The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1874, Page 15

ad “RUL.GIOUS. INTELLIGENCE. Programme of Services for First Sunday After Ascension, May 17. Anniversaries—Ministerial Movements. The “Prudentius” on the Jesuits—Decline of Calvinism—Correspondence, The Rev. J. D. Wilson, of Peoria, and Bishop Cheney, of Chicago, will preach to-aay in the First Reformed Episcopal church, Madison avenue and Forty-seventh street. The new Church of our Saviour, in Fifty-seventh Street, near Eighth avenue, will be dedicated thls evening by Dr. Chapin and Revs. Sweetser, Flubrer, Nye, Gunnison and Pullinan. Rev, J. W. Barnhart will preach in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church morning and evening to-aay. ‘The Rey. 8, H, Platt will preach this morning in De Kalb avenue Methoaist Episcopal church on “The Lord a Stronghold in the Day of Trouble,” and in the evening on “Tho Race not to the Swift.’? Wesley Methodist Episcopal chapel will be dedl- cated to-day at No, 292 Stanton strect. Dr. John M. Reid will preach in the morning and Revs, W. McAlister and John Parker will speak there in the alternoon, and in the evening Rev. Richard Mere- dith will preach. Dr, Lorimer, of Tremont Temple, Boston, will Preach in the Church of the Disciples to-day in ex- change with Rey. George H, Hepworth. The Rev. Mr. Patterson, evangelist, has been Preaching all the week in the Harlem Baptist tem- ple, and will continue his services there to-day. The Revs. D. Mitchell, H. M. Field, D. D., and H. B. Chapin, D. D., will to-day install the Rev, George O. Phelps as pastor of the Allen street Presbyte- rian church. The Rey. W. P. Corbitt will preach in Seventh street Methodist, Episcopal church this morning and evening. Rev. W. W, Page will preach a historical sermon this morning in the New York Presbyterian church, in West Eleventh street; Dr. McGuire, of Wash- ington, will preach in the evening. Rev. P. L, Davis will preach in the Berean Bap- tist church this morning and evening at the usual hours. The Rev. D. OC. Sweetser will preaci this morn- ing only in the Bleecker street Universalist church. In the Sonth Baptist church this morning and evening Dr. A, OC, Osborne will preach, Preaching at the usual hours, morning and even- ing, to-day, in the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, Rey. L. H. King, D. D., pastor. The Fifty-third street Baptist church will be in- structed this‘morning and evening by the Rey. W. H. Pendleton. Rey. Dr. Carpenter, late of San Francisco, has returned to Brooklyn, his former home, and will to-day occupy the pulpit of the South Congrega- tonal church, Court and President streets, Brook- lyn, morning and evening. The Rev. D, B. Jutten, pastor, will officiate at the usual hour this morning and in the evenipg in the Sixteenth street Baptst church, West Six- teenth street. The Qhurch of the Reformation, heretofore wor- shipping in Fifty-seventh street, near Lexington avenue, will to-day remove to their remodelled ‘and beautified church in Fiftieth street, near Third avenue, where, morning, afternoon and evening, Revs. N. T. Tracy, 8, H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., and W. T. Wilson, of Kingsbridge, will preach. Dr. Ganse will preach this morning in the Madi- 80n avenue Reformed church on ‘Christ's Ascen- sion and Glory,” and in the afternoon, at four o'clock, on “Giving Speech to the Dumb.” The Rey. ©. ©. Tiffany, of Boston, will officiate and preach, morning and evening, in the Church of Atonement, Madison avenue and Twenty-eighth street, Rev. D,. Henry Miller, D, D., will preach in Plym- outh Baptist church to-day, at the ueual hours, Rey. J. F. McClelland will preach this morning in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Forty- first street, near Sixth avenue; Rev, 8. D. Brown, D. D., in the evening, The claims of the Children’s Fold will be pre- sented this morning by Rev. OC. B. Smith, In the pulpit of Zion Protestant Episcopal church, Madi- son avenue and Thirty-eighth street, Rev. W. H. Boole will preach morning and even- ing, in Seventeenth strect Methodist Episcopal church. Rey. W. H. Thomas will preach in the Beekman Bill Methodist Episcopal church to-day at the usual hours, Rev. Dr. Sprole, formerly of Newburg, N. Y., will preach in the Forty-second street Presbyterian church, near Broadway, this morning and after- noon, Rev. Dr. Mickels will preach to-day, at the usual hours, in the Stanton street Baptist church, The pulpit of the Scotch Presoyterlan church, in Fourteenth street, will be occupied this morning by Kev. J, H. Wilson, of Edinburgh, and in the afternoon by the pastor, Rey. S. M. Hamilton. Rey. Henry Cross, of Coventry, England, will ex- plain the parable of the Prodigal Son this morn- $ng, inthe Tabernacle Baptist church, and in tne evening will taik on Christians as episties of Christ. The Rey. W. B. Merritt, pastor, will preach, at the usual hours, in the Sixth avenue Reformed church. The People’s Service in the Church of the Holy Trinity this evening wiil be conducted by Rev. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., who will also preach in the morning. Dr. Irving will preach in the alternoon, Rey. Joseph F, Elder will preach in the Madison avenue Baptist church this morning on ‘Close Communion,” and in the evening on ‘The Guide and Goal oi Life.’ Bishop Cheney will address the Sunday school of the Central Methodist Episcopal church this after- noon, Rev. F, Bottome, D. D., pastor. The services in the Russo-Greek chapel will be rendered in English this morning. A Russian quartet will sing, The Rev. 0. B. Frothingham will talk about the Feligion of the soul this morning in Lyric Hall, Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach at the usual hours to-day in Washington square Methodist Episcopal church. The Rev, R. Heber Newton will ofMfictate this morning and afternoon in the Anthon Memorial church, The Rey. G. W. Briggs, D. D., of Cambridge, Mass., will occupy the pulpit of the Church of the Messian to-day. Dr. Cheever will continue his discourses on the evidences of Christianity in Association Hall this evening, The Rey. Dr. Ewer will oMciate in St. Ignatius’ church at the usual hours to-day. Rev. J. B. Green will preach in All Souls’ Unita- rian church to-day. Rey. Dr. Porteous will preach for All Souls’ Prot- estant Episcopal church in Association Hall, Brooklyn, to-day at the usual hours, The Rev. W. ©. Dawson wiil preach this morning in the Church of the Disciples of Christ. Services will be held a9 usual to-day in the Cathohe Apostolic church, ° Rey. Dr. Howland and Rev. Dr, Conrad will con- duct the services atthe Church of the Heavenly Rest, Fiith avenue, near Forty-fittn street, this morning and evening, Rey. Dr. Deoms will preach in the Churen of the Strangers, Mercer street, near Waveriey piace, to- Gay at half-past ten A, M., and quarter past seven P.M. Rey. T. W. Shackelford, rector, will preach to-day in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Re- deemer, corner of Fourth avenue and Eignty-seo- ond street, at hali-past ten A.M, and half-past seven P. Me Rev. Dr. Armitage, pastor of the Firth avenne Baptist church, near Forty-sixth street, will preach to-day, morning dud evening. Stephen Pear! Androws will deliver a scientific NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY IT, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET. sermon at Ve Garmo’s Hall, Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street, at nalf-past seven P. M, ‘The Spiritualists will hold @ conference at Ger- mania Hall, No. 200 Third avenue, at two P. M. to-day. Relation of the Jesuits to European Governments, To THE EpITor OF THE HRRALD:— It would be utterly impossible to understand the wholesale proscription of the Jesuits ‘and other amMliated orders? (namely, Redemptorists, Chris- tian Brothers and Sisters of Charity) without being aware of two great historical factse—the traditional hatred entertained by kings and ministers toward every theologicai school favorable to Pontifical in- fallibility—a hatred which became in France State policy and parliamentary fanaticism, and which from France was communicated afverward, more or less, to all the governments controlled by the House of Bourbon, Spain, Portugal, Naples, &c.— and the fact that the Jesuits were from their first institution the foremost defenders of Papal prerog- ative. The ‘‘ultramontane” theology of the Jesuits retarded for @ long time their admission into France as a religious order, and the hostility of the Jansenists to the Court of Rome was one great cause of the favor which they enjoyed with the French Parliaments and some of the most influen- tial members of the French administration down to the expulsion of the Jesuits, This Jan- senistic outcry against the Jesuitical doctrine of Papal infallibility, as utterly irreconcilable with the autonomy and peace of every Commonwealth, was sedulously propagated by them from their great centre at Utrecht; it spread to Bavaria and Austria, came over-to England and Ireland with the exiled French doctors of Sorbonne during the French Revolution, was petted and cherished in Portugal by the great Minister Pombal, and taught openly in the University of Coimbra, once the great seat of Jesuit theology; its teachers were especially favored by Joseph II, in Austria, and iis dogtrines promoted in Italy by the MINOR BRANCHES OF THE BOURBONS, ~until it found vent in the famous Synod of Pistoia. At this time a century ago all the Catholic govern- ments, with one exception, resisted this doctrine | iy ‘addition to several Sixters of the Francisca of Pontifical intallibility as one which threatened their very existence, and combined to strike down the Jesuits as the aposties of that doctrine. This was grateful, 1 do not say to Protestants— they were not immediately concerned in the strife—but to the whole body of European free thinkers, Voltairians, Freemasons and Jacobins, Ultramontanism (which meant, of course, Papal infallibility) and Jesuittsm became from that time pass words of the press, by which the fears of gov- ernments could be at any given moment roused into the most extreme measures of proscription, and it is so at the present hour. Nor was this carefully cherished prejudice with- out some show of toundation in mediwval history. It was remembereé .that France had again and again been laid under interdict by the Pontifcal- power; that English kings were declared to have forfeited their crowns and ‘rusades had been preached in France against them; that kingdoms and sovereignties in Germany and elsewhere had been disposed ,of again and again by the Roman Pontiffs, and all, it was maintained, by virtue of their supreme authority as Christ’s vicars. These assumptions oO! political as weil as spiritual su- remacy had ever found their most uncompromis- ing advocates among the Jesuits, levertheless, when suppressed by Clement XIV. and driven trom the dominions and colonies of Spain and Portugal, with @ ruthless indiscrimina- tion “not equalled even by the cruel deportation of the Moriscoes, the Jesuits found in FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA, and in the Russian Empress, Catharine ID, true | because friends in their utmost In the territories. of these two sovereigns the poor hunted exiles found rest, protection, gséurity and liberty. to pursue heir avocations, In England, too, they continued with comparative freedom their missionary labors; in Maryland, both before and aiter the Declaration of Independence, their houses fourished, and the British authorities in Canada refused to eniorce the bull of suppression. Thus, in non-Catholic countries alone were the Jesuits allowed eituer freeuom or toleration. ceptions, the case at this very day. From Russia the Jesuits were expelled early in the present century for two reasons:—‘neir Gen- eral, Brozowski, had been held in great esteem by Paul I. and in suspicion by his son and successor, Alexander I, and while Much favored by his Min- ister, Galitzin, the latter’s nephew became a con- vert of the Jesuits, This at once decided their fate in the Empire. In Prussia they nevet ceased since the days of Frederick the Great to enjov the confidence and respect of the government up to the iate discus- sions on infuilibility. Had they been gifted with any hing like the worldly wisdom and politic lore- thought for which they are given credit they would either have not advised the Pope to urge the definition of the doctriue of infallibility or they would have allowed others to take a prominent part in the proceedings of the Vatican Counci: and kept prudently in the background, Whetler through a sincere devotion to the Holy See and LOVE OF CATHOLIC TRUTH, or through a desire to. have ‘heir own pecuilar doc- trines once more solemnly decreed as dogmatic trutns, they were deaf to the warnings o! ther friends and the threats of their enemies, Hohen- lohe and Von Lutzin Bavaria were not more firmly resolved on their ruin than Prime Minister | paring the way for aunion in Christian efforts / with And it 18, wilh @ few ex- | | obedience to anv one luw is essential to saivation, Ollivier in France, as his late utterances abun- | dantly testify, The latter’s projects of revenge on triumphant ultramontanism were toiled by his master’s overtirow and his own political annihil- ation; but the victory of Germany enabied the for- mer to find all powerful instruments in Bismarck and his Emperor and a not unwilling auxiliary in the weak Kiug of Bava ta. The entire anti-Catholic press of Continental | Europe, the organs of the secret societies, radt- | cals, rationalists and. revolutionists giadly took up the cry of “Down with the Jesuits!” it required this combination of press and Par- liament to overcome the resistance which the pro- posed measures of proscription met with in the bosom ol the Imperial family of Germany, as well as from the Catholi¢ aristocracy, whose sons had been educated by tie Jesuits and had in mauy in- stances become members of the Order. Whatever reproaches the Jesuits may deserve in cvuntries OU this side Oi the Atlantic, jor tueir tnieriority to their predecessors Of Another generation, it is cer- tain that in Germany, in France, in Spain-and in England, they count among them the best in blood and in intellect, men in whose lives is doubly veris fled the saying mnoblesse oblige, This letter is heither an upology nor an accusation; the writer owes the Jesuits ho favor and accepts irom them neither kindpess nor friendship, your readers the truth; and what is here said, though incomplete and tragmentary, may enable them to appreciate past occurrences and present proceedings 1n Germany and elsewhere, Why, the, were the Jesuits thus suddenly out- lawed in Germany? Because to Protestants and some of the weil meaning classes the definitions of the Vatican Council were represented as PAPAL AGGRESSIONS on the independeuce oj the Fatherland and the most sacred rights of civil government and tree- dom ; because, in the eyes Ol all the adversaries of the Catholic Church, the Jesuits were its most en- lightened, during and ancompromising defenders; and especially because radicalism, rationalism an evangelicaltsm are peériectiy aware that the Jesuits are, in Europe, Whatever they may be in America, among the most successiul and venerated educators of youth, while tue ayowed object of these their enemies 1s to debar the Catholic Churen from all share in education, and thereby totally de- atroy her influence over the rising generation. At bottom all other motives for passing the Falk laws were either nugatory or mere pretexts, ‘The sole and supreme reason of the knowing ones who introduced these laws, of the unscrupulous ones who advocated tiem and of the majority of the German Parliament who voted for them was to decatholicize the youth of Germany. The Redemptorists, Christian Brothers and others, who were invoived iu this brutal ostracism, had nothing to do with the Jesuits, are in wise connected with them, and most certainiy not “afiiiated” to them. For it is unquestionably But he owes | true that the Jesuits have never allowed any | order, association or combination of men or wouien to clan “aMitation” with their society, GOVERNMENTAL CONSCIENCK LIES, But when ministers stoop todoa great wrong they will not hesitate to lie to their own cou- sciences as well as to the world, and when legisla- tors, under the ministerial whip, are made to forego reagon and equity tor passion, prejudice and sell-interest, tne voice of truth can find no echo in their counsels. And ever, the writer believes, in any delibera- tive assembly since 1793, were truth and justice and the commonest claims of pubhe decency and private right more shameiuily Violated than in the hurried enactment of these Falk Jaws and the unnecessary outrages attendant on their hasty execution. But Of the Jesuits more in our next letrer, PRUDENTIUS, What American Revivalists Are Doing in Great Britain, The London correspondent of the Liverpool Post, writing on the 27th of April, says "The so- called religious revival tn Scotland has been quite a Godsend to some of the firma engaged In tho publication of Bibles, The orders received from Svotiand since January last are sufficient to give @ copy of the Scriptures to one in every five of the population, There bas been no such sale of the holy book since 1959 or 1860, when It seems that in Scotland and the north of England men and women searcied the scriptures with an agsiduity Witich nad been unknown lor some time before, @nd which til now has beea unknown since, deed, for five years so bad that one firm in popular works. If the itinerant Americans now iseghies i Giengow roduce as much effect in lanchester and the English towns as they are pene to have done in the Scotch ones, selling Bibles may again become a lucrative business.” Soecking Religt Liberty—Results of Religious Proscription in Germany— Catholic Ladies of Patrician Birth Selt-Exiled for Their Faith. The hostile attitude of the’ government of the German Empire towards its Catholic subjects is Occasioning no little domestic sorrow among the faithiul adherents of that Church, many of whom prefer voluntary exile rather than renounce an jota of “the faith once delivered to the saints,’ Among the passengers by the steamship Donan, which arrived at this port lately, were six- teen seif-exiled German ladies, belonging to an Order known as the Christian Sisters of Charity, and founded at Paderborn, Prussia, in 1849, by the Countess ef Malinkrott, sister to the eminent statesman ,and speaker of that name at the Emperor's Court. These ladies, who were in charge of Sisters Superioresses Matilda and Philomena, both of whom are represented as belonging to the nodiesse of Germany, had devoted their lives to teaching in the higher class of seminaries in the Fatherland, until overtaken in their benevolent and self- sacrificing labors by the proscriptive persecution inaugurated by Prince Bismarcx. Alluring in- ducements have In vain been held out by the German government to the members of this Order and promises of large pecun- jary advantages if they would discard the habiliments of their society and vecome secuiar- ized in their teachings. Accordingly, many of the Sisters have sought liberty of conscience in Aus- tria, while a goodly number havo already found homes and friends in Chtie, Equador and other places tn South America, Oa the arrival of the steamship at her wharf a hearty and affectionate greeting was extended to the uew comers. Among those who welcomed the good Sisters were Rey, Joseph Stumpe, pastor of the Churei of the immaculate Conception at Mel- rose, and who was prepared to receive them per telegraplic advices irom Germany, Many other ‘atholtc clergymen and laymen from New York, New Jersey and eisewhere were also present, Order of Hoboken. After congratulations had been showered upon the strangers they were escorted to New York, where the party refreshed themselves and then proceeded to Melrose, as the guests of Father Stumpe. Here a touching wel- come was exieuded to the Christian sisters by the Sisters and others connected with the parish of the Immaculate Conception, On Wednesday the party set out for Scranton, Pa., where sisters Ma- tilda and Philomena will remain, while the other fourteen intend going to New Ulm, Minn. The Bishop of Scranton, it appears, has Invited as many of the Christian Sisters in Germany as wish to go there, and has purchased large tracts on which it ts intended to er be piaced in charge of the per- ladies. At Wilkesbarre it is under- siood that one academy has already been erected for their reception, It may be stuted that about five months since forty of the Christian Sis- ters arrived at New Orleans, where they have charge of a large and dourisning academy, These latter were the first arrivals in the’United States trom the now scattered Order of Christian Sisters of Charity. A Bapiist on Dr, Fulton and the Herald. To THR Epitor oF THE HERALD:— An article on “Ministers vs. Ministers’ appeared in your columns on Monday which does such mani- fest ‘njustice to some of the parties re‘erred to that lam sure you will, for the sake or the truth, allow a correction. One wrong impréssion made is that Dr. Fulton assumes the championship of immersion as the only Christian baptism, whe truth 1s that he is no stronger an advocate of it than is the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, who represents in Brooklyn the extreme Itberal wing of the Baptist | Chureh, Neither party ever admit to membership any person who does not heartily approve of im- mersion and cheeriully submit to it, A second | error you fall into is that the denomination, by “growing recreant’? to the doctrine, were pre- other sects. The truth is that they have always, and never more so than now, heartily united with Coristians of every name in every such effort, if we may except the one practice of intere mmunion at the Lord’s table, winen, judg- ing trom its resuits among pedo-Baptist sects, can- not be caiied a successial union effort. It has utteriy failed to unite any of the sects into one harmenious body. The difference between the sects practising intercommunion is far greater to- day tian any Which troubles the Baptist denom- | ination, thirdly, you represent the Baptist denouination as holding the dogma of regenera- tion by tinmersion, and as Consigning to perdition all who ure not so baptized. The truth is that they have in ail ther history held the very oppo- site views, and lave clearly and strongly main- tained that no one 18 a proper subject for baptism until be is regenerated by the Holy Spirit and entitied to the hope of salvation, ‘They only claim ior imimerston that itis essential to a periect obedience in respect to the initiatory rite of the Church. But they never teach that pertect but that men are saved simply and only by a cordial acceptance of Jesus as their Redeemer. ‘They re- Joice to Know that there 18 as large « proportion of guct persons in other sects ay in their own. Mak- tiny immersion only, as they velieve it is, the only scriptural baptism, the first formal, initiatory step to membership, they feel they cannot consistently ask one to the privileges of the body who has not complied with this duiy—just as the Masonic fra- ternity could not consistently invite an excellent friend of their cause to the privileges oi their lodges | Who had not been duly initiated, If this 18 & wrong Policy 10: the Baptists then itis wrong for other or- ganizations to make conditions of membership and privilege. Ii Dr. Fulton has assumed any championship it is that of defending tne doctrine ot restricted com- munion, Ana it is presumption for him to do that, ior it needs no cuampion. — If it 1s right it will still prevail in the Church, Which, more than any other, rejects human authority and dictator- ship, aud tor his pains he will have only tke humiliation of seeing others less ambitious wear- ing toe laurels of true greatness. For his indis- | cretions we offer no apology but this—he has Many virtues, not the least améng which ts a gen- erous, iarge-hearted manliness, for which many who now revile him would admire him if they were intimately acquainted with bim. In conclusion, allow me to say (hat it was remarkable that your criticisms iu toe article referred to were confined to Protestantism. There is quite as much narrow- mindedness, bigotry and devotion tu nou-essen- tials in the Roman Catholic Charcb, which is no small body in tuis city. Try your lance Mf aoe Taxing Church Propergy—A Judicial Decision. A principle interesting to the churches of ail de- nominations has juat been decided in the Supreme Court in this city in the case of the Central Pres- byterian Church vs, The Tax Commissioners, The church 1s located on Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh streets, between Seventh avenue and Broadway, and the lots are not entirely built over, and on tu ground were assessed. But Mr. Elliott F. Shep- ‘d, for the church, contended that the lots were an indivisible part of the property on which the edifice stood, and therefore exempt trom taxi under the Revised Statutes, and the Court has sus- tained this view of the law and granted a perpetual injunction against the Comptroiler’s selling the churcn property to satisly an old tax, and restrain. ing the Commissioners from assessing it in the future, ; A Novel Idea. Rev, Dr. Putnam, of the Church of the Saviour (Unitarian), in Brooklyn, has made the subject of hymns the study of years, and knows the origin of nearly every sacred song that touches the public heart. He has discovered that the entire Bible has been put into verse. He proposes to make a collection of hymns from the best authors, run- ning back to the earhest time, and print taem in the order of the bible, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelations, thus not only presenting the true unity of the Church, but voicing the Scrip- tures to sacred melody. Revival Exeltements Defended. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, Mr. Miller, asks, “How Many converts Methodists would gain did they not produce such a degree of excitement in the minds of the people in their revival meetings 1” I would answer:—Tho thought of a person when converted is, first, what he can do to repay his living Lord; @nd naturally he tries to bring others to be a8 happy as himself, and, ander the influence of vhis feeling, he does his best to advance God’s glory. A revival ts simply a number of these happy fol- lowers of the Lord all aglow with “religious on- thusiasm” working for their Creator, and when the Lord is merciful enough to show sinners— through the prayers and exhortations of these bellevera—thel ngerous position and entice them to ‘turn to him and live,” what or excitement is exhibited in that? more than on the “day of Pentecost,” when 8,000 souls were brought to Jesus Men's inds were the same then asnow. It was the “religious enthusiasm” displayed by the aposties alter recet the Holy Ghost that produced sucn @ revival. tence “enthusiasm” is displayed tn every church because it is the expression of tn- tensé love. Revivals are held in winter, not asa Tule, but because there is @ better chance of draw- ing out & congregation at this season than in the heat of summer, Mr. Miller expresses his opinion that “the more coolly and methodicaily we engage in the enterprise of getting to heaven the more certain we are of getting there.” He speaks of heaven as if it were a mere “busine: culation’? instead of & never dying eternity, his advice to people is to undertake the journey thither ‘coolly and methodically; to have no anxious fears regardirg the future, but to drive away ail volce of conscience with the woras, “If 1 get to heoven, well and good; if I don’t, it can’t be helped,” HEBER JOHN OLDUAM, The Evidences of Christianity~The Origin of Christianity. To THE EpiToR OF rue Heraup:— God is the origin of all things. Science is the knowledge of God, and of ail the laws He has re- vealed In His words and works. Science has two branches—one Spiritual, embracing the laws of life and mind; the other physical, including the laws of motion and matter. And these are so co- related that it is impossible for man in his present state to tell how these laws interpenetrate one another, or where the material and spiritual forces unite, Christianity 1s the religion of God, and of the angels and saints in Paradise, as well as of man on earth. It ig the mother of science, because it {3 spiritual. It is a manifestation of God’s attributes, and it concentrates Within itgelt the wisdom of all philos- opnies, of all that the wisest men nave worked out as conducing to man’s greatest dignity and happiness, without a divine revelation. Besidea this it.also reveals all we know of God, and of the service He requires from His creatures, and of man’s immortality and future eternal life. Christianity 18 also @ factor in creat.on, because creation was a preparation for making man, and man was @ preparation for the incarnation of the Son of God, and in Him for the final revelation of the doctrine of the Trifity and of Christianity, God satd, ‘Let us make man in our image and likeness;” and His reigion was revealed in and to man simultaneously with his creation, God breathed into man and he recaved His life and became a living spirit. ‘The earth was inade for man’s dw. ling place, his temple to worship dod In; the mineral, vegetable and animal Kiagdoms were designed to heip man to run his earthiy career and prepare tke way for the jncarnatfon of we Son of Gou, to unite in Him inseparably, the infnice and finite, aud through Him to periect botu the world and Ourist anity. St. John Was itspired by the Holy Ghost to write— “in the beginainy was the Word, and the Word was God, and ali (uings were made by him.” “He was the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace wad truth, aud we are in hum, who ts true, even in his son Jesus Chijst. This ts the trae God and eternal ive.” Christianity 1s a reve- lation of God’s lie and attributes, He says, “L aim the Lord, the holy one, the Creator;” and again, ‘Thus saith the Redeemer, thy hoiy one.” 16 is a System lor conveying God’s life, likeness and knowledge througa tlis Son, the Creator, and tor bestowing redemption and saivation through His Son the Kedeemer, by which men and angels can return to God the tov edience and worsiitp He demands trom tuem for His gifts of Lule, rignteous- less, BeCUrily aud salvation which He bas given them through His Son. it 1s aiso the means by which God has made known tiat sin 1s the greatest evil in the universe, and also the remedy that He had provided to save man from 1ts consequences betore he was created, St. Peter says Christ was the Saviour of the world beiore 1t was created, St. Jove calis tim the Lamb slain from the 1ounda- tion of the World and St. Paul said the righteous were chosen in Christ belore the foundation of the world. God ordained it before the world for our glory; He made Christ, who knew DO sin, CO be #10 for us, Lhat We might be made the righteousness of Godin him.’? He created man holy, and taught hin, by His Son, how to maintain his rigateousness, as a grateful return for Mis gilts to him. Tue rites of obedience, worship, rest, marriage and prohibition irom the tree of knowledge, were prescribed for man. But he failed in obedience, lost his righteousness; and the Son of God. was promised a Kedeemer, to make restitution for him and restore him to God’s favor, through sacrifice and faith in Him to be revealed turough the seed of the womah, until He showd reveal Himscil in her nature. Thus God practt- cally exercised His religion Himself vowards His erring cuildren by that provision of a Saviour, through iis) own sacrifice and suier- ing, by which He redeemed man irom h; the _ means provided to hep him to overcome Satan’s temptations and the pro- vision Ol @ better paradise than the one Adam lost, ‘Thus sin, by which Satan tried to destroy man, Was made to reveal more of God’s love, mercy aud power, because it helped to educate man and jur- nished new means to prepare the way tor Satan’s destruction, and to exalt man to a Wworid where neither Satau, sin nor death can enter, Thus Physivlogy and psychology are seen to be elements in Chrisuianity ag weil as in creation; and they are so correlated in man, and so united to God in Christ, and so undefipable in their relations in moral and physical science, and interdependent AS’ natural and spiritual forces, that they reach through man and matter to God, The counection isso mysterious, as it is reveaied through Chris- Uanity, that it is impossible to separate or deine their relations. é Moreover, there 13 @ soul in creation as well as in all the members ol the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and it is related by that mysterious jorce to God, St. Paul says, “The Son of God ts vie brightness of the Father's glory and uphoideth all things by the word of his power.” The spirit ofGod moved on the elements of matter siiul- taneously, a8 tue Son of Gud said, “Let there be ligat” (tue Hebrew ‘aur’? means also elecuricity), and the organization of the mineral kingdom be- gan. This makes creation and Christianity the two grand divisions of all scence, and the whole of the Tevelauion God has made of Himseif, A further prool of this mysterious correlation is, that crea- ton, like man, who ls the crown and exponent, of it, has to pass through a process of destruction aud resurrection, by Cnrist’s power, belore ib «atiaius§=to_periection aud the dnal results of creation and Christianity are accom- plisued. St. Jobn had @ revelation from Christ, aiter His ascension to heaven, of the resurrection, in which, whtie the dead stood beiore Cnrist to be judged, the heavens and the earth passed away and a new heavens and earta came down from God out of heaven; and Christ sald, “Behold, | make all things new.’’—Revelations, xxi Prayer is one o1 the forces Ot spiritual sciertte. We know not how it acts, any more than we know how gravitation acts; but, like gravity, prayer hangs all things on God, It baffles physical science to tind out how it reaches God or influences His will, Yet we see the union of the two sciences tn man— for all the laws of life, mind and matter are com- bined tn him—and the putea force rules in him as God, the Indnite Spirit, rules the forces in na- re. ; ‘the earth, withovt man, would be a desolate world—without works of art, cities or cultivated fields. It is man’s spiritual intelligence and torce, acting on his physical nature, which has made the earth fruitful, beautiful and civilized; and go it is Christianity which has caused all that adorns, dignities and glorifies our World and its peoples, Tue principle of holiness in Christianity 13 per- fect only 10 its author, and imparted to man is his righteousness; and its highest expression in God and man is love—love which leads to personal sacrifices jor the good of others, “fhe Lord is holy tn all hia works,’ ‘God so loved the worid that he gave his only begotten son to die for 1t.’” ‘Tue origin of Christianity, therefore, is God, its object to manifest Himself to man so as to make Himself known and to train the race into His like- ness, fit them fora spiritual existence and to live with Him forever; and, though it was impaired by the first Adam’s sin, the righteousness of the sec- oud Adam gatned more ior man than the first Adam lost, Finally, Christianity was introduced into this World as an exotic [rom heaven—a heavenly germ— and, like all God’s creations and revelations, de- signed to grow with the race and adapt itself to ail the changes mankind was to pass through in its wonderiul development on earth, until its Divine Author and finisher appeared to unveil its mysteries, PSYCHOLOGIST, 2 Ministerial and Church Movements. METHODIST. The Delaware avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Buffalo, are building a new house of wor- ship, to cost $35,000, The British Wesleyans at Hankow, China, have 139 church members and 158 probationers. Forty-nine members were added last year and forty-one taken on trial. Nine day schools sustained by them have 230 scholars, The First Methodist Episcopal church of Hacken- sack, N. J., are building a new house of worship at @ cost of $14,000, Bishop Haven dedicated a new Methodist Episco- pal church at Malden, Mass., last Wednesday. The Rev. 0, A, Malsbury has been appointed to the Hancock’s Briugo charge, New Jersey Con- ference. Rey. James M. Fuller, of Michigan, {8 visiting friends in this vicinity, and last Monday was iutro- duced to the Preacher’s Meeting. J. M. O, Butler and Alfred H. Webb have been re- ceived into the Vermont Conference from the East- ern British American Conterence, Rev, W. H. Goode, of the North Indiana Confer- encé, is falling in strength, He is ireo from dis ease, but unable to perform ministerial labor. The church @nd Sabbath School of Dekalb avenue Methodist Eptscopal church, Brooklyn, united Jast Monday ina hearty reception to their new pastor, Rev, 8. H. Platt, who pleasantly re- sponded to their cordial welcome. The Gothic Methodist Episcopal Church Society on Friday, the 8th inst.. gave their new pastor, Rev. R, & Putney, @ hearty reception and wel- come, The Emile Cook fund amounts to $7,695 40. Bishop Wiley bas been confined to his house for A week, suffering from sevare nrostrauon ariaing irom overwors. The pletely recruite The lecture room of the new Methodist ton, Wyoming Valley, will Wednesday. Kev. W. P. Abbott, of this city, and Dr. Ives, of Auburn, will preach. ‘The Rev. ‘f. 'T. Kendrick, of Williamsburg, is likely to get into his pulpit in, Judge Pratt has ordered that notice of an election of trustees be iven from the pulpit of Grand street church to- jay. The outgoers are anti-Kendrick men, and they are likely to be succeeded by the minister's friends, since @ majority of the congregation en- Utled to vote are favorable to him, Rev. A. H, Bradford, of Montclair, N. J., who has just goue West for a four months’ exchange with Rey. Mr. Raton, of Portland, Oregon, received from. his people, on taking leave of them, a purse of over $900, besides other valuable presenta. t year was @ grand year lor Methodism on Long Isiand. New churches were built in St. James, Pearsall’s, Port Jefferson, Bayport, Jamaica, Hansom Place, and a Swedish churen in Brookiyn. Over 2,000 conversions were reported, BAPTIST. ; » Rey. J, Hyatt Smith, of Brooklyn, says he ex- rece to be tried again next fall by the Long land Association, and he hopes it may be tha NeXt Jail of the association. The day is not far orf, he thinks, when the clubs now used by illiberal Baptists will be split up ior oven wood to bake bread for open communion tables, Lee avenue church, Brooklyn, has doubled in membership within a few months. Fifteen hun- dred young men listened to a sermon by Rey. Mr, Smith on a recent Savbath evening—not a bonnet in the building. Eleven were Daptined last Sune day, Their building ta scarcely bull large enough to hold the congregations that gather and seek admittance Sabbath evenings. An open communion society and a close com. munion one tn Willett Village, N. Y., have united on open communion principies, and are now led by the liberal pastor. The close communionists oe Rot apn building, the open ones worshipped A new Baptist church at Marilla, Mass., will be dedicated on May 27. Rev. Dr. Olmstead, of Boston, whose communion in London a few months ago with non-immersed believers created great scaudal among American Baptists, is expected home toward the end of this or the beginning of next week, A Fieeman’s Baptist Convention 1s to be held in Boston, at Freeman’s Hall, on the 26th of May, to oe aNew England Freeman's Baptist Associa- on. Rev. C. G. Gurr has removed {rom Howell, N. J. to East Marton, Sutfolk county, L. 1, N. Y. Rev. George R, Bliss, D. D., long & proiessor in the Lewisburg University, has accepted an ap- potniment to the Chair of Biblical Interpretation in the Crozer Theological Seminary. Rey. George A, Simonson, of Hartiord, has been ealied to tie pastorate of the Firth Baptist church in Newark, \. J. He becomes successor of Rev. Dr. Johnson, of Old Cambridge. Rey. James Cooper has resigned his charge in Rondout, N. ¥., and is, probably, going to Boston or vicinity. The Troupsburg Baptist church will dedicate their-new eager on Wednesday, June 3. ‘rhe Rey. E. L. Wheeler resigns the pastorate of the First Baptist church, Rahway, N. J. ‘ The Rev, R. R. Prentice, of Townshend, Vt, accepts the call of the Baptist church at North Parma, N.Y. {ne First Baptist chnren of Elizabeth, N. Y., Rey, T, A. K. Gessier pastor, has received seventy to its Membership since January 1, avout sixty by baptigm. The cause at Elizabeth was never more promising, J. Wheaton Smith, D. D., of Philadelphia, sailed last Thursday for Lurope, to be absent about two. months. ‘The Baptist church of Ansvilie, N. Y., have ex- teudeda call to the Rev. G. W. Gates, M. D., to be- come their pastor. Lhe Washington avenue church, of Brooklyn, bave very geuerously offered their pastor, Rev. Dr, Moore, @ vacation of four months, The religious interest at the Baptist Temple, Harlem, ts on the increase. Last Sunday evening tie ordinance of baptism Was administered, and au inquiry meeting followed, at which nearly 200 remained. Abouta score requested prayers, and at the third meeting for conversation and special prayer about 100 were still in the house, many Let th abaya’ deep conviction and some indulginga ope. The Rev. G. W, Adams, of Horseheads, Chemung county, has entered upon lis duties as pastor of the Baptist church at Bambridge, in place of Rev. kK, M, Blanchard, who bas removed to Addison, N.Y. The Rev. Judson Davis has offered his resigna- aon of the pasiorsbip of the Baptist church in juton. Willis street church, Paterson, reports sixty-two baptized during Aprii, making over 200 during this revival, They enter upon the sixth month of every nigitt preacuing. PRESBYTERIAN, Seventy missionaries Lelonging to the Presbyte- Tian Womeu’s Foreign Missionary Society are lavoring tn foreign lands, ten of whom have been added this year. Their work in schools, zenanas, &c., 18 encouraging. Over 500 auxiliary societies and “bands” are at work. One hundred and ee societies and ninety bands have been added this year, Durirg the ecclesiastical year, which closed With the last March, the thirty-one churches of the Presbytery of Philadetphia Central received in the Aggregate 694 members on profession. The total membership reported was 9,417, averaging a little more than 300 each, At Kev, Mr. Hammond’s meetings in Hannibal, Mo., about 800 persons have professed conversion to Christ. In St. Louis nearly 3,000 have ound the Saviour, in Jacksonville, Mo,, 900, and Mr. Ham- mond is now preaching in Palmyra, Mo. AS @ result Oo! the revivai in Galveston, Texas, Dr, Bunting’s church nas received 100 members. Other churches in the place have received 200 more. ‘the Rev. Willard M. Rice, D. D., has been re- leased from the pastoral care of the Fourth Pres- byterian church of Philadelphia, and has com. menced his work in the Reesville church, Rev. James M, Thompson, lately of tnis city, has become pastor of the Second Mantua rresbyterian church of Philadelphia, ‘The Rev. Wiillam B, Reed, a younger brother of Rev. Alexander Reed, of Brooklyn, Was, on the 6th inst., ordained in Philadelphia, and sent to Wyom- ing as a missionary. Mr, J. D. Waler, Jr., has been called to the pas- torate Of Logau square Presvyterian chureb, Phil- adeiphia, aud will shortly be ordained thereto, The ey. F. 8, Barnum, late of the New York has joined the Presuytenian Churen, . KF, Graves, of Dresden, Pa, has gone to a charge in Tioga, P The Rev. George 0. Phelps, late of Deposit, N. will be installed pastor of tne Alien street Presby. terian church o1 this city to-day. ‘rhe Rey, George Van Deurs, of Utica, has taken charge of the Filteenth street Presbyterian church of Washington, D. 0. The Throop aveoue Presbyterian church, Rev, L. R. Foote, pastor, has during the winter added to its membership seventy-nine on proiession and thirty-three by letter. it has now a membersiup ol 272. At the last communion in the Westminster Pres byterian church, Brooklyn, twenty-nine new men- bers were received into iellowsbip, twenty of them being recent converts. ‘The Rev. A. G, Beebee has removed from Milfora to Worcester, Mass., and taken cuarge o1 the Pres- byterian church there. The Rev. T. VU. Kirkwood will be installed pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Fond du Lac., Wis., ou Tuesday, 19% inst. Dr. Hiram Eddy, of Jersey City, found a little unpleasantness in bis society. any wanted lim to go, and a few wanted iim to stay, He cut the Gordian knot by going out, taking his Sunday school, choir and a portion of his congregation, and setting up an independent Presbyterian society. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Rev. Father Garesche, the well known Jesuit missionary, has been #0 prostrated with overwork that his physician has sent him South to recruit his health, He has gone to Charleston, 5. C. ‘The Freeman's Journal subscriptions for the Pope by the pilgrims amount to $3,206 38, and for the banner for the church at Lourdes $1,107 dv. The banner will be intrusted to Mr. P. Farrell, of Jersey City. The students of Georgetown College, D. 0., are sending another beautuul banner to tae game place. The Catholics of Chattanooga, Tenn., are about to build @ new $75,000 churel at that place. The Dominican fathers Byrne, Daly, Ryan, Power, O'Rourke and Dinahan opened a mission in 8t. Paul’s Roman Catholic church, Brooklyn, last Sunday. The mission which has been in rogreas in the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Brooklyn, under the auspices of the Jesuit Fathers Koopman and Van Goch, w'll close to-day, Among the measures proposed by the Catholic prelates at thetr late meeting in Cincinnatt, and likely to be adopted by the Hoilv See, were the elevation of Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Boston and Santa Fé to the grade of metropuiltan sees, of the Vicariate of Arizona to be asce, and of the es. tablishment of sees tn Texas, lowa, Colorado aud Iiimoia, where few or None now cxist. p ‘The colored Vatholics of St, Augustine's church, Louisville, Ky., have signed an address to the Pope, which they send by the hand of their pas- tor, ‘Farner de Meulder, who goes out with the pilgrimage. They also seud the Pope a gold-headed he. Nar. Marwitz, Bishop of Culm, can has been sentenced to pay 600 thalers, or to suiler six monchs’ imprisonment, for having wea two ecclesiastics without government ction. Rev. Father McOullom, of St, Brooklyn, 16 among the pilgrims fro! ‘Phe city of Buffalo at present contains 16 Catholic churehes and 7 chapels in quate) ogether with religious houses for the Jesuits, demptionists, Oblates, Franciscans and Fathers of the Congrega- tion of the Mission. ‘The Very Rev. Dr. Fortune, of All Hallows College, Dublin, has been appointed tralia. The Very Rev. Michael O'Connor, parish priest of has been Ca ered to Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ball the See of jarat, in the province of bourne, Australia. On May 4 the ceremony of opening and closin, the mouths of Cardinals Regnier, ciel anc Tarnocazy took ‘at that no cardin: be appointed at Pentecost, ‘ne Rev. Lewis Rosecrans, son of the General, has just closed a very successful mission at Brat- Reooro, VE ‘The corner stone of the new church of St. Bone Bignop has West with his family, intending to spend a ow weees with friends in Sorngee, Ohio, until his health ia com- 18C0) chureb, at New Hope, Pa., will be dedicate aeoene The new Methodist Episcopal church at Kings- dedicated next year for life, and its public announcement attracted the same evening, at a to the See of Sand- hurskie, in the new province of Melbourne, Aus- It is understood in Rome 15 dict, on Falton ana aven Ni k Was laid on Thursday vy Beh ongaitae wile Right Rey. ‘Bisho; ned paren Bs ged improved ene? try T he wi bene: ca of Glenore, Bi ry v. Bishop Hennt, of Wis., has issued & pastoral, tnndonete atkee, consecration of all the churches, congregations and religious institutions of the diocese to the Sa~ sre Heart of Jesus, will take place on Sunday, RPTSCOPALIAN, The “Second Reformed Hpiscopal church of Phil. adelphia” was organized last wee! Bishop Paddock met bis churches tn convention for the frst time last week. The diocese is re. Ported to be in @ better working condition ty: ever before. Larger additions have been made the various churches, a greater number confirmed, contrivutions larger, with general peace and prose pei The Bishop's salary is $6,000@ year and a Ouse. At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Church Missionary Society, held on the 5th inst., it Was reported that the society has helped to estab- ligh and sustain the services of the Church in twenty-one different places, and that in some in- #tances substantial and very beautiiul chureh edi- fices have been erected. The Irish Episcopal Church Synod is now In ses- sion, and the vexed question of revising the liturgy is under consideration. It is not likely that this will be effected; for, though the laity over- Wwhelmingly favor it, @ majority of the clergy op- pose it, and the synod votes by orders, Rev. Henry B. Ensworth, formerly a Presby- terian minister, was ordained last week as an Episcopal clergyman, by Bishop Williams, of Con- necticut, The ceremony took piace at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middietown, the candidate being presented by Professor H. A. Yardley. The Key, William Hoxton has accepted a joint call from Haymarket (Prince William) and Eman- uel (Fauquier) parishes, Virginia. The Rey. Robert Neison, D. D., has just returned from China. He Will remain in this country Jor some mop ths, Key. David Barr has resigned the Rectorship of St. Mark’s chureh, St. Alban’s, W. Va., and ac. cepted a call to St, Luke’s and Emanuel churches, Powhatan county, Va. MISCELLANEOUS, The Rev. George Lawrence, writing to the Chris- tian Advocate concerning the religious outlook in Spain, reports that vhe host, which had ceased to be borne about the streets, now comes out, attended by municipal guards, and citizens are compelied to kneel down in the street. One litte girl who refused to do so lately was knocked on the head. A very wonderiui revival work Is in progress among the Indians of the Roaud Valley Keserva- Vion, Cal, in which already over 600 have united with the Churen, and thé prospect is that the entire reservation will be saved, A party of torty Mennoniies, from Ruasia, left this ctty last week for Dukota, where they are forming a colony, A Mr, bi. Kery, & missionary and native of Sa- Maria, has recently discovered in the synagogue atancieut Sychar an old record, which states the fact of the crucifixion of Christ at Jerusalem im the 4,281st year of tue world. The pastors of Pliladelpiia are to prea Sunday on Sabbath ooservauce at tue re the Sabbath Committee. 1t is proposed to unite the Church of the Messiah with Dr. Bellows’ congregation, Dr. bellows has been on a furlough for six montis. His pulpit has been occupied by strangers, 0 have preached to very sparse congregations, ‘Lhe house has beea im the market for some time, Rev. J. Copeland, pastor of the Congregational church of Waterbury, Vi., saiied trom this port last week for a three montis’ trip to Burope. The Jewish Congregation Teimnpie Eimauuel, In Fifth avenue, have allowed thei senior pastor, Rev, Dr. Adler, to rettre on an annuity of £4,000 4 ‘They have aiso iacreased the sala ries of Dr. Gottheil’ and Mr, Ruvia—the former to $6,000 and the latter to $5,000 a year. Rey. U. P, McCarthy preacied his first pastoral sermon belore the Universalist Society, at Albany, lust Sunday. His subject was ‘Surned Into Heil,’? a great many Ortiodox people, who were curious to Know What @ Universalist could do with such @ topic. The Board of Missions of the Keformed (Duten) Church proposes unat there oe but one Foreign Missionary Board of the Reformed and Presby- tertan Churches, with one treasurer and one odical here, and one ecclesiastical for churches aproad, perl. organization Rey. Dr. Burgheim, late of Petersburg, Va, has been elected minisier of the Moant Zion Heorew Congregation, of St. Paul, Minn, The Rev. J. Gabriel has been elected Superine tendent of the Reiigious School of the Congregas Uon “Shaer Hashamoim,” ip Rivington street. May Anniversnries. SUNDAY, MAY 11, American Tract Society’s forty-ninth annivere Sary this evening, in the Broadway Tabernacle, Bixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, Strong, of Philadelphia, will preside, and Professor Justice Cyrus Northrop, of Yale College; Rey. John Hall, D. v., and Rey. R. 8. McArthur, of this city, and -Rev. Dr. McDougall, of Florence, Italy, will de- liver addresses, Rey. J. H. Wilson, of Edinburgh, 19 also expected to be present to give some a count of the great revival in Scotland and of the labors of the American evangelists, Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The dity-eightn anniversary of the American Bible Soclety will be heid in the ciry of Washing- ton, in the Hail of the House of Representatives, MONDAY, MAY 18, anniversary exercises of Drew Theological Sem- inary at Madison, N. J., continuing tnrough tag week till Thursday afternoon. The Sunday schools of Jersey City will hold their anniversary to-day in different churches and by @ parade through the streets. TUESDAY, May 19, the fourteenth anniversary of the Baptist Sun- day schools of this city and vicinity will take place. ‘The scioois will meet in varios Baptist churches of this city at two o'clock. school teachers’ meeting Of the Missionary Union of the Baptist Association will be held in the Cale The annual Sunday vary Baptist church, West Twenty-third street, om quarter (0 eight o’o Rev, R. S. MacArthur, President of the Mission: Union, will preside, Addresses by Rev. J. D. Fulk ton, and Ri F. Elder, ev. Je The Metropolitan Temperance Union (Roman eee , Cooper Institute, at half-past seven o'clock P. M. The American Social Science Association in Steiuway Hall, commencing to-day and continuing daily until Saturday, Important papers will be presented, and ainong the distinguished men who will take part in the proceedings are George Wil- liam Curtis, President; Rev. Ur. Wootsey, A. D. Wells, Professor Benjamin Pierce, Hon. 4narew White, President D, C. Gilman of the University of Calitornia; F. 8, Sanborn, Dr. Alfred L, Carroll and Z, R. Brockway. The annual meeting and exhtbition of the Insti. tution for the Deaf and Dumb will take place a¢ the Institution on Washington Heights, at two o’ciock. A train leaves Thirtieth street for the Home #2 one Py. M., returning at a quarter pasg . five P, ‘yhe Sundy schools of the Central Presbyterian chureh, Mission of Coliegiate church, Madison ave. nue Reformed church and Mission, Presbyterian Memorial church and Mission will hold thelr annie versary in Presbyterian Memorial church (Rev, Dr. Robinson’s), corner of Madison avenue and Fiity-third street, at two P.M. Revs. S. H, Tyng, dr. and 4, D. Northup and Mr, F, H. Wisewell wi address the children. . WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, The anniversary exercises of the Universalist Suuday schools of New York will be held in the Chured of Our Saviour, Filty-seventh street, noar Eighth avenue, at baif-past two o'clock. A State Convention of Young Men’s Christian Associations (seventh anpual), will be heid In the First Presbyterian church of Orange, N. J., this evening and Thursday—mornlng, alternoon and evenlig. THURSDAY, MAY 21, The Women Suffragists wiil meet in the Acade- my of Music, Brooklyn, at hali-past seven P, M., and be addressed by Rev. H. W. Beeeher, Mra, Livermore and others. The anniversary exhibition of the New York Asylum for the Bilnd will be held at Steinway Hail at eight o’elock. literary exercises Vocal and instrumental mualo &c., make up the programme, hurch Missionary Socicty held ite The American Baptist Home Mission Society will hold its iorty-second avniversary in the Calvary Baptist church, Washington, D. O., Saturday atter- noon and Monday, May 23 and 25, The annual ser> mon Will be by Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, of Cleve- land, Ohio, Sunday, May 24, in the Hall of the Honse o! Representatives. Rev. J. 8. Holmes, D. D., of New York, will preach in one of the three Baptist churches @ sermon, with special reference to the church edifice work, The American Sunday School Union will hold its semt-centennial anniversary at Philadelphia on the 36th ck to be followed by other exercises in i ‘The American. anniversary in Sieinway Hall yesterday. this city on the 28th, ‘The Baptist Historical Soctety will hold {ts thir. teenth anniversary in Washiugton on Wednesday Mhrooktin'e-aninal Sunday schoot parade wll rooklyn’s annual Sunday schoo! take place on the 27th inst., and wil doubtless be aslarge and bright aone as ever. the joy and flutter of 40,000 cniidren marching 1D grou through the streets, fying banners a singing hymns are. alone worth witnessing, so that if 8 also turn oat force on ay they will be excus walks, The pro even ti they do block nD the, ar adn irom oMer will not Sen are Jnl ve Baptist, Reformed, Mepho- dist, © attonaly Episcopal, Moravian, Lus theran Presbyte! schools outin line, though, for on novody will be able to tell “which ia ce, ye ect any doctrinal difference in the Roane or avorsation of the scnolars. In Ue ree ctive churcnes there are to be singing and ad. resses and coUations, and when night time comes {here will be happy but very tired culldren all over Brooklyn. first anniversary of the North New Jer. 1 iota association will be held at the Baptias cuurcn of Bast on Wedn ’. June 10. Introductory eermon by Rev. B, Dy Bent Jey, of Norwalk, or J, Day, of Nowark.