The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1872, Page 8

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Pacs, 1—Advertisements, ‘Q—Auveriisements, 3 ~Aaverisements, 4- Adveritsements, S—surrexit: Hasier Sunday and Its Rejotcing: Close of the Season of Sackcloth and Asne Old Customs and New Services—The Water Supply of New York: The Smithsoman Inst- tution Interested; Records lor ‘Iwelve Years— The State Capital: Saturday’s Proceedings in the Senate and Assembly; Debate on the Nat- Uralizauon Frauas billi—Weather Report. @—Religious Intelligence: March 31, Easter Sun- day; Religious Exercises To-Day; Herald Re- uugious Correspondence; An Independent Me- dium of Religious Piscussion; Religious Notes, Personal and General—Temple Emanuel—The Death from Laug!ing Gas—General Ander- son’s Funeral—Funeral ot tne Late airs, Grinuell—Tne Monument to General nomas— The Wiil of the Lave John Kellam. 9—Paris Fashions: The Days of the Past Suggest- ing Styles for the Present—Proceedings lu the New York Courts—_ari Vogi, the Alleged Brussels Murderer, Recognized — “Dutch Heinrich” sent to the state Prisoa for Ten Years—The Jersey Municipal Convicts—art Notes—Music anu the Draina—New York City News—brooklyn Afiairs—Hoboken Eiection— Robbery in Hoboken. S—Editorials: Leading Article, “Our Easter Les- son —Let this Be &@ Season of Reformation” — Amusement Announcements. 9.—Kattortal (Continued trom Swamp Angels: lunely Escap Correspondent—St. L —The Metairiejh: th Page)—The of the HERALD Greenbvacks; An 4 Movement tu Stocks; Erie Kecovers to 63 on Better Advices irom London; Tue Dutch Again Clamorous for Union racitic; ‘he Week’s Imports of Foreign Goods Nearly Ten Miilions; An Indictment Canard—Sink the Track—Suicide by Hang- ing—Board of Audit—The Suiciue of Mr. Con- rad—Marriages and Deaths, @1—A_ Clever Capture—Meiancholy Occurence in Elizabeth—advertisements, 42—The Connecticut Campaign: The Hostile Hosts Ready for the Battle ‘to-Morrow: Governor Engiish’s Democratic Horoscope; Condition and brightened Prospects of the Old Party; ‘the Republican Rally; The Standard of Vic- tory All Ready to Hoist—Shipping Intell. ence—Advertisements. A dvertisements, 14—Advertisements, 15—Advertisements, A46—Adverusements. To-Morrow will be Easter Monday. It is expected to be a regular ‘‘Nor’Easter” to the democrats in Connecticut, We shall see. Tae Week IN Wat Street closed with another revival in Erie, which sold at 63 yesterday, and with a lively market in general. Gold stands at 110. Tue Hoxpers oF FRAcpULENT CERTIFI- OATES OF CiTIZENsHIP will have a bard road to travel if Mr. Hawkins’ bill, which was or- dered to a third reading in the Assembly yes- terday, becomes a law. Every person who went through ‘the naturalization mik” at the City Hall in 1868 will have to prove in Court that he is entitled to the privileges of citizen- ship. The bill is explained in our Albany gorrespondence. Ovr Paris Fasnions Lerrer,—In another page of this morning’s issue will be found the letier of our fasbion correspondent in Paris. Ut will possess a keen interest to those in- terested in the progress of events in the gay world of fashion. The season here, though opened, has not fairly set in, owing to the wretched state of the weather ; but now that Lent is over and the prospect of fairer skies is reasonable, all that pertains to the fickle goddess will be read with additional relish. Paris, though lacking the essentials which gave her pre-eminence in the days of Eugénie’s brilliant court im the Tuileries, yet exercises @ sway which is willingly acknowl- edged. Se - “Duron Heinrion” Hovsep.—The man who has been known during a number of years past as Dutch Heinrich, Neuman, Evans and under many other names and aliases, was sentenced to the State Prison for a term of ten years by Recorder Hackett yesterday, under conviction for his late robbery in a banking house. Heinrich was an expert io his profession, and bis name had become a terror to baukera and merchants. He was so rapid, decisive and prompt in his calculation and action for and in the execution of bank robberies that the financiers of New York experienced a vast amount of relief when it was said that be had been hanged by a vigilance committee in Chicago at the time of the great fire. This statement proved to be incorrect, however, so Heinrich is now housed in due course, after having been ‘‘floored” by the police, as have all such celebrities from “Robin of Bag- shot” to ‘Mat of the Mint” in the English (etrovolis, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1872.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, Our Enster LessoneLet This Be a Season of Rofermation. The Easter season {s the season of joy. This Sunday morning will carry to the reader of the HERaxp that annual message of peace and rejoicing which is given to us from the sacred Gospel. In this hard, stony, material age, with the cares and necessities of living, with our concerns of business and politics and soriety, it is refreshing to turn aside from the bitterness of party strife, the heartburnings of Wall street, the perplexing problems that distress our brethren over the seas; the misery, the mockery, the fruitlessness of the time, for a moment, to think of the Christ who to-day came from the grave, and to unite in that hymn of praise with which Christian men have for centuries past celebrated the risen Saviour. This festival of Eastor, in fact, all these sacred festivals, belong to humanity. We realize on these occasions the truthfulness of the homely phrase that one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. The imagination mey love to dwell upon the splendor, the reverence, the sublimity of this day. It may think of the Pope, who will this morning chant the “Kyrie Eleison” at St. Peter's, of the assembled thousands who will kneel for his blessing, moved by the strange pageantry of the service, the incense, the flowers, the decorations, the imagery of the Crucifixion shorn of its sombre Lenten drapery, the swelling strains of music, and feel car- ried back in enthusiasm and devotion to that solemn hour when Jesus burst from the tomb. So from the seat of the Catholic faith we may follow to other lands, to all lands under heaven, to Russia, with its Greek clergy; England, with its episcopate ; America, where Greek and Catholic and Epis- copalian worship together, and remember that wherever the Cross is revered this day is a sacred and happy festival; that hundreds of millions, of all tongues and nations and civili- zations, will join in the same rejoicing and sing the same hosanna. Whatever theologians may say, and however they may differ as to the precise number of sacraments or the exact meaning of the Gospel teachings, we feel that Easter brings us an inspiration above mere theology, that belongs to religion itself, and not to any creed. This, to us, is the exceeding beauty and comfort of all faith. If, without appear- ing to tread upon the dangerous, hazy dominion of controversy, we might venture on this Easter Sunday morning to draw a lesson from the day, it would be that the good in all religion should be the one thing precious to Christian men. The world is happier and more devout as it becomes more liberal, There is no necessity for martyrdom or perse- cution to give strength to a faith. We honor the sainted men who died for their opinions, and can well appreciate the reverence and sympathy which have canonized them; but we could wish that religion had never a stain upon its garments, that Christ-loving men had never drawn the sword fo proselyte and destroy. The highest and purest faith is that which sees no heresy, or sees it only with eyes of pity and solicitude—that wel- comes as a true religion that which means love, toleration, confidence and cordiality, which carried the Samaritan to the side of the bruised Levite, which called the thief to paradise in his moments of agony. The religion which sees in the world only good and evil, and does not regard a dispute on the sacraments or the real presence or the Papal Infallibility, is what we would teach on this Easter Day. Here are the poetic words of one of the modern masters, the bright, consummate flower of American intel- lect, which have the true meaning, and burn with an Easter eloquence :— Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone, And morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids, O’er Engiand’s abbeys bends the sky. Ever the tlery Pentecost Girds with one flame tne countless host, ‘traces the heart through chanting choirs, And through tne priest the mind wmspires, ‘The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unvroken; ‘Tne word by seers or syblis told, in groves of oak or tanes of gold; Still Moats apon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind, Une accent of the Holy Ghost ‘The heedless world hath never lost, There is nothing in all that was done by our fathers so precious as the fact that under our flag every conscience may have its own creed and observe its own sacraments. We view no form of discussion with the shudder- ing horror which arises from the attempt to adapt our politics to the exigencies of a re- ligious dispute. The darkest and most dismal pages of modern history record the strifes of sects—the wars of the Cross and the Cres- cent, the conquests of Mohammed, the pil- grimages of the medieval princes against the infidel Saracen. We worship God and ac- cept Christ in His divinity and give all rever- ence and devotion to His name. But there was much that men may well worship in what Moses taught to the Jews, in the inspirations of Plato and Socrates, Confucius and Moham- med. Nor should we despise and seek to destroy that subtle, sweet faith which sees in Buddha an expression of divinity and in his teachings a way to eternal happiness. Omit from these Hebrew and Asiatic Bibles what relates to the customs and the habits of the people, their civilization and their traditions, take the law of morals there written, and he will be worthy and devout who observes them. For if Christ teaches love, Buddha teaches renunciation, and if there is anything more beautiful than love it is renunciation, self- denial, patience. We shall make a good Easter as Christian men if we only remember that where there is good there we may feel that we worship God. Another lesson of this festival is that we only serve religion when we progress. The faith that stands still becomes as the stagnant waters. Agitation is life, for without agita- tion what would become of the sea or the winds or this all-beautifal green earth? Religions have known decay and misfortune andimpurity, and history bas no more noble chapters than these which tell of the Refor- mation, The ivy and the poivonous vines will naturally twine around the Chureb, Rome’s greatness became Rome's Weakness, and the Papacy would be almost as extinct and despised as the faith of the Druids but for the Reformation, Luther was a Protes- tant—he protested against abuses that came to Rome in its pride and power, ‘To modern eyes be ig one of the great leaders and masters whose name stands as | The Democrats, the Anti-Grant Republl- | on the capstone of the fifteenth amendment clearly out from the centuries as that of Peter or Paal, or Augustine or Loyola. The work he did was necessary, The Catholic may re- gret that he accomplished a secession and founded the Protestant Church, but the Catho- lic should remember that it was this work, this mutiny, this war upon the sacred. traditions of Rome, that rescued that Church and purified it. The Catholic will think with pride and thankful- ness of Loyola, but without Luther there would never have been Loyola. We cannot overlook or disparage or seek to destroy by invective and criticism the meaning of a man like Luther. He may have abandoned the sac- raments and amended the creeds, but he gave Christianity a new life, an earnestness and a purifying influence which is felt to-day, and which is seenin the closer alliance between religion and thought. Reason and faith are walking hand in hand, because when we think we do not necessarily cease to believe. Here in America, where thought runs riot and abandons itself to the most grotesque and appalling conceptions, where faith is by no means a dominant trait of the national char- acter, and where it has often been felt that we were drifting into an Arctic sea of material- ism and annihilation, we feel that we are be- coming more and more religious, and give in- creased respect to the forms and ceremonies of religion. We feel that these church festivals, whether ordained by Rome or the prelacy or our dear old Puritan fathers—whether we call them Christmas, Epiphany, Thanksgiving or Easter—carry with them lessons that it is well to respect and cherish, The Lenten season was never more generally observed than it has been this year. Seven years ago a President of the United States met his death in a theatre on Good Friday night. A public man could not now attend a theatre on Good Friday night without making a painful and grievous im- pression. So we might multiply il'ustrations to show the drift of our national conscience, May it not be possible that a great religious influence is underlying these movements, and that we are now undergoing a reformation in morals and faith like what was seen in Europe under Luther? Those who come after us, when they tell of Tammany and its fall, of Fisk and his career of a day, and how he passed away like an exhalation; of the over- throw of Erie; of the domestic Christian ex- ample of the President and his sternness in punishing crime and misdemeanor; of the downfall of slavery and the salvation of the Union, of the steady progress of society toward economy and probity and courtesy, and of the mighty influence exercised by America upon the world by reason of these trials and triumphs, will speak of it as truly a reformation, They will devoutly see God’s direct intervention, the mov- ing of his very finger. And it may we trust, be written that America, after her foibles and wickedness, gradually re- turned to a higher and purer life; that religion and charity and love held a greater influence, and that the reformation of the nineteenth century was a happier and more peaceful event than the great reformation four cen- turies before. Friends, is this a dream—a fanciful prophecy? Ii will not be so if upon this Easier morning we each and all of us accept the holy lessons of the day and the divine example of the Saviour whom we honor, and resolve so to accept them that our life and conversation will be worthy of the pure and gracious men who founded the Chris- tian Church, Biaine, Lynch and Hale on Shipbuilding Relief, It appears from our Washington news that the Representatives in Congress from Maine are very active to get some aid, which they call relief, for the shipbuilding interest, Speaker Blaine and two of his colleagues from Maine—Messrs. Lynch and Hale—have succeeded in obtaining consent to insert a clause in the Tariff bill in favor of shipbuild- ing. We are not informed of the precise nature of the proposed protection; but, judging from the well known views of these Maine gentlemen, we have no doubt it will call for enough in the way of a bonus, drawbacks or subsidies, The Speaker appears to be lending his influence to the supposed interest of his own State or sec- tion, or to that of a small class in it, regard- less of great national interests. What the country urgently needs to restore its mercan- tile marine and shipping interests is free trade in ships and ehipbuilding materials. If Con- gress would repeal the Registry law, allow our capitalisis to buy or build vessels where they could get them cheapest, and thus restore the tonnage of the country and profits of the car- rying trade, more would be saved in a year than all the shipyards in Maine are worth. Shipbuilding would revive afterwards with the increase of oar mercantile. marine, development of commerce and general prog- ress of the country. Anything short of free trade in ships will be trifling with a matter of the greatest national importance. A Smvaerer Senrenorp.—In the United States Court yesterday Judge Benedict sen- tenced John Talbot to imprisonment during a space of thirteen months for the crime of smug gling. His offence consisted in running cigars ashore from the steamship Morro Castle. The sentence is the first which has been passed on a smuggler in this city during twenty years, Talbot belongs to a gang of juveniles, the members of which are notorious for a persis- tent, impudent violation of the revenue laws. He is crippled in person, bnt not the less daring in his acts on account of his physical disability. The crime of smuggling goods from vessels arriving from foreign ports is carried on to a very great extent in New York. It is exceedingly demoralizing in its consequences to society, leading to thievery of every description and to the infliction of mur- derous assaults committed over the divibion of the spoils. How the “Last Carn” 18 ‘aKeN.—The “Last Call” of the liberal republicans in this city in regard to the Cincinnati Convention seems to have had not quite so much effect upon the political as ‘Baxter's Call to the Unconverted” had upon the religious world. The Baltimore American has the irreverence to ‘fail to see any individual or aggregate influence in the names attached that would give even passing importance to the document, which is made up of falsehoods that nobody believes aud platitudes that nobody denies, cans and the Cincinnati Convention. Mr. Belmont, Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, to which be- longs the power of naming the time and place for the Presidential Convention of the party, hag had & little conference on the subject at Washington with the democratic notabled of Congress, of which a vigilant correspond- ent there has given us an interesting report. It thus appears that Mr, Belmont, en route for the purchase of some of the fine blooded horses of the famous Blue Grass region of Ken- tucky for the spring races of Jerome Park, stopped in Washington, and on Wednesday last sent in his card to a number of the democratic magnates of Congress, with a request to meet him at Weicker’s that evening for a little pow- wow over a dish of oysters on the important question of the Democratic Presidential Con- vention. To this request not fewer than seventy men responded by joining the great democratic banker at Welcker’s. And they had a conference on the question of an early call of the party convention. Gen- eral Blair led off for an early meet- ing of Mr. Belmont’s committee any how, and was supported by Messrs. Niblack, Beck, Kerr, Bayard, Whitthorne, Eldridge and other old liners who believe in keeping the party flag in the foreground. But Messrs, Casserly, Cox, Campbell, Stevenson, Harris, of Virginia, and others, contended that demo- cratic policy and principles and democratic success demanded a perfect accord on the proposition’ of co-operation with the Cincin- nati Convention. This co-operation, they thought, would not embarrass, but help that Convention; but there must be no interfer- ence with it by. demotrats, you understand. Itis understood that Mr. Belmont yielded to this side of the house, and, then, bidding his guests good night, prepared for the re- sumption of his journey to the excellent blue grass pastures of Kentucky for his fast horses for Jerome Park. Meantimo he will be in no hurry in providing the democratic four-mile horses for the Presidential sweepstakes. Mr. Belmont’s committee will hold back to await the upshot of the Cincinnati Convention. The democratic organization, meantime, will be kept intact and well in hand for co- operation, if deemed expedient, but will not be disbanded in the approaching contest, in any event. Meautime timid republicans are not to be frightened away from Cincinnati by the beating of democratic gongs or drums or tin pans or by the blowing of democratic trumpets. The democrats are to keep out of sight behind the bushes, and leave the way to Cincinnati entirely free to the republican soreheads. Then, if an encouraging haul of these straggling birds is made, Mr. Belmont will call in his merry men from Robin Hood's barn, and they will close the democratic net around the liberal republican party, and the Holy Alliance will be a fixed fact. This is the democratic programme, and it is ® new departure which will not affect the integrity of the party, whether the Cincinnati Convention closes with a flourish of trumpets or in a disagreement of the jury. So far, then, the coast is clear, Better still, a coun- cil of notables of the anti-Grant republicans of New York, including such well-known names as Henry R. Selden, Horace Greeley, Fred- erick A, Conkling, Sinclair Tousey, Waldo Hutchins, Hiram Barney, F. J. Fithian, and a dozen others more or leas conspicuous among our discontented republi- can politicians, have issued a pronunciamento in favor of the Cincinnati Convention, They want a general amnesty ; they want a restora- tion of the rights of the people; they want a revenue tariff (Mr. Greeley among the rest); they want civil service reform, which is per- fectly fair, because they are hungering out- side, and the fellows needing reform are feeding inside the Custom House; they want a re-establishment of local self-government, a new charter for Washington—in fact, any- thing for a change, you know—and they want acheck upon the encroachments of federal power (good old democratic doctrine), and, in view of the glorious promises held out by the Cincinnati Anti-Grant Republican Convention, they intend to be there. They have seen enough of the elections to the regular Phila- delphia Sanhedrim to know that the renomi- nation of General Grant by that body is cut and dried, and so, abandoning all hopes of cntting him out at Philadelphia, they will join Mr. Brown in the movement to head him off at Cincinnati, as the aggravated John Minor Botts once upon a time undertook against Captain Tyler ‘‘to head him or die.” Furthermore, Mr. Greeley ‘tells us that this Cincinnati consultation is to meet on the lst of May, that it will be a mass convention, speaking without any authority but that which may be accorded to the merits of its proceedings; that nobody knows whether it will proclaim a platform, or nominate a ticket, or adopt some other form of appeal to the country, He says, too, that ‘‘no one is ex- cluded from attending ;” that ‘‘the invitation is so broad that many will doubtless be pres- ent who have not been delegated ;” from which we infer that after all the warnings given and all the precautions suggested to separate the anti-Grant men from the Grant men, or the sheep from the goats, that sheep and goats will be allowed freely to intermingle and form the happy family. Thus the out- come of this liberal convention may well be considered doubtful ; for if the Grant repub- licans choose to act upon this invitation they may carry this mass convention upon a reso- lution in favor of the Philadelphia ticket, and thus turn the tables completely upon Brown, Schurz, General Blair and their Missouri pos- sum policy. It is a curious fact that the signers of this New York liberal republican manifesto, with three or four exceptions, are of that school of old line democrats who bolted with Martin Van Buren and his promising son, our la- mented Prince John, and on the free soil plat- form, against General Cass, the regular demo- cratic nominee of 1848. They are old bolters, and may expect to repeat in 1872 their suc- cessful bolt of '48 ; but this time the odds are heavily against them, for the great political revolution commenced in '48 is now, in its accomplishment, represented more fully by General Grant than any other living man, Negro suffrage, for instance, is as much his work as negro emancipation was the work of Lincoln, The foundations of this great revo- lution and pyramid of reconstruction, we say, were laid in 1848 in free soil; but the statue will be a statue of General Grant, But, again, Mr. Greeley appears in this New York liboral manifesto among the revenue reformers, The Missouri call of Mr. Brown declares for revenue reform on the slidiig scale of free trade; Mr. Greeley’s revenue reform, we know, is the heavy uphill grade of protec- tion, and ise Wwe shall most likely bave some juggling at Cincinnati which will dis- gust Mr, Brown; for we trust that Brown, too, is honest in this matter, and that right alongside the Missouri Iron Mountain he goes for free trade in pig iron, because he looks to the interests of a thousand consumers as superior to the interests of one manufac- turer. Bat Brown, for all this, we suspect, will be cheated at Cincinnati, for with Mr. Greeley protection is the Alpha and Omega of revenue reform. Who can guess under which thimble will be the little joker? Another remarkable thing in connection with this liberal republican New York pro- clamation for Cincinnati is the absence of Senator Fenton’s name from the list of sign- ers. Mr. Fenton evidently has little faith in this Cincinnati mass meeting, and wo incline to the opinion that he is thinking of the good things that may yet be gained at Philadelphia, But suppose he is placated at Washington, where, then, will be the New York followers of Mr. Greeley? They, too, will be among the killed, wounded and missing of the New York anti-Grant miser- ables. But the most noteworthy circumstance in the matter of this vermilllon edict from Messrs. Selden, Barney, Greeley & Co. is the fact of promulgation on the last working day in advance of the Connecticut election. This gives the paper the appearance of an election- eering card for Connecticut, and leads to the suspicion of a preconcerted arraigement to divert the Connecticut anti-Grant republicans to the democratic State ticket. Assuming that such is the real design of this New York manifesto, the Connecticut election will be apt to tell to us the actual strength of the anti- Grant republicans in the State, and if there are only two or three hundred among the forty-seven thousand republicans they may give the victory to the democracy. And so we await the issue of the Connecticut election for a little more light upon the Cincinnati Convention and the passive policy of the democratic party. Easter and tho Resurrection. To-day the Christian Church throughout the world will commemorate the fact which alone of all the facts connected with the Christian religion has made it what it 1s, and given it its wonderful power among men. That Jesus Christ came into the world is an important truth in the scheme of human re- demption to be believed by all men; that He lived a pure and holy life, and by precept and example taught such a system of morals as the world had never known, are facts well attested, and that cannot be ignored; that in acertain place in the suburbs of the city of Jerusalem and on a certain day He died and was buried cannot be successfully contradicted,, but must be and is believed by a multitude of persons in every clime and nation. But had the series of facts upon which Christianity is based rested here that system would have been a failure more miserable than any of the systems of human origin which have risen and swayed mankind and perished without leaving a trace behind, save of their innate rottenness and immorality. But Christianity has gone further. It asserts and proves that its Author rose again on the third day from the dead, as the almost universal creed of the Church declares, and that He ascended into heaven, whence He shall come again to judge both the quick and the dead. It is this living fact of a living Christ that makes Christianity so different from all other systems of religion that have ever existed or that now exist. “The gods of the nations are but silver and gold,” said the inspired writer, ‘‘the work of men’s hands; they can neither see nor hear nor talk nor move out of their places; they all shall wax old, as doth a garment; they shall perish; but Thou remainest, and Thy years,” he adds, ‘‘shall not fail.” Had not our holy religion a living Head it would have been crushed out of existence long ago. But He lives, He lives, who once was dead; He lives, our everlasting Head; He lives, to grant us daily breath; He lives, aad we shall conquer death, It is eminently fitting, therefore, that the universal Church of Christ should consider the anniversary of His rosurrection as the greatest festival of the year. He rose again for our justification, and without His resurrection we could not have been justified. A dead Saviour would have been as bad if not worse for us thanno Saviour at all, But mankind can believe in One who has had the power and the principle within Him to rise from the dead and to lead captivity captive. And the resurrec- tion of Jesus Christ from the dead gives every man an assurance of his own resurrection; and upon every man’s resurrection hangs our individual hopes and aspirations for the future life, for, as the Apostle Paul declares, “‘if in this life only we (Christians) have hope we are of all men the most miserable.” ‘But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first froite of them that slept.” Here was Paal’s triumph, and here may the humblest Christian on this earth triumph also. Some of our correspondents are expending considerable time and logic discussing the question whether man is or is not immortal. We have noticed the subject in these columns on a fortner occasion, and will not discuss it now. But we want to call attention to the almost universal belief in and aspirations of the human soul after a resurrection. Not ® mythical, incomprehensible resurrection either, but a resurrection of the body in its fullest individual identity, The quibbles about widely separated parts of a human body being brought together at a resurrection are not worthy of a moment’s serious consideration by any man who believes in the existence of God, And we submit that the fact that men almost intuitively long for a resurrection of the body has in itself the elements of truth and certainty, were it not so fully and clearly cor- roborated by revelation. Let, then, the joyous carols ring out from every altar and every choir to-day, and let the risen and glorified Redeemer receive the homage snd the praise which are justly due. Our Religious Press Table, Notwithstanding this is one of the most interesting religious seasons of the year we fail to notice im the majority of our religions contemporaries any reference to the period, much less any homilies upon the different marked days in the time of Lent. Even to-day—Easter Sunday—the great Christian festival the world over, affords no inspiration to but few of our religious editorial friends. In the meantime, however, we are madh gratified to notice that the Hzrap's urgent appeals on bebalf of revivals in all the Churches of the Christian brotherhood are meeting their reward in various parts of the country. In Kansas, particularly, the good work goes bravely on, The newspapers in Lawrence are filled with glowing accounts of the steady flow of this benignant current of grace. It isa happy day for Christianity in the West when “bleeding Kansas,” with her crimson history of horrors, her dreadful reo- ords of massacres, rapine and outrage of past years, can bring ber people to bow in sub- mission to the peaceful workings of religion, and to thrust sin and Satan behind them. But how pitiable it is to see, in a time so fall of righteousness and holiness like this, a paper of professed religious proclivities throwing cold water upon the precious work now going on in Kansas! Yet itis even so. In discoursing upon the Lawrence revival the Independent says :— Lawrence will not keep all ithas gained revival. There will be, A there nnwaye 18, reaction and relapse. Some of tuose who are now full ef zeal and confidence, whose voices are always heard in the prayer meetings, will forget their vows and avis back into their old haunts and habits. now pervades and’ puriies tae soslal ie oy 200 ae purifies the so: fe of the Will graduaily abate, bsg Suppose it does? Is it not the true polloy of good Christians to keep alive the excite- ment until the “retail liquor stores have been closed,” ‘‘gambling dens broken up” and “other haunts of vice,” to which the Inde- pendent refers, “have been deserted?” No one who feels a genuine jnterest in the guc- cessful issue of a contest between virtue and vice,. righteousness and sin, can help but wish “God speed!” to the reformation now going on in a country so long God-forsaken as poor Kansas. To give, however, the Independent its due, we must quote the concluding sentences in its article, throwing the wrong kind of water upon the religio-temperance movement now exorcising the demons of rum and irre- ligion in Kansas. They are as follows :— We have no disposition to ignore the extrava- gances and abuses which sometimes attend revivates Yet these are trifling when compared with the tm- Mense gains which the revivals bree to public yirtue, Before we surrender the religion of Jesus Christ, by which these wonderful works are Wrought, we demand to be shown something that oan take its place as a reforming and elevating in- fluence in society. The Lvangelist (Presbyterian) is also con- siderably exercised by the revival at Law- rence and elsewhere in Kansas, pronouncing them the “greatest series of revivals which have ever taken place west of the Mississippi. The well-known evangelist, the Rev. B. Payson Hammond, has taken a leading part in these glorious triumphs of the Cross, being warmly seconded, however, by all the evan- gelical ministers in each of the several places.” The Indians of Idaho are also taking the initiative in the way of revivals, The Rev. H. H. Spalding, missionary among the Neg Perces Indians, writes ‘that a wonderful work of grace is going on among those people.” They have given up missionaries as a regular diet and are in a fair way of substituting something lighter for dessert besides mission~ ary scalps, The Observer, in an article entitled, ‘‘AlL Religions Tolerated but Ours,” is inclined to be severe upon the Japanese government for its persistent efforts to throw barriers in the way of Christian progress in that country. We hope our contemporary will not be an impatient observer of passing events. Japane ese students are now in this country learniag something about Christianity as it is under- stood and is practised here in this land of political and religious freedom. Perhaps Christian missionaries will be better tolerated when these students return to their native country and enlighten their ‘friends and fel- low citizens” upon the results of their theo- logical explorations in this part of the world. Dr. James McCosh, President of Princeton College, writes in regard to the ‘‘crisis of the sustentation fund,” being appointed by the General Assembly on the committee for managing said fund. To judge from Dr. McCosh’s statement the fund is not being encouraged to the extent desired. A poer clergyman may be a very excellent type of an honest and conscientious man, but the pinch of impecuniosity is not always confined to him- self, especially if he happen to have a large family relying upon him for support, Dr. McCosh suggests that more cash is wanted—a hint that should not pass unheeded by these of the faithful who are blessed with riches, The Methodist wants an Ecumenical Council of Methodists. What is there to hinder it? According to the Methodist ;— Metnodism has now reached a sort of climacterte power in which it can propose and achieve things which a few years since would have been but dreams. The Northern Advocate (Methodist) dis. cusses the condition of the Methodist denomi. national institutions of education. The writer says :— Let us not be dazzled by the mere numbers of ear seminaries.and colieges. * * * Itis not pleasans to acknowledge detects, but it 13 @ fact pateut to the minds of many Of us that our schools are groam- ing for financial succor. Here is a fine opportunity for the Methodist to exercise a portion of that ‘climacteric power” by which it alleges it can achieve so mach. But what does ‘‘climacteric power” amount to without the “stamps?” The Evaminer and Chronicle (Baptist organ) argues about ‘Progressive Union versus Tho Church,” and is so elaborate and exhaustive on the subject that those who have leisure on this Easter Sunday may profit much by perusing it in detail. Taking the columns of the Christian Union of this week as a specimen of its local pressure we should judge that Henry Ward Beecher had been on a lecturing, if not an electioneering, tour for some time past. This week's issue, so far as religion and politics are concerned, is as flat as if its editorials had-been wrung out by a patent wringing machine, The Tablet-—Catholic organ—touches upon the pending Easter festivities (and it is about the only paper on our religious press table, aa we have above remarked, that does so), and says :— How worthy of remark is it that even the Jows, With thou glu enduring hatred of ‘Jequs of Nata