The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1872, Page 6

6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. MARCH 17—PASSION SUNDAY. Religious Programme for To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE, Religious Notes, Personal and General. Services To-Day. Afternoon service 1s announced at the Trinity ‘Baptist church by the pastor, Dr. Holme, the subject being “Ihe Open Rewards of Secret Re- ligion.” 4 sermon on “The Letters of Jesus” will be Preached at the Berean Baptist church by the Pastor, Rev. P. L. vavies. Services morning and evening, AtSt. Francis Xavier’s church the Rev. Father Merrick will continue this evening his Lenten course Of 1ectures on Catnolic doctrine, Thomas Gale Forster holds forth morning and evening at Apollo Hall on “The Philosophy of Spirit- ualism.”” “Balaam as a Prophet! is the tite of Bishop Snow’s sermon at the University. Dr. Deems will preach to-day at both services at the Church of the Strangers. Free religious exercises will be neld this evening at the Academy of Music, under the direction of Rey, Henry Powers, the speakers being Rev. @. J. Mingens and Mrs, Burleigh. Rev. W. E. Park will preach morning and evening at the New England Congregational church. Rev. H. D, Northrop wiil discourse on ‘Domestic Vices” at the West Twenty-tnird street Prespyterian church. Rev. Dr. Osgood will preach on ‘‘Out of the Deeps’’ and “A Well-Ordered Life” at St. John’s Memorial church, Rev. U. 8, Harrower will preach at both services at St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal charch. Rev. Dr. Flagg, of the Church of the Resurrection, will preach at the hall corner Turd avenue and Filty-fifth street this morning. Elder Cook will explain “The Gospel of the Kingdom” and “Immortality” atthe Second advent church. “The Days of Noah and the Days of the Coming of the Son of Man” will be explained this eveaing at the Catholic Apostie’s church. Rev. Father Damen will combat “The Objections Against the Catholic Church’ tn the Charch of the Holy Innocents this evening. Rey. Alexander Thompson, in Rutgers College chapel, Fifth avenue and Forty-second street. Sub- Ject, evening, “The Gift of the Holy Ghost.” At Steimway Hall Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the morning, and Rev. George H. Hepworth in the evening, on ‘‘Our Homes.” Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, in Christ church, Filth avenue and Thirty-Ofth street. Rey. W. H. Furness, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Church of the Messiah, Park avenue and ‘Thirty-fourth—morning and evening. Rev. Mr. Pendleton in West Fitfy-thira street Baptist church —morning and evening. Rev. 0. A. G, Brigham in the Catholic Apostolic church, Sixteenth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues—evening. Rey. T. 4. Hoyt, University chapel, Washington square, morning. Rev. F. C. Ewer tn St. Ignatius’ church, Seventh avenue, “Christ’s Temptation in the Wilderness’ and “Anglican Worship in its Visible Aspects,” morning and evening respectively. Rev. Henry Powers at Brevoort Hall—Second Church of the Disciples’’—morning. Rev. Charles F. Lee will discourse on “The New Departure” in Chickering Hall, Fourteenth street, at three o'clock, Alecture on “The Resurrection of the Celtic Race” Will be delivered in the Apollo Hall, Brooklyn, Sunday evening, at eignt o'clock, under the auspices of Brooklyn societies. On,Sunday evening, March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day), & lecture will be delivered by tne Rev. G. Parry, of New York, at St, Anne’s church, Brooklyn. The Object of the lecture is to assist in the erection of the new schoolhouse, for which the pastor, Rev. B. Gleason, has been zealously laboring for months past. There wili be a lecture to-day during High Masg at half-past ten on the subject ‘Is the Honor Gtyen by the Catholic Church w the Blesstd Virgin Sanctioned by Reason and by Scripture? ” Alexander Clark, editor of the Methodist Recorder, published at Pittsburg, Pa., who has tectured ex- tensively, was for & while associate pastor of Rev. Thomas 8. Stockton, of Philadelphia, and aathor of “ Gospel in the Trees,’” « Gospel in the Trades,” £c,, will preach Sunday night at ha!f-past seven o'clock, in Attorney street, M. P. Church, Rev. J. J. White, pastor. Tho Mision at the Church of the Holy Inno- cents. To THe Eprror oF THE HERALD:— Among the many Catholic churches so flatteringly and so often mentioned im your Monday reports there 1s one which seems to attract but little notice, Just at this moment it deserves, however, to.be well spoken of, since there 1s going on within it one of those pertodical revivals which, among Catholics, are Known by the name of “missions.” Being somewhat Interested in so stirring and active a phase of religion, and desirous of hearing good Speakers of every kind, we were induced to visit the church in question—that of the Moly Innocenta, corner of Thirty-seventh street and Broadway—last Sunday, the second Sunday of the mission. The Rev. Father Damen, a popular and well-known preacher, of the Society of Jesus, was to preach at high mass, After the Gospel he came to the foot of the altar, robed in bis black cassock, the long rosary and brass crucific adorning his leathern girdle. He is @ venerable, white- headed man, with @ grave and earnest expression, and speaks with a; slightly perceptible foreign accent. His own intense appreciation of the truths ne pro- pounds ts the great secret and lever which makes his discourses so fruitful in practical results, and the passionate earnestness of his manner carries his audience with him in a strangely irresistible way. The women, and not a few of the men, of the densely packed congregation were in tears during the Whole time of the sermon—the appeals to sin- mers made by the preacher, now with pitying gen. tleness, now with reproachtul vehemence, seemed to impress the people wonderfully, and the subject, 80 appropriately chosen from the parable of tne Prodgai Son, certainly lent itself vo a great deal of geal ous and forcivie oratory, The Key. Father Damen’s happiest moods are certainly those in which he draws scenes of daily life, at the same time showing the mysterious puraliel that likens them to the time-worn parables of old. Al- though the subject of the prodigal son ts of a gene- Tal character and typifies more the life of sinners of all kinds than that of a particular class of pack. sliders, i the speaker selected the drunkard as the chief iMustration of his practical meant: Very unpressively be asked of his hearers, “1s the drank. ard happy ?" and went on to answer:—‘'No, for no one loves him. Not his wife; she curses the day whicn first made her acqualated with him. Not Dis children; they are ashamed of him. Not his neighbors; they point him out to each omer a8 corrupter of society, moral lague. Not his fellow drunkard; he shuns hint wheo he ts sover as the shameful re. minder of 014 Own degradation. Not the seller of Jiquor—not even he—he loves his money, but when that 18 gone small cunsiderauion does he show hin, for he despses him. Who joves him, brethren? The devil! and he Joves him only to torture him; loves him to his own destruction.” The speaker then said that when ali turned irom the sinner God alone Opened His arms to him and bade him come and pe forgiven; come and renew bis intention of changing his life; come and kneel at the feet of tne Redeemer, ‘Whose Diood was the price of his salvation. Some- Unies the Kev. Father Damen rears aloft the large cross, With the image of the Lord, and bids the sol bing people kneel, while he prays to God for them; Gt Oller Limes he lightens the strata on their atten- lon by Introducing telling anecdotes and salient examples drawn from his own experience, or, at any Tate, from real life. If the fruits of bis preaching be tue gauge of the preacher's ability, then must we credit iis Jesuit missionary with extrraordinary @i'te ant power, for wherever he speaks conver- sions chsne; hardened sinuers confess their wicked- hess abd reform their lives, even those who criticise cannot help being impressed, and the parish that bas Qocked w hear lum’ keeps for @ long ume the = pracuical remembrance of his NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAKCH 17, 1872—QUADRUPLE ‘SHEET, lessons, im nis manner ne id both gentle &nd cheerful, thoroughly alive to the pital wants Gr eeoee heisnprosenen, apsorved in his work devoting nis ble energy wholly to it. need of these Ee ‘Most manifest arishes are under ardly equal to their divine and to whom the simple-minded unworldliness of the Gospel 1s 3 tradition rather than a . We Cast no blame on them, but we could wish it were otherwise, and Wwe turn with hopeiul confidence to those men in Whose heartg the world has not obscured the divine ideal of spiritual work, and who, not lowermg themselves to the common level of men, yet dedi- cate their lives to raise thetr Mocks to the ievel of the Gospel. This work 18 being done by Jesuits and Tanciscans, by Pauilsts and Ke- demptorists, _ bj Dominicans and senedic- tines This work, over the whole world, 1s best perlormed by the children of these old monastic as- Soctations, to show we are indebted for the preser- vation of itterature, of agricuiture, of science on the one hand, and on the other for the invention, so to speak, of those Principles of seli-restraint upon Whose stability modern society depends, But this is beside our present Saitek. whicn # more lun- ited and less ambitious one. We should be dolag an injustice to the Ohurch of the Holy Innocents if we did not menuon a subject upon which,in most other Catholic churches silence 18 more charitabl namely, the music. ‘To tell the truth, we had nol anticipated such an agreeable disappointment. Tae mass last Sunday was Muzart’s No. 2, aud was ren- dered by the choir, which is numerous, in a very creditable and devotional manner. ‘The Kyrie, which ig especially religious in its tone, was finely and accurately sung, and the remaining portions, including the offertory hymn, “0, Jesu Mi,” by Winter, were correspondingly ' well’ executed. notived the soprano acporaey, as having a very sweet, clear voice, happily free from that devestable sensuvusness Which at present appears to be the “oue thing needful” for an ambitious singer, The organist, Mr, Murphy, ceriainly deserves great praise for the manuer 1a which the choir ts trained and for the choice of music, which, though not equal to the perfect standard attained in tue great lic churches of England and Germany, yet reminds one more forcibly of such perfection than that used in ony other church in New York. It,is pleasant to hear the forid style of church music, kept within the bounds of decorum and not allowed to degen- erate, through the bad taste ofythe many who listen, and the ignorance of tue few who rule, into that chaos of vocal gymnastics affected by the more Prominent Catholic churches of this city. Enter St. Seephon's, ‘St. Francis Xavier's, St. Patrick's, and you will Kuow what we mean. We notice with great Pleasure that the respot whied are always sung to the oid church chant were admirably exe- cuted by the choir of the “Holy Innocents,” most of ‘em 1n unison, but a 1ew harmonized, which pro- duces @ very’ solemn effect, ‘Tho Bar Father Damen’s efforts during this muasion have been crowned with signal su as he himself inti- mated with great joy last Sunday, and we were the more surpri to find that your valuable paper gave no sign of Consciousness of the great moral Work that is going on iu that crowded parish of the “Holy Innocents.” It was for this reason that hav- ing happened to be present, through our curiosity With regard to great speakers, at this sermon lust Sunday, we thought you might not be dispivased to have your religious news supplemented oy this la- teresting and pncrrnae item. The mission closes Sunday, Marca COLUMBA, Thomas Paine. To Tae Eprror oF THB HERALD:— Your correspondent “M. W.,’” in the HERALD of the dth, gives certain reminiscences of Thomas Patne, on what he verms the autnority of “the best friends and most intimate associates of Paine, with whom Ne resiaed a much longer time than with Mrs. Badeau, and wno continued all their lives to believe in the doccrines ne taught,” and on the atrength of this authority intimates that Paine estranged Ars, Bonneville from her husband and brought her with him to America; that Paine did not pay his debts in New York city, if he ald in New Rochelle; tnat he ate bread and milk for supper in the city and threw what ne could not eat into the fire, because he wanted the full worth of his board money ; that intemperance was one of the most respectable and least disgusting of his habits; that some of his habits were so filthy that to call them “brutish” would be a libel on the lower orders of animal creation, and that nothing Would be easier to prove than this, if or- duary delicacy and refluement would aliow us the use of any language that might convey the faintest idea ot such peculiarities,” All this intimation of what might be done if, is put forward that “MW. may “do his best to preserve the truthfulness and integrity ef history.” To one who highly regards Paine as a master spiritin the radical development of human rights and a sharp analyst of the true principles of human freedom, this mysterious and backbiting form of arraignment seems very equivocal and re- pulsive, and many questions suggest themselves to help to elucidate the shrouded facts that need to be named “to preserve the truthfulness and integrity of history.” Now, history says that Mr. Paine did not estrange Mrs. Bouneyilic from her husband, that he did not bring her to America with him, and no decent evidence was ever before the public that he ever sustained any other relauion to her and her tamuy than that ofa friend and protector when needed. Cheetham’s Ubel a@uswers itself. Paime did not desert his wlie in Engiand, but they parted with mutual consent, he scrupulously refraining from Spending @ penny of her patrimony. No evidence has ever been presented that Mrs, Bonneville or any other woman ever nad a son who resembled Paine, and the idea was alluded to and its ridicu- lousness shown by Mrs. Bonneville’s counsel on the Cheetham livel case. Mr. Elisha Woodworth, of Cambridge, Maas, Woere he died a few years since, was one of Paine’s “most inumate associates and best iriends,’”’ and, regardless of iriend or foe, was aman of truthtul- ness and integrity. He was with Paine during his last sickness, made bis coffin for nim and assisted in the last sad duties that the living can render the dying and the dead, and he declared, under the sanction of nis honor as a man Of truth, that the stories of Paine’s beastly navits Were gross and cruel exaggerations, inflated and distorted by tne malignant hatred of those whg deemed any faisehood justifiable in defaming the @utuor of the “Age Of Reason.’’ That Paine touk suud (a fithy hapit in any per- son) dud tut he drank intoxicating liquors 13 now denled, hat many of his personal habits changed for tae worse by tue irregular bachelor and camp live he was forced into by bis devotion to the Ameri- Can Cause, 18 NOL at ail improbable. Many thousands Yo-vay “are Witnesses of ie same incongruity in relatives and Irieuds, whu leit the appliances of Weaith and ease lor the ragged ile of a caup during our late reveilion. Aud with ali that the utmost stretch of hypocritical fanaticism can make out of the foregomg, what is there that, sudden or published, can atiect tue “trutofuiness or integrity ol history’ What must Rave been the social or moral standing of those “best friends and most intimate associates wo contunued all their lives to believe in the doctrines ne taught (woo ever heard of any doctrines lie ever taught, for Heaven's sake ?) and with whom le resided 4 mucn longer time tuan With Mrs. Badeau?"’ And how could they continue so intimately asso- ciated with @ Man whose havits were so inwierabiy filthy, so uuconditioually bad, that ‘to call them brutish would be w libel on the lower orders of ani- mal creation ¥” With what pretensions to decency could they continue the “vest iriends” of a man who lived in the daily indulgence of habits that can only be proved or mentioned by using lunguage disallowed by “‘ordimary delicacy and refoemeat?” And even supposing that Paibe’s later years were disigured to tae exteni implied in “M. W.’s"’ slan- derous and maligaant articie, how would that admission affect the relations which nis writings and himself sustaim, fustorically, to tue American and Freucn revolutions? What are the names of those “best iriends and Must intimate associates” who thus impeack nis maniood by making such charges? We know who were Paine’s ‘most intumate associates” Wa New York a8 Weil as we know who composed Washing- ton’s staf? at the battle of Monmouth. We want the names Of such Of them as tous belie the evidence of those Other assuciates who stand in the lignt of day. If ue took sauff and drank rum is it auy less true that with the ardor of @ patriot and enthusiast ne threw bimseif into the ‘forelront of the hottest bat Ue” against the tory and English foes of American ludependence? that he abandoned a colossal for- tune to be reaped irom his pen that he mignt more surely ald the American cause? ‘hat ue avan- doned the ease aud competence of a gentleman to Suare the tardsiipy and privations of a camp? That he sacrificed tis means to the last peuny to relleve the American army when driven 10 despair by Wautand privation? that he avandoned nome, faine aud wealsh for the uncertain and uodetined Tesult of a bioody revolution In stormy France, 1n the hope to extend to France the glorious boun of Dolitical and religious ireedom #0 Lappily won for shese unmenuonabie fithy habits utterly the eacomiums and laudations of Washington, Adams, Yrankiin, Rush, Jefferson and all the early tathers woo led the children of tha Revolution turoagh the Red Sea of 1776? Is there any ingratitude more sneakingly inhoman than this avempt to obscure tne highest services r rendered @ay nation strugging for freedom by atriv- to ort: into notoriety the personal havits and coadilloes Of ube Of ts ablest champions? And 18, (00, irom men who dally and hourly become boisterous in thelr approvai ot those very tustitu- Uons whicw are the outgrowth of the political prin: cipies Paine Cre to estavlish, and ior watch ti ‘Was ostracised y CondeiMued to the guillo- Une in France, and most religiously damued in Amtrica. aetamors of Paine sit basking in the ef of tical and religious freedo; glorying that the i Martyrs 80 suc- ra ent nation, and, hi el these Hesslugs, neap tna fouloss darset religious bigotry and hatred, the meanest falsehoods and the most damning calumonies upon the man of all men, whose labors of love, more ng man, aided w hieve these wcraore is @ life of Paine, written by a false. hearted tory, convicted libeller, a convicted liar (Cheetham’s), and tuere Is a life ‘of Paine com- piled from authentic sources and contemporary evi- a ‘ale’s), uy which criticism may vainly exhaust itself in striving to its authority. ‘To these two biographies qill the student of his- tory turn to read the life of the immortal philan- thropist, whose every palession. beat for humanity, and who braved contumeily, starvation and death, that he might ald tn establishing a “gov- ernment 0i the people, tor the people, and by the opie,” and that, instead of the “Divine Rights of ism,” the “Rights of Man” snould become the text book ana aie. of the woria’s civilization. ‘The true spirit of ’s critics can be easliy un- derstood by learning from which of these two sources tney derive their mspiration. We have heara the bigotry of rank toryism afirm that a bottle of rum found in Napoleon’s carriage developed the secret of the defeat at Waterloo; we have beng nae eaaken My peace one oot nia negroes tor reminding him his J give him his freedom; we have heard that Andrew Jack- sou sacrificed his manhood on the filtny altar of livertinism ; we have heard that Grant was & drunken tool, and that Lincoln was a drunken ape and @ traitor, and we see that amid ail these foul aspersions the name and fame and memory o/ these men shine transcendent as heroes in the critical hours of their country’s history; and we know that because to political Paine would have added per- fect religious freed ell his name, which should be the brightest star in the national fir ment, 1s yet the target for the frenzied hatred and bigotry of the ees world, MORRIS A. |, Forty-fifth street. Confession in the Episcopal Church. To THe Epiror or THs HeRaLp:— Again I bog the use of the columns of the HERALD on the subject of above heading. First, permit me to courteously inquire of your last week’s corre- Spondent, “Consistency,” If he shows consistency 4n his use of quotation marks to words 1 did not write, whero he presumes to quote me? One will be troabled to find in my communication either the Words or the spirit of the ‘I-don’t-care-wnat-the- Charch-sanctions” style, nor did I say, “Give us your Scriptural authority, or talk not to me of con- fession.” Surely, from such treatment, may I not urge upon him the inconsistency of his signature Where he so faults mine, and would nave me write myself “An Anti-Cathollc Churchman.” asking jor Bible authority to sanction confes- sion to man I desired not to alone “argue the case from the Bidle,’’ but to use the Bible as our Uhurch directs in article 6—‘that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be Rearee thereby is not to be re- quired’’—so that, after this Church teaching, the absence of such sanction in Hol: to me, coupled witn article 22, cl as a “Romish ocerine,!’ and “grounded upon no warranty of Scripture,” to be in great part a nega, tive auswer to “Churchman’s” query, “Does the Seriptures seems sing ‘pardons’? ) Protestant Paurcona Church sanction the confession Ing of one’s to 8 priest?” And thus does the Bible confirm our Church doc- trines; and, on the other hand, our Charch testi- fies to the Bible, such corroborative testimony will certainly not be thougnt valueless by one of @ “legal turn of mind.” And herein is where I | claim to being @ Churchman: I accept the Uhurch’s teacnings ag shown in her articles of religion above quoved, mm searching the Scriptures and not finding confession to @ priest authorized. Iam not wsetting Up my own notions as against my Catnolic Cnurch, and ‘Ido care what the Ohurch sanctions," and in her catholicity she does sanction Bible testimony as vo herself ang her requirements, desiring to assume to herself nothing but what “may be proved there- by,” and I, understanding the definition of “catho- lic” in this connection to be “the embracing of all that pertaineth to Christianity,’ I feel that in em- bracing the Bible as a guide and testimony of the Church I cannot forego the use of my adjectived signacure, CATHOLIO OHURCHMAN, Vindication of the Jews’ Character. To THE KDITOR OF THE HERALD:— An acquaintance of mine, a Jew, was asked the question, & few days ago, by a Christian, in a friendly manaer, why it was that the Jews, as a Tace, were so given to swindling, that why the fow honorable ones that were among them (for he admitted there were a few) did not impress upon the mass of their race their superiority of intellect and business capacity they were naturally endowed with, which alone would cause them to become Wealthy without cheating. 1 shall avail myself through the Qolumns of your paper to place the Jews in their true and proper light, not alone in Tegard to thus unjust charge, but others, by which their character as a race hasbeen stiginatized one of the foremost of which is that it is said that greed and love of money are the ruling spirit among them, many even insinuating that it 1s greater than tneir love to their God, and that they would stoop to earn money at the sacrifice of their conscience, I will first prove the latter is unjust by placing be- fore your readers one of the greatest historical facta—tne most sublime and heroic that any nation has ever recorded—showing how money, luxury, home, all were discarded sooner than yield une iota of love and faith in the one only and true God or crush down thelr conscience. It was exemplified in the year 1491, Christian era, when that persecuted, proud, but noble race were commanded vy the head powers of Spain to efther change their faith or be forever banished from the Spanish soil; they brought no charges against them; they must either renounce thelr religion or suffer banishment, His- tory records that tney close the latter; how they who for centuries had bean the flower of Spain in iitera- ture, sclences and commercial enterprise gave up the accumulated weaith of ages, not allowed to take With them a relic, & change of garments, nor even provisions for their slow and tedious journey, and that many from fatigue and hunger dieaere they reached a friendly soil, and many of whom as early as practicable sought an asylum in this land of liberty. AU their early synagogues for almost a century, Were founded by the Spanish or Portuguese Jews, as they are termed, Time alone has proven which nation has become the most prosperous—the one that spurned and banished them or the one that fostered and protected them. 1 will now follow the Jews commercially, princi- Pally in this country, as those that have arrived here are from every nation and ciime on tne globe, and we can judge their characteristics to be the standard of the whole race. We first find them atter their arrival here as pediers; for heges y the mass of them have hardly a dollar when they land they do not beg nor steal nor drain on the public funds, but rather would peddie with @ pack on their back, taking the same route from time to time, showing they do not swindle, as many would assert, or they would not be able to ply thelr voca- Uon Without arrests or complaints; but frequently they themselves are imposed on by a ciass of sharp- ers Who take advantage of their ignorance of the language aud of merchandise. They soon, however, acquire both, and can then guard against all such. As soon as they have accumulated a few doulars they give up peddiing, finding it a hard and labori- ous task, and reach one scate higher in the com- mercial lauder by taking positions as clerks, where they rarely betray the confluence reposed in them, or commence @ small store of their own, where they usyally prosper, not by swizdling, but by Sirict avtention to business, honesty aud regularity of habits, which eventually lead them to carrying on some of the largest wholesale businesses, always Working on the same principles that marked their former career; and so we leave them at the top of the ladder commercially and explain what has given rise to all ihese fase calumnies against nem, In former ages, when the public mind was not as free from prejudice as at the present day, afew fanatics thought it manifested a sense of piety in their Own Iaith by denouncing others not agreeing With theirs; aud many walicious ones irequently laid crimes to their door which were not their own and for which they had to suffer; and many exaggerated their faults and faliings—for there are none of us perfect—to carry out their nateful purposes, Then, many eminent literary men, knowing it, panderea to the passions and prejudices of the public mind of their day, drew forth some of the most Monstrous pieces of humanity, and sume from the lowest dens of corruption, which many believed to be the nature of the Jewish race, some denouncing them as miserly, aebased and wicked, and not- Witnstanding the facts that the Jews spend their Money with a lavish hana in whatever community they reside, and prove themselves honorable by their square dealings ana temperate habits, ovis as clear, if not clearer, record as regards criminal offences than any other race, and are charitable, hot gione supporting thelr own poor, but aiding otners as well. Yet such slanders are beileved by many of the intelligent as well asignorant. The press have also aided in & measure, for when re- ooare offence committed or low vocation fol- lowed by the individual Jew it was held up as a sugma against the whole race, ‘nat there are & few swindiers among them { must adinit, but most of them soon learn to leave off such habits when mingling with a free-minded poor le ; and now I will pause ere proving what jas Caused those, to ask this intellectual commu- nity whether they would consider it rignt ul the Jews should take that low class of sharpers which the Gentile community call their swindiers and should set them Up as atype of their race? I know you ‘will say the same as J, it would not be just, I will now mention where those few swindlers that are among them come from, and what has caused it, They come from several very despotic countries in Europe, such, for tastance, as certain localities 19 Russia and iene where they are scarce allowed to earn @ dollar in an honoranie manner, but mostly have to resort to such @ course to earn the bare nece:saries of life, and should they succeed in accamuiating a few dollars some pretext is used by the tuhabitants to rob and plunder them, ag very recent news from those countries shows that such a state of affairs does extst, many garrylag their fanatical hate go far as to burn down their houses, leaving them to perish by the bun- dreds. I cannot end this hy B ying to this United States of America a jast trivate for being the first nation that extended to them sympathy and Vapewng by placing an Isra ag Consul there, and although it seems not to have done the OF Bal he oe ree ‘8 soe uarter, it served as § balm tn their aifiction, tor they as @ nation are 80 bound to each other by’ love and sympathy from there many sufferings that what affects one affects all, T have not aimed to show here the nigh standard the Jews have attained in literature, the sciences and fine arts, but simply to eradicate from the pub- seindng chads oa oa of Naray et at swin on eresy - cism. be OLIVE BRANCH, Is Man Immortal t—Reply to “Cato.” To Ta EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In your issue of March 1you print an article signed “Cato,” in which it is asserted that it can be proved by the Scriptures that man ts not immor- tal, or has not the essential elements of immortality within him. If you will be so kind as to allow me the space, I think, by several quotations from Scrip- ture, I can bring strong presumptive proof that man 1s, so far as the essentials for eternity are con- cerned, 1mmortal:— Ecclestastes xi, 7—‘Tnen shal! the cust return to the eartn as it was, and the spirit (sou!) shall re- turn unto God, who gave it.” Ecclesiastes tii., 21—‘Who knoweth the spirit (soul) of man that goth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” Numbers xvi., 22 (part)—‘‘O0 God, the God of the spirits Of all fesh.” (Not the God of tae dead flesh, but the God of the spirit life.) dob xxxiv., 14—“If He set His heart upon man, uf He gather unto Himsell His spirit and His breath’? Zechariah xi, 1 {parh—“ana formeth the spirit of man within him.’ tthew, xX. 28, our blessed Redeemer said:— “Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear Him which 1s able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” L Peter, tl. 18—For Christ also hath once sulfered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us unto God, being put to death in the flesn, but quickened by the spirit.” Verge 19—‘By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison.’? Verse 20—‘‘Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, whue the ark Was preparing, wherein few—that is eight souls—were saved by water.’ L Peter, iv. 6—"‘For, for this cause was the Gospel preached aiso to them that are dead (in. the flesh), that they might be indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in tne spirit.” Matthew, Xxil, 31, 82, Jesus sald:—‘But, as touch- ing the resurrection of the aead, nave ye not read that which was spoken unto rea by God, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.’ DISOLPLE. RICHMOND, V8., March 11, 1872. Again on the Immortality of tho Seul. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:—~ Having just returned froma visit to the sunny Soutk, where, by the by, your valuable paper ts more highly esteemed than any other in the coun- try, [now hasten to pat in my replication to the answer of M. Greb to my former communication on the subject of the immortality of the soul. * I should hardly attempt this if I did not hope to draw nim out in his next with at least some suow of argu: ment, instead of his mere tpse diziis, with whico his first article so profusely abounds. for instance, he says Plato did not originate the doctrine or dogma of the immortality of the soul; but he falls to tell us who did. If this belief existed long before him, where and among what peoplet Mr. M. Gre, I nope, does not think we should be satisfied with “his opinion.’ He says, “the human soul is spiritual, aud therefore tmmortal,”” The world has 4ong since learned the value of such naked asser- tious; the true logician will not be misied by any such premature propositions. The Bible shows us, not @ dualism, as our philosopher dues, but a triple union of taree parts, to wit:—body, soul and spirit. We are told God breathed inio man’s nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul. The taking away Of tuis breath, by @ reversion of the process, causes @ dissolution and tne loss of the Soul is the consequence. So we are tola in another Place, that ‘tne dust shall return to the earth as it Was, aod the spirit to God who gave it.” While I admit thatthe soul is not matter or parts, 1am also convinced that 1t cannot survive a separa- tion of bouy and yspirit; and I am the more and more convinced ol this when I perceive how a little straining of that silver cord which binds them to- getner will 80 soon produce oblivion, close of the Gateways to tne beautiful land of memory and Silence even the sweet music of the dream land. I know we ail long for immortality, and that longing has begotten all those false theories we so cling tu. Bui who told man he had an immortal soul? God never did. On the contrary, His Word constantly declares, ‘‘Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” In fact man tn his pristine condition was not innately immortal, for if God had made kim so it would have been as inconsistent in Him vo have doomed him to death, ag it would be inconsistent and impossible, as orthodox people claim, for him to Kill tne soul Which they say He maue like Himself. Besides, what need was there of a tree of life in the garden of mice if our first parents couid have lived without If Mr. Greb thinks It is so paradoxical for me to say the Bible teaches man’s mortality, suppose he begins to look into tne matter and tell us where it teaches otuerwise; for if, indeed, we have immortal souls in the sense of orthodoxy, then to Plato more origiaality (or more inspiration, as the case may be) Is due than to Jesus of Nazareth, who, I con vend, first ‘brought life and immortality vo light through the Gospel.” Cato. “Cato” Confession Scriptural. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In answer to my detence of contession, a “Uatholic Charchman” desires to Know what Scriptural war- rant we have for the practice. Now, if we can prove that from the beginning that holy Cathouc Church in which we daily profess our bellef has taught the lawfuiness of priestly absolution, the matter should be settled for us who are within her fola, a8 I cannot possibly conceive that a man should profess allegiance toa Church whose dog- mas were not Scriptural But if my opponent will examine the arguments adduced in favor of the doc- trine in qugstion, he will find them based upon the Scriptures—even our Lord’s own words, “Wnose- soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them,” ana other like passages—as weil as our own knowledge of the neeas of man’s nature and the relations he holds to his Creator. I can- not, in the brief limits of ts communication, discuss the subject fairly; but if those who wish to pursue it for themselves will examine the “Life of Penitence,’’ ‘‘Repentance” or a work on confession, all by the Rev. Mr. Carter, of Clewes; “Priestly Absolution Scriptural,” which is ono of the series @ailed ‘Tracts for the Day; or, a Litue Catechism on Absolution,’ by the Conley Fathers, whose answers are deduced from texts of Scripture, they will find the divine authority for confession fully maintained. Of course, no one pretends that the Bible says, “Confess thy ins to a priest and thou shalt be for- given.” Like all the cardnal Christian doctrines, At ig not so Much—to quote article 6—‘contamed? to Scripture as to “be proved thereby.” The word trinity, to start with the foundation of Christianity, does not once occur in the Bibie, but was framed by theologians to express the divinity of Father, Word and Spint, as revealed in Scripture, And churchmen would do well to remember that unless the direct words of the Bible wore supplemented by the con- Unuous teaching of that Church, which, as the Bible iuseli says, 13 ‘ine pillar aua ground of the truth,’’ giving the Holy Communion to wopien, baptizing Iniants and keeping whe Lord’s Day instead of the Sabbath (the latter, be it noted, in direct contradic. tion to the Decalogue, and showing the power of God’s living Churcb in supplementing His writien Word) would be as unlawful and uuseriptural as some now hold confession. In the case of the latter doctrine, however, in comparisoa to the weakness of man’s nature, which would surely never submit | to go sharp & correction, save ag 1t Was ordained of God, there 1s the most direct Scriptural teaching, as direct a8 that upon baptism, though not so full, since while tho latter sacrament 1s, as our catechism says, “generally te hh to salvation,” no one in our communion holds that confession ts necessary to salvation at all. For your correspondent euurely misunderstands me if e Vhinks I suppose confession to man “absolutely necessary.” I said expressly ‘for those who would make any real spiritual progress"—a very different thing from simply being saved—and limited even that by “in most cases,” for of course God's grace can work by what means He sees ft; only for my- self feel tt sater to seek for it where He as told me it may be found, 1 trust @ “Catholic Churchman” will allow me to correct @ very grave and uncatholic error into which he has tnaavertently fallen, He holds absolution, as he tells us, one of the ‘“rammels of the Papacy,” because the Romish doctrine of “pardons” is con demnéd by article 22, But be will read any his- tory of the articles he will see at once that no reference was had %o the pardon by absolution—as, indecd, the plural pardons” would show of itself. it Was auother term for indulgences which up to the pres- ent day constitute one of the most objectionabie iea- tures of Romanisim, and whose connection with the Continental Reformation is well’ known to ail readers of history. Tetzol and bis compeers sold “pardons,” not ‘don, and it was partly from the Muney so derived tbat St, Peter's was built. To say that the framers of the articles coniouuded ticse Justiy-to-be-reprebended pardons with the pardon conveyed from God through the means of absolu- tion, Would be to make them stultiiy themselves, since im the same Prayer Book with the articles the Bishop says, in ordaining each priest, “Whose sins thou dost forgive they are torgiven,” which power the priest is afterward directed to use by ab- Sivgeshe sick man, ‘af he humbly and heartily jesire Again, “Catholic Churchman” says the general confession and absolution do not imply the Komish (1 never said they implied the Romisu) doctrine of auricular confession and pardon. Of course they imply no doctrine of auricular—meaning private— Confession at all; for no mention of individual sins could be made in the daily services; but the con- fession of the sick man(I speak of this English Prayer book) is to be 6) and the absolution ends, ‘1 aosoive thee irom all tay sing, in the name ofthe Father and ot the Son and of the Hol Ghost.” If this be not authoritative it is the most shocking biasphe Ought at once to sever my, and we all connection wisi @ Church whic enforces such sacrilege. As to the otnei Opponent, that pardon @lgne, the most “advanced” Catuolic never itastand ” taught that without detatehe the priest's absolu- wee Toth way. follow no new le the Jewish ceremony the sinner pennies 3 and Tamented His sins before ‘Against only have I sinn: ht,” au also, Conrenens, it his offering to the p Who was then to “make an atonement for him be- fore the Lord," after which he was held a3 par- doned. And 80 any confession would be false and insincere did not make one’s repent- ance before God deeper and fuller. Whea Anan! rer fy KY Appeared to Saul, s wash away thy sins,” I never read that aera but Thou o} canal He trusted and obeyed’ Him (though the word came then as now, peroten His servant), and God did wash away His sins, in Saul’s way, but His own, And so, in our own day, when the sinner hears Chnist's words to His apostles, and through them to His priests in all ages (since He said, “Lo! lam with you always, even to the end oft he world’) “Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them,” and, obeying lils Lora, thus seeks remission of his sins, who so truly as ne can cry in the chas- vened joy of his new-found peace, “I sald [ will confess my unto the Lord, and so Thou for- gavest the wickedness of my sins.’” AMERIOAN CATHOLIO. Religious (Catholic) Reception. Cn Thursday, February 29, Miss Abbie Hickey received the white veil from the hands of the Very Rev, Father Turner, ¥. G. The pretty chapel of tne Convent of Mercy, Willoughby avenue, was filled on the occasion with the tIriends of the young lady. After the reception the Rey. M. J. Murphy addressed the newly received sister in @ manner appropriate to the occasion, His words were few, but to the purpose. After the ceremony the friends of the newly received sister were allowed @ few minutes to offer ner thelr congratulati Soclety of Friends—Orthodox. The first attempt at a census of the Orvhodox Friends 1s made in the Friends’ Review. It gives the number for 1871, as reported by the Yearly Meetings, and, comparing them with estimates for previous years made from computations based upon the reported numbers of children, has been able to give an approximate representation of the growth or increase of the Society, as follows:— New Engiand Yearly Meeting, established 1671; Members in 1871, 4,403. New York, established 1695; mombers in 1871, 2,858. Canada, establisned 1867; memoers in 1871, 1,641. Philadelphia, estabiisned 1681; members in 1871, 5,500. Baltimore, established 1671; members in 1871, 600. North Carolina, estab. Ushed in 1708; members in 1871, 4,000, Onio, lished in 1812; members in 1871, 2,856. established tn 1821; members In 1871, 17,200, ern, established in 1857; members in 1871, 9,749, lowa, established in 1863; members in 1871, 8,599, ‘The total present membership 1A 57,405, and shows @gain of 165 over whe number comprised in the yearly meetings existing twenty years ago. Durin: tnese years the membership of the meetings east 0: the Alleghentes has decreased 7,722, while those ‘wes, have increased 8,477. The ratio of adults to children is:—In New York, in New kngland, 4.98; in Philadeiphia, 6.15; in Ohio, 8.56; in Ln ana, 3.66; in Western, 3.07; 1a lowa, 3.93. Religious Revivals. An Interesting revival is now in progress at Dr. Ouyler’s churon in Brooklyn, Afternoon and even- ing meetings are held in both church and chapel, and many conversions are already reported. Rev. George Lansing Taylor has received into the Methodist church at Hempstead, L. L, 130 per- sons, the fruits of the revival still in progress, The revival in the Methodist church at Forty: third street in this city continues with unabated interest. More than three hundred persons have presented themselves at the altar as “‘seekers.”” In the Methodist church in Vincentown, Ohio, a revival is in progress, the results of which are worth recording. ‘ty drunkards nave been reclaimed from drunkenness, about thirty of whom have joined the Methodist Church. ‘Sixteen months ago more than fiity children bad drunken fathers, but little to eat and rags for clothing, who now have sober fathers, plenty to eat and comfortable cloth- ing; and on the Sabbath day fathers, mothers and children can be seen in the house of God.’? The Congregational ministers of Boston and vicinity repanet at their meeting in Park street study, On March 4, the reception of a total of 213 peceone into their several charches the day pre- vious. The Western Christian Advocate (Clacinnatt) says:—“Our revival department in the last eight or ten weeks has exhibited an accession to the church on trial, within the bounds of our circulation, of some eight thousand or nine thousand persons,"” Eleven additions on protession of faith were made to the Alexander Presbyterian church of this city at its recent communion, mostly heads of families. A number who intended to come forward were pre- vented oy sickness. Twenty-eight persons were received into the Pres- byterian churco in Nineveh, N. Y., on Sabbath, March 3 ‘twenty-four were on profession of faith, and of these twenty-four twelve were heads of 1am- ilies. In tour cases husband and wife stood up to- gether to confess Christ before men. The Presbyterian Church in Baldwinvilie, N. Y. received to its communion twenty-one on the first Sabbath of this month, as the first fruits of tne revival. ‘The Presbyterian congregation in Batn, N. Y., is favored with the reviving and converting influences of the Spirit, Extra meetings have been held ror some time, conducted by the pastor, the Rey. James M. Platt, with precious results. He was assisted one week by Rev. Samuel Jessup, of Dansville, Fifteen united with the church Sabbath betore last, among the number a promising son, a lad of seven- teen, of the pastor. The First church of Oswego, N. Y., now vacant, recently made an important addition to their sex sion. Sabbath evening, 25th ult, Rev. Thomas A, Weed, of Scottsville, preached a timely sermon to them, and ordained Messrs, Strong, Hathaway, McLain and Waugh as ruling elders, An extensive revival is in progress in the Metho- dist church, Ellenville, N. ¥. ‘The Presbyterian church m Stony Polnt, N. Y., has received ninety-two on profession and four by letter since the Week of Prayer. About twenty others nave not taken final action, being in tran- situ, and @ score professing conversion have joinea elsewhere. The Presbyterian church in Wampsville, N. Y., which 1s under the pastoral care of Kev. A. J. Quick, of Lenox, N. Y., bas been enjoying a pre- cious revival, commencing with the Week of Prayer. There have been over thirty inqutrers, the mast of whom have expressed a hope. Seventeen united with the church last Sabbata, The interest has been great during the past year in the Presoyterian church, at Great Bend, Pa. There have been pearly one hundred and fifty in- quirers, about half of whom have now obtained hope. Rev, CG. M. Howard, the evangelist, closed his labors there Sunday, The Greenwich street Presbyterian cnuroh, Phila- delplua, Rev. William tutton, pastor, has recently enjoyed a precious revival. ectings were com- menced in the latter part of January and during the ive weeks through which the meetings con- tinued, nearly forty rose and asked for prayers— thirty-two of whom have found peace in believing. On Sabbath evening, 10th inst., twenty-four of these converts made @ public professioga of religion; ten of these were babtized, Religious Notes—Personal and General. The Episcopal church of Palmyra, N. Y., have contracted with a company to erect their fine stone church the coming season, and complete it ready for occupancy by the 16th of December. This will place an clegant house of worship on each of the four corners of Main and Canandaigua streets, in that pleasant and prosperous village. Rev. Arthur Brooks, of Wililamsport, Pa, has ac- cepted tne call to the reccorship of St. James, church, Chicago, lately vacated by Dr. Thompson, Who succeeus Dr. Ewer in Christ church, New York. Mr. Brooks 1s a brother of Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston. The Rev. John B. New, of indianapolis, Ind., a Baptist minister, has just died from @ cold con- tracted duriug a recent out-door baptism. He had toenier a river where tne ice was broken for the purpose, and, ali dripping wes, had to walk nearly @ mile to change his clotnes aiterward. Rev, Mr. E. N. Kirk, of Boston, has been reduced to total bilndness, Charles F. Latham, of Thetford, Vt., who recentiy ted without will, requested that $5,000 of his pro- perty be given to Thetford Academy, for the benefit of indigent students who might hereafter be con- Dected with the institution. Rev. J. C. French was iustalled pastor of the rade Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, on the 6th inst. Rev, William H. Ciark, of New York, has been called to the pastorate of the Broadway Reformed church, Paterson. syfacocue. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET tloa—The Ark of the Covenant and What it Purports—The Foundations of Judaism. ‘The beautiful synagogue in Thirty-fourth street, hear Broadway, was well filled yesterday with a fashionable congregation, composed largely of Gentiles, Dr. Vidaver discoursed upon the rearing up of the tabernacle by Moses, and of the reasons why Moses was chosen to rear i. The ancient rabbies, he sald, had a legend that when the taber nacle and ail its furniture had been completed, and, the people were waiting impatiently to have it reared up, they appealed to the artisans, who had distinguished themselves oy their handiwork, and asked why they did not set i UD that the § Shekinah might dwell therein? The mechanics tried to set it up, but could not, and then the people went to Moses and chidingly said he had contributed nothing toward the erection or appointment of the tabernacie, and that tue men who bad contributed aud fad bulit " of ad tried to rearit up, but could not, and they wished to know why. And the legend says that Moses looked to see that they had doze everything as the Lord commanded, and while ne was thus engaged & Voice came to him telling him that he alone should rear up the tabernacle, Tnat though the people had done all the MATERIAL WORK OF THE HOUSE OF GOD it was to be reared up and sustained by spiritual influence and power. manded 'o rear it up, What a leason ts here taugne And hence Moses was com- us! Not the silver and the gold, not the rich trim- mings or elaborate handiwork could avail to raise Up the tabernacle. It required the spirit of Moses. It was to be a receptacle of the Lord—a tabernacle the mind, and of what avai were all its material treasures without this spirit? it was made for the ark of the covenant—the es- sence and foundation ot Judaism. There ts our tab- ernacie, sald tne Rabbi, pointing toward the ark; there 13.0ur sanctuary, Where the law is cou aud whence tt 1s brougnt forth to be read before the congregation every Sabbath day. You may have your magnificent edifices, whose lofty spires shall reach the blue vault of heaven: you may have them adorned with the choicest peadastions of a Raphaet or a Michael Angelo; but if you nave not the law of the Lord therein you have neither tabernacle nor sanctuary, nor ark of the covenant. ‘There can be but one ioundation for the tabernacle of the Lol aud. shee ia ee ae of ie covenant—the spirit ‘ul ve. 1e ‘ty voice of tue Most Hi which in the beginning wald, id “LET THERE BE LIGHT,” and all the dim shadows of chaos disappeared and the earth burst torth in all its pnysical beauty, twat same voice spoke again on Sinai, and a new world of spiritual life and beauty began to be. ‘Tne Lord is & lem. and a light and He is the lignt of Israel. Heathenism ts clothed in darkness, but Judaism ts garbed 10 lignt as in a garment, Heathenism makes men slaves to priestly dogmatism: Judaism de- clares that reason ts the only angel between mam and God, Heathenism demands bind beliel in its. teachings a8 a means of salvation; Judaism bids you ‘taste and see that the Lord ts gracious.” “Know this day aud consider tn tine heart that the Lord, He 1s the only living and true God,” ana David advised bis son solomon ty “Know the God of his lathors and to serve him with & steadfast heart and with a wilung mind.” Tne prophet also bids the peopie not glory tn men, nor in themselves, nor tn riches, butin “understanding ana kno! Me, that Lam the Lord.” Tis understanding knowing God is the reitgion of Judaism. These are not empty words; hence Moses declared that Israel’s mission among the na- tons was to be one of wisdom and understand: ing. The kingdom of mind is the kingdom of heaven, in which, a8 the prophet nas said, thy sun shall never set, for God will be thy light aud eternal Ile, The people are eternal because their mission is eternal. Light and truth are the foundation of the Jewish sanctuary. Hundreds of years have passed Since the Lime that moses spake these words to the people of Israel. Awtul periods, full ot PAINFUL CHAPTERS OF HISTORY, have passed. Our forefathers, after their seventy years’ captivity in Babylon, returned and reb 1lt the temple. it had been the seat of external pomp and pride while the grossest crimes were committed Without tts walls; Baal was worshipped and chtldrem Were passed Wirough the fire to Moloch; the temple Was nothing more wan a slaughter house, waitaer the priest hastened with his bullock and his kuife; It was indeed, us the prophet deciared, a den of thieves instead of being @ house of prayer for all na- tions, ‘the High Priest was looked upon as infalle ble and his smiles as the smiles of Heaven; but the people had learned in their captivity that the house can only be bulit by wisdom and maintained by un- derstanding, and that Israel’s mission to be a king- dom of priests to humanity demanded education and intelligence which had been neglected. This was what made the glory of the second temple greater than the first. 1thad missed many of the adornments of the first temple, which were but ex- ternal, but it retained the glory ot the truth. Wisdom Iiited up her voice in the streets or Jerusa- lem, and tne temple was henceforth the piace where knowledge and understanding of the Lord God dwelt 50 greatly was education fostered that that city, not half the size of New York, contained five hundred schools aud the Roman Achilles became a convert ta Judaism because ne found tne children ot Jerusa- lem knew more avout the cosmogony of the uni- verse and tne being and characteristics of God than did the wisest Roman. The external city and temple of Jerusalem were «destroyed, but the spiritual re- Matos. They could not be demoiisned, The sanctuat of the Lord could not ve destroyed, and we wi it, he said, in this very sacred hour, Let Israel know once for all that an ignorant Israelite cannot be pious, He miust know the difference between trath and error, between light and darkness, JUDAISM IS A SCIENCE, a knowledge of God. Hence it cannot be acquired from that little catechism. It requires a@ lifetime. It must be meditated on day and night. Happy that people where Judaism rei in the heart and manifests itself in the life. The Doctor then refer- red to the honors and titles bestowed upon Israelites 1a the Middle Ages for their learning, and, though greatly persecuted, they preached and taught and lived the doctrines of Judaism. It is not so now. People now glory more 1n riches, honor, fame and Position than in knowing God and His law. | Thetr levotion in the synagogue does mot ae ag tt did then, the moving of the heart and mind toward God. But the ark of the covenant, the law of the Lord, must do this, and 1¢ we fulfil our mission and intend to be denizens of heaven the knowleage of God alone can enavie us to do it. And when we fully realize this and give heed to our duty therein It shall be true as declared by the prophet, ‘All thy children shall be taught of God and great shall be the peace of Jerusalem.” May it ve 8a HOLY GHOST OF SCRIPTURE, Mr. Partridge’s Deductions from Scripture of What the Holy Ghost Is aud What Ia Its Mission on Earth. On Friday evening Mr. Partridge presented some novel views of the being and mission of the Holy Ghost before the Universalist Conference, in Dr. Chapin’s church, Fifth avenue and Forty-fiftn street. The subject of discussion had been previ ously announced and a fair attendance was secured. ‘rhe essayist disclaimed any partnership in his theo- ries, and expresséd the beilef that they were novel, as, indeed, they appeared to be to the audi- ence. He treated his subject under three heads, namely :—First, the meaning of the word “holy” ag it 18 found in the Scriptures; second, the meaning of the word “ghost” as tound there also, and whether this Holy Ghost is inherent in or 1s acquired by man; ana, third, what is this mission of the Holy the Ghost on earth? Under the first head he read Webster’s definition of “holy—pious, good, &c.—and then recited varlous and numerous texts of Scripture to show that Webster was correct. The word “ghost” was similarly treated, and by thus dividing the words and giving merely the phvases in which they oecar,, without their connections, he presented A VERY PLAUSISLE THEORY to show that the Holy Ghost is something inherent tn Mau; that it 1s in fim from his birth, as witness Jonn the Baptst, “illed with the Holy Ghost trom his mother’s Womp;” tnat ghost is synonymous with aud 19 the essential of Man; that it is not acquired by ttm, but, being always in him, itiselther good or bad as &@ Man makes it; that the Holy Ghost ex- isted in man under the Old Testament dispensation, but was withdrawn by God and was restored by Jesus Corist py the laying on of hands, and that th: restoration was not the giving to mau of someth! new and different from himsel!, but the regenera- tion of the “ghost” or Spirit already within Dim, thereby making it “hoiy.”’ These are a synopms of the several theories advanced in the essay, Which were elaborated in detail and with very great plausibility, ‘ne mission of the Holy Whost amoug men was declared to be that which was demon- strated in the apostolic days—to give power to lical tue sick, cast out devils, cleanse lepers, &c., and also to Impart itself by one maa to another by the imposition of hands. Thus PAUL CURED DISEASES by a handkerchief taken from his own body, and by une Jaying on oO! his hands the Holy Ghost was im- parted to others, The same was true of Peer and other Aposties; and Jesus Cnrist was the mtro- ducer, the promoter, the Lord of this dispensation of the Holy Ghost. The lecturer tried to illustrate how men and women tmpart power to one another when their spirits are in rapport, and aeclared ti that was the way Jesus imparted the Holy Ghost. He breathed upon bis discipies and said, ‘ fina | ye the Holy Ghost.” He believed tnat the gospel the Lord and of His Aposties was a working gospel rather than a pe ‘Bospel, andifwe in these lauter days had more of it we should be able to do just as hey things aa the Aposties did. This 18 rao lief of the Catholic Church, which still claims have the power to work miracles; and i we a ce stood It better we should oe better able to bul = the kingdom of Goud than we are. in the story pes Visit to the piri of Cornelius, we “angel,’! 3} they mean, in his upimion, do Not exist, he said, save through the operatio: which angels and men are made; and the same means. areas a bad ‘OLD GENTLEMAN, n about the discussion, and came Wigan targerend the og oR view of the pres ee net per and rend ola list of eigutye rs eighty- nines Sena ior them im Scripture—in which the words “Holy Ghost” occar, and seven only wherein the word ‘ghost’ separately occurs, and seven also tn watch the,“Holy Spirit” is mentioned. He de monstrated from these that the ghost or spirit of man js an entirely rae and distinct essence or thing from the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, and that the latter is the influence of Almighty, God upon human minds to teach them truta and lead them to inthe audience gave a polyglot exe fonisct the word ghost, or spirit, which, he claimed, in Many imstances was an error of King James’ translators, purposely introduced to please that superstitions monarch. He showed also the differ- ence between the spirit or ghost of man and tue Holy Ghost. Another stranger called attention to the person- ality of the Holy Ghost, as delared in the Scriptures, where it 18 always spoken of in the masculine or Other speakers gave their views, and, hough not appearing to find fault with or direotlt controvert tue lecturer's theories, that was tue onip effect which their remarks could nave had. Dr Chapin was present durtug part of the evening, bat Wok DO active part In the gueauon. nm the Holy