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a TGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. CONTINUED FROM TWELFTH PAGE. tated toan extent unheard of before in Mexico, and there is every prospect that several denomt- nations will have their representations well estab- ushed ere long. Among the late arrivals of those who have come for a permanent residence are Dr. Butler, of *he Methodist Church, and iis family; Mr, Matchimson, Presbyterian; Dr. Vooper, of the Episcopal Church (ef Chi- 1); others will seon follow, In this connec- ‘ion i may note the action ef the Mexican sovernment in various localittes in enforciug the jaws concerning the clergy, which laws Were enacted te break up the inflnence of Roman Catholicism, In this ¢ity Antonie Muiloz was ar- rested and imprisoned for appearing in the street ta ecclesiastical robes. overnor of the State of Guervero has teepceee. dines upon various persons in the district of Hidaigo for leading through the sireets religious proeessions, He is also enlorcing the law regarding the Hinging of church bells, On the ether Isee that a Protestant congrega- don in San Louis Potosi has just beem mobbed, and I hear that amother has peen broken up at Toluca by zealous anti-Protestants, Cetholicity in Brookiyn—A Parish of Rapid Growth—The Church of the Nativity. As an evidence of the wonderful growth of vatholicity in the City of Churches it 1s worthy of note that St. James’ church (now the Cathedral), ou Jay street, was the oniy house of worship ef that creed in 1826, Forty-six years ago there were not mere than & thousand Catholics in Brooklyn. To-day there are upwards ef forty-three thousand Catho- lics and thirty-six separate and afstinct churches and chapeis within the limits of that city. ‘On Sunday last, the first anniversary of the in- auguration of the thirty-seeond parish, the Church. of the Nativity, the Key. Father M, Moran teok cecasion te congratulate bis Mock upon the success which has met their labors of the past twet menthe. ‘This parish, which 1s bounded by Lafay- elte, Nostrand, Clason, Fulton and Grand avenues und Madison and Bergen streets, embraces within itg confines one ofthe most beautiful sections of the city for private residence. Theparisnioners num- ver 2,000 souls. On the 17th of March, 1872, the work of erecting a building to be used until their increased revenue will admit of censtructing a church was commenced, ‘The structure, which 18 intended to serve as @ schoolhouse in the future, is built of Philadelphia brick and Dor- vhester stone, and, fitted out as It now is, with re- fined regard to neatness ana comfort, is naturaliy a source of pride to pastor and teen alike. It is of the modern Gothic order of architecture, and has a frontage on Madison street or 49 leet, running back 120 feet. The corner stone ef the present edi- tice was laid May 19, and the dedication tuok place uctober 20, There are sittings for 600, and every seat islet. The cost of the building was $25,000, A cenference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society has been established in the Parish, and one of the best volantecr choirs in the city graces the pious efforts of the congregation of this church. ‘Te choir is under the accomplished leadership of Mrs, Wiliam M, Adams. The Curistian Union “Shooting in the Dark.” To THE Eprror OF THR WeRALD:— I beg space for a few remarks concerning the fol- lowing paragraphs in a late issue of Beecher’s Christian Union :— What is the secret of the success of the Roman Catho- ties in the training and education of their children, so that each and ail or them become obedient to the faiih of their fathers? Cannot we, Protestants, learn some- thing from them in regard to our children? The secret of the success of Roman Catholic education isa very open one. ‘They train their children to believe that it fea sim to think independently on, religious ques. dons. We, Protestants, can learn from them not w rear our children to any such stagnation. Let us take the last three sentences—a specimen, to say the least, ef bigoted impertinence—and shake them up alittle, Who ever Beard of “open secrets? What is “very open” cannot be secret. What is it “to think independentiy? It either means to think as you choose or it means nothivg. No one, save @ fool, ts at liberty to think as he pleases. Ican no more think as I cheose than act asIchoose. Am I free te think that two and two do not muke four? Yet this is but # natural truth, In religious matters Catuolics teach their cn dren the trath; and these tender minds firmly be- tieve when they see and are convinced that the divine truths of faith rest on a move firm basis than any other. In regard to truth there is no such thing as to “think independently; freedom of thought such @ matter is simply nonsense, an absurdity. The mind finds its happiness aud its independence in believing. Every good Catholic brings up ls child in the way of truth, and if the christian Onion would have its little Ones go sume etier «road that’s its own business. None so blind us these who will not see, Whe is this man that charges the Catholic Church wits educating her sons in “stagnation t* What are bis abilities to sit on sucu a weighty question ¥ Iwill not presume tu determine, hut, judging from bis language, I cannot refrain irom concluding that he 1s a sot disantigneramus in 60 jar as his Knowledge of the Cathoi hurch goes, Would Leivnitz or Macauiay have talked about “atagnation” if asked such a question’ I pity tue stunted mind tnat is unabie to distinguish vet ween * Cathelic education and “stagnation.”’ The most profound tltinkers and gigantic intel- lects of the last nineteen hundred years were edu- cated in our grand oid church, The greatest min’s of to-day are in the Catliolic Church, And the Christian Union knows this and dares not deny it. But by what precess were ttese men, wio were educated in “stagnation,” transiormed into such lights? Gladly would 1 hear the cAristian Union explain this imstter consistently with Its doctrine of ‘‘stagnation.”’ If this were the place, I could easily show at greater length that this idea aboot “stagnation” in Catholic education is @ mytu that never tad any existence, save in the dark, “stagnant” cranium of the writer in the Christian Union, and others oi Dis stamp. J. OK, MURRAY, BRooKLYN, March 29, 1873. The Exposures of Mediums. To THe Epivor of THR HeRaLo:— Is there no love of truth and fairness in the New York press while treating of Spiritualism? The HeraLp has seemed most fair in giving all sides of questions, so 1 have appealed toit. I the papers must have sensations why not attempt to Slaughter some cause that is @ little less sacred than the only one which pretends to give facts in proof of the goul’s immortality? Lately the Sun and still latef the World, have attempted to ex- pose eur principal mediums and show that they are ali frawds, and although their correspondeuts have skiliully perverted facts to guit their pre- judices, the Zimes has seemed to believe tiem and comes out editorially, signifying that mediums are imposters aud spiritualists a set of dupes who cannot see into deception excepting when others show it to them, The stupidity of this {nsult may be seen when it is remembered that many ef the most eminent men of science and ietiers of the day, many Of the greatest geniuses of all nges, aud all the men- arcis of Europe adit the facts of Spirituausm and entertaiut spiritual modus, ‘fhe seven “gold brokers” aud otiers, Who went ou to get ap a sensation lox tue World, by tearing down characters which ave precious td thousands, say they have “urieuds and relatives,” Who, since they have become spirttuaiists, bave been “ol Litue or no Tanto use to themseives or any body eise,”’ Gnd thet a desire to rid these people of a “dciu- sion” exercised a controling Inflaence upon them, Jdo not Wish te be persoual, but tt is not a good omen for them to have “friends and relatives” #0 tulerior a8 to be lojured by the bewutiiul acts of spirit communion, and, moreover, it Would have leoked better Wf they had possessed @ soprome sue to ascertain ihe truih with relerenee to ese mediuins, instead oi -having such & deter. eect to put them down lor tue goud of ticse riends, But muititudes almost too great ty uwal- bev have received bouelts from Spiritualism—liave been convinced oO: the soul's iumortality and giort~ ous destiny—have been cured of what were pro- nounced incurable diseases by ail other metieds and lave had the fear of death completely disal- aeons the monarchs of Kurepe are aiso sulil- iently advanced to see the benefits of Spiritualism ; for the freeing of tie twenty million serfs of Russia aud the great mevements for religious literty tu Austria aud Italy were brougit about through the bated mediuius, Bat what have these “seven wen Of the world done?’ Have they loved truth as did the emineut savant, Professor Hare, who proved this matter through all kinds of ma- chinery and experimentation ier years, threugh Medining, until he Was converted from his ataeism t Mave they equated Judge kdmonds, wi mace this gpent subject @ specisi study of over two years before he. deci ea t ve they imitated tie “Dia- leclical Society,’ which includes many of the great- est scientists of England, and which, alter forty meetings for investigation Of the subject, decided that there was a power mauifested apart from ull visible forces, and one which exhibited % nee?’ No; they are not that sort of men, ve manifested great ignorance oi the philosophy of mediumship to sturt with, which they might have remedied if they had read Mr. Hazard’s trea- tiseon the same. ‘This is wiat they have done, : Firsi—They have perverted the truth with re- gard tw Drs, Slade, usield, &c., by pretending 0 do all that they cau do, while they in reali eotihteriett enly the poorest part of what hundreds o1 the sharpest and most intelligent men in the country have seen these same meaiums do. Thus let @ stranger bring them a doubie slate of his own, place it om an uncovered table in daylight, piace 4 smaji pencil inside if, Cause the small pen- il to write by itself so that every stroke is heard, ina then on opening it Gnd a message written in English or Freneh, and reli @ name of a de- parted friend ‘this will be truly imitating ono Oi Siade’s dificult features, Further, I heid in py pocket » lope slip Of Paper, QB one end of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ., which I wrote a tion, and then after folding it ten times 50 et'ne Mortal eye could read it, handed it te Dr, Mansfield, who answered it im- mediate’ and gave several names of depurted friends that no one in New York, himself included, a ‘dof, Multitudes have ences, and fourteen languages have been written through hishand. Butlhave not space here to notice the slashing remarks about others, espe- cially Foster, wiom they admitted that they. had not Seen at all. Second—These brokers and merchants, who, from cand avocation, should understand the money ad. equal experi- mark Ler than the subtle laws of mind, have after thy brief investigations attempted to settle what scientists require years for, by blackening the characters of several much esicemed men, and have weunded the feelings of thousands who understand this subject tar better than they. They are Welcome to their reward, ED, B Beccher on Capital Pw To Tae Eprror oF tHe HERALD: Having often heard the remark made by Chris- tians of higitt standing that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was in the habit of spreading error broad- cast ina very palatable manner among the flock over which he presides Iwas determined to judge for myself when occasion. offered. I am nota member of his congregation, neither have I ever seen him except ia a Broadway studio, My con clusion (having studied Lavater for some years), shment. on looking at the picture, was that he was not .o bad man, but that he had*% @ gocd dash of the world, the flesh, and the other Ishall leave for some one else to fill in, Bat what drew him visibly to notice was that there was a sketch oj a sermon de- livered last Sunday in which Mr. Beecher de- nounced in strong terms - against capital punish- ment. He sald that it was a thing only lawil under the Mosaic dispensation. But did not Christ, under the new dispensation, dic by capital Fetch Were there not, also, two men who ied beside him—they receiving the due reward ef their deeds? May they not, like Foster, have leit Wwaling fathers, mothers, wives or chilaven? tt looks so terrible, to be sure, that (to use the expression of of another preacher we would not wish to see even a dog suffer 80; but yetit was done and Christ did not say nay to it, but extended his mercy in releasing oue of them from the death that never dies, No hamane per- sen likes to behold suifering under any circum- stances, Mr. Beecher feels for Foster hung by rope. What about Putnam’s poor head? He feels for Foster's family, What about Putnum’s widow and child, He says State Prison lor forty years. Bah! the doomed man weuld have been squeezed out before ten—nay, five years—had rolled away. There would be petitions to soft-headed Judges made soiter by the all-prevailing influence of the almighty dollar. I am proud to see an Amer- ican ior ence able to resis: all the schemes (spirl- tualism meluded) which were forced on him; but he did not flinch from duty, and 1 trust Governor Dix will in ail things do what is just and right even though human nature in himself and others may try to gain the mastery. I think if Mr. Beecher would preach on the capital punishment inflicted on the two thieves reierred to, and, remember, under. the Gospel dispensation, be would be the means of reinting the gross error he has, perhaps, unwitiingly prounigatea, A READER OF THE HERALD, The Temporal Power of the Pops. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Tread in the Heap of Sunday last the article entitled “Pius IX, and His Enemies,” in which were reported some of the sentiments lately ex- pressed in Brooklyn by Rev. Father Garseche at a lecture lately delivered by him on Pope Pins IX. and hisenemies. It is much to be regretted that a mes- senger of peace and brotherly love, in order to charm his audieuce with dazzling display of ora- tory and to defend the old political question of the temporal power of the Pope, would with the most absurd fictions so far derogute from his sacerdotal mission by inveighing against Garibaldi, Cavour, Victor Emmanuel and tne so-called “intdel horde’? who eccupied Rome. Can the rever- end orator produce a single example to prove his statements? Can ne give a single proof that Garibaldi, who is by all nations esteemed for his honesty and patri ism, hus ever committed a robvery ora deed serving censure? Why shouid he designate as “wily potitical intriguer’ Cavour, who is justiy considered as one ef the first statesmen oi this centary? The story about Pius IX. being impris- ovued at the Vatican is too old and staie to be brought forward again, a6 it has long since been proved that the Pope has never been insulted, and neither the jtaiians nor their goverument have had anything to do with his Voluntary impris- onment. Where and when has ‘the iniidel hord.” robbed, despoiled churches, &c.? Can the reverend Father produce a single instance to corroborate hs saying, as tie American opie Ought not to be humbugged by fables? Ir futher Gatseoke was well ‘posied iu history he would huve known that im their political acts Church dignitaries have been of all men most am- bitious, cruel and Violent, and that religious super- ries bound people fighter tuan fetters ef despotisin. Vhe so-called hypocritical protestatious of fidelity of Victor Emmanuel have served in Rome tue numerous phalanx of priests and monks, as the majority of Itatiau people woul! not have been so lenieut toward them, Why should Father G: secu, in this enligutened country, raise his voice in favor of a blood-thirsty Prince, who is inciting in Spain a iratricidal war and sustatuing the prin- ciples of divine right mn kings in the nineteenth century? Why does not the defender of tem- poral power say that he would wish to implant in Italy the bauner of discord, and, as in Spain, have brethren fighting against brethren? Wiy does he not also say that the iuquisitien 1s neces- sary to compel the majority ‘oi the American iuddels’” to submit to the yoke of Popery? The unity of Italy ig an accouplished fact, and the discussions or protests of pettifoggers will never briug back a form of government hated by 2 of Italians. The unity of Italy has becn dr of by Pius (X., and the jollowing message, sent by the Pope to the Emperor of Austria in 1848, will tell more than Father Garvecie'’s rhetorical wanderings. We hope that the German nation, so generously proud 0: her nationality, witi not place her honor m bloody at- tempts agaiust the itelian matioa, but she will raiher think it to be her interest to acknowledge the latter aa her risier, bDoit being our dauyuters, boch dear lo our heart, consenting to inhabit cach hor natural territory, where they will live an honorable lie aud be blessed by the Lord. So spoke Pius 1X. The spirit of concord, which inspired this patriotic appeal of the Pope, made bun then @ statesman, bis appeal opened fer a mo- ment before tie Papacy an, opportunity important and glorious. But Plus . Was compelled to set aside fis patriotisin, and to yield to the hegre of the Jesuits and to se Of the clergy who, iustead of the kingdom of heaven preier the kingdow on earth. AN LIALIAN. The Herald on Pope Pins IX. and the Temporal Power, To THE EpiroR oF THE HERALD :— All Roman Catholics notice with pain that you never miss an upportunity to use sawall satire, im- proper reflections and the logic of sacrilege against | the venerable Pius 1X., for the stand he takes on the pillaged temporal power of the Church. jolt is @ thing of no little consequence, because, as you have @ million of readers, ana as your English is always terse and Clear, you neces. sarily delude aud poison with misconception and malice a great many intellects and hearts against the vicar of Him who redeemed mankind. Your latest wrong lu this respect was committed.on the 10th instant. You then put into the middle of a patronizing articie, entitled “The Pope Still Ls nepal the fulowmg advice and coudemua- LOL — ‘We have often in thers columns tried to show that the fall of the temporal power did not nifect the welfare or Prosperity of the Uhurch. The Church is, or #& least Ougit co be, a spiritual institution. The temporaliies have been a hindrauee to the Church rather than other fan Puy that the Hely Father voos nut see it a this ran The argument here is:—It is a crime for the Chureh, Which, “at least ought to be a spiritual in- stitution,” to bave a temporal power, ier ‘the temporulitics have been a hindrance to the Uburch rather than otherwise.” But the Cvurch is unt versal. Victor Eminanuel, therefore, in overthrow- hed the temporal powe: has doue a vast service to ye Church aud to all the human race, and, conse- wentiy, the Pope, for the staud he takes ugaimst iat Kimg is nothing but a fooi and a criminal, who at any moment may be bamished, imprisoned or ve- headed. ‘Its is your argument jairly drawn out, It i6 all untrue, aud certainly it ts fall of tyranny and quite surcharged will biood, And it is n an eriginal greund to assume, The Church hi often oiled under its operation, It has made many » Pope @ fagitive, & captive and a martyr. Henry , of Germany, Frederick Darbaressa, Frederick U.; Manired the Bastard, and many Others bad it for the guiding star of their san- fons aa lives. Such, sit, are the rapacious and 2 ory sources of r argument. In using it you come the abettor of the greatest monsters tn the annals of Christendom, Lbave called your argument untrue. It is so frem end to end. Ye Against you, _ the voice of the Church herséli, is she not a better judge than you on the point whether tempovalities are ood for her or not? Certainly sie is. She has ived fer 1,900 years. Wer mind ts never asicep, her heart never still. She has allexperience. As- euredly such an institution is a better criterion of evidence on the question of her own use of tem- poralities than the New YORK HERALD, great Journal though that paper undoubtedly may be. You can ® excellent advice to Ott Fathers, i General m4 ;. Dix and the bn 4 lature, to General Grant and Congress; it you have no wisdom elther from your endownents or from, 1our studies or irom yonr protession which Uatholic Church can accept. You may as well offer light to the son or water to the d as advice to ie, Rome has her own Intell She never needs and she never takes the ofany other. And time, though sometimes pain- fully slow in Its movements, always at last proves Rome to be right, [t is dlain. there: Mr, Editor, that by the Church ys a true judge in the case, your argument is all untrue, ‘And nom, wil at the opefation now, ‘ou look ying elie garg rie med ag Eo mang tf. eficial, a tion? Let the robberies committed by Emmanuel on everything dear to the Churoh in that city answer. ft goot for in and women closed and contiscated ? 1s good for the Charch te find her rei aappreenes ? Is it good tor the Chure! priest to have her Bi ation in the exercise of their functions? Is it good for the Church to have her seminaries sub- ject to military conscription? Is it good for the Church to have a plot made for the contest of the election of the next Pope f Is 1t good fortne Church to have her illustrious head a@ prisoner in the Vati- can? Sir, t} are fair questions; you know that they are fair, It is easy thousand interrogations of equal import. No one can into doubt the truth of what they imply. Darkness proves that the sun has bo ture of these F; ‘totor | well eet on loot J wi the ceaees to have her colleges and her monaste- | part of the us orders | The people joint exposed to insult and apprehensive of as- | congregational unison will, no doubt, to put out a | popularity o! Bach's ideal and making tho service as satisfacto: in @ devotional as in an pag ell gl of view. shortened version of The Pi », according to St. John, in piace of the anthem, is {he chiel lea- oventag services in Lent, 50 Vanon Wade. ‘The tenor recita- were magnificently given by the rectors son, while the Saviour, allotted to a basa voice, with care, but with less fervor. well in tue chorales, though as they become more accustomed to the services the i gon ne become more mong most imp! ive tions oO: tho. music were the recitatives di oriblog the de- livery oi Christ to the Jews by Pilate, the unsteady hrases detailing the convulsion of nature when ‘he Saviour died, with the effective accompani- ment, “While His Partiag Spirit Sighs.” The long line of carriages in Wardour street testified to the these services among the educated ¢lussea, but it was satiafactory to notice a large number of the poor o: the densely-crowded neigh- borhood around the church present, with evident gone down, So do these questions make it certain | enjoyment o/ tue service. that the act of the Piedmontese invaler operates, not well, but with an unchained spirit of Satanic felony. So much on the operauion. It is incompre- hensible that the HekaLd should defend it, The act is a gratification to bigets, to the ignorant a de- Iusion, to the judicious a regret, to God—the erred of the Church—an outrage, an insu New Church of the Disciples~The Ediiice To Be Dedicated on the First Sunday in April—Largest Audicnce Room in the United States. toall Catholics | on the 19% of January, 1872, Rev. George -H. Hep- sult. Mr. Editor, the Catholic Church needs her tempo- | Worth resigned the pastorate of the Church of the ral power, She is not a chameieon that cau tive upon the atmosphere; but she is a reai thing, largely under human management, for all tie human race, and, therefore, sudjest in the greatest degree to material things. To slay—to extirpate her is impossible—-to bind her hands—Jor she has hands—has been oiten done; and one of the surest ways for forging irons on her wrists, as well as for filling her heart with penetrating cries of anguish to the Almighty, is to strip her of her temporal rights. She made those rights by her divine genius, by her divine virtues. to meet her divine duties, and with the benediction of Heaven and of all tho nations of Eunope. Not an acre did she acquire by rapacity, not @ district did she administer with fraud. ‘The greatness of the Italian kingdom is a very good thing. But by what right should the Church of God be pillaged of her time-honored, greatly needed possessions for the interest of sucit agreatness? ‘The right of the burglar to the mer- chants’ goods; the right of the highwayman to tie traveller's purse; the right of the Lavader to jands: not his own. There is no other rigut for it. You will say that a plcbiscitum has justified Victor Emmanuel. No troe pléviseitum aid such a thing; and i it did, the rights of the Church would suil be unbroken. The Church did not get her temporal rights from a plébisertum, She acquired them by her own good hands. A pldbtsctcum ts a human thing. It, therefore, must he founded on eternal justice; otherwise all its plansand deeds are out of Jaw and inspired by crime. The late rebellion was a vast plébiscitum; tt hadethe dimensions 0! a sea, the strength of an ovean, the Warmest jiopes aud the finest valor in the world; half the tropical sul gave it light and magnificence, Did these gran attributes justify it? Let the tivers of blood that quenched it answer the dreadful question, So it must be with the temporal rights of the Church. ‘They rest on the pillars of sacred justice; they are breathed on by the Creator Himself; they fave bevedited Christendom. No picvisvituin can have Tight above such lofty rights. The Churel, in her long experience, lias touad them to be good, In her injallible judgment she deciares them ne- cessary. By her inspired voice she says they are sacred, They make the ground firm under her Jeet; they keep shackles away from her wrists; they give her the reyal independence to which by grace she was bound. They are imalienable and can never be surrendered, They are under the Weight of invasion now. But they are the property of an immortal claimant; they are the beloved treasure of an imperishable Church and thew abey- ance is only ior atime, A Saladin took the tae cross-—a Godirey, of Bouilon, revained it, So with these rights. Infidelity and sacrilege have solzed them, but they will be met again. The purposes and hopes of the Holy See are never bailed for ever, Our glowing itoly Vather may not sce tins triumph in the flesh, and may Heaven forefoud that he shouid not; but he sees it in hope and he de- clares it with prophecy, and his hope and his prophecy are not from carth but from Him whose cag he is and, thereigre, tt is rativpal to believe hem, Mr. Editor, you are standing on the side of wrong; yon are taking part with rapine; you aro abetting sacrilege. You are doing 50, not, per- haps, trom direct malice, but certainly trom con- stant untairness, and, without any doubt, witi mischievons results, There are ten millions of holies in the United States. They make you champion of their Pope; as you frequently discuss iis highest interests, ib 13 natural for them to be indignant when they that you always carry en the discussion with cided hostiiity, You have a million of readers, and | on this subject you poison many. And for what elevated purpose are you thus enlisted? For or Victor Emmanuel! A great and aaracter—worthy of tie adiniration of | ca! He ix the father of ninety vastards, she er of more than eighty young women. Such is the monster Dix, Bryant, Beecher and others greeted tw years ago for entering the cily ef the martyrs. Such is the monster the NeW YORK HERALD upholds day after day, Assurediy it would ~ mere noble to stand by tue veneravie Vicar of Christ than by #0 enormous a brute. JAMES M. SPELLISSY. New York, March 14, 197* The Invasion of Our Charehes “Mammon,” YO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: Will you kindly periit us, through your inde- pendent cotamas, to present to tue pubdiic mind the following queries?—When John the Baptist sent his disciples to inquire of Jesus, @*Art thou he | that shoud comet or do we look fur anotuer ¢” | the response was, “Go and tell John what things ye | have seen and heard,” thereby making these evi- | dences the criterion by which he must form his | conclusions as to whether Jesus was the Christ or | not. And we notice that Jesus gavg to Joha no | definite answer, but lest it with his own judzment to decide the question by the evidence of Wuat was “seen and heard.” Suppose that in lieu of one of the evidences then given—viz., “To the peor the Gospel ls preacuea”— had been substituted this, “The seats around God's table are put up to the highest bidder; and they that have the most money may have the Gospel preached to them. And 60 may aise the poor, by sactilicing their self-respect an ing as beggars aud trespassers upon other men's purchased and paid-tor property.” With such 4 statement brought to him, through the merits of which he must jorm jus conclusions, What think you would have been the decision to which Joa would have arrived? Dees not this criterion, then, given by Jesus’ own lips, still huld gooay Must we not still judge by What is “heard and seeu” whether the Christ be present or absent? And may We not justiy con- clude that @ large majority of thinking men and women who do not go to church on account of tie env: mous price of Gospel privileges are iniiucneed by conscientious motives and aa assumption tliat money is not the “one — thin, neodsul” whereby to, gain access to “God's Bread of Lier’ Among ali the invasions of our people vy ‘Mammon there are none to be so deeply de- by | being cnietly Messiah, on Thirty-fourth street, having an- nounced to the congregation that he could no longer conscientiously preach the doctrines of the Unitarian denomination, He had held most ac- ceptably the position for along time, and when his determination became known it naturally caused some excitement in religious circles. Rey. Mr. Hepworth parted from his people with the best feelings, but it appeared that about one-half of the members of the church resolved to follow their pastor and adopt the new views he entertained on the subject of Ohristianity. ‘he seceding portion of the con- grogation immediately held a meeting, when it was resolved to build a new and elegant church without delay. Their labora are now within a few daya of being crowned with success. Meantime Mr. Hepworth commenced holding services in Steinway Hall, which have been attended by large congregations up to the present date, THE NEW MOVEMEN’ The new movement recognized that all denomi- nations are growing mto closer aMliation with each other; that people see plainly that the forms of any creed, however true in themselves, are of Jess importance than the possession of @ pure Christian spirit, and that it is necessary to have an assured veliet in fundamental truths and to stand on evangelical grounds. Lt is sull more impor- tant, it was held, to find means by which these truths can be made to act on the hearts and lives of mon. Mr. Uspworth and his flock proposed tu solve this problem and made an appeal to all good men and women to enite in an onsectartan movement—ene which respects the rights of pri- vate judgment in minor mutters, while it does its utmost to kindle a religious enthusiasm in this mmunity, Ceasing to be Unitarians, they asked A this end in view, the co-operation of all Chris- f Christ, the simiuin human race and tie regenerating effects of the Holy Ghost, and espe- cially of these who are willing to labor for hum: salvation, 5! co-operation was earnestly invit to cnable the seciety to form a church to be known of the Disciples, the spirit of which shall be to bring men and women in this great city to a better understanding of their duty to God and their neighbor. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. The necessary funds were soou collected, but some delay took place in consequence of the time vessary to find a suitable site for the proposed ron. ‘Lhe fori of government is cougregational, bat persons of ail denominations are ¢ligibie to membership. Its ritual, tenets and general man- agemeut are under the control of the pastor and membeis, i cl SITR OF THE CHURCH. The trustees, aiter considerable deliberation, se- evred a lot at the corner of Madison avenue and Forty-iilth street, 126 feet by 126 fect, as a site fer the church. The framework commenced early in August, and i¢ bas been prosecuted with ener; up to the present time. It ia expected that tue edifice will be dedicated on the first Sunday in April. It las, the largest audience room of any building in the United States. it will seat coinfortably 2,200 people. The building 1s con- structed of brick iron, the latter material he walla are brick, but as thoy are cov ith iron it cannot be seen, The #iyle ol architecture is German Gethic, THE FRONT RLEVATION is broken up into three divisions, surmounted by Bix towers. ‘the centre division, 34 teet front, has an ornamental gable, crowned by a large cross, Toere 18 « rosette, 12 ieet in diameter, and at eavir of the fowr corners smatier windows of a similar description. Underneath is cut the words, “Onurch of the Disciples.” The other two divisions, re- Leved by ivy are each 45 fect front and e@ deevly recessed arched doorways, 1 i wide. Over . these doors is respectively the inseriptions, “‘Knter the House of the Lord with Heliness” aud “Praise Waiteth jor Thee, O Ged, in Zion,” Above tuere 18 elab- orated iron work, foliated leaves, flowers, &c, The towers stand out prominently from the building, quare, Two of these, which add effect to the gable, are 70 feet high, and the four Othersin front wie cach 60 feet high. The frout Oa Forty-iilth street closely follows the elevation on the avenue, ‘there are on this side four towers (making ten tn all) and two entrances, The ex- torter, painted a light drab, and with so many towers and general ornamentation the building has a decidedly moresque appearance. The root is high pitched over ceiling and covered with slate. Above rises a doie, 40 feet high for the pur- poses of ventilation. Tif INTERIOR, * There are no galleries or pillars, thus giving to the interior a most imposing aspect. Tho entire arrangements are to be made subservient to cheer- fulness and comfort. These objects are the main ieature of the church, The walls are to be painted @ light drab touched with gold; the mouldings and decorations willbe white and geld. The congre- | gation are to be seated on an inclined floor de- scending six feet in ninety feet, so that persans at a distance from the desk can see as weil as these athand. There aro ten atsles which radiate from the platform; the shape of the audience room is a semicircle, which has proved itself to be best adapted for acoustic properties in a large ball. SITTING ACCOMMODATIONS. The pews are of ail sizes, accommodating from four to seven, and will be handsomely cushioned, The coiling inside, of corrugated iron, is flat and 40 feet high; its span is 114 feet. The dome, in the Ovntre for ventilation, is hid from view by a centre dece, 16 feet in diameter, and is provided with 16 rap doors which can be opened and closed at jevsure, Tho church will be iighted during even- ing services by One large 10 foot reflector with 200 burners, and four smaller ones, with 100 lights | each. There is a full basement, under tne front, 40 | feet by 125 feet, tntended for # lecture room, Sun- day sciivol, Kitchen, &c, The entire cost of the cornices, plored as its invasion of our churches. That the spirit of money here also bears sway 1s a fact so startling that it sheuld engage the attention of every tiinkiug and earnest person. Tirgugh how many of our churches is God's voice now heard saying to bis children, ‘Lio, every one tat thirstetn, come ye to the waters, and he that hath ne money; come ye, buy aud eat; yes come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price ** And when {instead thereof the voice of the crier is heard putting up the seats around God's table vw the vighest bidders should we uot ask With emphasis, “1s lis the spirit of Christ) 14 this in wecordance with the teaching and cxample of our Great Leader, who declared, ‘Ye caunot serve both Vod aud Mammon.’ ISABELLA B, LANGSTON. bis nearltcanc Bucks county, Pa., ddureh 14, 187 The Russian Church in Japan, The Cronstadt Gazelle notices the spreading ot the Russian orthodox creed in Japan. A foriner bonze, Paul Sarvate, is one Of its invat acto apostics, In Hakodadi there is @ Russian ciuurch in which divine service is held in Japanese. The | Bishop of Kamschatka received during his presence in Hakodadi ninety-tive pregee He the com- munion of the Church, and 600 pérsons demanded baptism. As the law, promnigated two hundred yeurs ago, which forbids the embracing .@L.Chris- tianity by natives is not yet abolished, the govern. | ment of Japan has some time siuce tukon | meesnres against tie neophytes, imprisened all catechists, and dismissed all oiiicials Whe had be- cone Curistians. In Nipon, which is situated in the, te Europeans, inaccessible district of Sendai, | 120 Christians were brought betore the Courts. | Notwithstanding these persecutio.us the spread of Christianity, especially of the Russian cemmuuion, 18 continueasiy increasing in Japan, Lo tue ener- Rese 8 ol the Russian Consul at Hakodadi it | due that the Japanese governinent nas restored to It the imprisoned Christians, wad Will kences | forth Japan e@ no action inst the com verted by the Russian Services im the English Church, A London journal of the 10th of March reports a8 follows :— On Friday evening his Lordship the Bishop of | London sanctioned tue semewhat novel but inress- ingly ular form Of service, the Passion UsIC, by preaching at St. Anne’s, Soho. Re! in a touching sermon on our Saviour’s looking oh st. Peter, to the great power which tue wonderful mu- sical picture of tue Passion is calculated to exert, he earnestly asked all who listened te the ‘io to remember that as each scene passed them the eye of Christ was fixed upon them, Tho church was completely filled, and the behavior pf the people was quite ni fort a At St. Anne's the congregation Were invited to Joa in them. thus more completeyy Teallziug building ts estimated at $125,000, Ministerlal Movements, PARSBYTERIAN, During the coming season the Old Presbyterian church (Kev, Dr. Baichi@, on Bridge street, Georgetown, D. C., will be torn down and a hand- some new church erected in its stead, on the site of the present chapel used by that congregation, on West, near Congress street. The new church ‘will coat $23,000, and will be furnished in time for oceupancy next fall, The Presbyterians, not satis- fled with their Church financial system, nave adopted the plan of estimating and declaring at each meeting of the General Assembly the amounts to be contributed during the coming year for the benevolent work of the Church, and then requiring the lower judicatories to see the plan carried cut. The Herald and Presvyter objocis to this method ag anscriptural, since the gospel plan is for each one io determine for himselt how much be wiil give, Rev. Dr. Vincent, of ‘Troy, is to succeed Dr. Pren- tiss as pastor of the Church of the Cevenant in this city. Rev. W. H. Millis, late of St. Joseph, Mo., has accepted acall to the Firat Presbyterian church at Warrensburg, Mo, Rev. Mr. Woous, a student at Union Theological Seminary, is to take charge of the Second Presbyterian church at Norfolk. The congregation of Lebanon church, Rock- bridge county, Va., expect to dedicate ther new church building eariy in April. Rov. N. P. Quarterman, of Savannah, Ga., bas accepted a call to the pastorate of the church at Thomasville, made vacant by the removal of tie Rey. A. W. Clisby to Macon. Rev. J. 8. Wilson, D. D., pastor of ‘the First Presbyterian church of Atianta, Ga., was eiricken With paralysis @ few days since, At last accounts he was slowly improving. ‘The{Pirst Pres. byterian church at Morristown abolished the pew system, and will eaiter be sustained by Voluntary contribution Work will svom be com- menced en the Presbyterian chureh in Seaport, Ga, Rev. A. Taylor, of Mount Vernon, goes to Piymouth Presbyteriun church, indiana. Rey. 8. C. Aiexan- ands’, of Suirleysburg, received a has | Galt) Upper Path Valley Presbyterian clurch, vennsylvania. Rev. J, K. Black, of Alleghany City, Pa, has been called to Lonaconing and Bar- ton, Md, Kev, D. M. Davenport, of jneeton Seminary, has been called to Mount Sterling, Univ. Rey. J, K. Demarest, of Owensboro, Ky., to West- minster church in this city, wich call he accepts, Kev. J. U. Hill, Of the Northwestern Theological Seminary, has been called to Princeton, Ill., and Kev. rt Mackenzie, of the same institution, been called by tie Presbyterian’ church at iow Creek, Ill, METHODIST. Rev, Dr. Curry has revarned from his Southern trip greatly improved in big general health by the tuild climate @t Eiarila, Bey, Henry Md. Clurk, of the East Maine Conference and a student im Boston in the United states en ee Protestant Episcopal, of the Portland District @. Conference, is unable througa til-he; tend to his dutiew, Wor eh Re Brewster, of the New kngiland Conference, pastor. of the Methodist pen. Ge ehareh, ebater, Mass., died suddealy March 1s. The Gen- eral Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America convened in Augusta, Ga., March 19. Several bishops of the Methodist a copal Chureh South were present to assist Bishop Miles. Two or three new bishops were elected, an | editor chosen and other important business trans. acted. Rev, 8. A. Steele, a student at Emery and Henry College, Virgimia (Methodist Episcopal Church South), hag been elected to the chap- laincy of the University of Virginia, an ofMfce to which the facuity elect every two years from the four leading denominations of Christians, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal. Rev. W. M. Leftwich has, in company with several others, been appointed by the Governor of Missouri as an Honorary Commis- sioner to the Vienna Exposition, Considerable in- terest is just now mautfested in the Canadian Methodist Episcopal Charcn with regard to the election of new bishops. Some of the preachers call ior three new men to supplement the services of Bishop Kichardson, who is now well stricken with years, The question of importing an Kpisco- al ‘candidate frem this side the Dominion ine is also mooted again, Rev. Thomas Guard, ot, Baltimore, is expected here to assist in the dedication of the — Beek- man Aill Methodist Kpiscopal church, Fittiech street, near Second avenue, on Aprit 13, The Wil- mington Conference has appointed a committee to conier with the Salttmore, Philudelphia and Cen- tral Pennsylvania and the New Jersey and Newark GConlerences touching the proper recognition of tuis the centenary year of the Annual Vonierence of Methodism in America. It is proposed to hold a joint reunion on July 14 and 15, at some point to be agreed upon by the joint conferences, After conducting a scries of services in Winchester, Va., Which resuited in the cenversion of 875 persons, Dr. Leo. Rosser has gone to Knoxville, Yenn., and begun meetings there, wRich also promise great success, The Methodist eeecne) Cnureh in the United States averages eighty communicants to a church, The Metio deminary at Hack- ettstown, N, J., 8 completed, and will probably be opened the coming Summer, ‘he cost of the building has been $148,000, Of this amount $115,700 have been collected and $20,000 pleaged, leaving a balance of jeas than twelve thousand dollars to be provided for, Dr. Join K, Edwards, of the Methodist Chureb Soath, advocates in the Baitimore #piscopal Methadist the removal of all limitation upon the pastoral term, leaving the duration of each pastor's service in the discretion of the bishops. Over two thousand children are in the American Methodist Sabbatt Schools in Sweden. India has 1,600 Methodist Sab- bath school scholars—so0 of them in Lucknow, ‘The New York Couterence of the Methodist Episco- pal Chureh wiil be hela at dudson, N. Y., commene- ing April 2, and the New York Bast Conference in the Harlem churet, 119th street aud second aver nue, this city, on the same day, BAPTIST, Rev. Dr. Jabez Swan, a noted Baptist minister, whose golden wedding Was celebrated at his house in New London, Conn., a tew months ago, has be- eome violently insane, and has been taken to the Hartiord Retreat, A new Baptist church is projected at Live Oak, tev. b. M. Adams, of Canon City, Col, has be- come itinerant missionary jor .the field of the new southern Colorade Association, to serve for a year, The Baptist Church at ast Saginaw, Mich., has extended a call to Rev. A, B. White, who has accepted. A new Baptist churoh is just completed and will soon be dedicated in Richmond county, Va., in the yard of the oid Kap- ahannock church, near Stony Hill. The eqifice if ick and 48 a neat and substantial ouilding. The evange ist and missionary, Lider J. M. Wood, of Washington As: tion, lowa, has become agent for the Central University at Pella, Iowa, ‘the Baptist church at Keota, Loulsa Centre, Davis’ Creck, Talleyrand, Kureka and Richmond, lowa, and also “at Macomb and Xenia, Sil,” are now without pastors, The Baptists of the District of Columba number sixteen churches, containing 8,775 sittinus, and valued at $273,000, In ten years they have tripted their eharches and more than doubled their membership, and increased the value of their church property nearly six fold. The Baptist churches of Philadeiphia report accession by iim- mersion last Sunday of about filty persons—the leanings of their revival meetings. Rev. D. D. Worth has become pastor of the church at Milford, . Y. There are seven Baptist churches in Brooklyn without ministers and some of them have been in that case for half a year or more, Revs. Costin, King and McDougal were ordained deacons of the Baptist chur Miliport, N. Y., on the 19th inst. Rev, Dr. B. Manly, President of Georgetown College, has been called to take pastoral charge of the Raptist church in Paris, Ky. Mr. Boyd, who has been called to the pustor- ate of the First Baptist church in Charlestown, com- mences his labors some time 1m July, bis engage- ments at Harvard University necessitating this delay. ‘The Buptists of Dennison, ‘Texas, are trying to raise funda to erect a church in that place, Rey. P. %. Bvans, pastor of the Baptist church in Willimantic, Conn., has resigned his charge. Rev. H. A. Cordo’ mer charge in Meriden, Conn,, bas been, still, Without a pastor since he left it. Ke announced to the Baptist chu Nyack, N. Y., his mtention to close his labors with them in June. Contracts ha’ en given Out tor the erection of the new edifice of the North Baptist chureh, Orange, N.J., and work will be com- menced immediately, The building will cost $50,000, ‘The last monthly report from the for- Baptist churches of Boston and ite imincdiate | vicinity shows an addition by baptism of 175. Of these sixty-ieur were colored. ‘there are thirty- hive county towns in North lina without a Baptist heuse of worship. Outside of Battumore the Baptists are not numerous in Maryland, but an aggressive movement is on foot that will result in the enlargemeut 6f the borders of this denomina- tiou. Only thirty-nine of the 532 Baptist churches in Indiana have preaching every ttre while 344 assemble for worship only one Sunday in each month, At Bologna, the great railway centre of Italy, and the seat of a renowned university, a Baptist church of sixty-nine members has been built up uuder the care of Signor Gtannini. $2,049 50 have been subscrived to build a Baptist church at Somerville, Tenn, EPISCOPALIAN. At a convocation of the Episcopal Church re- cently held in Springfield, Mass., & resolution was ogered proposing the divisiou of the diocese, and setting apart the western portion of the State as a new diocese, It was leo decided to continue the missionary work at Easthampton and Ware, and make an effort to revive an interest lor the services of the Episcopal church at Westfield by sending a missionary into that town resume the services, which have for sume time been suspended, Northern visitors in Jackson- ville, Fla., have contributed $1,200 to aid the erec- tion of a new Episcopal church there, to be known as St. John’s. It will be a handsome Gothic edifice and will seat 800, The Episcopalians of Seaport Ga., are building a church in that place, which wil soon hedinished and wo to be dedicated. Rev. Mr, RKeuther, of Nassau, N. P., assumed the rector- ship gi St. Paui's Ky <n a church at Key West last Sunday. The Kev, W. Jarrett, of St. James, Bedtord, Pa., has accepted a call to St. John's parish, Hampton, Va. The next annual con- vention of the Diocese of orga will the "Semi-Centennial Jub Conven- tion,” and will be held in Obrist church, Savan- hal, beginning May 21. The small frame church near ‘thirty-tuurd and Chestnut streets, Philadel- iia, erected for the West Chestnut street Presby- erian church, has been purchased by a numbér of Hpiscopal churchmen in West Philadelphia. ‘The regular church services will be commenced at Easter. Kev. Douglas Forrest, $t. Paul's church, in Richm: Bishop Johns, has been, w arn, calle rectorship of St. John’s church, in Wytheville, Va. Episcopal churches are or; ranizi nn in Several parts of the country, 3 sort of female dlaconate, In the Lutherah churches of Germany such mples have occurred, and are popuiar by their usefulness, ‘The Bpiscopaiians of Page, Vo., who have for a year past worshipped in the Methodist church in that place, have started to build a chureh for them- selves at a cust of $2,000, Dr. Andrews, rector of the Episcopal church at Shepherdstown, W. Va., hus declared vigorously tn favor of the “free pew’? system. ROMAN CATHOLIO, Rev. Father ©, bonpets. of Naples, an ex-Jesuit priest and leader of a Clerico-Liveral association and of another gssociation ior the emancipation of the priesthood of Roi from colibacy aud other rictions of that Church, has just published hi recantation of his errors and ordered ail bis books: id Writings against the Church to be burned and has himset! returned heartily to tl left, He reacknowledwes the inialiibility and temporal pewer of the Pope and hopes to die i the bosom of the Holy Church. This, however, is & deathbed repentance. Monsignor ‘Lachat, Bishop of Basle, has received notice to quit his E; copa residence 1 Easter, ‘she op ol Biella, italy, Monsignor Pietro Losana, is dangerously tli at Turin, The Archbishop of that city Is with him, but considers his cs hope: less, and the death of the veneraie prelate is hourly expected. Work will soon be recommenced on the Catholic Cathedral in Atlanta, Ga. When completed it will be one of the finest buiidings of the kind in the South. The Cai Review says Urat “Triduos”? and other religious services are Announced as likely to be celebrated soon ail over Ttaly, in act of reparation for the horrible blas- lemies offe 0 me of Our Blessed Lord in the infamous Capitale of Rome, Persons of all Tanks, and even of all shades oi opinion, have blamed the govern t for tolerating the indecent and ignorant articies published in this paper. MISCELLANROUS, The Iaraell of aaa ere bo fands to remodel their synagogue, aud propose to engage a rabbi at $1,500 yer annum, The buildin ofan English Lutneran church in ta, Ga., is eon- templated, The North Congr nal church at Lynn, Mass., We observe, has finally determined to-open its chapel parlor for a pubiic read- mg m on Sundays, It is to open all day and evening, except during the hours of wor- ship. Kev. E. ¥. Burr, D. D., of Lyme, Coun., aa- thor of kcce Caium., &0., has been invited to de- liver the oration before the Connecticut Beta of the Phi Beta Kappa Seciety, in Trinity College, at its next Commencement. Cbure'| Soo Society (English) last year reported 163 missioi stations in Various parts of the world, 199 ry missionaries, 144 native ordained ministers, ¢ tog @ few of Kast India birth, more than 2, native teachers, more than 20,000 communi- gant @nd more than 42.000 scholars, This 1B ~ ‘nas siso ef tothe native rine Be im both ra Leone and Ihe “West Indies. containing a6 many as teur thousand com- municants. The field of Christian missions, in whac is distinctively known as the heathen world, embraces a population of 700,000,010, Of these, seven-eignths are attached to one or other of the three great systems—Monammedaniam, Hindoolsm and buddhism. ‘The first is as yet roiatively untouched, atill pushes its presetysiem in Africa, and everywhere stunds a8 a barrier to the ristian ‘fait. In India university graduates parte in the mest degraied rites of dooism. And Buddhism, with its 300,009,000 of Votaries, has been hard'y reached by Ctirristian in- fuence, but, in anticipation of the coming onset in Coyion, is boldiy upholding its athelstic philose- phy by argument, and in Japan is setting ita Pent to the study of the Biple, with a view to ts refutation. ‘There is a good deal of hard work to be dove yet, and ample scope for the ablest talent and the most thorengh Christian consecra- tion, ‘The new synagogue of the congrega- tion “Anshi Chesed,” on Lexington avenue, will be completed about Pentecost, Clintou avenue Congregational church, Brooxtyn, Y., has bated, elected two ladies as deaconess ‘e hear of simi- lar measures in other Cougreyational churches, Rev. J. W. Le Molue, & zealous close communion Baptist, has just reuounced orthqdoxy aud em- braced Universalism, Tite pastor 01 tue Congrega+ tonalist chureh in Salisbury, Rev. Wm. D. Corken, accepts Uuiversalism as the true fuith and wilt counect himself with that charch. In Beverly pre« juciice is so far obsolete that the Universalist and lethodist pastors have exchanged pulpits. Kev, George Hastings, Universalist pastor at Waltham, Mass., died there on the 6th fust. There are twenty-iour Protestant ministers laboring in Mexico. Mrs. Isabella Beecuer Hooker, of Hart tord, sister of Rev. Henry Ward ‘Beecuer, has ve- come a Universalist, and preacied in the Uni- versalist church in Bridgeport on Sanday, The Rev. C. Bann, of Jeffersonville, Ind., has | ac. cepted & call irom the Second Reformed church of Fort Wayne, Ind., and will begin his labors there alter Raster. Rev. J. Neihotf, o! Parma, Otte, Ras accepted a call from Zion’s Reformea church of Detroit, Mica,, and purposes entering upon the duties of his hew field of labor in May next. Th Wesiern Recorder gives the relative numerioa! strength of the principal denowinations in Ken- tucky as foliows:— Churches, Ministers, Members, Baptist. 1,150 700 129,000 Disciple. ‘600 400 69,000 Methouis' 600 403 43,198, Presbyterian, North 126° 51 5,510 Presbyterti South... 130 80 10,119 Presbyter Central, 190 187 11,409 Episcopalian’... 35 45 3,500 Roman Cathoiic. 104 - 0 —Kev, George H. Trabert has resigned the Ephratah charge, having accepteda call to the Lutheran church at Blizabethtown, Pa. Rev. E the Theological Seminary at Gettys! . hes accepted a call to Luthersburg (Cleariieid county, Pa.) Lutheran church. ‘the First Rejormed church of Reading, Pa., bas ‘called Rev. Henry Mosser, of McKwensvilie, Pa. A fourth reformed church has been organized in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Shutord, of Reformed church of hester, Va., has accepted a cait to Burketts- ville, Ma. Rey. Dr. 3, Bausinan, a few weeks ago, resigned the pastorate of the First Ketermed chureh tm Reading, Pa., Which he has tiled during the last nine years, He Was immediatel, led to the pastorate of the English é¢hurch, recently or- ganized out of the congregation he had previously served, The Reformed Duteh Church in tie United States numbers 132 members to a chureh, and the Moravians thirty-one, A new Reformed church in the southern part of Stark county, Uhio, known as St. Mark’s, wus dedicate |. Zeigier is the pastor, » Rev. H. H. Sandoe, has ac ‘There are now about sixteen thousand Palostine, anu “their average state of cul- tare is much betow that of their fellow religionists in kurope. They bave no visible means of sup- port, spend their tune in idieness, praying, falinud reading, and foolish pining and sigh ing on the ruins of the temple, eking out & miserable existence ‘by the charity of the Jews of Europe, America and Australia.”” This ex- t is taken irom a report of some English Israel, ites, Who have lately been to Palestine to inquire into the expedieucy of encouraging the emigra- tion of Jews into that land. Alnong the va- rious religious institutions 1n London is to be found one under the rather novel name of “Men Servants’ Home and Mission,” which origt+ nated some six years ago witha meeting of Chris+ tian servants to pray for their owa class, Their rayers were answered, aud since then a Heme as been established, and three missiona- aries are engaged in Christian work in coonection with it, The institution now supports “an agency for male and female domes- tics, by means of which families may be provided With godly servants. Rev, &. N. Sebring has re- signed his charge of the F Reformed caurch of Guent, N. Y., and accepted a cail to the Second Reformed church of Fair Rev. G. Ba Beach, of Yaie Seminary, ac town, Ohio, Congregational church, Kev, T. D, Childs, also of Yale, accepts @ call to Chragin Falls, Olio, Congregational church, Rev, DeWitt 8. Clark, ‘of Cilton, goes to the Congrega- tional church at Westtleld, Mass. Rev. J.P. Henly, of Adamsville, goes to the Lutheran chureh at Germantown, Ohio. Kev. Thomas Hill, D. Dy has been called to the pastorate of the First Uni tartan church in Portland, Me. Rey, H. Wick meyer, of Hermansburg Institute, has accepted a eall to the Lutheraa church at Richmond, Ind. Rev. George F. Waters, of Yale Seminaty, accepts a call to the Congregitional church at’ Bethel, Conn At the close of the Conference held in Bradford, MeKean county, Pa., oa the oth aud 6th, a societ; Ol seventeen members was formed, A churel wil be organized ut an carly date, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. THE VALUE OF PRINTED Books exported from England in January, 1873, was £62,829, against £53,800 in the same month of 1872, and £40,0%: in, January of the previous year. AMBROISE FIRMAN Divot, the French publisher, recently elected a member of the Académie des In- Scriptions et Belles Lettres, is an excellent Greek scholar, and besides taking an active part in editing the “Thesaurus Linguw Grace,” is the author of “Notes d'un Voyage dans le Levant," “Traduction de thucydide,”" issai sur la Typographie,” “Essat Typographique et Bibliographique sur \'Histoire de ta Gravure sur Bois,” &c. > Ir Is Stared by the Commissioner of Education that the benefactions mace by private individuals for educational purposes in 1871 amounted to over eight millions of dollars, aud those of 3872 to nearly ten millions ol dollais. A CYCLOrEDIA OF LEGAL ELOQueNce, ARGUMENT, Oprnion, &¢., if au interesting work, to be pub- lished by Baker, Voorhis & Co, DICKENS wrote thus of Paris in November ;— Bad weather, It is sowing hard, There is not @ door or window mm ali Paris that shuts; not a chink to all the villions of trillions of chinks in the city that cau be stepped to keep the wiad out, And the cold! but you shall judge for yoursell; and also of this preposterous dining room, tite invention, sir, of Henry Bulwer, who, when he bad executed it (he used to live here), got frightened at what le ad done, a3 well ke might, aud went away. COLONEL OvvRY is publishing an account of the life and labors of Stein, the great Prussian land re- former, A SERIES Of the literary productions of the most distinguished Irishmen is avout to be publisied by Messrs. Smyth, of Dubii Five THOUSAND Four HUNDRED AND Eronty- TUKER WORKS Were published iu Gerwany from duly 1 to December 31, 1872, ENGLAND HAS ConsuMED nine editions of “The Henwile,”’ by the Hou, Mrs. Arbutunot. What o cackling there must haw been if each buyer prp- ceeded to raise @ coluny of lens! Mr. ANTHONY TxoLLore found, he tolls us to his new book, a few doceut newspapers iu Australia, of course conducted by Englishmen, He has always found Convinental newspapers thoroughly unsatisiactory, but they are after all not so far below the Kuglish aa those of tae United States! Bombastic laogeage, Vulgar aad faulty iuforaa- tion, bad type, bad paper—everything impresses the belle’ that the American class of newspaper producers must be quite diferent irom that of tue Old Country. An American, he admits, can give a good lecture, make @ good speech, build a good house, cook a good dinner, bake good bread, tela good story, write a good book; cun, in fact, do any- thing on earth requiring intellect, energy, iudusury and construction, with this ene exception! He cannot—at any rate, he says, he lias not as yo turned out @ goud newspaper. But Troliopo dovsn’t know the meaning of the word newspaper. “Loxp Hors’s Caorcs,” Mrs. Ann 5 Stephens’ latest novel, is published by fT. B. Peturson & Bro., of Philadelphia. Mus. Grote bas completed the memoir of ler late husband, _ Tue Larest Preer of literary handiwork by Mr. Carlyle is now in the hands of the public. It cou- sists of ao appendix to the people's edition of his “Life of Schiller,” the publication ef which was put back for several months in order to enable the venerable man of letters to make this addition to the volume, The appendix consists of matter translated from the German, giving an account of the Sebliler family, as well as of much of the early life of Schiller himsetf, which has not hitherto been known to English réadera, Leiau Hunt sald of Charles Lamb that “he got loved by everybody in spite of his intolerance ;. which had more humanity tn it than the liberality of other men.”