The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1871, Page 8

lite Deena 8 NEW YORK H#KALD, SUNDAY, APRIL Y, I87L—QUADKUPLE SHEKY. NEW YORK HERALD] ., BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. g Bester Sanday. On the morning of happy, holy Baster, 1871, the Henracp salntes ite re.dors, This morning the Christian world commemorates the resur- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | rection of the Saviour of mankind. While PROPRIETOR, thousands upon thousands of eloquent tongu2s ————————— ——— | are telling tho story of the oross, and while Velume XXXVI... .....000:seeeseese0e+eM. OB | millions upon millions of worshippers are bs seen i <== 7 bowing before the symbol which recalls to AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. memory the sufferings of the God-man, and BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ax Onsxct or Ix- | amid humiliation and sorrow, rejoicing in tho ben iterlnaney ht eh wert fruits of His victory, we wish our readers all Manan TOE MOMEYSPATIYE verGkniaee, | the joys, present and prospective, which the Christian religion offers. Holy, happy Easter! after Christmas, the most joyous festival of the Christian year—in the estimation of many more joyous than Christmas itself—why GLOBE THEATRE, 19 Broatway.—Vanrert BNTER- PAINMENT, SC.—DAY AND NIGHT—KENO, { ROOTH'S THEATRE, 32d s1,, deiween Sih and 6a Tur Foou's Revence. eee Oe MUSEUM Broadway, corner Shh st.—Ferform | should we not rejoice in thee? If \ ouywetc THEATRE, Broadway.—Twx Duma oF history be all a fable, let not history Morizox, ‘ inclade the birth, work, death and | NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taw Srecracim or | resurrection of the Man of Nazareth. CO ee we nee eee Le Tiese, after all, constitute the life and hope of the Christian world. We cling to that life. We cannot afford to dispense with that hope. “Good news and glad tidings to all man- kind”—the burden of ancient prophecy, the burden of the song of the angels, the burden of gospel teaching—is to all ofus ‘‘vanity and vexation of spirii” if the Christ did not rise from the dead and in due time ascend to His Father and our Father, “according to the Scriptures.” It is a proud thing for Christianity—and the — |New York Heratp, as the great religious organ of the New World, is proud to record the fact—that in the year of our Lord 1871 on the Continent of America the Christian faith rules, and that in all its departments the United States—the great, growing, controlling Power of the future—does homage to Easter Sunday and despises not the time-honored Easter holidays. Among our many charac- teristics as a great people not the least sig- nificant is that which marks us out before the world as religious and Christian ~~ | in the broad and truly catholic sense. E SHERT. | ow religious reports of to-morrow will == === | be convincing proof to the Christian nations April 9, 1871. of the world that the American people are, SRC aD though not narrow, not sectarian, not dogmatic, yet faithfully and lovingly attached to historic Christianity. Romanists, Episcopalians, Lu- therans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Congregationalists will be found to have paid @ common attention to, as well as revealed a common sympathy for, the grand Christian memory of the time—the resurrec!ion of our Lord. It is a pride to us to think that our re- pubiican institutions have so nobly conserved the Christian element. It is a lesson to all men everywhere that Christianity possesses witbin itself sufficient vitality to enable it to ations and Repairs to Promi- | get along, even to thrive and prosper, without Tr pecene wecteniuyee te | State aid, State patronage, State protection, Sittite of Mrs. ‘Foes Kitenen | State control. and Revenue—The Divorce In the olden times Easter Sunday was un- dar—The Light Wet Champtonstup. als: Leading Article, “Easter Sunday"— | questionably a day of greater ceremony than 9 nditoriais (Gontiuned rom Kighth Page)—rer- | BOW. Just asthe Lenten season, with its rig- sonal Intell:zence—The Red Revolt: Further | orous exactions, was more faithfully observed ey aa apCaR aiae at Beaty than the Lenten season is now, so the Easter Relorts_—Miccelianenus TelegramecBucthers | festival, with its little Hberties and licenses, ¢ was more intensely enjoyed. ‘No fasting, no feasting,” is an ancient but truthful proverb. The hard, mercantile, money-loving, money- seeking spirit of the times has told here as elsewhere. Now we have no time for fasting. « We have as little time for feasting. In these matters, however, it is satisfactory to know that we are not worse than our neighbors. The history of Easter goes back toa very early period. The first record we have of it is in connection with a difference which arose between the Churches of the East and the West. The Eastern Churches kept their feast on the same day on which the Jews kept their Passover, which was on the 14th of Nisan. The Western Churches, remem- \ ‘um Hory Farrer at Rome is not in a bering that our Lord’s resurrection took place Biuatlon to share fully in the Christian re- | on Sunday, kept their festival on the Sunday foicing of this Easter Sunday in New York, | following the 14th of Nisan. The one party but our devoted Catholics should only the | was desirous to make the Easter festival take more fervently remember bim in their prayers | the place of the Jewish Passover. The other— Yor his peaceful deliverance from his present | the Western—was desirous to draw a dis- roubles. tinction between themselves and the Jews. i Tee Pas Seas The Eastern Church claimed the practice of { Sgwator Fextox has been snabbed again | c+ philip and St. Johu, The Western Church the New York Custom Honse appointments, claimed the practice of St. Peter and St. Paul. (an these wrongs be righted short of the * In the year of ovr Lord 325 the Council of rganization of a third party? Perhaps not; | nice the first great Council of the Church or- nd perhaps Fenton is now within reach of “ . ‘ammany Hall, with his followers at his back. Sais boar sitet fern ei ea re ine yho kaows + same day, and that not the day of the Jewish Passover but, as had been geuerally observed, the Sunday afterwards.” The British people were the last to yield to this authority of the Council; but by and by the central authority prevailed, and the practice became uniform, In the year 664 a Council was held at Whitby, Englund, and from that date we hear of no further trouble regarding the day. Easter may be regarded as the pivot of all the mova- J ble feasts and fasts throughout the yoar. The 4 Goverxor Geary has struck at the root of | nine Sundays before and the eight Sundays pro coal conspiracy in Penosylvania, He has | following are all dependent upon it. red ont writs of guo warranto against the Tn different countries and in different times Feilronds to show cause why their charters | the customs have differed. In all countries, | eapord not be forfeited. They violated them | however, and in all times, Easter bas been y raising the price of freightage from two to regarded as at once the most solema and the px dollars per ton, and it 4s very insufficient | most joyous of the Christian fesiivals, The fs they can show why they should not be | rising of the sun on Easier morning was { WALLACK'S THRATRE, Brostway and Uth street.— ROMANCE AND Rrauity, LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, 730 Broadway.—Pi.utTo— Linearp’s Sxrronns. |. FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— Nowopy's Caiiv. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 46 Bowory.—Gaawan Drena—Lourncuin. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8h av. ana $id st,— La PERtcuoLs. a F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— OMP. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn (formerly Hooley’s).—VA- mibcy ENTERTAINMENTS. SAN FRANCTRCO MINSTREL AALL, 685 Beon Barsoma'’s Royal Jara Trovurr. RRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., between 6th ena 7th uve.—NeoRO MINSTRELSY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowory.-—Va- Biriy ENTERTAWNENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comio Vooar- IMS NEGRO Acts, Ac. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SozNEs IN Taw Ring, AcKouaTs, £0, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— Bovrnor ayy Axt. OR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — Boirnck any avr, QUADRUPL New York, Si mys COVFENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Advertisements, Ivertisements, 3— 4 Advertisements. 5 ‘The Campaign of 1872: Serenade to Senator Mortoa m Washington ; Speeches of the Great Chiefs of the Republican Party—Burstipg the » Bagntos: Superintendent Kelso Scouring the Siums—The Sleepy Hoilow Horror—Wronged ly Wrigat—A Clever.Swindler. #6-The Staie Capital: The Weea and Irving Mill; Aid for the Midland Ratiroad; Cold Comfort for the Drafted meu—Re us Intelligence—Ger e: Tae Poace Demonstra- ihe Hog Butchers—The Weather Yester- Fair in Aid of the Women—Journalistio feck, 2e~Proceedings im the Courts—Chadwick Sen- veuced—The Erie Railway War—Dry Goods indling with Kerosene—Lon2 Istand a Euterprise—Financial Report—Mar- and Deaths—adveriisements, aTine Cos Bein and the M Creamer Keo M The seventh National Guard Prom- Inteiligenoe — Advertise- Movements of the Military : Additional Outrages—The tion—The Funeral of the Late — Shipping WG<Arivertis + A Raoutsr TaoNDER Storm “away up in Muino” on Fridsy night last. Spring is com- ins, and March winds and April showers Dring forth the May flowers. 4 Tux Lenten Season ia over, and we may xpect to witness in consequence this week a ase in the prices of fish, and unusually jgood houses at our theatres and other places f amusement. After the fastings and self- lenjals of the forty days of Lent It is per- Beotly natural that this reaction should follow, and it is perfectly proper, too, within a rea- poaable margin. forfeited afler so grosa a disregard of their | hailed with demonstrations of joy. At rovisions. an an early hour the churches were filled, mass was celebrated, catechumens were baptized, slaves were liberated and criminals not committed for heinous offences were par- doned. During Easter week ali public shows and games, the theatre and the circus in- cluded, were forbidden; Jews and Pagans were compelled to conform to the inw’s requirements, and almost all legul and other business wos suapended, It was, in fact, a jubilee season—a universal joy. In Rome the Easter celebration has always been grand PROTON and imposing. To-day the Pops, after having Tum Sgnexape To SzNxaror Morron in | beem carried ia state from the neighboring Sr scainstcn last evening by bis Indiana | palace of the Vatican, will take his place on friends was the occasion for promulgating the | the Ardia Gestatoria, his vestments blazing Bocirines, principles and policy of the repub- | With gold and his head adorned with the ican party now and in the future, The Sen. | ‘tiple crown—the symbol of spiritual and btor, Vice President Colfax, Colonel Forney | temporal sovereigaty and of the union of bna 1 others made specches, which | both; and surrounded with all the pomp and fmay be considered as “official,” and President | splendor which the Roman Church so well Kirant was preseat to give greater authority | knows how to nse he will officiate at_mass in ho the utterances, The democratic party was | the greatest relizions temple which the world pevercly arraigned, the administration of | has yet knowa, All over the Christian , Tax Sentence or Cuapwick, the alleged ond alterer, in Brooklyn, to ten years in the Ibany Penitentiary is a blow that falis most eavily on the interesting family circle that centred about the criminal. The sentence pon the guiliy man recoils upon the inno- font; but it is not in the power of impartial ened to save one while it condemns the ther. Chadwick's greatest crime is not in Bitering notes, but in bringing such anguish pad shame upon his wife and children, President Grant was highly eulogized and | World, particularly in the Catholic and ue future of the republican party gloriously | Episcopal Churches, Romo will be seen esition The first gun of the campaign of | in miniature. In Great Britein Easter 972 was fired, aul it produced a very slirring | rings holidays to members of Par. Peport (Uiament. to the julges on the bench, to the students at the universities, to the boys at the public schools. In some of these latter particulars it must be confessed that on this side of the Atlantic, notwithstanding our unquestioned religious tendencies, we lag a little behind. We are a young people, however, and like all other young people we have a right to be excused if our activities are somewhat impatient of old-fashioned re- straints. Wo call the world to witness that we do not despise Easter, but we cannot afford to idle during Easter week. As we have said already in this article, our columns to-day and to-morrow will be sufficient proof that, young and active and impatient as we are, we have not wholly let go the old anchor. Christianity is a real, vital thing in the midst of us. If it must be admitted to be something different from the Christianity of some of tho older peoples, it must also be conceded that it shows no discouraging signs of decay. Again, on this Easter morn, we wish all our readers jo; in France—A Sad Baster Yorn, There is very little change in the aspect of affuirs in France. The glorious Easter morn- ing—a day of joy, of hope and of glory for man and to humanity—opens on scenes of blood and carnage in that historic land. Her sons still clutch the throats of their brothera, The would-be parricides of their country hesitate not to strangle each other in the streets, around the fireside and-before the very altars, in the places which are already reeking with the hearts’ blood of the nation. The telegram reports which we publish to- day are dated in Paris, Versailles and London, from the hour of eight o'clock Saturday even- ing to the moment of three o'clock this morn- ing. The advices which they present have been anticipated, in all their essential points of news, by the special telegram despatches which were published in the HgraLp yesterday morn- The Situation ing. They reiterate the very sad intelli- gence. We are assured of the occur- rence and continuance of ‘‘terribie” fighting at Neuilly, of barricades, and of a “rain” of shot and shells in and around Paris, The very designation of the respective con- testants is becoming confused. We hear of the Versailles army, of the Nationalists, of the Assemblists and of the insurgents, as if ia mark of the gradations which prevail down- ward in the classification of the sol- diers from those who fizht in be- half of the centre of authority in Versailles to those of the second grade in demoralization who resist it in Paris, The lives of the women and children are endan- gered on all sides. The Nationalists hold the Place Vendéme; they are in the court yard of the Palais Royal and in front of the Church of the Madeleine, in Paris. Insurgent Nation- alists are behind the strest barricades of the capital. They use the mitrailleuse to repel the fierce onslanghts of the Versailles army. The Versailles men feint to cover an advance. The insurgents are obstinate. Paris presents a lethargic appearance at some points, as if an incipient and partisl paralysis had commenced to steal over her fevered and bewildered brain. In Marseilles the most prominent of the insurgent leaders have been thrown into prison. Thiers announces govern- ment. successes. Food is again short in Paris, This materialist necessity may bo a Providential visitation for unhappy France. Marshal MacMahon has been commissioned to the chief command of all the government forces of the republic. In this we can almost perceive a glimmer of hope for the nation. Generals Ladmirauit, Cissey and Dubariel rally around the aged chief. This is still more hopeful. Municipal elections are to be held. This is better still, France stili lives. The light of life has not yet been extinguished in her brain. She may be enabled to prove her indestructibility by the use of these constitutional agencies. We hope so sincerely, and hope it in the name of this great republic of civilization, the United States of America, May unhappy France close her eyes on these terrible and dismal scenes this very present Easter Day, and attune her tongue again to the chaunt of the saving strain of the Resurgam. . The Grand Row at Albany. The fistic art asserts itself all round the line. Even the classic Assembly Chamber in Albany, where peace and wisdom make their favorite abode, bas been debauched by the orgies of the prize ring. Mr. Weed, of Olin- ton, whose firm opposition to the more out- rageous jobs of his democratic friends has excited the admiration of honest men of all parties, and the tre of the ruffianly portion of the majority in the Assembly, was brutally attacked and beaten by Jim Irving in tho As- sembly Hall on Friday evening. Weed has been under a ban for some tim>, because of his carnest and honest opposition to various meosares. He has certaiuly displayed a bold- ness that deserves recognition—boldness not for daring the porsonal assaults of individual Members, but for facing the politic:1 death that the democratic majority is likely to eccord him. He has been a grand old stumbling-block ia the wiy of jobbery, and we hope that the democratic ring will not be able to grub Weed up, If such assaults a3 this tat Jim Irving made upon Weed, and that which Garret Davis and Ben Butler made upon each other—one with his eye and the other with his toague—are per- misaible in our legislative halls, why should the police authorities busy themselvos to quell the proposed Mace-Coburn fight? The latter is to be conducted according to the accepted rules of the ring. The two men are to have no mean advantage of weight or muscle, nor arg they allowed to strike below the be't. Jim Irving is a man of war, and 80 took unfair advantage of Weed, who is ® man of peace. Butler, with his terrible eye and cutting tongue, took @ mean advantage of Mr. Davis, who has no eye to speak of and no tongue formidable for anything but its length. These two—Butler and Irving—struck below the belt, eponking metaphorically. They took unfair advantage of their opponents and struck foul blows. Neither of them would be tolerated in the prize ring nor anywhere else outside of Con- gress and the Legislature. We adv.ss the ee therefore, to cease their tracui ag of ace And Coburn and to further the good work of training our bratal legislators to a knowledge of fair play by making arrange- ments for Cobura and Mace to fight their match on the floors of tue Assembly Chamber, Sectarinn Bigotry. Nothing can be more distressing to the truly Christian heart in this enlightened and, what we are sometimes pleased to call it, highly civilised and progressivs age, when in every department of human life men are coming to understand and appreciate each other moro fully than ever, than to see 60 many and such striking evidences of sectarian bigotry as our own country and the present day reveal. It is paszing strange that our Curistian civiliza- tion should find its hardest work in rounding off the rough edges of churches and avcis, creeds and catechisms, and that they should be the last to yield to its benign and softening influences. And yet it is not alto- gether strange, Tie Church is true to its his- toric record in this regard. It has always been bigoted and narrow-minded and excla- sive. We may go back to its organization among the Jows and trace it all the way through their history and thence along the ages of Christianity to the present, and we shall find that it has been bigoted, persecating and exclusive to the last degree. Tiere was no salvation for any one outside of the Jewish Church when it had the ascundancy and the keeping of the holy oracles; so that nothing could be more disagreeable to a Jewish ear than to hear some of the truths which were uttered by Jesus of Nazareth when He w.s on Earth. He tanght that temples and mountains where men had worshipped for ages were no more sacred than any other place, and that the time would come when the true wor- shipper anywhere should worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for God isa spirit, and must be so worshipped. The Inpse of centuries has hardly blotted out from the Jewish mind this idea of their exclusive sacredness. It is, however, coming to be un- derstood and taught by the chief men and most learned among the Israelites all over our own land, and they recognize goodness and truth and virtue and uprightness in men who do not subscribe to their creed nor worship at their altars, In Chrisiian times the same exclusiveness, and monopoly of virtue and goodness and truth, is manifested in the Church's history, and men have been driven into rocks and moun- tains and dens and caves of the Eurth to escape persecution, hecause they claimed the right to worship God in their own way, and many of th jelded up their lives rather than their opinions and this right of conscience. The day of death for religious opinions has hap- pily passed, and we had fondly hoped that the day of persecution had gone with it into ob- livion, But it would seem that we were mis- taken. It still lives deep seated in the heart of the sects and denominations, and when each cannot tear the other's throat they will quar- rel among themselves. Here, a Christian min- ister is disciplined by his ecclesiastical superl- ors because he dared to preach the Gospel by invitation ina church and to a congrega- tion not of his own denomination. There, another minister is called to the bar of public and ecclosiastical opinion because he believes that while water may be excellent to cleanse the body it has no regenerating pro- perties by which the soul may be purified. Yonder still another minister in Massachusetts or Rhode Island has bee. excommunicated from further fellowship with his denomination because he dared to recognizo the image of Christ in men and women who had not been immersed as he had been, and he ate and drank with them in commemoration of the Lord’s death until He come. The instances of this sectarian b'gotry in this country and in thisage are numerous, and it is a shame to our civilization, as well as to our common Christianity, to be obliged to admit it. The cases of Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., of our own city, and of Mr. Cheeney, of Chicago, and of the Baptist minister to whom we refer, are so patent and prominent examples of ministerial persecution that the facts need no recital. It is a sad condition of things, indeed, that a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ must yield obedience first to Cuursh rubrics, and after- ward to the Saviour to whom his first and last and perpetual and supreme allegiencs is due. Bat this sectarian bigotry is not confined ex- clusively to Protestants. We had an inkling of it recently in the outcry against Father Farrell, pastor of St. Joseph’s Roman Catho- lic church in this city, whose course respect- ing the temporal power of the Holy Father was condemned in such harsh terms. Happily, however, for himself, and for the Church to which he belongs, his motives seem to have been better understood by his ecclesiastical superior than were those of his Protestant brethren by theirs, and the Church and the community here have been saved from the scandal which the others have creat od, Leaving the ministerial ranks, however, we begin now to fiad the same spirit of bigotry and narrow-mindedness reaching dowa to the laity, and excommunicating «a man from church fellowship who dared to sing one of the grandest old Christiaa songs ever written, and in our opinion as fully inspire] as any that David ever wrote. What must that ‘‘sweet singer of Israel” think as, from his throne in the heavenly land, he bebolds the squabbles of a Christian Church and denomination here over the reiative mer- its of his poetry and Bishop Heber's? Fora missionary me*.ing our owa choice would be dcidedly in favor of the Bishop. but for other gatherings we might prefer the King’s psalms, But we ceriaiily would not have them at allin the metre of tho Reformed Presbyterian Church; we should prefer to chant them in the original English, But of all the petty persecutions of religious bigots this seems to us to be the sil- liest and most siupid. ‘For why,” asks the Apostle Pau!, ‘am I judged of another man’s conscience?” Why cannot George H. Stuart be allowed by his compeers the same liberty and right as Paul claimed for himself and allowed to others? Why, ualess this age and the Presbyterian Church is more bigoted and blind than any that have preceded them. Protest. ants claim the indweiling of the Holy Spirit in human hearis; but they deay (in tais in- stance at least) the inspiration of that Spirit thus enshrined, They plead loudly and elo- quently for freedom of conscience, the right of private judgment in matters of faith, and all that; but we obtaia glimpses from time to time of another spirit dwelling within them; and we feel it to be our duty, as leaders of thonght and conservators of peace and order | in the Church, as well as in the Stale, to— protest agaiust such petly bigotry and tle increase of such scandals in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. ‘How good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon Aaron's beard, even to the akirta of bis cloth- ing.” It permeates and anoints everything it touches. ‘An the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion; for there’—in the unity of Christian brotherhood—‘‘the Lord commanded the blvss- ing, even life for evermore.” This is what we want the churches to obtain, and this is why we labor for it as we do. In striking contrast to this sectarian little- ness how refreshing is the example of Christian courtesy and church fraternization which will take place in Brooklyn on this peaceful Easter day. Last week the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Meseinh was burned to the ground, and as soon as the trusiees of the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church, their neighbors in Clermont avenue, could be | brought together, the use of their edi- fice was tendered to the houaeless church for alternate Sabbath services. The offer was promptly accepted in the spirit of love and gratitude, and to-day the two congregations will meet together around the Lord’s table to receive from the hands of the Protestant Epis- copal minister the emblems of the death of their common Lord, and to rejoice in the one universal salvation, This {gs as it should be, and we take pleasure in giving the fact our heartiest approval. The Fruits of Holy Week. The lessons of devotion flowing from the “week of sorrows” are so many that we must look more to their grand general meaning than to their individuality. There is, per- haps, {n the popular regard of this Holy Week too much of the idea that it was, as it were, an automaton sacrifice, wherein the God-man endured a prescribed agouy and then arose triumphant over sin and death. This, how- ever, is not the Nght in which it shonld bo regarded. There is a subtile undercurrent, prognant with deep significance, which mur- murs its solemn tones through it all. This is the heroic nature of the Passion, which, even looked on as purely human, places it above all other of the heroisms of man. Men die for ideas, for couniry, for religion; but the supreme idea of an existence, to se butchered for all mon and for all time, that only the immortal of humanity might be saved, is a spectacle which challenges the reverence of Atheist and Israelite alike, Sceptical Renan sentimentalizes over that agony in the Garden of Olives upon Gethsemane, He says, weakly and insufficiently, ‘‘there is always with great minds a moment of sad retrospect when the image of death presenta itself for the first time.” Let us look upon that toriure of the spirit in the dim twilight of the dying day beneath the shadows of the olive trees, Let us recall the bitter words uttered at the Last Supper, showing the supernatural forcknow- ledge of His doom—‘‘But I say unto you I will not henceforth drink this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.” We see now all the weakness of the man war- ring against the assertion of the God. Bent upon the earth, His soul tortured by the strug- gle, the weakness cries, ‘‘O, my Father! if it be possible, let tuis cup pass from me.” The agony proceeds, but the God triumphs, and He cries, “Thy will be done.” Here is the point to be grasped in all our struggles. The victory of the gotly must, even through the sweat of blood, be written high above the frailty of the flesh. The soul saddens and mourns as it sees the dread Lord led in chains, scoffed at, spat upon, reviled and scourged. A sense of agony absorbs the heart when it hearkens to that lora cry upon the upright cross, “My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?” and the tentative anguish is at lasi relieved when the story gives breath to the floal stately triumph of the God— “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” Down to the rock-hollowed tomb we foilow Him, and the work of evil seems ac- complished. The gibing Jews are filled with scorn because the Truth has perished, and a guard of Roman soldiers watch before His tomb. Can we not avert vur eyes from the miracle of the morrow that will spread the Word on snowy angel wings over the world, and gather our lessons from the life and death alone? The life we can, in its severe sim- plicity, parallel with the trials aud dangers, the temptations and agonies which beset us, Inthe death the inevitable fate of humanity is before us, They tell us to develop the same unrufed front to adversity, the undying boldness for the good and beantiful, the un- yielding majesty of the spirit which follows the line of duty even unto death. No wonder the Roman Church drapes its temples, sings its tenebral services of shadows, and sirips its altars in deference to the Passion of our Lord. Others of less demonstrative creeds may con- tent themselves with the shadows of the spirit, but all who believe in the saving grace of Christ’s sacrifice feel the solemn presage of the week just merged in the light of this Eastern morn. The Jewish Week 1 Passover. On Thursday last began the important week to our fellow citizens of the Hebrew race and faith known as the weck of the Passover. Thursday (the day of tie Passover) was the day of preparation; Friday (which was also Good Friday to onr Christian churches) was celebrated as the day of the Passover, when the paschal Iamb, a lamb of the first year, without blemish, was slain and its blood sprinkled on the doorposts and lintels of the Jewish houses, This custom is not much observed in America, nor in large cities anywhere, The use of leaven or leavened bread is absolutely forbidden during the Pass- over, Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath) has little local significance, but is a special Sab- bath among the Hebrews as connected with Passover week, Yesterday, in the Temple Emannel, Dr. Adler spoke of the coming of this fes'ival in the spring, and of the feast of Tabernacles, as abounding each in instructive lessons to the faithful, How glorious the inalienable rights of clvil and religious liberty which here in the United States belong to all our people, and to the stranger within our gates of every croed and clime! What « happy resting place is here for the children of Jacob after the thousands of years of persecutions , which they of their faith and race have guf- fored in every other country on the glohe! The Gespel Accordieg to Brecher. There was an impression both in and out of Henry Ward Beevher's church that the olo- quent gentleman had little or no orthodox faith; that his religion was much of that poetie but sceptical character which Rénan enter- tained ; that he had departed from the Puritan faith of his fathers, and that he was a mere preacher of morality for the sake of the hand. some income he receives, Indeed, itis known that respectable members of his congregation, of long standing, do not believe in the God- head or divinity of Christ in the sense that orthodox believers do, and, if at all, only in that sort of poetic and mystified sense in which the modern sceptics of the R‘nan and Strausa school view the Saviour of the world. These same sceptics, who have sat under the teach- ing of Mr. Beeoher for years, claim, too, that their pastor is as much an unbeliever as they are unbelievers. Thoy attend the sorvices at Plymouth church and pay their pew renta regularly because they are fasciaated with Mr. Beecher's eloquence and because it is respectable and fashionable to belong to some church, but speak with pity, at the same time, of the credulity of evangelical Christians. Doubtless there are others of the Plymouth chureh congrezation who do believe and have a different view of their pastor ; still few peo- ple have regarded Mr. Beecher's preaching as soundly orthodox. It must be said, too, that the reverend gentleman has always touched the Godhead of Christ, the sacrificial death of the Saviour, miracles and the resurrection very gingerly, The roport of Mr, Beecher's lecture in the lec- ture room of Plymouth church on the sufferings of Christ, which was published in the Heratp yesterday, places the renowned preacher in a different light. Here he appears as a square orthodox Ciuristian, No Puritan of the old school, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian or any other of the evangelical Protestant sects but can endorse what he says. Nor is he equivocal in the least, They can embrace Brother Beechgr now in brotherly love and unity, We do not know whether he has always been sound and the world mistaken, or if this be a new departure in Christian doc- trine and life. It might be interesting to know this asa matter of religious history; but it will be a satisfaction to Christian communities to learn that such a distinguished preacher has turned up all right at last. ‘‘The glory of the cross,” he says, ‘‘is that the incarnated God lives on Earth and suffers in death to bring within the reach of the lowest the real divine nature. We believe in His name and in the statement that He is very God.” After this confession of faith let it not be said that Mr. Beecher is unorthodox. It ought to satisfy those who hold to the broadest evan- gelism. We regard this open confession as important, considering the position Mr. Beecher occupis, and hope those of his con- gregation who have run into scepticism, think- ing they were going with their pastor, will be properly admonished and instructed. The German Peace Jubilee. The grand and impressive religious services in our Christian churches this day in com- memoration of the resurrection of the Saviour of mankind will be followed to-morrow by tho great German Peace Jubilee, In many respects this will be the most imposing acd interesting civic procession ever witnessed on Manhattan Island, not only in the numbers and variety of the regiments, squadrons, com- panics and societies that will participate in it, in the holiday glitter of war and in the more glorions illustrations of peace, but in view of the unification of the great German family of European States’ and of the revival of the - German empire as the central commaading Power of the Continent, with the restoration of peace between Germany and France. This day last year France, under the Empe- ror ‘Napoleon, was the arbiter of Europe and had the prestige of the first military Power of the world, and the unity of Germany was an unsetiled and doubiful problem, To-day, pros- trate, exhausted, shoro of hor strength and of her whole Rhiue frotier of last July, includ- ing her iargest frontier cities and her strongest fortresses, and saddicd with a German indem- nity of a thousand miilions of dollars, wo find “poor France.” Not only so, but, with her fairest proviaces laid waste and reduced to the verge of famine, we. find her beautiful capital, the pride of the civilised world, in the hands of a body of insurgonts fighting for the old republic of the Jacobins. These things do not enter into this day's German celebration, They have finished their war with France, and they celebrate the restoration of ‘peace in connection with the grand results to Germany, They celebrate the reclamation of the Rhine—‘“‘Old Father Rhine”—‘‘the free, the German Rhine ;” they celebrate the reunion of the North and South German States under the strong confederation of the German em- pire; they ce'ebrate the treaty of Versailles, which makes Germany the arbiter of Europe and which g'ves to the Germans the wide world over something of the political prestige gained by the fatherland from the late terrible war, commenced by Nap leon upo: pretext, but ended by Bisnarck in ‘ cation of the Rhine frontier.” All this and more will be embraced in this German peace jubilee. They do not rojoice over the mis- fortunes of France, but over the grand results of strength, prestige and unity from the war which peace gives to Germany and to the German race and name, and to German science and literature, and German iastitutions and German security, peace, progress and prosperity, In this view this German peace jubilee in this city will be an event long to be remembered. Tax Coat Miners’ Riot.—The coal question has assumed a very serious and, for a time, a very dangerous aspect in the vicinity of Scranton. The right of labor to employ itscif and the right of capital to use it has been as- sailed in a fashion which led to bloodshed. This is a matter which neither law nor the safety of society can tolerate. The conduct of the recusant qriners_in prohibiting, by violence, other worknien fron resuming labor in the mines cannot be justified, It is fortunate that Pennsylvania has a Governor just now who comprehends the situation; and while, in his recent proclamation, he condemns the violence of the rioters and calls out tho militia to put them down, he at the same time protests against the violation of their charters ou the pact of