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6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. June 22—Third Sunday After Pentecost. PROGRAMME OF TO-DAY'S SERVICES. Herald Religious Commu- nicants. BEECHER AND MATHEMATICS. The Orthodox View of the Atonement. THE PARISH OF ST. AGNES. <indghaealiiadine The Fashionable Funeral Question. THE ISRAELITES IN BRAZIL. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. “Murder; or, the Condition of Our Criminal Cal- endar—Where the Responsibility Rests,” is Rev, Dr. Holmes’ topte for this evening at Trinity Bap- tist church. .The morning’s discourse will be about “Kaen; the Sepulchre in the Garden.” At the installation of Rev. D. B. Jutten as pastor of Sixteenth street Baptist church, this afternoon, at half-past three, Rev. R. 8. MacArthur will preach, and Rev. Drs. Dowling, Anderson, Mikels and haifa dozen other D.D.’s participate. The new pastor predches at the usual hours morning and evening, “The Divine Thought About Small Things” will be elucidated by Rey. Wayland Hoyt this evening at Tabernacle Baptist church. Rev. Dr. Tucker, a noted Southern divine, will preach in the Fifth avenue Baptist church this morning and evening. “The Modocs and the General Indian Question” wul be the subject upon which Father Beeson will address the Fifty-third street Baptists this evening, Rev, John E. Cookman preaches at the Methodist free Tabernacle at the usual hours, “The Unpardonable Sin’ is to be the Rev. P. L. Davies’ theme at Berean Baptist church this even- ang. Rev. Mr. McClelland will conduct the usual ser- vices at St. Luke’s (Methodist) to-day. Rev. J. W. Barnhart preaches morning and €vening in the Forsyth street Methodist church. Rev. W. P. Corbett preaches this morning and evening jn De Kalb avenue Methodist church, Brooklyn. There will be services and a sermon by the Rev. William Kirkus in aid of the charities at St. John- land, this evening, in the chapel of St. Luke's Hospital. “The Grace of Contentment” will be expounded by the Rev. Henry Powers at the Church of the Messiah this morning. Rector Tracy will preach this morning, and the Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., this evening, in the Church of the Reformation. Rev. Dr. Thompson will address the congregation Of St. Paul's (Reformed), at the Harvard Rooms, at half-past ten A. M, and at half-past three P. M. Mrs. Hyzer will lecture inspirationally at Robin- Bon Hall tiis evening. At the First Baptist church Rev. Dr. Anderson will officiate at the customary services. 7 ‘The Time and Manner of the Second Advent” ‘Will be fully expounded by Bishop Snow, at the Unt- versity, at three P. M. Dr. Flagg will conduct the customary services in the Eighty-tifth street church. “God Rules Everywhere” and “The King of the Jews: Your King,” are the subjects upon which Mr. Hepworth will enlighten his fock (Church of Disciples) to-day. Services at half-past ten A. M. and eight P. M. in Christ church, Dr. Thompson ofticiating. Rev. Dr. H. B. Chapin preaches, morning and evening, in West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church, At St. Stephen’s (Episcopal), Rev. A, B. Hart wil preach in the mormng and Kev. Dr. Price in he evening. . * Diving SMvIee Be psual in the Church of Christ, | Rev. Mr. Dawson wiil preach, "%j'2 > =" Chaplain Laval will sermonize upon the first article of the Creed at Bleecker street Mission, morning and evening. Henry Ward Beecher and His Ignorance of Mathematics. To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD T noticed in @ HERALD Yeport of one of H. W. | Beecher’s reper” sermons that he professes total | ignoranor of matnematics, and thanks God for wot ignorance! Can this sentiment be called worthy of ‘a divine? Man invents not wisdom, but discovers it in the works of the Creator. Man discovers the relations of things, and, classifying the relations, caiis it “science.” Finding regu- arity and order in all materia! relations, he calis these “laws of nature.” Philosophers, dis- covering al! material things and their motions in space, ruled by “measure and number" (science of mathematics), they do not ascribe the mvention of that science to themselves, but reverently call it “adivine science; and Henry Ward Beecher, the most eminent and popular “divine” of Amer- joa, thanks God ferventiy jor bis ignorance of this “divine science!” and thereby gives his flock, un- wittingly, to divine that there must be something intrinsically wortiless ina kuowledge which their revered pastor “thanks God for being ignorant of,’ while the study of mathematics is universally enjoined upon ali who would learn ‘to think cor- reouly.”” HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE. The Orthodox View of the Atonement, To THR Epitor or THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, “Inquirer,"’ in th@HgRALD of June 15 seems to be somewhat puzzled about the “orthodox” view of the atonement. With your permission I will try to simplify a subject that has troubled and mystified many honest inquirers after trutn. The first point to be settled appears to be, What is orthodox? As itis not all gold that glitters, neither are all orthodox who make exclu- sive claims to that distinction, Webster defines orthodox to be “sound in the Christian faith, be- lieving the genuine doctrines of Scripture,” It, therefore, follows that those who advance unsound and unscriptural views are not orthodox. Without reference to what others have taught or written on the subject of the atonement, I propose to pre- sent the doctrine in @ plain, common sense, Scrip- tural light, trusting that “Inquirer” will find no further difficulty in comprehending its beautiful adaptation to poor, falien. sinful humanity. Going back to where sin was introduced into the world, or rather back of that to where the frst threat of punishment for the sin of disobedience was uttered, we read:—‘In the day that thou eat- est thereof thou shalt surely die.” As God always keeps His word there can be no doubt that the death there threatened did occur in the very day the sin was committed, The only question, then. what was the nature of the death? Some wi claim to be orthodox assert that it was the death of the body—tnat if Adam Dad not sinned he never would have been subject to natural death; but this is not good orthodoxy, tor it asserts what St. Paul em- phatically devies when he says, with reference to the resurrection, that ‘flesh and blood cannot in- herit the kingdom of God.” It would also lead to Monstrous conclusion that all animals hay bodies of flesh and biood similar to our own a isomortal, because, having no moral law to break, they have never sinned. Another class claim that the death in question is eternal death, or, as “In- quirer” puts it, ‘its synonyme, eternal punis' meat.” Aihis idee soun ls more orthodox, beca' itis more Seriptural, for the doctrine of eternal punishment is cleary taught in the New Teata. erises, What moaning: of the to nishment ft lution of term natural death. it means a change of condi! former imfuences, The ceous man becomes dead to 510, Calious to evil influences. The sinner becomes to right- influences, a soul. hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins,” shows that there is such a thing as a resurrection irom thts state of morai death in this life or state of being; showing also that death, or eternal death, if you would make the term as strong as possible, may be overcome—has becn overcome. We now see clearly that death is the punishment of sin eg all men have incurred the Bnmest for all we sinned; that this pun- cy for it will as long as the produces it shall exist, But we must re- the same time, that the word—some- times rendered eternal and sometimes everlast- ing—is an adjective, necessarily limited in its meaning by the nature of the noun to which it applies. The word everlasting or eternal when applied toGod means endless or iilimitable, be- cause it applies to God, ‘The same word, applied to the priesthood of Aaron or the doors of the Temple, bas a limited signification, because the ets ave nites. Take the adjective “large.” It, like the word everlasting or eternal, is relative in its meaning. If I say, “There is a large apple and there 18 a large elephant,” the word large can- not possibly make the apple as large as the phant, although it has the same relative meaning, Now, take the noun punivhment—is it an end or a means toward the accomplishment of an end? A good father pun- ishes his child for the purpose of bringing about that child's reformation, He loves the child all the while, and when @ parent punishes merely for the sake of punishing we call him brutal. The whole country was horrified, a few days ago, on learnin; that the keeper of a restaurant in Virginia hi kept his little son chained in a room for three months for the crime of stealing. And why? Be- cause the punishment was unnecessarily cruel and without any apparent object of benefiting tne child. Punishment, then, being limited in its na- ture, is confined in its duration the sin which is its cause, and when the sin is removed its office ceases, its services are no longer needed, for it has ac- complished its mission. Of what benefit, then, is the atunement of Christ? Let us see, The world lay dead im trespasses and sins, grovelling in the mire and corruption of seifisnness and all the evil consequences of becoming slaves to unbridled ap- petites and passions; blinded by their own lusts to the love th: benificent Creator had mani- fested in al! His works; ignorant of God and the rewards of righteousness, and literally in the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity. And yet God loved that poor, miserable, sinful world with such an intense, undying love that He sent His only be- gotten Son, clothed with Mesh and blood, that he might mingle among them, féaching down to the very depths of their degraded natures—not toscreen them from deserved punishment and thus reconcile the Father to them—oh no! There is no orthodoxy in such an idea; but, in the language of the New Testament, “God was iy Christ, reconciling the world anto Himself,” not imputing their trespasses unto them. There was no need of that. All of the years of their sin and suffering they had been sinning against themselves and bringing on their own heads the eternal punishment that ig the never failing accompaniment of sin, and it was the mission of Christ to save the sin- ner from sin, “Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.” Reconciliation of the sinner to God, not of God to the sinner, 1s, therefore, the true, orthodox view of the atonement; and that work of reconciliation, although not yet complete, is steadily progressing, and will continue to progress until “all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest.” And, in the language of St. Paul, 1 Cor., xv.—**When all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.”” . He What Does the Bible Teach? To THE Epiror or THE HERAL It is a well-known fact that those who style themselves Christians at the present day are di- vided into sects who differ on many questions rela- tive to the Christian enterprise; but, farther than this, they may be divided properly into two classes, who differ materially and wholly on one question, which is of the utmost importance to every living soul, viz. :—Universal salvation or not. Now, both of these classes take the Bible as their guide and as the foundation on which they build their religious hopes. A question so momentous as this, one affecting the endless condition of a spirit, ought to be settled. Minor questions, which do not affect the future condition of any one, can be left for bigots to play with; but the one of eternal happi- ness or misery ought to be fully understood. If it cannot, then there is no religious question that can be. It is said men shape the Bible to their opinions, and not their opinions to the Bible, and thus do not take a fair and honest view of this question. Doubtless this is often the case; put there are per- sons strictly honest that take exactly opposite | views of it. One says, “I have examined the Bibie | careiully and find no endiess punishment there taught.’ Another finds it tought plainiy and un- equivocally. How are these opinions to be recon- ctied? Then go among the learned—those who have made the Bible a life study, read it in the original Greck and Hebrew, with prayer and ai earnest desire for the truth, Whatever it mignt be yet they dimer decidedly as to whether man will suiler eter x4 or not, at the letter of the Bible teaches ; but their idea of justice, mercy and of God leads them to get around the point by asserting that the spirit of the Gos- pel teaches eternal ere for ail, ‘ior the letter Killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.” Others feel that God-given reason may be exercised; and, in view of God's love, which is infinite, and His mercy, which endureth forever, it is impossible for Him to cause one of His creatures to suffer for- ever. And another says, “You must not reason, pet live rh fatty,” Mai peeve the question to é one of doubt, ca arrive at no satisfactory solu- tion of it, turn a deaf ear, as it is not pleasant to think of, and console themselves with the thought | that fn some mysterious way they will come out right in the end, or, at most, they will be no worse off than thousands of others, while others give the question comparatively no thougitt at all. It is @ remarkable fact that very many Christians to-day in evangelical churches, who have sub- co the creed of eternal damnation and publicly stand by it, do not believe it; and many of thew are willing to confess Peau that they do not and cannot believe such a doctrine. This, at least, is very significant. Millions oj souls once existing on the earth have passed into the beyond. A thousand millions exist to-day on the earth, and are passing away at the rate of one every second; and there are millions yet to be; and the doctrine that to-day 1s promul- gated by a majority of our religious teachers, if true, consigns nine-tenths of our race to an end- Jess hell, while a minority teach a flna! restoration, Which is true? We kuow froin experience the ter- rible suffering that the spirit is susceptible of in this world, and the thought that one soul even must saffer at least thus much forever and ever, aduration the merest iraction of which is meas- ureless and beyond the comprehension of mau, i appalling. Is there @ solation of this question? | It seems as if there might be, for this, wuich is vital in religion, should be settled first. ‘This subject is not introduced for mere contro- versy, but for light and a love for the great brother- hood of mankind, that the world may be wiser, | better and happier. If the Bibie has been wrongly translated, let us have @ new and correct reader. ing of the original Greek and Hebrew. If we need a new revelation, let us try to obtain that. If the spirit of the Bivie 18 misunderstood and we have erroneously clung to the letter, let us have the | spiritual meaning of Scripture. ‘The world has ad- vanced far enough and is wise enough to setile such @ question as this. The Biole teaches one | thing or the other; there is no middie or dual | ground, Let net disputers, but the great, t e wise, the learned, the honest and pure, uabiassed, | investigate this subject, and tell us what the Bible | teaches or the truth 18, or at least throw some light | upon it, that the religious world may stand on @ | platform united at least in the principal and essen. | Ual doctrines of Christianity Which concern our future weal or woe, that yd may no longer grope | along in doubt, and, lastly, take a final leap into the dark and unknown future. If God has in view the highest happiness ot His | creatures, and religion results in the consumma- | tion of happiness, then there must be miany errors to fashion thas they are not any more dilferently from their neighbors on are to wears not entirely up to the aia I have been rather snub- ins, Had I not & Jamily and therefore oannot afford to lose my position, I would continue speaking plainly, re} leas of personal injury; but even clergymen have to be practical a 8, @8} ly when thetr own “bread and butter” are at stake. Why will not people lvok at the display at fune- from a sensible int of view? r whom is the display ?—for the dead or for the living? Osten- sibly for the dead, but in reality for the living, and it i8 as vain agit isa frag in the eyes of the Master. Let us have done with it, A MINISTER. Weeding the Garden. To THe Eprror or THB HERALD:— I very much wish you to publish my views on a small point, since I see your Sunday edition is Open to the discussion of theological questions. Some minister said in @ sermon recently that the little inconsistencies of the Bible might be thrown out without injury to the book asa whole, and cven likened it to a garden grown up with weeds, which would be improved if the weeds were taken out. Now, let me ask, through your columns, if the be- lievers of the Bible can afford to part with two of those weeds? The first weed appears in the frst chapter of Matthew, twenty-third verse:—“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel.” In this verse, irom the word behold, there is one reference only, to Isaiah, vii., 14 ‘Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shail call his name Immanuel.” To make this communication as short as possible [ will omit all except that which has direct reference to the point. Now, in the next chapter o: Isaiah, the eighth, third verse:—And 1 went unto the prophiey and she conceived and bare a son.’’ here is no reference irom this verse, and it is of aoubtiul connection with the last. But from the fourteenth verse of the seventh chapter there is a reference to the sixth verse of the ninth, which says:—“For unto us a_ child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder,” Now, if a child was born to fulfil that prophecy during the lifetime of Isaiah that prophecy could not foretell Christ, unless it be that Christ was born 740 years “‘B, C.,”? the time when Isaiah wrote the last quotation. And ifa child had not been born then he would not have written ‘is born.” Now for the second weed, Ane Hebrew patri- archs kept theimpedigree with the most scrupulous care, and we are told thai Christ was the regular descendant in the line irom Abraham, through David, to Joseph. We read in the first chapter of Matthew that Joseph was the lineal descendant of Abraham, Matthew traces him back through the I!ne to show it. If Mary was of the line [ do not know it. Mary is said to have been with child by the, Holy Ghost, yet Joseph married her to make her offspring of the “‘line.’’ So far it is very nice, but here i8 the diMiculty. Matthew tells us that Joseph knew not his wife till she had brought forth her first-born son, whom he called Jesus, Under these circumstances it seems tome tobe nonsense to say that Christ was the descendant of Abraham or David. It seems to me that there is a dilemma here. The garden is not good for much while grown with weeds, and, ff it is weeded, the soil will havé to be carted out with the tares, GARDENER, z More About the Atonement Question. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Referring to the “plain question” propounded by “Inquirer” in your colpmns of Sunday last, | ven- ture to remark that the doctrine of the atonement of Christ, as accepted by many “orthodox’’ Chris- tians, does not, surely, consist of a mathematically adjusted debit and credit account of Divine claims and human responsibility, Such a belief cannot with any fairness be based on the utterances of Christ, with whose teaching the orthodox are usually content. In the parable of the Prodigal Son, and, indeed, througnout all the Gospels, God is represented, not as the “om- nipotent creditor,” but as the loving Father of hu- manity; desiring, not the satisfaction of legal de- mand and the glory of a vindicated vengeance, but the bringing back again of His erring children to the fuil enjoyment of their divine heritage and the perfection of their true destiny. To this end love is content to make great sacrifice and endure much suffering. The Father forgives because He loves and wills not the death of the sinner. He chooses to pardon, “I will have mercy on whom I wilihave mercy.” The Son comes to us as the true exponent of that divine Fatherhood, the Logos, the revelation of the great Heart of Delty. | Disobedience is the’ sin; perfect obedience the atonement and example, not the penalty. I can- not find subtitutionary punishment in the New Testament. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.’ I cannot read inversely— aL was in Christ, reconciling’ Himselt to the world. : ‘The incarnation, life and death of the Saviour, constitute the grand history of sublime self-abnega- tion, enduring “for our sakes,” “Perfect through suffering” must man become, and He is therefore able to succor, who has lived the common lite of “his brethren,” sustaining their trials and tempta- sean touched with a fellow feeling of their in- irmity. And the life work culminated on the cross. Faithful unto death, crowning and sealing His obe- | dience by love's greatest sacrifice, the Kedeemer of the worid attracts unto Himself the hearts of sin-wearied humanity. ‘Therefore is He the Cap- tain of our salvation, bringing many sous unto glory. “I, if I be lifted up’—what then? Will weight the scales of justice and bear a vengeiul retribution? Will éffect_ a commercial arrange- men with offended Deity—so much crime, so much torment? Notso. “I, ifI be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” . We cannot worship cruelty, vindictiveness or glory, seif-contained and selfish; but we worslup goodness, righteousness; our Father in Heaven, Whose comprehensive, universal name is Love. What then, may be asked, is the Divine side of the philosophy of the plan of salvation? How can we, flecked and stained with evil, be justified with the Supreme Author and Upholder of all moral law? Or is any judicial expedient eigen pre- Tequisite to God ior the reception and pardon of mankind ? It seems to me irreverent and futile to dogmatize on such questions, lor the right comprehension of which We must fathom the mysteries of Jehovah's government and accurately estimate the working of His sovereign purposes. We cannot tabulate in creed the counsels of eternity. Of the papier and infinite thoughts of Heaven, veiled from all mortal ken, Behold, we know not anything; We can but trust, CULTOR VERITATIS, Incentives to Crime. To Tae Epitox oF THE HERALD There isin the mechanism of human nature a wheel within a wheel, so to speak—a motive power, astimulus to act, lying behind every action; and a large share of humanity have Ro moral standard of their own by which to shape their actions, If they have any standard at all itis public opinion, Aud there is inherent in every human being, toa greater or less degree, @ desire to be thought well of, to be respected; and such as have no desire to work for moral advancement will work jor this end, And the standard of respec- tability being wealth, instead of moral worth, and self-advancement being their aim, mea le aud cheat and steal, that they may gain weaith and thereby be respected. Does this seem incon- sistent? But isit not true? Who are they that receive the most politeness, the most attention on the street, in the public assembly, in the private gathering, in the church, everywhere? Every- where we see homage paid to weaith, And so it has been all through the world's history, which very significantly points to the fact that external wealth is the symool of that inward weaita, of that moral worth which is destined to boid tue sceptre and rule in the hearts of men, Wealth, then, being standard of respect- ability, that large class of humanity who have not yet “come to themselves,’ prefer to arrive atit “by the shortest cut.” To them the slow and honorable steps of imdustry and of duty are duil and insipid. They prefer to climb up some other Way to attain their desired end. ‘Ask our governmental thieves why they betrayed In the religious system, as it is commonly taught, which should be sought out and abandoned, Progress is everywhere written. ‘Che advent of | religious reiorin, was love, its grand aim happiness, If this is so, Why. is the world to-day trembling on the brink of heli? If “the way is so plain thata Wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err,”’ why is the Christian world divided on this question? It the doctrine of eternal misery is true the world should know ij, and undoubtediy does desire a knowledge of the facts, whatever they are. it is unreasonable to suppose that God would allow the world to remain im ignorance of these things. Then it is clearly our duty to abandon error, make the way clear aid crooked things straight. AMI. The Fashionable Funcral Question. To THe Epitor oF THE HERALD :— Your Washington correspondent, ‘Semt-Occa- sional,” has done good service by his eloquent crusade, in your last Sunday’s edition of the Heka.p, upon the extrav nce and—not to use too harsh a term—indecency attending the fashion- able funerals in this city. Iu my capacity as oMciating minister I am sorry to bear testimony to all the facts named oy “Seml- Occasional,” and I could add many others to heighten the picture, which to me and to all reflecting people are source of never falling dis- gust and mortification. Yo will naturally say, why lo 1 not protest against these vain shows, and 80 endeavor to correct them? I answer that in some instances I have done so, and flud that people are Christ was progressive and the inauguration of a | The whole spirit of His teaching | the confidence placed in them and robbed the pub- lie, and, if th are capable of telling the truth, they Would say tiey did it with the desi .n of bring- ing themselves hearer to the standard of respect- ability—that they might live in more elegant | houses; that they might have handsomer equip- | ages; that they might meet more fully the demands of fasuionable life in every direction. Ask many @ young man to-day pining in prison what was the temptation which led him to steal, and he will tell you that it was the desire of be | coming througti the possession of wealth more at- | tractive to the young iady on whom he had placed | his affections ana more acceptable tv her parents. Poor young man, sacrificed upon the altar of Mam- mon through his affections & rugged disci. pline to bring him to a know of the truth! What shali be said of such dard? Ia this the way mandind bave been sting up the high- way of God's truth thr: all these centuries of years | Why, it seems that, instead of being awake and active, men hav ruslike, been lying, bound hands and feet, tn thelr grave ciothes but the spirit of truth will not be stayed, Obstract as much as we Will, God's Christ 1s coming. is fan is ip His hand, and He will thoroughiy ther the wheat into His gar- error He will burn with uu the Mets And “i purge His floor and ner, and the cham quenchavie fre.” “set up prophet (excellency being represented by Zion) 5 “gtay not, for I will bring evil from the north an a great truction.”” Is our standard thus sett Shall we heed this wise counse!? Can we adord to let it go unheeded? And shall we reuse to alter our standards until “the whirlwind shall burst upon nd the sword readeth to the soul?” words of the Provuet Jeremiah selves to ‘one who is to maintain a false ofaction. Let us imagine were meant for end fulfilled with the Jews; they are meant also for ourselves if our are false ones. And what vidual is true also in Take & person with whom wi is the t object of life, and who, consequently, has gatherea about him numerous fashionable ‘pends () and touch that person with calamity, strip him of his wealth, and where ishe ? What has he to fall back upon, and where are his friends? Gone, like feathers in the wind, Heisof no further use tothem. He built bis house uy) the sand and it slid from un- derueath him. He reaped ashe hadgown. ‘Do et her grapes 1 thorns or of thisties ?” en, Wealth so utterly js to meet our severest needs, why give to it so important a posi- tion? Why not assign to it its proper place as an agent oF useliulncss, a civilizing, refining, a work- ing agent, and at once and for ever cease to pay it We ali know better than we do, There is not a nobie-minded, right-thinking wealthy man in the country who does not from his heart despise the homage paid to him on account of his wealth, But it hatters his vanity and he will not lift up his voice against the worship of Mammon. » Thisevil attained the growth of ages. Its roots have spread so wide and reach so iar down that it may require the ploughsnare of an earthquake to upturn it, But it must be overturned, for it stands directly in the “way of the Lord," and ob- structs the road through which God's Christ, the dpirit of Truth, 18 coming with “power and great glory," and the way must be prepared, and, if no other means will avail, t¢ must be prepared by earthquake, by whirlwind, fire. “fhe wise man foreseeth evil und hideth himself (avoideth it), but the fool passeth on and is punished.” “Lift up your heads, U ye gates, ahd be ye even lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the Ring ot Glory shall come in.” A BEL! Is. B. LANGSTON. BROOKLYN, June 19, 1673. The Parish of St. A, s—A New Catholic Church To Be Established in Forty- third Street, n ‘Third Avenue. Rev. Fatner H. Macdowall, tate assistant pastor of St, Michael’s Roman Catuolic church, hasqust severed his connection with his charge, with the view of founding a new parish, to be known as St. Agnes. Ground has been purchased in Forty-third street, near Third avenue, and the Church of St. Agnes will be erected this Summer. The congregation will be formed of the Englisn speaking Catholics of that neighborhood. The reverend Father will at once cause tne erection of @ tewporary church on the ground selected, in which the congregation will worship until tne contemplated edifice has been com- pleted, The pastor, who has been assigned to this work, 18 DOW about thirty-two years of age, native of Wasnington and nephew of the late Dr, J.C. Cum- mings. He graduated, with high honors, at St. Mary’s, Emmettsburg, in 18360, and was immediately sent to the College of the Propaganda, Kome, to complete his education for the priesthood. Ordained in 1867 by Cardinal! Patrizzi, he returned to thus city, and was appointed by Archbishop McCloskey as- sistant pastor of the Church of St. Michael's, to the congregation of which, during six years’ adminia- tration of his duties he has endeared himself. Father Macdowall will preach his farewell sermon in St, Michael's church to-night. The congrega- tion are to hold a meeting on Wednesday evening in the basement of St. Michael's, to present @ foundation for the new church and a testimonial of their appreciation of the services of their late assistant pastor, Father Macdowall 1s an effective preacher and possesses much administrative ability. The Israelites in Brazil. The Anglo-Brazilian Times, pubiished at Rio Janeiro, of a late mail date has the foliowing:— “Under the title the ‘Israelite Union of Brazil’ the Jews of Rio Janciro have established an associa- tion whose first president is Mr. Frederick M. Brandon, and whose specific object is to provide for the relief of whatever Iraelites may be found in necessity within its sphere of action, The crea- tion of this society has been induced rather by the intent to obtain the advantages of consoli- dated action in pursuance of its 1ounders' bene- volent purpose, than to. meet a deeply felt want. Indeed, no such want was experienced ; for here, as everywhere else where Jews reside, the Rio Is- raelites have had the power to boast that no corre- ligionist of theirs has ever had to appeal for aid outside his own communion. The Israelite Union is now asking of the Brazilian government the | necessary license to have a@ separate and decent ground for the burial of their dead, according to their own rites, a trifling tavor which we teel con- vinced wil not be denied to them by a government of this country of civil and ‘religious tolerance, and wherein the high civic qualities of tne Jewish people are known and respected.” The New Roman Catholic Church of St. Cecilia, This (Sunday) evening a grand promenade con- cert, inaugurating a ladies’ fair, will be given at the new Church of St. Cecilia, corner of 105th street and Second avenue. Rev. Father Flattery, the pastor, is working energetically in order to turther as speedily as possible the erection of the main edifice. For the present a commodious frame | building has been completed, in which the concert and fair will be held previous to its inauguration as @ church, Several prominent artists from the | choirs of St. Stephen's, St. Teresa's and st. James’ churches have volunteered their services for this evening. Concerts will also be given the two com- ing Sundays, the ladies’ fair remaining open for two weeks. Ministerial Movements and Changes. EPISCOPALIAN. Bishop Randall, of Colorado and New Mexico, Is making a tour of the latter Territory for the pur- pose of locating stations and organizing parishes. There are many places, it is said, where wholly Mexican congregations can be formed if the | Church will only provide the means to give them the Gospel, A new problem of discipline has arisen in Kansas, where there are several parishes in which the communicants are all women, who are, nevertheless, refused representation in the Coun- | cil, The matter was brought up for discussion at | the recent Diocesan Convention and occasioned a lively debate, eventuating, however, in the defeat of the motion to admit women to the vestry. The Clergymen's Mutual Insurance League of | the Episcopal Church now numbers 1,018 members. The members pledge themselves simply to pay $2 each to the family or heirs of any member who dies. The heirs of the last deceased member, therefore, received $2, The Episcopalians of Vermont a jew days ago re- moved the remains of their late Bishop, Hopkins, to Rock Poimt Cemetery, Burlington, and placed over his grave a monument costing $3,000, Rev. Chas, H. Mead, of Bethichem, Pa., has become rec- tor of the church at Huntington, Pa. Rev. Henry Ferguson was ordained in Exeter, N. H., on the 6tn inst. Rev, J. Aug, Tardy has settled with Christ church, New Orleans, La. Rev. Chauncey B. Brew- ster, of Meriden, Conn., has been called to the rec- torship of Christ church, Rye, N. Y. Rev. Francis | Harrison, of St. Peter’s church, Peekskill, N. Y,, has accepted the call tendered him by the congre- gation of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Troy. News comes from Scotland of the death of Dr. Ewing, Bishop of Argyle ana the Isles—a man universally beloved and esteemed. He was a ripe scholar, a man of wide culture and liberal spirit, and one whose Christian character was a real power. At Shelter Island, where Episcopal services | were begun about two years since, there are now seventeen communicants, An acre of ground has | been secured and @ chapel costing about three thousand five hundred dollars has been erected on it. It will be finished and eonsecrated during the | Summer. The Church mission proposes the erec- tion of one or more floating betueis on the Brook- lyo side of the Kast River, St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, Albany, N, Y., Rev. J. L, Reese, rector, raised last year for ssion, educationa anu church purposes, $21,608, The communicants number 42. There’ was alively scene in Christ | church, Lexington, at the late session of the Ken- tucky ‘Ptocesan Convention. In the absence of Bishop Smith, Bishop Crimmins presided. Colonel Kelly delegate from Grace church, Louisville, resented a memorial, protest and petition from he wardens and vestry of that parish against tne action of Bishop Smith in refusing permission to Rev. James briscoe, of the diocese of Maryland, to become the assistant pastor of Grace church. The bishop's refusal ig based upon certain ritualistic innovations of Mr. Briscoe In the diocese he had Just j The Convention deemed the language of the Memorial discourteous and unparliamentary and refused to receive it. The paroctial olferings of Grace ovurch, brooklyn Heights, tor parochiat purposes during last year were $20,945 19, For diocesan purposes, $8,198 65, In ail, $29,086 74. ROMAN CATHOLIC. ther Horner, Director of Missions in Zanzibar, has given to the French Missionary Society a very flourishing statement of the progress of Catholi- country and on the Western Coast of the natives are exceed- ingly open to conversion, aad that, however much the standard toward Zton," says the | the Sultan May disapprove oj the abolition of the slave trade, he is by no means tuimical to Catholi- cism and its Missions, He tas granted vast tracts of land to the Fathers for their schools and farms, on which they have already built novitiate houses and scboolrooms for both sexes. Another great igrt in France, On May 18 over twenty-five otters persons Went from Tourcoing to Notre Dame de ta Mariiere i@ procession, reciting the ro- sary and praying for Pius IX., Churen sed France. ‘greatest cuthusiasm prevailed. | The numer of persons who went in piigrimage w the Impruneta, at Fiore! exceeded tweoty-five ‘ousand. ‘Fue most vertegt order wes mala . Offerings of silver and and flowers Were made upon the alt a, oe A solemn triduo was celobrated recent birtuplace of His Boliness, for of tne Pope and the ultimate Looe hgh Hh ceremony was commen: ta the Oathedral and continued in each of the parish new church, dedicated to st. Johu Baptia' aot ani fetgtat bythe nua soe Ly Innoce: and built at the sole ex: of Pius IX. The following the principal houses of the Redemptorista in Germany :—In Bavaria, Alt Oct- ting, @ celebrated sanctuary, where are buried the hearts of the Princes and Princesses of the House Of Bavaria. At Gars (the seat of the Provincial), at Heldenstein, Mariadorfen, Ve'sbourg, Nierder- tela aieaecnaptt, ‘Bette ange y -la-Chapelle, un, Ham in Alsatia—Bischenbury, Mulhuse and Lander, The Lazarists have houses at Cologne, Neuis, Mun- stereifel, Malmedy, Hildescheim, Heiligenstad Culm and Marienthat. The ladies of the Sacre: Heart have houses at Munsta and Posen. All these convents will be closed in November next, unless God interposes to help them. The Holy Philip Massarenghi, Bishop o/ Bitont, Naples, is proposed lor beatification, This holy man died in 1648, and was, throughout his life, renowned for his virtue, learning and inexhaustible charity. Several mira- cles are recorded as having been worked at his tomb. The Rev. James Shine of Malone, N. Y., is pushing forward his finely designed church, which was walk, Cont. Mr. Bentley has served the church @ Morristown for four years with great eifioiency. Rev. Elisha Lucas, late of Harle! ft on Saturday last for & six months tour gi G. ©. Lorimer, D. Dy day evening called to the church meeting in Boston, A beautiul new house of worship bas J! been jpgiblicly dedicated in Somerville, for the use of the First Baptist church, of wh Rev, ©. M. Smith 1s pastor. The Perkins street church, Somerville, Kev. J. J. Miler, pastor, havé found it necessary to enlarge their house of ship, On Thursday evening last Rev. J. Brackett, recently of Willamaborg was stalled as pastor of the Firat Baptist chi Durham N ¥. tte 2 a Of ae oe aaa rari i. ¥., aiter a pastorate ‘The Rev, Mr."Hanscomt of Nobievoro, Mc., had accepted call to Auburn, Me. Kev. D. F, & of Northboro, Mass,, goes to Dewey street churoa, Worcester, Masa, ‘Rev. G. H. Allen, of Sout Chelmsiord, takes a new charge in Ayer, Mass, B ry and Rev. G.G. Harriman, of Concord, N. H., ac copts a call to Urbans, Unio. Rev. 8. F. McKeown, of North Anson, Me,, to the Elm street church, Manchester, N. H.” Kev, G. W. Riley, of Urbana, Il, has been called be. the South street Baptist church, Indianapolis, e Fifth Baptist church, Newark, N. J,, have declined to accept the resi tion of Rev. Mr. Hughes, and have granted three months’ leave of absence, ‘The baptist church in Lewisburg, Pa., has built a beautiful roo'ed in before the Winter. Like Binghamton and Glens Falis, 1¢ will be one of the finest in the diocese, outside Albany. Rey, William M. Brady, D. D., @ ritualist of the Irigh Protestant Episco) Church, has just taken one step more and len into the arms of the Catholic Church. The verdict in the O’Keefe-Cullen case in Ireland reinstates Father O'Keefe in his temporal rights. Last Mon- day completed gnother year added to the Puntifi- cate of Pope Piux 1X., who now, by nearly two year's, has ‘outlived the days of Peter.’ Rev. Ed- ward Southgate, of St. Luke’s piscopai churcl Baltimore, son of Bishop Sout! Ge th) ente St. Mery’s Gatholic Semihary, w 6 intention studying for the priesthood. Father Damen’s latest mission in Chicago has been most suocess{ul, Father Burke's return tn July is rumored on seem- ingly good authority, The return to Europe of Very Kev. Dr, McAlroy, after Sent years! mis- sionary life in Australia, is announced. Rev..P. E. Smyth has been transferred from Washington to Madison, N. J, Rev. F, W. Graham, late of Spring- field, Mo., has been transferred to Sedalia, in the same State, Rev. B, Caraher, pastor of Ticon- deroga, N. Y., has been ailing for the past week. The German Catholic Union numbers, in the United States, over two hundred and thirty thousand members, PRESBYTERIAN, The Established Church Presbytery of Edinburgh has decided that Dr. Wallace's “preaching 1s cal- culated to unsettle the minds of ordinary hearers, and to create doubts as to the fundamental truths of our religion ;” but “that in the circumstances, and considering the pecullarities of Dr. Wallace’s style of | pein iiog it is desirable that an oppor- tunity should be given him of making further ex- Planations;’’ and therelore they appointed a com- muttee to confer with him and report. Rev. Stephen D, Noyes, late of Greene street church, has been installed pastor of Aisquith street church, Baltimore, From present Sy pe arancen the debt of the Presbyterian Mission Board is likely to be wiped out very soon, ‘The Evangelist publishes a lst of responses since the adjournment of the Assembly, which foots up over $20,000, Dr, 8. J. Prime thinks that the murder of Mansfield Tracy Watworth by his son is the most revolting crime that was ever committed since the first child was born into the world. Rev. Samuel Forbes, of New Matamoros, Ohio, has just assumed the pastorage of the Presbyterian church at Cross Roads, Pa. Rev. E. H. Camp, of Newark, has been called to High street church, St. Louis, Mo. The Rev. Charles 8. Pomeroy, of the Ross street Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, preached his farewell sermon last Sab- bath morning, alter a ministry of eight years and eight months. He goes to Gleveland, Ohio. The Presbyteries of Newton, Morris and Orange, in New Jersey, have commissioned Mr. Thomas Souper, of Morristown, to labor as a colporteur and Sunday school missionary throughout the joint territory, Rev. Charles W. Wood (class of '64), of Brooklyn, 18 to preach the Commencement sermon belore the Young Men’s Christian Association of the University of Rochester, Sunda; evening, June 29, at the Central Presbyterian church, ‘The Presbyterians of Rondout, N, Y., are building a new church on Abeel and Wurts streets. The cornerstone of the Tompkins avenue Presbyterian chureh, Brooklyn (Rev. F. G. Clark, D. D., pastor), will be laid, with appropriate ceremonies, on Wed- neaday aiternoon next. Rey. William E. Hamilton was recently installed pastor of the Presbyterian churen of Pueblo, New Mexico. Rev. James J. Smyth was installed P baskets of the Presbyterian church in Salisbury, Md., last Sunday. Rev. A. M. Dixon has left his pastorate at Lawrence for one at Hebron, Ii Rev. Samuel H. McMullin was in- stalled pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Circleville, Ohio, June 10, Rev, William Hi rth, D. D., for fiiteen years past pastor of the Jefferson avenue Presbyterian church, Detroit, has resigned that he may accept the charge of the Second Pres- byterian church at Geneva, N. Y. Rev. Geor; an Deurs, lute of Troy, N. Y., has just been in- stalled pe of tue Bethany Presbyterian church, Utica, N. Y.; salary $2,000 per annum. Rev. Walter M. ndit, late of Newark, N.J., was also last week installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Little Falls, N. Y. Salary $1,500 and parsonage. Rev. J. 8. Pattengill, of the Presbytery of Binghamton, has united with that of Utica, and is supniyiog the pulpit of the church at Holland Patent, N. Y. The Presbytery of New York has appointed a committee to effect a more complete union of the Presbyterian Sunday schools in this city with each ovher and with their respec- tive churches, and to ther statistics of the Schools‘and to extend esiay ead Sunda} schools to the and destitute. v. John P, Williamson, missionary among the otas, calls upon the Presbyterian Board to establish missions among the Whitestone, Fort Peck, Red Cloud and Grand River Indians, who number in the aggre- gate 35,000 souls, Who have not asingle Presbyte- rch or missionary among them. The Da- ‘as, with whom Mr. Williamson 1s laboring, mer 40,000, and are the largest Indian tribe in our country. The Assiniboines, speaking the same language, Bumber irom ten to fliteen thousand more. METHODIST. The First Methodist Episcopal church, of Bloom- ington, li, are erecting a new house of worship. Bishop Harris and Dra. Waugh, Houghten and Spencer, missionaries to China, sailed from San Francisco, on the 16th inst. Dantel Hays, of Glov- ersviile, N. ¥., offers to give $500 to tne cause of “Church Extension," it Troy Conference will bring its collections up te $5,000, The Methodist Episco- pal Mission in Pekin, China, now has a member- ship of filteen, On Sabbath, June 8, a new and beautiful church at Ocean Beach, N. J., was dedt- cated to the worship of God by Rev. A. E. Ballard, Presiding Elder. Ocean Beach is a new enter- prise, growing out of the location of Ocean Grove. Brother Abraham Bitner, the superintendent, determined that the first buliding completed upon the grounds should be a house for worship; the church was completed frst. It was also dedicated free of debt, and the nevel acle was presented of a house dedicated and pliection, not even 4 basket one, The church is neatly and tastefully built, costing in every thing nearly four thonsand dollars, se dd with chairs, in a pleasant and agreeable location, and will, no doubt, be & valuuble interest in the canse of re- ligion, The Rev. Cheries H. Spurgeon, as an- nounced, preached one of the serinens at the Wes- leyau Missionary anniversaries in London the present month, Bishop Doggett, of the Church South, has called for seven ministerial volunteers. to go to stations in Oregon and California, where they will have plenty of work and simall pay. Bishop Early’s health has greatly improved, so that he can perform light work. Rev. Dr. T. M. Eddy, Missionary Secretary, of this city,"fs to preach the annual sermon before the Garrett Biblical Institute at its commencement on Wednesday next, Rev. John Williamson, of Rock River Cot ference, has been chosen President of Jennings Sewinary, Aurora, Lil, vice Kev. G. W. Quereau, resigned by reason of poor heaith. Rev. J. MH. Vin- cent, D. D., Secretary of the Sunday School Union, has just returned to New York trom @ Western trip, where he attended Sanday school couven- tions in Springfeld, Ill. ; Anderson, Ind., and Akron, Onio. Revs. J. C. Davison and Julius Soper lett here last week for Japan by way of San Francisco. Rev. Professor J. Dorman Steele, a well known author of sctentific school books, has sailed for Europe, to be absent tor one year ott ay ma | terial ior a revision of his bouks. Rev. T. L. Flood, | ofthe New Humpshire Conjerence, is taking bis | vacation trav goto the Southern States, Tie Kast Tennessee Wesieyan University at Athens has conterred the double D's on Rev, Charies Lord, of Boston, and on Rev. John A, Dean, its President, who 18 at present here in New York, seeking pecuniary atd for the University. Mr. Dean has declined the honor, being one of the faculty, though he was unaware of the purpose of the tras tees until the announcement was made through the press, Rev. Jumes Giruth, of the Upper lowa | Conterence, died afew days ago at his home ia} Davenport, full of years and honor. Rey. Dr. Curry, 0! this city, is to preach the annual sermon to-lay beiore tlie students and faculty of Wilorabam Academy, Bishop Haven will preach the annual sermon at the Pittsburg Female College on Tues day morning next, and also the same evening he will deliver the annual address. Bishop Simpson 19 to dedicate the new Methodist Episcopal church in Brookline, Mass., to-day. In Australia there are four Wesleyan.conterences, with 361 ministers, 1,948 churches and other preaching places, 3,201 local preachers, 5,821 class leaders, 66,686 members, ta- cluding probationers, 318,856 attendants on public worship, 112,378 Sunday scholars and 104,168 day scholars, ‘The Methodists of Indianapolis have seven suburban churches, all of which ey intend to make successiul and self-supporting. The Wes- leyuns of Ireland number 19,976. A late letter | from Rev, William Taylor, the world-renowned evangelist, now laboring inand near Bombay, India, says that if he had Mity missionaries there he could give them charges that would support them. BAPTIST. Five new Baptist churches were organized in New Jersey last year. The new and attractive “nouse of worship” of the Catskill Baptist church was dedicated with very interesting and appro- priate services on Thursday, 12tn instant. This is the third house erected upon the present site, the two jormer having been destroyed by fre, The cost, including furniture, was over twenty thou- saud dollars. Twenty years ago there Was not im the whole Kingdom of Swedena single Baptist, and now they hamber about nine thousand in house of worship, costing about sixty thousand dollars, ‘The Baptists throughout the country have resolved to raise 8 memorial fund of $5,000,000 for denominational purposes, in their centenniat year, 1876, Kev. H. M. Heywood was ordained astor of the churches at Newcastle and Aina, e., June 11. Rev. W. H, H. Marsh, of Wilmington, Del, has gone to Salem, Mass. Rev. R. W. Arneid, i aan N. Y., has accepted @ call to Ripon ~ “4 MISCELLANEOUS, The evangelical ministers of Pittsburg, Alle! ghany and vicinity, numbering nearly fifty organized @ Ministerial Association on Tuesdag week. The object of the association is to ret nize the substantial unity of the Church; to call vate a fraternal spirit among the ministers of the different denominations. The mission work ta Continental India and Ceylon 1s rapidiy enlarging. There are now in those countries 325,000 native Christta! showing aB increase of 85,430 du the past ten years. Rev. L. Francis, recently Castleton, Vt., has received and accepted a frem the Reformed church of Greenpoint, L. L Rey. J. E, Twitchell, of the Euclid avenue Congre- gational church, has received a very pressing call to the South church of Brooklyn, of which Dr. Hy M. Storrs was recently pastor. ‘Chey offer hima salary of $6,000, will pay all expenses of removal and grant hima long annual vacation, Rew. Dr. Jona V, N, Talmage, brother of T. Dow les salaany was offered the presidency of the Retormed 8; which lately sat in New Brunswick, N. J. He de clined because of inexperience. He is 9 mission ary in Amoor, China, but-is uow here on a visit. He will return to his mission fleld in September. The Moravians of this country propose to keep tue John Huss memorial day, July 6, with imposing ceremonies, A contract has been entered into fos the erection of the Memorial Hall of the Congrt tionalists in London ior £27,500. itis expected that it will be finished by the beginning of next Shar An effort is being made at Newport, N, H., to create a Unitarian suciety and secure the fands te sustain a church. Rey. J. F. Lovering, of Comers is (Abert the enterprise his hearty and pe assistance. The Unitarians of Cheisea, Mass, aré about to enlarge their borders and to rebuild tneiz house of worship. The Michigan Congregational churches increased their contributions to home missions Brees to $8.400, The year previous it was only $3,000, Rev. Herman Bisbee has Led iets @ call from the First Unitarian church at Medflel Mass. The Rev. Washington Gladden, the g and witty editor of tke Indepe , 1a supply the Bedford Unitarian church in Brooklyn. The consistory 01 the Reformed church of Fred- erick, Md, (the late Dr. Zacharia’s), have nomt- nated the Rev. J. Spangler Kietfee, of Hagerstown, as pastor, Rev. E. C, bissell, of Winchester, beer has accepted the invitation of the American Boat to enter their service as a missionary in the Aus- trian fleld, Rev. H. Q. Butterfield, Secretary of the Western College Society of the Congregationalista, has received the title of D, D. from illinois Coilege. The address of Johu W. Martin, D. D., is changed from Wellsville, Ohio, to Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa. Rey. W. G. Kephart has removed from Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, to Atlantic, lowa, Mr. William N. ‘Todd, of the Seminary, at New Brunswick, is spending the Summer vacation ip the Reformed congregation of Fort Herkimer, whe have been without the preaching of the Word for # long while, and have engaged his services fortiour months of the present season. Rev. Charles M. Whittlesey, of Athens, Va., has been called te Spencerport (N. Y.) Congregational church, Dr, Scudder’s congregation having dedicated their new church a few weeks ago, have during the past twe Sabbaths raised $30,000 to build a lecture with pastor's study, library, committee, reception and reading rooms, The ground floor will be 63x106 feet. The lecture room will be on the secon@ floor, and will be capable of accommodating 1,206 Sunday school scholars, and nearly as many per- sons at prayer meeting! THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. The Teachings of Judaism—Faith, New Forms, Must Save Men—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Vidaver. The Summer solstice is beginning to have an ap preciable effect upon the Jewish as well as the Christian congregations. ‘This was manifest yes terday in the Thirty-fourth street synagogue. Dr. Vidaver preached a thoroughly Judaistic discourse, with, however, one doctrine, peculiarly Christian and Methodistic, interwoven throughout—namely, Justification by faith. His text was Numbers xv., 13—“Ye shall go up and possess the land, for ye are well able to overcome.” Religion, the Doctor remarked, 18 @ land of promise, a glorious Canaan, given. by God to man. Its crystal streams are flow- ing pure and bright over the everlasting rock of revelation, quickening the soul of man, and blessed are all they who live in this land of promise. Those who are denizens of this land live painless and siniesa lives, and yet how few, com, paratively, speak well of it. Of these sent out by Moses tu spy the land of Canaan only two could bring a truthful and good account of it. And equally few there are who speak well of the land of taith, of Judaism, while many there be whe speak evilofit. They say of Judaism that it is @ land that consumes its inhabitants; that it ise land of giants; and they ask how can they live there. It imposes too heavy a yoke upon them, they say: it CIRCUMSCRIBES THEIR SOCIAL LIFE and enjoyments and impedes thei way, and they cannot perform the duties which it imposes upom them, in accordance with the spirit of the age. But who, he asked, gave the law? Did not Godt And the text says ye are well able to go up and possess the land. No matter what others say, he declared we can and we shall go up and possess the goodly land. The law is not for giants; it is for men like ourselves—men with human hearts, It is for all men, and He who gave it knows just what we can and what we cannot do and what we can bear, Hence He has given us a law that we can obey. And that law is perfect, quickening the soul, and while we keep it we are drinking from the fountain of living waters. Those who denounce Judaism as a neavy yoke do not know what they are saying. Judaism is not a heavy burden. It is rather @ stream of livii Water constantly refreshing the thirsty pil- vims on the road to the promised land. ut what is the spirit of, Judaism? Our rabbies tell us, continued the Doctor, that God deliv- ered to Moses 613 statutes, 365 of which, or one ior every solar day tn the year, were prohibitory, Da vid subsequently codified and reduced these to eleven, Isaiah to six, Micah to three—namely, to. do justly, to love rey and to walk humbly with God; aud Gnally Havbakuk condensed the whole law into one sentence--the just shall live by faith, And thus the spirit of JUDAISM CAN EXPAND or be compressed, according to the circumstan of human life, It is the same divine, eterm spirit of truth that we see, not so much in the num- ber as in the weight and importance of its lawa, Its aim and end is to get men to live by faith, that their days here may ve bright and happy; that their minds may be elevated and thetr prayers May rise tothe throne of mercy. But, said the Doctor, if your lives do not accord with your faith, they are worthiess and vain, And is it too. mnuch to ask of a man that hus profession and. his life shall agree? It ts much more Datural for a man to love than to hate. It 1s easier to keep the law than to break it. And Judaism encourages every man to keep the law, Lt impedes no man’s progress, in that which ts right and good. He (the Doctor) saw before him a man who had been raised to sitions of honor and trust in Europe and filled them with fidelity, and yet his henrt clings aa fondly as ever to Judaism, It is not true, there- fore, that Judaism tmpedes any man’s moral or social progress. We can go up and take the land. We can take ssion Of our faith and be happy, he said. It isa land of light and of sunshine, and let every Israelite here know that we can go.up, and let him act upon that knowledge, To know that we can go up and that we have the power and the ee of possession will not heip us uniess we enter into THE LAND OF FAITH AND LOVE. He might lecture to them in midwinter on fire ana describe all its elements an@ the blessings and benefits wich fre imparts, but they might shiver with cold while he was talki: A man can better understand the properties Advantages of fire by sitting before it five manutes than by hearing some one talk about it fogun hour. Therefore the leason that he would ima@ress upon his hearers waa that if they know that,they can go up let them ga at ance avd take possession of the land that flowetn with milk and honey, The Doctor closed briefly with @ few words respecting the blessedness of about two hundred and twenty churches. Rev. EB. D, Bentley, pastor of Morristown, N. J., tendered his resiguduon last Sabbath, with tne view of ac- Cepting @ Gall to the First Baptist church, of Nor- those wno do go, 7 and who taste and see how L go08 the Lond And wno faitufully keep Lis com