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*4 (IOUS INTELLIGENCE. £x-Rabbi Schlamovitz on the Messiah and the Atonement of Christ. The Value of Praise in Re- ligious Worship. MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH = MOVEMENTS. Programme of Services To-Day— Sunday, February 8. Rev. Dr. Porteous will preach this morning in the Church of the Reformation, Gates avenue, Brook- lyn, andin the evening in the Chureh of the Dis- ciples, Madison avenue and Forty-ffth street. Dr. T. M, Eddy, from the West, preaches in the Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal chureh, Fiftieth Street, near Second avenue, in the morning, and the pastor, Rev. W. C. Steele, in the evening. RKe- Vival meetings continued through the week, Rev, Charles H, Flubrer, of Hariem, will preach in Cooper Union Hall this afternoon, on “Univer- salism.”" Dr. S, H. Tyng, Jr., will follow in the evening with a sermon about Christ in His beauty. ‘The Praying Band, under D. W. Price, of Brook- lyn, wil conduct the services in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Rey. J, Hyatt Smith, of Brooklyn, will deliver his “Crown Sermon’ in the Seventeenth street Bap- tist church, on Wednesday evening. Rev. Prolessor DeWitt, of New Brunswick, N. J., will occupy the puipit of the Sixth avenue Re- formed Dutch church to-day’ Rey, J. F, McClelland, pastor, will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Rev. W. W. Atterbury will address all who may gather in Association Hall this evening. Rey. ¥redezick Evans will hold fortn the word of truth in the Central Baptist church this morning aud evening. Mrs. Auna E, Smith will address working men and women who may guther in Temple Hall, Bow- ery, this evening, Rey. H. W. Knapp will discourse in the Laight street Baptist church twice to-day. The Rev, 8, M. Hamilton will preach in the Scoteh Presbyterian church, Fourteenth street, morning and alternoon. Rey. John E. Cookman will preach in the Free Tabernacie Methodist Episcopal church, Thirty- fourth street, to-day. Rev. D. H. Miller wiil tell the Plymouth Baptist churoh this mouing something about “Law and Conscience.” Take usual morning service will be held in the Rugso-Greek chapel at eleven o'clock, Mr. Paul B, du Challlu will address the Morning Star Sunday school this afternoon, at half-past two o'clock. Rev. Wayland Hoyt will preach in the Tabernacie Baptist church this morning, and Dr. Jebn Hall in Steinway Hall in the evening. The Free Church services in Harvard Rooms this morning will be conducted by Rev. G. A. Lansing. On Thursday evening Dr. Ormiston will preach in this place. Dr. Woolsey, of Yale, will preach in the Reformed Dutch church, Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street, this evening, on the “Universal Law of Na- tions and Its Relations to Christianity.” Rev, W. H. Pendleton will occupy the pulpit of the Fifty-third street Baptist church to-day. Rev. Robert Sloss will preach in the Second ave- nue Presbyterian church morning and evening. Rev. P. L. Davies, pastor of the Berean Baptist chureh, will describe the ‘Sceptic, Formalist and Christian’ this morning, and will offer an ‘‘Anti- dote for Sin’ in the evening. “The Times of the Gentiles” will be the theme of discourse in the Catholic Apostolic church this evening, Bev. G. F. Ruliffson and Dr. G. S. Chambers will occupy the pulpit of the Greene street Presbyterian church, near Canal street, morning and afternoon. Dr. a. C, Osborne will preach in the South Bap- tist church this morning and evening. Revs, J. M, Pullman and E. C. Sweetser will oc- cupy the pulpit of the Bleecker street Universalist church. ‘Tbe latter, in the evening, will have some- thing to say about ‘idle Words.” The Rev. W. C. Dawson wili preach in the Church of the Disciples of Christ twice to-day, and on Thursday evening Dr. Deems will lecture there on “Triftes."" Revival services will be held during this week in the Seventeenth street Baptist church. The pulpit will be occupied by city and Brooklyn pastors. Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach in the hall of the Standard Club, Broadway and Forty-second street, this evening, on “The Mystery of Life.” Sermon also in the morning. Rev. Dr. Hoffman will preach this evening in the Chureh of Vur Lord, West Thirty-fifth street. The Spiritualists will be addressed in Robinson Hall, morning and evening, by Mrs. M. S. Town- send, and the Free Thinkers in De Garmo Hall, by S. P. Andrews. ' A temperance meeting will be held in the Church of the Strangers this afternoon, at three P. M., at which Revs. Deems, Beecher, Ludlow, Sweetser, William C. Dodge and Judge Fancher and others afe announced to speak. “The Poet Priest of the Sonth, Moina,” Rey. A. J. Ryan, will lecture this evening in the Charch of the Transfiguration, on “Mary’s Place in the Church ot Her Son.” Rev. Dr, Armitage will conduct the customary Morning and evening services in the Fifth avenue Baptist church. The services in Christ church to-day will begin at half-past ten o'clock A. M., and half-past three and half-past seven o'clock P. M. InSeventeenth street Baptist church Rev. Robert Cameron will preach in the morning and preach and baptize in the evening. Rey. Mr. Hepworth will, this morning, in the Church of the Disciples, show how “The Road to Heaven 18 Always Upen.” The Calvary Baptists will be favored, at the customary morning and evening services, with addresses by their pastor, Rev. Mr. McArthur. The Young Ladies’ Christian Association meeting this evening, in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch cburch, will be addressed by Rev. Dr. Ormiston. Rev. J. N, Galleher, of Zion churcn, preaches in St. Andrew's, Harlem, this evening. Services in St. Ignatius’ church at half-past seven, nine and half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P. M., Rev. Dr. Ewer oMciating. “The Times of the Gentiles” will be dilated upon this evening in the Catholic Apostolic church. Sermons upon special themes will be given, Morning and evening, in the North Presbyterian church, by Rev. Mr. Rossiter. The Fifty-third street Baptist pastor, Rev, Mr. Pendleton, will preach morning and evening in the church and hold revival meetings during the week. At the morning and evening services of the Church of the Resurrection Rev. Dr. Flagg will Preach. There wil be preaching by Rev. Mr. Newton in Anthon Memorial church this morning, and in the afternoon the usual choral service. Rev. Mr. Egbert’s morning and evening dis- Courses to the Wainwright Memorial flock will be based upon special subjects. Rev. Francis J. Peabody will preach in All Souls’ church this morning ana evening. The Reformed Episcopalians will worship in Steinway Hall this morning and in Harvard Rooms in the evening. Bishop Cummins will expound the creed of the new sect at doth services, Professor Hutchings, “Lightning Calculator,” preaches this evening in Bethany chapel, Boule- vard and Seventieth street, Edacation and Redemption for Africa, To ras Epitor or THE HERALD :— Better days are in store for the land made famous ‘by Livingstone and 4 Stanley, The desert shall yet blossom as the rose, A Christian education for the women of Africa ts to be & posatbils, Training schools for teachers are springing up tn Southern Africa. “A Good Hope Seminary” ts already under way at Cape Town, and now word reaches us that two graduates of Mount Holyoke, Miss Ferguson and,Miss Biiss, are at Weilingion, forty miles from Cape Town, just opening a Mount Holyoke for Africa, with the design of educating teachers for the colony and teachers and muissivn- aries jor the interior. A large estabilshment, once owned by a wealthy Mormon leader, has been purchased. pon this property are found a fine vineyard, apricot, orange and banana trees and an excellent garden. Thirty boarding scholars are already engaged, and are probably by this time at work. The teachers have been received with the utmost cordiality, the young ladies saying, ‘“Wel- come! welcome!” Rey, Andrew Murray, who ministers to a large Dutch keformed church ut Wellington, 18 giving his best efforts to make the school & success, and with the favor of God we can- not doubt that the “Huguenot school’ (for go it is to be called) will prove a rich blessing, not only to the colony of the Cape, but to the whole of Alrica, 4 Lecture of Ex-Rabbi Schlamovits on the Evidences of Christianity—The Prophe. cies Concerning the Messiah and the Doctrine of the Atonement—The Chris. tian Doctrines and the Early Jewish Faith Identical. Professor Emanuel H. Schlamovitz delivered the first of a series of lectares yesterday afternoon in the school room of the Church of the Holy Inno- cents, Thirty-seventh street and Broadway, on the “Evidences of Christianity.” The lecture was de- livered in the German language, and was divided into two parts, the first being devoted to the prophecies ,concerning the Messiah and the latter portion to the doctrine of the atonement, He claimed that modern rabbies knowingty taught to their people jalse interpretations of the prophecies, interpretations which were wholly at variance with the teachings of the Jewisn Church before the coming of Christ. The Christian and the early Jewish interpretations were almost identic: It was an indisputable fact that many eminent Jewish commentators differed widely in their explana- tions of the PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE MESSIAH, Among these he mentions Rabbies David Kimchi, Rashi, Abum Ezra and Abarbanel, The prophecies were Lo the effect that the Saviour was to be ‘de- spised and rejected of men,” “A man of sorrows and acquainted with griet,” &. ‘These prophecies could not have been lulfiiled, said the lecturer, in the sufferings of the children of Israel, because their history proves that they bore their burdens anything but meekly. Every prophecy concerning the birth, life and death of the Measian was tul- filled in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of the atonement was then very fully descanted upon by the Professor, The modern rabbi, he said, holds that it 18 not in consonance with the character or attributes of a loving, mer- ciful and just God that the innocent should suffer for the sins of the guilty, And yet were not sacri- fices made of lambs and bullocks under the old Mosaic law? But, passing by the offering up of beasts On the altar, he remarked that there 1s abundance of proof that the sacrifice of human life was acceptable as atonement for sin in the eyes of God. Did not the innocent suffer as well as the guilty at the time of the Deluge? So it was in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, When David sinned in taking unto himself the wife of Uriah the Hittite the sin was visited on his then unborn child. The sewish Jaith admits of the necessity of w sacrifice, as wit- ness one of the most common forms of prayer offered up in the synagogue—“o Lord, in the time When the temple stood, when agin was committed the guilty one brought sacrifices, and it was atoned unto him; but now, through our sins, we have NO TEMPLE, NO ALTAR, NO PRIESTS to ofer up sacrifices which shall atone for our sing. Let the remembrance of our prayers, of the many prayers we offer up, O Lord, be acceptable in the Place of sacrinces.” The ex-Rabbi then quoted Jrom the Talmud the text, “The death of the Tighteous man atones for sin.” If this be one of the tenets of the Jewish faith, what then, he asked, is there objectionable in the doctrine of the atonement of Jesus Christ, wno in His life was pure and holy, a man void of- all sin? The real point oi the lecture was the star- ting proposition that as the early Jewish interpretations of the prophecies concerning the Messiah agreed exactly with the Christian interpretations, then the Christian doctrines con- tained the real faith of Israel; consequently to be @ good and true Catholic was to be a believer in the true Jewish faith. The ex-Rabbi will be in attendance in the boys’ school room of the Church of the Holy Innocents at half-past three P. M., daily, Sundays and Mondays excepted. An Indignant Israelite on Ex-Rabbi Schlamoritz. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— It is really worthless to spoil paper and ink on such wandering Jews as the ex-Rabbi Schlamoritz, who run from one creed to another, yet I am guided by the words of the wise King—Proverbs, xxvi., 4—‘‘Answer the fool according to nis folly, Jest he be wise imhis own eyes.” First, I beg to inform those who are not aware of the fact, that in Russia and Poland all Jews who are of age, es- pecially when married, rich, poor and ignorant, even scavengers, are addressed by the title rabbi, asin this country “Mr.” So much for his title, Now for his learning. The apostate rabbi is such azBiblical scholar! The passages quoted by nim in his late conversation with your reporter are all taken from a@ tract called “Lekuti Hanveos’’—col- lections of prophectes—and 1s transiated in many ISne ah Eee and distributed among Jews every- where. In Palestine place, London, from where this “rabbi” sprang, the inmates Of that institution have to know this tract by‘heart. im that institu- tion Jewish converts are fabricated by steam power instead of by the Spirit. 1am willing and ready to explain satisfactorily all these passages of Scripture which are puzzling the ex-Ravbi, pro- vided, by convincing him of his folly, he will not embrace Mahometanism, but will become aa honest and upright man, and strive to obtain a livelihood by his own labor and industry. Mr. Editor, we are glad to get rid of such an in- dividual as ex-Rabbi Scolamoritz, We shall be ratified to learn that he has succeeded in draw- fe many like himself to himself, as we have too many vagabonds among us here in New York. J. NAMXIF, Our Public Schools To THE Eprror OF THE HERALD:— Judging from the increasing interest manifested in the public schools I should assume that the question of sectarian education is assuming a prominence which wil) eventually lead to one of two results—the establishment of sectarian schools, where each religious denomination will be [ree to teach its own pecuilar doctrines, or the enactment of alaw making education compulsory. Certain it is that the public schools, as ‘at present consti- tuted, cannot long exist, for the opposition to them is each day becoming more formidable; nor is that opposition by any means confined to the Cath- olics, as is generally supposed. The courtesy with which you have thrown open the columns of your influential and extensively circulated paper tothe discussion of this subject induces me to offer a few remarks in support of the Catholic side of the question, which, though often and ably de- fended, has as olten and as persistently been mis- represented. And here permit me to express the hope that the supporters of our present system of public education will, in the discussion of this question, confine themselves to the “logi@ of facts,” and not deal, as they too frequently do, in “glittering generalities’ ana statements unsub- stantiated by reason or argument, The Catholic Church is dogmatic in its teachings, It places before the mind of man certain truths, which must be accepted before he is admitted to her communion. Nothing in the line of faith ts left to individual opinion. While we admit the su- premacy of reason in its own sphere, still we be- lieve that the divine truths which God delivered to man cannot be altered or improved upon by any advance in human knowledge. With such a clearly defined creed, and believing as we do that we alone possess the truths of God in their fulness and entirety, Catholics have al- ways held it as of the first importance to inculcate these truths into the minds of youth, that they may grow up strengthened In religion and with a knowledge of God's law to guide them aright, and to enable them to subject their passions to the dictates of reason and conscience. In doing this they have simply acted in accordance with the in- structions of the sacred Scriptures, which say, “Train up achild in the way he should go, and when he ts old he will not depart from it.” And again, “Sufler little children to come unto me.” The mission of the Catholic Church, given to her by Christ Himself, is a teaching one, and its history for the last eighteen tandred years testifies now well she has iulfilled that’ mission. ‘To be gure, her teaching is not always in accordance with the spirit of the age, but what ts of far more importance, 1t is always in accordance with the spirit of God. She alone thoroughly understands the true meaning of education, the development and improvement of all the faculties of man, and therefore she always takes care that while the in- tellect is trained the heart must not be neglected, and she never permits the supremacy of the tem- poral over the spiritual, Hence one of the propo- sitions which the Pope condemns in the Syllabus issued in 1864 {s:—‘‘Catholios may approve of that method of instructing youth which, while putting aside the Catholic faith and the Church’s authority, looks qxclusivelr. or at laast chiedx, to the know edge of natural things, and the ends of w.¥ idly, tous wk | The Roman Church has a right to her say a! social life.” The necessity of teaching moral and relt traths to our children 1s indeed apparent to all. at the state of honesty and morality among o bookkeepers, cashiers and public men as develo; by our present syatem of education, and who will be 80 bold as to contend that that system meets the wants of society? Is there a day in which the pub- lc press is not filled with reports of thieving and | robbery by the wholesale, of merchants and banks boing thrown into bankruptcy and ruin Srcees the dishonesty of their clerks? Look al the public representative assembly of the nation, and where is the American citizen that does mot feel ashamed at the unblushing coolness with which they ‘‘ap- Propriated” miilong of the people’s money. Look at the present panic, which has caused h uni- versal ruin and depression, and who will say that all these things are the result of too much religion in the public schools? We might adduce the enshoriey. of eminent Catholics im support of the necessity of teaching religious and secular instruction hand in hand; we preter, however, using at present the names of hose who aiffered from us in religious belief. Washington, in his farewell address, says—‘“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable Sapporta, * * © Let it be simply asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for lL. ¢, ifthe sense of religious obligations desert the oatis which are the instruments of investigation tn courts of justice? And let as with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion, Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on miuds of peculiar structure, reason and expericuoée both Jorbid us to expect that national morality can pre- vail in exclusion of religious priuciple.” We also find Governor Seward, in his message of 1840, re- oecnaine the establishment of schools for the children ol foreigners found in great numbers in our populous towns and cities, in which these children “may be instructed by teachers speaking the same language as themselves and protessing the same faith.’ Disraeli, who is admittedly a clever statesman and a deep thinker, and the leader of the conserv- ative party in England, in his arraignment of the liberals fn his great speech delivered at Manches- ter, in the spring of last year, strongly condemned the avowed purpose of that party to exclude reli- gious instruction from the public schools, and hoped, that ‘when the proposition would be brought before the British people, they would speak authoritatively on the matter,” which was received with cheers by the audience. And in his speech at Glasgow, in sketching the progress of revolutionary ideas, and the demand for physi- cal and material e pail “which is now rising like @ moaning wind in Europe,’ he says that no civilized state can rest upon physical happiness, but “must have a large reserve fund oj public morality to draw upon in the exigencies of national life,” We believe that the experience of the Amer- ican people has demonstrated the truth of these remarks of Mr. Disraeli. It may be said, however, that others as well as Catholics recognize the necessity of religious in- struction, but that it is impossible to give such in- struction in our public schools where cnildren of every religious denomination attend, and tnat, therefore, the easiest wey out of the diMecult is to carefully avoid speaking of religion at a and to make our schools thoroughly unseotarian, letting each child glean whatever religious instruc- tion it can, at home during the evening or at Sun- day school. It would be easy to show that the children thus instructed grow up indifferent to the influences of religion altogether. Besides, I believe it to be impossibie to establish any system of edu- cation which is thoroughly unsectarian. The dis- cussion of this subject, however, I will reserve for @ future letter, when I will endeavor to show how other countries have successfully got .over the question of religious instruction in their public schools, R, O'C. The Apostolic Succession—What is the Real Doctrine of the Protestant Epis- copal Church on the Subject t To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Allow me, although a simple layman, to challenge the correctness of the position assumed by “Presbyter”—namely, that the Episcopal Church holds that none but Episcopal orders, trace- able from the apostles, are valid. To judge by the confident tone adopted by ‘“Presbyter,’”’ one would suppose the formularies he was about to quote in support of this outrageous dogma—which at one fell swoop unchristianizes nine-tenths of the professing Christians in the United States, to say nothing of other countries— would be most certain and clear in their utter- ances; and yet, when we come to examine the extract, from the preface to the ordinal, given at the end of his letter, we find that it requires a powerful effort of the imagination to deduce any such dogma from it. Indeed, so far from ita’ being any way plain and to the purpose, I boldly call on “Presbyter” or anybody else to point out any statement in the said preface which invali- dates the orders of the Presbyterian, Methodist, or any other of the regularly constituted churches of the land. For all these churches only admit men to their ministry on their being ‘“‘called, tried, examined and known to have such qualities as are requisite for the same,’ and also on their betng “by public prayer and imposition of hands ap- proved and admitted by lawfal authority.’ “Presbyter” may, if he chooses, understand by “lawful authority” Episcopal authority traceable in @ direct line from the Apostles, but plain senst- ble men will see that this is a violent and unwar- rantable assumption, and without it his whole extract, as a means of proving his position, falls to the ground. It 18 also to be noted that the preface goes on to say ‘“‘No man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful bishop, priest or deacon in this Church, ex- cept he be called, &c., according to the form here- after following, or hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination.” Tomake this bear the sense at- tempted to be put upon it by Presbyter, we should either leave out the words I have put in italics, or else change them to “by thié Church.” Till this change 18 accomplished, I suvmit, the extract, so far from supporting the position of “Presbyter,” by implication destroys it, For it evidently contem- plates the existence of lawful bishops and other clergy out of “this Church”’ as well as in it. In referring to what he calls the “standards” of the Church ‘Presbyter’”’ cunningly, if not wisely, refrains from any allusion to the Articles. But if the doctrines of the Church are to be looked for, clearly and distinctly set forth anywhere, it is there. One of these—the nineteenth—tells us plainly enough what constitutes the visible Church of Christ. If the views ot ‘Presbyter” were cor- rect, we should expect to be told only tke Protes- tant Kpiscopal Church, which some of the party to which he belongs have the audacity to call the “Holy Catholic Church,” But no. “The visibie Church of Christ 1s a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached an the sacraments are duly administered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of ne- cessity are requisite to the same’’—a definition, which I commend to all thinking men as broad enough to comprehend all evangelical denowtna- tions, and which cuts at the root of the miserably narrow theory which “Presbyter” would have us to believe is the true doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Again, in the thirty-fourth article, we have it Inia down distinctly that “it is mot necessary that tra- ditions and ceremonies be in all places one or utterly like,’ for atall times they have been divers, Moreover, “every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain change and abolish ceremonies or rites of the Church or- dained only by man’s authority, 80 that all be done to edifying.’’ So, then, there may be such things as “particular”; or “national” churches with varying ceremonies, which could hardly be the case on the theory put ghd. “Presbyter.”? if “Presbyter” be well re: in the literature of his Church and of the Charch of England, which gave it birth, be must be well aware that many of the ablest and best of the prelates of both churches have borne clear and unmistakable testimony against his favorite theory. Jtis notin any sense the “doctrine of the Churcn,” but an opinion clung to and advocated by a noisy and danger- ous party amon; the clergy, and one of the most effective means of leading them and their flocks to Rome, where, indeed, the full exemplification of the theory can alone be found. The late Archbishop Whately, im particular, in his work on “The Kingdom ot Christ,’” demonstrated conclusively its absurdity and fal- lacy, And it is truly a doctrine that deserves no quarter, for it gives none. As already observed, it anathematizes nine-tenths of the Christianity of America, halt that of ingland and Switzerland, the whole of Scotiand, Hoiiand, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and, though last not least, the bulk of the Christianity of Germany. If we are to believe those who hold this precious theory, the learning, elo- quence and piety of these vast sections of Christen- dom are of no account. Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, &c., are all alike destitute of a Christian ministry and sacra- ments, and to be tenderly consigned, like the heathen, to the “uncovenanted mercies of God.” But notwithstanding ail this, we are told by the advocates of this theory that their system is one which promotes unity. The ‘unity of the Church’ ig one Of their watchwords, as being one of tae things which their so-called apostolic succession preserves, and which the unhappy sects above mentioned, being out of the succession, are desti- tute of, Let us examine this idea and see will it bear close investigation. What are the churches with whicn the “successionist’’ can fraternize ? Oh! of course the urch of Rome everywhere but in England and America, and the Greek Church, too, within tts own limits. This seems a little illogical, to be sure, Ii the Church of Kqme be the true Church in Italy, France, Austria And Spain, how comes it to be false in England and America? If there be one fact better known than another itis that the Roman Church is the same all over the world. It cannot be true and false av the same time. No wonder that the succession theory should lead many to Rome, The wonder is that any (“Presbyter” i yotell can hold it and et remain in @ Protestant Church at ali, But how joes the Prayer Look favor this idea of fraterniza- tion? It tells us (articie 31) that cercin teachings of the Church of Home are | homous (ablos and dangerous deceits.” “What! A true Churcn, in the succession, to teach such things? If 80, we might as well be out of the succession as in ft , ani she is certainly much more consistent. She knows better than to call a dear sister's teachings by such bad names. But she denounces the Protestant Episcopal Chureh as no rejaiion of hers whatever, nd tells “Presbyter,” with all the weight of her (to im) undoubted apostolic authority, that nis ordi- , “tion and succession are mere myths, not one , Nit better than that of the outside sects he com- mi. tates, And she enforces her doctrine with very ‘ferrible anathemas, As for the Greek Church, wumes hersel( on veing “orthodox.” ghe will ‘otntng to say to either the Roman or Angll- - i wehes til they recaut their errors, A preity picture. “Cristian unity, to be sure. Tf anyt, 42g else were Wanting to prove the utter mockery o. “bie unity realized on the succession theory it w. “id be found im the present condition of the Prote “{42t Episcopal Charch itself. As ® member of th ** Church I write it with grief that among all the Various Christian denominations in this country th: Fé 18 not one so much divided and distracted. It 4, ‘ !atgely outnumbered by several other denominat, ‘3, 88 the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian; yet {hese Churches are each ove united and homoge, #US in tts teaching. No such parties exist wit them as tn the Episcopal Church. Nay, mor ‘ese and many other denomi- nations classed under , We general term evangelical are united on all t, © Breas essentials of Christianity, and, as was "80en at the recent mock lug of the Zvangelical All W20e fe not ashamed or airaid to meet and recog, “2 each other as true branches of the Catbolio Ch Wel the communion Of saints, ‘The being im the x. “Called apostolic suc cession, then, Works no great Wty 1 the Protes- tant Episcopal Church, ‘ax cou \pared with other Protestant denommations, Iw. ¥ 80 further aid say that, Were it not for the influe. Ye Of the narrow sect which clings so persistently to ¥Ke succession theory, the Protestant Episcopal Ch Yeh would be not only much more united within @8elf but on Mauch better terms with the rest o.*, Protestant Christendom. The: successionists ares the real workers 01 the misemef; their theory is ("Ne apple of discord, and the sooner thie be fully und °T8tood the better for the peace and welfare of the ¢ ‘Burch. ‘This brings me to another subject, the sea ‘S8!on of Bishop Cummins, and who are chiefly any ‘Wer- able for it. In that a pious and able bisnop s& ld feel himself bound to leave tue Church cannosy Ut be matter for deep regret on the part of ally ‘8 loyal members. There is a party within the Chure " who have almost gloated over this event, crying, “Aha | 80 would We have it,” and who give ust understand that all the evangelical party sould) do the same, so as to leave them and their dupes free to play any amount of fantastic tricks on their way to Rome. Is there not sumething of this spirit shown in the Church Journal, when @& few weeks back it declared that “nothing in Bishop Cummins’ ministry became him so well as his leaving itt’? ‘This was before the Bishop had announced his in- tention of organizing a new church on principles 0 4 have. already held by every evangelical church- man. Then, forsooth, the Church Jour. nal revites the Bishop in disgracetul language calling him “an apostate,” ‘“‘an unhappy soul who has trampled on its high calling in tue Church of God,” and after a plentiful discharge of such ecclesiastical Billingsgate calls -for a day of humiliation and prayer, not for ite own sing in using such vile language, but for the venighted Bishop. Truly the Rey, Hugh Miller Thompson, who edits such baldcrdash, must be, a8 your re- porter says, “a man of large culture and broad views.” So long as the Bishop seemed to be only quictly leaving the Church, his departure was just what the High Church party (sv-called) wanted, as they looked to get one oj their own party in his place. Nor could they find much fault with him, as, ‘ac- cording to “Presbyter,” his teachings and that of the Church were always at variance. No sooner, however, does he show that he has no notion of abandoning his office and ministry than tne above quoted foul abuse is lavished on him, and the hasty and ill-advised measures, whieh have already been condemned by the press at large, are concerted. Woy all this? Simply because the successionists see that he is about founding what on their own theories they must recognize as a true Church, which, nevertheless, will bear a clear and decided testimony against the bulk of their teaching. Many of the clergy and dignitaries of the Church ofthe High Church party have, as all the world knows, gone over to Rome and become teachers of the aforesaid fables and deceits; but who ever branded them as apostates, &c.? it is only on the Tare event of an evangelical bishop departing, not trom the truth, but from the Church to set up an- other which shall teach that trath more clearly, that he is to be called by such bard names. But ce editor of the Church Journal is “a man of large views. Whether Bishop Cummins was wise or not in the course he has adopted 1s still a doubtiul matter with many who otierwise fully sympathize with him. The kindly and judicious letter of Bishop Lee is calculated to raise doubts as to whether even yet he had not better remain in or return to the Church. The Bishop is well able to judge for himself, nor is he likely to lack Divine guidance. He carries with him, at any rate, the prayers and sympathies of many Christian people, both in and out of the Episcopal Church, while such cruel and unjust denunciations as those in which the Church Journal has indulged will receive nothing but the conkempe of right-thinkimg men ofall denomina- tions, I remain, sir, yours, truly, LAYMAN. What Is Apostolic Succession ? To THE Epiror oF THE HERALD:— By what sign or token is it known that apostolic succession passes through the finger tips of bishops, &c., to the cranium of those who await the electric spark of the apostolic battery? I would also like to know where ts the authority ob- tained for such transmission, and cam @ correct genealogical line or battery chain be obtained |; without the loss of any links to stop the current? Does not this absurdity become manifest by the light of historical data of the Middle Ages when we read of sees of the highest dignity sold at public auction to the highest bidder, be he saint or sinner? Again, we tind popuiar tumult bestowing the spark of succession on its choice, and we have instances of paramours receiving the divine rite from the bands of profligate women; warriors bestowin; the same rite on mere stripling kinsmen, and o! popes and bishops from five to 10 years ola, and others, mere boys, and who rivalled the irantic dissoluteness of Caligula. Is it not plainly written in divine revelation, without restriction, that all who become Christ's servants or disciples by thorough, practical obedi- ence to Him are His intnisters . and that no earthly power can transmit the gift of God with- out the creation of a pure and clean heart, which God alone can accomplish? Trusting you will give this insertion in your valuable paper, Fespeceray, A! Ministerial and Charch Movements. : METHODIST. About 27 converts have been reported in the At- torney street mission church; 25 are reported in Wesley church, Tompkins avenue, Brooklyn; 46 in Cook street church, Brooklyn, E. D., and 84 alto- gether in DeKalb avenue church, Brooklyn, during the fall and winter up to last Sunday. The Brook- lyn Young Men’s Praying Band, W. ©. O'Donnell, leader, spent last Sunday with Rev. Mr. Gothard, in Cypress Hills Methodist Episcopal church. Sev- enteen souls were converted during the day. The meetings have been continued during the week and many more have been saved. This band will conduct the services to-day in the Methodist Epis- copal church in Cook street and Bushwick avevue, E. D., Brother Barber, pastor, where an interest is apparent among the people. The friends of Rev. Dr. Chapman, of St. Johu’s Methodist Npiscopal charch, Brooklyn, will regret to learn that the Doctor has been laid aside from pulpit duties through overwork in the past. His pulpit will be supplied by different ministers until Conference time. St. Paul’s church, New York, which Dr. Chapman had agreed to serve from next spring, has Kindly given him leave of absence until the fall. Meantime the Doctor and his family are spending the vacation in Boston, under the eare of physicians. Revs, Inskip and McDonald, evan- gelists, will begin a series of meetings in the Meth- odist Episcopal church in Thirty-fourth street near Eighth avenue, next Sunday, 1léth. Their special design will be the promotion of holines: and services will be held morning, afternoon and evening. Dr, Nelson, of the Book Room in this city, visiting the South Carolina Conference, lately met with an accident by falling, which, by almost a miracle, did not prove fatal. He returned to this city @ day or two ago “allright” again. Bishop Harris was in Calcutta, India, in December on his way home. He cxpects to reach here in the spring or early summer, Bishop Keener, of the Methodist Episcopal charch, South, is, with Bishop Simpson, siting the Methodists’ missions in Mexico, The Methodist Kpisoopal church at Great Neck, L. 1., last Sunday took up a missionary collection of $600—$12 & member. On Munday of last week the “oldest local preacher’? in America, Rev. Isaac James, M. D., died at his residence in Bustleton, Pa., at the ripe age of ninety-seven years, seventy- five of which were spent in the ministry. Yester- day there sailed from Boston Miss Ellen M. Pierce , of Salem, Mass,, missionary to Aintab, Turkey, and Miss Sarah FE. Sears, of Ashland, Mass., mission to Mardin. They will be accompanied by Rev. N. i. Bell and wife, of Owatanna, Minn., Who also go to Mardin, In Forty-third street charch last Sunday, with Brother sam Halstead’s band, sixty persons were the altars and forty professed conversion, Over 100 have united with Jane stieet church, this city, on probation, the fruits of a revival still In progress. he Christian Advocate of this city gleans from its exchanges and correspondence she following statistics of converts during the revival season now passing over the churches:—New York, 88; New Jersey, 309; Pennsylvania, L so Illinois, 863; Towa, 41; Ohio, 40; Indiana, 300; Maryland, 70; Missouri, 80. These, however, cover but afew statistics, and are the gleanings of one week's mails. The Eighteenth street Metnodist Episcopal church of this city took up a missionary collection of $1,000 last Sunday, Hanson Place Soctety, Brooklyn, have decided by vote that their churoh shall be free-seated. The new Methodist Episcopal church of Glen’s Falls will be dedicated next Sun- day. A revival of great vower, Wy ip vrgaress in at North Fifth street Methodist Eptacopal church, Brookiyn, k. in which 250 souly Mave been already converted. At Veron: fice for the Methodist Episcopal finished, It will be deutcated March. At St. George's, Passaic, N. J., a now par- sonage, costing $8,000, is nearly completed. The Methodist church at Birmingham, Conn,, is having & revival through the exhortations of a prize fighter. Rev. Dr. Maclay writes to the Methodist that ‘a branch of the Evangelical Alliauce for Japan bas just been organized in Yokohama.” Dr. E. O, Haven is mentioned in connection with tue presidency of the Wesleyan University. pe 1g TRESBYTRRIAN, r. Talmage’s new Tabernacle will be dedicated onthe 22d inst. The Mariner's churen Sabbah School of Philadelphia intend to celebrate the Alty-tifth anniversary of its organization, and at the same time to publish a history oi the church and school for the last filty-five years, Mr. George 8. Pickall, of 1,441 South Twenty-fifth street, Philadeiplua, therefore wishes any one who has any intormation concerning the same to communi- cate with him. The Spring street Presbyterian church (Rev. G. M. McCampbell pastor) lias its second preaching service in the evening, instead of the saiternoon, a8 of old. A daily noon prayer- meeting has been held since the Week ot Prayer, With a good degree of interest. The Third Presby- tertan church of Chicago, Rev. A. E. Kittridge pastor, has @ membership of about 900. Over 200 were admitted to its membership during the past year; fiity-three united at the last communion. The First Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, E. D. voted a unanimous call to Rev. 8. Miller Hagema) to become their pastor. The First Presbyterian church, Hoboken, N.J., Rev. James Marshall pastor, admitted erxteen to its growing membership last Sabbath, «ix on profession, heads of families, and ten by certificate, ‘The Yompkins avenue Presbyterian chureh, of Brooklyn, Dr. Fred, G. Clark, D. D., pas- tor, will dedicate 11s new house oi worship, cost- ing $100,000, on the evening of February 12. Dr. John Hat will preach the sermon. On the next Sabbath the dedication sermon will be preached by tl tor, The troubles in the Old South church, at Worcester, Mass., have resulted in the with- drawal of the Rev. William M. Parry, the pastor, who has organized anew church, the’ services of wuich are held in Mechanics! Hall, Not many mem- bers of the old church have followed him. Com- mittees of comierence between the Presbyterian and the Reformed Dutch denominations were lately in session in this city, with a view toward union. Rev. J. R. Findley, late _ pastor of the Presbyterian church, of Mercer, Pa., has dissoived his connection with them, and accepted a call to the Presbyterian church o( Rock Island, lll, Rev. J. W. Stark, of Bloomfield, lowa, Society is nearly about the 14b of \\ 8 pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Jer- » eyville, I, a8 successor to Rey. G, J. King, D. D., cy ‘ceased, The congregation to which Dr. Krebs i\ ’@ched for so many years 13 putting up a spa- ciot 8 house of worship on Madison avenue. Un- wil\ 0g to have lecture rooms and Sunday school room 4 {na basement, and not having land enough for tha ‘8@ accommodations in the rear, the society propos >, tO try the experiment of @ large and costly 4 ‘hurch edifice, without any of the ap- plances. Ow considered so necessary. It wilt have nef her lecture room nor Sunday schoo; rooms. \e church will be completed in the sum- mer at aca %t Of $120,000. Mr. McKenzie, of Cam- bridge, Maa ‘» Who has come to quite a sudden opularity, is NOW named in connection with the fcliison Squa "e Presbyterian church ol this city. ‘The Brooklyn reabriery have done nothing more with the Memo laland Lafayette Avenue Presby- terian churches, 00 the Woman preaching matier than to resolve @ ‘at those churches did not mean to offend, and to \ ‘ope that they won't permit Misa Smiley or any otka T Woman to talk about Christ and His salvation & | their pulpits again. That kind of talk is reservea@, exclusively for men—St. Paul says so! Rev. T. CAWke Steele has resigned his charge at Waite Plaia § 0D account of ill health, much to the regret ory he church, which has four- ished under his minissy’- Rev. Edgar L, Hermance, a son-in-law of Proiessea * Woolsey, of Yale College, has accepted tne ¥: ted pastorate at White Plains. Charlotte (N. CN Presbyterian church has adopted the iree pew syste ml. Barta ‘T. Rev. A. Reynolds writes ,Tom Pitcher, N. Y.:— “The greatest revival ever A OWN in this place is now in progress. All the pk%ces Of business are closed during each evening. «#reat crowds attend the meetings.’ Rev, Frank Fketcher has resigned his pastordte at Brewster's, N. WY., alter four yeurs of labor there. The Baptist Wes kly holds Dr. Ful- ton, of Brooklyn, up to the execnation. of all right thinking editors and printers as mieriting “tne dis- tinction o1 writing the most misenable of any min- ister” within the circle of the editors ucquaintance, The sample of the Doctor's chirogyaphy which it gives is worse than that of the late Hurace Greeley. On Sunday last the Rev. William B.darris, after three years O1 service, resigned the pastorship of the Hudson City (N, J.) church, to take effect May 1, At the Calvary church, in this city, there is @ very encouraging state of regious fecling. Four young men were baptized on Sunday evening, Jan- uary 25. In Willis street Baptist church, Paterson, N. J.. on the same Sabbath 26 were baptized and 200 are anxiously seeking salvation, The Rev. W. S. Clapp will be instalied as pas tor of the Carmel (N. Y.) Baptist church on ‘Tuesday, February 10, ‘Ths is his second pastorate in this church. At a meeting tor vhe “promotion of holiness,” held last week, it is reported that, “by request,” prayers were offered for the pastor ofa church in this city, “that hemay not preach with worldly wisdom alone, but also witn the aid of the Holy Ghost.” This conjunction is suggestive. The First Baptist church tn Camden, Me., greatly desires ‘‘a humble minister, who will visit from house to house, pray with the people— one that loves tne cause of God more than gold and silver.’ That means that he shall live on the wind and die in the almshouse. One hundred and fifty conversions are reported to have recently taken place in the Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn, L. L, Rev. J. D. Fulton, pastor, The Baptists of Philadelphia have raised $125,000 for a poonering house. ‘The revival at Port Murray, N. ., under the preaching and pastoral labors oi Kev. G. F. Hendrickson, continues with unabated power. Over thirty candidates were baptized on their last ordinance day, making ninety-five converts added to the ehurch since the mectings began. On last Sunday Rev. J. J. Brouner preached his ith annual sermon as pastor of the North Baptist church of this city. The following statistics were given:—Added last year, 60, of whom 19 were by baptism; sermons preached, 125; praver meetings, 140; funerals, 62; weddings, 41. During the five years 297 have been added to the church; 144 by baptism, 142 by letter, 10 by experience, 1 by restoration; present mem- bership, 490; contributed to benevolent organiza- tions, $6,308 08; raised tor church expenses, $34,046 63. The hand of tellowship was given last Weduesday to 42 new members at Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, 27 of whom were received by baptism, making the present Ea 119. At Red Bank, N. J., thus far, the Rev, E. J. Foote has led forty-two into the baptismal waters. There are cheering indications of a revival at Melrose; the pastor, Rey. F., E, Osborne, baptized two converts last Sunday, both being heads of families. At Port Chester there is a cheering state of things in the Baptist church; the Rev, J. D. Barnes baptized seven candidates last Sunday, most of them heads of famiiies. The Tabernacle church, Brook: lyn, have called the Rev. TT. FE. Vassar, of Siemington, N. J., a8 pastor, Baptisms were reported at the Brooklyn ministers’ meeting for January as follows:—Central Williamsburg, 1; Greenwood, 5; Rockville Centre, 4; Sixth ave- nue, 14; First German, 11 (of these 5 were Roma ists) ; First, on Pierrepoint street, 10; Babylon, 12; Central, 3; Hanson place, 42; First Wihamsburg, 11; Strong place, 10; Herkimer street, 7; Concord street, 1; Mariners’ temple, New York, 8; Murcy avenue, 26; Washington avenue, 7, making 183 in all, The Baptist conference of ministers which met at No. 76 Ninth street on Monday last re- ported ninety-four additions last month. Several of the pastors failed to report statistics of bap- tisms. One of the reasons advanced by those Baptists in Brooklyn who are moving for the e: tablishment of @ headquarters for the denomina- tion Is the necessity of pringing about @ stronger sentiment of union within it. It is hinted that the little schism the open communionists are effecting in the Church in that city requi a strong and united counter action, and that an attractive and permanent central point of meet- ing would help much to secure it, EPISCOPALIAN. An interesting fair is in progress in the Seventy- first regiment armory to atd in finishing the new Church of the Holy Trinity on Madison avenue and Forty-second street, which is rapidly ap- proaching completion. Rev. R. H. Williamson, rector of St. Stephen’s church at Wilkesbarre, Pa., has resigned bis charge and announced his ad- herence to the Reformed Episcopal Church. Rev. ‘Thomas W. Haskins has accepted the rectorate of the Church of the Ascension, Greenpoint, L. L In Brooklyn, on Sunday, January 25, Rev. William S. Adamson, late @ Congregational minister, was or- dained a deacon in the Episcopal Church and Rev. John G, Backus priest. There is a fair prospect for the organization of a Reformed Episcopal tp. N. J., & new edi- | AINA, A Ra ea a a a a il a Yuet NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY,’ FEBRUARY 8, 1874—-QUADRUPLE SHEET, 13 rector of Bishopsbourne, Kent, Engiand, bag been raisod to the episcopate Pe - eg to the See of Gibralter made vacant by the resige nation of Bishop Harris, The new bishop was con= secrated last sunday. A conlerence of West Indiaa bishops was held recently at Georgetown, Demerara. Among the satisfactory results was the confederation of the West lndia dioceses inte a separate province, ‘The bishops now style theme selves “bishops of the West Indian church.” A&A provincial synod—to consist of bishops only—is te be established, and asynod, or church council, is to be formed im each diocese, to consist of its bishop, clergy, and representatives of the igity, A bishopric endowment (und and a general susten- tation and endowment fund are to be organized, ROMAN CATHOLIC. For one week from to-morrow a fair will be held in Coakley Hail, Pacific street, Brooklyn, in aid of Father Dorris’ church at Hewlett’s station, near Far Rockaway, L. 1. Yesterday the second apm- versary o1 the death of Arcnbishop Spalding, of Baltimore, was duly observed in that cig Rev. B, 4. McManus, pastor of St, John’s church, Baltimore, returned home last week from Florida, in im- Proved health, The mission at the Church of the Assumption, East Boston, closed on Sunday last. It was a great success, Twenty-three hundred ersons received holy communion. There were fteen or sixteen converts, The Rev. Fathers Desuon, Dwyer and Brady jelt on Monday morning for Bractieboro, Vt, where they give # mission. Father Podolski, priest of the Polish Catholio mission in London, has made an appeal to the people of Ireland for assistance to maintain the work for the Poles which he is conducting im London. The French Catholics of Chicopee, Maas, are to lave anew church. ‘Tae Catholics in Gard- ner, Muss., are erecting & new church, to be fim ished next June. ‘The new churches of the H Name and of the Annunciation, Uhicago, will shortly be pushed forward to completion. The Rev, L Mur- phy, @ graduate of Maynooth College, Ireland, has aken charge 0: St. Mary’s churen® in Olneyville, R. 1. Mgr. Louis Allouroy, formerly Bishop of Pat miers, France, which see he resigned in 1 bas deceased, He was in his seventy-second year. Very Rev. Father Damen, with Rev. Fathers Mas selis, Koopman, Putten and other fathers, has closed @ very successiul mission at vhe Cathed! in Fort Wayne, Ind. He opens a mission the new Church of St. Rose of Lima, Carbondale, Luzerne county, Pa, Rev. Francis Carew, pastor. This mission will continue for two weeks, On the second Senday in Le March 1, Father Damen and his companiona will open @ mission at St. Cecelia’s church, New York. Rev, Hugh Flattery pastor. On the fourte Sunday in’ Lent (March 15) the band oi missioa- aries now In Brooklyn will join Fatner Damen and his companions at the Church of the Holy inno cents, West Thirty-seventh street, New York, Rev, John Larkin pastor, where another mission will be commenced, Rev. Father Damen will spend the Fee part of Lent in this city. The Very Rev. P. . Crinnon, Vicar General of the diocese of Lon- don, Ontario, has been named Bishop of Hamilton, in place of Bishop Farrell, deceased. Satut Ste. Marie, which has bitherto been inciuded in the die- cese of Hamilton, Canada, has been erected into separate see und Very Rey. Jobn Francois Jamot, V. G, and rec'or of St. Michael's cathedral, foronte, has been named bishop. The diocese of Nasquaby (Vancouver's Island aud Washington Territory) has been consecrated to the Sacred Heart by Bishop Blanehet, Ground ts to be broken in Baltimore om the 1st of March for the new Charch of St. Piua, A mission was formally opemed last Sunday by the Jesuit Fathers, in St. Patrick's new church, ou Jer- sey City Heights, Rev. P. Hennessy pastor, sermon was preached by the Rev, Father Tissot, & J., who has charge of the mission. The missisa Ml close on this day week, ‘The Catholic churom “Star of the Sea,” of which Rev. P, McGovern te pastor, at Bergen Point, is being repaired. The’ damage from the flre two weeks ago was not se serious as at first supposed. The pastor sustaine@ church in Louisville, Ky. About forty ladies and gentiemen assembied in Association Hall to con- sider the propriety of such an organization. They think a church of 600 members can be speedily or- ganized in the city of Louisyille. Bishop Cum- ming has been invited to visit the city With that view. ‘This is Sexagesima Sun- day, 80 called because it is approximately, or in. round numbers, the sixtieth. day before Easter. The preparation for Lent is the prevatling idea in the services for the day, Through the whole of this pre-lenten season St. Paui 1s held up before the Church as an example of zeal and devotion to Christ. The new Reformed Episcopal church of Peoria, Ill, of which A, G. Tyng 18 @ leading spirit, has engaged Rev, Mason Gallagher, late of this city, as a temporary sypply. St. Barnabas Protestant Episcopal church, of Brooklyn, L. L, has been placed, through the per- sistent efforts of its rector, Rev. Henry BE, Hovey, aided by the der! | zeal of the vestry, in a pros- perous condition. ir. Hovey has had charge of the church about @ year, during which time there has been a steady increase in the strength and Le of the parish. The Rev. Jobn V. Lewis, of Washington, 1). , favors the union of the Protestant kpiscopal amd the Mathodist Episcopal , churches in the United States. Of course the spra% would be expected to swallow the salmon. Tie corporation of Trinity Protestant Episcopal chur sh, in this city, Is said have just declined an odter of $2,000,000 for the,’St. Paul's chapel property, on Broadway, between’Fulton and Vesey streets. The Rev. George RicYardson, Mackarness has en elected Bishop of Argyll bg an absolute majofity in both chambers,, A correspondent of Church and State says that “valuable information received in regard to the relative proportion of members of the Episcopal Church who faliaway to Rome and of the Catholic Shurch who come into the other fold ia in the ratio of 100 to 1,000 in favor of the Kpiscopatians, Statistica of this kind are sougut for. The Rey. Cyaries W. Sandiord, slight injuries im his efforts to save the ouilding,. : MISCELLANEOUS, Rev. Charles R. Treat, of Boston, was installed” pastor of Seeond Congregational church #6 ireenwich, Conn., last week. Tne Rev. Heary Bair has resigued the pastorate of the Union Be- formed Dutch charge in DeKalb county, Ind. ‘The Rev. Thos, Binney, the Nestor of the London Congregational pulpit’ is dangerously ik. The Rev. 8S. S. Miller, recently of Jetierson, Md., has entered upon his duties as pastor of the Boonsboro, Md., Reformed Dutch charg St. Paul's Memorial Reformed churci of Read- ing, Pa., will be dedicated on Sunday, Peb- ruary 15, Salem Congregational church in the North End of Boston is bemg demolished tomake room for a new and better sanctuary on the same spot, Much celebrity has this Salem church had in its day, under such pastors as Dr. Blagdem, Dr. - Edward Beecher, Mr. Towne and others. The fund for the families of Mesers. Pronier and Carrasco has exceeded $10,000, and will probably reach $12,000. Key. Clarence Fowler resigns the pastorate of the Unitarian church a& Luconia, N. H. There are now 657 Universalist preachers in the United States. Thirty-three were ordatned in 1872, eighteen in 1873 ‘Thirteen of their ministers died in 1873, There seem to be no Universalist churches in Virginia, Oregon, Tex Tennessee, South Carolina, Nebraska, Dakota ant the District of Columbia. Rev. W. R. G. Melle: has resigned the pastorate of the Unitarian church at New Brighton, 8,1. Kev, A. A. Miner, D. D., of Boston, leaves the East very svon for Califormia, intending to estabiish Universalism in the city of San Francisco, The American Bible Society's managers met here last Thursday and recognised two pew auxiliaries and granted 9 volumes ef the Scriptures to auxilaries, valued at $2,368 98. TEMPLE EMANUEL, —__—_-__—. importance and Necessity of Praise a@ Well as Prayer in Religious Worship— Christian Morals Superior to Any- thing Science Teaches—Sermon by Dr. Gutheim. - Yesterday Dr. Gutheim began a sertes of dis- courses based on the 33d Psalm, the. drat six verses of which he commented upon yesterday. He remarked that to some persons the Psalms might appear to be plain enough; still he did nes deem them so well understood as to make any further comment on them superfluous, and for the reason that other religious systems have put on the consciences a yoke which makes them dissatisfied, They claim not only to have and te hoid the truth, but also to keep the way te the tree of life, and no man can reach it but threugh them, They own the path that leads to this, and the popular religion in this country limits salva- tion to those who are justified by faith only and their own doctrines and ideas. All others are classified as unacceptable to the eyes of the All-Pure. Judaism, though by no means exempt from the violence of other systems of religion, and bearing the mark of toe flerce wars through which it has passed, has yet tna grand feature that it acknowledges the existesce of true piety and genuine righteousness in men. lt declares that the religious of all nations will be partakers of THE BLISS OF THE FUTURE WORLD. It has had from very early time reason to set-up its own infallibility by virtue of its development te a state which many creeds have not reached im our days. After showing that the reference to the people of Israel in the twelfth verse does im ne way detract from the broad spirit in which the psalm was conceived, the Doctor showed that it ia only by the acknowledgment of God’s universal love and merciful guidance that the human heart can derivé any consolation from its reading; for, without this hope of general salvation, the fate of our fellow men would be too ter- rible to contemplate. Then enly can our souls truly respond to the call of the Psalmist to rejoice in the Lord. Then we are able to mingle our praise with those who sing unto God. e recognize in every one who aspires alter God, and not in one community or creed alone, the chosen of God among all the children of men. But yet, as the Psalmist opens the gate to throw the light of divine beneficence on our path, still they are the just and the upright whom he invites to stag the praises of God, For such only is it Re cg The Doctor gave one or two reasons why praise is comely to the upright, The multiplicity,of our prayers tends to make God as weak as men, to whom the incense of praise is welcome. We bring the All-Perfect God down to our own level. Our ideas of Him are too imperfect. We have not the clear fitness that God demands of His creatures—~ @ righteous and just life—and, ifwe refuse in| He will cast us off forever. The Doctor feierred to those who are ready to ee ieee ‘CHE DUTIES OF REI but will not touch the higher and ‘solier duties, All our sophistry is impotent to ‘alen in us thet spirit which the Word of God contain’ and imparts, ‘The prayer of the righteous Is Gocds delight, If the wicked cease to praise God the righteous should not be silent. The Doctor bere referred to those who think that morality can exist and pros- per without the forms of religicms teaching or worship and remarked that, “Say and do the worst: they cau against religion, and “the catalogue of sins is very large,’ 1¢ can’t be Genied that de- nominations have each and all endeavored to. place before mankind the very bighest standard of mors! perfection and have breught influences to. bear to establish the code of practical e vy urged men to baild their lives upon it” The Doc- tor applied an old Talmudical Ley te t—!4f Thad nrA raised the stone wouldst thou have discovered tae ae Gey ie Mie as Of Dés discourse. ‘Ae concluded with a referece to our; obi to God. If He has reaily hetped us to” ar a KEEP OUR FSET STEADY IN TH PATH of rectitude and virtue we should pray to Him to Hoy our daily Wants and to preserve our lives. If He has done or can do these thi for our Datu, ral lives 18 not our mora) life mare precious? If we look back upon our lives [rong the point of view of God's mercies to us we shall, respond daily tO, the call of the Psalmist and sing unto the Lord a new song, for His mercies are, new every morning and His loving kindness 1s e'veriasting. " The Saturday afternoon rsjigions school for chil- dren lately establisned by ‘pr, Gutheim in the Tem- ple 18 proving a great success, It was originally designed only for child gen of members, but the door has been opened wAde enough now to admis the children of other {sraelites who may not be ara Aa SL in any other synagogue, and tne ruction given ia of moat uractionl aud leaeful bua, ‘