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4 ‘ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. June 23-—-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost. RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. | Herald Religious Correspondence. The “Let Us Eat and Drink, for To- Morrow We Die.” | aR et Sermon by the Rev. Bishop Oden- heimer. FR a a a VENTILATION OF THE OLD THEOLOSIES, | Religious Services To-Day. Sketch of Rev. Dr. Norman McLeod, of Glasgow, Scotland, deceased last Sunday, in Canal street Presbyterian church, 17 Greene street, by Rev. David Mitchell, at haif-past ten o'clock. At Apollo Hall, corner of Broadway and Twenty: eighth street, Miss Jennie Leys, inspirational speaker, will lecture at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P, M. Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- ington aquare, at three P.M. Subject—“What the Bible Says About the Pope.” At the Church ot the Resurrection, Fifty-seventh street, near Lexington avenue, Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach morning and evening. At the North Baptist church, corner of Christopher and Bediord streets, preaching in the morning by the pastor and in the evening by Rev. Frank Rem- ington, a former pastor. Rev. Bishop R. 8. Foster wili preach at St. Luke's | Methodist Episcopal church, Forty-first street, near | Sixth avenue, morning, at haif-past ten o'clock. Strangers cordially invited. At the Trinity Baptist church, Fifty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue, Rev. J. 8. Holme, pastor. Preaching at half-past ten A. M, Subject—“Hoa- pitality: Is there such a grace kuown to modern Christianity?” Fortieth anniversary of Sunday School of First Baptist church, Thirty-ninth street and Park ave- nue, at half-past three P.M. Annual reunion of former workers at quarter-past seven P. M. Rev. Rush R. Shippen, Church of the Messiah, Thirty-fourth street and Park avenue—morning and evening. Rev. U. C. Brewer, of Danville, Ind., Christian | Church, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway— morning. Rev. J. 8. Hanna, New England Congregational | church, Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street— | morning and evening. Rev. H. D. Northrup, Presbyterian church, West Twenty-third street—morning and evening. Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., Church of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenue and Forty-second street— evening. Rev. J.8. Holme, Trinity Baptist church, Fifty- fifth street—morning—special subject. “Let Us Eat and Drink, for To-morrow We Die.” =I, Corinthians, xv., 32. To THE Epiror oy TRE HERALD:— Why did the Apostie Paul make use of such lan- guage? Did he believe, as the Christian world be- | lieves, that man is possessed of an undying soul, | or spirit, that survives the death of the body and | will continue to live eternaliy? How, then, could he say, “If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die St. Paul must have known | that immortal souls or deathless spirits cannot die. | What could he have “meant when he said, “If the | dead rise not?’ That only can be a subject of tesurrection which has fallen under the power of | death; so that in strict propriety what the Apostle | declares ts, if there is not to be @ resurrection of our dead bodie let us eat and drink, &c, | But all Christendom teaches that souls exist | without bodies, and much better than with them, All “liberal”? Christians, as well as the orthodox, teach that souls, emancipated from the thraldom of these mortal bodies, dwell in glory, while the orthodox insist upon and enforce the’ horrid con- ceit that sinful disembodied spirits dwell in con- | scious torment in hell fire; while Christ's Apostle | to the Gentiles declares, in contradiction of them | all, “i the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” “Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished."’ The conclu- | sion is self-evident. Panis doctrine is that the | resurrection is essential toa future life; ifthere is | no resurrection of the dead, he would cays make the | most of this present life, for there is nothing beyond. But God has decreed “that there shall be a resurr tion of the dead, both of the Just and the unjust’ What men sow that shall they | to the flesh, we shail of the ap corruption: but if sow to the Spirit | we shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting,” and the | reaping time 1s at the harvest, the end of the world. The bible teaching is consistent with itself; it is the truth of God, It makes the resurrection @ | necessity and insists upon it, while our modern | teachers, pretending to believe in a resurrection, | teach at the same time « doctrine which makes the | resurrection quite unnecessary and is utterly in- consistent with it—“For some have not the knowl edge of God. I speak this to your shame,"’ Ww. Ventilation of the Old Theologies. To THE Epivork OF THE HERALD: — Besides the forward movement of R. W. Mackay's | “Progress of the Intellect,” Cox's “Aryan My- | thology” and Max Miller's “Scienge of Religion,” | there are other keys to the secret chambers of the | old theologies. The learned Freemasons are stu- dents along the plane of the old nature worship, | whose secret things or mysteries belong to God, and were not revealed to the masses of the people, “The light shined unto the darkness, and the dark- ness comprehended it not; hence so much the letter kills while the spirit is young with life. They | ofitime swooped the hearens in magnificent poetry. | The Lord rode upon a cherub when the “Sun in Taurus rides,” and did fly with the wings of | the wind, From the sigu of Taurus, or the | bull, at the Passover equinox, before Aries | or the Lamb (ook away the sins of the world to the Strong Ass of Isaacson, the ancient sign of the | summer solstice, and thence to Leo, or Lion of | Judah, there was Gabriel or the “strength of God,” | in power of the Highest, Nor less does Mr. Cox find | Homer moving in measure to the ‘magnificent | solar epic,” according to the personated aspects of | the sun, moon and stars in times andseasons, ‘The | shield of Achilles was wrought in the twelve-vis- | aged aspect of the sun, symbolically tmaged by the | Zodiac, the golden girdic about his hips, as seen by St.John. It was the Lord's day, or Sunday, in which the seer saw so many things in mythological | disguises. As each year involved the fulness of | time it was very natural that the heavens in their movements and change of base should be taken as the measure thereof; hence the Sabbath days, | Sundays and Mondays were always in apt relations to the Word tn their voices from heaven, Besides there was a physiological aspect whereny the fulaess of the Godhead bodily was in His king- dom on earth as itisin heaven, however divided | in Jacob ang scattered in Israel, and by the cor- respondences each part reflected the other, or pe formed the necessary functions in the Word made Sesh. Says Mr. Perowne, in Smith's ‘Dictionary of the Bible,” “The Jews distribute all the jaws in the Pentateuch under the two heads of afirmative and hegative precepts. Of the former they reckon 248, | because, according to the anatomy of the rabbins, | #0 thany are the parts of the human body. Of the | latter they make 966, which is the number of the days In the year, and ‘also the number of veins in | the human body. Accordingly the Jews are bound | he observance of 614 precepts, and in order that these precepts may be perpetually kept in | mind they are wont to carry a piece of cloth, four | square, at the four corners of which they ‘have | fingers, consisting of eight threads aptece, fastened in five knots. These jingers are called by a word which in number denotes 00; add to | this the eight threads and the five knots | und we get the 613 precepts. _ The Ove knots denote the five books of Moses, These | 613 precepts of the mystical V and as much comma: to “remember the Sal which our sabbatarians and much ado as being the Lor seruple hot in their own labor on the holy day to ake merchandise of ignorance and credulity, | Yuere must be no Sunday libraries and reading | ord are quite p it holy,” of 8 make so ¥, though they ) itual t | man, Ad ; Something to be | twinkling of ane; | with me in paradise, it was but pri | disciples that he was going away to | working whereby he is NnKW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘because among the 613 precepts, with here o ittle and their 2 ite, and line upon tine, the Sabbath, consecrated to the anctent or Saturn, was to be remembored in the later evolution of the nature worship. ‘The 613 divisions of the Word constituted the law of the testimon, oe by the mouth of and written with His finger. “Thus saith the Lord’—and woe betide any familiar spirit who should speak not according to this Word and tts light shining unto the darkness. Here, indeed, was & range for riddles, dark sayings and parables, where every scribe in- structed into the kingdom of heaven might Bebe out his treasures, old and new. On every hau there were fresh felds and pastures new, and yet would remain very much land to be posscased. Lot here was the Son, and lo! there was the Lord, and the Word, in mystic wise, be spoken by the mouth of God, Says the Psalmist, “I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.” It was the harp of a thousand strings of heaven and of earth from which the harpers dis- coursed thetr eloquent music of the spheres. Says Dwight:—In the representation of the ancient Deities the imagination of the poet plays with grand images only. Its objects are the great spec- tacles which nature exhibits—the sky, the sea and the seditious elements represeuted under the images of the stars, the beaming son and a4 sluning moon—all which objects, being endowe with personality by a few striking features, afford better materials for poetry than for plastic art.'" ‘There is always @ mythical or tnystical draper, enveloping these betngs. The Son of Heaven wit healing in his wings becomes interchangeable with the Son of Man. From time immemorial the mytai- ca! drapery or swaddling clothes had been gathered around the star from the East; hence the many un- historic legends and mythical disguises, Strauss would show how the legends of the Old Testament begat with variations the legends of the New Testa- ment, while the “English Life of Jeans" rules the legends out of court without showing how they arose. But there ts no less beauty in the teachin: of justice, love and mercy in the name of the Most High, whether the base be historical, poetical or mythical. The kingdom of God within us is no less sure and steadfast that its grand moral and spir- itual truths are of the personated “wisdom’’ in the mythological disguises by them of old time. Shall we cease admire Homer because Mr. Cox discovers that the Trojan war is not historical, but ‘a magnificent solar epic?” or that the Exodus may be whe same myth- ical rdle, the sun as the lord of heaven, now looking out from the pillar of a cloud, and, in other disguise, setting on fire the foundations of the mountains and burning to lowest hell? Shall we like Milton any the less that his ‘Paradise Lost" is made u' warp and woof of all the old mythologies? Since that same old serpent called the Devil and Satan may lose somewhat his prestige in pcing no longer a person but a personification of the night side of nature; but, even so, let the Devil go for what he ts worth among the sons of God as he walks to and fro and up and down the earth in untoward aspect of the solar scope from Alpha to Omega. C. B. P. “Disciple” Having Taken Task, Is Himself Taken to “Believer.” To THK EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— Having become much interested tn several arti- cles in the religious columns of the Sunday HERALD Task the privilege of a few lines on the subject of the immortality of the soul. In an article two or three Snndays ago a writer, signing himself “Dis- ciple,” takes “Cato” to task, and accuses him of “Cato” to sk by a “begging the question.” I think it would be well to look at “Disciple's'’’ proofs of the immortality of man, and see who is begging the quostion. I will first take the ground that the Seripture is the word of God and the truth, and will be accomplished to the letter. ‘Disciple’ says he will present some thoughts and quotations to advance the “presumption” that man is immortal; the Gospel yea and amen, and not “presumption;’’ therefore we want facts. ‘Disciple’? says there will be @ resurrection of all the seed of Adam, I will quote. one or two verses, and see what the Prophets say :—Isalah, xxvi., 13—“O Lord our God, other lords besides Thee have had dominion over us, but by Thee only will we make mention of Thy name.” i14—‘They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; therefore hast Thou visited and destroyed them and made all thelr memory to perish.” John ili., 36—“‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.” Join vi, 63 and 54—“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Goat ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood ye have no lite in vont Wwhoso eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” 1 Timothy vi, 14—“Paul gives Timothy a charge: that thou keep this command. Ment Without spot, unrebukable, until the appear- ing of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 15-—Which tn his times he shall show, the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and rad of lords.’ 16— “Who only hath immortality; dwelling in the light which no man can approach, unto whom no man hath seen, nor can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting.” Here ought to be proof enough that none but Christ hath finmortailty or eternal life, and that no man can obtain it unless the: conforms to his plan, and that by faith and obedi- ence, Which harmonizes with Paul’s teachings in | Corinthians Xv,, 22, 23, which “Disciple” forgets to quote—“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall ali be made alive, But every man in his own order; Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming.’ Here the Apostle tells who the all are; we know that we are all of Adam, but do ail belong to Christ ? Paul swers that question—I Cor- inthians, xv., 17—‘“And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins;” Isth, ‘“Tuen they also which are fallen a’leep in Christ dre per- ished.” Galatians, fit, 26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith’in Jesus Clirist; 27th, “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ; 2th, “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.” This shows on what conditions 4 man 1s eligible to a resurrection, and we well know that all the seed of Adam have not conformed to these requirements, and on what principle “Disciple” raises all of Adam's seed I can- | nots unless, as he says, man has a “spiritual man,” or, as some say, an fiumortal soul, in his mortal body. It must be this spiritual body that he will raise up; for he says that God condemned no part of man to death, except what was taken from the earth; the curse did not include the soul or spiritual man. It must follow, then, that this soul must go into the grave’ with the body, or tlere would be nothing to raise them up. How will Paul's argument, which “Disciple” quotes apply to “Disciple’s” Spiritual man, Which never dies. L Corinthians, xv., 42—"It is sown in corruption; it is raised In incorruption.”” 44—“ Itis sown a natural body; it israised a spir- diy. 45—“And so it i8’ written; tue rst mn, Was inade a living soul; the last Adam & quickening spirit.” 46-—“Howbelt that was not first Which is spiritual, but tuat which is natural and aiterward that which is spiritual.” 47—"?The first man is of the th, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. The apostic here states that the iirst man is not spiritual, but natural; afterward that which is spiritual; then this immortal soul is not born in the man, but obtained afterward. He then shows that they become spiritual beings by being raised from the dead: 62—‘in a moment, in the ‘at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shali be raised, in orruptibly, and Wwe shall be changed; 6s—For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on unmortality. I would ask | “Disciple” if his spiritual man is 80 dead that it re: juires the trump of God to awake it. How would the ape language Feed if he should say, “For this {ncorruptible must put on {ncorruption, this immortal must put on immortality’ It is such arguments as “Disciple's” that make men turn from the Bible and say If such is the doctrine it teaches itis unworthy of belief. Again he speaks of the thief on the cross—Luke xxill., 22—"And Jesus sald unto him, Verily 1 say unto ypu, to-day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.” He says, as Christ's body was buried and, according to the Scriptures, remained in the earth until the third day, It lollowa that He did not mect the thief in Paradise in the flesh, but in the spirit. 1 think Jt impossible to con- strue this remark of our Saviour in any other way than that the thief had a spiritual body or soul, and in that body he did meet the Lord that self-same day. John xXx., 17—‘Jesus said unto her (Mary), ‘Touch me not, for I am not yet ascend Father.’ * Now this was three days alte! to the thief, o-day shalt thou be with Me in Para- dise;” but “Disciple” says He was there on the self- same day, Paul's teacting of the resurrection is based on the resurrection of Chyist’s body from the grave, and says, “If Christ be not risen then they that are fallen asleep in Christ are perished; and yet we find “Disciple” placing the thief in Paradise before Christ is even buried. ! think ‘Disciple’ has not read his Bible carefully, or he would have no- ticed that the term “to-day” is always written in the Scriptures as a proper name or noun, and hence is applied to some specified time. We find Veul, in Hebrews, iil, 7, using the term and apply- jug it to the Israelites in the wild —" 1 O- day,” if you will hear his voive ; nm not your hearts as in the provo m, in the day of temptation in the wilderness; 4, “When your fatl mpted me, proved me and saw my Works | forty years,” Hebrews, iv., 7—“Again he limitetu & certain day, sayuyein David, ‘to-day,’ after #0 Jong atime.” We sce by this that the ‘term “to- day” is always applied to some particular time in the purpose of God, and as the thief requested to be remembered when the Lord — came into his kingdom, and when the Lord said = to — him, Vo-day shait thou be when he came into his Kingdom he should be with him. Ido not think @ “Disciple would say that his kingdom was set up yet, When the Lord told his epare a place for them, and he would return, that wie he was they might be also, Thessalouvians, i, lo, Ana wait tor his son from hea whom he ratsed from the dead, Philippians, M1, 20 and 21. For our conversa. tion 18 in heaven, from whence also We look for the saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shali change ebody, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, or (spiritugl body) according to able to subdue things unto Himself, In Hebrews Xi. yuukes mention of ail the old worth from Abel down to is tine, and says, verse 87:— “And all these, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promises." 40—God haviug proviaed some better Shing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.” ‘the apostle was willing to wait, but “Discipie” is not, but expects to go to heaven when he dies, 1 think 4t would be well for him to do ax the Lord told the Jews, baying Ceara the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life (not in Momsclves), and they are snr Fae teach of me.” Again, He says the-good spiritual man will receive eve: lasting fe, and the wicked spiritual man everlasting unishment, Here “Disciple” contradicts himse! y oknow edging na eternal life is something to be obtained, ‘hy should man wisn to obtein that which he already has? The Scripture says all things come from God (for only His spirit is eter- na!); then this spiritual! man or immortal soul is a part of Him, and cannot die. What fs it that con- lemns this spiritual man to eternal punishment? Is it the acts of the body that sin, or is it the soul? Ifthe soul, then a part of God sing, and then God in His anger condemns part of Himself to eternal unishinent, because part of Himself has sinned. f, on the other hand, it is the body that sins and condemns the soul to eternal punishment, we have the st) ange spectacle of this poor clay condemning ® part of its Maker to eternal misery, for God can- not punish the body forever, for He has said of tha ‘Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou re- turn ;” therefore it would be. wise tn Disciple’ to learn of God and not attempt to be His counsellor, BELIEVER. A Sensible View in Brief. TO THE EpiTor or 71e HenALD: The communications from ‘“Oato’ and replies elicited have drawn considerable attention to a subject about which many worthy people enter- tain o silly superstition, If they would only do their own thinking they might succeed in bringing their intellects from the nursery. Then they would discover the following axioms :— Firat—“The Absolute is inscrutable.” Second—Our bodies are not mortal, ALEXANDER, Father Burke—Ecamenical Coun- Faith-A Reply to Rev. cils—Protestant George Lee. To THe Epiror OF THR HERALD:— The HERALD being the great representative news- paper of America, as well as the most liberal and impartial, I woald solicit the favor of a place in your ¢olumns to reply as briefly as possible to sev- eral statements made by George Lee, 750 Kent ave- hue, in a communication from him addressed to the New York HexRato and published in last Sunday’s edition of that peper—statements which may not be contradicted, and which are calculated to mis- lead not only those of the Protestant faith, but also such thoughtless and unreflecting Catholics as may have seen and read them—statements unsupported by facts and totally at varfance with the truth, Commencing with a burst of indignatiou at what he conceives to be the absurdity of certain asser- tions made by Father Burke, to which his communt- cation is intended as a reply, he launches out into @ very icarned disquisition on the subject of Ecu- menical Councils, but he barely finishes his sen- tences before it becomes apparent to all intelligent readers that his idea of the Catholio Church, or an Ecumenical Council or a dogma of faith is exceed- ingly vague and dubious. He makes the won- derful statement that as the Church solemnly decided in the late Council a question which fora time she had permitted a few to deny in theory oo she has changed her faith and is no longer infallibie. How convincing, indeed! How logical! As well might he say that the Church in the Council of Nice denied herself because she there affirmed the divinity of the Son of God against those who had prev jously presumed to deny this great article of faith, And so he might argue in the case of every Ecumenical Council, that whenever the Church has upheld the faith ofher divine founder she has contradicted herself, because previously to each decision vain and presumptuous men were to be found who had no hesitation in denying that divine faith. It requires very little study of his- tory to convince those who are sincere and im- partial that in every age the dogmas of faith de- clared by the late Ecumenical Council have been be- lieved and practised, and, though at times they may have been denied with more or leas boldness, they have as constantly been affirmed and re- affirmed, not only by popes and councils, but by doctors and learned writers. But your correspondent condescends to add other proofs to the convincing fact that we hve just dis- posed of, and he brings forward another wonderful statement, Which Is no less @ one than that Pope Gregory the Great denied his authority as a suc sor of St. Peter, The same Pope Gregory that many Protestants, certainly a well qualified as your cor- respondent, declare to have been the first Pope— the first Antichrist—the same Po Gregory who has earned for himself the condemnation of all good Protestants, because, as thease pious persons say, he usurped the authority of Pope over the English Chui who rebuked the Patriarch of Con- stantinople because he attempted to invest himself with some of the dignity of the Apostolic See. But let Gregory the Great speak for bimse! To all who know the Gospel it is evident that the care of the whole Church was couunitted by th Lord to the Apostle Peter. For to him it is he has received the keys of the kingdom of heaven power ot binding and loosing is given to him; the care of the whole Church and the primacy is commtied. to him, and yet he is not called “Universal Apostle.” * * * The popes themselves, reiused title when offered by the Pouncil of Chal 'y In being styied the ser- vauts of the serval ugh the guidance and the rimacyo: the Church were given to St¥eter, whose wil successors they are. Of the same patriarch he says, “Concerning the Church of Constantinople who doubts that it is sub- ot to the Apostolic See?’ And writing to the Emperor he says, “Hear the words which Jesus Christ addresses to you by my lips.” I might go on tn infinitum writing down passage after passage from the writings and acts of this great Ponti in which he asserts and exercises his authority as successor of St. Peter, but aiways with a humility in ke ping with his title of “Servant of the Servants of God.” And now we come to the next statement of your correspondent, equally convincing with the two preceding » ‘or over eleven centuries the laity Were permitted to partake of the sacramental cup; but this has been changed, and now none but the omciating priest or priests drink of it.’ It its true that fora long while the laity were generally ai- lowed to communicate under both species, as that is undoubtedly the more ancient practice, and more in conformity with the practice as instituted by our Saviour, when he offered the frst mass to the Heavenly Father, and fed the twelve aposties with His body and blood; but your correspoudent does not seem to distinguish the difference between a doctrine of the Church as the doctrine of the real presence and a mere practice or ts ce of communicating under one or two species, The Church has never ceased to believe in the ri presence of our Saviour under each species, and she changed her practice simply to avoid abuses, Again your correspondent asserts:—“The ecte- bacy of the clergy was first publicly enjoined at the first Cor il of Lateran, A. D. 1 but was es- pecially otested against by the Council of Nice, A. D. 525.7 What an absurd assertion! Every tyro in history knows that the Lateran Council simply endeavored by eccle: tical penalties to bring back to their former state certain incontinent clerics, who were living in violation of thecanons. First publicly en- Joined! Has your correspondent never read of the great struggle in England, between the incontinent secular clergy and those who remained true to their ordination vows, in the ninth and tenth centar! and how hard St. Dunstan labored before he cor voice of the bring back these scandalous priests to a sensé of thelr duty? But Jet us see about the Council of Nice. Eusebius of Cesarea, an ilinstrions prelate Whd lived and wrote at the time of the Council, tells ns, “The state of continence is the proper state of those who are devoted to the priesthood and engaged in the min- istry of divine worship; of the doctors and the preachers of the divine word, whose care it is to raise a holy and spiritual offspring and to train to holiness, not a particular family, but a countless multitude of the faithful.” “The Council of Elvira decrees that ‘all bishops, priests and deacons who were engaged’ in the married state beiore ordination shall separate entirely from their wives.” The Council of Neociw- sarea ordains that any priest who marries after ordination shall be deposed, And the Ecumenical Council of Nice, 80 confidently quoted by your cor- respondent, forbids ail, whether bishops, priests, deacons, or other clerics, to have under the same roof sny Woman, fave ® mother, sister, aunt, or other who of suspicion. And now we come to another assertion, only ex- celled in extravagance by that going before— “Again, the nse of images and relics in public wor- ship was first publicly sanctioned in th ond Council of Nico, A. D. 787; but this was condemned by the Couneil of Eubeus, A. D. 305, and also by Gregory the Great.” With regard to the Council of Nice, Fwould make him pretty much the same an- swer that | made when speaking of the Lateran Council, with the advice, in addition, that tt will pront him considerably to restudy the history of the Iconoclasts. And as to Pope Gregory,-that Pond sball be heard in his own. dete Writing to Silenus, a Bishop of who, irom a mistaken zeal, had broken the images of our Lord in His churches, he says:—"If you had forbidden them to be adored we should ce only y uit We blame you for hav- ing ‘Ten ‘me, my brother, have you ever heard that any priest ever did what you have done? If by nothing else, you ought at least to have by ined by the’ consideration that you saint, the only prudent. person among your brethren, Itis one thing to adore the painting and another th arn from it what we must adore, What shows to those who cannot read, that patting shows tothe illiterate,’ who can only 100k."” And here comes the last:—"T'he Conncils of Laodicea and Constantinople rejected the Apochryphal DOOKS as nicanonical, but the Council of Trent con- tradicted these twe infallible counciis by declaring i, and they authority with inspired word.” councils are not infallible, but only those which are | Sanctioned by the chair of truth, and ali truly Erimsntey Councils have received {hia sanction, tt follows tut your correspondent had better run ver with greater care the list of Keumenieal is and when he comes geross the “Kenmenical Council of Laodices,” make it known to the world ove relationship preciudes ali just ground | Marseilles, | through the colnmns of the HeraLp;and as for the Council of Constantinople, he will please inform us to which one he refers, as many councils met in that unfortunate city. Butif any one suys that a council sanctioned by the Holy See ever set up amy canon of Scripture different from that pro- claimed 4 the Ecumenicai Council of Trent, he says that which is totally false—he is the victim of gross deception. The Church of God holds that version of the Scriptures which was prepared by the great Doctor St. Jerome, and which Pope Gelasiu solemnly affirmed to be the true Word of God, ina council held at Rome in 494, And now I will leave your correspondent, hoping in all, charity that he will read more, think more and pray more, and I sincerely belleve that if ne performs the last mentioned duty earnestly God will enable him to see the day when he will regret nothing more than the article which he placed in last Sunday's HERALD. I will close in his own words:—For my own part, I would have thought it unworthy of notice had he not been peavieating @ comparison between the stability of ie Catholic Church and the ever changing doctrines of the Protestants. I am a Catholic, and I am not afraid of all honest crit- icisin; but I am free to confess a decided repug- nance to the use of anything calculated to mislead or deceive, in order to support Catholicism at the expense of any other religious belief.”” pologizing for offering you so long an article, but trusting that with your usual inipersalty you will oe it @ place in your columns, I remain respect- Ny, J. TM, JR. Sermon by the Rev. Bishop Odenheimer, ‘The beautiful weather of last Sunday and the an- nouncement made in the forepart of the week that the Right Rev. Bishop Odenheimer, Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of New Jersey, was to preach at Christ’s church, Ridgewood, N, J., attracted large numbers, the church being well filled with a devout and attentive congregation. This church ts situated in avery fne section of country about two miles from Ridgewood station, on the lime of the Erle Railway, and is — con- sidered in a very flourishin; condition, of which the Rev. L. Dickinson isrector. The reverend gentleman delivered an eloquent and beautifully worded discourse In the forenoon from St. Mark iv., 30-32—“‘And He said, Whereunto shallwe liken the kingdom of God, or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like @ grain Of mustard seed, which when it 1s seen in the earth is less than all the seeds that be in the earth; but when itis sown it groweth u) and becometh greater than all herbs, and shootet out great branches, so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.”” The reverend gentieman commenced by observ- ing that our Lord looked around on the world of nature for some object of compassion, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God ¥ » He did novsay it is like that great mountain, or like yonder cedar of Lebanon. Twelve uneducated men were the means ofspreading the gospel of Jesus Christ all over tne known world. Thus, by means the most insignifi- cant to human vie 11 this was accomplished, and is even so if good seed 1s sown in the human soul, In the afternoon he also preached in the chapel of Christ church, connected with the same parish, near the station at Ridgewood, and took as his text Tl. Timothy, iv., 7—“I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; Ihave kept the faith.’ The fight here spoken of was not like the battles of the disputer of this world, whose hand is against every one. It was a good fight—the fight of faith. Not a faith, some sectarian dogma, but the faith— God’s truth. He demonstrated the common idea that it ig no matter what one believes, if he is only honest and sincere, Skepticism and infidelity were excellently shown up. It is not, said the reverend gentleman, what you think, but what God has revealed that decides the question, ‘The discourse was characterized throughout by otf hand, earnest eloquence and strong commonsense, and was listened to with marked attention. The congregation, both morning and alternoon, was large, and the reverend gentleman expressed great penne: at the growth and prosperity of the parish. in the evening he preached at Hohokus, two miles west of Ridgewood. Blessing the Foundation Stone of a New Church at Mount Holly, N. J. The Right Rev. Bishop Bayley, of the Diocese of ‘Newark, will perform the service of blessing the corner stone of the new Catholic Church of the Sacred Hearts to-day, at Mount Holly, N. J., Rev. Thaddeus J. Hogan, pastor, A large number oi the clergymen of the diocese will be in attendance, Societies will march in line of procession, and every precaution will be taken to make the ceremonies ag imposing as possible. Young Prtests Assigned for Duty—Arch- bishop McCloskey Fills Some Vacan- cles—New Parishes To Be Founded, The Most Reverend Archbishop McCloskey has appointed the Rev. John Lynch, lately ordained at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Troy, N. Y., to assist the Rev. Dr. Brann in the administration of the parish of St, Elizabeth, Washington Heights. The Rev. Dr. McSweeney, of St. Peter's, Poughkeepsie, is to have the efficient aid of the Rev. William Joseph Kelly iu attending to the spiritual wants of his large flock, The parish of St. Columba's, West Twenty-fifth street, will be the scene of the first missionary labors of the Rev. Henry Gordon. The want of additional church accommodation is keenly felt in different parts of the archdiocese of New York, and Archbishop McCloskey, fuily alive to the spiritual wants of his flock, has resolved to found two or three new parishes. MintIsterial Changes, Movements, &c. If the movements of generals and leaders in the great army of the State are worthy of casual or of frequent notice there is no good reason why the movements of the leaders of the Church’s hosts should not be chronicled also. Hence we lay be- fore our readers to-day the latest information in this line, gathered from our exchanges: PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Dr. C. S. Robinson and his congregation will move into their new Memorial church, on Madison avenue and Fifty-third street, New York, te Rev. D, Kingey was lately installed pester Worthington (Ohio) church, which many years without a pastor. Kev. D. Tully, of Belvidere, N. has consented to become Wg thas of the First Presbyterian church, in Oswego, N. Y. Rev. Dr. E. 8. Wright was lately insta'led pastor of the Presbyterian church of Ripley, N. Y. Rev. N. Millard, of the Second Presbyterian church, Peekskill, N. Y., has accepted the pastorate of the ‘First Presbyterian Chureh of Syracu: Will begin his labors there in September next Rey. S. P. Sprecken, late of the Lutheran Church, has been appointed assistant minister of the First Presbyterian charch of Utica, N. Y. Rey. Dr, H. A. Neison, of Lane Theological Semt- nary, Will occupy Dr. Cuyler’s Presbyterian church in Brooklyn durmg the pastor's absence in Europe. Dr. Nelson preaches his first sermon there to-day, Mr. James F. MeCurdy, @ recent graduate of Princeton Theological Seminar unanimous cail to the Presbyte: ston, N. Y. Mr, Gustav Alexy, a graduate of the Union Theo- logical Seminary of’ this city, Was ordained to the Gospel ministry last Sabbath in the University place ehureh, the aus been for n church of King- Amboy (N. J.) Presbyterian church. Re E. T. Jeffers, of Oxford, Pa., has been paney. City, an institution of the United Presbyte- rians. Rey. J. 8. Taylor has left the United Presbyterian Chareh, 0 i of the decision of ate instrumental music in the «: ‘ x if M. Booth, pastor of the Englewood (N. J.) Presbyterian church, at the earnest solicitation of his congregation, has declined a call he had re- ceived to a city church, Calvary Presbyterian church, of Baltimore, have sent their pastor, Rev. Dr. Humphrey and his fam- ily, on a vacation trip to Europe and paid the bill, $5,000, Weil done, Rev, E. M. Green becomes temporary editor of the Presbyterian and Index, Columbia, 8. C., during the visit of Rev, Professor Woodrow to Europe, who goes thither for his health’s sake. Rey. Dr. William Ackman, late of the Spring street Presbyterian church of this city, was lately aaa pastor of the Westminster church, Deiroit, ich. Revs, §. G. Hair, J. H. Potter and W. L, Whipple were recentiy ordained ministers of the Presby- terian church in Western cities, The latter goes out to Persia as a missionary. Rev. J. ©, Campbell has received a call to the Sixth U. P. Church, Philadelphia, an Rey. F. J. Col- | lier to the Presbyterian church in Downington, Pa, Rey. C. B. Duncan, of Kingston, 0., has been called to Fairmount (W. Va.) Presbyterian church, and Rey. J. ©, Eastman to G ville, O. Rey, James A. Griffin, of East Tennessee, goes to Beatrice, Nev, and W, J. Harding to Litchfield, Minn. Revs. J. W. Jacks, of Auburn Seminary, assumes the pastorate of the Presbyterian charch in Romu- Ins, K. Robinson, of the same institution, that of Una la, N.Y. Jackson, of Litchfield, Minn., goo: Revs. W. &. Moore, goes to the Second Presbyterian church of Columbus, 0. ; s V. McKee, of Waynesville, to Gilman, ll.; — | Rankin, of New Jersey, to Morrisonville, Til, Rey. F. Q. Rossiter, of Baraboo, Wis., has ac- cepted a ca'l to the Presbyterian church at Oshkosh, Wis.; Rey. Theo, B. Williams, of Auburn Seminary, has heen calied to Campbell, N. Y., and Rev, R. Wylie, of Newburg Semin: iatnsburg, Barr of Springfield. commission: Prison Cong month, ii, has gone to Europe as @ from that State to the International ss, Which is to meet in London next call and assumed the duties of pastor to the Baptist chureh in Kendaliville, Ind, Rev, J. T. Agentroad, of Richmond, Ind., has lately ine the pastor of the Baptist church in Akron, Objo, Rey. J. D. Newell, pastor of the First Baptist church of Moline, Hi. account of poor health. Key. BR. Shadie, of Dund N. Y., has gone to labor with his new charge in Sycamore, Rey. Jolin E. Wood, Missionary on the Northern Pacific Railroad, las removed his headquarters from Duluth, to Detroit Lake, Becker county, Minn. Revs, P, A. Nordell, of Rochester, N. ¥.; Lewis has resigned bis pastorate on Rev. Dr. N. Pierce, pastor of the First chnren | Rey. A. Latham, of Lima, Ind., has accepted the | , and | has received a | J. Burtt was recentiy installed pastor of | lected President of Westminster College, in Alle- | | LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. ae ta Wy alt Seer ae . We 01 |, of or, Ae fe, of Orleans, N. Y.; 8.3 Denney. of ringteld, Ohio; J n Rockwood, of Minne! Ninth 8. one eee, of Weartelg 7 Y., were and cf yr ined ministers of the Baptist chureh, Vv. Thomas Aj ‘wood, of Connecticut, goes to atworthy, of Rochester Seminary, to Dayton, Ohios sbpell (Freewill, Baptist), G. H. Chappell to Parishville, N. ¥.; M.A Dougherty to Stoughton . mee chu: Boston; Dr. Ww. A Eaton, of Nashu: Contin te o a = of Front Creek, 1 N. Y., . J. to Bperty, ip vin pepe L eaney, of Wooster, Ohio, @ Rev. J, Hendrick, of Win; Havana, N.Y.; J.D. King, of Phobietine "Bee to Chestnut Hill, Philadel Es A. H. Long, of Third church, Germantown, Pa. to ‘Trinity church, Cam: den, N. Fi C,H. Remington, of Clinton, lowa, to Piqua, Ohio; J. B. Stone, of Rochester Seminary, to Ludlow, Ky., and A. M. Tennant, of the same insti- tation, to Niagara Falls, also as pastors called, Revs. K. Walling, of Burlington, N. J., has been called to Beverley, N. J.; H. D. Webster, of Webster City, lowa, to Fort Dodge, Iowa; J. R. Wheclock, of Newton Seminary, to Pleasant street church, Wor- cester, Mass, and F. ©. Wright, of Rochester Semi- nary, to Jefferson, Ohio. Dr, Judson Rowland has left the First Baptist church of Pittsburg, Pa., and Dr. I. Wescott, Ply- mouth churen, of this city; Key. J. C. Binkolder has lett Berlin, Wis., for Albany, Ind.; Rev. J. H. B. Johnson has gone from Onary to Rantonl, Ill; Rev. W. T. Webb, from Knob Noster, Mo., to’ Fon: tana, Kansas, The Baptist Society of Bristol, Il., have given r pastor, Rey. Jonas Woodward, three months’ ve of absence to visit the Orient, and pay his ex- enses also. Mr. Woodward has been in the min- try forty-two years, DIST. METHODIST. Revs. Dr. Dashiel, President of the Dickinson Col- lege, Carlisle, Pa,; Dr, J. M. Reid, editor of the Christian Advocate, in Cincinnati, and Dr. T. M. Eddy, of the Metropolitan ohurch, Washington, D. C., have been appointed secretaries of the Missionary Soclety of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, with headquarters in this city. Dr. Dashiel had been provisionally appointed Presiding Elder of Jersey City district, but had not assumed its duties, and Rey. R. Vanhorue has now taken his lace on the district. Rev. D. B. K. Pierce, chap- jain to the House of Refuge on Randall's island, New York, succeeds Bishop Gilbert Haven as editor Of the Zion’s Herald (Methodist), Boston. Rey. 8. L, Baldwin, of Newark, N. J., a returned missionary from China, having recruited his health here, expects to go back to his missionary work in September, . Rey. H. 8. Thompson, of Elkton, Md., has been transferred to the Providence Conference, for the benefit of his health, Rey. J. H. Owens, of the New England Confer- ence, has been associated with Rev. W. P. Ray in the pastorate of Trinity church, Cambridge, Mass. Rey. E. E. Hoss has been transferred from the Holston Conference, Knoxville station, to San Francisco (Cal.) Conference, Rey. B. H.Crever, has been appointed to Union church, Worthington, Minn. Rev. Henry Boehm, of the Methodist Church, the oldest minister now living, celebrated his ninety- seventh birthday on the sth inst. The new Grace (Methodist Episcopal) church, on Republican street, near Lanvale street, Balti- more, will be dedicated to-day by Bishop Peck, Bishop Ames dedicated a new Methodist Episcopal church, on Centre street, Cumberland, Md., last Sunday, Another 13 to be dedicated to-day at Beran, Va., and yet another, on Berlin Grade, Hillsboro (Va.) circuit, also to be dedicated to-day. EPISCOPALIAN, Rev. William J. Alston, rector of St. Thomas’ church, Philadelphia, has been called to the ctorship of St. Philip's church, (colored) New York. The Eplecopel Convention of South Carolina has received a single candidate for holy orders during the past year, Rev. ee en Parker, rector of Christ church, Elizabeth, N. J., has satled'for Europe on his sum- mer vacation, taken by him at the request of his congregation. Rey, C. M. Parkman will supply his pulpit in his absence, Bishop Littlejohn, of Brooklyn, is to deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon before the graduating class at Kenyon Colley to-day. Rev. Dr. W. F. ‘Morgan, of St. Thomas’ church, this city, and family, have gone to Europe for the summer, Rev, W. H. N. Stewart, assistant minister of St. Clement's c! h, Philadelphia, has been called to aw rectorship of that parish by unanimous vote of 3 vestr; The Rev. J. H. Tillinghast, rector of St.-Luke’s church, Salisbury, has accepted a call to the pastor- ate of St. John’s and Zion churches, Richland county, South Carolina, The vestry of St. Luke's have invited the Rev. Frank J. Murdoch, of Ashe- ville, N. C., to fill this vacancy. The Rev, H. W. Beers, D. D., of Milwaukee, has accepted a call to the charge of St. John’s parish, by Y., and entered upon its duties, he Rev. J. B.C. Beaubien, of Chapel of St. Au- gustine eaery); Trinity parish, has tendered his resignation, The Rev. 8. A. Bronson, D. D., has resigned the professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the Theo- logical Seminary, at Gambier, Ohio, ‘The Rev. J. J. McElhinney, D.D., has resigned the Professorship of Divinity in the same seminary. The Rev. Charles H. Hall, D. D., rector of the Chureh of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, has sailed for Europe. Rev. 0. B, Rogers, of St. David's church, Austin, Texas, has also gone to Europe as a delegate to thte International Press Congress. CATHOLIC. Right Rev. Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, has appointed Rev, John W. Gerdemann, pas: tor of St. Pontifacius church, in that city, Secretary for the Germans. Rey. Nicholas J, Walsh has been transferred from the pastoral charge of St. Patrick’s church, Potts- ville, Pa., to that of St. Joachim’s, Frankfort, Phil- adelphia, Rev, Daniel O'Connor, late of St. Patrick's, but more recently of St. Teresa's church, Philadelphia, has been appointed pastor of St. Mary’s church, at Mahanoy Plane, Schuylkill county, Pa: Bishop Gibbons, of North Carolina, is secking pecuniary ala for his feeble diocese’ among the wealthy Catholic churches ot Philadelphia, Bishop Wood administered the rite of confirma- tion to 287 candidates last Sunday, in St. Mary's church, Frenchtown, Luzerne county, Pa. The grand dome of the magnificent Catholic Cathedral in Philadelphia has been repainted. Bishop Wood has purchased Bolmar’s boarding school and property in Westchester, Pa., and is refitting it as @ Convent and Academy of the Im- maculate Heart of Mary. MISCELLANEOUS. The Methodist Pre; Meeting of Baltimore have, by ‘olutions, congratulated Dr. Lanahan, late a Book Agent here, on his triumph in the Book Concern troubles. The Catholic Temperance Societies of Massa- chusetts are printing and distributing large num. bers of Father Burke's great temperance ‘lectpre, which has created a sensation among dram drinkers. The Key. Dr. Gutheim, of the Jewish Temple Emanuel, has resigned his position here to accept | a similar one in New Orieans, from whence he ane hither. His resignation takes effect Novem- ber 1. Sir Moses Montefiore, now eighty-eight years of age, is going to Persia to look afier the suffering Israelives in that country. Jewish bankers of Berlin manian bonds off the pul the Jews in that Principati religious and political rights. Re alvin Stebbins (Unitarian), of Marlboro, ted a call to Detroit, at a salary of $5,500, He is to preach there to-day and begin his pastor- ate next September, The Boston religtous folk propose to hold a three days’ worlds prayer meeting in the Coliseum as soon. as Gilmore gets through with his Jubilee, The Independent Synod of Missouri has voted for union with the Southern Presbyterian Church by 64 to 57. A second Spurgeon has been discovered in the pital Ng Rev. Alexander McLaren, of Manchester, england, ‘he Rev. A. H. Strong, D. D., has been elected President and Professor of Biblical Theology in ‘ Rochester Theological Seminary, to succeed the Rey. E. G. Robinson, D, D., who has been chosen to the Presidency of Brown University. Rey. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., has sailed on his return to Constantinople. A granite sarcophagus is to be erected over tne grave of Joseph Say Sage in Bunhill Fields, London, Mr. Hughes was the founder of the British and Foreign Bible Soclety, and one of the originators of the English Tract Society. The Jesuit Fathers, of the Syrian Mission, guests of their brethren at Hoston College. Rev. & A. Repass has been elected professor of the Lutheran Seminary at Salem, Va. Rev, A. B. Van Zandt, D. D., has been chosen pro- feasor of Theology in the Retormed Duteh Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. Rev. ©. L, Goodell, of New Britain, Conrt., haa re- ceived acall to the pastorate of the First Congre- gational church of Detroit, Mich., at a salary of $4,000, Dr. Kirk, of Boston, Is regaining his eyesight. Persecutions of Baptists and Methodists are re- ported from Sweden, where Lutheran is the estab- lished religion. The Congregation Anshi Chesed will lay the cor- ner stone of their new synagogue on Lexington avenue and Sixty-third street on Tuesday, July 2. A Conference of American Reform Rabbis is to be held in Chicago shortly. ‘The Rey. Father James A. McEvoy, of Mbp Mass,, died recently at the age of ill years. He was probably the oldest clergyman tn the country. He was a native of Meath county, Ireland, He was born in 1761. propose to force Ron. exchange market until are secured in their are the The Kind of Men who Should Rate in the Synagogue and in the Nation—Con- | servatiom and Progress m patible Moses a Thorough Democrat—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Huchsch. A woek ago this congregation elected their tras. tees and officers for the current year, and yester- day thoy were duly installed into oflee, The new omcers represent progressive conservatism in Judaism, and after the appropriate sermon which | halls for they heard yesterday they muat be convinced that there is no Incompatibility between the two terms or the ideas which they express. Mr. Ignatz Steto a was re-cleoted president of the congrogation, and Mr. D. Dinkelspet was chosen vice-presidens. Seven trustees and two members of # finance oom mittee were also chosen. ‘The text from which Dr. Huebsch discussed wae the thirteenth verse of the first chapter of Deuter- onomy :—‘Take you wise men and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I wit make them rulers over you.” The doctor MAPPED OUT HIS ADDRESS under three heads—namely, the manner in which the chief men were chosen, the qualincations which they should possess for the oMces they were to && and the manner oftheir inauguration, In verse ® Moses reminds the people that at a certain time he told them that he was not able to hear them atone. There is nothing in the text or context to indicate the time referred to. But by turning over to Rxo. dus, eighteenth chapter, we find that Jethro, the Statesman, found Moses wearing himself out im judging the causes of the people himself alone. Jethro therefore cautioned him that he was not Paying proper heed to his own health, and advised him to provide out of all the people able men, suck fear i—men of truth, hating covetousne: and to place such to be rulers over thousands an Randreds ind fifties and tens of the people, and fet an ag judge the people at all seasons in smali mag- Moss but the great matters they might bring te one: It ts evident that Jethro would load the mind of his son-in-law away from monarchical ta- stitutions and principtes to democratic princip\*s; but it is not to be suposed that Moses had any intention of exalting himseif to power. His charac- ter for meekness and modeat rbids the thous He sought not for greatness for himself, but for people, Israel, that the world might see what A WISE AND UNDERSTANDING NATION Israel was, At the time that the people sinne@ before Mount Sinai, when God proposed to destroy them, Moses prayed that his name might be stricken out of the Lord’s book rather than that should be destroyed. Moses had a liberal, demo- cratic mind, else he would have chosen the chiets himself. as suggested by his fither-in-law, Jethro, inatead of giving the People the right to choose for themselves from their tribes and families and heads of families. Jethro gave an additional rea- son, also, why this choice should be made—namely, that all the peeve would go to their place in peace. But Moses knew Israel better, and he knew, aise, that the greatest privilege of a free people 13 to ba allowed to choose their own magistrates and rulers. It may be that at the time of election, and previous thereto, the waves of peace commotion may roll high and heavy; but it shall be found afterwarda that they have not disturbed the unity or peace of the people, but have rather strengthened both. ‘Therefore Moses says, “Take you wise men and un- derstanding and known among yourselves to be rulers and magistrates over you.” He was first te establish the democratic principle of a free People choosing their own rulers, and he Was not mistaken in his anticipation. We do not know how long a period was covered by this first election of magistrates for Israel, bnt tha sacred history relates that soon after the people encamped opposite Mount Sinai—and this encamp- ment was more distinguished than all that had va ceded it, for now the people encamped not by tr! and families, but as one united nation. ‘The Sorip- ture says that “they” encamped before, and the old Jewish sages remark upon that expression and upon that relating to this which says that “Israel en- camped,” that the difference in form expresses @ difference in fact also, and that Israel had now be- come One people, and were more firmly established in peace and unity than ever before. that time tljs democratic principle first laid down by moe has been adopted by all cultivated and free peoples. QUALIFICATIONS OF RULERS, In regard to the qualifications of the men tobe chosen, there is a difference between the words of Moses and of Jethro. The latter recommends “able men;” but, as this is a collective expression, he further explains what he means—“Such as fear God, men of trnth, hating covetousness.” Moses bids them choose “wise men and understanding.” Wi did he not use the same forms of expression Jethro Here we see again the kind-hearted leader mild in judgment and in manner, who seeks only the elevation and the peace of his people. Every Israelite should be God-fearing, truth-telling and ters of covetousness or self-gain, and what they ought to be Moses accounted that they were. If, therefore, all the God-fearing men had to be chosen chiefs the whole community would have been chosen; but Moses saw that something more than tho fear of God, &c., was needed in a ruler or magistrate, and that {s their ability to use those other qualitications for the good of the whole people. Thete are some men down deep in whose hearts those qualities rest like the goldin the mine, and they can be brought to the surface only by patient and perse- vering labor; but in others they are like the sap and fatness ofthe tree which puts forth leaves, blossoms and fruit, so that every one can judge for himself of their fitness. ‘To this class Moses points and says, let them be “known among your tribes.’* In the light of Moses’ suggestion we can_ better un- derstand Jethro’s recommendations. For a long time, the Doctor said, he was at a loss to under- stand why Jethro should so particularly specify the two qualifications—God-fearing and trath-loving. it seemed to him to be only one, for no man can fear God who does not love truth, But Moses ex- plains it when he says “wise and understanding’? men are to be chosen. There is @ difference be- tween the two. A wise man, according to the old sages, is one who knows howto use an occasion when he sees it; but the understanding man cre- ates as well as uses it. ADVANCEMENT IS TRUE CONSERVATISM, There are many God-fearing men who dread inno. vations as obnoxious to their creed. They know how to conserve, but can’t create. But both of those qualities are necessary and should not ba overlooked. The spirit of the times, the enhanced culture of society, every advance in science, each have their claim upon us, and were we to exclude those elements from our holy camp we shouid most certainly sin against God, who leads the times and guards the spirit of the age. By accept- ing them and improving them, we may, greatly serve and conserve our creeds. Ne whole of our obligations are fulfilled when we have conserved the inheritances of our fathers. He who does not increase it wastes it. Therefore, saya Jethro, choose out men who fear God and who at the same time shall not shun to speak the trath. And Moses means the same when he calls them wise and understanding men—men able to conserve the old creed and to enrich it with the blessings of modern culture. They were tohear the causes and to judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger, both for the small as for the great. They were not to fear the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. Among all the classie orations or moral precepts of the ancients there are none 80 short, so pungent and so elevated im principle as the CHARGE OF MOSES TO THE JUDGES. thus chosen by the people. He recommended them to be modest, self-conscious, friendly and firm toward all, and to dispense justice and judgment without fear, favor or partiality. They must have truth always before their eyes, because their ad- ministration is to affect the whole community. And the community is for God, and in His name shall they work, because His is the jndgment, and to Him shall each one give account of himself, The Doctor, in appiying these principles and suggestions to the local congregation reminded them that they had made strides forward under the former oficers, and the newly-elected can but follow in their wake and accomplish what they have left undone or improve what they have done, bh P idrcateitay MISSION. WORK IN LONDON AND NEW YORK, Where Are the Wealthy Christians of This Mctropolis !—Half a Million Dol- lars Given to Build Fifty Churches im London. ‘The subject of missions for the masses in large cities is attracting more than ordinary attention, not only here, but across the water. Some of our leading New York city missionaries have been and now are in Europe studying the modes of conduct- ing mission enterprises in London and other large citles, and some of the chief missionaries from the other side have been and are still among us learn- ing our means and modes of city evangelization. ‘The Rev. J. A. McAuley, Superintendent of the Methodist missions in London, is now on a tour im the United States, and has visited some of our chief cities, On Thursday evening he spoke by invita- tion before the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society, and a I congregation in Washington square Methodist Episcopal church and presented the plans and modes upon which they proceed with their mission movements in the great metropolis. Contrary to our general custom in this kind of work, they send the very best ministe- rial talent they have to their mission stations, They preach from wagons, barrel heads, chairs, &c., tm the streets; they go into the lanes and by-ways and hire.or buy houses and lots, open stores and reaching and obtain the use of theatres and music halls for religious purposes. Dukes and earls are not above occupying the plat- a preachers in those meetings, and by their words and influence gaining converts to the ° Gospel. They occastonally gather the poor of differ- ent classes into some large hall for an evening tea meeting, and after feeding them weil, two or three reformed men of their own class address them with most remarkable results. This 13 a feature that none of our American missionaries or societies have yet adopted. Hence we believe they may reckon their very partial success in mission work. The Methodists of Engiand, outside of the great cities, outnumber the Presbyterians and Congre- gationalists together, but in the cities, and espe- cially in the metropolis, they are outuumbered by either, The attention of some wealthy Methodists: has been directed to this difference, and one of | them, Sir Francis Lycett, be Dad the Mission, Board $250,000 (gold), provided the provinces would raise an equal amount, to be spent in church, erections in London. The latter have raised thet moiety, and fifty Wesleyan churches are to be erected In that great city. Hight have been already built and opened, free of debt, and each as large and a8 handsome as the majority of our finest churches in New York, and capable of accommodat- ing over 1,000 persona, And every church 8@ organized is made self-supporting a8 soon a9 por~ sible. Mr. McAuley was accorded a vote of thanka by the meeting for his able and interesting address. Rev, Dr. Curry presided, and several city ministere were present on the occasion, aie) And sineg. ?