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RELIGIOUS. Programme of Church Ser- vices To-Day. Spiritualism, Jesuitism and Judaism Discussed. The Human Constitution a Battle Field * Between Heaven and Hell. Proof of What the Sons of Loyola Have Done for Civilization. Need of the Establishment of a He- brew Theological Seminary. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. Rey, D. Stanton will preach at half-past ten A. M. im the Forty-second street Presbyterian church, ‘west of Broadway. Dr. Deems will preach in the free Church of the Strangers, Mercer street, at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P. M. Rev. Dr. Flagg preaches in the Church of the Resurrection, Fifty-seventh street and Lexington avenue, morning and evening. Rey. Dr, 8. Sabine will oficiate this morning and evening in the Protestant Episcopal ‘Church of the Atonement, Madison avenue and Twenty-cighth street. At eleven A. M. Rev. Abel Thomas, Universalist, will preach in Plimpton Building, Ninth and Stuy- vesant streets, Rev, Mr. Vanderlip preaches morning and even- ing in the Baptist church, West Fifty-third street. At Apollo Hall, Broadway and Twenty-eighth street, Professor Hume will lecture at hall-past ten A. M. and Mr. Anthony Higgins at half-past seven P.M At the little Free Church (Ritualistic) of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-fifth street, this day’y full choral services, with Holy Communion, will be at soverl and half-past ten A. M., with compline (algo choral) at eight P. M. This church, unlike the Low-Church Episcopal edifices, 18 open all Summer. Spiritualism and the Bible. To THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— In a recent issue of your paper “A Bible Spiritu- alist” wishes to know “Why the Lord prohibits, under the most fearful penalties, the consulting with familiar spirits, or even with those who have such spirits,” Or, as I understand him, he, with other Spiritualists, wishes to Know what evil can grow out of an open communion between this and the other world. The question is a fair one, and should be fairly answered. Tho answer I have be- fore given to the world in a more elaborate manner than can be given ina newspaper article; but the importance of the subject, and the influence which Spiritualism is exerting, will forbid the idea of its being too frequently repeated. This will also justify me in requiring more space than is usually given to amoral topic. First a few fundamental! principles. Spiritual mediumship, in whatever form it manl- fests itself, is simply a law of intensity growing out of a peculiar susceptibility to spriritual influx. It may arise from either constitutional conditions or be induced by certain continued habits of life. The human constitution during mundane existence is the only battle field between heaven and hell; and in this contest every individual is compelled to take an active part, so thai he wito 1s not for ts against one or other of the parties—there is no neutral ground. By the freedom of the human will man ts placed ina moral equilibrium between these two contending forces, and the septum which in- terposes between his external consciousness and the contending hosts is gradually absorbed or sud- denly rent according to the aegree of his activity on the one side or the other. It 1s in virtue of this principle that every individual, to a greater or less degree, becomes a medium for alternating the forces of either heaven or hell; and whatever prin- ciple finds access into the natural plane of life goes to make up the general stock of the moral consti- tution of the world, and like every other principle in nature reproduces itself in a geometrical pro- gression. The sources of spiritual influx may be from either heaven or hell; but its ingress into the individual from these two sources is through two direetly op- osite principles of the human constitution, Influx ‘from heaven is through the imteriors, or religious nature, into the exterior; but influx from hell is through the exteriors, or sensual nature, into the interiors, Standing as these do in directly antag- onistic relation to each other, one is opened in the degree as the other is closed, so that each indivi- dual becomes a receptacte of divine influx in the ratio as the exteriors are closed and the interiors are opened; but the hellish influx in the ratio as the exteriors are opened and the tnteyiors are closed. And the only ineans of closing the éxteriors to the ingress of the hells is by keeping the Com- mandments, which consists in suppressing, from religious motives, every disorder of life; but the exteriors are opened and the interiors closed by the habitual violation of their precepts. By closing the external avenues of ingress the Lord descends into the ultimate board of the individual by first casting out every infesting or possessing influence, , setting in order the entire constitution. “if you would enter into life keep the Com- mandments.”” spirits are in possession of such infernal =o: atthe same time hid from mertal view, that y, are capable of deceiving the most wary r ft after truth, To this end they can transform themselves into angels of light; they can personate the Lord, our kindred or any one with whom we may desire to communicate; they can read our thoughts, reveal past and future events; they can periorm such wonders as to astonish the sceptic and bewilder the credulous, Were angels and devils permitted alike to commu- nicate, by what means, then, conld we distinguish between them? ‘This would be impossible, and the door would be thus open for the most terrible im- positions upon mankinds—impositions which could Not fail to ultimate in a complete subversion of ail social order, To avoid such a calamity we are ex- icitly commanded to regard not them that have Familie spirits, neither to seek after wizards to be defiled by them, and are assured that the soul that disregards this precept shall be cut off from among his people. Hence to those who heed the divine injunction there can be no deception, for they know that, as intercourse with familiar spirits is forbid- den, angels cannot occupy forbidden ground, So whatever spirits communicate, be their pre- tences what they may, they are of no higher order than devils, whose unceasing efforts are for the destruction of mankind. An honest man cannot Tob his neighbor, for in the attempt to commit such an outrage he would become a yillain, Neither can an angel commune with mortals in the manner of iamiliar spirits, for in any such attempt to vio- late a divine prohibition he would become a devil. It 1s folly to say that God has not suficiently re- garded the interest of mankind in ths particular, for he has abundantly warned us against the influ- ence of seducing spirits or giving heed to doctrines of devils, Hence whoever does it does it at his peril and in open violation of the divine injunction, | and facts abundantly demonstrate that no vice is more rnicious in its consequences. To become magnetized by spirits is to become charged with the properties of demons. Through the influence of their infernal aura the imagination may be made to teem with all desired images pro- jected into the mind; their ears are opened to soothing and enrapturipg melody; their passions are quickened into newness of life, and their jodgment is made to approve of every sinful im- pulse. All now becomes smooth pees no evil to suppress, no moral to crave that they do not already possess. ie demon well knows how to soothe his medium, producing at will’ pictured scenes of heaven upon the imagination, and pleasing emotions upon the senses. The spiritual clairvoyant and clairaudent whom they have en- slaved are in this condition. Thus charmed and infatuated, no appeals can be made to arouse them from their fearful condition, With them sensation is more than philosophy, passion more than re- ligion. The demon, like the skilful mesmerist, however depraved, can will his subject into a sen- sational rapture and produce the wildest mental hallucination. ‘This continues until the demon secures full possession of his oracle, and then old heathenism becomes re-established and hell has free access to earth, But now comes the change: the demon, instead of soothing his medium, rules with a rod of tron and mounts his new vivtiin and rides him or her into every shameless abomination. Every lawful effort is defeated and every wicked desire is gratified, Having returned to a hew human body —to ail prac- tical intents its own—a@ new career of power now opens before the smooth and subtie Anarch. They Use the brains of thelr mediums as the workshops ORK of the vilest sophistry, their to utter slanders and cursings and their nes to gratify their lusts. They artfully insinuate into the minds of their slaves that they cannot ret a3; that there is no hell to shun, no evil to re and those who have any remaining consciousness of the ex- istence of e ere persuaded that the only way to rid themselves of it is by an unconstrained indul- ence in it, that they may thus exhaust its force. Tose are the deplorable facts demonstrated in wa spiritual circle in the nation Now will = ask wi God has rendered the communication with familiar spirits an offence against morals, or that he should have forvidden this accursed commerce. The great lessons of the Christian Scriptures would fall comparatively pow- erless upon mankind without this prohibition. ‘Those who disregard it throw the Bible overboard, and with it every principle which underlies the moral order of society. Unabashed by the terrible degradation which has befallen them, they boast of their own shame. Stripped of every divine quality which should conjom them to heaven, look! to deviis for inspiration and lust as the best means of its ingress, they hurl from them the only divine code of morals as an unwarrantable restraint upon their passions anda libel upon their inspirations. They tuus yield up their personality as willing agents of devils, so that they become open sewers for the Influx of hell to earth, and witn infinite wisdom the Lord warned us against them, and at the same time ordered that such vile persons should, for the general good of society, be removed from the face of the earth. No one who has critically watched the present spiritual phenomenon and its effects can fail to see the folly of our penal regula- tions in disregarding this injunction, Tam abun- dantly able to show, in more ways than one, the wisdom of divine legislation upon this subject. Magic or Spiritualism paralyzed Egypt, overthrew the Roman Empire, and will hurl the American Republic into the most shameless degradation. Is it not wisdom, therefore, that these connections between the ‘baser passions of man and the lower world should be cut off.and mankind screened from the debauching induence which flows through them? Such was God’s decision, and he is a bold man who will dare to ignore it. My unknown correspondent has a right to as- guine whatever name he pleases; but I must con- fess my inability to discover any important ditter- ence between the appellation of *iible Spiritualist” and Christian Devil. Both are misnomer OBSERVER. tion of Maryland !—Remarkablo of Daniei O'Connell. To THE Eprror oF THE HERALD:— Iperceive that the Heratp, acting in a spirit of juctice, has exposed the tmpolitic and unjust course taken by Prince Bismarck with reference to the Jesuits in Germany. The Prince has carried a measure for the expulsion of the Order from the territory of the Germanic Empire. This is a foolish as wellas a harsh act. It can possibly do no good, and will most certainly redound to the discredit of Bismarck and the German nation. The age of persecution on account of religion is over, When conscience is attacked those in whose persons it has been assailed at once become martyrs, 1am well aware that for the last thirty-five years a cry has been kept up in Englend that if the Jesuits were not expelled from that country public liberty would not be in existence for five minutes. Yet, at this moment, there are plenty of Jesuits in England—the brother of Sir John Coleridge, the Attorney General, 18 @ Jesuit, and a most learned one, too—and public liberty has not ceased to exist, On the contrary, the spirit of liberty, notwithstand- ing the presence of the Jesuits, is strong and active in Great Britain, one of the freest countries in tho world, I do not write this letter for the purpose of defending the Jesuits—they require no defence at my hands—but Tyespectfully ask your permission to correct misrepresentation and remove un- founded prejudices which have been put into active force by well contrived falsehoods against a learned body of men, whose only fault, in the eyes of un- believing and free-thinking men, is that they are true to the cause of their Redeemer, whose holy name the order of Jesuits bear. It is perfectly capable of proof that the Jesuits have done much for the advancement of liberty and civilization, though the very opposite is per- sistently but falsely maintained by those who will not allow themselves to see the truth. The Jesuits have been identified with the freedom and inde- pendence of America. And here is proof of this assertion. Ata meeting held in the city of Water- ford, Ireland, on the 30th of August, 1826, Daniel O'Connell, stating the case of the Cathollcs, and demanding their enfranchisement from the penal code, made use of the following language :— Behold the epitome of the history ot Maryland. When the Presbyterians had power they persecuted Papistsand Prelatists; when the Prelatists secuted Presbyterians and Catholics | were an they persecuted neither Presbyterian nor — Prelatist, nor any but gave periect treedom of, Conscience to Christians of all denommations. | There is one tact untold respecting Catholic liberality in Maryland which I wish had a trumpet loud enough to call oti all England to hear. Who was it advised the liberal law of 16491 Who was it wrote every letter, word and line of that statute? Is England prepared to hear the answer? It was one of that class who have been persecuted and are still calum- hiated, but who,in my Judgment, deserve to be placed, among the benetactors of the human race. It was—hear it, calumny !—it was a Jesult. These are the very words of Daniel O’Comnell, taken down at the moment by the reporter of the London Aforning Herald who attended the meeting specially to give a fulland accurate report of his speech, O'Connell was in favor of the emancipa- tion of the negro from bondage. It would be weil if the American people, who are so intelligent and who read so much, would bear in mind, when they are discussing questions affecting the Church and then our liberty, that it was a member of the Society of Jesus who drew up the liberal public law of Maryland in 1649—a law that protected the con- seience of every citizen of that State, no matter what might be religious opinions, from oppres- sion or Wrong. That good work was the work ofa Jesuit priest; and I appeal to the justice of the HeRALD to publish the fact to the world, so that it may go to mitigate, if anything can mitigate, the hostility of men who work themselves into a fit of religious passion and seem to think that the world coming to an end and public liberty on the brink of destruction because a few Jesuits, Whose mission is to instruct and enlighten youth, are permitted to dwell iu this country, Where, we are told, all men have equal rights. R The Jews: Their Rabbinical College, Their Sabbath and the Herald. To THE Eprron OF THE HERALD:— A recent editorial article in the HERALD upon “Rabbinicai Education” has struck the keynote of a wide and growing sentiment among American | Jews and provoked thought and discussion which roust bring forth good and lasting results, You are quite right, Mr. Editor, in assuming that Jews need more preaching in the vernacular in their synagogues, which were established origi- nally for instructfon, and not merely for prayer, as, according to the Jewish ritual ten males (“min- yan") who have attained nineteen years of age are a quorum competent for religious worship any- where and at any time; consequently the only ob- ject of congregating in large numbers was to hear the law read and expounded, which custom, as we read of in the Bible, is as oid ag the law itself. We of the orfiodox school believe in the neces- sity of retaining the Hebrew language as the medium of conveying our thoughts and expressing our wishes to our Father in Heaven, There are | others who prefer the use of their native tongue interspersed with afew Hebrew sentences; but all agree that religious instruction is essential to the well being of the House of Israci, and the anxious Speech in power they per- Papists; when’ the inquiry comes from all sides—How car the demand | be supplied + We answer by the establishment of a theological seminary upon a br and_ liberal be acquired, combined with a thorough theologic: course of instruction, The means tor this are in large part ready at hand; for, as sugg: | correspondent, “An Israelite,” Mr. Sampson Sim- gon, Who died'some twenty years ago, bequeathed several acres of ground in Yonkers, New York, for precisely this purpose, and why no step has been taken, s0 far as we are aware, by the trustees ap- pointed by the testator, or their successors, to carry out the spirit of the will of the poor Israelite, we fire at loss to understand. The property is very eligibly located, and is now of great value. There is muck more than is needed for ‘the parpose, and, therefore, if after atproper appeal to the public tor aid to erect a suitable building a liberal response be not forthcoming, then we think it would be eml- nently proper for the trustees (if there be no pro- hibition in the will) to apply to the Legis- lature, or any court having competent jurisdic- tion, for leave to sell such surplus part of the grounds as would enable them to erect a building and launch the undertaking fairly into ex- istence. Furtner valuable time should not be lost, ‘The trustees owe a duty to the deceased and the jublic Which must not be longer ignored, and we nope to see them wake from this Rip Van Winkie | nap and be up and ready to supply the much needed want. So much for the Rabbinical College. Now in reply to a part of your article on that sub- moe “pee in your edition of last Sunday, Au- gust 4. Alter taking exception to the views of one of your correspondents, you go on to say “it is be- Heved and reported, however, that the lead- ing Jewish rabbies of this city are in favor of observing the Christian Sabbath instead of their own. as being the only means of keeping their congregations together ‘and their greene respectably filled. They are, un- doubtedly, right, But, then, the Sabbath question comes up and demands a hearing.” In all this you have been misinformed; for we venture to assert, without fear of denial, that there is not a minister of a respectable Jewish congrega- tion in the city of New York that wili subscribe to or undertake to perform a religious somerset of that kind. About a year ago such a motion was made by a member at @ meeting of his congrega- tion in New York; but it was voted down by such an overwhelming majority that whe proposition is basis, wherein a first class classical education can | sted by your | not likely to be made again in a hurry; and, just here, permit us to correct you and others who ap- ply “Sabbath” to Sunday. Sabbath is derived irom the Hebrew word “Shabat,” meaning “to rest,” or “Sheba” (which is said by some to be accidental) meaning “seven.” Now the traditional Sabbath of the J is what co} to the modern Saturdi d dates back from the time God himself de: ted the day as described so ee ies | in the sixteenth ter of Exodus, when the children of Israel subsist npon manna for re | zoue. in the wilderness and were com- mandes ary it every day except the Sabbath, That the ati mae to lay aside for a succeeding ar, except on the day immediately preceding the Sal bath, failed by the substance becoming wormy and offensive, Such testimony as makes it resenaenyy sure that sat 1s the Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, whereas Sunday is the “Lord’s day,” or first day of the week, and has its origin some three hundred years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth, who, a Jew himself, religiously kept the Sabbath of the Jews. ‘urther on you say, “Has the Rpesape fe more affection for one day of the week than another? or is worship on Saturday or Sunday more pleasing to Him than it can be on Monday or Friday? To state the questions is to answer them, and we cannot therefore see wherein we should offend God were we to abolish the present Jewish and Christian Sabbaths and substitute any other of the days of the week for the contemplation of His character and the worship of His name and Godhead.” We have too good an opinion ot you, Mr. Editor, to believe that you seriously entertain su ague ideas of the spirit and letter of the law relatitig to the Sabbath as found in the Bible, and are rather disposed to believe that your object isto “bring out” replies from indignant readers and thus create a@ beneficial excitement in the public mind. Lest, however, you are really in earnest, we will remark that we io not know what reply Christians will make to such “liberal” sentiments as these, but for the Jews permit us to say that the Fourth Commandment of the Deca- logue, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” ts obviously 80 emphatic in contradistinc- tion to a Sabbath day, that there is no room left to choose if we would, Give yoursel: no uneasiness, Mr. Editor, “Ju- daism. will be maintained on this Continent’? and elsewhere, as it has existed in the past 6,000 years of its checkered career, and Jews will continue to read and admire the New York Henaup for the intelligent, liberal and disinterested views of them and all other religious denominations so frequently expressed in its unsectarian columns. SEMI-OCCASIONAL, WASHINGTON, D. C., August 9 1872. Ministerial Movements, Changes, é&c. METHODIST. The new Wabash avenue Methodist church, Chicago, willbe ready for occupancy about the 1st of October, when the congregation will move in then and sit under the ministrations of Rev. J. F. McClelland, Eleven old-fashioned Methodist Prot- estants withdrew recently from a country church because instrumental music was introduced into the Sabbath school, and to be consistent they united with another church tn which are three organs. At the Annual Mission Conterence of Switzerland and Germany, recently held at Zurich, seven preachers were received on trial and six into full connection. ‘The increase of members during the year has been 495 and of Sunday schools 22, with 855 scholars, 80 that the Conference reported 7,955 members and 10,071 Sunday scholars, Alexander Winchell, LL. D., now professor of geology in the University of Michigan, has been elected president of the Syracuse Mcthodist University. The Methodists of South Carolina number sixty thousand communicants. Dr. Long writes from Constantinople that he has returned from a toureof inspection of the Methodist missions in Bulgaria. He says:—“ Passing first to Tultcha, I visited our Russian brethren, who, though few in number, I found making a good wit- ness for Christ. The brethren at Sistof have done and are doing well, considering their position. There is only one other place in Bulgaria where the truth has gained so much of a position as in Sistof, and that is in a mountain station tn the fleld of the American Board.” A new Methodist Episcopal church at Baldwin's, L, I., will be dedicated on Sunday, September \l, by Rev. Bishop Harris, It is proposed to call a special session of the General Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church at Augusta, Ga., to elect new bishops, In consequence of the death of Bishop Vanderhorst, Bishop Miles will have to attend all the confer- ences. A handsome new church at Rutherfurd Park, N. J., 18 in prospect. Bishop Harris will dedicate the lecture room of the new church at Oxford, N. J., on Sunday, Au- gust 25. Rev. Dr. B. F. Crary, late editor of the Central Christian Advocate, has been trans- ferred to the Colorado Conference and appointed presiding elder of Denver district. Rev. ©. E. Fel- ton, pastor of Union ctiurch, St. Louis, has left for a six weeks’ vacation. A fine and commodious brick church has just been completed at Eleventh and Christy avenue, St. Louis, by the African Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Dr. Whiteféather, @ distinguished Indian preacher of the Shawnee Nation, was present at the Philadelphia Preachers’ Meeting last Monday. He addressed the meetng on the condition of the Indian tribes in the great West. Bishop Peck has been suffering much for many weeks past. His friends have been apprehensive of serious results from this illness. He has so far Seat as to admit of his going to Clifton Springs, N.Y. Open air services are held in Jersey City every Sunday le! afternoon, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, at Hamil- ton Park and on the Cunard docks. The Methodist pastors of the city do full duty in these services, and find that their camp meeting training stands them in good service for these occasions. On last Sunday Kev, John Atkinson preached at Hamilton Park, and Rev. R. B. Yard, assisted by a full choir from St. Paul’s church, conducted the service at the docks. Commodore William Voorhts, of the New York Yacht Ciub, has given the Nyack Methodists land and stone whereon and wherewith to build a new church, which they are about to begin at once. They have sold their old church, and have built a beautiful parsonage for their pastor, Rev. 8. B, stooney. BAPTIST, There are 15,000 white and 50,000 colored Baptists in the State of Louisiana. Rey. T. C. Richards has resigned at Downer’s Grove, IL, and proposes to engage in educational work.’ Rev. William. ©. Wilkinson has been elected Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology in Rochester Theological Seminary, N. Y. Mr. Wilkinson graduated trom the University of Rochester in 1857 and from the Seminary in 1859. There are in the State of Missourt fifty-nine Baptist associations, 1,251 churches, 76,016 church members, 846 ministers, 806 Sunday schools, containing 54,508 teachers and scholars, and the money raised and expended during the last finan- cial year by the scholars is $18,346 19. Two-thirds of the churches have hacia schools; there is one minister for every ninety-one church members, and the Baptist membersmp comprises about one-twenty-seventh of the population of the State. Rev. W. ©. Gunn has closed a pleasant | pastorate in Rose, Wayne count; Y., to engage in another department of the ) er’s vineyard. The Rev. E. A. Woods, after a pastorate of five ears, has retired from the Baptist church at Flem- ington, N.J. During his ministry there the people have erected a new house of worship at a cost of $42,000; 160 new members have been added and the Sunday school numbers 295. The church has raised $51,794 and the Sunday school $2,206 during Mr. Wood's pastorate. The sixty-first anniversary of the West Jersey Baptist Association will be held in the Haddonfield Baptist church, commencing Sep- tember 10, Rey. 8. T. Catlin has changed from Osceola Mills to Bangor, La Crosse county, Wis. Rey. L. B. Hibbard has gone from Grafton, Vt., to | South Adams, Mass., and Rev. W. F, Benedict from Broadalbin to Long: Island City, + Where his astoral services Will begin September 1. Rev. C. *. Hull has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church at Beekman, Y Rev. T R. Gaines, of South Carolina, has retired from the Working Christian, as proprietor and editor, to accept the agency of Palmetto Orphan Home. Rev, Arthur Swazey, D. D.. has withdrawn from the editorial chair of the Merior (Baptist), Chicago, which he has filled from the first number of the paper. Rev. J, A. Cham- bliss, of Richmond, Va., has been unanimousl called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Kansas City. Rev. R. W. Pea Ind,, is sy ing the Fifth Baptist church of delphia, 'wellth Baptist church of Philadel- phia have voted to continue their Sabbath services as usual through thesummer. The pulpit will be | supplied during the absence of the pastor, Rev. T. B, Bott. In 1129 the Baptists in North Carolina con- stituted but one out of every 512 of the mhabitants, the large majority being Quakers or adherents to the Church of England. In 1790 the Baptists num- bered 7,000; in 1812, 13,000; in 1845, nearly 79,000; and last year over 100,000, or one to every twelve of! the entire population of the State, Last it 7,000 were added. The Free Will Baptists number 3,300 and the Disciples of the State 3,475, Rev, 0. P. M ks has resi d ev, O. P. Meeks has resigned his pastorage at Lawrenceburg, Ind., and proposes to nish his er on course at Hamilton, Ohio. The Re- formed Presbyterians of the United States have 101 congregations, ninety-one ministers, 8,882 mem- bers, 617 Sabbath school teachers and 4,581 scholars, | Seventy-five per cent of the ministers are in the pastoral work, and their average salary is $1,045 per annum. Thirty congregations are without pas- tors. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage opposes summer vacations on the ns of ministers, because iniquity does not cease in the summer time. Sin never takes @ vacation; the devii never leaves town, he says, But Mr. Talmage has takena vacation; there- fore he is not sin. He has gone out of town; in fact, he has gone to Europe ; therefore he ts not the devil, But Mr. Talmage preaches one thing and practises another. The Golden Age theretore leaves its readers to draw the inference for themselves. Professor Paton, of the Chicago Theological Semi- nary, is at present visiting Bermuda, his native place. Rev, J. 8. Taylor has leit the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland on account of the devision of Synod to tolerate instrumental N. the | | | |W. music in the churches. Rev. E. L. Clark has left the pastorate of the North church, New Haven, and accepted a call to a new Presbyterian church in Harlem, Rev. Charles 8, Dodd has accepted the ‘ion of evangelist of the Presbytery of New rieans, He will labor on the Teché Begon. The largest Presbyterian church building in New York 1s sald to be that of the Rev. ©. 8, Robinson, cor- ner of Fifty-third street and Madison nee It is to be dedicated in November. ry terian church at Montclair, N. J., has increased the salary of Rev. Dr. Berry, its itor, $500, The Second Presbyterian church of je! Rev. Dr. Beadle, pastor, have nearly com: What in many respects fs the most elegant church edifice in that city. It is Gothic, with transepts anc id clearstory, and is most richly decorated he out. ‘The cost is about two hundred ¢1 lara, It will be ready for occupation in October. The monument to Jonathan Edwards, which is to be erected in Stockbridge, is being made in Scot- lana, of Scotch pine’ ‘and will probably be fin- ished the 1st of January next. It is proposed to raise £50,000 for the Indian Mission of the Estab- lished Church of Scotland, in memorial of the late Dr. Norman McLeod, The Presbyveries of South Carolina number 14,264. Dean Stanley is announced t0 preach to-day for an Stan! announ the Rev. A. ik H. ba Se . D., In St. Andrew's church, Edinburg. he Episcopalians of Lo! {sland diocese report 65 resident ministers, churches, 10,519 communicants and 1,602Sunday school teachers and 7,000 scholars. The Rev. James A has accepted the chai of St. Paul's church, Charleston, Il., and Uhrist church, Arcola, and entered upon his duties. The Rev. George W. Dean, Professor of Latin and Greek in Racine Col- lege, has accepted the rectorship of Zion church, Freeport, Il., and will take chal September 1, ‘The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowl- edge, London, with the sanction of the monthly board, has voted the sum of £6,000 “for increasing the nupibes of stogene Ge eR coiTeane as spee as 0 iz . bum- ber of ofivient ly trained teachers in element schools.” It is proposed to distribute £2,1: ofthis sum to seven training colleges for young men on condition that 107 tional students be received within their walls by Christ next, The Episcopalians of North Carolina number 3,300 communicants, The Episco ns of Ohio num- ber:—Parishes, 116; clergy—bishops, 2; P inggs 98; deacons, 6; total, 106; communicants, 9,740; total contributions for the last diocesan year (salaries to clergy excepted), $204,931. Last Sunday Bishop Niles, of New Hampshire, held two services in the Congregational church, Lancaster, and, in the eve- ning at the schoo! house in the “Lost Nation.” He reaches to-day at the old Judge Livermore church, in Holderness, just across the river from Plymouth village. It is the oldest Protestant Episcopal church in the State. Massachusetts has 128 Episco- pal clergymen, 11,706 communicants and 10,817 junday scholars, ‘rhe contributions for the dio- cesan year just closed amount to $222,485, In Kansas there are 28 Episcopal parishes organized and 3 unorganized and 26 ministers, The commu- nicants number 1,018, Sunday scholars and teachers 864; contributions for the year, $9,230. In ‘Texas there are 30 clergymen, 2,085 communicants, 1,002 Sunday scholars and teachers and the annual con- tributions amount to $29,058. CONGREGATIONAL, The Congregational church at Saugerties has been closed during the current month, to give the [ei Rev. J. Danielson, a vacation. Kev. Dr. nkin, of Washington, D. ©., while visiting at Sandy Springs, Md., and riding in a buggy, was thrown out and slightly anjured, His wife, who was with him, had a lip joint dislocated. Rev. J. H. Budd, of this city, because of impaired health, nas tendered his resignation, to take effect October 1, ‘The Congregationalists are building a fine church at Montclair, N. J. It occupies a commanding site on Fullerton avenue, The pastor is Rev. Mr. Brad- ford, Plymouth church, Brooklyn, has been closed for a few Sundays, and during the intervening week days mechanics and workmen have been actively employed in making much-needed repairs and giv- ing the old place a general shining up. The ser- vices, which have been conducted in the lecture room for the past two Sundays, will be conducted to-day in the church, Rev. James ©. Beecher, the junior of the Beecher fumily, officiat- ing. Several Congregational theological stu- dents of Harvard University are improving their vacation, it is said, by serving as waiters at the Long Branch hotels. The first Congregational house | of worship in the State of Alabama has been built and paid for and furnished with a bell and an or- gan, at Marion, within the past year. The church, which is composed mainly of those who were slaves, is small and poor, except in faith, and yet it has contributed $1,500 worth of labor toward its new edifice in a single year. The third Congregational church of San Francisco are divided upon the pro- priety of admitting to membership several China- men who have lately applied. The pastor, Rev. W. C. Pond, is in tavor of taking John into the fold, and as a feeler has tendered his resignation unless they are admitted. It has not been accepted, and the probability is that the church will either agree to receive the Chinamen or that the malcontents will withdraw and leave the way clear for others to act. It is surprising how tenaciously religious and poli- tical prejudices cling to churches and communities, HEFORMED. Rev. E. Miller, formerly of Berne, has been called to the churches of Breakabin and Blenheim, N.Y. The Rev. #. E. Schlieder has been called to Forreston, Ill. Rey. Alfred EB. Myers, of Brooklyn, has returned to New Rochelle, N. Y., after an ab- sence ofa yearin Europe, Rev, A. R. Thompson, of this city, is preaching to large audiences and do- ing much good in San Francisco. The North Classis of Long Island has dissolved the pastoral relation of the Rev. E. J. Fairchild with the Flushing Re- formed church, to take effect September 1. During the absence of the Rev. D, N. Vandeveer, of the First Reformed church, Kingston, N. Y., the pulpit will be occupied by Kev: John Steele, of Newark, N. J. The Presbyterians and Re- formed Dutch worship together in Freehold, N. J., during the summer vacation of their pastors. Reformed church was organized Wednesday even- ing, July 10, on Jersey City Heights, Jersey City. The location is one of promise, on Central avenue, in a central position, and commanding a fine view of New York city and bay. A new Reformed church is in course of erection at Sag Harbor. The Rev. J. 8. Heffernan is the pastor. Christ cnureh (Re- formed), Woodside, N. J., Rev. Dr. McAuley, pas- tor, are putting up a new house of worship for themselves. ‘The Rev. Mr. Stewart, pastor of Hope church, Holland City, Mich., is now at the East, seeking aid to rebuild their house of worship, which was burned last October. LUTHERAN. Rev. G. A. Struntz, of Gilberts, Pa., has accepted @ unanimous call tothe charge at Mauch Chunk, Carbon county, Pa., and enters upon his new field of labor this week, An English Lutheran church is about to be organized in Knoxville, Tenn., by Rev. J. K. Hancher. Rev. J. S. Heilig, late of Jetferson- town, Ky., has accepted & call from the Lutheran go gre at Marklesburg, “Huntingdon county, Pa. The Lexington street Lutheran church at Balti- more, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. McCron, has extended a call to Rev. J. H. Barclay, pastor of ‘St. Paul’s Lutheran church, at Easton, Pa. Rev. 8, A. Hedges has resigned the Bloomtield charge, Perry county, Pa., and accepted a call from the charge at York Springs, Adams county, Pa., and will enter bo hed duties as pastor there on the Ist of Octo- er next. ROMAN CATHOLIC. A “Union of German Catholics” has been formed to support the Church in its confict with the Ger- man Empire. An appeal has been issued to all ood Catholics for aid, in which it is assumed that in Germany a systematic “persecution of tne Church” has begun, which is to be carried on, as the papers hostile tothe Church maintain, until it is destroyed. According to Rev. George Herbert Curtis, in his Bampton lectures, the Catholics of England in 1854 numbered five per cent of: the whole population, while in 1865 the number was but four and two-thirds per cent. A despatch from Constantinople says that the three schismatic Ar- menian Bishops, Padiaron, Vactosian and Kupelian, have all been stricken with apoplexy within the space of twenty days, and that the two former are dead, while the third, the new schismatic patriarch, has received the last sacraments. This news, says the New York 7abiet, coming immediately after the announcement of the death of Juarez by the same awful stroke ought to make the enemies of God's Church and the Spacey of His people pause and think while time is yet given them. God is patient, but He is terrible in His wrath, The Jesuits are al- ready leaving Prussia in great numbers. Some of them intend to settle in Prague, where they have purchased an old convent. Another accusstion has been brought against the Jesuits. M.. Alexander Weill has addressed @ communication to the French Jewish papers on the subject of the Roumanian Jews, in which he considers the Jesuits to be the insti- gators of the excesses in the Principalities, He as- serts, besides, that all the attacks against the Jews in the Paris press emanate from the Jesuits, Now | that the Jesuits are in a narrow strait, it is charac- teristic to heap on them all the abuse possible. MISCELLANEOUS, The Rev. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, has been | settled over the same Unitarian church since 1825— | longer than any other minister of his denomination ‘on, of Lafa sitet | a im the United States, Rev. Dr. Ormiston, of the Fifth avenue Reformed church, of New York, is in the Yosemite Valley, measuring the big trees and preaching salvation by faith in Christ from the smooth stumps of some of them, Kev. E. L. Conger, of Taunton, Mass,, has accepted a call from the Universahst church in Concord, N. H., and begins labors there the Ist of September. Rev. Rowland Conner, who was for a time associate with Dr, Miner, of Boston, and afterward ‘on his own hook” at Horticultural Hall, has now the charge of a free religious society at Florence, Mass, Rev. Thomas Vickers, of the Free Religious Society, Cincinnatl, Ohio, is one of the few consistent liberals. He does not hold to the divine origin of the Scriptures or of Christianity, but only to natural religion. Instead of reading anf expounding the Bible on the Sab- bath he sometimes takes up Shakspeare and other poets. The Rev. George Fraser, of Green- ville, Ii, has been elected Professor of Mental and Moral Science in Washington and Jefferson Col- lege, Pa. Robert Collyer has delivered the first lec. ture in a Sunday evening course at the Academy of Music, Chicago. He will be followed by Rev. Dr. Ryder, Professor Swing and others. The annual meeting of the Maine Conference of Unitarian Charches ig to be held at Bilsworth, September 17, 18 and 19% Rev. Benjamin H. Bailey, of Portland, preached last Sunday morning in King’s Chapel, Boston, before an atteutive congregation of residents The plan of having @ church so centrally situated among the hotels a3 the chapel, open through the Summer, has worked well. ‘The Protestant Church at Beyroot, Syria, has 4 Morning Star Soctety in its Sabbath school, which has just sent one of its teachers a8 a missionary among the Bedouin Arabs. Beloit College, Wisconsin, has in attendance “ee its classes # full-blooded negro, an Indian and a Turk, and one of the students is in- tructing in Japanese. The Quakers of Nosth Caro- were powerful appeals on o' Sabbath, and the use of the Bible in our public schools. The congregation Shaarai Zedek of this city are paaiaog 3 for a lecturer in German and English to whom they offer $2,000 salary pat annum, ‘The Board of Missions of the United Brethren in Christ is now in session in Philade! Several of their bishops and prominent re officiated on Sunaey in our churches to the edification of our people. THE COURTS OF BERLIN AND OF ROME. To THe EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— Whoever is the original aggressor, and it cannot be denied that Prussia deserves this designation, it is certain that ever-existing Rome and the new- made Empire of Germany are erect against: each other in most hostile conflict, It is impossible to foresee all the consequences of the angry struggle, and no one can announce at what time it will end; but the history of Europe contains a plenitude of light, which is:In no way dubious, for the identifi- cation of the final gainer of the battle. Rome has been in many a prolonged engagement—with. Cwsars, with Hojienstaufens, with Bonapartes; but in cach case it buried the enemy, put on his de- feated remains the last shovel of hiding earth, and there is no room for apprehension that the annals of the past will be in belie- ment with the developments of the future; for, after more than eighteen hundred years ot existence, Rome is still to-day as young, a8 abso- lute, as firm, as ambitious and as immortal as ever betore. The unavoidable interpretation is that Bismarck and his master have opened a combat, the entire ultimate benefit and glory of which will shine on the battlements of the Vatican. The white-haired Pius IX. is animated with this truth. Reflecting on it makes him youthful again. Not- withstanding his imprisonment, in defiance of his eighty-two years, he tells Willlam and his Chan- cellor that the pebble will be cast which will de- molish the Colossus; and when he sees Berlin up- heaved with fury and alarm for this stern predic- tion, he declares that there is no modification for any ef his words, and that he will ever fearlessly perform all the sublime duties of his imperishable office, The past and the present make it a destiny for the Papacy to see the Kingdom of Prussia and the constitution and boundaries of the new sov- ereignty erased forever from the disc of Europe. As the struggle progresses Prussia manifests two great ambitions—to have the new-made Empire acknowledged as the lawful successor of the Holy Roman Empire and to control all future Papal elections. We consider each of these extraordi- nary aims in turn, It is certainly an absurd claim that the new- made Empire lawfully succeeds the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire was stritly founded on the Roman Catholic faith, The new Empire ts founded on a confusion of Lutheranism and atheism. None but a Roman Catholic could wear the diadem of the former. None but a Lutheran can succeed to the latter. It an occu- pant of the first changed his faith, the Pope, chief upholder of the rights of the Crown and of the People, would have declared him excommunicated and dethroned for apostacy and treason, and Europe would have seen to the immediate fulfilment of each division of the sen- tence. But if an occupant of the second should become a Roman Catholic his reigning days would at once be terminated forever, and the two Parliaments of infidels who have recently enacted acruel law of banishment for the sons of Loyola would expel the House of Hohenzollern from the limits of Germany. Finally, the Holy Roman Em- pire was quashed out of all tangible existence by the celebrated act called the “Confederation of the Rhine ;” and, strongest reason of all, if the honors of Charlemagne legally and lineally belong to any House in Europe they belong to the Roman Catho- lic Hapsburgs, and by no natural title whatever to the Prussian dynasty. These reasons make {t sufficiently evident that the claims for the new Empire are founded in ua truth, in injustice, in stupid self-conceit and in im- possibility. This new military construction may stand for a few years, though it is certain that France recovered will break its vertebra in pieces. But it wilt never be acknowledged to be the heir of the Holy Roman Empire. King William may as well set himself up as the successor of the Ptolemies in Egypt as of the illustrious Carlovingians in Ger- many. Rome alone isan insurmountable obstacle to the success of this insolent dream. We come to the control of the Papal elections, The ambition to get authority over the Papal elections rests on the fact that several of the medixval German Emperors possessed much power in this respect, and on the right, until lately exist- ing, enjoyed by the leading Catholic States of Europe—as France, Spain and Austria—to hinder, as far as one act of suffrage would go, through tneir Ambassadors in Rome, the election of a Cardinal objectionable to them. But the power the medisval Emperors—happily destroyed forever by Pope Gregory VII.—used over the conclaves was a wicked usurpation; the faculty of veto exerciseu by the leading Catholic States was given to them not as aright, butvas a thing of favor, because they were champions of the faith; the withdrawal of this concession is de- served, for the once Catholic governments are no longer Catholic; the Church has a right from God to be free in her elections, and the ruling house of Prussia is a Protestant House, These facts added together, where is the right of Bismarck and his master to have any control what- ever over a Pontifical election? Thereis no vestige of such a right, Were William a Roman Catholic, there would be some little plausible justice for the claim. As he is a bigoted Lutheran, and as he is a persecutor of the Church, he has less mght for the claim than the Emperor of Turkey himself. And so it will be. The great age of the Pope, his virtual imprisonment and the usurpation of Rome, the natural seat of Papal elections, by Victor Em- manuel, have distended this ambition to an immod- erate and indecent degree. But “many a slip be- tween the cup and the lip,” The aged, venerable Pontiff, may survive all who complot against him, Cavour, the well-defined anti-Papal exemplar of Bismarck, had yis cherished plans for making Popes; but, strong and young though he was, the octogenarian of the Vatican has seen him laid low and unforgiven under the eternal mould of the graveyard, There are many more startling exam- ples of the same kind in modern Itatian annals. The Chancellor and the Emperor are not so young. They may be the first to go to judgment. And even though the venerable Pope Pius soon died, what then? Certainly it is in the power of Bis- marck and Willtam to send troops into Rome, seize the cardinals, offer those prelates a candidate agreeable to the new Empire and then Proclaim that the candidate thus offered was duly elected. But thisis all they can do. The Catholic world would never accept for Sovereign Pontiif the man that should be declared Pope in this manner, and thus the ambitious operation would bring nothing to its doors but dismay. The Emperor and his Minister are going too fast. They are not Catholics, but Lutherans, and, there- fore, they should not intermeddle within the circle of Rome; and as, notwithstanding all their great- ness, they are, in comparison with the Papacy, only specks in the course of the ages, history, one woud think, might teach them that the Vatican will be still in perfect youth when the unfailing detrition of time will have left not a single undestroyed granule of the lying marble of their tombstones, Of Nero, who put the first Pontiff to death, there is no vestige to be found, But of that first Pontiff there ig a monument which is the wonder of the world, and @ jurisdiction that embraces all men. It is the voice of history that a8 Peter was so are his suc- cesaors forever, x FASHIONABLE CAMP MEETINGS, Ocean Grove, Sea Cliff and Mar- tha’s Vineyard. Sketches of the Grounds and Placés—Who Are Expected and Likely To Be Present— Grant and Gresley Seeking The Methodist camp meetings, which began as early as last April and have continued without ces- gation in one part of the country or another ever since, show very little signs of weakening or giving out yet. This week three of tne largestana meetings. will be held in Occan Grove, fear Branch, commencing on Tuesday next; in Sea ou Grove, near Glen Cove, beginning on the same day,’ and in Martha’s Vineyard, the resort of New Engiang Methodists, to open to-morrow. Shelter Island, on the northern shore of Long Island, has also beem chosen for camp purposes, and on the 25th instant the first meeting will be inaugurated there. This also promises to become in time a second Martha’s Vineyard. OCEAN GROVE CAMP MBETING. will probably take the lead this week. It 1s so con- venient to the Branch and possesses such excellent bathing and boarding and lodging accommodations that there is every probability that a large concourse of New Yorkers and Philadelphians will be on the grounds, There are also ample opportunities for boating, fishing and. other amusements, but the camp officials say that all such sports must cease during the hours of religious service. There are two good-sized lakes on the grounds, named re- spectively Wesley, about a mile long and 100 yards wide, and Fletcher, @ little wider but not so long, and asmalier one named Carvosso Lake, There are three parks connected with the encampment, denominated respectively Evergreen Park, near the entrance and bounded: on the north side by Wesley Lake} Central Park, towarda the southwest end and lying close to Carvosso Lake, and Thomson Park, which les toward the southeastern part of the grounds and verging also on the lower part of Wesley Lake. The streets and ave- nues are laid out at right angles, except in one strip in about the céntre, running from Wesley Lake to Carvosso Lake. The avenues running north and south are named after the great lights of British and American Methodism, such as Clark, Cookman, Asbury, Heck, Embury, Webb, Olin, Pitt- man and: Abbott. The cross. streets are named respectively Ocean avenue, Beach, Central, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware avenues, A few short streets south of Thomson Park are named Sea View, Atlantic, Surf, Bath, Beach and Ocean avenues, A beautifully shaded pathway runs from the tenting grounds near Thomson Park down to the ocean, where are several bathing houses free for the use of the campers. There are two entrances to the grounds, by Main avenue and Broadway. Besides the parks above named there are four littie parks, squares occupying about gne block each. ty (OCEAN PATHWAY, i as the shaded walk from the rear of the preachers? stand Is called, is twenty feet wide and almost as smooth as a floor, and hard, so that pedestrians can travel thereon with comfort. From the head of the avenue, looking toward the sea, the prospect is very fine. There are two bathing groun one near Wesley and the other near Fletcher Lake. ‘The camp grounds are enclosed with a high picket fence, and admission is prohibited except by the gates, which are closed ever: pee at half-past tem o'clock. They are opened al f-past five o'clock every morning except Sundays, when they are kept closed all day long. The usual regulation respecting Sunday coaches running to the ground is enforced. Lots which a couple of years ago could be bought for $50 apiece are now set at $250 to $500, and there is said to be something of a compli- ment to get them choice even at these prices. There are about twelve hundred and fifty building lots, 30x60 feet, on the ground, without includin; the tenting ground. Ministers are offered lots at $150 each if they will’build upon them. BOARD AND LODGING. The prices of tents range from $4 to $20 each during the twelve days of camp eae, and those on the front circle and on Lake Pathway bring $5 extra Ore There are six boarding places kept by individuals on their own account, subject, however, to the rules of the association, that they shall not charge more than $1 a tnd to those Who stay over one day or $1 50 for boat and jodaing at day when they can supply both. Transient visitors are charged fifty cents each for breakfast and tea and seventy-five cents for dinner. The association has erected four new boarding houses, with extensive accommodations for aS many as may visit the grove at any time. There is @ regular post oMice on the ground open all the year round, and a telegraph office open during the summer months, etter drink- ing water than exists at Ocean Grove, they say, cannot be found on the face of the earth, and fresh fish, vegetables, milk, fruits, meat and fowl are brought in every morning from the surrounding country, The underbrush and leaves have been cleared away, so that mosquitoes find no saielets | ro there, There are about 200 cottages erect yy lot owners on the ground, and these, with 300 or 400 tents, give the place a very lively, appearance. Mr. William P. Beck, Dr. Isaac Ward, a Presbyterian, from Newark, Mr. J. H. ‘Thornley, Revs. J. 8. Inskip, B. H. Stokes, Geo Hughes, H. B. Beegle the late Alfred Cookm: . R. Lawrence and others have handsome cot. tages on the encampment. Between this city and Long Branch teams and boats run daily, and from the Branch to the Grove Li ed make connecting trips over a sandy beach road for six miles—a weary ride indeed it is. There is talk, however, of havi aspur of the New Jersey Southern Railroad lai between the Branch and the Grove, PRESIDENTS PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE TO BE THERE, There are a large number of persons now on the eons, and President Grant and family and Presi- dent-Expectant Greeley and family, Bishops Sim son and Harris and most of our leading New Yor New Jersey gnd Philadelphia ministers are ex- pected to be on the camp grounds at some time guring its contjnuance, ~ ow . SEA CLIFF GROVE ENCAMPMENT. For personal and general convenience Sea Cur Grove stands and Ad will stand unequalled in the country. is located conveniently—near enough to the city to be reached either by water or railroad within two hours and at a comparatively moderate cost. The grounds are very extensive, and the plan and improvements of the association are on @ scale of magnificence. Since the National Camp Meeting Association held their meeting there Jast month, finishing touches have been given to the tabernacle and to the grounds and walks, aid over @ score of cottages have been erected by lot owners. Without including the tenting eet which are ample for one thousand or fifteen hundi tents, the open plateau ts taid out in lots to the number of more than one thousand six hundred and eighty. Several NEW BATHING HOUSES have been erected and a plank stairs has been laid from the boat landing over the cliff upon the ground whereby foot passengers can escape the dust of the road over which the wagons and hacka run, They come on the grounds too by this means in a few minutes, The meeting which opens at this place on next Tuesday is designed as a union meeting for all the districts in the vicinity of New York and Brooklyn. The presiding elders will have charge of the day meetings. Several of the city churches have Faye meeting tents on the ground, and Bishop Harris is expected to be present most of the time, and possibly Bishop Simpson may go up for a day ortwo. For the greater comfort and convenience of tenters the grove has been partially cleared of underbrush, and very many of the tents have been pitched in more suitable loca- tions north of the tabernacle. Every indicatton at resent points to a successful season at the Home Bamp Meeting. The grounds and the boardi and lodging arrangements have been descril heretofore, and need not be repeated here. THE PROSPECT CAMP MEESING GROUNDS, at Shelter Island, are rapidly approaching com- pee, and many cottages are building. The new otel is rapidly filling with guests. Religious ser- vices were held in the camp meeting grove last Sunday by the Kev. Mr. Meredith, of Brooklyn, The meeting will open on the 25th instant and close in September. The camp ground may be reached by steamer daliy ba a 4 North River, or by the Long Island Railroad to Greenport, and thence by ferry, twice each day. Persons bringing their own tents will obtain ground free. OTHER CAM? MEETINGS, Besides the meetings here referred to the fol- lowing are also to be held during the week :—One at Jamesport, L. 1, commencing on Monday; at Plainville, Conn., same day; near Burt on Tuesday; at Waynesborough, Thursday; at Flint Stone, Alleghany county, Md, on ‘Thursday. The meeting in Den- ville or “Camp Tabor’ will continue, as will also that in Rowland’s Woods, near Monmouth Junction, N. J.; at Wesley Grove, near Baltimore; at South Framingham, Mass., and Yarmouthport; at Portsmouth, Va., in full view of Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads; at Williamsburg and Goshen, near Cincinnati, and at Urbanna, 0., Where the National Association have been preaching holiness for a week; in Emory Grove, in the vicinity of Baltimore, and at Green Ridge and Cumberiand City, W. Va. mimes § meetings will be opened also during, the week at New Creek, W. Va.; at Auror: near buffalo, N. Y., on Wednesday; on the ol pee at Coventryville, Chester county, Pa., on jesday, and one in the Juniata Valley, Pa, which was co, on ical will be continued. There are others for circults and districts in different parts of the country, and the promise is that the beens d oe will be held until the end of Sep