The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1871, Page 15

» RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. 28—Whit-Sunaday, Pentecost. May or Schedule of To-Day's Religious Labor—Herald Religious Correspondonce—The Great Spe- cialty of Christianity—Recreation for the Poor on Suaday—The Sunday Libra- ties—Lhe Morals of Our School Chil- dron—The Social Evil Again— Sweienborg aad Spiritual. ism- A Squabble Among the Petticoats. Religious Movements and General. Personal Services To-Day. At the Amorican Free Church anniversary to-day ‘Mey, Charles B, Smyth will conduot the services Morning and evening at the New York University. A memorial sermon of the late Dr. N. W. Seat hwiil be delivered this morning by Rev. Dr. Deems at the Church of the Strangers. Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens will preach in the Central ‘Methodist Ep scopal church, Seventh avenue, this Morning and Rev. Dr. Joseph Holdich in the even- Rev. Dr. Krotel proaches morning and evening in ‘the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy ‘Trinity, Wess Twenty-first street. Rev. Thomas Street will preach this morning and evening in the North Presbyterian cuurch, West Thirty-firat street, on Scripture characters. Free Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, ‘West Forty-flith street, near Broadway. This even- tng at the Scripture service at half-past seven the Rev. Dr. Stewart, of St. Clement's church, Phila- -deiphia, will preach. Rev, Dr. Thompson will deliver an address this “evening in the Broadway Tabernacle church on “Moral Lessons and Illustrations of Bible Truths from the Fate of Paris.” Rev. J. Hyatt Smith will deliver his ‘Snowball Sermon” tnis afternoon before the Sunday school children’s mecting at Open Communion Baptist :ohareh, Seventeenth street, Rey. Charles Lee will preach in Plimpton Building (Fifth Universalist church), to-day, on ‘The Father- hood of God.” Rev. J. M. Pukman will give the third of a course @f lectures to young men at the Church of Our Saviour 48ixth Universalist), Thirty-tfth street, this evening. Subject, ‘The Two Starting Points—Choosing a Busi- ess and Choosing a Wife.” Rev. Isaac Weseott will preach in Plymouth Bap- tist church, Fifty-first street, this morning, on ‘‘Goa’s Great Love,” aud in the evening on “Jacob’s Night Vision at Bethel.” Rev. Merrill Richardson, pastor of the New Eng- Jand Congregational church, will preach this morn- ing and evening. Rev. John E. Cookman, pastor of Trinity Metho- ~ dist Episcopal ehurch, in West Thirty-fourth street, ‘will preach morning and evening. , Rev. Dr, Cheever will preach in the Lexington venue church, corner of Forty-sixth street, this vevening, and Rev. Dr. Sanderson in the morning. Rev, E. ©. Sweetser will preach morning and even- {ng in the Bleecker street Universalist church, corner of Downing. His subject in the evening will be “Christian Watchfulness.”” Rev. ©. C. Foote will preach morning and evening fn the Christian church, West Twenty-cighth street. “New in Christ” will be the subject of his morning @iscourse, and in the evening he will lecture on “Acts.” At Christ Church, Rev. Dr. Ewer, rector, services “will be held this morning at seven and half-past ten -o’ctock, and in the evening at half-past seven. “The Evils of the Day and Their Remedy" will bo the subjectof the evening discourse. Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preaci’ morning and veveving in the Fi(ty-third street Baptist church. “God With Us and God Agatast Us” will be the sudject of Rev. George Hepworth’s discourse this morning in the Church of the Messiah. Services algo in the evening. Rev. Dr. J. H. Rylance will preach this morning in ‘St. Mark’s charch, Second avenue, and in the evesing he will deliver his second lecture on “Christianity mm the Human Heart.” Kev. Dr. Oagood will preach in St. James’ church, East Seventy-second sireet, this morning. Rev, ©. 8. Harrower will preach in St Luke's Methodist Epiacopal church, West Forty-frat street, ‘this morning and evening, “The Garden of Eden; Where it Was, What it Was, and How to Regain it,” will be the subject of Rev. Chauncey Giles’ lectare this evening in the New Je- rusalem (Swedeaborgian) church, East Thirty-fftn street. Morning service at eleven o'clock. The opening services of St Paul's Protestant Epis- copal church, Jersey City Heigtits, will be beld this morning at palf past ten o'clock. Rev. Willlam Wardlaw, the rector, will preach. Mr. A. A. Wheelock will speak before the Society ~of Progressive Spiritualists, in Trenor’s Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, this morning and evening. The Great Specialty of Christianity. To Tux Epitor or THE HERALD:— ‘The only great distinguishing feature of Ohris- tanity from other systems of religion that were taught by Moses. Vonfucius, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato apd other great minds of antiquity, 1 the idea that God will hold man accountable for his belief, and thas kis eternal destiny in the next wWorla depends on what he believes in this world. ‘This is the corner stone of popular Christienity, either Catholic or Protestant. Remove this idea and the whole superstructure falls, and, like a base- leas fabric of a vision, leaves not a wreck behind. Faith or betief—whicn are onc and the same thing— is simpiy the want of @ positive knowledge, or, according to Webster, belief is ‘‘to think or sup. (ao ‘aith is belief. We cannot have faith or ef about anything we know to be true. If this system of Christianity is true, then man’s eternal destiny depends upon his believing in some theologicat “dogmas, that he hus no possibility of ascertaining whether tney be true or nos. Faith depends in & great measure upon the piace where a person is born and the so- ety from which te receives his education. It de- pends upon circumstances over which man has no control. Jt wou.d be ag unjust to hold man account- able for his belief as to hold bim accountable for the color of his eyes or the length of his nose, for he hag no more control over One than the other. No idea that was ever promuigated among mankind has been attended by such direful consequences as this, .A review of the career of this doctrine as it ia traced With blood and fire through the last eighteen hun- dred years is enough to make the lover of his race Weep tears of blood. A few items only will be given. During the period of the first 200 years after the Mate of Christianity many ditferent sects arose aud Kept steadily quarreling about the divinity of Jesus, about the consistency and truth of His miraculous conception, His death and resurrection —some con- tending thas He always existed, others that He was aman, born of woman, and haaa beginning. This ‘etrife conttuned into the third century until more than 300,000 wen had been slanghtered, In the year 987 theré arose among the Christian sects a dispute about the propriety of setting images of the difer- ‘ent divines in the churches. ‘This occasioned a Christian war, in which 50,000 combatants lost their lives, In the eleventh century a series of crusades took place, m order to take and hold possession of the so-calied Holy Land, in which it ts estimated 000,000 lives were sacrificed. Near the end of the ‘tweifth century Peter Waldo founded a new sect, ‘The consequences were turmoil, persecution, torture and bloodshed, continued for S00 years, and many thousand lives were lost. In the fifteenth century $00 were burned In Geveva in three months. Dormg this period 100,000 suifered execution in Germany alone, and 30,000 in Pngiand, omitiing Scotiand, France and Spain. These are but @ part of the acts that have been caused, either directly or indirectly, by the doctrine that God will hold man accountable for his belief. Men never persecule cach other about their moral duties, Men persecute cach other only for their faith. The suffering aud despair that this doctrine has caused the human race, leading thousands aud probably millions to insanity or sul- cide, cannot be estimated. We woald say (o those theologians who are labor. ing to promuigate this doctrine among mankind that these are the levitimave fruits of their lat ‘The history of Christianity for the last eigat dred years Will fully substantiate thts statement, needs no prophet’s ken to seo that the “signs of the tim strongly indicate another ers of persecniion between the diferent sects of Christians before the close Of the nineteenth century. JUNIUS, ‘Tre Mercantile Library and the Reform Party—Intellectual Recreation for the Poor on Sw y- To tum Eprror oF THE Heratp:— ‘We regrot the failure of the “reform”? party of the Merceatile Library Association. Our aympaihics , Selfish ‘wore with the reformers: ana, wate we regret the unfortunate collision of the concending factions, we are glad, nevertheless, that the subject of Sunday libraries has been agitated, and hope and predict that from it good may come, In this hope we ven- ture to submit a proposition. We wouid premise it by endorsing, i its Most comprehensive seuse, the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, and it 1s with a view that this commandment may be more generally respected and observed that we suggest the immediate establishment, on a new and inde- pendent basis, of a Sunday library, We are aware the proposition will clash with the conservative sentunents of many good Christians; but, while we condemn that sensation Onristian‘iy which would make religion mere “moral amuse- ment,” we equally condemn the Pharisecism which ignores apd locks up every proposition not stricuy in unison with its own ideas. The age is magnani- mous in its spirit and design, Public sentiment 1s rising to lottier and iofuer conceptions of ways end meaus lor the vrogress and elevation of the race, and, a8 Ub thus rises, sweeps away Rago prennioce aud amalgamates witn ifs broad principles and de- sigus every legitimate auxiliary, direct or indirect, great or smal, that may assist to work out by varied application and device the highest development of the temporal and spiritual welfareof men. We believe # Sunday Jibrary, properly organized and conducted, would prove a suving institution in this great city. To illustrate this let us refer to the thous sands of men and women in the metropolis who are virtually without homes. Compelied to a hfe of toil during the week, they come at its close weary and worn to their uesolate and miserable lodgings. The peaceful Sab- batn—emblem of eternal rest—dawns upon them, Dut from indifference or prejudice they care not or will not go to church, Ia the desire, however, and need of recreation they must go somewnere. ond of reading, were a library accessible, many who Spend the day in lager becr saloons or other unpro- titable places would turn their steps thitherward witn proit to themselves, Let us therefore have a Sunday library, founded upon itveral principles, embracing tu its collection the standard works of secular avd religious litera- ture, carefully arranged and sifted of the Tg Which disgrace our public hbraries. Let there be Papers and magazines of the highest influence and tone, and the Hbrary embellished with the beat specumens of art, especially represen- tations filustrative of the Scriptures, together with every other adjunct which may in- form the understauding and refine the taste. Tu connection with the library we also propose a music nall for sacred music or concerts, and where religious addresses by the representatives of the va- rious sects coulu be delivered at such an hour as would not interfere with church services. We also suygest that a refreshment room upon strictly tem- perate principles be connected with it, which would dispense refreshments at a low price, enabling those who have no comlorts at home to enjoy a comfort abie meal in the building. In short, we would have this library @ home or Sunday resort. Strangers and residents of rural districts who would be happy to ombrace tne religious privileges of our city would gladly avail themseives of such @ place of rest and refreshment during the interval between church services, but chieiy would it meet tne wants of the homeless sojourner of the city. One of the popular divines of the age asserts that the most effective preaching fs not confined to the pulpit. Manyand varied in design must be the meuns used for the salvation of souls. Thousands Who could not be persuaded or induced to cross the threshold of @ church might, We the means of such a resort, be insensibly lead to the first steps of a higher life. The seeds informally sown by the wayside might spring up in many @ heart and bear truit a hundredfoid, The churches are doing their work and the Aiexatp 1s helping them by = distriputing broadcast over tne land the products of the most enlightened thought. The Young Men’s Onristiap Association is doing Work. The Young Ladies’ Christian Assoctatton ts as busy as bees, There are homes for the Rips! homes for the young, homes for the lndigent—all of which meet their respective wants. Now let there be a Sunday Home for the masses, limited by no phari- saio restrictions, but where saints and sinners may refresh their bodies, souls and spirits from the foun- tains of knowledge, secular and divine. Open such libraries in the spirit of the Master, who declared “the Sabbath was made for mau; the motive will consecrate the act, and gather tu the fold from the highways and hedges of life many who are aliens irom the commonwealth of Israel. We again deciare that a Sunday library or a library on this plan open on Sunday would, we beheve, promote the common weal and do its part towards hastening the happy day when “the glory of the Lord snall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.” “Was Swedenborg a Spiritualist To THe EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— The above is an inquiry made by a ‘Reader’ tn last Sunday's Heratp, Realizing most fully, with the editor of the H&RALD, that a new era is dawning upon the world—an era of light and freedom from sectarian shackles, wnen Christians are to be united by the warm bonds of charity aud not separated by coid, dead faith or doctrines, | believe most re- ligiously that this new era is from the Lord, anu that the wonderful manifestations we behold on évery hand are the result of the descending light and beat (truth and love) of the New Jerusalem, and that Swedenborg was the chosen instrument of the Lord for revealing to the world the grand central spiritual traths of this new era—tnat “God isone in essence andjin person;’’ that the Lord Jesus Christ e was God manifested in the flesh; that tne second Scriptures are Divine, having a living, rational, spiritual sense, running from the beginuing to the end, whicn has at this day been revealed to man’s rational percepuon, demon- strating theirsacred character; that all natural things correspond to spiritual, a8 effects correspond to their causes. Swedenborg was a genuine spiritualist, but not a modern spirituaiist. His spiritualism com- pares with modern spiritualism as the light of the sun compares with the flickering eer iT mted by maa. With Swedenborg a personal God ts the cen- tre, and special revelations from Him, or the Sacred Scriptures, are the ladder let down from Heaven to earth, on which the angels ascend and descend to man, Modern sDiritualists, as a general rule, ignore & personal God and all special revelations from God. In the writings of Swedenborg we are taught that love to the Lord and neighbor constitute heaven, and love of self and the world constitute bell; therefore, man ie! born into selfish nataral bem cons must be born again before he can enter jeaven—in other words, by shunning evils as sins against Goo, and living a life nc- tie ghe | to His commandments, the old ruling joves must be subdued and heavenly affec- ‘ions take their place. Spiritualism teaches pro- gression instead of spiritual regeneration, and a Majority of tta advocates deny the necessity for re- reneration and claim that it is impossible for men & live from higher motives than seifisnness. With Swedenborg the Lord Jesus Christ is the chief corner stone of the New Jerusalem and a special providence is clearly and beautitully taught, whereas spiritualists, with but few exceptions, deny the divinity of the Lord and all special provi- Gences, Swedenborg claims that the Lord revealed Himself to him, and through him revealed to the wor'd the truths of ®& new dispensation or of His second coming, and the spiritual sense of the sacred Scriptures, and also that He opened his spiritual vision that he might behold the spiritual world and converse with the inhabitants dwelling therein face to face, as man converses with man here, and that he enjoyed this privilege for over twenty-seven years, and that he was specially guided and protected by angels (Without which protection he shows clearly it would have been impossible) that he might see and converse with the Inhabitants of heaven, hell and the world of spirits for the sake of describing to men on earth the state of man after death. He de- acripes three great ciasses of inhabitants with whom ie cumé in contact in that world. In one class love to the Lord and neighbor governed their actions; in another class selfish loves rulea; the third was in- termediate between the above, and was composea of those recently from this earth, in whom the Tuling love was not fully deteloped. Sweden! assures us that he witnessed the ee dentine the spiritual world in 1757, and he describes it. Swedenvorg never sought open intercourse with the spiritual world, and repeatedly warned his readers aoe seeking open intercourse; and taught and Nilustrated so fully the aangers of conversing with spirits, and the Iittle dependence to be placed on revelations from spirits, that few who have read hts writings have any de- sire to seek such intercourse, He assures us that he was not permitted to receive anything pertaining to the doctrines of the New Church or the epiritual sense of the Sacred Scriptures from any angel or spirit, but from the Lord alone, When spirits wrote through His hand, as they were some- times permitted to do, He was required to aestroy the writings. How different all this from spirit- ualism|. One of the great dangers, according to Sweaen- borg, from open intercourse with spirits arises from the fact that every man’s associate spirits with whom he comes in contact In open intercourse ure like himself, and are in @ faith and life which is in harmony with his lifé—neither better nor worse. Such spirits will necessarily try to persuade hin that what he at present believes is the truth and what he really loves is good, and that all he needs is to progress; and such tdeas, if harbored, are a bar to man's regencration or heavenward progress, No one who has net read Swedenborg’s writings can form any conception of the reat diference between the genuine spiritualism contained in his wriun, and that of modern spiritualism, which general aractically worsaips Nature instead of Nature's God, If your “Reader’ would understand tne signs of the times or obtain any reliable Knowledge of the spri- tual world let lim read Swedenborg’s writings; and there Is Do reason why all men—laymen and cle men—should not read them, as increasing thousands are doing. God's truth, like the light of the natural sun, 1s [ree to all. The idea of & new revelation from the Lord sounds strangely to the man steeped in naturalism, and to the bigot, although the Lord promised a second coming in the clouds of heave not of earth, Was therd ever a greater need of revelation of gennine spiritual trath than at this day, When the simple precepts of the Gospels have been made of non-effect by the doctrines and tra- ditions of men, unvil mulutudes are expecting to Jump over the consequences of an evil life by a sim- ple act of fatth or bellef, instead of reaping what they have gown, Has the Lord forgotten His entl- dren? Lo! He comes.to the Christian world ia an unexpected hour und manner, as he came at the end of the Jewish dispensation. Does He ind faith on earth? Let those who are watch lag for the worming Judge. J. Be Are the Public Authorities Bonad to Look After the Morals of Our School Children ¢ To tae Epiror or THe HeraLp:— It is a fact, aithougu we may endeavor to biind Ourselves to it, Laat houses Of prostitution are neces- sary evils. AS far back a8 we have any record or history of man we find “there were hariots tn those days’? Thongh they were condeumed and ostracised by the Jewish law, yet (he fear of punishment, be it ever 30 severe, did not or could not deter them from their evil and licentious ways; and all the acts and laws passed by Churel? or State since relatung thereto ha’ fallen to the ground and become, as it were, null and void, Now, no city is more pestered with these lepers of society than New York. They are here and we cannot get away from them; they are at liberty to seb up thelr shrine of death and ruin where'er they lst, and there seems to be no power to prevent them. Now, Mr. Hadtior, if there is any place where they should be prevented from locating it 13 tn the neighvornood of any of our public schools, ‘The purpose of tuis article is to call the attention of the School Commissioners, the Common Councll, Legisiative Assembly, or whoever has any authority in the matter, and the parents of the children who go to Public Schoo! No, 10, on Wooster strect, be- tween Houston and Bleecker streets, to the fact that their children are compelled datly to run a gauntlet of vice to receive the education that 1s to make tiem valuable citizens and virtuous men women In the future, Almost any one of those ch! dren can stand 1n front of the school house and with & stone hit six houses of prostitution, and one of them ® low saloon, where villains of the worst stamp are seen lounging at the door laughing at the coarse jests of the nymphs du pave or insuitingly staring at the ladies who uufor- tunately have to pass that way. The boys of the school may come vut comparatively scatieless, but it 18 the young girls who are most in danger. How many mothers know the danger their daughters are in who cannot afford to seud them to anocher school! What can they do’ Other schools are too far away; the time is needed at home; so there is no remedy—they must be tempted by the gay dress and abandon of these angels of the devil. they resist the allurements ana becorue virtuous and upright women, well and good, but ff one falls, oh! Woe to that poor victim! Who among ail her friends the hand and and companions would take her oy aay, “Come, sin no more?’ I say, who would do it? There's no reply. Teil me who among those friends would not turn their back upon her or spurn her with her foot, ana walk on with the alr of one most foully injared? Do they ever think of the edu- cation that woman received while attending the public school’ No; but iu their judgment she ts eternally damned. What is the remedy? “It is either to remove the school to another street or compel the landiords to eject the disreputable tenauts, Lf the former is done, what assurance 1s there that the school house will not be surrounded by such places again? None; 80 the onty escape left ts tor the proper authorities to take the matier in hand and pass a law that no house of il-fame shall be allowed in the same block in which the schoolhouse stands, under asevere penalty, to fall upon the occupants of the house and the owner thereof, the property to be sold, if necessary, to secure the fine, &¢c.—all tines to go the benefit of the school, Although bat one scuool 1s mentioned herem, unis forms the rulo and uot the exception, especially in the lower part of the city. ‘This inatter should not be allowed to sinmber, and I hope the whole press of New York will agitate tr until this monstrous evil be removed from the pats of the youth of our city. MM. U. May 22, 1871. Decadence of Masculine Masners Toward Womnn. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD: In a recent article In the HekaLD, signed Frances Rose Mackiniey, that lady says the coarse- ness with which men treat women nowadays in public indicates a@ decadence tn manuers and feel- ings from that high position of deference to the female which was the former reputation of this country, Does it not strike you, Mr. Editor, and every other senstbie man that it is the women who are degenerating from that mo¢ and refinement of feeling which characterized the woman of our country in our grandmother's tae’ Woman may travel all over Ainerica without an escort uf her passport be modesty and purity. Men are not less chivalrous when they meet woman to cail forth that feeling. She must first coumand respect, and can the men respect the majority of the women they meei now- adays? Can they respect the woman whio so far for- gets herself as to make a perfect deformity of what, God mae perfect? Can such women expect respect from a refined, high-toned man? Now, they are the class of Women that complain of meeting tnsults from beasts aud brutes, as they term them “in some 3 arucies [ have read in your pape: m stages, iu cars and at hotel tables, It is their deformity that men stare at, and if they did not return the stare they would not Know it, There are very few men, no matter how rough or uncultivated, who will not re+ spect a modest and weil-pred woman, and such women have no cause to complain. When a woman leaves her home, her children, and demands her rights at the ballot box and to sit in the Presivential chair, I think the time has come when men must cease to respect her, A true, pure woman ts man’s equal, and will be respected as such nowadays, as in the days of old, and man, [ believe, to be the first aud noblest work of God. M. LOWRY. The Social Evil Again~Belphegor” Replies Vigorously te “Herald Keader.” To tne Epirok oF THRE Heratp:— “HERALD Reader," in your issue of last Sunday, attempts to reply tomy communication of May 6, aud says I “cannot show nine cases out of every hun- dred where females are driven to a life of shame through necessity.” Will she go and ask one hun- dred abandoned women who have children to sup- port what caused them toenter upon the life that they now lead? If she or any one else will go among the poor creatures and ascertain, she and they will find that 1 am rignt in my statement—that they were driven to lead a life of prostitution or elise see their little ones starve to death, they (the mothers) well knowing that men would give Ove, ten and even twenty doliars for a few hours of their society, when they would only give five vents 1m charity to keep their littie ones from starvation. But some one may say 1 must be mistaken. I an- swer, I am not. I give facts, which are stubborn things. I know @ gentleman who is weulthy, but who will not give one cent in charity, even when he knows the on ject is worthy; and yet I kuow that he goes frequently to certain houses and spends a few hours with young ladies, and invariably gives the fair one whose society he enjoys twenty-flve dollars at every visit. Again she says, ‘Better death than dishonor.’ Wouid 1% be vetter for that mother to end her Ife fund leave her little ones to suffor or lead a life of shame for # short time to feed them until she can better her condition? And again she says, “There is plenty of employment to be obtained in this city tokeep every femaie from the crime of prostitution or suicide.’ [say there ts not. There are 30,000 workingwomen in tins city who receive wages of from two doliars to tweive dollars a week, and many of these have to pay {rom five to eight dollars a week rent for a furnished room where they can lay their weary heads ana their little ones at night, and L ask, in the name of humanity, when a woman earns cight dollars a week operating a sewing ma- chine from morning till nigt, and pays five dollars a week for rent of room—how, I ask, 1s sne going to procure food for herself and children on the balance of the etght dollars? if twenty years at housekeep- ing can tell bow a woman can teed and clothe three or tour on three dollars @ week and lead a virtuous life, 1 should, as well as thousands of others, hike to have her inform us, and, if i can be decently done, thousands will bless her r the information. Again sbe asks “if T can find ee af these Magdalenes who would be willing to take a situation in any capacity wiicre Jabor is required :” &c. I answer yes. | can find seventy-five out of every nundred who are ready and Aad a do anything houest, even housework, A Liga they can earn &@ living; but I ask her, Who will give these poor women that have little ones to care for a situation at housework? Will “HERALD Reader!’ give one of them who has oung child a situation in her family? She speaks of lanndresses, cham~ bermaias and nurses, and asks where cant “find one of the handsome Magdalenes Who will take the position 7” 1 answer that I can find hundreds of women in this ig who are now “selling thetr souls to whoever will buy’? who would willingly accept of any of the sttdations and do the work assigned to them to the best of their ability for the sake of a home where they could have good, wholesome food and suitable clothing—many of them now having only one meal x day and only the clothes that they have on their back, and would even be glad to have even an etgit-ceut calico dress for a change. She also gays—"There cannot be one word spoken in detence or in justification of such & life. It ie out of chotce and nothing etse.”” oT ask, Does a womaa of education and refinement usually enter upon o life of prostitution from choice * I think not, a81 know @ great many women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five who have children to support who privately enter into a secret alliance, solely out of necessity, to keep their little ones from crying tor bread, ue if they could earn enough otherwise to provide for their littie families, would gladly sae mecatery. Of ives, m: of these poor women bein; el Christian Onuren and pass as highly respectable. I a0 not Write as one who upholds prostitution; but L do ask and say that those who are gutity of this very ain should not cry the loudest against it, but that they should show a little more charity, true charity, toward the poor, suidering creatures. Again, in reference to she lady who was offered twenty dollars a week to play the plano in @ concert m, she says, “Would it not be more respectable for that lady to earn twenty dollars in that way, ° * © thanto earn it on tho street y” and says, “For hor part she sees very little duference between | they wonld receive no benetity NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY "8, 1871.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. the concert saloon Does she know what and some the: these unde atres.” T ask, ‘ound “concert saloons” are? Twill tell her. ‘They are ove Kind of houses of ill-fame, aud every female In them ts ex- pected to dispense her favors to any or every male who may enver the place and take a fancy to her, and if she fuses to sub- mit her person to him, she is dismissed and he place fliled by others. she also says, “i would st gest that whenever those creatures are found on the | streets at nighe ney be » to the isiand for three years instead of three moultis.’? Would that be right and just, to sen! these moticrs ou the island, wh Who would take | their ite ones? Could they b chem av} Would the island ace ds who would thus be sent there? No ay THALY Tund, Which could be partiy raised ad party by appropriation, for the | Ung those who have families to pro- 1 prevent thousands from entering or taking the dirst step toward leading a life of shame, There are thousands of Coilars given to missionary, tract and other societies in this city every year which do but very little good. Oue-haif of these thon- sands, if given to this fund and rightly distribuved occasionally, a8 needed by the poor creatures, Would do ten tlmes th yount of good that it now does, Tor misstonaries and their tracts are gene- rally laugued at the moment the missionaries’ backs are turned, and | could cite eases where viaits from missionaries ave rather done harm than | ood, Tnave thus written plainly that all may an- derstand, rather dealing in tacts that I have wit neassed, than take as truth what some one, Mr. So- and-So, said about this and that. In conclusion, I will say that the only true way to prevent and persuade women from leading a life of shame Is to provide a fund to assist them—not to lead a hfe of idieuess and ease—but when they are striving to earn an honest living for themselves and those who are dear to them, lend them a helping hand, All that is required to start the good work 1s true men and women, and money. “Ah! that's the 1 rub—mouney !? ©, thou potential eloment of good—of abject slavery! ‘Necessary evil!" When, ob, when will ‘the fates’ more equally distribute thy “winning smiles?” When make thee only a ser- vant of highest, broadest, noblest ones, instead of Taster of all seitish emotions’ angels, haston the day of the world's release from bondage to thy ma- terialistic behests, O Money 1 BELPHEGOR, The Explorations in Palestine. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In your article of this moruing apon “Explora- tions in Palestine," founded on Dr. Crosby's lecture of Sunday last, you arrive at tho conclusion, as re- gards the inscription on the Moabitish stone, that it 1s entirely confirmatory of biblical account, Allow me to point out to you that itis, on the contrary, totally at variance with the same, except in the @tatement that Moab had been oppressed for forty years by Omri and his son Anan, Kings of Israel. The inscription declares that subsequent to'that period King Mesha had liberated ms country, de- stroying the cities of Israel, kiiling the inhabitants, and carrying away the vessels of Jehovah. And out of gratitude to Kemosh for this deliverance the sione was raised, The Bible, on the contrary, saya that, King Mesha having rebelled, the Kings of Israel, Judah and Eaom jomed | are the two great American & | ware, ;law while he stood on one foot, their arinies, and. upon the advice and prediction of success of the prophet Elisha, fought King Mesha, Whom they utterly routed, Cpon what suthority Dr. Crosby makes the statement that three or tour years after the Moabite victories recorded on the stone King Mesha was reconguered by Omri, a usur- per of the tnrone of Israel, | am at a loss to com- prehend. I have diligently searched the Bible, and can in it only discover one Omri, who certainly Was @ usurper (I Kings xvi., 16) but is not thia the very Omri mentioned in the inscripuon, the father of Ahab, and grandfather of that King of Is- rael (Jehoram) who, according to If Kings lib, fought against the rebellious King Meshay Of an- other King Omri, also & usurper, I find nowhere mention made, nor can 1 make out whence Dr. Crosby derives the three or four years as having elapsed between tue defeat and the victory of the Israelites. It would, of course, be highly satisfucto- ry if the two records were tound really aud without equivocation to agree; but if not, what harm is there to pure Christianttyy What prevents us from preserving our faith im our own version and pronouncing the other tneorrect? But whatis far tnore apt to do Injury to and weaken faith 14 the ‘ll meant attempt, so often indulged tn by a kind of cal pleading to ‘iorce ito religious proofs what is contrary to plaiu, unsophisticated reasoning, as well as io evidence. Far be it from me to maintain that Dr. Crosh explanation 13 of (his re. ALLL Wish isio lightened on the sub} , if misiaken, corrected amy views. New Youx, May 23, 1871. Swedenborg and Spiritualinm. To THE EpirorR oF THE UERAL Tn last Sunday's issue of the HenaLn L noticed a communication from one who signs himself “Reader,” wishing to Know the difference between Swedenborgtanism and Spiritualism. Keing of the Swedenborgtan faith myself 1 ask of you room in yeur valuable paper for the following very brief ex- planation:—The Sacred Scriptures or Word of God araws him Inte one commen Iife-giving want which ts seen fm the American # which rea! religious instruction {8 exeindert. be used as a reading book, but no word of e planation oan be given by ‘the teacher. If sectarian proughtun America no viher curse than auch & sc teu, wise and know! ei th completely separate departments, such teaching to reader it one of the greatent calamities. Among the many authorities quoted by Dollinger In bis “Church and Churches,” pubished to isd, holars, the Inve Pri- Kenrick, and his snecessor, Spaiding; aiso Huber's “Janus,"? published in Berlin in 1545; that the tile, atleast, of the recent work 4 original. A CATHOL The Presevt Generation of [sraclites. To THE Evrvok OF THE HERALD:— In your edition of last Saturday week you have the sermon delivered by Dr. Gutheim on “Sacri- fices," which, to every lover of religions liberty, shows that the present generation of Israelites do not hold themselves bound to follow precepts carried out in olden times and which the liberal mind of Moges couid not abolish after having vaken deep root tn ¥ be heart of nations for so many years, Hundreds of years before Christ a heathen camo to Rabbi Hillel and asked him to teach hin our whole Rabbt Hillel answered him, “Love thy neighbor as thyself—all other things ate by laws In contormity with tis we abolish everything tnat ts untit for the century in which we live, the same as the sacrifice of slavery uth ov the co astome the y “4 uyust auilive has been abolished in the United States, Your correspondent, C. H. H., admimsters @ severe reproof to Dr, Gutheim for ols liberal expressions on the subject. He says the Jews do not believe that Curist has wiped away with His own blood all the sacrifices and sins of the World. Vor this reason we cannot abolisn the same, IT would ask the learned gentleman if sacrifices have been avolished among the Christians. What naine does he give to the thousands of martyrs murdered by the Inquisition? Are they anytliing else out sacrifices? Were the thousands ana thousands slaughtered by religious prejudice tn the seven and thirty years’ wars among the sects of Christians— were they anything else but sacrifices? Even the last war between Protestant Germany and Catholic France, were they anything else put outrageous sacrifices in the eyes of God and men—asking Christ's assistance to destroy each other? We have abolished swerifices; but our Christian frends have made improvemenis. ‘They sacrifice those of whom God suld, “In my likeness have 1 created man.” If itis true, us Mr. C. H, H. said, that we have no city of our own, we are liberal; we consider part of the whole earth ours, as well as heaven above, and, according to our religion, every honest man is ad- mitted. Have our Christian friends followed the example of Him who satd, *+Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." N. GROSSMAYEK. A Squabblo Among the Petticoats. To tHe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-— In the columna of yesterdav’s (May 21) paper I ob- served a communication under the head of “Views of a Sensible Woman.” May I as if she charac- terlzes herself thus? or ts it a compliment your gal- ljantry suggests ? She is evidently a novice as a newspaper contributor, and relies upon your favor rather than justice for the acceptance of her article. As she expresses an earnest desire for Information Tegarding the morality of strong-mindea women, I, as one of that claas, am pleayed to enlighten her. She singies one woman from hundreds, asking if she be a type of all. In true American fashion I will reply by asking if 1t wonld bo just to take any one man as in example for the whole sex? I think not, and, a3 a woman. denounce such narrow juagmeut. Many good, noble men would object to being judged by ov held accountaole for the vices of their brother men. We live inan age of progression, and look to the future, not pust, forexamples. “That as civi- Maution advances all that is good or modest Must take a back seat. On the contrary, we pur- pose bringing it all Lo the front, making that purity tell in pubile life which 1s so prized at home and Which should be required everywhere. She ‘desires to know if any good can come to our fallen sisters and poor, overworked women by the advocacy of women's rights.’’ 1 answer, conscicnilousty, “Yes, much good.’’” Wheo women are seli-relunt, self- sustaining, self-protecting, there will be no uufertu- nates, and insults and murder, such as recently shocked aud disgraced our city, will be unknown. Aud when working women have ine ballot, which wii open new avenues to labor with res) miuneration, We shail not have sufferiug, starving countless thousands. It is for Working women we ask the ballot. You, in comtortabie, luxurious homes, wilh Kind husbands, do not ueed this power, ‘fy they who suiter for it; and it is for them and also our “selfadvaucement’’ we are worning. I think we cannotrise without doing good by example, if not personal jufiuence, She “hopes it will never be.’” ‘Tacre will be uo compulsory iaw, none exists DOW; the matter is optional, God has bestowed the in- alienable right of suffrage upon every citizen. We are citizens—iaw-ablding, tax-paying; we are ac- knowledged as such wheu the assessor calls, She is evidently not a working Woman nor has she given the power oi tne bailot # consideration, She uncon- torbid seeking intercourse with spirits, and Emanvel Swedenborg teaches that such wtercourse is dan gerous, because it tuterferes with man's freedom wedenborg teaches and Swedenborgians believe in the sole and supreme divinity of tne Lord Jesus Christ, and that the Sacred Scriptures are divine — that is, His Word, Spiritualists douy the divinity of the Lord and His Word, and rely wholly on the teachings (rom spirtis. ‘There may be exceptions, butif there are thev are probaly very few, and they must be of those who are unwilling to give up their confislence in the Scriptures as divine, and are not wholly given up to the influence of spirits. If ‘‘Reader” feeia interested enough for rurther information I would refer him to either of two valuable but inexpensive works—one on ‘‘Spiritual- ism,” by the Rev. Wm. #. Hayden, and the other on “Death and Life,” by Mra. Ware, both of whom are Swedenbdorgians. The books can be obtained at any Swedeuborgian publishing house. b Sock-Dollingers. ‘fo THE FpiToR OF THE HRRALD:— As the so-called “Evangelical” newspaper editors have suddenly been “converted” to an inordinate admiration of Dr. Dillinger, whose writings in de- fence of the Church they entirely ignore, I would invite their attention to a tew extracts from his celebrated work, “Church and Churches,” which would do much to enlighten thelr readers, tf they were put before them. The man who wrote that book, how much soever he may kick against the traces of authority in the Church, can never belong to any of the sects which he regards with so much maniiest contempt, and he shows very conclusively that neither the Lutheran, Anglican nor the Greek Church ts anyUung more thau a mere national or State church. Tho attempt of the petty poientate of Bavaria to establish now a siimiar State religion ts also well rebuked in this book. Thus, speaking of the efforts of Fichte and Rothe to form a charen which would be a union of the Catholic and rro- testant—to be called toe Church of St, Joha—he derisively says, page 329:— As to the budding forth of » church in the State, (t must be a future church of @ peculiar constitution—in tact, nothing less than m universal Btato church! But when an attempt i to impart wm corporeal form to this shadow of x future church, then are the ideologists found to evaporate in empty phrases, or they picture forth a modern miuenniim, and mit & cluater Of oped aud & awarm of wisles, bright, britifant, fagactous and volatlie as butterflies, and in whose actuality imple Curistian will place ax litle faith as any other human beliig in his sober senses. Here is a sock-Dliinger for men who appeal to the “analytical treatment of bistory’’ tn opposition to the authority of the Church of God ip. 81):— ‘The Christian social elemente and principles are thore by which marriage, the family, cniidhood, and the foundat! of civil order are fortified and consecrated. The tuea of neighborly love, Industry, cb have become Christian virtues, and fhe Felation ofthe clvil power andite subjects. | The uiit upon one saactiied basis, and they must be maintained ‘at all cost by every State which desires to continue in exist- ence, Every Staie must be prepared with @ negation, if Mere ts reqivired from it—asis’ now frequently doke, by an Appeal to the “Creedom of Kelence—to yield up such thin to the assaults of “the ectentific,” and of thelr derru doctrines, whether couc! ler the name of @ ‘materialist theory of nature,” or of a “critical, analytical treatment of ory. Here 13 soothing syrup for sickly sentimental sectarian preachers and ‘evangelical’ editors, p. w82:— ‘Justification b; banner of all the *e by which the righteousness of Christ fs ou ternally to the account of bellevers, another proposition connected extremely important to'sectarian life, and on which rests the whove theory of “revivsis.”” The man who is and the imputation of tie righteous- of the fact with Jafal nce” of his conversioa or 0: te of grace, and can point ‘out the preci moment of his pasange from death to life. The American have, therefore, arranged their “conversions” tu a very bw nese-like manuer, Several preacot \a & partnerabip and begin to operate upon ence who destre to be “converted.” By | tinued and exciting preaching; by stormy addresses to individuals; by hymns with ‘lively, rattling aire; by threats, with dreadful descriptions of the torments of ‘heii; by entreaties, supplications and passionate apostrophes, mea and women are so worked upon that they become eventually prosirated. The mental and bodily exhaustion to yecially are reduced by auch moans pri state, In which they fect everything they Attacks of bodily iliness and involun 5 4 ibed on the solifidiantss been Ins ‘exclamation’ pass for Of victory over, ithe, old ral Iro1 ‘ 7 been ko far worked upon as be induced to seat himself on the “penitential stool” the matter is decided—he has yielded himself up to race; and Immediately afver that he must, accord ing to the prescribed rite, feel himself completely and yon ro is forthwith a Ne, derfully refreshod and relieved, and as a convert and as a “inember of tne church." own “revives,” there aro also camp meetings, which haxo en a on fot AF Many of thore site verted’? soon “bac rf at the Wethoaitr prencnera are utteny avatitine” OF MRL St cat ture, and real bidifeal knowledge t# not to be thowzht of among them. They are amply provided for it they have « good number of texts at command. Many of thera heen mechantes, who happened to show some il ,ency of specel; they were then, after m short tratning, r sade “ex hore d then further promoted to be preac’ sere—page 240, ind," as Colton acknowler’ ¢ 7 ehiners ivals* n false Cfngclence is created and enc raged ‘and the whole inteller cial aud moral character of the people Is destro yea"—page 7 47, Here is @ tribute to our boasted golitical public schoois:— of » people's church, whi sg infancy, iwobrporsies bien With tout "hy'baplldae sod sciously proves the adage ale quotes—‘-Woman's worst enciny 18 herself’—*‘when [see @ man drunk before condemning nim 1 want lo see his home, see if the wife Has dene her duty.” Does she seek out the sorrow or investigate the cause of a sister's full? A Wife’s failure tn auty does not excuse a iusoand’s sin. “She ia evidently not @ sufferer through intem- perance else she might understand that ‘moral weakness,’ nut domestic aflictiou, causes men or women ‘o drink.” Women generally de- vote theic life to charity and good deeds if disuppointed or deceived. Not so with men; they seek Consoiation In the cup that desiroys and receive py and exteauation irom a “sensible woman.” he assumes all women to have homes, which be- trays a want of statistical Knowledge. The pure and ood need not fear contaminauon, Our Saytour's example was @ beautiful Uiustrauion of that prin- ciple. She assumes the position of law dispenser, “whica utterly unsexes her and makes her ridicu- lous.” We have po aspirations to become men, pre- ferring to be good, strong women, capable wives, noble, competent mothers and general enforcers of morailiy, charity, tefaperance, virtue, modesty and advancement, E. A. JENNINGS, A Werd to the Stone Throwers at Drs. Weodbull. To THe EDITOR oF TAR HERALD:— “Hypocrisy is the tribute pald by vice to virtue.” What an epitome of the morals of tne so-called con- servators of the social organization! O Puritanical hypocrites! Pharisatcal Christians! Religionist worldlings ! . What a precious snam this is you have batit up inthe name of God and morality! How unlike it is to any brotherhood or society hinted at in tne teachings of Him you pretend to serve! Where can you find any law of God that forbids the man who divorces his wife or the wife who divorces her husband from giving them shelter and support if it so chance tuat they are not able to care honestly for themselves’ Where in that law you profess to abide by do you find any sanction tor your demand that the injured wife should hunt the an Who has made ner sorrow, but is still the father of her children, from her home and pursue hun with the bloodthirstiness of the sleuth Dound? The tiendts lpn teed of your teachings bas 20 warrant in the Christian law of love, and has too long cursed our civilization by allowing men to hunt erring wives—who, after all, in nine cases out oi ten, are More sinned against than sianing—out of every chance of gaining What you are pleased to call a virtnons livelihood, and force them into the very Ways Which, in your seil-righteous assumption, you call the ways of sin, 1tistime that @ woman should teach you mercy and magnanimity and decency. it is time that @ woman should teach you that such a price 18 too great to pay for the conserving of the rotten thing you are fain to call “virtuous society.” Condembed be such a society into which the spirit that Jesus of Nazareth showed is not permitted to enter, Con- demned be a society that does not enderse one of the noblest deeds a woman has done in all history and which ouly @ soul great and magnanimous, fashioned in God-tike way, ana free from the fanati- cism of af religion, could perform, “O genera- ton of vipers! Thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered tby children together asa hen @athereth her chickens under Ler wiugs and ye would not.” “Give not that which 9 holy uato the dogs, either cast yo pearis be- fore swine, lest they turn again and rend you.’ Ye serpents, ye vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Woe unto you Serives and Puartsees, by pocrites | for ye shat ap the kingdom oj Heaven against men; neither go in yourselves, neither safer ye (hem that are entering tw go im. Verily I say unto you, the publicans Mt the harlots go into the Kingdon before you |" Here, you couservatives, who drag a woman before you to answer for 4 most Christian charity at your tribunals, is your record written tu the Book Whose teachings you have been for nearly nineteea centuries pretending to follow. Like the swine ana the dogs you are, and verily, saith the Lord, ‘iar- lots shatl enter tue Kingdou of Heayon before you '” 0. LOO is. Methodist Charch, Dedication. To-day St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, wn West Fifty-thurd street, will be dedicated, by Bishon Janes, who wall pr ia the morning, ,Dr. Fowler, of Chicago, will preach in the eftegadon, and Dr. Eady, of Baltimore, tn the evening. The church is one of the handsomest, and, withal, the cheapest built in thecity, The ground and butlding are valued at $100,008, The mason and wood Work lave been done hy momberg of the churcd, Aud fn the very best as Well as the very cheapest Manner possi The exterior front is fnished im Bellevilie veown stows and Olilo freestone jn the Norman-Doric siyle of architecture, and the interior is Gnisied tm bard native Woods, such a$ birdseye maple, black Wal- nut avd chestnut, and the elect ts exceediagly pleasing. Galleries run all round tie cluren, ansap- ported py pillare, thus allowing a fHil view o The ch ng the preacner from every part of the hous and organ are placed in the rear of the pu audience room ts lighted by lwo revlectors Irom bi celling, Great care has been taken 1 seonriag tn Most pericet ventilation, and (ie acousile proper- ties of the house are admirable. The Ciaas rooms and reception pariors are large and atry, and the ished = will all the neces = sean i social entertainments, waoich wale years. Become woh & 13 among Christian is the outgrowth The congregations. 1 patablished fh Waloe fa 2 an old fr Baptists, and thi mn a handful to 190, he inmbers over two hundred hh building and furvishing Cost $60,000. A. 1), Vail ls the pastor, ‘The ehuren wit be maintained ‘asa free chareh:” pat famt belonging to it will be allowod to seleet the pews, which Will always eserved for © ton Meeting of the Soviety of Frieuds. ‘The select annual meeting of mini: sand elders of the Society of Friends was held yesterday morn- jag in the Rutherfurd place meeting aouse. This meeting 1% attended by the women as well as by men, aud there was a3 large an dance of the former as of the latter. Ministers aud elters from various meetings throughout the couniry were present, including George Trueman, Wit) and Wiliam Wharton, from Whilac is Haynes, from onto; Sarah Hunt, from Morristown, N. J., and others from Baltimore. George Macey 14 clerk of the convention, the pur- pose of which was to tnqutre after the state of affairs among the Friends. Six quertes were put and answered as to whether they tad given encourage- ment to such of the brethren as need It, and admon- ished those who did wrong. This morning @ public meeting for social worship Will be heid, RELIGIOUS NOTES—PERS! AL AND GENERAL. Rey. James McDougall, Jr., has been called to the Presbyterian church at Babylon, Long Island, About one hundred clergymen and many laymen have anited in the addresa of sympathy sent to the Rev. Mr. Cheney. ‘Tho North chureh in Portsmouth, N. H., are to celebrate their two hundredth auniversary July 19 and 20, and Invite back all former members of the chureh or parish, The Church of the Disofples, Unitarian, Poston, Rey, James Freeman Clarke pastor, 13 conducted om the free-seat principle, but its financial condition ke oe excellent, The receipts last year were Dr. KE. De Pressensé, the eminent Protestan® clergyman of Paris, who raised lis voice to protest against the persecution of the Catholic priests: be the Commune, bas been in danger of ariest and imprisonment. The first Sabbath evening of this month all the Bvangelical Protestant congregations of Butfalo— " Episcops of course—assembled in Central church to hear the clatins of the Amertoam and Foreign Christian Union presented. At least 1,600 were present. Franklin College, at New Athens, Ohlo, which has been in a state of suspended animation, ia doing what Mra. Dombey could not do—makiog an effort. Professor Andrew F. Ross, lormerly connected with the institution, lias been inaugurated president aud there is # revival of interest in the institution amoug its friends. The Church in Clinton, N. Y., have been greatiy blessed under the faithful labors of their esteemed pastor, Rev. T. #. Hudson, Thirty-ilve nave beam added to its membership since the beginning of the Year, a part of the fruit of that blessed revival wit which the Church was visited in the winter ang eurly spring. — 3 THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. The Unity ef the Decalogue Designed te Secure the Unity of the Human Race—Pen- tecostal Flowers ai Beauty—Sermon by Dr. H. Vidaver. ‘The annual feast of Pentecost was celebrated tm all the synagogues of this city yesterday and Friday with great ¢clat, The orthodox observe tho two days of the feast, the reformers but one. The floral display in the Temple and in the Thirty-fourth street synagogue was grand and the congregations In cach looked as blooming and happy as the flowers of the field before them. Tne congregations also were larger than usnal- and on Friday confirma- tions were held tn all the synagogues. On Friday Dr. Vidaver confirmed a class of seventeen young persons, whom he addressed upon the new obliga- dons and religious duties which they had assumed. He also addressed the large congregation. A youth and a iiss, members of the class, then offered prayer, and the devotional simplicity of the young lady moved many of the congregation to tears. It Was a beautiful and affecting scone. Yesteraay the feast being continued by the ortno- dox instead of the regular portion of the law, thas which relates to the ordinance of the Pentecostal feast was reas i Dr. Vida subsequently ai coursed to his peuple upon tus CHARACTERISTIC US OF THE DECALOGUR and its purpose to unite the human famuy ta one brotherhood. His text was taken from Isaiah H., 16—"And [have put my wordd in thy moutn and covered thee with my commandments to piunt tae heavens.and to estaolish the earth.” We are now, the Doctor sald, celebrating Israci’s most importaut festival, Jor it commemorates the greatest event in Jewish history and the most glorious epoch in the annals ot mankind. It commemorates, so to speak, the spiritual birth of the universe. To-day about 3,500 years ago the invisible Creator of the heavens and earth called again into chaos and said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And this light snone over the blessed hill of Sinai on the 10th day of the {tn month, and cleared away the moral mists which untll then had veiled the glory of the invisible God from the eyes and the minds of men. Tne deca- logue revealed from Sinal’s shining mount was like the brilitant orb of day risiug in the East, but send- Ing the golden rays into the most distant parts of the earth. For the first time the finite was.per- mitted and enabled to Ce ao inflaite; for tue frat time the Holy One, with His laws and government and purposes, Was brought within the comprensa- ston of His creatures. God spake aud mau beard and understood. And there, on Horeb’s biewsed cloud-crowned hill, man was taught that while ke 1s ‘dust to dust,” he 18 also A CHILD O¥ HEAVEN, the son of a Heavenly Father whose laws aro love, and they command ol lence, resisiance W evil, by which ts secured true felicity to the tadividual apd to society. There, (rom Sinai’s smoking summit mae Was first taught that he couid and should rise irom the low plane of his existence and climb the lotty Ul of holiness and incline his ear to hear the words of the Holy One speaking to him and within him. There, wo, he was first taught thas he is the link which binds earth to heaven; the keystone of the universal arch, and that in obedience to God's laws man acquires that grandest of all tities—a manly man. Israel waa mercifully chosen by the Most High aa His sacred shrine, in which to deposit His giorious law, and His messengers to carry the light and biessing of that law into the dark abodes and hearta of all God's children, and thas to falfil their destiny, which, according to the words of the prophet Isaiah. in our text, is to plant the heavens and to lay foundations of the earth. The Doctor then discoursed separately upon the fen Commandmen pointed out how the first table was desig Plant the heavens IN THR HEARTS OF MEN, to raise the human soul up to the lughest pinnacle Of spiritual glory, and to sec a heaventy itzie, heavenly food and heavenly Uni then the blind and cruel tyrant Fate hei despotic sway among men, and the basest passions of our nature were concreted and worshipped as gods. And it 1 absurd to expect mankind to rise higher than, its own couceptiva of God. What nation of ant.quity ever rose to the glorious ~—_—convepsiom of the true Goa a4 the holiest, — su. limest and most perfect One in whom all exceliences oi wisdom and Knowledge and love and power are combined in an tnfluite degres? ‘There is not one of them which had the remotest ea of God as He 1s revealed to us ta the Decatozues Egypt, with all its learning aud art and wealth and power, worshipped the beasts of the tield and toe birds of the air. And even Hellas, the great piitosu= pher, knew nothing of the soul, saving couceptiom of the invisible Holy One. But the DARKNESS OF IDOLATRY WAS. DISPELLED by the light of faith revealed oa 5 ft Am Adonai—the Holy One—rang out loud anc cear from the mountain's side, Lam alone thy God, ihe sole sovereign. of ail realms and ail beings. Away, then, with blind fate. Break your dois and cast them to the moles and to thé vats; destroy your altars of error, vice aud crime. Banish injustice and slavery from your midst, for | am theGod which brougtt you ous of Egypt, from the hous. of bondage, and Flove jastice and laberty, Pall apm thy knees an! Know that tuer® 18 & God Wao hears thee, #@ Provalence which guards thee, a deaven above destined for thee, ala an anget of the Covenant vw guide tuee safey Lyre. Af you break or take one of those tables away you wa maakind im the dust. They are tnsepers bie. and as iong a$ bey remain aey diess and clevaie humanity. ‘The rst plants the heayous oc beings God near to the hearts of men, ‘The second estab- lishes the earte by showing mea tueir dusy to eaca ether. Remove or destroy this and you upset so- cty and turn EVERY MAN'S HAND deluge our earth with INST 1S BROTHER, ood andadestroy God's imaze from beneath the heavous This tote tells us to respect Ie and all tha’ appertans to it. It incuicates ch ty, domesuc puruy and virtno, and he thanked God taay the standard Of chastity of the women of Israel Was far digher thau that of any other bation of anuguity, aod ta ay in advance of all offers, What other Latians i Israel had—namely, tho faith of (he aaiiy of ‘and this was the basis of ail thelr greatness. a power, Without a dem bs spirit of justice and love of Will not be moved, but will remain ’ berg. Touching upon the athetsc ae present, Dr. Vidaver mosisted that, however erudite and polished he may be, AN ATHEIST CANNOT BE A MORAL MAN, fe cued the This virtue must come from od. case of Ruvoff, and rececred ton editorial “4a the Jeading journal or the country’ —the AKRALD—Whlew dociared In sunstance that Uys most iatelugent mtu ancdest intelicet OF thy world, 18 but a wWreeks ut God. The Doctor thanked God for made israca the repository of His words, and upon bis wearers the Guty of spreadmy tio Knows lalae of God more wrdely among men, aod civ ed wid? an earnest prayer for the DiviMe Liwwsug va © B% sermon,