The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1874, Page 15

OR EM NE ET AE ASS AIAN OER REE - ad RELIGIOUS. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES FOR TO-DAY. The Episcopal General Convention and Church Congress. ——— Ministerial Movements—The Christian Versus the Materialistic Theory of Creation, Two important subjects will be discussed to-day by Dr. Rylance in St, Mark’s church. In tne morn- ing—“The Real Presence,” and m the evening, “Tue Church Congress," Dr. Home will speak of honesty in all thines, and of the authority of the scriptures, at the usual services to-day in Trinity Baptist enuren, ‘The Spiritualists will hold a conference in Har- vard Rooms this aiternoon, At De Garmo Hall, Chnton Roosevelt will speak this morning on *The- ology,” and E. T. Howard in the evening on “The Drunkard's wife.” Rev. David Mitchel! will preach at the usnal hours to-day in tue Caual Street Presbyterian church. Rev. George 0, Phelps invites everybody to the services in Allen street Presbyterian church, where he will preach tuis morning and evening, In AD Saints’ Protestant Episcopal cnuren Rev, W. M. Dunnell will preach a. the usual hours to- day, At the South Baptist church the Rey. Dr. usborae will preach morning and evening. “The Open Door” 1s the subject of the Rev. Mr. Bweetser’s discourse this murning lu Bleecker street Universalist church, The Rev. P. L. Davies will preach to-day, as asual, in the Berean Baptist church. The Rey, W. . Thomas will preach in Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal churcia to-day at the usual hours. The Rev, Drs, Howland and Conrad, rectors of the Chureh of the Heavenly Rest, will preach to- day at eleven A. M. and jour P. M. “In the Image of God" 1s the theme chosen by the Rev, J. M. Pullwan jor meditation this even- tng in the Church of Our Savior, Dr. 8. H. dyng, Jr., and vr. Irving will preach this mornitig and aiternoon in the Church of the Holy Trinity, The people’s service in the even- Ing, inthe same place, will be ministered to, a3 usual, by br. Tyng. Dr. Deems will have something to say abont the “Glory of the Heavenly ivherttaice,” this morn ing, in the Church of the Strangers. “Christian Lightbearers” and “student Life of St. Paul,” are the topics on which the Rev. RK. 5. McArthur will speak to-day in Calvary Baptist ehuren. The Rev, Dr. Morgan wil! preach this morning and aiternoon in St. ‘homas’ Protestant Episcopal churen, The Rev. W. T, Sabine wiil preach this morning and evening in the Fire Reformed Episcopal church. The Rev. Dr. Brown wiil preach in English this morning for the French Reiormed church, wor- bipping in Calvary chapel. The Rev. Dr. Armitage will preach this morning and evening in the Fifth avenue Baptist church, The Rev. Robert Sloss wili preach at the usual hours to-day im the Fourteenth street Presbyterian eburch. Dr, Fulton will preach in Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn, this morming on “The Judg- ment Begun at the House of Ged,” and this even- ing a continuation of his series on Daniel. The Progressive Spiritualists will be entertained this morning and eventng, at their usual mecting place, by Mr.J. M. Peebies, The Rev. H. D. Ganse will preach at eleven A. M, and four P. M. to-day in the Madison avenue Re- formed Dutch church, The Forsyth street Methodtst Society will wor- ship this afternoon at No, 101 East Broadway. The Rey. J. Spencer Kennard will speak this Morning about “Seeing Jesus,’ and this evening on “Who Are the Blessed,” in the Pilgiim Baptist church, “The Christian’s Feast” and “The Interest Our Departed Friends Take in Us” will be discussed by Rev. W.P. Corbitt atthe usual hours in Sev- enth street Methodist Episcopal church, The Rev. S.M. Hamilton will preach this morn- ing and afternoon in the Scotch Presbyterian ebureb, ‘The Rev. Joseph F. Elder will preach as usuai in Madison avenue Bapust church. The Tabernacle Baptist church starts on a new iife to-day. It takes as its pastor an eloquent and popular Southern divine, who will be installed this morning, and who this evening will preach on the “Sacrificial Life of Christ.” ‘The Rey. George D. Matthews will preach in the Westminster Presbyterian church tus morning and evening. The Key. John N, Gallaher will preach this morn- ing and afternoon in Zion Protestant Episcopal church, Madison avenue. Preaching by Rev. W. B. Merritt this morning and evening in tne Sixth avenue Union Reformed church. Dr. Sprele wil) occupy the pulpit of Forty-second treet Presbyterian church to-day at hall-past ten A. M, and four P. M. The Rey. D. B. Jutten having recovered from his Tate illness will officiate this morning and even- ing In the Sixteenth street Baptist church. The Rey. H. H. Garnett will speak for Shiloh Presbyterian church this evening, No. 140 Sixth avenue, on the “Persecution of the Colured Peo ple ta the Soutn.” Dr. Bellows will speak in Ali Soul's church this morning on “Rekindling of the Altar Fires.” The Rev, R. Heber Newton will oMciate and preach at the usual hours to-day in the Authon Memorial Protestant Episcopal church, ‘The Rey. Mr. Nye, of the Cuurca of Our Father, Brooklyn, will this evening reply to Dr. Fulton, and tell “What Universalists believe became of J. Wilkes Booth, the murderer of President Lin- coln.”” The “Sinner’s Relation to Christ’? will be Mr. Hepworth’s theme this morning, and “God So Loved the World” tuis eveuing, in tue Church of ‘the Disciples, Drs. Snodgrass, MacDonuld and Paxton will preach to-day at the dedication of the Phillips Memortal Presbytertan church, The Rev. C, ©. Tiffany will preach on “Modern Atheism” this evening in the Protestant Mptscopal Church of the Atonement, Tho Rev. Dr. Ewer will officiate this morning and evening in St. Ignatius’ church. The Rev. John Parker wili give “The Rumsel- fers’ Convention” particular attention this even- ing in Warren street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn. There will be divine service this morning in the Russian chapel in Second avenue, Rev. N. Bjer- fing pastor. Divine service and sermon this morning in St, Mary the Virgin’s church, Vespers also at four o'clock P. M. All Soais’ church, in Elm place, Brooklyn, will be ministered to to-day by the Kev. Dr, Porteus, who will preach @ special discourse by request this evening. The Rev. W. D, Walker will preach in the new Calvary chapel, Twenty-third street, this morning, afternoon and evening, Mr, T. Warren will hold a Spiritualist scance this evening in Harlem Music Hall. Me promises that the spirits can be seen, heard, elt and con- versed with by the audience, Mrs. Caroline A. Soule will preach for the Fifth Universalist Society, in Plimpton flail, this morn- ing. dh sdretiel True ana the False in Human ile. The Rev. N. W. Conking will address young men in Association Hall this evening. The Rey. Thomas PD. Anderson, D. D., will preach at half-past ten A. M., and half-past seven YP, M. to-day, in the First Baptist chureh, The parochial schools of the Church of the Holy Ipnocenta will be dedicated this afternoon. The INTELLIGENCE, | Mw YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1874.-QUINTUPLE SHERT. | Lord Mayor of Dublin will be present to review the civic provession, ‘The Free Church of the Holy Sepulchre will be ministered 10 to-day, at the usual hours, by the Rey, J. Tuttle Smith, Preaching by the Rey. Dr. Flagg in the Church ol the Resurrection this morning and evening. Tne Catholic Union wili hold a quarterly me ing in the College Hall in West Sixtecuth street, to-morrow evening, and on Friday morning @ re- quicm mass will be celebrated for 1t8 deceased members in St, Ann's church, ‘The Rev. 8. H. Platt will ask DeKalb avenue Methodist Episcopal cuurch tnis morning to “Pre. pare the way of the Lord” and this evening to be “Filled with the Hoiy Ghost.” t The Christian Theory of Creation Ver= sus the Materialists’ Thoory. To Tne EpiToR OF THE HERA As® conclusion to the strictures presented to your leaders on the unwarrantable dogmatism of some modern scientists, | would fain, m this and my next lecier, blish a parailel between what may be calicd the Christian theory of the unt- verse aud tbe counter theory of the materialists. Science has sent her prophets to preach “lay ser- mous” on the housetops of London, and our god- liest New York publishers baye reproduced them in cheap editions, to therr own great profit, doubt- less, albeit to the eterna! detiiment of our popula- tion. Were our most learned and ¢loquent divines to attempt to undo the spiritual mischief thus done to our American public—lovers of fair play and iree discussion—they migut learn the truth of an oid, old saying, ‘that one fool can propose more riddies than ten of the wisest men can ex- plain.’ Itisnotmy purpose to cast ridicule on true science; your readers will, I trust, acquit me of ali such intentions, Nor do I deem it of any last- ing advantage to the cause of truth to cover even aise science with ridicule. Truth, like liberty, has been the passion of my life, and I would bring to her service no other weapons but candor and simplicity. L!, in this levter, | can only make plain toevery man, woman and child who reads this page the sublime simplicity of Goa’s ways, and show how He has made all things “in number, weight and measure,” and governs all things with a Wisdom and a power that “reach mightily from end to end” and “ordain all things most sweetly,” then my pains will have full compensation in your readers’ enlightenment. Christian philosophy—that is, science enlight- ened by revelztion—teaches that God created, governs and ordatos the world for His own glory and the happiness of ail intedigent beings therein. This proposition sounds commoaplace, and | savors, you may think, of the Sunday school, Only listen, The natives of our Western Territories muy bave crossed the Rocky Mountain passes and forded its streams at all seasons without suspect- ing What the glittering fragments in the water beneath them denoted and what golden treasures lay uidden iw the shaggy rocks above and around tuen. So with ourselves, We dream not of the treas- ures of knowledge, and, with knowledge, of strength and Ite, which lie concealed beneath every one of those boundless, unfatuomed tracts we call Curistian dogmas, Explore we togetuer, O reader, this one little dogma o! creation, and see what it will yield us. Belore creation there was a Creator; there was a cause beiore the effect, As clearly, as certainly as | now appretiend my own existence and ail in the past and present connected therewith, I per- ceive God existing from all eternity. He presents liimseil to my understanding as the inilnitely per- ect Being—inGnite, because so full that nothing can add to His abysmal sujness and nothing take irom it, He contains within the ocean of His being every conceivable reality; therefore that supreme reaiity of being intelligent, willing, loving—that Is, 0) being & personal God, My God 1s, then, ail inteitect and will, all intellt- gence and love, au intelligence embracing and exnausting in its one simple and most periect act of Kuowiedve the divme nature itsell and ail that it Can bring forth, and a love coextensive with that Knowledge and yet Iree ; yes, Irec in all things that relate not to the penectious of we divine essence. We are treading on God’s depths; let us be care- ful, reverent and slow, It Was Bot necessary that God should create, Being the infinite reality he needed nothing out. side of Himself, Within Himself His being was so rich and His lile so fertile, that He nad by the very necessity of His infinite uature a word, the pros duct and Son of His intelligence, co-substantial and coequal with its principle, inflnite in every way, like the intellect irom which it proceeded ; per- sonal in its nature, therefore iike the Fatier sim sell. This word, just like mine, if tt were the per ect. conception and expression of an infinite, instead of a Hnite and limited intelligence, expressed the whole divine reality, Was the mirror of the Father's greatness, reflecting Him back to His own eye and ubtering eiernally, “Abba, Father!” From the matoaland necessary love of Father and Son sprang auother infinite person who ts third in that wost perfect aud uving unity—the Holy Spirit, the substantial, Coequai wud necessary term of that mutual infinite jove of Father and Son, Can | make this great truth, this most primal fact, accessible to you, reader? Bear with me one moment and you shall see how all this explains creation. You, God’s creature, like everything which He has made, bave in your OWu soul the living image ol your God’s being and lise, You, too, are imtelii- gent; every act Of your intellect is a conception, and the term of each act and conception 3s an in- terior word, which ts the expression of what your intelligence conceives, Do not start or become distracted. Jf on any one most beautiful and ea- chanting subject you could conceive the truth ade- quately ahd express it perfectly, it would be the word wirroring jorth your mind on that matter; and how you would love that conception, that word, that expression of your own most intimate thought and self! How you would make that live fas substantial, lasting and periect in every way as that concepiton o1 yours! For, reater, we poor limited intellects do love With an absorbing love our own conceptions, our own interlor Words, expressed in 000ks or stacues or paintings or edifices, But these vital acts of ours, the operations of intelityeace and of love which separate us from tue brute and make us godiike, are oniy Ure dim imperfect shadowings of what eternally takes place within the bosom of the most pertect God. From all eternity God was by the very necessity of His nature Father, Son and Holy Spirit; God knowing Himself and finding an eternal, substan- ual, ininive and persona) expressiol of litmselt in the son, and both finding an eternal, substantial, infinite and personal expression of their mutual love in the Holy Spirit. Such is the wealth of mutual knowledge and mutual love which these three infinite Persons enjoyed trom evermore in their own ail-suilicient and most biessed society. Christian philosopiy teils us that this interior Wweaith oi jie and happiness, which God possesses by the very necessity of His nature, is, on the one hand, whet made Ht independent ot all things ex- ternal to Himsel!, 4nd what, on the other hand, made Him able to create, and to create ireely and to create in time. God had no need of creating, because He was ail intelligence and all love, aud had within Himselt infinite and exhausting objects jor both intellect and will, But because He 1s both infinitely good aud iniinitely tree He willed tu communicate both being and happpiness to others outside of Himself, And God, having resolved to create the world, acted according to the 1aws of His nature. Being supremely tuteiligent and reasonable, Ke acted in creating, as we see reasonable, intelligent beings acting. It is the essential characteristic of ra- tonal nature to act Lge ag to design—to work alter @ preconceived plan. The old architect of the Cathedral of Cologne had his plan in his mind betore be sketched it on paper, as discovered at length within our own umes. ‘There was unity in that grand conception, and simplicity. There 1s hot one part or section of the Vast edifice, irom ground pian and pillur to roof and tower and pin- hacie, that does not reproduce constantly one primal element, out of which grew tho enor- mous pile, the masterwork of buman skill. So, in the Divine mind, and its expression, the Word and sou, God bore the conception of tis Vast universe, it periect simplicity and unity, He saw tt cternally mirrored there as he could make It—the iManimate material elements in all their possible combinations and with the laws and forms necessary to them or compatible with every possible circumstance and system; He saw the world of life in its ascending stages trom vegeta- bie to animal, from animal to man, trom man to angel; every being Within the vast circomierence of possibility or creation imaging forth to God’s own mind, and to the mind of man and angel, some likeness to the Creator; the inorganic world expressing to the intellect the reality oi existence common tO matter as well as to God, all livin things eloquent of Him in whom aloue 1s the fon of life, and man and angel approaching most nearly, inthat they can know and love, that infinite nature which is all love and all intellt- ence. eons did God hola from all eternity the world within Himself, as the architect contemplates and matures the plan of a future edifice within bis own mind, The conception in the one case, as in the other, is not a material being. The stone, the marbie, the brick, the mortar, the wood, the ‘iron and the bronze of Cologne Minster are notin the great artist’s nind, but there 1s the conception of them and the innate power which can one day make them a reality, So, in the mind of the Divine Workman there ts not material atom or primordial vegetable cell, or animal protoplasm, or any of the matertal fuids or elemental forces which science has discovered or imagined; there is only the conception, em- bracing the eternal tvoes aud forms of all things, and ofthe forces which are to invest them when | the rite of confirmation in the Roman Catholic Urought into being, and Chere, too, 18 the power Lo make of the conception a reality. When thy moment decreed sor creation comes God does not take within His own being any prin- cipal matt r OF spiritual substance, wuich He then places outside of us own, as the concely He works upon the plop in His own mind; every enacted wing is formed upon the iGea or type which exists there eternady, But the created substance, matter or spirit, 18 created, ‘There ts tae dimteculty, But tha; | must not now attempt to explain. Some other thie shal) best serve tiy purpose. For the present | have only to complete tye comparison between the human aretiitect and the Divine Creator. it bas been rarely given to aby one o! our mighty Medieval geniuses Co carry oUt Lo ConsummELon Dis pian Of cathedral That most periect ol ex- isting Christian tempies, the Basilica of Amiens, Was coupleted, it is said, in seventy-five years. A prodigious teat! But the designer did not live 0 look Upon his creation. So with him or Coozue, and so with Bramante and that old giant, Michael Angelo, with regard to that huge heap oj} stone and mortar, St. Peter's, Nevertueless, were given to one man tu conceive an! execute such stupendous designs, we readily faucy how lovingly the progress 0} the work wouid be watched, How muctt mo ¢ (rue 1s this of Him whe Knoweth neither the limitations o space and time nor the imperieetton attend.nt on human workmanship. The Mind which conceived the world is eveu m the wortd to see to tt that the execution iii every age, and every minute Getail shall ve 1u conformity with the primordial plan. The Power wuiel first brought forth matter and hie anu spirit never dies,” never wearies, never fais, ever withdraws 11s almighty hand, The Divine Work man 18 ever present in the ceuwe and 10 the circumference of his great wors, present in the smaliest material let on the crumbling wall, present in tue flower biooming in the remotesc vale, im the microscovie infusoria hiving in the cepths of the ocean's vosom, or in tae coralline building Up islands in the Pas cific, and present especially in the very centre of man’s soul, as in His loved sanctuary. Surely man will hovor Him theie, and nou find a Pleasure in deuying to the Workman tue autor Blip of His most glo.ious work, = PRUDENTUS, Ministerial and Church Movements. EPISCOPALIAN. The Rey. John J. McCook, rector of St. Jonn’s, East uartiord, Conn., vas returned from ap ex- tended European tour. The Rev. Wiliam A. Des Brisay will soon close his lubors 8 rector of St. Mark’s church, New Canaan, Conn. During the month of September Bishop Clark- son has visited the missionary jurisdiction of Dakota, This is his third visit to the Territory during the present year, At several of the points visited, no other religious services but those of the Protestant Episcopal Church have ever been held, The Rey. P. B. Morrison has resigned the charge of the Protestant Episcopal churen at Vermilion, Dakota, which will be served by the Key. Mr. Magomn, of Yankton, The Rey. John Hammond having, through il- ness, been obliged to resign his charge at Talla- uassee, Fla., the Rev. Mr. Meany, of Gainesville, has been elected his successor. The Rey. J, P. Townsend, of Peoria, Ill., has ac- cepted @ call to the rectorsnip of the Ciurch of the Incarnation, Washington, v, 0. The Rev. Dr. Watson, of Burlington, lowa, hag accepted the call of Christ church, Red Wing, Minn, to be vacated by the consecration of the Kev. Dr. Wel’es to the Hpiscopate of Wisconsin. The Rev. Frank C. Coolbaugh, of St. John’s church, Mankato, Minn., has been called to Holy ‘Trinity church, East Miuneapolis, to succeed the Rey. G. L. Chase. The Rev. P. B. Lightner has resigned the as- sistant rectorship of Uhrist church, St. Paul, Minn., to take eflect on the return of Dr. McMasters from General Convention. Mary's church, Keyport, N. will have to be sold ior detyt unless churchmen will help, Con tributions, however small, will be welcomed g@rateiully by Rev. 1, Hougson, Hoboken, N. J. Bisnop Coxe, of Western New York, has 100 clergymen in tis diocese, The Rev. George Z, Gray, of Bergen Point, ex- pects to return to his parish about the 10th of Oc- tober, after a juriough oi more than a year, The Rev, Cuurtes H, Gardner has resigned the Darishes in Clayville and Bridgewater, N. Y. The Rev. Joun F. Potter has accepted a call to the rectorship of st. John's chureh, Cornwali, Orange county, N. ¥ The Rev. Joel Davis having received a call to re- turn to Harpersvilie aud wssume the rectorsip of St. Luke's churoh, has resigned the misstonary work at Holland Parent, N. Y. Rev. W. Von Gantzhorne, deacon, who has been omMcialiy in Phiiadeiphia for some time, has with- Grawn irom the Protestant Episcopal Churen, ‘The Rev. CG. 1. Bland has been elected rector ot St. James’ parish, Lenoir, N, C., aud las enterea upon its duti The Rev. James Stoddard has become assistant minister in Trinity parish and chaplain of the Church Home, New Haven, Conn. The Rey. Thomus £. Dickey s accepted an ap. pointment by thes Bishoy of Utan to engage 1a missionary Work at Silver City, Utah, The Rey. Char H. Gardn resigned the clay and Bridgewater, Centrai ‘rhe Rey, Roberr Murray has accepted the rec- torstip of St. Jon's parish, Ashton, R. L, and enters upon his duties there to-day. The Rey. Dr. Haight, Woo has been seriously tl ion consequence oi wver work has greatiy im- proved, and 1s now ont oF danger. in addition to Nis regular dues be was appointed by the Vestry rector of Tr.nity church during the abserce oi the Rey. Dr. Dix. The Vestry of St. Paul's church, has appointed a committee 10 arrange jor making the charch iree one. ‘the Rey, John 0, Middie- ton, of New Britain, Conn., has accepted a call to the rectorship of the parish, The Rev. 7. K. Bonsall, of Suffolk, Englana, has Teceived a call, and accepted the recto‘ suip to Si. Jobn’s church, Lone Island City. — Jbis enuren has been a long time withour a setiled pastor. The new chime of bells in Thomas’ chureh, Filth avenue, was rung yesterday afternoon tor the first time and created quite a sensatuon in the neighvoruood. BAPTIST. The East avenue Bapust church, Hunter's Point: has invited Mr. William &. Granger, wno graduated tn the last class trom Madison University to be- come its pastor, The Southern New York Baptist Association will hold its lourth anniversary in the Lerean Baptist church, of this city, on Tuesday aud Wednesday next. An elegant Baptist church was dedicated last week in Everett, near Hoston. 1 will held 1,009 len Cove, L, L, peopie, and has every movert appointmeat. lus church Was organized th years ago, ihe Rey. C. v'W. Bridgman, D. D., or Philadel- phia, bas returned trou ni much invigorated. On Wednesday last village of Hast New brief transatlantic crip York v broken into by thieVes, Who carried away six silver call Deis ana ® number Of books, atid aiso smashed the coniriba- uon boxes, in which, however, they found no money. The Rev. E. A. Woods has resigned the pastorate Of the Baptist chuics ut aratoca Springs, greally to the regret ot ite yand socte*y Areport has come by te cgraph of the death ot Rey. Dr. Knowlton, oF tie North China tmissio: at Ningpo, on September + The Rev. 1. &, sirickiaud, late of Wesrerly, \. L. has leit the Baplist denomiuation because his faith in the doctrines o: total depravity, tae Tela ity, divinity of Christ and eternal punishment has changed, The Jadependendt thinks nothing tt lately occurred (0 Weaken aby man’s jaita in tue doctrine of teta! depravity. Rey, OU. T. Moulton Closes a pleasant, pastorate at Oueonta, N. ¥., of eight and a hall years this month, and accepts t storate of the Free Bap- tist church at South Berwick, Me. Tbe Free Baptist church in Cherry Valley, Dh, will be ready for dedication early in tis month, Rey. P, 8. Vreeland, of Paterson, Nas accepied a call to the pastorate o the Baptist church at Wodstown, in Salem county, » Winety-four incinbers have withdrawn trom the rirst German Baptist church, Punadelpiia, to ior a new orgavizarion. ‘Yne Key. H. ©. Graves has accepted the call of the secoud church in Fail River, and will begin work there ta ye The Rev. T. J. Stegfried, formerly of Victory, N. Y., bas engaged with the church at Mansfelu, Onto. The Rev. Willian O. Ayer, of Peterboro’, N. H., has been invited toand vas accepted the pastorate of the Bapust churco in skownegan, Me. The Baptist church, Red Bank, N, J. was re- opened, alter extensive repairs and improvements, on Sunday last. The pastor, Kev. B. J. Poote, has welcomed a large number of new members into fellowship this year, Sud hopes are entertained of continued prosperity. The Kev. 8. L. Cox, Who went to Missouri re- cently to collect funds for the. American bine Union, finding tiat work in the West in this finan- cial pressure an almost impossible task, lias given heed to what he regards as the voice of Vrovi+ dence and settled as jastor over a Baptist churca which he has been instrumental in organizing m pasa dad on (he Hannibal and St, Josep Rai- road. The Baptists of Calliornia are to have a grand pioneer jubilee mm San Francisco on the sth inst. Rev. E. B, Huriburt, fate of St. Pant, Minn, taken hold of the pasiorate at the First church, San Francisco. ‘ The Yabernacie Baptist church, of San Fran- cisco, has called to its pastorate Rev. W. M. Kin- caid, a late Rochester (N. Y.) graduate. In the city and suburbs of St. Louis there are thirteen Baptist churches, four of winch are colored. ROMAN @ATITOLIC. Pour hundred Bagiish Catholics have gone on a pilgrimage to Pontigny, where St. Ldmund Rich, obce an archbishop of Canterbury, is buried, The Koman Catholics have just organized their first church tn Uld Plymouth. The edifice, which is not completed, stands in the Main street, pearly Opposite the Memorial Hail, Bishoo Loughlum. af Xrogkign, will administer sats thus pre- | it | | Creary, irom Chica | (TOM, PLesent in Che MOSS 5 | the | the Baptist church ia the | s | avenue, Brookiyn, ts about to be commen church at Brestau, L. 1, to-day. Bishop M-Parlaud, of Haruvrd, is reported to be seriously tll, ‘The dedication of the Church of St, Charles Bor- romeo, now nearly completed, at PrKesyille, 18 eX+ pected Lo take place on the 4th of Novemver, the Jestal day or Lue Saint. Five priests bave died mM Indianapolis within the une Months, aud public comment has been ed thereby, A hew house of the Redemptorist Fathers has | recently been opened at Quebec, with the Rev, M. surke, C K, a8 Superior. A lecture willbe given in St, Andrew's chureh next Sunday by Key. Dr, Keily for the veneiit of the church, Bishop Gross, of Savannah, will aiso lecture here next Sabbati. The Lord Mayor or vublin will lecture in the Academy 01 Music on Tuesday evening for the beneut o1 dt. Cecilia's enurch. Father Dagnault bas been appointed resident pas’or at Milburn, N, J. He has aise charge of the Catholics of Crausou and Westfield. ‘The Rev, Dr. Wigger, of Summit, N.J., who lately had charge o1 the Catholics of Milburn, has bad Chatham, X. Jy atiached to Nis wissiun, ‘The hev, G. A. Vogel, lately of the Rochester Giocese, will shortiv curamence (he crection ol & ;, church in the bleventh ward, Newark, to be dedi ated under the tuvocation of St, Augustine. ‘This chureh 13 especially inteuded for the German Catholics who reside in the northwestern section ol the city, ‘The iollowing clergymen have been recently re- Move in the dlocese oj Louisviile:—Rev. A. Je Brady, rom Harrodsburg to Raywick; Key, Bd Ware Drary, from Ray wick 1 Cuicazo; Kev. J. A. lo dt. bridge's. Loulsvill Rev. b. F. Crave, from St. Joseph's College, bard town, to st, Thomas? rheological Seminary, Louis- vibe, Fath r Kyou, from Eizaperhiown to st. Joseph's, Bardstown; Father , ‘rom the Ua. thedral to Blizavethiown; Fatuer Vantrousten- berghe, trom 5 John’s, Louisville, to Holy Cross, A band of Kedemptorist Fataers, from St. Louis, are wt present uivilig a very successful mission al St. duimes’ churen, Chicago. The New York Panists began a mission at St. Jariati’s church, Chicago, on Sunday, September 27, ad on its conclusion will give another at the Chureo of St. Pius. Father Dawen, S.J 18 at home in Chicago aiter hix labors in Michigan, He Will Soun start tor New York. Fathers Van Goch and Koopinans are im Independence, aud go thence to Cincinnati, Coecuons are to be taken up to-day in all the clurctes of the diocese of Pittsvurg for tue sup- Port of the diocesan seuinary. y. P. M, Connery has been appointed to take charge o1 the congregation at Sus ension Bridge, Ea aes by the recent death of Father Isaac N. ells. Father Marsaraier has returned to New Orleans, aiter an extended tour 10 burope. St. Autaony’s church, Madisonville, Ohio, was dedicateu last Sunday, Rey. tather Mckvoy has returned to the cathe- drat, Buifalo, much improved in health. ‘The Key, John Mckiroy, of recerick, Md., now in his uinety-ninth year, and tae Key. Father Kee- nao, of Lancaster, Pa., aged Minety, are tne sole survivors 0] those who received ordination at the ands of Dr, Carroll, first Arcubishop of Balumore, ‘They are both in full vigor of mind aud facuitie ‘The \ormer has been seventy years in the priest hod aud the jatter nearly as loug, Aserics of lectures to aid in completing the beautiiul church of the Sacred Heart in Clermont rst wiil be delivered by the Rev. thom: ern this eveniig ut the temporary church in Van- derbiit avenue, METHODIST. The Rey. Dr. gat Ol the Christian Advocate, of this city, 18 off in Western New York attending the aunual session of his Contereuce, br, Peck, of tne Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, Chicago, received over 200 persons into imi memvership September 13, They were probationers trom the levival of last spring. | There are about 150 more Who are expected to be Teceiyes soon, ihe Metvodist Episcopal church near Marion station, Jersey vity, Rev. T. H. Jacobus, pastor, having been reflited, was reopened ou Sunday lasi, Seven hundred and filty dollars were raised to pay jor repairs. The revival meetings at the Thirty-fifth street Methodist bpiscopal church, this city, are increas- lug in their religious luterest and power and will be continued, The Wesieyans of England seem to have dis- covered the Seeds of Rumanism in their Liturgy, and have takeu measures Ww extirpate them. A Virgifia Baptist paper reports that not long ago an entire Methodist church was baptized on Projession of 1aiih, and received into tie Rappa- hannock A tion, Virgina. Rey. Dr. Selatiner, of Buitimore, has recently donated $15,000 jor the erection of a chureh butkd- ing Ob the Rappahannock circutt, Methodist Kpis- copal Chureu, south. vr. Scuaifher is a native of Rappahannock county, Virginia, and desires the etloa of UIs chuicu us a Memorial to hts her. e Canadian Methodist 236 tiaveil Oy preachers, 4 ages and 22,541 nembve erty, $800,060, an ie) year. Mr. L. D. Dameron, book and publishing agent of the Methodist bpiscopal Church, South, at St. Louis, has been charged by Rey. Ur. Lettwich with Munnoraity an aled to trial He Genes and makes counter eS aAgAINSE his accuser, and se promises to rest’ in some lively discus- slons ob tue Vaile Of moral Character. Bisaop Harris, wow on his way home from a tour round the Worid, reports on the Methoaist mis- sions In Sweden (hat there are 70 societies there aud 187 preaciing stau ns, 2,956 members and 1,053 probationers, 91 local preachers and exiiort- Hurches aud {parsonage of the value of 82 Sunday schools and 4,718 teachers and 3. ‘The venevolent contributious Jor tue year amounted to $16,006, The new Methodist Episcopal church at Corn- wall, N. Y., dedicated yesterday, Anotuer at Jat » Lon nd, was dedicated on Thursday, 1t Will seat Su0 people, It cust $20,000. The 1 arth street Methodist Episcopal church in thts city have nearly completed a $20,000 arsonige, ine Central New York Conlerence will meet at itnaca on Wednesday, Couversious tu tue Methodist Episcopat churches. in Baithaore ure reported as follows :—Whatcoat, 85; North Baitiinore, 185; Easion avenue, Jv; Franklin street church, 35; Great Falls, 60; Jefer- sou street chured, 20 aud lesser numbers in other charges. piscopal Church has churches, 134 parson- Vaiue of echuret prop- e Ol $79,528 during the PRESBYTERIANS, the Presbyteriaus in Boston hold five churches nd Lave congregations larger than the Coagre- gationalists, oue only excepted. The New York Synod meets iu Boston thus month, the Presnyterian board oi liome Missions state that this year thelr “devis are Unparalleled.” On the Ist o/ September they owed §110,000. They esrmate that with their present jorce of 1.500 missiona les their expenses will ve more than fity per cens over last year’s—that is, more than 0,000 The Presbyte' that has been putding n chure at Sal Lathe Dearly completed that it will ve dedicated next & athe tue Key, Erskine White, D. D., of Buffalo, has been cuted te to the TwWenty-thid street Pres y- a church im this city (the Rev. H. DB, Nor- tu'S). Rev. Alber Princeton, Alia B. Marshall, of the late class at ili go to Ms Charge at Bingham and in a lew days. yteran Board of Missions have just ut six clerical missionaries to Keyptand India. Rev. Kajus S. Underwood, wno has been preaci- ing iu the @an.ch of the Covenant, Brooklyn, dur- ing the sumer, has received irom that society an eurnest and unanimous cal. ihe Kev. John L. Caldwell, of Rome, Ga., has ac- cepted @ cail to Une Presbyterian cuureh at Inde- pendence, Mo. : During a protracted meeting at Carthage churen, , \Wenty-tWwo persons provessed faith in Christ. n Zacatecas, Mexico, a Presbyterian mission Ww ommenced December 14, 1873, and now it coutams ninety-one aduit mewbers and Cwenty- nine cmluren. The congregation has outgrown tie haliin woich it has been worshipping, — Fifty miles Dorih a8 the town oO! Cos, mM whieh there 18 a cuurch of 200 members and a large Sabbuth school. Presbyterian Board of Church Erection year aided im the erection, or completion of churenes, spread over 20 States and Territories and under the care ot $4 diferent Presbyteries. Lt spent $100,000 in doing this Work. The Uuited Presbyterian church of Evans, Weld county, COL, Was organized lust month, with tuirty-two memvers. A chureh 01 Seventy-one members has been or- ganized in Alexandria, Va., witi Kev, J. J. Buliock as pastor, Kev, Willlam M. Taylor, D. D., pastor of the broadway Taveruacie churen, returned last week excellent health, after a three months’ visit to nig wutive land, He will resume his labors to-day, Ata recent meeting of the First Presbyterian churen o1 New Brunswick, N. J., the resignation of Kev, A.D. L. Jewert, D. D., requested on account of lis beaith, was reiuctantly accepted, ‘The Kev. Mr, Maxwell has resigned the pastorate of the Tweliin Cresbyterian Charch tn Baltimore city. The Presbyterian Society at Pennington, N. J., have hearly Compieted a new church on the site of one destroyed by fire last year, ‘Toe twur or: 8 of Presoyteriatnism in Canada, which are now coalescing, number, together, 46 Fresbyteries, 1,003 congregations and $9,265 com. municants, ministered to by 606 ministers; 121 congregations bave no miaisters. The average svlary Of tbe pastors 18 $540, have aiso 471 Sabbath schoo! teach They have six colleges im operation, and each branch has a ministerial fund invested, ihe te come irom which goes to make ub the deficiency of salary Of any preacher or pasvor. ts aggre- gate Ia $162,021.” Their adherents number 509,000— greater than those of any denommation tuere. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Thirty-fourcu street Reiormed church is not Jn a prosperous way. Application has been made tothe Collegiate caureh for help. if this is not rendered church will go unuer, Yhe Universulisis propose to make @& tract society of ihe dally press. They are to use the types, paper and immense circulation, to teach the pavlic What Universalism 1s. In ovher words, the Universahists will purchase a space in tne daily papers, flit julio: Universalism ana send the Matver out to do its Work in the community, How will tt pay remains to be seen, rhe Retormed ministers of Philadeiphia have just organn ‘* pastors’ association as a help in their chareh work by the weekly exchange of thought and facts in spiritual experience. Rev, James A, Scnuitz, of Reading, Pa., has ace cepted a call trom the Reformed Dutch church at Mineravilla, po ‘They Rev. 0, L. Ashenfotter, of Philadelphia, has ac- cepted @ call w the Reformed butch church at Caritsie, Pa, _The synod oj the Reformed Church iu the United States wil! hoid its anuual sessions in Bethlenem, Pa.. to commence on the 2ist mst, : The American Poard of Commissioners Foreign Missions, during the financial year just closed, bas received $469,470, Of Which $252,041 was by donations, The eighth aunnal Convention of the General Couneil of the Evangelical Lutheran churches in America will be neld at Jamestown, N. Y., October 15. One 0} the Important subjects t ‘Onsidered is the report of a committee on the proposition tor permanant Presidents or superinicnueuts o: sy- nods. There are rumors of an effort to establish a Jewish Theoiogical seminary aud Sctentific fnsn- tution in this city. “The gentiemen whose names jor have been mentioned m connection with the movement," says the Hebrew Lead-r, “would indi- cate success.” | Miss Kmma Arnold, of Syracuse, wil! sai! in Ocvoder jor Syria, under ihe auspices of the Woman's Union Missionary Society. Mr. J. P. Sheale, Jr, oF Charlestown, Mass, (8 to be ordained as minister over the Unitarian church | at South Natick in a few days, It 18 stated that eiwhteen acres of land and $40,000 in money have been subscrived towara building & theological seminary of vue Swedish Lutheran Churen, at Kock Island, Ll. Anew German’ Lutieran churen was recently dedicated near Stuyvesant Landing. N. J. Rev. J. E. Kittredge, formerly of Giastonbury, Coun., has arrived in Florence, italy, to take the pastora! charge, for the coming season, of the American Uniow chapel. He suppiied thé Amevi- cab Chapel in Berlin last winter, 15 weiaerncinaeigaey | Petitions are in circulation throughout the Church,’ | however, asking Jor such legislation, ‘The petit | | tioners want the Convention to define and deciare what ornaments and ritual are lawtul tn the Chureh,and what penalties shall attach to the trans. gression of proper umits in the nse of such ritual and ornaments whether by defect or by excess, they aiso ask for the estabitshiment of a Court of Final Appeai for such controversies. Another pe- tition, headed by Drs. A. H. Vinton, K, A, Wash+ burne, Potilips Brooks, C. C. TiiTany aad over clergymen, @8kS (or @ mere Verval cuange jn tha ruorie of the public baptism o1 infants. whica the signers think will obviate the necessity for any orner legisiation and entirely remove the objec+ Gous of Low Cbhurehmen to the bapusmal regen- eration theory, What they ask is:— 1. That tne rubric immediately preceding the call to raver which follows the reception of the baptized inte ch be amended so a$ to read, “Here may the minister sity. 2 Thar the rubric preceding the last collect of the servi amended so as to read, “Here shail the mite | ner say (he iotlowing, the collect appointed tor Easter Lhe retles which the petition seeks, therefore, is the liberty of omitting the recttal of tae deciara~ tion taat the eniid is enerate, aud the iiberty of baggy ab alternate collect, already tn the Prayer Book. for those who do not like the same exprese sion in the prayer of thanksgiving. And ail this alter the sacramental act has been completed aud cs \ sted by the change. Tho iscomiort. prevailing in the be latd to rest by a simple luberty Lo use or disuse certain expressiols of hops Ce con \ jon WD regard to th State of the bap- tz 4 F », Uderefore, would be liturgical aud uot doctrinel. bibiistcaitas' ANOTHER RRMEDY Prop ; " Hf It is proposed ulao that there should be an ut he late Rev. Amos Brown, LL.D., of Havana, | rerince ‘rom the Lower House in regard vo ritbale . Y., bequeathed $4,000 to the church iM M8 | jon. aa there was from. the lH 4 tive town, Kensiigton, N, IL, tbe income of | St mall DOnvOntOn whe hee ane i RES Sark inister’s salary: also | t#e last General Convention. This has the ad- which shal! go toward the minister's lary; wiSO | yaniaye of other imeasures that have be to the same society $1,000, the interes! of which shali be expended Jor books jor a charch circu. lating library, An exchange notices, as an evidence of unsel- fishness in the ministry, that Rev. W. H. Cud- worth, of Boston, has ‘relused an offer of $10,000 made vy @ New York churci, iu the belief that be can do more good where he is on a salary or $2,500; also that Rev, W. J. Tucker, of Manches- ter, N. H., has aiso, wituin a few montis, declined asimilar call (0 This City at @ Salary of $10,000, and for like reasons prefers to stay were he is at onc Jourth that amouut. EPISCOPAL GENERAL CONVENTION. a Importance of Its Meetings—Ritualism To Be Checked or Abolished by Legis- lation—Pleas for Liberty of Thought in Church—Provincialism in the Convention—High Church and Low Charch Views on Current Ecclesiasti- cal Opinions—The Church Congress, Next Wednesday, in St, John’s churen, will open the business of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh tn tie United States, A more important denominational or church gathering has not been witnessed here for many years, The last meeting of this body was held in Baitimore three years ago. vided into the House of Bishops and the House of Clericaiand Lay Deputies. Of the former there are filty, representing the States and Territories, regularly organized and mission dioceses of the land. The latter is composed of ministers and laymen, four of each order being chosen by the diocesan or missionary conven- tions. The number of delegates therefore en- titled to seats in this Convention will be about 368, The importance of the body may be inferred from the numbers that will attend and the expanse of ecclesiastical territory that they will represent, as well as from the subjects that must necessarily come before them (or legislation, ‘(he addresses and charges of the bishops of the various dioceses indicate the feeling of fear that 1s widespread itn the Church lest the Convention sioula not be able to steer clear of rttualism on the one hand and of radicalism on the other. It cannot be denied that there are and have been threateatogs of a storm which may burst over the head of the Convention ere it rises from its work here, and whether the ecciesiastical atmosphere shail be cleared thereby, or ruin and devastation come upon the Churen, re- mains to be seen. The priucipal CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DIFFICULTIES inthe Church is the undue development within the last twenty-flve or thirty years of a class of tendencies which move in the direction of the Church of Rome. These tendencies the Low Charch party contend, have greatiy impaired the dignity and reality of the Church’s mintstrations, have revived effete ideas and institutions, and fos- tered some of the worst forms of superstition. The great question of the bour for those who sym- pathize in tats respect is, by what means this de. velopment may be arrested, and even brought back within its legitimate limits? And how tue two parties into which the Church is divided may be again unitea? Neither party in the contro- versy admits itself to be at fault, but each charges the other with wrong or evil intents and mo- tives in their movements and propositions. On the one side, the cause of all the trouble 1s laid at the door of the rituahsts, watle the ritualists regard themselves as the true conservators of ali the substantial interests, bota tueoretical and practical, in the Church. But litte bas been done during the past ten years to stay tne progress of the ritualistic party, while very much has been done tn certain dioceses by bishops and clergy to foster and encourage it. In 1563, and again in 1871, the bishops issued pastorals de- fining their views on mooted points and phrases, but left each party free to go on in its own way. The consequence of this lukewarm, free and easy policy has been to drive Bishop Cummins and his growing company of reformers out oi tne Protes- | tant Episcopal Church, Many more who sympa- thize with his movement remain tn, the Church, but are soreiy perpiexed and troubied with con- flicting Views of duty. The great mass of Eptsco- palians who are loyal to the Church and conserva- tive in their Views are alarmed, aud ieel that THE RITUALISTIC MOVEMENT cannot proceed turther, nor, mdeed, remain at | the point it has aiready reacwed witout peril to the best interests of the Church wey love. they are Waiting and hoping that’ this Convention will, with Meenness and wisdom, lace the diticulties (hat coutroat it and settie the is- sues satisfactorily. Bishop Cummins’ reasons for leaving the Church, 1 wil be remembered, leli virtually under two heads—the toleration ‘which was extended fo ritualists and the reiusai of toleration to Mis own convictions about certzin doctrines and phrases, as well a3 iutercommunion with other churches. And And yet very little vas been said and almost Hoth: | ing done since itis secession to grant the needed toleration to Low Churchinen, while the feeling has been growing more intense that ritualism must be putdown. Some persons, more radica) than wise, perhaps, demand that it be summarily suppressed by fresh legisiation. But this 18 objected to oy many even among the Low Uhareb, who say that such legisiation woukt impiy that the laws and standards of the Church are not already sumi- clentiy explicit upon this subject to control every honest man tn her ministry. Pus, they maintain, would be a fatal admission. And yet the diocesan conventions have very generally been calling m strong terms for such legisiation, and al) signs point to its adoption at the next General Oonven- tion, How successiul it will be in operation may weil be doubted, All churches are having at this time a like experience of the extreme dilliculty of puting down doctrines or practices by the arm of authority. The point where jegisiation 1s most de: sired isin regard to the phrases in the Prayer Book, which, in their obvious sense, teach a BAPTISMAL REGENERATION, or in other Ways convey the idea of a airect im- artation of the grace of the Holy Spirit by tae Bands of the ministry. A consitcrable minority in the Church, very respectable in numbers and im character, have long sought relief as to these forms of excression. The most hopeful plan has been the introduction in these passages of “alter- nate phrases,” to be used at discretion, thus renognizing in form the Obvious fact of two differ. ent types of doctrine in the Uhurch, Such a meas- ure, would be in perfect accordance with the tradi- tional character of the Episcopal Church, as com. prehensive rather than exclusive in doctrine, and has ample precedent in che present structure of the Prayer Book, Another method proposed and one which has been pominally adopted already is to commit the regulation of the matter of ritual to the dishops, euch one being empowered to deal with it in bis own diocese, This is perhaps the most objection able remedy that Nas yet been suggested. Avy plan which gives additional power to bishops and thereby tends to diminish the independence and sense of responsibility of the parochial clergy is, on 1hat accouut, MH lor no orher, to be condemned, And, moreover, Since ritualism grows rankest where it ts encouraged most by the bishops, such legislation would not coinpel such bishops to treat we matter ailferently irom what they do now. And Low Cburea bishops Consider themselves already suMcienty empowered to check, if not to repress, ite growth altogether, For those who hoid the prins ciples of modern churctynansnip and evangeiuecal truth to pat such a two-edgeu sword as th) tue hands of bishops, to be used either way, in accordance with each bishop’s individual preya- dices or Whiins, Wonid be & grave error. To posed to make the HOUSE OF BISHOPS AN APPELLATE COURT, The Convention is at- | General | into ro- | sacred oflee. Vide against the oppression of presbyters by tueir bishops under this kind of legislation it is pro- Wits gested, in so fur as it would not sueritice mpor= tant general mterests to @ Special exigeucy; bat ils onty efect would be moral, and woud stmount to very lite. It ma amrm, never, from the third century until the tion of the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopat Charch in America, bas Episcopacy pure and simple been exposed to So Severe a Strain as now, “There can 0@ no doubt,” says Dr. Join Cotton Sinith in lis paper, “but that the bisnops of the Chureh are largely responsivle for the abuses which bave crept m, and that the reformation of these abuses depends, tn great measure, upon the course which the bishops shall pursue.’? Now, it 1s admitted almost universally that the Jormulanes of the Provestant Episcopal Church secure ior her lay members, and even for the clergy, if not the utmost possibile liberty, at least far tore liberty than could be found in auy other arch or se Aimost the only hiberty which the Protestaat Ppiscopal Unurck, 10 her authoritative | forimuiaries denies, is the liberty to destroy the liberty of those who diiter irom themselves, So great is the freedom even OF the clergy; from the laity the very Utmost thatcan be supposed to be required 13 the ac anc Aposties’ Creed, DANGER IN THE EPISC: Anadded dan springs up CL Chat several MUSslOndi will be elected very *0on, and in cited stale ot salcly be a that secria- also in the a bishops: the present ex- gious feeling in the Protestant Episcopal Church, no sishvp can be elected wno 1B | nota party man, Whereas fot to be a party man | 18 an absolutely essential quaiification of # good bishop, ine Bishop the chief pastor of the Chureh, aud the Cauren knows nothing of parties. Ua diocese can ve found in which all the clergy | are of one sort, that diocese shonid be carefull avoided by every sensibie clergyman. All tne ad« mussivle varieties of behet and practice showld be tolerated. It 1s an eXtreme milsiortune when a diocese can be spoken of as “High — Churen’” or “Low Church,” and when a bisho) 18 a noturious partisan, No doubt, there have been one or two deplorable exampied of Episcopal ineficiency and blundering conceit, but their blunders should not lessen the dignity or the Episcopal jorm of government in the eyes ofmen, Unhappily, the modern tendency seems rather to be to render Episcopal government almost entirely nominal, The ordinary is to be obeyed when his clergy “feel like it.” And one might Suppose, from recent discussions, that @ bishop 1s Rrst and jioremost & man to be kept ab arm’s length. Elect hin, consecrate him, preach a grand sermon about the digaity of nis ofice, Welcome him with elfasive dattery to his new home, but, above ali—make him know his place, Let him understand that bis chief business to nis diocese will be to let it alone. Whatever else the bisuops are, they are the representatives of those who chose them. To-day, as never belore, EPISCOPACY IS ON ITS TRIAL Many of the most serious dimcuities in the Church arise (rom the largeness of its claims ana @ not altogether moiensive assertion Of tts eccle- slasucal suprewacy, The sects which have been somewhat haughtiiy lectared, and with whieh the} aecline to fave any close or real communion, wilh have an opportunity in a lew days of seeing what Episcopalians reaily are, and bearing what they nave lor theinselves. This Convention must adopt some scheme for erecting provinces out of @ nutnber of dioceses, and vids willinvolve very great careiuiness and fairness on the part of the mem» but, how- ever arduous tts duttes and weighty its respon. sibilities, tere is a strong presumption m cone servauive minds that its decisions will be wise and just and will be worthy of the highest cousidera- tuon vy the Church at large. THE CHURCH CONG This body is somerhing new on this side of the Water, though Church congresses are considered a hecessary adjunct to Episcopal couventions im England, Where the laity and the great body of the clergy are supposed not to nave a suiicient voice In the government and adcministranon of ecclesiastical afairs. “this Congress ts uot ukely to be the only one of its Kind that will be beld here, It starts ont with too high a tone and too much respectability attached to it,notwitnstanding tie mdirect censure of the Bisiop of the diocese | against it and the refasal of other bishops to pre- \ side over or take part in its deliberations. Ite sessions Will be held tn Association Hall, save that the Opening Session, being a religious and sacra- mental service also, will be held in Calvary chapet on Tuesday morning. Sessions will ten be held in Association Hall in the aiternoon and even- tng of that day and om Wednesday evening. Papers will ve read by Doctors J. Cot- ton Smith and Hugh Miller Thompson or this city, on ‘Tne Limits oi Legistation as te Doccrine and Rituals’? and a discussion will be held thereon, in which Dr. Andrews, of Virginia, R. BH. Dasa, Jr, of Massachusetts, and H. W. Shetfey, of Virginia, will take part. Dr. Harwood, of Connecticut, wili read a paper on Tuesday even: ling on “Clerical Kducation;” and Dr. Norton, of Virginia, and Mr. Rienards, 01 Rhode Island, and possibly tue Bishop of that divcese may speak on tt On Wednesday evening Dr, Wasiourn, ot this city, and Rev. Mr. Porter, of Wisconsin, wilh read papers on ‘fhe Relation of the Protestant Episcopal Churen to Other Cnrisuan Bodies,” which Will be debated by Rev, C. G, Currie, of Penne vania; Dr. Osgood, of this city, and Mr, R. P. Spalding, of Ouo, At the same session a paper wil be read by the Rey. W. D, Wilson, D. D., LL. Dey oy Cornell University, on “The Mutual Christian Obligations of Capital and Labor.”’ The papers ara fa ® ESS. limited to twenty minutes and the speeches thereon, by appolntmeat, to fireen minutes each, ouher spe Will be‘ limited to ten minutes eaca, Dr. Vinton wil preside days be insuticient tor gress, IL Wl provide for an extension of time, Tis Congress will embrace men of all schooly of thougitin the Church, and many who are delés gates elect aiso to te General Convention, Bist of Alavuma, Rhode isiand, Olio, Cen! New Yors and Novraska have consented to , together with a large ow ewibent clergy and laymen of diiferent States, ‘The a tions O1 this Congress ate designed Convention know what the ma. waut, but also to impart te rit de corps, Which itis sald yneed. This gathering will wake them , ater mutual explanauons and conces- better feeling among alt aud ang, should twa the vusiuess of the Com- up, an sions, a shades of Opiniod Lust necessarily prevail. ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN BNGLAND, {From the Unita Catohica, of Rome, Sep. 18.) Witn reierence to the the conversion to Vathole Icism Ol the Marquis of Kipon, tt 1s curious ve compare the progress of the Iaich In Great Brita for the last hundred years, Ia Bogiand and Scob jand there were counted in 1765, 60,000 Catuottcs, in 1821, 600,000; in 1842, 2,500,000; and in 1545, 8,380,000, England now contains: 1,895 priests, 1 churches, *6 monasteries for men, 286 con+ veuts lor women, and 1,260 Catholic schools, Bugs laud, Scotiand and Wales are divided into 2 aioceses The House of Lords contains not less than 35 Catholic members, the House of Commons 87, and the Queen's Privy Counsel 6. Among the baronets there are 77 of that creed. FATHER TOM BURKE ON FREEMASONRY AND THE CONVERSION OF THE mARQUIE OF BIPON. {From the Londou Post, Sept. 21.) Cardinal Cullen recently ordered a tridunm to be devoted wo prayers jor the Pope, now A captive Yor whe Oburen, the laithini in general, and fot the preservation of lreland from that infidelity With which philosophy of a taise naine, under thé mask Of sctence, is trying to poison the Catnor¢ people, ‘the ceremonies connected with the triduum were brourht toa close yesterday, whe: in the presenice of bis eminence, Father Burke, th celebrated Dominican priest, preached a sermon on the feast of tne day. Alter referring ta the persecutions trou which the Cathoie Churct was suffering on the Continent and Souti America, and the crucifixion of our Saviour, he said “the lanee with which tue Infidel society of our day sent its wound to the heart of Jesus Curist was to be found in the secret socictics, gapectalix those constituting Freemasonry, Evew an ad the couselation of wituessiig the maw ‘who had dealt her son the dreadiu wound repent and acknowledge lis divinity, so nat the Churca to-day the gratification oi beholding the very Longinus of Freemasonry throw down bis lance prostrate in her sanctuary and proclaim ts, beliet in the truth she teaches, Never was the Charch 80 strong as now, under her venerable Pontiff. Ne opacy more deserving of thell lever Were hor priests and res Ngious orders more zealous ard devoted to he: faithful people, first among them being vhe gran old Celtic race, to whom might aptly be appl the term ‘Mater Dolorosa.’ Militant ine stricken in the face and with sorrow eucert whose decisions shail bind or loose decisions of the diocesans, as the evidence shall wiicate | her virgit heart, the Church again behel Bs their righteousness or otuerwise. Nad even irom | crucifixton on Calvary, and she cvntinued gathers this, a8 from the decisions of @ bishop now, the | ing in her children from all climes aut everh bresbyter may appeal to the Géneral vention, | race.’ /