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nn nn eee ‘RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, se NEW "YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OUTOBER 25, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. Dr. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach at the services to- day, a8 usual, in the Church of the Holy Trinity. The Rev, R. RK. Shippen, of Boston, will preach this morning in the Church of the Messiah on “Faitniuiness,” and this evening on the ‘Divinity PROGRAMME OF SERVICES FOR TO-DAY. and Authority of Onrist and Christianity.” Ministerial and Church Movements. The Baptists and the Episcopal Convention. Services To-Day,. japtismal service and preaching to-day by Dr. Anderson in the First Baptist church. Dr. Armitage will preach at the usual hours to- @ay in the Filth avenue Baptist church, “Queen Esther” will constitute the topic of the Rev. Mr. Pendieton’s discourse this evening in the | Fifty-third street Baptist churcn, Dr. Fulton, after helping to turn Lee avenue church out of the Long Island Association and to meep Marcy avenue church out, wili to night jus- ‘Mly that action if he cau, and also show that “it pays to serve Christ.” The Rev. Mr. Kennard will speak this evening | @n “The Golden Words o1 Jesus,’ “Finding Goa” and “The Path of the Just” wilt | be treated to-day by the Rev. J. B. Hawthorne in | the Tabernacle Baptist church. “The Invisible Conflicl will recelve the atten- | tion of the Rev. P. L. Davies this morning in the | Berean Baptist charch, Dr. A. U. Osborn will preach at the usual hours | | of Newark, “Far From Righteousness” will be Mr. Hep- worth’s theme this morning in the Church of the | Disciples, and in the evening he wili preach a re- | surrection sermon. | Dr. Alexander and Dr. Hall wii) occupy the pul- | pit of the new Philips Memorial Presbyterian ; church this morning and evening at the usual | hours. 1 Bishop Howe, of Central Pennsylvania, and Bishop Niles, 01 New Hampshire, will preach this morning and aiternoon in the Church of the | Heavenly Rest. | Dr. H. M. Thompson will repeat his sermon on | the ‘Testimony of Modern Science to Christianity” | this evening In Christ church, Protestant Epis- | copal. Old John street Methodist Episcopal church will | celebrate its 106th anniversary to-day. Dr. Sims, N.J.; Dr. Wakely, of this city, and | Chaplain McCabe will address the gathering. | Ministerial and Church Movements, PRESBYTERIAN. | Dr. Duryea’s church, ip Classon avenue, Brook- yo, is in @ strait, The building is again too | small for the congregations that gather there rom Sabbath to Sabvbata, and it cannot be en- larged again, having bad three efforts in that line aiready. It ts proposed to remedy the dim. culty by means of pew rentals and tickets, which | should entitie the holders to listen to but one of | the two Sabbath sermons, these self-denying | bvreturen during the other part of the day toen- | gage in some appropriate work in advancing the Master's kingdom. To-day and to-morrow ‘fire days set apart for | | further consideration of that subject, | beforenand, secndants, and a suitable offering to the venerable minister, ‘The next meeting of the New York aud Hudson River Conerence of Unitarian churches will be held in Newburg, October 27 and 28, Mr. Wm. N. ‘todd will be ordained on Foeesar. d installed over the Reformed churches of Dash- vile Fails and nt. Remy by tne classis of Kingston, N.Y, Mr. Cyras B. Whitcomb, licentiate of Westcres- ter Presbytery and acting pastor of the First Con- gregational church of Derby, Conn., was ordained at Chester, Maes,. October id. Rev. H. ¥. 8. Myers was installed pastor oft e South Brooklyn Ketormed church on the evening Of the Lith inst. Rev. Jacoo T. Ellis, of the Washington street Congregational church of Toledo, has accepted & call irom the Congregational church of Forest Grove, Oregon. Kev. i, ©, Biilman- succeeds Mr. Elis in Toledo, Ohio, The Rev, Edward Becon, a son of Dr. Leonard Bacon, has been called to the Grove street churen, East vrange, N. J. THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. Fibin- de Canons on Ritual, Episcopacy, &c.— Inter-Communion With the Canadian Church Provided For—Gne Chance More for Dr. Seymour's Confirmation. The devotions of the Convention were lea yes- terday by Dr. Minnegeroch, of Virginiu; Revs. D. ©. Mann, ot Western New York; W. P. Ten Broeck, of Wisconsin, and Bishop Whittaker, of Nevada. , When the Honse came to order the Committee on the Court of Appeals asked to be discharged from as the ordering 01 such 4 court requires a change in the organic laws of tiie Chureb. The Committee cn Prayer Book could not recommend shorter prayers for church service without changing the canons theredn. Di, DeKoven subsequently offered an amendment to the proper canon giving ministers a right to preach or lecture with- out using the ordinary prayers tn the prayer book This was referred to the Committee to-day in the South Baptist church. bon Canons. ‘The Kev. W. M. Dunnell will preach this morn- | gpeolal prayer tor Sunday schools in Engiand and | af ing and evening In All Saints’ Protestant Episco- | America. In New York and Brooklyn tne obser- | pal church, vance of these two days of prayer will conclude | “Scandal and Scandal Mongers in the Churches” | with the anniversary public meeting of “The | will bear something in their interest said to-day — Foreign Sunday School Association.” by Dr. George B. Porteous if they attend All Souls’ | Rev. 8,5. Sheddan, D,D., for many years the | practices commonly described church, Brooklyn. | able ana successtul pastor of the Presbyterian | Sh&tistic Adoration nnd the ‘The Rey. W. 7. Sabine will oMciate this morning — church, Ranway, N.J., died on Sunday last in the aud evening in the First Reformed Episcopal | sixty-fifth year of his age. { ehurcn. | The Rev. D, Stuart Dodge, son of Hon, W. E. | 4 The Rey. W. N. McVickar will preach this morn- | Dodge, oi New York, and who, @ few years since, | Gee atanon at ike} ing and Dr. Vinton, of Boston, this evening, in devoted himself to the work of missions in syria, | (REMY ARI PREY. 1 Oo ittee on Canons be ine Holy ‘trinity Protestant Episcopal church, Har- | and especially of establishing and building up a | structed to ascertain whether any legislation may be lem. | Protestant College at Beirut, has returned to this Tied bi Services are announced at the usual hours to- country, and is now devoting himselt to missionary day in St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal churcb, | labors among the young men in the Bowery in con- | the tse by any aes tihes tages Rev. Dr, Rylance, rector. | mection with Carmel Onapel, | any praver. it Bishops Tuttle, of Montana, and Pierce, of | The Rey. ©. P. Jennings, of Missourt, presented the following STRAIT JACKET RESOLUTION, law:— Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That the practices designated as the leading to the above named practices, are hereby sol- emnly declared to be forein to this Church. religsolved, That the Committee on the Prayer Book be equi | Book of Common Prayer. This matter went on the calendar for future action, in that country, who hi joint commitiee on uties concurring, ot tleal whose office it shail be to give moral co-operation t. are preparing the way for a return to apostolic tru’ and primitive order, ops, five presbyters wud five lay members of the general Convention. A third resolution was complimentary to Dr. Langdon for bis untiring zeal and efiiciency in his position, The time having been extended to allow the introduction of new business—for none , can be introduced after yesterday—a mass of new matter was offered, which went on the calendar, Rey. T. M. Hodgman, of Batavia, N. Y., has a eopal chureb, | he Kev, ‘I, B. McLeod bas removed from Sandy N. J,, have extended @ call to Rey. Dr. Shaw, of day. | Charles Burromeo’s churca, brookiyn, to-day. eventog. i lot in the centre of the town. It is 120 feet long will coutinue his series on the “Tabernacle” in the | e, as the result uf a mission of Redemptorist | the Italian government in Rome, 1s that of Sanw’ usual hours today in the Westminster Presbyte- i ; i of the Eternal pues An old tradition declares 1¢ it sidered this evening by Rev. George McCampbell | A. D. 850 it was inhabited by his sister Marcellina, the Rev. S. M. Hamilton this afternoon in the | The municlpaiity intends pulling down the con. this morning and evening in West Eleventh strect | period petween 1765 and 1873, show the rewurka- contaiped only 60,000 Catholics, in 1421 500,000, tn ve Kable. § 1 5 | A missionary meeting in the interest of the City ISAC eriarascl Sak dea cota gta ara: wish of the mover or of the Convention. ing in the Second street German Methodist Epis- | the total number ut present in Great Britain Arkansas, will deliver missionary discourses this | ceoted the call of the Presbyserian church in | morning and a:ternoon in Trinity Protestant Epis- | Knowlesviile, Orleans county, N. Y. | Hull to Canandaigua, N. Y. The Rev. J. N, Gallater will officiate in Zion | |The Second Presbyterian church, Protestant Episcopal church at the usual hours to- | Pailduerpaia, ROMAN CATHOLIO, ' The Rev. Robert Sloss wil! preach in tne Second The forty hours’ adoration will open in Bt { avenue Presbyterian church this morning and | The Catnoiles of South Auboy, N. J, ure erect- ing a very handsome house oi worsbip on @ fine The Rev. H. M. Paynter will deliver a com- by eu wide Tounion service this morning and in tne evening | < ren Protestant laymen have just soceded to 0: Seventh Presbyterian church. | Fathers neld at Tyldesley, England. | The Rev. George D. Matthews will preach at the | ,,Among tue couvents recently suppressed by Ambrogio della Massima, it is situated near the rian churen, | superb Matcel palace, and enjoys beautiiul views “Man Under the Kingdom of Satan’ will be con- | 44 have been built over the site originally occu- pied by the paternal house of st. Amprose, in in Spring street Presbyterian church.. ra | who, when her brosher Latyrus died, dwelt tere The Rev. Dr. Crosby will preach this morning and | alone, Tre convent belonged to the Benedictines, Scotch Presbyterian churcn, vent, but will leave the church as it is for the | present. The Rev. Dr. Yeomans, of Orange, will preach | PTT eM teties of the Propaganda, covering the | Presbyterian church. | ble growth of Catholicism in Great Britain within Preaching at the usual hours ‘to-day in the Tab- | that ime, Thus in 1705 Engiand aud Scotland | ernacie Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Dr. L. H. | 1812 as many as 2,600,000, and in 1845—three years King, D. D., pastor. | lacer—,380,000, The increase in three years is | Catnohc communion have steadily grown. Judg- Ohurch Extension Society will be held this even- | ing trom previous dates it ts fair to assume that amounts to several mulions, ‘The couversions are copal church, estimated as averaging €00 per annum. in 1873 and the iollowing, en | INTERCOMMUNION WITH THE CANADIAN CHURCH, The Brooklyn Sunday School Union will be ad- | there were 1,893 priests, 1,463 churches and chapels, WS adopted, dressed in Hanson place Methodist Episcopal | 88 convents of men, 268 convents of women, 21 yincial Synod of Canada the du which binds high and low churchmen if it becomes | under the name ot Eu. | Sacrament of Penance, together with ail teachings | d to prepare .and report to this Convention such | tion by said committee needful to | preservation of the Ritnal ot this Church in itsin- | ne to prohibit iu public’ worship :comuionly called Divine service), in the Communion and Baptismal | | offices, in the Order of Confirmation, in solemnization of | urial of the Dead, minister or lay reader of this Church of | any, suffrage, thanksgiving, exhortation | or form of absolution other than those contained in the | asking the Committee on Canons to ascertain and The joint committee on the Religious Re- | form in Italy reported the pleasure it gave them | insoever deficiency or uncertainty shail appear in | Paterson, | to know Oo! the success of reform in that Jand and | | the importance of thetr own commission having , | kept Dr. W. 0. Langdon, their foreign secretary, | kept the commission | definite though elastic and generous rule for | fully apprised of every religious movement going | on there. They also recognize the movement for | also asking tue Committee on Cauons to report reform going on in Germany, Switzerland, &c., what rules. i! any, should be adopted to regulate | jaye troubled themselves much about them, But | | ana the labors ot Rev. C. R. Hale in keeping the | Church posted on the same; they therefore recom- mended for adoption the following resolutions:— | jections should be received or entertained, the palat imasmuch as movements tor religious reform ave extended beyond the bounds of the Churoh in Italy \ and are being vigorousiy pressed in Germany, Switzer- | 4nd any such rules or regulations asin their judg- land, Mexico and wther parts of Christendom, ihe House esias- lations and Religious Reform de constituted in place of the joint committee on Rehgious Retorm in Haly, | 4) oO vements i h ¥ t movements in progress throughout Christendom, whieh | Qaamns, of Wisconsin, Resolved, That such Joint committee consist of five bish- or was referred to committees, Sccomainig, po the | ‘The mat- ter already on the calendar was then taken up ehburch next Thursday evening by Drs. Cuyler, Scudder and Thompson. The Revs. W. H. Conforth, of London. and J. F, | MoUlelland will occupy the pulpit of St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church at the usual hours to- day. | «The Alabaster Box” and the ‘‘Merry Feast” will be discussed to-day by the Rev, W. H. Boole in Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church. The Rey. W. H. Thomas will preach tn Beekman Hi! Methodist Episcopal church to-day at the | ‘usual hours. { Dr. Deems will this evening speak about Apra- ha:n’s departure ‘rom Ur of the Chaldees in the Church of the Strangers. The Doctor will aiso | Preach there in the morning. “Tne Enemies of the Cross” and ‘The Interme- Giate State” will be discussea this morning and evening by Rev. W. P. Corbitt in the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church, i A church extension meeting will be addressed this evening by General Fisk, Dr. Ourry and George J. Hamilton, in the Cornell Memorial Methodist Episcopal church. { The Rev. Mr. Fishbough will discuss the whenco and the whither of creation in DeGarmo Hail this morning. The Rev. James M. Pullman will speak on “Re- generation’ this morning and on “The Mocking Spirit” in the evening in the Churcn of Our Father. i The Rev. George O, Phelps gives a hearty tnvita- tion to friends and strangers to Allen street Pres- byterian church at the usual hours to-day, The Rev. R. S. McArthur will speak this morn- ing about “Blind Bartimens,” and in the evening | about “Paul, the Fugitive,” in Calvary Baptist ouurch. The Rey. Dr. Ganse will also speak this after- moon about “Bartimeus,” and this morning on the s*pacred Side of Trouble” in Madison avenue Re- | formed church, Dr. Huntington, of Worcester, Maas., will preach this morning and evening 1n St. James’ Protestant Episcopal church. J. M. Peebles will speak about the “Condition and Occupation of the Dead,” in the new Opera House this morning. Tne Rey, Foster Ely, of Kentucky, will preacn this Morning in the Church of the Resurrection and Bishop Kobertson, of Missouri, in the same place in the evening, Dr. John J, Dudy will lectare this evening in dt, dogeph’s church (Roman Catholic) on “Tne Catho- fic Church.” Bishops Spalding, of Arizona, and Huntington, of Central New York, will occupy che pulpit of St. Ann’s church, Brooklyn (Rey, Dr. N. H. Schenck, , rector), this moruing and evening. The Rey. George L. Locke, of Rhode Island, wit preach this morning tn st Mark’s Protestant Episcopal charch and Dr. Rylauce this eveuing on | “The Perversion of God's Yorbearance,” | There is usually a crowd at the Sixteenth street Baptist church since its enlargement ,and wor- | shippers should be early to get seats to listen to Rev. Dr. B. Juthen, who Will preach morning and | evening. j The services in the Russian chapel, in Second avenue, will be conducted to-day by the Rey. Mr. | Bjerring in the Slavonic language, and hereafter | every alternate sabbath in the Kuglish and sila. vonic. | {n St. Ignatius’ church Dr. Ewer will preach on | “Pulpit Religion and Sacramental feligion” this | evening. The Kev. Father Boylan wilt deliver a free lev- | tare on “The Present Condition of Pope Pius 1X.’ at the Church of St. Joun the Evangelist, Fitieth atreet and Madison avenue, under tho auspices of te Catholic Union, this evening. The Rey. John ©, Hay,.of Des Moines, lowa, will preach in the Christian church, West Twenty- eighth street, this morning, At the Church of the Atonement the fev. ©. C. Tiffany will OMciate morning and afternoon, and fn the evening Dr. Sulltvan, preach. The Rev. R. Heber Newton wifl preach this | morning and Bishop Whittaker this evening in | the Anthon Memorial church. Biahon Whipple, of Minnesota, Dr. Iryjne and of Chicago, will | | the two denominations was hoped for, | enough will see, in tne next thirty years, far | | Oatholic gymnasiums, 1,249 schools aud 20 Catholic dioceses, ‘The new church of St. Mary’s, in New Haven, Will be dedicated to-day, The services willbe of unusual grandeur. several bishops and priests wili beim attendance. The sermon will be by Bishop Lynep, of Charleston, S.C. i EPISCOPALIAN. The Rev. W. D. Walker, of Calvary chapel, New | York city, has returned from Europe and resumed his pastoral lubors. Toe Rev. Willan Bennett has resigned the care of St. Paul’s church, Jersey City Heighis, and the Rev. Jonn E, Johnson has assumed the duites, in addition to his own charge Oi St. Paul's, Hopo- en, N. J. | _ ‘Two thousand and sixty-seven English rectors, | Vicars, curates and deans have signed an address to their archbishop and bishops, praying that no authoritative sanction may be given to the use of the eastward position or of a distinctive eucnar- istic dress by the clergy when oficiaung at the ad- | mipistration of the Lord’s Supper, ‘The Rev, fT. K, Bonsall, late of Suffolk, England, has accepied the rectorship of St, Jonn’s parish, Long Island City, N. Y. A chapel at the corner of Park avenue and Skill- | | man street, Brooklyn, and under the auspices of St. Mary's Free church, im Classon avenue (Dr. D. V. M. Jonnson rector), was opened on Sunday a week ago by Bishop Littlejohn. ‘Tue Kev. Dr. Steele hag received and accepted a | | cah to t rectorsnip Of St. Paul’s parish, Key | , West, Fla, Dr. Steele has been many years in | Wisconsin, and 13 & prominent candidate for the | episcopate in Keatucky. i BAPTIST. The venerable Dr. Pattison, of the Baptist Theo- logical Seminary in Chicago has left that institu. tion and city and gune to St. Louis to finish his | provides that tf a diocese chooses @ bishop six | | days in quietness and peace. i The forty-flith anniversary of the New Jersey State Convention will be held at Plainficia on Wednesday. Rev. Dr. Keyser will preach the an- hual sermon, ‘Tue Rov. J, L. Lodge, of Virginia, is called to the church on Jersey City Heights. Rev. R. A. Patterson, the Evangelist, is ex- | th ‘uiton’s church early next month, to | open revival meetings. ‘he Rey, Dr. Armitage, of this city, will, on the 30th inst. dedicate the new Keystone Academy at Factory vile, Pa. The New Jersey Baptist Sunday School Unton Will hold its fourth annual meeting at Plainfield, , on Tuesday, METHODIS1. ‘The General Missionary Committee of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church will meet November 11 at the Book Rvom., The new Methodist Episcopal church at Long Eddy, N. Y., will be dedicated on luesday nexte ‘Ine Methodist Episcopal charch at Hoboken en- | jovyed a fleid day Jast Sunaay. The pastor, J. RK. Bryan, was ably assisted by Dr. Dashiell, the Rev. Wiliam Tunison, J. Owen Rouse and others, A foating debt of $5,000 was swept away. ‘The Preachers’ Meeting of Philadelphia have | asked the Board of Bishops to relleve Bishop Simp- | 80n from episcopal ducy fora limited time. The Revs. R. W, Allen, of the New ference, and W, McDougall, of the Canada Con- ference, Missionaries to the Creeks and Blackfeet udians, visited the Preacher's meeting of this city jast Monday, The death of Rev, John Bright, formerly of Georgia, and Rev. Wiliam W. Gridin, of South fieorgia Conrerence, is noticed, The former died of yellow fever {un Florida and the jatter of rheu- | matism at his home, ‘Trinity charge, Chicago, is left to be supplied, it is the talk that Dr, O. H. Tiffany, of Washington, will be appointed in charge in the spring. The Methodist Episcopal church at Columbia, near Cincinnati, O., the oldest churcn butlding of that denomination in Hamilton county, was de- stroyed by fire last week, Rey. J. 5. {nskip and Key, William MeDonaid, of the National amp Meeting Association, intend to begin a ten days’ meeting at the Union Methodist Episcopal church, St. Louis, November 22, j MISCELLANEOUS, | The Congregational and Unitarian papers are | greatly exercised at the failure of the traternal | committee of the latter to make its appearance in | the late council of the former. A brilliant recep- | tion awaited them and a prospective affiliation of | But now | land Con- they ask what can the matter be? ‘The fruit of the Conierence of the Evangelical Alliance, held in this city last year, nas vot yet all been gathered. Onthe 1st of Octover tie drat | Conference tor the Dominion of Canada will begin; a Conierence for the United States is in prospect; | a Pan-Prespyterian Council is taking the definite | Shape of @ certainly coming fact; a Reformed | Episcopal Church is born and grows apace, and stiil the end is not yet. Those who live long greater things than these. The Kev. Robert Vollyer, ot Chicago, has abso- Intely declined the flattering oifer made to him | by the Church of the Messiah, of this city, and | last Sunday told his congregation so. ‘he church, nowever, thinks be wiil Change his mind, and it has appointed a committee to gather together suita- nee to bear upon him and cause his ac- ceptance. {ast Wednesday the Rev, Stephen H. Meeker, pastor of the Bushwick Reformed church, tho ju oidest estabilshed church om Long Island, cele- fh anniversary of hi brated call and the seventy: of his birth, by & Papers of three meneralone pf lis OWN and his nariyoners’ oe. | mon fold in which they have been nurtured; and that, | when practicable, duplicate letters be sent to the clergy: | | the debate. missory trom the bishop of the diocese in which kymian has last served before granting such olergyn a license—it it be tound that tue case 1s not already vided tor. tended to be ased insuch administration, or the use of a water or any other torm of bread therem (ban the erdi- Bary loaf Lrokeu therotor, Meth—The washing of the hands of any minister of- citing, or of the vessels used in such administration, as Part of such service, or publicly during she same. Seventh—Bowings, crossings, g:nutiections, prostra- tions, reverenves, bowing do over, or at. or upon, or Kissing ‘he communion table, except a vided for, or directed by rubric or canol vided that reverence of the mention o1 the Lord is Not intended to be disallowed, and ft bing further provided that private personal devorion beiore or alter ofheial mimistrations ts not to be understood to include or jusiity AMY of the acts prohibi Eyith—The celebration or receiving of the holy com- mu on Be eny bishop or priest when no persou receives w iz DFO Jesus him, ith—Employing of vermitting any person not in holy orders to assist the miuigcer in any part of the | order tor the administration of the holy communion. Teath—Using av any administration of the holy commu nion any prayers, collects, gospels or episiles other than those provided in the Book uf Common Prayer, or | under section 1 of canon 18, of title 2 of the vigest. | Bleventh—It siialt not be lawiul io use any clerical vest- | mentsin the pertormance of uivine service in this Chureh other than the surpliee aud black gown and bands and the Bpiscopal babit as heretofore in ordinary use, Ske, {—For the greater umstoruuty and simplicity of the public worship of thi Church, for tae more effect has enforcement of due habiis of solemn reverence in ite congregations, and in order to promote the promul- | gation of the truths of the Gospel to mankind in the clearest, piainest, mot affectins and majestic manner, itis hereby declared and provided that in all questions arising concerning jirnal observances, administra- tion of the law of rtipal 6 Cauren, whothet for entoreement’. or restriction, Be: to the office and duty of the bishop | long: | of each diocese, whose official’ written determma- | thon, wt the official demand ot a minister or on petition of three communicants in any church, shall be held to be the settlement of any uestion which shall atany time arise concerning ritual, and disobedience to which shall be ihe subject of preseuiment and punishinent as | in cases of the breach of a canon; provided. however, | that such determination shall be subject, on memorial | or otherwise, to revision by the Honse of Bishops or an) | commission ‘thereot by them appointed, under gue a Houge of Bishops shall preser be, and the tof such commission, to consist’ of not ve bishops, is hereby authorized and ordained. A message from the House of Bishops announced the adoption of a resolution for a committee of | conference In regard to message No, 26, and 1n- | Maryland, Khode Island and Louisiana had been | appointed a% memvers of such committee, The | resolutiOn was concurred in, and the Committee and regulations for bringing the same betore bir MBSSAGES AND REPORTS, | formed the House of Deputies that the Bishops of on Amendments to the Constitution was ap- | pointed to represent the House in the Committee | of Conference, The Committee on Canons reported in regard to petitions for some relaxation in the office of Infant baptism, The committee believed that in view of the number and character of | these petitions they should be at least so | far responded to as to put it m tie the reguines renel. resolut! the office of infant baptism a rubric, permitting the minister, at his discretion, to omit the exhorta- recoaing toe Lord’s Prayer, and in place of the Thanksgiving to imsert the Coliect tor Easter | Evening; aiso that the Secretary of the House of Deputies be requestea to make the proposition known to the various dioceses, as required by the | constitution and canons. ‘The report was made the special order for Tues- | aay, alter the consideration of the Hymnal. | RESOLUTIONS ON RITUAL, EPISCOPACY, &C, Dr. Leeds, of Maryland, offered a resolution | report to the next General Convention what pro- | visions are oi force, whether by rabric or canon | or by jawful custom, for the regulation of public | worshtp in tuts branch of the Church; and where- relation to tne iurnishing and ornuments of the pone el the vestments of the ciergy and cere- | moniai observances, to recommend tor adoption such measures to meet it as will constitute a future guidance and government. Mr. O, Meads, of Albany, presented a resolution the procedure of the House in its action upon the | testimonials of bishops elect, onpecially in regard to the time and manner in which changes or o0- kind and nature of the evidence which should be | admitted in regard to such changes or objections, | ment would tend to secure a just, fait and orderly examination of the matter to be determined upon | by the House, This might seem to indicate that e late examination was uot ‘just. Jair aud | erderly.”’ but alr. Montgomery, a layman, and Dr. heither of whom took part m that debate in secret session, bore testimony yesterday to the candor and courtesy displayed by every one of j ue forty-eight speakers who eugaged in | that debate toward eacu other and towaia the House. The Committee on Canons also reported | that, in their judgment, there is nottung to pro- hibit the separation when desirable of the Morn: | ing Prayer, the Litsny and the Communion ser- | | vice and using either mdepeadentiy and each | Without the other, provided that wien used to- | gether the order m whicu they appear in the | Prayer Book be preserved. But, nevertheless, the committee recommend that a jomt commitvee be appointed, consisting of ‘seyen bishops, | Seven presbyters and seven laymen, the jatter two to be chosen by bailot in | the House of Deputies, to take into con- | any ‘That it be recommended that it be made by the Pro- | sideration the whole subject of rubrical revision, of all bishops in the | among Other things, providing snortened and Canadian Church to require testimonials and letters dis- | cler- man pro- more varied services and a new lectionary, ana | making such other suggestions as may seem judi- | clous, with respect to the services aud orticers of ; the Church, and to report to the mext Geperal That clergymen having charge of parishes and mis- | Convention. sions be reauested to furnish families aud tndividuals in their respective cures who are about to emigrate to the United states or to Canada such letters of commenda- tion and other information touching their character and ‘Wanis as will secure to them upon their arrival fraternal welcome and pastoral sympathy and care in the com- man under whose parochial charge the person or per. sons inumgrating may come. ‘That on the suspension or deposition of any clergyman from the ministry by a bishop of eithor Chureh noting of | the same shall be given by the bishop, puspending or de- | ther posing satd clergyman to all the o' isnops of the Church in the Urited States and in British North Amer- a. ‘That until some organ for collecting and. diffusing mis- sionary Information. be estaplisued by the Church in Vanada it be recommended to the to take order that a department of the be devoved to th editor to be appointed by that Church, in order that each Chureh inay know what the other is doing to preach the Gospel to all men. itisdesirable that this joint committee should continue in existence and hold its sessions and prosecute its work during the next three years by correspondence or otherwise, in order that such measures as have been it of Miaciona | uggested may be turther matured and revorted to the General Convenuon and the Provincial Synod of 1877. That asit has been found impracticable to compiete business assigned to it, the joint committee ask tube continued until the next’ general Convention. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR DR. SKYMOUR. The next matier was one designed to keep such discussions as tae Convention has NS had over br, Seymour’s confirmation out of the House of Deputies. An existing canon (13, title 1) months or less betore the ong | of the General Convention his case shall come before that body jor confirmation. But if such election shall take place previous to the six months the proper docu ments in the case shall be sent to the standing committees of the several aioceses and to tie bishops of the same, and if a majority of these confirm the candidate the presiding bishop shail make order for nis contirmation. Itis now sought to | amend this canon 0 as to throw this confirmation business altogetier into the hands of the standing | committees and diocesans, and on this recom. mendation a lively debate occurred yesterday up to the hour of recess, and which Was resumed afterward until the hour of adjournment, and was then postponed uutii to-morrow. Dr. Farrington, of New Jersey; Mr. Brune, of Maryland; Dr. De Koven and Dr. Adams, of Wisconsin; Mr, Montgom- ery, of Western New York, and others took part im The importance of this movement will be better appreciated when it is Known that, on- der the existing canon, the diocese of Illinois could again elect Dr. Seymour, ana with the strongest possibility of hia confirmation by a majority of the standing committees and "bishops ‘of the | several dioceses, And it has been hinted around already that this is the pro- gramine to be iollowed. Hence Mr. Montgomery Was strongly in javor of having all Episcopal con- firmations brought before the Convention, because it is the only body in the Church whicn has power to maintain unity of faith in the episcopacy. Dr. DeKoven expressed his belief thut the amend- ment ought to pass, though to be consistent with their past action on Dr. Seymour’s case the m: jority would vote 1¢ down. it 1s quite possibile however, that when the Oonvention meets on Monday it will, by amendment or otherwise, pro- vide against such a defance of its expressed will as the re-election and confirmation of Dr, Sey- | mour. ‘The following important CANON ON RITUAL, reported by the Committee on Canons and here- tolore brieily referred to, was made the order for to-morrow, at noon, and it will doubtless elicit a good deal of debate at that time :— ON L—This Charch, holding fast its liberty in ist its Head, recognizes no other law of ritual than ch as it shall have itseif accepted or prov: a ng thereby In no wise to prejudice or arraign the di ing rites, Usages, customs or laws of other branches of the Chareh ot Christ Ey ihe provisions ; me for ritual im this Church ‘t—The Book of Common Prayer with the offices and ordinal toereto appended as adapted to the use of this Ohurch by additions, omissions or other alterations from time to time coustitutionally made; and it is de- ns of the Uhurclt ted in the United t of its constitu, tion, aud not subsequently suspended, aitered or repeated by legislation of the Church, shall be regarded as expost- toey of saw Book of Common Prayer. Second—The canonical or other regular logisiacve or Judicial action or decisions of this Churen in ity General Convention or by its duly constituted authorities. Suc. S.—It Is hereby declared to be a rule et constrac- tion in relation to sald provisions of ritual that the post- tive prescription of forms of procedure m public wor- ship is a prohibition of any other move or of any addi- tion to or omission thereot. SK0, 4.—Tho iollowing acts in the administration of the holy communion. and ‘on ower occasions 0 fic wor: ship are deciared to be contrary to said pI ons of ritual, and are hereby prohibited } First—the use of incense. = ond—Piacing or retaining & crucifix in any part of the church. Third—Vhe wse of lights on or about the communion table, except when necossary for lighting the church, Fow ¢ adoration by any minister or the elevation or other disposition of the elements of the holy com- Jnuuion in such manuer as. or with the sree cae poe them to the view of the people as objects toward which ration is to be made, during, before or aiter the ad- ministration of the holy communion or other part of Dupite worship. 7 Uh—The mixing of water with the wine used ar ing ft Board ot Missions | ptrit use ot the Canadian Chureh, under an | | ‘This was made the order for the day on Thure- day next at twelve o'clock. A Country Rector’s Protest Against Class Legislation in the Protestant Episcopal Convention. PERRYVILLE, Madison County, N. Y. | Oct. 21, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: | Will you help me to tight the selfish principle in | the General Convention of the Protestant Episco- pal Chureb, which encourages the Jealousies of clergymen by @ canon requiring the consent of rectors to the organization of new parishes? | Bishops, who, if they are anything, are tue | divinely appointed, safest and best judges, have | virtually no power in this matter. In my own | case, in Philadelphia, [ organized a parish, bought alotand had great promise of success, with the { Jull approbation of the Bishop, during seventeen months; but at the end of that time a very jeal- ous-minded rector returned from a twelve months’ trip to Europe, and, objecting, tne whole move- | ment had to be given up, involving me in heavy | loss and great trouble generally. | The whole thing was an outrage, the Bishop | having assured me only a jew days before, in a long private interview, that tf he heard favorably from said rector—a presbyter of | questionable wisdom—he would assist me all he could. The Church is hampered, | harassed, perplexed and disquieted by | class legislation. Tne laws are made, almost | Whoily, by the rich, and they are made largely, and, fear, oiten solely to protect themselves—not taking iMto consideration, with any comprehensive grasp of intellect or soul, the great interests of the working, sulfering, faltatul clergy or the great masses of the people. | @he Church needs a reformation, not on the Cummins principle, but witnin herself; and it must come. You are right m saying that they spend taeir time tn hair-spliitting, All the great | doctrines of the Churen are fixed and permanent, | as set forth with sufficient authority and distinct- | hess in the Prayer Book, and all this agliation | abont advanced views, ritual, &c., comes to nought when men are intensely alive to the | ameiioration of human suffering aud the moral | elevation of their race. Let the General Uonven- tion remove obstructions, give the hundreds of | clergymen pow unemployed free range to ao good where they can, and help them to do it, ipstead of making troubie; taen, we may reasonably expect | prosperity and God's chotcest biessings on His | Church, PRESBUTEROS, | | 55 cs AB | SECTARIANISM RAMPANT. ha { The Long Island Baptist Association | Harmonizing Itself by Cutting Of Its Members—Three Churches Excluded=— The Outlook. Wednesday, October 21, 1874, will #° 4 memo- rable day in the history of the Long #iaud Baptist Association whenever the historj#a of the assocta- tion shail write up ita recons. At its annual meeting in Gethsemane caurch, Brooklyn, EB. v., on that day {t declared oy @ solemn vote that tt | wasaclique and ng¢ @ denomination, It smote | ita breast hike the Pharisee of old, and thanked | God that 1t was not like other people or churches. | | It holds to “Gospel order,” so that when it finds a | Man or a church casting out devils in the Saviour’s ; name it forbids him or them, unless they follow in the wake Of the association, It makes very little difference that the Master himself, whom the asso- ciation professes to serve, has said, “Forbid him not, for no Man can doa miracle in my name that | can lightly speak evil of me, For he that ts not against us is on our part.’ Because the Lee ave- nue, the Marcy avenue and the Port Jeffer- | son Baptist churches walk not according | to the rule laid down by a tew clerical Boanerges of the denomination they were excluded from the fartner fellowship of the body on that day, Such exclusion fifty or one hundred years ago | would be an act of immense ecclesiastical import: ance, but to-day it is little better than @ farce; and | in at least two of the present cases—Lee avenue and Marcy avenue churches—it is not only repre- hensible, but is absolutely suicidal to the associa. tion. OPEN COMMUNION LEAVEN AT WORK. The Rev. Mr, Smith very plainly toid the asso- clation in his vatedictory that the leaven of liberty is active in every church within the bounds of the assoclation and it will continue to work nnd the 7 whole is leavened. So may we believe and hope, From the discussion which took place in the vou- vention over the Lee avenue church and the re- port of tbe appeared investigiting commitiee thereon it toat im one point only does that cuurch mister churches—namely, commitatus \o remove table any behever whom the pastor or ous may Suspect as uot been “oipped all over”? rding to the Buptist inter- pretation of what is Gospel order. In their efforts to be consistent, of course, It Bever occurred to these sticklers ior order that not one of the origi- nal partakers of that supper, save, perhaps, Jesus Christ—whose immersion 18 stoutly denies by Many—ever went under the water in auy religious or Sacramental rite. So | tuat, a8 @ historical fact, Lee avenue church 16 | more in the line of “Gospe: order” than any of | those Cuurches which on Wedpesday voted that | she was no longer fit to assoctate with them, From the moment that the assoctation orgau.zed ou Tuesday until the vote was deciared on Wedues- day it was well known what the fate of that church would be. The rulinys of the Moderator were in ine with the pre-ju oe the del ates, but they were nobly resisted by the minor- ty, Who, however, were charged py the majority with “flibustering” to stave of the final action. {ne when one inn t giergyman proposed that ie Uonvention phi eng’ prayer belore proceeding to vote another véry profaptly repile that th minds were already made uy, and the Moderator, no doubt appreciating the cilmax of avsurdity iu the proposition, ordered the vote to | proceed withoat prayer, AQ unholy act needed iio invocation Jor div.he guidance in itsexecution, unless im mockery, and 1 received none, There | was really very little debate on the case, for Lee aveuue churca had been condemned besoreland. paring the year that has ;assed this Lee avenue Baptist chureh with its “neresies” has been the staple tupic of discussion 10 Cuurch mectluys and pastoral gatherings. When other topica were | scarce or dull this was always iresh and Inviting. Aud WU it ever failed to evoke in- terest tuen the “straightest sect” could iutroduce THE MARCY AVBNUB CHURCH and the variety was ceitain to increase the in- terest. Hence, long beiore the meeting of the Long Island uptist Association the e.ection of representatives in that body waa based on their | known sympathy with or opposition to the two | churcves bamed, and the eiectioneering wire- | pullers worked accordingly. Bightor ten churches | maniested their sympatiy im part ior the Lee j; mi THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL. Opening Legs! Tilt im the City Court Touching the Tiltom-Beecher Case— Argument as to the Right of the De- fendant to a Bill of Particulars—AM- davits of the Distinguished Litigants. The City Court of Brooklyn, Juage Nellson pre- siding, was the scene of the fret legai tilt of the counsel for the plaintiff and defendant in the suit for seduction vrought by Theodore Tilton, ex- editor of the Golden age, against the Kev. Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth church, The case came up on an order of the Court requiring Theodore Tilton to show cause why be should not be compelled to acquiesce in the demands of the counsel for Mr, Beecher and furnish @ bill Of par- Uculars specifying wnen and where the alleged “criminal intercourse with plaintif’s wife took place.” The plaintiff was present before the opening of the Court, accompanied by his counsel, ex-Judge Morris, and look- ing @ perfect “Mark Tapley,’’ despite his “tempest tossed” journey over a sea of trouble and domestic shipwreck, The “mutual frien,” Francis Moulton, visited the Court and conferred with Mr, Tilton for a few moments, when he took his departure and did not return, Ex-District Attorney B, F. Tracy and Thomas G, Shearman, counsel for Mr, Beecher, were also present, Ex- Judge Morris undertook to read the solowing amMdavit of Theodore Tilton beiore the Court, but owing to the wretched character of the cuirog- raphy, he was compelled to abandon it to the au- thor who managed to decipher it with succes City of Brooklyn, County of Kings, 4.:—Theodore Tilton, the plaintiff in the action, being duly sworu, dlscioses — First—I published on the Isch of veptember last, over my own signature, a careiul, iu 1 taithful state- in reply to previ ous publica- tion inade against n ard Beecher and by a committee composed his partisans whom be had previously instigated to give niin ao} sided trial for adultery, and Co aequ.t him in defiance of ev. 01 | his mamitest guilt, freely comiessed by him to several avenue church by volng ‘against its exc usion, | pis mat Among wese was the First church in Pierrepont SDE. oo ha (eea dl Saab iac@nananeaacenn- Blreet, Wi.ose eloquent pastor, Dr. Thomas, Ueltv- | tamed a recital of those ine honesty and. modestly power of the next General Convention to grant | ‘They, thereiore, submitted a | lon that it is proposed at add at the eud of ) Would be the proper tribunal to pass juugment | Upon the case, The associacion, as he showed by | {ts constitution and by a resolution passed at its very Just session, has no legisiative junctions | whatever. It proiesses to be orgauized tor mis- | slonury and social purposes, it, however, bas begun | | Lo u8sume legislative Dierogatives Wituiu a couple | of years past. Divers attempts were made to choke off the Doctor aud subsequently to pervert | or Inisinterpret tis words, The Gethsemane church In which the associa. | tion held 1ts sessions also voted against excluding | Lee avenue churcn, I'nese churches, though not | unanimous, gave more than null of the 21 votes | recorded ugainst this suicidal act, The others | direction. By the coustitution of the association | every churco represented toerein 1s entitled to one delegate for every fifty members, so that twenty-one straight Votes for tue Lee avenue | chureh may tairly be assumed to represent more tuan one thousand open communionists those churches, But added to there were others who voted against the church, is they declared, mot on the ground of its heretical opinions, but because 0; the offensive methous it takes to promulgate those opinions, | and op'nions 8 and the Jewish and Man sathorities Would not | their optoions became a serious matter when “Jerusalem and Judea and all the region round Jounded cuurches in ali the chief cities and prov- | Inces of the Rowan empire, as we are told they | did. have been added to the church during ‘the year, and when it 1s stated caurch began its existence less than @ year ago with 45 membors, and thut it now has nearly three hundred, it becomes a serious question with the close commu- nlonists what shall be their standing by and by. ‘Tue entire associated churches cannot show an | equal record 01 aaditions to these two prescribed | | ones. Whe vote by which Lee avenue church was | dis‘ellowshipped on Wednesday just equals the | namber of souls that God has added to its com. | munion during the year. Itis a striking coinci- dence, if nothiny more. SIGNS OF DIVINE APPROVAL IGNORED. The objection to the application of the Marcy | avenue Baptist church for aumuission to the lellow- | | ship of the association was based on the principle | | that “an ounce of prevention 18 better than a | | pound of cure.” Had they received it on Wednes- day they might be compelied a year hence to turn it out as they did Lee avenue church, And tus kind ot execution is certain to injure the execu- tioner as much, tf not more, than the executed. wee avenue church goes forth, as its pastor de- | charge of aduite: in | a these also | & Of course, if John the Baptist or | Jesus Christ, or Paul or Peter jield their doctrines | ely, the Scribes and Pharisees | 0 about Jurdan’” foliowed them, and when they | Hence when we read in the associational | leiter of Lee avenue church that 174, converts | that Marcy avenue | ered @ speech, DOL in lavor of the excised Church, | nirrated, with careful incent not to overuraw, but rather but rather agalost tue iiegal action of the agso- | understate the actual extent ana enormity ot the elation in putting it away. A council, /e insisted, | crime of the said Beecher againstme by the seduction of t my Wife and the ruin of my home, togétner also with his subsequent accumulation o: base aad dastardly gots. constituting his desperate de‘ence against bis orginal el Titrd—The affidavit of said Beecher, so far as it demes or impugns the truth of any atoresaid published stacements, is utterly false, with imtent to deceive the Court and public. ‘vurth—'t he insinuation of the MHdavit of the said Beecher, that 1 intend to produce “manulactured evidence’ and * false testimony” in support of the against him, 1s uniounded and malic- rary, T believe. and so charge, that ie ‘ea! tous. On the c real object and purport ot said motion is to appris Beecher of my evidence and witnesses, to the end that their evidence may be deceptively met by taixe and tab- Ticated testimony in Lehait of said Beecher, and that sala | witnesses may be tampered with or elolgned. My belief gave one, two or three votes each In the same | that such isthe crafty design of my opponents is based on the fact thatthe greater part of the evidence which has been heretotore advanced in deience of said has been false aud fabricated; for example, tho pal | falsttying ot his own church records by his recent | mittee of Investigation, ax yo.nted out in my own p | lished statement; also by a false and caiumnious charg ainst Francis 1). Moulton, F, B. Carpenter and myself blackmailers and conspirators; aiso by a pretended Validity given to the sully fictions of the girl Bessie; also | by inciting Mrs, Elizabeth R. Tilton to testily talsely that | Thad subjected her to imprisoument under lock and | key, and had, in an inclement winter, deprived her of | tuél and food ; also, by the false ‘proteng that I used the said Beecher ‘to extort $7.0 trom Henry v. Bowen; ‘also by the despicable attempt to connect me criminally with certain honorable women, both living and dead: aio by variously misrepresenting me to the public in faise lights—for example, sometimes as & lorger aud atother times as a lunatic: algo oy repeated false oaths of denial by the said Beecher to the churge which | have made against him of sexual commerce with Mrs, Eliza beth RK. Tilton, carrying this perjury to the extent of | procuring against me on bis own cath a criminal indict ment by a Grand Jury, whereas he himseit was and is | the real criminal, Fish turther believe, and so charge, that the said Beecher is maincained and upheld in his present deter- mination to evade by talse testimony the tcue charge ot adultery through the strong support ol powertul irlends, | some oi whom have a direct pecumary interest in main- | taining bis name before the pvolic atthe former mat- ketable vaiue; and Lam informed and believe that cer- ersons disclose their purpose to sustain r at all bazards, whevher innocent or charge, that the sald tain of these the said Beec! guilty, stuth—I further believe, and 8 Beecher and bis interested champions in Piymouth church, with plentiful and opulent means at their dis- posal, did procure ialse evidence in the coming trial, and intend so to do, Seventh--I further believe, and so charge, that the said | Beecher’s present demand’ ior a bill of particulars, un- usual in such actions (as Lam informed) and in this in- stance wholiy unwarranted by justice and purposely in- tended for a perversion of the truth, is {urther, designed py the defendant to procure postponement of the trial, which the ends of justice and atso universal public opimion demand shall be pressed to issue without vechDl- cal delay, Eighth reply formally and specifically to the said eccher’a demand tor a bill of parucuiars of the times and places at which he comminted his aduiteries, that these times and places are already within his’ own | Knowledge. THEODORE TILTON, Sworn to betore me this 24th day of Uctover, 1874— Rorvs M. Witttams, Notary Public. MR, BEECHER'S AFFIDAVIT. clared, bearing upon her brow the mark of the | will work until the iamp cross, having the sign and seal of the Holy Ghost | in the conversion o1 a multitude of souis as the un- answeraole declaration of divine approbation. Marcy avenue church, with the same conspicuous signs of divinity, sougnt admission to the associa- tion, but was rejected. Whatis the significance of this dual action? True, the association did not come to @ vote on the Marcy avenue church be- ; cause its pastor and the delegation withdrew their upplication after the Convention had spent an hour or more debating whether he or they were orthodox enougt to ve permitted to sit in fellow. snip with their bretuern, The association could nave satisfied itselt in five minutes of the ortho- doxy o1 Dr. Jeffrey, but it denied him the common courtesy Of @ personal explanation. it would never do to permit his eloquence to weaken sectarian prejudices if taose churches desire associauonal ship they can have it, The Warren Association of Rhode Island—the mother of Baptist taita in America—the home of Koger Williams and his compeers, is ready to receive eltner or both of them, So also ts the Hudson River Association North and 80 are many other associations turther off. jor the formation of another association (wich may occur at no distant day) or for period not tur of when the Long Isiand Baptist Association, repenting the haste oj its present action and christ, and the liberty and iove which He desires turn to their former home. The disfeilowship of the Port Jefferson church ‘was perhaps excusable, Its pastor has a chronic weakness for writing avusive letters concerning the living and the dead, and circulating them in pamphlet or tract form juat before and about the time of the annual meetings of the association. He had his usual stock on hand this year, also. But the association decided that until he witn- drew his insulting letter of last year, neither be nor his church could have any voice or representa- tion in its councils, The name of the church was subsequently Gropped from the roi. Tne Brook- haven courch was dropped, also. There was, how- ever, another motive lor exc.uding this cuurch at | this time, Its delegates would most likely vote | for the Lee avenue church, And for the same | reason the Marcy avenue chureh's application was not considered until the Lee avenue church case had been passed upov. The result would not have been changed by their Vote, but the majority | would have been materiaily lessened. HARMONY PRODUCED BY KOCLESIASTICAL VIVIBEC- TION, And now the suicidal act or acts have been con- summated, aod the association is supposed to be | in complete harmony in aii its parts. Indeed, Dr. | Moore, in his floal prayer dismissing the congrega- | tion on Wednesday eveuihg, thanked God that pertect harmony reigned now through all their bodies, But how can harmony exist when there are more than one thousand open com- munioniste scattered among eight or ten courches not i fellowship with the asso- clation® Tuey will multiply themselves be- fore another year elapses, for tue ieaven 8 leavened, and the end of this controversy will not be creditable to the Long Island Baptist Association, nor injurious to the churcnes excised by it. Persecution never in- jured a good cause, and {jt has often made a bad cause reputable. Martyrdom in all ages has only served to evoke the spirit of self-sacrifice and of devotion to the suffering cause. The spirit that ts in man to-day {8 the same that it ever was, and the result of the proscription oi Lee avenue’ and Marcy avenue Baptist churches will be to give them | a status and astanding in the community and | j, among Christian charches that they could never have without it. They have the sympathy of ail | who love our Lord Jesus Christ more than a mere | oe of doubtful authority and pro- | priety. ST, STEPHEN'S CHURCH FAIR, The ladies of St. Stephen’s congregation, anxtous to help their pastor, the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, in his | efforts to lessen the debt on the church, have com- pleted their arrangements for a grand fair. It | will open on next Thursday evening, in the base- ment hall of the church, Kast Twenty-cighth | street, The articles donated or purchased for the different tables are #atd to be beautiful and useful. Every evening during the !air choice selections of | music will be given by a first cl band, and nothing will be lett andone by the ladies in at- tendance to secure the pleasure and happiness of every visitor, The object of the itatr commends itgelt to every lover of ecclesiastical art. 8T. JOHN'S GUILD The ninth annual meeting of St. John’s Guild, | which took piace Tuesday evening, elected the | following officers for the ensuing year:—Master, | the Rev. Alvah Wiswall; Warden, William 4H, Wiley; Almoner, Andrew W, Leggat; Olerk, Thad. | K, Chutkowski, Sixty new members were elected The report of the \\moner showed that 50,000 poor people had been 15,000 garments distributed, many thousand cv.iars’ worth Of groceries ana over $52,000 received and disbursed during the pastyear. A vote of thanks to the press for their rout and prejudgments. But | fellow- | bat, as Mr. Smith said, they prefer to wait either | better understanding the spirit of the Church of | should everywhere prevall, shall ask them to re- | Mr. Thomas G. Shearman then read the follow. ; MgaMdavit of Mr. Beecher, setting forth that ne | could not safely proceed to the triat of this action | without receiving @ statement of the particulars ofthe plaintifs charge :— Theodore Tilton vs. Henry Ward Beecher.—City Court | of Brooklyn, county of Kinga—Henry Ward Beecher, the detendant above named. being duly sworn, says:— rhis is an action brought for alleged criminal conver- sation with the wite of the plaintiff. ‘The Complaint was served upon my attorneys on the 2st day of August, 1874, and my auswer thereio was served Upon the plaintil’s attorneys on the 8th day of September, 1874. ‘The complaint specifies only one date at which any act of improper conduct on my part js alleged to have occurred, to wit, on the 10th day of October, 1863, and alchough it alleges in general terms that euch condact was repeated on divers other days aiter that time, It does not mention any other specific dats, nor does it | mention any place except the residence ot the plaintiff | and my own residence. Since the service of the complaint and answer heret and on or about September 18, 1874, the plaintiff, as | am informed and believe, published @ statement, over | his own signature asserting chat his wife and 1 both confessed to him in detail specitic tim at which we had maintained improper relations wi each other, which times and places, however, other than | October 10,1868, and the saturday following,’ the plain- | tif carefully refrains trom meptioning, but professes to have within his own knowled, ‘The assertion that 1 ever made any such confession to him 1s utterly false, but Tam advised by my, counsel, and beheve that such a statement indicates the intention ‘of the piaintiff to produce manutactured evidence in su port oi his allegation, and by means of talse testimony surprise my counsel ‘at the trial with evidence which they and I caunot be pre t otherwise than by ‘my own simple denial on the trial of the case. Thave no knowledge, information, belief, or suspicion As to the times or places iother than those specificall, mentioned in the complaint and the published stat uitaforesaid) at which the plaintif! tnteuds or pe o prove or even to amert that any Improper son duct on my part took place. And as I never did, in fact, have any improper or {immoral relations with his wit Lam entirely ata loss to form any surinise concerning the probaple line of prog which will be adopted by the plainuff on the trial of this cause. have fully and tairly stated the case in this cause to my counsel, ‘Thomas G. Shearman, who resides at No. 81 Hicks sireet, Brooklyn, and Ihave a good and subst tual defence to this action upon the merits thereot, am advised by my said counsel, and verily believe, 1am further advised by my said counsel and bell nd id by eve. that L cannot safely proceed to the trial of this action without receiving @ statement cf the particulars of the plaints charge against me, and especially of the times and places at which any and every actof adultery or iinproper intercourse on my part is alleged to lave taken place, and of the times and piaces at which If is ileged that | made any comessioy to the platutif, HENKY WAKD BEGOBER, Sworn to before me this 17th day of October, 1874. — Lupovio BeNNxrt, Notary Public. Mr. Tracy, a8 soon as both aMdavits had been read, moved that certain portions of Mr, Tilton’s aiidavit be stricken out as false, scandalous and malicious. He said this was one of the gravest and most important actions that nad ever been brought, perhaps, in this country. The defendant Places himself upon what he considers his clear legal rights, and asks that he be informed in ad- vance of the times and places where it 1s to be averred and charged upon the trial toat these acts of Wrong Were committed by him, Tne com- plaint sets lorth but a singie time, and dves not cover the times and places for six years. If that complaint is to staud without particulars the defendant must come to the trial of without knowing at all as to the times and places which ne ts to deny the wrougful acts chargea against him. The question 1s, whether he is to be confronted with witnesses sieges these acts to. be committed in lew York, or Brooklyn, or elsewhere, or whether, none of these particulars being stated, he can properly deiend himself, If he can put on trial ‘Without furtier information, then tnnocence con- fers no security. We support our demand by ai aMdavit containing a solemn denial that we did at any time, place or on any occasion ever commit the wrongn acis of which desendant stands accused, There are no facts stated in the aMdavit which tend to show that our statement is untrue or that we are not legally entitled to this motion. The counsel submitted that that portion of tae affidavit which assails the Piymoath church Inves- tigating Committee should be stricken out, as it is “scandalous and impertinent.” He also asked | that tne accusation that Plymouth cnurch, as a d with conse ign Ls acte intention to pur+ chase ence 10 support also stricken out. isi ou ae r, Shearman said there were no new facts re- cited in the plaintif’s aMdavit, and he moved upon the ground that he expected to be con- fronted with manufactured and iaise testimony. 1 evidence of adultery was 61 it, it Was mana- fagtured evidence. He declared that the plain- tif’s course in conducting the case had been grossly, indecent and implied contempt of Court. hi publishing a supplementary statement after case had been brought beiore the Court was grossly irregular, and the plaintiff had leit himself table to imprisonment therefor. The counsel cited nw owe auy oriues, showing thoir right to obtain @ bill of parcicilirs. Ex-Judge Morria argued at length, givi Authorities in opposition to the motion ot ieee and Co 8 ot hada perfect right to Keep secre’ 4 tion, to eereat their witnesses Irom being tam- ered with. : Judge Neilson took the oavers and reserved bis 61 jupport of the Guild was unanimous) passed, . deoteion,