The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1873, Page 13

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. December {4--Third Sunday of Advent. HERALD RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. The Reformed Epis- copal Church. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. Rev. Dr. Manning, of Boston, will deliver the next sermon in the special course at the Collegiate church this evening, on “The Witness of Unbelief.” “What Shall We Do With Our Burdens?” will be answered by Rev. Wayland Hoyt, the Tabernacle Baptist pastor, at Steinway Hull, this evening. At the anniversary services of the House of Mercy, in Trinity chapel, at hal/-past seven P. M., Rev. Dr, Morgan Dix will preach. ‘The Methodists’ ‘‘aecline” wiil be exemplified by one of their characteristic demonstrations at Parkville, L. I., to-day. Preaching at half-past ten A.M. and half-past two and a quarter-past seven P. M. by eminent lights of the Church militant. Rev. Dr. Milpurn. ex-Chaplain of the national Senate, preaches this evening in Beekman Hill Methodist church, The venerable Rev. Dr. Perkins will this morn- ing deliver his sixtieth annual sermon in the Mari- ners’ Temple. Rey. Dr. Hodge preaches in the evening. Rev. Mr. Talmage wil! repeat hia Thanksgiving sermon this morning in the Brooklyn Academy. Evening service at the usual hour. Rev, Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., preaches to the people every Sunday evening, at half-past seven o’clock, in the large hall of the Cooper Institute. Preaching by Rev. Mr. Hepworth in the Church of the Disciples this morning, In the evening there Will be a Sabbath school anniversary. Bishop Cummins’ “reformation” will be the sub- Ject of Rev. Mr. Egbert, in Wainwright Memorial church, this morning. Rey. Dr. Osgcod preaches im the evening. Choral service and sermon at half-past three P. &M. in Anthon Memorial church, by Rev. Mr. New- ton. Rev. Mr, Miel, the French evangelist, preaches this eveidng in the Church of the Transfiguration. Memorial service this morning in Central Baj- tist church, Rev. Mr. Evans preaching then and in the evening also, Rev. Dr. Osborne preaches, morning and even- ing, in. South Baptist church. Young men and women will be specially lectured this evening by Rev. Mr. Pullman, of the Church of Our Saviour, in the hall of the Standard Club. Mr. Philip Phillips will aid the pastor of the Meth- Odist Free Tabernacle in the work of grace by one Of his felicitous “song” services this evening. Rev. Mr. Cookman preaches at the usual hours, ‘The Morning Star Mission will be also favored by Mr. Phillips, at half-past two P. M., when Rev. Dr. Miller, of Plymouth Baptist church, will deliver an address. The reverend gentleman will preach in his own church at the customary morniog and evening services, “Is Inferaperance a Disease or a Crime?” Rev. Dr. Fulton will answer this vital query this even- ing, in the Hanson place (Brooklyn) Baptist ehurch. Rev. Mr. Davies preaches, morning and evening, dn Berean Baptist church. A Wesleyan experience meeting will be held at Benjamin Albro’s, at half-past three o’clock P. M. The customary services will be held in the Church of the Reformation, by Rev. Mr. Tracy. In Canal street Presbyterian church, by Rev. Mr. Mitchell. in Bleecker street Universalist church, by Rev. Mr. Sweetser; special subjects. In Forsyth street Methodist church, by Rev. Mr. Barnhart. In Firat Mission Baptist church, by Rev. Mr. Knapp. In St. Luke's (Methodist), by Rev. Mr. McClel- land. In West Fourteenth street Scotch Presbyterian church, by Rev. Mr. Hamilton; and In Zion church, by Rev. Mr. Galleher. Rev. Dr. John Hall will this evening, at Associa- tion Hall, address young men. Revival services at Seventcenth street Methodist church, Kev. Mr. Boole preaching in the morning and evening. Services at eleven A. M. and half-past three P. ‘M. in Madison avenue Reformed church, Rey. Mr. Ganse oMciating. There will be an interchange of pastors by the Churoh of Christ and the Filty-third street Baptists to-day, supplemented by 4 lecture to young men in the evening by the pastor of the former, Rev. Mr. Dawson, in his own church. Church and city mission extension will be advo- cated this evening, in Forty-third street Methodist church, by General Fisk and Rev. Dr. King. The Youths’ Missionary Association will be ad- dressed this evening, in Fourteenth street Presby- terian church, by Rev. Robert Sloss. “Memorials of Conficts” will be presented by Rev. Dr. Robinson at the evening service in the Presbyterian Memoria) church. “The Ballot for Workingwomen” is the topic ‘apon which Mrs. Hannah Shepard Wolfe lectures Defore the Cosmopolitan Conference this afternoon. The West Presbyterian flock will worship at the customary hours. “The True Ministry" is the morning and “Inno- cent IIL” the evening topic of Rev. Dr. Thomp- sou, in Christ church. The customary services will be held in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, by Rev. Dr, How- land, Evening lecture on “Antichrist.” Morning and evening services in All Souls’ (Rev. Dr. Bellows) church. Rev. Chauncey Giles will fill the pulpit in the Church of the New Jerusalem, Brooklyn, this evening. This morning, in the Church of the Messiah, Rev. J. Vila Blake preaches. The destruction of the material earth will be considered by Rev. J. C. Ayer, in the Church of the New Jerusaicm, in this city. Very Rev. T. 8, Preston’s ihira Advent sermon, on the devotion to the sacred ieart, will be given this evening in St. Ann’s. Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith will continue his Advent course, preaching this morning on “The Resurrection Life” and lecturing on the verttable- ‘Bess of the Bible in the evening. In St. Mark’s Rev, Dr. Samucl Clark preaches morning and evening. The jubilee services in Thirty-fourth street Re- formed church to-day will be of a very interesting character, Addresses by Rev. Drs, Zabriskie and Stryker and Rey. Messrs. Ganse and Voorhees, “Mine and Thine!’ js Rey. Mr. Frothingham's theme this morning in Lyric Hall. Divine service at the usual hours in the Caurch of the Resurrection, ander conduct of the rector. Rev. W. Nelson McVickar preaches at the new St. Androw’s, Harlem, morning and evening. ‘There wili be @ Spiritualist conference at No, 64 Madison avenue at two P. M. ‘The Robinson Hall Spirituaiists wiil be addressed. by Lyman 0, Howe morning and evening, The Reformed Episcopal Charch—A Reply toa Layman. To THe EpiTOR OF THE HERALD :~ fn the hope that you will allow sumMcient space in the columns of your influential journal for an impartiat discussion of the important move- ment recently inaugurated by Bishop Cummins, in the organization of the Reformed Episcopal Church—a movement in which all denominations of evangelical Christians take a deep interest at the present time—I beg to state a few plain facts in reply to @ communication signed “Layman,” which appears in the columns of yesterday morn. tug's Hanan, “tauneq! starts out with the unwarranted ag NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1873,—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Bernon, uttered certainly in anything but @ chartta- ble or Christian spirit, that Bishop Cummins “nas been actuated more by restless ambition than from conscientious conviction of the necessity for his act.” Now, as {am also a layman in the Prot- estant Episcopal Church, I will gladly endeavor to enlighten my brother “Churchman” with a low very grave reasons why Bishop Cummins and the clergy and laity united with him_ tn his glorious work were fully justified in pursuing the course they have taken. On turning to the Book of QGommon Prayer we find, almost on the first page, that compromise be- tween Popery and Protestantism—between truth and falsehood—entitied “The declaration of absolution, or remission of sina, to be made by the priest alone.” This monstrous assumption of priestly power is merely the legitimate outgrowth of the doctrine incnicated in the ordinal service of the Prayer Book for the “Ordering of priests,” and reads as follows:—*'Receive the Holy Ghost, for the office and work of a priest ia the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands, Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are for- given, and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained. And be thou a faithiul dispenser of the Word of God and of his holy sacra- ments; in tne name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen." Here we are plainly taught thata sintul and very weak old man like Bisiop Potter can impart to sintul mortals uke himself a prerogative that be- longs to God only, That this is the grossest supe stiuion, if not shocking blasphemy, what enlight- ened Christian who loves the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth can for a moment doubt ¢ Again, it is a notorious fact tuat the idolatrous doctrine of transubstantiation is openly and ua- blusiingly taught by a very large minority, at least, of the Aaoglican clergy, both in England and in this country, Ihave myself seen inserted in the col- umns ‘of the HERALD public notices for the celebration of “high mass" in Protestant Episcopal churches in this city; and that, too, without a word of rebuke from any of her bishops, Perhaps this was scarcely to be expected from Bishop Potter, since he has shown his preferences very decidedly, both by sending his daughters to a Romisn insti tution to be educated and by appearing a few evenings ago in tne Church of St. Mar; the Virgin, robed in a purple gown ani petticoat, borrowed from the “sScar- Woman,” that infamous ‘mother’ de- scribed In Holy Scripture as being “arrayed in per and scarlet color” aud “drunken with the lood of the saints and with the blood of the mar- tyrs of Jesus.” But as see it stated in yesterday morning’s HERALD that he encourages the use of the confessional in the Protestant Episcopal Church it were needless to write any more on this subject. Again, we have the monstrous doctrine of bap- tismal regeneration, so plainly repugnant to God’s Word, held and taught by a large majority of the clergy of the Episcopal Church in England and the United States. We are expressly taught in Holy Scripture, by Christ himself, that “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” le who is not thus re- generated by the Holy Spirit, whether he be minis- ter or layman, is not a Christian nor a member of the Church of Christ; and it were most horrible blasphemy to aflirm that the “laying on of hands,” of all the Popes, and bishops and priests, from nose of the wicked and infamous old Fope Hilde- rand and all his ‘successors’! down to the pres- ent time, Could effect such & blessed transforma- jon. I have thus far confined myself to the grave doctrinal errors of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and which, all evangelical Christians agree, are utterly contrary to the Word of God. might—did time and your space permit me—go on to consider the pernicious effects produced by the superstitious mummeries practised in Trinity church and her five or six chapels in this city, In Christ chureh, St. Albans, St. Ignatius, St. Mary’s the Virgin, the Annunciation and a score of others. 1 might dwell at length on the operatic music, trilled by Godless choirs, into the ears of congregations pretending to praise and worship God, the candles, the colored vest- ments, the altar cloths, the incense, the thuribies, the crosses, crucifixes and crossings, the postures, the turnings to the east and to the west, and espe- cially that very vulgar and impolite habit of the clergy turning their backs upon the people; the bowings, the genuflexions, the processionals, c., &c., practised by hundreds of churches throughout, the Angiican communion; but I merely suggest them to “Layman” as food for profitable reflection and instruction. Of the 75 Episcopal churches in this city, “Layman” cannot designate even one—outside of the. Evangelical or Low Church party—where some or allof the abuses specified above are not habitually practised. Is it any wonder, then, that in a Church where such strange and false doctrines are constantly taught and sanctioned some 500 of the English clergy have recently petitioned their bishops to restore the Romish Confessional to the Church? The Anglican ana American Episcopal Church, as every one knows, is divided up into “mgh church” and “low church,’ “broad church’? and “ritualists,” so that there is no such thing a8 unity, order or discipline among them, nor, indeed, ever has been, The his- tory of centuries amply testifies that a reformation can never be brought about within the Church, The anglican communion 1s becoming more and more Romish and, apostate cach succeeding year, and is far more so to-day than she was at the time otthe English Relormation. Her bishops frankly confess that they are utterly powerless to correct the abuses I have named, even if they had the de- sire todo so, which a majority of them certamly have not, and yet many ol these clergy are con- tating about the beauty‘ot ‘unity’ and ible consequences of ‘schism.’’ Unity. Can this Church be more divided than she is at present? And we all know that there can be no schism where there is no heresy and a denial of the faith, Is it not much better and nobier, then, in Bishop Cummins and the evangelical clergy and laity who believe as he does to come out boldly, with unfaltering trust in God, and in the glorious strength of Protestant Christian manhood to sever their connection with this unholy alliance than to stifle the convictions of conscience and fidelity to God, as I greatly fear some have already done for the sake of “filthy lucre’” and ‘because of the loaves and fishes?” If the reasons assigned above are not sufficient to convince “Layman” of the “necessity for the act” of Bishop Cummins I feel constrained to be- lieve that “neither will he be persuaded though one rose from the dead.” ‘The “logic” of “Layman” as regards the inconsis- tent position which he alieges Bishop Cummins occupies in relation to parity of orders is quite as defective as his gratuitous strictures on a pious and faithful man are uncharitable and unchristian. ir “Layman” is at all accuainted with the Greek language he must know, as all Greek scholars know, that the word “presbuteros,” from which Presbyterian 1s derived, and the word “‘episeapos,”” or overseer or bishop, from which Episcopalian is obtained, are all synonymous terms, of preci the same meaning, in the New Testament. This has never been denied by any intelligent clergy- man or layman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, It follows, therefore, that members of the Presbyterian Church might, with just as much propriety and with just as much authority, style themselves Episcopalians as may Thembers of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Surely, then, Bishop Cummins may claim as muc! But if, by a General Coyncil of the Reformed Lie copal Church, authority is delegated to her bishops-~and to 2d otlici$—fer the performance of certain specific duties, as overseers in that Chureh—and which has becu done in the case of Bishop Cummins—it is neither true, nor “logical,” that “he can claim no higher authority in his Church, than the humblest presbyter or layman that has been received to it.” Nor is it “logically” true that “all are on a parity,’ or that the “Bishop, as Bishop, is no more essential to its existence, or to give Velidity to any of its offices, or ordinances, than is plain Mr. Smith, or simple Mr, Brown."” But it is “logically” true that the bishops, pres- byters and deacons of the Reformed Church can each and severally periorm the specific duties assigned them, and at the same time and with periect co tency maintain their beiief in a com- plete parity of orders among all Christian minis- ters. The cisingenuons thrust armed, so covertly and yet so plainly, by “Layman” against the Metno- dist Church and other Evangelical denominations, is utterly unworthy of any Protestant Christian. ‘Yo the pious influence of these powertul bodtes of Chrisuans the Protestant Episcopal Church is mainly indebted, under God, for what evan- gelical plety exists among her clergy and laity; and to ‘hese same churches we are stil more in- debted for the glorious boon of civil ana religious liberty. If the work of evangelizing the world had the ter forsooth! | been left to the stultified neophytes, who, as arule, are turned loose on the community from the Ge: eral Episcopal Seminary in this city, and strut about, even in their embryotic state, in | cassock, and white neck-band, With@ll the assumed importance and arrogated supremacy of tyros, Drest in a ule brief authority, Most ignorant of what they're’ moat assured, Their glassy essence—like angey apes Playing such fantastic tricks before high heaven As inake the angels weep: who with our spleen Would ali themselves laugh, mortal— and who, some twenty years ago, were stiil better | described than Shakespeare has done above, as “effeminate boasters of apostolical succession, eaten up with the vanity of appearing in our large cities In Clerical attire or of swelling a procession of surplices in some Radi leas of ecclesiology,”* by one of God’s saints, a falthful presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Chureb, who now looks down with rejoicing frst the General Assembly and Chureh of the first born on the glorious work of Bishop Cummins—if, I repeat, the work of evan- gelizing the world had been left to such as these the condition of Curtaten tom, fo-day would, in+ deed, be sad to contemplate, ‘The Reformed Rpis- copal Church will admit none such as those I have described to minister im her pul Pits; but in their stead—to quote the words of the same gious minister cited above— “men who have heads and hearts and bands for Work, and ‘know how to endure hardness, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ,’ 1% 18 proper for me to state that I have never seen Bishop Cam- mins, exvept once or twice, in my life, and, theres fore, cannos claim the honor—in the ordinary sense at least—of being one of hig personal friends, I have acted, in relation to this movement, con, from the dictates of conscience ant duty to without conferring with or being influenced in the slightest degree by any human being. But, veliev- ing the work in which Bishop Cummins is en- waged to be God's work, L vgusidgr it @ ‘Admitting it is at times misunderstood, will the Dieased priviloge to support him by my prayers, my infuence and my substance, as God shall rower: me. And, ti the evangelical clergy of the rotestant Episcopal Church prove unfaithful to their awful trust, and shall desert us in this con- flict between truth and error—as 21 of their num- ber have already done—we, of the laity, in humble reliance on God, must ge A on and complete this great work ali the same. May the Holy Spirit en- lighten the hearts and consciences of all pious ministers and laymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and enapie them to decide this momentous question solely and entirely with a view to the glory of God and the eternal wel!are of their fellow men. PROTESTANT, Dr. Ewer and Transubstantiation, To rox Epiror or THe HeRAL! In your issue of yesterday Dr. Ewer in his card on “Transubstantiation,” writes thus:—‘This is a technical word too much misunderstood to war- Tant its use as an equivalent for the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ in the Eucharist as set forth by the Prayer Book and other standards of the Anglican Church."’ In the matter of “taking things for granted” Dr. Ewer's theological appetite is simply jerocious, Will any of your readers kindly name the exact theologian who anywhere affirms “transubstantiation’’ to be the equivalent of the reai presence? When 1 was going to school the doctrine of the Eucharist comprised transubstantiation and the real presence, the tatter comprising or supposing the former as the means. or mode by which the Divine Power causes one substance to take the place of another, the accidents of the former substance remaining intact and unchanged. ‘That Dr. Ewer should chafe at the word “transub- stantiation” asa “relic of medieval barbarism,” ts conceivable, for ours is # progressive age. But does the Doctor think it logical to adhere to a tenet of Christian faith and repudiate the special theological term or verbal form with which Christ- endom has for centuries associated that tenet? It is to be supposed, moreover, that the Doctor would not wantonly cast away the foul water with- out having first secured the fresh, Will he have the goodness to. say what is his improvement on the word “‘transubstantiation” as a term expressing the total change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of the true body and blood of Jesus Christ. And as it is one of the technicalities of a science traditionally, but not necessarily, associated with the Latin tongue, and first adopted when the Latin was both the popular and scientific language of Western Christendom, will the Doctor be so kind as to name any two words, or fewer or more words, in the Latin, which can express a total change of one substance into another more clearly, more pithily and more in accordance with the logical construction of lan- guage than the words “rans,” t,¢., over or beyond, and “substantia,” i. e,, substance ? ‘The Doctor did not use the word, he tell us, be- cause it isa “technical word.” Is nof that the very reason why the good man should have used it? Is it not precisely because it is a theological technicality UIA the Doctor shoula have been nervously carettil to uae it in speaking on a subject pre-eminently theological? The sciences have each their accepted terminology, the neglect of which makes it painful to the scholar to have to hold or listen to a conversation on any branch of them. It isa very Babylon. Does the Doctor cry “Surrender” to the geologist, the chemist and the dreamy metaphysictan, and play renegade to the serene charms of divinityy It is among the questionable signs of the times that churchmen should be found ready to forego the dignity of religious conversation and bring down the theological chair to the level of a sort of sublimated twaddle. Itis to be doubted if the gallant ‘tar’ could so easily abandon the slang Of the masts and ropes without jeopardizing the ship, One of the best safeguards of correct religious though’ in men’s minds is a close ad- herence to words of characteristic propriety and perspicuity. To play fast and loose with this prin- ciple is to do one’s best towards the unhallowed work of unsettling the foundations of ail Christian belief in the popular mind, Of all others, divines are most inexcusable in abandoning what they aione are responsibly committed to by principle and profession. The Doctor did not use the word “transubstanti- ation” at all, because it is too much misunderstood. Doctor name the one tecnnical term in any branch of science whicn is not open to this stupid objec- tion? The Doctor's argument, if it means any- thing, means that two wrongs make a right; be- cause there are vast numbers who do not or can- not or will not learn the proper meaning of words therefore things should not be called by their proper names, Because they who know no better will say, for instance, “‘sparrowgrass,” therefore the horticuiturist and gentlemen generally | had just as well not insist too eagerly on “asparagus.’? Because the mezzotinto, the chiaroscuro, and such like words, Which any man who wishes can learn the exact meaning of, are not the ordinary inheritance of the uneducated, therefore the painters—trom Cimabue to Muller—are entirely at sea. The truth is, the worthy Doctor cannot name one scientific technicality in sacred or profane science which is half so well kuown among all classes of Christians as this one much abused dogmatical | term of “transubstantiation.”” There is not a hodman in the Fourth ward—not excepting Mr. Van Metre bimself—but knows all about it. N body knows better than the Doctor that the more one reflects on “transubstantiation” the nearer he approaches the quintessence of eg 7 Education as a Means of Light, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Would you permit a laboring man, in behalf of Many others of his class, to give his views on the school question? I am, and hope to die, a Catholic, and believe the more education one has the better heis fitted to select between rightand wrong. I be- lieve it would be criminal to keep children from our public schools if thefe are no better ones to send them to, First provide better ones, and if the public find them so they will soon avail them- selves of so favorable an opportunity. Until then let the children have lignt, as ail must concede | ignorance is darkness, and any one who, on any pretence whatever, encourages It cannot be in the service of God. Let the people of all creeds and nationalities favor education, as it will bring us nearer to God and secure us against tyranny and | oppression, A MANHATTANVILLE LABORER, Religious Religious Enthusiasm, To THe EpiTor OF THE HERALD ;— I wish to submit for the consideration and refec- tion of your Koman Catholic readers a fact or two in connection with the statements or claims made by and for the most eminent Catholic saints—such, for instance, as that made by St. Augustine, the very side of our Lord opening and he entering and taking up his abode in the Lord's heart! I suppose millions of similar statements of “experience” have been made by persons in all ages and of all creeds; but, when made by those not acknowledg- ing the authority of the Pope of Rome, every Roman Catholic seems in duty bound to discredit them, and, when that cannot be done, to attribute them, without the slightest hesitation, to the devil. am acquaintea with a Roman Catholic lady, who, I think, would lay down her life before she would admit even the possibility of See ene being influenced by the Spirit of God in their utterances yet, this same woman verily be- Heves that the Lord once manifested bimsel! 1m per- gon to her while she was laboring under great re- ligious tribulation, and, whut is noteworthy, in the spangles and decorations that her eyes were ac- customed to and her faith had formed. This ts worthy of reflection ; that Augustine could not make the statement he does without being pertectiy | sure, if credence were given to it by the Church, that he would be canonized and adored as a saint, To entertain that thought, not to say desire, every | true Christian believes and knows tobe the most repugnant to every attribute truly Christian. Hc teth himself shall be abased.”* N, PATRICK WE Baptism and Conversion of the Twenty. To THE EprrorR oF THE HERALD: A correspondent ‘signing himself “Lara” no doubt excels inthe idea of being very smart on this subject ; but, putting aside the usual twaddle of such sneerers at holy things, I would reply to a few of his remarks :—First—That “It is but rarely that Protestants become converts to the Roman Cathohe faith.’ Tthought such talk as this was nearly played out among those who know anything of the “religious world.’ How many converts think you have been received from the Anglican establishment in England during the last 30 years? lam unable to give numbers, but there are now nearly 300 priests in the church, including the great Archbishop Manning, who during that period have leit the ministry of that establishment, and f presume the taity have been in some considerable proportion, for last year over 2,000 were received into the church of their jathers in London alone; and at one churcn, where great puinbers are continually being converted (the Chureh of the Oratorians) ail the tachers which have been Protestant ministers, and number some 25 or 30. 1 believe | am within bounds when I say thatsome years ago | heard of over 500 converts in the course of 12 months. IT will not extend my remarks further on this subject except to observe that onr own Primate, the Arebbishop of Balti- more, as Well as a large number of the clergy are converts, Second.-.Lara intimates that they were informed that ‘provided they entered into the bosom of the Church their lives might bg saved.” “This,” he “48 not a new trick.” What authority has he for this? Was he ever engaged to convert the starving Irish during the famine by offers of soup and other bodily comforts? TUrd—Let me tell Wigs Wah 48 to Jews enter taining the 4f rongest aversion co Catholism, he cannot find me aJew who more thoroughly hates Christ's Holy Caureh than the amalgamated society of the various sects calling themselves Christians, differing, a8jthey do, on the essentials. and doctrines of religion, are bound by a diabolical bond of union together with professed atheists or infidels against the everlasting, unchanging and unchangeable Church of Christ. Again, ask any Jew and he will tell you that, if Ubristianity be true, it must be Catholic Christianity; for he will tell you that, as an outside ovserver, the ever changing, shilting and miscellaneous mass of so-called churches are roof to him of the falseness of Onristianity, while he unity and stability of the Catholic Charch is a strong proof to him that, if true at all, it must be in her alone to be tound, and any educated infidel will tell you the same, Finally, how dare this “Lara” say that “deceit or force, perhaps both, were employed in their bap- tusm (not conversion)? That fear and hope and a foolish trust in the promises of the two priests, and, lastly, the uselessness of resistance to force, made these men receive the water of baptism at the hands of the two priests, and the Bishop gave thanks to God for having permitted him to prac- tuce a deception, slander these victims of despot- ism apd publish a falsehood over his name?’ Can he prove that he bas not slandered the Bishop and clergy and published a falsehood over his own assumed name? I challenge him to prove the truth of his assertions, 1am no advocate of the brutal act of the Span- jiards, and I wish this government had taken ¢ bull by the horns and punished promptly the wretches who committed it; but I cannot see any anonymous letter slandering the Church without uttering @ wora of protest. CHARLES SMITH, BROOKLYN, B. D., Dec. 9, 1873, A Friendly Suggestion from One of the Society of Friends, To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD :— In thy paper of last Sabbath I noticed under the head of ‘Keligious Intelligence’ some remarks on “Quaker Progfession.” The term Quaker in Amer- ica is applied to two denominations widely differ- ent in their belief; the public, therefore, would ob- tain more correct information if thy religious re- porter would designate which sect (orthodox or Hicksite) has committed the “inuovations,’? The orthodox Friends, who worship in the meeting house corner of Lafayette and Washington av- enues, Brooklyn, have not for several years Strictly adhered to the form of ranging all the men on one side and the women on the other side of the sanctuary, but the mem- bers of @ amily of both sexes usually occupy the same seat. [am interested) in the columns of religious news found in the HERALD, hence my de- sire that all denominations may be plainly rep- resented, I have often noticed before that all Friends or Quakers were classed under the same head in newspaper articles, which leads to @ mis- apprehension of the faith and progress of the two societies by those not intimately acquainted with them. Thine respectiulily, DOROTHY FOX, Ministerial Movements and Changes. METHODIST, A Wil nington, Del., correspondent of the Chiis- tian Advocate reports 500 conversions in the Metho- dist Episcopal churches in and around tnat city since the exira meetings began in October, At Newport, a suburb, 160 have been brought to know the Lord, and the revivai work goes on. At Mount Salem 64 have professed saving faith in Jesus; at Brandywine, 20. In Asbury charge 70 have been converted, and corresponding numbers in otner charges. ‘The Methodist Episcopal church at Mooer’s, Clinton county, N. Y., has a great revival on hand, in which, up to last week, 150 had pro- fexsed religion, and the altars are nightly crowdea, indicating no slack in tue work. Revivals are also in progress in Fleet street church, Brooklyn, where, on Sunday evening last, 18 found a Saviour; in Washington street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn; in St. Paul's church, Jersey City; in Bargaintown, N. J, and in other churches in this city and vicinity. Very many of the free churches, however, defer their extra meetings until after the Christmas holidays, because they hold fairs, concerts and-such like entertainments for their own benefit. The Meth- odist Episcopal church in Georgetown, D. C., reports 50 conversions at Stamford, Vt., 35; at the Foot of Paradox Schroon Lake Circuit, Troy Con- ference 15; in Watertown, Conn., 40; 1n adams avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Scranton, Pa., 150, South Chester Methodist Episcopal church, Pa., has increased its force from 16, two years | ago, to 180 at present, , The new Methodist Episco- pal church at Norwich, N. Y., now nearly com- pleted, will cost $35,000, Bishop Simpson expects to start for Mexico early in January. Rey. Thomas Penrose, a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance, sailed for England on Saturday, December 6. Rev. Dr. Swaney has returned from his mission work ‘In South America, and is visiting’ former friends in the Pittsburg Conterence. The statistics ofthe Methodist Episcopal church for this year show 13 bishovs, 76 annual conterences, 10,571 travelling and 1: 1 local preachers ; members and probationers, 1,46: Che probationers show a decrease of 10,622. from ast year, though the membership figures foot ‘up an in- crease of 5,586. The church edifices number 14,499, valued at 580, and the parsonages 4,677, valued at $4,542,504—a slight decrease in value, though an increase in number. There are 18,031 Sunday schools in the connection, contaiming 1,515,783 oMcers, teachers and scholars. The Con- ference collections amounted to $1,085,339—about $4 cents per member, not including the probation- ers or the Sabbath schools. The Heman Bangs Memorial chorch, at Brantford, Conn., will be dedi- cated next TLursday, The Janes’ Methodist Epis- copal chureh, Forty-tourth street ana Tenth ay nue, will be dedicated to-day. The Methodists are l-powerfal among the sailors and soldiers ent garrisons, where conversions are ri All the indications are of a most encour- The Fletcher Methodist Episco- % S ported. aging character. pal church of Hestonvilie, near Philadelphia, has gone to the extravagance of building @ chapel or Sunday school room which has cost them $55,000, It is said to be the fnest of its kiud in America. It ought to be. Parkville, . 1, Methodists will to-day Teopen their church building, which has been ciosed for improvements. BAPTIST. The Rev, Charles ©. Smith has resigned the nas- torship of the Baptist church at Cooperstown, . Rev. 5. Hartwell Pratt, recently installed over the Clinton avenue church, Brooklyn, has resigned, in consequence of the dimiculties attending the chutch property re by the late Deacon Mangum. The Rev, R. Jeffery, D. D., has been unanimously called to the’ pastorate of the newly consti- tuted Marcy avenue church, Brooklyn, ana the brethren have guaranteed a salary whieh for 80 young a church shows an appreciation of his services Most encouraging to Dr, Jeffery and in- dicative of large enterprise. In case of his accept- ance itis understood Dr. Jeffery retains his rela- tion to the Tabernacle Lay Coliege. Rev. Dr. A. Osborne, late of the Baptist Tabernacle in Broo! lyn, has been urgently invited to take charge of a Baptist church im Watertown, N.Y. Rev. J. H. Seaver has been Lad city missionary in Salem, Mass. Rev. H. B. Raybold has been cailed to the pastorate of Dividing Creek Baptist church, N. J. Rev, W. T. Chase goes from Dover to Lewis- ton, Me.; E. Barto from Alleghany City to Rey. T. B. Eastman from Concord to North Sutton, N. H.; Rev. C. L. Van Allen from Reading, N. Y., to Egremont, Mass.; Rev. H. H. Duuaway from Milford Centre to Granville, Ohi Rev. I, N. Robertson from Bloomington to Sulli- van, Ind.; Rev, A. M,. Allyn from Charlotte to Saiine, Mich. and Rey. W. H. Fuller from Oxtord to Ortonsvilie, Mich, Rev. G. P. Guild goes from Busanell, IL, to Ahnapee, Wis.; Rev. F. Edwards trom Osceola to Centreville, lowa; Rev. A. C, Henry trom Coldwater, Mich., to Clarksville, lowa, and Kev. ©, T. Emerson, of Orion, Ill.. goes to Austin, Minn. Revival meetings in Union Park church, Chicago, have resulted in 17 added to the church, Mr. W. W. Evarts has just been ordained and in- stalled pastor of the Indiana avenue Baprist church, Chicago. Philadelphia can now boast of having 50 Baptist churcnés—the last one having beer organ- ized a few days ago. It is said that no other city in the world can boast of so many. Rey. D.C. | Hughes has resigned the pastorate of the Fifth Baptist church, Newark, to take eifect with the close of the year. The finest church edifice in Santa Rosa, Cal., has just been dedicated and occupied by the Baptists.of that place. It cost Wesley Turrell, formerly a lawyer of New York cit, has just settled as pastor of the Baptist church Wellaburg, N. Y. Dr. George M. Stone has assumed the pastorate of the Baptist church at Tarrytown, N. Y., which has been without a pastor for nearly three years. Since Rev. George F, Pentecost has assumed the pastorate of the Warren avenue Bap- tist chureh, Boston, the congregation h: adru- pled, and the rental of pews has gone Up trom $3,000 per annum to over $8,000. The Central New Jersey Baptist association has 26 church mem- bers, who in the year just closed contributed $62,904 for benevolent purposes. Revival meetings in Hightstown Baptist church added 10 converts on the 7th Inst., and others are awaiting baptism. PRESBYTERIAN, Kev, Dr. Sunderland, of the First Presbyterian church, Washington, D. C., has been chosen chap- lain of the House of Representatives in place of Dr. Newman, now iraveiling roand the world, Rev. David Waters has assnmed the pastorate of St. Davids’ urch, St. John’s N, B. Madison Square Presbyterian church, New Y bas unanimously called Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Duryea, of Brooklyn, to be its pastor, and has appointed a committee, of which Dr. Adams, its late pastor, is chairman, to urge the acceptance of this cal! upon Dr. Duryea. The church offers to Dr, Duryea a sulary of $8,000 and $2,000 additional for house rent. It is not yet known whether this offer will be accepted or not. The first Presbyterian church ever organized in Michigan was in 1825, organized in Detroit. There are now 181 Presbyterian churches and 141 minis- ters in that State, Rev, Charles E. Knox, of Bloom- field, N. J., bas resigned his pastorate there to take a Pkg in the German Theological Semi- nary at Newark, N. J, Rev. A. Baker, of Norwalk, Olio, has removed to Green Springs, Ohio, and taken a charge there. Rev. Henry H. Stebbins, of Riverdale, has acoepted a call to Grace church, Oswogo, Ne Yu and Will ve Watglled im January, Rev. J. D. Wilson, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Melville, N. J., died last week of scarlet fever, contracted at the bedside of a child of one of ois church members, The First church, Wilming- ton, N.., has called Rev. Alexander Martin, of Danville, Va. ‘Tho Second church, of the same ¢ has called the Rev. ©. M. Payne, ‘of Madison, N. Rev. D, S, Sydenstricker, of Virginia, lias removed to White county, Ark., where he wil! take charge of the Searcy and Searcy Valley churches. Kev. James Little, of Quincy, Fla. nas received @ call from the church at Fernandina, Rey. P. M. McKay has accepted @ call to Madison and Oakland Presby- terian churches, Fla. Rev, William F. Arms has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at Beemerville, N. J, A Presbyterian Sunday school association has been organized in Chicago, Rev. A. B. Simpson, of Hamilton, Canada West, has ac- cepted a call from the Chestnut street Presbyterian. church at Louisville, Ky., to become their pastor; this church has been without a pastor for u year and a ialf; the salary of Mr. Simpson will be $5,000, Rev. Dr, Wilitam A. McCorkle has taken rge of the Second Presbyterian church in Princeton, N. J, EPISCOPALIAN. Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska, was in Baltimore last week. Dr. Lyman, Bishop-elect of Caitfornia, Was consecrated on the 11th inst. The Maryiand Board of Missions are to meet this week in Balti. | more. Rey. J. H. Barnard, of Freehold, N. J., has | resigned there, to take charge of Trinity Chure Houghton, Mich, The American Protestant Epis- copai Church is represented on the Continent ot | Europe by six organizations—at Paris, Rome, Florence, Dresden, Nice and Geneva. The two lat- ter are of recent orig, At Paris and Rome sub- stantial edifices have peen erected; that at Rome, @ handsome structure in the Lombard- Gothic style, and capable of seating 700 per- sons, 1s nearly ready for occupancy. It is in con- templation to plant churches at other points on the Continent, and with a view to this the Bishop of Pennsylvania was appointed by the General Con- vention Of 1871 to visit Europe, and authorized to begin new enterprises. The Bishop of Peterboro appears as an advocate of using the lay element. Recently he ordained nine lay helpers in St, Luke’s, at Leicester, England. He said that act was one of very deep significance to the Church of Engiand, and urged the irability of influential laymen setting themsel apart to assist the clergy in their work, St. Paul’s and St. Peter's churches in Baltimore have opened soup houses iu the neigh- borhood of their churches tor the poor of all de- nominations, St. Paul’s parish, Prince George county, Md., are about toerect a memorial tablet to their late pastor, Rey, Alexander M. Marbury. The twenty-sixth convocation of Erie, Pa., was held on Monday last at [rinity church, Warrenton, Pa. Bishop Paddock, of Massachusetts, has issued an appeal to the clergy and congrevations of his dio- cese to select competent lay readers to be licensed by himsel!, who shall occupy the vacant posts now within reach of the Church and thereby greatly in- crease the efficiency of the Church in that Common- Wealth. Dean Stanley does not believe in apos- tolic succession. In a sermon recently preached by him in Edinburgh he showed that as a matter of history there are no successors to the aposties, ‘These died and appointed no one in their stead. Rey. George. Howell, of City Isiand, has received and declined a unanimous call to the rectorship of St, Luke's cirurch, Jersey City Heights. ev. Hugh Miller Thompson, of Christ church, in this city, is generally spoken of at Milwaukee as the probable successor o! the late Bishop Armitagg in the see of Wisconsin. __ nat serves Se ROMAN caTHotid, tebe A new churell, dedicated to St. Francts de Sales, has been recently opened in Paris by the Arch- bishop, Suliaco and La Cava, two religious nouses | founcea y St. Benedict, and in the first of which | e lived, have been suppressed and closed by the italian government. ‘The Jesuits have opened col- leges at Arles and Besancon, France, where they have not been seen since ‘the great revoiution. ‘The Archbishop of Avignon has invitedjthe Vallam- brogian monks, who have been turned ont of their house tn Rome, to take up their abode in his dio- cese. The Fathers have accepted. Monsignor Salvator Fertilia, Bishop of Sarno, Italy, is dead. Monsignor was in his eighty-seventh born at Cefalu on Janual 9, 17 consecrated bishop by Gregory XVI. January 25, 1844. The Pope has sent Professor Valauri, the reat Latinist. a silver medal, as a testimonial of isesteem. The Right Rev. Dr. Keane, Bisnop of Cloyne, has lately been in delicate heaith, but has recovered now, The celebrated Jesuit preacher of Kome, Father Curci, is going to preach in Florence in the Church of San Gaetano. ‘The great Francis- can convent of St. Francesco a Ripa, in Rome, con- tained in 1870 150 friars. In 1871 their number was reduced to 50 by the suppression of a port.on of the monastery by the Italian government; to-day there are only three monks left to serve this fine old church, An Pele gentleman has advanced Father Ceriant, of Mitan, a sufficient sum of money to enable him to reproduce in photozincography the Ambrosian Bible of the sixth century, whic! the oldest version of the Scriptures in Europe. The Freeman's Journal, of this city, threw a bomb- shell recently into the diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., when it charged the German priests and people there of penuriousness and of maintaining schools and churches with the moneys of their English speaking neighbors. Nine German priests hasten to résent the imputation and to show that they and their people are quite as liberal in their of ferings as any other class, and to deprecate the introduction of the question of nationality in the Church. — Filty converts were received into St. Peter's church, Barclay street, during the mission lately neld there by Father Damen, S.J. The mis- sion fathers are going to Pennsylvania for a iew weeks, When they willreturn to this city. Over 12,000 communions were made at the late mission, of which 300 were first communions of adults. The Roman Catholics fre about establishing a univer- sity in England, with Monsignor Capel as rector. MISCELLANEOUS. The Working Church (Revs. Hepworth and Tyng) thinks that ‘Tweed in the Penitentiary” furnishes a@ pretty strong evidence of the truth of Cnristi- anity. Dr. Robinson, President of Brown Univer- sity, has published a sermon on “The Lord’s Sup- r,’ pronouncing it not strictly a church ordi- nance, but .a social festival, and thinks “it should not be partaken of with superstitious fear, nor with reverential awe even, but with joy aud exul- tation; and the believer should commemorate the risen Christ rather than the dying Saviour.” The Statistics of the “Christian” Church for 1873, con piled for their almanac for 1874, are as follow: Number of ordained minister: 26; unordamed, churches, 1,124; chapels, 635; members, 64,760; increase for 187: 2 Sunday schools, 4 scholars, 33,789. This Church has institutions of learning at Merom, Ind.; Eddytown, Ee § Woltborough, N. H., and Le Grand, lowa. Rev. Mr. Fisher, late of Blue Bell, Pa., has ac- cepted a cali from the Reformed church at Winchester, Va. Rev. LL. Richter has the Presbyterian church and become pastor of the Reformed church in Fostoria, Rev. E. Herr, of Beaver Creek, Pa., began his pastora! labors last Sunday with St. Mark’s German Lu- theran church, Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. W. W. Patton, of Chicago, has become temporary Distri Secretary for the West under the American Home Missionary Association. i} e | N. ORTES, ORGANS, &C. A’ 27 UNION SQUAR HAIN will offer their fine assortnieni of first class Pianotortes rices to suit the times. E Vianotorte guaranteed. v Pianos which have been used a little, very low eve A for ¢ Af NE AS 4X hand Pian Tights; also second b for sale and to rent. makers, & CO. | Fitth avenue. | O83 AND ORGANS , Chickerin nd fof rent at prices to s. X. BALL & CO., rs, for cash or instalments, suit the times. t 15 Fast Fourteenth 20ND HAND PIAN The Weber Pian y Nilsson, Torriani, o1 Cainpanini, Maurel, Capoul, Puente and othe consisting of Grand, Uprigt and Square Pianos, will Sold at a great sacrifice, These Pianos were specially se lected by these great artists and used during their ‘stay in New York, and are nearly new, dom met with ; also se at Weber Warerooms, Are GREATLY second hand €stablished_ warer door Irom. GREAT. BARGA A On maker's th avenue and 16th stree AND old O'S RIN NEW AND for rent and sale smal! instalments. - BERRY & CO., 789 Broadway. ONLY $100; A STEINWAY ed legs, overstrung bass, | great sacrifice tor ¢: Waverley place, near MAGNIFICENT ROSEWOOD 7} OCTAVE GRAND square patent agraffe Pianotor Fuaranteed, cost $025, 1 cash; box for shipping : s for $20; one do., $100; Furniture, sacrifice, street, near Fourth aventic A LADY WILL SELL FOR C: n «1 Pinnofo mod k ng Stool, &c order, 25 Third street, near Bowery q Broadwa, dining lor, chambs st Twenty -tith arlor » 1s E e THAN $100 ©, agratte treble, Music in pertect N ELEGANT DECKE four round, r Te ale, ata sacri e; it beautiful jay. Private oe; mis, with gua etave Piano, $100. Call this day or residence 210 West 2ist xt. —MANUPFACTORY + 74 octave rose: agriffe, fully warran’ ments taken, $12 montitly, PRICES, $20; BEAUTIFUL Viano, carved legs, patent ne almost new, $173; mstal- . CABI 07 West Twenty-third street. BARGAIN FOR CASH—7), 4X1 Piano, all modern improvements, for less than $200; others for sale or rent on instalments, j | A. CONNOR, 284 Third avenue. 4 NOTICE -TWo IFICENT 73g QOTAVE 4A. rosewood Pianofortes at public auction,on Mondays | December 15, at Morlock, at. No, 20 Weat Twenty fest | street; both instruments in perfect order, having all 10- Rroyeinents, with guarantor: celebrated city inakers. | N.B. ROBERT ©, CASHIN, Auction ale positive. LADY, NEEDING MONEY, WIL ak magnilicent Piano, square grand iinprovements, with Stool and Cover, for nearly new, 82 Greenwich « MAGNIFICEN ILLIANT TONED 71g months, carved legs, 4 round corners, tll agrafte, all improvements, made to Order, original cost $1,200) tor nicluding Stool, Cover, Music Cabinet worth $10). Gail at private residence 120 ‘West Zk sl, b-day or Nom day. i narnia 100 | street, Harlem River, | | - | { | OCTAVE AGRAPEE | . ai ee | _PIANOFORTES, ORGANS, &o! N IMMENSE SAORIFICH, 73g OCTAVE AGRAFFR ZA. Fgigvove oversteang lanolorte; also Sane wok “__ GOLDSMITHDS, 26 Bleecker street, near Bowery. {OK SALE—IN CONSEQUENCE OF DEATH IN THE family, one Piano, two Parlor Suits, two Mirrora, rpets, mantel Clocks, &c. Apply at 451 East Mth street, corner ayeuue A, Harlem, before 10 A. M. STEPHEN ROBERTS. ACRIFICE, Tuesday. December 16, 1 rosewood walnut Bookéase, | y Card Table, black walnut H Stand, and at party breaking up housekeeping. East 109th street, near Secomd nue. NTHLY, BEAUTIFULs nsewood Pianoforte stave; round corner, 1 legs: every impfovement; perfect order; rare . 1s Waverley place, near Broady L G87 # ERNst. sor SORS TO LIGHTE, 4 Newton & Bradbury, would respectiully invite attention to their splendid stock of Pianofortes, which: they offer for sale throughout the holidays at greatly re- Gucea prices for cash and on easy monthly payments at their new warerooms, No. 12 East Fourteenth street, OR SALE—OR TO DIANOS,—A GREAT VARIETY TO RENT OR SELL; vent anpiied to a 1 aN 5 SEs Fi Fi materi pret o Piano. nearly Piano, all improvement $190; ove for $100; Organs, 8 stops, $100. bi ws Fisk & SON, 127 Bleecker street. DIANO WANTED—CHEAP FOR CAi MUST BE U Known. appr maker; state lowest pricé. lerald office. IANOS TO RENT—FRO: rent allowed If purcha taken; at B. V, DUMSDAY of Ninth stree: HE BURDETT ORGAN Is BILL M $3 TO $8 PER MONTH; 4; also monthly instalments jecuiversity pla —WHEN YO! NGS & WHEBLOCK, _l4 East Fourteenth streot buy, buy one. UP aiger, AND SQUARE PIANOS TO RENT, AT WALKER BROS, 47 East Twelfth street, two doors west of Broadway. ‘Good 7 octave Pianos at $4 por month. Pianos tor sale trom $40 upwards. 8150. 7a. SENEN OCTAVE FOUR ROUND Con. PLOUV. ner splendid Stoddart Piano, as good as now; 7ig octave new Pianos $200, $400, cash or instalments. D, RUAKAUER, Manufacturer, 213 Broome street. 200 PIANOS AND ORGANS, NEW AND SECOND “ hand, of first class makers, will be sold at lower prices, for cash or instalments, or for rent, in city or country, during this financial crisis and the Holidays, by HORACE “WATERS & SON, 481 Broaaway, than ever offere: ore in New York. Agents Wani to sell WAT celebrated CONCERTO and ORCHE! TRAL ORGANS and FIANOS. Illustrated © ‘alogues mailed. LOST AND FOUND. A —LosT, BLACK SLUT, ON SATURDAY EVEN, « ing, December 13, answering to th e name “Mima.” By returning to BIXBY &£CO., No. 8 Astor place, a liberal reward will be given, wey D—ON TUESDAY E ING, IN NIBLO'S GAR- den, ® Seventh regiment gold Badge. Owner cam getthe Samo in, DE QUINFELDT'S Jewelry Store, Park row eee POEND— oN WEDNESDAY E NG, AR Booth’s Theatre, a Pocketbook, containing Money and Papers. The owner can have the same by address- ing PARVO, Herald office, giving full description of com- tents and paying expenses. Lot RED COVERED POCKET DIARY FOR 1873; the finder will be liberaily rewarded by returning it address on the fi LEFT BE Os’ IIND ON ONE OF THE FULTON 4 ferryboats yesterday morning a small Parcel, com taining two reporters’ Note Books and some Manuscript. The finder will confer a great obligation upon and liberally rewarded by the loser by leaving the same af the Herald counter, corner of Ann street and Broadway, as early to-day or Monday as possible. REPORTE OST—ON FRIDAY, A GOLD EARRING, THE 4 finder will receive reward by sending to Mrs. ROGERS, St. Germain Hotel, Broadway and Twentys second stree! ‘TERDAY MORNING, ON WEST BROAD. r Cosmopolitan Hotel, or on Sixth hird street, a large sized Pocketbook, con+ 7; also Atha Insurance policy on Passaic ‘enty taining about § house, poliey on estate of John W. Anderson, vouchers of special importance, powers of attorney, receipts, &¢., and other papers of no Importance to any one except tha owner. Finder will be most, liberally rewarded by ad- dressing G. D. DERSON, Passaic, New Jersey. I OST—ON MONDAY LAS 4 “Old Guard ;" owner’ will be liberally rewarded, returning same to the Woodbine, street and Sixth avenue. I OST—A_ LOCKET AND CHAIN, ON THURSDAY, 4 Dec. 11, A suitable reward will be given to thd finder on returning it to No. 213 East Fé et OST—ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, A CAMEO EAR; ring, with etruscan setting. $5 reward will be paid by returning itto No, @ Liberty street. OST—SUPPOSED ON FOURTH AVENUE CAR, BE Jow Thirneth street, a hunting case Gold Watch, 10,08) and 13,290. Liberal reward and no questions asked. Aidress WATCH, Herald Uptown Branch offi OST—THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER ll, BE 4 tween 19 West Thirty-second Street and the Thirtieth street Hudson River Railroad station, a mink Muff. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving the same at 19 West Thirty-second street. LoStapeceMser 13, A, BRUWN | LEATHER Pocketbook, contaming $120 in ills and some pa- pers. The finder will receive a suitable reward by leav- ing the same at 461 Sixth ue with D. C. PELL, OST OR STOLEN—FROM PRIVATE STABLE IN La Thirt: near Lexington avenue, @ returning to stable or to No. Sd street a suitable reward will be paid. A GOLD BADGE OF TH. name on the back. Find ani no questions asked, om corner Thirteenth TRAYED AWAY—ON FRIDAY NiGHT, FROM SER- \_ rell’s mill, Broadway and Fifty-third street, a black Setter Dog. A beral reward oifered for his retirn. STOLEN—SATURDAY, FROM 3825 EAST EIGHTY. + tourth street, a pet Canary, green and yellow, with acrooked claw. A suitable reward is offered for'its re- turn. REWARDs. _ ) REWARD.—LOST, OCTOBER 9, A SMALL, LONG D4 haired black Dog (one eye gone}; white on breast, fore paws and tip of bushy tail, No questions asked whe ‘turned to 65 fe nth avent @5 REWARD FOR THE RETURN OF A SILK UM. De) prelia, taken from the Hotfmann House. Sriday evening, December H. GARDNER, 438 East Twenty-third street. $20 REWARY) TO THOSE WHO WILL PROVIDE & young Gerinan with a situation as cler! walary of $500 to $600. WARD.—LOS' Address H. E., H IN (A FIFTH AVENUR Iton ferry and Thirteentle @ Diamond Earring. The finder will receive the yd by leaving at at No. 24 East Thirteenth ork. at rev street, New REWARD.—LOST, ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Varick and Broome. streets, a Gold nant . with inscription,"From W. D. to 1; worky No. 21,495; 8. M. Baird he above reward witl be paid, and no ed. ANNAN, 13 by leaving it with R. BI treet. HANDSOME REWARD WILL BE PAID FOR THE AA ‘return of the following articles, stolen from the Whart in Newport, RK. I, some time in August last, and stions asked: —One pair solitaire diamond 'Ear= 3; obe Cluster Pin, ten or a dozen stones, s oI fine, mounted High with little stripe of black en: each; a Diamond Cross, set in_ plain old style gol mounted high, good sized stones; a gold Neckiace, witht locket, black enamel on both sides flowers traced im gold on one side. There were two leather, bags takem with the abo t the ts of which would ¢ above property ad- office. cont h MTIVE Of EXPERIENCE OVEN TO ENGAGE. nent or otherwise; highest references all communications considere VIG , box 120 Herak arges; . Addr SETS PARLOR nge for first clase rs, G. He Ya, Hera ituro in_ exe ith tw parti Bonds. ce, OR MORE WELB Mortgages, $10,000 worth ot elegau® new ott of factory. PATTBERG, 234 Broadway. AMBOATS. &C. CHEAP—A RARE punt of other business; s; three vears old. For farther in Captain CRONK, Sing Sing, N.Y. i. Je 3 ‘york, 100 13 SCOW TO GARRY § To 7d oLorder and cheap, Address ‘, 63 Park place. N eM at ee se lease address, with ace, fu ripe ast be very toderate, ANCHO Jon, 65 gross tormation apply Tes Boat Houses an KE nd price, whi office, AND META : AND built to order. Komen ceT ON WAND C Ue theit oriinal cost; the same ent times, af it prices to suit the Fatlor, corner or Au MAYERS, Sonth Fifth avenue. YLOTE & JANE: Shear Wil Books at the Bt AND D + ROOM, ne sirats Meals served or shipping, DY SPENCER. LEY LIVE way, corner ; Oysters pat WWE, AND Len ¥ day up COAL AND DEPOT, + Twenty-tifth street, near Thin! avenue. ling Wood, Oak, Hickory and Pine Woot, sor small quantities, of the very best quilts Wy mail delivered With despatch, free of o WILLIAN' L. WINES, LIQUORS, &C i}8) FULTON AND & ANN STREET.—GREAT lt U bargains in Wines, Brandies, vlack an ‘Teas, Pickles, Preserves, Cal old Hrandies $5 por Ratio Whiskies, 82 5); Hock it 100 barrels of Malaga canes