The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1872, Page 4

4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. August 4---Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost. The Religious Programme HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. Movements and Changes and Min- isters and Congregations. for To-Day. Services To.Day, In the orthodox Eastern Russian-Greck chapel, 951 Second avenue, near Fiftieth street, there will ‘be divine service at eleven o’clock in the morning. Free admission to every one. {n the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Brooklyn, the French band will give a sacred concert in the evening at half-past seven o'clock. The undertak- ing will be for the benefit of the church. St. Ignatius’ church, Fortieth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, service and the administration of the holy com- munion, as fixed under a new rule, are advertised in the Herat. as to his American Bible Society. ‘The stated meeting of the Board of Managers was held at the Bible House, Astor place, on the 1sfinst. Six new auxiliaries were recognized, of which two are in Georgia and one in each of the States of Tennessee, Arkansas, {ndiana and Iowa. Communications were received from Mr. Andrew M. Milne, Montevideo; Rey. Willlam Clark, Milan, of Scriptures in | Italy; Rev. T. P. Dardier, Geneva, Secretary | of the Evangelical Society, giving statements as to their labors in France; Rev. Dr, L. G. Bliss, Constantinople, two letters, showing a | very interesting state of things in Bulgaria; Rev, | T. 0. Trowbridge, Marash, and another from Rev. S. | Richardson, Constantinople, sending the annual | detters of the Eastern and Central Missions in Tur- | ‘key in regard to the Bibie work within their flelds; | from Rev. George F. Fitch, Shanghae, relating good success in Bible colportage. | Astatement was made by one of the Secretaries | showing an interesting Bible work in the Tyrol, | chiefly through the influence of a devoted young Grants of books were made, among many others of smaller amount, to the Freedmen’s Asso: Philadelphia; to the Bible and Publication Society Paptst, of Philadelphia; to the Virginia Bible | ty; to the Mobile Bible Society; to the New York Bible Society, for distribution to foreign countries, by Mr. Plerson, their marine agent; to | the French Canadian Missionary Society; and funds to the Evangelical Society of Geneva for their Bible ork in France, fg ee agen et Testaments | p r churches in books granted is the value of $ granted for Bible The Divine Origin of the Scriptures, To THR Epiror oF Tak HERALD:— * So long as the Bible continues to be taken as an guthoritative text book by the numerous conilict- | ing religious sects and parties that overran Chris- tendom to-day, so long will human progress be embarrassed and the brotherhood of mankind be rendered impossible. On the part of most intelligent Christians there fs @ growing tendency to doubt the divine origin of the Scriptures; and this uneasiness can be set at rest only by the submitting of the books of the Old and the New Testament to a fearless and a grand tribunal of profound and learned men, totally free from the trammels of priest-craft of every descrip- tion, and competent to expose the ignorance, pre- gross superstition that covered the whole face of the East at the periods these books are alleged to have been compiled or written. Neither science nor history, not to speak of archwe- Ological research or geology, accepts, as a finality, | (n relation to these works, the ipse diait of men. who lived hundreds and in some cases thousands of years ago, when some of the simplest operations of bature were magnified into preternatural manifes- tations, and when the Deity Himself was supposed | to take part personally in aimost every iamily The books must be weighed in | @ new balance—must be submitted to the solar microscope of the nineteenth century. An honest, brave and educated laity must take this matter into their own hands; for no Christian priest of any denomination can approach it with- out paralyzing his functions and jeopardizing his bread and butter, from the fact that to question for even a single moment the divine WiEPaAe of | the Scriptures would be to compromise the vali d reduce him to the condition ia therefore of the most vital im- tance to him, and to ‘the cloth’ universally, Rast no doubts shall be thrown on the authenticity of the “sacred writings,” but that they shall be swallowed in their entirety by the whole human However churchmen may differ as to the Of this text or of that, they never advance | ond dumb, the insane, the inebnate, the orphan, judice and brawl. of his own office an of asceptic. It pra Rul so kee But the flat has gone maudlin veneration the books must be ar- So ‘e some mighty convocation of the raigned befor a bove the prejudices and induences of | throughout Christ's earthly career and culminated resent day, al bl sects ‘and parties, and at whose hands we may reasonably expect a righteous and bates fic dict. The Vaiuc of Theological Discu: To THE Eprror oF THE HERALD:— I have watched with the deepest interest the theological controversy that has for months been going on in the religious department of your paper. Need I say that to thousands this new feature Is esteemed highly? For my own part I think that many heve come in contaet through your instrumentality with truths of transcendant importance. od work and let the world have a turning ce other | tion to the Divine will. reading 3 to the divine origin of the passages aeatves s their bea osition intact. New York, August, 1872. over of its fields of vided for; stepped in and filled the gap. I refer to ia that on the “immortality of the Soul.” “Ww. ©. D.,"" in a recent issue, calls this doctrine the | your Father which is in heaven; fer he maketh his fundamental principle of Christianity. True, it 1s | um to rise on the evil aud on the good, and the fundamental principle of popular Christianity; | but, after all, the real question is—Is it the funda- | truth that “God is love,” and having in His own mental principle of Bible Christianity? is the im. | mortality of the soul a Bible doctrine? If itisa | ogy, Bible doctrine why, “unsupported by Protestant or- thodoxy, must it go begging for adefender?” “W.C. D." accuses “Cato” of “absurdity” for belicving the immortality of the absurdity, contain the If not in the Bible why should “Cato” be- lieve the doctrine? The *‘pbsurdity” is on the other surd in any one believing the doc- 7 n when {t cannot be found inside the | that power of love which Christ introduced tor the the the for words, side. trine in quest Bible and soul. the Bible It ts Book, aud in thi doctrine has to go begging for eee frotehe | * Magnanimously steps in, seeing the pitiiul pligh his favorite 4 iT in, and has the temerity to | My kingdom is not of thia world, else would My appeal to the sacr first proof’ Adam a livin The diving soul by no means an immortal soul. dead “Ww. u, D.” came & OW. a going to fil t that God bi Je question is soul. eternal ‘life “Ww. 0. D.” next alleges thatin “both the Old 7 ment and the New there are innumerable tex teaching explicitiy that man lives beyond Our friend forgete what side he is on. ve statement {3 true, as I believe it ts, th is the doctrine of the immortality of the sont fal: Said doctrine demands am ummterrupted continu jovtrine that “man lives beyond | noticed on June 2 an article py “Bible Christia implics that he does not live in the | in Which he handies some biblical texts in a wophis- viesome Bible trath, for “the dead | How not anything,” says the Book again. If man | grave.” ‘the ance of the grave ‘ave, Which is W The hours for divine distribution The total number of | 178 volumes, besides others to $1,300 It won't do, research have this one never until Now I fail to see Here {i living soul, an , Do” tt interesting | ation, (gold) were ity Free from all drivel- Go on in dogmas, All always been The controversy pro- | the Hexatp | emy, but I say unto you, Love your enem! | but stiil retaining the breath of life—until now, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. other timo, if perfect able, I shall have more to say’; meant “W. 0, D.”" searoh SEAR Lor end “9. & 0° sons Hebrew in the Colleges. To Tae Eprom or ta HeRraup:— Tlearn from the San Francisco papers that ata session of the Board of Regents of the State Uni- versity of California, held on the 16th of July last, petition recently presented by a number of Is- Taelites of that State, asking that the Hebrew lan- guage be taugnt in the University, was unani- monualy granted, and the Superintendent was em- powered to cmploy a Hebrew instructor at a stated salary. I think that this enterprising institution, away Of on the Pacific coast, has set a noble example, and one which all the American colleges can tmi- tate with good results, The connectidn which the Hebrew language holds to the Scriptures (inasmuch as the Bible was origi- nally written in it), aside from the many benefits which it can confer upon @ person conversant with it, is alone sufficient to warrant its tuition in the “halia of learning."’ ‘The statement has been made by very many per- sons, and, from my knowledge of Hebrew, I can echo their remarks, that in no translation can the Bible be so well appreciated, inno other language can the sublimity and beauty of its passages be recognized so well, as in the original tonguo— tne Hebrew. Take the Bible in any other language and it is stripped of the part of its magnificence, The auty of diction, the poetical fg and the simplicity of expression—these are all lost, to some extent, and the Book has, as it were, been mer; into a volume of diticult and uncommon wor Besides this, the number of articles a person encounters in the theological journals upon Hebrew subjects, the variety and the extent of discussions and the world of knowledge contained in the Hebrew literature cannot fall of themselves to excite an interest in the bosom of every scholar and a desire to become acquainted with and to look into the pecullarities of this language. Tam confident that should the tuition of Hebrew to the subject—that nambers of students, Gentile as well as Jewish, would hail it with pleasure, and consider ita study a relief in comparison to the dulness of Greek, which receives such universal attention in the colleges, notwithstanding the fact * that many of the students when they finish the subject know very little more of it than when they began. Especially in the New York. Free College—that in- stitution in which al! sects and classes are repre- sented—would Hebrew be @ useful and valuable addition to the languages taught; for at this insti- tution, in addition to a number of students who would like to study the language, there are very many young Israelites attending, who are prevent- ed by want of time alter the college hours irom ob- taining instruction in Hebrew, as they would de- sire, The subject might, with comparatively little labor or expense, be added to the course of studies, and would increase the interest taken in this insti- tution a great deal. Let the New York Board of Education, as well as the Commissioners of Instruction all through the country, give this subject the consideration it de- serves, and I ain sure they willsee the benefits accruing from the introduction of Hebrew in the colleges. Hoping you will oblige a constant reader and an ardent admirer of the independent course which your valuable paper always adopts by inserting tiis communication in the religious correspondence of next Sunday’s Haran, | am, very respectfully, L, NATHANIEL HERSUPIELD, Is Christianity a Failuret To THE Ep:ror or THe HERALD:— Your correspondent “J. A. J.,”’ in the HERaLp, of July 14, appears to think he has made the astounding discovery that Christianity has proved to be @ failure. Some years since the Roman Catholics of this city undertook to build a magnifi- cent cathedral on Fifth avenue. The building from that time to this has been progressing very slowly, being almost ata standstill during the late rebel- lion, and is not yet finished; but will any sane man Pretend that the enterprise is a failure? So of Christianity. For more than 1,800 years the prin- ciples of Christianity, planted by Christ and the aposties, have been slowly but surely working their way against the fierce hostility of open and avowed enemies, and the blindness and moral corruption of its professed friends—at times during the Dark Ages hardly visible, 1t must be admitted, within the century past, he who cannot perceive their power and influence in the progress of the age towards a higher moral and spiritual "" ota be blind indeed. Compare the moral sd religious tone of both rulase ~-+ e-veie ur the days of Hervd with those of the present day, even as de- veloped in the amusements of the people, and who can fail to sce the improvement? Suppose the Emperor of Germany, in a fit of jollti- cation, should become so smitten with some beautiful damsel as to order one of the Jesuits to be beheaded to please satd damsel’s mother, how long do you suppose the people of Germany would allow him to remain their Emperor? Or suppose the Prince of Wales, in his haste to occupy the throne of his mother, should cause that mother to be assassinated, how long do you suppose England would be a monarchy? And what principles have wrought this great c! “el in civilization but the principles of love to God and love to man that are the sum and substance of Christianity? What is the motive power that has projected into life and activity all the —benevo- lent institutions of the day, dotting the land all over with asylums for the blind, the deaf the decrepit and the helpless of every description, cropping Dut in the form of mission schools, indus- trial institutions, children’s ald societies and shel- tering arms for the vilest and most abandoned, but the same spirit of love that shone so brightly in that nizing prayer for His murderers, “Father, torgive them, for they know not what they do t’ ‘That the Christian movement has been slow in ite development—much slower than it might or ought to have been—I will freely admit; but that is not the fault of Christianity, but of those to whose hands its development was entrusted. When Christ made His appearance on earth the world was controlled by the infiuence of brute force, Retalia- tion was but another word to express the prevail- ing idea of justice. ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ clearly expressed the judicial and social standard. Hts object was to develop a more humane, a more godlike power for the goverment of the world. His mission on earth was brief, His words were few, but full ofspirit and of life, and the wiht ‘dake Fives jue all opposin, wers an ing ail into si a A The Divine He clearly expreased, in Matt. v., 40-45:—"Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate ioe them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray fur them that despitefully use you once and persecute you, that ye may be the children of sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.’ Having thus proclaimed the great | life reveaicd Himself as the living personification of that love, just before the close of His earthly eer He called His disciples together and com- missioned them to continue the work He had begun by going into all the world and preaching this Gospel to every creature; thus leaving to His fol- lowers for all time the duty amd responsibility of converting the world toa knowledge of the truth, and extending the kingdom of heaven in the earth | by drawing from the great fountain above and ap- | plying to the a@airs of tuts life the same loving | Paneples that make heaven what it is. ; The question now arises, Have the professed min- e fe 18 not ot sa) "7 9 This passage hed into Adam an “immo not about a “living soul, “immortal soul,” and God's imparting to man @ | responsibility reata of developing those principles ? Read your lib! have breathed into ate of facts itis no wonder the | pyurpos | W. C.D. | Rher been trying experiments with other powers, | page for proof, And what is his | geryants ight. —* Did not God breathe into | vicegerente ‘on earth never attempted to enforce Who doubts it? So far us this * wiil have to | gaia, “Love your enemie: soul.” | not, does the roves that man possesses A “‘ifving soul” may become a So at the Demge,* all in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.” i The above passage {3 in Genesis vil, 22, God breathed into man’s nostrils; he be- id yet he died, So, friend could not been | him, | chats 4 | “Bible Christian” and His Bible Refers the | If | To rae Epiror or tHe HERALD :— isters and {ollowers of Christ faithfully made use of e of reconciling the world to God, or have other motives? Christ said, hey other influences anc Mave those who claimed to be his the Lord of the men of which frent out to battle; one soul of five hundred, both of the per- sons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, ind of the sheep.” Now, it is clear to any bat én unrea- soning mind that the verse directs a tax to be levied on the men, beeves, aases, sheep, &c., while it contains no doctrine whatever of immortality. But “Bible Christian’s” rendering is wot wholly valueless, as by it all beeves and asses, in whom & soul might be suspected to lurk (which eanous thing ‘seems to be realized in “Bible Christian"), 1s made specially ltable to taxation, One more of hia references. He ts still trying to disprove the immortality of the soul; but no matter. He refers to Leviticus xxii, 11, and mig from there fhe following:—"But if the uy any alleat of it.” He then 's family dining on a ghost! Let us now prodace that portion of Scripture in its entirety :—“There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing (the sacrificial meat, &.) A sojourner of the priest or an hired servant shail not eat of the holy thing. But if the prieat buy ay, soul with his money, he (the person bought) sl eat of it, and he that is borne in his house they shall eat of his meat.” Now, itis clear that the edible here is the priest's meat—t. ¢., the offerings of the Jews, which was the portion for the priests, and not, as “B.C.” thinks, the soul. But go on, “Bible Christian.” Time will bring about a state of things tn which you will lament the empyrean, enduring structure of your ‘“‘indeiinable nothing,” and when you will be more ashamed at having @ son! than you are now. G. HB. JULY 21, 1872, The Training Up of Jewish Rabbis. r Sr. ALBANS, Vt., July 28, 1872. To Tue Epioror or THR HeeaLD:— With cordial feelings I thank you for your eml- nently practical advice to the Jewish community, to train up rabbis versed in English) language and literature for the service of the God of Israel. It breathes a spirit of kindness to the Jewish commu- nity of earnest desire for their progress, that every Jew who desires to worship God in a language which conveys His highest and most fervent spiri- tual aspirations will fully appreciate. Almighty God intended we should be a kingdom of priests and a holy people. We have nothing to fear from a be introduced into some of thetarger colleges of | ‘iscussion of what is needful to promote this country—anu there is no good reason why it | our religious advancement. How are the should not be as well asin Kurope, where in almost mighty fallen! Are we becoming indiffer- every institution we flud the erg ee attention given | ent to the performance of our religious duties? It 1s an undeniable fact we are retrograd- ing in the performance of them. Why is this? Is it not because our hearts are not properly in- fluenced in a language we have at best only a limited knowledge of? Habit alone induces us to tolerate this. t us then pray with under- standing hearts and minds, Never did fervent prayer fail to reach the throne of fies and to receive from an all-merciful Creator a fitting responce in peace and love, and that inner con- aciousness of rectitude, so fitting a tribute to the divine Creator of the universe, Surely, as we are aware of this, we can make the desired efforts to bring good from evil, and to angen together to secure a well-trained body of men, thoroughly versed in Jewish literature, trained to preach to us in our mother tongue, and to remove from us the reproach of caring. pravers in a language we im- cry, understand, Thanking you again, Mr, Editor, for your pure and disinterested interest in our nation, believe me, your sincere friend, AN ISRAELITE, P, $.—Iam informed the late Mr, Simpson, the lawyer, in his will, left a plot of land in Yonkers to build a Jewish college upon. Why is it not made of service to the Jewish community ? Unchristian Parti To THE EpiTor or THE HERALI Although the subject of this letter may seem irrelevant as regards your Sunday#publications, I beg you, notwithstanding, to insertiit among the “Religious Correspondence,” becauge I think it will thus reach many who only read the paper on Sun- days, and especially that portion which relates to ecclesiastical matters. It is to this public—the largest, perhaps, that one could command—that I wish to address myself; and, indeed, my subject it- self will not be deemed by them foreign to religion. It has become the fashion lately to speak much of the “church of the future,” and to dwell upon the one basis of this visionary church—brotherly love and universal peace. The “future” in which this dream is to be realized must be very far, indeed, to ship. Judge by the unwonted bitterness with which “Christians” are still attacking one another; and one would think that to become a reality and con- quer an existence @all this “church of the future” will certainly have to abolish Presidential elec- tions. In this canvass that is now disturbing the true course of “brotherly love’ one journal has made itself conspicuous by its course of able and vigorous partisanship. Confessedly the best yot up, best ficiently on iy of fiat. edited y ly (1 larper’s) relies suf. readers swallow any amount e | vulgarity and un- truth, Intemperate scolding is contemptible wher- ever it is found, and one journal popularly accused of giving the lie direct in no measured terms to its Opponents is not a whit more contemptible than its “illustrated” enemy, who calls the Southern leaders “coarse and barbarous politicians.” (Har- per's Weekly, August 3, 1872.) Reasonable and dignified opposition to one party and adhesion to the other, which you consider the most honest and liberal, is one thing; systematic defamation of your opponents aad wilful misrepre- sentation is another, This paper we have named not only employs this meaus—which always de- notes consciousness of the weakness of one’s cause—but it has recourse to tht most imprudent it ¢ a Christian’ publication to use— namely, the deliberate stirring 1p of one race and faith against the other. The article headed “The warty of Reaction,” in Harper* Weekly of Satur- day. July 20, is an obvious, undbguised instance of this spirit. I wish neither to emer into the educa tion acre which is theren touched upon, nor into that wider question, a to the respective merits of the foreign populatins of this country. Of tne former I will merely say hat the Bible learn- ing, so clamorously made @ bhe of contention of nowadays, had its cradle inthe old monastic schools, where Celt and Saxon tudied together in true “brotherly love; and aso the latter I may remark that my judgment is werly unbiassed by any national feeling, since ni&her of America’s two great foreign immigrationi#an claim me as a member. Iam chiefly concerne for abstract jus- tice and for American self-respet, not to say patri- otism. . 1s it patriotic to egg on re German against the Irish element, and for a bie party motive to kindle feelings that may In futu) years burst forth in bloody revolution? Or do thefomentors of such disastrous rivalry wish to reve—hat has been the greatest blot on American immon sense—the fanatical absurdity of Know Notngism? Harper's Weekly trics to makeit Mr. Washburne to have been during the Freth war an exclu- sively German partisan. No dott it is true—and most honorably true—that he assted the German | non-combatants by all means tnis power, and pro- tected them from the populatury with which poor, blinded France might be eused visiting all luir-haired foreigners. What oat? Mr. Wash- | burne, a8 a gentieman and a diomat, protected all those who were tn need of ptection; some be- cause they had a right to it, otrs because they | were weak and appealed to his gerosity. Most un- manly would it have been if the pister of a pow- | erful neutral nation had not ptected all those Germans unjustly accused ot cing spies, but equally unmanty would it havbeen for him to | refuse such protection to ’rencbricsts, nuns and | seminarists. It was not Mr. rne’s fault that the heroic Archbishop ofiris and his mar- | tyred companions were not sid; and many a | nun, Sister of Charity or menr of a cloistered order owes it to him that here and honor are still safe. Mr. Wasiburne’s char was universal, and does honor no less to his citry than to his private character, and he wh¢ould make the | simple-hearted Irish inbabitantin America, or yoters—for, perhaps, it ts that cl alone that 1s to | ve mystifled—believe this charito have been a | | one-skied and long-ieaded an guilty of | an unpatriotic and ungentlemat act. Another party move revealed [his article and | similar ones emanating from tsame source is | the identitication of Tammany caption with the er’ the sword? Christ temporal power by the use of hay protest thristian nations acted toward each other ys thoug! taey had any faith in these sayings of Christ ? if fault lie in the principles of Chris- tianity or in the faithiessness of those on whom the | When, as individuals, as families, as nations, we uave faithfully carried out in all our social, bust. | ness and political relations the Christian principle of doing lo others as we would wish them to do to us, and Und that principle a failure, it will be time enough to look for something better adapted to our | | temporal and spiritaal waute than Christianity. O. H. ences. | In ooking at that weekly kaleidoscope of relig- fous opinions presented only in the a : tical style. Without reference to his prociivities, lives beyond the grave it must be by aresurrection of | { want to call attention to some of his Bible refer- the de versive of the souls need no resurrection, not # word about the immortality of the soul (t much about “the r true the other 1s false, esurrection,” ‘That is tene w dogma. Immortal While the Bible says ithe one is hich 18 in the ad, This again is a Bible truth and {a sub- | ences, One of Which he refuses in an article in to- iaamortal soul day's HeRaLD (July 21). “Bible Christian” was writing on the “immortal- | ity of the goul;”’ but no matter. LHe refers to Num- Sortpture; that 18 false which canuot be found | bets, XXXL, 28, which he quotes thas:—"One soul therein. The temptation to spread before your numerous readers sume Kible statements of God's truth on but fear of encroachin, this ic 19 strong, your vatusnte apace Makes me rofrain, At some ell eee upon J mortal asses of five hundred both of the persons, beeves, asses and sheep.” Having thus jux waited some words from that verse, he funnily exclaims :—‘lancy im- i sheep!” Now ict ua have le ® tribute unto an that verse:—“And | democratic party. Every democ eerie of the name knows how false thisis. ‘many itself, tn | the sense in which Tammany ba®me to be un- | | derstood, knows how doubly fal# js. That sys- | tem in which all corruption ceid, and which | transmogrified the dictionary ming of every | word relative to trath and justi¢nd gov. | ernment, is emphatically undiwratic. It did | well to shield itself behind the t-honored party | name that recalled the glories Oasiington and the high policy of Jefferson, bu cotfid hard keep up the farce long. association of unscrupulous men of fon extraction have usurped for some time) name of the old American party, par excel (for that the democratic party has always oricaliy been), | still that is no reason why ilsgrace should ve fastened either on the indtbus race these men belonged to or the dignifiérty tney chose to burlesque. Tammany was association of roughs, leagued for purposes @inder., It has | been exposed and got rid of; was the first to expose tt and the most forwardynounce it? An | Iishman—Charies O'Conor. Hobie Americans | | were content to sit side by sido, him and sift the evidence he had so clev@nd diligently Fought out; honorable frishmer e Catho- ticga-and ‘there aro plenty, the former as sas iter rts a A cn Jutent system broken dtand hear she trates dndenouncing it. It Bry cunningly, it ia trae, ddd With the proverbl@riness of the “unjust steward” of the Gospel, to make the Catholic Churéh its friend, and some were for a time deceiyad by these disified advances, but what docs that amonnt ig" diy that 9 fow for aid men erred like any and mis- rotton apple one, and that every Catholic pricat is n@goually infal- [ obnce an ouet reasousble yoreatures phd tiie Harper's | St. Mary Magdalene de bailds the theory that Tammany and the Catholic Church are one—a mistake far more seri- ous than that of a few Catholics who gave credit for their own innocence and single-mindedness to a corrupt and sanctimonious system. The Church tands by herself, and {t is others who ee i make shelter of her, and mot she who catches at the shield of others, In the number of Harper's Weekly dated August 3 the tactics are slightly changed and the dense stupidity of the non aN em he Linke Rad pegoat. After 1pOsil well known, wil! prove t the non-existence gf God to the monkey € itence of man), we are vir told tually that the Ku Klux clan and tne Catholic Church are one! The “Romish priest’ does duty aaaie in company witn tne “Texas brigand” and ‘the Mississippi rebel.” the way, since this enlightened exponent of orthern civilization twice likens the Southern States to barbaric care Rome under her Jesuit rulers” and “ ignorant Italy,” where “ the Jesuit aims his sharpest arrows against free ctviliza- tion,” we would venture to remind it that the war of which it was so Lapry was often likened in Europe to the butcheries of Mouravieff in Poland, of King Bomba at Naples and of the Austrians in Lombardy. Everywhere the sti was called the war of independence, as every American could now call the struggle of Cuba it Spain. But itisimpossible for nations as for individuals to see the beams in their own eyes while bess renee seeking out the motes in those of their neighbors, What I chiefly wish to say is this, abuse is not argu- ment, and the more it is used by the press as a con- ventent substitute for calm and reasonable discua- sion, 80 long will the press, and the press alone, be answerable for the very ignorance it so loudly con- demns, “Brutal, coarse, barbarous, ignorant, gross, fanatical” are words constantly flung at the head of all who disagree with certain political sen- timents, and as long as no better arguments than these senseless sounds are used the majority can hardly be expected to be very enlightened. Such language encourages the very vices it denounces, and if there were not antidotes to it in the calm- hess of a better class of men and in the lucky in- difference of some of the lower classes themselves we should soon see not a mere “Tam: ” but @ nation of roughs, the dealers of the hardest blows held in leash by the dealer of the hardest words, “The Church of the future” must be very far hid in the mists of possibility; as yet we see no symp- tom of the first stone, brotherly love, much less of the crown of the edifice, the millennium of peace. We wish Americans would turn to Europe and listen to the echo of a wise saying of the First ota ya “Let us not wash our dirty linen in public.” If there are abuses, why trumpet them forth so blaringly? If there are unfortunate rivalries be- tween nationalities that have hardly had time yet to amalgamate, why blow the bellows so fiercely instead of applying the hose’ As to the unhappy war, “let the dead past bury its dead;” and as to journalism, let it be the teacher of the mul- titude, gentiemanlike and patriotic, sensible and American. A great nation has ever been welded out of different races and different opinions, but it required the hand of Teligion and the restraints of reason so to weld it. He who scoffs at the Irishman’s religion loses his hold over the only means of conciliating him; he who appeals to a German’s slow jealousy rouses the spirit which, dormant, becomes steadiness, but, waked up, lined turn to inconvenient doggedness in the future. He who is wise and loves his country will keep moderation in view during these troublous election times. He who only loves his party will sow discord, of which he does not see the end, and will set in motion the wheels of a machine that he may be unable to stop when its ae shall have become his danger. COLUMBA. Suppression of Religious Orders in Italy. The letter of the Holy Father to Cardinal Anto- nelli on the suppression of the religious houses throughout Italy, and more especially in Rome it- self, has awakened a fresh interest in the safety and the sanctity of these cherished institutions. The Freeman gives the following list of religious houses which have been recently suppressea and desecrated, and solicits the attention of its readers to the fact that the outrage has been ‘aggravated by turning @ number of them into the purposes of a barrack :— Name of Convent, Its Present Purpose, St. Mary, at the Minerva, Ministry of Finance. belonging to the Do- gunipicans. tenet . Augustine, belonging to the Au istinians, The Holy Apostles, be- longing to the Minor Conventuals, St. Sylvester, in the Quirl nal, belonging to the Priests of the Missions, St. Mary, in Vallicella, belonging to the Ora- torians. St. Andrew della Valle, belonging to the Thea- tine Fathers, Roman College, belong- A Lyceum, ing to the Jesuits. St. firegory, ot Monte Poorhouse. Celio, belonging to the Ministry of Marine, Ministry of War. Military Train, Civil and Criminal Tri- buns, Stamp and Registry Of- fice. cat eanig tie Cor- Barrack of the Police of ad, vorani@eag the Cor: Barras ahage Police St. Bernard at the Baths, Military magazine. belonging to the Cister: a a cians, House of the Gesu, be- longing to the Jesuits, St. Callixtus in Traste- vere, belonging to the Benedictines, St. Francis a en be- longing tothe form- ed Fathers Minor, Ara Cali, belonging to the Fathers Minor of »Strict Observance, St. Mary ot Angels, be- longing to the Fathers of Chartreuse, St. Andrew delle Fratte, belonging to the Fa- thers Minor of St. Fran- cis de Paul. Jesus and Mary on the Cross, belonging to the Barefooted Augustini- ans. St. Mary in Transpon- tina, belonging to the Carmelites, Santa Croce in Gerusa- leme, belonging to the Cistercians, St. Mary Magdelene, be- longing to the Infirma- tian Fathers, $8. Vincent and Anasta- sius at Trevi Fountain, belonging to same. St, Sylvester in Capite, belonging to the urder of St, Clare, St. Martha of the Nuns. Oblates of St. Frances of Rome at Tor de Spec- chi. St, Dominick and St. Six- tus, belonging to the Dominicans. St. Catherine, belonging to the Domicanesses, St, Bernardine de Sienn belonging to the Fra ciscan Nuns. Infant Saviour at St. Mary Major's, belong- ing to Oblates. St. Ursula on the Corso, belonging to the Urau- lines, St. Norbert, Oblates of Brignola. St. Andrew, on the Quir- inal, Noviciate of the Jesuit Fathers, St. Teresa, on the Quiri- nal, belonging to the Carmelites. A barrack. Infantry of the line, and military train. A barrack. A barrack. Magazine depot. Barrack. A barrack. A barrack. A military riding school. Municipal school. Municipal school. Ministry of Commerce. Barrack. Municipal School. Account OMices, Municipal School. OMice of the Conscrip- tion. rip Municipal School. Municipal School, Municipal School, Royal stables. Barrack of the Cniras- ! siers and Convalescent Hospital, A barrack. Pazal, belonging to the Nuns of St. Barbara. St. Anthony and Mary Major, belonging to the Camaidult Nuns, The Holy Virgins, belong- ing to the Nuns of St. Augustine, Ministerial Movements, Changes, &c. ‘ METHODIST. The Rev. W. E. Perry, who was severely injured a couple of weeks ago while removing a cottage at | Pittman Grove camp ground, is reported recover- ng. but very slowly. It will be several weeks before he will be abie to resume work in his dis- trict. Rev. David Copeland, M.A., President of the Female norte Hillsborough, 0., has been elected Principal of the Wyoming Conference Seminary at Kingston, Pa., to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr, Nelson, now Book Agent at New York. Rev. Dr, Dashicll, secretary of the Metho- | dist Episcopal Missionary Society, has removed his residence trom Carlisle, Pa., to Roseville, Newark, N.J. Rev. J. B. Shearer, of Camillus, Central New | Conference, has been granted leave of absence from his charge till April on account. of tii health. Hedding Methodist Episco- al church, Elmira, N. Y., have given to ev. J. Alabaster, their pastor, u six weeks’ leave of absence, and he expects to pass it at the White Mountains and on a trip to the Thousand islands, Hamline Methodist Epiacopa! church, Wasbii ton, D.C., are buliding a new house of worship for them- selves there. Camp meetings are vo be held daring the current week at Delaware Wate: Sing Sing, Pittman Grove (N. Merrick, L. 1, Crisfeil Sta- tion, Landisville, Pa., and Bainshorough, N.2.. A new Methodist Episcopal church will be dedicated at Glasco, N. Y., to-day, The venerable Lovick Pierce, D. D. (Methodist al Church South), is reported very til at Union Point, 8. 0. Bishop MeTyeire (Church South) has gone’ to the Pacific | const to hold conference. Rev. Arthar Mooney, A military hospital. Military Commissariat Department. of Cambridge, Washington county, New York—the bu- rial place of Philt pubury, the founder of American ‘There ts no such ness is an unmi venerable Hem ty-elghth » has beet very in Peenaliy. On the first of ptember Father Boehm hopes to @ visit to Canada of about six tak very nearly the same tour made by him over sixty years ago as the travelling companion of Bishop Asbury. Kev. Dr. Porter, a former Book Agent at New York. who was re- Strained trom family mstances from returning to the regular pastoral work four years ago, will do 80 at the next session of the New England conference Dr. B, F. Rawlins, of Indiana, has been so prostrated sponding @ short time on the Pacific coast, looking r the interests of the colored churches. The health of Rev. 8. B. Dickinson, of Buffalo, continues tee fail 1 his yacian ag Sad Pepe survive, y. J ig) Mississippi Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South, and recently President of the female college at Sharon, has accepted the Preai- dency of Marvin trees Waxahacl Texas. and fam! Rev. W. W. Clark of Greenpoint, have & to Canada to renew old acquaintance, Mr. larke was formerly an opal minister in the Dominion, Rev. J. 0, W. Coxe, of the Vermont Conference, tor of Trinity church, Montpelier, has been elected Principal of ihe Seminary in Mont- peller. The trustees of Syracuse University deny that Dr. E. 0. Haven, of Detroit, has declined the Presidency of that institution, and that they have offered the same and a salary of $5,000 a year to Dr. Cc. H. Fowler, of Chicago. Rev. Dr. McCauley, President elect of Dickinson College, Washington, Will not leave Syeahington, until September 1, Dr. J. P. Newman, D. D., is announced to preach at the Bejmnpeitan church, Ws ton, to-day. The Official Board nove. to secure Dr. Newman to supply their pulpit unt spring. The annual missionary report of the Methodist pal Church, just pub- lished, shows that in foreign fields it nas 403 mis- sionaries, assistants helpera, 12,286 church members and 4,509 probationers and 22,045 day School scholars. The value property in the Ce stations, 102 churches and 70 parsonages, 1s $633,451 and the local collections for current expenses and missionary purposes have amounted to $14,771 16. The home missions foreign populations show 247 missionaries, 74 local preachers, 4,096 members and 1,188 probationers, and church prop- erty valued at $197,050; missionary collections, $10,792 46. The Rev. J. H. Gill, of the India Mission Conference, has been indisposed most of the time since his arrivalin that country. There are over three hundred Hindu and Mohammedan boys tn the Sunday schools in Moradabad. Rev. KE. Tinker, A. M., pastor of the Methodist Eplspopal church of Bee N. Y., a graduate of Madison Universit; and of Drew Theological Seminary, has recetvei the degree of Master of Arts from Yale College. The Rev. G. R. Davis has been appointed to ‘Tient- sin, China, as a missionary. The Boston Preachers’ meeting on Monday was of unusal interest by the | ction of Bishop Wiley. He was greeted most eartily. He spent the Sabbath in Lynn, where he preached morning and afternoon. Last Sabbath, on the camp ground at Martha’s Vineyard, Bishop Andrews reached in the morn- ing. The Methodist ministers of Long Island have formed an _ organization for Mutual benefit and social and spiritual improve- ment. A new Methodist Episcopal church was dedicated at Monsey, N. J., on Wednesday, Rev. W. H. Dickerson pastor. St. Paul’s church, Newark, will be closed for repaira during August. The Rev. Wesley R. Davis, pastor of St. John’s Independent Methodist church, Baltimore, ison a visit to Min- nesota. Rev. C. U, Stratton, of the Oregon Conter- ence, has been appointed by Bishop Foster to the charge of the First “Methodist Bpisco- al church at Salt Lake City, Dr. J. W. josad and family, of Jersey ‘Giy, are dwell- ing at “Camp Tabor,” Denville. He is chair- man of the Devotional Committee of the Jersey City Young Men’s Christian Association, and has organ- ized a series of Sunday open air services at the Cu- nard docks and in the public parks. The Immanuel church at Chrisfield, N. J., Rev. William fH, Hutchin, Harned will be dedicated to-day. The bishops of the fethodist Episcopal Church, South, recommend that. the week of August 11-18 be observed as a week of ayer. The Rev. Mr. Mellors, of the Cypren Hills lethodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, has gone on @ tour of two months for the benefit of his health. The Rev. Dr. Long, of the Methodist Episcopal Mis- sion in Bulgaria, has accepted a professorship in the American College at Constantinople, at Kou- meli-Hissar. BAPTIST. The Rev. Jabez Burns, D. D., of London, is travel- yg Nebraska, In his last letter to the Baptist Union of this city he prays that the old fortresses of sectarian isolation may be broken down, and the true and visible union of all believers be hastened. Between 1851 and. 1870 2,401 “licensed chapels” of the Established Church (England) have disappeared, while not a single Dissenting chapel has fallen into Episcopal hands. The presumption is that Diasent- ers have swallowed up the “licensed chapels.” The Lake avenue church, Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Nesbit, pastor, was organized about fifteen months ago, with 130 members; it now numbers Contributions for the year 5,600. The Indiana Baptists have met with en- couraging success in their efforts to raise money for Franklin College. A sufficient amount has been raised to enable them to buy in the property and resume instructions. Rooms have been engaged in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, for the Rev. a May 0 ret the celebrated Live: 1 a . W Bapust WSRAOE ato fe oxpoctad to arrive uefe in a iy has re. signed the pastorate of the Bapase'c (eae rs st church in lich., on account of ill health, and returned to his home in St. Thomas, Ontario. oo members of the West Fifty-third street Baptist church, Rev. W. H. Pendleton pastor, have taken their letters to unite with Plymouth Baptist church, Fifty-first street, New York. Rev. M.T. Lamb has resigned his charge in Amboy, Ill, and is Beeching Be the present at Clinton, Iowa. The femereg ve recently ot ized a church at Midway, Sf nd are arr ing to build a house of worship there during the coming fall. Four thousand dollars have been subscribed. Rev. Frank Ellis has resigned at Lawrence, Kani having accepted a call from the Central Baptist The church at Cave-in- county, Ill, which was organized 2g, with thirteen members, has ip Of seventy-eight. Rev. W. Wil- -kins, of New York, has accep’ ®& unanimous call tothe Pavilion Baptist church, Iil., and entered ba) his work. Rev. R. M. Nott, recently pastor of the First church at Aurora, Ill, has returned to the East accepted a call to a church near Boston. Baptist missions among the Chickasaw and Choc- taw Indians meet with gratifying success. Ac- cording to the official vl edt the Choctaws number 17,000, and have fort; poe iy pablic schools, with an annual school fund of $26,500. Two-thiras read and write the Choctaw oe, oe and one-third speak English in addition. hey. oultivase about thirty thousand acres of land. The Chickasaws number about five thousand five hundred, and have eleven Public schools. The Shawmut avenue Baptist church, Boston, has purchased a lot adjacent to the church for $1, giving them in all a lot over one hundred feet square, on which to erect a church *building. The Second Baptist church of St. Louis has just purchased a lot for church edifice and par- sonage, at & cost of $30,000, The Baptist church at Cambridgeport, Mass., formerly Dr. Mason's, has called Rev. George A. Peltz, of Philadelphia.’ The Union Temple church ig bey sete f its place of wor- oie Its Dene poston Dr. Fulton, ts spending vacat at Peters! among the Mountains. . Et ete SESee ‘As an instance eMSCOPATIAN. stance of caste and ritualism runnin; mad, Church and State cites the oase of a priesi who was greatly offended because a newly ordained deacon peat took the «Gospel side of the altar” instead of “the Epistle side” to read the prayers Prescribed. The priest acknowledged that there Was no rubric to guide them in the matter, but it in twelve months now a members! was the common practice ot the Ohurch ie eae hate Piri Hen to distinguish who le Srl leacon. The diocese twenty-six parishes and thirty-six clergy canonically resident, including two Bishops. Tt has 2,804 communicants, 3,936 Sunday acholars and teachers, and property valued at $531,403, The contributions of the churches for the ecclesiastical fear just ciosed amount to $73,926 75, Bishop tO of Winchester, England, has inhibited Rev. {kins of Swanmore, Ryde, Isle of Wight, performing any duty in his diocese, because the revorend ritualist, at a recent week day service in bis church, unrolled a white stole and kissed a welled cross on the back of it, and then, placing it round his neck, turned toward the congregation and marked the ba of the cro on his forehead and breast. The Bishop considered such von and childish trifing entirely variance with his position as a Church of England clergy- man. Mr. Wilkins acknowled; performing the acts complained of, but justified them on the ground that the acts wero merely symbolical of bis cheerfulness in wearing the yoke of Christ, and the proceeding is @ very common one among clergymen of the Church of England, and espe- Clally of thas diocese, Had his diocese ever forbade the use of the stole, or o1 the practice compiatned ba Mr. Wilkins declares that he would have sub- mitted, but he considers his inhibition without (rial a8 null and void in the sight of God, and hence | refuses to be bound by it. The Rev. Washington Rodm: an has accepted the rectorship of St. John’s church, Bayonne, N. J. The Rev. Hi- tam W. Beers, D. D., has entered ‘upon | his duties as rector of St. John’s | church, Ogdensburg, N. ¥. The Right Rev. Bishop Southgate (formerly Bishop of Constantinople) is said to be the leating candidate for Dean of the | General Theological Seminary to succeed the Rev. | Dr. Forbes. Rev. R. M. Duit has just received @ | call to the associate Rectorship of St. James’ | chureb, New London, Conn. A new chapel of Cal- | yary Protestant Episcopal church (Fourth avenue an Twenty-fret street) is being erected on Twen- | ty-third street, near Third avenue. It is to cost $60,000, The Bishop of Carlisle in his charge just de- livered desires all his clergy to di tinue Preaching in the gown, and to Wear the surplice exclusive! in the pulpit. The Protestant Episcopal laity of Obio, at their re- cent Diocesan Convention, instituted a league for Providing support for the families of clergymen Who bad died, The plan is aa follows:—Every sub. serider pays $2 on becot & member, constitut- ing a reserve fund for incidental expenses. Then he pledges himself to pay $2 on the death of any clergyman living in the diocese of Ohio. ‘The vestry of St. Paul’s church at Portchester, N. Y.. have ex- H Methodism—ts calling upon Methodists throughout | tended a unanimous call to the Rev, - country for hel fo erect w suitable ‘mouwment halurat Mory Chm Bishops Whittingnan, over pis gave. e Rev. 8. Alexander, of | of Maryland; Wordsworth, of Lincoin, and E. H. Lincoln, Nebraska, warns Eastern churches and | Brown, of Sly, have been invited Methoalata fraudulent ciroulars and agents | by the “old lio”, party of Germ: bogeing for funda for n city hospital tu Chae © asst at eld | Synagogue in in some time next month. Rev. Bonenct' De recently inaugurated Sunday ther ‘oon open-atrservices, under the auspices of the Young Men's Ohbristian a4 made to raeatolinn he agi since 1882" » Which has ceased to PRESBYTERIAN, Ais Buffalo Presbytery last Week de ". phone 4 of pees kown. 3 Y, indefinitely sug ended him from communion, be- The late Mra Plead to or answer Be cnerese. E. of Philade! queated S608 for the establishment of a achotar- ship in the Union Theological Seminary in this city. The degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. F. A. Nobte, Third = Pres- byterian church of Pittsburg, at the recent com- mencement of Western rve Rev. W. Cochrane, of Brantfor ovived another call from the N.J. Rev. 0. 3. Durfee, of the First Presbytet church, . Presbyterian church at Riverhead, L. L, has extended a call te Rev. William Chalmers, whlch has been accepted, The Rev. Sidney @. Law has ed the pastoral charge of the Church of Fresh Pond, Vernon Vauiey, L. L, and gone to Redping, Conn. » REFORMED DUTCH, The Third church of Holland, Mich., Rev. H. Uiter. wyk, pastor, have determined to build a new church; Mra. Lott, of Flatbush, L. 1, has contrib- uted $1,000 towards this object. “Rev. J. B. Ail suppiles the pulpit of the Rev. Mr. Van Slyke, Ja maica, L. [., during the vacation of tne latter. Rev. F. 8, Sohenck accepted a call from the Reformed church of Clarkstown, Rockland county. Rev. Wit- liam J. Hill, who is at present visiting’ his friends in Ireland, will, upon his return, take charge of the mission churches at Wash- ington Hollow, N.Y. The Rey, Mr. Vanderveer, pees of the First Reformed church in Kingsten, . Y., starts on a six weeks’ vacation after this date. Rev. Mr. Lippincott, of Shawangunk, is also to take @ month's recreation, The Rev. mage, the well-known missionary to Chi returned to this country. He left Hon; 4 January 23, by steamer. He reached last Sabbath morning, and ts peeling for the present in Jersey City. The Reformed church Dose to raise a centennial fund of $1,000,000. church has now had an existence in this country of 250 years, ROMAN CATHOLIO. A correspondent of the Christian Union writing from Rome intimates that the Papal controversy in Germany and Italy may provoke war, and that as autocrat over the Church the Pope is stronger than ever before in just those countries where the State has declared the concordat at an end. He now wields his infallible power directly over the whole body of the clergy as his personal dependents and his helpless tools; and he is seeking to make the Jesuits masters ofevery commanding post within the Church as an entrenchment of Roman power against the State. It is well understood, he adds, that the Pope ia dabbling in the politica of Russia and Austria in the hope of kindling their jealousy of Germany to a flame of hostility. The Catholic Re view partially discredits the transfer of Bailey, of Newark, to the Archbishopric of Baltl- . More, A list of the convents seized and occupied by the government and tie municipality in Rome shows that thirty-seven convents of monks and twenty-two of nuns have been taken. Of these twelve are used as public schools, ae tr gies house, six for hospitals, one for the royal sf and twenty for barracks for the military and police. The rest are converted into risons and government offices. The new demptorist church of st. Alphonsus in St. Louis is to be dedicated to-day by the Right Rev. Bishop Ryan. It is to be a strictly missionary church, without parochial rights or responsibilities. The grounds covered by and around the church and convent are 400 by 500 feet. The situatic on one of the highest points on Grand avenue. The audience room will seat comfortably 1.600 people, but the broad aisles and corridors would furnish accommodations for as pe more in case of necessity. The church structure alone will cost $150,000, while the monastery has cost $30,000, Pere Hyacinthe has in his possession the manu- script of a work by the late Count Montalembert, entitled “Spain and the Revoiution,” which he in- tends to publish shortly, although the Countesa Montalembert objects, on account of the assaulta it makes on the Papacy and the Inquisition. The Rev. Father Bergrath has had a female School established in Pensacola, Fia., by the Sisters of St. Dominic, ‘To-morrow a Chapter General of the Missionary Priests of the Congregation of the Holy Cross will be convened at Notre Dame, Indiana, It is the first time in the history of the world in which a General Chapter of a religious congregation existing in Europe has been sum- moned to meet in America. Assuch, it is'an event worthy not only of notice, but of reflection. The arrival at New York 13 hourly expected of the Right Rev. Bishop Duval, now Vicar Apostolic in Bengal, East Indies, with a companion; of the Very Rev. Father Champeau, Provincial in France, with @ com- panion; of the Rev. Battista Ferdinando, Superior of the House in Rome, and of others, to attend the Chapter, whose sesalons will coutinue for ten days. The Rev. Michael 0. O'Farrell, one of the aasistant Pastors at St. Peter’s church, Barclay street, has returned, after a brief visit to the old be eh f and popes to his native town of Lismore. those who were cardinals at the accession of Pius IX, ‘dinws Patrizzi, Amat, De Angelis, Casoni, berg, Asquini, Carata aud Sforza. ‘The work on St. Mary’s church, Star of the Sea, Brooklyn, is pro- gressing. An illuminated cresting, recently fin! adds considorably to the exterior beauty of the @barch. The priests of Munich have sent a letter te ““the makers of laws at Berlin,” in which they say that the whole priesthood is ‘kindred to the Se clety of Jesus,” and that if the Jesuits are worthy of persecution all the other priests are anxious to Archbishop MeCloekey, folly al taal Tcl op McCloskey, ve to the spiri! Wants of his flock, has raised the district of Mont- gomery, Orange county, N. Y., to the rank of a par. ih and appointed the Rev. John J, McUauley, of St. Teresa's, first. Marty Father McCauley will enter to-day on astoral duties, The Rev. Father O'Callaghan McSweeney, lately ordained at Rome, succeeds Father McCauley in the assistant astorship of St. Teresa’s, Rutgers street. On last esday evening a committee of the parisioners of t. James’ Roman Catholic church, New York, Waited on Father Martin, at 33 West Warren. street, porn, and ‘presented him with a purse contain- ing $1,275. ther Martin has been very ill for some months past, and this is to enable him to ’. Charles McCre: St. Stephen’: re Father Hickey and Father McMeel. Bay he Me Dr. Mullei f ‘the ‘Lond Te ‘. ns, ol © London Missionar: says that since this century began more teen tree hundred islands of Eastern and Southern Polynesia alone have been led by the Gospel, as taken to them by missionaries, to renounce their Wore and ate now under the infinence and sway of Chris- tlanity. The Rev, Edward Griffin, of Burll Vt., has been appointed to the chair of Lavin Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass. Octobes 10 next will be the twenty-dfth annive of the commencement of Henr Ward Beecher's labors as pastor of Plymouth chureh, Brooklyn, It 13 Proposed to ceicbrate this “silver wedding” of mr.’ Beecher and the Church in a manner at onco novel and interesting. The jubiee will last four days, beginning on Tuesday, October 10, | The first day is to be devoted to the children: On the second day all the living members are to be invited to be present. The remaining two days are to be devoted to general exercises, the whole to close with the Lord’s Supper. The Christian Oharch of Cincinnati is again in want of a pastor. A minister who has some means will find it an in- betas fleld of labor. So writes the retiring pastor, Rev. B. F. Summerbell, who has come to Re on of c ae te Burnt Hills, N. Y. ectors 0} ie American Congregations Association have been laboring to secure finds m7 Provide @ Congregational House in Boston. The objects of this house are manifold. It is to contain the C ‘egational Library and be the headquar- ters of all the benevolent societies that have offices here to which the Congregational churches make their annual contributions, to serve for a testimony and a symbol of the polity and principles of the Pilgrims and Puritans, for a centre of corre: ence, for @ Christian family home and for social and religious purposes seeecaly. Dr, Schaf has 01 succeeded in getting promises m Dr. Guthrie, Dr. Rainy and ir. Charteris to come to _the Alliance meeting at New York in September, 1873, Dr. Guthrie i this winter to act as chaplain in the Free Church at Rome. Russia and Russian Poland contain upward of two millions of Jews, and their condition is @ di to the government and a scandal to the clvilization of the age. In no European countr; ', except in bar- barous Roumania, are they treated’ with so mach inhumanity. They have no politiens rights, nor can they be fairly said to be within the protection of the common law. Great things are expected from Sir Moses Monteflore’s mmission to Ri Special prayers were offered up in the con tions under the 5 eg supervision of the Rabbi Adler and Rev. Dr. Artom on the occasion of Sir Moses Monteflore's departure. Messrs. John D. Phillips and B. L, Solomon have cach subscribed $100 toward a fund for building @ metropolitan the city of Washington, D. 0. ‘esh complications are expected at Buch: from the refusal of the Jews to sign protests declare that the alleged persecutions either did not occur or were greatly exaggerated, and that the Jews enjoy full liberty in Roumania, Unless sign these protests the utmost severities are thi ened against them by the patriotic citizens of the Principalities, Rev. J. B. Clark has resigned the pastoral care of the Con; ‘ational Church at Nag tonville, Mass. Rev, ’. Parker, of the See- ond Congregational irch at Hartfo has sailed for sSurope. American Taenelivee are greatly incensed at the Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association, who, in seeking the co-operation of their coreligtonists in Berti Paris and Vienna in Roumanian aifairs, used America by, It was the efforts of the American Con- sul, Peixoto, they say, that preven Bd further ont- rages against the Jews, and produced in many quar- ters a reaction in thelr favor. English Israelites, however, fancy that their speeches at the Mansion Honse did the work which Pelxotto performed, The Earle of Dalhousie, the Marquis of Lorne age other English noblemen take turns in preach- ing to the masses in Agricultural Islington, where over 200 persons can be accommodated, and the hall is generally crowded. As a pleasing testimony to the liberal progress ta Germany, is the fact that in towns chiefly consist ing of Christian populations Jews Participate ia the ministration of the community. In Vissethe- vode, Hanover, a town of 2,000 inilabitanta, & mer- t, Martin Alexander, the Only Jow living in the town, was clected or, and f ter Ei * immediately oom hy the