The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1874, Page 6

rd 6 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. (Herald Gorrespondence on Temper- ance and Religion. Programme of Services—Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 15. rc (MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS, ‘The Rev. Dr. Van Bokkelen, late of Mount Morris, an the diocese of We tern New York, will to-day as- sume the rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church oi the Mediator, Ormond place, Brooklyn, and will preach morning and evening. Rev. Rafus 5. Underwood will preach in Bethany Wall this evening on che crusade of the women. The converted Rabbi Schlamiovtz lectures on Ju- daism and Curistianity this afternoon, at four o'clock, in the school attached to the Church of the Moly Innocents. Rev. S, H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach in Cooper Unstitute this evening. ‘ Rev. W. H. Boole will preach in Seventeenth wtreet Methodist church this morning ana evening. \A temperance prayer meeting will be held at four | o'clock, Episcopalians favoring immersion are invited to he church on Fiitietn street, where some one will [preach morning and evening. 4 Rev. Dr. Rambout, of Missouri, and Chancellor ‘Crosby will occupy the puipit of the Tabernacie Baptist church to-day. ‘Rev. Robert Cameron will preach in Seventeenth lstreer Baptist churcn this morning and evening. » ASumper memorial service wil! be held in the \Shiion Presbyterion church, in Republican Hall, roadway. Rev. Dr. Rylance will preach this evening, in St. \Mark’s Protestant Episcopal church, on “The Rela- ‘tion of the Church to Popular Amusements’’—a ‘topic which the Doctor discussed recently bejore ithe Church Conference 01 Ministers, Rey. W. Birnbart will preach, morning and evening, in Forsytu street Methodist Episcopal chureh, and hold a temperance meeting at half- ‘past turee o'clock P. M. Rev. H. W. Knapp will preach in the Laight street Baptist church to-day; baptism in the evening. ‘The Rev. Dr. Miller will preach, morning and evening, in Plymouth Baptist church; baptism in the evening. Rey. S. M. Hamilton will instruct the Scotch Presbyterian chureh this morning and aiternoon, Rey. J. F. McClelland wilt minister the gospel Ro St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church to-day. The ourteenth street Presbyterian church will Mhear the truth from the lips of Kev. Robert Sloss morning and evening to-da . Rey. W. B. Pendieton will preach in Fifty-tnird istreet Baptist church morning and evening, finisu- dng up with baptism of converts. Rev. Dr. Ives, of Auburn, N, Y., will occupy the pulpit of the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal «burch to-day, Rey. Alexander McKelvey will conduct the free services in Harvard Rooms this morning, and Dr. (Alexander R, Thompson, of Brooklyn, on Thursday evening in the same piace. Dr. Armiiage will preach in the Fifth avenue Baptist church to-day. The Rev. J. M. Puiiman will speak in the Stan- dard Club Hai! morning and evening. | “The Gospel that Paul Preacned” is the taking title of a discouise to be delivered this evening in ‘the Catholic Apostolic church, i) Baptism wii be administered and sermons preached in the Central Baptist church to-day. } Rey. P. L. Davies will preach in the Berean Bap- tist chureh to-day at the usual hours, } Dr. Edward Beecher, of Brooklyn, will preach in the Bleecker street Universalist church morning and evening. Elder James Bicknell! will preach for the Beulah Baptist cuurch, im Greenwich Hail, Hudson street, wiorning and aiternoon. br. A. ©, Osborne Will preach in the South Bap- list church ai the usual hours to-day; baptism in the evening. Rev. Fathers Damen and Garesché will open a Bussion to-day in the Roman Catholic Church of Ale Holy Innocents. It will continue two weeks. A Spiritualist con erence will be hela in Ger- mania Hall, Third avenue, at two o'clock to-day. Rey. W. P. Corbit will preach a sermon to young ladies this evening, in DeKalb avenue church, Brooklyn. “Clerical Wits and Comic Parsons” is the subject df alecture which Rev. Dr. Porteous will deliver, | ander the auspices of the Carroll Association, at the East Reformed church, next Tuesday evening. | Rey, D. B. Jatten will preach in the Sixteenth | Baptist church this evening and baptize there- after. The Rey. George D. Mathews will commence a course of evangelistic services in the Mission Buiding, corner o. Seventh avenue and Eighteenth street, preaching tuis evening on “The Spirits in Prison." High er'ebration and sermon at half-past ten ‘A. M.., and vespers at four P. M. (full choral ser- vices) im the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. The First Reformed Episcopal ciurch will worship at Steinway Hall in the morning and at Lyric wall an the evening. Bishop Cummins preaches, Rey, W. C. Dawson will elaborate Gospel truths, Morning and evening, in the Church of the Disci- ples of Christ. Rey. Dr. Fiazg preaches at the morning and evening services im the Church of the Resurrection. The fourth lecture of the series upon the Episties’ will be given by Rev. Dr. Draper in 51. Andrew's church, Harlem. The services in the Church of the Holy Trinity | will begin at nine and half-past ten A. M. and four P. M., Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., preaching, | The morning and eveuing services in Wain- ‘Wright Memo: ia! church will be conducted by the Tector, Kev. Mr. Egbert. The ‘Lessons trom the Life of Charles Sumner’? ‘widl be illustrateu this evening, for the behoof of young men, by Rey. Mr. Hepworth, of the Church of the Disciples. Morning subject, “Beauty for Ashes.’’ There will be two morning and one afternoon service in Anthon Memorial church, Rev. Mr. New- ‘ton, rector. Rev. Father Ryan, of Mobile, “the Poet Preacher of the South,” will preach at Transfiguration church, Mott street, to-day at half-past ten A. M. Rey. Dr. Ewer will officiate at the three morning and regular evening services in St. Iguatius’ church. Rev. James Boyd, an English divine, will occupy the pulpit of tne Church of the Messiah to-day, preaching morning ana evening. Professor B, Grant and otbers will speak at the Meeting (uis evening, in De Garmo Hall, of che Church of Humanity, Morning and a‘ternoon ser- Vices at the usual hours. | Eider Johnson preacnes this morning and Elder ‘King this atternoon in Temple Hail. ‘The Progressive Spiritualists will be edified by 1. ©. Howe, trance lecturer, this morning and | evening. | “Ciinax” Reviews the Ministers’ Tem- Perance Mecting. To THE EpiTox ov THE HeRALD:— | ‘The particular ineident which has excited me to | Moral reflection during the last week was the meetings of the clergy at Association Hall, As I Jook at (vem from this distance they seem to me the most comical gatherings lever peeped into, | Perhaps 150 gentlemen were present, representing nearly «very denomination, ‘here was Mr. Froth- ingham, graceiully decorating the background, ®ut with no word of counsel on this important Question of temperance, In the chair was Dr. ‘Prime, whose ripe scholarship and genial face have endeared him toa host of iriends. Seated in dig- Mified isolation was the sturdy John Hall, proba- (bly the safest man in New York, always careful jand always conservative. In the front rows were ‘the Methodist brethren, evidently Teady to strip Rheir coate off and go into the work pelt mel, lone P. P. C's you. | webbed with age well and good. | devastating and reieutiess power of ru, | their pi | ing. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ‘They only waited the word to begin their work in the rumshop just round the corner. The first meeting bad not been in session fiteen minutes before it became perfectly apparent that, though every minister bad given the subject very serious thought, not one of them had any plan to offer. They were ail in the fog. They all believed in temperance, but not all of them im total absti- nence. Some regarded drunkenness as 3 crime, to be punished as such; and these proposed # Dew law, to be rigidly enforced, shutting al dram- shops on Sunday, and punishing every one who went into them during the week. Drinking wine, they seemed to think, is not anevil when done in the privacy of one’s family; bat it becomes such when carried on at every street corner. To drink is all right, but to get drank is all wrong. There 18 no objection to a friendly nightcap, or to @ giass now and then for the stomach’s sa«e, or to the musical clink of glasses when But a for common drunkenness—the regular eleven o'clock upple, the inviting bars all over the city—this is a serious matter and ought to be attended to. The logic of this policy seems to me to be somewhat onesided. It 1s slightly top heavy. and is Loo partial to suit my | tancy. The poor man mustn’t get drunk because he will reel about the streets and set a bad ex- | ample. He can’t afford to buy an original package, | carry ithome and become «@ beast ia the bosom of | bis family; therejore he ought not to drink at all. The rich man, on the other hand, must not be tn- terfered with, because “a man’s house is bis castle,” and it he wants to import the pure brands and to open @ bottle of sherry that is all cob- Now, it strikes me that drinking 1s either wrong or right. I doa’t believe that it is right ior tne rich and wrong for the poor If a miilion- naire’s son can come home at jour o'clock in the moraing so wuddied that he can’t find the keyhole and so mixed that oe doesn’t know the door mat irom the door knob, why way not the same privilege be ailowed the laborer? And yet the whoie community laughs at the ove a3 av eccentricity of youth aud stands agaast at the other as a heinous offence. Give us a rule for rich and poor ike, say We must measure ail men bythe same standard, What is wrong wrong, and there's the end of it, and what is right is right, whether we are poor or rich. Give us lair play, and grant no more privileges to the master than the servant can equally enjoy. Others regarded drunkenness a3 @ disease, and wanted to treat it as such. ‘hey would make war on the sources of moral contagiou, and not only suut upthe common dramshops which tiniest the city, and close tue bars in every hotel, but stop the linportation of ali liquors, and make even tue | chemists fad some other solvent with which to | mix their drugs than alcohol, Here you perce.ve the end in view is @ clean sweep of ever ching | spirituoas from the face of the planet. Men mast be twugit to put hops to a better purpose than the | Manuiacture o: layer beer, and apple orcharus | ought te be cut down, since they are a direct 1o- centive toward sweet cider. The tasks of Her- cules were like the listing of a straw by the side of the work which these gentiewen have in hand, The mere passage 01 @ law prohibiting the saie of intoxicsnts would be attended wita great dim. culty, but alter it was passed it woulu be worth just nothing at all, A law Lo compel the people to ve good 18 an absurdity. The Legislature aight take it into their wise heads to enuct @ penalty lor projanity, but the only effect would Le to add a couple of strong oaths to the colloquial Engiish of tue street—one that would fit the lawma and the other to express the popular opinion o! the law itsell, I suppose it would ve lar easier to convert our Congressmen imto honest citizens—a wor which the most daring and reckless would hesi- tate to undertake—than to enforce any legislation whch should prescribe What @ man shail eat or ditnk at his own table; and in this surewd world itis beyond all peradventure that i there is a demand the supply will not be jar behind, What @ man wauts envazh to pay for he can have, It is to my mind Impossible to legisiaiea man into virtue. Laws may punish when one is bad, bet they can’t make one good. And so tunis temperance problem is one which even the New York clergy find it bard to banule. Besides their own convictions oa iue subject the convictions of their hearers are to be considered. Ivery munistér in the city can preach o! temper- ance with impunity, but to preach of total avsti- nence 18 guile another thing. They seem not to ye prepared to do that quite yet. A Vast number | of pews would be jor sale and to rent; and this | vrings up tue very serious question whether a mar can make Christians oi lus people by first Making them mad aud then driving them out of reirains trom such a course. is rasb and reccless and destroys bis own use- fulness af he pursues it. You can't knock @ prejudice out of a man vy a biow of the fist, or change his convictivas by anathematizing them and him. The very Lrst eiement of Chrisitan courtesy 1s to treat ibe couvictions of @ hearer with the utmost respect, and i) your object is to Change his mind and jew hum to wink 48 you do on @ given subject you must net expect'to do it in a thirty minute ser- | mon. Peopie who change as rapidly as that are apt to¢hange back aguin at @ most iucoavenient seasou The hearer’s judgipent is just as good as the preacier’s on such a Matier, and no man who valuey his opinion likes to give it up becuuse you | ask lum (0, lor is be likely to give it up i you tell him ge must; and when you denouuce him and teil (im Le 1s no CN do he probably grows rea in the face, fumbes rouud for his bat and says, ‘And you are anotner."” Aiter that o1s judgment has hardened into a preju- dice, and you way as well give up the contest. It wus hard when you only tad the man’s brains against you, but when you have his brains aad his heart, too, either you or he will probably Lave a cali to anotner field of labor. This bring’ me to just the point I want to make. We all agree as to the evils oi intemperance; but We nonesily disagree as to the Means to be used in their removal. The whole community, without @ dissenting voice, would raise a snout of praise ia effective macainery could be devised by which this demon could be exorcised. There is one universal shudder throughout tke country at gue e stand aghast at the tragedies which are uaily en- acted under its buieii influence, We could puil half our prisons down if the distilleries would saut their doors, Ana yet, what we have to fight 1s not the distilieries, buc tne universal appetite waich keeps taem going, night and day. it we could make War on @ Whiskey Cask, we could soon knock its bead in, but the matter does not end there. Our business is to make War on that element of our Common buman Dature, Which insists on hav- ing (he whiskey at any cost, aod in that wariare We must be judicious as well as brave, aud cau- tious rather than reckless. The man who loses 6 ght of resuits, ana regards only the means used to attain thew, ueed mot be surprised Ui results never come. The ultimate of this whole movement is tem- perance, anu the methods we adopt must be suited to the present paslic 0, inion on the matter, I can’t eudure a Maa Who 103i8ts on baving ail he Wants or nothing. For i even In great re- forms, hali is beter than @ quarter, and it { can't get alll get alilcan, someting is sure to come of this immense moral excitement in tue West, It Was evidently begun, aud is how vein: carried on, by the Lord, ‘Lue conseqvence 18 that when even the ciergy get hvid oi 1 they don’t Know wuat it means, and when they try to put itin the traces of oncelved Notions as tu how it should be conducted, they pnd the harness too smuail to puil the load, We wil stand amazed at what has been done, and at the machinery, or want of maciinery, which has accompusned it. We had better taank God ior it, and lett alone. The attempsé to reduce the mMagiificent occasional outbursis of moral indignation to our notions of political omy is simpiy absurd. The only thing to do is to be tuankful and not to biock the way. The movement does not run in any reguier church groove, and is not the product of any single de- nomination. I look at it as I do at acomet. It biazes with wondrous light; i is moving with inconceivable rapidity through paths not iaid out by the astionomer, aud in good time will disap- ear. it will, however, leave @ trail 0. light be- ind, which will give new impetus to the general work We have in land and a large encouragement to those who are laboring in the cause of sober husbands and happy homes. While heaven is lay- ing out the plan and giving the thing a good start let us hush, and when the intimation comes to us to take the matter up then let ua go to work. At present the movement is bigger than all the minis- ters of the land, and of such nature that they can- not understand it; bat the tume will soon come wien they will be called upon to take their gloves | and coats off aud be ready tor earuest, zealous, untiring labor. Something will come out of it surely; eXactly What, Do wan as yet can teil. CLIMAX, Thirty Years of Episcopal Service. It is not often that a high Church dignitary can boast Of a ministerial, not to say episcopal, service #80 prolonged as that which Archbishop McCloskey has been honored and biessed with. Thirty years ago last Tuesday he was consecrated Bishop and assigned to the dioc-se of Albany. Ten years ago he was again consecrated Archbishop and was ap- pointed the successor of the prelate who had per- jormed the first act of consecration—Archbishop Hughes, There is a marked difference between the two prelates. The deceased Archbishop was remarkably pugnacious; the present one is r+ markabie for the opposite qualities. His eccesias- tical rule in this dioc: has been one of love, and he bas found @ war ae e in the hearts and atiec tions oj the clergy aud peopie of the diocese. The former, theretore, planned a sirprise jor the Archbishop, Whuch they sprung upon him at bis in Madison avenue, on Tuesday even- avery congregation in the diocese was represented in the parlors of the episcopal man- sion in Madison avenue, On that evening and in the name of the assembled clergy and of their ab- sent congregations Rev. Father Farrelly, of St. James’ Koman Catholic ehureh, presented an address to the Archbisnop, in which was recited some of the labors of the prelate, and the wonder- Tul growth of this city and of Catholicism since he had been ordained to the priesthood, Father Cur- Tau then banded the venerable Archbiahop @ purgg reside an unless he thinks as you | on- | containing $6,090, the free will offer: of faithful and obedient congregations and pries! The Archbishop's reply was one of markea mod- | esty. He 1s the oldest priest in hia diocese. He saw the preseut St. Peter's church, the oldest im the city, laid on the foundations of an older edifice of the same name. He was pastor of St. Juseph’s church years ago, and worshipped and officiated in the Cathedral when it was ‘vut of town.” St. Vincent's Hospital grew up through his labo! and the Provincial Semi: 7 tn Troy is the produc! energy. hese thi were not stated by the Archbishop, but were Drnughs out by the address o! the clergy and oy inquiries. After the congratulations of the clergy and the Arch- bishop tue company re!reshed themselves at a well spread supper table, ana soon after separated. 3 te Occasion Was @ Very enjoyable and memorabie Opening of a New Catholic Church in Brooklyn. The new and costiy edifice which has just been erected by the parish of St. Stephen, through the | energy and zeul of Rev, Father O’Rieliy, the pastor, will be opened for the first time for divine service to-day. A mission, conducted by the Do- | minican Fathers, will be opened and continue for | two weeks, it will be held in the basement of the church, The priest will assist in the ministrations of the sacraments during the special services. ‘The spire of the edifice, which 1s 200 leet above the sidewalk, is surmounted by a cross of glass of Variegated hues, which will be iliuminatea ior tne first time on tuesday night, the 17th inet. The design is original and the effect of the brillant cross against the sky Cannot fail to attract atten- | on and admiration. A Stray Text. | A venerable correspondent and ‘constant | reader” of the HERALD, who read Archbisuop Purceil's temperance letter, turned at once to his Bible to find the passages quoted in that letter, but “the last verse in the Old Testament” in his Bible has no reference whatever to the point upon which the Archbishop quotes it, If he will turn to the closing words of the Apocrypha, usually omitted from Protestant Bibles, he may find the Solution of his troubles. | | | Church Movements. BAPTIST, Seven converts were baptized last Sunday in the | Pilgrim Baptist church, New York city, three in | the Central church, twelve in the Bergen (N. J.) | Baptist church, ten in the Clinton avenue church, | Brooklyn, twenty in Portchester Baptist church. | Rey. Dr. Ives will close his pastorate in SufMeld, | Conn., at the end of March. Dr, Middleditch, after | @ pastorate of nearly four years, nas notified the charch at Flushing, L. 1, of his desire to close his | labors with them on the Ist of May. Rev. D. J. Yerkes, D. D., of Plainfleld, N. J., sailed for Europe | on Saturday. He has a@ six months’ leave of ab- sense, the church generously providing for the | expenses of his trip and the supply of the pulpii. | Mr. Spurgeon’s church reporta this year lay | preachers among its members. A Baptist Sunday school has been started at Woodside, a thriving | village on the Long Island Railroad, near Hunter's | Point. The First Baptist church, Albany, has been | enjoying a precious revival during the last month. Last Sunday the hand oi ieliowship was extended to fifty-five. The Fifth Baptist church of Brook- lyn, E. D., have just compieted a handsome Gothic | edifice on Hooper street and Harris avenue, wbich Ministerial a: ‘k | cost $11,000. They expect to dedicate itin a few | Sabbaths. Rey. Robert D, Frost is to sail from this port on Wednesday, the 18th inst., as missionary jor india, under the auspices of the Free Baptist Board oi Missions, The Free Baptist church in | South Boston has had nearly filty converts added | to its membership recently. In 1776 the number | of Baptists in the United States was 17,000; 1n 1794 | these had increased to 25,000, and in 1812 to | 200,000, In 1835 they numbered 452,000, and in 1872 | 1,582,000. This increase is credited to their close | communion principles. Professor W. 8. Hutchings, formerly known as Barnum’s Lightning Calculator, Wul preach this evening at the rooms vi the Mount | Hope Union Baptist Mission, Mount Hope, Twen- ty-lourth ward, New York. | PRESBYTERIAN. Dr. McCosh and others of Princeton are striving to put a stop to the sale of titoxicating liquors to students, hat Dr. McCosh undertakes he usually accomplishes. The Greenwich street church, Phil+ acelphia, has enjoyed a precious outpour.ng of the Holy Spirit. Meetings have been heia during tue Ol thirty souls, At the communion season held last Sabbath evening twenty-iour publicly proiessed Christ, The Fifth Presbyterian church of ‘iren- ton, N, J., have given @ unanimous ca'l to the Rev. A. D. White 'o become their pastor. For many years Mr. White was pastor oi the Second Presvyterian church, Trenton, and aiterwards was pastor-eiect of tne Breckinridge street caurch, Buffalo, N. Y, A reunion of the past and | Patrick's church. | Right. Rey. Bisnop Corrigan, | church at Kindernook, N. Y., the result of the pi |doors. You say tat a minister is cowardly who past five wecks resulting in the hopetul conversion | On the contrary, he present members of the Presbyterian church | will and Society of Fredonia, N. ¥., in view piace this evening and to-morrow, oO! the removal otf and the erection of a new building. The charch was organized by Rey. John Spencer, Sep- tember 29, 1810, with sixteen members. Mr. 0. Hl. take | the present church edifice | Burr, Jr., was recently ordained and installed pas- | tor of the Presbyterian church at Riverdaie, near Buttalo, N.Y, On the 1st inst., in Hornelisville (N. Y.) Presbyterian church, thirty-seven persons Were received on proiession 01 jaith. At the same time the Presbyterian church at Bergen, N. Y., re- ceived eighteen on profession, The revival at Camiriage, N. Y., has added ninety-iour to the Presbyterian churcn on profession of iaith, three oj whom were over eighty ycars oi. age. Dr. Wake- at Muilburn, N, Y., and Princeton Seminary, has been called to tue church at Argyle, N. Y. Besides those given above our Presbyterian exchanges report 608 converts added to churcnes in other parta oj this State, Connecticut and Ohio during a lew weeks past. Ten persons united with the Eighth Presbyterian chureh, Chicago, last Sunday, nine of them on profession of taith. Dr. | L. H. Reed has resigned this charge. Thirteen hew members were received on last Sabbach by tue Filth Presbyterian church, Chicago; forty-one were received inio the Third Presbyterian church Ol that city at the same time. The Presbyterian church at Webster Grove, st. Louis, has lately taken in twen‘y converts, and twenty-five more are waiting to be received. METHODIST. The New York Conference will met on April 8in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal churen, Filty-third street, New York, and the New York ast Conier- ence 1n Simpson church, Viermont avenue, Brook- lyn, at the sume time. The Providence Conier- euce will meet on March 2 instead of April 1, a8 helore reported. Forty conversious are reported at Lalayette, Jersey City, A. H. utile pastor, and the good Work going © twenty were converted last sunday. At Atlanticville, near Long Branch, i W. Morris pastor, filty conversions are reported. ‘ie Rev. Lhomas Carter, missionary tw Mexico, will reiurn to the New York Conierence this spring for @rk. ‘Ihe new church at Pomp- ton, M. C, Keed pastor, will be dedicated next punduy, The reviva: services in the Second church, Kockaway, couiinue wiih unabated interest. The Methodist Episcopal courch in Jounson street, Brooklyn, reports 70 couver.s in the First churen; TeEnpoInt reports 90; 3 Lib- erty stieet cuurch, w Brunswick, N, J., 60; ‘tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, Camden, N. J., 86; Glassborough 112; at Dodge Mines, N. J., 45; at Perth Amboy, .,60; at Absecom, d., 28. Second street Methodist Episcopal German Church, Rev. 4. C. Deiminger pastor, last Sunaay took up a missionary collection amounung to $00. The society had previously given $800 for Church extension; 20 converts have been added to its communion, The work of revival sull continues in Philadelphia. In Twentieth street church ninety have been converted; eighty- | two have united with the church, This church has increased its membership in three years trom 100 to 825, At Wharton street and Tasker chapel 290 have been converted. At Port Richmond sev- enty have been added to the church, At Kensing- ton (Old Brick) 200 have been converted. At Spring Garden street ninety probationers have | been received during extra services. Sixty- four have been added tovld Asbury, West Phila- delphia. Sixty-one bave joined kighteenth street | since the Ist o1 January, EPISCOPALIAN, The Rey, Dr. I. Van Bokkeien, of the Diocese of Western New York, has accepted tie rectorship of the Church of the Mediator, Brookiyn, and will enter on his duties to-day. Bishop Paddock, of Massachusetts, has issued a pastoral letter to his | diocese calling for | for the Increase of the Ministry, which society provides @ fuil coliemate and theological educa- | tion tor over 100 candidates ayear. The Rev. Wil- | ham Kirkus was admitted to the order o1 the priest- hood, at Grace chu Z last, by the Kight Rev. Bishop Potter, The Rev. | President Potter. of Union Coilege ‘and Canon Kingsley, of England, in the chancel, The Conve! ol New Jersey have adopted resvintions declaring in substance that the General Convention may divide the diocese if it will, bat can’t touch cent of the episcopal fund for say otver purpose than the support of their own bishop. Any attempt ta do so, tuey say they will resist by au lawiul means. The Rev. Konert A. Edwards lias accepted a cail to the charge o! Trinity chapel, Philadeipiua, Pa. There are fifteen Protestant communities in the United states calied sisterhouds oF associations of deaconesses, of these are conducted ina yi of the Koman Catholic sisterhvods.” The leader o! the rigorous system is tue Key. Dr. Dix, of Trinity coureh, York, the chaplain of the Sis- terso: Mary. Trmity corporation tas expended dur- ing the past year on Weak churches in this city and on missions and educational institutions beyond tae city $63,485 50. street, received $10,000 of this amaunt; All Saints’ | ghureh, $6,000; Church of the Nativity, $4,000, and | St. Peter’s, St. Olement’s, Holy Martyrs, bpiphany, &c., other and lesser sums, KOMAN CATHOLIC, There are five Catholic churches building in Washington. The Catholics of Newburyport, Mass., pave purchaged @ lot ior a convent iu phat Ger , New York city, on Sunday | St. Luke's churen, in Hudson | man has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church | Rev, George Ainslie, of | | men suggested that if two way bills were tacked to j mission, will be opened on Sunday OTDhAS | of each cons’ ecuniary aid tor the Society | tion should be amended so as to read that the sala- | fer. | Rev, William Murphy, of Ratland, Vt., has been raised to the dignity of the priesthood oy the ne Kev. Bishop of Moutreal, and is assigned fo the duties Of assistant priest in the cathearal at Bur- lington. The corner stone of St. Peter abd Paul's new church, St, Mo., will be laid with im- ing ceremonies on the first Suoday ster ter. 7 joquent Redemptorist, Father Way- rich, will deitver the egyric Of St. Patsick att. Patrick's church, Baltimore, next Tuesday. Bishop Domenec, of Pittsburg, has ordered & mass to be suid every Saturday during ten years to come for all those, living or dead, who shall ve, of for whom shall be given once, $1, to heip he congregativun of St, James’ church, Bewickiey, Alleghany oounty, Pa., to the heavy debt on their churca. The Kev. Fatuer 0’Furrell, of St. Peter's, New York, has built St. Peter's parochial school and placed the Christian Brothers Over it a8 teachers, It already numbers on its books over 800 names, and has an average attendance of 760. In May next the building will be completed, when it accommodate over 1,400 childre! The instruction o1 these children by eighteen teachers will average $12,000 per annuu. Father Walworth writes from Cairo, pt, to Father ake of the Paulist church ia this city, au interesting account of the Coptic Catholics whom he met and worshipped with in Carr He reports that Father Hecker, also of the Paulist church, has gone up the Nile. Father Waiworth purposes to visit India, China and Japan beiore he Tetuins, and to come Nome by way o1 San Frao- cisco, tus making the trip around the world, The pilgrimage coutinues to hold the attention of the Catholic presa aud people, and it is now proposed that those who cannot go shall send oferings of Peter's pence to the Pope. ‘The Bishop o1 New Orleans bas given it his Liessing, aud encourages his people to go. A mission, to be conducted by the priests of the congregation of the next, at half-past tea o'clock, by & solemn hig mass, ip the cuurch attached to St. Joun’s College, corner of Lewis and Willoughb, avenues, Bishop Elder, of Natchez, has appointed next Sunday lor the dedication of his diocese to the “sacred heart.” Tue diocese of Fort Wayne, ind., jeads the van in its representation for the pilgrim- age. Bishop Dwenger, Very Rev. Juleu Benvit, G.; Rev. George A. Hawilton, Latayotte, Ind. ; Rev. George Steer, Huntington, Ind., and Mr. James B. Falley, of Lalaye(te, are booked. The diocese of Portiand seems to stand next. The Very Rev, Jobn O'Donnell, V. G., and the Rev. D. Marphy, of Keeue, N. are booked also. The Catholic temperance societies of Jersey City are preparing to give a grand reception tu the Very Kev. George Doane, V. G. of Newark, at Library Hall, Jersey City, on Tuesday evening next, under the direction of Rev. P. Hennessy, o1 St. Toe Kev. P. Heunessy has re- cently established @ Catholic high school, in which ail Lhe modern languages aod sciences are taught. ‘Yhis is the first attempt in New Jersey dtate to compete with the public high schoois. The Rev. Thaddeus Hogan, of Mount Holly, N. J., bas been transierred to the pastorate of East Newark by MISCELLANEOUS. Miss Lora Haynes, ior many rents librarian of Waltham, but who has receutiy been studying ior the ministry at a theological school in Canton, N, Y., will shortly commence preaching irom Univer- sailst pulpits, Mr. John H. Wyckod, 01 the senior class of the Theological Seminary at New Bruns- wick, has been commiss oped by the Reformed Board of Foreign Missions to be connected with the Arcot Mission, India. Twenty-five converts re- cently joined the Reiormed church at Kinderhook, N.Y. Rev, F, V.Van Vranken, of the Reformed church of Glen, N. Y., has acce, ted a call irom the Second Keformed church at Newark, N. J., where he will commence his labors on the frst Sabbatn of April ‘he Reiormed church at Somerviile, | N. J., last Sabbath ceseprated the fortictn an- niversary of its organization. The Sunday previous thirty-taree converts united with the church. ‘Twenty-five converts have joined the Relormed recent revival in that village. Kev. J. H. Collier, of the Kelormed church of scnuylerville, N. Y., has accepted a call from the Refurmed church of Mont- vilie, N. J. ‘The churches of Canandaigua have in- vited the Rev. A. B, Earie to commence a series of | meetings with them, which are to begin to-day. ‘Vhere are already encouraging indications among them, THE GRAIN TRADE. Important Conference Between the Grain Receivers of New York and Prominent Railroad Officials—New Rules Submit- ted by the Produce Exchange. A conference ofthe receivers of grain in this city and prominent railway officials took place yesterday morning at the Produce Exchange, Mr, L. F. Holman, Chairman of the Conimittee on Trade, presiding. Among the many present were L. Hazeltine, Jr., of Messrs. Jesse Hoyt & Co.; George U. Martin, of Messrs. David Dows & Co,; | William 8. Preston, of Messrs. Isaac Reed & Co, R, C. Bilas, General Freignt Agent, and A. A. Gad- ais, of the Erie Railroad; J. L. Gossler, New York Superintendent, and O. 8. Geer, of the Penusyl- vania Railroad; John H. Starin, Richard H. Laim- beer and Franklin Edson—the ijatter on the part of the Exchange. Mr. Reuter, General Freight Agent of the New York Central Railroad, telegraphed | that be was sick and could not possibly attend. The chairman expiained that the meeting had been called to consider the additional rules adopted by the Board of Managers of the Produce | Exchange on recommendation of the grain re- ceivers. Tuey were read by the Secretary, and are as follow: Rue he Grain Committee of the New York Prod- uce Exchange shail appoint an inspector-in-chiet, witi & deputy tor the terminus of each railroad, whose terms of Otuice shall Le suljecc to their pleasure: ihe duies of the Inspector shall be to grade the wheat om the track on its arrival, marking the grade on the slide of the car in chaik aud Keeping a record in a book provided for that Purpose of the numbers of the cars, name of ths con- signee aud the grade of the wheat. For the pur- Pose of taciiitating the of the inspector, Consignees inay turnish inspector's certificates trom Of the lake ports, which shail be evidence of the gr: cepted by him without rurther inspec- t arriving from points where no system Of mspection has been adopted shall be inspected and graded, the grades being made to coniorm, so near as Practicable, to grades known in this market comin, from the lake ports For the inspector's yuidance stan ard saunples shall be furnished by the Grain Committee ; the railroad companies to pay said inspectors for their services. ‘Ruie 18.—The Grain Committee shall appoint weigher at the terminus of each railroad, whose term ot othee shail be subject to their pleasure. Tue duties of the weigher shall be to supervise the weighing of wheat on the cars, on the track scales, seeing that the cars ar swept clean while unloading, and keeping an accurate record, in a book provided tor that purpose, of tne weight of the car, loaded and licht, its number, grade of wheat and name ot tue consignee ; the railroad company wo pay said weigher tor his sery ice vik 19.—For the pur ilitating the prompt delivery oi wheat adoat on arrival, the railroad com: nies shall be permuted to put toxether on boats ‘wheat of the sume Kraie on the following conditions Firt—That they wil keep a record of the :umber of bushels from cach car, the ¥) of wheat and the name gnice, 1urmishing each consignee with a list of gaing when the ‘bout i reudy ior delivery. Serond—Vhat they will collect all freight bills upon track sale weights. Lhird—That they will guarantee to deliver the quantity as per scale weights, paying promptly tur any deficiency ving pay lor aly excess, Wi cargoes brought from Buffalo or ed to the consignees in boatluads, Any grievances growing out of the inspection i be reterred to the Grain Commitice of the New York Produce 1x ¢ for adjudication. In reference to that portion of rule 17 relative to the marking of cars in chalk with the name oi the consignee and grade of wheat, the railway gentie- each car—one Jor tie railroad and the other for the inspector—us a guarantee 01 its contents, the labors o1 the latter would be greatly reduced, ‘This suggestion was approved of, and the rule or- dered to be changed to coniorm therewith, ‘rhe next important point touched upon by the gentleman representing the railroads was in re- gard to the number of different grades of wheat wich are to be recognized. Ii there were a great many it would tend to embarrass its delivery, a matter to be thoughtfully cunsidered by the re- ceivers. The latter, after discussion and inter- change of opinious, answered the objection by practically reducing the number of grades to five or six, Which determimation the railway men | deemed very sausiactory. It was also suggested by the latter ofictals that it is desirable to estab- lish New York grades asthe basis of all inspec- tions; but while the receivers admitted that, per- | haps, such @ basis would be. preferable, they felt that to make the change now would be premature. The question of “who shail pay the inspectors ?” then came up and caused considerable argument. Tue rules above call for such payment by tne rail- roads, but their representatives felt that the sec- Ties be paid by those owning the grain, and not by the railroads. Alter a pleasant discussion upon the point, it was left for further consideration. Next taken up was the third section of role 19, | im reference to the delivery on board vessels of the same weight of sone as determined by the track scales of the railroads at the point of trans- The railway gentlemen doubted their ability to do this, but said that they would undertake tie experiment ff they could throw the responsibility on the lightermen, ihe grain receivers ielt there could be no difficulty in accomplishing that, and Mr, Starin said that he would accept tue responsi- og as far as his official position as engaged in the towing and lightera; . It was finally decided to leay also open for jurther consideration. The Comierence ad- journed until the 2sth inst., at which ume all the | differences between the receivers and the railroad representatives are to be adjusted, THE PIRES OF THE WEEK. Fire Marshal Sheldon reports 23 fires for the | weck ending March 14, at eight o'clock A. M., in- volving @ joss of $17,465; insurance, $121,000. The causes of the several fires were as foilows:—Care- Jessness of occupants with matches, candles, pipes ana cigars, 7; en playing with matches, 1; joul chimneys, 4; heat trom boiler setting fire to floor beams, 1; leak in gas pipe, escaped gas ignit- ing, 1; mice gaawing matches, 1; overheated stovepipes, 2; overheated stove, 1; sparks irom furnace, 1; spontaneous combustion of oily saw- dust, 1; window curtains tak. fre fi iat as tug Ore from caudic | make too much noise about it, ive yn and uninixed with over grain. |G | Sideration of Prince Bismarck. CHURCH AND STATE. The War Between Bismarck and the Papacy. The Effect of the New Church Laws. A HUGUENOT COLONY IN PRUSSIA. Bruin, Feb, 19, 1874. I went to the Reichstag to-day and saw some half dozen of the leading members of the Imperial Diet, to whom Mr. Bancroft had courteously tn- troduced me. Alter the preliminary bowing and fine words were over 1 settled down into a close tale with a gentleman of about five and thirty Years of age, Who is a representative man and who occupies a very prominent position in tue German Parkament. He isa healthy, strong man, overflowing with words and energy, and as the pale French bishops from Alsatia and Lorraine went by, with heads bowed down and speaking in whispers, | couid not help thinking what very short work le could make of them were this great struggle which is agitating the whole Christian world to be decided by fstl- cuffs, AS We spoke together a tall, stout man, also abounding in health and strength, handsome, erect, with @ remarkable elasticity in lis move- ments, came past us, drew himsel/ up ior a mili- tary salute, smiled with something more than friendliness and strode on into the Parliament House. That was Prince Bismarck. “Lpok here’? (Sehen Ste), said my energetic Parliament man rather disdainfully, ‘those French bishops are come here to have @ row to-day. They won't suc- ceed. Wo shail be too many for them. They will not muster forty votes. Prince Bismarck 18 more firmly seated in authority than ever. The King is aying. indeed; but that will make no difference. We do not kuow much abot the Crown Prince, except that he is ruled by his wile, tue Engush Princess, We do not like her here in Berlin. [donot know why. She 13 a good wife ana @ good mother, but she interferes with politics, and we do not fancy that. The old Queen, too, is on the side of the Catholics; but she has no Influence. Nobody has any influence, The King is jealous of bis authority, and in this ques- tion Prince Bismarck has got hisear. He would not have ventu-ed on these nigh-handed measures with the Catholics it he bad not had nine-tenths of the nation witn him, We do not believe in re- vealed religion at ail in Prussia—tivat is to say, the lower classes believe in it up to a certain int; educated people not at all. ‘Tne King’s death, therefore, Will not put a stop to tne measures we are determined to take against the priests. We intend to put down ecclesiastical autuority alto- gether. ‘This Parliament man was so active and sturdy that I could not help thinking, as | looked at him and remembered tue mighty Chancellor who had gone by with such a@ firm step and hauguty crest, that the DEVIL IS VERY STRONG AT BERLIN. “Ladmit.” resum-d the Pariiament man, ‘that Bismarck has made @ blunder; but he could not help himseli after he bad once dune tt. He began by looking upon this reugious business as a politi- cai question ; and now if the Catholic clergy would preach jor tue uuity of the German Empire under the supremacy of Prussia he would make it up with tiem, as far as he is concerned; but ne thinks that they support tne Catholic interests rather tuan the national interests, and he is airaid of the Empire breaking up if there is an independent Power in the midst of it. This Archbishop Leaochowski, who is now on his trial, went to Ver- sailles to ask tne Emperor to restore the Pope to his temporal dominions, The Emperor, then in the full flush of his tr.umpb over the French, re- turned an evusive answer. Tnen the Catholics from one end of the Empire to the other began to preach against hin, “Halloa! gentlemen,” said Prince Bismarck, “J will not have tis sort of thing ;’’ but they would not be gu.aed. They made common cause with the French, with the Austrians, with tue Bava- rans, Who are not yet quite aigested into the im. | perial system; so Bismarck put uis ioot down and crusued them, : “an!” said L “So that ts one view of your case is it? And what next? Is the imperial Chance lor prepared to condemn all the Caviolic clergy 0 the Ewpire to tmprisonment ior he. or do you | | suppose that tae Cathouc clergy wil! yield up their | consciences?” “we have thought of all thas,” answered the sturdy Protestent leader. “We are going to pass a@iaw which will send them ab Into banishmenc if tney do not yield; and, as for yielding, why the clergy of tne Grand Duchy ot Baden have already presented a list of ‘candidates to the Grand Duke prepared to act with the government to till up bis vacant archbishopric, Now, the Graud Duke will not hear o1 a person who will not obey hum; and, thereiore, this fact looks like the beginning of a trium,b for us, Clergymeu are human, beings aiter all, and they love their sti- ends.” y “possibly,” said I; “but a few of them, at least, love their laitn more. We have seen evidences of their resolution when oppressed, even in modern | history. ‘They are very eloquent, some o! them. They will plead with great ability jor their Church, They will deiend themselves in writings, whic will be read from one eud of the civilized world to the other.” “Bah!” observed the Pariiament man, slyly, “we stopped their tongues two years ago; an now we mean to stop their pens. Here (taking a | per from his pocket) 1s a law which has been Rise proposed to the Keicnstag by Prince Bismarck. Just run your eye over clauses two, three and twenty of it. Nothing in print, music or pictures may published in detence o1 tue Cutholics Without subjecting all persons concerned in the production or publication of such things to heavy | fiaes and periods of imprisonmergt varying from three months to four years. I rather thiuk we Rave got the Catholics there!” lallowed that these were s'rong measures, but that nevertheless still stronger ones nad olten been taken against Catholics witaout much per- manent eifect. For instance, the world’s mstory reveals the fact that they bad repeatedly been thrown to wild beasts and darned. “Yes,” he replied, laughing; “out we have done with all that. Prince Bismarck told me only yes- terday that we must not make too much of this business. We must treat it lightly, as a trumpery | thing not worth attention, and take care not to All the goverp- ment papers have gol orders to pubiisi as little a8 possibe about it.” “And what end do you propose to yourselves ?”? Linquired. ‘Wo you joresee that you may have to drive ail the Roman Catholics who have a con- | science out of the imperial dominions, and that they umber 15,000,000 souis. “Vee shali not do that,” remarked the Parliament | man; “we shall only expei ioreigners., There are | ways and means of stopping tne emigration of mans.” ‘So, then, you are really armed at all points,’ said 1. | astical employment is thus described : j Ssiche-Buchholz, or French Kookwood, becanse & thed, It is a bleak, desolate piace im Lhe midst & hich surrounds Berlin, but they 6008 substantial dwellings, which are stil Ps . And now? Why, now these 500 braw Frenehmen ure entirely absorbed by the brave ‘ussian nation—vrave because it received taem despite tue anger of a powerlul neighbor and gave them & safe retuge irom persecution. Tvis:ted tne place yeaterday and saw M. Bonne! @ Provestant priest of the oid Huguenot stock, Wi is incumbent of the itving, a poor one, for (ith does not lead to riches. “Me Bonhet spoke Freno? himself with dimMeuity, He told me that not one o his parishione:s could speak French at all. ner Was his own name, a French one, and the name oi Guyot and Fournier, witn some others, to re mind them of the land ‘from which they had wan dered ‘away; nothing else. ‘Yhia drop of pur Prenee blood had been lost in the great Germas Yer, with this plain commentary upon churct history before his eyes, and witha oe mornin drive of his palace, Prince Bismarck, blinded by power, dazed aud confused by oficial talk and in jormation of the two and two make four sort: Seems to think that by afew words written {or printing upou government paper, and some pliant voters, he can really chanze the faith and religious traditions of 15,000,000 people, Yes, that isapout the Rumber of the German people whose stubborn consciences he meant to bend. Bavaria alone bas 6,000,000 Komas Catholics, The Court of Saxony and many of hes people are Roinan Catholic also, The Grand Duchy Ol Posen adheres to tue old faith, whica 1s the only one iounded upon Gospel 1a' Two counties ip East Prussia are wooly, Cathol So 18 the whole of Nortuern ilesia and nearly halt of the South, S0i8@ part of Westphalia, Paderborn and the Rhenish provinces. There may be also some 120,000 Roman Catholics at Elbing and Marienburg in West Prussia, ‘They make up 15,000,100 souls in all. The rest of the population 1s between 25,000,000 and 26,000,000, It is composed o! all religious sects, and by lar the greater portion are persons who reuily profess ne religion at all, Numerically speaking, therefore, it might not be erroneous to say that the Romaa Catholics are a majority, to whom certain offcias Porsons, really representing @ minority, are re- solved to give laws, Let us see what has already come of it. The quarrel between the government and the Cathohca, though it has only just come toa head, has beer Jermenting ior several years, and the Catholics have perceived that they could practically ae nothing against an army of clerks led vy Prince Bismarck, for be has perfected the most complete oficial and military machine now existing in the worid, and 80 they are doing as the Freuch Hugue- nots did before tiem, they are quictly going away. Yhe Prussian government, finding that great numbers of stout young feilows, eminentiy usetub for aggressive or deicnsive purposes, were tak. leave of their homes, and allowing the clerks te have their will only upon such goods and chattels as they could not conveniently take with them hag put into execution every preventive meas- ure at its dis:osal to check emigration. ‘I'ne raul- Ways have b forvidden to carry them and thew elects at reasonable rates, ‘They have beer thwarted and worried at every step ol outward march. Nevertheless, the statistics of emigration for 1872 (and German statistics are thoroughly reiabiey slow a great increase in the Lumber of emigrants. For instance, no fewer than 80,212 German emi- grants were shipped off to America for Bremeu alone in that year. ‘They went, says the oflicial report, in 201 Supa, About 16,000 of them departed in sailing vessels, the rest in steamers, Moreover, the unprecedented number of 58,528 German emi- grants embarked at the port of Hamburg. OL these emigrants, via Bremen, 59,709 landed a New York and 16,347 at Baltiwore. There is no doubt that they have gone away from Germiny, and that eimlgration, Ouce more 1m the history of whe world, is being practised upon a large scale, as THE ONLY DISCOVERABLE KEMEDY AGAINST RE- LIGIOUS PERSECUTION. I now proceed to g.ve a summary of the FOUR LAWS AGAINSE THE CHURCH Tyee fe on the 16th of last May, and the bare umor ol wiicu had such @ marked eifect upom German emigration, ‘the preambie states that “no ecciesiastical em- ployment (whether permanent or revocable) can be conlerred in any Chrisuian Church upon any Other person but @ German subject who hus gune througii a course of scientific education in conior- mity with the present law, and against whose nomination no opposition whatever has been made py government.” ‘This clause puts all archvishop- rics, bishoprics, deaneries and other Offices of all Caristian Churches at the absolute disposal ot halt adozen assistant under secretaries of public de- artments, their iriends, relatives and connections, Rt really eXpresses & bold idea. . Ihe primary education necessary for an ate fo be in- vested with au ecclesiastical employment the can~ didate must have passed his final examination at a German school, He must have studied theology Jor three years at a German university. He must have passed a scientific examination, calied ‘@ State examination prescribed and regulated by | the State? ior the further gloriication oi clerks and departments.”” ‘the theoiogical studies above mentioned may be foliowed in the religious seminaries existing Prussia ac the time of the promuigation of this jaw, providing that they were instituted for the sclentitic education of theologians and it the Min- ister of Pubic Worship is of opimon that the studies pursued in vhese institutes can properiy Teplace those oO! @ university; but Biudents at @ university are not aliowed to belong to any reiig- lous seminary during the cuurse of tucir studics. “The State exammation of students will take | Place at the termination of their theological | clerk). studies,’ Which Will tuereby become useless I tae examining 0.:clals object to their suiliciency. “rhe State examination will be conducted im such a nanner as to show that the candidate has acquired the scientific education necessary for eccelesiastical functions, notably on the ground os philosophy, history and German literature.” ‘inese Italics are LOt mine; they are found in the oficial reprint of the law sent to me by Prince Bismarck. “A tue religious institutions which serve for the primary education of ecclesiastics are placed under the supervision of the State,’’ represented, 0! course, as it always is, by some small clerk. “in these estublisuments no proiessor or other person in authority can be employed, except German who ims proved bis scientiuc capacity ac- cording to the prescriptions above mentioned, and against Whose nomination no opposition what- ever 18 made by government” (i. @ the small Here, then, 1s practically an end to the no- biest system of education which the world has scen; the system Wulch gave Edmund Burke to | England and which bas repeatedly roused vbe ad- miration vl the wuole civilized world, “Lf the said prescripiions are not observed, or the orders emanating from the authorities of State’ (let us bear in mind that they are always smail C.ercs) “are disobeyed, the Minister of Public Works 1s authorized to retain until these imirac- | tious of the law nave Ceased” (that is to say, dur- ing the small clerks, pleasure) ‘the revenue, al- lotted to the lustituuion, or to shut up the b= lishment.” Now here, indeed, is opened a wide door to jobbery and seit-iuterest in clerks. We shall see what will come o/ it; and meantime we must not forget that an italian King's clerks might in like manuer conilscate the reveuues of the Holy See at any momeat if they were under his and their control, “No more seminaries for the education of boys may be estabiished; and no move pupiis may be admitted into the seminaries now existing.’? Respecting the ‘nomination of ecclesiastics, the dignitaries of the Caurch are obiiged to designate to the Presideut Superior of their province the | candidate to whom they are about to coniide an ecclesiastical employment, and to indicate what is | that employment”? “Yes, | think we are,” answered the Parliament | man. In the afternoon at four o'clock, the Berlin dui ner hour, I dined at the fable dnote of the Hotei de Rome, The table dhote was crowded. There was THE BISHOP OF STRASBOURG, who is staying here, THE BISHOP OF METZ and several of the Catholic Deputies of Alsace- Lorraine, iooking all very pale and anxious, for the devate, as might be supposed, had gone against tuem. ‘here also were grave, sad faces, such as are seldom seen at a German table a’note in winter time. hey were tne faces ol the directors and treasurers of Catholic institutions whose revenues were seized, or about to be seized, aud who were | full of concern jor the poor and the helpless, the halt and the lame and the deat and the blind who depended on those revenues for their daily bread, and alar off in THE OLD FRENCH VILLAGE OF ALSACE-LORRAINE, I fancied | could hear the wall of many women and the frightened moan of orphans, whose future looks awfully dark now toat the men of God, who fed and clothed them, are to be driven out o! the land where float the imperial banners of the black German eagle. BBRLIN, Feb. 21, 1 Almost at the gates of Berlin there is A SMALL COLONY OF FRENCH HUGURNOTS, and their history might be not unworthy the con- It was composed of men who left their homes, their country, their professions, their interests, and all that selfish persons hold dear, rather than give up one article of their belief. The question is not whether they were right, or whether they were wrong. Perhaps it is not possible to reason upon Christianity without accepting entirely the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Charch, Perhaps it is nov possible to bring haman reason at ail to bear upon the in- finite mysteries of Heaven, Tuere is a very fine argument of Pascal, who says simply, “We are told in Holy Writ that our RELIGION 18 INCOMPREHERNSIBLE, and we find itso. If it were bot incom, rehensible it would not be trae.” But this is a subject abou wich theologians have disputed, and probably | will dispute till time sh be no more. pure tll time shall be HO MOTE. 6 gia not Cervaur it is that the Fre reason with any view to their world) concerns. | determination existed in France to were ‘some their religion, and tney went elsewher’: ji ori) went to England, some bo to Holland, Who were younger, or 0 MORK COURAGE OR MORE MONEY), rica, found their way across the seas 4 auttien Wherever they went suey bones great qi A and proved that they we! ; a wise statesman would not bi agri mien ished from their native country. i munity, possibly ilies, or say 500 souls, set- 100 sami tied at @ place which ‘was then called |OLZ, and whick afterwards cage (0 bg known as Franz: ing thirty days following this designation the President Superior may oppose tue LomMation 1 a candidate.”* “He may do so under the following circum- stances :— “First—If the legal conditions exacted for the | investment of ecclesiastical functions ure wanting | that thia Court 18 not | huve become vacant. | promulgation of t to the candidate designated, “Second—Ii the candidate has been condemned or is prosecuted Jor any crime or offence which the German peval code punishes by imprisonment or the loss of civil rights or of public employment. (that is to say, im case any person whatever chooses to bring an accusation against him, wihcther false or true.) nird—If the antecedents of the candidate are such as to authorize the belief that he will act in contravention to the laws of the State and trouble the public peace.” (This clause would certainly have excluded Luther, Knox, Calvin and all the authors of tie Reformation tn a lump, and it gives the widest possible margin to official blundering or capric Bry appeal may be made against @ declaration of opposition within thiit, jays to the Royal ¥ cs or, considering Court for ecclesiastical + So tne Mim et established, ister of Worship.” (tbat ig to say, from the clerk to tne clerk.) “The sentence pronounced on this appeal is de- finitive.” “r ination to an ecclesiastical appoint- ment in contradiction with these prescripuions is ” ne space tations, within tne Spicy the expiration of thi ident Superior may compel the ec- Sea eat watnority to fill up the appointment on pain of @ fine not exceeding one thousand tualers? (In short, @ ruimous fine.) “Phe creation of ecclesiastical employments of revocable character can only be perinitted under the sanction of tue Minister of Worship.” “Any sentence of imprisonment or deprivation of civil rights wili occasion the loss of ecclesiastical junctions and the stipend attached to them,’ (hat is to #0, @ Dishop may first be fined for act- ing according to lite Conscicnce, then imprisoned for default of payment, alter which he will cease to be @ bishop.) “All foreigners npon whom any ecclesiastical employment has been conlerred previous to the present law must become sab- jects of the German pire within six months,** Moreover, no ecclesiastical discipligary 8¢% tence can be carried into efect without the sate tion of the President Superior, Who may fing x bishop @ hundred thalers jor suspending, revoking or displacing a priest upon his episcopal authority 5 bat the State may dismiss @ clergyman from his employment wi'aout the intervenuon of his ec- | clesiastical superiors and notwithstauding their o1 people Whom | | | opposition. The discipline of the Church 18 entirely rega- lated and settled by the State, and in a lew words it may be safely predicted that clements are now let loose which will end in the entire disruption of the German Empire, for military despotism never Ugg apbjugaved the Gaurch aad Rever Will do sd,