The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1874, Page 15

RELIGIOUS. INTELLIGENCE. Programme of Services To-Day—Sunday After Easter, April 12, MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS, The Public’s Pulpit—Religious Corre- spondence —Triangular Troubles in Brooklyn Churches, Services To-Day. The annual communion mass for the members of the Ve laSaile Union will be celebrated in the chape! of the De la Balle Institute this morning at nine o'clock, Bishop Wiley will preach this morning before the Now York East Conierence in the Simpson Metho- dist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, and will ordain . deacons, The missionary anniversary in the even- | ing Will be addressed by Drs, Wild and Eddy and Rey, E. J, Haynes. Rev. A. 8. Hunt will preach in the Summerfield Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, this atter- noon, at which time also elders will be ordained. Bishop Peck will preach before the New York Conference this morning im St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, and will ordain deacons. In the evening elders will be ordained tn the Central Methodist Episcopal ctiurch, Rev, Drs. Hurst and Haven will address the New York Conierence Education Society this afternoon in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal chareh, Revs. W. P, Aboott and ©. D. Foas, D. v., will speak before the New York Conference Temper- ance Society, in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal chureh, this evening. Rev, Dr. Chapin, of this city, will preach this afternoon at the dedication of the Universalist church, in Brooklyn, E. D., of which Rev. A. Gun- nison is pastor, Rev. J. M. Pullman, also of this city, will preach there in the evening. Dr. Taimage will preach his fifth anniversary sermon in the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, to-day. The Rey. C, C. Goss will lecture this afternoon in the Disciples’ church, Twenty-eighth street, Lear Broadway, on the legal aspects of the temp. erance question, To-day being Easter Day (old style) in the Russo- Greek Church, Father Bjering will preach this morning in English, and a Russian choir of male Voices will chant the “Litany.” Rey. C, P, Curtis, of Syracuse University, will Preach in the Central MethoJist Eniscopal church this morning, and Rey. GS. Hare, D.D., in the evening. Dr. Rylance, rector of St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal church, will preach this morning and in the evening on “Christian Temperance,” Dr. Armitage will preach in Association Hall this evening. The sermon for the times will be preached in the Harvard Rooms this evening, by Rey. Alexander McKilvey. The subject 1s “Mutual Influence,” Dr. D. H. Miller preaches in Plymouth Baptist chureh this morning and evening. Rev. W. H. Pendleton will occupy the pulpit of the Fifty-third street Baptist Church at both ser- vices to-day. The Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church Will celebrate its anniversary to-day. Dr. E. 0, Haven and Revs. Mr. Willis, W. P. Abbott and 0. E. Harris will preach or deliver addresses. Revs. J. H. Hawkshurst ana E. Tinker will preach to-day in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopat church, Dr. Miley will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Epis, copal church this morning and Rev. J. 0. Hoyt in the evening. Rev. J. Pegg, Jr, and Rey. T. H. Burch will Preach, morning and evening, In Seveuteénth street Methodist Episcopal church. A temperance meeting will be held in the afternoon. Rey. J. W. Bainhart will preach at both sessions to-day in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal eburch, The services in the Sixth avenue Reformed church will be conducted to-day by -Rev.(W. B. Merritt, pastor. Drs. Miller and Ball will address the Morning Star Sunday School Mission this afternoon, at which time also the Carolina singers will sing. Dr. Dowling wiil preach in the morning and Dr. Halt in the evening in the Tabernacle Baptist church. Sermons will be preached in the Scotch Presby-. terian church, this morning and afternoon, by Rev. 8. H. Hamilton. Rev. James Chrystie will conduct Episcopal ser- vices and will preach at both services to-day in the church in West Fiftieth street. Rey. G. H. Carey will conduct tne services of the Reformed Episcopal church, in Lyric Hall, this evening. The First Baptist church, of Harlem, will occupy their new hail for the first time to-day. Rev. J, V. Osterhout will preach. Rev. J. M. Pullman will preach before the Charch of Our Saviour in the Standard Club Hal, this morning. “Are Divisions in the Church Intended by God to Meet Differences in Men’s Characters,’’ will be dig- cussed to-day in the Catholic Apostolic church. “aod’s Fatherhood” will be the subject of diacus- sion by Rey. E. ©. Sweetser this morning, in the Bleecker street Universalist church, Rev. P. L. Davies will preach morning and even- ing in the Berean Baptist church, Dr. A. C. Osborn will occupy the pulpit of the South Baptist church at the usual hours to-day. Lytian 0. Howe will address the Progressive Spiritualists this evening on “Occupations in the Alter Life.” At the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Fifth ave- nue, above Forty-fifth street, on Sunday evening, she Easter programme of music will be repeated. ‘The rector will preach. The converted rabbi, E. H. Schlamoritz, will de- liver the first of a new series of lectures on the “Divinity of Christ,’ in the schooi hailof the Holy Innocents’ church, at five P. M, to-day, Rev. W. H. Cudworth, of Boston, will occupy the u Ipit of the Church of the Messiah this morning and evening, discoursing on “Yearning for Goa” and the “Foundation of @ Christian Church.” «What Young People Say and Think of Religion” will be the subject of Mr. Hepworth’s discourso this evening in the Church of the Disciples, In the morning “Come and See.” Rey. J. F. McClelland will preach in St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church this morning, The Easter musical services will be repeated to- day in the Onurch of the Holy Saviour. Revs. W. C. Dawson and R, Cameron will oc- cupy the pulpit of the Church of the Disciples of Curist to-day. “The Teachings of Expertence” will he the sub- Ject of Mr. Pycott’s discourse this evening in St, John’s Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn. Rev, Dr. Anderson will preach this afternoon before the Yorkville Young Men’s Christian As- sociation, in the East Side Association building. Sermons will be preached and nigh mass cele- brated to-day in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, ‘The Rey, R, Heber Newton will preach in the Anthon Memorial church to-day at tho usdal hours, A new church is to be Inaugurated at Mechanics’ Hail, avenue D and Fourth atreet igh ceiebration and sermon in, St. Ignatius’ chureh this morning by Rev. Dr. Ewer. Rev. De. Flagg will preach In the Church of the Resarrection this morning and evening. S. P, Andrews, Mrs. Leland and others, will arldress the Freethinkers in De Garmo hall to-day. A conference of Spiritualists will be held in Ger- mania Hall this afternoon, A New Catholic Church tn Brooklyn. The title has recently been acquired by the Bishop of Brooklyn to ten anda haf lots of land atthe intersection of Classon avenue and Butigr street, on which the new Catholic church of St. Teresa will be immediately erected. The parish of 6t. Teresa has been created by @ partition of tho of Victory, and he» bi col ephebual care Ol the Nev. Father Joseph McNamee, for ny yours aesisiont F of the Church of Our Lady fhe rely Roman style of arcnitec- ture Phe route bot he church and lot oo Clas- son avenue will 111 feet, aud on Butler strect 200 feet, The corner stone will be laid about the beginning of June, and ¢ buliding covered in for divine service by next Novemper. The New German Empire and the Cath- olie Chare! To TH# Eprtor of THR HRRALD:— The public interest concerning the struggle be- tween the new German Empire and the Catholic Church tncreases with every incident reported by the cable or the press. Are the 16,000,000 or 20,000,000 of Catholics who belong w the States represented tn the Imperial Diet to share the fate of the Engilsh Catholice under Henry VIH,—that 13, to see themselves Protestantized within one or two generations by the slow but sure process of a legislation which has no thought of jastice and an administration which cares nothing tor public opinion? Remembering what bas happened in Engiand and m Japan and in Christian countries conquered by the Mahometans, one might well look forward to the utter extinction of the Catholic Cuurch among the Germun race, and that, too, Within no remote period; for Austria is now Join- ing hands with the Prussian Chancellor. That in tne breast of Bismarck and of those who blindly yield to his will or share hts passions in the Diet there exists not the faintest sense of moral rectitude or any inconvenient dread of the judg- ments of God or man all know well who know these men at all. And had they any regard for public opinion they would be encouraged to per- sist in violating the most sacred rights of the Ger- man Catholics by the voice of Exeter Hail and the encominme of the Evangelical Alliance. But, setting aside the determined resistance of the 20,000,000 aggrieved by the eniorcemecnt a! the recent jaws, and the improbability of a long suc- cessiul coercion of men’s consciences in such a country as Germany and io this nineteenth century, there are other and peremptory reasons why this most unjustifiable persecution should come to @ speedy and ignominious end, The first 1s because it is @ persecution, which no one act either on the part of the persecuted or that of their religious guides can justify before the public opinion of Christendom. Within Prus- sia proper and every State forming the present Empire the Catholics are admitted to have been, before the Franco-Prussian war, law-abiding and patriotic citizens, inferior to none other in culture, morality, social distinetion and devotion to the public welfare. During the war Catholics were second to noue in bravery, efficiency and endar- ance, Witness the praise bestowed on the Bava- Tians by the North Germans themselves and by the English and American correspondents with the army. Nor was the pubiic voice less unani- mous or less hearty in lauding the priestg and nuns who mintstered during the war to tue spiritual and bodily comfort of the German gol- diers, Even these dreadful Jesuits came in for a goodly share of the “iron cross” of merit and of the g nerous gratitude which the popular heart awards Wien following its own instincts, and not fired by political or religious bigotry. Did anything happen either at the proclamation of tne German Empire or in the first stages of its organization to cast suspicion on the loyalty of the Catholics? Was there any public maniiesta- tion of distrust on thelr part toward the present. Emperor or iis dynasty, based on the fact of his being a Protestant ? ny, atthe head of those who prompted the offering of the imperial crowa to Weihelm I. was the Catholic King of Bavaria, while it is @ matter of pubitce notoriety that no portion of the Empero:’s native subjects were more devotedly loyai to nimseii and his line than the Prussian Oatholics, But @ something did occur just pefore the fear- fal humiliation of France and the sudden exalta- tion of Germany Which haga causal connection wi'h the present hostile’ attitude of Prussia—the proclamation at Rome of the dogma of Papal in- lullibility. And if your readers will open the Memorial Diplomatique for 1868 and 1869 they wilt find in it a key to Bismarck’s subsequent policy in the attempt made by the then Bavarian Prime Minister, to unite the Euro- Vea courts in opposition to the holding of the ‘ounctl of the Vatican. ‘Lhe man, who since became Bismarck’s chief! counselor, but who was tien, ap- ie at least, his bitter opponent, is Prince Juiodwig Victor Hohenlohe, in 1868 Prime Minister of Bavaria, afterwards first Vice President the Imperial German Parlig- ment, and now, it is said, German Amba sador in Paris. And you may be sure he is there forno other eartily purpose than to justity Bismarek’s, or-rather bis own, persecuting policy toward the Catholic Church and to obtain irom the French government a promise of abstention or in- action, while the German Chancellor is carrying into execution the new coercive measures against the Holy See concerted with Italy and Austria. There would appear to be no logical connection between the prolessions and conduct of Wilbeim L, as King of Prussia, toward his Catholic sulyects aud the policy which, as Emperor oi Germany, ne has been made to pursue. But all ts explained by seeing in the Emperor and his Chancellor only the unconscious tools of Hoheniohe. in 1868 this man had been forced to résign by the determined Opposition of Whats was Known in Bavaria.as tne “patriotic party,’ the chief su) porters of which were Catholics adverse to the Prime Minister's principles, He had just before endured a diplo- Matic defeat, as meutioned above, in endeavoring to prevent the holding of an Gccumenical Council. He ad been patung Dr. Dillinger on the back and encouraging the iormation of the “Old Catuolic” party or sect, which he hoped would rally to its stantard of orthodoxy @ powertul minority, if not Acro the majority, of German Catholics. Toe downiali Of the French Bmperor in Septem- ber, 1870, made Hohenloiie see in the creation ol a hew German Empire the means of obtaining a crushing victory over his old enemies ai and at Kome, and at Paris as well. The Bavaria, who had never for a moment ceased to give him his most unumited confidence, was ad- vised by him to throw in his fate with Prussia at the beginuing of the war, and later to take tie initiative in offering the crown of Chariemagne to the stout uld conqueror at Versailles, What cared Hoheniohe that the independence of Bavaria should be tor ever sacrificed to the hegémony of Prussia? Was he not to be Vice President of the new Imperial Parliament, instead ola ated leader in a small Bavarian Chamber ? And would he not, a8 the Von Moltke of the poli- tico-religious campaign which he would make Bismarck and this Emperor undertake against Pv Nono, have a golden opportunity tor taking lis revenge on Rome? Poor Bavaria | Well, when we see kings and statesmen bestow. ing their whole care on regulating dogma, and for- getting all natioual interests ia the gratification of theological animosities, we may ioreteli that some great calamity 1s at hand. Were not the Greek Emperors presiding at councils and traming doc- trmai edicts while the barbarians Were wresting from them their tairest provinces? And was not Napoleon Il, in 1869 and 1370, more busied with worrying the Pope than in watching Prussia’s for- midlable preparations or looking at home into the To aces of bis own military establish. ments Tue Bavaria, vbich, since the days of Charle- magne, had been an independent and not in- glorious member of the great German iamuily of States, js now but a satellite unsteadily gitmmer- ing around the Prussian central luminary. She nas been for the last Hity years one oj the mostinsidious and cowardly enemies of the Papacy, favoring in an especial manner every writer who chose to Taise the hue and cry against the ultramontanes. And she nas forjeited forever the secular iriendship of Frauce, God helpher! We have, then, io the NEW. YORK well known policy of Bavaria and in the rdle played by Hoheniohe @ rational explanation of thé present unnataral, illogical and pregnant dim- culty; Jor pregnant it 18 with danger to the best tuterests o1 Germany. Is it likely to continue? No, The laws unwisely enacted, and now still more un- wisely eniorced against the highest, purest and most enlightened members of the Catholic Chnrcn in Germany must be condemned, and are even now condemned by all whose judgment is not misied by Une narrowest political or sectarian intolerance or by the blind bigotry begotten by prejudice, Of course wherever the Chaich of Rome is a party in any quarrel, even where her children are the Victims o1 the most crying injustice, no sym- wihy is to be expected from the great majority of Protectants, 80 inseparably in their minds is she identitied with the worst kinds of spiritual and Political oppression! But, alter ail, im our day, And i our own country especaily, we donot want to see even the oppressor loaded, In the name of lreedom, with the chains just stricken trom his slave, What, more tha the corruption at- tribated or proved to belong to the repabiican party among us, has weaned trom them the joyalty O( tueir truest (riends, and is now jast preparing @ great political revoiution, is the idea that, aiter saving the Union and destroying slavery, the re- publicans have transferred the yoke from the neck o/ the biack to that of his former master. Granted. that before the Relormation the old Churen had proved hera:if tyrannical, it is not pre- tended that she has proved so since within the length and breadth of the North German Confed- eration, The pretence rather is that sue is oniy aiming at recovering ber lost power, and the pres- ent outrageous measures, sweepiug away, as thoy 0, the most precious rights of Conscience and the Sita essential elements 01 civil ireedom, are en- acted only As a,preventive against the possible predominance o*Catholtcism, The definition o, the kope’s oMecial infalltoiltt; was the great bugbear wita which Moheniohe ul tempted to irighten the European courts intoa coulition against the Pope, and the erection into dogmas of att tue utterances of the Syllabus was dehounced as @ proclamation of War to all civil overniments. : Yo the enlightened and tofacring mise Ut ars exceedingly puerie or eXceedingly Wic l. he Pope of toMay ia Dot &@ Whit more infaliibie than tie Pope Whom Napoleon beld captive in Fontainebiean. nor is he less Nor Ww don! of powertess. there one single jitical or social vapor rom Today thet” ‘was not n do Christ Gays of the Hirst Gregory. When such political tricksters as the Qlliviers aud tne Bismarcks and the Hoheniohes the cry of the State in aanger from the Church, you Pry ben! gure At is the Old ery of the Woif about to devour the lamb. but there t# one way of testing the cnormous in- — of the Bismarckian legisiation; and let 16 ut thus to any twelve honest men, in tire least enlizhtened, of our American constituencies, 8a: war chosen tn the poorest ward m New Yo iY “Would you deem it in accordance witn the prin- ciples guaranteed in our federal or State eonstitn- tion if the Governor of New York had a law passed the bishops wittin his jurisdiction to fil & vacant Episcopal See without “his authorize ton, or appointing @ pastor or assistant pastor, save such us had been approved by the ctvit au- thorittes, or allowing a ReneS to preach, to hear contesstons, to minister to the siek ana dying, wuo had not the formal sanction oi the civil govern. ment? What would you think if every bialop who persisted tn resisting this unheard oF ueurpation Of power were to be fined for the first offences and imprisoned for répetition of them? Or if a priest, bound by his ordinatton promise to obey his bishop in all pings Jawtully pertaining to his office, should be fii for hearing confes- 8108 without the magistrate’s permission or ban- ished beyond the State limita for preaching witi- out a State license 7 “Monstrous |’? ba would exclaim, And yet this violation of the righta of conscience and the most essential liberties of the man and the Ohristian do hot begin to compare with what ig now done in Germany under the pretence of vindicating the law and preserving tne State from the encroach- ments of the ecclesiastical power. Bat o1 the whole series these legislative en- actments.and the acts of oppression to which they have led more shall be said in another letter. PRUDENTIUS, Troubles in Charches. In last Sunday's HERALD reference was made to the troubles existing among Baptists and Metho- dists in the City of Churches, ‘Tits seems to be the era of il feeling instead of good teeling among religious bodies im that community, and the breaches are widening rather than healing with the mfuence of time. The difference heween Dr. Fulton and Mr. Kalbflelsch is no nearer asettlement to-day than it was a week ago. The Committee of Conference appointed by the Haison place Baptist church have had an interview with Mr. Kalbficisch during the week, but he refuses to pay the $500 Which they say be pledged, but which he says he did not, and for his reiusal to pay they refuse to give him a letter of dis- missal. It is thought, however, the church will reconsider ite refusal and grant the letter asked for. But even this will not finish up Dr. Fuiton’s troubles. He has a standing fgut with Dr. Jeffrey and Rev, J. Hyatt Smith, and with every other Baptist minister known or suspectea of hoiding open communion sentiments. Before Dr. Jeffrey came to Brookiyn at all Dr. Fulton and himself fired a few newspaper shots at each other, and so soon as Dr, Jeffrey came here Dr. Fulton took the earltest opportunity in his power to insult nim. His antagonism to Brother Smith is well known and of long standing, Those two brethren, and others sympathizing with them, have therefore for many months refrained from attending the Monthly conferences of the Brooklyn Baptist pas+ tors, to avoid the coarse insults ot their Brother Fulton. Their perpetual absence has ut last been felt by the eapuee Pastors’ Conference, and at their meeting last Monday @ resolution was mtroduced deprecating the cause which deprived them o} the presence and counsel of their brethren, and ex- tending to the absentees & cordial and hearty in- Vitatton to attend the /uture meetings of the Con- ference. Mr. Smith and Dr. Jefirey have not yet auswered ibe invitation of the Conference, but it is believed they wili accept and will attend here- iter. In such case per Dr. Fulton will deem himseif injured and will absent himsel! from the Conterence. But the hag ead pastors evidently do hot consider Brother Fulton’s presenve @ full equivaleut for the absence of other brethren equally jaithiul and good. Dr. Puiton, to add to his other arrogated powers, has now decideu that the “regular” Baptist churches of Brooklyn aud of the Long Island Association shall withdraw tocir fellowship from the Lee avenue Baptist church, In the meantime some of the other pastors and churches in tne Long Island Association deciare that i the Lee avenue church is excluded they yu ee with is, Thus it wiilbe seen tnat peuce and harmony do not exist to the jullest extent in tue Baptist churches of Brooklyn. But they are not alone in this regard. The Prea- byterians in Fort Greene church Sunday scuool have had @ little breeze lately. The Rev. Mr, Barnes, the pastor, it is alleged, has been ior some time past making war on Mr, W. W. Wickes, the Sabbath School Superintendent, who has been ‘con- nected with the school since its orgauization ten yeais ago, and under whose admimistration it has gore to have 800 children and as tine a staf of achers a8 could be found in any other Presbyte- Tian church in Brooklyn. The position of the oM- cera and teachers 01 the school was made go gisa- reeable by Mr. Barnes that on Sunday jass Mr. Wickes resigned his superintendency of the school, The teachers thereupun adopted a series of com- plimentary resolutions concerning: Dim, alter which forty of them, males and females, flied out of the school and jest the pastor and nis irieods in possession, But the church itselt ia not pre- jared for such ® movement, and it ia gaid will ask jor their pastor’s resignation, During the past week also the committee of the Methodist Protestant Conference who have had Mr. Kendrick’s case under investigation, reported their decision finding him gulity of being under tne influence of liquor in the Grand street church, Wiliiamsburg, February 15 and March 6; also ‘uilty of conduct Gabecoming @ Christian minister in personaily encouraging aud presiding over an association lor indulgence i amusements mcon- sistent With the practice of a Christian lie, sueh as round dances, &c., and declaring that dancing 4s in accordance with the teaching of the Bible. The committee took their verdict to the Preatdent of the Conferen\e at Canarsie, who haa con-" firmed the same, whereby Mr. ‘Kendrick is ex- cluded from preaching im any pulpit Im tue New York Conference of the Methodist Protestant Chureh. The Grand street Methodist Protestant church, however, Tepudiates this verdict and in- sists on Mr. Kendrick preaching for them. Alder- man John H, Snyder, who tg @ member of this church, bas publicly pledged hig word wo collect 600 annually toward Mr. Kendrick’s salary in the ture provided Mr. Kendrick preach in the Kast- ern District, Mr. Kendrick himseli has taken an appeal to the Annual Conierence and bas flied ms exceptions. Meantime he will continue to preach either in Grand street charch, Wiliamsborg, or in some other church or hall in the Eastern District, Triangular Brooklyn The Herald’s Spiritual Answered. To THe Epiror oF THB HERALD:— We accept Spiritualism as a fact. A pomtive mind will demand the best and most positive evidence, Antmated with a sincere desire to know the truth in regard to the possibiitty of com- municating with the departed, some years ago, in connection with some well educated French gentlemen, I began to investigate, thoroughly, patiently and diligentiy, modern Spiritualism. The investigation lasted for avout three years, and resulted in demonstrating to us, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that the sptrite of the de- patted do communicate with the inhabitants of earch. In looking over the record I nave retained of our investigations I find answers to the various questions found in your remarks in a late number of the HERALD, while commenting on tho corre- apondence between RK. W. Peckham and J, W. Edmonds, since deceased. As your demand for information is made in good faith, in good faith I place here at your disposal WhatI possess, There are many things true, un- known to the philosophy of the wisest, However, in @ matter of ao extraordinary a character as Spiritualism, I would not estimate mighly the mind acceptung blindly as true whatever emanates irom ey mediums, investigate and then judge, ould you be so inclined, the means are witiin your reach, and then you will be abie anowiogly to stamp it @ delusion or declare it 2 tact. | am unacquainted with Judge Edmonds, but I am con- fident he ran direct you how to proceed. In nearly every family the elements exist for prosecuting & successiul inquiry, but above ail one should care- Juliy avoid the contaminating influence, antics and juggiery of so-called spiritual mediams and hum. jugs, Who, for the love o1 gain and notoriety, have done and are doing serious injury to a subject which shoald be considered of paramount imterest to mankind, In regard to the information you demand, I here give you the philosophy or the teacinngs and ex- perience of those who have leit us, Yon Ask, “Whatis the nexc world?” The next worid con- sists of that immense and vast planetary aystem of which astronomy conveys to us a jeeble concep- tion, ‘There we tind our future abodes aud are there assizned our respective stations and condi- tions in strict accordance with the spiritual prog- Tess we have mado on earth, “4 You ask, “What reiation does it bear to earth?” It bears the same relation to earth that our most renowned colleges and universities pear to the printary schools of our country, where our children aré making what appears to their littie Minds @ herculean cifort to muster the alphavet yee ie i Lt) mae oy yD i? we there is one of activity and progress, © plating as wo proceed the errors ane mlosaues of this lile, bitterly regretting having failed to em- i} hore the many Opportunities we possessed our advancement Derealter, You ask, "Do we see each other with spiritual eyesy”? 'e do, and we there preserve our per- sonal identity. Our semses and faculties, inatead of becoming impaired, are keener and more per- fect, You ask, ‘Is it a world for good or ovili? Icisa Seepticism World fer good, apd good only; but retribation— stern, just and equitable retribuuon—is the im- mutavle law. Our G.mduct on earth, our capaci- and opportunities, constitute the standard by ich we sie apages. ‘There we find no tavoritism, i the Of sophistry are powerless. No vicartal atonement condones our offences, ‘The suicide, the smfanticide, the murderer, tie hypo- crite aud other evil docrs find ouly relief and prog- resa when they bave tuily expiated their crimes. You ash, “Do we 4 Or remaiu stagnant 7 If the smuiiest particle im natore’s economy is not subject to gagpeucn ean the human soul, the greatest of God’s creations, remain dormant ?’ ‘The swatiest alow, aiter 4 ceriain period 01 existence, disappears, either bieuding its component parts wiih other entities or becomes absurved into & superior body. Activity and immortality dominate everywhere in nature; consequently immobility aud staguation jor us hereaiter are LnpossioLities. You ask, “Do we marry or recoguize the mar- Tiages Of earth? Yes, we are mariied there tue game ad here. Marriages made on eariu—sympa- thetic and productive of ha,pimess—are indissol- uble; but Wuere unhappiness is the sole result of eart anions death dissolves the ue. You ask, “Do we carry with ua our iriendships, hopes, enmities and amoiuons?? We carry with us ou iiendehips, topes and ambitions if they centre OD worthy subjects; our enmities we are tov happy to be avie to leave witn our earthly body, fur we find they are a burden tending to re- tard our progress, You ask, “slave we any communion with the Sainte’? Saints are not aciass of spirits manu- factured by mankind, ‘They consist of spirits who have attatued the highest degree of periection, In order to be able to commune with them we must progress. You ask, “Is there any law of discipline or punishmeat?? That question has been already answered. Fox the evil done there muat be reuri- bution, @Xpiation, happiness and progress. lor those who heve act well the part, and ior the afficted, the poor, tae needy and sutfering who bear patiently thetr conaition. You ass, “Does tne mateiactor who dies on the gallows come into the same life as the prince who dies on the throne? Unioruuateiy, yes; for nearly always the malefactor is stained wiih ec imes committed, Whicn 1s too ofien the case with ine prince, who, besides, 18 generally overloaded with sins Ol OMissiON, Generally those classes of un- Jortunates haye @ long and rude expiation to make. LE MEME, A Witness That God Hears and Answers . Prayer. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— An article in your paper lately, headed “One In- stance of Goa’s Failure to Answer Prayer,” at- tracted my attention, and I would like to say to the writer that, as ail inspiration from God tn the Past and upto the present time and all revela- tions of Himseli have come through tuman betngs, ali diferentiy constituted, of differen, nationall- ties, often speaking different languages and all surrounded by entirely different conditions, the only marvel is, not that there are any seeming in- congrulties and contradictions, but that there are so few. When we take into consideration the fact that many parts oi tue Bible were for centuries traditional, the only record hauded down from fatner to son, and that otuer parts were remem- bered and recorded by persons who were not themselves inspired and who made the recora long aiter the trutn or word Jel from toe lips of the. inspired prophet, is 1t strange that sume mistakes should occur? Mr. Editor, you well know that to scholarly men who think pro.oundly these same contradictions aud incongruities are the strongest prooi of the divine origin and inspiration, ol Scripture, since, if the Bible was the work of man alone sorfe scholar would, long beiore tis, have revis. d the whole and reconciled all its differences. The hand of God has prevented an. aitering essentially these sacred records, . there are Jauls in them, for until there is some periect channel through which tae mspiration of God can fow pure and untainted these imperfections must exist. 1 believe that any human soul. praying sincerely for light on any subject will svon or late receive @& satisiaciory answer. If those who cavil about the mistakes and imperfections found ‘in the Scriptures woud turn vo St. Matthew aud read tue Sermon on the Mount, or, better still, the entire teachings of our Divine Lord and Mas- ter, they wili tind no imperfections, no contradic- tions there, I do not believe in religious contro- versie’, but Ido believe that the scripiure is of God, No other book nas ever stood the test the Bible has stood. It bears witness in itself of being @ divine inspiration, and rests simply on its own Merits, fauits and all, and will 80 continue, for our Biessed Lord came not to destroy, but to fulfll; and I believe He will Himself ere long make new Fevelations that will prove the divine imspiration Of the Bible and expluin all of its mysteries. Dr. FRED, A. PALMER, The Wine of Scripture Was Intoxicating. To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In Sunday's issuc of the HERALD I showed that Wine—“tirosh” of the old dispensation, meaning new wite—was stimulating and intoxicating and contained alcohol; that tt was spoken Oi as a bless- ing to be enjoyed by the people wita grateiul hearts and that it was used in religious observ- ances, I will now take the word “yain,’? wine, from a verb signifying to bubble up, as wine does tm the vat. It denotes wine possessing the intoxi- cating principle generated by the process of fer- mentation—Proverbs, xxiil, 31—Look not thou Upon the ‘yain’ when it is red, when it giveth nis color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.” ‘That is to say do not indulge ao mmoderate desire afterit, The same word deootes wine rendered mtoxicating by she acimxture of drugs—Isaiah, v., 22—"“Woe unto them that are miguty to drink Wine and“men of strength to mingle stron drinks,” This very tact i every day illusirater among us, jor even the strongest constitutions will succumb to tne intoxicating effects of drinks mixed, The following passages prove the intoyxicatiny raperties of wine, ‘yain :’—Genesis, x., 4—"Ani Roan awoke from his wine and kuew not wnat lis jounger Bon fad done uno him. With this wine os vecame iIntoxicated—Genesis, xix., 8z—"Let uS make our father drimk wine, -yain,’? waich must nave been considerably stronger than dlack- berry cordiat or. tne ordipary boiled wines of modern days, which not only destroy tae digestive functions, but produce a torpid condition of the funcons of the fiver. One other instance of its intoxicating properties may be cited, “How long will thou be drunken? pat away tay wine from tuee.” Yet this wine i recommended im Scrip- ture—Proverus, 1X., 6—“Uome eat ol my bread aud drink of te wine which | have mingled.” Aliso Isaiah, “Come buy wine and milk with- out and without price.’ “Yatn’? religious observances, — “I'he fourth part of an hin of wine for o drink offering.” Samuel 1, 2—“And when she had weaned him she took him up with ner with three buliocks and an ephah of O.ur and a botile of wine.” lp the particulars mentioned there is a given proof that ‘‘yain” denotes wine oi un inwwx- cuting property, that men became inebriated by its use, and that, nevertueless, it was recom- mended in Scripture, and was used in religious ob- gervances. Lnow come to the third term ‘‘sheckar,” strong, intoxicating drink. Many warnings are given on account of its intoxicating nature. Leviiicus X., 9—-"Do not drink wine nor strong ¢rink, thou nor thy sons With thee, woen z 9 into the taver- Dacle 0) the congregation, lest ye div’ This im- plies that it inignt be drunk at other times. The pd oe is only in tte use When going to wor- abip God Proverbs xx., 1—“ Wine (sheckar) is a mocker, trong drink is raging.’ It was uscd in religious ser- es—Numbers XXvill., 7, Deateronomy Xtv., 20— ‘And thou shall bestow that moncy tor whatso- ever thy soul listeth alter—for oxen or ior sheep, or tor wine (yain) OF ior strong drink sheckar) or for whatsoever thy soul desireth.”” tere it 18 spoken of as an allowable comiort, though @ Means Of intoxication, and by its abuse it may become @ curse. Let us turn to Proverbs Xxxvi, 7—“Give strong drink (sheckar) unto him that is reaay to perish, and wine (jain) unto those that be of heavy heart; “Let bim drink and forget his poverty’’—that is to say, you have strong drink, do good with it. Instead of in- juring yoursell by @ slavish and extravagant use o1 it do good with it, Let them have it that needit. I¢ is good in itself, and should not be abused nor Wasted, but given to others to refresh and relieve them. Here, then, “sheckur,” lke ‘rosh” and “yain,” was intoxicating wine. It was neverthel recommended to be used care- fully and ior doiwg good to otuers, aad was used in religious Observances, THEODORE JUNIUS, M. D. vee Messra. Carpenter and Tyndall. To THR KDITOR OF THE HBRALD:— Recently, in Zton’s College, London, Dr. Carpen- ter declared “that all the liturgies, collects and prayers that were ever uttered never could influ- ence the course of this universe, nor man, nor a single individual, in any degree.’”’ Professor Tyn- dali also said (there were over 100 clergymen present) :—"I am speaking to men of education, men of learning, men wild have studied in uni- yersities, who have read history and observed the course of nature, and I aak you whether it is really possible that you can have any belief in the efficacy Of prayer to affect the universe in the least degree Y* Allow me space in your papor for a few remarks on this subject, And, first, I would state my own personal experience of the efMfeacy of prayer and the fulfliment of the promises confected tnere- with, a8 set forth in the Bible for man’s direction and encouragement, according to the will of God. My first religious experience was when a mere boy, about four to six years of age. My heart seemed sifgularly drawn out to Goda in worshtp, Jove and joy, Iseemed to bave grown up in the biessedness of God's iavor without knowing tt. But when about six years old my playmates beset me with ridicule, and I sunk under it, lost the Divine favor, and, for the first time in my life, 1 Prayer HERALD, SUNDAY, APHIL "fz, 1874.—QUINTUPLE SHEET, felt condemned of God. Thus! lived seventeen, whem | determined, es ali m a ir had bene re iow, here is @ point in the personal experience of a child who, without Knowledge of the Scrip- tures, consciously shared its promises to those who obey them, and lived therein some two years, sharing the witoess of the Spirit with hia spirit that he wag a child of God, as the Bible deelures, delighting in God’s worship and love, and thus proving the eMcacy of prayer and the verity of the Bible to all true worshippers of God. It makes no difference whether Drs. Carpenter and ‘tyndali call this the resutt of my prayers or those 01 somebody else, or whether they deny that prayer had aennae whatever to do with it; the Jact stands on’ the Bible basis in deflance of their thought. And, ag the promises of God, conditioned On prayer, were realized, it 18 @ logical sequence that prayer was used by myself or by others and Was answered. Another point is, that my experi- €nce from my fail for some eleven years, only cor- roborated the bible declarations of God’s co! demnation of the disobedient, the scientists’ soph. istry to the contrary notwithstanding. But the scene now changes, I looked at myself oversee just as eir lives, nT Tazarde,” and at the world and tound Carpenter and ‘Tyndall have seen it all t corrupt, unholy, ruined and lost; a world iying in wickedness and corruption, just as the Bible rep- resents lost man, all proving that representation true. Now, I said, I will prove the truth or falaity of the Bible and the Bibie’s God in the promises to those who wiil forsake their evil ways through the race and help of Je: irist, the Redeemer and javiour, and In His name ask deliverance from guilt and gin. This battie was tndescribably sore aud hard-ioughs for three mouths. Infidelity, with ail te quibbles, moral darkuess shut me out from God, te of the one - could only say, “Sink or Swim, live or die,” here I set my standardfor “y, tory or death!" 4 pes 7 Thus passed three months, when Jesus spoke and the sterm went mourning into siience at His voice. Sinai’s thunders ceased and o’er my head the sbow ot promise beamed, Prayer hud ‘prevailed, God's promise was mine. God had fultilied His word, The Bibie to me was true. The Spirit bore witness with my spirit that | was a child of God. My triumph was iar more glorious than my utmost im- Aaginaiion had conceived, fur ay “sun did not go downy, neither did my moon withdraw itself; the Lord was my everlasting light and the days of my mourning were ended,” Can Messrs, Carpenter and Tyndall successfally dispate such testimony ? Can they in open court swear down and rebut the millions of witnesses, past and present, to the truth of God and His word 10 their personal experience of the same blessed deliverance irom guilt and sin? Were all these Witnesses ignorant fanatics? Were the 100 minis- ters who listened to Carpenter and Tyndail in Zion College when these gentiemen made this assertion and asked the question given above, and whom Tyndall eulogized as learned, &c.—were they all fools or Knaves ? What a climax of self-esteem and egotism! Thus are both Tyndall and Carpenter standing proois of the truth of the Bible repre- Sentatious Of man as well as of the imbecility of human reason whed it leaves the only staadard of religious truth. Again, IT have seen and experienced many answers to prayer, both direct and immediate, not oniy in simple Christian experience—ot which all God’s children are. samples—but in temporal things, I have seen disease which threateued to be tatal immediately and suddenly arrested in answer to prayer, I have known direct and imn- Mediate answers to prayer in business; and in Jaw [have known a party defeated by non-appear- ance and non-correspondence, througk non-recep- tion of a letter and delay o1 a raiiroad train, in answer to the united prayers of two or three per- Sons who made it a special subject of prayer that God would deliver the deiendant from the unjust and vile claims of the otuer party. 1 have known hundreds—l_ might say thousands—or doliars saved to persons who could ill afford to lose them, and where there seemed no other hope therefor but God in answer to prayer. Many handreds of well authenticated cures, even of cases given up by physicians, and of can- cers, levers, epliepzy, insanity, &c., &c., have been granted in answer to prayer alone. What arrogance and hmpndence for such men to stump the world in denial of the least degree of effect on the uni- verse for the eMcavy of prayer, and to taunt peo- ple who believe, teuch und know the efiicacy of prayer with asking them whether it is really possible that you can have any belief therein! In O\her words to say, Now just own up that you are hypocrites. If this is not the very acme of arro- gance, impudence, ignorance or hypocrisy | know not what canbe. Do neither man nor his inter. ests belong to the universe ? A. W. BLAKESLEY, A French Reformed Church in New York. On the invitation of a number of Swiss and French residents of New York the Rev. Emile Borel is ongaged in an effort to build up a iree evangelical church among the more than 15,000 French people in this city. His testimonials and his actual work afford abundant evidence of his avility and adaptation. He isan earnest, labori- ous and thoroughly evangelical preacher of tha Gospel, his labors being specially directed to the poor and the obacure among our French speaking population, His work thus jar hus proved most successiul Fhe peavors ol diferent churches have cordially united in commending him and nis con- gregation to the syimpathy and liberality of tie Christian peuple, Among them Revs. Thomas De- Witt, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr.; C. F. Deems, of the Church ot the Strangers; Bishop S. E. Janes, of the Methouist Episcopai Chureh; Dr. T. M. Ludiow, of tre Keformed Church; B.A. Washburn; Cyrus D, Foss, of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church; Henry Ward Beecher, G. H. Hepworth and others, Mr. Borel has labored here avout a year, and has already gathered a congregation of about 150 per- gons anda church organization of fifty communi- cants, This society, known as the French and Swiss Retormed church of New York, holus divine service every Sabbath morning in the vestry of Calvary Protestant Episcopal church, Fourth ave- hue, The Christian Church Arraigned. To THE EpiroR oF THE HERALD:— My protound conviction is that the greatest ob- Btacle to Christianity to-day is “the Church.” The Church, as it exists, 1s almost purely a human creation, and no more. like the institution of its Diessed Founder than this great city is like the simple and beautiful scene of pature that was once its site. Christianity is of God; the Church of man. In Christ's time men preached the whole- some truth. it was presented in a simple and convincing manner, and was illustrated by tho practices of its professor to the very truth. Men were convinced, To be convinced was beitet— belief, the acceptation of Christ and Christianity, simple religion, was baptized and went on hus way rejoicing,” Not so the metuod of this day. What is necessary now was the necessity of Christ's time—believing, earnest and practising Carisuan preachers, with a creed that allowed them to bap- tize, without conditions, believers, and to send them forth blessed and to bless. Whether such converts shall gather together siouid be purely a question of individual Jeeling. Im the eariy times organization was necessary for protection, but there 18 now no such necessity. But the Christian of to-day 18 @ clanmish creature. He 18 not’ ‘the Jeaven, aud seldom will he associate himself with the unregenerate dough. ‘The tines seem pregnant for the birth of a great prophet, @ Son of God. Where is the boid man who, filled with tho spirit of truth, shall deciare that the New Testament no more fits these times than did the law at its birth? “Seltall thon hast and give to the poor” is ignored by every Christian. y SERARUHER, Ministerial and Church Movements. ROMAN CATHOLIC. : The Rey. Theophiie Charaux, Superior General of the Jesuit Mission in Canada, has addregsed the Legisiative Assembly of Quebec & petition for the restoration of the property anciently held by his Order, but some time ago sequestered. The Cath- Olic Society of Chasa, Minn., has succeeded in es- tavlishing a Cathoite parochial school at that place. The Rey. William Lette is pastor, and the school will be under his management. At the close of @ mission given in Montreal, Canada, a few weeks ago, by Mgr. Rappe, formerly Bishop of Cleveland, he administered the temperance pledge to 3,000 men and 2,0¢0 women. Mgr, Rappe has been elected President of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Benevotent Society of St. Albans, Vt. The Diocese of Philadelphia last year contributed $28,783 tor the support of the Theological Seminary Of St, Charles Borromeo, The Catholics of Cythi- ana, Ky., keeping step to the inspiring music of Catholic progress, are building the largest and most costly church in the central portion of tiat State. The miasion to the colored people, began by Dr. Vaughan in 1871, seems to be fouzishing. Two of the priesia of St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart—Fathers Noonan and Gore—condact Bt. Francts Xavier's church, in Baltimore, which is exclustvely for the negrocs, and two others are In Louisville, Ky., engaged in the same labor, These Rave a congregation of almost 1,200 souls, a paro- chia) school for boys, with sixty puptis, anda school 3, tanght by colored Sisters of Provi- Prices who nave a convent on Richmond street, The missionaries depend for their support solely ‘upon the eharity of their flock, and those in Louis Vilie are said to be living and Keeping their church in working order onan average income of $6 or $70 week. Fatuer Meilier of the Congregation of the Miseron, has been named Vicar General of the Con- gregation, untll @ general assembly can be con- vened to elect & successor to Fatier Htienne, who died recently in Paris, The corner stone of the Church o1 the Sacred sieart will be lafd on May 10, by Bishop Lougiia. Tue. gite of thie chaven 18 OG Clermont avenue, between Park and Fiusiing avenues, Brooklyn, A very desirable location, Juagivg from the namerous congregation who #0 devoutly frequented the very unassuni tem- eden edifice in Vanderbilt avenue since the ior- pation Of the parish im November, 1871, — This arish if under the care of Rey. Thomas F, Me- Huire, assisted by Kev. Father McGinnis, The Bisn- op of Strasburg is reported seriously Wh . The trrevressibie Father O’Keei¢ is again on the war member of ion tothe Board of Educa wie! , O'Keefe forwarded $30,000 damages, tain in the Baptist-Chureh. Bis Connection aUeraD church to which he ministered has this action, Kev, Jolin Gordon, vast yer ey, Western avenue Baptist church, Onicago, who w. on the Councit and defended Mr: McCarty” nose signed hig pastorate peremptorily because his course in this matter has been viewea with Sisapprorms bE & majority of the members of the church and its oficera. He is, however, admitted to @ acted Ronestly and conscientiously throughout. The number of persons added to the twenty-four Bap- tist churches in and a@round Chicago during the month of March is:—By baptiam. 110; by letter, 43, and by examination, 14, 6 First Colored Bap: tist church in Petersburg, Va., recently celebrated its centennial. It was constituted two years be- fore the American Declaration of Independence. Six hundred and seventy-four baptisms were re- ported jor the month of March at the Pastors’ Conferences of New York and Brooklypon Mon- day last. These figures, however, oniy partially Tepresent the work and progress of thie Bapust churches within the bounds of the confer- ences. In New York city, and within a radius: of filteen or twenty miles, a8 many more have been baptized and added to the churenes. Two hun- dred and ninety-six baptisms for the month of March were reported in the Baptist Pastors’ Oon- ference of Brooklyn last mondsy, and 378 for New York. Last week the Rev. Fredcrick Evans of fered his resigination as pastor of the Central Baptist church of this city. The matter was reler- red to @ committee and the action of the church will be deferred until the judgment of that com. mittee shail be reported. Mr. Evans contemplates making a sommer visit to the Old World. Rev. J. J. Brouner, of the North Baptist church of this city, gave the hand of fellowship to forty-three new Members on Sabbath last, At Port Chester, under the lavors of Rev. J. D. Barnes, nearly 100 converts have been baptized within the meat three months and @ Bumber more are await- ug the ordinance, Mr. Lafayette Moore, of the senior Class in the Theological ena at Hamu ton, has accepted acall to Flatbush. He entered upon bis labors on Sunday last, and had an en- thustasttc welcome. ‘The First Baptist church in Beverly have invited Mr. E. B, Andrews, @ member of the senior class of the Newton Theological Ingti- tution, to become their pastor. The Filth strect colored church, Louisville, Rev. A, Heath, bas. had 300 baptisms this winter, The First Bap- ust church, in Detroit, Mich., have called Rev. N.C. Mallory, of the First Baptist church im Lowell, to take the pastoral charge of them. Rev. A. S. Walsh, pastor of the Getisemane Baptast. church, Brooklyn, owing to tmpaired health, is abovt to take a trip to California, The kirst Bap- tust church, Greenpoint, L. 1, have called tue Rev. J. B. Hutchinson, of Pniladelptita, to be their pas- tor. Rev. A. J. Hires, of Cape May, N, J. lias ac- cepted @ call from the Bridgeton (N. J.) Baptist church, ; METHODIST. Bishop Simpson arrived at home stom Mexico Jast Friday afternoon, Rev. Dr, Abel Stevens aud wile passed through St, Louis last wee, reLurn- ing irom Florida to New York. Bishop Ames spent.” last Sapbath im this city, assisting in the service at St, Paul's, He is assisting Bishop Janes at New England and possibly at New Hampshire Con- ference. Bishop Foster is to dedicate the Riv gide Methodist Episcopal church, Buifalo, N. Y., to- day. Bishop Bowman has been engaged to deai- cate the new Methodist Episcopal churen at Summer, I), next Sabbath, Dr. Hurst and Projessor Butta, 0: Drew Theological Seminary, have been engaged to supply the ee of St. Pauls church, mm ths city, until the health of Rev. Dr. Chapman shall per-, mit nim to resnme his pulpit work. The friends will regret to leara that he is entirely prostratad with paratysis, The Ciertcal Lite Insurance Com- pany of Newark Conference iias paid to the wiiow Gt S. W. Hilliard nearly $1,000, It has over 10) members, Lishops Wiley and Haven, Presidents ot Newark Conierence, have both been pastors te the city o: Newark, one at Haisey street and tne other at Clinton street churen. — Dr. Lan+ ahan, formerly Book Agent in_ New | York and~ more recently Presiding Elder of the Washiugton District Bultimore Couference, has been transierred to the ~ Baltimore district of the same conference, vice Dr. Silver. A couple of years ago the New York and New York East conferences resolved to erect a monument to Bishop Kingsley, wio, alter making a tour of Methodist missions in Asia and Europe, died at Beyro..t, Syria, on his return to the United States. ‘The monument is now ready in this city, and wilt soon be shipped to the resting place of the de~ ceased Bishop. The Methodists ot England have 7,000 churches, valued at $60,000,000, gold; 1,390 mipisters and 35,000 local preachers, and between 800,000 and = 460,000 church members, tp wards Of 1,000,000 persons attend their Ministry, 600,000 children attend their Sun- day schools and 120,000 attend their day schouts and other educational institutions, Wesleyan Methodism employs more missionaries abroad thao. the Church of England, the Independents and the Baptists put together. American Methodist missionaries are doing some good work in India, and the English authorities appreciate it. Butone correspondent says that there is danger that a number oi! them will work themselves to death be- fore they can be reinforced. One missionary, for example, preaches about ten sermons per week and travels 1,170 miles, and every iourth week 1,400 miles, 3 it necessary any longer to allow these laborers to wear themselves out, as not afew have, prematurely? Devotion is noble, but it ought nos to shorten Iife wilfully, so to speak. PRESBYTERIAN. The nows has reached this country that Rev. Dr. XN. ©, Burt died in tue city of Ronic on the 4th of Ma The Presbytertan tiunks his death must have heen quite sudden, as a letter received from hun when at Florence, and dated March 1, ie that he felt fates well. ‘Taree days later was dead, The Presbyterian Board of Church Erection will end the year without debt? the Board of Foreign Missions will be in @ far better position than it occupied at the close of the last year, but the Board of Home Missions aud the Committee on Sustentation are grievously pressed jor want of funds, and may have to re- port @ Jarge indebtedness when the Assembly lneets, So rapid has been the increase of the mem. bership of the Tuird Presbyterian church, of Chicago, under the pastorate of Rey. A. B, Kite tridge, tnat the large and elegant house in which they have worshipped has become too #1 end the society purpose to rebuild or enlarge. Rew. 8. N. Robinson, late of North Walton, N. Y., has re- moved N.Y. Rev. John H, Scofield was inated of the Kingston Presoyterian cbhareh, Ww ¥, OM the Bist ult. Rev. RA. Brown, late vot igton, has removeg to Smyrna, Del, Si ht have been added to the Presbyterian church at Tipton, Ind,; it has no pastor, but an active membersmp; the revival Meetings were conducted by laymen, Forty-one tnited with the Presbyterian church at Covingien, Ind., at ite March communion, thirty-nine of then ‘by profession. The Rev. Willard M. Kice, D, D., jastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church, in Phila- Reipnia, has received ® unanimous call frem the . Reeseville church, a few wiles from that city. Kev. Gordon Mitchell, paséor of the Cedar street church, in Philudelpbia, has res ceived a cali to become pastor oi the Presbyterian church at Mount Holly, N. J, Rey. J. Beers, pastor of the Croton Falls (N. Y.) Presbyterian church, has resigned his postion, the resignation to take effecton May 1. ‘The Mount Washington church at Inwood, New York city, have extended a calt to the Rev. George S. Payson, who has been preacns+ g for the church since January 1, Mr. Payaon has two brothers settied, In tue Presbyterian min- istry in this city, ‘The church edifice of the United Presbytertan congregation, in re N. J, hae been thoroughly renovated, and rts internai and external arrangements and appearence altered and greatly improved. , ie aa MISCELLANEOUS. Sats The Methodist, Presvyierian and Reformed churches of Yorkers held & delightiul wnien: com Tunion service in the Central. Methodist church, Yonkers, on Sunday afternoon last, The Boston miuvisters of different denominations Inst Monday organized themselves into ah Evangelical Mints- ters’ Association and elected Dr. Glarke, a Method ist, president; Rev. Mr. Seymour, a Baptiat, Sec- retary, and an executive commutiee representing eight other denommations or branches of the Christian church, | The association will mect once @ quarter, the first meeting to take piace to-morrow, at which time Rev. arte Brook wili read an essay OL the true basis of Christan fellowship. The Puritan C tional church, Brooklyn, a few days ago, at a busines# 9 wiped owt the last item of its great debt, $36, by sibscribing the sum of $7,000, then due on it. The church 18 now free 0 debt, and can ina short time go ahead and build the sptendid edifice in prospect, and for which they have lots on Marcy and Laluyette avenues, its membership is 000 aud the Sunday schooi 700. The Harlem Univer. Salist-chureh, under Rev. Charles Fiuhrer, received 8X new Members on Easter Sunday, The Chureh 4 Our Father, Brooklyn, Rev, H, R. Nye, received en new members on Easter Sunday, Last week the Rey. Charles B. Shulta was installed pastor of the Moravian church in Brooklyn. ‘this seetety bag & fine brick church and parsonage and & pieas- @nt congregation, The people of tre South street Congregational church, Pritstietd, Muss, by the recommendation of the pastor, Rev. Thomas Crowther, have adopted the sree-seat systeus for the coming year. A sum of money suilicient to Incet eXpenses has been subscribed in advance, “It is the only church in town in which the pews are now sanually sold. Rey, Matthow L. Haines, of the Union ‘Theological Seminary, hay accepted & call to the pastorate of the Reiormed cbarch at Astoria, L. 1, and will begin Ins ministerial 1a00r8 | in June. Until that time the Rev. & MH. Gillett. D.D., of the New York University, will the pulpit. Rev. Protessor Herrick has accept the “call “from ‘the Congreyananal,, clued), Af, South Hadiey, Mass, A new cuurch building for ngregation of tho Reformed church. at a had, x J., Rev. Theodore F, Chambers: pastor, Will Boon be begun pear tho sie of the old. xiruc ture. The Rey. Mr. Latas, the eloquent. 9 of Atiens, is in trouble sens ry course of evangelical disc the Sabbath day, bat be ecclesiasticn! ine: Beveral of the Greek churches o} of God ts regulariy pre Barre, pastor of Zion ‘OD, ee) will return fo that place this week from st. Minn.. where he has Dassed the wintes oi Rev. B. M. Genung, of the New York Conierence, ; i " sink