The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1871, Page 6

“PETER’S PERIOD, of Long-Reigning Pontiffs. Sketches TWENTY-FIVE YEARS UNDER THE TIARA. “Pius May Die but Peter Will Live.” Interview with Archbishop MeCloskey. The Strong Faith—Pontif and Pontiff-King—“I Know Who Will Take Care of Me’—Neoessi- ties for tho Temporalitios—No Throne Safe Without Tacm—Ths Reds—iheir Works in Italy and Francs Compared— The Worthless Guarantees— Remarkable Prodictions, Another motive which that of wishing by rings to give some pra 5 athe Intions © tte or J hope ani! pr twenty-ti/th and 1 ud ihe days of the designs of an a'l-wine a days of St. Peter have filled the Holy See witnesses one cunous fact on which popular comment, with Mts ready ue, has hung a proverb. This is to the effect iat no Pope shall sit upon the Papal chair as long as the Apostle Peter. modern calculations the time o/ Peter's religious rales in home was TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, @wo MONTES pays. ‘The popniar mind has Oxed this pertod at twenty- five yerrs, and us mo Pope up to the present nas agth the proverb became changed xi of prophetic dictum, From this arose r error—namely, that on the inauguration of Pope the Cardinat Deacon, of ofice warns os Petri non vids dis? years of Pete No such expression ts used in the ritual of coronation. The musty old proverb Mow scems in # fair way to be demolished, and much excitement 13 visiyle among those who, on every sligh* occasion in life, take cvents a little out AND SEVEN anew um of the usual course as mtraculous raterpositions of | Provide: le ali ar: v * hale oid man with | acheeriul heart and a brignt soul, wno persists in Uithoagh almost a priso end surrounded by £3 D ENE! This vid man in nis ¢ er in Lis own house, ON EVERY SIDE. “ var is Glovannt aximas, Pius Ancona, 1th May, when lution was secthu towards the Jane. Truly a tronbious poriod for the young | Pope of the future to open his eves in the world. | Be has bad cause to mark the footsteps of the same | apre're rouge ever sinee, Legrew up adevoutchild of the Church and in 1810 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 ts evi dent that he Was not to fight wiih a musket in his hands, for on attack of eptiepsy prostrated him on the road. Hie now entered a religious seminary ana gave gage his futmre in the exercise of gentle. | eas, devotion and self-denial, In tune he attained the pricsthoud and was seut to the Hospital Tata Giovanni, where the orphans of the poor—the little ones whom His Master loved—cl PIOUS PHILANTHROPY OF E13 HEART. But he was not destined to remain there and was sent to South America as auditor to Monsignor Nugl, | Viear apostolic « ‘KUL aitached t made him Pr Again he tui ‘Chile. On kis return to Rome, Leo ° young padre to his nousehold and of the hospital of St. Michael. 1 to the Instruction of the little ones According to the best | —“Thon shait not |? | OVE MINDS AND BODIES OF MEN. | This appree: nm wil be ened When tue Em- peror, avoiued oy al seeu standing for | tireo Gays in sackcloth and baretoot in { the court ad of ie castie of Canusium | whither he had come with a ; the imperial city. EFF | fojiowead Hew | Agalust 1, yet It stauds vwo-d NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JONE 4, 187L.—TRIPLE SHERr: enjoy the grant of territory made by King Pepin, of France, came LEO UL, who reigned twenty-one years. To him belongs the honor of crowning Charlemagne on Christmas Day, 709, Henceforth the Church was independent and the power which it held over Me spiritual and tem- poral was contirmed for centuries after. In the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelith centuries there were eighty Popes. Of these ALEXANDER IT. alone passed over tweaty years in the pontificate, His aceesston took place Mm 1159, and in 1181 he was succeeded by Lucius If, His reign was a stormy ove. Drawing down tie resentment of the power+ ful Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor of Germany, he oblized to Ny to France, while the high-uanded er se! up the anti-Popes Victor and raschal in | Alexander's siead. On his restoration to the Holy | See the third General Couneit of the Lateran was | cauled, and the much-vexed question of the election of Vopes dettniiely settled. The thirteenth, four. teenih, fiecouth and sixteenta centaries passed with fiity-seven Popes, and with but two tn the last cycle who reigned over twenty years. These were URUAN Vl, AND CLEMENT XI. ‘The first 1623-1844; the second 1676-1689, Their Struggies with the Jansentan heresy and their bulls against tare the most noticeable features of thelr Iucumbencies, ‘Twenty Popes passe! away in the seveuteenth and eighveenin centuries, with but the last of them, PiUs VI, Who reigned long enough to near the days of the Apostie, dying I the twenty-fith year of his holy prciacy. | iis days were most eveniful. He saw the ench Revolntion rise, to tue terror of the kings, und saw it roll to the very doors of the Vatican, Whence, sweeping him from ‘his throne, it carried hia, old and infirm, at eighty-one years of age, a ive. Ue died a prisoner in France the next Yeur, 1799, PIUS VIL, who succeeded him, held the chatr for tweniy-three ilis Was a stormy period too. Left to grap- 1 the force of the revolution concentrated je stubborn will, thatof Napoleon Gona- von to be Emperor, the good Pope was tie quiet. Now crowning the Corst- Dame de Paris, now dragged unio 8 pitulessiy ambiuous foe, and again capriciousiy hur: | ried iuto exile. After fourteen years of anxiety | and trouble he was permitted to conciude } the years of lis vicogereucy in peace in sid. fore closing these s ; as to udvert to at least one other of the Pontigts, | if uot so long on the throne, was the actual director of the Roman hierarchy for at least thirty- five years. ‘his was the famous BRAND, THE MONK OF CLUNT, egory VII. No greater contrast could 1 between power and weakness than in the oW Ol Lue Papa Ib was towards the aarter of the eiéventh century that he 4 the Gouble throne, Simony (selling the Churen), immorality, parasitism and wich belong tv tnose dependent upon Whim Of & prince beset the Church. Gregory's | i} gus were broad, They were first to sepa- the Church from e@ State in the rt of conferring church positions, which a belonged of right to t apacy alone; sec- oni, to restore perfec! discipline aud order. i | fhe power of the Papacy then cannot be better | estimated than by marking how such a hercalean task as sacceedeu in the teeth of tue opposition of the | Strongest monarch im Lurope. The first to re | this tnterference with lege to dispose of | bis and princes had ds, Was eary LV, of Germany, e@ see the stard. te a: the first symptoms | Laieran, Next prociam | om bis throne, and then cali on hs | o 1. We grasp somewhat a by the fapac, | subjects tu ¢ } the sway exe! beg an absolution from the | Tals was granted, and Henry Wht his teavporal affairs verinan Diet. Dissutisfled at this | aiied od his Lombard yassais, and a civil war , in which Rudolf, his rival, was slain at the turee years. ‘Then he turned ior bis revenge ue, but or three years was unable to reduce Tn 108% matters were patched up by @ council; but the next year saw Henry again in arms at the city gates, Wluich were opened to him. By means or an anti- Pope of his own, Gutbert, he Was crowned on the Capitol. After he wi w Gregory, Who had re- treated to the Castle of St. Angeio, came forth aud agula excommunicated Henry. iie afterwards re- ured to Saicrno, where he died. The CTS OF THE PAPAL ANATHEMA + UIs sons being encouraged eby to cou.spire against and make war upon him. etand died in €xile at Liege, a proof of the ‘Times have changed with tae Roman But eveo in the strongest two thousand years. Wrapped Its councils, its sufferings, tis crasades, te persecutions it bore uniuachingly, tie triumphs it achieved, even in tue wrongs It tnflicted, there is proot of A SUSTAINING VITALITY ith BO coumon awe, apart ich jilumines its path—betimes of i Macaulay exhausted bis praise, 2 Bossuet, a Fleary, inveigued insidiously or openiy as secure in the of pauegyric¢ init & Gibbons, or a Swii of Rome an ‘eats’? to their parents, The Arc to became vacant in 1829 and to this Mastai Ferrettt was nominated. In 1832 he was trans‘crred to the see of Imola, and, after having served God and the Church as | ‘egory was growing old, and im 1949 dicd, on the 1st of June, in his eighty-frst year, after reigning fifteen years, On the 14th the ¢ ‘© of Varainals assembled to elect a | new “Vicar of Christ on Earth.” On the 16th the choice was made. The two youngest Cardinals were chosea to count the votes; ONE OF THESE WAS MASTAI FERRETTI. It was the first bailot, ana a perfoct silence pre- Vatied in the large council chamber. A flusn of color ‘Was seen mounting to the checks of Ferretitas he counted the votes. The other “teller announced frst ail for Ferret Tusion told nearly the same tale. There was a pause, when the clear, musical voice of the Pope elect was heard to ute bitngly, “Eoce servus tuus, Do- mine, fat i secundum verbum tuum™—(Behold Thy servant, O Lord; be it done unto me according to 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 #niong the seven Nils of Rome and the name of Pio Apostolic N he was created Cardinal | by Pope Grego der the title of St. | Peter and St. Mar | Verretti's bailots and lis con- ; | tive fe | yet asitg rts of its maliions of followers as at avy period of its glorious or saddened past. The interest which TUL PRESENT UNSTABLE POSPTION of the Holy Father holds in his imperial city of Rome atthe present hour awakens lively sympathy in every | Catholic breast in the world. It 13 not to be won- dered, therefore, that everything relating to the life of the iliugirious and vi ‘uble Ponti should pe watched with ¢ tender solicttude of cbildren towards 2 beloved parent, The present wearer of the tiara bas Low held bis seat to within a few day3 of the twenty-fith year, aud a feeling of almost un- easiness pervades the Church as ihe time, which has long been jooked on almost in the light of a test, ap- proaches day by day. With a view of iearning from reliable lips anything of interest, cheer or comfort on tae subject and lay- lng it before the Catholics of America, a HERALD reporter calcd at the Archiepiscopal Palace, on Madison avenue, in this city, aud sought an iter- view With the distingutshed prelate JOUN M'CLOSERY, 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 his purple cassock and wearing the Episcopal cross and rivg, entered the room, with a stately tread. He 13 about seven in height, straight as an arrow, with inclination of the head, whicn ts small. His face has an ascetic trace, which 1s 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 but dignified salutation he de- sired the reporier to be seated aud at once entered cheertully into the conversation which followed. Reroxfex—Your Grace ts doubtiess aware of the interest attachlag to the near approach of the com. pletion of tne twenty-iifth year of the pontificate of the Holy Father, Pins (x. 1 ain destrous of hearing anything of luterest connected with it. AncID silo? (musingly)—Yes, he has already Uved to reign beyond the days of any Ponti siace Peter. It is all im te hands of One avove the reach of human thought or calculation—in the hands of God aioni ReroxreR—On the 17th of June he will have com- pleted his quarter of a century’ ARCHBISHOP —Tlere Is most question In regard to Jono was received by the populace with joy. Tne prisons where political offenders languished were thrown open, A COMPLETE AMNESTY DECLAR reforms in the administration carried out, and everything — seemed to forpode peaceful pununeate, But the red ghost that burned its bioodshot eyes avove his cradle Would not, in iis umplacable, unswerving, arreconc! hate of bim and his, jet hun rest. In february, 1845, it hunted Lows Pnailippe from Trance, und in November of the same year it siezed Rome by the throut, Bloodshed followed and the Pope was ONT: API IN ITS HANDS, He escaped in d gus | Jound himself a refugee at Gueia 1849 Oudinot made his to Row Dayonets Pix Civita Vecchia ou his way w Rome on the tl, 1959, and amid spolia- lou and the wrec ‘apal tempol in 1800, ¢ iegmunt, Sardinia, Maly at the be y ctre in 1570). tere he has since remained. Hence the force tw Ue Catnol mind of we witon at the ncad of this article. Outside these things his pontificate will be memo- | Table by iwo events: trsi, the Couuell wich ussem- Died in Rorue in December, 1554, to detine the dogma Of the fmimaculate Coucepuou; and, second, the | Eouwen:cai Coauctt of iast year, dectarig the intai- | Iibtlity of tae Pope an articie of Tar Returning jo ine proverb avov curious tho should e examination of tbe | ponuficates vu more than bait & ecore who have excce Wenty years in the Holy See. | In the Orsi, secoad, third and fourth ceniuries there | were forty bishops of Rome, and, vesiues St. Peter, | only 8ST. BYLVESTER satin the chair over twenty years. In bis Gay took | place te first great earthly triuinph «f we Coureh, when Oonstaniiue the Great Was baptize) by him, and the cross-crowned banner jamous Lat rum—was reared peside the eagies of Kome—the eaules that so often under the smperor’s predeces- sors—Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Aurelius, Severus, Maximian. Decius, Valerian, Aurelian aud Diocle- tian—hud dipped their beaks into the nearts of the Chrisuavs. Unuer Sylvester, also, was assembled the frst Genera) Council of Nice, from whose canoni+ cal deliverauons the well known Nicene creed was formulated. in the ff cestury LEO THE GREAT | was Pope for twenty-one years. It wil! be remem- dered oi im that when the Huns, under Atlila, “the | scourge Of God end terror of mankind," ‘oilowed in tating steps or Alaric, King of the Goths, bea vavares italy ea wolt would worry & Lamb, and wheu the Uercs, wild Tartars sent a thrill of ter- For to the scoutes! heart in Rome, the woite-hatred set out aione aud with the cross accom- ed what the sword had failed to. Attila con- sented to a peace and withorew to Hungary. where, two years alterwards, he died. In the sixth and seventh centuries out of (urty-three Popes Lot one twenly years in Peter's chair, In the who cam spedon 1 | twenty 6 to the popedor in 772, reizned 1 He will te iespous presiding at the }Gonorai Couneh of Nice, where the fury of jaste received Its dogmatic deatnbiow. Ww Adrian, who Was one of the iret vo | Patber personal the day on waich tue compieuon of his twenty-fifth Year suould be computed, The 1ith was the day of his being “create thatis, elected Pope; the other ‘haton wmich te was solemnity inaugurated. —W Lat ts the difference in time? ota week. RepoxTER—W hich date does your Grace believe to be the one to which it shou.d be coanted ? AxciuISiior—From the day of his election he was Pope. that is, Poutuf and Spiritual Head of ine on thelater day, when crowned with assumed tue Tull tie and dignity of ONTIF F-KIN( , in this day of his despoil- ™ seem to me that tue Church, which nize the robber's act, should celebrate OUL-King. ki—ihe Church does not hold it pecessary for hita to possess Lemporalitiest Anousisuor—The Caurch has existed and could again exist withouttsem. We have no concern on ; is as placiog bim above the mere «it or any prince or poientate at all sts on his personal tudepend- for the Cuurch, weve it poor rman. Reroxtex—Vid si. Peter hold the vicarate for twenty -ilve years exactly ¢ ARCHBISHOP—Some three or four months more. Kerorten—Does nis Holiness exnibit avy anxiety on the question ARCAuISHOP—! seit with does not him as REPORTER Ou the contrary, he possesses | derfal cheerfain No amount ms vo break his cheery resignation to e Will, although oid and not very strong. su—He trusts in a higher power? »—To suow you how he feels habitually | he suid when warned that Napo- pout to withdraw his troops at the ak of the Franco-Prussian war.—“I kuow who of me, but ow 2 CARE OF NAPOLEON!” When told that he would not live to see the days of peer, he replied, “Pius may die, but Peter will live.’ Something which Protestants cannot unde stand are the two feelings with which any Catholic, educated or ubeducated, views the position of the Pope. Kevorten— What are they’ Ancasisnorp—The first is a deep and abiding tn- | time concerns or threacens the foly the over is the utter absence of emotion on the question Of the possipie destruction of the Papacy fisell, On this they cannot get up any feeling; lor they know it is a8 certain to endure as the word of the living God, who says, “Heaven and earth shail pass away, but my words shail not es away.’ ba els e¥n—Anything which jives in the sentiment or ue soul naturally 18 more indestructible taan that which js simaply materia}. AxcuDIsHor (Warm!ly)—It lives in fatth—a FAITH WHICH 1g STRONG AS LIFE. ReroxreR—Wiil avy Ppectal services be held in the churches on tue 1/09 of dune next? terest in al ARCHDISHOP—Thore Will be masses offered up in all, The question of special service 1s not settied. REPORTER—Is there any present hope, your Grace, that the position in Rome will be changed in ner satistactory to the Pope and the Church? AncHsisnor-—-Mark my words, the Pope will be restored to his imdepenc’ence—not, perhaps, to all his rifled possessions, but suidictent for the purposes of the Holy See. I may not lve to see it. You are @ young man and you will, ‘ EPORTER—The present state of aduirs is fraught with danger. ARCuBI*0P—They are. It is an hour of trial, but We shall triumph, ReroLTER—Do you belteve in the sincerity of Vic- tor Emmanuel’s professtous? AnoHPISmoP—tits 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 watch torced Napoleon into war with Germany. REPORTER—The revolutiontsts ? AXCHBISHoP—The rouge. They are the real rulers of Italy. Think you they have any idea of letting C= praiaanet Tule them? No; their design is 10 erec' A GRAND AERIAL REPUBLIC in Italy, as their brethren attempted to build one on the rains of France, ReErorTER— They profess a devotion to liberty? ARCHBISHOP—It 13 the Hberty to do just as they Please and that no one shall do anything outalde of that. Why, it 13 the most odious form of tyranny. tga men fight and die for their opinions, AKCHBISHOP—They would wade in blood to ac- compitsh their objecis. Life is nothing to them and they have nothing eise to lose, The fear of God has no place In their nearis; lor they do not believe In Him or in a future state, As Rochefort said the other day, ‘Phe treasure of the churches was given to a man called God; there 1s no such man, there- fore it belongs to the people.” REPORTER—They believe priests to be their enc- mies? AvcuBisHor—They are right. Priests are the ene- Mes of such belicis as theirs, and, werefore, their enemies, That was never disguised, nor was their lity uukuOWA to the priests. In my last conver- Sation with the fonliy murdered Archoiwhop Darboy who Was not 2n aged nu me papers state, le as § younger than I, aud 1 do pot MATA WO! betng some three y call sayseli old) ni3 r- “I FORESBE A REVOLUTION brewing; what ili {t may betide 1 Know not; there re certamly dark days before u: So of Pere Olt- i of the Jesuits in Paris, a most gente, ‘elman. Such are the eneuwes of the rouge. it is terrible to tank of, os OBTER—Do you think the like will be attempted in yt AxcapisHor—Yes, Before three years, perhaps before one year, Victor Emmanuel will be chased from his throne by the very party who caiole him with a leadership which he @oe3 not exercise, lie is their puppet, and when it sults them he will be deposed. Tien will come the great struggle, TO END IN TAEIR OVERTHROW. Reronrer—Is it on tis that you base your hopes for the recoyery of the patrimony of St. Petes? AkcuvisHde—I cannot now indicate, The impt- ous, impracticable schemes of the godless revoiu- tuovists must overreach themselves, 1 have met Frenchmen and Germans here who scoffed at our republic, saying there is no more liberty here than in. ‘ope, certainly not iu their distorted sense, ReroxTER—You feel certain that the Pope will be restored? Axncusisnorp—I do. There is one fact, that NO THRONE IN EUROPE IS SAFE without him. No Power, even @ so-called Protest- ant one, having Catholic subjects, can sapmit to communicating with the head of the Catholic Church at the caprice or on the (pse dizi of another Power who can give or refuse admission to the Pope, wio would be itin the capacity of a subject. ‘nis is outside of all tne other reasons from the point of Church discipline, KEPORTER—Do you believe in the ability of Victor Emmanuel to keep the stipulations he has laid down ? AncitpisHor—I read the “guarantees” in the HERALD a few days ago. In the first piace he is bankrupt and bas vioiated bis engagements with the monasteries and convents rifled and contiscated by him, In ali the conveats were nuns who had broagat their dowries to the institutions, When the convents were coniiscated these nuns had every 1 claim to their money. He engaged to pay them a shpead. He has not done so and most of them are starving. His guarantees are not worth anything: he cannot guarantee himscll, REPORTER—DO you not tiink the defeat of the reds in France will frighten taeir brethren in Italy? ARCHBISHOP—The end is not yet. Their power for harm 1s not over. RsePORTER—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 awaras, sure of His ultimate victory. The conversation drifted to diocesan matters touching the new Cathedral, for which, duriag the past few montis, $150,000 have been raised. The work upon it is proceeding rapidiy, The workmen are at present putting up the new marbie columns insiue the building. The worthy Archbishop pro- fessed himself highly pleased with ihe generosity of his diocese, the more that he so well knew how TAADY oiher things were wanting besides a cathe- Tae TEMPLE EMANUEL. Parity ef the Body in Relation to Purity of Mind—Scermen by Pr. Adier. A congregation—small m contrast with the size of the Temple Emanuel, but large if gathered !nto any of our ordinary sized Ciristian churches—assembled yesterday morning to hear the Scriptures expounded by Rev. Dr. Adier. The story of Naaman’s leprosy, as recorded in II. Kings, v., was read by Dr. Guthelm, and, as usual, @ portion of the Psalms, by the minister and the people. The ual, as found in Leviticus xii, was also This chapter, having special regard read, to the plague of leprosy, Is very minute in tts details in regardgto cieansing the person, the house, the garment, the cooking utensils aud sucn other arucles and things a8 a leprous person would be likely to touch und to contaminate. It was from this chapter, therefore, that Dr. Adier discoursed ably and eloquently oa the relations or the body and of the soul, ala the necessity that the one should be pure as well as the otuer. Some semi-phiiosophers 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,” else the people would not obey them nor heed them; and tauat He, being learued im all tue wisdom of the Egypuans, and undoubtediy a thorough philoso- pher, had sought to engraft his saniiary meas- ures upon his religious rites and ceremonivs. But in going so deeply ito details he nad made nonsense of tne whole, This theory the Doctor refuted, and showed from the natural and phystological relations of soul and body that purity of the laiver 18 a necessity to purity of the former; and that pure religion demands a healthy body, and consequently @ cican body as weil as apure and ealthy mind. At every service in the Temple there are more or less Chrisuuans and frequently ministers present, and yesterday we noticed a few who Listened with’ rap- ture to the admirable rendering of music by the chor. We understand that the reader of this syna- gogue 18 an exceilent musician, and that he ts pre- paring the chiidrea in the Orphan Asylum in Seven. ty-veventh street to become singers in the synagogue choirs by and by. But wvether they shail ever oc- eupy such positions or not, it will be linportant and useful for them to understand music and singing, ORTHODOX FRICYDS, Snabbrth School Work—Addresses by Ralph Wells, Elizabeth L. Comstock and Others. The yearly meeting of the Orthodox wing of the 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 holdiug annual meetings throughout the Union was discussed, as also the propriety of holding quar- terly meetings for the diffusion of gospel truths. An unfavorable report in relation to the Spring Academy was read, and the quarterly commitvees were instructed to visit ue schools more regularly and to look more sharply alter tueir efiiciency. The afternoon and ‘evening sessions were devoted to discussions and addresses on Sabbath school work, in which Elizabeth L. Comstock, William Wetherell, J. H. Dougiass, J. A. Grinnell, of Tennessee; Allen Terrill, of Ohio, and Kalph Wells, of this city, participated. ‘Lne tw olast pained persons occupied the pistform last eventng. Mr. Weils, by invitation, spoke for three-quarters of an’ hour of ‘the “Re- lations of Sunday School Teachers to In- quiriag Scholars.’ He poimted out errors into Which ministers and teachers invariably fait in deai- ing with Inquiring children, Their directious are her not clear enough to be comprehended by the young minds, or they are so vernose and overiaden that they cannot be taken in and tresured by the 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 vo Africa, bat we neglect the inquirer at our elbow. Mr. Wells also spoke of the methods of teaching and dealing with taquirers and the spirit that should be brought to the work, and iJlustrated Dis several points by interestlug incidents and anec- dotes, One instance which he cited showed how a little girl was kept out of the church for ten years by one harsh word from her father, to whom she expressed her desire to become a Christian, Mr. Wells urged geutlences of manner toward the little Ones; huniilty, perseverance, prayer and faitn as ompaniuients of tie instrac- Uous In the Word to lead the Sabbath school children to Christ, ls address was attentively and patiently listened to. ‘fhe business meetings of the Conference will be continued to-morrow in the same place, WEALTH OF HOW, A.C. The Hon. Richard ©. McCormick, Delegate in Congress from the Territory of Arizona, is now lying sertousiy ill at the heuse of his mother, in Jamaica, L. I. Hts disease is erysinelas, or St. Ane tmony’s fire, He was taken eick while ri throu; Central Park. For atime to wag wholly but Le js Row recovering Uis sight, RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Jone 4—Trinity Sunday—Collee- tions for the Pope. Religious Schedule for To-Day—Herald Religious Correspondence—Infidelity and Its Foe—Abbe McMaster and Yather Farrell—Church of Prayer and Praise—A Little Scolding— Presbyterian Celebration—Civiliz- ing Christianity-A New Religious 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. ‘ Rey. Robert Cameron preaches morning and even- ing in the Baptist churca, West Seventeenth street. Rey. Andrew Longacre preaches morning and evening in the Central Methodist Episcopal church, seventh avenue. Rey. Abbott Brown preaches morning and even- | ing in the Church of the Reformation, East Fifticth street, Interesting services will be held in the Church of ©ur Saviour (Sixth Universalist) to-day. In the morning Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach a sermon to children, after which baptismal services will take place, In the eventing Mr. Pullman will deliver the final lecture of the course to young men on “Ideals of Life.’* Rev. Dr. Krotel will preach, morning and evening, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of wie Holy Trinity. Rev. Thomas Street will preach this morning and evening in the North Presbyterian church, West Thirty-fQrst street, His subject in the morning will be “The Second Coming of Christ’? and evening “The Sisters of Bethany.” Rey. 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-flfth street, this evening. Rev. Dr. Wescott will preach in Plymouth Baptist church, West Fifty-first street, this morning and evening. . Rev. Merrill Ricnardson, pastor of the New Eng- land Vongregational church, will preach this morn- ing and evening. Rey. E. OC. Sweetser will preach this morning and evening in the Bleecker sireet Universalist church, corner Downing street. Rev. Charies F, Lee will discourse on “The True ideal of the Christian Church’ to-day, in the Fifth | Untverzalist 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 ata quarter to eight. Rey. C. 8, Harrower will 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. Infidetity aad Its Uncompromising Foe. To rne EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— A Well regulated press 1s as great a blessing in a civilized community as & demoralizea press is a curse, Tne sentiments conveyed in an editorial in Jast Sunday’s HERALD relating to the progress of in- fideity does much credit to the writer, and should be a matter of decp reflection for all who nope for happiness either 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 rationalism, materialism, Mormonism, woman's rights, free love and rank infidelity. Who can foretell the end? Man withoat religion or moral restraint, ie{t to the guidance of his own passions, becomes a brute—and with power a despot—toward ail who differ with him in opinion. There shouid, therefore, be no coquetting with this evii under the gutse of furthering human progress, ‘The Catholic Church and ner ministers have often been accused of enslaving the human mina and op- posing progress. This 1s simple nonsense. ‘The Catholic Church and her ministers teach morality, founded on the revelations 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 a class of Catholics, so calied, who disgrace the Teligioun—men whose only title to the name consists in being born and baptized in the faith which, through parental negiect 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, Dot from being Induenced or enslaved by them, ‘The Catholic Church in every age and tn 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 no 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 region. Down with the churches! down with the priests! down with all social erder, is their battle-cry, while Protestantism in any shape they neither fear nor molest. This ts @ stern fact worthy of reflection. That heroic soap beiler and general benefactor of mankind, Garibaldi, who Itaian revolutionists swear by, remarked, in writug to the infidel convention at Naples in December, 1869, that ‘ihe 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 shonid stop the red-shirted hero does not say, buttrom recent events in Paris we can imagine. ‘One great cause of the progress of infidelity in France and Italy, especially in the latter, ts the de- moralized state of the government and the mcrease of secret societies. In Italy, where church property has been so freely sequestrated, and the Churen deprived of its means of usefulness in caring for tne sick and poor, edu- cating youth, &c., a systematic course of tree thinking educauon 18 pow pursued under the guidance of men of professed liberal iaeas—in plain worda, infidels. The result may be seem in the fol- lowing extract, to which [ call particular attention, taken from the New York Times of the 19th of April oy being part of an editorial on the affairs of ealy— ‘ Signor Lanza, Italian Minister of the Interior, pleads for Penal lawn of greater severity for the suppression of crime. Je gives figures relating to the chief towns of the Itallap pentosuix waich show that, compared with the yeare 1:63- 1A, the number of murderous outrages in the biennial period, 1569-7), nave increased {rom #0 to 120 per cent. ‘throughout the whole kingdom the crimes of biood reached, during 1863— 64, the number of 29,604, while during 1849-70, they show = total of 65,52). The duiy feature neeved to give this its most fatal signiicance fs added, to the effect moat of the criininais were beardiess youths, This, tt must be remembered, ts an oMicial report of King Victor Bmmanuel’s Miuisier of the Interior, showing the progress of morals under Ttalan unity and since the expuision from Italy of those good men who iormerly bad charge of the education of youth. 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 easily be foretold. The same system of infidel education 1s how en- forced by the Italian 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 Communists have dope m Vans, Who cun tell what the Communists of lialy may do in Rome’ in 1848 they threatened to biow up St. Peter’s and the Vatican, with their invatuable treasures of art, and no doubt would Lave doneso nad they time and ammunitiots 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 this evil of infidelity, Which Is at the root of au social disorder, And jet ministers Who spend precious time slander- ing tue Church of God—of which they know notn- ing—inuitace the zealous and self-sacrificing lives of the Catholic priesis by laboring to bring up their focks in m rv of God. iT id the love and pein A CATHOLIC SUBSCRIBER. Tue Gospel According to St. Bacou—Thy Church of Prayer and Praise. It 1s situated in a central part of Mew York city, conventent to the whole population. It is a churen of Christ, the Savionr of men, Those who go thero goto worship Him, The geats are all free—free to wil, The services consist only of prayer and praise. There ts no orewbiug. There are no qualidcations or requisites for mémbership. All who join in the acts of prayer and praise are members. It 1s the church for sinnera. They are the most welcome— Sinners in rags, or sinners in velvet. 1t 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 chtef prayer 1s 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 tight 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 ola 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 as fitting gems of sacred melody. Thousands of human volces, the organ, the drum, the cymbal and the trumpet— all join in rolling up giortous incense Of praise to the Father of all, “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord!” {ts prayers, read from an elevated reading desk, are the devout, well- considered, short and concise prayers of the early Church, consecrated by tbe use of thousands who have lived and died in Christ, Better these than the rambling, disjointed and sometimes blasphe- mous eo appeals of ill-trained and excited men, Its liturgy and responses are adapted trom those which are commeu to the Episcopal, Romaa, Lutneran and Moravian churches, Alternate prayer, alternate praise till up an hour of grate{ul worship, unmiarred by the labored crotcnets and conceits of theologiaus and pulpit orators. ‘There is room enough for these in the congregations of fashion aud m the pecoliar tabernacies of sects. The busi- ness of our Church is to hold comsuunion with God, not audience with men. The services of this church are datly, It is always Open to all. Its readers are not pastors or priests; therefore there are no sacraments, no peculiar cere- monies. These belong to the cnurches of the several denominations for which this church 18 only an en- tering gate. This 1s only the church of prayer and Praise. Its readers, its choristers, its musicians, give their services voluntarily. ‘There ts no lack of them, It seats comiortably fiteen thousand per- sons, and even more, THE REASONS FOR THE CHURCH OF PRAYER AND 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 enongh for them. But they goto the theatre and to the Sunday concert hall. Nine-tenths of these would rather go to the chureh ff only as much jabor and money were given to lead them’ to worship as it costs to draw them to amusement. Man loves to worship. Yes, even In his 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 feolshe 1s not welcome in most of our Christian tabernacles, The hariot, the gambler, the draukard—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 tne notice and the remark of men. That same mere dis- like of intrusion, of feeling 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, & home, a joy ever pure and ever new. In its large expanse rags are unnoticed. Tho Worn sinner loses his dread consciousiiess among the multitude of an equalized humanity and yields his spirit to the blessed influences 0: 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 seckers alter truth; divines tingle their ears with Sweet words and smart sayings. which have cloyed upon the taste; dull preachers punishthem with tire- some harangues—all this, untll they have learned to desert the Church because of the too much preach- ing. Gur clergymen, too, are worked to ceath upon sermoas, So much 18 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 poor. Last week a good trac 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 good of my soul in a patron- izing way, and then told me that he was very busy, 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 Good Samaritan. The Charch of Prayer and Praise, broad though its foundations be, is not a cnurca of free love nor of those who deny Christ. Neicher qaoes it seek to take vhe place of other churches, They have their own worshippers, their own clergy, thelr sacraments and their own peculiar paths ofduty. May their work be blessed. But they form only the reguiar army of Onristianity. What shall be done for that stl greater multitude who hover around their array, and wiio, though called Chris- tians, 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 butit. Messteurs of the bank vaults and reai estate, if this church be soon bulit you will bave another guar- antee to your bonds and a stronger warrant egcar deeds. J. B. BACON, Civilizing Christianity. To THE Ebrror or THE HERALD:— You are rendering &@ most important service to the world in your endeavors to civilize Christianity. So long, however, as you recognize the necessity or justice of some of its fundamental principles, so long will you fatl to benefit the human family to the desired extent. For exawpie, if you entertain the dogma that the shedding of blood was necessary to our final happiness, and that one individual has atoned for the offences of another, you consecrate murder and destroy all personal Tesponsibility. The doctrine, ‘without the shedding of blood there fs no. remission,’ has been fraught with the direst con- sequences to all nations, from the earliest ages. It began amid the clouds aud cannibalisms of a remote past, and bas scorched and hounded its way down through every genoration and stage of society to its recent grand carnival tn the streets of Paris. If Pilate appeased divine justice with the blood or Christ, why not the Emperor William or Louts Napoleon appease human justice with the best biood of the German or of the French people? ‘The acts are kindred. The one is a reflex of the other, and now, after a lapse of eighteen hundred years, look at thereault. The truth is, then, until this mon- strous myth. which has no toundation in philosophy, learning or science, is thrown completely overboard, there can be no health in us, or adequate apprecia~ tion of the glorious and benign attrivutes of the All Wise and All Good. LOGOS, A Little Scolding from a Strong-Minded Source. To THE EDITOR OF 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 thetr morals. IJ, 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 immoraiity that has becn proved, but ingratitude. Your correspon- dent quotes “our grandmothers,” but puts herself outside the pale of their opinions by appearing in print; but We are nineteenth century women and ioust work out our own salvation. Like young housekeepers, we would rather make mistakes than have the experience of even—jrandmother. As to to the “drunken man,” Ihave followed him home and seen a faithful wife, wno has been repatd by cruelty and neglect. Yet by law (not reason) his is the stronger mind, and she lust accept hls opinions and teach them to her sons. REPUBLICA, The Abbe McMaster and Father FarrellmA Serious and Amusing Card trom the Paster of St. Josepli’s Church. To Tae EpiTor 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 Catholic 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 slient 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 alone. Judging from the tone of his articles he ap- ears to think that I have written some things against Him. f shaii nol etther gratuy or mortiiy him by saying Whether Ihave or not. But I wilisay that [ have written in his defence, and that I have incurred odium by pleading for him. 1 have been #0 long accustomed to fight the battles of others and to plead for those who had few to defend them that 1 may be too inditlerent about myself, Bat 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 1s dear to them. It is also very dear to me—not merely because it 14 held in trast and belongs to tne priesthood, but de- cause ft is mine, Lhave been advised by a convert to our Church to commence a suit against the Fre man’s Journal tor defamation of character, vut I am unwilling to do 80, either becnuse i do not wisah to injure him or because I do not believe that he can Injureme, Lam @ law-abiding citizen, though We irish blood in my veins is still very hot for a man of my age. If] were a man of the world I contd not say what might happen to the editor, The dear and good rs. McMaster mignt in @ short time be a widow and her children orphans. The men bereuetag to, my temperance brigade, who, without my knowledge, have Lge ho to de- fend me, are sober, cool, steady and intelligent men and capable of acting for themselves. 1am not re- sponsible for them. are all night, twey know their duties and how to oti are 4 ureat MAGY TAW just solmug the rauke nif Cool and sober, nor are they suMciently long under di ie, might de rash things in my defence tl igh a mistaken ides 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 coum Wo are not yet tryman of mine should be tempted, lke the brave and tamented Thomas Francis Meaghe, to take the cowhide in detence, I would not givs my much for the editor's Puritantcal bones even for’ museum. He mast not imagine that the Holy Father will allow him to attack the sacred charao ter of his aged bishops and priests. The Pope granu no such plenary indulgence aud needs no such ae fenders, if they are to be obtained at such a sacrifice In the worst days of the Inquisition they at leag; proved aman guity before they tled kim to thy stake. In the recollection of ola friendstip ant under the obligation of Christian charity I wilt aat the editor of the Freeman's Journal to remel tnat even avowed enemies have rights which ougts to be respected—the mghts of truth, justice ant charity. Yours, THOMAS FARRELL. Ordinations of Catiolic Priests. To-day (Sunday) @ numaber of the ecclesiastics, students of the Semipary of Our Lady of Angels Niagara Falls, are to be ralsed 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 following orders were conferred. Tonsure.—Messra. T. 8. Kevenny, Albany; D. Mc- Dermott, Builalo; J. J. Dougherty, New York; J. 4 Gormelly, Boston; J. A. Gleeson, New York; C. J. Gallagher, Brooklyn; H. A, Gallagher, Brouklyn; Be M. Meliugh, Brooklyn, Sub-Deaconsit)).— Messrs, George Bahm, Buffalo; R. Stack, Boston; Patrick Heery, Brockiyn; 4. Hof man, Brooklyn. #riesihood.—To-lay the following are to be ore dained priests:—Mossra. P. F. Sheridan, Brooklyn; T. S. O'Reilly, Brooklyn: Martin iiyan, Burtalo; Johm mien, ubaque; Edward sicOture, Boston, Of this year’s graduates of Niagara Fails College Rev. Mes: siieridan and O'Reilly, of Brooklyn, have specially distinguished them: es, Roman Catholic Confrmattons, 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 Tuursday afternoon, May 25, in the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Bloomingdale, to 140 persons. On Friday, May 26, in the Ohureh of the Annunctation, Manhattanvul 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 ratsed their proposed sum of five millions, axd more than half as much more the total sam reported to the Assembly being $7,607,499. This sum 1s actually subscribed in one year for objects of Presbyterian church work, out- side of che ordinary and regular annual contribu- tions to the Soards and other insatutiops, It is rawed for church extension, colleges and pol pas to extinguish cuurch debis, to build parsonages ani in general to promote the denominational work. The Observer says:—"Ilis a great result; showl What can be done when all work witha will, what power there ts m anited effort. Great credit is due to the committee, to the Secretary, Rev. Dr. Ellinwood and the Chairman, Mr, Gilman, for their faithful aud successiul service.” Presbyterian Celebration. The members of the Fourth Presbyterlan 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 rehgious ex- ercises aud addresses appropriate vo the occasion, and these will be followed by something cooling in the shape of refreshments for the tnner man, 1e reunion wilt include all former members and adhe- rents of the church. A New Religious Sect. A new religious sect has made its appearance in Vienna, aud bas noticed tts existence anda pro- gramme to the Ministerial authorities. The new community will bear the names of “Confessors ot 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 “Weltzest.* 2, We acknowledge that humanity 1s one of the innumera~ bie forms ia which the “Weltgelst” manifests himself in the series of hia developments, We acknowledge that humanity is progressing in all ways, and we declare it to be e man’s task to assist in this iinproveiment with ail nis powers, & We acknowledge the indestructibility of the essence in all the puenomena of the “Weitgelet,” and, conseque: also in men ; and we tuerefure consider death to be only transition into a new forin of temporal existence. 4. We acknowledge that there must be 4 retribution for alf actions, but this {8 only of a temporal nature, 5. We acknowledge that ali those actions are good which are in harmony with the principle of the Ksseuce, equality of ell men, and which tend to the progress of humanity, All ae- tions not in accordance with this are objectionabie, 6. We acknow!lv:ige the notton of *iod,” as the idea of ab- solute periection, to be # postucate of hunian reason. ‘Phe ethics of the “Message” are:— 1. The commands of liberty: Be moderate, be calm, be true, be clean, be mdustrious, be ecouomical. &. ‘The commands of jasticd: Uffenc not, ill-treat not, kill not, cheat not, not, rob not, 1 dg of love: Be courteous to all, be compas- slonate with the unhappy, be cheerfal 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 in the new community or as to the number of its adhe- rents. Relicious Notes—Personal and General. The Universalist asseria that the doctrines of its denommation are making great progress in Sco 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 ali humanity,’? ‘on account of his views about the Bible in schools. Miss Julia J. Hubvard, & speaking medium of the Spiritualists, Mr. J. K. Southmayd, @ leading dis- ciple of Theodore Parker, and Dr. Clark, a Spiritual- 1st and Universalist preacher, have lately accepted evangelical views. | The Rey. Amos Foster, of Putney, Vt., is said tobe the oldest, or about the oldest, clergyman in the State to active service. He has spent forty-five years in the ministry, and now, at the age of seventy- four, is hale aud vigorou: Some sacrilegious wretch iately stole bibles, hymna books, Sunday scuool books, lumps and other ar- tcles [rom a church in Riley townsaip, Vigo couaty, fnd., and endeavored to sell them at & second hand oookstore 10 Terre Haute, ‘The Western College Soctety held its annual meet- ing at New Haven ou Friday last. Rev. Drs. Pattom and Bacon, of New Haven: Paimer and Mey ot New York; Wellman and Menas, of Boston; Buck- Ingham, of Springteld, and others took part in the deitverations. Cairo is so torn up by a revival among the servant giris that the #ullesin yearns ior “a good, honest, downright sinful Cook, chamvermaid and nursegul that cau sing ‘Hi-Daddy in the Morning,’ aud suck ditties, instead of the drawied out, ‘And he sot im & golden chartot.’ 7 Rev. Wiitam Brigg, of Elmore county, Ala., was recently on trial before a Baptist society there for seducing a sister of Harper Jaines, a brother-in-law. The church dismissed him, when, before they could leave the place, ne drew a Knute and fatally stabbed James in the throat. ‘The Philadeiphta Press states that the Sultan ts endeavorig to dace the Jews to immigrate to Patosune, and even offers to seil the:n the Mosque af Omar, Which occupies the site of the ancient ie ou Mount Moria, Sone of the hilts aroand Jel lem have already become Jowish property. A minister once gave & 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 # few days after- ward, fe said, “How did yon hike the book I gave your’ “ay, mon, it’s @ gude book, and the bible explains it amazingiy The Non-Episcopal Methodist Conference, which has Just closed its session ati ittwburg, refused by & very decided vole to authorize the ordination of wo- men to the muuistry. ‘the Book Concern of that de- nomination 1s to be removed from Springtield, Ohio, to Pittsburg, and Rev. Aicxander Olark has beem re-elected editor of the Kevorder, ‘The fowa Conferences of the Methodist Episco) Church will be presided over by Bishop Ames. Des Motus will be heid at Sioux City, commencing September 20; the Upper _lowa at Clinton, Septem- ber 27, 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- tUnved iiness of Bishop vlark. Th CLERICAL, BIGAMIST. nd of the Seaman Case—Not Pronounced Quilty—Held to Keep the Peace. In the Flushing Court of Special Sesstons the case of tho Rev. John Seaman, charged with abandoa- ment, has been concluded. On the examination tt appeared that John married Julia Smith thirty-elx years ago. ‘Tho result of their matrimonial alliance ‘was one child, John 8 that soon after the bircs of the child Julia pandered to the passions of other men, aud he then procured a divorce, This Jala denied and pronounced the divorce bogus, Some racy developments were made on vor sides. The child In controversy 1s only three years old, while Jonn admits having married bia present wale, Hannah Blair, seven years ago, Thus vigal age ‘The Court did not pronounce him original charge, but heid him in bonds of to keep the peace and support the cuild, ‘the flou excives much lau ehter,