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i pe cetsA SS ome to be com) authority, that RELIGWUS INTELUGENGR, | SS2S2S- TES sad Fa —— APRIL 20---LOW SUNDAY, PULPIT EXERCISES TO-DAY. Herald Religious Commu- nicants. THE LAWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. LIGHT WANTED FOR A SCEPTIC, Is the Doctrine of Purgatory Sound ? A Wail from an “Orphan of the Heart.” RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN JAPAW. The Genecalogieal Records of Our Saviour. The Whale of Scep- ticism. SIN AND ITS PUNISHMENT RELIGION IN POLITICS. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-day. Rev. Dr. William Morley Punshon will preach this morning at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, The Bishop of New York will administer the rite of confirmation at St. Alban’s this aftefnoon, at four o'clock. High celebration of Holy Eucharist in the morning at eleven. . Pastor Cameron will lecture on “The Book of Leviticus” this evening; in Seventeenth street Baptist church. § Easter Sunday services at the Russian Greek chapel, at 11 A. M., in English. The Baptist Lay Preachers’ Anniversary will be held in Laight street Baptist Mission this evening. Rev. Halsey W. Knapp will preach in the morning. Rey. Dr. If. De Witt Talmage will preach to the Tabernacle congregation in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at the usua) hours, morning and evening. At the Church of the Messiah Rev. R. D. Burr will preach in the morning and Rev. Henry Powers in the evening. Ameeting in behalf of the House of the Good Shepherd will be held this evening in St. Bartholo- mew’s church. “The Sign of the Son of Man” is Bishop Snow’s subject for the three o'clock service at the Univer- sity. Rey. W. H. Pendleton will discourse upon special subjects atthe Fifty-third street Baptist church, morning and evening, baptisms following. “The Unknown Way” is the topic upon which Rey. J. M, Pullman will dilate this evening at Lyric Hall. He will preach in the morning at 1,288 Broad- way. ‘The new pastor, Rev. J. F. McClelland, will preach, morning and evening, at St. Luke's (Methodist Episcopai). Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith preaches in the Brooklyn Church ef the Messian this evening. At Fourteenth street Presbyterian church Rev. Robert Sloss will preach in the morning and Rev. Dr. William M. Paxton willlecture to young people in the evening. Rev. Dr. Gillette preaches, morning and evening, in Piymouth Baptist church, At St. John’s chapel, confirmation services in the morning and preaching by the Rev. A. Wiswall in the evening. Rev. Wayland Hoyt will preach in the Baptist Tabernacle in the morning and at Steinway Hall in the evening. Rev. Dr. E. O. Flagg preaches morning and even- ing in the Eighty-fifth street church. Spiritualist services at Apollo Hall at ten A. M., balf-past two and half-past seven P, M. Professor 8. B. Britton lectares in the evening. Rev. W. C. Dawson preaches at the Ohurch of Christ morning and evening. * At the morning and evening services at Presby- terian Memorial church Rey. Dr. C, 8. Robinson will preach. R. S. MacArthur, the pastor, will discourse upon interesting topics at Calvary Baptist church, this morning and evening. Rey, J. K. Demarest preaches at Westminster Presbyterian church morning and evening. Rev..G. H. Hepworth will dilate upon special subjects at the Church of the Disciples, morning and evening. At All Saints’ the rector, Rev. W. N. Dunnell, will conduct the morning and evening services. Services this evening at All Souls’, Preaching by Rev. George D. Chaney, of Boston, Rabbi Jaeger, a recent Hebrew convert to Chris- tianity, will preach this evening at Trinity Baptist church, At Anthon Memorial church Rev. R. Heber New- ton will conduct the services morning and alter- oon; special subjects. ‘The Dean of the General Theological Seminary, Rev. G, F. Seymour, preaches at St. Chrysostom’s chapel this evening. Rey. Dr, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., will oMciate at the temporary Church of the Holy Trinity morning and evening. A. Higgins, Jr., will lecture on Spiritualism at Franklin Hall, Jersey City, thts evening, Ex-Alderman Wilder will address the Cosmopoli- tan Conference, at Turnverein Hail, this afternoon, on “Verporation Menopoly.” The Laws of the Old Testament=A Reply To THE EpITroR OF THE HERALD:— In last Sunday’s edition of the Heratp you print acommunication from an “Auditor,” who takes exception to what he considers ‘a remarkable wer- mon,” recently preached in St. John’s church, New York, by a clergyman who was so shockingly ig- horant of the A BO duties of a minister of the gos- pel, a8 to actually preach upon “a text from’— ob, horror of horrors! what do you suppose—“the Old Testament” * * * “peing an exposition of unmitigated Jewish law, and an approval of the same! And further the writer goes on to say that he wonders how that “can harmonize with the Christian doctrine,” and laments the fact that most ministers “are addicted to this sort of pnenristian preaching,” except the Methodists and Roman Catholics, “who stick to Jesus through thickand thin.’’ He has, however, the generosity to forgive “the genuine Jew” who “errs in igno- rance,” while for the professing Christian who obeys Jewish laws he forebodes @ pretty rough time of it in the great hereafter. Life is too short, Mr. Editor, to waste upon argu- ments based upon such false prvaiess and on opinions so antagonistic to the advanced tn- felligence of the age in which we live; but br may be some other “Auditors’’ who have duiged in a similar vein of thought, we ask them ifthe laws of ‘he Old Testament, and the Oid tament itsel/, be abolish what becomes of the New Testament? According to the new dis- sation there are many laws contained in the Bia Testament that are no longer binding upon the iessors Of Christianity, but it does not fol- Sow that because certain laws are rendered in- ‘Operative by subsequent laws made by what is |. who are given to reasoning. w thereon se learnediy, no doubt, will continue find many’ “auditors? more MiBorsl than the Rip Van Winkle one who has so suddenly awoke eut of nightmare. al i et ih SEMI-OOUASIONAL. Wasuixcton, D. C., April 10, 1873, To THe EpiTor OF THE HERALD :— Trespectfully ask permission fer a little space ia an orphan, thatis, an “orphan of the heart.” I have deen taking the rounds of all the churches, with the exception of the Catholic, and I find I can- not receive that peace of God which I used once to do, While I read and listen to that “vast river of ‘anfailing source,” the pulpit of New York, I grow More gloomy and despondent. Doubie-dilched doubt dares me everywhere. I take to poetry. And first I open that sublime poem of Goethe, “Faust.” Itis to me the “green river” which my thirsty soul loves to swim along. Iread the over- tures, preindes, &c., with as much delight as if was in the midst of a hondred stringed instruments playing a symphony ef Beethoven's. Then there comes a pause, Whatisit? The great artist, in the construction of his mighty poem, superstructs upon the foundation stone of the universe, laid dewn by S8t. Jehn. In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the thought. In the beginning was the action. Will some erudite doctor of divinity take these three little sentences for his text and throw light upon them? Manis a counterpart of these three sentences. In perusing further | find the t, with true dramatic discrim- ination, immortalizes the poor, simple Catholic girl, Marguerite, in whom is pergonified the charm, he grace, the purity, the conscience of the ‘holy Roman Catholic Church, Here, too, is the contes- slonal, remorse, repentence, in whice even the soaring philosophical wings of Faust himself are chained for awhile; and if Mephistophiles is not an “idel devil, bad enor e the Cathelic Church to take held off, let it hold on to its imaginary ene, of that which goes around “like a roaring lion,’ seeking whom he may devour, or who may have some greeavacks, prob- ably. Let us open (apr Halt way in Don Juan he prays; and probably Beecher nor the Catholic Church never uttered anything so beautifal, I will give it in fall:— : Some kinacr casuists are prone to say, in nameless priat, that I have ne devotion; But set those fellows down to pray ‘With me, and you shall see who has the properest notion Of getting'into heaven the shortest way. 'y altars are the mountains and the ocean, The earth, the air and the stars and all that Springs trom the great whole, ho had produced and will receive the soul, Ave Maria, ‘tis the hour of prayer! Aye Maria, "tis the hour of love! Ave Maria, may our spirits dare! Look up to thee and to thy sons above! Ave Maria, oh! that fall so fair Those downcast eyes beneath the Almighty Dove. What though the pictured image strike, That painting 1s no idol—'tis too like. Again, in Manired, in his dialogues with the friar, we see through the mirror of his mind hia gloomy spirit yearning atter—“‘Oh, Rome, my country, city ol the soul, the o phans of the heart must turn to thee ;” and, indeed, it is but too true, for Ihave been straying away inyself; Ihave allowed the highway of my mind to be tramped by the muititudinous hordes of teachers of the mammon and free and easy school. Why don’t they construct a church whese teachings shall put a restraint upon the passions of youth, which shall disinfect the heart when 1t becomes infected with crime, which shall fix the mind and conscience exquisitely sensative against the commission of crime? It is because their hearts are impervious to those finer feelings which are to be found by repentance im the Catholic church, which in upper cirles ain't quite fashionably lucrative or love making enough, which commands man to bend the knee and head to the cross, to shed tears, to bring up his baser sins upon the tablet of his memory and confess that they are damning, Let them look at Napoleon the First kneeling in St. Helena, in the past, to a poor Italian youth to whom, as the repre- sentative of that church of eighteen centuries, he confessed his sins, because, as he saw, all great men. died init. Let them follow that brightest gem of French literature, De Lamartine, in his book of the Holy Land, or read Chateaubriand’s Genius of. -Ohristiavity, and, perhaps, they may not be so bitter against that church which is the— ©, Reme, my country ! city of the soul, The orphans ot the heart must turn to’ thee. FITZGERALD O'NEILL. Religious Toleration in Japan. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— As your paper 1s the great medium by which the public is set right on all pubiic questions I beg leave, throug your columns, to refer to the re- cent report, generally made, of the publication in Japan of universal religious toleration. There is not one word of truth in this statement. The same edict was published throughout the empire three years ago, and was only at that time intended for foreigners. The ambassadors of the different na- tions interposed their offices to have the decree made to include the native Christians; but they only succeeded in obtaining the release of those Christians who would consent, beiore receiv- ing their liberty to apostatize, the rigons since that period have been crowde with the faithful, to the exclusion of criminals, and over one thousand five hundred have died of want and torture. This in the neighborhood of foreign settlements, how nen f thousands in the interior it would be impossible to tell, All this horror would cease without difticulty it the foreign representatives of all nations would join heartily and strongly in demanding the rights of Christian liberty for the native as well as the foreign ele- Ment; but the fact 1s, there is being played at the Court a deep game of diplomatic chess, and no lit- tle jealousy of our American influence is ielt. The European Ambassadors fear to demand anything unpopular with the Court, and it remains with our Auerican hate topes to obtain equal rights for all, both native and foreign Christians. Why not send &® HERALD correspondent to interview the Mikado, and give us all the facts about Japan and its religious toleration. AN OCCASIONAL. Boston, April 7, 1873. P. 8—The Boston papers are imitating the HERALD in the publication of Sunday sermons; but it 1s a very poor imitation, one sided, and will ac- complish no <—* good, The editors here need expansion. ey have become blistered by their great fire and their foundations are weak. : The Genealogical Records of Our Sa- viour. To THE EpIror OF THE HERALD:— The explanation given by your correspondent of last Sunday in regard to the disagreement of the genealogical records of Jesus Christ, as given by Matthew and Luke, seem to be, at the first glance, @ very good one, and, no doubt, one which will re- lieve the perplexity of a great many persons. But maby are so constituted that they cannot accept any statement which is not based upon demonstrate facts, much less upon reasonable assumption. The explanation of “L, A.C.” will never satisfy those Something more po- tent than hearsay evidence is needed to convince them. I also have been told by an eminent divine that one record was traced through Mary the ther of Jesus, and the other through Tose the husband of Mary. But when aske he knew this to be a tact, the reply was, “Oh no! no one knows posi- tively that such was the case, but it is very proba- ble that this is the correct theory, for in no other way can we reconcile the records.” This tells the whole story, Jesus may or may not have been a descendant of David. It is merely a matter of opiuion, 1 think your correspondent of last Sun- day will admit that nowhere in the whole New Testament, or inany history whatever, has he seen anytiing which will tend to prove that he hts cor- rect in his Views, And he must also admit that it 1s just a8 reasonable to suppose that Jesus was not @ ‘descendant of David, as that he was. No proof can be brought to bear upon either side of the question. ‘or eighteen hundred years this question has been shrouded in impenetrable darkness. Our opinions may be afirmative or negative; but not a soul can say that his belief is the true one. The darkness will never be dispelled until we have “shumMed off this mortal coil” and we sleep the sleep that Knows no waking. Then we may hope that all the mysteries rounding the theological questions will be reveated tons, But in this life there is no prospect of our knowing more of Jesus Christ than we already know. That He- was & goed man and & great reformer few doubt; that He was the Son of or the descend- ant of David many disbelieve. I8 will take a more reasonable hypethesis than that contained in your correspondent's letter to convince them that they are inerror. The world ia full of scepticism, and the ase of assumption to soeee hoe makes the reasoning doubter more seep! an ever, * rm 3, B. COLLOQ! The Whale of Medern Scepticism. To THY Eprror oF THE HERALD:— Why does not Mr. Talmage, instead of wasting the time of his large gudiences by sneering at sceptics, calling them fools, asses and ether clown- ish or clerical compliments, attempt to show them where they are in error? “As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, 80 shail the Son of Man be three days aud three nights if NEW. YORK, HEBALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 20 Refuge and Juvenile Asylum, which coutained, HH i i i s3gte8ii 4 =, i! Hie = site bSe52 3é e2 He i The and Courts of Oyer and Terminer in New York, as well as in every county im State, commit State Prisons to | of The trustees have charge botu of boys and girls until they reach the age of twenty-one. of such an institution, which is made by various statutes a place of con- | finement for wayward minors | Judge: Brad eektence’ wy tk found guilty of Beni 2 you' und guilty oF honeide to lm sonment Wiihin ite walls. The House of Refuge is maintained wholly and entirely by appropriations from the State and city treasuries, and by money realized from the labor of the inm iblic money is given toward its | support precisely in tho same manner as public | money is given to support the penitentiaries, It | receives annually $ from the State Com 3 j troller, $5,000 from the City Comptroller, §10,) from the Board of Education and the proceeds of theatre and circus licenses, The balance required to support the House of Refuge comes from the work performed by the inmates, averaging on per year; and it is a fact that the income irom the latter source approaches within a few thou- sand dollars of the cost of food, clothing and fuel required for the culprits in charge 0! the trustees. | it would be almost as sensible and consistent to claim the Croton Aqueduct or the Brookiyn Navy Yard a8 @ hay re Protestant, un-sectarian insti- tution as the House of Refuge. But there is ome point iched in the article under consideration Which has been heretofore overlooked by those who have complained ot the management of the Refuge. The gentiemen act- ing, it is true, as a “private board," do fll up their own vacancies, bat it is very doubtful whether | their right to hold office at all is legal. The act of | March 29, 1824, provides distinctly that the mem- | bers of ‘the Society for the Reformation of Jove ile Delinquents” shall be subscribers to the asso- ciation, and that only subscribers can be trustees. ‘The law is very plain on this point, f is Wirther provided thatin case of vacancies the Board they are to be filled by persons who are *sub- @ institution does not y private catt- *, hoteven to the amount of a picayune, and there being no subscribers it is dificult to see how under the inw the present trustees claim to exercise auchority. The chief object of the trustees appears to be to | obtain all the work possible from the inmates of the Refuge. Their labor is farmed out by contract, | and it is only fair to assume the most is made | of it. Indeed, the Board say in a@ late report that ‘a very large portion of our time is devoted | to labor, upon which, in @ great measure, we «ic- pend for support.’’ kven lidren of very tender | ears are obliged to work. AS to the subject of re- | figious teaching the request made by some Catho- | lics is not unreasonable, and the refusal looks like | the denial of a sacred, and even unalienabie right. | Fully three-fifths ef the inmates are of Catholic parentage, and have arrived at an age when their minds are thoroughly imbued with the doctrines | and commandments of that Church, and, comay- | quently, are firmly attached to it. It must be | clear to every fair-thinking man and woman | that reformation, which is the osteusible object of | the management, could be best achieved threuga | the agency of the ministers of the retigion in whose fold the culprits were raised, The trustees can hardly be ignorant of the fact that Catholic ouths cannot derive any religious advantage by jumping them to attendance at services according to the original ritual established by the chaplain | of the institution. There is no comparison be- tween the Catholic Reformat: and the Refuge, None but Catholics under the law can be sent ww the former, and the admissieg of convicts is not permitted. In the case of the latter three-fifths of | the committals are of the Catholic faith, aud they are denied the benefits of tre sacraments of their Church and attending its worship, It is in very bad taste, truly, to stigmatize those who complain of this injustice as a “superstitious throng.’’ Equally unfounded ts the statement that the Juvenile Asylum is a private Protestant unsec tarian institation. The Legislature tn 1851 appro- priated from the State treasury $75,000 for the purpose oi purchasing the land and erecting the bwidings which i# now iu the hands of the trustees sf the Asylum. Its current expenses are defrayed by an annual appropriation irom the city treasury of $110 tor each inmate, to which is added a ‘share iu the school fund. Instead of this only being one half of the cost of maintenance, it is fully aine-tenths, the other tenth being raised by subscription, It is in no sense private, for the Mayor and Presi- dents of the two legislative branches of the city government and of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction are among the timstees, The Ju- venile Asylum, like the House of Ketuge, has to make yearly reperts to the Legislature. Enough has been written to show that neither of these stitutions are private Protestant r that in the case of one of them no private ant benefactions are bestowed upon it, and im the case of the other Jews, infidels ana Buddhists may | contribute to make up the small deficiency that 13 required to support it. ‘The right of gentlemen who are not subscribers to the House of Reluge to act as trustees, which the statute torbids, may be worth inquiring into, A Sceptic Wants Light. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— As you state “there has never been but one divine resurrection,” will some of your learned correspondents give the readers of the HERALD your theory as to the fact that none of the great writers who lived and wrote immediately after these wonderful events mentioned in the writings of the early Christians (the New Testament) make the least mention of the ‘They appeared to be as silent upon this wonderiul subject as Washing- ton Irving 18 with regard to Joe Smith, or old Brigham Young. Plutarch was a great tulk- er, yet he says not a word. Electitus, Strato, Antoninus, Pliny, all lived and wrote about this | time, yet they’are as silent as the grave in regard to all the astonishing occurrences in’ connection with this sepuichre story, Syria was at that time a province of Rome, and ruled by an intelligent Roman Governor, it is reasonable to sup that these Roman writers and this Roman “Proc! scribers as aforesatd.” rator’”’ knew something about these matters if they really occurred, CABAL | Sin and Its Punishment. | To tHe Eprror or THe Hefacy:— The irequent claims that men are converted he. neath the shadow o/ the gallows and the apparent | expectation of not a few whose hands are red with the blood of their fellow men whom they imve de- | liberately and intentionally sent, without warning | or “privilege of clergy,” into the presence of their final Judge, that they nselves expeet to go di- rectly to heaven, instead of to the place where they apparently belong, anid the assent of clerical tendants to such expectations Leing well towns make @ few practical questions and timely. First—Did_ our =Lord Jesus Christ come into «the §=6world «to 6osmve)=6ormen from sin, or was it to save them from the penalty of sin? Every one can but see that there ig a vast difference between the sin and its penalty, between saving @ sinner from sinning aud saving dy pertinent | may mean this or it may mean ty whieh is luring our criminal classes on in a life of sin and crime, stil) arp f to reach heaven at last by believing, instead of by a life of right living or striving t) keep the ments t It is time these practical questions were con- sidered by all men. It is either true that men can, by belie in a certain scheme of salvation, escape the timate penalties attached by our Creator life, even though deliberate murder Is actually @oinmitted, ot true, it is certainly ‘h without a good life Having faith in the liberality of the Heap, and that it is doing much good by allowing rauasions to present their e8 and creeds in dectrin — writer hopes to see the above and fully discussed by some of your ws corroepundente. Y INQUIRER ‘Whe Doctrine of Purgatory. To tan Epitor or tas HRRaLD:— ‘The Catholic doctrine concerning purgatory is a Very reasonable doctrine, and any one having the least conception of Bible truth can easily see this the Bible that they may be better able to answer the question, “Does the Bible teach the doctrine of purgatory?” From whom does he receive the Bible, pray? Is it pot to the Catholic Church that ‘We are indebted for the Bible of the present day? ‘Was it net through her maternal care the Scrip- tures were preserved when nearly every work of Uterature, art or science was destroyed by the barbarians? and yet he has the audacity to sug- gest the propriety of Catholics studying the Bible. As well might alittle urchin counsel the white- haired matumetician tostudy Euclid! Perhaps he considered his advice a piece of bitter sarcasm, apd [ would have passed it py anheeded but from bis writing I infer be could not distinguish be- tween «silence intended for consent and silence which means contempt. The Catholic doctrine in regard to purgatory may be briefly stated thus:— Almighty God bas appointed in the next world a third place, Which is neither heaven nor hell, but a middle piace asit is called, in which gertain souls, who wili in the end go to heaven, are for awiille detained, We beileve that some souis, the souls of little children, for instance, who have been made members Of Christ's Church by holy baptism; or of others, who, by God's grace, have been enabled to preserve through ie the purity and innocence of ebiidren ; or of others, who by the help of the same grace, have, by their sufferings or acts of voluntary penance satisfied God's justice fer the temporal punishment due tor the sins of their past lite, are received by Aimighty God as soon us they have left tue Lody, ito the enjoyment of everlasting bliss, in hike manner we belleve that there are other souls which pass at once out of this world mto the realms of everlasting torment in toe next. But we believe also that there are many others, which although not destined to receive eternal punishment, are yet not fit fer iumediate admission inte that place into which ‘there shail not enter anything that ts defied.” When we con- sider the carelessness of men, their want of rigid seli-eXamiuation aad blindness to their own fauits, we can readily understand how the multitude of ordinary good mens may commt a thousand sins—not, indeed, grievous sins, yet for which they shall have to “render an int inthe day of judgment.” “Idle words,” &c., for example, for which they never seel compunction nor ask the for- veness Of God, Concerning many souls, there- jore, although we dare not hope that at the mo- ment of ther irture out of this world they are so free from all stain and of sin as to be ready presence of that being to pass immediately into Ul who is of purer =" than to behold iniquity, there to dwell with him at once and for ever; yet we feel coufident that they have aeparted in the grace and favor of God, and that their everlasting lot, therefore, Will not be cast among liars an mers and idelators “in the pool o fire, there to be tormented aay and night for ever and ever.” We believe that the mercy and justice of God in His dealings with these souls ure reconctied by their being detained for a certain Ltee In a middie place, there to be punished and purified end dealt with according to lis goot Jose Wotil He ees At to admit Chem lo the en- t ‘ment Of that beautiful Vision wich is life and everiastmg. I ts ako a [+ OF Catholic be Hef that, even when Almighty Gou has forgiven ein | and justified the repentant sinner so that ne ix once More in a state of grace, He still reserves Lie infliction of seme of punisime: transgression, as we see in the instance 0° ti ya penitent, David. At the very moment that he Was assored by the mouts of the prophet that bis sin was forwiven—“*the Lord Wath takem away Uiy tain punishment f couse thou hast the Lord to vlaspty , for this the ol born of thee shall surely die. alierwarda, When the sain Vanity ond pride ia numbering the people Of sear) faa he oko than toe heart stra: d very new md he prayed tha iyualy, A BO Goulet would take away 6 that the Lord hei Yet he sent very severe puntsitwen| for both upon the King 4 > poe We b heve that this is God ww in dealing with the children of men —that When, tor Olrist’s sake, he | forgives sin and absolves the sinner from ite @uit | and the eternal punishment which Was Its one, be | yet reserves some stalier ponishiments to be undergone by the sinneg, either in thie work’ or in the world to When we speak | of souls being purified by the suiforings Of PUrEAtOrY, We MeAM. NOt thet they are | cleansed from the gyillt of their sins, bul oat) that they are paying this debt eo ponimamen: mere punishment can take away sin —tr trition and change of heart alone can effect thin through the merits of Jesus Cari, | am sorry that the subject Was NOt discumsed by Home one | who could give a more eigent understonding of the Scriptares than that Which “Protestant ’ | has given; but knowledge will pel he were clearly wil he beanties of that Church, aid in that Church stone | will dnd the teachings of Christ followed out tw the very letter, because she is the “pillar aud ground of trata,” which wae divimely sioned to ceach the faith to all nations, wed lew Irom the beginning taught this dectrine «hoe r gatory among the rest. Ihave het attempte prove this doctrine, | simply state ite thet poor correspondent May get 0 concepts af what we do belteve, If he has any clyections te make | would like to hear them, in regard to the texte Which he mentions, it is hot at all heeexsery for vor belief that they should refer te the dew —— B.A ty eomential to “Protestant” that Ne shoul al iy some other tu te tion of the ris woud Rot tmriede tue idea of purgatory, What doetrine de Protestants hold in regard to nis text, 1 ean fed bene bem of their commentators. lt ts ee To a Catholic, on the other Ht coMVeyS pre Cisely the same doctrine which he has been atwere taught trom hig infancy. There are many pantage in the Old aud New Testaments on Ube bon portant question, and any Pretemta nt inust have a Very grave suspieb Whether the system of doctrine whiew he ta bows taught really embraces, ax it profecsse the Whete Bible, We ave not at ty to say OF Think ahowt any portion of it: “This if af ne tmpertane:: 5 bat, a either case, it is ¢ real consequence.’ Te anew thas is to Ret youTse! Up Bbeve Ged, te setenit tite divine private con: anu Hate, Hie reveigiion ' y Urye Lporlant comideralion ue a key right iLterpretation, mere: te the Movements, Mintvter METHODIST. Bishop Haven arrived bere last week from Mexico in cxeellent health, Buhep Janes wall dedicate the Beekman Hill Methodiet Rpteoepat church to-day. Rev, J. B. MeOattough has aeemeed | his agene the Book Depository at Patiadelphia, | Rev, S, M. Vernon has been thansierred from che | Mew York to the Pittsburg Conierence, amd hax taken charge of Christ church, Pittsburg, Pa. Rev, L. M. Danton, late of Syracuse Univerastty, has been engaged a8 one of the professors of the Clatie Uer him from the penalty attached to the ats which he actually commits. Voluntarily patting my hand intg the fire would be a sin} the suifering which would follow, mentally and physically, the penalty. Stealing is a sin, the ere life @ part of the pen- pA ga is @ sib, the gallowa @ part ‘ofthe Seconda—| Does the Pible teach ns that the evil doer can go unpunished, aud that it is im! le for him to escape the legitimate penalty for the sins he actuaily Commits? Do experi pty her eey perience and reason teach Thrda—| ‘lg there any reason t that the man who deliberately murders his leo man, the! adds to hig crime a lie by denying it, and resorts to every irfuge which the ignorance of bis fellow: my mate wih arty ca to ai himself from penalty, and sincerely repent at the inet moment, when’ the eartuty "wuage bas ‘pro: versity, Orangeburg, & C. Rev. Dr. Crawford, lete pastor of Kighteenth street church, New York, baw been appointed presiding elder of the Poughkbep- ale district, New York Conference; residence at Sing Sing. Rev. H. 8, Beavis has been transmrred from Quincy Mission to Summit Grove Gir cuit, to take the place of Kev. ©. Atkinson, who has gone to Kansas, The Summerfield Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, Rev. J. M, Buckley pastor, recently took up a col- lection of $226 for the Freedmen's Aid Society. St. Stephens’ Methodist Episcopal church, German- town, Pa, was reopened last Sabvath, Bishop Simpaon, Drs. Newman and Kynett preaching during the day, The Niagara Conference of the | Cona., Pest uh | tm EK SHEET. Methodist Episcopal churoh in Canada meets in In- gersoll April 23, the Ontario Conference in Port Perry; May 7. Bishop Bowman's services being greatly needed in some of the Western conferences it was srrapged that Bishop Foster should visit South Ameries in bis stead, Tne latter, who ls to leave for Enrope in May, will, after presiding at the Conferencé of Germany and Switzerland, proceed to Buenos Ayres and make inspection of our work in that city and vicinity. ‘This arrangement will be economical both as to time and money, tees Mlinois Wesleyan University Reentty re alae the President oi the institue tion, Rey, Dr. 0, 8. Munsell, because he nad ® play- ful habit of kissing the young ladies. They deemed it very unwise and imprope' iauly for one iD bis position; but as be alway! it openly and in ict dnd of third parties, they acquitted him of roper intent, Tie Doctor resigned his ry ana took that of financial agent of the univeisily instead. The local Methodist papers are givivg the salaries ef the bishops, secsete lesan editors elected by the General Coniereace. There are Ls 10} two of whom (Janes @ sou) receive Pi r each; one (Bishop Mor- ris, superannuated), $1,400, and the other ten re- ceive each $4,500. ‘ihe secretaries and vouk agents in New York get—the former $6,000 and tue latter $4,000 a year each. The editors get $4,000 a year éach, ese sums are by the A com ared with the salaries and juisites, &¢., of several of the chief pastors (Methodists) in this city gnd in Brooklyn, re Bit own leas than the than and they @ Jeast of them, and half what is paid to some of the pastors; so that the cry of extravagance is ‘not weil founded, A second Wesleyan church ds 1a process of building in Yonge street, Toronto, Canada.: A popmar meet- ing in behall of the Evaogelical Alliance will be held in St. Paul’s Methodist Mpiscopal cuurch, corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-secund street, this evening. ie Methodist bisuops, at their meetin; here last week, resolved to do away with nouugal appointments” in annual comerences, and jurtier tthe jurisdiction of a bishop over an amuial conference shall extend only until anotmer dish has been assigned to it, and not as heretofore an its next session. ‘The missionary collection of tbe Wilmington Conference is reporved at $12,000, The several committees appointed by the aunual con- ferences on the anniversary of the first Methodist Conference held in America will meet in Phitadet- phia next Tuesday to conier avout tue centennial celebration of that event. Rev. W. W. Sever, of the Protestant Episcopal Uhurch, was received into full connection in the Methodist Churen at the late session ofthe New. York Conference held in Hudson. PRESBYTERIAN, Professdr in Lane has been invited to tuke charge of the First sbyterian churca, Walnut Hills, Cineinnati, and has accepted, ‘Ihe General Assembly of the Presbyteriau Cuurch has a Semi- nary at Concord, near Charlotte, N. designed to educate colored girls lor domestic llie and to qualily them to be teachers, It has now seventy- three students, and has to refuse many more for want of room. It is now proposed to erect an ad- ditional building at @ cost of $15,000 to accommo- date the many applicants who cannot gain adinw- sion now. Rev. C. H. Baldwin, o! Hinsdale, Mass., oes to Kuclid avenue Presbyterian church, Cieve- and, Ohio, and asalary of $4,000a year. Kev. W. di, Gleason, of the Reformed church at Newburg, N. Y., has accepted a call to the pastorate of Grace Presbyterian church, Oswego, Dr. Prentiss will preach his farewell sermon in the Ckureh of the Covenant here next Sunday, and his successor, Dr. Vincent, of Sroy, will begin his labors May 4. Dr. Vincent is to preach in that cuurei to-day. Kev. A. U. Roe, of Geneva, N, Y., nas been called as temporary supply to the Presbyterian church in Clyde, N. Y. Rev, Thomas Sheet, of the North church in this city is going to Cortland Viilage, N, Y. Rev, F. 0, Mounlort hus resigued his cuarge of Orehard street Presbyterian church, Cincinnati, Obio, The Presbyterians of Attica, » dedi+ cated @ new church edifice last Thu week. The negotiations for eflectung the speedy union of the English Presbyterians and Cnited Presbyte- rians in Engiand are making satisiactury progress; and many are becoming more sanzuime thun ever that this desirable event may not be made so de- endent on the movement in Scotland as it has less Litherto been, but may be accomplished within the uext fifteen or eighteen moutiis, There are about Jour hundred and thirty-nine places of worsaip in Vhiladeipiia and immediate vicinity, which gives but one church kadhndt 2,000 of the invabitants, estimating the popniation at a littie over 80,000 souls, The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church ia the United States of Atmerica will meet on Thursday, May 15, 1873, at eleven o'clock A. M., in the Central Presbyterian ciurch of Bait- more, Md. | The Rey. Jpnn Eadie, D, D., Li. D,, Pro- fessor of Exegetical Theology, and the Rey. Henry Calderwood, D., Professor of Moral Putlosophy in the University of Edinburgh, are expected to represent the Synod of the United Presbyterian Cuuren, Scot , in the next General Assembly, The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church weet at Little Rock, Ark., on the same day. The Fo:ty-second street church celebrated the Lord’s Supper on Sabbath last, when its pastor, Rev. W. W. Newell, Jr., and people were cheered by the addition of fiiteen new mem- bers to its communion. The recent action of Presbytery seems to be emphaticaliy sanctioned. The University place Presbyte:ian church, Dr. R, K. Booth pastor, has a membersiip of 828, includ. ing its two missions, Seveniy-eignt were udded jast year. The sunday schooi numbers 1,250, .The Aggregate collections for the sever.1 interests of teergeneral and local church reached the large sum of 112,064 for the year just ciosed, and last Monday the New York Presbytery dissolved his oral relation, Rev. George Swain, ot Keformed church at oro, N. Jy has accepted the call from the Gates Avenue (for- meriy the Genevan) Presoyterian church, corner of itving place, Brookiya. He expects to enter upoa is new Geld of labor next bath. Rev. | Dr. Ben, of Lyons, N. Y., has resigned his charge from nextJuly. Rev. J. Fitzgerald, of Cumber- land, Md., has accepted a call irow the Presby- terian chureh at Kuoxville, lil, The Presbytesian charch m Pourteenth street, this city, of which Dr. MeSiroy is the venerable pastor. and from which his associate, Dr. Barpnee, lately retired on ac- couat o4 the fail ot bealth, las given a united call to th¢ Rev, Hamilton, of Belast, Ireland, BAPTIST. Windsor, Vt., is still without @ pastor, though they to get Rev. A. H, Ball, who has just closed his labors at Greenfield, Mass, Rey. J. Goadby, D. D., has resigned lis pastorate in Poult- iT Vt., owing bo tlie tb. W. Jumes Pierce, adison University, succeeds Dr. Goadvy, Rev. Smith, alter twenty ars’ wervice with the tL courch at Dover, Vt., has resigned, and is jed by Rev. J. H. Parthlee. The last baptist ba sniee! Mowonary Megane announces the appointinent: © Ove new men to the foreign feli—James H. Artour, Benjamia P. € George Charcuil, and Frederick H. Evelth, all of the present class at Newton, and Rev. David Downie, a graduate of ) 72 from Rechester, and at prese@t pastor oi the | Haptiet church at Monroeville, Ou. Ihe growth Londen o| Baptist churches in for the past year ts, chapel sittings, 2,107; members, 1,073; sunday school scholars, 3,017; Sunday school tencuers, 306, The association buidds one new elapel each year, Rev, O. W, Gates, 01 Norwaik, us & pastorate of tweive years to gu to Celiforma for hw healtn's sake, Kev. J, 0, Makist, formeriy a member of Mr, aes Pastor's Col- ewe. acoepied a cali to it Forest Bap- rh, Vntarie, Canada, Key. W. i. Shermer, ©! Preneetows, §. 4., woes to Olinton, N.Y. Mr. Re H, Miwek, of Cromer Tee@logical Semimary, bas ac- cepted a call to Sandy Nd. Kev, Thomas Dowling goes from Andover, Conn, to Tolland, Coan, ¥. ©. B, Rockwell, from South Wood- “ork, Coun. to North Ashterd, Gunn, tev. V. B. buosbare, Vt. » H heeerds hom Fort Atkinson, Wis,, to com, Wie, Hew, J. M. Stath, from Bediord v & H. Allen, Chetmserd to Woodviil Mans, Hunter has accepted the call of the Henunag on, Pa. wv do Ww of hes goeerted the call of Se oounty, .Y v. P. Snevbufne Pair Mase, Henker, trem sanbornten, N. M., to Kew the Falin, Wideman tie, Ket, Samuel € sooepted 8 call te the chereh at Pawnee cl-y, Neo. Kev. & Weeen, aly, hae gone to sharon, P eyes, O bumita, has Peete Ree toe a3 € i thet « 4 a ven. The be ston ao nd ae kh & ¥ meme ( “ aeopted & cal the Mapiles church at boowowa, Nd The Gi@ewt Haptist charcn now Kev wren coon. B Cromer Thea Vaapetamt che ren wel, i ; tion of the Deity. Bishop Haven writes churches ‘where m the a verre 1. os A] in the Ww. Va. The aod the have been vation of waters wo “Lady.” The re; is that of En Ween. tra. ot a, tt Yo gino 2 E5Efas3 r three days she was periectl, cured, and was to walk from the church and town to her bome beyoi ey she bad voy I unable at eyen about use jor years belore, mis sion of the kKedemptionist Fathers in St. James? chureh iast Week Was lor women. and over six thousand communions were partaken of This week the mission is for men. jast sunday Miss Hall, of Hai Ss. Ferry, @ud Miss Price, of Wil- mungt yh the veil in tue Convent of ers. w rke, O, P,, Jeit ivetand tm com- with rather Lily, 0. P.,Jor Kome, Be ex- pectost to Fetura to Ireland Bouro Aprils, “mgr: fermillod is in Paris, aud the exiled Dishop Of Geneva preached at the Madeleine on Passion Sun- day. ‘The dedication of the colored people in St. Louis wit take place on the 1sth of May. on the Catholic cathedral ich will be Archbishop Manning fas written an ode on Bt. Patrick, Which is praised b) tue London critics. ‘On the nightof March 8, wiile the Cuuree of St. Agostins alla Zecca, of Napies, was crowded at & “mission,’? some rowdies gathered and, alter ex- ploding two bombs outside the churoh’ door and hereby creating a panic inside, they entered and @ general destruction eo: Veuches aud chairs aud other turaiture, and wound up by smashing the high gitar and {hat of fue Mauouna ito ari ments, accompanying their acts wit Loister indecent and blasphemous language. Une of the blows to the Church ©: iioue in tue Holy y 1s the meeige of @ bili by the ituiun Senate decreeing that Christians of ali denowmations may be candidates for the vacant chairs in the universities, Savannah, W. H. Gross, Will crated in Baltimore Cathedrai a week irom to-day and on the Sunday ivliowing he will take ession of his new See. On tie same duy (May 4) Dr.. Corrigan wili be consecrated Bishop of Newark in the cathedral oj tuat city. Archbishop Bayley will oiiciate on both oceusions. ‘The Freeman's Journal acknowtedyes the receipt of $291 28, coutributions for “Uur Holy Father the Pope,” whose trials, the Journal thinks, will be asguuged before next year. Povably, U the datiy bulletins of his health can be depended on, The coliections in the Catholic churches oi rookiyn Jor tne Orphan Asylum, at ciristiaas and Easter, jaregate $17,307 40, Last Tuesday the Catuolics Of Baltumore laid the foundation stone of St, Ann's church in that city. The ed.tice will be 64xX100 ieet, built of granite, with marbie trimaings, capable Oi seating 600 persons a id to cost »4),000, Rev, W. E. Bardett, of the Cathedva,, is t ome pastor of the new enterprise. Frenco tholics are organ- izing a tract society to counteraci the ieavening in- fuenves of Protestants iu that Lind. UNIVERSALIST. The Universalists of Canada number 4,896 mem- bers. Rev. M. R. Mosher has resi:ned his astor- ate in Nebraska, lowa, and has vone to the study of law. The era of good iecing iu Daubury con- tinues. The pastor of the Un.ve.silst cuurch was recently invited to preach in a “Uliristian’”’ church, which tas always had a reputation ior orthodoxy of the severest kind. Rev. A. 0. Hupbard, pastor of the Baptist church, a Calvinist of the strictest order, preached in the Universalist churca iast month @ sermon which for genume Christian thought and sentiment is not oiien equaiied, 1t contained no doctrinal alllusions, and was heartily commended by those old Universalists who were fed years ago trom such doctrinal ‘ood as was tur- nished by Sawyer, King, Builou and Whittemore, Rov. E. T. Cuatiee resigns his pastorate in Barre, Mass., and ts succeeded by Brother Lester Warren, Rev, N. C. Hodgdon, of Vernon, Mass., Wo has been out 01 health, is fast regaiming iis strength. The new church at Pigcon Cove, diass., wil be dedicated about the 1st of May. [ne Uniyersatist church in Stoughton calls brother Joseph K. Mason to its pulpit. le will supply tii he graduates in July from Tuft’s Divinity School, and then receive the rite of ordination and be instalied. the Church of the Redeemer in Chelsea ces has ex- tended a unanimous cali to the Kev. A. J. Caufield, of Utica, N. Y., which he has uccepted. ‘the Metho- dist, Presbyterian and Universalist ministers in Wil- liston, Vt., frequently exchauge puipits, very ac- ceptably to the several congregations. The Universalist society in Welis, \t., has a smail, neat chureh, in which services are held every fourth Sunday by Rev. W. T. Koss, of Castleton. Kev. G. 8. Guernsey has closed jus pastorace in Cavendish, Vt. Rev. W. N. Van de Mark has leit the Univer- salist church in Pittsburg and gone tv Black Hawk, Col. Rev. W. P, Payne, who has veen laboring with the Universalist church in Nyack during the past year, will close his engagement in that place on he 1st of May. MISCELLANEOUS, The Jewish congregrativn Bnai Sholom, of Quincy, ll, lave elected Rev. J. Mendes De Solla, of San Francisco, theic rabbi, and be has accepted the positi.n. The General Con- ference of the United Brethren Churcn opens in the city of Dayton, Ohio, ‘thursday, May 15, It is re- ported that willle a clerzyman in Atalanta, Ga., was extolling the exceilence Of charity on Sunday evening of last week an unknown man suddenly rose from nis seat, walked to the | ulpit and laid a roll of greenbacks beside the Bible. After the services he again went to the pulpit, shook hands with the clergyman and departed without having uttered a word. ‘she last heard from him he was recovering siowly., The English friends of Dr. Moffat, the veteran mission- ary and father-in-law of Dr. Livingstone, visited him recently and presented him testimoniais of their respect to the amount of $30,C0) availably in- vested. ‘Ihe number of converts in the Protestant missions of the world is computed at 1,309,638. Of this number 256,879 are communicants, This calcu jJation does not include the 4.355 communicants of the native church at Sierra Leone, nor the 21,000 communicants oi the Baptist Ja- maica Union. The number of missionaries and native clergy in tie mission field is 2176, The five hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Huss will occur on the éthoi July. A proposition has been started among the Moravians to houor it with suitable ceremonies of celebration. Rev. A. S. Hartman, pastor of Onrist Lutheran church, Ghent, N. Y., has received a unanimous call to be- come pastor of St. Mattaew’s Lutheran church, Atlantic street, Brooklyn. ‘ihe Synod of Unio, of the Reformed Church in the United States, will meet in annual session in the Reformed church at Shelbyville, ping ‘The dedication of a new Congregational church e fice at Mansfield, Ohio, has been set ior May 4. ‘The American Bible Society will hold its anniver- sary this seat in Philadelphia, where a meeting of more than ordinary interest is anticipated. Kev. Drs, Storrs’, Budington’s and Wm. M. Taylor's con- grogntions, in Brookiyn and New York, nave made their first contributions toward the Congregational Chareh Extension Fund, for ase in this vicinity. About fonr thousand five hundred dollars have thus far been collected, with the rest of the churches to hear trom. The Broadway Tabernacle have insured the life of their pastor, the Rev. Dr. ‘Taylor, for $20,000, on the endowment policy pla: FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE, ecliptic The Passover Passed Over—Prayers for the Dead—A Now English Rabbi for the Temple. This orthodox congregation having observed the eighth day of Passover, which closed on Friday evening, gathered yesterday also in large num- bers in their synagogue on Forty-fourth street, be- tween Sixth and Seventh avenues. The first and eigutt deys of the* festival are kept as holidays by the orthodox Jews, and on these days Rev. Mr. Isaacs delivered addresses appropriate to the festival. Yesterday he did not preach, but a service for the dead was celebrated in- stead. As an introduction to this service Mr.- Isaacs remarked that the Passover had’ passed and they would now settle down to their ordinary avocations; but it became them to re- Member those that have gone from their ‘ag 4 bat whose memorials were still with them. We are now, said he, about to rememver those who have goue before and whom we soon follow, Let us therefore look back to the dave of old, and us take care that when we leave this world our ikiren shail have no regrets save that we are gone irom them, Let our lives be spent in God's service and in doing goed to our fellow men. And with these words, said Mr. Isaacs, let us offer up PRAYERS FOR TUR DEAD. covering his head and hat with his tery he, with @ portion o! the Sonereyaren, ‘a = Ke ey up stlent prayers tor a tow minutes, ‘which the people sat down, and tae pypacker, book O1 record of tue Gend of the con: prayed for each of the deceased de- and by name, ‘The ordinary sabbath ger- ‘yas bumorousiy semrested b; sly 8! sted by one of the \- bers that the exhaustion consequent upon Meera. over diet of unleavened bread and bitter kerbs had uuitied the venerable rabbi, Isaacs, for & regular lecture roeers aye Butany i one who knows anything about the observan, fesuval among | lites must know thathte iY the substitution of unleavened crackers for weor 4 aay te lhe sd i no diminution 3 ben ha hap me he ordinary diet AN ENGLISH RABRI COMING, le Weeks henge, and is to lecture on t Sabbaths, and’ upon duit jects each ihe ba bad ty conure ation be ris @ 18 acc will ba, they'promisa him a good ‘salurhe voos itis The wher 4 ¥ they have called jeoturer. Hi pected to occupy their~ salar, Preachers are 40 source that the now been aix months iooki it is fo.be hoped bas at last found che right map 1m Mt on the idth of rae i ‘i i , ——— » 5 h t 7 , |