The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1871, Page 4

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Jaly 30---Niath Sunday After Pentecost. THE RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY Interesting Herald Religious Correspondence. Religious Notes, Personaa and General. Services To-Day, Rev Charles B. Smyth will preach, mornmp and #vening, in the New York University, on the late Tiot in New York. Rev. Dr. A. Muntington Clapp will preach, morn ‘mg ani evening, in the Broadway ‘abernacie ‘ehuren. Rev. Dr. Joseph Holdrich wiil preach in the Cen- ral Methodist Episcopal church this morning, and Vv. Thomas Crowther im the evening. Rev. Abbott Brown preaches this morging and a@fvernoon in the Church of the Reformation. Rev. Mr. Usterhout, of Massachusetts, will preach Mis morning and evening in the Fifty-third street ist church. Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach this morning in he Church of Our Saviour. Divine services will be hela this morning and afternoon in St. Thumas’ church. Rev. Mr. Deming, of Soston, who will supply the ‘pulpit of the Tabernacle ptist chureh during the ‘@bseace of Rev. Dr. Kendrtck in Europe, will preach tus morning and evening. Rev. Charies F. Lee will preach this morning in (Chickering Hall (Fifth Universaist church). } The Feast of St. Ann will be celebrated in St. ‘Ann’s church, East Twelfth street, this morning, by Baolemn high mass, Rev. Dr. Burtsell will preach, Divine services will ve held in Ziou Church this ‘Morning and evening. Mr. Thomas Gales Forster will speak before the Bociety of Spirituaiists, in Lyric Haul, this morning fand evening. “The presence and power of spirits will be made manifest througn the mediumship of Master Hough” ‘this evening at 157 Sixth avenue. Scottish Preaching aud Preachers. Mo THE Eviror oF THE HERALD:— Since the appearance of an article under this fheading in the Scottish American Journal of July 3 the subject appears to have attracted some at- ention, as is manifested by the letter from “One Who Knows Botn Sides,’ in your valuable paper of She 16th ult., and an article signed *+A."’ in the New Work Evangelist of the 27th, 1 trust that on this round, and as the matier seems to require ventila- lon, you will pardon my trespassing on your space. Twould first potnt out a fact apparently over Jooked by both the above writers, that the article in e Soottisie American Journal teats of Scottish Prctning and preachers, and not of Scottish heology and theologians. I can hardly conceive it ssibie that these two things should be confounded, ut in the circumstances I may remind the co- Plaimants that theology bears much the same rela- ion to preaching that law does to pilead- ing. From this they wil understand that B great theologian may be a poor preavher, Just asa great lawyer may pe @ poor advocate. It will now be clear that while commending the acquisition of sound knowledge in the scottish cur- Ficulum, the Scoish American Journdi makes its point, by claiming for it the feature of layinga greater emphasis upon preaching, and not by depre- Plating the whole theological course of the Amert- can student. The above remarks apply to much paid by both ‘One Who Knows Both Side.” ana“a,,” pnd now | will, with your permission, examine Rneir articles briefly in detail. The assertion made by tie Scottish American Journal that Mr. Taylor is nothing more than a fair ecimen of a Scottish preacuer is correctly con- | Btrued (how otherwise?) by “One Who Koows Both | ¢q nis description of the creation of man; and, lest Bides,” but the tu valon he discovers im it 13 | bsurd and confu by the remark quoted in his jast paragraph. How can we svo American journal Lave implied that American congregations ave “nothing more to han to pick up the cotchman they meet,” If at the same tane il speaks | if those who have crossed the AUanuc as “unsucce Sul and unfortanate?”’ He insisis upon Drs. Orn fon aud Thompson wearlug that cap, by the way, Mout it they have no more common sense than wo do yso, 1 am afraid they would never have been where they are. Then, again, where got he ts recollection of Scotch preaching, “long, dry, argumentative sermons, and of prayers that know no end*’ Suck bave no doubt been heard and may be heard still, but the quniversaliy acknowleaged excellence of the Scot- Bish puipit could scarcely have become the fact 1t Pundoubtedly is, if the recoliecton of many hearers essigned to It such as ils representative It 18 curious, further, to observe that whl Knows Both Sides” concurs in the giowing descri ‘Alon in the Scottish american Journai of the preac Ang of Mr. Taylor in Brooklyn, it claims for him the position of an ‘able representative,’’ thereby—wel Throwing some doubt upon bis own remumuscence. Mr. Taylor is beyond doubt a good preacher, but as to his locus standi in the kirk | Cau only say that, ‘though living im Scotland for many years, unui ‘within a comparatively recent period, and having Still Intimate relations wita it, the fame of his name ever reached me. We are told, further, that Dr. Hall is gifted with “an unction with which few Scoichmen are fa- wored,”’ and Jam gerenelgs appatlied at such a re- Mark tailing from “One Who Knows Both Sides.” Wnetlon! Did he ever near of the perferviduin w- nium Scourum? Wf not let bim forthwith to cotland, where, from the haziness of his memory, e cannot have been for many a long day, and hie m to church, and im the occupant of the pulpit he Il find such an embediment of the phrase as will Hil nis memory as long as jie lives, aud while there, besides the lions, let him observe the lesser, though etili bright, lights which fill the pulpits of Scotiandy ‘and if hie does not, on a general survey of the expe- pence so acquired, modify his opmions fam greatly mistaken. {think that be will then discover that the opinion of the n American Journal 1s cor- ect, that from the ‘freat body of the clergy of Scot- land many might be transpianied lither who would raise the bulk of American preacluing to a far higher standard than at present. I find, fortunately, t ve little to ly to “A.” He concede efully the pos he Scotch pulpit, but Jike mis co-claiman against the statement that Mr. Taylor 18 than a good example.” I have to inform competition for a young minister of promise is by no Means au unusual occurrence tn Scotiana, and rejer him to my above remarks avout the excellence of the gencralfty of the Scotch pulpit as transcend. > American. i have no fault to find Drs. Storrs, Duryea, or Adams, but 1d am decidedly of opinion tine main body of Jutors 18 weak. Speaks of “gross Injustice” in alluding only to preaching, butas I have an idea that the Soortish American Journal did not fee! cai upon to give aiong db tation upon “the Scotts! Church, its ministers as men, preachers apd missionaries, With au outiune of its organiza. ions and laws, as showing its general superiority over the Amenican Church,” | must set aside his remarks upon this head as Irrelevant. About tne effece of education, | will explain that of whatever quality the head and brain of the Scot May be, in nis case, asin that of every one else, education, though it cannot create, will develop his wers, and that is avout all the Scottish american journa( invended, as I think, lo convey. vox. I ha no more him that Shall There Be a Religious War in Amorica® To THA Epiror or THE HeRALD:— It has been the hope of ali good men who are tn- Goctrinated in the letter and spirit of the American constitution and the writings and teachings of the Revoluuionary (athers that this American soil would ‘be ever free irom the religious strife which so dese- crates the Old World, and that all under the auspicl- ous folds of the Starry Flag could live tn fraternal peace, But during the last forty years Influences Thave been at work to spread political and, in the end, religious strife and bloodshed. Have we not Just passed through a terriple civil war, brother against brother, brought about by fanaticism and a disregard of the American constitution? And it can be truly said that unless there 16 a change soon for the better religious bloodshed will darken our history fas did the Inquisition in Spain, the fires of Smith- field in England, the massacre of St. Bartholomew 4m France, and the religious wars in the Netherlands under Philip the Second of Spain darken tne history of Burope. The late riot in New York and the blood- sned caused by the Orange celebration of the politt eal triamph of Protestant monarchy in Ireland, cal- culated to bring about strife, was 4 disgrace to our land, And any infinence that applauds the Orange party is 1¢ not paving the way for a religious war? What is the Orange party? Apostate Irishmen—men who rejoice over their country’s downfall; who were, in America, in the days of the Revolution, Joyal ‘~ King George and traitors to liverty; who NEW YORK HERALD, are kith and kin with Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot; who laud the English gov- ernment as the in the world; who, m Canada, are 60 indoctrinated in monarch: that they oppose the union of that country wit! those States, and therefore are enemies to our mant- fesi destiny. Who are perjured citizens of America aud give lt @ divided allegiance? These “Orange dogs; this foreign lrish scum. How dare they, in free, republican, democratic America, attempt to bring about the feuds of the Oid World? But still | religions are tolerated under the American con- scltution, and it the Orange party would cele>rate their miserable victory in peace, like the St, Patrick society, the arms of the country should protect them. But the recent reappearance on the surface in New York of the Orange party, the second in twenty-seven years, since they attempted to burn the Catholic churches there as in Pbiladetphia, is only the straws blowing, showing tuat an anti- Popery tornado 13 on nund, The party that ts in power av the head of this nation has de- nounced the American constitution “as @ covenant with death and a league with hell,’ and therefore, without other reasons, 10 is ant-Popery; the republican Puritan press is howling against Popery; low, vulgar Methodism is electioneering for the Tepubiican party by cursing Popery; and, in fine, Protestantism, fearing the pro- gress of the Church in this country, wants to drive it out by brute force, The New York (Fern almost generally applauded the Orange celebration and Urged them on, and therefore involved the so-called “Popish mob.” The Orange party, guarded by State mulitta, and their assailants shot down by soldiers of the Empire State, of course came off with flying colors. Protestantism rejoices; Popery is humbled. But the writer of these lines knows quite well that there are in our large American cities nearly haifa miilhon of loose, rough-and-tumble nominat Catholics, perhaps our disgrace, cbiefly Irish and thelr descendants, who sucked in at their mothers’ breasts a@ tred Protestant- ism as the blighting ‘curse’ which keeps Ireland bound down by @ foreign foe; and apes in this so-called land of liberty, the Church of thelr fathers ridiculed by pictorial uiustrations, by flery appeals to passion, and the civil power of the land lu the hands of an anti-Popery party—this giant mob party, if you will, in the hands ol a few leaders, burning with the revenge of religious per- secution, in twenty-four hours can lay New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Oincinnau, St. Louis and Chicago one mass of smouldering ruins. God forbid that the day shall come; but heathenisn Protestant- ism will yet doit. I think, however, I can see that the Orange celebration will never again take place; and, if my voice ts of any influence with Catholics, the processional marching on St, Patrick’s day will ajiso cease, What we want is peace. The American constitution ifted up as the law for all—this will Adam, and “of glorifying y with the same glory which ae xv He had before the world was” (St. Jono “Geo, H, B.'s” references to Matthew, Mark and John are stumbling blocks to him and all who lack Scriptural understanding. The writer may | take another opportunity of showing now they har- | monize with the unfty of the Godhead tn the single | person of the Lord Jesus; but there is wat space for it in this article. Your correspondent “0, V.” is noticed, He will find his objections removed in one or other of the articles which ‘Truth’? proposes to furnish the | HERALD. | _ “Trath’ has said, and now repeats,%that there 1s | pot a single passage of Scripture, from Genesis to | Revelations inclusive, which says there are three | persons in one God;' on the contrary, the Scrip- | tures, as shown in this articie, abound in positive assertions which go to prove that the three words— Father, Son and Holy Ghost—are indeed and in truth names or titles which betong.t9 one single person, an‘ only one person, and that this person is Jesus. The hames, or tues, as already shown, Teflect the threefold manifestations by which it has pleased him to make his wisdom and power known. As the Creator He ts the Father. As the Redeemer He isthe Son. As the Holy Ghost He 1s the Sancti- fier of nis people. “Truih”? wrote the article in the HERALD of July 16, entitled “The Nature of Goa—Who and What He Is,” expressly to eXpose such tallactes as those of Mr. Weiss and other spiritual quacks, who substi- tute tmagination for revelation. In small compass Ww imparts spiritual knowledge rarely seen ina newspaper, or indeed elsewhere. Its value 13 en- hanced by the fact that every word of it 1s founded upon and can be supported by the word of God. Tne same can be said of qhis article. The same may be sald of any further communication of a spiritual character which may come from the same pen, The writer knows what he writes ubout. He has not and will not give utterance to a siugle assertion which cannot be sustained by Scripture. It therefore seems pro- Der that he should say thus much, that opposition may not be inconsiderately ventured upon, for those who war against Scripture ‘Kick against the pricks.”’ TRUTH, Regeneration by Water—Ritualism and Bap- tism. To THE EpiTor OF THE HBRALD:— Having read your article of the 23d instant, upon the doctrines of the Church, with much interest, I desire to say a few words in reply. You assert that the ritualists matntain that re- generation comes by water. Water alone is power- prevent religious bloodshed; if not, at. no distant day religious strife will wipe out the repute, D. Jesus Christ is God. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In the “Religious Intelligence” of the HERALD of Sunday, July 28, a writer, signing himself ‘George H. B.,” has ventured apon what he calls ‘A Reply to ‘Truth’ on the Nature of God.” A reply? Does he say areply? Surely he cannot be serlous, Moses says—Gen. i., 1—‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Itis simply a declaration, nothing more. “George H. B,’’ says this verse—Gen. 1., 1—describes a creative effort of God, which re- suited in the existence and presence of every needed ingredient and element. These came in a chaotic pile.” &c. Mark, reader, the words of Moses are declarative, they, describe nothing. The description “George H. B.” gives ishisown. He describes a theory of his own imagining, and attributes it to Moses, Let us now connect the first and second verses, as im Genesis—“In the beginning God created the heaven and the carth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”? Mind the words “the earth was’—that is, it was there, pre-existent, cternal, formless, chaos, void of all life, ght or motion, utterly senseless, dark and dead. It was death in its eternal root. Gen. 1, 8—“And God satd, let there be light, and there was light.” But “George H. B." says “Light was not the result of a creative effort, but of the combination of efforts (already existing) produced by that first comprehensive effort,” &c., &c. Here we detect how rife the imagination of man is to rob God of his glory; for, let the reader observe, that light was the first thing created. Nothing had been created until God, by the virtue of a word, speak ing made highttoappear. As we said in a former article, the almighty power of God consists in the truth of His Word. 1t was the infinite faith He had in the trutn and power of His word to produce the thing spoken of that produced it, and therefore when God said, “Let there be light,” the light came. Passing over “Geo. H. B's" conceit that the bodies of the inferior living creatures were first created, and that a second or “new creation” was superadded to the structure—sense, instinct, &c.—we come | we may be supposed to misrepresent him, we quote the passage in full, He says:—‘‘The same process 18 seen in the making of man. First, his body 1s formed, in which the crude system of nourishment, assimilation, &c., seen in vegetation, enters: then the senses, instincts, &c., of beasts; and when man is thus matured God superadds another and higner piece of creation—the eoul—verse 27, chapter ti, vil. All these creations, as Mr. Weiss very justly inti- mates, in nature are in perfect keeping with the mind creating them, They are the legitimate births bear- mig the impress of the author.” Mark, reader, here are no less than four separate and distinct creative actions attributed to God in His creation of man— first, his voay is formed; second, the crude sys- tem of nourishment, &c., seen in vegetation, enters; third, then the senses, instincts, &c., of beasts; and, fourth, when man is thus matured God superadds the soul. Observe now in this descrip- tion “Geo. H. B.” lowers and degrades the Creator to the level of a umchanio, bringing the charge he shamelessly and untrutifully makes against ‘ruin’ to recoil upon himseli. Now, what Sall this im: ry nonsense avail against the simple and sublime retation of Moses? He tells us that the work of creation was done by words spoken. The language Moses uses is confined to the ‘Anc God said.’? There was no handicraft . God's word alone brought living forms out ff senscless dead, pre-existing matter, as aforesaid. In the fifth orient of the article in the HERALD of the 16th of July on ‘The Nature of Goa—Who and What He 1s,” signed “Trath,” the word ‘world’ is four times substituted for “wor Your corres- pondent, “Geo, H. B.,” says this is palpably errone- ous; he might have added that it Was a gross per- version of the text. In the following (the sixth) paragraph of the same article, the word “‘sacriiicer” Wns Substituted for “sanctificer:” these were errors of tue press. The correction of the first error will e€a present purpose; the quotation ta repeated Si. John, Ch. i., verses 2, 3, 10, 14, “In the begin- | ning was the Word, and the Word was with God, | ana the Word was God. The same was in the begin. ning With God. All things were made by Him; and witbout Him was not anything made that was made. He was in the world, ana the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him noi. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we belield His g.ory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, Here it 18 seen thai tue Word was God; then we see that the Word, which was God, was made flesh, and dwelt in the world wulch was made by Him. Who could this be but Onrist who sald of Himself (St. John, x., 30), “Laud my Father are one.” Again (St. Jolin, Xil, 45), ‘Jesus said he that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me.’? Again (St. John, vi., 48, 60, 51, 58, 62), “I am that bread of life. This 1s the bread which comet down irom heaven; I am that living bread which came down from heaven, and the bread which I will give is My flesh. This 1s that bread Which came down from heaven. What then ifye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where He was before?’ Agaln (St. John, ill., 31, 34), “He that cometh from above 18 above all: he that ts of the earth is earthy, and speaketh of the earth; He that cometh from heaven is above all. For ie whom God hath sent speaketh the woras of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” Agat (isalan, xItx., 26) “And all flesh shall know that the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.” Jude, the last verse, ‘To the ouly wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.’ Again (St. John, xiv.,7 to 11), “If ye had known me, ye should have | known Pt. Father aiso: ‘and ‘from henceforth ye know Him and have seen Him. Philp saith unto Him, Lord, snew us the Fawer, and it suficeth us. Jesus saith unto Hitm, Have | been so long time with ao”, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? le that hath seen Me hath seeu the Father, and how sayeat Th then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not thi 1 am in the Father and the Father tn Me? words that I speak unto you J speak not of myself; but my Father, that dwelleth in Me, he doetn the works. Beltevo Me that J am in the Father ana the Father in Me.” Again, St. John, xx., 24-28, ending with Thomas surrendering his doubt in the presence of te disciples, Thomas ‘answered and said unto Jesus, My Lord aud my God.” The Law and the Gospel are both filled ‘with sayings and doings of like import, all of which go w prove that the Word, which was God, was in the beginning with God, an that the Word, which was God, became flesh. Tuerefore Christ says, “I am that living bread which came down from heaven,” and “What if ye shail see tue Son of Man ascend np where He was becore /’’ And thus it is shown that God (the Father came down from heaven and became fesn in the ‘womb cf the virgin, who was told by the angel that she should conceive in her womb and bring torth the Son of God, whose name should be called Jesus (Luke 1, 27, 30-35), ‘Who shall be called the mighty God and everlasting Father (is. 1x. 6), “In whom are hid ali the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians ti, 3); “for in Aim dwelieth ali the fulness of the God- head bodily” (Colosstans fi., 9). This brings us to comprehend the difference between copulation and incarnauion. The latter is practically brought to our view by the immortal person of God (soul and body) entering into the Virgin's womb, and there dyiug from His spirituality He quickened in pure mor- tality of the seed of the Virgin, becoming the God- man in flesh, the Son of God by the Father's side, the Sou of Man 7 the Mother's side, that He might thereby be capaole of dying aud ralsjug Himagit dee ny Jess to effect any spiritual change whatever in the condition of man. The word water is used in cou- nection with the words Holy Ghost, and can only be regarded as the instrument by which the Spirit brings avout a certain result, The water 1s an out- ward, visible sign of an inward, spiritual grace. God has some wise design in associating these two, and it behooves us humbly to receive the mystery and not endeavor co place ourselves above Christ by dissevering what He has joined together. In the New Testament baptism 13 connected with remis- sion of sins, as in Acts il., 38; Xxil., 16; with salva- tion, as in Mark xvi, 16; Titus ilL, 21; and with a mystical burial with Christ, as in Romans vi., 1-4; Colossians il.,12, Thus a distinct benefit 1s con- ferred upon the recipient—a grafting into Christ’s mystical body, accompanied by remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit, You say that baptism is nothing more than a sign of church membership. What, then, do we under- stand by church membership? God, for wise pur- poses, has thought fit to save men not only by work- ing in them personal religion, but by gathering them together in a body, family or church, with whom He has made a covenant. This Church con- sists not only of those who have consciously come to Him and received forgiveness of sins, but of both good and bad, those who ao, and those who do not, believe and realize that they are in the fold of God. He has instituted a rite by Which men are brought {nto this visible community or fellowship, ana which is called His body or church. All those professing the faith of Christ and baptized into His name are accounted as this visible church, and are to be re- pestiea in the same light as were the circumcised jews aid the Christians of apostolic times. By no means were all the members looked upon as living: up to their profession, but many often fell away, and were continually exhorted to return to the fold and to avatl themselves of the benefit which the grace of God had im- parted at their baptism. Baptism certainly effects now What it did in apostolic times, and as we have St, Paul’s teaching that baptism is a “burial with Christ,” and by baptism we put on Christ, so, 4c we are to look apon baptism in @ Scriptural sense, ‘We must beileve that the recipients of the same are in a diiterent relation from what they were berore— that they have become cleansed from the original sin of the first Adam, and are made partakers of tne atoning merit of the second Adam. By this regenera- tion we do not imply conversion, nor the final con- tinuance in grace of all those who have recetved it. On the contrary, Christians are always addressed as in danger of falling from this state of grace, and are not regarded as never having come into that state. We administer the rite of baptisin to infants as as weil as adults, bocause there ts no word in the New Testament wich tmtmates that they are in- capable of receiving God’s grave, even though they may be unconscious. Christ, no doubt, impiied that they were fit subj oi the wivine favor when he blessed them. They, of course, were unable to realize the greatness and importance of the benefit thus given. Iu regard to ritualism I would say that it is a Matter of secondary importance, and one which in- voives no vital question. Kites and ceremonies, provided they are not uameaning, bat symbolic of great truths, serve when properly employed to ren- der the worship of the Church far more impressive; they not only incite the -aithful to greater zeal, bat exert a poweriul influence over the minds of the norant. ‘eile we may charitably view each other's acts and consent to amicabiy differ in_non-essentials, let Us Dot yield one fota to the spirit wlicn makes light of the traths of Revelation and endeavors in a rationalizing manner to pull down tne fabric which has been reared by Ohrist and His aposties. Let us remember that now we can but ‘see through @ — darkly,’’ and that the great mysteries em- yodied inthe Divine plan for the salvation of the worid will one day be made clear to those who trust in Him and are sanctified through the blood of Christ. » He The Relations of the Soul to the Body— Psychal Shortsighted. To THE EpiTor or THE HERALD:— “The passions,” says Helvetius, “not only concen- trate our attention on certain exclusive aspects of the objects which they present, but they likewise often deceive us in showing these tame objects where they do not exist. The story # well known of a parson and a gay lady. They nad both heard that the moon was peopled, believed it, and, tele- scope in hand, were attempting to discover the in- habitants. ‘If { am not mistaken,’ mys the lady, who looked first, ‘I perceive two shadows; they bend towards each other, and, I have n> doubt, are two happy lovers.’ ‘Lovers, madam,’ says ‘the divine, who looked second; ‘oh, fle’ The two shadows you saw are the two steeples of a cathedral.’ ‘Ibis story 1s the historyof man. In general, we perceive only in things what we are de- sirous of finding. On the earth, a3 in the moon, various prepossessions make us always recognize either lovers or cathedrals.” So “0, V" and "BE. T.” in their dogmatuc materialism, asserted so boldly in their communications to the HEnaLp— published last week—give evidence of a psychal shortsightedness which can perceive nothing in the mirror ef consciousness but what they might term, perbaps, “the earthly relativity of the soul’? Will- ing to ignore the immortality of the soul, probably from mterested and personal motives, théy by so doing stifle the monitions of consciousness, thus de- stroying the very means by which the soul optains @ just idea of the relation it sustains to the body, for consciousness, like the Bible, 1s a revelation of the truth, both affording the truth to those who are content to receive it as it ought to be re- ceived with reverence and submission, ‘Unless ye become as littie cnildren ye snail notenter the King- ‘dom of Heaven.’ Even ‘this very passage 18 full of the promise of immortality. If we accept revela- ton in accordance with the injunction laid down in it we enter, If Christ’s words are to be believed, the Kingdom of Heaven—that is, attain immortality. Without regarding consctousness—that all impor- tant guality of the sou!—which admonishes us what we are, what we will be, and enlarges psychal re- ceptivity within us, which has been generally first considered, letgus turn to Biblical exposition, Bibli- cal verity, substantiated by consciousness, but re- fated by our learned “E. T.,” whose “systematic course’ of study (1) $0 befuddled his braip that even he—oh, Wise and august ‘‘k. I. !'’—overilooked that parable in Luke xvi., 19, of “‘A certain rich man who was clothed in purple and tine linen and fared sumptuously every day.’ do the twenty: second, twenty-third ana twenty-fourth verses of that chapter tell him? “And it came to pass that the beggar died (Lazarus, who was fed by the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table, and ‘whose sores were licked by the dogs at the gate), and was carried by the angels into Abrabam’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar oif and Lazarus in bis bosom. And he cried and gaid, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool m tongue, for 1 am tormented in this fame.” as suficient a ‘declaration words’ a8 any person of ordinary percep- tion could desire? Does “EK. ‘Il. reqnire more Biblical facts as a certification of the soul’s immor- tality? Let him, indeed, “search the Scriptures,’ and not go to work with his eyes biindfoided; with the intent to wilfully misconstrue the Roly text; for in them he will find al life.” Remember Christ’s words to the thief on the crosa, “This day shalt thou be with mein Paradise.’ [ere is the promise of immortality again, Could anything be plainer? 13 not this “a declaration im words,” "0, V.2" Are we to suppose 1 given’ to this thief alone? notorious that the the soul has etther body or whom are we to know by world t’’ = 5 paris,’ “the SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1871. out of death for tne redemption of His lost seed in | imeelf immortality was Vv." says, “It 19 whole world denies that That class which we deuomiuate ‘the —TRIPL ” whose kno masses, indeed, 18 limited, or the learned few—men like Sir Wiliam Hamilton, for instance? But we forgot (1 use the plural ‘‘we" asl write, not from a personal standpolut alone, being the expositor of the ideas not 01 of hun- dreds, but of thousands) to mention that class to ye. perhaps, “. V,”” himself belongs. Shall we lesignate it by ils right title or snall we merely sug- gest ‘0 appropriate one, with the motto, ‘a little nowleage is a dangerous thing,” with the gratuitous advice to always keep that line of Pope’s in view when attempting to discourse upon themes a little beyond the mental altitude of sclolists? As to the body or parts of the soul, there have been an almost infinite number of theories with regard to the question. Locke confessed nimself ‘to have one of those dull souls that doth not perceive itself always to con- template ideas.” We know by philosophical ex- position that the soul is the thinking power within us. We are aware of its immateriality by a self- consciousness which it 1s impossible to define satis- factorily by mere words, and that this immatertality has a form or assumes one; but to explain the sem- blance of that form we caunot do any more than “Cc, V. can incidiy explain the reason for his statement, which he says 13 such “a notorious fact,” why ithas none. We say we cannot explain the semblance of this form, though able to state the Treason for the hypothesis that the soul has or takes some form. It self-evident that a substance, whether material or im- material, must assume some shape. Now, the soul is an immaterial substance. 1t must, there- fore, take some shape or form. We shall not dwell upon minutim, and state how or hnder what ciroum- siances certain substances may assume certain forms, Let “0. V.,” if he is not well acquainted ‘with physcal phenomena, stuay the various lessons they will give him. In the words of Paschal, ‘Man is to himself the mightiest prodigy of nature, for he is unable to conceive what 1s body, still less what is mind; but least of alt is né able to conceive how a body can be united to a mind; yet this is his proper being.” A contented ignorance 1s, indeed, wiser than a presumptuous knowledge; but this is a les- son which seems the last that man is willing to learn. “Magna immo marima pars sapientias est, quadam aquo animo nesoire velle.?! EDGAR ALLEN POE HARRIMAN, President of the Society for the Advancement and Promuigation of Psychological Kuowledge. New York, July 23, 1871. Nature and Locality of the Kingdom of God in the Age to Come. To The EpivoR oF THE HERALD:— Permit me to submit a few remarks on the follow- ing passage of Scripture:— In whom (Christ) ye all trusted. after that ye heard the word of Truth, the ‘gospel of your salvation: in whom also After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise which is the éarnest of our mberitance until the re- se of the purchased possession, &c.—Ephesians 1., in the above passage we have an allusion toa “promise’—no other than the promise of God to Abraham that he, with his “seed”? (which, saith Paul, is Christ), should posses tne land of Canaan for an everlasting inheritance. Then this promise, with which all believers were “gealed” by the Holy Spirit, is said to be the ‘‘ear- nest” only of every believer's ‘‘inheritance”’ until the “redemption” of tne purchased possession. From this we learn that the promised inheritance is at present in bondage, and that 1( has to be re- deemed or reclaimed before it can be put in posses- sion of those to whom it was promised; that there- Tore those to whom it was promised have for the present to be satisfled with the promise, and accept it as the “earnest” of the inheritance, till sucn time as God, who made the promise, shall ‘redeem’ the thing promised—namely, the ‘inheritance’? from those who now hold or possess tt, It 1s, therefore, iutereating to know whero the promised inheritance is, and who has, at the present time, possession of it. Now, all who understand the covenant of Ged with Abraham, Isage and Jacob know that the promised ‘‘inheritance”’ is the ‘Holy Land,” and those who know the modern history of Europe are aware that the ‘infidel Turks” obtained the Holy Land—the lana covenanted to Abraham and his “‘seed’’—by conquest, and that 1t remains in their possession to this oat It 1s, therefore, evident that if it 1s ever to be pos- sessed by Abraham and Christ it must first be ‘re- deemed” or reclaimed from the Turks. The forcible redemption of the land covenanted by God to Abra- ham is the “redemption of the purchased posses- sion” mentioned by Paul in ge passage quoted as the subject of these remarks. And till this redemp- tion of the land from the Turks takes place be- Mevers in Christ have to be satisiied with the promise of possession and accept itas the “earnest” of the inheritance, until it is rescued or “redeemed” from the ‘‘ruthiess Invader’”’ of what is destined to be the territory proper ol the future kingdom of Christ. It 1s natural to inquire, when will such an event take place? I reply:—When “the fulness of the Gentiles is come tn.’ It is predicted that the prom- ised inheritance (Land of Canaan) should be ‘trod- den unaer foot of tho Gentiles till tne times of the Gentiles be frulfilied,”” Toe Turks will, therefore, hold ou to Palestine till Dearly the close of the pros- ent Gentile dispensation, when 1t will be ‘redeemed’? for the everlasung possession of Christ and the res- urrected saints, among whom will be Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Then the ‘‘crescent’’ of the unbe- leving Turks will be replaced with the emblems of the “cross.” The central idea embodied in what 1s termed the “Rastern question’ (the great question of ail European political questions) has for its object the recovery or 4gedemption,”” by the so-called Chris- tian nations @ Europe, of the “Holy Land’ trom the grasp of the mide! Turk. These professedly Christian Powers acknowledge that an .anonialy it is that there have been sO many military and naval powers in Christian Europe, and that ‘the “land” eld sacred by all Christians should be permitted to be held in possession century after century and desecrated by a bation who have no faith in Christ and the Cross—who have raised a heathen temple (the Mosque of Omar) upon the site of the once glorious Temple of Solomon. And in this sense Christian nations may well ponder over the anomaly! One of the fairest por- tions of the earth—the scene of the nativity, life, ministry, suffering, death, resurrection and ascen- sion of the Saviour of the world, even the holy Cian itself—in the possession of a nation of in- fideis hostile to the Christian and fis creed, and yet surrounded by the most powerful military and naval powers iu the world, all professing them- selves Christian! Thus from testimony of holy writ we draw the natural inference that no believer in Christ has as yet been put in possession of the ‘promised inherit- ance.’ And further, that no believer can be put in ossession before that inheritance has been wresied ‘om the grasp of the Turk who now holds it, All believers have to be satistied with the ‘promise’ of inheritance ‘‘until the redemption of the pur- Chased possession.’ Christ purchased the posses- sion with His blood; Me endured the cross, de- spising the shame, that He might hereafter wear the “crown.” ‘No cross, no crown,” is an oft-quoted Scriptural phrase, but little understood even by those Who quote it. As itis first the cross and then the crown, 80 there can be no kingdom witnout terri- tory; and to be a Kingdom there must bea king. For declaring Himself the future King of the Jews Christ was suljected to the ignominious death of the cross. He has declared himself to be the future King ot all the kings of the earth, and that he will hereafter reign on tue eagth tll He has subdued all things to nimeelf. In view of ali these statements what becomes of the orthodox notions of believers receiving their reward or “inheritance” at death? What becomes oj the notion that believers go to heaven at death? What becomes of the orthodox notion that heaven, mot the earth, 13 the future eternal abode of the siints? What becomes of the notion that man is by niture immortal? The fact 1s, all these notions are mere thinkings of the flesh, en doctrines and dogmas, as false as the Word of God is true, They ale not to be found In the Scriptures from Genesis tc Revelation, if you search till the day of resur retion. The testiinony of Soripjure 1s that man, in his present state, 1s purely mortal, and that immor- taity can ve obtained only by Tesurrection from Un dead; that this earth, not heaven, Is the future eurnal abode of the resurrected saints; that there 18 no conscious existence between death and tae resur- rection, and that the resurrection takes place at the second coming, or advent, of Christ, when he will Juage or rule the world in righteousness. Such are the glorious truths contained in the Kod a (good news) of the coming kingdom. which Chriat taught His disciples to pray for. ‘Pray ye, ‘Thy kingdom come.’’? And Wi “Thy kingdom come’’ but that “Thy will may be done on earth (not in heaven) as it is done in heaven” (py the angelic hosta)’ ‘That there should be in these last times an awful dearth of gospel truth in so-called Christendom need not surprise us when we refer to what the Prophet Amos predicts on the subject. He says:— Behola the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land, nota famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, Dut of hearing the words of t Fa; and they shail a to sea, and from¢th even to the east, | they shall raf to and fro to seek the ARS oF the Loyd and j aball not nnd it, (Amos vill, 1. 12-) Such, it appears, 18 the awful judgment which like @ pall is now Hansing over. that portion of the earth erroneously designated Christendom. But if ortho- jox theology were true the, present period in the story of the Church might truly be said to be oue 1s brightest epochs. Pauline theology and odern theology are, however, as opposite as the oles. There is scarcely anything in common be- ween them. ‘Oh! that men were wise, that they jnderstood this,’’ &c. m ‘wander from, ev. Dr. Dowling id the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. TROY, N. Y., July 25, 1871, ‘0 THE Eprtor OF THE HERALD:— In your remarks prefacing the sermon of the Rev. ir. Dowling @elivered at Newark, N. J., last San- jay, On the occaston of the death of the engineers aused by the accident at “Brill’s Switches,” and {ter observing that ‘‘the service was a special one, eld in response to an invitation from the Jersey City division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers,”’ you further state:—‘I'ne Brotherhood tn- cludes conductors, brakemen and other employés. It numbers throughout the United States about three thousand persons,’ &c. Tho writer 1s mistaken in saying that the Brotherhood includes ‘conductors, brakemen, &c.,"' ay none but locomotive engineers are admitted, and at the last annual meeting it num- bered alittle over twenty-six hundred, The con- ductors bave an wasoglgtion Of thelr OWE. Working SHEET. on the same prinotple, with over three thousnnd Ployen oh some rosdg, have their loeal_wiutuat ‘ld docletioa. ENGINEER, ‘What a Good-Minded Woman May Do. Not a little excitement and interest has been aroused in and about the village of Thompson, L. 1, this summer, by the enterprising benevolence of Mrs, Elizabeth Langdon, who is well known already in New York circles as the friend of the unfortunate and an earnest worker in varjous benevolences, Two yearsago Unis lady bought a fine farm at the above-named place, and fitted it up with the intention of ultimately establishing there an institution for the benefit of some of the most needy of our city poor, Circumstances hindered the immediate accomplishment of her aesign, although she has never lost sight’ of its ultimate completion. Intent, however, on making every moment available for some good, she hit tais summer on another method of benefiting fellow beings of another class. For severai miles about Thompson there 1s no place of worship, The need of a church was frequently discussed by the people, but no one proposed erecting one, Mrs, Langdon Selected the most charming portion of her grounds @nd erected on it a fine tent. As the travelier [rom New York approaches Brentwood station he finds himself passing through a delightfal park of many acres in extent, tastefully laid out. A large, plain, substantial country house, with deep shady veranda looking out on a parterre of flowers, 1s the home of the mistress of “Langdon,”’ as the villa is called. A few rods from the house are two fine tents, one open, being merely a shelter in which persons can gather when the church tent ts too full for additional hearers. The other ts enclosed, is twenty-five feet wide by forty long, is of the best No. 1 American duck‘ tastefully made and ornamented with a scolloped border, bound with crimson at the edge of the can- vas roof. Four rustic posts sustain lamps in fine glass globes, which make a beautiful appearance when lighted at night. At elther gable ts the in- scription in large letters, “The Church of the Holy Rest,” Inside lt 1s well floored and furnished with comfortable benches; a prettily carpeted platform, supplied with easy chairs, pending desk and orna- mented with a pedestal sustaining an exquisite basket of plants and flowers. Fine chandeliers pend from the arch of the roof; festoons and wreaths of evergreens wind about the supports of the tent. The exquisite taste of the lady whose benevolent mind conceived the idea of thus minis tering to the good of her neighbors is shown in every detail of the affair. 1t was her intention to have the church a Union church, in which all de- nominations could share. As yet, however, no de- nomination but the Methodist ‘has occupied it. The converted Indian, Thomas Sunrise Dana, has preached every Sunday. The New York praying band have spent one Sunday there. 1t as now come to be understood that the church is a Methodist one. This belief, however, will be somewhat shaken, and the liberal sentiment of Mrs. Langdon in the erection of the meeting place vindl- cated, when it is Known that on last Sunday even- ing the character of the exercises was somewhat changed. Mr. Dana occupied the desk in the morn- ing and in the evening John B. Wollf, of Colorado, who is @ representative nan among the radical re- formers of the day, addressed the congregation on she cause and cure of evil. The tent was well filled. Mrs. Bouton, of New York, led the singing, and Lage Babe great effect that exquisite , Flee as a Bird.” Mr. Voorhes, of New York, sustained her with accompaniment on the fine organ provided by the Lady Bountifu: who has inaugurated and entirely sustained this good work. Mr. Wolf's address was listened to with marked attention, and he was urgently invited to visit and talk to them again. Mrs. Langdon intends w cen- tinue these services during the summer, both on Sunday and during the week. To-day the Rev. Jonn Hyatt Smith will preach, and on Tuesday evening Mr. Wolff will give a lecture on some scientific or progressive subject. Roman Catholic Church Property. Acase ina Cleveland Court seems to show that the Roman Cuurch property in the United States is not ina securely transmissible condition. The main features of the case are these:—The title to tne Church property is in the name of the bishop; not the bishop officially, nor in succession, nor in trnst, but im Amadeus Rappe, who was the bishop, but re- signed, and tbe diocese is now ruled by the Rev Edward Hannin, “administrator” during the va, cancy. We infer that tne title to all the property of that Church fs in the same manner in the name of the person who holds the office of bishop, The con- regation of the parish of St. Bridget lesired to rebuild and -enlarge their church, In this they were encouraged by Bishop Rappe _ (pronounced Rap). They raised about eighteen thousand dollars, appointed a buliding commitiee and made a contract 1ovolyin; an expenditure of about twenty-eight thousand dol- lars, and the contractor began tearing aown, When Fatner Hannin, claiming as adniinistrator to hold the title to the lot, procured a temporary injunction, On @ notion to dissolve this the case was presented and argued at great length. Jt appears that ail tuat Father Hannta could show for his titie was the law of the Roman Ohurch making such a succession to the title. The Juage held that he could not recog- nize @ law of the Roman Church as setiing aside the Jaws of Ohio as to the conveyance of reai estate. Therefore he dissolved the injunction, on the ground that Father Hannin, who applied for it, nad no legal titie Lo the properiy. Jewish Protest. The Jewish Messenger publishes a protest against the action of the recent Rabbinical Conference at Cincinnati being taken as representative of any branch of genuine Judaism. It is’ signed by Dr. Adler and others, and concludes with the resolutions declaring :— First—That the God of the Bible ts not ‘‘the sub- stance of nature,” not identical with nature, but “a personal God,” the Creator and Governor of the universe, infinitely exalted above the same, ‘ooking down upon heaven and earth,’’ aud that whoever teaches the existence of an impersonal God has ipso Jacio renounced Judaism. Second—That interpolation of the idea of an im- personal God into the Bible 1s an infamous falsiti- cation of the Divine Wora. Thtrd—That in its records of revelation, in its entire literature and history, Judaism teaches divine grace and mercy, and, consequently, holds out par- don aud forgiveness to the repentant sinner, and that a denial of this fact ts’ a slander upon Judaism and a blasphemy. Fourth—That a conference which grants seat and voice in a committee for the preparation of a prayer bovk to a man who, In accordance with his notion of God, stigmatizes prayer as an absurdity, con- demns, by this Very action, itself and its work. Roman Catholic Church in the United States, A recent number of the Catholic World direct attention to the rapid growth of the Roman Catho- lics in Lhe United States, It says:--‘Nowhere Ifas the Catnolic Church increased so prosperously within the last fifty years as in tne United States of America. Ywo thousand churches and chapels were built, an increase of 1,800 clergymen; 160 schools established for the Catholic training of 18,000 boys and 34,000 giris, Moreover, there existed in 1857 66 asylums, With 4,968 orphans of both sexes; 26 hospitais, with 3,000 beds; 4 insane asylums, besides many other Charitable institutions, all supported by the private charity of Catholics.” Clergymen in the United States. The number of clergymen in the United States 1s put at 91,000, and their average salary $700, which 18a tolerably small sum, considering the ordinary dimensions of a minister's family. Asa class tne clergy are poor and suffer many privations. They do their ay as they understand it to bets agg ord that are farfrom responding as they should. The few clergymen who receive jarge salaries are ex- ceptions, and Mr, Beecher's $20,000 is probably the largest stipend paid any clergyman in the worid under the voluntary system. In Old England en- dowments and rates and tithes carry up the income of some of the clergy into the tens of thousands of pounds. A Blind Graduate. Among the graduates at the recent commence- ment of the Unio Wesleyan University was John 8. Vancleve, son of Rey, L. F. Vancleve, of the Cinoin- nati Conference. The young man {s totally blind, and yet has passed successfully through the entire college course and received the degree of A. B. The Western Advocate thinks ‘this is the first instance in the history of American colleges of a young man totally bind passing successfully througa a college course and receiving the honor of A. B. His ex- wminations were eminently satisfactory and nis commencement speech was vigorous and beautiful.” Religious Notes, Personal and General. A Chinese Young Men's Christian Association has been organized in San Francisco. Rey. A. 8. Walker, of Fairhaven, Maas., has ac- cepted & call to the Presbyterian church at Glovers- ville, N. Y. The Rev. George D. Baker, of Onetda, N, Y., 16 unanimously called to the First Prespyterian | church, in Detrott. Messrs, David Murdock and Robert Graham (licen- tates) are called respectively to the congregations at Hermon, Pa., and Duanesburg. N. Y. The Rey. James Marshall, of Troy, N. Y., has re ceived @ unanimous call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Potsdam, N. Y. The executive committee of the American Unita- rian Association are considering the project of puild- ing a Unitarian charch in Washington, The First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Mich., has given a ananimous call to the Rev. 8. W. Duiield, of Claremont church, Jeracy City. The Cleveland Pregbytgsy contributed $190,000 4o-, ward the Presbyterian Memorial Fund—s large? percentage than any other presbytery in the country. Our Methodist brethren recently, at a dinner at the Gilsey House, raised in a few minutes the sunt of $30,000 for their city missions and church exten- Indications of the presence of the Holy Spirit are reported in several churches in Californta, specify- p03 tana Baptist and some Presbyterian arches. Rev. G, H. Robertson, of the Second Presbyterian church of Sprinztleld, fil., has received and accepted & call from the Chestuut Street church of Louisville, Ky. Salary, $5,000, It s stated that St. Paul’s church, Troy, N. Yu, contributed last year for all purposes aoany one hundred and iifty thousand dollars, 1 sum probably Not equalled by any parish in the country. “ Bethesda church (vongrogational), of Reading, near Boston, has just been relieved of an oppressive debt of $4,500 by the well directed efforts and Prayers of two of its young lady members. On Tuesday, 18th inst., Archbishop McCloskey held an ordination in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Reve Thomas F. Lynch was ordained «priest, and Mr. Henry Cavauagh, S. J., received tonsure and minor orders. ‘The Moravians have recently erected a monument at Wyaiusing, Pa., commemorative of the effort made py the Moravian Church 100 years sinceé ta ameliorate the condition of the aborigines of this country. At tne recent Baptist Educational Convention im Rochester Rev. Dr. Curry, of that city, said thag there are now more Baptist collegiate tistitutiona in the South, male and female, than of any other de- nomination. ‘The success of the Rev. Dr. Cornell, of the Re- formed Dutch Church, in raising the sum of $200,000 for the Theological Seminary connected with that body, was very properly recognized at the late meeting of the Synod by commendatory resolutions. Rey. O. A. Stork, who commenced his literary course at Hartwick, N. Y., continued it at Gettys- burg, graduated at Williams College, Mass., and took the prescribed theological course at Andover, and then succeeded his father, the rounder of St. Mark’s churoh, Baltimore, has accepted a chair im the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Tne Rev. Charles Francis Bonaventura Miel, fore merly a Roman Catholic priest, who had been trang- ferred to the diocese of Penusy!vanta by the Bishop of Illinois, was afterward formally received into the: communion of tae Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Stevens. ‘The Abbé Miel held a distinguish position in Paris, being one of the preachers iu the ladeleine, W:liiam and Mary’s College, Virginia, has jus® elected Hugh Blair Grigsby the third Chancellor of that institution since its foundation, long before the Declaration of Independence. General Washington ‘Was the first Chancellor. He had no successor until 1860, when ex-President Tyler was chosen, and om his death the place remained uniilied until the present time. PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL MINING BUREAU. It would be diMcult, if not impossible, to over- estimate the importance of encouraging the de- velopment of mineral industry upon the commerce and progress of our country, and whatever tends to direct popular attention to this subject deserves approval and support. Immense wealth lies hid away in waiting for laborious hands to draw tt forth from the bosom of tbe earth, while capital and labor in other countries are STANDING IDLE for want of profitable employment. But owing ta imperfect or unreliable information only being at hand, the capitalist 1s afraid to venture in remote undertakings, and so a great deal of profitable in- dustry 1s lost to this generation, There can be no doubt that the introduction of foreign capital into the mining industry of the United Statea would be attended with great advantage, both to the industrial interests of this country and to the Investing capitalists, who would be certain to ob taina higher percentage on their capital than they receive from any of the government securities of tha world, And in turning the attention of the money- lenders to these new and PROFITABLE FIELDS OF INVESTMENT which the American mines offer, some good will be done to humanity by making {t more profitable te lend for the creation of wealth than for the oppress ing and flaying of mankind. Within the past ten years an extraordinary de- velopment of mining enterprise has taken place, but forthe most part without any help from foreign capitalists. The success, however, of the pioneer undertakings has encouraged some English capl- talists to make Considerable investments, and, a these were only made after due examination and consideration, they have more than tuifilled ‘THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE INVESTORS. As a result, American mines are attracting more ate tention in England and aales of American mining stock on: the Liverpool market are becoming {re- quent and important. Swill, the great bar to any general investinent 1s want of correct information as to the quality of tne ores, the means of transporta- Uon and @ hundred other questions that affect the market value of the produce, In order to meet this want an association is tm progress of formation, to be called “The Inters national Mining Bureau of the United States of America.” ‘This “bureau”, will devote itself ex- clusively to the collection ‘of ali recoras relating to the history, development or results of THE MINING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES. It will also “preserve all geological reports and maps, working plans of mines, sections of sabter- ranean explorations, drawings of furnaces and of machinery used in mines, and in the preparation and reduction of ores,” and thus furnish complete and reliable information to capitalists desiring to invest. The intluence of such an association, pro- perly conducted, with able and respectable men ag its head, would be immense, because FOREIGN CAPITALISTS Wontld have confidence in the statements tssue@ under their sanction. In order to increase the public confidence in the transactions of the bureau It 18 proposed to have a board of experts, com of fifteen eminent mining, metallurgical - and mechanical engineers, physicists, chemists technologists, to whom all scientific matters,will referred. The projectors also propose to establish rooms in all the principal cities of the United Stat oa devoted to the mining interests, and where all the best foreign and American periodicals treate ing of mines, metallurgy, &¢., wouid be within reach’ of the pubic. it ts hoped by this means to cleat away a great deal of THE MISAPPRRHENSION WIIICH EXISTS in the public mind with regard to the condition of the minerai interests, In connection with these reading rooms tt 1s proposed also to establish mu- ‘ums of metallurgy and got geology for the lilusiration of the mineral products of the United States. One of these museums would also be erected in London for the convenience of the European in- vestors, The plan of the organization of the ‘International Mining Bureau" is very comprehensive, and there can be no doubt that under proper direction the amount of good which such an organization could ao would be very great. At the same time THE OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS are considerable, as the proposed organization woula require a large capital which would produce nothing directly, This diMiculty has been some- what foreseen by the projectors, and the first idea Was of resting the organization on the voluntary Subscriptions of the mining companies, but this idea has been abandonea, and an effort will be made at the meeting of Congress to have a spectal act passed mecorporating the bureau with a stock caplial or $260,000, in shares of $100 each. It is ex- pected that the various mining organizations will take up these stares, in view of the benefits which bos Mara will conier on the whole miniag interes! NAVAL INTBLLIGENOE. Chief Engineer W. W. Dungan has been ordered as inspector of machinery afloat at the Washington Navy Yard. Companaer E. P. Lull has been detached from command of the Guard and ordered to special duty. Licutenant Vommander G. C. Stiuitze, Masters A. Ry Conden, M. T. Sullivan, John M. Hawley and Johm ¥. Merrill have been detached from the Guard and Placed on waiting orders. Lieutenant Commander F. 8. McCook has been detached from the command of the Yantic and piaced on watting orders, Lieutenants John K, Winn and 8. M. Ackley, Master &. P. McOl Assistant Surgeon Dwight Dickinson and aan Engl nest someRR Giana from thé ‘antic and placed on waiting o . Lieutenant George A. Norris, Master Joseph G. Eaton; Unsigns 8. 0, Paine and E, H, Wiley, from duty connected with the Darien expedition; Master ‘Alfred Kiltout, from the Guard, and ordered to the Hydrographic Omice: Master F. Vollius and Ensign . H. Buckingham, from the Darien expedition, and dered to the Hydrographic Office; Lieutenant Commander Charles O'Neill, from the Severn, and Placed on waiting orders. Ej ARMY INTELLIGENOB. Major Milton Cogswell, of the Twenty-first in- fantry, and Second Lteutenant Msurece Krasny- nosky, of the Twelfth infantry, have been ordered to report for examination before the Retiring Board at San Francisco; First Lieutenant Howard Stockton, of the Ordnance Department, and Second [Jeuten- Ant José A. Robinson, of the Twenty-fourth infantry, have resigned. A Murpsrer Lipsraten. apr G: a —A letter to the Tele or of ged jibe about midnight on the night of the 2 the / in Milledgeville was sure rounded by a nuniber of disguised and armed men, who forced the keys from the jailer, Mr, Arnold. ‘They opened the doors and released James Oxf recently convicted in Sandersonville Superior Court murdering @ negro, some of the liverators vowed that they were liberating because the ap ernor was in the habit of pat ogT oes Grimes committed bY (ews Ue