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~ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, MARCH 9--SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT. Schedule of Religious Exer- cises To-Day. lerald Religious Cor- ready to give to all a hearing, we will make a few remarks, and try to convince the ‘American Con- vert” that it is the “Roman” Catholic Church which he has joined, in lieu of the Catholic Church. The apostles preached under the influence of the Holy Ghost (the third person in the Trinity) about sin, about righteousness, and about a judgment to come. The people were alarmed; tear got hold of them; they were _ pricked to the heart, and said, “What sball_ we do to be saved?” Peter, the head of the apostles, said, “Repent, every one of you, and be baptized, and you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.’ Three thousand were born again and added to the Church, and commenced & new way of living. ‘The apostles during their lives preached the same doctrine; no addition was made for some two hundred years. Then began innovations, They first introduced penance for sins against Christ. "Next, penance. Was , ordered. for. sins respondence. QUAKERS AND BAPTISM. The Roman Catholic as the Catholic Church. —— more “THEOLOGICAL CONUNDRUMS.” An Unbeliever on the Christian Amendment. The ,Labors of Trinity in the Vine- yard of the Lord. The Notions of “Vindex” Confuted. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. At the Church of Christ Rev. W. C. Dawson will preach in the morning and lecture on ‘Bible Ques- tions” in the evening. Rev. Professor Roberts will minister to the con- gregation of St, Thomas’ chapel in the morning and evening, : Rev. J. K. Demarest will conduct the morning and evening services at Westminster Presbyterian church, The Morning Star Sunday School will be ad- dressed by prominent speakers at half-past two o'clock, At Pilgrim Baptist church Rev. J. Spencer Ken- Dard will preach morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Cheever preaches in the chapel of the University this evening. Discourses on special subjects at the Church of the New Jerusalem at eleven o’clock and half-past sseven. sl Preaching at Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal chureh, morning and evening, by Rev. J. W. Barn- shart. Rev. Henry W. Bellows will minister to his Nock (All Souls’ church) in the morning and evening. Morning and evening services at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Rev. Dr, Talmage, of the Tabernacle. “The Burden of the Valley of Vision", will be Bishop Snow’s subject at the University at three o'clock. Rev. Dr. Deems will preach at the church of the Strangers this morning and evening. Right Rev. Bishop Potter will conduct services at Trinity chapel, in aid of the House of the Good Shepherd, this evening. At the Church of the Messiah Rev. Henry Powers will preach on the subject of ‘The Religious Amendment” in the morning and lecture on “Com- against God, Next, power of Me priests to forgive sus on repentance, But they did not get the power to know when the sinner had made a coufession, and go it remains uncertain-whether the sinner is forgiven. They introduced two kinds of sins—mortal and venai. Mortal sins condemn to hell, while venal sins condemn only to Purgatory for a time. These sins can be cancelled by the priest by the sinner’s confession, doing penance or giving alms to the Church. But, if they are not cancelled in this life, the sinner will have to stay in Purgatory until the last larthing is paid, But he can be got out of Pur- gatory if he has friends living who will go to the priest and engage him to say mass for him; or, if i8 friends will do something for the Church, the priest will give an indulgence which can be ap- plied to the sinner by giving the priest his name, The priest changes by a miracle the bread and wine into the bedy and blood of Christ, but does not change the taste. Next, baptism by the Church is absolutely neces- sary to salvation, If a child dies before it is bap- tized it will go to hell, Confirmation is essential. The priests have power to make water holy; to make the burying ground holy. They refuse to bury any one init that is not a member of their Church, They likewise teach that but few are so holy but that iiey will have to go through Purgatory to satisly God's justice before they can go to heaven. They also teach that it is proper and right to pray to the holy Mary, the Mother of God, and the saints, to intercede for them with Christ, they having @ great influence; and that it is beneficial to pray to the holy souls in Fcasiory. They being in prison cannot pray for themselves, but being members of Christ’s Church He will bear them for others. And, last of all, they have adaed infallibility of the Pe rope. Tike the Jews, they began right, but like them have gone stray This is the Church which has changed from the Catholic tothe Roman Catholic Church, which our American convert has joined, JUDGE YE. “Theological Conundrums”—“Give ‘Em up?” To THe Epiror or THE HERALD:— In your issue of February 23 I noticed, uader the heading “Bible Truths Not Theological Conun- drums,” a reply to a former communication by “D. L. D.” The writer begins by telling us that the phrase “The book of the generation of’ means the “genealogy of! or “family record of;’ and that “gon of? denotes “descendant of,’’ and quotes Matthew i.,1, to sustain him. To this we do not object; but we certainly do object when he states that “these records by no means imply that all the links of the generations are found in each or eicher of them.” Matthew, after stating that David was the son (or descendant) of Abraham, and that Jesus Christ was the son (or descendant) of David, goes on to trace the genealogy through each suc- ceeding generation from Abraham to David, and from David to Christ, for the pur- pose of provin; to the Jews the truth of his assertions. “M. E. admits” this, says, ‘these Renesiovics or family tables of as he intended to prove that the New Testament were Jesus was the seed of Abraham.” Now, I would respectfully ask, How is anything to be proven when many of the links in the chain of evidence are lost? If aman states that he is the @escend- ant of some distinguished personage how are we to know that what he says is true unless we can trace each generation from that ersonage down to himself? And what kind of a family record would that be in which, though ex- tending over thousands of years, only thirty or forty names could be found entered? What would be the use in keeping a record of a family of which, after entering a name, a dozen generations must pass away before another is recorded? The links connecting the two names would be lost. No one could tell whether they belonged to the same fam- ily. And if another record should be found which contained names totally different, instead of sup- plying the missing links, it would make a confused mass of the whole. ‘This is the state in which we panionship” in the evening. Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach In the morning at 1,288 Broadway, and im the evening at Lyric Hall. Rev. Henry Morgan, of Boston, lectures this evening, at Cooper Institute, on “Slavery of Fashion.” 4 /At St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church Rev. . 8. Harrower preaches in the morning and Rev. }. W. Collard in the evening. Morning snd evening services at Presbyterian Memoria) church by Rev. Dr. Robinson. Rev. Dr. Holme will preach on “the Beginning and End of Wisdom” at Trinity Baptist church this evening. kev. E. FE. Powell, of St. Louis, will preach this morning and evening at Sixth avenue Reformed church, Miss Jennie Lees, inspirational speaker, will ad- dress the Lyceum at Apollo Hallin the morning and lecture in the evening. At Bleecker street Universalist church Rev. E. C. Sweetser will preach on ‘The Need of Temptation” in the morning and Rev. Almon Gunnison in the evening. English services in the Russian-Greek chapel at eleven o'clock. Rev. G. M. McCampbell will preach at half-past ten and at three o'clock at Spring street Presby- terian church. “The Lord’s Warning of Judgment Upon his Chufch”’ will be the subject of the discourse at the Catholic Apostolic church this evening. At Bleecker street Mission there will be Episcopal services morning and evening, with sermons on the “Lord's Prayer” by Chaplain Laval. Full choral services at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin morning, afternoon and evening. Services morning and evening at All Saints’ Epis- copal church, by the rector, Rev. W. N. Dunneil. There will be preaching this morning and even- ing at the Canal street Presbyterian church, by Rey. David Mitchell. Rev. Dr. Flagg will officiate, morning and even- ing, in the Church of the Resurrection. Rev. Dr. Thompson, the rector, will conduct the services, morning, afternoon and evening, at Christ church. Rev. G, H, Hepworth preaches on special subjects et Steinway Hall, morning and evening. At Anthon Memorial church Rey. R. Heber New- ton preaches in the morning and afternoon. Spiritualist services at Union Hall, Jersey City, this morning, afternoon and evening, by Dr. C. Stiles and H. P. Biaker. Morning and evening services at Laight street Baptist Mission, by Rev. Haisey W. Knapp. At Plymouth Baptist church Rev. Dr. Gillette ‘will discourse morning and evening. The Society of Friends and the Rite of Baptism. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Although admiring the liberal spirit in which the letter of J. R. Lamoureux is written (published in last Sunday’s HeRaLp), on one point I feel it to be my duty to contradict him, and I desire to do it in the spirit of Christian charity. He says— A QUAKER ADMITTING NO BAPTISM WHATEVER, “John the Baptist says:—‘I Indeed baptize you ‘with water, but there cometh one after me who shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.’"” We do not believe in the efilcacy of water baptism, but the baptism of the Holy Ghost and With fire is one of tue fundamental doctrines of the Society of Friends; that baptism shall en- tirely change the heart’ of him who experiences its influence; it shall destroy “Old Adam” and ali the worst passions of the soul, and it shall create in him a new heart and a new gnind in Christ Jesus, and hereafter he shall bring forth only the fruits of the Spirit, which are love, 2% peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, Faith, meekness and temperance; and hencefor- Ward men of the world shall know that man 18 liv- ing in the fear of God, for it is recorded “By their fruits ye shail know them,” and again, “If a have not the Spirit of Chiist he ts none of, nis. After this change of heart the daily prayer will be, “Let the words of my mouth and tie ineditations | of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, toy avrengsn and my Redeemer.” Thing respect. ly, AN ADVOCATE for the people called Quakers, Reply to an “American Convert to the | Catholic Religion.” To THE EDiToR oF THE HERALD:— In complying with an invitation of ‘‘An*Ameri- can Convert to the Catholic Religion,” through the New York Hsrarp of Sunday, December 1, 1572, by the indulgence of the Heap, which is always find the genealogy of Jesus Christ as given by Mat- thew eud Imke. Here, then, the cuse rests. Nothin, has or can be proven by these family records, and what “'M, E.”’ calls “Bible truths” are still, and ever will be, theological conundrums, When ‘‘M. E.”’ thinks he has solved them he propounds as great a conundrum in trying to tell us how he has arrived at the solution. Me says tne tables were intended to prove something, and yet they were not in- tended to prove anything, because many links in the evidence are missing. Traly this is a funny Way to test the truth, by giving us a flat contra- diction! J. H. K. A “Heathen” on the Christian Amend- ment. To Tue EpiTor oF THE HERALD :— 1am a heathen and was brourht up in a far-off land where the God of the Christian did not dwell. I do not believe in the Christian’s God; for, accord- ing to the Christian's story, he used to be a very bad God and not half so smart as their devil, Say they, God made the world and a pair of hu- mans and pronounced them sar ceecstan good, and in a few days the devil turned everything so bot- tomly up that it took the Lord a great many thou- sand years before He could even begin repairs, After eighteen hundred and seventy odd years of hard work their God is turning off such specimens of work! ship a8 Mobiler Colfax and Subsidy Pom- eroy, Esquire The God-in- constitution le wish to inject 20) such a slim god as this into the immortal produc- tion of Tom Jefferson, which has withstood the assaults of devils for nearly a hundred years, and fought one, at least, of the toughest battles on record. Can such @ sacrilegious injection be allowed ? If somebody must go into the constitution, let it be the orthodox devil rather than the orthodox God, for the former has proved himself the abler party. By this move the constitutional Christians would besure to enlist the support of tae majority of our Congressmen. May the God of the heathen keep you. ALLAH MASH ALLAH, The Good Works of “Old Trinity.” To THE EDITOR OF TUB HERALD:-- As one of your correspondents in your last Sun- day's issue made a very severe attack npon Trinity church, implying'that all its members were hypo- crites, with Whom he did not wish to be in com- munion, may “I ask the privilege of making a few statements in regard to that frequently abused parish.” In reply to your correspondents assertion that, with their millions on millions of dollars, they are accumulating their property instead of spend- ing it upon bec tg I would answer that for the | last two years the expenses of Trinity parish have exceeded its income. ‘This will not seem at all | Strange when we consider the variety and magni- | tude of the works in which that parish is engaged, conducted, for the most part, among the ok ‘Trinit; an hasa chapel on Governor's Isiand, established at the time of the war for the especial benefit of the soldiers stationed there; a free mission chapel in the bowery, a {ree | church in Thirty-ninth street, and four | others, these latter having an aggregate of be- tween one thousand and two thousand tree sit- tings and three or four entirely free services every Sunday. None of the six city charches are ever closed, Summer or Winter, and as three have ser- vices twice a day throughout the year, and the work of all, except Trimity chapel, 18 mostly mis- sionary and among the lower classes, it will eaai And it should always be borne in mind that the primary use of church funds ts the naintenance of the public worship of Almighty God. In addition to its own churches Tr: to the support of achurch in Hudson street and two free mission churches on the east side of the city, all of which would probably have to be abandoned but for her assistonce, $10,000 having been giver this year to one of these free churches. As regards works intended more especiatiy for the temporal beneiit of the poor there are con- nected with Trinity parish a home for aged women, six sewing schools, five daily parish schools and various benevolent sucietios, Some idea of the money spent in charitable works may be gathered from a sing!e fact that one of these benevolent societics spent, a tew Winters ayo, $600 for shoes alone. In addition to ali this there are several guilds in the parish—st. Joun’s, so prominent last Summer in the work of relieving the sick poor; St. Paul's, under whose auspices free lectures are given to the poor in the Trinity school rooms, &c, And it should be borne espe- cially in mind that about three thousand children are under instruction m the Sunday aod other schools of the parish. The work of St. John’s Guild (the one called tn question by your correspondent) lies among the inhabitants of the Seventh and Eighth wards, \ number from sixty to seventy thousand, a large roporiton being in destitute circumstances. To magine that Trinity, without assistance, can feed, clothe and lodge so many thousand poor, or is under obiigation to do so, because St, John’s chapel happens to be situated in their midst, is so absurd @ proposition as to refute itself. Nor A MEMBER OF THE PARISH. A Few Words to “Vindex.” TO THE Eptror oF THR HERALD :— There is no doubt but that a great number of the Teaders of the H&RALD were shocked by the plain Temarks of our friend who signs himself “Vindex," be seen that a large statf of clergy ix required. | ity contributes | in last Sunday's HERALD. To 8 person of ordinary intelligence, and especially one who 18 not accas- tomed to attend chureh, the remarks of *‘Vin- dex” would tend to make him a disbe- Hever in the Bible, and it might make him 8 downright infidel. God knows that there ts enough of such literature flooding the country at present—turning the minds ef men from the truth and causing them to walk in paths which seemeth right unto them, but which as- suredly lead unto death. Poor, weak mortals! We need ail the strength we can fet ‘nis cavil- ling and Scoting at holy things, this picking the Bible to pieces, taking a text here and another one there, to suit his or her feelings, without the least regard to the context, is what causes so much mischief in the world and causes the Christian Church to split up into innumerable sects and de- nominations, Therefore I lay down this proposi- tion, and it isa proposition which has been held from time immemorial, that the Bible is the Word of God. It is true that very intelligent and scien- tiflo men have seriously questioned the proposi- tion, but what have their questionings amounted to? The words may be of human texture and the hands of men have framed them, but the Bible is supernaturally illuminated with the presence or Obrist throughout, “wrapping around, as a r- ment, the divine person oi the Son of Man. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, Our ‘blessed Lord was the Divine Loy and 80 the Holy Scrip- tures are oiten dignified by appellations which are given unto the Son of jmself,” being, as it were, the very breath of His mouth; 80 that it is often doubtful which ts most. signified in the pa Lee given, the written Word or our Lord Himself, The “irrepressible conflict” may go on between science and religion, ‘Vindex"’ informs us science cannot yield, because God is indisputably its author. "We repeat the words of God “Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.” Your Sunday religionist, who goes to church merely for the sake of hearing some popu- lar sensationalist preach, who will never pray or ask for tne descent of the Holy Spirit to guide his sponene aright, will still make religion sub- servient to science, Such a man can never under- stand the ‘Word of God,"’because he does not seek it, The men of the world, the Scribes and Phari- sees, hooted and mocked our Lord, but unto simple babes was it ordained of God to discern Him. God reveals Himself to the man who trembles at His word. There is atime for every man to prepare and to receive on faith His word. There is a time, also when man departs, if he has received in all humility the Word, a8 the Word of God; the letter Shall depart, and the spirit shall remain. The written commandment isno mere needed to him, for he was obedient to the Word of God to the end, and obedience hath its reward. DEACON, A Very Pertinent Question. To THR EpiTox or THR HERALD:— It has ever afforded me the greatest pleasure to watch with the keenest interest the numerous controversial struggles which week after week take place in the columns of your invaluable paper—struggles nobly maintained on every side— and with your permission Il now propose to enter the lists, not, however, to champion either cause, but simply to propound a very pertinent question. Everywhere in theology it is asserted that God is @ being infinite in power and wisdom, not only fore-knowing, but fore-ordaining whatsoever should come to pass, and while He is thus allwise and powerful that the one aim of His whole ex- istence 1s the well-being of mankind here and here- after. Nay, so jealously careful is He of us that even the hairs of our heads are numbered and not even a single sparrow falls to the ground but he is cognisant of the fact in truth, Theologians are never weary extolling the power, the wisdom and the wondrous ove of God, an methinks | hear the voice of the whole religious world with one accord and in a thousand tongues shout their loud hosannas in acquiescence of these great teachings; and, my friends, well may you rejoice, for is it not true, nay, does there breathe the wretch who will dare even dispute it? But in consideration of all this will some one please ex- lain the origin of evil, whence, why, wherefore he anguish, the travail that human flesh is heir toot Why are we forced to exclaim with the poct in very bitterness of spirit— Oh suffer: hai ‘Oh ye aitileted on Steened to the lips in misery, Longing yet atrald to die! Patiently, but gorely tried, é ALEX. WOOD, Newark. A New Catholic Pastor. Rev. James S. O'Sullivan, who has recently been appointeu pastor of the Church of the Holy Cross, Salem, New York, is one of the senior priests of the archdiocese, He was ordgined in this city in 1847 by Archbishop McCloskey, who was then coad- jutor to the late Archbishop: Hughes, previous to the division of the diovese, *' He served in the ee diecese under the Arch- bishop fer a period of eightedn years, and enjoyed his utmost confidence and est He preters a quiet country mission to the surmoil and excite- ment of a city parish, and in deference to this de- sire en his part the authorities have temporarily acceded to his wishes. Ministerial Movements METHODIST, Bishop Foster is making arrangements to em- bark for Europe May 31. Bishop :larris made the following transfers from the Virginia Comference at its late session :—Isaac M, Foster, to the Oentral New York Conference; William F. Hemenway, to the Northern New York Conference, and Charles King to the Kansas Vonference, Rey. Mr. MeOlel- jan has resigned the pastorate of the Wabash avenue church tn Chicago; reason, impaired health. It is said Rev. J. L. G. McKown, of Rock- ford, late President of Albion College, will be ap pointed in his place. Rev. Dr, Punshon is now on atourin the South. He expecta to be in Wash- ington, D, C., to-day. Rev. Dr, Slicer, of Baltimore, is not much better. He will not be able to attend the conference which opens this week in Hagerstown, Md. Bishop Quinn, senior Bishop of the Airican Methodist Episcopal Church, died a few days since at his residence in Richmond, Ind. Rev. Caleb Dus- tin, formerly of the New Hampshire Conference, but for the last twenty-three years a local preacher, died a few days ago at his residence in Derry, Ne H. He was in his seventy-seventh year, Rev. E. L. Prentice, of the New York Conference, died, after a brief illness, on Friday morning last, at the par- sonage in Warwick, aged forty-seven years, Anxiety and overwork to promote a revival among his peo- ple produced brain fever, which carried him off in forty-eight hours. The New York Preachers’ Meeting sent a telegram of condolence to his family iast Monday and appointed a com- mittee to prepare suitable resolutions, Rev. S. Kristeller, oi the Sayville Charge, nas o. ganized @ new Methodist Episcopal church at Bayport. The intention is to erect a place of worship there next Spring. More than half the money necessal for that purpose has already ‘.en subscribed. William Collier, D. D., J. H. Hull and Dr. Alexan- der Clark, of the Pittsburg Conference of the Methodist (Protestant) Church, nave been ap- pointed fraternal delegates to the Maryland Con- ference of the Methodist Protestant Church, to mect in Baltimore March 12, Clark street Metho- dist Episcopal church,. Chi , is “the only one of the churches of the burned district which has been 80 far rebuilt as to be open as yet for religious ser- vices. This service is now heid in the chapel, but will kaak | be transferred to the main audience room. Methodist headquarters is to built in Philadelpnia by the Book id Tract Depository, which yrepenes, to _enl its sphere of usefulness, r. he Roy .4 Vernon, Superintendent of the Methodist mission in Italy having been pretty thoroughly abused for denying the rose-colered reports of Father Gavazzi concerning the progress of Protest- ant evangelization in that Kingdom, senda the statistics, condensed from the annual reports ot the several evangel denominations and charches operating the: He finds that the W: densians head the lst, with 2,019 communican nd Changes. the Free Church comes next, with 1,119; the Wes. | leyans have 698 and the Baptists 175, or 2 total of 4,011, instead of the 10,000 reported. The hearers number less than eight thousand, instead of 30,000. ‘The two branches of Episcopal Methodism, North and South, fraternize grandly in Kingsport, Tenn, ‘The pastors preach alternately in the same house to separate congregations, representing both wings. Lately they went in unitedly ior a revival, with the mutual understanding that they should try to make converts to Christianity rather than to Methodism. The result was seventy-six conver- sions, twenty-six of whom joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, seventeen the Churck South and | the rest went where they pleased. Twenty pupils | in the Pittsburg Female College have recently been converted. The Christian Advovate, of this city, collating its revival statistics for the lust two weeks, Shows an aggregate of 5,500 conversions. The Hanson place Methodist church, in Brooklyn, have decided to rebuild (heir house of wo cost Of $40,006, and to Onlarge its capacity, ° stead Praying Band will conduct the services to-day in the South Harlem Methodist Episcopal churoh, livth street, Second avenue, Lest Sabbath evening fourteen were at the altar, five of whom were con: verted, The Brooklyn Praying band, D. W. Price leader, will spend this day with the Forsyth street | chureh Rey. Dr. Curry, of this city, now recruit ing his health in Florida, writes to bis paper here that Jacksonville, Fla., with a population of 1,500 souls, bas & Northern and a Southern Methodist | Episcopal church, a Northern and a Southern Pres byterian church, an Episcopal, a Roman Catholic and two Baptist churches for the white people, together with two Methedist and one or two Bap: tist churches for the colored people. This number of churches ought certainly to be able to take care of the morals 01 Jacksonville, CONGREGATIONAL. Rev. Dr. John P, Cleaveland, formerly pastor of the Tabernacle Congregational church in Salem, Was attagked with paralysis ou Tuesday evening of last week, and taken in 81 unconscious to his home in Newburywort. His recovery is doubtful, Rev. John Solby vedere the pastorate of the Pilgrim church, Southboro’y, ag to take ef- fees the last Gag next, i ,, oe Caer) lew! 4 ave ace) of Rev. James Powell. Rev. vm A. B bas tendered his resignation to tRe Second Seamreee tional chureh Brookfield, Vt., to take effect Aprill. The Congregasionst churoh @t Hatfeld, lass., having tried the free-seat system & year, ZO back to renting their pews, The North Oongrega. tionaliss church in Lynn opens its church or on the Sabbath during hours not devoted to public service, with reading appropriate for the day pro- vided for those who visit the room. One hundred dollars a year is all that the American Education Society (Congregational) 18 able to appropriate to each of the 300 needy young men study- ing for the ministry in the various ontlenes, and this small sum is hard to get. Thirty-four ersons united with Dr. Scudder’s church, Brook. lyn, on Sunday last, twenty-two of them upon protession of their faitn, Rev. F, B. Alien will re- sign his pastorate in Canandaigua, N. ¥., April 1. Rey. Charles L, Hubbard, of Merrimack, N. H., Ree to Marshall, Ill, Rev. T. E. Monroe, of Mount ‘ernon, is called to Akron, Ohio. Rev. 8. W. Webb, of California, goes to Great Falls, N. H. Rev. W. B, Lee, a Presbyterian, of Brookiye, N. Y., is called to tie First Congregational church of Portland, Conn, v. J. L. Jenkins, of Spring- field, is called to Hal r, Ohio, and Rev. R. Johns, a Congregati ist, of Hartford, Conn., goes to a Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. Rev. F. W. Beecher, of Kankakee, Ill., is called to the First church of Jackson, jich., Rev. A. P, Burgess, of Duxbury, M: has accepted the State agency of the New York Temperance So- ciety ; headquarters at Syracuse, PRESBYTERIAN, ‘The Presbyterian church at Hempstead, N. Y., and the community, are enjoying a gracious season of refreshing. The first in filty-two yea: it is stated. The nization is one of the oldest, if not the very oldest one, of the denomination in Rockland county. Thus far over seventy have pub- licly desired the prayers of the Church, and twen- ty-seven have professed faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev. Dr. T. M. Cunningham, who came Fast some months ago to secure aid for the estab- lishment of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in San Francis has a fair prospect of $50,000 in Philadelphia and Baltimore for the en- dowment of the Cepreee The Presbyterian church at moatoay Kan., and Hastings, Minn., have recently been biessed with large additions to their membership, 120 having made a profession of their faith in the two churches. Rev. Dr. Condit, of Auburn, is still supplying she pulpit of the Pres- byterian church in Owego, N. Y. Ten by letter and three upon profession were added to this church at the last communion, In the village of Mayfield, N. Y., containing about two hundred inhabitants, there are two churches, @ Presbyterian and a Methodist. They joined forces during the Winter and held services alternately in the two churches, and the result has been nearly three hundred con- versiens among the villagers and the surrounding farmers, and the doubling of the membership of the churches, The Presbyterian church in BI water, Del., took in fifteen last Sunday, and the church in Whaleyville, Md., pay one. Rev. S. B. Moere has been called to the United Presbyterian church in Springfield, Il. Rev. Rebert Irwin has resigned the pastoral charge of the First Presbyterian church of Kansas City, and become superinten- dent of the work of the Board of Publication. The Canton Presbyterian church has called Rey. A. P. Forman, D. D., to be their pastor. The Rev. ,T. Dwight Witherspoon, . D., has accepted the call of the Tabb street church, Petersburg, and expects to enter upon his labors there in October next. His connection with the University of Vir- ginia, as chaplain of the institution, will cease the Ist of July, at which time he proposes to visit Eu- rope, where he will spend the Summer. Rev. Dr. Sutphen, late colleague pastor with Rov. Dr. McElroy, of this city, writes to us from the island of Nassau that he has been greatly improved in health, Dr. Sutphen will come across to Florida in April and return to the North as the season advances. The West Chestnut atreet Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, has been dissolved, and its pastor, Dr. Nevin, has re- tired. Rey. Hugh Smith, late of Belfast, Ireland, commenced his ministerial labors in the Seventh Presbyterian church, Cincinnati, last Sunday. Dr. Howard Crosby, of the Fourth avenue Presbyterian church, has just completed teh years of almost un- interrupted labor with that people, and on the last Sabbath evening of February he passed them in re- view. It appears that 1,104 have been added to the church, 527 of them on profession of their faith; 289 of the whole were admitted in the four missions of the church, leaving 815 as the number actually added to the mother chureh during the ten years; sixty-two have died; dismissions to other churches and deaths leave a net increase of 778. The present number of 1em- bers is 1,047, of whom 254 are in the missions; 101 have removed to rts unknown, leaving 692 members actually belonging to the present church, Rev. William Guthrie Barnes was installed as tor of the recently organized Fort Greene Presbyterian church in Cumberland street, Brook- lyn. Mr, Barnes was formerly of Sag rbor, where his labors were eminently successful. Rev. A. C. Reed will retire trom the charge of the Pres- byterian church in Port Byron, N. Y., on April 1. ; in Rey. H. W. Crabbe, of St. Louis, has accepted a call tothe Presbyterian church in Bufato, Mo. Rev. 8. H. Gridley, D. D., who has been pastor of the Presbyterian church in Waterlo |. Y., for thirty-seven years, will retire on the 1st of April, on account of the infirmities of age. BPISCOPALIAN, Christ church, st. Louis, Rev. Montgomery Schuyler, rector, has saved its $200,000 edifice from the auction block by raising the money to poy of & mortgage of $60,000 which lay on it. v. C. Molyneux, long known as a popular Evangelical clergyman at Brompton, London, has seceded from’ the Church of England, and taken to a sys- tem of free preaching at St. James’ Hall. Rev. Canon Mitchinson, D, D., head master of the King's School, Canterbury, England bas accepted the bishopric of Barbados. Rev. W. N. Webbe has been called to the rectorship of Grace church, St. Louis. Rev. S.C. Thrall, D. D., has been called to testant ‘piscopal church, in Cumber- id, James DeWolfe Parry, of Germantown, Pa., has been elected rector of Christ church, Reading, Pa. Rev. Harry Ingersoll Me has elected an assistant of St. Clement's eigs church, Phi} iphia, Rev. C, Clitton Penick has accepted the rectorship of the Church ot the wwe: Siah, Baltimere, Md. Rey. J. Treadwell © ‘1 has been elected rector of St. Paul’s, Bu..un, A new Episcopal church is to be erected in Hoboken, N. J., at @ cost Of $60,000. The Protestant Episco- jurch im Maine is gaining ground. With isbop Neely’s advent much new missionary work was begun in very. dimicult fields. It has taken time for this to gather strength. ow it has be- come in some cases almost self-supporting; in others it has enlarged, in parts adjacent and the diocese begins to be invigorated by this new life. The demand for Protestant Episcopal Church ser- vices at new pointa is much beyond the ability of the clergy to meet. The death is announced of Rev. James L. ba Sonera formerly associated with Dr. Schenck, of oklyn, in nity Protestant Episcopal church, Chicago. Rev. Dr. John @. Auer, missionary in Germany, is on his way to this coun- try to be consecrated Bishop of Cape Palmas, ica, and parts adjacent. The consecration will take place in Georgetown, D. C,, about Easter. St. Paul’s church, Boston, has extended a call to the Rev. Treadwell Walden. He is now without a charge, and has lately resided in Connecticut. The Rev. 0. K. Baker has accepted a call to, and en- tered upon the duties o! the rectorship of the Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn. The Rev. J. Johnson, iormerly of St. Mark’s church, Green Island, has accepted a call to St. Paul's churen, Hoboken, and entered upon his duties, BAPTIST. In connection with Mr, Spurgeon’s church in London is a Pastor's College, where men are trained jor the ministry without the requirements of a general collegiate education. {t has furnished 169 preachers within a few th who are dein faithfal and successful service in towns and vil- lages throughout England. Arrangements nave just been made for the purchase ofa piece of ound on whick to erect an edifice fer the col- lege. The First Baptist church of Richmond, Va.. subscribed $25,000 to the Virginia Baptist Memorial enterprise. An indiana pastor writes to the Standard to say that he has been three yea in the ministry, has @ small family, four churches and got last year al He has not been able to a book for two years. Indiana Baptists must be pretty well down in hi or they grasp it very tightly. Rev. ©. H. Nash, of Gien’s Falls, has taken thirty new converts into bis church. Rev. ©. J, Thompson, of Homer, N. has taken thirty into his church also. Rev. A. J. Hastings, of Doylestown, Pa., baptized six the last Sunday in February. Rev. J. ©. Wynn, of Camden, N.J., took in four on the 23d ult., and at Hornerstown, ¥., nineteon have professed conversion. Twelve coi versions within two weeks are reported at Penns- ville, Pa. A protracted meeting of six weeks’ duration in Walnut street Baptist church, Louis- ville, has added ninety to the church in Frederick- town. Forty-two have recently united witn the Church; thirty-three have united with the Baptist church at Jackson, Mich.; seven with the Church at Orleans, Ind; nine with the church at Trenton, M thirteen with the Bethienem Eden church, Philadelphia, on Sunday evening; eight with the Second Church of Germantown, ut the same time; two with the Memoria) church, Philadelphia, and five with the Twelfth church, Philadelphia, eet ings at the Olivet Baptist church, stern Ii, have added twenty-six to the membership; in Western avenue church thirteen, and in the First church, Chicago, five. In Homer, lowa, eleven have been added to the church. The colored Bap- tist church, in Indianapolis, hag ae rere revival which added twelve to their number an Frankiin, Ind., thirty nave been added. One hundred persons were baptized at the Rev. Dr. Baldwin's church (Baptist) in Al- bany last Sunday week., The largest num- ber heretofore baptized in ‘that city was in 1843, when flity-iour were baptizea at the old Green street church, of which the Rev, Mr. Hodge was astor, The Christian enterprise which started the lemorial church at Elizabeth, N. honored With tokens of divine favor, The Ke’ a, Jones has baptized quite a number recently. etings at the Tenth church, Philadelphia, are increasing in interest. Several protess conversion, and others are uiring. In the Park Lag owed church, Port Richmond, N. ¥., eighteen have been recently im- mersed, and others are awaiting that ordinance. The Sixth avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, has just closed its first year. Twenty-seven have been baptized, and there have Lend ac: petted by, Pen —_ a ee MG toneboro, + of the Baptist charch ; Rowe Titterington has Manchest removed Or, dll, aud taken a charge NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET: at Fentony Rey. 0, C. Cady has closed his bors ington Baptist chuxch and a he on as ieee of the Fort Madison » lows. kels, for the last sixteen i, 8 pastor of vile, Bus see ont f has sent in ation o% account Ch cits Realths the resignation takes @ffect on the Ist of Jame. htev. Henry M. Dean, of New Lisbon Centre, goes, on April 1, to Newtown Centre, Mags., to take ‘oi the Baptist church there; ‘Rev. William , for five years pastor of the Oalvary Baptist church, of Philadelphia, has accepted a call to Altoona, Pa., and will commence his labora thi il 1 v. J. B, Bracks D. D. f Broo! gr Ly 55 Meee” Rev. ol klyD, i P. 8. Burbank, nville, to South Parsons- Fn Me.; Rev. J. 3, Persons, of Salisbury, N. Y., to West Somerset, N. ¥.; Rev. F. R. Morse, of Fall River, Maas., to Albany, N. Y.; Rev. J. B. F. Mays, D. D., of Si to xvilis, Tenn, ; Rev. J. F. Morton, of Littleton, Mass., goes to ; Rev. D, J. Wiliams, of Bleakley, Pa., to Mead’s Comers, Pa.; Rev. L, Mey thet al . Y., to Fre- donla, N. Y., Mr. R. Hoemiin will be ordained and instituted itor of the Greenwood, or South Brooklyn, an rt bone church ery a Rev. Wayland Hoyt, of Brooklyn, has not yet finally de- cided to accept the call of the Tabernacle ist church 01 this city, That church has a project on hand to enlarge its borders eitner where’ it is, on Second avenue, or in some other convenient local- ity, ao as to gather in the floating population of our city, and they need a acher hike Mr. Hoyt, whe e learning and eloquence to gather the people about him. But his Brooklyn congregation are bringing every pressure they can to bear to compel him to stay with them. The sudden and triumphant death is announced of Rev. A. Whee- lock, D. D., of Fredonia, N, Y. (formerly of the: Six- teenth Baptist church of this city), on the 25th ult. ROMAN CATHOLIO, Almost all the bishops of France have, by this time, written letters to M. Thiers, entreating the President to interfere in the matter of the sup- pression of the religious houses in Rome. The clergy of Posen have, in deputation, called on Mgr. Ledochowski, their Archbishop, to thank him for firm attitude in opposing the encroachments of Prussia. Mgr. Ledochowski answered them, that he: referred death to obeying unjust and tyrannical jaws, and that ne had written to that effect to the House of Lords aud to the Parliament of Berlin. The old Catholic movement seems to be still going forward in Earope, and to be Austria, where at frst there was only one Old Catholic Church (at Vienma), and now three new churches are reported at Ried, Steer and Teesdorf. Fourteen of these churches have been established in as many towns in Bohemia, At Bonn, in Prussia, in the Castie Chapel, January 19, the first Old Catholic worsht was held. A large number of sympathizing friends gathered from Cologne and the neighborhood, The services were conducted by Projessers Reusch and Knooth. The St of Geneva pub- lishes the following:—In 17 cantons of Switzer- land there still remain 33 convents of men and 45 of women; total 78. The number of monks is 546 and of nung 2,020. Of the monks 422 are fathers, 28 novices and 91 lay brothers; 1,181 of the nuns are choir sisters, 185 lay sisters ‘And 85 novices. These 88 convents possess 22,645,9151, worth of property. The cantons in which there are cenvents are Soleure, Argovia, Lucerne, PRL Gino, Unter- Walden, Appenzel, Switz, Geneva, Fribourg, Berne, Vallais, un Grisgons, ‘St. Gal and Ticino, The famous Convent of Benedictines of Einsiedien con- tains seventy-six monks and its ions are worth more than three million francs, At the two weeks’ mission in St. Jerome’s church, North New York, held last month by Father Damen and his associate Jesuits, 5,000 communions were partaken of and twenty converts are reported. Hrom the opening to the close of the mission (February 23) the church and a large hall attached were crowded at every service, both morning and evening. The Very Rev. Theodore Noethen, of Albany, N. Y., has purchased a kouse and lot on the Whitehall road for the erection of a magnificent church and School for his German parishioners in the lower ome of the city. The St. Raphael Soctety is @ new German Catholic organization, with branches in Hamburg, Bremen and Liverpool, to aid emigrants in reaching America, and to keep them under ultramentane church discipline after their arrival here. On Sun- day, February 26, the Kight Reverend Bishop of Boston confirmed 260 children at the pro- cathedral, Castle street, Boston. Rev. c0- dore Vevan has completed his beautiiul church in Henderson, Minn. Father Kan- reuther, of Munich, has been condemned to pay ninety thalers for alleged offensive remarks made against the German government in one of his re- cent sermons. St, Mary’s cengregation, Cox- sackie, N. Y., have bought for $5,000 some fine property in that place for a church and pastoral residence. Archbishop Bayley’s health is rapidly impreving under the mild climatic influences of Florida. MISCELLANEOUS. Over sixty Jewish families have left Moldowal- lachia for Italy, with a view to evrich themselves by the purchase of church a he Rev. Henr, Powers will preach in the Church of the Messial to-day on “God in the Constitution.” Rev. John Caivin Kimball has been called to the Third Unitarian church in Dorchester, The year- book of the Unitarian Congregational churches for 1878 shows the societies to number 350, and the ministers 400, The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania and the adjacent States is one of the oldest ecclesiastical organizations in the United States, and is the mother synoa of nearly all the Lutheran synods in America, It is now in its one hundred and twenty-fifth year. St. John’s church, of Philadel, Rev. J. iss,. D. D., pastor, contributed last through its system of beneficence, $5,400 39, ie ave! contributions of this congregation through this channel alone for the past three years have been $7,186 46 per year, be- sides what has been paid in the form of pew rents. ‘The annual meeting of the Boston Young Women’s Christian Association was held last Monday at the Freeman place chapel. Mr. B. R. Mudge presided, The Association has already raised towards the erection of a new building, the estimated cost of which is $80,000, The Chapin Home for the Aged and (Infirm, in East Sixty-sixth street, between Le. yn and Third avenues, was publicly dedi- c jast Monday. It is constructed of red brick and stone, and cost $100,000, It has sixty-five rooms, and is capable of accommodating over one hundred persons. In Danbury, Coan., brotherly love is said to prevail to such & hep ag extent that umion prayer meetings are held, in which Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, Universal- ist and Disciples churches participate. This certainly looks towards the millennium. The London jonary ty Soctet propoeet to establish @ mission to the great island of New Guinea, which 18 inhabited by tribes of Pain treacherous and bloodthirsty people. The undertaking is difficult and dangerous, but a number of misstonanes have been found who are willing to enter the fleid. Their work will be confined at present to places along the coast; and to facilitate their movements a mis- sionary steamer is to be provided by the generos- * ity of Miss Baxter, of Dundee. Dr. Julius Furst, the renowned scholar an‘ writer, professor of the Aramaic and Talmudic languages at the University of Leipsic, died on the 9th of February. He was one of the most prolific writers among modern Jewish scholars. ie most noted of his books are od his ‘Biblical Concordance,” his ‘Hebrew ictionary” and his “Bibliography of Jewish Lit- erature.” He was an industrious werker, and he shone more by the great volume of his hterary labors than the depth and breadth of his researches. He was born in 1805, A proposition is made by Rev. E. John- son that a chair of Chinese language and litera- ture be established at Cambridge or at some lit- erary centre, in order to open civilization and Christendom to China. The prospects are that in ten years from now, if itis not so at present, the Chinese will know far more about us and onr civ- lization than we know about them and theirs. Rev. 8. B. Hyman, of Lisbon, has accepted a call to the Lutheran church at Clarence, lowa. Rev. G. W. Powell has accepted the call of the Unitarian church in Baltimore. Rev. J. W. Keyes, of Web- ster, goes to Auburn (N. Y.) Universalist church. Rev, W. H. Cudworth, of the Unitarian church, East Boston, has accepted a call to the ‘Third charch, Chicago, Ill. Rev. J. C. Kimball has re- ceived a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Unitarian chorch at kad dag lt I. Rev. J. H. Wiggin was installed last Sunday as pastor of the making progress in | Unitarian church at Marlborough, Mass. FORTY-! TH STREET SYNAGOGUE. A Memorial Service for Isracl’s Triumph Mr. Isaacs, in prefacing his discourse yesterday, Said that, as this day the books of the law had been taken out of the Ark andread, some of the young people might want to know the reason why- It 1s, said he, because this day is a Sabbath of me- morial, and the incidents connected with it relate to the coming of the chiidren of Israel out of Egypt-when they were attacked by Amalek, who tried to prevent their march to the Promised Lands ‘The natrative is found in Exodus, chapter xvil., to the eleventh verse, to which Mr. Isaacs called special attention. It reads as follows:—‘And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed.” Here, said the preacher, we may ask why did not THE LORD FIGHT FOR ISRAEL, as in other times, as, for justance, when they came out of Egypt and were at the Red Sea? Because the Israelites, when they crossed the Red Sea, had asked, ‘Is the Lordindeed among us?’ Hence the Lord would try them and prove them. And hence Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us out men and go out and fight with Amalck.”” God had commanded that even the memortal of Amalek should be blotted out from under heaven. In this chapter the Lord says He will blot out the remembrance of Amalek ; but in Deuteronomy, Xxv., Israel is commanded to blot itout, Why this change of ipngoaget Mr, Isaacs asked, Tho reason is that God wants human agency in the performance of His aie rpeses among men, is i8 to show us that in other cases The ed up of Moses’ at the people were to fight And hence while Moses prayed it Amalek. more just bel we must do our sy | hanas was in prayer; while he prayed. Joshua and Israel This bee o Amalek, for he was in a sense a relation of 1 He was the grandaog of Was in bondage Amaih* #¢med to be eatistied, but /"? OF EGYPT med to aoring x0 i Amalek'’s heart, rminea to oppor’ tus entrance ine stot with brecd“ad waipy ap be should an but with sword and battle. When weary that could nos 7 ands became he hold them up tie Aaron and Hur stayed thes up, andthe lites fought until the coun o a ee ee discomtited their ene- mies e the Lord told Moses a memortat if @ book and to rehearse them in the ears of Joshua and of all Israe), so that we at this day may know them and remember them. Because tne Lord hath sworn that He will have war with Amalek, the enemy of Israel, from feneration to generation. I ail agesit has been the pride and lory of Israel that they have acknowledged the ford ana have liiged up Mle ta unto Him, and they have al@ays trinmphed. in the Middle Ages, when they eae, * their prayers, they con- uered Cheir enemies: They have always had a oses and @ Joshua im the hour of their distress, They had the Maccabees Piyiow yg Kg of Greece aud Rome oppressed them; they have #& Monteflore now. But cach man should ask liunself new, Do I LAFT UP MY HANDS IN PRAVER? Or do we, said Mr. Isaacs, let Amalek prevail over us by our neglect to hold up the hands of our leaders and deliverers? Do you, he asked, ob- serve the Dec: ue as it ought to be observed? Don’t you break the moral law and negiect to lie up your handsin prayer? Here in this land you enjoy the manna of God every day. You exercise charity toward others, but you negiect yourselves. You violate the Sabbath day and your merchant princes, 80 to speak, set it at noughi. When Mosea went upinto the hilltopray it was not to get hearer to God, but to teach Israel that the Sabbath day is @ sacred institution of Isracl. Mr. Isaacs therefore hoped that alt who heard him—and the number was remarkably small—would lilt up tneir hands and their heerts to God and would seek to serve'and to pray to him. And he hoped that their wives and children and families would love and respect the Sabbath day more than they do, and not give’ their enemies such opportunities to tri- + umph over them. OBITUARY. Rev. BE. A. Thornton. Olergymen: are seldom the objects of carthip honor. They donot labor for it, and care little for anything beyond the faithful performance of their duties. They die, and the virtues they possessed are looked upon rather as part of their office’ than a8 qualities striven for with pain and exercised Im face of the strongest trials. When this rale is -vio- lated, and honor is spontaneously given to a clergy- man after death, the possession by him of extraor- dinary virtues is indicated. The death of the Rev. Father E, A. Thornton, of the Troy diocese, at New- port, N. Y., and the great reverence for him shown by the Catholics of Troy, calls out these remarks, Father Thornton was:a.comparatively young man, being only thirty-two years of age, yet, in the short. period of his life a@ a priest, he had won the love of every one into contact with whom his duties brought him. He had begun his labors in Troy by establishing a sympa- thy with his direct congregation, that spread with the report of his good deeds, until all the Cathelics. ofthe city felt for him the same regard as did hia own parishioners. He left no duty undone, but performed all with willing.grace. Of his many vir- tues, charity, that ‘chief among the blessed three,” was pre-eminent. So careless was he of his peou- niary welfare that at his-death he had nothing but his books, which he had-kept with the care of an. earnest scholar. All else he-had given to the poor. It is not strange, then, that nis funeral should have been made the opportunity for the expression of heartfelt love and admiration tor Father Thornton. Wher the news of his death was heard tn Troy the Catholic societies determined that his obseauies should as imposing as his life was grand in modesty ana virtues. His remains were brought in solemn: procession, in which the clergy, Uatholic societies and school cl took part, from the ealleey depot to St, "s churelt, on the 24th ult, e requiem high mass celebrated on the following morning was attended by an immense cengregation, and a large number of clergy, headed by the Right Rev. Bisbop McNeirny, were present, the aged and revered Father Havermans, who acted as celebrant of the mass, delivering the funeral sermon. His discourse Was mainly upon the character of the goed priest, of whom Father Thernton was the exemplification. The reverend father concluded thus:— It is a holy and a wholesome causo to pray for the deud that they may be relieved from their sins. We pray for Father Thornton and then every act of ours is re- red in Heaven. Th and laity Uke to pray for Father thoruton. Oh, beloved brethren sigh not’ Whos id after a lon, ration you teare Ufgrattude. Father Thornton isnot dead. Death does Not osseas any terrors for a mau unless he is not prepared Father Thornton is not dead: (ee lives. He is parated from that state from which all St. Paul said, “Idie every day.” We tal well of Father Thornton. May the Path upon him! May the Almighty God in heaven prayer offered up to heaven tor him! Amen. Alter the requiem mass the clergy and societies again formed in Bsn pear and escorted the re- mains of Father Thornton to a vault in St. Cemetery. The deceased was a brother of Mr. Michael J. Thornton, an old resident of this city. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. M. MovLini lation of Mr. C) AS 4 PROOF of the Christian love and good feel- ing of one religious journalist for another we quote the following charitable remarks from the London Church Herald :—“The 30th of January gave birth to a new literary contemporary styled the Broad Churchman. It contains little news, except certain spasmodic scraps, eminently stale and singularly uninteresting. It contains thirty-two pages and its price is sixpence. It reminds us of what the Yankees call ‘the blazing blandishments of beautified botherations’—just as verbosely splen- did and equally intelligible. But certaimly far toe cheap at sixpence.” EDWARD WALFORD, who wrote a genealogical work on the “Country Families of England,” ts about to bring out a new book, “Tales of Our Great. Families.”” Dr. JoHN H. NEWMAN’s “Historical Sketches,” Just issued, are full of the exquisite ease and grace of style which distinguishes his sermons. THE CLEVER BIBLIOGRAPHER, M. Gustave Brunet, who is by no means to be confounded with his namesake, the author of the “Manuel du Libraire,'® has just edited “‘Les Livres a 6lefs,"’ which forma the complement of the Posthumous Works of J. M. Quérard. Everybody in Paris knew well that in- quisitive literary detective, who, having fairly caught his man by the buttonhole, would never let him escape before having screwed out of him ull he possibly knew, conjectured or suspected about hia literary friends. _.@HE Atheneum is not disposed to. accept Mra. Leonowens’ second book, “The Romance of Harem Life,” without extensive grains of salt. It saya that the author “has either been crammed by goa- sipping inventors of marvellous tales, or has, from self-interested motives, put together a sensational work.” It prefers the former alternative. M. Prapgy’s “Nouvelles Etudes sur le Brésil,’” just out at Paris, contains a vigorous attack om Brazilian slavery. MR. FREDERICK BOYLE’s book, ‘To the Cape for Diamonds,” is the fullest of information of any yet published on the African gold fields. ‘Tux Spectator thinks Mr. E. E. Hale’s stories, “Bis Level Best,” &c., are 80 original that they will not be easily forgotten by the average reader. THE Atheneum, which is every year devoting more space to its notices and criticisms of Ameri- can books, finds in. Mr. John Fiske’s “Myths and Myth-Makers” a book which is at onco sensible and attractive. THREE NEWSPAPERS are now published in the Lettish language, one of them being at Rigs. DICKENS narrowly escaped being @ great actor. Thus he tells the story in the last volume of Fors- ter’s Life :— See how oddly things come about! When I was about twenty I wrote to Bartley, who was stage manager at Covent Garden, and told him how young I was and exactly whatI thought I could do, and that [beleved 1 hada strong perception of character and oddity, and a natural power of re- producing in my own person whatI observed in others, nore must have been something in the letter that struck the authorities; for Bartley wrote to me almost immediately to say that they were busy getting up the “Hunchback,” and that they would communicate with me again, I made a great splash in the gallery (House of Common: soon afterwards; the Chronicle opened to me; had a distinction tn the little world of the news. paper, which made me like it; began to write; didn’t want money; had never thought ol the stage but as & means of getting it; gradually left of turning my thoughts that way, and never resumed the idea, See low near | may have been to another sort of life. This was at the time when I was at Doctor's Commons as a short- hand writer. It wasn’t a very good living, and was wearily uncertain, which made me think of the theatre in quite a business like way. I went to some theatre every night, with a very few ex- ceptions, for at least three years, really aves the pills first and going to' where there was best acting, and always to see Mathews whenever he played. 1 practised immensely, often four, five, six hofrs a day, shut up in my toom, or wall about in the fields, I prescribed to myself, sort of Hamiltonian pyatemn tor foaruing’ peta, i learned 4 great ngmber.*