The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1871, Page 4

— 225 . . -PETER’S PERIOD, of Long-Reigning Pontiffs. Sketches TWENTY-FIVE YEARS UNDER THE TIARA. “Pius May Die but Peter Will Live.” Interview with Archbishop McCloskey. The Strong Faith—Pontif? and Pontiff-King—“I Know Who Will Take Care of Me’’—Neceasi- ties for tho Te:poralities—No Throne Safe ‘Without Taem—The Reds—itheir Works in Italy and Francs Ccempared— The Worthless Guarantees— Remarkable Prodictions. we fervently | | the that a hfe go pr and tender Provider q shall 3 erved £01 the caus and justice suail de mado to tridm: when the heart of the ‘ong-eaffering Pontitt sual! i his loving chxidren throu a his rjotcings at the world shall be shop Af Cloney?s The continuous line of Ponti%s'who since the Gays of St. Peter have filled the Holy See witnesses one cunous fact on which popular comment, with Mts ready tong has hung a proverb, This is to the | effect Uia* no Pope shall sit upon the Papal chair | as long as the Apostle Peter. According to the best | Modern calculations the time of Peter's religious i rales me was | TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, TWO MONTNS AND SEVEN Days. ‘The popuiar mind has fixed this period at twenty. | five 7 and as no Pope up to the present has reigned that length the proverb became changed lutoa sort of prophetic dictum. or-—namely, that on the inauguration of vope the Cardimat Deacon, of ofice warns Anvos Petri non vid: dis —“Thon shalt not | of Pew No such expression ts used in the ritual of coronauon. The musty old proverb Mow soems in # fair way to be demolished, and much excitement 13 visivle among those who, on every shh occasion in life, take cvents a little out | Of the usuai course as miraculous tterpositions of Providence. it ali arises froin a hale oict man with | a@cheerful heart and a brignt soul, wno persists In i living, although aimost a prisoner in his own house, @nd surrounded by pie ES AND ENEMIES ON EVERY SIDE. This vid man in ois ejghticth yoar is Glovannt Marta Mastai Verrettt, Pontifex Maximus, bora of a noble italian family at Sint Ancona, 13th May, 1792, when fi rench Revo- lution was seething towards the insurrection of dane. Truly a woublous period for the young | Pope of the future to open his eyes in the world. | Be has bad cause to mark the footsteps of the same Spreire rouge ever since, Le grew up adevoutchild | of the Church and in 1819 he ts found on his way to | Rome, about to join the body ghard of Pope Pius | VIL. If designed for the Church militant it 13 evi- dent that he was not to fight with a musket in his | hands, for an attack of eptiepsy prostrate him on the | road. He now entered a religious seminary ana gave gaze of his futnre in the exercise of gentle. ness, devotion and self-denial, In tune he attained the pricethood and was seut to the Hospital | Tata Giovanni, where the orphans of the poor—the Uttle ones whom His Master loved—cla‘med all the PIOUS PHILANTHROPY OF HIS HEART. But he was noi destined to remain there and was sent to South America as auditor to Monsignor Mi Vicar apostolic of Chile. On nis return to Rome, Leo KIL. aitached the young padre to his nouschold and made hit Presicent of the hospital of St. Michael. Again he turned to the instruction of the little ones of Rome and preached “retreats to their parents, The Archbishopric of Spolcto beeame vacant in 1829 and to this Mastai Ferrettt was nominated. In 1832 he was trans‘crred to the see of {mola, and, after having served God and the Church as Apostolic Nuucio at Naples, he was created Cardinal by Pope Gregory X VJ. in 1540 under the title of St. Peter and St. Marcellartus. Gregory was growing Old, and in 1545 dicd, on the 1st of June, in his | eighty-first year, after reigning fifteen years. On the 14th the conolave of Varainals assembled to elect a new “Vicar of Christ on Earth.’? On the 16th the | extie and d From this arose | ¢ ; Tesuited, in which Kudolf, tis NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JONE 4, 1871—TRIPLE SHEhbr; enjoy the grant of territory made by King Pepin, oF a wie LEO UL, who reigned twenty-one years. To him belongs the honor of crowning Chartemagne on Christmas Day, 799. Henceforth the Church was imdepencent and the power which it held over the spiritual and tem- poral was coniirmed for centuries after. In the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelith centuries there were eighty Popes. Of these ALEXANDER IIT. alone passed over twenty years in the pontificate, Bils accesstyun took place Mm 1169, and in 1181 he was ded by Lucius If, His reign was a stormy awing down the resentment of the power- erick Barbarossa, Emperor of Germany, he xed to Ny to France, while the high-banded np the enti-Popes Vietor and vaschal in Alexander's siead. On his restoration to the Holy See the third General Council of the Lateran was cailed, and the much-vexed question of the election of Popes cettntiely settled. ‘The thirteenth, four- tcenih, fifteenth ‘and sixteenta centaries passed with fifty-seven Popes, and with but two In the last cycle who reigned over twenty years. These wore URBAN Vil. AND CLEMENT XL The first 1623-1644; the second 1676-1689, Their struggies with the Jansentan heresy and their bulls Agalust tt are the most noticeable features of thelr lucumbencies, Twenty Popes passe? away in the seventeenth and eighieenth centuries, with but the last of them, suicce: PIUS Vie Who reigned long enough to near the days of the Aposutic, dying in the twenty-fitth year of his holy iis days were most eveniful. He saw the Revointion rise, to tie terror of the kings, und saw it roli to the very doors of the Vatican, Whence, sweeping him from ‘his throne, it carried hia, od aud infirm, at eighty-one years of age, a capive, Ne died a prisoner m France the next PIUS VIL, Who succeeded him, held the chatr for twenty-three years. tis Was a stormy period too. Left to grap- tae force of the revolution concentrated single stubborn will, thatof Napoleon Gona- o svon to be Emperor, the good Pope was ed but Utvie quiet. Now crowning the Corsi- txer at Notre Dame de Paris, now dragged mio snored by ais piluessly ambiuous foe, part alio ca now restored and = agrin capriciousiy hur- | ried tuto exile. Aiter fourteen years of anxiety and trouble he was permitted to conclude the remuir rs of lus vicegerency in peace upon the al ion of the Emperor in ists, such ae Pi hose reigas were prolonged; ot closing these sketches, it would be a3 Wel to udvert to at least one other of the Pontitts, if not so Jong ou the throue, was the actual vr of the Roms known as Gregory Vil. No greater contrast could be offered between power and weakness than in the thea and how ot tae Papa Ib was towards the the last quarver of the eiéyenth century that he mounted the double throne, Simony (selling the S ofthe Churca), immorality, parasitism and ail Wie vices wich belong w those dependent upon the whim Of & prince beset the Church. Gregory's were broad, They were first to sepa- Church from “the State in the matter of conferring church positions, which he held belonged of right the Papacy alone; sec- to restore perfect discipline aud order, ’ ‘apacy then canuot be better jaated than by marking how such a hercalean as succeeded in the teeth of tue opposition of the rongest monarch im Lurope. ‘Che first to resent this interference with their Ze to dispose of opric, Which the monarchs and princes had long held in their hands, was Heary IV, of Germany. when We see the stardy prelate at the first symptoms asure solemnly exeommuni- ren of the Lateran, next pr Posed from hts throne, and then call on Ms sub, ects to ele eror, We grasp somewhat the sway y exe » RODIES OF MEN. uiened When the Em- uvoiued by at, 18s seen standing for days in ‘sackcloth and barefoot in court yard of the castle of Canusium in Lombardy, whither he had come with a single atteudant to beg an absolution from the haughty Uildebraud. Tuls was granted, and Henry J to Germaany, with his tectporal affairs to the German Dici. Dissutisfied at this he called oa his Lombard vassais, and a civil war rival, was slain at the ‘Then he turued for his revenge to Rome, but or three years was unable to reduce the imperial city. In 1083 matters were patched up by @ council; but the next year saw henry again in arms at the city gates, Which were opened to him. By means or an anti- Pope of his own, Guibert, he was crowned on the Capitol. After he withdrew Gregory, who had re- treated to the Castle of St. Angeio, came forth and agulm excommunicated Henry. tie afterwards re- ured to Saicrno, where he die he FFRCTS OF THE PAPAL ANATHEMA fojiowea Heury, tis sons beng encouraged tuereby to ¢ pire against and make war upon him. He fed and died in exile at Liege, a proor of the Paps) power. ‘Times lave changed with tae Roman Ponutls since then, But even in the strongest days of its power, as now, the moral remains that the ruler of tue Vaticau must le on no easy bed. It is impossible to look on tis long line of Pontifs without profound feelings. Its history 1s that of the world for nearly two thousand years. Wrapped Up its coulcils, its sufferings, lis crusades, the persecutions it ‘bore uniiuchingly, the triumphs ib end of three years. achieved, even in the wrongs it tntlicted, there 1s proot of A SUSTAINING VITALITY that Olls the observer with no coumon awe, apart the fait witch iilumines its path—betimes of sorrow, betimes of joy, if Macaulay exhausted bis ers of pauegyric in its praise, a Bossuet, a Fleury, @ Gibbons, or @ Swiit inveighed insidiously or openi against it, yet it stands to-day as secure in the hearts of 108 millions of foliowers as at avy period of its glorious or saddeued past. The interest which TH PRESENT UNSTABLE POSMION of the Holy Father olds in ius imperial city of Rome at the present hour awakens lively sympathy in every Catholic breast in tue world, It is not to be won- dered, thereiore, that everything relating to the life of the tllugirious and venerable PoniliT should ve watched with the tender solicitude of cuildren towards 2 beloved parent, The present wearer of the tiara bas Low held bis seat to within a few day3 of the twenty-fifth year, aud a feeling of almost un- easiness pervades the Church as the time, which has long been ivoked on almost in the ligit of a test, ap- choice was made, The two youngest Cardinals were chosen to count the votes; ONE OF THESE WAS MASTAI FERRETTI. It was the first pailot, and a perfect silence pre- Vatled in the large council chamber. A flusn of color ‘Was seen mounting to the chesks of Ferretit ag he counted the votes. The other “teller? announced Brst ail for Ferreti. Yerretti's batlots and his con- wiy the same tale. There was a pause, ‘when the clear, musical voice of the Pope elect was heard to utter, tremblingly, “Zece servus tuus, Do- Mine, fiat mihi secundum veroum tuum™—(Behold ‘Thy servant, © Lord; be it done unto me according te Thy word.) The brick wall in the great window Of the Quirinal was thrown down and the new Pope proclaimed, the cannon from the Castle of San An- gelo boomed across tne Tiber and reverberated seven Nijis of Rome and the name of Pio eccived by the populace with Joy. Tne risons Where political offenders languished were WH Ope A COMPLETE AMNESTY DECLARED, yeforms in the adwministratton carried and everything seemed to forvode a peaceful = puntincate, But the red = ghost Uiat burned tis bioodshot eyes avove nis cradle Would not, in iis implacable, unswerving, Ereconciiaplo hate of bim and his, Jet hun In Franses sss, it hunted Lows Pnoulippe from rance, and in Noveraber of the same year it siezed ome by ihe throat, Bloodshed followed and the Pope was A PRISONER IN ITS HANDS, He escaped in disguise and found himself a refugee at Gaeia, in Naples, !n 1840 Oudtnot made his way to Rome, captured it, and surrounded by French” bayonets Pius landed at Civita Vecchia on his way vo Rome on the 11th of April, 1459, and amid spolta- ‘on and the wreck Of the Papal temporal power z ) SHIRT of Piedmont, Sardinia, Italy 1 spectre in 1870), tere he has Since remained. Hence the force to Cataoltc mind of the quotation at the ncad of this article. Outside these tinngs his pontificate will be memo- | Table by two events: tirsi, the Council whieh assem- Died in Korue in December, 1454, to detine the dogma Of the fmunculate Conception; aud, second, the Ecnmen:cai Coauctl of iast year, deciaring tne infai- | Mbility of tue Pope ana of faith. Returning 'o ine proverb above aliuded to, itis | CUrI0US Chit oUt Of 265 popes St. Peter So 1ew ould buve even nearly re eniy-five years, Oi a clo: poniificates (vere appear not more than Lait a score | who have exceeded twenty years in the Holy See. | In the first, second, third and fourth ceuiuries there | ‘Were forty vishops of Rome, and, vesiues St. Peter, only in 1860, at the 8ST. BYLVESTER tin the chair over twenty years. In his day took | jace Wwe first great eartbly triuinph of toe Coureh, wi Constantive the Great was baptized by him, and the cross-crowned banner—the jamous Laba- Yum—Wwas reared beside the evgies of Kome—thoxe | eaules that so often under the Hmperor’s predoces- | sors—-Nero, Domitian, ‘Trajan, Aurelius, Severus, | Maximian, Decius, Valerian, Aurelian and Diocle. | tuan—had dip heir beaks into the hearts of the Chrisuans. Unuer Sylvester, also, was assembled the frst Genera: Counctl of Nice, from wiove canoni+ cal deliverations the well known Nicene creed was formulated. {n the fifvh ceutury LEO THE GREAT was Pope for twenty-one years. It wil be remem. berea vim that When the Huns, under Attila, “tue pn tly God and terror of mankind," \oilowed in the devastating steps of Aiaric, King of the Goths, ravaged italy asa woll woula worry & tamb, oa when the tierce, wild Tartars sent a thrill of ter- ror to the stow heart in Rome, the woite-hatred set out aloue aud with the cross accom- what the sword had failed vo, Attila con- to a peace aud Withurew to Hungary. where, two years alterwards, he died. In the sixth and seventh centuries out of Uurty-three Popes not one reached tweaty years in Vever's chair, In the eghtn ADRIAN, ‘who came to the jon in 772, reigned twenty- Sue wile ato a presiding Fe = oral Council of Nice, where the tury o oon received its dogmatic deatnblow. | that the Oh le We hav | Bhinseif with wonderfal cheertuiness, | the diy proaches day by day. With a view of learning from reitable lips anything of interest, cheer or comfort on tae subject and lay- Ing it bef the Catholics of America, a HERALD reporter sled at the Archiepiscopal Palace, on Madison avenue, in this city, and sought an inter- view with the distingutshed prelute JOHN M'CLOSKEY, Archbishop of New York, Having sent in his card, he was shown to @ parlor, and in two minutes the sleader form of the Archbishop, clad in ok fot cassock and wearing the Episcopal cross and rivg, entercd the room, with a stately tread. He 18 about five feet seven in hetgnt, straight as an arrow, with yet a slight melination of the head, whtcn ts small. His face has an ascette trace, which is subdued in the mili expression of his blue eyes. His close- brushed hair is gray, and he carries his sixty years as if they had been spring time all the while. After an affable put dignified salutation he de- sired the reporier to be seated aud at once entered cheerfully into the conversation which followed. Rerorres—Your ( 1s doubtless aware of the interest attachiog to the near approach of the com- pletion of tne twenty-iifth year of the pontificate of the Holy Father, Pins 0. “1 aun destrous of hearing anything of luterest connected with it. AKCHD SHoP (iusingly)—Yes, he has already ved to reigu beyond the days of any Pond siace 3: Peter, It is ali im the hands of One above the reacl of human thought or calculation—in the hands of God alon —On the 17th of June he will have com- of a century? ARcHBIsior —There ts most question in regard to the day on which tie compietion of his twenty-fifth year snould be computed. The 17th was the day of iis being “create |,” thatis, elected Pope; the other day ts that on wmich he was solemnly inaugurated. REPOLTER—Wuhat ts the difference in tue? ANOMBIBHOP—Not a Week. RuPoKTER—Which date docs your Grace believe to be the one to which it shou.d be counted ? Axci#ISior—From the day of his election he was at is, PoatuT and Spiritual iiead of ine ; but on the later day, when crowned with ie tara, he assamed tue full tie and dignity of THE PONTIFF-KING. Now, more tian ever, in this day of his despoll- ment; does 1m seem to me that tue Church, which does not recognize the robber’s act, should celebrate hin as tue Pooui-King. R. — ihe Church does not hold it necessary for hita to possess temporaluties? AxkcaBISuOP—The Cau has existed and could again exist withouttuem. We have no concern on t head; it 18 ws placing him above the mere mercy of a bandit or any princs or poientate at all nh insist# on his personal iudepend- ¢ no fear for the Cuurch, weve it poor 48 in the days of the sherman. RePorTer—Vid st. Peter hold the vicarate for twenty-five years exactly ? AKCHBisHOP—Some three or four months mor Kerorter—Does nis Holiness exoibit any anxiety on the question’ ARCHISHOP—NO. Ou the contrary, he possesses No amount ms .o break his cheery resignation to © Will, although old and not very strong. —He trusts in a higher power? uor—To suow you how he feels habitually 1 Will relate what he suid when warned that Napo- Jeon ILL. was about to withdraw his troops at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war:—“I kuow who will take care of me, but Wiv WILL TAKE CARE OF NAPOLEON When told that he would not live to see the days of Peover, he replied, ius may die, but Peter will live’? Sometilug which Protestants cannot under- stand are the two feelings with which any Catholic, educated or uneducated, views the position of te Pope. {evorren—What are they? Anc#t terest m ali tit concerns or threa.ens she fioly Fatver personaliy; Ue ovuer ts the uiter absence of emotion On the question Of the Possiple destruction of the Papacy liseli. On this they cannot get up of troupl Rerow ARCHD! any feeling; ior they know it is as certain to endure, as the word of the living God, who says, “Heaven ahd ea) shail pass away, but my words shai away.” Pe epoR En —. nything which jtves in the sentiment or the soul naturally 18 more indestructivie taan that which is simply materta). ARCHBISHOP (Warmly)—It lives in fatth—a FAITH WHICH 1g STRONG AS LIFE. Rerorrex—Wiil apy #pecial services be held in the churches on te L(t of dune next? who was one of the iret 0 iop—The first isa deep and abiding tn- | ai “the question of special service aioe cence. | RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. REPORTER—is there any present ho} rour Grace, that the position in Rome will be changed in a man her satistactory to the Pope and the Church? Axcnsisuor—Mark my words, the Pope will be restored to his mdepencence—not, perhaps, to all his rifled possessions, but sudictent for the purposes of the Holy See. I may not Live to see it. You are oung man and you will, ‘ ene —ThS present state of affairs ts fraught anger. ARcuuiti0P—They are, It is an hour of trial, but We shall triumph, ad RerorTer—Do you believe in the sincerity of Vic- tor Emmanuel’s professious? Axcunisiiop—tus professions are not worth any- thing. He did not wantto go to Rome; he was | forced there. It was the same power that forced | him to Rome waich torced Napoleon into war with Germany. RerORTER—The revolutiontsts? AXCHBISHoP—The rouge. They are the real rulers of Italy. Think you they have any idea of letting Msacnd wuimannes Tule them? No; their design is 10 erec' A GRAND AERIAL REPUBLIC in Italy, as their brethren attempted to build one on the ruins of France, REroRTER—They profess a devotion to liberty? ARCHBISHOP—It 13 the liberty to do just as they please and that no one shall do anything outside of that. Why, it is the most odious form of tyranny. Reronrer—These men fight and die for their opinions, ARCHBISHOP—They would wade in blood to ac- compiish their objects, Life {s nothing to them and they have nothing eise to lose. The fear of God has no place in their hearts; tor they do not believe in Him or in a future state, AS Rochefort said the other day, ‘fhe treasure of the churenes was given to a man called God; there 18 no such man, theree tore it belongs to the people.” nt kimanliaten a believe priests to be their enc- mies? AxcuBisHor—They are right. Priests are the ene- 8 of Such belicis as theirs, and, uerefore, their nemies, ‘That was never disguised, nor was their | hostility unknowa to tue priests. Im my last conver- Sation with the fouliy murdered Archbishop Darboy (Who Was hot 2n aged lan, as Some papers state, 11e Delng some three yi ounger than I, and 1 do pot call myseli old) bis re - “1 PORES S brewing; what ill tt may betide 1 Know not; there } are certainly dark days before us.” So of Pere Olt- vai, head of the Jesuits in Paris,a most gente, Inofensive man. Such are the eneuwes of the vouge. { itis terrible to think of, ies oe zk—Do you think the like will be attempted in Italy AxcaBisHop—Yes, Before three years, perhaps before one year, Victor Emmanuel will be chased from his throne by the very party who ca‘ole him with a leadership which he does not exercise, He is their puppet, and when it suits them he w deposed. ‘Tien will conie the great struggle, TO END IN THEIR OVERTHROW, ReEronter—Is it on this that you base your hopes for the recoyery of the patrimony of St, Pete: ? Arcuvisndr—I cannot now indicate, The impt- ous, impracticable schemes of the godless revoiu- tuonists must overreach themselves, 1 have met Frenchmen and Germans here who scoffed at our republic, saying there is no more liberty here than ; in Europe, certaiiy not iu their distorted sense. REPORTER—You feel certain that the Pope will be restored ? ARONBISHOP—I do. There 1s one fact, that XO THRONE IN EUROPE 18 SAFE without him. No Power, even a so-called Protest- ant one, having Catholic subjects, can submit to communicating with the head of the Catuolic Church at the caprice or on the ipse diz of another Power who can give or refuse admission to the Pope, wio | Would be to itin the capacity of a subject. ‘nis is | outside of all tne other reasons from the point of Churc disciptine, AKEPORTER—DVo you believe in the ability of Victor Emmanuel to keep the supuiavions he has laid down? AncibisHor—I read the “guarantees” in the HERALD a few days ago. In the first piace he is bankrupt and bas vioitted bis engagemenis with the monastertes and convents rifled and contiscated by him. In ali the convents were nuns who had | bDroaght therr dowries to the institutions, When the convents were coniiscated these nuns had every civil claim to their money. tie engaged to pay them a stipend. He has not done so aud most of them are starving. His guarantees are uot worth anything: he cannot guarantee himsell, REPORTER—Do you not tiink the deleat of the reds in France will frighten taeir brethren in Italy? ARCHBISHOP—Tihe end is not yet. Their power for harm is not over. REPORTER—You do not believe in their success? ARCHBISHOP—NO, Yet whatever God has tn store for His servants on earth shail satisfy them. The church does not fear, and, with the same serene cheerfulness as the Holy Father, awaits His awarus, sure of His uitimate victory. The conversation drifted to diocesan matters touching the new Cathedral, for which, during the past few imontas, $150,000 have been raised. The work upon it is proceeding rapidiy, The workmen are at present putting up the new marble columns insiie the building, The worthy Archbishop pro- fessed himself highly pleased with the generosity of his diocese, the more that he so weil knew how many other things were wanting besides a cathe dra. TEMPLE Parity of the Body in Relation to Purity of Mind—Sermen by Dr. Adier. A congregation—small im contrast with the size of the Temple Emanuel, but large if gathered into any of our ordinary sized Christian churches—assembled yesterday morning to hear the Scripvures expounded by Rev. Dr. Adier, The story of Naaman’s leprosy, as recorded in II. Kings, v., was read by Dr. Gatheim, and, as usual, @ portion of the Psalms, alternately by the minister and the people. The Mosaic rivaal, as found in Leviticus xiil., was also read. This chapter, having special regard to the plague of leprosy, 18 very minute In its details in regardgto cleansing the person, the house, the garment, the cooking utensils and sucn otuer arucies and things a8 a leprous person would be likely to touch and to contaminate. It was from this chapter, therefore, that Dr. Adier discoursed ably and eloquently oa the relations of the body and of the soul, ala the necessity that the one should be pure as well as the otier. Some semi-philosophers affect to believe and assert that Moses was obliged to give his sanitary laws the sanction of religion and the authority of “Thus saith the Lord,” eise the people would net obey them nor heed them; and taat He, being Iearued im all tue wisdom of the Egypuans, aud undoubtediy a thorough philoso- pher, had sought to engraft his sanitary meas- ures upon hus religious rites and ceremonivs. But in going so deeply imto details he nad made nonsense of the whole, This theory the Doctor refuted, and showed from the navural and physiological relations of soul and body that purity Of the lavver 1s a necessity to purity of the former; and that pure religion demands @ healthy body, and consequently @ Cican body as weil as apure and heaithy mind. At every service in the Temple there are more or less Chyistians and frequentiy ministers present, and yesterday we noticed a few who listened with’ rap- ture to the admirable rendering of music by the choir, We understand that the reader of this syna- gogue 18 an excellent musician, and that he 1s pre- paring the children in tne Orphan Asylum tn Seven- ty-seventh street to become singers in the synagogue choirs by and by. But wuether they shail ever oc- eupy such positions or noi, 1t will be linportant and useful for them to understand music and singing, ORTHODOX FRICYDS EMANUEL. Sabbnth School Work—Addresses by Ralph Wells, Elizabeth L. Comstock and Others, The yearly meeting of the Orthodox wing of tne Society of Friends, which has been held in the Twentieth Street Meeting house during the past few days, Was continued yesterday morning, after- noon and evening. The sessions were presided over by James Wood, and Thomas Ladd acted as secretary. At the morning session the subject of holding annual meetings throughout the Union was discussed, as also the propriety of holding quar- terly meetings for the diifusion of gospel truths, An unfavorable report mm relation to the Spring Academy was read, and the quarterly comimitvees were instructed to visit wie schools more regularly and to ‘look more sharply after | tuelr efficiency. The afternoon and ‘evening sessions were devoted to discussions and aidresses on Sabbath school work, in which Elizabeth L. Comstock, Wiliam Wetherell, J, H. Douglass, J. A. Grinnell, of Tennessee; Allen Terrill, of Ohio, and Kalph Wells, of tnis city, participated. ‘The tw olast named persons occupied the platform last evening. Mr. Weils, by invitation, spoke for tiree-quarters of an hour of the “Ke lations of Sunday School Teachers to In- quiring Scholars,’ He pomted out errors into Which ministers and teachers Invariably fall in deai- ing with Inquiring children, Their directious are exiher not clear enough to be comprehended by the young minds, or they are so verpose and overiaden that they cannot be taken in and tresured by tue little ones. In reply to his own question as to where luquirers are to be found he said they are ail around us. But no man careth for their souls, We are ready to go or to send to Africa, but we neglect the inquirer at our elbow. Mr. Wells also spoke of the methoas of teaching and dealing with tquirers and the spirit Uhat shouid be brought to the work, and ilustrated his several points by interestlug imeidents and anec- dotes. One mstance which he cited showed how a little girl was kept out of the church for ten years by one harsh word from her father, desire to become & eutleness of manner inty, perseverance, prayer and faith as accompaniments of tie instrac- Uous tn the Word to lead the Sabbath school children to Christ. His address wos attentively and patiently listened to. ‘the business meetings of the Conference will be continued to-morrow in the same place, WEALTH OF HON, R. ©. M’CORMICK. The Hon. Richard ©. McCormick, Delegate in Congress from the Territory of Arizona, is now lying seriously ill at the heuse of his mother, in Jamaica, L. J, His disease 18 erysinelas, or St. Ane tnony’s fre. He was taken sick while riding through Central Park. For atime tc wag wholly bilnd, but ue js DOW recovering Wis sight, to whom she expressed he: June 4—Trinity Sunday—Collee- tions for the Pope. Religious Schedule for To-Day—Herald Religious Correspondence—Infidelity and Its Foe—Abbe McMaster and Father Farrell—Church of Prayer and Praise—A Little Scolding— Presbyterian Celebration—Civiliz- ing Christianity—A New Beligious Sect. Religious Notes, Personal and General. Services Te-Day. Rey. Charles B. Smyth will preach this morning and evening in the American Free church, 36 Wa- verley place. Q Rev. Robert Cameron preaches morning and even- ing in the Baptist churca, West Seventeenth street. Rey. Andrew Longacre preaches morning and eveninz in the Central Methodist Episcopal church, Beventh avenue. Rey. Abbott Brown preaches morning and even- ing in the Chureh of the Reformation, East Fifticth street, Interesting services will be held in the Church of Cur Saviour (Sixth Universalist) to-day. In the morning Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach asermon to children, after which baptismal services will take place, In the evening Mr. Pullman will deliver the final lecture of the course to young men on “Ideals of Liie.’’ Rev. Dr. Krotel will preach, morning and evening, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of tie Holy ‘Trinity. Rev. Thomas Street will preach this morning and evening in the North Presbyterian church, West Thirty-first street, His subject in the morning will be “The Second Coming of Christ’? and evening “The Sisters of Bethany.”’ Rev. E. R. Keyes, formerly of the Methodist Epis- copal Conference, will lecture on the “Doctrines of the New Church” in the New Jerusalem (Sweden- borgian) church, Thirty-ffth street, this evening. Rev. Dr. Wescott will preach in Plymouth Baptist church, West Fifty-first street, this morning and evening. P Rev. Merrill Richardson, pastor of the New Eng- land Congregational church, will preach this morn- ing and evening. Rey. E. C. Sweetser will preach this morning and evening in the Bleecker street Universalist church, corner Downing street. Rev. Charies F, Lee will discourse on “The True ideal of the Christian Church” to-day, in the Fifth Universalist Church, East Fourteenth street. Iu St. Thomas’ church there will be morning prayer and litany services at nine o’clock, commu- nion service and sermon at half-past ten, and even- ing services and sermon to young men at a quarter to eight. Rev. C. 8, Harrower wili preach this morning and evening, in St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, West Forty-first street. Mr. Thomas Gales Foster will speak before the Society of Spiritualists at Lyric Hall this morning and evening. Infidelity aad Its Uncompromising Foe. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— A Well regulated press 1s as great a blessing in a civilized community as a demoralizea press is a curse, Tne sentiments conveyed in an editorial in last Sunday’s HERALD relating to the progress of in- fidelity does much credit to the writer, and should be a matter of decp reflection for all who hope for happiness efther in this world orthe next. We have allseen what the teachings of Voltaire, Rousseau and Tom Paine have done for France, and we cannot avoid secing how religion in this couutry—outside the Catholic Church—is drift- ing into rattonalism, materialism, Mormonism, woman's rights, free love and rank infidelity. Who can foretell the end? Man without religion or moral restraint, let to the guidance of his own passions, becomes a brute—and with power a despot—toward ail who differ with him in opinion. There should, therefore, be no coquetting with this evil under the guise of furthering human progress. The Catholic Church and her ministers have often been accused of enslaving the human mind and op- posing progress. This 1s simple nonsense. The Catholic Church and her ministers teach morality, founded on the reveiations of God, knowing no com- promise between good and evil, whether in a peasant oraking. She denies the liberty of offend. ing the laws of God and man, and withholds her sacraments from those who do so till by penance and restitution they have atoned for their faults, Many, no doubt, regard this as slavery. There 1s @ class of Catholics, so called, who disgrace the religion—men whose oaly title to the name consists in being born and baptized in the faith which, through parental neglect or evil company, they dis- card, often for @ life of sin and shame. Enemies of the Church are not slow in casting this scum in her face, knowing full well that it results from shunning the priest and his counsels, pot from being induenced or enslaved by them, ‘The Catholic Church in every age and in every clime has been the promoter of art, science, lite- rature, civilization and progress in every form con- sistent with man’s eternal welfare; beyond this she Knows bo progress, no false philosophy, or theories incompatible with the laws of God. The mfidel dis- organizers of France and Italy, knowing this, regard the Church as their fearless and uncompromising toe; hence their first action aiways on obtaining power is to attack religion, Down with the churches! down with the priests! down with all social order, is their battle-cry, while Protestantism in any shape they neither fear nor molest. This 1s @ stern fact worthy of reflection. That heroic soap boiler and general benefactor of mankind, Garibaldi, whom Italian reyolutionists swear by, reinarked, in writng to the infidel convention at Naples in December, 1869, that “ine world would never be right till the last king was drowned in the blood of the last priest.” At what point such mode of regeneration should stop the red-shirted hero does not say, but trom recent events in Paris we can imagine. One great cause of the progress of infidelity in France and Italy, especially in the latter. is the de- moraiized state ol the government and the increase of secret societies. In Italy, where church property has been go freely sequestrated, and the Churen deprivea of its means of usefulness in caring for tne sick and poor, edu- cating youth, &c., a systematic course of tree thinking educauon 1s now pursued under the guidance of men of professed liberal iaeas—in plain words, infidels. The result may be seen in the fol- lowing extract, to which J call particular attention, taken from the New York Times of tue 19th of April last, being part of an editorial on the affairs of Tealy:- Signor Lanza, Italian Minister of the Interior, pleads for nul laws of greater severity for the suppression of crime. 1e gives figures reinting to the chief towns of the Italtan penfosuin which show that, compared with the years 163- tA, the number of murderous outrages in the biennial period, 1869-7), have increased from 40 to 120 per cent. ‘throughout the whole kingdom the crimes of biood reached, during 1863— 64, the nnmber of 29,634, while during 1869-70, they show » total of 65,82. The only feature neeued to give this its most fatai signiticance fs added, to the effect that most of the erfininais were beardless youths. ‘This, tt must be remembered, 18 an oMcial report of King Victor Emmanuel’s Miuiser of the Interior, owing the progress of morals under Ttahan unity and since the expuiston from Italy of those good men who tormerly had charge of we education of outh. nt A large portton of the murders above alluded to have been assassinations, emanating from the secret societies, With such a population increasing in crime the fate of lialy inay eastly be foretold. ‘The same system of infidel education 1s uow en- forced by the Jtalian government in Rome, and with @ diabolical energy such only as a fallen woman dis- Plays when seeklug to drag an innocent vicum down to her own level. All have seen what the vandal Commanists have dope m Vans, Who can tell what the Communists of italy may do in Romer In 1848 they threatened to biow up St. Peter’s and the Vatican, with thetr invatuable treasures of art, and no doubt would tave done,so nad they time an: ammunition, They are stron now. having a not over-conservative urmy at their back. In conciusion, let the Church and the press go hand in hand in endeavoring to check tis evil of infidelity, which is at the root of aul social disorder, And jet ministers who spend precious time slander. ing tue Church of God—of which they know noth - Ing—imitaie zealous and self-sacrilicing lives of the Catholic pests Se ne Po eae flocks in morality and the love o . A CATHOLIU SUBSCRIBER, 8 Tue Gospel According to St. Bacou—The Church of Prayer and Praise. It 18 situated in @ central part of Mew York city, conventent to the whole population. It is a chureh of Christ, the Saviour of men. Those who go thero goto worship Him, Tho geats are all free—free to wil, The services consist only of prayer and pratse. There 00 vrewching. There are no qualifications or requisites for mémbership, All who join in the acts af prayer and praise are members. It is the church for sinnerg. They are the most welcome— sinners in rags, or sinners in velvet. It sets forth, in its services, the doctrines of no particular branch of the Christian Church. It rather embraces the essence of all of them. Itis@ place of worship for the Presbyterian, the Roman Catholic, the Baptist, the Episcopalian, the Lutheran, the Methodist, the Moravian, the Swedenborgian, the Reformed— for the Gentile and for the Jew, if he will. Itis ‘under the control of no denomination. Its ministers are all laymen, of ali shades of Christian faith, and all unpaid. Its creed is the broad creed of all Christians. Its chief prayer is the Lord’s Prayer. It has a great altar, whose central ornament is the emblem of the Christian faith—the cross. Around it are grouped candles and flowers, and all of light and beauty and splendor that can contribute to the glory @ the triune God. Its praises are offered up in the ancient Psalms of David, in good old Method- ist and other hymns, and in the solemn musical masses of the Greek and Roman Churches, Not con- joined with sacraments or ceremonies, but with anthems and oratorios selected us iting gems of sacred melody. Thousands of human voices, the organ, the Orum, the cymbal and the trumpet— all jom in rolling glorious incense Of praise to the Father of all. ‘Let everything that hatn breath praise the Lord!’ its prayers, read from an elevated reading desk, are the devout, well- considered, short and concise prayers of the early Church, consecrated by the use of thousands who bave lived and died in Christ. Better these than the rambling, disjointed and sometimes blasphe- mous eaeaID DOr appeals of ill-traincd and excited men, Its hturgy and responses are adapted trom those which are commeu to the Episcopal, Roman, Lutneran and Moravian churches, Alternate prayer, alternate praise till up an hour of grateful worship, unmarred by the labored crotchets and conceils of theologiaus and pulpit orators. ‘iliere 1s room enough for these in the congregations of fashion aud inthe peculiar tabernacies of sects, The busi- ness of our Church is to hold communion with God, not audience with men. The services of this church are aally, It is always open toall, Its readers are not pastors or priests; therefore there are no sacraments, no pecuiar cere- monies. These belong to the cnurches of the several denominations for which this church 18 only an en- tering gate. This is only the church of prayer and praise. Its readers, its Choristers, its musicians, give their services voluntarily, ‘There is no lack of them, It seats comlortably fiteen thousand per- sons, and even more. THE REASONS FOR THB CHURCH OF PRAISE. ‘rhe population of New York city is about one mil- lou. Of these more than one half attend no church, There is not sitting room enough for them. But they goto the theatre and to the Sunday concert hall. Nine-tenths of these would rather go to the church it only as much labor and money Were given to lead them to worship as it costs to draw them to amusement, Man loves to worship. Yes, even In bis rags he loves to pray. Perhaps then more than ever. But he does not like to intrude his rags nor his vileness before men. He feols he 1s not welcome in most of our Christian tabernacles. The hariot, the gambler, the druukard—even theso have a glimmer left of the Christian light of their childhood, Even these love to approach the mercy seat, if they can, without attracting the notice and the remark of men. ‘That same mere dis- like of intrusion, of feciing not at home, keeps thousands away from churches where pews are property and where property fils pews. For all ‘these classes the Church of Prayer and Praise offers @ refuge, a nome, a joy ever pure and ever new. In its large expanse rags are unnoticed. The worn sinner loses his dread consctousiiess among the multitude of an equalized humanity and yields his spirit to the blessed influences oi the hour. Again, our people have been well instructed—in- structed even to nausea. Doctrines upon doc- trines, each widely differing from the other, confuse the seekers alter truth; divines tingle their ears with sweet words aud smart sayings. which have cloyed upon the taste; dull preachers punishthem with tire- some harangues—all this, until they have jearned to desert the Church because of the too much preach- ing. Qur clergymen, too, are worked to eath upon sermoas. So mach is demanded trom the head that the heart grows cold within them. They have ceased to bethe almoners of good gifts to men. Weekly sermons bar the way between them and God's pool Last weck a good true heart in a far-off land, while in sorest need, was requested to call upon a clergyman at an appointed time. He writes:—“He talked to me about the ee of my soul in a patron- izing way, and then told me that he was very hen and handed me a tract, which I threw away!’ Cheap effort to reach a human soul and save it from the depths! How many such every day! One of the noblest sermons ever preached was preached by the 900 od Samaritan, ‘The Church of Prayer and Praise, broad though its foundations be, is not a churca of free love nor of those who deny Christ. Neither does it seck to take whe place of other churches, They have their own worshippers, their own clergs, their sacraments and their own peculiar paths of duty. May their work be blessed. But they form only the reguiar army of Christianity, What shall be done for that stil greater multitude who hover around their array, and wio, though called Chris- tlans, are not yet armed with light, and have not yet ranged themselves under the cross? For them the Church of Prayer ana Pratso chimes its far-off beils: for them it essays to open its doors and spread its wide aisles, free to all. And yet its portals are all shadowy and indistinct, its chimes are distant; for the church here pictured is not yet built. Messteurs of the bank vaults and real estate, if this church be soon built you will bave another guar- antee to your bonds and a stronger warrant to your deeas, J. B. BACON, Civilizing Christianity. To THE Ebitor oF THE HERALD:— You are rendering ® most important service to the world in your endeavors to civilize Christiantty. So long, however, as you recognize the necessity or justice of some of its fundamental principles, so long will you fail to benefit the human family to the desired extent. For exampie, if you entertain the dogma that the shedding of blood was necessary to our final happiness, apd that one individual has atoned for the offences of another, you consecrate murder and destroy all personal egitim The doctrine, “without the shedding of blood there is no remission,” has been fraught with the direst con- sequences to all nations, from the earliest ages. It began amid the clouds and cannibalisins of a remote past, and has scorched and hounded Its way down through every generation and stage of society to its recent grand carnival in the streets of Paris. If Pilate appeased divine justice with the blood or Christ, why not the Emperor Wilham or Louts Napoleon appease human justice with the best biood of ue German or of the French people? ‘The acts are kindred. The one is a reflex of the other, and now, after a lapse of potas) hundred years, look at the reault. The truth is, then, until this mon- strous myth, which has no toundation in philosophy, learning or science, is thrown completely overboari there can be no health in us, or adequate apprect: tion of the glorious and benign attributes of the All Wise and All Good. LOGOS, PRAYER AND Scolding from a Strovg-Minded Source. To THe Epiror or THE HERALD:— In your paper of Sunday a “Sensible Woman” writes for information. Allow me to give it. she asks if this ‘‘bit of scandal” about strong-minded women is a specimen of their morals. J, as a strong- minded woman, have other business than bits of scandal to attend to; but I read the papers, and, if the Claflin trial is meant, I see no immoratity that has been proved, but ingratitude. Your corréspon- dent quotes “our grandmothers,” but puts herself outside the pale of their opinions by appearing in print; but we are nineteenth century women and Taust Work out our own salvation. Like young housekeepers, we would rather make mistakes than have the experience of eyen—grandmother. As to to the “drunken man,” Ihave foliowed him home and seen a fatthful wife, who has been repatd by cruelty and negiect. Yet by law (not reason) his is the stronger mind, and she must accept his opinions and teach them to her sons. EP UBLICA, A Little The Abbe McMaster and Father FarrellmA Serious and Amusing Card from the Pastor of St. Josepl’s Church. To Tar Eprror or THE HERALD:— The editor of the New York Freeman's Journal persists In stating that I have been guilty of saying or writing what Is contrary to the teachings of the Catuolic Church. Now if he will point out in clear and distinct propositions anything, either in my speeches or writings, contrary to her defined teach- ing, | will be silent and let him abuse me as much as he likes for tne remainder of my life. But if he will not do so 1 ask him to be silent about me and to leave me aione. Judging from the tone of his articles he ap- pears to think that I have written some things against lim. 1 shal not etther gratuy or mortiiy him by saying Whether Ihave or not. But I wili say that £ have written in his defence, and that [ have incurred odium by pleading for him. 1 have been so long accustomed to fight the battles of others and to plead for those who bad few to defend them that I may be too inditerent about myself. But there are numbers of the ciergy and laity only too willing to defend me if necessary and if 1 will ‘not prevent them, My character 1 dear to them, It isalso very dear to me—not merely because it 13 held in trast and belongs to tne priesthood, but be- cause itis mine, [have been advised by a convert to our Church to commence a suit against the Pre man’s Journal for defamation of character, put I am unwilling to do so, either becnuse t do not wish to injure him or because I do not believe that he can injureme. [am @ law-abiding citizen, though we irish blood in my veins is still very hot for & man of my age. If] were a man of the world 1 could not say what mit happen to the editor, The dear and good rs. McMaster mignt in & short time be widow and her children ages ow ‘The men beiongtug to my temperance » without my rergatitcy have vojuntecred de- fend me, are sober, cool, steady and intelligent men ind capable of Cy me tm Jam not re- " i right; they know ponsivle for them. ‘are all os if me pred their duties and how to tpg are a areat many raw just soimiog the ranks 7 ‘who are not yet Cool and sober, nor are sumMciently long under ‘these migt rash things in my defence ugh of duty. I would not de willing to go bail for the temper of my countrymen when greatly provoked If, therefore, some big and chivalrous cour of mine should be tempted, Hk the brave and tamented Thomas Francis ered not J 44 Or & to take the cowhide im my defence, I wor much for the editor's Puritanteal’ onan ee museum. He mast not imagine that the Holy Father will allow him to attack the sacred charas ter of his aged bishops and priests. The Pope granu no such plenary indulgence aud needs no such as fenders, if they are to be obtained at such a sacrifice In the worst days of the Inquisition they at leas proved aman giuity before they tled Bim to thy stake, In the recollection of ola friendship ant under the obligation of Christian charity I wilt ast the editor of the Freeman’s Journa! to remembe that even avowed enemies have rights which ought to be respected—the rights of truth, justice ant charity. Yours, THOMAS FARRELL. Ordinations of Catholic Priests. To-day (Sunday) a number of the ecclestastica! students of the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels Niagara Falls, are to be ratsed to the priesthood by the imposition of hands of the Most Rev. Dr. Ryan, Bishop of Buffalo. A number of the students have been preparing by retirements, fasting and prayer for eight days for ecclesiastical orders, and yesterday the Jollowmg orders were conferre Tonsure.—Messrs. T. 8. Kevenny, Albany; D. Mo- Dermott, Buialo; J. J. Dougherty, New York; J. J. Gormelly, Boston; J. A. Gleeson, New York; le Gallagher, Brooklyn; H. A. Gallagher, Brouklyn; B. M. McHugh, Brooklyn, Sub-Deaconsit) ‘3. George Bahm, Buffalo; Heery, Brooklyn; 4. Hom R. Stack, Boston; Par man, Brooklyn. #riesinood.—To-lay the following are to be ore dained priests:—Mo: PF. sheridan, Brooklyn; T. S. O'Reilly, Brooklyn; Martin Kyan, Buitalo; Johm Camden, Dubuque; Edward McCture, Boston. Of this year’s graduates of N ‘a Fatis College Rey. Messrs. Sheridan and OR of Brooklyn, have specially distinguished themselves, Roman Catholic frmations. Confirmation was administered by the Most Reve- rend Archbishop on Tuesday, May 23, in St, Mary’s church, Grand street, to thirty persons. On Wednes- day, May 24, in St. Gabriel’s church, to 430 persons, On Thursday morning, May 25, in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, to twenty-two persons. On Taursday afternoon, May 26, in the Chureh of the Holy Name of Jesus, Bloomingdale, to 140 persons. On Friday, May 26, in the Ohureh of the Annunciation, Manhattan vill to 340 persons. Contirmation will be administer on Tuesday, June 6, in the Church of St. Rose Lima. On Thursday, June 8, in the Church of Our Lady, at Fordhan. Five Millions and More for the Presby- terlan Memorial Fand. The Presbyterians have raised their proposed sum of five millions, ard more than half as much more— the total sum reported to the Assembly bemg $7,607,499. This sum is actually subscribed in one year for objects of Presbyterian church work, out- side of che ordinary and regular annual contribu- tions to the Boards and other it is raised for church extension, colleges and seminari to extinguish church debis, to build parsonages an in general to prumote the denominational work. The Observer Says:—"It is a great result; showing What can be done when all work witha will, and what power there is m united effort. Great credit 1s due to the committee, to the Secretary, Rev. Dr. Ellinwood and the Chairman, Mr, Gilman, for their faithful and successful service.” Presbyterian Celebration. The members o1 the Fourth Presbytertan church, Thirty-fourth street, have resolved to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the settlement of their much respected pastor, the Rey. Dr. Jonn Thomson, on Friday, the 9th inst, There will be religious ex- ercises and addresses appropriate vo the occasion, and these will be followed by something i the shape of refreshments for the inner man, 1e reunion wilt inclcde all former members and adhe- Tents of the church. A New Religious Sect. A new religious sect has made its appearance in Vienna, and has noticed tte existence and pro- gramme to the Ministerial authorities. The new community will bear the names of “Confessors of the Message of Truth, Liberty and Love,” and their creed 1s as follows:— 1. We acknowledge the world to he a unity of infinite space. and time, the creative energyof which we cail *Weltgest.** 2. We acknowledge that humanity 18 one of the innumera~ bie forms in which the “Weitgeist” manifests himself in the series of his developments, We ackuowledge that humanity is progressing in all ways, and we declare It to be e man’s task to assist in this iiaprovemeat with all nis powers, 8 We acknowiedge the indestructibility of the essence ia all the phenomena of the “Weitgelst,” and, conseqdeat also in men ; and we tuerefure consider death to be only transition into a new fori of temporal existenoe. 4. We acknowledge that there must be « retribution for al actions, but this {s only of a temporal nature, 6. We acknowledge that all those actions aro good which are in harmony with the principle of the Essence, equality of ll men, and which tend to the progress of humanity, All ac~ tlons not Ia accordance with this are objectionabie, 6. We acknowledge the xotion of “God,” as the idea of ab- solute periection, to be postu.ate of hunian reason, ‘Phe ethics of the “Message” are:— 1, The commands of liberty: Be moderate, be calm, be true, be clean, be industrious, be economical. 2. ‘The commands of justicd: Offend not, illtreat not, kill eul not, Fob not, munds of love: Be courteous to all, be co slonate with the unhappy, be cheerful with the happy, assist the poor, tend the sick, protect the weak. The head of the new sect is Dr. Hippolyt Taug- chinsky, and its president the weaver Herr Kajetam Schadle, of Funfhaus, Vienna. Notting is yet stated regarding the form of worship to be adopted inthe new community or as to the number of its adhe- rents. Relicious Notes—Personal and General. The Untversalist asserts that the doctrines of ite denomimation are making great progress in Scot- land, A clergyman with the very appropriate name of Cleaver, in Brooklyn, the other day “Impeached Mr. Beecher as a renegade, in the name of ail humanity,” on account of his views about the Bible in schools. Miss Julia J. Hubbard, a speaking medium of the Spiritualisis, Mr. J. K. Southmayd, a leading die- ciple of Theodore Parker, and Dr. Clark, a Spiritual- ist and Universalist preacher, have lately accepte@ evangelical views. | The Rey. Amos Foster, of Putney, Vt., is said tobe the oldest, or about the oldest, clergyman in the State in active service. He has spent forty-five years in the ministry, and Low, at the age of seventy- Tour, is hale and vigorous. Some sacrilegious wretch iately stole bibles, hyma books, Sunday school books, lamps and other ar- ticles irom a chureh in Riley townsnip, Vigo couaty, {nd., and endeavored to sell them at a second band vookstore 10 Terre Haute, ‘The Western College Society held its annual meet- ing at New Haven ou Fridaay last. Rev. Drs. Pattom and Bacon, of New Haven: Paimer and Clapp, ef New York; Wellman and Menas, of Boston; Buck- ingnam, of Springteld, and oihers took part in the deiiberations, Cairo is so torn up by a revival among the servant giris that the Lullecin yearns ior “a good, honest, downright sinful cook, chatmvermaid and aursegirl that can sing ‘H1-Daddy in the Morning,’ and sack ditties, instead of the drawied out, ‘And he sot @ golden chartot,’ 7 Rey. Wiiham Brigg, of Elmore county, Ala, was recently on triat before a Baptist soctety there for seducing a sister of Harper Jaines, a brother-in-law. ‘The church dismussed him, when, before they could leave the place, ne drew a knile and fatally stabbed James in the throat. The Philadelphia Press states that the Sultan te endeavorimg to dace the Jews to immigrate to Patesune, and even offers to sell thein the Moxque af Omar, Which occupies the site of the ancient temple on Mount Moria. Some of the hilis sroand Sorusar lem have already become Jewish property. A minister once gave a commentary to an old Scotch Jady. Who was well versed in the Scriptures, He thought She would enjoy the explanations on ber favorite passages. Calling on her a few days after- ward, tie satd, “How did yon like the book I gave your’ “ay, mon, it's @ gade book, and the bible explains it amazingiy !" The vareet tn ee Methodist Conference, which has just closed its session ati'itsburg, refused by & very decided vote to authorize the ordination of wo- men to the miuistry. ‘the Book Concern of that de- nomination 1s to bé removed from ye Ohta, to Pittsburg, and Rev. Aicxander Olarg has beem re-elected eultor of the Kecorder, i ‘The [owa Conferences of the Methodist eg Chureh will be presided over by Bishop Ames. 1o Des Moins will be heid at Sioux City, commencing September 20; the Upper lowa at Clinton, Septem- ber and the lowa at Mount Pleasant, October 4, some Changes have been made in the plan of Epis copal visitation on account of the long and con- Unued iiness of Bishop Clark. A CLERICAL BIGAMIST. End of the Seaman Caso—Not Pronounced GQuilty—Hela to Keep the Peace. Jn the Flushing Court of Special Sessions the case ofthe Rev, Joho Seaman, charged with abandon- meut, has been concluded. On the examination tt appeared that John married Julia Smith thirty-ebx yoars ago. ‘Tho result of their matrimontal alliance was one child, John says that soon after the birth of the child Juha pandered to the passions of other men, aud he then procured a divorce. This Jom denied and pronounced the dtvorce bogus, Some racy developments were made on poh sides. The child In controversy 15 only three years old, while Jonn admits having marned hia present wile, Hanuah Blair, seven years ago. Tuus vigal ap ured. ‘The Court did not pronounce him of ont charge, but heid him in bonds of $254 to keep the peace and support tae cuild, ‘the #lon excites much laughter,