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4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, July 28---Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. The Religious Programme for To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS COMMUNICANTS. patie 413) tabi Popularity of the Herald’s Sermon Reports, MORE ABOUT IMMORTALITY AND “CATO.” ene Hebrew Rabbinical Edu-| cation. LIM LS Ce Ministerial Changes ments. and Move- Services To-Day. Bishop Snow will preach in the University at three o'clock P. M. on “The Seven Last Plagues."” Rev. Dr. Cheever preaches tn the morning at the Forty-second street Presbyterian church, Rev. Dr. Deems will discourse at both services at the Church of the Strangers. Professor J. H. N. Tooley will lecture on “The | hh Philosophy of Spiritualism’ in Apollo Hall morning | and evening. Holy Communion will be administered in the Chureh of the Redeemer, Fourth avenue and Bighty-second strect, by Rev. J. W. Shackelford, and there will be, also, morning and evening services. The Feast of St. Ann will be celebrated in St. Ann's Church, East Twelfth street, by a solemn high mass in the forenoon. Rev. Father McGean will preach the sermon. There will be Divine Services in the Orthodox Eastern (Russian) Chapel, 951 Second avenue, near Fiftieth street, at eleven o'clock this morning. Ad- mission is granted to every one. Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach morning and evening am the Church of the Resurrection, Fifty-seventh street and Lexington avenue. Rev. J. P. Newman, Chaplain of the United States Senate, will preach in the Methodist Episcopal vharch in Kighteenth street, near Eighth avenue, in the morning and again in the evening. Popularity of the Herald’s Reports of Sermons. To THE Epivor oF THE HERALD :— As an old printer, and one who has, for many years, had exclusive mechanical charge of seven religious papers, weekly and monthly, whose names and titles I could give you, as well as the ofice where they were printed, not a hundred miles from your “sanctum,’’I congratulate you, for the first time, on a useful, if not financially protitabie hit you made when you first undertook to “report” the pulpit every Monday morning. fundreds, if not thousands, take the HB&KALD, especially Monday mornings, just to get your reports of pulpit. In to-day’s issue 1 notice a report of a sermon preached at Babylon, L. 1, in which the reporter remarks—‘‘Babylon is fortunate in having its pul- pit ably filled. The Presbyterian church has for its pastor a talented young man, till recently an occu- pant of a Brooklyn pulpit.” Now, Mr. Editor, | can vouch for the troth of your reporter's assertion as to the talent of this “young man,” as it was my honor and privilege to be an elder in the church over which tunis “young man’ presided as pastor for seven years, and I can. tes- tily that all the discourses to which I listened de- livered by him were finished theological and lite- rary productions, every one of them ready for the press as delivered by him. He is a ripe scholar and finished preacher. 1 hope the next time your re- rter visits Babylon he will report Rey, James icDougall, if he finds him in the pulpit of the Presbyterian church of Babylon. KR. H. G. More About Immortality, fo rue Eprror or THE HERaLD:— There has been during the last few months a sort | of a theological controversy between a materialist, “Cato,” and sundry other theological experts run- | ning in this journal, It seems, however, that this | patronymic child of one of the ancient heathen poets, up to this date, so lume has been the argu- ment on the orthodox side, has heid “his own,” and the fundamental principle of Christianity, as- sailed by this champion of revived heathenism, top- ples over, and, unsupported by Protestant ortho- doxy, must go begging fora defender, In the first place, “Cato” believes in the Bible, but denies the immortality of the soul. Here is an absurdity at once. What does the written Word of God teach from the opening pages of Genesis to the closing the living soul, that is lite, eternal? juman soul? Did not God breathe into Adam a Did not God ap- pear to Moses in the bush and ‘leliver to hin the ten | Commandinants, for the guidance of man in this | life and to the lite to come? Why was the Tower of Babel started, but to reach to heaven, to the im- mortal hous: of bliss’ Where did Elias go when he went up heavenward, body and soul? Take the Bible as the sum and substance of Christianity (which to private interpretation it is not), and in both the Old Testament and the New the are in- humerable texts teaching explicitly lives beyond the grave. How, then, can Cato believe in God and inthe bible, and disbelieve in the existence of the soul of man? It isa plain contradiction in terms, characteristic of the intel- ‘lectual feebleness of the modern heathen mind. It is, nowever, true that it cannot, by living evi- dence, be proved that maa is immortal- come back from the grave to unravel the niystery; but faith—Christian laith—teaches us to believe in afuture state. Many things, concerning alone this world, we have also to accept by faith, rather than | by reasonable evidence. But in this world, by analogy and comparison, leaving alone revelation, have We not abundant evidence teaching a future existence ¥ Where is there a dutiful, true son or Scie that parts with a dear, kind, loving Chris- ian mother atthe portals of the grave but le nsoled in his or her grief that they will be re- ited again in Heaven’ Ifit was thought that thilation took place would not grief be incon- solable? ifaman has a true and a lovable wife— the pride and ornament of his nome—who performs well her triple duties of companion, wife and mother, when death comes and snatches her from takes all that loveliness and purity in , food for worms, what consoles that but the hope — that gone to & home of joy, and that, with God will be joined again in eternal bliss? That great | French philosopher, Chateaubriand, says the vene- ration that men have for the Holy Lord, the scene of Christ's sufferings, the tomb ot Calvary, indis- Pte A attests the immortality of the soul. What d has come of infidelity? Does it not degrade and debase aman? Christiantty exalts him; infl- whe has delity degra: him to the level of the beast. immortality is traditionally woven | in man’s nature. All forms of religious | belief, heatuen or Christian, ranging be- | tween Bhuddism in the East and Mormonism in the West, teach a spiritual life in tue othe Rather will | my piace side by side w three hundr millions of Christian Christendom who bow down and do common God and Saviour, who beli rewards and punishments, and Bible as the writte word than with a handful of pseudo infidels, taire or “Cato,"? whose deathbed seen the Goa accept of are alie very often and a blasphemy on their lives. Voltaire | ‘was twice stricken witn severe sickness, threat ing death, and twice recanted bis infidelity, but fell aWay again on recovery; but when death really did approach, this despairing wretch lost hope, and, amid curses and excerations, frothings and contor- tions, he felt that he foretasted the fate of the damued. My friend “Cato” may be now in heal h | and Vigor, in physical and intellectual strength, with the World smiling on him, and he is therefore hg of his scepticism; but the day will yet come, hope, When stricken on the bed by disease, at the door of death, hearing, as it were, the stones roll- ing on his cofiin, leaving ail near and dear behind him, soon to be a corrupt mass of fith—when that day comes [ hope that he will belleve in ancternity of life a8 well as death. W. 0. D. Hebrew Rabbinical Ed fo THE Eprror oF THE HERALI Your able article on the above subject i a fresh proof of the kind interest you have hitherto shown in the cause of Judaism, and I read the same with feelings of regret, inasmuch as, according to your statements, they are facts emanating from the Jewish press, But Iam afraid that in making those remarks you have been misied; and in handling a pubject entirely Jewish you have misjudged its fair Reoportions, in case that you really velleve to chapters of the Apocalypse but. the Immortality of | Ul one have | heip, they | K | mands of the work. world, | applications for aid like Vol- | B N&W YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET.. American Judaism must give up existence for want of English preachers, You will admit (and no one is able to deny) that the Jewish nation, when com- Pared with other nationaltics, stands foremost in point of education; and of tate years Jews have made such rapid strides in their intellectual condition that on the Continent of Europe—the ecknowledged seat of learning—they now carry the sway in almost every branch of art, science and literature. Even the statistics of this country have brought to light the same favorable results, and at the late examinations Jews figure in good numbers in passing the different degrees. Why, therefore, should there be a lack of Jewish ministers such as you so pitifully describe? In fact, theology is just the sheet anchor of Jewish learn- ing, and I can assure youthatthe poorest Jewish schoolboy, in the most wretched village in Poland, very often knows more of theology than many a Doctor of Divinity, although he is capable of deliver- ing his sermons in English. ‘There are about one hundred thousand Israelites in the city of New York, and numbers may be met with whose talent Hes dormant for want of proper training; and to my sorrow, be it said, there is not one single establishment in the United States either for training Jewish ministers or for giving ® thorough education to our Jewish Youth, and thus avoiding the necessity of sending them to schools belonging to other denominations. The Patladelphia “Maimonides College,” which you mention, could never have ceased to exist for want of sutiicient funds, for the charity of the American Jews is proverbial, and they would have never suf- fered to see its doors closed on that account. But, aslam given to understand, it proved a barren fleld, upon which all the labor bestowed produced no fruit, The college at Finsbary square, London, established Le the Chief Rabbi only a few years hack, has produced in a very short time ministers and teachers, almost too muny for the British isle, and thus almost ali the English colonies are sup- plied at the same time, Kut even in this coun- try I never heard of any want of Jewish ministers in any of the congregations; and if, unexpectedly, some such panic arises, as, according to your views, seems to be imml- nent, then it must be attributed to the loaves and fishes, which, at times, offer a richer bait in one place than in the other. The greatest number of Jews in this city are all foreigners, and it matters but little to them whether their preacher delivers erinons in English or not, a8 long as they are capable of understanding the language he is mak- ing use of, and that his ministry is compatible with his calling. And why, indeed, should English be the only language adopted in which a Jewish minis- ter should deliver his sermon? Are there not many Lutheran and other places of worship in this city where both service and sermon are en- trely in German? Does not God listen to all prayers and does He not understand all languages? Is not Hebrew the sume tongue, the «very language which God Himself speal 3? Ifyou think, however, that there are American Jews who are willing to give up Hebrew, their mother tongue, for a mere mess of pottage, then 1 can only say, it must be either ignorance, or that they care but little for their own or any other | creed, and merely keep within the pale of Judaism | for the sake of appearance or for the gain of flithy lucre. You mention that the rising generation de- nounce a form of religion, which their hearts may appreciate and hold fast to, and that they require someting more than a mere recitation of Hebrew and German prayers. This is indeed asad m'‘stake on your part, for I am able to assert that almost for centuries there never was felt such @ thirst for Hebrew learning, even among all classes of the Jewish population as one meets with at the present time. Besides, | the many Jewish institutions which abound in all parts of Europe clearly prove your assertion ground- less, and lately only some of the most eminent Jew- ish scholars have opened a Jewish university at Berlin, where lectures on the ‘Talmud are daily held, which are attended even by non-{sraelites. The land which Jews may choose from time to time for their home cannot have the siigurere influence upon the Jewish mind trained in the true spirit of the Jewish religion; and if you really think that the American youth do not manifest that love for their synagogue which their forefathers showed, then the blame rests with “young America” having re- ceived no proper training, and not with the Jewish religion, which knows of no iuquisition or any other torture to confine its followers within the iron bands of the system of bygone ages. 1 have no doubt that, should Reverends Gutheim and Vidaver really leave their congregations, their want will be feltin many @ quarter, not 80 much tor the sake of their knowledge of the Eng- lish language, but rather on account of the loss the congregations will suscain in being deprived of their spiritual guides, English being the vernacu- lar, [ admit that the language ought to be made a constant study, yet Icannot understand that giv- ing religious and secular instructions in that language should preventempty pews and neglected aynagogues, ‘These are all suggestions which I have not the slightest doubt are Well meant on your part, but | they are in no wise calculated to advance true re- | ligion, as far as Israelites are concerned. Judaism, | whether here or anywhere else, requires no change. It 1s now, and will always remain, the same as in days gone by; and if, uniortunately, here and there a few so-called reformers can be met with who really contemplate such a change as you imagine, then ample experience, gained at conier- ences lately held for that purpose, sufticiently show that they were entirely in the wrong. And when doc- tors disagree who shall decide? All we want is men of talent and sincerity, such as the Continent of Europe can boast of. These are the true reiorm- ers of Judaism, to which they cling with heart and soul, even to the religion of their fathers. These excellent ornaments of the Jewish religion labor continually for the advancement of true knowledge and understanding, both morally aud religiously, being sustained with the consciousness that by the superiority of the Jewish race only the biess- ings promised to all mankind will be ushered tn, even the time when truth and love shall reign triumphantly together. H. ABARBANEL. Ministerial Movements, Changes, &ec. PRESBYTERIAN, The North Carolina Presbyterian laments the moral changes that have come over portions of | that State within ten years. In Chapel Hill, N. C.. | where, at the breaking out of the war, there were large congregations, now the Methodist Church Is the only one that enjoys regular preaching, and that but twice a month, The Episcopal church gates are nailed up; the Baptist church {s closed, | and the dozen nominal Presbyterians open their substantial church whenever a Calvinist minister | strays that way and stays over Sabbath. Atall | other times those and all others fraternize with the | Methodists, Two years ago the site of the present | town of Morrisonville, Il, was an unbroken | prairie; but a few days ago the Presbyterians of that place dedicated a new church and inducted | into office, as their pastor, Rev. F. P. Rankin, of Elizabeth, N. J., son of Rev. Dr, Rankin, of Basking: ridge, N. J. The building cost $5,000, about $1,100 of which is still due upon it. The Reformed Pres- | byterian Church of the United States has 1 | Synod, 9 Presbyteries, 100 congregations, 90 min- isters, 403 elders, 221 deacons, 3,285 families, | 8,782 communicants, 516 Sabbath’ school teachers, | 4,581 Sunday schoo! scholars, 461 baptisms during | the year, 870 increase, 631 decrease. The total con- | tribut.ons of the church were $20),534—making | nearly twenty-three dollars for each communicant. Rey. Williaia M. Parry, late of peda at Eng- land, accepts the call of the Old South church, Wor- cester, Salary $4,000, The Free Chureh of Scot= | land has now occupied Constantinople as a mission | station tothe Jews for twenty-seven years, and next to Pesth it is the most important of the flelds in which it has labored for the lost of Israet. The large number of conversions and the high character of the converts, especially within the last three years, has been very marked,+ y. Mr. Tomory has lately met with even unexpected su sin the promptitude with which is appeals in Scotland were responded to for a fund of $20,000 to enlarge the mission premises. he ther sum of $10,000 will be readily supplied for plac- ing this mission fully in position to meet the de- The extensive suburb Has- skeny is almost wholly populated by Spanish Jews, The Board of Church Erection of the Presbyterian Church has aided in whole or in part during the past year 211 churches to the amount of $113,783, the average appropriation being $538, and has had from 265 churches, scattered ix States and Territories, calling, | has every encouragement for believing that a fur- | over twen' in the aggregate, for $192.540, The churches aided represent property valued at $1,078,500, and have a capacity for ace | modating 85,000 worshippers. The tol means jor the year at the command of the wd amounted to $105,188. Of organized ches without houses of worship 630 are re- ed, some of them having been in existence for nor t ty years, Of twenty-five churches that have be inct scarcely one ever owned a house of worship. The Moderator of the General | Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Dr. | Charies Brown, has addressed a letter to the Lon- | don Times contradicting a paragraph which was published by the Times aa to the latitudinar! tendencies of the Free Chi The Scotch Chu of Chicago, after a precocious existence of six years, and beiug without a pastor for two years past, has just settled over it the Rey, James’ Mac- laughian, of Canada. Rev, Mosc her, of the Presbytery of and Rapids, Mich., has just com- jeted tlie fiftieth year of his ministry, Mr. hacher has spent nearly the entire fifty years in active id laborious service, He has averaged more than two hundred and fifty ser- mous and lectures annually, in the course of | his ministry. While pastor of the church of North | Wrentham, Mass., he assisted to form the New | & jand Anti-Slavery Societ Rev. Mr. MeCardy | had dectined the call of the Kast Front street Pres- | bytertan church, Kingston, N. Y. The Presby- | ter : e organized @ theological seminary in San lranciseo, and there are four students in | attendance. Kev. S. H. Hall, D. D., of this city, treasurer of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has gone to Burope, Spring street 1 byterian’ church, this city, will be open for morn | service during ‘the month of August. $0 aiso wil | the Central Presbyterian church remain open for | Wormiug preaching. Rey. Ur, Stevenson will | ocer to-day and next Sabbath, and Ki rr Newark, Ohio, the three Slowing Sabbat! astor of the Central church, the Rev. James D. . is enjoying a well- earned respite of a few weeks, A new church building was commenced in a ove middie of thismonth, Rev. Mr. Atwater, ince! Li of Ain oe oe Dea receiver a col font be esbyterian church, Montgomery, Or: county. Es. has established v. Presbyterian church in Fedet rg, Md.—the first . Knight, a young Free Church reached for tland, recent Mr. Martineau, and is to" be called Xo trial raped na] 5 1b} tarian ronbyterlan culreh at White Lake, Mh. Rev. ta i Chandler, pastor, has a new house of worship in rocess of erection. Rev. J. A. Ranney, late pastor in Three Rivers, has taken the agency of the Michi- gan Female Seminary, Dr. says that all the rich donations to Princeton, since his Presi- dency began—amounting to nearly three quarters of @ million dollars—have been given spontane- ously, He has not 2p led personally to any one for a dollar. This e aordinary. tact speaks well for the generosity of Preabyte! capitalists ; for, judging from the newepener reports, an almos' continuous stream of liberalit; been pourin into Princeton since his arrival, Rev. ©. J. Hill, o! Whitehall, N, Y., & son-in-law of Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittafleld, has been called to the church in Ansonia, Conn. Salary $2,500, with parsonage. Mr. Bigham, One of the passengers in the Thomas Pope, trom Africa, 18 a licentiate in the Presbyterian Church, and is on his way to Georgia, from whence he re- ceived a call to ‘come over” and help @ con- ‘egation. A sign 01 the times, but not the rst of the kind. Rev. Geor M. Maxweil, D, D. who for ten years has had char, of the Cincinnati Female Seminary, has sold his buildings for the homeopathic college, and will re- turn to the pulpit, Rev. R. H. Leonard, who has labored about five years as pastor of the old Pres- Brescia church in Collamer, has resigned his charge, and ts going to Europe and the Holy Land. The Treasury of the Reltef Fund for Disabled Minis- ters of the Presbyterian Church is empty, and Rev. George Hall, its Secretary, calls loudly for $16,000 to meet liabilities on August 1. Dr. Hawley, of the Auburn First church, is off to the Catskills tor six Weoks. During his absence his people will listen to Dr. Condit, of the seminary, ie Central church of Auburn renew their call to Rev. H. F, Hickok, of Orange, N. J,, making the salary $3,500 and a house, Professor Beecher sup} the Second Presbyterian church at Auburn during the vaca- tion Of Dr. Boardman. Rev. Charles S. Durfee, of the First church, Newburyport, has_ re- signed, owin, to fll heaith. io —~Pres- byterian church at Lowell, Mass. Rev. F. 5S, Calhoun, pastor, is about to build a temple for its use. The Kev. James B. Dunn, one of the General Assembly's delegates to the Presbyterian bodies of Great Britain, has just returned to hia home and people in Boston, in the best of health, after having performed the special duties with which he was charged in common with Dr, Cuyler and Elder Welles. He travelled as far east as Damascus. The Rey. W. H. Millham, of Livonia Centre (N. iN Presbyterian church, has during the year ende July 7 received into the Church sixty-two persons, fifty-five on profession of faith. Rev. Dr. Nichols, Moderator of the St. Louis Presbytery, has come East to spend his vacation. Rev. A. W. Sprouil has just completed sixteen years of pastoral labor in the First Presbyterian church in Chester, Pa. The accessions during his pastorate have been 405— & majority of whom have come in on profession of faith. Rev. Robert E, Dubois’ pastoral settlement in New London, Conn., is now of more than thirty years’ continuance. His is the banner church in the Presbytery for holding on to a pastor. The First Presbyterian church of Cleveland, Onio, has called Rev. H. C, Haydn, late pastor of the Congre- gational church in Painesville, as associate pastor with Dr. Goodrich, and he has signified hie accept- ance of the position. Dr. Goodrich has borne the load for many years, and of late at considerable hazard of a too early exhaustion. He will be re- leased from labor for at least one year, for much- needed rest and invigoration, The Rey. samuel Hodge, President of Lenox Collegiate Institute, Hopkinton, Iowa, has received a D. D. from the State University, Iowa. The First Presbyterian church, Washingtonville, Orange county, N. Y. have just completed a beautiful parsonage, and the Second church will also complete a parsonage inthe autumn, Rev. John H. Brown has been in- stalled over the Presbyterian church at Preble, N. Y. Rey. G. R. Brackett was recently installed pas- tor of the Presbyterian church in Charleston, 8. C. of which the venerable Thomas Smythe, D. D., had long been pastor. He is said to be a popular and NE acceptable preacher. Dr. Beadle’s new church building, Philadelphia, which has been in process of erection for the past two years, approaches com- pletion. It will be the most elegant and and edifice built for church had deed in the city of Phil- adelphia. The Rey. br. Yeomans, of Orange, N. J., lately dedicated a new church, for his congregation, assisted Drs. Mix and Hickok, of the same piace. Dr. Yeomans isa brocher of the well known translator of Dr. Schatt’s histories, and who, two years ago, was re- moved by death trom the pastorate of the Central Church which the present Doctor so ably fills. ‘The Presbytery of Elizabeth, at its last meeting, took up the subject of ministerial support, and passed a series of resolutions, the substance of which was that no pastor within their bounds ought to receive less than $1,000 a year and house rent. ‘they assert that each pastor 18 entitled to a support of at least two cents a day per member, exclusive of house rent, from his own people. It js a ieproach to the Christian Church tnat any minister stiould receive a sun less than $1,000 a year. METHODIST. Rey. Dr. Hanlon, of the New Jersey Conference, has resigned the presidency of Pennington Semi- nary, Which he has held for six years past, and Professor Dilks takes his place. Dr. Hanton is to sail for the Old World in November, on an extended tour in the tele Land and amid Bible scenes, and on his return will re-enter the pastoral work. The Rev. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany, of Newark, has so far re- covered his late indisposition as to be able to travel, He attended the commencement exercises in Pen- nington Seminary on Wednesday and Thursday last, and delivered a very able address on “Pro- gress’? before the Philomathean Society of that in- stitution, Revs. Cowins, of Staten Isiand; J. At- kinson, of Bergen, N. J.; Parker, of Long branch; Studdeford, of New Brunswick, and Dr. Dobbins, of Camden, N, J., spent part of last week as visitors at Pennington Seminary during its commencement, at which time eighteen students graduated, Bishop Harris is looking for a home in Chicago. Bishop Andrews is set down to preach in Terre Haute, Ind., on the 1st of September. Bisho) Haven is to lay the corner stone of the new church at Romeo, Mich., on Tuesday. Dr. E. H. Meyers was recently inaugurated President of the Wesleyan Female College at Macon, Ga., by Bishop Pierce. ‘The illness of Dr. Kennedy, the editor of the South- ern Christian Advocate, announced several weeks ago, has been protracted and he is not yet able work in his omice, He has gone to Gritlin, Ga., thence to the mountains to recruit his strength. The new chureh recently organized on Cottage street, Cambridgeport, Mas have just com- Vt ed a new church — edifice Rev. GC. W. Wilber, late Principal of the Vermont Conference Seminary, has entered upon the pas- toral work at Essex, Vt. Rev. George Forsyth, A. M., is elected Principal of the t Maine Con- rence Seminary at Bucksport. Rev. J. A. Sher- burne, Presiding Elder of the Montpelier District, Vermont Conference, is recovering slowly from a severe sickness, Bishop and Mrs, Simpson have been on a visit to G nor Claflin, of Boston, The Bishop is enjoying excellent heaith. While Revs. W. EK. Perry, P. E., of Bridgeton District, and J. F. Morell, pastor of Union charge, N. J., were remov- ing a frame building adjoining the Pittman Grove camp ground, New Jersey, a few days ago, the | roof of the house fell in and broke | one of Mr. Perry's legs and fractured | Mr. Morell's collar-bone. The injured brethren are recovering slowly, Rev. Dr. Lanahan, of Book Concern notoricty, has accepted the presiding elder- ship of Washington district, Baltimore Conference, on condition tiat his health will permit, At Smith's Landing, Burlington district, N. J., Rev. A. Atwood, pastor, the society have just fluished a new parson- age. Five camp meetings are already announced to be held within the bounds of the New Jersey Conference this summer, The Pleasant Grove cam meeting, near Woodruft’s Station, Vineland Rail- | road, N. J., will commence August 19, and close on the following Saturday. The meeting is conducted on the old plan adopted by the fathers in the early days of Methodism, Rev. Dr. Wiliiam H, An- derson, of the Methoaist Episcopal Church, South, so widely and favorably Known in Missouri, has been elected Principal of the Louisville Male ae School. Cornwall papers, England, report the deati: of the Rev, Willian Beal, Wesleyan ininister, of Liskeard, in the elghty-seventh year of his age and the sixty-fourth of his ministry, Bishop R. 5. Foster, Rev. H, B. Ridgaway, of the New York Conference, and Professor Hurst, of Drew Theo- logical Seminary, Madison, N. J., spent Sunday, 14th, in Cincinnati. Bishop Foster was on his wav to the Pacific coast. A splendid Methodist Episeo- pal church edifiice at Eaton, 0., was dedicated last Sabbath, by Rey, Messrs, R. R. Meredith, A. Meharry and F. J. Harris, of Cincinnati. It is freed from debt; cost about $35,000. Rev. Mr. Pierce, of Utah, spent last Sabbath in Cin- cinnati, giving ‘very interesting accounts of his mission work in Salt Lake and else- where in Mormondom. After three or four years labor in Salt Lake Mr. Pierce has gathered a Methodist congregation and built a beautiful | church and is now engaged gathering other cot | gregations and building other churches in differen parts of that Territory. The mission churches at Carr street and Pine street, Cincinuati, have been sold and reinvested in the McLean church—Key, KE. M h, pastor. It is proposed to build a superior church soon. The cornerstone of a pew church at Offord has recently been laid, and nearly nineteen thousand dollars secured to erect a chureh, which is to cost $25,000. Rev. F. J. Harris is pastor, and the prime mover and manager in this cnterprise. Camp meetings wii be held at Hancock, Green Ridge, Alleghany, New Creek and Berkeley Springs, Va, during the’month of August, The Rev. Mr. Miller, of Kichmond, Va., has been North collecting funda to build a Methodist church in that city and has returned successful. The Bloomington (Va.) Me- thodist piscopal church has increased Its pastor's salary to $1,000, and purchased a comfortable par- souage for him. Rey. J, Edwards is the lucky man. Kev. J. Bain is building a Methodist churen in Manasses, Va., which will be ready for dedication { in the fall, A camp meeting will be held in Manas- | sea, commencing August 2. Bishop Wiley will spend a few days in the place of his future residence, Bos- ton, but will not move there permanently for a few months to come, The Methodists of Portland dis- trict, Maine, have purchased a new camp ground at Fry burg, and will commence a meeting there on the lzih of August. Trinity church, Montpelier, Vt., has just received $1,000 from Mr. H. ©. Nutt for a bell jor the church edidce, Mr, Nutt is @ native of tor | Montpelier, but now resides in Counell Bluffs, Iowa. The corner stone of the new Method- fat Bplscopal, church in North Mass., will on Thursday next the Rev. F. G. Hibbard, D. D., of x N. Y., one of the earlier ‘ho will aeliver the address, Rev, William P. it Cam- of Eas! A bridge, Maas., suffering from a severe throat dif- ficalty, has found it necessal VF yg 4 labors for a season. He Se Sarepe a Ww land, Vt. pied yo ete pet bop ve @! their house of worship. They have now ample ac- commodations, and are prgrnen greatly under the labors of the Rey. H.¥. Austin, Rev. J. Par- ker, of Seventh atreet, New York, is still too feeble to resume the charge of his pulpit, but is coming up slowly and hopefully. Rev. J. Caries, pas tor of the Duane Methodist Episcopal cht in this city, has received the degree of Master of Arts from the Wesleyan University. Bishop Kavanangh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, spent las Sabbath in St. Tous, ou his way to an appointment in Jacksonville, [l., where he 18 to spend this Sabbath day. Rev. CO. H. Fowler, D. D., pastor of Centenary Methodist church, C1 has _re- ceived an oifer of the Presidency of Syracuse Uni- versity, New York. The offer is a very tempeing coe, eae the salary of $5,000 is at least comfortable, Dr. Fowler, having business in Philadel visited Syracuse last week en route to the former city. His decision is not yet known in Chicago, H. Milburn, the celebrated “biind preacher, to deliver the commencement oration at the University of Georgia. Rev. George vt, A. M., an alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan University, has been elected to a professorship in the State University of Indiana. The Boston (Metnodist) University School of Law willopen October 1 under the most promising circumstances. Its friends had antici- pated buta single class of about thirty, butit is already ascertained that two classes will be organ- ized of a hundred students each. The Central Methodist Rplseg church, San Francisco, have purchased the Central Presbyterian house of worship—Dr. Cunningham’s, It is nearly new, sub- stantial, well finished and in all respects a neat, comfortable and desirable house of worship. EPISCOPALIAN, As might be expected from the Bennett judg- ment, the advertisements in the ritualist organs gre becoming more decidedly Popish in their char- acter. Besides announcements where crucifixes of all kinds, with copes, albs, &c., may be obtained, there are appeals for money to be sent ‘for the lory of God and for the love of the Blessed Virgin lary,” im order to promote ritualistic schemes, The London Record considers it a scandal to our common Christianity that such men as Dr. Chalmers, of Scotland; Dr. Merle d’Aubigné, of Geneva, or Mr. Alfred Monod, from France, should be ignored as ministers of Christ by the Church of England. A stained glass window has just been placed in the chancel of the Berkhamstead parish church, England, to the memory of the poet Cowper, who was born in Berkhamstead, and whose father and mother are buried in the chancel, The memorial cost about £300, which has been raised by public subscriptions, chieny through the exertions of Mr. Earl Brownlow and the rector, the lobb. The subject of the window ts the resurrection, beneath the central figure being the poet, with hands clasped on an open Bible. On one side of the poet is the Royal Psalmist and on the other the Prophet Jeremiah, The corner stone of St. James’ Episco) al church, South Groveland, Mass., was laid on Monday. In the absence of the Bishop of the diocese the Rev. S. P. Parker, D. D., of Melrose, conducted the services. The committee spholarea by the last convention of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts to consider the prac- ticability of establishing a Church school for girls, has received an offer of a beautiful lot of land for the purpose from Mr. Judkins, of Winchester. The lot contains ten acres, value at $2,000 an acre. The site is on a beautiful rid; of tiigh land, commands an extensive view and is easily accessible by railroads, No action has as yet been had with regard to accepting it. Mean- time a gentleman in Cambridge has offered to be one of ten persons to raise $100,000 to purchase bulldings if the school should be located at Cam- bridge. Bishop Lee, of Iowa, is building a diocesan church at Davenport. and calls earnestly upon the Episcopalians of the State to furnish a suitable me- morial window to the late Bishop Kemper, the first missionary bishop of the Protestant kpiscopal Church in that territory. The Golden Age is wrath- ful because ‘some of the stupid Ebiecopaiianss do not half appreciate Rev. Dr. Osgood, whom it calls a “genial broad churchman.” Rev, Roger 8, Howard, D. D., late President of Norwich University, Vermont, has accepted a cail to the rectorship of the church at Webster, Mass. The Rev. D. R. Brewer, of the Church of the Reformation, Brooklyn, N. Y., is to be absent in Europe about two months. His pulpit in the meantime will be supplied by Rev. good. The Rey. Philip Brooks, r church, Boston, sailed last week for Liverpool. It is his intention to pass the summer in Norway and n. The Rev. J. W. Bradin, Jr., late assistant ce church, Brookiyn Heights, has accepted the call to the rectorship of St. Stephen’s parish, Brooklyn. ‘The Rev. S. H. Giesy, D. D., a prominent German Reformed minister, .and formerly in charge of Christ church (Reformed), Green street, Philadelphia, has entered the ministry of the Fpiscopal Church in Baltimore, under bishop Whit- tingham,. Rey. Charles Hy, Ward, of St. Stephen’s church, Philadelphia, has accepted a call to the Church of the Hoty Crovs, Washington Park, North Plainfield. He will enter upon his duties next Sun- day. There is living in his semen tae, near Col- chester, England, the Rev. Mr, Cheese, who, be- tween forty and fifty years ago, had as his puplis at Ballol College, Oxtord, two young men named Tait and Manning, one of whom is now Archbishop of Canterbury and the other the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Itis stated that the Rev. J. W. Blakesley, Canon of Canterbury, known as the “Hertfordshire Incumbent” of the Times, has | been presented to the Deanery of Lincoln, and that the Rev. George Rawlinson succeeds to the Canonry of Canterbury thus voided.” BAPTIST. The Rev. H. F. Smith, of the First Baptist church in New Brunswick, N. J., has been summering at Long Branch for a while. Fredericktown has a Baptist church of 170 members and a ae Sunday school. The pastor is Rev. B. Y. Siegfried. Rev. C. W. Drake has had the pastoral care of the Cherrytree church since April 1, having been re- called after one year’s absence. He also preaches at Willsburg and Chapinville, Crawtord county, Pa. Rev. J. P, Aginbroad has removed from Richmond, Ind., to Akron, Ohio, The Rey. Charles Howard Malcolm, D. D., of Newport, R. I., has returned from his tour in Virginia, I i! improved in health. The Doctor has had a splendid time on the mountains, at the watering places and among the people. The Baptist Home Mission Society is overdrawn $15,000, and has been forced to re- duce the salaries of the missionaries and reject many applications for help. The Secretary, Rev. A. H. Chase, is doing valiantly to raise funds, and deserves success, Kev. Mr. Gallaher, of the First Baptist church of Brooklyn, is now in Europe seek- tng health, and itis reported that the search has been attended with encouraging success. On his return home in the early part of August he is booked for the pastorate of the Broad street church, Elizabeth, N. J. Rev. Edmund Morris, pastor of Mount Lebanon Baptist church, Georgia, recently baptized a man seventy-nine or eighty ears old, who had always been noted for his opposition to the gospel, and at the same time his wile, seVentytwo years old, was baptized, Rev. Baptist Noel gave the address before the students of Regent's Park College at its recent anniversary. He reminded them of the objects of life: to love God, to live for Christ, to grow in personal holiness, to edily the Church, and to seek the salvation of souls, In 1842 1our Baptist churches were organized in Philadel- phia, a number unequalled in any year until the present, 1872, when four have again been organized, vi irace, Gethsemane, Manatawna and Mantua, The Drunkard Baptist church of Germantown, Pa., was constituted December 25, 1723, Up to the pres- ent time it has opposed a paid aor: It has just made a new departure, however, and called a pastor on a salary of $1,200, This denomination adheres to feet-washing and practices Trine immersion. Rev. 8. M. Whiting has closed his pastoral relations with the Baptist church in Windsor, and entered upon his labors as astor of the Grand street Baptist church, ew Haven, Conn, The Close Communion Baptists of Brooklyn are in a terrible state of com- motion because, since the baptism of Miss Smiley by Kev. George F. Pentacost, another pastor of a regu- Jar Baptist church in Brooklyn, in giving the Lord's Supper toa dying member, invited his unbaptized wife, Miss Smiley, and a Methodist brother and his wife to commune, and they did so, He did this as a minister in the “Universal church.” The ven- erable Dr, ae Thee Be ten dee Mr. Pentacost’s action, and declares that he has done the same thing re- peatedly and would do so again if the circumstances agreed with his consctentious convictions of right and duty, as he believes they did with his brotuer Pentacost, CONGREGATION AT. Rev. William Ives Budington, D. D., of Brooklyn, is at present summering at Norwich, Conn., with his wit Later in the season they will make a trip to Nov: tia, with a select party from the Doc- pgation, The Rev. O. J. Hill, of White- has been called to Ansonia, Conn, The am H. Pierson, of Ipswich, Mass., has been called to Somerville, in the same State. Rev, David Cook, formerly of Dundee, Scotland, is ig lying the Elm place Congregational church, rooklyn, lately under care of the Rev. Henry Powers. Rey. George H. Gould, D. D., late of Hart- ford, is supplying the Union church of Providence ore, the vacation of the pastor, Rev, Dr. Twining. Key. Washington Gladden, of the Independent, 18 spending his summer vacation in Yorkshire county, Massachusetts, He was formerly yong at North Adams, from whence he came to his editorial position in this city, The First Congregational church, San Francisco, Rev. A. L, Stone, pastor, D. D., follows close in the track of the Piymouth church, Brooklyn. It re- cently rented seventy pews for $60,492, of which $10,000 was in premiums, Rev. Dr. Finney having retired from the pastoral care of the First church, Oberlin, Ohio, a call has been given to Rev. H. 0. Hayden, who at first refused, but a second and unanimous call he has under consideration, Aiter the Chicago fire the Rev. L. T, Chamberlain came East to raise funds with which to revuild the New England church of that city. The Congregationalist says he has collected $40,000, Twenty-one Congre- gational churches of Boston contributed $40,535 05 tothe American Board. The largest contribution was from the Old South, viz., $0,826 99; the next largest was $6,083 55 by the Central. Kev. Henr: D. Moore, of Cincinnati, has accepted the Presl- dency of ‘Puskeegee Female College. JEWISH. Sir Moses Montefiore, accompanied by Dra. Loewe and Daniel, has left London for St, Petersburg, to coparatulate the Czar. on Ychalf of the Board of | Hogarth, D. D. | of Derry, N. H., jeot'in view. to ceratigionists in various Je members of the German gre the bill for the expulsion of the the four members, three—Bambe and voted against the Wolfson abstained from Vv. From bitter ex- perience the Jews have learned that expelling the ; retic does not always ensure Sue expulnien. of ihe heresy. The Hebrew Free Boclety of this city, whose design is to furnish religious an medical consolation to poor, dying Israelites and decent burial to the dead, has extended its ald during the year ending July 1, 1872, to 173 persons at thelr homes, and to 44 persons who have died in the public institutions. And all this the Society id at an expense of $1,075 68, The Society is now should be cl 1d off at once, 80 adds se: others, namely, v. Dra. De Sola, of Montreal; 8. Morals and M, Jastoon, of Philadelphia; Mayer, of Plattsburg; Blum, of Galveston, and Cohn and Mes- sing, of San Francisco, This isa better showing than we supposed could be made, but still, as the Messenger aimits, the number is out of proportion to the great want of the sect. It also says that Dr. Vidaver is not going to leave Thirty-fourth street Synagogue, and that the advertisement for a suc- cessor merely formal, On Wednesday, the 24th inst., a large meeting of Israelites from Alsace and Lorraine was held at the honse of A. Werdenschlag, 348 Seventh avenue, for the prponaot devising means to form a congregation orthodox) of Israelites from Alsace and Lorraine. er $800 were subscribed: on the spot. Another meeting is soon to be held.. A new Tamil version of the Bible has been published by the missionaries of Southern India, Mr. Julius Bien, of this city, ‘Treasurer of the Hebrew Roumanian fund, has re- ceived up to date $1,538 90 for that interest, and trans- mitted to Consul Peixotto $1,125 90, The Turkish government has written to Prince Charles of Rou- mania fooommending him to grant equal rights to the Jews if he woul jeevenk foreign intervention. In Prussia, where a few decades ago the Jew was shackled by disabilities, Dr. Falk, the Minister of Worship and Public Instruction, has invited Rector to take part in the school ver ee om benng conference now bein, held in the North German metropolis, r, CATHOLIC, It is reported that the Abbé Michaud, who lately renounced the authority of his bishop on the gronng of opposition to the dogma of infallibility, about to open a spacious chapel in Paris for “Old Catholics.” Another rumor, apparently well founded, has it that he will soon enter the Russo- Greek Church. The beautiful Community chapel of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, was on ‘Tuesday evening the scene of a very interesting ceremony— the blessing of the altar and the endowing it with the special privileges of celebrated Franciscan shrines in Europe. The special graces and indul- gences to be gained at those shrines are said to be many and very great, and it is deemed gratifying to the Catholics of Brooklyn to have an altar in their midst at which so many special favors may be obtained. The Rev. father Joachim, of the Franciscan Order, performed the ceremony. The stations of the Cross were also blessed and raised. A Rome correspond- ent of the Catholic Review (Brooklyn) writes that robberies of churches in the “Eternal City” are un- fortunately very seequens, and usually accompanied by outrageous sacrileges. The other day the an- cient basilica of St. Agnes, without the walls, was plundered of its curious old plate, part of which ‘was subsequently recovered in a second-hand jew- eller’s store in the Jews’ quarter. The Jew himself having, after minute inspection, recognized it as belonging to that church, instantly sent tor the perbn priest, to whom he restored it. The Rev. ‘ather Cooke, V. G., of San _ Francisco, Cal., has given $25 toward the Irish national testi- monial to John Francis Maguire, and has advocated the enterprise among his people. The work on the Church of the Nativity, Brooklyn, is progressing rapidly. The walls are raised to their full height, and the roofing will be laid this week. In afew weeks the Catholics of the parish will have the Pleasure of nearing the first mass in their new church, The Very Rev. Father Pius, of the Order of Passionists, late rector of St. Paul's College, Harrold Cross, Dub! Jreland, arrived here on the 16th in the steamer from Queenstown. He is ac- companied by the Rev. Father Laurence, of the same Order. The reverend gentlemen are here for the sake of recruiting their health and visiting the pier States. Their stay in New York will be very short REFORMED DUTCH. Rev. Charles K. Hart, of the North Reformed church, Newark, N, J., has gone to Europe, expect- ing to be absent two months. The Reformed church at Cato, N, Y., having lately settled anew pastor, is engaged in raising several hundred dol- lars to beautify the interior of their house of wor- ship. The Reformed church at Fairhaven, are about repairing their edifice. The Reforme church of Lysander, under the care ot Rev. William Wurts, are making a thorough repair, improving and refurnishing their church edifice. Rey. E. W. Bent- ley leit Ellenville, N. Y., for a trip to Pennsylvania, on Monday. He expects to be absent two or three wecks, Rev. J. L. McNair, formerly of Stone Ridge, will supply Mr. —Bentley’s pulpit in his absence. ‘The Relormed church of Lodi, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on Sabbath, 14th inst, Loss, $15,000; insurance, $3,000, Tne congregation met on Tuesday and resolved to re- build at once of brick. The Retormed church, of Latayette (Rev. W. Rankin Duryea, wit has cleared its floating and mortgage debt of over six thousand dollars. ‘The mortgage, amounting to $5,000, was paid last week. The degree of D, D. conferred by Williams College updén Kev. Mr, Lud- low, of the Collegiate church, in this city, is ac- knowledged to be worthily bestowed. Rev. Her- man Vedder, one of the oldest miuisters of the Re- formed Dutch Church, is, at the age of ninety-five years, in vigorous health of mind and body, and re- sides at Greenbush, N. Y.,in a parsonage built for himseif sixty-nine years ago. The old gentleman graduated from Union College in 1799. MISCELLANEOUS, Emmanuel church, Chicago, served by Rev. E Carison, the largest and oldest Swedish church in that city, destroyed by fire October 9, 1571, is now to be rebuilt. The pastor has spent several months in the East, where he has received liberal contri- butions. There are seventeen churches, of various denominations, in the Twenty-first ward of Phila- deiphia, Of these all but three are provided with good parsonages, an example worthy of imitation. parsonage, well built, well located, doubles ® minister’s happiness, trebles his usefuiness and lengthens the days of his wife. Rev, Henry Johnson, a_ native linguist on the west coast of Africa, has completed the translation of several books of the New Testament into the Mendi tongue. Rev. 5, H. McCollister, of New Hampshire, has accepted the Presidency of the Buchlet College, Akron, Ohio. Rev. Dr. Hos- mer has resigned the Presidency of Antioch Col- lege, Ohio, Olivet College has elected Rey. W. H. of Detroit, President. Rev. Pro- fessor Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst College, has been elected Presidgnt of the Smith Female Col- lege, Northampton, Mass. The Rev. E. G. Parsons, has been cafled to the chair of Matiematics and Astrouomy in Dummer Academy , assy) chugetts, oue of the oldest institutions in the Siaté. Dr. Chapin, of this city, is spending the summer at Pidgeon Cove, which used to be the favorite resort of preachers and writers. Rev. 0. Beatty, LL.D. been inaugurated President of Centre Kentucky. Rey. R. T. Hail, of Pittsfield, has been elected professor in Ripon College, Wii consin, Swedes are scattered throughout — ti States of New York and Pennsylvania, The follow- ing pastors are now laboring in this fleld:—Revs. Cc. 0. Berggren, Hultgren, Lindeblad ana Kind- borg—the latter at Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. Mr. Kind- borg is, by direction of Conterence, to visit Irwin, ‘Titusville, brockton, Casedek, Oil City, Corry, Fredonia, Dunkirk and Erie. When one 1s to visit as many places as that all of them must visita books number. The Swedish colony in Maine is increasing rapidly. Kev. Dr. Berkley, of St. Louis, whose character, so foully assailed, was cleared by an ecclesistical court, has been invited by an extensively signed paper from his former parishioners to resume the pas- torate of his church. Father Gavazzi gave a part- ing reception to the pastors of Cincinnati a few days ago, at which speeches were made by Dr. Ay- delott (Presbyterian), Rev. L, F. Van Cleve (Metho- dist) and Moore (Disciples? church), and were fr plied to by the distinguished visitor, Father Gi vazal preached to large congr stayin the Queen City, and ¢ ‘4 amount toward founding lus Italian Free Church College. Praise meetings are becoming quite com- mon, and are greatly enjoyed. They are devoted to singing, for praise and short expressions of grati- tude. The Boston Globe says that in Massachusetts half the women think they have a mission to preach, and do not seem to realize that they have any work. It adds that there is only one woman in ten in that State who would not preach if she could, All may preach in the ay 7 way if they will—by precept and example, e Italian government has seized and appropriated for secular uses thirty-fve convents and religious houses in Rome. The Rev. Edward ©. Porter, President of the Board of Trustees of St. Luke's Hospital, at Ra- cine, Wis., announces that through the liberality of citizens of that place they have been enabled in the short space of six montns to open and furnish a free hospital, capable of accommodating four pa- tents continuously, and to support it not ay without incurring ‘any debt, but with a small bal- ance on hand for future expenses, Rev. John A. Brooks has resigned his pastorate of the Christian church, on Seventeenth and Olive streets, St. Louts, to take charge of a church in Mexico, Mo. Rev. Robert H. Fulton, of the last class at Allegheny Theological Seminary, has been installed pastor of the Second church, Baltimore. There 1s nothing like knowing when one has got to a stopping place, and we are glad to see that the Liverai Christian has found one. “Many of the people who hold what are called liberal views of religion can,” so says one of its editorials, “no longer pray." Nobody can pray to a law of nature or 4 force of nature.” Let us have @ personal God, then, 18 the conclusion, for “there, is no suMte basis for religion without this.” The Rev. Charles K. Van Allen, of Coolbaughs, Pa., has been invited by @ unanimous vote of the Yellow Frame church to become their pastor. The religious community of Syracuse has been roused to do something to se- cure a better observance of the Sabbath. Arrange- ments were made to have all the churches closed last Sunday evening and for all the congregations to unite in an immense mass meeting at SI speare Hall, when addresses on the subject of tem- nape bo and Sabbath desecration were delivered . 5 akers of all denominations, aot ex- y eminent s) man Carholic. copting the FALLEN FROM GRACE. The Reported Crimes of the Rev. Gilbert H. Rob» (From the Louisville Courte: nal. | We would have been content ‘ort ‘Baltimore ‘St, Louis to enjoy their clerical scandals, At safe distance we could have moralized and looked at the‘subject in a hunared different aspects, time finding something new in it. In our pride, and feeling that our skirts had hot clinging to the: a fran clergyman, we ht have grown sev eet St eee eee a lei sucl graceful exposures, an k ness that we were not as other cities were. But we sieone resemble Baltimore in this very matter of scan A preacher of the Gospel shocks the community by falling from his high estate to me comune mn level of @ gross drunkard and sen- sual a The Rey. Gilbert H. Robertson was called to the charge of the Presbyterian church, corner of Fourth and Chestnut, last September, and removed here from Springfield, Il. He was about forty years of age, in the full vigor of manhood and decidedly at- tractive in his personal appearance. His Burnside whiskers, tinged with gray, his ready speech and expressive eye made him a favorite with all who Were susceptible to mental or physical attractions in 4 preacher. i Mr. Robertson was married, his wife being an ex- tremely intelligent and charming daughter of a Pe og physician of Xenia, Ohio. Three chil- ren had cemented their union. Mr. Robertson seemed to adore his wife, and appeared to be sus- ceptible to her gentlest influence. His devotion to oy wie had been noticeable since his residence in this city. He was a brilliant preacher, a clear, logical reasoner and a man possessed of superior intellec. ~ tual powers. His naturally excitable nature had drawn around him the warm admiration of a con. geretion who regurded bim as an extremely happy Shristian, In all justice to Mr. Robertson we will say that nothing derogatory to his fair fame had ever been whispered iu the city until he himself drew the at tention of the public toward him, Scores of rumors are flying about, from which tt is impossible to deduce anything upon which to base adefence of the man’s conduct. From the best sources we compile the following facts :— Mr. Robertson's family about two weeks ago lefe the city for a visit to Ohio, and Mr. Robertson left on Monday, at thirty-five minutes it ten PB, M., tor Toledo, Ohio, where he proposed meeting them. Bat he went to Chicago, that piace where a0 many naughty things take place. On Wednesday evening—a week yesterday— Mr. R. came aboard the Louisville und train at Chicago, with a lady heavily velicd, and wanted a “cool berth.’’ The conductor of the car knew him personally, and spoke to and was recognized by him. He was thea under the influence of liquor, and betrayed his condition to all present in the car. His reckless desire for beer prompted the rever- end gentleman to go out and bring in a glass of the amber fluid and drink it, after the lady had refused it on the plea of indisposition. He was not picased with the accommodations the conductor agreed to give him, and yielded a reluctant assent to alt apologies made him by those whom he imagined had injured him. We wish we could stop at this beer-drinking bugt- ness, but we can’t. He occupied the same berth with his companion, and this companion was not his wife. This was decidedly bad conduct on Mr. Robertson’s part. During the afternoon the reverend gentleman spent most of his time in playful daluance with hia companion, and attracted the attention of the sengers by the freedom of his conduct. He got into the berth with the woman with his boots on, show- ing an utter disregard for the proprieties, and was compelled to take his boots off by the conductor in- sisting upon it. Arriving at Lafayette, Mr. Robertson manifested great chagrin at missing the eye train, 80 much so as to occasion remark. His di isappoint- ment was due mainly to the fact that the next train along would land him in Louisville in daylight, when he bes calculated on a friendly night cloaking his arrival, Mr. Robertson was very attentive to his com- panion, and had her breakfast sent to her, which she ate with her veil lifted to the bridge of her nose. She seemed to be careful to avoid exposing her countenance. As far as could be seen, the veiled lady was a handsome brunette of thirty years of age, dressed elegantly, and wearing three diamond clusters on one hand. After their arrival in In- dianapolis, Mr. Robertson and his companion dis- but returned in time x train for Louisville, ut eleven o'clock. The agreement with Mr. Robertson, who went toa friend’s house on Second street, reaching there in a short time after his arrival, Friday afternoon Mr. Robertson called on Mr, Miller, one of his parishioners, and complained of suffering from an attack of acute diarrhea, He e had received a note from a cousin of beef Mrs, Jones, who, in nessing situs the city, hi asked him tocall on her at the bridge depot vefore she went home to Chicago. Mr. Miller advised him to go back to bed, his appearance indicating a severe illness of some character, and even volun- teered to see the cousin for him, which offer wag declined by Mr. Robertson, who, however, invited him to accompany him. He took the strect cars and went to the depot about three o'clock. Mr. Robertson was seen coming out of the sitting room with a satchel in his hand, followed by a wo- man closely veiled. A lity rh agent who knew him personally no- ticed that he was acting strangely, and accosted him, but Mr. Robertson seemed desirous of evading him. Following him up, he asked:— “Mr. Robertson, are you going to Chicago “Yes, sir, I am going to Chicago,” replied Mr, Robertson curtly. “Is your wife going with you?’ asked the n- ger man, who knew Mrs. Robertson person: “Yes, sir, my wile js going with me,” was the curt ky, again. ‘he passenger agent, seeing his condition, le@ him into the car and showed him to a seat. Ashe entered the car the Rey. Stuart Robinson at this moment entered the depot, walked into the car oe ere ashort distance from his erring rother. Mr. Robertson at this time went out on the plat- form and attracted everybody's attention by shout- ing for ice water. He would have been quieted down in @ summary manner by Slater, the watch- man, but several persons who knew him saw his wretched condition, and he was permitted to yelt to his content. ‘The watchman procured him a dipper of ice water, and in attempting to carry it to his com- panion Mr. Robertson stumbled and spilled the water on the car Noor, He picked up the ice, how- ever, saying it was the best he could do, and she put it if her mouth. He seemed alarmed, probably fearing detection. After the bridge was crossed Robertson seemed to be trying to evade recognition by Dr. Stuart Robinson. and- even had the blinds pulled about them. At Franklin he parted from the woman, and, we learn, gave his ticket to Chicago to the conductor and left the train, taking @ return train for Louisville. At Indianapolis the woman asked the train con- ductor to get her some supper, and declined to show her iace. He referred her to the sleeping car conductor, who procured her what she wanted. Here the veiled woman disappears, and Mr. Rovertson’s course fs narrated, On Saturday he complained, very naturally, of feeling unwell, but on Sunday preached lis farewell sermon, which is remembered as an eloquent and powerful effort. Of course bad news travels fast, and Mr. Robert- son’s disgraceful conduct became the theme of many-tongued rumor, and reached the officers of his church, who were deeply shocked, but doubted the truth of the grave charges. On Monday night a enureh hoot 4 was held for the consideration of important business, at which Mr. Robertson ye sided with a calmness@ad tirmness which surpi those who knew the rk churges hanging over him. The rumors were not touched upon at the meeting, but at its close some of the members spoke to Mr. Robertson regarding them, and re- ceived a flat denial of their truth. He explained his appearance on Friday by saying that he had laudapum as an antidote to acute diarrhoea; the drug and liquor had affected his to such an extent that he was not conscious of what transpired at the depot. He explained and de- nied so plausibly that the gentlemen were satisfled of his innocence, and afterward begged that all mer tion of the affair should be suppressed in the morn- ing papers. He denied having been to Chicago; paid that he had been to Toledo to make arral ments for boarding his family during his month's vacation. His story, told to the oificers of the church and afterwards to a reporter, agreed in the main, but was not triotly similar in relating facta. He said that by a previous arrangement he naa agreed to meet his wife at the Spencer House in Cincinnati on Tuesday morning, and would leave on the night train for that purpose. The charges made against him, he averred, were false, but he would not hinder thelr publication. If he was wanted they mij gargs him at the Spencer House, With this calm, indifferent manner, he rode to the depot with his parishioner, and parted with him in the usual manner, Tuesday the rumor of his disgraceful conduct be- came so Widespread that the grieved and shocked church officials despatched to him, suggesting his immediate return, but failed to find him at any of the hotels. This made the case look dark indeed. Yesterday, however, a letter was received from him by Mr. James Davidson, dated at the Burnet House, saying that the charges made against him were im rt false and that things must take thetr course. ‘his tone left the church but little room to hope for his innocence, and it fell with depressing effect upon all. We leave Mr. Robertson, the dis th phan wd going East for pleasure, leaving behind in ce taint that can never be wiped from his record. In summing up this wretched case there is little to be said. ‘There is no Foom to doubt the truth of the assertion that the Rev. Mr. Robertson occupied a sleeping berth trom Chicago with a stran, woman; that he wasdrunk on the train and dia- graced himself before people who knew him; that his paramour was represented by him to be luv cousin, and that while again drunk he left the city, with the view of Laney ges thy her back to Ohicago. His ignorance of this ‘cousin's’ rest dence in Chicago, where she stopped in the city or why he went away with her, all tend to make a case” mrainst him, Of course, now that the scandal has gone forth, many Will make it worse than it ts, and leave the man no virtne, no sincerity, Ho pIeLy UoOm which to base his past life's record. fei