The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1871, Page 8

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. August 1: Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost. Programme of Services in the Churches To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE, Services To-Day. Rey. Charles B. Smyth wili preach this morning ‘Qnd evening in the New York University on “Steam- boat, Railroad, Picme Accidents, Ring Slanders, a&c., a8 Viewed by Jesus Christ.” The pastor of Mount Zion chureh will preach in the University, Washington square, this afternoon, “showing from reason and Scripture that there is no future state of existence but by the resurrection wf the body.”” Rey. Edward Haines, of Philadelphia, will preach m whe Broadway Tabernacle church wis morning g@nd evening. Rev. Charles F. Lee will preach on “Christian Re- formation of the City,” this morning in Chickering Hall (Fifth Universalist church.) Rey. Mr. Denning will preach morning and even- ing in the Tabernacle Baptist cnuren. Rey. Dr. Bannard will preach in the Forty-second Street. Presbyterian chureh this morning and evening. The German Government and Papal Infalli- bility. Tne Provinzial Correspondenz, which, a8 you ‘Know, Is (ne oMfcial ergan of the Prussian govern- ‘ment, contains the following article on “The State and Catholic Church,” the great importance of Which is obvious. It explains the recent abolition of the separate department for Catholic affairs in the Ministry of Worship; and while doing so, ex- plains fully the attitude of the government in the religious struggle at present going on m Germany :— “An important change has just been made in the Ministry of Religious Affairs, The separate depart- ments for the Evangelical and for the Catholle burch afairs have been abolished, and in their place a common department for all spiritual affairs has been established. In this way the institution has been restored to the condition in which it was up to the year 1841, For the first time under Frederick William I'V., im consequence of the dim culties Which the relations of the State to the Catho- dic Church 1 many respects presented, a separate Catholic department in the Ministry of Worship, under a Catholic director and with exclusively Catholic councillors, was founded ‘in order to gain and give a strengthened pledge for the fundamental and multifarious consideration of Catholic Church questions.’ While the questions which came before this section were being decided by the constitutional proclamation of January 31, 1850, anew basis for the relations between Church aud State was created, in consequence of which the continuation of an exclusively Watholic governing body © within the gov- ernment of the State was not without difm- culty. Ifthe Catholic Church, in accordance with article 15 of the constitution, arranges and con- trols 11s affairs independentiy; if, in accordance with article 16, communication between reiigious societies and the superiors in une Church ts lett ancontrolied, ana the announcement of spiritual decrees is subjected to no limitations, It results from this that the relations of the Chureh to the State are to be judged of by a political, not a sec- farian standard, and that the department of the government to which the consideration of those re- lations is left cannot be constituted exclusively in accordance with sectarian considerations. In face of the position which tne individual Catholic holds ta Bll religious questions to the demands of nis Church, and in face of the energy with which the Catholic Church is accustomed to enforce respect and obedi- ence to isfrom te Catholic individual—in the fact of these things the danger was always imminent that an exclusively Catholic govermng body would be regarded much rather as the representative of the Church before the State than as the chosen ad- viser of the country’s government. The government bn this account has for several years been consiaer- ing the advisability ofa change 1n reference to the Catholic department, While the reflections which suggested themselves on the ct had not yet brought about a decisive resolve, a decision was made 4 necessity by une events at present going on 4m the Catholic Church, On the one hand the rela- tious between the Church aud the government are #0 essenually atfected by the decrees of last year’s Roman Council, on the other hand such lively move- ments aud dissenstons have been elicited im the minds of the Catholic population, that the govern meutmust find itself more than ever called upon to take care of his: that im reierence to its consideration of its position to Catholic affairs the political sively and unconditionally considered. sub kowan Council would have such resulis was, both | within and without the catholic Church, clearly joreseen and foretoid. Papal infallibility, elevated from a belief to a dogma, vy and of itsell Unreatens us with the danger tuat the aemana that the State should be subject Lo the authority of tie Roman See— an authority which extends to worldly and politi matiers—may be renev at a convement oppor- tunity. Moreover, the ‘Syllabus’? has been made ausnoritative by fhe Council, and im it are contained refections and doctrines concerning tne errors of our time, as religious, political and social relations, which, if serionsly carried to their consequences by the Catholic Chureh, should inevitably lead to the | overthrow of ali temporal authority. The Prussian government dia not omit during the Council to em- phaticaily cali the atiention of the Roman See to the fangers Which might arise from such determination im reference to the relation of the State to the church. This was done, avove all, in the interest of the Church and of the Papal See tself. Our gov- orpment might point out that i saw aanger not so much for our State as for the h; that legislative means would not be want- ing to the State to protect itself against any pre- judice Lo its interests; but that, neveriheless, any violent conduct on the part of the Catholic Church would embarrass those friendiy and considerate relauions which had hitherto prevailed in conse- quence of the triend!y disposition of ail the Prussian Pri When, immeviately belore the decrees of the Conneil were €cided upon, the French govern- ment warned the Fapal See, m the most decisive manner, not to publish doctrines and teachings Wich Were Dowhere recognized or admitted in Christian Europe, our government gave its most decided adhesion to these representations Pope and the Council paid no heed to tho: eentations, ue hazardous decrees have been adopted and thelr consequences have come forth sooner than was expected. dogma ¢ the publication of the Papal infauibility has produced in the Caiholic mation itself, among la, bh anc clergy men, Movements aud divisions Whose consequences have alreaay come Lo We trout on several pracuval maticrs im reterence to the relations of the Biehops to the government—-we mean in refer- ence to the treatment of teachers in Catholic ScnOols Under State superintendence who refuse to teach the new dogma, and who ciaim the protecuon | of ue or their places and nights, It is not for the mowent to be presumed how far the movement will obtain @ firmer fooung among the Catholics and lead te perhaps wider divis: msel the government cau omy find a firm rale for its guidance by taking its stand imparuaily on the purely political standpoint and dealing with each disputed case accordingly. In order to make secure tiis standpoint, and also to make it Known outstde, Mt appeared advisable aud called for to abolisn m the mupistry of Churel, affairs the hitherto ex isting separation of Church departments, and to n ouly one department for Cnurch affatrs. rnment Uy (hat measure anvounces that tt sat both Churches impartially, justly m s, but also to main- Catholic and of the Hvangelical in connection with the religions straggie Ip Ger many, to which this article alludes, some oth diems had er be mentioned. | First, the re signation of Count Bray, the Bavarian Minister tor Foreygn " \buted to the differences be- tween himself ‘and Vou Luts, the Minister of Jus- fice, on the reMuions of Church and State; and some think that now Count ¥ is removed Von Lutz ‘Will proceed to those attacks on the mnfallibilists Which, if report does lie him, he would wil- ate. Im Katiowitz, a town of Silesia, é of the antagonism petwe infalubilisis has heen given, man vamed Kamuiskt has beeu excommun for his opposition to the dogma, and the pariab ehareh Was ciosed against him. by order of the au- thorities ie chiwch has been again opened, and Kamuiski celebrated service in if, lt is said, in pres- ‘ence of a large congregation. In Upper Bavaria the government has refused to remove a teacher who opposes the dogma, but at the same time deciares that it will so far respect freedom of copscteuce as Not to compel parents Who delieve In tnfalitoility to nd their children to the religious instruction of the anti-infallipuist teacher, Thus the Cat Dipper Bavaria are much oetter olf than Che C ancer the coutro! of Herr ven Mathie, the Prassian Minisver or Worship, who com, paren, agalust a a standpoint should be excin- | That the | their wiii, wo send their children to the religions teachings of @ teacher Whom uiey believe to be ex- conupunicated, € Christianity Justiy Claim to Have Originated Modern Civilization ¢ To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— You are doing a great work in permitting the champions of the various Christian beliefs that beset us Lo eat off the heads of each other's errors im your universal columns. This, alihough not essentially radical on your part, 18 pre-eminently adroit; for were you to call upon those gentlemen for evidence, in the first place, of the divine origin ofthe absolute basis of their faith as a whole ail discussion would be at an end, as scieace, philoso- phy, history, antiquarian research and actual obser- vation have placed it beyond any reasonable doupt that both the Old Testament and the New are mainly a collection of unauthenticated writings, the fragmentary offspring of remote and super- Stitious ages, without any distinct paternity or, at limes, very clearly defined object, This latter proposition, which is supported by De Wetle and a brilliant concourse of scholars and critics the most impartial and profound, must be met fairly and refuted im the face of open day, or the whole superstructure of Christianity totters to its fall. In deating with it we must cut ourselves adrift from our grandmothers and Baron Mun- chausen, and treat it from an eminence outside its cireumference. Let it be demonstrated at what precise period, where aud by whom those books were written, and let their claims to infallibility be clearly proven, Nor 1s this all—let us, then, inquire on what logical grounds we accept the testimony of the Jews in the case of Mos Jsaiah and others, and reject 1b in that of Christi, Here are points the most Vital; while, under no circumstances, shall we be entrapped into allowing one portion of the book to authenticate another; but, acting on the sugges- tion of Jonn—“If I bear witness of myseif my wit- ness is not trne”—demand independent, outside evi- dence of the divine origin of the whole. To my mind there 1s no proposition more unten- able than that which presumes God to interfere spasmodically with the work of creation for the purpose of building hothouses for Wis favorite lants, There 1s no Roman Catholic sunlight, no resbyterian rain or Methodist seedtime and vest. Why, then, embarrass a broad and noble conception of the Almighty with petty theories in other relauionsy A special revelation is impossible upon any just or equitable principle. — G is no respecter Of persons. Therefore, to meet the case of the Jews even, He should have given as many special revelauions as there were individual idyosin- cracies among that people; for to give laws that might comport with the natural mstincts of one man, and be fearfully antagonistic to those ot another, would not be to insure a primary opject of all law—uniformity of obeaience; whtle to select any one people as an object of special favor above all others 1s 80 obviously at variance with the princi ples of common justice that all the special pleading of “the clow’’ Cannot fost it upon any logical or comprehensive mind, But, sir, how are we to deal wich a class of writers Who ‘now attribute the triumphs of science and Civilization im the East, forexample, to the influence of Christianity or the Churches? For upwaras of fifteen hundred years the Churches have fought science and merety human noetias 4 the obstruc- tion of human progress; and what been the re- sulty Christianity, with an inferior civilization ac its back, made five gigantic efforts to establish itself in the East, but was worsted; and, if to day it made an addiuonal attempt with the light of the eleventh or twelith century on it only, it woula share the same fate. No, no; the gospels that are | revolutionizing ihe East are the printing press, the railway, the steamship and the celegraph; and wo all know how the primary sparks of these struggled into existence. Consequently, We must not permit the Churches, now that they are found out, to play the part of Falstaff in Henry the Fourth, and ex- claim, while tickling Science in the mbs, *by the Lord 1 Knew ye a3 well as he that made ye,” but assign to them the place they onght to occupy, and, in reality, do occupy, in the scale of material pro- gress and intelectual life. LOGOS. A Vindication of Women. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— | Dear Str—In your issue of August 6 I notice un- qaer the nead “ Women in the Old Testament, and the New,’ an article reflecting disparagingly on women in past and present centuries, The writer of said article reiterates the opinion of two of the most licentious libertines of the past as authority opon which vo base an opinion of the inferiority of ‘woman to mau; and can find oniy three women in sacred history as exceptions to the thousands “steeped in sin’? and incapable of rising superior to nimaal life.” If the writer of that article will | carefully and adlillgently search the Serfpture she wil! find many other examples of purity and eleva- uon of character beside “Sarah, Estuer and Mary.” There was Adah, the daughter oi Jeputhah, wio | With a iife fuil of brilliant promise before her, cheer- july submitted to be ofMered up as a sacrifice, y to redeem a ri vow made by father; Ruth who forsook country, friends, ud ease for @ laborious and uncertain lite among strangers in order to live up her convictions of rigat, and even a siniul wo- an of Jericho saved the lives of God’s servants by letting them down over the wails of thatcity. I could thus enumerate hundreds would space per- mil. Does tue writer ol “Woman in the Oid Testa- } ment and the New” recollect that when the discipies | of Christ all forsook Him, and Peter dened tim with curses and oaths, that woman was His stead- fast and unflinching friend’ And, again, how beautiiul the character of the munificent Eiecta; aller all her good deeds, preferring death to recaa- tation. Compare the character or lives of these wo- men to that of David or Solomon, and many other Bible herves, and you will find the contrast favor- avle to woman. Those men chose the socieiy of Women Who gratified their anunal appetites, and formed their opinions of the sex by those they amil- lated With, and the author of “A Lay Sermon,’ like them, may of woman only know the weaker part. Lethim get into respectaole society, if pos- sivle, and he will find in this city women whose self-sacrifice, genius, brilliant intellect and mat- roniy graces make pale the virtues of Martha Washington, whom he sets up as a model. A WOMA An Analysis of Ritualistic Doctrine. To rae Epiror or THE HERALD:— In this period of ritualistic tendency it is well to observe that there are only two ordinances essential in the present gentile dispensation—the ordinance of adult baptism and the ordinance of the Lord's Sapper. Ana for the due performance of these no priestiy order is necessary. A ‘‘table,” not an “altar,”’ is necessary now. We have no altar to serve, Christ offered himself as a sacrifice once for all; thereby forever abolishing the use of the altar, and conse- quently the priestly order for sacrificial service. Henceforth the only sacrifice God requires is that of a “broken and contrite heart.” The ordinance of the Lord’s Supper at the table, observed on the first day of the week in commemoration of the resurrec- tion on that day of Christ from the dead, and the ordinance of adult (not of infant) baptism—haptized into Christ's death, “buried with Him tn baptism, that like Him we might rise to newness of life’’—re- quire no priestly order to perform them. A priestly order in the Christian dispensauon 1s an anomaly; it is thoroughly anti-Christian im origin and ten- dency. The priestly order was abolished when Christ abolished the sacrificial law of Moses by of- fering hiroself upon the cross, The altar ought to be thrust out of every professediy Christian place of worship, and all those who mock God by presuming to oMetate thereat, As tothe modern ceremony of ‘laying on of hands” in ordaining persons for the ministry the prac- uce would be far more “honored 1m the breach than im the observance.” The Aposties did it; but they were meu inspired by the Holy Spirit, and by the Jaying on of hands could confer the git of thy to others, Bat we must never forget the fa the Aposties have had no successors. God neve tended there shouid be more than twelve aposties— as many apostles as tribes of the house of Jacob. Hence we sce the force of Christ telling the Apostles that inthe age and Kingdom to come they (the iwelve Aposties) should “sit upon twelve trones, each one of them ruling and reigning over one of the twelve tribes of J Th 1s grand design in all the arran, i ning bis king- dom ti the age or dispensation to come. The whoie Gospel Seneme or plan of salvation contains as much design as the scheme or plan of an architect to build a temple or a pala In truth, religion ts a holy suce and must Le studied as such to be fully com- and appreciate aid before, the som, The gift of the m, and the silly pretence tinuing the eerermony of laying on of hands for inistry, Where there 1s no power to confer the gift of (he holy spirit (for the best of reasons, namely, because no one has It to confer), 1s a burlesque on aposvolic po and authority. The thing is ex plained at once by the simple Jaci that the aposties have had no successors, Then there 1s the observance of the Judaical cus- tom of keeping feast days, holidays, new moons and Sabbaths, ail which, we are told, were “done away in Christ.’ Pani, writing to the Colossians, says Christ “blotted out the handwriting of ordinances, Tignteousness? A similar denunciation may be found in the same apostie’s Epistie to the Galatians: “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elewents (Mosaic rites and ob- servances) whereunto ye desire to be again in boud- ager Ye observe days and months (or moons), and and times and years. 1am ia of you lest I have bestowed "poe you labor in vain, Stand there- fore, in the liberty (from Mosate observances of «lays, &c,), Wherewith Christ (who abolished the whole ceremonial law) bath made us free, and be not en- tangled in with the yoke of bondage, Christ is become of no effect to those who attempt to Justify themselves by the observance of any portion of the Mosaic law; ali such are fallen from grace, For ali the law 1s fulfilled in this, ‘1rbou shalt love thy neigh- bor as thyself.’ ” Under these circumstances the “occupation” of a priestly order 1s gone, and ail that remains to dois to preach the Gospel, which any believer who bas become a disciple by “immersion,” with ordinary speaking capacity, is justified in doing, without the tarclal ceremony of laying on of hands, The laying on of hands meant somethiug When it was per- formed by inspired men who could thereby confer the gift of the Holy Spirit upon those whom they ordained for the work of the ministry, But, since the days of the Aposties, will any one have the au- dacity to say we have among us inspired men, who by the stmple act of laying on of hands can conier any gil, power or authority? If they did who would believe them. No; we have no inspired men, either among clergy or laity; no men Who can conier any gilt upon their fellow men by any ceremony they may periorm. In this case the ceremony becomes an empty, unmeaning “show,”’ Kept up on purpose to limit the preaching of the Gospel toa popularly recognized “class” of persons who have no more exclusive right to pro- claim it than any private disciple of Christ who mag have the Inclination and ability todoso, The mak- ing of religion a trade 1s one reason that, with such extensive profession of religion 10 our day, we bave yery few Christians, We have abundance of the fashionable ‘form of godliness,” but withont “the power.”’ rhe Aposties declare in nearly ail their epistles to the churches in their day that such @ state of things im the professing Christian world would obtain and prevail in the “last times” of the Chris- tian dispensation; and they could not have given us a@ more grapiic description had they lived in our day to witness it. They have trutnfully held the “amirror up to nature” in portraying the awful falling away from the ‘faith once delivered to the saints’ and from the Church discipline observed i their own times. Couid the Apostles visit the so-called churches now they would think we haa gone back im many respects to the Mosaic economy, ET. Swedenborg 4 Spiritualism. To Tux Epiror oF THE HERALD:— In your issue of the 6th instant is an article headed ‘Swedenborgianism Not Spiritualism,” which is untrue in this only—i. ¢., that Swedenborg himself has written that it is dangerous for the generality of mankind to have communication with the spiritual world, as they are more likely to have false intelligence than the truth; for men are more in evils and falsity than they are in goodness and truth, or Heavenly love and wisdom, which is love to the Lord and to the neighbor tn its supreme sense, being, as Jesus Christ taught, “the whole law and the prophets,”” In the first place, we object to the term Sweden- borgianism in any respect. We might, with the same propriety, say Mosesism or Prophetsism as to say Swedenborgianism when speaking of the new il- vine light which is given through Swedenborg to the world. This he repeatedly deciares himself, saying the things retold in his writings were given to him by the divine mercy of the Lord for the higher revealment of the truth contained in the Word of God (Bible), which the enlightened state of the Hea- venly mind is now capable of receiving. God never reveals truth to man until he is able to understand it. If we say to the contrary we would be accre:it- ing foolishness to Him, which would be blasplie- mous. ‘Thus it will be seen that Swedenborg was a Spiritualist in the Biblical sense, having communi- cation with good spirits, and thereby receiyed the truth, Many of those called Spiritualists of the present day have communication with spirits, some receiving truth and some falsity, according to their perception, as the sun’s rays may produce some- thing beautiful and of ilfe (truth) or something hideous or of death (false); for there is @ perfect ana- logy of things natural and things spiritual. The true meagure by which to judge and determine whether a communication is true or false 1s, does 1b teach love to the Lord and to the neighbor—does tt teach that the Bible is the Word of God; that Jesus Curist was the Word made manifest in the flesh; that in Him dwells the fulness of the Godnead bodily; that there is but one God, the Creator, Pre- server and Redeemer of Mankind, and that in Him there is adivine irinity or three person (not per- sons), the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, or the Crea- vor, the Redeemer and Divine Preceding * ‘To show that Swedenborg was eminently a spirit- ualist, in the sense hereim set forth, we will give his own words from the first part of the “Arcana Celestia.” He says:—“it has been granted me now for several years to be constantly and uninterrupt- edly in company with spirits and angels, hearing their conversation with each other and conversing with them. Hence it has been permitted me to hear and see things in another life which are astonishing, and which have never before come to the knowledge of any man, nor entered into his imagination. I have there been instructed concerning different kinds o1 spirits, and the state of souls after death—- concerning hell, or the lamentable state of the un- faithiul; concerning heaven, or the most happy state of tne faithful, and particularly concerning we doc- trine of faith which 1s acknowledged throughout ail heaven.” Thus it will be seen that Swedenborg was & Spiritualist in the higher, so to speak, divine sense, and that the great error of those who believe the truth as given through Emanuel Swedenborg is to call themselves Swedenborgians, or, i fact, to use the expression “Swedenborgianism’’ in any manner whatever. JW. B. The Last Judgment. To THe Eprtor or THE HERALD:— few at the present day know what ts meant by the “Last Judgment.” It is generaly supposed that 1 isto be accompanied with the destruction of the world, and itis hence coajectured that this terres- trial globe is to perish by fire, together with all things existing in the visible world, and that then jor the time the dead shall rise again and undergo their ‘yudgment,”? when the wicked are cast into bell and the good ascend into heaven. ‘These conjectures are grounded In the prophetical parts of the Word, where mention is made of “anew heaven and a new earth and the new Jerusalem,” mankind not being aware that the prophetica! parts | which Was against us aud contrary to us, nauing It to his cross.” **Whevefore,” says Paul, “let no man judge you in meat or drink or in reapect of an holi- day, new moon or of the Savbath, Which are only shadows of things to come. the body of which is Christ, Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ, from ihe rudiments (U ljosaic ALC of religion) of the world, why, as though living In the world, are ye subject to ordinances, after the commandments ana docurines of men! Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using Now, | would jike to know what stronger denun- ciation of the practice of observing feast days, tast days saints’ days, mew moon and Sabbaths, coud be required vy an infatuated, Judaical, anti- Christian, set dained order of priesthood than the spose Paul vere records for ow jostruction in of the Word, in their internal sense, nave a totally diferent signification from what appears in the literal sense. To explain why the Word-is so written, the Church represented by Adam, or the most ancient Church, were men who had a perception of things and traths by the object or name of the object which conveyed to their minas spiritual truths, or truth in its very easence, This 1s the reason why the prophets and all historical events contain interior truths which are written in the Word of God. And that by heaven or the sky is mot meant heaven or the sky, nor by earth the earth, but the Church of the Lord im general; and in every individual consti- tuting that particular Church, and also the last ume of every one’s life, to speak of it first, enoting the last time of the Church. It was the last judgment of the most ancient Chureh, or those before the Flood, when their posterity perished whose destruction is described by the Flood. Jt was the last judgment of the anctent Church, or that after the Flood, when nearly all who belonged tothat Courch became idolaters and were dispersed. It was the last judgment of the representa. tive Church, which succeeded among the posterity of Jacob, wien the Ten ‘Tribes were carried away into saptivity and dispersed among the nations— “ohureh,” be it understood, signilying those who have me Truth of the Word of God; “nations of the earth’? meaning those who have not the Truth of the Word of God, though they may have the ietter (Bible) of the Word of God, and afterwards, when the Jews, after the coming of the Lord, were driven out of Canaan and scattered over the face of the whole earth, The last judgment of the present Church, which is called the Christian Church, 18 whatis meant in the Revelation of John by the “new heaven and the new earth.’ The las. time of the life of every man, when he dies, is to him the jast judgment, ts not unknown to some, But still few believe it; nevertheless it 13 a certain troth that every ian rises agalo after death into anotier tile aut undergoes nis judgment. This judgment is th scomplished a8 soon as his corporeal organs grow cold, which happens a& fter his decease; he ts ratsed again of the Lord by celestial angels, who at first are attendants on him; batin case he be such that he can not re- main with them he 18 the! Vou Into the care of pinituat angels, and ly ito the care of good spirits; Jor all who into tie other Life, be they who they may, are welcome guests, who meet @ kind recepuon. But as every one's desires fol- low Lin, he Who bas led a wicked life cannot abide with the angels and good spirits; ne fe arates himself trom them, repeating these ope- rations till he comes among spirits whose life 1s similar and conformable to that wich he had woile in te word. Jt then uppears to him that he ts In his former bodily life, and, in fact, his present life is. thus a continuation of the past. From this life ii judgment commences. They who have led a wicke ie im process of time descend into hell, and they Who nave led a good life are bv degrees elevated by the Lord into heaven. Such 1s the last judgment of every individual, As to what the Lord spoke concerning the last tUmes, saying that then “the sea and the waves shali roar, the sun shall be darkened, we moon shall not give her teat, the stars shail fall from heaven, nation shall rise against nation and kingdol against kingdom,” &c., &c.—Matthew and Luke. All of which in general and particular signify tho state of the Church in regard to what it would be at the time of its last judgment. By the sea and the waves roaring is signified that heresies and controversies in general within the Church, and in every individual would be thus Doisy and outraggous. By the sun is meant juve io K HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, the Lora ana to the neighbor; by the moon faith; by the stars the knowledge of faith, which in the last time would be darkened, would not give lee and would fall from heaven—that 1s, woul! away. ‘To make these meanings cowprehensive tw those who are ae binary in nee spines eenee ie tae Scriptu must be understood that the Retural corresponds and is subordinate CO SpIrit« ual substances or truths, ‘Thus the sun 49 the source of all heat and light, by which all animated things sive orsubsist, which cor- responds to the heat and light ot heaven, by which all things spiritual live or subsist. Tne moon, which reflects light on the earth, corresponds to faith or the understanding of truth; so man at the resent day receives truth from the Lord simply in Bis understanding, which only receives truth, and not ta his heart, which only recetves good. There- fore, Wis faith is like the light of the moon, having no vitality; consequently nis sun 1s darkened or 1s love destroyed, aud aigo his faith 1s lust or faistied to such a degree as to have no living principle In It, which is signified by the letter of the Scriptures as the moon not giving her light, That the last judgment is at hand cannot so plainly appear on earth as within the Church, a8 m the other life within all souls come and flock together. The judgment day takes place in the spiritual, but not in the natural worid, as itis generaily taught and believed at the present time, which has led to the error of Miliexism, and also of Dr. Cummings, a so-called “celebrated divine,” who has been computing and prophesying the end of the world. If such ignorance exist among the learned - the cout, how great must be the ignorance of e people It 1s one of the fatal errors of the Church, that the natural body 13 resurrected from the grave; and also that judgment of mankind takes place on ths planet. They are so grounded in these ideas that it 18 almost — impossible to remove these falses from those so indoctrinated. And notwithstanding the Lord has revealed Him- self, in the spiritual meaning of the word, they will hot accept 1t, They are as the Jews were and still are; they will not receive Christ but in the way they have preconceived—that He would come; conse- quently the so-called Christian Chureh is at an end, or is consummated, and a new and true Oburch 18 now being established by the Lord, whereby the truths coniained in the Bible will be acknowledged, Then the light of the sun will be as the light of seven days. in other words, love to the Lord and to the neighbor will be the ruling principte of man’s life, and the light of the moon, as the light of the sun, 1s that true and eniightened faith will be in tne under- standing of man. The Sabbath Day Question. To Tnx Eprron OF THE RERALD:— Im a late Sunday HERALD is an article over the signature of “W. ©. 3.,"" headed “fhe Christian Sab- bath,” in which the writer says that “after the Sa- viour’s death and resurrection the Church changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday,” Now, sir, if this were a fact it would show a pretty piece of presumption on the part of the Church, “Keep holy the Sabbath day,” was the Injunction of God to the Jewish nation, through the medium of the law. The Jewish Sabbath was in- stituted by God, and no man might annulit. But when Christ came he said, “I am the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth” in Me. The observance of the law, of which the Sabbath is a part, 1s no longer binding. Hence “Ohrist healed on the Sabbath,” and did other things, for which He was accused as a Sanbath breaker by those Jews who did not believe on Him, and who, therefore, adhered to the law of Moses, Paul to the Galatians says:—"A man is not justi- fied by the works of the law, but by the faitn of gesus Christ; for 1f righteousness come by the law, then Christ 1s dead in vain. Before faith came we were kept under the law, shut up until the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wheretore the law was our schoolmaster until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.” From all which we can see clearly that at the first advent of Christ the whole of the Jewish ceremonial law was abolished, the observance of the Jewish Subbath in- cluded, Christ and his disciples frequently broke it toshow the unbelieving Jews that ‘He was the end of the Mosaic law for righteousness to every one that beileveth.” ‘+All the law is fulfilled in this:—‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’ Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage’’ (the Mosaic ceremonial law). A careful perusal of the whole of Panl’s Epistle to the Galatians will prove that there is no Sabbath, and none intended by Christ and his disciples during the present Gentile dispensation; and that any attempt to observe any part of the Mosaic law in the present Christian dispensation is nothing but @ “return to the weak and beggarly elements’? from which “Christ hath made us free. By faith are ye saved, not by works, lest any man should boast.’ ‘The observance of days, months, times and years is declared to be ‘done away tn Christ.’” That the Apostie changed or substituted the Jew. ish seventh day Sabbath for the present Gentile frst day Sunday, or Sabbath, 1s contrary to facts, I am aware it is the popularly received opinion of Chris- tendom; butit is not based on apostolic testimony. The origin of the first day of the week service of the Aposties is this:—At the ‘Last Supper’? Christ sald vo Lits disciples, “As oftas ye do this do itin remem- brance of me till Icome’’ (the second time). Now, it 1s a well attested fact that Christ arose from the dead on “the first day of the week,” and the Apostles, after His ascension, agreed among themselves (for no commandment concerning auy day was given) to meet on that day to observe the ordinance of the “Lord’s Supper,” in commemoration of the resur- rection of their beloved Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. We see at once the day was 4 for, had Christ risen on any otuer day of ihe weck, the Apostles would have chosen it for the commemo- ration of the glorious event by the assembling of themselves to “break bread,’ to observe the ordl- nance of the “Last Supper,” which shows con- clusively that such an idea as any inten- tion on the part of the Apostles to sub- stitute or change — the ewish seventh day Sabbath for a Christian first day of the week Sabbath never entered their minds. That tne Apos- Ues met onthe first day of the week expressly to commemorate the resurrection of Christ on that day by the observance of tne Lord’s Supper is sum- cienuy attested by the fact that they never met on that day without observing the ordinance, What a contrast in this respect to the churches of our day! ‘The object of their meeting on that day would have been meaningless without the observance of the ordinance. And tt is remarkaplo that the Apostles never term the day they met eliher “Sabbath” or “Sunday” (as 18 done im our day), but they desig- nate it empnaticaily ‘the first day of the week.” ‘There 1g no record in the writings of the new cove- nant of the Aposties having met ‘to break breaa’’ ona “Sabbath” or “Sunday,” but In every instance on record it is mentioned as “‘the first day of the week."’ No reference to a Sabbath or Sunday Is ex- pressed or implied. The object of the insutuaon of the “Lord’s Supper” for perpetual observance (uring this dispensation) on the first day of the week Was expressly to commemorate the resur- rection of Christ, in obedience to the tnyunction: “Asoft as ye do this doit in rememorance of me,” &c. The idea of the Apostles meeting on that day without observing the ordinance (as 1s done by most of the churches in our day) would have been incon- sistent and preposterous, as they had no other object for assempling on that day. These same Aposties were preacuing tne Gospel every day; they had nothing else to do; such was their commission, such was their entire occupation; so that it Is useless to say they met on tne first day to preacn the Gospel. ‘True they seized the opportunity presented by the assembly of so inany of their disciples ou that in- teresting occasion (before or after observing the ordimance) to explain or expound doctrinal points, and in that way endeavored to “build one another up in their most holy faitn.”’ To tls extent, no more. lt is evident, from Scripture testimony, that the modern sects or churches of Christendom have lost all knowledge (or never had any) of the origin of the first Gay of the week service as instituted and observed by the Apostles, Instead of an intelligent apostolic observance of the day, mciuding, in every instance, the ordinance (for the observance of which the day was set ace we have a sort of semi- Mosaic “Sabbatb,’? with @ “priestly order’ to omciate where no “altar,” bui a “table” only is required, and with the additional incousiatency and absurdity that itis kept on the “first day’ (the day Goa commenced the work of creation), mastead of on the “seventh day,” upon which God rested from the Six days’ work of creauion, So that both in the mode of worship and in the day chosen the modern Church practice Is a complete buriesgue upon both the Mosaic and Christian dispensations. Of course, as many of the Jews rejected Christ, not believing that he Was the “Messian’ God promised to Abrauam, Isaac and Jacob, they naturally hold on to the Mosaic law, and still keep the Sabbath in- slututed by God. Having rejected ‘sesus of Naza- reth” aa the ‘Messiah’? that shuuld come, they are consistent in continuing the observance of the Jew- ish Sabbatu, and are correct in the day—namely, the seventh. The seventh day Savbath of the Jews ‘Was, moreover, a type Of the seventh thousand years, the “rest? which remaineth to the peopie of God, under the millennial reign of Christ, wien He shall come the second time to judge (or rule) the world in righteousness. The temporal rest from labor of one day in seven, under the Mosaic dts thus made 4 type of the millennial nations under the benign reign of tne of Peace.” Had the Jewish nation accepted Christ. as the promised Messian they would have abolished the whole ceremonial law at once (of whieh the Sabbat was 4@ part) aud adopted the tlon and die of the Aposties, By saved, hot by the works of the law. $s salvation by ceremonial Works the grace.’ Read the the Galatians, and abbath, and none als’? are Whoever se Apostle declares ‘4s failen from whoie of the Seen of ogy ‘ou Wili see Liat Were Jiveudeu by Christ of His disciples during me present Gentile dispensation. ‘That the apostolic observance of the Lord's Supper on the first day of every week to commemorate the glorious event of the resurrection of Ohrise was not Intended to sub- stlinte a Curistian “sunday” for the Jewish seventh day “sabbath,” and that any statement to that erfect is false, 18 abundantly testified in other epistles of Paul to the then existing churches, If tus sabyect, like many others, has uot been roperiy investigated by students of theology, but, ike many other pordons of the Word of God, been eylirely sguored, 1 by po fault or mune What ts . 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. ts m estimation; what is true everything. Ifvall the world and “the rest of poscry cil ny pray @ retigions doctrine or dogma closest investigation | cannot find en- dorsed by Holy Writ, however much the “philoso- hy oF reason’ may advocate it, I would reject tt. Wwaid, “If an angel preach any other Gospel ae Gospel I have preached let hum be ac- What is it but the fact that religion has degene- rated into a trade; that we have, at the present day aud for more than @ thousand years past, an organ- ized “priestly order” (atter the manner of the Mosaic dispensacion) to ofilctate at an “altar” in a Church where no sacrifice is required, but for wiich Christ sacrificed Limselt, once tor all; in @ Church in which there are only two ordinances, yiz,, “Baptisin’” and ‘we “Lord’s Supper,”? and in which a “table” only 1s wanted for the latter, and a “Baptistry” for the performance of the former ordinance + Ina dispen- sation in which sacrifice has been superseded no “altar”? and no “priestly order’ is in harmony with apostolic precept or practice. A “priestly order’? iu the Christian dispensation, in which sacrifice has been uperseded—and, as atter of course, the “altar”? is useiess—is an anomaly that had no existence in the Church of Christ in apostolic times. If any say it had let such roduce tne testimony, sacred or profane. itis nowhere to be found, So long as such known discrepancies exist in the so-called churehes of the present day, their apologists, some of whom share the plunder, need not be very thin.skinued about | the dogmas of an “order,” whieh is, according to apostolic testimony, thoroughiy anti-Christian in origin and tendency. Where there ts no sierifictal service no priestly order lias anything to do, But in our day, there is the Mosaic order of priesthood, and (in Ehgland) the Chureh has gone back Lo the Mosaic economy forthe Mosaic ‘tenth,’ or “tythe,"? towards supporung them. And sucn a sysiem termed Christianitv! It may do for the ignorant | mob, who are more jealous of the ‘creeds’ Lhe less they know about them, But to a man of intellect aud independent investigation; to aman who can “get religion” as well or better without a priest or parson of any descripiion than with their thing 18 simply disgusting. This is the frutthtul source of Atheism. Men of intellect suMcient vo see through the organ- ized system of priestly hypocrisy, Je of inves- tgating the Word of God themselves, Judge of it by its priestly expounders, and throw the whole thing overboard, as unworthy the attention of a rational being. Such is the common result of priesteraft on Many inteiligent minds, The apostolic mode of observing the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper necessitated tie rest from labor one day in seven, the same as does the present mode of service, Not so much from a sense of “bresking a Sabbath” did the Aposties ana disciples abstain from labor on that day, as because they were other- Wise occupied, ‘This is mentioned because the oppo- nents to an apostolic observance of the day affirm that Its advocates desire to abolish the one day rest from labor in the week, and they seek by such means to heap pare et and slander upon its advocates, A weekly one-day rest trom labor 18 @ necessity in both cases; then why I ask, not meet for the same par- pose and observe the day in the same Casta way | THE GREAT UNWASHED. Salt Water Day at South imboy—Low Tide and High Times—Jersey Takes a Wash— Joy Among the Natives. In accorjance with the anerent and much-re- spected custom among Jerseyites of washing once a year there assembied at South Amboy yesterday between four and five thousand persons, A HERALD reporter, despite the recent practical Westfield warning, started on the nine o’clock boat of the Staten Island Ferry Company for the scene of THE GREAT WASH. When about one hundred yards from the Whitehall ship the body of aman, supposed to be a victim of the Westfield disaster, was seen, Immediately there was a rush for the stern of the boat to see the dead man, and several ladies fainted. One of these, upon recovering, said, “I thought there Was another explosion.” The body was picked np by some boatmen who were hailed by the deck hands of the boat (Northfield). It may be well to mention here that “salt water day,” as it is termed by the natives, has of late years come into disrepute on account of the occa sion several times neretofore being celebrated by free fights gottea up by and for the amusement of the roughs from “Jarsey.” Yesterday, however, went off quite pleasantly, “varring 1t was so blarsted ‘ot,’’ as a Bull among the crowd remarked. The village and the folks were in holiday attire. The hotels were decked With Star spangied Banners, and several bands dis- coursed national and Jersey music. ‘Hall Colum- bia,” “Yankee Doodie” and “A Little More Cider’’ were among the finest selections. Broadway was not to compare with its Sandy, tumble down roads, which were the channels for au inuumerable dood of people. Vehicles of ali descriptions rolied, bunked and “upset upon them, adding immense clouds of dust to adorn the scene. THE NATIVES indniged in a dance at the village hotel, which was executed im a manner that would have put Jun | Fisk’s bouffers to shame, The beach presented a sight that could only be seen in Jersey. Horses, muies, light wagons, hghtning (Jersey) stands, ca! ryalls, farm wagons, men, women and babies we! to make the scene one of sublime contusion. 1! neighing of horses, the yelling of chiluren and the “murmurs ol the Wild Waves,” Interspersed now and then by tne occasional cail of a Watcuful parent tor a wayward child, combined to make a jubiice the like or which Gilmore never conceived, ‘The natives believe in the old saying, ‘Live and let live.” They not only washed themselves, but they gave the horses and mules the privilege of availing themselves of what occurs but once a year in the country—a wash. A GAME OF CROQUET Was indulged in after the first bath, mucn to the | delight of the proud possessors of corns and buanions. The heat having a blignting effect upon une paper collars and energies of the players they de- cided to take unother swim. In rambling ainong the rustics the reporter heard a farmer ‘untold a tale” about his young colt, from which it appeared that the ‘foal was untailed,” by the farm gate catca- ing it between itself and a post, A SHOWER BATH. The rain coming on the natives indulged, (invo- Intarily, not bemg fond of too much water,) ina shower bath. This unwelcome visitor put an end to the festivities of a day that should be immortal mf the annals of Jersey. A WELL-WEDDED WOML Nevel Avandonment Suit at the Market Court. Some few days ago a lady, calling herself Mra, Fryer, appeared before Justiee Ledwith, at Essex Market Court, to prefer a complaint of abandon- ment against Andrew J. Fryer, whom she claimed as her husband. The warrant of arrest was served on Mr. Fryer, who is @ salesman in a clotlung house in Chatham sqnare. The case came up for examunation yesterday morning. Mrs. Fryer and her aliegea liege lord were promptly on hand. Fryer stated that the lady was not his wife, but the sex act aan et AAO A LTTE THE MERRICK CAMP MEETING. As It Is and Is to Be—Park; and Pond: on Fe per—The Great Need for fanctiflcation— The Camp Meeting Not a Suc cess Spiritually. Mernick, L. L, August 12, 1571, ‘The veligious exercises at this place so far have been dry and uninteresting and barren of spiritual results to a degree which has called fortn frequent remarks trom the preachers and many of the people. ‘There is an utter lack of that fire and energy which we are so accustomed to associate in our minds with camp meetings, which is to some of the shout- ing and excitable Methodists on the ground very painful, Whether this ts due to the “higher life key to which almost alP the sermons are set or otherwise it is diMcult to determine. The round of religious exercises 18 ample for every purpose, 80 far as time occupied therein 18 Concerned, Rising between four and five im the morning, af the last named hour those who are 80 Inclined—and they appear to be few—gather in a tent and hold a prayer meeting for one hour. Breakfast ensues from six to hali-past seven A. M., then comes @ meeting for “experience” and the NARRATION OF RELIGIOUS TESTIMONY, which lasts from eight till a quarter past nine A, M. A feaiure of this service 1s that the “experience?? proper is preceded by the recital umpromptu of texts of Scripture, upon which the leader o* the meeting, Rev. Dr. Mitchell, usually bases a few pertinent re~ marks to the audience, There 13 then a respite unti) ten o'clock for tent keepers and families to buy their marketing from the carts, which are allowed, upon the payment of a small license fee, to enter the grounds to dispense these necessaries. At ten o'clock preaching services are held, and from twelve to two P. M, are the dinner hours, Should there be ® spare hour in this interim it is spent miscel- laneously, walking about the encampment, singing in the tents, or in prayer aud experience exercises inoneof the prayer meeung tents. These religious employments are of course voluntary oa the part of the persom 80 engaged, and do not come in the regular order provided by the executive committee. At two o'clock there 18 another preaching service, followed at half-past three P, M. by a young peopte’s prayer meeting, in one or more ol the large tents, which lasts aul tive o'clock or later. ‘The evening meal is eaten between tive and seven P. M., and at half-past seven another preach- ing service 13 held, and at its close the people repair to the large tents and continue in prayer until ten o'clock and alter, ‘The night prayer meeting is es- pecially devoted to encou! mans impeniteat persons to seek the saviour. It will thus be scen that the hours of the day are as fully occupied in PUBLIC RELIGIOUS DEVOTION as they can or ought to be; so that if the spiritual success of the camp meeting 18 not what it should be, or waatits patrons aud managers expect, the fault les not with sparseness of services, ‘The Rev. Dr. Griswold, Presidmg Elder, bas the superior oversight of the meeunys and selects the preacners for each service from about a score trom Brooklyn and other parts ot Long Island who ure present. Yesterday morning @ special request was made by Dr. Mitchell for reports in rexard to the prayer meetings of tbe night before. There was but one respondent in all the company—an aged gentleman— who announced that his unconverted daughter was under “deep conviction,” having been at the mourners’ bench, in one of the tents, on Friday night. And so far as could be learned there were but three “seccers” of religion in the Rockville Centre and Pearsall’s tent, two lo Kighteenth street (Brooklyn) tent—oue a backsiider and the other a Corisuan in search of the higher lite—and ove or two in the South second stree. (Willlamsburg) vent. The numer of persons on the ground is variously estumated at rom tive hundred to two thousand, but judging from tne preaching services, which would be likely Co attract the multitude, there were D®} more than eight huudred persons present yesteruay, or at any time since the opening, A PRELIMINARY SERVICE was held in the grove last Sunday, at which, it is said, at least 2,v00 persons were present. This might be true for that day, but not for apy day since. In anticipation of @ large gathering from New York yesterday extensive preparations were zomg forward for their accommodation, aud the preachers and. leaders appear contident that the camp meeting will yet be a spiritual success, One conversion was reported inthe Rockville Centre tent, ‘dhe sermons yesterday were preached by tne Rev. Mr. will, of Jamaica, in the morning, and Rev. Mr. Glover in the afternoon and anotner gentienan in the evening. The sermon of Mr. Hill, from Ephe- slans V., 26, 2%, Was said by ministerial judges pre: sent to have been the ablest delivered on the ground Unis season. The Apostie Paul in the text and context laysdown rules for the gutd- ance of husbands and wives im thelr marital relations, and upon these relations draws a lesson. of holiness ior the Church of Christ, The main points elucidated were that the Churct: of Christ 1* designed to be a glorious Church—its glory consist- ing 12 1is Likeness to Christ ip its lice and work; that 143 not to have spot or wrinkle or any such thing, and that finally 1t 1s to be holy and without blemish, The spot and wrinkle were tiustrated by TOE WASHERWOMAN AT HER CLOTHES TUB rubbing and rinsing and wringing her solied linen, wich, if left in that condition, would not be fit for use. ‘The goods must be ironed aud the wrinkles taken out, and the Chureh must go through a sim. lar process spirituatiy, that it may be presented without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, Her being holy and without blemish was illustrated by the Oriental custom of dealers displaying their wares outside their houses, where the purchases can lft them up toward the sun and detect any spot or blemish which may be in them. Aud this custom the preacher considered far prefer- able to selling goods in dark or pipe lighted rooms, as we do, Where flaws and moth holes aud rents canaot be eusily detected. The means by which the Churet is to obtain this condition of purity and per- fection is by ‘the washing of water aid the wor emblematic of the operations of the Holy Spirit upon the human beart. And chls condition, he contended, 18 attainabie in this Jue. The Church—the pride of Christ—-belng thus purified and perfected, should have the adornment of a meck and quiet spirit rather than that outward adornment of plaiting the hair, Wearing jewels, &c, Andon this point some excellent “hits” were given to the husbands and wives—especially the laiter, On Friday Dr. Wm. Butler, in the morning, enter: tained the meeting with 4 talk about the retrogres- ston of Catholicisin in Mexico and the means and measures which should ve adopted promptly to trimly piant Provestantism tn that repabtic, afternoon Dr, E. G. Andrews, ot Brooklyn, preached on the readiness of Paul aiter lis conversion to work for the Master—‘‘Lord, what wilt ‘hon have me to vo?” being histext. In the evening the Rev. Mr. ‘Thomas, also of Brooklyn, preached a very able dis- course On Elijah's trial with the prophets of Baal, Bien rg a porn found im First ngs, Xv! to 40, ani rallel passages were used, The selfishness of ‘Reoboamn ro out the comment that ts Was not the first or only Lastance wherein SELFISHNESS HAD CUT THE THROAT OF PROSPERITY. And the characters of Kehoboam and Ahab were made to demonstrate that neither reason, con- science, piulosophy nor an unappiled Bible can bring salvation te the soul of man. This discourse wife of one James J. Murphy, now supposed | was preceded by a short address by Dr. Griswold, be. sinog . in see aD went | ana was succeeded by another by Dr. Alitchell, bs FR ne hus motion Mr ee F ‘There 1s absoluie need for sanctification the fact of having been previously married to sur. Se eT ak euhaeian toe ee hy, and of bis leaving lier go to Ireland, but he Ttated that ne jumped overboard ina fit of deliriima | Which abound ip ine camp ground, and tremens and was drowned. She also stated that she was married to Murphy under the name of Margaret Carrigan, and to Fryer under the name of Warren. Her name Was Margaret Warren Carrigan. The lady, who ts A WELL-PRESERVED MATRON of avout forty-five, gave her evidence very pertiy, and seemed quite a match for Mr. Fryer's counsel. On being questioned as to marrying wud er two dif ferent names. she sald that Warren was one- half her name and Carrigan the ocner halt, and sve had aright to ve married under whichever sne liked. ‘Two letters, dated april, 1871, were shown, wiico ‘Were aduressed by Mrs. Fryer to her sister, asking for pecuniary aid till Murphy would torn up. These she did not deny; but safd they were only written for eifect to get some money. As the evidence of bigamy was not made very clear, none of the Wiinessess who were called having: seen the aforesaid Murphy within three years or seemed to know anyihing about him, Mr. Fryer was ordered to pay o0 4 Week toward the support of the lady. A HAPPY PAMILY, Mrs. Powers, the Widew of a Suicide, Ase united by Her Son. Maurice Powers, a rough looking individual, was yesterday arraigned beiore Alderman Plunkitt, av the Yorkville Police Court, charged with assaulting his mother with @ glass tumbler and constantly anusing her, He was committed in default of $1,000 bail to keep the peace. Mrs. Powers 1s (he woman Wao last July was stabbed thirteen times by her hua- band, Who then threw himself Mmto the Last River and was drowned, because he imagined he had Killed her. Jealousy was the cause, it is said, of the assault upon her by the husband, and the son says that her actions since then, which were not of tne most decorgus kind, were also tho cause of the assault by the son. THE PLEASANT VALLEY BOATS. New York, August 9, i871. To THe Epox or THe HERALD:— In your editorial of the sth you allude to the “riotous conduct” on the Pieasant Valley excursion boats, This reflects very unfavorably on the steam. ere Pleasant Valley and Fort Lee, running wo that place. As there has not been the slightest disturb- ance of any kind on these boats we trast you will correct the same, and greauly obitES, yours trul J. M. GORTCHIUS, v. 8.—The steamer Thomas B. Hulse, running to Fort Lee, had quite a riot on doard Sunday jast, which was noticed by several of the daily papers and with which you bave coniounded the aun ee which are said to be much more numerous thie year than they have been heretofore. There is uo pos- sible escape Irom them. They are owing, provably, to the .arge quantities of brash which surronnd the camp and harbor them, and to the soft, sandy na- ture of the ground all about, which has SecHen at some time, and not very distant, been washed by the ocean. Anywhere, everywhere, outside of the grove ifone should miss a “step and kick against anything he would ratse @ dust almost blinding in deusity. This is the third year of the camp meet- ing’s existence in the Merrick grovo, but there 1s very little sign of improvement. THE BEAUTY OF THR PLACE is merely prospective, and can be seen only on * surveyors map, Which hangs axainst a tence or tree, “When it shali be completed according to de sign it Will have somewhat the form of a star. Cir- cular avenues will tadiate from the preacier’s stand as aceutre. They are named respectively “Wesiey,’? which has the inside of the otrcie; *Fletoher,” **As- bury”? and “Cook” (probably Coke?) Crossing these at equal distances from the outer to the inner circle are ‘entcal,’? ‘Aedding,”? “Kingsie, 47) PISK,’? (James, Jr, or Clinton 8?) “Olin,” “Thompson," “MoeKendier” and “Waugh. An extensive drive 33 Lo be opened.on three sides of the camp, and on the south two lakes are to be formed, to be known as Loug Lake and st. Mury’s, At the several inter- sections of the citcular and transverse avenues are (on paper only, of conrse), litte parks, name after the eminent patronymics above given, and others, with a lew exceplious, such as Register and Foun- tain Parks, Bub the stranger sees no more siga of avenues and parks on the camp ground——save the pieces of pie boards witch coutain these names and the map aforesuid—Ulan he does of a village at the place called Merrick. The ville Centre and Pearsail’s Corner Methodists occupy one Large prayer mecting tent on the camp ground, and get along so lovingly to- gether no one would suppose these was ever » legal dispute between them, THE RESULT OF THR QUARRES over the old church at tae Centre, Wokoh has stoo there generation ier generation, for nearly a cen- wry, Will be that there will soon be three Metho- dist churches i that region Instead of on The party wich destved to extend the influence of the old church have bullt a chapei at Pearsail’s Corner, and the Courts and the Conference authorities hav- ing sustamed them in thelr claims to the Gnarch property the tenacious adherents to the old church are about to build a new one for themselves a mtie or so south of the Centre. They have, however, seceded from the Methoutst Episcopal Church, or think they have, and intend to baptize ther now onspring “Protestant Methodist.” Rey, Dr. Pease, the new Presiding Fider of the district, is, however, doing all im his power to appease their wrath and to retain them within the fold of tne sothodist E bea ag ge be im t 9,00 ‘o-day the evs. George Lansing Taylor, F. Hane Bud C. W. Clark wil ocnnne the. preachers’ ‘Any ° 2 —