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6 “RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. November 2---Religious Exercises This Day and Evening. | cnn HERALD RELIGIOUS COMMUNICANTS. | Movements and Changes of the Clergy. Services To-Day. Bishop Cummins, 0! Kentucky, preaches this evening in Association Hall. Rev. Dr. True will conduct the evening services at St, Luke’s (Methodist). The congregation of St. Stephen’s (Episcopal) ‘will be addressed at the morning service by Rev. ®. D. Tompkins, and atthe evening service by Professor Roberts, Rev. L. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, preaches in Dr. Deema’ church this morning and the Doctor bim- self in the evening. Dr. Talmage’s (Tabernacie) flock will worship atthe usual hours, morning and evening, in the Brooklyn Academy. “Old Maids and Their Accusers”’ is the subject of ‘the lecture (the first in a ‘dime course’) by Rev. Benry Morgan, at Cooper Institute, this evening. ‘ Miss Sarah E. smiley preaches in the morning to he Seventeenth street Baptists and in the evening ‘So the Central Methodists. # ‘The New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society anniversary, this evening, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, will be addressed by Rev. Dr. Potter. John P. O'Neill, late United States District Attor - ney of Philadelphia, now resident of this city, will lecture at the Church of the Holy Name this even- ing, at half-past seven. Subject—“The Life and Times of the Great Irish’ Tripune, Daniel O'Con- nell.” The Fifth avenue Baptists will celebrate the j twenty-filth year of Dr. Armitage’s pastorate to- day at half-past ten A. M. and three and half-past seven P.M. Evening sermon by Dr. Fulton, ot Brooklyn. “The True Road to Success” will be pointed out by Rev. Mr. Sweetser this evening in the Bleecker Street Universalist church. Rey. Mr. Rochedieu, of Belgium, will preach his final sermon in this country this morning, in the French Evangelical church. The first of a series of sermons in French will be given by Rev. C. Miel, at half-past three P. M., in athe Church of the Holy Saviour, Services at eleven and half-past three in the Madison avenue Reformed church, Rey. Mr. Ganse. “The Greatest Question,’ according to Mr. Hoyt’s Standard, will be placed before his fock (Taberna- cle Baptist), this evening, In Steinway Hal!. Rey. John E. Cookman preaches, morning -and evening, in the Methodist Free Tubernacle. Rey. Mr. Knapp, in Laight street Baptist Muis- sion. Rey. Dr. Van Nest, in St. Paul’s (Reformed). Rey. David Mitchell, in Canal street Presbyterian cburch. Rey. Dr, Flagg) in the Church of the Resurrec- | tion, and Rev. Mr. Barnhart, in Forsyth street Methodist | church, | The Berean Baptists will be ministered to Spiritually by their pastor, Rev. Mr. Davies, at the | ‘usual hours, In St. Peter’s, Rev. Dr. Thompson will address young men this evening. In St. Mark’s, Rev. Dr. Rylance will lecture upon “Revelation” this evening. In St. Thomas’ there wilibe the customary ser- vices, Rey. Dr. Morgan officiating. Rev. Dr. Muller will address Baptists, morning and evening. The Trinity Baptists will be addressed at the usual services, morning and evening, by Rev. Dr. Holme. Morning service, at eleven o’clock, in the Rus- Bian-Greek chapel. There will be morning and evening services in the Sixth avenue Union Reformed church, Rev. Mr. Merritt. | In Fifty-third street Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Pendleton. In Fourteenth street Scotch Presbyterian church, Rev. Mr. Hamilton, and In the Madison avenue Zion church, Rev. Mr. Galleher, Rey. J. M. Peebles lectures on “Spiritualism’’ at Rovinson Hall this evening. The Evangelicai Alliance will be “logically dis- sected” by Rev. Dr. Brann in Irving Hali this evening. Proceeds in aid of St, Elizabeth's Hospitai. Rev. Dr. Bellows will address the congregation of All Souls’ upon special topics this morning and evening. Rey. Mr. Newton preaches this morning “In Anthon Memorial church, Children’s church at half-past three P. M. French Retormed service in Calvary chapel this morning, Kev. E. Borel preaching. Mr. John Ashworth, the English autlr, wiil preach in the Church of the Disciples this evening, “The Temptations of Christ” will be depicted by Rev. Mr. Dawson, in the Church of Christ, this evening. “The Public Schools’ is the subject upon which Rev. Mr. Powers will dilate this evening, in the Church of the Messiah. In the Church of the Resurrection Rey. Dr. Flagg Will conduct the usual services, The customary services will be held to-day in Christ church, Rev. Dr. Thompson, rector. Rey. Mr. Pullman preaches, morning and even- ing, in the Church of Our Saviour. i “Social Culture” will be discoursed upon at the evening service in the Church of the New Jerusa- lem, The Fifth Universalists frill be addressed at eleven A. M., in Plimpton Hall, by Rev. Mr. At- wood. Fi Rev. Mr. Frothingham preaches before the Inde- Pendent Society this morning, in Lyric Hail. +The Church of Humanity will be addressed this morning, at De Garmo Hall, by Stephen Peari Andrews. Conference at three o’elock. Mrs. Nar- cissa Agnes Capello will speak in. the evening. Rev. Mr. Clarke's evening subject, at Harlem Unity chapel, is “Nothing but Leaves.” “The Legal Standing oi Women’, will be elabor- ated upon this atternoon by Dr. Lewis, in the Cos- mopolitan Conference. the Plymouth Is Protestantism a Failure? To Tug Epiton or THE HERALD :— It has been said by a distinguished Episcopalian divine that Protestautism is a failure. If this con- clusion is correct the cause must be found in a mis- interpretation of the Scriptures and in pertina- ciously adhering to tenets and dogmas which are inconsistent, not only with the reason which God has given to man, but equally so with revelation. ‘The first of the thirty-nine articles in the Episcopal Prayer book declares that God 1s a spirit, without lorm, parts or passions, &c., and in their doctrine of the Trinity it is said that there are three persoris and one God, consisting of Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and yet that these three persons are butone. And further, that the Son sits at the right hand of the Father, who is represented as jormless. How there can be three persons and yet only one person, and how it is possible to sit at the right hand of that which has no form, it is dim- cult to conceive. That which has no form is posi- tively nothing. Itis impossible to think of any- thing without giving it some kind of a form Again, they teach that God is infinite in mercy, and yet that His Som is more than infinite in ‘that quality, representing Him to be pleading with the Father for a greater exercise of that attribute. Ask the most eminent of these teachers to explain their doctrine of the Trinity so that it can be rationally understood, and they will tell youitisamystery. Amystery! Why teach a doc- trine that the wisest human intellect can never aomprehend? Who shall say that it is not @ gross Wrrort If the Bible be taken asa guide, surely | divmes would lead us to believe, it NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1873.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. nothing can be found therein to sustain such an incomprehensible theory, The Scriptures, as I read oe evel none Pg that there nous ne only true and livin very passa; inthe Old and New Testament, relatin eto that subject, eae interpreted, confirms t! great truth that God is one, and that the Lord Jesus Christ 18 that Goa. He declares that “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” that “I and page are one,” &c. In Him there is a divine trinity of love, wisdom and power, repre- sent by Father, Son and Bay Spirit. The divine dwelling within the yo was the Father. The Basen taken from the Virgin Mary was the Son; when that humanity was made divine by its glorification it became one with the Father, and from that union came tne Holy Spirit, Comforter. Does He not say, “It is othe lent w 1 go away that the Comiorter, the Spirit of Truth, may come unto you?’ Jesys declares that “all power 1s given to Him in heaven and in earth.’" Can there be two or three having all power? Can there be two infinites? and how can there bea Son coexistent with a Father? Many of the doc- trines as taught by the so-called orthodox churches are not only in conflict with the reason which God has given to man, but equally so with Divine rev- elation. - It cannot be that infinite wisdom de- anne belief in anything beyond the comprehen- B10 0! is creatures. ‘The difficulty in understanding what He does demand, aside from the Commandments, ows Out of the want of a true and harmonio inter- pretation of His Word. If the Bible has for its author an infinitely wise being must it not possess an infinitely wise and harmonious meaning in all its parts? And can that be found in its merely litera! sense? I think it will be conceded that it cannot. It follows, then, that there must be an inner or spiritual sense within the letter of the Word which will plage it as farabove human com- position as the worm of the Creator are above those of man. Man cannot build @ house, a ship or anything else without first building it spirit- | ually, sie must see the work in all its particulars, in his mind, before he can strike @ blow. So it 1s with the works of the Creator, they are exponents of His thoughts and principles. If this spiritual interpretation was understood by the wise men who bave congregated here as evan- gelists they would not regard those only who sub- scribe to certain dogmas as worthy to participate in their deliberations. Wise as these divines may be, learned as they may appear in spiritual things, they are still but the veriest infants in true wis- dom. They yet stand upon the shores of an ocean ot knowledge whose depths are fathomless and whose breadth reaches through eternity. If they had a clear understanding of the teachings of the Holy Word they would not demand a belief in the resurrection,fof the material body as one of the requisites of fellowship in their great undertaking. They would know what St. Paul means when he says, ‘There is @ natural body and there is a spiritual body’’—is, not is to be. They would remember that Moses and Elias were seen at the Transfiguration in periect human torms, They would also remember that the rich man wanted Lazarus to dip his finger in water to cool his (the rich man’s) tongue. That when St. John was about to sail down and worshij &@ spirit, whom he took to be the Lord, it was sai to him, ‘See thou do it not; 1 am one of thy fellow servants, the propnet.’’ There are many other evidences to be found in the sacred Scriptures which go to prove that man 18 essentially a spiritual being, formed of spiritual substances and clothed with materiality, for the purpose of keeping him in time and space fora brie season, and that when he has done with his house of clay he abandons it forever, and rises into a world suited to his altered condition. We know from ocular demonstration that after a certain time the material bouy entirely disappears and returns to the elements from which it was taken. Can it be reasonably supposed that the | Same particles which composed the body of Adam | are, aiter myriads of transiormations, for thousands of years, to be re-collectea and formed into another material body ? Li that is so anc we are (0 recog- nize our friends in the great hereafterthen it that all must reappear in the precise ysical condition in which they left the world of nature. The old, the decrepit, the halt, the blind, the youth and the infant of a day must all be re- created inte the very form and condition in which | they were placed in their earthiy graves. Li this doc- trine of the resurrection of the natural body be true, Where is the soul, or spirit? Aud in what form is it, during the long lapse of ages past and gone? If it be an ether, or vapor, as these orthodox arly follows thatit is entirely unconscious of existence, for to be requires the exercise of heart and brain and every other function of the human forni. Neither happiness nor misery could result from such a condition of the soul, and both good and evil would be deprived of their just deserts for un- known ages. In every light in which this theory of a resurrection of the natural body 1s regarded it becomes not only irrational but absurd. The Lord declares that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. If St. Paul's declaration is true, that we have a natural body and a epiritoe body, there Would seem to be no necessity for such a departure from the true order which belongs to | the known operations of the Deity. He has adapted the natural body to the natural world | and the spiritual body to the spiritual world. We | are told that the Church teaches this doctrine, and therefore we are bound to believe it. But why are we toadhere to doctrines promulgated | centuries ago? Were the great reformers inialu- ble ? Were they not human, and as liable to err as were those who believed that the earth stood stil! and that the sun revolved round it? Is it to be supposed that these reformers—Luther, Me- lancthon and others—have reached .the cil- max of religious knowledge, and that the minds of men were forever after to be circumscribed by their teacbings? Is it not podsibie that as the world grows wiser and becomes capable of receiv- ing and ecg | by higher and more interior truths, they will be given? What right has man to say that divine revelation has forever ceased? Does the Bible anywhere teach such @ doctrine ? Is Almighty power to be thus limited ? When ministers of the Gospel of all denominations will humbly and charitably admit to their fellow- ship all who are earnestly seeking after spiritual truth there will be less danger of @ failure of Protestantism. FT. The Alleged Disruption of the Baptist Denomination. To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD :— In your issue of the 26th ult., under the caption “Probable Disruption of the Baptist Denomination,” &c., in referring to the Port Jevfer- son church, with others, you say “these three churches have received missionary aid from the association, and a judicial as well as a spiritual oversigut of them may be conceded to the associ- ati@n on that account.” If cannot speak of the others, but of this church I can. It did receive aid from the association before my settlement here; but the first step on the part of the little despotic ring that has hitherto run the association towards disturbing my settlement was the cutting off of that aid lor the purpose of disabling the church. I herewith send you a paper that will show how it was done and for what it was done. But peyond this the aid gave them no shadow of right or authority over the church; for the obligation was mutual, the church agreeing to contribute to the missionary funds of the association, and did so contribute irom year to year while rece ving aid. Tam sure the church here wili thank you for the very just distinction you make between this churcn and the others, We have n. controversy with the association on that ground. The church has done without their aid fortnree years, and faced the most bitter persecution and abuse ever shown toa church on this island irom the parties who brought this trouble into the association. As they have now appointed a committee these parties will be shown up by evidence they cannot impeach, and a more rotten ring never was found inside the pale of Christian society in this country. * _ Pp. F, JONES, Pastor of the Church. PorT JEFFERSON, L. 1., Oct. 29, 1873, Who Is Jesus of Nazareth? To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— For Sunday reading there may not be a more in- teresting question than “Who is Jesus of Naza- reth?” There are, doubtiess, hundreds of the readers of the Sunday HERALD, believers and un- believers, who might stop a moment to bestow a passing thought on the question. That it remains an unsettled question to the understandings of many nominal Chrispians even in thia nineteenth century there can be no dispute. It was only last Sabbath that an eloquent divine in this city found it convenient to raise the question for the edifica- ton of bis hearers, ‘Is Jesus of Nazareth God?’ I did not hear the discourse, but feel quite sure the question was decided in the negative. All Uni- tarian preachers do decide that way. Now, as it happens that I have no particular creed or platform of religious belief to guide me in my inquiries on this question, I trust your read- ers will charitably set me down as 6) only number one, seg tila The question I wish to deal with is, « Jesus of Nazareth?” cee sf There is only oue record to go to in determining the inquiry—the Scriptures of the New Testament, Besides this, we are entitied to consult Christian experience, The living Christian believer tejis us that he Knows Jesus, knows Him by an actual reception, knows Him ett of understandingly and assuredly. Be it 60. Nevertheless, inquire we first of the New Testament. From the record alone, without a key to unlock some of its sacred mysteries, no man can determine that Jesus of Nazareth is either God or man. One fact alone settles the question ‘as to his Godhead, or, rather, of his being God. God, as we are clearly taught, begat Him in a way and manner totally differen from the Way and manner in which He prodaces the human race. He begat Jesus of Nazareth, as we read, im the womb of a virgin, by the co-opera- tion of the Holy Ghost. This statement forever precludes the possibility of His being either God or man in any sense of these terms as they are ordi- narily used. God begat Him. He cannot, there- fore, be God, ‘The oniy proper idea we can have of God is that He is self-existent, uncreated, unvegot- ten. Jesus of Nazareth, it is equally obvious, Is not & man according to the laws of nature, as are ull other natural men. Let us turn to the sacred record once more; It Will not deceive us. We read distinctly :—‘The Angel Gabriel was sent from God to t vey of Nazareth to inform the Virgin Mary that the Holy Ghost should come upon her, and that that Holy Thing which should be born of her should be called the Son of God." Here we learn that, whatever else Jesus of Naza- reth may be, He was originally a holy or divine thing. He was a holy thing, neither more nor less, ‘this thing, however, waa called the Son of God, Why? Because it is the offspring of God and the Blessed Virgin, and because &@ male principle was thereby eokage into a state of investiture. By a male rinciple divme truth is to be understood. This jivine truth having found a receptacle worthy o! its holy nature, in an existing state of pure affection in humanity, was therein conceived, gestated and brought forth, Divine truth, thus immaculately conceived and embodied jn word, became the logos, or word of God, which St. John tells us waain the beginning with God and was God. is only a superst@ion to regard the V1 Mary a8 a female in the common acceptation of the term. All holy affections m regenerated human nature are, in sacred Scripture, anurnased in the feminine gender. The affection of spiritual divine truth by Way of ,eminence is empathically denominated the Virgin Mary. In the prophets of the Old Testament the same designated “The Virgin Daughter of Zion.” The time is come for the exercise of a more rational faith concerning the Virgin Mary and her Son. It cannot be persumed that the multitudes of innocent believers in the Catholic Church, who idolize what they cail the Virgin Mary, will be very basty in changing their views o1 the Virgin. Nor, indeed, 1s much to be hoped for in this regard from the various churches which have sprung from the Catholic. Confirmed believers may well enough be let alone, To return to the question of Jesus of Nazareth. The living believer feels in his heart of hearts that Jesus is God. This, I confess, is the proper way to know Jesus, But’ then it is clear to the rational mind that the happy believer in Jesus does not afford us any ground of evidence from this state of feeling to show that Jesus of Nazareth is ether God or man. He merely shows by his hearty belief that itis the Holy Thing, called the Son of God, which animates, lives on and regenerates his'nature. He does not, however, see Jesus as he is; and, consequently, his understanding is often afflicted with erring conceits, The return of Jesus into the religious, believing world seems to be strongly indicated by the signs of the times. The doctrine of correspondence taught in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg must greatly assist in opening the sealed weries: of Holy Scripture. Freedom of thought, freedom of the — and freedom in preaching, led on by scientific investigations in every department of knowledge, are preparatory to the reintroduc- tion of the Son of God (or spiritual, divine Love and Wisdom) into His temple of regenerated hu- manity. “Even s0 come, Lord Jesus.” NEWARK. Service. Which Church !—Fre To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: In your issue of last Sunday, October 26, 1 read with astonishment an unwarrantabie state- ment by one who signs herself “Isabella Langston.” She asserts ina very indefinite way that on ac- count of the manner in which the pews of our churches are monopolized by the moneyed por- tion of the congregations the peorer thereof are obliged to remain in the street until the “seat owners”’ are pleased to admit them. What an alarming assertion! Who has ever known the pew owners to have the right of keeping poor people out of church? I have never known it; never heard of it; and if Isabella Knows such a church she would do well, | think, to make it known; and since she has failed to show where such a state of evil exists I will show Isabella where it does not exist. 1 will fing her groundless accusations {rom the door of my church, lest her hailucination may have prompted her to insinuate in this direction. Now, if Isabella will come to any one of the churches to which I belong (Roman Catholic) I will guarantee that she will not be obliged to re- main in the street, but can step rightin and take a seat, and if she should happen to be without her pocketbook she may rest easy and not be afraid of ejection. Yours, very respectfully, W. BANKS. Spiritualism and the Opposition—A Nine Days’ Wonder Twenty-five Yoars Old. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— More than a-quarter of a century has elapsed since the phenomenal illustrations of modern Spiritualism began to attract attention in this country and Europe. It was then predicted, alike by theologians, scientists and infidels, that it would be “a nine days’ wonder.”’ Most of those early false prophets have departed this life, and if they now exist at all we may presume that they believe im and have intercourse with spirits. Naturally enough there are many people whose de- Dilitated souls are so completely entombed in a concretion of sensuality that their conversion to Spiritualism is necessarily delayed, and may not occur until some mortal shock breaks the shell and liberates the imprisoned spirit. Of ne- cessity the change will come to all, sooner or later; but those whose strong afinity for a grovelling lile makes them prefer the “grub state’? will of course be the last to take wings, * * * They remind us of poor old Jonah, who got mad because his gourd—the growth of a night—perished in the morning, while great Nineveh was saved from de- struction. It was bad enough to have the gourd wither, but saving the city at che cost of his rep- utation asa prophet made him so mad that he wanted to die. A diagnosis of Jonah’s case shows that he suffered from nervous irritability, which may have been greatly aggravated by his extraor- dinary perils at sea. Our modern Jonahs have had similar experience. Their gourds spring up suddenly, grow rapidly and die easily, but their prophecies all fai. The Spirit- ual Jerusalem, far more populous and glorious than Nineveh, stands firmly on everlasting foun- dations. The Lord, for some wise purpose, no doubt, not only permits Spiritualism to live, but causes it to grow stronger every day and to make amazing conquests throughout the world, It already embraces many of the more distinguished autoors in England, France, Germany, Italy and other European coantries, and a large share of the dominant classes in every part of the world. In England it is also represented by the Queen and many of the chiet nobility; in France it has found representatives in the deceased Emperor and his household, the late President of the Kepubiic, and among the more distinguished minds in every na- tionality and all the higher walks of life, The cheap means employed to assist the Spiritual movement have all signally failed. The Pope’s bull went at the spirits headforemost, but made no breach in the ranks; the crucifix was repeate tried, but to no purpose—it neither laid the ghosi nor taught the tables to mind their gravity; exor- cism, by the free use of holy water, only proved to be a pleasant pastime; the preambies and resolu- tions of counciis, the prayers of the saints and anathemas of the clergy of Christendom were all powerless, except to amuse the spectators, And what a sorry spectacle do the active opposers of Spiritualism present to-day! For fifteen years they have not been able to say anything new. During this period all their vain attempts to solve the mystery b; reference of the phenomena to ie jor and laws have atterly failed, and to-day we have nothing to re- lieve the dreamy monotony of the old sory of “deception and delusion.’ * © # phe poor. drivellers keep on talking loosely, not so much about tne subject as the personal anpenre ances of the Spiritualists—‘‘their long hair,” “lean figures,” “cadaverous faces,’ “woe-begone ex- | da cack “peculiar nabits” and ‘crazy sayings.” hey rarely refer to the subject without some un- onerous fling at persons, names or characters. hy bot mix up popular orthodoxy with every species of crime for the sake of exciting popular prejadice and indignation? *** It should be remembered that we live in @ country whose government and institutions recognize the equal rights of all classes of men, and we are bound to respect the fair and free expression o! all forms of religious belief. What possible right, then, has any man to despise the honest convictions of his neighbor? The man who does thisis neither @ gentleman nora good citizen. Society can only be securely maintained by the cheerjul recognition of the rights of every individual, by the mutual respect of all the parties to the social compact and by a reciprocal inte: change of the ofices of common civiltly. It must be admitted that both science and re- ligion have an interest in the rational solution of the great moral and spiritual problems of the age. The domain of science must be enlarged #0 as to embrace @ proper classification and exposition of psychological phenomena and laws, and our rever- ence must be greatly illuminated, unless we are deterthined that ignorance shall continue to be —The mother of devotion, And yet the pretended representatives of science and philosophy boldly dispute numberiess facta, | witnessed by millions in aliages and countries. These facts have been recognized and demon- strated by the very same means and methods pre- scribed by the masters in science. They assume that the human senses are the proper and only channels through whith all evidence must be con- veyed to the mind. Why, then, do they arrogantly dispute this evidence when it supports the ciaims of Spiritualism? Why do the; andon their own panel chan close their eyes and ears, and, like ightened children, attempt to run away from the tacts? While they refuse to investigate fairly they rudely sneer at the deeply settled convic- tions of others, We have many people among us who most reverently cherish the remains of the dead—wno recognize the silent speech of sacred relics—'waile they arbitrarily insist that the spirits who have put on immortality shall keep silence for- ever, We have saints in ali the churches who would make @ pilgrimage just to see Paul’s old sandals, the cloak he “left at Troas” or “the parch- aor ki had uh the risen apostie should dare to ow himseif they would dismiss h ire- reavia! y iin, sans core. Now, if there is any sincerity in this opposition to Spiritualism, why not bring the abi to the test of @ searching examination and a logical con- troversy? Jf we have any men among us who that Spiritualism is @ great wcrous heresy, iet m boldly rapple with it im an open field, Let the hurch put forward its strongest champions todo pattie from the Sheologies BI Spey and the material philosophers, who have no faith in immortality, select the individual in whose strong hands. they are willing to rest their cause. These parties must respectively have the confidence— openly and clearly expressed—of those whose lews they assume to represent. When such par- ties are presented ana their credentials fairly ex- amined the undersigned will endeavor to furnish a single individual who will stand alone as the champion of Spiritualism. 5. B. BRITTAN. The Work of the Church. ‘The next regular Church Conference will be held to-morrow evening, at half-past seven o'clock, in the chapel of the Church of the Incarnation. “Cnureh Work, Especially in Connection with Free Churches and, Mission Chapels," is the subject for consideration, Catholic ‘Dedication in Jersey. At an early hour yesteraay morning the quiet little village of Dover, N. presented an unusu- ally lively appearance. Hundreds of laborers from the neighboring iron mines, accompanied by their wives and families, walked through thé streets of Dover in the direction of the new church lately built by the Rev, Pierce McCarthy. The sacred edifice is a very substantial and handsome stone building with transept and tower. ‘The Right Rev. Dr, Corrigan, Bishop of Newark, accompanied by the Rev. James Corrigan, Vicar General Doane, Monsignor Seton, Fathers Cody, Hennessy, iSheron, Cantwell and Thebaud, arrived ‘and a procession was. formed. The Bishop, assisted by the Rev. Pierce McCarthy and Vicar General Doane, blessed the inner and outer walls .of the building, while the priests, walking in solemn procession, chanted the custom- ary psaims. Bishop Corrigan then celebrated pon- tudeal high mass. The Rev, Dr, McGlynn, pastor of St. Stepven’s, East Twenty-eighth street, preached the sermon of the day. Atter the services the Rev. Father McCarthy entertamed the Bishop and the priests, and the thousands present returned to their homes. Ministerial Movements and Changes.. METHODIST. Bishop Peck is on his way eastward from Call- fornia. Rey. Dr. Munsey, of Lynchburg, Va., has recovered his mental equilibrium and 1s again at bis ministerial work as usual. Ten new Methodist Episcopal churches will be dedicated on the Win- chester District Virginia Conference during this conference year. Rev. Dr. Rigg, of London, visited Drew Seminary at Madison, N.J., last week and addressed the students on the “Best Methods of Theological Study.” Rev. F. McCartney, of the Baltimore Conference, died October 14, after having spent half acentury in the ministry. Tne National Camp Meeting Association closed a series of meetings in Baltimore in their big tent last week, which resulted in numerous conversions, At the “Children’s Meeting” on Sunday over 100 children and young people professed conversion. The étorm that sprung up on Sunday bight tore the canvas of the tent into shreds, but $1,000 was promptly subscribed to purchase a larger and better covering, which will cost $2,000, and will seat many more people. The Association promised to visit New York during the winter. ‘he Association, at their late annual meeting, re- solved to hold five camp meetings for the promo- tion of holiness during 1874. These are to be in Jacksonville, Fla., in Marea; in Stirling, Mass., in June; in Emory Grove, Baltimore, in July; in Indianapolis, Ind., in August, and in Joliet, Il, in September. Revivais, with statistics, are re- ported—at Monmouth (Me.) Methodist Episcopal church, 20 conversions; on High Ridge circuit, New York Episcopal Conference, 40; at Selleck’s Corners, N. Y., 40; at Dunellen, N.J., 27; at Pine Grove, La., 28; at Amite City, La.,'21;' at East Feliciana, La., 20; on Salem circuit, Alabama Conference, four churches, 84 conversions; on Butler circuit, Alabama Conference, 26; isville circuit, Louisiana Conference, 30; Littie Elm, Texas Conierence, 50; at Miller’s, near Braachville, Md., 20; at Lynchburg, Va., $0; in various other parts of Virginia, as reported by the Richmon@ Christian Advocate, 342. The Raleigh (N. C.) Advocate also reports 600 recent conversions within its bounds; in districts of South Carolina and Georgia 270 are reported; at Van Buren, Ark., 80, Rev. J. H. Miller, formerly ot San Francisco, has been transferred to the lowa Conierence and stationed at Fairfield. A report from Urbana, St. Louis Conference, reports 36 conversions at a late meeting there. Anew Methodist Episcopal church (Souti) will be dedicated near Bristol, Md., next Sunday. On Anderson Circuit, Arkansas Confer- ence, a revival stillin progress has added 36 converts tothe Church. They have not hada revival on the circuit for two years. From Malvern, Kansas Con- lerence, over 100 were converted during protracted Meetings last month. Zion’s Herald states that A. W. Eastman, who withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church last spring because he could not join the Troy Conference, was immersed, joined the Baptists, and ordained pastor over the Vest Cornwall Baptist church, was expelled from that denomination on the 4th ult. for immorality, St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal church, on Milton or 138th street, Melrose, was.dedicated b; Leis Shorter on Sunday morning last. Revs, J. S. Inskip and W. McDonald, Evangelists, are con- ducting aseries of ten days’ meetings in Charles- Pee |ass., Similar to those recently closed in Bai- timore, ROMAN CATHOLIC. Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, who 1s now travelling around the world, writes from Japan to the Cnris- tian Advocate concerning the progress and pros- Roce of Christianity in that island Empire. The fatholics, he says, have one bishop, sixteen riests and three nuns, with organized parishes in jagasaki, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Jeddo and Ha- kodadi. They have a small college in Jeddo, The three Sisters of Charity are building a convent on the bluifs ot Yokohama, and in the town they have @ small church, over whose portal is a life-size statue of the Virgin Mary. Ona Sabbath in June he went to the eight o’clock mass, and found only twenty persons present. At the ten o’clock ser- vice a company of English marines, from a war vessel in port, Were present, to whom the priest, without his robes, sat reading a sermon. St. Michael’s Association, of this city, have col- lected $68 for the Pontifical Zonayes in active service, and during the past week $1,528 also for the Catholic orphans of Memphis. A correspondent of the Catholic Review gives sta- tistics of missions among the North American Indians, and objects to the partiality of the gov- ernment, which gives sixty-six agencics to Prot- estantism, which can show only 15,000 Indian converts, while Roman Catholicism, which counts 106,911 converts, is allowed only seven agencies. Forty-five Lutheran pastors of Hesse are reported by the foreign papers to have been recently fined ten thalers each by the new consistory for viola- tions of ecclesiastical laws. They refused to re- cognize its authority, and an order has been issued from Berlin for their goods to be seized in full satisfaction for the imposition. “What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gan- der,” appears to be the Bismarckian motto. Thursday iast was the twentieth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Loughiin, of Brooklyn. It was duly observed by his friends. Rev. Father Keane, assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s church, Washington, D. C., who has been travelling in Europe, is expected home in afew days, and his eople are preparing to give him a hearty greet. ing. The Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, has ceie- brated the fortieth anniversary of his Episcopal consecration. October 29 confirmation and ordi- nation took place at the Redemptorist House of Studies, lichester, Howard county, Md., and on the 30th ult. ordination at Ichester, and on the dist ult, ordination at Ichester by Archbishop Bayley. On last Sunday a mission was opened at St. Aloy- sius’ church, Washington, under the conduct of Father Garesche, 8. J., of St- Louis, who 18 assisted F. F. Van Goch and Marsellis, of the diocese of Chicago. The same zealous Fathers had just closed @ most successiul mission at Trinity church, George- town, D. ©. Bishop Corrigan confirmed 250 persons at St. Mary’s church, High street, Newark, on Sunday morning last, On ay morning, October 26, the Right Key. John J. Williams, Bishop of Boston, dedicated the old Freewill ‘Baptist church, on North Bennet street, Boston, as a Catholic church for the Italians and Portuguese of tne North End. The new church, which bears the name of St. John ‘the Baptist, will accommodate about 1,000 persons, ana as the Portuguese and Italian parishioners for whom it is intended number about 500 each, tt will sumMice for the wants of both. The building cost $25,000, of which $12,600 has been paid. The cost of fitting up the structure, including a new marble altar and other fixtures, will amount to about $5,000. The corner stone of a new Catholic church was laid at the corner of Augusta street and Stephens avenue, South Amboy, last Tuesday, by Bishop Corri The pastor is the Rey. Join A. Kelly. The Anthony Molloy has been re- moved from St. Peters, New Brighton, 8. I., to St, Coiumba’s church, West Twenty-fith street, BAPTIST. There are only thirty Baptist churches in Indiana hich have preaching every Sabbath. Rev. W. of Greenwood, , Ind., has accepted Ind., and will enter upon his . Rev. B, Wharton has resigned his charge at Byron, Minn., to Sngage 48 8n evan. gelist. Kev. C. W. McConnellof Minneapolis has taken charge of @ school in Detroit, Minn. b . Daniels closes his labors at Taylorsville, [il., to- jay, and will hereafter minister at Rural Dale, ono, Rev. E.J. Delp has changed from Fuiton, Ind., to Judsonia, Ark. Rev. W. H. Serviss has changed from Clarkson, Mich., to North Fair- fleid, Ohio, Rev. W. H. Robert has gone trom Trenton, Ark. to Bryon City, Texas, A re- vival at Mount Pleasant recently gave the Baptist church there, forty-nine converts; another at Franklin, Til, twenty-seven. The Stam- ford, Conn., ‘chureh proposes to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its organization, on Thursday, 6th inst. The German Baptists of Cleveland have ¢ 1a neat house of worship, which cost about $25,000 and will seat 400 persons, The Virginia Christian Missionary Society wil hold it# annual meeting in Richmond, beginning on the 6th t ‘The Cary avenue Baptish church in Chelsea, Mass., have called the Rev, H. 0. Pen- tecost, who was obliged to resign from his charge on Long Island recently for admitting non-Bap- Usts at his communion table, The Clarendon street Baptist society, Boston, presented their pastor, the Kev. A. J. Gordon, @ check for $1,000 on the tenth anniversary of his marriage, afew days since. Iho Berean church have Areatly im- tes eh their place of worship, and at the close of Sermon Ob Sunday morning last a collection _Daich charge. of aaa was taken to defray the cost of the re- pail EPISCOPALAAN. The Established Church of England has one church containing a congregation of (ity rsous at Nagasaki, Japan, and. ministeredgto by the Rev. Mr. Burnside. It has amore successful organiza- tion in Yokohama, with a church edifice that cost Sh. and @ congregation of about 300, 4nd & rochial school, in which the street Al of ‘okohama are educated at a dost of $3 each per month. Dr. Lyle is the incumbent. The American Episcopalians are represented by Bishop Williams and three assistants, who preach and teach school at Yokohama, There is a small. congregation and about forty communicants there. Three additional missionaries are shortly to go out to that field. One hundred and forty adult Indians were bap- tized recently at St. als opal mission, British Columbia, Most of these Indians had been for four or five Oye under the catechetical in- struction of Rey. Mr. Good, their missionary, Rev. Robert Lowell, D. D., has accepted the professor- ship of Latin and Literature at the Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. The Bishop of Georgia has resigned the rectorship of Christ, church, Savan- nah. Rev. William H. Lewis, D. D., has reigned the rectorship of Christ church, Watertown, Conn, Rey. Edson B. Cartmill, late of Gambier, has en- tered upon the rectorship of Christ church, Oberlin, Ohio, The vestry of Christ church, New York, have ordered that ail the pews in St. Paul’s, now owned by the church, and all that shall hereaiter come into its possession, shall henceforth be free, PRESBYTERIAN. Dr. Clark’s new church, on Tompkins avenue, Brooklyn, 1s drawing towards completion. It will be a very attractive edifice, The Rey. J. F, Sutton has resigned the pastoral charge of Herman church, Frankiord, Philadelphia. A stricter super- vision of its church members 18 proposed by tne Newark Presbytery. It goes so far as to instruct the sessions of 1ts congregations to bring the mat- ter before the consciences of members delinquent in this respect, and to deal with them according to the ordinances if they do not take out letters of dismission within three years, The First Presby- terian church of Columbus, Ohio, Key. R. H. Laid- law, pastor, is rearing @ new, large und com- modious Sunday school an lecture room building. Rev. James Brand, of Danvers, Mass., declined his call to the Jefferson avenue Presbyterian church in Detroit, Mich., but has re- signed nis present charge to accept a call to the First Congregational church in Oberlin, Omo. The Synod of New York, which met in this city last week, reports precisely two ministers to every church, viz, 332 ministers and 166 churches. Dr. Gilbert H. Robertsou, the Presbyterian preacher who about one year ago was suspended trom church mriyileg os by the Louisville Presbytery (North), recently applied for a removal of the sen- tence of suspension. The Presbytery declined to accede to his request on tne ground that he had made no satisiactory confession of sin, and given no satisfactory evidence of repentance. The cor- ner stone of Rutgers Presbyterian charch was laid last Thursday at the junction of Madison avenue and Twenty-ninth street. When completed the church will have cost about $125,000, UMIVERSALIST, The Universalist Committee, who were ap- pointed by the General Convention to attend the Meetings of the Evangelical Alliance, and who failed to do so officially, are now se omer to give @n account of their stewardship and to state the Treason why they neglected a duty so important. A Rev. J. M. Capes, it 1s said, has published in a periodical the most able defence of Universalism ever written, and its dissemination broadcast 1s asked for. The Universalist Mission Sunday School, in Brevoort Hall, held its anniversary yesterday alternoon. Mr, Isaac J. Mead is to be ordained & minister of the Universalist church on the Sth inst. at West Cumberlana, Me. There are seventy- eight organized Universalist churches in Massa- chusetts, containing 500 members and ministered to by sixty-two pastors; 16,000 scholars are attached to the Sunday schools; $825,500 were expended in butiding new churches and repsiring old ones. Barnard, the Vt. home of Ballou, the famous Universalist, has a Universalist society, but no preacher, They there- fore read somebody else’s sermon at their weekly Sabbath gatherings. The sudden death by appo- plexy of Rev. F, Stanley Bacon, of Beliast, Me., 18 reported. The Universalists of Franklin, Mass., recently laid the corner stone of what they expect to be one of the handsomest churches in New Eng- land, Mr. W. H. Lyon, of Fall River, Mass., was ordained pastor of the Unitarian society in Elis- worth, le., Tuesday- evening, October 2L. The new Congregational church at Montclair, N. J., dedicated on the 15th ult., cost $35,000, and contains 146 pews. ‘The pastor is Rev. A. H. Bradford. and the Congregationalis: says:—‘‘One knows not whether to congratulate him or not, that he has six ministers and three editors in bis congregation.” MISCELLANEOUS. Rev. David W. Wolff, of Arndtsville, Pa., has re- ceived a call to the st. Petersburg (Pa.) Reformed German charge. fhe Kev. James A. Schultz has resigned the pastorate of the St. John’s Mission congregation, in Reading. This step has been necessitated by the failure o1 his health, The congregation *‘Poel Zedek,’’ Twenty-ninth street and Kighth avenue, have elected Kev. Dr. H. Schneeberger as lecturer, The coagregation is young and has not. many members, They, how- ever, long have felt ‘the want of an English and Germar lecturer, a position which Dr. Schnee- berger will fill with satisfaction to the congrega- tion, Rey. L. D, Steckel, of Landisvurg, Pa., has accepted @ call trom Dale City, Pa., Reformed Trinity Reformed church, under the pastora’e of Rev. O. Z. Weiser, will be dedicated to- day. The church and new organ were erected at @ Cost Of $20,000, FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. Abraham the Model of Modern Israel- ites—New York Jews’ Neglect of Their southern Brethren—Sermon by Rev. S. M. Isaacs, The Rey. Mr, Isaacs yesterday preached on the characteristics of Abraham’s call and his prompt answer thereto, and contrasted the old patriarch’s career with that of his descendants in America at the present day. He remarked that though sev- eral centuries have passed away since the Deca- logue was given to Israel, still the world knows not what Judaism is. The Evangelical Alliance, which recently met here, had one set of opinions concern- ing it and the Free Religion Association had another set, which they presented as the faith of Judaisia. It might be profitable, therefore, in the midst of these conflicting opinions, to go back to first prin- ciples and review the call and the subsequent ca- reer of Abraham, the father of the faithful and the iriend of the Almighty. It was to him that Isaiah referred when he wrote that God called the righteous man from the East, &c, And the exalted opinion that the Lord had of his faith- ful-servant may be inferred from the statement “I know Abrabam that he will command his chil- dren and his household after him that they may walk in my statutes and do them.’ We love to think of Abraham. He was a Jew, and though raised in the cradle of idolatry and polytheism he became the father of the taithtul and the minister of the one living and true God, and the means of propagating the knowledge of the one God who created all things that are in heaven and in earth. ere showed the folly of worshipping any other CALLED OUT OF IDOLATRY, he started on pis mission, every where proclaiming the name of the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, and everywhere building altars to His name. In such times as these, when our doctrines and laws are erased trom the tablets of stone, it be- comes us to have them engraven on the tablets of our hearts, Look at Abraham, the first missionary. AS soon ag he heard the call he obeyed and went out, not knowing whither he went. He became thereby the possessor of the secrets of tne Ainigny, and thus gradually ascended to the height of inspiration, by which he was led into a Strange land, which the voice of the Most High told him should be given to him and his posterity Jor @ possession, e have in him a model tor our emulation and imitation, Some of us, too, like him, have been called from the East togo toa strange land, where the Lord has greatly blessed us and given us possessions of houses and lands, and we have been a name and a place among the people of the land. But alas! how many of us are recreant toour duty and our trusts, We fail to educate our children in the fear of the Lord; our ee are despised, and our services neglected, an OUR SABBATHS DESECRATED, while men think that Unitarianism embraces the whole of our religton and all other commands of God @re passed over or ignored. Abraham built his altars of stone, and there and then called on the name of the Lord, He had great trials, but he triumphed over them all, The law prociaimed irom Sinai bade the people not serve or worship other gods, but we continue to wor- ship gods—not, indeed, of wood and stone, but of old and silver and stocks and bonds, We have ‘eard the voice of God calii if to us, but we@have not heeded it nor obeyed it. Have we not heard it lately from our coreligionists in the South who have been afflicted with the oures and the pes- Ulence? Shall we turn a deaf ear to their cries or to these voices of God? Let us take Abraham for our model, There was a famine in the land in his time, but did he despair? No; he trusted in God, and then tried to save his fellow men. Let us, said Mr. Isaacs, LISTEN TO THE DIVINE VOICE when tt is well with us as when It is #l with us; in Paoenery as well as in adversity. Look at the dolatrous age in which Abraham lived, and yet, whenever he called, it was upon the neme of the Lord, Mr. Isaacs prayed that his people might all 80 love God a8 Abraham loved Him, He then addressed a jew words of counsel to a ‘outh who had just been admitted to read the Torah. The lad is a member of the choir, ana through him Mr. Isaacs took occasion also to re- ded the lightness and frivolity that is practised by the choir boys between the singing of their parts of the services, Indeed, there is very little evidence of common respect ior religion, not to Say want of piety, in the choirs of more than this Synagogue, and during the sermons they some- times run on the streets and amuse themselves, returning in time for the next song. If anything could appeal more strongly than another for a change in the choral music of this and other ortho- dox synagogues such conduct as Mr. Isaacs refer- red (o veaterday ought to dott enter te wssmiaieunethsecinn senescence asses seitnerreirsaehteiavatine isda AN “AMERICAN” NOVEL,’ mee coe bbe In *Arthur Bonnicastle” Dr. Holland has writ+ ten one of those novels which are the peculiar fruit of American literature. He accompanies his hero from the period of early childhood up to that of maturity, and permits us to see him at school, at prayer meeting, at college, at his first glass of wine, as well as in the troubles of afterlife and amid the bittersweets of maturity. The book # written something in the vein of “Wilfrid Cumber- mede,” without, Dr. Macdonald’s effeminacy and metaphysics, Arthur Bonnicastle, when quite & young boy, is adopted by Mrs. Sanderson, a wealthy widow in middie life, who has no olaims upon her affection or attention, He is sont first; to a sort of family school kept by oa Dr. Bird and familiarly known as “The Bird’s Nest,” and afterwards to college. “The Bird’s Nest” is one of those scholastic Edens which, at the beginning of autumn, are found tn abundance among educational advertisements. We have never seen or heard of such a school excepting among school stories and advertisements of this description, but probably they are some- ‘times to be found. So is red snow. However, Arthur Bonnicastie’s moral, physical and mental natures thrive under the discipline of Dr. and Mrs. Bird, and he derives great advantage from the friendship of Henry Hulm, a handsome, lonely, mysterious and interesting boy, two years older than himself, During the interval between school days and college Arthur undergoes what he takes to be conversion, connects himself with @ church, takes the lead in prayer meeting, exhorts not only his young companions, but his elders, to look after their souls, and in other orthodox waye makes himself a highly use- ful and disagreeable member of society. From the error of supposing that morbid religious excite- ment is synonymous with putting off the things of the flesh and assuming those of the spirit he is rudely awakened, first by tie shock given to what there 1s natural in bis piety by the hypocrisy and meanness of Peter Muliens, a “charity student,’ and‘then by the discovery of his own weakness in permitting himself to drink his first glass of wine and subsequently to get disgustingly tipsy. These events take place after he has gone to college, ané the result is that he despises his own fimsiness of purpose, and, abandoning his religious principles, sails forth upon the shoreless ocean of infidelity. Instead of being inspired by the good fortune which raised him from an obscure position and gave him the means of hecoming finely educated, he grows enervated and useless. From this lamentable condition he is aroused by the startling discovery that the mag- nificent expectations to which he has been bred belong of right to his old classmate, Henry Huim, and that every sentiment of honor impeis him to make the fact known to Henry, and to resign all claim to Mrs, Sanderson's favor. This, after a short and bitter struggle, he does. Hulm ia recognized as the grandson and legitimate heir of the old lady. Bonnicastie feels his manhood come back to him with the completed sacrifice. Begin- ning life over again on one of the lower rungs of poverty’s ladder, he studies law and supports himself meanwhile by teaching school. Happiness encounters him in the path of duty and he marries the girl who was sensible enough to see his weak- nesses in the days of his outward prosperity, Itis useless to claim that Arthur Bonnicastle might have been made a different character, and that Dr. Hotland might have shown that wealth and brilliant expectations, instead of enervating, sometimes strengthen. The author selected his character, and had a right to show what results a certain combination of circumstances would work out. Weare sorry that some newer type should not have been chosen, All yonng men are not spoiled by good fortune, and it would be interesting to waich the process by which an ingenious novelist, without violating nature, would depict a fortunate boy, raised trom poverty to wealth through an old woman’s fancy, triumph- ing over the temptations of voluptuousness, and, without being either “a prig or a rascal, making actual the ideals of his ambition, while remaining lovable to those who had known him in his obscure childhood. The book has been called a representa, tive American novel, but it isnotso. The chtar- oscuro of American society, American politics, American religion, American business interests, and those social questions which are slowly being wrought out here in America, fnds no place in “Arthur Bonnicastle.” The religious episode, the scene of which takes place in the Bradford family, and the principal actors in which are Mr. Bradford and the Rey. Mr. Grimshaw, is plainly introduced jor the miere purpose of ex- pounding the author’s views on personal piety, and neither indicates the drift of religion in Amer- ica nor cuts to the core of those speculative subjects which an evangelical alliance avoids as sedulously as a free religious society pursues. But ye cannot see that inthe character of Peter Mullens, the clerical Bohemian, Dr. Holland has uttered any li- bel upon the clergy in general. A certain propor- tion of rascals stumbles every year into the pulpit, and is just as amenable to the uses of literature aa 1s the proportion of rascals in any other profession. Dr. Holland is not thoroughiy mature and manly in his style, or he would not have penned thas ridiculous apostrophe to a blazing fire and the odor of fresh toast which the reader may find on page 138. His novel is an American one, in the sense that its scenes are laid in the Untted States, and that, in minutely following the adventures of his hero from the apron to the altar, from his last bib ana tucker to his first brown stone front, he has observey tbe American fashion, which the an- thors of “Queechy’’ and “The Wide, Wide World” aid so much to make popular. But it ts not American in any larger sense. It 1s delicate, pure and, for the most part, wholesome; but it has ne new or profoun@ significance organically Amert- can. We confess that we should like to see written s novel so emphatically American as not to admit of question, It is a task which various authors have from time to time attempted, never, at least of late years, with complete success. Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis and Dr. Mayo have severally thrown their talents into this line, and the result has been clever and amusing fictions, which re- flected a few superficial phases and opened some ‘of the more shallow depths in American society, Of course we are leaving out of consideration that school of American fiction of which Cooper was the founder, and which chose for its themes subjects elaborated from aboriginal tradi- tions, and the relations into which the early New England settlers were brought’ with the native Indians. In speaking of the American novel we have adhered to the signif- cance implied by the use which Dr. Holland makes of that adjective upon his title page, that is, a novel representing contemporaneous society in the United States. What is required of the novelist who should compose a work of this importance is something of the genius, patience and industry of Victor Hugo or George Eliot. The task ts not a light one. It necessitates something more than & smart mélange of society banter with sensational episodes and cle ver satirical hits at Spiritualism, woman’s rights meetings and political humbug in general. We are not saying that this is the char- acterjstic of “Arthur Bonnicastle,” for itis not; but it is the characteristic of the flippant and preten- tious school of novels which are annually an- nounced as distinctively American. But Dr. Mol- land, in avoiding the fippancies into which the average American novelist falls, has not proved that his originality and strength are equal to his respectability. For a story to be organically American it is indispensably necessary that the characters and events tt de- scribes could not possibly have developed them- selves in precisely that manner m any other country. Apply this test to “Arthur Bonnicastio’? and its American pretension falis immediately to the ground, What we ask ofour story writers is & novel which shall be as full of American essentials as a breath from the Adirondacks is full of the scent of the pine. hand stronger yet— tore delicate than any We are now ac- quainted with among our novelists—is needed to paint with trath those American undergrowths of rectitude which redeem the coun- try and are the consolation of the moraiiat amid such arank wilderness of social shams, political corruption and shameless venality. *varthar Bonnicastie: An American Novel. + Published by Scribacr, Armswoug & ( By J. Co.