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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. June 15--Second Sunday After Pentecost, HERALD RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. Fashionable Funerals and What Follows. A Plain Question Requiring a Plain Answer. DECLINE OF METHODISM. INTERESTING MOSAIC NEWS. Preparing the Way of the Lord, FOREIGN RELIGIOUS MATTERS MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. Bishop Janes will this morning address the Meth- Odist Episcopal District Conference in St. Luke's. Love feast at three o'clock P. M., and a public Meeting at half-past seven, to be addressed by m2mbers of the Conference. Dr. Talmage preaches his final ante-vacation ser- mons at the Brooklyn Academy this morning and evening. “Heaven Very Close to Earth’ is the theme upon Which Rev. George H. Hepworth will address the Congregation of the Church of the Disciples this morning. “The Difference Between Believing and Not Believing” will be shown in the evening. Church extension and city missions will be advo- cated by Rev. Messrs. R. Meredith, J. Pullman and John Parker, and Mr. W. K. Peyton in Seventh street Methodist church this evening. A meeting in aid of the picnics for the poor will ‘be held in St. Luke’s Hospital chapel this evening, to be addressed by Rev. Willlam Kirkus, of Eng- dand, Rev. William P, Corbett preaches morning and evening at De Kalb avenue Methodist church, Brooklyn. Professor Roberts will preach, morning and even- ing, at St. Thomas’ chapel. Services at the usual hours inthe Church of Christ by Rev. W. C. Dawson. Rey. U. T. Tracy preaches, morning and evening, gm the Church of the Reformation. Preaching at Laight street Baptist Mission, in | ‘the morning and evening, by Rev. Halsey W Knapp. Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preach in the Fifty- $hird street church, morning and evening. Dr. Price will preach in the morning, and Dr. Geer, 01 St. Timothy's, in the evening, at St. Ste- phen's (Episcopai). Atthe Sixth avenue Union Reformed church Rev. Mr. Merritt will conduct the services as usual. Bunday school meeting at half-past two in the Biternoon. Rey. J. W. Barnhart preaches, morning and even- ing, in Forsyth street Methodist church. “Some of the Dangers to Young Men in Cities’’ ‘willbe portrayed by Rev. Wayland Hoyt, in the Baptist Tabernacle, this evening. Morning and evening services as usnal at the Methodist Free Tabernacle. Rey. John E. Cook- man will preach. Dr. Cheever preaches morning and evening in Trinity Baptist church. “Recognition by Saits in Heaven” is Rev. Mr. Davies’ theme for this evening, at Berean Baptist church. At the First Baptist church Dr. Anderson 'Preaches morning and evening. “The Office of Temptation” will be explained by Rev. Henry Powers this morning in the Church of the Messiah. *> Rey. Dr. Sampson preaches to the Fiftmavenue Baptist congregation in the morning and evening. Rey. H. A. Chapin preaches at the usual hours in ‘West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church. The congregation of New York Presbyterian church will worship in Bleecker Building this morn- ing and evening. Rev. Mr. Page preaches. There will be services (English) in the Russian- Greek chapel this morning, at ten o'clock. The French Retormed church will worship in Association Hall this morning. Preaching by Rev. E. Borel. Dr. Flagg preaches in the Eighty-filth street Church morning and evening. Services at half-past ten A. M. and five P. M. in Anthon Memorial church, when Rey. R. Heber Newton will preach. At Spring street Presbyterian church Rev. Mr. McCampbell preaches at half-past ten A. M. and dall-past three P. M. Young people's prayer meet- Ang at a quarter before eight P. M. Rey. David Mitchell will preach at Canal street Presbyterian church in the morning and at half- past three in the afternoon. Chaplain Laval, of the Bleecker street Mission, lectures this morning and afternoon on “The First ‘Article of the Creed.” At three P. M., in the University, Bishop Snow Will expatiate upon “The Fifth Monarchy Soon @oming.” Mrs, Hyzer, inspirational speaker, will lecture at Robinson Hall this evening. Professor Wilcox will address the Cosmopolitan Conference this afternoon on the subject of “Com- pulsory Education.” Fashionable Funerals and Their An- noyances. To The Eprror ov Tux HERALD:— Life is the only conundrum that, sooner or ater, all of us have to “give up.” But in giving up that which is not ours, and, therefore, beyond our control, we sometimes fall back with a sort of tri- Tmphant air upon that which is ours and which we think proper to use as a “law of compensation.” In this, however, do we not occasionally “run the thing into the ground,” as we literally do the ob- Jects of our fond attachment, and, by mistaken zeal, make an unseemly public exhibition and gala @cene of the most solemn act that falls to the duty ‘©f man to perform ? ‘The “boy of the period” who, because of some fancied slight, shook his finger menacingly at his little neighbor playmate, who had recently lost a welative, and chucklingly remarked, “You wait un ‘til we have a funeral at our house,” was uncon; Bciously “the coming man:” the ay ‘our “society,” who are neve © to extremes in all things, Who live fast and die Si who see in @ Wedding and a funeral the same opportunity to throw in the identical gorgeous €liects for the gaping approval of “Mrs. Grun rage to-day of at the former ti try to outdo h other in the superficial measure and in th Mumber of their gifts of silver and articles of virtu; if at the latter, in the rofusion, costliness and ey of shapes their oral presents assume, all of which are sent, duly @icketed, with the donors’ names in prominent haracters, and piaced in such Cg teed posi- ions a8 best to excite the wonder, adulation, and, qoayhap, the envy of all beholders. nerous ey at marriages is eminently proper 4n order to contribute towards marking the event ‘gs the most umportant step, and, it is to hoped, the ‘bappiest in life, while ¢xtravagance of expenditure, ‘we think, should never characterize the ceremonies and the surroundings attend- burial of the dead, all of ‘which should be. impressive because of being simple and free from all unnecessary display mybatsoever in remembrance of the Vakabvle | ated $400 for the spread of Satisfed unless they | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET ‘words found In Genesis {il., 19, and which apply to rich and poor alike—‘Thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.” Why, then, any pomp, glitter or display? The soul has leit the body and gone to its creator, Ail else is not spiritual, but “of the earth, earthly,’ and to this it 1s incumbent u) the living to show a reverential love and regard for a proper respect consistent with atruly solemn occasion, All else isa mockery and & mere show and unworthy of the intelligence of the age in which we live. AS some persons residing elsewhere may not know what extravagance in money as well as in manner now obtains at city tunerals, we will state that we attended one recently in New York city, where the deceased, a young lady of about twenty- five years of age, had her face painted by an artist. to cover places blackened where mortifica- tion had set in; her hair curled and decorated by @ professional hairdresser; her wedding dress, en traine, conspicuously wrapped around fer per- son; her hands encased in delicate white kid gloves and holding @ briaal bouquet; flowers on her cofin, beneath it and on the floor for seve- ral feet around, forming a perfect labyrinth of floral wealth fashioned into crosses, anchors, hearts, broken columns, &c., &c. dover and around all these were burning myriads of gas jets gayly illuminating the parlors, which had been darkened for the occasion by closing the windows. Hundreds of persons were there who never knew the deceused or any member of the family, but who came out of mere idle, morbid curiosity, and to heip to fill the scores of carriages composing the tuneral cortége. Now, is all this right—in fact, is it decent? Can it be proper to make an exhibition of the dead as we would of the latest style of bonnets in a milli- ner’s window or a statue in an art gallery, or some rare, wild animal ina cage? Most assuredly not; Rey the sooner the practice is discontinued the etter. Besides which the expense attending these fune- rails 18 Simply enormous, and in very many cases far beyond the means of the family whom relent- less fashion calls upon to make the unseemly dis- play. Many there are who run into debt on these occasions, and their regrets for the departed are curiously mingled into regrets at the costliness of his exit. ‘In the matter of carriages alone there is an unjustifiable amount of money spent, which even the very poorest of the people feel called upon to mdulge in. A short time ago the Catholic churcn 01 this diocese, we believe, promulgated an order limiting the number of carriages to attend funerals of persons dying in their faith, which was as respectful to the dead as it was considerate to the living. And pray, why should not people who attend funerals go in their own carriages or hire them tor the purpose ? When they-go to or return from a friend’s house on other occasions they do not ex- pect the host or his representatives to provide them with carriages, The custom, too, of strangers attending funerals is an objectionable one and should be corrected. What right has an entire stranger, whom you would not, a8 @ matter of course, invite to your house, to take advantage of your misfortune and probably crowd out your friends trom gaining en- trance beneath your roof? In England a better custom prevails, There none come to the house on such occasions except those in- vited, while the church, if there be ser- vice fhere, and the cemetery are open to all. By this means confusion, which, more or less, always occurs at large assemblies, is avoided; the amily of the deceased is not imdelicately intruded upon, and perhaps ill-alforded expense is not in- curred. ‘The Jewish rites of burial are, in many respects, worthy of consideration by other sects. With them the rich man’s tuneral is in all essen- tial particulars the same as the poor man’ With both all ostentation is scrupulously avoide ‘The inner and the outer,“habiliments of the grave” are of the plainest kind, and when the tenement of the soul ts deposited in its last eating place here on earth—-so beautifully and signifi- cantly called by them thetr bet ciiayeem (house of the living)—no martial music, discharge of mus- Ketry or other grandiloquent demonstrations are ever permitted to intrude upon the solemnity of the scene. SEMI-OGCASIONAL, WASHINGTON, D. C,, June 13, 1873, A Plain Answer Desired toa Plain Ques- tion. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— As you open your Sunday columns to the discus- sion of biblical and theological questions I avail myself of them, not for the purpose of captious or so-cailed infidel argumentation, but to get from some of your “orthodox” readers a plain and une- quivocal answer to a sincere and conscientious question. If it has ever been asked or answered before [have not had the good fortune to meet with it in my reading. We are told by our ortho- dox friends that in Adam’s sin and consequent fall the penalty of eternal death, or its synonym, eter- nal punishment, was entailed on the human race; and as this sin was an infinite sin against the in- finite law of an infinite God, there could be no pos- sible forgiveness for it or commutation of the pen- alty, and that nothing less than infinite punish- ment could satisfy the demands of violated infinite justice. To satisiy this demand, theretore, which ‘could not be done by man except by the suffering decreed, we are further told that Christ took the penalty upon himself; that He literally sub- stituted Himsel/ in the place of the sinner, and Paid the whole debt due by him to his inflexible and omnipotent Creditor. In other words, that which man, the transgressor, owed and bad to pay in all its length, breadth and terrible entirety, Christ, for Man and in his place and stead, assumed and undertook, and did pay as fully and completely and to the last farthing as though the debt had been ot His own individual creation, The law aMfxed the penaity and Christ assumed it, not by commu. tation ol time or by limitation or extension in de- gree or otherwise Of bodily or spiritual agony, but by substituting Himself in the piace of man under the same curse or its fearful consequences, bounded, if bounded at all, by the same limits and to be endured to the same extent as the sinner was doomed to endure it and would have endured it but for this act of substitution by the Saviour. Now, what was that penalty? Eternal banish- ment from the presence of God, and consequent eternal, irrevocable punishment and suffering. Then my quesuon is, “Did Christ suffer—does He now or will He im the ceaseless ages of the great hereatter suffer the same penaity said to have been decreed with devils and fiends, whether in the body or the spirit, by the Creator against the poor, frail work of His hands? If He did not, does not and will not so suffer, what then becomes of the asserted doctrine of the atone- ment, with all that is involved init? If to the sin- ner, in his own person, No modification or limita- Uon of his punishment could be conceded without violating the imfiuite decrees of the Godhead in the finmutability of His purposes, could it be possibie that @ substitute was supplied, even though the Son of God Himself, and that by the endurance of alithe agony of which the minds of men or angels could conceive, and limited to the space of some turty odd years, He could discharge a debt for the payment oi which, by the debtor himself, ali the eternities are orthodoxically declared to be insuf- ficieut? INQUIRER, “Decline of Methodism.” To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Under this heading you have printed a report of some of the things that were said at the preachers’ meeting yesterday, and give statistics and also | some reasons why Methodism is declining in Brooklyn. I have thought it would not be im- proper here to make a few remarks, and give another reason why it is declining, &c. We have in Brooklyn a Church Extension Society, whose object is to select sites and locate churches in the interest of Methodism, wherever it is thougat advisable to do so, and to encourage and assist new enterprises established by others. About two years ago a gentleman bought @ church in the Eighteenth ward of Brook- lyn, and, having paid $1,000 down of the purchase money, desired to start a new enter- prise in that growing locality. He proceeded in the usual way—calling a meeting of the brethren of the same persuasion in that Vicinity; trustees were appointed, to whom the property was deeded, and he donated to them the money he had paid on the same. ‘The church flourisied. A Sunday school was established which soon had 100 scholars on register, and everything passed along pleas- antly until the said'Church Extension Society was asked to recoganize the same and give its ‘infu. ence and support. One or two brethren came, looked around a tle and determined, as for them an, lit- their soctet | Christ and his crucify Unity,” consisting of letters to Dr. Guinz- burg, @ rabbi of Boston, Mass, trom the Rev. M. R. Miller, on the specific teaching of Judaism conterning she Divine Unity, Both the Tabbi of Boston ana Dr. Wise, of Cincinnati, appear in the book as the opponents of the author and Participants in the discussion. One of the thoughts ilustrated in this book is as follows:—That the Christian interpretation of the Mosaic system has the greater beauty and sublimity; or, more par- ticularly, that if the worship instituted by Moses is accepted as being essentially “shadows of good things to come,’’ a phophecy of a different age that should dazzle the world more than two thousand years afterwards, this surrounds Moses with a ce- lestial halo which instantly ciappears the mo- ment we accept the interpretation unfolded by Josephus and Mendetssohn and many other rabbies, that the tabernacle of testimony which Moses made in the wilderness stood for the work of creation, the curtains stood for the heavens and the arth, the laver and its stand stoed jor the six days of creation, the altar o! burnt-oifering stood for all beasts, the golden altar stood for all species, the candlestick stood for the sun and moon, the seven lamps stood tor the seven planets of our system. One Oo! the letters in the book is on the subject, “The Epistle to the Hebrews, the True Exponent of Ancient Judaism.” Preparing the ‘Way of the Lord.” To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Down through the ages, increasing in emphasis with the incoming of each new generation, comes this warning “voice in the wilderness,” “Prepare ye the way of the Lard, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. And to-day it sends forth its inquiry —‘‘Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?” And the response is—“Go and show again those things which ye do hear and see,"’ the same response which eighteen centuries ago was given as a test whereby to indi- cate the presence of Christ, This, then, being the criterion, what shall be the answering word to this inquiring voice? What are the things which we do hear and see to-day that shall tell how we have made “straight in the desert a highway for our Goa” Each individual is endowed with a certain amount of working power, of energy. Into what channels is this power turned ? Is it turned tow- ard removing the obstructions which lle in the way of the incoming of truth? Oris it used only to more thoroughly obstruct the way? What is the chief aim in the transaction of business among men’ Is it the promotion 01 mutual interest or of self-interest ? And of women—what shall we say? Shall we ask for what purpose do so many women spend their time and energies in following the absurd dictations of fashion? Why do they facerate their flesh to hang therein ornaments o! gold, and sad- die their backs with the deforming panier? Is it that they appear more attractive to the eye? Suppose that a party of savages were to appear in our midst with the same thing, only carried a little further; with not only their ears, but their noses, hung with ornaments (which is often their habit), what would be the sensation caused thereby? If the eye is pleased in seeing our own enlightened women thus equipped, it surely ought not to be offended at the same thing in the savage who does not know any better. Buu the savage South Sea Islander and the refined American woman both lacerate their flesh witha view to the same end—to please the eye. And what shall we say of the eye that is thus pleased ? Our Great Leader attached so much im- portance to the requirements of the eye that He said, “If thine eye be single (that is pure) thy whole body is full of light; butif thine eye be evil thy whole body is full of darkness,”’ _We may very reasonably conclude that if the God oi Nature had designed that we should hang orna- ments in our flesh and wear humps on our backs He would have spared us the p: of making in- cisions in our ears by sending us into tne world already prepared for such equipage and with natural humps on our backs. And we may also be certain that, while we are pleased in doing these things, and while our parents and husbands and lovers are pleased in seeing them done—for it is for these very eyes that they are done—we may be sure that we are not maki ft much progress in casting up the highway for the incoming of truth, unless we are preparing in such a manner as to make it necessary that we shall be brought to our- selves, to our senses, through the fire of calamity. “And when thou art spotled what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thyself with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyselffair. Thy lovers will oe thee, they will seek thy life.’—Jeremian “What wilt thou do when thon art spoiled ?” says the prophet; but let us ask ourselves, what shall we do that we may avoid being spoiled? And we shall find our answer here :—“The ax must be laid at the root of every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, and it must be hewn down and cast into the fire.” We see to what a stupendous growth this tree of fashionable folly has attained, and what an enor- mous drain it is upon our life forces. What time is spent, what labor is performed, what resourses of health and strength and wealth are exhausted upon the cul- ture and maintenance of this one tree! And what are its fruits? Are they forthe “healing of the nations ?’ Such should be the fruits which we should cultivate. Shall we not lay the axe at the root of this tree and hew it down and cast it into the fire ? or shall we let it grow on and continue to spend and be spent by it? There is offered a most stimulating incentive to the setting up of a new standard; ‘‘for,’’ says one of the ened lic voices, “‘we concede that the ignoble lives o1 women are very be a the result of men’s beliefs, teachings and exactions. But for all that the Teform must come from women, radically helped by another.” This, then, O votary of Fashion, is the recom- pense for all your painstaking and toil to meet that which, after all, is conceded to be only “a sup- posed demand.”’ And for such efforts your lives are styled “ignoble” and rou sex “frivolous and shallow.” “Thy lovers will despise thee,” says tue prophet. ISABELLA Bb, LANGSTON, BROOKLYN, June 11, 1873. No class is ever Bible Contradictions. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Ignorant statements regarding Bibie contradic- tions have appeared over the signature of ‘wsar’’ and one otner nom de plume that I have forgotten now, urging arguments against Christianity long since exploded, and that have been answered time and again. I nave not now these letters at hand, and would not notice them save for the apparent eagerness of “Caesar,” who is evidently a tyro of the first water. How much he knows of history may be taken from his letter in your issue of the 8th, wherein he states that he believes the dark- ness at the time of the crucifixion is spoken ofonly in the New Testament. Now, here is proof posi- tive that this would-be instructor has not read Eusebeus, Tertullian, Origen, Thailus, Phlegon, or Celsus, all of whom mention it. He says, further, that Pliny makes particular men- tion of the ethpse that took place alter Caesar's death. I do not know What stress the mind of “Owsar’ puts upon the word “particula but Ido know this, that here is the spirit of ‘that inci- dental mention entire “Eclipses are sometimes very long, like that after Cwsar’s death, when the sun was pale almost a year.” That is ‘all he says. I believe in a former letter this same “Cesar,” with the same ignorance, made the statement that jou were not mentioned by the ancient writers. If he will read the Talmuds, Tacitus, Celsus, Pliny the Younger, Justin, Poly: carp, Clement, Barnabas, trentus, Lucian and Josephus he will never ment betore intelligent 7 ake such a state- all these authors do make such mention. As to Noah, Abraham, &c., every schoolboy knows that traditions of them exist among almost every nation on the face of the | earth, and that at the present day we are digging | they Would have nothing to do with tuis und taking. This so discouraged those having charge of the new enterprise that they lost afl faith in promises, and besought the iormer owners to take the property from their hands, thus virtually | throwing away the $1,000 before alluded to. | ‘The Sunday School, by persistent effort, was kept alive in @ store on Broadway until the next con- fere! year, when Rev. H. P. P ve Was sent U the Conference to engage in mission work int neighborhood. The Missionary Society appropri- tle Gospel then, with Which another church was rented in the Twenty. first ward, avout three blocks from the former | church, and this minister succeeded in holding | togeth society almost seli-supporung. Another conierence year rolled round, and Brother Pease worked admirably to secure a second gift of missionary money; but the powers that be re} their aid; and soon, perhaps, this Church society, too, will be numbered with the things that were, on account of failure to receive Support from those to whom it naturally and Spiritually looks to get it. If tois Church Extension ociety Jalors as zealously in other directions as it has done in this, no Wonder Methodism is de- clining and will soon die out, A METHODI BROOKLYN, June 10, 1873, News for Those Interested in of Moses. To THE Eprrok or THe Herasp:— Says James Freeman Clarke, in his great book, “Ten Great Keiigions :'—“The prophets of the Jews, whatever else we deny to their predictions, cer- tainly foresaw Christianity” (page 443). J. B, Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, are preparing to issue & Dew bOOK with the title, “The Luminous the Study out Irom the ruins of ancient cities these same stories iinprinted in pottery. As to Constantine, he has no more to do with such a subject than Mar- tin Luther or one of the Poy You will perceive that | have mixed Ghristian and Pagan authors to- gether in the above, so that the testimony 18 not that of of side Evidently Tom Paine, **Vol- ney’s Ruins,” Voltaire, and Gibvon's “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em * filled, as they are, with statements that impose only upon the igno: rant, statements lacking truth, common sense and logic, have formed the reading of “Cwesar’ rather than contemporaneous authors of Christ's time. BRUTUS. Obsequies of the Rey, Dr, Quinn, Pastor of St. Mary's, Providener, R. L—Fa- neral Oration by Dr. McGlynn, On last Tuesday, June 10, a solemn high mass of requiem, presente cadavere, was celebrated for the repose of the soul of the Rev. Dr, Quinn, in the Church of St. Mary, Providence, R. 1., df which the deceased had been pastor for the last twenty years, The church, which was crowded to its utmost ca- pacity, wore the sombre habiliments of mourning, and over the altar, in letters of white on a black ground, was the consoling motto, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.’ The richly ornamented casket, Which contained the remains of the late pastor, rested on a catafalque in front of the altar, surrounded by lighted wax tapers. Nearly one handred priests were present todo honor to the memory.of their brother in the ministry. The high mass was celebrated by the Rev, Father Cooney, assisted by the Key, Father O'Hagan, deacon, and the Rev. Father Lynch, sab-deacon, At the close of the mass the Rev. Dw MeGlynn, pastor of St. Stephen's, East Twenty-eighth street, delivered an eloquent and touching eulogium on the many good qualities of the deceased. he Doctor took as his text the words, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” He reviewed the career of the deceased pastor from the time when, a8 @ young student, he formed his acquaintance in tue College of the Propoganda, Rome, on Be his obscure but eventrul life as a priest of the Catholic Church, teaching by word and example. He alluded in feeling terms to the barr 4 piety and priestly zeal of the decei to his uprightness of character, his charity to the poor and the erring, and to the universal respect and esteem in which he was held by his congregation and all who knew him. After the sermon the absolution was rescanand, and the mournful procession wended its way by a circuitous route to the plat in front of the church, in which the bo. y was buried with the usual cere- monies of the Catholic Church, The Rev. Dr. Quinn was born in 1829 in the parish of Ardstraw, county Tyrone, Ireland, and came to this country at a very early age. He received his first training in the pablic schools of Lowell, Mass., and while yet in his teens entered the College of the Propaganda, Rome, where he graduated with the highest honors in 1853, Aiter his ordination he Was appointed to administer St. Mary’s, Provi- dence, of which he continued pastor until his death on last Sunday evening. The New Roman Catholic Church of St. Cecilia at 105th Street and Second Avenue. A temporary frame edifice is now nearly com- pleted, at the corner of 105th street and Second avenue, where services will be held for some time previous to the erection of a more substantial building. This church has been named alter St. Cecilia. The Rev, Hugh Flattery having been ap- pointed by Archbishop McCloskey to take charge of the new purish, which promises to be oue of the most important in the city alter a short time. Father Fiattery’s selection tor the onerous work Oo! building up this religious district augurs well jor its entire success. ‘Tis gentieman is one Oi the ablest and most eneryetic Vatholic divines. On wis leaving St. Teresa's parish, where he labored as assistant priest ior six years, the parish- ioners presented him wich over four thousand dol- lars, together with an elegantly engiossed ad- dress, as a testimonial of ther esteem ior him, On next Sunday (June 22) a grand promenade concert will take pluce in the new budding, waich inaugurates the opening of a lady's janey tair. ‘This sair will remain open for two weeks. Clerical Appointment in the Diocese of Brooklyn. The Right Rey. Bishop Loughlin has appointed the Rev. Father Sheehy assistant pastor o1 the Church of St. Anne, corner Front and Gold streets, Brooklyn, Father Sheehy, who was iately or- dained at the ecclesiastical Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, Suspension Bridge, Niagara, is @ young ciergyman of much promise. He studied jor some time in the ceieprated Coilege of Maynooth, under fe bad masters, the principles of philosophy and theoloj guished for his application to nis professional Studies, As assistant pastor of St. Anne’s, le will have ample opportunity to exercise iis priestly zeal and charity. while the large congregation in that parisn will be blessed wita the ministiatious of @ young and fervent priest. Missionary—Roman Catholic Notice of the Liberation. The Catholic Mission is happy to be able to con- firm with new details the return to their homes of the native Christians, On the 7th inst. flity-two of the prisoners in the Province of Kishiu, and on the 18th inst. eighty-seven of those at Tsukuyama, 1 the Province of Bingo, haa returned to Nagasaki. The 470 in the Province of Kaga are on their way home, divided into bands of torty or fifty; a teie- gram received last night stated that tour of those bands passed through Hiogo. As among the prisoners there were old men, women, children and infirm persons who could nov make the journey on foo. without great fatigue and even danger to their life, the Japanese gov- ernment, out ot pity, took them on board ships. All the Christians, therefore, will be in a short time restored to their rights, and we feel assured that, forgetting their past miseries and suilerings, they will prove that, far from being rebels and encmies, such as remain faithful to their God until exile and death cannot possibly betray their sovereign and country. Yokouama, April 26, 1873, An Irish Presby teri m Preacher Called to America. The Newry (Ireland) Telegraph announces that @ call has been presented by a congregation in Boston to the Rev. J, H. Munro, the talented young minister of Sandy street congregation, Newry, and the call is likely to be accepted by that gentleman, if, indeed, such is not already the case. The con- gregation over which Mr. Munro has been invited to ‘dana is @ very wealthy and influential one, and supports a mission church, besides carrying on Various other evangelistic agencies, The stipend offerea is $5,000 per annum, with two months’ leave of absence out of the twelve, and several other advantages. It notices the coincidence that the Rev. W. T. Martin, Mr. Munro’s predecesser in Sandys street, has received a call irom the Ceoke church, Toronto, The stipend offered is $3,000, but it is not known definitely whether or not Mr, Martin will accept the call. Christianity in Japan and the Native Government, The Japan Gazette, published at Yokohama, at the latest mail date, gives the subjoined transla- tion of the communication with reference to the toleration of Christianity received by the senior of the treaty Ministers from H. E, Soyedjima Tana- Tomi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japan, at present Ambassador to Chin: Your EXcELLENCy—With regard to the individ- uals who embraced the Christian religion our gov- ernment, desirous of doing away with customs which might offend the leclings of the joreign Powers, had already, since last Summer, secretly ordered the Chiefs of Fu and Ken to cease arrest, From this moment the placards which have till now been affixed (to the notice boards) are with- drawn. On these placards was written the law which prohibited Christianity. You can communi- cate this to your colleagues and the Ministers of the other Powers, TANA-TOMI, Ministerial Movements and Changes, METHODIST. Bishop Haven is to dedicate a new Methodist Episcopal church in Savannah, Ga,, to-day. Dr. Peter Akers, notwithstanding his advanced age, preaches with great power yet; he is also quite active in the temperance cause. About one- third of the territory of Alabama is now, by legis- lative enactments, temperance ground. Professor Lorenzo D. Williams, of Meadville, long and widely known as formerly and for many years connected with Allegheny College, lost nis life suddenly on Wednesday of last week, by being thrown out of a carriage. He was a member of the Erie Conference. <A public reception was ten- dered Bishop Wiley at the Tremont street church, Boston, on the evening of June 11. Bishop Marvin, of the Church South, will preside over the next Annual Conference in Alabama, The new McKendree Church, Washington, D. C., 1s to be dedicated by Bishop Ames to-day. District conferences, now being introduced into American Mathodism, was first established in India, eight years ago, by Rev. E. W. Parker. ‘The oficial Board of the Methodist Episcopal Society (North) in Seabrook, Texas, have extended a call to Mrs, Montgomery, wife of Rev. Hugh Montgomery, to become their pastor. Rey. H. Montgomery, her husband, has been quite successful as an evangelist. Mrs. Montgomery conducted re- ligious services one evening before Conference and impressed the ald with her fitness for ac- tive work in the ministry. Whether the Conter- ence or the bishops will allow such a departure from established usage as this, and how long they will permit should the cali be consummated, are important questions; for such leaven very quickly le.vens the whole lump. Rev. G. C. Wells, for- merly of the Troy Conference and lately pastor of tne,Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, Minne- apolis, Minn., and member of the National Camp Meeting Association, died lately at his home, mourned and beloved by all. The Hanson place Methodist Episcopal church congregation, Brook- lyn, during the building of the new edifice wiil hold Sunday morning service in the chapel. The evening service will be held in Dr, Cuyler’s church, by the generous Javor of the latter. The corner- stone of the new church will be laid to-day, The anniversary of Emory Methodist Episcopal church, Bergen, N. J., Rey. S. Van Benschoten, pas- tor, will be held to-day. Bishop Simpson and Dr, Eddy are to officiate. The trustees of Bedford street | church, in this city, Dr. W. H. Ferris, pastor, have purchased a new parsonage at a cost of $14,000. Services were reopened in the large tabernacle at Sea Clif on Sunday last. An interesting sermon was preached to a good congregation by Rev. Mr. Stevenson, pastor of the nodist “Episcopal church at Glen Cove, Rev Sites and tomily, missionaries to China, have returned on a visit to their former home and iriends in Mohawk Valley, Ohio, Rev. RK. B. Yard, of Hedding church, Jersey City, Will sail for Europe on the 25th inst., to be absent about three months. He goes as a delegate from New Jersey to the RK W. Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Great Britain, which meets in London July 22. Rev. W. C, Steel, pastor of Beekmay Hill Methodist Episcopal Charch, is to preach the annual sermon before “The Woman's Foreign Missionary Associa- tion” of Utica, N, Y., to-day Bishop An- drews was called from his estern home to Syracuse last week by the death of his father.’ He returned again on Monday, The New York District Conference will open at St. Luke's church, in this city, to-day, with a sermon by Bishop Janes, at haif-past ten A: M. A district love feast, open to all, Will be held at three P, M. The Conference business progst will commence on Monday at halt- past nine A. M. and continue over to Tuesdi Dr. 3, D. Brown wilt have charge, The corner stone of the New Grace Methodist Episeopal church, Patterson, N. J., was lata yesterday afternoon, The degree of i). D. hasbeen conferrefl upon Rev. Charles E. Lord, of Boston, by the Weeteyan Wnia versity of East Genesee, is the author of “Natural and Revealed The ig an able man. , and in that estubiishment was distin- | & profound scholar and worthy of the degree con- ferred upon him. Rey, Alexander H. Tuttle, pas- tor of Lafayette church, Jersey City, sailed on Sat- urday for Europe. During Ws absénce of three months his pulpit will be supplied by Professor H. A. Buttz, ef Drew Seminary. The Suniversary of St. Mark’s (colored) church, Rey, William H. But- ler, pastor, will be held to-day. Rev. R. M. Strat- ton, of Yonkers, and Drs. Curry and King, of this city, will officiate during the day. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Trinity ordinations at the Provincial Semi- nary, Troy, N. Y., Bishop Wadhams, of Ogdens- burg, oMciating, raised to priests’ orders Kevs. Edward '. McGinley, Michael W. Newman, Edward J. O'Gorman, John B, Salter, Owen Smith, of this diocese; Revs. John J. McDonald, Richard W. Meehan, Luke G. O'Reilly, Thomas P. Walsh, of the diocese of Albany, N. Y.; Revs. John J. Donneily, Waiter B. Golden, Thomas A, Hendrick, William Muiheron, George J, Osborne, Hugh F. Raf- erty, of the diocese of Rochester, N. Y.; Rev. John A. Mulcahy, of Hartiord, Conn., and Rev. John Michaud, of Burlington, Iowa. The deacons ordained from this archulocese were Revs. John 3. Colston, John F, Fitzharris, William J. Foy, Jobn J. Kiordan. Diocese of Albany—Revs, Patrick Brady. Luke G, O'Reilly, Michael Clune. Diocese of Boston—Revs, James J. Chittick, John McNulty. Diocese of Rochester—Rey. Michael T. Madden. Diocese of Portland—Rey. ‘’homas O'Neill. Diocese of Springfield—Key. James T. Canavan, Diocese of Ogdensburg—Kev. Thomas Piunkett. Besides these there were twenty-three sub-deacons ordained, five to minor orders, amd nineteen received tonsure. At the Buffalo Cathedral Mess’s. Daly, Lumny and Pitass received all the orders as rT as priestnood, and Mr. Connolly sub-deaconship and deaconship. Rey. Kdward Brady, of the congregation of St. Paul, was ordained by Archbisnop McCloskey on the 7th inst., at the Churen o1 St, Paul the Apostle, Fiity-mintn street, New York, Atthe Grand Semi- nary 0: Montreal Kevs. R. J. Barry, of Boston, and L. O. Chaput, of Montreal, were made priests, and Revs. ‘I, Kivanagi, A. Lorion, 0: Montreal; J. 0. Mcovonaid, ML. J. McMillan, Charioutetown; 5. Walsh, Hamilton; J. H Duegan, D, FR, McGrath, Hartford; J. bean, FF. Kohledr, Archdiveese of Toronto, deacons, Not many days since a very large pil- grimage started from Vivieres, Frapce, for Lourues. These pilgrims, about filteen hun- dred in number, had scarcely reached Lourdes ere they tound that already three equally nu:neious bands of devotees had arrived beiore then; 2,000 persons had come from Ardeche, 1,200 from Tulle and 500 irom Marseilles. ‘The little town was alive with them, and the road to the sanciuary presented boih an animated and an ediyiug spectacle, crowded as it was with pilgrims singing hywins and carrying lights and banners. Tne wagnificent churen, vult over the grotto, is now rapidly ‘eaching completion, Several mira- cies have taken plage here within the past few months, and at Palermo and Lucca, Italy, two per- sons have been cured of dangerous maladies by drinking the water carried irom the grotto. A vreat piigriinaze took Ceorg on Whit Sunday to the Shrine of vur Lady of the Hawthornes, in Cham- pagne, Other pilgrimages will occur in July and August to various shrines of note mm alt parts) «oof ~=France and Belgium. BAPTIST. Ground was broken on Wednesday last for a new building Jor the second Baptist church of Philadel- phia, Next Wednesday the corner stone of the new Mantua Baptist church, Palmas. will be laid. The Second Baptist church of Lawrence, Mass., have called Rev. J. Gill, of South Berwick, M A $100,000 Baptist church is being built in St. Paul, Minn, Next Sunday Rev. J. P. Hunter, of Upland, Pa., will assume charge of the Baptist church at Apollo, Pa, The Baptists ot Johnstown, Pa., have sold their old church and are about to build a new one in a better location, At the recent annual meeting of the ‘trenton (N. J.) Baptist Association 26 churches reported 4 mem- bership of 4,726; 40 Sunday schools and 3,653 schoiars, Last Thursday week the new Baptist cuurch which cost $18,000 was dedicated in Cam- den, N. J. it is built in the Gothic style of Yardley brown stone, trimmed with green stone. ‘The architect, who 18 &® member Oi the church, has donated $9,450 of the whole cost together with his own services. ‘The Pittsburg (Pa.) Associa- tion, at its late session, admitted six new churches into its feilowship. One of them haa just been formed at the beginning of this month by members oi the Kirst and Union churches of Pittsourg. 1% will be known as the Fourth avenue Baptist church henceiorth, North Sunderland, Mass. Brookline, Vt. Kev. ‘Lhomas, of Newton Seminary, has accepted a call to North Tewkes- bury, Mass. During four years of pastoral labor by the Kev. L. J, Matteson with the Baptist church at Brattleboro’, Vt., 263 members have been added to the church, which now numbers 464. A beauti- ful church buliding, Iree from debf, has also been erected, A meeting house at West Brattleboro’ has also been purchased, and a new church started there under favorable auspices. The Baptist busi- ness men of lowa have held a State coavention in the interest of missions, when they resolved to give time and money and experience to the fur- therance of Baptist missions in lowa. The Clinton avenue church, Trenton, N. J., reorganized toward the end of last month, has a membership ofiorty now, and intends shortly to build a chureh edifice. Rey. John E Chesshire tilled the pulpit o1 the Strong place church, Brooklyn, last Lord’s day, with great satistaction to the church and Songregation. ev. Mr. Jones, formerly poster of the First Bap- tust church of Rahway, N.J., has accepted and been installed pastor of tne Baptist church of New Market, N.J. During the proceedings of the late Memorial Convention in Richmond, Va., a delega- tion of colored Baptist ministers were excluded from the place of meeting. ‘The affair has created considerable excitement in Baptist circles, and North and South the leading men in the Conven- tion are rushing into print to exonerate them- selves and to throw the blame on the over-zealous policemen who kept guard around the council chamber, and acted in this matter not only with- out authority but against it. The colored men had been speciaily invited to attend, but they had to depart without enjoying the meetings, and received only insult for their trouble. Kev. J. 5. Ezell, a Baptist minister of Spartansburg, S.C., who has been serving out a five years’ sentence in Albany asa Ku Kluxer, has just been pardoned by the President at the instance of his Northern brethren. PRESBYTERIAN, According to a report made to the United Pres- byterian General Assembly one-ninth oi the Pres- byterian congregations are without houses of wor- ship. Rev. Thomas Beveridge, D. D., for many years a professor in the Theological Seminary of the Associate church, in Canonsburg, Pa., died lately, aged seventy-six years. Few churches in Montreal are represented to be more thoroughly alive to Christian work than the American Presby- terian charge in that city. This congregation have just celebrated their semi-centenmial, and under the inspiration of it have lifted the heavy debt on their edifice. Its pastor is Rey. George H. Wells, formerly a Congregational minister in Iilino:s, and among the active agencies of his cuurch are four prosperous Sabbath schools. kev. Frederick Knighton, Ph. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Oxford, N. J. (the scene of the labors of David Braimerd among the Indians), has accepted the charge of the Brainerd Institute, at Cranberry, N. Dr. Knighton took charge of the church at Oxford, in 1854, since which time three new churches have been organized by colonies from it, while 184 new members have been added to the original church. Rey. Dr. John Hall and Rev. Dr. Scnaff satled yesterday for a brief vacation on the other side of the ocean. Rey. Charles S. Pomeroy, D. D., of the Ross street Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, has received and accepted a call to the Second Presoyterian church in Cleveland, Ohio, Rey. M. G. Mann, member of the Presbytery of Newark and lately from the Universities of Berlin and Tubingen, has been commissioned by the Home Board to take charge of the Eugene City (Oregon) Presbyterian church. One-seventh of the whcle amount contributed to foreign missions was iven by the churches in the Presbytery of New York. Rev. Hagh 0, Pentecost has resigned the ~ pastorate of the Rockville Centre church, Long Island. The congregation at Westfield, N. have raised $30,000 to build a new sanctuary. will be re- membered their house df worship was destroyed by fire some time ago, ind it is their purpose to replace it with an edifice im keeping with the pecuniary strength of tae society and the demands of the times. Rev. J. §. Root was last week in- stalled pester of the Presbyterian church at Camil- lus, N.Y. Mr. M. D. Kneeland, of Auburn Semi- nary, has been called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Waterloo, N. Y. Mr. George K. Ward was orlained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian caurch at Dansville, N. Y. Rev. John Squier has been elected pastor of the Presbyterian church at Smyrna, Del. at @ Rey. J. D, Donovan, of has accepted a call to salary of $1,200. Rev. W. H. Heberton has been installed stor of the sbyterian church at Elkton, Md, Rey. H. J. Gaylord was installed pastor of Eden durch, Whaleyville, Md. ‘the Wethersfield avenue church has just been or- ganized by a Congregational council of Hartford (Connecticut) ministers. ‘The new church numbers twenty-four members, and is under the care of the Rev. George E. Sanborne. The Presbyterian Church of Lower Canada numbers 18,094 comnmunicants and 77,694 adherents. This shows @ smail genenal increase, though some of the Presbyteries have declined, The benevolent contributions reached last year $145,143, ibis UNIVRRSALIST. Rev. D. ©, Tomlinson recently organized a Uni- versalist church of four members at Mansfield, Ohio. The Universalists of Rockland, Me., are about t erect a new and more spacious church in that plce. Rey, Anson Titus has begun his pas: torate vith the Universalist church in West Wate: ville, Mx. Rev. A. A. Thayer has opened Univer- salist metings in the Opera House, Scranton, Pa., on Sundays. They are well attended, and an in- terest i: being awakened for the denomination there. Fev. E. 0. Sweetzer, of the Bleecker street Universaist church in this city, is to spend his vacttion of three or four months in Eu- rope this Summer. Mr. W. H. OC. Waddell is about to begin ‘niversalist meetings in the village of White Plins, L. I. Rev.-J. Crepore, of Dover, N. H., will b-day begin his labors with the Univer- salist church in Canton, N. Y. Rev. Mr. Gunnison, wea o the Fourth street Universalist church, rooklyn E, D., sailed for Europe last Phursday on @ three nonths’ vacation. His friends gave him & purse of over four hundred dollars before his de- parture. On the 17th inst. & public discussion is announced to take place in Muncie, Mich., between Rey. W.'. Howe, @ Disciple, and Rev. 8. B. Binnes a Universalist minister. The subject is universal lvatio) and endless punishment. The debaters and thet hearers will probably be as far on the Toad at he end of the discussion as they Will be at the begining, and no further. EPISCOPALIAN. uae tae Lay gt ag in rey g.the canon of lay ine fol tieatricg exhibitions ‘ad other’ ght end vals i musements, is very strongly censured by Bishop Sattinguash. who declares that he will not be bound by it, especially in these times, which, in hia view, require increased stringency, and not timid relaxation in observance Oo! the rules of right livi and self-denial. The ate Episcopal Convention Mobile raised the salary of the Bishop from $4,000 to $4,500, The Episcopal Diocesan Convention’ of Texas, which met in Waco week before last, ine sured ‘the life of Bishop Gregg for $10,000 in favor of his wife. Rev. Dr. 0: has taken charge of Trinit church, New Haven, for the coming season, au will spend the Suminer, ag usual, in Fairfield, Cone The diocese of Virginia, through its Council, has voted not to set off West Virginia asa separate diocese. Rey, William Orrick, of St. John’s church, York, Pa., has been called to the rectorship of S& Paul’s courch, Des Moines, lowa. ‘the condition of the diocese of Virginia is’ eminently encouraging, there being 12,000 communicants and nearly forty candidates for ontire ant an increase of $40,000 im contributions. The Episcopalians of Chicago are build.ng two new churches, respectively named St. John’s and ‘Trinity, at a cost of $150,000 for the for- mer and $175,000 for the latter. MISCELLANEOUS, The American Bible Society distributed gratul. tously $30,000 worth of Bibies in Alabama last year. Rev. Mr. Waite, ofthe American Chapel, in Rome, has not only succeeded with others in starting a Italian Young Men's Christian Association, but has also organized a sma!l church of Roman soldiers. ‘The “centurion,” in this case, is @ young mam named Cappellini, whose faith in his new-found Christis such that he has labored among his fehow soldiers with a genuine devotion. Already the lit- tle church numbers twenty-six members, some of who are oflicers of rank and education. A col- lege has been opened near Gravesend, Eng- Jand, for the education of the daughters of poor Congregational ministers. It began witi 100 pupils, Bokemia, since the expulsion irom the country of the followers of John Huss, in 1620, has been shut Against Protestantism. Of late some light has dawned there. In the town of Laun, which was once peopled entirely by Moraviaus, but now as_ entirely by Roman Catholics, an Kyvangelist has opened a preaching station unmelested, and has from two to six hundred Uatholic hearers, Amon the results thus far is the conversion of three fami. lies to the Protestant faith, and the resixnation of their offices three priests. ‘The receipts ot the American Board for April were 35,928, and thus far during the present nancial year $248,400 50, an advance of @ little more than five thousand dollars over the receipts of last year during the same At the Quadrennial Conference of the Brethren, held recently in Dayton, Ohio, the Presi- dent, Bishop Glossbrenner, stated that during the past four years the membership has increased 17,347. |A new Reformed church was recently organized in Hazelton, Pa., with Rev. A. Rahn, pastor. The United Brethren propose to follow in the wake of the Methodists, and admit laymen as delegates in their Church Conterences, By a vote of 90 to 12, the recent General Conference agreed to submit the question to the churches in Novem- ber next, and abide their decision. The proposed basis of representation 1s lay delegate for every 2,000 members. Rey. Edward P. Ingersoll, of the Midule Reformed church, of Brooklyn, N. Y., sailed on tne steamer Cuba last Wednesday, fora four months’ trip in Europe. The church continues his salary, supply- ing the pulpit during his absence, and presented him a purse to defray his expenses. One of the members of his church presented him with @ valuable gold watch; another complimented his wile in like manner, that they might each mark the moments as they swiftly fy. Of the 1,500,000 children in New York less than one-half attend Sabbath schools. Among these 13,000 conversions, were reported last year. The number of volumes in the libraries is about 1,000,000, while over $500,000 were raised by the scholars for religious uses. period. United LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE, ft Sanctified versus Unsanctified Enjoy- ments—A Moral Basis Needed for All True Pleasure—Sermon by the Kev. Dr. Huebsch, The popular rabbi of the synagogue in Lexington avenue and Fifty-fifth street, the Rev. Dr. Huebsch, yesterday preached one of his practical discourses: on éhe kinds of enjoyment or pleasure that men take here and the work that they accomplish. The discourse was an able protest against the preva-. lent sins of Americans—namely: excess of work and excess of amusement. His text was Leviti+ cus, Xi, 44:—“For I am the Lord your God; ye shall therefore sanctity yourselves and be holy, for I am holy.’? Those, the Doctor remarked, are among the closing words of the old dietary laws of Israel. He had no need now to instruct his people in regard to their observance; they had laid them aside as they found them unnecessary or incon- venient, and had substituted for them the modern dietary laws. But the Lord has bade us sanctify ourselves, that we may not forget that the body is the vessel of the Spirit, the Spimt is the crown of life; and men should never injure the crown nor the vessel. This thought led to some remarks on the new dietary laws and to the RELATION OF LABOR TO WEALTH and enjoyment. There is one man, he said, whe puts his hands on his lap and lounges about, lazily waiting for work or wealth to come to him, but they come not. If a man would cross the ocean he must Suild the ship first and prepare it with masts and sails and all the appliances necessary fora safe and successful voyage. And the man who would acquire wealth must work for that also. But some one will ask, What, then, has God to de with it? He has much to do with it. Thank Him for the health and strength He gives you, the care that He exercises to bring you safely over the sea and the food that he provides for you. In the Scriptures it is written that God giveth to the cat- tle their food. But why to cattle and not to man? Itis that men may work and enjoy the fruit of their labor ; but cattle get their bread ready made by the Creator. God could not have enjoyed this world - had He not first made it, and we must make our worlds ere we can enjoythem. But our activities must be holy, and holiness is always active ; yet not that kind of activity which swings hither and thither like the pendulum of a clock, tic-tac, work days and holy days alike, until the wheels wear out and then it stands still forever. Such, indeed, is the work of many men. Work days and lestival days, right or wrong, they perform their daily round from morn till night, until the wheels of life wear out and oe stand still. That, however, is not the way in which we must work. “Go to the ant, thou lair is the recommendation of the Scriptures. The ant is ever stretching out its claws and is perpetually working. Its is & grain and a half of wheat during the season; but, according to the legends, it stores up and leaves behind it 300 measures of wheat. How many are Thy works, Lord Goa Almighty! In wisdom hast Thou made them all! GOD 18 HOLY, and all His works are made in righteousness. All human holiness must flow from the state of the mind, and hence our activities should tend to make us spiritual. But if spiritual principles do not form the basis of all our actions our glory will be like that of the ant. We shall gather and store, grind, work, eat our grain or two and depart, leaving 300 measures of wheat behind us. Some men leave greenbacks instead of wheat, and for such the ant isa good teacher, But there is an enjogment of labor higher than this. There are about thirteen hundred mil- lions of people on the earth, every one of whom is seeking enjoyment, but they know little or noth- ing about it. To have and to hoard is not to enjoy. To enjoy is to feel a pleasure in your soul and i have asense of enjoyment there. Two men look at the same picture, and one sees only the and material side of it, while the other takes in ita artistic beauty. Two men listen to the sounds of music—one rejoices in the harmony of sweet sounds while the other is more interested in the in- sirutments that produce them. Men listen to a ser- mon in the same way. One is edified at its depth of thought, another by its glow of inspiration, and a third is amused, if not edified, by the OCCASIONAL WITTICISMS of the preacher. But all these enjoy the picture, the music or the sermon according to their capacity, though none of them enjoy alike. Two men have business places near each other, By the pendulum law one keeps open work day and rest day all the year. The other observes the Sabbaths and fast days. At the end of the year we would | say the one that kept open every day has done one-sixth more business and made one-sixth more money. But has he done so ? fy measure by cyphers, he has; but to work for cyphers is to work as the ant works, The man who has worked six days and remembered the Sabbath to keep it holy may have one-sixth less gain than the other, but he Knows that he has obtained it justly and in compliance with the Divine law, You see two men o1 equal business, and, so far as you can observe, of equal means also. One man subscribes largely and liberally to all the benevolent objects of the age, He supports the someone, cares for the orphans, helps to build homes for the aged and hospitals for the sick, sits down, perhaps, to @ frugal aed and goes to the theatre once a month or to opera once @ year. The oth grandly; ne y jer lives PARES SUMPTUOUSLY EVERY DAY, he rides out tothe Park in a splendid equips every afternoon, and goes to the theatre or the opera with his family every night. Men look at him in astonishment, and talk of his wealth and o| his wonderful enjoyment of it. But which of these men enjoys his wealth most? Evidently the man Who does the most good with it. He has a moral foundation to his enjoymént. But some man will Say, perhaps, it iseasy for the preacher to say these things; it is part of his business. Yes, tha Doctor replied, but where is the man who givea more to the synagogue or the church than the minister? The talonts which have made hima preacher would have made him a merchant, doctor or @ lawyer, But he prefers to live anoth life than that of the ant. And he (Dr. H.) would have the people avold the extremes of over work Ma Dlensure apd take the sale middie e ' at | | a i ‘