The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1874, Page 15

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEED RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, _— EASTER AND PASSOVER SERVICES, The Public Voice Through the Herald’s Correspondence. Programme of Services for Easter Sunday, April 5. Rey. David Mitchell will conduct services in Canal street Presbyterian church to-day at the usual our. Rey. 8, M, Hamilton wiil preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church morning and evening. Dr. A. 0, Osborne will preach, morning and even- ing, in the South Baptist church. Bapusm alter evening service, Preaching morning and evening in the Berean Baptist church by Rev. P. L. Davies, pastor. Bap- tism in the eyening. Baptism will be administered by Dr. Armitage in the Futh avenue Baptist church alter both services to-day. ‘The Rey. J. V. Osterhout will preach in the Har- lem Baptist church to-day at the asual hours, Dr. Armitage wl dedicate the new temple for this so- ciety next Thursday aiternoon, Revival meetings continue to be held im the Fifty-th.rd street Baptist church every evening during the week, Mr. Pendleton will preach at both services to-day and will baptize in the even- ing. Rev. D. H. Miller will deliver an Easter sermon in Plymouth Baptist church this morning and will receive new members in the evening. Rev. EB. D. Simons, of Troy, will occupy the pul- Pit of the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning, and inthe evening Dr, Fulton, o: Brooklyn, will preach a memorial sermon on the late Elder Jacob Knapp. Services will be held morning and evening in the Baptist church in Fiftieth street. Dr. Morgan will preach in St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church this morniog, and will direct a children’s featival this afternoon, Dr. Rylance will preach in St. Mark's Protestant Episcopai church this morning. and in the aiter- noon @ children’s festival will be held, The new Reformed Episcopal church will meet in Lyric Hail this evening. Rev. J. H. Bradford will preach, “Evangelistic preac'ing” in the Catholic Apos- tolic church this evening, ‘the Seventeenth street Baptist Society will unite with the Church of the Disciples of Christ ina communion service this afternoon in the house of the latter. Revs. J, Hyatt Smith, R. E. Jeffrey, W. H. Pendleton, W. C. Dawson and Robert Cameron Wil assist in this service, Rev. P. A, Chadbourne, LL.D., President of Wil- Hams Coliege, with occupy the pulpit of the Re- formed church on Fiith avenue and Tweaty-ninth sreet to-day at both services. Bishop Littlejohn is to preach in Christ church (Protestant Episcopal), Brooklyn, to-day. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will occupy the pulpit Of St, John’s Methodist Episcopal churen, Brooklyn, this afternoon, Rey. J. B, Faulks, of Newark Conference, will preach ia St, Luke's Methodist Bpiscopst church this morning. The sacrament of the Loid’s Sup- Per will be administered there in the evening. Rey. John E. Cookman will preach in the Free Tavernacle Methodist Episcopal church this morn- ing. The Sunday School Missionary Anniversary Will be held in the evening. Rev. GN. Pratt will preach for the new Metho- da Episcopal Society, 1n North Tarrytown, to- da = This society is building a beautiial church ed.fice In @ commanding position in that town. The free churcn services in Harvard Rooms this Morning will be conducted by Dr. Phelps, Presi- dent of Hope College, Michigan. Preaching also tu the same place on Thursévy evening, Rev, J. M. @uliman will preach a resurrection sermon this morning belore the Universalist Church of Our Saviour in the Standard Cjub Hall, Rev. E. Z, Sweetser will talk about Heavenly Mansions this morning tu the Bleecker street Unt- versalist church. Dr. Ludlow will give the result of some studies in the Book of Daniel to his Reformed Caureh peo- ple this evening. The Progressive Spiritualists will be addressed this morning and evening in Robinson Hall by L. C. Howe. A conference of progressive and stand- still Spiritualists will be heid in the afternoon at Germania Hall, Twenty persons are to be baptized to-day in the Sixtecutb Baptist church by Rev. David B, Jutten, Climax Criticised. To Tue EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— The great distress prevailing throughout the country a¢ the present time has attracted the serious attention of the people and the comments of the press, Numerous theories ior affording relief have been broacied, but, as a rule, they contain but litule sense and much nonsense, Among those deserving notice, for its length if for nothing else, ig the communication in a late Sunday’s issue, signed “Climax.’? It wasentitied “The Problem of Poverty from a Practical and Theoretical Stands point,” though tnere was but little theory and no practice init. The following is the substance of the articie:—“Christianity is the only remedy, and the best thing to do is to create @ Christian public opinion.’ Chrisitanize the community and you Will cause poverty to disappear. “Climax” fails to give us an insight into his understanding of “a Christian public opinion.” ‘The wondrous pow- ers le ascribes to it betoxen the novel conception he must have formed oi tie meaning ot this phrase. ‘“Olimax’? may. be conscientious, but he 13 certainly ignorant of history and exceedingly liberal and Utopian ia his views, ro begin with that venerable history, the Bible, The Israeites Closely loliowed 1:8 admirable pre- cepts, and a8 @ Consequence poverty was raie among them. Philologists tell us that there is in dlebrew ho equivaient ior the Word “beggar,” and the reason they assign 1s that beggars were almost unknown to the ancient Israciltes, We thus see that Christianity is uot tue only remedy, if it ve a remedy at all, lor poverty, And now to use a train of reasoning similar to that employed by “Cimax,’? tne best remedy would be to Judaize the community. ‘There is tuis decided ee in this theory over that advocated by “Climax,)? that the iormer has been tried with success, whereas the iatter, for 1,800 years, has not effecte the desired result. This 18 but one phase of the ab- surdity of “Clumax’s” Sek It matters litte to which Church “Climax” be- longs. It he be Catholic or Protestant he must know that Catholic and Protestant countries are alike burdened with @ host of paupers. We thug see that Christianity and poverty are by no means incompatioie, Full many a one has realizea with bitterness of spirit aud the anguish of despair the wud lines of the poet:— Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sunt “Climax” tells us that after the people become Christianized, the plethoric purses of the rich will be opened to alleviate the suierings of the poor. But What are the poor to do in the meantime ? They Wil assuredly starve tf they watt for the real- ization of “Clim &4’s” scheme or dream, Figiteen centuries have elapsed and yet it appears accord- ing to “Climax’? that the people have not become Clristianized. Must we wait, then, till anotuer eighteen centuries shall have passed before the people will become converted to Christianity ? We see the absolute necessity of seeking another rem- edy, one which Will Not take Ages before if pro- duces active, beneficial results, = ANTICLI . ‘Was Charles Sumner a Christian t ‘To THE EdITOR oF THe HERALD:— Why ask this question? Because the tone of cer- tain leading religious journals creates doubts in regard lo that matter, The Christian Intelligencer, or example, “regrets that Sumner left no testi- mony Velind him of the power and the grace of God or of the Christian religion in his heart.” Is this so? Let facts testiy, Twenty years ago, when Charles Sammer was in the prime ana vigor of nis manhood, he wrote as foliows:—“The classics want the highest charm of purity, of righteousness, of elevated sentiment, Of love to God and man. It 1s not in the frigid philosophy of the Porch and Acad- emy that we ure to seek for these, In none of these “are We to seek the Way of life, But in tne Sermon on the Mount, and in those two commandments on which haog all the law and the propuets, we do Hud this heaven descended trath—the brothers glad nad leit behind him ty oe such if Sumner @ reco! as Daniel Webster leit.” Did Webster ever leave @ better record than the above? Did he leave as ges On his death bed help speed said, Saige tine the best of bool an oung men do better than be guided by its precepts.” Suune ner saya the same thing, and, what Webster does not do, gives us the best reasons for believing him. But did Charies Sumner live out nis idea of a Christian lue, which was love to God and love to man? All the world knows that he loved his fellow man; that his heart and soul and mind and strength were devoted to the interests of haman- ity, and the more downtrodden and oppressed auy portion of humanity was the more his whole went out for their deliverance, Now, the test of our love to God is our love to man. Is Charies Sumner’s life, then, “no testimony of the power and grace of doa in ‘his heart?” But Sumner, like Washington, did not talk re- ligion on his deathved. There, in his dying hours, “Sumner leit no testimony, no record of the power of God in bis heart.’’ What were his dying words? “Take care of my Civil Rights bill.” Is this no record, no testimony of the grace of God im the heart? To plead for the oppressed, to entreat that the wronged may be righted, to sue ior the falicn to be lifted up, 18 not this from the power of God in the heart? “Without works faith ts dead,” says the Apostle James, and Charies Sumner showed, by his works, that he ‘had a living faith. = —-K. D. & Catholicism and the Divine Right of Kings. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:—~ It has been often asked of late of your corre- spondent to reply in your columns to several most important questions, which are still before the American mind, waiting for a satisfactory answer. He will attempt the answer, without promising that it shall prove satisfactory. Firat—What is the divine » ht ciatmed by the Bourbons to reign in Frauce aud elsewhere? And to what extent is the Catholic Church pledged to the support of such claim? Americans, generally, labor under the mistake of supposing that the Church has formally sanc- tioned the pretensions of Heurt Cing in France and Don Carlos 1n Spain to retgn over those countries by aright directly given by God, and in itself in- allenabie, indefeasible and immortal. Nothing can be turther from the truth. ‘The QCnurch declares that where a form of government has been estab. ished by a people conformably to the natural law, that is, to the eternal fitness of things, that gov. ernment is @ legitimate one, having the sanc- tion of the Divine Author of nature and society. Those who administer auch gevern- ment, so long as they rule in conformity with justice, having for their aim the good of the governed afid the fulfilment of the Divine Will in securing to society all that is necessary for ita wel- fare, are then said to govern lawiully, rightfully, and the right by which their acts claim the obedience of every member of the community is, ultimately, the Divine Will, For, im the natural or supernatural order, wherever MAN BOWS TO A JUST Law, or to the voice of the lawful magistrate enjoining Tightiul acts, it is to God’s own majesty that he bows, The President of the United States, governing in accordance with the constitution, 19 not merely, in so tar, an officer fulfilling the just wiil of the American people, but, he is, moreover, the repre- sentative of God, wno is the author bf my being, and who, as my Creatox and Master, nas the originul, plenary and indefeasibie right of com- manding the submission of my will. In everything in which the first magistrate lawfully chalienges my obedience I look up to God as to Him in whom resides the primary right of binding the acqutes- cence of my judgment and the submission of my will. Thus, in Church and State, in domestic and public soctety, Whoever is—as parent, magistrate or supe- rior—the person lawfully appoimted to govern me, is, by divine right, my ruler. A nation may com- mit to a family the hereditary right to govern, and the princes of such a line may even receive, beside the popular sanction, the Church’s consecration; but in neither case is there conferred any divine right essen ually distinct irom the above, THE RIGHT OF THE BOURBONS to govern France did not dilter from the right of the hie of Valois which preceded theirs. Nor did the Valois possess any divine right especially different irom that of the Capetians and oi Chariemagne or Clovis. The eiectiun of Clovis by his Warriur chiefs and lis ele- vation on a buckler above the heads of the armed crowd conierred no right beyoud that ol mere here- ditary rignt which 18 not bestowed on our own Presidents, and the consecration at Kome of Cuarle- Mague as Emperor of the West did not wake any essential Change in the relations of the new mon- arch to his people. It did not make tuem his prop- erty or hts chattels, nor niin the master of his Franks or Germans, eudowed with @ new right to own the nations and rule them at bis pieasure and transmit his ownership hke an he:rioom to his sons and their successors. The natural law Was not changed when Charlemagne was crowned at Rome; it still remained, Wuat it ever must be, God’s own reason und will regulating tue moral relations of human beings in society, founded ou tueir very natures. To be sure, there Was a com- pact with the Church that he sould protect her in the exercise of her (unctions and the enjoyment of her liberty. His fuifilment of it was to guarantee him certain privileges; vut tis right to govern re- mained substantially the same, and tie rights and duties of subjects continue essentially unaltered. Emperors, again and again, were subjected to lorieiture; their peoples con- tinued to possess and +0 use, on occasion, the BB ios and duty 01 shaking Off their allegiance, nor did the declarations of the ecclesiastical autio:t- ties comer in elther case any power not inherent in the nature and exigencies of poittical circun- stances. In one word, thers is no such thing acknowledged by the Christian Church as this mMoustrous pretention attributed to Henri or Don Carlos to rule France and Spain respectively in virtue Of & right directly conlerred py God and subsisting through the changes of time, and in de- fiance of the new order of things growing out of Teyoiuiions, conquests and the will ot the people. In the political order God confers directly on every human society the right to organize itself anu frame its government 80 48 to secure its own Well beimg. The lawtuily appoimted rulers only hoid this right indirectly from God—that 13, through the people. The circumstances of THE HEBREW PEOPLE WERE EXCEPTIONAL, on the showing of their own historians. ‘They acknowledged a cre When they asked tur kings it 1s Said nowhere that their monarchy was constituted On @ basis essentially differing from that of other nations. On the contrary, it is plainly hinted that their kings would use and inis- use tiieir power just as did their class elsewuere. The Church undoubdtediy has @ respect jor vested rights; 80 has God Himself, in whom 1s the source of alright, But, as a body, neither througn her counclis nor through her pontiffs, nas sne identi- fied herseli with the pretenders to the Spanish or the French tirone, Tie old revolutionary party in France was as flercely hostile to religion a8 to the monarciy; hence in the eyes of the multitide the cause of the Bourbon kings was coniounded with that of the Church, The clergy and the nobility sufered eXlie, imprisonment and death side by side, aud their successors to this day, im a great measure, have acommon sympathy for the old royai line, and a common hatred tor the Republic or its rep- resentative, the Commune. But the majority of the clergy in France do not belong to tne legiti- mist party, and even those who do do not acknowledge such a divine right as our American prejudices of ignorance attrivute to them. In Spain, in like manner, the party of Quecn Isabella and her motuer, the Queen Kegent, are identified with spoiiation of churcies and monas- teries, the imussacre ot priests and mouks, and other measures which went lar towards mmperil- ling the very existence of Catholictam in tue Pen- insula. The Re uplic, which now drags on its precarious existence, has manifested @ still more hostile disposition. No wonder, then, that all who remuin attached to the old faith should manifest a preierence tor the old dynasty and the legitimate heirs to the Spanish throne, set aside by the arbi- trary acts of Ferdinand, Isabajla’s father. This preierence, it is satd, has been avowed in Rome, and it has been expressed in many quarcers amon, ourselves, But no official declaration of the Chure limits or restrains the liberty ci Catholics in this respect on either side of the Atlantic, THE CHURCH NOT PLEDGED TO LEGITIMISTS. Thus, itis not trae to sta that the Church is pledged to the legitimists, either to the norta or to the south of the Pyrenees. Beyond the tra- ditional reverence for vested rights and presert tive order and tie strong sympathies here stated, there exists no pledge, ho declaration, no obiiga- tion compelling adherence to one party or preten- der more than to anotner, Second—in France toward what political party do ilfe majority of Catholics lean? Certainly, 80 far as the knowledge of the writer goes, not to anyone party in particular. In Alsace cae Lor- raine, which ‘were, perhaps, the most truly Catho- lic portion of Francé, the predominant feeliug ve- fore the late War was Bonapartist. In Main, Poitows and Anjou, which waged such a fierce re- ligtous war with the old Republic, the sentiment of atiection to the old royal line, and even to the Church, underwent & great change since the res- toration of the Bourbons in 1815. We know how radical Lyons proved during the siege of Paris and the reign of the Commune, and yet Lyons was the great Catuolic city of France, THE KRIGN OF LOUIS PHILIPPE effected a total revolution among the peasantry of La Vendée, With the opening of tue ne.work of public roads and railways constructed during his administration a flood of new ideas poured into this and the surrounding regions. Catholic faith and piety, and devotion to the legitimate kings, guve way before Voitairianism, radicalism an tivertinism of the worst kinds, propagared indus. triously down to this day, by the swarms Of strange laborers and the sworn aposties of the Marianne. Were the rea repubitc to be proclaimed to-morrow ‘ou would gee tue guillotine en permanence in La Vondve. In Anjou aud Main, ana you can saiely Say the same Ol most Varta of France, tie coun. , sponte miseeh aes: , ise our crops and gell them! If ao befure the late war, how much more so now, Security is what the mass of the French country people crave. In the very hotbeds of royalism and legitimatism they voted for the Empire of Napoleon Lil. for the sole reason that they believea he would secure them against the instanility of tue Repudlic—that is, of revolution, For this very reason to morrow they would vote for the restoration of another Napd- leon, if they felt sure of his giving them twenty years of peace and order, It 18 the writer's firm conviction that the French masses are, first, for stability and order, and next, for the government best fitted to secure them. Other considerations of form of government, dynasty, religion, &c., are to them of less than secondary importance, DEGENERACY OF FAITH AND POPULATION GOING ‘TOGETHER, Faith has but little hold on the French masses, Since 1798 indifference te religioua forms, scepti- clam abouc all religious belief, distrust political institutions, contempt or hatred of all authority, bumen and divine, have been leavening the bulk of the nation, penetrating more conor and widely every year. ‘Their re- ligtous beile’ is dropping iast trom them, never to be repiaced by any other or to be renewed in its own pristing vigor. With this wawing of religion ‘oceeds, part passu, a decrease in the popula- jon, Religious sentiment cannot, then, be reiied on a8 @ very general or very efficient means of rallying the French bot bpd beneath this or that political fag; and besides, among the leading Classes, the educated jeoisie and their edu- cators, the army of salaried professors and govern- ment offictais, scepticism, a Violent hatred of the Church and @ contempt for the clergy are the characteristic jeelings. ‘teachers of what- ever Cl officials in every branch of the adminis- tration, officers of the army and navy are either disbelievers or opponents of religion, The ma- jority of Frenchmen hate or lespise §=Chris- thanity; the majority of French women still cling to the old faith, If the one child in most famiiles is a Re er She 18 brought up in the mother’s religion; if a son, it is tem io one but he will be a Voltairian, like his father. Therefore, if you would know who is to rule the France of the Jutare—do not begin by taking the relig.on of Frenchmen into your calculation, Ask for whom is the majority of the leading classes. It can be saiely Said that one-third at ieast of them, as avove described, are Orieanists, lesa than on third Ronspertisss, the remainder, with apotner third, divided between Heuri Cinq and the Repub- lic. ‘The Communists are only formidable as beim; the forlorn hope of the republicans, who will gladiy see every man of them perish in storming the enemy’s position. THE OHURCH PARTY will gladly give in its adhesion to Louis Philippe IL, remembering tbe many solid liberties they enjoye under his grandfather, and forgiving old griev- ances of which, they have learned to acquit his memory. At any rate, if MacMahon be only al- lowed to govern in peace, there yet may be hope of a permanent republic in France. If achoice is forced on the French people, and they are left iree, you may deciare ior an Oricanist King, But il, as Waa intimated in your columns, Germany should lend her weight to Napoleon LV,, there is good rea- son to believe all the agricultaral and commercial interests 01 the country would be cast on his side, In no eventuality is there any hope for the Comte de Chambord, or the revival, with or without him, of a Catholic ascendency. PRUDENTIUS, Did the Wine of Scripture Contain Alco- hol, and Was It Intoxicating ? To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— There is a large party of proiessing Christians who coincide with the opinion oi the leaders of the “Women’s Crusaders,’? some of them of the medi- cal and others of the clerical profession, who main- tain, probably to substantiate their own theories, that the wine of Scripture was not stimulating and contained no alcohol; and their belief in such a theory caused them to write to Dr. Halland others to discontinue the use of modern wine at the sac- ramental feast. Such a course of procedure 1s vatn, ‘apertinent and blasphemous—is open disregard for the teachings of the Word 01 God. And I sin- cerely hope that Dr. Hail and others will not even Teply to such communication. On the face of the fact that the Bible says as much against drunken- ness as in praise of wiue, We are led to believe that it Was stimulating and intoxicuting im the highest degree; had it been non-mtoxicating the proba- bility is tuat the condemnations poured forth ugalnst the drunkard so repeatedly and severely Wouid not have teen so etCRa entorced by the Word of God. Iwiti now examine three Hebrew words, because, under these, in the vast majority of instances, our Engiish word wine’ occurs; thereto: hey Claim principal consideration. Hirst—Take the word *Tirosh.” The wine desig- nated by this term is generally spoken of asa bless- ing to be enjoyed by the people, with gratitude to God—*plenty Of corn and Wine.” The root of this He- brew word means “to possess”—the laud o: session. To dispossess, as Proverus xxx., handmaid that is heir to her mistress.” one poor. (Genesis, Xlv,, iL.) househuld come to poverty.’? Ali u, 7, “fhe Lord maketh por.” of “tirosh” with its root Indi d that it was an intoxicant seizing the head. ‘That a liquid was meant, take Isaian, 1xil.—‘/'he sons Of a stcunger Shall pot drink thywine.” Another thing to be noticed that im the ninth verse it 1s expressly atated—“They that have brought it together shall drink it im the house of the Lord.” so that it seems it was to be drunk and drunk ag a religious observance, ‘lake another passage, Joel, ii, xxiv.—“Aud the iata shall overdew with wine and with oll.” Is it not a 1air interence, and the most natural one, that the words “overtlow with wine” prove that “tirosh” here means liquors? I know that the term “overflowing” is sometimes applied to things that are not liquid, but it there- tore does not ivllow that liquid 1s not meant here any more than because the word “bread” ig ap- plied to other things than bread itself, bread can- hot in any particulur case be meant. One other passage may be cited in proof thay “tirosh" does not always denote wine frait, Hosea, tv., 11., “Wine (yan), and new wine, ‘tirosh,’ take away the heart.” And 1s this not precisely what wine does when used in an inmoderate degree? Drunkenness besote and infatuates men and leads to uucleanness. This, 1t is seen that “tirosh” Is spoken of a8 & blessing to be enjoyed by the people With grateiul heart; that though sometimes it denotes wine fruit it cecasionally denotes liquid; that as @ liquid it is an intoxicant; and, dually, that 16 Was used in religious obsery- ances, THEODORE JUNIOS, M. D. To muke “Lest thou and thy First samuel, fhe connection Sunday Amusements—An Energetic Pro- test Against the Sunday Laws. To THe EpiroR OF THE HERALD:— The Philistines are upon us in the disguise of bands of masked robbers—the Commune, the metropolitan police and the Sabbatarians. The police are supposed to protect us from the robvers and Communisis, but who is to protect us from the police and Sabbatarians? The former are scarcely able to tell friend from foe, and the suf- ferers, from their excess of duty, can get no redress, as the Police Court, like the court below, takes care of its own. Their zeal is spasmodic, however, and we are spared some clubbing and many such scenes as occurred at the raid made upon the Assembly Rooms a few weeks ago, wien 100 young girls were dragged through the streeta ag an exibition of the moral rectitude and watch- ful care these guardians of the peace have over the city’s wellare, They have not yet awakened to the kuowledge that there is fast driving and billiard playing going on, aud that the Sabbath day 19 desecrated as mach by such amusements as by dancing. is there no Way of reforming tie roe or are they outside of tue pale of ali iaw and order ? Ishould like to Know who these Sabbatarians are and by what authority they take upon them- selves the right to get an act througn the Legisla- ture for the purpose of closing up all places of amusement on Sunday, unless of a sacred charac ter. Sunday should be a day of recreation jor tie working class, Who does not Know that “all work aud no ‘play makes Jack @ dull boy?” And what time through the week buve these weary people for play? here ia tle justice in a iew controling the pleasures and happiness of the many—iadiin; it out to them in @ dipper with @ faise bottom? If “music has charts to soothe tie savage breast,’ then, stead of closing, there should be opened a concert hall of the largest dimensions im every district of the city, for there is certainly a large nuinber of savage breasts within ite limits that need soothing. atusic is divine, whether played in slow oF quick time, and no one can possibly be any the worse from heating @ lively air, from opera bouge, Who are to be judges of the shcreduess of melody? Instead of spending time to get acts passea to close up so-called profane concert halls and pluces o] amusement on the Sabbath day efiorts should bo made to have one passed whereby departments should be organized in every town and city tor the advancement oi the working Eng having under its control picture galleries, public hbraries and museums to be thrown open on Sundays. Instead of narrowing down and confning their privileges jet it be & duy of true recreation and 1mprovement, ‘and thére will be no necessity lor police ratas. Civilize and educate the masses and there will be fewer crimes and criminals, I was at the Liederkrang Clubhouse a short time ago to witness an entertainment given to tie chil- dren ofits members. It was on rea too, and cereainly none but the most rigid orthodox, with a soul frost bitten and core-hardened to the music of a@ chiid’s laugh, could have failed to have been benefted by it, and those chiidren were much happter and just as liable to go to heaven when they uié a8 though they had stayed at home, fretting the weary alternoons away, wishing Sua- day Was past. The vice aud depravity o/ one gene- ration is handed down 10 another, all from the lack of Kuowledge. What can be expected from & man, or & Woman either, born of ignorant and de- praved parents, who ‘takes in vice with his mother’s milk, whose childhood is spent on the strect with associates born of like parents, What can be the result ous crime? Who is to be blamed tor this, the criminal or society that made the cir- cumstances surrounding his birthy 1 repeat again that a department should be establianed, con- trolled by the city authorities, for sasniel cou of clevating the Masses irom their degraded condi tion, and to allow the working class every m of cuttivation and orderly recreation ou Gay they have for enjoying it. An Important Jewish Movement. The influence of Christian society is making its impression in many ways upon the Jewish mind and heart, and this impression is manifested in outward forms. The latest ot this is the tentative organization of an agoctation corresponding to and in & measure copied after the Young Men's Christian Association of this city, This new move- ment among the young men of Israel is intended to answer a want long ielt among them. And since “the better the day the better the deed,” the preliminary organization was effected last Sunday at the residence of Dr, 8, N, Leo, Committees were appointed looking to a permanent organization, and a basis of union was adopted by which tne common desire was ex- preased to promote harmony and good fellowship among Hebrow young men and to unite them in a liberal organization which shall tend to tneir moral, Mental and soctai improvement. With this basis they gave shomselves tue title of “The Young Men's Hebrew Association."* ‘fhe specific objects of the association are :— ‘The establishment of a reading room and library, with, if possivie, the rental or purchase of a baila? ing to contain aise pariers, gymnasium, lecture room and iree Scientific and literary ns only Lectures On uistorical, topics by members of the society aud others, ecasional entertainments of a musical and beac perare, free from extravagance and iutem- Formation of debating societies and of free classes {or general instruction. Establishment o1 a bureau for securing employ- ment jor deserving young men. Membership will be open to all classes and the association will be entirely iree from any sectarian bias. wr. Leo is the temporary President and Mr. J. J, Frank the temporary Secretary. A constitu- tion and bylaws is to be adopted at the next meet- ing and a permanent organization effected. The Jewish Messenger gives the enterprise ica heartiest area: and, using ® Christian phrase, it says this organization is designed to vent the youn: men Ol Israel being “lost to the Church,” of whic! ‘there 18 great danger, for the existing means of preserviny an interest In Judaism are not adequate to this end; they are not inspiring; they are more fitted 1or the past than the iuture, and Israelites cannot afford that their most promising youn; men shall lose thelr identity with the race and creed im which they were born, They must pro- vide themselves with the means of their reseno from materialism, They will Saior all the help they need when they have proved that they know how to help themselves. We bid them God speed. Religious Squabbles in the City of Churches, Just at this time the religious communities here and elsewhere manifest a wondertul facility for quarrelling amoung themselves, Whether the Con gregational Councn has given an impetus to this business or not can hardly be determined, but the proposition appears to be well founded. Dr. Ful- ton, of Brooklyn, who seems to have a natural proptaquity to this kind, has started a $500 quar- rei between bimseif and Mr. Edward Kalbfleisch. The latter had been for twelve or more years a member of Hansom piace Baptist church and was one of the committee appointed to go to Boston and tender tie call of the church to Dr. Fulton. ‘The call was, of course, accepted, but the Doctor stipulated that the church should be enlarged for him, This was done, bat his eloquence has fatlea to fill the extra seats, and the church is in conse- quence obliged to carry a heavier financial burden than it formerly bore. Now the point ol the pretty littie quarrel is this:—Mr. Kalbfleisch, ag the Doc- tor and his iriends intimate or assert, subscribed $500 unconditionally toward the expenses of en- largement. Mr. Kalbdeltsch himself denies thisand says the pledge wus given by a friend, who thought he would honor it, at a meeting, at which he replied that if all tae members of the church would par- ticipate he would do his part. The other members failed, and hs did not consider his promise in any sense binding. Meantime, several members of the Hanson place church asked for letters of dismission to other churches, Mr, Kalbfleisch among the number, Dr. Fulton thereupon accuses bim aud them of being open commumonists, of repudlatin, their pecuniary promises because of whims an running alter the preachers toxeep them busy, A church meeting Was held in Hanson place the otaer night to decide what action should be taken in the matter. The Methodist Protestants (as they are pleased to distinguish themselves from the Epis- copal Methodists) of Wiiliamsburg, have been busy also during the past week investigating cer- tain charges of immorality preferred against the Key. T. I. Kendrick, pastor of the Methoaist Prot- estuut churcn in Grand street, The ortgin of the charges appears to haye sprang trom the erica of @ neiguvoring minister anda small clique of Mulecontent Members who are anxious to get md of Mr, Kendrick, while the majority of his con- eregation appear decidedly to demand his stay ainong them. The weight of testimony given has been in bis favor wd his acquittal on the testi- ah Was a joregone conclusion almost irom the iret. ‘Women’s New Sphere in the Charch. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— I should like to see in your columns a broad and thorough discussion of the topic of which I have only time and space to hint. It isa matter of great moment to the Church whether the seal re- moved irom woman’s lips by the hand of God in this great temperance revival is to be replaced by priests and prelates, aud women be again re- manded to their ancient and accustomed nonen- tity in the Church, The power of women’s prayer has at last been tested, and has proved a migity weapon against the armies of immorality, Her prayers are heard upon our streets, in ail our churches and pupiic halls the country over, Itis a new thing under the sub, The sturdy students of theology Ond themselves outprayed by modest little women who coi read -any other book, per- haps, tian the Word 01 God. In answer to these prayers the priest and scribe see saloons closing and dramseilers weeping, aud feel the very exrth trembling with emotion. The women have accom- plished what priest, scribes and paourisees never could and never aid accomplish. They have been led into their new sphere by no human hand, Wo siail have the audacity and irreverence to expel them ? DALZELL, The Voice of Protestantism on Catholic Doctrine: | To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— For the information of the Protestant contributors to the religious correspondence of the Henaup, I append a few extracts irom the writings of eminent Protestant divines, The astounding ignorance of the doctrinal literature of their own Church which the communications of all your “rotestant” cor- respondents betray warrants me in believing that these clippings will interest them:— “I confeas that under the Papacy are many good Christian things—nay, all that is good in Christian- ity. Lacknowledge that in the Papacy is the true Scripture, true baptiam, the true Sacrament oi the alvar, true keys for tae remission of siu, true office oi preaching, true catechism, the ten commund- ments and even the very kernel of Christianity Luther's Book against the Anabaplists, are to be accounted the House of Goa. . Morton on the Kingdom of Israel. “fhe Charch of Rome ts @ true church as well since as hetore the Council of Trent.”—Bishop Mon- tague’s “The most learned Protestant writers have owned the Church ot Rome to be the crue Church of God."—Dr, Barr's Sermons. “There ig no difference between Rome and Eng- land ia fundamentals at all, the former being a true Church. ’—Heylin'’s Answer to Barton, “Our Church makes no article of faith but suc as have the testimony and Ca Nee of Rome itself. —Sstillingpect’s Defence of Laud. “Our Protestant religion 13 not contrary to the Christian reltgion, or even to the Roman Cath- OliG,?? pasion tf A urd. “The reformers did not question the power of the Pope to decree rites and ceremonies, nor its authority in matters of faith."—Bishop Van Mildert, “seeing that it has been granied by the Church of England that there was salvation in the Charch of Rome as a true one, Lam very confident that no chureh can separate from Rome but must make themselves schismatios before God."—br. Thorn- dyke on Forbearance. “As the Church of Christ is but one there cannot be two separate communions in it without schism, and the schisi Hes on the Bide of that party which 1 caatamaieabekenipiigtte Danverry'’s Guide to the Church. “We have been forced to renounce the commu- nion of the whole world.”—Calvin's Epistle, xiv. “Nay, God forbid that we should deay that the flesh and blood of Uhrist are truly present and truly received by the faithiul at the Lora’s tabie, Jt is the Qoctrine we teach and comlort ourselves with,’—Doctor Biison’s True Subject. “The body ana biood of Onrist are verily and in- deed received by the faithiul in the Lord's supper.’’—Book af Common Prayer, “The name of the mass may still be kept; it is an indiiverent thing Wether it be said in Latin or tho wie tongue, "”"—Luther against Carlostadius, &o, [do firmiy believe—nay, 1am bold to say—that I know there is @ purgatory, and | am easily per- suaded that mention is made thereof in Scripture; at the same time I Know no more of it than that the souls that satfer therein are to be assisted by our prayers and works. It being sufficient for us to Know that they do suffer and that tueir suffer- ings Mr to be alleviated, leave the rest to Gou.”—Luther's a to, “Let not the ancient practice of praying for the dead be any more rejected by Protestants as un- jawial, It ts @ practice received through nt versal Church of Christ, which did ever belteve it both ptous aud charitable, The iathers were of Opinion that some light sins, not remitted in this Nie, Were lorgiven alter death by the interceasion of the Church in her public prayors, and especially those offered up im the celebration of the tremen+ 'steries; and it is no absurdity to believe 0. on I “The pictures of Christ, the blessed and of the saints be hi in ho ee up in uses, churehes; respect and honor be given them.”— “Private confession 1s a very ancient practice of the Church, Priests have not only power to pro- Dounce, bat to give remission of sins. It is the doctrine of the Prayer Book—jnstifiable, there- tore, being the practice of the Church of Eng- land."—~Bishop 3 “All our sins must be confessed. He who would be sure of pardon jet him find a priest to make hia | bumbie confession to him. Heaven waits and ex- pects the priest’s sentence here, and what he binds or looses the Lord confirms in heaven.”—Bishop row on Confession. “The saints are mediators of prayer and inter- cession. * * * Town that Clirist isnot wronged in bia mediation, it is no impiety to say, as ste ao, ‘Holy Mary pray for me,’ ‘Holy Peter pray i ae "—Bishop Montague on Intercession af “Nay, at your last hour cease not to call on our Bie Lady, the holy angels and the apostie Whose name you bear, and every other saint to whom you have been devout during your Iife, that they may intercede for you.”"—Luther on the’ Mag- “The Blessed Virgin is to be prayed to that God may, through her ini Piel oy reir intercession, grant eo Ministerial and Church Movements. Baptist. Plymouth church, in this city, has received thirty- eight persons by baptism during the last month and others are awaiting the administration of the ordimance. Seventy-one have been received into the Baptist church at Hightstown, N. J., by the saine ordinance, during the winter, Fifty-nine have professed @ hope in Christ in the Baptist church in Recklesstoun, N. since February 1. The Baptist church in Harlem, of which the Rev. Mr. Osterhout is pastor, has leased the first floor ofthe Harlem Court House. The room will be ready for occupancy betore the middle of April, and when the alterations proposed are completed Will be capable of holding over 2,000 persons. Rey. 8. Hsley, of Dover Piains, N. Y., sails on Saturday Of this week for Florence, Italy, accompanied by his wife, The Rev. Hugh 0, Pentecost, pastor of the Church of the Peopie, baptized seven converts laat Sabbath, using the paptistry of the Pierrepont street Baptist church (Rev. Dr. Thomas pastor), which was kindly offered them. The Cuurch of the People was = organized about three months since, with thirty members; they now number about seventy. The Rey, A. 8, Walsh, of Brooklyn, owing to im- paired health, is about to take a trip to Callfornia, Rev, J. D. Beugless, chaplain in the navy, leit on Saturday tor Key West to report for duty, having been assigned to the European squadron. At the valvary church, on Sanday evening last, the pas tor, Rev. R, 8, MacArthur, baptized ten candidates in the presence of @ very large congregation, At Paterson Dr. Banvard has baptized twenty-five; while Willis street, the Rev. S. J. Knapp pastor, has seemed to have a high tide of prosperity all winter; over 150 have been baptized, and inquirers are counted by huudreds. At Passaic the Rev. Ry B. Keisey has, in two months, baptized thirty-two, ‘The Rey. W. W. Hammond of the Bergen Taptist chureh, baptized nine candidates on Sunday even- ingiagt. ‘This makes thirty-two during the last three months. It is expected that thirty will re- ceive the hand of iellowsip next Sunday morning, Lhere are still many who are seeking the Saviour. ‘the church at Red Bank, N. J., Rev. E. J. Foote astor, has received about sixty converts. ‘The rst church, Greenpoint, L. 1, have calied the Rev. J. B. Hutchinson, of Philadelphia, to be their astor. The new church at Port Washington, L. ., 18 advancing under the lead of the Rev. N. Palmer, Twelve were Ler eon on Sunday, About thirty conversions are already reported. At the Pilgrim church jast Sunday, at the close of the evening sermon, the pastor administered the ordimance of baptism to twelve candidates. Rey. Dr. ives, of SheMeld. Conn., closes his lavors with Uhe Baptist church, o/ which he has been pastor for thirty-four years. He will spend the summer with nis sons im Chicago, and then will probably reside in Conway, Mass., Where he owns & place. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The great army of iaithial Catholics who cannot 20 on the pilgrimage are requested to send dona- tions o1 Pete.’s Pence to the Pope by the hands of those who do go. The Freeman's Journal ac- knowledges the receipt so far tor this object of $183 96, A banner made of the finest silk and in- scribed to Uur Lady Immaculate of Lourdes is also Lo be prepared to be presented by the pilgrims to the churen erected at the grotto on behulf of those who have received benelits by tue use of the waters oi Lourdes, By a ptous custom, almost universally prevalent in the dioceses of America, the collec- tions of Easter «nd Onrisimas are sec aside for the orpuans of tie Catholic Cuurch. To-day, tuere- fore, the faitiful will pe asked to contrivute liber- ally. The venerabie Bishop of Fiesole, whose sev1ous illness was mentioned lately, is now pro- nounced out of danger, Cardinal Barnabo was the one hundred and second cardinal who has wed since Plus 1X. began to reign, Tie Congregation ol Rites have reportea favorably on canon- izing Elizabeth Canorl, who aicd in Kome February 6, 1825, It oposed by tlie students of Mount St. Vincenv’s Academy, with others, to erect in Central Vark a stutue to the late Archbishop Hughes. A mission will be opened by the Pauiist Fatoers, under the direction of Father Desiion, at the Churen of the Nativity, Sec ond avenue, Father Everett pastor, next Suiday. Abother missiop, under the charge of Father Glackmeyer, 3. J., Will be opened on the same day in the Church of St. Agnes, Father McDowell pas- tor. The Redemptorist Fathers will open a mis- g10N at St. Steven’s cuurgh, Boston, next Sunday. The Right Rev. Louis De Goesbriand, D. D., Bishop of Buriington, Vt, arrived aome last week from bis native France. Rev. Henry Green, C. 88. R., the celebrated Redemptorist missionary, bas just completed @ most successful mission In Victoria, Texas. Over 500 people received holy communion, and several converts were made, among them the senior warden of the Mpiscopal church. The Bishop of Clontert, Dr. Duggan, accompanied by the Kev. John Deeiy as private secretary, has recently taken his departure for Rome. ‘The great missiou Which ior nearly tiree weeks has been going on in the Church of the Holy Innocents, in this city, was brought to a close on Wednesday evening, the Ist inst., aiter accomplisiiing an amount of spiritual good that can hardly be real- ized even by those who fo.lowed its progress trom Ls obi to end. It was given by the Jesuit Fathers Damen, Garesché, Van Goch, Koopmans, Masselis, Niederkorn and Van der Putten, METHODIST, Rey. William P. Abbott and Dr. C. D. Foss will deliver addresses at the anniversary of the New York Conference temperance Svuciety, to be held in St. Jouu’s church, Rev. W. S Studley will preach the conference sermon at the next seasion ot une New York East Couierence, and Dr, J. B, Beach will preach the missiouary sermon, Tne Hackettstown Seminary of the Newark Conference approaches compietion, ‘ie trustees have de- clded to furnisti it at once and to open its classes on September 1, 1574, Simpson Methodist Eptsco- pal church, Rev. W. R. Davis pastor, is enjoying a gracious revival work. ‘Ynirty souls have pro- fessed conversion, and the work ts progressing, Missionary collection, taken a few Sabbatis since, reached the handsuime sum ot $1,700, The River- side Methodist bpiscopal church, Buffalo, will be dedicated on Suuday, April 12, at hall-past ten A. M. Bishop K. S. Foster, of Cincinnati, will preach the dedicatory sermon, Dr. H. C. West- wood, recently transierred from the West Virginia to the Baltimore Conserence, has withdrawn from the Methodist Episcopal Church. He (eit atlicted at the appointment assigned him. The annual meeting of tie New York Church Ex- tension and Missionary Society was heid March 50, at the Free Tabernacle in Thirty-iourth street, The report showed the receipts had been $85,261 7 investments and expenditures, $85,099 39. There Were established 16 stations, 24 pastors sand as- sistants appointed, 28 Sunday schools, with an at tendance of 4,081; members in churches, 1,900, and 700 conversions had taken place during the year. The Southern Methodist papers give the statistics of the Church South as they will appear in the forthcoming volume of the general minutes. The number of members is—white, 669,677; colored, 3,420; Indian, 4,779; total, 676,600, or 22,441 more than last year. The number of white members has increased 22,161 and that ol Indian members 69, while the number of colored members has falien off 128 ‘The number of travelling preachers 13 3,137, an increase of 121; and of local p Saconghe 5,344, an Morease oi 210. There are 7,019 junday schools, with 48,430 teachers and $21,573 scholars, showing increase in all these items. The collections jor conlerence claimants were 64,081 70; and tor missions, $96,644 31; showing an Increase of $2,604 36 in tle collecrlods (or mls sions, and a decrease of $1,248 74 in those 10r con~ ference ciaimants. One year ago Kev. George Pratt was sent to North Tarrytown, without a church, without a member, ee BL year a society has been organized, now numbering thirty, and an elegant church, whieh will cost $30,000, ing up. Most of we money is provided for, St, Sainew' Morhodist Kpiseo; al cuurca, Hariem, gave $1,000 last Sanday to the Missionary Society. Bisnop Simpson reached home irom Mexico last week, Rev. Dr. Hathed, of Oinein. natt, transierred tO Philadelphia and appointed to Arci street Methodist 5 rscopal, courcn, The Kev, John Sauter, Of the Hast German Conierence, died suddenly ab Poughkee; ste last week, where he inet with an ace dident While on his way to Conference. Phila- deiphia Conterence nas raised $56,000 ior the Mis- sionary Society, $4,000 more than was apportioned to It by the committee, During the present con- ference year quite a number have protessed relig- ton in Cutchogue, L.1., and vicinity. The church has been Well flied and the congregations atten- tive, Rev. Wiliam Taylor writes concerning his evangelistic Work in Madras, India, that a great awakening 18 manifest among the people, and that over twenty were saved during the first week of hia ministrations, Rev. Mr. Fux, one ol his as- a has organized a Methodist Episcopal enurch in Kurrachee of flity converied soldiers of the Fiity-sixth regiment, The statistics of the East Germap Conlereuce, which recently sat tt ried collections amounted during the your a PRESBYTERIAN, Rey. Dr. Cuyler received Last Sunda into beraisp uinety-eight candidat churen mem! eon added to the ‘church, ‘ship ol cuuron hag reached the ciose of the folrteenty yoy er big get orig and during that time — have been to ite membe H. Gulick, of Japan, has wrecentie § spending @ few weeks at the Sandwi Islands, the land of his birth, his errand being to take back with him his fatner mother, who have been forty-six years residents the island: jd @ younger sister to share home im Japan. A new Presb: church, to be known as Emanuel hapel, was eee eas Buades Ci the BO side. The under the auspices the University Presbyterian church. I¢ has worshy ped cate aro years in a@_hall ¥ eal we 'D. qi 183, 000, Allen Maxwell has removed Siiteeto N. J, from Hazleton, Pa. The Presbee tery of Nassau will meet in the Presbyteriam church at Oyster » L, L, om Monday, April 13, The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Churc! ante in the United States will meet in ti esbyterian church at Volumbus, Miss., on tha third er (ist day) of May, 1874, at eleven o'clock A. The ey sermon will be preached by the Rev. H. M. Smith, D. v., Mode- rator of the last Assembly. Rev. Alexander Mc- Lean, who has been for some years tor of the ae Spd chureh, But ge as en elec! e of the secretaries of the \~ can Bible Society. a ° EPISCOPALIAN, Rev. Dr. Snivelv entered last Sunday upon his duties as rector of Grace church, Brooklyn, a posi« tion made vacant by the election of Bishop Pade dock to the diocese of Massachusetts, Bishop Cummins’ new church society, worshipping eve! Sabbath in Steinway and Lyric halls, have called to their pastorate Rev. Mr. Bears, of the Reformed, Dutch Church, tue Bishop having resigned nis rectorship, The two halls are to be given up and the society, it 1s sald, intend to secure the church on Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street, now occupied by Dr. Tyng, cA arg when the latter re-enter their own new house of worship. The Reformed Episcopal Society in Brooklyn, minis- tered to by Kev. Mr, Reid, it is said, also has met. with Nee gies encouragement. The Church of the Holy Trinity will dedicate their new house of worship to-day. It is a very command edi- fice, costing $350,000, ‘The land was owned by the society. A hundred and flity thousand dollars were in the bank when the corner stone was laid.’ By indefatigable exertion and toil—by fairs, vone certs and lectures—a large sum hag been raised, and it 18 understood that the house will be free from debt on the day of its consecration. The house externally is of variegated brick. It 1s to be pd the be age Le ae ys York, inm- ernally a8 gaudy as gold gnd crimson can make it, The ladies connected with several of tha. Episcopal churches in Brooklyn have iormed a society, entitled “The Brooklyn Ladies’ Episcopak Auxillary Committee of the Ohurch of Jesus im Mexico,” their object being to assist Rev. Dr. Kiley’ in repairing San Francisco church in the city on Mexico, and to publish Spanish Christian literature; for distribution throughout the country. MISCELLANEOUS, Rey. Oliver Crane, D. D., of Morristown, N. J., is} to satl this week for the mission field of Central Turkey, under the auspices of the American Board. He was formerly connected with this mission, but was compelied to return some ten years ago On aCe count of the health of his family. In the German Empire there are about 25,000,000 Protestants and 15,000,000 of Koman Catholics, This sarge number of Roman Catnoiics makes the religious question one of great interest and delicacy at the present time. In Prussia 66 per cent of the population are Protestant, and 3 per cent Catholic; while in Bas varia 71 per cent are Catholic and 2734 per cent Protestant, The south Classis of New York will) meet in the Union Rejormed church, Sixth avenue, on Tuesday, April 21. The classical sermon will be’ preached by the President, Rey. Dr. Hutton, at the opening of classis. The Classis of New York will meet at the same time in the Reformed church, on Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street. The Classts of Newark will hoid its spring session. in the North Reformed church of Newark, on Tues- day, April 14. The North Classis of Long Island will meet in tae Reformed church of Astoria, L. by on Tuesday, the 2ist inst. Tne South Classis of Long Island will meet in the Middle Reformed church of Brooklyn (Rev. E, P. Ingersoll’s) om Tuesday, April 14. The Classis of Bergen will meet on Tuesday, April 21, in the Third charch ot Jersey City. ‘Ihe kev. G. Talmage, pastor at Paramus, Ne J., cautions all churches of this city aud vicinity against subscribing or paying moncy to any per= sons Soliciting the same in behalt of the Holland Rejormed church of Hohokus. Such solicitors are impostors. In declaring the Counoil advisory on Plymouth church matters, Dr. Quint, who is au- thority, said there was no precedent for such & Council during the last 125 years. ‘The receipts of the celebrated Hermansburg Mission in 1873 were were 62,294 thalers; Of the Moravians in EK) re, 120,117 thalers. The National Temperance Convens tion calls for an exhaustive essay on the scientiiio: aspects of the temperance principle, offering, as inducement to competition, a prize of $500 ior the. best essay, and of $300 for the next in merit, the accepted papers to become the property of the National Temperance Society. Time extended to July 1, 1875. LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE... The Passover Memorial—Liberty for the Oppressed=Sermon by Rev, Dr. Huebsch. The beauiiful synagogue in Lexington avenue and Fifty-flith street was filled with worshippers yesterday, to whom Dr. Huebsch preached an elo- quent sermon on the Passover memorial. His text ‘was Exodus, xit., 26, 27—“‘And it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you in time to come, What mean ye by this service? Then ye shall say, It is the Lord’s Passover!? Tas one questton, “What mean ye by this service?’ like a red thread, rans through all of Israei’s history, It was put to the nation in various idioms and modu- lations, now magradging and hateful tone, and again in a biandishing and enticing tone. The. wars and the promises of the Cnaideans, Greeks and Romans, the horrors in the torture chambers and on the smoking pyres of the Inquisition, were #0 Many Versions and illustrations of that one un. changeable question. The ancestors of those that celebrate now their pesach in undisturbed peace bore herlocally the enmity and persecution of a world that was agatust them. They willingly gave up Weaith and home and everything to which the human heart clings in agection, even their lives, to maintain their creed in preity as an inheritance for posterity. Did they suder taeir martyrdom for achimera? Did they die for an iliusiou? THB PASSOVER, THE GREAT BXPOUNDER of our religion, said tue Doctor, shows us low great a spiritual treasure our forelathers were made the stewards of, and how judicious thew, noble resolution was to endure the most extreme sufferings ratuer than betray the (rust comuuited to them by God. Passover taciudes tie sublines’ ideas and prociaims the most important tratita. Standing on the boundary between the two baives of the Jewish year, itis the mouthpiece aud the true expounder of uature. Israel was not the only natton that celebrated the great festivals in the spring, Since men have lived on the evrth they have had an open eye and an impressive heart for the changes going onin nature. The Msvory of the ancient heatheu reiigions reflects cieariy this fact. Whea tliey saw the flowers fading away, the trees casting of thelr leaves and vegetation sinking to tle ground as if stricken down by @ mighty enemy, then they celebrated their festival of sorrow. ie, God of Death had conquered the God of, Life, They buried the dying summer under weeping and walingand bent their heads under the icy scoptre which ior the ensuing months was, to sway tie carth. But when the baimy breath of spring dissolved the ‘eters of ice and show, wuea the life in the veins of the earth began mightily to throb and to burst to the surface in hosts of gems and biossoms, then they shouted in jubiice. The God of life had conquered the God of death. Sum mer Was resurrected a8 A LOVELY REDEEMING YOUTH, to spread tis bliss{ul dominion over the terrestrial globe, This Worship of nature has sometiing loveiy and heart winning about it, but it has a pernicious: intiuence on the development of the human intud, Thus two contrasting powers ruled the uni- verse, and the human mind was divided in ttseli. it served half the principle of ight, hail the princi- ple of darkness; partly the God of death, hatred and enmity; partly the God oi itic, love aud be- nevolence. In winter mau's soul troze to the colt. ness of the Winter god, jar below the zero of moral temperature; then ayain it thawed up to a suort biosbom of earthly beauty, the image of spring in ail its frailty. How diferent, the Doctor re- marked, does our spring festival teach us! With one hand it points to heaven, with the other to earth, It says:—All changes here below have their one and unalterable reason in a Most Ligh Power, One Creator, one Ruler, one Supreme Love in the most velement winter storm as in the most lovely smile of rejuvenating spring; unity in the creative power, harmony in nature and ia the human soul. ‘rhis is the teaching of the Passover tous The Doctor then showed the significance Of this festival as the true herald and sweet mes- senger of political freedom. THE TYRANT NEVER PLEASES GOD, 8 and even if bis throne ts firmly established and iis. policy apparently succeeding jor a tune, we —_ ot suppose Divine Justice to be his accomplice. Providence is always on the side of tuose that are oppressed. The Lord knows best when the time is at hand to crush the oppressor and to rescue his victim. Israel took with tiem out of the house of bondage this consciousness of @ supreme pro- tection, and thie Was jor them suppork and comfort in many & critical and desperate hour, ‘The old pesach story contains the highest coniession, The Lord is «God ot mercy; He hut made mankind jor freedom; wiecrever God reigns, supreme in the spirit of men there brotherly ivve must fill the sow towards a iellow brother, An in- jury committed on one Wuo beats God's image is & wrong in theeyes of the Lord, The Doctor conciudod by showing what Intuence us Wilhauisburg, show thirty-eight churches and twenty patsonages, vatued at $666,000; fity- one Sunday sciovis, with 6,219 echoiars and teach- ‘The Memuersuip is Sd2l, The missionary the celebration of such @ great and significans festival ought to have upon the religious, civil aud domatic ite i the Wue confessor,