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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. October 20---Twenty-second Sun- day After Pentecost, RELIGIOUS SCHEDULE FOR TO-DAY. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. THE PROPOSED EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL. The Jewish Troubles in Roumania. CAE SES MORE PLAIN TALK ABOUT THE BIBLE. Theatrical Professionals and Chris- tianity. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, CHANGES, &0. Services To-day. Rev. George Mure Smith, of Scotland, now amem- ber of the New York Presbytery, will preach at half-past ten A. M. and hall-past seven P. M., at ithe Yorkville Free Presbyterian church. The new Universalist church at Jersey City, near Library Hall, formerly the Emory Methodist Epis- copal church, will be opened to-day with appro- priate services. The pastor, Rev. A.A. Thayer, as- sisted by Rev. J, M. Pullman and Rev. E. C. Sweet- ser, of New York, wil officiate at the morning, aiternoon and evening services, and Rev. E. H. Chapin, D. D., will preach on Monday evening, 21st Anat., at half-past seven o'clock, This morning, at eleven o'clock, there will be divine services at the Orthodox Eastern (Russo- Greek) chapel, No. 951 Second avenue, near Fiftieth street. After the liturgy, which is partly in the English and partly in the Russian language, there will be a sermon in the English language. T. G, Forster holds forth on Spiritualism at Apollo Hall. Rev. T. Street preaches at the North Presbyterian church, Bishop Snow speaks at the University, at three P.M. Father Tom Burke preaches this evening at St. Michael's church, corner of Ninth avenue and Thirty-second street, on the subject of “No Salva- tion Out of the Catholic Church.” Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach at the Church of the Resurrection at both services. Rev. Dr. Krotel lectures at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. The Foreign Sunday School Association of Amert- can Sunday School Union will be addressed by Rev. William M, Taylor, D. D.; Rev. E. Eggleston, D. D.; Rev. H. D. Northrup, Rev. George Constantine, and Mr. O, ©. Morse, at Association Hall. Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach in the Anthon Memorial church, Rey. William N. Dunnell will conduct services in All Saints Free church, Right Rev. Bishop Clarke, of Rhode Island, wilt preach in Calvary church, Fourth avenue, In the Christian church, West Twenty-cighth street, anew pastor will be installed with appro. priate ceremonial. In the Free Church of St. Mary the Virgin (upis- copal) services will be conducted as usual, Rey. W. T. Clarke will preach in Unity chapel, Harlem, morning and evening. Rev, A. A. Reinke will preach in the Moravian chapel, Lexington avenue. Rev. Mr. Brigham will preach in the Catholi¢ Apostolic church, Sixteenth street, in the even- ing. Rey. George H. Hepworth will preach in Steinway Hal. Rev. Mr. Harrower will preach in St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Dr. Ewer will conduct services and preach in St. Ignatius’ church, Spiritualism in the hall corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street, Universalist preaching in hall 124th street and Third avenue. Rev. Heary D. Northrop will preach in the Presby- terian church, West Twenty-third street, twice during the day. The fourth anniversary of the Morning Star Sun- Gay School will take place at half-pasttwo P. M. Addresses by Rev. Dr. Deems, Dr. Anderson, Hugh Stowei Brown and Colonel G. T. M. Davis. Rey. C. 8. Harrower, pastor St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, will preach this morning at half- past ten and evening at half-past seven o'clock. Rey, John E. Cookman, pastor of Trinity Method- ist Episcopal church will preach at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P, M. Rev. Fred. Evans will preach in Central Baptist church, West Forty-second street, near Seventh avenue, at half-past ten A.M. Subject—‘Heaven and Earth's Noblest Toilers.”” At the Westminster Presbyterian church there willbe preaching morning and evening by Rev. Joun Kay, pastor elect. At Zion church, Madison avenue, there will be morning service at hali-past ten o’slock and even- ing service at half-past three o'clock, Rev. W. A. Woodhull will preach. At the Sixth avenne Reformed church there will be preaching at half-past ten A. M. by Rev. Julius L. Danner. Subject (first of a series)—“The Lamb.” Also at half-past seven P.M. Subject—‘October Teachings.” At the Fifty-third street Baptist church there will be preaching by the pastor, Rev. Mr®Pendieton, at balf-past ten and haif-past seven o'clock. Divine service will be held in St. John’s chapel, Varick street, this morning, at half-past ten, and in the evening, at half-past seven. At the evening Bervice the Rev. Alvah Wiswall will present a Statement of the condition of the poor and criminal classes of the Fifth and Eighth evards as it has been revealed by the recent work of St. John’s Guild. The sermon will contain many important and suggestive facts, and will propose a practical plan of reform. The Proposed Episcopal Cathedral. To Tax Epirox or THE HERALD:— Already the walls of the beautiful Roman Catholic temple on Fifth avenue have produced an effect that, doubtiess, many thoughtful men and women fully anticipated. It is now proposed to lay the corner stone of a Protestant Episcopal Cathedral that shall rear a prouder spire heavenward, as it ‘were, in wholesome reminder to our Catholic citi- zens that this is 4 Protestant land. Wealthy New Yorkers offer millions; Trinity points to hercoffers of goid; a Bishop cries, “God speed;” a religious fervor is to be quietly fanned into life; the women are to bring the tender appeal home, with eloquent endorsement, to their fathers, husbands and brothers. “A glorious Protestant Cathedral” is to rebuke the Romanist, the positivist, the free thinker, the radical. Let us look into this qnestion calmly and intelli- po Is it not a proposition to pay the annual interest on two or three millions of dollars for purely selfish, sectional and denominational pur- poses? Because our Irish citizens choose to con- struct an ediiice where every cornice and capital will drip with the gall of bygone misunderstand- ings, of inveterate hatreds, of embittered quarrels, will that justify us in going and doing iikewise ¢ No; # thousand tlimes no! ‘ihe age cries out against it; humanity begs for a temple dedicated to God, Virtue and Love; humanity implores us to erect an edifice over whose pi be written in letters of gold “Kor lories, if you will, outshine St. Pe aul’s; build it in the heart ot our city most spacious hail, beneath its grandest dom called the “Hall of Humanity ;” vaults to the preservation of re w ables, its ground floor to commerce; tet the useful arts and industries have rooin to set up their looms ud iurnacey for the tee insiruction of worthy students; suitable galleries to painting and sculpture lot the rents of the studios toward 0; instructors in the beautiful ornamental; science with lecture rooms where 1 mi learn to “know themselves,” and aet, io the noble edifice ore ® national museum and library, so that it may be no longer said that the British Museum is the largest American iibrary in the world. Sink “Church,” in the narrow sense.of the word, sink sect, sink denominational religion, and take not u) your souls, te, the responsibi ity of setting man his neighbor; of adding fresh fuel to the smouldering fire of old hatreds. Your millions, gentiemen, are but “trust funds.” See to it that you so invest them that they bring the greatest return to the greatest number, L OF W. New York, Oct. 18, 1872. Tho Troubles in Roumania—Mr, Pelxotto as United States Consal. To Tue EpiTor or THE HERALD :— Those who have watched with pleasure the liberal course of the HERALD in dealing with ques- tions of a race or of a religious charactor were aston- ished to find in this morning's issue a letter from Vienna, headed ‘‘An Improper Representative— Mr. Peixotto, aJew, as United States Consul at the Roumanian Capital.” The writer, who betrays a malice and vindictiveness denoting his sympathy with the spirit of persecution, seems anxious to attack the administration because of its alleged in- terference in the internal affairs of Boumania. His informant, whom he designates asa ‘‘Roumanian gentleman temporarily residing in the French capi- tal,” charges against Mr. Peixotto that ‘‘heimpres- ses the Roumanian people as standing in the hght of an oppressor.” Yet the writer speaks of Mr. Peixotto “as a man of intelligence, of gentiemanly demeanor and an exceedingly kind disposition. He would, doubtless, under ordinary circumstances and at any other point, make a very good repre- sentative. But at Buoharest he cannot be congid- ered the right man in the right place.” If the administration invites attack because of the designation of a gentioman whom Mr. Peixotto’s assailant characterizes as “a very good representative’ as Consul at Bu- charest, that is a heinous sin, for which let the administration justify itself, In fact, and I speak from knowledge, Mr. Peixotto's residence at Bucharest as United States Consul has reflected great credit upon our country. His moral intuence has been exercised in behalf of a guifering and oppressed people. His presence at Bucharest and his social relations with the Prince and the leading men of the city have been the means of Celi popular outbreaks against the Jews; and Mr. Peixotto has usually taken the ini- tiative and secured the co-operation of every Con- sul at Bucharest. He has rendered services to humanity for which he deserves the respect of every honest man, and has in no instance commlit- ted his government to an act which the policy of the State Department condemns, Task your attention to the details of the outrages against the Jews of Ismail and Oahui in January and February, 1872; to the letter of the Consuls, dated April 18, 1872; to the letters of the Secre- tary of State, dated ‘Aprii 10 and May 13, 1872; to the action of the British, French and Italian gov- ernments uniting in @ remonstrance against the wrongs and bitter persecutions of the Jews, Cer- tainly the action of Mr. Peixotto is justified by the extraordinary crisis and deserves to be warmiy commended rather than to be criticised. The con- currence of the other Consuls and the approval of their governments do certainiy detract from the enormity of his offence against Roumanian inde- pendence, and our Consul at Bucharest oppresses the Roumanian people. That there is a hatred entertained by the Rou- manians against the Jews your correspondent ayows; but he deciares that not to be the question. The Roumanians may hate the Jews as ely as they like, but they have no right to murder and pillage and outrage the Jews. And wherefor do they hate the Jews? Because in Roumania the thrifty, industrious, peaceful Jews area standing rebuke to the lazy, ignorant, brutal populace of native Roumanians, Because in Roumapia it hap- peus that there are Jews to whom more money is due, and these debtors propose to cancel their obli- gations by murdering the wives and children of their creditors, Because the government of Rou- mania does actually strive to repress the unrul) eccentricities of the mob, and does not, when mill- tary and police are in saficient force, permit the houses and property and synagogues of the Jews to be burned, the graveyards to be desecrated and the women and infants to be beaten and murdered, And wiat are the Jews whom these wretches hate? Some of them are accused of being pediers, others inkeepers, Others sell itquor, others pur- chase the raven tresses of the peasant girls, And this is, in the opinion of your correspondent, a jus- tiiication of Koumanian persecution against all the J ! Nay, some are the disguised agents of Turkish slave dealers! That tits is an utter un- Bae h will be appareut to all who know the Jewish charac! On the 29th and 20th of October there is to bea conference at Brussels of Israelites from Germany, Austria, England, France, Holland and the United States, todevise means for the elevation of the moral and material condition of the Roumantan Jews, The facts, which your correspondent claims ight to be in possession of our government and eople, will Once more be published. In “the facts” jies Mr. Peixotto’s justification, and our gov- ernment and the world have been in possession of these facts and appreciate their significance, At the Brussels Conference there will be repre- sentatives of the ‘Universal Israelite Alliance,” which is not, as your correspondent states, a secret organization, headed by the Rothschilds, but is a large and intelligent society, having branches in Europe and in America—to which anybody is eligible to membership—whose proceedings are public and open, and whose engines of oppression are schools, papers and books, wherein the legit philanthropists of Europe take a pride. There wi also be representatives of the Roumanian commit- tees formed at Berlin, Vienna, London, Paris, Am- sterdam, New York and other cities, and of our Board of Delegates of American Israelites. At this Conference it is proposed to ask the world to consider the state of the Jews in Roumania and to suggest remedies for their *wrongs. Yours re- spectfully, M. 8. ISAACS. Persecuted Jews in Roumania. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— It was with feelings the most painful that not only I, but all my Christian friends whom I hap- pened to meet yesterday, read the correspondence in your paper relating to the Roumantan Jews, But what mortified me most were the titles with which you were pleased to head this most infamous and not disinterested correspondence, Our worthy Tepresentative at the Roumanian capital, Mr. Peixotto, is a man of sterling character, well fitted for the peen he at present occupies and re- spected by all that have the honor to cherish his acquaintance. As this question of Roumanian barbarities has attracted the attention of the civilized world for several years, is it not strange that now, for the first time, a solitary person, no doubt an interested one, should write a letter condemnatory of these poor Jews, whose .condition can only be deplored and can only arouse the sympathy and supplicate the assistance of all well-minded and philanthropic persons, be they Jews or Gentiles ? The cry of the Ronmanian Jews has been nobly responded to by their brethren throughout the whole world, and it is truly sur- rising that a paper of such liberal and jumanitarian principies as the New YorK HERALD can be led to publish such an outrageous and inflam- matory epistle as the one referred to is intended to be, The Jewish people, wherever freedom of con- science and of speech is tolerated, has proved it- self to be liberal, upright, and an ornament to the country in which it exists, Hoping you will allow a short space for this feeble cry in behalf of humanity and civilization in your moat Velceple paper, I am respectfully, . L. a. Plain Talk for Persons Who Do Not Read the Bible. To THE EprTor oF THE HERALD— In last week's HERALD I saw an afticle entitiea “Plain Talk for Intelligent Readers About the Bible.” The article, closely considered, resolves into, first, an effort to destroy the authority of the Bible and bring it into disrepute; and, second, to start a dis- cussion in regard to some wonderful revelations said to be made in the presence of Dr. Henry Slade, of Philadelphia, The first effort to prove the erro- neous character of the Bible contains a positive misstatement. God did not command the Israelites to borrow ail their neighbors’ jewelry, The word “borrow” does not convey to the reader the proper meaning, uniess we take into consideration this fact—the Egyptians knew the Israelites were about to leave the country and were very urgeut to have them go, yet in thy face of this they lent, or, more properly speaking, gave to them jewelry, rat- ment, &c. But suppose that the case was just as it is stated by “Investigator,” we must not lose sight of the fact that nations as well as individuals are subject to certain lawa. While they observe those laws they have certain rights which are inalienable; but when they break them they forfeit those rights in proportion to the extent of the transgression. Isracl- The EgypWavs had sinned against the ites in @ most aggravated manner, becomes evident when we consider was to one of their number, Joseph, that they were indebted for the means of subsistence during the seven years of famine, Yet notwithstanding this they held them in bondage for over two hun- dred years and compelled them to labvor under the oversight of cruel taskmasters until they accom- plished an almost incredible amount of work. Now, we ask in consideration of these facts, bad not God a perfect bi to inflict upon the Egyp- tians any punishment He might see proper without omecing Himself to the charge of robbery? e have an illustration of fact in the histor; ofour own country, For more than two hundre ears a humerous people were in Egyptian-like dage until their ery ascended up to heaven and the dogs of war were unloosed and spread death and destruction throughout the land, sacrifich thousands upon thousands of valuable lives an costing many hundred millions of dollars, and, although it is universally conceded to be the Lord doing, no one thinks of char, Him with In. justice. Reference is also made to the sacred his- riest who is capable of jim im Numbers, xxxi., a8 another means of throwing doubt upon the Scrip- tures. Nothing is said about the ti ions of the Midianites, on account of which the wrath of God was stirred it them, and Moses was chosen as an agent for the execution of that wrath. Many things, which were perfectly consistent with oe oe ms of the times, sven less than Jour Shove ago, are now, in an age Ww! ci Searosly. hang a woman for murder, considered almost as the work of demons, Yet the great point the one upon which “Investigator” lays the most stress, is the statement that Moses led out of the land of ‘pt the immense number of about three miliions of people. Referring to the fact of Moses being the son of Jochebed, the sister of Kohath, one of the seventy who entered Egypt, ‘“Investi- ator” would convey the idea that the sojourn in ‘pt Was too short for them to multiply to such @n extent. There are two facts to which I wish to call atten- tion. The first is this:—Although Moses’ mother was the sister of Kohath she was not born until after their entrance into the land ot pt. (See Numbers xxvi., 69.) The second is the fact stated in Exodus 1., 9, by which it prpoais, that the Israel- ites, prior to'the birth of Moses, exceeded the Egy} in number, and the testimony concern- ing m 13 Fee muitiplied and waxed very be Add to this eighty years (the age of Moses at the time of exit) in which to bers FS and the account does not seem So very far outaidé the bounds of be- lef It might be well for “Inver itor’’ to notice what immense strides in the line of progress have been made in our own country. Less than one hundred years ago she was & British colony; now she is & aa Republic, with a population of over forty milito There is one more thought in regard to the rate of increase. The Israelitish women considered it their highest honor to be blessed with a large fam- ily of children; the women of the present age con- sider it, if not @ positive disgrace, to say the least, very inconvenient. Then, as if not satistied with the imaginary havoc which has been made with the Old Testament, the New is approached, The impression made here is that the writer knows very little about them except what has been learned trom other sources. Indeed, the whole posi- tion very nearly resembles that of the dog that contents himself to gnaw the bones while some one else eats the meat, And yet “Investigator” has the hardihood and presumption to say:—‘When Moses! infamous record and his fabulous accounts of Creation, Deluge, Egyptian plagues and incredi- ble numbers of people and equally incredi- ble feats of @ barbarous age are a little better cleared up and relieved {rom the suspicion and obscurity in which they lie concealed we shall be better prepared to base our arguments upon the infallibility of the Scriptures, Well, who, in the name of all Christendom, let me ask, are we that attempt to raise objections against a book that has been the object of so much research, and is to-day received and acknowledged as God's truth by all the principal nations of the earth? But enough of this; the animus of the whole thing ap- pears to be to introduce an investigation in regard to certain revelations said to be made in the pres- ence of Dr. Henry Slade, of Philadelphia, “Investi- itor says the Doctor's honesty is undoubted. ‘his is questionable. Admitting all that is stated in regard to the communication being written, what evidence have we that the Doctor cannot ex- plain it upon other principles than that of spirit presence? But suppose the Doctor cannot thus explain it, does that prove that no one else can account for it? The joining of hands across the table, curious conversation, &c., point very strongly to certain electrical, magnetical or mes- meristical influences (the proposition ‘“Investiga- tor’’ starts out with), that belief, sure and steadiast, is too important and too sacred a thing to fix upon any other than scientific evidence and positive demonstration, yet is willing to accept the theory of spirit presence upon the sole condition of absence of evidence to the contrary, although there may be in existence abundance of evidence, Awaiting further developments, I wiil close with this statement:—When any person denies the divinity of Jesus Christ he does what devils and damned spirits never have been known to do. REV. E, GIFFORD. Plain Talk for Intelligent Readers About the Bible. To TH# EpiTor or THE HERALD:— The letter signed “Investigator” inthe HERALD excites my attention. With reference to the Bible and its errors I beg to state that it fs a grain of of chaff in a bushel of wheat. There is quite enough of that which is good in it to prevent that which is bad in it from hurting any one, provided it be read and received in a proper spirit. It is @ collection mostly of spiritual information conveyed to prophets or spirgtual mediums of whom—with- out reference to His divinity—Christ was the chief or most perfect. Now, spiritual influence is of two kinds—good and bad—and all but Christ were and are lable to follow out the promptings of evil influence; even the prophets were unwittingly in some instances under such in- fluence. Therefore, in reading some portions of the Bible which your knowledge of good and evil prompts you to believe are repugnant to good teaching, ask yourselves, Would Christ have sup- ported such a course of action? Would He have sanctioned such a deed? If you feel that, judging om His life upon earth, He would not, then you may fairly put down such as proceeding from evil influence, and not by the will of God. Christ must be the touchstone of truth in all doubts, I nave come over fourteen thousand miles under sparta influence, and I regret to say that 1 find the spirituals of Amertica.to realize the fearful fact that the nearer you get to the truth the eater the danger the soul. There is less of true humanity in them, less of that soul-absorbing feeling we call sympathy among them, than is to be found with the doctrinal Chris- tians, and this should not be. With reference to the writing on the slate I have no hesitation in stating it to be a cheat, and defy any number of spiritual mediums to prove the contrary in my presence. If ‘Investigator’ honestly believes it to be true then she must have unknowingly written it herself under magnetic or mesmeric influence ; but Dr. Slade cannot have beer deceived nimsel! in this matter. The assertion that spirits can, with- out mortal agency, hand flowers to persons or trace @ drawing is equally untrue and impossible, CORBIN LAMB. Are Members of the Theatrical Prot Necessarily Sinful? fo Tak Eprror or THE HERALD:— One of the most instructing and interesting of the many features in your valuable journal are the sermon reports. In reference to this fact I would like to say a few words on page four, column three, giving the proceedings at Madison square Presby- terian church. Mr. Collins, in his report of the con- version of ayoung man, says, ‘He had been trav- elling with the ‘Black Crook’ Company. His father and mother are now with a cir- cus, and altogether he and they had been pretty hard cases.’ You will pardon me for occupying your time in debating Mr, Collins’ method of putting the case. As it stands there is but one inierence to be drawn, namely—that from their connection it could not be otherwise, as all such must be hard cases and out of the pale of society and Christianity. Is this right, and is it a Christian method of putting an illustration? Is it likely that one of that proscribed profession will have his thoughts turned heavenward by such an insulting allusion to his avocation? I deny, most em- phatically, the imputation contained in the re- mark of Mr. Collins, That these people are hard cases simply because they belong to the theatrical or ro ene tro profession. There may be (and Ido not wisi to ted that there are) exceptions, but no man has aright tocondemn a class of honest people, some of them bright ex- amples of temperance and all charitable. I have the pleasure of knowing ladies and gentlemen in each one of the variety of branches, and I can honestly say that they will compare very favorably with an equal number of ladies and gentlemen in any other walk of life not under the ban. Simply throwing this out as @ suggestion for your fertile pen to rebuke these over zealous Chris- tians, I am, very truly, a member of bi - ‘. M,C. A. Hepworth va. James, To THE EpIToR OF THE HARALD :— Does not Mr. Hepworth “deny the Bible’ and falsify James, who asserts, “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the old men of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the Rae of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up.” Mr. Hepworth asserts :—*‘It is always a mistake to pray for a physical change,” and, specifically, that he declines to pray for the hopelessly sick, and pre- fers to psychologize the lamenting friends by pray- ing in their presence that they may be converted to a submissive state of mind, A SPIRITUALIST, Father Tom Barke and Pope Adrian IV. To THE Epirok OF THE HERALD; In the lecture of the Rey. Father Tom Burke, as published in the HsRaLp of Friday, the reverend lecturer inadvertently committed serious error in nis statement relative to the bull of Pope Adrian | 1V., by which the Pontiff donated the Kingdom of Ireland to King Henry I. ‘The reverend lecturer says:—“Henry IL, the English King, to whom this bull is stated to have been given, had instigated the murder of St. Thomas A-Becket, and 1s it likely the Pope should have selected such an agent for (he pacification of Lreigud?” From this the rev- erend gentleman would lead us to infer that the murder of St, Thomas a-Becket had occurred pre- vious to the of the bull, ‘whereas the buil was granted sixteen years after.” Now, sir, historical dates cannot be falsified, and from these it appears that Henry Il. was crowned in 1154, and in 4 few months after, in 1155, the bull was eases, through the negotiations Jonn of Salisbury, a learned monk, conferring the dominion of Ireland on this monarch. Thomas &-Becket was assassinated in the Cathedral of Canterbury on the 9th of December, 1170, Just sixteen years afver the date of the bull. How then, I would ask, couid the Pope be infuenced either in granting or Foren his assent to this measure by an event which too! place sixteen years after? Furthermore, not Adrian IV. but Alexander Il. was Pope at the time of the murder of Becket. By @ rare coincidence both Protestants and Catholics are equally positive in denying the authenticity of this bull, the former from aa unwillingness to admit that their ascendancy in Ireland was derived from a power which they detest, and the latter being disinclined to believe that dominion over their Church and country was given by the Roman Pontiff’ to the ruler of a strange land. The writer could add many more important facts relative to this subject were he not reluctant to trespass too much on your valu- able space. HIBEXRNICUS, Fa Tom Burke on Columbkill. The Very Rev. Father Burke, the celebrated Dominican preacher, is to deliver a lecture next Monday evening in St. Columba’s church, in Twen- ty-fifth street. The subject of the lecture will be “St. Columbkill.”” This subject, it is said, 1s a fa- vorite one with ‘Father Tom,” and in dealing with which he is heard to the best advantage. The theme seems to be near and dear to his heart and draws forth all that i Oaspea and brilliancy of thought with which be of all preachers knows #0 well how to invest his discourses, The lecture will doubtless be a great treat to the congregation of the church and to all others who may be fortunate enough to Secure tickets beforehand, The Catholic Unton—1872-73. The Catholic Union met recently, at the rooms of the Xavier Union, and selected their oficers for the ensuing year, commencing on the second Wednes- day of October. The officers consist of Dr. E. B. O'Callaghan, LL. D., Corresponding Secretary; Charles N. Morse, Recording Secretary; William J. Hughes, Treasurer; Exccutive Committee, Dr, Henry J. Anderson, Richard H. Clarke, Frank- lin H. Churchill, Joseph Thoron and Judge,Denis Quinn, The number of members for the past year was 4,645. Parochial sections have been estab- lished in @ iarge number of the parishes in this city, and the work of organization is to be vigor- ously pushed, The Union promises to its members two lectures by distinguished gentlemen and four solemn nig masses during the coming year, three of them be on the principal national holidays— viz., Thanksgiving Day, February 22 and Fourth of July, Alistof the gentlemen from whom cards of membership can be obtained will be found in another column, Religious Revivals. Rev. F. G. Clark, D. D., received twenty-three persons into the membership of the Tompkins avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, at the com- munion last Sabbath, of whom seventeen joined vy letters from other churches and six on protes- sion of their saith, This makes a total of seventy- six persons received into this growing congrega- tion in the first month of Dr. Clark's pastorate. Important Address—The Expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany and the Xavier Alumni Sodality. Cor unum et unima Una, Ata meeting of the Xavier Alumni Sodality, held on Sunday, October 6, 1872, it was unanimously re- solved that an address should be prepared and published and a copy forwarded to the Superior General of the Jesuits, expressing the indignation ofthe Sodality at the recent persecutions of the order in Germany. The committee appointed have prepared the following address :— To the Very Reverend PeTsr BECKX, Superior-Gen- eral of the Society of Jesus:— VERY REVEREND FaTHeR—The religious persecu- tions inaugurated by the government of Germany must surely excite the condemnation of all just and liberty-loving men of whatever creed or na- tionality, As Catholics we feel particularly moved to indignation and sorrow at these blows directed at our Holy Church, culminating, as they so re- cently have done, in the decree expelling the So- ciety of Jesus, and, in the language of the act, all “orders akin to it, and congregations of a similar character,” Without alleging a specific charge and permitting opportunity of refutation; without consulting the desires of the people, but in opposition to the wisnes of, at least, a large proportion, thus to pro- scribe, at @ moment's warning, an entire class, on account of religious opinion, is surely a despotic step, unworthy of European civiissation and pro- phetic of danger to the future liberties of Germany. In tne hour of complete and unquestioned military triumph, with no need to fear internal aissensions, with a people eager to resume the relations of peace, and to cement fraternally the unification of the empire, the imperial Cabinet have undertaken to assail the religious faith of more than twelve millions of the people, depriving the standard bearers of that faith of their liberty of thought and speech, and exiling them from thetr homes, from their churches aad schools, and all their benevolent institutions. The guarantees of the constitution are disre- inan overridden; the faithful and patriotic services and sacrifices of the Catholic community durin, the late war are ignored—their youth are deprived of their best instructors, the peopie of their most valued spiritual consolers—and institutions de- voted by private free-will offerings to the uses of education and r ous worship, to the care of the sick, the poor and the uniortunate—the rearing of conscientious and useful citizens, the preven- tion of crime and the cultivation of virtue, are closed by the State towards whose welfare they were established. Under the sweeping language of the decree even orders of holy women, devoted *9 works of charity, have been broken up and ex- fied to other lands. These are already the actual results of the unjust and indefensible measures of the imperial govern- ment, in their endeavors to strike at the Catholic Church, and to establish the new doctrine that States have the right to define and reconstruct the religious faiths of their inhabitants, Frederic the Great, who laid the foundations of the present Ger- man Empire, was wiser far when he declared, in speaking perce, of the vesuits:—‘In the Treaty of Breslau I gitaranteed the status quo of the Catholic religion, and I have never found better priests in every respect. 1 am determined to re- taln them in my state.’” We feel, indeed, that in the trials of the Church the Society of Jesus has well deserved the testi- mony of truth and gratitude from every Catholic. Founded simultancously with the so-called Re- formation, it has been a strong arm of deience of tne Church in its resistance to the growing unbe- lief and materialism of the subsequent centuries down to this very hour. It has borne the brunt of every battle. Oiten stricken down, sometimes ap- parengy annihilated; yet, with the eternal vigor of truth, though crushed to earth, It has always again arisen. Its missionaries have penetrated beyond all others to the most remote recesses of the globe, ‘ying with them to barbarian nations the knowleuge of Christianity, the illuminations of science and the improvements of the useful arts. What country owes to the Jesuits a greater debt than ourown?’ To its farthest limits, in many cases, their footsteps have first led the way. Throughout its broad extent everywhere are found the evidences of their peaceful progress— their missions, their churches and their schools. The early history of America relates, on many a page, the toils and sacrifices of these inspired pioneers, in Europe their missionaries, theologians and philosophers, numbering the profoundest thinkers and most learned writers, have educated and ele- vated the people, enlighted and liberalized the aristocracy, added valuable discoveries to science, and everywhere zealously carried forward the work of the sanctification of souls. Opposed with calumny, exiled, put to death, this heroic order has given testimony as none other, in mod- ern times, of its unselfish sincerity and its devoted ardor wherever the glory of God was at stake. Re- Jecting, as they oblige themselves to do, earthly distinctions—teaching, as they can only do, that no end can justify the slightest oifence against the law of God, they have yet been slandered as the repre- sentatives of the most unscrupulous craft, and baa reviled and persecuted, by turns, on every and. The people of this land can judge the Jesuits by their own experience, If they have ever uttered doctrines subversive of our government, if they have ever taught that crimes are justified by the end to be attained, they can claim no sympathy, no Temonstrance from our people. But if, as they have surely done, beneath the weight of old-time prejudices and watched on every hand for a sank or an objectionable word, they have la- bored devotedly and uncomplainingly towards the material and spiritual welfare of the land, spread- ing the truths of Christian faith and Christian knowledge together, restraining, in quiet ways, the commission of crime, enforcing those restraints of conscience and implanting those principles of virtue which alone can make good citizens and insure the perpetuity of liberty—it they have done aught of this, they have well deserved that the American people should raise, as they have done 80 many titnes when other lands and id have been oppressed, a cry of indignation and re- monstral at this latest outrage on universal garded, the natural and tnalienable rights of every | ‘selves we know that they have done this, andmore, Vor these holy men have been to us, each and 3'l, faithful teachers, wise counsellor: nsol- ers our hours of aMiction. While, then, we lift our feeble voices in their behalf, in the hope that we may arouse a mightier echo, we feel assured that, In the good time of that Master for whose name’s sake they are hated and reviled by all men, they that go h and weep, bearing precious seed, will come again with eink, WILLIAM LUMMIS, President. WILLIAM DEVLIN, Committee, R, DUNCAN HARRIE JON C. MCLOUGHLIN, Ministerial Movements, Changes, &e. METHODIST, Rev, PN. Miller has been elected President of the Central Ohio Conference Seminary, located at Maumee city, Rev. B. Hawley, D.D., of the Troy Conference, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Bennington, Vt., has been appointed Superintendent of Schools for that town. Bishop Miles, of the Southern colored Methodist Episcopal church, recently organized an annual conference for Missourt and Kansas, with eleven travelling and thirteen local preachers, 670 members, five Sunday schools, sixteen teachers and 153 scholars. Two deacons and two elders were ordained at the session of the conference held at Santa Fé, Mis8 Smiley has been preaching for and assisting Rev. Dr. Warren and other Methodist ministers in Phila- delphia in revival services, Rev. Mra. Van Cott, of Boston, will preach in Forty-third street Methodist Episcopal church, this city, to-day. A reopening and reunion service will be held in Seventh street Methodist Episco- pal church (after extensive improvements have been made) to-day, at which Bishop Janes and Rey. Dr. Reid will officiate with the pastor. This is the church that Paul Falk has been trying to tire out with his orchestral Sabbath music. ‘rhe having been enlarged and greatly improved, will be re-opened on Sunday next, Rev. W. Cochran is pastor. Rev. ©. ©, McCabe and Rev. Richard Haney are to dedicate a new Methodist Episcopal church at Keithsburg, Iil,, October 27, The chapel of the Methodist Episcopal church at Greensburg, Ind., will be dedicated on the last Sunday in October, Bishop Wiley and Rev. J. H. Baylis are to omMcate. The Rev. F. A. Spencer, of tne Ohio Con- ference, has been appointed to ¢he Italian mission, to co-operate with Dr, Vernon. Mr. Spencer and his wife have the missionary spirit and understand the Italian language well. Four young women start for the East this year, under the auspices of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. This will give the society twelye missionaries in heathen lands, ‘They are superintending girls’ schools, carrying on zenana work, training Bible women, and, in con- nection with the wives of the missionaries of the Parent Board, working in all ways for the exten- sion of Christ’s kingdom. Rey. A. B. Corliss, a local preacher, has been elected Principal of the Oxford High School, Chester county, Pa., and has accepted the position. The Methodist Episcopal Church at Waketield, Mass, are arranging to build @ large church edifice, Rev. C, L. McCurdy, pas- tor. The Hamline Methodist Episcopal church in Washington, D. C., 18 progressing so rapidly in its erection that its walls are now about half way up. A debt of $10,900 on the Methodist Episcopal church at Morristown, N. J., Rev. Dr. Burr, pastor, was removed # couple of Sundays ago. The church property, exclusive of parsonage and grounds, is valued at $165,000, and is now free from debt, Rev. J. P. Macauley, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Hackensack, N, J., has resigned his pastorate, owing to continued ill health, The Methodist Episcopal church at South- bridge, Mass., has sent seven young men into the ministry within twelve years. The minister ot the Congregational church in Buckland, Mass., died recently, and the church got no man to take his lace, The Methodists of the town invited their’ Jongregationalist brethren to worship with them, They did 30; but the church was too smali for the united congregations, 50 they transferred them- Selves to the vacant church, where they live in great peace and are prospering under the ministry of the Methodist pastor. Rey. G, 8. Booth, of the New England Conterence, is slowly recovering from a serious and protracted illness. The anniversary of the Uhurch Extension Society of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church will be heid in Philadelphia next Thursday, and services in the society's interest will follow on the Sabbath aiter. Rev. Dr. Curry has returned trom a brief visit to the Central and Western New York Conterences, Dr. Dashiell, Missionary Secretary, is now on a visit to the Southern Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rey. H. W. Reed, of the Upper lowa Conference, has been appointed indian Agent at Fort Hall, Indian Yerritory—an excellent ap- pointment, itis said, Key. Clark P, Hard, of the ric Conference, has been transferred to the West- ern New York Conference, which met lastweek at Rochester. Kev. J. H. Champion, of North kgre- mont and Hillsdale Centre charges, is taking his vacation now instead of in the Summer, and amoung the Rocky Mountains and bumalo hunting on the plains instead of at the fashionable water- ing places. President Hall, of Johnson College, Mo., is spending a few days in this city in behalf of the interests vi iis institution. Rey. C. W. Miller has been appointed agent of the Kentucky Wes- leyan University. Rev. W. H. Thomas, of the Georgia Conierence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who has had charge of the Normal School at Rome, Ga., 1s now in this city seeking aid to the extent ofa few hundred dollars for the cause of education among the colored people. Dr. Rust, the Corresponding Eee 4 ol the Freedmen's Aid Society, has appointed Rev. B. C. Hammond and wife, ol the Northwest Iowa Conterence, to Austin, Texas, to take the charge of a training schoo! for teachers and preachers, under the auspices of the Freedmen’s Aid Society. BAPTIST. An immersed enthusiast writing to the National Baptist objects to the natural rainting of “The Bap- tism of Pocahontas” at Washington because it does not represent that aboriginal damsel as going into the pool. The editor of the Lutheran Observer there- fore goes lor this **insectarian” Baptist’s scalp and wants to find his mate, so that he can be handed over to Barnum or some other showman. The Rev. Dr. Fulton, of Boston, a couple of weeks ago, ina sharp and rather unchristian letter, fired his arrows at Dr. Pentecost, of Brooklyn, for his liberal Chris- tian administration of the Lord’s Supper to a “mixed” member. Dr. Pentecost did not reply, but Dr. Wayland Hoyt, a denominational neighbor, though not a close communionist, steps to the front in deience of Dr. Pentecost, and sharply criticises both the manner and the matter of his Brother Fulton’s letter, which he characterizes as ‘‘a poll- tico-stump-speaking method of controversy, which ought not to be so much as named among Christian men.” The Rev. T. J. Mellish, of Cincinnati, in an article in the Baptist Union, de- fending Dr. Pentecost’s action, is very sarcastic on “Baptist usage and order,’ on which close com- muinionists tay s0 much stress, He shows, from the Scriptures and the practices of the early Chris- tians, that baptism by immersion was not a pre- requisite to participation in “the communion of the body and blood of Christ,” and that properly aud really the sacrament was ordained to be eaten in private houses rather than in local churches, and was so eaten by the early Cifurch, following the example of the Israelites eating the passover. The English-speaking Baptist churches of Cincinnati count 750 members, and one German church there has nearly 100 members. The Ninth street church has half the Baptist membership of the city. A new church has been built at Eaton, about forty miles from Cincinnati, and fifty-three persons have been baptized there within two years past. The First Baptist church of Cincinnati is reduced in membership and is without @ pastor, Last spring its Ved de Rev. A. Collins, with 100 mem te) left and united with the Fifth street church in that city, and while the old churchis languishing the united body are doing nobly. There are four bodies of colored Baptists i the city, among whom a great deal of good work ts done by devoted pastors. The Baptists of Mankato, Minn., number iorty-five ina population of 5,000, Within the bounds of the Min- nesota Baptist State Convention there were but 833 baptisms in all the churches during the past ecclesiastical year ending in September, There are twenty-four churches in the State, composed of foreigners, of which number eighteen are supported by Scandinavians. Five are German churches. There are 172 Baptist churches in the State, thir- teen of which were organized during the year. Their total membership is 6,421. There are but fifty church edifices in the State and 123 ministers, Omaha, the commercial metropolis of Nebraska, is without a Baptist pastor, their house of worship bare- ly habitabie, the Church lisheartened, disorganized, and $13,000 in debt. And the church in Leaven- worth, Kansas, is nearly in the same condition, excepting that their temple is finished and fur- nisied, and empty. After two years’ absence Rev. E.R. Maine has returned to his old church and pastorate at West Walworth, N. Y. Rev. Eliphalet Owen, of Westmoreland, N. Y., was about to resign his pastorate lately, when a revival began in his charge and he has concluded to stay for the present. He has recently baptized fourteen adults and three minors. During the prolonged absence in Europe of Dr. Banvard, pastor of tue First Bap- tist church in Paterson, N, J., his congregation hold union services interchangeably with the Willis street church in each other's meeting houses, the Rev, 8. J. Knapp preaching to the united congre- gations, Mr, Knapp has built up his church from a membership of tlity-cight to over three hundred and fifty. Rev, ©, M. Prescott has en- tered upoh his labors with the N, Jackson F. Baptist church, New York, with encouraging pros- pects, ‘The church is erecting a fine house of wor- ship. Rev. T. J. Siegfried has resigned his charge at Victory, alter a pleasant and successiul ministry, and accepts @ call to Rose, N. Y. Rev. A. B. Sill has resigned his Roy of the Second Cape May church to close his labors the last of erento 1872, The church is in @ prosperous condition au ood parsonage near the meeting- B. Henry Da; ., has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist church in tudianap- olis after ten years’ labor there, during which the membership of his church has rison to 600, besides sending out three colonies and building a new church edifice for themselves. Rev. J. Sexton James, of Lewisburg, Pa., has accepted the call of the Allentown Baptist church, and will enter upon his pastoral duties forthwith. PRESBYTERIAN, Dr, John ©, Smith, of Washington, D. C., recently celebrated the thirty-third Ls ah nag Al of his pas- torate over the Fourth Presbyterian church in that city, and in see ekarok of iis memorial discourse he stated that his ¢} Methodist Episcopal church at Wellavilie, N. Y.,, ber of the Northern Ne: York Gonrerence ine inived with the Presbyterian Chi and has accepted the pastorate of the yterian church ag Waynesbu of Florence Female College er extremely ill tha@ his life is despaired of. — Will: lags graduating class st Golusoie tins = been ordained by Preabyeann na = sionary. Rev. C. L, Hogue, late graduate of "Union Seminary, has been appointed city missionary by the Presbytery of Louisville. Rev. C. R, Vaughn has received a call to the church at Macon, He was at one time pastor of the First church, burg, Va. EPISCOPALIAN. The venerable Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, senior bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and now about eighty years of age, is com- ing to Hoboken, N. J., to reside for the next two ore A meeting of the clergy and laity of the jpiscopal churcies in this city was held in St. Ann’s church, in Eighteentn street, near Fifth ave- nue, on Wednesday evening, to adopt meacures te found a “Home for Old Men and Aged Couples” iw this city. A committee, consisting of Drs, Tuttle and Gallaudet and Messrs, Thomas P. Cummings, William Niblo, A. B. McDonald, J. C. Kendall and L. W. Wells, was appointed, with power to hire the house adjoining St, Luke’s church, with its turni- ture, at an annual rental of $2,500, for such home. ‘The sum of $1,600 was subscribed at the meeti and the committee were authorized to coll parE A One for this laudable purpose. urch Within (uat verigd bad Rev, lenry ©. Potter, D. D., the earnest and eloquent rector of Grace church in this city, is spoken of as the successor of Bishop Eastburn (de- ceased) in the diocese of Massachusetts. Dr. Potter isa gentleman of most Bynes manners and. pleasing address; he is now in the prime of mature manhood; he is one of the most prominent clergy- men in the American Church; he is a sound, con- servative churchman, of excellent natural endow- ments and of solid and graceful acquirements. Dr. Potter is a son of the Right Kev, Alonzo Potter, once the distinguished Bishop of the diocese Pennsylvania, and a@ nephew of Bishop Potter, of New York. CATHOLIC, ROMAN The Catholics of Long Island dedicated two new churches last Sunday—one at Hewleti’s Station to St. Joseph and one in the Eastern District of Brook- lyn to St. Cecilla. The Sacred Congregation of Kites in Rome has tssued a decree for the beatification and canonization of Fra Angelo dal Pas, a priest of the Order of Minor Conventuais. This event will be de- termined on within afew days. The petition agains! the expulsion of the Jesuits from the inhabitants of Upper and Lower Rhenish provinces bears 80,000 signatures. Rev, A, J. Ryan, the poet-priest, is about to visit Europe for the benett of his health. Archbishop Perche ts suffering so much from am affection of the leg that he cannot even say mass. He has just returned from New Orieans, from an extended visitation of the parishes in the Teché country. Right Rev. James Gibbons, successor of Bishop McGiil, will be solemnly installed in St. Peter's Cathedral, Richmond, Va., to-day, ag the fourth Bishop of that «diocese, Bishops Kelly, Whelan and McGill having been his predecessors, Bishop Gibbons is in his thirty-eighth year, but carries the wisdom of age on pane shoulders. He is a Baltimorean, and one whose friends there are legion. The installation of ArcBhi OD Bayley in Baltimore has rekindled the desire to hold the Eleventh Provincial Council in that city, which was postponed last May owing to the death of the then rimate. It is probable that arrangements will shortly be made ior holding it. The following pret- ates, who compose the province, will doubtless attend:—Right Rev. Bishops Whelan, of Wheeling ; pen Gh of Charleston ; Domenec, of Pittsburg; Wood,. of Philadelphia; O'Hara, of Scranton; Shanahan, of Harrisburg; Mullen, of Erie; Gibbons, of Rich- mond; Becker, of Wilmington; Persico, of Sa- vannah; and Verot, of Florida, The Rev. William Wayrich, 0. SS. R., the distinguished Redemption- ist preacher of St. Alphonsus’ church, in Thomp- son street, New York, is spoken of as the pr io successor of Bishop Persico in the see of Savannah, Ga. On last Sunday Fathers Byrne and McGovern opened a mission in Jamaica, Long Island. To-day several Fathers of the same order are to commence a mission in Middletown, Gonn, Bishop Gibbons, on taking his leave of his diocese in ington to assume the responsibilities of the see of Richmond, Va., was made the recipient of a handsome silver pitcher, salver and gobiets, and a black marble clock and pair of mantel ornaments, appropriately inscribed. MISCELLANEOUS, The Jewish Messenger advocates union services among Hebrew congregations on Thanksgi’ Day, 80 a8 to secure something more than a dozen worshippers in their temples on that day. And be- sides, 1t would do much, the Messenger thinks, to promote oe among the members. The Is- raeiites of this city are trying to organize a publi- cation society in this city, with the laudable pur- pose of founding a cheap Hebrew literature for the young; but its projectors meet with very poor success. among the 60,000 Jews in New York only two hundred nave been found willing to subscribe $3 a year toward the society's funds. The Jewish press is becoming earnest in its advocacy of a na- tive ministry for American pulpits, but there is not enterprise nor interest enough among wealthy Israelites here to establish a theologicat seminary for the education of young men as rabbies.. Dr. Felsenthal, of Zion's Sonkrerei in Chicago, therefore proposes that a fund be raised sufficiently large that its interest may be applied annually to the education of American students for the read in German rabbinical schools where every- thing is ready at hand while it would take halt acentury to get a school as forward here. Ha would also have Biblical schools founded in all the: large cities of this country where Jews are populous: as preparatory educators of such students, The Rey J. W. Schenck was installed on Friday last, by the Classis of Hudson, as Hotes of the Reforme church of Claverack, . Y. Dr Rulf, ol Memel, publishes a call on the benevolent to assist the suffer Jews of Schaulen, in Russia. ‘hey lost all their property by @ great conflagration, and now the cliolera bas made its appearance, and the Russian Winter is fast approaching. Three thousand people at- tended service in the Temple on Fifth avenue, one thousand five hundred in the Lexington avenue, Norfolk and Thirty-ninth street Temples, one thou- nd in the Thirty-tourth, Forty-fourth, Clinton and ineteenth, and hardly smaller numbers in the other regular synagogues. Fully fifty-thousand Jews united in worship on Saturday last—Yom Kip- Fae thousand voices at sundown proclaimed srael’s watchword. Quite a respectable Jewise opulation; but, strange to say, adds the Jewish Bresaenger, not one-tenth properly observe the Sab- bath, e Temple Adas Jeshurun made a collec- tion last week in aid of the Roumanians. Quite a large sum was received. The other congregations will soon be called upon for a similar purpose, LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. Exposition of Scripture=Two Pictures of Life Explained by Dr. Huebsch. After the solemnities of the Atonement a season of rejoicing comes to the Israelites in the course of their festivals; and such season is now upon them in the Tabernacle Feast, during which it ts ous- tomary in the orthodox synagogues to read the Book of Ecclesiastes, a portion of which Rev. Dr. Huebsch read and expounded to his con, tion yesterday. The Doctor and his congregation are not so radically given to reform that they will throw away everything promiscuously because it is old or orthodox. Hence he hag retained the old prophetic custom of expounding the Word of God in course, as well as of sermonizing from particular texts. Every second Sabbath is given to exposition, the alternate Sabbath being devoted to sermons. Last Thursday being the beginning of the Taber- nacles feast the Doctor preached on tho nature and origin of this feast, and to-day he took the ninth chapter of Ecclesiastes and expounded from the seventh verse to the end of the chapter. It draws a picture gf tue life of a man whose work God had accepted, 4nd who may, therefore, “eat his bread with joy and drink his wine with a m heart.” His garments are to be always white ai pure, and his head must not lack ointment, and he 1s commanded to seek his pleasure in domestic life rather than in running about to places of siniul or of doubtful amusement. His hands, also, are to be. used in doing good, and whatsoever they find to do should be done with all his might, because of the shortness of time and the certainty of death; for there is no work nor device nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither all are hastening. A LIFE OF PLEASURE WITHOUT GOD. Turning from this picture the wise man saw another phase of lite fll of apparent contradic- tions and errors, so that the swift did not win the race nor the strong conquer in the battle nor the men of skill and understanding inherit riches and favor, but everything came to them goed by chance. And so men go along through life forget- ting that every good and every perfect gift cometh from God until, as the fishes are taken in @ net and the bird ina snare, they, too, are ensnared in an evil time by the very blessings which they enjoyed, but knew not how tobe thankful for, What men need most is wisdom and understanding to guide their affairs with discretion, and this same chapter contains an illustration of the value of wisdom possessed by & poor man and of the little esteem’ n which it was held becanse its possessor was poor, A besieged city was delivered by the wis- dom of the poor man yet no one remembered him. And Solomon, vent the matter calmly, con- cludes that even in such @ case, where wisdom is allowed to pass unrecegnized, itis better than strength, it ia better than weapons of war, and the words of & Wise man are heard in quiet and are heeded more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Whatever men live and labor for ia this life that has not the higher motives of the fu- ture life to inspire and to guide it is vanity and vexatjon of spirit. And thus while this season 1# Le in joy and festivity care must be taken that the garments are kept always white, and that the pleasures of the season shall not be inconsistent with the strict requirements of God's Word. Doctor's exposition was very instructive and.en- tertaining. On Thursday next he wilt preach at the Closing 01 this feast of Tabernacies, | | | | ee