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RELIGIOUS. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. Herald Religious Corre- spondence. Are There Two Kinds of Spiritualism? RABBINICAL EDUCATION. Movements of the Clergy of All Denominations. Services To-Day. Professor BR. N. Hume will lecture this morning at Apollo Hall on “The Present Age of Reason and'the Bule of Science.” Bev. Dr. Flagg will preach at both services at the Church of the resurrection. Rev. W. 8. Saline preaches morning and evening at the Church of the Atonement. Rev. Dr. Dixon, of Georgia, discourses at the Charch of the Strangers at both services. Bev. Dr. Staunton preaches this morning at the Forty-second street Presbyterian church. Rev. 0. H. will preach in the Fifty-third street Baptist church in the morning and again in the evening. Are There Two Kinds of Spiritualism ? To Tae Eprror or THE HERALD :— “Bible Spiritualist,” in your issue of last Sunday, white admitting the phenomena of Spiritualism, takes the ground that there are two kinds of Spiritualism—one by divine permission, protection and guidance, and the other prohibited by the Lord im the Old Testament, He also states that the fruits of the first form when permitted by the Lord sre His angels manifesting themselves to men and revealing important truths and permitting men to see the inhabitants of the spirit world as was the case with the prophets and disciples. We are en- Mrely willing to accept these tests as to the charac- ter ofthe spirit who manifests, and every intelligent, well-informed Spiritualist in the laud knows that it is a very common thing for spirits who com- municate through media to utter and reveal im- portant truths. It is also permitted for men to see the inhabitants of the spirit world, as was the case swith the prophets and disciples, and men daily look apon inhabitants of the spirit world at Moravia, and the writer of this has seen at icast thirty there; among them six oPlis near relatives, who were to be seen as plainly and perfectly as ever they were im this life. The inhabitants of the spirit world have also been seen by hundreds of persons at Dr. Slade’s, in thiscity. So these two qualifications which characterize the “angels of the Lord’'—viz., that they reveal important truths, and permission for men to see them—characterize the spirits which @re now seen daily and reach the standard set up by “Bible Spiritualist.” Sowe claim that they are the “angels of the Lord.” 48 to disorderly and evil-disposed spirits, even to such as entered the herd of swine, we admit their existence—in fact, as men are not changed in the least spiritually or morally by death, we will go farther and admit that some spirits are as full of malignity and all evil as s0me men are who walk this carth in mortal life, and there can be no differ- ence of opinion that communication with the spirits of such would be not only undegirable, but wholly productive of evil. Fortunately for poor mortals, Deity has provided for this, as He has for pees 8 else, and we find that an admirable law governs intercourse with spirits—viz., that the seeker shall attract spirits upon the same plane as himself. This isthe law, and the violations of it are rare, 80 that we are generally protected from the presence or, at least, from the power of vicious spirits, unless we are vicious ourselves. “Bible Spiritualist’? quotes all the texts of Scrip- tare (exclusively from the Old Testament) which have been doing service against spirit communica- tions for the past twenty-iour years. Now, we do not worship the Old Testament to the extent that we will absolutely shut our eyes and take atrandom the first command we read after opening it, and Uterally obey it, asking no questions. Tue sooner evangelical Christians come to the conclusion to | give @ reasonable interpretation to everything in it and to let the progressive spirit of the age govern that interpretation the sooner will ‘hey reach that | point which they are steadily approaching, where | they will admit that reason uione must be the light in which the Scriptures can be interpreted. And | the spirit then prevailing will not set at naught the | mi truths contained In the sacred volume—but | on the contrary they will be cherished, quoted and upheld generally in a spirit of love and harmony to which the religious world heretofore has been and now, to a large extent, is a stranger. With these views of the Old Testament we insist that if “Bible Spiritualist” claims for the passages | quoted by hima sweeping and general application against all ancient and modern spiritual manifesta- tions, then we in turn claim the sume validity and force for other commands given ‘‘in thc name of the ” We can quote ten for his one, bat we will content ourselves with two or three. If “Bible Spiritualist” will refer to chapter twenty- two of Deuteronomy, being the third chapter succeeding the one from which his most emphatic commands are quoted, he wiil find the eighth verse to read thus:—*When thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house if apy man fall from thence." Should not this com- also be obeyed + The eleventh verse reads, “Thou shall not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.” We hope “Bible Spiritualist’ will at once have his clothing submitted to proper judgment and obey the command. Both these commands were given through the mouth of the same prophet and atthe same time that the command aguinst en- chanters and witches was given. If one command was from God, the others inevitably were from him. But we contend that neither were from him, There is nothing about the character of either of them which required particular instructions from God, 80 we belicve it is far more reasonabie and re- spectful to God to believe that all this emanated from the prophet’s own mind, and, iike a very large proportion of matter in the Old Testament, we think it should be received and judged upon its own merits. In the same chapter (the eighteenth) from which “Bible Spiritualist’ quotes you will find the third and fourth verses to read as follows :—‘‘And this shall be the pricat’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the should r and the two cheeks and the maw.” “The first fruit also of thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and the first of the ficece of thy sheep, shalt thon give him.” Here is Church and State upheld by the same an- thority which prohibits the existence in the land of witches and enchanters, “Bible Spiritualist’ accepts all that suits him and rejects all that does not, We ciaim the same privilege. Ie accepts ail the commands against witches, and we assume that lie re- jects all the commands as to the wode of building his house, selecting his garments aud paying tithes to the priest of ali he seases. On our part we also use our right to select or reject, and we reject all which divides him aa being direct from God, and we do 80 Sice the grounds that the necessity of prohibiting these oe from exercising their arts ag then tised and understood was apparent to all who sullicient knowledge to appreciate the evils, but too ignorant to regulate the practices and turn them to good account. Theretore no com- mand direct from God was requisite, and con- tend that if God ever does especially interfere in our affairs it is never without a necessity, and here no necessity existed, Tho class of persons who then held themselves out as witches, enchanters, &c., were, as a class, imposters, and when any among them did really pes Fa f mediumistic power they were utterly fnorant of its character and proper use, aud from being ignorant and often depraved theuiselves they attracted only ignorant depraved — spirits around them. How could it have been otherwise when we consider that the Jewish nation was ina semi-barbarous condition? That the lower ciasses were totally uneducated, and even the middie and higher classes were more ignorant than our lower classes are to-day—the onjy persons with any education being the priesthood aud a very few tn- dividuals outside their order., Many of the spirits consulted had been but alittle while before residents in earth-life among these very people, and were as ignorant us themselves, so that for the lack of intelligence and education the innabitants on both sides the vail were equally unfitted to con- yeyer reciate kuowiedge, and but too many on sides were but too willing to uso all their powers in the cause of deception and roguery, The commands against witches anid sorcerers no doubt were eminently proper at that time, as both spirits and mortals perverted the whole sys- tem and degraded what was intended for the glory and happiness of man {nto a practice of ineanta- tions, spells and demoniac invocations. The le of no nation at that time were in any better condition to make proper use of the gi't of spirit communion, and even so iate as the last two centuries people were yet too ignorant, too Ing. oted, to accept aud make proper use of Me git, aud since the commencement of the historical period it is omy the pregent time which has been saf- ficiently enlightened, liberal and free to permit the roper investigation and understanding of this rR PEROEDEO, misunderstood and maligned, yet God- sen One proof that the faculty of receiving impres- sions from spirits was misunderstood, even by the most enlightened of those times, is the fact that, whenever a prophet, or medium, became impressed to say or doa thing it was always announced as being “in the name of the Lord.’ Now, to believe build a house came from the Lord requires @ great stretch of faith, and of degrading faith at that; but to suppose the direction came from some spirit is praneple, because we know that they now some- imes do'interest themselves in eyen less tritles ies to the greater part of what ‘Bible so, the ir Spiritualist” receives aa “the word of the Lord” was really only the word of a spirit, perfectly for the trivial character of many of the commands given and at the same time proves that impressions from spirita were receive forth then as now. As to angels 8) why should they should do s0? through our Maker; but who Is so foolish as to su pose that every time 8 good man opens his mouth to speak that he does so by special leave of the Al- mi; ty ’ Then why should a mit be re- qulre from the Almighty every time the spirit of a lear friend finds himself tn a tion and condi- tion to enable him to communicate with his old friends here ? Is it not much more likely that there have always been certain natural conditions, which, when ent, enable spirits to communt- cate or to make themseives visible, and that with the wonderful increase of knowledge in these lat- ter years, in which millions of spirits and mortals have shared, that these conditions are better un- , derstood both on this side and on that, and thus {oaee mani ietasong, pee lopraneed ane ot ee creasing in a degree of which peop! no soucaptiod: i SEROME ROSS, Is Modern Christianity a Fraud? To TH Epitog oF THE HeRALD:— ‘The great Captrain, whom all the sects of Chris” tendom profess to follow, has declared, “that & good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can acorrupt tree bring forth good fruit; therefore the tree will be known by its fruit.” With your kind permission we will glance at some of the produc- tions of that huge growth that now covers the civ- tized world, called Christianity. As the root and stem of the whole system we may take, to begin, the Church of Rome, commonly called the ‘‘Motner of all the Churches.” For the space of over one thousand years she has held the reins of govern- ment over the most enlightened nations of the earth; kings have bowed to her and begged their crowns at the feet of her master, leading his horse, asa slave, through the streets of the so-called Ever- nal City, and kissing his foot at his bidding. If peace and good will among men was what she had desired, surely 1,000 years was ample time to intro- duce all that she wished; but look at the bloody fields of Italy and France, and at the loathsome dungeons of Spain; see the massacre of St. Bar- tholomew and Piedmont, and judgo the tree by such fruit. But she ts not alone in villany and cra‘ we can sec the spirit of the daughter, of England, in the fires of Smithfleld, in London, and in the Grassmarket of Edinburg, where such strenuous efforts were made to save the immortal souls of cer- tain wretched freethinkers from hell fire, by de- stroying their mortal bodies in a wood fire. We see the powerful arguments she used in the thumb- screw, the Scotch boot and the Maiden, as her mother, Rome, argued from the rack, the chain, the axe, the wheel. But, ah, Mr. Editor, we see nothing of this sort now; sleek and smooth shaven, the ser- | vants of these crafts pace the pavé with measured step and pions air, with white choker and black broadcloth, members of the “‘Soclety for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals.” How came this remark- able change? The power is broken, Cromwell, the Covenanters and other counter tyrants fixed feng: land; Napoleon I, Garibaldi, Victor Emanuel did | for Rome. It willbe remembered how, not many months ago, the amiable Pio Nono disbanded the Papal Zouaves, no doubt calling to remembrance that “‘the weapons of his warfare were not carnal,” & quotation that seems to have entirely slipped the memory of the potentates of Rome for the brief space of 1,000 years. It is rather a coincidence, too, that this happened when Victor Emanuel was pre- paring nis cannon. Some intelligent people may account for it as @ “prophetic instinct of the im- mortal soul.”’ It is not necessary, though, to cross the Atlantic to see the fruit of these systems; although in this country the power of the priestcraft Is more re- duced than in any country in the world perhaps. Still they work here upon The good old plan, That he can take who has the power, And he can keep who cai | proselyte manufacture and church building being | the order of the day; but for illustrations of the | Power that superstitition still hoids over its vic- , ums remember New York, July 12, 1871, And ali | the progeny of the great mother take more or less after her spirit. Unreasonanleness, bigotry and superstition are their instruments; and the latest nuodus operanit being to get up an excite- | ment at a camp meeting, and play upon the brute passions, Insts and fears of an illiterate mob under | the trees on dark nights; andsalways bear in | mind, Mr. Editor, that the Bibie is supposed to | sanction all such nonsense, just as it does ‘the in- fullibility of the Pope,’ the immortality of the soul, &c.; and by way of proof one is generally carried under the armpit, full bound and gold-edged, from the which the gentiemen of tie cloth extract four or five words, and build thercon @ wonderful super- structure of pagan theology and modern politics. But do all their constructions affect the Word of God? Ah, no! “Surely thetr turning of things up- side down shall be esteemed as potter's clay.”— Isaiah xxix, 16. BIBLE CHRISTIAN, aking by spectal permission, | Rabbinical Education—Reasons Why It | Cannot be Had Here. To THE Epitor or THE HERALD:— | I am a messenger of good tidings for you. My | countrymen, the Russian-Polish Israelites of this | city, have commissioned me to tell you that they | have unanimously declared you one of “the righteous of tne non-Israelites” (Chassidé Umoth Haolaon), and you are henceforth entitled to a place in “the basement of Paradise” (Gan Eden Hatachton), for the interest you have manifested in behalf of their religion and beloved ancient tongue. They moreover instructed me to report their opinion about the subjects which have been re- cently treated in the Sundays’ editions of the head uncovered, considering “Rosher” a very palatabie and cleanly prepared eatable, and smok- ing my cigar (if I have any) on the Sabbath as well “as on other days. They know all these, and never- theless consider me of theirown. They entrusted me with the mission, thongh they knew that I would fuldl it in my own way. The queston avout establishing a Hebrew theological seminary in this country has recently oso @ny more than that men | Which my countrymen ex; We all live and breathe in and | fully endorse the opinion of Mr. | HERALD, though they are well aware of my being | one of the reformed party, praying to God with my composed by the greatest authorities of all times, which the rabbinical candidate must be at least acquainted with or he cannot obtain his degrees, ‘The belielettriatic parts of the Talmud are of aecond- ary importance to a true rabbi, but he is well versed in them, nevertheless, for they are so intermixed with the casuistic and jurisprudential parte of the Tatmud that he cannot help learn- ing them en passant. Once ordained ® rabbl, his decisions are valid, none but @ concilium of weater masters than himself being able to put em to test or to declare against them. He is of that a direction what garments to wear and how to | unquestionable authority, unless hts actions betra; him too much against the Jewish principles; and, in such @ case, his Authority is' withdrawn by & synod of rabbies and the thing ts made public, Now, such a thing as a true rabbi is unknown in bred bag eens. the three aforementioned octors). meerning all persons of renown in the Jewish pulpit, here they are nothing more than lec- turers, and not of the best quality either. Being and accounts | doctors of thelr own make, they sometimes preact on verses of thelr own composition and recite au- thorities on subjects that have never been ques- and sent pene I had the good fortune to chronicle some their absurdities among the “lecturer's explana- tions” in the Hebrew periodicals of Kurope, for eased their thanks, Abarband that any Pollsh-Jewish boy Knows more of Hebrew lore than many a doctor who adorns the Jewish pulpit in this city; and | am ready to give the best proof of the veracity of this assertion. ‘There being no true representative of Jewlsh lore here, how can it be expected that its true spirit shall take root in the heart of “the sheen of Jacob *”" And by whom shall it be promulgated if any Jewish young man, say by a miracle, should be desirous of penetrating its vast dom: Y Ifany one should Bay, “We do not want any very deep Talmudicat scholars; let us have good preac , and we do not want any of vour rabbies,” the answer would be , In such @ case the American Jews would tively alienate themselves from the multitude of their coretigionists of other countries. There are religious certificates which must he endorsed by true rabbiea if their validity is to be recognized among Jews. There are marriage certificates, by which a Jewish woman should be able to assert her rights on her husband; there are r lous diverces to permit a divorced woman to get married again, the divorces issued by @ court of legal authority being insudictent for that purpose. The marri: certificate has sometimes a further bearing. Children can sometimes sustain their rights on an inheritance through them alone; and there are Many other things too numerous to be mentioned here. If the [sraelities of this country should set out for themselves without rabbies there is no doubt that their communion with their brethren of other countries would break off. You will perhaps ask, Why 1s there nosuch allena- tion existing now if there are no authorized per- sons to keep the tie together? 1 will answer that there is something of the kind existing already. Let any Jewish woman try to get a husband in Europe after she has been divorced according to the American custom, and she will find out whether any true Israelite will take her. Let the liberal American Jew try intermarriage with a ‘“good’’ Jewish family of Europe, and he will find out the dimeuities that will present themselves, Observe the manner in which a pious Israclite meets a libe- ral coreligionist of his even in this city, and if you know anything of the cordiality of the Jews among themselves you will see that it lacks its true charac- ter here. From the manners of the orthodox brother you Will understand his thoughts—“‘It is all right and well for business, but 1 would not eat at thy table nor would | marry thy daughter, Thou art a brother in faith, but I cannot practically recognize thee as such if thou dost not show it by actions.’ Alas, there {3 a breach already! and if you go on with (oe humbug rabbies and impostor authorities it will widen and widen til uniting again will be impossible, Itis more the duty of reform than of orthodox congregations to have true rabbes at their heads if they sincerely desire to keep together with their brethren. A reform rabbi ought to be the better versed in all branches of Jewish lore, inasmuch as he is looked upon to outroot many absurdities that have taken root in our religious custums, and to establish new, wholesome principles in their stead, both of which he mnst do on good authority, if he wants to be listened to. The reasons, “civilization, rogress,”’ &c., will not work their way into the eart of their brethren if they are not sustained by sound theological proofs. This work ts twice as hard, and requires much more skill and knowledge than what is required of an orthodox rabbi, who sticks to the letter of his books only. The resolu- tions adopted by the Rabbinical Conference of Phil- adclphia sound their way into a Hebrew periodical in Kurope, and though they have not made the mark that would be desired their adoption alone is sufficient to prove that their nature was not averse to the Hebrew reader. So also was the case with a sketch of the history of the congrega- tion “Emanuei” of this city, which plainly illus- trated the progressive Spirit of that congregation, Just let any Hebrew writer—and 1 understand that there are many here who pride themselves of such abilities—try to send a synopsis of the resolutions adopted by the so-called Rabbinical Conference of Cincinnati, or give something of the progro*sive history of the congregation B’nal Jeshurun (Serie fourth street), and you will see how it weald take with the ucbrew reading public, What I wish to prove is that there are no true rabbies here to instruct the American Jewish youth in the principles of their religion or to inspire them with a desire to study them; consequently, there are no students for a Jewish theological semi- nary, which is the reason why such an institution cannot flourish here. Yours, very trae ie. Ministerial Movements, Changes, &c. METHODIST. Dr. Thomas E. Bond, of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, is critically sick at his home in Harford, Md, The Rev. E. Burton, a Methodist minister from England, is on a visit to this country. He preached recently in tne churches in New Orleans, and the religious papers speak very pleas- ingly of him. A great temperance mass meet- ing is announced to be held at Pitman Grove camp ground on August 20. The Calvert Circuit Baltimore Conference Camp, held near Prince Frederick, Md., was @ success. Nearly one hundred souis professed faith in Christ. Rev. Messrs. Wheeler, Lightbourne and Ward officiated onSunday. Rey. Dr. Slicer returned to Baltimore of this his first camp meeting for the season. The Trustees and Visitors of Asbury University, Indian- apolis, Ind., have elected Rev. Reuben Andrus, D. D., president in place of Bishop Bowman and Professor Patterson McNutt was chosen to fill the chair of mathematics vice Rev. Professor Locke, D. D., re- signed. Dr. Andrus is pastor of Meridian street church at Indfanopolls, and was formerly connected with the Illinois Wesleyan University. He has not yet accepted, Mr. McNutt ts a graduate of the Uni- versity. The Boston Preachers’ meeting adjourned over last Monday until the first Monday in Septem- ber. Arevivalis progressing in Friendship, Me., and the pastor, Rev. N. Webb, has recently baptized twelve persons. The corner stone of a new church, to be erected in North Adams, Mass, was laid with appropriate exercises on the Ist inst. Acommodious and convenient house is being completed in Newark sweet singer of Israel. ‘The work thus far has been been raised and commented upon. The world is | Wholly at the expense of Oliver Reeves, Esq., of | wondering why the American Israelites fail in this | Franklin street church. The brethren on the Phil- point, which {s of so great importance to the main. | ipsburg Hill, N.J., William tenance of their creed. A “Maimonides College” | ‘at the growth of the population and of Methodism which has been established is ina state of decay, | 4round them demands increased accommodations and, if] am correctly informed, Revs. Drs, Adler and Einhorn endeavored some years ago to estab- lish or sustain such aseminary, and afund has been | corner stone is to be Jatd for Methodist services, are putting up @ beautiful building, 30x45, to be called Wesley Chapel. The this afternoon. The appropriated by the congregation “Emanuel” of | Church at Ashford, N. ¥., Rey. J. H. Lent, pastor, this city tothatend, But the fund ts accumulating interest without being used for the purpose. having been repaired will be reopened to-day. Rev. Dr. Curry, editor of the Christian Advocate and There is a clew to ail these astonishing facts, A | Journal, will pr:ach this morning. The Rev. J. D. seminary cannot exist without pupils and without other in this country. The first have been hinted about ithere. The last—namely, professors of Jew- ish theology—have not beem mentioned yet, and I RECUeey to give my opinion about it at the start, true dovtors of Jewish theology or rabbies here. know only three of the last in this city, viz. D. Einhorn, 8. Ad! Fast Broad wa; 1 philology or Germal Peake s wots heiden Rech- fen''—oF even doctors of thelr own make ; in short, sham and humbug. Such is the case, aud that the world should know of it. ‘The imposition in this line ig so great that none else but a good Jewish scholar can understand tt. { | | | It arises from the difference between a Jewish rabbi | Near t ‘turer, and which ts almost entirely | camp meetin, and a Jewish te | unknown to th orld in general. Anybody can and may be a lecturer in Israel. If one knows the Kible ard las the gift of explaining what he knows he may lecture on the Bible; tf he kuows more he may lecture on what he knows. The best lecturer is not required to know more than the bellelettristic | parts of the Hebrew literature, for his arguments may be questioned and abvegated by any one; lie Gurst not decide in any matter of rellgious impor- tance, and his words are of ho authority whatever. “ Lecturers’ explanations” have aiways been a b} sation ‘a lecturer's explanation” is the civil sub- stitute of ‘a professional foolishness." Not so is the case witha rabbl. A rabbt must be ordained by thr putation, he must stand a Le examination on some of the most complicated religious or juris- dictional questions, and must be a perfect master of Taimudical literature, He must know all decisions the last part of the code of latest authority, called “Choshen Mishpat.” There are dinerences tn the opinions of some Taimudical commentators as well as among the greatest compilers of the Talmudical jaws, as Alphasi, Asheri, Maimonides and many others. The ravbi must be able to decide between these authorities if any question on which they | differ comes up before him, As models of such de- cisions there 18 an immense namber of books called “Shavigth Usbuboth.” 9 questions gad answers, here are, positively, no professors of Jewish entleman and od scholar. theology in this country, and there are very bee! | ge a ® Eyed scholar, i—Dra, | Al ; ’ ler and Rabbi M. Abrensohn, of ; of Rev. William Taylor, of California, who com- | All the others are eitler doctors of | menced to preach in Uowbay, india, several months itis time | Brown having obtained a home for his children in professors, and there is neither the one nor the | ‘Wis country, now finds the way clear to return to missionary service in India. Professor W. H. Crog- atin the HexaLp and there is no use of speaking man, of Claflin University, South Carolina, has been spending some time among his old friends in New England, He is colored, vut is a very fine-looking The Denville (N. J.) camp meeting will commence on next Tuesday, ust 13, and will continue ten days. The labors ago, lave resulted in the organization of eleven | classes, With an actual membership of about one hundred and fifty, This Is remarkable, considering that his sermons ha ove repreached by an in- terpreter. Key. Dr. E, Sehon, of the Methodist Ep! yi Church South, 1s in Clarksburg, W. Ve. hat place the doctor was converted at a fifty years ago. He visited the spot and inet his old class leader and one or two friends who were converted at the same meetti ‘The Methodists of Wisconsin, tn convention at Mavison, have expressed an mutive opinion om the question of opening the pit to women, and one of the principal speakers, Rev. Dr. Fellows, Super- intendent of Public Instruction, has advocated a | modification of the system of itinerancy, so that from the Tanaic code called “Mishnel” down to | the relations between a pastor and his congrega- tion may be continued as long as they are mutually satisfactory. President Lupton, accompanied vy word among Israelites, 0 that in common conver- | Dr. Wadsworth, Visited Baltimore last week, en | route for Boston. Dr. Lupton has been elected President of the Alabama University, located at Tuscaloosa. Rey. G. Cuminins, pastor of Salem, of four ravbtes of established re- | near Philadeiphia, has just returned from @ tour through [linvis and lowa, He reports Meti- odism strong and prosperous in those great States. Rev. Dr. Cook, of Philadelphia, had a paralytic stroke last week while attending the camp meeting at Chester Heights, Pa. He Is re- covering slowly. The Kev, Peter Cartwright, D.D,, has made no permancnt improvement in health of late. His speech and sight are defective from the effect of the disease, but not from any loss of men- tal power, His words, when yes together, indicate ag much of wisdom as ever, The Methodist bishops are slow in taking up their residences in the places assigned to them by the last General Conference ; hence Dr. W. H. Hunter, a prestding elder of Cen- tral ilinolg and @ delegate, calls for an order from on Thursday last, greatly delighted with the result | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST HI,, 1872.—TRIP | | for the Rev. James O. Rogers, widely known as the | caries, pastor, feeling | | to $19,000, without including some $12,000 recently | | which, when completed, the General Conference that shall make it [mpera- tive, Bishop Peck has mrlvien, to his California friends to say that sickness and connection with educational interests here, which would be tm- rilled were he to leave them suddenly, have kept jim back to this time, but he has no desire or inten- tion of evading the law of the Church and ho; next year to locate himself permanently in Fran . Rev. J. H. Beale, of the East Maine Conference, has been transferred to the New York Conference and stationed at Bloomfield, Sonn. Richmond, Me. it-was largeyy attonded and. very ichmo le, atten successful. {n Kast Elm vi @ new church has been organized, and the revival interest is steadily ressing—Kev. George Wells, pastor. uthern fred jodism 1s prospering in Texas. Revivals are tn greag, new houses of worship being erected, and he people generally wide awake in their Master's service. Tyler mission has been blessed with a lorious revival, and up to the latest dates ninety- five had been converted and seventy-six added to the Ohurch. Methodism is increasing at most of the points within the bounds of the Florida Conference. At one appointment, on Columbia cir- cuit, there had recently been an accession of forty- three members. The church at Dawson, Ga., has had an accession of twenty-cight members. Rev. R. B, Crawford reports @ revival at Jefferson, Alabama Conference, the results of which were seventy-six accessions and some twenty- -five conversions. ‘he Pittsburg eg ot of the Methodist Protestant Church will hold its next annual session at Beaver Falls, Pa., commencing on Wednesday, September 4. Rev. H. Palmer is President. ‘The Board of Pubil- cation of the Methodist Protestant Church have rented @ spacious iy iy Re Pittsburg, Pa., for the or or Kt « ae {hired Cede new pul agent Vv, James Robinson, has entered upon is duties. ‘More than halt of all the evangelical church members in the State of Wisconsin are Methodists. They have 358 church¢ valued at $1,162,870; 190 parsonages, valued al 182,250 ; and college property worth $170,000, ey have also 335 travelling preachers, 369 local, 30,021 members, 596 Sunday schools and 42,418 scholars. meetings will be opened or con- tinued this week in Crisfleld Station, Del.; at Mil- ford, Conn. ; at t Wesley Grove, near Baltimor at Merrick, L. 1.; at Sing Sing; ‘at Delaware Water. Ga Pa.; 01 Sandy Spring circuit, N. Y.; at Hinkle’ Pa., and at Benton’s Woods, near Middle! Va.; also at Castile, N. Y.; at Black's Woods, ech Anneand Kent circuits; Md.; at Emory Grove, on the Western Maryland Rafroad, one hour and twenty minutes! ride from Baltimore; and in Pitt- man Grove, near Philadelphia. PRESBYTERIAN. There are in Buffalo eight Presbyterian churches to a population of 150,000, and eight in Rochester toa laieerreey ot 65,000, From the beginning re- vivals have taken a deeper hold on Rochester than on Butfalo, and at this time there are 3,279 church members in the Rochester Presbyterian churches to 2,478 in Buffalo. Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., arrived in the Adriatic on Saturday evening last, rene, refreshed in body and spirit by his toreign ar, Which in England, Scotland and Ireland had almost the form of an ovation. Dr. Cuyler, as a representative of the American Qhurch and of American interests, has rendered a most valuable service abroad in his public addresses and in his private conferences with men of mark, both in Church and State. Rev. Dr. Charles Sturges, D. D,, has resigned his charge of the church of Mid- dletown, L. I, and is now in this city. Rev, L. D. Calkins, of Muncy, Pa. has declined the call of the North Presbyterian church, Washington city. Rev. H. N. Millerd, m_ conse- quence of impaired health, has resigned the pas- toral charge of the church at Holland Patent and removed to Utica, N. Y. Mossy Creek, Va., recentl; unanimously called Rev, 3. J. Love, of Mlasissipp! Tn 1857 the ibytery of Eastern Texas had jour ministers at work within its bounds, and now it has twelve among twenty-eight churches, These are fully employed. One of them serves four churches regularly, and occasionally visits two others, riding on horseback at least two hundred miles per month, Another preaches to seven diferent congregations every month, An in- teresting religious revival is reported in War- ren chapel, Mobile, which has been in progress now eight weeks, and has resulted in over ninety persons presenting themselves for prayers, of whom twenty five have already joined or are soon to join the Church. A revival is also reported in the First Presbyterian Church in Clinton, Mo., where at last communion sixteen united with the Church. The Rev. Mr. Atwater, of Princeton, N. J., has received a call to be pastor of the Presby- terian church, Montgomery, Orange county. Rev. William M. Robinson is supplying the Providence church, Allegheny city, from which Rey. I. V. Cel- lars retired on account of ill health, Rev. W. 1. Brugh has removed from Hayesville, Ohio, to But- ler, Pa., and become principal of the Witherspoon Institute in the latter place. Rev. John R, Dundas, D. D,, ofthe Presbytery of Mahoning, has engaged to supply, for a time, the Presbyterian church of New Salem, prey eery or Hallseneny. Rev, W, O. John- stone, D.D., of Philadelphia, tas declined the call extended to him by the Sixth avenue and Twenty- second street church, New York. Dr. H, A, Nelson, of Lane Seminary, having concluded his pulpit engagement in Brooklyn, und spent afew days at the seasiore, now goes to Auburn for a short time. Rey, Oliver Crane, D, D., who was a missionary of the American board in ‘Lurkey some years ago, and more recently pastor of the Presbyterian Chi in Carbondale, Va., has gone to revisit the scenes of his missionary labors and make a tour of the Holy Land, A new house of worship, for the First church of Steubenville, Ohio, was dedicated last Sunday. The Rev. H. A. Ketchim has left the Presbyterian ehurch at New Riehmond, 0., and gone to assist Rev. E. P. Pratt, D. D., to organize a new church at Portsmouth, O. The Rev. Mr. McCurdy has declined the call of the.East Front Street “Presbyterian church, Kingston, N. Y. The Rey. Rufus W. Clark, D. D., of Albany, is supplying Dr. Adams’ pulpit in this city for the present. Rev. H. V. D. Nevins, of Peoria, INl., has received the title of D. D. from Cen- | tre College, Ky. Rev. W. Howell Buchanan has declined the call to the Presbyteri Washington, Mo. The United Pr terian church, corner of Fifth and Locust streets, St. Louis, Mo., was sold at auction a few wecks ago, ior the hand- some sum of $115,000, and the congregation have now bougiit a lot up town, where they contemplate building a new church. The new Presbyterian churen of Bedford, Westchester county, N. Y. will be dedicated to the worship of Almighty God on Thursday, the 15th of August. Rev. Mr. Dunn’s church, Boston, will probably be obliged to build @ new edifice, owing to the street widening in front of their present house. Key. Dr. Robert Patterson, pastor of the Jefferson Park Presby- terian church of Chicago. has been absent on an extended European tour. On his return his church gave hima cordial reception and the youn, Ra le presented him a gold-headed cane. kev. J. y. Hough, of Jackson, Mich., and H, L. Hubbell, of Ann Arbor, Mich., have been invited by the Ameri- can Board to join Rey, W. 5. Alexander, of Kacine, | Wis., in a mission to the South of Europe. It 1s pro- sed to establish a theological school lor the train- ing of native teachers, ‘v. Dr. W. H. Goodrich, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Cleveland, Ohio, ts going abroad with his family in pursuit of health, and expects to be absent a year or longer. Rev. H. C. Haydn, formeriy of Painesville, has ac- cepted a call to the vacant pulpit. Rev. G. M. Spar- rove, of Murrysville, Pa., lias received a call from Emsworth church, resbytery of Alleghany. The Rev. Dr, Hogarih, of Detroit, icl)., bas been elected president of Olivet College, in place of Dr. N. J, Morrison, resigned. The Fev. E.G, Mincrs, of Geneva, Wis., preached at the Eliot church, and Rey. Dr. D, A. Wallace, of Iilinots, at the First Presbyterian church of Boston last Sabbath. The Rey. 8. R. Galbraith, formerly pastor of @ Presbyterian church in Sterling, N. Y., and who succeeded Rev. Dr, Dodds in Latakia, Syria, as missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian Chureh, has now followed him to his eternal reward. The Second Presbyterian church, souisville, Ky., Rev. Dr.*Robinson, pastor, employs the envelope system LE SHEET. itor. During the past twenty ra the Baptist Bite and Publication Soci >a circulated 41,160 volumes the Soriptures, 5,975,238 pages of tracts, and has bad 76,594 sermons and ad- dresses ‘delivered ; 600, 244 families were vietted by its agents, 13,616 of whom were supplied with Bibles. Rev. Dr. E. T. Skinner has left Columbus and goue to Athens, Ga; Rev. J. N. Tolman has resigned his pastorate at Fabius, N. Y., and gone to Bal- durnaville, N. ¥.; Rev. P. A. Maran, of Rochester, has removed to Waverley, 0.; Rev. E. M. Stone has left Painesville, 0., and commenced his labors in Erie, Pa. A Baptist church, numbering sixteen | Members, has been organized in Salt Lake City, the heart of Mormonism. | Rev. E. W. Daniels has a his ite of Firat Baptist Church in esville, O, Rev. J. D. Cole has removed from Atlanta, Ga., to Lockport, Ill. The Baptist About 20,000°soholarg, Baden corps of Deuweon. 600 01 8 C01 we and 600 teache 7. Dt. Rontcup, of Chicago Theol minary, now in Europe, urchin jana) was nize months with Moventeen members. It has now forty-six. Samuel Cornelius is the pas- tor. A new Baptist church building in Lafayette, Ind., will be dedicated about the middle of nex! month. The house will coat 000; Rev, R. W. Pearson, pastor, Rev, George W. ‘aton, D. D.,. LL. D., who was for forty years connected with the Madison University (of which he was for twelve years President), and a distin; ed pulpit orator of the Baptist denomination, died at his residence, Wood- land Height, Hamilton, -N. Y., August 3, Jonathan Wade, D. D., the senior missionary of the Mission- ary Union, died at the house of Dr. Binney, in Ran- on, on wena the 10th of June. The First aptist church in Worcester, Mass., has been blessed with a glorious revival. Forty-seven have already been baptized. The work began with the labora of Mr. Earle, the evangelist, and the meetings. are still large and well sustained. Rabbi Yager, of tne Jewish synago; im Mobile Nas lately been con- verted and has jof{ned'a Baptist church. _ It is said that the conversion was not the result of proseiy- tism; but that the Rabbi was convinced by reading the New Testament privateyy, His mother has dis- owned him, and the Jews of Mobile are very bitter thim. The thirteen years’ ministry of Kev. ris, of Hoboken, had a pleasant close last Sabbath. ’ He goes to Westchester, Pa., ‘to take charge of a church there. m PISCOPALIAN. Rev. William Menke, who has been several years a student in the American College at Rome, will soon return to Ohio, his native State, and oitictate in Holy Trinity church, Cincinnati, a8 assistant of Rey. Mr. Albrinck. The Bishop of Louisiana tells in his address of a parish 80 run down that no male communicant was left even to read the communion service, and he says:—‘Under these circumstances I was asked if a lady could perform this duty; for, with a constancy unparalleled, this little congr: ee tion had never remitted the habit of assembiing for divine worship. My answer was given to this effect :—If it were nothing inconsistent for a woman to lead the music of the church her modesty ought not to be offended to retain her seat in the midst of the congregation and lead in the other parts of the church service.” In answer to some unfavora- ble comments on Bishop Mclivaine’s participation in the recent presentation of an alms in by Ameri- can to English Episcopalians without his episcopal robes, the Bishop has written to say that he went in his usual dress to witness the ceremonial, not expecting to take part in it, when the Secretary of the BA ora nha Society invited him to the room in which the bishops and members of the convocation were assembled. Here the Archbishop of Canter- bare and Bishop Selwyn asked him take part with the latterin the presentation. “It was in vain,” says Bishop Mclivaine, “that I pleaded my robeless condition. If they aid not consider that a sufficient objection, it was not for me to stand upon it; but it was a little awkward.” The Rev. J. Carter, Vicar of Christ church, Stratford, Englan displays novelty, if not ingenuity, in doing good. Mr. Carter's plan isto issue sound, Scriptural, Protestant and constitutional articles weekly in thirty-eight mewspapers, which are supposed to have two millions of readers weekly. These insertions have to be paid for as advertisements, the cost up to t! time bein £650, So satisiied is Mr. Carter with the good al- ready accomplished that he is anxious to insert the articles in 500 papers. Bishop Whitchead’s little scheme did not work. The three or four men who intruded themselves into Christ church, Chicago, in order to get Mr. Cheney dismissed have had their labor for their pains, and will have to set down their expenses to the side of loss. The Court has decided that the secular law sustains the parish and Mr. Cheney, Bishop Whitehead and the eccle- slastical courts to the contrary notwithstanding. Judge Williams has overruled the demurrer filed by the defendants, and retused to grant a temporary injunction restraining the vestrymen from divert- ing the tunds of the parish to the support of the de- posed rector. Dr. Cheney, pretty well exhausted with this fight and with his ecclesiastical labors, will now take a vacation trip to Europe. During the past thirteen years Rev. Frederick Sill has labored assiduously and alone in St. Ambrose church, Amity street, with the following results :—Bap- tisms, 1,476; confirmations, 457; communicants re $21; marriages, $14; alms and offerings, 20, ROMAN CATHOLIC, ~ It is asserted that the Cardinals of the Vatican, in accordance with the secret bull issued by Pius IX. in 1870, have see agreed upon the person of his successor, and that Cardinal Patrizzi will be precaution Pope as soon as Pius IX. has breathed ig last. Since the Supreme Court decided against the right of Father Stack, of Williamsport, P’a., to continue as priest in opposition to Bishop O'Hara's excommunication, and also inst the right of the congregation to hold the church property, the members who side with Father Stack have resolved to organize an independent Catholic congregation and build a church. This, we presume, will have to be an anti-infallible or ‘Old Catholic” church, and, if so, will be the first of its kind in America. The statistics of the Society for the Propa- tion of the Faith show the great progress it has made during haif acentury, It had in 1822 6 bishops, 27 missioners, 135 native priests, 250,0cu Christians; in 1872 23 bishops, 440 missioners, 420 native priests, 700,000 Christians. In fifty years the society's missions have increased from five to twenty-four. Moreover, at the Seminary in Paris there are: 1 superior, 11 directors and 120 pupils. At the General College of the Pulo-Penang there are: 1 superior, 6 directors and 132 pupils, Right Ri Bishop O'Reilly, of the diocese of Springfield, Mass., sailed for Europe on the 27th ult. in the City of Brussels, for the benefit of his health, In the bishop’s absence, Very Rev. Patrick Healy, of Chicopee, will have charge of the counties of Hampden, Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin, and Very Rev. John J. Power of Worcester county. The Italian government is experiencing great diMculty in the sale of church property. The total amount of the values of ecclesiastical property already sold and to be sold in Italy is 600,000,000 francs. At first the proceeds of the various sales were very favor- able to the government. Jn 1868, the sum entered in the Treasury, for the sale of church property, amounted to 219,808,775 francs. Asit was the first year of the sales a number of Jews and foreign Speculators came forward ana a once what they wanted, but since 1868 the sales have diminished visibly; 80 much so that in the three years, 1569, 1870, 1871, the total obtained was only 124,792,006 franes, so that whereas at first. the returns were be hy 000 of francs ye now only 3, ,000. Mar. Nardi has presented the stim of 24,000 francs to the Pope, being the re- sult of a recent subscription coliected in Milan by the Osservator Cattotico, the well known Catnoli es of that city, At Cincinnati on the 4t nst., 800 German Catholicg Mi & Meeting, and pissed resolutions of mdignation at the éxpulsion of the Jesuits from Germany. The Catholics of Clinton, Mass., are about to erect a new church, costing $100,000, The Roman Catholics of Water- ville, Me., will erect a church costing $20,000, The | Manchester (England) Examiner records the death successfully. Last year the collections amounted | subscribed to lay the foundations of a new church, \, Will cost $60,000, Rev. Cephas Purnett and wife, who have been engaged in’ missionary service in Rurmah for some forty years past, and who haye been on a visit to this country, sailed for Giasgow on Satur ay, 3d inst., on their return to Rangoon, :Burmah, The Scotch Presbyterian church at Argyle, N. Y., are about to build a new church edifice. Its pastor, Rey. T. C, Haston, received eighteen to its membership at its last communion. Kev. Dr, Pat- terson, of the Second Presbyterian church of Chi- cago, is seeking in New York, Philadelphia and othern Eastern cities to replace his library de- stroyed by the great fire in that city. A Presbyte- rian church for some years existed beside a Congre- gational church in Sauk Centre, Iowa. Both were emall and obliged to seek aid from abroad. Re- cently a committee of the Presbytery of St. Paul has advised the Presbyterian church to surrender its organization and give the field to the Congrega- Uonalists and to unite with them. They have done so, The denth of Kev, Matthew Allison, of Mimin, Penn., in his seventy-eighth year, is announced, He was born and educated in Scotland, and served as a pastor in that country twenty-seven years, and apt years more ogres in the ministry ere, BAPTIST, The Board of Directors of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary have decided to locate that institution in Louisville, Ky. Competition for lova- tion was very active between Atlanta, at tanooga and Nashville. The great increas ap- Usts in America since 1790 is shown in the denomi- national statistics published, from which It appears that in 1790 there were but 868 Baptist churches, 1,132 ministers and 64,975 members in the country. This year the numbers are 18,37 churches, 12,023 ministers and 1,459,101 menibers. Allowing one member to represent four foliowers the total num- ber of Baptists in the United States is about five onthe nine hundred and fifty-six tlousand, mon, who officiated m Boston puipits last Sunday were Rev. George F. Pentecost, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at the the distinguished preachers from abroad | Warren Avenne Baptist church; Rev. J. H. Castle, | of Philadelphia, at the Clarendon Street Baptist church, and Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, at the Dudley Street baptist church. Rev. J. O. Critchlow, of the University at Lewisburg, eile wher, Bed puipit of the Unton chureh Pittaburg, during the pastor's vacation. The Fifth Church, Philadelphia, have se- cured the eloquent and popular Rev. R. W. Pear- son, of Lafayette, Ind., to supply the pulpit August 11 and 18th. Thirty-one Baptist Churches of Phila- deiphia are connected with the Philadelphia Asso- ciation, nine with the North Philadetphia and two with the Central Union, while four, recently orga- nized, have not yet united with any. The Baptist Church property of Philadelphia is worth over two millions of dollars, exclusive of the Baptist Home and the Baptist Publication Rooms. Six of the | | of the Rignt Rev. William Turner, D. D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, which took place on Saturday, after an illness ot only a few hours’ dura- tion, Dr. Turner was born at Preston on the 25th of September, 1799, 80 that he was in the seventy- third year of his age. missionary priest at Rochdale when quite @ young man. The corner atone of the new Church of St. Vincent de Paul, So Boston, wis laid last Sunday by Right Rev. Bishop Williams. 6 aero on th occasion was delivered by Key. Fathér Gross, of the Redemptorist Order. The late bazaar in Buston, in aid of the Home for Destitute Catholic Children, netted $3,759. On Monday evening @ committee from the parishioners of St. Teresa’s Roman Catho- lic church, corner of Rutgers and Henry streets (of which Kev. James Boyce is pastor), waited upon Father sent at the pastoral residence and pre- sented him with a check for $1,300, a8 a tribute of their respect and esteem, dress was delivered by Mr. Daniel Sweeny. McCauley responded. The reverend gentleman is about to leave this city to take charge of the parish of Montgomery, in Urange county; and hence this testimonial on the part of his many friends, who regret their early separation. MISCELLANEOUS. The American Board has appointed Rev. E. A. Adams, of Manchester, Conn., YO act + ary in Papal lands, and ne Nas accepted pointment, and will sail for Austria with bis bape October, Some large town will be selected an 6 other missionaries located there with him. One of these is Kev. A. W. Clark, of Gilead. Mr. Adams is a fine scholar and already familiar with the German language. The death of Rev. R. R. Gurley, D. D., Honorary Secretary of the American Father the ap- Colonization Society, has been announced by tele. | graph. Dr. Guriey was sent as government commissioner and missionary to Liberia in 1824, and did much to establish that republic, His age was seventy-five years. Rev. J. B, Moore, of Springfield, Mass,, a man of great worth and prom- ise, died at Southampton, England, last week. He was @ native of Concord, N. H.,. and a Unitarian pastor. Rev, Robert Laird Coilier, of Chicago, | Phage to large congregations at King’s cha) ly Boston, last Sunday morning, and at the hall ofthe Christian Union in the evening. Rev. Dr, Cordner arrived in New York by the Cunard steamer Cuba on Wednesday last. He went at once to join his family at Rye Beach, N. H., and intends to re- turn to Montreal early in September. Tue man gers of the Hebrew Home for the Aged are prepar- ing for a grand festival, to come off in October, to raise funds for the institution. Both sexes will be accommodated in the Home. During the past month 116 patients were treated in Mount Sinat Hospital, of whom sixty were treated gratuitously. ‘The datly average of patients indoor was fifty-seven and out of doors forty-four. During the past year twenty-four new churches were added to the Re- formed (Dutch) denomination, making the whole number 401, There were received during she year 111 persons on confession of faith and 2,255 on oer- Baptist churches in Philadeipia are now without a | tidcate. ‘There was raised for congregational vur- bought at | er month, they | He commenced his life as a | The presentation ad- | misston- | pees $4 875 72. The congregation of the Reformed arch rj Lower Walpack, Sussex county, N. J., have laid the corner stone of their new honse worship. The Manchester Hebrew Philanthropic Society has been resuscitated. This is @ very ancient institution, having for ite object the lending of sums from £3 to £10, without intereat poe deserving persons of Jewish faith, Weekly relief is also given to and in- firm coreligionists who are unable to obtain a live- Uhood, The town mission of. Birmingh: i land, has just erected a “cabman’s rest’ in tl place at @ Cost of $350, It contains sitting accom- modations for several men and has a locker for their food. There is also an ratus for cooking. ‘The current expenses of the “cabman’s rest” are to be defrayed by the subscriptions of the drivers who avail themselves of its advantage. Religious and moral books and reading matter will also be supplied to it. Asa means of raising money for the roposed “Congregational House” fn Boston a to be held that city October 21, one or wich wil “bof colisetion’? oa iene graph likenesses of — ever, minister in the United Stat t present with bis signature. These will be placed in albums and the albums will be sold in the by tions and contributions for a sum ranging from to $1,000; the money to help build the house; the albums to be placed in the fire-proof library for all time. The Rev. Silas Farrington, of Philadelphia, writing from Manchester, England, says that “clvil- wation hag never entered the back streets of thas city.” Ho therefore scouts the idea of England sen(ling money to evangelize foreign peoples, while on her own soll are “square miles of life that no creeds or churches or cenatanlty oF any sort hove fet effectually touched.” The Rev, H. L, Grand: ienard hag resigned the pastorate of the Reform church, in Baltimore, and: accepted a call froma French Reformed church in this city. Rev. J. ©. Hauser, pastor of St. John’s Reformed Dutch church in Frederick, Md., will succeed Mr. Grandlicnard tn Baltimore. ‘a. P. W. Shick and Professor papier Pete trying to improve this hot weather bya ussion of aneslogioa! jues- tions at California, Ky. They vegan on the of July, in the presence of a large and respectable audience. The Rev. John Allemany died Ht Ne town, Va., on Faay August 2, aged seventy-two arg... re has & propogition le for inten between the ohued” Bick and the Ger- man Reformed Churches of this county. one barrier only to this union, a! Entettigencer points. that out—waiiiel both sécts hold the ecplberg. Catect in com- mon, the Reformed Datchmén cling also to the canons of the Synod of Dort, framed more than 250 years ago, but for which the German Reformers don’t care a straw. And this small matter is likely to hinder union. Dr. L Stone’s new Congregational church, in San Fran- cisco, has been dedicated and the Ns sold. Seventy pews were sold for $50,492, of which $10,000 was for premiums, Four churches 10 Brooklyn have united their services ta | ugust. These are the Bedford avenue Reformed, the Ross street Presbyterian, the Lee avenue Baptist and the Lee avenue Congregational. One service will be held in each church on successive Sabbaths. This to the pastors is equivalent to three weeks’ vacation each. Rey. 0. E. pagse' has been chosen & mem- ber of the corporation of Yale College, in place of Rev. Mr, Jones, of Southington, deceased. Of the fourteen youl men who graduated lately in Muhlenberg College twelve have the Lutheran min- isti in view, and expect to enter the Philadelphia Seminary in September next. Nineteen of the twenty-five juates of Pennsylvania College have the ministry in view, and all of the class of six graduated Capital University. Rev. Dr. Van Bokkelen has de- clined the invitation to a church in Brook! and will remain at Mount Morris, N. J. ine Lutheran Synod of Virginia will forty-third annual Convention in mencing Thursday evening, A tics of the Synod for the Norwegian Evangelical Lu- theran Church in America show the following condt- tion of the Church cae ceneee ve congregations, 227; arishl one ge, 60,536. ¢9) ed members, 28,4705 baptized, 4,816; ¢oniitimed, 2,086; communed, 93; burials, 1,829; adi ngs, 837; teach- ers of parochial schools, 175. Rev. Char} Ames, who has accepted the call tarian Society of Germantown (Philadelphlay, will sail with his family on the Panama steamship which leaves San Francisvo At The Germantown church will be reopened Septem- ber 1, and Henry W. Brown will be invited to py the pulpit until Mr. Ames arrives, The Rev, T. . Forbush, of Cleveland, Ohio, occupled the pulpit of Rev. Mr. Hale’s church, in Boston, last Sunday. The Third Congregational church of San Francisco is torn witn the question whether Chinamen shall be admitted to members eer 435 8, 38. This is a singular state of to exist in that denomination. At the late Commencement of the Western University, located in Et Pa., the, honorary Hare D. D. ped fer! on the Rev. Augustus Brodhead, oné 0! fhe cotcemed missionaries of the Facey ~ Board in. India, Professor D. ©. Gilman, of Yj College, has been elected President University of signified his acceptance of French Protestant Synod adopted a favor of the independence of churches; that the Protestants are disposed to accept the application of the principle when the State judges it necea- sary, and finally recommend the churches to preparé for this change. Rev. ld k, for Many years pastor Of a Congregational church in Dundee, Scotland, is to supply the Elm place church, Brooklyn, of which the Rey. Henry Powers was recently pastor. Not many years ago an asso- ciation was formed to evangelize Iowa. Out of this grew the Iowa College at Grinnell. This col- lege is now sending missionaries to the forel fala. Instead of the usual address before tl Society of Inquiry at the last commencement there was the ordination, as a foreign missionary, of Mr. George D. Marsh, of the Class of 1867, THE PRUSSIAN JESUITS. The Law and Instructions of the Gere man Parliament and the Federal Coun- cil -Expelling the Society of Jesus and Congregations, &c., from the Confed- eration. (From the Reichs-Anzeiger.] LAW RELATING TO THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. We, William, oy the of God Emperor o Germany, King of Prussia, &c.,in the name of the German empire and with the assent of the Federal Council and Parliament, do order :— First—The Order of the Society of Jesus, also the | orders and monastic congregations aMiliated with the said society, are hereby excluded from the ter- Titory of the German empire. The creation of further establishments ts inter- dicted. The establishments in actual existence | shall be suppressed within a period to be fixed by | the Federal Council, which time shall not exceed | six months. | _Second—The members of the Order of the Socte: of Jesus, or of the orders and congregations afili- ated therewith, shall, if they are foreigners, be ex- elled from the territory of the Confederation; if they are natives they shall be removed to certain districts, or in certain localities, to which, under the interdict, they shall be assigned. Third—The Federal Council will take the neces- sary measures to insure the execution of this law. In faith of which we have signed our hand and aflixed the imperial seal. WILHELM. Prince Bismarck. sx Done at Eas, July 4, 1872. . IPSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE BXECUTION OF THR LAW RELATIVE TO THE ORDBR OF THR SOCLETY OP JEST oe teens a In virtue of paragraph 3 of the law of the 4th of this month, concerning the Order of the Secicty of Jesus, the Federal Council has decided :— First—That the Order of the Society of Jesus be- ing excluded from the German empire, the exercise ofall the functions of their ministry, particalarly in churches and schools, a8 well as the holding of missions, 1s interdicted to the members of order. Second—That the establishments of the Order of | the Society of Jesus shall be suppressed at the latest in six months from the promulgation of this er aaa! ira—That the measures to be taken in each special case in the execution of this law shall be entrusted to the police of the country. For the Chancellor of the | Berris, July 5, 1872, DELBRUCK. cippaiaiablapebineninitessesesal a THE HERALD ON LONG ISLAND, ~»." ~ c (From the Whitestone Herald, Augast 7.) al The New YORK HERALD, ever ready t6 reap free. laurels in the wide field of journalistic enterprise, has laid our village of Whitestone under tribute to | its progressive ideas. About two yearsago, finding | that much valuable information could be given through the columns of the HERALD to ship owners, masters and others associated with shipping inte- | rests, by the publication of reliable marine news, Ne Yep ie Evan- hold its { } such as arrivals, departures, freights, mishaps, dis- | asters, delays, &c., from some eligible point on the shore of Long Isiand Sound, it established a “marine | bureau,” or “ship news office,” connected by tele- | graph with the Henan office in New York, on the dock at Whitestone. A competent superintendent | Was placed in charge, and under his directions men are employed to board every vessel which passes the station. It is their duty to take the name of each vessel and its captain, the port from Whence it sailed and its destination, The men are divided into day and night watches, so that the record is made complete. During the period | named the service has been found to wor! successfally, to which the “Ship News Department’? of the NEw YORK HeaaLp ably testifies. ‘Tho HERALD has now opened its telegraph line for the transaction of generai business between White. stone and New York and established a low schedule of rates, Every facility to merchants and others to communicate promptly with vessels poo to and | from the Sound is promised, and the utmost despatch will be given to general business | Messages. James Gillen, about nineteen years of age, resid. ing in Seventy-seventh street, was brought to the Yorkville Police Court yesterday afternoon for beating his sister in a brutal manner. He sald his sister was in the habit of fing out at night to = nics, and remaining out till late at night, or ratl early in the morning. The mother was called as@ witness, and favored the daughter, in consequence of which Justice Coulter bald him to keep the Doace in $300 ball