The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1872, Page 13

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. November 17---Twenty-Sixth Sun- day After Pentecost, RELIGIOUS EXERCISES TO-DAY. Herald Religious Correspond- ence and Reports. Tereontenary Celebration of the Establish- ment of the Presbyterian Chureh in Philadelphia. Aid for a Southern Mission. CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN ASIA. Pius the Ninth and the Syllabus. GATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. Movements of Ministers and Changes in Minisiries. Services To-Day. At the Duane street Methodist Episcopal church Rev. J. G. Oakley will preach at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P. M. At Canal street Presbyterian church, services at half-past ten and half-past three o'clock, by Rev. David Mitchell. At Apollo Hall, Thomas Gales Forster, trance ‘speaker, lectures at half-past ten o'clock A. M. Subject, “The Religious Need of the Hour,” and at half-past seven o’clock P. M., theme of the morn- {ng’s discourse continued. At the Berean Baptist church there will be <preaching by the pastor, Rev. Philip L. Davies, at half-past ten o'clock A. M. and a quarter to eight -e'clock P. M. «At the Bleecker street Universalist church Rev. ‘E. C. Sweetzer will preach on “Some Incidents and Lessons of the Boston Fire.” In the evening he ‘will continue his course of Sermons on the “Pil- grim’s Progress.” Special topic—“‘Mr. Worldly Wiseman." Morningservice ata quarter to eleven; veyneing service at hall-past seven. Snow will preach in the University (Washington square) at3 P. M. Subject—“What the Bible Says Concerning Romanism.” -At the Central Baptist cliurch there will be preaching by Kev. Fred Evans at half-past ten and palf-past seven o'clock. Strangers are welcomed, - At the Church of the Resurrection Rev. Dr. Flagg ‘will preach morning and evening. Sunday school -at three P. M. At the Central Methodist Episcopal church Rev, £. O. Haven, D. D., will preach at half-past ten A. M., and Rey. J. F. Chaffee, D. D., of Colorado, at halt-past seven P. M. ‘» Rey. Bishop Janes, Rev. Bishop Foster, Rev. Bishop Ames, General Clinton B. Fisk and other distinguished gentlemen, will speak in behalf of “Church Extension and Mission Work,’’ this eve- ming, in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church. Exercises will commence at half-past seven e’clock. 4 ‘At the French church Du St. Esprit, Rev. Dr. Verren, rector, there will be divine service in French, at nalf-past ten A. M. \At the Madison avenue Baptist church there ‘will be preaching in the morning at half-past ten o'clock by the pastor, Rev. J. P. Elder; in the even- ing athaif-past seven o’clock. It isthe anniversary of the Missionary society connected with the Sun- day School, and addresses will be delivered by Hon. Cephas Brainerd and Rev. A. 8, Patton, D. D. Rev. H. D. Northrop will preach at the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church at half- past ten and hall-past seven o’clock. Third dis- course in the eveningon “Great Characters of the Scriptures.’ ‘@Rev. Mr. Pendleton, pastor, will preach in Fifty- third street; morning at haif-past ten; evening at half-past seven. Free seats at Laight street Baptist Mission. Rey. 4. W, Knapp preaches morning and evening. Sun- day school at two o'clock. Services in St. Ignatius’ church at seven, nine and half-past ten o’clock A. M., and at half-past seven o'clock P.M. Dr. Ewer will preach at half- past ten and half-past seven. In the Anthon Memorial church, the rector, Rev. ©. Newton, preaches morning and evening. Rev. W. N. Dunnell will officiate in All Saints Free church morning and evening. Divine service in the Greek Catholic chapel. Service at eleven o'clock. All invited. The “Character of Joseph’’ will be the theme of Chaplain Laval at the mission, 11 Carmine street, ateleven o'clock. Free, Rev. W. U. Dawson preaches in the Christian church this morning, and in the evening will com- mence his series of discourses on “Bible Ques- ‘tions.”’ George Clair, Professor of Elocution, this evening ‘at Continental Hall. A Rev. Mr. Walker will conduct the services of alvary Episcopal Chapel Ladies’ Fair, in Sunday @chool room, through the week. French services of the Reformed church by Rev. Mr. Borel, in Young Men’s Christian Association Ball, at half-past ten. Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, at Calvary church, morning and afternoon. Divine service in Forsyth street Methodist church ‘morning and evening. Seats free. Preaching in the Moravian church at half-past ten. Atthree P. M. services for children. Mr. Hepworth, at Steinway Hail, this morning, on “Great Calamities,” and inthe evening on “The Jecond Birth.” At the Spring street Presbyterian church there will be preaching by the Rev. G. M. McCampbeil, pastor elect, at half-past ten A. M. and three P. M. ‘Young people’s prayer meeting at half-past seven y. M. There will be preaching in the Fourteenth street Preabyterian church morning and evening, at half- past ten and half-past seven o'clock, by the Rev, Robert Sloss. “The Church Perfected Through Suffering” is ithe subject of asermon by the Rev. C, A. G. Brig- ham, at the Catholic Apostolic church, at half-past seven P. M. At the West Seventeenth street Baptist church there will be preaching by the pastor, Rev, Robert Cameron, at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P.M At the Sixth avenue Reformed church preaching 4s announced for half-past ten A. M. and half-past | goven P. M., by Rev. Julius L. Danner, pastor. Sub- fect for evening—"Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress,."’ Wereentenary Presbyterian Celebration— Establishment of the First Presbytery of the Church in 1572—The Ceremo~ mies at Philadelphia—Formation and Growth of the Denomination in America=The Church During the Revolationary War—Its Present Sta- tistics. The Presbyterian Church in the United States has not had time to forget the joy of the reunion of the Old and New School branches, which reached its olimax at the close of tie General Assembly in 1870, when {t is called upon to celebrate a memor- able anniversary. Wednesday next, the 20tn Anat, it will be 300 years since the first Presby- gery was established in England, though Knox NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET: some years before had succeeded in disseminating the doctrines of Calvin throughout Scotland. The Church has had an organized existence in America about one hundred and eighty years, but it now numbers more members on this Continent than there are to be found in Ireiand and Scotland, to which countries it is indebted for its existence. Its progress in England was checked by the bitter opposition of the Tudor mon- archs, It was repressed with siceplessa jeal- ousy and its spread resisted at every point, It was in opposition to Queen Elizapeth and the bitter hostility of the bishops that the first Presbytery was formed, That toek place at Wandsworth, in Surrey, almost in the suburbs of London, The record of it, which came under the eye of Bishop Bancroft and the statement upon which he bases his “Exposure of its Dangerous Position and Proceedings,” contained the names of eleven elders, tho approvers of them, who were neighboring clergymen, and ® description of their oMces and general rules to be observed. It was the first fruits of @ sertes’of conferences heid by English ministers annually, who, a few weeks pre- viously, wearied by vain applications to Parliament for a reformation of discipline according to the views of Calvin and Knox, had recommended that all should labor, each for himself, to introduce the desired changes, At the last General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, held in this city, it was resolved to celebrate the tercentenary of the event. It will take plage in Philadelphia. Clergymen from all parts of the United States are Invited to attend, At ten o’clock, next Wednesday morning, the min- isters and elders will march in procession to Penn Square Presbyterian church, where appropriate ceremonies will be held, THR PRESBYTRRIAN CHURCH, The present occasion may be a suitable one to give a brief sketch of this important denomination, and of its foundation and growth in America. The reformation inaugurated by Luther, it is known, was carried on under different auspices, and this fact gave birth, especially in Great Britain, toa series of events which had most important influence on the organization and character of churches poth in England and Scotland, on the condition of the people in both kingdoms, and ultimately on the settlement of the United States. In England the reformation began in royal caprice or passion, and was made fora time subservient to tie arbitrary will of a despotic monarch, Disputes subsequently arose between the Court and the Puritans, the lat- ter being infinenced by the great leading doctrines of Calvin, and who desired to make greater changes in doctrine, worship and order. They commenced ostensibly in respect to ecclesiastical vestments, but included as emergencies arose controversies on. numerous other points. Persecutions resulted, and the progress of civil ana religious despotism became rapid. ‘These consequences advanced steadily through the reigns of Hiizabeth, James |. and Charies L, and at length civi! war broke out, ending in the beieading of the latter monarch, THE PURITANS FINALLY PREVAILED in Parliament and the nation. Cromwell came into power, and under his rule the greatest atrocities were committed in the three kingdoms, No mercy was shown to those who objected to his authority. ‘They were slaughtered and banished by thousands, The Scotch and Irish were soid into slavery in the American plantations, The principles of the Puri- tans were embudied in ecclesiastical jormularies composed the Westminster Assembly (an au- thorized work in the Presbyterian Church), which met in 1643, and were adopted by Parliament six ears later. Presbyterianism became the estab- ished religion. On the restoration of the mon- archy, in the person of Charles IL, dlssensions again arose. In the meantiine a portion of the Puritans sought refuge in America, and the pil- grims of the Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock and formed their institutions in the New World. THE SCOTCH AND IRISH CHURCHES, In Scotland the Reformation took a strong hold. It was strongly tinged with the views of Calvin. Patrick Hamilton, the friend or Luther and Melanc- thon, learned their doctrines and taught them in that country. John Knox, the able, flerce and de- termined preacher, and who was in intimate cor- respondence with Calvin, framed a coniession of faith and the first book of discipline. The Church in Scotland met in its first general assembly, ior its own government, in 1560. The ciitef poilits of faith were opposition to prelacy or government by bishops, absolute decrees of God, spiritual presence of Christ in the Eucharist and independence of the Church. It was not until 1561, at the Conference of Poissy, that the supporters of these dogmas re- ceived the name of Cuivinists. All efforts to tntro- duce episcopacy into Scotland tailed, The Scots were roused to resistance, A war of twenty-eight ears followed—the blackest period in Scottish history. ‘The Presbyterian Church in Ireland was mainly the offspring of Presbyte emigration from Scotland, but the former country has done more to enlarge the Churcli in America than Scot- land. Emigration went on across the Atlantic but ersecution was not unknown on this Continent. itis aremarkable fact, however, that Presbyteri- ans persecuted by Episcopalians in Virginia, and Episcopalians and others persecuted by Puritans found retuge and protection in the Catholic colony oft Maryiand, where religious liberty was first estab- lished and practically carried out in America. PRESBYTERIAN LINEAGE IN AMERICA, The Presbyterian Church in America derives its lineage from the Presbyterians of both Ireland and Scotland, who were its first jounders, The Church of Scotland, which owes its severity to the obstinate, stern and vehement character of Knox, ‘Was, more than any other, its model in the whole arrangement of its judicatories and its whole ecclesiastical nomenclature, with few exceptions. The persecutions which drove so many of the early settlers to this country fell, in the first instance, on the Independents and Quakers, and when it came on the Presbyterians it did not drive tiem so generally from their homes, but led to a protracted struggle, as mentioned above. From the period oi the accession of William and cit the Presbyterians began to remove from Ireland and Scotland to America. The first Presbyterian church that can now be distinctly traced was organized in Philadelphia (in which city the tercehtenary cele- bration takes place next Wednesday) a short period before the commencement of the eighteenth century, and almost coeval with it was the forma- tion of four or tive churches on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay. There is, however, some account of a Scotch Presbyterian church established in South Carolina in 1630, but the members dispersed and returned to Europe. The primary ecclesiastical union of American Presbyterians occurred in 1706, when the Presbytery of Phila- delphia was formed, It consisted of seven minis- ters—Samuel Davis, John Hampton, Francis Mc- Kenna and George McNish, from Ireland ; Nathaniel Taylor and Jon Wilson, from Scotiand, and Jedediah Andrews, from England. EARLY DAYS OF THE DENOMINATION. According to the official statement of the Pres- bytery of Philadelphia in their letter to the Pres- bytery of Dublin, September, 1710, the whole num- ber of ascertained Presyterians at that time is thus given:—In Virginia one small congregation at Elizabeth River, with some few families in Rap- pahannock and York; in Maryland four congrega- tions, in Pennsylvania five, and in the Jerseys two, with some places in New York. In comparison with the Church of to-day the growth is certainly great, even taking into account the increase of population. At this period, 1710, emigrants were earnestly solicited from Ireland and Scotland, who soon began to arrive from the Jormer country in large numbers. In consequence the Presbytery of Philadeiphia became enlarged and the congrega- tions widely scattered. It was decided in 1716 to subdivide the body into four sub-presbyteries, all of whom constituted members of the general body, denominated the Synod of Philadelphia, Its first meeting was held in that city September 17, 1717, and embraced thirteen ministers and six elders. In i718 they renewed their solicitations to the Irish Presbytery for additional reachers, A Synod was established in New York in 1745, the Church in the meantime increasing in membership. A difference then arose in the or- ganization which continued until 1758, when a re- union was effected, being the Synods of Philadel- phia and New York, which was retained up to 1778, when they divided themselves into four Synods preparatory to the first meeting of a generat as- sembly in 1789, which was attended by 188 preach- ers, representing 419 churches, During THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR the Presbyterians went heartily into the cause, ‘They remembered the persecutions they had suf- fered for conscience’ sake under the English gov- ernment. Even recently Mr. Froude, in his lec- tures on Ireland, has admitted that these men and their sons seized the opportunity of paying back the debt they owed the crue) rulers of Great Britain. The pulpit and the press, the Senate chamber and battle-fleld, caeir murdered bodies, desecrated churches and ravaged dwell- ings bear witness to their zeal and special hate of the ruthless oppressors, In framing the constitu- tion of the thirteen States or in settling their polity as independent States the separation of religion from the State was in some measure the result of formal petitions to that effect trom large bodies of clergymen. Such was the fact in respect to Presbyterian ministers in Virginia, It was so in New York. John Witherspoon, the most distin- guished Presbyterian minister west of the Atlantic Ocean and father of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, was @ memper of the Convention, When the Deciaration of Independence was under discussion doubts and forebodings were prevalent: in the Assembly. It hesitated and wavered, He rose to sperk and his words suppressed all aoubts. He said :—*There is said to be A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN; a nick of time. We perceive it now before us, To hesitate is to consent to our own slavery. That noble instrument on your table, which insures im- mortality to its author, shouid be subscribed this very morning by every pen inthe house. For my own part, of property I have some—of reputation more. That reputation is staked; that property is pledged on the issue of this contest. And although these gray hairs must soon descend to the sepulchire I would infinitely rather they should descend thither by the hands of the public executioner than desert at this crisis the sacred cause of my coun- ” = THE PRESENT CENTURY, The Presbyterian Church has had an eflicient and extensive development since 178%. About the com- Mencement of th» present century @ remarkable religious awakening was manilested throushout a wide extent of the then far West. It was resolved to employ men ot piety and talent, although without classical cducation, to preach; but tis was ob- jected to by the General Assembly. But the rres- bytery of Herland proceeded to license preach- ers and seceded from the main body. The Cumber- land Presbyterians Lave progressed in a wonderful manner. They now form an infuential religious community in Kentucky, Tennessee and other Southwestern States. The disruption of the Pres- bytertan Church in 1838 is one of the most interest- ing occurrences in the religious annals of the United States. The difficulties that led to it grew out of differences as to the powers of the General assembly in reference to faith and discipline, Two bodies were formed— one called the Old School, the other New School— which continued to act as independent organiza- tions until a reun‘on, to the great joy of both par- ties, was eifected in 1370, Memorial churches have been erected in New York and other cities to cele- brate the event. The best feeling has always ex- isted between the Congregationnl churches of New England and the Presbyterians, as they nearly agree in doctrine and government, The bond of union is strengthened by the fact that ministers of both denominations are received as authorized preachers in their respective churches and ex- changes regularly take place. PRESENT STATISIICS OF THE OTRO. The Reformed Dutch and the German Reformed Churches in the United States are Presbyterian and Caivinistic, The Reformed Presbyterians, or Covenante the Associate Church and the Associ- ate Refermed, including the Cumber!and and some smaller denominations, though irom vai ious causes they are arranged in separate bolies, witn the two great bodies in the North and South, compose the immense Presbyterian famuy in the United States, comprehending a population of over ‘aur millions, Wid, either as communicants or worshippeis, aré associated with them, At the eighty-third General Assembly, held in 1871 in Chicago, there weve re- ported thirty-flve Synods, 167 Presbyteries, 4,346 ministers, 4,616 Churches and 445,378 members. At the Gencral Assembly of the Southern churches there were reported eleven Synods, 860 ministers, | 1,518 churches and 87,529 members. The United Presbyterians reported nine Synods, 566 ministers, 731 churches and 71,404 members, ‘The Cunberland Presbytery had under it 102 churches, with a mem- bership of 40,218 The establishment of the first Presbytery at Wandswortn, three hundrea years ago, has diways been looked upon as an event of the first importance, and the occasion ot its tercen- ary laa be made @ national auniversary by the Church, Aid for a Southern Mission Chareh, A. C, Kaufman. of Charleston, 8. C., is in our city and will be pleased to receive donations in aid of Christ Church Mission, located in the suburbs of that city. Tho touching appeal from the vestry of this church, of which Mr. Kaufman is @ member, appeared in our religious columns on the 15th of September last. New York city has never becn laggard in responding to the calls of charity, and we do not believe that she will prove so in this instance. A few thousands will enable the neces- sary repairs to bo made to this church and set it on @ sound financial basis, and certainly tois small amount can be contributed by this great metropo- lis without being ielt, and an approving conscience will bless the donors to this necessitous and worthy mission. Mr. Kaufman is stopping at tie St. Nicholas Hotel, and will be pleased to see any per- sons who may be disposed to aid in this worthy and religious work, Among the late improvements in Tsukidji, Japan, is the new Union Church, which was dedicated September 2. The building is a plain, substantial structure, having an audience room thirty-six by twenty-eight feet, with two smail rooms in the rear and porch in iront. A neat railing and gate tront the edifice. A small but ‘raceiul white spire, surmounted by a Saxon cross, is a new and striking feature in Jeddo architecture, Stalned glass and potnted arched windows add to the ecclesiasticai appearance of the church, It will be open every Sunday at ten o'clock A. M, for divine service, It is intended for the use and benefit of the English-speaking people of Jeddo, and has been built by their voluntary offerings. Roman Catholic Church in Tien-tsin, China. A letter from Tien-tsin, China, reports:—“The new Roman Catholic church at this place was opened for public worship on the morning of the 25th of August. His Excellency M. Gefroy, the French Minister, was present on the occasion.” Pius IX. and the “Sylabus.”" | To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— The Syllabus issued a few years ago by the Holy | Father was, perhaps, the most remarkable docu- ment that has been written for a thousand years, It condemned in an unsparing manner all the most | prominent errors in the world—errors that are un- dermining and subverting the sacredness of tne marriage relations of life—errors that have led to rapine and murder, perpetrated in the most flend- ish-like manner—errors that are sapping the foun- dation and stability of all governments and cutting asunder the ties of human society—and, finally, er- rors that have engendered such supreme selfish- ness and greed that, unless counteracted by the benign principles of the “Sermon on the Mount,’’ will cause this earth to become a pandemonium. And for the issuing of this Syllabus it has arrayed against the Pope hundreds of millions through- out the world who belong to the fragmentary sects, denominations, schisms, heresies and secret orders condemned in that document. Yes, they have not only become his most inveterate enemies, but kings, queens and emperors have deserted him, and he has been, in the must ruthless manner, deprived of all his temporal possessions and been made a comparative prisoner within his own do- minions. Yet, amid all these trials, troubles and tribulations, is it not a bey Se that angels, arch- angels, cherubim and sera; in, might gaze upon with sweet satisfaction on account of his lamb-like dispositon in his submission to the will of God? Yet is he not as bold asa lion in his adherence to the Syllabus, without any retraction? What sub- limer sight can be conceived bythe human mind than to behold to-day Pius the Ninth, a man over eighty years of age, standing erect and like ada- mant in the truthfuiness of his sublimity of charac- ter and faith in God, bidding detiance to the world, the flesh and the devily When the writer of these lines first read that Syllabus he thought it was too unsparing in its condemnation, and it crossed his prejudices and chagrined his pride; yet he thought he beheld sublime traths in it. The second time he read it his pride became somewhat uprooted and his prejudices eradicated ; but upon tne third perusal of it if he did not become a friend to the Holy Father he at least became neu- tral. Now let me, as an American convert to that | faith which has captivated my reason, engrossed my understanding and enamored my mo: affec- tions, make an appeal to all inhabitants of this fast-growing Republic. I wish you all, indepen- dently of your former nationalities or present creeds, to become imbued with the thought com- patible with the words of Othello, ‘Nothing exten- ate or aught set down in malice.” Fellow citizens, as a lover of my native country (only next to God and His Church), I will say that I firmly and con. scientiously believe that unless the unitary and | centre truths of the Catholic Church are made to permeate our jurisprudence, our municipal, State and national legislative halls, and our domestic and business relations of life, that this republic will be more premature and its downfall as inevitable as that of the Grecian, Carthagentan and Roman Republics. Just commensurate with the love I have for the Republic is my excruciating anxiety that it will not sulfer such a fate, but that we may avert sucha sad catastrophe. Because if we, by our recreancy to truth and justice, the great central truths of the Catholic Church, cause the premature downfall of | this Republic we will be the most guilty and repre- hensible people in the world; our guilt and moral turpitude would only be excelled by Lucifer and the fallen angels. Does not the student of univer- sal history scan its pages in vatn to find a more au- gust and disinterested land of patriotic heroes than | the conceivers, founders and defenders of this gov. ernment’ Remember that you all have an aby ing interest in its perpetuity, because you can ail | potot with pride to some one of your common fore- | fathers who risked life and preperty in Its creation and defence. an American my reve ence is none less for a Charles Car- | roll, of Carroliton, than for a Washington if you are an Irishman never do an action that would cast any reflection on such an ancestor. Behold him, with a firm, unfaltering hand, attac his signature to the Declaration of Independenc: a document that made him, in the eyes o! the most looked after and very materially aided. This mi sion field has uot heretofore beea vrought promi- nently before the Church, and now the Church is made aware of the sad alternative. The young and energetic pastor, generously and bees sup- ported by the good peop'e of Monticolio, w ii do a wondertul work in the county ti the Church in this and neighboring dioceses comes torward in time with the money und help necessary. I agree with the writer in the Chur:h Journai that God never asks in vain for help from His faithful children, and thereioie we may look tor brighter things in Sulli- van county by next Spring. When it is known that Dakota, with its five churches and six priests, among @ population of twenty thousand, pleads for a8 many more churches and priests. it certainly Will be no surprise to any one that Sullivan county, with one church and one priest among thirty-five thousand inhabitants, asks for a trifing help. G. Catholicism vs. Protestantism, To THE Eprrox o¥ THR HERALD:— As the religious correspondents of the HERALD for the past few months have been engaged ina crusade against Protestantism in general and the Bible tn particular, perhaps I may be allowed the same privilege of a place in your columns to reply to some of the arguments brought forward by our opponents in support of their theories. And, pass- ing over the HexaLp army of would-be theologians, I would direct my attention to one or two points advanced by that eloquent Dominican orator and priest, Father Burke, in @ recent lecture de- livered by him in Boston, and published in full in ono of the Irish weeklies, entitled “Catholicity Not the Danger but the Safety of the Great American Republic,” Aiter speaking in glowing terms of America and Americans, of its material and intel- lectual greatness, he proceeds to say, “You are but @ pation of yesteraay, but you have outstripped the oldest races and nations upon the earth in the mareh of civilization and in the cultivation of the sciences and the arts; and the secret of all this greatness and prosperity he attributes to the religion of the people, when he says, speak- ing of religion:—“ihere lies the — vital principle of the source of the people's lie; tuere Hes the secret of their strength, of thelr energy; there lies the secret of that spiritual life which must be in a peatie before they can be- come truly great.”” Now, I fully agree with the reverend ‘ather in all this, but, unfortunatel: his argument, if we are to judge of the greatness and prosperity of ‘our countr by the religion of our’ people (and wi I contend is the true secret of our country’s pros- pertty) it will not be found in the fact that they are koman Catholics, Dut assuredly in the fact that they are Protestants; for while the entire Catholic population of the country does not excced 6,500,000 all toid, the Protestant population amounts 26,500, 01 Here, thea, we have it clearly de strated, and on Father Burke's own principles, that the pronperly and greatness of America consists in the tact that her people are Protestants, and, carrying out this principle, that her future safety depends only upon thir remaining so. In this case at least the logic of the reverend lecturer teils only against himself, Further on in his lecture he alludes in no ver; flattering terms to the Protestant religion, which he denounces as substituting for the authority of God an “appeal made to the private judgment ana personal intelligence of every man,’ and that only nthe Catholic (Koman) Church is the authority, “Thus saith the Lord,” to be found. And so absurd is this statement that Ican very easily prove that for Protestants alone acknowledge the authority of Jehovah, while Romanists reject Him as being of no authority whatever, Catholics Both Protestants and elleve the Bible to be the inspired Word we are agreed. In the Douay Bibie There is but one mediator between God n, the man Christ Jesus.” Protestants be- lieve that God cannot lie, and therefore believe and accept this as trae; but the Church of Rome says, “Gh, no! this is not so; for we believe and teacn that there are many mediators.” The Blessed Saviour said, “Search the Scriptures; but the Church of Rome says, “By no means, for, if gen- erally read, it is productive of more evil than pood."’ Christ says, “I am the bright and the Morning Star;” but Father Burke, in a recent lecture, says the Virgin Mary is the “Morning Star." Who substitutes here the teachings of men for the commandments of God? Certainly not the Protestants. But these are only a few out of many instances in which Komanists reject the authority of God, Passing over the remainder of the reverend gentleman's lecture,. I will proceed to* show from a standpoint dierent from that taken by the lecturer, that Romanisin is and must be the enemy of our Ke; lic. And this nay be done in two ways. Firs! that the constitution of the United Stat the right of every Individual to wo! according to the dictates of tus own consci and, second, because the Church of Rome ts oppo: to tree religious liberty. The first proposition is so well known and periectly understood that 1 will pass on to the second. To prove beyond a doubt that the Church of Rome is opposed to religious liberty I will quote from one o1 their Popes, His Holiness Pope Pius VIL, in a letter to the cardinals, dated February 5, 1808, thus spoke in reference to Bonaparte’s pro- ai to grant freedom of conscience :—“It is pro- P that all religious persuasions should be free, and their worship publicly exercised; but we re- ject it as contrary to the canons and councils, to Satholic religion and the wellare of the State, count of the deplorable conse ces which ensue from it.” Here is a cl admission that Romanism is opposed to freedom of con- science, and consequently in antagonism to the constitution of the United States and the enemy of our free republican institutions. Hear what the Shepherd of ie Valley newspaper (Roman Catholic) said some years ago:—“If Catholics ever gain an immense numerical majority religious free- dom will be at an end.”’ And all history attests its truth. Witness, for example, the massacre of St. Bartholomew. In that horrible butchery thirty thousand Protestants, according to Romisi writers, and from filty thousand to one hundred thousand according to Protestant historians, were murdered in cold blood, and for no other reason than that ener were Protestants. Christ taught men to love thelr enemies, but the Church of Rome cried, ‘Kill, kill the heretics!” If the Lord Jesus Christ had heard the awful tidings how He would have mourned and wept over the shocking cruelties, and denounces, in the thunder tones of heaven, the murderers, mitred or crowned, who urged it on. But His vicar upon earth, so far from deploring and deprecating the monstrous crimes, despatched Cardinal Ursini to thank the French King; gloried in the butchery, celebrated a jubilee and struck a medal to commemorate it. And Romanism is the same to-day in spirit as it was then. “We never change,” is ther continual cry. A little incident that occurred in New York city during the present year may still further help to show who are the most loyal and patriotic cliizens. A few weeks previous to Washington’s birthday it was announced, through the public prints, that a number of socieues were to march In procession, in honor of the birthday of the Father of his Country. In all that vast pro- cession of patriotic Americans not a single Catholic organization was represented—not one. They were all Protestant; and 1 venture to affirm that few, if any at ull, individual Catholics took part in the celebration. But mark what follows. On the 1ith of March all the Catholic organizations and societies of the city paraded the streets, with fying vanners and bands of music, in honor of one of Ire- land’s mythical saints. Truly deep is their love for St. Patrick, and strong is their, desire to properly honor his memory upon a forefgn shore; but their zeal to ts eh and celebrate the birthday of the glorious Washington, lo! where was it? Apolo- gizing for so long a letter, I will conclude in the language of a greater than Father Burke, the im- mortal Lafayette, “If ever the liberties of the United States are destroyed it will be by Romish priests.” So say I. A PROTESTANT. Ministerial Movements. METHODIST. ‘The thirteen bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church are now here in the city and will officiate in severa! of the churches in New York and Brook- lyn to-day. They come here to attend the general missionary meetings which take place to-morrow in Central church, Seventh avenue and Fourteenth street. They will remain here until the close of this week, when they go to Philadelphia to attend the meetings of the Church Extension Society. Rev. Dr. E. P. Haven, Secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is also here and will attend the missionary and after- wards the Education Society meetings, Rev. Dr. Jacoby, founder and for many years superinten- dent of Methodist missions in Germany and Switzerland, is here aiso to attend the missionary powerful government in the world, a rebel, and upon the issue of war depended whether he should | suffer an ignominous death or be reverenced by all | persons who appreciate nobility of character. If | you are @ Polander always retain your rectitude of | character, and gaze with reverence on the monu- ments erected to your ancestors, Kosciusko and | Pulaski; if a Frenchman, remember Lafayette, a | worthy colleague of Washington, who fought side | by side against the mightiest Power of the earth. The immunities of the country are offered to you | all; therefore your responsibility in doing nothing | that will lead to its downfall is augmented. | AN AMERICAN CONVERT TO THE CATHOLIC } CHURCH, | To THE Eprvor oF THE HERALD:— In your issue‘of Sunday last, under the head of | “Episcopalian Changes,” &c., brief mention was made of the mission work in Sullivan county. No | injustice was intended, put let me add a word of | explanation. The writer of the article from which you quoted has assured me that he intended no un- | qualified condemnation of the Sullivan county | people or of the Church at large when he spoke of the contracted state of their church finances and of eel | Montiecito Episcopal Churet. | | their “old, worn-out, tumble-down sort of meeting | path. house.” minds of Episco) missionary field o! but he desired to impress it upon the fans that the long-negiected jullivan must now or never be meetings. He is now pastor of a large German Methodist Episcopal churen in St. Louis. Rev, A. 8 Larkin, of the Alabama Con- ference, ie in the city upon similar business. Rev. G. A. Singer, of the Central Pennsylvania Confer- ence, having concluded that it is not good fora mar to be alone, got married a few days ago to Miss J. Heffelfinger, of Mechanicsburg, Pa. Rev. J. Steele, of Prescott, Wis., has been appointed by Bishop Simpson a missionary to New Mexico. Rev. W. H. Evans, of the New York Conference, stationed at Cold Spring, N. Y., received a cordial greeting from his church and people on Sunday, 3¢ inst., on his return from Europe whither he had gone to re- cover nis shattered health. Revivals are reported in Palmer, Mass. ; in Ashford, N. Y.; in Blairstown, N. J.;in Baldwin, N. Y.; ig Brewsters, N. Y.;in New Brunswick; in Cumberland, Md.;in Freedom, Pa. ‘The Methodists of Fishkill are about to build a new chureh for themselves. Te South Harlem church, Second avenue and 110th street, will celebrate its second anniversary to-day. Fifteen persons united with the new Methodist Episcopal church at Great Neck, Long Isiand, on last communion Sab- A village camp meeting Is in progress at Brovd street Methodist Episcopal church, Burting- | at Prenton, N. J., tn one of which Tn wim pson is again preaching iM Pil = his usual vigor and fervor. Bishop scott a cated 8 chapel for the Filzwater street church, ‘niladeiphia, lust Sunday. Late advices from Siberta report the tmprovement in health of Bisho| Roberta and the safe arrival (October 9) of Rey. o A. Pittman, a delegate to the iate General Confer- ence. 4 revival in the mission station of Cawnpore, India, has led to the organization of acnurch amon, the Engtish residents, and a preacher is now called for, whom they are pledged to support. Bishop Payne, Methodist Episcopal Church South, is ex- ected in Baltimore rage Rev. Dr. Wadsworth is leaving Trinity church, Baltimore, and going to reside in Alabama. Kev. J. L. Clark has a revival in pore fa his church in Holland street, Baltimore. v. U, C, Mayhew has been Sppointed Sunday school Agent ol the Tennessee Conference Church South. The Methodists of New Providence, Tenn., are about to buiid a commodious church at tiat place. Bishop Wightman, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, dedicated churches at Bentonville, Olarksville and Lewisburg during his recent visit to Arkansas. ‘The White River Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South, has 9,413 white and 11 colored mem- bers, and 107 local preachers, 92 churches and 2 parsonages, together valued at $23,675, and 100 Sunday schools and 4,625 scholars. A suit insti- tuted by the Methodist Episcopal Church South against Rev. J. R. Hughes, of the Northern wing, to recover the parsonage in which he lived, at Kuea- town, Tenn,, has been compromised by the latter giving up the property and paying part of the costs, Rev. William Potter, of Wilmington Conierence, haa been transierred to Kush, Monroe county, Western New York Conference. Rev, J. Rothwei- ler, of the Central German Conference, is now in this city, So is aiso the Rev. Otis Gibson, of San Francisco, ‘The old North Fifth street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, FE. D., having renewed its life and appearance uhder the pastorate of the Rey. George Hollis, and paid of an old debt, will hold & jubilee se: vice to-day in honor of the event. Old pastors and members are to gather and con- trast the old times and things with the new, ‘The Beekman Hill church Methodists, who have for years worshipped in @ Chapel on the rear of their lots, im Futieth’ street, near second avenue, are avout to build a handsome church for themselves, and next Tuesday aiternoon the corner-stone Will be laid by Bishop if Titany, of the Metropolitan church, Washington, Was in this city attending tue missionary meetings last week, A new Methodist Episcopal church, on ‘Twentieth and Jeifersoa strects, Philadelphia, is to be devicated to-day by Bishops Simpson and Bore- man, The new church at Port Deposit, Md., which was recently dedicated, is the generous gilt of Jacob To..es, & resident of that piace, It cost nearly $60,000, Kev. ‘1’, EK. Martindale is the pas- tor. The City Missionary and Church Extension Society has secured the Universalist church in ‘Thirty-tth street, near Sixth avenue (Kev. Mr. Pullinan), for the use of the colored mission, now in charge of Rev. W. F. Butler, on Broadway, near Thirty-eighth street. The cost price is $50,000, aud Mr. Butler has personally raised and paid down al- ready $5,000 and his mission wiil take possession of it January 1, 1873, Bishop Haven is to address the coiored peaple of Mr. Butler's charge this evening in their hall on Broadway, BAPTIST, Calls have been accepted by Rev. M. A. Dough- erty, Ol Newton, to Stoughton street church, Boston, Mass. ; by Rev. George Wesselins, from Grand Haven, Mich., to Amboy, lil.; by Rev. Join Warren, from Fort Madison to Burlington, lowa; by Rev, J. C, Armstrong, of Humboldt, Kan., to Washington Court House, Ohio; by Rev. W. N. Clark, of New- ton Centre, to Salem, Mass.; by Rey. ). Goodwin, ot Ashiand, Mass,, to Suncook, N. by Kev. A he was once pastor. elphia H. Rice, of Paris, Me., to Fayetieville, Ark.; by Kev, A. Coleman, of the Hopewell taptist church, St. Jolin, N. B., to Neweastie church, Miramacti; by Rev. C. J. Thompson, of Medina, to Homer, N. Y.; hes Rey. J. Day, of Northampton, N. Y., to Newar Jd. Arevival is reported in the Baptist churches in Mempuis, Tenn. Rev. J. S, Deland and his congregation at St. Clair, Mich., a building a new church edifice. The Baptist Weekly editor pats the Heranp for its good judg- ment in “making up its Sunday summary of Papti: news almost exclusively from the Weekly.” v can only add that we must have exlausted tl Weekly's enterprise in our last Sunc issue, sin its own “Summary” tor the past week is made up “almost exclusively” from three or four Sunday issues of the HERALD. The First Baptist Church, of Newark, N, J,, last week, by a vote of 171 to 5, alter trial, expelled Charles Callender, lave Bank Ex- aminer, Jor the moral offences committed in con- nection with the illegal acts for which he was re- moved from his official position, If tiisaction was taken by other churches against members bribery would not be a8 common among professing Chris- tians as it is. The professors in all the Baptist colleges 1n England are open communion, and most of the ministers whom they train follow their lead, This has led Baptists in that country who believe in restricted communion to found a college in Manchester, where “the way of the Lord may be taught more perfectly.” The Baptist church at Hawily, Va., is without a pastor and seeking one. Rev. J. V. Stratton has resigned bis pastorate at Bryan, Ohio. There are forty-eight Baptist churches im Philadelphia, with an aggregate membership of 14, Six of the churches are without pastors. ‘vhere are besides seven mission chapels, The pro- portion of membership to population is as one to forty-seven, In 1460 tt was one to fifty-two, and in 1850 it Was one to fifty-seven. The number of ac- cessions tu the churches, gleaned from last we exchanges, in seven States of the Union is 1¢ Professor 8. Hu ngs, formerly Barnum “lightning calculator,” is to preach in the Bowery Theatre thisevening. Key, Ananias Brown, of Philadelphia, has accepted acall to Newport, R. 1 S. Perkins has been installed over the jurch in G ville, R.L, and Rev. F. B. n over the Free Baptist church at Burnett Junction, Wis. Rey, R. Clark has exchanged his pas- torate in Fond du Lac for one in Winneconne, Wis. PRESBYTERIAN, Rey. Dr. Cunningham, of the Central Presbyterian church in San Francisco, is about to start for the East to solicit aid for the new theological seminar; established in that city. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, proposes to raise for its work the coming year the sum of $56,000. Of 4,616 Presby- terian churches in the United States, 959 were va- cant last year, and only 1,798 had pastors, There were at the same time 799 ministers without charges. The Hacer Weare of St. John, N. B., will celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the death of John Knox, the reformer, by religious ser- | vices in the churches, on Sunday, the 24th inst., and by public adaresses on the 30th inst. We payipee the event will be in some manner ob- served by Presbyterians all over the country. Rev. A. D. White has resigned tne pastor- ate of the Breckenridge street Presbyterian church, Buffalo, N. Y., on account of protracted til health, and is seeking a place in a more southerly climate. For similar reasons Rev. Josiah Milligan, of Prince- | ton, Til, has left the church there, and is going to | Texas as a missionary of the Presbyterian Home Mission Board. The Presbyterians of South Caro- lina are appealed to by their oficial paper to found an orphanage in that State to be named atter Dr. Thornwell, Rev. ER, H. Reinhardt, has been twenty- five years pastor of the Marshall street Presbyterian chureh in Elizabeth, N. J. Rev. Josephus Johnson, under appointment for the China Mission, is visit- ing the churches in the Synod of Arkansas to inter- est them in the missionary cause. Rev. Henry Quigg has just closed a protracted meeting in the church at Smyrna, Ga., with filteen acces- sions to the church. Eleven persons have organized a Presbyterian church in Jackson, Ala., and @ non-member has donated a building site fora church, At the late meeting of the Pres- bytery of Macon, Ga., the reports from the Evangel- ists showed that a foothold had been obtained in several new localities, the most important of which | are Dawson and Fort Valley, and the erection of houses for worship in these places will be pushed forward. Calls have been accepted by Rey. ree 8. Bishop to Orange, N. J.; by Rev. J. R. Wilson, D. D.,, from Augusta, Ga., to Charleston, 8. C. Rev. J. T. McBryde, Evangelist, has leftthe Presbytery of ¢ rleston, S. C., and joined that of Southern Ala- ma. EPISCOPALIAN. The Rey. Alvah Guion, of the Guion Protestant Episcopal church in Brooklyn, died in that city, November 6, aged seventy-seven years, The Rev. George H. Atkinson, D. D.. has been appointed by the Fyiscopal Church Missionary Society a mission- ary at large for Oregon and adjacent Territories. The Rey. William A, Holbrook has accepted the temporary charge of Zion church, New York city, officiating each Sunday morning. At Cranford and Linden, N. J., neat chapels (respectively Trinity and St. Mark’s) are being erected under the care and charge of the Rev. J. Alexander Denniston. The Rev. W. R. Babcock, now sent to the wardens and vestry of St. John's, Jamaica Plain, L. L, his resignation of the rectorship of that parish, on account of continued ill-health. The pews of the new church of St. Bartholomew, ren last week at high rates, ranzing from $300 to $3,250, The premiums on fifty pews amounted to $15,400. Kev, Dr. Hottman, rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in this city, has been offered the deanery ofthe General Theological Seminary, heid by the late Dr. Seabury. Dr. Hoffman deciined the honor, Rev. William J. Alston was instalied last Sunday morning pastor of St. Philip's Episco- palchurch (colored), at Mulberry and Bieecker streets. Bishop Potter presided. The Key. John ‘Thompson, rector of St. David's and St. Patrick's | churches, St. John, N. B., having, alter a visit to the Pacific coast, decided to return to it, has taken leave of his parishioners. They presented him with most affectionate aadresses. LUTHERAN. An English Lutheran mission has been opened Wukesbarre, under the pastoral care of Rev. F. F. Buermeyer. It is making itself felt in that place, and steps are heing taken to secure @ church site there. Rev. P. A, Cederstan has re- toved from peony, Lake, Minn., to Taylor's Falls, Chisago county, Minn, Rev. 8. Scherer has been elected pastor of the Guilford, N. C., charge, and will enter upon his duties on the Ist of next Jan- va Calls have been accepted by Rev. Charies A. Weisell, of Coshocton, N. Y., to Haverstraw, N. ; by Rev. D. M. Weistnan, of Anderson, Ind., to by Rev. L. C. Groseciose, of Mount P to Jonesboro, Ill, and by Rey. D. M. Henkel, of Richmond, Va., to Mount Pleasant, N. 0. Rey. P. Rapy has left his church, at Middle- town, to accept an agency of the Lnvheran Pub- lishing House, at Harrisburg, Pa, Rev. C. H. Bern- heim, aflicted with heart disease, has L his charge of the Lutheran church at Concord, N. C. Anew Lutheran church was organized in Bethle- hem, Pa., on Reformation Day. KOMAN CATHOLIC. Cardinal Amat, one of the five Cardinal Bishops, and the phird in order of the Princes of the chureh, died November 8, at Nice. Fathers Wissel, Dusold, ton, N. J. Bishop Wiley is to visit the cburchea in.| Oberle and Keitz, of the congregation of the Most laven, Rev. Dr. | in Europe, has | im Madison avenue, were | signed his } 18 | Holy. Redeemer, have been conducting a “mission” for the last two weeks in the Church of the Anaun- ciation, Brooklyn. It has been very successful 80 far, and will be continued a week or two longer. Keli- gious societies are Lepr ag up all ‘There are the Venetian and Milanese ( clety for the Accompaniment of the Holy Viati- cum to the Sick and Dying; the Society of Brescia, for following the dead to their last reat- ing place. Pious associations of every descriptiom have been established in all the principal cities, and count thelr members by thousands, ail classes of Society have joined them, and the zeal and activity 0! the members are most edifying. The Rev. Cyp~ rian T, Devine, hitherto assistant pastor at Paris, K has been appointed pastor of Nicholasville, Jessamine county, Ky,, in the aame diocese of Cov: ington. On his late voyage from New York to S® vaanah, tie Kight Rev. Bishop Persico was thrown from his (eet against the stanchions of the sieamee Victor, on which he sailed, by a sudden and viol lurch of the vessel, and sustained painful injurtes. The new church at Sag Harbor, which the Rev. J. J. Heffernan ts laboring so devotedly and energetic- ally to erect, ia iast approaching completion fit to the large and increasing Catholic population ol the place, ‘The Jesuit Fathers, who closed their “mission” in Philadclphia week before into two companies, and while one com; to Baltimore the other went to br in the Church of Our Lady of Victories, on Thr avenue, they opened # ‘mission’ last Sunday. The ghapel of tie uew Church of St, Patrick, on Ocean and Bramhall avenues, Jersey City, was dedicated last Sunday by the Very Rev. Dean P. Byrne, of Camden, Tie number of clerieul con- verts (rom the Church o: England to the Romas Catholic Chureh has led to the establishment of & “Converts’ Home" in London, where such con- verts and their families are supported until they can be provided with means to take care of them- scives, One of the latest converts reported ti Rev. E. $8. Smith, Vicar of Cannock, who, “fading the Church of England to be fast running inte inddelity, heresy and error, had hambly sought for reconciliation with the Mother and Mistress of us all, the holy Roman Catholic Church.” Mr, Archer M, Shee, a Roman Catholic, writes to the London 7imes declaring his “utter disbelie! of tha alleged appearance of the Virgin at Lourdes. lie has read the accounts of the “pilgrimages,” Le Says, With “mourniul disgust.” MISCELLANEOUS, Rev. R. G. Hutchings, late of Brooklyn, N. Y., haw begun his ministry with the First Congregational church in Columbus, Ohio. Rev. Concord, N. H., has returned from tour in Europe. Mr, William 8S, Kayner and wile, of Baltimore, have given a large and valuable prop- erty to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Association of Baltimore, to be used for the purposes of that charity, The gilt amounts to $50,000, Rev. Joseph Annand, of St. John, N. B., has sailed a8 a mission- ary to the New Hebrides. The First Valley Con- gregational church, of Orange, N. J., Rev. George b. Bacon, pastor, are about bo erect a new chapeb at a cost of $25,000, Dr. 5. R. Hall, of Benning- ton, Vt., has accepted a call to the Congregational church ‘at Granby, Vt. Rev. Stopford A, Brooke, who has been “houorary chaplain to the Queen,” had just been appointed one of the chaplains ordinary to Her Majesty. Rev, George i. Young, of Troy, has been here during the week visiting among thé Unitarian churches and brethren, Mr. Williant Averett, now acting Professor at Harvard College, | has received the license and approbation of the | Boston Association of Ministers to preach the Gow pel in Unitarian churches, ‘The Pantheon of Rome, it is said, will be obtained from the Italian govern ment for Protestant worship. This is the moat ancient churen of the Seven Hilled City, It ia said tha’ the pavement rests on two hundred wagow loads of martyrs’ bones, placed there by order o« | Pope Boniiace to conquer the repugnance felt by the superstitious among the people to using it fou Christian worship, THE THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYVACOGUE: —— Judaism a Religion of Love, Dlustrated by the Jewish Race from Abraham te the Present—Sermon by Dr. Vidaver. The synagogue in Thirty-fourth street, Seventh avenue, was well filled yesterday. The female choir sung their last songs, and hence‘orts only male voices are to be heard in the services, How the newly elected oficers who have instituted this change can reconcile it with their own Scrip- tural command, “Let all the people praise Thee, U God, yet let all the people praise Thee,” it is for them to answer. The measure may be wise or otherwise, It is an accomplished fact now, Dr, Vidaver preached yesterday on the principle of love in Judaism from the pleading of Abraham before God in behalf of Sodom, Genesis xviit Abraham never ap, red more exalted in our cyes, said the Doctor, than in the attitu in Which the iL text presents Him, He stands betoi PRAYING sopoM, ‘ He manifests a heart filled with @ God-like love even for the most degenerate and sinful. God extends his mercy to saint and sinner alike, and on the same principle that parents love their children. You love them not, said the Doctor, ise they are virtuous, but because they are your children, and though’ you rejoice to see them virtuous you do not hate the prodigal and the Wayward, though they be perverse, because they are your children, You may hate their sins, but love themselves. nd 8 love and commisera- tion are one ot God's attributes, and from which alone we can expect His gracious forgiveness, Abraham feels compassion and love for Sodom and not hate, and then he stands and prays for its people, = THIS PURE LOVE is that which is alone the result of true faith and is based upon humilit The conciousness of hid being but dust makes him place no more estimate upon himseif than on the Sodomites. We are all Jashioned alike and gifted with a power of will ta choose or to reject. Is not all flesh grass and the glory of man as the flower of the field? Are wa not all alike weak and frail and prone to sin? Who of us can ask God to write our names im His book of life and to blot our neighbor's out? Who, knowing his own frailty and selfishness, would dare to pronounce a judicial verdict of divine con- demnation over a fellow man? Noone. And Juda- ism teaches jar diferent. It enjonis love upon ail toward saint and sinner alike. JUDAISM HAS BEEN MISREPRESENTED asa hard, stern, selfish religion, but it extends ite helping hand to all, and feels commiseration, not hatred, for the wicke It would rescue from the abyss of moral destruction and woe all the song and daughters of Adam. Faith desires to see sin eradicated from the earth and labors tor this end, It wants the sinner to return to the fold of virtue and, like a loving mother; it caresses and makes tore of the sick one returning to health than of the child w was never prostrated by sickness. And thus faith delights more in the morally conval- escent than in those who had never tasted sin. And such isthe love proclaimed by Abraham and the patriarchs, Such is the love taught by Moses and the prophets, and such is the love with which Ju- daism would permeate the lives of its adherents aud the descendants of Abraham. As such, satd Dr. Vidaver, we know it and will live to uphold it, Verily, israel did not need to wait for a new dis- pensation to teach such jove. This glorious doc- trine is coeval and coextensive with Judaism itself, It is treasured up in the law, the principles of) which are to-day enlightening, civilizing and en- nobling the human race. THE LECTU RE EASO! JOUR PUBLIC LECTURES, ° by Dr. LUDWIG BOHU on November 20, 23, and 30, commencing preeisely at o'clock in the evening, at Steinway Hall, 100 and 11 East Fourteenth street. First lectai ir 20, Subject—"The Son on Life.” a reserved seats, ember eg Up mann & Co., versity place; B. ern and at the door. hirmer, 701 Broadway, M 188 F. H. CHURCHILL WILL Mo“large Hall, Cooper Institute, on Tuesday evening, igth instant, t Sewing Girls of Box ton, jute fire, Subject, ckets, 5c. Doord: open at commence at 7h ROF OR S.J. SEDGWICK’S ILLUSTRATED LEC. tures “Across the Continent,” Wg November and | December will be given as tollows:—In_ Thirteenth street esbyterian church (Rey. Dr. Burchard), on Tuesday i November 26, December 3, 10, 17 and 24. At Novem al in St. th Bal Low ‘Twentieth on Thursday evenings, November | AY Shand December 5. Professor SEDUWICK'S Post o | address, Newtown, Queeus county, N. % | Mount Ve DANCING ACADEMIES. -DODWORTH'S CLASSES FOR DAN( " A. Fittn avenue, will commence Oetobers, For days: and terms send for circular, MARS’ ACADEMY OF DAs ER street, the handsomest anu ninpinte estab. For terms, &&,, send for JA. lishment of the Kind in the city. circular, uae J, SAU8) DANCING A, ai Masonic Han, 114 and and Brevoort Hall, 154 and 156 I SOIREL At Brexoort Hall, Monday, November Ws I PRIVATE LESSONS at aby hour, t a GHRCCLARS at Private ‘Aeudemny, 213 Bast Eleventh st =—CARTIER’S DANCING ACADEMY, PLIMPTON. + Buiding, section Stuyvesant’ and. Nintls dtreets.—Classes every Monday and Thursday afternooa and evening. Soiree on Mo Nov. 18, ALLETMASTER DUMAR’S DANCING ACADEMY, 4 B‘Wesrrourth street, neat Broadway.—Day and even: ing classes, Six fashionable Dances taught in six private Dances in one quarte mber AS, 1ST DANCING ACADEMY, Bae y , %1 BROOM Ali the fashionable Bances in one course of LADIES, Tuesdays and Fridays, 3% P. GE LEMEN, Tuesdays and Fridays, 734 P N ednesdays, 3%; Satur A NEW CLASS Ph TUESDAY. GARMO'S DANCING ACADEMY, D's FIFTH AVENUK, corner Fi nth streot. CIRCULARS had ON SAPPLICATION. 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