The New York Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1873, Page 6

6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. May 25--Sunday Within the Octave of Ascension. THE “PIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY, Herald Religious Cor- respondence. THE STIGMATA IN . CALIFORNIA. Catholic Discipline in Ireland. CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN CHINA. ——_-—_—_—— THE PROPHECY OF ST. MALACHY. Presentation to a Catholic Priest. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. At Duane Methodist church Rev. Dr. Martin, of York University, preaches at the usual hours, morning and evening. At the Brooklyn Academy Rev. Dr. Talmage will minister to the Tabernacle congregation, morning and evening. Rev. John E. Cookman, of the Methodist Free Tabernacle, will preach in the morning and deliver @ special discourse to young men in the evening. “The Essential in Religion” is Rev. Wayland Hoyt’s subject for this evening at Steinway Hali. Services at the Baptist Tabernacle in the morning. Bishop Foster will deliver his final discourse ere leaving for Europe at St. Luke’s, this morning. The pastor of the church will preach in the evening, “Cain and Abel, the First Brothers,’’ will be Rev. R. Heber Newton's theme tiis afternoon at Anthon Memorial church. Preaching in the morning, also, at usual hour. “Hiram, the Widow’s Son, and His Temple Work’? fis the text basis ofa discourse upon the Masonic Order to be delivered by Rev, W. H. Pendleton, at Filty-third street church, this evening. Rev. M. Ronay, the famed French preather, will lecture in behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor, this morning, at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul. At Forsyth strect Methodist church Rev. J. W. Barnhart preaches morning and evening. The claims of the Shepherd's Fold upon the Christian public will be advocated this evening, at St. Bartholomew’s, by Rev. Thomas A. Jaggar, of Philadelphia. Price's Praying Band will conduct the morning, afternoon and evening services at Beekman Hill Methodist church, “The Ideal Home” will be Rev. Henry Powers’ topic this morningatthe Church of the Messiah. Evening service ef praise. Eminent speakers will advocate Church exten- sion and missions in our city at the Washington square Methodist church this evening. The new Church of St. Stephen will be visited by the diocesan this evening. Rev. A. B. Hart preaches in the morning. Rey. A, F. Potter, of South Carotina, will preach at Trinity (Episcopal) church this morning In aid of a worthy charity. Rev. Robert Cameron preaches, morning and evening, in Seventeenth Street Baptist church. At the Church of the Reformation Rev. U. T. Tracy will conduct the usual morning and evening services. Services at the French Church du St. Esprit at half-past ten this morning. Rev. Dr. Sampson will minister to the Plymouth , Baptists morning and evening. Services morning and evering at Twenty-third street Presbyterian church by Rev. H. D. Northrop. “The Rainbow Angel and His Little Book" is Bishop Snow’s subject for three o’clock at the Uni- versity. At the Laight Street Baptist Mission Rev. Mr. Knapp preaches morning and evening. There will be services in English at the Russian~ Greek chapel this morning. Rev. Mr. Dunnell preaches at All Saints’ in the Morning and evening. At the Sunday school service in Association Hall this evening Fountain J. Hartley, of London, and others, will speak, a At the morning and evening services in Eighty- filth street church Rev, Dr. Flagg will preach, Rev. W. ©. Dawson will conduct the services, morning and evening, at the Church of Christ. Professor 8. B. Britton lectures before the Robin- son Hall Spiritualists at eleven o’elock A. M. “Intemperance”’ will be tully discussed by Mrs, H. M. Walton, at the Cosmopolitan Conference, at three P. M. This morning, at the Church of the Disciples, Rev. G. H. Hepworth will show how ‘Christianity is Adapted to All Times and All People.” “A Vell om the Heart” is the evening topic. There will be Spiritualistic séances at three and eight P. M. at Unjon Hall, Jersey City. Rev. Drs. Rylance, Seymour and Gallaudet and others will deliver addresses before the Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Association anniversary this evening, at St, Ann’s. Special musical exer- etses. THE STIGMATA, IN CALIFORNIA. A Medical Report in the Case—Renewed Manifestations of the Phenomenon— Appearance of the Wounds on the Hands and Feet of Miss Collins—Her Terrible Sufferings and Rapid Re- covery—Trances and Visions of the Patient. Some ‘weeks since there were published in the HERALD particulars of the remarkable appearance of bleeding wounds on the hands and feet of a young woman, a resident of Sen Francisco, cor- responding with those on the person of our Saviour atthe time of his crucifixion. What made the matter still more noteworthy was that the phe- fomenon, which manifested itself on Fridays, was witnessed by a number of persons of unquestioned Tespectability and reliability. Naturally the ac- eount attracted considerable attention and gave Tise to @ good deal of discussion. Some were entirely incredulous, and attributed the manifestations to trick or device—in short, declared their opinion to be that the whole affair was animposture. Miss Collins, the person in question, enjoyed an excel- lent character, and was engaged in the perform- ance of numerous pious works under the spiritual guidance of the Archbishop of San Francisco, Many similar cases, known as the stigmata, are on record, but in the present one it was not claimed until a thorough examination was made by scien- tific men that the wounds came from any other than natural causes. THR LATEST MANIFESTATIONS. Since the last reference to the case in the HERALD it has been announced that the phenome- non has occurred several times on the hands and feet of Miss Collins, and a report has been pub- lished by a@ physician of high standing (not Catholic) who attended professionally on the young lady. It is stated that on the Friday succeeding Easter Sunday the symptoms again appeared, accompanied with great pain, but no biood issued from the wounds, On Thursday night, 16th inst., she was taken iil, and suffered intense agony until the afternoon of the next day. About eight o’clock in the morning blood commenced to ooze from the sufferer, The plecding was witneseed by Dr, Pawlickl, the at- tending physician, and others. The doctor held a] dians of the poor dismissed him from his position powerful microscope over the wound on ove hand until the bursting of the skin and the vesicle be- neath, and thoroughly satisfied himself by exami- nation that the colored liquid was blood, afew hours afterwards the sufferer was up and well as usual. Until tie last occasion the wounds on the jeet were confined to the upper side, Then & wound corresponding to that on the top appears on the sole of the foot for the first time an: Assumed snoretrom. During hor itiness the week be- tore last she Suffered excruciating pain in her side, and it culminated in the appearance of a bieeding wound in that portion of her person. THE WAY THE STIGMATA APPRARS, The manner in which the stigmata a irs is nearly the same in cach case. It usually some time on Thursday afternoon or di e c with an uncomfortable feeling in the head, increases until it becomes almost and extends to other members of the body. She is tnen seized with a kind of which continues for hours until the sypearatice of the wounds and tho oozing of blood, Her limbs become her eyes are closed, and the cords and sinews of her extrem- ities become tensive as tron bands. It is said her groans and moaniney are enol to touch with pity the hardest heart, The di mn of her suffer- ngs varies according to the number of wounds, which never appear simultancously. They are sensitive to the lightest touch, The poor girl is con- tinually moving the part affected, as if seeking a place to rest it for a moment, yet seeming to be Unaole to bear its full weight on the counter; or pillow, Her head seems to pain her terri! i the time the spasms last, and to ease itof the touch of the pillow she often raises it and holds it from all connection with the bed, The bleeding of the wounds seems to be the crisis of her sufferings in each instance. She then lapses into a id of trance or ecstasy, which recurs every few minutes, with intervals of complete consciousness and free- dom from pain. Jt pas been noticed that Miss Col- Ins grows weaker aiter each phenomenon, and her friends fear that she will live butashort time longer if the relapse occurs every week. A re- porter, who visited her residence about ten days since, found her propped up in bed, and HER LONG BROWN OURLS hung in beautiful disorder about her neck and shoulders, Her hands were clasped mm her bo- som, her eyes fixed on the wall, but she seemed looking far beyond and absorbed in some vision of su lng loveliness, Her 1 were parted with the rapture of her vision, and her eyes shone with a lustre that seemed scarcely of earth. On retarn- ing to consciousness she entered into conversa- tion, laughing and chatting gayly. The girl is of a merry disposition. and her ringing laugh, flushed face and sparkling eyes gave her the appear- ance decidedly the reverse of an invalid. The reporter sat and watched her criti for half an hour, during which she had fallen into trances five or six times. 1¢ was evident to him, trom her artless and childlike manner, thas if there were any imposture about her afflictions she could not beim the deception. No one, he states, could louk at the contractions of the muscles of her face and her contortions and believe that her agony was simulated. He examined the wounds on her hands and feet. The orifices were covered with dried blood. DESCRIPTION OF THE WOUNDS, Those on the back of the hands were immedi- ately on a line with the fourth finger and appar- ently extended t gh the hand in a direct line. They were about size of a pinhead and pre- cisely alike in extent and general appearance. ‘The ‘wounds on the feet were larger than those on the hands, being about the sixteenth of an inch in diameter. The wound on the sole of the left foot was larger than that on the right, but on the top they were exactly the same. They were about midway between the instep and toes, and ex- tended through to the hollow of the foot. On the bottom of the right foot was a stain of blood that had been wiped away from the wound. The holes inthe hands and Jeet could be plainly felt. This account of an interview is given bya person who had, it is understood, treated the appearance of the stigmata as something ef an imposture, and must be accepted 80 far as the facts made pubilc as to the signs of the punctures and biood on the hands and feet of Miss Collins. DR. MORSE’S REPORT. Dr. Morse, before referred vo, states that he was called upon on Friday, between two and three o'clock, to see the girl, who it was representea was suffering severely from pains and spasms, “I went,” says the Doctor, ‘to her residence, where the patient was lying, and where I met Dr. Paw- licki, who introauced me to Father Pendergast. This gentleman was standing at the head of the bed, near a Jemale attendant, who was supporting with her arm the head of the patient. [ proceeded at once to examine her, as I would any one whom { ‘was called professionally to see. A glance taught me that I had to deal with a strongly developed nervo-sanguine Yamperament violently agitated with physical suffering and intense mental emo- tion. Her face was flushed, _ HER BYES SUFFUSED WITH TEARS, and there was partial conjunctional congestion ; the pupils were normal and actively responsive to varied intensity of Hght; the tongue was free from contigs pulse eighty-eight and presenting a vibrating thrill which indicated a marked circu- lating disturbance; there was a partially flexed condition of the hands and forehead. A touch of these parts seemed to produce a kind of spasm and @ general expression of uneasiness; her respira- tions were about eighteen. While prosecuting these examinations | was constantly plying ques- tions about her condition, and when 1 had con- cluded counting the pulse directed my attention to THE SYMBOLIC MARKS ON HER HANDS, On the back of her left hand was a small dark spot about two lines in diameter. I put my finger upon it and felt a slight and.rongh elevation ; on the in- side opposite to this the cuticle seemed as if it had been slightly thickened in a little larger area with- out incrustations, but with several small points of a lighter whiteness, as though the centres of recent cuticular exfoliations. The right hand was like this, only in less conspicuous manifestation, The Jeet were then shown me, on the dorsal surface of which this mark was more slightly developed, and nothing could be seen on soles of feet. The doctor in attendance passed me a strong hand magnily- ing glass, and with this I found the first mark re- jerred to was made by dry coagular lymph in two centres and of lymph and blood exudation im the third. Without the glass nothing but a small dark spot could be seen. At one point only was there the least sign of an inflammatory areola. In the foregoing examination I founda strong hyperesthesia, which made the sense of touch a source of disturbance and suffering.”’ A THOROUGH SCIKNTIFIC EXAMINATION TO BE MADE. Doctor Morse found Miss Collins was also suffer- ing from severe pains in the head, He made s partial stethescopic examination of the heart, which convinced him that the patient had a serious valvular disease of that organ, distinguished by a strong obstruction or repurgitant sound. This is the latest report of the condition of the young woman, butit appears that the phenomenon is being thoroughly investigated by a number of scientific men, most of whom are not Catholic: and the result, it is promised, will be soon lat before the public. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH DISCIPLINE IN IRELAND, Bins Important Decision of the Court of Queen’s Bench—The Controversy Be- tween Cardinal Cullen and Father O’Keeffe—The Pope’s Authority in the Green Isle—A Decree of Suspension as @ Privileged Communication—A Re- calcitrant Parish Priest—Powers of Ecclesiastical Courts—Churches as Vol- untary Association: A remarkable case has just been decided by the Court of Queen’s Bench in Ireland, which setties a highly important question, and which possesses unusual interest to Christian religious bodies in every part of the world, The facts may be briefly stated as foliows :—Rev. Father O'Keeffe was parish priest of Callan, in the county Kilkenny, and while acting in that capacity early in 1872 a difference arose between him and his bishop as to the appropriation of certain funds collected on account of the parish school. The exact use to which he turned the moneys did not involve a charge, and no charge was made of peculation. The ordinary’s complaint was met on the part of Father O'Keefe by & refusal te give any satisfaction, he holding that he was not responsible to his superior in the matter. The curate of the parish, by direction of the Bishop, represented to the people during ser- vice that Father O'Keeffe had been guilty of utter- ing @ falsehood. Thereupon the latter commenced an action for libel against the curate and recov- ered damages. When the suit was instituted the plaintiff was reminded that it was in violation of a rule of Canon law forbidding one ecclesi- astic to sue another in a secular court. He persisted, notwithstanding, in his course, Thereupon Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin and Papal Legate in Ireland, not as archbishop or cardinal, but by a special rescript from the Pope, called upon Father O’Keeffe to attend before him, and, aiter hearing the charges and Father O'Keeffe’s defence, pronounced sentence against him of suspension from his office of parish priest and also interdicted him from the performance of his functions. ‘The judgment was in the Latin language, and run in the words prescribed by Canon law. it was never rendered into English by ee Cardinal or by any one acting under his direc- ions, A MAN NOT TO BE PUT DOWN. The suspended clergyman paid no attention to the decree, and continued to officiate, as if nothin; had happened, in the parish church, which he poe tively refused Uo surrender, A successor Was ap- pointed, who had to exercise his fanctions in another chapel, and @ singular part of the story is that a large number of the people adhered to their deposed pastor. Many scenes, far from edifying, occurred in the town of Callan, in which Father ae played an aggressive part, and brought maers te such a pass that the military and police had to bé called out to preserve the peace, in the [eres the sefitence Was communicated to the proper quarters. The Board of National Educa- tion ceased to recognize him any longer @ maneger of the national sehools, aud the ‘cna as Chaplain of the Workhouse. Father O'Keeffe then commenced an action for libel _againat Cardi- nal Cullen. alleging that the sentence of suspen- sion damaged him in the loss of a Iuorative office. The plaintiff was now beseechod m the most Solemn manner to retrace his ang return to his duty, Instead of spmply Brow moré vio- it Senonnosa fardinal and bis bishop in violent Coarse language, did all in his power to stir up pegs against the discipline of the Catholic Church among Protestants in the throe loms, and his champions in both houses of jament and in the press were continually worry- ioe ir. Gladstone about his removal by the ‘dof jucation. A RELIC OF THE PENAL Laws. ‘The libel case was severai times before the Court of Geen Bench, and on the 7th imatant it came on for argument on demurrer, before a tull Bench, consisting of the Lord Chief Justice Whiteside and Lords Justices Barry, O’Brien and Fitzgerald, The prince! joint relied upen by Father ‘an old statute passed in the reign of beth, stilt in force (a relic of the prohibited, under severe penalties, the imtroduc- tion of any rescript or bu! Po} Jand, and declaring the same nail and void, Other ints were raised of more general interest. it was conceded, however, on both sides, that the Roman Catholic Church, bi @ voluntary Church any jurisdiction it ages is fourtded on contract; that no one is bound by 4% sentence of 1ts courts who has not expressly or by implication agreed to be so bound, It was also conceded that the procee under the Pope’s rescript were quite regular. intitf further con- tended that when civil rights are invaded civil courts will not only inquire whether in point of fact a sentence has been pronounced by an ecclesi- astical court of a voluntary Church, but also whether such sentence is in accordance with the f th id. It was also argued that which plaintiff” had fended was against public policy and that the ower under which the Archbishop acted beimg derived from the Pc alt that had been done, under such mandate of a foreign seve- reign, ‘was rendered illegal by the statute of Elixa- beth before mentioned, The proceedings, there- fore, against Father O'Keeffe being thus wholly vold, it was urged the Cardinal's notification of the sentence, which was founded upon them, was @ libel which cost the plaintiff his position besides causing him other damage. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION, To all this Archbishop Cullen replied that although the Roman Catholic Church is a voluntary Church and the duty of obedience to its rules 18 derived from contract, yet Courts are always most un- willing to investigate grounds of a sentence thus binding by contract upon the members of a given church; that the rule against suing ecclesiastics in secular courts is not contrary to public Polley; that the fact that he (Cardinal Cullen) acted in the mat- ter under direction of the Pope did not vitiate the proceedings, for the statute of Elizabeth was aimed only against the Pope's interference with the dignities and revenues of the Kstablished Church, that his Holiness on the present occasion was only a mere arbitrator, by whose decision or that of his delegate all parties had to be bound; and lastly that the archbishop’s notification of sen- tence was even, if defamatory, a privileged com- munication which he was in duty bound to make to the Pos to whom he made it. It was also asserted that four-fi(ths of the time of Protestant bishops was consumed in smoothing over dilficul- ties between their clergy. THE CARDINAL'S COURSE SUSTAINED. The Court decided in favor of Cardinal Cullen, but were divided on the point of the legality of the Pope’s rescript, the Lord Justice O’Brien holding that the statute of Elizabeth had been repealed by implication. The Lord Justice Barry, in pronounc- ing judgment, said that the status of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland was the same as that of the Church of England, where it was not estab- lished, and other voluntary associations, the mem- bers of which subscribe or assent to certain rules, and bind themselves to conform to cer- tain principles and obligations, such con- tracts resting upon mutual consent and enforced as matters of contract by the tribunals of the land, The plaintiff had contracted to abide by the laws of the Uhurch, and he had not done so. The Cardinal had merely carried out the laws of the Church by publishing suspension. The sentence’can be examined by the Courts, but Justice Barry dissented from the doctrine that even if the sentence was in any way illegal or in- valid the action for libel would necessarily be sus- taihed. He quoted authorities to show that such agreements existed in England, Ireland and Scot- land, and that they had been enforced by the Courts notably among members ef the Methodist body. The plea of privilege was good. Father O'Keeffe himself had by his own acts and conduct created an interest and duty and could not be heard in an action for libel to question the existence of a priv- ilege which he himself had created. Baron Fitzgerald held that the rule of the Church was not contrary to publie policy or the liberty of the subject. It was clear to his mind that an action for defamation was wholly untenable. The Lord Chief Justice delivered a dissenting opinion. This ends one branch of Father O’Keeffe’s case, but he still remains officiating as a priest in the parish church and as a sweet bone of contention in the House of Commons. The So-called Prophecy of St. Malachy a Forgery—Arnold Wion the Auther of It—Even if Genuine there Is No Cause for Fear. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— The publication in the HeRaLp of the so-called prophecy of St. Malachy about the Roman pontiifs has given that literary fraud an appearance of authenticity to which it is by no means entitled. That remarkable document is believed by the most learned critics to be nothing more than a OLEVER ELECTIONEERING BROCHURE, first published during the Conclave of 1590 for the election of a successor to Urban VIII., by tne ad- herents of Cardinal Simoncelli, who is designated by the titie de antiquitate ur' This fact explains the wonderfal accuracy with which the Popes, from Celestine II. in 1143 to Gregory XIV. in 1590, when the predictions were published, are foretold. St. Bernard, St. Malachy’s most intimate friend and biographer, makes no mentien of the Papal prophecy; nor is it found, or even the slightest allusion to it, in any work Rpbllened for four cen- turies and a half after the phet’s death. The works of St. Malachy were edited and published by his friend St. Bernard, and ifhe were the author ofthe prophecy it is absurd to ap ore that it could have escaped the knowledge of St. Bernard, especially as he published predictions of the Saint of much smaller importance. The historical errors in the prophecy strip it of its claim to the supernatural. ‘In it eight ANTI-POPES, Victor [V., Paschal Ill., Callistus III., Nicholas V., Clement VII., Benedict XIII., Clement VILL. and Felix V. are named among the legitimate succes- sors of St. Peter, while only two—Nicholas V. and Clement Vill.—have the title pseudo pontifex affixed to their names. Its chronology is also at fault, The anti-Popes—Victor IV., Paschal MI. and Callistus Iil.—are ranked berore Alexander IIL, who ager them, while Clement VIl., Benedict XIII, and Clement VIII. are placed beiore, instead of after Urban V1. It is no doubt an ably concocted imposition, and the coincidence in most appropriately styling bius VI. nus aj cus very remarkable; but the silence of St. Bernard and all writers up to the time of Arnold Wion about the existence of any such document, the historical and chronological errors mentioned and the rumor at the time of pub- lication that it was nothing more than a WELL-PLANNED EFFORT of its author to further the interests of his patron, Cardinal Simonceih, deprives it of every title to be- lief, On these very grounds it has been generally rejected by the ablest historians. Baronius, Spon- danus, Bzovins, Raynaldus, scarcely deem it worthy of notice, while Moreri e. 4 the fraud and De Montor says “no reasonable man, whether of the Catholic or reformed religion, puts any faith in it,” and Count Meron, tn bis “Keclestastical Diction- ary,” does not hesitate to say that no one but a fool (stulto) would pay any attention to it. The over-credulous, who delight in the suppost- tious prophecy @f the Irish Saint, need not fear an early dissolution of the papacy, as, if the author of the predictions is worthy of belief, there are ten Popes to follow Pio Nono—namely, lumen in cao ue light in heaven), tgnis ardens (the burning ire), religto depopulata (religion devastated), fides intrepida (intrepid faith), pastor angelicus (the angelic pastor), pastor et nauta (the pastor and sailor), fos forum (the flower of Nowers), deme dictate iuna (of the half of the moon), de labore solis (of the labor of the sun), gloria olive (the glory of the olive) and Petrus Romanus (Roman eter), who, in the last persecution will feed his sheep in many tribulations. After which the CITY OF THE SEVEN HILLS will be destroyed, and the terrible Judge will judge His people. Allowing these ten successors of Pius IX. an average of about thirteen ert! reign, the readers of the HERALD in 1999 will, according to Arnold Wion’s publication of + gona tg rophecy, tremble at the daily reports of the fearful scenes shat are to precede the destruction of the world y fire, The Massachusetts Bishopric—A Sharp Question from Jersey for the Bishops and Standing Committees, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Dr. Benjamin H. Paadock, who was lust week elected Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, has twice been honored by the nomination to the Episcopate. Years ago he was elected Bishop of Oregon. This he declined. Now we respectfully ask if the Diocese of Oregon was unworthy of Dr. Paddock is he a man worthy to be called to the highest office of the Church ? If his health was not strong enough then to take an unimportant (’) mis- sionary diocese, when he is ten years older is it likely that he is ropust enough to mect the tre- mendoys strain that comes upon the Bishop of a great diocese like Massachusetts? Had the rey. erend Doctor been & man who “counted not his life dear unto him,” would he not nave been where now vhe honored Bishop Morris is, or else wearing the crown of one who had fallen in the forerront of the battle ? OLERICUS, Newark, N, J., May 24, 1873, 4 Institution of an Eplecopal Clergyman in Newark, N. J. ; A few days ago, bf @irection of Bishop Odenhei- mer, Rev. John N. Stansbury, rector of Christ church (Rpiscopal), Newark, instituted as reotor af St. John's church, Woodside, within the city limi! Rev. Henry i perbonte ‘A pe ved were present, who listened wii mterest to asermon by Rector Stansbi partici- pating in the improssive inetitution services. Presentation to a Oatholie Priest. The Rev. Hugh Flattery was met by the ladws of St. Teresa’s church on Wednesday, the 14th ipat., who presented the worthy Father witha check for $916 in aid of his new undertaking, accompaniea by the following address ;— New York, May 14, 1873. RAVEREND AND DEAR Sik—It is With deep and heartielt regret that we say “goodby” to one whom we have learnéd to value #0 much, During your stay among us you have endeared yourself to all hearts, many oi whom you have ministered to in sickness and comforted in affiction. It consoles us, however, to reflect that you are called to a higher station, and one in which you have a broader field for the exercise of those talents which God has bestowed upon you. We sincerely hope that your energy and perseverance may be rewarded by well-merited success in all your undertakin, Now, dear Father, accept this offering, Which sanctifies itself in -its object— namely, the decoration of the altaror the first contribution to the building of your church od sibel in your judgment, is considered more useful). Trusting that when officiating at thataltar you will often make suppiicarion in our behalf, we bid you farewell, and that God may bless and prosper you is the fervent oy or THE LADIES OF ST, TERESA’S PARISH. The Roman Catholic Missions in China. At a meeting of the Aslatic Soctety, held just lately in Shanghae, China, there were present Messrs. A. Michie, V. P. (in the chair); A. Wylie, V. P.; Dr. MacGowan, Dr. Williams, Kev. W. Muir- head; Messre. T. G. Smith, Secretary; T. W. Kings- mill, Carl Schmidt, 0. B. Bradford, H. Lang, G. 0, Stent, G. M. Hart, H. P. McOlatchie and others, Mr. Schmidt read a paper, in which he said:— “Formerly @ Roman Catholic chapel was built on the northeast of the mortuary lodge by the grave of Seu-kwang-ke, at Seu-kea-hwuy, on the banks of the Chaou-kea-pang, outside the west gate, asa lace of worship for converts living in the vicinity. Bue the building was rather contracted in its dimensions, After the ratification of the treaties it was greatly enlarged and rep: nd now con- sists of several hundred roomi 'o the south of this they have built an asylum for infants, with a free school attached, on the Earthen Mound bend. The Roman Vatholic chapel on the Lerma Apa was erected in 1860, The chapel of the Oratory o! the Holy Mother and European Cemetery were first erected inthe Ming dynasty, and in the time of Kang-he the European Francis Brancati was buried here. The old building consisted of several rooms. Ithag been recently re-erected. Inside there is a tablet containing Seu-kwang-ke’s apology for the Jesuits, witha supplementary note by grand- son, Seu-Urh-keo, and others, by which we find that this was the chapel built by Kwang-ke on the west of his mansion for Cataneo, Ribiero and others, being the ancient site of the Double Garden, ree, Seu resided, by the Luh-kea-pang on the east. Presbyterian Missions in China and Japan. ‘The first annual missionary meeting in connec- tion with the London Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church was held just lately in Albion church, London Wall, Mr, Samuel Sttt in the chair. After the opening remarks of the Chairman and the reading of the report ¢he Kev. Dr, Morrison ad- dressed the meeting on the yroposed mission to Japan. ¥ Rev. Dr. Frazer gave a detailed account of the China mission of the English Presbyterian Church. An idea, he said, of the very large extent of that mission, “in proportion to the size of the Church, could be gained from the fact that £9,000 was expended last year, only £2,000 of which was received from Scotland, There were thirteen missionaries in the field sent from this country, three of their number being doctors of medicine. To these-were associated some forty or fifty native laborers. The churelies on the mainland were con- fined to two districts—Amoy and Swatow. Several ngregations were organized with elders and leacons, and some had been attempting a little self-support. The island of Formosa had scene of.a wonderful work of God’s the last two or three years. The whole island had been taken possession of, and the stations could be multiplied sevenfold if missionaries could be found to take possession of them. The adult com- municants in Amoy, Swatow and Formosa num- bered in all between 1,600 and 1,700, and the attend- ance at public worship was about 3,600. The uy drawback was the lack of laborers. At the last meeting of Synod scarcely anything was said about money, but about the dimMiculty in getting men for this great work. Why, Dr. Fraser asked, was the spirit of aggression in the Church, with al! its advantages, soianguid and low? When the Presbyterian Churches in England were “rolled into one” and became one Presbyterian Church, which would be very soon— (cheers) —then it would be very pleasant for the missionaries of the United and English Presbyterian Churehes to meet with one another and feel they were serving the same Charch, They had aregular presbytery in China, and the Chinese knew what worked well. Speaking of the approaching union, Dr. Fraser said what he meant by union was a real union—thorough, frater- nal, loyal, or not at all What would interest one would interest the other, and, if there were any rivalry it would be to see who could do most for the Master. Ministerial Movements and Changes, RYISCOPALIAN. The Protestant Episcopal congregation at Greens- borough, Talbot county, Md., is about to build a new house of worship, to cost $4,000. The congre. gation of the same denomination at Denton, Md., is also talking of building a new church edifice. The vestry of Christ church, Chicago, has voted its confidence in the Rev. Mr. Cheney, and has engaged his services for another year in defiance of the Bishop. Rev. Winslow W. Senver, former rector of Christ church, at Lonsdale, R. L, has renounced the Episcopal Church,and a salary of $3,000 to be- come a Methodist itinerant preacher. The Synod of the Irish Episcopal Church has, by a vote of 305 to 88, adopted a resolution in regard to the doctrine of the real presence, that whereas “it hath been taught by some that, by virtue of consecration, there is, inor under the form of the elements, a presence of Christ, or of Christ’s flesh and blood, unto which adoration may be or ought to be done, it is hereby declared that such teaching is not per- mitted by the Church of Ireland.” The corner stone of the resuscitated old Trinity church, de- stroyed by the great fire, is to be jaid in Boston at an early day. The old church has sent four rectors into the episcopate—Doane, of New Jersey; Wain- wright, of New York; Hopkins, of Vermont, and Clark, of Rhode Island—and had another to offer in its present rector, but arth ae referred a Brooklyn pitegmen and elec! Dr. Paddock to the vacant bishopric.’ The average annual receipts of the Church of England are over $60,000,000, about half of which 1s derived from collections and subscriptions and half trom endowments and edu- cational grants. This money is expended :—For the clergy, $20,600,000; education of the poor, $15,000,000; all other objects, $14,500,000. There are two archbishops, twenty-six bishops, sev- enty archdeacons, thirty deans, 127 canons, 120 minor canons, 13,041 rectors and vicars and 5,706 curates. England and Wales are divided into 12,000 parishes, besides 200 separate fields, known as extra-parochial. There are 14,100 churches and chapels, and the working force of the clergy con- sists of 18,747. The Rev. Mr, Brooks, prebendary of Lincoln, tells @ curious stery of a late clergyman of the Church of Bngland, who died in 1871, and among Whose effects was found a package hermeti- sacred; to mirals in the m the und in cally sealed, and endorsed, ‘Inviolab| stroyed.” The executors, two #h service, deemed it their duty to o; parcel. On doing so two documents were it—the one a dispensation from the Pope, the deceased to continue acting as ac! the English Church, although actually a Romisn priest, the other containing a list of neighboring clergymen occupying a similar equivocal position. These documents, says Mr. Brooks, were forwarded to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who now holds them, METHODIST. Bishop Andrews has bought @ house at Des Moines, lowa. This settles the question of the Bishop’s home “at or near Omaha or Council Biufts.” Rev. Dr. Martin, of the New York Univer- sity, will preach this morning and evening in Duane church, this city. The Harlem Ministerial Association will hold its next meeting at Pawling, June 2 and 3, Opening sermon by Rev. Wiiliam F. Hatfield, Bishop Peck will lay the corner stone of a new Methodist tas lurch in Norwich, N. Y., next Wednesday. Bishop Foster will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning—his last sermon on these shores before his departure for Europe and South America, ‘The lethodist ag church at Pawl- ing, N. Y., which has been closed for re- palin will be reopened to-day. On Tuesday he Methodists of Tremont Centre will Jay ‘the corner stone of @ church in that place. Bearora street Methodist Episcopal church, this city, last Sunday raised $600 for ihe Freedmen’s Aid Society, and resolved to send and sustain one of their own members as missionary among the freedmen. The Warren street Methodist Episcopal church took the question of pastors out of the hands of the trustees and decided by a large majority vote to receive the pointee, Rev. J, V. Saunders, as their eng Mr. Saunders preached his first sermon fore them last Sund: The man they desired is not a member of any hodist Conference in the United States, but is ply ere by the P a siding elder, He was not admitted to the New York East Conference at its last session, and could not, therefore, be appointed M4 the Bishop without offence to some one eise having para- mount claims on the Conference. The Sunday schools of Jersey ~y & will hold their anniversary. The new church at Garneraville, near Haverstraw (Rev. 8. J, Morris, pastor), is approaching comple- tion and will prove & Welcome addition to ops work ra eae NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. in that locality. Rev. J. 8. Chadwick, of Covington, Ky., late of Newark, is visiting his friends in New Jersey. He. preached in Halsey street church, New: on Sunday evening. The Rev. N. L. Brake man, of the Northwestern Conference, has been very pear death with fever, but — is now recovering. The Methodist Ministers of Je sey City and vicinity have organized @ preachers’ association, and propose to meet semi-annually at the houses of ita members. ‘The Rev. Dr. Givson and Rev. Dr. Guard, of Baltlmore, preaciea Meth urches in Philadelphia tast Sabbath. ¥%, Fe P. Ray, of the Vermont Conference, has West in search of health, Rev. 0. 8. Hamil- of the game nee, who was taken sick at ‘the jt session 08, recovering. A committee appointed by the ton Preacvors’ Meeting are arranging to hold a series of educa- tional meetings at the great centres of New Eng- land, for the purpose of awakening a greater inter- est on the subject of er education. Rev, 0. A. Brown, who had been stationed at Avondale, Ohio, was lately transferred from the Cincinnats to the Troy Conference. The Board of. Missions o! the Methodist Episcopal Ohurch South, which met in Nashville, Tenn., apprepriated $100,000 for domes- tic and foreign missions for current year. Obina is to get $7,000, and $3,000 con- tingent; Mexico, $21,000; Oregon, $18,000; Mon. tana, Florida and Colorado, each '$2,000; Kansas, $4,000; Illinois, $1,000; and for the Indians, Ger- mans and other foreigners in the ith and Soutn- west smatier sums, which foot up thi gate of $79,000, The balance isto be expended upon new work as i# may open up. CONGREGATIONAL, The trustees of Auburn Seminary have decided to remove the institution to Aurora, where Colonel Morgan has promised to amply endow it. The peo- ple of Auburn are, however, given 60 days in which to raise $225,000 {f they want to keep the seminary with them, Rev. Henry D. Moore, pastor of the Vine street Congregational church, Cincinnati, has severed his relations with that church, and will proceed at once to establish a new society, to be called the Tabernacle Congregation. The difficulty, it ts said, arose from Mr, re’s connection with Murray chapel, Onleager ead w recent graduate. of jurray cl cago, a Cambrid Bivinity School, lately announced to bis people his purpose to renounce Universalism and work hereafter in connection with ay a ee alists. There is said to be the very smallest Indica- tion of a breach of harmony . rortn’s new conareenes His Board of Trustees (nine) com- ae e wealthy few who left the Church of the leasiah with him, and the terms of three of them expire now. He has publicly expressed his desire that they shall be re-electe but the con- gregation’ wish to put in office some of their own number besides, On the strength of an address made by Rev. Dr. Bellows at the late Unitarian Conference, Soupiae with the fact that his church is in the market for sale, there is a rumor afloat that he is about to become a Con- gregationalist or to join some other sect, Eleven missionaries, under SPROn en by the American Board, sail this month for their destination— Rev. J.T. Noyes returning to Madura, and Rev. Samuel W. Howland and his wife gomg out to Ceylon to rejoin his father; Rev. J h Tyler and his wife to Natal, South Africa, returnihg, and with them the Rev. ©. W. Kilbon and wife going out for the first time; Rev. S. Stone and wile re- turning to their work among the Zulus; Rev. Thomas L. Gulick and wife fer Spain, to join Rev. William H, Gulick at Santander, Rev. W. H. H. Murray, of the Park street Congragp tional church, Boston, is to have a colleague who is to preach evenings, attend prayer Soonaie and visit the sick. Rev. J. W. Hough, who has supplied the Congregational church at Santa Barbara, Cal., is called to be their pastor, and is offered a salary of $3,000 in goid, with a vacation of six weeks. BAPTIST. Rev. B. 0, True, late of Baldwinsville, has been called to Meriden, Conn,, to succeed Rev. M Cordo, who has come to Jersey City. A new Bap- tist church 1s about to be organized among the Germans in West Meriden, Conn. The Baptist press is discussing the ‘courtesy,’ or ‘‘discour- tesy,” of the Evangelical Alliance in deciding to dispense with:the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper during its session here next October. The Bap- tists could not eat and drink atthe Lord’s table with unbaptized (that is, unimmersea) persons, and hence the concession to their dogmatical scru- pier Rev. Dr. Jetter’s return from Europe, where e has been looking after Baptist missions in Rome, is expected daily. The Tabernacle Baptist church voted last Tuesday to sell their building, on Second avenue and Tenth street, to the Stanton street Baptist Society for $86,000, The former in- tend to buildin amore central location. The latter have an offer of $40,000 for their church edifice. The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Union for the past ten years has reached the sum of $1,873,904 45, an ave of $187,399 per annum. Vv. A. E. Water is to be ordained pastor of the Remsen ave- nue Baptist church in New Brunswick, N. J., next Thursday. The East New Jersey Baptist Associa- tion will hold its anniversaries next week in the Baptist church in Bergen. The North New gorser Association will hold its fortieth anniversary wit! the Morristown Baptist church, June il. The Golden Age suggests that-as there are fourteen of the ‘Truesdell bridges in New England, and as the Baptists abound in that region, it would be weil for people to beware of going to witness immer- sion, The Rev. F. H. Bronson, of Madison Univer- sity, accepts the position of ‘‘worker”’ among the Sunday schools of the Baptist churches in Connect- icut. Rev. 8. D, Ross, of {Oshtems, Mich., has been compelled by tll heaith to ane his pastorate. The Baptists of Camden, N. J., will dedicate a new church on June 5, Rev. A. J. Hay pastor. Rey. Mr. Faxon has been engaged to minister on Sabbath afternoons to the Baptists in Hillsdale, Mich. The Baptists in Wales number 64,985. They have 519 churches, and are ministered unto by 492 preachers, They have increased 2,444 by immersion during the past year. The English Baj tists number 178,183 members, They worship in 1,940 churches, and last year they added to their numbers by immersion 4,255. PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D., was elected Moder- ator of the Presbyterian General Assembly meet- ing in Baltimore last week. The introductory ser- mon was preached by Rev. Dr. Nicolls, of St Louis. L. B, Turnbull, of Maryland, has graduated in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Hampden Sydney College, Va., and will enter upon the active duties of the try. A Sunday school work among the Chinese and Italians in this city has been commenced by members of Dr. Crosby’s Fourth avenue Presbyterian church. The friends of Rev, Dr. Prentiss, late: pastor of the Church of the Covenant, have rai: $25,000 to purchase a reaidenge for him in lieu of the parso: 4» Which he nas feft. The proposition to found a Southern Presbyterian church in this city is held im abey- ance until a suitable mon can be found. Many such have been appealed to, but they are not the ills they ve and The Rev. A. W. Sproull has removed from Chester, Pa., to Sag Har- bor, L. I. The Presbyterians of Lima, N. Y., have bore phe st their old Sanee nee be Febunlding a jarger and more cos' ce, e Congrega- tional church in Millerton, N. Y., which has been connected with the Lichfield Consociation, has re- cently withdrawn and joined the Presbyt of North River. The First Presbyterian church, Cam- den, N. J., of which Rev. Villeroy D. Reid is pastor, has completed its new edifice, and it is to be dedt- cated on Sabbath, the Ist of June. The Rev. Moses Williamson, who has been pastor of the Cold Spring (Cape May county) Presbyterian church for the pas forty years, preached his farewell sermon to is congregation in that place lately. The vener- able pastor retires from active service and will re- move to Cape May City. ROMAN CATHOLIC, Bishop Corrigan dedicated a new Roman Catholic church at Morristown, N.J., on Thursday. The Rev. Father Flattery, who has been transterred from St. Teresa’s church in Henry street to the new parisn in South Harlem, was on Wednesday last presented by his old parishioners with a purse of $3,000, Besides the ladies of St. Teresa’s took an earlier opportunity to give their retiring pastor another purse containing $910, Father Piattery has been six years connected with St. Teresa’s church as assistant pastor. It is his intention to erect a magnilicent religious edifice at the corner of 105th street and Second avenue, The Jesuit Fathers have just been chased from their heuse of Retreat of St. Eusebius in Rome. The Milanese are restoring, on a very grand scale, the noble Sanctuary of the Grazie, one of the finest churches in Italy, the convent attached to which contains the famous ‘Last Supper,” by Lionardo da Vinci. A fine fagade has been also uf up to the church of San Marco, in the same autiful city. The Pope has sent the sum of 3,000 francs to the fund for the suffering clergy in Swit- zerland. The sacrament of confirmation was ad- ministered by Bishop Loughlin, at St. Nicholas’ church (German), Williamsburg, on last Sunday. There were nearly two hundred children. The Jesuit Fathers contemplate building a new and more spacious church edifice on Sixteenth street, near Sixth avenue, adjoining the present Church of St, Francis Xavier, which has become too small for the congregation. Father Ryan returned to Mobile lately aiter an absence in Europe of six or seven months, much improved in health, MISCELLANEOUS, Yale Divinity School has turned out 854 ministers during the last half century, of whom about six hundred and forty still live. The week before last twenty-six young minist graduated from this institution, and six have already received calls to the pastorate. Bishop Esher, of the Evangelical Association, is about to goto Europe to visit the German Conference, The Rev. G. F. Spreng, of the Ohio Conference of this society, will accompany him. Rev. Thomas M. Cann, ior some years princi- of the Frederick Female Seminary, has ten- ered his resignation, to take effect the t+ ter rt of June. The Universalists e but Rhirteen societies in this State, and not more than four of the are in a healthy or rous condition. There are converts ministered to by native preachers in Hin- doostan, notwith: the peculiar diMculties in the way; halfa million in Madagascar, while the Seuth Sea Islands send missionaries to the canni- bals of New Guinea. The Reformed Dutch church in Newburg have granted their pastor, Rev. W. R. Gleason, a vacation of four months, which he ex- pects to spend in Europe. This in lieu of his non- acceptance of a flattering call to Oswego, N. Y. Rev. W. B, Merritt has resigned his Reformed pas- torate at Flatbush, L. I., and takes charge of the Union Reformed church, in Sixth avenue, New York. Arrangements are being made to hold a Christian convention in Utica, September 9, 10 end 11, to which all bedies of Christians in New York are invited tp send delegates. The object is to ote unity and energy in evangelistic and other Chris- tian work. The annual exhibition and examination of the Sabbath school connected with the Congre- gation “Shaari Tefila," of this city, will take Ryne. on Sunday, June ‘th it ean ay, June 8, at the Forty-fyurth strge THE ANNIVERSARIES’ DECLIRE. Where Have the Anniversaries Gone to? ar Why Have They Left New York!—Hav the Religious People of the Metr Lost Their Interest in the Great National and Local Enter- 7 prises of the Church ? These are queations of significance, in view of he departure from our midst of the groat national and local associations of Christian workers which were wont to gather here regularly in May of other years and which created somuch public interest among the churches here. Buta few years age haifa dozen of these anniversaries would claim atten- tion on the same day, and public halls couia not be seer obtained without difficulty wherein the followers of © the several organizations might meet to present the results of their work in the past and to explain their necessities and grounds of hope for the future. This is all changed now, and the leading religious associations of the land either pass this city by in sitence or the members and friends gather in some quiet church parlor or lecture room and transact their business here without that glamour of glory an@ importance which formerly attached to these thertn, = uy CAUSES OF DECLINE. Several causes have operated to produce this effect. The excitements of other years have passed away. Slavery, which gave importance to the Anfi-Siavery Society, whose annual meetings alternated between this city and Boston, has been cast into the bottomless pit from whence there is no hope of its resurrection. The Peace Society which drew its breath and inspiration from slavery and from the civil war that ensued therefrom, and ‘whose sages were wont toexalt the biessings of peace and to denounce the madness of war, is no more. These two great agitating societies have done their work, whether well or ill is for others to decide, and they have passed away. Whatever meetings they hold now are of no more interest than the conventions of any body of ordinary mortals, THE FEMALE SUFPRAGISTS, Who, by some law of affinity or selection better known to themselves or to Darwin than to this writer, were generally yoked together with the Peace Society or with the Spiritualists, have be~ come of little or no interest to the New York pab- lic. The great advocates who a few years ago stood torth in Steinway or Apollo Hall to champion the right of women to vote and hold civil or politi- cal offices in the Commonwealth were found miss- ing this year, and their places were but poorly filled with lesser lights of the strong-minded order. Their agitation was too much like the rushing of water through a sluice—it expended itself ere its work was accomplished, And, besides, its advo-~ cates did not always, nor, indeed, often, ado; those measures to gain their ends which woul commend themselves to the sound sense of the community. Hence the interest in this movement hy jatly abated, These are causes of a national cl ter which have helped to diminish the inter- est in the anniversaries. There are other cause however, of @ local character. The selection officers from given sections; the fulness and gen- erosity of invitations from particular localities to the societies to meet with them; the desire to honor certain cities wkich have contributed largely and liberally to the funds of said societies and asso- ciations by bheted 3 once in @ while in those places; the requirements in the constitution of some s0- cieties, and, ay political reasons have some- thing to do with he change of some,of those or- ganizations from this to other cities, THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, the oldest and best tried of all the national so- cieties, held its’ anniversary in Philadelphia this year, in accordance with its original agreement te convene alternately in New York and in the Quaker City. It [Reba around its meetings there very much ot the éclat which formerly surrounded it here. Its President, Dr. William H. Allen, of Girard" College; Philadelphia, an enthusiastic Methodist, would naturally create some interest for it in that city, so that @ double reason might thus exist for the transfer. The first reason has, however, existed for half a century, yetit had never been heeded until this time. THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. found a successor to its late venerated President, Bishop Mclivaine, in the Hon. William Strong, Judge of the United States Supreme Court, anda resident of Philadelphia also. Judge Goong isa rominent member of the Presbyterian Church and interested in every benevolent and Christian enterprise that appeals to his sympathies or nis purse. The Tract Society met in New York this year, but stowed itself away on the second story of a chapel in Fourth avenue, where compara- tively few persons assembled, and the details of business lacked interest for outsiders. The old slavery agitation gave this society some of its public importance and led to a split in its ranks @ few years ago and the ao oreeneeoe of the old organization of that name in ton, They work harmoniously together however. The American Sunday School Union, whose President is a Philadelphian, met in that city this year and had a grand and brilliant reception. THE AMERICAN FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY is mainly if not wholly a local organization. It has its “home” and its headquarters in this city, and is sustained chiefly by contributions of the benevo- lent here, and hence has no good motive for meet- ait Its business meetings are confined to es, but its religious peering ore held an- nually in some city church where either an appro- riate sermon i preached or addresses are de- fiverea by local ministers. It met in the Northwest Reformed church, in Madison avenue, this year, THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIBTY, © 8 non-sectarian national association designed to supply the benefits of the Christian Church and the pocoe ag to sparsely settled and neglected fhe of the South, West, and Southwest, has its head- bef wt here and would have no particular mo- tive for holding its anniversaries elsewhere. THE HOWARD MISSION is a purely local institution, and has little orne motive for travelling beyond its own doors. But & ublic anniversary 1s & [ge help to its poe 4 cause an admission fee is charged to hear it youthful protégés sing and chant and recite their jieces, Or a collection is taken up to teen its reasury. The Five Points Missions, also in- stitutions and sustained by the contributions of New York Christians, hold their annual gathe: in their own homes. These anniversary gatherii are very little different from what may be seen ‘The only two great national organizations whose anniversaries were attended here with anything like the old interest were the Congregational Union and the National Temperance Society and Publica- tion House. The former transferred itseif from the classic halls of Brooklyn, where its annual gather- ings have been welcomed as a treat and a blessing, to the staid and stately audience room and parior of the Broadway Tabernacle. The latter was able to hold its own because of the reviving interest im the temperance question. THE BAPTIST SOCIRTIRS and boards received a cordial invitation from three or four of the churches in Albany to meet in thas city, and their annual conventions were held there. A proposition was before them to meet triennially instead of annually and it met with favor. The Southern Baptists met im convention in M Ala., and propositions looking towards a union the two bodies have been discussed. THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLIES. The Southern Presbyterians met in general as- sembly at Little Rock a week or more ago, and the Northern branch of the denomination in baltimore atthe same time. Dr. Crosby, of our city, was chosen Moderator of this latter body, the lai and most influential Presbyterian gathering ever convened on this Continent. Measures of the utmost importance to Presbyterianism in the ee ‘raed obs ag or As : et en Ad assembly. change will probably be orde1 lowed in the support of students for the ministry which will serve to weed out the worthless and leave the field to the worthy. It is probable, too, that ministers. will be permitted to leave the ministry as freely as they enter it when- ever their temporal or spiritual interests demand the change. The subject of a more thorough and complete union of Presbyterian bodies threughout this land will also receive attention. The feeling of need of a closer union 1s spreading. The three or four Presbyterian Canada and the British Provinces have within a few days past con« vened in St, John, N. B., and d upon terms ion of their worl e United Prespyterian, Cnurch of North America— Presb; ian , fai another branch of the great nt crphis will meet in General Assembly le! next Wednesday, while yet their neighbors in timore are in session. A opportunity will, ther of these On nion will hold its anniversary in the aiiierent churches of the city. The Sum schools will gather about two P. M., and be ad- dressed by ominent speakers. The “Peachers and Workers’ will assemble in the Broadway Tabernacie in the evening, and be addressed by Dra. W. M. ‘Taylor and S. H. Tyng, Jr., and others. if the is fine it will be an occasion of great interest. On Wednesday the Sunday School Union of Brooklyn wilt parade its scholars, taking some ta Prospect Park if the weather is favorable and gathering others in churches, where prominent speakers will address them. ‘hese anniversaries are among the Boek igpous of the whole year. These are am@ng the chief anniversaries which have been or are to be held during this month. Some of them, as the Presbytertan Assemblies, are not strictly of the character of an anniversary, Dut they all indicate what has been done or what is yin” the reUgioug world in the mouth of oi good for overtures of union to. peecerae, present itsett pe ly — CCC, CC —~C~CCOCt™