The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1873, Page 6

October 12--Religious Pro- gramme for To-Day. THE EVANGELICAL COUNCIL. Views of Herald Cor- _respondents. A Reply to the At‘ack on the Papacy by the Protestant Conference. “Bouncing the Alliance’”--A Free Thinker’s Idea. What a Roman Catholic Has to Siay. The Work of Previous Evan- gelical Alliances. A TEXT FOR THE CONVENTION. Christian and Pagan Charity Compared. TRUE CHRISTIAN’ UNITY. The Lazarist Mission in Brooklyn. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. Delegates to the General Council of the Prot- estant Churehes will preach in the temples and at | the times given betow:— The Dean of Canterbur$, in Grace church, at four o'clock P, M. Rev. Joseph Edkins, of China, in West Twenty third street Presbyterian church, at half-past ten A.M. Rev, ©. D. Marston, of London, in the temporary Church of the Holy Trinity, at halfpast ten A. M. Dr. Tyng himself preaches at four P. M. Rey. Dr. Arnot, of Scotland, in South Reformed | church this morning. Rey. T. H. Hanna, of Pittsburg, morning and | , evening, in the United Presbyterian church on | West Twenty-fifth street. Rev. L. E. Berkeley, of Ireland, in the Scotch Presbyterian church (Rev. Mr. Hamilton’s), at four P.M. The Forty-second street Presbyterian will this Morning be addressed by Rev, Dr. Berkeley, of Ireland. Thane Miller, of Cincinnati, in the Pilgrim church this morning. Rev. David Marsh, in Seventeenth street Baptist church, at ten A. M. Rev. R. Hamilton, of England, in Thirty-fourth Street Reformed church, this morning. Rev. Mr. Simpson, of Canada, in the morning, and Rev. Dr. Russell, of London, in the evening, in Thirteenth street Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr. John Stoughton, of London, and others, im Association Hail this evening. Distinguished delegates will conduct the even- ing worship of the Rev. Wayland Hoyt’s (Taber- aacle Baptist) flock, in Steinway Hall. The pastor of the American chapel in Paris, Rev. E. W. Hitchcock, will this morning address the Fourteenth street Presbyterians. Rey. Dr. Jones, Welsh delegate, preaches the Mnorning sermon inthe Church of the Disciples. The Hindoo and other prominent delegates in the evening. Rev. W. Tyler, of London, will address the frinity Baptist congregation this morning. At an Alliance Sunday school meeting, at three o'clock P. M., Messrs. Ashworth, of England; Stuart, of Holiand, and Burnet, o! Scotland, will speak. ‘There will be an Alliance Sunday school meeting at the Fifty-third street Baptist church at half- past three P.M. Rev. Dr. Rambault preaches at the morning (baptismal) service. The Secretary of the British branch of the Alliance will preach in the Church of the Strangers this morning, and Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond, in the evening. Dr. Hoge preaches in the morning at the Madison Bvenue Reformed church, and Rev. Dr. Kettredge, Of Chicago, at four P. M. Rev. Dr. Fisch, of Paris mission fame, will ad- Gress the First Baptists this morning. ; Rey. Dr. Giles Mandeville will conduct the morn- {ng service and Rey. Dr. Van Nest, of Italy, that in the evening in St. Paul’s (Reformed). Rev. A. A, Isaacs, an English delegate, this morn- tng, and Rev. Mr. McClelland in the evening, at St. Luke’s (Methodist), Rev. 8. 0. Gordon, of London, this morning, in West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church. Rey. F. Coulin, Swiss delegate, preaches in French at Dr. Adams’ church, Madison avenue, Rey. G. M. Grant, of Halifax, N. S., preaces at half-past three P. M. in the Canal street Presbyte- ian church. Our Scottish residents will have an opportunity to-day of hearing divine service in Gaelic, Dr. Kennedy, of Dingwall, Scotland, will fil) Rev. Dr. Thomson’s pulpit (Fourth Presbyterian church) in the afternoon, and aiter the’ services in English ‘will pgeach in the language of the Scottish High- jands. Rev. Mr. Dewppet, a Parisian delegate, preaches at half-past ten A. M. in the French Evangelical church. Rev. 8. Rochedieu, of Belgium, and Father Chini- guy, will preach this morning in the French Re- formed church. Services wil] be resumed at the customary hours {m St. Paul’s (Episcopal) chapel to-day. “The Great Tribulation” will be the theme of Rev. W. W. Andrews, in the Catholic Apostolic church, this evening. There will be a public meeting of the Episcopal City Mission in St. Stepnen’s this evening. Rev. Mr. Tomkins preaches in the morning at this church. “Free Thought” is Rev, Dr. Rylance’s topic, this evening, at St. Mark’s. Rey. Mr. Sweetser will give his thoughts upon specially chosen subjects this morning and even- ing, in Bleecker street Universalist church. Rev. J. V. Osterhout will do likewise in the Har- Jem First Baptist church. The Central Presbyterians will be addressed by Rev. Dr. A. A. Wood this morning. “The Stock Panic will be lectured upon by an Octogenarian and fi\ty-years’ reformer, in the Cos Mopolitan Conference, at three P. M. “Spiritual Oripples and Ecclestastical Crutches” 1s Dr. Bellows’ evening subject, at All Souls’, “The Protestant Alliance” 0, B. Frothingham’s subject at Lyric Hall this morning. Rey. John W, Kramer preaches at eleven A. M. and four P. M. in the old Chapel of Calvary, where ithe Grace chapel flock worsbip for the present, Special topics will be expounded by Rev. Henry Powers in the Church of the Messiah, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe preaches this morning in Biarlem Unity chapel. Rev. J, M. Pullman (Church of Our Saviour) preaches at 1,464 Broadway morning and evening | licity, he seems to say, and evening services in the Church of the Reforma- tion. ‘The pastor of the Berean Baptist church, Rev. P. L, Davies, preaches this morning and evening. The Evangelical Bote Noire—A Reply to the Attack on the Papacy by the Prot- estant Conference, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— {tis grossly unjust to have calumnies thrust on the American public by chose who claim to have authority to teach the charity of Christ, With your permission, sir, I shall endeavor to poiut out a lew of these calamnies, Up to last Wednésday morning the proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance were in general harm leas; nobody was hart, save, perhaps, the infidel. There were discourses, learned, indeed, on litera- ture, on the state oi modern society and on mod- ern science. It is to be hoped that many derived spiritual profit from them, but on the above-men, tioned morning the,turn of Romanism, or Popery, came. Lremarked with pleasure that Americans left this part of the work mostly to the Joreign delegates, Whether it was their sense of liberty and fair play that prompted them, or whether, being more enlightened, they would not stop to excite mean prejudices, 1 cannot say. I only note the fact as being creditable to Americans, if we except Professor Hitchcock, LL. D, Professor Dor- ner, of the University of Berlin, in discussing Papal infallibility, had the advantage of stating, without fear of contradiction, the case of his opponents, He could define Pap! infallibility to suit his own views, and could set up his own target and shoot atit. He did 80, apparently to the delight of his hearers; for when he struck the buil’s-eye a justy cheer Went up irom the assembled multi- tude, But, apart from metaphors, his argument, as I find it reported, was a weal one, hazed by some of the mist that hangs around the schools of Kant and Fichte. Speaking, as he did, toan Evangelical Alliance, we were ex- prptine the Proiessor would bring forward the ible in proof; but, strange enough, not a text was uoted, as far as the report goes, to show that the Pope is not iniailible in the Catholic sense, 1t was not what Christ did that the gentleman exam- ined, but what he himself, a priori, thought about the Pope’s prerogative. As no account was taken of the Bible truths and the historical belie! of Catholics, it Was easy to invoke despotism and Cxesarism, The HERALD justly remarked:—‘An intelligent comparison between the implied inde- pendence of Papal interference enjoyed by the Catholic world before the Council, and iis condi- tion since, would, we beiieve, dissipate all the talk about the new Catholic despousm.” The def- nition of the Vatican Council was new, but the doc- trine defined is as old as the Christian Church, The divinity of the Son of God was nov defined until A. D, 325, in the Council of Nice, and that of the Holy Ghost until A. D, 381, in the second General Council at Constantinopie. Would the Protessor think that these councils created new doctrines? No action had been taken by the Church in regard to these articies of faith, because heresy had not denied them. If the infallibility of the Pope—which was always practically believed—hbas been detined in our days, it is because the errors of the age re- quired it “The unity of the Church,” as the HERALD report hasit, *‘cannot be made artificially by man; it is absolutely created by God and by the communication of the Holy Spirit.” Iam happy to be able to agree with the Professor. The Church of Corist is that one Cuurch which, whoever will not hear, “let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.” She ts the “pillar and ground of truth;’’ the church built on the rock Peter, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.” It was Christ, then, and not the bishops of the Vatican Council, who gave unity to the Church. These only declared virtually what their relation has always been to the successor of St. Peter, But how, according to the learned delegate, the defini- tion of the Council destroys the equality of Chris- tians belore God, or their intimate communication with Him, is more than I cam say. 1t should not be forgotten that office is one thing and religious or civil character another. It does not follow that General Grant ceased to be a citizen when he be- came a President, The latter part of the Professor’s essay must not have been condursstag: to hus audience, If Catho- failed by believing too much, Protestantism failed by believing too littie. Nomi- nal Protestantism (and how widespread this 1s, must be imagined) haa, the speaker tells us, ‘this common fanit. It does not understand what re- ligion is.” And even up to this late hour, ‘‘as Evangelical Christians, we have misunderstood each Other.” An explanation of this singular state of things may be found in Projessor Hitchcock’s speech, when speaking for his communion, he is reported to have in substance said, “We have, in my judgment, no ecumenical creed, not even the regarded as holy inculcators of fasting and charity and humbie ministers to the sore in spirit? Is it strange that people should come to ask the ques- tion—Why should we listen to those who do not practice in their own lives what they preach for ours on a Sunaay? Is it strange the logical conse- Gneuce should be that muny take up the Bible and dive into the reaims of free thought, while others LOOKER-ON, Bounting the Evangelical Alliance—A Freethinker’s Views. To THF Eprror oF THR MERALD;— ness, Christian preachers and theologians, chosen by represent true Christianity, had no better argu- ments to defend their absurd doctrines than to in- sult human reason and to assume as a well and thoroughly demonstrated truth what infidels, and IT among them, have a thousand times siiown to be the greatest and most shocking absurdity ever pro- pagated among mankind. They harp always on the same string; they say and write that their doctrine must be true, because it is stated in the Bible that it is the only truth and because Christ is the only reconciliation of all the dificuities and of ali the miseries which surround the problem of human life, It is quite evident from their manner of speaking and writing that they have largely and earnestly drunk in their youth at the fountain of superstition and old, deep-rooted prejudices. They are, therefore, the grown up creatures of the enthusiasm of their earlier belief, implanted in their minds when they could not discriminate be- tween truth and error. With the unfolding of their meutal faculties, the errors, they had first uncon- sciously imbibed, have been strengthened and ae- veloped in the inexplicable balderdash they are uttering. Let us weigh the defence of Christianity put iorth by Professor Leathes, Professor Christhieb, Dr. McCosh and Dr. Noah Porter. I had a higher opinion of their mental powers, and I sincerely coniess that 1am ashamed of myself for having thought so favorably of them. Let, Mr, Editor, the Many thousand readers of your first class news- paper judge between the observations I here submit them and the discourses of the above men- tioned theologians :— The imagination, the learning, the power of description shown by Dr. McCosh are great indeed; but, unfortunately, they are not able to bring in conviction and persuasion. The evils of which he complains are inseparable from human nature, and have been increased by the religious beliets of the world and especially by Christianity, which, by forbidding many things that are an imperious want of the human nature, has compelled men todo what is against the laws of nature, and hence are allthe evils and misfortunes of mankind; for a sound mind in a sound body has never been known to be unhappy and miserable, It is astonishing how Professor Leathes and Pro- fessor Christlieb shift off from the fundamental question. Does the latter think it just that almen should make use of a reverent criticism of the Bible ? Andis it philosophical to quote and adopt in the nineteenth century the words of Luther:— “If you tind strife increasing let ‘he criticism alone?” And witi what right does he arraign pnhilos- Ophers for not living according to the precepts of @ doctrine im which they do not believe? History abounds with testimonials of respect which philos- Gphors have paid to good Protestants and Cath- Olics for having coniormed their life to what they believed their sacred duty to obéy blindly, although the same philosophers have at the same time sharply criticised the nariow-mindedness and su- erstitions Oo} Protestants and Catholics, To Pro- fessor Christlieb, who feels the duty of accept- ing, without prooil, some truths as funda mental in his system, it is not proper to say even a word against niloso~ hers. He is an intellectual slave, and had he been orn in Pekin or Teneran, he would have been an enthusiastic follower of. Buddha or Matomet. But a true philosopher has always been and will always be an independent thinker in every country and at whatever epoch of the world. And the true philosopher is the more right in his conduct, be- cause the velievers in every established religion, while they receive it as a divine revelation, make boast of reasoning it out, without perceiving that they revolve round a circle and contradict them- selves, If religion has been revealed, it was be- cause of the oa ae for man to find it out, How, then, can the reason of the believers demon- Apostie’s Creed is that, for each one puts his own thoughts intoit. Dr. Kraft, of Bonn, suppiemented the theory of his consrere of Berlin by saying that the official press of Rome uphoids tne opinion that when the Pope conceives an idea it is Christ who thinks in him and that Christ is visible in the Pope. Here are truly, if correctly reported, astounding assertions, to say the least of tuem. Let us see how they read in the light oi the Vatican Council:—*We teach and define it to be a doctrine divinely revealed,” says this assembly, “that when she Koman Pontiff speaks ex cathedra—that is, when, tn the exercise of his office of pastor and teacher of ali Christians, and in virtue of bis su- preme apostolical authority, he defines that a doc- trine of jaiin or morals is to be held by the univer- sal Church, ie penne through the divine assist- ance promised to him in the blessed Veter, that iniallibility with whicn the Divine Redeemer willed His Church to be endowed in defining a doctrine of faith or morals; and, therefore, that such defint- tuons of the Koman Pontiif are irreformable of hemselves, and not by force of the consent of the ‘burch thereto.” First, then, we have it defined that it is only in his official capacity, the Pope, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, cannot err, and this, too, in de- crees issued by him to the universal Church. Secondly, that the subject matter of such decrees must be faith and morals. In his private opinion, therefore, the Pope is not infallible; neither is he infallible in mere literature or science, nor m ques- tions purely political, nor in the ways and means of simply material progress. Where faith and morals are not involved, each one may abound in nis own sense. Yet ail this, the Professor of Bonn tells us, is against law and righf and decency; and no doubt it is, as decency and right and law are un- derstood in Prussia just now. The two French delegates said little worthy of notice, one of them took up the cant about Jesuits and their intrigues stuff that has been served up to us ad nauseam ; the other seems to have dealt in rather unseemly strictures on cabmen, clearly forgetting in what country he was speaking. We have no Utled ranks here, and the gentleman should have known that a cabman of New York has around him the nobility of an American citizen. Being from Paris, the centre of fashion, his thoughts did not run on evangelical yoreuas otherwise ne could have well remembered that st. Peter was a fisherman and St. Paula tentmaker. I shall only add that many are anxious to hear what shall be the canon or canons of this Evangeucal Council. Will there be any? Itis said that the delegates have resolved, aiter tueir arduous labors, to make @ pleasure tour to Niagara Falls, to Washington aud elsewhere, This at least is a good result. IMPARTIAL, The Protestant Council. To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— Tue HeRa.p, I observe, keeps up the course of reserving one ofits Sunday pages for a discus- sion of religious topics ; and ip this field of discussion I would sike to propound a few queries which have occurred to me while reading the speeches made in the Evangelical Alliance. And first, this has struck me as it must strike others; what is the result of this seven days’ of Evangelical talk? Clearly, it would not have been safe to have laid any great expectations on this gathering. If it was intended as an Alliance of Travellers, merely for the purpose of seeing New York and Brooklyn, all well and good. The metropolis of America ts surely worthy of inspection. So far the Alliance may lay claim to practical = achieve- ment. Any other success appeareth not. The various discourses pronounced by the parsons, if meaning anything, go to point the pure and simple condemnation of Protestantism out of its servants’ own mouths, For, on rising to explain before the world, what is Said in substance’ This:—Oatholicism and infl- delity place us between two fires; we know not how to extricate ourselves, and, moreover, we are receiving very small salaries for our burning. Really there would ve a slow kind of comicality in all this if itaid not concern @ body of gentlemen putting forth some very high and serious claims. Many, it is contended, are plunging into the depths of darkness on one side, into the depths of badness on the other, How is it, then, that you take no visible step to prevent the jatal leap? What was the use of your coming together, gentlemen—ay, what is the use of your existing at ail—if you have no patent remedy to arrest crying evils? The preachers prociaim that they find their focks going astray. [8 not this from the simple reason that when religion is reduced to a book, a8 Prot- estantism to the Bible, it becomes a failure? A book will not content the head, for reason soars away Jrom all books; a book will not content the heart, for printed words are arid. If man guiaes by his reason alone he will needs become @ freethinker, and thus we see the Bible system is making @ host of freethinkers according to the coniessions of these preachers themselves. And why, at this particular juncture, is there discovered a more rapid falling oft from the various sects? Is it not because the people see more clearly that the reverend gentlemen set themselves up for being different, ay, better, than other men, while in reality they are not? Is it not seen that they are following the crowd Just as dad a time as pos y on Sun- days in julpits they are the strate it? If it be superior to human knowledge as much as God is bigher and quilea ferent being than man, how can the human mind nder- stand an explain it? The philosopher on the con- trary meddles not with what is to his reason nothing but gallimatias and idle dreams of priests and old hysteric women, because he clearly sees that he cannot demonstrate God, or explain what God 1s, and if he could do that, his reason would be | 48 superior to God as he who understands a thing is, and must be superior, to the thing understood, It is ior this that he establishes the evident truth that man has only a discoursive and intuitive power, and teils everybody in plain and _intelligibie language that the Supreme Being, whatever He may be, must judge man according to the light which every man has in himseli—which 1s really a light since it has enabied «man to find out many a | mystery of nature and to invent many arts and sclencés—and not according to the so cailed divine light which to his understanding is worse than darkness, because it is @ heap of contradictions and childish fabies. As to Proiessor Leathes, I say that it is not only astonishing, but even beyond every credibi that in defence of the Christian betief, which 1s together mysterious, he intrenches himself in @ lact—the dispersion of the Jew—as the greatest proof of the divinity of Christianity. Now ff his Statement could prove anything it would be the divinity of Judaism, but never of Christianity. The New Testament has repeated the so-cailed prophe- cies of the Old Testament, but has not been the originator of them. And it is here, I think, the roper place to observe that if the Jew, who had en trained lor more than 2,000 years in order to receive Christianity, not only rejected it, but have been, are and will always be, its greatest enemies and adversaries, how can it be fairly pretended that the thinkers of the nineteenth century accept blindly Christianity as @ divine religion’ What! The Jew did not believe in Christ, aithough in the Gospels it is stated that Christ periormed his great- est miracies in the presence oi all the people, and sometimes in the presence of 5,000 persons, and that alter He rose from the dead He was seen of above 600 individuals, and Dr. McCosh has the boldness to say that the only reconciliation of the neta (%) cofitradictions of the Bible and of all the misfortunes of humanity is to be iound in Him who rendered alive to the desolate widow her dead son, Was Dr. McCosh present at the performance of this miracle? Those who were near the events related did not believe im them, although they were @ people brought oP in the school of every kind oi the most extraordl- ary miracles, and we men of the most enlight- ened century are urged to believe tnem under pen- alty of everlasting damnation, while we are denied even @ single strong, rational proof which could lead us to believe them, Let those who have re- ceived, a8 they safthe gift of iaith, be more con- sistent with themselves, and either give up any ulterior attempt to persuade men to beileve just as they do, without offering them any sound and irre- futable argument which can find the way to their hearts and minds, or assail with their prayers the throne of God togrant them, for His own honor aud glory, such power Of reasoning and such force of conviction as to enable them to bring to Christ’s feet allmen and women too. Do not Christians profess that God is their heavenly Father and Christ their most intimate friend, nay, their most tender and dearest brother? Vo they not proiess also that Christ has promised ther that whatever they ask God in his Dame it shail be granted them? Now we see kenrg, Sayyed that @ son, & bosom Iriend, @ brother obtain by their entreaties everything they ask which is in the power of him whom the call father, friend, brother to give; an cannot 300,000,000 of Christians obtain from God, their heavenly Father, and trom Christ, their Redeemer, dearest friend and brother—the conversion Oi the other ten hundred million of pa- gans and infideis, or at least that of Ernest Kénan and of myself. But that will never be, because Rénan, who is 80 universally known and so highly praised, and myself; who am making my way in this thorny worid, are among those of whom the Bible says that God will harden their hearts and darken their minds, in order that they may be irre- trievably lost. The God whom the Christians wor- eee kind and loving and amiable God jeed | As to Dr. Noah Porter, had he been born a Cath- olic in the time of Phulp the Second of Spain he would have been the most cruel inquisitor, be- cause be would have caused to be burned every man and woman who did not speak or write in @ Christian manner, But did Dr. Noah Porter him- self write his work on “Books and Reading” in @ Christian spirit? Why does he m&ke use of so un- kind, sectarian and sweeping criticism? How un- justly has he criticised Lord Byron! And what is the guilt of Byron ? who, alter all. did but express what he thought and felt, and what was thought and ielt by millions of his contempora- ries?) How can we otherwise account jor the rapid and ost prodigious spread. ing of his poems ideas throughout alt Europe and America? Dr, Noah Porter pro- fesses to be @ true Christian, Is it, then, proper for him, who ought to imitate the meekness and simplicity Of bis Divine Master to blacken the memory of the greatest geniuses of mankind, who have been, and will jorever be, the only source of light, strength and comfort in every age and coun- try? Could these great geviuses of the past rise from their eternal sicep they would at once knock down Dr. Noah Porter and the like, upbraiding them with the greatest of all sins—the marble- a rest of the week pretty busy keeping a sharp eye on the good tinge erally esteemed as such? That the utterers of glib sentences and rounded periods are well provided in bank and play, as good a hand as the next one in the Jay Cooke rings of the day? Hence, in view of all these tl can men wi Rov. U. T Tracy will officiate at the morning are #0 worldly and comfortably off, who are always Ona strike {oF o rise 1u thelr salaries, aa is were, hearted fliend—ingratitude, I never laugh #0 heartily as when I hear, k or I Christlan literature, What has religion teva mitt literature? ‘They are the offspring of tw and opposite | ing ne ware mit never sere: Reason and genius produce literature, and give mankind Homer, tn de Demosthenes, Tact Shakespeare, Ne' rd Bi Galileo, Meooklavel, Milton, Kant. Uoethe, Base see. fly for consolation to Catholicism, which is re- | ligiously the enlire reverse of dryness and hard- | Ishould never havo believed that the greatest . Protestantism from every nauuon on the earth to | | stition and fanaticism endow the world with men like Dr, Noah Porter and the members of the | Evangelical Alliance, who have met in New | York alter a year and some months of | preparation, and have said nothing stronger in favor of their divine Christianity than | the two following proposition: must | accept Certain cardinal truths, as a foundation of our faith,” (See Professor Christlicb’s discourse.) “Christianity must be regarded in reference to ics assumptions’? (See Dr. Noah Porter's discourse.) Ii | may proceed on assumptions, as Christians do, 1 will build up trom Homer or from the Ramayana a religion far more beautiful and far more power- ful to save than Christianity, Do the great doctors of the New York Protestant EKoum: know that the Jncarnations of which it is spoken in the Ramayana ts so ample as to carry up to heaven even the great monkey of Japan and all the brute animals of the universe? Now, Mr. Editor, it is evident to everybody that the great doctors 0! the Evangelical Alliance bad nothing stronger to say in deience of their faith than what they have said, otherwise they would have enuuclated it, and would have not engaged | Professor Chrisiied to read his discourse twice, I am, thereiore, entitled to conclude, triumphantly, tet | Was right in asserting in my paper, published | in the HERALD of last Sunday, October 6, that the Evangelical Alliance would have been & failure, -Has it not proved so? And | think, also, that now, more than at anv other time, I can boldiy state that rationalism, freethinking and infidelity are still, and, beyond all doubt, will always be, the adamant rocks upon which the cobweb reasonings of Christians even greater than the reverend fathers of the Kvangelical Te will Jorever split, ANZA FONVECCL. New YoRK, Octovor 10, 1873, = 2, A Roman Catholic on the Protestant Al- liance. To THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— There are in this city now a number of gentle- men, cailing themselves the Evangelical Alliance. They are a combination of all kinds of Protestant sects, banded together to work against and de- stréy Popery, and this subject is the only one upon which they agree. While they paste upon the walls of their meeting house the motto “In Essentials Unity,” there probably could not be found in the whole assembly two “delegates,” male or female, high church or dissenters, who could agree upon what is essential to salvation. Unroll the history of all the Protestant Pan- Anglican Synods, Conventions, Evangelical Alli- ances, Councils, and what not, that have been held in the last twenty years, and what have they accom- plished ? Nothing! What is tie result of all these meetings, all this waste of time and money ? Cer- tamly no lasting result, excepting the production of @ little book called “The Comedy of Convocation.” Would to God that ail the members and delegates of this anti-Catholic society had read this book six months ago, they then would probably have concluded tu stay home and keep their money. Suppose you ask each member o/ this society how many sacraments are there ? do you think there would be uny unanimity. One would tell you two, another seven, another none. Suppose. you ask them is any sacrament essential to salvation ? are there any sacraments at all? You would flad them as entirely divided on these subjects as the’ are on all others, How about Methodist Ohurel South and Methodist Church North ? Baptist Church South and Baptist Church North? and so on all through. You will find that they were all divided on the slavery question, excepting, as Lord Macaulay caus it, the unchangeable Church of Rome. Any one who was in England twenty years ago must have heard the outcry from one end of England 9 the other against slavery in America; but when the war here commenced and they got short of cotton to keep their factories im Lancashire going; all the world Knows that the sympathies of these same Evan- gelist representatives of innumerable schools of “emasculated Theology” were with the slave- owner. Toaman they stood by the South; to a Man they preached aye and prayed too against the arrogance and assumption of the Americans, and did all they knew how to perpetuate slavery. Why? because a hundred thousand men in Lanca- shire alone were out of work for want of what ten years before these Evangelists, as ihey call them- Selves, had named ‘blood-stained cotton.’? Con- sistency, thou art a jewel. among business men it is a maxim, whatever you do do well, and tue lame ducks of the Alliance would do well to write this maxim on the tabies of their memory. If they would do only one thing at a time, and doit well and thoroughly, Protestantism might linger in the world a iew years longer than it otherwise Will do. It is on its last legs for want of a defl- nition of what is essential to salvation, and if this Alliance would lay their heads together and pro- claim to the world their opinion of baptism as es- sential or not to salvation they would accomplish something. Tne Church of Rome speaks clearly on thia as on all other subjects; 80 Clear, in tact, that a fool can- not mistake his way. The Church says without baptism it is impossible to enter into hea ‘en. “Except ye be baptized of water and of the Holy Ghost ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven; and further, that any person, male or female, priest or laity, Christian, atheist, Jew or Mahometan may administer vaiidiy the sacrament of baptism, but the following form must be observed. The person baptizing another must, while pouring water on the head of the one being baptized, say these words, “I bap- tize thee in the name of tue Fatuer and of the Son ana of the Holy Ghost, Amen.” So far that is clear. The water must be poured on the head while the above words are said, Now, a8 ’ during 1! to the kind of water; some people think it mast be holy water. Not so. It may be well water, rain water, river water, spring water, Croton water or sea water, but it must be water. Can the Evange- lical Alliance produce anything 80 clear as that? Of course the ‘‘Alliance”’ wii reler every one to the Bivle, bat they don’t say whether to the mink James Bible or to the version about being issuer by the Soft Shell Baptists; but in either case the reader is commanded to hear the Church. But there are so many to be the Church that not long enough to that many people nowadays, like myself, ke the notion vo hear the only one that claifas to have au- thority ‘rom Almighty God to teach with certainty mankind the way to heaven. It ts a foregone con- clusion that neither the Evangelical Alliance nor any other body of Protestants can speak clearly, de nieely on any essential to salvation; but they, e ten days of their meeting, may be avie to answer this question: How is it that in the whole universe there is not to be found such an- other monster as Protestantism claima to be—a visible body with an invisible head—of infallible certainty not the work of God? How is it that the foundation of Protestantism, the right of private judgment, was never proclaimed to the world till the sixteenth century? Permit me to subscribe myself A CONVERT TO POPERY, Christian and Pagan Charity Compared. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— Ihave read with interest the communication in your last Sunday’s issue, written by a gentile, man who, from his signature, I judge to be a foreigner, and, probably, an Italian, This article shows us how it is that religion—all religion in general and Christianity in particuiar—is a com- plete failure; that it is rapidly dying out, and will soon be a thing of the past. The writer is perfectly harmonious and consistent throughout until he comes to the end of his communication, where I find some remarks which prove to me that the enervating influences of Christianity have even had some effect upon the mind of this thorough re- former himseif, After speaking of the absurd waste of money in entertaining delegates to the Evan- | ote Alliance, he suggests that this money might iter have been employed in relieving the neces- sities of the poor or in diffusing instruction among the ignorant throughout the earth. Now, sir, after all that has gone beiore, I cap consider this latter suggestion merely asa bit of pure and simple cant— & striking instance of how infectious Christian modes of thought and speech have become, even among those who do not ine themselves to, be liavle to the contagion. member that thefe is really no such thing as religion, seeing that it is a delu- sion and @ myth, and an expiring one at that. Let us cast aside all moral cowardice and chicken- hearted shrinking from natural and logical se- quences and plant ourselves squarely upon the great primai platiorm of Nature and reason. A man who has really attained this standpoint must see that he has no more right to call upon other men to expend their money in feeding beggars or instructing ignorant than in ent rtaining dele- gates to the Evangelical Alliance. Reasons tells us that every mi has a right to spend his money as he chooses, and Nature, if untrammeiled and un- vitiated, must prompt him to seek first his own ood and that of his own immediate family, and fave no hesitation in saying that it is a duty to pro- vide for one’s offspring, because for this we have the authority of the birds and beasts,wio live according to the Py principies of na ture. But, beyond this, where is the author- ity to decree that one heman being is under Obligation to do anything for another? Where, in ‘the great book of Natare, do we find any charitabie or humanitarian laws? Is any such Jaw written the sky, or does it grow up among the grasa, & child's name planted in lines of salad’ Beast, bird and fisn provides only for itsell and for its own mate and young. Bat, for such @ course, I can give you the most exalted human examples, ‘the reeks and Romans, among whom philosophy at- tained ite highest perfection, made no provision tor the Impecunious sick until at length the public isplay of diseased paupers became so great a nuisance to the more prosperous classes o1 Rome that those repulsive objects were transported en masse to aN isiand in the Tiber, where they were left to get ini | aa they best might. In China—the most cultivated and intellectual of ali those na- tions which have spurned and defied the encroach- ments of Christianity—sick beggars may be geen huddled in heaps upon the bare flag- jaces, and there they remain un’ Fine pollsned_and. gentlemanly tin. shes - Coz peroutvee his truest humanity in Fah} the rings of those to whom life become o1 ms burden, and so he stops up with mud from the the mouth and nose of incurably diseased ives oF @ parent who bas lived to helpless old NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. age. On the same principle it has been proposed by some of our owr Darwit Paes toextin- uish the wretched lives of all the puny and sickly niants soon after birth. It is true that there is something in this to which our education and traiming has made us averse, But we know that pity is, Im many cases, a mere weakness, and 16 ovten a very mistaken impulse, and who is to de- cide that it may not always be such? If a man comes to me and says that fam bound, in any case, to preier another's good to my own, or to sacrifice my own feelings in order to benefit another, 1am fully justified in asking why? ‘“Humanity” and “benevolence” are pompous looking words, but what more are they? Are they the names of any solid substances, any liquids, or even any gases, such as we breathe und burn? Why, you might better appeal to me in the name of nitrous oxygen, for tut is something that has a definite existence, Such are the healthy and spontaneous workings of & mind untrammelled in tne remotest | degree by priesicraft and superstition. But [ Serpalr: of ever seeing the American people asa nation, living up to these sublime pri inciples. Christian churches are multiplying far faster than free thinking societies, and for every bold, out- spoken champion of scepticism we see springing up a whole congregation. of admirers of the azarene, Oh, that our strength would enable us to hold a grand Anti-Evangelical Convention, where all would be as sincere and thorough as he who now ventures to sign himself CONSISTENCY, A Text for the Evangelical Alliance 4 Convention, New York, Oct. 9, 1873, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— On one page of the HERALD of this morning I find that the “Convention” has been flerce in its on- slaughts on the Catholic Church, and the old slanders and abuse have been indulged in with @ zest that argues poorly for the “Christian charity” by which the members of tnid body are actuated. Now, sir, suppose some of these gentlemen take as a text for discussion the question that “Faith 1s best shown by practice,” and they wii: find in the deaths of five or six Catholic clergymen in Shreve- Port from yellow fever contracted by their attend- ance on the poor victims of the plague im that il- fated town, an illustration to point their argu- ments against the Catholic Church, Another iilus- tration is furnished by the death of Father Carey, in Memphis, announced in the HERALD of this morning. Father Carey was a Dominican—one of the most hated orders of a Church which we are asked to believe is the prolific cause of supersti- tion and infidelity. Suppose the Alliance send down @ committee of their reverend members to Shreveport and Memphis, just to make inquiries among the fever patients at the hospitals there what they think of the superstition of those sur- pliced emissaries of Rome who are so reckless of their own lives in the midst of plague and death, It these Evangelical gentiemen are inspired by that charity of which so much has been said in “convention,”’? would it not be well, even if they have no inquiries to make of said pa tients, to depute a few of their num- ber to counteract the baleiul effects of this conduct on the part of a priesthood who hold their own lives of such little account as com- pared with the performance of a sacred and to to them, an tmperative duty. Should these gentle- men, however, have any objection to going so far out of theif way in search of “information,” they will find in certain institutions of New York, a class- of women who are so utterly oblivious to the “prog- Tess of the nineteenth century,” not to say negll- gent of their own ease and comiort, that they have given themselves wholly up to the care and treat- ment of the orpban, the helpless and afticted oi all Classes, without regard to distinctions of religion, Of course this is not charity, and itis the duty of the Convention to expose the imposture by holding it up to the full glare of our modern civilization and the intellectual scrutiny of the age. J. The Lazarist Mission in Brooklyn. The past week has been one of special spiritual enjoyment at the Church of the Nativity, corner of Classon avenue and Madison street, Brooklyn. The Lazarist Fathers, under whose direction the mission is being held, have cause to feel pleased with the practical evidence of success which has thus far crowned their labor. The Lazarist Fathers engaged in the work are Revs, J. H. Koop, James Magill and T. M. O?Donohoe. The exercises open at five o'clock each morning, when mass is cele- brated, and a sermon or instruction given. This service is specially for those who have +o be at business atan early hour. The next mass is at six A. M. and the last at eight o’clock, at which latter an explanation of the Christian doctrine is given. In the evening, at hulf-past seven o’clock, the rosary is recited, benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is given and a sermon preached. Kach morning and evening during the past week the church has been crowded to excess in every part, not only by members of the congregation, but by people from other parishes and “dissenting brethren’ also. ‘The eloquent .ap- peals of tne Lazarists to the erring ones affect the audience deeply, and as the obdurate of heart realize their position and the love and mercy of God in their behalf many are the resolutions made of an amendment of Iife for the future. One of the principal attractions and incentives to devo- tion is the excellent volunteer choir, under the artistic leadership of the accomplished organist, Mrs. William M, Adams. The pastor, Rev. M. J. Moran, may well feel prond of the success which has attended the organization of this admirable choir since the dedication of the church a year ago. To-aay Von Weber’s Mass in G will be sung. ie mission will be continued for another week, end- ing upon Sunday next, the anniversary of the ded- icauon. Confessions are heard daily from early in the morning until late in the evening, thereby af fording ample opportunity to approach the sacra- ments of penance and the holy eucharist, True Christian Unity, To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— To a disinterested observer of events as they are being evoived by the proceedings of the so-called Evangelical Alltance, now in session, one thing must appear, to say the least, strange and incon- sistent, viz. :—that in the avowed object of Christ- ian unity, whereby it is promulgated as the grand essential element thereof, that Christ and Him crucified, and faith in Him and in His teachings, are what constitute the true Christian, and what is wanted for the Cbristian ministry 1s sympathy for and with mankind, where dogmas and doctrines, creeds and customs are deemed only secondary— that vhe representatives of the Roman Catholic Church are debarred from participation in the pro- ceedings of that Alliance. That this is true, must be evident from the utterances of such men as Fremantle, Dr. Woolsey, Beecher and others, who have expressed their thoughts upon the vital questions now agitating the Christian world, They seem to realize the position in which they are placed as being antagonistic to their sentiments, @nd as far as they dare, notwithstanding the re- straint, delicately intimate that injustice is dune to @ large and influential body of Christians, who, notwithstanding their ritual and their ceremonies, their superstRion and their image worship, still preach Christ and Him crucified and endeavor to lead up to a higher and a better life the thousands that throng to hear told the unspeakable riches of Christ by men whose sympathy for their fellow men has not been and cannot be questioned. One cannot heip but be reminded of this thought as he hears or reads of those noble sentiments uttered by the great men of beth continents now in our midst, and to utter the prayer that the time may s00n come “when Christians would forma truly Catholic Church composed of ail who belleve that man is saved by iaith in Christ alone.” As the Ohio, Missouri, St, Peter and the other great mvers of the North rush along in their impetuous, tortuous and turbid courses and find their outlet in the Great Father of Waters; as the various planets, with all their changes and eccentricities, still rec ize obedience to a law in their revoiutions around the reat giver of earthly lignh' heat, so let it come 0 pass that all who proiess and call themselves Christians consider that, through all the misty, tur- bulent and dangerous doymas and forms of every kind, character and degree, there is one way lead- ing out of them all and up to the Great Father and Giver of Lite and Love through faith in Christ and Him crucified, And when that Viessed union and unity shall have been accomplished, infidelity and e) form of unbelief will have received a blow that will paralyze tie arm of Reason ag it is now wielded, shatter the jorces of Science as they are now led and make them all subservient to the great power of true Christian unity, J. W. Be Ministerial Movements and Char RPISCOPALIAN, The English religious papers are strongly ad- yocating the abolition of the office of godfathers and godmothers, The reasons assigned are that the original duty of supervising thé spiritual edu- cation of the child is never attended to, that there is no Warrant in Scripture for such office, and that it is to all intents and purposes useless and obsolete. The Archbishop of Canterbury has set the 3d of December apart for general prayer for the success of missions, Rev. S. R. Bailey, the pastor of the Methodist Society in Fort Ed- ward, N. Y., has left the Methodist body, and will apply for orders im the Episcopal Church. Rev. J, Gteriow, of St. Paul's, Mishawaka, Ind., has accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's, New Albany, in the same diocese, Rev. James Sturgis Pearce has resigned St. Luke's, Laneaborough, and accepted an election to St, John’s, Northampton, Mass. Rev. George B. Pratt has accepted an election to the rectorship of St. Stephen’s, Bridesburg, Philadelphia, and entered n his duties, Rey. Clement T. Blanchet, of the jocese of Illinois, has been appointed mission- ary to Japan. Kev. Dr. D. R. Brewer, rector of the Church of the Reformation, in Brooklyn, and who has been instrument battaing o some half a dozen tearttee id oot A has accepted a call to Westerly, KR. 1 Rev, T. Wilmer, D. D., of ears has been elected to the Professorship of Theology in the Daven of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. The Rev. H. Mel Jackson has taken charge of a new parisi, embrac- ing the entire county ol Montgomery, in the moun- tain region of Virgnia. Rev. Bishop Quintard haa addressed a pastoral letter to the cl ergy and isthe of his diocese, in which he defends tne Prayer Bool and the ritualistic tendencies of his Church in # limited sense, advising lay preaching, and appeala strongly for Christian union in Evangelical charch enterprises, The Rev. J. D. McCabe, D. D., has re- signed charge of his parishes in Frederick county, Md., on account of poor health, Rev, Willam Bass, of Albany, has succeeded Rey, F, L, Knight as as- sistant minisier of the Church of the Epniphany, Wasuington, PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Dr. Adams, of this city, has been elected President and Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in the Union Theologivai Seminary. A committee of three has been appointed by the Winona Presbytery, Minnesota, to prepare an overture to Synod, look- ie to a more cordial method of conducting ita missionary work in connection with the Congre; tional brethren, By an arrangement witw some of the Congregational brethren a simil; movement will introduced = intd thele State Association, which meets at St. Paul at the same ime the Synod meets at Minneapolis, The Presbyterian Board has taken fhder its care the mission in Chili—which hag hitherto been dependent upon the American and Foreign Gurjatian Union jor eee olergy- tien, one of them a Chiltan convert. Calls have been accepted by Rev, Thomas Gallagher, of Lb ill., to La Grange, Mo.; by Rev. N. H, G. Free, Irwin's Station, Pa., to Sterling, Dl, Rev. J. W. Little has resigned the pastorate of the Bloomfeid church, Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. J. T. Pollock, of Mon- roeville, Ohio, has accepted a call to Timin, Ohio, Rev. G. W. Schaeler, of Armagh, Pa., has gone to a church in Hookstown, Pa. The Rev. W. 0. Johna ton, D. D., pastor of the Kensington Presbyteriag church, Frankfort avenue, Philadelphia, preached his frreciey-secane anniversary sermon recently. During his pastorate he has received in! this church 997 rsons on examination and 450 on certificates. B. H, Emersol ® recent graduate of Union Theologi Seminary, New York, has just been ordained installed pastor of the Presbyterian chu Ridgeburg, N. Y. Rev. B.S. Foster has resi BLD) DER LOEAIS, of the church at Dunmore, Pa, Vv. W. J. Day was, on the 1st inst,, installed pastor of Goalville (Pa.) Presbyterian church. On the inst., Mr, W. S. Stiles was ordained and installe astor of the church at Wyoming, Pa. The United Presbyterians are making progress in all parts of their field, At Burgettsburg, Pa., they are build- ing an elegant church bnilding, At Buffalo, N. Yop over forty persons have been admitted within @ few months on profession. Thirty-six persons were admitted to membership last week in two of their vhiladelphia churches, The Rev, R. As ee has resigned his pastorate in Carondelet, 0. English Catholicism is roused to energetic Pid -test against the suppositiomw that the story of Mar- garet Mary Alacoque’s heart is to be taken liter- ally. Itis claimed that the hysterical ndn’s story referred to @ symbolical vision, like those of the atten ‘he Most Reverend Archbishop loskey administered the sacrament of confir- mation to 110 children in the chapel on Randall's Island and to 96 children on Hart’s Island, of whom 60 belonged to the schoolship Mercury, on Saturday last. Mgr. Blanger, the new Bishop of Guadaloupe, W. I, was consecrated on Septem! 29, in the Church of St. Sulpice, Paris, The conse erating Bishop was Mgr. Despretz. There were over 40,000 pilgrims at the great pilgrimage te Tournai, Savoy, on Septembér 8, Last Sunday Bishop Loughlin conferred the order of priesthood on Rev. M. McCarthy, 0.M. Tng Archdiocese of Baltimore is next Sunday vo be formally consecrated to “the Sacred Héart,” by order and authority of the Srohbeuoy: Rev. William E, Starr has been transferred from Ellicott City to the Cathedral, Baltumore, as Secretary and Chan- cellor to the Most Reverend Archbishop, and Rev. Join Dougherty, late of the Cathedral, has been assigned, at his own request, to St. Paul’s church, at Ellicott City. Rev. Father Garesche and asso- ciates, of the Society of Jesus, will give a mission in St, Aloysius’ church, Washington, D.0., com- mencing on the 26th of the present month A mission Will also soon be given in St. Patrick's church, Washington, by Passionist Fathers. Om Sunday aiternoon, October 5, the corner stone of the new French church, Biddeford, Me., was laid by Bishop Bacon, of Portland. Archbishop Man- ning has written two letters to the London Times, ned ROMAN CATHOLIC. Ree the ,alleged miracles at Paray-le- Monial. He insists that the lieder d in their be- half is more recent and more conclusive than that of any other miracies on record. BAPTIs©. The friends of Worcester Baptist Academy have received for it $95,000 and are trying to make it $120,000. The Rev. Addison Parker has accepted the call of the Baptist church at Elmira, N. Y., and closes to-day his labors with the Bunker Hill church, Charlestown. The Rev. Daniel C. Potter, recent graduate of Madison University, Pelee cepted ® unanimous call to the Sixth street Bap- tist church, of this city, bas entered upon his work under signs of much promise, The Rev. J. E. Brown, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist reeked resigned its pastorate in order to autend the Rich- mond Institute, to better qualify himseif for the ministry. The Rev. S. W. Foljambe has been called to the pastorate of the Second Baptist eburch, jn fall River, Mass, At the Baptist ministers’ meeting last week, in Uhicago, thirteen churches of that city reported, through their pastors :—Additions, by baptism, 15, and by letter or experience, 41, dur! ng the month of tember. Rev. Jay S. Backus has returned to home in New York, recovered from the severe attack of tilness which overtook him in Minnesota, The Second church at Weymouth, Mass., has just celebrated the 150th year of its existence. ey- mouth is a few miles from Quiney. In this town, im ancient times, dwelt Rev. William Smith, whose daughter, Abigail, became the wife of John Adams, afterward President of the United States, Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., preached his first sermon as pastor of the Strong Place church, Brooklyn, on Sunday morning last, toa rae congregation. The Rev. L. Stewart has resigned the pastoral charge of the igre church, Huntington, L. 1. The Rev. U. B. Guiscard de- clines further service as pastor of the Union avenue church, Greenpoint, but will supply the pulpit for a short time. The Warburton avenue church, Yonkers, to which Rev. A. J. H. Behrend lately ministered, have called to their pastorate Rev. E. G. ‘Paylor, D. D., of New Orleans. The con- tributions of the Baptista of the State of New York for home missions, for the convention year just eee tae up about $53,000, This is more than $6,000 in advance of the receipts of last year. The Shiloh Baptist church, a mpany ot colored brothers and sisters at Jamaica, L. I-, was recog. nized September 30. The Rev. Dr. Osborn tende! his resignation on Monday evening as pastor of the Tabernacie Baptist church of Brooklyn, METHODIST. Rey. Charles E, Miller, of New York East Confer- ence, started last week op a wedding tour to Europe, witb his bride, Miss Ella V. Briggs, of this ‘city. The 100th anniversary of the death of Philip Embury, the first Methodist preacher in Ameri and the builder and founder of John stree church, in tnis city, will be commemorated by the National Local Preachers’ Association, who on the 18th inst, will dedicate a monument to his memory in ¢he village of Cambridge, N. Y., where his re- mains lie buried, The Methodist Episcopal Mis- sionary Society has just received a bequest of $1,000 from the estate of Mrs. Harriet He Bishops Janes and Simpson, who have been for some months prostrated by sickness, have 80 far recovered as to be able to attend some of the ses- sions of the Evangelical Alliance last week. Bishop Simpson, who was expected to read a paper before the Alliance, was, however, too feeple to attempt it. Rev. Dr, Hitchcock, of Cincinnati, w has been seriously ill for two weeks, has re~ covered. Rev. F. De Hass, D. v., of the New York East Conference, has ‘been appointed by the President as United States Consul at Jeru- salem, Dr. De Hass goes out also as a member of the Paiestine Exploration Society. Rev. Dr. J. Be Wakeley will take the place of Dr. De Hass as pastor of the Lexington avenue Methodist Episco- paichurch in this city. The new Methodist Epis- copal church at Circleville, 0., East Pittsburg dis- trict, will be dedicated to-day, Baltimore Metho- dists are building @ $6,000 church in Easton, Md. The revival spirit continues on the increase e Sou throughout The columns of the Balti- more Methodist this week contain statis- tics of 3,772 converts, gleaned from its excnanged and reported from its own immediate territory. CONGREGATIONAL. Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, is to preach the sermon before the annual meeting of the American Missionary Asso- ciation, which will be held at Newark, November 6 A new Congregational church was organized t) last of September in Cranston, R. I. been received and accepted by A. McConnell, of Highland, Kausas, to Macon, M by Rev. Edward Anderson, of Jamestown, to Olney, Il. Rey. John Elderkin has just been installed tor of the church at Westfeld, Conn, Rev. S, F.WPalmer, of Newark Methodist Conference, has accepted a call to officiate as pastor of a Con- regationalist society just organized at Chatham, g # The Congregational church at Salt Lake, is flourishing, and has property valued at $28,000, The Wisconsin Congregationalista have borrowed an idea from the Methodists, They have selected pastor at large, whe looks after the churches within the bounds of the Association. MISCELLANEOUS, Mr. and Mrs, Lindiey, who first sailed from Bos- ton to join the Zulu mission in Southeastern Africa in December, 1834, after thirty-eight years of labor Jor the Zulus have been constrained, especialiy by the aa health o: Mrs, Lindiey, to return to the United States. The Salem Reformed Church of phia has commenced the erectfon of a new church editice, which 1s to cost avout $60,000, The society is an old one, having been organized in 1818. Rey. Josiah May has resigned the charge of qe Rejormed church at Findley, Ohio. Rev. W. Ry 1, Deatsich has resigned the ferormed church pas- torase at Gettysburg, and gone to wnother charge at Mechanicsburg, Bue ‘The first Universalist ser- mon ever preached in America was by John Mur. rary 4 supercargo of an out shi ih @ place called Good Luck, in New Jersey. at was 103 tenes ago, and the event is to be properly cele- rated in Universalist churches ag The new chapel of the Harlem Universalist Mission, 127th street, between Third and Fourth avenues, will be dedicated ngxt Sunday. At the Temple Emanuel during divine service on Suaday evening, the Eve of Suecoth, # collection was made for the Louisiana sufferers from yellow lever. which realized neariy $2,600, ) Calls have CS