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—_— RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, December 1---First Sunday in Advent. RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY Herald Religious Cor- respondence. NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. ‘Protestant Cathedrals—-A Protest Against “Layman.” [Reasons for Becoming a Catholic. "BLESSING AND RAISING A STATUE. ‘Fhe Catholic Church in England. {MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. To Our Religious Correspondents. We again state that in order to insure attention communications intended for the religious depart- -yment of the Hzraup should be briet and legibly written upon one side of the paper. Open as our columns are to the discussion of legitimate religious fopics of every shade, we are overwhelmed with a ass of MSS. that demands a large share of time ven to peruse. Hence those who comply with our requests will receive the earliest attention. “Pp, L. 0.” is altogether too personal. Suppose jhe dips his pen in rosewater instead of wormwood sand tries his hand on that line ? Mr. Lamb, who writes as from the St. Charles, ynust be a wolt in sheep’s clothing. His irrever- yehce ghould be rebuked. Read his theory of the story of Jonah and the whale. He says:— The whale in which he was saved was really the jollsbest of the vessel from which he was cast into he sea; and eee knowing little or nothing of penne stowed himself away in the bottom of he boat and trusted to‘Providence. He was vom- ted forth on the beach by the simple operation of peing turned over in the surf. “a Dissenter” wants to knock together the heads of Catholics and Pretestants, but bis plan is based upon a sort of nitro-glycerine process that would more than raise the mischief if attempted ‘40 be put in practice. Services To-Day. A discourse on “The Cave of Lot’ will be deliv- ered at half-past three o’clock, in Canal street Presbyterian church, by Rev. David Mitchell. Morn- Ang service half-past ten o'clock. An Evangelist will preach in the Catholfc Apos- ftolic church, at half-past seven P. M. Subject— PWhat is the Church according to the Scriptures ?” At Apolio Hall Thomas Gales Forster, trance ppeaker, lectures on “Thanksgiving Day,” and ives &@ “Response to the charge that Spiritualism Heathenism revived.’’ Children’s lyceum twelve ; conference half-past two P. M. Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- Yngton square, at three P. M. Subject—“The Im- pending Final Battle Between Christ and Rome.”— ABevelations, xix. Rev. E. 0. Sweetser will preach this evening in ehe church corner of Bleecker and Downing streets, | gt half-past seven o'clock. Subject—“‘Vanity Fair.” | Morning service ata quarter to eleven. , 4t the Church of the Resurrection Rev. Dr. Fase will preach Sunday morning and evening. Rev. W. Butler, D. D., will preach a farewell ser- Yon at the Central Methodist Episcopal church, aprevious to his departure for nis new mission field im Mexico, at half-past seven P. M. Services in the morning at half-past ‘ten o’clock. Sacraments of he Lord’s Supper and baptism by the pastor, Rev. ‘¥. Bottome, D. D. 4 At the Ohristian church services will be :con- ‘ducted by the pastor, Rev. W.C. Dawson, Even- Ang discourse addressed to young men. A course of lectures will be delivered by the Rev. Wonn Cotton Smith, D. D., on Sunday evenings in \Advent, at half-past seven o'clock, at the Church of fhe Ascension, on ‘The Answers of Christianity to ithe Great Questions of the Age.” The Eglise Reformée Francaise will have divine Pervice by Rev. E. Borel, in the Young Men’s Abristian Association Hall. Professor Hutchings will preach ia East avenue “Waptist church, Hunter's Point, Long Island City, morning and afternoon. Rev. G. 8. Harrower, pastor St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, will preach at half-past ten in the ‘moraing and hall-past seven in the evening. Bev. H. D. Northrop will preach at the West ty-third street Presbyterian church at half it ten in the morning and half-past seven in the yovening. Rev. J. M. Atwood (newly elected pastor of the Fifth Universalist Society) will commence his ‘@inistration to that parish this evening. Rev. Mr. Pendleton will preach in the Fifty-tbird street Baptist church at half-past ten in the morn- ng and half-past seven in the evening. Rev. Julius L. Danner, pastor of the Sixth ave- gue Reformed church, will preach his farewell ser- ymon at half-past seven o’clock in the evening. Pubject at half-past ten o’clock in the morning, ‘Lessons of the Resurrection.” , Rev. B, Heber Newton in Anthon Memorial church. , Rey. William N. Dunnell in All Saints’ yehureh, , Episcopal services in the Bleecker street mis- ion. Rey. J. M. Shakelford’s sermon in Church of the Redeemer, Eighty-second street. Rev. Dr. Bellows will lecture at All Souls’ church, ‘taxing fer his subject “John Howard, the Philan- *hropist.”” Rev. George P. Hepworth, in Steinway Hall. Rev. John E, Cookman will preach in Trinity ‘Methedist Episcopal church. In Forayth street Methodist Eptacopal church @ermon by Rev. Mathew Hale Smith, D. D. Rev. Halsey W. Knapp in Laight street Baptist mission. “Horace Greeley Living and Dead’ wili be the @ubject of a discourse by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage fin the Brooklyn Tabernacle. _ _ Sunday School Association sermon by Rev. Ed- 4 ‘ward Harwood, D. D. Rev. Dr. Ewer will commence a course of im- % (portant lectures in St. Ignatius’ church. Rev. Father Preston will deliver the first of a @eries of Advent sermons in St, Ann’s church, ast Twelfth street. At Spring street Presbyterian church there will ‘be preaching by the Rev. G. M. McCampbell, pastor elect, at half-past ten A. M. and three P. M. ‘Young people’s prayer meeting at half-past seven ¥. M. All are cordially invited. The order of exercises at St. Thomas’ church is ahe following :—Early service at nine; Litany ser- mon and holy communion at half-past ten; chil- adren’s service at half-past three; evening servico and sermon by the rector at half-past seven, At the Church of the Messiah, the new pastor, Rev. Henry Powers, will preach morning and even- ing. Subjects—“The Ideal Church” and “How to ‘Love God.” The Rev. Dr. Osgood will preach in St. Peter's churoh, West Twenticth street, this evening, at ‘hal past seven o'clock. At Zion church Rev. W. A. Holbrook and Rev. 0. 1. Woodruff will preach, At Wainwright Memorial church, Rev, W. T. Eghert.rector, sc} Free NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, DEUEMBEX 1, Js72—QUADKUPLE SHEKT. sen A. M, and half-past seven P.M. The Rev. Dr. Potter, of Grace church, will preach in the evening. Protestant Cathedrals—A Protest Against “Layman.” To Toe Epiror oF THE HERALD:— In the HeRaup of Sunday last a letter appeared signed “Layman.” Certain points in it that I feel drawn to make a few remarks regarding oblige me to request that you will kindly allow me their insertion in your impartial journal. In the first place I have to say that the letter in question was evidently the production of one of Low Church views, and for this reason I could only expect it to be written, as it was, in an anti- Catholic style. I look upon itasa protest against the proposed erection in this city of a cathedral by the Protestant Episcopal Church. It put forward a variety of objections to the project, which I may classify generally as follows:—First—That several uptown churches were in debt and had their pews nearly empty. Second—That the Bishops of Manchester and Peterborough are said recently to have expressed some doubts as to the expediency of the English cathedral system. Third—That it was an effete institution of the Middle Ages; ‘besides, there can be no hope of approaching in architectural splendour the ancient structures of Europe; and last—that a cathedral is out of place in this country except in the Catholic Church, or as “Layman” felt pleased to term it, the “Romish.” Although I have produced these objec- tions I do not desire to directly comment on them, I ‘therefore leave them to be, as they no doubt will, accepted by some and rejected by others, In my notice of this matter I do not wish to give any one offence. I merely desire to expose views that are shared in by that, hes. were not misunderstood, or rather misrepresented, there are millions more would hold them. It may appear rather strange to some minds that a Catho- lic, one who believes im the infallibility of the Po} as Head of the Church and Christ's Vicar on eart! Can rejeice to learn that the Protestant Episcopal community intend to erect a cathedral in the of New York. Yet such is the fact. The educate: and reflecting Catholic cannot but see in this proj- ect, altho it be under false colors, at once a manifestation and recognition of one of the Christ in His Church— rej more when he remembers the tendency of our age ig to destroy and abolish forever that which is the glory of the Christian Church, I know well whi the feeling of those holding similar views to “ man” is regarding the cathedral. They prote: against its erection apparently for pecuniary rea- sons, but in reality through want of will. ‘They dislike the mention of its very name because it is associated with all that Catholicity and Protestantism desires to forget. 1t recalls the memory of days sweet to some but hateful to others. It A hy to the mind Thomas & Becket zielau up his life as @ martyr on the altar-step in ‘is cathedral church of Canterbury. It represents England as she was, and France and Spain as they are still, and it gives us hope for the future. What has been left to England in her cathedrals, de- serted and without their altars, shows us that the; are in name and in bare walls still exnene, an as it were, rte § testifying to that truth they have lost but not forgotten, and thus encouraging, py their telling of long past ages, some of !and’s most gitted sons to leave her universities and gosearch jor the truth in that greatest of cathedrals, within the Eternal City, whose soil is purpled with the Aposties’ blood. This cheers the children of Holy Church in England, and causes them to hope the day may dawn when the now silent aisles of her ancient churches will again have heard within them the same Latin chants as ofold, And we, too, Catholics of this great me- tropolis, if we are tosee a cathedral without an altar raise its walls in our city’s midst, it gives us to hope that its desolation, because of the absence of that altar, will make many confess that the white marble structure on Fifth avenue is really the cathedral of the archdiocese of New York. CATHOLICUS. Reasons for Becoming a Catholic. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— When a boy about seventeen years old I beheld a Catholic Prayer Book for the first time in my life, and upon seeing the words “Blessed Virgin” in it they reminded me very foret! of the forty-eightn verse of the first chapter of St. Luke, where, in the Douay version, it is rendered thus:—‘or He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid; for, be- hold, from hencelorth all generations shail call me blessed.” This language of the mother of Christ preyed upon my mind for many long years on ac- count ofthe Catholic Church; and it only having verified its utterance for nearly nineteen hundred years, from age to age, without ceasing. Yes, her remarks haunted me at all times and in all Places; and when I ‘relapsed more and more into infidelity they never departed from me, but were always a constant monitor, until at last, by the grace of God, they became instrumental in leading me into His Church. Yet I did not unite with this Church until I had examined the ciaims of all the sects, schisms and denominations of the lopped-off, withered branches from the ever-blooming tree of Catholicity. Now, let me ask the clergy and laity of these branches whether they think that by any of the con- coctive powers of the minds of fallible men such a coherence could have been produced as the literah, fulfilment of this prediction of the “Blessed Vir- gin,” which not only proves the inspiration of the Scriptures, but also that the Catholic Church is nota human but a divine institution, and how palpably and grossly inconsistent these sects and denominations are in their unsparing condemna- tion of the Church for proving these two import- ant thi namely, its divine origin and the in- eg ihe the sacred Scriptures. ‘this ends my rst reason. Now for the second. After concluding that all sects, schisms, &c., were built on a sandy founda- tion, because none of them could prove the three infallible marks of the Church of Christ, namely, subsistence in all ages, the bergen 3 of all nations, and that the gates of hell should not Ce a inst it, I then concluded that either Jesus Christ, with all honor to His holy name, was what He claimed te be, or else the grossest impostor that ever lived, and according to all parity of reasoning, unless i could find a church extant and visible as a verity in the world that filled these three marks of sub- sistence, teaching and purity aown until the pre- sent time, that he was an impostor. in all my inquiries of the clergy and laity, of all sects, schisms and denominations, whether their ae Church, could fill these three marks, upon heir giving a negative, reply 1 would say I could not unite with them. Their culpability in the sight of God would not be so great if they did not add in- sult to injury by either saying that there was no such Church in existence, or by saying the Catholic Church was original the true one, but that it be- came corrupt and that God Almighty raised up, to urity bis own Church, such men as Aries, Luther, alvin,sHenry Vill., Knox, Fox, Wesley and Brig- ham Young. Do you not all perceive that such pre- mises and conclusions virtually make Jesus Christ a liar and an ters and is tantamount to the co of hell having prevailed over his Church? is my second reason; but my third and last is directly connectea with it. Let allenemies of the Church of God gaze with their most outstretched vision and see ff they can behold one vicar of Christ from St. Peter to Pius IX.—of which there have been 262—who has ever violated in his Pontifical jurisdiction any of the gacraments or fundamental principles ‘of the Catholic Church. Did they not cut off as withered branches the Arion, Greek, Lutheran and Anglican heresies, ene thousands of ecclesiastics, from —— to cardinals, and millions of laity, because hey wished to make encroachments upon the ma, truths of the Church of Christ ? If the Pope had attached his signature to Henry VUI.’s divorce bill would not all the flends in- carnate and their satellites, have shouted with demoniac joy on account of him having violated says, Marriage ie indissolube; othing. Dut dears says, * soluble ; no’ ut deat! cap cut the bonds asunder ?”” In conclusion I ask as @ special favor all to whom this is addressed—especially all feased Christians, of whatever sect, schism or denomina- tion, outside of the Catholic Church, who believe in the Trinity of the Godhead—to give my reason- ing due consideration, and if they can from their point of view controvert my position I shall thank them, as I am 07 AN AMERIC. n to conviction. CONVERT TO CATHOLICITY, To THe EpiTor OF THE HERALD: On Thanksgiving Day the parishioners of st, James’ Cathedral, Byooklyn, wended their way to that sacred edifice to witness the blessing and raising of a statue of St. James, Apostle. It was blessed about half-past ten o'clock, after which high mass was celebrated. After the communion Rev. Father Kiely delivered a sermonon “The Veneration of Saints.” He commenced by saying that the world’s great men were honored—monu- ments were erected to their memory and the young were taught to emulate their every virtue and characteristic; and the Church of God, that faithful of a@ crucified Redeemer, nad she not good reason for honoring her sainted chil- dren—those children who ever abided by. her teachings and who bokeh to the end in’ well- doing? Was she not right in holding such as these up to the veneration of her children’ Was she not acting wisely when she erected statues of them, that the very sight of which would bring to their minds the persons whom they represented and with that the holiness and goodness of them, that so seeing and thinking on them they would imitate them? Ah! yes, she was doing ht. As a kind mother dees for her children, s0 does our mother, the Church, do for us. Not content with raising statues and monuments to their memory, sho tenderly liits the dust and bones of her sainted children and ylaces’, beside the altars of 8o that all in sseing Wiem may imitate them become worthy of bei saints of God. history of the 8) said that “this was @ gala day for the people of St. James’, for they now see their hopes realized, their long-cherished desires fulfilied. This was the culminating point of Gfty years’ work— their church was entirely renova’ and could the dead who sleep on either side of the sacred edifice rige they would not kuow their oid honored church, such a new mane had it assumed. He conclu: his sermon by telling all to imitate the saints, the teroes of our holy Charch, and worthy children of ood @ mother, and then it would be our share to sing without ceasing the praises of the Lamb, the spotiess Lamb of God. After mass the statue was slowly hoisted to its lace, in @ handsome niche over the central en- nce to the sacred edifice. It is about ive feet high, of light stone, and cost $500, It was pre- sented by the St. James’ Benevolent Society, which turned out in full force on the occasion. Sood National Sunday School Convention— Twenty States Represented at Cincin- nati—Biblical Teaching Among the Young—One Million Baptist Sabbath School Children. The second National Sunday School Convention assembled at Cincinnati on the 23d ult. and re- mained in session three days. Twenty States were represented by 656 delegates. The Commit- tee of Arrangements went vigorously to, work and the plans for the mecting were well matured. The accommodations for the attendants were ex- cellent, Alarge number of the foremost Sunday school workers from all sections of the country, North, East, South and West, many of whom rank high as pulpit orators and theologians, took part in the exercises. The range of topics was as wide as circumstances would permit, but the central idea of the whole mecting was the importance of Biblical teaching and how to improve it. One of the most important questions of the day is the practical management of the relations of children to the Church, With all the improvements that have been made in the Sabbath school system there is a deep conviction that it is still defective for the higher purposes of a religious education. The length of the services and the inevitable character of sermons are unsuited for young folks. It is not strange, therefore, that children are to be found absent at the regular exercises, and the necessity of special services has been a subject of serious consideration with many clergymen. It is not easy to preach to children, and success is more fre- quently owing to perception than to any natural ability. Some experiments have been made, and found to excite interest, and even enthusiasm, among children, and gave an excellent opportunity to ministers to instruct the young of their flocks. The Convention at Cincinnati was influenced by the opinion that Sunday schools, though a modern agency, have the spirit of primitive Christianity, and are of powerful aid to the Church, and resolved to encourage them as Jar as possible. CLERICAL VIEWS ON TEACHING THE SCRIPTURES. Rev. J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia, was elected President; Rev. Messrs. L. Thane Miller, of Ohio, and Clement Leech, of Illinois, Vice Presidents, and G. M. Van Derlip, of New York, and s. H. My- rick, of the District of Columbia, Secretaries. Rev, Dr. Curry, in his opening address, considered Bible study essential to the stability of free institutions. The germs of good government were inherent in the Scriptures. ‘It teaches its necessities and leads to civil liberty. As all governments reflected the character of the people, the Bible must per- vade all our social and political life. Rev. Mr. Behrens, of Yonkers, N. Y., spoke of the duty of the Church in reference to Bible instruction within their own congregations, The power of the Church depended, he said, more upon brains than bricks or books, but the brains must be alive with the power and fire that are from God. Rev. Mr. Kend- rick, of Illinois, referring to the duty of the Church in giving Bible instruction in destitute regions, re- marked that such places commended themselves, because as Christianity came to sinners it goes to the needy; it agsails evil at its weakest points and seizes the best material of which a Christian body can be organized. Rev. Wayland Hoyt, of Brook- lyn, N. Y., treated the topic of Christian culture of young church members, which he pelieved could who pointed out the necessity of seeking more help from women in the work of enlisting and training Sunday school workers. The men, she said, could surpass women in one thing—in giving ‘up. A woman for Bible work must have brains in her head and Christ in her heart. If they wanted such @ woman she could find one, - STATISTICS AND RESOLUTIONS. The statistics of Sunday schools of the Baptist de- nomination in the several States and Territories were not a8 complete as desirable. There were reported 9,069 schools, 84,673 officers and teachers, 642,504 scholars and 10,842 baptisms and conver- sions, It was estimated that full returns would show 12,000 schools, 100,000 officers and teachers and 1,000,000 scholars. The resolutions adopted ex- Pe ea gratitude for the great influence of the First. Baptist National Sunday School Convention, and for its large, beneficent fruits; several publica- tions were commended and the introduction of certain text books commended. The Convention declared that every member of the Church should be a member of the Sunday school and that every member of the Sanday school should attend pub- lic worship, and also that the Sunday school mis- sions should receive the sympathy and support of the Church. Rev. Mr. Peltz, of Pennsyl- vania, favored a resolution, upon which no action was taken, to establish institute exercises combining lectures, drills and examina- tions. He advised the formation of a committee to examine and recommend treatises for teachers, to arrange a scheme of instruction and for competi- tive examinations, and put the plans before the | pon le. The proceedings of the Convention from ginning to end were marked by earnest devotion ,to the cause and to Christianity. A COLORED COMPLAINT. A complaint was made during the Convention by several colored delegates that their social treat- ment was just or courteous. They were ullowed seats, but refused admission to the enter- tainments given the white brethren. The tickets they held for board and ere were torn up when presented, and they got the cold shoulder outside the Church. Rev. Mr. MeGehee, church in Cincinnati, remarked, “There was no room for them in the fnn,”” and that this ostracism might have worked well once in politics, but it would not work now in religion. ere was the same heaven and hell for white anid black men, and there should be no distinction in the matter of eating and drinking in Ohio hotels. The Conven- tion, when the matter was brought to its notice, thought the least said about it the better for ail active] coycerned, and the matter was finally jushed up. The Catholic Church in Eng)! d= Another Ecclesiastical Province to be Establohed—The Late Cardinal Wise- man—Spread of the Faith in Victoria’s Dominions. The cable a few days since brought intelligence of the reported intention of the Pope to estabtish @ second ecclesiastical province in England, with Liverpoot as thé metropolitan see. The increase of Catholicism in Great Britain during the last twenty years would seem to justify the erection of new dioceses, with corresponding dignitaries. Up to 1850 the country had been for three centuries without a hierarchy. The interests of the Church were tn the hands of a number of vicars apostolic, exercising Mmited powers, but the profound and varied erudition possessed by the late Cardinal Wiseman and the it changes that had taken place in religious opinion among the edu- cated classes, and even within the very centres of the great universities, by the preachings and writings of Dr. Wiseman, was considered a suita- ble occasion for the re-establishment of the dor- mant sees, There are many living who remember the storm of indignation created im Great Britain by this event, and the periect imdifference with which it was viewed at Rome. The excitement ‘was not confined to any pafticular class, From Lord John Russell and the members of the Cabinet down to the pew-openers in the churches estab- lished by Imw came forth a united denunciation of the act, ae one infringing on the dignity of the Sovereign, as an aggression on the nation, that should be resisted at all hazards. The press joinea in the general chorus, and scarcely at any time was it more violent in its tone or more savage in assail- ing the alleged pretensions of the Holy See. CARDINAL WISEMAN, Cardinal Wiseman, it is well known, was an emi- nent divine, celebrated as a lecturer and preacher. He was born in Spain, his father being an Englishman and his mother Irish, He counted among his warmest friends, long before being ele- vated to the rank of @ prince of the Church, the most distinguished British statesmen, He com- pleted his education in Rome, where he enjoyed the fullest confidence of the late Pope Gregory XVL., who was induced by him, in 1840, to increase the Humber of vicars apostolic in England from four to eight. Dr. Wiseman was appointed co- jutor to the late Bishop Walsh, the Vicar sea tolic of the Midland district, and at the same time promoted to the Presidency of St. Mary's College, Uscott, near Birmingham. While there he took the deepest interest in the theological discussions at Oxford, which are associated with the names Dr. Newman and Dr. Pusey, and from that in- stitution obtained many recruits. In 1847 Bishop Wiseman visited Rome on matters in refer- ence to Catholiciqm in England and to consult as 3 ES astor of a colored to the im; tan’ changes subsequently made. In 1848, on os doat® of Bishop GriMiths, Dr. Wise- man became Vicar Apostolic of the London dis- See _ Ce yd was nominated Py rd of Dr. , Cum jure Succeasionts, on the trans- relate to Losdon. Bisho) lation of that Walsh «id not long survive, and the future Curdins! in 1849 became head of the London district. RESTORATION OF THE ENGLISH HIBRAROIUY, The next stage in Dr. Wiseman's life is that which has been more controverted than any other, 80 that, alao, by which his name will be longest re- membered; it was the important part he took in the restoration of the old-time ecclesiastical gov- ernment of the Catholic Church in the diferent provinces and sees of England which had been ex- tinct for 300 years, On the 6th August, 1350, Dr. Wiseman was summoned by the present Pope Pius IX, to “the threshold of the Apostles," who on the 29th of September following “the feast of the Arch- ange! St. Michael, Prince of the Holy Host” under the fi ’sring issued his celebrated Apos- tolic letters. “In the plenitude of our Apostolic wor,'? His Holiness, ‘we have resolved, and lo hereby decree the restoration in the kingdom of England according to the laws of the Church of a hierarchy of bishops deriving their titles from their own sees, which we constitute in the present letter in the various apostolic districts.” At the same time the Pope issued a brief elevating Doctor Wiseman to the Archbishopric of Westminster, and in a private consistory, held the next day, the new Archbishop was raised by the Sovereign Pontiff to the an of Cardinal, with the title of St. Puden- tia. inence was then the seventh English Cardinal since the Reformation, his predecessors being Cardinals Pole, Allen, Howard, York, Weld and Acton, Cardinal Wiseman commenced his functions by writing from “out of the Flaminian gate of Rome’ a pastoral letter, which was read in all the churches and chapels of London. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Lord John Russell, the head of the government, added fuel to the fame. He wrote ts celebrated letter to the Bishop of Durham, in which he styled the services of the Catholic religion the “mum- meries of superstition,’ and promised to intro- duce into Parliament a@ bill making it a penal offence for the new prelates to assume the titles conferred on them by the Pope. It may be well to mention here that this epistie of Earl Russell has long been considered by men of all parties as the great mistake of his life; but, what is of more importance, it was unqualifiedly stated by Cardinal Wiseman and several of the bishops in pastoral letters that they had taken pains to ascertain be- forehand trom Lord John that the action of the Pope would give no umbrage and that the ec- clesiastics designated for the new secs were acceptable to the government. ‘The Guardian— a strong Protestant journal, bitterly opposed to the re-establishment ot the hierarchy also declared, on authority, ‘that Dr. Wiseman called his clergy to- gether and informed them that the whole plan of ‘he new hierarchy had been laid before Lord John Russell, who stated that there would be mo ob- jection to its being carriedout.”” Another singular fact was that the Secretary of the Colonies, a Pro- testant, attended a meeting for the friends of the Cardinal, at which he subscribed £10 for the pur- chase of a testimonial to be presented to His Emmence, Parliament was to meet in February, 1861, and the conduct of the English Catholic prelates, who remained unmoved amid the tempests pursuing their sacred vocations, caused a considerable modi- fication in public sentiment, The Queen appeared in person besore the Lords and Commons and alluded to the subject in the following terms: — ‘ve recent assumption of certain ecclesias- tical titles conferred by a foreign Power has excited strong feelings in the country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me expressing attachment to the throne and praying that such assumption should be resisted. I have assured them of my resolution to maintain the rights of my crown and independ- ence of the nation against all encroachments trom whatever quarter they may proceed.” At the same time Her Majesty deciared her intention to main- tain religious liberty unimpaired, Lord John Russell introduced. his famous Kcclesiastical Titles bill, which passed, and was ever a dead letter up to the time o1 its repeal, a short while since. It provided for punishment by imprisonment o! parties assum- ing certain tities in respect of places in the United Kingdom, and also provisions levelled at property left in trust ior Church purposes. The Premier suggested that the best course for Cardinal Wise- man to pursue was to renounce the title of Arch- bishop of Westminster, and, ag he had supposed was his intention, reside at Rome; but if other counsels prevailed he was prepared to take further measures. imes Was disgusted, and remarked that the Premier “should have written with less warmth; and with all he has to contend he will find no argument so embarrassing and no rhetoric 80 damaging as his own.” Lord John never denied having ap ‘oved of the re-establishment of the English hierarchy before the issuance of the Bull of September 29, 1850, and having communicated that approval to Dr. Wiseman. DEATH OF CARDINAL WISEMAN, After a successful administration of the Church for fiiteen years, during which period it made wonderful progress, the Cardinal, having gained additional distinction and universal respect, died February 15, 1865. Things had changed; the pas- sions that raged among the people and press had entirely subsided, Where there was then denun- ciation and contamely there was now only words of sorrow for the extinguishment of a grent light, and expressions of adiniration for the numerous virtues that adorned his character. There was peed and veneration for his greatness as an Eng- ishman, and all classes and stations vied in doing honor to his memory, The Church, of course, mourned sincerely for the loss of her gifted son, who was instrumental in bringing England a long march forward towards unity with her Head, and also in bringing thousands of strayed children back to her fold, BISHOPS RECENTLY CONSECRATED. The consecration of two Catholic bishops in Eng- land a few weeks since muy well forma portion of this notice. Very Rev. Herbert Vaughan, who was lately in the United states, having brought over a company of priests to engage in missionary work among the negroes in the South, and Very Rey. Dr. Heathers were invested with raitres, the former to rule over the Diocese of Salford and the latter as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Westminster. The ceremonies took place under different circumstances from those that attended @ similar event twenty-one years ago. Im 1851 Cardinal Wiseman consecrated Dr. Turner, of Manchester, as Bishop of Salford and Dr. Erving- ton, of Saliord, Bishop of Plymouth. At that time the Cardinal was berry laste to complete the consecration of English Catholic bishops, who had been designated to give effect to what was then so much resented. Lord John Russell's Ecclesiastical Tities bill (lately repealed) was then on the point of passing, and it was desired to have the conse- cration over before the royal assent was given to the new statute, lest it should add to the dificul- ties ot the occasion. The late ceremonies attracted much attention, and were looked upon with iavor and respect. CATHOLIC STATISTICS IN GREAT BRITAIN. The number of Catholics: in England and Wales is estimated at 4,500,000. The hierarchy is composed of the Archbishop’ of Westminster (born in 1908) and thirteen suffragan bishops. In Scotland there are three vicarijates or districts under the jurisdic- tion of eth rd taking their titles from sees in par- tibus injldetium. The Church in Great Britain has twenty bishops (including three retired), about 2,500 priests, 1,620 churohes, 82 religious communi- ties for men and 280 for women. There were about ninety-five clergymen ordained during the past ear, including several of the Order of Jesus, who ve several establishments in the country. The colleges, schools and charitable institutions are More numerous in proportion to population than that of any other denomination, with, per- haps, the exception of the Established Church. Ministerial Movements. METHODIST. Bishop Janes will assist Dr. Wentworth, of Buf- falo, in the dedication of the new Asbury Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Rev. Dr. Matlack, of Louisiana, is about to be transferred to the Phila- delphia Conference. Rev. J. 8. Inskip is conduct- img revival services in the Philadelphia churches, Rev. J. F. Crawford, of the Central New York Con- ference, is the Assemblyman elect from the Second district, Madison county, New York. Rev. W. L. Thorpe has been transferred from Upper lowa to the Wyoming Conference and been stationed at Middlefield, N, Y. Rev. 8. McChesney returned from Europe a few days ago and received a hearty welcome from Trinity Methodist Episcopa). church, Chicago. Grace charch, Wilmington, Del., gave $1,080 to church extension on the 17th. This is an advance of $730 on the previous year’s collection. Rev. M. M. Stotz has been appointed chaplain of the Western Seaman’s Friend Society, in Washing- ton Harbor, Wis. A revival in Mendon, N. J., Rev. T. R. Stratton, pastor, has resulted in the conver- sion of twenty souls. Joseph Hiliman’s praying band, of Troy, has held meetings recently on Columbia Charge Troy Conference, which have resulted in the conversion of thirty persons and the reclamation of many backsliders. Rev. John Howard, of the Oregon Conference, who had labored some two years on the Siletz Indian reser- vation, has been dismissed. Rev. George Waters, an Indian preacher of the Oregon Conference, is visit- ngi the Indians in Olympia, Washington Territory, and vicinity, a8 an Evangelist. The corner stone of @ new Methodist Episcopal church has been laid in Hollister, Cal. A very neat new Methodist church has been completed and dedicated in Half Moon Bay, Cal. Rev. Dr. J, C. Pershing, president of the Pittsburg Female College, has received from the trustees and friends a birthday present of a bal watch, chain and seal, and Mrs. Pershing at ‘he same time got a case of solid silver spoons, &c. A new church at Glenwood, L. I., will be dedicated to-day by Lia Harris. Another at Mount Ver- hester Circuit, Detroit Conference, will be dedicated December 6, and still another on Lake Lehman Circuit on the 8th inst., and one more at Philmont, New York Conjerence, December 19. The German Methodists of New Fountain, Texas, have just built a new church edifice, 21x45 feot, which is to be dedicated shortly. At Shiloh church, Lavacca, Texas, eighteen were received into membership November 15, and fifty Re were at the altara of the church on that jay. At Liane, Texas, @ new church las been ~~ built and dedicated atso daring tf month. Tha Rev. F. 8, Cassady, of Baltimore, died tn that city on Friday, He had been Swenty pears xn the imin- istry. The beautiful new Methodist Episcopal churct in Mount Vernon piace, Baltimore, was on Thurs- day week formally dedicated to its sacred uses. The pews are valued from $2,500 to $400 dach, and the sale of fifty-seven Pews a few days ayo bronght, with their assessed value and preminns, hss Some of the pews brought as rh ad 2,700 premium. From the sale of the rem ining pews and the old church the trustees expect not only to pay. the entire indebtedness and cost of thelr butlding—$380,000—but to have a balance of $81,762 remaining. Rev. James Robinson, late of the Irigh Wesleyan Conference, has been appointed pastos of the church at Flatbush, L. 1. The time tor holding the General Conference of the colored Methodist pal Church has been changed to the third Wednesday in March, 1873. ‘The Meth- odist mission at Pontchatoula, Mississippi Conte ence, has added twenty members to its ranks dw ing the year, On Carthage circult, same Confer- ence, sixty-two have been received by Rev. J. M. Weems; on Fayette circuit, same Conferenc thirty; on Gainesville circuit, Alabama Conf ence, thirty-nine. The people of Gainesville ha also built a new church, at @ cost of $3,700. At a four days’ meeting at Warner’s schoolhouse, Cas- tor circuit, Louisiana Conference, @ church was recently organized, with twenty new converts. This part of the State had been hitherto looked upon as Baptist territory, and Rev. J. B. Landers, the pastor, writes to the New Orleans Christian Advocate that there is much denominational spirit prevailing in various por- tions of the country toward Methodists by the Baptists. Their ministry labor hard to keep their Reape from attending Methodist Cargo ‘hey are afraid of the light and truth of the Gos- pel as taught by the Methodist ministry. BAPTIST, Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, of Liverpool, writing to Rev. Dr, Patton, of this city, says he would re- joice to see the churches of England taking a deep interest in the churches of America, and, for him- sell, he will henceforth be more interested in them than ever. ‘The Baptist Weekly, remarkin| on a Philadelphia contemporay’s ‘ize “baptismal pants” say! pants Herkimer street Baptist church, Brooklyn, last Thursday, gave their resigning pastor, Dr. Baker, a farewell reception, and presented him a purse and other tokens of friendship. The Baptist Church at Sandy Hill, N. Y., will dedicate their new house of worship on Thursday next. There are 500 Bs ea ordaine Baptist ministers in Texas, and religion and edu- cation are ergs 2 Rev. George Balcom recently organized a Baptist church at Delphos, Kansas, ot ten members, with about as many more to come. The Chicago Baptist Union have ap- pointed Rev. N. Carr asa missionary of the Union at the Rock Island Car Works and vicinity, with a view to the erection of a build- ing for public worship as soon as_prac- ticable. The Philadelphia Conference of Baptist ministers will hold their next quarterly meeting at the Beth Eden church, Broad and Spruce streets, on Tuesday. The Baptist house of worship at Kil- bourne City willbe dedicated on the sthinst. A revival is in progress at the Pine street Baptist church, in Richmond, Va. Fifty have professed con- version. The Baptist church of Schenectady, N. Y., celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on November 21. The Baptist church at Glebe Landing, Middlesex county, Va., has celebrated its hundredth anniver- sary. The new Christian church, at Scott's Prairie, Ind., will be dedicated to-day. Five Baptist churches in Brooklyn are now, or soon will be, without pastors—namely, the First, Mr, Gallaher’s} Hanson place, Mr. Pentecost’s; Herkimer street, | Dr. Baker's; Clinton avenue, Dr. Hiscox, and Pierrepont street, which has been pas- torless a long time. Mr. Pentecost finistied his pastorate with the Brooklyn church last Sunday, and to-day he will be installed over the Warren avenue church, Boston, by Rev. Professor Robin- son, of Brown University. The Memorial Baptist cnurch in Philadelphia, organized five years ago with 183 members, has now 550 and a Sunday School of 600 children. Mr. aeone sister 1s pence at Willingham, Cambridgeshire, Eng- land, with such success that the police authorities there have expressed their thanks to her for etfect- ing a decrease in the number of criminal cases, Rev. H.1. Parker, of Austin, Minn., has been voted @ vacation of six months that he may visit Call- fornia, Rev, W.H. Stearns, of Minneapolis, has accepted a call to Clinton, Wis. Calls have been accepted also by Rev. W.P. Perry, of Jackson, Mich., to the open communion Baptist church at Lowville, N. Y.; by Rev. E. A. Corfield, of Macomb, ll. to. piymonty, il; by Rev. W. D. Moore, of Union, Ind., to New Vienna, Ohio; by Rev. J. J. Townsend, of Madison University, to Huntington street church, New London, Conn.; by Rev, J. H. Ross to Hartford, Mich Rey. W. M. Lawrence to Spring Garden church, Philadelphia (his installation will take place on Tuesday); by Rey, Alfred Free, of Norwich, Conn., to the Falls of Schuylkill Baptist church, Philadelphia; by Rev. G. W. Lewis to Le Clair, Mich: by Rey. G. W. Riley, of Urbana, Ill.. to act as missionary among the settlements along the east side of the lilinois Central Railroad; by Rev. C. T, Willis, of Ludden- ville, Ill, to Twelve Mile Grove church, Will county, Ill.; by Rev. W. L. Noyes, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., to th ‘at Free errr church, Chicago, Il. ; by Rev, Dr, Sawyer, of Manhattan, Kansas, to Ma- hopac Falls, N. Y.; by Rev, Alexander McLearn, of Aurelius, Mich., to Dansville, Mich.; by Rev. J. E. Genun to the Union Baptist church, Coidspring, 1.1, At the German Baptist church, Philadelphia, four persons were baptized last Sunday; at the Fourth Baptist church, Philadelphia, three were baptized last Sunday week. Dr. W. J. Barber has declined the call of the Covington (Ky.) Chris- tian church, and will labor as a missionary in the Green River country. Miss Sarah Smiley is laboring in revival meetings with the Baptist churehes in Chicago. EPISCOPALIAN. The question of founding ‘church houses,” which shall help Episcopalians to do good practically to the bodies as well as to the souls of the neglected masses of our large cities, has been agitated for some time past by the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Several schemes have been sug- gested or tried with varying success. In Boston the Episcopalians have built tenement houses, with chapels connected, 80 that the tenants shall have religious instruction without going beyond their own domestic limits. An now, here in few York, @ suggestion made by Rev. Dr. otter some time ago to Grace church is soon to be realizea in the erection by a gentleman of that church, as a memorial to his deceased wife, of a house to-be called “Grace House,” to be devoted especially to the training of Christian nurses, a work of the utmost importance. No one has de- voted more careful attention to the subject of woman’s work in the Church than Dr. Potter, and no one is more competent to carry ont such a scheme than he. It is a happy circumstance that not only this institution, but the parish of Grace church, with its great in- fluence and vast and increasing resources, 1s un- der an administration so energetic and wise as that of Dr. Potter. The new Church of St. Mary, West Philadelphia, is HIN Beet od rapidty and will be under root before the severity of the weather is atits height. Rev. Dr. Rudder, of St. Stephen's church, has returned from Europe, and resumed iis labors in Philadelphia. Late advices from Bishop Mclivaine, of Ohio, announce that his health had somewhat improved, and that he would sail from Liverpool for New York on Nov. 21, so that he may be expected here in a, day or two. Several influential members of his diocese have urged him to remain abroad until bis strength shall more assured, At present, however, it is probable that he will return at the date named. Kev, L. P. W. jalch, . D., has resigned the rectorship of the Church of the Ascension, Baltimore, Md. Rev. William F. Lane has_ remove from Brockport to Bergen, N. Y. Rev. W. F. Lloyd, of St. George’s, Farley, has accepted a call to the restorship of Grace church, Broning, IL | Rev. J. Hochuly has accepted a call to the Church of the Holy Trinity, Danville, Ill. Rev. J. Everist Cathell has accepted the rectorship of the Church of the Ascension, Baltimore, Md. Rev. J. P. een has accepted the rectorship of St. Michacl’s, Bois¢ City, Idaho. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Henry Easson has sailed as a missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, to supply the place of the late Rev. Mr. Galbraith at Latakeea, Syria. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions have epee ‘a series of missionary conventions to be held in ditferent parts of the country, North and West, durin; mber and January, to arouse the enthusiasm of the le in behalf of missions, Such a@ convention will held for this district on the 3d instant. Rev. James Watson, Evangel- ist of South Alabama Freeny tery, has been assist- ing the Rev. Nathaniel Hi in bers f meetings at Concord and Salem. At the first of these places eighteen professed their faith im Christ, six of whom united with the Presbyterian church, and at the latter ten were hopefully converted, seven of whom united with the Presby- terian church. Three ‘etaten Presbyterian churches, under the J iction of the North River Presbytery are now witnout pastoral care, namely, the First and Calvary churches in New burg and the church at Pleasant Valley. Just one-fourth of the whole number of churches in the Presbytery (32) are now vacant. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland have 1,068 ~=Sabbath —_ schools, with a staf of 7,755 teache! an attendance of 65,059 scholars. Rev. C. Duncan has become tor of the Presbyterian church at Fairmount W. Va. Rev. A. D. Hawn has also become pastor of the Second church, Zanes- ville, Ohio. jv. C. H. Holloway has assumed the astorate of the Presbyterian church at Toms iver, N. J. Rev. Dr. M. W. Jacobus has re- signed the pastorate of the Central Presby- terian church, Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. W. M. Morrison has left Sweetwater, Tenn, to take charge of the Presbyterian church in Jonesboro, Tenn. Rev. W. H. Crawford, of Holston pres ey. has become Loge of a Cumberland Presbyterian church in that Presbytery. ove Henry Neill, D. D., has been called to the charge of @ new Presbyterian congregation organized at Bryn Maw: station on the Pennsylvania Rail- road, nine miles from Philadeiphia, The Rev. Rob Roy eecreget MoNulty has been instalied pastor ‘olum- March has resigned the brine ps of the Clinton street Presbyterian church, jadelphia, ROMAN CATHOLIC. The collections taken up in all the Catholic churches in the diocese of New York last mouth for the Provincial Seminary intended to be founded here amount to the round sum of $15,807 98. Rev. Dr. Preston will preach a series of Advent sermons in St. Ann’s church on successive Sunday evenings between this and Christmas. A Redemptoriat mis. elon, Om & large scale, was Commeucged at tue is ! Cathedral of Pittsburg, last Sunday, Rev. Grimm, — Henning, jurke and others coming om St. Louis for the purpose. Father De Ham, Gs with two companions from St. Alphon York, has just finished several missions om Long by '#44d, has gone to join his brethren at Pitts burg, ax 4 Some coming from other places, will make the Number of Kedemptorists giving this Mtsion 1, OF, perhaps, twelve in all. There are (her bands of Redemptoriste engaged all the tme in giving missions in other piices. Next semctay 18 the Feast of the Immacu- late Coneeptiow, Anu 12 View of it a “retreat” wilt be held in St, Fewaci’ Xavier's church, West Six- toenth street, on the evenings of December 4 to T inclusive. Rev. Fatherde Smet, the famous Indian missionary, lies dangerausly lil at the University in Cotumbus, Ohio, and hXs death is expected me- mentarily, The mission, given by Fathers Gar- esché, Van Goch and MasseNlis, of the Company of Jesus, at the Church of Wur Lady of Victor Brooklyn, came to a conclusion last week. ‘There were about two thousand commusions during the mission, and cleven nondatholics were re- ceived, alter instruction, into tne Catholic fold. Fathers Garescné and Van Gech go to commence ® mission a¢ Holy Trinity church, New Albany, Ind, Father J, Mougin, pastor, ‘The pastor of St. Bomi- face’s church, Brooklyn (Rev. P. De Berge), suffering from severe indispesition, but, 6 is moped not seviously. Pope Pius IX, has canonized and beatified nearly sixty saints during his pontificate. These include eight or ten: women. The latest added to the list were the Japanese martyrs some months The Francis- ¢an Order is menaced with suppression in Bavaria. M. Lutz, the Prime Minister ef King Louis It, considers these friara quite as dangerous as the Jesuits, so he does all the other orders and the regular clergy into the bargain, and contemplates, in comsequence, a complete raza ot them all. The restoration of the two splendid busilicas of St, Ambrose, where rests the Body ot that great doctor of the Church, and of St. Eustorgio, the great shrine of bt. Peter, martyr, in Milan, is completed. They are said to be exceedingly well done, the tourists can now admire these superb churches in all their pristine beauty, Rev. Fathers Damer, Converse, Koopmans and are conduc a “mission” at the Church of the Im ulate pera gn Rochester, N. Y., whieh began there last Sunday. Bishop Verot, of the diocese of St. Augustine, Fla., continues to be the guest of Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn. Last Sun- day he addressed the congregations in St. James’ Cathedral and raised nearly for his diocese. The statue of St. James was blessed and raised to its place over the central window of the cathedral in Brooklyn on Thansgiving Day, and a sermon was afterwards preached on “The Veneration of the Church for the Saints.” Rev. John Lewis, of St. Mary’s church, Clifton, Staten Island, haa returned after an extended absence im Europe. The Rome correspondent of the Times says that the Pope is approaching the close of his earthly career. So patent is the fact that foreign Ministers long since began to send® dally bulletins concerning his health to their re- spective governments, MISCELLANEOUS, Rev. Amasa Lord, of Chicago, has resigned the Agency of the American Peace Society in the West. Rev. Thomas Condon, pastor of the Congregational church at the Dalies, Oregon, has been appointed geologist for that State. Grace church, lladel- Phia, being unable to build a church on @ valuable site which they own, have erected a tent and placed cushioned pews and all the ordinar appointments of @ church within it, an the novelty of the thing has taken wonder- fully with ‘the people, and especially with the children who crowd the Sunday school services. The worshippers are as comfortable beneath the canvas, it is said, as they would be in a granite or a brown stone building, and the cost has been but $1,200, The Jewish Messenger urges the Purim As- sociation of this city to get up a fair this Winter in behalf of the Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites instead of balls and “benefits,” as heretofore, for themselves. The new East Dutch Reformed church in Bedford avenue and Madison strect, Brooklyn, Rev. Dr. Carroll, pastor, is now enclosed and in a couple of months will be completed. The structure is of brick and light-colored stone, with ® basement of blue stone under the wiole, and will seat about eleven hundred persons. Rev. George H. Pool, ora tor of the “Reformed Dutch church on Jersey City Heights, at the last communion service Baer week took in twenty persons on profession of fait! and six by letter. At a late communion in the Fathers Lutheran church at Goslienhoppen, Pa, of which Rev. C. % Weiser is pastor, forty- four persons were confirmed and three baptized. The communicants numbered 500, Calls have been accepted by the following Re- formed Congregational and’ Lutheran Church ministers:—Rev, 8S. Thomas, of Usage, Mo, te ‘Triadelphia, W. ; Rev. G. B. Dechant, of Fen. nersville, Pa., to Catawissa, Pa.; Rev. A. W. Field, of Hebron, Conn., to Blanfora, Mass.; Rev. J. F. Fahs to Akron, Ohio; Rev. C. A. Sprecher, of Springfield, Ohio, to Tithn, Ohio; Rev, EB. W. Miller to South Royalton, Vt.; Rev. 8. Knowlton, of West Medway, to New Haven, Conn; Ve, M. Pierce to Provincetown, Mass, Rev. ©. L. Goodell, has resigned his twelve years’ Bercene of the Second Congregational church in New Britain, and accepts a call to St. Louis, The Clinton avenue Congregational church has in- troduced responsive Scripture reading by pastor and people into their Sabbath services, The Lutherans have purchased a church edifice at Boiling Springs, Cumberland county, Pa., price $2,500, Rev. Lemon L. Uhl will leave his home at Miulerburg, Ohio, tor India LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. Who Are God’s Chosen Peoplet=A Jewish Rabbi’s Tribute to Horace Greeley. The large congregation which gathered yestere day in this beautiful synagogue were moved deeply by the eloquent and affecting, reference made by Rev. Dr. Huebsch to the death of Mr. Greeley, as announced in the HERALD. His theme ‘was a response to the inquiry, “Who are the chosen people of God?’ and his discourse was based on Exodus xix., 4-6—“Ye have seen what J did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare youon eagles’ wings and bronght you unto myself. Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice, indeed, and Keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is mine; and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”’ In these verses, said the Doctor, is contained the message of the Lord to the children of Israel pre- paratory to the most important incident in their religious history—namely, the revelation from Mount Sinai. The first verse refers the Israelites to past events. “Ye have seen,” says the Al mighty, “ what I did unto the Egyptians, and how 1 bare you on eagles’ wings and brought you unto myself.” This passage gives us a sufficient explana- tion of the general construction of the Pentateuch. For analyzing the five Books of Moses, we find them consisting pre-eminently of historical facta, and the minor part treats of laws and command- ments for the social, political and moral and spiritual relations of mankind. And the reason ts obvious. The most important truth which the Bible imparts to us 1s that relating to Gop's GENERAL AND SPECIAL PROVIDENCE, and this is nowhere so clearly seen as in history, If you want, said the Doctor, to prepare your chil- dren to become good American citizens you must teach them diligently the history of their country. No theories of government and’ no amount of re- flection on the principles of liberty will so deeply and permanently impress the minds of the young as the simple narrative of facts that have trans- tired in this country from 1775 to 1783. And a pub- lic orator has no better weapons of inspiration to his audience than recourse to prominent histori- cal facts connected with their nation or them- selves. And religious instruction is imperfect while it confines itself to theological theories and dogmatisms, and rejects or ignores religious his- tory. In the first commandment, where the car- dinal truth is revealed. “Iam the Lord thy God,’* the Almighty does not refer the bvsteed to the fact that He ts Creator or deliverer, but refers them to the past as sufficient proof of these facts. And every student of Biblical and post-Biblical History will learn to respect those pioneers of religious culture whom he calls his ancestors. The Doctor then referred to the neglect of parents so to teach their children the history of their country or peopie. He then showed that ISRAELITES CAN BE RELIGIOUS without degradmg their religion with the idea of their being a peculiarly chosen people. Our Heavenly Father is limited in His love and made artial by such an idea. The Doctor next showed ym history how Israel had been a kingdom of riesis to all nations. He then referred to the leath of Horace Greeley, and remarked thas we must acknowledge greatness and merit where we find it, and Mr. Greeley has fulfilled his mission on earth and bas now passed away from us. whole life has been devoted to the promotion of science, the advancement of social and intel- lectual culture, the spread and pn of civi} and religious liberty in this land and throu out the world, both with his voice and his pen. Mr. Greeley was one of the first to make war on that plague spot of nineteenth century civilization— American slavery—and he ceased not in his hose tility until it was forever wiped ont. His life w: spent in doing good and im_promoting the gener: welfare of his fellow men. semi-tragic end was illustrated in a touching way. The Doctor dwelt pathetically on the high expectations which a few weeks ago inspired Mr. Greeley's heart. He then referred to the death of Mra. Greeley and the olitical defeat of the party to which Mr. Greeloy Rad attached himself, and Gnally to his sickness and death, But THE GOOD MAN NEVER DIES. ‘The pte het Daniel deciares that they that be wise shall shine as the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars, for ever and ever. But why did the prophet not compare them to the sun? Why did he liken wise and good men’s lives to the stars? Because it is the peculiar fas of stars to shine in the darkness, the ife of such @ man as Mr. Greeiey jo 8 pespete, starlight in the horizon of American history aa re We honor and respect such a éel!-saort- icing life, and our tears and sympathies shall to-day mingle with others who have known bim but ta lave aad honor and admire hi heroic devotion t¢ truth aud liberty aad justice,