The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1874, Page 10

A I Ror neraael Lo NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, ,pGusT 30, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ererserreenyy ner aay i. " tered int ! | heart of hearts their local liberties, Every proy- | supposition has ever en + of | WOUG ‘Ane i NOM | ince was tree and had its own administrauon, So | wan, and it ts high — Ky Fa hres | i WU 4 le With every city, 60 with every hazalet or commune | nature of the Supreme *snouka be iully | ™ - m the kingdom, Nor bishop, nor noble, nor king | vindicated from aspercons of" mig “Ring.” “The | was allowed to make one bylaw or levy one | views of the sa) red Writers are abundant to | ———_o-—_——_ penny, save With the consent of the citizens, ac- | the same end, that for His plesgure we are and Programme of Services for Thirteenth Sunday | After Trinity, August 20, MOVEMENTS. | MENISTERIAL sprudeptius” on the Way toSeeure Liberty | and Peace to France and Spain. The Rey. Alfred Taylor will preach in the Green- point Presbyterian church this morning and even- ing at the usual hours, “The four-and-twenty seats around the throne” isthe theme chosen by Rev. James Kennedy for consideration betore the Fourth Reformed Presby- terfan Clrarch this evening. ‘The Rev. W. M. Dunneli, rector, will preach in Ali Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church this morn- | ing and evening. Rev. Dr, Lockwood preaches this morning in the Union Congregationai church, in State street, Brooklyn. | ‘rhe Rev. Phoebe A. Hannaford will preach the | opening sermon before the New Jersey Stave Con- vention of Universalists next Wednesday evening im ‘the choreh on Summit avenue, Jersey City, of Which she i# pastor. “True Christian Communtty” and “Man’s Life | ‘as Found in Every Word of God” are the themes to be discusged phis morning and evening by the Rev. N. RK Bennett in the Filty-thira street Baptist | church, Rey. J. W. Barnhart will preach to-day, at the usual hours, n the Forsyth street Methodist Epis- copal church. Rev. Dr. Sprole will occupy the pulpit of the | Presbyterian charch in Forty-second street, near | Seventh avenue, this morning. Rev. P. L. Davies will preach in the Pilgrim | Baptist church this morning and evening. | Rev. will preach in the South Baptist church this morn- | ing. Services in the Collegiate Reformed church, on Fish avenue and Forty-eighth street, will be con- ducted to-day by Rev. Dr. Ludlow, at the usual morning and evening hours. Elder James Bicknell preaches this morning and } ¢q Prenchmen as the distinctive teature of the po- afternoon jor the Beulah charch, in Greenwich Hal. “Michael's Contention with the Devil About the Body of Moses” will be treated this morning in the Free Church of St. Jonn the Evangelist by Rev. | will, not | trahzation. | the very map of France te old provincial names | | bay, the names of the Very weights and measures. | been. David E. Post, of Hamilton University, | to protect our consututional rights? And when | pleasure he might otherwise will I think otherwise, were created, But the inie mm the minds of many, w’ hands of this all-wise, factor should have be” | rity) in thts present ject to vanity, ter cording to the sacred forms of customary law. Ail that disappeared with the ceptralizauon and absolutism first introduced by Ferdinand and Isa- bella, pertected by Ximenes aud confirmed by that ruthless despot, Pnilip IL. This, too, is the history of France. We fancy * e that the country was @ vast farm belonging to the | oe pe | #ith much confidence to solve the king. It was not so even under Louis XIV., Who — bes to this oe suse in this elucidation we think dared to say, “Lam the State,” There was not, | thatin this’ seas in afl others no shadow WDAC- 1D 1789, a single province of France that had me j ener seul as; and thax goodness, merey and truth its own judiciary, claiming to be sovereign, ae a car, “possibly Tesuit from everything wlucu | refusing When it pleased to enregister or execute | Com@s”’ rom Ths hands, the decrees of the monarch. These local liberties is poberton: were then only the shadows of what they Nf ww pleased the Divine mind to make man (in this been under St. Louis, and even under Lows XI, | inporary state of being) a little lower tua Wwe —, ye man might thereby be crowned with glory and honor, | Subject to vanity, arawn by temptations from sreatMg question arises ay Man coming from the al-powerfal and kind ben en placed {if only tempora- imperieet state of being; sud- aptation Amd the various ills of and Louts XIL In these times the interests of the res, nnd holders were identified with those of thelr feu. ants; they protected each other ageinat - ‘P'g. | the path of rectitue, and allowed by the super- But the ing did in France what the KiM@ ‘vad | abounding grace-of his Heavenly Father to wander done in Spain; the orders of the me were used | from the light, in order thereby that he might as instruments for the destruction of the’.r own | experience, know of himself the value of right- privileges, aud no power remained bu&*ine royal | eousness; man became as it were a creator of b the power of the Churchy knowledge. Ldesire to speak with all deference Tie progress was from local libel) and the im- | and humility when I gay to become a companion memorial eujoywent of chartered *iguts to cen- | of the great Creator. Intended s0 to de, as shadowed out in many portions of sacred history. Did the Revolution of 1789 breGk down this cen- | We find in Isaiah, 13—“Come now and let us rea tralization? No, indeed, 1, destroyea by its | son together, saith the Lord.” Judges, XX., 18— bling rage for levelling all tte old provincial and | “And the children of Israel * * * asked coun- municipal rights and liberU.es; blotted out irom | Sel of God.” 1. Job, xiv, 87—And Saul asked counsel of God.” Job, xilt., 3—Surely I would associated With 80 any Meroic struggles; blotted | speak with the Almighty, and I desire to reason out the old names Of Myonth and week and day, | wath God.” 4 y I trust I have sufficiently explained my theory so ‘This was centralzation with a vengeance, and | as to seek to carry man, mm the ultimate concep- popular despotism run mad, tion of my readers, to the height to which I fuily Ot course, Whe French people, weary of all these | belreve he will attain through the experience follies, Were glad to accept in Bonaparte one mas- | which he may acquire from the great boon of free ter, instead ©! the many-headed monster which | ‘will allowed us by our Heavenly Father. Assum- bad preyed upon them during these frightial ing such to be the case, 1 will now attempt to years. But Bonaparte did not undo the old cen- | further elucidate an apparent paradox—one which tralization of the monarchy or of the National | many very erudite writers have decided to de un- Convention. | explainable; as i/ such an epithet can be allowable The fatal mistake of Frenchmen (and be the | when we set up so many infallible articles of faith @ame said Of Spantards) lay in utterly destroying and creeds as we now find in the churches. The their old constitution. In that they did quite tie | learned Dr. Williamson, of whose views I have contrary of What England did in her politicai and | somewhat availed mysell already, in ms comments religious revolutions and of what we did in ours. | on the writings of the Rev. Eli Ballou, D. D., upon Henry Vill. and Elizabeth kept up tne old hter- | the foreknowledge of God, quotes the following archical forms and for a long time the old liturgy lines when they cast off their allegiance to Rome, And | when William of Orange was given the throne of James Il, the constitution remained as it had | The Engiish race, God-inspired in this, feel He knows all that has been. all that is, All that wiil be and ail that might be. And then Dr. Willtamson remarks :—“That might be the stone of stumbling, over which the sub- instinctively that to touch the constitution ‘is to | sequent argument {alls.’”? That is, the Almighty move the foundations of the earth.” | 18 bound, 80 to speak, in the rigid rules of con- Here, in the United States, have we not been | struction which this idea inculcates, that is, that ge by the same divine instincts ? Was not our | the obligation would be imposed on the Almighty rst revolution conservative? Did we not fight | to know and observe every act—even when in His the victory was won did we not keep, in institu- | and with such @ text wiil endeavor to advance my tions, laws and customs, as weil as administrative | theory iurther. In the persistent endeavor to re- forms, every single element of social life to which | sist even all appearance of limitation to the at- Nature and Nature’s God had formed the race | trioutes of the Creator, His power must be ad- trom the beginning * | mitted to be unlimited, should it even tar Nay, in the late civil war, and on both sides, | transcend our finite comprehensions, The argu- brave men fought, not to destroy their socialin- | ment shadowed out in the quotations just made stitutions, but to preserve them. | would make it impossible for the Creator to execr- ‘This the writer has time and again pointed out cise a faculty which we finite beings are con- stantly in the habit of using, viz.:—Il we desire litical and social convulsions in both countries. | to exercise no controt or a limited control over a Now, what does France want? To be trained to | person, where we even possess full power over | sell-government. This—and the writer knows Weil | such person, we can assuredly do so. If we desire | the Value oi every word that drops Jrom his peh— | to close our eyes for a more or less this 1s not only tue great need of the country, but | limited period to the delects or short- the earnest wish of every true Frenchman, states- | comings of any one within our power, man, vishop and priest. if the present provisory | and thus during such a period allowing such a Frank Hallam, of Georgia. “The Christian Race” will be the theme in the evening. Dr. Hiscox will preach this morning and evening 1m the Stanton street Baptist church. Communion | will be administered in the afternoon. | ‘Tne Rev. Dr. Bush will preach in Westminster Presbyterian church this morning and evening at | the usual hours. | Rev. Robert Scott, of Glasgow, Scotland, will | | nent form in which this desirea blessing could be | ual desires, we can assuredly do so. We must | government could only lead France to a perma- | one free will and control to carry out his individ- realized, who would not pray that no sudden | therefore jlly admit that such a power does not change should happen to mar the result? pertain to the Godnead, ana of course that He ‘The writer can only give expression to what a can exercise it if He sees fit todo so, My theory long stay in France, wita uncommon facilities of | is that He does see fit todo so; taat revelation observation bas convinced him of—that tie Revo- | fuily sustains such a theory, and that so we should lution of 1848 interrupted the happiest and most | understand the free will conferred oa man ior successial experiment of sell-government ever | made in France since the days of St. Louis. ‘The very men who were the most bitter political | opponents of Louis Phillppe could not but ac- preach this evening in Jane street United Presby- | knowiedge, amid the dangers which threatened terian church. | Rey. S. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach this morn- | ing and aiternoon in the Church of the Holy Trinity. The Rev. W. T. Sabine, rector, will preach in the First Reformed Episcopal church this morning and evening. Rev. James Boxer, D. D., of Sing Sing, will preach to-day at the usual hours in Madison av. nue Baptist church. S. Pp. Andrews, Mrs. Walton and Professor Whipple will speak for the Spiritualists to-day in De Garmo Hall. The Rev. Protestant Episcopal church, Elm place, Brooklyn, will conduct the services im that place to-day at | the usual hours, hours in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement, Rev. C, C. Tiffany, rector. There is a morning service, as usual, held in the Church of the Resurrection, Protestant Episcopal, Highty-fitth street, near Lexington avenue. Preaching, morning and evening, at the usual hours in the First Baptist church, The Rey. S. H. Platt, pastor of De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, will speak this morning of ‘The Living Christ Touching tie | Dead Maiden.” Rev. J. H. Stansbury will preach in Lefferts Park, Brooklyn, to-day, at three P. M. Rev. J. M. Buckley will speak in Summerfield Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, this even- ing, on “Christ’s Religion and Popular Religion.” Rev. W. C. Steel will preach in Fleet street Methodist Lpiscopal church, Brooklyn, this morn- ing, on “Tne Altar on Mount Moriah,” and tnis | evening on “The Knock at the Door.” Dr. Deems will speak on “The Holy Ghost’ tims morning at the Church of the Sirangers, Mercer street, near Waverley place, . At Trinity Baptist church, Fifty-fifth street, near Third avenue, services morning and evening will be conducted by the Rev. Horace G. Day, of Schen- -ectady. Dr. Murray, of the Brick church, will speak to young men this evening at Association Hail. How to Secure Peace and Liberty to France and Spain, ‘To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— The eyes of the civilized world, of the Catholic ‘world especially, are ixed on France and Spain, We still ask ourselves, When will the blessings of | liberty and peace be vouchsafed to their long | troublea populations?” One portion of your | that prelate, | and others, for daring to advise the French elec- | They preach three persons | the country during Napoleon III.’s corrupting | written are seen in a very talse hght. The “king- reign, that France had exchanged true liberty for dom of God,” the “kipgdom of heaven,’ the a centralized despotism, doomed to end in | “kingdom” (synonymous terms) are spoken | ) anarchy, | of as places or abodes in another state | The most influential and eminent prelates inthe of being, Whereas every respectable com- | kingdom were only anxious to secure the full mentator will contirm ths view: that they measure ol constitutional Iberty for all classes and creeds, Wich is enjoyed in England and in | our own country. The writings of Bishop Dupan- loup are there to bear witness to this. And more than one reader will recollect the censure passed by the government just belore the war of 1870 on the Bishops of Chartres, Beauvais tors to vote for the irienas of such constitutional liberty. Looking to France and Spain as we behold them now, like ships without rudder or mast, tossed ieorge B. Porteous, rector of All Souls? | helplessly in the trough of a tempestuous sea, it | stead of causing us sinful creatures to become rec- may surely be allowable to turn wistiully to the | good old Cathoiic times and to the local liberties which the Church fostered and guarded so jealous- | iy. Religion was decried and stricken down as | Divine service will be held to-day at the usual | centralization increased everywhere, and with re- | Ugion liberty declined.. You have onty to decen- tralize and give rational liberty to the parish, the city and the province, and religion wul ask no other air put thatoi freedom, ‘che age of privi- lege and protection has passed away, never to ri turn. Whoever may regret it, assuredly it 1s not i Se PRUDENTIUS. | A Theory—Theology and Anthropology— The First Treats of God; the Second Treats of Man. To THE ED!ITOR OF THE HERALD:— I think 1t is De Quincy who says that theory ts | an organic evelopment of the understanding; of | the relations between the parts of a systematic whole. Briefly then, on a theory 1 organize that Which js certain enough to my mind already, but unde‘ermined in its relations, A practical man 1s | @ theorist; he necessarily pians before he executes, | Bat a theorist 1s not necessarily a practical man, | for he may never practicaliy illustrate his theories. We must have an organized development of the | Understanding. In theology we must have a theory, | Jmprimis—The whole race of men look towards | @ bigber plane than themselves for a god; and it is | dimcuit to concetve of any intelligent portion of | Mankind which does not believe that the great | Furst Cause, the Ruler and Governor of all things, the Creator, is not a being of intelligence. There is a spirit in the world which clamors incessantly for knowledge anda pride of intellect which is ashamed to coniess a weakness or acknowledge a | the universe, and many men magnify philosophy at the expense of thevlogy, They want knowledge and would walk by sight and not by faith. They | defeat in any attempt to fathom the mysteries of | this brief period, until, at the consummation of all things, His will shall be all in all. The plain aud simple parrations of Scripture are so perverred to coniorm to and aid in the sus- taining of certain creeds that many things plainly simply mean the new religion which was then being taught by Christ and His disciples. Preach- ers say that Christ came to save the “lost” from | further punishment—eternal punishment—ior sins already committed, whereas ‘He came to save His people from tneir sins,” or from sinoing, by the precepts and example which He taught. in one Godhead, | whereas we read that “God was in Christ, recon ciling the world uoto himself.” How many read this that the endeavor ought to be to cause God to be reconciled to us sinful creatures, in- onciied to Him. But I’m wandering from an at- | tempied definition of my theory. |. Simply then it is that we are governed and con- trolled by an all-wise, loving and powerful Crea- tor; that it was and 1s His pleasure to confer on a | portion of His intelligences—man—a liberty, a tree will to wander irom the paths of rectitude to sin, COUPLED WITH POSITIVE INJUNCTIONS TO RESIST TEMPTATIONS TO SIN, | that thereby we may become conquerors and crea- | tors ourseives, of a Knowledge within ourselves, | yy experience of the value of the better way, And ; that during this exercise of our free will our | Heavenly Father, in His kind Providence, chooses to shade His knowledge, be unknowing, to the | prospective workings 01 man, while man is ro- sponsibly acting his own free will. The only thing which we can possibly carry from this state of being to another and a future state, | over and above that which we brought here, is the | Knowledge of good and evil which we shall more or less have obtained turough our own several ex- periences. We cannot possibly carry any further testimony or evidence. A witness in our courts of justice must at once leave the witness stand as soon as it 1s made toappear that he knows nothing of himself, Hearing will not be admitted as evi- dence. The witness must Know by his own ex- | perience. Other descriptions of Knowledge are comparatively valueless—ergo, the immense boon | conterred on us by free wil! vENTRY H. WADDELL. VALHALLA, August, 1874, | Christianity and Infidelity. | To THE EpITOR Of THE HERALD:— Some of your correspondents meet the argu- ments o! sceptics and infidels, not with arguments | founded on reason, logic or the Bible, but with | Mendacity, invective and vituperation, which | never can and do pot convince. Argument must be met with argument, logic with logic, criticism with criticism. Whe infideis and sceptics of the | present day, as well as those of times past, com- prise the most brilliant intellects of the age. | Greatly gulted geniuses and progressive minds see in the fact that theologians differ in | have ever been sceptical. Orthodox Christiana opinion, the proof that they do not know the | have, from the inception of their doctrines, been verity of things that they teach. But thatisall a persevering assailants of sclence and uncompro- Matter of faith. Human philosophy has not »een | mising eneinies to investigation and all research readers will say that peace will only come for them withthe secure establishment of treedom; | Philosophers are not so profoundly wise as men able to advance man far in human knowledge. | that did not emanate from a Bible starting point. Itis now an accepted fact that Intelligent expo- but that freedom in these lands can only subsist | When Catholicism ts blotted out forever. | For those who have read the history of the past with a calm judgment there ts another solution, There was a time when both these great countries enjoyed the united blessings of peace and liberty, | and that was when their peoples understooa and practised self-government. That era coincided withthe Church’s greatest influence and pros- perity. They have only to return to the traditions of the past, to take @ practical lesson, not from the history of other nations, but from the memo- ries of their own most glorious epochs, and they will find that there wasatime when seil-govern- ment existed both in France and Spain, You will grant me, I presume, that self-govern- ment exists in England. The operation of free in- stitutions is not impeded there by monarchical forms, either in the general administration or in that of any one municipality. I take it that Queen Vic toria bas less power for evil and has exercised Jar less of corrupting and debasing infuence on oMcial or private morality duriug her long reign of nearly forty years than & republican President can wield during a8 many months. Nor cas point out within the wide extent of the Empire an instance of such atrocious and municipal misrule as our own good York offers at this Moment aud ls Ukeiy wo over for many dark years to come. Whether we consider ourselves as citizens of New York or members of the Great Republic we may boast Of our possessing self-government, but we certainly do not seem to have the power of sell-reiorm, We are the pelpless prey of corrup- Honists in eity and State. ‘There may, then, be selfgovernment, practical lwerty, i 4 word-—under a monarchieal form. Now there was a time, both in France aud Spain, when there existed tor every province and munict- pality within both kingdoms chartered rights, guaranteeing the most ample social and religious Hberties; aud these chartered rights 80 abcient and so sacred that neither Pariiament, price, Prelate or Pope dared opeuiy to violate them. The misiortune oi both these great countries has been to lose one by one their precious local iree- dons and privileges, in the gradnai encroachments Ol the royal power. “Take Spain im 1450, Do you think ber people ware owned as eo many chattels by the sovereigus of Aragon and Castile 7. They were a noble, high-souled, liberty loving race; but te warious orders of the state we are apt to imagine. “I believe that know” is nents of Bivie dogmas dare not permit themselves their highest attainable point. The schoois of , a conscientious course of investigation, knowing philosophy are as numerous as the schools of | full well shat the result would be mental misgiving | theology, and the philosophers themselves are no | and doubt, subverting cherished beliefs, and leay- better agreed than the theologians, Philosophy | ing them foundering in hopeless misery. cbeats us. It promises absolute knowledge, and | With regard to the life eternal, it is thought and gives us, instead, a confused mass of opposing boidiy asserted by the leading minds of the day belies. But theology deals candidly with us, and | that Christianity has culminated, and, to the pro- tells us plainly in the outset that we must waik vy | phetic eye of the keen observer, is on the retro- faith. Oman le eee cian te conn impressed grade side of the summit it had attained. It 16 @ on the mind, Those who seek God must seek Him id r - by faith. Theology t# an appeal ‘to human faith, rather curious and absurd paradox that, potwith- Stanaing Catholicity im all its ramifications has furiously combated the most convincing @iscov- eries OF scieutists. it pertinaciously Claims that the great Orst cause, He embodies nis god in power, | advanced condition of knowledge is entirely attrib- The conception, beuel, faith of man changes, ad- able to Lue light shed by the Holy Gospel and its vances toward higher conceptions of God as be teacuings. Toe itelligent reader may truth | bimseif advances in the scale of intelligence. The fully exclaim, “How ridiculoys!” It has been Divine pateruity, the fatherhood of a loving, intel. the mission of al! history to telus that Christiar- ligent, kind parent, combined with unlimited | ity bas been the incubus that well nigh crushed out power and wisdom, now fills the heartof inteii- the epaghtenment taat now surrounds and guides abd nothing more. ‘The most uncultivated savage, Who has not occupied his mind for a moment on metaphysical relations, has a belief—a faith in a ¢ gent man tn contemplating his God. Inthe as- us. To retard astronomical investigation, to sumed revelations of our Gou, if the inspired pen- interdict the reading of that mysterious nen were now transcribing the thoughts whico tone, written in star characters on the blue | were given them to utter the generous fiow of language which we possess, the elevation of a baman intellect which we have now attained, the sophy and analysis of reasoning which we now acquired would caase them to speak of Diessings in disguise insteau of curses, and jo’ canopy of the leaveos, nas been the provin of Christianity; to imprison in the dungeons of t Inquisition the votaries oj learning ; to immolate on the sword’s point; toinangurate ensanguined feuds and dé@cimating wars; to shed rivers oj innocent hue tan biood bas been the province of vaunted Chris- | But if the crime of stealing character were con- | sidered (as it really 1s) as great as that of stealing y and truth, instead of revenge, as the lead characteristics of Deity. Does rot, therefore, inspiration of the hour cause us to concindé t our God is the embouiment of love, mercy and truth, altogether loveiy beyond compare, in- stead of a beimg (a8 in the old theologies) en- taroned in clouds apd darkness, executing ven- geauce upon enemies, THR THEORY. God is the Pather, Creator, Governor of all things and embodies in Himseli all that 18 veauti- ful, excellent, lovely, powertul, wise, beneficent, 419 ix the Rapreme Exceilenc aid toe ali nh any wise to mili- puiona. | start on tuat ven @uything 18 set up in theory or Jeon which detracts (as 1 conceive) lo any Gegree irom any of these great attributes, whien Lin my \oeory have embodied tn the Deity, i Cieeard the cefinition which so detracts as an error aaa rey upon the basis with which I start. that it ie Wwieuy inadmianibie to detract thereirom. Sor. — AL aTOyOOgY, taken in connection With theology, WOUId, of Course, assume to define and expiain the tweory oft lations vetweeD God and man, deavor to fathom the cause. Why and for what object and purpose did the great, beneficent, powertul, wise God create mau in his present in- periect state of being. We think, by the eye of faith, we may safely aay, “For Thou vast created ail things, and lor Thy pleasure they are and were | creaved.”” And we think it may Dot be out of used against each otuer by the statecrait of Fer- | place here, th confirmation of this view, to quote ainaod the Catholic, and ot Ximenes, until no irom Adam Clarke, the great Methodist commen- power was leit but the kiog, and even the tra- | tator, tuat “God made things for His pleasure, ditiol veto of tbe Koman Ponti on bad laws | and through the same motive He preserves. and tyrannical measures was silenced for ever. Hence itis most evident that He hateth nothing We are ioois if we read the bistory of Spain | without perceiving how these oid Spaniards, who dongul the Mvuip lor 50 soos. guersued Ww sueir | that He bath made, and could have made no intel- livent creature with the design to make it eter- July myseraye., Ab i* strange that @ coutrary By faith, then. we proceed to en- | tianity, Ope Claim it is legitimatety entitled to— that of making rapid history. Cosmos, in the sixth century, Constructed the elaborate theory that the earth was a flat parallelogram, surrounded by water ané high walls, Also that the sun, alter performing its diurnal tour, was ensconced in & | pit for the night to rise again in the morning to | | tepeat tne performance. Tis conclusion was | adopted by the Church and supported by numer- ous ptural quotations ior over ten centuries. It the great astronomer Copernicus, who demon- | strated the rotundity of the eartb, and noble Galileo, who followed with nis telescope, could rise from their graves, what @& tale could they relate of their prosecution | by Christianity. Newton, Paseal, Locke, How- | ard and other eminent expounders of natural | science were denounced, aspersed and held up w- obloquy because their opinions differed from the estaviished dogmas, as interpreted by the Church. | The poisoned words “atheist” and “infidel” were | unscrupulously buried at them. [he most bitter altercation’ Were engaged in, but, ip the end, | truth and demonstrated science triumphantly sup- | Planted ignorance and bigotry. Turn your eyes to Spain, Itaiy, Mexico and South America, and you | See peoples in a semi-varvarous condition, ‘ad- | Ministrations incapat of prosperous govern- | ment, ana d inteatine war ever pre- | vailing; ‘and why?’ J answer, because they are | trammelled with priestcrait. Honest toil 1s taxed oppressivelyto support the Caureh, with ite thou- Sanus Of drones; tine is consumed by holidays tn | commemoration of the birth of some mythical nt, demoralization is the rule, (rugality, indus- try and honesty are anomalies, and general men- dicity 18 all prevalent. This much for Christianity. The Christian asserts that im tbe nature of things | | S¢eptics are tor the most part vain, conceited aud { | shallow-minded persons. ) Mark 49 intended for such you | lowing days, witn tne purpose of promoting the ; | of the German text of the circular, the discus. as Tyndall, Huxley, Carpenter, Proctor and others who bolily attack the empires and charlatans in the Church, With what eager avidity is the late Professor Agassiz claimed by the Gospel serving community as one of their own “ik” because be | courteously conformed to church etiquette in his | social Observances, It is as weil to state Lere that Agassiz Was also amenable to that caiumulating epituet “infidel,” as applied to scientlé men. In prefacing his lecvure ob the Creation, delivered before the students of Yale Oollege, Agassiz re- marks:—“If my listeners incinde any who believe in the Creation as written in the book of Moses he had better not listen to me,” The perpetrator of such language tn the days of the “Puritan fathers” would have been a subject for the axe. Huzh Miller, the great geologist, thoroughly im- bued with the religious Pees incaleated by a pious Scotch mother, cl with an idolatrous attachment to these ear! pressions, became tired of life because the rock at which he hewed told a different tale, and oue wat his reason was compelled to recognize; as aresult he biew his brains out. Existence ip this deplorable state of dubiety was no ionger tolerable. These so-called infidels have been in ail instances the most ardent admirers of that infinite power whose amazing creations fill our hearts with wonder and delight, To these men we owe ‘our rete Mmited knowledge ot the magnitude and splendor of the terrestrial and celestial world. If we could glide through space at the rate of one million miles a second and continue at this rate tora million of years we would have only commenced our journey through the dominions of the Creator, and this eternity oi chaos, whirling with inhabited globes, in comparison with this earth 1s but as @ “grain of sand on the sea shore.” Such is the lesson of astronomy. Christians again assert that the principal aim in life of sceptics and infidels ts only to puil down and destroy, without Knowing, or being honest enough to attempt to offer any seeming equiva- lent for blighted nopes or a shattered faith. . Theologies and supersti!iong are synonymous, Truth is fatal to their development and prolonged existence, Mysterious absurdities and wierd legends are the ingredients which are offered to the credulity of blind adherents. One of the evi- dences that Christianity possesses more of earthly than spiritual proclivities is that its owner or ad- vocate inherits it {rom Ns progenitors the same as he does a house and lot. I wonder if the Christian ever reflects that if his parents had been Mouamme- daus or Jews he bimself would have been to-day a reviler of Christianity, Being a Christian is simply an accident of education or birth. SCEPTIC, Breaking the Ninth Commandment, To THB EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— “To keep our hands from picking and stealing, our tongues from evil speaking, lying and slan- dering,” are important articles of the creed re- lating to neighborly duty; and, though they may seem to be distinet, yet they have in reality the | same charge. For in this generation the world has assumed the virtues 1t does not possess, and morality becomes in business relations a kind of capital. Itis no matter if a man’s good name be iutripsically “trash,” for just as long as it repre- sents certain virtues 1t 1s “the immediate jewel” of his prosperity. To steal a reputation, then, is absolutely the same thing as to steal a bank account—nay, tt is worse, {or recent events have shown us that money cannot be supplied in measure large enough to be its equivalent. Had the evil things which deprived Mr, Tilton of his good name never been spoken, would Mr, Tiiton have jost hisincome | from the Jndependent and Union? Would Mr. Beecher have lost the thousands of atonement money? Would— but any one can pursue the in- quiry and diversily it accoraing to ius own indl- vidual experience, This point being admitted, ought society to give any larger tolerance to the evil-speaker than to the thiei? Ought spiteful people who find back- biting cheaper than a lawsuit to be indulged? Ougut conceited people with extravagant ideas or the space they fill in the world be ailowed, to the | nuisance oi sensible persons, to be always “set- ting themselves right” and explaining the why and wherefore of their incomprehensible works and ways? Individually, every one would answer “No;’’ but collectively, the fact is. the destruction | of character 18 a bad habit, out of which the worid | does not grow. The very people who every Sab- | bath day renew their ailegiance to the Decalogue skip the ninth Clause of it all the week, and there | are thousaucs who would on no account enter a theatre or touch a billiard cue that absolutely revel in that dishonest pastime which David—who knew how it hurt bimseli—so forcibly called “shooting out arrows, even bitter words.’ Offences will come, and men will quarrel, but if they are incompetent to settle their own affairs why should they stand barking and snarling at | One another and cail on all the-world to take sides | in the struggle ? In such a case they must eventu- | ally come w the ultimatum in dil public disputes— | the power to say the bitterest things or mt the | hardest blows. 1s such a spectacle conducive to | public morality ? Do the elect and élite of faith and fashion find it a less dangerous moral atmose | phere than that of the playhouse or the race- course’ How much more manly and dignified tue | advice of the pagan town clerk of Epnesus—“The | law 18 open and there are deputies; let them im- | plead one another.” Certainly, if ‘offences pass beyond individual adjudication it is better to reier them fo the dispassionate arbitration oj law rather | than to the irresponsible favoritism of public opinion. | But if the law interposes she ought to do it at once, and as near the time of offence as possibie. ‘The statute of limitations applies most emphatie | cally to scandal. This is only bare justice. If years elapse between the offence and the trial for it cir- cumstances must have changed so much as to materially alter the case. The worai atmosphere in which it Was committed is not the same as that in which it will be tried; the people have changed, the surroundings are different, suspicions wiil have grown, facts decreased, If time were no bar to the investigation of character no one would be safe. Who is so innocent that he cau say he never injured his neighbor? And if society were to try every delinquent we should hardly be able to g@ a jury and not find in the sworn twelve ——a man or two Guiltier than him they try. We do not say that time obliterates a fault, but it does prevent a just estimate of it. i — of time is prejudicial to a just decision by jaw, how much more if the judge is society ? Besides, im social offences public ey inion ts always | an unlair judge; it is partial, and its partiality 1s awarded on no fixed principle. Pluck is as likely to win its favor as purity, and it has the same peculiarity that the godless attribute to Provi- | dence—a penchant tor favoring the heaviest battal- | tons. By what method of expounding the doctors , ot divinity and law determine the difference in guilt in the Ten Commandments it is hard to dis- cover. Yet, if punishment be taken as the meas- | ure of crime, they certainly do not be ieve them © to be of equal importarice. A man may olaspheme { God and dishonor his parents, and public epinion scarcely shadows his name; but if he break tne eighth commandment be must give years of his labor and liberty as equivaleut, jf he break the | seventh, then, perhaps, the {ingling of the dollar helps ‘The hurt that honor teels. If he break the sixth nothing but blood can atone; | yet he may perpetually break the ninth—ior inter- est, lor spite, for amusement—and go unpunished. gold; if Mr. Eumity and Mr. implacable and Mr. Evil Speaking were made legally as well as morally guilty, then good people, weary of filthy conversation and all uncharitableness, would not need to cry out so wearily “Let us bave bibdate | An Open Communion Baptist Speaks. The following lively letter from Rev. Florence | Mcvarthy, of Caicago, 18 sufficiently explicit to be | understood without comment, The information | which it corrects was derived from our Baptlst cx. | changes :— CHICAGO, August 5, 1874, To THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— Your paper of last Sunday coutained some erro- heous stutements concerning the Amity Baptist church of this city, of which I am pastor, My church has am enemy in Chicago Who 18 a close communion Baptist and who has spent the tour best years of his life in the State Penitentiary for robbing the United States mails. ‘This individual is connected with the Baptist. press ana makes it his business to misinform the public at the East concerning me and my church, Hence your error, Please afford me the privilege o! saying, througn the greatest newspaper in the world, that the | Amity Baptist church nas always been a close com- munion church and has adopted ciose communion articies ol saith; but that I, its pastor, hate close communion as | do tue devil, and shall do my best to teach my people “a more excelient way." Allow me iurther to say that my church vas been duly | recognized asa regular Baptist church by a baptist Council regularly convened, and that the pastor | and deacons have, in the presence of .a large con- regation, received the right hand of teliowship rom the dev. H. A. Reichenbach, the appointee of the Councli, and that the “backers” of me and my church have wot “gone back’ on us, The Amity Baptist charch, among Chicago charcnes, is ex- , actiy what the New York HERALD is among pa- pers, and you know how that is yourseli. Of the pastor modesty Jorbids me to speak. FLORENCE MCCARTHY, The Approaching German Ecclesiastical Conference. The commi*tee for the promotion of Christian union, at whose head stands Dr. Dollinger, has | Just issued @ circular inviting corresponding re- | ligious communities of Old Catholics, orthodox Eastern Churchmen, Anglican and American Epis- | copalians to send delegates to @ conference to be | heid at Bonn, on the Rhine, September 14 and fol- union Of tiose religious communities. A ecording to the Church Journai, which gives @ trausiation sions will be conducted on the basis of what was taught and believed in the ancient Church, and toe common ground and authoritative guides will be sought in the doctrines and institutions of | Christianity, both Eastern and Western, and in the formularies of faith as they existed before the ‘reat disruption which separated the Kastern horen from her Western sister and broke up It is presumable this re- | gbhe unity of Unristendom. | vapioai Inpynarieg |, The aim which wii) pe kenb in view will not be | | the principle of unizas in necessarvis, 31 the absorptive union and fadical fusion of extstin churebes, but only the bringtag about of eccles|- astical intercommanion and religious fraternity ol with the liberty of individual religions national charehes tn regard to those peo! 3 of doctrine and conatiration which do not touch the substance of the faith a8 CT had provessed and | taught by the undivided Churel Ministerial and Charch Moveme sts, EPISCOPALIAN, =.” St. James’ church, Atlantic ‘ty, has been re- cently undergoing. “extenyive “repaira, ana the au- dience room 18 nearly ‘twice the size tt was torn merly, It Will hereafter afford more room for the large number of persons who congregate at the seashore during the heated term, Bishop Howe, of Central Pennsylvania, has ad- dressed a circular letter to all the clergy of bis diocese, asking their moral and material support for the diocesan college—the Lehigh University. The congregation of St. Luke’s Episcopal cuurch, Germantown, has.1n contemplation the erection of & new stone charch, at an expense of about $60,000, ‘The division of the diocese of Michigan will be consummated by the first of the new year. The Rey. John Gemley, a prominent Canadian Methodist preacher, has seceded to the Hstab- shed Church, ‘The vestry of St. Paui’s church, of Glen Cove, have appointed @ committee to arrange for mak- ing the church a free one, Rev. John C. Middle- ton, of New Britain, Conn., has accepted a caii to the rectorship of the parish. He will commence his pastorate on the second Sunday in September. METHODIST. Bishop Janes spent part of this last week at Canaan (Conn.) camp meeting, and on Friday started on a Western tour to attend the fail con- ferences, The Bishop is in excellent health and has attended eight camp meetings this summer, Rev. J. W. Jackson, of Philadelphia, spent last Sabbath in this city. Rev. Dr. S. M, Vail, late United States Consul for Rhenish Bavaria, has returned to this country and 48 how Staying at Prince’s Bay, Staten Island, Dr. C. D. Koss, of this city, spent last week at St. Louis, visiting his brother-in-law, Bishop Robert- #00, Of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Rev. W, H. Kogers, A. M., of Western New York Conference, has been elected Principal of Nunday Academy, Rev. Dr. Antiitt, Secretary of the British Primi- tive Wesleyan Society, now in this city en route to visit the missions of his Church in Australia and New Zealand, spent last sabbath in Brooklyn, reaching for the Primitive Methodists there. He is to preach at Sea Clit one day this week. Rey. Dr. Newman writes to the Christian Advo- cate, giving an account of sore persecutions of the Christians in Turkey, with the connivance, if not py the actual authority, of the government author- tes, Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of Washington, is taking a vaca- tion at Martha’s Vineyard, Rev. E, Willman, of Western New York Confer- ence, has entered the reaim of wedded tue in com- any With Miss Jennie M, Smaiiwood, of Warsaw, Dr. J, A. M. Chapman’s health has so far recov- ered that he will assume his pastoral duties in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, of this city, next Sunday. The General Conference of the Methodist Eptsco- pal Church in Canada met in session in Napanee on Wednesday last. One or two bishops are to be elected and the names of some eminent American Methodists are mentioned lor the positions, The camp meeting at Philiipsport, N. Y., opened on Thursday last, The Wasuington (D. C.) District camp meeting, 876 ‘ coe They bold their present eligible lot 7 4m the original vil for years. ™e ey donee 18 to cost about $33,000. P, «ue Concord street (now Canton sirest) colored t Bapust chure's, Brooklyn, have enjoyed @ larga) Gegree of rrosperity suring the year. Since tipi, ¥5,beuween sixty and seventy have been % Da, Moore, of the Washington avenue church, 4 Passing ‘his time among the Green and, fen Monntains, and preaching When and where « MISCELLANEOUS. | The synagogue “Bethel” of Buffalo was dedi. cated an the 14th inst. e corner stoue of a new Jewish temple in Nashville, Tenn., was laid on the 18th inst. ‘ Rev. E. Cook, vb. D., tormerly Principal of Wil~ braham Seminary, nas been unanimously elected , to the Presidency o1 Clafin University, Orange- bare. c. ‘The new synagogue which has been for some time: in the course of erection in the Rue de ia, Victoire, Paris, will shortly be inaugurated with all due so.emnity. ‘The new building 1s said to be Of surpassing splendor, and will outshine in mag- nilcence all the Jewish houses of worship hitherto erected in the French capital. Rev. J. V.N. Talmage, D. D., missionary of the Reiormed Dutch Chureb of America, and family, , arrived safely in Yokonama on July 7. Henry Martyn Scudder, Jr., M. D., and wile sailed on Saturday, August 22,43 missionaries of the Retormed Chureh, Dr. Scudder has been ap- pointed @ missionary physician and his wife aw ‘ assistant missionary, to assume the charge of tha hospital and dispensary at Arcot, India. A great sensation has been caused at Rome itt; Roman Catholic circles by the conversion to Prot- estantisin o1 another istingmished clergyman of that Church, The name of the convert is Aiceste Lamna. He was @ parish pries!, a doctor of) divinity and has Leen professor of philosophy ati the Vatican Semivary.and teacher of mathematics ata polytechnic school, Rev. S. Geratman, rabbi, of Meridian, Miss., has | removed to Selma, Ala. He intends soon to retire Irom the ministry. 5 Rey. E. M. Myers, minister of the Polish and German Synagogue of Montreal, is on a visit wo this city. The American Bible Society proposes to supply; all the railroad cars with Bibles. The Liberal Christian thinks their money Could be speut to better advantage in some other way, ‘The New Jersey Universalist Convention meets in Newark on Wednesday next. Rev. C. E. Tucker accepts @ call from the New Haven Universalist parish. Tne Connecticut State Convention of Universal- ists meets in Waterbury on Wednesday and Thurs~ day next. SEA CLIFF ENCAMPMENT. Programme of Services for the Week=s Sayin, and Doings of People on the Ground—A Lively, Octogenarian—Im« provements Contemplated for Next j s Year. 4 Sea Curr, L. 1, August 29, 1874, The people not yet quite tired out of camp meet» ings are coming to this place in numbers nearly ad large as usual, so that at the first service to-aay there were probably 1,000 persops on the grount and in the Tabernacle. From this date until next! Saturday the steamer Monitor will run in concertt with the Sedgwick to and from the camp groun® daily. The Monitor will leave the foot of Leroy, street, North River, every morning at sevew . o'clock and Twenty-fourth street at fifteem | Minutes later, and passing thence around tha southern part of the city, will touch at pier 27 East | gate @ portion of her estate at Canterbury, in a beautiful and commanding position, for the site which Ole He 18th iust., resulted in the con- | River at twenty minutes to eight o'clock version Of 130 souls, ROMAN CATHOLIC. Grand street ten minutes later and Thirty< third street, East River, at eight o'clock. A mission will shortly be opened at St. Peter's chureb, Baltimore, by Father Wayrich, assisted by | Returning, Parher Litz and other fathers of the Kedemptorist | Orde! There are twenty Catholic churches in Montreal, Canada, and two more are in process of erection, Father Kogers, of New Brunswick, N. J., 18 recov- ering {rom his recent severe illness. The Rey. George W, Corrigan was ordained to the priesthood by the Right Rev. Bishop Corrigan on August 15, at Seton Hall. For the present Fa- ther Corrigan will remain at Seton Hall as one ot the professors, The French government pays for its religious teachings and privileges an aggregate suin of 53,693,993f Of this sum fhe Catholic Church re- ceives 51,696,153f, the several Protestant denomi- nations get 1,492,500f,, the Jewish Church 239.9001, | Haven will preach in the morning, Dr. Thomas M. and the rest goes lor expenses of distribution. 0, y On January 25, 1875, a pilgrimage will start from Eddy in the afternoon and Rey. C. S, Williams, of | Birmingham, Conn., in the evening. Prayer meet, Nice, 1 the south of France, tor Jerusalem and | the Holy Land, It will go by tne way of Loreto | ings are to be held also before and between thesa preaching services, so that the Sabbath will b and Brindisi. The church of Maestricht, Holland, contains | fully occupied. And then during the week eminen' MINISTERS OF OTHER DENOMINATIONS ; some very precious relics of the Passion aud of These have | will preach here. I have been able to procure th e this boat will leave Sea Clim a / @ quarter to five o’clock P. M., thus ce casual camp goers a chance to participat in two services datly. The Sedgwick will make her trips as usual. This arrangement has been compelled py the frequent complaints made last Month that the people did not get time to hear or participate in the whole of any service, To-mor4 row and next Sabbath are looked forward to ag great days here, both spiritually and financially, and three of the most eminent preachers will oc4 cupy the Tabernacle pulpit to-day. Dr. E. nal some of the most illustrious saints, been recently exposed to the veneration of the | programme of services for the week, so far as faithful in a new and splendid reliquary. Over , made ont, as follows:—On Monday evening th one hundred thousand pilgrims visited the shrine | Rev. Alfred Taylor (Presbyterian), editor of tn during the week the relics were exhibited. Christian at Work, will preach. On Puesday Rev. There was a splendid pligrimage the other day | W. McAlister, of Second street Methodist Episco- at Ciéry, France, Over twenty thousand pilgrims | copal church, NewYork, will preach in the morning, were present, and seven bishops presided at the | ana the Rev. William Lloyd (Methodist), of Pough: | ceremonies, keepsie, im the afternoon; the eveuing service There are fourteen priests, eight churches, forty- | not provided for. Un Wednesday morning th nine chapels, one convent and several boarding | Rev. S. H. Platt, of DeKalb Metnodist Episcopal schools for the Indians in the district of New West- | church, Brooklyn, will preach; Dr. R. S. Jeffrey, | minster, British Columbia. Tuese missions are | of Marcy avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, in thel under the care of the Oblate Fathers, who have | been very successiul among the red men. There was agrand reunion of Indians recently at St. Mary’s. on Frazer River. ‘Tne Right Rev. Bishop of Burlington, Vt., dedt- cated @ new church at East Dorset on the 2th ns Ground for the new Catholic church at New Bed- ford, Mass., was broken ou the 18th, The Archhishop of Manicn has delivered to the King of Bavaria @ protest against the administra- tion of the sacraments by the old Catholic Bishop Reinkens. Miss Hales, of Hales place, Canterbury, England, bas given to the Beneuictine monks of Rams- aiternoon, and Rev. C, J, Mingins (Presbyterian), + of the New York City Missions, in the eveningy The Rev. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., 18 to preach either4 morning or afternoon, but he has not yet signified} which seryice he willtake. The other two services, of that da will be occupied by the temperance wo~ men of New York and Brooklyn. On Friday Rev. ©. D. Foss, D. D., of St. James Methoaist Episcopal church, Harlem, will preach in the morning, an: in the evening Rev. C, 5. Antlif, of the age Primitive Wesleyan Methodists, who is now her enroute to visit the missions of nis Chureh i Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Deems, of th Church of the Strangers, Is to preach once during, the meetings, and ministers from Philadeiphia, Newark, Albany and other citiesare expected heia / * during the progress of the camp meeting. i There have been present here, besides some o| those named, Rev. W. W. Clarke, of Greenpoint who preached an able and eloquent sermon her this morning, and Rev. A. C. Bowdish, of Astoria, who preached in the evening. ‘ihe praver| meeting this aiternoon was conducted by Rev. Cy Williams, Rev. W. Hibbard, of City Island, Revo . Stephenson, of Glen Cove, and THE VENERABLE OCTOGENARIAN, Father Reynolds, of Brooklyn, who, though Sore county, Wis., has removed to Eagle Pot, Chip- | in his eignty-fourth year, has been continuously 4 pewa county, Wis. camp meetings for nearly two months. He ts th Rev. Stephen H. Camp, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has | liveliest young man on this encampment, and i and grounds Oo! a novitiate, the future abbey are already laid, ‘The corner stone for the first Catholic church in Meshoppen, Pa., was laid on Sunday, August 16, by Kight Rev, Bishop 0’Hara, of Scranton. The Rev. Thomas English, P. P., Clonmel, has just given up the important parish of St. Mary’s, | 8. Clonmel, county lipperary, Ireland, to proceed to | M! Australia a8 a inissionary, Rev. A. J. Verberx, formerly of Baraboo, Sauk The foundations of | returned irom his recent visit to the East in good | sing and talk and pray better than very many o heaith and spirits, PRESBYTERIAN. * The Presbyterians have about one hundred churches among the freedmen at the South. his brethren who have not seen so many years o} life ashe. Fatner Reynolds can look at four gens erations of his posterity, so that if “children’s chiky dren are the delight of old men,” he must fue Congregationalist chronicles the union of a | doubly delighted. Rev. lan Foster, an author on Congregational and Presbyterian church at Bur- standard works of some repute in the al | ingame, Kansas, as a triumph of Christian union. | Episcopal Charch, 1s also among the ininisters a “fhe Saratoga Convention of Young Presbyte- | Sea Clif, Rev. Dr. Dn Puy, of the Christian Advom rians” 1s not to be held at Saratoga after all. It cate; Rev. Dr. A. S. Patton, of the Baptist Weekly, will be cailed “at a more central locality” a little | and Rev. W. U. Steele, of Fleet street Methodis! later in the season, f Episcopal church, Brooklyn, were also here. Some A supplementary retarn of the number of com- municants in the Established Church of Scotland brings up the total number to 460,566, of whom. 197,592 are male and 262,974 female communicants. The London United Presbytery has passed reso- lutions declaring that, as the Dill for the abolition _ of patronage in the Church of Scotiand will prova- bly become a law, it is in the interest of the Free Churches to call ior the further measure of disen- dowment and disestablishment. _ The Rey. O. Green, a Presbyterian missionary to Yokohama, denies that the government of Japan gives unlimited treedom to the Christian mission- aries to teach. He says:—*'The law against Chris- tianity has not been abrogated. fnere is no reli- gious toleration. The people are somewhat re- strained by fear of tne law from resorting to mis- sionaries to be taught, and the missionaries are _ prouibited irom going among the people.” BAPTIST. Rey. Preston Gurney has accepted the call to the pastorate of the church at Central Falls, R. 1. Rev, B. V. Patterson has resigned his pastorate at Hermon, N. Y., and accepted a call to Almond, Alleghany county. Mr, B. F. Leipsner, of Madison University, has received @ call to the premiere of the Baptist caurch at Rhinebeck, N. Y. Projessor Chandler, of Grantville, Mass,, has ace cepted the Call of the Baptist church at West Ded- ham, and will enter upon his duwes the first Sab. bath in September, ‘There are two Baptist universities in Texas, in both of which the sexes are educated togetier, ‘The plan is said to work well. < of these brethren haa hed to the city this moras ing, but their places were filled by others who cam by the morning and alternoon boats. Mr. Steeit § preached a very plain, practical discourse las night from the text, “Seek ye first the kingdom ot God and his righteousness and all these thin; shail be added unto you.” He dwelt chiei), on the nature of the kingdom of God, and showed what it is not as well as what It is— | righteousness and peace and joy in the Hol Ghost. Among the good traits or the discoursi was that of brevity, so that alter he had finisne speaking the bretiren improvised & prayer meet~ ing und @ score or more persons went forward tat | the anxious seats seeking heart purity or pardon | for sius. And then later some brief exhortations, were given by ministers and by ladies present J A sister Brown almost went intoa condition cr | Irenzy as she exhorted the people to trust Goa. | phe jumped and swung her hands about wildiy and became greatly excited. the morning Dr. ‘True, of Whitestone, preached a sermon on justifi cation and sanctification aud how each may bi obtained. On Thursday evening Dr. Patton aise | coursed on BELIEVERS STIRRING UP GOD by faith and prayer, and the people here BAH it in striking contrast to his sermon Of Sabbatu Jast, When the theme was “God stirring up hid people as an eagie stirreth up her nest.” It may be well to state, for the benefit of stran~ gers, that excellent board can ve had hereinvote *% tages near the Tavernacie for $1 26 a day—jns hail the amount charged@t the hotel, But then 1 is Iree from the fashionable adjuncts wiich tha Kendrick, D. formerly of this city, | the subscrivers are draw lots tor first choic The twenty-second General Conterence of the | second cnolce, and so on in the order of their subs Free Will tata in North America willbe held at scriptions, The bulance of the purchase mone | Providence, R. 1, and will commence at the Roger | may remain on mortgage, subject to interest, a | Wulams church October 7, | abdut 4,000, The Rev, Robert McGonegal was reco; ed as latter gives and of course must charge for. pastor of the First Baptist church of Hackensack Next week there is to be a sale, by lot, of a pec on Tuesday, August 19, Of property, recently surveyed, comprising sixty. Dr. George F. Pentecost, of Boston, recently as- three acres, lying to the eastward of the old cam, sisted Mr, Spurgeon in the administration of the is to Lora’s Supper to three thousand communicants tn hig mammoth tabernacle, Six thousand persons had previously listened to a sermon by Spurgeon. | encampment, Each plot is to be sold by subsert An effort i# being made to unite tne two weak | tion, and the price named 1s $800 per plot. Of thi Baptist churches in Poughkeepsie and form one | sum the subscriber must pay $100 down, ana $311 strong church, under the pastorate of Rey. J. K. | additional belore Septemoer 9, the date at whic! into and im harmony with the avenues o} the oli | the option of the purchaser. This scueme ts uc Rev, John B. Hutchinson has resigned the pag- | signe torate of the Olivet Baptist church of Philadelplia, TO MEET THE WANTS OF MANY PERSONS \ Dr. Dean, writing from Bangkok, China, to Dr. | who wish for acre plots which they cannot obta! Malcolm, of Philadelphia, announces @ glorious | now on the old purchase except, at extrav work of grace in that mission aud the organiza | prices. Each of these new plots will contain fiftee! ‘on toward the latter part o1 June last of a native | lots, whichjat the price named will cost but $5333 Baptist church, of thirty-two members, at Ko perce 40 feet by 60 icet. Lots on the plateau 1 | Buang, ‘he old purchase are Low held by private persout : of Brookline, Mas: Rey, Dr. Lamson, at prices varying from $200 to $1,000 each, and th stricken with paralysis on the 14th’ inst. was East | association's price is $300 per single lot. Great Gloucester, Mass., but is recovering, and bopes are i improvements are promised and anticipated on th i } entertained for his speedy restoration, encampment before uext summer tn connectio A new mission Baptist church will be dedicated | with this new arrangement. A new and fast y. steamer, calculated wo make the trip between Ne ‘The Baptists head the list in Church membership | York and Sea Clift in one hour and a quarter, Wil in Chicago. They number 6,266. The Methodists | be put on the line next spring and two boats wi of that cry number 4,300 and the Presbyterians | run during the summer. The association hav leased their dock to the steamboat company for has sent § term oi ten erat 80 that failure in any directio! out Miss Mary EK, Walling @ Missionary {to | here ts not thought of And every day capitalist Burman. are putting money into this place as a permaneng; ‘rhe First church of Redife i N. Y., have deter- | investinent, with the confidence that it will ro in Chicago to-day. The Central Baptist church of Syrac mined to erect a new house of worship on the site | five years become the handsomest and most compe. Of their present edifice, It is to be @ centenmal | venient summer resort for Ne memorial aud to he commeles any dedicaied | found ov Long band sonnd Yorkers to