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4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. July 21---Ninth Sunday After ‘Pentecost. RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. Herald Religious Corre» spondence. The Banished Capuchins in California. DEATH OF AW EXILED FRIAR. poked oh tacks PERSECUTION OF THE JESUITS. ——— SPIRITUALISM AND THE BIBLE MARRYING A BROTHER'S WIDOW, ae RE tlhe as IS MAN ONLY AN ANIMAL? + Ministerial Changes and Move- ments, Services To-Day. Professor J. W. H. Toohey will lecture on “Spiritualism’’ at Apollo Hall, morning and even- in Bishop will tell what he knows about “The Mission of Elias’? in the afternoon, at the Unl- veralty. Rev. Dr. Flagg preaches at both services at the | Church of the Resurrection. Rev. Dr. Deema preaches morning and evening at the Church of the Strangers. Rey. ©, W. Steele discourses at the camp meeting at Sea Cliff this morning. In Attorney street Methodist church there will be | preaching morning and evening. The subject of | “Sunday Recreation” will be considered, Professor Edward J. Young, of Massactiusetts, willpreach in the Church of the Messiah in the forenoon. The building will be closed during the evening. Services will be conducted in Grace church, Broadway, in the forenoon and evening. Rev. George F. Seymour, D. D., will preach In St. Chrysostom’s chapel, Thirty-ninth street and Seventh avenue, in the evening, in aid of mission work in a rural part of this State. Spiritualism and the Bible. To THE Evitor or THE HERALD:— | An article in your columns on Spiritualism and | Catholicism has doubtless attracted the attention of many of your readers, and has led at least one of them to inquire, what the Bible, that glorious vol- ‘ume which has come down to us from our fathers and claims to be the word of God, has to say on the subject of Spiritualism’ From this book we learn that there is a spiritual world, and that it is pos- sible to see and converse with spirits, and that man has guardian spirits, and that there are evil or unclean spirits, and numerous ex- amples or instances are given of open vision and Spiritual communication, and even of men being possessed by spirits, 0 that spiritualism is nothing new. But we hear from the sacred volume that there are two kinds of spiritualism, if you please; one by Divine permission, protection and guidance, in which the Lord and His angels manifest themselves to men and reveal important truths, and permit men to see the inhabitants of the spiritual world, as was the case with the prophets and disciples, and especially with John the Re- velator, The individual man, not having sought such intercourse, but seeming to have been chosen for his office, and only when some tmportant knowledge or information for the good of his race ‘was to be imparted by or through him. The second class of communications and spiritaal phenomena would seem to be disorderly and evil from the fact | that they are prohibited by the Lord inthe Old | Testament, and that the Lora when on earth cast out the possessing pee, in one instance permit- ing them to enter a herd of swine, the latter being among the lowest and most filthy of all animal These possessing spirits chose them for a habit: tion, but it seems no good came to the poor swine, for according to the record it would appear that the whole herd ran down a steep place and pi ished in the sea, In the Old Testament we read: “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards to be defiled by the! am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus Xix., the soul that turneth after familiar spirits and after wizards, ing after them, 1 will even set iny fa soul, aud will cat him off from among h Lev. Xx., 6. “There shall not be f any ove that maketh his son or , through the fire, or that useth divination, 01 observer of time: chanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a th familiar spirits, or a wizard or a necror For ail that do these things are an ¢ ion to the Lord, and of these abominations the Lord thy God doth | drive them out from before thee.” (Deuteronomy Xvill., 10-12.) “And when they shall say unto vou, Seek unto them that bave familiar spirits, and into wizards that peep and that mutter: should nota | peop-e seek unto their God? for the living to the lead ¢ to the law and to the testim: ; ifthey speak not accordingly to this word, it is because there is no ight in them.’’ (Isaiah vill., 19-20.) Can it be that the word of the Lord would so pointedly condemn seeking communications from spirits, even to the driving of nations out of their lands and cutting om, if it were @ harmless practi it was a sin, and such a deadly one, to seek intercourse with spirits several thousands of years ago, isitany the less wrong nowy If | force, | of sciencs | trausgressor of its first princ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, received, in however detached from the in which they are found, as Biooty pesitice of pa ote ~~ — me aera daied creed, and ske} ties, who only care to prove "be made. to coneradict that the Bible can \taelf, or by these paeacet oe prove, pealever Wish, pry fe at lan- pre and wank eeraen @ VOI habit weFé it not for the words “no more,’’ which complete the sentence. The quotations from Ecclestasties, to prove the doctrine of annihilation, are very much of this character, as with be percetved by any one who will read that very intcrest- ing book in r course from beginning to end, There is no disputing the wisdom of King Solomon, and that wisdom is none the less valuable on account of being drawn from the sad lessons of his own bitter experience. In thia book of Keclesiastea he very frankly tells us what he knows about the vanity of a life devoted to sensual indulgence. A man of strong passions and with ample means of Sremeiog every desire and ambi- tion of his anit nature, whose 700 wives and 300 concubines throw Brigham Young's domestic ar- rangements completely in the shade, he came to the same conclusion that many @ worn out debauchee of the present day has finally arrived at, and many a eng, man boastfully engaged in sowing id oats will soon learn to his cost that @ mere life of the senses does not pay. When, therefore, He says, “That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts,” and that “the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward” (the right- ous being “recompensed in the earth much more than the wicked and the sinner”), it is clear that He alluded to the earthly or animal portion of man, to which the sensuallt becomes @ slave while under its influence ; for He clearly Sarmigniaties. the ditference between the “spirit of man that goeth upward the spirit of the beast that gocth downward;” and, to make Himself still more distinctly understood, He says, in the last chapter of the Book, after describing the gradual wasting away of the bodily organs of sight, hearing, &c., “then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit to God who gave it.” Who so weil qualified to give advice as this man of varied experiences, when he says “live joyfully with the wife (not wives) of thy youth all the days of thy vanity,” and closes by saying ‘fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man ?’ In the two or three instances where the word “soni” applies to animals it is ver: evident that had the word been translated “life” it would have been better understood; they can, therefore, not be received as sufficiently weighty to sink man, with all his progressive powers, to the level of the brute, which is not one whit higher in the scale of being thanit was before man hada history, In Leviticus, xvii, 2, we read:—I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood.” Is there any law against wild beasts eat- ing blood? Psalms xix., 7, “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.’ If there is no ditfer- ence between man and the beast to which does this apply? “Bible Christian’? says that animals were created before man, Admitted; but there is no allusion to the process which is so minutely described when “man became a living soul.” St. Paul ought to be good authority with a “Bible Christian,” and he says, “As tn Adai all die, even so m Christ shall all be made alive,” thus makin; the spiritual resurrection as universal as the death of the body; and not only that, but he solemnly avers that this corruption must put on incorrup- tion and this mortal must put on immortality. Some have thought it scrange that St. Paul should have been so much more minute in describ- ing the resurrection to the future life (see xv. of First Cortnthians) than Christ has been in his per- sonal teachings, but it should be remembered that Christ confined his efforts mainly to the establish- ment of the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as itis in Heaven,” is the prayer he taught us to utter, and a moral resurrection from vice to vir- tue, from sin to holiness, from hatred to love, was the theme on which he dwelt the Tost; yet he hesitated not to declare “in my Father's house there are Many mansions. Ifit were not so, 1 would have told you. I go to pre- pare a place for you"—not for animals; and that he sanctioned St. Paul's views Is clearly proved in the case of the woman who had had seven hus- vands. On being inquired of whose wife she should be in the resurrection, he replied, “They neither marry nor are given in mar! f° but are as the angels which are in Heaven.’ Now, if these seven husband had been nothing more than seven beasts, would not Christ have cut the argument short at once by saying so ¢ “Is the Soul Immortal 1”’—Vindication of Scionce. To Tie Epivor oF THE HERALD:— This is the heading of @ recent reportin a Sun- day paper of alecture by Dr. F. R. Marvin before the Liberal Club, The simple question betrays a Materialist of Dr. Buchner’s type, whose work, “Matter and Force,” has passed in Germany through no less than ten editions already, and is now being scattered broadcast also over our land, both in the original Janguage and in translations, | Tony sane mind but that of the materialist the | question itself is not an open one, since the mo- ment we cast a doubt on the immortality | of the soul we destroy all significance of the word “spirit,” with all its relations, Why? Can- not a spirit exist for a day and disappear like a shadow True, if it be naught but shadow! We will not offend the reader by defining a shadow. All the world knows what that is; but none knows what the soul is, but all feel that 1t 1s a power, a force, and there being no force in shadow, the soul is not a shadow. But need force be spirit * Science recognizes two elemental princlples—viz., matter and force, and ff spirit be anything it must be one of the two; while the materialist claims that mat- ter is all there is, both cause and effect of all we sev, feel and think, and that matter alone is immortal, as a cause, and not in its effects, Yet science has univer- sally adopted the doctrine, even as an axiom, that matter per se is inert—that is, Incapable of mo- tion without an outside bas Ue thus recognizing a orce outside of matter, Will the materialist con- tend that gravitation is a force inherent in matter ? Then let him account for the oblique direction of the orbits of all the planets which Sir Isaac Newton said could not be explained by the law of gravita- tion, and let him also account for the polarity of ter, The naturalist, ignoring the outside ces himself outside of the pale and forfeits his right of appeal Jt must nonsuit him as a flagrant ples, That court has long since decreed the indestructibility which, being outside of matter, must ne , but of substance it must | is inconceivable without it. Science , the materialist only if he says “Nonsense,” we recognize mind, of cours but only as | thought, as a chemical process of the brain, | which “goes out with the dissolntion of the apparatus,’ as a light blows out when a candle ts extinguished, This analogy | being the main force of his argument, we would | ask him where, in all the experience of science, | has he ever met with @ chemical process that knows | of itself, reflects upon itself and controls its own | activities ¥ What becomes of his analogy? Has | 35 ». H. | | pla to that court. atter, “as all there 1s."7 | he never reflected upon the significance of the | | words “to know ¥” ? It means “to be able.” und “can” spring from the same root. “Knowl | edge is power.” ‘That which knows is a force, and, | as such, indestructible, hence immortal, according to science. And as to the materialistic doc- “Ken’ obsession was 80 objectio: on earth, drove out p His disciples power over such spirits, should men | and women to-day allow spirits to take possession | of their bodies, and perhaps souls, and speak and | write through them? And should we run alter them and read their writings ? Finally, cannot some of your numerous theologi- cal writers ® a good reason why the Lord pro hibited, under the most fearful peuvalties, the con sulting with familiar spirits, or even with those who have such spirits’ What real objection can there be to our seeking 07 intercourse with spirits, and consulting and regarding those who can see and converse with spirits’ Surely, if it is wrong there must be some good reason Why It i8 80 which would appeal to our understandings. A great many intelligent men at this day, and who are not among the worst of men, have in a great measure outgrown authority, and, perhaps to & greater extent than they should have done, rever- ence for ancient do; S. If spiritualism, for ii- stance, is objectio! ie and wrong, as the Bible plainly teaches. they want to understand the why and the whe Let us have light upon this eubject, for it is needed. le that the Lord, when A BIBL SPIRITUALIST, Marrying a Deceased Brother's Widow, To rH Epiror oF THE HERALD:— Ashort time ago the Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise, of Cincinnati, officiated at a levitical marriage, after all the Rabbies of this city had rejused to do so, As soon as the fact was known these Rabbies iaunched forth their anathemas against the pro- | “on of the soul after death as a great blessing; but | to preach to them and bring thew ceedings, abused the Doctor, pronounced the mar- riage incestuous and its issue bastards. Not be- Ueving in such fanatical doctrines, I would sabmit the following questions to the protesting Rabbies :— 1, In Deut. xxv., 5 and 6, it is not only permitted, but positively commanded for a brother to marry hus brother's widow, By what authority, then, do they pronounce such a marriage Wrong and im- moral? 2. The laws of all civilized nations sanction such amarriage. Have the Jews a code of morals diffe ing from that of the good and wise men of all the nations of the earth ¥ % If it be incest vo marry a brother's wid is it not incest to marry a sister's widower ¥ RATIONALIST, Is Man Only an Animal? ‘To rae Epitor or THE Hrrato:— low, why If the author of “Man an Animal,” in the Hrra.p | of the 14th inst., is really a ‘Bible Christian,” he has certainly taken a singular way of showing it, by attempting to prove himself to be nothing more than @ beast. Bible testimony than those who that every word from Genesis to tion is divipeiy mepiked, aud should assume Revela- e. ing spirits, and gave | trine of matier, There are no greater enemies to | 4s such, being a first cause, and, a8 such, immortal, science mathematically proves the absence of the absolute in all material hings; hence the impossibility of their self-exist- ence. “ We say,’’ when we see the works of man, | “they are the resuit of thought.” What right have )w eny, Whee we see the works outside of man’s ons, that they are the result of thought? » it ia possible for thought to exist outside of | medium of brains; and after death the soul | | may be clothed with other mediums through which to manifest its force, which it cannot help exercising | or it Would cease to be a force, which is impossible. | From ali the above we cannot otherwise than ar- rive at the conclusion that it is a libel on sctence | to represent her as opposed to the immortality of | | the soul, aud the materialist appears as a misera- | ble bungler of science. He speaks of “matter and | | force’? with one breath and of “matter as all there | is’ with another; of space as nothing, and again | denying the existence of nothing. Being in fa- | in a mealy-mouthed, blathery double-tongue. ) and animal, our habits, if not brutal, would be buta rep- ition of our forefathers, as in brute life, From what fearful depths of ignorance bas tho soul in man elevated and civilized the world; and B i? Does the man Ing this ae No; wire ie i 6! soul. Who can call that onght but instinct that tells the savage of that deeper germ of life in him that will grow 1n the hi hunting grounds? Tho birds who build the same nests cannot be immortal, for it is impossible for them to de- velope; but they teach us a@ lesson. The ppouns bird follows this perfect instinct, and at ay roach of winter files away (he knows not where), rust; and instinet leads him to a climate in perfect t: suited to his needs, “Ob, ye of little faithi” JSUANITA. Attempt to Crush High Churchmen. To THE Eprror or tHe HeRaLy:— Tn yesterday's HERALD you refer to the trouble at the General Theological Seminary of the (Protestant Episcopal) Church. Please allow me to oorrect a statement in your article. Yon state that “the trustees of the Seminary ata recent meeting re- scinded the obnoxious rules and resolutions adopted by the faculty.” ‘This statement is quite incorrect. The faculty themselves rescinded their “rules” and adopted a substitute before the meeting of the trustees in June last, in order, probably, to prevent the matter coming before the trustees at all. Well, in their report to the trustees, they say not one word in regard to, this affair that has occupted the attention of the students and faculty for the yearpast, The Bishop of Albany in- troduced the subject at the trustee meeting. He proposed that a committee be appointed to inves- tigate the whole affair. The whole matter was laid on the table. The Bishop of Albany, however, promised to make a visitation of the seminary and report the case at the next meeting of the trustees in October or November, The whole matter, there- fore, stands unsettled, The substitute of the faculty still remains in force, and if they ece ft they may re- view the original “rules.” By this substitute, Ifany student is present at the Holy Communion without communicating he is obliged to make an “‘explana- tion,” This, in effect, amounts to a forced confession and is pure Popery, This is not all, He is obliged to make his confession to the Dean. This is something more than even the Church of Rome requires, for she permits her members to choose their own confessor. But, far more, the Dean, if the explanation is not satiafactory, may report the whole case to the faculty, and the student's con- fosaion is made pubiic. But the laws of the Catholic Church over the whole world forbid any pa to reveal what is told him in confession, ‘he whole affair, from beginning to end, Mr. Editor, 1s an attempt to crush out High Church- men from an_ institution that professes to be @ general institution of the Church. I need not say that the faculty do not represent the mind of the Church, for the Church would never tolerate such a piece of tyranny. If the trustees do not, at their next meeting, aileviate the wrongs done tothe students by the present faculty, then some higher power must be spa ned: to, All that the students ask is their liberty, and this surely we have a right to ask in this land, Because we Gre students is no reason why our ‘‘appeal’’ should not be heard. There is-no use in trying to cover 1, these dimcuities. This has been tried before. these things are now covered up all the more ter- rible will be the trouble in the future. It thete be ® full investigation of the whole affair facts will be presented to the Church that wiil cause these persecutors of High Charchmen to hang their heads with shame, and bring down upon them the rebuke of every lover of Christian liberty. That such reso- lutions should be passed by the faculty of the Gene- ral Theological Seminary in this nineteenth century is a wonder that can only find its equal in the ac- tion of the late Roman Council. Knowing that you desire to know the truth of every matter I write the above and send you a copy of the pamphlet that was circulated among the trustees. at their late meeting, which contains an account of the whole r. A STUDENT OF THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. JULY 15, 1872, ‘To THE EDIToR OF THE HERALD :— ‘There was considerable rejoicing in some quar- ters not long ago over the expulsion by Victor Emmanuel, influenced by Bismarck, of the Jesuits, with the red republicans, from Rome—many people Considering that one party was as much the enemy of peace and good order in modern pagan Rome as the other. The Jesuits have long been considered by many self-styled good and pious people to be a band of unscrupulous fanatics, political religionists, ultramontanes, given to superstition and idolatry, opposed to modern civilization and behind the age; men in whose hands the Papacy during the last decade has been as potter's clay—who controllea the last Counchi and carried infallibility through by the party whip, and now, that it is defined, push the dogma to omnipotence, and, in fine, are entirely antagonistic to the progressive enlightenment of the nineteenth century. Any attempt to refute these charges which the ma- tertalistic infidelity of this age brings against this great evangelical order would only be a tacit recog- nition of their truth, which any sensible man who knows anything of human history during these later ages knows is impossible. That the Jesuits, however, are ardent and untiring advocates of Christianity, and in spreading the Gospel are zealous, uncompromising, and, if you will, fanati- cal, Iwill admit; but have they not the great sn- preme example set before them in their Lord and Master, Jesus Christ? When the Saviour was in the flesh, walking about as an itinerant evangelist, did he not liken the Scribes and Pharisees unto a “whited sepulchre ? and did He not speak of the “convert that they would make as being ten times | a greater child of hell than he was be- | fore t” And when or where, during ovr dear Lord's earthly bie Magl ) during those eventful thirty-two short years, in any of bis preaching or teaching, did He speak or should his followers do so to-day. But the best re- | futation of these charges and noplest vindication of the Jesuits is the testimony of assembled Prot- estantism at Worms, in the Miedo of 1869, gathered around the monumental feet of Lather, when it | proclaimed to the world that the Society of Jesus had always battled Protestantism with “life and death.” ‘Thisspeaks volumes in their behalf, These untiring evangelists, walking in the steps traced by Jesus Christ, ever zealous to exalt eternity above time, heaven above earth, and seeing, as they think they see, that Protestantism is the most giant in- iquity and the most monstrous fraud that hasever held and enslaved the souls of men: that it has led the modern world back to heathen- | ism, corrupted society, replaced civilization with barbarism, and is making those two thousand years of Christian effort almost in vain—therefore they combat it, and therefore moaern paganism kicks them out of the capital of the Christian world. Have not the Jesuits spread the Gospel in China and Japan, and did they not civilize and Christian- ize South and Central Ameri ind Mexico, and in the United States have not nearly all the Indian tribes that have been reached by the Gospel been reached through their labors’ There is Father Felix, one of the first intellects of the age and the Lager) of living preachers—is he not a Jesuit ? He held @ conference, a few years ago, at Notre Dame, in Paris, and, unlike that sentimental bDiatherskite, Father Hyacinthe, he took for his thesis Catholicism and Protestantism, and with a logic and an erudition which were incontrovertible, and an eloquence that rolled like a ate ge | thunder under the arches of that grand old cathedral church, he showed that the latter was antagonistic to both Christianity and civilization, its claims and pretentions he riddled through and through. rancis Xavier, @ Jesuit, grant contradiction with sclence, It is easy for him to fall tnte all kinds of absurd inconsistencies, and, | sue ing with no little wit at the hypothesis of philosophers, he himself heaps one hypothesis upon abotuer, the intended ridicule thus recoiling upon | himself with donble force. To the “man of faith’ there is no polson in the shallow arguments of the materiality; but that these Thay act as a great hindrance to the acquisition of faith, even with very intelligent minds, cannot be denied, The materialist may, in his one-sided ig- horance, deem himself a benefactor to the human race by relieving it of all moral fear of the future consegnences of acts, and by teaching the annihila- his doctrine is a betrayal of all the dearest aspira- tions of mankind and an insult to the universal in- stinet of the race, “ | We recently heard a gentleman speak enthustas- | tically of Dr. Brickner’s work, “Matter and Force,” acknowledging at the same time that he would not like his children to read it. He snuffed the poison to the youthful mind, while | to him it was a pleasant stimulant, with which he | himself appeared much in sympathy. Although it | appears to us as @ phantastic aifectation for a man of the present age to believe tn annihilation of the soul, We may charitably suppose bim to be sincere | im his doctrines, waich'we must utterly abominate, | however much credit he may deserve for His. play of talent and style, which would have ter employed than in rehashing exceedingly ancient pagan fancies. We appeal to the best philosophical talent in the land to furnish to the public the antidote to the poison that is the object of this article, ANTLBUDDHIST. Prophetle Instincts of the Soul. | To Tow Bprrok oF THR HERALD :— | Lbave been pained by the doubts of those heirs | of tmmmortality who scoff at their birthright. Man is not entirely animal, and the proof of his tm- wortality lies in his desire—his need—of tt. Auother vroof ls zrowth, If we had no soul but \ | evangelical scrip and nearly two hundred years ago, in Japan, with his staff, and holding up before the benighted heathen mind in symbolical repre- | sentation the great mediatorial sacrifice on Calvary and the living evidence of the faith that he taught, did more for Christianity ina heathen land than | have the British and American bibie societies and | Protestant missionaries from Bishop Heber down | to Titus Coren. That prattling and pretentious | Anglican prelate, Arthur Cleveland Coe, has lately, | in the Independent new! been throwing dirt at the Jesuits, talking ab psuit morality; bat | Lean tell him that if he had the good fortune to be | able to bring Jesuit missionart nong his people to repentance and contrition, to bring those beautiful, but, I fear, | not over pious, Episcopalian ladies to confess their sing at their feet, the awinl sacrilege would soon stop of fashionable ladies there going to the | altar rails to partake even of the symbolical blood of the Saviour with the sin of unrepentant child | murder on thelr souls. Sc say that Jesuitism is | a peculiar branch of Pop hat itis secret and | has its secret oaths and grip sigus, like Masonry, and that its ways are dark. But those who speak | so against it know little about it. The Jesuits are | Catholics, nothing more nor less, only @ little more | earnest and pronounced, and reproducing much of | that evangelical enthusiasm characteristic of the | primitive Chureb. Instead of being agents of evil, as many believe, they are the messengers of peace und love. Rut, notwithstending this, they are in the way of the paganism of tue age, and it will per- | secute them and try to bunt them down; but in obscure corners of the earth they will still labor for the salvation of souls; they will educate youth, preach the Gospel to the poor and fisten to the pitt ful tale of sin, untilone by one goes to his reward in | peace and eternal rest in heaven, W.0 ». “Disciple” and the Immortal Ghost, | To Tax Eprron or THE Henao :— We rejoice to-see that there is In our own age free- dom of speech, Although the temples of modern | idolatry hay the brain power, and were only a higher grade of | Rowley, reason and argument, yet civilization has left us @ wide door, in your valuable columns, to the public ear. Those few who stand warring against such a monater fabrication as has taken hold of our unfor- tunate race must indeed be strongly fortified in the truth to dare the task of running counter to the millions; but, Mr. Editor, only examine the argu- ments used by those millions to prove their ghost delusion, and see the rottenness of their foundation. Take, for instance, the quotations of ‘ Disciple” in your last, who undertakes to prove the existence of an immortal soul, or ghost, from Paul's argument to the Corinthians on the resurrection of the dead. Notice, to begin, how friend “Disciple” manages to Tread “spiritual body” (Cor. xv., 44) into “dmmortal soul,” end refers to the resurrection of Christ. Now, was Christ a ghost? Oh,no! “Handle me and see,” said He to Thomas; “‘a spirit (phantasma, or ghost, of the then popular belief) hath not flesh and bones as ye see me hav this is the body with which the saints will be “clothed upon.” As John writes, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we will be like Him.” It is strange that an intelligent man does not ob- serve that Paul speaks of the resurrection of the dead (Cor. xv., 42), how immortal souls are sup- posed never to die at all; the reasonable-conclusion is, then, the resurrection of immortal souls cannot be referred to in this chapter. If the ghost departs to Elysium when the body dies, and sings psalms and rides on clouds, after the orthodox fashion, the resurrection of a body 1s a useless and troublesome formality, seeing that they seem to get on all rigit without one. Indeed, the priest and parson of modern piety speak of the body as a mere encumbrance, a shell, a prison house and all that sort of thing. Allow me to inform “Disciple” that the ghosts that exist in our day (in the imagina- tions of the priestcraft, &c.) have neither body nor parts, can neither be seen nor felt, and the farthest extent of their abilities is the pit-a-pat on the table in a dark room. Happy souls! wonderful credulity! Again, “Disciple” quotes from Matthew x., “Fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” By what line of reasoning our friend arrives at the conclusion that the soul of man is immortal when “God can destroy both soul and body in hell’ ts rather beyond our comprelien- sion. Ail that we are trying te prove is that God does destroy the soul, and here we find Christ positively ailirming that both soul and body are destroyed. Where is the body destroyed, in hell or in the grave? And it is there God destroys the soul, as completely as the soul of beeves, or asses, orsheep. (Numbers, xxx1., 28.) Agaia, man’s spiritual individuality Leno) is fur- ther proven, in “Disciple’s” humble opinion, by the thief on the cross, and thinks it is impossible to con- strue it any other way than that the thief’s soul and Christ’s soul were in paradise that sell-same day. We won't attempt to construe it, but the question the thief asked of Christ was, “Lord, remember me when thou comest in the kingdom.” The answer is allowed by men of learning to be more correct! rendered, “I say unto thee, in that day thou shal be with me in paradise.’’ Now, Mr. Editor, Christ's kingdom has not come yet; for even the ritualists chant, “Thy kingdom come.” Therefore one would suppose it is yet in the future when they pray for it; and this was the thief’s Oia ge to be remem- bered at the coming and kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who will wake the 5! eping saints and call the living ones to Him in paradise, in the East, not in the skles, for “No man hath ascended into the heavens.”’ (John iil., 13.) It “ Disciple” has any further doubts as to the lo- cality of Christ’s soul the self-same day that he was executed let him consult Acts il. 13. He (David), seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left, in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. Christ's soul was in hell, or the grave, ‘in the heart of the earth;’’ therefore it is impossible that the thief could have been with him in paradise that self-same day, unless ‘Dis- ciple” suggests that Christ had two souls. eath means, in the humble opinion of * Disciple,” a state of unending unhappiness, Brief, woe, des- pair. Truly, the tender mervies of the wicked are cruel! 01 unbspny, race, to glory in such a cruel and relentless God, who, fora rt life of weakness, punishes 80 cruell for neither end nor purpose, with such torture! Too many follow such a monster. We prefer the God of David, “ whose wrath endureth but a little while; his mercy endureth forever; ‘*Whose tender mercies are over all His works; “Who Knoweth our frame, who re- member that we are dust.” “Our God is a con- suming fire”? (Hebrews xii, 2%), not ® tormenting fire; And all the proud; you all that do wickedly shall be as Stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall neither leave them root nor branch” (Malachi iv., 1). ‘Thank the God of Israel that he is more merciful to us than we are to ourselves, and resolves man to his original dust, seeing “He will not come unto Him that he might have life.” BIBLE CHRISTIAN. Archbishop McCloskey’s New Secretary— Appointments of Young Priests, &c. The Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey has selected the Rey. John M. Farrelly, of St. Peter's, Staten Island, as successor to Bishop McNeirny in the important and delicate position of secretary. The Rey. Henry Gordon, of St. Columba’s, West Twen- ty-fifth street, has been appointed to succeed Father Farrelly. The Rev. Father Phelan, of the Church of the Holy Innocents, Thirty-seventh street, takes the place of the Rev. M. J. O'Farrell, at St. Peter's, Barclay street, promoted to the pas- torate of Rondout. The Rev. George Murphy, of the Church of tie Immaculate Conception, will in future officiate at St. Columba’s, West Twenty-fifth street, and the Rev. George Galligan, of St. Peter's, Poughkeepsie, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Thirty-seventh streef. Ministerial Movements, Changes, &c. METHODIST. Bishop Merrill is to leave here in a few days for his new home in St. Paul, Minn, He will return again about the middie of August. Rev. Erastus D. D., has been re-elected to the Presidency of De Pauw College, New Albany, Ind. Rev. D. De Vinne, a superannuated preacher of the New York East Conference, now past eighty years of age, has been attacked with fever and ague at his home in Har- lem. Rev. William H. Evans and wife, of the New York Conference, sailed for Europe on Saturday last, severely from nervous prostration, induced by over- work. The honorary degree of A. M. has been con- ferred on Rey. George W. McLaughlin, of Philadel- phia, by the Johnson College, Macon, Mo. Rev. Henry W. Warren, of Troy Conference, died recently at his father’s residence, in Wiilsborough, Essex county, N. Y. Bishop Peck, itis announced, is so Mr. Evans has been suffering | nd | the greatest fidelity, uninterruptedly, for forty indisposed in health that he will not be able for some time to fulfil his Episcopal | and other engagements, Bishop Foster's con- | nection with Drew Theological Seminary will | remain intact for another academic term by arrangement with his Episcopal colleagnes and the trustees and faculty of the institution. Rev. F. M. Kennedy, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has received the honorary degree of D. D. from Trinity College, North Carolina. Rev. Archibald J. Battle, President of Mer- cer University, Georgia, has recetved a D. D. from Columbian College, Washington, D. C. ‘The Rev. T. W. Hunt, of Metuchen, N. J., returned last week. after a year's absence in Europe. Sea- cliff camp meeting 1s to be supplemented by regu- lar Sunday services, which are to continue until the Ist of September. Rev. Benjamin Gill, of the New England Conference, who has been seriously | ill for a year past, is no recovering | slowly. Rev. Dr. Fowler, of Chicago, addressed the | Philadelphia preachers’ meeting last Monday on the state and prospects of Methodism in that city and vicinity. ev. Dr. Tiffany has been extremely ill for several weeks at the residence of General Theo- | dore Runyon, Newark, his family being at Martha's Vineyard. Rev. James I. Boswell, of Trinity | chureh, Newark, is in California on a six weeks’ va- | cation. He will visit every place of note in that interesting region. Rey. Charles Lerew will not leave his parishioners during hot weather, Rev. | J. Atkinson, Dr. Bartine and Rev. RK. B. Lock- wood also deciine a vacation. Rev. C. R. Barnes, of New Jersey, is spending a few weeks at Saratoga and Lake George. The new Swedish church in Byooklyn is rapidly Miing up; their Sunday school, organized since the opening of the new house. now numbers about one hundred and thirty children, Among late ministerial tourists to Europe are Rev. Mr. Charch, of the Providence Conference ; Rev. W. Pp. Ray, Rev. N. G Barnhurd, one of our Swedish brethren, from Finlana, Mr, Barn- hurd one of two or three brothers, con- verted on shipboard, who, with one consent, have become missionaries to their countrymen at home. Boglish Methodists are adopting the American A beauti- held in Hull which was very successful. ful new chure! ¥ in the Newtot inde the labors of Rev, W. The edifice is. 34 by 70 feet. It will be dedicated early in August. The book agents recommend that collections be Newark Conference, are sojourning at Denville camp grove, in the highiands of New Jersey. The | Vincentown, | Williams, of Connecticut, has been allowed leave of absence by his diocesan convention for a tour in | institution of camp meetings, and lately one was | | \d | taken in the churches this year for the support of | riew, of Brooklyn, on the Indians foundation stone of an imposing Methodist church | Java, Wyominy long ago closed their doors to both is about to be laid on the high @rquad corner of | been established in. of to the childless. of Gatesville Texas Confe! South), reached St. Louis last appointed by Bishop Marvin last fall toa a! out a church house, and itis the first and most import- ant part of his work to secure the erection of a place of wors! For Present the Mount Vernon congregation have discon. The rest of the Methodist Eplscoy usual, and evening for worship. a” 7° 9PeR morning BAPTISTS. The General Baptists of Great Britain have amem- bership of 20,970 and seventy-nine churches. Rev. 3. J. Gundy has been compelled by continued ill health to resign the pastorate at Waterford, Mich., and return to Canada. Rev. John’ P. Wills has re- Bi his charge of the Shiloh Baptist church, Philadelphia, In 1860 the estimated sum inves! by Baptists in education was $1,500,000; now it is over $12,000,000, From 1862 to 1872’ the Ba) tists of California have expended 521 in State missions, The cliques of Baptists Nebraska and elsewhere in the West are dropping their sec- tarlan nomenclature and are coalescing. ‘The Rev. John Goadby, of Putney, Vt., has been advocating open communion Seong Be tists in a series of ar- ticles published in the Wate! and Reflector, A new Baptist ohurch in Matteawan, N. Y., was dedi- cated on hyena Its pastor, ‘Rev. Dr. Masters, has been disabled by partial paralysis. Rev. A. B. Earle has preached incessantly in revival meetin, from early last fall up to the first of this month, delivering about six hundred sermons, averaging more than two sermons a day. The Baptists of Virginia are resolved to raise $300,000 this year as @ memorial fund. Rev. K. F. Higgins writes that he expects to resign his pastorate in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind., the coming fall, and the church Where he reaches The pastor of the German Mission Baptist churc! of Detroit, Mich., Rev. C. Young, has been grante a leave of absence for three months, to enable him to return to Germany and visit his friends there. The church is supplied during his absence by Rev. A. Ludwig, a former pastor of the church, Rev. J. L. A. Fish, of Massachusetts, accepts the pertorate at Duluth, Iowa. Rev. L. A. Abbott, of Rochester, Minn., has accepted a call to the Baptist church in La Crosse, Wis. Rev. J. H. Wiiderman has resigned his pastorate of Northfleld, Minn., Baptist church. A Baptist church of nine mem- bers was orgavized at Lamond, Steele county, Minn., a few days since, of which Rev. J.C. Weeden is pastor. The payee church of Birch Run, Sagi- naw county, Mich., will dedicate @ new house of worship to the service of the Lord on Thurs- day, July 25. Rev. Dr. Emerson, of Salem, Mass., aged ninety-four years, fell a few days ago ‘and fractured one of his hip bones. Rev, J. F. Rush has just assumed pastoral relations to the Bap- tist church at Picture Rocks, Lycoming county, Pa. Rev. W. B. Hamblen writes that the Baptists in the frontier States are doing more to extend their bor- ders than ever before. ny churches have been planted, revivals enjoyed, meeting houses erected, stated preaching sustained, and oon the whole, the Baptists rather excel the Methodists in this pioneer work. George E. Merrill, just graduated at Newton, accepts the call of the First Baptist church in Springfield, as successor to Dr. Ide. Rev. Simeon Siegfried, for three years pastor of the Mount Pleasant Baptist church, Belleville avenue, Newark, N.J., has resigned, and his resignation was accepted at a BY ee business meeting of the church last week. . Siegfried has no particular paneer) in view, and it is probable he will remain in the city for a time without a settled charge. The Baptists of Vermont are moving with great energy in the matter of an Academy. They have determined on the location, and have determined to put up and endow an Institution that will be second to none in the State. Rev. 0. H. Maicolm, of Newport, received the Doctorate of Divinity from Bates College, Lewistown, Me., last week. Rev. 0. T. Walker, of has declined a recall to the church of which he was formerly pastor—Bowdoin square, Boston. Rev. W. P. Everett has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church at Elgin, Il. The Baptist churches in and around New York are generally supplied with acceptable pastors. A few puipits are vacant, and are waiting the coming of good preach- ers. Among the shepherdless flocks are the Ply- mouth, of New York; the North, of Jersey City; the First, of Hoboken; the Broad street, of Elizabeth, and the South, of Newark. The Rev. J. C. Post has left Fort Scott, Kan., and fone to Nevada, Mo. The Rev, Cyrus Thomas, of Belleville, Il, has taken a pastoral yacation and come East to advocate the interests of the Illinois Baptist Education Society. Athol, Mass., is his headquarters. The Baptists of Jowa are Pp ring to hold “missionary mass meet- ings” at Clinton, in that State, some time in Octo- ber or November next. A conference of Baptist ministers in Philadelphia spent a portion of lust Wednesday discussing the question, ‘Where lies the power of ordaining to and deposing from the ministry?’ but did not decide it, Rev. A. J. Row- land entered upon his new field of labor as pastor of the Old Tenth Baptist church, in Philadeiphia, on Sunday last. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Henry Loomis and wife, of Central New York, are on their way to Japan as missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, The Allen street Presby- terian church pulpit 1s to be occupied eacty Sabbath morning, during the summer vacation of the tor, by Rev. Mr. Hobert, Secretary of tite American Home Missionary Society. Rev. Dr. Newell and Rev. ve . Newell, Jr., are to spend the remainder of the summer at the White Mountains. The church of the latter, in West Forty-second ap will be open for divine service every jabbath morning durin the summer. Dr. M. C. Sutphen, of the Scotch Presbyterian church in Fourteenth street, New York, 1s on his bei to try the alr of Colorado for several weeks. The only Presbyterian churches south of the line of latitude of Mr. Talmadge’s tabernacle, Brooklyn, are the Westminster, First lace and Memorial, East Warren street. The Rev. . M. W. Farnham, missionary to China, arrived here last week, and on Sunday evening he ad- dressed the Throop avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, and during the week left for his home in West Lebanon, Me. Rev. William B. Reed, of Princeton Seminary, is spending the summer at Hazleton, Pa. preaching in. three of the small villages adjacent to that [Aee sto town, and acting as assistant to Kev. J. Allen Maxwell, pastor of the Presbyterian church there. The Rev. A. D. Barber has closed his labors in New Milford, Pa. Since Dr. McCosh took charge of Princeton College it has received gifts amount- ing to $700,000, Rev. Dr. M. Campbell, of Rochester, N. Y., has returned from his foreign tour and received a warm welcome from his people and friends. Rev. John C, Lowrie, D. )., the senior Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has been compelled to intermit his arduous duties and flee to the mountains for health. Dr. Lowrie has served the Church with years, Mr. Rankin, its treasurer, has gone to Eu- rope by advice of the Board. ‘he Rev. J. B. Dunn, of Massachusetts, formerly of this city, is traveling in the Holy Land. The First Presbyte! charelt in Elizabeth, % J., has had regular serv out intermitfing a single Sunday last 207 years, The Rev. for errit sen, late of Tipton, Ind., has taken charge of the Hny- Presbyterian church at Barton, Washington county, Wis. Rey. Dr. E, L. Hurd, of Sandwich, IL, has gone to Highland Park, in the vicinity of Chicago, and is building up a new mission there with very encouraging prospects. A few Presby- terians in Raymond, Il,, a town on the Toledo and Wabash Railroad not two years old, have built a church there costing $1,900, and now they are look- ing for a pastor, here is no Presbyterian church within ten miles of them. The Methodists, they say, have a church one mile and a half from the place, but they are doing little or nothing for the spiritual good of the people. Rey. J. G. Davis, D. D., of Amherst, Mass., who a few weeks since re- signed his pastorate of twenty-eight years, has | been requested to remain with them. Mr. T. G. Jerome, & graduate of Hamilton College, and a member of the last class at Andover, was recently ordained pastor of the Pacific church, New Bed/ord. | He has been supplying the pulpit of the Pacific church, from Andover, for nearly @ year. EPISCOPALIAN, The exchange of pulpits between Dissenters and Church of England ministers has become so common in Great Britain as to call for the introduction of a bili in Parliament to legalize the innovation. This is a long step toward church unity and ecclesiastical democracy. The incumbent of Grace church, within a brief period, has gathered in 140 strayed Episco- palians, The Rey. J. ©. Swayne, M. A., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has resigned his clerical orders be se of the late legal decision in the Rennetr case, favoring high church doctrines being taught in the establishment. Qthers are talking of following his example. Rev. Howe, of Central Penusylvania, at Bristol, R. 1, for the summer months, The Rev. Charles 8. Hutchins, of Butfalo, upon his return from of € irope next fall, will assume the rectorship ‘ace church, Medford, Mass, ‘The Rev. Chaun- Colton, D. D., has resigned the rectorship of Emmanuel church, Cumberiand, Md. He will sail | about the ist of Angust for Europe and the Bast for a trip of six or nine months. The Rev. Lewis H. Lighthipe has accepted the rectorship of Grace church, Pemberton, and ‘Trinity ehureh, Bishop diocese of New Jersey. | Europe. "They will supply his diocese with epis- | copal supervision during his absence. The Kev. Dr. W. H. Carter has resigned the pains ary of Christ church, Bloom#eld, , and accepted that of St, Je J. The Rev. W. BE. ‘s church, Pass: ‘Toll has resigned the position of assistant minister of Grace ehureh, Chicago, and become rector of St. james’ church, Cleveland, Ohi 1 The Rev. Father De Smet, an interesting series of lett athotic Re- the bishops, at the rate of $10 for each 100 mem- | Father was a Jesuit missionary for many years bers. A new cburch was dedicated Jast Sunday, | among the red men and is thoroughly familiar with | at Landsdale, Montgomery county, The house | his sub s. The splendid new Church of St. Al- is @ beautiful Gothic structure, 34 by 68 | phonsns, on Grand avenue, St. Louis, uncer the feet, built of stone. Rev, W. Sebring, | pastoral charge of the Redemptorist Fathers, is the pastor, has done a@ great and good | rapidly approaching completion, and will be dedt- work there. Kev. Drs. Crane and Perkins, of | cated early next month by Right Rev. Bishop Kyan. To-day the Right Rev. ogi Ryan will lay the corner stone of a new chureh (St. Patrick’s) in county, N. XY, Two new Suro) Bishop | is rusticating | ne reverend | Ee Hy & x E ape Missouri, also Fathers, The Rev, ae) of Raleigh, N. C., had the ey baptizing and receit into res} le he was brought up and nas iived unkiran & man of fine attainments, but of ners. He is an editor of peculiar force; an not practisii ne i recen 0) physician, @ Hon. Grens. is his son-in- Harper hitaker, editor of the Raleigh Friend of Temper- |. anwe, is near relative. i MISCELLANEOUS. i The Union Advocate, devoted to the unity of the Christian Church, takes up and advocates the HERALD correspondent’s idea for a ‘Dolly Varden’* Chureh. . Such @ Church it thinks might be Distinct lke the billows, yet one Uke the sea. Rev. Dr. Gulliver has resigned the Presidency of Knox pollens, Galesburg, Ill.,.an institution sup- rted jointly by the Congregational id Pree- yterians and go little by eithe to pase into other hands. According to Archdeacon. Fuller, of Toronto, it costs the people of Ching $400,000,000 a year to support their rel ineti- tutions, and they waste no money in missionary enterprises to convert the heathen of America. “The American Reformed Church,” of Chicago, has called Rev. Uriah D. Gulick, who has accepted and been installed as their pastor. He has somewhas modified the forms introduced by his piececemes, dropping the use of the Psalter, and other re- ue Rey, John Allison, formerly of sige) is., temporarily supplying the alpit of the Lee avenue Congregational ¢ ethan Brooklyn. The Germans of the several Evangeli churches are holding @ union camp meeting near the city of Philadelphia. The meeting thus far, notwitlistanding the intense heat, has been one of interest. Rev. Dr. Sims, of Madison avenue church, Bracket one of the sermons on Sunday. Rev. Dr. Edward Strong, Congregational, has removed from Pittsfeld, Mass., to West Roxbury. The Morning Star Sunday school has purchased lots on Twenty- sixth street, where a chapel is to be erected to commodate the mission. This schoo) has beem constant success ever since it started. Dr. B. F. Perry is its superintendent. There are «ix ordained female pastors the Universalist Church im the United States. This is the only church where women are admitted te ordination. Rev. J. J. Boswell, of the Newark Con- ference, arrived in San Francisco last week. On Sunday he filled the pulpit of the Howard street church, and afterward went into the interior to see the wondersof California, It was the devoted net the deserted wife of the Madagascar mitnelonrey who died Javely. so soon after her husband, Rey. W. Ellis, as to be buried in the same grave with him. It is reported that the Legislature of South Carolina passed a law requiring every clergyman to pay @ $10 tax. The Protestant churches of Chi are subscribing for the relief of the people of Persia, Universalism has declined about one-third in the number of its ministers in the United States during the last ten years; and in Massachusetts and New England they have fewer ministers than they had in 1840 or 1850, They advanced a little from 1840 to 1850, but have since fallen below where they were in 1840, The Emperor of Austria has estab- lished a Jewish theological faculty in the Imperial University, which is to be equal in its rights and privileges to Roman Catholic and Protestant ones. Open air services are now held in this city at various points and quite largely attended. Many listen to the iL at these meetings, who seldom, if ever, enter aor regular place or moretth Anew Lutheran churel isto be erected in Allegheny, Pa., toward which Mr. 0. Yeager and wile have given $12,000. Rev. J. P, Viele has removed from Schaghticoke to Mid- die Granville, N. Y. Rev. D. P, Muzzy has accepted an invitation from the Unitarian Society at Stow, Mass., to supply its pulpit fora year. The Rev. Steckel, recently of Huntingdon, Pa., has accep! a call from the Reformed church in Landisburg, Perry county, Pa. Rev. A. D. Mayo, late pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, in Cincinnati, has been in that charge eleven years, and has recently resigned. As & warm friend of the preipexsnce cause, and as a member of the Board of Education of the Common Schools of Cincinnati, he will be missed by the whole community, Another Cin- cinnati pastor, of equal or longer standing—Rev.. Henry D. Moore, of the Vine street Congregational church—has offered his resignation, to take placei m September. The Rev. William Taylor, successor toe Dr. J. P. Thompson, in the Broadway Tabernacle, this city, was last week made a D. D. by ‘Amherst College. The overhauling which his church is get- ting now, ata cost of $50,000, is to give more room. to the hundreds who during his short ministry’ there could not find seats, and to make the edifice more comfortable and convenient for seeing and hearing. The huge pillars are to be removed en- tirely, and the roof will be supported by abutments from the upper walls. The Rev. Dr. Abner Phel of Boston, a young man of ninety-three years age, trotted over to Andover, Mass, a few days ago to see his brother, another minister, now in his eighty-third year, who he heard had begun te feel the infirmities of age. The two “boys” of another century were delighted to see each other. DEATH OF AN EXILED FRIAR. The Guatemala Capuchins in San Fran- cisco—The Edict of Banishment—Confis- cation of Church Property—Soldiers Firing Upon the People. In last Sunday's HERALD ap account was given of the arrival in California of thirty-nine Capuchin priests, who were banished from Guatemala by the Granados revolutionary government under very cruel circumstances, Several of the friars were, in consequence of the hardships to which they were subjected, suffering from severe fllness, and had to | be conveyed to hoxpital. We now have intelligence | that one of their number, Rev. Francisco de Bas- sost, died July 4, three days after his arrival in San Francisco. The deceased was aged seventy years, and a native of Spain, Twenty | years ago he arrived in Guatemala and founded the mission of Antigua. Bowed down with age and infirmities, he was offered permission to stayin the country, but he unselfishly preferred to share | the exile and sufferings of his brethren. When he arrived he was in a state of complete exhaustion | and scarcely able to move. His death bed ts de- scribed as presenting a most impressive picture. | Surrounded by is exiled vrethren, many of whom | are tall and dignified and belong to some of the | best familics in Spain, Father de Bassost addressed | them words of consolation and hope, and, praying earnestly for the forgiveness of their persecutors, | passed to his reward. The faneral ceremonies | were conducted with the usua! solemnity, in pree- | ence of a vast assemblage. The friars, barefooted, wearing coarse brown habits, with cowls and I flowing beards, added to the sorrowful surround- ings of the scene in the Cathedral. A singular in- cident in the obsequies was the offering of gold | pieces laid upon the comin for the benefit of the sur- viving friars, who are in destitute circumstances, TREACHEROUS PROMISES OF GRANADOS. Some additional facts have come to light relative to the banishment of these priests. Soon after Granados had succeeded in overturning Cena’s authority, in June, 1871, and after forcing out of the country two bishops and the Jesuit fathers and con- fiscating ail the Charch ede it was rumored | at Antigua that the Chief of Police had received | orders to drive away the Capuchins ; bit the people, | to the number of five thousand, rose up against the Measure, and it was abandoned for the time bel Granados then issued a proclamation that It was never his intention to interfere with the friars. Almost every night the citizens patrolled the suar- | rounding streets and kept watch tn the rear of the convent until they heard the usnal midnight prayer | bell, by which they undersiood that nothing new had happened, In the meantime the churches and | schools were left in other parts of the repubilo Without ministers or teachers. THE EDICT OF BANISHMENT. On the 7th June last, contrary to the solemn prom- ise of Grenados, an order was issued to the follow- ing effect :—“For reas f a high political nature | the Supreme Provisional Government has resotved | Upon the expulsion of the Capuchin fathers of Antigua, To-day (Friday) a military force bas been sent from this capital with orders to take them away from that city and drive them to the frontier of Mexico.” The fathers were allowed exactly one hour to prepare jor a land journey of over two hun- dred miles. They proteste ainst such violence, | and asked tobe taken to the seaport of San José | de Guatemala, in order that they might pass thence to their convents in Europe, e Greta consuls also protested, and induced the military comman- der to change the route to the seaport of Champer- ico: but only on condition that the Capuchins would embark for San Francisco, so that they he not stop at any port in Central America was privilege granted, i FEELING OF THE PROPLR. It Is belleved that the Granados government has, lost credit by the expulsion of the Capuchins in thet rion of the most favorable to it, The poorer «ses of people viewed their departure with sin- cere and openly expressed sorrow. It was, to sayt | the least, a piece of meanness and despotisi | against a hanafal ore eable men who never med-| | dled in anything like polities, only pursuing the! works of praying, teaching and mortification tm- | posed upou them by their vows. It appears that there is also in Guatemala a community of Francis- cans, natives of the country. When the decree confiscating all ohurch property was promulgated, | they had no alternative but to accept the situation, So the members retired from their houses and ag- sumed the secular garb. It has to be mentioned that when the soldiers sent from the capital were | opi K guarding the Capuchins while passing through the streets, fhe musket of one of the former was acct- dentaaty discharged, This incident caused the sol- pers have | diets to fire upon the people, causing the deaths of pe io the Interest of | twoand the wounding of several othora,