-HVve; Joshua Soule, ordaimed in 18.4, not within the reach of all; in the secona place, it entered the Methodist kpiscopai Ciureh South whea é Doda HEB UIE Up on tie slavery quesuon, | Mot adapted to all capacities and ail mettects, doin i867; Eujan Geddins, orduiued ia ; and iu the third place, that 2, died IM 1 atl two ye BIBLE 1S NOT INF: nas Jed milions into al} manner of absur- ates and errors, My separated brethren, I do not attacs the Blbie, but the abuse of the sible, On Uhe frst polwtit Was not at al umes within onr reach, ‘The Churen existed seven years before a line Tavs Osgood Andrew: ch South aso in ed 18s2, died ry Waugh, or Tomas A, Morris, oF ty old anu feet ed ibdd, Te: ined 1832; went wita he died recently; Jolin ls oftic and ded an Inund 5. Jaues ordamed we same year, | or ine New Testiinent was written. St. Matthew | ‘Oa and B. K. Aes, ordained 1832, | Wrote only iu the eighth year of our Lord, or at the ored, ordained mss rea, mM 1$8, wed in this suil lives time reached when the Gospel of Jesus had been over the Known world, Now, were ali | | Phompson and alsin. Kin | these men who accepied the wospel in the saine tL e died dar | ese eight years Christians? Our separated 1 Motta iavter tt beyrout Sybia, enrowe irom | eihten answer “yes; they were the mode! tue India ant Cnina Coujerences to tais country, | Christians. Yet they never saw the Bible, because oloicd, ordaimed misao. Ise, 3 Suil alive, a tical superinieadents which tue Charea ti Amecica Las oF Nas had fom to the present, revived av au Carly date here also that if peeuls ries aod poly of wie Alefnedist Luiscopai Churcu Was to oo Mamtained IM any de gre ariLy We t nave it was yet unwritten. ‘he second book of the | Gospel Was thal by St. Mark, who wrote ten years | after the Lord had leit the earth, and then at the | request of the Chrisdans of Rome, Were it not for his it is probable St. Mark would never have written atall. Si. Luxe was the ibird, and he wrote twenty- five years after Chuust, and did it tor one ludividual, as ail vrotestan’s KNOW, named Theophilus. St twas | ual wants any 80 red over ME OWE. | Jomn, tne jase of ‘all, wrote his Gospel a@ large area, w t raised up | A “200k , avis Klerewre esiublished In | Sixty'three years after the death of our Lord, and class -of 1 among the | _Lisdelphia as 8 17, on & Dorrowed Capital | the “books Which Protestants call th veailous, | @ class -of among the | or geo. rue N ust Clarca had not then so | LNG w the Apocsiypee, sixty-Bve yeu holiest his ¢ s. These y eminent iN its ranks rig! LOW boasts . - the Coureh d exisied Sixty= “a agp eee ps cngelism | Ob aud tue “Coucera” Was a very small aifair, Key. » gospels wore compleied... Wen in with far greater business was mainly to suppiy Binies, tyme books ed brethren say yes. But, no bible no than even Wesley iimself, and not a few of them | mon tee ted “Sa ao bes _ 4 ‘Then were tuc’Apostles no Christians. 1 { of the Churen here demanded. There Was ver oe sit Sitved, | became and shining lights, and lived to make | | OF all tue mariyred Aposties St. John aloue lived, | sn , all sabi Ngee le thought then tat tae Methodist Book Concert | ang ne completed tt. If God, if Jesus, intended the pages of history of the great religious movement | would become What 1t 18 Lo-day—the largest pul | that God shouid have the world taagit lus re- of the eighteenth century. The Church raised a | house in the Uuitod Suates—or that 1 would | higion from the Biple he would not have left terrible persecation of this new in e ministers and m sch threatened such @ at Mtuisters were fre- | lo voatly ud riots to quent harm to nor Te Was Lo nam} too foul and v0 0 coarse to he uttercc them; nut, like Christianity t grew and mui to it dauly of si confined to Engtand. It prais , UUs he wrely pressed in his ministrations to the | ple. They were We most cations and careless al he a es, but they were al among tt mos $ ant ous pr € influence on istte of Fe gion, firmer hold of the ish they do and suifer, ana tu than wplish tu anity, whet done oth is 5) Aioman or Py mainly by [nshmen. uiaiity 1b a great measure, if o, i Che form and name or more for ineir f wheres earth, Cui ts maltain Sud byt net who. v a number ‘ 00 and 1 Jucal preac sure, however, divided | duo | thodists, lisis, sie Metuoc ist Provestaitt . Methodiss, Lpi ouniry), Afric Atrican” Mi eyan Mettodists n mal sul-epip 3 for th prises of Ube dex Vario. muna Lon > tc ists have 650 chapels, i t local» xs, 3 1 3 © the Vari- econ, We income of the auxiliary $5, daily, WIL a Sut pius ¢ i fo ColOM IA: Mit=s10 Sty 3 7 » revelpis for the } © chapel t ow fapels Canada, lig asyaims and or echo but eac uuder its own under Wesicy aus vir heads and « thea srever small, ha tt ly aud how long i Bright tell us, as ce in the fall of 1808, of the Irish Charen was sald hab disua- i Buglan nd now st. 0) poopie who go toa plice of AD audays uisepiers by inw could ary vilwe ta the Stale. He iu ‘aio sserter nm 2001 ih every country of the | | | New York to Caiturma Tristan | ATES, iCuule COllezes | Union. nh | haries we | eharactersue or Methodism 18 vo ba 600 | ersa ouls, | Well as and | enco: | tween c this body | the muignitest aid na- | for n | one-hall mildons of doiars, e called upon to spend so much mouey hunting | ffs Church sixty-lve years without it, But more whtel can't be sound. In 1504 ihe | gaan thls, (or over tires hundred vears the Church ly it was remeved io | or God had no.Bivle, In the Aposties’ dayé—and rand John | airerwards—tere were many spurious scriptures TY Mas Nathan Banga, | ox! ‘fuere were the gospels of Simon, of Nico- Dp). Thoniae Mason, B Mab Baugs, | gemus, of Joseph of Arithimea, of Mary, aud of the terwards bishop), Beverly Waugh | jniancy of Jesus. Even many of the bisiops aud as bop) and Geurge Lane were ab- | clergy could not decide between these gospels, a3 to anit 1833, when the Concern was de- | Yhether they were ins} or not. in the fourt 8 1by tire, iavoly 2 1088 Of $250,002, it wag | Whether they were insp! red ot nm the fourth century, tae Pope of Rome cailed a council which u rebuiit, und Kev, i. Mason and G. Lane were, | qevided that the New ‘Testament, as we have arged with Is busiiess again. Revs. C. | i ani tne Old Testament — were | hop), Thomas Carl | inspired vy and rejected the others, But more | esent a and B wines .orier, Joun | er Thomas have successively o- | A oveupy, tie respon-t- ton (} n this, wats the Invention of printing, in the uf- ‘nth ceatury, Bioles Were Dot within tae reaca of ag ave the extremely rich; they Were rare and u istunts here. ‘There y. A writer of the e eventh century says tnatit the Western Book Concera and | took a lifetime to write a Bible on parchineat tn those he agents publish over 1,900 8 When Unere Was no paper, No gold or steel pens, aud avout 1,003 uubou ompuling it at twenty years’ work, and tue pay a es spoken in this country. | qcilaraday, that would cost nearly 0. Were bout a score of Inagazines quar | 4 poor Proiestant told that he musi r Bible to montaiy aud Weowly Papers im he I~ | gave pis soul or go to he'l fire, and then ower him a ee lise, The great | Teannot pay that much.” But suppose’ that every We wodistn Js due matniv. ti not | man had a Blole, 1 1s certain that not halt of the sfeature tu its Church polity. IC | word could read it, Suppose every one could read. ripped the british parent and | Tye pies were written in Hebrew and Greek, ‘fhe membership, ALd its Access.008 | transiations? Yes, vut centuries passe t beiore such Quring lie iast decade are gt tan is eure | a thing was attempted. Again, how do you know ersiiip In LS15, after its nalt cencury of labor. | your translation 18 a correct One? The most learned 41 lay Inembers nip last year was 1.067,154 avd | ymong Protestant bishops say that King James? 1, 2124 lis churches | jsite is ful of errors; one man, a jearned Presvy- ees | tertau, computed them at tbirty thousand, and ithe erly revie y terest ot the Chur Exte has ip a centnry almost down in round numbers $60000,090. | yr present a Protestant body 13 pray nber 16,912, riot > | 8 it b ying | ¥ schools BuMber fla, anito ria were | the Engiish Pariament for a sum of year 1,241,595 Be holars oe 59.42 | inoney to procure o new and better trans fevoeui contribuvons for the year | jauon, My separated bretiren that is a sandy to about one muon dollars, It wil be al here, Of Course, Utat only one branch of e.bodist amily im America 18 now under | n—ihy Methouis: Episcopal Charen, | foundation you are on. But jet us suppose that every man had a correct Bib'e, and could read it; still, Lsay, private interpretation Is nota gawde. 1b has produced 354 coutradictory Protesiant denome TA DUCATIONAL T° SPITUTIONS . nations, and yet men get out of the dutleaity oy say. of the deuo. on nay be cla-siied as follows: ing tney all mean well, That is not enough, We First, colieges a ‘8 ch tnere are | can suppose a meeting OF Provestant ministers, alt twenty . over the country, from | learned, ti ere, Weilemeaning and prayer- cond, theotogical semi | tui men, uscopaliaa is accused of beng whieh thers are six, one, nowever, yet haif a Paplst; tie Presbyterian of haymg Frankiort-on-th nad, thre cat off too much; the Methodist insists that must fee) the Spirit working in bim: Baptist scoifs at the bapusm of the naries, 0: Jocated in seimi- inere | one biy-four states of ihe | the e sixty-nine located mn tw jumber Of siudents, maie anisemale, | others edier by sprinkling or ponrmy, and insists iustrucied in those 1D m3 durmg te lascacas | oa vems dipped m the river, ‘The Queker says, live demic year W nd the Dumber of tasiruct- | in peace aud hever mind baptism, and the Hieksite } ors ihe aggiegaie awber of volumes in ihe | Will baptise Only the men, leaving tie women to go | Noraries of uy 3 aud tievlogica: sem:- | to heaven nbaplived. The Unitarian calis the rest 7 endowments ol those (wo | idolators becanse they believe In a divine Jesus, and Slitutions amouas in the | says hey Will go to hell, ‘The Universalist says, aad the aggregate income | Heil! there 18 no evidence Of heil in the Bible. value of me buddngs, ac., of all | Now, who is right? The Bible does not decide, and Livce Classes Of Justitations, is | is ue teacher God has given to wan. Tue Bible is | $5,397,959 Liess iusu'auions help to make che | the Word of God we aduiit, but your Uuderstanding literature Of the Methootst Church, and the litera- | oF it 1a tuis respect 1s neiyher inspired nor iniailiple, ture, lu tu, heips to badd and sustain them, You must have the one Pte dae yates cal Ld : : Ri Bible to be sure of your fain. 10 THR ANNUAL CONPRRENCES 4 c umber 7 ay are ¢ re efere! the consutution or the United States an admirable uumnber 74. They are organized without any reforenee | (Cr tment? If, when i came from the hands of 18 Classes Of & gregate to yt couraph Limits, but solely tor tie t % ) ng S861 Sah lence uo, the Cuuren’s Work. Itas believed that | framers, George Washington said let ail people read about ons fourun Ot the popaiation of tuis country | it and ict every mau make a government to himself, woarchy, confusion aud division would resuit, To obviate his a Supreme Court and a supreme judge were appointed, who would rightly datervret the constitution. Whea Carts said, “Hear urch, ant he Who Urns away bis ear Tet hima ier really or homiuatly Methodists. The grand | We know that Hits follow. work al tie me, Hence it velung preachers, cass leaders, pe ee arly 13 Own, ahd the Oler Va tous Chure ‘ordel e nara nto al religions bolle % The thee | benunio thee asa froatheyt and a panes mae 4, Wien were desugned by Wesley for the imatual | ts the appointunest of the & upreme Court OL Cht.ste aa eerie vere ei munication OF inemoers. bee | i 18 the Church, What Church ts that? ‘The intl | P abbati auc anotner, have in this conatry | ble, unchanging Chnceh. La my next lecture I sme A lnoet Obsviet ‘dhe pew renting 8, sten Shali prove ti to be the Catholio Caurch, es an incor which so prevails among us, sect J 16 the congregations greater, IPis believed, than the yERY 50N, lass cullections and ary Comiributs would POVERTY AN® POISON. ' tage one o! ee wlury adv lo ue progress of Mothodisun 18 Suicide of a French Jeweller. of litte oF no aecount, and the other sot cone TBeRBe ‘ Sai ae services are cousidered quite suticient | | About one o'clock on Friday morming @ man, atten) acd soinetimes too many. | thirty years of age, called at the Revere House, 604 tregiie ie Was Uds | rpg we Broadway and Houston street, and, registering his uuesionary eu) @ to the de- | a, 1 # utiané oH apie wikis Ge one, young | BaMe as T. G. Girardin, from Puiladeipata, ask » bear his pactor the ma- | fora room, wiie was furnished him, As Mr. Gi- * (uere Would neces-arliy | yardin did not make his appearance on Friday sus- Mb bo tue Cuureb, Wf omiy oa a bry étcaes Common owuership, ‘than tere | Piclons were excited, and at eleven o*clock at nigl ve Where mall a do, trus ces ure | the notel porter eniered the rcom and found him Church meabers y ten- | jymg dead in bed. On the washstand was an ier rents and t and | empty viet, labelled “audanam,” and aiso a tum fe whether tue current © es ave | bier, Wuick contained @ siuall quantiy of the hot. Lt wits wader Une former acu poison, missionary Operations of the Cuurch coroner Keenan was summoned, and, after mak- ret—the b tous im 1019 and the | Ng a parcal examination, gaye aa order for the re- ; n very fairly Sus- | movalof Une remains ve the Morgue. nobly nor as | 4p possession of deceased were found some jew- maid annual collections | eli¥rs’ tools, letters and bills, most of wineh Were poses reach nearly three-qui 8 | Were Written im the French janguage, and oar ars—a very remark le increase | simail aroe\es, but not a centof money, Among the Vs collection of $sz3. Phe aggre- | payels Ol decease Was a leticr of recommendation vnary Sabscriptions and collections since | from Messrs, Benedtet Brothers, 171 Broadway. ln yUue Ud Oud Dadbees bo wOOUL eh band | The absence Ol any Other motive it is believed that Ab equal amount was | beng oul Of employment and money deceased ve- uy OUeving during the year | came Ured Of ile and swallowed the fatal draught, ode avd jor Us subscrived as a Cento; | ing in the Chueh of the Holy Light. | Loting consututo: lo terwinate @ imiserabie existence. An inquest DOCTRINES OF MERUODISM « will be heid on the body. Deceased ta thougatl vw by all evangelical budies—wamely, the | ba, beca a native of France, 1506, are those bh ‘ vi ‘ naan, drune God. ons clvne | PRTIGTOUS INTELLIGENCE, | siutuam amt Carstontty, 1 venrare toast poor fieaiion by fatth and entire sancttfieation or the at | Services: Ta-Duy, Tey. Cassius M. Torry, of New Bedfori, Mass.,. will proach this moruing in Alexander chapel, King street. By invitation of Rey, Bishop Potter there will be a collection in the Freach Opiecopal Church du st. Esprit, West Pwenty-secoud street, to-day, m bebalt of (he suifermg Preneh. Sernoa m French, by the Rev, Dr. Verren, Rov. Dr, MeVickar will preach morning and even- Rey, Dr, Krotel preaches this motning and even- ing in the Evangelican Lutheran Church of the Holy Triutty. The evening discourse will be on tae “Fourth Commandiwent.” The anniversary services of the House of Mercy, in this efty, will be held at ‘frinity chapel this even- jug, at hatf-past seven o'clock, Sermon by the Rey. Morgan, Dix., D. D. ‘The Bishop of tne diocese will pr elde, and an address will be made by the ¢hap- jain, the Rev, Dr. Seymour, ‘To-day (March 19) 1s St. Joseph's day, and his fes- tlval will ve celebrated, for the frst Ume, as patron of the Universal Uatbolic Churen, At St. Patrick's: Cathedral the offce of St. Joseph will be read, and bot the oMice of Sunday. Un this occasion the Archbishop will preacn, Rey. Merrf!} Richardson preaches this morning at the New England church, avd tm the evening at the. Hall of the Young Men’s Chrtstian Assoctation, ‘Twenty-third street and Fourth aveoue, Rev, E, G. Sweetser preaches m the Bleecker street Universalist churen moraing and evening; services Commencing at a quarter to elevea and half-past seven o'clock, Rev, W,.W. Andrews preaches In the Catholic Apostolic church, Sixteenth street, this evening, at | hall-past seven o'clock, taking as Uis subject “Tne Furst Bruits and the Harvest.” Rev. James Cooper, of Rondout, will preach in the | Pilgrim Baptist church, in Thirty-tinra strees, near | Eighth avenue, morning and evening, Rev. ©. 5. Harrower preaches morning and even- ing at St, Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Forty- first street, near Sixin avenue, Rey. Dr, Cheever will preach at the Church of the | Puritans, Lexiuston avenue, corner of Forty-sixth street, at half-past seven P. M. ‘The pastor, Dr. San- | derson, Will preach at half-past ten A. M. Rey, C. ©. Foote wil preach trom the text “The Truth,” this morning, in ihe Christian Church, West ‘Twenty-eighth street, near Broaaw Rey. J. M. Pullman will preach at the Church of Our Saviour, Sixth Universaist, Thirty-ffth street, morning aud evening. Sunday school at 5 P.M. Rey, Chauncey Giles will lecture upon ‘The Fall of Man: What it Was and How Qaused,’ this even- lug, in the new church, Swedenborzian House of | Worship, Thrrty-fifih street, berween Fourta and | Lexington avenues, services Commencing at haif- past Seven o'clock, Rey. Samuel O-good, D. D., will preach this morn- ing and Kev. Wiliam PF. Morgan, D. D., itis even- ing, at the Memorial church of Bishop Watawright, West Eleventh street and Waverley place, services commencing at balf-past tea A.M. and hali-past seven P. M. Ney. Charles f. Lee preaches at Pitapton Build- ing, Stuyvesant, corner of Ninth street, at half-past ten o'clock, this morning, Sublect—The Broad Church of Christ.’ Rev. E. P. Hammond, the Evangelist, will com- tmoenee a series of meetings, in the Hunter's Point Baptist church, inis afternoon, hali-past three o’ciock. ‘Tuere whl be preaching also in tue even- ny, at (he same cuurch, by Mr, Hammond The ninth anniversary of the Young People’s Prayer Meeting of the Spring Street Presbyterian Chareh (near Varick street) will be held tis eventag, services commencing at balj-past seven o'clock. Key. Thomas Street preaches moraing and eyen- ing at he usual hours, at the North Presbyterian church, corner Phirty-Grst street aud Ninth avenue, | Eveniag subject, *Jacov,” being the second of the course of sermons ou Scripture characters. Rey. R. Cameron delivers tae last lectare on the “Seven Parables of Matthew’ this evening, at the Open Communion Baptist cnurch, Seventeenth, street, near Sixth avenue. Morning services also commencing ai hall-pasi ten o'clock. The annual meeting and election of oMcers of the Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Associanon of New York wili be held in the iecture room of St. | Mark’s church, Tenth street and Second avenue, this evening, ata quarter to elght o'clox Key. George W. Shinn, rector of St. Luke's ebareh, Troy, | will read an essay on “Classification in the Sunday School"? Subject for discussion—“What is we | Best Method of securing Regular and Puuctual AL tendaace in the Sunday School #”" Rey. J. i. Rylance. ». D., preaches at St. Mark's | church, coraer Second avenue and Tenth street at | 1A, M.and4 P, M. Bey. George H. Hepworth preaches at ,he Church of the Messiah, corner of Park aveaue aud Thirty- fourth street, morning and evening. Subject in the evening—“Legitimate and Lilegitimate Amuse meats.’ Mrs. Cora Tappan will speak before the Society of Spiritua’ at Apollo Hail, this moruing and | eveuing, cieuce vs. Intuition’ and | “The History of a Soul.’? Avother “Little Church Round the Curner? To THe Eprror oF Tan HeraLos— In reference to your insertion the early part of last week in the HeRaLD vespectiag the death of Mr. Rea, of Jay street, New York, who cut his throat while in a fit of temporary insanity, we have been informed that when his bo@y was removed, afwr his death at the Centre Street Hospital, to his resi- dence in Jersey City, preparatory to its final re- i moval te Paterson, N. J., for interment, that a min- | ister of a Curistian churell, not a hundred miies | from tnence, ou being requested to viliciaie at the last sad duty of Mis calling, relused to do so, “on princtpie,’’ as tne deceased died a’suicide, A Kind and liberal-muuded messionary sabsequently ol- Clated on the occasion, aad imade a fervent appeal ty the ‘Throne of Grace for the departed, as well as { reminding those present that 1a the midst of life they were in deatu, aad urging thera vo be always preparefi tor that awinl change which cometh at all times and in every shape, A. B. Hebrew Emancipatioa in Peassia, To Tae Koiror or tan ifkeaLp:— In a well-meaning article entitled “Hebrew News in a Nutshell,” I tind some erroneous statements calcosated to misiead the numerous readers of your widely circulating paper as regards the status and condition of the Jews in Prussia, and which, lam you willgladly permit me to correct, 1 take exception to the tollowing passages:— The Prussian Jews, however, take consolation in the thoaght that ater tae war equal rigats will be granted them, when tiey will o @ bo Ro.d oillee Without lorsaking Weir icligion. Tae shinig lights of ihe liberal party in tae rinan Parliameat, such as Lasker, Jacoby aut obiers, are baplized Jews. Now it is an avtnentic and indisputable fact that the Prussian constitution Kaows no difference as to Jews or Christians, and confers upon the citizens of We country, of whatsoever persuasion, equal civil and religious rights, All ofices, whether maul cipal, provincial or State, Whether legislative, judir cial or adininistrative, are within the reach of Jews, 4nd if some branches of the government were here- So.ore closed to tiem it Was wot owing to any ex- 11 disabniities, bab to we mere | ance that Jews were prevented d scruples from subscribing | in of ofiice. Ln that respect they | © Rothschilds and Salomous of | Eugiaud, woo, duly elected aud legally ented to | their scais m the British Parliament, were pre- | claded from tiat rizht by virtue of the prescrt oath until p41 Of the Jatier came to their | rescue. ‘The Jews of Prussia, hesever, Were hever | in a similar predi reir legisiatve Capaciues Were © ever since the Boohicar we: iMauguration ¢ nt, UN ac. tive dud even leading part mm the coastuituent aad deiberative asseimbites of the country, Although excinded i certain Judicial and adiministrative | ollices by mere technical disabtities—since also ree | moved—tucy alivays exerted the higaest civil prero- | gailves in the capacity of legisiitors. The annals of the Pariiameutary history of Prussia ave adorned by such Jewish hames a3 Lasswitz, Belchenh Lu, Kosen, Lasker, Jacoby, Bamberger aud others— | leadiug im’ the popular House of Repr ae tives—and the government went So lar In its reoog- | nition of the Leprew eletment as to call 2 Jewish citizen of Frankfort into the House of Lords or Peers. i asker and Jacoby are by no means baptized Jews, as your arcicle chums, but aduere sir.cry to | the ancient fa a fact 1 can positively assert iroin @ long and inumate acquaimtadce with Wiese gouu men F AB your paper pursues a truly iiberal and on- higutened Ganenes a spreading the sadly wantiag knowledge of Jewish faith and principles, wd tiere- by assisting ia the goud Work of mutual lorbear- ance, harmony aad tolerance between tho appar Foatly onposlly, Fh W kavh Closely related, religions | haviag no A | boss tan | to by | asensation. of the Jews of Prussia—or rather Germany—-large . mut of whou have found & bome 1 this Iree Jand, é Jows ol Germany, though comparatively small in number, exert, neverticiess, a marked in- fluence, by reason of their wealth, industry, culture, iveralisia and morauty, They have never raised their voice mt bebaif of despotism and reaction, un- less it Was the gified Professor Stal, who, as the spiritual head of the tory or Jauker party, may be likened to the Higlish Disract, They have, on the contrary, even promoted tue cause of freedom, progress and entivatenment, aud, like Bonue aud) Meme, earried an indvence far beyond theiv Bauve conulry, Germany counts Among her inost gi ted aad iamous sons aniny of (be Jewish Jatth—Mendessoun wud bazarus, the phi- losophers; Fan, Jané, Geiger and Jobst, the historl- aus; Cola, Magans, Mringsieim, Magnus and Valeur tia, the scienists; Schit, Trauds, Leabusener, Henysn, &e.,the porsicians; Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn. 1d Ottenbach, the composers; titzig, the arehitect; Godschiudl, Ute jurist; Meyerhem, Magpus aud Mahr, the arssts; Auerbach, Franke, Sachs and Hartman, the p ets, and a host of otuers renowned in art, science and literature, vis teretore, not Loo much to assert that the Jewish race ts destined to play a promivent part in the history of manktud, and chat Germany bids far to be to Lue Jews in Barope wiat the Untied States is to their coveligtouists in the Western Worid—the Promised Land! Ali good and humane men unite ip the prayer that this hope may soon be realized, aud that the clouds of superstation, intolerance and fanaticism may be speedily scattered by tbe ad- Vancing sun oF lierty, cultiire ani progress, ADOLPH KESSLHu, M.D, The Jewish Claim to the Oaly True Reli- wi To THE Eprror OF THe HERALDI— The Jews claim to have received the only true re. ligion trom God direct, with no tniermediate ex- cept Moses. The Christian teachers propagate the same dociring, If we accept their clatas we aiso admit taatall other religions must be false. Having thus far acceded to their dewands, we naturally } conclude that this uewly discovered religion must duler $0 materially from ail preceding it that “ine Waylaring man, Uivugh a fool, need not ere therein; and that, ef course, the names and atiribuces of Deity, the names and pee diarities of the oMeers, the forms and ceremonies and tae doctrines of this sys- tem will 80 the hiy dufer from tae old that it Will be empbatical y a new revelation. In applying: this rale to the Jewish rehgion what will ve the result? Lot us see, ‘The grand central idea, around which all other ideas revolve, i tae God idea. His name alone is so holy, so UBapproachable, 80 UngronoLunoeadle, Luat Ib is er used in conver- sation, audit is doubtul, indeed, whether human lips have ever beea able to speak 1G It is also the Masonic Tetragrammatou that was lost for ages, and afterwards found, like the Mormon Bible, “iid upio a hul to the Lord,” until mysteriously and miraculousiy discovered, ‘This aw/sul name, so in leuseiy sacced, was and Ls simpiy the old Egypuan Name of God, IAV, moderalzed into Jao. in tie old Greek Pantheon it Was spelled IO, in the e+ brew Bible LUH, translated, in our Bible, Jehovah, In tae Greek, also compounded with Pater, we lave Jopater or Jupater—'. @, God, Fa Ask & Jew tie natne of God and he Will say Ad-on-aw- Adouui, the po ve Cave of Adonis, the Gr du the Egyptian syste tacy tauzhe thar ine lever “1” denoted the wisdom or fatherhood of God, Hence Jav, in the wilderuess, prociainied hunselr the great I Am. A," “represent. lug we tiountaia or pyramid, was the em- Diem of siren, aud denoigd the sousiip or streagin of G Also the creativo energy, hence the idea that God creaied ail tain, y dis Son, The O was the embiew of beauty, per.ection, completeness, cops.siing of the serpeat WiUh bis tall in tis moun. of al creauion. Th euibodied the wisdom, tue fe. cundity, te vitality of the serpent. it -ymbuized crernsty, having Neither beginuing norend, it rep- reseated the boly air, proceediae from the graud source? of Hight and heat in cireles or radiations. 1b coustituced Che divine adlatus that in ts sofe breath. Ings periected creation snd iu isel completed tie Wisdom, strengta aud beauty of the tenine divinity Oi the ancieuts In this graad omunile word we have the origin aud meanimg of the Trinity. ihose old sages never committed the eg modera Trintiariaus, Who put tpree persons in one and one ig three; put all togetuer in vae place wad make them to be everywhere pr wiwiy AL Lae stuue Ume, We have aiso mtne isi Uitarianisin a spect:.en of thevlogical “ground and lofty tambling? m whieh ihe wre tie Dgypuians is by the “presto ean mode into a unit, and the mudern an Sysicun Of UF NGAMAAIsuh BLOWS OUL OF ihe QUE Male God of old Moses and his ‘old clo’ jeluwers. We have the sad spectacie, world wide iM 13 mvenc>, of a religion chiming lo be original, yer borrowed en- turely from Egypt and ifindostan,” Neirner dow nor isitan has anaive of God ia bis sacced books i % borrowed trom the old pagan 1 wus not be notes. born of brabm or Bram was Bram, A—t ¢., i one or jirst. According to the Jéwist theo} Coe yA Brom, or tie Urst Bram. Tuose ancients, Dic BuMerals, used Ue alphavet, aud A or aieph was one or arst.” Tans A Urau’s tollow cared ifiudoolsm tito Egypt, aud is ving u ered the coup eared systei of old & y Le trodaced it to tis Litekinaking lolowers as a direct revelauion, Im 1 taere is not an vrigimaliiea, It is sunply rhip vi Heypt, doctored a litte 1 suit the amiable teadeucy of the Jewish mind, that led them to inauige ia tae be- hei tat God Was an unmarried man; tuat Women Nad no souiy and no rights chat their mue prot Tors Were hound to respec! ‘The result was wuo! sale whoredom by the kings, Who were special fa Voriies OF lao. Haman sacitiives, ba. abdag for disobedience to pari ti tor piek- it was symbolical of the perection | pgious biunder of | ) Rev. John £, Kendall, pastor of the Seoond Presbyterlan church of Columbus, Ohio, hag resigned his charge. Rey. H. B. form, of Ballston, N. Kes accepted & una) oan oat te the aan cburch at Wyoming, The Alumni of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., haye resolved to erec! monument over the grave of its late Principal, Dr. Taylor, Rev. M,N. McLaren, D. D., has resigned his pee tora! charge of the Afrg te pore in Caledonta, Ne For over forty years he the Gospel, ‘The San Francisco Occiden! says that ihe congre- gations in Calvary church were never so large as at present, nor deeper interest felt In the great work of the chareh, Rey. James Osgood Andrew, D. D., sentor Bishop of the Methodist trong ay Church, South, and the oldest Methodist bisitop in the world, died at Mobile on the 2d instant, W. DP, Walcott, of New York Mills, Oneida county, has added $10,000 to $20,000 previously given by Dimself and his father for the endowment of the Presidency of Hamilton College, ‘The Swedish Lutheran church at Campelio, Mass. to which Mile. Cortstiaa Nilsson lately donated about $2,500, Was dedicated February 12. Lu honor to ite donor it is calied “Christina cuureh.”? The Chestnut Street Presbyterian church, Louts- ville, late Dr. McKee’s, fave extended & unaaimoug cail to Rev, C, L. Thompson, of the First church, Cincinnati, to becoime thelr pastor, with a salary of 5,000, The church property diMenities in Shelbyville, Ry., have been compromised vy leaving the church batlding in the hands oF ihe Southern, and the par. sonage in the hands of the Nomhern wing of the church, ‘The First (Presbyterian) church, Mansfeld, Onto, pays its pastor, the Dr. Davie Hall, a salary of 10, meets the premium of a lie insurance for $10,000 and provides him with a manse costing $8,900. The Second Congregational church of Hartford, Rev. KE. P. Parker, pastor, rece ved twenty-seven persons to its membership on 6th instant. ‘The Park churen, of the same city, Rev, N. J. Burton, pastor, received twenty-one, There is a revival of much interest In the First Presbytertan church of Peru, Ind. As the trait of a series Of Meetings, commevciug with the Week. of Prayer, Were were received to its commanion, on the oth of March, forty-one on profession of taith, ‘Thirty-fonr bave peen added to the Congrera- tional choreh m West Vizo, Ind.; fifty to the ehureh. tn Grand Rapids, Mich.; thirty-si7n to the ehayoh mm Oswego, JL; forty-three to the charch in Dallas City, U., and over thirty to te church at Bozrah, conn. A very pleasant revival intinence has heen enjoyed inthe Third church, Rochester, N. Y.. A. G. Halt, D. D., pastor, for some weeks. Dr. Hall is now in the tinrty-second year of his pastorate, the longest m the city. baving preceded Dr. Shaw, of the Brick church, about a year. , ‘The Beach sires: Presbyterian church, at tts com- Miunion on the first Sabbath of Marca, received 14 new members, ninety of them on profession of their faith. ‘Tae success of this church, under the mintstry of the Rev, James 8. Dunn, formerly of this city, vs the Hrvngels', has deen truly remarkable, and @ just cause for vratitide om the part of ail who love the progress of the truun. The late Mr. Ward, of Marietta, Ohio, erected a | Deanttiul chapel for the Unitarian society. and in | hes with gave them an oid claim against the govern. | ment for $10,000. A recent decision ot ihe Supreme i Y, a8 Deon an able minister of Court bas set asile this claim, and the societyis, j thrown for support upon the Zeal of tts members and the churity of its frfends, This will rather re- Guee the value of old clatns as a passport to saiva- tion. The Litheran says that sixty years ago its de- j Domivaiton haa four chnrches im Phiiaceivita, one- eleventh of the Whole number of honses of worship in the city, They now have twenty-one, about one ) sixteenth of ihe entire numecr. Kiehs vew Lutheran churches have been added to the city within the last eizht years, besides the entire reyeraing , of three others, Three new congregations expect. to complete three more churches within the next three years, Tt ts understood that the contributions mate by the several congregations of the presbytery on Long Island—tie jive mihion fund—will ve pald.as folic rhe chareh at Sheiter Is! ) aechu ; Greenport, ina receniiy built chapel; | Sonthol i, to baild a new chavel; Mattitnek, to ree build its church eduiee; Yuphank, to entarge tie church, Port Jeiierson. to pay for the parsonage re- cently erected; Setanket, to build anew one, Tae next meeting of the presbyery will be held at West Hampton on Tuestay, Apri 10, THE TEMPLE EMANUEL, The Court, the Sanctuary aud the Holy of olive their Symbolic Meaving and the Moral Lessons Waich Phey Convey—Sermon by Rev. Br, Gatheim. The closing chapters ot the pook of Exodus.con- tain a desoripiion of the raising of the Tabernacle. of the Congregation—the court, the sanctuary and the holiest of ali—with Ks appointments, This de- Scription is almos\ literal with the elaborate instruc- tions given to Moses on the mount. To us this tautelogy must appear irksome and super- | Queus, Hut if has a symboile character, into which we may profliably inquire. Auctent and modern commentajors look upon it in a \ symbolical, typical and mystical hght If | | it was merely a copy of some Oriental siracture it | 1s Mpossible to explain God’s purpose in showiag | the pattera Ulereol to Moses. Why describe so ing up sticks on Satura’s day, and an ine | 5 . e mense P noatas ol priestiy Slaughter hous munutely the chandelier, with its arms and deemcd necessary to keep tao in good au- | branches? What means the mercy seat, the taple mor, and a round of ceremonies so bardeu- | of suewbread, the ark of the tesumony, the altar of some that even vrotuer vanl exclaimed that ib was a burden that neiter they nor ther fathers abie to bear, Tne Jews never were hor ever can be orgiaatots or inventors. Their hide-vound theology leads Co marrying in and In; inventive qualities belong to the mis hey bortowed every part and parcei of their reugiou, first trum Hind tan. then irom Bgype aud afierward from Versi. They porrowed jewels trout Byy pt, griudstones fou Pouistia, farm bands trom all’ tae petty trie around them, m the same manner that we bar- rowed ours from Alrica, aud ail hey kuew of Pree. masoury they borrowed from Hgyps, Lyre and Per- sia, When Solomon wanted a temple he ovtained ail the workinen (vou surrouuding nations, and the on, Hiram Abid, Was uhatveor Tyre. Thus the Masonic idea tat the Jews were the first Masons is alinonsense, G CO, SLEWAKT. Tae Methodists and Scciarian Appropriations. ‘The Methodist preachers of this city have had be- fore them for a couple of weeks past, at their Mon- day gathering, tle question of “Sectarian Appropri- ations”? The discussion has drawn out some of the best talent of that Church, as, in common with the Baptist body, it hail the offer of city juts at the nomi- nal rent of one dollar & year for ninety-nine years. Dr, Curry, of ihe Christian Advocate, and Dr, Crooks, of the Methodist, suppuried the resoiuiuous, dweiliag principally upon that portion of them which referred tothe Roman Catholic Charch and the wide door Tal Was Opened to tiem by the bill brought in oy Mr. Tweed. Rey. Mr. Buckley followed, contending that the principle of granting ald io seetartan bouts sor pli Janthropte and beueticer parposes was right; It Was ONY the abuse Of Lhe principle That was Wrong. br. Andrews moved, seconded by Jr, Crawiord, ag a substitute to the origiual resolutions the follow. Ang resolution, as embodying the Sentiments of uke meelng:— Whereas in tl clesiaatical ins. present and prospective condition of ec- trvas in this State great abuses are Lasepa- State and munivipal gifts to ehureies an ications, ceretore Kesoived, That we cespoct: vy aad earnestly adviae all oar Methowst Gi and taatitubons neither to ask nor avcopt ‘Any such appropriations, ‘The resolution was can Dr. Crawford w of sympathy with promising aid by Ladies? Home, Wile arried unanimo’ A committee € resolution to the lug adjourned, ed imanimous! A 1a resolutiou expressive the Lures’ Aid Associaiton, and ali feasible methods lo tie Old institution is in need Of @ site, tive was appointed to convey the Ladies’ Aid Society, and the meet A Fortane Bestowea ia Charity. Mr. Abel Minard left a fortune valued at half a million, Lesides providing for his family and cer- tain churciies in Moreistown, N. J., Where heresided, he begucathed one-Alth pi of the residue of the estate to the Drew Lireological Seminary, as a per- manent fund to aid young men In procuring a theo- al educanon; another filth Is given to the Or- fs? Home at Morristown, Watch has litely become Of the Methodist Chureh, and a teath of the Miaard Fund for te bene- and orphans of deceased preachers of tbe Uebesee AuNual Conicreuce. ‘the to lowing paragraph, founded upon the above ant obviously 2 mistake, 15 golig the rounds of the papers ruluary has received @ bequest of $105, jaie Abet Minard, Of Morristowa, sed as a permanent faid Jor the sid of thd Bent Wome ln oblainig a imiaisverial education,” Noligions Netes—Persenal and General. Dr. Duryca’s sermon on “Temperance” is creating He takes a liberal view. The Presbyterian memorial fund amounts to $4,000,000 up to the present time. A “Refage for Homeless Women’ is avout to be established at Leaven worl, Kansas, The Ive c rea in Plover, unanimeusly voted itself Congregational ‘There tg a very extensive and powerln! revtyal in the Young Ladies’ Lustitute, Granville, Oblo, Five hundred Wousaud doliars have ween ralsed by the Methodists to butts university in Syracuse, ‘The itty Presbyterian cuured at Waeatland, lowe, cis, Nag sacrifice and tie bathe and basias for priesuy abiniion? We muet treat the subject in its alles orleal forms and DRAW MORAL LESSONS THEREFROM, Jn the first place it was to be a holy place, aud Israel was to be a lioly people unto tue Lord, The labernacle was the prototype of tae rumen heart. It consisted of three parts—the court, ; the sanctuary proper and. the holy place. Yo the jirst al Nad free access, It was with: out ceiling or covering, Save the blue vault of | heaven. . dicre the sta offerings, the Wural offerings, | the peace otferings and the meat offerings wera made, Here the priesis performed ther ablations bewore they entered the sanctuary. Thig- tabernacle represeats our iue on Earti—bow mach of it shall be tike the court and how much like the sanctuary ? Our intercourse With the world at large 18 the court Which leads fo tie sauctuary. The sacriiiees of geod works of love and peac* rislag up as a sweet | savor before Got, shaitbe the overings which we wil make upon His altar. Works of piety, kind. ness, good will wud charity—iaese are the ofermgs which God requires ab our hands. Here, too, im | ths actaal itte, the vestinule of the saactiary, our BOIS Mast be wasied and made meet Lor tie hwblias tion Of tae biessde, Froin vis court the priests eutered into the sane- ; taary, where stood the cam liesuck, WILL fis seven branches, the table of sieweread, &¢. The lamps buraed continusily, an bread was not con. sumed, but 3 chaaged every cabbath aay. tae cense Was oered up here every movalug aad even- lug, syinbollzing TUE FAUT OF ISRAEL, This house is the sanctuary mto which we step frow (he busy secnes of hile, aud here we fad heath and saucuicain, ileve the kunp of kaoWleage barns, dad the table of the law contains the bread of lie, noi, indeed, for the support ot the body, but of Tie soul, By is use we cugrafy on our dally lives tie pri cipics of temperance, purity and appt: ness, and from tie aitu of incense ascend up to our Heavenly Vather our mormug and eventing prayers aad praises, Reveiation, hw and prayer are the pillays upon which our sanctification rests. AS Israviites it is our duly to pray and to [vel our dependent relation foward God, We must obey the aw and study te word in order our hearts may obtain the true ' inspiration of the sanctuary, The cowbination of these Mires coustitute Judaisin. Prayer ts not to consist i recitations of specie forms or mechant- cal uitevanccs of the lips, no matter by whom made, ib must gush forth from the fumess of our hearts, be BORNE ON THE WINGS OF DEVOTION, and be consistant with the wants of our natare, ‘The Jaw must not degeuerate into servile rites and ceremonies, which had at frst only a local import auce. It inust be our ule of tte and be sustamed by genuine picty, aud this shail we be renderet tit for the duties of the lite that now is and of that which is to come. The word of God must be a living truth, purifying our consciences and sanctlying our atfections, We minse ac 2 our heavis as an mspiration coming directly from Une eternal spirit of love and truth, And int tbls sense revelation becomes the rand ground of religion, When these things cate to be reg: ar mere eardly things then God took them away and alowed His sancvuary to be destroyed, Let us uals tile, spit and cou secrated Jecthig into ev depart at of religion; let us be (vue priests, performing our duties with 2 full daderstandiug of their Importance, Let us Not Huger in the court, DUE enter Xt once the saneiuary for our spirttua comfort aad tinprovement, THE MYSTERY OF THE HOLY OF HOLES can never be fully ex ior Its aatire and os. Schoo understood, MW throwsh the court Of iii amt the suntan: y he kuna heart it shrines the divi ye Wb as Unpenetraole to the buman eye and inscrutable to the haman caderstanding, Ibis dark and uofathe rie; Ont it As the iloly Of Holies, Jb contauns ie Ors Of the testimony and the merey seat waere man holds communion with his Maker. And Uhus pro Woy purity, virtue aud wath man becomes the Itgit priest of God entitied to enter the sametu aud tue holy piace, But auiess (ne heart ve consecrated to God our actial life will become @ de reed court and religi sanctuary proixged and corned. It Was by inoang of the dol of itolies that the court aad the s were hatiowed, aad by adhering to these reyiieinents aud ayrabo! tats Isract may have yore a perivts temple, ts WHI become a besuitiai whole. There wil 8 no Conmict bebweon tie demands of this ia future, Lor here movey and truth wilh tisltcousness aud peace will Kiss cach,