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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. December 8--Immaculate Con- (ception. RELIGIOUS EXERCISES FOR THE DAY. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. Mr. Froude, the Historian, and Father Burke, the Propagandist. POPULAR PREACHING OF THE AGE. Letter to the Rev. Mr. Talmage. ® CATHOLICISM VS. PROTESTANTISM. cect American and Roman Catholicism. Answer to an American Convert to Catholicity. Science and Religion—The Duty of the Clergy. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-day. A discourse on “Cruelty to Animals” will be Preached this morning at the Canal street Presby- terian church by Rey. David Mitchell. At Apollo Hall Thomas Gates Forster, trance Speaker, lectures at half-past ten A. M., subject— “Heaven ;”” and at half-past seven P. M., subject— “Hell.” Rev. E. ©. Sweetzer will preach in the church | corner of Bleecker and Downing streets morning | , aod evening. Morning subject—' tience in Well- Doing; A Lesson from Horace Greeley's Life ;" evening subject—‘Doubting Castle.’ Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- ington square, at three P, M., subject—“Children Playing With Serpents.” At the Church of the Messiah the pastor, Rev. Henry Powers, will preach morning and evening on the “Rewards of a Religious Life’ and “The Everlasting Gospel.’* At the Church of St. Mary the Virgin there will be full choral services half-past ten A. M.; Holy Communion and sermon by Rev. T. McKee Brown; four P, M., Evening Song; half-past seven P. M., Compline, with sermon, by Rev. Morgan Dix, 8 Tv. D At the Church of the Resurrection Rey. Dr. Flagg will preach morning and evening. Rey. J. B. Merwin, Rev. W. ©. Steele, Rev. W. EF. Ketcham and W, K. Peyton, Esq., will preach and presiding Elder Merwin will preside in the interest of the New York Church Extension and Missionary Society at the Second Avenue Methodist Episcopal church this evening. Rey. John Cottoh Smith, D. D., preaches in the Chu of the Ascension at half-past seven P. M. | Subject:—‘Is Mana Developed Brute ? or, Evolu- ton as Related to the Moral and Religious Nature | of Man,"* Rev. H. B. Ridgaway, D. D., will preach at ha'f- | past ten A.M., and Rey. ©. 8, Harrower at half- past seven P, , @t St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal | church. t Rey. J. G. Oakley will preach at half-past ten in Duane Methodist Episcopal church. Union Pray- ing Band will be at this church at turee and half- | past seven P, M, Rey. Mr. Pendleton, pastor, preaches in Fitty- | third street Baptist church at half-past ten and halt-past seven, Superintendent Weaver's decision against the | Bible in the school will be examined by the Rev. D. McAilister in the Third Reformed Presbyterian church this evening at balf-past seven o'clock, At Spring street Presbyterian church there will be preaching by the Rey. G. M. McCampbell, pastor elect, at half-past ten. A. M. and three P, M. Young peopie's prayer meeting at half-past seven P. M. The Rey. John Hall will preach in the South Re- formed church at half-past seven P.M. to the | Young Men’s Benevolent Association. The funeral sermon of the late Deacon Willtam Lyman will be preached at the Macdougal street Baptist church by the pastor, Rey. William Reid, at half-past ten o'clock A. M. At the Forty-second street Presbyterian church ‘there will be services at half-past ten o'clock by the | Rev. Samuel Robinson, from Colerane, Ireland, and at half-past seven o'clock by the pastor, W. W. Newell. At West Seventeenth street Baptist church Rob- | ert Cameron will preach at hall-past ten o'clock A. M. and at half-past seven o'clock P. M. | Rev. Dr. Osgood preaches at Wainwright Memo- ial church. Rev. Father Mooney lectures this evening at St. James’ Cathedral, brooklyn, for the benefit of Father Sheridan's chu Subject visit to Catholic Europe,” Rev. R. Meber Newton and Rev. Henry C. Potter will officiate and preach in Anthon Memortal chureh, Rev. ehureh. In the Baptist Downing streets, phita, will preach. Bleecker Street Mission—Episcopal services. Rey. J, W. Shackelford in the Church of the Re- deewer, Kighty-second street and Fourth avenue. Rev. E. Boree, of the French Reformed church, in the hali of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, Rev. Morgan Dix wil preach in the evening in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Rev. J. W. Barnhart will preach in the Forsyth | Methodist Episcopal church. Rey. George H, Hepworth in Steinway Hall. Rev. Halsey W. Knapp in the Laight street Mis- sion. In Trinity Methodist Episcopal church preaching by Rey. John £, Cookman. Rev, Dr. Newman, of Washington, in the Alansen Methodist church. Rev. F, ©. Ewer—Services and lecture in St. | Ignatins’ church. Rev. Thomas 8. Preston's second sermon in Ad- vent in St. Ann’s church, at haif-past seven o'clock in the evening. Catholic and Apostolic church—Preaching. Very Rev. George F. Seymour, D, D., will preach in St. Chrysostom’s chapel in the evening. Rey, Jolin Hall wiil preach in the South Reformed church im tue evening. William N, Dunnell in All Sainis’ Free Chareh corner of Bedford and Rey. H. D, Tuomas, of Philadel- “~~ | Mr. Froude the Historian and Father | Burke the Propagandist. | To THe Evitor or THE HERALD:— Before dismissing the Burke and Froude contro- , veray {rom your coluinns permit an old subscriber respectfully to ask in what way the recent lectures of Mr. Froude have—as you say in an editorial in last Sunday’s paper— nore firmiy established him asan accurate historian’ ‘he question is not asked with any view to injure Mr. Froude, but in justice to hig patriotic opponent, wno must suffer if your conclusion is admitted, The facts as I take them are simply these:—Mr. Froude. an English | sending the | selves they Would s ) earnestly NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1872.-QUADRUPLE SHEET., writer, for reasons beat known to himself, comea to this country and in a series of lectures attempts to palliate the course pursued by England im governing Ireland for the past 100 years. Father Burke, whose mission among us was of a diferent nature—being connected solely with the aifaira of hia order—animated by that patriotic fervor for wnich he is 80 remarkable, deemed it bis duty to correct Mr. Froude’s statements and show, by unquestionable historical authorities and phil- osophical reasonings, that Mr. Froude grossly erred a3 to historical facta and deductions. This Father Burke accomplished thoroughly, as the New York HERALD and the public press generally admitted. Nor has Mr. Froude denied it. fn his speech of Saturday night, as reported in Sunday's, HERALD, he makes no attempt to gainsay one ma- terial point of Father Burke's refutations, unless by repeating his narratives of Pope Adrian's Bull and St. Bartholomew's Day and mystifying Father Burke's words onthe census. In view of these facts it is diMcult to see how Mr. Froude's lectures on Ireland can have added to bis reputation as a reliable historian, Mr. Wendell Phillips, who ia no mean authority 48 @ scholar and a man of deep research, in 4 lecture given by him in Boston, on the 34 inat. speaks of the great historian and his Lrish lectu a8 follows: For one, said Mr, Phillips, L.nevor expeoted. tho exact statement, the close narrative, the logical sequence, of the Instinct of the historian, for'l think itcannot be that Mr. Froude has ever writien anything that deservos the name of history. Fairly judged, ho in @ teevid, bril- Mant and earnest writer of party panphiets, grouping together those fine presentations of the Irish question; ordant, 40 partisan, 50 frag- but atter all thoy are so disc: mentary, so one-sided, thatit only runs tn the line wi the character of his whole literary work. If he had not occasion to name frequentl; the. Fitzgeralds, hould hardly n the O'Connells, the Oras, the Geraldines and the Desmonda, ‘have known al listened that it was an a story. No doubt it was fair enough to England. With r ustice he painted her as black as she. deserved. That is honestly to be sald, But having given one broad, Wheral, black pigment to tho whole canvas, he took it all gm and brightened up tho lines. As it was said of Sir Joshua Reynolds that he would proclaim anartist the then in detail deny him every quality of the artist, so Froude, having told us ins tence of marvellous f kness that Elizabeth was charge- able with every fault that a ruler could commit, that she lacked every quality of a worthy ruler, went on, piece by that in no other possible way but the could she have met the exige ies of her Then when you turn to Ireland, every state- . T think, of the Englishman is false—talse in this that it clutched atevery idle tale which re ted on freland, while it subjected to just and merei- less scrutiny every story that told against Cogland. And then when he came to the public meu Ireland he painted them monsters of corruption, ed in the ut Most subserviency, in the most entire readiness to trattic for vows and Pe EI BSR: when he knew that all that being granted these men ‘were only toiling and panting sl i frst of palnvers, and in their narrow capacities to litt themselves to the level of the corruption of their English brothers. (Applause.) He painted every leading Irishman but Grattan either a noisy demagogue or a childish sentinentalist ; and oven Grattan, when he had said he was honest, he finally ended him by painting him as a simpleto q were surprised that an Englishman should bring country # question apparently of so little interest as t relations of Ireland; but it would be only a superiicia thinker that would be led into that mistake. The rela- tons of Ireland are the gravest, the most important fea- ture of England’s political life.. Itis to be feared that Mr. Froude’s mission to this country was not altogether free from sec- turianism. In his Saturday night's speech he says ne does not hate the Catholic religion, that some of the best and holiest men he had ever heard of lived and died in that faith; but alter saying this much he takes to the painting process as described by Mr, Phillips, and unnecessarily drags in a num- ber of no-Popery stories, with a touch at the school question, to induce others to hate the Catholic re- ligion, which, as the report states, ‘was received with cheering loud and long continued,” If Mr. Froude honestly desired a fair and un- biased verdict from the American people on the qu ion of England’s relations with Ireland, he Was, to say the least, unfortunate in lis surround- ings, as he was also in selecting a sectarian hall to lecture in, Noone who is at all acquainted with the otherwise estimable gentlemen who associated themselves with Mr. Froude believes for a moment that they care @ button about Ireland's past, present or future, but they do care for any one or anything that will please their religious prejudices, which they never want removed. Mr. Frouae tickled their palates when assailing Catholics and their Church, almost the only points in his lectures that called forth their applause. Why aid Mr. Froude labor so unnecessarily to impress upon his hearers that while Lrish Protest- ants were in favor of American independence, Irish Catholics were opposed to it—a most improbable and uncal fo! ertion, Which, if Mr. Froude took the least trouble to investigate, he would have found to be directly the contrary, a fact which Father Burke proved by voluminous quotations from ‘unquestionable English and Amertcan authort- ties, familiar to most schoolboys? Why did Mr. Froude thus wantonly seek to prejudice the Ameri- can people against Cathotics on so delicate a point? He makes an effort to slur Catholic history, but what can he say of his Protestant history if this is a sample’ Thank God, it Was not too late to upset it! In conclusion, while acknowledging Mr. Froude’s brilliant talents and scholarship, it is an Open ques- tion whether his mission to this country has been a snecesd or that he has added to his reputation a3 an accurate historian by lis recent lectures on Ire- land, OLD SUBSCRIBER. Preaching=A Few Practical Rev. Mr. Talmage. Popular Suggestions to th Rev. Mr. TAL Drak Srm—On reading the sermons furnished us weekly in the HERALD newspaper does it not occur to you, as to some other serious men, that many ofour popular preachers direct the attention of their hearers more to novelties of thought and il- lustratton than to preaching the Gospel to the people ? The Apostie Paul, the prince of preach- tells us he had one great theme on which he ever concentrated his life and labors—*to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.’ The great busi- ness of the Gospel ministry is to build up the | Chureh of Christ by the conversion of sinners and the development of the Church in higher excel- lence of Christian character, so as, it possible, to reach to the measure of the stature of perfect men in Christ Jesus. This ts a grand and honorable work, worthy the lofty aim of the highest arch- angelin heaven. But God “has put the treasure of His grace into frail earthen vessels that the ex- cellency of the power may be seen to be of God and not of mau.” An ambassador of Christ, a minister of the God of heaven, fills a far higher sphere than that of the philoso- phers and statesmen and most exalted powers of the world. Intellectual and political work, even the most profound and most enduring, merely reaches the surtace of the soul; whereas the truth of God, contained in His holy oracles, strikes like lightning into the thoughts and intents of the heart and makes the most unregenerate “new men in Christ Jesus."? A minister of God, above all men, mighty in the Scriptures, like Apollos, He sboula be weil acquainted with the human heart, well ac- quainted with the tendencies of society, as well as with the character and habits of the people where he lives and labors. And, above all, by personally visiting his people, he should be more skilful i rows of truth into their minds consciences and hearts, There is a self-evidencing power in tne Gospel, when ably and faithfully preached, that attests its divine authority, We jeel it to be the yoice of God and not the voice of man. When we read the sermons and writings of those honored men of God along the ages we see how should be natural work in which they are engaged! Of them- “Who is suilicient for these vhings But they n do ali things through Christ strengthening them. ‘A preacher may be very popular with the muiti- tude by the brilliancy of his literature and oratory, yet his work may not be so honoring to Goa as ‘it ought to be. Every effort of his mind should be directed to the glory of God and the conversion and sanctification of men. He should be a wise master builder, building ‘on the great living foun- dation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himselt being the chief corner stone.” When a physician visits us in our weakness we do not expect him merely to emvertain us with faith and hope, we expect from him a remedy tor our disease. So the Christian minister is the great- est ofall physicians, administering to the various diseases of the soul the proper remedies in a skil- ful manner. While we have a faithful Gospel and devotedly taking care of of the people committed to there is abundance of room for the their the souls charge, | full untolding of the peculiar talents of the indi- vidual. Some may have the giant mind of a St. Augnstine or a Luther, leaving the impression of their mighty writings and labors for centuries after them. Others may have arramentative minds, like Thomas Chalmers and Robert Hall, allied to giits of commanding eloquence, Others may have the serap'uc an’ lofty mind of a Join Howe and an Archbishop Leighton, Others may have the con- troversial power and solemnity of a Baxter or an Edwards, Others may have the exegetical learn- ing and gilts of @ Tholack or a Moses Strait, and others the simple, apostolic popular eloquence of @ Whittleld or a Wesley. And all these gilts may be brought to shine in the Christian ministry and | glortly God, like one star diifering from anotuer star ip glory. We hear many s lJosophers and others in our day § as “played out.” It is still as Juil of power as in the primitive age and in the times of the retorma- tion of tue Puritans. It is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. It is as mighty as ever to the pulling down of the strong. holus of sin and Satan. Gospel ministry and we can move all the partinents of themation to the foundation, Giy us an honored and capable Gospel ministry, full o zeal for God and the best interests of our Re deemer’s Kingdom and we © place efficien Christian men in the highest places of power. t unscrupulous, selfish men are most likely ved in society, While honest and capable snare frequently overiooked and despised and even shuuned on account of their iuiwartiy, Give jentists a | | | tolerating spirit of projoundly they honored the divinely inspired Word of God as the only way of salvation, Every word and line is to them full of meaning and provound interest. And with what humility | | and veneration do they lean at every step of their course on the Spirit of God in the super- | could lay hands on and burned them.’’ | did T feel so inclined I could bring forward suc! | overwhelming mass of evidence of papal tyranny ' Inquisition, | oblivion to which time and intelligence has con- ministry, | | Mare | wrath”, by declaring Give us a faitnful | ‘us faithfal men in the pinces of the land, be better ad- rages cease. Then the seciions of the Chriatian Church tn America and England will not only control the Maiaiwatien of tl tes, but will move the wi We are living in a giorious age, when the most distant lands are being connected by rail- ways and telegraphs and visited by our enterpris- ing merchants, and most of them are thrown open to the reception of the Gospel. In this Providence is giving us a noble opportunity to extend the in- terests of the Christian Church. But you will ibly be surprised why I should write you this letter, My reason is simply this:— 1 have taken an active interest in political reforms for the past seven years, and we have other needed reforms to be effected before the na- tion will be in @ sound condition, And I am profoundly impressed with the conviction that we shall be building on sand, and not on a rock, un- less we have a sound Gospel ministry established over the land. ‘The best political government and institutions are of comparatively a superficial character. The Gospel atone, by the grace of God, can reach the heart of society aud give us the solid points of a well-ordered Commonwealth. A FRIEND, Catholicism and Protestantism, To THe Eprror or Tak HeRALD:— The communication of “A Catholic,” pub lished in the HRRALD of the 24th ultumo and intended as a reply to mine of the week previous, imputes to me sentiments which { disown and abhor, and so im- peaches my veracity by a grossperversion of facts that 1 am reluctantly compelled to take notice of what I otherwise would have passed over in silence. Overlooking his personalities, in which I am charitably denounced as an “enemy of God and man,” “A Catholic’ accuses me of insinuating that the “Catholics only want numerical strength to cut the cheoats of every Protestant in the land.” Such an insinuation exists onty in the imagination of **A Catholic ;” for while I wage war against Ro- manism as a system, I respect individual Catholics, and would not harm a hair of their heads. But if “A Cathol cannot distinguish between systema and individuals the fault is his and not mine. He pronounces my quotation from Lafayette, “If ever the liberties of the United States are de- stroyed they will be by Romish priests,” a ‘Know Nothing lie,” “forgetting,” he says, “that this slander on the memory of the great hero was ven- tilated at the time by Archbishop Hughes,’ [am not at all surprised at “A Catholic’s’ adoption of this “short and easy method” of squelching a dis- tasteful matter of fact (it beats ‘Leslie's Method with the Deists" all hollow), for it is a bitter pill for Catholics to swallow, knowing that the General was himseif a Roman Catholic. However, there is no other alternative left them, The tact that Lafayette did express these words was published in the United States as early as 1835, and was never contradicted, that I am aware of, until 1856, when they were repudiated by Jared Sparks in a letter to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Louis- ville, Spaulding, and afterwards by Bishop Hugbes, so that the time when “this slander was venti- iated’’ by the New York Archbishop was twenty- one years after its first appearance in the public prints—an appropriate time for its “ventilation” truly. Bur until the present year there was a living witness to attest its truthfulness in the person of the late Professor Samuel F, B. Morse, who heard it trom the General's own lips, and whose intercourse with Lafayette was of the most intimate character, as did also that exceilent Christian minister, the late Rey. Dr. P.J, Vanpelt— gentlemen whose veracity no Catholic Archbishop in America dare ever for a moment seek to call in question, But the fact 1s too well authenticated and established to require any defence from me. Next, “A Catholic” feels dreadfully put out at my having brought forward the Bartholomew mas- sacre as a proof of Romish persecution and intol- erance, which he denounces as the “great standby of all bigots’ (Protestants). I am glad that “A Catholic’ acknowledges that Protestants have a “great standby," was uncharitable enough to suppose that this also would have been pronounced a Know Nothing le; but in the same sentence— forgetiul of his having committed himself—he de- nies’ most emphatically that the massacre was either “directly or indirectly sanctioned or insti- gated by the Catholic Church,’ and that the ‘con- gratulations sent by the Pope to King Charles were not for the success of the horrible event, but tor the preservation of the King’s lite matter of diplomatic courtesy to the ruler of a great and pow- erful nation.” (1 wonder if he sent congratula- tions to Queen Victoria as “a matter of diplomatic courtesy to the ruler of a great and powerful na- tion” for the preservation of her life in the recent attempt at assassination by a fanatical [rishman? Guess pot.) But for being able to prove that the Church of Rome, both directly and indirectly, sanctioned the horrible butchery, [have to thank tus infallible Holiness the Pope for perpetuating the memory of his own acts, In my former letter | menttoned the fact of the Pope having anded a medal to be struck in honor of vent, but this fact seems to have been ly overlooked by “A Catholic.” Now, on the reverse of this medai were the words, ‘/fugonobo- rum strages"—the slaughter of the 'Huguenots— beneath which was the figure of a destroying an- gel, holding the cross in oue hand and a sword in the other, and at whose feet lay the slain Protes- tants, Butif this 1s not prina facie evidence of | her guilt perhaps “A Catholic” will explain the symbolical figure of the ange! with the cross in the one hand and the sword in the other. As an offset to the Bartholomew massacre he refers me to the persecution of Catholics during the reigns-of cer- tain Protestant kings, whom he specifies, especially in freland, as also the massacre of Glencoe, “when a whole Catholic colony of men, women and chil- dren were butchered in a night,” and the recent expulsion of the Jesuits from Protestant Prussia. Now, as he seems to of great stress upon Catholic ; persecution in Ireland, | would inform “A Catho- lie’ of what that bigoted papist, Ronquillo, the Spanish AmDassador to the Court of St. James, wrote to his ghostly father, the Pope, upon that very subject, and that, too, at a time when Catho- | lies were in the ascendant:—‘What a Roman Cath- olic suffered in London is nothing when compared with what a Protestant suffers in Ireland.’ The Glencoe massacre was not a butchery of Catholics by Protestants, as ‘A Catholic’ insinuates, but was | in obedience to an order irom the government to exterminate a single clan (Macdonald of Glencoe), Whose sole occupation was one of rapine and murder, who did not number more than two hundred persons, and out of this “whole colony,’ many of whom escaped. (See ‘‘Macau- lay’s History of England,” Philadelphia edition, volume 4, page 57.) With respect to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Prussia [ would remind “a lic’ of what he seemingly has forgotten, that these mild brethren of the Order of Jesus have not only been expelled from Protestant Prussia, but from Catholic Spain, France, Naples, Portugal—in fact, nearly all the Catholic countries in Europe— and, to crown all, they were suppressed by his in- | jJallible Holiness Pope Clement XIV., who is sup- posed to have fallen a victim to their vergeance. Now, why should “A Catholic’ complain when these gentlemen are expelled irom a Protestant | country who only followed the example set them | ythe head of the Catholic Church? Surely he , not believe that a Pope could be a tyrant, and yet Germany has done nothing more than the iear of Christ did in the year 1773. But perhaps he wull call this a ‘Know-Nothing lie’ also. As @ At, triumphant proof of the liberty-loving, religious- Romanism, “A Catholic’ gives an extract from the HERALD wherein it is stated that the P jt jans) and others found a refuge mn perse- cution in the Catholic colony of Maryland; but perhaps no better proof could be found, nor one nore satisfactory to “A Catholic,” of priestly ty- ‘auny and religious intolerance than to give, as a | Roland for an Olive: another extract taken | from the HERALD, and almost in.the same column with his own letter, Ever since Mr. Van Meter went to Italy to establish Protestant schools and charches he has met with relentless opposition at the hands of the papal clergy, and so incensed were they at his having succeeded in establishing a school in Frascati—a suburb of Rome—that, says the HERALD, ‘they gathered up all the Bibles they Remark- able instance of Catholic toleration, to be sure and horrtble persecutions perpetrated upon the Albigenses, Waldensians, Hungarians, Italians, to- gether with the shocking atrocitics of the Litre as would make even “A Catholic’? blush for shame: but I preier to bury them in the signed them. fh conclusion, ‘‘A Catholic’ is terribly incensed | at my baving mentioned the fact of the Protest- ant parade in honor of the ‘birthday of the Father of his age gg while the Catholics pre- ferred to remain at home until the 17th of , and seeks to “pour out the vials of his that the procession was largely made up of [rish Orangemen, scarcely one of whom, he declares, 1s: an American citizen. Really, I had no tdea that “A Catholic’? would have taken such a trifing matter so much to heart, and lest he might think I adding insult to in- jury were I to deny the “soit impeachment” I pre- jer to let ‘A Catholic’ have his own way this time. My only object in mentioning it was merely to ill trate in some measure the provert “straws tell how the wind bl fess my surprise that an ntelligent’? should place so much reliance upon ‘st manifest so much feeling at their hay rected Protestantward, ‘And now, having answered all the objec! which “A Catholic” has brought against me, I can- not close without thanking the HexaLp for its | kindness and impartiality in publishing my first letter, and express the hope that in its columns my second will also tind @ place. A PROTES’ American vs. Roman Catholicism—Re- ply to an American Convert to Catho- licity. To THe Eprror or THR HERALD :— Being an attentive daily reader of the Henatp I am in the habit of reviewing your weekly condensa- ton of religtqus tutelligeace, and asl have give | We bave sega Whe Ub eitccts OL Waditiqual policly | Key, 1 considerable attemtion to the varying religious theories of the day 1 am naturally interested in the views propounded by your different corre- spondenta, Perceiving that you do not limit the use of your columns to persons of any one faith or sect, [am ted to ask for room to correct some of tne views and theories offered by your corres- pondent of last week who styles himself an ““Ameri- can Convert to Catholicity.” (Catholicism?) By the word Catholic the writer obviously means Roman Catholic, and [must begin by protesting (though myself no Protestant) against calling the Roman sect Catholic. Being myself a “convert to Catholicity’ Lobject most strenuously to such a method ot begging the whole question as it stands between the Roman See on the one hand and the Anglican, Greek and American churches on the other. . Your correspondent seems to trace his con (?) version to seeing the name ol the Holy Mother of God in some missal or breviary given as the “Blessed Virgin.” If this absurd test of Cath- olicity is Lo be applied the “convert” may perhaps be led to retrace his wandering steps by inspecting the Kalendera of the Anglican or American churches, as found in their prayer books, where he will find the words, ‘Purification of the Blessed Virgin,” “Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin,” &e., &e., ad libitum, Without occupying space by following your correspondent into the various misconceptions which naturally result from his adoption of the cardinal error that the Roman communion is the Catholic Church I will venture, in response to “Convert’s" invitation, to oifer a few brief and con- cise reasons why nobody who uses the reason that God has given him can hereatter become a pervert to Romanism. My first objection to such a‘step 18 that, to join the Roman Catholics, an. American must leave the Catholic Church and join a foreign sect. Now, the Catholic Church in the United States is the American jurch, known in law aa the Protestant Episcopal Church, and commonly called the Episcopal Church, This is clearly provable, for the Catholic Church has branches in all Christian countries, that in Englaud being the Anglican; that in Russia the Russian; that in Greece the Greek; that here the American, formerly connected with the Anglican, but separated from it by the political changes of the American Revolution. To become a member of the Roman sect, then—for in this country it is an intruding sect—one must leave the Catholic urch of the United States, the only canongally apostolic body here, and join a missionary organ- ization, for that is the acknowledgea Roman status in this section, under the authority of a succession of bishops, the first of whom was notoriously ille- gally consecrated, in open deflance of the canons of the Catholic Church. Lad second reason against becoming a Roman Catholic is, that the said Roman sect is heretical, teaching as de dogma a proven falsehood, viz., “Papal Infallibiity.’’ This dogma is false on its very face, being in direct opposition to the de- cisions of two successive General Councils of the Catholic Church, by which Pope Honerius was again and ana, anathematized and proclaimed a here- tic. Nor is this the pay heresy commanded to be taught by the new sect of Vaticanists, founded a year or two ce The “Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin” 18 another, in direct contradiction of the infallible Scriptures and the writings of the early Catholic Fathers. My third reason is, that Romanism is an unrepub- lican, illiberal, superstitious system. What educated American can read through the last Papal Syllabus and approve its theories of religious persecution, the unien of Church and State, &c., &c.+ [ts words are only valuable as showing how ignorant a pious, well-meaning, but deluded old Bishop may be of the science of government and the scope of ecclesiastical authority, No, we may, perhaps, not blame those who, educated in Romanism from in- fancy, still cling to its errors; for a child can be taught, ifwe only begin early enough, that the 8 made of green cheese, or that it has been asa hurdle by a gymnastic cow; but “Con- will hardly bring men of mature judgment ‘cept teaching which contradicts history, sci- nay, common sense itgelf, aud which Would bid him yield one of the divine attributes to a fee- ble old man, The best proof we can desire that Christ has fulfilled His promise never to desert His Church lies in the fact that the entire Greek, Angli- can and American branches of that Church have efused to accept the late heretical decree of the Vatican Council. AN AMERICAN CATHOLIC, Science and Religion—The Duty of the Clergy. To THe Epitor oF THE HIgtALD:— [ trust the subject-matter of this letter may be of sufficient value to compensate forthe space it may occupy in your valuable paper. It is one of the blessings of science that it has provided for the people free and enlightened newspapers. And it is to the credit of the HERALD, that it endeavors always to be found in the foremost ranks of prog- and reform, Developments startling and pro- found are rewarding the efforts of those who are diligently searching into the chaos of the unknown; who are endeavoring to bring to light the hidden things of darkness. Lenter reverently upon the subjyect—“‘Science and Religion.”’ I trust | may not be misunderstood, and if no good results from the promulgation of my ideas, that at least they may not be attended with evil results. I am delighted to know that are becoming more and more enlightened day by day; the dark clouds of bigotry and superstition are here and there being broken by the bright sun of truth, and intellects hitherto obscured by the darkness of superstitious reverence are catcbing glimpses of the pure sky that lies beyond. An earnest, thoughtful, heroic class of thinkers are working hard and faithfully to furnish mankind with what the human heart so longs for and ad- vancing civilization demands—simple truth. From land to land and from pole to pole the cry is to be heard, “Give us facts." Men with little minds and undeveloped brains may ask, ‘‘What is the use of changing our old beliefs? Religion has enough good in it to satisfy the soul, enough truth in it to answer the practical demands of our spiritual nature. Why then bother ourselves with that which only tends to unsettle our convictions and to destroy our present hopes ?’ Now does not this appear a very selfish manner of treating so vital a questicn? If all errors Were met with this spirit where would re- form exist? It is very hard to change our con- victions, our ideal hopes; very hard indeed to pull down our high places and to break in pieces the idols of our fancy, But if these convictions are wrong, if these hopes are vain, if these idols are worthless, is it not best that we should know it, and kuowing it to strive after that which is tan- gible; to investigate and find out ‘What is truth?" The Jews are blamed and called unbelievers, dogs, persecutors by the Christian world just be- cause they don't see things as Christians do. In reference to Mahommedans the same feelings ex- ist. All outsiders enjoy the pleasing prospect of risking dampation because they are settled in con- victions that have been formed by different causes and strengthened by different results from those of Christianity. It appears to me that the relations existing between science and re: ligion are xactly opposite to what they should be. This is the result of misunder- standing more than anything else. To the truly scientific mind religion presents many attractive and natural features; to the religious mind science suggests many noble claims and lofty aspi- rations. Wiy, then, should discord exist, where ac- cordance is desired’ What grander sight can be desired than to see science and religion marching on, hand in hand, in the noble work of regenera- tion and improvement ? the interference of ‘bigotry and superstition.” Science does not scoff at religion, does not seek to destroy it; it desires to purily it of all that is dross, to cleanse it from its secret faults, to ennoble its character and to enabie it to perform its duty in a | better and a truer manner, In ite | this it ele- Vates itself and assumes many of the bigher quatities that characterize religion. Re- ligion and science, viewed from different standpoints, are both intolerant, but while the former sees everythin, from the standard of authority or tradition and rejects all that is contrary thereto; thelatter admits only “fact? as @ criterion amd rejects all which cannot be proved, or, at least, does not admit anything | that is not provable, To the scientific all science is revelation. Thought itself is a revelation of God to man, and that revelation grows and grows as the mind expands, To believe, then, in tradi- tion, on authority, requires faith. To belleve in science requires reason. Now here, it appears to me, is the grand opportunity afforded for science and religion to meet, What is to guide and re- strict faith but reason? What is to encourage and advance science but faith? It is time the masses should be educated to think | for themselves. Who so powerful lor their good in this respect as the clergy, the priests of reiigion?— and it is their interest as well todoso, Henry Ward Beecher, in an address before the Harvard University, some months ago, spoke on this subject | ina manly and independent manner, as follows:— Men are studying and coming to results, and these results are starting directly or indirectly a certain kind of public thought or teeling. In religion the physiolog ; Cal school of mental philosophers are not going to run In the old. grooves of Christian doctrine, They are not koing to hold the same generic ideas Tes and if ministe conform to facts as they are, if they do What men are studying, the time will when th pulpit will be lik dit will not be ‘Vhis work ting mens Not recognize be far distant ce crying in the Prepare the way of the he continues, is going to. be done idence of God is rolling forward a spirit of investiga at Christian mini must meet and jour... There is no class of men upon earth that can less ahead of them than Christian min- afford to let truth re isters, Whatever we can by searching find out of God, ‘all that we can interpret and all that we can bring in it no higher form of mental philosophy. ‘This ia the opinion of oar modern Demosthen men | Why it is not so hes in | rs do not make their theological systems | ral influence to bear upon men ig in its study, a and the e1 r of aathority, and now tet Hoyt bondage alt baw banet aiy, ht has persecuted truth made rel such @ disfigured and go weak @ power in the world. Glancing at the past for our conclusions We find that all reforms are met with aspiris of op- Position and that the reformers meet with persecu- aro wid a ga ght this spirit anc ‘oul clothed in much that is evil and detrimental. Take the founder of Chriatianity—Jesus Christ. His was a character that abler pens than mine have de- scribed—more beautifully than I could ever hope to do, With a large mind, a gras} ing intellect and a heart that cou! hare hold the chai LA which poured out of it He presents himself to our notice. It seems to be a fact that occasions catl forth the men, and Christ bearing the olive branch of peace to the world when it was in an agony of discordant ele- ments and tactiousstrife seemed the fitting instru- ment to restore order and to imaugurate an era unkBown before. He came strong in the faith which was in Him, resolute to accomplish the task He had marked out to perform, determined to free the world from bigotry and ignorance a3 faras He bly could. Persecuted, derided, re- pulsed, He -still ‘held out. Uncompromising with wrong, intolerant of error, He was ever ready to receive truth, acknowledge right and reward vir- tue. His was a mind that in the present day would possibly see as much wrong in religion as science does, and would have been numbered among those who uphold the truths of reason and fact. ‘The Jews are @ persecuted people, aé much from the course which they pursued in regard to Ohrist a8 from any other cause. They rejected lessons that have put them vehindhand s0 many .cen- turies, But the result of Christ's work remains to attest the greatness of his mind. Christ the man was notnlngs they crucified and demeaned Him. Christ the Spirit was that which could not be crucified; it was the active essence and control- ling influence that could not be stamped out, His disciples took up the task He leit untinished and endeavored well to fulfil their mission; but as time sped errors preps into It, opposition compro- mised slowly with it and gradually wrapped a covering of superstition round it unttl, under the name of religion, deeds have been committed and ideas inculcated utterly at variauce with Chris- tianity and fact, From being a seeker after trath religion has be- come the veriest persecutor of truth, We are slowly growing out of the darkness, but still to- day the same spirit that crucified Christ, that burned poor lunatics as witches, that imprisoned Galileo, would stamp out if it could the grand lessons that the Huxleys, the Spencers, the Tyn- dalls are teaching mankind. But science has tri- umphed in the past, is triumphing in the present; it will be triumphant,in the future. And why is it that religion regards science with so much dread # It beings us into nearer approach to God. It com- pels us to Bioelty Him the more, as fresh won- ders of His might break upon our vision, Onur hearts are filled with gladness and prajse the more we know of His wonderful works. But while religion sounds the note of alarm against science it wisely accepts all the benefits and blessings which the latter has conferred upon humanity, only trying to convince men that they properly belong to and emanate from her aloze. Soon we shall have Tyndall, one of the greatest of modern thinkers, here to enlighten us on many o! the scientific questions of the day. He is aman whom all should endeavor to hear, and | trust his coming may be the initiation of a truer and better epoch, that re- ligion may accept him as the bearer of gia tidings BOUCHIED. of good will and reconciliation. Ministerial Movements. EPISCOPALIAN. The new Church of Our Merciful Saviour, in Louis- ville, has just been opened, This church, together with the lot upon which It stands, is the gift og Rev. Dr. Norton to the colored congregation. The whole property 13 valued at $15,000, Work has been begun on a new Episcopal church at Riverhead, L. I. The dimensions are 26x60. There is to be a spire on the edifice forty feet in height. Sydney Smiti’s definition of Puseyism, now Ritualism, is always good. Here it is:—“A system of posture and impos- ture, of circumfexion and genuflexion, of bowing to the East and courtesying to the West, with any gmount of man-millinery and other tomfool- eries.”” The Right Rey. Bishop W. R. Whit- tingham, the venerable Bishop of Maryland of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh, returned to Baltimore from his European trip a few days since, but he returns in health not im- proved, Rev. Heber Otey Crane, son of Rev. Wil- liam C, Crane, D.D., has been admitted to priest's orders, at Jackson, Miss. Rev. Ignatius Koch, D.D., one of the examining chaplains of the Bishop of Florida, having recently departed this life, the bishop has appointed in his place the Rev. 0. P. Thackara. Rey. W. J. Pigott has accepted the r torship of Trinity, Bristol, Conn, Rey. Chaunce; Colton, D.D., is in ‘temporary charge of St. Paul's, Philadelphia. Rev. John K. Lewis, chaplain United States Navy, has sailed for the West Indies. The Board of Missions of the Protestant Epis¢opat Church have raised within the past fifty years $2,216,556 01 for domestic missionary work, and 5,280 81 for foreign missions— making a total for missions of all kinds of $4,461,836 $2, Since 1866 the same board bas expended on the Freedman's Commission $160,796 21, and 1p 1872, On the Indian Commission, t im. Of $27,543 68, These latter two items are in addition to the total above. Bishop Hunting- ten’ a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of that diocese, calling a _ Diocesan | ence, to meet at Utica on Tuesday, Wednesday and’ Thursday, December 10, 11 and 12, “for an interchange of thought and sympathy on sub- jects pertaining’ to our spiritual progress and to | the parochial and charitable interests of the | diocese.” There is a society of “lathers’ in con- | nection with the Ritualistic Church of the Advent, | in Boston, which is quietly laying tts plans to be- | siege that abode of the wicked, Harvard College, | and convert the same to the Catholic faith, which, | | | save every one do keep whole and undefiled, he shall without doubt perish everlastingly. These game paternal young gentlemen are said to have in view legal proceedings for the recovery of King’s Chapel and its property; a task which, ii there are no other good works to be done in Boston, will probably furnish them with amusement for several years to come, and Will also demand liberal alms | and oblations from the faithful. ROMAN CATHOLIC. | Bishop Loughlin will administer the sacrament of confirmation at St. Patrick's church, Southold, L. 1, next Sunday. The Rev. J. McKenna is the priest in charge of this district. Right Rev. Bishop Rrequaia, of Rochester, it is said, has purchased a farm on the west side of Hemlock Lake, in the town of Conesus, Livingstone county, consisting of 109 acres, with the intention of making it a Sum- mer residence. The location is a beautiful one, giving a view of Lake Ontario on aclear day. The Right Rev. Dr. O’Rellly, Bishop of Springfeld, Mass., has recovered the use of his eyes, and is at present in Rome. The following left-handed compliment for Episcopal ritualists is from the jumns of the caustic Catholic Review:— The most cheering fact connected with the ‘ritualistic’ movement in the Anglican Church is the increasing growth among that body of the devotion to Our Blessed Lady. The Anglican Church, it is true, has lost its orders, and the wor- ship, such as it ts, which it pays to the bread and wine upon its altars is idolatry.” The mission which the Jesnit Fathers opened in St. Stephen's church on Sunday, November 3, continued an en- tire month, the first halffor women and the second | for men, and closed on Sunday. Not less than 21,600 persons approached the sacraments and con- verts to the faith were numerous, The Freeman's | Journal, commenting on a two or three column | story of spirtt manifestations to a school girl in Virginia City, Nev., which it publishes, pronounces them “unmistakably diabolical.” And yet they | are vouched for by four priests and several non- } clerical witnesses. Why believe the story | or Lourdes and deny that of Virginia? The curate of Ekbolsheim, Alsace, has fallen into the disfavor of the German invaders of that unfortunate French province. He has not been | permitted to say mass Jor severai weeks. A great | pilgrimage took place on November 2 to Notre Dame de Montflieres, France, for the intention of our Holy Father the Pope. Five thousand pilgrims walked in the procession and the Bishop of Ailly ave the benediction of the mast holy sacrament. father Dubsoca, the eminent French Dominican preacher, has inaugurated a series of sermons to | the workingmen of Paris. They have met with | great success. Several of them who were Com- munists have openly renounced their error and en- tered once more the Church in which they were baptized. Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, has en coufined to bis room during the past fortnight from a severe cold, accompanied by a slight attack of fever. He is 80 far recovered as to be able to attend services to-day. The Feast oi the Immacu- late Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs to-day, and will be observed in the churches of this diocese. The project of the Jesuits | in Canada to establish a great university for | the perpetuation of their political power in that country has been decisively put down by an edi from Rome. The Catholics of Canada are now, it 18 said, divided into two great parties, which will prevent any political or so encroachments, and the bapa having the strongest local influence is out of favor at Rome. The following named prelates of the Catholic hierarchy were in this city during the week past:—Right Rev. PB. N. Lynch, who has been for some time on @ visit North, | is still among us; Right Rev. John Quinian, D, D., | Bishop of Mobile, still remains in New York; Right Rev. B. J. Mequaid, D. D., of Rochester, and Right Rev. Francis MeNeirny, D. D., of Albany, whose transient visits have been already terminated by | their return to their homes. A late letter from Father de Smet, the Indian missionary, who was | previously reported as at the point of death, states | that he is reviving and Lopes to recover his wonted strength again, METHODIST, Bishop Howen has gone to Atlanta to “prospect” for his future home. Rey. A. S. Lakin, who was attending the Missionary and Charch Extension Societies’ meetings, nere and in Philadelphia, has returned to his home in Huntsviile, Ala, Bishop Simpson was to have lectured in Pfttsburg, Pa., @ few days ago, but, owing to a strike at the gas works, lecturer and people tad to go away disay pointed for lack of light, Rev. W. C. Steel, of this city, Was, a few days ago Mee of the Sons of Temperance of Master New York, . 5. Cassady, of Balumgre Conlerence, digd ton, of the diocese of Central New York, has writ- | Conier- | Grand Chaplain, . H. Carroll, were visiting New York laat week. . We Marsirall, formerly of the Pittsburg Conference, now pastor of the First church at Lawrence, Kan., received on a recent Sunday fifty persons into full connection. Over thirty have united with the Methodist Episcopal Church im Romney circuit, Ind. The good work continues. 38 An extensive revival isin progress in ¢! dist Episcopal Church at Kast Roce ee The “Old Asbury" Methodist church on Gatawbe avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, has erected a nice and neat brick edifice at a cost of $3,200. Considerable religious interest is prevailing in the Pine strees Methodist Episcopal church, Portiand, Me. Mission, in the same city, is also enjoying a reyiy: work, and so also is the Methodist Episcopal church at Hallowell, Me., which recently welcomed eteven members. A revival work bas been in progress of late in the First Methodist ‘church, Haver. bill, Masa. Nearly two score of penitents have been counted at the altar at once. Bridgeport burg charge, Baltimore Conference, Kev. D, B. Brin- stead, pastor, is in @ prosperous condition. During the year thirty have veen received into the caurch. Aa the fruits of a very gracious work, turty bave also been received on probation. A work 01 pe has appeared at Babylon, L.L, Rev. J. W. Horne, pastor, and is in progress chiefly among the youtha of the Sabbath school. Adozen and more have professed conversion to Chrivt. Rey. J. L. Fi tor,ot the Methodist Episcopal church at Chat- eld, Minn., has recently suffered very severe hemorrhage of the lungs. Rev. John wiley, D. v. of Peekskill, has been elected Professor. of ‘sacred Theology im Drew Theological Seminary, vice Bishop Foster, who has resigned. Dr. Miley is @ brother-in-law of the Bishop. Bishop Foster has also resigned the presidency of that institution, but his successor has not been chosen, St Luke's Methodist Episcopal churea, inthis city, Sunday before last, centributed $16,148 for the benedit of the New York City Church Extension Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Methodist Boord of Church Extension forthe whole Church ask tor $140,250 for their work during the coming year. Rey. H. Skeel has been elected as- sistant principal of Natural Sciences in the Sanquols Acadenty. Rev. William Butler, D. D., founder of Methodist missions in India and recently Secretary of the American and Foreign Christian Union, haw been appointed missionary to Mexico, in whose capital he imtends to organize first an English speaking congregation. A revivalin the Methodist piscopal Church South at MvGayheysville, Va, has resulted in thirty conversions within seven weeks. Protracted meetings in Satlarans street Methodist Episcopal Church South, Memphis, has brought forty-six converts into the church. Rev. Samuei Watson having written a book in defence of Spiritualism was recently convicted of heresy, by the Methodist Conference at Memphis, le made a tull apology and agreed to withdraw the book from saie as far as possible, and he was thereupon restored to bis forieited position in the church. Bishop Harris is designated tor the Episcopal trip around the world; Bishop Foster for a trip to Europe; Bishop Peck for a visit to South America. Five Chinamen now attend the Sun School of the Methodist church in Morristown, N. J. The Methodists of Allen, Mich., are building & fine brick church, 40x70 feet, with basement, clas® rooms and all modern tmprovements, It will be ready for occupancy some time next month. Rev. C. Littlepage has been transferred from the St. Louis Conference Church South to the Northwest Texas Conference. Rey. Peter Booth of Shelbyville, Ind., recently organized a colore Methodiat Episcopal church in that place, with twenty-eight members, In response to letters pub- lished in the English papers by Rev. Wiillam. Shep- herd, pastor, at Holiy Springs, Miss., twelve Eng- lish Methodist preachérs have come out and have taken charge of vacant churches. Others are in correspondence with Mr. Shepherd, and a larga influx of such ministers is expected in the Spring. Ex-President T, D, Wovlsey, of Yale College, ts de- livering a course of lectures on Polytheism before the Methodist Theological School in Boston. BAPTIST. One of our Baptist exchanges reports the admis- | sion into the Baptist Church in the United Statea ot 565 persons by immersion during the past three months, Seven Baptist ministers were or- dained in various places between New York and Texas last mouth,’ Calls have been accepted by B A. Heath, or New Amherst, Unio, to Oberlin, Ohio; by A. W. Cummings, of West Sidney, Me., to | Belgrade, Me.; . N. Lukens, of Damascu Penn., to Eaglesmere, Penn. J. Parker, Austin, Minn., to Visaha, Cal. A. Quirre), ot Pekin, Ill., St. Charles, Di; by S. D. Ross, of Edington, Lil, to Andaiusia, lil; by A. Routh, of Lebanon, Va., to Bristol, Tenn.; by J, V. K. Seeley, of Medina, Oitio, to Clyde, Ohio; by “A. H. 1 Cleveland, Ohio, to Logansport, Ind. ; F. Whitescawer, of Blacksburg, Big Lick., by John Winter, ton, Newport, churches at Oil City, Corry, Meadville, Frankdin and Wilkesbarre are without pastors or will be 80 at the end of this year. The colored Baptist As- sociation of North Carolina has twenty-two churches in its bounds, [ts annual session was recently held at Gray’s Creek. The lady members of. the First Baptist chureh in Nashville, Tenn., have agreed that they will dispense with all finery om Suaday, wearing no jewels, and attending church in p!ain calico dresses, What will they do on wee days? The sin ts not in wearing jewels and finery on Sandays, but in wearing them at all. Pride and | gaudy attire are as distasteful to God on Saturday uson Sanday. Rev. John Brazelton, of Queens- ville, Ind., has accepted a call to North Vernon, | same State. Rev. . Jones has resigned hia charge of the Christian church at Saiem, Ohio, and Rey. W. R. Spindler, of New Ha shire, su eda by H, by V Pa., to Leechburg, Pa., by D. Young, ot ‘. J., to Graniteville, N.Y. The Baptist Paul- m. ‘Rey, Mr. ‘Spurgeon is reported to {be seriously ill. The Pierrepont street Baptist chur of Brookiyn, lave given a unanimous call to the Rev. Mr. Munroe, of Professor Hutchings, Barnum’s designs fo accompany his | pastor, Key. R, A, Patterson, on an evangelistic tour through the States this Winter. They are to be in Flushing to-day. 4 valuable central plot of ground, consisting of two and two-thirds lots, hag Deen purchased for the erection of a Baptist chapel at Long Branch, The funds have been raised by the churches of the Trenton (N. J.) Association co- operating with the church at Eatontown, and its pastor, Rev. W. D, Siegfried, who has preached regularly at the Branch during the Summers past and labored for the establisiment of a mission. PRESBYTERIAN. The Presbytery of Jersey City reports twenty-six churches, 102 ruling elders, 3,645 communicants and 4,38 abbath school scholars. The only colored Pres- byterian church westof the Allegheny Mountains is in Pittsburg. They are buildinga church, which will cost, including the ground, about twelve thousand: Toronto, Canada. “tightning calculator," dollars. According to Rey. Dr. McCosh, of Prince- ton College, if we sum up the Presbyterian churches throughout the world they em- brace 20,000 congregations, and a population of 34,000,000, If we add the Lutherans, who in many parts of Germany are one with the Reformed, and who are, in all respects, nearer Presbyteriun- | ism than they gre either to Episco} pendency, we have a population of of 107,000,000 of Protestants, or an actual majority of the Protestants of the world. There are in Philadeipbia three branches of the Pres byterian Church—the Reunited (the late old and new schools), the United and the Reformed. They have 115 ministers, 92 congregations, 25,562 communicants and 26,818 Sunday school members. Last year they raised for various pur- poses — $1,089,000, Th churches — will seat | over 66,000 persons. They have a magnificent | publication house and hospital, and are constructing a widows’ home., Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, late of Brooklyn, but more recently | pastor of the First Presbyterian church i Nashville, Tenn., has resigned his pastorate there, owing to the continued ill health of his wife. Re’ Cc. W. Lane, of Milledgeville, Ga., has accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Athens, in the same State. A colony [rom the First Presbyterian chureh of Binghamton (Dr. Gulliver's), has formed a new church called the West resbyterian church. They have called Rev. 8. Dunham, laie of the First church, Norfolk, and he has accepted the call. Rev. | GM. Mi mpbeil, late of Maysville, Ky., is soon to be installed pastor of the Spring street Presbyte- rian church in this city, Key. Hugh Smythe, of Belfast, Ireland, has accepted the call tendered him to become the pastor of the Seventh Pres- byterian church of Cineimnati. He expects to sail for this country some time in Janu: rT Rev. James H. Dwight, son of the late Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, of Constantinople, died at his home im Englewood, N. J., on Monday last. Rev. Dr. Lang, who founded the Presbyterian Churen in Australia, has retired from the pastorate of rhe Scots church, at Syduey, alter fifty years of labor and service. MISCELLANEOUS. | _ Rev. J. M. Van Buren has closed a twenty years? astorate with the Reformed church at New Lots, £ I. Rev. A. H. Meyers, of Saddle River, has ac- cepted a call from the Reformed church of Easton, Washington county, N.Y. The Rev. 8. Dawes, of South Boston, has accepted a call from, the Uni- tarjan church at Brewster. Dr. Quint, of the North chureh, New Bedford, ts on a mission to Caiifornia. During his absence his pulpit is supplied by Rev. H. M. Dexter, of the Congregationauist. Rev. James. Laird has resigned his pastorate tn Hollis, N. H. Rev. J. M. Van Wagner, of Atchison,, Kansas, accpted a call to the Congregational church at Se- dalla, Mo. Rev. Luther H, Barber, of Hanover, conn., has a call to the church in Tolland. Rev. C. 8. Brooks goes from Tynesboro, Mass., to South Deertield, Mass. The Reformed churclt classes of Raritan will hold a missionary conven~- tion in Somerville, N. J., next Tuesday. There-are thirty Congregational churches. in Indiana, six of which have settled pastors, fourteen temporary pastors and ten are vacant, There are twenty- four Congregational ministers.in. the State und the churches have a membersbip of but 1 The | Purim Association of this ctty are prepaying for this Jewish festival. In the place of the deceased Dr. A. Auerbach, one of the greatest Talnudical scholars, his only son, Dr. Selig Auerbach, director of the Jewish public school at Fuertt, was elected Rabbi of Halberstadt. The election took place be- tore thw» funeral of the deceased. The deceasea was agrapdson of K. David Sinzheim, Chief Rabbi of Stragvonrg, President of the Sanhcdrum convoked | by Napoleon. Dr. Plaut, Rabbt of Schwerseng, has beam elected rabbi of Carlsbad, Bohemia. The | Unitartans of Milford, Mass., are talking of building | amew church, A Woman heads the subscription | vst with $1,000. Rev, Benjamin Schncider and j‘wite, who have been so long and so usefully em- loyed as missionaries of the American Board, fave returned to this country for the improvement of their health, They are temporarily stopping in New Britain, Vonn, Among the recent deatts tm