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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. July 6—Fifth Sunday After Pentecost. ; SPIRITUAL PROGRAMME FOR ‘TO-DAY. Herald Theological Com- municants. Dedication of a New Church | at Amherst, Mass. 4 SCIENCE VERSUS THE SCRIPTURE, A Chord that Vibrates Through the Whole Earth. The Rock of Cashel in Ireland and Wisconsin. A CHURCH FOR THE PEOPLE. Movements of the Clergy at Home and Abroad, Services To-Day. “Oavils at Conscience” is the subject upon which Rev. Wayland Hoyt will dilate this evening at the ‘Tabernacle Baptist church, Services in the morn- ing at the usual hour. Rev. John E. Cookman preaches morning and evening in the Methodist Free Tabernacle. Dr. Hepworth’s congregation will be addressed to-day, at the usual hours, by Rev. Samuel W. Duf- Meld, of Ann Arbor, Mich, At De Kalb avenne Methodist church, Brooklyn, Rev. William P. Corbitt will conduct the usual morning and evening services.\ Rev. George McCampbell will discourse upon “Ohrisv’s Word Making Man’s Heart a Rich Home!’ at Spring street Presbytertan church this morning. Young people's prayer meeting in the evening. At the service this evening in St. Peter's Rev. J. ‘W. Shackelford preaches, Rev. William Kirkus preaches thia evening in the chapel of St. Luke’s Hospital. At the service this morning in St. Luke’s (Meth- Odist) church Rev. J. F. McClelland will officiate. ‘The Sixteenth street Baptists will be addressed, Morning and evening, by their pastor, Rev. D. B. Jutten. Dr. Price will oMciate in the morning, and Rev, Mr. Hart in the afternoon, at St. Stephen’s (Prot- estant Episcopal). Communion service this morning at St. Thomas’, Rev. Dr. Morgan preaching. ‘This morning, at the Ohurch of the Reformation, Bev. U. T. Tracy will preach. Children’s service at three P. M. ~«The Work of the Rider on the White Horse” will be Bishop Snow’s subject at the University this afternoon. _MRev. E. Borel will conduct the French Reformed Church services at Association Hall this morning. “The pastor of Berean Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Davies, will preach this morning and evening. “Services for the behoof of the Grace chapel con- Bregration in Grace church, at eleven A. M. and Give P. M. *The usual services will be held in Dr. Flagg’s church (East Fighty-fiitn street), tie Doctor ofiici- ating. “The Constitution of Man a Model for That of Bociety,” will be the subject considered by Dr. T. R, Knight before the Cosmopolitan Conference this afternoon. “The Shining Path” is the subject upon which the Rev. Mr. Kennard will address his flock (Pil- grim Baptist) this morning. Evening topic, “Mount Pisgab.” “Close Communion” will be elaborated upon by Rey. Fred. Evans at Central Baptist church this morning. Mra. Hyzer will address the Robinson Hall Spirit- ualtsts at half-past seven this evening. Other services a8 usual, The Dedication of the New Church at « Amherst College. ‘The dedication of the new college church at Am- hherst, Mass., took place Tuesday, July 1, at three o'clock P.M. It may be remembered the money for this church was given some years ago by Mr. ‘William F. Stearns, then a merehant at the East Indies, and son of the President, William A, Stearns. Three large painted windows are given by friends of President Stearns,as is also the pulpit. The organ was built by Messrs, Hook & Oo., of Boston, and was given by Mr. Betts, of Brook- lyn, N.Y. The upholstering is done chiefly by the college and the iadies of the church, The services of dedication were as follows:— Voiuntary on the organ, William Tyler; prayer and Treading of the Scriptures. Then the following 4 bymn was sung:— HYMN. Lord of Hosts, to Thee we raise Bere a house of praver and praise, Thou Thy people's hearts prepare Here to meet for praise and prayer. Let the living here be fed With Thy word, the heaventy bread; Here in hope of el May the dead be la: Here to Thee a temple stand, ‘While the sea shall gird the lana; Here reveal Thy mercy sm ‘While the sun and moon endure. Hallelujah! Earth and sky, ‘fo the joysul sound reply; Hallelujah, heuce ascend Prayer wud praise till time shall end. This Was uumediately followed by prayer by Dr. Paine, of liolding, Mass., and the chant of the eighty-fourth Psalm. The text of the sermon was from Haggai il., 9:— “The glory of this latter house shall be greater han of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts." THR SERMON, The President sald that those words were spoken by the prophet at the time of the building of the second temple, when the young people rejoiced and shouted; but the old men who had seen the first house wept, a8 this would be so inferior to it, but the prophet deolared that this house woula ve more glorious than the former, because the desire of all nations, the predicted Messiah, would come into tt. He also said, what makes a Louse of wor- ship glorious, whether superior or inserior in its con- struction, 1# the spirit of Christ within ft. His ence to be always Within the house was te one thing to be sougat on this occasion. The money ior the house was given that it might be sacred to the purposes of worship, and that the students might have a place of meeting which should be as begutiful and inviting as any efthe churches at home. He proposed dedicate the ‘building according to custom. First, to the public “worship of God and prayer. Next, to the preach- ing ofa full, broad and intelligent Catholic Gos- pel—full, not as shunning to declare the whole counsel of God; broad, not limited by sectarian narrowness and assumption; intelligent, without the errors of ignorance and misconception; Catholic, with charity for all who love the Lord; full, the whole Bible; broad, unlimited in applica ‘thor a racti ends; , ae ceo eee thool of C1 3G olic, @x- cluding "no. ‘Christ beart from Christian jowship. Church should be edu- in the Bible, The best way to test evidence of the Bible is to she ol explain it. It has plan and unity, fulness and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1873—TRIPLH SHEET. moiltty ee: Let us bare peemens of al 3 More ability may in, the adaptation of # good Ohristian Jus Bincere discourses, which come from hea: warmed by the Gospel and filled With the Holy Ghost, than by tious utter- ances and strivings after greatness. We would dedicate this church to the preaching of an aggres- sive Christianity, There are sti of evil to be attacked, ’s kingdom must be thrown down, and all this not with carnal weapons, man’s wrath or man’s power, but by the providence and spirit of God helping to victory in the war of ideas. Nor let the Christianity preached here ever narrow itself down to sect or section or nation, It was given for mankind. Let this college, by the agency of clear hands and great hearts, send it forward down the ages and over the globe. Meanwhile, we must look out for sowers and expect to work. These are not the times when the kingdom I like the grain of mustard seed, which grows on steadily to the dimensions of @ great tree; but rather of that other parable close to it, in which & woman hid a little leaven in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened, When we see only the progress and process of fermentation a desponding faith might tremble. Let us then dedicate this building with prayer to the Father, and to the Son, ito the holy God; that one God into whose mysterious being so many of us have been baptised, and let us pray that His presence will fill the house as often as His people assembie in it for many generations, Alter @ short prayer the following hymn was sung :— HYMN, Arise, O King of grace aris, 1g thetetergn wale" ionging e7es, .Thy church wi wi ing ©} “{hus to be owned and blest Bere mighty Lord accept our vows, Here et thy Praise be sp 5 as the provisions of Thy house, ‘And fill Thy poor with bread. Hore let the Son of David reign,’ Seat of God's anointed shrine; Justice and truth His courts maintain, With love and power divine. Hore let Him hold ting th: ‘ere et Id a lasting throne, wi \s Kingdom Fresh honor shall ‘adorn, Hi And shi is The meeting closed with the benediction, Science Versus the Scriptures—he Bibli--| eal Story of the Origin of Man Recon- ciled with the Darwinian Theory (1)— A Bible Before Our Bible—The Miracu- lous and the Logical. To THe Eprron or THE HERALD :— Perhaps there is no subject which, before our times, was received with such implicit faith or which, at the present date, ls so complete a stum- bling block tojthe orthodox as the narrative of the origin of man in the Old Testament, contrasted with the account which is being rendered to us by our principal scientists. The time has now nearly gone by when the salt of the earth can afford to sneer either at the demonstrations ef acquired knowledge or the theories and even the probabill- ties deduced fairly from them as “mere carnal reasoning;” for, if the majority of these are erro- neous, we-can render only ablind obedience, and not what ts expected from us—namoly, “reason- able service.” The object of the following remarks is to endeavor in some measure to reconcile or to suggest reasons which appear to favor the reconcilement of the Bible account of the origin and fall of man with that held by a large class of scientific men. I al- laude to ‘THE DARWINIAN THEORY, or rather the evolution theory, of the origin of man and by consequence of other animals. That theory appears to be in-the second stage of development in the average American mind enunciated by Sir Charles Lyell, when he said that every truth of this mature required to pass through three distinct phases—first, it is not true; second, it is contrary to religion; third, everybody knew it before. One thing has been very observable all through the contest upon this point, which is, that while the scientifically ignorant have been presumptuously funny over the whole argument those who knew anything more ef natural history and the other sciences beyond what is drawn from popular natural his- tory and science in popular magazines, nowever much they may have differed frum the conclusions drawn from arguments with this tendency, have never either felt inclined to sneer or to laugh. ‘They know better than this, and that those men who have advanced and who maintain these theories have a fair probability on their side; and the uninitiated, or, “not to put too fine a point upon it,’ the ignorant, scientifically concerned, forget that, forevery complete poser which they can advance on the orthodox side, the evolutionists are prepared with one, at least, as opposed to theirs. The whole history of the struggle of science vs. the biblical account of the creation has uni- formly turned out in favor of the scientists, when unanimous; or, in other words, the holders by strict interpretation have feand out that they had been occupying earthworks which should never have been occupied, or rather more accurately, which the time had come round to abandon, The narrative of the Garden of Eden and what —_o. there, as it used to be inter- preted in the Bible or literally rendered, is an im- possibility to many who obey its injunctions. The theory of that narrative being an allegory, in- tended to teach necessary truth to man, has often been advanced, but, in so far as 1 know, never in the connection indicated below. In what follows I will endeavor to prove to what extent a plain ren- dering can be given to the bibiical account, taking the evolution theory of the origin of man as a basis; and!am the more encouraged to do this when I recollect that THR OTHER SIDE have had their full swing and sway; but I must premise my remarks by the confession that it is re. hypothetical, or, if you will, speculative. e weight of probability must decide. Noting the fact that the Bible accoant of the order of creation 18 fully borne out by the demonstration of science— @ most remarkable fact, when human accounts are considered—we must remember thatin many things, in our es state, it ts impossible for man not only fully to comprehend them, but to comprehend more than a mere approximation to them. We experience the same thing in a simpler form when we endeavor to enlighten children upon many of the abstruse subjects of social life, which we believe that we thoroughly understand. Our teaching to them is the best (however mmperfect) whioh the circumstances admit of, and our endeavor is to transmit all the trath which they can contain, or which would benefit them. To endeavor to tell them all we know would be to teil them nothing, or to lead them astray. If there is one truth demonstrated by modern science itis the fact that man as Paes is compara- tively of an extreme age, and evolution theor: would lead us to expect that his primitive condi- ton was one of comparative childhood in so far as a simplicity of ideas was concerned. Language and the memorials of the earlier stage of the species Which we possess point to thia conclusion. In the main the history of man which we possess is one of progress, And biblicists insist that there must have been A BIBLE BEFORE OUR BIBLE, and the natural inference is that it was a simpler one, and is inciuded in the present form which we possess. The idea forces itseif upon us that the | narrative ofour first parents and the Garden of Eden is the true tale of what took place in man’s moral condition, told by himself in the earlier ages, or rather told In his own words and familiar ideas. vie spirit of God might choose, and ~— be ex- pected to choose ideas suitabie to man in a primi- tive condition as muchas in the more advanced comprehension of a later period. A BIBLE FOR@UE RED INDIAN of to-day, apart from external influences, we might expect to contain very simple ideas and language, and is it certain that alter a sort they bave not the remnants of one? It such did exist might we not expect to find it couched in some- what similar phraseology * Having served its pur- pose of intimating to man what it was fit that he should know at that time it has been allowed to remain; and is not this the case also with much which we find in the sacred record’ When man Bret partook of the knowledge of good and evil his higher nature was drawn aside by the objects in- ferior tohim. The man 1s misied by the woman, the woman by the serpent, both man and woman by the fruit. We have the fruit always with us and the serpent to point the way tw us also, The phraseology as tt stan have had @ clearer meaning to did not possess the thousandth part of the light which we are supposed to possess, when rendered with their interpretation. There has never been apy miraculous interpretation of the Scriptures which we know anything about from the dead languages in which they were written. ‘Those destitute of these languages required to wait for that interpretation and require to wait to-day, and so, perhaps, must we, in reference to the langu: of original ideas, But if the Bible ‘was given first to man when in a nude state we might expect a simple and, what to us would be, a pecuilar revelation. That portion of the Scrip- tures may require translation out of the original dialect of thinking and knowing. Have we the key or do we suppose that we have? May its dis covery in full not lie in the tture, as much as the discovery did once that the earth moves round the sun? Even the account of the origin of the sexes, which is at frst sight so opposed to natural science, May have # hidden and yeta very simple explanation. Having thus brought the theory of evolution Into @ juxtaposition of thought from which, at first sight, it appeara so divergent, I leave the subject with your thoughtful and scien- tific readers. HOMO, wer. The crystal waters Of inspiration flow Rhrougn it, widening and di to the end of 3%, Teach the book in its and on going re! or « ator morals and culture we, are to preach A Church for the People. To THE Eprror or THE HERALD :— While men of wealth and position on every side Of us are daily donating large sums of money for the foundation of asylums, academies, &c., why does not some one of the many who take pleasure ‘and can afford to give lay aside @ good round sum ‘and found a church for the people? Does anybody Goubt that sucha thing ia needed i ous large and growing city Loox atts tor s moment. Thou- sands are annually kept from hearing the powerful teachings of the Gospel because they are not in a Position to get clothes with which to beautify their poor, worn bodies. They cannot pay pew rent and the many other small yet frequent drains on every congregation. Not being able to have a pew they are left to the tender mercy of the sexton, who turns away some and sends after those whom he admits ¢o @ poor seat the warning to “be careful how you act; no foolin’ here.” These words = will any mi so that it takes all fe" good ous” of the ser- mon he listens to; but I sup the DORE pose get used to it, “Poor le would not go il there were such a chureh,’’ says some one. They would if it was made interesting to them. Give them tbe best musio, comfortable seats, and let the wants of each and every one be inquired into and attended to. Why do our Cstholic churches have such large congregations, two-thirds of which are poor people ? and listen to the als of grand and soul-inspiring music, view the many comforts, and perhaps you will find some clew to the matter. There is not one in that house of wor- ship, however poor or humble he may be, but that is watched over and cared for, thought of and helped. Let us have a church for the people. Not a has- tily raised wooden edifice, smelling of paint and shavings; not a back room oi some old tenement, musty and decayed; but @ substantial building, where the preacher shall minister to the soul through the reason and the heart, the masic to the ear, the light and shade, pauiunes and mottoes to the eye, and the easy and comfortable seats to the weary bodies. Let there be free pews, no taxes, ‘ood music, and we will have done a work that is ruly great. ene lene Symbolic Prophecy—The Foreshadow- ings of Daniel, the Apocalyse and the Rovelations-Why the Papacy Is Not at en End—Its Mission Not Accom- Plished According te the Divine Or dination. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In opening up the prophecies, affecting the Papacy you have truly touched @ chord that will vibrate through the whole earth. It is the jive subject of this day; and above all the wonderful things that you have yet done in the way of—and out of the way of—journalism, will show the HERALD to b@, indeed, the true type of the news- paper, Avoiding as much as possible ali dogma and doctrine, but considering the Papacy as a Power, civil or religious, will you allow me to take @ review of a few of the prophecies, as they throw light upon this time and this subject? Iam not Bishop Snow, nor one of that school, but am one who believes that we have & sure word of prophecy to which we do well that we take heed as untoa light shining ina dark place until the day dawn, and who would wish to direct attention to the all- portant questions of the, present-eventful time. The second chapter of Daniel is purely civil. There is not an allusion to doctrine in the whole chapter. The King desires to Know what shall become ¢f bis kingdom, and it pleased God to re- veal to him what should come to pass “hereafter.” That is, as the sequel shows, from his own day until the “God of heaven shall set up His king- dom.” His vision, as well as ita interpretation, are there set forth. He beheld the figure of a man, whose head was gold, his breast and arms silver, his belly brass, his legs iron, and his feet and toes partly iron and clay. These are declared to be FIVE FORMS OF POWER. governing the known world in that day. Daniel declares—“Thou art this nead of gold, and after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth king- dom shall be strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that breaketh, all these shall it break in pleces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes part of potters’ ci and part of iron, the kingdom shali be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the tron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry cl and as the toes of the feet were ree of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom sball be artly strong and partly broken. * * * And in he days of these Kings shall the God of heaven set up & kingdom which shall never be destroyed ; but it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and it shall stand for ever.” These five kingdoms we can trace distinctly to our own day. ‘They are Baby- lon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, the Divided King- dom, or the modern sovereignties into which tho Roman Empire was “divided.” There can be ne doubt on this whatsoever. They ame the king- doms_ plainly pointed out in the prophecy, and they are the Kingdoms which, in poin of fact, have governed the world since that time. When then siall the governments of Europe—the old Roman Empire as “divided”’—give place to the kingdom which the God of Heaven will set up in their day? That is when these two king- doms touch each other—the kingdoms of Europe as now and the kingdom which the God of heaven willset up. The latter is a civil kingdom as truly as the others were, for it breaks them into pieces and takes their place. When? They will find an answer in subsequent prophecies, The Seventh of Daniel goes over the same ground, giving further partieulars which REVEAL THE PAPACY. There the four empires are represented by four great beasts, and the divided kingdom by ten horns on the last beast, At the time that the divi- sion takes place, there arises another little horn among the ten horns symbolizing the divided king- dom. He does not appear to have any civil power for some time after he arises, when three of the first horns are plucked up and given to him. This little horn then continues with the others until the God of Heaven sets up His kingdom. It is thus describea:— “T beheld till tne thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit.” * * * “I beheld then because of the voiee of the great words which the horn spake. I beheld even til the beast (the little horn) was slain, * * As concerning the rest of the beasts (the remaining horns) they had their deminion taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.” We have seen that these kingdoms arose together at the dividing of the Roman Empire, and that among them arose a “diverse” power, which afterwards became a similar one, in addition to its original form of power, say spiritual. Itis dificult to select from our records a period when it couid be said that the division was complete; but we are told that their whole time shall When these 1,260 years are be 1,260 ans completed the God of heaven will set up His king- dom, 4 civil power, which, in a series of ie ments, will destroy all other civil pewers. This 18 made plain in the prophecies of the New Testa- ment. In the Apocalypse there are three different sympols of civil power, two of which are identical with those in Daniel. in the tweltth Revelations the symbol isa beast with seven heads and ten horns, with crowns upon the heads, representing the civil power when He was born who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron, but who for the ey is caught up unto God and to His throne, inthe thirteenth chapter the symbol is a beast with seven heads and ten horns, with crowns upon the horns, representing the civil power which succeeded when the empire was “divided.’’ This power, as will be seen in the fifth verse, has 1,260 years, and is identical, as must be at once seen, with’ the fifth section ‘of the great im: the Jeet and toes, and with the ten horns of Daniel vil, In all three the modern kingdoms of Eu- rope, which are to continne until the God of heaven sets up His kingdom. In this thirteenth chapter of Revelations we have also the little horn of Daniel vil., a beast, with twe horns, as a lamb, but which spake as a dragon. He exercises the power of the first beast (that 13, the civil power) in his presence, or before his or with his knowledge and permission. In this chapter we have more particularly de- scribed the manner in which the “THRONES ARB CAST DOWN." Ib will be remembered that the ten toes were all in one section of the great image, and the ten horns all on the fourth beast of Daniel vil. Som this thirteenth chapter of Revelations, although there are seven heads mentioned, the ten horns are upon one head—the one representing the divided civil power of the time indicated. The head bearing the ten horns, we are told, is “wounded to death.’ As Daniel said “the crowns are cast down,” This wound is by asword; it 18 fatal to the head, or horns on the one head, but the beast is heated; and in the seventeenth chapter we have the third symbol, & beast with seven heads and ten horns, but no crowns, and the horns are explained to be “Kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but receive wer as kings one hour with the beast.” This is evidently @ symbol of demoeratic government succeeding to the monarchical at the very time when the God of heaven sets up his kingdow. first act is to take from the earth ail who believe in Him, as shown in I. Corinthians, xv., 23:—‘They that are Christ’s at His coming,” Alse in I. Thessalonians, tv., 16, 17, and in Revelations, vit., 9, 17. Our Lord Himself states the same glorious truth in Matthew XXIV. 29, 31. To return to Revelations xiii: It will be seen that it is the second beast which had horns a8 & lamb, but which spoke as a ate and which we have shown to be identical with the little horn of Daniel vi., who has power to give life to the image of the beast which had the wound by @ sword, and did live, That is when royalty is cast down and DEMOCRACY SUCCEEDS itis the second boast, the little horn, who ocon- trois the masses and brings order out of the chaos which resulted in the destruction of that form of civil government, He bas power to give life (au- thority) to the i fe of the new form of govern- mie oes | sot apes 00 that the present Pope it does not appear to me has done thia, and, therefore, 1 cannot think that he is the jast He most, however, be very hear, as the peoples are moving in that ‘direction. Ihave given you my reasons fully, and will be ready to sustain them if necessary, but will not Opened this subject yoursdi nope you will’ have Dg open sul yourself hope you ve objection to give them to your: readers. 1 tnink t Lenough to believe thas.you will be influenced bigoted spirit or flliberal feel- ing, but will phen free discussion of the saan a you have so startlingly introduced. The Rock of Cashel—Restoration of An- cient Eeclesiasti¢al Ruins in Ireland— vT Cathedral, Chapel and Round ‘Tower in the City of the Kings—A De- bate in the House of Lords—The Tombs of Heroes id Monarchs—A Moderate Request Opposed by Mr. Giadstone’s Ministry—The Rocks of Cashel in Wis- consin. . Some time since @ movement was inaugurated in Ireland to restore the ancient ruins on the Rock of Cashel by private subscription. A number of noblemen and gentlemen, both Catholic and Prot- estant, were named as tru@tees to carry out the design, which partook fully of a national charac- ter, This could not be accomplished without the consent of Parilament, as the Rock, after the dis- establishment of the Irish Church, Passed into the hands of the Board of Works, who were allowed a certain sum to maintain @ few custodians of the Rock and its antiquities. This was done to pre- vent damage caused to the sculptures, tombs, &c., by tourists and others. Strange to state, the bill introduced by Lord Stanley, of Adderiey, in the House of Lords, to carry out the wishes of the Irish people in this respect was vehemently op- posed, though, as he said, the Protestants showed no disposition to restore the ruins, because they had no need of them, and {f they had there were no funds for the purpose and had no worshippers to attend the churches if rebuilt. Cashel, “the City of the Kings,” styled so from being the real- dence of the monarchs of Munster, has a pop ula- tion at present of 4,000, fully nine-tenths of whom are Catholics. HISTORY OF THE RUINS, ‘The Rock of Cashel is a stupendous limestone ele- vation, rising, in a craggy form, 300 feet high. Ac- cording to legend, this remarkable eminence is the identical piece of rock Satan bit from a mountain several miles distant from the town, and dropped in the spot where it now stands, On the summit are five of the most interesting monuments in {reland, They are the ruins of the archbishop’s residence, the ruins of the palace of the kings of Munster, the ruins of the cathedral, the ruins of King Cormac’s chapel and the ruins of @ round tower. The chapel, founded in 903, is a stracture of high archi- tectural interest. It consists of a nave and smail choir, with a slender, square tower in its south angle rising conspicuously above the stone roof. ‘The lower part is in the early Norman style; the upper Gothic, The cathedral is in the usual form of @ cross, the south transept and the choir em- bracing Cormac’s chapel on two sides, The ruins of the Episcopal palace are on the west end of the cathedral, and this remarkable group of ecclesias- tical ruins is compieted by A ROUND TOWER, on the north of the chathedral, and the remains of the abbey founded by Archbishop Macarweil in 1260, in 1495 the cathedral was set on fire by the turbulent Earl of Kildare, whose singular excuse was that he should not have done so if he had not believed Archbishop Creagh was within the building at the time, This statement so won the contidence of Henry Vii. that he discredited the charges of du- plicity and treachery brought pgalnas the Karl, and made him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1641 Lord Inchiquin, commanding the Parliamentary forces, stormed the place apd put many of THE OLERGY AND INHABITANTS TO THR SWORD. It again declared for the King and was finally taken by Cromwell. After the Reformation the cathedral was wrested from the Catholics, who built and owned it, and given to the Protestants. The chapel on the rock was then in ruins, Forty years later an attempt was made to restore it, and up to 1720 the services of the Established Church contin- ued to be performed in it. In 1745 Archbishop Price removed the cathedral from the rock to low ‘ground, for the Protestant prelate was a stout man and was averse to walking up a steep hill. He stripped the roof from the edifice and used the ma- terial for building a modern church and a house for himself. In 1749, the Archbishop again having found the old cathedral incapable of restoration, the ruins and the new church were consolidated by an order rye Shee aoe ned church there- re en ve FAIRLY GIVEN UP AND RENDUNCED over thirty years ago what they had turned intoa ruin and What has since remained aruin. The bill mentioned above was moved for a second readin: about a fortnight ago in the House of: Lords. Lord Stanley, of Adderley, who introduced it, did not ‘wish to blame Archbishop Price for an act done in an age when taste and art and the knowledge of architecture were at a very low ebb. But the effects of the demolition survived and were felt strongly in this age whem Irishmen saw shrines so unneces- sarily ruined and THE SHATTERED TOMBS OF NATIONAL HEROES neglected and falling into utter decay. But the Protestants did not renounce possession of the Cathedral when they made a ruin of it; they did so asecend time by the fact that, after disestablish- ment, they did not claim it from the Church Tem- poralities Commission. For the Protestants, there- fore, continued Lord Stanley, to refuse consent to the ruins being restored to life and usefulness, and to insist upon their being kept in ruins would be for them to act the part of THE FALSE MOTHER BEFORE SOLOMON, who preferred to have the half of a dead child than that her rival should have the living child. Cathedrals, covered with ivy, with broken arches and windowless mullions, were painful objects. Such edifices denoted either decay of population, decay of faith or havoc by invasion or civil war, The ruins on the Rock of Cashel denoted the penal laws and their effects, and as Parliament had labered during several sessions to remove the re- mains of B peony laws, it ht be hoped that the House of Lords would give the Irish peasant a visi- bie sign of their good intentions. The House could understand what the feeling of the Irish people was with regard to Cashel when he stated tnat quite recentiy A CATHOLIO CHURCH WAS BUILT IN WISCONSIN, and several hundred weight of stone were sent out from Cashel to form a part of the foundation of the new edifice. The question was whether the tombs of the Celtic monarchs and chieftains in the south of Ireland were to be restored and beautified un- der the guardianship of those whose history and traditions were identified with them, and which they are ready and willing to do at their own cost and expense, or whether these tombs were to be kept in a state of decay under the guardianship of men of English and Scotch descent, who could not possess the same traditional affection. If the bill should pass it would be a peace olfering and tend to the burying of oid animosities. THR MINISTRY OPPOSES THE BILL. Viscount Midleton and Lord Monck opposed the second reading on the grounds that tue Disestab- lishment act provided for the disposition of eccle- siastical ruins, and that if any clauses of that mea- sure were to be repealed Berane should come from the Ministry; that the ruins were re- stored and turned into a place of worship the fea- tures that made them interesting would be de- stroyed; that if the ruins were given to the tras- tees the Catholics would soon be asking for more, and that there were some Protestants who were opposed to the grant. Earl Granville, the Foreign inister, also opposed the bill. He said, knowing the state of puvlic feeling on the subject, it was best to leave the matter in its present condition. The Earls of Limerick and Granard pointed out that the transfer would relieve the Treasury of a burden, and that it would be only a restitution of property formerly belonging to the Catholics, The enon at of the Ministry settled the question. The measure was defeated—yeas, 23; nays, 112, Ministerial Movements and Changes. EPISCOPALIAN. Rev. Mr. Ancient has received from the commit- tee of the Boston Atlantic Relief Fund, through the American Consni, the sum of $57 37, Canadian currency. Halfofthis 1s to be retained by himself and the remainder is to be distributed among those who were forward in saving life on the occasion of the wreck of the Atlantic. Bishop Smith, of Ken- tucky, has received a letter from Bishop Wilber- force, of England, suggesting that the American Episcopal Church co-operate with the English Charch to raise a fund for perpetuating “the saintly memory of the late Right Rev. Bishop Gray,” of Cape Town, by promoting some one of the great objects to which he devoted his life. Among these are—First, the completion of his church; second, the providing for the See of Martaburg; third, the sustentation fand of the diocese; fourth, the erection of a theo- logical college. Rev. Andrew Oliver, D. D., has been elected Professor of Biblical Learning and In- terpretation of Scripture in the Protestant Episco- pal Theological Seminary, in this city, and the Rev. Wiltam J. Seabury, Charles and Elizabeth Ladiow Professor of Ecclesiastical Polity and Law. An ordination of deacons and priests took place at the Episcopal Church of the Mr. Sheldon wilt pe nah se wing renter ene engage tn PRESBYTERIAN. At the last communion in the Presbyterian at Watertor N.Y., eighty-nine persons were re- ceived into rch, Among them a aa they sppronchea, ‘the’ pastor. hav. Dr. Port. sald e ir, v. Dr. ter, to theo patriarch, thou and ail thy liouse into the ark,” the appropriateness of w! was accepted by the congregation. Rev. H. J. Miller, late of Victor, has entered upon his duties as tor of the First Presbyterian church at Medina, N.Y. Rev. J, G. has been installed as the successor of Dr. J. C. Backus in the pastorate of the Firat Eereeran church at Schenectady, N. Y. Dr. James 8. Gould and wife, the missionaries in Rome, Italy, have returned to America to rest for two or three months. Rev. E. F. Hatfield, D. D., stated clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly, is spending his vacation at Catskill, N.Y. Tho Welsh Calvinistic Methodists—a branch o! the Pres- byterian family—have 5 synods, 17 presbyteriet 130 mi 209 churches and 12,000 come municenta, ir General to met re- cently in Rev, Powell, D. D. of this tt; is the Moderator, Y Rev. Edward H. Camp, of Newark, has accepted a call to the bere street Presbyterian church at St. Louis, Mo, v. Dr. Hogarth has given notice of his intended resignation of the Jefferson avenue Presbyterian church, Detroit, It is understood that he has accepted @ call to the Second Presby- terian church, Genev: Nine hundred and N.Y. ninety-three home missionaries were employed by the yterian Board last year, at average sal- aries of $276, Greenpoint Leip ase church, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Rev. William Howell Taylor pas- tor), Was organized four years ago with sixteen members, and has steadily increased. Two hua- dred and seventy-seven members have been added to its communion in ti time, ‘The University Place Presbyterian church, of this city, Wu be open for pubiic worship through the Summer. Rev. Drs. Green, Aiken and Shields, of Princeton, will occupy the pulpit, Kev. Jonn 3. Peters, late of Princeton Theol Seminary, Was recently ordained and installed pastor of the Breckenridge prechotaries church, of Huntington, W. Va. Rev. 8 B, Bell, D. D., of Lyons, N. Y., has entered upon his duties as pastor of the Presby- terian church at Hillsdale, Mich. Kev. David Street bas assumes the pastorate of the Presby- terian church a¢ Wan: is. Tho latest stat! tics of the Southern Presbyterian Church show that they have 11 synods, 57 presbyteries, 939 ministers and licentiates, 1,685 churches, 93,906 communi- cante and 64,710 Sabbath scholars. Eighty-iour churenes failed to report to the last General Assem- bly. The whole Church contributed last year jor benevolent, congregational and miscellaneous purposes @ total of $1,126,423, Twenty-iour minis- ters died during the year. The Presbytery of Kdin- bape resumed the prosecution of the Wal- ROMAN CATHOLIC. The pilgrimage to the Sacred Heart at Paray-le- Monial has been nearly as numerously attended as the celebrated one last year to Lourdes, It is cal- culated that nearly ninety thousand rsons from all parts of France have already joined in it, and as itis to continue for some time to come, it is ex- Lap that the number will be doubled before ail terminated. Right Rev. Bishop Williams has purchased the Baptist church in North Beunett street, Boston, for the use ef the Itallan and Portu- fuese congregation. The Rev. J. Ignatius, late rtuguese pastor at New Bedford, will have charge of thenew church. Rev. W. O'Riordan, pastor of Chatfield, Minn., proposes to build a new church. The corner stone of the new Church of tie Sacred Heart, Chicago, was laid on Sunday, June 22, The Rev. Peter Geyer, while bathing last ‘Thursday week at Ripley, O., was drowned. » His body was recovered next day. He was twenty- feven years of as Tue Rev. Father Trevis, of St. Peter’s church, Keokuk, Iowa, has obtained one ear’s leave of absence to travel or rest Tecruit his health, which has become feeble alter twenty-four years’ steady ser- vice in the priees . On — Satur- day, June 7, the Archbishop of Paris consecrated, in’ St, Sulpice, seventeen priests and nineteen deacons, The Archbishop of Lyons, ou the same day, ordained 250 young men destined for the bh eepene At the recent ordinations in St. naventura’s College, Alleghany, N. ¥., Revs. Transfiguration, in this city, on Sunday morning. Bishop Robertson, of Missouri, preached the sermon, and a large number of cier- gymen, besides Bishop Potter, were present. The following persons were ordained deacons :—B. E. Backus, 0. FP. Oanedy, G. A. Chambey, J. H. Fitz- gerald, J. H. Johnson, Alfred B. Leeson, H. Mottet, E.G. Nock, F. H. Stricker, H. M. Torbet, A. Leon- ard and & Talbert. Rev. William Pemcher and Rev. EB. P. Bartow were ordained priests. The assets ot the Se real and personal, amount to 513. Kev. Sheldon, 1a a or Princeton Ooulege nf Sorninar, and forthe ‘Yast six years Professor brow, Union Theo- Seminary Rew Yoo, has jotned oe men june 15, and has made for admission to Simon Canun and John poten at of Albany, were raised to the priesthood. v. P. Cosgrove, of Erte, Rey. Martin Hendricks, of Rochestor, and Rev. Thomas Kennedy, of Brooklyn, were elevated to that holy office at the same time. The Bishop of Kildare, ordained to the priesthood the follow- ing graduates of St. Patrick’s College, Carlow, Ireland, during Pentacost week:—Revs. Patrick Cosgraye, Kildare; Jeremiah Murphy, Maitiand; David OvOallaghan, Cashel; William 'O’Shea, St: Louis; Gerald Foohey, Cloyne; Patrick Shiel, Ferns; Edward Ayiw: Ferns; William McGrath, Richard Butler and Time Handley, Gouldburne; Patrick Burke, Dubuque; Thomas Heiternan, Thomas Power, Pi Power, Andrew Condon, Thomas Moran and John Moran, Waterford. Lan has been donated and the Catholics of Vinelan N. J., are about to erect a house of worship in thal beautiiul settiement. The Very Rev. L. S. McMahon, ot New Bedford, Mass., Vicar General of the dio- cese of Providence, will be assigned to the pastor- Bte of St. Mary’s Catholic church, Olneyville, made vacant by the death of the v. Dr. Quinn. Father Sarria, one of the Je uit tathers who were 80 brutally expelled from Mexico a few weeks since, died on Saturday, June 23, at the College of St. Francis Xavier, in Fifteenth street, New York. He was preaching in his church when the rioters en- tered it and forced him to fy for his life. He was senton to New York by his superiors, but though he was here in safety and with the hope of renewed service before him, he never recovered trom the shock. The Bishop of Treves, according to the Gazette de la Moselle, has retused to send into the Prussian authorities an account of the seminaries and other religious institutions of his diocese. This is im accordance with the determination ar- rived at by the German bishops, at Fulda, last month, lonseigneur Bouret, Bishop of Rodez, will succeed the late Cardinal Billet as Archbishop of Chambery. The new St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church building, Brooklyn, has been pushed forward with such energy that the founda- tion walls are already finished. The corner stone will be laid about the 20th of July. BAPTIST. Rev. Dr, Fulton, of Hanson place Baptist clarch, Brooklyn, is going into the interior of Long Island to I vacation Until September, preacaing for feebie churches here and there. In the 1ean- while the lecture room will be thrown into the church at Hanson plaee, a gallery thrown around, and a new lecture room and Sunday school rooms be run up on the vacant lots by the side of the old edifice. Rev. J. EK, Twitchell, of Euclid avenue church, Clevetand, has a eall to the South ech Brooklyn, N. Y., at a salary of $6,000, The Baptis' Church at Catskill ‘have recently dedi- cated @ new and beautiiul edifice, costing bout $22,000. 0. E. Con was = recen ordained gt South Haven, Mich.; Rev. J. Young was recently installed over the Baptist church at South Bend, Ind. J. H. Moehimann, of Rochester Theological Seminary, was recently or- dained pastor of the German Baptist church:in Meriden, Conn. The corner stone of a new Baptist church at Norristown, Pa., wag laid on Friday last, Rev. George Frear pastor, The beautiful Gothic S| forming the transept of the Baptist church edifice being erected in Sing Sing, N. Y., was opened for divine service on Sunday last. Rev. G. A. Hayward, formerly a minister of the Church of England, has become a by ge be Eng- a8 land, Rev. B. B. Henshy his charge at Mahanoy City and gone to Fie! nF Pa. Eben- ezer Bird was ordained pastor of the Webster street Baptist church, New Haven, on the 234 ultimo, e Port Chester Baptist church has reeutiy called as their pastor Rev. J. D. Barnes, forme. ty of Newark, N. J., and he has aiready entered upon his labors as pastor among them, with many cheer- ing preset of success, This church was organ- ized under the pastoral care of Rev. 6. S. Ray- mond, in the year 1865. Two new churches at Lock Haven and Williamsport, Pa., were dedicated last Sabbath. Rev. David Downie, who goes as a missionary among the Teloogoos, will have a for- mal farewell reception tendered him in the Tenth | Baptist church, Philadelphia, thisevening. Rev. A. , Of Paris, lil, has removed to Randolph, ev. 0. A. Burgess has resigned his place in arch in Chicago to take the presidency of N. W. C, University, to which he has been elected. Rev. W. F. Black has resigned the presidency of this institution to devote himself to the ministry in Indianapoils.: Professor J. Hiller, a German Israciite, who has been teaching in the Troy (Mo.) Christian Institute, was recently converted and joined the Baptist Church in Louisiana, Mo. Kev. KR, W. Pearson, of Lafayette, Ind., who lately refused @ call to the First Baptist church of Brooklyn, has received the degree of D. D. from Frankiin College, Indiana, and has now accepted @ call to Pittsburg, Pa. He is taking a trip across the Continent and on lis return will enter upon his new charge. Rev. T. R. Palmer, of Aurora, Ii., was honored in like manner and at the same time by Frankiin Collegs Kev. Edward Suilivan, of Onics and Rev. J. B. Smith, of Geneva, N. Y., received D. D.’s from the Baptist University at Chicago, Lewisburg University, Me., has similarly honored Revs. William Cathcart, of Philadelphia, and Charles Keyser, of Trenton, N. J. METHODIST. Dr. Tiffany, of the Metropolitan church, Wash- ington, started for Europe last week. Tne Rev. George McElroy has been elected President of Adrian College (Methodist), Michigan. Dr. Natt, President of the Indiana State University, has re- ceived the degree of LL. D. irom Hanover Coliege, Indiana. Presiding Elder Merwin intends to spend his vacation irom this till September 1 at Sea Clift, L.L The Rev. E. W. Jackson, formerly a member of the New England Conierence, late of the South Carolina Conierence, well known as a temperance lecturer, died recently at Middletown, Coun., of paralysis. The Rev. Messrs. Albert S. Hunt, of Brooklyn; Orlando Hinds Jasper, George F. Kettell, of New Haven; Andrew McKeown and James Pike, of New Hampshire, received the degree of D. D. trom Wesleyan University at its late Commencement. Albion College, Michigan, at its recent Commencement, conferred men of Method'sm wii take im we serviced: eee es nomena 10 vol a oie 1 The number on i signed the versity and Rev. F. H. Newhall, of Lynn, bas been elected to the vacant ition and will be inaugurated in the Fall. Syracuse University has conferred the degree of D.D. upon the Rev. M. J. Cramer, United States Minister to Denmark and a member of the Cincinnati Confer- ence. Rev. Dr. Curry, in the last issue of the Christian A substantially reiterates his charge that Mr. Beecher, from his pulpit and through nis romulgates emasculated ea for many of its evil effects in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Peck was in this city last week. On tho 15th inst. he expects to go to the Pacific Coast, to preside at the Calilornia Conference. Rev, Wiliam West, an esteemed Wesleyan mussionary for twenty-eight years and at ent chairman of the Jam: district, West Indies, made a brief visit to this city, and embarked for home on Monday last. Rev. W. P. Apbott, of this city, has taken @ bur- ried trip to Europe to bring back his wife, whose heaith has been impaired racher than improved by her visit. A farewell meeting was given in the First Methdist Episcopal church, Temple Loge | last Sunday evening, to Rev. James Mudge wife, who sailed next day for India, At the recent Commencement of McKendree Colle; Lebanon, IL, Revs. W. A. Jewett, of the Rock River Confer+ ence, and C. E. Felton, of the St, Louis Conference, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Professor W. G. Williams, of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and Rev. J. 8. Youmans, of the Erie Conference, were made D. D's by Baldwin Univer- sity. Rev. Arthur Edwards has been g0 honored by the Northwestern University, MISCELLANEOUS, At the recent college commencements the fonlow- ing reverend’ have been made doctors of divinity :—Wiliam Irvine, Troy, N. Y. and D, G. Gregory, of Ohio, by Princeton; Ransom Dann, of Hillsdale, Mich., Va ates College, Michigan; Pro- fessor Thayer, of Andover, by Yale; Colambia Col- lege, New York, has thus honored the Right Rev. John G. Auer, Missiouary bishop to Africa; the Rev. Seong Beckett, thé Rev. 4. Stephenson and the Rev. W. BR. Hun mm, Chaplain of the Ameri- can Legation in Paris, Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., has doctered J. W. Poindexter, Owensboro, Ky.; J. M. Merrill, Nasaville, Tenn., and J. GC. Provine, Nashville, Miami University has served Rev. J. M. Stone, late -of the lowa State University. Mercersburg College, Penn- sylvanta, has served Revs, P. 5, Di 8, Champere- burg, Pa.; S. N. Callender, Harrisonburg, Va, and W, K. Zieder, Hauover, Pa, Hanovor College has served Revs, Charles Hutchinson, New Albany, ind., Francis L. Patton, of the Theological semt- nary at Chicago, Knox bas served Rev. J. H. Grite fith, Galesburg; Professor Blaisdell, Ham- ilton§ College has served Revs, Sylvester Coles, Gowanda; Augustus W. Loomis, San Francisco, and @ oH. McKnight, Wimira; Washington and Lee, Va., has served Revs. J. Cottrell, Mississippi; H. Heroert Harris, Vir- ginia; 3. R. Houston, West Virginia; John Perei- vai, Louisiana; John W. Pratt, Virginia, Presi- dent Tuttle, of Wabash College, is astonished at the results of his investigation into the longevit of clergymen. After poring over several thousant pages Of ministerial annals, minutes, almanacs and mortality bills, he finds that in the case of 2,442 pastors, of all denominations, who died be- tween A. D, 1575 and 1850, the average age was. over sixty-one years. He suggests that in- surance companies could afford to risk minister's lives ata iow rate upon such @ showing as this, The Collegiate church, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street (Rev. Dr. Ludlow, pastor), will be open during the entire season. Rev. Mark Hop- kins, D. D., late President of Williams College, will occupy the pulpit during the month of July, Rev. Dr. Hornbiower, of Allegheny Seminary, dar- ing the month of August. Tne Evangelical All ance for Northern New York, auxillary to the Evan- gelical Alliance for the United States of America, will, D, V., meet in the First Presbyterian Church, Watertown, Jefferson county, on Tuesday, 15th inst. The small sect of disciples threaten to have another ~~ among them, e Progressives, as they call themseives, claim the right, and practise it, of organizing and sustaining missionary socie- ties, of building handsome churches, employing cho! using 01 is, &c., While the conservatives hold that these features are departures from the true faith. Rev. Mr, Hepworth, of this city, will spend this month and the next at the Isle of Shoals, le pul to build a veolg in which he will take recreation after his return hither in September. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. The Blessedness of Walking in the King’s Highway—Dogmatism versus Practical Religion—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Vidaver. The Summer heat begins to tell upon the com gregation which worship in the synagogue in West Thirty-fourth street, but there are a goodly number yet left who found their way thither yesterday, and listened to a sermon by Rev. Dr. Vidaver, based upon Numbers xx., 17, in part:—“We will go by the King’s highway, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left.” There 1s not, said the Doctor, a finer sentence in any book which could Serve as @ motto for life than this contained in the text. “We will walk in the King’s highway.” Happy is he who walketh in this middie path, which 1s the royal highway of harmony and peace. Happy is he who turns not to the right hand nor to the left, for only thus shall he avoid walking in the counsel of the ungodly, standing in the way of sinners and sitting in the seat of the scornfal. The path of humanity is @ highway full of choicest blessings, It is the highway of the King of kings, and is broad enough for all God’s children to travel on in harmony and love. It isthe deviation from this path that causes suffering and sorrow, Hence the text furnishes the very best rule of lie for every man—namely, to walk by the King’s high- way, and not turn aside therefrom to the right hand nor to the left. There is in RELIGION A ROYAL HIGHWAY, the degree of D. D. upon Rev. L. R. Fisk, of Detroit Conference, and Thomas Carter, now of Mexico. Rev. J. H. Messmore, @ returned India mission- ary, has gone to Simcoe, Canada, to recruit. his health. Three new churches are under Way in the Chester district, Philadelphia Conference. PAshop Janes will preach in Kast Newark this merning, when subscriptions will be taken up for the new church, The Bishop will Iay the corner stone to- morrow morning. The Rev. Dr. Crawford, Presid- Elder of the Poughkeepsie district, satled for ‘ope last ig His wife and c@ughter ac- companied him. le is in Lonty health. He ‘pects be absent at least three months, xy to | charch at Yonkers be dedicated 1 reac! . . Brown and de B, Waxelers, and other eminent H broad, luminous and comprehensive. Way of God's glory and man’s salvation. way of blessedness and the path of peace. But there is a narrow road of strife and superstition which runs nearly parallel with it. The doctor then referred to the religious sects which prevail amo us and pointed out some differences that xine among them which he remarked were moral, theo- logical and dogmatical. He briefly referred also to the evil consequences of sectarian strife for cen- turies past. He next discussed the teach! of Judaism on this subject, and remarked that Moses has told us that the hidden things belong unto God, but the revealed unto us and to our children. We are not asked to speculate upon the mysteries of religion, but to obey the revealed precepts and commandments of God. The doctor told his hearers also what the ancient rabbies thought about these things, and remarkea that the Gospel to all human beings is couched in these words:—“The Lord our God is one Lord.” He asked his hearers were they walking in the King’s high wal of religion, where they can walk undefiled and undisturbed. The Lord is our God, he said, not as he is presented to us by the narrow-minded despots of theology, bat as the eternal, indivisible God of justice, truth, love and power, He {3 continually revealing him- bong nen poy pede to follow his guiding 4 ‘© Walk in the royal pathway of religion. Thi versal belief in Aa rf igs . i A UNIVERSAL CREATOR AND REDERMER of all men is the highway upon which the Psalmist stood and exclaimed, “How mantiold are Thy works, O Lord of Hosts; in wisdom hast Thou made them all!’ From this highway also he lifte® his eyes toward heaven and beheld vast worlds moving harmoniously in space, and all sustained by Infinite Wisdom, and he is iorced to-exclaim, “What is man, that Thou art mindful of him ?”” 4c. These things prove the kindness of God, who has made man but a little lower than the angels, that we might be crowned with glory and honors which means that there must be a God, without whose all-pervading power man could not have read these things nor unfolded their teachings. Job also walked on this path and saw the unfolding of God's power in the wings of the morning and in the beauty of the seasons, and in the varied mani- festations of nature. All nature proclaims there is a God, and in keeping His commandments there is great reward. How biessed might not mankind be walking in this path together! {The fool only sa; there is no God; but there is one God, the ruler and redeemer of all, and this is all that we cam know, and all that we do know or believe, and all Rl is Ne unto us, This knowledge gives the soul rest, It is the Itis the THERE IS A GOD, and I feet at rest. ‘Ihe universe is not left to take care of itself at haphazard. All the forces of na- ture are under his control and all things reveal a purpose of the Almighty. This belie! gives me hope and peace, said the Doctor, But not only does this doctrine give rest and happiness to the soul, {t also inspires Upto pag love, torgiveness and tri and I feel that God is looking at me day by aa I mast try to shape my character so that I may also show myscif merciful and just, as God is merciful and just, But, above CY there is in this highway of religion room for all to live and walk in peace to- gether as children of one Father in Heaven. But men have turned aside from this path into the narrow and restricted ways of dogmatism and superstition, wherein no man can travel comfortably. Here the advocates of dogmatism assert that they only travel in the highway and that they only have the troth, All others are in error and astray and are only fit fuel for the flames of perdition, A fow Sundays ago the Doctor preached a sermon on justification by faith, and Jeast it should have ven a wrong impression he yesterday €: t his idea of PAITH IS LIVING A CONSISTENT MORAL LIFE and keeping the commandments of God; loving Him above all things and loving our neighbor as ourselves. And only when # man lives such a life can he die the death of the righteous. scouted the idea that by the manipalations or pray- ers of a priest or minister @ life-long criminal, about to atone on the gallows for his crimes, can be made t for the bliss of heaven. If we would die faith we must live by faith, He therefore ho) that religion would be removed from the obscure station in which the sectarians have placed it, and that lt might become imoorporated into the indl- and social aeclety life of soctety. Ai rin society can never raise itse! into the broag aud royal pathway of tue, King of SS