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‘Whe’ “Life of Mrs. Barbaula”- Frothingham’s “Life of Theodore Parker,” é . ve a he THE RADICAL CLUB. Bostoit p Théatres and The : Boflin’s _Bower. MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY NEWS. Boston, Jan. 31, 1874. __ Mf the average:Bostonianr were rebuilding the eroed 1 pee ete his ‘Theddore Tarker, fie" only theologign,and in‘James Freeman.Clarke, the only other divine who can fold a candle to him.” In ether Words, the’, *infipence still survives here; somuch sg that a very large sale is antici- Basha: fox tid URE 'of thiat celebrated man, which -the Rey. 0..B. Prothingham, of your city, has just D owritteg,-and which J. R. Osgood & Co, (who .fire-moy, snperbly ensconced in their few a At:Franklin and Federa) streets) argon & e-eve g} bringing out. The book will be a'duo- ontaining 400 pages, and be prefaced wast. of Mr. Parker, taken from Morse’s h inspection” as I have been able to § me that it will be ae popular than two large volumes. Both Mr. . Mr. Frothingbam may be said Teputation for uupop- ‘They are admired rities. Since, one year ago, when the ‘Men's Christian Association of your city refased-to allow Mr. Weiss to lecture in their nail on “#$i@kegneare,” on the ground that the lecture ‘Was Not, es sical, the entiusiasm of these mi- | noritiow igs, @f course, been on the increase, As for Frothingham, he says quite enough every Suv- day to incur the enmity of every proper person who beliey, im to be going tothe devil, But in New. You Well as Boston. there are probably enough 8 With what Parker called sympathy: ‘ “absdtuté: Yeligion”™ to'secure a large sale of the forthooinirigy “Lite.” The biography is delight- It resembles “The Religion of Hn- aboundfig ‘in sentences as clean-cut 8. of &'fern, as delicately picked out as agfamst a background of blue sky. Parker had two peculiarities which I hat Frothingham has noticed. One was se of the word ‘‘exploiter,”’ in relation p- “He’ ‘is fond of repudiating. the idea ing the.“exploiter’”’ of mankind. The iabit of . addressing readers as though the, sum. total of civilization, The fall-of genuine work. Mr, Frothing- sof'ttiose intellectual dentists who ers mental teeth plugged with the gople’s thoughts, Very. interesting ls the or MMFE OF MRS, BARBAULD,”” which is'now pus printed by the same firm at the Unive! Cambridge. It will be in two volumes of about 400 pages each, and has been compiled by Mrs, Grace Atkinson Ellis, a Boston | lady, who thus makes her first literary venture. In the preface Mrs, Ellis acknowledges asustance . from George D. Ets, D. D., her iatner:* law; Mr. James L. Little, her father; Mr. Justin Winsor, Buperintendent of the Boston Public Library; Mr, J.T. sields and Mr. Hunter, of the Williams Library, London. An excellently engraved portrait of Mrs. Barbauld is executed by Mr. W. H. Forbes, A beautifal religion was the background of Mrs. Barbauld’s character. To borrow @ figure ‘rom physiology, .it was the great sympathetic nerve. of her life, It was this which made her “Prose Hymns for Children” so remarkable for exalted devotion, aeep yet simple thought, and grand = purity of style, To these attributes Mrs. Ellis docs justice, felicitously pointing out one of the most exquisite sentences that Mrs. Barbauld ever uttered—‘‘Re- Spect iu the infant the future man; destroy not in the man the rudiments of an angei.’’ lt was senti- ments“like this which gave Mrs. Barbaula her value as a trainer of the young. Among her pupils were Lord Chief Justice Denham, and sir William Gell, the distinguished discoverer of tne plain of Troy. During her long career (she was born at Kibwortn, Leicestershire, June 20, 1743, and died at Stoke Newington March 9, 1825) she made ac. quaintance with John Howard, Dr. Priestley, Dugald Stewart, Sir Walter Scott, Hannah More, Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, Mme. D’Arblay, Roscoe, Joanna Baillie, Sir James Mackintosh, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, Samuel Rogers, Maria Edg- worth and Henry Crabb Robinson. Of most of these Mrs, Ellis reproduces pictures ttehed by skilled literary artists. As wrule the style of the biographer is unaffected. Decasionally she fails into unnecessary grandilo- quence, as, for instance, when wishing to say that Mr. Barbauid took a bath in the river she says | that he used the river jor the purpose of ablution. This is almost as bad as calling a chair an instru- ment of sedentary solace, Mrs, Ellis appropriately ses as her title page motto, Tickell’s line, “Yo strew fresh flowers let the task be mine.” In the selections of which the second volume consists none of Mrs. Barbanld’s political pamphiets are retained. Among the poems several not included im Miss Aikins’ “Collection” appear. Two of Mrs, Barbauld’s best essays, those on ““ducation” and “Preju‘lice,” are \also kept. These first appeared im the Monthty Magazine. Every one who is familiar with “The muses” (by the by, how many | ‘&re?) will be glad to know that it has not been exscinded. It first appeared in 1630 in Mrs. S. C. Hali’s “Forget Me Not,’ the very title of which may be said to have been its title to oblivion. Pleasant glimpses are given of the society which the genius of Mrs. Barvauld drew around her. To this society four of the most charming women in London at one time contrib- ated. These were—Mrs. Montagu, whose house tn Hill street and alterwards in Portman place was the resort of all the celebrities of the London world; Mrs. Vesey, wife of the Hon. Agmondesham Vesey, an Irish gentleman and one of Burke’s friends; Mrs. Boscawen, celebrated in Hannah More’s poem, “Sensibility,” and Mrs. Eliza- beth Carter, the translator of “Epictetus.” Of Mrs. Montagu, in particular, an accom. plished flatterer might well be excused for saying that nothing would make him happier w be in her company for a time tnan to be m it for an eternity, though I do not know that anybody ever did say so. But even Dr. Jonnson ‘was vanquished by her exquisite urbanity, and when, one evening alter having visitea her, he was asked by Bosweil whether he was not highly gratified, he deigned (what anyone else would have disdained) to reply, “No, sit, not highly grati- Ged; but Ido not recollect to have passed many evenings with fewer objections.” Mrs, Barbauld admired simplicity in literate style. She objected to Lord Byron’s because he used ‘“bulbul’ for nightingale and “gul” for rose. She said of him ‘that he filled a ieat in the book of fame, but it was g@ very blotted leaf. Dr. Johnson’s criticism of Mrs. Barbauld was not, in its way, less severe. When her “Early Lessons” first appeared he said that Mjss Aikin (Aikin was her maiden name) wasa Specimen of what early cultivation brought forth, and she had ended by marrying a@ little Presbyterian parson who kept gn infant boarding school. He deciared she said, “This is a cat, and this is a dog with four legs and a tail. See there! You are much better than a cat or a dog, for you can speak.” It is plain that Johnson did not at that time appreciate tue singular simplicity Of & style 80 opposed to the ponderous ornamenta- tion of hisown. It was like cottage furniture be- side carved and cushioned oak. The biography concludes with @ charming picture of Mrs. Bar- bauldin her old age receiving a visit from the Rev. James Marteneau in her little old-1ashioned house at Stoke Newington, and taking leave of Samuel Rogers and Sir James Mackintosh. The glimpses of Mrs. Barbauld’s old age are as beauti- Jul as thoge of her youth; but the joyousness is wanting. The 900k Of LYE MARTE ANd iho cog at) ba I believe in “ptogressive and live | by overwhelm- | WEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET the same. i, “PHB O6G0ODS ARB NOT VERY BUSY, but théy are busief then most other Boston pub- lishers, Besides the books I have mentioned they are engaged on Parton's “Life of Jefferson,” which , Will be a crown octavo of 764 pages. It 1s, of course, ;@reprint trom the aWantic, but will contain some , Additional chapters descriptive of Jefferson's child- hood. The same firm will also issue immediately @ cheap edition of Mr. Fields “Yesterdays with | ‘ Authors.” These yesterdays have been so pleasant | that the pubji¢ will doubtless relish spending that Morrow with the author which 1s implied in a fresh edition. A republication of “Euthanasie,” by William Moantford, author of “Thorpe,” an English tale, and “Miracles Past and Present,” is Likewise rogrest. P 2 pal aheve are doing little worth _mention- at has not been mentioned already. Little, Brown & Co, are at work ‘on the “Lives of the Chief Snsticea. “Narth American Birds’? and the tenth and last volume of Bancroit's history. Shepherd & Gill are pushing the new enterprise | upon which they have lately entered with relation | | to the magazine American Homes. Mr. Wilkie Collins, by the by, Makes the office of tnis firm one of his headquarters, and has just returned from a reading tour in time to give his second reading here this atternoon. I had rather read Wilkie Col- Jing than hear him read. You never know how his plots are going to turn out, but you always know how.he 18 going to turn out. Lee & Shepherd, whom 1 (fs ae will not confound with Shepherd & } are preparing for the press Mr. Sumner’ “Prophetic Voices of America.” One-half of it only has yet been set U} a thé proof sheets are now in ir , an ) Samners hinds, The Robertses are almost die with respect to novelties. ‘They are mi arrangements to repubhsh Sir Arthur Helps’ “ivan | de Biron,” a tale of Russian society in the middie | OF the last century. ‘fhe romance has had a large | sale in England, quite as much on account of the interest m Russian affairs created by the Duke of | Edinburgh’s marriage as by reason of the author's unqdestionabte ability. For the same firm ‘Mme, | Recamier’s Correspondence” is being transiated | by Mrs, Wheeler, Jt will be brought out in tne fail. Mrs, Wheeler ig now at work on the last half. “The Old Masters” and ‘Modern Painters,” by ‘arah Tytler, author of “Papers for Tnougitful Girls,” will also soon make their Sproarence. I | p¥estmie Mrs. Tytler must have found enough | thoughtful girls to refute the doctrine that the -thoughtial girl is @ supposititious being. | The poet must have had the thoughtful girl in his | eye when'he spoxe of “maiden meditation ;” but | | then he coupled it with ‘“funcy iree,” and observa- tion helps me to certify that the average girl, un- less she be an old girl, has more freedom of tancy | | about her than meditation any day. The Kobertses | are presently to bring out, too, a new edition of Margaret Fuller's works. ‘fnorpe Regis,” an ex- ceedingiy well written English novtl, by the | | author of the “Rose Garden,” is underway by the | same firm, The pame of the authoress is not generiily-known, even in Bogland” For the de- light of the inquisitive 1 willadd that it is Miss | Frances M, Peard. | _ Your -genuine Bostonian has ail the amiable prejudices that beldmg to patriotism. He believes that Bostoh’Comme@e is handsomer than Central | Park, thatthe Boston Museum is the biggest show vn earth, ‘dnd the Boston Theatre the biggest theatre in ‘the uifiverse. Let us not contradict these harmleas‘aberrations. ‘There are many turiv- ing. literary meu ingfind around Boston, aud ido not kKuow that their piglosophy is any the less Attic ior not being written.in a garret. And you will not | gee Worse acting here than you will'see in New . York. « How.could you? ‘Little Em’ly” is playing ) @t the Musebm, and “Davy Crockett” at the other house. Maty Cary, who used to be at your Filth Avenue Theatre, acts the title rdle in “Little | Em’ly” with considerable intelligence and sweet- ness. Whether the faxen wig comes under the category of intelligence or of sweetness I leave to | your readers to @ecide. Mr. Crisp, whom, I be- | leve, you alser in New York fora season or | two, acts . uy is more noticeable tor his rugged, intelligenttand picturesque byplay than for the more cactive @pare he takes. In Peggoty Mr. | Charles Barron @ part totally out of tue line in which we have m accustomed to see him; yet | | he fuifils the req ments of it excellently, his | | only fault being monotonous an intonation. | But, indeed, this 18 a characteristic sault, and one Whichoften mars the periormance ofa very valuable | actor, Mr. Warren, acts Micawber—acts It welt, df course, but not with the raciness of George Faw- cett Rowe, or with that | some aL T roll of the voice which George Boniface made such good use | of in the part. Tas not forgetting, however, that | this ‘‘roll”? was really an imperiection in Mr. Bom- | face’s voice, an organic deiect, accidentally useiul in this one character, Mr. LeMoyne’s Uriah Heep has been inuch adouired, and not without reason. But itis not as good as Mr. Mackay’s, lt grows wearisome in its unretieved Urawling. Laura Phil- | lips, whom you recently had at Waillack’s, plays jartha, and is periection of penitential hysterics and moonlit remorse in the churchyard. “Davy Crockett,” at the Boston Theatre, is not particu- | larly weil piayed. but I shall al ae Jeel gratetul to the autnor, Mr, Frank Murdoch, for making such a good thing’ out of the subject, when he might have | 80 easily lollowed the example of hall a score of American dramatists and given us plenty of sensa- | | tion without a stroke of dramatic art. ‘In a morat point of view, the play is purity itself. ‘The story is simple and touching, and the sensational | effects are reached by means pertectly Mgitimaie. | 1t 18 a pity, therefore, that a drama constructed of | such good material ts not often pjayéd by better | actors than Frank Mayo and @ Rand, But, | | Nhen, where on gong to get good actors? 1 | am airaid that if New York or Boston were to be | saved from fire and brimstone on condition that tweuty good actors should be forthcoming—I am | afraid, { say, that no dramatic Abraham would be | found boid enough to accept the stipulation, | ‘THE INTEREST IN PICTURES | is not very lively just at present. ‘Ine apathy in | the book trade has extenued to art. At Dol Richards’, on Tremont street, are some few novel- | ties. ‘Two of these are landscapes by Léon Richet and Watelin, pupils of Diaz, and betraying some | of his most noticeable peculiarities. There is a | French coast scene by J. Maris, and a New England coast scene by Mrs. Darrah, who wieids ® much more vigorous brush | than most even moderately successful _te- | male painters, Admirers of Boughton will | be interested in inspecting one of his eariiest pro- | | ductions, which occupies @ nook nere and comes from the Belmont collection. The new bust of | Christ, by Gould, 1s the only piece of sculpture in the gallery. It is full of sweetness and venignity, | but these are not expressed by the sculptor at the sacrifice of manliness, We have had so many feminine Christs, both on canvas and in stune, | that-a truly masculine expression of the man-God, ning ail the inaffable gentleness of the char- | acter, is Something worth admiring. Hard by are a@ landscape by Earnest Longieliow, somewhat | Suggestive of Casilear, and an excellent | picture by Vertunni, representing that over | | represented locality, the Roman Campagna. | | Messrs. Williams & Everett have on exhibition a really charming pen and ink drawing | by Mr. Joseph B. Richards, of Boston. It is about | 21 inches by 29, and is named “Sunshine and | Cloud.” It Consists of two heads, one nearly full | face and the other in profite. The full face rep- resents sunshine, the other cloud. In each the | face is that of @ little maiden. “Sunshine,” of | course, is iull of glee. With one hand she pulls a stray curl across her face ee ale laughingly at you from beneath it, The profile offers the needed | contrast, and the artist has shown a very delicate | Judgment and some courage in not making the | | countenance one great conglomerate frown. His | | idea was to represent a child recovering from | grief or ill temper—to express the evanescent sad- | ness of childhood rather than that settled gloom which is characteristic only of those who are old enough to know better, The entire execution is | very gracetul. THE RADICAL CLUB | give a reception next Monday evening week to firs. Leonowens, the author of “The Englisi: Gov- 1 know that there is erness in the Court of Siam.”” | a set of radicals who, having passed through all | the degrees of scepticism, think themselves privi- | leged to bully mankind. ‘They are a sort of human | caryatides, Who imagine they uphold the ceiling of | | the universe. They question what Mr. Lewes calls , “the why of the why,” and seek to bring them- selves into rapport with the power behind the | throne of matter. To such radicals as these be- | long your ill-balanced men oi progress, like Stephen Pearl Andrews, who waste very re- | spectable abilities over the grammar of “Al wato,” and the ‘Basic Outlines of Universology.”? Well, the Boston Radical Club is not radical in this sense. It is radical in seeking to go to the root of the matters it discusses, but it don’t pull the root | to pieces in trying to find out what makes it grow. Jala Ward Howe is one of the sbining lights. so is Colonel Higginson, and everybody who speaks | generally says something worth listening to, BOFFIN'S BOWER. I’ve been there, and it’s worth going to. Not be- cause it is fashionable to go to, for it 1s not fash- fonable, but because it 1s the outgrowth of the honest purpose of an honest woman. The woman 18 Miss Jenny Vollins, and the purpose is to provide gn exchange for women, With employment, read- ing and amusement iree to all. The institution is situated at No. 815 Washington street, and is reached on ascending two flights of stairs, This conductg you to @ long, cheeriul room, in the centre of which 18 a large rectangular table and at | one end a small dats, Jenny Collins herself is alittle | alert woman, with dark hair, brown eyes, with scarcely @ relative in the world, but with spirit | enough for a world full of them. She believes in two men—Theodore Parker and Charles Dickens ; and one woman—Betty Higden. She has faith enough in the Bible to believe that “the poor ye have always with ye.” In fact, she has them with her a little too much, She believes in the locomotive as typi- cal of progress, and @ tuil length portrait of that giant among machinery adorns her walls, Finally, she believes in Nilsson, Lucca, Neilson, Fann, Davenport, Pangs (in “Little Dorritt’) and Ed- mund Yates, for portraits of all these characters are found at the Bower. But, to use her own quaint words—words that have a real sadness be- Neath their humor—she ‘don’t believe much in the human family.’’ In other words, she don’t much adinire human nature. Who that has seen much of that commodity ever did? There is so much human nature in mankind that perhaps we don't value it as we ought. But Miss Collins is a philanthropist whose ardor remains as beautiful and brigitt as ever amid the wreck of her illusions, Her pictures in the fire have been raked to pieces, but compassion for human sorrow and sin still | his capacity. | had a good organization to support A YACHTING POEM. ‘The America Cup” is the title of a nautical poem, descriptive of the five international race: between the schooner yacht Livonia and the representative yachts of the New York Yacht Club that were sailed in October, 1871, The prize for which these vessels contested was the Challenge Cup, won by the yacht America, in 1861, from a fleet of seventeen of the fastest yachts in English waters. The subject is wef worthy of a poet's attention, and Mr. Hamil- ton Morton, late Secretary of the New York Yacht Club, deserves the thanks of the yacht- ing community for the sparkling words in which he hands down to posterity the history of those five interesting races. The book ts very nand- Somely bound &nd has a handsome engraving of the America Cup opposite the title page. There are also three correct photographs of the Livonia, Sappho and Columbia bound in with the spirited descriptions ot the races in which they took part, Mr. Morton, in his description of the first race be- tween the Columbia and Livonia, speaks of them a8 follows — im ’Twas in that season of the year, One bright October morn, That Beam met Ballast-met to win A laurel leaf or thorn, Commenting upon the results of the race and the differences in the models i the two yachts, the Poet says: xxxvn. But this has shown to nautic eye, Head wind or going Ir That centreboards are faster ¢ “On haleyon, wave or sea. In the second race Mr. Morton speaks of the turn round the stakeboat as follows :. xv. And when they drew more near the stake~ hored in troubled water— Columbia's place wis then upon Tavonia’s windward quarter. xvi. They turn’d the stake as suits them best ; nua “wears” aroun, bia, trimming att her over much less grount sheets, 0. xvin Columbia to windward was everal lengths astern; Livonia lufr'd across her bow, “Gibed ship,” tne stake to turn, In the first of the above verses the poet has transposed the poxitions ol the two yachts, as, if we remember right, on approaching the stake- boat the Columbia was to leeward of the Livonia. On all otier points, however, Mr, Morton has ob- | served @ marked accurac, in his detats | of the different points ot interest in the series of races. In the latter part of the work there are five | very excellent diagrams ol the courses of the contesting yacnts in each race, and also a reprint of the conditions under which the America Cup | ‘was presented to the New York Yacht Club. “The America Cup will prove a very pieasaut addition } L to the light literature of the library taole.’” THE K®LLOGG NUISANCE. Se Louisiana ana Her Burlesque Govern- ment—E; overnor Warmoth’s Views of the Situation. Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, the State that takes up the attention of the nation just now | in anything but a pleasant way, was in the city last night ana stopping at the Fifth Avenue, en route to New Orleans, He is hurrying back to the | Crescent City to respond to several civil suits insti- tuted against him by Governor Kellogg, who Must be a very imp of miscnief and malignity, if what Warmotn says about him be only nalftrue, A HERALD reporter saw ex-Governor Warmoth last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and inquired about the truth of the statement that Governor Kellogg had issued a requisition upon the Governor of the District of Columbia for the delivery of his person, and that the case arose from some criminal transaction in which | Warmoth had been engaged when Governor of Lonisiana. Warmorn—lt is true Kellogg has ordered the re- vival of certain civil suits against me amounting to $500,000; but this is one of his tricks to embar- rass me. Of course, I am compelled to attend and answer be/ore his Judge aud lis jury, and I am now on my way down there for that purpose, He tried the same annoying dodge last summer. He | has honored me by supposing that I am at the bottom of all this agitation agaluet his ilegal and trumpery government, He thinks I am the im pulse that has set the President and Senator Ca‘ penter to work to knock him and his GANG OF CONSPIRATORS out of office and out of the chances of plunder. With this notion in bis very small mind he goes to work to embarrass me m Washington by start- ing these suits airesi, and at the same time gives out, by way of influencing ms case before Congress, that the suits are for criminal transactions on my part. He is a small potato and big cunning 1s as mean as if the suits go against me, which I expect, as the Judge ts Kellogg's Juage, I shall appeal to the Supreme Court, and, of course, before | reach @ hearing there Kellogg and his crowd will be gone and lorgotten. REPORTER—W hat are the chances for @ new elec- tion in Louisiana ? WakMoTH—A new election will be ordered, un- douvtedly, Morton stands alone i his opposition, You will find he will get no support in wis party. Conkling takes Carpenter's side, so does Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Edmunds and half a dozen more leading republican Senators. Above all, the Presi- dent favors a new election, and the serious thought of the whole country demands it. RerorrEr—Does Uarpenter’s speech cover the whole ground ? War oru—Entirely, Itis an able and compre- hensive speech, and had he been in Lousiana he | could hardly have appreciated the situation better, judging from his address, Kellogg’s government is a Most unmitigated iraud. {t would be @ laugh- able concern it 1f Were not so serious and danger- ous a precedent in the operations of repuvlican government. Kellogg himself is hated and des- pisea by everybody—even by the blacks, Hts in- Stincts are of the lowest quality, running into petty intrigue and petty exploits of tyranny, REPORTEK—Who do you suppose Will be the dem- ocratic candidate tn case of a new election ? WakMorH—Can’t exactly say. Perhaps McEn- ery again, You see the two parties in Louisiana are now about evenly divided; but it the democrats put up @ straight out ticket’ it will get beaten by 6,000 majority; but a give and take ticket, ora mixed one, as it is called, under democratic patronage, is bound to carry the State. I should remark, however, that @ great deal | depends on organization, Even a straight | ont democratic ticket might wm if it it, That is everything jn a State like Louisiana; but the democrais have been organized only in an tn- different way. This time, in view of the results and after the experience of the present PAINFUL BURLESQUE of a State government, they will, no doubt, make a determined effort to win the day. Reporver—Has Kellogg any chance of being renominated in case of a new election ? WarRMOTH—Not the smallest. If the republican party cannot select any better standard hearer they had better surrender the fight. Kellogg has pe his day in Louisiana and is not worth taiking about. REPORTER—You, of course, feel satisfied that the present government of Louisiana 1s illegal and un- constitutional ? Arg gga: There is no government ip the State now. There is a gang of men pre- | tending to be Kr Sa dsh td who migit as well pase over the border and pretend to govern Texas y legitimate authority. it is a cruel farce from beginning to end, but the people are content to stand it a little longer in the hope that the in- dignant sense of the whole country will impel Con- a. to take sach action as wili speedily relieve she State of the present horrible nightmare. KELLOGG AND WARMOTH. NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 31, 1874, Governor Kellogg states that the report tele- graphed hence by a special correspondent to the effect that he (Mr. Kellogg) had made a requisition on the authorities of the District of Columbia for ex-Governor Warmoth is entirely untrue, POLICE MATTERS, Ax investigation into the case of the missing studs was commenced yesterday before Commis- sioner Gardner at Police Headquarters. Officer Gorry, of the Fifteenth precinct, swore he gave the studs to Sergeant Day in the yard of the sta- tion house. Sergeant Day denied the statement on oath, and both were corroborated by several witnesses who were present at the time, Gorry, in his evidence, detailed the whole story of his being notified of the death of Mr. Wilcox at the Russian baths, and the transfer of the to the station house reer street, He said it was taken into tn and placed on the ground. The Sergeant in cl was present, and he (Gorry) stripped the of its valuables and handed them to the Sergeant, who, immediately on receipt of them, Went into the house and resumed his usual place behind the desk. Some of the witnesses swore that Sergeant Day was not in the rd when Gorry took the studs from the shirt Sosom and others that he was. Sergeant Hol- brook testified that he entered the station house just as Day was coming irom the yard. Day took 118 place behind the desk and never left it during the hour that Holbrook remained in the station house, As both sergeants met, coming irom oppo- site directions, Day said to Holbrook, “There ts & dead man in the yard; go in and see if you know r | eventng. | | Ings in the Harvard Rooms, on Sixth avenue and | Forty-second street, | Protestant Episcopat church to-day, | way Hall this evening on «The Great Sacrifice ana | | ture on the common school system of education | ight for which the latter asked in a previous edi- trembles amid the embers. Her casties in the air | him.” Holbrook went and the body was then on have been destroyed, but there is a sweet surviving | thestretcner. The evidence will be submitted 10 ATQMAIR We AHBOEPUETO 9! BORA FOLKD 1. she Bogra i tic” cannot i) Lpanaai RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Rabbi on Materialism—Minis- terial Movements. A PROGRAMME OF SERVICES T0-DAY—FEB. 1, Revival services will ve neld in Beekman Hill (East Fiftieth street) Methodist Episcopal church this week, commencing to-day, when Dr. Dupuy ‘ and the pastor wiil preach, Rey. George J. Mingins and Dr. Deems will con- duct the services in the Canal street Presbyterian church to-day. Rev, P. L. Davies will preach in the Berean Bav- tist church, and will baptize converts after the evening sermon. Rev, ). Sweetser will discourse to young peo- Ple on “Our Second Natures” in the Bleecker street Universalist church, “The Gradual Miracie” will be the subject of Rev. Mr. Dawson's remarks this morning in the Church of the Discipies of Christ. i} Dr. A. €, Osborne will occupy the pulpit of the | South Baptist church at both services to-day. | Rev. W. P. Corbitt will preach in Dekalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, morning | and evening. } Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach im the hall on | Forty-second street and Broadway in the morping | on “A Change of Heart” and also in the evening. | Also in Cooper Institute this atternoon. Dr. Holme will occupy the pulpit of Trinity Bap- | tist church, of which he is pastor, morning and } evening. i | Rev. W. W. Andrews will take an “Outlook for | the Year 1874” in the Catholic Apostolic church this | gE. Rev. John E, Cookman, pastor, and Dr. 8. D. Brown, P. E., wil) preach in the Tabernacle Metho- dist church, Rev, Frederick Evans will deltver his message in the Central Baptist church to-day, and will baptize , aster the morning sermon, The Rev. Rovert Sloss will preach in the Four- | teenth street Presvyterian church morning and | evening. Rey. J. W. Barnhardt discourses in the Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Ciergymen of different denominations will preach to the masses on successive Thursday even- | Rev. J. Hyatt Smith willlead of next Thursday, Dr. William Morgan will ofictate 1n St. Thomas’ | Rev. Wayland Hoyt will talk to the people in Stein- What It Means.” Services wilt be held in the Russo-Greek chapel, on Second avenue, near Fiftieth street, this morn- ing. Dr. Ganse will tell what he knows about “Scrip- tural Revivals” in the Madison avenue Reformed church this morning. Bishop Janes will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning, and the Lord's ‘Supper will be administered in the evening. Rey. D. H, Miller will review Father Lake’s lec- | this morning in the Plymouth Baptist church. Rey. S. M. Hamtiton will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and atternoon, Rey. John G. Oakley will ovcupy the pulpit of the Duane Metnodist Episcopal church, Hudson street, | morning and evening. Rev. E. 1. Crowen will preach in St. Paul’s Re- | formed church in Forty-second street this morning. Rey. Halsey’ W. Knapp will preach Baptist truth in the Laight street Mission church. ‘The Spiritualists will gather in Robinson Hall this | morning to listen to Mrs. Townsend. The freethinkers and rationalists who to De Garmo Hail will hear an address on the les ments of Universology” in the morping and on | “The Source of Motion in Matter” im the evening. | Ex-President Hill, of Harvard University, will | conduct the morning and evening services in All Souls’ church, Bishop Clark will discourse upon ‘Personal Im- | mortality” this evening, in Christ church. Morn- | ing ang alteruoog services as usual. The Forty. ld street Presbyterians will bs | edified by Rev. Dr. Rollin A. Sawyer, of Irvington, | at half-past ten A. M, and tour P. M. The afternoon services in Grace church will be held at four o’clock until further notice, “The Last Night in Egypt” and “The Crucifiea Christ” are the subjects upon which Rev. Mr. Hep- worth will elaborate-to-aay in the Church of the | Disciples. | Rev, Dr. S, H. Tyng, Jr., preaches this morning | and afternoon in the Church of the Holy Trinity, and in Cooper Union Hall in the evening. This morning, in the Church of the Messiah, Rev. | W. T. Clark will discourse on “Modern Discon- | tent.” Lecture in the evening on “How To Be Happy.” “John Bunyan a Soldier and Servant of Christ” | will be descanted upon and his “progress” toward and final entry into the “Celestial City” fully | illustrated this evening in Bain Hall. Rev. J. W. | Kramer, of Grace church, will give the lecture and | Mr. J. R. Phelps, of Boston, preside at the organ. | At the morning and evening services in the Church of the Resurrection Rey. Dr, Flagg will | preach. Bishop Cummins will conduct the Reformed | Episcopal church worship in Steinway Hall this morning, and in Lyric Hall this evening. i} The congregation of the Church of the Holy | Trinity will be ministered to, at half-past seven | P. M., by Rev. Dr. Howland, of the Church of the | 0 | Heavenly Rest. Rey. Theo, Irving, LL.D., preaches at the morn, | ing service in Anthon Memorial church. Choral | exercises at hall-past three P, M. “Out uf the Woods” is Mr. Caleb Pink’s topic at the Cosmopolitan Conference this afternoon. | | The Development Theory of the Deity. To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— A great many worthy but narrow minded people are in the habit of snecring at the theories and belie! of scientific men like Darwin, Tyndall, Hux" | ley, Miller and Haeckel, because they deny the | existence of the Deity. hold up the late Professor Agassiz as an example of an acknowledged authority who held opposite | views a8 to the “development theory.” They prob- | They, on the contrary, | ably do not know that Professor Agassiz had been | devoting the greater part of his spare time to what he hoped to be the crowning effort of his lile—viz., | the overthrow of what is popularly known as the “Darwinian theory.’ It was his complete inability | and failure to do this ratisfactorily, and the conse- quent chagrin and depression that so Wroaght upon him, in connection with hard work, that it broke gown his physical powers and indirectly caused his jeath. ‘There is now no Jeader of science in the civilized world Who does not accept these theories and the consequent deductions irom them. How extra- ordinary, then, is the spectacie of theologians quar- , reiling among each other about the petty forms and ceremonies 0! religious bellef, wheD the very ground they stand upon has been washed away by the flood of science and tact that has overwhelmed them in the last decade! How much better tt would be for the clergy, who are now years behind thetr congregations, to take the lead, accept the ituation, and, standing on the basis and root of ali that tg good and pure in life, the love of man or man, the great brotherhood of race, preach the doctrines of all great moralists, from Buddha to | Mahomet, from Contucius to Christ—do to others as you would have them do to you! M. Advice to “a Catholic” Who Wants to | Convert Sceptics. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— “a Catholic” chooses in a recent Sunday’s issue strange proceeding to give to ‘a Sceptic” the tion of the Hzraup. 1 fear neither he nor @ thou sand other sceptics who read with interest tho religious correspondence in your valuable paper | will be edified or otherwise benefited by an answer which lacks at once logic and dignity. Your correspondent complains of the animus, ite and venom which, he says, he discovers in Sceptio’s” letter to the HERALD; and his own shows but too plainiy the very defects he 80 se- verely condemns, He taxes his opponent with egotism, vanity, shallowness and ignorance; se 1D his communication meanness and conceit, calls it “straw snd mud,” and all this because ‘‘a Sce jook upon things with the eyes of | ob & Of sound reasoning, Dot a | | this consecration, | try by the Presbytery of mogie argument, in thet long letter which bears Ltd Of “Advice to the pic Who Wants will not enter now into the merit of the objec- tons raised by your pongele, correspondent it the Holy Writ; nor will I use the weapons of attack which Catholic adversary furnishes in many instances against bis own cause; tor, though Tama sceptic in spite of miysett ‘and honest enough 40 confess myself as such, I atill admire aud even love that Church for which he breake 80 anal 4 Jance, Allow me - to give in return an advice to this or any other Catholi@who seeks to convert sceptics into believers. Let nim oppose coolness and self-posseasion to animosity and spite, strin- gent reasoning to distasteful objection? and Chris- tian charity to sceptic attacks. Above all let him come before your read not with assertions, but with facts, and not wi invective vituperation, but with dignified persuasion; for dogmatism and arrogance Will never convert tue sceptical world, . Ge Christianity ai Infidelity. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The assertions of sceptics and infidels are the hardest of all to deal with, because that class of persons are not to be reached by, or are not ame- | nable to, either any dogma of the Church or reve- lation of the Holy Bible. In the nature of things they are for the most part vain, conceited and shallow-minded persons, though we readily grant them the merit of sincerity. Their princtpal aim in life is only to pull down and destroy, without knowing or being honest enough to attempt to offer any seeming equivalent for blighted hopes or @ shattered faith. If they could destroy Christi- | @nity, which is the hope of the world, they have no resources from which they could offer a substitute tor it, ‘They are constantly reproducing the ribald dicta of past generations of unbelievers, and seem to think they are the smart utterances of modern and original thinkers, They nur! bias- phemies against the great God which are as old as misbelie! and have been answered a thousand times, ‘They revive insinuations against Cnris- Uanity which have been coeval with revelation. They strive to put out the light of the world by projecting against it a cloud of darkness in which Satan enwraps himself, and then, with an air of triumphant joy, claim to be oracies of wisdom, the heralds of a new dispensation, and demand immu- nity from merited contempt behind the unblushing denial of the fact or necessity of a divine revela- tion to man. ‘These are the infidels of to-day, no Jess and no more intelligent nor powerful intel! tually than those of past generations have been, A CHRISTIAN, Catholic Mission in Brooklyn, To-day, at last mass, a mission of the Order of Jesuit Fathers will be opened at the Church of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, of which Rey. Eugene Cas- sidy is pastor. The mission will be conducted by that distinguished teacher of the truths of Catho- lieity, Rev. Father Garesché, of Cuicago. The mis- ston will be continued for two weeks. The edifice, | ofa crowded house. The Rev, ee ~ vival in the Baptist church, of Harlem. A Osterhout is preaching every eveulny, and’ large number in the coogregation are kn as anxious inquirers. At the North church, in Onristopher @treet, under the earnest labora of the paswr, Rey. J. J. Bronner, there is an extensive work of grace Sa progress. The meetings are crowded and peculiarly solemn. Revival influences at the Willis street church, Paterson, N. J., continue an- abated; the pastor, Rev. S. J. Knapp, eleven converts on Sunday evening last. Dudley, pastor of the church New York, has resigned, and farewell sermon January 16, is continuing to bless the Berean church of this city; the pastor, Rey. P. L. Davies, baptized four converts on Sunday evening, in the presence . 3, Westgate, 9 Westfield, has accepted the call of the Bap church at Kingston, N. Y. Rev. Dr. E, T. Hiscox has been aiding Rey. Dr. Palmer in @ series of meetings at Stonington for about two weeks, and revival influences are enjoyed, The Clinton ave- nue Baptist caurch in Trenton, N. J., ia rejoicing in the evidences of God’s ag On Sunday, January 18, nine were baptized. teen persous have been baptized within a few weeks, and a deep religious interest still pervades the congre- gation. Rev. W, M. Whitehead, pastor of the Bap- Uist church at Woodpury, N. 8 rapidly failing in health, and his recovery is considered Very doubt- Mul. The Baptist Weekiy reports thirty-three con- Verts in the churches of its constituency in this vicinity within a recent period, besides those in this city as given above. ‘The National Baptist, of Philadelphia, accounts tor 283 converts among its, constituents within a week or two. Twelve were baptized in Frankford church, Philadelphia, last: Sunday; eight in the Fourth Baptist church, two im the German church, ten in the Twel(ta Kensington, Philadelphia, also lust sunday. METHODIST, Sunday, January 18, was missionary day in St. Paul’s church of this city; $6,000 Were taken up on the occasion, DeKalb Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, has taken up $400 for the same cause, Twenty souls were converted in this church last Sabbatn under the ministry of Mr. D. A. Price’s Praying Band. Mr. A. V. Stout. of St. Paul’s church, New York, promises $1,500 annually toward the expenses of a mission in the Orient. Dr, Thomas Carleton, late agent of the Meth- | odist Book Concern in this city, has been elected City Treasurer of Elizabeth, N. J. In which is one of the Jargest in South Brooklyn, will Accommodate about 2,000 people. Dedication of a Catholic Church at Bal- | timore, BaurmmoreE, MQ., Jan, 31, 1874, St. Ann’s Catholic church, on the York road, just outside the city jimits, an offering of the late Cap- tain William Kennedy tn memory of his wife, was | | dedicated to- ‘ay with imposing ceremonies, Arch- bishop Bayley, Bishop Beecher, of Wilmington, | Del., and Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, Va., offict- ating. Bishop Gibbons delivered the sermon. A number of priests and scholastics from the city aod State were present, and also a large congrega- lon. Taking the Veil. Baltimore, Jan. 51, 1874. Miss Rosa Sands, Sands, United States Navy, now in charge of the Naval Observatory at Washington, yesterday re- ceived the white veil of the Nuns of the Order of the Visitation, at Mount De Sales Convent, saiti- more county. A very large assemblage witnessed the ceremony, Ministerial and Church Movements. EPISCOPALIAN. A series of ante-Lenten services will be held in Christ church, Fiftn avenue, Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson rector, beginning on Sunday, February 8, and continuing till Ash Wednesday. These ser- vices will be held morning, afternoon and evening daily, and are to be ina sense revival meetings. | The Scottish Bishops, mindful of the service ren- dered ninety years ago to the American Protestant Episcopal Church in the consecration of its first bishop, have acceded to the strongly expressed re- quest of the Archbishop of Canterbury to conse- crate the Bishop-designate of Madagascar. first Sunday in the New Year in twenty-one dioceses of the English Church there were 194 deacons and | 178 priests ordained. Bishop Paddock, of Massa- chusetts, has formally deposed Mr. William H. Fultz from the ministry of the Protestant Episco- pal Chureh, Mr. Fultz was formerly rector of St. sames’ church, in Cambridge, Vt. The contest in Ireland in reference to the reviston of the Prayer Book is becoming more and more exciting. The conservatives, who oppose the projected revision, seem to be gaining in strength and numbers and are becoming hopeiul. The Council of the Free Co ig cnr Church of England has resolved to di- vide England into tour dioceses and to constitute one for Wales. The Rev. J. H. Picket, assistant Minister of St, Paul’s church, Stockbridge, Mass., died at South Lee on the 2ist ult., aged fifty-eight years, An association of Episcopal clergymen have arranged a series of Sunday evening exer- cises at various churches in this city, with sermons by Bishop Clark, Drs. H. M. Thompson, J. C, Smith, E, A. Washburn, Rylance, Huntington and Heury, On questions relating tothe scientific and other objections raised against Christianity. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Rev. Prof. Schiamovitz, the converted Israel- ite, says ne has found such @ spirit of inquiry among Israelites of this city who are weary of Judaism ana anxious for something better or dif | ferent as to warrant him in opening a series of lectures on the cardinal doctrines of Christianity first lecture, on “The Atonement of the Messiah,” will be given in German on Saturday, February 7, at three P. M. The Professor will hold conferences daily with all who may seek instruction on and | monotheistic princi alter February 9. Lent begins this year on Febru- ary 18, To-morrow is the Feast of the Purifica- tion—commonly called Candlemas. custom on this day for Catholics to have a quantity | Taculously punished and ‘destroyed. of candies blessed, when the ceremony | 1s publicly performed in the churches. The Pope will hold another consistory early this month, when he will several additional cardinals and seventeen !oreign bishops. ‘The dedication of St. Ann’s church, Balti- more. took place yesterday morning. Archbishop Bayley performed the solemn ceremonies on che oc- casion. Kev. Father Bekkars, of Lexington, Ky., who has been confined to his bed for some time past, is now able to attend to his ministerial | the chosen te assistant | duties. The Rev. Artuur Hurley, astor at St. Mary’s church, St. Paul, Minn., has een appointed pastor of St. Michael’s church, West St. Paul. other fathers of the Society of Jesus, from Chicago, will commence a mission at the Church ot St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Brooklyn, Rev. Eugene Cassidy | daughter of Rear Admiral | | | conversions occur nightly. Greene avenue Methodist Spiscopat church, Brooke lyn, G. Hubbell, pastor, si Reperar ne have been converted, In Hanson place Methodist Episcopat church, Brooklyn, 100 persons have been converted: since the dedi jon of the new chu building. ‘The edifice will seat 1,600 persons and the house 18 crowded at every service. The church property 18 valued at $13 ighty converts are reported for St. Paul’s Methodist scopal church, Jersey City, during the week ending last Sabbath—making 300 ‘since the meetings began. At Newton, the | Rev. J. 1, Boswell, pastor, twenty-one persons have | been received on probation, the truits of a recent | revival, At St, Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, | Newark, N. J. D pastur, @ precious Work | has been in progress for several weeks, Many of | the members of the Brookhavi copal chureh, Long sland, have advanced to higher ground in the divine lite, and thirty-five | have been converted. The work continues, A. glorious rev! ig in progress on Bethel Charge, Bridgeport district, New York East Conference, Rev. E. H. Dutcher, pastor. The tn- terest began with the watch-night services, and ‘The Young Men's Praying Band ot the Forty-third street Methodist Episcopal church of this city spent last Sabbath at the Methodist Kpiscopal church at Spring Valley, Y., E. Clement, pastor. Fourteen were at the altar seeking salvation. The revival interest in Forty-fourth street Methodist Episcopal church ta this city is still progressing. ‘the pastor, Rev. W. Ostrander, received tourteen on probation last Sab- bath. More than fiity have protessed conversion and have joined on probation. The New York Praying Band, Jesse E. Smith, leader, will conduct the services. Beekman Hall Methodist Episcopal church, on East Fiitieth street, Rev. W. C, Steel, pastor, ts enjoying a precious work of grace. Sev- eral have professed religion. On Sabbath evening Jast nine seekers presented themselves for prayers. ‘Thirty-fourth street church, New York city, John E. Cookman, pastor, reports fifty converted. MISCELLANEOUS, The Reformed Cuurcn in the United States is bee ing greatly exercised on the question.of liturgical worship. Some of its forms and ordinances are believed to be of Romanizing tendency, and are strenuously opposed by the Low Church party, so that the lines are being sharply drawn between the High and Low Church adherents in this as well as in otner denomiuations, ‘The several local and independent missionary boards of the Reformed Church nave resolved to unite and carry on their missionary work hereafter under one head. Rev. S. Shaw, of Congress, Ou10, has accepted a call On the | | | forthe benefit of his former coreligionists. The | Rev. Fathers Garesche, Van Goch and | ark of the testimony to be kept ‘dor a sign. from the Salem Reformed charge, Pennsylvania, and will enter on his new field of labor on the 1st | of April next. The Rev. W. Feige has accepted @ call from the Reformed church at Marengo, | lowa. It is estimated that one in every twenty- five of the native converts in China are preachers, | Their conversation 13 thorough, their conviction of duty deep, and the need of workers presses on every side, There are avout forty Welsh churches in Eastern Pennsylvania which are thoroughly | Congregational in sentiment and action, anda | movement is on foot to oring them into closer re- lations with their English speaking brethren in the vicinity. Mi: Smiley is creating considerable re- m in Lockport, N. Y. ‘The Congre- uted for a week, , and the Presbyterian, a larger | edifice, Was obtained for Sunday might last, when | every seat was occupied, LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. oo Aaron’s Rod a Type of God’s Justice and Merey—The Absurdity of Materialism— Sermon by Rev. Dr. Huebsch. A large congregation gathered yesterday in this place of worship, to whom Rev. Dr. Huebsch de- livered @ practical discourse on the rebellion of Korah and his followers against Moses and the Lord's test of choice by the budding of Aaron’s rod at that time. The musical part of the services, under the leadership of Rev. S. Welsi, was excel- lent. The Rev. Rabbi chose his text from Num- bers, xvii., 5—*‘And it shall come to pass that the man’s rod whom I shall choose shall blossom.'? These promising words, the Doctor remarked, make part of a very earnest event that took place among the Israelites in the desert. Ambition and ‘envy incited Korah to pilot a dangerous | rebellion against the leaders of the people. The ples which Moses had estab- lished with so much care were threatened with com- plete overthrow. The prophet appealed for nis It is a pious | justification to the Lord, aud the rebels were mi- The censers which Korah’s company had used were converted into memorial plates, so that the children of Israet | should never again revolt in like manner. There appoint | Were yet many wao sympathized with these men, towhom the Almighty desired to carry deeper conviction that He bad made choige of Moses and Aaron to minister before Him. He, therefore, commanded that twelve rods—one jor each tribe— be laid up in the tabernacle before Him, and the man whose rod budded and blossomed should ve one. INE BUDDED, And with its ripened was laid up again betore the inst the rebels,” ‘These twotold signs of the rod, the Doctor remarkea, represent the twotold ways of God—the way of justice and the way of mercy. iruit and tower t astor, to-lay at the late mas: ‘fhe German | The one is to hold us back from sin and Franen of the Order of Jesuits have arranged # the other to incite us to meritorious accept the charge of the Catholic church of deeds. These signs are just as necessary for us Mankato, Wis., and representatives of that | to-day as they were for our fathers in the desert. Order are expected there next month to relieve | The word of Go: ‘This is to be made the head house | sicknesses, Father Wirth. for the Uraer in the Siates of lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Territories west of those | States. It is stated that among the plans in con- | i | templation jor the future is the location at Man- | Bible, and when superstition and prejudice, gath- kato of important educationa) institutions. Pres- is the great healer of our moral The Bibdle is the Lord’s drug svore, amply provided with the means of cure for tu: manity’s morai diseases. The idolatry of antiquity was overcome by the spirit healing power of the ered into a dark cioud, obscured the divine truth, ident Moreno by a decree consecrates the Republic | the mighty struggie against them in the Middle of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, fixes a certain day of the year as @ holiday in honor of aud adds that in all the churches of the Republic the remembrance shail Ages Was Victoriously carried through in the name and with the heip of the Bible. Materialism is the depressiag disease which hinders the healthy spiritual growth oi our own time. Many persons be perpetuated by means of an inscription in let- | say materialism ts a giant which will devour re- ters of gold. PRESBYTERIAN. | The Rey. EF. B. Smith, of the Catholic Apostolic | Church of this city—a society or sect charged with Ritualism, Romanism and various other isms at variance with the simple teachings of the Presby- terian Church—has been deposed from the Minis- ‘estchester, to whose jurisdiction he was amenable. The Presbytery sat ‘two days last week and heard patiently ail the testimony, pro and con, and came to a deliberate conclusion. Mr. Smith has appealed to Synod. Rev. Edgar L, Heermance, of the Reformed Classis of Rensselaer, has accepted @ call irom the Pres- byterian church at White Plains, N. Y. Rev. Henry A. Boardman, fortieth year in the pastorate of the Tenth Presby- terian church, Philadelphia. Rev. Professor Web- ber, of Middlebury College, has received a call to the past the First street Presbyterian torate ol church, of , N.Y. late of” Payettiviie, has accepted a call from the Frst oyterian church of East Albany, N. Y., and removed thither. Rev. C. P. Coit has resigned the pastorate of the North Presbyterian church of Binghamton, N. Y., to take effect July 1. ‘The First Presbyterian church of #inghamton has raised rd O1 the $50,000 of its indebtedness, which it will shortly cancel. Eleven were added to the West Presbyterian church of Binghamton, N. Y., at the January communion, The membership 1s now 100. The Rev. T. 0, St D., has been elected temporary President o1 Wells Gotiege, at Aurora. The Central Presbyterian church of Erie, Pa., has increased in less than three years from fifty-four to 191 members; twenty united with the | The #resbytery of Balti- | church on January 13, more, on the 25th January, organized the Ashland Presbyterian church, at the Ashland Iron Works, fourteen miles from Baltimore, The Presbyterian church at Falmouth, Ky., though organized for for- ty-five years, has never had a house of worsnip until January 11, when it dedicated a $5,000 one free of debt, BAPTIS' iT. Boston has twenty-one Baptist churches, with an aggregate membership of 7,570, Several churches in brooklyn rejoiced over obedient converts last Sunday Dr. Thomas baptized ten, Dr. Jeffery five, Rev. J. Hyatt Smith sixteen and Rev, Dr. Moot three. There are indications of @ remarkabie re The Rev. Edward Stratton, | D. D., has recently concluded his ; ligion entirely. Yes, it is a huge and powerful im- age like that represented in the Book of Daniel. It consists of gold and silver and other metals, but it rests on feet of clay, and the stone is cut out from the holy mounta‘n (not with bands) which shall smite the image on 1s feet of clay, and-the fearful giant wili fall to the dust while the Word of our fora shail stand Jor ever. THE PRACTICAL MATERIALISP has two articles of faith which are to guide him through life. The first is to keep off from limself pain and sorrow as far as possivie; the second, to pluck a8 many flowers of joy in the garden of ilfe as he cun possibly reach, “At every step the ma- terialist advances in life, however; he cannot fail to notice that it 1s not given to man to mete out for himself the portion of sorrow or joy that lies in the hand of a power far above his own, The more he flees {rom sorrow the surer i¢ reaches him. The more he hunts aiter the worid’s joys the less he fs certain of them. Ii materialism wants eet out its fundamental principle of an undistur! agreeable life it must go to the school of reveal religion and learn the lessons of the Bible, the first of which ts that revetlion against bis Maker dooms man to sure perdition, The worldiing fills bis censer with strange fire and offers his devotions to the idols of his heart, but after a while the sti ire grows into “destructive flame and devours the mis- guided votary of materialism. Nothing remains of him but the misused censer, as a warning on the altar of the Lord. second lesson that the only thing which makes man the master of his destiny is faithiul adherence to the com- mands of @ Supreme Ruler and Disposer, whose alone is the might and the glory. This taithrut trust and belief insures tor us & sweet consolation in the sadness of our hearts. For, even when our fall is great as the sea, we know that over us lives the One who can say tol it, “Hither shalt thou but no further; and here shall thy proud waves Stayed.” And the pure joys that we reap in such & state of faithiuiness are not the short! now Whose thorns wound more than béauty rejoices. They are not the disguised pre- cursors of pain, a8 the joys of materialism in gen- eralare; but they are, like the blossomson the rod of Aaron, # certain token that we are the chosen of the Lord. Such pure jogs are lasting forever in 3! the sanctuary of Goa,