The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1874, Page 6

6 RULGIUS INTELLIGENCE. | + — Programme of Services---Palm Sunday, March 29. . Prudeniius’ Letter on Temperance. - MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. The possibilty of a new issue af inconvertidle paper Fregard with amazement and anxiety, and, in my judgment, such an issue would be @ detre ment and a shanw.—CHARL#S SUMNER, Services To-Day. ‘The New York Churen Extension and Missionary Soclety wili be addressed to-morrow evening in ‘phirty-foarth street Merhodist Eptscopal church y Drs, Hatdeid and Dashiel, General C, 8, Fisk and Bishop Janes, tae oOecasion being its annual meeting. The “Chidven’s Fold” will hold s anniversary thia evening in St. Bartholomew's Protestant Epis- copalenureh. Rev. (. B. Smith will preach, be, 8. H. Tyng, Jr, will preach im Cooper Union Hal this evening. Mr. D, H. Miller, of the senior class of the Rochester Theological Semtuary, will occupy the pulpit of the Tabernacle Bapust charen to-day at the usnal hours ys the rite of confirmation will be administered in | vhte to St. Thotmas’? Protestant Eptseopal church morning, when Bishop Potter is expected prewen, Kev. J. W. Barnhart will preach, merning an@ evening, in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church, and in the aiternoon Dr. Dio Lewis will adders the temperance meeting there, The Kev, Robert Cameron conducta the cloning services in the Seventeenth street Baptist church to-day. Hereafter the society-will worship in the chureh in Twenty-eighth street, near Broaaway. Rev. James Crystal will preach in the Baptistry 1n West Flitreth street to-day. Rev. George B. Cheever, D, 0., will ad@ress young men in Assooldtion Hall this evening. kev, Dr. Hatfeid, of Ciheinnati, wil! preach this | morning and evening in St. Luke's Method:st Epise copal church. Rev BH. W. Knapp will preach at the usual honrs in the Laight street Baptist church and will bap tize in the evening. Dr. D. H. Miller will oecupy the pulpit of Plym- outh Baptiat church wnorping and evening. Rev. M. Hamilton will preach in the Seoteh an churel tine morning and ajternoon, ‘atner Bjerring will preach an Buglish ser- mon this inorning, m te Russo-Greck chapel, on “Repentance and Self-Dealal.’? Fyom the title oi the subject chosen by Dr. Gr for bis Reformed One review Dr. Crosby's moderate drinking discours the morning. Sermon also in the afternoon. Dr. J. D. Fulton, of Brooklyn, will talx also about temperance this cveniug, om the line of Curisis miracle at Cana of Galiice. In the evening he will begin a series of sermons on “Leading Incidents in the Lite of Christ.” Sermons wil be preached, morning and evening, in Phity-third street Haptist euurvh by the pastor, Rey, John Vassar cqnduets the revival services dyr- ing the wee Rey. Rovert Sloss will preach thia morning in the Fou uth street Presbyterian church, corner of Second avenue, and will administer the sacra- ment of tue Lord’s Supper in the afternoon. Rey. Dr. K. 3. Moran will conduct the Free Church services, 1n Harvard Rooms, this morning, Service is lucid here also on Thursday evenings. Sunday school meeting at nine A, M, to-day. Dr. Armitage will preach in the Fiftn avenue Bapwst church to-day, morning and evening. Reiormed Cuurch services Will be Held in St-in- way Hall this worning, and in Lyric Hall this evening. Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach to the Church of Onur Saviour this morning aud evening in the hall of the Standard Club. Rey. 8. H. Tyng, dr., D. D., will occupy the pulpit of the Church of the Holy Trinity this morning and aiterpoon—Madison avenue and Forty-seventa — street (@aplain McCabe will preach, morning and even- ing. im the Free Tabernacie Methodist Episcopal churen. “The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven tn the Parables of Opr Lord” ia the unwieldy tate of the sabdject to be treated this evening in the Catholic Apostolic chureb. ‘Tne pulpit of the Central Baptist church will be occupied to-day by Rey. Fred, Kvans. The Rey. W. C, Dawson will preach at the usual houra to-day In the Church of the Disciples of Christ. Rev. P. L. Davies will preach at the usual hours | to-day, and wili baptize candidates this evening in the Berean Baptist canon. The temperance Movement will receive the at tention of Rev. b. C. Sweetzer this morting in the Bleecker street Universalist chu Kev, David Mitchell will preach tn the Cana street Presbyterian church this morning and aiter- noon. Dr. Osbor: will preach in the South Baptist chureh to-¢ 4 the usual hows ef service. Bap- tism tn th The Progre uclists wil mect in Kobin- eon Hall t and evening, and be ad- A. Wheelovk, “insptratioval rijualists Who are not progres- noon at Germania Hall and talk ers over Without any particular inspiration. Rev. De B. Ju Wul preact In the West mat Six eentia street Baptist churc) this morning and Will baptize cand: 3 alter iat service. | yin Sctilumovitz will lecture Ou the prophe- é erniug the Messiah in the schoolroom of wwe Cnureh of e tiely Innocents tas atternoon atfiveP. M. These lectures are designed mainly Jor Israeitt t gh all persons are weicomed, Atthe church of St, Mary the Virgin the.e wilt bea sermon and high celebration of the Holy | Eucharist tis morning. Rossin’s grand ‘“Stabat Maver” witi teved this ning. “A Popular * will be the subject of Rev, Mr. Mataew eniny at tue Mission Buniding, corner of > Breet. Kev, Dr. Porteons preaches this morning in the Brooklyn Academy and in he évening in Dr. bad- on’a Church, Clinton aven he King’s Buties” is Rey shavenue and Eighteenth \ir, Pycott’s evening auibject, im St. John’s churcn, Brooklyn. Rey. J. W, Bonbam wii tell avout tie London Mission at Grace chapel thts evening. ‘The Taduence of Woman” upon our lives wilt pe shown by Rev. Mr, Hepworta, tn the Clureh of the veniug. ¥’ Division, 8 of T., Will hold whew anniversary in Wi { street Metnodist church on Monday evening. oly Week services will be held in the Church of the Heavenly F st eleven A. M. and four 2. M.; sermons to-day and Goud Eriday. (here will be tree morning aod an evening ser- Vice iD St. Ignatius? church to-day and Good Fri- aay. the nday Services In St, Alban’s churola ‘Wii! be at seven, ten, nalf-past ten and eleven A, M., afid tour ana hoti-past seven P.M. Rey, F. W. Woitona es this morning in the Church of tho Messian, “rrmerioa Cl ture by Rev. courch coruer broad Rev. tt ty’ ta the subject of a lec- ©. Goss tms asrernoun in the Ay Dr. Haug preaches Quureh of the Rexurrecuon, Coutrmanon services we WHiehop of the diocese Us evening in AnUion Memorial church, tu Wuinwrigot Memona) cnarcn Kev. Mr. Egbert. Preaches morning and evening. alloual Keligion’ is Rey. Mr. Clarke's subject 4b Lariem Laity ehapel tus morning. Cougeits ae how ta be a feaiure in the Thurs day evening Goong ar Men jamin Aubro's. Dr, Charies be Ne De Garing Lali this eveun oh service, he will, donbtiess, nd tweuiy-elguch aureet, | orning and evening mM | ‘ aad overs Will speak @& | NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAKCH 2), Cerenprauion of Palm Sanday To-Day— Hely Week and Ite Observances. memorates the last visit of the Baviour to the city of David, where He was met, agcording to. St. Matthew's accoant of the event, by “a very great multitude,” who “spread their garments in the way,” while “others cut down branches from the trees and strewed them in the way,’ and when “rhe multitude that went before and that fo.owed cried, flosanua to the Son of God! Blessed 1s he that comets inthe name of the Lord! Hosanna in the niynestl”? It used to be a custom in Europe on this day-— and doubtless the custom ye> prevails tu many Catholic courtries—tur the people to carry in pro- cession, tu defect of the palm, branches of some Otaer tree, as box, yew or Willow (alter the branches had been blessed by the priest), im mem- | ory of tue Saviour’s triuaphal entry into the floly City, after which they Were usually burned aud the ashes jitd atte to be aprinkted on the heads of the congregation on the ensuing Ass Wednesday, The | observances of the day come down to us from an early period in the history of the Ghuren, and a8 Palm Sunday ushers In “Holy Week’ the ceremonies im the churches are always Of an imposing and extraordinary ; character, It 13 the Catholic Church, however, | which observes the festival with the greatest pomp, itis kKuown that from Ash Wednesday ul! Raster Sunday, which comprises the season of | Lent, the church, Dguratuvely apeaking, ts in sack- | cloth and ashes, 1t is @ period whem the faithiul, a5 she Calis her devotees, are expected to fast and pray more earnestiy than at any other period of the year, in erder to prepare themselves for the | Baster rejoicings, This period of forty days com- memorates the lorty days? last ol the Saviour in the | Wildero andthe Church during the tast wears ber garments of inourting, and no display of musio is @iowed im the sacred editices, faim Sunday, | however, IS an exceptional day oi the forty, Ag it commemorates tie Oriel triumph ot the Saviour io Jerusalem, the services ate always invested with &,Omp ma circumstance ouly surpassed by the Magnilicence and disiay with whica the cere- ; Monies at Bueter ere made so dazzling and at. | tracuve. The blessing of} Wie paims Will take | place to-day tn ati the Catnoite churenes, and tn a | | Jew, provaoty, the id custom—whieh Is yet reitg- | tously observed in many parte OF Burove—oi a pro- ) cession o} the juita.ul or of the priests aud altar | bovs through the churct may be aaa Palm Sunday over, the Church again puta on her habtitwents ot sorrow, and, until tue loliowing Sunday, ‘he @xercizes Observed dre of tie most | mourntai charaucter—every day of the week being } observed, with tae eXceplioR of Muly Thursday, as a day ot Jamentation. in thes week the passion of Cur Lord is meditated upon by the iathful, and every Vaportaut inctteat im the last days of the | Saviour’s tue ts commemorated by some parcicu- j We service. ‘Lhe Wednesday of Holy Week was } on erined Spy Weune day, so ealied frvin the ) boon that Jadas banged hunselt on that | day (two daye before the savioar was pat | to death), OW Maundy Thursday the services } call to mind the institution of the Blessed -ucna- | rist—a comaemorauon of the Last Sapper. On this day it is the Gustuim to Catholic countries for | The bissop to wash the ieet of tWeive pour men to | duuitate tae pambiry of Christ, as tlustiared m Ais | Wasuing of the Jeet of His disciples, On Good Fri- | day, when the services commemorate the death on | Ge CrOsS Of the Saviour, Lo hisses are said—racier there 18 HO Consecration G1 the host, Ci@ Waler that Was consecrated the day be.ore belbg used by the ceiebrant OF tie BeLVvICEs. Lue ofice of the tenedra is the principal feature of tue oly Week ceremonimis, 1t consists of the ) MatHs aod lauds, which It is customary to recite over night. Whue the service is beng veld a large eaudiestick, With fiteen lights, arianged in the jorm oi # Wiangle, Which denote Christ and the $ Who predicted his coming, is placed in tuary. Lhe hgats are extiprursied one ; by One unt only the OMe on the lop remains, | This taken duwn during the service and placed | wnder the altar unlit the ‘close of the they brought pack. This sylubolizes | Dural and Fesarreewor | ln Lhe oiden uune the celebration of Palm Sun- day in kogiand brought Wilh it many pecusiar cus toms. Ib Was Customary in sue piaces tu intro. dnce into the procession of the jaiviiul bearing the branches Of pam a Wooden figure of au ass Miownted On Wheels, With a Wooden human figure | riding upon it tu represent tue saviour, Bere | the procession started from the Church a priest ade dressed tae peopic, telung tiem who tne figure represented und what the Saviour Lad done lor theni; Low He had entered Jerugalcin riding upon | @o ass and how the peopie had strewn the ground | with branches a8 He went along. Then the ) prowession started and the people strewed Uhe way with Willow branches, while two priests Ma ched anead ofit ail singing psalms. Im meas- Weas the as8 in whe procession passed by the branches were eazerly gathered up by tue muiti- | tude, a8 it Was popularly supposed that, alter the | ass nad pessed over tnem, they were an iniadbie Protection against st rms and withing during the ensting year. Accoruing to the records 01 St. An- | drew muvbvard’s parish in London, in 1620, It } Scents That a wooden angel also Was Wout tobe a leading feature in the procession, jor w alluding to the day abd itécelebration one record hasan item, “Eight pence tor the bire of an angel on tis oceagen.” If Woud appear: that | angels were rather @ drug in tie mar- et oa «jew years later, for 1537 | bae hire was obly iour peuce. Jo 1936 Henry tue | biglitn, aiter the Relormauon, was by bo means averse to te CLesom Of the carrying of paims on day, and gave public notice that it Was a prac “not Wo be contemoed or dropped.’ The cus- tom of the pode processions bearing the pals Was kept up by the clergy uoul tue reign of kd- | ward the 1 oid, Waoeu It Waa leit to the voluntary | observance of the people. Faller, in the iollowing ; age, alluuead vo the custom aa “io memory of tae receiving O1 Christ into Jerusalem a Ute berore Hits death and that we May haye the same desire tw reveive Bim ito our hearts.” The Jewish Passover. | Passover or Resach wii commence to be cela- brated by Israelites thronghout the world, in com- Pliance with (he Divine command, The history on Which the least 1s based is too well known to re- quire much explanation, The first few chapters of the book of odus contain its fullest exposition, The festivol is commemorative of Israei’s redemnp- | tion from Egyptian bondage, and ts one of those Mynuments Which, more than any other, connects the living pr sent with the ho pasi—a monu- meut io.e grand, More sublime aud more mstruc- tive tis any of Warole Or StOpeE that speaks ia tue | dum jancuige of the ages that lave rolled by Biuce tielr erection, Acopting the language of the Jewisn 7ijnes, it may be wuld that, “Io spite of toe Miuman Gecrees issaed by the Lyypiiaa Court #iLsl Lie propagated oF A SLAVE NATION, terrip.e treatment to which they ed, tue horde of slaves increased in- asigg lu a degree to rouse the fears, ol toe ruera, and, whats ls wost Lol all, Wien the time came tor this Dat.ou to assert its rights, to demand its freedom, } | in spite o Were S4 stead vu: it aid som pume or the loerty of con ce, Ol religious ireedom; it demanded the rigut to wor-hip God according to tue dictates of its own bn, aNd ius placed, io alk Gum due .reedom ol region as the highest prerogative Of} Man, & priveipie Uuderiying all Our rights, and WitnOus Wiich Go Ovuer WOOLLY is possible. 1t 18 Lo ihe crecit 01 Israelites that, altiiough 3,000 years have elapsed since the rediarkable events took place, yeu to this day the ceicmonies apper- w come, taining to Lue least are Observed with the sume fecliux 0! giautude as when urst the command Was isaued; aud it 1s eminently proper tat this especially a8 regards the Jews in (hese Lotea States, where | THE KIGHTS OF MAN | are property understo ad and conscience is re- spected. It Was nuwmded that the cause and the euect 1 Iscacl’s emancipation were veer to be rt 1he cause Was oppression ; the eect, ire ce tHe OBS, VALE Of LAK destival by the use of ny vened by Like no omer nation Isr was forever the vice tim of persecution sor its religious conviction; ke Bo oper aution did it remain stedd.ass to its faith | fod tPaditions, Lowe’ crustingly the tyrants Lund might be [aid Upow its bead! Piilosypuers May oucteet tn tracing the moral low What governs Lie history o1 humanity, but tuey Will (au w find an expiunation tor the wonucriul, Tiraehlons phenometion of tsraei's history, except Wi Gis! Hal the na4uG of Providence guided aud Siaped its course, and sent It orth ow 1s mission. And borough tas same divine power it bas nob chiy su vived its adversaries, but impressed 13 Retius, Its laws, ILS Morals, IS Energy Upun e Civiized nation. It speaks Lo the wOFld to-lay the same langgage if spoke 4,000 years ayo, and the World tu-day Makes use O} istuel’s language x en coumuioy wilh tle Maker oF We universe. e PSALMA AND THE PROPHETS bring comfort and consolav.on to moilions of soula to-day in & iar ureat rey than they have ever done beiore, ANY Hext ounday Christians as Well G8 ssyAetes Will unite to celebrate tue deliver- ance, Dor alone OF & ation irom Egyptian vondage, but of civil and religious liberty som mevta and | Tegal beak wing) and tie iting upo: the soul of | husndnity Ont of te depiis of iyuorauce and moral degiadawon mto Which it hau iwilen, Death to ail forms oF oppression and to all tyrants wheter in Eg) ps or Jerusalem or elsewhere! “Theophilus” defends Dr, Fulton, ol Brookiyo, from ceriain strictures by @ “Roman Cathotic,” published in the HERALD lately, on the Doctor's | @nu-Cathohe sermon. “Iheoplniay’’ defends the | Doctor irom the charge of bigotry and narrow. mindedness brought against tim and us Charch, abd adds What in these things the Roman Cathoie Chursh can't be excelled, though there are iajvidnal memvers oF taat MUON HOt aL ail weenie (oO This Charge. eyard to priestly a piace to ome, "i beupuiius” thab the celibacy of the clergy Was insutuiad | A Defence of Dr. Fulton, of Bronktyn. In To-day (Paimi Sunday) the Christian worid com- | On tue ensuing Thursday the annual festival of © Witkes | that they might have no family or other ties to ud them to @uy country, oat they mignt ba al vuys (ree to answer the cal ¢ Papal Court, Whiek, it ts co they regard be.cre uny other authority or goverpment on earth, “oman Catholic” had classed Lafayette among the great men of the Roman Catholie Churen, who (oucht for the life and Lberties of this Repubhe under Washington, so that the language tinpuled Lo George Washington to put nove but Am on gaara was inconsistent with his ving thent mmportant positions, “Theaptiias,” owever, asserts that Latayette was not & Catnolic, but, so tar from it, he uttered the following language :—*fi ever the liberiies of Amertea are destroyed it yp be through ‘he incer- vention of Ronush priests, Hence *iheopoiins’? argues that Dr. Faltot was rignt in tls re oarks on this point. The poctor’s oppusition to convents, too, is detended by “Taeophivus,” who r + Ro. man Catholie”’ to sesstou Condcil of trent, wherein tc wat tias no effectual remedy couid he appiiea ro tose fustitutions to counveract the corraptive and Wo- | cleanness that existed in thom at that period, Alwbrosius visited variogs convents in nis day, but reported that he could flad no trace ol deceuey In auy of them, . A Frenchman on Poor “Balbutus.” A Sew weeks ago we published a letier signed “Balbutus,” giving an ex-Cathotte's reasons tor leaving tuat Charch, We also pnisished iater cer- tatm replies to that letter, but we have received many more, & few of which here follow, Proiessor Coté sends the following :— To Tar Kpiror or tne Herato:— ra late Sunday's “Religious Intelgence’ 2) peared @ pretty piece of logic trow & correspon: ent, who signed himéell “Baioutus.”? at lire sighs | anticxpated some spicy aud migh-favored theowgical tuurBament, but notlimg of the kind Was presented, My Lerplexity, however, was lessened by learning that your corves, unde: “loves he Catnolic Cuureb and belleves oy 11s very nature ii Urings forth myriads Of the le:oeally good Where otuers produce couples,’ and, more- over, “that he 19 an Irishwan and hates the pame, “Sayncoat,? What wonderful reasons should cause to avan- don the pale of the Cathole Church a man who Hx tO live and ce in it? Jor tay Own faith, L hesitaved to read jurtier, Bat curtosity, that old foe of mankind, and the very, fa! ber of the origimal sin aud the religious somerset of “Balbutas” lumseil, compelied me tolnduige m & Iree reading ol tie formidable arguments which swduced aim to take 50 momentous a Btep! Snrely, deur “Balbutus,’”? you used to be a vory inattentive boy when going to catechism, a8 you seem to know nuthin now 4 tender-hearted, good-natured individual, as four out of your six reasons are of a inere.y Coul- passionate character, exuibiting ®& genoine and Very commendable xymputny:—Piret, tor babes | | could and would buy up any legisiature in the i dying without beg baptised ; second, ior toe mill- jong oF non-Cathones doomed fatally to hell fray third, for the saints, to Whom “au everlasting hell for the so muny unre entant sinners tiey nave loved would be an wexhaustible sonres uf riety” jourth, iof God hnmself, whom you pity to are been 40 badly misrepresented by the debrews as a revengetu! and garrow-utinded divinity. Oh! snail 1 say Witit you, Wat @ waste ot energy? Lee ie sor your peed of pitytue, and jortunately for ail those you pitied so much, faith teaches us that :—-Firsr, babes dead, without beimg beptuzed, instead ot “wuimperms and deai- ening Adam's ears with their groans aud sc: eums” are, although deprived of the sight of God, in such @ state of relative felicity that it 8 @ ureat deal bei ter jor them to be 80 than to Have never come Into existence. Second, here'tes, sehtsmutics and even infideis, dytug in good aith—tuar is, veleving slucerely Uley possess trutn—cau be saved, 11 they Obtain justitication by the meaus vi u perivci love oi Gud, and there are muiions o: them, known ony to the Mereiut Judge in heaven, shir, saints have done jgrever with gret or sorrow oO! any kK Fourth, God has no need o1 apy huwan or celestia! compassion, He veing happiness tt-ell, aud to even think the contrary 18 ;er.ect nonsense, How ia it that you not kbaw tls, having beena Cathohe ana belag still an Ingitwaut As efiicacy of prayer, any Ca.houc hid twelve sold could in tWo minutes knuck Gown your Willy argumentation on Peggy and Paddy. Olthe ieal presence you confess you dare not speak, und yet you say tuo inuch akout it, lov in five ies you “iraw up a first cass bias, lemy, whieh gives you @ legui Tight to some tiuuured years oh pusustory. In fact, ido not ur, staud how you dared to have tt printe!, the rea) pres ence is, of ail the Cathole dogmas, the ciearest and t.@ most accurateyy estabhsned by our Redeemer Himseli, I pity you trom iny heart if you do uot see (nat the Cathouc Church exisis on it as ITS foundation, and to it owes 1g muilioLs OF Sainte, millivus Ol Wartyrs. those missionaries you prociaiin paving no equa s in the World, those Bistera of CMarity you find only tn its bosom, and, in this very age o. materialism, the most splendid and permanent miracie ot Catholic love, the Littie Sisterso. the Poor! How ds at tuat you do not Know allthis, taving been w Catholic ana beiug still an irishiman ? Weil, 1 have not the hovor of a sirth in that land of 1aiti—in that iskind of -aints—of which your countrymen are so justly proud. lam @ brenco man, 4 80u Of the mouern babylon, and yet, were | TL unfortunate enough to loge my via init, Lwouid not, lor all the word, Make a show of iy Teuouue- ing it, I would rememper there are prie-ts euouga tu the Catnolic community to ausser wy Jloubis, and my only consolation for having Tead your prose is that Iam periecuiy sanguine you did nov Penotince your with at ail, LUL Want ouLy iene, as you sign yourse *Balvutas,”? wate, coming, a8 everybody Knows, trom th: Litin “oaloutire,”? bas no Other meaning than “jabberer.”) Anybody gub- siitating imagination for taitu and au uuwhtdie- some raving tor the teachings of the Chu.ch must come tO that, and be cured only by returning to the candid simplicity of tae children 0: God. it be your own end! “Sammon” on “Balbutus.”? “John Sawmon,” repiying to “Balvutus'* com. munication, published a fe + Sabvatha ago im the HERALD, Maintains that babes are impure, apd, since Nothing impure cam enter heaven, children | must have the regenerating infuences of baptism ; to cleanse from origival sin, Jn this “Juhi Sam- | mon" digiers very gravely {rom otter Cathohe cor- respondents on this point. Oar correspundent’s argumeni in dejence 01 the “real presence’ in the eucnarist is based on the “power of Christ aud on the jact that He once tuined water inio wine at the Gulilean tiarriuxe least) and perormed many other muracics besides, ‘Joun Sammons’ other arguments iu dejence of prayer, vue lor another, &c., huve been better pul uireuuy, | Phe posstbtlity af a new issue of inconvert ' paper Iregard with amazement and anxiety, aw im ny judgment, such an issue would ve a detrte ment and a shame.—CHAKLES SUMNEK. “Queries for Methodists” Answered. To THE EDITOR ‘OF THE URRALD:. I presume your correspondent, Miller,” seeks. | by his queries to gain wlormatiou ior Limsely and, | pernaps, tosave the Methodist Church from the sin offincreasing the army of backsuders.’* How mauy converts, le asks, Would the Mcthodiets get to their chure es, &c.? He must be luburing un- der a Serious mistake as regards the object of the Methodists in hojding revival meetings, Their ob Ject is not to increase the number of their own society So much as to try and brig souls trom darkoess to light, and irom wie power of Satan unto God. MW “F, Miller? were to go to asew Mure such meetings he migit und that tear is not always the motive used ww impress the minds of the people. Very o.ten love 1s used, As vo the probable number of converts, 1 do not see very clearly how It could ve caculuted, “Way are the Winter montis cuyseur’’ he asks also, Wou.d he like to be in a smatecruccn crowced With people On a hot July eveniugy | Unk not; ‘and T am sure very jew people would, Ue troubied, too, at thé degree o1 excitement pro- duced on the minds of tue pe pie, L woud uke to know “RB, Millers” opiaion o. tie exciteme day ot Pentecust, He wus be very wach s every time he hears it read; gud scul, nobwithe standing such improper conduct, & gredt numer oi souls were naved. How cun he ac count 10r tat? our correspondent may Be classed with the litle boy woo knocked aud larhed qroand widige autly to beat the miztity ouk with lis puny baud jor atiemptiug to be IQ cis Way. On lookuis over the carcer of Meilodisin fom the tue he ever to-be-howoved Puitip Kuoury lenced in Lie eonte try to the présemh we way salely conciude that more have been added tir aus y s.uence 0. God's folds than ty the “army of ba ksuders.? “BR, Miles’s option OF geting heaven is wtiery orthy of & man in Chrisuan wud, f “enterprise of getting to feavent —f hove = “4 Miller” wii find a profit able one, but f would ike wim to rememo.r that God 18 aspiru, aud tuey that Worsaip dim | Toust worship Limtsa syirlt avd i trata, and hone be 0) an in pebuous, Walin-hearved Uisposition Wis KErVicw Wilh BOb LE ACCEp alice God iit be Cool and methodical, 1 tink “geting to heaven” is apt Alerprise (but Nery difievently) in the Bilie, us “by wracen.e yo saved, through Jaith, not by Works, les) any wan should boast; y the wasitog vi regeneration and the renewal oF (he Holy Giost! “of course your oor respondent has periect wberty to yet to veaven in Any way he Hikes; but} would, im coueiusion, ade vise nim to throw his whole heart ity it or eave if alone entirely; ior God never iikes poople wao gre neitler bot uor cold, WILLIAM W. HOLT. Have Darwin anti Tyndal Superseded Moses and Pault “JF. 6.," & Baiimoro corresponient, asks the question, “Does the Darwinian wWeory of bbe ort- win Of Man vupersede the Scripture voorrme on the | BANC BUdject A lormer correspondent aeclared that it cad, wd. FG.) thinks diMerenty. The ) Darwinian theery he adm ts ie founded on eu in | Gspulabie fact that Mau ts an yn), aud om this fact Wie theory Of Lis GVolutian (ron Wie lower | suumals is deduced, Lut te jact docs aut. prove onastic Orders”? twenty-f th | nd, trembling » moment | rumordidi estise of | avoutit, and you mest ve | ¢ ay | ALSRuD M, COTTE. If, however, the fact could be put out @ theory’ Would, o1 meeessity, fall And tne nistake of some men has been in trving wo deny or dispose of tne fact 30 8 toget rid of the wapleasaut tieory. “SF, GO. quotes Gibven and Kenan as deciarme that the Scriptures of the Ola and New Tosiament nowhere teach the spirituality or immortality of the soul but, ou the contrary, they affirm that, like man. the lower anima.s are “hying souls”? also and in the tatrer of Hig wud death the one hath no pre-enit- nence above the over. Milton, Priestley, Pro.es- sor fain, of Acerdeen, In the seventeenth gna teenth centuries, are quoted vy “I. FG? aa the theory. {of the way througn also, © deciaring the 8 me trate, which they ret pk to the Hevrew gropeeta Where they found it. Dar- win, lyndal, Hux ey, &o., refuse 10 give the eredtt for tis dovteine where it belongs, But ovr cor respondent does not think that the statement of some lew et should oblige us also to accept every hew theory that may be propounded, | Prudentius’ Last Words About Tempere ance. To TuR Kprron OF THR HEBALD:— Alast word about temperance, Jt is not too much to hope that, althorgh the appeal made through your columna ior @ temperance reform echo among the many flourishing roctelies on whose banners total abstinence is inscribed. Tv { shait be tae duty of the writer 9 wateh the mect- ing of the State and Natlonal Temperance Unions and subunit to thew in detail the measures which ave now in briei placed before your readeta. 6 1. Can no offectual preventive be found in gar sale of drugged and deteterious Iiquors ? | The writer canuot but reme uber what occurred | in Franee in 1863-64, A sort o1 cheap brandy or spirits was distified from beetroot and had a linge sale in those parte of France which do not pro- duce wine. It was goon discovered, however, that its use produced everywhere a sickness akin to delirium tremens or acute mania, aud so the gov- ernment prolpited both the sale aud the manu- facture of what was found to be poisonous, This was only an instance of the watchful solicitude with whieh the government of that conntry pre- vented everything unfit for human food or drink to find Its way into the market, With us the evil is, itis to bo feared, that were | there no sach pronabitory legisiarion tu existence it would be idie to atteyptto pass a law lorbid~ ding either the mauafacture or the sale of in- | finitely worse stuff than beetroot brandy. THE LIQUOR CAPITAL OF THR UNITED STATES | country, from our august Congress down to those lawmakers Who year alter year diagrace the | Capito as Albany. And were the very best iaws | enacied to repress this abominable tale, wnere | | Is the magistrate willing enough or strong caougn | to enforce them? Or, w.tu the best will in the magistrate to do his duty, whut can ne effect with ‘such @ poiies force as ours, Who aré formidable only to the weak and peaceit! citizen, but patron- izing to the brutal and the violent and all reapect and delerence to the keepers of liquor houses ? We cannes forget iti we would—police euminis- siouers, police magistrates, po ice officers are the AppOlNtees Oi Lue priuiury electra, Woo meer aud Hake Up election tickets Ih the corber grogye: tes, ana nowhere else. ig tnvre no remedy for this? Apparently none, save In the union or all respectable catzzens tO Sup port, in Our wun.l, al eieviious, noue bur men pleaged to returim ims mvyecerate evil, Lae inter- Jeretive Of clergymen i active politics lk, save in extreme and rare chcaimstandes, Most undesir- abia, But When a great tural reiora is acxnowl- edged (6 be necessary and prayed lor by every other tamiy tn uwe for tie clergy to twow of} their influence en country. Waen tagir minds are made ay to do so @ lugusabd Opporunies offer ey wuich tuey can stir The Masses, Luvougn their whole iength, breadth ane depth, wthout appearing 'o elec. ioveer oF to descend irom cueit own igh position, avove ull politica parties, bo tyt Wi apy end the purpose of the writer. It ts MOL W.LD iepttiiie.6 busivess or Lonest, honor foe irate of any kind iiuG he would Muter.ere, The aevdpanon os betel ov bayer keeper iu itseil promtiily is aa fuwordvle one, at ledeb it is a peliectly law.ul oue; writ orbainated in tue sore heed of truvellers 48 Weil a3 in the practice Of bos- piauty, 1his 13 tae MotOn Lom Walch ciergynen Taust startin laying down the law ior ail pelsuua Who keep , ube wouses. We remeuver to nave once—several years ago— Sat beneath & pU.pl’ at Uniistmastide, when the preacher, aujer desct.biog the reception given at His Gru tu the Lavine Babe aud Mis wother by the the whore wegut Bethieucuites, Went on to descr.be How the drat | CUBIBIAN HOTEL AND TAVEKN KEKEERS received Wih lespect and loving kinaness all Wuylarers ior His dear sake ana remembrance, He was uot a brilliaut man, nor perhaps au e1o- quent one; but the p.coure dl tue stable lm Winch Girt Was baru aud of tae master and uustress OF (he publie house ministering tor Chnia's Boke to tue stranger, ty tae especially, Was 8+ puw- eriul in its simp.e TWulh Chat cvery heart was toucuet. Ad tudu, spedsing of OW OUF public houses are Kept aa. the excesses aud vices | Wich take tue Ceutres Of profiacy, he re- feried to areceny occurrence Im tue iveality tou man Wuo haa Keeu Made drunk io a public hous then turned out at miuinight jogo 4 biiuding sno’ qorm and iguud aead on” tue roquside 10 ne moruing. He thiiled with horror Whole audiene a8 ne pomted to netor O. tiat boa.e, exclaiming, et man’s mudererl Ay, you naye kKiiled that (his Wun \odud is O¢cuUpalion gone alter tuat sermon. Nocomy that; but cae pystor ound tue isicu.ty i regulating ior the Lubure such puouc houses as he Ould nut ciose. Oh, taeie is power Inres.stivie Mm every prieatiy Word wuich 18 1a s,lred vy tie true iove Of souls! And wuere tue Pulpit w tied by true men, aud she press uLites Its Voice with thes, every Giulss 1 the Gulls muutty must y.eld ere long to unyrveignm tney unite In advocamug. VUE UNION OF PRESS AND PULPIT, then caluiy, leuiperately, perseverusiy pleading Lie DCG wsNY OF bald TeVTM—suca WW Lae GUUvIE lever Wilu Which to Inuve ou. people and To wreak up the oranda duce just deserved. | 2. sere is anviher measure Wuieh 18 stil more Urgent Laan & provibiio y law aud its euior | michi—tue giving bo tue Jamiues of habitual and Meorrg.Vie Uruukacds eMecuve AUTROLLy Lo stop Theis Ui tiew mad race O rub | Sarely tuere ougbt tu be sume efficacious means provi by the low OF preVeuling & ivan, mud dened datiy aud boury by drugged WulsKey, Irom uttery wasting the substance us Mis lati, Or put- biog Licur ves in Constant peru. lb Frauce, Wien | @ wan, e.tuer through 1sanity, docy or uaditual prosigacy, Wastes hs property or 18 Iacapavie of Thatagth, it, OF 18 proved 10 be & Theeal WO tue peace vid happiness ol lis hume, LO the uealuh or Hie vf 11s itinates, tue conse ue same can ave Wik COuuned In Some inst.tucivk Wuere te law compels i100 LO retail and Waere he Ge sea.Lo Lave Any Yar WHALE VER IU WiC MauagemeNnt OF MS prop. erty. but bere Vagabond husvatids and parents are alowed 10s) @ha in drink tue last dullar wiicis Boulud give bray Lo Lhe Gudurey, and to break wel Wves’ Wearts or muruek Wew, Mi thew druukeu weuzy, Bowe the iaw ov its officers dare Lstedere, How long 8° Uns Wo bey And way should it vet i HABITUAL DRUNKENNKSS 13 INSANITY, It is how proved vy siaisticlans thar te great Majority Oi tie MALES Of out Wadiouses or luna Hic wsy. Quis are Cituct Inveteruie druuKards tuem- seives, Or (ie Gesceudauis ui drupken papents Tee presumption, Cuen, 1s tuat havituar drunken Bees wrOUsnE dvOUE by Cie use OF Our Whiskey is er her aciual insunity or verging UyoR 1K ‘ikea trent sich diuikaras a nen, oF nen who ave Habio at aby nium ub bo Yreak Gul Unto violent ie Bully. Give tucir tamidies egar power to watch them, Lo stop them aud prevent titel going to tatal exc elites. » 3 Besives the asylums provided by the Stace for drunkards, Uiere ougat bs be suine such mstitue Ton a Hat desertucd sone Cine 20 Ih OnE Of your coulemporaies. Nothing has een lost by tie auiure Of (ue Late ieverish Lemperauce crus sade, Mico may be gummed from is vated expe- rleuce Uf the existing SOCIeEUGS Wil Cake a lessom irom What Has hapyene NO gvod can come of MOECUUKS Ol CIVitES WHEre ONE Pai ty argdes au im. PFACKCubIE Standard OF abstinence as the ONIFONE alowed Ly God, oF squabyies and quibbles about texts or serpture Whose irae mean. Me 14S OCOD Selle Jong ago, Bar trata is ever oi and ever Lew, aun principies are elertd and uumusaole; the taba about vempe ase VUNe and Che prLACipie WIEH 1S to rept Ks practice ov ad Gime have both long ago eXpuited and prockuned (0 te Christian society Fo wihet our iathers belonged, Let than did Cbarch lake Up toe parawie bow, and urge it Witi Mi her Might On tue Milioos Who Owe her aliogtuce here. ‘They need to renew tiemseives MW foe practice Of that Virtae, and they will need her jovi Words of wistruction aud exnortauon, Bet her sobs and vaugiters, then, lead te Ure wy OF Lommperanes tt AMPTICi. ari) They owe it to Ulemseives, to her and vo Unis gre: at cuantry, i PRUDENTIUS, “Protestant” on the Romanizing Ten- dencies of the Protestant Episcopal Church, ‘4 Alew Weeks ago We published ® communication signed “X.,” deiending the theory of apustolic Buccession held by the Provestant Episcopal Church irom certain strictures previously made | thereon by wnoter correspondent who signed him. | sei 'Protestant,” The latter recurns to the: charge and demes tie statemeu: made by “X.’? that there is gr differenge between the Protestantism of and thatoi Luther and Knox's time, He 1018 (tid suUgtantiaily the Kame, “Protestant alsy denjes that (he Profestanslyn, of to-day ac , tempts (0 do away with ali that is Catholic, primi UYe Gud aposiolic, because, AB he deolares, all 1 Oi Serau’s hes jalsely asverted ta be Catholia 1874.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. league bas bad, as yet, no answer, it may find an — | present legisiauion jor the manuiacture and the | the community surely it is aft , the side of God and te , the | the pro- “You ure | him, sout and body (dt will b¢@ eaaily imagined | a und apostolic were swept away by the | lounders of Protestantism go that nothing ty lelt for the present generation to doin tis line. The assertion that Prorestanta deny one-lali of ihe Bib.e is 80 gross and palpable a violation of the | trarh as to need, he thinks, no re. ulation, “Protes- tant” examines the “Oatuolle tratus”? alleged by “<x. to be held purely and aimost wholly ‘by the Angiean Unurch.§ One oi these 1s the priestly power of forgiveness of 8108 Which “Protestant” admits has been rejeo'ed wits scorn by Protestant Christeudom, save the comparatively small body oF An heun Christians. Wren Christ comrissto ed His diseipies to preach His Gospel He gave them ;ower und commana ment to “teal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, Cast Out devils: WeGly ye have received Jreely give.” Now itis distinctly recorded in tne Acts ol the Aposties, tn nume:ous inst nees, that ail these miracles were peroru.ed by them. But 1b relation to the | assage, ‘Whosesoever sins ye reunt they are remitted unto them, and whose- soever sis ye retain Utley are re:ained,’ (here 1s not a single instance given wn any part of the New Testament were the Ap sties ever exercised or attempted to exercise this monstrous, mudern pretension, aud I challenge ‘X,’ or any otier person, to Jurnish a siugle scriptural prooi Lo we contrary. ‘The authority given to the Aposties was simply to estabish in all the churcies the terms and conditions on whieh men mignt be pardoned,” ‘Protestant’ quotes Acts Vill., 22-24, as proof positive that neither Peter and Jonhp, in- spired Apostles, nor Simon, to waou tie language is addressed, believed ior dn instant that tuis power haa been given to tiem or to {any map “Who cao iorgive sine duo | God only?’ But these pseudo successurs to | the apusties, while claiming (0 possess tts , caunot estabilsh thea claim by any such le testimony as the aposties gave of thew | divine commission. “Protestant” thinks the mods ern successors are a3 unlike OurisU’s apostles as | they possibly can be. tle ears, atso, that the “secession Was lost’? in the days of one Jolin | Westey by the dissoiate, gambling, tox uonting, drunken und geneialy profiyate cierteul “su | cessors’? in the *Augacan Gachoe’ Courch, and wich led to a htttie secession mouvement very sita- , ar to the movement o: bistog Cummins, wien wil, | believe, in God's own tine De atcended with the same glorious results, “Vrotestant’” cites AM | | ghean autiy ries to convince “A.” that the doc | trive of trananbstantiagon is held abd beloved tt | the Anglican Charen; and, suriiermore, there are | 2,000 mitars In the Angiican Church where the sac rifice of the mass 1s offered, and Which the Arch- bishop of Canterbury aecired himseil, in the liouse 0: Lord=, poreriess to prevent. There 18 | One L.shop Of the Protestant Kpiscopal Church in | this Stare, Lot 200 miles irom {h.s city, Wao hubit- | wally cievates the host im idolatrons adoration, 1b | is notorious that in the Protestant kptscopal | | Churches Of St Albans, dt Ignatius and dt. Aary | | the Virgin, 10 tits city, tue iudlatruus doctrine of Iransuvstantiation is epemly and unbdiusitugly taugit, In the Chureh uo: the Trausiguranen prayers are offered up jor the deaa, and | “protestant” tamkea i quite lgeiy tbat trunsubstantiation 18 algo weld and practised. And there are hundreds of chareties hike tio-e he Nas named vbroughout the communion o1 the Protestant Episcopal Guared Where ti.s ductrine is | | openiy taught and practised. ibis undutuul | dauguter, the Protestant bpecopal Cauicu, las vorrowed and fiened and piliered trom ner poor | old nother, the * caret woman,” ull she Has lett her almost naked, having m a recent raid stuien her very petticout. Aud yet she is nut sausiled, | | The Komaa undies, gewgaws and gimcracas, 80 | expressive of “Usthuic trachea,” nave uli either “exploded” or “lost bhetr charms,” und, ke Over iwist, she stiil cries for more. van hotatug be done to appease her rapacity ? Lknow of vue one alternauve. Lnere 18 one object oi veuera- tou aud exponent of “*Outholic uoccrines” wich this ungrateus Gaugiter vas not yet appropriated, numely—tie “winking virgins” of tee Church io cou nial Europe. To ve sure in rhe rotestant bpiscopal chuicu dedicated to her in this city there | | aga statue of the Virgin already “crowned.” Bat | she doesn’t wink, A geuune winking Virgin! Only tuk of 1 The alos, acoiytes, Y clocks, Copes, CAUGIeS, CASBOCKS, Chu-u.e3, Crosses, Cro. SILES, CCUCHUXES, MITGies. INANIpLeS, INCeNse, pYNes, (hurivies “and Louse other loriibie tugs’? are obiy at best the 8yarbo.8 Of & uezrading lelichisMm, | and, as “4 brady says, may weil “have 1o-t their charms,” thoagh stub tulved Mm tuvusancs of Angiivan temples merely a8 souvenirs OL pious | Miehory, “Walch used tu @ive our Puri.an ances lois hysterics.” il those sweet pietists, We ‘Ss .sters of Maury’ OL the ‘Angiican Vvatnole’? | caurehes tu ti elty, Were only us fortunate as | their sigter nun go. the Koman Uathoue ehuich has been im the putative discov ol a “seered | heart,” the wauibg pietism o: “Abglican Catuo- | Hes? might stili ve revived, Bat hearts are aiten | | stubborn things, whether “sacred? or promue, and will Rot always come, even when myokcd by gentle pietisis, “And thea there 1s tie possibe danger, in setting up surines O1 the “sacred Heart,” of rooling the Virgin of tie divine houors a@ready paid to her by thousands of devoted Angiicans; so that, in the lanzuage of another | Koddess, jealous ol her rights, we may exclaim, | Quissuam numen (Maria) adoret, Praterea au: supplies aris imyunat iwnerem, “Protestant” lurther denies the docripg of bap- tismal regene ation as taagbt py the Anglican Church, aba cites sciipAural proois that taithis a prerequisite to true bapusia; bay tirouga the | abounding grace o} Christ chilirea Gymy in ine Janey ure as sale as if the hanaso wil the apos- {O.1c sUcLeSsOr8 1D Christendom had been tard upon | tiem in bapusi. PRUPES LANL, The possibility Qf a new issue af urconvertible paper [regard with amazement and ancicty, and, in my judgment, such an issue would be @ detre | ment anda shame,—CUARLES SUMNER, Roman Cathol andidates at the British Hlections. t ‘The London Fimes says:—“it 18 worthy of note | Wat in the lave election not a single Roman Catholic hag been returned ior apy constiiuency in England, Wailea or Scotiand; In jac’, with the ex- cepuon ol Giasgow, where Mr, Francis Kerr of- Jered pimseli on tue Roman Catholle plitiorm and stood ®& contest, We are uot aware of any place where any member of that Church has offered himsel as a candidate. ‘This is the more strange | Bince, irom tue date vi the passing of tue Catuoic Relies bill in 1829, nearly @ dozeu voblemen and gBenuemen ol thaproigiwa bave kab sor ditereat hughsu constitueucies—viz., the bar of surrey | (iterwards Duke 0) Noriotk). lor Horsvanm, in Iszv-st, and for West Sucsex in 1832-415 rhip dioward, Jor Cariisie, Jon ‘towneley, for Beve ord Fitzsian Ward8 Eail ol Arunce: aud surrey und im Duke of Norfolk), for Arundel, i lesi-51; Lord wd. ward toward, tor iiorscam, in 1545-52, aud ior Arundel ip 1592-68; Mr. H. V3 afford Jesumgham (now Lora Srattord), Pouteiract, iM 1 Si-t; wir, Charles Lapgdaie, ior bevers dn 4967-41 JOF Kuaresovrou, Sv Joho Simeou, tor the Isle of Wight, in tsou-ol; Sir Joon Acton (wow Lord Acton), ior Bridguortw, in 1865-06."7 BY, 1M Aso2—4, dud aya | The Historical Accuracy of the Bible. A remarkable payer on the Book of Jonah, by an orthodox Jew, tie Cmef Rabbk Astruc, will (Ge Andépendance Beige iniovms us) appear in the Jortheoming number of the Révue de Belgique. te author hus no hesitation in phicing the aate of tie book two centures later than the time or the Propict himsel!, aad in rogardiag it as utter une si orieds, “46 is, in facr, & parable,” be says, “and Telgious betel cannot’ be gravely asburbed by Rearing it caied a jabie.”” Neverineless, the boux Teaches & big moralit its great lesson 1s di rected to the religious exclusivedess Oi the Jews, | Wiro hei! Caw tiers could 8 HO tie religion bee yond their own bation, Ministerial and Church Movemonta, METHODIST, | Mrs, Van Cott, the colobrated evangelist of the Metuodist Episcopal Uhurca, opened her ministry in New Orieans. at Ames chapel, on Sunday, Mareh 15. She preaches every might to ceowded congre- gations, The new Methodist Episcopal church at Masonfleld, N. Y., wall be dedicated Maren 31. Rev. | M.S. Terry will preach the Missionary sermon be- | fore the New Yorx Contere Fatner Boehm is now residing With his aaughter, Mrs, Emiey, at Laayetie, Jorsey Lity, On June 8 prox. le will ve ninety-nine years old. He bas been wl, und had nearly gone home tis winter, Hisdevoted daughter watched with him night and day, He was avie to speak at the mixsionary anntversary of Heddiag cebu: ch iast Sunday, Ne war Conference asses next Weduesday at Paterson, Bishop Wiley p ing. A new Metuadist Protestant claicn is being erected at the intersection of Fayewe avd high streets, Georgetown. Key. Wid. Parkinson Las been tans.erred from the New Englund Conier- ence to the North Garoltaa Conference, acd sta toned at W jngtou, N.@. The Rev. vr We. By Munsey, of Lyncuburg, Va, nas been appointed by Hisnop Vieroe to fil a Vacaney in tae paipic ut the Jeadig Methodist Hyscopal vehi Alpusta, Gi, at a salary oF $4,uuu, le M Geuuny, or tue New York Conierence, pastor of tne © Noy Sout Dover, Wie Fiding ta a SLXth ; avenue car in ths city, on rriday of | last Week, was siflcken «With pur viysls. RoW 108 at the huosevelb Hospital en ely leipiess, his leit sida vemg totally paraiyaeds he Methodist cuurches and communes are caus toned azaimst receiving or encourayiig a couple of yoving “evangelists” who cal Wiewselves bd+ Ward and Chavios Dunvar, 1t is tntumuted tat | eiaonaly and doctrinally they are “taars.” HMSO) SUNpson is EXpcled home irom Mexico In & jew days, ‘Me southern Metnudists are dincusstig tue ‘upriety ot cres-ing the nanwer oO u a Dishops ac the next General Conterance, Which | meets in May, ‘They have eight now, wien ougat | to be quite enough. Dr. J. meKemuree Kelley, of the Ventral Penusyivania Comerence, nts been transierred to West Virgina Comerence, Pen- , Mington seminary, New Jersey Conlerence, is $-0,000 in deut. Kev. C. Kyuear, who had been Suspended, was, restored, to membership in tie | New Jersey Conference wt its seasons lew dys ago. ‘the Pastor Cook Fund oo Monday just amounted to 94,496 The aunual meeting of the New York city Church bxtemsion Sucety will be heid 1, the Freq ‘Iahernnce Methodist Hplecopal | church, ThivW-ourth, eee Nea Kiwitl avenue, | | and Kev, Provessor Patton, of Cn | torate of tue church | Wis. and will to-morrow evening. Rey. J, Thomas ». D., lare of Baltimore, Tins veen appointed saat a Fi] First Methodist Protestant church ta alu Btrees, Newars, The church ¢otiect ons rabies chure! jeCtions in wis city for furn: Bt. Jose, Female Orphan ‘asylum auoune ae 9%, aba the COST O! furnishing Was $7,500, There 4s, there.cre, yet due a@ balance of $3,900, fhe Catholic papers annonnee that towards Easter the following preiutes will be created cardinals :—Mgr, Niba, Secretary ot the Holy Otice; Mgr. Pacca, Major Domo to His Holiness; Mgr. Viteliescil, Se¢- retary of the Coogrewation oi Bishops and hegu- lars; Mgr. Giameln, Secretary o1 the Congregation ot tue Council; Mur, Maaning, Archbisnup ol Weate mimister, and the Arcubisaop of Males. The Pilgrimage movement {8 gradually increasing turouguout the country; the idea or its: im pore tance 1s saints strength, the people’s concepuom of what ought to be is spreading, and the probabilities are that tt will uit wately assume the proportions it ought to bear. A batch Of pilgrims will leave New York ov May 16. From thirty to forty ov perhaps even flity wii) join in tals, but many others are ex- pected Lo fyuliow ut alater date. ‘he Junseniste of Jtretcht now call themseives “Old Catholics’? to signily their communion with the Swiss Churen of that hame, The beatificauon of the venerable Clement Haufbauer, of the Redempt rist Order, only awaits tie Pope's. approval. ‘The Vongrega- tion of Kites recommend it, About 100 nobies of Rome went on @ pligrimage on the 7to inst, to Aquino and Terraiaova, the places of birth and death of St. Thomas or vquino, Cardinal Grassel- jini is seriously 1H at Rome, Bishop Frescovatal, ot Fiesole, near Florence, Italy, is dangerously me from ap attack of apoplexy. His recovery ts not expected, Archbisiop McCloskey last week cele Ura.eu a pontifical Mass of requiem for the late cardial Barnabo, Preect ot the Propaganda, According to the “indian Catholc Directory” for Ua year the number or Catuotics in India is 1,174,748, In Madras they tuniber 39,694 under the pastoral care of ome bishop and 24 prieste, In Bombay there are 21,000 Catholios, with one bishop aad 72 priests. Poudicverry nas a Cathotic population of 130,719 under & bishop and 82 pricat Verupoy, 288,000 Catholes, a bishop and gd? priests; Madura, 145,000 Catilolics, a bishop and 67 Tests; Colombo, 109,566 Roman Catholics, @ Mshvp dud 2s priests, and Jaffna 62,163, Roman Catholics under & vishop aud 82 priests. Portugese Judia wdds to these figures also 129,400 souls, ZOV- erned by @ bishop and J40 priests. PRESBYTERIAN, Rey. A. B. Morey, & Presbyterian clergyman, of Cincinnati, 18 the last to be subjected co “ecclesl- asticg discipline” on account of Christian courte. sies shown (O Miss Sunliey, the Charming Quakeress preacner. Towards tae £00,000 which the Free Courch of Scotiand is endeavormg to raise aga foreign missions building iund, about £38,000 have been received by the treasurer. Lhe missions themselves im india and Ayrica bave coptnouted no less aSumM than £6,146, Tie rourth Pi esbyterian churen of oston have extended & Unanimous Call to Kev, Wiliam M, Baker, now pastor of the Second Presbyrerian church at Newburyport. Kev. Howard Cornell, of Union College aud Union Seminary, bas peep ordained and matatied pastor Oi} Lue Presv: teria chureh at Coustantia, N.Y. fhe church as been Without a pastor jor torty years, Rev. J. beers has iutimated nis imtention to rée- 41.n 18 cuarge at Croton Falis, N, Y., at the end OL April, as tue district does not agree with the healtn of is amity. ‘The Firat Presbyterian churel oi Paterson, N. J., Dr. Magie’s, las just received twenty-two new members. About Mity conver- sions urc reported in tue dyde Park Presbyterian cuureh, Chicago, during the present year thus lar. A Wor'kk 01 grace 18 10 progress tu the Presbyterian churcn o: Port Chester, N. Y. Over forty have mani- lested a desire to seek the salvation of their sous, aud there vas Ueen & Dui ber OF upetul Conversions, Key, Jui Hall, vy. v., Of New York, will deliver the annual address beiore tne literary socleue! zo, the annul sermon, beiore the Brainard Soc.ety, at the comlag com nencement Ol tae University of Wooster, Oh10, Ke jiram Budy, D. D., pastor o: the Second Pres n caurch, Jersey City, tendcred his resigna- tiun lo a imeeting of the congreyaton on the 2th ust, va. Ou a Vute being taken (he acceptance of He Was reiused by @ Majority of about two to saurd O, Sbiweall, wormerly an pps. and recently @ member OF the New .ork, author of severel works died in thts city on Friduy Last. ler has declined the call from tue Calvary Chur Newark, N. J., and will coms tinue With bis peopie at Freenold, wuere he has bad a nappy aid prosperous ministry lor sevele Leen years, BAPTIST. The officers of the Buptist Missionary Union ane Nvuunce that they lave received up to tis ting ouly about $idv,0u0, and that they will need, to finioh the Work of tiis yvelr, whicn ends with this Monti, $152.00, Lhe Rev. KB, Jewett nas accepted a@ cul irom tue First Baptist churca of Wautage, bussex county, N. d., and wall euter upon bis Jabues the urst Sunday in April, The Kev, Wiiiam Usiier, Of .purgeon’s CoLege, Nas accepted & Uhaniaous Can to the pastorate of the bapuss byt Presbytery ¢ on the proper Rey. Fiauk Cb cuurca of Adams, N. ¥., to commence April 1. The Kev, A, Kenyon bas resig.e@d 8 pase at Union, hock county, lav.rs there Apri l, Mussesoia has loz Baptist churches, wita 5,987 Memvers. here are $ associations. The wempers ave GL may Lauionalties. Tuey have auiy 6d houses vi Worship, but are building 20 wore, There ave .20 orduwed Utusters In tie State. ‘inere are | 48 young ied yust eaterimg tie ministry, At tne | Pugrinmecauret 10 this cy, Kev. 4. Spencer Ken- hard, pastor, on Sunday cvening eleven cundidates were baptized. Kev. Dr. Thomas baptised jour vabdidates i the First church, on Pierrepont street, Brooklyn, on Sunday even- ing last. On hriday evening Rev. 8 de Kuaop, of Patersyn, baptized vorty-five candtaates, The kev. W. ptuvvert, D. D., who has been tor Boe sears Gose to Newark as pascor at bloom. field, 18 invited to become pasior of the FLth Charen in coat cuty, Lour persons were oapized Just dulday evening ip tue South Bapust cuareh vt (his city, Kev. of Cheney, of South Boston, accepis a call to the Ashland avcuue Ba ving church, Chicago. Rev. J. A, Speight, pastor of the Baptust churea in Sudoik, Va. has resigued hig ciarge. tne Jadependent and tae Bowimner om Cavonclé Manaze fo keep themselves and theit Teauers live. y on the communion question. The dormer gave recentiy what it andcrstvod to be the Buphst leaching on uns subject. Lhe latrer de Die Its Correctness, and charged 118 Deigibor With “a ierluily dud audacity os Misstavement” which vie jate Horace Greeley would dicfne by a word Oo one shade. Lhe Indepentent, thereto to test when was right or wrong, propose these questions ‘0 118 contemporary :—1. bo you oF du )ou not consider the cold celebiated Ww Pevovapuat caures Lod’s Supper? 2 28 adminisiered by chorehes 131t orig not a Vala sacrament? 3. ls OF 18 LO Cue Observance Of Lhe Supp-T by persons Who lave hol een unmersed an onence aguida’ Corist, committed ertuer in ignorance or wilith bess? 1b Wants categorical Answers (0 These ques. tons, Aud Wuen they are aus ered It pou bay sometiwg more, Leas said that per crowibe pocullurity Ol Aly, Spurgeon Is that there As scarGcly o nati al Hs COugtegation, aggge- | gating 7,000 persous, Waoeld he Goes not persouall | know. Dr. J. i. Boyce tiinks the kev. John BK, ) Amos, OF Forsyth, Gu., ix deranged because ne bag been borru ving money here ana there on letters Ol recommendation t- om tae Doctor aud lis friends, Lnsuuity takes OR many Sitadye phases, Dut .we never heard or Knew ol it betig efi ged with suek @ jorin as (his, Another uae Woud provably 16 here jar bewer. close hb EPISCOPALIAN, Rev. Mr. Rovers, a cierg; man of the Church of Engine, who wes aisiissed irom his curacy for tukiog part in the ogricuitural laborers’ moves been appoimied vy at. Giad.tone to & avle living wi brindsiey. it 18 suid buat began im Great Brita the great. ublisting house 0. tue Bagsters, London, tas not | beeu able to Keep up with Cie li reased demands tov Bible Bisaop Littlejona vist the Churea of the Alonement, South booklyn, L. L, on Wednes- dey eveiiny, aud contirmed a ciuss of twenty | adulis, presented by ue rector, tue Kev. Willian | Hyde. tev. De. Clark, reetor of St, Johws cuursly | Lizabetn, has eutirely recovered trou hie recens Mines: wc Rev, Alexander Y, Huadiey tas en- tered upoy his ministeral labors im Abingdon irish, Gluucester county, Va, Bisaop Watetle, of irgiia, Has Deed officiating in Louisville, Ky., Low the pust live weeks, Co crowued congregations, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The American Tract society having offered $100 ain lov the besé tract on “the Race for WH." ie received 350 Manuscripts, Hot one of Was adjudged worthy, ‘Lue oiler das now udonbied in Lie hope that abier minds and peus ity Take HOld OL tHe Subject, Rev. Dr, Couen Stitari, of Rotierdam, WHO fas) Deen traveling Mm tus couuty Since last Octover, wil Suib ior his own home tis we-k, The Key. 4. H. Bradiord, Of Moutelair, Ne and the Kev. 5. ‘D. aon, of Por Oregon, Congregational tors in tie plices named, propose ex- pUpita jor four of SX ORL Uie first swobath of May, Miuord (Cond) Firab 4 dal ChUPCh 1s ROW WiFhOUe a pastor, LG Inemabeis, dud dates back C0100 ite Reve oud, Whose connection With ihe Cir stinn lerwinates this week, is going ‘ Lidge, Muss, as pastvr of a Universalist Chay oodly town, Dr. ke H, Chapitt, boo, Hus tered: hom the Leader. ‘he Universanss Society in ial nd, chang ale fax 14 Crecung @hew and Eegaul churcn caiice, Rev Hayrord closes ® Jour years? pas orate iH. Reva, ©. with the Universalist cuureh at fufield, » N page Wats accepled & Cali Ot tie salt, mety ab Lugausport Ind, Kev, W. Ss. iKnipi, of La Crosse, Wi8e aS AOveDLEd The towe of Murray ( ihe Kev S$. Artur Vovson, of Nnnda, N. Y., ius accepted @ UWHauIMeds Cali PON The Cliversalisk churen i Sew ark, und Whi columence iis labors Une tus sunday. mm Apri. The Chrestian Leader, 0: tis city, 8 Leribe severe od Vt, Putten, 0: Brookiyn, in the wowing word “tis wuce lo be regretre t that Dr dusty D, Fulton nad nov been retuned openty Mn te ser vice of tie devil, lor in that capacity we judge lie would vuve proved @ powerlui missionary of We Lore This We inter trom the tet Owl As Art avowed aposhe of truth and myiteousuess he site deeds in Listing more people Wita religion Uinn, are turned away by any undisgoised servant Of Dain iu tie coMmUuUity. Wherever he pears Re Stirs Op struc. The Baptista of Brooklymure 1 Continual turmon on ins account He never Speaks out sumevouy convicts Min of misrepre- seutition, BOF Writes tna sodte otner body duew hot Couvict tum as treagucrous memory, He hie Avowed a purpose to lp out Uw ‘Liberal! or Open Communion Bapeists of Brookiyns bub the More he staiips ihe asec Uney multiply, tn sion Whatever he tri 8 to otid up ne drags down, my Whutever he essays Lo ove: tirew We iDiliory Drude pers. itisevident bei enlisted vader the Wroug Dauner”?