The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1874, Page 7

te Ro Ti WHITE =MOUNTAL —_—_—-— Vacation-Spending Among the Hampshire Hills. MR. BEECHER AND THE TWIN The Plymouth Pastor on Things in General. MOUNT WASHINGTON. What a Hard Place It Is to Keep a Hotel. Sumit HOTEL, } Mounr WasntNaton, Sept. 2, 1844. The Journey to the White Mountains has been robbed of most ofits staying terrors, Here I am at the Summit House, 6,250 feet above tide water, having only & recollection of eleven miles of stay- ing in the transit from New York. There ig really ® gap of only five miles, that ts 1rom Fabyan’s, the verminus of the White Mountain Railroad, to the Ammoneosuc station, at the foot of this lordly hill, which towers up above its fellows, as Presi- Gent Grant towers above his Cabinet in the popu- lar eye. Happening, however, to have broken My itinerary hither by @& stay at the Twm Mountains to hear Brother Beecher Preach last Sunday, and let the HERALD readers know what the great sermonizer said, a stage Journey longer by six miles than othe erwise necessary wus the result. This is not much to complain of, for when I took my seat by the Qriver yesterday morning the alr was clear and fresh, the morning bright and the sky a lovely blue, with great, fleecy clouds sailing majestically above the green mountain tops of the Francona range. The night before had been what the na- tives call “smoky,’? but Boreas and Zephyrus had together flown across the mountains, stripping their swelling bosoms of their gossamer veijs of ‘mist, all of which means that the northwest wind | had folded up the clouds during the night and sent them on where Nature washes her solied gar- ments, which must be somewhere near Brooklyn, to judge by the quantity of foul linen in the hands | Of the public laundress there. MR, BRECHER aT THE TWIN, Before telling you of the delights of that morn- ing’s ride along the valley of the Ammonoosuc, let me lift a corner of the curtain behind which Henry Ward Beecher takes his autumnal ease ‘4ar from | the maddening crowd.” The Twin Mouutain House | is not a very pretentious editice, and, viewed from the railway station, with an unsightly plank bridge over the brawling river and a weather- stained sawmill in the foreground, the aspect is DOt prepossessing. It is three stories high and heat and white outside and cosey witpin, Why it | Was ever put where it is will remain a mystery. | The position is not commanding—the prospect no | better than could be obtained at almost any part of the mountain region, It has, however, advantages, It is habitable far into October, and it is easy of ac- cess. But its great feature is that Mr, Beecher | makes it his vacation home. As a result it bas become the resort of thirty or forty first class families, who find it homelike and pleasant, far beyond the possibilities of the majority of moun- tain houses, THE BEECHERIAN ROLE. Mr. Beecher informaily plays the part of master of ceremonies, chatting with and smiling on every- body, taking the lead in organizing little after- Qoon pastimes and evening pleasures, When we temember the frigidity which prevails in the aver- | age hotel and know what a social iceberg the aver- age hotel director is, we must account the Twin Mountain man lucky to have, in the person of a paying guest, one who takes upon himself the Most delicate part of the duties of major domo, while being at the same time as great an attraction as the mountains themselves, indeed, Mr. Beecher makes the spread of social amenities a dogma in his humanitarian doctrines. His sketdh in last Sunday's sermon of the vnsocial hotel guest being a stage picture worthy of Lester Wallack’s delineation, he cannot do less than illus- trate his ethics, and it is a good thing for the hotel Man and the guests that he does. He leans against ‘the counter alter tea, and forms the centre of an kamiring and interested throng; cracks jokes, tells stories and indulges in repartee to the top of bis bent. The guests can never get enough of it; 'tis as much to them as the voard and lodging, and docs not appear in the bill. He did not seem particalarly bright on Saturday evening, but atter his slashing sermon of Sunday morning he seemed | the nappiest man alive. As bas been frequently | stated, all reference to the painiul topic ts avoided | in his presence, although a deep interest attaches to the question there as elsewaere. THE ARRIVAL OF THE PAPERS in the evening stirs the matter up somewhat, and after a careiul look round the vicinity subdued comment is made in a whisper. Mr. Beecher reso- Jutely guards the gate to his secret, and, like all painfully acute sentinels, challenges when nobody is dreaming of advancing on hia beleagured out- post. Thus, ip @ conversation about religious , Matters, an unlucky individual happened to refer ‘te the ‘Congregational Council” when he should have said “Evangelical Alliance.” Mr. Beecher quickly corrected the innocent, wo did not recol- lec: until so informed that he was forcing Mr. Boecher to save his Bacon by turning the subject. But he sometimes puts out a feeier in a cautious ‘way. A political chat turning upon General But- tor’a chances in the Bay State brought the signifl- cant query from Mr. Beecher :— “Ja be very successful as a lawyer?” “In political cases,” said the gentleman ad- dressed, “yes. In—ah—other cases—yes”—(awk- ‘ward look general among the company) —‘well— ab—not very.” (Sigh of relief on all sides and su- perserviceable haste to direct the political chat to several points South and West.) When the papers arrive, and for a little while everybody is diving | into their recesses, is Mr. Beecher’s mauvais quart Wheure de Ravelais. Hever a look of IMPATIENCE OR IRRITATION 1s visible upun his fine countenance itis when he comes suddenly upon a man reading a fresh news- per, With regard to that world-wide means of Keeping pace With progress he is very explicit 80 far as personally concerned. He says— “} NEVBR READ THE © APERS.’” It may be; but beware of the public man who saya he never reads the papers, He knows what's in ‘them. Of course Mr. Beecher does not suggest to any- body that papers are intrinsically bad. He reters to them much a8 8 man ordered not to drink brandy by his physician does to drinking when- ever he sees a late boon companion witu a well- filled bottle. There is such & spice of regret that such 4 pleasant thing should burt him in his re- fusals that 1 think it would not be safe to trust that invalid alone and in the dark with a flagon of cognac. Said Mr. Beecher to a gentleman of the Fees i i PUBLIC CATTLE. “You newspaper people regard public men as a farmer does his cows.” “They don’t ali milk alike,’ said the scribe. “No,” added Mr. Beecher, smiling, “some are short horns and some are long horus; some milk easy and some kick over the pail” hout asking the reverend gentleman to what = estab e he bes gr Og he Lp Hi cS how glad, as a general wing, co' ind punue Then ‘revo be miked. ‘The likeness 1s STRANGELY CONSTITUTED. The state of Mr. Beecher’s mind at present would be @ atudy which no one bht he could pic- ‘ure in ali its depth of light and shadow. In his statement we caught a glimpse of him im time of trouble. It was a ghastly, haunting picture of mental agony which he drew, and bears a truthfal ‘impress, 60 far as regards the suffering he paints in such sombre colors. Yet, however vividly the hightnings Of wrath flashed visibly before bis eyes, ADy ane Who saw him yesterday would feel assured that sorrow could no more rest permanently upon Rim than dew on an cagie's wing. He was porn Root and could not steep himself in soul teacl reprove its wrongdoing jn the warm, homely wai | jerowian’ sy, | seconds, { thon of everything the passengers declare osten- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1874.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, | “cotrine he practises him- ‘The cheeriness of selt. ‘To gee hia vag. broquet on the lawn peside | the Twin Hopse observe him enjoy an hour | of Homeri hter in the evening over the per- formance of a Hoston projessional named Barnabee, who gave some capita! songs and recitations in the parior, would convince anybody of how he adds practice to precept. THE TWINS AGAIN, This has grown to be a pretty long parenthesis | in the story of a journey Irom the Twin Mouotain House to this elevated locality, By the by, 1 mav way that only one of the Twins, the North (a boy, I believe) is visibie trom the house, Until an old in- habitant had solemply assured me of the jact that tbe sister Twin was beyond and out of sigut, | bad picked out hall a dozen pair of Twins tn the moun- | tains around, When frst introduced into this nar- Tative | was bowling along beside the stage driver | through the narrow, leaty valley of the Ammonoo- ene, cannot reier to this name too Olten, for although there ure fifty such LONG-WINDED, CACOPHONOUS names in this vicinity it is the only one that I can voncn off “trippimgly”’—that 1s, without tripping over the boulders Of snarp angled consonants, ‘The road to Fabyan’s 18 a pretty one, disciosing many pretty views in its windings with tpe trend o} the hills. The Fabyan House, now in its second year, 1s a fine building, enjoying @ beautiful site Where the valley opens into a agreed of bright green meadow, You can look from its piazza along the White Mountains, with Mount Wasbin; ton towering up majestically in the foreground; and more to the rigitis Franconia Notch, where the two mountain ranges meet almost at right angles, In the Notch is the Crawiord House, owned by the proprietor of the Twin. Turaing away trom Fabyan’s and facing the great moun- tain King of New England the road becomes wilder to the eye and more uneasy to the seated Blage passenger. There are many KINDS OF JOLTS, such a8 the jolt over the rock-strewn bed of a Utah Canyon, Or the jolt over the Sierras, whereon the stage driver thiuks no more of going over a tree stump or a fallen pine tree than your Broad- way expressman does of driving over acitizen. The White Mountain jolt is not so astonisning to the unaccustomed passenger, out it has charms of its own, node whicil the rattilng over loose plank pridges isa chief delight. As we near the foot of the mountuin we pas through a clearing of several acres, which exhibits more tree stumps to the square yard tlan anything | remember seeing East or est, They call it Twin River Farm, sauirically, no doubt. At last the station (Am- monoosuc again) 18 reached, and THE PECULIAR RalLRoaD rannii up the breast of tre mountain in a straight line until lost in the distance or the clouds, as the case may be, gives one an unplea- sant jecling. The comical little engines, with their boijers and smokestacks leaning forward, as if about to fall over, are examined by the intending Donley with, pardonably, interested curiosity. ‘he centre track, With 118 rungs or ratchets, waich form the slender ladder on which the train with 1t8 toothed wheels ia to patniully and groaningly ascend, 1s looked at critically. Then the compressed air-brakes and all the otner appliances for hang- ing on by the eyebrows, as it were, in Case Of ace cident, are scrutinized, MR, BEECHER TELLS A STORY. A lady at the Twin House the otner day, on pro- fessing nervousness at the possibility of accident, had the following story told her by Plymouth’s rosticating pastor :— “Js there really any danger ?”’ said the lady. “That reminds me,” said Mr. Beecher, ‘of an old jady Who asked tue conductor where the train would go if the engine broke down. ‘On the track, mum,’ replied the conductor, triumphantly, ‘Do you see that ratchet, mum? That'd hold us on till the day after doomsday.’ ‘But, continuea the old lacy, ‘where would we go if your ratchet was t break down?’ ‘ihat, mum,’ replied the con- ductor, solemnly, ‘would depend, mum, on what sort 01 @ ilie you had been a leading,’ ” As we are watting to take our places, after having paid $4 each for the trip of three mies and return, we receive a convincing example of the rate at which the return trip could be made if the Tatchet and the air brakes were dispensed with. Far up the hill, say about a mile away, something is seen commg down the centre track AT TERRIFIC SPEED, You can make Lothiug out ol it, tt spins alon; and downward with such fearful velocity. As i came over the last steep inciine there was a general cry, “It’s a man!” and people held their breath as M some feartul calamity were about to happen. On he came, down toward the train, and to tne surprise of all began to slack up as if he were a sprite of the mountains coming home trom some Waipurgis revel. He came close down by where the passengers stood, stopped completely, and with a quiet grin or. an Htvermian face, arose from his seated posture, took the board or sled on which he nad been doing this “COASTING”? EXTRAORDINARY, and left it on tue platform, Lt was a simple plank, With a short cross piece for resting the teet on either side, It'was shod beneath with a piece of iron fitting to the centre rail, and was furnished with a pair of curved handles, which worked a3 brakes, idee upward against the projecting flange oi the rail on eituer siue. They are used by the workmen, and the descent from the summit has been made on them in seven minutes, and the last mue down has recently been siid in fifty-two Not any, thank you. After a full inspec- tatiously to each other thatit 1s just as sale as walking up the street; to this they make several Mental reservations in the soul’s undertone. Then we start with a pufting, throbbing, pulsating and rattling. lt seems slow work, but the panting of the stout little engine tells that it is toling very hard indeed. Surely and cautiously we crawl along. You could get out and walk faster, you imagine, TRY IT, It goes very well for ten or twenty yards, but you soon perceive what a labor you have under- taken to keepup with the slow moving train, making its way skyward a tootn of the cogwheel atatime. You begin to feel the torce of the wind sweeping down the mountain; you open your month to drink in a draught of air, and you get such astrangulating mouthful that, unless you are @ born mountaineer, you are tain to trust your fortunes once more to the little puffing en- gine, whose boiler and smokestack are now per- pe otsciary as they should be, while: the train ts jilted up skyward at aft appalling angie. The views which gradually OPEN AS YOU RISE are grand, superb; presently, when you are a mile nearer the summit, they will possess ail the ele- ments of the scenically sublime. You see down long sweeps of valley till the mountains asar off end the view abruptly. The neighboring monn- | tains tower above you, yet you seem tn mid air, with the immense above and around, and the beautiful below. You still ascend ana the bills that irowned above you commence to dwarf and awindie downward, and you look across them to the valleys beyond, as if they had bowed their heads to the Titan, who overtops them all, The woods of pine and birch on tne nills below look like a dark grass, and the boulders, that stood out, tumbled, heaped and huge as you passed beneath, look like piles of pepbles, Rivers along tne valleys and jakes in the lovely hearts of tie hills glisten like allver ribbons and sheets of pearl amid the dark green of the trees, Exclamations of delight and woader are heard on every side in the train, and here and there a@ silent man bears ou his lea- tures @ reflex ol the unspeakable. awe which ne feels, At every step iresn grandeurs break upon the vision, until at last, aiter an hour and three. querter’s ride, YOU ALIGHT beside the Summit Hotei, nungry, chilly and tm- pressed. The prosaic is likely at once to prevail over the poetical, and you are giad to hurry into the hotel, where around a red hot stove may be seen & dozen or so of the guests taking their euse. ‘whe ther.nometer without 1s at forty-seven degrees and the wind is blowing ninety-five miles an nour, #0 that the stove is rather a welcome irtend to meet alter all. vinner ts devoured, rooms assigned, ‘warm Wraps put on and then everybody sailies out to see, It would be impossible to describe the sav ‘88° GLORIES OP THAT PANORAMA. A recital of the mere points that can be recognized by the experienced would convey no ides to those unacquainted with the teeth-sharpening nomen- clature of New Hampshire aud Maine. But there they lie ima circle of 200 miles diameter, monnt and valley, river and lake, Rae and clearing. The Glen House on one side o/ the hill, the Fabyan on the other, look no bigger than cigar boxes; but yet standing out distinctly, so clear is the air. A man at your side says this 1g the Androscoggin, that is the Socco; here is the Kearsage Mountain; round there you can see the Moostlauk and Lake Win- bipiseogee; but you. take a feeble or purely courteous interest in these details while the brain 18 filled with the transcript of @ scene 80 wide- bits and 60 mighty in all its features. I have Bal THE WIND was blowing at the velocity of ninety-five miles an hour, wuich is intended to convey the impression that it was blowing very hard, indeed, aud trom the northwest. Whew ! Just turn that corner and see how little you think it would take to make you fy. Iam nota lightweight, which should be in my favor, yet! present more sumace than a fish- ing rod, aad that is against me. I had no partic ‘ular views on the matter until I unwittingly at- tempted to promenade round the windy corner. To see 200 pounds of HERALD oorrespondent suddenly carroming from rock 10 = rock and nally securely pocketed between two Projecting boulders was too amusing to the onlookers to be at all comfort- able to the HERALD man, I was immediately told that it occasionally showed how it could blow by registering 148 miles an hour, An attempt to reach the United States signal station was mas- tered after a little practice, It is best to shut your mouth, bend forward and step lively. The did Tiptop House of former daya still stands, and a miserable looking shanty 1s beside the fine, well kept hotel that nowereceives the visitors at a price that is as high as the mountain in thousands of feet, Six dollars @ day and extra charges for everything is so high as to border on extortion; bat the season 13 short, and if provisions are low when bought im the valley, they are high when they reach this altitude. HOTRL DIPFIOULTIES, It is @ hard place to keep a hotel, the proprietor pleads; and this seems literally correct, ror he has to keep his house chained down on al) sides to the mountain—airaid it would be blown away. The resence of this difficulty was recalled upon read. Figs notice in large print on the bedroom cor- ridor:— WOPIITI VT a aes anareatatoeatedapatogetoapeet fae going, out to see the sunrise are re ¢ requested not to take the bed blankets from heir rooms. ifthe wind attacks the Sa mit House by Sale, Gd the visitors carry if of by re whole- in une manner which the anare Is & warning, we may exp t that the train will grrive some morn- ing and discover the Ch iw of Captain Dodge remaining to represe! im among the ruins of his establishment. There is something slip-like about the hotel, It has the ae warm ship- board odor within. There not an ounce of plaster on the whole butiding—ali painted wood and brick work where there is danger from fire— | and in the strong wind the house rocks Coy 4 Qnd iro, like a ship at sea, The fare 1s plain, but ood, and excellently cooked, and good-looking lew hampshire lasses, prim enough to be school marms, walt upon you with @ politeness worthy of the nearness of the hotel to heaven. Some of the extras are funny. One is acharge of five cents jor a sheet Of paper and an envelope, each of which bears @ flaring advertisement of the ho- tel. in a8 many bright colors as the memorable coat of that Sunday schoot modei and pious, young fraud, Joseph, the pet boy of Jacob, To write home to your iriends while so high in the world suggests i(selfas just the tning to the majority of guests, and, accordingly, the cute proprietor re- ceives & handsome bonus for permitting the guests to advertise him, THE SUNSET last évening, of which great things was expected, proved a gioomy and nota glorious affair. Alter gazing irom a comparatively sheitered vantage frouna at the descending sn, we were all glad to fasten to the cosey precincts ol the house, and cheer the inber man and woman with a bot aud hearty supper, At hal:-past ten there was a rush for wrappings and a plunge into the nipping air with- out to see the moon, or rather the tail moon, rise, It was certainly grand to see her rise above the horizon, but the sieht was too (rigorifie wo allow of much enjoyment. When | lovuked out an hour later and saw the moon with her cola, silver Tays shining on the clear aur, lighting the bilisides and casting long shadows here and there, the scene Was inexpressibly beautimni. I had prom. ised to be up belore the sun, so I dwelt not ion, | upon the beauties of the Queen of Night, but sough' my comfortable couch with its two pair of thick blankets and was soon asleep. SUNKISE is the event, as well as the beginning of the day on Mount Washington, so at hall-past four the summons Of a loud-tongued bell waked the hotel. Fashion 18 not much followed here at an; time, but at sunrise the beggars of Burns’ cantata would have laughed till their sloes ached at the tatterdemajion Crowd of & score or so, male and femaie, that gathered at five A. M. on the eastern corner of the iotel platiorm. Everything textile imaginable (except the torbidden be pressed into the service of preserving bodily warmth. The wind was not s0 high (say seventy miles an hour), but the shaded thermometer marked thirty-iour degrees and there was hard ice on the platiorm, Every Kind of projection that afforded shelter had a group behind it, and one | solemn, spectacied old gentieman, wearing & billycock bat tied over his ears with a red hand- herchiel and having mer psig like & piano cover rolled round and round his body, tad concealed Dis lower extremities in a (our barrel. He looked like a terminal figure of St. Simon Stylites as he | gazed steadily toward @ spot about sixty degrees from the place whence the sun would rise; but he was happy. When | stepped out upon the platform the faint Deralding light ol the dawn was gray and cold and cheerless to the eye, Low down, along the cast- eru verge ot the sky, hung @ band of dark crimson cloud, streaked with lines of dark gray. This ex- cepted, the sky was unttecked by even a single cirrus of guuzy white, and momentarily the great Vault was Warming into its loveliest blue, But, below, where the wide panorama of the heaving | mountains spread, the aAcene was dark, mysuc and sublime, Far to the east and pundreds of fayeuts arose, all sharply defined and shaded irom niky blackness along the heaving crests to a rich Sepia in the shadelul valleys, At the sight of it tne benolders were bushed in silence, till a young ich uenng @ common thought, cried out aloud :— “Lvs like the sea, its like the sea.’ Never has the eye of man looked on so mighty an uplicaval of the sace of the waters, It seemed as though but once the earth’s crust had upheaved, “then forever was still;’? the mould o1 that mighty cataclysmic storm being left upon it at the word | of the great Being who made the sun to sluine | and the stars to giow. Now the crimson clouds burn scarlet and are edged with pale bright gold; @ soit yeilow light diffuses itself above the eascern horizon, blenaing upward with the blue into the most delicate shades of green. The lakes and rivers gleam amid the dark hills, and as the light Increases color On the earth below comes out clearer and clearer, The mouniain Jronting us shows the green of its breust, and, amid a joyous cry from all, the round cidge of the sup wheels gloriously trom velow the sea, and the day is begun. A aeip of water, on the ex- treme ‘horizon to the right of the sun, is pointed out. It is where the broad Atiantio thutiders against the rocks of Maine. It was @ glorious sight, worthy of warmer praise than | can bestow, and pot even the biting air could chill one ota of its appreciation, The spectacied old gentleman in the barrel had fob over his ecstasy, but, like the starling of cerne’s “Sentimental Journey,” he couldn't get out. We helped nim, and the oid man was happy again, and went cheerily round the hotel to see the long, Pyramidal shadow of the mountain, fung | over t.@ mountain tops to the west. | The hotel will remain open about three weeks | longer, ana the trains will run until the 20th inst. | ‘The hotel has done fairly ; its guests are, of course, all transient, Beecher’s Repose and Pleasures—Socia- blankets) was im- | | RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. | Programme of Services for Fourteenth Sanday After Trinity, September 6, , Ministerial and Churoh Movements—" Pru- | dentius” on Tyndall's Mate- rialistic Theories. | The Rev. W. H. Thomas will preach at the usual | nours to-day in the Beekman Hill Methodist Epis- | copal church. The Rev. James Kenn@dy will exhibit “The Four | Beasts Around the Throne’? this evening in the | Fourth Reformed Presbyterian church. The Rev. Dr. Rylance will officiate and preach in St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal churcn to-day at the usual hours. The Rey. W. P. Corbitt will preach this morning and evening in Seventh street Methodist Episco- | bal church, near Cooper Institute. | Mr. Henry Hiscox will occupy the pulpit of the | | stanton street Baptist church this mormmg and | evening. The Thirty-fourth street Reformed church will be | reopened to-day and Dr. Riley will preach morn- | ing ana evening. St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church will be reopened to-day and Rey. J. F. Mcvleiland will preach and administer the sacrament of tho | Lord’s Supper in the forenoon. Divine services will be neld this morning and | afternoon in St, Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal | church, The Rev. J. B, Hawthorne, of Louisville, Ky., will speak of three great elements of Gospel power | this morning and of the repentance of Judas Is- | cariot this evening m the Tabernacle Baptist | church, which will be reopened to-day. | | Dr. Wedekind will preach in St. James’ English | Lutheran church this morning and evening. | | The Scotch Presbyterian church, in West Four- | teenth street, will be reopened to-day, and Rev. | 8. M. Hamilton will preach at the usual hours, | } and on next Sabbath thetr own edifice will be re- opened, Prudentius Reviews Ty: istic Theort TO THE EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— Full a» ig the analysis given m your issue of August 31 of Professor Tyndall's address at Belfast, one should wait for an accurate and authentic re- port of it before undertaking @ serious criticism of the most important passages. It would be curious, | 1s Material- for instance, to note his synopsis of the cosmogo- nic theories of ancient Greece, and compare them, statement by statement, with what he considers the “scientific” theories of our own times on the | same-absorbing subject. We should thus be able to take in at ince in what respect Darwin's theory of the “descent of man” differs from that of | the mueh laughed at Grecian scientist who derived man from a fish on the banks of the Nile, When an official report of Professor Tyndall's address reaches the writer he will discuss it with all the seriousness and sincerity due to the best interests of truth, Meanwhile, there are some general propositions of Mr. Tyndall’s which claim immediate attention. He assumes that “the impregnable position of science” is such that “all religious theories, Schemes and systems which embrace notions of | cosmogony, or which otherwise reach into its | (science’s) domain, must, tn so iar as they do this, | Very origin of things. T Church which has been the foster mother of ous humanity, the creator of our civilization and the generous patron of all progress. ‘The writer is not aware that a bolder specu in mathematics existed in the nineteent. than Baron Cauchy, and the highest fights of genius were sustained by his religion. There wag no deeper thinker in the wide domain of physica ana chemistry than the poor, humble, childlike priest Pianciant; no one smong living men supe rior in the science of solar physics than Pianct- ani’s brother in religion the priest Secchi, and their every study and discovery had a daily bleas. | from the Chureh, Why is it that such men could not discover the irreconcilable and innate nostility Of science ta religion? Let this much suffice for the present. Another time it will be well to descend with science to the very foundations of revelation and faith and the Well nigh haif @ century of Serious and conscientious study of the great prob- lets of the origin of things and that of life have only made religion more. divine and the faith of his Vaptism dearer tenfold to PRUDENTIUS. | Dr. Robinson’s Relation to the Brooklyn Scandal. Troy, N. Y¥., Sept. 2, 1874. ‘TO THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD :— My attention has been called to aD article in | your paper of September 1, entitted “Movements | of Mrs. Tilton,” in which it is stated that “while at Lake Wauramang they had been accompanied ay. Rev. Dr. Robinson, who preached Sunday at Plymouth church, and who 18 indirectiy identifed with the Beecher-Tilton dimecuity,” Permit me ta correct the statement. Sy chance I nad tue pleas- submit to the control of science and relinquish all thought of controlling it.” So, then, cosmogony, | or the knowledge of the origin of man and the | world, is, according to the Professor, a subject | matter of investigation, properly and exclusively | belonging to science; so much so, indeed, that re- | } ligion steps out of her sphere, “reaches” or travels | into the kingdom of her liege sovereign, science, | when she undertakes to teach or explain how the | world we see and <ouch, as well ag how we our- | selves, came ultimately into existence; to teach or | to explain to man where he came from and whither he 18 going aiter the present life is not the province of religion. Well, reader, you and I have thought otherwise for many @ long year, without suspecting that in this we are at the opposite pole of truth. But it | may be as well to take the dificulty by the horns | and explain at once what we conceive to be the | proper sphere of science and what the province of | revealed truth or of reason enlightened by faith, | | morning and afternoon. Dr. J. B. Wakeley will preach this morning and | | evening at the usual hours in Lexington Avenue | Methodist Episcopal church, | | Rev. W. B, Merritt will conduct the opening ser- | vices to-day and preach in the Union Refvrmed | church, on Sixth avenue, morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Green, of Princeton, N. J., will preach morning and evening at West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr. Miller will preach an anniversary ser- mon this morning in Plymouth Baptist church. Evening subject—**How to Live,” “The Stone Rolled Away,” or the resurrestion of Christ, will occupy Dr. Deems’ attention this morning in the Church of the Strangers. The pulpit of Westminster Presbyterian church will be occupied this morning and evening by the | Rev. Charles Naismith. All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal cnurch at half- past ten o’clock A. M. and half-past seven P. M. Dr. Armitage will be im the puipit of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church this morning und evening, The Rev. E. ©, Sweetser will preach in the Bleecker street Universalist oburch this morning and evening. Teopened to-day, and the Rey. Dr, Burchard will preach, The Rev. George W. Smiley, reputed to be a fine pulpit orator, will oceupy the pulpit of State street Congregational church, Brooklyn, tnis morning and evening. The Rev. Frederick Evans, having returned | from an extended tour in Europe, will occupy the pulpit of the Central Baptist church this morning and evening. day, and Rev. Dr. Vincent will preach. Rev. H.R. Nye will occupy the pulpit of the Church of Our Father, Brooklyn, this morning and evening. Rev. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laight street Baptist church this evening. A prayer and com- ble Diversions—=A “Mock Trial”—The | Munion service will be held in the morning. Brooklyn Pastor in the Character of | Witness and Under Cross-Examina- tion. TWIN MOUNTAIN Hovsz, N, H., Sept. 3, 1874. The presence of Mrs. Beecher has helped to ren- | der the great Brooklyn pastor, if possible, more He overfows with | 'e and evening. and is more petted ieee to | Street Baptist church at the usual morning and genial and light-hearted. mirth and good feeling, than ever. It is possible he may break his vacation by a visit to New York on legal business connected with the Tilton sult, but if this journey can be avoided it will not be undertaken. October. Itis expested that he will deliver the | address at the Lancaster (N. H.) Agricultural Fair | His recent ; about the 20tn of the month. book on agricultural matters shows that he will be a formidable successor to the late mented Mr, Greeley, whom New Hampshire claims as her son. What Mr, Greeley did not know about garden products we may expect Mr. Beecher vo tell us, and an essay On turnips instead | of one on Tilton, a disquisition on mangel wurzel | instead of mutual Mouiton, or a monograph on the dimMculty of growing cereals in rocky places, instead of dissertations on the edge of despair would be a relief to the public and, no doubt, to Mr. Beecher. sons laughing and belief that all willbe well with him, THE BEECHER BOYS are the life of the fun of the house, per. atoresala. Weight to pay as curious coincidence, day's sport was a when they were counted each “catch” was found to numver Le td Last night we had a mock ‘trial, wnich yielded a great deal of jun, and, as was unavoidable, some comment on its signifi- cance, dam: bella young Colonel Beecher. tache were concealed beneath a black veil, and in @ ine woman's suffrage woman’s falsetto, Le told THE STORY OF A LACERATED HEART. The “horrid man’’ was solemnly performed by a Mr. Humbotdt, of German extraction, whom the witnesses called “Hummy.’ The counsel for the plaintit were Mr. Willtam Beecher and Mr. Cleveland, while a hand- some young lawyer, Mr. Hyfur, with an aggressive topknot, aided by Mr. Dinsmore, the well known expressman, appeared for the miserable defend- ant. The {idee Was capitally performed by Mr. Loomis; his sententious decisious, given in toothiess, senile tones, were very funny. The Jury consisted of three ladies and three gentie- meD, the foreman being a Mr. Rumsey, whose dry native wit, aided by a stutter, a red waistcoat and @ comical phiz, bearing a pair of small twinkling eyes, made the success of the evening. He was as droll as Owens in the “Solon Shingle” court scene, His volunteered statement of having himsel! seen thirteen of Arabella’s lovers sitting whittling on the fence in front of the parental mansion, although out of place in a juryman, was a gem of ary humor. MR, BEECHER AS A WITNESS. Among the witnesses called was Mr. Beecher, who, in the character of a livery stable keeper, de- scribed in the droliest manner how the specious defendant had run up a bill of $160 on the strength Of tne ill health Of the fair Arabella’s wealthy but close-fisved papa. His calm demeanor under the scathing cross-examination of Mr. Dinsmore may be regarded as an example of how he would bear himself should General B. F. Butler take Mr. Dins- ‘The case Was one of “breach of promise,” es $80,000, ‘Ihe tatr forlorn one, Miss Ara- more’s piace in the drama of real itfe for which the Brooklyn lawyers are setting Rev. Thomas McPherson, M. A., of Liverpool, the scenes. Your correspondent wi led a8 @ | will speak to young men in Association Hall this ‘witness; but that characteristic lack of imagina- tiveness, which characterizes the true journalist, asap J him irom being equal to the occasion, ie Pree impression of a journalist's capacity to tell the truth is so far from reality that the laughter of the andience over your correspoudent's straightforward narrative be pat down to a wholesome surorise at how sadly they had wronged the children of the iourth estate. The whole with the unfortunate exception above noted, was His perfect immunity irom the | hay fever, wnich haunted nis summer tootsteps, | makes him dislike returning 10 the city before | la- ditficulty | of growing a crop of hope on the rugged When one sees his face glowing with mirth, bis silver-haired life-partner seated smiling by his side, his two manly chatting amid a group of beautitul blondes, it 1s easy to judge why sym- | Pathy clings to him in his trouble, and why those | who have known his long services adhete to the On Tuesday they made a wager with two of the guests, on the result of which depended a straw ride and a sup- Each couple was to fish a particular stream for trout, the party catching the smaller ‘‘catch” in The result of the Each party’s trout weighed five pounds to a hair, and eartwell, being humorously delineated by His whiskers and mus- “Humbug” and the plaintit ‘The Rev. Mr, Byering, having returned irom his | vacation, religious services wiil be held this morn- ing in the Greek chapel, in Second avenue, near Fiitieth street. The Rey. Alfred Taylor will preach in Noble street Presbyterian church, Greenpoint, this morn- Rev. W. 4. Pendleton will preach fn Fifty-third | evening hours to-day. Rev. H. D. Ganse, D. D., will preach in Madison | avenue Reformed church at eleven A. M. and four | P.M. to-day. Dr. Chapman will begin his pastorate with St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church to-day, preach- | ing morning and evening at the usual hours, Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr.. D. D., will preach at half past ten A. M. and five P, M. In the Church of the Holy Trinity. Rev. J. Spencer Kennard will preach in the Pil- grim Baptist church this morning and evening. Dr. Dickson will occupy Dr. Hall’s pulpit in the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon. Tne First Reformed Episcopal church will be ministered unto to-day by Rev. W. T. Sabine. | ship’? will be considered this morning and evening in Calvary Baptist church by Rev. R. S. McArthur, preach to-day at the usual hours in the Anthon Memorial (Protestant Episcopal) church. | Rey. A. CO. Osborne, D. D., having retarned from | his vacation, Will preach in the Suuth Baptist church to-day. Rey. William Fishbough will talk about “The Law of Cycles in History” this morning in De Garmo Hall, 8 P. Andrews willdefine the doc- trines of free love in the evening in the same place, Rey. Dr. Conrad will preach this morning and afternoon in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. “The Coming Sacrifice” this morning, and “La- borers Together with Grace” this evening, by Rev. 8. B. Rossiter in the North Presbyterian churen, Beulah Particular Baptist church will worship in Elder J. Bicknell at half-past ten o’clock A. M. and three o'clock P. M. i The Rev. George H, Hepworth has returned from his vacation, and to-day, at the usual hours, will preach tn the Church of the Disctples, on “The | Symbolism of the Ocean” and “Always Hopeful.’’ All Souls’ Protestant Eptscopal church, worship. ping in Kim place, near Fulton avenue, Brooklyn, | will be ministered to by Rev. George B. Porteous. | “ Rev. S. H. Platt will speak about “Little Faith’? this morning and about “Men's Opinions of Christ” | in the evening, in DeKalo avenue Methodist Epis- copal charch, Brooklyn, Rev. Robert Cameron will preach In the Dis- ciples’ church, Twenty-eighth street this morning and Rev. D. M. Graham this evening. Religious services will be held this morning in the Universalist Church of Our Saviour, ‘rhe Church of the Ascension, Dr. John Cotton Smith, rector, will be opened to-day for divine ser- vice at the usual hours, morning and afternoon, Jane street Methodist Episcopal church wil) be | reopened to-day, and Rey. Fletcher Hamlin will | preach moruing and evening. St. Ignatius’ church (Protestant Episcopal) will be reopened to-day, and the Rev. Dr. Ewer will omciate. ‘The Spiritualists and Liberals will hold a confer- ence in Germania Hall this afternoon. Religious services will be resumed to-day in Grace Protestant Episcopal church at eleven A. M, and four P. M. evening. Rev. Dr. Flagg will oMciate in the Church of the Resurrection this morning. Religious services will be resumed to-day in Obrist Church (Protestant Episcopal), Rev. H. M. Thompson, rector. The Canal etreet Presbyterian Society will wor- Rey. William M. Dunnell will preach to-day for | The Thirteenth street Presbyterian church willbe | “The Mission of the Church” and “Public Wor- | The Rey. R. Heber Newton will officiate and | Greenwich Hall to-day, and be ministered unto by | Revealed religion, Mr. Tyndaii’s preten- | sions to the contrary notwithstanding, does as- | sume, as her proper, and exclusively proper, | sphere, to account to man for his own origin and ¢ that of the world by aMirming that God, the sole necessary and selt-existent being, created them. | She thifs tells man his true origin. She telis im, | moreover, with the same definiteness and sim- | | pheity that alter this lise man’s soui returas to | God, its Creator, for judgment, to receive lor its good Geeds here an everlasting reward in the so- | ciety of her Maker and to be )unished for lie evil | deeds by everlasting banishment trom Him. Moreover, she deems it her uM™ice, properly and ! exclusively, to tell man whatare the good deeds | by which he can merit eternal life, and what the evil ceeds which deserve the eternal death, Duty is | Irom man to his Maker, and religion alone does and can teach duty, And, when amid the mid- night darkness and gropings of the pagan philos- | phy, revealed religion tirst gave these utterances ! mere affirmation, but on the authority of the world’s Maker, who had commissioned and sent her to teach man these things. And she proved | her authority and showed the seal of the divine commission Which she bore by doing God's own handiwork, and performing what most participates of creative power—tiracies, | Professor Tyndall, were you at death’s door to- Morrow, with every known restorative of science exhausted and every door v0 uope closed in your case, you, too, would believe in the man who would take youby the hand and restore vou to in- | stant heaith and peclect strength by saying “in the name of God, your Maker, «et up and live!” I kuow your answer. You scoff at the very name and notion of miracle, Thus your new sclence aims | at making faith tmposstole and resigion unworthy | of beilef, But, during the last two thousand years and more whole generations Of scoifers, of scepucs as eminent for genius and science as your honored | seul, have delleved in miracles alter laughing the idea to scorn. They believed because they saw them. It ig within the province of science to ascertain | irom infancy. He is 80 now as you and | look into | Into the empty sockets; but if in an hour that | Same man, undeniably the same, return to us with | sight in those orbs and periect organs in these | suckets, will you deny that here is a mantiestation | ol creative power—a miracle ? And when that \ man with the rapture of new lie and light on every feature tells you and me that one word, the | prououneing of one dread name, wrought in- | stantaneously the change we see, shall not we kneel down and adore that name ? And, Professor, a8 it Was tn the power of science to ates that man’s blindness, so is it now to at- test his cure. The bitndness and the cure are | Doth tacts certifed by the outward sense. It is tor the science which scoffs at miracles to put this and that together, and to find me @ cause to father | the sudden effect. Assuredly, no principle in the | [egestas theories of natural selection will account (OF It. When, therefore, religion undertook not to teach | “cosmogonic schemes, systems or theories,” but | to teach man revealed truths, dogmatic facts, she | | vine mission to teach. And, apparently, the | human race believed that she was so com- | misstoned, and allowed her to say, what it be- longed to her alone to say to the race until the eud ol time, that God ts the sole Creator, the sole Judge and the sole rewarder of mankind. We, as Christians, must be lorgiven, then, tor persisting to aszign to zeligion as ner exclusively proper sphere and she province in which she alone is supreme, those truths which she teaches to all concerning Our common origin, Our duties here and our eternal destinies. Within this sphere science may sit at religion’s eet and learn, and wide fields of investigation, itis with the aid of this twofold light of reason, enlightened by faith, that science will securely investigate aud surely find, without ever ceasing to see the fooiprints of the one ail-ordaining wisdom and power ip every | star and in every atom. She never will interfere | Witn trae science, with right reason in her legiti- mate fleld, For the God of reason is also the God ol revelation, And ifhe will have the one su- | preme and the other subordinate to her he does | hot thereby Mean the degradation or tne enslave- | ment or the imferior. ‘This great Outery about the necessary and abso- | | Inte antagonism between scieuce and religion 1§ a | | monstrous imposition on tue common sense of mankind, It 1s only requisite to point out the sphere, scope and office o1 true science to enable ; eveu the man of ordinary education to perceive what @ fallacy underlies ail this declamation, Science deuls, and professes to deal, only with | the world of sense; her scope is to penetrate the | | Dature ana composition of material substances, to + | detect by observation the laws which govern the particles of any one definite substance in their | ; combination with each other, as well as those | which govern all bodies in their relations to the great universe around them. The office of naturai or physical science, then, 1s to observe phenom- ena, to classify and arrange them 80 as to | arrive at what we improperly call general laws. I | | say improperly, because the science of observation and experiment deals, in every direction, with facts, and her conclusions cannot go beyond the limit of observations. Her laws are a summin; | up—an induction from the phenomena noted ani the experiments made. But these are manifestly | included within a narrow sphere. The law, or in- duction, if assumed to be general or universal, violates the fundamental principles of logic; the | conclusion would be infinitely wider thun the premises. Here, precisely, is one of the capital mistakes which science, of, rather, such men as Tyndall, | Darwin and Spencer make tn the name of science. From avery limited series of observation, too often irom @ hasty survey of lew iacts, phenom. ; ena or experimenta, they generalize; that ts, con- clude to @ general law whicn is supposed to 'gov- | era nature in a certain direction in all ber opera- tions, past, present and to come, ‘Vake what is most generally admitted as cer- tain—the laws of universal gravitation, Are they as iaid down by Newton and his followers, and as taugnt by generation aiter generation of scientific Men, a8 Certain as the scientific dogmatizers 01 a century ago Would lave the world believe ? Have not the observations of recent astronomers and the speculations of our best mathematicians es, real ground to call into question the “uni- ersality” of these laws of universal gravitation ? So is it in physics. Surely we have not yet ob. | served ali tie phenomena of heat and light, of electricity and motion, (hat we should dogmatize so imperiously about the absolute certainty of generai laws or the existence of one fluid or one cause Which produces ali these various phenom- ena. Newton was modest in speaking of these uncer- tainties; 30 was Huygens, 80 was Fresnel and 80, too, was Young, But our modern scientists are anything but that. In dealing with what should be tor them, as for their predecessors, a fleid of investigation, of inquiry. of rational hesitation in | presence of thetllimitable 3 into which sct- ence and her sons hat yet set foot, they become arrogant and self-suficient and tnsaderably intolerant. It is unwise as it is unnecessary, So long as rea- gon will be content to investigate, to discover or to regiater her observations and discoveries, reli- ion Will cheer her on, support her, aid ber, en- izhten her, and take leasure in recording, where the memory of it shall never tade, every sin- gie fact, induction, experiment and law which Teason may report. It has been so in the past, There ts not a science of which humanity is proud, not an art useial or ornamental to haman life which religion hi | to the world she asked to be believed, not on her | by sensivle proofs that a man is blind and was so | give to the human race proo! suiticient of her di- | then go orth with ner lamp replenished into tne | | the Ist of October. ure of being introduced to Mrs. Tiiton at the camp of Mr. Gunn’s school, on Lake Wauramang, where 1 was Visiting my son, who is a member of the school, Tat is all, If believing, with Rev. Dr. Porter, of Yale Coliege (see his manly, fraternal letter to Mr. Beecher), that Mr. Beecher is an in- necent man, and if loving him as a friend identi- fies me with the “difficuicy,’’ 1 am content to have it 80; but in no other way am I directly or ‘dndi- rectly identified’ with an affair, the publication of which Mr. Beecher, with all his consciousness of innocence, soresaw would be socially demoralizing, but which, in view ot the elo be pad. f° Cr with, he unwisely endeavore ress. truly yours, “i Cc. E. ROBINSON, fastor Second Street Presbyterian Church. Ministerial and Church Movements. METHODIST. ‘The Rev. Dr. Deems, pastor of the Church of the Strangers, has accepted the Presidency of Rutgers Female College of this city. ‘The admirers of Rev. Thomas Guard, of Baltt- more, and they are legion, will regret to learn that he has become permanently blind by the bursting of a blood vessel connected with the eye nerves. He is ill at present, but while he cannosg | expect a restoration of sight it is hoped that he | will so far recover as to be able to resume his pulpit labors. He was expected in New York within a short time had not this affliction come | upon him. The death of Bishop Morris, in Ohio, places Bishop Janes, of this city, in Episcopal seniority in the Methodist Episcopal church. He, too, hag been ill for two weeks with the chronic ailment which laid him aside during the session of the last | General Conterence. He has been improving, however, within the last tow days. Bishop Merrill bad a cordial reception from the Oregon TT which met at Portiand op August 12, | _ Dr. B. 0. Haven will be installed Chancellor of Syracuse University next Tuesday week, 15th in: st. Kev. Dr. Reid, one of the missionary secretaries of this city, has been elected a bishop of the | Canada Methodist Episcopal Church. it 18 bee | lieved he wil accept. This is the third or fourth | time he has been oiYered this position. The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist, in its camp Meeting notes, records the conversion of 369 souls | ateignt camp meetings within the bounds of its | circulation, jts revival imtelugence also shows that 2,620 conversions have occurred in the churches and stations near the camp meetings Within a week or two, ‘There will be a camp meeting for Troy Confer- ence at Round Lake, N. Y., commencing Monday, September 7, and ciosing the following Saturday. he Methodist church at King George Court House, Va., now nearly completed, will be dedi- cated 8 ptember 13. Bishop Pierce is seeking to secure an endow. ment for Emory College by endowing a proiessor- ship at atime. He has secured $10,000 toward the first—the Pierce professorship, The Bishop was taken suddenly ni at Athens, Ga,, week belore last, while about to preach before the District Con- lJerence. He is now very much better, BAPTIST. Rey. Robert McGonegal was recognized as pastor of the First Baptist CLurch of Hackensack, om | ‘The Church of the Covenant will be’ reopened to- | his tace and scan these poor sigatiess orbs or look | eee Augast 18, Rev. H. M. King, of Boston, has declined the ur- gent cali of the Free street church, ln Porlund, Me., | and retains his place as pastor of Dudiey street church, Boston Hiahlands. Rev. A. J. Goruon, of Vlarendon street church, | Boston, is rusticating in New Hampshire. Dr. Lamson, of Brookline, who recently suffered a stroke of paralysis, 1s recovering from 1ts effects, but it is feared that he will not be abie to preach } much more. Rey. J. T. Beckley and Rev. George F. Pentecost. of Boston, when lust heard from were making on oot a tour of the English lake country. They are expected home in October, ‘ihe Baptists of Moria, N. Y., will dedicatea new church on September 9, Mr. Charles Sherwood, @ graduate of Hamilton Tbeologicai Semmary, Das been ordained and in- ‘stalled pastor of the Baptist church at Barnes? Corners, N. Y. | Rev. W. W. Beardsley was ordained and ine aptisc church at Clifton | stalled pastor of the Park, N. Y., on August 26. There are in the maritime British provinces 19,905 Baptist church members in Nova = 10,828 members 10 New Brunswick, and | Prince Edward Island. Total, 31,693. The net | increase jor the last ecclesiastical year is nearly | eight per cont, | Miss Smiley has been preaching in the Saratoga: Baptist church, and has convinced @ correspond- ent that “she is what she says, that her inner life | ts a realization of her words, and ber words the expopent of her real uner life.’? The Rev. C. 8. Crain, late of Georgetown, has accepted 8 call to Fabius, N. Y. ‘The Rev. Joun B, Hutchinson, after several years | Of earnest labor with tue Olivet church, Pailadel- | phia, has resigned. ROMAN CATHOLIC. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, writes to the Hvangeltat from Geneva that Pere Hyacinth is not such stuf as great reformers are made of. The cause of re- ligion on the Continent, the Doctor says, does most wolully lack men. A hew Cathoiic church is being erected on Lap- Wal Creek, about eight miles from Fort Lapwal, Oregon, and will pe ready for dedication about Rey. Father Vataldo has a large congregation in the vicinity, the majority of whom are Indians belonging to the Nez Perces trlbe. The Catholics of Helena, Montana, are building ® $15,000 church. ay * “Rochester, N. Y., has a convent House of Indus bai ny which young girls are taught shoemaking. Rev, Father O’Congor, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s church, Fall River, Mass., has been trans jerred to the diocese of Chicago. Kev. James O'Donoghue has put up a neat frame church, 60x70, at Bradiord Junction, Ome, The church is nearly out of debt—owes but $300. ‘The Catholics of Chnton, Mass., are putting up ® very imposing church edifice, 120 feet long, 111 leet wide and having a tower 170 teet high. Eighty-seven of the secular clergy of Cincinnatl, inciuding the Most Rey. Archbishop Purcell, have just concluded @ pastoral retreat conducted by the v. Father Nussbaum, 3. J. The late Bishop of Savannah, Ga, Dr. Persico, who resigned his office in 1872, has just been re- commissioned as Bishop of Bolivia. He bas been filling @ curacy in Quebec. ‘rhe 10th day of Oetober next the fourth annual convention of tne Cathulic Total Abstinence Union of America will be held in Chicago, PRESBYTERIAN, Secretary Dulles, of the Presbyterian Publication Board, has returned to his home in Pmiadelphia from an extended summer tour in Europe. The Rev. Dr. Cunningham, of the le Garden Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, returned home trom Europe. ‘Toe death in Scotland ts announced of the Rev. ae Pee President of the Free Church College Lass . . Rev. Isaac Ciark, late of the Elm place Congre- ational church, Brooklyn, has accepted the pas- torate of the Rondout Presbyterian church, of Kingston, and will vegin his labors there to-day. Dr. S. D, Burchard has returned to tho etty in- vigorated from a trip as far north a8 St. Jonn, N. B., and is expected to fil the pulpit of the Thir- teenth street church on next Sabbath. The Twenty-third street Presbyterian church have unanimously called tne Rev. Erskine N, White, of Bufulo—son of Norman White, o: this city. His acceptance Is considered certain, EPISCOPALIAN, Rey. Mr, Dennis, son of Kev. John Dennis, of the Western New York Methodist Conference, Is rece tor of St James’ Protestant Episcopal church, aTalo, Dr, Selwin, Bishop of Lichfield, England, is al © figs aac ees ishop Ui 3 intends io @ systematic visitation of the Reformea posal churches, to organize new societies, ordain mints- ters, &c., beginning in Canada. He has not much confidence that the emne, Prete tant Episcopal General Vonvention will take any steps for the re- vision of the Prayer Book, but belleves that the the’ nopetesauses of tett cote tae Bose ed eir Joln tue Retormed Onuren, ao horror 0) ell, of Obio, 81 aress that the Episcopal Church assailed by vital errors of faith, brought in through anlawe 1Ui ritualistio practices.” te that is re is no farther compromise possible, if Bis ps Nee d Who think with bim are honest not either inspired or rewarded—not one. There isno abipia Spring street Preapyterian church to-day, effort or product of human industry, no .enter- prise or success of true science for which re not @ blessing im the ritual of tbat grasa Rey. John Cotton Smit! York, deciines the Presidency of Gambier. Callegs t piscopal), hie. Het has Mentioned a @ candidate oF ‘The Rev, V. vy ‘of St, Paul's Memorial see at Ville, returned from Sera-