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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. May 4--Third Sunday After Easter. SCHEDULE “ OF EXERCISES TO-DAY. Herald Religious respondence. Cor- CHUSCH AND STATE IN MICHIGAN. Catholic Total Abstinence Union. A CHALLENGE TO SCIENCE. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. Rev. Dr. T, De Witt Talmage will preach in the Brooklyn Academy of Music at the usual hours morning and evening. At Trinity Baptist charch Rev. Dr, Holme will preach morning and evening. E The Rev. Drs, Eadie and Caldewood, delegates from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to the General Assembiles in this country, have arrived, and will take part in the anniversary ex- ercises of the Jane street United Presbyterian church, Monday evening, May 5. At the morning service in the Ohurch of the Reformation Rev U. T. Tracy will preach. In the evening Rev. Dr. A. B. Carter will oMelate. At the First place Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, Rev. Robert 8. Hunt, pastor, services morning and evening (sacramental). Rev. H. D. Ganse preaches at Madison avenue Reformed church at eleven A. M. and four P. M. ®he Free Tabernacle of the Methodist Episcopal church will be opened to-day with preaching by Bishop Janes in the morning and with addresses by other eloquent Methodist divines in the evening. Rev. Wayland Hoyt preaches in the Tabernacle Baptist church in the morning, and at Steinway Hall in the evening on “Friendships.” The congregation of St. Paul’s Reformed church will worship morning and evening in the Harvard Rooms. Rev. Dr. Lansing will preach in the morn- tng. Rev. Professor Roberts preaches morning and evening at St. Thomas’ chapel. The American Female Guardian Society will hold their annual meeting in the Madison avenue Re- formed church this evening. Addresses by Rev. Drs. Tyng, J. H. Vincent and the pastor of the church. Rev. Dr. Vincent will preach this morning in St. Luke's (Methodist Episcopal). Rev. Isaac Ruley preaches morning and evening in Thirty-fourth street Reformed church, “Counsels to Converts” and “Vices of Spring” will be Rev. R. 8. MacArthur’s subjects, morning and evening, at Calvary Baptist church. Rev, Henry Powers will hold fortn upon “Human Perfection” this morning at the Chureh of the Messiah. In the evening service of praise. At the Fifty-third street Baptist church Rev. Wm. Pendietor discourses upon special subjects morn- ing and evening. Grace chapel congregation will worship in Tam- Many Hall at eleven A. M. and four P. M. Rev. Dr. Gillette preaches in Plymouth Baptist church morning and evening. “America in Prophecy” will be elaborated on by Bishop Snow, tn the University, at three o'clock. At All Saints’ (Episcopal) Rev. W.N. Dunnell | preaches morning and evening. At Robinson Hall the Progressive Spiritualists ‘will in future hold their services. Lyceum at ten A. M. to-day, conference at half-past two and Bryan Grant on “Spirit Communion” at hall-past seven P. M. Rev. W. C. Dawson preaches at the Church of Christ in the morning and evening. Rev. Milton 8, Terry will conduct the morning and evening services at Eighteenth street Metho- dist Episcopal church. At Fourteenth street Presbyterian church Rev. Dr. Hastings will lecture to young people this evening. Morning and evening services at Laight street Baptist Mission, Rev. Halsey W. Knapp preaches. Opening services of the New York City Missien at the Seamen’s Exchange this evening. Addresses by Drs. Thompson and Murray and Rev. Mr. Mingins. At Presbyterian Memorial church Rev. Dr. Robin son will officiate morning and evening. The new pastor of the Sixth avenue Union Re- formed church, Rev. W. B. Merritt, will administer communion this morning and preach this evening. At St. Peter's, this evening, Rev. W. H. Cooke ‘will advocate the Young Men's Association Charity fund. Rev. H. D. Northrop will preach, morning and evening, in the West Twenty-third street Presby- terian church, Services in Christ church by Rev. Dr. Hugh Mil- ler Thompson. At Union Hall, Jersey City, Dr. C. Stiles will neld Spiritualist services at three and eight P. M. At St. Ignatius’ church Rev. Dr. Ewer will repeat ‘bis first Easter sermon this eveniag. Services also at seven, nine and hal{-past ten A. M. Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach on special subjects, morning and evening, at the Church of | the Disciples. “A Cheeriul Religion” will be the subject of Rev. W. T. Clark's discourse, this morning, at Harlem Unity chapel. ‘The rector of Anthon Memorial church, Rev. R. Heber Newton, preaches in the morning, and in the afternoon there will bea fine choral service and a discourse upon “The Creation’? by tho rector. fi Rey. J. M. Pullman will preach in the Church of Our Saviour at the usual hours, At St. John’s chapel Rev. Mr. Atwill will preach fn the morning and Rev. Mr. Hitchings im the evening. : Bishop Armitage, of Wisconsin, will officiate this morning and evening at Calvary church. “The Ground of Public Security”? will be Rev. J. M. Atwood’s subject, at Plimpton Building, at eleven A. M. ‘The Jersey City Spiritualists and Free Thinkers ‘will meet in the new lecture room, Franklin Hall, for the usual services. A. Higgins, Jr., lectures this evening. Sermons upon special subjects, morning and evening, at the Church of the New Jerusalem, by Rev, W. Hayden. The Cosmopolitan Conference will be addressed py Mr. Berthollet, this afternoon, on “The Conduct of the United States Government,” Rev. Dr. E. O. Flagg preaches, morning and even- ng, in Eighty-fifth street church. Serviocs in English at the Russian-Greek chapel at eleven 4. M. Rey. P. L. Davies will preach in Beacon Baptist ghuggh gj the usual hours, morning and evening, chititch and State in Michigan—Failure of the Ecclesiastical Penal Bill—The Banbury a, of Civil ana Religious Authoriti A few weeks since a correspondent of the HERALD called attention to a bill that had passed she Senate of Michigan providing for the punish- ment of ministers of religien for carrying out ecclesiastical discipline against church members who attempted to enforce civil rights by suing «hureh dignitaries, The measure was aimed at Oatholic ministers, and its author seemed to have een inspired by a perusal of Bismarck’s bill for the regulation and control of the clergy, which has finally been adopted by the Upper House of the Prussian Diet The Michigan aqueme woa rematk- ’ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 4, 187%—QUADRUPLE SHEET. able as being the first of the kind ever proposed in an American Legisiature since the foundation of the government. It progressed to its passage in the Senate with little or no opposition. The mo- tive for introducing it was the alleged refusal of the Bishop of Detroit to admuister communion to a Catholic layman who had not fulfilled the requitements laid down by the Church before the sacrament could be conscientiously re- ceived. The House of Representatives allowed a week or two to pass before taking action on the bill, and in the meantime the views presented tn the HERALD were brought to the notice of mem- bers, The pains and penalties prescribed were very severe. Ecclesiastical interference with the prosecution of suits brought agatust ecclesiastical authority was to be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison flve or ton years and by fine of $5,000 to $10,000, at the discretion of the Court. THE CASB OF BUNBURY, It was alleged that a man named Bunbury ad- vanced a considerable sum of money towards the erection of a church at Kalamazoo, which, not being paid, he made @ olatm for the amount on the congregation. On investigation it wus discovered that the money had never been used for the build- ing, and that the parties who received it from Bun- bury had no right to contract a debt for the church in any way, a Bunbury found that the Bishop disclaimes responsibility for the debt he commenced @ suit in the civil courts against that ecclesiastic, Last Summer the Bishop visited | Kalamazoo, and excluded Bunbury from communion, because the latter had not confessed and had no right to receive it. The canons and ai e of the Church left the Bishop no other course pursue, He was bound to ob- serve the law or become himself liable to censure, Bunbury was not excommunicated, nor was such a Proceeding contemplated, On this state of tacts the Legislature proposed to make the Bishop’s action a felony, VIEWS OF MIOHIGAN LEGISLATORS. The bill was reported favorably to the House. During the debate it was asked, Is this religious liberty? Is it not in defiance of the Constitution? Itiss ganqerone power for the State to claim and exercise, power is given the State to control the Church in one case, it must be given in all, ‘There will be no limit, “The bill,” said Mr. Caflis, “is the first attempt in the whole history of the country in which any State has tried to interfere with the functions of the Church. It is incredible and impossible that the Legislature will be gov- erned by an hostility to Roman Catholicism in their disposition of the question.” Another mem- ber stated that THR QUAKERS AND THE METHODISTS have provisions in the rules of their Church govern- ments by which members are not allowed to go to law with each other, and it never seemed as if any- body's rights were inaioned upon by this princi- ple; yet this bill would, by its enforcement, send the Church officer who exacted Church discipline into the company of thieves and murderers, In this case the operation ef the Church law alone excludes Bunbury from the sacrament, and the Bishop had nothing to do with it. As long as re- ligious organizations do not interfere with out- siders their position is impregnable. But they have aright to make just such rules as they like, and they may admit and exclude just such persons as they see fit. Interference is useless and will be despised by the members themselves in whose be- halfit is made. It would be as sensible to compel THE ADMINISTRATION OF SACRAMENTS UNDER A MANDAMUS. Supposing again, said Mr. Ripley, a church were to expel its pastor and deprive hun of his salary be- cause of drankenness; under this law he mignt claim his salary aga civil right and might regain his pest, goon in the exercise of his duties and defy the authority of his church on the strength of the civil law, Other members contended that the law would be useless, that the rule of the Metho- dist Church was the same as that of the Catholic and that Bunbury knew very well what the LEN lations of his Church were. Churches provide remedies within themselves, and there may be good reasons for prohibiting civil suits against ecclesiastical autherities—such as the prevention of outside scandal. Judge Shaw considered the billa presposterous one and NOT WORTH A DECENT BURIAL, A vote was taken on a motion to summarily kill the measure, which was lost by a rerayee of two; but it Was not an index of the feeling of the House, since some voted in the affirmative for the purpose ol giving it another chance for discussion on the third pening Tails, however, was the last of the bill, ag the Legislature adjourned on the 25th ult, without taking any further action in the matter. The author of the measure, it is understood, was Mr. Stuart, formerly a United States Senator from Michigan ; the introducer of it in the Senate, where it passed, resigned his seat before the adjourn- ment. The homeopathists obtained a great victory during the session. It was enacted that two pro- fessors 61 that faith shall be appointed to the medi- cal department of the State University. The woman suffragists had a hearing, and quot dealers are not to serve hereafter on juries in Michigan. The bill to repeal the law authorizing Roman Catholic Bishops to hold property in trust for church pur- oses failed. The concluding exercises of the louse are thus described :—Representauve Gor- don sang, accompanying himself on the organ, Py, unanimous request, Tom Moore’s song, ‘Farewell; but whenever you welcome the hour,” after which was @ prayer by Representative Walker. The | hymn, “My God! how endless is Thy love!’ was sung by all the members standing. ture does not meet again till 1875, Convention of the Catholic Total Absti- mence Union. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In your Sunday’s HeRaup | read an editorial on the Evangelical Alliance—what it has dene and what it intends to do, &c. I would wish to call your attention to a meeting which 1s to be held in this city in October next. Beso good as to give it notice. 1am sure you would be obliging many. On the 8th day of that month the Catholic Total Abstinence Unien of America meets in convention. Its object is to spread scnong the people the great blessings of temperance. If there is one thin more than another that tends to better the condi- Ca of mankind it is the leading of a temperate life. In this age ef crime, and in this city where so much crime is committed, it beheoves the friends of order and weil regulated society to lend their influence to @ cause which is calculated to do so much good. And knowing from bee experience that the MERALD has ever been a friend to good order—a friend to anything that would legitimately beneft mankind—I am almost sure it will now, ag on former occasions, give a helping hand to a cause 80 good in every respect as the cause of total ab- stinence is. There will be men high in the Church who will take part in the proceedings of the con- vention. There will alse be distinguished laymen in like manner, devising the best ways and means whereby the cause May become @ success, There is nothing in the way of politics in it whatever. JOHN BRESLAND, Beecher’s Science. To THE EDITOR OF PHE HERALD:— ‘The Christian Union of April 23, under the head- | ing “Common Sense and Creeds,” contained part of a creed constructed out of Professor Tyndall's lectures :— The Legisia- Thomas K. Challenge to CREDO. e T believe in squares immovable. I believe that every square is bounded by four equal sides, rorming four right angies. That two diagonals may be drawn in every square. ‘That the sides are Nuite and exact. ‘That the diagonals are finite and exact. That the sides of a square being exactly measured and known the diugonals cannot be. If the diagonals be measured and known the sides cannot be. The sides and diagonals of one and the same sq incommensurable, and yet every square bas ext and exact diagonal Here is @ point-blank shot at the rank incon- sistency of the ‘positive and exact science.” No work but Theodore Faber’s “mathematical and philosophical manifesto” explains the paradex and | Sets science right on the subject of the sides and diagonals of squares. The longer the aposties of science defer to accept his newly discovered trath the longer science will suffer the disgrace of incon- Sistency, aud with tt the just taunts of the aposties of theology. If any mathematician be abie to re- fute the new truth, why don’t he come out? And if none be able to refute it, why defer its public acceptance, which would put an end to the dis- grace of science and Vindisate mathematical IS as ? PACIFICATOR, French Compliment toa Jesait Priest. At St. Patrick's College, Melbourne, Australia, Count de Dollon has presented, on behalf of the Ambulance Committee of Paris, which was estab- lished daring the recent French war, a gold medal to the Rev, W. Kelp, 8 J., for distinguished ser- vices rendered—particularly by his lecture at the Town Hall, Melbourne, on “France under Louis Xl, he the Roman Catholic Church, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey bas sent a donation of the amount of $3,650, gold, to assist in the construction of a new Roman Catholic chureh at Scutart, In Albania, This generous gift has created @ favorable impression among tle Mirdites and other Catholic Albaniaus, re ai t sides Sultan « Ministerial Movements and Changes. ROMAN CATHOLIC. Rev. F. Ralando, ©, M., jate Superior of the Laza- rists in St. Louis, has been appointed Visitor of the Congregation of Missions in the United Stsces, made vaeant by the death of Rev, P. Heyden. The Empress of Russia has given Father Ludovic da Casoria 3,000 francs towards the foundation of his almshouse at Massa, and 10,000 to another priest at Sorrento for an orphan asylum. Father Raphael Ballerini, 8. J., @ distinguished contributor to the Clvitta Cattolica, has been arrested at Milan, by order of the Italian government and in obedience AMOLCerdré Of Yom Rimprck. The fayner bad published s-very strong article on that potentate, which had mortally offended him. The death is announced in Rome, April 8, of the Arch- bishop of Edessa im, partidus, Mgr. G. Cardont. He was also President of the Pontifical Academy of Noble Ecclestastics. A great pilgrimage took place recently from Bo- logna to the shrine of the Madonna, at Cento, a suburb of that old city. Holy communion was given by the Bishop of Philadelphia in partibus to several thonsand persons. From three in the morning un- til seven in the evening a dense crowd filled the church and all the streets leading to tt, Monsignor Ledochowski, Archbishop of Posen, has ad- dressed a circular to the Polish clergy relative to the important question o! teaching the catechism in the German language, in preference to the Polish, in his diocese, according to the orders of Kaiser von Bismarck. The Archbishop resolutely de- termimes that the Polish language shall be employed in all the junior classes and the German in the senior, Several ecclesiastics of Posen have informed the authorities that they will obey Monsignor Ledo- chowski to the letter, and utterly discard the couimands of the government, In consequence ot this determinntion the priests in question will not be allowed to continue to give religious instruction in the public schools. The practice of sermons at the early masses in the Catholic churches has been introduced in the Panlist church of this city. It is likely to be followed by other churches, inasmuch as the religious press of the Church express the desire of the people for such instruction. Rev. Father Bodiish has led the way in this matter, The three eminent preachers, Father De Jorio, Gor- noldt and Lombardini—ali of Society of Jesus, in Rome—have been denounced before the tribunals for having made some political allusions in their sermons which they strenuously deny having made. A Roman corre- Spondent of the Catholic Renew writes that an army of masons are now at work on the famous Gesu Convent. The poor fathers are reduced to living in 80 Out-of-the-way corner ef the building, and the rest is being arranged for the reception of troops. So that this, the grandest monument of Jesuit patience, perseverance and liberality, is doomed to undergo a change worthy of the inspiration of the Goths and Vandals. A convent, college, museum and church, the Gesu, is one of the most remarka- ble edifices ever erected by the geal of a religious order and in honor of God and learning. Archbishop McCloskey has, since April 22, administered the rite of confirmation in this city to 1,285 children of the Church. The consecration of Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, will take place to-day. Archbishop Bayley has come on to oficiate on the interesting occasion. About one hundred of the Catholic children who attended the public school at Bull’s Ferry, N. J., have been withdrawn from the schooi by their pe because of the agitation of the Protestant ‘ible question. The scheol numbers fifty pupils now. The new Catholic seminary in Camden, N. J., which has been left in abeyance for some time, is now to be pushed rapidly forward to completion, The late Father Macken, of Trenton, N. J., by his will, which has just been admitted to probate, be- queathed his library to Seton Hall College, South Orange ; $1,000 to St. Charies Borromeo Theologi- cal Seminary, of Philadelphia; $5,000 to the Church of St. John the Baptist, of which he was pastor, for the erection of a schoolhouse for males; $5,000 to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark, for a fund for the assistance of poor beys, PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. J. R. Boyd was installed pastor of the Pres- byterian church at Lancaster, Obto, on April 15. Rey. A. J. Reynolds has nega his pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Lithopolis, Ohio. Rev. J. K. Lockhart has, at the age of seventy-turee years, finished his fortieth year of pastoral over- sight of the Presbyterian church at Russelville, Ohio. The congregation dedicated anew church April 27. Dr. Alexander Reid, ef Pailadelphia, has been called to the South Presbyterian church of Brooklyn, but has not yet signified his acceptance. Rev. Dr. Scudder, of Brooklyn, has received as- surances which encourage the belief that his pulpit will be supplied through the coming hot months by Rev. Mr. McFayden, a@ Scotch clereyaae of high repute, now settled in England, The Sixth and Seventh churches of Philadelphia have been united under the name of the ‘‘fabernacle church.” Rev. E. B, Ratfensperger has closed his pastorate with the Westminster Presbyterian church in Cleveland, Ohio. The New Orleans Presbytery re- ports 1,943 members and 3,096 Sabbath Bcnolars, chiefly in the city churches, The ecclesiastical contributions amounted to $67,000. There are twenty churches in the Presbytery. A general col- lection is to be taken up throughout the Southern Presbyterian churches during the present month for foreign missions. Kight missionaries stand ready to go out during the Summer or Fall if sufti- cient funds can be raised to encourage the Church to send them and to sustain them in the old or in new flelds. The Mission Board wants especially to occupy Mexico and Japan. Rev. A. H. Barkley, pastor of Bethel and Crawfordville Presbyterian churches, Mississippi, has been appointed an eva! gelist by his Presbytery and has consequently re- signed his pastorate. Church and State questions whether @ Sabbath day spent in Central Park is not more profitabie than one spent in listening to Mr. Talmage’s discourses. It fears that crowds flock, not to worship God and read His Gospel, but to see Talmage and hear his way of put the Gospel, The small Presbyterian church in \die- town, lowa, received fifty-one new members at its April communion. The Rev. Dr. J. Gient: foryt Butler coneluded his labors as the pastor of thejjrd First Presbyterian ae Brooklyn, &.\ D., on Sabbath last. Rev, Wiliam Alves, — for- merly pastor of the Calvin Presbyterian church ef St. Jonna’, N. B., died recently of rotracted consumption, at Otago, New Zealan leaving a wife and six children, in a land of co: parative Lee ay to deplore their sad bereave- ment. Rev. H. McGiffert was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Parkersburg, W. Va., April 24, Rev. W. C. Falconer was installed pastor of the First Presbyterian church in the same city on June 17. Rev. Jolin E. Peters will be installed pastor ef the Breckinridge Presbyterian church in hibattl ee pal Ohio, the present terminus of the Ohio and Chesapeake Railroad. The Phila- deiphia Presbyterians are projecting a bethel for mariners at Port Richmond, near that city. Port Richmond ts the main point of transit from land to sea lor the carriage of the coal which comes dewn the Reading road, and is hence thronged with the class which itis desired to reach by this Christian effort. Kev. James Boggs has the enterprise in charge. The Madisom avenue Presbyterian church, Rey. Mr. Conklin pastor, are about to enlarge their edifice to accommodate the increasing congrega- tions. The death of Rev. G. W. Burc, the minister in charge of the colored church at Vieksburg, Miss., is announced. METHODIST. Bishop Pierce will dedicate the new Methodist church im Barnesville, Ga, in June. Dr. Spangler, the Methodist popes im charge of the church at Uniontown, N. J., while preaching to his congrega- tion, a few days since, was stricken with paralysis and is in a critical condition. The statistics of the Conference are:—Total number of mem- ‘8, 17,328—an increase of 155; raised for mis- sions, $11,953 75—a slight decrease. Rey. J. H. Mc- Carty, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Adrian, Mich., has been talked of for a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, He does not encourage the luea, but says:—“It is my conviction that the giorious men on the heme soil will do for Canada Methodism what strangers could not do.’ The new Memorial Methodist Episcopal church, White Plaias, N. Y., will be dedicated May 17 and 18 Bishop Janes will officiate. Rev. Dr. William Hunter, of Pittsburg, dedicated a neat brick church structure at Cliiton, opposite eee Ohio, on Easter Sunday, Rev, W. F. Hatfield was transferred at the recent conference session -from New Yerk East Confer- ence to the New York Conference, and stationed at the mew Memorial church at White Plains. Rey. James Thompson, ef the Canadian Wesleyan Conference, died at Napanee April 19, Hon. and Rev. M. J. Kramer, U, 5. Min- ister to Denwark, is now on leave of absence visiting this country and his family, who reside in Covington, Ky. Chancellor Winchell, of Syracuse University, occupied the puipit of the Metho- dist Episcopal church at Hempstead last Sab- bath, and eye the people @ lay sermon on the “Harmony between Science and Genesis,” The discourse {8 spoken of as an effectual antidote to the teachings of Darwin, Huxley, &c. Trinity Me- thodist Episcopal church, Thirty-fourth street, is to be opened to-day as a ‘abernacie, under the auspices of the City Missionary Society. Bish- ops Janes and Haven are to officiate. The lecture room of the new Central Methodist Kpis- copal church, Yonkers, N. Y., F. 8. Bar- num pastor, was dedicated on Sunday. The Canadian Methodists are raising an en- dowment fand of $40,000 for Albert Uollege. Tne Southern bishops are to meet in Nashville May 7, the Board of Missions in tne same place May 8 and the Book Committee May 6. Bishop _ Doggett has left Rich. mond, Va., on @ threé months’ visitation to the conferences in the Southwest, A private con- ference was held at the Warren street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night, to see what could be done to remove the opposition of the official Board to the action of the Bishop. Quite 8 number of churches were represented, A large committee was appointed to take the whole pubject Intp gonglaeratlony he drift of the meet- Ing seeméd to be that the Warren street people should receive Mr. Sanders. ‘Rebellion was wrong and good Methodists ought to obey their bishops.” Rev. Willis Nazarey, of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this country, will go to British | Guiana early in 1873, to establish @ mission. Rev. Daniel Steele, D. D., of the New England Confe: ence, has been elected President of the “General Literary College” of the Boston University. Bishop Haven adéressed the Boston preachers’ meeting at ethan giving an account of his trip to ‘exico. BAPTIST. The Five Points Colored Mission have elected Rey. C, H. Malcolm, D. D., President, and Rey. G. H, Ball, D. D., Vice’ President, William Louis De Phillips is its missionary, Rev, J. C, Grimmell, astor of the First German church in Buffalo, is te eave that place and come to Brooklyn abeut the ist of July. A movement is on foot to establish a Baptist church in San Antonto. The enterprisin, Baptists of the State are erecting there a house of wership and a parsonage. Rev. G. T, Lamb has re- moved from Salem to Unionville, Ohio, having ac- cepted a call as pastor of the Baptist church at the latter place. v. M. I. Parker has resigned his pastorate at Austin, Minu., to take fe of the Baptist church at Visaita, . . D, Fulton, of Boston, has accepted the invi- mn of the Brooklyn Hanson place church to be- Ghgik Bagot, the DUiLIs Of Which was regen! 'S vi by the Rev. Way! Hoyt, Tabernacie church in Sooond avenue, New York, The Evanston, Ind., tists oe eee » Bant are about to build a 000, Society in Clin Mass., the ‘halary of vene mont have already raised nearly $100,000 $125,000 required for for % choles Academy. Itis to be Saxon’s River. The union contemplated between the First and the Pierrepont street churches was happily consum- mated on Monday evening, April 21, The new or- ganization is to be known as the First Baptist | church of Pierrepont street. No answer has yet been received from Dr. Lorimer ty the call they have given him, The Gethsemane Baptist church, Brooklya, finds itself straitened for room and is | about to pull down and rebuild on an enlarged basis, Rey. J. B. Smith, of Geneva, N, Y., returned to this city on Monday last by the steamer City of Paris, after nearly @ year’s absence in Europe and the Holy Land. — Rev.’ A. Martin has taken the peace ofthe First Baptist church of Colesville, . Y. Rev. George R. Hunter, pastor of the Baptlst chureh, Perth Amboy, N, J., has been appointed a missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. v. Thomas Todd has resigned his pastoral charge at Sackville, and accepted @ unanimous call from the Church at Sussex Vale, New Brunswick. Rev. G. W. Jinks, of Howell, Mich., has gone to Brighton, same State. Rey. John Dunham has become pastor of the Baptist church at Quincy, Mich. new Baptist church will be dedicated in St. Clair, Mich., next Sunday, Rev.'A. F. Niles has resigned his charge at Lebanon. Rev. R. C, Keele has gone from Corinth to Dix, Ill, Rev. J, N. Hillhas gone from Macomb to South Dover, IIL; Rev. ©. Rooney from Cooper's Plains to Chemung, Rey. 8. Sampson, of Parksville to Shokan, N. Y. Rev. George W. Wentworth, now of the Union school, lefield, accepts the call of the church at Seward,N.Y. In the failure of the Atiantic Bank about $10,000 of the Baptist Home Mission Ey funds are put in peril, if not altogether EPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. H. O. H. Dudley having been appointed missionary in the Northwest by the American Church Mlesinnaty BOSiO te has removed to Detroit, Becker county, n., from Xenia, Ohio. The Treading desks and communion table at St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, Long Island, Rev. Dr. Schenck, astor, Were draped in mourning on Sunday last in respect to the memory of Mrs. Cutler, wife of the Rey. Dr, Cutler, whe was for mal years the rector of the church. A new Episcopal church will be immediately erectea at Shelter Island, L, 1. Rev, Mr. Flitchtner has accepted a call to the rectorship of St. Barnabas church, Newark, N, J. Rev. 0. Hutton, D. D., has accepted the rectorshiy of Mount Calvary hurch, Howard county, Md. Rev. C, E. Fessenden, of Pennsylvania, has accepted acallto therectorship of old St. James’ church, near Stanton, Del. On Easter Sunday the offer- ings of St. John’s church, St. Louis, Mo., amounted to $38,000, A short time jo the mem- bers of Christ church, in the same city, contributea for church purposes ),000, Rev. William S. Coffee is rector of the Episcopal charch of St. Paul, in East Chester. He is a strict constructionist, and holds that no other preacher can ceme within the bounds of his parish without his censent, But Trinity church, Mount Vernon, was erected, and has maintained a stormy exist- ence for ten years. A rel has been kept up between the two societies, and appeals have been made to ecclesiastical and civillaw, keeping the congregations in a very excited state and bringin great discredit on the Church. Last week the ad- herents of kev. Mr. Voffee, by @ little finesse, ob- tained the keys from the sexton, locked up the rival edifice and turned the rector and congregation out in the cold, This action has waked up the people in Westchester county, and there is a general in- terest expressed to see what the next move will be, CONGREGATIONAL, Mr. Bartlett, of Cesarea, a missionary of the American Board, writes of an interesting move- Tent among the Greeks of that vicinity:—“A new bishop has recently been appointed for this district, and, as his bishopric ranks next to that of Con- Stantinople, the new bishop has felt called upon to rescue all who have been led astray by Protestant teaching. The result is much discussion and an awakening to spiritual truth. In Talas, a tewn of 10,000 inhabitants, a few miles from Cesarea, there were four years since but three Protestant brethren. Now eleven have united with the Cesarean church, nine of them being Greeks, and @ congregation of 100 gathers there each Sunday. There has algo been some persecution suffered, which seemsonly to strengthen the iaith of those suffer- ing.” ‘The proposition of the trustees of the Con- qrecntional Union to erect a building for its use in lew York will doubtless be heartily received by the churches in this vicinity, whose interests it would greatly enhance. The denomination ts stretching out its borders around this centre, and a Congre- gational house, like the one just put up in Boston, would be a vey cia point of strength and encourage- ment to allits membership. The plan considered by the trustees is to raise $250,000 in the next five i for such abuilding. There are in New Eng- land 328 Congregational churches without pastors and 442 Congregational ministers without pastoral work. The Second Congregational church, of Detroit, are building a $45,000 edifice, which the; expect to occupy about December 1. The fifth tri- ennial Convention of Congregational churches of the Interior and Northwest, representing about one thousand societies, met at Chicago, April 22, A paper was read in regard to the wants of their theological seminary, urging a further endowment to the seminary, Not less than $230,000 are re- quired. The present value of endowment of all kinds is $370,000. MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. R. K. Hargrove expects to retire from the Presidency of the Tennessee Female College after the present session. Tne Reformed Dutch Church Classis of this city are raising a fund of $25,000 to edge a dwelling house somewhere near Foar- enth street, west side, which caa_ be converted into a chapel and mission house for the use of the large number of Hollanders who are constantly arriving here. Rev. Mr. Bechtold has already secured $4,000 of this amount, and wealthy Dutch- men are invited to open their purses and pute on this worthy enterpr! The Governor of Han, Chau, having discevered that the daughters o} Wealthy citizens were led intosin by nuns of the Buddhist faith in that city, determined to put a stop to the evil, and announced his intention to the Governor of the province of Che Kiaug. The re- sult bas been that the Buddhist nunneries through- out the province are to be suppressed. "The younger nuns are to be expelled, and no yeung girls taken hereatter to be trained as nuns. “Older nuns, left homeless, may remain, but their worship ts to cease, and the buildings hitherto occupied by the nuns are to be opened to beggars and cripples ‘The treasury of the Foreign Mission Board of the Reformed Dutch Church of this city was in debt Pele Ls al $33,500, This has been removed since, save $3,000, which is now called for before May 6, se that thé new ecclesiastical year may begin with @ clean record. The Reformed Dutch Church in America numbered in 1872:—Churches; 491; ministers, 509; families, 41,335; com- muhicants, 64,214; Sabbath school scholars, 69,758; contributions for benevolent purposes, $357,216; for congregational uses, $1,006,492. The denomination supports 12 foreign mis- sions in China, India and Japan, and 16 mis- sioneries, with 18 assistants. At these and the out-stations there are 25 churches, with 4,334 worshippers and 1,220 communicants. The benevolent contributions amounted to $1,639 from the native churches last year. India is the most important fleld of the denomination’s efforts, with China next, The British Evangelical Alliance held its annual conference last week in Brighton, The General Conference in New York in Oc- tober was one of the topics of discussion. Miss Annie Baird, of Harlingen, N.J., leaves earl in May as @ missionary of the Reformed Dutc Church, for Japan. She goes in company with Professor Murray and family, of Rutgers College. The fidelity of the Jew to the faith of his fathers ‘was perhaps never more strikingly demonstrated than by the last Ld aid of the society for their con- version, in Philadelphia. Its local mussionary states that during the past year he made 334 visits, oMciated on 264 Occasions, preached 76 times, diss tributed 22,000 pages of tracts at a large expense, and yet he cannot rejoice in the conversion ofa single Israelite to Christianity. On Sunday, March 2, the first anniversary of tue native, Christian Church in Japan was celebrated in Yokonama. About one hundred and twenty persons, of whom one hundred were natives, attended. All the members preeeae partook of the communion. ‘The Society of gd of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., will hold its anniversary on May 5, and be addressed by the Rev. Dr. Tai- mage, returned missionary irom China. Rev. Austin Henry was recently ordained and installed astor of tne Kinnickkinnick Reformed church. vy. Dr. Gottheil, of Manchester, England, will occupy the puipit of the pemple Emmanuel to-day as English preacher. The Jewish school of the rophets, Maimonides College, at Philadelphia, it E stated, will soon suspend its sessions, so few young men choose the ministry, On Sunday last the Rev. George Swain, after a print of nearly five years, preached his farewell sermon at the Re- formed church of Marlboro, N. J., familiarly knewn as the “Brick Church."’ He is to take charge of the Gates avenue Presbyterian church, of Brooklyn, ‘The Israelites of this city are rat for @ great — im November for the Mount Sinai Hos- pital. TEMPLE EMANUEL. An English Rabbi's Trial Sermon Before American Israclites—Progress of the Re- form Movement—Its Value to Judaism. Yesterday morning a fair congregation, consider- ing the unpropitions weather, gathered in the Temple Emanuel, on Fifth avenue, to listen to Rev. Dr. Gotthetl, of Manchester, England, who has re- ceived @ conditional call from this congregation, ‘The Doctor is & man Of middle size, and of an open, intellectual countenance, Though not an English- man born, he has been about fourteen years preaching in England. He appears to be abuut thirty-six years of age, He speaks English with @ strong loreign accent, and with a stiffness and de- liberation not often met with in foreigners who have lived so long in the country, and seldom or never observed in native speakers. The Doctor arrived here @ few days ago, and appeared to be suffering from a cold yesterday. He also preached at a disadvantage, not knowing his congregation nor the line of thougnt that might be agceptable to ‘uams bas We thoucbt ho strike a sympathetic chord in their breasts by the oid story of Judaism and the progress and pur- poses of the reform movement. The Temple Ema- nuel, he said, had a reputation on the other aide of the water, and was engaged in THE REFORM MOVEMENT, in which both they and he believed, and which the Lord had so greatly blessed, The Doctor referrea to the strange faces upon which he looked and the great distance that separated him from the con- gregation to whom he has ministered for so many years, but he believed the Tempie congrogation would meet him on the common ground of Juda- ism. Judaism, he said, has seen a new Spring, and the old tree that stretches its root into his- ict tower a MENA, Puan, ry ! @ called attention to a, fow pal serum orharass and development of the reform movement iu Ju- diasm. The changes in this ancient religion, he sasd, ore the resuit of the combined labors of Doth ministers and congregations. The former pre- pared the way for the advance and drew from the arsenals of truth the weapons which should clear the way ior the progress of new movement. Among ‘the leaders in this movement Dr. Gottheil named the venerable and beloved pastor of the Temple congregation; the Rev. Dr. Ad.er, also Rey. Drs. Mendelsohn, Friedlander, Jacobsonn, &., men who broke ground as it were in the wilder: ness and were the pioneers of reform in Judiasm. This movement had its birth in the hearts of the peopie, it grew out of their wants and It 1s thei own reformation and has their life in it. 1¢ there- fore reiuses to be cast into the meuld of unt formity. Hence it brings out another important feature, namely— THE DIVERSITY OF JUDAISM. The Doctor refuted the charge of destructivent 80 often urged it the relormers, and remarkes that while every man did that which was right in his own ores inone sense he did right also in the eyes of others, There are times when men exhibit ie highest patriotism by obeying laws which are in themselves unjust and tyrannous; but in our Telations to our Father in heaven we must allow reason to control our actions. So long as the con- trolling faith of Israel isin the world, so long a8 the prophets and poets of Israel are read and sung in the earth and are loved by mankind, there is no great fear of excess in tlus movement. A third point which the Doctor referred to as brought out more promine ni by the reform move- ment is the community of interest which binds Israel together in one bond of love. This is evidenced by the rompt aid which has been and 1s furnished to sufferers by the famine in Persia, by the persecutions in Russia and in Roumania, and to coreligionists emigrating trom Europe to the hospitable shores of America and in which the Hebrew Benevolent Society and other institutions of the kind take such lively interest. Should the emigrant knock at the Mount Sinai Hospital its doors of mercy would open to him and he would get assurances of life. These are illustra- tions of THE UNITY IN DIVERSITY OF ISRAEL. And in these things his orthodox brethren acknowledge themselves and the reformers as one. But the reform movement does not claim finality and a new orthodox creed as its result. Re- formers may break down the brazen walls, as the liberators of history have done, only that they might the more easily become the tyrants of history. They (the political reformers) did this because they formulated their own creeds, and the only question they had to settle was to whom they should ultimately submit; which, in other words, meant who had the most brute force. Hence an infallible Pope becomes pitted against an infallible King. But not so in the reform of Judaism. This danger has been avoided altogether, and the reformers have steered clear of ailsuch. No man among them has pretended to settle all questions for Israelites. Some things have been eliminated which the aren of the race and of intelligence demanded. The past was studied with reference to the present, the present is leit to the living and the future belongs to coming genera- tions. The reformers could not serve God accord- ing to their own conscience did they not disturb the existing forms, They, therefore, reserve the same rights to those who may come aiter them. Boundless are THE POSSIBILITIES OF JUDATSM, and boundless also are the liberties ef those who shall come after the present generations. {t is our hope and ambition, the Doctor said, that the re- ligion of our fathers may rise and shed its light at every step to warn us of danger, and to be to usin our days of brightness what it was to our fathers in the days of darkness, and lead to the God and Father of us all. Dr. Gottheil will preach in German next Wednes- day evening and again in English on Saturday morning, and after those sermons the congrega- tion will have a meeting to decide by vote whether they will make a permanent arrangement with the Doctor or not. THE HOLY PLACES. The Latest Difficulty in Palestine—Con- flicting Claims of the Latins and Greeks—The Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Nativity—Belligerent Work on Sacred Ground. The old quarrel respecting the rights of the Latin and Greek monks at the Holy Places has been once more revived, and though a final settlement may be reached there is little hope that such a result will be accomplished. The memories associated with the Holy Places are full of solemn interest for every religious mind, and, notwithstanding the efforts of the Turkish government to preserve peace on what should be a common meeting ground for all Christians, angry controversies are constantly arising and not un- frequently sanguine conflicts. These difficulties have been, too, turned into causes of rupture be- tween nations, and have led in ourown day to a long and bloody war. CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. The Holy Places, strictly described, are a group of sacred spots in, Palestine, of which the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, im Jerusalem, is the centre, They are suppesed to comprise the sites of the chief events of our Lord's birth, passion, death and burial; and the Garden of Gethsemane, the Last Supper room, the stable in which Christ was born, the Church of the Ascension, and the tomb of the Virgin. The Church of the Sepulchre stands within the modern city, in the Latin quarter. Under the great dome is the Sepulchre, whieh is of oblong form. It is surmounted by a rich ceiling, decorated with gold, silver and precious marble. A circular hall surrounds the piace beneath the dome, witn which are connected oratories for Syrians, Copts and Maronites, In the body of the church are gi places of wor- ship for the Latin, reek and Armenian Christians. Opposite the entrance is the Stone of Unction, which is shown as the stone on which our Lord’s body was annointed before en- tombment; and above is an elevation, approached by steps, the traditional Monnt Calvary, on which now stands @ rich dome-shaped building, floored with splendid marble, in tne crypt of which is the cavity supposed to have been formed by the erec- tion of the cross. Numberless pilgrims irom all pe of the world are constantly visiting Jerusa- lem to do homage at these sacred spots. The Otto- man authorities maintain the establishments, but the French and Russian governments exercise an exceptional contro: respectively over the Latin and Greek churches and convents, THE TROUBLE AT BETHLEHEM, Bethlehem, the fiend of Christ's and King David’s birth, where the latest conflict has taken place, is Wholly pepulated by Latins, Greeks and Armenians, Surrounding are the familiar scenes so frequently mentioned in the Bible. The Catmolic monastery, the only public building of any importance, en- closes the cave which is the alleged place of our Lady’s nativity. The convent re- sembies @ fortress, and was built by the Empress Heiena over fifteen centuries ago; it was destroyed by the Turks in 1236, and, it is supposed, was restored by the Crusaders, Within it is the Church of the Nativity, which, like and in connec tion with the Church of the Holy Sepuichre at Jeru- salem, is subdivided among ‘Latins, Greeks and Armenians. Each community has @ separate ortion oi the edifice tor devotional purposes. The church i in the form of a@ cross. The nave, by lar the finest portion of the building, is supported by forty-eight Corinthian cojumns of solid granite. The other portions are walied up. The part which forms the head of the cross and on the threshold is @ sculptured mar. ble star, which, it is alleged, covers the central point of the earth. There a long, intricate passage descends to the crypt, below which, it is also said, the Blessed Virgin was delivered. The manger stands in a low recess cut iD the rock @ few feet irom this star, THR ORIMEAN WAR. The last serious dispute about the Holy Places oc- curred in 1850, It was in itself insignificant, but it turned out to be one of the principal causes that led to the Crimean war, The various sects, par- ticularly the Latins and Greeks, have been, as inti- mated before, for ages involved in quarrels regard- tng their possession, and the Turkish government has been applied to as an arbiter by both sides. These quarrels assumed @ political aspect from the interference of Russia on behalf of the monks of the Greek Church and of France on behalf or the Catholics, Concessions were made to the latter in 1862 by the Sultan, which would have satisfied the French government; but within a month after- wards a decree was published by the Porte in fa vor of the Greeks, allowing them several privileges which were entirely inconsistent with the terms which had already been granted the Catholics. Notwithstanding these complaints a peaceful ar- rangement was on the point of being effected when the Russian government interfered and made the question @ cause of rupture with Turkey. Prince Menschikof! was sent to Constantinople to effect a settlement, but his demands soon ex- tended mueh further, and affected the condition ofall Christrian subjects of the Sultan, so ag to lace them virtually under Russian tnstead of rkish rule, The demands were refased by the Porte, and, in consequence, @ Russian army seized the Danublan Princtpalities. ‘The result of the war was highly beneficts the Christian inhabitants of Turkey, but it left the qagation ef the Holy lube in the aame uneastisfartory position a8 -dalore, ints in the progress * F NEWARK’S: NEW PRELATE. Consecration of Tishop Corrigan To-Day- A Great Day for New Jersey Catholicity—The Services in St. Patrick’s Cathedral— Brief Sketch of the History of the Diocese. To-day, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Newark, ma- terials will be furnished for writing the brightest page in the history of Catholicity in New Jersey, being the consecration of Bishop elect M. A. Cor- rigan, the Pope’s choice as a successor to Bishop Bayley, now Archbishop of Baltimore. There are many reasons why the grand and impressive oere- mony to-day should be set down as furnishing the brightest of diocesan historic pages. Besides the ceremony itself, which promises to be conducted on @ scale of ecclestastical solemnity, impressivenoss ‘nd grandeur such as is seldom witnessed out- side of Rome, and very rarely in countries not Catholic in religion, is the fact that it is the first oonsecration of a bishop ever witnessed in New Jersey, and will therefore be anepoch, Another fact teading to heighten tne character of the occasion will be the evidence that a prophet will be honored, and that highly, in his own country, even in his own house; for let 1t be borne in mind that Dr. Corrigan was born and primarily educated in the city of Newark, Which to-day will gather archbishops, bishops and priests by the score and citizens of all classes and conditions by thousands to witness the great honor conferred on one so young, but yet so worthy. Just here it is proper for the HERALD of to-day to correct the HERALD of a week ago. It was an error to set down Savannah as having the youngest Catholic bishop in America. Bishop Gross was born 1837, in Baltimore, where he waa consecrated last Sunday. Bishop Corrigan waa -born in 1839, in Newark, where he will be conse- crated this Sunday. TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME, Ever since the announcement in the HERALD of Dr. Corrigan’s ero meny by Pope Pius [X., the clergy and leading laity of the diocese have been busy preparing for the consecratien, and yesterday everything had been completed and the gene’ belief indulged that nothing had been omitted which could render the occasion one that will be long remembered. Archbishop McCloskey, of New York, will oficiate as consecrator, his assistants being the Bishops of Brooklyn and St. Louis. Arch- bishop Bayley arrived on Thursday from Baltimore, and will be present. The sermon will be preached by Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester. Rev. Father Reilley will conduct the milsic at the altar. The follo’ ng clergy will take part :—Assistant Priest, Rev. G. H. Doane; Deacons of Honor, Rev. Father Byrne and Rev. Prior, 0. S. B.; Deacon of the Mass, Rev. J. Da Concilla; Sub-Deacon, Rev. P. Hennessey. The Rev. James H. Corrigan will read the Apostolic Mandate; the Rev. Fathers Schneider, Salt and Messmer will assist the Bishop elect. The general management ef the entire cer- emony is in the hands of v. Father Killeen, who has been ably assisted by executive committees of various Catholic societies, Not less than one han- dred_ clergymen, in full vestments, wili be present. Besides the high dignitaries named, who will be resent, it is expected that Bishops Wood, of Phila- lelphia; De Goesbriand, of Burlington, Vt.; Mo- Farland, of Hartford; Hendrecken, of Providence; ‘an, of Buffalo; Becker, of Wilmington; O'Hara, of Scranton; Wadhams, of Ogdensburg; Shanah: of Harrisburg; O'Reilly, of Springfield; Conroy, of Albany. his Coadjutor, McNierney, and the Bishop of Washington will all be present, THE MUSIC. Mezart’s magnificent “Twelfth Mass” will be the feature of the musical services, and will be execu- ted a style heretofore new to old St. Patrick's, e chorus will be an amalgama- tion of the choirs of St. Patrick’s, St. Mary’s and of Seton Hall iat a while the solo singers fa. clude first class professional talent from New York, New Jersey and other parts. The singere will altogether number eighteen soprapos, ning altos, eleven tenors and ten bass voices. SKETCH OF THE DIOCESE OF NEWARK. Whe diccese of Newark, which eomprises the en- tire State of New Jersey, was organized in the year 1853, just twenty years ago. Its first.and only bishop, up to the appointment ofDr. Corrigan, was Dr. Bailey, whose consecration took place in St. Patrick’s cathedral, New York, October 30, of the same year. Previous to this New Jersey was divided about evenly between the dioceses of New York and Philadelphia. The dividing line appears to have been in the neighborhood of Princeton. ‘Trenton lt ee to Philadelphia and New Bruns- wick to New York. Owing to the non-existence of any properly collected data prior and subsequent to the organization, the HERALD representative ex- rienc eat difficulty in gathering materials for even this imperfect sketch of the locese—or, rather, of Cathol pe eae New Jersey. As near ag could be ascertained by diligent search, THE FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILT in the State was at Paterson in 1522 or 1823, on @ site near the Passaic Falls. The edifice was @ most unassuming frame building, of very meagre proportions. The ground was contributed Lae wealthy and God-fearing citizen of Paterson, Mr. Roswell D. Colt, The first pastor was the Rev. Richard Bulger. His pastoral successors in the arish of Paterson were, in regular order, Rev. thers O’German, Conroy, nahue, Shana- han, O’Reitly, Quinn, Senez, Beaudina, James Cal lan and MeNulty, the present clergyman. The old building is still standing, and, alas! for the eccen- tricities of time, is now occupied as a drinkin, saloon. “To such base uses," &c. The next churel established in New Jersey, parse to authority, was St. John’s, in Newark. Its erection was, probably, some years after that of the Paterson one. Father Pardoe was its first pastor. Prior to the erection of St, John’s mass used to be celebrated by missionary priests from New York. The mass was first said in Newark at the house ot Mr. Charles Durning, one of the earliest and most respected Irish settlers in that city. His house stood on the corner of Mul- berry and Durand streets, and is now used as @ jewelry factory. Mr. a died only a year or soago. When he first set foot in Newark—now probably flity years ago—there were net over @ dozen Irishmen in the city. Now the Irish popu lation of Newark is probably forty thousan mostly Catholics, At the period of Mr. Durning’s beneficent service to his Churcn the faithful used to come to Newark to hear mass of a Sunday from as far a3 Madison, and even Boonton, in Morris county. The names of Father Refnier, Varilla and Shanahan are associated with those days. ST. JOHN'S, THE PARENT CHURCH OF NEWARK, like its forerunner in Paterson, was built on a small scale at first. Father George B. Pardoe, ite first pastor, made his first baptism in it on the 11th of October, 1829, which would indicate that the church nad not then been long erected. Father Pardoe was succeeded in 1832 by Fatner Herard, who, in turn, was succeeded by Father Moran, who is affectionately remembered by Newark Catholics as one of the kindest and most amiable of men, as he was one of the tru abiest and most zealous of men in his saci calling. Under his auspices the erection of st. Patrick’s Cathedral was commenced. It was he who purchased the site, and with his own hands broke the Frome on the block between Bleecker and Nesbitt and fronting on Washington street. The tiny ladys garden spade with which he performed this office is owned and cherished by_ Rev. Father Killeen, present pastor of St. Jonn’s church, The rowth of atholicity im Newark during Father Moran’s time was surprising. Soon after he commenced St. Patrick’s his labors increased so that he had to place the work of the Cathedral in the hands of ther Senez, now of Jersey City. The corner stone was laid with im reasive ceremonies in 1848, by Arehbishop (them ishep) Hughes, and was dedicated the same year, Father Senez, its principal constructor, being ite first pastor. ‘The principal oMciating clergy at the latter ceremony were :—Firs' second, Bishop Du Bois; third, Bishop Haghes. After Father Moran came as pastor of St. John’# Father Schneider, who remained one year—from 1866 to 1867—when the present pastor, Father Kil- leen, took charge. Great has been ti a the Material as well as spiritual prope this churen, Instead of its ancient one of timber it now has a spacious temple of granite, with a hand some stone residence adjoining for the pastor. The next oldest church to St. John’s ts one at Macoupin, about thirteen miles from Paterson. Macoupin was then in Bergen county, bat is now in Passaic. Father Donahue was I first pastor, Some idea prevails that St. Peter’s church tn Jersey City is older than the one at Ma- copin. St. Peter's congregation first witnessed the celebration of the mass, it is stated, in a small wooden house on Morris street, Jersey City, pre- viously used as an engine house. The first resident priest of Jersey City was Father Mohan, The priest longest attached to the diocese 1s the vener- able and reverend Father John Rogers, now of New Brunswick. Since the days of the good Durning Newark has not only Veet added to the numert. cal strength of the Church, but to its priesthood aiso. The first native of Newark ordained to the Catholic ministry was Daniel G. Durning, son of the distinguished gentieman of the same name already mentioned, and brother of John ©. Durning, ex- City Clerk of Newark, and now a well known lawyer of that city. The reverend Durning, with his father, sleeps the sleep of the just. After Father Durning there were ordained the following natives of Newark :—Edward ©. Hickey, now pastor of St. John’s, in Orange; James Leddy, now of Western New York; Michael Angustus Corrigan, Bishop elect; Father Kane and James H. Corrigan, the Bishop’s brother, now Vice President of Seton Hall Cellege at South Orange. At the time of the organization of the diocese it consisted of about twenty-nine churches and chapels and twenty-six clergymen. There are now not less than 100 churches and as many clergy. There isalsoa fine college and seminary—seton Hall—and about forty hospitals, schools, orphag Bishop Connolly; asylums and other edygatioual and atigok Land celciogs wsth

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