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ba —— RELIGIOUS. Programme of Church Ser- vices To-Day. The Herald’s Theological Cor- respondence. Defence of the Doctrine of the im- mortality of the Soul. The English Positivists’ Denial of the Efficacy of Prayer. A Mongolian Praying Machine Described. Swedenborg the Only Reliable Ex- positor of Spiritualism. Ministerial Movements at Home and Abroad. Religious Services. At the free ‘little’ Church (ritualistic) of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-fiith street, full choral services with Holy Communion at seven and ten o’clock this morning, and eight o'clock in the evening. Spiritualist lectures at Apollo Hall, morning and evening. Song Sunday services at Association Hall this evening. In the Church of the Atonement, Madison avenue and Twenty-eighth street, services, according to the Protestant Episcopal rite, morning and even- ing. The Church of the Redeemer, Fourth avenue and Eighty-second s:reet, will be closed to-day and re- openea September 1. It will be painted in the meantime, Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach, forenoon and evening, in the Church of the Resurrection, Lexington ave- nue and Fifty-seventh street. Rev. Dr. Deems will preach twice to-day in the Church of the Strangers, Mercer street. Janes Methodist Episcopal chapel, Forty-fourth street and Tenth avenue—preaching by the con- verted infidel lawyer in the forenoon. Rev. Edward McGlynn, D. D., will lecture in the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul (Father Malone, pas- tor), East Brooklyn, at eight o'clock this evening, for the benefit of St. Louis church. Rey. Frank Remington will preach twice during the day in the North Baptist church, Christopher and Hudson streets. The Praying Band, from Forty-third street Metho- dist Episcopal church, will conduct services three times to-day in the building of the same denomt- nation in Jersey street, between Greenwich and Washington streets, Revs. H. Stowell Brown and Robert’ Cameron, the pastor, will preach in the Baptist church, Sev- enteenth street, near Sixth avenue. The Union Home Camp Meeting, at Sea CliffGrove, will be continued till Thursday next. There are three public services in the great tabernacle each day. Rev. George T. Dowling will preach, morning and evening, in the West Fifty-third street Baptist church. In the Free Church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-fourth street, Holy Communion will be ad- ministered in the forenoon, and there will be full choral service, Immortality of the Soul. To Tas EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— In your valuable paper of Sunday, August 4, I read an article, written by “F. C.,” advocating the doctrine of “Cato,” who believes in God and the Bible, but denies the immortality of the soul. I cannot understand how a person can believe in the Bible, but still deny one ofits greatest lessons, It is not a mere sceptical belief, but is believed in by Christian and Jew, Moslem and heathen, Though the religion of the Hindoo is so degraded they still velieve that the soul is immortal. The savage In- dian is an example on our own Continent. Even ‘his religion teaches him to believe that his soul is tmmortal. When our Saviour came upon earth He took upon Him the nature of man, and therefore as @ man had to’die and pass through the dark valley in the same manner as a human being. Now, when David prophesies concerning the death of Christ (Psalms xvi., 10) he says, “Thou wiit not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.” The Apostle Peter, when the Holy Ghost was first poured out upon him on the day of Pentecost, quoted the very same words. The place spoken of here as hell was not the abode of the damned, the proper transla- tion of it being “the place of departed spirits,’” From this we can draw the following conclusion :— If the souls of men died there would have been no such place made, and David could not have spoken about it. Therefore, as the inspired Psalmist writes about it, it is a proof of the existence of the place, and also @ proof that the souls of men do not die, but occupy this place which wi pe by God for them. e find that imself is comforted 4 this very belief; for when his beloved child ay sick he fasted ani yu on sackcloth, humbling himself in the dust. but when, after a week of suffering, his soul took its fight, he left otf fasting and put off Nis sack- cloth, happy in the thought that, though he should never more see him in this world, he would go to him when he died. Think you that David could have comforted himself thus {f the soul of his child had died? We also read that Samuel came from the grave and conversed with Saul and was seen by him, ‘Also at the transfiguration of our Saviour on the mount there erpentee Moses and Elias tall ing with Him. Now, if the soula of these men died, low could they have come from the grave a been both seen and heard by men? ewise at the death of our Saviour many bodies of the saints arose. In many places in the Bible the wor used lenote the death of aperson are, ‘He gave up the ghost,” showing that the soul does not die, but only leaves its tene- fnent of clay. Solomon, Ap@aking concerning death (Ecclesiastes xii. 7), says, 4% a i dust return to the earth as it was, and tl ja jod who gave it.” If the poe ag la unto soul died, why did the martyr Stephen, when bein: stoned to death, cry out, awying, Thane Jesus, md ceive my spirit!’ When the dying thief on the cross cried out for forgiveness, our Saviour, swering, said, “This day shalt thou be with Me in | Paradise.” Our Saviour also said to his disciples, “Fear not those who kill’the body, but are not able to kill the soul.” These are conclusive proofs, for they are uttered by the Deity Himself. There are many other texts that I could give you attesting the fact that the soul is immortal and does not die, but rests in the place prepared for it while the body sleeps in the grave awaiting the glorious morn of the resurrection, when it shall rise and be again joined to the spirit never more to be separated ; for then death will be conquered and the body, the mortal part of man, will put on immortality. The Efficacy of Prayer—John Bull's Most Serious Joke. Lonpon, August 3, 1872, The English journals have been discussing for the last few weexs a very queer theological question. Your readers are aware that one of the funda- mental doctrines of the Positivists and other anti- religious thinkers is a dental of the efficacy of prayer. “Things,” they say, “obey natural laws, and these laws cannot be interfered with.” Pro- fessor Tyndall, who holds a position of some eml- mence among English scientific men, has lately wrotight forward a rather startling proposal to this Pirect:—"Loet,” he says, “an hospital be founded in which there shall be two wards. Let prayers be offered up for the inmates of one ward and no prayers for the inmates of the other, and ten, jet us at the end of a certain number of years, com- pare the mortality of the two wards and thus test ‘the erticacy of prayer.” Captain Gal in t Farin Hilly Keview, Voki is month's number of the | Seriptare by another. | from Christ. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. with it very fully. He goes much beyond Dr. Tyn- dall; for he cm prayer has already been tried and already found weaeee He ints out that though, in both Protestant and joli¢ nations, the sovereign is more constantly prayed for than any of his subjects, seeing that public prayer for him ts included in every ritual, the average life of royalty in Europe during the past century is only 64.04 years, whereas that of ordinary gentlefolk is 70.22, Moreover, it would be expected that clergy- men, Whose profession it is to pray, and who cer- tainly are not likely to forget themselves in their devotions, would live longer than licentious law- yers and sceptical doctors, who neither Ry, for themselves nor have any special litanies for their benefit; but an examination of the lists of “persons of suficiens note to have had their lives recorded in a biographical Giomanaryt does not prove it. “The value of life,” says » Galton, “among the clergy, lawyers and medical men 1s as 66,42, 66.51 and 67,04 res) eoavely, the clergy being the shortest lived of the three. Hence the prayers of the clergy jor protection against the perils and dangers of the night, for protection duri the day and for re- covery from sickness, appe: be futile in result,” Mr. Galton goes on to say :—“It appears that, in all countries and in all creeds, the priests urge the patient to pray for his own recovery, and the patient's friends to aid him with their prayers; but that the doctors make no account whatever of their spiritual agencies, unless the office of priest and medical man be combined in the same individual, The medical works of modern Europe teem with records of individual illnesses and of broad eyeragss of disease, but I have been able to discover hardly any instance tn which a medical man of repute has attributed recovery to the influence of prayer. There is not a maglo instance to my knowledge, in which papers read before statistical societies have recognized the agency of prayer either on disease or on anything else. The universal habit of the scientific worid to ignore the agency of prayer is a very important fact. To fully apprecia’ he ‘elo- quence of the silence’ of medical men we must bear in mind the care with which they endeavor to_as- sign @ sanatory value to every influence. Had bi ers for the sick any notable effect it is incredi- le but that the doctors, who are always on the watch for such things, should have observed it, and added their influence to that of the priests towards obtaining them for every sick man. If they abstain from doing so it is not because their attention has never been awakened to the possible efficacy of peers but, on the contrary, that although they ave heard it insisted on from childhood upwards, they are unable to detect its influence. Most people have some general belief in the objective efficacy of rayer, but none seem willing to admit its action in those special cases of which they have scientific cognizance.” ow, | do not think it is at all necessary to point out at any length to your readers the inherent fallacy of argument like this, In the first place it assumes that God’s will and the will of the creature who prays to him are one and the same, It as- sumes that God thinks as we think, that long life is @ great bleasing; but are mh not innumerable, those to whom long life has been a curse, not a blessing? And may not God, therefore, be frequently consulting our own real hap- piness—which is really what we ask him to do—in refusing to grant our ayer for long life. And again, if God be omnipotent is it nota contradiction in terms to propose that we should coerce Him into rane our prayers. The Spectator ot to-day con’ 8 the following excellent comments on Caj Galton’s prayer: “We will not answer this astounding argument, as we might at Orst sight fee! inclined to do, by de- claring it physicism gone wild, a direct attempt to weigh mental consequences in a pair of brass scales, or by pointing out that, according tothe Christian bellef which Captain Galton is attacking, God has expressly declared that He does not limit His benevolence by men’s deserving, raining equally on the just and unjust, or by asking Captain Galton for proof that his pious pereons ever pray earnestly without the earnest addition of a prayer that God’s will shall be done and not theirs, but will meet him face to face on his own groand, with his own method and with a blank denial. In two cases, so large and 80 visible as to be better than any of his own, persons about whom the Rrosnap: tion alike of prayer and of a prayertul spirit is reater than it is about any of those he names, lave been enormously, almost miraculously suc- cessful. Ifitcan be asserted of any human beings that they prayed for the diffusion of their ideas of faith it can be asserted about the early Christians. fit can be asserted about any prayer that it in- volved an antecedent improbability of realization, it can be asserted about that particular prayer. And in spite of all circumstances, of the reluctance of mankind, of the horror-struck resistance of princes, of the aatagonism between those ideas and the instincts of mankind—of the weak- ness, a8 Captain Galton would say, of those ideas— that prayer was heard, those ideas were diffused, that faith is the faith ‘of the peoples who control the wofld, It is not we who are pressing that kind of evidence for prayer; we are ean accepting Captain Galton’s method and giving him an over- whelming instance of a cause which was hopeless, which was prayed for and which did win. The other instance is an even stronger one on Captain Galton’s system of proof, He says that God {s in- cessantly asked to grant Sovereigns long life, and they die quicker than other people. We say in re- turn that God is perpetudlly asked in the same for- mal way to protect the Papacy, and that in spite of all circumstances, of all oppositions, of, as we think, its own inherent and necessary tendency to death—its pretensions being baseless—the Papacy endures through the ages, and seems, as Macaulay said, as if it might survive all existing institutions, We do not say post hoc, ergo ter hoc—in the second instance we could not say it—but Captain Galton, Py the law of his method, is bound to say it tor us. If the absence of protection for churches from lightning and of kings from early death are proofs that prayer is useless, then the victory of Christianity and the durability of the Ho epee are greater, because more certain and visible proofs that prayer is useful.’’ Immortality Taught in the Bible. To THE EDIToR oF THE HERALD:— There has been in several of the past editions of the Sunday HeRatp a discussion on the immor- tality of the soul, which has had but one defender, “w. ©. D.,”? on whose side and in defence of the truths, “in which we so surely believe,” I enroll myself. To begin with, we will assume as a fact, as he draws all his proofs from Holy Writ, that “F, ©.” (your correspondent) believes in the divine origin of the Bible, as being God’s word and written under the guidance of His Holy Spirit; as such its histories, its prophecies, its promises and its threatenings must stand or fall together. We must also understand the Bible acceptation of the terms “life? and “death.” ‘When Christ, who is our lise, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”—Colossians iti, 4. This text contains a double proof. Christ is the life of the soul, as the soul is the life of the body; withdraw Christ the soul is dead—is given over to the darkness of sin; the soul leaves the body, the body dies—is given over to the darkness of the grave. The second proof is that “we shall appear with Him in glory.’ The body decays, the immortal soul of the righteous passes into Paradise, there to await the resurrec- tion of the body (not the resurrection of the soul), to be joined tot again at the Judgment day. We know from I Cor. xv., 42-44, that the body raised is not the same body, being a spiritual, yet being a reproduction of the natural pody, Now, if the soul had ceased to be and had been recreated an immor- tal soul, this would not be the same body and soul that lived upon the earth—was saved by Christ's atonement—vut an entirely new created being, which interpretation is opposed in_ every sense to the words, “Ye shall also appear with him in glory.” Take next the term “death.” “The soul that sinneth shall surely die,” was said under the Old Testament dispensation. At first giance this seems a most positive proof of “F. C.’s” doctrine, it being proved the soul of the righteous is immorta:, at least, the soul of the sinner is lost; it must die! But when & man commits a sin docs he fall dead? No; it is too opposed to the reason of the most thoughtless of human beings to assert such a thin; as @ fact. It is universally acknowledged tha! the soul of man gives life to his Lag and also that that alone ralses him above the brute crea- tion, so ag his body neither falls dead nor becomes & beast of the fleld when he sins, we must suppose the ‘word meant a different kind of death from the word we use to express the extinction or cessation of life. God meant us to explain one portion of “I am the resurrec- tion and the life, He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he livé, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” Christ is the resurrection of the body, the life of the soul; he that believes in Him, though rap his sin his soul Itad died, yet on ac- cepting Christ as his Redeemer, and thereby sub- mitting to Hig commandments, life should be im- parted to it in; and he whose soul had thus gained life and belief should never Rear never in this world or in the next be se] Life and death to God, then, but this:—To live, to be be one of those embracing Curist on earth, “to appear with Him in glory ;”’ to die, to refuse the salvation offered on earth, to \ pike I into everlasting punishment in hell when the earthly death, “the second death,” is over—for there are three deaths, the death of the soul that cares not to know God, the death of the body when the soul parts from it and the death of the soul and body when sent into everlasting punishment with the devil and his angels, Time and space would fail me to write the number of texte that prove the immortality ot the soul, and with this one I conclude, od will render to every man according to his deeds; to them who by pa- tient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor, and immortaiity, eternal life—Romans il., 7. If We sought tor the immortality of the soul when there was no such th’ ‘ould scarcely be rewarded with “etc | adherents, who fortw 1 FO." and his ly are born some eighteen hundred years too late lor the spreading of such | pagan theories, read First Thessa oniuns iv., 15, 16, | 17, and Matthew xxv., 31-46, and if then they can prove by God's word the soul dies with the ‘body, ceases to be with the body’s decay, then of all men are we who have believed most miserable! for no | compensation have we for the sufferings of this | present time, no support in the hour of temptation, no in the hope of a new Jerusalem; we look with horror, not love, upon a God who formed us up the question and deals | for suifering aud total destruction, end when we close the eyes of those we love in the last sleep, we bid them farewell, forever! M. A. a Man a Mortal—Immortality Only Through Christ. To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— r If the discussion in which I have been engaged for the past few months in your valuable paper would admit of it, I should im the beginning of this article betake myself to the pleasant duty of thank- ing you for the gracious privilege of giving to the world the truths I have been trying humbly to de- fend; and those who have from time to time thrown themselves within the breach and in helping me have also vindicated the true doctrine of the mor- tality of man against the rampant but harmless as- Saults of orthodoxy. But here it is out of place. I have been frequently assailed with the charge of inconsistency in believing the Bible and denying the immortality of the soul; but all of my accusers have signally failed to show the point wherein the inconsistency lies, On the other hand, the Bible, which is given to us to show us the way of salvation, which is the way of life, becomes clothed with a greater beauty and a greater glory when considered in its efficacy as being able to bestow eternal life upon beings who are in every particular Subject to ‘death and decay in the most absolute sense of tho terms, The great desideratum in the purview of man’s existence is life—with life there is hope, at least, if not happiness, In death there ts despair and oblivion, The loss of life is apparently man’s great- est amiction; the enjoyment of life his great blessing. In the good book which has been him, called the Bible, he is assu of his moneeliit. and promised, on certain conditions, the gift of immortal — existence, Without this view of the subject, the Gospel loses its charm, its declarations become meaning- less and at variance with all the phenomena of nature; and the Bible as a whole, a tissue of false- hoods and absurdities. It seems to me only to re- quire a little divesting of old prejudices, and the exercising Oo! a little reason and common sense, to be able to see the force of this plain statement. If it be true that man Is inherently immortal, and must and will live forever, what use is there of the plan of salvation, the resurrection from the dead; am of what utility is the whole scheme of the re- demption of our race ? Again, apart of infinity is equal to the whole, God eannot punish himself. If we are equal to Him in the infinity of our being, when once the soul were free from its earthly thraldom it would st ven lea) into perfect equality with Divinity an assert its pecrane According to the popular theory, then, living, we are men; dying, we become gods! Such, I have before said, was the superstitious belief of the anti-Christian world; and such the rational conclusion of any honest mind that investigates and assuines as true the principles of the prevailing Christian faith. If this philosophy of the Greeks had never become an appendage of the Christian Church in the days ot its spiritual darkness the idea of Purgatory would never have entered into the mind of the bellever in Jesus; and if men and women of a later period in the history of the world had not suffered themselves to be led by despotic priests and fanatical preachers the humbuggery of Spiritualism would never have become an attaché of Christianity. For once assume the im- mortally? of the human soul, and ten thousand wild and baseless theories founded only in the fruit- ful imaginations of the visionary, start into life. Men, in the hallucinations of their morbid fancies, cease to deal with things as they are, and walk the earth with their heads in the clouds. Restless hoses haunt the quiet dwelling places of sleeping humanity and make the sweet and gulet night hideous with the appearance of their frightful ap- aritions. Clairvoyants, like heartless vampires, invest the abodes of the ignorant and prey unmer- cifully upon the fruits of their hard-earned toil. Communicating mediums throw out their busi- ness cards with impsnity, among the credulous masses of our crowded cities, and reap a rich harvest from their work of deception and fraud. Taken in its best and purest form, this dogma can only raise us to that unstable an ethereal height of civilization attained to by the heathen fathers of our ancient literature, from which the world relapsed into a still grosser condi- tion of confirmed and hopeless superstition, but “the times of such orance God now winks at.’’ The whole mystery of our being, having displayed its Key in the person and offices of Jesus Christ, is now becoming unravelled, and old ideas and old theories are toppli to their fall, Are we 80 blinded by the prejudices of education or 80 oigoted in the pride and arrogance of our hearts that we will not heed the light of truth? A base- less fabric is our boasted civilization, @ reeking sacrilege our canting religion, if built upon a foundation so treacherous and a faith so Sa Spiritualism, True and False, Good and Evil. To THe Eprror or THE HERALD :— Your correspondents ‘Jerome Rors’’ and “ Bi- ble Spiritualist "both have admitted, in your col- umns, that there are two kinds of spiritualism; the one good and true, the other evil and false. In the First Epistie of John we are directed to “believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God;"” and the following is the criterion:—‘ Hereby know ye the spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God;” and we are told that every spirit that confesseth not this doctrine is not of Goa. And in First Timothy we read :—* That in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.” The divinely commissioned seer for the New Jerusalem dispensation, which is now being established on earth, Emmanuel Sweden- borg, assures us from actual observation in the spiritual world, and from a most intimate knowl- edge of the laws of that world, and of spiritual in- tercourse with and influx into this world, “ that to speak with angels of heaven 1s granted to none but such as are grounded in truths originating in good, especially in the acknowledgment of the Lord and of the divinity in His humanity; this being the truth in which the heavens are established. For the Lord is the God of heaven; the Lord's divine sphere constitutes heaven, and the Lord's divine sphere in heaven is love to Him and charity towards the neighbor derived from Him.” Swedenborg found in the spiritual world, and described carefully, three heavens, all the inhabitants of which ac- knowledged the Lord Jesus Christ as God, the sacred Scriptures as revelations from God, and were actuated in all they did and said by either love to the Lord, charity to the neighbor or love of obedience to the Divine commandments, He also found three other societies opposite the heavens, which he denominates heil, ali the in- habitants of which deny the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, deny that the sacred Scriptures are the Word of God, and are actuated in all that they do by some form of selfishness. He found inter- mediate between heaven and hell what he calls the world of spirits, which is the common receptacle for all mcr when they leave this world, where their ruling loves are developed and they are prepared to enter either heaven or hell. He assures us that the world of spirits is like this world, from which it is constantly peopled toa great extent, filled with lying and deceiving inhabitants or spirits, who jeny the Lord, the necessity for regeneration and heavenly truths, Unless guided and protected by the Lord and His angels for a special purpose & man in open intercourse simply comes in contact with his associate spirita, or those like himself, in a similar faith and life; conse- quently, when a man is believing false doctrines, and actuated by evil loves or perverted affections, if he has intercourse with spirits, he necessarily comes in contact with evil spirits, Therefore, says Swedenborg, “to speak with spirits is at this day rarely granted, because it Is dangerous; for the spirits then know that they are present with man, which otherwise they do not, and evil spirits are of such @ nature that they regard man with deadly hatred, and desire nothing more than 1o-destro} him.” Especially do they strive to destroy ail heavenly truths and affections in his soul. Such destruction is spiritual death—not annibilation— the death which was pronounced in Eden, Your correspondent, “Jerome Ross,” rec izes most distinctly and clearly the great law of spir- itual association; that like dweil with like, and that like attract like, which Swedenborg so fully filustrates in all his writings; consequently, that man, while here, attracts to himseif spirits Lke himself, both as to principles and life; therefore, in n intercourse he only comes in contact with his like. Now, if your correspondent will stop and use the reason to which he appeals in the case of the Bibie he can but see the ie aay and danger of seeking intercourse with spirits, t us look at this subject for moment from his own standpoint, or the law of affinity, the trath of which he admits, in the light of rea- gon; for I fully agree with him that the sacred Scriptures, even in order that they may retain their hold upon an enlightened age as special revelations from God to man, must stand the severest tests of reason; and I know that when interpreted in ac- cordance With the grand science of correspondences between natural and spiritual things revealed through Swedenhorg, they will stand the test and shine brighter and brighter as the ages roll on; for the thoughts and affections of t Creater are manifested alike in His word and works, and can never conflict when correctly interpreted, Can modern Spiritualism stand the tes.s of enlightened reason? Let us see. If this life is but the beginning of an endless life, it 18 mantiest that doctrines, thoughts, words and acts, which tend to subdue our evil inclinations, and to lead us to love the’ Lord and our neighbor supremely are of first importance, jor they tend to unity and peace, happiness and heaven. But with multitudes to-day seliishness and sensualism rule, and they must be born again or put away their supreme selfishness and cone to act from higher motives or it is maniiest that they can never enter the kingdom of heaven, for heaven is uot a peu oF ace into which a man can be let as a matter of wor, Heavenly principles must rule us before we can enter the gates of the celesti:l city. Now let the man who fs ruled by either the selfish love of power or Lge or who is vain, licentious, or given to drunkenness, jealousy, or envy, seek communications from spirits, and what the inevitable result? ber like attracts like. Being swayed by evil motives his as- sociate spirits are oceeearay. evil, and evil spirits are in false doctrines, therefore they deny the di- vinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the; hate him, They deny the necessity for regeneration, in fact deny that man can live from any higher motive than selfishness, and, if the man harkens to them, they will use every effort and art to hold him in his resent state of life and to destroy all reverence for the Lord and His word as special revelations from Him, for, if the man change for the better, they are repelled and have to leave him, Thus by see! ing and hearkening to spiritual communica- tions the evil or unregenerate man confirms him- self in his evil loves, bis spirits justifying him by every seductive argument imaginable, and thus even the prospect of his future regeneration 1s destroyed, Could a greater misfortune befall an evil man here below than this? Again, supposing man has commenced living @ new life, the work of regeneration is not accomplished in a day; but regeneration results from the warfare of a time. Little by little are his evil inclinations and thoughts put away; evil inclinations and thoughts are Hoon eae by evil spirits, and supposing while temporarily harboring such the man seeks and heeds communications frem spirits, these evil Spirits will necessarily use ore art to destroy the new resolutions for a better lile, by, as rapidly as he will bear it, denying all heavenly doctrines and Conga im, if possible, in his evil states. uid =a& greater misfortune befal him? Once more, there are three heavens, seen and carefully described by Sweden- boi within the reach of men, and whether man shall reach the lowest, middle or highest depends upon the prosress made here in the regenerate life. Supposing a good man, in a State, seeks communications from spirits. associate spirits areno better than he is, and open vision with them or communicating with them will tend to 1x him in his present state of life and prevent his progress towards a higher life, thus checking the great work of regeneration. How serious the inJury to the man! The following statements by Swedenborg appeal to our highest Teason:—‘Good spirits and angels,” he says, never induce any dogmatic principle of religion, “for the Lord alone teaches a man, though mediately, through the Word in illumination.” “Nor do they say anything which takes away the freedom of reason,” such as dictating or attempting to control his actions, for this would impair his manhood tf he were to obey such dictations; only evil spirits attempt such interferences with man’s freedom. In conclusion I will ask Mr. ‘Ross’ if enlightened reason, and even the common sense wita which God has endowed man, do not condemn in the most earnest and positive manner the seeking of open intercourse with spirits, or the as communi- cations from them? The sacred Scriptures, as in- terpreted in the writings of Swedenborg, reveal to us & knowiedge of a higher and nobler life than tt is possible for our associate spirits to comprehend or uniold to us; and if anyone is anxious or curious tor a knowledge of the spiritual world, or of spirits or even of modern spiritualism, he can only obtain reliable information by reading tne writings of the Swedish seer. JE. Mr. Hepworth’s New Church, Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s new church (Church of the Disciples) is now being erected corner of Forty- fifth street and Madison avenue, and the builder, Mr. John Sniffen, promises to have it ready for oc- cupancy by next January. The architect is Mr, Laurence B. Valk. The churcn will be one of the largest in the city, having accommodation for 3,000 persons, and particular attention has been given to the proper ventilation and acoustic requirements ot 80 large an edifice. The congregation of which Mr. Hepworth is pastor will renew their religious services in Steinway Hall during September. Spiritual Retreat of Catholic Pricsts, The Catholic pastors of the archdiocese of New York will enter to-morrow on their biennial spirit- ual retreat at St. Joseph's Provincial Seminary, Troy, N.Y. The spiritual exercises are to be con- ducted by the Rey. Fatper O'Shea, S.J. During the “retreat,’? which will continue until Saturday next, an unbroken silence will be preserved by the priests, each holding communion with God and his conscience, and begging for himself grace to dis- charge his ministry as he should, and for his flock the choicest blessings oftheaven. A Praying Machine in China. {From the Shanghae Budget, July 6.] We have been favored with an opportunity of in- specting a Mongolian praying machine, “Hu-lung- tung,” recently received by Mr. George Stent, along with other literary treasures, from a friend in Pekin, whose zeal in exploring the less fre- quented byways of Chinese and Mongolian litera- ture ts worthy of all commendation. The meaning of the name “Hu-lung-tung” 1s sald to be “Mon- golian Dragon Cave; the idea appearing to be that the use of the machine is to gain access for the aspirations of the person using it into tue secret retreat of the sacred Dragon. The machine itself is a red copper cylinder about five inches ne and three inches In diameter. The bottom and top, of the same material, are both removable; in the centre of the bottom 1s a hole, through which a copper pin about seven inches long passes and fits into a socket in the centre of the inner surface of the lid, Holding this pin in the leit hand, and Me to the machine a revolving motion with the right, it can be kept spinning rapidly round by the same rotary action of the one hand, as an ac- robat uses in supporting bowls, saucers, &c., on the top of a wand. The outer surface of the cylinder is divided by chased scrollwork into five panels, on each of which is a Sanskrit character 8 rit Tht in bas-relief, the whole forming the Buddhist ay arait prayer:—O mt pat ma hom; of the precige significance of which we must confess our ignorance. Of course the idea is that the more frequent the revolutions of the machine the greater the merit of the revolutionist. ea a the machine are an immense num- ber of paper slips o1 Sanskrit. There al filled witha catal butes of Buddha, id Chinese. are ue of various titles and attri- inted in Sanskrit, Mongolian Of these the following may serve as ‘Pearly bright Buddha,” “lion-jawed ae mountain B.,"" “peacock-voiced iny ’ brilliance B.,"’ “Peachy moon B.,”” jy? ee. aor king Ministerial Movements, Changes, é&c. METHODISTS, The several Methodist bodies in Canada are har- monizing differences and appointing committees to Prepare bases of permanent union among them- selves. Such a union would probably make a union with American Methodists impracticable, if not im- possible. The Kev. Dr. Thomas E.\ Bond, editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, one of the ablest writers and preachers of the Methodist Church South, died at his home in Baltimore, Md., on Mon- day last. The Advocate is consequently in mourn- ing this week. Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, will leave Georgia on the 26th instant for his tour of Episcopal visitation of the Western Conference. Dr. L. M. Lee, Presiding Elder of the Richmond district, is seriously ill. Bishop Keener is to be at the Monticello District Conference, Little Rock Conference, at Keener camp ground, September 13. Bishop Wightman, aitera brief visit to his home in Charleston, S. C., will leave fora visitation tour among the West- ern Conferences, Methodist episcopal Church South, Dr. McFarrin, the Missionary Secretary, will accompany him. Rev. John W. Sullivan, D. D., Chaplain of Indiana State Prison, has returned from Europe, and gone to his home in Jefferson. villey Ind. Rev. 8. L. Baldwin and family will return to his mission in Japan about the first of October, He will be accompanied by Miss Carrie E. Reed, appointed to the mission in Kise King, China. Rev. Dr. H. B. Ridgeway, of this city, preached last Sunday in Newport, R, I., on his way to Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting. Rev. F. A. Crafts has removed from Middletown to Collins- ville, Conn., where he has been appointed pas- tor. Rev. D. 0. Fox, of Sprout Brook, Montgomery county, N. Y., and Rev. Albert Norton, of Alabama, Genessee county, N. Y.,and Rev. H. M. Bradicy, will sail early in September as missionaries to India. Rev. Dr. A, Webster, President of Claflin University, South Carolina, is seeking aid in New England tor educational interests in the South, and especially for the institution over which he presides. A Methodist Church edifice has been commenced at Arthur's Landing, on Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, Bishop McTycire, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is in Oregon holding con- ferences. Bishop Simpson is to dedicate the new Methodist Episcopal church at Fort Wayne, Ind., September 8 At Huntingdale, Mo, a new Method. ist Episcopal church has been organized. Rev. J. H, Martin has resigned the presidency of Moore's Hill College to accept the superintendency of the ublic schools in Macon, Mo. Rev. F, A. Hester, cepted the Pre cy ot the college. The Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore ia having constructed ior its new building the largest organ in Baltimore, and one of the largest in the country, at a cost of $12,500, It has fifty two stops and three banks of keys, and is to be worked by two hydraulic engines; it 1s to be completed by October. furnished their church with a handsome new organ, without debt; it cost $2,800, Rev. Dr. Nelson, Book Agent in this city, has gone to San Francisco, Cal., and Portland, Oregon, to look after the book deposi- tori¢s in tuose places. Bisuop Bowman is to dedi- . D., Of the Connersville district, Southeastern | re has been elected to and ac- | The Broadway congregation have aiso” cate a new Methodist Episcopal church near Green- castle, Ind., September 15. He is to take up his abode permanently in St. Louia avout October 1, Rev. Joseph Caommings, LL. D., President of the Wesleyan University, accompanied by Mra, Cummings, sailed for ‘Burope on Saturday last by the steamer Atlanta. He goes out on & year’s leave of absence, granted by the trustees of the University. President Merrick, of the Ohio ae University, is recruiting at Put-inBay. Rev. M, Albright, of the Central Ohto Confe: ence, has been elected to and accepted the super- intendency of the Union Schoois, Upper Sandusk; Ohio, Rev, R, Rust, D. D., Corresponding Secre' of the Freedmen’s Aid Society, has spent his vaca- tion in New, England, Rev. S. J. Huffaker, of the Missouri Conference, has resumed charge of Rich- mond College. Rev. Robert Hazleton, of the Irish Weslevan Canterence, is expected to join one of our Northern conferences in the Spring. The revi- val spirit 1s spreading among the ‘'exas Methodists, the preachers are at their posts, and the people in one Yo their, Car ae gat eyed around the stoss and penitents are jor ul company. e i Peeing Publishing House, located. at Nashville 1 rapid H louse, located at Nashville, is ra] rogressing. It presents a front on the public ee ‘of i8 feet, and runs back 224 feet to the river. It is five sto- ries high, and is valued at $150,000. The ground is valued at $100,000, making a total of $250,000, The contributions in ald of the building tund smount to $42,023, of which about $33,000 have been given by the citizens of Nashville, BAPTIST, The Texas Baptist General Association has de- nounced dram-drinking for the gratification of the Spree as positively sinful, but the manufacture of liquors is, in their opinion, much more-sinful, The Vv. James Wall, Baptist missionary in Rome, is now in London soliciting aid to build a church in the Eternal a “Close-communioniste are de- grading the pane, ays the Freewill Bapti mion, And this in the face of the fact that Baptist Ppulpits present some of the highest ministerial types in the world. Rey. N. H. ace neato, calls for help in the erection of a Baptist house of worship for the church at Elk Falls, Howard county, Southern Kansas. Kev. J. A. Nash has accepted the bake 8 of the University of Des Moines, Rev. Jirah D. Cole, D. D., having closed his labors at Atlanta, 2 county, Ill, on account ofthe burning of the house of worship there, has become pastor of the Baptist church in Lockport, Will county, lil. The Baptist church at St. Cloud, Minn,, has invited the Rev. Daniel Correy, of New York, to become their pastor, He has no} yet signified his purpose to accept. Rev. J. 0. Nye, as been holding a series of meetings with the Pine Creek First Baptist church, Scioto county, Ohio, with good results, Ten have been baptized. The meeting house of the First Baptist church in Fall River will be dedicated on the first Tuesday evening in September. It is said to be one of the finest houses in that part of the State. Rev. W. M. Jenkins has resigned his pastorate of the First Ba) tist church at Commerce, Mich, Professor W, T. Stott, late of Franklin College (Baptist), has ac- cepted the Professorship of Natural Science in Kalamazoo College. The Rev. M. J. Knowlton has been spaineed missionary to Ningpo, China, and will sail for that point from San Francisco about October 1. The Shiloh Baptist church of Camden, N,J., are about to build a new house of worship; Rev. M. Wilcox pastor. Rev, L. M. Wood- ruff, alter supplying the pulpit of the First pent church of Detroit for two years, has now declined @ call to the pastorate. . ‘The call, it seems to us, came rather late. The Baptish church at Baldwin's Prairie, Mich., are erecting a new brick meeting house at @ cost of $4,000, Rev. G. W. Gardner, D. D., of Charlestown, Mass., has been elected Secre- tary of the Baptist Missionary Union. Rev. Thomas F. Curtis, D. D., for many years @ resident of Cam- bridge, Mass., died on Friday at_the age of fifty-six years, Dr, Curtis was formerly Protessor of ‘theol- ogy in the University at Lewisburg. A colony of Baptists from the Twelfth church, Philadelphia, have established themselves at Shober’s Hall, on Girard avenue, above Palmer street. They have engaged Rev. C. Wilson Smith to preach for them. Recently, Rev. M. B. Wharton, pantol, of the Walnut street church, Louisville, aptized a convert from Romanism, a lady, who, Jor many years, had been a prominent ‘Sister of Charity,” and the Baptist papers are crowing over it. Rev. R. M. Dudley, formerly editor of the West- ern Recorder, has accepted the professorship of History and Social Science in Georgetown College, Ky. The Rev. Andrew J. Hay, pastor of the Baptist church at York, Pa., having conditionally accepted & call to preach for the Baptists of Rochester, Minn., his York parishioners met and unanimously de- clined to eho s his resignation, Grace Baptist church, of Philadelphia, have pitched a. tent, forty by sixty feet, on lots on Berks street, above Eleventh, where they design to build. The tent will be dedicated to-day b; vs. H. Malcom, D. D., D. Spencer, A, J. Rowland, L, B. Hartman, the pas- tor and others, Rev. D, F. Carnahan has resigned the pastorate of the North Baptist church, Springfield, Il, He has not at decided upon his future fleld of labor. Rev. A. Martell, formerly of Park Hill, On- tario, has accepted the unanimous call to the pas- torate of the First Baptist church of Romeo, Mich. and has entered upon his labors. Rev. T. F, Bor- chers, late of Marengo, is now pastor of the Baptist church at Moline, Il. ‘the Baptists are building an asylum in Brooklyn. The Rev. B, F. Ashley has re- signed the pastorate of the Baptist church in Kan- kakee, Ill, to take effect on the last Sabbath in September. Rev. William Everett has accepted a call to the eae of the Brussels street Baptist church of St. John, N. B., and it is expected that he willenter upon his duties im this connection early in the coming month. PRESBYTERIAN. * The Rev. W. G. Moorehead, of Xenia, Ohio, has declined the call to the Third United Presbyterian chureh of Alle; eee Oe » Pa., lately under the Ps care of the Rev. J. R. Kerr, of Philadelphia. ‘he Associate Reformed Presbytery of kentucky, at its late meeting at Mount Zion, Lincoln county, Mo., resolved to institute legal Lies ie ol 1e necessary, to gain possession of the minutes old Associate Reformed Presbytery of Kentucky, now in the keeping of the Rev. T. S. Lee, the church belonging to the congregation of the Rev. Gilbert Gordon, in Louisville, Ky., and Ebenezer church, in Jessamine county, Ky. Rev. Henry Fowler, late pastor of the Central Presbyterian church in Auburn, N. Y., being in feeble health, went to Vine- ‘ard Haven, Mass. (on Martha's Vinéyard), recent for his health. Shortly after bathing on the beac! he was attacked with apoplexy and died in a few hours, Canon Ki ley is reported to be the chosen editor of Words, to succeed Dr. McLeod. The Presbyterians in West Philadelphia and the Episcopalians are moving for a clergy- man’s retreat in New York. The Presbyterian B is sending out a new class of missionaries— fe le physicians; thus showing that religion, es- cially the cause of foreign missions, is to be bene- ited by the opening of the professions to American women. The Woman’s Board has sent out three who have received @ medical, education, and are preparing to send others. The ‘First Presbyterian churen at Nashville has invited the congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian church to participate in their services, the ministers to alternate in the pulpit, during the erection of the proposed new Cumberland Presbyterian church in that city. Re’ Samuel B, Bell, D. D., of Lyons, New York, cepted a call to the First Presbyterian c! Latayette, Ind., and will assume the pastoral duties there September 15._ The Rev. N. M. Sherwood, astor of the Second Presbyterian church, Elmira, . Y., returns to his people much improved in health by his five months’ vacation, During his absence his pulpit has been most acceptably supplied by Mr. S. L. Conde, of the present senior class in Anburn Theological Seminary. The Pres- byterians of Dansville, N. Y., have engaged Rev. John Jones, D. D., of the Geneseo Academy, to sup- ply their pulpit for some months, with a view to call Mr. George K. Ward on the completion of his studies at Princeton. The Rev. Ogden Henderson has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church in Nashville, Tenn. Rev. J. A. Ranney of Three Rivers, has akon to ae Female Seminary, Kalamazoo, h. Rev. T. P. Sankey, pastor of the United Presbyterian church of Rochester, has re- oNee @ call to the United Presbyterian church of 0. : BPISCOPALIAN. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have responded to Earl Shaftesbury’s circular permit- ting oe of the Church of England to dis- pense with the Athanasian Creed. Bishop Howe, of South Carolina, has decided, with reference to the choral service, that where the rubric says “read” the ritual may be sung; but that where it says “‘say’’ the musical rendering is excluded. This is drawing ritualism very fine. The Board of Man- agers of the Free Church of the Redeemer for sea- men and their families, maintained by the Church- men’s Missionary Association of the port of Phila- delphia, are now engaged in an effort to raise funds to purchase @ cburch lot on South Front street, on which a church and Lene 4 school build- ing will be erected with the proceed# of the present lot when sold. About $16,000 will be required. The Bishop of Huron (Dr. Helmuth) ankly declines, upon doctrinal Frounds, the adoption of “Hymns, Ancient and Modern,” a8 they boldly teach the Romish doctrines of transubstantiation, the real presence in the sacramental bread an wine, the adoration of the elements, invocation of saints and other kindred and false doctrines which caused our Lethe from the Church of Rome at the cost of England’s “noble army of martyrs.’ The Bishop admits the general beauty and sound- ness of the collection, but iimiae ane the whole box of ointment tainted by the false doctrines here and there insidiously introduced. The Committee of the Church Missionary Society have cordially welcomed the pi of the vener- able Society for the Propagation of the are mm Foreign Parts to set apart December 20, 1872, a8 a day for special intercession with God for the supply of missionafy iaborers in the fleld Cag by the Church of England. Rev. 8. R. J. Hoyt, former! ot Griswold College, and now a missionary in China, has returned to this country on account of the health of Mrs, Hoyt. ROMAN CATHOLIO. The Roman Catiolic cathedral at Newark, N. J., is to cost $1,500,000, and the bishop’s house $300,000, and nearly all this money has been obtained, or is to be, from the church members in small subse rtp- ons. The expelled German Jesuits are to be «i banded that they may re-enter the Empire in o' existing and tolerated religious orders. The / man's Journal, on the strength of two Italian e anges, confirms the report of Bishop Bayiey utation to the archiepiscopal See of baltimore, calls upon the faithiul to offer up prayers and supplications to God for the prelute’s spiritual guidance and success in his New field, The total amount subscribed toward the Catholic Protectory to date is $2,045 72. The temporary buildings erected are suiiciently far advanced to enable the 314 girls who are in the care of the Protectory to be lodged in them, They will be completely finished in the course of a few daya. deg See has named Mgr. de la Bouillerie, hitherto Bishop of Car- gassonnge, to be Coadjutor of tho Cardia Arch: bishop of x, Mgr. Donnet, who On this crausferfat is named Archbuhop In partious, 8 A to propneel of Dr. Dillinger that the old Catholic, cme and Greek churches should sxe, laims that all should join the Greek Church ag only true Church on earth. The old Catholics are to holda grand council at Cologne, September 21 and 22, The Catholics of Clermont, N. H., are bulld- ing a fine church, which is nearly completed, It hae been two years in process of erection. Rev. Father L’Hiver is the pastor of a new Spanish Catholic church to be erected in San Francisco, The pro- ceeds of the grand concert in the Coliseum, Boston, to-day, are to go toward paying off the debt upon the House of the Angel Guardian, @ Catholic insti- tution. Thirty thousand voices, the big organ and a grand orchestra are to Make @ great and harmo- nious noise on the occasion. Rev, Seorge F. Haa- Right 1 of Moscow re} el Bre kins is at the head of the institution, Rev. Bishop Gibbone, now Vicar Aposiolte of North Carolina, was consecrated Bishop in August, 1863— just four years ago. Before that he was Secretary of the Leber yin rd See of Baltimore, and greatly venerated and beloved by clergy and by laity. As he 18 in the full vigor of his age it is very probable that, as Bishop of Richmond, he will still continue administrator of the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, The Rev. Father Boylan, of Cavan, Ireland, has again crossed tour for his the Atlantic to America on a collectt famara, C. C., of the Cathedral has been raised to the dignity of Canon, @ vacancy in the chapter of the diocese North Parish, Cor! having been occasioned by the deatn of the late Rey. Oaffon Hor of Ballincollig. The Catholic church in Stoneham, Mass., is to be moved to the north side of Pomeworth street, and an addition of about thirty feet put to it. The work will be begun in a few weeks, and pushed forward as fast as pos- sible, as the building is too small for the rapidly growing congregation. MISCELLANEOUS. Some of the Western Israelites are forming colo- nization societies for the urpoeee. ofrelieving their Roumanian coveligioniste, ry Sesnging them to America and providing employment for them in the Western States. r. Franklin, of Pine Biutf, Ark., has agreed to take 200 emigrants to work on his estates. The Home Missionary says that the West is producing a much larger ratio of etfective ministers than the East. Among the veteran cler- gymen of Boston should be named Rev. Dr. Kirk, who has been settled there thirty years; Rev. James Freeman Clarke, who has been pastor of the Church of the Disciples thirty-one yea: and Rev. Nathaniel Hall, whose devoted ministry in the Sixteenth ward reaches back to 1835. The Jewish order of Bnai Brith has @ general fund for benevolent purposes of $54,000, which it is proposed to increase to $100,000, with which sum it {s designed to erect an orphan asylum, in connection witha home for aged and homeless brethren. The realization of this plan in the near future, and even on a small scale, it is ar- gued, would contribute materially toward knitting closer the tie of brotherhood and shed glory on the order. Kev. Dr. Chapin preached a very eloquent discourse in the Shawmut avenue Universalist church, Boston, last Sunday morning, on ‘Touch- ing Christ, or Personal Relations with the Saviour.’” The attendance was so large that seats were placed in the aisles. In the evening Dr. Vhapin preached upon “The Hidden or Inner Life” to a congregation that vrtepag? filled the church, The Municipal Council of Paris has voted the amount of 350,000 francs for the completion of the synagogues now being erected in the Rue de la Victoire and the Place Roy- ale, The National Conference of Unitarian and Liberal Christian chorches will be held in Boston, im the South Congregational church, October cf Professor C. C. Everett, D. D., of Cambridge, wil jhe the biennial sermon before the Conference. v. W. H. Cudworth conducted the religious ser- vices last Sunday evening in the hall o1 the Boston Young Men's Christian Union. He took for his gub- Ject, “* What is 1t to experience religion?’ He pre- sented Paul's experience as the standard, consider- ing his conversion not as an ordinary incident, but as a radical transformation of character or new direction of life, The Dundee (Scotland) Presby- terians can’t get over the Insult they think them- selves and orthodoxy have received by the Rev. Mr. Knight, of the Free Church, preaching recently for the distinguished Unitarian divine, Rey. James Martineau. They still keep up the agitation. The Free Church ioytery have not only cen- sured Mr. enlens, ut they now require him to hold and teach that Unitarianism is not a branch of the Christian Church. The reverend gentleman cannot see as the Presbytery wishes, and refused to admit that he committed any oifence by preach- ing for the distinguished Unitarian. Engl Pres- byterians also feel scandalized, They are very fre- quently confounded with Unitarians and repre- sented as such. Many of their churches have passed into the hands of Unitarians, and they look upon Mr. Knight's act as calculated to perpetuate a state of things which they have found unpleasant and sometimes disadvantageous. In India there are about 30,000 females under instruction at mis- sion schools. Dr. Falk, the new minister of wor- ship and instruction in Berlin, is winning golden opinions 4 the publicity which he is giving to all pro- ceedings that aifect his department. This is insuch striking contrast to the secrecy which marked the rations of his predecessor—the unpopular Von uhler—that the people are beginning to lose their fears of a reaction. @ Lutheran congregation at Savannah, Ga., have purchased a parsonage at a cost of $8,400 and furnished it entire for their pas- . H. Bittle. Rev. M. W. Fair has resigned ro, d= Some of the New England churches are hol ing peace festivals for the purpose of raising funds to cal on their charitable labors. The Nether- land mmittee, in regard to the Jewish perse- cutions in Roumania, is now completed. Not only the most prominent clergymen, judges, lawyers, professors and bankers of the Jew- ish faith take part in that committee, but several Christians also, among whom are the Mayor of Amsterdam, and @ member of the First Chamber in the Hague, . Several excesses against’ the Jews have lately taken place in Bo- hemla. The Jewisn paper published in Prague at- tempts to excuse them on the plea that such excesses were directed against individuals for other than religious reasons. The Bohemians have been agitated not by religious hee ao but by their national hate against the Jews, because the Jews rather affiliate with the German element, Rev. Dr. M. Elkin, recently from Live! 1, was last week installed as minister of the Jewish ‘ega- tion House of Israel, at their syna; e in wn street, below Vine, Philadelphia. r. Elkin fills a vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Gabriel yea who been minister of this col gation for over thirty years. Rev. Mr. Wright, of Boston, thinks that Sabbath-breaking is fostered by the fact that Saturday is pay-day. Work- men are generally “flush” on Sunday, and, having read leisure, are tempted to dissipation. This int certainly deserves attention. Professor Charles L. Balch, formerly an Episcopal, but after- wards a Universalist pty eo died in this city last Monday. There are to be 2,000 converted Jews in London and about the same number in Berlin. In the University of the latter city there were, three years ago, twenty-eight Jews who had become Christians. It is estimated that there are 20,000 of these converts in Europe, The degree 0; D. D. has been conferred Dy the West Virginia Col- lege on the Rev. W. . Belden, of Bristol, Mass. The congregation of Hollanders at Say- ville, L. L, have just had their second pas- tor, Rev. G. Van Emmerick, installed over their in- fant church. The Broadway Tabernacle in expected ‘to be ready for public worship again about the mid- dle of October. It has not been decided yet where services will be held in the meanwhile. — Rev. Dr. Taylor, i has been spending part of the Sum- mer at Lake George and the ite Mountain preaching on Sundays with his usual force and) earnestness, Dr. Cather addressed the Irish Wes- leyan Conference at ita recent sessions in Let he He has determined to mer; the ‘Systematic: Beneficence Society of the Church Moral Science Association” into 1 Instructional Christ- tian League. The Rev. Clement C. Dickey, has resigned his pastoral cha’ in the city of Brook ya, bee de & professorship in Lincoln University. v. ©. F. P. Bancroft, late of Lookout Mountain, Tenn, atter supplying the Geneesqeone: church in Amherst, N. H., during July and st, intends sailing with his family for Germany tember 7, for a year or two of travel and study. v. Geo T. jd is the successor of Rev. W. D. Love, D. in the pastorate of the Spring street Congregational church’ Milwaukee. Sloseor Franklin aA Fisk, of the Theological Seminary of Chicago, who has been spending a year abroad, arrived here last week. THE OASE OF MR. DUNGEE. Mr, Thomas H. Dungee, the Franklin street mer- ehant who made such @ desperate attempt on his Itfe on Friday afternoon at his boarding house, 80 West Washington ‘square, and elsewhere, as heretofore ublished in the HERALD, died in Bellevue Hospital sbout three o’ciock yes- terday After his admission © to the hospital, " gee, Who was a large man, weighing nearly two hundred and thirty pounds, watching his opportunity leaped from a third story window to the ground, a distance of forty feet, thus fracturing both legs, and receiving severe internal injuries, Yesterd: afternoon Deputy Coroner Cushman, being notified of Mr. Dungee’s death, per- mitted his iriends to remove the remains to the late residence of deceased, and Coroner Schirmer will hold an inquest. Mr. Dungee was a single man. forty years of age and a native of England, A OASE OF MATRIOIDE. Mrs, Margaret Dykes, late of 443 West Twenty- eighth street, who two weeks or more ago was ter~ ribly beaten with a club in the hands of her son, Joseph Dykes, died yesterday in Bellevae Hospital, as alleged, from the eifects of the injuries received, Dr. Joseph Cushman, Deputy Coroner, will make a post-mortem examination on the body, and on Tuesday next Coroner Scnirmer will give the mat- ter a thorough investigation. In tie n lime the bretal son remains in custody awaiting the resilt, ALLEGED ORUBLTY TO SAILORS, Another of those cases which are of frequent occurrence came up yesterday in the Unived States Court. John T. Arnold, captain of the ship John M. Byrnes, was charged with having, while on a voy+ age from Galveston and the West Indies to New York, cruelly treated several of his crew, and alsa with having put them in trons, 80 that they could not make their con int to the American Consul at Matanzas, He was held in $1,000 bail for exams Uatioa on Monday by Commissioner Qayer™