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_—— » fe 4 “RELIGIONS INTELLIGENCE. June 30--Sixth Sunday After Pentecost. THE RELIGIOUS SCHEDULE FOR TO-DAY. Werald Religious Corre- spondence. COLLEGE CHURCH COMMENCEMENT. The Popes and Herald Com- municants peek nN abet ae A NEW RELIGION DEMANDED. Derivation of the Word “Religion.” THE VALUE OF MAN IN ei CREATION Views of a Non-Believer in Eternal Torment. eee PLAIN WORDS VS. PULPIT ORATORY. acdc! Petty Church Quarrels in the South. WHAT IS THE HUMAN SOUL? Ministerial Movements and Changes. Services To-Day. Rey. David Mitchell will explain “What is Man” this morning at the Canal street Presbyterian church. Bishop Snow will tell about “The General Judg- ment” at the University this afternoon. Rev. Dr. Flagg preaches morning and evening at the Church of the Resurrection. Rev. Dr. Maclay will preach at St, Luke’s Metho- dist Episcopal church this morning. Rev. Dr. Lorimer, of Boston, speaks at the Fifth avenue Baptist church at both services. Rey. F. Evans discourses, morning and evening, @t the Central Baptist church. Rev. M. Keeney lectures in the morning and Rev. E. F. Remington In the evening at the Church of St. John the Evangelist. Rev. Dr. H. M. Thompson will oMciate in Christ Protestant Episcopal chnreh, Fifth avenue and Thirty-flith street, morning and evening. Holy communion will be administered. Professor Charles Carroll Everett will preach in the Church of the Messiah, Park avenue and Thirty. fourth street, in the morning and again in the evening. Rev. Dr. Maclay will preach in St. Luke’s Metho- dist Episcopal church, Forty-first street, in the forenoon, Rey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., will preach in the Church of the Holy Trinity in the evening. Rey. H. D. Northrop will preach in the Presbyte- | rian church, West Twenty-third street, in the fore- noon. There will be a young people's prayer mect- ing in the building in the evening. The Popes and Herald Communicants, To Tae Eprror OF THE HERALD:— The communication of “J. T. M., Jr.," published in last Sunday’s HERALD as areply to mine of a for- mer date, compels me, very reluctantly, to give it more than a passing notice. He saye:—‘‘Commenc- ing with a burst of indignation at what I conceive to be the absurdity of certain assertions made by Father Burke,” I “launch out into a very learned disquisition on the subject of ecumenical coun- cils."’ This is entirely erroneous, I simply referred to the late Ecumenical Council; but how a reference to 8 council is a “very learned disquisition upon coun- clis” is a problem in logic which “intelligent” cor- j respondents like “J. T. M., Jr.,” alone can solve. But | this isnot all. He proceeds to say:—“But I barely Qnish my sentences before it becomes apparent to all intelligent readers that my idea of the Catholic Church or an ecumenical council or a dogma of faith is exceedingly vague and dubious. If my ideas of these subjects are “vague and dubious,” it must be because of my ignorance concerning them; and I have yet to learn that ignorance and learning are synonymous terms. Again he says:—"I make the wonderful statement that as the Church solemnly decided in the late | Council a question which, for a time, she had per- mitted a few to deny in theory only, she has changed | her doctrine and is no longer infallible.” I deny making any such statement. What I did say was that , “previous to the late Ecumenical Council it was op- tional for the Catholic to believe in the fallibillty or infailibility of the Pope; but since then the teach- ings of the Church have been so changed that he dare not reject the dogma upon pain of excommu- nication.”” And notwithstanding the fact that dur- ing the pontificate of the present Pope two dogmas have been added—viz.; that of the immaculate con- | ception, and that of the personal infallibility of the | Pope—your correspondent J. T. M., Jr.,” fails to per- ceive any change in her doctrines or her teachings, even by the process of addition and multiplication, But lest that should not be sufiicient to convince him perhaps this will. Pope Innocent L and Gela- | sius I.—the former writing to the Council of Milevis, | the latter in his epistle to the Bishops of Picenum— declared it to be so indispensable for infants to re- ceive communion that those who die without It go straight to hell, A thousand years later the Coun- cilof Trent anathematized*this doctrine; and for proof of this Irefer him to St. Ang., Opp. iL, 64 Concil. Coll. (ed. Labbe), iv., 1,178. Your corr spondent that Pope Gregory the Great made the assertion that whosoever clalmed the title of “universal Bishop’ was the forerunner of Anti- Christ, and brings forward an extract m support of his assertion. However, to convince him that he did say 80, L will quote Gregory's own words, and | inform “J. T. M., Jr.," where he may find them and | yead for himself, In his epistie to Mauricius | Augustus, book 7, indication 15, epist. 33, | he says:—"But f (Pope Gregory)" conf: | dently say that whosoever calls liu bishop, or desires to be called 89, is, in his pride f universal | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1872--TRIPLE SHEET. tion that the Councils of Laodicea and Constanti- nople rejected the apocryphal books as uncanoni- cal, and that the Coui of Trent contradicted these two infallible councils by declaring them to be canonical, and that they are now of equal au- thority with the inspired Word, This he also de- nies, adding that all cow re not infallible but | only such as are ecumenical; and he also wants to know to which of the Constantinople councils f have reference’, It affords mo pleasure to inform him that it was the sixth, and an ecumenical one at that. As to all councils not being infallible, but only such a8 are “sanctioned by the Chair of Truth” (é ¢, the Pope), I know of at least one actually deposed an fifallible Pope, and put another into the chair—namely, the Council of Con- stance. But he adds :—“The Church of God holds that version of the Scriptures which was prepared by the solemnly aflirmed in a counell held at Rome in 494."" Unfortunate assertion! The learned father reject- ed the Apochrypha as uncanonical. But this is only another instance of the stupidity and ignorance of t, in matters of ecclesiastical history In his preface to M., Jr cted with his own church. the Book of Kings, volume 3, book 4, Jerome say “ Whatsoever is witnout these is to be placed among the Apochrypha. Therefore the Book of Wisdom, which is commonty called the Wisdom of Solomon, and the book of Jesus, the son of Sirach, and Ju- dith and Tobit, and the Shepherd, are not in the | canon.” Even Pope Gregory the’Great rejected | the Book of Maccabees; so that when the Council | of Trent anathematized all those who rejected the | books which she declared to be canonical, she | anathematized not only the two Councils above | , Whom “J. T. nained, but also the learned Jer | M.. dr." declares prepared her 3 F | infallible Holiness Pope Gregery the Great, { Yours, GEORGE LEE. Derivation of the Word “Religion.” To Tae Eprrok or THe HERALD:— My attention has been catled to a communica- tion in the HeRanp of June 9 concerning the derivation of the word “religion.” The cause of Christianity gains nothing by erroneous deriva- tions; it rather loses, for unbellevers say, with some show of justice in such cases, that Christian men are afraid of the truth that may militate against thelr preconceived ideas. I think that a moment's thought will conviuce any one that the derivation of the fatin word “religio,” from reti- conceptions of thelr gods or of a divine nature. | Accordingly, we find Cicero (in the “Essay De Na- | tura Deorum,” i., 28) deriving the word from “rele- gere,” to peruse over and again; with which we may compare the German “andacht,” devoutness, strictly a pondering over, and gotteslehre,” theology, literally God-lore—studying about God. The deri- vation from retigare was an idea of she early Chris- tians, and to apply it they were compelled to in- vent a new meaning for the verb, namely, to bind anew, implying a separation from God, to whom we are reconciled by Christ; whereas the primary meaning of religare was to the (the hands) back; that is behind the captive, &c.; and the secondary or applied meaning was to fasten securely. (Cicero, Tuscalany 1, 44; Suetonius, Vita Vitellil, 17; Cesar Bellum Civite i. 6 and Mh 1b; Virgil Aneid vil., 106, &c.) It also meant, though rargly, to un- bi Servius, Lactantius 1 Augustine may be pardoned for doing what they could to enforce the new Christian idea—new in their days—even by in- correct, but “taking” ideas; besides that it is per- Jectly possible that they may have believed them- selves correct. But as the word was classical and formed in classical times, we must take it as formed from the ideas prevadlentin those times. in, the word was as often, if not oftener, used for merely ritualistic ceremonies, learned by the priests of the various gods through constant study ) ex rele- gendo), as for the internal feeling. Ihave yet to meet with the man who nas carefully examined this point in all its bearings who does not give the derivation from relegere, Christians may freely grant this derivation as a fact in the history of lan- guage, and yet cling to thelr belief, which is not Strengthened, but weakened, by ignoring truth. In this case the strengthening is from the correct dsrivation, as it shows that Christianity raised and elevated the beauty and power of the Word in the hearts ofmen. The only phrase that Lactantius gives that at all seems to favor his theory is% pal- pably false interpretation of a conception from Lu- cretius (i, 931; iv., 7, religionunn animos nodis exolvere perv}. where the poet, as the context shows clearly, is attempting to induce men to ex- amine thelr own hearts and to break loose “from the bonds of religious ceremoniais,” looking to the spirit. The strongest argument for the derivation from religare is that legare, which, in composition with prefixes, usually changes ¢ to # (colitgere, deligere, | eligere, &c.), dues not 80 change in relegere. But | We see the present participle redigens,used especially | of one reverencing the gods, as a peculiar word, sv that, as the word religio has the e long, while relegere has the ¢ of the preflx short in accordance | with the general rule for re, invariable except in | this instance, itis more likely that we must look | religio, As I cannot correspondent seems to have made, The word “Trinity” has no connection with a such nondescript and unintelligible word as ‘Tr ane’ (which means nott ing, noteven “three in pu one—tria juncta in uno”) by threes, of which distributives the Latin had full forms; singuli, in single file; bini, by twosy terni or and go On up to milieni, by thousands. SCRUTATOR. A New Religion Demanded. To Tur EpiToR O¥ THE HERALD:— tersely inquired, where cana case of “vital piety be found now?’ Noman can put his finger upon one. Then what do all the works of former times amount to, which have. been written under this spirit and influence? tation of Christ,” “Almost Christian,” &c. were works adapted to the times—times following the Reformation—when ideas were impul- sive, and thoughts were fashioned the era. Luther, for example, discarded & part of the New Testament, because it seemed to be inconsistent with another part, but the Lutherans of to-day make both agre He de- clared to the world that he had to fight with the devil dally, on one occasion throwing an inkstand athim. The Monks in the time of Luther believed the appearance of Satan to the saints a certain thing, hence Luther, under the influence of his times, naturally fell into this error. period later, the great statesman and divine, he could not rise higher than the times tn which he lived. To dispute the authority of the Bible was worthy of death, and Servetus was burned. Melancthon the lovely spirit of St. John, acquiesced in this un- happy dementation, Calvin was asked how would explain some of the Scripture doctrines, to which he replied, “They cannot be comprehended, but must be accepted.’ Truly so is it of predesti- nation, election, foreordination, heaven and hell. Even God, the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, cannot be understood of man, Adam and Eve. The six days of creation are equally dark. These are funda- ental principles. They shape the whole religion of a man, and that faith must be and cannot be otherwise than the one called “adoption.” This is a religion of adoption, which means that the reason of it cannot be understood, and those who hold it are to do so blindly. N York Independent confesses that letters hav received from the clergy in all parts of the eountr, who are regular ministers of the Word, declaring their faith to be shaken in these things and their consciences burdened in compelling unwilling t lief. Mr. Beecher does not see God as He was be- lieved of the fathers, and repudiates the “West- minster Confession.” He does not believe in eternal punishment, in beaven as a location, and several rinciples Of less import. The Christians hoid Yhrist to be Almighty God, and that He was a man inferior to Moses. All the Jew reject Jesus; yet He says that the man cannot saved who does not believe that He is the Son of God. Then the Jews are all lost, all China is lost and ali the heathen world. The few who believe the forerunner of Antichrist, because, in his pric le prefers himself to the rest.” tier to John, Bishop of Col in Greg. Regist, Eplist., And in his famous antinopie, publised | lib. 6, indice 13, Epist. is, Opera Lon. Jd coll., 742, he will fod words of simiar uunport. gain, he admite that they took the cup from the laity, but adds that Lam unable to distinguish be- tween a doctrine and @ practice ; and (buttell it not in Gath, publish It not in the streets of Askalon) the reason that he gives for the change is, “that it was siinply to avoid abuses!” A remarkable ad- mission traly. The idea of abuses entering into an infallible Church! Where was her infallability, that she had to clauge her time-honored practices in order to avoid abuses? And, whether a doctrine or 4 practice, | am persuaded that when she made the change she had also to change her preaching, in this rule are adrop in the ocean, Then God, who made Adam, failed to save his children, and in Christ, again, the wotwitustanding 8 the terrible death He suffered to do it, There someth ng Wrong somewhere. It 18 @ question that will have to be settled, Who and what was Jesus Christ? The sooner this is done the better, for He deciares there is a the day will have to come. it cannot be got perdition for ungodly men; #0 Bay all honest Bible readers, cannot get into heaven (Mr. Beecher He says a man notwith- tion, aud then even that e should seek our salva- tion with fear and trembling, that the Holy Ghost pleads for us with untold fervor, A rich man can- not enter into the kingdom of heaven as men could comprehend jt, Jesus says that His appear- council not sanctioned by the Chau of Truth who | | t Dr, St. Jerome, and which Pope Gelasius | iptures, and his | gare, 18 not at all consistent with any “heathen | ligionists, let ns honestly seek bys body seererer s, for God knows we want nothing but the truth. ls * VERITATIS. Torment—By a Non-Believer in It. To Tus Epirox or THE HRRALD:— Let us atate prominently a few important points, First—Man is not naturally or inherently im- mortal, Second—God has been pleased to make known to man how he may become immortal. Third—Jesus Christ is revealed as the life giver. Fourth—The power to live forever is a gift espe- cially bestowed upon those and upon those only who believe tn Jesus Christ as the Son of God; the Saviour who came down from Heaven and has promised eternal life to every one who will believe in and obey Him. The question now comes squarely before us— What is the appointed doom of those who do not believe in Jesus as their Saviour, and refuse to obey His holy Gospel? And we say in the outset, “Ifany man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God." I. Peter tv., 11. And again, we do not presume to offer any interpretations of our own in answer- ing this question, and we advise the readers of the HERALD to disregard any and all interpretations until the truth has been first authoritatively de- clared. ‘What saith the Soripture ” First—This is the record that God hath given to us, eternal ilfe; and this life isin His Son. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not hfe.” (I, John, v., 11,12) “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see iile, but the wrath of God abideth on him.”’ (John tii, ) . Second—‘‘When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life, Eternal | the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood wiil I require at thine hand. Yet tf thou warn the wicked man and he turn not from his wickedness nor from his wicked way he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.’ “Behold all souls are mine. As the soul of father so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul | that sinneth it shall die.’ (Ezekiel ili., 18, 19—xvill., 4.) ‘But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs. They shall consume—into smoke shall they consume away.” “I sought him, but he could not be found.’? (Psalm XXxvil., 20, 3 “For behold the day eometh that shall burn ag an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” (Malachi iv., 1.) “Who shall be pun- ished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. When He shall come to be glorified in his saints.” (I. Thessalontans, 1., 9.) “They are as stubble before the wind, and as chat that the storm carrieth away.” (Job, xx1., 18) “The godly man ts like a tree planted by the rivers of water: the ungodly are not 80; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.” (Psalms, |, 3,4.) “They that strive with thee shall perish. ‘Thou shalt seek them, and shal! not find them, even them that contended with thee; they that war against they shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.” (salah, Xil., 12.) And, final nf it 1s impossible to express in lan- guage more direct and forcible the idea of utter and complete destruction, If sinners shall consume away into smoke they are not immortal. Ifeternal life fs a gift to believers in Christ unbelievers can- not live forever. If tue wicked shall ever become as nothing they must become extinct, If all the | round and all wicked doers are to be urned up, that they shail be left neither root por branch, can destruction be more complete? And if the soul that sinneth shall surely die, then, dear reader, be not deceived, Death is the portion of all them that obey not the Gospel; destruction must inevitably overtake all the enemies of God and His Son. Be’ wise in time. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and, believing, you shall have life through His name. And as to the doctrine of | eternal torment it Is evidently a libel on the char- acter of a just and Hoy God—a contradiction of His Word—and it should be rejected by every intel- ligent human being. Ww. The Value of Man in Creation. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD Without the existence of man or of some such sentient being creation, except in its lowest sense, would be utterly valueless. It is he alone who gives effect to all the operations of Nature, and with | ultimate reference to him only have all things been made, Take for example the sun and {ts mission. Without the keenest intelligence to measure it it | wonld be. devoid of even the slightest meaning. | Every peyaloay expression of its influence falling short of true appreciation would im reality go for | elsewhere forthe derivation of the first syllable of -| paras this point further | ing myater of without going into a philological discussion, I shail | songs ot birds and streams and gentle gales, and merely allude briefly to another error that your | all the myriad phases of this state of being were | objectiess throughout and without aim or end had | trini, by threes; quaternt, by fours; quini, by fives, | | that would destroy, in ‘any individual case, the in- fata re | SW! The New York Sunday religious Heratp once | or seventy years’ purchase at most, Such works as these—“Vital | Piety,” “The Life of God in the Soul of Man,” “Imi- | nication of “W, (. D.,"” whicn appeared in the These | Henan of June 15. Take Calvin a | | Jesus Christ. | great] econd Adam failed tosave all mankind, | Ground, So say Albert Barnes and Isaac Watts; | standing) uniess by his death, burial and resurrec- | | than one of my contributio nothing. All sublimity, grandeur and beauty were a dead letter; all harmony asif it had not been, ‘The broad effulgence of the sunlit heavens, the purple glory of the starry skies, the sweets of winy fruits, the breath and hue of flowers, the | Majesty of mighty mountain chains, the chang- the boundless "deep, the not man given a value to them, and in this sense | become their absolute ¢reator. Is it, then, logical | to assuime that Nature—which I hold to be as bound- | ut Trinity 1s derived | less in her expressions and operations as space is | from the regular distributive ternt, or usually trini, | infinite, and whose auditorium can never conse- | quently be overcrowded—is it logical, I say, to assume that in her economy, so obviously perfect in every other relation, she should institute a law telligence upon which her whole value depended, and thereby reduce the number of her yotaries, and, sequentially, the amount of her own importance? cording to materialism she now, like Saturn, lows her own children, and is worth but sixty LOGOS, Plain Words Vs. Pulpit Oratory of the Nineteenth Century. To THE Epiror OF THE HERALD:— Permit me to say a word in reply to the commu- W. C. D.” admits that the “truly eloquent, brill- fant and poetic Pere Hyacinthe,” with all ls to suit | “lively imagination, great requisites of true oratory, spontancous flow of language, all finished off by a perfect elocution,’ was, after all, a “poor mis- guided man.” He adds—“If he only had preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ, pure and undefiled, he might have saved France the late terrible war, and given a new spiritual life to his country. * * * The world led him a@ , and he is now intellectually dead and forgott all of which I endorse, ‘ And now comes Henry Ward Beecher, “both eat- ing and drinking’ and preaching the Gospel of “And ye say he hath—"? What does D." say of him? Here is a portion of what “His discourses are for the most part chanical and nonsensical,” aud much more is added of like disparagement. 1am nochampion of Mr. Beecher, living nearly two thousand miles from him, and often differing from him in religious sentiment, but I would give more for the practical common sense of that man, illustrated in his series of “Lectures on Preaching, a synopsis of which appears in the July number ot Appleton's Science Monthly, vhan for any pulpit oratory that can be named Which lacks tlie practi- cal application, vital foree (or by whatever nam you may call it), Which is the life of those lectures, A few days ago, in running over some of the works of the late Dr, William &. Channing (and I doubt not “W.C, D.” has enjoyed the writings of th. most gifted and amiable man), the following frank and evidently heartfelt expressions pleased ime Times have changed. Men have learned that common words are common, precisely because most fitted to ex press real feeling and strong conception, and that the eir- Cultous, measured phraseology which 4 quence’ was but the parade of lear t words are the signs of thot tit, and th 1; h where ems & es to us . And giv mind Supposing Mr. Beecher’s name is But enough. others | not handed down with religious orators to poster- ity, will he not give something better, his influence upon the living of to-day ending to their chil- dren’ All have not the education of “W. C.D," and while his love of pulpit oratory is undoubtedly of a high order, he must remember that to others the Gospel must be preached, It takes plain words from just such men as Mr. Beecher to finally throw back the bolts of public library doors on Sunday, many other foolish prejudices in pool of sieepy Christians, when, to result, some pulpit oratory for half a ntury has “volleyed and thundered” and not disturbed those waters by so much as a ripple. What Is the Human Soul !=—By “Cato.” To THE Eprror or THR HERALD :— As there seems to be some misunderstanding as to what is and what is not the human soul, and as fA wrong interpretation has been given to more by my worthy oppo- nents, I beg the favor to make an explanation, | system of religious \ | ciples taught, in the | but only the receptacle of the life.” The life, which is the soitth, is God's, and He parts: it to all li animals in the air which they breathe. claim this as our own and | thereby predicate the philosophy of @ con- tinued state of feeling, knowledge and. intelligence beyond the grave, In the face of all the facts bear- ing on the subject, is a stretch of presumption unprecedented in the history of the race. Our con- sciousness is not in our spirits, but in our souls. What do we, then, gain by the to the bosom of Deity? If the spirit were the soul—the man—then we would be immortal—ay, then were we very gods; but the contrary is the case, and the fact ls so plain it amounts almost to a self-evident proposition. The soul had no existence before the creation of the body. When God breathed into Adam the breath of he became a living soul. It was not out of the union of spirit with clay that the living soul was born, and it is so constituted that it cannot exist if this union ts destroyed, Being dependent, therefore, upon certain conditions in the nature of durability, 1t must, of course, cease to exist when that condition is dissolved, To this argument there appears to be but one answer. If the soul is able to set up for itself, without the as- sistance of its parents, and go out to battle for its own separate existence, then tho side of orthdoxy looks well. But such is not the case. ap- eal to the millions of educated people who read he HERALD if there ever has been such @ thing as a mind operating in any way except through the agency of an animated brain. That dreams are mysterious is granted, but who ever dreamed in a state of sound slumber? We dream when half awake, and the sounder and deeper the ae the leas the dreaming. When wrapped ina state of complete coma few visions ever trouble us. This fact is observable in the use of opiates; and though at first under their influence we sink away to pleasant dreams, tne time comes during the deeper stages of the lethargy when they cease to cast their twilight images over the shadowy Mee ofthe slumbering soul. In such a state what if death should supervene? What think you—should we come back to consclousness or should we continue to sleep? Ah, soouer might you coax back a kite to its place in the clouds when once its string 18 broken than recall with all your incanta- tions jeparted soul! It Is true we all long for immortality. But does it follow we are consequently immortal? Do we not often ardently desire what we have not nor ever can have? Are not those the thi indeed, that We mostly crave? Surely there should be ample lessons for us in the history of the past ages. The ine of Shinar, the haunted region of the mystic ile and the dreary wastes of once populous and flourishing countries have voices, if we would but hear them, ever reminding us of our vanity and the futility of all our endeavors to gain the coveted prize of immortality. With what avidity did the adventurous Spaniards seek in this “New World, which Columbus had given to Castile and Aragon,” that fountain whose crystal waters were said to ve able to restore to Hoary age the bloom of perpetual youth. But, alas for them! they perished—some at sea, some in the glades of Florida, some by the tomahawk of the savage and some of fever down by the brink of the great Mississippi—and not one of them ever reached the life-giving stream, Thus we as blindly and futilely seek for immortality where it never has and never will be found, Let us no longer deceive ourselves. St, Paul truly says God pny hath immortality. Once more the subscriber admonishes the readers of the HERALD to seek it of Him, and cease to boast of possessing what all nature and all revelation de- clare they have not. For truly hath the poet sald— Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like the swift in| ieteor— st-fly) ng ¢ nal A tlash of the lightning—a break of the wave— He passeth from life to his rest in the grave, The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and together be laid; So the young and the old, the low and the high, Shall crumble to dust and together shall lie. Ger Is Christianity a Failure !—A Reply. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your Sunday edition being a medium through which all sorts of religious opinions find public ex- pression, I will offer the following in reply to the question—“Is Christianity a Failure?’ In looking for a solution of that problem, I wonld inquire—First, for what Pay ose was Christianity introduced into the world’ Second, To what extent has that pur- pose been accomplished Y According tomy under- standing of the subject, Christianity was intro- duced for the purpose of overthrowing the old sys- tem of politico-re gious slavery and establishing a liberty in its stead, which would impose no other burden nor exact the perform- ance of other duty than the practical, Just and rational duty of ‘doing to others in all thigs as we would have others do to us.’ The extent to which that purpose has been effected may be seen in the imbecility of what remains of the once mighty sys- tem to which the Christian system was opposed, and the miserable failure of all attempts which have been made to re-establish that system in the name of Christianity. Thisrubbish must be cleared away before the future structure can be built. JUSTICE. The Peculiarities of Certain Preachers. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent of Saturday last, In his article on Hyacinthe, Burke, Spurgeon and Beecher, verges some little from an actual representation of the qualities peculiar to each preacher, for while each in a certain sphere has some point of great- ness possessed only by himself and characteristic of himself, he ought not to be denounced in any form | by the nsual stump epithets, which, under any cir- cumstances, are poor and meagre missiles to cast at even the commonest human genius, Your critic and correspondent pire more force in the prin- elief adopted and in the out- ward form of the religion enjoined than the actual merits of the men. That Spurgeon is a clear- headed, clear-souled man the most ignorant admit, | and that he possesses a more than ordinarily grasp- ing and intelligent | sions fully aver; that his English pronunoiation, | his language, his method and factlity of applying it, and of reducing thoughts into action and everyday life, the more refined will now by no n eans contra- dict; that, in short, he is a man and scholar of no | mean pretensions, Oe and true soul Kingman- | ship, the clergy throughout England, and widely | on this Continent, have fully endorsed. Beecher ) again is a powerful influence, a meteoric hight, full | of the crudest mental activity, energy, soul, a | bright heavenly light, shining With splendid glare, and lighting up the darkness and mental dungeons | of this growing Continent. Beecher will ever form part of America, is one of the four lights that have lived in it, or been born init, and when the name of Beecher fails to have a salutary effect over men’s lives and souls, better, I think, sink the whole Con- | tinent into utter oblivion. Yours, | THEODORE JUNIUS, | Ministerial Movements, Changes, &ec. METHODIST. | Bishoy Andrews laid the corner stone of a new | church to be erected in Cazenovia last Thursday. ‘To-day he is to dedicate a church in Millington, Md, Rey. Professor Wild, of Albert College, Canada, | fraternal delegate from the Canadian Methodist | Episcopal Church to the late General Conference | sitting in Brooklyn, has joined the New York East Conference and taken the pastorate of Seventh | cated by Bishop Andrews, Bishop Harris spent | last week in Delaware, Ohio, among his friends of the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was once a professor. He is expected in New York during the present week. Rev. Dr. F.S. Hoyt has assumed | editorial charge of the Western Christian Advocate— a position vacated by Dr. (now Bishop) Merrill Rev. Dr. E. Q. Puller, late editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Methodist Advocate, has accepted the pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal church in that place. Rev. J. H. Knowles, the retiring pastor, comes North. | Rey. L. L. Rogers, lately professor in Williamette University, Ovegon, returns East, He was formerly a member of the Genesee (N. Y.) Conference The venerable Peter Cartwright, D. D., now cighty-seven years old, 18 gradually nearing his | end. He has had an attack of paralysis, and no hopes | gied jn Cincinnati last was a most | eccentric man in is day and one of the pioneers of | of his recovery are entertained. He Western Methodisin, He spent more than sixty years in the effective ministry, being fifty years a i of presiding elder, The Rev W. McLaugh! Philadelphia, preached to President Grant and suite at Long Branch last Sunda: returned home by way of this city, Rev, Dr, B, D, Haven is named as Chancellor of the Syracuse ( | Y.) University. Rev. Dr | Theological Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, and taken pastoral charge of Grace church, in Mansfield, Ohio, The Rev. Dr. S. D. Rice, of the Wesleyan Female College, Hamilton, Canada, is to succeed Dr. W. Morley Punshon as President of the Canada Wea- leyan Confere! Drs. Enoch Ward and L, Taylor were recently elected missionary secretaries by the | Canada Wesleyan Conference, Rev. Jolin Gemley | was chosen Secretary of the Upper Canada Bible | Soctety by the same conference flight of the spirit 4 mind men of all persua- | | avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, va- | and on Monday A. Bronson has resigned | the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the — Nineteenth stroet Washington, D. 0., are bout to erect new houses of worship for them- selves. The Methodist Episcopal churches in Wash- ington and vicinity will hold a camp meeting in Jack- ‘son's Woods, on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail- road, commencing August 7. Bishop Foster and Rev. Dr. Hare are to preach at the reopening of the Methodist Episcopal church in Rye, N. Y., to-day. Rev, B. T, Tanner has been elected editor of the Cl in Recorder, the 01 of the African Metho- diss Episcopal Church. v. Dr. Wadsworth, of M Ja., having been appointed pastor of lontgomery, A. DP Trinity Methodist Episcopal church (South), Balti- more, he has been warmly welcomed by the Preach- ers’ Meeting of tbat city. BAPTIST. The Rev. T. B, Holland, of Rochester, N. Y., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church in Orange, Mass. Rev. Dr. H. E. Robbins, of Rochester, and Rev. 0. E. Barrows, of Newport, R. 1, have taken a vacation trip to Europe. Dr. M. G. Hodge has succeeded Dr. Haskell in the paarorare of the Baptist church at Kalamazoo, lich., which the latter heid for nineteen years, Rey. John Davies leaves South Norwalk to § 0 the Central Church, Norwich, Conn. Rev. M. T, Lamb 8 from Amboy, Ill, to Clinton, lowa, Reva. J. . Elder, of the Madison avenue Baptist church, New York; N. Pierce, of the First church, Boring. field, Ill., and Dr. 8. L. Caldwell, of the First chure! in Providence, salled recently On a three months’ trip to Europe. Revs. Dr. N. Brown and J. Gobb have been appointed missionaries to Japan. The Rev. J. A. Chambliss, who withdrew from the Bap- tist denomination and a church in Richmond, Va., about a year ago, on the question of close com- munion, has repented and returned to his first love. le 18 satisfied that the closer the com- munion 1s the better. Rev. Dr. J. B, Jetter, of Rich- mond, Va., has been appointed by the Southern Foreign Missionary Board to yisit Rome and organize @ Baptist mission in the Eternal City. The famous Baptist minister of Liverpool—Rev, Hogh Stowell Brown—is coming to America in August, to stay here untill October, He is expected here about mae 20, and the Baptists are talking about giving @ grand reception. His reputation n ED ind Gee second to that of Spurgeon’s. v. 0. A, Thomas, a recent graduate of Crozer Semivary, has gettied with the East Nantmeal and Windsor churches, Chester County, Pennsylvania, The pulpit of tae East Baptist church, New York, will be vacant after to-day, the present pastor, Rev. J. Q. Adains, having tendered his resignation, to take etfect July 1. Baptist church has been organized in Salt Lake City. It numbers sixteen member: They expect to obtain the astoral services of Rey. Sewall Brown. Tho japtists of Gloucester N. J. City, will dedicate @ new church to-day. Rev. P. 8, Henson, D. D., will preach the Sees sermon. ‘The Baptists have dedicated six churches in different parts of the country aince the 1st of June. The Baptist preachers and laymen are greatly exercised over “the eccen- tricity of Miss Smiley's (Quakeress) baptism by a Baptist pastor.” They gain nothing they say, but jose much, by such a zig-zag policy. ‘PRESBYTERIAN. The Presbyterian churoh in Newburyport, Mass., which has been four years without a settled pastor, has secured the services of Rev. Wm. M. Baker, of Zanesville, O. The Re Scotland, at its late s of the Philadelphia ety in condemning Mr. Geo, H. Stuart for singing hymns. The Scotchmen say of the American proceeding that it was ‘an unwar- rantable and irregular exercise of ecclesiastical discipline.” The v. R. D. Graves has left the Presbyterian fold and the church in Kewanee, and has assumed the pastoral charge of the Presbyte- rian church in that place. Rev. D. R. Frazer, of Hudson, N, Y., has accepted a call to the First Pres- byterlan church, Buffalo, formerly Dr. Clarke's, Rev. E. T, Jeffers, of Oxford, Pa., has been elected President of Westminster Gollege (United Presby- terlan),in Allegheny City. Rev. J. C. Nevin, United Brea by ee aay missionary to China, has splendid Chinese museum to Monmout! ‘The college board, in return, voted him a scholarship; but he has made this over to Wallace and his successors in office, CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. O. S. Morris, of Tunbridge, Vt., has gone to supply the church at Westminster for the cur- rent year. The Rev. T. S. Robie leaves Scituate, Mags, to supply the pulpit of the Congregational church in New Ipswich. After fourteen years’ faith- ful_ pastoral labor with the po Bireccrige church in Dedham, Me., Rev. James Wells leaves to go to Northbridge Centre, Mass. The Rev. I. W. Smith, late of Tolland, Mi has gone to the Congrega- tional church in Otis, Ohio, Rev. E. L. Clark has, after five years’ service, resigned the pastorate of the North Congregational church in New Haven, Conn. The oldest Congregational church Ln this State —that at Chester—has secured the oral services of Rev. B. F. Pierce, of Charlotte, Mich. The Rev. W. 8. Alexander has Lak up his church in Racine, Wis., where he has labored seven years, to go as a missionary to Italy under the auspices of the American Board. Rev. Norman McLeod has re- newed his labors as pastor of the Congregational church at Salt Lake. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Catholics of Fall River, Mass., broke ground on Saturday, 15th, for a new church, to cost $40,000, Rey. Thomas Norris, late of Lowell, Mass., has been Rene pong of Stoughton, Mass., and Reilly, formerly pastor of Maynara, ‘Mass., has been transferred to the pastorate ef Danvers, Mass. The mi ificent church of the Dominican Fathers, of Louisville, Ky., it is expected, will be completed by the Ist of September. Father Burke is to preach the dedication sermon, Archbishop Manning, of Loadon, has forbidden the employment of female vocalists in Roman Catholic churclies un- der his jurisdiction after September next. The an- nual collection for the Pope will be taken up in the Catholic churehes of the diocese of Boston to-day. Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, will administer the sacrament of confirmation to the children of St. Mary’s parish to-day. The Rev. Father Abbott, of La Trappe de Bricquebac, France, is dead, aged sixty-four years. He led a monastic life forty-three years. The Right Rev. Bishop Bayley will lay the corner stone of a new church at Morristown, N. J., | to-day. Father Burke will spend the latter part of | next month in Boston lecturing. Bishop Williams, | of the Roman Catholic Church at Boston, has been | Presented With $20,000 worth of réil estate in that | city. ven his College. erpetual esident RPISCOPALIAN. The Rey. R. ©. Evans, for six years rector of the Church of the Me: | his charge, his resignation to take effect August 2: The vestry of St. Mark's church, Newcastle, West- | chester county, N. Y. ; ander Hamilton leave | rope. The remarkable church quarrel between Dr. | drags its slow length along, and threatens to be as interminable and tedious as the famous Methodist Book Concern squabble. The case is again before the Chicago courts—this time, however, in the form | of an application for an injunction to restrain the age or payinga salary to the Rev. Dr. Cheney, whom | the applicants stigmatize as ‘4 ‘etended minister,” he having been formally and officially deposed from his office. The application is made on behalf of | three pretended members of the church, whom the trustees in their answer dis- jose of very summarily. They say that Dr. Cheney is the choice of ‘and is employed by ail | but eight and a half per cent. of the congregation, and that five and a half per cent. of this eight and a half are absent from the city, and their views can- | not be obtained. They deny that he has been de- | posed, and assert that his trial and alleged depos:- tion were both contrary to ecclesiastical and to | State law, and that both he and they have aiways been and still are loyal to the principles of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church in America, Of the three men who applied for the injunction the trustees say that one is a pew speculator and has no other interest in the church than to buy and | sell and make money on pews; that another is a “carpet-bagger” brought into the church fifteen months ago, and for the purpose of prolonging this | strife; and the third, though a pew owner, is not a member of the church or congregation. A legal «i cision is to be rendered in the case during the pres. ent week. Dr, Cheney has tendered his resigna- | tion, but the church refuses to Aooept it. | strange how persistently some men will try to dis- rupt a church and try to destroy its power, and no | long time than this Chicago Cheney case. It is to | be hoped that the end is at hand, and that pastor | peace. MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter was on Wednesday last tn- allied as President of Union Colle chenectady, N.Y, ‘The Rev. H. R. Timlow, of Walpole, Mass, has become the chief editor of the Christian Inteui- gencer of this city. The Rev, Robert Crossette, a Congregational Minister, formerly of New England, Sunday, ‘aged seventy-two years, The Rey, G. A. Bruegal, of Greenburg, Pa., las accepted the pastorate of the Lutheran church | in Warren, Pa., and will begin his labors there next month. The Rev. Henry Durant has resigned the presidency of the State University at Oakland, Cal., and will return Eust, The Rev. W. ©, Van Meter sailed for Rome, Italy, last Wednesday, lish his “Howard Mission”? in the Dudley Stewart Palace, in the Corso, near the Hotel Roma, his triends having secured that building for that obect, Seventeen non-Episcopal ministers of the United in May at the Leg | exercises of the New Ameri- can Union Church In that city, Father Gavazzi was in Baltimore last Sun: Monday lecturing on religious matters in I » Rev, FH. Hedge, D. D., has sent in his resignation as pastor of the | First Church in Brookline, with a view to becoming resident professor of German at Cambridge. | The Rey, Mr. Etterich has been sent asa missionary to Sullivan county, New York, to revive Reformed | Dutehism, which had nearly become extict. He 18 meeting with some success. Rev. W. C. Stitt, of the Presbytery of Newton, has been called to and accep u storate of the Reformed Dutch chureh in Piermont, N. Y. Mr. E. A. Pollard is tarn- . the iah, Port Richmond, has resigned | have granted the Rey. Alex- | of absence fora tour in Eu- | | Cheney, of Chicago, and Bishop Whitehouse, still | | trustees and congregation from giving their parson- | | of St. Paul. | future is always greater, | ts to lay hold of by which to guide himself. | present, without forecast or aspl Ttis | more striking example has been furnisned for a | Visions and tnspiration of faith, and people will be allowed to pursue their way in | to estab- | | cess. and wealth, States, Was present In Rome on the last Sabbath | ing of the fall services Mr. Hepworth proposce te graft upon his society a Sunday school, prayer meetings, and the asual associations which mark Evangelical church. So far, he has simply at- tended to preaching. M. A. 0. Arnoid, eo long con- nected with the Howard Mission, is to take ol ot ee sosoole and devotional meetings of the new enterprise, During the absence of Rey. Dr. Ormiston his pul- it will be occupied by the Rev. David Inglis, of ‘oronto, Canada, Eighty dollars in cash, belo: to the Centenary Fund of the Reformed Ditch church tn Irvington, N. J., were stolen from the re- sldence of Rev. Henry Vehslage, Jr., at that place, @ tew nights ago. A dead loss, The works of Dr. Chanuing have just. been translated into the Hun- rian language, beens and gratuitously distri- puted among the Unitarians throughout Hungary. The entire expenses of the undertaking were de- frayed by Americans, After more than @ cen- tury’s bor in Labrador, the Moravian Brethren have just completed @ translation of the Scriptures in the Esquimaux language. Dr. Feilchenfeld, from Dusseldorf, has been Clected Rabbiof the Jewish community of Posen. The Rev. A. P. Putnam, pastor of the Church of the Savior in Pierpont street, Brooklyn, will, after this day wee take @ vacation of two months, durin; whol. time hus pulpit will be supplied by Hey. Dr. Poal and Revs. Powers, Bingham, Hale, Bianchard: end others.s Dr. Dreyfous, a distinguished graduate of the French Rabbinical Seminary, son of the venera- ble Rabbi of Saverne, and brother-in-law of the Rabbi of Marseilles, has just been called to the rab- binical chair of Sedan. The Rev. E, 0. Towne has gue to New Haven to try his d at converting ale College New Haven from orthodoxy to liberal christianity. The Israelites of Baltimore on Monday last raised $10,000 towards founding a He- brew Orphan Home in that city. Rev. J, W. Chad- wick, pastor of the Second Unitarian church, Con- cord street, Brooklyn, will take his summer vaca- tion after to-day. le ia booked to deliver the ad- dress before the alumni of the Massachusetts State Normal school, at Bridgewater, July 10. Rev, Dr. Minor, President of ‘Tuft's college, has returned from the South la renewed health. The children of the Hebrew orphan asylum in this city will have a complimentary picnic at Jones’ Woods on Tuesday. Interesting Ceremonies in a Catholic College. St. BONAVENTURA’S SEMINARY, ' ALLEGHENY, N, Y., June 18, 1872. The following gentlemen’ received orders with solemn and imposing ceremonies from tho hands of Bishop Ryan, of this dlocese:—Minor or- der, Patrick Murphy, Thomas Rea, John Lally, John McDermott, Diocese of Scranton; Martin Hendricks William Seymour, Diocese of Rochester; Patrick Cogsgrove, Bernard Donahue, Diocese of Erie. Subdeaconship—James Blomer, Diocese of Albany; Patrick yMcGovern, Diocese of Erie; John Kenny, Diocese of Rochester. Deaconship—James Bloomer, John Kenny, Michael J. McBride, Diocese of Harrisburg. Priesthood— ‘Aloynsius Murphy, Diocese of Albany; Patrick B. O'Meara, Diocese of Buifalo; Michael J, McBride, Diocese of Harrisburg; John Kenny, Diocese of Rochester; James Bloomer, Diocese of ae The church attached to St. Bonaventura’s Colle; ‘as, On the 20th instant, filled to overflowing by the inembers of the parish in order to welcome the Right Rev. Bishop Ryan, who administered the holy sacrament of confirmation to over three hundred and ten children and adults, These were tustructed the Franciscans, and __be- lon, to the surrounding missions, giving evidence, if it were needed, of the zeal and pro- verbial charity of the Franciscan Order. I cannot amit to express my admiration of the practical and eloquent sermon preached by the Right Reverend op. The twelfth annual examination and exhibition by the students of St. Bona’s College closed this evening at four P. M., and the exercises gave ample proof of the zeal and successful training of their teachers. The young men who enacted a long and skilfully arranged programme gave the highest satis- faction, which was evident from the many inter- ruptions of tne applauding audience. ‘he entertainment hall was literally crammed, Altogether @ very agreeable day was spent at Allegany. The clergy was also well represented by young priests from all parts of the country. Mostly all of them were formerly students of the seminary. We had several kind visits during the year. The Right Rev. Bishop O’Hara paid us the last. COLLEGE CHURCH COMMENCEMENT AT GETTYSBURG, PA. Baccalaureate Sermon by the Rev. Milton Valentine, D. D. GETrYsBURG, Pa, June 23, 1872. At an earlier hour this morning than usual people were pressing toward the College Church, in arge numbers to listen to the Baccalaureate Ser- mon to the ‘Class of '72 by the Rev. Milton Valentine, D. D., President of the Pennsylvania College. The graduating class, embodying twenty-five members, entered tho church, alread; full to overflowing, and passed to the seats reserved for them near the speakers’ stand. Tho class, composed of young men of dignity and intellectual worth, is entitled to no mean place among the classes that shall leave our colleges at the approaching commencemeats, After the opening services, together with the music so well suited to the occasion, the president of the college, with the ability and address which have made him 80 much admired by students and commanded for him a place among the leading divines of the Church, spoke with earnestness and effect, basing his discourse on IL. Corinthians, iv., 18:— We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen Are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal, The following is an abstract of DR VALENTINE'S DISCOURSE :— the young look out upon life, full of holy Ine terests and great issues, the question of the objects they are to pursue and the aims that are to guide them must be determined, How they will live Is involved in what they will live for. What their life will come to is decided largely by the aims that either lift it up or drag it down. If you, young men, are to live your true life, and stand at last at your proper goal, you must grasp the right realities and receive their controlling inspiration. The practical law for this is expressed in this statement It is to this need of the power of the unseen that we ask your attention at this time, This power comes to men through the discern- ments of what we call faith. We wish to trace its action In two grades or modes of its exercise, giving the inspiration of the unseen in the lower sphere of nature and the higher range of grace—or | a8 natural faith and religious faith. 1. The power of the unseen, through natural faith, is for the present life. Faith is always and essentially a piercing into the future and the in- visible, It is not, as is sometimes alleged, @ syno- nym for ignorance, believing in something for which the reason has no warrant. It gives, not groundiessly, but truly, “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The presentis a very littie ofa man’s earti life. The The present is a very small portion of its great possibilities or of what he One of the most striking differences among young men is that some live all in the passing oer: shut up in the ug grasp, They have not caught the thrilling visions out before them, Others have their eyes on coming days and possible attainments; they plan and work by the ‘They are ever as- cending beyond themse.ves, coming Into the things that are before. Doubtless this is the reason why some young men of Cg ye’ inferior talent and promise rise and still rise and reach eminence, | While others of higher talent and endowment never | ascend or advance, More than anything else itis the power of the unseen, through faith, that stirs and ides tho worthy energy and enterprise of men. The greater aman’s ability to act for distant ends the nobler and nore fruitful is his life. Want of this is enfee- | bling and debasing—the inefiiciency of contracted | Vision, the paralysis of indifference or doubt. By | their faith in discerned possibilities men rise to | Wealth, usefulness, fame. | works, sowing and waiting. By it the husbandman It is this that organ- izes great enterprises, hides away grand invest- ments and develops large resources. One class of business men launch out into the deep, cut loose from the shore, and come into suc- Others always keep within sight of land, all their enterprises close along the shores of the seen and the present, and their ains never grow large, because their realm is smail, ‘he world is full of the ricn fruits of this power, It has marked out the lines of almost all personal and social progress, It has opened the gates into the greatest achicvments. The men who have climbed high, wno have been in advance of their times ana led the race on, lifting up torches in whose light new stages have been made, have borne this power. A strong belief in his destiny was the secret of Alexander's victories, not oniy exalting him tofame, but bringing the earth into preparation for the coming of the Messiah. It was this Nar gy to Napoleon the nerve of his right hand, and led him on, It was the penetrating and trusting faith of Columbus—an inspiration from order to avoid the imputation of practising whut that gave @ new worl to the old. iida't preach the clouds for the last day would | ° dness in this regard heretofore The Rev, R. 8. Putney, of Jamaica, L. 1, has de- | ing lis attention to religious things, and will write | the unseen—that g: a dy aera iienyes<'An0 how we Some, ¥e., and goes | tate play th weceracion? bee bull We | ee ie 6 clared War on the rum sellers and drinkets of that | fora Virginia paper a series of “Sunday Talks Be- | When Morse lately died he had already scen tho on to deny that the cellbacy of the clergy was Brat | live. “Now, Where 18 the trouble? ‘These | &ives me confidence to ask. | village, and to-day he proposes to tell them the | tween Sermons.’ fruits of his own faith-work in a telegraphic sys- P things have lain dormant for eighteen hundred ‘The human soul, as [ understand it, is neither the | reason why. The Rey. O. G. Bowdish, of Gien Cove, There are thirty-two places of Protestant worship | tem belting the earth, Through the facuity of pen- publicly enjoined at the first Council of Lateran, as also the use of images in public worship was con- demued by the Council of Eliberis and by Pope pe the Great. “And now we come.” Pray, ‘ who might etrating into unseen reality scicnce is forever en- ‘ging the boundaries of the known by advance into the folate AS the unknown, It leads effort onward, and makes life fruitful. ig to inaugurate the camp meeting services by a sermon in the mammoth tabernacle to-day, Kev. | Bishop Simpson and family have taken up their in Paris where services are held in the French lan- guage. Of these thirteen are What are termed Re- formed churches, or Calvinist: nine, according to years, man trusting to the opinion of his father before him, and in this day we want something like the’ philosophy Thomas required— life nor the life principle in man, but simply that part | ofa living being which reasons, feels and knows, “we be? How many were there | * ) We want to feel Jesus in order w know | and ig just as subject to accident, decay and death | summer residence at Long Branch, the confession of Augsburg, or Lutheran; seven writing the letter signed by “J. T.M. an) What ‘om weure right, aud thea certainly we can rest satis- | ag he body. | Rev, R, B. Yard will ‘detver @ Fourth of July ora- | free churches; two Methodist and one Baptist. 2. The power of the a, Ls ta religious, | bi I to understand by the use of the word “we''in some | fied, I know very well the replies which may be | " Sted he opt | tion at Swartswood Lake, N.J. The Rev. J. P. Seven miilion copies of the Holy Scriptures were | faith, is for both the present and the future life. It i parts of his communication, and “I’' tn others? L | made to these inquiries, for they are sterreotyped, I have never said or insinuated that the spirit | Macauly has been compelled, by failing health, to | sold in the year 1871, a number exceeding by a mil- | 18 to this religious faith, ae, faith of Christianity, t would like to know by what process his individuality | but they do not and they cannot mee the demand | was mortal or subject in any way to accident or de- | resign the pastorate of the Methodist Epasopal lon the circulation of the Bible in any preceding | ‘‘the faith of the Hon ot f ‘4 _ os the fulness of % comes transubstantiated from the singular per- | of the times. We live in an age of reason more | pay to man and js reall church in Hackensack, N. J, The Rev. A. H. Cleve- ear, and by three millions the whole copies of the | its reality, laying hold of eternal life through Him, , becom if PD et ag cay, but that the spirit belongs y ti hie refers, It is a divine f ( sonal pronoun “J” into the plural personal pronoun | than Pelue did when he was alive, and whose , tically a land, of Trinity church, and Rey. R, W. Hom phries, joly Scriptures existing in the world in the year | that the apos' divine faith, gras} 4 ¥ thre’? But then his egotism is only equalled by his | works we have never. read or seen; we live in that | the person Ihave and do most emphatically deny. | orsr, John’s church, Philadelphia, sailed for Europe | 1800, the commencement of this century. ing the mighty realities of inmortality aonemy ignorance and stupidity. As to his deniat of the | age when reason commands the understanding to | It is not ours, but God's, and ts given to us and | on scien f ona three months’ vacation, and e Mr. Hepworth's new church, to be located on the | pardon, regeneration; handing the life over to hove facta, i never read in ey Ped that to |"know in all things what is right and what is eee ba Lad be Lael yt Fg hee Re, Ke penees « paid by ete congrecssions, oearenaie eae inte tet Leics Cod oo Sear arene te eco ihunbs that ere el yas cing necessary | wrong. It e fections upon | the question, Am I sustained by . 16 of itaounnk wa hrm sities Wao Cetin Riahtbe oan ane Ee Syodenbers but imperfectly perceived the great "@ ohuroh, Brooklyn, and is to be fin- the lite by them, and forming the character inta jo order to disprove it, ; Aasoy Sorumer communication 1 made the asser- - oy one who believes what he may, and we say with regard to the truo positions by all re- will vou be raised above the transitory on the Baltimore circuit will hold a camp mee! Witt Talmage’ truth he utvered whea he aud ished by jhe hn, “hon is not the ie, | on Waters’ old ground on August 1, Hamline first af December next. On the oven-, | their mi i a