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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. November 10---Twenty-fifth Sun- day After Pentecost, Programme of Religious Ex- ercises To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS COMMUNICANTS. Intolerance—The Rouma- nia Question. Golden Wedding of a Roman Catholic Bishop. The Brussels Jewish Convention. ee THE DEGENERACY OF THE AGE. The Jesuits and the German Empire. Movements and Changes Among Ministers. Services To-day. At Duane Methodist Episcopal church Rev. 8. D. Brown, D. D., will preach at half-past ten A, M., and Rev. J. G. Oakley at half-past seven P, M. At Attorney street Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. J. J. White, pastor, there will be preaching at half-past ten A.M., three and seven P. M. Mrs. Alderdice, from London, will preach morning and afternoon, the pastor at night. At Apollo Hall Thomas Gales Forster, trance Bpeaker, lectures at quarter past ten A. M. A fifth lecture on “Caves of the Bible” will be given to-day, at half-past ten, by Rev. David Mitch- ell, in Canal street Presbyterian church. Rev. E. ©. Sweetser will continue his series of discourses on the ‘“Pilgrim’s Progress’! in the church corner of Bleecker and Downing streets, this evening, at half-past seven o'clock. Special topic— “The Hill Dificulty.” Morning service at a quarter to eleven o'clock. Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- ington square, at three P. M. Subject—“Tne Ap- proaching Religious Redemption.”” At the Central Methodist Episcopal church there ‘will be preaching at half-past ten o'clock A. M. by the Rev. T. M. Eddy, D. D.; at half-past seven P, M. by the pastor, Rev. F, Bottome, D. D. At the Church of the Resurrection Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach morning and evening. Sunday school at three P. M. “Christ's Personal Appearing the Hope for the Church” is the subject of asermon by Rev. ©. A. G. Brigham, at the Catholic Apostolic church, at half- past seven P. M. At the French Church du St. Esprit, Rev. Dr. Ver- Ten, rector, there will be divine service in French at half-past ten A. M. Rev. H. D. Northrop will preach at the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church at half- -past ten and half-past seven o'clock, Second dis- course in the evening on “Great Characters of the Scriptures.” Rey. C. S. Harrower, pastor St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal charch, will preach morning at half-past ten and evening at half-past seven o'clock. Rev. Mr. Pendleton will preach in the Fifty-third street Baptist church at half-past ten and half-past seven o'clock. The dedication of the chapel of St. Patrick's church, at the corner of Ocean and Bramhall ave- nues, Jersey City, will take place at half-past ten «’clock this forenoon, The ceremony will be per- formed by the Very Rev. Dean Byrne, of Camden. In the afternoon Father Byrne will address the Watholic temperance societies at Library Hall. ‘The pastor of St. Patrick’s is the Rey. P. Hen- essey. Rey. John E. Cookman, in Trinity Methodist Epis- opal church, in West Thirty-fourth street, near ighth avenue. Rev. George H. Hepworth, Church of Disciples, fn Steinway Hall. & { Rev. Heher Newton in Anthem Memorial church. Sermon by Rey. Richard Newton fn afternoon. { The Orthodox Greek chapel, services as usual. | Bleecker Street Mission, sermon and school, 11 ‘Carmine street. | Rev. T, M. Eddy will preach in Central Methodist ‘Episcopal church. ' Rev. J. W. Bamhart, in Methodist Episcopal church, Forsyth street. i Rev. Henry Powers will preach twice during ‘the day in the Unitarian church, Park avenue and Thirty-first street. Rey. Dr. Ewer in St. Ignatius church. '. University preaching in hall 124th street and Third avenue. The anniversary of St. Luke's Hospital will be celebrated in tne chapel of the same this after- noon, beginning at three o'clock. Addresses will ‘be made by several of the bishops and others, | Shall the people have churches? A meeting will ‘De held to consider this subject, at seven o'clock, in the Second street Methodist Episcopal church, between avenues B and ©, Addresses will be delivered by Revs. John Parker and A. McLean, George J. Hamilton and William K. Peyton. The Right Rev. Henry A. Neeley, D. D., Bishop of Maine, will preach at St. Chrysostom’s chapel, at ‘half-past seven o’clock this evening. / The Rev. Robert Sloss will preach this morning, at half-past ten o’clock, and evening at half-past seven, at the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church, At the Wainright Memortal church, Rev, W. T. Egbert, rector, there will be services morning and evening. Sermon in the evening—'To Young Men.” At Zion church Rey, W. A. C, T. Woodruff will preach. Holbrook and Rev. Intolerance=The Roumania Question Again—Defence ot the Jews. To THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— Allow me to say @ few words, however tardily, on a subject which has already been discussed sev. eral times in your paper. I never thought it worth discussing, as the persecution of the Jews in Rou- mania seemed to me of @ nature that could only -eUcit unanimous sympathy and deserve ananimous reprobation. I accidentally, however, took upa wweekly paper—the New York Zabiet—and found in itta columns (November 9, 1872) so intolerant an attack upon the unfortunate victkns of Roumanian passions that it was impossible to resist the temptation of administering a rebuke to the sheet in question, It states confidently that the Jews havea “national government” of their own, and “are jucapable of being loyal citizens of any other Gtate or nation.” In this particular State -more especially (the Republic in which we and they enjoy equal privileges) the Jews are, perhaps, the most peaceable and loyal of all citizens. In Europe, where we occasion- ally hear of civic disturbances, the Jows, 48 a body, mever appear; the persecutors of Italy and Ger- many at the present moment are either Christians waging interrcligious war with other unoffending Christians or avowed atheists seeking to root out religion and morality, social and political, at one | blow. The 7adlet coutinues:—“The great blunder of modern States is in adinitting them to the rights of citizenship.” In a.country where negro suffrage 48 & fait accomplt and female suffrage a mere ques- tion of time it were curious indeed to refuse such Tights to one oC the most enlightened classes of the NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHKET. community. The Tudlet is obliged to concede that ‘the Jews are an enlightened race, but it does so with the sophistical intention of proving that because they are enlightened they are therefore foo dangerous not — to disfranohised, This county and city have already — suf- fered, too much from mob _ government and the misrule of the rowdy class for knowledge and enlightenment not tobe atapromium. It is acknowledged that Jews control capital, journal- ism and dipiomacy, and are foremost in literature and art; in faci, toat they aro ‘a gifted people.” For at least 3,000 years they were a chosen anda noly prone, ‘Yne treasure of Christianity, the pro- phetic proof of our religion, was their gilt tous; it ‘was they who handed down to Christian genera- tions the Bible with {ts priceless store of historical rook It was they who kept alive the spirivualistic idea of one supreme God turough centurics of heathen aberrations and sensual degradations; it was even they who, according to some ‘authorities, held in secret the belief of the dogma o/ the Trinity. ‘The commandments o1 the moral iaw were kept b them, and the iniringement of such command- ments punished among them, as they were inno other country or nation, whether civilized India, refined Greece or patriotic Kome. Woman's honor was sacred, man’s word reliable among them; while rigid as was their code of draconian morality, their intense commercial abilities are re- vealed in the wise precepts and shrewd maxims Aree, in the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiasticus, "he time came when ruin overtook them through unbelief, and even this unbelief was due to a mo- tive which jew can refuse to consider unpardon- able—their patriotism. They were blind to any re- generation which did not iree their country and restore their independence, How bitterly they have suffered prophecy sorrowtully foretold and history fait! records. But.history, and con- temporaneous history, tells more, It tells how bravely they have suffered, how uuitedly they have acted. They have accepted the ond thrust upon them and have made tho best of it What other race has stood, or could have stood. against such persecution? No doubt it was a curse that rested on them; but how patiently have they turned the curse into a profit if not a blessing The human race, Jews and Gentiles, are also under a curse. ‘Cursed is the earth in thy work: with labor and toll shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. In the sweat of thy 1ace shalt thou eat bread.” * * * If Christians under this single curse of labor had shown the like perseverance, bravery and hopefulness which the Jews have displayed under their dark curse of labor and perpetual exile, the world would be more civilized more advanced than it is at present. ‘The Tablet cannot bear even to let the Jews have the pare, temporal merit of their accomplish- ments, ‘They excel,” it says, “in several of the arts, especially music, which, however, 1s the least intellectual of all the arts,” I think this is a iact which will be new to many, particularly to that nation, confessedly the least sensualistic and the most. transcendental in Kurope, which has made music {Tone almost its national synonym, Another sin to the door of the Jews is that “their commercial ability gives them a di = tionate share of the trade, and small, of the States where they settle.” this statement has been printed in an American paper and directed against the foreign population of the Union, the Tablet would doubticss have cried shame upon it for a Know-Nothing libel, But we all Know the story of the ‘beam and the mote.” If the Jews’ share in business is disproportionate, whose fault is that? An unprejudic person would probably reply, “That of the lazy‘or supine population whose energy is not suficient to create competition.” ‘Where there is a will there is a way.”” The Jews had and have the will, and they found a way. To all others we say, ‘Go thou and do likewise.”” Usury is a common accusation against Jows, We will suppose, for argument’s sake, that there are neither usurers nor any other kind of swindlers among Christians, There is @ distinct promise in the Book of Deuteronomy (Xv., 6) to this cffect— “Thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man,” In numberless other places in the Old Testament the claiming of an exorbitant rate of interest, ¢. ¢., usury, is forbidden, But other texts distinguish between the eine or oppressing in any way of Hebrews and of aliens. In those days these restrictions had a divine mean- ing, Which they have now lost. The Jews, how- ever, still believe in their present call, still look upon themselves as unchanged in every respect from the chosen people of the Old Testament, and naturally still consider those promises and restric- tions to be as applicable to their dealings now as then. Although this hypothesis is almost suficient, it is not the only one on which they can rest their excuses if from time to time they have indulged in “sharp practice.” The other one is this—self- defence. A simple plea, indeed, and one which in Christian America and modern times has come to be a very general, a very well understood and @ very convenient one. In earlier days the Jews were persecuted by Christian governments, The Tablet will hardly deny that, unless persecu- tion is to go by a milder name when directed against any but the Zabiet's co-religionists, The Jews naturally—and more naturally in those wild, Jawless times than now—wished for revenge. They were not of the “religion of peace;” they not profess to turn the other cheek to the buifeter who had once already struck them; they were not disciples of Him who bade us forgive until s:venty times seven, and their code, be it remembered, de- manded an “eye for an eye and @ tooth for a tooth.” They had only one means by which to hit their enemies hard, This was money. They knew it and acted accordingly. In self-deience they gave and withheld money as they pleased, and the gulled persecutors felt the persecution recoil on them- selves. If Christians can find as reasonable an ¢x- cuse for all their abuses of authority let them say 80. As men became less savage the Jews were more or less better treated. Christian and Jew in mod- ern times have coalesced in the interest of the na- tions of which they were citizens. For protection and equality of rights the Jew returns financial support and cordiai co-operation with the law. Far from being a revolutionist, the Jew is actually con- servative, for he has a stake, a position, a future to protect, whereas the rowdy, the Communist, has none. And now one word more. I have said these ine because I think intolerance the blackest sin of whick the human mind is capable. It leaas to excesses, hatreds, feclings utterly at variance with the Gospel law, and it tarnishes the fame of the re- ligion to which those who nourish these feelings belong. Truth needs no intolerance to uphold her. To the intolerant she has but one remark to make—“Save me from my irends.” The Catholic Church is a Church planted by the God-martyr of Calvary and fostered by the blood of many generations of patient martyrs. When one of her members or organs #toops to in- tolerance he directly defies the teaching of his Chure!. As to the Hebrew race in particular, from whose religion has sprung the new and com- plete revolution, which is our inheritance, it should be sorrowiully dear to us. Jesus Christ was of Hebrew blood, born of a Hebrew mother and nurtured amid Hebrew rites, He preacied the Gospel first to the Hebrews, He wept over the destruction of Jerusalem, He chose Hebrews for His apostles, and we nowhere see that he cursed or denounced His race and people. Being a periect man, He was necessarily patriotic; yet being God, He knew the miserabie future. He did not rejoice, but weep over that future. Let His followers in other things follow His example in this, and, in other words, let them remember the advice He Himself once gave to the incensed Pharisees, when He said, “Let he that is guiltless cast the first stone.” COLUMBA, The Brussels Jewish Convention. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I notice in your edition of the 3d November a letter from Judge Joachimsen on the subject ot the Brussels Jewish Convention. He says that the meeting was to consider “how best to obtain for men of our (Jewish) faith the unquestioned enjoyment of civil and religious liberty.” We propose, Mr. Editor, to answer this important question, not by any wisdom that we possess, but by consulting that same Word of Truth (the Bible), by whose almighty power that nation has been preserved distinct among the wreck of nations and of empires, 4 standard miracle, proof against the persecution of pagan and of Pope, To any thinking mind the question suggests itself, since the Jews have been preserved, by the providence of God, a distinct race, what is His purpose with them? Are they forever to wander dispersed and hated among the nations of the earth, their very name 4 byword and a reproach? No! The aiisyer is to be found in Jerentiah xxxi., 10:—‘He that scattered Israel Will gather him, and keep him as a sheppetd doth his tock.” And again (Ezek. XXxi 4), /‘I will take you (Israel) srom among the heathen (n2U0ts) and gather you out.of all the countries, and I wit bring you i our own land’!— (28th verse)—‘and ye shall dwell jn the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall te my peo- ple and I will be your God,” Where should the Je Joowto then for help and succor? To Palestine. ‘To the land that God gave unto his fathers ,or an everlasting possession. To that land now dese late; but (Ezek. xxxiv., a4), “the desolate land 4 hall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed head and they shall say this land tin’ Was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhavited, and the nations that are left round about you shali know that I, the Lord, build the ruined piaces and plant that'that was desolate. 1, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it.” And now, ye children of Israel,. when your inapired prophets of old have so distinctly told you the _ coun of your land and of your ce race, why a home on a soil or dwell with races that you vem not, will not mingle with? “Return thou backsliaing Israel.” (Jeremiah iii.) “Turn thou backsliding children,” saith the Lord, “for 1 am married to you, and I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.” Again (Isaiah, Xlix.), “Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, 1 will lit up mine hand to the Gen- tles and set up my standard to the people, and they shall brit thy sons in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried npon their shoulders,’ &c. And when this happens, Mr. Editor, then will the Jew obtain “the anquestioned enjoyment of civil and reiigious liberty,’ and pot til then; for while they dwell with the Gentiles their name shall be « byword and a reproach, as {t ts written. And one would think that they tave had sum- clent evidence of the truth of that part of the unto him and to his secd. (Genesis, xvil, 8.) “Try God and see if He will not pour out a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it." BIBLE CHRISTIAN. The Jesuits and the New Germanic Em- pire. ‘To THe Eprron or THE HERALD:— When the various governments of Germany be- came united into one Empire I expected, with the universal intelligence of the people, that it would adorn the age in which we live by rendering itself & worthy exumple for all nations to imitate, But if Frederick the Great could arise from his grave and behold the suicidal policy it is pursuing he woud conclude that instead of having its birth at the close of the nineteenth century it was an em- pire under tho reign of Charles V. It seems to me that the Emperor and Prime Minister are governed by some blind principle of fatality in the perpetra- tion of crimes that disgrace the ago in which we Mve. They seem to be totally blind to tho teachings and warnings of history that this universe is based primarily upon just and all who violate i¢ do it at thelr peril. whether they be kings, queens, emperors or prime ministers a8 individuals, or despotisms, mon- archies or republics as governments, What mind can conceive or pen depict the direful results in consequence of the violation of justice? Was it not that which has caused all the past fallon nations, ingdoms and empires to become sunk in the sea of shame and engulfed in the ocean of oblivion? Was ft not that which caused tho faltof man, with all its attending evils—Luclfer to become banished from heaven, Judas to hang himsoll, r to 08 as- sagsin and Napoleon to become banished? ‘The two crimes I accuse tho. new Empire of arc banishment of the members of the Society of Jesus and the law prohibiting the German peasantry from leaving the Empire. Let all men look back 336 years ago and behold a’ man, dressed in military garb, kneeling at tho fect of the Blessed Virgin, engaged in the most rofound and sincere prayer, and when he arose m his knees he stood erect @ new mun. St. Igna- tius Loyola had then and there renounced all the fame of his military exploits. All his wealth, rank and worldly position, the pomp and blandish- ments of the world, the pride of life and the am- bition of Cesar or Napoleon, which he had before possessed, became entirely extirpated from his breast, and in its stead there were engrafted a love for the Divine Being whose name the order which he founded bears, and which absorbed all the aspi- rations of his mind and supreme affections of soul. Such was the man who founded the ‘Order of the Soctety of Jesus.” Then look a few years later at the career and death of his first disciples, Behold them crossing the Atlantic Ocean! and while some of them penetrate the wilds of North and South America, others buffeted the storms of the wide Pacific Ocean and at G reached the shores of Asia and penetrated the interior of the Japanese and Chinese Empires and planted the Cross of Christ before they suf- fered martyrdom. Remember, all men of sects of late origin, that this was 300 qeara before your de- nominations were conceived in the womb of time, let alone being born into the world. Look at the members of the Society of Jesus, if for self-renun- ciation, do they not present a marvel to the world? ‘Then behold their intellectual abilities, exercised for the teaching of the ignorant and the elevation of the human race, is it not without a parallel? Their moral heroism has been such that no perse- cutions, not even the most cruel martyrdom, could intimidate them or make them abandon a love for their Divine Redeemer. If each one of the 800 banished members of that order had am in- fluence over 100 students it would be 80,000, then their influence would be more or less over the people of the whole Empire. Bismarck had no fear of them physically; but he did fear t at which is more potent—their intellectual and moral power. He well knew that he could not make them tools, to do his satanio bidding. Excuse me, dear reader, for comparing him to Lucifer; but now forthe proofofmy ac- cusation, Bismarck reasons thus, that the State ig the supreme power on earth, and as the new empire was flushed with pride on account of defeating France he concluded it to be the reatest Power in existance, and as he is its ac- Cate bee leading spirit, therefore he is the arbiter of the world. I would not xp his aspira- tion has yet reached that of the fallen angel, be- cause his was such that he wished to rule the uni- verse, including God Ct Can any one doubt but that Bismarck has that ambition which, in the A of Shakespeare, “‘o’erleaps itself?’ If the Jesuit fathers had been willing to abandon their teaching, that there is One greater than Bismarck or the Emperor, they could remain with perfect safety. The new Empire, in consequence of making war an end, instead of a means, for self Papel has increased a war spirit_a thousand- fold among the first class Powers of Europe. Bis- marck pereives two great rival nations—Russia and France—and as as neither of these peoples are migratory in thelr nature and are increasing in population, while the Germans became the most migratory people of any in Europe, and as migra- tion is an effect there must be a cause for it. Now, the Emperor, Prime Minister and leading military officers have been guilty of a crime, which has led to an increase of immigration. Have they, as custodians of the — $1,000,000,000 secured from recuperative and not prostrated France, expended it honestly in tie defrayment of the expenses of the late war. Have they not expended millions in a few days in the display of barbaric splendor in the feting and feasting of the Emperors of Russia and Austria, and have they not taken tens, if not hutidreds of millions, for their own aggrandizement? The intelligent German ert reeiving this dishonesty in the head oficers of the Empire, and that it makes war an end of its existence, conclude that they and their children and children’s children until the latest neration, while the Empire lasts, will be doomed 0 abject poverty. In conclusion, let me say to alithe officers of the Empire,repent of your crime,and make reparation to the injured, and in future do justly and love mercy, and tyour Empire will become lovable to its people, and they will not be inclined to leave; then you will not be required to put the iron heel of despotism upon their necks in com- fates them to remain, and other nations, by ac- knowledging your superiority as forty millions of people in general intelligence, might imitate your example, and the day might be hastened when the nations of the earth will learn war no more, and they will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into -pruning hooks, and the lion and the lamb will lie down together, and both eat straw, and a little child will lead them. A LOVER OF JUSTICE. A Roman Catholic Bishop’s Golden Wed- ding. A remarkable celebration has Just taken place in Montreal, in which nearly the entire population participated. Golden weddings are rare enough among the laity, though such an anniversary oc- curred a few days since, with the King and Queen of Saxony, who were honored at the festivities that took place on the occasion by the presence of the Emperor and Empress of Germany. The celebra- tion at Montreal was that of the fiftieth anniver- sary of the ordination of Monsignor Bourget, bishop of that diocese. There were processions, fireworks, illuminations, & military display and religious ser- vices, which continued three days. The Canadian city wore a holiday aspect; the streets overflowed with people dressed in their best attire; banners, flags and festoons appeared on every side, and there was shown every demonstration of affection and regard for the venerable prelate. THE EXERCISES. On the second day (Monday last) there was Pon- tificial mass in the Cathedral. The edifice was gorgeously decorated. From the middle of the roof descended a double row of immense white streamers, encircled with green branches, produc- ing a fine effect. Along the front of the galleries were festoons of flowers, enclosing medailions with inscriptions in French, On the front of the pulpit and around the altar were Latin inscriptions, “Pull of Days in the Lord,” “Thou Art a Priest For- ever,’ “The Lord Hath Chosen Him as an Accept- Able Sacrifice to Himself,” “God Hath Given Honor to Old Age.’ Placed in letters of gold in a medai- lion were the words “Noces d'Or 50 ans.” The Papa) Zouaves, in uniform, were drawn up in the WAM @isle. Alter the conclusion ot the services there was 4 grand dinner at the City Hall, which was decorated with garlands, pictures and statu- Over the seat oceupted by the Bishop was a 8. ren dais which cost $2,500, said to be the game used by Obarles X. of France at his consecration. In the centre of the hall were statues of St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John the Baptist and St. Patrick, while on the steps of the platform were busts of Pius IX. and Bishop Bourget, Be- sides flowers the pillars of the hall wese orna- mented with the armorial bearings of French Ca- nadian families, There were a large number of Dishops and clergy at the banquet, numbering about four hundred. PRESENTS TO BRIDEGROOM OF THE CHURCH. — ~ ‘This demonstration of homage froin his Lock Was not unaccompanied with presents. A room in the % vlace was devoted to thefr reception. They were nd valuable, including money,{pictures, ry, &c.; flowers, resplendent in silver vases; ‘ublematic boat, studded with precious stones, carry, asatin sail, and intended to typify the carry “Y of the Church through troubled seas; @ mp old cross, eighteen carats fine, and ‘ded vin diamonds; a cradle, studded with K® “aining an image of Christ, over which me com. vain, were a few of the offerings, amid rcp the Wa, rch’ presents, which filled tie par- B host or reek‘ project of Bishop Bourget is the ore Gut “mmense cathedral, the Canadian 8t noted m4 the 18 called, which is at present im course of conser, “OM; The gifts of the faithful cathe anuivereery Of Bolden wedding are to be devoted to this onjes * SKETCH 08 The Bishop of Mont ®& over seventy years oldl. firm upholder of the f%. character and disp osit#. Pope, being one oj} the mi best meaning men among * BISHOP BOURGET. alia a native of France and He has been through lie & ‘ghts of the Church. In le greatly resembles the t pious, consistent and 1e Ameerican Episco- his ecolesiastioal duties and a scholar of the high- est order. The best evidence of the general re- spect in which he is held may be sound in the fact that non-Catholics were foremost in Montreal, where religious feeling occasionally runs up to fever heat, in doing honor to the excellent ciiarac- ter he bears. They cordially joined in the ad- dresses and orations given in honor of the Bishop on the ion oi the unusual and interesting an- niversary of his golden wedding to the Church. The Irish and the Church, Rev. John Boylan, P. P., of Crosserlough, Ireland, will preach at St, Mary’s church, Hoboken, at eleven o'clock to-day, on ‘The Unparalicled Fidel- ity of the Irish People to the Catholic Church," Father Boyan has already delivered several bril- lant discourses on Lrish topics in this country and hag been well received everywhore. On Friday evening he will lecture at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Hobo- ken, on the exciting question of ‘Home Rule for the Irish.” The proceeds of the lecture will be ap- plied to the erection of a church in Father Boylan's native diocese. Ministerial Movements. BAPTIST, The Baptist Missionary Union of Southern New York met on Monday at 76 Ninth street, and elected ofMocers for the ensuing year:—Rev. J. F. Elder, of Madison avenue church, President; 8. 8, Constant and George H. Andrews, Vice Presi- dents; Charles T, Evans, Secretary, and Charles T. Goodwin, Treasurer. Several standing commit- tees were appointed and the Union adjourned till Thuraday evening, when the comiittce organi- zations were perfected and plang of action for tho year adopted. A correspondent of the Daptist Weekly, writing from Alleghany county, N. Y., says that there is nota Baptist minister within thirty miles of the railroad near where he lives, yet thore are three churches, with commodious houses of worship, which have no pastor and are not able to support one. The projudico of caste is stilt strong in the goil of the Old Dominion and evi- dently stronger among the Ohristians than else- where. Lately the white Baptists and their col- ored brethren held their annual meetings. The latter sent fraternal delegates to the former, but they were sent back again with the understand- ing that the white Baptists were not yet ready for social equality, and a white Baptist, Rev, Broad- ders, publishes a detence of this petty piece of bigotry. The Rev. Mr. St. Dalmas has been recently appointed to India by the English Baptist Mission- ary Society. Rev. B. S, Tuttle, of Ontario, Wis., has lost both his property and his eyesight by a tecent affliction. Dr. Samuel Baker is leay- ing the Herkmer street Baptist church, Brooklyn, and going to Russellville, Ky., to ® ohurch and a college. professor- ship. Rev. E. ©. Romini and Rev. T. F. Clancy are about to start a new Baptist organiza- tion in Englewood, N.J., where there are about thirty Baptists. Rev. J. 8. Webber has closed his engagement with the Baptist Education Society of New York as its agent, and is re-entering the pas- torate. Rev. J. S, Kennard celebrated the firat year of his pastorate with the Pilgrim Baptist church of this city last Sunday. Rev. J. R. Ken- drick, D. D., has resigned his pastorate of the Tab- ernacle Baptist church in this city and intends going South tolive. Rev. ©. ¥Y. Swan, of North- ampton, Mass., has received a call from the Bov- din square Baptist church, Boston. Dr. D, OC. Eddy, of Fall River, has been called to Harvard street church, Boston. Rev. D. Weston has become a professor at Madison University. Rev. W. R. Maul has taken charge of a church in Hoboken, N. J. Calls have been received by the following named reverends:—A. A. Robinson, of Willington, Conn. ; to Russell, Mass.; H. D. Doolittle, of Somerville, N. J., to South Pultney, N. Y.; 8. P. Long, of Rock- rt, to Long Plain, Me. ; B. Law, of ‘Hannibal ., to Westmoreland, N.Y; 3. G Lemon, 0! Danesville, to Salem, Mich. ae of Young America, to Sacramento, Cal. ; E. F. Maine, of Web- ster, to West Walworth, N. Y. The Baptists ot Chel- sea, Mass., recently dedicated a church on Cary avenue, in that town, and the Baptists of Hope- well, N. J., will dedicate a church on the 26th inst. at that place. Rev. J. Hyatt Smith took in ten per- s0n8 by baptism into the Lee avenue church, Brooklyn, on the 27th ult. Westfield, Mass., has been for along time and is still without a Baptist pastor, owing to ecclesiastical dissensions, A 100 Baptist church is to be dedicated in Spring- eld, Mass., within a week. Rev. W. H. Evans has left Hyannis, Cape Cod, to take charge of the First Baptiss churcn, Holyoke, Mass. Rev. Mr. Gow, of Worcester, Mass. has resigned his pastorate to become financial ent for orcester Academy. Rev. Mr. Wight man, late Bible Union agent, has succeeded Dr. Pollard in the pastorate of the Baptist church in Taunton, Mass. . Mr. Vassar has given up his charge in Lynn, Mass., owing to ill health. The three Baptist churches in Cambridge, Mass., are without pastors, and have been so for some months. There are 110,000 Baptists in Let ragds of whom 21,781 are colored. Green Clay Smith. whilom Con- gine, brigadier general, Governor ietieloapey now the earnest, eloquent and beloved pastor o! Tankfort, Ky. Paducah, the third largest city in Sean h is without a Baptist astor, and 18 greatly needing one. Rev. C. E. ‘homas, pastor of Windsor and Nantmeel churches, Pennsylvania, received eleven persons into mem- bership by baptism last Sunday. — Rev. E. E. Jones has resigned the pastorate of the Broadway Baptist church, Camden, N. J. After eight months’ service, Professor R. S, James has taken temporary charge of the First church, Zanesville, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of Rev. E, W, Daniels. Rev. A. E. Anderson, of Chesterville, Ohio, has resigned his charge and gone to Europe for his health’s sake. Rev. W. J. Dunn has become pastor of the New Beulah church in Muskingum Co., Ohio. Calls have been received and accepted by Rev. F. Borchers, of Marengo, Ill., to Moline, Lil.; by Rev. A. Platt, of Clarksburg, Mo., to Collinsville, Ill; by Rev. 8. K. Leavitt, of Keokuk, Iowa, to Cin- cinnati, Ohio; by Rev. A. Whitman, of Westford, Va., to Carthage, Mo.; by Rev. 8. L. Heim, D. D., of Louisville, Ky., to Kansas City, Mo., or to Liberty, Mo., as he may choose; by Rev. OU. D. Morris, of Toledo, Ohio, to St. Louis, Mo.; by Rev. C. Tucker, of Mount Carroll, Ill, to Mason City, lowa; by Rev. R, B. Kelsey, of Albany, to Passaic, N. J.; by Rev. William Delano, to Albion, N. 3 by Rev W. C. Johnson, of Albion, to Mexico, N. Y.; by Rev. J. 8. Johnson, of Braman’s Corners, N. Y., to be- come missionary of the Rensselaervilie Associatio the Baptist church in at Sloanesville, N. Y.; by Rev. M. Livermore, 1 Milo, N. Y.. to Friendship, N, Y.3 by Rev. T. J. Sieg- fried, of Victory, N. Y,, fo Rose, N. ¥. METHODIST, Bishop Simpson and the venerable Father Behm reached in Simpson church, Hudson City, N. J., last Supday. The Rev. EB. F. Hadley, of Warren [ba ethodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, has on suffering lately from hemorrhage of the iungs, and has been unable to do pastoral duty. As soon as his health will permit his friends will send him to Florida for the Winter. Reverend Dr. Mattock has returned to his post in New Orleans. The Rev. W. Roe, of the Primitive Methodists of Canada, has retired from the editorship of their oMicial paper, owing to continued ill-health, Rev. E. Smith has been reappointed chaplain of the New Hampshire State Prison. Rev. M. W. Newbert has resigned his charge at Waldoborough village, Vt., on ac- count of ill-health. The pulpit is now suppiied by Rev. John Collins, The Rev. F. F. Jewell, latel} transferred from Northern New Yor! Conference to California, has arrived among his people of Howard strect charge, San Francisco, where he has been warmly wel- comed. Dr. J. M. Walden, book agent at Cincinnati, has fixed his home at Madisonville, a suburb of that city. Dr. C. H. Payne, of Spring Garden cnurch, Philadelphia, has returned trom a trip to the West. Rey. Dr. J. H. Wallon, of the Erie Conference, United States Consul at Port Mahon, Spain, has, after nearly four years’ absence, returned home for a couple of months’ rest. He was here in time to vote for President Grant on Tuesday. Father Join F. Adams, the patriarch of New Engiand Methodism, now in the nineties, was in Boston last week. He has been over sixty yeara in the min- istry, and still he preaches occasionally. Rev. H. C. Walsh, of the Irish Wesleyan Conference, whose nervous prostration required a trip to this country, reached, last Sunday in John street Methodtst Episcopal church. Mr. Walsh bas so far recovered that he expects to return home in a few weeks, Rev. Dr. CG. H. Fowler, of Chicago, has been elected President of the Northwestern University, which sition it is believed he will accpt. The office Fas been vacant since Dr. E. 0. Haven left it in the spring. _ Ur the past month E. churches have n dedicated at Bronson, Mich.; at Gano- town, Hedgesville circuit, Md.; at Drawbridge, Louis charge, Del.; at Port Deposit, Md.; at Ham- burg, N. J.; a6 East Vassalboro’, Me. Corner stones of churches have been laid at Chicago, Ill, at Port Henry, N. Y., at Franklin, Mass. ther churches will be dedicated during the current month at Riverside, Danville district, Pa.; at Hamlin, N. Y.; at Whitetall, Iil.; at Glasco, N. Y.; at Baltimore, ‘Mt. Vernon place, Rey, Thomas Guard, pastor) ; at Watsontown, Pa.; at South Adams, Mas: at Weston, Chenoa charge, lil. The Wabash avenue M. E. Chureh, Chicago, has adopted the free pew aterm, which js working well. Additions to urch’ membership have been reported by W. O, math pastor of Beekman Hill Chorch in this city, thirty since last J. H. Stansbury, of Huntington, L. D. Snowden, of West River Washington Conference, 40; by Kev. W. F, Crafts, at Haverhill, Mass., 66; by Rev. J. W. Canter, Cal- vary church South, Baltimore, 10; by Rev. 8. Knapp, of Colfax Circuit Mission Conference, 11; by Rev. Dr. Young, of Elm street church, Nashville, Tenn., 11; by Rev, P. Germond, of Brewster, N, Y., 14; by Rev. J. 5. Gaskill, of Harmony, Ky., 42; by Rev. M. Jewell, Union church, Gallatin, Mo., 24. A Sunday School Convention for Boston will be hold in Auburndale on the 2ist inst. The new church edifice for the Methodists of Grass Vail Cal., 18 to cost $9,000 and to be dedicated in Jan- . The Mlinols, Southern Tilinois, St. Louis and Missourt Conferences are conjointly purchasing an 8 ol Rev. L, 1., 12; by. Rev. pacy. He isofav ry aussdk ond pleasant dispo” prophecy. Now I propose that they rt on the other part, and return unto the God of their father Abraham, and to the laud that He promised arded by his clergy “he neriormance of ion and is afect ionately rew and people. He ig diligent in gs erty is tobe held by trustees eapoented by those Coulerences, Dr. Edward Kggleston has withdrawn from the editorship of ‘Hearth and Home, and will devote himself henco‘o:th to book making. Rev. Dr. McAnaliy suceecds Dr. T. M. Finney as editor of tho St. Louis Christian Advocate, ‘he Indepenaent Methodists of Baltimore are building an tron church alter the style of those in Brooklyn, which, with its “fixings,” will cost $40,000; Rev. John A. Williams is pastor, Rev. Dr. Siins, of Baltimore, who 1s ex- PES fe-nepnly. she. place. of, De at St. ul's, Newark, Will preach his first sermon there on November 1%. Colonies from the Salem, Broad strest, and Eleventh'street M. KE. churohes, Phila- del are about to build a chapel on Eighteenth and Wharton streets, to cost $10,000; to be fol- lowed by @ handsome church edifice. Rev. D. H. Muilen bas been transferred from Grace church, Buffalo, to Rochester, very much against the will Of his. cor t his hip consrogeiian, who have protested agains! BPISOOPALIAN. The House of Buwhops who’ were gatnered here @ week ago elected two jonary bishops—Rey. J. G. Auer, oO} Palmas, Bishop of Africa, and Rev. W. re, Seore- of the Foreign Committee of the Board of ions, of the Indian Territory or the Missionary District of Niobara. These selections must, however, be approved by the Standing Com- mittdes of all the aiocenes in the United Stutos ry Made binding. A diocesan’ con- vention will be held in Trinity church, Boston, De- comber 4, for the election of a bishop. Thre the nd entered upon his duties, The Rev. of St. Mark's church, Ghiosgo. Ly Trae Rev. ic arch, Ashi The Rev, Henry -C. Riley, D. D. New York, now tnussionary. in ot Mexi recently administered the Lord’s Sapper inan ox: church to 400 communi pre oonvente trom Catholicism, assisted in the administration by four converted Bishop Cox sails for tl by the first steamer. Rev. W. E. Wright has ned ‘inity parish, Berlin, Wis,, and taken of the mission at Waupun, ‘Wis. Rey. Mr. Staule} 4 Episcopal minister Savannah, Ga,, has made arrangements for Sunday evening services in the theatre, Lectures are to be delivered to the young men of the city. The bishop of the diocese approves of the movement and will lecture as often as he can, Whether other denominations co-operate is not stated. There are in Sullivan county, New York, fifty-nine non spice! paces of worship and only one.Episcopat churc Mon- ticello—and one clergyman of that church; and this in a tract of 1,100 square miles and 9 popula- tion of 35,000 souls. The Episcopal church, too, at that place, is a “worn-out, tumbie-down and fall- to-pieces sort of meeting house,” according to a correspondent; and the stor’ ry is but $600 @ year. Rev. ©. D. Andrews has closed rectorship with St, Mary’s Protestant — Epis- copal church, Haledon, N. J. Rev. KE. A. Brad- ley has become rector of Christ church, Indi- anapolis, Ind. Rev. Lyman N. Freeman, of Chicago, di, ta peg rnc ol of St, Paul's church, Duluth, Rev. D. D. hapin Bestpned the rector- ship of St. Peter’a church, San cisco. Rev. Thomas Bell has become rector of Grace church, Waterville, Oneida county, N. Y. Rev. A. Buchanan has resigned his missionary appointment at Eliza- bethtown, Ky., and become rector of Trinity church, Cincinnati. Rev. C. 8, Hodges, D.D., has Poti the charge of Mount Calvary church, St. Louis, and accepted a call to St. John’s feared Helena, Ark, Rev. Hobart Chetwood has decline & call to the rectorship of St. Peter's church, San Francisco, and taken charge for the Winter of the parley of the Holy Trinity, San Diego, Cal. The Kev. James E. Hall will enter upon his duties as rector of the Church of the Hol: Cross, Warrensburg, N. Y., to-day. The Rev. A Hunter has left Christ church, Corning, N. Y., and on account of the health of his family will spend the Winter at the South. The Rev. W. KE. Wright has resigned Trinity parish, Berlin, Wis., and taken charge of the mission at Waupun, in the same dio- cese, A parish has been organized in Lawrence- ville, diocese of Pittsburg, with the name of St. John’s,and the Rev. B. F. Taylor has been chosen as its rector. PRESBYTERIAN. The Presbyterian Alliance of vhiladelphia has labored faithfully during the past year, seeking to unite the Presbyterian churches 01 that city in evangelistic work. Already nineteen of the. churches have ieee the alliance by the formation of auxiliary alliances. That portion of the Ben Salem Presbyterian church and congrega- tion residing in the lower part of the charge have erected a commodious and comfortable chapel near the village of Kddington, in Ben Salem township, Bucks county, Pa. The Presbyterian 9; nod of Virginia will meet in the Franklin street Presbyterian church, Baltimore, on Wednesday, November 20. The new edifice of the Park Presbyterian church, corner of Belleville avenue and Kearney street, Newark, is rapidly Spproaching compietion. Ata meeting of the St. Clairsville Presbytery, at Cambridge, Ohio, Rev. James Day, of New Athe! Ohio, @ minister of tne Methodist Episcopal church, Pittsburg Con- ference, was received as a member of Presbytery. Rev, W. C. Burchard, of Rushville, Ill., has declined @ call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Petroleum Centre, Pa., but will tempora- rily supply its pulpit, Spencer Academy, & flourishing institution among the Choctaw Indians, 13 presided over by the Rev. Mr. Colton, of North Carolina, The Choctaws give annually $6,000, and claim the instruction of sixty pupil The Sontnern Presbyterian Church gives $2,500 addi- tional. All the teachers except one are from North Carolina. So it is almost a North Carolina school. The Presbyterians of Northern lowa are 80 dissatisfied with the abolishment of the death pen- alty in that State that at their late synodical ses- sion they resolved that the Legislature made a great mistake, and they recommended all Christian people to unite in petitions for the restoration of the rope and gibbet. Rev. Dr. Adams, of Madison square Presbyterian church, in this city, is re- sored. to be lala up with the “Madison avenne fever,”? whatever that is, and tnat he is not ex- pected to resume his clerical functions again. He was, however, walking as stoutly as a young man on Broadway a few days ago. The Broadway Tabernacle will be reopened for worship early in December. Calls to the pas- torate have been accepted by Rev. H. 3. Little, of Marquette, Wis., to Menominee, Mich; by Rev. V M. King, of Baldwin City, to Burlingame, Kansas; by Rev. J. A. Lefevre, D. D., of Baltimore, to Columbia, . C.; by Rev. J. W. Knott, to Lodi, Wis.; by Rev. M. B. Lowrie, of Onargo, to Gales- bury, Ii; by Re’ ‘M. Wooas, of Virginia, to West Middlesex, Pa.; by Rev. ZN. Bradbury, of Pultney, Vt., to Ho ‘d, N. Y. (where he spent five ears before); by Rev. H. S. Huntington, of New lampshire, to Galesburg, Ill.; by Rev. L. Little, of Rushville, Il, to Fort Dodge, lowa; by Rev. J. W. Edie, from the American ‘Tract Boot to the church at Ebensburg, Pa.; by Rey. B. Phillips to Hudson, Wis.; by Rev. 8. L. Condi, of Auburn, to Troy, N. Y.; by Rev. J. ©. White, of Chicago, to Poplar street church, Cincinnati; by Rev, John Kay, of Paisley, Scotland, to Westminster Presbyte- rian church, in this city; by Rev. R. F, Taylor, of Summerville, Ga., to Cave Spring, Floyd county, Ga. Rev, S. A. Mutchmore, D. D., has assume: charge of the Alexander Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, and Dr. R. H. Allen, of that city, has declined a call for the church at Cohocksink. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The list of Roman Catholic saints has been en- larged by the addition of the late Queen Maria Christina of Naples, Nicholas von der Fitle, the French priest Jean d’Ars and Pope Eugentus Ll. The Archbishop and clergy of the diocese of San Francisco have sent a sympathetic address to the persecuted Jesuits of Germany. The Jesuit Fathers closed their “mission” in the Catheral in Philadel- phia on Tuesday last, alter @ season of wonderful success. Archbishop Bayley is to assist in laying the corner stone of St. Joseph’s church, Newark, to-day. Rev. James F. Dalton 1s pastor. The cor- ner stone possesses a special interest in itself, hav- ing been brought by the reverend pastor from St. Kevin’s church, Glendalongh, Ireland, The cele- bration of the golden wedding of Right Rev. Ignace Bourget, the venerable Bishop of Montreal, began on Sunday, the 27th ult., and was continued through the two following days. All tne pomp and splendor of the Church’s litargy were put forth to do petal honor to ar occasion of such rare occurrence, ant the joy of the Catholics of the diocese manifested itself by addresses and presentations beforehand, and processtons, illuminations and all the con- comitants of a universal séte, during the days of the jubilee. It is rumored that Cardinal Cullen will probably remain in Rome ia a high ofticial osition near the person of the Holy father and gr. McCabe, parish riest of Kingstown, or Dr. Lynch, coadjutor Bishop of Kildare, or Dr. Moran, Bishop of Useay will be sppolntee coad- jJutor of the diocese of Dublin. Bishop ‘Loughton, of Brooklyn, will dedicate St. Bonifactus’ church, in Dufieid street, for tife Germans benct e church 18 one of the most attractive in the City of Churches. The annual solemn mass of requiem for deceased members of the ‘Purgatorian Society” of New York will be celebrated at the Cathedral on Tuesday. Rev. John Hayden, Provin- cial of the Lazarist Pathers in the United States, died at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, a on Saturday, 2d instant. french pilgrimage wil shortly visit Rome. 1 number of persons wio have already inscribed their names exceeds two thousand. The Italian government, it is said, in- tends to protest against this pilgrimage, as it iears disturbance in consequence. The new convent for the Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore is nearly finished and will soon be dedicated. MISCELLANEOUS, Rev. Robert Collyer, inaspeech on the Sunday law, at Chicago, sald that he wished every whiskey shop was down in hell, chained up in the bottom- less pit for a thousand years, and a new chain ready for them at the expiration of that time. Rev. Mr. Hatch, of Westborough, has accepted a call from tac Unitarian Church at Sacramento, Cal. Professor H. M. ‘Tyler, of Amherst, formerly Pro- fessor of Greek in Knox College, has been called to the Central Congress one church, Fitchburg, Mass., at a sulary of $3,000, In the Massachusetts Congregational Association are 608 «churches, 591 ministers and 13,874 church members. Their benevolent conirioutions have been $438,479 for the last year. Congregation- ailsm 18 spreading in the Southern we) The churches in, Tennessee, 4 Alabama, are united {n the Central Souta Confer- ence. Within their limits are three colleges, all filled with students. There are seventeen churches in the Conference, most of which have been blessed with revivals. Tho C Congregational Asso- ings are to be held inall the churches by commit. tees of ministersand laymen. The Congregational Of Jilinois and Towa have adopted a plan of visitation, and it works most effec- The Rey. Thomas Guttery has editor of the Christian Ji Toronto, Out., in lace of the Kev. Mr. Rowe, retired on account of im health, The Congregational r in Boston posed a Sabaraey: er and its ncial resuits ave been Bal managers. ‘The total gross receipts amount to $17,250 65, not including some #mall sales not yet reported. This will leave the net proceeds not far from $12,000, Rev. Dr. Webb's church, Boston, contribu 206 for the Congregetdans) Bo for which this fair was instituted. The Kev. J. F. W. Ware com- menced his pastorate over the society Len -f ing in the Arlington street church, Boston, last pd day afternoon, when he preached an eloquent and scholarly discourse. The American Consal as Vienna under his protection early this week thirty-five Jewish families who had from perse- cution In Wallachia. A ese pare is now raising among the Vienna Jews to provide these emigrants with junds to emigrate to America; and, probably before December 1, these amd many other Rew manian refngees will have arrived at Castle Gar- den, awaiting the warm welcome which they were led to anticipate. The Jewish Messenger, therefore, calls on theif co-religionists here to make prepara- tions for their reception. Rev. E. 0. Bartlett, of Providence, KR. L, has been called to succeed Dr. John Todd in the pastorate of the First Congrega- tional church of Pittsfield, Mass. Rev. A. W. Jack- son of Cambridge, Mass., has been called to the astorate of the Unitarsan church, in Peterborou; |. H., amd Rev, C. A. ig of C! to the Firs' Congregational church, in Providence, R, |., Which he will accept December 1, The Jews of Wiming- ton, Del., are about to build a synagogue jor them- selves in that ane Missionary collections are tobe taken Spotted most of tho Unitarian churches in the United States, as recommended by she General Conference. The Latherans, of Bal- timore, last Sunday, celebrated the 356th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, under Martin Luther, ‘The real day was Thursday, October 31, but they postponed their celevration of the event. The Reformed Dutchmen, of Shawangunk, N. Y., dedicated a cemetery ep Ba ae Pe Befarmod. Dutch charok with prospects of success, Rev. B. Par Snyder, Shodack, N. Y., has been called to the Reformed Dutch church’ af Linlithgow. ‘The Reformed Methodists have adopted a plan of church unity which gives greas satisfaction. The church edifice of the former is undergoing repairs, and they worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church, having two services on one Sunday, while their Methodist brethren have but one, and on the following Sunday the order is reversed: Rev. J. H. Bai the re cently elected pastor of the First English Lutheras church, Baltimore, was formally installed as. pastor of that’chareh on Sunday e' Jast as the sao- cessor of Rev. Dr. MoCron. LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. The Gift and the Growth of Faith—The Foundation and the Elements Thereof Sermon by Rev. Dr. Huebsch. A large congregation gathered in this beautifel Jowish tempie, in Lexington avenue and Fifty-fitte street, yesterday, iu whose presence was read the sixteenth chapter of Isaiah and the seventy-sev- enth psalm. The former describes the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea and the straits im which they were placed just before they crossed over. In the latter the psalmist, referring to this. historic event, bases a prayer and a plea for faith in and entire dependence upon God. And these constituted in prief the theme of Dr. Huebsoh's discourse. God, he said, has means to educate men in faith such as that which is here indicated in bringing the Israelites up out of Egypt. Now they are elated and now they are troubled by fear and anguish. It is.a3 a dream when one is hnngry and his soul fainteth, and he awaketh and is not satisfied, or as one bending over an abyss who is suddenly snatched from destruction. Even so were the Israelites when they left Egypt. Pharaoh and his army were behind them and the Red Sea was before them, and they began to mur- mur at Moses and Aaron. Wealth tobeappreciated must be acquired by labor. Some may obtain it without labor, but this is the exception and mot the rule, and it is not so sure as when we work for it, nor is it so readily kept by us. Aman who has not tolled for his possessions rarely knows thetr value, and what comes easily goes easily also, be- cause it lacks the retaining weight of labor which can keep it. It is even so with spirituat riches. Gifts of the heart and of the mind must come by labor. Genius is as. much a gift of God as are the hands ofaman. But if a man keeps his hands all day in his pockets or hangs them list- leasly by his side he will never become rich, he will cease to be a pauper. And if aman will not cultt- vate and develop the genius and talent which God gives him he, too, will remain poor in the WEALTH OF HEART AND INTELLECT. The old philosopher was right when he compared bye to a rich ground. je fatter itis the more horns and weeds will it produce if it is at all neglected, and genius neglected will produce oni vices and not virtues, poverty of mind and nm wealth. I-wvent once to a school, said the Doctor, and asked the teacher to show me the best one his pupils. He was called out, and asllooked in hia countenance I saw earnestness of purpose and an iron will depicted there. Near him sat another boy whose face betokened genius and was full of high promise. He blushed in disap- sek that he was not called out as the best. y. While 1 looked approvingly at the best, I alse made inquiries about this lad. The teacher said the blushing youth was the greatest genius, but the other was the most diligent. The ease with which the boy of genius learus makes him under- value the instruction he receives, and I fear, said the teacher, that he will not retam it. Knowledge will not become culture to him, But in the otuer boy’s mind every sentence carries with it the leaden weight of labor spent in learning, and the lessons will never be lost out of his mind or heart, Earnest labor is, thereiore, better than genius. Faith is the highest grade oi spiritual culture, and the study of the holy Scriptures gy the mind te this end and ennobies it in this way, but faith toac- complish this must have the assistance of a man's heart and mind. The operation of faith is various in different minds, and this fact should be knowm and remembered. | imagine, said Dr. Huel that the psaimist opened his Bible, and as he re his mind was filled with care und his heart with sorrow, and he let a tear tall on the sacred page. That is the rain cloud before the bright shining of the sun. The bow must appear ere the peace comes. He read on and his heart was consoled, He could remember the years of the right hand ot the Most High; he thought on the works or the Lord and His wonders in the days of old, and as he meditated of that work and talked of His doings he was compelled to ask. himself, “Who is as great a God as our God, whose way is in the sea and His ath inthe great waters, and his footsteps are not Enown y? Hecoula therefore trust in God and he would pray to Him. But another man opens ‘THE BIBLE, AND IT3 READING excites only criticism in.his mind. It is false and contradictory, and if he had the writing and editii of it he would not leave it open to such errors an misstatements. His heart of course remains cold and unmoved. So is it with prayer. To one it is the ladder that Jacob saw, strong enough to bear his sorrows and cares, and the higher he steps the lighter these sorrows appear him, and the stronger becomes his hope and trust; and all the words his lips utter turn to angels of peace and fall back again upon his own heart as the angels om Jacob's ladder ascended and descended. To another the idea of prayer seems absurd. He looks upon every one who bends the hnee or moves the lips as Eli looked upon Hannah—as one intoxicated. doubts the efficacy of prayer, because he has never felt its power and gry in his own heart. If he attempts to pray it is to a god of his own making and not to the Goa of the universe and his words fall like flakes of snow back upon his heart, But i# it the fault of faith? Is not taita the same to alb and for all? Is not the sun the same sun to the blind as to the man who can see? Certainly; but inone the organ of sight is active, while in the other it is lost or dormant. Hence men who re- ceive nothing but barrenness in answer to thelr rayers argue that the effect of the prayer of faith is altogether imagivary. But let them brim a willing heartand a ready mind to the Word o1 God and they will find a flood of light from ite sacred pages shining into their souls. And they shall see such magnificent sights as they never con- ceived of nor saw with the bodily eyes. But while this faith is the gift and grace of God it must be maintained and cultivated by men- tal activity, Bread does not grow in the earth, but the seed from which itis made does, and there is along chain of labor between the seed corn and the bread. Israel left Egypt with unleavened bread—an emblem of the crude faith which they possessed. They had done nothing themselves to cultivate it. They would not belleve Moses until they had seen the miracles. They could not trust God in the cloudy day as well asin the sunshine. Hence, when they stood before the sea and saw Pharaoh's army fast fatning on them from behind, “Were there not graves eno! said to Mose rh in’ t, that thew hast brought us here to die im this wilderness?’ And another deemed it better to have served the Egyptians than to have come hither. They ‘THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING BUT OF GOD whose power they had seen in Egypt. And when Moses bade them stand still aud see the salvation of God, he, too, thought that God would do all now as heretofore and the people do nothing; but the Lord told him to bid the children of Israel ‘go forward.” And whither forward? Into the seat Yes. And this ventaring of themselves npon th command and the promises of God added to their! faith—a faith whieh in after ages became grand, sublime. And hence, when they had crossed ti Red Sea and their enemics were swallowed in depths, the sacred historian adds that they } lieved the Lord and His servant Moses, Anguisd} and trouble educate men into faith, and faith tht | athe trusts God auywhere and at alt tim necause it sees Him whose way is in the #eA aD: ciation at Kokomo, Ind has adopted an exc episcopal home for Bishop Bowman and his sue- cessors, Who are to reaide in St. Louis, The prop. lent system of chureh visitation. Two days’ meet His path in the nigaty waters, aud whose (aotste are not know,