The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1873, Page 13

UH. of “RELIGIOUS INTELLIG November 30--- Programme i Exercises To-Day. HERALD RELIGIOUS COMMUNICANTS. Shae Whe Catholics and the Public Schools. eee MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. , Services To-Day. * whe President of “Oid Yale,’ Rev. Dr, Noah Por- ter, will deliver the first sermon of a special course, ‘on “Supernatural Christianity Not Yet Outgrown,” Bt the Collegiate church, this evening. The South Reformed church congregation will have the pleas- ure of listening to the Doctor in the morning, Rev. Dr. Kennedy, of Dingwall, Scotland, will this morning address the Rev. Mr. Hamilton's charge (Fourteenth street Scotch Presbyterian church). The congregation of St. Luke’s will be favored by Bishop Foster, just returned from Europe and fouth America, with some of the rich experiences pleaned in those countries. “The Oracles of God” will be set forth by Rev. Mr. Kennard, in Pilgrim Baptist cnurch, this morn- Rev. Dr. Fulton preaches morning (Sin and Its Victim’ the subject) and evening in the Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn. General ©, B, Fisk and Rev. De Los Lull will this evening seek to enlist the Eighty-sixth street Methodists in the extension of the church and its missions. The Fourteenth street Presbyterians will be ad- aressed upon the subject of “Going Home” by their pastor, Rev. Mr. Sloss, this morning, Chapiain McCabe preaches in Jane street Metho- dist church this morning and evening. Rev. Henry Morgan will repeat “his “‘reform’’ lec- ture, on “I’ast Young Men,” this evening, in Tam- many Hall. Rev. Dr. John Dowling preaches the final sermon of his pastorate in South, Baptist church this evening. “Religion in Business Affairs” wil! be urged npon young men this evening, in Bleecker street Unt- versalist church, by Rev. Mr, Sweetser. There will be the usual services to-day in the Methodist Tabernacle—Rev. Mr. Cookman oiliciat- Ing—supplemented by a prayer meeting in the evening, conducted by the Bedford street Praying Band. = Preaching morning and evening, by Rev. P. L. Davies, in Berean Baptist church. By Rev. Mr, Tracy, in the Church of the Reforma- tion. By Rev. Mr. Knapp, in the Laight street (First Mission) Baptist church. ' By Rey. Mr. Barnhart, in Forsyth street Metho- dist church, By Rey. Dr. Miller, in Plymouth Baptist church. By Rev. Mr. Galleher, in the Madison avenue Zion church; and By Rev. Mr. Pendleton, in Fifty-third street Bap- tist church, Divine service at eleven o'clock this morning, in the Russian-Greek chapel. Rev. Wayland Hoyt preaches this morning in Tabernacle Baptist church, and at Steinway Hall In the evening. Rev. Mr. Talmage, the Tabernacle pastor, preaches in the Brooklyn Academy at the usual ‘hours. Rey. Dr. Holme preaches in Trinity Baptist Church morning and evening. ‘the customary services will be held in Central Baptist church, Rev. Mr. Evans officiating. “A Hollow Globe” is the basis for scientific dis- courses py Messrs S. Pearl Andrews and FE, F. Brewster, in De Garmo Hall, morning, afternoon and evening. The Robinson Hall Spiritualists will be addressed morning and evening by Mr. J. M. Peebles. _ There will be baptismal ceremonies this (Sav- Dath) evening at the Sixteenth street Baptist charch, West Sixteenth street, near Eighth ave- nue, immediately after the sermon, tne pastor, Rev. D. B, Jutten, oMiciating. “Some Advice to Congress” will be given by Rev. Mr. Powers this evening, In the Church of the Mcs- siab. The “Way to Perfection’ will be indicated to Congressional and other shortcomers at the morning service. The first in a course of Advent sermons on “The Devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Our Divine Lord,” showing its nature and ends, will be de- ivered by the Very Rev, Thomas S. Preston this evening, in St. Ann’s Roman Catholic church. ‘Vespers at half-past seven, Father Lake will also give a series of conferences on “Jesus Christ,” at the eleven o’clock mass, on the Sunday mornings of Advent, ' Divine service in the Church of the Resurrec- tion, the rector oMiciating, at the usual hours. » “Tne Last Judgment” is the basis for a course of sermons during Advent, at the Church of the Re- deemer, by Rev. Mr. Shackelford, beginning this evening. Rey. Mr. McCampbell preaches to-day at the ‘usualservices in Spring street Presbyterian church. To-night Dr, Brann, of Washington Heights, will lecture at Irving Hall and sum up the results of the Evangelical Alliance. “fg This Material Earth To Be Destroyed by Fire?’ will be the interesting query answered by Rev. Mr. Ayer, in the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), Brooklyn, this evening. The Bishop of the diocese will preach this morn- ing in the new St. Andrew's church, Harlem; holy communion service. Children’s service at half- past three P.M. Therector will conduct the even- ing service. Rev. Dr. Taylor preaches morning and evening in the Broadway Tabernacle, i In Wainwright Memorial church Rev. Dr, George F. Seymouf will oficiate this evening. Rey. Mr. Hepworth will, by special request, re- peat his Thanksgiving sermon on “The Great “Mercy of God” this evening in the Church of the Disciples. In Anthon Memorial church, Rev. Mr. Newton preaches at half-past ten A. M., and there will be choral and Sunday school services at half-past three P, M. “Causes of Congratulation” will be set fortn py Rev. Mr. Frothingham, in Lyric Halli, this morning. In All Souls’ Rev. Dr. Bellows will ministrate as usual. Rev. Dr. Howland preaches at cleven A. M. and half-past three P. M. in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. ‘the rector of Christ church, Rev. Dr, Thompson, Will oficiciate at the customary services to-day. Rey. Mr. Pullman, of the Church of Our Saviour, will elaborate upon “The Pursuit of Happiness’? at the hall of the Standard Club this morning. “Laud Monopoly, the Fundamental Fraud,” will be dissected by Mr. Lewis Masquerier, beforethe Cosmopolitan Conference this, afternoon. There will be a conference of New York Spiritual. ists at Germania Hall at halt-past two P. M. The Catholics and the Public Schools. To THK Korror or tHe HERaLp:— In some of the recent issues of your Sunday edi- tion articles have appeared from several sources in regard to the Catholics and public schools. It does seem at first inception that the whole Catholic portion of America are Opposed to our present ‘public school system; but, as a Catholic, Tt can | wafely say, without fear of contradiction, that the Public school system of America meets with the Approval of 90 per cent of the whole Catholic popu- lation, always excepting the illiterate clags, Tany of whom are natives of Ireland, who, being ‘themselves deprived of education by the laws of England, which were in force “during their early childhood”—they being now residents of our great country and somewhat prejudiced against the system by a portion of the clergy, who probably hot citizens of the United States—and Rot knowing the benefits of a ood education, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 430, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET, prerer to remam as cney are ana bring up their children litewise. I received a portion of my edu- cation in ian and the balance tm the pubilc schools of this city, tor which balance I am grate- ful to the city of New York and my adopted coun- try. A great cry is made by persons of my faith against the reading of a chapter from the Bibie in vhe public schools, During the reading of the Bible {unen I was at school) I was never abie to hear the exact words read, in fact have never paid any attention to them, and have always looked upon such reading as an act of foolishness and a hum- bug; not but what I respect the Bible as much as any person living, but asa matter of principle I am opposed to the ible of avy “particular” de- nomination being read in our public schools, Our schools are made up of the children ol the Jewish Jaith as wellas of the many diffeyent ‘sects of Chris- tians,” and I hold that itis wrong for any of them in “particular” and an, outrage to introduce any religious book appertaining to their individual sect. All persons who are not bigoted will agree with me in the above remarks. Bigoted persons are to be found among believers in every jorm of worship, 1 know many of them in my own Church, who can see nothing right outside of their own narrow and prejudiced mind. 1 know many Protestant friends who are likewise; but the last are less to be ex- cused than the first mentioned, because they are better ¢lucated—at least they ought to be, if they are not, because they have hada better opportu nity. I would here ask my Catholic colleagues who are opposed to the public school system if the Spanish butchers in Cupa were educated in public schools—men who murdered the Grand Lodge ofi- cers of the Masonic Order in Santiago de Cuba in 1869 and recently outraged their wives and daugh- ters, which was done subsequently to the Virginius massacre? I can safely say that the men who com- mit these terrible outrages on hnmanity in Cuba are ignorant, low-bred fellows, Who never saw the inside of a comimon school. AN IRISH-AMERICAN. The Services at St. Alban’s. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— It is my purpose to answer, as briefly as possible, the “Protestant,” who appears to have been 60 much agitated by the service which he attended at St. Alban’s church. First, he wishes to know to What sect or denomination St. Alban’s belongs, “Ot course they do not call themselves Episcopa- lians” (for that would be entirely superfiuous, as one of the fundamental principles of the whole Catholic Church is that no Church can exist with- out its episcopate or bishop); “nor do they call themselves Romanists,” as they, in common with the whole Anglican branch of the Catholic Church to which they belong, profess no aliegiance to or acknowledge the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome, They do call themselves Catholics, for the inherit- ance of the whole Chatholic faith is theirs, as taught and borne witness to by a pure and apos- tolic branch of the Church. His next trouble seems to be concerning the cus- tomary reverence made toward the altar. Now, if a Protestant can conscientiously remove his hat on entering @ church, or observe the ordinary eti- quette of the Enropean courts, perhaps he wiil not so much wonder that Christians should con- scientiously pay as much reverence before what they believe to be the earthly throne of Him beiore whose heavenly throne archangels bow. As to the crucifix, 1t is dificult to understand why it should be more objectionable than ol paintings of the crucifixion or “The Descent from the Cross,’ As to the idolatry, I must say 1 am at a loss to a count; for he who in this enlightened age and country would pay worship aud adoration to wood or stone, be it in the form of altar or crucifix, must be most pitiably ignorant or else slightly in- sane; but he who by faith sees the present Jord upon the altar as the especial place of His earthly presence, and looks through the medium oi all material forms to the incarnate Godas the true ob- Ject of all worsiip and adoration, finds in them heips to the realizing of the great condescension of Him who veils His glory beneath such humble jorms, As to the authority for such forms let him reier to some priest who is learned in such matters and his anxious mind may be set at rest, CATHOLIC, Help the Poor. TO THE Epiror oF THE HeRALD:— Last Sunday, under the head of “Feed the Hungry,” I learn the Young Men's Christian Assoclation have fitted up their kitchen to do what they call “helping the poor.” That is they give a half pound of bread and a pint of coffee, with milk and sugar, and charge bim 10 cents, or they give a half pound of bread and a pint of good soup and charge him ‘0 cents. Now, sir, if this is helping the poor, I should like to know what ig robbing the poor; for do they not take from him 10 cents and give him what is only worth seven cents, And they do this under the name of heip- ing, or charity to the poor, Out with such charity as this! It is downright robbing the poor. No fear of professional beggars going to them; for they know better than to give 10 cents for what Is only worth seven cents, Now, sir, if any persons wish to do good for the poor this winter let them take and fit up a store or basement in any part of the city, and get the baker to make loaves (to be a half pound weight cach), and make good coffee, 50 gallons at atime, and then they can serve it out by the pint and sell it, with milk and sugar, av four centsa pint, with a ait pound of bread for three cents. They cau make good soup and sell it at four cents per pint. They can also sell good meat 4 d_ potatoes and greens, witha slice ef bread, ior séven cents, And if they can have 500 men come and buy their meals of them every day the place will pay for itself, nous any charity to help it along. ONE WHO KNOWS. “A Practice Not So Bad After All.’ To THR EpITOR or THE HERALD:— in your issue of last week an article appeared under the head of ‘Religious’ by a correspondent calling himself “Resident,” entitled, “A Bad Prac- tice for Any Church,” in which article he decried against the practice, now in vogue in Catholic churches, requiring people to pay 10 cents per capita, Aiter intimating how generous ne woule@be, and letting our imagination run riot as to the amount he would deposit in the contri- bution box at the regular contributing time, he thinks the practice an abominable one, and does not sec why it should be countenanced. “He has been inclined to think the Catholic re- ligion that of the poor” as well as that ol the rich, For his edification, and for his sake, I will try and explain. The (ete speaks particularly of halt past ten o'clock. Judge irom that that he goes to no other service. I would intorm him that in all the Catholic churches of New York city there are from three to five services every Sunday morning and at all and every one of these services the poor are allowed without charge at the door or without being com- pelled to pay for one-sixth or one-seventh of a pew inside. Now these churches have to be insured, taxed, clergy paid, sexton pald, repairs made, and, in a great many cases, first cost debt paid off. Now who and what are going to pay jor all these things? Surely not those poor people who are never asked to contribute, except, perhaps, for some new addition to the church or to assist in forwarding the construction of some new church in another town, county or State? Yet the churches must be supported and to support them pews are rented and these pews are bought mainly by per- sons (Catholics) who attend half-past ten o'clock service, and if these men attend with their faint- les, as they usually do, they are adverse to being crowded, and, if @ little te, pe rnaps ousted, ‘by sirangers, both a4 to treed Gi connection, such as infer “Resident” 18 from his letter. The pew owners are not charged 10 cents on Sunday at haif-past 10 o'clock service; it isonly those who do not rent pews that are made to pay, and isit not right, or on the contrary, is it right to make the lew bear all the burden and have the many, some of whom no doubt have as good means, profiting thereby? We are all aware of the class who attend the haif- past 10 service tuat are made to pay; they are either Catholics who are in the city for a limited time, corny tie no seats, or Protestants, @ great many of whom who P for no other purpose than to hear the music. I have known men ownin; pews to be compelied to Kneclin the aisle behin their pews in the gallery because they were filled by men whom they knew to be strangers in creed, and the only Senior or consolation they had to compensate thein for the soreness of their knees or limbs next day was that they had treated strangers (who perhaps grinned during tne whole service) courteously. AS owners of their seats they had the right to order the strangers out, but they would not do it. If Catholtc strangers or Protestants desire to attend Catholic places of worship for the sake of the worship they can do so, and without charge, every Sunday morning, from five to half-past ten. If every one did as little toward supporting churches as L have reason to suppose from lis letter “Resident docs, our churehes would soon be ander the hammer, As to iree, “open, sesame” of the Protestant churches, I have good treason to donbt and have yet tosee. LThave been intimate with those who had the renting of pews in these churches, and [ know that when & poor man became dilatory he Was politely nudged, and when nnable to respond to the nudge and remit, was constrained (of course politely) to vacate, and either board with some Iriend or kneel in the back aisie. It may be aiferent in the city, but I suspect that the “iree, open, sesame” ends when the excitement pro- duced by the conversion ts allayed, FARMINGTON, Can a Perfect Being Commit an Imper- fect Act? To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD Will you Kindly oblige me by inserting the fol- lowing in your next Sunday’s edition of the Henan? Believing the HeRa.p to be perused through the States by more readers, ‘“non-church attenders,” than the number of those who weekly crowd our churches, and that the preponderance of common sense is decidedly with the first named, 1 a8k this favor, hoping some of your readers may throw light on the subject. I am also of opinion that the readers of the HeraLD (non-churchgoers) learn and gather more information through your Journal of the discourses you publisi than can be gathered by “simple” hearers. If, as Paul says, “faith comes of hearing,” reading ia certainly the parent of common sense, and upon this basis [ pur- ose tO consider tho subject. ‘Can, then, a perfect being coinmit an imperfect act? Why, the proposition is self-evident and Would seem to deserve no notice ; but God did com- mit an imperfect act, for on the sixth day he created man, “a self-acting machine,” which was no sooner made than all was out of gear; it would not work; it did not answer the purposes for which it was designed. We are told God created man to love Him and serve Him here, and to be happy with Him forever in the next world, 1 ask, do the greater portion of mankind love God? Do they serve Him? Will not the greater portion of them be damned? What, then, becomes of the porpones of God’ We must admit that God caunot be all wise, all powerful, dll beneficent; or concede the biblical account of man’s creation to be incorrect. It is easy to imagine an engineer like George Ste- phenson constructing a steam engine guaranteed | to run three months, but why not for 300 months? Simply because Stephenson was a finite being and | had to work from material at second hand. But | God, who is infinite, with intinite power to make, | infinite wisdom to construct, to rivet every bolt in the machine, fares no better than Stephenson, for the machine (man) was no sooner constructed than it was off the line—as with a watch, the main | spring broke—and all the wisdom aud foreknowl- I have too exalted anidea of the Supreme Being to suppose God capable of such bungling, If If am wrong in my premises or in my deductions, the columns of the HeRALD Will no doubt be ireely given to any secking after the truth, and truth need never be ashamed of itselt, Surely it would not be out of plage for some one of the ambassadors of Christ to reply through your columns—let us have light. Let tt no longer be said the ministers of the present day are unworthy the name of apostles, but follow in the footsteps of Paul, who was not afraid to write and who did more towards Christianizing the world by his writ- ings than his preaching. The Mission at St. Peter's. To THE Epiror oF THE HERALD:— successful missions ever held tn old St. Peter's chureb, Barclay street. nicants and many converts—which latter was one ofits prominent features—attested their devotion and fidelity to the Church. The priests labored late and early until all had made their peace with God, ‘Ihe reverend pastor, Father O'Farrell, in order to keep up the good work, has announced to his congregation that on all Sundays hereafter six morning services will be held, With this purpose he has made application to the Most Rev. Archbishop to add to his numbers an- other assistant priest. Many changes have taken place here of late. The removal ot Fatner = to the Cathedral, and his assistants, Rev. M. C. O'Farrell and the Rev. M. Joseph Phelan, has leit the parish entirely under a new régime. The latter, Rey. M, J. Phelan, has been appointed to a new mission, with an unfinishea church on his bands, toaid him in which Dr, Bruun lectures tor him to-night in Irving Hall, {s Christianity a Failure t To THE EDITOR OF THE ILERALD:— A few weeks ago a correspondent asked the question, Was Protestantism a failure? but I go a itself a failure ? First, let us see what is the foun- dation stone of the Christian religion, and I think we will not be far wrong or unfair in stating it as follows :—God was in the beginning, as He is still, omnipotent, omnibencyolent, omuiscient, pres- cient. He said, “I will create a being whom I shall call man. I could create him, if I so wished, not only perfect, but free from all risk of imperfec- tion to come, ButIwon’t do this, Iwill create him with a faculty for disobeying Me, which wiil beafawinhim, I know beforehand that he will exercise this faculty, and when he does so I will and the first man yielding to the impuise implanted in him by his Creator committed the foreseen and forecondemned act. prescient and omnibenevolent Maker—exacted the penalty. Then severing himsel/, and, as it were, casting himself across the will of his Father, God’s own Son, who, of course, had no share in man’s fault, came forward and said, “Do not damn him, ob, my Father; damn me in his stead.” The Father accepted this substitution of his own inno- cent and only Son, and consented to forego the punishment of the actual delinquent. Now, to put aside all sensations of its horror, is not this an ab- Either God was obliged to make man as he did, and then was not omnipotent, or he elected to make himas he did, being omnipotent, and then he was not omnibenevolent; or else he did ing sprung from a love of pain. But the sequel tn who, according to the Bible account, was innocent under every respect, puts, as it were, the cap- ping stone on a building of impossibilities. I will not record my estimate of it for fear I might | wound or hurt the feelings of any man or woman who may be sensitive and well-intentioned, but before I go on further ict me be thankiul that Iam | not living in the age of Philip If. of Spain or other Christian tyrants, but In an age of freedom and in | which free thought may be freely expressed in an | atmosphere of freedom. On the hypothesis that there be aGod, tne magnificent projector, pro- tector and Lord of this universe of matter, more palpable if lesa cousummate in glory than himself, who was it, asks the sceptic, who made my mind: the noblest part of me, and taught me to judge it to be the noblest? Was it not God himself? Now, the doctrine of the atone- ment is the cardinal doctrine of Christianity, and | if it be abandoned the other dogmata of the creed | can be easily dealt with. Itis either provable or | it is not, it 1s provable or it is not, it is either com- | prehensible or it is not. Its parts are reconcilable | or they are not—or, to put the alternative more strongly, they are one by one, taken together, im- moral, incongruous and utterly repulsive to the noblest element in the nobler sort of men, the | mind. It is not much to be wondered at that the | more clear-sighted of theologians, from the days | of King David downwards, should have jelt the | necessity of discrediting the mind. ‘Thou hast | hid these things trom the wise and prudent, and | revealed them unto babies; “Out of the mouths | of babes and sucklipgs hast thou perfected praise,” | are mect for the mouths of dogmatists, not oi one | age, but of alltime. The mind is the natural ene- | my of the priest, and the priest has ever known as much. Thought is jatal to that which will not bear | thinking of. Incongruous marvels and incomprehensibie mys- terics melt away under the lens of reason, as the blood of St. Janarius liquides under the miracu- | jeus concentrated rays of the sun. It is a strange | inser’ {he to greet the eyes of a man halting on | aMundon, fou wie Suter wore. TET gH MEE | abandon, you wis ente and taking flattery to point out to the timorous and silly & vast, shadowy ana trackless region of CULES ted exercitations over which they may | isport themselves as the superiors of the wise and brave. The priest says to the sceptic, “You hate our God who rates your mind so low that He will neither consult or satisfy them. You hate us tco, | his priests, because we can show you what other, | Wise you could not see, and because we hold tae’ allegiance and love of his sheep, delivering them thereby irom the alternative of an intellectual | tyranny in which you would be the oppressors. You hate us worst of all because we hoid our oMce from Him, and we magnily it because we are His delegates and claim trom you all the authority and respect which to such ottice and delegation of right belong.” It is false all this, | as false as the Worst ite ever ascribed by them to | the devil whom they have iabricated. No man o/ decent intellect was ever or could ever be tool enough to reject revelation tor pride’s sake. Who would willingly go to hell to indulge his vanity? It isa lie, a solemn sounding lic, told to perpetuate the enslavement of the feeble; a new staple driven to refix the fetters of the struggling. hundreds of reasons combine to deter the strongest and most uncomprising mind jrom avowing his scepticism, There is the natural fear of being wrong on so important a subject, there ts unwill- ingness to hurt the feclinrs of pareat, friend or wile, These are a few of the checks upon scepticism, and are they of tittle account? But, says the Christian professor, understand the teachings of the it, Well, ladmit that [ cannot comprehend the Bible, and I ask Mim, What is faith? He answers me “that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things vot scen,” and Lam stil in the dark, and fancy 1 am talking to an idiot. Faith, to speak in plain English, is a faulty opera- tion of the mind, by which deductions are le without or in contradiction of proper premises. But it isin practice an operation of the wil against the mind, and what right has the will to oppose the intellect? And, tn fact, falth begins to act alter the mind has been silenced. What, then, limits faith? The unrestricted, senseless, arbitrary will? What checks 1t8 license or guides its vagaries? How are faiths tested, it not by reason? and if faith is tested by reason, then faith woukl become @ parenthesis, an interpellation be- tween two paragraphs of mind, The complete dealing then between a man and a creed would be- come & tripartite. 1 ask again how are faiths tested ? What makes one differ trom another? | What makes one seem true and another false? It | cannot be the relative probability or tmprobability of their facts for all at least contain much that is improbable, and even Christians admit that were it not for faith, the retention of their mysteries Would be impossible, Brabminism contains much that 1s inconceivable ; so does Christianity, What then makes Curistiauity more receivable than Twelve thousand commu- | step further and ask, Is not the Christian religion | edge of God came to grief, | | qualities, the case with Christianity is different; but On Wednesday lust was closed one of the most | | act | other hand, it is plain that ifeven with a moderavo Brahminism? One might go further and ask, If creeds—that is, subject matters of faith—be his- tories and theories of an incomprehensible God, incomprehensible to the extent of contradict- ing, Why cannot the creeds of the world, however conflicting, be all true together? One 8 that God made man at ene epoch; anotner that he made him earlier or later; one that he was made erfect and fell; another that he was made imper- lect and improved; one that @ single atonement was made once tor all ina certain shape, on certain conditions and at a certain epoch; another that it was made in a person, by @ method, under con- ditions, atatime and piace wholly different. A third, perhaps, makes no mention of the atone- ment atall And 7 they all claim to be the ex- press word of God. However, if we expect that ail we are to hear oi God shall be incomprehensible and contradictory why may we not hold ail these atonce? Why not admit, ip laith, that there was and was not a fall, that there was and was not an atonement, and still that there was no atonement at all? Herein to tts professors is the danger of this idea of faith. Hereio tous who are not its profes- 8018 is its absurdity. The true fact is there is po such thing as faith, Another position sometimes taken up by the Christian is to ask, What right have you to assume that God omnipotent, or cninisctent to prescience or omnibeuevolencer “And must say there 13 , more in this oe than appears at first sight, for certainly } could not fix illimitability to a Being of whom I know nothing. But Lam pertectly jus- tifled when I say that God, if He exist, either does possess or does not possess ail these attributes. Ii He possesses them, then the theory of the atone- ment and its consequent Christianity ts, as I have shown, inwossible by any test we cau bring to bear on the question of tveir mutual compatibility. But chen, 1! He be taken to lack all or any of these itis very bad: ior while He would not be worth worshipping if He failed in all these attributes, He would be scarcely less so it he failed inone. For granted that he lacked omuibenevolence we could understand His Jancy tor damning three-fourths of all mankini, and it would bea hopeless task to attempt to Tea eyes Him by prayers or by vain efforts at well living. So if He were not omni- potent He might be well intentioned, but some exterual power inight be too much for Him, as the Fates were for Zcus, in the Grecian Theogony. Nor, ifthey are to harmonize with the Christan reli- gion, could omnibenevolence and prescience co- exist any better without omnipotence than with | it; for omnipotent or not, He was still the Creator, and being golly, eeenea) by His prescience, of the nat catastrophe to ensue by His if he had been let creation alone, Bat some say he might be perfectible. Possibly; but when He became perfect He would see the neces- anterior impetrections in others inate to and consequent upon His own. position assumed bya large class, and, On the whole, a well-meaning ciass, Is that evil is a secondary form or cause of good in the hands of the Creator; that it is the transi- tional state through which He intends to bring and will bring all to a good end. But this 18 an unsatis- factory apology and may be dismissed with a word. | Evil is evil while it lasts, and the responsibility of Its existence at all resis with him who employs it, even fora time. He had good at His disposal, why | notemploy that? But the tact is that in the pres- ent state of our scientific Knowledge it may safely be sald that to assert the existence of a God asa ositive fact is a8 illogical in kind as Christiavity is, though not to the same degree. But, on the was or He might exercise Of caution, circumspection and clear thought be intellectually meritorious, then pure Theism, even if positive, must be a far more venial mental weakness than orthodox Christianity. There are at present several first class bistorles ot revelation competing for acceptance in the world, There are the Brahmin, the Buddhist, the Jewish, the Christian and the Mahometan. Let us imagine a man ot fuli age and strong mental Jacul- | ties Who had become @ Theist without the creed | having been forced upon him. He is on his ap- | pearance immediately beset by five propagandists, | all equally earnest and ail equally ready to acknowledge that he has hitherto done homage to | the t God; all, moreover, equally bent, like St. Paui upon Mars Hill, upon making him genuiucly | acquainted with the object of his devotion. consign him to endiess misery and perdition.” | The creation so resolved upon wag agilieved, | of the faculty thus engendered and advisedly | His Maker—his | solutely contradictory and uncomprehensible story? | not expect him to fall, and then he WAs | thongh i can’t prove it, because it is the oldest, not prescient, Which is 1t- to be? Again, | and I could show you that it is the ortginof the | if he made‘him fit to fall, and knew that he would | Others.” ‘Mine, though I cannot prove it,’’ says fall, the fall was part of His purpose, and the en- | actment of the penalty can only be taken as hav- | the substitution of His only and well beloved Son, | | you lack faith and cannot | Bible without | | long have they sheltered themselves behind this | port:—Bishop Foster, of the United States Meth- | the various American missions on the Southern “Whom thou hast ighorantly worshipped Him | declare Tw you,’ is the common cry of the five. | Cautious alld possessed, the spectator trst fepyares he exterpals of the ere: He notices | hat’ the Brahmin is the vs iaps the oldest, Buddhisi next in age. He sees that Judaism is also of practicaliy prehistoric, though not altogether fathomless origin. He notices, too, that Christian. ity and Mahometism both had their beginning | not only in times eminently historical, but in lo- | | calities geographically contiguous to races pecu- | Marly given to record events. He would see much in all to affront his reason, and among them would | be the story that the Koran was written with a peh piucked from the quill of the angel Gabriel; | the story of the egg of Brahma, and the still more outrageous falsehoods of the Christian, as the story ab ae union of a virgin and a dove had produced a lamb. But aiter all these things had found their level in his mind much would sull be incomprehensible and revolting to his reason, though nothing more | 80 than the story of the creation, fail and atonement of man as given above, Yet they would all say, “These things do affront your reason, but you must believe through faith, because they are | stated coal 9 inferentally io sacred writings, dictated by God hintbelf and handed down intact | since their dictation," Now which of them ought he to choose ? ‘Mine, cries the Brahmin, “al- the Hebrew; see how near it 1s to theism; it does is of the essence of the others. “Mine though will not prove it,” echoes the Christian; ‘I could if 1 chose, but see what it has done for the world.”” The obvious answer to this somewhat desperate though very common plea is that in their way and time and turn the other creeds have done very nearly as much, Such & retort would be true, and being true wouid be equally conclusive, for it ts plain that if Christianity were tg be chosen defl- nitely on that ground, there must also have been a time at which évery One of its competitors was equally deserving of selection. As i! Moses were to be admitted to nave nad personal interviews with the Deity because he laid down some good moral principles. Does the blindest Christian tmagine that the crimes of blasphemy, murder and theit were unknown to the Egyptians or to the Oriental moralists, like Confucius, who never heard of him? The excellent morale of the Khoran does not in- duce beliefin the pretensions of Mahomet; why should the Decalogue or the Sermon on the Mount be supposed to prove the inspiration of Moses or the deity of Christ? The fact is, the moral theory of Christianity has improved since it left the hands of its founder, for many virtues are now valued for themselves which by him were only ad- vocated for their consequences. And it is certain that neither the moral precepts of the New Testa- ment hor any tmprovement on them have ever gone beyond the spirit in which Socrates propounds Nis | ideas of man’s duty towards man in tne uninspired pages of Plato. Now, Mr. Editor, in conclusion, I whink the Christian bases his belief on the Bible. Now we will see how that Book fares when conironted with reason. or two glaring contradictions. II, Chront- cles, .XXil., 2, contradicts xxi, 20. We read that God tempted David to number Israel and that satan tempted him to do it, and in James we read God tempts noman. The ac- counts of the end of Judas are totally inconsistent with each other. In one point the numberless in- consistencies of the Bible are of littie importanc but from another, when the plea of inspiration putin, they assume gigantic dimensions. Now, Henry Ward Beecher or any other sou Ologian will answer, if 1 lollowin PLEO ‘irst—Are the ou & pols, as we have them, eithef transcripts 6f translations of tour gospels actually Written by the jour Evangelists whose names they bear, or, tn other words, were the four gospels, as they now exist, actually compiled by the persons whose names they bear? On the con- pd 1s tt not admitted that the four gospels, a3 originally written, are lost—lost, that is in the seuse in which Sappho’s poems or the missing books of Livy are lost? Second—Is it not admitted that many and vari- ous biographies of Jesus were compiled during the first lew centuries after his death? rhird—Is it not algo admitted by the most can- did and competent of theologians that the tour gos- pe's now read were compiled at least a century alter the death of Jesus, out of existing materials, both good and bad—the worst believed and the most tramped up of the mtracies and marvels being discarded and the best believed and most | dignified retained? Fourth—What is the date of the oldest known | Tor in fact | manuscript of any gospel! or of any epistle? i} Fifth—Upon the genuineness of how many of the epistles has doubt tairiy arisen among orthodox and heterodox critics alike? Of how many of them would a candid theologian say that he unreservedly believed them to be the work of the writer to whom | they are canonically aserived? Sitth—Are not important paragraphs and | phrases, even in those assumed to be genuine, be- | heved to be interpolations? Hl Now, sir, Lhope that some of the eminent theo- | logians of America will auswer these questtons | mantully if they are able, It wont do for them to tell their flocks they could if they would. Eitner they are able to anawer them or they are not, Too excuse, and itis already time that the juggle of | Christlanity should be bon to its proper post. | tion. Not until these questions are answered 1ogic- ally and trathfully will Lfor a crael fable founded by a Galilean juggler surrender my hopeiul passion for the knowledge of my Maker, whoever he may be; my filial yearnings for my unknown Father; | my dreams of my greut, unimaginable origin; my sightless, ignorant, but undebased efforts to pic- ture and to worship the unknown, but the true Most High, Yours, &c. FREETHOUGUT, An American Bishop Preaching Buenos Ayres, The Buenos Ayres (S. A.) Daily News, ot the 80th of September, published the following re- odist Episcopal Church, who ts at present visiting Continent, preached two sermons on Sunday, in the lecture hall adjoining the unfinished American Cnristianiey. ita ha vaatting “DUE ae artery hd | entered upon ‘his duties as pastor of the’ Presby- ours.” “Mine, though { cannot prove it,” | teTian church of Columbia, S.C. The First Presby- cries the Mussulman: “lor mine is pure | t¢Tian church of Babylon, L. I., has called Rev. J. U, Theism. “The. mantle is of. pure. dye, no | Nightingsie.to ice vastorate: “ike. Pill Pierson, of el y Presbytery, aled in the pulpit of Bethel matter what the iringe may be. Improbability | chureb, N.C. Tne So nan jh sari First we have one | | evangelical denominations are to be represented. | announced, He was an able and devoted minister, church, 1m caue vurrientes. me room was well ailea on both occasions, and in the evening it may e said to have been crammed. Mr. Jackson an- nounced at the close of the service that the Bishop, being anxious to utilize as far as possible the tew days he had to pass in Buenos Ayres, and ha’ heard that materialistic notions prevailed to a considerable extent among the society here, bad undertaken to deliver two lectures on the “Rela- tions of Science and Religion.” Ministerial Movements, é&c. EPISCOPALIAN, Rey. Mr, Mansfleid, for the past nine years rec- tor of the Episcopal Church, Kent street, Brook- lyn, has resigned, Services in German have been begun in Trinity church, Portiand, Oregon, by the Rev, John Rosenberg, with a view of reaching quite an interesting and important class of the community. Bishop Morris, of Oregon, has pur- chased land in Portland for the foundation ana erection of an orphanage and hospitaL ‘The bishop elect of Ely and Victoria (British), will be consecrated during the Advent seasou. ‘The new St. Peter’s church, Germantown, Pa., is rapidly approaching compietion and will be ready for oc- cupancy early in December, The Rey. Theodore S. Rumney, D.D., rector of Christ church, German- town, Pa., has accepted a unanimous call to the rectorship of the new parish, The Bishop of Ches- ter, fm a published letter, comes out strongly against the use of the confessional in the Anglican chureh. Rey. Mr. Berkley has been forced by bad health to resign charge of his churches on the Hast- ern Shore. Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, is com- Pelled to cease active labor. His slight body hag broken beneath his episcopal burdens, and his clo- quent tongue must be silent awhile. St. John’s chareh, Louisville, Ky., 1s again without a rector, asthe late incumbent, Rev. W.C. Butler, has re- signed, having accepted a call at Middletown, Del, Wednesday and Thursday next are to be observed, by Episcopalians in England and America, as a day of prayer for missions. Rev. Mr. Stander, an Ital- jan convert from the Roman Catholi¢ Churen, and re- cently admitted into the diocese of Ohio, has begun a Protestant Episcopal mission among his country, men in this city. His services for the present are held tn the Five Points, House of Industry. Out of 15 or 20 prominent low churches in and around New York, @ handfwi only remain, St. John’s, Holy Trinity and Christ churcn, Brooklyn, and Grace, St. Thomas, ‘Trinity, St. John’s chapel, all low churches at one time, are now nigh, and are | moving On. And the strongest Hvangelical | churches are passing into other hands. If the | Evangelicals save themselves, the Eraminer thinks, It will be by an exodus and the forming of @ new sect. Rev, Dr. Lyman, Assistant Bisho) elect of North Carolina, is to be consecrate in Raleigh, December 11. Eight bishops and a large number of other clergy aie expected to be present. A ritualistic church haa been opened in Washington, D, C., under the charge of Rev. Reeve Hobbie. Bishop Whittingham has forbidden Mr. Hobbie’s postures and nonsense for the present, very much to the disgust of the said Hobbie, The Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, D. D., rector of St. Paul's parish, has as: sumed the pastoral oversight of St. James’ Alrican church, Baltimore. The Rey. Lewis Walker, of Powhatan parish, Va., has resigned his charge there and accepted another at Easton, Md. ihe Rey, R. H. Jones has resigned the care of the churches near Battieboro, N, U., and accepted the charge of Sapony and Calvary churches, {Bath parish, Dinwiddie county. PRESHYT! A revival in Fifth Creek ¢! , N, C., has added to the membership; another at Concord church, C., gave 70, and at Reedy Creek church, N.C. Kaymore Station, in Cass county, Mo., and i 18 awakened by the preaching of Rev. George Miller, and Presbyterian churchiess people there are doubled tn membership. Out of the 114 counties in Missourl 69 only are occupied by the two Syuods of the Presbyterian churches and 45 have no church buildings; in the 69 counties there are 200 churches, with a membership of 8,621. A fusion has been for some time planned of the West- ern Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, with tne Third Reformed, the consolidated body tabipg the name of the Immanuel chareh and uniting with the Central Presbytery. Dr. Charles S. Wads- | worth, the pastor of the late Third Reformed, was to continue pastor of the united church; he was, therefore, on the 17th inst., recetved i} as @ member of Presbytery. But now the Re- formed Classis has entered’ a protest against the measure, ciaiming jurisdiction over the late church and its pastor, and also the right to the church property. On the part of tae congregation there’ tue vote for transjer was unanimons, but it is said that some dissentichis Tive since been discovered. Rev, R. Kessier has accepted a cau vo tne rrespy- terian church at Pontioc, Mich. Rev. A. KE, Hast- ings, of Birmingham, has removed to Au Sable, Mich. Rev. S. Murdock has assumed the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Tunkhannock, Pa. Rev. George F, Cain has begun his pastorate with the Presbyterian church at Williamsport, Pa. Rev. J. A. Ranney, of Kalamazoo, has begun his labors with the church at Deiphi, Ind. The new Presby- | terlan church at the corner oi Noble and Lo fa er Streets, Greenpoint (Brooklyn, EB. Ds), wi ibe dedicated on the evening of Thursday, Decem- ber 4 Dr. 1. L. Cuyler will preach the sermon. ie AN. h, 51 N. “He was reading and commenting on the third chapter of Malachi, when he beckoned to some one | in the congregation to come to him, and died im- | mediately. He was buried on Tuesday, at the Mid- | Way church, of which he had been stated supply | for 35 years.” The Presbyterian church, ot Victor, N. Y., have called Rev. William 8. Marsh, of Huron, to their pastorale vacated by Rey. H.T. Miller, who | removed to Medina, N.Y. Mr. Marsh is to begin his labors there to-day. Rey, J. Sparhawk Jones, of Baltimore, has accepted a call vo the Arch street | Presbyterian church, Philadelphia. METHODIST. | , The Methodist, quoting the statistics reported by Dr. Curry to the Preachers’ Meeting last Monday, states that three times in the history of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church here it has suffered loss in members, Once, in 1796, a los8 Of 9,316 members | Was reported; again in 1848, a loss Of 536,248, | Caused dy the separation of the Church South; and | again, tn 1364, a loss of 66,107. And yet, since 1864, such has been the progress of Methodism that its membership has advanced trom 928,340 to more | than 1,250,000, St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal | church, North Tarrytown, N. Y., has receive | gift of a valuable plot of ground for a church site | Irom Mr. John Anderson. Revivals are reported | iu Baltimore, at Grace church, 51 conversions in three weeks; at Whatcoat church, 40; at Bethany Independent Methodist church, 21; in New York, | at Malone, 24; at Springville, 20; at Latayettevilie, | 30; at Plymouth, 60; at Edwards, 110; at | | Berawge Springs, 57; at Gurleyville, 40; in | New Jersey, at Red Bank, 22; at Denville, | 25; at Hampton Junction, 37; in Fortburg | | Circuit, 90; at West End, Jersey City, 30; on Con- | cord charge, 21; in Lynchburg, Va., 110, 37 of whom | | were baptized at one time in St. John’s church, | Beaford avenue, Brooklyn; 70 at Rockport, Me.; | over 200 converts, 134 of whom have united with | the Methodist Episcopal church at Westerly, R. 1.; 50 at Hagerstown, Pa., and 32 in Waterbury, Conn., 250 during the year 1361, on November 9 ‘Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce, a venerable minister of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church South, has come to the con- clusion, alter much thinking and observation, that it 1s unwise to admit unconverted persons into the | oh fnciiinas gouversion.”” He rather holds | | abe he Way, fa © the church much harder | ahd closer than it has been usually ada, belie | | that easy to get in and hard to Get Out at rk | any church in four generations tf allowed. ‘The | Methodist Episcopal church at New Burlington, | Cincinnati Conference, will be dedicated to-day. | | A new charch is being built at Norta Adams, Mass, | | to cost $70,000; H. C. Farrar, pastor. ‘The new Methodist Episcopal church at Lonaconing, West | Va, (Rev. KE. Richardson, pastor), will be dedicated | about the Ist of December. at Hancock, | churches are being erected. The main auditorium | | Of Centre street Methodist Episcopal church at | | Cumberland, Md. (Rey. S. V. Leech, pastor), ts | | being prepared jor dedication by spring. ‘The | church will cost about $38,000, The Hansom place Mathodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, is approach- ing completion. It is to be opened on Jauuary 4 ‘There is to be a union dedication, at which all the The house will be dedicated tree from debt. The North Fifth street caurch, Brooklyn, George Holus. pastor, will be reopened to-day. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Middietown, N, J., was dedicated on Thursday iast by Bishop Simpson. The death of the Rev, J. b. Gundy, President or the New Connection Methodist Conierence, Canada, is and was very highly esteemed in other denomina- tions, 43 wellas in hisown. Bishop Paine is the senior Bishop ot the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was elected with Bishop Capers at the first Southern General Conference, held in 1846. | Dr. Abel Stevens, of Brooklyn, has gone to spend a | few weeks in Viorida to recuperate his health, BAPTIST. Rey. Dantel Read, LL. D., of Lawrence, Kansas, is expected to commence his labors to-day in the First Baptist church, Bastern District, Brooklyn, Rey, R. M. Deming preactied his iarewell sermon in the kirst Baptist church, Greenpoint, last Sun- day, He goes to Boston, ‘where he is to assume the conduet of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, as its secretary or superintendent. Kev. Dr. J. B. Thomas, of Chicago, has accepted a call | to become again the pastor of the First Baptist | church, His oiticial duties will commence the first Sunday tn January, Dr. Thomas occupied the pul- pit ot the Pierrepont Street Bapust chureh seven Years ago, and now the two congregations nave united.” Rev. J.'t. Zealy has resigned fits paatorate of the Baptist church in Houston, Texas, which he has held for four years past. Lack of financial sup- port ig the cause for this action, Of the 133,000 Baptists in Virginia 71,000 aré colored. ‘Teae brethren have sought admittance to the moet ings of their white brethren, but in vain, The General Association, at 1ts last meeting, refused to | other useful books, religious and educational. Md. | T Hartmansville and Point of Rocks, Md., improved ir | &Co,, 391 Broad r mee hi able to meet the obligations of a generon finded gentieman, dest Aintance” equally liberal, rei 13 — cororea tes to seats in our boa: we must invite them to share in our hoapttantes To this the Baptist Heraia tersburg, Va.) re. plies in a pungent style, sho" that the whites do not enjoy amon; themselves what the: tend their colored Drothren want to share wit ‘oe to take from them. It is reported t Rev. Dr, sume pol at Jeffrey, who came hither from the West to a: the Presidency’ of Dr. Talmadge’s Lay Coll Brooklyn, will not continue his connection with it after the present term. The number of Baptist communicants on the Continent of Europe is oe. Their missions began in 1834. The Board oj me Massachusetts Baptist Convention have appoint Rev. Andrew Pollard, D. D., as general superin- tendent of missionary work int hat State, The new chureh edifice at Millerton, N. Y., was dedicated o1 Thursday last. The Rutherfurd Park Baptt church, recently organized, was recognized as & chureh on the 19th inst. Rev. James Waters closed his services with the second Bap’ church, Wilmington, Del, last Sunday, enter upon his duties as District Secrotary of the Bible and Publication Society for the Eastern District of New York, Ihe Rey. Elijah Lucas, late of Hariem, has received and accepted a unanl- mous call trom the First church, Trenton. Rev. By H. Stac! bole has recently resigned at Westboro, MI 1. T. Filmer at South Framingham, the latter to go to Webster, Mass, The Rey. Dr. Dowl- ing clo: ils tempory petiot of pastoral service ] South Baptist church by a sermon on Sune od evening next, Some of the churches in New York and Vicinity are enjoying evidences of re- vival. Never, to human view, was it more needed Mat the Lord should arise and plead bis own causi The Rey. E. J. Peares has been called as pastor a ud entered on his work. Rev. J, Ringoes, N. J. N. Smith has resigned the pastorate of the Baptiat In Haddontield, N. J, ghureh, South Troy, N.Y, deep interest is awakened in a series ings led by Rov. H. G. De Witt; large nasvers aoa asking for prayers. The Rey. G. M. Stone, D. D., who has lelt very pleasant memortes both’ in Con: necticut and Wisconsin, is called to bo pastor of the Baptist church at Ta own, ROMAN CATHO! Rev. Father Sachetti, 0. S. F., of Trenton, N. J., has received trom the lope a beautitul goid chalice for his church, It is ornamented with precious stones. The Catholics of Wabash, Ind., are build- ing & new church, and have raised $14,000 towards its creation, A “mission” is to be opened in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Philadel- phia, to-day, ani 1s to continue 12 days. In St, Augustine's church, Brooklyn, the Dominicans will give a inission this weck, Three hundred children were confirmed in the Catholic church in Flushing last Sunday. The Roman cor- respondent of the Catholic Review writes that the Pope has felt very deeply the suppres- sion 01 the Jesuits. It was a heavy blow to im, but he received it with meekness and resignation. The Rey, Mr. Laporte, who has been ministering to the Cathotic church in Claremont, N. H, for few months past, has returned to Montreal, and his place is supplied by the Rev. Mr. Sullivan, a youbg man from Portland, wio has just entered the priesthood. Archbishop Bayley last Sunday morning administered the rite of conirmation to over 50 children at the Catholic Church of St, Charles Borromeo, near Pikesville, Baltimore county. Last Sunday the corner stone of a new Roman Catholic church at Reistertown, near Bal- timore, was laid, in the presence of 1,500 peopie. The Archbishop of Cologne has been Sentenced to pay a Gne of 1,200 thalers, or be imprisoned for six months, because he appointed six curés in his diocese with. out contorming to the State iaw governing such cases. Rev. D.O. Hadan is building a church at Nantivoke and another at Sugar Notch, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. Father O'Keefe, whose struggle with his ccclestastical superiors has been so bravely and so successfully carried on, has been reinstated by the Commissioners of National Edue cation as manager of the Calian schools, MISCELLANEOUS. The Rey. Albert J. Lyman, of Milford, Conn., has accepted the call to the pastorate of the South Con- gregational church, Brooklyn. Rey. M. Guinneg, of Floyd’s Knob, Ind., has returned home from @ trip to Europe. A Universalist church is soon to be organized at New Chillicothe, Dickinson county, The Universalists of Williamsburg are Le) a new church on South Ninth street, which they propose to call ‘‘Al! Souls.” It is now near complé- tion. Throughout the Turkish Empire a Protestant population of 23,000 souls is now scattered. The enterprise of American missionaries has estab- ished 222 common schools, in which more than 5,000 scholars ure taught; 7 schools Jor girls, hav- ing 215 pupils, and 4 theological schools, with 68 students; 52 pastors have been ordained and 56 preachers have been licensed; 400,000 copies of the Bible, in various language have been put in circulation, besides ey Kirkpatrick Memorial chapel and library, the gift by will of the late Mrs. Sophia A. Kirkpatrick, of New Brunswick, N. J., to Rutgers College, will be dedicated on the 3d of December. 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