The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. July 23---Eighth Sunday Af- ter Pentecost. Rehedule of Services To-Day—Important Reli- gious Correspondence—General Reli- gious Intelligence. Services To-Day. Mr. Thomas Gales Forster speaks before the So- ciety of Spiritualists at Lyric Hall morning and evening. Rev. Charles B, Sinyth descants upon the mot at both services at the University before the American Free church, At the Broadway Tabernacle Professor Seelye, of Amherst College, preaches at both services. Rey. G. W. Lord will discourse at the Central Methodist Episcopal church morning and evening. Kev. Dr. Wescott will deliver a sermon at the Ply- mouth Baptist churen, Rey. M. Nicbardson preaches at the New England Congregational church. At the Church of Our Saviour a sermon will be preached by Rev. J. M. Pullman. Services will be held, as usual, in St. Thomas’ church. Rey. Dr. Aikman will preach at the Spring street Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Deming, of Boston, takes the pulpit at the Tabernacle Baptst church during the ab-ence of ‘the pastor. Baptismal Regeneration. To THe Epiror oF THE HERALD:— Noticing by the papers that the Rishop of Iinois ts about to make a visitation to Mr. Oheney’s church I would like to say the following on the subject of baptismal regeneration:—Every sincere member of the Episcopal Church must be at a loss to compre- hend the reason of Mr. Cheney’s refusing to recog- muze the doctrine of regeneration in baptism which 13 so plainly stated in the twenty-seventh article, and which 1s founded entirely upon the teaching of Scripture. Christ distinctly said:—“Excepta man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God,” and again, “Repent and be bap- tized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, aud ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” What more indubitable evidence can we have of the consistency of Church teaching with that of Scripture? Of course no oue is absurd enough to believe that the application of water has ip iself any efMicacy in the washing away of sin; but every Christian must believe that this is the means appointed by through whicn He imparts the grace of His Spirit to man. By this sacrament ian is brought into a state of grace, and in subsequent sin he ielis from grace; he does not sin because he has never received grace, but be- cause he has not lapored sufficiently to perfect and bring 10 maturity the seed which the Spirit has sown. A dental of this doctrine savors too much of the rationaistic mind, which refuses to acknowledge ‘What 18 not within the sphere of the human under- Blanding. [tis impossible lor the wisdom of this world to find out Goa; ior 16 18 foolishness in His sight. ‘There can be no faith evinced in accepting only wuat is logically clear to human comprehen- sion. It is much to be lamented that there exists in the Church that dangerous element which shows au insuboraination to ali authority, and a desire to Infuse a disseuting spirit among the members of the Church. itis uot a mere question of ritual that certalp rofessed Christian clergymen are agitating, but hey ure almine a blow at a doctrine which has been regurded as an article of faith by the Churco tor 1800 years. What can Mr. Cheney and his illus- tious syinpatiizers mean by such recreaut con- ducty Are they aware of the vows taken by them attheir ordination’ Are they not traitors to the cause which ae: pretended to espouse, Do they not see that th acuons are incompatible witn their position as priesis of the Churony If they can no longer fight upder the bauner of the i{aitn to whicu they lave sworn allegiance, let them depart from our midst, for “he who 1s not with Me is against Me.’ in umes like the present, when ma- terialism, pantheism, rationalism and all isms sub- versive of the iaith are rife everywhere, we cannot cling too strongly ty the doctrines of Christianity, and discountenance too severely all attempts o! free thought to shake the foundations of religion. It 18 to be hoped that if Mr. Cheney does not return to the cause which uc has forsaken that the Bishop will degrade him from the office of priest, and per- mit him no ionger to evgenaer strife in the Charch. E. ., New York. fue Koelations of the Rev. Messrs. Tyma, Cheney and Others te the Episcopal Chubch. 20 THE Eprror oF THE HERALD :— How can you, my dear sir, as faithful and just as you are to all parties of Church or State treat a sub- ject a8 vou do to-day that of the relasions of Tyng, Cheney and other reverends to the Episcopal Church? The only answer I can give to this question is that you have not given it your usual thorough attention, and therefore not met the questions pending. You must remember that the Rev. Mr. Tyng was not tried for “preaching in a Methodist church.” This the laws of the Church allow, and true church- men desire that all Episcopal clergymen preach everywhere, in church, barn or shed, where they can do good, omy ra: the Church services, Mr. ‘tyng, then, was tried and convicted for preaching in & brother Episcopal parish, and directly, as it were, in competition with Dim, and without his consent—a @agrant violation of the jaw of bis Church, whicn he Dad promised to ovey. So of the Rev. Mr. Oneney. All admit that he Was ‘sworn in” to the Episcopal Charch tw obey 1s laws, which, certaimly, he then knew, and subse- quently refused to obey one of those laws, and still persisted in stayingin the Churoh. Now, if you or any nad, uoder the solemnity of an oath, join a re- ligious or otner association with known byelaws, and afterwards find out you cannot conscientiously obey those laws, and can’t get the association to chal them, should you stay, in violation of your vows, or sloula you withdraw? This 18 really the whole question for those of the Tyng school, and tt seems to me there can be but one rational auswer to that. Do you not think 60? The HERALD 1s too influential 8 paper to teach an error, and 1 am sure we wiil bear from it ina sensible way on this point. L 8. 0. “Is Mi Immortal ¢” fo THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In last Sunday’s tssue of the Hraatp an editorial was published with the above heading, and, by your kind permission, I should like to say a few words in opposition to the position assumed by you and your correspondent who signs himself “Truth.” Believ- ing the HERALD to be quite all you claim for it—the exponent of the ideas of all, and the partisan of none—I do not think its columns will be closed to me in this instance simply because I have taken an opposite stand. Ail should go on the principie, hear both sides, then decide.” In introducing the subject you admit “there is no such deciaration, m words, in the Bible as that man is immortal, which admission, to my mind, is quite an argument agatnst the position assumed by you, and which is held by nearly all the so-called Ohristian world. Nevertheless, you unaertake to prove that man ts immortal. Tnit you have not succeeded I shall endeavor to Cemoistrate, To begin, you assert “that fucts are stated which presuppose and which rest upon U.e immortality of the soul,” and, in support of this, you instance verse forty-four of the fiteenth chapter of First Corinthians. Let us look at it a moment. The Apostle 1s speaking of resurrection, and, inthe course of the argument, he asserts that ‘there ts a oatoral body, ana there 18 8 spiritual body;’’ hence we find it written in the next verse, ‘The first Adam ‘was made a living soul (not an immortal soul), the last Adam a quickening spirit.” Now, Mr. Efitor, the fact which is nere disclosed is that the spirit is @ body, and as real and tangible as the natural body. Now, it 18 notorious that the whole world denies that the soul or spirit) has elcher body or parts. We ve an example in the person of our Lord who, to all appearances, had the same body after he @rose from the dead as before; but, as the result of @ resurrection, He was made a quickening (or Life im- parting) spirit, on the same principl¢ that the frst Adam was made a living soul, as the result of bav- ing breathed into Lis nostrils the vreath ol life, Paul plainly declares in the eighteentu verse of this same chapter that ‘if the desd rise not, they who are falien asie.p in Chrisi are pershed.’’ Where is the spirivuality of man in tus casey Paul shows beyond dispute that they are dead to all intents ead par. uses, and Only gives hope oy affirming that there i) be @ resurrection 0} the dead, botn of the just end the anjust, We have another wituess in the n Of solomon, Who says “that the living know pat they suall die, but (he (aiready) dead know not anything.” Men receive tumortaity or spiritual vouwes the resurrection, As Paul says, “at i118 appearing and in His Kiagdom—"waich ie wul re- pe py ugaim to Lsrael (Matthew XiX., 25) as He prom deed His discypies—will Christ give lo (ose “glory immoriality, eternal Jie,'’ Romanus, u., “patient co | appeal to who < tinuance in well doing.” Mr. Editor the mmtelligence of every reasoning person if itis an evicence Of sanity to expect & mun Lo seek for thi Which it Bassumed he has already—to wit, imtbor- tality. This ts tie conclusion which the popular mode of reasoning would have us come to, It you OXawiue sui closer you Will Bee, boo, that LDMor- 12 onty conferred upon those who have done good, while the very 0) is meted out to those who have done evil. According to the eral opin- ton (it has never yet been proved all men 88 (inherently) immortal souls. Now this 8 a direct contradiction of Paui’s declaration to Timothy, Wherein’ he says that “He only hath (inherent) {immortality who dwelis | in Unapproachabie light, whom no man hath seen | Dor can see'’—l. Timothy, vi, 16. The term “im- mortal soul’’ is as meaningless and empty as any- thing can be, and for this reason:—Thosé who be- eve in it hold that tt 1s that part of the man which is capable of receiving moral and totellectual im. pressions, Some ol its characteristics are love, atred, envy, malice, capacity for acquiring know- ledge, &c. Now, if tuis is the soul, whether of the good or bad man, when death overtakes him it perishes, Ecclesiastes, 1X., 6. Next in order you cite I. Corinthians, v., 6, to up- hold the doctrine. If you will turn to the nee and take notice of the context, Paul will explain What he means by being present with the Lord, “For,” says he, “we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Carist; that every one may receive im bouy (and we get no bodies tii resurrection, neither natural nor spiritual, a3 we have seen in the case of Christ) accordmg to that he hath done, Whether good or bad.’ The Apostie in this place takes no account of the interval which might elapse ip the event of death, I think the same remarks will apply to Philuppians, i, 23. Should we, tnerefore, endeavor to fill up the gap with our own imaginations in order to sustain one of the ‘old wives’ fables?" Such 1deas are purely the resuit of false teaching or rors of the “mystery of ini- quity”’ as Paul calls it, which had already Degun to wort 1n the days of the aposties, Tho origin of this mysticism 1s traced to men who were utterly igno- rant of God, and therefore contrary to Him. Speak- ing through the vrophet Isalai, He says:—My thoughts are not ge thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” You will perceive, Mr. Editor, how likely, or unlikely, we are to attain to the divine mode of thinking and acting, unalded by the Divine power or wisdom. Next you have produced I. Peter, ill., 18, 20, I shall not attempt to go into an explanation here, as it would take up too much space; but, in the light of what bas already been proved and disproved, it 1s impossible to take your view of it, We snould, Paul says, “unterpret spiritual things by spiritual taings,”” aud if we observe this rule tn this Case we can only come to a conclusion which 18 tu harmony with the general teaching of the Scriptures upon thls subject. “To the law (of Moses) and the testimony (of the Prophets)—if they speak not according to these it is because there 18 no light in them’’—are the words quoted by raul from ihe Prophet Isaiah for the pur- pose of giving us a rule by which we might know whether men spake according to the truth or not. You have instanced the appearance of Moses and Elvan at the Transfiguration, and appear to be at a 1088 how to account for their presence Cee upon the hypothesis of the soul’s immortality. I would ask, is the power of God straitened? While it proves nothing for this delasioa it proves much for the re- surrection of Moses; though in his mortal state, Elyah never having died, of course it was not necessary to Taise him from the dead, for it was translated that he should not see death. Mark Xil., 27, 1s next produced. If you will look at the chapter again you will see that the subject under consideration was resurrection. Jesus was arguing with a class who aented any such thing. He taught resurrection (not the immortality of the soul) by saying that God “was not the of the dead, but of tne living;” for, as He says in another Place, “all live unto Him.” Not at the present tume, Dowever, for Paul says they “all died in the faitn, not having received the promises; but, having seen them afar of (to the day of OChrisi, when He shall come Nabi alate and great glory) they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, &c, God, having provided some better thing ior us, that they without us should not be made perfect’'—Hebrews, XL, 18, 40. Itis a di- vine principle that ‘God 8} of things that are notas though they were,” which-principie will ap- py to the text you have quoted from Jonn, it, 36, ‘he principle Jaid down by Paul to Timothy also does away with the idea of at present possessing eternal life, as also does the passage quoted from Romans; and as Paul has it in anotuer place, “Hope that is seen is not hope; for what @ man sceth why doth he yet hope for itr”’ In your paeeaoe of Ecclesiastes, {11., 21, you have igno: the words of Solomon in the previous verses, in Which he declares that men are beasis, “For that which befalleth the sons of men befaileth beasts: even one thing befalleth them. As one aieth so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath (or spirit), so thata man hath no pre-emt- nence above @ beast.” Now, Mr. Editor, it ts just here where Solomon and the popular theologists aif- fer. He has given us to understand distinctly what is the end of man and beasts, and that one ting befalis both is very evident. The popular theologist teaches that man (or his spirit) goes to Heaven or hell tor- mepts. Solomon says, ‘AS the one dies so dies the other.” Now, in order to make barmoay we must allow tnat the beasts have souls which are capable of realizing happiness or misery; bat this would be sheer nonsense, and a person of the meanest intelli gence would scout such a ridiculous theory. Now, as we have the true sense of the passage just quoted we must read the twenty-first, so as to make har- mony, thus:—“Who knoweth tnat the spirit (or breath) of man goeth upward, and that the sp.rit (or breath) of the beast goeth downward to the earth i” Anda the moment we alter the meaning of the spirit of one we must alter the other, for “they have all one breath (or gpirit).’’ In Ezekel xvill., 21, ttis written, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die”? Popular theology sfys that it lives and ts tormented. Iu Psalms xxii. 1s, 19, it is written, “Behold, the eye of Jehovah ils upon them that fear Him, upon them that bope in His mercy, to deliver their soul from death,” &c. Is it possible to save that irom death which, it 1s assumed, can never die? Common sense will answer this ques- tion. Was there any necesaity for the angelic guard to prevent Adam and Eve from eating of the tree of life uf they had become possessed of immortality pre- viously ? In Genesis xvill., 27, Abraham declared he was but dust and asnes. Popular theology says ne was immortal. Which ts rignt? And | might go op citing text after text, but enougt have been produced. But one word more and I have done. You say, Mr. Editor, you “have no reason to doubt that it accords with the universal belief of the human race.” Allow me to inform you that “whatsoever is highly esicemed among men ‘s an abomination in the sightof God.” You assert “it harmonizes fully with buman conscious- ness.” Remember that “the carnal mind 1s enmit, against God; it 1s not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be,” so long as man thinks and acts according to the imaginations of his own evil heart. Surely the “strong delusion” spoken of vy Paul bas taken deep root in the minds of med, as is evi- dent from the “gross darkness that covers the earth nd gross darkness the people.” And this state of things will continue, too, until “Jenovan’s judg- ments are abroad in the earth, when the inhabitants thereo! will leain righteousness" and truth. ©. V. A Reply to “Truth” on the Nature of Ged. To THs EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— It seems to me that if ‘Trutn,” in his article en- titled “The Nature of God—Who and What He ls,” which appeared on Sunaay, 16th, had commenced with the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis, instead of the second verse of that chapter, and had given an impartial scope to the meaning of “cre. ated,” his article would not have so apounded in “absurdities” concerning God and His production — creation. “Truth” would take Godas a mere co-ordinate existence with matter, and view Him as the mere animator. He would narrow His creative powers gna excellent attriputes down to the genius and merit ofa mecnanic. Could error do worse? The beginning of the Bible introduces us to the be- ginning of the world. It goes back to where nothing existed but in spirit, and makes the unqualified an- nouncement that “God created the heaven and the eartn,” which announcement “Trath,’’ in the hon. esty and purity of his heart, passes without recogni- tion. ‘The word “created” occurs three times in this chapter in connection with three natural and im- riant Bi of that memorable six days’ work. ‘ne first—Genesis |.,1—describes & creative effort of God, which resulted in the existence and presence of every needed ingredient and elewent, These came in a chaotic pile—a crystallized, tangi- bilized conception of a being of creative power-— unordered by those laws apd unaMirmed by those re- Jations which gave the mass the consistency it enjoyed after Gud enacted law and instituted rela- tons. Light was not the result of a creative effort, but of the combination of elements (already existing) Produced by that first comprehensive effort, The conditions, reistions, then fixed will never fali to produee ght unl God changes His mind and ex- Uinguishes the relations of those particles which enter into and compose ligne. Pronouucing this good, Hie next work was on the earth, the waters, &c., bringing about those conditions arnt to vegetation; these attained, tation was fixed by Him as @ logitimate offspring ol conditions, ‘The construction of the heavenly bodies and a declaration of their uses and influences was the last act ins beg more complex, their requirements more varied, a new property, not material, not yet existing, Was essential to their completeness, and @ simple, rudimentary intellect was created, which Was anotuer creative act Menuoned in verse twenty- one. Following thls was the tatroduction of man. We most not fail to notice the suggestion that God, in the case of the frat forms of life, effected tuat combination of His ready material which con- sutated cheir bodies and then superadded to the structure this new creation—i. ¢., sense, instinct, &o, ‘The same provess is seen in the making of men, First his body is formed, in which the crude system ot nourishment, assimilation, &0., seen in vegeta- | tion enters, then the senses, instincts, &c., of beasts, | and when man Is thus matured God superadds an- | ovner and bigaer piece of creation—the soul—verse | 27, chap. 1, 7. All these creations, as Mr. Weiss | very justiy imtimaces, In nature are 1D perfect keep- | ing with ihe mind creating them, They are the legiumate births bearing the impress of the author, Conceraing “Trath's’’ quotations of Jonn 1, 1, 2, | & 10and 14, nis indiscriminate use of “world” for | “word’’ is 80 paipably erroueous that I only ask bim to look again. “rruth” deciares that the Bible nowhere ineul- Cotes the doctrine of the existenve O! three In une. Lrefer uim to Matthew XXvil, 46, aud Mark XV, 3h 1 JULY 23, 1871.—TRIPLE ‘The Son here declares himself forsaken, By whom? Himself in the office of His Father? Irmpoasibie! B He ‘annot forsake Himse:f, and it He could and did, done it, Also John xv., 26, and Xvi., 7-15, Here are two again, one of which 18 one of the former here speaks of paearey in order that the Spirit might come ts je mean two, the other a third party. The Son and exercise its peculiar functions, Did Unat He was to go away to invest Himself with new oMces and come to exerctse them? Not so. He cannot go away and at the same time atay here. G Church and State. To THE EpiToR or THR HERALD:— A misfortune ts frequently the precursor if not the generator of a benefit, which sinks it into compara- tive insignificance, The mariner who loses a single sali, the merchant who meets with a small reverse, the lover who ts for the moment checked, ali are @wakened vy what appears a misfortune to a more careful and energetic prosecution of their labors, and they thereby insure @ prosperous crowning of their efforts. This general principle will be found applicable to all classes, positions and pursuits of life. ‘et us then watch closely these warnings a3 they present themselves, that we may be prepared to direct our course to eventual benefit and not to continued injury. The government of the Unitea States and that of cach State are supposed not to have any connection with any church, and there is De perme le im our constitution which is more gen- erally and earnestly upheld by our citizens than the sentiment, “No connection between State and Church.” Indeed, ti 19 a vital apa of our political theory, and can in no way be dismembered. At a future aay, however, discussion may arise, 80 let us look now whether some few small seeds have not accidentally fallen which may become plants Btropg enough to assist in shelter! other noxious ones. _1n our federal and State Legislatures we have chaplains, and it is conceded that up to this day the | Sheep moderation and charity have been observed selecting them. This is, no doubt, attributable to the general sentiment of toleration and to the diversity of the religious prociivities of our legis- lators. But suppose that some religious question should be before the community, and a house pretty nearly equally divided between two sects op! to each other Ly 32 this question, the election for warm work. us have no chaplains. We take an oath on a Bible or a Testa- Ment; if the latter, the Old Book is excluded; the Koran is at any rate excluded. Here is decidedly a religious discrimination. Marriage, known to the laws of this country as a civil contract only, 13 solemnized by clergymen. Of course those of all denominations are on the same footing in this mat- ter, and no one feels the least repugnance to their acting; but still they do it under a power delegated to a clergyman and withheld from a carpenter. Let none of our readers be startled; for we are looking ahead. If they will be shocked let them so shape the shock that it may conduce to a bonRth. UNGER. The Swedenborgians Net Spiritualists. To rae Epitor ov THE HERALD:— In the HERALD a few Sundays ago some questions were asked concerning Swedenborgians and Spirit- ualists, which many of your readers would like to have answered, some for the sake of knowing the trath, aud others for the purpose of correcung the very common mistake under which your correspond- ent seems to le—namely, that the Swedenborgians and Spiritualists are identical, or nearly so, tn belief. Swedenborg was not a Spiritualist as that word is now understood. He does, indeed, claim that his spiritual senses were opened and that he conversed reely with spirits and angels for many years. But that of itself does not constitate a Spiritualist, Nor does the belief in the possibility of open spiritual vision. Ifit did all Christians would be Spiritual- ists, for they belleve that the prophets and japostles, ‘as John in Patmos, had their spiritual senses opened, and what they saw and heard 1s recorded tn the sacred Scriptures. Swedenborg’s case was unlike any of the modern mediums, He was net in a state of trance, but re- tained the full consciousness of all his. natural facul- ties while his spiritual senses were open to the scenes of the spiritual world. The opening of his spiritual senses was not sought by him, but was, as he claims, a gift fora special purpose, and that was that he might from expert. ence make known to men the substantial exist- ence of the spiritual world and of man as a spiritual being. He repeatedly declares that conscious inter- course with spirits 1s very dangerous except to those who are specially prepared for it, and contrary to divine order, and he shows how and why it 1s dan- gerous, He described the phenomena of modern Spiritualism with as mach accuracy as any one who has been familiar wito all its phases could do. He showed its dangers, and how unrellable any com- munication from spirits must be when uncorrected by revelation. ‘Swedenvorg was distinguished from modern aster also by his devout veilef im the divinity of the Bible. He regarded 1t as a divine Book, as written in a divine manner and as superior to ail books of merely human composition, as the Lord’s works are superior to man’s works, He constantly refers to the Bible as the Word of God, as the re- pository of infinite wisdom and the only reliable source of Knowledge concerning spiritual and divine things. The greater part of his theo- logical works was written 10 exposition of the “Word,” as be generally calls the Bible. He de- cClares that he recelved lis commuaication from the spiritual world walle he was reading the Word, which is the divinely appointed and only rellabie Means of conjunction with the Lord. No candid mind can read Swedenborg’s works without being impressed with his wisdom and doctlity and bis profound reverence for the Lord and his Word. The Swedenborgians desire no other evidence than that which they tind in Swedenborg’s writings to convince them of the dangers of Spirttualism. The only points of agreement between them and the Spiritualists, so far as [know, 18 the belief of the real and substantial existence of the spiritual world and of man Coe ag being, when separated from the material dody. For the benefit of your correspondent and others who may desire to know I will menuon @ few fundamental points on which they totally differ, ‘The Swedenborgians believe in the supreme and absolute divinity of Jesus Christ. They call Bim Lord and they regard Him as the only proper object of worship, believing that the whole Trinity of, Father, Son and it ‘Spirit is combined in His per- gon. The Father ts in Him a8 @ man’s soul 13 in his body; the Holy Spirit 1s from Him as the life of man’s soul flows through his body into act. ‘The Spiritualists are mostly Unitarian or detstical in thelr ideas of God, and their writers and mediums often speak of the Lord in a manner which makes a New Churchman shudder. The Swedenvorgians believe that the Bible is the Word of God and contains aerevelation of divine and spiritual truth from Him. They believe that it is written in a pecullar style, according to the rela- tion between spiritual and natural things, and, therefore, that it can never be superceded. I ven- ture to say that there are no people who place so high @ value upon the sacred Scriptures or accord to them so high a degree of inspiration. On the other hand, the Spirttualists very generally reject the Bible as the Word of God, and regard the communications of their mediums as later and more correct inlormation from the spiritual world. The Spiritualisis regard evil as undeveloped and believe in the eudiess progression of all after death. The Swedenborgians regard evil as thefopposite of good. They believe that a mal character 18 essentially determined in this life, and that only those in whom the principles of goodness have begun to germinate in this world will continue to advance in knowledge, goodness and happiness in the other lite. The false principles and evil pas- sions of the wicked may become less active and violent, but there is no possibility of their passing the gulf in their own characters which separate them from the good. These are some of the radical ita of difference between the two systems of rr I make no attempt to say which is right; Ih only aimed to answer your correspondent, and vo correct the misapprehensions of many minds concerning the identy of bolief between Sweeden- borgians and spiritualists. The Swedenborgians, or New Church men, as they call themselves, are not unbelievers or disbelievers. They accept the great cardiual facts of Christianity in the fulles¢ manner. They differ from other Curta- mot in bel! tint More; not in dis- carding any vital do ie, but Od and Scriptural view of i. They fully with your correspondent inthe destrableness an great Value of obtaining @ ductrine of spiritual truth which will satisfy the head and the heart. it was the desire to find such a system of spiritual truto which firat lea them to examine Swedenborgianism, and they have the Fad happiness of knowing that they nave found what they sought. A SWEDENBURGIAN. good men Tho Restoration of the Temporal Power of the Pope Predicted, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— It ts strange that the HERALD, with all its saga- city, should make such statements as ‘At last Rome has become the capital of Italy, free and united,” when it knows it ig neither the one nor the other, and that it 1s only @ question of @ very short time when the smouldering volcano will burstinto a revoluuonary conflagration such as Italy has never yet seen. The Roman correspondent of the HeRacp, thongh prejudiced in favor of the Italian filibuaters, tells preity plainly that there is no unity in Rome, and as for freedom and the car- rying out of Papal guraantees, of which we have beard 80 much, the following paragraph fom the HERALD's Roman letter speaks: volumes. It teils that the Roman people dare not display a Papal a or iaminate on the day of juvi- Jee, the twenty-flith anniversary of the frat Popo ‘who nas reigned sv long for 1,800 years, Yue para- graph reads:— Oaly o' je yellow flag was bung out of a window today wi {oscription, “Long live Pius 1X." It wan foon removed by the authoniles, in of the hostile ferl- ings of the majority of the citizens and tne repression which the goverument could use, The clericals have determined not to demonstrate pubiicly or to iliuminate their houses. ‘This fresdom with # veyueauce, To please the y absurd for Him to ask why He had revolutionary rabble that poured into Rome with the invaders, and whom your correspondent 18 pleased to term ‘the majority of the citizens,” the actual peo- ple of Rome are forbid gelehenting oh event nearest and dearest their hearts, which they have looked forward to for many years. This in the Pope's own dominions, where ne is the only legitimate sover- eign. ihe HERALD 18 not 0 1enorant of history as not to know that forty-seven Popes have been despoiled of their dominions and temporal power and have regained them. There is more than human hand in this work, and the folly of asserting that the Pope's temporal power 1s af an end 18 about as great a3 saying that God Almighty bas A Religious Freedom in Russia. To THE EpIToR OF THE BERALD:— Many thanks for your well-deserved rebuke to vriest Bjerring, administered’ to him through the editorial columns in a late issue of the HERALD. For the last eighteen years I have peen & constant and a careful reader of the HERALD, and I often asked myself the question, ‘‘What would become of the truth of every important subject if 1t was not for the HERALD?” Any ignorant foreigner may come to this country, assail the most cherished in- stitutions of thisland, and palm himself off on the American public as a man of consequence, and rep- resent nis despotica! home government as being the best under the sun, if at were not for the HERALD, which at once discards the man and brands his statements with falsehood. 1t is, indeed, a matter of surprise where and how does the HERALD optain alithe information concernipg men and facts be- longing to foreign lands. In all liberal movements, good cause and man’s freedom the HERALD always takes the lead, and yet ita editor is charged with being io the service of the Pope, Is there a news- paper 1n this country, religious or secular, that has passed more severe and sensible rebukes on some of the doings of the Vatican in Rome, or more. heartily endorsed the unity of Italy and the emancipation of Europe from priestly intolerance than the HeRALD? Is there a Warmer friend to the cause of human freedom everywhere than the HERALD? I myself, although engaged in a work antagonistic to the Church of Rome, have received Kindness and most generous and to me most valuable favors, times and over, through the columns of the HERALD, This fact con- vinovs me that the HERALD is in the service of mght against wrong, and its fearful and most effective batteries are directed against every oppression, be 1tin the Church of the West or of the East; in the Protestant faith, Jewish synagogues or Mahomme- dan mosques or the temple of Confucius, And now comes Priest bjerring in his attack on America’s noblest institution, the “Evangelical Alilance,”’ a strictly Protestant association, and the Popish HERALD comes to its rescue and vindication, nee I trust Protestants will not be unmindful of this fact, The statement of Priest Byerring that there is in Russia freedom of conscience is simply preposter- ous, Are not the followers of the Greek Church who become Protestants, or even Roman Catholics, treated by the Russian government as criminals, thrown into prisov or banished to Siberia? At the convocation of the late Ecclesiastical Council in Rome did not the Russian government forbid the Latin plelates to attend the same? Priest Bjerring calls himself an American citizen. Precious specimen of an American citizen he must be! A lew Sundays ago, when he celeprated the birth of another Russtan prince, he in his prayer in- voked Goa's blessing on the crowned tyrants of Russia, but avoided to ask the same bless- ing on the country of which he 1s a citizen, aud upon the Cniet Magistrate of this great free people, till he was ordered go to do by the Kussian Ambassador. Priest Bjerring came to this country and estab- lished in New York a Russo-Greek chapel, without asking permission from the authorities so to do, In Russia, again, no Roman Catholic, Protestant or Jew would dare to build a church without special permit from the government. Again, Priest Byer- ring gays that the Russian government sustains Roman Catholic and Protestant schools at tts own expense. This 18 false, sud I challenge Priest Bjer- ring to name to me one solitary schooi— Protesiant or Koman Catholic—sustained at the ex- pense of the Russian government, except one theo- logical German seminary, supported out of the private purse of the late Empress of Russia, who was the sister to the present Protestant Emperor of Germany. Again, Priest Bjerring says that all tue clergy 1@ Russia—Greek, Koman and Protestant— are paid by the government. ‘Tis 1 do most em- hatically deny. ‘The Koman Catholic priests in ussia, like in every other country, are paid out of the treasury belonging to thelrown Church. ‘Tne few German Protestant ministers are paid by their own congregations, and receive atd from Prussia, The Greek priests in no country have a fixed salary, but they receive pay trom thew people. They have a regular tarif forall wcir services. For baptusmal, 80 much; for funeral, 80 much; ior mar- riage, visitation of the sick, &c., 80 much, Besides. every man who has landed property must give the priest yearly so many bushels of corn, wheat, pota- toes, &c. Asregards the much-abused fellow mor- tals of ours, the Jews, why, they have no show at allin Russia. They are treated by tne liberal gov- ernment of the pious and orthodox Ozar like so many homeless degs. Concerning Poland—poor, enslaved and unhappy, but patriotic and freedom-loving Poland—rriest Byerring has made statements that are untrue from beginuing to end. He says that in Polaud tne Roman Catholic priests are masters of the situa- uon. No, sir; in Russian Poland they are slaves. ‘The higher, more educated portion of the people of Rassiau Poland are Roman Catuolics, and it 1s the; that fought the battles tor Poland's iberty, ‘Thi peasantry belong to the Greek Cnurch, and hence the reason why they sided wit the government of the Czar in every Polish revolution aud were guilty of the most barbarous crueltes int icted on ‘vopish dogs’—men, women and cnildreu. Look at the Danubian Priucipalities, Moldavia and Wallachia. As long as they were uirectly governed by the Turkish governuient there was religious free- dom. But as soon as they set up a government for themselves and the Greek Church became ‘the Church,” other religions had no show whatever. There are no Protestants in those principalities and a Protestant mission could not be sustuined. The few Roman Catholics are living in constant dread, and the fey Jews, God help them! Whenever the Moldavians wish to have some exciting pastime and amuseiment they go to butchering the Jews and burning their homes—all in the name of orthodox piety and the liberty of conscience us rep: resented in the Greex Church. Tne foul murder of the Jews in Udessa, a Russian city, but afew weeks ago, speaks in eloquent language Low 4 muno’s con- science is respected in Russia. ‘Again, Priest Byerring denies the statement that consecrated bread was forced down the throat of a Protestant girl. He says they use bread in wine, cut in small pieces. Now I happened to be born in ‘8 country where there are 4,000,000 of our people ve- Jonging to the Greek Church. 1 nave freqhently at- tended their services and claim to know as much of the Greek religious ceremonies and rules as the New York Greek priest does. Every Greek church ts divided into three apart- ments, viz., the altar, the male and the female. The entrance to the altar is through three doors— right, left and centre. The middle door, which is called i@ preflata, 18 covered with @ cul which is, but on few occasions, drawn aside. Inside 1s the soyata trapeza, the holy table, adorned with a silk cover, the Bible, the communion service, pic- tures and robes of the priests, consisting of 8¢1/ poyar, petrahil, narukvize, Odeshda, and, if the priest be of the monastic order, a kamilavka. Tho priest dresses himself inside of the alter and does hot show himself to the people but tree times (I speak now of the service which 1s the main one and: which they call liturgia), viz., when he carries the Bible to the peopie; when he brings out the sacrament (cap in right hand and plate on his head), and when he distributes the ‘‘poskurize,” or “consecrated bread,’ woich 1s done alter every noonday service. The peopie come to him, kiss his hand and receive a piece of consecrated bread. In regard to the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, they do receive consecrated bread UA petit of wine. The laces himself in front of the middle door leading out of thealtar. On his left is some author- ized person witn napkin. The people approach the priest with crossed hands and open mouths. He takes a spoonful of wine and three crumbs of bread that are placed into the wine and places them into the mouth of the communicant. The man with the napkin wipes the mouth and the communicant Passes to the right of the priest to another man sta- tioned there with a plate filled with consecrated bread, who puts into the mouth of the communicent one piece. Now, Mr. Greek Priest, next time don’t try to palm off your yarns on an American public, for there are a great many men in tis country who know ail about the Greek Church. Here in New York there are many pious men who have oeen mis- sionaries tn foreign jands, and every one of them will teli you that there is more religious liberty, more protection to the missionaries in Turkey than 10 Russia. In fact, the Turkish government, in a reli- giocs int of view, is by far more preferable than hat of Russia. ‘Phe followers of the Greek Church are the most bigoted, intolerant and fanatical people on the earth. ‘They are barvarians ander the guise of Christians, Had | time, and the HERALD Willlugness to publish, 1 could tel! you, Priest Byerring, how the barbarous Croatians, all of whom beiong to your Church, under the leadership of their Ban, Joseph Jelasbich, treated both Protestants and Komau Catholics dur- ing the Hungarian revolution in 1848. Every city, -town and village in the states of Batchka, Barat and Baranya were burned to the ground, Crow of women and children were uriven into the Dan- ube and Theis aud drowned. Protestaut and Roman Catholic clergy served as targets for military prac- tice. Orphan asylums were burned and the children put to death. The very naine of @ croatian became & terror to humanity. And yet all those atrocities were aone in the name of tiie holy orthodox Greek Church. 1 have seen Greek Croatian privsts set fire to Protestant and Koman Catholic Churches, and lead the soldiers in search of their ministers. Again, the mvasion of Hungary by 400,000 Russian hireiugs 11 1849 gave us an excellent chance to be- come satisfied that Russia, her goverameat and people, are crucl, varbarous and void of every feel- ne ‘of humanity and refined civilization. Whe Kus- alan soldiers, their priests and officers, have been guilty of most revoiting outrages in Hungary—out rages that can be only rocked 1p & Tost barbarous mind and practiced by @ most wicked heart. And lasuy, Priest Bjerring, your comparing whe mission of the Evangelical ude LO t of Ku SHEET. Klux and the Mormons ts an tnsult Protes- tant clergyman. By such an you have proven yourself to be an ungrateful recipient of the ‘ospitality of this country, Every dour of ao Amertcan family ought to be closed against you. New York, July 20, 1871. OSCAR BDGO. Tho Gospel Scheme of Salvation. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— Ihave been much Interested in the perusal of the leading articies in Sunday's HeRatp of the 16th instant, especially the one headed ‘Is Man Immor- tal?” in which you have done me the honor to make frequent reference to a few remarks of mine in » letter to the HERALD, published on the 2d instant, and in reply to which permit me to say, in the first place, that for many years I thoughton the subject as you think. I accepted the popular mode of Scripture interpretation, taking for granted that professional Bible students and public teachers ought to know best, But at length I was induced to make a personal investigation of the entire source of religious belief, and goon found, to my astonish- ment, that the “one-half had never been told me,’’ and that very much of what had been told me was “not according to sound doctrine.” The more I investigated the more I was convinced of the doc- trinal errors of popular theology; and this tact imduced me to investigate carefully and, a8 I hope, thoroughly, every portion of the sacred writings in a systematic way. And I may here remark that no desultory mode of searching the Scriptures, if continued for life, will enable any one to arvive at a clear knowledge of the gospel scheme of salvation, Nothing Dut the most systematic study of the sacred oracles will disclose the plan of redemption. Such a mode of research will soon reveal the fact that religion 19 & holy science, and that it must be studied as a science to be fully comprehended, A long course of private investigation has demonstrated that the aoc- trine of man’s natural Immortality 19 not once as serted and that it isa thousand times denied. All the assertions of all the clergy in Christendom will never convince me to the contrary. It would be as impossible for me to believe in the ‘“‘soul’s tmmor- tality,” after my own investigations on the subject, as 1t would be for you to believe me if I told you that two and two are six. If you desired to be of my opinion on the point you could not. Just so with me on the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. While I was ignorant of the Scriptures I believed 1t; now I know better I cannot, Lam, sir, totally unacquainted with the ‘Free Re- ligion Association” mentioned in your interesting article, and | have made no attempt to “apologize” for any religious creed but my own. A blind, unin- telligent belief is no belief, and is “sure to err.” Popular belief is taken for granted, and no one really knvws whether any of it 1s true or false, and many of them don’t care so they are spared the trouble of searching the Scriptures for themselves, Many of what 1 may term the “working class’? of the human Face 1n all countries are daily so much exhausted in boay and mind, in laboring for “the bread that perisheth,’’ that they nave neither time, icll- nation por mental power to investigate for them- selves, ‘The mental, moral and religious nature of the class, so far as they are individually responsible for the cultivation of either, ts by the wealthy class and the priesthood entirely ignored, Whatever relt- gious knowledge they may have must be supplied, ior @ pecuniary consideration, by the licensed clergy, who give them whatever they choose, and make ita sin to question the genuineness of the article sup- pued, ‘This system goes on through Lie, and the great mass never really know any more about the ospel plan of redemption than Hottentots, 1 am pleased to see you coniess “we admit there 1s no such deciarauion in words (as the soui’s im- mortality) in any part of the Bible.’ My heart always leaps at the annunciation of any great and Important biblical fact. ‘but,’ you add, “when facts are stated which presuppose the immortality Of the soul we cannot see wuat additional force a verbal deciaration would give them.” On this point permit me, sir, to ask a question:—if God, through the medium of prophets and aposties, has failed to declare, ‘in 80 many words,” in any portion of the holy scriptures, that man has within hun an immor- tal soul wich survives the dissolution of the body, aad can exist independent of tt, upon what founda- tion, Upon what authority are ‘facta stated which presup the declaration of such a doctrine?’’ The Bibie contains the only revelation of God to man; and it God has not revealed ‘in so words" in any part of it such adoctrine, where 1s the testimony thal such @ declaration as the soul's lunmortality has ever been made? If God has no Where revealed it in 80 many words, who else had tne Ee or authority to announce itt That God snouid be sHent and leave the human race in doubt Ou such an important subject is incomprehensible. ‘That such a doctrine should be left for support and coutirmation to “facta stated which presuppose the truth of @ 1eclaration which God has never made to Mun,’ 18 most extraurdimary. Who can velleve it? ‘The whole of the Scriptures are of Jewish origin. Every word of the sacred MsS. was penned by Jews, ‘To what other nation has God ever revealed a pian for their reuemption? From what other nation of the Adamic race have we received @ single doctrine claiming God for its author? And if toe only revela- Uon we have contains uo deciaration of the soul's immortality, where could it have come from but, ag I have before asserted, from heathen sources? 1t emanated from that “vain philosophy” of Greece ana Rome against which Paul found it necessary to warn the churches of bis day. It originated in heathen reasoning unaided by the light of divine revelation, Those who know tue docirine is lalse also see that its proj tion has been one of the greatest curses of tue Curisiian dispensation. And ‘this fact will become visible to all when the ‘‘veul is taken away from the face of all nations’ and the truth appears in native beauty before the astonished gaze of a ueluded world. You say “it it(the doctrine of the soul’s immor. tality)can be successfully deuied, very much of what mankind now believes and has for ages be- lieved must be cast aside as worse than useless—as positively mischievous; and, I may add, some ot it positively Liasphemous, ‘the staiement 1s as true as the gospel; and ‘pity ‘tis, tis true.” King David in one of his psalms declares that when aman dies “in that very day his thoughts perish.” When & man is dead and his thoughts perished we think it would puzzle an exceedingly Clever anatomist to say what there is of nim ieft alive. The spiritual mystification of religion for trade purposes nas almost banished apostolic teach- ing ana practice from the face of the earth. Were the doctrine of the soul’s immortality true we should have had “line upon line” on the subject, running like a “‘stiken cord” thryugh the whole of the Scrip- tures; whereas all men, even those who advocate it, are compelied to confess that ‘it is not to be found inso many woras from Genesis to Revelations.” Its advocates must feel this to be a very Inconve- nient as well as a very stubborn fact, But they leave the Bible and take refuge in Plato. It 1s, therefore, self-evident that it is one of the “traditions and dogmas of men,” to be avoided like a pestilence. If God has not revealed such a doctrine where else 1s its source? Till this question 1s satisfactorily answered its apologists are merely “begging the question’ by asking us to believe 1t. ‘The faith of a true Christian is pased upon what 1s true, not pon what may appear to some expedient to teach, whether or not it is believed by those who teach it. Agreat deal too much of such worldly mozive and policy for athousand years has prevailed in the Church, and itis Lime @ purer system was in- gugurated if we are ever to arrive at a correct knowledge of Gospei truth. Iam fully persuaded that you, sir, are sincerely desirous that Truth only should preva, and that none more than ponreet Would rejoice to publish it to the world. I comprehend “th: situation.” I, myself, was not Convinced in a day or @ yeur, and confess myself to-day only a babe in biviicai lore compared with what may be known by a persistent study of the sacred record. One thing 1s certain, It must be studied systematically, the same as any of the sciences. Read in any other way it 1s im) - bie ever to discover the plan or scheme of redemp- tion from the consequences of the “fail.” From be- ee wo end the Bible isa holy science; and tnis act accounts for the fact that ‘few there be that find it.” Those who would discover it must search a8 men search the bowels of the earth tor hidden treasures. But “who will belleve our report/’’ Who would not rather enjoy a life of mental laze ‘‘ea! drink and be merry,” and givea priest the “tentn’ of all they posvess to think for them, than “search out their own salvation with fear and trembling?’ Such is corrupt, depraved, besotted human nature; itis a8 bad new as it was at the “food.” And “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the sec- ond coming of the Son of Man.” One thing | deem of importance I forgot to men- tion—namely, the fact that just in proportion as the heathen dogma of the immortality of the soul be- came popular in the Church the scriptural doctrine of @ resurrection, so frequently announced tn the writings of the New Covenant, was ignored. Can any bisnop, priest or layman explain this clerical ioconsistency * If 90, let him do it at once, or ‘for ever after hoid his “sept 1_am informed that Me | few intelligent persons now believe the docirine of the resurrection. This astounding assertion was forwarded tome in a letter @ few days ago. In the apostolic age the doctrine of a resurrection was considered the only sure guarantee of a future lve. Whata gulf between the Gospel of the first and that of the nineveenta century | £1. The Influence of the Dolliager Protest. The Eastern Budget says that demonstrations, of sympathy and approval, elicited in all parts of the Catholio world by Dr, Doilinger’s protest against the doctrine of infaltibility, have so alarmed the Holy See that it has made overtures to him with a view to counteracting tne opposition which is every- where manifesting ttwelf agaist the Papal pretven- sions:— “An Austrian bishop, Monsignor Fessler, seore- tary of the Council, was first entrusted with this daMicult task. He represented to Dr. DUllinger that the Counc! 1s not yet ciosed, and that tt would there. tore be posmible to agree in promulgating a new de- flnition of Papal tnfailibility. ‘This definition might be made, either by the Pope or by the Council, a marter of theological doctrine instead of & dogma, and would thus loge its ‘atic importance. Bisiop Fessler added that such a settiement OF question Would be acogytod by tue drew mmiority of tae German and Hungarian opposition in the Counet!, and also by Cardinal Rauscher, The Bishop therefore proposed ; that Dr. Dollinger should, so long least as the matter remains undecided, refratu from ratsing up @ public opposition against the Church, the Council and the Pope, and preserve the Church from @ fatal schism, Dr. Dullinger posi- tively refused to accept tnis proposal. A Week alter he recetved @ Papal ‘ne canon, from the Jubilee festival, sald that the Pope spoke of Dr. Diilinger with the greatest sympathy; that he prayed for his return to the path of truth, and by no means despaired of lus renouncing ais errora. To this Dr. Dillinger replied that he was grateful for the Pepe's good will, wiich, however, Could extend to his body only, a8 his soul had beem excommunicated, Upon this Dr. Lammer observed that tne Holy Father stil ho; to find a means of arriving at an arrangement, and that perhaps the best mode of achieving this object would be for Dr. Dollinger to put himself in communtcauon with the Papal Nunclo, This suggestion, however, was ag fruitless as the previous one. » Doilinger said he had no communication to make to the Nuncio, and that i the latter wished to see nim be would hear what. he ad ito Say, as im the case of any other vist, {rou alt- of Presbyterian Churches Open During August. Tne following lst is prepared for those not ac- quainted with our church arrangements for mid- summer, in this city, by Dr. Neweil, of the Allep Street church:— Central cnurch, West Fifty-sixth street. Rev. J. D. Wilson pastor. Service each morning by Rev. Mr, Mingins, Forty-second street church, near Broadway. Preac! mor! and evening by the pastor elect, Rev. W. W. Newell, Jr. West charch, Forty-second street, near Fifth ave nue. Rev. T. 8, Hastings, D. D., pastor. Preaching by Rev. Dr. Heacock. of Butfalo, N. Y. Brick churen, Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh street. Rev. J. O. Murray, D.D., pastor. Preach- i vay. Beanie War 01 church, Weat Thirty-fourth street. le John Thomson, D. D., Saar 0h OMe Rutgers church, Madison avenue and Twenty- ninth street. Rey. N, W. Conkling pastor. Preac! ing by Rey. W. W. Atterbury, D. D. Scotch church, West Fourteenth street. Rev. M. C. Sutphen tor, Preaching by Professor H. O. Cameron, of Princeton, N. J. University Place church, Tenth street. Rev. R. R. Booth, D. D., pastor. Preaching by Dr. Ray Palmer. Spring Street church. Rev. William Aikman, D. D., pastor. New York church, corner of Thompson and Hous- ton streets, Rev. W. W. astor. Church of Sea and Land, Market street. Rev. Kd- ward Hopper, D, D., pastor, Seamen's church, Port Society, Catharine street. Rey. E. D. Murphy pastor. Religious Notes—Personal and General. A large number of communications on religious topics are unavoidably deferred this week. When will correspondents learn to write only upon one side of the sheet? The Congregational Conference of Maine unant- mously voted to withdraw from the American and Foreign Christian Union. Dr. Ellinwood will enter upon his labors as one of the secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions on the 1st of August. Mr. Elihu Burritt, figuring upon statistics, comes to the following tremendous generalization:—Twen- ty-six hundred millions of dollars @ year for Mars, against perhaps twenty-six millions for Messiah.!? ‘The Maine Memorial contributions, so far as heard ‘om, in about two-thirds of the local conferenc amount to @ little less than $166,000, This wor bring the whole State up to $200,000, at least. Tne Roman Catholics of Ireland now scarcely ex- ceed four millions, while the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians reckon a million and @ quarter of ad- herents, Other denominations are quite tasigniq- cant. Thus there are but 41,000 Metnodists of alt sorts and only about 4,500 Independents, with a like namber of Baptists, in all Ireland. Aremarkable revival is in progress in Newport, Monmouthshire, England, in connection with the Established Church. A correspondent of the Record gays:—‘It is the most marvellous work of God & ever heard of. 1 imagine that it has reached 1,000 tied and been a converting work to 800 at least ‘he other 200 will not rest where they are.”” The wardens of Christ church, Ohicago, reply to Bishop Whitehouse’s notice that he will admiuister confirmation at that church August 13, that he can- not lawfully do so, not naving given due notice to the rector, Mr. Cheney, and that for other reasons the day will not be convenient. They deny the Bishop’s assumption that the church 1s without a rector. Bishop Bissell, of Vermont (Episcopal), insists that vestries ought always to consult with him before proceeding to fill their pulpit. He also condemas “the practice of getting candidates for a vacans parish to preach in succession, tn hope of secur! @ cali, a plan which many of the most high-ton and cons--tentious clergy utterly refuse to have any- thing todo with, A man who can make the best show 00 one or two Sermons 1s not always the one ETA wear best im the steady work of the munistry. RUNNING NOTES—POLITICAL AND GENERAL. A correspondent of the Chicago Times (demo- cratic) proposes a8 a candidate for the democratic nomination for President General John M. Palmer, republican, present Governor of Illinois. It is not likely the democrats will go out of their ranks to find a candidate. In some parts of Kentucky there 1s not much inter- est taken In politics, Atarecent Covington meeting lesa than one hundred persons were present; and at the Newport meeting four were present at the open- ing, and after some tugging at the belirope fourteen gathered in the Court House. The candidates de- clined to speak. General 0. O. Howard wants to feed the poor freed niggers in the District of Columbia. Why not? He is hardened to fat contracts. Referring to a late public meeting in Chicago, the Times of that city says:— The sptrit of the meeting of Irishmen that was held in this city on last evening was essentially Irish, One speaker felt very bad about the Ora alfray, but if any one hi displayed the hate! pomological color in his presence he would nave itched into him. Another orator—and a dignified legisiator withal—was radically pacific; but if aay one had planted the Orange flag in his face he “would have knocked him down stairs.” And these two speakers seemed to express about the average sentiment of the assemblage. The report that a celebrated manufacturer of cos- metics and hairdresser was engaged in tne late riot in the capacity of a Fenian general is said to be untrue. He was only a “lead scenter.”” The knotty will question in Connecticut, before reported, has been settled, according to a lady cor- respondent, as follows:—The estate Is to be divided into nine parts. The boy has four-ninths, the mother three-ninths and the girl two-ninths, In making this decision our correspondent adds:: «The Judge recommends that in future women whose husbands make such wills should be careful not to produce such unexpected complications.”’ XXX Porter—The commander of the Twenty- second regiment. Colonel Josiah Given, of Ohio, is mentioned in con- nection with the Commissionership of Internal Revenue in case of a vacancy. This is tooimport- ant an office to be given away. The New Paltz (N. Y.) 7imes gives the follow- ing:—“No one, unless a grugshop and. barroom ruMan, or a man of no religion and no principles of any kind, would for a moment malign. Governor Hoffman for his timely proclamation in, relation to the Orange parade on the 12th of July.”” Lilinois is troudied with a plethora of Presidential Candidates, Senator Trumbull entertains tne modest opinion that his name is needea to secure republican auccess in 1872, and General Logan 1 More than willing to take Grant’s place at the head of the radical ticket. Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court, has been favorably mentioned for the demo- cratic nomination, aud Gougressman Marshall's admirers have recently placed him on the Presiden- tial track, Modesty is a very good thing in, its place, but it is a virtue wholly unknown to Llinols politicians. THE IRISH BRIGADE OFFICERS, wee To THE Epitor oF THE HERALD:— Much has been sald of the meeting of the Assoce ation of the Irish Brigade, commanded by the late General Meagher, and the resolutions, that were passed. ‘the presiding officer was never known to. the writer in connection with the brigade after it became a fighting brigade, and the Quarter- master who offered the resolutions was, during hard fighting, weil provided for Posh the ceermaster at A depot at Elmira. ‘The only omicers that the writer notices who spoke to the resolutions who were conspicuous for sol- dierty qualities and gailant service on the fleid were Colonel MeGee and Captain Gosson, both in oppost- tion to any action on tue part of the Association, Aa Captaita Gosson said, “The Irish Brigade has not been, attacked; when it is then we can defend tt.” ‘The Insh Brigade should not be drawn into the unforiu- pate ovcurrences of the 12th of July, and those least known in that brigade seem foremost to do so. AN ALBANY UFFICKR OF THE BRIGADE, NecoveRing.—The Cinctnnati Commercial saya:-~ The young man in Hamiton who shot himself to showing how Mr. Vallandigham shot Limselt, in the attempt to explain how Myers slot tinsel, ta res coverings .