The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1872, Page 13

> ttt November 3---Twenty-fourth Sun- RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. The Brussels Conference ot Hebrews. LETTER FROM JUDGE JOACHIMSEN, The American Consul in Roumania. Froude and Burke---The Religious Phase of the Discussion. PROTESTANT CATHEDRALS—WHY NOT? Movements and Changes in the Clergy. Services To-Day. A mecting of the evangelical societies of the Protestant Episcopal Church will be held at the Church of the Atonement this evening. T. G. Forster will lecture on Spiritualism at Apollo Hall morning and evening. Rev. David Mitchell will speak on “Cruelty to Animals” at the Canal street Presbyterian church this morning. Rev. P. L. Davies preaches at both services at the Berean Baptist church. Rey. Dr. Ball will preach at the West Seventeenth street Baptist church morning and evening. “ Atthe Church of the Resurrection Rey. E. 0. Flagg, D. D., will preach on Sunday morning and evening. “Christendom Tested and Found Wanting" is the subject of a sermon by tne Rev. C. A. G. Brigham, at the Catholic Apostolic church, at half-past seven P.M. At the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Rev. G. F. Krotel, D. D., pastor, services will be held at half-past ten A.-M. -Subject—“The Protestant Reformation.” Also at half-past seven P.M. : At the Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church there will be preaching by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Barnhart, at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P.M. At the French Church du St. Esprit, Rev. Dr. Verren, rector, divine service in French will be given at half-past ten A. M. There will be preaching by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Pendleton, in Fifty-third street Baptist church, at half-past ten and half-past seven o'clock. In Trinity Baptist church, Fifty-fifth street, a plea for beggars will be pronouncea. Bishop Clarke, of Rhode Island, will preach in Calvary church, Tenth avenne and Twenty-first street. In the Christian church, West Twenty-eighth street, preaching by the pastor. In Christ Church, Fifth avenue, services as usual, Rev. W. T. Clarke, in Unity chapel, Harlem. Pastor Reinke in the Moravian church. Rev. Halsey W. Knapp preaches in the Laight street Baptist Mission. Rev. Henry Powers, in the Unitarian church, Park avenue and Thirty-fourth strect, Rev. George i. Hepworth preaches in Steinway Ball. Rev. Dr. Ewer in St. Ignatius’ church. Rector R. Heber Newton will preach in Anthon Memorial church. Rev. H. D. Northrop will conduct the services at the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church at half-past ten o’clock in the morning and at half- past seven intheevening. Evening subject—‘‘Dan- fel an Example to Young Men.” After which® fourth anniversary of Young People’s Prayer Meet- ing. “Rev. C. S. Harrower, pastor of St. Luke’s Metho- dist Episcopal church, will preach at half-past ten o’clock in the morning. Right Rev. A. C. Coxe, Bishop of Western New York, witl offictate in St. Timothy’s church, West Fifty-seventh street, at halt-past ten o'clock, Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- ington square, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Subject—“The Five Universal Empires.” The new church edifice erected by the corpora- tion of St. Bartholomew's church, on the corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fourth street, will be open to-day for divine service. The services will be held at half-past tet c‘clock in the morning and jpalf-past three o'clock in the afternoon. At the Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church Rev. William H. Boole, pastor, will preach morning and evening. Evening sermon on the po- litical situation. Text—“Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?” ‘ At the Sixth avenue Reformed church Rev. Ju- Mus L. Danner, pastor, will preach; morning at half-past ten; evening at half-past seven. Subject for evening—“Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress.” At St. Thomas’ church there will be early. morn- ing prayer at nine o'clock; litany, sermon and holy communion at half-past ten; children's service, half-past three P. evening service and sermon by the Right Rev. G. T. Bedell, D. D., at half-past seven, Rev. E. C. Sweetser will give the second of a series of discourses on “The Pilgrim’s Progress” this evening, in the church corner of Bleecker and Downing streets. Special topic—“Christian’s Bur- den Lost at the Cross.” Services begin at half- past seven o'clock. Morning service at half-past ten o'clock. The Right Rev. Henry ©. Lay, D. D., Bishop of Easton, will preach in the Church of the Trans- figuration, Twenty-ninth street, near Fifth avenue, at half-past seven P. M. The Rey. John Henry Hopkins will preach in St. Peter's church, West Twentieth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, at half-past seven o'clock, in aid of the Young Men’s Association. At the Orthodox Eastern or Greek Catholic | chapel there will be divine service this Sunday, at eleven o'clock. Aiter the Holy Liturgy there will be a sermon intne English language by the Rev. Nicholas Bjerring, on the subject, “The Mission of the Church of Christ to the World.” The Brussels Jewish Conventi from Judge Joachimsen. The following letter from Hon. Philip J. Joachim- gen will prove interesting in connection with the important Council of Israelites from all parts of the world held in Brussels on the 29th and 30th ult. — Letter No. 15 West THIRTEENTH STREET, New York, Oct, 14, 1872, To M. 8. Isaacs, Esq., Secretary Ex. Com. Board of Delegates, A. L.:— Dear Sia—! have just received your kind favor informing me of the flattering compliment that I have been appointed one of your delegates to the Convention to be held at Brussels on the 29ih and goth days of the present month to consider the dest means for securing their natural rights to our co-religionists in Roumania. For this token of per- sonal partiality I pray you to accept my sincerest acknowledgments, ‘This meeting, called by most prominent friends fn Brussels, Will be of listoric moment as being, ince the dispersion, the first public council of faraetites from both Continents pat Of different in- a ent countries, ational | the immediate purpose, but to of aeation-—how best to obtain for men or our faith the unqueationed enjoyment of civil and religious Lbertr under @ government protected by and peck: | NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET. United rtupate to be obi with t! (the ‘earliest moment) would, under ordinary cir- cumstances, 1 ‘me to Brussels some time duri tite day of the 29th inst., and I would be require: to be again in Liverpool on the morning of the 2d November to enable me with absolute certainty to fiutfil the public engagements to which I have al- luded. Under such circumstances { could not bring bene —_ boo soa and eat usefulness, which is expected from me—at all events, on this side of the Atlantic. - It is a satisfaction to know that your mandate has also been confided to Messrs. Peixotto and Seligman, both well known to us as earnest and devoted champions ot the cause which we are to aid, and in whom all of us here have a just and abiding confidence, We can safely pledge our hearty co-operation towards avy movement in which they participate. Tregret most profoundly that I cannot be with them. Ihave long and anxiously waited for a move- ment in that direction, and it is only a paramount necessity which prevents my proceeding on the Journey. May an-opporttnity soon be again pre- sented in which I can be of use to you, ‘and you will flad me promptly Downy 2 Again thanking you for your exceeding kindness, regretting the circumstance which prevents me from serving you on the present occasion, and in the hope that, under Divine Providence, the labors of the Convention will become not only useful to likewise be the initia- tory step for further joint action and co-operation in matters of deep public concern, 1 have the honor to remain, very bia your obedient servant, PHILIP J. JOACHIMSEN, The American Consul in Roumania— Tic Government Approves His Course. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your Vienna correspondent, under date of Sep- tember 27, does great injustice to the United States Consul at Roumania, the President, who made the appointment, the Senate, who confirmed him, and the people of the United States, whose faithful and intelligent representative ho has always been. Were it not forthe sensational and—you will pardon us from adding—somewhat cruel head lines to the letter, which are hardly warranted by the context, we would permit to pass unnoticed the haphazard conjectures of your correspondent, who, writing a long distance away from the theatre of action, gives the version of a native Roumanian, who is, no doubt, not entirely unprejudiced, and of “they say” generally (who is a poor witness) of the present relations existing between our Consul and the Roumanian government and people. We do not intend to attempt to disprove in de- tail all your correspondent’s assertions, but rather to “say grace over the whole barrel’ by stating the uncontrovertible fact that each and every one of the official acts of our Con- sul, the Hon. B. F. Peixotto, have not only been approved by our own ‘government, but all the rep- resentatives of foreign Powers in Roumania have sustained Mr. Peixotto in the humanitarian courae he has pursued with reference to the persecutions inflicted upon the Jews in the country to which they are accredited; and all, with the exception of Russia, who merely suggested another mode of procedure, have united with our Consul ina joint note, addressed to Prince Charles, urging the amelioration of the condition of the Jews in his dominions upon international grounds. All are aware of the great experience of foreign diplomats, and the extreme caution they are taught to ob- serve; consequently such an endorsement as this, given at the instigation ot Mr. Peixotto, pane the whole proceeding as a necessity which all the world, except enlighvened (!) Roumania, deems of vital Baprtauos toevery human being. In this era of Geneva Conventions, when the sword fs drawn from the scabbard and fashioned into a pen, we should be proud asa nation that our young representative who is making such a suc- cessful and bioodicss fight for the cause of liberty and the sacred right of conscience is a Hebrew of American birth (and not “a naturalized citizen” as “believed” by your correspondent), and whose parents and grandparents were also Jews and Americans. But as Consul of the United States and as an American citizen he is neither Jew nor Christian; he represents those heavenly attributes of equality and liberty of soul and conscience created by the of Nations, and jealously watched over by His protecting kis os the Stars and Stripes. “ Jews we lay claim to an ‘infallivilisy doc- trine.” Among the Roumanians there are, no doubt, the usual proportion of scapegraces who deserve and should receive punishment as citizens for offences committed; but if they are to be punished because they are Jews—a matter of conscience between themselves and their God— we say, a Americans, and the whole world says Through their intelligent represen- tatives resident in Bucharest, Roumania, “Hands of, gentlemen!” And we mean precisely what we say; Dot that we intend to go to war and wad our guns with the choicest of the Roumanian pnd atl for the game wouldn't be worth the waste of the powder; but we intend to exercise a power more potent and lasting—the great moral power of a free people, which says, “You dare not, you must not, you shall not oppress an indi- vidual or a community for conscience sake, and if you heed not our words you do so at your peril, and Wwe will advertise you to the world as no longer worthy of association with the family of na- tions.” This is an effective and bloodless way the military have of “drumming out” a reiractory ae gee He anges cet hand other perhaps well-meaning though incapable) poten- tate would e1 joy the stirrin; strains ot such a « e's Mare * even if Mr. Jubilec Gilmore were t ai it with impossible bass drum and anvil ac- companiments upon a strictly cosmopolitan pro- gramme, Report says that Mr. Peixotto is encouraging emigration to this country-of the oppressed Jews and that the Roumanian authorities, in an outburst of generosity which is truly touching, are offering them free ports! We hope our Consul is doing nothing of the kind; not that these poor people— r m freedom, but not in pocket, for most of hem are thrifty and well to do—would not find a hearty welcome on vur shores and earn a comfort- able living for themselves gnd families, but the principle We are contending for should fought out and conquered upon their own soil. Jews and all other religious sects should be enfranchised and enjoy the same aghlon ed as all other Kou- manians, and then, and not until then, shall our great American “mission” have been fulfilled. The world is now fully alive to this, and it seems to us that we myer as well make a beginning at this time and select Koumania as the flelé for opera- tions as to postpone it longer and begin work where our cause is leas just and assured of success, It appears to us that to a great exteut Christi- anity, as personified in Prince Charles, is on trial in this matter, and it behooves the Eeary Ware, Beechers, the Theodore Tiltons, the Henry W. Bel- lowses, the William E. Degges, the spokesmen of the “Young Men's Christian Associations” aad other Christian associations to follow, though tardily, in the wake of the Bishop of London and other high dignitartes of the Church and Sti who expressed their sympathies eo cordially at a public meeting held recently in London and presided over by the Lord Mayor. Here is a suitable chance for American Christi- anity to repudiate the false claim set upin her be- half by one of her own disciples, clothed “‘in a little brief authority,” and, for the sake of her faith and a decent respect for the opinion of the world, we hope they will avail of the Opportantty: /EMI-OCCASIONAL, WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 20, 1872. Protestant Cathedrals. To THE EprTor ov THE HeRaLD:— The suggestion made by Bishop Potter in his te- cent address before the Episcopal Convention has attracted much attention. To the reflecting ob- server it, however, seems like an idea v-hich comes about four hundred years behind time, In days long past the cathedral system, undoubtedly, haa 4 its uses; but at this very moment, when the Eng- lish Bishops of Manchester and Peterborough have expressed their doubts as to the expediency of the English cathedral system, it appears rather odd for & prelate in a republican country to be urging the revival here of an effete medieval institution, It should be borne in mind that the proposed cathe- dral of New York is to be built from voluntary subscriptions ‘gathered in the diocese, unless, indeed, the Trinity Corporation should be willing to part with some of its- im. mense wealth for the purpose. But, if either the Episcopalians of this diocese or Trinity be disposed to lavish several millions on some special ecclesiastical purpose, would they not be doing better to pay off the debts which already are crushing the energies and hampering the useful- ness of some of our most important Church organi- zations? There are in New York prominent, fashionable churches, whose Gothic portals open on our most opulent avenues and whose existence is a pretence and a fraud, They are so overiadened with debt that they are really the property of others ratier-than of those who occupy & few of their pews. Would not our wealthy laity, or the Pitag Osteo aaa osu sate paying off these del Wick, while in polas of architeoiugal splen- tify the whims of a High Church ahet in their genuflexions and presence of a prelate who their eyes, assume a new dignit: through the increased importance of his surround. ings. It is possible, however, that such a scene would be productive of one benefit at least; it might prevent the Rome-ward bound from contin- see their journey, and it save to us such shining lights as “Father” Bradley and certain ritualistic gentlemen who seem inclined to follow in his foots ‘whose disciples consist of a few weak-minded men and silly women. To an earnest, conservative churchman, however, it seems that a scheme involving such enormous expense as that of the pro} cathedral should be seriously entertained, while so oe | of our churches are, to use an Hibernianism, filled with empty pews. We Lei pers have already more churches than we need. The upper part of the city is even now crowded with elegant ecclesiastical structures, = whose interiors nt at the ony services an aching void, only really well filled churches | are St. Thomas’, Christ church, the Holy Commun- | ion and the churches of the two Tyngs. The new | St. Bartholomew's will roneniy We added to the a for its architecture, its mu: nd its preaching will all undoubtedly prove attractive. But while the great majority of our churches are struggling for a bare existence it seems the height of folly to erect a vast cathedral, and by its means still fur- ther endanger the life of: oe ae ochial churches. The fat kine will eat up the lean. Are those by digi clergymen who are dazzled with the idea of a cathedral system prepared to sacrifice to it their congregations and their very means of sup- port? The diocese of Central Pennsylvania has | also been touched with the cathedral mania; but instead of calling on the laity for means whereby | to erect an expensive building an already exist- | ing church in Reading has been turned over to the | use of the jy est. raised to ee: Cee ofa | cathedral. Will Trinity church in thts city follow | this example, and thus relieve the diocese of the | coming drain upon its resources? Old Trinity would make a fine cathedral as it is, or the corpo- ration, with the profits of the old leases constantly reverting to it, might build a new and suitable structure up town, To such a plan there could be no Serious objection on the pony of providing money; but even then it might be argued that the cathedral system is quite as unnecessary to the American Church to-day as, after centuries of practical experience, it is proven to be to the Anglican. If Bishop Potter wishes to do a reall: eat work he will urge upon the rich members of the diocese the duty of subscribing, at once, an amount suf- fictent to pay off all existing debts on our Church property, and thus put an end to our attempts to lefraud the Almighty by erecting to His honor structures which, while they are in debt, really be- long only to His creatures. After this work is ac- complished a law should be passed by the compe- tent ecclesiastical authorities prohibiting a church from running into debt, and preventing adventur- ers from drawing exorbitant salaries from the Church property. i Froude and Burke—Pacification of Ire- . land. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I trust you will allow me to express my opinion on the “Irish question,”’ which has lately been agi- tated by Messrs. Froude and Burke. This question, however novel it be to some, as recently presented» is no new question for me ; it has occupied my mind, more or less, I may almost say, from childhood. And this is not strange, considering that I have Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Irish blood in my veins, It may be supposed, therefore, than such a person can speak with some degree of impartiality, What- ever lowers the Saxon lowers me; whatever lowers the Irish Celt lowers me. Consequently I rejoice in whatever elevates the both races and shudder at whatever would unite one race against the other. It seems to me that the lectures of Froude were impartial as they could be. He spoke calmly and fairly, dealing ont justice as it were on ail sides, He reprehended England when she was too harsh; he blames Ireland when she has shown impatience and want of judgment. Again, he shows us the peculiar dimiculties which England has had to en- counter in her government of the ‘Sister Isle," and at the same time pays a tribute to the noble and persistent struggle of the Irish for their na- tional independence during over seven centeries— a struggle which lasted 300 years while the religion of England as well as that of Ireland was Catholic; atter the Reformation religion being called in to widen a breach which we all know it did not com- mence. It 5 ype to me that the eloquent Father Burke N. lost sight of his office as a Christian clergyman in the excitement of his feelings as an Irish patriot, for he knows the history of the conquest of reland by Henry II. as well as Mr. Froude does. He knows that the Normau King of England had sanc- tioned the murder of the Saxon Bishop, Thomas & Becket, and, after the act was committed, he wil- ungly accepted an invitation to send troops to Ireland to settle the difiiculties between two war- like princes, in order to divert the attention of his Anglo-Saxon subjects from the enormity of his crime, at the same time to please the pe, by bringing Ireland into subjection. We know how, like the lion in the fable, Henry took the “lion's share,” as other conquerors have done in other countries. It has been said that Mr. Froude speaks like an Englishman, from an outside view. at historian can do anything else but take an outside view of the actions of past ages? Mr. Froude and Father Burke must both necessarily take outside views of the warfare of their ancestors, and the more dis- tant the view, I think, the better. It would be hard to put ourselves in the place of men and neighbors who, under the sacred name of religion and “thinking they did God service,” fought ruth- lessly against each other irom generation to gene- ration. God forbid we should cver “put ourselves in their place.” Rather let us turn our thoughts to “pacification” of races, of the countries, of the religions. This thought was suggested by Mr. Muskerry in a letter published recently in the HERALD. He scemed to accept the contiguity of Ireland to England as her “fate.” This is a view I have entertained for a lon; time. England would never willingly lose Ireland ; as soon would a beautiful woman lose one of her eyes. We cannot imagine England giving: up Ireland—the act would be suicidal ere- fore, they must be“ bound more closely jur- Sr artow Pe see ae er ing the and turned their arms against a common roan Nay, they e poured out their blood together every quarter of the globe! They have married and interi ted; Saxoi afd Dane and Celt and Norman, for nearly eight hundred y3 rey Hor. can you separate such people ? Nature has placed them together, and there they must remain. Scotland at one time was at perpetual war with England, and, doubtless, this state of things would have con- tinued had not the reigning families been united- by. marriage, which rendered James of Scotland the heir of the English: thone. Thus the Scots, a Celtic race also, could submit to the reigning Power without losing their pride. Why a union of this kind was not effected with Ireland years it is, perhaps, useless now to in- quire. But it is not too late yet to make a “‘lien” on the Irish heart. Surely an Irishman can make as good a husband as a Coburg ora Lorne. Amon; the good old family may be found a mate for one oi the unmarried children of the good Queen Victoria. The amendment of the land tenure may proceed, but we want more—a tenure on the affections of the people, so that they may know they are not governed continually by another race, but by ive inheriting the same Celtic blood as them- selves. It seems strange that this has not been tried be- fore. Let Victoria, the mother, so beloved by all, endeavor thus to heal the wounded self-respect of an erring, high-spirited and suffering nation; and when even the name of Henry, the first conqueror of Ireland, may fade away to a myth, Victoria’s name shall still be mentioned with veneration and affection as the true ne. conqueror through love. Very respectfully, G. H. HORR. Open Communion—Resignation of Rev. George F. Pentecost, of the Hanson Place Church. The Rev. G. F. Pentecost, pastor of the Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn, has resigned his ministry over the flock. He says, in tendering his resignation :— The current agitation in relation to the proper administration of the Lord's Supper, of which my action in administering the same to a com- pany of Christians, some «f whom had not en baptized, has been the innocent occasion, together with the recent action of the church, to develop such a want of harmony of | views between us upon the subject that were 1 to remain pastor under present circumstances, [ should have to exercise my office with such a limi- tation of personal liberty as would render my ministry a cramped and unhappy one. In addition to this personal consideration | fear that the peace and harraony of tie church would be imperilied by my continued pastoral relation, and that your foun aud usefulness in the community be hindered; for a house divided against itself cannot stand; and as am unwilling to be the occasion, however innocent, of such a disunion, I deem it the wisest, as well as the most honorable course, for me to retire from the pastoral care. I, therefore, in the interest of peace and harmony, and the héartiest spirit of fraternal love, teader you my resignation, which I beg you will accept, to take effect, according to our agreement, three months from this date, or as much sooner as may suit your pleasure and convenience, and the best interests of the Church and society. He will, it is said, accept a call to the Warren avenue Baptist church, Boston. Missions in China and 6 of the Converts, From Chinkiang, China, we learn by a HERALD “church at Ovid, Mich, special letter that on the 20th April a boat ‘loaded with children coming from ag establishment be- longing to the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, at Yangchow, was stopped by a mob outside the west -| gate Of the city, wader the Dretenge that the chil dren were being kidnapped. The boatmen, nurses and children were taken to the itrate’s ya- mén, the former being rather ly handled. When the missionary arrived to interfere on their behalf the mob grew very excited, and he had only just time to im the magistrate’s ya- men. ae of disturbances the officials de- clined to deliver up the children so long as the ex- aminations for the Hsiu-Ts’ai ee were going on in the city, bat sent them toa Chinese asylum, where they still are. The boatmen, nurses, &c., were, however, soon set free. Ministerial ments. PRESBYTERIAN. The Preabytery of West Hanover, La., has re- commended that November 14 be kept as Thanks- giving Day by their churches because the regular day. fails in the time appointed for their synodical meeting. Rev. Edward L, Clark, late of New Haven, Conn., was, on Thursday evening last, in- stalled pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Harlem by the Presbytery of New York. The Rev. J, G, Mason, of Jonestown, Tenn., was, on Thursday evening, installed pastor of the North Presbyterian church in Washington, D.C. Anew Presbyterian church 18 being built at Minebill, near Dover, N. J., for the use of the miners there. Rey. J. R. Jenkins has organized the congregation and another also at Mount Pleasant, to whom he preaches in the Welsh Janguage. Acourse of lectures to young people is tobe given in the Central Presbyterian chapel in Fifty-sixth street, near Broadway, during the Sabbath evenings of the present month Dr. T. L. Cuyler leads off this evening. Rev. A. McLean and wife have returned in health from Europe, and received a very warm welcome from their friends in Buffaio, N. Y, At the late meeting of the Presbytery of North Alabama the subject of a memorial to the General Assembly to do away with the meetings of Synod was referred to a special committee of tive, to report at the next stated meeting of the Presby- tery. Calls have been accepted by Rev. D, H: Campbell, of Philadelphia, to the pastorate of the Grove Presbyterian Church, Hall's Cross Roads, Md.; by Rev. John Johnson, of Petersburg, W. Va., to Hedgeville, W. Va.; by Rev. J. A. McCon- nell, of Louisiana Presbytery, to Plaquemine church; by Rey. H. B. Bonde, to Columbus, Miss. ; by Rev. T. L. De Veaux, of Jacksonville, Fla., to be editor of th North Carotina Presbyterian; by Rev. John Woods, of Bloomingburg, Ohio, to Chicago Ninth Presbyterian church; by Rev. J. H Bryson, of Shelbyville, Tenn. to Charlottes- ville, Va.; by Rev. A. T. Greybill, to Pearis burg, Va.; by Rev. J, L. Russell, of Middletown, Ohio, to Dayton, Ohio, Rev, Josiah Miligan has re- signed the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Princeton, Ii, Rey. A. W. Hubbard has re- moved from Dillsbarg, Pa., to Cameron, N. Y. The Third Presbyterian church of Chester, Pa., was or- ganized a few days ago with sixty members. Ill health has compelled Rev. Walter Condict to re- sign the pastoral charge of Calvary Presbyteri: church, Newark, N.J. Rev. Dr. Chester is to sup- ply the pulpit of the Central Presbyterian church, New York, Sunday evenings and Wednesdays, here- after. Rev. ZN. Bradbury has assumed charge of the Presbyterian church in Howard, N. Y. Rev. E. W. Kellogg, of Red Creek, has gone to Parma Cen- tre, N. Y., and Rey. D. W. Bigelow, Fayetteville, to Pitcher, Chenango county, N. Y. ‘the resignations of the following ministers are announced :—Kev, Dr. Sprole, at Newburg; Kev. J. E. Carey, at Free- port, Ill,; Rev. H. W. Crabbe, of the United Preaby- rian church, at St. Louis; Rev. J. 8S. McKee, at Broadhea Wis.; Rev. A. A. Graley, at Knowlesville, N. Y.; Rev, A. T. Kankin, at Bar- ton, Md.; Rev. Kobert White, at Bridgeville, Del.; Rev. J. 8. McCoy, at Sandusky, Ohio; Key. William Laurie, at Stewartsville, to go to Penn Yan, N. Y. The Presbyterians of Montclair, N. J., are building ®@ handsome and commodious parsonage for their Ree Rev. Dr. Berry, at an expense of $15,000, e reports of the Presbyterian Synod, which has just conciuded its session at Trenton, N.J., show $132,766 contributed-to the boards of the Church, and a total contribution for denominational pur- 8 during the year of $1,128,000—an average of 380 tor each communicant. Work has been begun upon the Rey. Dr. Hall's new church, at Filth aye- noe and Filty-fifth streer, this city. The sige has a frontage of 100 feet on Fifth avenue and 200 on Fifty-fifth street. The building will cover the entire fronton Fifth ave- nue, and the lecture room will be erected on Filty- fifth street, The committee appointed by the Newcastle From secy to rena the charges made against the Kev. Henry tthews by a colored servant girl who resided in his family have reported the same to be utterly groundless and the gu who made them not wort of credence, The rst Presbyterian church in Minneapolis, Minn., was erec! in 1853; the corner stone of another was laid a few days ago. Rev. W. H. Stratton has become pastor at Baton Rouge, La. Rev. M. L. P. Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., has gone to Des Moines, Iowa. Rev, D. W. Molore has left the Lower Bran- dywine church, Delaware. — Rev. Dr. Poor has leit the First Presbyt chureh, Oaktand, Cal., to take @ professorship in the Theological Seminary, San Francisco, Dr. Kerr, of Mempbis, ‘ienn., having lost his voice has become an editor of the Louisville Christian Observer. Rey. John McVey has become brig of the First Presbyterian church, Dayton, hio. The resignations are also announced of Rev. George Ainsiee at Rochester, Minn., to take charge of the Presbyterian Mission Schools among the Indians at Lapwai, Idaho; Rev. H. H. Allen, at St. Charles, Mo.; Rev. J. Bloomer at Moren Mich.; Rev. C. Thompson at Fredonia, N.Y (at the tipe age of Gehrig a and of his minis- try the fifty-sixth); Rev. KR. Telford at Warren, Ohio; Rev. 8. ‘It. Holt at Decatur, IIL. Barry, Ill, Among the Dakota Indians the Pres- bytenan Church has seven organized churches un- der the charge of native pastors, each having a membership of irom forty-three to 267, and cach year witnesses a growth in membership among them. Several of these churches have houses of worship. “BAPTIST. The Baptists of Keota, lowa, a town six months old and containing 300 people, dedicated a church there last Sunday week. Quick work. Calls Rare heel nopepted by Rey, D. 8. Starr, of White- hall, Ill, to thé omicé of demdératic 8 8 Gover: nor if he is elected; by Rey. W. D. Post, D. D., of Collinsville, iL, to’ Belleville, Ii; by Rev. RK. F. areal, of Carrollton, Ill., to Petaluma, Cal. The ap of Lafayette, Ind., have just removed a jebt of $19,000 from their church and raised be- sides $71,800 to found a free library and orphanage and to build a Sugday choo and ae ture room. There are 1,489,191 Baptists In the hifted States, and their increase last year was 69,698. The War- ren ayenue bg fhe church of Boston has repeated its call to Mr. Pentecost, of Brooklyn, and in view of the recent action of the Long Island Associa- tion anda division of sentiment in the church it is believed that he will accept this call. The ner tists of Clayton and of Noble, Ill, will dedicate churcheg to-day in their respective towns. The white Baptists of Baltimore are going to buiki achurch lor their colored brethren o1 that city at a cost of $20,000, The First Baptist church of Man- chester, N. i, are building @ new edifice to cost 60,000. Calls have becn accepted by Rev. J. U. jonham, of St. Louis, to Decatur, Ill.; by Rev. W. H. Dorward, of North Greenbush, N. Y., to Wilson, N. Y.; by Rev. L, H. Delano, of Littleton, Neb., to Bianden, Neb.; by Rev. E. Hickson, of St. George, to Carleton, St. John, N.B.; by Rey. Thomas H. Bates, of San Francisco (Disciples), to Adelaide, South Australia; by Rev. A. A. Knight, of Rush- ville, Ind. (Disciples), to Mount Pleasant and Car- thage, Ohio; by Rev. Elijah Gerchin, of Philadel- pe to Newport, Ky.; by Rev. ©. H. Thomas, of Heville, Ill, to East St. Louis; by Rev. Carlos Swilt to Kewanee, TL. ; by Rey. J. Castro, of Olympia, to Union City, Washington Territory; Lf Rey. T. T. Saffer, of Flint, Mich., to Upper Alton, Ill.; by Rev. T. H. Judson, of Nora Springs, Iowa, to Elk Point, Dakota; by Rev. M, Chambliss, of Richmond, Va., to Charleston, S. C.; by Rey. Dr. Dowling, temporary to the South Baptist church of this city; by kev. S. B. Gregory, of Whitesboro, N. ¥., to Leland University, New Orleans; by Rev. G. W. Baptiste to Fulton, N. Y.; by Kev. W. 8. D. D, Post, of Collinsville, Il, to Belle- ville, Wis.; by Rey. C. M. Bape, of Rochester, to Springfield, Ohio; by Rev. Yan Alstin, of Corn- ing, to Hornellsville, N. Y.; by Rev. H. A. Cordo to North church, Jersey City R . L. Davies, of the Berean church, this city, to Tabernacle chureb, Utiea; N G, Crews, of Springtield, Ky., to Richmond, y i J, G. Walker to Mantua church, Philadelphia; by Rev. G. C. Chandler, of McMinnville, to Forest Grove §. Chase, of ‘Colchester, Vt., to H.; by Rev. M. C. Clack, of Sullivan, Ind., to Linton, Ind.; by Rev. J. C, Foster, of Beverly, Mass, to Ran- doiph, jass.; by Rev. I, J. G. B. House, of Boston, Maxss., to Mount Holly, N. J.; by Rev. 0. C, Hunt, of | Windsor, Me,, to Newtown Centre, Masa.; by Key. W. H. Whigcoimb, of Hastings, Minn., to Charles City, lowa. Fiftsen Baptist ministers of Brooklyn have subscribed to resolutions reamirming their adherence to the crecd of the Warren Baptist Association of Rhode Island, their standing havin; been somewhat compromised by the reports ot the late proceedings of the Long Isiand Associa- tion, The Hanson place church has also reattirmea its abhorrence of pedo-baptism. Kev. G. L. Surber, of Me.bourne, Australia, has come to re- side in this country. Rev. W. A. Corey, of Spring- field, N. B., has been very il! for some weeks, but is improving. Key. George M. Slaysman has re- signed the peaieree of the churcn in Pottstown, Pa. Rev, E. Mills has closed his labors wit! the Rey. Hugh Stowell Brown has returned to his home in Liverpool with an enthusiastic Jove for tne New World and, it is sald, a fixed purpose to visit us again. The Rev. J, W. Wedgeworth, a Methodist minister, now ad- vanced in years, has been received into the Bap- tist Church at Meriden, Miss, The General Conterence of the Seventh Day Bap- tists met latcly at Southampton, Ill, This yoar ig the two hundredth anniversary of the beginning oi the denomination. They number 7, mem- bers, and their tract society Lang for the last Fed were $4,028. Rather a poor show tor a sect @ jundred years older than the Methodists, EPISCOPALIAN, The London Church Review gives a list of 138 Ss to goto Rev, Va; Guilds or Brotherhoods founded in Engiand within the past twenty ere most of them within five years. The Rev. iE iam N. Irish has resigned the rectorship of Trinity church, Lowviile. Kev. John , Steindle, lanipenen bm in the Roman Catholic Chureh, has app! be admitted to the ministry of the opal Church in Missouri. Services have been resumed in the Episcopal church at Stone Ridge, Ulster county, N. Y., by Rev. A) Ashton. mos Calis to rectorships have been soneeien by Rev. H. H. Oberly Grace charch, CI alley, by Rev. E. T. Sandtord to christ ehw . Y.; by Rev. Jaines Bonnar to All-Hal- ish, Md. ; by Rev. John Coleman to the of the Holy Comiorter, Rahway, N. J.; Lyman N. Freeman, ot Cocoa, IL, to St. Paul's church, Duluth, lowa; by Rev. P. B. Lightner as assistant to the rector of Gethsemane church, Minneapolis, Minn, ; by Rev. Charles Piam- mer, of St. Anthony, Minn., to St. Mark's church, Salt Lake City, Rev, William Maguire has resigned the rectorship of Christ church, Washington parish, . A parish has been organized in Lawrence- ville, Pa., with the name of St. Johns, and the Rev. B. F. Taylor haa been chosen rector. Kev. G. L. Chase, rector of Holy Trinity church, East Minne- apolis, is at_ present on a visit to the East. The venerable ther Geer, senior clergymanin the American Church, is in feeble health at his home in Minneapolis, Minn. He is seventy-nine years of age, and all his mental faculties are clear and bright. He has been hindered by bodily infirmities from officiating at the altar for several years. The Rev. Capel Molyneux, the eminent preacher whose eloquent and faithful ministra- ons for many years made the name of Lock Hos- E al familiar throughout England, has separated imself from the Established Church, owing to the recent Bennet judgment. Bishop Huntington de- clines an invitation to lecture in a course by emi- nent clergymen of different denominations before asoclety of Harvard College, not because the col- lege is Unitarian, nor because the society is not orthodox, but because Henry Ward Beecher is to be one of the lecturers, with whom he has no desire to be contrasted. Rev. Dr. S. A. Penniman, of the diocese of New Jersey, who been for some time Bast dritting towards Rome, has lately found the esired haven in St. Teresa's church, Summit, N.J._ Rev. William E. McLaren, of Detroit, aud in whom the Presbyterian Church still retains & tie interest, has accepted a call to the rectorshup of Trinity church, Cleveland, Ohio. METHODIST. The Methodists of Newark will hold a unton ser- vice in the Central church, on Market street, on Thanksgiving Day. Kev. John Tonner, DD. of Canton, Ohio, is the oniy local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States on whom the degree of D. D. has been conferred, At the recent session of the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. F. Wil- liams was received by readmission {rom the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, South. Rev. J. W. Carhart, pee of the Methodist church at Racine, Wis., has een confined to his bed with fever for nearly five weeks, He is now convalescent. Rev. Dr. Dashiell! has reached his home and is again at his post in the Mission rooms in this city, During his five weeks’ absence he travelled near! six thousand miles, and visited eight Conferences in the Northwest and So1h. The chief object of his tour was to make careful personal observation of Methodist mission work in the South, Rev. C. Z. Case, a very highly esteemed and giited member of the ‘ventral New York Conierence, pastor of the Methodist peor om church, Elmira, died a few days ago, at Clifton Springs. Kev. W. M. Henry, pastor of the Washington Heights Methodist ED copal church, New York city, has been transferred to the Central New York Conference, and stationed at Wellsborough, Tioga county, Pa. Rev. W. P. Corbitt has succeeded him. Rey. George Cochran, of the Canadian Wesleyan Conference, is seriously ill, Two branches of Canadian Methodists—Wes- leyan and New Conuection—have at their recent conferences by committees agreed upon a basis of union which is to be consummated during the year. Bishop Gilbert Haven has decided not to visit his diocese until after election. He has no eur for Greeley music. Rev. W. R. Gober, of the Pacific Conference, has withdrawn from the Church, South, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, The Rey. W. H. Cooper, who recently pub- licly withdrew trom the Episcopal ministry, has Sopticg for admission into the Chicago district of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev, F. A. Spencer, of the Ohio Mcthodist Conference, has been Sppolnted to reinforce the new mission of that Church in Italy. The Methodist Episcopal Church is talking of making their missionary contribu- tions for the coming year reach to $1,000,000, A revival is in progress in Pitman Metnodist Epis- copal church, New Brunswick, N. J. The Rev. J. B. Wakeley, presiding elder of the Methodist Episco- pal church of the Newburg district, has received a call from the Eddyville Methodist Episcopal church, which, it is thought, he will accept at the close of his term as presiding elder in April. a few days since he received some substantial tokens of the love of the ministry and membership of the dis- trict. Rev. Dr, Andrew Longacre, of Newburg, im a neat and feeling addre: presented Mr. Wakeley with a purse containing $500, Rev. J. W. B. Wood then presented him with a handsome gold-headed cane, the wood being irom Mount Olivet. Then came uw presentation of $100 to Mrs. Wakeley. Rev. M. D. Fly has been trans- ferred from the Texas Conference to the Northwest Texas Conference. Rev. J. T. Davies, Presiding Elder of Lake Provinence district, Louisiana Con- ference, writes that a religious revival in his dis- trict has added over five hundred souls to the Church during the iast quarter. One preacher took in 121, and the good work still goes on in the Meth- odist Episcopal churches of the North and South wings. In King William county, Virginia, under Rev. G. M. Wright, Methodist minister, eight re- spectable members of the Baptist Church have leit that communion and joined the Methodist Church. On Charles City circuit, during the past year or two, futy or more respectable members of the Baptist Church have left that body and united with the Methodists. The Methodists of Newnan, Ga., have subscribed between four and five thousand dollars for the building of a new church in that place, They propose to raise $10,000 in all. At the recent session of the Southern Methodist Conference in Santa Rosa the preach- ers subscribed $1,000 tor the relief of the Pa Methodist, the Conference bener A Methodist Episcopal church, South, is course of erection near Odenton, Md. Work on the Braddock street Methodist church, Winchester, Va., is progressing Estey the frescoers being ‘at work on tie inside. When completed ac:ording to the design, and the splendid organ in tion, it will be one of the prettiest church edifices in the valley of Virginia. ROMAN CATHOLIC. St. Martin’s festival will occur on the 11th inst., nq will be duly observed in the Catholic churches. St. Martin was the son of the sister of St. Patrick, and his piety may be traced through that of his mother to that fenowned and holy saint, thus ex- Seung, the trut! that the memory of the just is blessed. Rev, Father brady, of Loulbville, iggbout to builida new church on Broadway A&fid Seven- enth street, ete under the Ee of the acred Heart. The number of decular clergymen belonging to the diocese of Louisville is seventy. In 1869 it was only forty-eight. Bishop Domenee, of Pittsburg, has received a donation of five buildin lots, square, in the borough of Epay, elite for a church. Mr. Thomas F. Stewart is the generous donor. The Very Rev. Canon McUabe is to be the coadjutor Bishop of Dublin, Father Burke expects to answer Froude formally, during the Bronens month, through a series of lectures on Irish history. Father Piette, of Portland, Oregon, is in Oanada. His health is poor. Father Scaanell has been trans- ferred tro Angeles vo Visalia, Cal. Father Deiters, formerly of ria, is now in charge of the mission at Beseepe Ml, Father O'Reilly, a late ordination of Carlow Nigete has arrived in St. Louis, Mo. Father Murtaugh has been transferred from Ottawa to Pekin, lil. Rev. Father Grogan has retired trom the charge of St. Jarlath’s cheney Chicago, on account of iL health, Be- fore Is departure he was presented by his rishioners with a handsome set of vestments Rev. Father Cashman has been appointed to Father Grogan's place. The Rev, Hugh Magaire, of St. John’s church, Brooklyn, died on the 25th inst., aged seventy-seven years, nearly fifty of which he had spent in the priesthood. He was the oldest Catholic clergyman in the diocese ot Brook- lyn. The recent fair held in Irving Hall for the benefit of St. Joseph's Home for the Aged has netted nearly ten thousand dollars after all ex- penses are paid. The Rev. Father J. J. Russell, of St Peter’s church, Co:umbia, Pa., has obtained from Mount St. Vincent's, New York, a Lata! Sisters to take charge of the arochial school of his parish, The eat esuit missionary, Father Damen, has been holding missions in Philadelphia during the past month. He has been assisted by Father Koopmans, Masselis, Converse, Garesché and Von Goch. In St. Joseph's church there were about four thousand two hundred communions, eight converts were received into the church and flity were prepared for their first communion. The Cathedral in which they now hold services has been crowded daily, so that a pip aire td has been opened also, ana this too Js crowded, and many are unable to find en- trance at cither piace. The Benedictine Fathers haye a successful mission in operation also in the German church of the Fourteen Holy Martyrs, in Baltimore. On the 10th of this month Father Damen and his assistant Jesuit Fathers will open a mission in St. Martin's church, Baltimore, york has commenced on the foundations for the new Catholic church to be erected at Baden, Mo. The puilding will be of stone and brick, fiity by cight feet in dimensions and of tue Gothic style, and, when completed, will cost about $15,000, "It is ex- pected to haye the church ready for dedication by christmas. The Roman Catholic priests write to the Gencva Journal that they will second the mo- tion made by Hyacinthe and get married. MISCELLANKOUS, The Disciples of Indiana, a branch of the Baptist de- nomination, have 625 churches, 65,625 members, 300 preachers, 610 Sun‘lay schools, with 63,650 children and 4,590 teachers. is ecclesiastical y ending October 1, they raised for church and mi gee purposes $461,625. The value of their churcl property is $900,250, Rev. J. C, Holbrook is to re- turn from C: ‘nia and act in New York as secre- tary and Seppe of a home missionary socicty, organized at the last meeting of the New York Con- gregational Association. Rev. Henry Powers, late astor of Kim place Congregational church, Brook- ya, N. Y., has been called unanimously to the Unitarian church in Old Cambridge, Muss. Rev. Horace James, of Greenwich, Conn., has sailed tor Europe, intending to spend tne Winter in the East, Since the Roy, D, L Kalisch has officiated as rabbi of the Congregation Ohavai Sholom, of Nash- ville, Tenn, which classifies itsell as ‘moderate retorm,” it has increased one-third in member. ship, numbering eighty. The new temple “Sinai,” but in New Orieans for the Jewish congrega- tion, to which Rev. Dr. Gatheim, of this city, has y inister, is nearly completed, and will be Ready for dedication a ‘ahort time. Another new fogu . Jewish Publication eld its second annual election on Mon last, the Forty-fourth atreet The attendance Was small and no other ou! of senceteeee was transacted. Calls have-been accepted by Rev. J. F. Reinmand, in, to Zion's Lui of chureh, Lebanon, ry . Orange Classis, to the Reformed church in Bloom- Rev. T. G. Holmes, of East Hartiord, Conn., to the Lee Avenue my Brooklyn, N. Y.; by Rev. ©. P. lerica, Mags., temporarily, to Dr. in Bumalo, N. Y., during the Europe; by Rev, J. W. Kingsbury, of North Wood stock, Conn., to North ert Mass; Rev. J B. Baldwin has closed his ministry with the Cor gregational church in Weathersfleld Centre, Vt., and Rev, W. T. Herrick has closed his pastorate of nearly twelve years with the Congregational churvh in Clarendon, Vt. Rev. J. M, Rutte, of the Sixth Reformed church (Holland) of Paterson, N. J., returned a few days ago froma three months? visit to the Netherlands, He received and ac- cepted a call from the Church of Nieuwe Tonge, im the province of South Holland in the Netheriandsy andin a few weeks he will again start for the Fatherland, His family remained there, and are Proged living in the parsonage of his new home, Rey. H. R. Timlow has retired from the editorshi of the Christian Intelligencer, in whose conduc! he displayed tact, taste and talents of @ high order, Of the 104 churches one district in Wisconsin, only thirty-four e self-supporting. Fifty-five ministera are lying seventy-two churches and thirty-two stations. The average Home Missionary ap-. propriation the past year has been $205 per minis- ter and $175 per church, and the average gaiai 640, Three churches have been organized, whic! are in destitute regions, without other church ad- vant Rey. G. Peeke has resigned the pas- torate of the Reformed church at Davenport, lil, and Rey. H. Decker goes there from Havana, Rev. D. Brock, of bets, ght Mich., goes to the churches of Bethel and Othy, Ill. Vv. A. Thomp- son goes to the second Reformed church of Pella, Iowa. The New England church of this city, ree cently under the care of the Rev. Merrill Richarason, has become so discouraged as to seek a dissolution, so that the church is now among the dead. Rev, William Brock, D. D., has closed long and useful pastorate at Bloomsbury chapel, London, For nearly a quarter of a century he has led the people worshiping there, as a@ teacher, friend, father, guide and example, constantly loved, trusted and honored. The Rev. E. A. Adams, late of Manchester, Conn., has sailed for Austria as a missionary of the American soard. The missions to. Roman Catholic countries are becoming important. The Rev. Wi ington Roosevelt has resigned the torate of the Reformed church of Bronxville. TI is but one Unitarian church in Philadelphia, astor, Dr. Furness, has been in charge for nearly ity years, Rev, E. ¥. Livingston goes to Pekin, iL, and Rev. W. H. Vroom to Havana Refor Dutch churches, Rev. C. L. Goodell, of New Britain, recenuly called by the First Congregational church of Detroit, has recetved another call. This time from the Pilgrim church in St. Louis. There are 41,703 Protestants in Paris, 30,421 Jews, 2,500 free thinkers and 422 Mohammedans. In Rouen there are 452 Protestants. ‘ashe ere The FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. The Unity in Design of Judaism, but the Separaten: in Practice—Sermon by Rev. 8S. M. Isaacs. Yesterday Rev, Mr. Isaacs preached in the synas gogue in Forty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue, te @ moderately-sized congregation. The month of holidays having passed, he said, they might take a few practical lessons from the Scriptures which they had read. He therefore called attention te Genesis xi., 1:—“And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” How good it is, said Mr. Isaacs, when brethren dwell together in unity. Everything was designed and intended to be a unit in its completeness; but when we look around us we find that there is a lack of oneness in many things. Look at the people who lived on the earth inthe time of the Deluge, of which we might speak, The world was full of wickedness, go full that only one man and his family were saved in that overfow, Everything has been in- tended for unity, just as Israel hes been selected to be one people holy unto the Lord. But this unity of purpose and aim has been perverted, and, as the lesson from which the text is chosen declares, whem the People were of one language and of one mind they fell the more readily into sin. How beautiful it is to see A FAMILY DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY! And yet when the antediluvians were on? the: sought to build a tower whose top should reac! unto heaven, intending thereby, as some commen- tators think, to insure their own safety in case of another deluge—so that to: drown them God should drown Himself also, But that ts not the reason given in this chapter. It 1s that they might make @ name for themselves. Materialism was their atm and their creed, They torgot the true God, and in their ignorance sought to reach His presence by other mears than hose which He had appointed. But God said, “Let them go on; 3 will contound their speech and scatter them abroad throughout the whole earth.” But religion was not destroyed. No, there was one man—Abra- ham—who arose and carried the true light in his heart, Judaism is one and is intended to be one, but yet it is not in every respect one, Look at what some of us are doing. We are building a tower and App aas | that we are wiser than our fathers. Some give la doses of religion and some take it in homeopathic doses. Where are the prayers that were once used among us? ‘Chey are not said now save in the synagogue. There are NO MORE PRAYERS OFFERED in the houses save among a few of us, he said, and he knew not where this would stop. He regretted the indifference manifested toward religion by Is- raelites, but he prayed that God would revive love for His service in the hearts of the people. MM Isaacs then addressed a few words of advice to a youth who had just been admitted to membership id to the privilege of reading the Torah in the synagogue. LAYING A CORNER STONE. penoncinesa einen A New Church Being Erected on the Ruins of the Burned-Out St. Andrew's Church, Harlem, and What It Will Look Like When Campléted The corner stone of the new St. Andrew's church, 127th street and Fourth avenue, was laid by Bishop Potter yesterday afternoon with great ceremony. After the ceremony of laying the stone was con- cluded the reverend Bishop made a short address, in which he said that he was glad to see the zeal and energy exhibited by the Harlem mem- bers of the Episcopal profession, and further com- plimented them upon the beauty of the site and the elegance of the plan on wich they propose iP. to erect their new house of wors! The new building is to be erected on the ground where formerly stood St. Andrew's church, @ wooden building, which was destroyed by fire on the 18th of last November, and 18 to be built of istand granite. THE NEW CHURCH. A portion of the church will adjoin the Sunday scheol building, with which the church can thus have direct communication, The edifice will embrace a nave, with clere stor; and aisles; a north and south transept, a chancel with aisles; a vestry room at the northwest corner, a porch, affording access from 128th stre at the northeast corner; a similar porch the southeast corner, for access from 127 street a small pp iment, opening by arches into the church, to be known as “the chi dren's corner,” in the southwest, and about mide Way on the south side, in the angle joined by the transept and aisie, will stand a tower, witha siair turret alongside of it for ascent to the beliry—rising at the highest point about one hundred feet. ‘The organ and choir will have place in a gallery in the north transept. The church will be 126 feet in extreme length and from sixty to seventy in widti its seat capacity, it is estimated, will be for one thousan persons, besides ample space for passages, a roomy and convenient chancel and a baptistry. It will be lighted on every side and will be neatly and comfortably furnished with hardwood pews. these and other little details in the designs are carried out it cannot fail to be one of those things of beauty that are a joy forever. Besides a large number of the distinguished Episcopal laity in attendance on the ceremonies esterday were Rev. Dra. Gill, Buel, Gallaudet, lev. Mr. Cooper, of a, .; Rev. Mr. McVi- car, of Manhattanville; Rev. Mr. Ray, Rev. Mr. Knapp, Rev. Mr. Devinson and Rev. George B. Dra- per, the rector. It is estimated that the new church will be fin'shed and ready for service on St, Andrew's Day, the 30th of November, 1873. FIRE IN BARCLAY STREET. A fire broke out yesterday at ten minutes pase twelve in the five story iron building No. 37 Barclay street, the property of Shaford & Brother, which caused a loss of about $32,000, The first floor, cet- lar and sub-cellar were occupied by Calhoun, Wood- ward & Co., dealers in crockery, Who sustained 2 loss of about $25,000 in stock. The second, third, fourth and fifth floors were oceupied by the Ives Pateut Lamp Company ; loss, $5,000, The building was in- sured to the extent of $2,000; Calhoun, Woodward & Co. were insured, but in what ottices could not be ascertained. The Lamp Company was insured in the following companies :—Frauklin, of Peunsylva- nin, for $5,000; ‘anklin, of Boston, for $2, People’s, $2,500; Glove, $10,000; Atna, of Hartt $5,000; ings County, $5,000; Imp : Traders’, $3,700; Fireman's, $3,750; Company of North America, $2,500; St. sty $5,000; Queens, $2,500; Greenwich, $4,000; Spring- flerd, $6,000; Germania, $2,500; State of Pennsylva- nia, $5,000, The fire is supposed to have veca caused by an explosion of gas in the sub-cellar. Fire Marshal Mespedon will hold an investixation im the cage on Monday.