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6 TNE MIRACLES Searching Ecclesiastical Investi- gation as to the Verily of the Manifestations. AT LA SALETTE. Recognition of the Virgin Mary by the Bishop of Grenoble. ANTOINETTE BOLLENAT. Her Cure Attested by the Arch- bishop of Sens. THE REV. MR. MARTIN. His Cure Certified by the Bishop of Verdun. THE BISHOP OF FREJUS CONVINCED, A Paralytic Suddenly Healed by the Waters of the Holy Fountain. PRIVATE CPINION OF THE POPE, Eis Holiness Narrates the Miraculous Cure of a Roman Lady by the Waters of La Salette. La SALETTE, Sept. 11, 1873. The rumor that the Virgin Mary had actually ap- peared in human form to two children at the mountain village of La Salette, on the 19th of Sep- | tember, 1846, spread like wildfire through the dio- cese of Grenoble, and soon startled the whole Ro- man Catholic world. Curious persons, on the outlook for sensational news, began to be seen in the neighborhood, and they were followed, after no great lapse of time, by pilerima who arrived there for devotional purposes. Now pilgrims are mostly persons sick at heart or dis- eased in body, and it happened that many of the pilgrims who came to drink from the miraculous | fountain, near which the Virgm had been seen by | the shepherdess Mélanie Mathieu and the cowherd | Maximin Giraud, were suddenly healed of their | mental or bodily ailments. Theretore, on the 19th | of July, 1847, the Bishop of Grenoble nominated M. | Rousselot, Vicar General of the diocese, and M. Orcel, Superior of the Grand Seminary, to insti- | tute A SEARCHING INVESTIGATION into all the facts of the case. These two ecclesiastical commissioners, both men of high character and large experience, inter- Trogated the children who had seen the apparition | of the Virgin Mary and all those persons to whom ‘these children had recounted their narrative. The ecclesiastical commissioners also interro- fated, in eight different dioceses, the persons who alleged that they had been cured of their diseases by the waters of the miraculous fountain of La Salette, which had burst forth again after having been Jong dried up, and from the facts collected during a patient investigation, which lasted two | months, they concluded in their report that the apparition was supernatural, and tbat it was verily the Holy Virgin who had spoken to Maximin Giraud and to Mélanie Mathieu. The Roman Catholic Church, however, proceeded ‘warily to clear up the mystery. A committee of sixteen members, composed of the canons and parochial clergy of Grenoble, the grand vicars of the diocese, the Superior of the Grand Seminary, and presided over by the Bishop himself, debated on this report, and finally adopted itafter eight sittings. Feeling fully convinced of the truth, on the 19th of September, 1851, the Bishop of Grenoble issued A DOCTRINAL MANDATE im these terms: “Relying on the principles taught by Pope Bene- dict XIV., and following the course marked out by him in his immortal work ‘On the Beatification | and Canonization of Saints’ No. 12); “Considering the written narrative of the Abbé Rousselot, one of our vicars general, printed under this title—‘The Truth About the Event of La Salette, Grenoble,’ 1848; fliv. ii, chap. 1, “Considering also the ‘New Documents Respect- | ing the Event of La Salette,’ published by the same author in 1860, both the one and the otuer of which works have received our approbation; “Having heard the discussions which have been held beiore us upon this affair in the sittings of the Sth, 15th, 16th, 17th, 22d and 20th Nevember, and on the 6th and 13th December, 1547; “Having likewise heard or seen what has been said or written since this epoch botn for and against the event; “Considering, in the first place, the impossibility of explaining the fact of La Suiette otherwise than by Divine intervention iu what manner soever we may regurd it, either in itself, or in its circam- Btances, or in its object, essentially religious; “Considering, in the second place, that the mar- Vellous consequences of the fact of La Salette are the testimony of God Himself manitesting His power by mirac' and that this testimony is su- Perior to human evidence and human objections; “Considering that these two motives, taken sep- arately—and, with still more reason, taken to- | gether—should dominate the whole question and | deprive any pretended suppositions to the con- | trary of all value, though we hereby declare that ‘we have thoroughly examined them; “Considering, finally, that docility and submis. sion to the warnings of Heaven may preserve us from the new chastisements by whici we are men- aced, whereas a prolonged resistance may expose us to evils without remedy; “Upon the express demand of all the members or | our venerable chapter and of the greater majority Of the clergy of our diocese, also in order to satis'y the just expectation of a great number of pious Bouls, both in our country and abroad, who might end by reproaching us with having detained TRUTH IN CAPTIVITY, “The Holy Ghost and the assistance of the im- Maculate Virgin having been, moreover, invoked, ‘We declare as follows :— AnTICLR 1.—We judge that the apparition of the ‘Holy Virgin to two shepherds Pe. word lor “‘cow- herd” in French} on the 19th o! September, 1846, Upon a Mountain im the chain of the Alps, situated in the parish of La Salette, in the Archdeaconry of pag he og all the character of truth, and © justith an indubiianie. Justiied in believing it certain Rt. 2.—We believe that this fact acquires a new degree of certainty by the immense sno spontane- us Concourse Of the faitniul upon the spot where the apparition was seen, as weil as by the multi. tude of prodigies which have followed the said sreatoumnter st) i‘ ei impossible todoubt @ Without Violatin, evidence. roel é the laws of human RT. 3. Therefore, in order to testi to the glorious Virgin Mary our lively grativude, ‘we hereby authorize the worship of ¢ LADY OF LA SALETTR, LE phat more inpreached, in order that both en great event. ces Nay be drawn from Aut. 4— We CXREcealy forbid to the falthiys gaa | him, at about six o’clock in the evening, with NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. to the clergy or our diocese to take part in any public discussion, either in speech or in writing, against the fact which we prociaim to-day and which henceforth exacts respect from all. Given at Grenoble under our hand, the seal of our arms and the countersign of our secretary the 19th of September, 1851, Le the fifth aupivetsery of the celebrated apparition. PHILIBERT, Bishop of Grenoble. WW command—AUVERGNE, Honorary Canon, Sec- retary, BISHOP PHILIBERT SPOKE OUT plainly, but he did not speak too soon, for the Roman Catholic world was becoming impatient at his silence, and when he declared that to doubt the miracles of La Salette was to violate all the laws of human evidence he spoke no more than the simple truth. Some of the most eminent men in France, after anxious and scrupulous examina- tion, had declared themselves satisfied that these miracles had actually taken place and bad solemnly recorded their belief in them, Thus wrote THE PRIMATE OF THR GAULS: “We, Mellon Joli, by divine mercy and the grace of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sens, Bishop of Auxerre, Primate of the Gauls and of Germania, having seen the report of the committee appointed by us to make a judiciat inquiry into the facts relating to an extraordinary cure which oc- curred at Avallon on the 21st November, 1847, in THE PERSON OF ANTOINETTB BOLLENAT, after nine days’ prayer to the Holy Virgin; “Having heard the interrogatories administered to the witnesses and physician in this case upon the 7th, 8th and 14th February, 1348; “Having examined the certificates and docu- ments annexed to these interrogatories; “Having read the report presented to us on the | 20th of February, 1849, by the Abbé Chauveau, our Vicar General, directed by us to investigate tnis amair and to discuss the facts of it; “Having taken the advice of our Counetl; “Having invoked the sacred name of God; “We hereby declare, for the glory of God, the glorification of the Most Holy Virgin and the edifl- cation of the faithful, that the cure of Aptoinette Bollenat, operated the 2lst November, 1847, after a nine days’ prayer (neuvaine) to the Most Holy Vir- gin, Mother of God, invoked under the name of Our Lady of La Salette, presents ali the conditions and all the characteristics ofa miraculous cure, and constitutes A MIRACLE OF THE THIRD ORDER. “Given at Sens, on the 4th of March, in the year of grace 1849. “MELLON, Archbishop of Sens. “By command of the Archbishop—E, CHauvEaU, Vicar General.” Messrs. Pettit, Jeannin, Thomas, I. Perot and Vautrot, the Superior, Director and professors of the Grand Seminary of Verdun on the Meuse, were all equally positive as to the miracle of La salette; and the RECENT REVELATIONS AJ RUGBY show that schoolmasters are not always disposed toactinconcert. These gentlemen and scholars, however, stated distinctly in writing that a cer- tain M. Martin, @ young clergyman who had just entered into holy orders, had, to their certain Knowledge, been miraculously cured. He had been deprived of the use of one of his limbs, and was, therefore, mcapacitated for the priesthood. | A report of his condition was made by the Supe- | rior of the seminary to the Bishop of Verdun, and that prelate decided that M. Martin could not be | ordained till he was healed of hisinfirmity, The | young man, who dreaded this decision, commenced upon the Ist of April, 1849, a neuvaine, or nine days’ | course of prayer, in honor of Our Lady of La Salette, On the same day his director presented a@ flask containing water drawn from the holy spring of La Salette, and which the incumbent (Curé) of Corps had sent to M. Marotte, one of the vicars general of the diocese. He sprinkled the diseased limb with the miracuious water, and be- fore seven o'clock on the same evening this para- lytic priest walked, ran, went rapidly up and down stairs aud kuelt, bending his knees again and | again, to prove how perfectly he was cured. He wasaman of great simplicity of character and | singleness of heart, incapable of attempting any | imposture, and quite unable, from his position, to | carry out a project to deceive his masters and fel- low stidents could he have been destrous of form- ing it. Therefore JUDGMENT WAS FORMALLY PRONOUNG | Upon his case in this wise:— “Louts Rorsat, by the divine mercy am& the | grace of the Holy Apostolic See, Bishop of Verdun. | “To ali those to whom these presents shail come, health and benediction from our Lord Jesus Christ. “We declare the certain and incontestable fact of the instantavevus and permanent cure up to this | day of the young Abbé Martin, which occurred on | the Ist April, 1349. | “Given at Verdun, in our episcopal palace, Ist August, 1549. LOUIS, Bishop of Verdun. “By command—Dascier, Canon Secretary.” | | See also the declaration, egually solemn and cir- | cumstantial, of the Bishop of Rochelle and Saintes. The usual preamble, which it is needless to repeat, | being omitted for brevity’s sake, this prelate pro- | ceeds thus:— “After having duly heard and maturely con- sidered the statement of M. Dieres, senior rector of the parish of St. Martin, Ne-de-Ré, in our diocese, respecting the SUDDEN CURE OF MME, BONNET, one of his parishioners, who had suffered for many | yearsirom a disorder generally believed to be in- curable, and who, nevertheless, was healed after nine days’ prayer to Our Lady of La Salette; hav- ing heard the spontaneous and impartial testi- | mony of many persons, ecclesiastic and secular, who are above all suspicion of trickery and imprudence, who saw and knew the said lady during her illness, which they had, like many other people, regarded as a mortal sickness; having made @ serious and attentive examination of the certificate demanded from M. Kemmerer, physician at lle-de-Ré, who had attested the absolute impo- tence of all human remedies in the case of this pa- tient, of whom he, nevertheless, attesta the authen- tic and superhuman cure; our Council having been summoned and consulted, the light of the Holy Spirit having been invoked, we have pronounced, and do hereby pronounce, | that the instantaneous cure of the said lady, Mme. Bonnet, can only be attributed to supernatural intervention, and taat this cure, | | wifich was operated suddenly and contrary to all huinan joresight, occurred after nine days’ prayer to Our Lady of La Salette, We do not hesitate to believe that this marvellous fact is dueto the pro- tection of | THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN, who has recompensed the trust and piety of her faithtul servant by this new benefit, and by add- ing this prodigy to so many others, which in our | days attest the happy results of the intercession of | Mary with her Son. “Given at Rochelle, &c., the 12th of January, 18: “CLEMENT, Bishop of Rochelle and Saintes, “By command—H. THvsiigr, Secretary.” ‘lo these documents must be added A LETTER OF THE BISHOP OF FREJUS Congratulating the rector of Tourette on the cure of his sister, which cure, observes the Bishop, “presents all the characteristics of a true mira- | cle; and he mentions that “about the same time another miraculous cure not less affecting and surprising occurred in the case of Josephine Benet, at another part of his diocese called st, Cyr, and that it had filled a whole population with joy and 4 profound veneration for Uur Lady of La Salette.”? Fiually, a letter containing ad THE PRIVATE OPINION OF THE Pork has come into my possession{and is before me ast write, and therein the Holy Father himself certi- fies the extraordinary cure of a Roman lady by the virtues of the water of La Salette, In consequence of the many miractes of La Sa- lette, upon the 24th of August, 1852, a Tescript was granting plenary indulgence to the congregation of the church and sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of La Salette. They being truly penitent, and “hav- ing confessed their sina, received the holy commun- fon and attended the church or chapel with devout hearts.” They were especially enjoined to pray for the concord of Christian princes and the unity of the Church, On the 3d of September, 1852, another Papal brief was issued by tne Pope, granting SPECIAL INDULGENCE FOR PILGRIMS to the shrine of Our Lady of La Saletie. On the 7thof September another Papal brief was issued, at the demand of the Bishop of Grenoble, granting to the priests of the congregation of missionaries of La Salette permission to bless with ordinary indulgences the crosses, medals, chaplets and other sacred things belonging to their sanc- tuary. First and last, the Papal briefs which were issued conferring privileges and indulgences oD Pligrims to the shrine of Our Lady of La Salette were nine in number. Jf these men were all jesting, surely they were making @ very grim sort of joke, There remains only the supposition that they were deceived and deceiving, But whoever knows anything of French bishops wiil admit that they are men not easily duped, It wouid be‘in the highest degree indecent to accuse some of the most respectable men in the world, both by their acquirements and their personal character, of deliberate blasphemy. Either they did believe the statements which they solemnly made under their hands and seals, after having prayed teGod tor guidance, or they did not. If they did, they were bound as ministers of their Church to declare their belief; if they did not, they were scoundrels of the deepest dye, who deserved to be ducked iu a horsepond, “This thing of La Salette ts an imposture,” says Murray’s handbook, the travelling Briton’s Bible, with t curt and ignorant decision which pecu- larly characterizes the British shopkeeper out on a holiday, for whom it was compiled; and pawn- broking peers and fat stockjobbers lilt up their dulcet voices and bray in chorus, ‘*fhis thing is an imposture.”* In like manner the free and independent frog has a pertinent answer to the sober and strong aspersions of those people who swear that they have been healed of their diseases by the miracu- lous fountain of LaSalette. One free, independent frog remarks, with much subtle reasoning and ad- mirabie logic, that, whereas the name of the Bishop of Grenoble was once “Achilles” and is now “Jacques,” he is totally unworthy of credit; the name of Israel was once Jacob, the name of Abra- ham was once Abram. Do these facts invalidate the truths of Holy Writ? Whatever may have been or may be the name of the Bishop of Grenoble, it is certain that he examined into the miracles of La Salette with singular calmness and impar- tiality, and whosoever will take pains to go into the evidence upon which his decision is based will find any honest amount of disbeYef much staggered. Men may lack faith, but God is faithful. “Si non credimus, tle Jidelis permanet; negare seipsum non potest." Said the Bishop of Grenoble to one who had urged him for talk enough to soothe wonder :— “Notwithstanding the candor, or, if you will, the ignorance, of the two children who saw the appari- tion; notwithstanding the impossibility of their having concocted astory in concert; notwithstand- ing the strength and clearness of their evidence, which has never varied under judicial investiga- tion, or when they have been interrogated by thousands of persons, who have exhausted all the arts of persuasion and menace to induce them to contradict themselves, I (the Bishop of Grenoble) long hesitated to admit as incontestable a fact which seemed so marvellous. Any precipitation upon my part would have been not only contrary to that prudence which the greatest of the apostles has recommended to all bishops, but it might have iortified the prejudices of unbelievers and brought a scandal upon the Church. While, therefore, many pious persons gave full credence to the miracles of La Salette, 1 was busy in seeking for any valid rea- sons which could warrant me in doubting them. Isubmitted to the charge of indifference and in- credulity. I braved much obloquy rather than come to a hasty decision, The Christian religion is not in want of any new miracles to prove its truth, and it was my duty to exercise the coolest circumspection respecting the miracle of La Salette, for qui credit citd, levis corde est. But upon the other hand I was strictly bound to con- sider that nothing is impossible to the Almighty; that the arm of the Lord ts not shortened and that His power is the same to-day as it has been im past ages. As a bishop I was compelled to tem- porize, to reflect, to implore with fervor instruc- ton and guidance from on high; and meantime the prodigious facts announced on all sides as having occurred at La Salette went on increasing. At last, atter long and strict inquiry, I yielded to evi- dence whieh could not be gainsaid, and then, and not till then, I pronounced my decision,” I do not know whether the proper name of the Bishop of Grenoble is or was Jaines or Achilles; but this Ido know, that he spoke in the language ofa calm and reasonable man. In proof of nis be- lief in his own words, he has just passed fiteen days in fasting and prayer on the mountain of La Salette, and I saw him there yesterday; a mild and venerable old man, of a great eloquence in speech, and on whose pure and white renown full sixty years have left no spot or stain. Not, by any means, & man to be ducked in a horsepond, witha view to his deserts, this right reverend prelate, but rather one of those who seem lent to us by heaven to bring us tidings of great joy from it. To baw! out, red-book in hand, that he isan impostor is something not very far from sacrilege. And if he were, what then? He was one of the last to declare his belief in the miracles of La Salette, and men as wise and good as he had already examined and dectied on them. Are they impostors, too? David said in his haste, “All men are liars.” It is as well to remember that it was in his haste he said it, because it is not pretty or prudent to endorse the statement, My next and last letter on the religious revival in France will narrate what I saw and heard while accompanying the latest grand national piigrim- age to Our Lady of La Saiette a few hours ago. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. folio A Book is to be made of ex-Senator H. S. Foote’s “Reminiscences of the Past,’? which have been Tunning at interminable length in the Washington Chronicle for some months past. Whoever wants to find out how many words can be expended in telling a few trivial commonplaces should buy that book. THe LATE PavL De Kock had such a horror of quitting Paris that he refused to move even when the Commune had invaded the Boulevard St, Mar- tin, where he lived, and burned the Porte St, Martin Theatre, next door. In his long life he never saw the sea, and never visited Holland, the country of his father and mother, Ong of the novelist’s most assiduous renders was the late Pope, who always used to ask French visitors tor ‘Mio Caro Paolo di Kocko.” Veane’s “Five Weeks in a Balloon” is to be re- issued by the Oagoods, and will come just upon the heels of the current balloon fever, AN IMPORTANT WORK is being issued by R. Clarke & Co, in Fisher's * Patent Reports,” by William H. Fisher, law partner of the late Commissioner of Patents. This enterprise is to collect into two or more volumes all the cases relating to patents em- braced in the numerous reports of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States since 1450, Tue Rey. GEorGE HENSLOW has written a book on “The Application of the Principles of Evolution to Religion.” What next? THe Courrier de Paris publishes a telegram from Milan, trom which lt appears that Mme. Ratazzi, widow of the late Minister, has just finished a work containing a number of historical and politl- presented to the Pope by the Prefect Cardinat Asquinius, setting forth that a petition had been Made to His Holfness by the Bishop of Grenoble, praying that the bigh altar of the Church of La Salette might be privileged in perpetuity, On the 26th August, 1852, the petition of the Bishop of Grenoble respecting the high altar of the Church of La Salette was granted by SPECIAL GRACE OF THE SOVERRIGN PONTIFF, in a rescript signed by Cardinal Lambruschini, On cal documents, the publication of which would create great sensation. It is said that these docu- ments, which relate principally to thie affairs of Montana and Aspromonte, were found among the papers of Ratazzi, and that several persons of high rank are apparently seriously comprom ised by them. Attempts have been made‘to dissuade Mme, Ratazai from publishing the work, and even Crown Prince Humbert is saig to have interceded, but without effect. It 18 agi that Mme. Ratazai tue same day Povs Pius Uf issued o Pangy AC | yu go to Por and bare phe Woy ahaa Beso RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. October 19---Programme of To- day’s Services. Herald Religious Cor- respondence. OUR TEMPLES OF MAMMO Movements of the Clergy of <All Denominations. Services To-Day. Rey. Dr. Armitage will preach this morning, and Rey. Dr. Jeffrey this evening, in the Fifth avenue Baptist church. “The Evangelical Alliance” will be treated upon by Rev. Mr. Kennard in the Pilgrim church, Rev. M. Cohen Stuart, of Rotterdam, preaches (in the Holland language) in the Fourth street Re- formed church this evening. “Christendom Rejecting Christ” is Rev. W. W. Andrews’ topic for this eveuing, in the Catholic Apostolic chureh, The Hanson place (Brooklyn) Baptists will wor- ship in their new church to-day, Rey. Dr. Fulton preaching in the morning and Rey. Dr. Armitage in the evening. There will be an interesting social meeting at half-past two P. M. The Brookiyn Tabernacle congregation will wor- ship at the usual hours, morning and evening, in the Academy. The Morning Star Sunday School anniversary, at half-past two and seven P. M., will be addressed by distinguished speakers. “Wild Oats” is the subject of an address to young men this evening in Bleecker street Universalist church, by Rey. E. Sweetser. Rev. Newman Hall and Rev. Dr. ©, UH. Taylor will speak to young men this evening, in Association Hall. The thirty-fifth anniversary of the Youths’ Mission willbe held this evening in Spring street Presby- terlan church. There will be divine worship, morning and even- Ing, in the Methodist Free Tabernacle, Rev. Mr. Cookman preaching. In the Baptist Tabernacle, Rev. Wayland Hoyt, preaching upon special topics. In Sixth avenue Union Reformed church, Rev. Mr. Merritt. In St. Mark's, Rev. Dr. Rylance. In Plymouth Baptist church, Rey. Dr. Miller, In St. Paul’s (Reformed), Rev. Dr. Van Neat.‘ In Twenty-third street Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Northrop, In St. Luke's (Methodist), Rev. Mr. McClelland. In the Memorial Presbyterian church, Rey. Dr. Robinson. In Forsyth street Methodist church, Rey. Mr. Barnhart. In Filty-third street Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Pendleton; special subjects. In the Church of the Reformation, Rev. Mr. ‘Tracy. In the Church of the Atonement, Madison ave- nue. In Canal street Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Mitchell; and In Berean Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Davies. “The Fatal Mistake” is Rev. Mr. Osterhout’s evening subject at Harlem Hall (First Baptist cburch). Divine worship in the Russian-Greek chapel (in English) at hal!-past ten A. M. Rev. H. D, Ganse preaches at eleven A. M. and four P. M. in Madison avenue Reformed church, Kev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., preaches at half-past ten A.M. and four P. M. in the Church of the Holy Trinity. Rev. Dr. Ludlow preaches this evening in, the Collegiate church. The Church of Our Saviour (Rev. Mr. Pullman) worships morning and evening in the hall of the Standard Club, No, 1,464 Broadway, Rev. Miss Chapin, of Iowa City, preaching tn the evening. Rey. Dr. Price will officiate at the morning and Rev, Mr. Tomkins at the evening service in St. Stephen’s (Episcopal). There will be the usual services in Zion church, Rey. Mr Galleher. Rey. Professor Roberts will conduct the morning and Rey. Dr. Morgan the evening services in St. Thomas’ chapel. Rey. Samuel M. Hamilton will be installed in the Fourteenth street Scotch Presoyteriam ghurch at half-past seven o’clock P, M. Superintendent Mingins and Rey, Mr. Sloss wil) preach, morning and eveuing, in the latter’s church (East Fourteenth street Presbyterian). Professor Britton lectures on Spiritualism this evening in Robinson Hall. Rev. Mr. Knapp preaches at the usual hours in the First Baptist Mission. There will be the customary services to-day in the Church of the Disciples, Rev. Mr. Hepworth elucidating special subjects of thought, Rev. O. B. Frothingham elaborates upon “Re- ligion” this morning at Lyric Hall. Froevel’s Kindergarten system of instructing the young will be explained by Miss Elizabeth P, Peabody this evening in the Church of the New Jerusalem. “The Family” will be the topic considered hy Rev. Dr. Thompson, in Christ church, this evening. Rey. W. W. Newell preaches at half-past ten A, M. and four P. M. in Forty-second street Pres- byterian church. Rey. Mr. Newton, morning and evening, in An- thon Memorial church. Rey. Mr. Dawson, tn the Church of Christ, morn- ing and evening ; and Rey. Mr. Holme, in Trinity Baptist church, morn- ing and evening. Rey. Dr. Ewer will repeat his sermon on ‘‘Catho- licity and Sectarianism”’ in St, Ignatius’ this even- ing. “The Evangelical Alliance and the Free Religious Association” will be placed in conjunction by Rev. W. F, Clarke, at Harlem Unity chapel, this even- ing. High celebration at half-past ten A. M. and ves- pers at four P.M. in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Rev. Dr. Flagg preaches at the usual hours in the Church of the Resurrection. Dr. Bellows’ flock (All Souls’) will be ministered to this evening by Rey. 8S. H. Camp, of Brooklyn. The Fifth Universalists will listen to a discourse upon “Self-Denial,” this morning, in Plimpton Hall, ‘The Humauitarians will be treated to a scientific sermon by S. Pearl Andrews, this morning, at 200 Third avenue, Anthony Higgins, Jr., lectures upon “Free Thought” this evening, in Franklin Hall, Jersey City. “The Panic” will be considered by the Cosmo- politan Conference this afternoon, Our Temples of Mammon, To THE Epitor oF THE HkERALD:— Earnest men and women go to church because it is their habit, but with a fecling near akin to that with which they visit graves, with a consciousness that the spirit and Life which they seek is not there. Our churches, instead of being an “open door which invites the stranger and the poor,” have be- come temples consecrated to the worship of Mam- mon, and stout-bearted mast that stranger be who has the courage to enter therein aivired in plain and simple raiment; for be it known that here, above all other places, people are rated by the gar- ments they wear instead of the manhood they bear, Let any one who doubts this take a lew observa- tions from the. “free seats’ of one of our popular churches, These ‘‘free seats’’ are both the loitiest and the lowliest, They are the outermost row of the gallery and the innermost one at the feet of the preacher. Between these two rows of free seats for the stranger and the poor, in grand gradation a) Hae masiuandiay ins ase Lm, Let us call things by their right names. See what comes of this. ‘There 13 a youn; He goes to one of these temples and listens to an eloquent and soul-stirring discourse, wherein the preacher dwells with great emphasis upon the hecessity of building up @ noble manhood; that tie development of such a manhood is the end and aim of religion—of Christianity. He feels the truth of what is said. His whole soul is stirred, He inwardly resolves that from heuceiorth it shall be his endeavor to cultivate the nob-er aud control the baser part of his nature. Perhaps tits is the first time he bas seriously (nought of this matter, He continues to be 80 much interested that he is drawn to the same place ayain, He goes “early,” and takes a place on the “free seats.” Being & young man of intelligence and observation, he studies the different faces of the people as they come in and take their seats near him, Presently there enter a pair who attract his notice in a different way, is attention is drawn to their elaborate and expensive apparel. ‘These also take their seats on those apportioned to the stranger and the poor, when instantly there is a “sur.” A prominent churchman and deacon, who occupies one ol the “chief seats,” approaches and graciously inquires of them “whether they would not prefer some other seat.” Whereupon they conclude that they would, and are immedi- ately escorted to sit among the members who “love (and occupy) the chief seats in the syn- agogue.”” Our thoughtful young man who has observed this proceeding at once propounds these questions to himsel!;—*Why is this? Was it because of the superior worth o1 the manhood of these that this venerable churchman manifested to them a supe- rior respect, or was all that courtesy bestowed upon their clothing?’ It was too apparent. He is loath to beileve what he has seen. His newly en- kindled tdew of the worth of manhood above all other things has in this very same place received its first and crushing blow, and by those who could strike that blow with most effect. In that place, which his young tmagination had transformec into the very gate of heaven, he beholds gray-haired Christians (Y) paying homage at the shrine of Wealth and Fashion, and he painiuliy awakens to the consciousness that his gate of heaven 1s but a temple of Mammon. “Is it, then, all a delusion?” he muses. “Is it really true that a noble mannood is more to be desired than goldy There are men @ great deal older and wiser than J, and Chris- tlaus, too, who have listened to many discourses like the one which so much impressed me, and they do not believe that manhood is of much account, for see what attention they bestow upon wealth, 1t was not their manhood, but their gar- ments, their insignia of wealth, which caused them to be so much respected and so courteously treated.” And he leaves that place sad-hearted and disgusted, never caring to enter it again. Meantime, as at a previous sepulture, might it be said to this seeker after truth—“Why seek ye en lying among the dead? He 18 not here, but is sen. “But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites, jor ye shut up the kingdom o! heaven against men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in,” Christianity is for the uplifting and ennobling of humanity, and men are accustomed to look to the churches as the chief instrumenitalities for the fur- therance of thisend. And what do we see there ? A wretched and pititur striving for the mainte- nance of “caste’—an ignoble lusting alter supremacy of position; and, instead of being &@ mighty stimulus to virtue and truth, our churches have become, indirectly, powerful ,incentive to wrongdoing—to crim jor as wealth is with them the standard of respec wealth must be had even at the cost of integrity. And tor this reason to be well seated in church is with many an imperative demand, So the high premiums on the chief seats must be paid, even though their neighbor be defrauded to make the payment, Blind, stone-blind must they be who cannot per- ceive that by honoring with their actions the noth- ingness of life’s poor distinctions they bereave themselves of all real power for the promotion of truth and goodness. There is no deadlier wariare waged against manhood than that which 1s iadi- rectly carried on in our churches. “My life,” said a Woman to me, “grows hard and bitter.” ‘Why so? I inguired., She remarked, “1 work lor members of the church to which I belong, and, instead of the kindliness and human fellow- stip which I expected to find in that church, I find no fellowship at all; but, instead, a cold and dreary isolation, and am viewed by them merely as @ working machine.” It is of the greatest importance that one’s life should not “grow hard and bitter,’ but, instead thereof, sweet and tender; and it by uniting with and remaining in our churches and being acted upon by their examples of practice in @ manner which tends to degrade rather than uplift, to crush down rather than upbuild this a noble manhood, and thereby, through teeling this and being unable to rise above it, one’s life must needs “grow hard and bitter,’’ such cannot be too soon or too earnestly recommended to ‘come out from among them and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing,” ior no seridom could be more pitiful than the char- acter which such influences have a tendency to build. ISABELLA B. LANGSTON, man newly arrived in the city. Another New Episcopal Newark. In Newark, yesterday, the corner stone was laid with the customary impressive ceremonies by Bishop Odenhelimer, of St. Stephen's church, on Clinton avenue. The Bishop was assisted in the good work by Rev. Drs. Boggs, the rector; Nicholson, of Trinity, Rose; of Summit, and Pise, of Indiana, and Rey. Messrs. J, N. Stansbury, Webb, J. H. Smith, and F, W. Way, of Newark; Rev. 8. Marshall, tue first pastor oi the church; Rev. Mr. Love, a colored minister from Savannah; Sayres, of Belleville; Pentreathe, of Rutheriurd Park, and Danner, of Bloomfield. In consequence of the disagreeable weather the Bishop's address was delivered in the chapel. Rev. Drs, Boggs and Garrison also delivered short addresses. The Bishop dwelt gratiiyingiy on the fact that this was the second corner stone laid by him in New- ark within a few weeks. Church in Ministerial Movements, EPISCOPALIAN. The Bishop of London lately offered aclergyman the living of All Saints, Margaret street, on condi- tion that the use of the vestments and the present practice of the Church in regard to the position of the celebrant at the communion should be discon- tinued, but the offer was declined on those terms. The congregation of Grace church, Rutherfurd Park, N. J., opened for the first time, on Tuesday of last week, @ neat little chapel constructed in old English style, with octagonal side towers, &c. The little church occupies one of the finest sites in this attractive place, over- jooking the beautiful country in every direction. Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, has issued @ constitu- tional call for a meeting of the House of Bishops, on the 24th inst., in this city, to elect a successor to the late Bishop Randall, of Colorado. Rev. Silas Totten, Lexington, died October 7% uuder a surgical operation. He was in his seventieth year, and had been an Episcopal minister forty years. Rev. Clarence Winship Colton has taken clarge of the mission at Winn, in the diocese of Maine. Rev. Charles F. Hoffman has been elected rector of All Angels’ parish, in this city, ROMAN CATHOLIC. Bishop Becker, of Wilmington, Del., has ordered the consecration of his diocese to “the Sacred Heart,”’ to take place to-day, aud has forwarded to every church in his diocese a uniform service which is to be read at all the masses immediately alter the reading of the Gospel for the day. He aiso grants a plenary induigence to all who shall have confessed and partaken of communion belore the consecration takes place, Father O'Keefe, the recalcitrant parish priest of Callan, Ireland, has not submitted to Bishop Moran, as was lately an- nounced, He sought reconciliation with his superior and found it could be gained only by acknowledging the justice of the censures passed upon him beg- ging for absolution trom the same and retiring altogether irom his parish and accepting a@ curate’s pension to be given during good behaviour or the will of the Bishop. Father O'Keefe, of course, as he says, “rejected these terms with scorn.” ‘The yellow lever at Shreveport, La., has carried off four priests, but their places have been taken by others irom New Oricans. Fathers Dufau and Ferec left the latter city for the plague stricken Place @ few days ago. The Rey. Father Glack- meyer, 8, J., of New York, has commenced a mis- if the Ghurch of thé Immaculate Conception, Camden, N. J., which ts very largely attended. The Rev. James T, Barry, for nany years assistant tothe venerable Father McAiwei, pastor of St. Columba’s, West Twenty-fiith street, has been transferred to the Churchof St, Rose of Lima. The Rev. Father Campbell, assistant pastor of the Church of the Holy Cross, West Forty-second street, will to-day take Father Barry’s place in the Church of St. Columba The creation of other parishes in the city is spoken of, but as et noth ing definite has been determined. The spirit- ual wants of the emigrants who arrive at Castie Garden canse the Archbishop much paternal anxiety, and itis not at ail wnilkely that a church will soon be erected near the Battery. The Kev, Jonn Edwards, late business manager of Joseph's Kecicsiastical Seminary, Troy, N. ing been obliged on account of iil’ healt his position in the seminary, has been the dignity of First Assistant Pastor o! oi the Immaculate Conception. romoted to the Church The Catholics of New Jersey were never so actiye as as at the pres- ent tine, St. Patrick’s church (Rey. P. Hennes- Sey) and St. Michael’s church (Rev. J. De Concilio), in Jersey City, are nearly completed, The corner stone of a new Catholic church will be laid by Bishop Corrigan at South Amboy on Monday, 27tl inst. Aconcert and exhibition in ald of the Catholic chureh (Rey, P. McGovern) at Bergen Point will be given on Wednesday next, Father Duggan, the new pastor of St, Mary's, Hoboken, is making prts to have a jarge church erected. Rev. J. ls Conron, pastor of St. Peter's, New Brighton, 8. L., who had by on a toar to Burope since the 28th of May, returned last Monday by the steamship Italy. He was met by a deputation, who escorted him vo New Brighton, where a large crowd of his partsh- loners awaited him. The reverend gentioman's health 18 much improved. CONGREGATION AT ‘The Chotean avenue Congregational church, St. Louis, have extended a unanimous call to Rev, James Litimar, of Londonderry, Ireland. Mr. Litl- mar lias accepted, and expeéts to commence his Javors on the Ix# of December. There has lately been raixed hy Rev. Mr. ‘Trowbridge, missionar: of the A. 1, @o¥, M, Board, sid $15,000 in gold, in Eng. Sania BO endowment the income to complete the Secretary Treat, of states that the of the Board last year (1871-2) was $445,525. Rev. Dr. Thayer (Congregational) has re- signed his pastorate at Newport, R. L, after an cumbency ot thirty years, Rev. James Powe! Newburyport, Mass., has accepted the appointment of district secretary for the American Missionary Association in Connecticut and New York, until the return of Rev. G. D, Pike. Rev, 8, ‘T. Ander- son, D. D., of Napoli, N. Y., sails shortly for ‘Trint- dad, Spain, under commission of the Presiding Board. Key. A. W. Wild has resigned his charge in Greenvoro, Vt, aller a successiul pastorate of nine years, now hopes in this country, American Board, mr in- or METHODIST. The Ryland chapel, Washington, D. C., 1s having an excellent work at this time, and much good 1# being accompiished. Some thirty souls have entered into anew life, and about twenty-three united with the church, The work still goes on. There are also meetings going on at MeRendroe Gersuch, Grace, Twelfth street, Fourth street an Fletcher, which all promise much good to the Churek. The number at all these combined who have left the world for Christ is about thirty more. Five young Wesleyan Methodist ministers reached Haltiax last month to supply vacant cir- cuits tn the Eastern British American Conterence. ‘They came from the English Wesleyan Conference. Bishop Bowman dedicated a new church at Kidder, Mo., on Sunday last. There was but a smalt amount due on the building, 80 wisely had the so- ciety worked under its pastor, J. W. Bovee. The London Wesleyan ministers of the London districts have planned a metropolitan missionary campaign. Nearly 150 services were provided jor to take place pe month and next. Could not some of our ity districts copy this movement? The Alfred Untversity, at @ late meeting of the trustees and faculty, conferred the honorary degree of D, D. upon Rey. 5. Van Benshoten, of Emory Methodist Episcopal church, Jersey City. Rev. William Allen died of Soop. near Onerry Valley, N. Y., October 5, 1873, ie had been a locat preacher for filty years. The new Methodist Kpis- copal church of Adamsville, Troy Conference, will be dedicated on Friday, October 24. An unusual work of grace has been in progress for some five weeks at the Union church, Washington, D. ©, Rev. E. 0D. Owen, pastor. Seventy souls have been converted, Franklin Ferguson, proprietor of the Burlington Gazette, has undertaken the erection. at Pitman Grove, of a tabernacle, to hold 5,000 children and to cost $4,000, Subscriptions have been headed by President Grant, and already its success seems guaranteed, Rev. J. K. Burr, D.18., 18 slightly im- proved in healtn, Having resigned his pasvoral charge at Hoboken, he las retired to Hacketts- town until spring, when he hopes to resume work. Rev. Dr. Whedon, of this city, was reported by the Interior last week to be suffering from fever and ague, and very much inclined to profanity when he felt the symptoms coming on. The Christian Advocate corrects the Jnterior, and says the Doctor’s symptoms were nausea of the stomach ipeodpoad by the Jnterior’s attempts to support Valvinism, Rather pretty! PRESBYTERIAN. Ross street Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, E. D., has called to its pastorate the Rev. Mr. Scovel, of Cleveland, Ohio, who preached there last Sunday and will probably accept the call. Rev. Dr. Parker, of London, and Rey, Dr. J. T. Duryea, of Brooklyn, are spoken 0/ as probable successorsjof Dr. Adams in the pastorate of Washington square Presbyterian church, Dr, Adams’ acceptance of the Presidene, of Union Theological Seminary will leave lis pulpit vacant by andby. The Cumberland Presbyterian church, of Brooklyn, are at loggerheads with their, astor, Rev. . Barnes, and the Brook! Presbytery are unable to settle i dimculty. Itis said that the Presbytery re cently dismissed six or seven of its members for various olfences, one of the members being an in- corrigible beggar. The services in memory of the Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D., late pastor of the brick Presbyterian church, will take place on the first Sabbath mm November (November 2), when the Rey. Dr. Murray will deliver a@ memorial dts- course in connection with other appropriate exer- cises, The corner stone of the new house of wor- ship now in process of erection for the Rutgers Presbyterian church, on Madison avenue and ‘Twenty-ninth street, will be laid on next Thursday aiternoon, There is @ rumor floating round im Canada that the Kev. Dr. Inglis, of Brookiyn, is about to be called to a new church in the eastern part of Hamilton, ee BAPTIST. Rev. Dr. John Dowling, temporary pastor of the South Baptist church of this city, has been forty- one years in the ministry, during which time he has baptised 900 converts, Next month he will re- tire permanently from the ministry and from the pastorate of the South church, Advancing years caution him, he says, that he is not made of brass, and that he cannot stand the strain nor periorm the duties of a faithiul pastor longer. He is now sixty-seven years of age. The three years’ pastor- ate of Rev. R. S, MacArthur over the Calvary church of this city has had remarkable prosperity. The membership of the church has been neariy doubied in that time, and the net increase of the ast year was sixty. The whole number of mem- rs is now about 400, and more than $34,000 were raised ior all purposes during the last association year. The expenses of the church forthe year were about $9,000, leaving a balance of over $25,000 for missionary and other benevolent ob- jects. Of this sum more than $6,000 were tor city missions alone, Rev. A. J. Allen, pastor of the Baptist church at Ticonderoga, N. Y., 18 about to remove to Johnstown, N. Y. He will be succeeded by Rev. A. D. Gillette, D. D., of this city. Mr. Allen leaves the church at Ticonderoga in a pros. perous condition, after a pleasant pastorate of eight years. Mr, William Wright, son of Rev. Thomas G. Wright, was ordained by the First Baptist church in Westerly, R. 1, for the church at Senaca Falls, N. Y., on the 1st inst. The Hanson place Baptist church is to be reopened to- day. Dr. Fulton will preach in the morning. In the afternoon there is to be @ union service of Brooklyn Baptists, and Drs. Sarles, Moore, Ander- son and others will deliver addresses. Dr. Armi- tage will preavh in the evening. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘rhere is a restlessness both with pastors and people all over the country. There are probably more important churches vacant to-day at the reat centres of influence than there have been efore for years. The cry for sensation preaching, with the turbulence and democracy that gets into the Church, has unsettled many pastors or induced them to resign, So says the Examiner and Chront- cle, William Everett, son of Hon. Edward Everett formerly a lawyer and author, has been admitte tothe ministry, and occupied one of the Boston pulpits last Sunday. It is said that he lacks his father’s dignified elegance, but has a fervor his father never possessed. The Lutheran Church of this country is to have its first National Sunda; School Convention at Bucyrus, Ohio, November 5 and6é. Kev. James Powell, formerly pastor Newburyport, Mass., more recently with the Jubilee Singers in England, has returned, and takes the place of Rev. G. D. Pike as District Secretary of the American Missionary Association for Connecticut and New York. The Woman’s Centenary Associa- tion of the Universalist Church received last year (¢nding September 17) for their work $21,373 45 and expended of the same $20,094 74. They have now in their treasury $1,577 22, There is a mission for the Danish emigrants at Castle Garden, New York, and the Mission Society in Denmark helps to support it. Rev. A. L. J. Lwholm, one of the only six Danish Lutheran ministers in America, hag lately received a small sum of money from that society to prosecute his missionary work among the emigrants of his nationality arriving here. PIO NONO. Fair for the House of the Good Shep- he Brooklyn—Presentation of a Like= ness in Oil of the Holy Father—Its Merit and Its History. A fair will be opened in Brooklyn to-morrow, at Brooklyn Hall, Myrtle avenue, for the benefit of the House of the Good Shepherd at East New York. ‘This truly Christian ebarity, where wayward female children, whom neglect has permitted to fall or fretfulness tempted into wickedness, and sorrow- ing women on whom the blight of shame has cast its baleful shadow, find a home, kind ministering, instruction and sympathy, appeals now to the peo- ple of Brooklyn for the means of extending its use- iulness. The house now occupied as a children’s reformatory and refuge for women of the class re- ferred to is too small for the fulfilment of the pur- pose to which it is dedicated, and it is to obtain means for securing larger accommodation that this fair will be held. Among the attractions of the fair will be the presentation there of a painting in oil of Pio Nono, the work of an Italian artist, executed in Italy, Where it is sald to have been highly esteemed as @ correct likeness of the present Pontif, It differs Lage ne irom the or- dipary prints in circulation of Pio Nono, showing afface of much more power, with a higher, quicker, keener intellectuality in its contour, and an ex- pression of greater will. ‘The merit of the picture lies in this face, which 1s wonderfully itfelike and interesting. It is @ singular art waif, having been at one time a fugi- tive lke him it represents, when it was saved from the fear of insuit dreaded at the bands of the Italian soidiery by a noble Koman lady, who rized it for its correct presentment of Pio Nono’s atures, Subsequently it was raffled among the Pontifical Zouaves at Rome and won by & Piya Canadian volunteer, who sent it asa present o his brother, the Rev. Father Alard, at Key West, Fila. Father Allard now parts with it to secure the means of greater pastoral endeavor at that remote station among a class largely in need of educational help for their children—refugees from Cuba thrown upon the hospitable shores of the United States by Spanish proscription, Noman fills up a larger space in history than Pio Nono. He las seen more revolutions and shared in their convulsions to ® greater degreo than any other sovereign in Burope. New mapa of that great quarter of the globe have been made in his tie beyond enumeration, and, indeed, with the progress oi the world generally, new discov. Cries, the effects of colonization and increased means of intercourse, it might be said that a new Atlas has been born in his time, whose burdens he largely shared, ‘Not only to those who regard Pio Nono with reverence for his pontifical authority, but to those who simply regard him as a bis- torical figure, a trie likeness of one so placed fellow men bas rare value. ‘Tuere snow ne tee active rivairy for the ion of oss sha