The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1872, Page 6

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGE September 29---Nineteenth Sun- day After Pentecost. RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. THE CATHOLIC ORDERS IN BROOKLYN. Infant Creation—Probable Ori- gin of Mankind. eo THE RELIGION OF CRIMINALS. Ola Men Members. Church ‘The New York “Observer” the Confessional. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, CHANGES, &€C. Services To-Day. Rev. David Mitchell preaches at the Canal street Presbyterian church. Rev. Robert Cameron speaks at the West Seven- teenth street Baptist church. Rev. Dr. Flagg lectures at the Church of the Resurrection. Addresses will be delivered at tie Thirty-seventh street Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. W. H. Boole and Rev, ©. &. Briggs. Father Gavazzi discourses in the East Seven- ‘teenth street Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. W. F. Benedict will be installed pastor of the (East avenue Baptist church, Hunter's Point. Services will be held at the Monastery of the Pasajonist Fathers, West Hoboken, Dr. McGlynn officiating in the pulpit. Rev..A. R, Thompson will preach in St. Paul's Retormed church, Rutgers College chapel. Rev. J. E. Cookman lectures at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Dr. Dowling will speak at the South Baptist Rey. C. W. Morrill speaks at St. Alban’s church. Rev. W. P. Abbott and Rev. Dr. Newman preach at Washington square Methodist Episcopal church. Rev, R. Harkness will lecture at the Westminster Presbyterian church. Rev. W. H. Pendleton discourses at the West Fif- ty-third street Baptist church. Rev. J. L. Danner preaches at the Sixth avenue Reformed church. Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach in the Anthon Memorial church. ". Rev. EM Fay will preach in the Church of the Messiah, Park avenue, twice during the day. Free seats and sermon in the Christian church, ‘Weat Twenty-eighth street and Broadway. Rev. George H. Hepworth will oMiciate in Stein- wvay Hall, pending the completion of his new Rev. 0. S. Harrower will preach in St. Luke's eburch, near Sixth avenue, twice during the day. Rev. Mr. Egbert will preach in the Church of St. John the Evangelist. The Scientific Sermons series will be continued in the Academy, Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. The Catholic Apostolic church pulpit will be filled. Rev. Henry D. Northrop will Twenty-third Street Presbyterian church. Preach in the The Catholic Orders in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn there are eleven orders of the Catho- Uc Church. The religious orders are everywhere. They have peopled the deserts, mastered the arts and sciences and ministered to man in every phase Behold them going to convert the na- What weapons have they? None, gave the Cross, the symbol of salvation, the sign by which With it they have raised the standard of civilization and gathered around it the very Savages themselves, eager to hear the sweet Story of Jesus’ love fall from their lips. We see them Bailing on the waters in South America, chant- ing hymns to God and to Mary, andthe wild In- dians rush down the mountains and splash through the waters, eager to hear the songs telling of Jesus’ None had such power over the heathen as had the religious orders. instance, the case of St. Francis Xavier. How many thousands of converts he made! fascinating power with him that made all who came in contact with him love and respect him. Such are the religious orders. The fire of divine love that burned in the heart of a Francis Xavier and a Vincent de Paul burns as brightly to-day in the breasts of their spiritual sons and daughters. That monk or nun of old who went preaching the Gospel to the heathen or who went establishing hospitals and taking care of the sick and wounded will find his or her fac-stm#léin the monk and nun of to- day. We have among us tn Brooklyn such menand ‘women, who, having renounced the world, with its peace and quiet shade of some convent wall, but ‘whose works stretch far outside of such walls, Though only a short time among us, they have earned for themselves laurels bright, and long after they have passed away to that holy and blessed country, which wiil surely be theirs, will their holy counsels still ring in our ears. we will conquer. love and mercy. and joys, seek In Brooklyn we have three orders of monks— Priests of the Uongregation of the Mission, Christian Brothers and Franciscan Brothers. The work done by this noble band of religious men must necessarily PRIESTS OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE MISSION. Only a few years ago these priests arrived here; still, inthe short time that has elapsed, they have erected the large and commodious College of St. John the Baptist, at Willoughby and Lewis streets, capable of accommodating nearly two hundred The educational capacities of these re- nowned Lazarist Fathers are well known. Hard oy the College stands # neat church, presided over by . The several examinations have shown that these fathers were up in their standard of education with any educational establishment OBRISTIAN BROTHERS. Those black-robed and white-rabated sons of De Lasalle conduct the flourishing school attached to the cathedral, which is situated in Ja} They were invited to Brook Father McDonough, and since then have been ed- ucating the male portion of the youth of that large parish. They have on an average five hundred imparted by this order is world-renowned, are” says Joho Franc! Maquire, “the inheritors of one of ation in the world, and devoting themselv exolusively to their se! ino great.” The teaching of the Brooklyn branch is poly, up A ihe ee ie a Statice appreciat atadonts in shebe diferent colleges aud academies in the world. BROTHERS. the urgent request of and {aided in sil the iand than at this Bealden the above. the: of street; St. Mar, a a Sn me NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET: “Star of the Sea,” Court street; St. Peter's, Hicks street; St. Philomena’s, Sydney place; St. John’s, Twenty-first street; St. Mary’s Immaculate Con- ception, Leonard street, Wi burgh ; Jo- seph’s, Dean street; St. Michael's, Flushing; and Our Lady of Mercy, Debevoise street. They have also in Charge St. Vincent’s Home {or Poor Boys. ‘The object of this institution is to provide a home, with religious and moral instructions, for friend- less and destitute boys who are compelled to earn a scanty livelihood by their daily labor, and to en- able them to become useful and honorable mem- bers of society. It is situated at No. 10 Vine street. The college building, in Baltic street, has recently had —. sinks on, in x whiok ia a Lend Or mun cha) |. endow: celebrated Prrancisoan shrines, At present the community numbers sixty. THE NUNS. Noble indeed is the heroism of that young woman who leaves this gay world—leaves father, mother, brother and sister for the quiet of the cloister; and happy. thrice happy is that family that counts among its members a handmatd of the cloister, Heaven seems more closely allied with it; for who is the spouse she has accepted? Ah, it te Jesus, the lover of vii 3. Oh ! glorious exchange | To educate the children, to tend and shield the orpnane, 10. visit and care for the sick, to afford shelter the to reclaim fallen females— these are the wor! f the good Sisters in our city, Noiseless and unobtrusive, they devote themselves to the work they have chosen. It is certainly cheering to witness the quiet bat sublime heroism of those virgins who, having renounced thia world, without any other incentive than that glorious one of eed 3 at the last day those sweet words, “Vent spousa Christi, accipe coronam, quam tibi Dominus pr@paravit in eternam”—‘Come, spouse of Chris! receive the reward which the Lord has prepare for thee for all eternity.” .We have in Brooklyn eight orders of women, a8 follows:— SISTERS OF CHARITY. As early as 1528, long before Brooklyn was raised to the episcopal digni ty we find the Sisters here. Tney hail from Mount St. Vincent, N. ¥., and their house here is at the corner of Clinton and Congress streets, From here issue every morning the Sis- ters who teach in the following schools :—St. Paul's, Court street; St. ry, Star of the Sea, Court street; St. Philomena, Sydney place; St. Peter's, Warten street, and Assumption, York street. ‘At several of the above named places they also con- duct flourishing academies, where the well known teaching abilities of the “Daughters of St. Vincent de Paul” are exercised by the talented Sisters. St. Joseph’s Asylum for Orphan Girls, in Congress street, near Court, is also under their charge. Six- teen Sisters in this Asylum attend to the 600 or- phans, besides having an industrial school, in which ninety of the girls are taught various branches of industry. The new asylum, not yet completed, will be under their charge, and will prove a great nm to the orphan girls of Brooklyn, They conduct, also St. Mary’s Hospital for Women, at 153 Clinton street, It is the only hospital in the city devoted exclusively to diseases peculiar to females, and supplies a want long felt, SISTERS OF MERCY. About seventéen years ago a few of these Sisters came to Brooklyn. Now the community numbers nearly thirty. ‘Their convent, which cost over sixty thousand dollars, is situated on Clason avenue, near Willoughby.. They conduct a flourishing academy of over five hundred pupils. They have charge of an orphan asylum, to which is attached an industrial school of 140 Ge in which they are taught various branches of industry. The Sisters of Mercy are very popular in this fot and in no part of it are they more so than in Brook- lyn. * SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH. Bishop Loughlin invited these Sisters to this dio- cese about seventeen years ago. On arriving here they immediately commenced work and soon the stately convent of St. woeepe at aaatine, rose, and with it the popularity of the Sisters. The con- vent was planned by one of their community and it is most beautifully situated. The edifice most picasing and the entire surroundings seem to reathe the air of aceful seclusion and blessed retirement suited to such an institution, Besides a Doers: school at Flushing, they con- duct three academies—St. Joseph's, Pacific street, W. D.; St. Joseph’s, South Third street, E.D., and St. Mary's, Grand street, E.D. They teach at the following schools :—St. James’, Jay street; St. Anue’s, Gold street; Our Lady of Me , Debevoise street; SS. Peter and Paul’s, Second street; St. Mary’s Immaculate Conception, Leonard street, and St. J h’s, Pacific street. They also conduct a select school at Flushing for young ‘8, 83 Well a8 St. Michael’s female school at the same place. At Flatbush they have charge of the female school. The new Orphan Asylum ‘or boys, which is a splendid edifice, situated on Wyckoit and Albany avenues, is also under their charge. The community now numbers over one hundred. SISTERS OF THE VISITATION. These cloistered daughters of St. Francis de Sales, in Brooklyn, conduct one of the most flourish- ing academies in the State. The convent and academy are situated at the corner of Pearl and Johnson streets. The course of study pursued at this splendid centre of learning eminently fits the young lady for whatever position of life she may be intended. The number of pupiis is nearly 150. They also conduct a boarding school at Villa de Sales, New Utrecht, L. I., at which place the same course is pursued. At each place they have splendid grounds surrounding the convent for the use of the community, which numbers 44. DOMINICANKSSES, These nuns have a hospital near Remsen and Wyckoff streets under their charge; also an orphan asylum attached to the Holy Trinity church, Their convent is at the corner of Montrose and Graham avenues, The communitys number 60. They con- duct the German Catholic schools of the diocese. LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, On the 18th day of September, 1868, seven of these Sisters arrived from France to establish a branch here. They were preceded by a good father, who urchased three small houses on De Kalb avenue, in which they commenced their loved work. destitute were they of household furniture that they ate their first meal in America—a loaf of bread which they dd and plenty of fresh water—from the top ofa trunk. ‘They then went in quest of the maimed, blind, lame and infirm aged, and before the fourth day’s sun had set on their residence in Brooklyn they one man and two old women, whom they cared for and clothed with loving kindness. The popularity of the Order soon rose, and now a commodious home has been built for their use, in which there are nearly one hundred and fifty poor persons supported by these sisters, Recently a chapel has been blessed by the Bishop, and now afar off can be seen the cross- crowned spire of the chapel, while over the Home stands a splendid statue of Our ee The services of five doctors have been given voluntarily to the care of the sick and intirm of the home. FRANCISCAN SISTERS. The Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis came to Boone bout seven or eight years ago and since that time have been in charge of St. Peter’s Hospi- tal, corner of Hicks and Congress streets. When the invalid is brought to the door his religion is not questioned. Be he Catholic or Protestant he is welcomed inside the walls of St. Peter's. If able to pay he is expected to do so, but if not able he is not required. Over one hundred patients are cared for by these loving Sisters, like ministering angels com/orting and solacing the patient. A local press thus speaks of them :— We see united in them the most phen humility with the most, heroic courage, lively faith with good works, braver with charity that embraces all God zeal with pradence, unremittin; shine of the soul which poets and are fond of paint- Ing, but which isenjoyed only by those whose lives are devoted to the services of God and His poor. ‘The Sisters are very popular in Brooklyn, and the citizens of Brooklyn are very liberal in their dona- tions to them. SISTETS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, On Atlantic avenue and East New York avenue stands the Convent of the Good Shepherd. The ob- ject of this Order is to reclaim the fallen female ck to the paths of virtue from which she strayed; and so widely known has the Order become for its great usefulness to society that there is scarce a country in which the Order has not a branch. They have been only afew years in this city and were formerly located at Nos, 229 and 231 Henry street, where they have rescued many a female from a of shame and procured her a place in honorable society. Not long since the spotted fever broke out among the inmates, and Cay was the care they received from the nuns prior to transferring them to the hospital, So great and pious was the care that they bestowed that neither sleep nor rest would interfere with those nurses till some of the Sisters were struck down with the disease them- selves. Before long the fever did its work, and among the victims which it carried off there were two of those noble Sisters, Truly a martyr’s crown eo ed them, for they fell in the discharge of their heaven-born charity, The community numbers over fifteen; the penitents over fifty. By this little sketch of the works of the religious orders in Brooklyn we see that they are not idle. Fully 15,000 children are educated by them, while the sick, the aged, the orphan and the fallen one are not forgotten. Those desiring an education suitable to their means, if wealthy, can find in- struction in these schools equal to any in America. To the good Bishop. Right Rev. John Loughlin, is due the praise of the community for the great en- couragement he has given to those orders, maki Brooklyn their home, and to his priests for the! help in making Known the merits of the religious orders to their parishioners, thus giv! them a hold on the affection of the people not to easily relinquished by them. That they may continue this great work they have commenced and brin; forth some more grand results, equal to those that the Catholic Church has achieved in other places by the religious orders, and that they may continue to Nourish until this island be full of monks and nuns ia the wish of every Catholic in this diocese, }Swedenborg and Livingstone—A New Point for the Sceptics. To Tae Epitor or rag HERALD:— In letters from Dr. Livingstone, published in your issue of the 17th inst,, he relates of people he found im Central Africa:— an, irtous and most of them cultivate ar0 tp dust . We found th feat ri lager, to prevent them 's creatures, exertion with that sun- Hbar slaves, 4 6° They call 7} e Great One, itwho resides in’ the deep, “Mulamie ne foe ntain near Bam! to belong to this barre is sup) being, the author of death by drowning tunes, &c, Ihave before me @ come aienny published to a in London in 1758, cl relation of “things heard and seen” in Ei} aed world by wi 1 copy the fol- Emanuel Swedenborg, from Thoee Gentiles (heathens) who have amy knowledge con: and other misfor- lowing :— noue, Mine Aftioant are more iasorne the Gentiles. There is at ‘the resent ry C thelr coasts, ey laugh at sal. lieving), aa} that th is no man who worships at a who does ot five according to his Feligion, and ie whescever. does not must become stu oo and ked, became, auch case, he receives ven. because there is not life but death in it. those who have a the reat of jay a revelation their conti- But, then, you know Staniey has read Swedenborg.’’ That w probably the conclusion the Swedenborgian (!?) copductors of the Sun have come tot There ts another statement made by Sweden! 4 which, when vel will hardin rank second interest and importance to the of the Nile. He tells us that there was an ancient Word extant in_Asia before the Israelitish Word, led the ry call “Wars of Jehovah and Enunciations,? mentioned and in by Moses (Numbers xxi., 14, 15, 27, 30); the Book of Jasher (Joshua x., 10, i2, 13, I Sami 17 and 18) is contained this ancient Word; still preserved and that this Word, like that posse: by Christian world, refers entirely to the advent of the Lord into the world in a human form and His temptations and combats with the hells. Who is destined to prove or disprove this statement ? His task will be that of a child’s, if his object is fraud, compared to Stanle: for he will not be apt to find on his “return” sons and daughters, brothers and intimate friends of the “Tartar,” whose sign manual he claims to bring with him as evidence of his truth, Pp. Ww. 362 West THIRTY-FIFTH STREET. Infant Creation—The Probable Origin of Mankind and the Lower Animals. To Tne EpiToR OF THE HERALD :— Notwithstanding the almost universal belief in a Creator, and the fact that the account of man’s origin found in the sacred record is commonly re- ceived and accepted, it must occur to most persons who are. not unable or afraid to think that the his- tory of the creation as given in the Book of Genesis 1s somewhat mystical, figurative and allegorical, and cannot be regarded as actual sclentific truth. We purpose, however, no quarrel with the grand old poetic legend of the origin of man and his habi- tation, nor do we pretend to @ new inspiration. We but put forward what we consider'to be a reasonable speculation as to the modus operandi ofthe formation of worlds and their inhabitants, leaving the time-honored story of Moses to the undying admiration of al! ages. We do not intend to enter into the question as to how or when matter entered the universe. We see no rea- son why matter should not have been co-eternal with mind; for if we start with the assumption that mind created matter, we shall still have the question behind us, “Who created mind?’ We think we are travelling back far enough when we attempt to conceive the universe containing noth- ing but gaseous elements or matter in solution, and a still more ethereal element, mind, ready to permeate with instinct and intelligence bodies hereafter to be formed. Probably the morning of creation commenced with lighting the fires, or the formation of suns—it is quite enough for our pur- pose, having to do with our own solar system, to say the sun. Here these questions must be put:— What is the sun? How was the fire lighted, and with what fuel is it sustained ? And we record our opinion that the solar body is one of the results of & vast explosion of gases, a mighty thunderbolt in- deed, kept alwaysina molten state by being im- mersed in pure oxygen separated from the other gases, and from time to time stoked with planets and asteroids for fuel. Possibly this globe was once a misshapen fragment, revolving round the sun, awaiting the solar appetite for more planetary or asteroldal fuel, and, obedient to a Jaw of de- mand best known to solar stokers and planetary coal merchants, obsequiously supplied that demand, receiving as her reward the ad- vantage of being “licked into shape.” In other words, whatever matter this fragment had col- lected from the various gases became fuel for the sun, and our world first assumed the globular form when thrust out of the solar fires, a mere clinker, compose® chiefly of quicklime, pumice, metal, lava, &c.; the areous and Tapideous matter, doubtless, form! framework of the globe, while oceans of id seething metals lied up the interstices like honey in a honey- comb. How, then, did this incandescent sphere become a habitable world? How came the fertile soll, the fathomless seas, the boundless forests and waving prairies, the myriad forms of life, the snowy mountains and the regions of ice? We have said that the existence of the sun de- fete upon pure oxygen, and a well-known chem- cal experiment will prove what combustion in thas a means, how intense are the heat and lignt pro- juced from hot iron, which in our atmosphere would speedily become cold and dead, and it is therefore easily seen that when the flery projectile rushed into space and met with humid gases, neces- sarily present in vast quantities, entirely freed from oxygen, this globe, emerging from a solely fire-sustaining gas, entered the domain of water- producing elements. Here the cooling process set in, the world became enveloped in steam, mighty changes took piace; the quicklime and other \- dred substances upon the surface were slaked and softened into soil, while the metals gradually juired their adamantine hardness in the now all-pei damp. Vast and terrible upheavals, explosions, erruptions and commotions took place until the oxygen from the globe mixed with the hydrogen and nitrogen. re atmosphere was formed, the floods settled down into certain val- leys and crevices of the surface, draining off the spongy. land and making the earth habitable. And then comes the Vesti mabe | period of the world’s history. How long t! continued it is impossible tosay. Whether or not more than one race of men and the lower animals were formed originally without what is called rocreation, we do not retend to letermine ; but what we do mean to say—what we do mean to lay down a8 a positive doctrine founded upon reasonable deductions from nature’s own evidence—is that the human race and every other species of animal were formed in vast num- bers simultaneously during this life-depositing eriod, and that they were formed by gestation ‘om yous deposits In the soft warm clay of that period, when the very ground was at biood heat ‘and became literally the mother of every living creature, the whole surface of the earth being prob- ably honeycombed with wombs, impregnated with gaseous deposits and infased with electric infu- ences of life, thus bringing forth myriads of in- fants, possibly haif formed, or it may be, in a more advanced stage of existence. Two things ee to be certain :—Man was never formed singly, but in great numbers. He did not firs: appear upon this earth as an adult, but as a new-born . It is impossible that one sole adult could have been suddenly created to become the pioneer to his kind. It 4s conti to the laws of nature, which are the laws of and cannot be sean ‘Whenever the ilfe-producing influence set in, by whatsoever or whomsoever produced, it must have been gradual and general in its opera- tion, ifke the coming of Spring. First the sap, then the bud, the leaf, the blossom, the seed. As well might Winter begin with one soiid cube of ice upon one solitary lake, beneath the golden foliage of Autumn; or Summer commence with one full- blown tree amidst the desolate leaflessness around. ge’ are spawn; of oysters, Can any intelligent adult imagine that fis! formed before spawn or oysters befor Which was the likeller creation of the two, the slightly gelatinous fluid, elegantly called spat, or the matured oyster, with his hard shell, the growth of years? And it will be seen that this line of rea- soning will apply with equal force to all living things. The egg must have been created before the bird, the foetis before the man; and as there was no lack of material in the laboratory of the universe, it is certain that such deposits and consequent for- mations took place on @ vast and general scale. Now, Professor Darwin has put forward the notion’ that all species have sprung from one general cellular formation, and that variety of species has gone on increasing, expanding and multiplying up to. the present great diversity of races. With all our reverence for and admiration of that eminent savant we are compelled to differ with him in most of his conclusions, since we are of opinion that variety of species has been contract- ing ever since the creation. We have never heard of the formation of any new tribe of animals—birds, fishes or reptiles—while we have abundant evi- dence of many races of living creatures having assed out of existence, from the plesiosaurus to he pterodactyl. Extinct animals! The ver words, with which we are so familiar, are enoug! to convince us that Darwin is wrong in his theory of very living ting 18 a compound of gases. very living thing When each creature perishes it gives off to the great laboratory of nature those elements of which it is com merel retura! to the air at ‘aeara” and eines’ those which it originally received f rom the alr at creation. Upon this prinoipie, then, it will be seen that there was every it y for the formation of all the varieties of * aenna at the be- ginning. An old arithmetical m—How many changes may be rung on twelve bells ?’’—will assist he mental calcuiation of how many forms of life, th animal and vege! could be generated by of the original ele- ment and probably very many which have hever yet been vered. But, we shall be asked, if the earth was litprally the mother of all creatures how did ghe JF mgabennd for her yous For instance, now did manage that most helpleasof all animais, the human infant ? How did she swaddie and suckle #0 many millions of babies, with no mothers but Mother Earth, no fathers but the common Father of all living, the pre- siding genius of the universe? In order to answer this very natural query we must rr that probably the highest order of animals was the first effort of creation, the superior of our planet in her earliest lfe-depositing period being the means of forming that peculiar structure capable of containing greater instincts and more ini ot. than raat growths of enlmal life, and position is strena' jd if not noblest aulmaal ie tne only nulte speotmen requiring 8 le en no clot from nature at that si ed h's iserons. and in vegetable, prese! ‘for bow was ‘rapidly han multitude positiv: & semi-albuminous vegetable and inferior animal to there was no Becesplty for clothing or ay) n there say Tack. of nourishment, for Mother Earth when ene the froulty of carl burdens for a much longer period daughters have ever since done, that the first-born of humanity might have been, use an , some years of other words, man in more matured si in the womb of earth than when she beca was concerned and the had to be con- tinued by her children, This point, however, we do not insist upon, as MOwever matured these children a5 Tect sense of the term; of nature, extraordinary i pro- duced by Cpe do ok of causation, just as the little capsule of albumen, by incubation and growth and nourishment, becomes the bird of many-col- ored plumage or mellifiuons song, and the acorn, Pony pa cast to earth ny the ‘hand of a child, repults in the lordly oak that rears hia.mig! to battle with the storm, and forms, perchance, the timbers of some historic bark that clroumnavi- gates pene globe or bears the proud pennant of an It is not at all certain that the population of the world has ever increased. It is even probable that it has decreased since creation. ica was doubtiess much more thickiy populated in the palmy days of the Atlantes than she is at the present time, and, though she is destined to increase enormously in the number of her inhabitants, other Be of the world may become depopulated, and it is therefore not unlikely that some unknown law has ever fixed the poy tion of the earth at the thousand millions, which is sup) 1d to be about the sum total of her human family, »That all mankind did not proceed from the banks of the Euphrates is plain enough, That human be- ings are just as indigenous to countries as beasts and birds, trees and flowers, must be evident to any reflective mind, and if this patent fact is once digeated and accepted it may be left to the common sease of the most ordinary of sane adults to deter- mine whether these natives of every scattered clime upon this globe were created full grown men and women or in an early stage of iniancy. The Religion of Criminals Asked For. To THE LDITOR OF THE HERALD:— It is avery ungractous task to be continually finding fault, but there are certain grievances that can be corrected only by calling attention to them promptly just as often as they occur. Among these is the habit the reporters of the press have of giving the nationality and religion of persons ac- cused of crime when they happen to be Jews. Per- haps the rarity of Jewish criminals may be the cause, but it is no excuse, nevertheless, without the like rule is applied to all others, A case in point is a glowing and no doubt truth- ful description, in your issue of the 26th instant, of a sad case of ruin and the death of the victim, a young lady, in Bayonne, N. J., wherein one Fred- erick W. Michelson, who married out of the pale of the religion of his fathers, and whose laws most likely he was never made to understand, is de- scribed as a “German Jew,” and who met his death by his own polluted hands. He was, nevertheless, legally married by the civil law of the land and was not a criminal for that per se. Your reporter then goes on to describe the suc- cessor of his household, Thomas P, Wight, who, it is but fair to state, must be one of the most unmiti- gated scamps now at large upon the community, Teady to prey again at - moment upon unsus- pecting innocence; and, yet, with all the desire of AS reporter for minuteness of detail as applied to chelson, he fails to tellus whether Wight is an English Episcopalian, a French Catholic, a Scotch Presbyterian or even an American Mormon! Now come, gentiemen, give us full particulars if we are to have any at all. “Sauce tor the goose is sauce for the gander.” SEMI-OCCASIONAL. WasHIneTOoN, D. O., September 27, 1872. Our Old Men Church Members. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— It is a remarkable and lamentable fact that the most relentless haters of the South, the bitterest enemies of peace and brotherly love and of real and true union of heart and spirit of the people of our whole country are to be found among our old men who are church members. The hardest expressions of hate come from these old men church members, The most determined words of perpetual animosity fall from the lips of these old men church members. These are not only facts, sad facts, but sad commen- taries upon human life. If there isa time in life when it would seem that the human soul should be capable of soaring above the evil passions of vengeance and hate, when the human voice should seem softest and most earnest in pleading the hty arms cause of peace and harmony, that time would seem to be in the quiet evening of iif. If there is a me in life when it would seem that the surging passions of our nature should be quenched with the waters of forgetfulness, when the harsh angles of the old Adam within us should be smoothed and rounded into the grace and gentleness of Christianity and humanity, that time would seem to be when the shadows gather in the decline of life. Ifnot then, when? If mot when the hair is whitened, the eye Fore dim, the sen is feeble and the frame has one wasted and frail; if not when the faint body still lingers here while the spirit is almost there; ifnot then, when? Of all, the greatest of these is “charity,” saith the Lord; not that charity that simply givetn to the Poor, but that charity which opens the portals of the heart and takes in those that it is our duty to love and forgive. GENEVIEVE. The New York “Observer” and the Con- fessional. To THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— By an editorial in last Sunday’s HERALD on the Teligious press it would appear that the New York Obvserver, a weekly print devoted to some branch of Protestantism, denounces the Catholic Church for, as it says, claiming the ability to pardon sins for a consideration, implying, of course, the considera- tion to be money or an equivalent. It is by such silly slanders as this that the Prot- estant community are kept in benighted igno- rance by their teachers, as it is also frequently the means of inducing intelligent and pious testants to seek the truth and finally find refuge and peace from all doubt in the bosom of the one Holy Catho- lie Church, For the enlightenment of the Observer and its readers, who seem to regard confession as a sort of business matter, it may be necessary to say that the only considerations required in the confes- sional jor the forgiveness of sins are, first, a true and hearty sorrow for sin, anda firm determina- tion never to offend God again, without which a confession is null. The next considerations are satisfaction and restitution. If you have wronged your neighbor by enmity ‘or slander you must do all{n your power to retrieve the injury you have done. If you have robbed your neighbor of i sas or money they must be restored before absolution can be given. It is thus that we sometimes read in the newspapers of sums of money being restored to the htful owner through the confessional— matters of daily occurrence, which only in rare cases obtain pul ae Another consideration is prayer, which is Na fae lated by the confessor accordin: to the condition or culpability of the penitent; these are the only considerations required for @ good confession, and there is no Catholic so ignorant of his religion as to believe otherwise, or priest who dare, would or could absolve for any other consideration whatso- ever. The Divine founder of the Church, in giving the commission to His aposties and their legitimate successors, whom he promised to be with to the end of time, said :— Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send ‘ou, When He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive ye the 1 % Whosé sins you forgive they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.—8t. Jon: x4 2h 2% 4 CATHOLIC SUBSCRIBER. en, de. Ministerial Movements, Cha: METHODIST. Bishop Harris returned last Saturday from a visit to the Central Ohio Conference. Bishop Jesse T. Peck is again prostrated, this time with erysipe- las, and the prospects of his speedy recovery are not very hopeful. Rev. Dr. Blades, of Detroit, is on @ vacation for one year for the benefit of his health, and is spending a few days in this city. Rev, L. S. Weed, D.D., pastor of John Street church, in this city, has gone to Minnesota for three or four ‘weeks for the beneflt of his own and Mra, Weed's health. Rev. Dr. Kennedy, editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, is still too sick to resume his editorial work. Rev. Clement Rowe, formerly of the Central Iilinors Conference, returned last week from a two years’ residence in Ireland, whither he went for the purpose of regaining lost health. He reports himself well again. Rev. W. Samp- son, of Erie Conference, has gone to Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio. Mr. Edward Valium, of the Salem Methodist Episcopal church, Philadelphia—the oldest Methodist in the world— died on the 14th instant, aged 105 years, He had been eighty years @ member of the Methodist Church. Rev. Dr. RB. & Bust has been elected s Trustee of Ohio Wesleyan University. sisnop Haven hopes to visit Atlanta by the lst of Decem- ber. Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, has closed his ministerial labors in Atlanta and is com- ing North. Rev. Henry Bleby, Wesleyan missionary in Barbados, W. L, having spent his Summer vacation in Canada, returned to his field of labor last week. Rev. Dr. EB. D. Haven has placed nis Fesignation as President in the hands of the Trustees of the Northwestern University, and an election for his successor is to be held on October 16. The Doctor has accepted the Secretaryship of the Church Education Society, and is now pleading its cause before the Weatern Conferences. At the Methodist Preachers’ Meeting, Philadelphia, last week, @ memorial resolution highly appreciative of the Uhristian character and work of the late Rev. Dr. Saunders, of the Presbyterian Church, was unanimously adopted, and s committee, consisting of Rev. Dra. ©, H. Payne, A. Atwood andT. A. Fernley, was appointed to attend the funeral service. Such fraternal Chris- tian courtesies are worthy of notice and of imita- tion. Rev. Thomas Strowbridge, pastor of Ada street church, Chicago, has been requested to go as the first Methodist missionary to Japan. . William Andree, of the Canada Twesle; ‘onunch: and Rev. James Morrow, of the rien Wesleyan Conference, and Rey. W. 8, Ray, a Congregational minister from C: have joined ‘the Central German Conference, which met recently in Dayton, Ohio. The Garrett Biblical Institute, has admitted young ladies to its privileges at the resent term and will do so hereafter. Rev. Dr. fowler, pastor of Centenary Methodist church, and men of the denomination, one of the abiest cle will be tendered the dency of the Nortiwest- ern University, Evanston; mace vacant by the resignation of Dr, Haven, ‘he new Methodist Episcopal church at Great Neck will be dedicated on Sunday, October 6, ony Sim) in the morning and Rev. Dr. 5. 8. uating class of the School, with the ex- evening. The entire grad University Theological ception of one, who is an invalid, is in the work of the ministry under the authorities of the Church. The revival interest at Alpine, Newark Conference, continues with still Snogerering. prospects. Rev. W. 8. Galloway, pastor. The last of tl meetings under the direction of the Young Men’s Christian tion of songey City was held last Sunday. Rey. E,W. Burr, of Centenary church, prescied in Hamilton Park toa large gathering. mnalarity of the Quarterly Conferences of the Jer- sey City district have voted favorably on the propo- sition to hold a district conference. The Rev. L. N. Wheeler, a missionary to India, is recruiting his health here in America, and hopes goon to return to his field of labor. Some Newark Methodists have purchased lots and propose to build an attractive and commodious church at East Newark. Conference Methodist Episco- 1 Church South has 206 churches, 230 junday schools aud 12,160 scholars; 22,598 church / members and 126 local preachers. The value of churches and parsonages in the Conference is $469,750. The collections last year for all poaeeee amounted to $127,424. Rev. Robert Hunt, of the New York Conference, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Sharon, Poughkeepsie district, is ve, dow. with, hold ae ane a. Prest- wood, o} |, 18 preaching wi at accept- ance to Baltimore Methodists. Wevivals, have been going on in the Methodist churches in the South and West since the camp meeti season began, and conversions are reported as follows:—In Emery chapel, Baltimore, Rev. W. Hard pastor, 10; in rden, Whatcoat church, eerie bes ; Ath ok bane el, Rev. J. J. Sar- erty, pastor; at Sailors’ Re gen a score; at Subligna, Pleasant Hill.and Salem, orth Georgia Conference, 30; on Grantville circuit, 60, and Franklin circuit, same conference, 60, ani on Stone River circuit, same conference also, 138; on Cherokee circuit, North Georgia Conference, 200 are reported, mostly from the Sunday schools. At Wilkinson, South mye Conference, 100; in Americus district, 40, at Pine Level, same con- ference, 15 conversi reported. At Andrew chapel, Montrose, Virginia Conference. 62; at nolds chapel, on the station in the mission, jon, 13; 59, under the re chi v. Mr, Lear; at Mount Zion, 19; at Bet churel Roanoke Island, 80; at New Bethel, Bannister cir- cuit, 6; at Pryor Chapel, Big Island circuit, 20; at Powell's Chanels King William circuit, 17 additions, Revivals on the Marianna district (Ala.) Conference have resulted in the ingathering of 381 souls into the Church. Reports from Texas give a total of 300 during the Summer revivals, Rev. Ed. Robinson left the Church South some time ago and joined the Northern Church. But afew days ago he repented and went back to his first love, and was reinstated at Tullahoma, Miss. On Sundays, October 6 and 13, the Southern Methodists will dedicate churches at Chilhowee and Mount Carmel. Rev. J. E. William- son, of the Ashland station, West Virginia Confer- ence, has been transferred to the Illinois Confer- ence and appointed to Jacksonville Station. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. J. Marshall Lang, of Morningside church, Edinburgh, has been appointea to the vacant pul- pit of the Barony church, Glasgow, as the successor of the late Dr. Norman M’Leod. While scientists and theologians are discussing the profit of peat to God for the sick or the sinning a correspondent of the Herald ana writes that, during Rev. Mr. Hammond’s meeting recently, in Fort Scott, Kansas, some anxiety was expressed that immediately after his departure a circus was to visit the city. Prayer was offered that God would overrule its coming for His glory, and here is what hap ned:—A large travel circus came on the jay following. Strange to say, they remained over Sabbath. At the request of one of the man- rs severai ministers and others went there on Sabbath afternoon and held services in that tent, and next day and the day after, in ge of going on, as was advertised, there wasa sale of the stock. Whether this was voluntary or on mortgage the correspondent could not tell, but such was the case. On Thursday of last week seven mission- aries of the Presbyterian Foreign Board sailed for Mexico. Next week sixteen will take their de- parture for India. The Evangelist states that be- tween the Ist of May and the lst of November forty- seven will have gone to their respective flelds, Thirty of these have never before been in the em- plormene of the Board. The Rev. T. Noble, of leveland, Ohio, will become pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, francisco, on the first of next month. Rev. D. 8. Kennedy, of wearer Pa., has been called to the pastorate of the Unite s- byterian church in Sewickley, Pa. The First Pres- byterian church of Syracuse have secured a par- sonage for the Rev. Nelson Millard. The,Rev. Dr. Phillp Schaff, Secretary of the Mere ae Alliance, has returned from Europe. About fifty Europeans have promised to attend and address the General Conference of the Alliance in this city in the Au- tumn of 1873, Dr. Schaifhas also secured the co- operation of American and English divines in the work of revising the Bible, which will be begun im- mediately. Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Brooklyn. and a committee of Presbyterians are preparing a “Book of Praise,” for general use in the denomina- tion, It is to be submitted to the next Gen- eral Assembly for approval before it can be gp e ag bee City Mission is secking to sustain rty city mussionaries, seven mission chapels, four mission churches, five mission Sabbath schools and temperance societies, helping hands, sewing schools, fe) Too! aT ing houses, &c., and asks about five thousan dollars ber month to carry on all its fompreen. sive and beneficial operations. Dr. McVicar, of Montreal, has received a call from the South Pres- byterian Church, Brooklyn. The Union Presbyte- lan Church of ‘Newburg, N. Y., was dedicated Wednesday. The discourse was preached by the Rev. Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church of New York, The cost of the church was $53,000. The ministers and ruling elders of the United Presbyterian Synod from New York met in Philadelphia un Friday. The Rev. Dr. Blair, of New York, was chosen Moderator. BAPTIST. The Rev. John Packer, late Professor in the Missouri State University, has been appointed missionary teacher by the Baptist Missionary Union, to labor in either the Theological Seminary or Baptist College at in. He will leave about the middie of October. ¢ Baptists of Brooklyn will inaugurate a new mission to-day, on the corner of Marcy avenue and Monroe street, under the aus- pecs of Rev. Dr, More as pastor. Rev. J. H. udiey, formerly of the Methodist 180} Church, was ordained pastor of the Baptist church, East New York, on the 18th inst. The Spring Gar- den church of Philadelphia has extended a unai mous call to Rev. William M. Lawrence, of Am- sterdam, N. Y. Dr. Cote, of the Southern Baptist Convention, writes from Rome that he has nm offered “a magnificent site between the old and new parts of the city’ for a ‘Baptist chapel. Sev- eral candidates have lately put on Christ by baptism in Civita Vecchia. Rey. G. 8S, Richer is gathering in some souls into the First Baptist church at Richmond, Me. Eleven have been recently received. The Baptist churches in West Virginia usually have preaching only once in four weeks, and pay on an. average about fifty dol- lars a year for such service. There are signs of a phe! refreshing from the Lord in Lee avenue japtist church, Brooklyn. Kev. J. Hyatt Smith is ae with unusual unction. The Gethsemane japtist church, Philadelphia, have just laid the corner stone of a church edifice on the corner of Columbia avenue and Eighteenth street, The building and lots will cost $70,000, and about half this amount is already secured, The Rev. L. U. Hornberger is the pastor. Dr. Everts, of the First ee church in Chicago, bane | oe sirous of preaching eisewhere, resolved his Sun- day evening coi tion into @ Bible cl under weer oe ie aacre. f his merchant a and su 01 s If ministera did bat know Ita of the preaching heard by their children comes from dents and teachers in Sunday schools. Rey. John William Jomes has been Gene- Superintendent of the Sunday and Bible Board of the Baptist General of Vi and has acce) the tion and will enter SYonce upon the dtechs ot his duties. Ri ALIAN. The late Bishop of Norwich said:—‘“Cheerfulncss is the- daughter of employment; and I have known @man come home in high its from a funeral merely because he had the management of it.”’ Two Episcopal bishops of London were born of Jewish parents—Kev. Heimet, of Huron, and Bishop Alexander, of Jerusalem. ‘the Rev, James Stoddard has acce) church, Elizabet! Rs J. The Rev. Henry Gimstead, .D., has accept Gey haa taken up his Fendence at Aye hake, N.Y ie Ne Yur about wx miles from Port Chester, The Rev. Dt. M.#H. Henderson, of Athens, Ga., and Feotor of Friaity chareh, Netrark N. J., has latter olty, The Rev. W. T. t has. left the ‘of the Reconcttation “And” assumed tian = iat end their Soy ir. MD. Jonway, ¢ Toledo lack of Establishment which its own minisvers exhibit the following incident :—A Parsee student in one the srens universities, having a t! it of giving up his own faith and a went & venerable and reverend r for Parsee had a vague idea t_ the old would catch him up in his arms and perhaps Sarade him at the next mee’ e ages of the Gospel. scholar, looked grave, ry At last, with @ persuasive smile, said:—“There are so many Christians Parsees—can’t you manage to stay where are?” The Bishop of Bangor, at his convention, recently, pronoun in favor of tai the Athanasian creed in its present form in the public services of the Church. One-ffth of the students of the. graduating class of students of the at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, or four- teen out of sixty-nine, are Roman batholics, Rome has 280 convents or religious houses having 4,693 inmates, Province of Rome, oatside the city, are these establishments, with 3,576 male and female, T! vel nt ie breaking them up. Preparations are g diligemtiy ordination ‘of Mgr. yguatius Bourges, the, Bishop 5 us of Montreal, toward the end of Ootober. The event really occurred November 30, but the uncertainty communication at that time has induced the o! vo. @ month earlier, The Catholics of St. under the direction of Bisho) have pur- chased the Ewing farm, on the Bitte Railroad, © and are about to erect suitable buildings thereon for @ Catholic Protectory.. The news during the past week only brings new evidences of the vigor with which the German government will execute the law against the Jesuits and new testimony of the sympathy which the Catholics of the Empire are hastening to manifest. An address has been pre- sented the persecuted Fathers, signed by Seventy-four of the most illustrious nobles of West- halia. At Cologne, Bonn and Issenheim the thers have received notice to quit, At Coblens they have been granted the interval until January 1 to choose a residence. At Bonn not one of them 18 allowed to remain in his own house, even the parish priests of Cologne have been notified of the prohibition against permitt Jesuits to say mass in their churches. of State, which its entrusted with the execution of the law, forbids to tae Jesuit “the exercise of any function as Jesuits, both in the church and school; the giving of missions being also included.”’ A watch and chain worth ~~ stolen some time ago from Mr. J, W. Smith, of Waterbury, Conn., was, a few days since, re- turned to that gentleman by Rev. Father Miller, of the Redemptorist Church, ton Highlands, who received it in that much maligned institution, the confessional. Mr. Smith is a Protestant. lowing named missionary priests have been de- spatched from ireland to ditterent Parts of this country. Others have gone or are » oung. to Aus- tralia, the West Indies and other Brit lonies :— Rev. P. J. Kidney to rleston, 8. 0.; Rev..P. Hawe, to Monterey, Cal.; Rev. J. Donohue, Rioh- mond, Va.; Rev. Gerald’ Fagan, Boston, ‘Mass. ; Rev. ‘James McGowan, Alton, 1u.; Rev. ‘Thomas Wilson, Richmond, Va.; Rev. ‘Thomas Phillips, San Francisco, Cal.; Rev. Edward J. Stenson, Ottawa, C. W.; Rev. Michael Lynch, Monterey, Cal. ; Rev. Matthew Cahill, Monterey, Cal. The Pope has invited Cnet of the expelled German Jesuit orders to take up their abode with him. Hence it is inferred that His Holiness has no intention of leaving Rome. The Pope has blessed and sanc- tioned in a special manner the ‘“‘work” of the na- tional dedication of France to the Sacred Heart. A magnificent church is to be built at La Roquette, Paris, in honor of the Heart of our Lord and im reparation for the insults offered to His blessed name during the Commune. The subscriptions have already reached several hundreds of thousandg of francs, shop Persico, of Savannah, Ga., owing ee disease which he contracted in the East Indies years ago and which affects him stillin warm latitudes, 1s about to leave the United States and seek rest or work in a colder climate. His fu- ture see has not been determined nor his successor ret named. The Catholics of Bangor, Me., are bulld- ing a handsome ornamented Gothic brick church, x66 feet, to cost over sixty thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. The average estimated cost of the Congregational eS churches in the United States is about dollars a sitting; of Presbyterian, @ little Episcopal, about thirty-six dollars; of Methodist and Baptist, about ten dollars, So that it costs less to be a Methodist or Baptist than to be of any other sect. Rev. E. B. Walworth, D. D., has sold school and other proj erty in Oakland, Cal, with the purpose of returning to Western ‘New’ York. He has been ewan years away. Rev. D. M. Hen- kel has resigned the charge of the English Luthe- ran church at Richmond, Va. The Rev. Olay Mc- Cauley has sent in a letter of resignation as [a vanad of the First parish (Unitarian), of Waltham, Mass. It is his intention to spend sev- eral years in Europe, at the German universi- ties, “There are in Switzerland 1,556,000 Protes- tants against 1,084,655 Catholics, and the Catho- lies have gained ground so rapidly even at Ge- neva, the old cradle of Calvinism, that ae muster now in that canton no less than 47,857 against 43,606 Protestants. The First He church, Charlestown, Mass., has called the Rev. F. F. Ford, of Lewiston, Me., to its torate. The Rev. C. R. Palmer, son of Dr. Ray Palmer, has be- come pastor of a Congregational church at’ Bridge- port, Conn. It is reported that the Danes, as @ Nationality, are planning the formation of a new Synod for the Danish Lutheran Church, Rev. Dr. Peltz, of the Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Health’ is good, and ‘he enjoyed. the journey very Ve: and he enjoy 6 much, The Rev. J. W. Schenck, late of Pottsville, Pa., has entered w his pastoral work at Clay erack,N. Y. The Rev. James Le Fevre, of Rarb tan, N. J. left home last aweek on ® sia weeks’ trip to the West and South. Rev. Robert Doeg has accep! a call to the . Y. Rev. Dr. Brownlee, of Richmond, Staten Island, has returned from his trip to tae The Lutheran Synod, of Le ee here for 1872, reporta B congre; the following statistics isters, 161; eae tions, 327; confirmed members, ey ; communt- cants during the year, 61,180; ait 5,020; ee 1,473; collections during the ire 520,872. e Rev. David Inghs, D. D., of To will be installed pastor of the Brooklyn Heights rmed Dutch church early in October. The ters of New York and Brooklyn are now generally in their pulpits and preaching with fresh vigor to large congregations, Di ndler Robbins, of Bedfor® street church, Boston, who has been reputed a ae but — been ane Paap te towards or- w ljoxy, preacl recent 1e chapel at Andover. Rev. R.G. Hutchens has been ‘dismissed. by a council from the Bedford biel ay el church, Brooklyn, to become pastor of the First Con tional Church of Columbus, Ohio, His church and his brethren part with him with at regret. A German Congregational Association has been formed in Iowa, and a German Ministe! School has been founded at Derails Dubuque county, under the supervision of the General Asso- ciation. The‘ Boston oi tional ministers Usrist some ‘advocating physical and tome a ‘some advocat a DI spiritual millenium. Bid week they are to ask and. answer the question, Shall we labor for the over- throw or for the reform of the Papal church. Ac- counts from Rome represent a state of things im that regenerated capital which assures the unfor- tunate who have not hitherto visited it that they will never have the opportunity of itin its original dampness and filth, with the samelg of centuries steaming from Cad pore. Such a new life has come upon it that the inhabitants can scarcely believe its reality. New streets are laid out, blocks of houses are rising.on all sides, basy masons and carpenters swarm everywhere, and yet, with all this activity, the new buildings cannot keep pace with the increase of the eo a. DN (led a aa eda pana Elm lace Con; tional church, Broo! r me overs body ‘and boots, to the Unitarians. He as been groping in that direction for some time. The Norwegian Bishop of Wisconsin will dedicate a Lutheran church tor his countrymen at 56 Monroe street, New York, to-day. The Rev. Ole Jutil is tor. The Jewish papers this week are advocat- ing religious Sunday schools for their children, the formation of a Sunday School Union and the pubii- cation of a child’s paper. At present their Sunday schools are almost wholly devoted to secular in- struction, with just enough Hebrew and Talmudic teachings thrown into some of them to entitle them to the name of Sunday schools. There are now 500 Cot ational societies in Imerina, the central province of Madagascar, besides 100 in the neighboring district of Vonizonga. Multitudes flock to be baptised, but the mass of these just emerging from heathenisn and still jorant, can in the judgment of the charity hardiy be considered as renewed in and lll Rev. Richard Mcliwain, the Secretary of Sustentation and Fore! has been Lge ‘a few days at his old home Lynchburgh, Va. From Yemen (Southern Arabia), comes the report that the Jews there are rsecuted, The Synod of the W. Vis 16. Dr. iu pel js the United States will meet at Martins! in annual session, on breif Koref has been elected Rabbi_ 0! wicz, accepted the election, Rev. J. H. ed or hove Coen of" Washington. = <— Imously re: b ‘been unan oe com tion Adas Israel, of D0, Rev. ..N. Coleman has | t Newark 3, d-Jand is now: Rionmond” Va. sRev. 8. Portamontn, Ohio, as become minister of the e in turning the north wing {nto such Home, as it will not be needed for sitet ek onalte wert a oy r remi worl Sitnoatadecting the practical use of the building.) The synagogue on the third story has been ene mi a pperorinte fitted up, and on Su: lagt was dedtes ed. it will seat about one hund: Tn the Atk are five scrolls of tual light is suspended before’ ite ark pet has been arranged under the direction We Suverintendont, ‘Mr. Sohwartzbanm. ait