The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1874-QUINTUPLE, SHEET, REL!GIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Programme of Services for Third Sun- day After Faster, April 26. WINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS. A Rabbi on Holiness and Tomperance— “Prndentius” on the Conflict Between Bismarck and the Jesuits ‘The Rey. 8. H. Piatt, the new pastor of De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brovklya, will preach at the usual hours to-day, The Rev. J..W. Barnnart will preach morning and evening in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal chureh, Rev. W. H. Boole will preach at the usnal hours | to-day in Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, Bishop Foster will preach in St, Luke’s Methodist Kpiscopai church this morning, and Rev. J. FB McClelland, pastor, in the eveaing. Dr. L. H. King will conduct the services in the Free Taberaacie Methodist Episcopal church, and will preacn morning and evening. At the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church Rey. W. P. Corbitt will presci morning and | evening. At. the South Baptist church Rey. A. C. Osborn, | D. D., will preach to-day at the usual hours, The Rev. P. L..Davies will preach im the Berean Baptist church this morning and evening, “Finding ana Filling oar Sphere a Christian Duty" and “The Sin of Eden” are the topics on which Rev. Dr. Samson will preach thls morning and eveping in the Furst Baptist church of Garlem, Dr. Armiiage will preach im the Filth avenue Baptist church this morning and evening. Bap- te or ons to the. remotest re- Diesaings manistry By and religions education, the exercises ol 8 lie, frequent exhortations, upurtng vigilance ‘es Seoernls penetenie the thoroughly with hus 0} 4 isa aan ae eh ing enon Ser country, to bitter need, ‘edmira- hour of services worthy Of all ' 36 me, hom, with season eet yom lament his joss; but as his Sing is itv! flourishing amoug ou we doubt not that re Will eastly be jound Your institute pares: number Irom amoog whom @ man may be elected capable of preserving and extending Fenty a wach ee = rior has developed, propags' brought Buch perfection by his | and arduous jabors. Such is our most sincere wish, and lor this ena we lmplore the light and assistance of heaven upon you. Meanwhile we pray Goa that the authority which has.devolved on you during the vacancy of the Generaiship may tend to the weilare o! the so- ciety, AS presage of the Celestial favors and a pledge of our paternal benevoeuce, we impart most affectionately to you, beloved sons, and to your whole society, the apostolic benediction, Given at St. Peter’s, Rome, April 5, A. D. 1874, of our Pontaficate the twenty-eighth. (Signed) PIUS NINTH, Pope. Bismarck and the Catholic Church. To THE EprToR OF TRE HenaLD:— In the conflict now going on in Germany it were | Well to consider what is the true question at issue and the forces marshalled on both sides. Let us | \ leave entirely out of sight the supernatural aspect of the contest. Catholics take it that God is sure to fight forthe Church. There is no need of His | Special intervention to secure the defeat of Bis- marek or of the iniquity and oppression in their | | Werst jormeas represented by him. i one thing | is more certain .than any other it 18 that truth and ireedom and justice are more and more looked upon as the household treasures which every true man of modern | thmes fabors to secure for himself and lus children, Falsehood, tyranny and unrighteousness may be | esteemed in statesmansmp and diplomacy as | potent means of winning @ political battle or se- curing to one nation over another a momentary | advantage. Richelieu Led to humiliate the house of Austria and exalt France, and supported his | falsehood by atrocious deeds of biood; but the very tism in the evening. . The Kev. W. H. Pendieton will preach morning and evening in tne Fiity-third street Bapust church. Baptism in the evening, “cloud Falling end Cloud Liiting’ is the theme chosen by Dr. D. H, Miller for his meditation this morning in ne Piymouth Baptist church, Rey. J. &. Waterhouse, of Boston, will preach in the Church of the Messiah this morning and even- ing. ‘The Goodness and Severity of God’ will receive attention trom Rey. E. C. Sweetser, in the Bleecker street Universalist church, this morning, } policy he made success{ui ruined in the end both | France and Austria, and leit them in the hour of need without a iriend among the nations. | Oppression was the very breath of life to the | ota Spanish monarchy, and the habits of tyranuy and cruelty are so engrafted on the Spanish nature | | that, even under a republican form of govern- | ment, the Spauish race im both hemispheres is split into two parties, Wlich devour edca other | | without ceasing. Toe party in power exterminate their opponents in order to rule, aud the party out ol power conspire until they can oust theit oppon- ents aud sued bicod for biood, | OPPRESSION BEGETS HATRED Rey. J, M. Pullman will preach tor the Charch of and natred begets reveuge. and revenge sleeps | Our Saviour, at the usual hours to-day, im the Standara Club Hail, “Tne Word of God a Living Word’ is the topic chosen by the pastor of the Catholic Apostolic church, The Rev. E. Bosse will conduct the servicés for French Protestauts this morning in Calvary chapel, Fourth avenue. This evening the Rev. Charles R. Baker will preach about God's Gut of Love,’ in the Church ol the Messiah, Brooklyn, ‘The Rev. Dr. Lee wili conduct the Free Charch services in Harvard Rooms tus morning and will administer communion at tue close of the sermon. ‘The Rev. Dr. Newton, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Anthon Memorial church this morning, and the rector, Rev. K. Heber Newton, in the afternoon. Dr. &. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach Ris tenth annl- versary sermon this morning in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dr. E. A, Washburn will preach there in the evening, and Dr. Newton, of Philadel- pha, will address the Sabbath schools in the aiter- noon. - The Rey. B, B. Leacock will conduct the services of the First Reformed Episcopal church, and will preach in Lyric Hali this evening. Dr, H. D. Ganse will preach m the Madison Ave- nue Reformed church this morning from Psaim Lxi., 3 Divine service will be held this morning in the Orthodox Greek chapel, in Second avenue, Rev. N. Byerring, paster. Tne Rey. G. M. Hamilton will address young men at Association Hall this evening, Dr. Murray will repeat his sermon on “The Dim- | culties oi Unbelief” this evening iu the Sou Re- formed church, Fifth avenue. Mr. Francis T. Parry wili talk about “The River of God” this morning and address young men this evening im the Tabernacle Baptist church, Second avenue. Dr. W. S Mickels will preach in the Stanton street Bapuist churen this morning and evening. The Rey. Samuel M. Hamilton will preach this morning and afternoon in the Scotch Presbyterian church, Fourteeath street. The Rev. George H. Hepworth will tell the Chureh oi the Discipies tais morning why be be- lueves in God aad in Cnrist. In the evening he will talk about “Common Honesty.” A Spiritualist Conference will be held in Ger- Mania Hall this aiternoon, and L. C, Hows will ad- dress the progressive Spiritualists in Robinson Hall, tis morning and evesing, on “Religion in the Aiter Lite.” The Union Temperance Prayer Meeting will give @ musical avd lterary entertainment im tue Onurch of the Strangers on Tuesday evening. The Carotina Simgers will appear in Plymouth Bapust church, West Filty-lirst street, on Wedues- day evening. The Rev. Father Glackmeyer, 8 J., who has been conducting a mission in St. Agnes’ church, will preaca there this morning at tue eleven o'clock mass. Archbishop McCloskey will, this morning, dedi- cate the new St. Joseph's church, tm Yorkville, and will preact on the occasion. The musical exer- cises will be directed by Projessor Berge. ® The Rev. Dr. George B. Porteous, rector of All Souls’ Protestant Episcopal church, will preach in the hail of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Brovkiyn, tis morning and evening. At the Church of the Resurrection, Eighty-fifth street, between Lexington and Third avenues, the Rey. Dr. Plagg will hold divine service this morn- jug and evening. Rev. T. 8. Pycott will preach, this morning and evening, in St. John’s ctrurcn, St. Jdbnu’s place and Seventu avenue, Breookiyu, Subject of evening discourse—‘‘Tue Power of Habit.” Bishop Potter will administer the rite of con- firmation tats aiteruoon in the Free Chureu of the Holy Sepuicure, seventy-fourtn street and Fourth avenue. At DeGarmo Hall, Fifth avenue, SP, Andrews } will deliver a sctentific sermon this morning, and in the evening Professor B. Grant will talk apout the “Laws of Spirit Communion.” ‘The Rev. W. C. Dawson will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Disciples, Twen- | ty-elghth street, near Broadway, Ovnfirmation will be aaministered this evening at the Calvary Free chapel, East Twenty-third street, near Third avenue, Key. William D. Waik- er, pastor, Rey. Arnold Damen, §. J., will lecture this even- ing, in the Cooper Institute, on “The Catuolic Charen the Onty True Chureb of God.” Pontifical Letter, The following is a translation of the lettet of Pope Pius to the Brothers Assistants of the Society of Christian Schools, Paris, in reference to tie election. It has not been published in any paper before. The election to which it refers will take place on Tu sday :— To our beloved sons, Brothers Calixtns and the other Assistants Of the Society ot tae Christian Schools—Pope Pins 1X.—Beloved sons, health and apostolic benediction! God who, ior the accomplishment and the prog- ress oi Mis work, usuaily employs ft instruments, ‘who sortities by timely aid and aderus with His gifts tae men chosen for this purpose, javored your society for many years With the excellent Superior Whom you have lost. He endowed him with @ sound mind in 8 sound body, and enriched him with the spirit of faith and charity; and that the winds of false doctrines, which viow trom all quarters, nt not suduce ‘im irom the path o/ rectitude attached lun art and sou to this Chair Of truth, which your perior has always encompassed with an hunvie Veneration and an-erdent love, ‘This was the source trom which he drew that fraitial virtue which enabled lim to oe”, the sou that was intrusted to , And Whteh permitted hum to offer, hand, not, Gres not, unlit can oppress and crush 1s | vieum. ‘This is a law ol the moral word as certian | as the law otf gravitation, and governing the life of every people that ever rose to power aud dusused it. God bas uo need to perform miracles i tae politacad World in order to precipitate the tyrant | and the wrongdoer irom their ¢levation no more than he needs to interlere when the play of the elemental forces of nature breed the storu and Calis forth tue lightning. The fiery bott owly | strikes where.the electric currents are not allowed to tow freely, Ando! this be sure—when you do viulence to The souls Of a people, Ora portion o! a | peopie, by meerrupting tie course of freedom, of right and truth, then tie hghtomg sval fall wien tue mural tension has reacted its height. Napoleon I. played wit the liberties, the con- science and the honor of Christendom unt Europe arose and shook him irom her bosom. | He @espotied Prassia (awong other oppressed peoples) of her wealth, ground her ty Jevies and forced contribuuons, humultatedt per brave sons by leadmg them in batt.e agamst their own race, until Prassia exacted a termble revenge in 15i2 and 1815. Nor did her sense of wrong sivep even | then. she well knew that in 1570 the cry “To Ber- dn.” megnt Jor her joss ol territory and autonomy | as well, and she only inflicted tenioid on her de- feated foe what every French soldier meant ty in- | fict on her, | “Laissons passer la justice de Dieu! The French nation owed a@ heavy deot to Germany and to Spain, contracted under the first Napoleon. Spain has served, unwittingly, to cause ine debt to be | paid to Germany and with fearful interest, racie Or no miracle, there ts m vhe tact au ever memorable jesson of moral retribution of provi- | dential justice, Now, tn the light of this example you may read | what will surely come ot | THE PRESENT PERSECUTION IN GERMANY. | _ ‘Tell we the tale ot wrong briefly aua sunply; tt } Wii be jor une reader to draw his conciusion, UWhas peen, ever since Von Bismarck obtained influence in the counsels of Wilhelm L, a cardinal principe wits him and with his master (though who is the man and Who the master here needs no sootusayer to teu) that the State must be supreme i ail things, aud that within 1ts sphere: no other authority must be allowed to move save inabso!ute subordination to itsel. Tits lay at the bottom ai tue struggies whica the Prussian Chambers sustained against the Minister and the King im the first years of ms reign. Wilhelm was for | absolute monarchy—as absolute as tuat of | the Russian aucocrat—in religion a3 well as | cwil administration; and Bismarck, now | the idol of the Wverals, was then his adviser. Wuo does hot remember the outery made by the Prus- | 8e | Sian press Aguimst the royal and ministerial pre- tensions to absolutisin? Who that traveiled in | Prussia during those years can lorget the cordial hatred of all ciasses of crvinans against the in- tolerable p.eponderance of everything milttary ? Well, the same sprit of absolntism has presided | Over the organization of the new German Empire, | and now rules its counsels. Men who Jove iree- dom in Germany, who have ived aod labored | solely to make freedom of thought and conscience— in fact, every sort of liberty deserving of the | name—triump) ta thelr great country, lave sub- mutted to the imperious dictates of the autocrat Bismarck, in order to secare the beon of French in- vasion on the one hand, and the sll greater boon | of nationat unity on the ocher, They have sacrt- ficed lifelong convictions, cherished jeeitngs and aspiravionus, in order that Germany should be one | @t home, glorious and feared abroad. y bave suffered much for a holy purpose, and with the hope that the excesses of authority, necessitated or excused by the formation ofa new order 0: things, should pass away with the necessity. Only thimk of it! That, slavish as our present Conyress is to the exigencies of party interest, how outraged they would feel Mf the Pres- ” ident, to whom bas been given the rare fortune of | Saving bis couutry twice—py his sword and his legistative veto—should come to the Senate to- morrow with @ law exiling the Jesuits from the Kepublic! At bottom there is not a tree American in America, in Congress or out of 1t, who does not love freedom with a hearty love—and jreedom for others as weil | @8 Jor bunseif. This is the very | BASIS OF THE AMERICAN CHARACTER, What distapguishes us as a people from every other | naiion On tue globe. ‘This ied to the slavery agita- | ion, this Jed to the war against the siavehoiders and armed 1,200,000 men to couguer Ireecom ior vhe slaves and egual rights for all. Were a law to be proposed—as it was but sug- gested the other day by some crazy janatic m a Teligious paper of tiis city—to expel the Jesuits | irom OUT Midst, NOt One respected voice in the Legisiavare or the press would dare to advocate vhe measure. No Presider, or party would dare to propose the expaision even of the Mor- mons. So much do we bere in America trust to the puriling hgbt of truth, the mfaence ofa sound public Opinion and the natural sentiments } 01 right and wrong working in liberty and vogetner jor the correstion of error and the righting of wrong. We are a5 sure a6 that the sun wili rise | to-morrow that Mormonisin’s downfall, irom moral influences solely, is not iar distant. ’ And so, if there 1s that irightiul wrong in what Protestan's pictore to themselves as ‘Jesuitry,” freedom will surely pring it to hght, and the common iaw o1 a& free country will a8 surely avate the wrong. Such a course is alone worthy of a greatand free people. But how has tt beeu in Germany? Mark, | step by step, the unbiushing eflrontery of the worst kind of Cxsarisin, In May, 1870, be‘ore the war cloud had darkened the skies of France and Germany, Count von Armn was Prussian Ambassador at Rome, then garvisonea by French troops and owniug tue sovereignty of the Holy Father. In a communica- tion dated May 28 he remonstrated with Cardinal Antonelli on the proposed definition of Papal in- jalhoiity. It would (Bismarck prompted nis Am- | bassador to say) disturb the rejations of Churen | and State, and “bring about a crisis noc contem- plated by the Papal government.” CATHOLICS AND PROTRSTANTS IN GERMANY were dwelling in peace ther, and mutual and | long triendly intercourse begotten “a move- ment of social approximation,” which a definition | Of infalibility must iataliy interrupt, “Germany wouid have to defend against Rome vhe very basis of her national aspirations.” We must not forget that about the same time the French Emperor caused bis representative to buily the Holy Father With stinilar declarations #od tnreatenings. It is a Wonder that it never entered the mind of our President or of any of our patriotic Congress- men to think that our free mstitations were ltreatened in their existence by the new dogma, or that by it some mysterious power was to be conserred upon the Pope by which he might binder or claim to hinder our Ohief Executive or Mates in the exercise of their lawiui authority. Thank God neither iree America nor ire@ Engiand stuitified themselves by invert With the deliberations of the Vatican Coun or preventing the dednition of @ doctrim practically a8 old as the Church since the days of St. Peter, Victoria did not lear for her crown Nor | our President for tus prerogative because Pio Noo Was prociaimed the inialiwle orgam of the vnarch in poaching het children jn things spiritual, Ah, but the rts of France and ‘many went mad over it, and Napoleon, who, in revenge, forthe . ened by on » Besides, as Rot Casholin foremost in the post of anger and glory? and was not blag oid K Wilheim, aad still more so his noble hearted son, proud of the priesis and Sisters of Charity who moved ke consohng ‘through their wighty But in 1871 Prince Hokentohe’s Qme damnée in the Bavarian Munsiry gives the countenance ot his as master’s name ‘authority to Dol- immger, Pere Hyacinthe and the host of disap- pointed professors and dissatisfied and 6us- pended priests who, under the bame of “OLD " sought the evil notoriety of misrepresenting the viting had BE imure le Wane ha tre sobaues0 hd os imal ehureh, theic mo her, and re the Pontift, their common father, ‘* men wust be fa- yored apd protected,” said Prime Minister von Low, “4 e they reject {asailipiity, intalibility 18 hostile to tue weliare of states.’? Now, sec how Bismarck ts to repeat the lesson given to Kome by the Bavarian statesman. 1ue mperial Parliament is w iscussing the pr man Contederation, the Catholic Depuues de- manded ihe msertion Of & ¢iause in the address to the Crown ol the principle of “intervention.” Ot course this Meant intervention in favor of the Pope. This may have been untimely or unwise; it ceriaimly proved uniortupate. Not ail the ¢o- quence of auch men a6 Von Ketteler, Peter Reich. ensperg and. Dr. Windhorst could carry the pro- posed amendment in the ace of Bismarck. He Dow had the loog-sougul opportunity. There, in the German Parlameut, were the avowed emla- saries of Rome advocating the interests of the Papacy. During the ensuing debate on the con- stitution, the Polish De;-uties present demanded a separate administration ior thelr own disti ict, Poor fellows! They were endeavoring to obtain an ine stalment of “Home Rule’’ lor their countrymen, “Wino are your” brataily eXeiaimed Biswarck, “You are really wo people; you repre- sent no people; you have no pevpie back- ing you; you are backed by nothing but your ichohs and lilusiens, Ove of which is that you were choseu to represent the Polish nationaity. You have been elected to represent the interests of the Cathoe Church.” Although it may never have ocenrred to these good Poles that tuey nad any mission to seek the Interesis o! the Catnole Cuuren it was a bappy “ficou” for Bismarck, and neuceorta the Pousti clergy and their bishops were doomed men. But ot tnem m my next, PRUDENTLIUS, | Reflections on the Late Methodist Con- | i ferences. That Methodism ig an elastic, self-adjusting sys- tem of chure’ government is very gencrally ad- mitted. From its meeption to the present it has had tue reputation of admitting, if not counte- nancing, Vagaries and “irregularities” in its min- isters, Butit bas grown vastly in pumbers and in wealth and respectability during the las: quarter | of a tentury, and it is not to-cay as tolerant | of those ecceutric peculiarities of its ministers as it was years ago. Hence, though its ministry is an itinerant one, it does not permit preachers to roam over the country at will as itinerants or missionaries at large. ministers have adopted the titie and follow the réve oj evangelists—an occupation which has been found more profitable than steady pastoral work | by many others of late years. One of these Two of its | to a one uni Melaeae ot earnest a er a Aer ae Of the Most igh; and shat the more bondage oF bigotry, ot etiegens and death, wnio. ot that tney | May at once weapons o1 envy, } vex and they ited tiedtedteding ac paumeabuat ss | in need | cometh out of the east avd shineth even uoto the | West. For out from amis these clouds o1 darkness { 3.yea, is at our very doors, is in His hand, and He will thoroughty purge His Boot. and wibnow out the chaff of error wenghable tire ot His ‘ih, LANGSTON. How Long Was Jesus in the Tomb? To rae Epitor or THE HERALD:— My neighbor bas just puzzled me with a hard question, for the answer to which 1 refer him to your paper which devotes so much thought and space to subjects of this nature. The Christian Church gives Suuday as the day of the resurrec- tion of our Saviour, following Friday of his crucifixion. But this, my friend says, is allowing not more than forty-eigut hours for the interment im the sepulchre instead of three days, 1 thought Jhad iound the correct solution oj this interest ing propiem in Matt..ew, Xvi., 21, which gays tuat “drom that ume iorth Jesus began to show unto Has disciples bow that He must go unto Jerusaiem, ad suiter many things oi the eluers and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised | again the third day.” But my neighbor rephes | with Matthew, xii,, 40, where Christ himsel! says, “For as Jouas was. three days und three nights in the whale’s belly so sball the Son of Man be \hree days aud three Lights in the heart of the earth.’ Canuot some of your Biblical correspondents ex- plain tue apparent discrepancy t INQUIRER. Interrogatories for A, M. Cotte, A Frenchman who signs himseit “Quit Ipse Cogitat’’ wants M. Cotté, who replied to *‘Baibu- tus” in @ late Sunday HERALD, to answer tne Jol- dow ng queries:—(1) “as the priest the power to forgive sing?” (2) ‘Is nov the coniessional the most UnMeaning and nasty rue oO: our relugiout” (3) “How-cun tue cunfession be a sacrament, since it can be historically proved to nave had no exist- euce previons to the third century?” spondent calls it a patcawork of tue clergy. Mission at St. Anne’s Church, Brooklyn. it high mass, the Rev. #ather Daly, O. P., of the Dominican Fathers, opened a mission at the Church -of'St, Anne’s, corner of Front and Gola streets, Brooklyn. At all of the exercises for the past two weeks, at five and | eight o’clock A. M., and at half-past seven P. M., | the church was packed, even whe side chapels being fiued; and at all hours, from six o’clock in the morning till ten at night, the confeasionals have been crowded. But, to crown ail, a groat ‘This corre- | evangel sts belungs to the New York Kast | many approached the holy table, there fo find the Conference, which recently met in Brooklyn, | living bread wherewith to refresh themseives. | champions, | ence. | Conference | twoor three cuarges wuich | $5,00. And as @ Wan’s mental calibre is often | | United States change every year—toat 18 to with resolved to give up Rome and the Pons to the Ttall soon bad w® back hin ay his proposed” rare where a lively discussion was held over his relation to that Conference. While it was evident from the tone of much that was Said there that Mr. Inskip’s special misston to preach holiness all over the Continent as ne does it was not in great favor with the Conference, yet | they couid net very eastly condemn his work wita- out appearing to condemn the doctrine which he And it woud be rather late now ior Methodist miuisters te condemn a doctrine which their Cuurch has preachedior more thau a century, ‘Tuas, together with personal considerations, will account lor the large vote by which he was grauted @ supernumerary relation lor another year. WATCHING THE DOCTRINES AND DISCIPLINE. Methodists, too, are becoming more jealous of their doctrines as well as of their discipline than jormeriy, and yet they take as wit @ latitude in these ag in taat. The edicor of we Christian Ad- vocate, whose views on the Resurrection, original | sin and the divinity of Carist are not considered | quite a8 orthodox as the book requires, was | gravely censured by his brethren tor so discussing some Of these doctrinesin the oficial Church paper QS LO UUsettle the faith Ot nome. ‘The Doctor was also mildiy reproved ior nis radicalism on tue epis- copal question. ‘Dhe ease with which @ few men can lead o body of 2000r Mure ministers was tally demonst.ated during the session oi the New York Nast Conier- Fi.s5t, by the Rockvuie Centre church case, in which, by tne tauits or fullies first 01 @ pustor of | that church, and second, 0} a committee oj tue Con Jerence, that body was saddled with an expense Of $850, With nouling to show for it, Whey. lost botu their moaey and the prize on which they had siaked it. The “second illustration was that of the wild scheme oi estubiishing @ Con- ference seminary at Stamiord, Conu., on promises Which have hot been and never can be realized, Somethtog more than promises ure needed in enh days to jound an educational imstitutuon of any kind. mittee, again in this:case saddled itseif with a debt of $1,400 for nothing beter than gorealized and uurealizable promises to pay. This was pay- ing out good money ior Dad or for none, wuich no discreet business man would ever do, It 16 aa expensive way 0! purchasing wisdom or common Be. CUNDEMNING ABD CONDONING AN IMMORAL ACT, in tne New York Vonterence a strange scene was Witnessed—a minister, eminent us a pastor and preacher, accused @1 ‘ulteriug dates on railroad Tickets au Of Weiending it uiterward. A year ago this brotuer acknowledged nis offence im open and asked forgiveness. wich was granted. But be atterward repented and then Wrote a vindication o1 his act and thereby stuitt- fied himsel: beiore the C..urch and the community. And tae Comereuce approved bis Churacter and of course With it uis act, and assigned him to one of its most prominent churcnes, A question that 18 pressing itseir upon all the annual CoMmerencesin tie Cuuutry, thatof the pre- siding eidersiip, Was brought into the Kast Con- erence, Dut Was Wisely juid OVer Jor the present, The churches are begiiming to realize that pre- siding eiders and their districts are very much like the flitn woeel to a coach; that they aie & ‘useless appendage and yet an expensive One, and they have not tue redeeming quality of belog even | ornamental. ‘ae New York Conference siX Ol tose apyendages, azrence five. One proposition is to reduce those districts 1n number and to Mereage them Ww and Jet the elders Wavel over hein constantly an eXercise & quasi-cpiscopal supervision over tiem— in fact, a8 they Dow do Mm name, | Avother propo- sition is to increase the aumber of districts three or jour 1oid, and to give cacu presiding elder an appointment, whereby lus saiary, or a portion of 10 at least, Baali be secured, A third proposie won 18 LO increase the number of bishops and do away altogether with presiding elders, ‘The bishops are supposed to be coustantly on the Toad, aud with their lorce largely in-reased they would have less distance to travel, and could come m coutact with the peopie an? ther wants mvre readily than they can do now and be therevy bet- r fitted to make sultavie appoimtments at the | anoual conierences. — This matter of appointments, too, 18 getting to be @ delicare thing. Vety iew men in tue conier- ences are now iound willing to take sacl appointments as the bisnups or the presiding elders select or suggest. {ney fish arvand for the best piaces and the biggest sularies ior months belore the meeting oO! Conierence. it someumes happens that nai @ dozen unuisters are louking jor the same Charge. i! one gets it tne otbers are likely to be oftended with the cluer. As tue Bishop at one of tie Oonlerences very naively put the case lately, “THE PEGS ARF TOO BIG for the holes.” ‘tne churches are not able to $3,000, $4,000 or $6,000 a yearali round, Some of them have hard work to pay $1,000 and some harder still to pay bali tnat sum, And yes they want good pastors and preachers, There are some ministers in every Conference who Manage to spenu their ministerial ne between pay irom $3,000 to measured by churches by the aumount of his salary, the number Of great mea in suv Conference 18, cousequently, very simail. But tue jimied 4 torates help to equaize these inequaiities, Rad though the law of the Ovurca permits & three years? pastorate, isnop Wile: declared Jately thas wore than one-bulf ministers in the say, of all the Metaodist 6,000 and more preier one year pastorates to two or three. ihis short pastorate bus been urged by Methodists and non-Methodists as an important element in tne aecline of Methodism. And yet che decline 18 in the cities Where the pastorates are Ine variably longest, 80 that toe argument irom this source Would seem fo be in favor ol oue year rather | than three year pastorates, Women as Teachers in Our Churches. To Tug EprToR or THe AxRaLD:— While they whose undisputed right it ts to teach im our churches are engaged tn vallant battle against each otner, what is to become of the peo- ple? The flocks must be nourished, the “bread of life” must be dispensed, ior “where there ts no Provision the peuple perish.” A woman with purity of heart and earnestness of purpose has been en» deavoring to administer this “vread of Lie,” and the question is raised, Has sie a right to do s0, and shall she not be silenced? In general women prefer to be preached to rather than to preach; to be receivers rather than dispensers of the trath from the pulpit; but a4 our Presbytery does not seem dts; ‘to let this remain a3 a matter of women, but are devermined it according to 1 would sugze: conceded by him to be the privilege of women to pray. in private, Mf not ta pubic. and therefore But tne Conference, through tts com- | and the fast Oon- | Aniong the novewortay sermons during the mis- si0n Was one by Kev. Father McKenna, O. P., on | “lmpurity.’? He, in very iorcible language, showed the awlul consequences O01 this sin, aud urged on ail who heard nim to try and imitate Mary, the | purest of the pure, and to frequent the sacraments | regularly, and then would they be counted wortuy | on anaing that new song that none but virgins shail sing. * | "Tne mission will prove a great blessing to the | parisiiouers of St. Anne's, aud it 18 to be hoped that they will always Keep im mina the mstruc- | Hons which they have heard during the exercises. Tins afternoon (Sunday) confirmation will b@ ad- ininistered by the Right Kev. Bishop Laughiin, Texts for Talmudists. “H. Tellin” writes that many devout Jews are looking jor the Messiah to appear to raise up the throne of David in Jerusalem and to reign over the | world. He therefore propounds to them the fol” lowing questions:—first, Do those Israelites ex. pect that their Messiah will die? and, if not, how do they explain Isaiah, Iiii., 8-10—“‘He was cat off, &ec.,? and “When thon shalt make his soul an orering,” &c.? Second, Will the Jews receive their Messian witi joy? Lev them explain isaiad, lin.,3-4, | und last halt of verse 12; Zechariah, xin, 6; » Micah, | ¥., last part 0! Verses 1-3, Ui What judge does the prophet speak? To whom does he reier im the | phrase “Give them up?” verse 3, and Who 1s the third party introduced by the words “she, which | travatieth,” &c.7 These queries are lor our hebrew | readers and corregponueuts, | Ministerial and Charch Movements. PRESBYTERIAN. : There are now in India 160 Presbyterian minis_ | ters serving a Christian community of about 30,000 persons, of whom 8,000 are the fruits of mission- ary labor. eleven Presbyterian churches in Europe and Amer- 1a The United Presbyterian Presbytery of New York recently licensed Messrs, G. R. Murray, P. P, Scott, theological students, to preach the Gospel as pro- bationers ior the ministry. | this port on Wednesday as a delegute to the Pres- | pay bis expenses for four months abroad. Brookiyn last week, and the question of sending | delegates to the National Council, which meets in September, was discussed, Tue Rey. A. M. Nicoli left Philadelphia last week | to Join the Untted Presbyterian missions 1n Egypt. Dr. Cuyler protests against bis Presbytery’s ig- noring the power and influence of godly women | in the Caurcn, and says he will use his influence to have the Assembiy’s Deliverance of 1832 re, pealed or modified, so that this power can be util- ized for God and His cause. The Doctor does not | want ordained female ministers, but be docs want | godly women to teach and address Cnristian as- somblies, Fail River Presbyterian church has secured the | apts of Rev. L. H. Angier, of South Boston, as | pas-or. fhe Rev. Wiliam M. Baker, of Newburyport, | Muss., tas gone to the fourta Presbyterian cuurch | 01 South Boston, Tne Rev. Rovert Court, of Jowa City, has ac- cepted a call to the Presbyterian courch of Lowell, The Rey. W. W. Newell, late of the Céntral Presbyterian church, of tis city, will be instaied pastor of tae First churchat Newouryport, Mass., ou May 7. ; Rev. Henry 8. Hantington has left Cavairy Presbyterian church, Auburn, and gone to the astorate Of the Presbyteriau churen at Caldwell, Mr. Robert L. Bachman, a member of the senior | Class 1 Auburn (N. Y.) Seminary, has received a cail to the puipit of Union Springs Presbyterian church, ‘ Mr. George R. Smith, of Auburn Seminary, has been engaged to preacn in the Presbyterian church at Dryden, N.Y. Dr. Henry Kendall, senior Secretary of the Prespyterian Home Missions, has been quite ill sluce the middle of February last, with iniamma- | tory rheumatism. He is, however, rapidly improv- ‘Br. HienryeA. Nelson, of Lane Seminary, has ac- cepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian | charch 01 Geneva, N. Y. Dr. George N. Webver, of Middiebury College, Vermont, nas become Dewees of the First Presby- terian church, ‘troy, N. Y., lett pastoriess by the | Temoval of Dr. Vincent to the Church of the Coy- | enaat in tnis city. Mr. A. B. Wiihamson, of Auburn Seminary, has Accepted 4 call to the pastorate of the churches of | Preavytery of st. Lawrence, « | _ The Rev. J. M. Gibson, 01 Montreal, has become pastor o1 the Second Presoyterian church, Cbicago Ciné Rev, HM. Simiteh igned bi ev. H. M. Swift has resigned bis charge of the United Presbyterian charch at Millord, Mich. METHODIST, The Methodist Episcopal Misstonary Society hag purchased what were Once the cloisters of the great San Francisco Vonvent in the city ol Mexico, ‘these cloisters, standing on the site and poasibiy forming part the ancient Montezu. have been converted into the beautilal church of the Holy Trinity, The cost was $16,3u0. . At tve annual meeting of the Brooklyn Woman's Foreign Missionary Suciety, held a low days ago, 1b was shown that while greater interest is mant- Jested 10 its work the amount of money subseribed declines, The first year the Woman’s Fore! Missionary Svciety was presented to tne ladies uf Brookiyn $270 were raised witn but little elfort; the second, $400; the third, $771 72; the fourth, pga Code ge giving argh, $500), This year ‘ches contrioute an last yoar $938 43 has been the result. onto The veneravie Kev. H, Sitcer, D. D., of Baltl- more, has removed to Georgetown, D. O., where ‘hig 4a8t days on earth will be brightened by tne tionate attention of his ie and of his son, Ca) States Navy, who has ministered jor to his honored father, The increasing growth of the New ference cails ior its division, and lat sion Of the Conference, a week @ committee was appointed to ascertain how Can be done and to report next year, ‘The General Conférence of the Mabhodist Episco- = s ‘These are connected with no less than | D. @. McKay, R. B. Nesbitt and J. D. Granam, | Rev. John Ewing, of Clinton, N. J., sails from | byterian Church of Scotland. His congregation | The hali-yearly meéting of the New York ana | | Brooklyn Congregational Association was held in | ‘Theresa and Plessis, contiguous villages m the — Palace, | Sere ae see pave oh by nearly ail the Annual Conferences, n Of increasing the number Oo! bishi the elders will occupy ab | tention of the presided lately at the: Balt more Conierence, very emphatically condemned | Dr. Newman's consular fie. aronnd the wyrid, | While at the time he voids a ministerial fela- | should gteeupouecrine ower we ‘oue or the other. “Prowse we ?? are @ new phase of Christian — worship, Bow comiug into lavor. Tne leader reads @ sweet promise, then the congrega‘ion sings | @ verse in response and #0 on alternately. Toe | | services are interspersed with short remarks and | | Christian testimonies. Such a meeting was neld in the Graham avenue Methodist church, Brooklyn, D., last nabbath evening, and it was a feast. The Rev.'S, H. Platt, late of Bridgeport, vonn., ; preached last Sabbath in his new we two Ber- | | mons whose equal spave not been heard for the | past year in De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal churcn, Brooklyn, Rev. J. W. Butler, son of Rey. Dr. Butler, super- | imtendent of Methodist missions tn Mexico, was | received into the New England Conference at ite late sesa.on and ordained, Yesterday he sailed for Mexico to join hts tather. Rev, William Ros’, who wae granted a super- an ae peas), ae new ide pet bined 8 ago, has been apuo' pastor Sea Clg, L, L, by presiding elders, BaPTisTs, The Baptist missions among the Teloogoos are re- markably successtul. In ven years the converts auret-ar Gugole had out ww tember; inst yous ry rs; last year it had 2,357—Tranking it the third largest “Bapst church in the world. Rev. H. Cross, for several years the successful tor of the Baptist church at Coventry, England, arrived in New York. here were filteen more baptized in the Lee avenue Baptist chures, Brookiyn last Lord's Day | morning. ‘nus far about 160 have united with this The Baptist Missionary Union has done nobly for ) @panic year, Expenditures, tuciuding the debt of last year, $289,306;, receipts from all sources, in- cluding “thank offerings,” $261,630, leaving @& balance against the Treasury of $27,778, The re- ceipts oj the year are $45,430 in excess of the pre- Vious year, and the deut is $15,290 less. ‘The Baptist anniversaries will be held this year in Washington, D. C., toward the end 01 May. f ‘dhe new Gethsemane Baptist church of Pahiladel- phia will be deuicated on the 30tn inst. The Baptist Ministers’ Conierence of Philadel- ore having at their meeting in February asked | r. Boardman, Wom they deemed unsound on the | commuiuion question, to state his views, and je | having done so in their March meeting, they } brougotin resoluuons condemning hun and ms ‘lautudinarian” views, which resolutions were debated at length but not passed, though Dr. | boaraman had been tndirectly advised to withdraw from the Coulerence and the Baptust Church, Last Monday a new set of resoiutions were subdstituted for these and after debate they were adapted. They were not so bitter in tone, but were nope tue i Jess personal toward Dr, Buardwan than the first set, His iriends otfered resolutions explanatory of the affectionate relation of the Conference toward | the Loctor, but allsuch papers were voted down | or laid on the table, and the alternative ts leit tothe | Doctor of retiring irom the Cnurch and denomina- | | Mon te which be has spent over thirty of the best | years of lus lle or of protruding his Baptist bigotry Wherever he can get @ cuance. The moral dis- honesty of first inviting bim to freely give his views und then condemning him for those views was referred to by several speakers in the Con- | ference, but nevertheless in the matter of bigutry versus liberty the lormer triuwphed, | Inteiligence bas jus: been received here tn Bap- tist quariers.o! the death (March 3) at Rangoon ot | the missionary Kev. Dr. jon, in the seventy- | fourth year oi} his age, ‘The ¢uurch at Newton Centre, Pa., on Monday evening, voted to add $500 to the salary oJ the | pastor, Rev. W. N. Ciars. Rev. A, Cleghorn, D, D., bas resigned the pas- torate of the Ottawa Baptist cvurch, Miinois, | | _ Rev. J. 8. Dickerson, D. W., pastor of the South Baptist church, of Boston, 18 obliged to suspend a jabors Jor @ season and repair to # more genial climate. ‘three hundredéd persons were baptized during | the past winter by the Baptist pastors of Pitis | burg, Pa., and three new, churches have been | fornred through their instraumentauty within the last twelve MonLis, and $70,000 raised jor church | buliding, potwithstanding the panic, The tiev. Dr, Ranybaut, late president of William | Jewell Collere, Missouri, has accepted a call from | Brooklyn Tapernacie Baptist church, and will com- | mmence his labors tue first Sabbath in May. EPISCOPALIAN. Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, has written a pastoral | in which he advocates uniiormity in ritual, so that | the clergy ofetne Protestant “Episcopal Chuich, in | ene its Jorme, shall ieel at home everywhere | alike, Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, has acknowledged | to Dr. J. F. Bvans, of the Methodist Episcopal Charen, South, that he has never experienced any ‘on the Yetu tases With 6 Rew bade oe ed ton, | A Home for the Orphan—Shelter for Homeless Women and Girls. Beneath the shadow of St.’ Stephen’s church stands “St. Stephen's Home for Onildren,” an ine stitution which possesses many features unknown in other orphanages. A H=naup reporter caliod yesterday at the “Home,” which is situated at No, 146 Eagt Twenty-eightn street, and was cordially received by Sister Clement, one of the most inde- fatigable Workers among the Sisters of Ovarity. In conversation with the good Sister the reporter ; learned that there are at present in the “Home!? 106 boys and girls, from two to tweive years old, who have been orphaned either by death or by the desertion, poverty or misconduct of their parents, These 106 children do nos wear the livery of poverty and cvarity, tieir better feelings and aspirations are not crushed by any uniform of beggary, they are dressed neatly and comfortably, and a stranger would think that they were the pupils of some first class juvenile academy or the children of well-to-do tradesmen and storektepers, To this absence o! the unilorm badge of depena- ency the Sisters attribute much of the happiness and vivacity oi the children. They are uot con- tinually reminded by thelr clothing that they are deprived of their own parents’ care. While the reporter was speaking with Sister Clement, the Superioress, Sister Francis Xevier, who had just returned from some mission of char- ity, entered the room, This good Sister was re- served and retiring until she began to speak of her children, Then her face ighted up with some- tuning of a mother’s pride and joy, and her eyes beamed with love and pie e a8 She told of the unotiorm health and nappiness of the orphans, Sister Francis Xavier kindly miormed the reporter that “St, Stephen’s Home” was founded May 1, 1808, by the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, for the purpose of afford- echceton ‘nena ree “Bc as ota the “Home” 625 chilarea have been admitted, of these 419 have been provided wich good posi- tions wherein to in ite. This “Home,” in which tnere ts no distinction o! creed, race or color, 18 supported chiefy by the donations of members of St. Stephen’s church. Admission of a child to tt is very eastly obtained. If there is room and any child wants a home the Sisters never retuse to recetve it. In addition to taking charge of the “dome,” the Superioress and ner six ‘Sisters’ visit the sick and the poor of St. Stephen’s parish, giving relier to such as stand in need of tt. Last year they relieved and helped fifty-two fami- hes, consisting of 4u0 persons, ‘ihe success of this inners orphanage and the remarkably good alLh and comtenunent of the little imma’ ea, com- pared with the ili heaith and moroseness of the wretched wards of cue pudlic tn large orpnan asy- lums, go far to prove the correctness of the views of those who say that monster asylums are worse than a mistake; that they olfer Loo many tempta- tions to dishonest managers and contractors; they are unwieldy and rarely effect the good the; Led credit fur, and that the most tumane ani enéficeut mode of cartug for the orphans ts in the establishment and endowment of district or paro- | Cchial asylums, such as St. Stephen’s Home for Onjidren. Huving thanked Sister Frances tor her courtesy, the reporter wended his way to tife INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR WOMEN, Nos. 223. and 225 East Thirty-first street, another charitable institution connected with St. Stephen's | enureh. It was sounded see 1869, by the Rev. Di. McGlynn, The distinguishing marks of a char- | ity. truly Catholic were found here. ‘Tuere 1s abso- lutely no limitation as to religion, nationality or color. ‘The only conditions of admittance are thas the applicant stands in need of ivod, shelter and tection, and that she be willing to conlorm to he rwes ol the house. Convalescents from pitals ure received, and when they have sufliciently Tecovered their strepgti sul'able situations are Progetea Jor them. {tis claimed that this tnetle ution bas saved during the short period ot its ex- istence Dondreds of homeless girls trom @ life of Shame and reclaimed wavy who had taken the first downward step, that feids not unfree quently to a suicide’s grave. During the pas¢ year 369 women were provided with sielter and protection and plaved in situdtions where they can earo an honest inaependence and become bevetactors instead of eneimies O1 sociery, Since the opening 0. ihe Home 974 iricndless females , have sought its iriendly shelter, and have | back to tne pay. world with hopes reinspired and hearts cured of the hatred of society that 1s en- genderea by misiortuve and despair. other than baptismal regeneration, Great trepidation 1s elt mm by al circles here | lest the Kev, S&S. H. Tyng, Jr., ., Wili betake himself away to the Reiorimed Episcopal 1o.d. He | says he will af the ritualists potuer him in the + least or interfere with bis work. His mew church Was consecrated without a bishop and services have beep held tn it duiing the week by non-Kpis- copal clergymen. The young rector was ouce tried and “reproved” tor preaching in a “Metho- dist meeting house.’ but so -ttttle glory came to | the prosecution in that case it has never been. re- peated, though Dr. Tyng has etuce said and done thiugs more flagrant than that. And new he has pernifttea ministers wio have No urders of apos- tolic succession to boast of to officiate in Is own | pwpit, ud virtually defies lis superiors 40 uring wim to trial—and they dou’ RONAN CATHOLIC. The great Catholic Missionary Society, whose | headquarters are at Lyous, seporis 23 missionary "Dative priesis aud | bishops, 430 missiouar. 700,000 baptized aduere: The Gree Courch at smyrna has opened Sunda: schouls, m which the Gospels are read to bow _ chidren and adults; a sermon is preached every Sunday in one or ine other of the churenes, and the Bishop encourages the distribution oj Bibles. ‘The Freeman’s Journal acknowledges tie receipt Of $425 additional to the $439 4 reported 1a8t week as gilts to the Pope irom pilgrims vy intention Wu0 cannot zo to Rome next month, Ite editor nas also received $231 30 additional for the banner tor | Lourdes, making thas iar $446 43, Rev. Father Garesché and ts band of zealous Missionaries will commence @ mission in the churon ot Our Lady of Merey (Brookiyn), Rev. Father MeElroy, pastor, to-day. it will continue Jor two weeks. A soleun tridunm in honor of the Blessed Peter Fevre, 8. J., first companion of St, Ignatius, will commence in the church of St. Francia Aavicr, West Sixteenth street, on Friday, May 3, and will continue jor three days. A plenary indulgence cau be gaiued on the occasion, The Easter collections im the Archdiocese of rare lor St, Charies’ Quilege amounted to | _ A mission for the Polish Catholics was opened at | St. Wencesiaus’ church, Baltimore, last Sunday, by Father Stanis aus, of the Passtonist Monastery. Rev. Mother Josep o1 the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Baltimore, left tus city on Wednesday for France, in company with a number ol others of the same order irom the various other houses in the United States, to be present at the election of anew Mother General uf the Sisterhood, wuicu Will | take piace in Paris in May. ; Kev. Joseph Viticent U’Conor has been trans ferred irom St. Josept’s cuurch, Laurytown, Pa., | to the cathedral, Phiiadelpnia, | Rev, Buzene Vincent acilhone bas been ap- pointed to St. Josepu’s church, Laurytown, Pa. Father Schacht, of Owensboro, Ky., is lying very | | Gangerouply ill. | Tae anniversary of the consecration of St. Matthew's church, Washington, D. C., Will be ap- propriately commemorated 10-day. | ~The Arcnbishup 01 New York has appointed the Rev. P. F. Vealy Director of the Pilgrimage. The Arcabisuop of New Orleans has ordered a spiritual Pilgrimage, ‘The Dommicans will open thetr mission in St, Paul’s church, Broukiyn, on May 10. During the mmission the Bishup will administer confirmation. | ‘The archbishops and bishops of Lombardy, italy, have addressed a protes: to King Victor Hinman- uel agaist the introduction of a law whiten maxes it ansoiutely necessary to celebrate the civil veiore | the rehgious rite of matrimony. } ‘MISCELLANEOUS. Latest reports irom the Syrian Missions, report a mighty awaking among the people there ana an eagerness to obtain the Scriptures, Caste has been aimost completely destroyed among them, and both the priests anu the people cunnected with St. Thomas Christian Uburch are teeling aiter God, t', haply, they may tnd tough He i nov tar irom every iad of tiem, The Vrotestant Missions in Chi-Klang, Chin alter twenty-six years of missionary lavor, 08 4500 native Christians, and 100 native ministers, catechists and teachers among them, | Oongregationalism has mate great headway in Missouri since 1359, In that jear there was but oue church of that denomination in the Siate—in 5t Louis. Now there are 6¥ churches, 62 ministers, 8,000 members and 6,000 children in the Sunday schools, Jackson, D, D., LL. D., President of mreY ‘abner tinity College, Hartiord, died =] - ng sae8: aexty tame years. austen = Classis of Long Island, which met in BrookiyA on the 14tn inst, reported 16 churvhes, be prety 21 Sunday sc:ools, 4,330 scholars, Siia.oa a ; ana benevolent contributions, V. Geo, J, Taylor, of Troy, has accepted call oF the Reformen Daten chatches of Bogue aud Rensselaer, N.Y., und will be 1uscalled Muy 13. Rev. J, H, Collier bas resigne Reformed Datch charen at Saratoga aiionba uns Rey. G. W. Lubaw has resigned hig torate of the Reiormed Dutch and Fort Miler, ae churches at Northumberiand ‘the Rey, F. V. ‘Van Vranker will be instaitod led 1 7 foe lag Reformed Dutch cuurel, Rev. J, M."Macauley, D, Dy will be thetalled pastor of the Refor Tide, Newark, Mae re Dutco churek, at Wood- @ four mon tour, ‘The Rev. aries D, Buck, pastor of the Reform. ‘the Home ior Women 18 under the care of a | Dumber of religions ladies, who live in tne Home, and who, while net Wearing tte disunctive yarb ol puns, yet profess and practice in the same spirit of seli-sacritice, and who have the same de- Votion to works of charity. ‘This society has aiso charge ot an institution ior deaf mute girls, at. Foruham, and of several other charitable instita- tions in other parts of the United states, The Home has never received any aid from city or Stute, the ex,enses veiog deirayed by subscrip- ons and Gonat.ous from the charitable among St. Stephen's congregauon. STREET THRTY-FOURTH S¥NAGOCTE. Holiness and Temperance Cardinal Doce trines of Judaism—No Temperance So- cieties Among Israciitee—Sermom by Rev. Dr. Vidaver. The Congregation Bnal Jeshurun yesterday read the nineteentu chapter of Leviticus, trom the sec ond verse of which Dr, Vidaver subsequently preached. It reads thng:—“Speak unto all the congregation of the eptidren of Israel and say unto them, ye shall be holy, for 1 the Lord your God am holy.”” This chapter, the Doctor said, contains the whole substance ol our religion, Had our fathers left us nothing more of the wreck of their ancient glory than vhis one chapter we should still have enough for the whole human race. Each sentence in it contains a 8) stem of pure ethics and morality and the very first verse in it reveais to us religion in its purest light. “Be ye holy!” Holiness 1s the very life of religion, It 1s the perennial source of all our peace and happiness here and of our joy aud bliss in heaven. But bow are we to ascend this mountatn of holiness—Low reach this loity altitude of jaith and love? How may we obtain thas treasure whicn is above price? By obedience to the wili of the Lord our God. By What means does that charming flower in your garden blossom and bloom and send forth tho odors of heaven’ By obedience to the law of nature—the law of its being, «Qbvedience brings With ft beauty and joy and peace, and in like man- her do the human flowers lou inthe garden or God. The law of God 18 the purest expression of His will, it seacnes man how to live and how to act in this lie, so as to attain the highest good here and hereafter. And Ce to this divine Wiil manifesis itself in a lile of love, and love 18 88 CONduciVe To bliss and pewce here as the obedience of the plant or fower is to produce harmony and beauty in nature, BUT WHAT IS HOLINESS f Has the Divine Legislator Jeft us m the dark as to this? ‘No, He gocs on in this chapter to tell us about love, puriiy, anselfisnoesa, &c., and shows us that holiness consists in purity of lile and of character—a purity that can be obtained only by the suomission 0: our will to the will o1 our Father in heaven, Who is the Iree man? He who obeys the law. And re who would rule must first learn obey; he who wouid reign im heaven must learn to govern his own spirit and nature here. To be holy in the Jewish sense of the word means not to Separate one’s sell from the world and to shat one’s self up in some cloister or convent. No; ratuer it means to ive with others and jor others; to be able to present @ boid front to the enemies of trath and religion that may come Inst us, It means to wrestie as Jacob did with the unseen joe, and to triumph over him by faith; to teel the’ touch of temptation, and yet to be strong enough to trample it under your leet, To be holy in tue Jewish sense does not mean that a man must clothe himself in sackcloth and ash: s, to last and afllict fis soul. no, It means that the mau should enjoy life and the biessings which come to bil trom a Fatner's hand; not to live isola from his fellow men, but to live among them and enjoy life with them. True wis- dom, Which 18 the tear of the Lord, will make a man’s face beaming ant Mtg tS not long visaged and morose or ee the heed erring to the tem- perance movement, the tor said that he who, wituout sufficient cause, abstains from wine is a Tp "y committee of ladies stouid wait on the tor @t Once and pray him into bible temper. ance.) God, he continued, has not protubited Wine, od shall man theu prohibit it? The right eous man enjoys these thiugs as Irom God, JODAISM NEVER HAD TEMPERANCE soCIRTIEes, because the Jews did not need them. They have the divine law which tells them to enjoy those things which God has given to mankin The Doctor reterred to the Essenes, who existed at the time of the second temple, and who were 80 ex- pious and temperate that they separated m the otner Jews, and in time lost the apirit oO: Judaism. Indeed, they were wo pious to be good Jews, ‘The Nazarites were another sect of abstainers. They would drink neither wine not strong drink, and yet the Bible does not praise tuis, Onithe contrary, when the Nazarite’s vow expired he was obliged to offer up a sin offerin; for himselt, because he had despised the bless! of God. Rani Joshua, one of tue greatest Jewis! commentators, asks why they did not abstain from Rev, A. Westveer, Inte of Wiitwyck, naa been | bread and it an Installed pastor of the Retormed churchés at ascetic, Dat be as ‘at! then In tue Jewish sense are cienes and Shandaken, N.Y. temperate. He who can control his passions, Vv. E. A, Collier, pastor of thi use the plummet of jeith at Kinderi NY, oatls May 01 depths of life, he 1s the nol tour in Karope, Rev. Jonn Mco, fdudson, the first an; N.Y., will sail lor Europe about active and pure