The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1874, Page 7

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Another Addition to Bishop Cummins’ Be- formed Episcopal Church Movement, MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS, Programme of Services—Quinquagesima Sunday, February 15. ‘The anniversary of the Ladies’ Association of the Bouse of the Good Shephera, at Tompkins Cove, New York, will be observed this evening in Trinity ehapel. Rey. Wayland Hoyt wil) preach in the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning and in Steinway Hall im the evening. Rev. W. C, Steel will deliver a temperance dis- course this morning in the Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopa! church, Fiftieth street, Rev. R. W. Barnwell and Rev. E. F. Remington ‘will occupy the pulpit of the Wainwright Memorial ehurch to-day. Rev. D. H, Miller will preach in Plymouth Baptist church morning and evening. The pulpit of the Scotch Presbyterian church, in Fourteenth street, will be filed to-day by the pas+ tor, Rev. 8. M. Hamilton, Rev. H. W. Knapp will preach in the Laight street Baptist Mission church, and will baptize after the evening sermon, Rev. Thomas Veitch will talk on temperance this evening in the Attorney street Methodist Episcopal church. The West Presbyterian church, on Reservoir square, will be instructed this evening by Dr. R, 8. Btorrs, of Brooklyn. Professor Everett, of Harvard, will occupy the pulpit of All Souls’ church morning and eyening. Revival meetings will be held during the week im Fifty-third street Baptist church, with preach- ing by the pastor, who will also occupy his pulpit to-day, Rev. J. F. McClelland will deliver his Gospel mes- wage in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church twice to-aay. ‘The Rev. Robert Sloss will preach, morning and evening, in the Second avenue Presbyterian church, corner Fourteenth street, Rev. J. W. Barnhart preaches at both services te-day in the Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal burch, Free church services are held in Harvard Rooms, under the auspices of St. Paul’s Reformed church. Rev. Alexander McKelvey will preach this morn- img there and Dr. Deems on Thursday evening. ~ The pulpit of the Church of the Disciples of Christ will be occupied to-day by the pastor, Rev. W. ©, Dawson. Rey, Messrs, Inskip and McDonald, evangelists, ‘will begin a ten days’ series of meetings to-day in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church. “Will He Cast Of Forever ?’ is the subject chosen by Rév. J. M. Pullman fér his discourse this evening in the hall of the Standard Club. The Rev. Fred Evans preaches to-day in the Cen- tral Baptist church. “Compulsory Education” is the theme selected by Dr. Wild, of Brooklyn, for his remarks this morning. “The Resurrection of the Dead and the Transla- tion of the Living’ will be the subject of remarks this evening in the Catholic Apostolic church. The Rev. E. C. Sweetser will give his opinion about “Esau and His Mess of Pottage,” this even- ing, in the Bleecker street Universalist church. in the Berean saptist church Rev. P. L. Davies will preach morning and evening, and will baptize m the evening. Revival meetings will be held every night this week, Rev. W. P. Corbitt will preach, morning and eyen-’ ing, in the De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal ebureh, Brooklyn. Rev. A. C. Osporne, D. D., will occupy the pulpit ofthe South Baptist church at both services to- day. Mrs. Townsend will lecture in Robinson Hall this morning and evening. : The Religious Amendment advocates will hold a@public meeting on Tuesday evening in ‘the Re- formed Presbyterian church, iu Twenty-thirdy street, Bishop Cammins will conduct the public worship of the Keformed Episcopalians in Steinway Hail in the morning and in Lyric Hall in the evening, Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., preaches in the large | hall of the Cooper lustitute at half-past seven o'clock this evening. There will be an exhibition of the Pilgrim (free toall over eighteen years old) in bain Hall this evening. e The Halstead Praying Band willbe at the Lex- ington avenue Methodist church today. Morning and evening services at the usual hours im St, Mark’s church, Rev. Dr. E. A. Washburne lecturing upon ‘Moral Respousibility” at the latter. There will be the customary morning and after- Moon services in Anthon Memorial church, Rev. Mr, Newton occupying the pulpit. “The Reward of Spiritual Perseverance” and “Conscience” are the subjects upon which Rev. Mr. Hepworth will dilate today in the Church of the Disciples. In St, Andrew’s church, Hariem, Rev. Dr. T. M. Peters, rector of St. Michael’s, will preach this morning, and Rev. Dr. #. E, Montgomery, of the Church of the Incarnatios, in the evening. The quinquagesimal services in St. Alban’s will begin at eight, ten, halfpast ten and eleven A. M., and at four and hall-past seven ¥, M., Rev. Mr. Morrill oMciating. Dr. Flagg preaches morning and evening in the Church of the Resurrection. ‘Tne Lord’s Appearing” will be expounded by Elder Muoger at Temple Hall this morning and afternoon and at No. 138 West Twenty-fourth street this evening. The usual Spiritualist Conference at the house im Madison avenue, near Twenty-seventh street, will be held at two o’clock #. M. One Instance of God's Failure to Answer Prayer. To THE EpIT/R OF THE HERALD: — In my Bite, which I read with great diligence and very prayerfully, it is sald (Gen., 1, 31), “And God saw éverything he had made, and behold it was very good." And it is said (Gen., vi., 6), “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” And it is said (J¢r., XXxii., 17), “There is nothing too hard for Thee ;” aiso(Mat., xix., 26) ‘With God all things are possible.” ‘And it is’ said (Isaiah, XIv., 7), “L | make peace and create evil.” It is said (Num., - NEW YORK of God, and asks triumphantly, at the same time, “Dia not the innocent suffer as well as the guilry at the time of the delage?” and declared that so it was in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Now, Mr. Editor, | have abundant proof of the ig- norance of the ex-Rabbi Schlamowits from the Bible, a8 also from the Talmud. As to the first event alluded to a the ex-Rabbi—the Delu; there is a place in the Talmud (Masecht Sanhedrin, jaye 216) where Rabbi Yochanon asserts that the reneration of the Deluge not only was mal nod corrupted, but also the entire brute creatio) were tn astate of sin, ‘The second reierence of the same ex-Rabbi—to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah—is no better founded, 1 think it is plainly shown in the eighteenth chapter of Gene sis, verses 22-82 inclusive, when God had revealed unto Abraham bis intention of destroying them, that Abraham, with his nobie heart au manity, pleaded with God to spare th unfor- tunate cities If only ten righteous could be found therein, The proof of ex-Rabpi Schlamowitz 1s, therelore, incorrect, and those two passages in the Bible are the very first tew chapters of Genesis that show conclusively that he has never looked into the question at all. How he has made such a leap from the very cover of the Old Bible to the very end of the New Bible, when itis known to aii that the princtpal oundation of the New Testa- ment is the old one, puzzles me. And yet he has already speculated heavily in the religious market, probably from the few tracts which he is armed with. A. BENJAMIN, Science and Keligion. The Rev. Father Juan Menten, Dean of the Faculty of Sciencesin the Republic ot Ecuador, has arrived at Guayaquil, after an absence of five months in Europe. He was there occupied all that fame {n matters relating to tne progress of science in Ecuador. He announces that a great telescope, made in Munich for the astronomical observatory at Quito, had been completed, and that the acces sories required for its mounting were to be ready in May next. The pieces only that are of iron and some of timber which could not be easily con- structed In Quito will be sent from Munich. The edifice of the Se Natory 18 in a very forward state, Along with Dean Menten came nine pro- fessors for the Polytechnic School. There also ars rived nine “sisters of Providence,” three of whom. are for the House of Orphans and the Asylum at Guayaquil. Some of the Sisters are professors of music and painting, Resignation of an Episcopal Minister— Another Gain to the Reformed Episco- palians. The following letter explains itself, The Rev, William McGuire, who now ieaves the Episcopal Church, is ason of the late Rev. Dr. McGuire, of Virginia, so widely known and greatly venerated. He 1s a clergyman of fine talents and great scholar- ship, and will be avery valuable acquisition to the new movement led by Bishop Cummins, As a preacher—of marked ability and address—he is said to be well fitted to lead the new movement in the capital of the country. ‘The following is the Rey, Mr. McGuire’s letter of resignation:— * 1,920 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, WasuinaTon, D. C., Feb. 6, 1874. Ricat Rev. WILLIAM R. WHITTINGHAM, D, D. :-— RIGHT KEY. AND DEAR SIR—Having, after much deliberation and earnest weighing of the whole matter involved, determined it as my say to dis- solve my connection with the Protestant Episcopal Church and to unite with the Reformed Episcopal Church, I nereby, in accordance with the canonica} provision in case of those renoancing the ministry of the Church, request that my name may be erased from the list of ministers of the Protestant Episcopal Uhurch in the diocese of Maryland, and tnat..the usnal deposition irom thé ministry required by canon in such cases may be performed at the time specified in said canon. I would not, right reverend sir, here enter upon any full exposition of the wide reasons connected | with the doctrinal and ritual attitude of the Prot- | estant ei, Church, which have impelled me to the course I have marked out for myself. Sutf- the Church as a living, acting organization, what- ever the alleged soundness of its doctrinal formu- Jaries may be, is essentially, increasingly and hopelessly a Romanizing position, 1 say hope- lessly so, for the one obvious reason, among many, that the dominant party in the Protestant Episco- ai Church cannot ever be expected to renounce its distinctive features any more than can the evangelical body in the Church abandon the truth of God, which is to them dearer than life. ‘The opposition of the two systems is diametric and indestructible. Protestant and Romish sacra- mentarianism cannot now live and breathe to- gether, any more than they did when the deep and vital contrarieties of Church parties in the six- teenth century culminated in the separation of the ever blessed Reformation. I sever myself from the Protestant Episcopal Church, among many graver reasons, because I am unwilling longer to bear the responsibility of a supposed upholding in spirit of the Church system with which lam connected, Membership in any organization necessarily involves toleration, and directly or indirectly patronage of the objects and operations of that organization, and in the case of @ church which, a 1 believe, has departed from the faith, to have membership therein is to contribute to the subversion of the souls of the people and to the dishonor of the Lord Jesus. With a deep sense of the solemnity of the step I am taking in this severance irom the Church of my fathers and with every sentiment of good will to- | wards yoursel!, irom Whom, during my connection with the diocese, 1 have received only courtesy and kiadness, I remain, MP TO yours, ILLIAM McGUIRE, The Jesuit Mission in Jersey City. The mission which has been in progress under the auspices of the Jesuit Fathers at St. Patrick's | church, Jersey City Heights, of which the Rev. P. Hennessey is pastor, will close to-day. Morning, noon and night have Fathers Driscoll, Tissot and their colleagues labored for the conversion of souls, and the success that has crowned their efforts is most edifying. In the drizzling rain and through the deep snow and slush thousanas wended their way to the church from every quar- ter of the parisi. Father Hennessey says that he never knew before how large a Cathoilc popula- tion his parish contained. Men who have not en- tered a church jor many years have been attracted to this mission, confessing their evil ways and promising to become better men in the future. Several pone belonging to other sects have also attended this mission. “Ministerial and Church Movements. BAPTIST. The revival in Marcy avenue, Hanson place, Lee avenue and several other churches in Brooklyn, still continues with power. Special meetings are holding this week at the Plymouth church, ‘West Fifty-first street. There are cheering indications of a revival. Already the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Read with the First church, Williamsburg, is brightened with evidences of prosperity. Fifteen were baptized on Sunday evening. During the four months that Rev. Dr. Lorimer has been at Tremont Tempie the membership of the church has been increased thirty-two by letter and forty- six by baptism. Among the candidates at a recent baptism in Tremont Temple were four sailors, who | Were marvellously rescued from a shipwreck. One | of them was converted while floating on part of the wreck, Rey. J. spencer Ken- Dard baptized six candidates in the Pilgrim church on Sunday evening, in tae presence of avery large congregation, The meetings con- ence and power, The Warvurton avenue church of Yonkers has supplied its vacant pulpit by invit- | ing Mr. Willlam {. Burns, of the senior class of | Rochester Theological Seminary, to become their pastor. It is expected that he will accept the call and enter upon his ministerial work immediately after his graduation next May. The Rey. Charles Colman, pastor of the Baptist church in Jamaica, bas received and accepted a call from the Baptist churen at East New York. The High street Baptist Society, in Great Falis, N. H., have extended a call to Rev. D. H. Stoddard, of Athol, N. H., to become Xxit., 19), “God is not a man that he should | their pastor, Mr. H.W. Tilden, of Newton Theo- he, neither igh! son a ae foe he should logical Institution, has received a call from the repent. fa ar cg 3 - ~~ to | Elm street Baptist charch in Somerville, Mass. El- mé these passages from our inspired Word | ger Jacob Knapp is very feeble in Rockiord, Ill. of God, and has asked me to reconcile themto | He ‘tg Donanee. to his room. Rev. J. H. @ach other and with reason. For three weeks, Archibald, of Bristol, Vt. has accepted a jay, Myself and my wile have prayed for light, spending thirty minutes each time upon our aching knees. No light cometh, and the more We pray the more we don’t understand the mys- tery of the Word, which a waylarer ought to com- Pprehend, even though he be a fool. Our case being such we appeal to the Christian world for help, and we ask the HeRaLp to send forth the cry. The bad man has us down and we can’t get up unless we have human hep, for the Lord refuses to aid a, PRAYER, BROOKLYN, Feb, 6, 1874. Amother Indignant Israelite Rabbi Schilamowits. ‘To THE Eprror oF THE HERALD :— Smm—I have seen so “much ado about nothing” | in regard to the ex-Rabbi Schlamowitz in tne HERALD for several Sundays past that 1 sought in vain for some recommendation for him, but found Only self-praise. That the ex-Rabbi says he was once @ teacher of the Jewish religion and now is master of the Christian faith ia not convincing proof. I patiently waited for other evidence, and was rewarded by seeing in the columns of last Sunday's HERALD & Synopsis of his first lecture, in which he gives a host of names of modern Jewish rabbis (which he undoubtedly obtained by reading the titles while at home in the libraries of tho Russian synagogues) whose interpretations of the prophecies differ. He remarked also that there is abundant proof that the sacrifice of human itte call from the Baptist church, West Cornwell, Vt. In Brattleboro, Vt., God 1s again reviving His work in a remarkable manner. A glorious revival is in poe in Paterson, N. J., inthe Second church, . W. Knapp, pastor. Over 300 are reported among the converts. Brother Knapp baptizes all who believe, and allows them to jotn whatever church they please, and invites all baptized Christians to * the Lord’s Supper. Rev. M. Phillips has declined to return to the Fg sig of toe Free Baptist church at Pascoag, R. 1. The Old School Baptiate | tn Onto report 2,109 members. They are close com- munionists and preaestinarians. The revival tn the First Baptist church af Attica, N.Y., still continues, An extensive work of grace is | in progress in the Roger Williams church, | Providence, R. I. A large number have already jound the Saviour and the courch generally nas been revived. Mr. John A. Boppe, a large Newark (N. J.) brewer, has concluded to give up his busi- ness, believing it to be adverse to the interests of his fellow men. He nas joined or is about to join the Roseville Baptist church. The “Baptist Year Book,” now in press, exhibits the following sta- tistics of the denomination in the United States :— Associations, 890; churches, 20,620; ministers, 12,508; additions by baptism, experience and restoration during the past year, 83,923; by letter, 80,521; total membership, 1,633,939; increase, 48,707. This increase is about half that reported for 1872, The open communion Baptists of England number but 244,416, irom which it is inferred that close communion is more Scriptural, and there- fore more highly favored of God. It is also added that in Wales, where the practice of restricted communion prevails, the increase 18 much more was acceptapie a8 aB atogement for sin ly the eyes marked than in England. In the church at Bor- acntown, N. J, Rev. Fpnsing Burrows, pastor, ve, reat hue” fice it now to say that in my view the position of | tinue with increasing evidence of the Spirit’s prea- . HERALD, SUNDAY,‘ FEBRUARY 15, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHHET. Rave been baptized, and Kev. J. C. Rooney, pastor | “aad setae @ar 13,216 persons on confession of faith, and 11,312 y Lette; ut to olfset this, 16,133 were removed of the Chemung (N. Y.) church, has baptized seventeen during the last six weeks, The Inde- Pendent says Dr. Fulton’s writing of the word | “Christian” represents his idea ol what a Christian 18—8 Crooked stick. There 18, nevertheless, &@ re- markabie revival in Dr. Fulton’s churc! ROMAN CATHOLIC. On Saturday, the 7tn inst., Sister M. Frances de | Chantal Cailanen was admitted to the religious rofession by the bistop, On the same day Miss ate Paul (Sister Margaret Mary), 0! Utica, N. Y., | recetved the religious i. ‘The “mission” in St Mary’s Star of the Sea. Brooklyn, will end to-day. Last Sunday eight converts wére publicly baptizea in this church, A ‘mission’ will open at St, ‘Joseph’s church, Brooklyn, next sabbath. A Do- mini Pypie will open in the Church of the Bplp any, New York, at the same time, and tn the Cathedral of Newark on the Sunday rollowing, ) March 8 Bishop Heiss, of La Crosse, Wis. x ordered the consecration to the Sacred Heart of | |;his important diocese, but more especially of its | schools, The solemn event will be periormed on | ‘Easter Sunday. The Pope has consecrated the eminent Cardinals Billo and Monaco Lavalette, the first as suburban Bishop 01 Sabine, the second ,Abbot of Subiaco. On the occasion of his conse- | cration Cardinal Lavalette took a title, in us, | twhich he abandoned immediately after the cere- | |, mony. On January 16 sevenwen Spanish bishops | “were preconized, ‘The Pope has named Father | Luis Gonsaivez, of Dominiguez, @ Spanish priest resident ip Rome for many years, @ domestic prel- ate of bis court. The hyde AY the Gesu, in Rome, | which was formerly inuabited by the Rev. Father General, and which the Itahan government ‘“guar- @nteed”’ to preserve, 1s now occupied by the police ‘as a station house, It contains the cell o! St. Igna- tius de Loyola and that of St. Aloysins Gonzaga. They are being desecrated ana the altars removed, ;The sacred relics recently on exhibition here by ‘Rev, Father Gartner have been removed to Balu- 1 more, for exhibition there during Lent. They are to be kept intact and preserved In some church, robably in this city, alter they have been expos . In the different cities of the land. The new Cathe- dral in Fiith avenue, New York, 1s suggested as tne most fitting shrine in America for tnese relics, Dr. McGlynn will lecture in Fordham this alter- noon for the benefit of the poor in the care of St. Vincent de Paul's Society. A sacred concert will be given at St. Louis’ church, Willamsburg, this evening. The proceeds are to be devoted ex- ,Clusively: to the church. Next Sunday, Feb- Tuary 2 & mission will be opened at St, ‘Vincent de Paul’s church, on Front street, by Father Charles and other pricsis of the Passionist Order, from St. Joseph's Monastery, Baltimore county. The mission will continue tor two weeks, Thirty-seven adults in the parish of Camberwell, London (all members of the Anglican Church), have been baptized mto the Catholic Church during the past year, Father Vander Lan- den is the new Chancellor o1 St. Louis Archdiocese, vice Father Wapplehorst, who has been appointet rector of the Seminary of St. Francis, Milwaukee, Wis, Father Wissel and companion Redemptor- istq are holding & mission at St. Patrick’s, Potts- ville, Pa, Father Healy, of Chicopee, bas been ap- pene Vicar General of Springfield, Mass. Rev. . Doherty, formerly of Warrenton, Va., 18 now pastor of St. Pacrick’s, Richmoad, Father Dough- erty, late of London, England, is now stationed permanent at St. Louis, Mo, After the services in the Greek chapel this morning a Te Deum will be sung in the Slavonic language by a Russian quartet now temporarily stopping in New York, METHODIST. ** The annual meeting of the Book Committee was held last Wednesday in Cincinnati, .Drs. Nelson and Curry and Mr. Phillips, agents and editor, of this city, left on Monday to attend the meetung. A successor to the late Dr. Cobleigh will be chosen by the committee at this meeting. Dr. Nelson had only returned on Thursday from a tour among the Southern conferences, Kev. Charles M, Giffen, pastor of the Nostrand avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, has received a leave of absence of three months during the coming summer, which he will spend in Europe. A revival ol great power and influence is progressing in this church, ‘the Rev. R. C. Putney, of Jamaica, L, 1., Who has been unable Jor two months to occupy his pulpit, has so far recovered his health and strength as to be able to get to church, though still unable to reach, On the 1st inst. Bediord street church, lew York, took up subscriptions to the extent of $700 for the Church Extension Society, The dona- tions of this one church have helped twenty-three churches into existence whose property is now valued at $47,500, with accommodations lor 4,000 | people. The Church Extension society has bullt or aided 1,205 churches out of the 14,500 now existing tn the Methodist Episcopal denomination; 4,037 of these churches have been built during the last seven years. The Christian Advocate reports a list , of revivai meetings not noticed in previous issues which embraces over 5,000 conversions. Include in this list ig 1 at Emory church, Jersey City; at Perth Amboy, N. J., 20; North Fittn street, Brook- lyn, E. D., 100; at Kingsiey Methodist Episcopal church, Staten Island, 30; First church, White Plains, 40. At Thirty-tifth street church, this city, 18 were converted last Sunday, and 40 were at the altar seeking pardon; at Stratford, Conn., 30. At Buttzville, N. J., 130 converts are reported; at South Amboy, N. 3. 3; at South | Second street chur ., 205 at Tucks ahoe, N. ¥., 40; at Malden, N. Y., 40; at Pawling, . Y., 35; at St. Paul’s church, Newark, N. J., 100; | | in the First cuurch, Peekskill, 100; at Centreport, | | L.L,a@aumber. In Hanson place Methodist rpis- copal church last Sunday 56 persons were received by letter from other churches, @ large number being (rom non-Methodist churches; 9 probationers were received into full membership and 90 recent converts entered on their probation. More than | 600 persons partouk of the Lord’s Supper on that occasion, The revival 1s still in progress there. A Jadies’ and pastors’ Christian union has been or- ganized in Twenty-seventh street church, this city, Key. W. H. Wardell. pastor, whose work is already felt in the increase of the Sunday school and the revival influence which rests upon the churca, PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. David Mitchell, of the Canal street Preskyterian church of this city, spent last week | | In Halifax, N. 5., St. Johns, N. B., and other parts | othe British provinces, lecturing. There is quite an extensive and interesting work of grace in La- fayette avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn. | ‘This church is said to hold the largest membership | of any Presbyterian church in the country. It be- gan in the humblest sort of a way in asmail wooden | shanty, and has moved on with undimmed success through all its history till now. It began asa re- | vival church, and has never lost that char- acter. During all its history there has never | been a year that has not been marked by revivals. Miss Smiley recently preached in Dr. Frederick A. | Nobie’s Presbyterian church in Pittsburg. Tne | Independent ventures the prediction that the Pres- | | bytery of Pittsburgh will not disturb Dr. Noble. If they do, there will be music there livelier than the Doxology. Some of the extra meetings of the | Presbyterian and Reformed churches o1 this city | are continued during this week. Preaching services in Dr. Paxton’s church every evening except Wednesday and Saturday, and two similar services in Dr. Ludlow’s church on Monday | and Friday evenings. The sermons in each of these churches are to be preached by the neigh- boring ministers, and the fact that the people are glad to hear them is itself a sign of good. A work | of grace undemonstrative, but very distinct, is in | progress in the North Presbyterian church Phila- deiphia. it was the outgrowth of freshened ear- nestness in the prayer meetings. There {8 a | ren revival in progress in Petroleum Centre, | ‘a. One hundred and ten have risen for prayers and scores have already professed conversion. Dedicatory services will be held to-day in Tomp- king avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, Dr. Clark will preach in the morning and Dr. J. 0. Murray, of New York, in the evening. Preaching | there also during the week. There is at present | going on in the First Presbyterian charch, of this city, a series of interesting and spiritually profi- | table meetings. The ablest preachers of the city | at Baldwin, 23 oT | Two by dei ff; a dismission and excommunication. Under the “Safjer head 886 instances are | reported. In bbath achools there Is the 37: good number of scholars, both young aud ty chee ei The amount of ciaritable contributions ast from the 2,396 churt heard from, was 3,816; home expenditur charches re- were $1,978,365, There 100 Protestant lanted in Italy, and ai ard enjoying less prosperity. ‘In Rome 10,000 enifarea more or fre in the municipai scnools, formerly under Papal direction; but now no priest 18 admitted as @. teacher. ‘The Carrasco-rronier fand had amounted ta ire on the er inst,—tne latest reyes bd je treasurer, Mr. CT, Rowe, 0 House. Wought la rexel Fit; Oon 1h yp Dr, Garr hell's and not Dr. Gutheim’s sermod Waa re rted in the HERALD last Sunday, as New York ‘sraclites must have been fully aware. A simi- larity Of sound in the name, doubtiess, caused the error in spelling. Next Tuesday, 17th inst., Rev. N, H, Van Arsdale will be installed pastor of the Reiormed church, at Chatham, N, Y. The New York aud Huuson River Conterence of Unitarian Ministers hela a session last fuesday evening in Rev. Mr. Uaran’s church, Brooklyn. Special ser- mons are delivered every Thursday evening in the "Harvard Rooms, Sixth avenue and Forty-second street, by different ministers, such services “have alread: been held by Rev. J. Hyatt Smitb (Baptist). of Brooklyn, and Dr. Ormiston (Reformed, New York), and next ‘Thursday evening Dr. Deems,of this city, (Southern Methodist) will preach; services open to all. The Universaiists of Hammonton, N. J., have secured the services of Father Ballou (Key. M. Ballou), of Atco, who will preach to them, If his health per mits, two Sundays in the month. Key. B, L. Ben- nett has been obliged to resign nis pastorship of the society at Irvington, owing to the inability to sa port him. He has labored hard to build up acburch, and has it nearly completed, Dr. Beliows, of this city, writes from Florida that his health ia greatly improved, and he hopes to return home in a few weeks completely restored. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. — TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I have but to-day seen the HeRap of Tuesday Jast, having been unable to obtain a copy during my travels last week. Although I do not wish to protract @ discussion which might probably lead to no useful result, there are two or three points in the article of Tuesday last requiring comment. In the firat place I must point out that I bave not at any time spoken of my theory of the evolution of the solar sys- tem as demonstrated. The point which seems to me 48 nearly as possible demonstrated is the gencral fact that our solar system reached Its pres- ent condition by some process of evolution. When we consider that the antecedent odds against the observed uniformity of revolu- tional direction (to take only one relation) are 2,774,000,000,000,000,060,000,000,000,000,000 to 1, we are compelled to believe that either the Crea tor specially selected the observed arrangement (ta which, nevertheless, we can recognize no special advantage) or else that it resutted from a Process of development. The former view may be entertained by those who prefer it, but it seems tome to correspond in character with the view once advanced (against the supposed atheistical teachings of geology) by religious men, who maintained that fossil animals were specially created to lead men to doubt the then received interpretation of the Book of Gencsts. Agreeing with Laplace that our solar system has in all probability reached its present condition by ® process of evolution, ladopt a theory differing from his respecting the nature of that process. I claim tor my theory these chief advantages over the theory of Laplace. He selects a process un- like any of which we have any experience. I point to one which is even at this day going on, however slowly. His theory accounts only for the general features of the solar system; mine accounts also for characteristic details, Hisis opposed by cer- tain exceptional characteristics (as the retrograde motion of the satellites of Uranus) ; mine allows for exceptions of the kind. YetI only claim for my theory that on the whole it is the more proba- ble. Ihave nowhere spoken of it as demonstrated or demonstrable. Your article describes me as modifying my theory when pressed. I cannot see how I have done this in saying that the meteor streams were much denser and more numerous when the solar system was still sensibly growing. Surely this must be regarded as a necessary inference irom the general theory of accretion. If a system grows by the gathering in of matter, how can we expect to find the matter left after the growth of tne sys- tem has been completed to be similar in quantity to the matter which was unattached before the solar system was formed ? Your contributor seems imperfectly informed respecting the results of the spectroscopic analysis ofcomets, The third comet examined by Huggins gave acarbon-spectrum. So did Encke’s comet as examined by Huggins, Young and Hall of Washing- ton, Then a part of the comet’s light gives a spec- trum indicative of their shining by reflected sun-. light, and we must infer the nature of the material of the matter so reflecting light by considering what we have learned as to the assoctation be- tween comets and meteors. Meteors and shooting stars examined with the spectroscope by Pro- fessor Alexander Herschei were found to give spec- tra indicating the presence of sodium, potassium and magnesium; nor need I insist on the evidence obtained from meteorites and wrolites under mi- croscopical and chemical analysis, I must refer your contributor to geologists for evidence as to the length of time during which life has existea on the earth, That evidence 1s now accepted as overwhelming. Norcan I agree With him that men of science hesitate to admit that our earth was formerly in a state of intense heat, Some have questioned the igneous origin of particular formations, but without questioning an antecedent igneous condition, Without regarding the opinion of any nan as decisive on this matter, let me quote a few words of Helmholtz’s as quoted with approval by Tyn- dall:—Different geologists, proceeding from differ- ent premises, huve sought tu estimate the length of this period DURING WHICH LIFE EXISTED ON THR EARTH, and they set it down from one to nine millions of years, The time during which the earth has gene- Tated organic beings 1s again small by comparison with the ages during which the world was a mass have been addressing large houses during the week. The invitation, while given to all, was | specially extended to the unthinking and unsaved. To those who go to no church this church opens its doors, . EPISCOPALIAN. | The Episcopalians, not to be outdone by thelr | |. Deighbors, have held @ “mission” in Christ church, | in this city, the past week. Observing the mis- sion of the Fathers in the Catholic Church, and the | revivals just now so common among Protestant Curistians they have cast in their nets, supposing | a druught of fishes would be theirs as well. Messrs. | Stewart Brown and H. A, Oakley, in a communica- tion to Church and State, express the fear that | Unless the next General Convention of the Prot- | estant Episcopal Church makes some change in the ecciesiastical laws or in the prayer book, tuere will | be a@ large exodus from the Church. They tnere- | fore call tor such modification. The consecration of the Rev. C, Waldegrave Sanford, to the Bishopric | of Gibraltar took place at Christ church, Oxford, | England, on Septuagesima Sunday, February 1. | The Rey. John Burdon, of the Church Missionary Society, who had been nominated to the Bishopric of Victoria, Hong Kong, was consecrated at the | same time and place. The contributions in the | dioceses of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut | and Massachusetts have increased very largely | within the past year, the first $163,202 10, the | second $214,709 02, the third $113,269 72 and the fourth 245,821 21, showing that Massachusetts has exceeded every other diocese in the United States. | The Seventh Convention of tne Queen’s County Sunday School Association, will be heid in St. George's Kpiscopal church, Flushing, L, 1, the Rey. J. Carpenter Smith, D. D., gecvoty ‘Tuesday, | Februar: bea Cheney preached two ser- mong ebruary 1 in Dr, Brook’s Presbyterian churth, St.j Louis, Monday ne held interviews with several gentlemen who are interested in the | movement. Among other statements made by the | Bishop, was one to the effect that the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, of New York, 18 in hearty sympathy with | the movement, and that large numbers of Low | Churchmen who have long been dissatisfied with the tendency of vhe Episcopal Church will soon come out boldly and join the retorm. It is re- rted that some ol the friends of the Reformed | piscopal Church movement have begun the cir- culation of a subscription paper for funds to build @ new church in this city. It 1s also intimated that @ large sum has been realized trom private subscriptions tendered jor the purpose some time 06 eS MISCELLANEOUS, ‘The total number of Congregational Church mem- bers in the United States ts 323,679, of whom about | two-thirds are of the iemale sex. ‘There is the un- + welcome fact that over 42,000 of this number are | reported as absent from the churches to which | they respectively belong, The number of churches | ig 3,925, with 893 pastors and 1,608 acting pastors; | licentiates supply 169 pulpits while 655 seem to be vacant, & fact hardly to be accounted Jor in view of the number of Congregational ministers, which is | 8,238. Of these, however, 944 are not in pastoral work. Foreign missionaries number 115. There were added to the church membership durig the of molten rocks. The experiments of Bischof upon basalt show that oar globe would require 350 mil- lions of years to cool down from 2,000 degrees to 200 degrees centigrade. * * * The history of man, therefore, is but 6 minute ripple in the in- finite ocean of time.” A controversy as to the relative valne of the in- ductive and deductive methods would be endless, Your contributor adopts the common opinion on the subject, but frequently communis opinio com- munis error, and certainly the common opinion about the Baconian system must have been based on @ very imperfect study of Bacon’s own words, as Buckle, Liebig, De Morgan and many others have clearly shown. It would have been more to the purpose if your contributor had mentioned any case of a great scientific discovery effected by the Baconian method, I could quote a hundred discoveries effected by the chief use of de- duction, but 1 will content myself by men- toning one, I would ask, then, whether, in the discovery of the law of gravitation, Flamstead’s observations (which afforded the first full inductive evidence of that law) preceded or followed Newton's deductive reasoning? Did Newton seek to interpret the Greenwich observa- tions, or did Flamstead make special observations, at Newton's request, to test the results of New- ton’s deductions? We all know how these ques- tions must be answered, Can your contributor matcn that instance, or can he even give any in- stance of a valuable discovery in science following the application of the purely inductive method ? But, alter all, the great proof of the failure of the Baconian method is found in the fail- ure of Bacon’s own test for the method—the test reaiding in his prediction that the method would put the man of ordinary mind on a level with the man of highest genius, We know this has not happened, though we may, pertiaps, recog- nize in the prediction itself the cause of the wide popular approval which the Bacunian method has Teceived, I would question very much whether any one, not of ordinary or even inferior mind, could apply the Baconian method strictly, passing through all the orders of instanti to the vindemiatio (a vintage of sour grapes it would be) without being once led to adopt the more effective pro- cesses of deductive reasoning. RICHARD A, PROCTOR, NEW YORK, Fob. 7, 1874 LENT. The Penitential Season as Observed by Primitive and Modern Christians, Disputes as to the Term of the Fast in the Early Centuries—Learned Opinions—How the Forty Days Came To Be Accepted— Hl Controversies About Easter—Arch- ' | 4s the Lenten season approaches the Church ) Warhs all her children to prepare themselves to pray and fast during a period of forty days. Sack- cloth and ashes must now be donned by the faithe | ful, and their purple and fine linen be cast aside, Prayer and good works shall take the place of rev- elry and merrymaking, and all occasions partaking | of pomp and magnificence are ordered to be dis- pensed with, The season of Lent has always been | observed by the Christian Church asa most soiemn fast. On many accounts the great ecclesiastical law which orders the obgervance of the Lenten season 1s most venerable. ANTIQUITY AND UNIVERSALITY. } Ite antiquity, in the first place, and the univer- sality with which at the present day {t is observed in every Christian community, render it especially venerable. In tracing the fact of its antiquity this fast is mentioned in the councils through every age. Kéclesiastical writers in every century have spoken of the observance of Lent in a man- ner which indicates the fact that in former ages the strict observance of the season of Lent was | regarded by the Christian people in the light of a | most sacred duty, and the monuments and records of the Christian Chorch evidently tend to carry it as high as any such monuments are extant—that is, to the time when the disciples of the aposties were living and governing the chief sees. DISPUTATIONS ABOUT THE FAST. Daillé, one of the most famous of French Calvin- | ists, attacked the observance of Lent in his writ- | ings in @ manner which, at the time, tended greatly to detract from its very strict observance. In the end, however, he was compelled to admit the fact that the Lenten season had existence even as far back as the fourth century, and that it had always been observed since that time. The | frequent manner in which it was enforced by the great lights of the Churcn in their sermons to their flocks evidences the fact that there remains no possible chance whatever of disputing the re- | Hability‘of the records of its observance’ in every age since the advent of the Christian | era, In the second century a dispute arose | in regard to the time when the observance of the solemn yearly fast was to be closed and the feast of Easter Kept, which at that time was cele- brated by both Jews and Asiatics on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, although most of the other nations celebrated this feast in unison with the Church of Rome on the Sunday following. Str Polycarp 1s recorded as having made a visit to Rome, to confer with Pope Anicetus, in the year 168, in order to obtain a decree in favor of a tolera- season by the Asiatics, and about the year 200 it 1s recorded that all the churches determined upon the solemn observance of the Antepascal Lenten fast, ARGUMENTS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. Owing to the fact that St. Irenwus in his writ- ings makes mention of certain Christian com- munities having followed different rules of disci- pline and practice in so far as regards the number of days to be spentin fasting and prayer, a ques- tion arose, which bore considerable agitation, as to the validity of the claim enforced by the Cnris- tian Church that the faithful should observe a period of fully forty days in fasting. Not over. zealous in the periormance of their obligations as ordered by the Church, the dissenters endeavored to dissuade their brethren from the strict observ- ance of the dictates of the Church by advanc- ing the theory that a period oi forty days was rather too much of a penitential infiction, and that forty hours, instead of forty days, were a suilicient length of time, being commemorative of the period during which the Saviour remained entombed previous to his resurrection. At first this doctrine gained a great many champions, but at length the opponents of the true doctrine were | dissuaded from advocating the error of this pre- tended interpretation of the original edict of the | Church, which had ordered the observance 0! a | Lenten season during a continuance of forty days. | The learned Bishops Beveridge, Dom Massuet and | others rejected this transposition, advocated by | those who had endeavored to array the followers | of the Christian Charch in arms against the ob- | servers of the original time set aside, for the | reason that no one ever counted a day of forty | hours, LEARNED OPINIONS, Dr. Beveridge says:—‘For in forty hours who could doubt the fact that the day must be jomed | with the night, For some thougtit they ought to | fast one day, others two, others more, and some extended this fast to forty days. They measured their day by comprising the hours both of the night and day; and this variety among those that observe the fast did not begin iu our age, but long bejore us among our ancestors, many of whom, probably no being very exact in their observance, handed down to through simplicity or private iancy, introduced among them.” St. Dionysius, of Alexandria, in his writings | osterity the custom as it had been, about the middle of the third century, says that, notwithstanding the fact that the same agitators had at length acquiesced in the decision of the Church as to the time and discipline to be ob- served during the Lenten seagon, there neverthe- | less existed a variety ot discipline in tasting during the six days which preceded the Easter feast. He | states “that some passed these six days without | taking nourisiment, others tour, others only two.” HOLY WEEK, Inthe fourth century, St. Epiphanius, who was one of the best writersin the Church, distinguishes the fast of Lent into three parts—the first tll Holy Week, in which the zeropnagie was not of | recept. ‘The second comprised the six days of | ‘oly Week, on which all Were obliged to keep zer- | ophagie—that is, to take nothing at their meal | alter sunset except bread, salt and water. A third part of the ‘ast was not of obligation like the two | jormer, but one of devotion or counsel only. This | consisted in a fast of sdperposition in Holy Week, | which some kept for two days, others turee, others four and others for a whole week. ‘The | severity of the second degree of zerophagie, | however, was only one of precept, except in few | churches and except during the Holy Week, when it Was universal, The Dame of the “Forty Days’ Fast,” by which the season of Lent was first known, | demonstrates the fact that Lent waa or about that number of days, or that the beginning was about the fortieth day before Easter. ‘This name of the | “Forty .Days’ Fast’? was used by Origen, and it | clearly establishes the fact that this name could | never have been given to the great anti-Paschal | feast had it not been of forty days’ duration, which | Clearly establishes the fact of the correctness of Bishop Beveridge’s answer to those loose Christians | who endeavored to curtail the period of fasting a@nd prayer. EASTER, The matter of days having been sett:ed there then Grose a disputation in regard to tne proper time for celebrating the Paschal feast. This dispute were yet living. Socrates plainly implies that “Lent was of forty gays when it first obtained the name of the Quadragesimal fast, The Iliyrians and the Western churches and all Lybia, bgypt and Palestine observed six weeks of a fast. Others made it seven weeks, asthe people of Constanti- nople and the nations as far as Phwnicia. Others tasted only three of chese six or seven weeks, by 1n- tervals; others, the three weeks immediately before Laster, and others only two weeks, as the Montanist.” Accepting the opinions expressed by Socrates a8 an impartial authority, it is plain to be seen that as late as the fourth cenvary the day and date of holdin; the Paschal feast could not have been a settled matter, and that in- stead of holding the feast on a certain Sunday at the end of the “Forty Days’ Fast" it was celebrated by several raves on divers Sundays, in accordance with their ideas of the number of days proper that should constitute the season of Lent, Quite a number ol them appear to have subtraqted the four Sundays occurring during the Lenten season as not being days of regular fast, and did not enumerate them with the regular forty days. It was only in the following century, However, that the Sunday ending the lorty days, counting the Sundays during that period, was decreed by the Christian Church as the proper day op which to observe the Easter feast, and from that time until the present day that decree bas always been observed by the faitnfal. MODERN OBSERVANCE. Coming down to later years we find that the ob- servance o! Lent by different nations, although the same so Jar a8 regards the main features aifers — in several particulars. In England es- pecially is this the case, The inhabitants of that country were of a mixed descent, and as there had been a disrelish for any alteration in the habits and fireside traditions of the country the fish days were remembered long after every Popish observance had become obsolete, and it was not until after the year 1668, upon “THR ARRIVAL, OF THE DUTCHMAN,” that butcher's meat finally established its as- cendancy in Lent. lt was reservea for Wiliam TIL to mve the deathblow to Lent. Until his advent ib had lingered among the threadbare curates of the country, having been long before excluded from the gastro- | Self with the free-will offerings of the people. 7 Romie halis of the universities. The lom Until this time had remained unnoticed, toe order to hurl a biow at the Papal authority Wile Nam conferred upon it the houor of knighthood, and the people, taking the cue from their sove-’ reign, aNd, a8 Father Prout relates, desirous of: pieasing Quéen Apne, Genominated the extremity’ of the goose as the nasal organ rf the successor of St. Peter. At the preseht day, however, the Lenten season is well observed im Cathole coune tries, and to some extent in England, In this country, although @ considerable amount of devotion and fasting is indulged in by the more devout, the restrictions imposed upon the faithinl are not so rigorous as they are even at the present time in European countries, The following circu. lar, issued by the Archbishop, prescribing the Lenten obligations, with the religious exercises for the season, will be read in all the Cathoig , churches of the diocese on Sunday next:— THE ARCHBISHOP'S CIRCULAR, .L. All the week days of Lent, from Ash Wednesday till Easter Sunday, are fast days of precept oD one ine: With the allowance of # moderate collation in the £ The precept of fasting implies algo that of abstinence from the use or flesh red wuts by dispensation, the use | of tresh meat is allowed in this diocese at the principal meal on Mondays, ‘iuesdays and thursdays of Lent, with: the exception of Noly thursday, There is neither tast nor abstinence to be observed. oe Bandaye ot bent, « . It is not allowed'to use 1 tu saine'mea! it jowed'to use sh with flesh meat at the here is No prohibition to nse eggs, butter, or cheese, provided the rules of q y 5 gon ites nih X quantity prescribed by the fast be (Ard tay be used in preparing fish, vegetables. £c. 7. ‘the Church excuses irom the obligation of tastinj (but not of abstinence from tlesh meat, except in special cases of sickness or the like) the following classes of per- sons:—First, the infirm: second. those whose duties are of an exhausting or laborious character; third, persons who are attaining their growth; fourth, women in Drege pancy oF bursing InfAuts; ith, Wase Who are emieebled i . "the public religious exercises during Lent in. th churches of the city, to coumeuce each evening at helt past seveu o'clock, wiil | 4 ‘On Monday, inthe Church of Assumption (German), St. Michael's, st. Anthony's (italian) and St. Mary 'Nagdalen's (German). On Tuesday, in St. James’, St. Joseph's, St, Vincent de Paul's (French), St. John the Evangelist's, Holy Cross St Gabriel's, Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Cecilia's ‘On Wednesday, in St. Peter's, Most Holy Redeemer: German), St. Francis Assisium (German), St. Francis Xavier's,’ St Ann’s, Agnunciation (Mahbattanville), Paul's (Ninth avenue and Futty-mnth street), st a's, St. Jonu the Baptist’s German) and St. Agnes’ ‘On Thursday, in the Cathedral, St. Andrew's, st. Stes phen’a, St, Columba’s, St. Bridget’s, St Alphonsus’ (Gi Tan), Bt “Lawrence's (Yorkville), Holy Innocents’, St. Rove of Lima, St. Nicholas’, St. Joseph's (German, Man- hattanville) and St. Elizaveth’s (Fort Washington), On Friday, in St. 's, Lal i ge st Paul's (Harlem), St: Boniface’s (German), St. Vincent Ferrer'sy St. Bernard’a, Oburch of the Epiphany and Holy Name of Jesus The Bishop of Brooklyn has published similar regulations, with this addition, however, that tea or coffee is permttted inthe mornings Of fast days. The religious exercises will commence at seven o'clock M., and will be held in the following the Nativity, of the, atSt Charles’, St Mary's Star of the Sea, 4 mys, St. Anne's, Bt John the Baptists, st Paul's, St. Nicholas’, Church of she Nativity and Church ot the Sacred Heal in ‘On Weanesday, at the Church of the Assumption, St. Joseph's, Holy Trinity, Immaculate Conception, Visitas tion, Our Lady ‘ot Victory, Our Lady of Mercy, Bu Stephen's and Annunciation. On Thursday. at St James’, St, Peter and St. Paul's, St. John’s, St Bonitace, St. Péter’s and St. Francis’. On Friday, at St. Patrick's, St. Vincentde Paul's, St Louis’, St. Bernard's, St. Alphonsus’ and St, Cecilla’s. The regulations of the diocese of Newark are akin to these, but the faithful there are reminded that, by a special privilege granted py the Holy See (to the faithful of the diocese), a plenary ine dulgence Sep, | be gained on the usual conditions, on St. Patrick’s Day or any day within the octaves LENT IN THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, The significance of this festival in the Episcopal: Charch, especially in the ritualistic wing, 18 sub~ stantially the same as in thd Cathoilc clurches. Services and meetings, answering somewhat to! “missions” or “novenas’® Will be held in some of. the Protestant Episcopal churches in this city, | and the discipline of self-examination will be in~ culcated and eniorced as {ar as practicaple among} the people. The churches of “high” tendencies will be kept open, and, though no general pro- tion of the difference in the observance of this | gramme of regulations for fast or abstinence is promuigated, there is a general Pe that on at least two days of the week fasting sbalr be observed by the fajthful. Some of the pastora issue circulars regulating these fasts among tneir own congregations. Tne Scripture lessons lor to- day comprise selections from the Lamentations ; of Jeremiah and 1. Corinthians, xili, Trinit; | church and Trinity chapel, Christ church, St. Al- | ban’s and St. Mary the Virgin’s and St. Ignatius’ } churches are among those that will be open daily for religions retirement and meditation during the coming season of Lent, FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. eo The Duty of Israclites Toward the House of God—Mr. Isaacs’ Appeal to Stop the Plague of Indifference which Prevails Among His People. The congregation worshipping regularly in this synagogue has largely increased since the Rev. Dr. Mendes has become the assistant rabbi there. Yese terday, however, the venerable and reverend Mr. Isaacs, who has @ministered so long and faithfully to this congregation, preached @ sermon on the ins terest which priests and people, meu and women, should take in the sanctuary of God. His text was | I, Kings, xii., 9, which recites how Jehoida, the priest, took a chest and bored a hole in it, an@ causea the people entering the temple to put their, offerings therein for the repair of the house of God. The liberality of the people was so great that the priest announced no more money was needed. “It has been,” said Mr. Isaacs, “at all times a blot upon us that when we have been well ourselves we have not been mindiul of the poor. It was soin the days of Jezebel, 16 Was soin the days of Athaliah, it is so in our own time.” He accounted for this indtsposition. of Jezebel on the ground that she was not a Jewess, but a stranger; and nothing but evil, he cone ‘tended, resuits from alliances of Israelites with: Strangers. But in that dark and gioomy period | Something Occurred that spread religion and light again among the peopie. There arose a man, if we can call him @ man, of austere manners, attired in coarse garments and feeding on coarse fare, but intensely zealous for Goa and His cause—Kiijan, the Israelite, by name, He began his mission at this time, aud how he succeeded you all know. His banner wads unjolded and floated on high, and on it was inscribed one God whom alone men snowid serve. He left Judea as suddenly as he came to it, saying only one word at his departure, “that 10 the valley of Jezreil the dogs shonid lick the blood of Jezebel.” This prophecy was alterward fulfilled in the days of Jehu the son of Nimsni. WE OWE MUCH TO THE WOMEN of Israel, said Mr. Isaacs. Let it not be said that we had a Jezebel among us. She was not a Jewess, but a daughter of fhe stranger, The same may be said of Athailal, who sought to destroy all the royal seed of israel; she, too, had foreign blood in her. But Jehosheba, the wile of Jehoida, a true Jewess, saved the life of the young prince Joash and braved the powér and malignity o} the wicked Athalian, While such women have had a part in our past history we can point with pride to our Esthers, our Hannans, our Abigails and our Jehos- hebas—ornaments to our history and our religion. The Jaithiul priest, too, had @ iand in this revival of religion. Think how much @ faithful priest cam do to promote the cause of Goa and of Israel I Jehoida, the fet Of Joash, was one of the reat men of his age. Wiaile the other priests thought more of themselves than they did of the law or of the temple of the Lord he loved both, and taught his young ward, also, in the principies of Judaism. The house of God in our day is designed to have the same effeet as the temple of old, God must dwell with us; and if this be not the case then will our assemblies be mere mockery. All the money brougut into the house was to repair the breaches of the house; but, thougu the priests coi- lected the money, they did not distribute it. Joash, who, at seven years ol age, had been proclaimed King, at tnis time took away all the power (rom the priests aud repaired the house of the Lord = a spirituality of worshippers should not be inter- began while the immediate disciples of the apostles | fered with by the temporalities of the sanctuary. | What a lesson hus this good Jewess Jehosheba leit to the women of Israel (o-day! ‘True, our CHILDREN ARE NOT MURDERED NOW, | and our women are not called upon to save them, as was Jehosnebah. But they are called upon to | save their own chtldren from indiflerentism and | neglect of the plain preeepts and principles af Ju- daism. Solomon, who knew human nature, bide | the children not to forget tue law o1 their mothers, but to serve and obey them. And when children | thus taught are required to part with such moth- | ers they wil not torget their love, and the blessing | Of God will be showered upou such mothers, | Jehoida, the priest, has also leit ue an important example. hile other priests neglected their duty he remained faithiul and true, The minister | of to-day, like she priest of old, muat stand faithial, and put himseif between the Livi and the dead, } and thereby stop the plague of indifference, By | such Means can the priest enkindle the lignt in the | house of the Lord, , Isaacs concluded with an | appeal to Lis congregation not to be unmindinl of | their duty to the house of God, and gave a few | words of advice to a youth who had just been ad- | pe to the privileges and duties of the syna- AN UNSAFE BUILDING REPAIRED, New Yorg, Feb, 14, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD:— Would you be so kind as to insert in your val- uable paper the following copy of a certificate from the Inspector of Public Buildings, in reference to the Central Park Baptist church? J. R. FRASER, Secretary Board of Trustees, W, W. Avius, Esq, Superintendent of bemreigat of Buildings ‘¢ in—{ respecttully report tl have this da ined the Baptist chureh, the nort Eighty-third street, betwe ‘ht and find that tie root haa be p ened if accordance with the recommendation of the Sepertaeat ‘ot Buildings, and is well and properly done and in my opinion is periectly sate, I would, therefore, recommend that the complaint be removed. 5. M. SIMPSON, Inspector. Apbroved—Anpaew Owens, Chief of Unsafe buildings, 1 exam- rd ‘she t