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6 “RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. | October 26—Preaching Record for To-Day. —_—_—-—— HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. A Catholic Clergyman on the School Question. The Spiritual Needs of Humanity. A WORD TO CATHOLIC PASTORS. Protestant Views of Catholic Doctrine. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. . Services To-Day. The annual sermon before the Episcopal Board Of Missions will be preached by Rev. Dr. Hunting- ton, of Worcester, Mass., this evening, in Calvary church, Mr. Edward Jenkins, of London (of “Ginx’s Baby” fame), will address young men this evening im Association Hall. Rev. Miss Chapin, of Iowa, preaches before the Bleecker street Universalists this morning. Rev. Mr, Sweetser will elaborate upon ‘‘Lofty Ideals” in the evening. Miss Sarah E. Smiley preaches this evening in the Central Methodist Episcopal church. “Wanted, a Man,” and “God’s Hidden Ones,” are Rev. Dr. Robinson’s subjects for this morning and evening in the Presbyterian Memorial church. Rey. Dr. Miller preaches morning and evening, and will be formally installed at half-past two o'clock P. M. (in which service Drs. Armitage. An- derson, Fulton, Dowling and others will unite), in Plymouth Baptist church. Rev. L. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, Tenn., will address Rey. Mr. Page’s flock (New York Presbyterian) in Bleecker Building, morning and evening. “We Reap What We Sow,” 1s Rev. Wayland Hoyt’s topic for this evening in Steinway Hall. Morning service at the Tabernacle. Rey. Dr. Van Nest preaches in St. Paul’s (Re- formed), morning and evening. Rev. Mr. Cookman will preach in the Methodist * Free Tabernacle, morning and evening. Rey. Father Francis lectures in St. Anthony's church, Sullivan street, this evening, at half-past seven, on “Papal Infallibility.” Proceeds for the benefit of the poor. Bishop Tozer, late of the Central African Mis- sions, will preach at Grace church at four P. M. The Bishop of Michigan will preach at the Church Of the Heavenly Rest at eleven A, M. Rey. John Poisal, of Baltimore, preaches this evening in the Forty third street Methodist church. The ordination sermon at the installation of Daniel ©. Potter as pastor of Sixth street Baptist church, this evening, will be preached by Rev. Pro- fessor John James Servis, of Madison University. The customary morning and afternoon services in the Church of the Holy Trinity will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr. Rev. Dr. Flagg will officiate; morning and even- ing, in the Church of the Resurrection. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, will preach at four o'clock this alternoon in St. Thomas’. Rey. John Love, Jr., of Albany, will preach in Laight street Baptist Mission this evening. Rey. Dr. Rylance will lecture upon “Conscience” this evening in St. Mark’s. Rev. Mr. Northrop will address the West Twenty- third street Presbyterians in the morning and evening. “Our Common Schools in the Pending Election” will be the subject discussed by Rev. Mr. Boole, this evening, in Seventeenth street Methodist church. “No Compromise” is the morning and “Who Will Stand?” the evening subject of Rev. Fred. Evans, in Central Baptist church. Rey. Mr. McClellana preaches morning and even- ing in St. Luke's, The Tabernacle congregation (Rev. Dr. Tal- ™mage’s) will worship at the usual nours in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “The Practical Side of the Evangelical Confer- ence” will be set forth by Rev. Mr. Ganse this morning, in Madison avenue Reformed church. Rev. Dr. Rochedieu, Brussels delegate to the Alliance, will preach this morning in the French Evangelical church. Rev. Mr. Pendleton discourses upon special sub- jects, morning and evening, in Fifty-third street Baptist church. There will be the customary services, morning and evening, in Berean Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Davies preaching. Professor Brittan lectures upon Spiritualism, at Robinson Hall, this evening. The Sixth avenue Union Reformers will be addressed by Rev. Mr. Merritt in the morning and evening. Rey. Mr. Hamilton preaches in the Scotch Presbyterian church at half-past ten o’clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M. The morning and evening services in the Church of the Reformation will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Tracy. Rev. David Mitchell preaches, morning and even- ing, to the Canal street Presbyterians, The Church of Our Saviour (Rev. J. M. Pullman) ‘will worship at No. 1,464 Broadway at the usual hours. “Sympathy and Apathy” will be illustrated by the Rev. Mr, Frothingham at Lyric Hall this morning. In the Church of the Disciples Rev. Mr. Hepworth preaches, morning and evening, upon special topics, “A Plea for Heresy” will be combated this even- ing in the Church of the Messiah by Rev. Mr, Powers, Rey. Mr. McCampbell will address his congrega- tion (Spring street Presbyterian) upon special Subjects, morning and evening. The services in Anthon Memorial church will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Newton, the pastor. Those in the Churcu of Christ by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Dawson. And those in the Fifth avenue Baptist church by Rev, Dr. Armitage. The First Baptists will be addressed by their pastor, Rev. Dr. Anderson, “The Religion of Humanity” will be advocatea in De Garmo Hall, at half-past ten A, M., by Stephen Pearl Andrews, and at half-past two and half-past seven P. M., by Father Beeson, Dr. Bryan and others. “Why God Don’t Kill the Devil” will be ex. plained by Gerald Massey, the English poet, in Harlem Unity chapel this evening. Morning and evening services, at the usual hours, in the Church of the Redeemer, Rev. J. W. Shackel- ford, Morning service at hall-past tenin the Orthodox Greek chapel. “Human Education” is Mr, Giles? subject for this evening in the Church of the New Jerusalem. The Cosmopolitan Conference will be addressed at three P. M. by Dr. 0,8, Weeks, The First Universalist congregation of Jersey City will be addressea, morn: and evening, b; Rev. Dr. Ballou, . in es Views of @ Catholic Priest on the School Question, To THE Eprron OF THE HEeRaLp:— All Catholics are agreed as to the im portance of giving @ religious training to children if they are expected to nave a great affection for their re- digton when they reach mature years. Many per- Pons. especially in Continental Europe, have been NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET, alfenated from religion founded ou revelation, and, anxious to have their ideas propagated, have laid down as a false but specious principle that only when each individual had reached the maturity of his judgment should he have the ques- tion whether there was suificient evidence for & revelation from God presented for his solution. Where they have had influence they have, through contempt of revelation as a superstition, excluded all religious instruction founded on it from the educational institutions, and have been so tyran- nical as to deprive those whose profession is n- tmately allied with religion, however otherwise able, of the right to teach. AS 8 matter of course, the pastors of the faithful, the bishops especially, under the guidance of their chief, the Pope, have strenu- ously opposed all such endeavors on the part of the opponents o1 revealed religion, and have inculcated the absolute necessity of instructing the minds and the hearts of children in the truths positively taugnt to men by God, and more especially in the practice of the virtues which Jesus Christ wishes to be a mark of His disciples, The present Pontiff has been foremost in giving encouragement to the bishops wherever they had to struggle against the rationalistic spirit that made war against institutions in which religious or- ders had charge of the education ot youth, and to deprive the Church of the great aid she de- rived from them, for ths proclaumed that the State alone would take charge of education; but, as the State was not competent to teach religion, this would be left out of the course in the State msti- tutions. Many Cathoiics were led astray by the specious arguinents brought in favor of the State taking absolute control of the education o: youth. and the bishops found it bard to convince some 01 them that they were working against the true in- terests of the Church until the Supreme Tribunal of the Church had passed judgment on the new theory that was endeavoring 10 supplant the time- honored practice that the Church should have a constant supervision of the subjects taught and of the teachers of youth. We find a clear expression of the Pope’s judgment in u ietter to the Arch- bishop of Friburg, dated July 14, 1864, in which he reprobates the idea that a Cavuolic may approve tne system of educating youth, which is sepa- rated from the Catholic faith and the au- thority of the Church, and which has in view only, or at least ‘tmarily, the knowledge of natural things and the objects of earthly social lite. This letter was written in view oi the strug- gle in which the Swiss bishops had been Jon; engaged for the defence o! the right of the fatthtu to have their children educated in institutions under the control of religious orders or the bishops, which were being ruthlessly done away with by the intolerant spirit of rationalism, Many Catho- licg, My ogg 4 imbued with tne rationalistic spirit, had even helped, by their votes, the over- ‘owal of religious educational institutional on the plea that the State had absolute controi over education, not remembering that they were depriving the Church of long vested rights. The words of the Holy Father quoted above Were to warn such Catholics of their folly in aiding the schemes of the opponents of the Churci and of revelation, and were alterwards adopted into the celebrated syliabus, to be Kiger wherever similar circumstances were found, The similar circum- stances must be the reiusal to Catholics to have their educational institutions under the control of the Church, the exclusion of religion irom State institutions, through hatred of it, and the depriva- tion of the Church of her vested rights. If the State has been the first in the fleld to un- dertake the education of youth, if in the State 50 many corporate bodies existed, professing to be the Christian churches, as to render it utterly im- practicable for the State to establish schools to be under their various control, and if to Catholics is granted freely the privilege of establishing schools to be confided to the control of whomsoever they may choose, then the circumstances are entirely diferent from those to which is appli- cabie the proposition enunciated by the Holy Father. The State here was first in the field with regard to education, at any rate before the Catholics had the chance to under- take the education of their own children here. I am weil aware that the first organization in New York for the education of the poor was not under exclusively State control, but was an incorporated organization aided by State appropriations, which of its own accord and willingly ceased to exist when the Legislature undertook the task of estab- lishing our present common school system. Our State Legislature understood that it was not com- petent to decide which was the true Church, and that the only practical principle for it to follow was to adopt none. On church organizations, we, the people, had agreed to have the privilege of disagreeing without politi- caliy suffering for the exercise of our privilege, and hence the Legislature fnought it wise not to have the influence of any church organization to control the education of youth. Unfortunately, through want of apprehension of the views of Catholics, who were not numerous enough to make their voices sufficiently heard in the halls of legislation, a practice of reading the Protestant version of the Bible was introduced, which has given Protestantism the appearance of an irksome ascendancy in schools in which Catho- lics and Protestants are avowedly on an equal 1ooting. Catholics are convinced that the Protes- tant translation is tainted with Protestant opinions, Catholics have opposed the reading of the Bible tn the public schools on this account mainly. They consider it unfair to force their transiation on the Protestant scholars. The keeping of the Protes- tant Version in the schools must continue to be a constant source Of irritation to Catholics, as every slightest assumption of ascendancy in any State institution Of this country on the part of any re- ligious creed or churca, reasonably, is distasteiul to those prolessing another creed or belonging to an- other church, Beyond this reasonable irritation I am to say that this illogical introduction into the public schools of a sectarian prac- tice—ior anything Protestant, in the eyes of Catholics, is sectarian—is not deemed by very many Catholics a sufficient reason for denying themselves the advantages to be had in the public schools, It is their duty to see that their children are properly educated in their relig- 1ous duties, and it is the business of the pastors of the churches to provide religious instruction on Sundays, and trequently, when necessary, on week days, for this portion of their flock. Very many Catholics have, however, adopted a better plan for the education of their children, which is to com- bine the secular and religious instruction. These schools are not necessarily in the hands of “Chris- tian Brothers’ or ‘Sisters,’ but frequently under the charge of laymen or women. If by reasonable agitation and lair arguments we can convince the Protestant majority that we give m these schools as good a secular education as is required, and that we wish our share of the taxes only to be directed to the support of the schools, whilst we wish that the proper inspec- uon be made of them, and the due accountability Of the distribution oj the moneys tor this fixed pur- pose be recognized, it would be of immense advan- tage to Catholics and turn also to the real good of the State. If Catholics, however, are to obtain money for this purpose by underland means—if Protestants are left under the impression that their purses and not ours are wanted—if faise pretences are given by our would-be political representativeg to obtain the funds for the support of our schools—the good obtained is purchased at too dear a price, viz. :—The sacrifice of our honor and of our con- science, and the alienation from us uf our Protes- tant fellow citizens. It has been shameful to find some of our would-be political leaders ask for aid for these Catholic parochial schools on the plea that they were for ragged children, when {t is notorious that, if not the wealthiest, at least the well-to-do Catholic children are there in the ma- jority, lam sure that our agitation for State aid for our Catholic schools has been premature, and has had the effect of allenating from us many mill- ions of Protestants who were forgetting their pre- judices against the Catholic Church, by making them think we were seeking State aid for the sup- port of our Church and religion—a thing utterly at variance with the recognized spirit of our na- tional institutions. We had better wait, sacrificin, even alittle of our money, till, by the grace of God, we shall have gained the favor, perhaps the conversion, of the majority, and then we may ob- tain what it is not unreasonable for us to seek, while we must be determined then not to force our ideas on the minority. Meanwhile, let those pastors who have done in their parishes what is more necessary go on build. ing Catholic schools. Very often the erec- tion of other churches in districts too large to be attended from thelr present church should be their first work; the providing homes for thousands of destitute chil- dren, otherwise destined to lose the jaith through Protestant aid societies, is much more directiy connected with their ministry than the erection of Schools for secular knowledge. These may be easily postponed until these otver more important works have been accomplished. ‘The public Schools may suffice Jor the secular education of the children; let, the pastors supply whatever de- fects they ae! have by their direct personal in- struction of the children on Sundays or durtn, the week. The multiplicaviop of priests for this purpose will be found far less ony than the erec- Uon of Schools and the support of teachers, The erection of other churches will insure in the fature, of course farther removed, the erection of Schools when the other needs have been supplied. The problem po before our legislators was & dimicult one. They nave selected a good solu- tion determining no church Should “control the schools, In my opinion, they would have rovided better still had they arrange that Where denominational schools were feasible they should be aided by the State, bein; responsible to that public the State inspection for the disbursin, money for the purpose aud to the extent Fccired, This omission of wfat would be better does not take away from the present its reasonabie feature, Our present pian of public schools—tounded on the fact that not through hatred of reiigion bot for peace sake We have agreed not to allow any church to have any contro! in them—does not ren- der them liable to the charges so injudiciously made 01 their being infidel and godless, in the in- vidious sense attached to these words; nor to op- position to the syllabus. Catholic parents also may, without detriment to their conscience, send their children to these schools if they take care to have their Nigga education otherwise properly provided ior. tors Of parishes in which Catholic schools have been erected, with one or two excep- tions, know that they have not accommodation jor more than one half of tha Catholic children of their pees: and meanwhile the public schools should e turned to good use, A CATHOLIC PRIEST, The Spiritual Needs of Humanity. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— That the religious element in man—the socia) craving tor spiritual nourishment—for tue bread of lile—is exceeding great is manifested by the crowds which may be seen on Sundays gathered on the sidewalks and streets in front of some of our churches. And that they are willing to so humili- ate themselves and become as beggars that they may receive religious instruction is sufficient proof of this spiritual craving on their part. Why are they thus waiting outside of the church? The doors are open, and why do they not enter in? ‘The reason is simply this:—These peuple can only enter that church as “beggars and trespassers upon other m purchased and paid for proper- ty;’’ and they must maintain the degrading posl- tion of such beggary if they will go to church; and they are watting until the owners of the seats in that church shail permit them to enter therein, Now, is this kind of begging exempt from the odium which inevitably fastens itself upon all other forms of begging? It is religious instruction, it is spiritual food which these waiting ones are desiring. And is not that spiritual food wont to be considered as the “bread of life,” the peculiar giltof God? And is money the one thing needful whereby to obtain this gift? Let ussee in what kind of light this thing was viewed by the apostles—by Peter in the Acts, vill, 18-24—"And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostle’s hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying ‘Give me also this power, that on whomsvever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost.’ But Peter said un to him, ‘Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought the giit of God may be purchased with money, Thou Nast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not pens in the ‘sight of God. Repent, therefore, of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be jorgiven thee. For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” Here, then, we have the apostle’s ideas concern- ing the use of money in these matters, and let our clergymen and churchmen, who maintain views to the contrary, compare these religious views with those of Peter. Let them compare, then, Chris- tianity (?) with the teachings and example of the Great Founder of Christianity, Think you that Christ was ever found buying a chief seat in the synagogue Jor His own use and paying 4 high pre- mium thereon? If Christ were personally among us at the present tame and were to go a3 a stranger to one of our popular churches, He would not be allowed to enter but would be obliged to stand and wait until His worshippers (?) had ar- rived and taken the seats which their money had aid for. After which process had been completed, ie would perhaps, by the charity of the pew- holders, obtain a seat (if He would accept of it), How can men unite the name of Christianity with the maintenance of that which is so utterly at variance with the teachings and example of Christ? Are we to suppose that the members of the “church militant,’? who have passed on to the ‘church — triumphant,’ are engaged in buying up and paying premiums on the chief seats in heaven? To the ambitious mother, who desired of Jesus that one of her sons might sit on His right band and the other on His leit, His reply was:—“To sit on my right hand and my left shall be given to them for whom 1t is prepared of my Father,” and also that “They who would be first should be last, and the last first.”” When wealth is turned from its prenee and legi- timate channels and perverted from its right uses as a great and important civilizing and refining agent and is made subservient to selfishness and arrogance, to the buliding up of walls o! separa- tion between man and his brother mun, then has arrived the time when the doers and upholders of these things may be looked upon as being not lar trom that condition wherein it shall be pronounced to them also, “Thy money perish wit thee;” or “Be not deceived, God 1s not mocked.” zi ISABELLA B, LANGSTON, A Word to Catholic Pastors. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Iwould most respectfully call the attention of Catholic pastors to the example set them by the Very Rev. Dr. McGlynn, of St, Stephen’s, in per- mitting his church to remain open every night until nine o’clock, The doors of St. Stephen’s are open from five o’clock in the morning till nine at night, affording thereby to many excellent oppor- tunity to have recourse to the fountain of all grace and to receive strength from our biessed Lord to perform the duties of their state in a conscientious manner. Sometimes a man whose mind is engrossed in business pursuits, whose aim is the accumulation of wealth and worldly honors—to the neglect ot God and the salvation of bis ee peng by a church door, would enter, and in all probability wonld there receive grace from God to commune more seriously with himself, and there and then lay the foundation of a noble and religious lite. If lam intormed correctly, in all Catholic countries our churches are open irom early morn tili late at night, and I believe much good results from this commendable practice, At night in particular Catholic cnurcnes should remain open “till at least nine o’clock.”” This would attord opportunities to many to prepare themselves worthily for the sacred duties of their religion, and would indeed be a consolation to numerous devout souls, who would wish, after the cares and toils of the day, to hold communion with their dear Lord in the hol sacrament of the altar. Hoping our pastors will act on this suggestion, I remain, dear sir, Pp. Protestant Views of Catholic Doctrine. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I casually heard the other day that @ preacher at a Baptist conventicie had lately referred to a remark alleged to have been made bya Catholic priest in an instruction given at a church in Brook- lyn to the effect that “if Jesus Christ came down from heaven and sat in one of the confessionals of the church He would have no more authority to forgive the sins of a penitent than one of the priests.” The minister asked his congregation if this was not shocking, and I presume enlarged on the enormity of such teaching. As I imagine it would be undignified for a priest to answer this seif-constituted minister of religion, I (perhaps with too much presumption) offer aiew remarks on the subject. To the people assembled before this preacher it no doubt sounded very terrible, but if they knew the truths of the Cathohc Church, or if they would without prejudiced minds inquire into them, they would see there is novhing out of the way in such an assertion. Our Church teaches that in the sacrament of Penance sins are truly forgiven, the conditions being confession, with sincere contrition or sorrow, and resolution of amendment; the confessor is the authorized representative of Christ, who, through St. Peter, gave him the keys of the king- dom of heaven, Now, if the President were to give full authority to certain officers to pardon malefactors on their complying with certain conditions, and to appoint Others as the President appointed them, would the President have greater power, personally, to grant that pardon if he himseif were to act in that oficial capacity ? Where, then, is the impropriety of such a doctrine ? But some will say in reply, “Oh, but we donot believe Christ ever gave such & power to His priests!” Weil, I know they do not believe many things the Bible teaches, and this is one case in which they ies their Saviour the lie, but Catholics do believe Him, and do not try to expiain away His words, nor to prove He acted with duplicity when He breathed on His aposties and said, “Receive ie the Holy Ghost, Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven, and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained.” Leibnitz, @ learned Protestant, says:—‘‘If there is anything divine in the Catholic Church it is con- Session, or the sacrament of penance.” Ido not propose entering into controversy on this or any other subject, particularly in a news- paper; but as [ am sure there are many Protestants who Know a8 little about confession as about Most of the doctrines of the Catholic Ohu.ch I would inform them that confession ts an obligation equally binding on the clergy as the laity, and that from the ee, and ignorant peasant up to the sovereign Pontif, the Pope, ali, all are bound to confess to @ priest; and the Pope himself kneels. to a plain priest (perhaps a poor friar) and receiv the — absolution as humbly as the peasant, and pays no more for it, forit is all free; and I can assure my Protestant friends that if they have any desire to avail them- selves of it they can do so in any church in any part of the world without it costing them a cent. One word more and I have done. Protestants often say thatwhen Our Lord said to St. Peter “Thou art Peter, and on this rock I build my Church,” He did not mean Peter was the “rock.” May | take the liberty of informing them that Peter (Latin Petra) means “rock,” and that “rock” means “Peter?” I need only cali to notice that pe- troleam 1s rock oll, and to petrily is to turn into a stone or rock, St. Peter’s successor is the rock now on which so many are dashing themselves and on which Protestantism is being smashed into so many atoms, Let them read the second and third Psalms. CHARLES SMITH. BROOKLYN, B. D., Oct., 1873, Bishop Reinkens. (From the Deutsche Nachrichten of Berlin.) With reterence to the recognition of Bishop Reinkens by the State, we are in‘ormed on good authority that the Emperor has already signed the document relating to it, but that the oMctal pub- lication of it will not take place until aiter Dr. Reinkens shall have taken and subscribed the Oaths, As soon as this official publication shall have taken place the other German governments Will be applied to to recognize the Bisho With reierence to the intentions of the Grand Ducal government of Baden on this bolt we have been informed that although the subject has not as yet been officially Girma by the ministry, the, leading statesman of that country is decidediy in favor of the recogui- tuon of the ‘op by Baden, and on looking at the proceedings of the old Catholic Congress at Con- stance this opmion seems to be confirmed. The quaniion. will, no doubt, have been decided betore the meeting of the Chambers, Several Deputies of the second Chamber are going to take the initta- tive in bringing in bills regulating the relations of the State to the Church, uniess the government itself should anticipate them, We are told that several Deputies of the Seckreis (Southern District of Baden) intend to pro very decisive meas- ures with relerence to the dotation paid to the Archiepiscopal See at Freiburg. Ministerial Movements and Changes. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Dr. Ward, of Geneseo, has been appointed agent of the American Bible Society in Central and Western New York, vice Dr. P, E. Brown, resigned. Rev. J. ©. Lord, D, D., has resigned his pastorate of the Central Presbyterian Church of Buifalo, N. Y., which he has held for thirty-eigh* years. Rev. Dr. D.C. McLaren, (United Presbytért®a) who recently celebrated his: golaen wedding at Geneva, N. Y., has two brothers, two sons, two sons-in-law and a nephew in the winistry. Dr. J. ©. Hepburn and Mrs, Hepburn, of the Presbyterian Board, have left this city for San Francisco, to take the steamer of the 1st of November, on their return to Japan, where they are to resume their missionery work at Yokohama. The Rey. Arthur Crosby, late of Kent, Conn., and who has been about four years in the ministry, wds installed pastor of the Second Pres- byterian churen of Brooklyn on Sabbath evening last, Kleven foreign missionaries have gone out to their work from the Sunday-school of the First Reformed Presbyterian church in Phil- adelpoia. The mission to Greece, conducted by the Rey. Mr. Kalopothakes, formerly under the Supervision of the American and Foreign Christian Union, has been adopted by the Committee of the Southern Presbyterian Church, The Rev. Morns C. Sutphen, D, D., of this city, willspend the winter in Jacksonville, ¥la., for his health, and while there will take charge of the Presbyterian church in that place. Rev. F. H. Bowman, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Memphis, has been cut Off at his post by the yellow fever. Rey. Dr. West, of Danville, Ky., has accepted the pastorate of Lincoln Park church in Cincinnati, A novel missionary Movement is reported by Rev. J. L. Wood- side, who has purchased, in behalf of the American Presbyterian Mission, seventeen villages from tue Dehra Doon Tea Company ior a native Christian colony, to be called the “Hopetown Christian Colony.” The price paid was $90,000, This is the most extensive undertaking of the kind ever at- tempted in India. Rev. George C. Curtis, D. D., was installed pastor of the church at Canandaigua last week. Rev. A, C. Roe has accepted the pas- torate of the Presbyterian church at eee N.Y. @t $2,000 salary anda parsonage. Kev. L. F. Laine, aiter a pastorate of thirteen years, has resigned at Canisteo, N. Y., on account of disease. Rev, H. W. Stratton has accepted a call to the Oswego Presbyterian church. The eminent Scotch divine, Rev. Robert S, Candlish, D. v., died on Sunday night last, at the age of seventy-six. He was one or the leaders in the disruption, and since the death of Dr. Chalmers has been the most influen- tial man in tne Free Church, Now that the Evan- clical Alliance has met and eyouened Dr. jcCosh and other Presbyterian divines want a Pan-Presbyterian Council to come together in Old St. Giles’, Edinburgh, from which Join Knox than- dered forth the Truth. The Third Presbyterian church of Paterson, N, J., organized twenty-nine months ago, hassince received 195 members, 22 of whom united with it on the 12th inst, ROMAN CATHOLIC, The curé of St. Cloud, France, has diseovered a miraculous water spring in his Owe pariah, so that pilgrimages to Lourdes maybe dispensed with hereaiter. The great pilgrimage to Jerusalem, now organizing in Paris, was to start about the middle of October, An English enthusiast pro- poses to restore the cloisters of the Franciscan Convent in Verona, Italy, where is still seen the tomb of faithful Juliet. ‘This venerable structure was destroyed in 1799, and the monument of the jair Capulet has been used for many years a8 a washtub. ‘The Brotherhood of St. Vincent de Paul 1 St. Malachi’s church, East New York, has just founded a female half orphan asyium and indus- trial school, in connection with their other opera- tions, It is to be under the charge of twelve si3- ters. The mission which has been going on so suc- cessfully for the past two weeks in the Nativity church, Brooklyn, was brought to a close on Sunday evening last. It was estimated that over 1,200 persons were present, The missionaries have come to St. Bridget's church, New York. ‘The corner stone of the new Church of St. Mary, South Amboy, N, J., will be laid on Monday, Octo- ber 27, by the Right Rev. Dr. Corrigan, bisnop of the diocese of Newark. The new Church of the Sacred Heart, to be erected by national subscrip- tion in Paris, is to be built on the spot occupied by the little chapel in which St. Ignatius originally founded the society of Jesus. v. W. J. Daly, of the Cathedral, Boston, has been appointed pastor of St. Gregory’s church, Haverhill, Mass., in the place of the late Father Cummins, The Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes, in Montreal, is pro- gressing rapidly, Its total estimated cost will be $133,000, The Catholics of the diocese of Arichat, Nova Scotia, are building a fine cathedral in the town of Antigonish. The Rev. John McGough, formerly of Boston and Tate assistant pastor at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Fall River, Mass., has been transferred to Provincetown. The Catholics of Woonsocket, R. IL, are pies / to give a grand reception to their pastor, Kev.M. McCabe, who is expected irom Europe shortly. The Right Rev. Bishop O'Reilly, of epene feild, gave his congregation, on alate Sunday, a pe! sensible talk on the folly of employing an extra- ordinary long line of carriages at funerals, instanc- ing the case of a poor man, recently deceased, at whose funeral there were forty carriages and a ee show, while the widow was obliged to solicit elp within a week. He advised the different societies to establish & rae by refusing to attend funerais when there should be more than five carriages besides the hearse. On Monday last the Rey. F. 3. Gardiner, assistant priest in the Church of Our Lady of Victory, Brooklyn, breathed his last. He was a young man only ten months in the priesthood and only six va sick. The Boston Pilot has information that Bishop de Vere, of the French West India Islands, has just been murdered in St. Pierre, off Newfoundiana, by his cousin, Emtl Pelletier, The motive for the crime is said to be that the Bishop had inherited all the fortune of Welletier’s father, Who was wealthy, Bishop de Vere was consecrated last August, so that he nad a very brief episcopate. EPISCOPALIAN, Two Episcopalian churches in Baltimore—St, Luke’s and St. Paul’s—were robbed on Friday evening last of plate valued at $2,200. The Rev. John Vaughan Le: D. D., of Washington, D. C., has réceived a unanimous call to the rectorship of Grace church, Newark, N.J. The edifice formerly occupied by a “Swedenborgian” congregation at Baltimore, Md., has been purchased at @ cost of $13,000, and is now “St. Mark’s church for Colored People.” Bishop Littlejoin, of Long Isiand, has issued a call for five Sunday school convocations, The Dean of the General Theological Seminary, Dr. vero has issued an appeal to the clergy and laity of the Church for assistance in carrying on certain improvements at this venerable insti- tution, The plans embrace a new library, a new chapel and increased accommodations for the students, and will require an expenditure of $2,500, v. Dr. K, N. Morgan, who has been rector of Trinity church, New Rochelle, N, Y., for nearly thirty years, has resigned, and intends to remove Stamiord. A pension has been provided tor m. Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, has been threatened with the discipline of his Church, it is said, for having communed with non-successional ministers at Dr. Adams’ church in thik city during the sessions of the Evangelical Alliance. Dr, Cum- mins was originally a Methodist, and he still re- tains some of the liberalism of his early faith and training. The late missionary ee) of Zanzibar, whose epistie against the Dean of Canterbury for participating in the same service with Bishop Cum- mins has been extensively published and read, is portrayed in a ludicrous style in the which makes @ characteristic extract from Stan. ley’s book concerning the Bishop, BAPTIST, A Baptist church has been organized at Salt Lake City. v. U, B, Parsons goes from Farmer yilage to Nunda, N. Y. Rev. Leander Hall from Fort Miller to Kingsbury, Washington Lene Ne Y. Rev, M. P. Forbes irom Attica to Holley, N. Y. Rev. L, W. Olney resigns at Amsterdam from /ailin, health, Rev. Thomas Davis has resigned at ‘North Manlius, N. Y.; Rev. L. Stewart at Huntington, L, J., and Rev, James Goodman at Cornwall, N. Y. Rev. Addison Parker has removed from Charles- town, Mass., to Elmira. Rev. L. C. Sands from Poquonoc Bridge, Vonn., to Hoosick, N, Y. Rev. R. McGonegal has resigned at Deep Conn., to enter the service of the American Bible Union in New Jersey and Penn- syivania. Rey, GM. Stone, D. D., late of Milwau- kee, supplies the church a wn, N.¥. Rev, A Judson Allen has accepte call to the Baptist church of Johnstown, N, ind entered upon his labors, Rev. C. F, Blakeman has resigned his pas- torate of the First Baptist church of Greenflela Centre, N. Y., to take eflect the last Sunday in Oc- tober, » D. M. Reeves, pastor of the First’ Baptist churen of Albany, nas _re- signed his pastorate, to take effect May next, A State Convention of Bapusts will be held in Oswego during the present week, A new Baptist church $8 soon to be constituted in the mission now carried on by the Washi m avenue church, roeaay at Marcy avenue and Montrose street. About lity members from other Baptist churches are ready to engage in the new enterprise, The tist church of Stamford, Conn., will commem- orate its centennial birthday on Thursday, Novein- ber 6. The General Baptist Association, of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio numbers 9,000 open communicants. Rev. N. Butler, D. D., has resigned his pastorate at Leavenworth, Kansas, owing to his wife's ill-health, He has gone to Bangor, Me. Rev. D, 8 Dean has gone to labor again with the church at Williamsville, near Buffalo, with which he severed his connection twenty-nine years feo. Rev. J. Donnelly, a of Port Huron, Mich., has gone to Omaha, . The Baptists of Grand Rapids, Mich., are butiding what they expect to be the largest and 5 most beautiful Baptist church In the State, 1 Baptiste of Missourl mmber 80,000, The Union Park Baptist church, o! 0, has Just dismissed | upon the hearta of the auife 100 of its members to form another society, to be known as the Ashland avenue Baptist church, of that city. The new church at Lawndale, near Chicago, will be dedicated to-day, There are 171 Baptist churches in Minnesota and only 50 houses of worship: 6,437 members in these organizations are ministered to by 122 ministers; 20 new edifices are in process of erection; 365 additions by \m- mersions were made to the churches during the Year just closed; 30 missionaries are sustained, rtly by the State Convention and partly by the 2 ‘d in New York, METHODIST. To-day is the 107th birthday of Methodism on this Continent. The event wiil be duly observed through- out the day in the First Methodist Episcopal church of America, in John street, this city. vy. W. J. Parks, @ well-known minister of the Methodist Episco, church, South, died at his home in Ox- ford, Ga., October 16, of congestion of the lungs. Rev. Dr, Fry, of the Ohio Conference, sailed last week for bey to be absent one year. Rev. J. W. Morris, of New Jersey Conference, was married on the 14th inst. to Miss Anna S, Randolph, of Man- nahomhin, N. J. The Broadway Protestant Metho- aist church, Baltimore, reports q biessed revival rogress, There have already been nearly fifty conversions and accessions to the church. Port Jetferson Methodist Episcopal church is rebuilding on the most commanding site in the village. Twenty-one poreons were added to Snow Shoe Station (Central Pennsyivania) conference, during @ protracted meeting, just closed. Twenty-five recent converts are reportea at Dickinson Seminary, Wiiliamsport, Pa. A re- vival which be; in St. Peter’s Methodist Epis- copal church, Reading, Pa., two weeks ago, re- sulted in sixty-five conversions in one weck, and the altars are crowded nightly. Second avenue Methodist Episcopal! church, in this city, Rev. W. W. Bowdish, pastor, contributed, on Sunday e ing Jast, a collection of over $500 for a city mission work. German Methodism is prospering in Balti- more. Since Rev. Mr. Seidle has been on the dis- trict twelve new churches have been built and six remodelled. The Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, West be ugecn tre Rev. W. M. Rid way pastor, 18 ding a new edifice at Forty-first and Bridge streets, the corner stone of which was laid on Monday, October 13, The Rev. John Parker and membei of the Seventh street church have arranged for series of sermons in their church by representative ministers of different denominations, as follows:. Sunday Evening, October 26, Rev, Dr. T. M. Eddy; Monday, 27th, kev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn; Tues- day, 28th, Rev, Dr. Armitage, of New York; Wednesday, 29th, Rev. Dr. ng, Jr.; Thursday, 80th, Rev. Dr. Hepworth; Friday, Rev. Dr. John Hall, The object of these meetings is to illus- trate and promote the spirit of Christian unity which was so Rappy evoked by the re- cent meeting of the Evangelical’ Alliance. On November 1, the anniversary of the Saturday night union meeting for the promo- tion of holiness at.Hedding church, Jersey City, organized by Rev. William Day in 186%, will be held with appropriate exercises. The Rev. James Wall, Baptist minister at Rome, reports the baptism by him of the Rey. Father Paolo Grassi, incumbent of the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. ‘The candidate ene @ pubilc reeantation of the Roman Cataolic rst MISCBLLANEOUS, Thursday, November 27, has been appointed for Thanksgiving throughout the country by the Presi- dent. Rev. Dr. C. W. Shaeffer, of Germantown, Pa., was lately installed as Professor of Ecclesias- tical History in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, The average age of American ciergymen deceased the pap heat was about sixty- one. Of 236 whose deaths and ages were reported, 7 were over 90, 29 between 80 and 90, 46 between 70 and 80, 49 between 60 and 70, 61 between 50 and 60, 23 between 40 and 50, 22 between 30 and 40 and 9 between 20 and 30, Rev. H. M. Kieffer, recently ordained, has become pastor of the Reformed church at Norristown, Pa, Rev, E. P. Herrick, of the Congregational churcb, Middle Haddam, Conn., has been appointed a missionary to Monterey, Mex- 1co, by the American Board. JUDAISM AND REASON. Definition of Religion—Walking with God—Discourse by Dr. Vidaver in the Thirty-tourth Street Synagogue. “Noah was a just man and perfect in his genera- tion, and Noah walked with God.”—Gen., vi., 9. ‘This was the subject of Dr. Vidaver’s remarks yes- terday in the synagogue in Thirty-fourth street. The religious question, he said, is the all-absorb- ing question now among men and preachers, and religious teachers are asked to give a definition of religion. It is useless for them any longer to say that this or that creed is the way and that this or that church is the door of entrance to heaven. The people see the preachers and the churches, but they don’t see religion. They see also that religion does not belong to this or that church, and they necessarily inquire, What is religion? And we have a right to com- mand attention to the word “religion.” The Bible has no equivalent for it, One of the most graphic definitions of what it isis given to usin the text. Noah was a just man and Noah walked with God. Soul religion is that principle that brings man to man and man to God. With the spirit man com- municates with God; with the body he commu- nicates with man. How, then, shall these be united? Just as Noah did. He had no Bible, no priest, no temple, and yet he was a perfect man and walked with God. He had above him the spangled light of the heavens, by which he knew that there was a God. Has not the Almighty given tous minds by which we can study God in His works and see Him there? Has not man an ear to hear the anthems of raise to God assung by Nature? Isaiah, Jeremial job declare that God can be seen in nature, an His children can come to Him then at all times. Judaism knows NO OTHER MEDIATOR THAN MAN’S REASON. And is God confined in the incarnation? Every man who chooses to uge the faculties of his mind can walk with God in nature. But it will be said that this is rationalism—the religion of nature, of humanity. Well, Judaism knows no other God than the God of nature and of revelation. The Bible contains only the revelation of God’s word, not of His nature or being. But it will be asked, Why should God give another revelation if He had already given one im nature? Because men cannot always read the book of nature, nor can all men read it; and because, further, man cannot find in the book of nature laws tor the moral guidance of his life. David looked up to the heavens, and they told him of a Creator; but ths revelation ‘was not perfect or complete without the other revelation in this book (the Bible). And the his- tory of all nations is almost daily confirming the truths and declarations of this book. Show me, the Doctor said, among the nations of antiquity any that can produce such laws as are here on those tablets (above the ark), You will not find any. . THE HEATHEN OF OLD had the same book of nature that we have; yet they never found out God. They sanctioned many acts in social life which we would shrink trom, Virtue was unknown to them. And many of our modern rationalists interpret the doctrines and laws of nature as containing in them nothing that coulf impose upon any man the duty of providing even jor his own family. In China, where the law of nature prevails, they leave their aged and infirm on the streets todie. And some of the pagans ofour time have suggested that the lives of sickly infants and of in- firm and helpless old people should be blotted out. Ifyou give up this revelationon Sinai you have nothing left to support yon in old age and in the hour of death. Letus, like Joshua, say that whatever others may do we will hold to this revelation, Judaism does not clash with science. It is the handmaid oj science. It teaches that the God of nature is the God of the Bible, and this book is the means by which to reguiate our lives. To be re- ligious, in the Jewish sense, meang to have love to God and love to man, and to walk with God. Ana the man who thus lives, of him it can be said that he is full of character and of life--a perfect man, and one who walks with God. THE HOBOKEN SAVINGS BANK. The managers of the institution above named have prepared a report ywhich is to be sent in pamphlet form to the deposituys in a few days, It gives a history of the action taken by the man- agers from the day of Klenen’s flight to the present; justifies the secrecy observed in en- deavoring to have the thief arrested, and shows the excess of liabilities over resources to bé $54,020, The suspension of Fisk & Hatch, with $94,000 of the funds of the savings bank in their possession, is declared to be the chief cause of the managers’ inability to resume payment, Messrs, hippen & Kimball, in a conference with Fisk & Hatch, learned that in all probability the $94,000 would be returned witn interest after five or six months. Subscriptions to make good the deficit have been proffered to the extent of $82,285. The only courses open to the depositors are said to be:—First, to wait Figgas until Fisk & Hatch resume, and second, to obtain their money by legal procedure, and thus throw the concern into bankruptcy, Hence it will be seen that the man- wre themselves must have confidence in that which they wish to impress upon the minds of the depositors—viz., the prospective resumption of ayment by Fisk & Hatch, If the directors bes jieve this it is very easy for them to perform a heroic work of charity py, promisicg, ‘to hoid them- selves responsible for the resumption of Fisk & Hatch, and thus relieve an amount of distri nd misery without parallel, Hundreds of labor- ers out of employment, with wives and helpless children, jamishing in bleak hovels upon the meadows, and some persons are known to have died heart-broken in consequence of the fallure of the bank. Other impoverished depositors are part- ng with their pass-books at, ruinous sacrifices, This could be remedied by the wealthy managers without ultimate loss to themselves. Some of them have accumulated princely fortunes, & small rtion of which they can well afford to risk, now hat they have seen the best periods of their lives, Such @ work of jantmous labor might not be accounted @ “business” transaction, but it cor- tainly could not fail to find yet some suitable re- turn, and it would inscribe their names forever ring Door. : THE KELSEY VERDICT. * All of the Parties Implicated Held Responsible as Giving Countenance to the Outrage— What May Yet Be Lone by Way of Investigation by the Grand Jury of Suffolk County. Hunrineton, L. L., Oct., 25, 1873, After. many days of waiting and wondering the public will be somewhat astonished to learn that the Kelsey inquest was not permitted to extend into eternity, and that to-day, at Oyster Bay, @ verdict has been rendered affirming that the human remains about which so much has been said and written are the remains of Charles G, Kelsey, and implicating as participants and abet tors of the crime of killing him nearly ali the per- sons who had been prominently mentioned in connection with the famous tar and feather outrage and tragedy of last November, The jury were about ten hours actually in de- liberative session—about six and a half hours last night and three and a half hours to-day. They were allowed to separate at two o'clock this morn- Ing by the Coroner, as there seemed to be no rea- sonable hope that even by sitting up all night they Would be able to render a unanimous verdict, and this was just what the Coroner and counsel and the whole anti-tar party desired, especially if each juror had brougnt in a separate verdict, as they had the right to do, or even if one halfofthem varied irom the findings of the other half, there would have been a vast amount of dissatisiaction manifested both in Huntington and Oyster Bay. In Oyster Bay, as almost all over the whole county, there is but one sentiment and that is anti-tar. Halfot those who so believe will not be convinced but that Dr. Banks, Royal Sammis and others took part in the WORST THAT WAS DONE TO KELSEY. That, however, is absurd to assume. In Hunt- ington, however, there is a class which stands in defence of the tar party and which, outside of this quarrel, 1s socially second to no other part of the community. Outside of this latter comparatively limited class, again, the verdict derived was a sweeping one, and most people feared that there would be such difference of opinion among the twelve jurors on the question of the relative re- sponsibility of the various individuals involved that a united verdict would not be a likely result. And just upon this question, I understand trom several of the jurors, there was along discussion and much compromise before an agreement looked at all probable, In order to reach it they had to weigh carefully the relative share of participation, active of passive, of each person shown to have been ew gaged in THE CONSPIRACY AND FINAL OUTRAGE, The testimony ®f Streeter, the young man who testified yesterday in reference to the long conver- sation he overheard in a railway car, was not seriously considered by the jury, and they gen- erally believe that, under the circumstances, he was mistaken in what he supposed he heard, and got the actual statements of the parties in conver- sation muddled, Wheelen, the man to whom he credits the asser- tions, isa well known anti-tar man, just such a man, too, as would take @ hand in iavor of the weak side wherever he might see several men as- sault one, By dint of argument and concession, however, the jurors reached a verdict which, while it unquestionably includes some persons who are not legally guilty of any offence, is, on the whole, one that will meet with general public approval. Of course none of them are as yet proved guilty, and with the evidence now at hand, it is doubtfnl whether any of them could be convicted, This is speaking in full view of the facts as far as proved, and making no allowance for what the accused parties may be able to bring forward in their own defence. A large proportion of the testimony taken at the inquest would be utterly incompetent before a Court having jurisdiction of the case for trial. And while some of this has had an effect in coloring the crude case before Coroner Baylis and will never again become matter of official record, it is only just to say, too, that even here no one be- lieves that, admitting the crime to be murder, it was done wilfully, or that any of the parties named in the verdict took any part physically in the in- fliction of the injuries which produced death. The verdict as rendered is generally admitted to be, under the circumstances, as severe as the jury could be justified in finding. Of course there are some rabid people who do not think it is pointed enough and these, if they could do so, would doubt- less haye the Coroner’s jury render a verdict of conviction absolute against all hands. THE TEXT OF THE FINDING ig as follows :. An inquisition taken before Valentine Baylis, one if tl oroners of Queens county, State of New anda jury of twelve men, duly summoned and sworn, held at the house of A. A. Reed, in the village of Oyster Bay, on the remains found float- ingin the harbor of Oyster Bay, Queens county, State of New York, on the 29thday of August, 1873, do say upon their oaths that the said remains are those of Charles G. Kelsey, a resident of the town of ei ated Suitolk county, State of New York, who disappeared from that place on the night of November 4, 1872. And the fury further find that the said Charles G. Kelsey came to his death by reason of brutal treat- ment received at the hands of certain persons to the jury unknown in said town of Huntington, on the night of November 4, 1872; and the jury also find that Royal Sammis, George B. Banks, Arthur T. Hurd, William J. Wood, John McKay and Henry R. Prmce aided, abetted and countenanced by eis presence the committal of the gross outrage INHUMAN VIOLENCE upon the person of the said Charles G. Kelsey which leu to his death on the night of November 4, 1872; and that Arthur M, Prime, Claudius B. Prime, 3. H. Burgess, Rudolph Saimmis and James McKay were accessories before the fact—Valentine Baylis, Coroner; James M. Burtis, foremin; Samuel 8. Summers, John Wilson Smith, Alexander Ficming, James Starkins, James Satterlee Clark, soni Vail, Joseph B. Wi lam, Daniel N. Cashow, John Wood. The next inquiry by almost every one after the rendering of the verdict was, “Well, what are they going to donext?” and thisI have been trying to find out. The finding of the Coroner’s jury sim- ply warrants the taking of such further action by the attorney, as would be taken by a justice of the peace after an examination—namely, the commit- talof the accused parties to await the action of the Grand Jury. But the Coroner is an official of Queens county. The outrage was com- mitted in Suffolk county, where the subject, a8 wellas all the parties involved, reside. The ac- cident that the remains were found floating in the limits of Queens county, may bring up a curious question of jurisdiction. Therefore the Coroner inclines to the opinion that he may issue his war- rant of committal to await the action of the Suf- folk County Grand Jury; but he is not yet defl- nitely informed as to the correct interpretation of the law. Justice Monfort and Mr. Platt, counsel for the people of Suffoik county, areof the belief that Justice Monfort may at once issue warrants for the arrest of the Rose on the oficial record of the Coroner's cour a THE SUFFOLK COUNTY GRAND JURY a meets om Monday, and it is just possible that they may find indictments upon presentation by the District Attorney and thus cut the jurisdictional knot. Meantime aii the parties implicated are aware of the fact that eed are thus far accused and expect to be arrested at any moment, although I have the best of reason for knowing that not! ing will be done either by the Coroner or the Suffolk county authorities before Monday, and perhaps Tuesday or Wednes There is no danger, however, that the _ parti will attempt 5 evade process of law. One and all will stand their trial without attempting to anid face the matter outto the end. Ihave conver: with @ number of the Partios implicated by the verdict to-night, and they express the utmost Fesolution of parpose as well as confidence of their ability to make a good defence, Some of thom are 80 boid as to assure me that when it comes toa trial there will be an exposure of conspiracy that will startle the community aa much as the Kelsey case has done, and that this county will become too warm fo hold some people. ‘The con- spiracy to tar and feather Kelsey has been already proved, and {it would be curious to find a conspiracy existing against conspirators—a freater ring, with a lesser one in its confines. L have been actually assured that the defence will prove that the legs which have becu the subject of all ibis mystery and sensation were brought to Oyster Bay in May last, and the gentleman who makes the assertion holds a position in the affair that would make it very ridicuious for him if he fails, Dr. Banks is still absent from Huntington, but Lam positively ascured that he has left merely to visit friends and obtain rest for a week or two. Claudius B. Prime was in New York all day to-day and resumed bere Wenig, Tight, Edward Long, Joseph Lud-: a y