The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1874, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1874.—-TR RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ——_+——— Programme of Services for Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, August 16, MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS, Prudentius on Religious Liberty and Language. Rev. N. K. Bennett will have something to say thie morning in Fitty-third street Baptist churcn sbout “The Eternal War between Right ana Wrong,” and this evening about “fhe Maniul Mistory of a False Prophet.” Rey. A. ©, Bowdisb, of Astoria, will preach this Morning and evening in Seventh street Methodist Bpiscopal church, ‘The Rev. George D. Matthews will preach at the ‘sual bours to-day in Westminster Presbyterian eburch, The pulpit of the First Reformed Episcopal church will be filled to-day by Rev. Mason Galla- @her, whose discourse this evening will relate to whe “Final Revision of the English Prayerbook in 1062 and How Medirval Theology was Introduced.” There will be a service with preaching in the Spring street Presbyterian church this -morning, Rev. George McCampbell, pastor, Evening ser- Viee omitted, % ‘The Rey. W. M. Dunnell, rector, will preach to- @ay atthe usual nours in All Saints’ Protestant Bpiscopal church. Dr. Cordo, of Jersey City, will occupy the pulpit @i the South Baptist church this morning. Dr. Deems will this morning tnvite his hearers to “Seek those things which are above” in the Church @f the Strangera, The Doctor will preacn in the evening also. & P. Andrews and Lilly de So0zio Wood will en- tertain the Spiritualists to-day in De Garmo Hail. “The Spirit in the Church” of St. John the Evan- gelist this morning, and “Righteousness, Temper- ance and Judgment to Come” this evening by Kev. Frank Hallan, of Georgia. “The Sea of Glass Belore the Throne” will be Pictured this evening in the Fourth Reformed Presbyterian church by Kev. James Kennedy, pas- tor. Rev. G. ©. Lucas preaches this morning and @vening in the New York Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr. Sprole wili preach in tne Forty-second @treet Presbyterian church, near Seventh avenue, this morning. Rev. J. W. Barnhardt will preach in Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church this morning andevening. A temperance meeting will be held there tn the afternoon. Rev. Robert Cameron will preach in the Church of the Disciples of Christ this morning and even- ing. Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach in the Church of ‘the Holy Trinity this morning and aiternoon at the waual hours. All Souls’ Protestant Episcopal church, worship Ping in Elm place Congregational house of wor- ship, will be ministered unto to-day by Rev. George B. Porteons, rector. Rev. Mr. Beekman and Rey. H. M. Paynter, of 8t. Lonts, will conduct the services and preach this morning and evening in te Seventh Preseytertan ohureh, Rey. N. G, Cheney will preach in Old John street Methodist Episcopal church at the usual hours to-day. Divine service this morning at the usual hour in the Protestant Episcopal Cuurch of the Heavenly Best. Morning service also in the Protestant kptscopal Oburch of the Resurrection, East Eighty-aito Street. Sunday school in the afternoon. Religious Liberty Found Only in Eng- lish Speaking Nations, fo THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— The remark made in my last letter, that there existed liberty for the Church nowhere outside of the English-speaking world, aMrma a fact which deserves something more than @ casual observa- tion. The very spectacle, too, of what is passing at this moment in Spain and Italy, ia Germany and in England, forces this question of the periect or comparative freedom of the Catholic Church among the English race and her oppression by Latin or Celto-Latin races, as a puenomenon and a puzzle, upon the attention of unlearned and earned alike, Oan this etrange phenomenon be expiained ra- tlonally? Can this historical and social puzzle be made clear to the mind ofa child? It might eppear presumptuous to answer in the affirma- five. at any rate, it may be praiseworthy to take an honest attempt at solving this diMculty. In the HERALD of the 13th inst. ts descrived the proecedings of a discassion in the British House Commons, on a motion of Mr. Newdegate to ob- ¥ain official information of the growth of religious orders in various countries of continental Europe, The purpose of the mover, it is well known, was ‘o show that the liberty accorded to Roman Catholic institutions everywhere in Europe re- sulted in such rapid increase of monkish and con- ventual establishments, and so aggressive an | @ttitude taken in consequence by the Church | toward the State, that Russia and Germany only | followed the example of Spain and France and Italy tn either adopting rigorous measures of re- pression or in suppressing religious orders alto- | gether, and subjecting the Church sand her minis- | trations to the magistrate. The amendments suggested by Mr. Newdegate’s opponents pro- posed, on the other hand, to extend this official Snquiry to the United States and Canada, in order to demonstrate that the iull liberty accorded to all religions to develop their institutions to ac- cordance with the common law was neither detri- mental to the public tranquility nur dangerous to the best interests of freedom. The hostility of Mr. Newdegate is based upon this conviction (an honest one, we are bound to Delieve), What the countries accounted Catholic aly ‘agh have been taught by experience to look | upon the Churen as the enemy of the State, and ‘upon her institutions as the natural and irrecon- Cllable adversaries of legitimate national author- ity and public freedom. Else, why in every single mation cradled, reared and educated up to ma- | Surity by the Catholic Church does it happen that | the nation at its majority, and once put in posses- sion of its liberty, makes the tirst use of it by os the liberty of the Church, its foster | Mother? This was the very position taken by Mr, Newde- | gate in the spring of 1865, in an elaborate speech of more than two hours, in opposition to a bill brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Mon- sell (now Lord Monsell, of Emiey) ior the repeal of the test oath imposed on Roman Catholics and Dis- wenters. He wished to show, from the experience and practice of all countries once Catholic, that the same danger which they met by repression or total suppression, existed in Bngland from the growth ©i Catholicism, and ought to be met by the same ventive remedies. 4 that time, tnough the nification of Germany was spoken ol, and the phantom ofa ‘United Germany” loomed distantly Up to the vision of the prophetic few, nevertheless not one ever dreamed that ths gigantic reality, Mike the Ghoul in Eastern story, should soon arise nehanted pot. of Prussia and bis right royal is no secret—considered their the firmest props of tneir throne and Stav ¢ King was strongly con- Servative at bis accession, and feared and dis- trosted the radicals, while Bismarck shared or seemed to share his aversion to the latter And his confidence in the former, Nor, I venture to say tt, | Are the sentiments of the Emperor of to-day at | dotcom muon different from those of the King of | asersey. The only difference is that King iiliam was bis own master, while Emperor William is Bismarck’s man. And the change in Bismarck’s poltey is—for conscience and truth he none—that he needs the support of the rad- 48 and North German Luthe to get afioat nis new German Empire, and that support he secares Feecution of the Cathouics. Only wait a litte 20d you will see a pretcy row among the crew! But of this enough has been aaid tn a tormer letter. | At any rate the sudden change in the policy of the Prussian government from openly avowed favor to the most unsparing hostility, ié a further argument for Mr. Newdegate, and one more fact Joroed into his generalization, The subject, then, is one of actual, living and surpassing interest, claiming the attention of the British Parliament at this very hour. Apparently, however, English statesmen have no special sym- pathy for Mr. Newdegate's besetting hypochondria, and are far from sharin; apprehensions from the rapid growth of Catholicism on tue tree soil of Great Britain, It is aiso a jiving subject for us here in Ainerica. For @ portion of the Protestant Cucholic subizous press is stil] clamorous for repressive laws peainat J understood | “In a free country like America, every tax-paying | Brooklyn Heights three Plymouth churches would the growth of conven midst; and they have 1 establishments in our their command the same Wy persecutions which the Church suffers in almost eVery part of Spanish and Portuguese America. What, then, are the elements o! derly the logic or fanaticism of the member tor North Warwick, and on what 18 based the confi- dence of the men, Protestant and Catholic alike, who deride his ears, and, session alter session, defeat his motions of inquiry into conveatual monstrosities? There ts, 1n support of the prejudice under which Newdegate lavors, this fact, that up to the year 1520 the religious authority of Kome was acknow!- edged in every country of Western Europe. lsay the antnority of the Roman Catholic Church and her Pont “was acknowledged; I do not say it was “paramonnt.” It was not. But its bis: ops claimed for it a8 an essential right that it should be acknowledged as paramount; whereas in most countries the Church had existed for centuries tn constant and humillating subjection to the State. It was so In France, where what is called the Magna Charta of Gallican liberties,” the Prag- matic Sanction of Bourges (i438), was a charter of | real servitude for the Couren. Leo X., in 1517, when he promulgated the concordat with Franc L repealing the Pragmatic Sanction, thought ne | had taken a secular yoke irom off the necks ol the French clergy; but, in practice, Frencu legisiation | becime more oppressive, the King had the abso- | lute control of all ecclesiastical digui'ies and beue- | tices and the concordat remained a dead letter. It was equally 8Q in Spain, For in proportion as Ferdinand and léabella withdrew from tue Holy See the legitimate and necessary control over the Spanish hierarchy @nd all reiigious instituttons within the Spanish territories, just in the same mea- sure did the royal authority assume itself that con- trol. The very (inquisition, to which popular opin- jon attributes the death of liberty and religion jn Spaiu, became binetul in the same degree tnat it ceased to be guided by the justice and mercy which canon laW mide imperative in all tribunals connected even tndirectiy with the Oburch. It became at length exclusively a State tribunal, crushing thenceiorth with the same relentiess cruelty tke poor Moriscoes and the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Toledo in spite of the remonstrances and threats of Rome and the cengures inflicted by the canons, It was still more so in Portugal till the day that Ignatius Loyola had the courage to tel King John V. that no member of his order should nave any connection with the Inquisition, and that the labors of his sons were to con<ist in instructing the Christian peopie by assiduous teaching ana the examples of a holy life, aud not by the terrors of sanguinary executing, Strange to say, in ae ee as you approached Rome you found thas tthe Inquisition lost its terrors and’ that the reign of mercy was more sensibly felt, tillin the city ot the Common Father of Christendom you could learn that not one capital execution for retigion’s sake had ever taken place, ‘ irreparable misfortune that Church Tt was an and State should have been so allied ag to make the 1ormer the slave in most Catrolic countries, and to make the alliance so close that, while the Church herself was bound hand and Joot, she was made to bear, by the very fact of this monstrous union, all the odium due to the oppressive use of secular antaority. Even now not only the manera of Protestant readers o! history, but Catholics themselves, hola the Church responsible jor the errors and crimes of the secular power, which oppresied under pre- text of protecting her. It1is this eniorced but de Jacto wnion of the Chureh with the state in Spain, 1p France, in Austria and Itaty which is one main canse of the popuiar hatred dispiayed toward Catholicism at the breaking out of any revolution. Uafortunately, when the religious troubles conse- qnent upon the Reiormatton irightened all Christ- endom the Church looked to princes aud sover- eigns to protect her threatened rights or stay the progress of the new opinions, The dependence of the religious upon the secular authority thus be- came at that time both necessary and absolute; the subordination of the spiritual to the temporal became more tomplete; the uulon of Church and State became more tatimate, ie 18 not to be denied that the Reformers every- where identiflea their own religious opinions with the cause of liberty. Freedom of thought and belief became, wherever Protestantism prevatied, identitied wi'h political freedom. To oppose the spread of free inquiry Was to oppose tie Gospel, and to do either was fo be the enemy of the human race, Such was the attitude forced upon the Catholic Chureh by the Retormers; such the public opinion which they formed in their day and has been growing ever since. Add to this that when the French Revolntion broke out the Church in France was held respousi- ble aud made to suffer ior the crimes of royalty. The civil constitution o1 the clergy imposed on the Church of France by the National Conveution was condemned by the Holy See and rejected unani- mously by the French preiates. They were thus put in Opposition to the more moderate revolu- tionists, Later came Robespi:rre und the suppres- sion of all worship, and the republican armies carried with them to Spain, Italy and Germany the hatred of the Catholic priest as the born toe of freedom; and a hatred all the more incense be- cause these men had 60 deeply imbued their hands at home in the blood of bishops and priests, Now, it is certain that revolutionary France at that period exercised by its armies, as well as by its literature, a most s.ccessiul propaganda of revolntionism and hatred of Catholicity, which leavened every country over which these armies spread. The revolutionary and republicin cluos that Napoleon Bonaparte and his generals {vunded everywhere in Italy were the parents of the later Carbonari, Mazzin.ans and Garrbaldians. Biina hatred of Uatholicism became their only religion. Thus grew up in Itely an anti-Catholic public opinion, which grew, spread and deepened until it pervaded the entire’ mass of tne population, The Church and her priesthood and religious orders were an army Organized against ireedow. ‘There could be no liberty until they were beaten down, In Gertaany, aithougn the Freucn armies were | beaten back in utter roat in 1812 and 1813, French | ideas remained like @ jortified camp in a con- qnered country, and these ideas have grown and spread even deeper and wider, until, 12 union wita Protestantism, they ‘ound them-elves powerful enough to strike down tne Catholic Church in Ger- many, to banish her religious orders and imprison her bishops, under the transparent pretext of | their being the joes of the “new Protestant Empire | of Germany.” Is not this the storyiu France? Voitairians, revolutionists, republicans, Commun- ists, internationalists— do they aot all unite against | the Catholic Ghurch as the common foe? Such is the public opinion which has been growing for a century, and wiil continue to grow there until the present generation sees a more fearful revolution than the first, and the horrors of 187110 Paris are repeated all over France, \ taly is only in the first stage of her anti-Catholic | and anti-social fever, There are young nen wo whl see before they are sixty the very name of religion @ higsing and a curse in that pentnsula, Read 1g the light of this “public opinion,” de- rived, a8 [ have sketched it, from the solidarity of | Church and State, ana the unton of radicaiism and Protestantism, what is now happeving in Brazil and Mexico and elsewhere ? There is one lesson which God is eee our generation to read, and it is this—that His Cuurch heeda only freedom, the irce air of heaven and the saniight vonchsafed to all, to prosper and bless the land. That freedom the Ang!o-Saxon race give hemand God prosper and increase them for it. That same freedom the Germanic races shall aiso give her ere long; for they love liberty too weil not to give it to all, and the present delusion shall soon pass away. PRUDENTIUS. No New Churches, but a Return to the Old Charch Demanded. To THE EpivoR oF THE HERALD:— In the HERALD of July 30 you intimate that citizen may start a new reiigion when he pleases,’”’ and that instead of one Plymouth church on not be too many ior the enlightenment of mankind. Over the shortcomings of Beecher, the Tiltons and other members of the house of the Lord known as Plymouth church let us throw the mantle of charity. They are not the only ones to whom the finger may be pointed reproachfully. Christianity, with its modern improvements—whether its centre be at the Vatican or at the dioceses of the Many subdivisions of Protestantism—cloaks and covers many an Offence as grievous as that now charged against some of the saints of Plymouth church, There is never an effect without a cause, and before we avail ourseives of our imprescriptibie right as @ “tax-paying citizen to start a new rell- gion,” let us compare the Christianity of 1,860 years ago With the’ Ohristianity of A, D. 1874 and its modern improvements, There being any amonnt of controversy respect- ing what Cirist did say and do, many of tne pumerous translators and commentators being ignorant egotists and bigoted fanatics, distorting and mutilating many of the sayings and doings of the Nazarene, we, i order not to be misled, will mo back as far as practicable to original records and do our own transiating, giving to each word its true value and meaning, in order to ve able to fully appreciate the character of Christ and com. prehend the philosophy of his teachings, In Him were personified humility, charity, truth, tlence and brotherly love, He merely ciaimed to be the Son of God in the same manner as His brethren; for all men in those days were called the sons of God. At times He called himself the Son of Man; but by Him His hearers were gener- ally salated by the title of brethren. The duty of His life was to prom knowledge of the truth mankind would be saved. sublime teachings saved them from the effects of their ignorance and tanght them to control the weaknesses and follies inherent in mankind, The doctrines He and His disciples tanght were simple and pure; their sermons were short and devoid of rhetorical flourishes. No gorgeous tem- les with frescoed walls, richly cusnioned seate, riltant and resplendent hghts, high, towerin; altars breathing forth sweetly pertumed incense nO strains of sense inspiring music reached the ears or mingled with the rustic votves of Christ and His disciples as they earnestly taugnt the peo- ple that the law and the prophets consisted merely in doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. For many years it was in the pote of the poor, in the open air and in the houses of each other, that these pure and good peopie as- sempied to commuoe among themselves, believing in their simplicity that the temple the most accept- able to the Deity if the human heart. Teachers truth which un- | uigate the sruth; for by the { His iollowers calied Him a Saviour, vecause His | | now the Bilesthooa ts welt paid for preaching the as tanght by the car- arguments enlisted in his cause by Mr. Newdexate, | penter'’s sun Was too precious to be bought and sold, but should be freely given as it was ireely word of God), that the trat received. splendo) | Roman These men lived at @ time when the r, luxury and sumptuousness of wu Empire sarpassed in magnificence the dis- | play of the most powerful empire of modern umes, They were surrounded by the immense and beaatiinl architectural piles, with their gor- geous decorations, erected in honor of the Pagan ods; stil these sturdy and modest primitive hristians remainea unidfuenced and uncontam- inated by their surroanaings, a living and burning pr¢ test agatnst tne vanity and follies of their day. The above | findto be an impartial analysis of Christ's life, teachings and practices, and a faith- jul statement of the condition of the primitive | Chrisnans. Rather than start a new Church, why do we not make an effort to re-establish the old one? You have here & synopsis of ita principles. Lf these rinciples 40 not attain your ideas of piety, per- haps you or some of your readers can furnish something better. Jesuitism, Beecherism, licen- tiousness, rascality, the love of money, the love of alsplay, Vanity and pride are fast destroying what we once called the Church, We cherish the hope thas samesning. Deer and purer will be erected on its ruins, We no longer respect the clergy, tor we cannot consider them as a ciass of men who eur their bread by honest toll. It is to the press— the great miesionary of the age—tnat we look for aid. Your voice reaches the remotest corners of the earth, Itis your duty to denounce hypocrisy and promulgate the truth, Your opportuitties for good or evil are great; but remember, your re- sponsibilities are still greater, LE MEME, Academy of Mount St, Joseph. Two years ago, when Bishop McFarland re- moved from Providence to the city of Hartord, it ‘was found that the accommodations of the Sisters of Mercy’s Academy were too limited to supply the Gemand that pupils were making upon the com- munity, eo well known for its success in the cause ofeducation, The Bishop, seeing the growing de- sire onthe part of his peopie to educate their daughters at or near home, resolved to erect an institute in this episcopal city which would for years be abie to supply the wants of the young ladies of bis diocese who seek a firat class educa- tion, and who would be at the same time more im- mediately under the watcaiul care of their Bishop, the guardian and director of this institute, The site purchased for the educational establishment covers an area of nearly four acres of land. it is situated on the finest avenue in Hartford, and, though standing almost in the centre of the city, possesses, OD account of its extensive grounds and Peculiar surrouudings, all the privacy and seclu- sion of acountry home. It ts iocated on Lord’s Hill, where the wealthiest of our citizens live and where the beauty of their dwellings, with their surroundings, have made the Jocality the band- somest in the State. Hartford is the most central city of Connecticut, and, on account of its railroad facilities, enterprise and beauty bas of late been made by the vote of the people of the State, taeir capital city. Itis for all the Kastern States quite a rail- road centre, and within the past few years hag been linked to the great West by direct railroad connectious, A year ago plans were jurnished tor the institution by ong of our best known archi- tects, who says that Hartford can now boast not only of having tne largest but the most solid and strictly architectural academy in New England, Itiscomplete in ail its departments. The class rooms, dormitories and study halls are spacious and well ventilated. Water from the city reservoir is conducted to all parts of the institution, and on the ground are four springs of purest drinking water. ‘Ihe butiding is heated throughout by steam, and possesses all the modern improvements and accummodauons so necessary for the pleasure, cymort and health of the pupils, It is the inten- ubn of the Sisters of Mercy to make this the lead- ing Catholic academy in New England, for as noth- ing has been Spened to secure a large and well furnished estabhshment, in like mauner nothing shail be wanting to impart to the puptis that solid and refined education which will fit them for every walk in life. We would ask all who wish jor their daughters a thorough moral and intellectual edu- cation at a moderaté outiay to inquire more par- tculariy about this institution, Ministerial and Church Movements. PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. James Demarest, Jr., has resigned hia pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church at Pookskill, N. ¥., to accept that of the Second Re- formed church at Kingston, N. Y., where he.las entered on his ministry. The Rey. E. W. Kellogg has removed from Parma Centre, and taken charge of the Presbyterian chureh of Truxton, N. Y. The Rey. E, L. Hurd, D. D., was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Highland Park, near Chicago, on the 9th, ‘ Rev. George H. Coit, late of Warren, IIl., has re- moved to Collinsville, Ill, and taken charge there. ‘The Presbyterian Board sustains the only exist- ing mission in Brazil. In @ territory nearly as large as Europe, and a population of 10,002,000 there are only thirteen Protestant ministers preaching in the janguage of the people. Rev. Joseph M. McNulty, of Newburg, N. Y., has Accepted @ call to the Presbyterian church of Woodbridge, Wigs ‘the Rev. Jos. M. McNulty was on Friday last in- stalled pastor of the Presbytertan church at Wood- bridge, N. J. For six years, embracing the war time, Mr, McNulty was @ pastor in this village, and the people were heartily sorry when he ieit them in 1868, His reception now was equally hearty, Rev. Drs. imbree, Wilson, Roberts, French and Lucas participated in the installation exercises, BAPTIST. The First church, at Norwich, N. Y., Rev. L. M. 8. Haynes, pastor. will celebrate its sixtieth anni- versary September 9 and 10, Rey. 5S. B, Gregory has resigned the Presidency of Leland University, at New Orleans, and Is now residing at Little Falls, N.Y. He intends to re- turn to the pastorate this full. Dr. Dickerson, pastor of the Broadway church, Soathn Boston, who was laid aside jor some months in the spring by severe bronctial rheumauc weak- nessa, is spending the summer at Camden village, N. H., doing finely trum rest and mocntain air. The twenty-second General Conference of the Free Will Baptists in North America wiil'be held at Providence, beginning at toe Roger Wiliams churen, October 7. EPISCOPALIAN. with his ae at hisformer summer residence, at Tompkinsviile, 8. 1. The vestries of the Church of the Reformation and the Church of the Mediator, Brooklyn, L. 1, isbes, but without evecting any practical results. , The negotiations will not probably be resumed, as | the Cnurch of the Mediator has called to the rec- | torsmip the Rev. Thomas Frederick Cornell, who | has entered upon his duttes with promise of suc- | cess, | ‘The Rev, R. M. Berkeley has accepted the rector- | ship of St. Luke's charch, Oharlestown, N, H. ne Free (Episcopal) Church of England recently | held their annual convocation in London, and ad- journed till the fall, when they will save an oppor- tunity of welcoming Bishop Cummins from this country. This Church has been tn existence twelve years, and has already organized seven dioceses, with Lon! ch houses of worship. Ishas been reported that Dr, Porteous’ congre- gation In Brooklyn had dwindled down toa handiul, but the writer found the Elm place Congregational | | cuurea building crowded Iaat Sunday night with a | most attentive and devout audience, so that camp | stools were placed along the aisles. The rector, 8s usual, preached @ sermon full of thought and | power. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The collections for the Pope throughont the dto- | cese of Newark are just reported officially. ‘They | agaregate the sum of $6,813 Father William Callan, Acting Vice President of | Seton Hall, is in poor health. He has obtained | leave of absence, and wilisat! for Europe on the | retarn of Father J. H. Corrigan. Rey. Father Fleming, who was ordained at Se- ton Hall last May, bas been proved tothe charge of St, Mary’s church, Euzabeth, N. J. Rev. Father Curran, lately ordained, bas been assigned to St. Jonn’s church, Trenton, N. J. | Key. D, 8 McCarthy has been transierred from | Paterson, N. J., to Jersey City. Rev, Father Da Concillio, pastor of St. Michael's church, Jersey City, has resigned bis professorship at Seton Hall, New Jersey, and is now travelling in Europe for his health’s sake. Father O’Urady becomes his successor In the college. Vicar General inn has received a telegram | | from Archbishop McCloskey announcing his sate ‘and happy arrival at Brest, with Bishop Bacon. METHODIST. Seventeen Methodist preachers pelonging to one | family—two great grandchildren, ten grandchil- Byrecmee are to have a gathering at the residence of Mrs. Bishop Peck, in that city, on October 23, “Sammy” Halstead’s Praying Band will conduct | services on Sing Sing camp ground to-day, Tne camp meeting will open there on Tuesday. ‘The colored Methodists of Morristown, N. J., are building @ church, whose corner tone was laid on the 6th inst, The chapel of a new Methodist Episcopal chureh ‘was dedrcated on the 6th inst, in Manahawkin, N. J, Sixty conversions are Teported @8 the result of the camp meeting just closed at Denville, N. J. One nundred and ten ministers of the Newark Conference were present at the meetings. Spencer camp meeting, New York, D. D. Lindsly Presiding, will commence September 1 and con- tinue eight days, Anew church at South Urange ts approaching completion, under the supervision of James Mont. 4 gomery, pastor. It will cost about $12,000 and | Will form & much needed improvement, It will be | dedicated next Sunday ra Bishop Simpson. ‘The camp meeting at Shelter Island will open to- morrow. Rev. George A. Hubbell, of Brooklyn, has the spiritual oversight of the meetings. The camp meeting at Martha's Vineyard opens August 24. Services are hoid on the ground Dow. A new Methodist Eptacopal church will be ded and followers all earned their bread by tue sweat of their brows, animated by Y et be which possibly may not be jn thus = materialistic age (for ated to-day at North Manchester, Ind, He expects to return to his post the last of August » The Bishop of Horida is spending the summer, | have been negotiating tor a union of the two par- | dren and five children of the late Luther Peck, of | 0 IPLE SHEET. SANCTITY ENCAMPED. at Ocean Grove. CHINCOTEAGUE Religious Revival in an Island Morally Benighted. + Methodist Episcopal Demonstra- tions in Maine. OCEAN GROVE. —- + OcEAN Grove, August 14, 1574, The skies were heavily overcast this morning, & strong gale was blowing from the northeast, with every indication that, before night, a regi |r old- Jashioned roaring nor’easter of two or three days’ duration would set in, lining the seacoast with wrecks, driving sojourners in the country back to their city homes by thousands, ana carrying dis- may and discouragement even into the Methodist camp meetings from Maine to Georgia. Neverthe- Jess, in coming down here from Long Branch, after @n early breakfast, we found the road, for the whole distance of seven miles from the railway station, lined with stages and carriages bound for or coming from Ocean Grove, and on reaching these combined Methodist summer settlements of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park we were ushered into @ scene of busy life and religious activity Which instantly dispelied all thoughts of the weather. We have heretofore described to the HERALD readers how, almost as by the tabled power of the Magician, these two pretty summer settlements have sprung up among the sand hills, jungle, swamps and lagoons of the Jersey seaboard; how in these recently dismal thickets two flourishing villages of handsome cottages have arisen almost as the growth of a single nigut; how a dark and forbidding lagoon has been transiormed into a beautiful lake, covered with pleasure boats, and how, on every side, the hammer of the builder is heard— From morn till noon, from noon to dewy eve; how, in short, the “desert and the solitary place” have here been made glad, and how that which was & wilderness now blossoms like the rose. But coming in by Wesley Lake this morning, notwitn- standing the high and chilly wind and the dark and threatening skies, the scene was re- markably impressive, The lake was unusually gay with pleasure boats, mostly occupied by young girls, and on both shores of the lake numerous groups of men, women and children filled up the picture, while from the surrounding woods and from different points came the sound of the hum, mer, the chorus of some singing party, and from beyond them all came the swelling roar of the pughty sea, Passing through the gate of Ocean Grove and reconnoitring the village we found it @ populous hive. Every cottage appeared to be Hiled, every tent was occupied with a Jamily, and &@ Dumerous multitnde of visitors for the day were prospecting the settlement. in the great tent or tabernacle, provided for the regular church services 1n inclement weather, an enthusiastic prayer meeting was drawing to a close, and, with its final “amen!” the happy | brothers and sisters quietly dispersed to their cot- tages and tents and to thetr preparations for din- ner. The regular opening of the camp mecting took place at half-past two P. M., in the great tent, wien the audience assembled, inside and outside, Dumbered at least 2,000, The services were opeued with the general singing of the bymn— Of Him who did salvation bring, Tcouid torever think and sing An earnest prayer followed irom one of the min- isiers on the stand for the Divine biessing upon this camp meeting, ior the reawakeuing to a more active liie of holiness of every beuever in the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the conviction and conver- sion of sinners, The congregation tien sang the hymn which appears to ve a great favorite among | these Methodists— There is a fountain filed with blood, Drawn trom Emmanuel’s veins, And sinners, piunged beneath that flood, Lose ail their guilty stains. The Rev, E. H. Stokes then addressed the large | and constantly enlarging congregation on the | Opening 01 this camp meeting. He spoke of the | extraordinary Circumstances of this vast assein- | blage and ot the wondertul growth of this religious ‘ community by the sea shore. It was only some four years ago, he said, that a little company of ! the brethren, hardly exceeding a score in number, | fixed upon this summer camping grvond of Ocean ] ve. From that little compauy of pioneers, | Jook around and behold what, under the blessing | of God, bas been accomplished on these grounds devoted to His service. From a handiul of enter- | prisingand faithiul men we have increased within Jour years to a prosperous and populous litte city, and We have the enjoyments here of one of the | most orderly, harmonious and happy communities | } of our broad land, ‘The minister then proceeded to detine the objects of this suminer city by the | sea, One object was # place for summer relaxa- and try another campaign, a u Brother J. H, Walroth, of Hilladate College, has ; Won om ae baba Gutect hor or pues accepted a call to the pastorate of the Hopkinton | We Py BREE Eeten Chama aitSpat cauipokabon and Lawrence churches, New York, and is already | Ying might choose to abide with us, conld come and share together the enjoyments of bodily rest and spiritual improvement. But the grand object was permanent camp ground for an annual | camp nDieeting—that peculiar institution to which | our Church Owes so much of its prosperity tn this country. Aud the great purposes of these annual camp meetings are the promo- ; ton of holiness among believers and the i couversion o/ sinners, The great body o! the peo- ple sojourning and gathering here are our church | members, and here, then, our first duty {s the promotion of noiness in life and of a jarger and more zealous devowon to the cause of Obrist. Unity, harmony and active co-operation in this preat cause are our first dutics, There are brethren and sisters here from ail parts of the State and irom various sectious of the country; and, thongh you see but a score or so of ministers on this stand, there are seventy of them at Ucean Grove at this hour—seventy ministers of Christ Who have joined us to assist in the good work of this camp meeting. They are among you in the congregation, they are in the tents and cottages, they are here as service; and Ministers end breturen and sisters, we Want all to be united in the bonds of Christian faith, love and duty in this camp meeting. It wiil continue ior at least ten daya and we are strong in the faith that the resuite will be glorious in gathering O{ converts as well as the general ad- yancement of believers in holiness of Ite, The enthusiastic preacher then went on to say that we wanted here no side issues, no technical points of Christian doctrine, Bo controversies upon sectarian dogmas; but we want to preach Cnrist and Him crycified—the saving biood of Curist, and anctifica'ion, and regeneration, and atonement and the witness of the spirit. Anda he urged upon vhe brethren that they must assist the ministers and follow up the sermons in active prayer and work among the people in the cottages, the tents and at tue altar. e want you to be pre- pared for the altar work, to pray with the con- victed and to strengtnen the converted, And, continued the minister, during the hours | of the day set apart jor our regular religious ser- vices morning, afternoon and evening, we request our brethren and sisters, and visiting friends and strangers, all of whom we aro giud to welcome to these grounds—we would asK them during our religious meetings not to stray Off to the Bea Deach, nor to wander about the grove, hor to go pleasur- tng upon the lake, but to meet with us, and unite with us im our religious devotions, And 80 on, for an hour, the earnes' preacher, opening this great camp meeting, con- tinued to exhort his hearers to unity, harmony and zealous activity in the promotion of holiness and in the rescue of sinners irom the wrath to come. That the brethren were thoroughly warmed jp by Wis earnest and stirring exhortation was evident from their frequent Tesponses ip the course of bie remarks, of “Amen,” ‘Lord help us,” “Gome down just now,” “Glory to God,” and similar exclamations of faith and devotion. Next the hymn was sung by the congregation, which begins with the verse :— O the blood, ee ons blood of 8 shed for me! Upon the cross f} Crimson flood, Just now, by faith, I see. With @ prayer, blessing Upon the mecting, the congregation w: dismissed, ‘ wear Ocean Grove truly presented woods of the Jersey coast. Before this camp mee’ ing brougat toaciose the grove will doubdtiess present @ gathering of 10,000 peopie, or twice the umber on be Brevis to-day. Visitors, however, by the Church as among the sin- ners, Will please take notice that no intoxicating ligaors, distilled or fermented, are allowed to that no profanity or who are classed be sold on the grounds; unseemly conduct in any way is permitted within Mine enclosnre, Hf that the gates | ing to hold him within the arena in which the great | are closed ou Sunday against ali “outsiders.” Nor fight with the devil was goin; The din was ljahing allowed within the lines of the jury Park on Sunday, Opening of the Annual Worship soldiers lor active | ind the asking of the divine On leaving the encampmens your core respoudent met hundreds Lai aide coming in, and the appearance of an army encampment in a populous little city in the | ove $ He 1s to 06 ib LaGin ae To show how this Jaw | went ov ter knees praying lor # direct maniies | Seton Hill for a year at least nd ipoaeltiy longer. 5 darkened the si stundreds mi; taken out with shovels or sticks, or area out With rakes, 80 densely were they packed together in the waves dashing upon the shore. Some few, stranding on the beach, were picked up by the boys; but as no fishing on Sunday within the lines of Ocean Grove could be permitted the golden op- portunity here for ® grand haul for three sncces- sive Sundays was lost, If these schools of biue- fish were temptations of Satan to shake the Sun- day law of Ocean Grove he was bated every time, though it was a severe trial to the brethren: ¥ CHINCOTEAGUE. CHINCOTRAGUR ISLAND, Acemac COUNTY, Va., August 12, 1874 Chincoteague Isiand, included within the acco- mac circuit of the Metnodist Protestant Church, is now the scene of its fourth annual camp meeting. The Rey, J. T. Adkins, moderator, is here conduct- ing the services, assisted by the Rev. Messra. L. W. Bates, J. D, Kinzer, R. H. Powell, W. J. Neepier and Rev. Mr, Green, a Methodist Episcopal minister. The tent holders are Captain Zach. Shelley, Captain Charlies H. Jester, Captain James Mathews, Isaac Lewis, Luke Lewis, Richard Car- | penter, Jasbnai Whealton, Samael B, Stibbs, Chas, Dunto... Z, B. Mumford, James Clog, Wiliam Bow- den, ‘1:1 Hil, William Cropper, Thomas Sneed, Eber Jn. ‘er and others, Then there are, beside, the Preachers’ tents, the boarding and the wreckers’ tents. + far as members are concerned the en- Caupuens 18 not so large as the previous ones, The severe storms prevaiing in this section iast Saturday and Sunday nights prevented many (rom coming over irom the mainland of Virginia and Maryland. The meeting is a remarkable one for the sobriety and good order of all 1ts surroundings, even at night, when the aborigines of the island flock in to enjoy it, The spiritual results of the meeting thus far are not so encouraging to the managers as they could wish; but before Saturday might a determined effort will be made to rouse enthusiasm, create a religious fervor and bring about conversions. Yesterday morning the Rev. Mr. Bates preached to an audience of about four hundred, from John, vi., 538, The sermon was pre- paratory to the communion and the administration of the rive of baptism to the infants of the Method- ist Protestant Church, which preceded an “ex. perience meeting” held this afternoon, The earn- est, simple faith of the people o/ this island fonds expression in some RARE RELIGIOUS PREAKS, which will be hereafter described. A word con- cerbing the place itself, Some fifteen years ago it had a thousand inbabitants, and out of that num- ber not more than twenty-five of the adults couid read or write. They lived just as their fore- fathers lived a hundred years ago, They were seldom visited, except by politicians seeking for votes, Henry A. Wise once owned the people, body and soul, and it is of them that be made the boast that he “represented @ coustituency ignor- ant of newspapers.” He 18 very unpopular now, though, on account of an oyster law he had passea | inimical to their interests, The first regular news- paper taken here was the Piulladelphia North American, by Mr. John Caulk, formerly of New- castle county, Delaware, ‘I'he population during the last decade bas increased to 1,600. They have three churches, two Methodist snd one Bap- tist; mine stores, two hotels and one free school, by the way, the only one in Accomac county entitled, on account of its size, to the ben- efits of the Peabody Fund, Some twelve or fifteen Dew houses are going up this year and the island is rapidly assuming a position oi some importance for its commerce and advantages as @ @ seaside re-ort. ‘The island i# nine milcs long, its greatest width being only a mile and a half. THR WRECKERS’ TENT referred to ig or a party of wreckers attached to the Coast Wrecking Company of New York, and now engaged in bringing up the cargo of the Black Brothers, an Engiish bark wrecked off tue coast of Stmapucksen Bay about five years ago, ‘Ihe wreck was Giscovered the latter part of last June, ‘The bark hud a most valuable cargo of rail- | road iron and lead and was sunk in jorty feet of water,’ ‘The tackies have already got up | 100 tons of lead, and there 18 supposed w be 160 tons more for them, There is supposed to be as much railroad iron which they pave not touched yet. Under the Jaw, of course, tms will ail go to market free ol duty, The wreckers are naturally elated with their good luck, and at the camp meeting they praise God with great unction. | the commerce of the islund 1s confined to fish ! and oysters, the trade in the latter being exten- , #ive, and their principal markets New York and | Puiladeiphia. The soil is very puor, and but little | g ain of any kind is raised, Potatoes and melons | are raised in great quantities, What pulsation of the ocean or what note of “onian music? 1 was that revealed Chinco- teague Island on the crest 0: the Atiantic coast | wul hardly ever be known, but certain it is that its old civihzation is rapidly meit- | ing away. Said the island physician to me tis morning, “We are upproving moraliy, { secialy and’ mentally,” and = with sume | natural emphasis on the word morally, perhaps | | from the famous reputation tie island has hitherto | borne for the spontaneous growth of such germs 4s find culttvation and luxurious follage in the re- ligious hothouse of Plymouth church, DELIGHTS OF THE TABLE, The Gnest clams the worid produces are off Cuincoteague beack—great, white-shelled ielows, | | | | rich, fas and juicy, and they make sucb Iritters! | | The’ oysters,” tos, are already mii and fat, | | and come upon the t.bieé raw, stewed | | and fried when scarcely ten minutes from | the water, The tavie is also loaded wit | curlews, smipe, various kinds of ducks, brant, wild | | geese, &c.;and as for ish, the drum, sheepshead, | | trout and roach come in schools to the .Tying pan. Tue absolute ireshuess of all the food in this | region, whether from the air, the earth or the | ocean, would make # dying anchorite wish lor one more week of lite, | The channel is not altogether anlike a Venetian | street, It is crowded with small crait of every kind, | | Jrom the common dugout to the Roman searfed and | | gayly decked yawi to the more pretentious yacht. | {ney are coming from and gotng to the maintaud all day long and far into .the night, and their nu- man cargoes, flied with the buoyancy of youth or | the spirit of the camp meeting, or that more dan- | | gerous spirit, the fow of which is not checked | in bis” region, make old Ocean ring | | with toe songs of Zion and tne min- | sireisy of sea-tunod music. At night. you can “stroll along the sands” all by yourself, it | proud, otherwise you can have for companions a | | long hosed Chincoteangue porker and a flock of | geese. All the animais, im jact, on the island are profuse in thetr personal attentions to a stranger, | ana are, withal, mach better brea than city Logs and geese. THE SEA BIRDS. ‘The water in the channel is as salt as the ocean, | and while as yet the conveniences for bathing are | rudimentary, the natural advantages are for tne | most part excellent, Speaking o: the birds, the brent are the most mysterious. They look like @ cross between the duck and goose, but where they come irom and whence they go no mortal man has ever yet found out, neither has man ever seen what style of anest they build nor what kind of | eggs they i So says an intelligent islander, and adds. ¢ Dr. Kane writes of tnem as flying over his ships toward the North Pole, | thereby confirming nis beliét in the existence ‘ot an open Polur sea, They come round here in the Jali and go away in the spring. At night they soar high up in the air and make the canopy of the stare vocal with a shrill roar of voices which they never utter in the daytime, and which are re- sponded to irom the ocean by tne drum fish along \ the coast, altogether making “music from the | | band” equal to a Boston peace jabilee, THE CAMP MRETING last night from ten to twelve o’clock was simply terrific. It was a little too mueh ior nerves un- used to such sights and sounds, Inside the twenty-four tenta which are ranged round the preachera’ rostrum four or five high stands were erected, from the top of which huge bonfires of pine knots were Ddiazing, made the acene picturesque in the extreme, Six hundred voices joined in singing hymns, and then the Rev. R, L. Lewis took excellent advantage of an impressive sermon, delivered during the aiter- noon by the Rev. W. J. Neepier, of Snow Hill, Ma, His theme was the certainty of God's punisnment ol sin, Mr, Lewis, in his discourse, admitted tne existence and personality of Satan, the power of his operations on earth, and was warning his audience to seek an | comet struck the encampment ft would not | been thrown into greater con/usion. A FIGHT WITH THB DEVIL. The uproar was instantaneous and aniversal. ave | “shot up—shut np the gates tons hands, Sai tan! take them of!" jesus come! “ill go! Vil go?” “On! God lor; is Jesus? Way don’t He come?” ‘Ob! let me die, audience a alliance with Obrist tor pro- | | tection, when a “stricken sinner” leaped forward | | like stag to the “anxious seats,” shouting, | “What must I do to be saved?” Had M, Ooggia’s 18 enforcea, for example, we need only mention [ tation of the Spirit. They arose and Mstantly that within’ the pronimites ground, for three suc- | pine grove eat alles with the notes of— we cessive Sundays, lmmense senools of bluefish have I ik I see the city, the Lighthouse on the shore; Hark! I hear the angels cailing Come and welcome. rich and poor, The melody only added fary to the awfmi roar, that might have been heard thirty miles at sea’ ‘Tae wile of the man “got happy.” She “saw Jesus coming to save her husband.” She'clapped her bands; she rolled over gud over, shouting ‘ho; to God | Bue got up and bugged an everybody and sverstng she could reach; sne laughed like a maniao and yetied and spit at the devil like @ tigress, and as if seized with some superuoman strength, she spree out hei arms like wings, as if to Ay, nd literally jui as mach as seven fect straight up into the air “to meet,” ag she said, “ihe coming of the Saviour.” oe ae irewag Sane she did ae tumes & en, as magico, at & wave of the preacher's ‘arm, down ney all went on thelr knees again to rnc condition of the husband wv He raved for help like a madman. we FYRS GLARKD LIKE 4 DEMON'S, He tore his shirt front iato ten thopsand pieces, and white joam flowed frem his mouth in & con- stant stream. A verse of a hymn was sun, vi ing the sisters to the work. Into the arena # couple Tushed, shonting, ‘Assist us, oh Lord!” One of them 34 behind tim and took him under the arms, | burt you, | crease holiness tn the Church. while the other tried to hot joint the devil, tired ot or nated at the lorce of the new recruits, seemed to let the sinner go for a minute, when he be; to shout, ‘1 see Jesus coming! I'll pray iis ' " going to Save moi = Giory| mlory glory 10 Goat pring ese il on swelling, “The Roc! at Is Higher than |,” now with an unction and energy perfectly ett The man was half up on his feet and clapping his hands when he was thrown tothe earth with a force sounding like the thud of a stranded ship, The devil had recovered his lost ground, and now a acene ensued that would require a hundred eyes to see and a hundred pens to describe. Brothers and sisters shook hands with a force and qnick- ness that ought to have torn their arms out. They hugged and kissed in the very macness and ecstasy of religious love. They danced around the prostrate form, and sung ‘Turn to the Lord and Seek Salvation” with a power compared with which the previous roar had only been a soit, | deen announcement of an earthquake. The jarmony of the song rolied through the grove like the reverberatious of 9 biast from giant powder. Aid it all the man writhed on the groun IN MOST DREADFUL TORMENT, and uttering sometimes blasphemous curses and imprecations, anon Wailing like a lost spirit shut up in nell, and then pleading in piteous tones tor Test and peace. It could not last, and one by one the brethren gave out and retired from the con- test, At twelve o'clock there had been no change, and the camp lights were put ont; but they feel sure that the man will ve truly converted to-nignt. The services bave been very entiusiastic all day, and the meeting is to be kept up untii Monday morn- ing next. There were 150 guests to-day at the At- lantic Hotel, and the arrivals now average about sixty daily, To-morrow 18 the annual penuing day and sale of ponies, Several specuiators ave here from @ distance. It will be a great day jor the native Chincoteaguers. OLD ORCHARD CAMP. moving chorus of OLD ORCHARD BRACG, Me, August 12, 1874. uld Orchard, where the Twentieth National Camp Meeting 1s tn seston, is located in the city of Baco, Maine, on one of the finest beaches in New Eng- land, and ts becoming one of the most popular sea side resorts in the Eastern States, It has fourteen miles of hard solid beach, which makes a very pleasant roadway place for driving, There are several large aud commodious hotels and a num- ber of smaller ones located along the beach. All are full. ‘This is anew camp ground. It at first con- tained but thirty fve acres, and was opened and dedicated in August last year, and the first sermon preached by the Rev. W. H. Boole, of New York, 46 was laid out in plots of 18 by 22 and 20 by 80 feet, and but few are unsold. On this portion there are more than seventy buildings, large and small. The dining hall will accommoda‘e comiortably at least 650 persons, Last year Mr. Boole maqe a thorough sarvey of the adjacent lands for several miles on either side, and he at once purciased a plot ofland neXt the camp ground, haying @ frontage on the seaof one-haif mule along the high water mark, giving there free access to one of the most magni- ficent beaches on the Aviantic coast, and extend- ing inland nearly @ mile. This purchase contains 220 acres, and cost $20,000. Mr. Boole then callea in nine men of well known Christian and business integrity to compose @ board of trustees, who or gauized and have chartered their company as “The Old Orchard Ocean Side association.” The ofticers are as follows:—M. G. Palmer, President, Portland, Me.; F. A. Plaisted, Treasurer, Old Orchard, Me. ; J. Luse, Secretary, Portland, Me.; J D. Andersen, Attorney. Directors—Mcssra. B. B. Ficket, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles Munger, Sousb Berwick, Me.; F. A. Stratton, Springfield, Mass, ; W. #H. Boole, New York; A. Cummings, Woburn, Mass,; Wiliam McDonald, Auburndale, Mass.; J. E mer, Portland, Me. There are about filteen acres of forest which afford vcautifal shade jor the auditorium, a natural ampbitueatre, cupable of seating about 20,000 people. A large reservoir bas veen constructed and water is being distributed over the whole grounds. THE BRAUTY OF THE spor seems to be generaily appreciated, About fity jumilies have passed the summer on tne grounde, It has already, during its brief existence, taken @ Jeudiig place in whe afections of tue Methodist de nomination throughout New Engiand, and has every promise of becoming the lavorite camping groand of the Methodists of Cala section. Adjoining tue encampment on the north ts a unique park of 100 acres, called Fern Park. It is & popular resort ior the dwellers at ihe hoteis and at the emcampment, It has oeautilul waiks, shady nooks and arbors, and the seats are very inviting and comtortably arranged, 80 as to entice those romantically tnciined within their enclosure. ‘This park 18 [ree to all exvept picnic Pp ties, aud 18 kept in excellent order by its owner Mr. k. C. Staples. The drives .on the beach and in- land are very romantic anddelgytiul, The ocean view 18 unlimited and grand, wale the inland is seldom surpassed. THR SERVICES. The opening service of this meeting began at the grand stand in the grove on Wednesday afternoon. After prayer by the Rey. J, M Woodbury, of Ferry Village, the Rev. J. Luce, Presiding bider of the Portiand district and President of tne Old Orchard Association, in @ iew brief remarks, extended to the National Association, and also to the two Youn; Men’s Christian Associstious from Biddeiord an Portiand, @ hearty snd cordial welcome. The Piesident of the National Association, the Rev. J. Ss, inskip, made @ very brie! response and called | tor the singing of their’ old wattle hymn, There ts a fountain filled with blood. Alter further devotional exercises, condacted by the Rev. William McDonald, of Boston, Mass., Vice- | President of the National Association, the Rev. Mr. Inskip preached irom Acts, il, 1—“They were ali with one accord in one place.” He concluded an interesting sermon us follows:— “There is great need of a revival of spiritual holl- ness. There is & great need of a revival of Penta- costal influences and to be filled with the love and goodness of God. Do not be atraid of it; it will not Let us embrace it, then, Let us call upon God for a sanctified priesthood and fora sanctified people. Let us be filled with the Spirit, and let our hearts be set all aglow with heavenly fire. The best way to convert sinners 1s to in- We are mistaken If we think we can attract their attention by any other ideas, The Rev. &. Davies, of Reading, Mass,, offered a fervent prayer. He was ioilowed by the Rev. J. B, Foote, of the New York Central Oonlerence. Alter a few other prayers the meeting closed by singing ‘Praise God.” THE EVENING SERVICE ‘was held in the large pavilion tent, commencing @t Nall-past seven o'clock by singing, ‘Jesus, lover oi my soul,” after which the vy. John Allen, of Matne, repeated {rom memory the fifth chapter of first Thessalonians, and prayed fervently that the Lord might biees the first meeting held 1m the pa- Villon at this camp meeting. Alter singing “Rock of Ages,” short addresses Were delivered by the Rev. Mr. Clark, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rev. K Davies, of Reading, Mass., and others. ORDINATION AT SETON HALL COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY, A very impressive ceremony was performed at while lanterns, suspended from the tiers and tents, | Seton Hall College, New Jersey, yesterday, in pre- gence of @ constderaole number of clergymen, atudents, ladies and gentiemen from New fork and different parts of New Jersey. George William Corrigan, the youngest brother of the Right Rev. Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, was ordained a priest. Mass was celebrated by Bishop Corrigan, acsisted by Rev. Father Cailan, Mr. Dornin, A. M., was the bearer of the crozier and mitre. Rev. Father Messner was master of ceremonies. Mr. Hid was candle bearer and Messrs, Dougherty, A. B,, and Callaghan, A. B., acolytes, sacra ment was administered by tne bishop, Rev. Father Messner was sponsor. The newly ordained riest, WhO has only see entero upon his twenty- 8 let me die!” By this time two or three brothers \ had raised the man upon their knees and were try- | Diessing upon all who were assem! ‘The sinner went on the ground fat on his tace. He | fith year, began for the sacred protes- Wheeled over on hia ack. error spread over | sion at Mount 8t. M minary, Emme’ his countenance, and nis limbs were aa rigid | Md. He sui juentiy entered upon a theo ws marble. His tongue was loose enough, though, course at Seton Hall College, and | and he might have startled “Uha0s and Old Night” | completed his preparation for the pi with his unearthly yells of “Oh! Sweet Jesus take | hor at 8t. Suipice, Among — the me to-night)” “Heavenly Father! Lcome!Ieome!” | reverend fathers present in the sanctuary of nell” “Take off | during the progress of the ceremonies were Messrs. “Ob! will | Sait, of Seton Hall; Corrigan, ot Jersey Ot ve , Fleming, of Elizabeth ; Downes, of Ne: mes" “save, O save achild of wrash!” “Where | Brunswi MoGovern and Giackmeyer. At the conciusion of the services the Rev. W. Oorrigan, in @ most solema manner, invoked ® bied in tne le ta Bald to be @ netaral orator, and chapel. im in the pulpie It Pend | €reat things are expe ted of | is understood tat