The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1874, Page 15

“BELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES FOR TO-DAY. ’Prnodentius” on the Episcopal Convention and Bitualism, MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS, Services To-Day. The Rev. E. 0. Sweetser will preach this morn Ing in the Bleecker street Universalist church on *The Whole Family in Heaven and Barth,’ and in the evening on “How to Be Happy.” The services in the Russia Chapel this morning fre in English. Bishop Vail, of Kansas, will preach this morning im Calvary Free Chapel, and the Bishop of King- Bton, West Indies, in the evening. The Rev. George Dawson, of England, will preach In the Fifth avenue Baptist church this evening, The Rev. W. M. Dunnell will preach, as usual, to- Day in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church. Dr. Ewer wili speak this morning in St. Ig- natius’ church on ‘The Hiference between Spirit nal Life and Moral Life,” and in the evening he will repeat @sermon on “The Modern Devices ‘of Satan against the Church.” The Rey. Dr. Hastings will preach this morning Bud evening inthe West Presbyterian church. Dr. Porteous will preach for All Souls’ Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, this morning, on “Beliefs and Unbeilefs, or Facts and Fallacies of Spiritualism,’ and this evening on “The Worid of Spirits and Christ’s Descent into Hades,’’ Mrs, H. M. Walton, Mrs. Kilbourn and Mr. Swacke heimer wili entertain those who may gather in De Garmo Hal! to-day. Dr. Rylance will minister in St. Mark’s Protes- tant Episcopal Church at the usual hour this evening. Dr. Corbett, of Liinots, will preach there in the morning. ‘The Rey. W. K. Alger, of Boston, will preach in tue Church of the Messiah this morning. The young men in Association Hall this evening Will be addressed by Mr. H. Moorehouse, of Eng- \and. ‘The Rev. ©. McIlwaine, of Iowa, will preach this Morning in the Protestant Episcopal churcn in ‘Hast Fiftieth street. Bwhop Jonns, of Virginia; Dr. Irving and Bishop Whippie, of Minnesota, will deliver the Lord's message to-day in the Church of the Holy Trinity, A choral service and communion ts offered to- day in St. Mary the Virgin’s Protestant Episcopal vhureh, The Rev. D, B. Jatten will occupy tho pulpit of the Sixteenth Baptist church this morning and | evening, and he invites strangers and those hav- | ing no spiritual home to worsbip with his people. “The Moral of Salvation” will be Mr. Hepworth's fopic this morning, in the Church of tis Disciples. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, will speak on “Christian ‘Bxperience” in the evening. Morning and evening services will be held at Usual hours to-day in the Protestant Episcopal ©nureh of the Holy Saviour. Bishop Coxe and the Rev. Mr. Atwell will oc- cupy the pulpit of the Church of the Heavenly Rest this forenoon and aiternoon. The Rey. Mr. Atwell, of Vermont, and Bishop Coxe will preach to-day at half-past ten A. M. and thalpast seven P. M, in the Wainwright Memorial ‘church, “The Communion of Saints” is Dr, Thompson’s | ‘topic this morning in Christ churen (Protestant Episcopal). The Rev, J. Tuttle Smith will officiate to-day in ‘the Free Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Rev. Dr. Dudley, of Baltimore, will preach this evening in the Church of the Atonement. The Rev. A. Stewart Walsh will speak this even- Ing tn Gethsemane Baptist church on the late ac- ‘tion of the Long Island Association and the with» ‘@rawal of his chureh therefrom. Dr, A, C, Osborne will preach this morning and @vening in the South Baptist church, Preaching by the Rev. W. H. Thomas at the usual fionrs to-day inthe Beekman Hill Methodist Epis- ‘copal church. “Lot went with him,’’1s the topic selected by Dr. Deems for his consideration this evening in the Church of the Strangers. The Rev. P. L. Davies will preach in the Berean Baptist church to-day, as usual. The Rey. T. M. Cunningham, of San Francisco, will deliver the first of a series of discourses to Young people this evening in the Central Pres- byterian church. : A memorial sermon will be preached this morn- fing and an election discourse delivered this even- ang by the Rey. J. M. Pullman in the Chureh of Our Saviour, “A United Heart’, and “Paul at Antioch,” will be treated to-day by the Rev. R. S, MacArthur in Walvary Baptist church, The Rey. K. Borel conducts a French Episcopal @ervice every Sunday morning in Calvary chapel. Dr. King and Chaplain McCabe will preach to- @ay at the usual hours in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church. Dr, Armitage wiil preach this morning and even- ing in the Fifth avenue Baptist church, The Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preach morning and evening in Filty-third street Baptist church, Dr. Fulton will demonstrate this morning that fo serve Christ is not a losing business, and Mr, Patterson, the evangelist, will begin a series of revival services in the evening in Hanson piace Baptist churcn, Brooklyn,. Dr. Anderson will preach at the usual hours to- @ay in the First baptist churea in this city. ‘the Past Reformed Episcopal ehurch will be ministored to to-day, a8 usual, by the Rey, W. T. Sabine. The Rey. George O. Phelps invites strangers to Allen street Presbyterian church, where he will preach this morning ana evening. “The Love of Christ? and “The Judgment Day” are The topics on which the Rey, W. #, Corbit will dilute to-d The Rey. J. F. McClelland and Dr. Dashiell will Provch at the usual hours to- layin St. Luke's Metuodist Episcopal churca, . Dr. Reid, Key. T. Leive and W. A, Owen win peak in behalf of c.i¥ missious Unis evening in West Twenty-fourth sticet Methodist Episcopal ehuren. “The Polites and Foibles of Modern Christianity” Wii be expanded and expounded to-day by the Kev, Robe: t Cameron in the Disetples’ charch, ‘The Ray. W. W. Page will preach this morning and evening in the New York Presbyterian chureh, “What We Know Abont Heaven’ and “Bible Penitenta’? will be discussed by the Rev. Mr, Ganse to-day in Madison avenue Reformed church, fhe Revs. J. F, McClelland and W. W. Bowdioh ani Messrs, L. Skidmore and C, CG, North will speak in the interest of city missions, this evening, the Second avenue Methodist Episcopal ehuren. Hishop Whipple, of Minnesota, will preach in St. Soln’s Protestant Episcopal church this morning, ‘The Rey. S$, M. Hamilton wiil preach this morn- 40g and iternoon in the Scoteh Presbyterian churen. : ‘The servicos in St. Thomas’ church hegin at nine A. M., half-past ten and half-past three o'clock P. M,, to-day. “The Fatal Feast; or, From Life to Death’? will be treated by the Rey. W. H. Boole this evening. “The Great Awakening in the Ohugch of Eng. Janda” willbe discnssead this evening in St. Michael's Provestant Episcopal chure by the Rev, J. W, Bon ham, evangelist, “TMindrances to Prayer and “god Working in Mau to Make Man Work” will form the vasis of the Rey. J. B, Hawthorne's remarks to-day in the Tavernacie Baptist chureh, Bishop Lyman, o: North Carolina, and Dr, Beers will ocoupy the pulpit in Trinity church this morn Jog and aiternoon, ‘The Rev. George D. Mattnews will Preach this Morning and evening in Westminster Presbyterian ‘vhorch, “Wothing vat Leaves” this thorning and a ger- Pon ‘© vole men this evening ip Eighteenth NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1874.—QUINTUPLE SHEET, street Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. M. 8. Terry. Services in Zion Protestant Episcopal church this morning and afternoon by Rey. J. N, Galle- her, rector. ‘The Rey. Hobert Sioss will preach in the Presby- terlan church in Second avenue and Fourteenth Street this morning and evening, ‘What Are the Aims of the Protestant Episcopal Church t TO THR FpitoR oP THE HeRALD:— ‘The sessions of the Convention of the Protestant Eplseopai Chureh of America are now drawing to close. What will they effect for the spiritual unity of Christendom? To what extent will their delibsrations and canons promote or secure unity in thought, feeling or worship withia tneir own body? ‘ These are momentous questions—questions of the hour, Let ussee how the published acts of the Convention enable the serious observer to answer them, First—That the general union of Christendom has been one of the chief aims of the Protestant Episcopal Church since it last met in convention we gather from a long report presented on Saturday, the 24th inst, from the ‘Joint Committee on Religious Reform in Italy,” an abstract of which is published in last Sunday and Monday's papers, Italy, however, 19 only one little part of the vast field of solicitade and labor embraced by this “reformation commis- sion.” Its purpose 13 to abet by every means, overt or covert, the action of civil governments in their warfare upon the Catholic Church and the treason of bad priests and bad laymen within that Church, in their attempts at usurping the au- thority and fanctions of her faithtul but persecuted priesthood. So the agents of the Protestant Epis- copal Church, under the direction and in the pay made, She alone is the great mother whose ideal has filled their souls from the baptismal hour, In the blood of her spouse they Were born anew, and let Protestant Episcopalians vot allow the reality or the expression of “regeneration” to disappear from their ritual or from their behef, In her tab- ernacies alone, who is the only true spouse of the tub doth He really dwell evermore. do they not seek Him present in that great mother’s house? itis subject of infinite compassion to Catholics to read ali these discussio: bouts the oration j Tr. 30 many noble hearts, capable of all heroic deeds of virtue, yearn within the Protestant Episcopal Church for that near presence of the Lord—for that sacramental, but real, contact with the Opened side and pierced heart of Him who 18 the rock of retuge o! us ail. Hence it 18 that while we feel that we have all they want, all that can satisty the loftiest aspira- tions of theirnature and the cravings of their hearts, we are saddened or indignant that they should be led away from the home of their mother and the heart of their father, Christ. It is vot her Jault that Italy and Spain and even France should be now threatened with the tate of Christian Constantinople and Carthage and Alex- andria and Jerusalem. jose, because man is afrec agent, The oppression of Judea by Philistine or Babylonian, and the rum of Cod’s temple in Jerusalem by the hand of an idolatrous foe, did not prove that their faith was false. It was @ punishiwent for graces unapprect- ated and despised. So with Italy, so witn Spain, so it may be with France, too, But the Church dieth not. When I jook upto the mountain oak in se last days of the lovely Oclober weather, and behold the leaves tast tailing beneath the au- tumn wind, shall] deem the tree dead and all its promise of vicality gone? No, no! it is the same mountain oak that has braved the storms and the irosts of centuries, The winter may be a long one, foues which it must sit there uncrowned ani stripped of allits glory; but because | know that oak liveth I am sure that with the first breath of spring tt will put forth its buds again and again be clothed in all its giory. Woat think you ol t ose iosecta of a day, which believe as night comes down oa the branches of the old mountain monarch, beneath which they are nest- ling, that because that night is their last, day shall never again rise on the lordly tree? btaly, L know, must sulfer, and so must ner sister, Spain; of Rev, William Chauncey Langdon, D. D,, Foreign Secretary to the “Church Relormation Commis- sion,” have been active in every European, Asiatic and American country, where the Catholic Church was oppressed by the civil power, or her own discontented or suspended priests were dis- posed to do the dirty work of defaming their niotner, The wonder must be, in the eyes of intelligent Jaymen like yourself, Mr. Editor, as well as in those of all men of the world, how it 1s that churches or sects, broad of narrow, can deem it consistent with religio», Which professes to pro- mote the interests of God, or with charity, which can never be separated from truth, thus to seek the downlall of that Church acknowledged to be the most ancient and the most popular in Christen- dom, And what must increase our wonder is that, at this moment, it 1s not so much the exist- ence of this or that denomiuation of Christian be- levers which Is menaced by scientific infidelity, but the very foundations of reveaied religion ttself that are undermined by all the intellectual might of the age. The wonder becomes astonishment when we reflect how within the last seventy-five years it has been attempted to engratt the parent branch of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Kng'and and its offsnoot here in America on the trunk of the one holy Catholic and Aposiolic Roman Church. Dr, Pusey is gull living, so is Dr. Newman, and 30 {8 one searcely less illustrious than either, Frederick Oakley, who, with the best braing, the ripest learning and the most unspotted virtue of the Anglican Church, wore laboriag with | mmght and main forty years ago to effect a union withthe Roman Church, and throagh her with the rest of Catnolic Christendom, Read the most powerlul argument ever written against the Church of Rome, in volume two of Newman's “Essays, Critical and Hustorical.” It was his “last shot’? against the oid Cburea, and the very recoil of his argument landed him where he would not. He elt compelied to jom the communion against which he had been contending. Well, I am not now prophesying either for Dr, De Koven or for bis unlucky and ilogical opponents that the fate of Dr. Newman awaits them; only I ask them,asl ask myself, has Rome within the last half century ceased to be the centre, the heart and the head of Ciiristendom? . What are the gentiemen of the Protestant Epts- copal Convention dong? Promotin, union among Christian sects and churches? Formulat- ing such doctrines and such disciplinary regula- tions as are sure to be accepted by all, and band all believers in Christ together for the deience of tueir common Bible, and the Orm taith io their common Christ, just when the armies of science have beset Zion on every side? No, They are in alliance with Mazzini and Garibaidl in Italy, with Strauss and Hegel in Germany, with the Interna- thonais 1n Geneva and the Communists In France, to brewk down the intellectual and temporal de- fences of the Catholic Church, and, witb her, of Christianity. Déllinger in Munich, the effete and chrysalized Jansentsts o1 Howland (the “National Charch,”’ torsooth ihe Radicals and Rationalists but no other form of Christianity can ever flourish on thelr soil than that of Dante ana Pelayo. PRUDENTIUS, The Ingatsition and Its Vietim—Another Detence of Dr. Seymour. Your correspondent “Looker un” has ventured to say a word in Dr. Seymoutr’s defence, and it is realiy ® comfort to find that, In spite of the ter- rorism of our newly revived inquisition, one man 18 brave enough to uphold a faithful clergyman who has been made a martyr by the bitterest ebullition of party spirit which our Chureh bas witnessed through many happy yeors and which, pray God, may never stain her annals again, F have somewhere read an old saying which givesa reason for men being afraid to come to the light, |. but happily tt does not apply to Dr. Seymour's friends or himself. It were wisest, how- ever, not to allow too close @ scrutiny of an opposition supported by one rival candidate and engineered throughout by another, that other having just previously—as one of the appointed committee—announced to Dr. Seymour his election and pledged him his own cordtal sup- port. When Paul was accused of heresy the heathen Felix thought 1t “unreasonable to send a pris- oner and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him,” but now Christian casuistry decides that a priest of God may be condemned by a se- cret trivunal, which, unlike the inquisition, not only refuses 10 allow him to defend huaself but even to know that whoreof he 1s accused, Hitherto our Church has openly and honestly tried men tor heresy and acquitted or con- demned them according to the evidence; it was reserved for the present Convention to imaugurate a cheap and expeditious method of ruining ’s olergymen’s reputation with- out the trouble or responsibility ofa trial—a pleas- ant outlook for those priests who may chance herealter to be obnoxious to the party in power, and a great incentive to the congclentious iulfilment of unpopular duties! One of the cructat accusations against Dr. Sey- mour seems to be that he did not iterfere to pre- vent young gentlemen under his professional charge from contessing their sins. But, considering that the English Church mvites every one about to receive the boly communion to confession (if he cannot quiet his own conscience); that in her Prayer Book she gives as authoritative a iorm of absolution as any used by Romanists, and that tie American Protestant Episcopal Church retains that torm of ordination wherein the priest receives power to remit or retain sins, it would be hard to conceive now any honest clergyman, taithfut to his ord:nation vows, could dure to hinder one truly penttent from seek- ing what the English Prayer Book styles the ot Berne and Zur South America, covering the land as witha net- work of infidelity, Such are the auxiliaries with Which the Protestant Episcopal Chureh of America and the Hstaolished Church ot England avew themselves in league for the overthrow of Catholicity. Does it strike your American readers how illogi- cal, bot to Say NOW Fidiculous, Unis report of the *Charch Returmation Commission” makes tne body who claim to be the true Church of Christ in America and the only representatives of “the tru:h and freedom” which are Christ's boon to the hatious ? Vhey triumphantly parade before the American ublic the erime of Catholtes in Italy, Switzer- and, Germany, Brazil, Peru and Mexico, consist- ing in “deflanuy resisting” tne will of the State. I had torgotten, however, in my first surprise that it was tne Puitans of New England and the Jatholic pligrius of Maryiand Who nad sought an lum in America agatnst State dictation in mat- ters of conscience, and that the presence of the Protestant Episcopal Churca in ts land of liberty Was precisely & protest against this disenthral- Ment of conscience irom the tyranny of the ciwil magistrate. ihe Anglican Church was the creature of (he State; her daughters in the United States and Canada show the milk with which they have been nursed, They are lavoring everywiiere in the Old World and the New to make the Catholic Caureh the slave of the State in spirituals as in temporals, Ailow me to submit two questions to the mem- bers ui the “Caurch Reformation Commissin”? fiow did they approve of the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and on that subject what is the recerd of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America? How will they approve when to- morrow or the next day the Bnglisi Parliament wulsurely pass a law disestabhshing the Apglican Church? It is on record that im the case of the Irish Church the cry of injustice and tyranny was raised. It ts not doubtiul that the same cry will go Up when the temporalities of the Hngush es. tablishment are threatened, Pray, gentlemen, tell me how can that be justice ana AS poe in [taly, Germany and Switzerland, which you cail iniquity and oppression m Ireland and England? You have said it through every organ you own in the press, ‘The trish Chureh, her bisho; 3, priests and people, were ignored and oppressed by tne Act of Dises- tablisiinent. How was it when the chureies, abbeys and monasteries built by Cath: ole Irishmen during a thousand years and the broad lands donated by them, were confiscated m a day to the profit of afew apostate hireilugs and the voice of a whoie nation ignored in the tra tion? How is tv now in Switzerland and Germany, When, in the name oi jaw and lib- erty, bishops and pastors are driven from ‘heir churches and homes, cast into prison, crushed with fines, while their churches are seized and handed ever to “Oid Cathohcs,” suspended and degraded priests, and thetr people given over to the ministration of men who are as odious to then as.that first of ‘Old Catholics,” Judas, or bis great prototype, Sathanas, [tis no principle that 1s not universal in its ap- plication, no justice nat has one standard o1 right and wrong lor Catholics and quite another ior Protesiauts. Pray you, then, reflect a littie on the enormous Iniquives which you are abetting and alding by your moucys on both stues of the Atlantic, 1 ques tion very much whether any honest Episcopaian, were he to Know the true merits oi the cause to which you osk him to contribute, would give you # Single dollar. But there ts another and a moro powerful reason which must appeal to. every Christian conscience in ihis tnatter, You boast, as of the noblest of meritorious deeds, that you are pulling down in d the Venerable edifice o: the Catholic } you ask the money oF the American pub. llc to help you in loosenmg her hold.on the minds and hearts of 200,000 devoted subjects, You do this—and you will not deny it—!or the purpose of promoting Christian unity; and you say to those Whom you would make your dupes that you merely ask them to help you in “looking to a’ re- tarn to apostolic trath and primitive order.” Mr, Raitor, Ldely the collective intelligence of the Convention to define unanimously for you and me, or any reater of ordinary inteliigence, what they understand by “apostolic truth and primi- tive order.” And this brings me to tne second part of my subject. Second Do the good men who compose tho touse of Bishops and the itouse of Delogates im- agine for one moment that all these discussions ‘bout the ritval and the bynmal or any number of canons which they may enact, or rubrics which they may draw up, are going to make the Prot. estant Wpiscopal Church of America more “anited” or “unliorm’ hereatter? One ting is clear to the simplest apprenenston : they might have leit the Catholic Church alone, She ' wiilcome to them to learn: lessons of consistency, unity r uniformity in Jaith, morals or discipline, They Dever can secure any o1 these Tonoh coveted th tee savo im learning at her “benefit of absolution.” Let the Prayer Book be changed or else forgive those priests who believe their ordination to be no solemn travesty, but hold that when they re- ceived the power of the Holy Ghost to remit sins they received a gift of God, to be prayertully ex- ercised, but never scoffed at. Agaio, Dr, Seymour 13 to be condemned because of his belief in the real presence.” it is quite true that St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Chrysostom, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Jerome, Theodoreb, Origen and those Catholic fathers to whose authority the English prayer book (the basis of our own und irom whose doctrines we declare that we have no intention to depart) constantly defers, bave asserted their behef in this divine mystery far more strongly than he, It is also true that in our own communion such men as Jeremy Taylor, Bishop Audrews, the two Bishops Forbes, Bishop liamiiton, Bishop Moberly, ‘rhorndike, George Herbert, Dr. Neale and Joun Kevle held the same doctrine; but what authority have names like these over the bitterness of party prejudice? The opponents of Dr, Seymour have done their best to sign and seal his degradation. That they could do NO more was not their jauit but that of circumstances, which, though giving them inquis- ttorial powers, gave them no ability to méict in- | quisitorial punishments, Whether to condemn unheard 4 faihinl priest because he served God according to the light God hud given him be a Kindly or Christian act—one fitted to draw down the blessing of Heaven upon its promoters—is be- tween their own consciences and their God. EPISCOPALIAN, Fhe Truth Triumphant—Dr. Fulton’s Association. To 1H® Epiror OF THE HERALD:— My attention has been called to an article in your valuable and widely circulated journal, en- titled “Sectarlanism Rampant,” in which you ar- raigu the Baptists of Long Istand for the stand they took in maintaining before all the world and, I night almost say, against all the world, the principles which have been committed as a sacred trust to their keeping. As Baptistsit is our belief that faith is a pre- requisite to {mmersion, and that faith and immer- sion are prerequisites to the privileges of the Lord’s Supper. For this deciaration of faith no one in the denominatien has contended more atoutly than have J. Hyatt Smith and Reuben Jertrey. Both of them have sermons in print which avow in plain, strong and earnest language the prin- ciples which we cherish, They have gone back from them. We hold on to them. They have gone oul trom us and we have simply saia very well, let there be no hypocrisy, no deception, if your sympathies are elsewhere, be it so, we are agreed and wish to live in harmony and work for the promotion of the best Interests of the cause of Christ 1m the bounds of this association, For this reason the name of Lee avenue choreh was dropped trom tho rol. We desired to end this controversy in our body on “the communion a Stion,” and widertake and prosecute the work for the doing of which we were organized, In regard to Marcy avenue more might be said. It wag claimed that this association ignored the actton of a council of the churches, we uid be remembered that an action of the counctl was reached aiter Rev. Reuven Jeffrey though he resisted making the declaration tor four hours, and only consented to turn Ns back upon open communion allies for the sake of recognition, which soon would be denied nim if he did not take the position maintamed by Baptist churches. He was accused of betrayingy the open communionists by one of the leaders of the movement, but he repented speedily, and before the week was gone went back to them, and has worked persistent!y with tue ever since, At the association he did uot dare avow himself a restricted communionist, aud, of course, could not get imto an association com- ) Posed of Members who believe that tie giving up Ol this prinetpie belitties voth of the ordinances of the Gospel, brings Baptist churches into disre- specs and weakens the hold of the principles of the Gospel upon their heart and lie. In England, Where this open communion spirit prevails, there are no sirong Baptst churches, newspapers or colleges, The ordinance of immersion fais into disrespect, and there ts found to be no good rea- son lor maintaining a separate existence, In America, where restricted communton 1s the rule, there is henith and vigor everywhere. Our col- Jeges rival those of any other denomination; our feet u whom cyery bishop, priest and jayman ot the Protestant Episcopal Cuurch pro.essea to be- lieve when he daily repeats, “I believe in the holy Catholic Uhnrch."” Itis to her alone, unconsciously though provi- dentially. that their baptismal pramises were newspapers, 1eviews and acknowledged position tu the iiterary world, command the respect of The action of the Haptists of Long isiand strengthened the cause, and ot pig yours, JUSTIN D, PU BROOKLYN. Oct, 24, 187 God’s truth and God’s | ex are twin pearis which man may keep or ; Defeuce of the Long Island Baptist | had avowed himself a restricted communionist, , ‘ON, | & Three Column Card From the Rev. Mr. Jenes. Last Sunday an article appeared in these cob Uumps on the exclusion of three churches by the Long Isiand Baptist Association. There was & dozen line reference therein to the Port Jefferson Baptist church and its pastor dissominating cir- culars and pamphlets against members and others in the denomination. Our comments were based on the public and published proceedings of the association and the published letters and asa lars 01 the cbhuroh and pastor referred to. The Rev. P. F. Jones construes this reference to a * sonal’’ attack upon him, which he thinks was in- spirea by some old-time enemies of his, and he sends us & three column card in reply, We cannot print it, for severai reasons, but Its contents simply sustain the point made by the writer oi that article, Whatever quarrel Mr. Jones has had with the deceased Dr. Taylor and the living Dr. Bright and others, of whom his letter speaks m offensive and unchristian terms, the HeraLp has certainiy no interest in taking sides in that quarrel, and jor tus reason, a3 Weil as that of space, we cannot | publish the document. The association decided not to adinit Mr. Jones or his church, and substan. ually for the reasons stated in tae HERALD article. Ministerial and Chareh Movements. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The new Church of St. James, about a mile be- yond Faiis church, Baltimore, on the Washington | and Onto Ratlroad, was dedicated on Tuestiay last, by the Bishop of Richmond, Va. The Rev, George Strobel, pastor of St. Mary's | church, Philadelphia, died last Monday afternoon, at the pastoral residence, South Fourth street, | aged seventy-four years, The Kedemptorist Fathers Hoelscher, Kuborn and others will open a mission in the Unurch of tne Sacred Heart, Canton, Md., to-day. ‘The chapel lately erected inthe cemetery of St. Alphonsus, Baltimore, will be consecrated to-day. Owing to the ill health of Rev. L, A. Morgan, late pastor of St. Jonn the Evangelist’s church, Long Green, Baltimore county, Md., he has been granted | leave of absence by Archbishop Bayley, and has leit Baltimore for California, Rev, James Starkey has superseded him in the direction of St. Joun’s church, as also in that of St. Philip Neri, Duia- ney’s Valley, Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, confirmed 555 young people last Sunday, at Arctic, Phoenix and Crompton, R. I., and asked of each person a pledge to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors until they were twenty-one years of age, The Right Rev. Bishop Grace administered con- firmation, and dedicated the new church at Cale- donia, Houston county, Minn,, last Sunday. Within the last fifteen years the Catholics of the world have sent the Pope over $20,000,000. The Church of the Sacred Heart, at East Liberty, Pa,. was dedicated on Sunday last. ‘The Right Rev. Bisnop of Pitisburg oMctated. Mgr. Chaulet a’Outtremont, Bishop of Agen, has been appointed to the See of Mans, vacant by the death of Mgr. Filion, ‘the Redemptortst, Fathers recently opened a new house at Quevec, with the Rey, M. Burke, ©. 8.8. R., Superior. Father Mchanus, the pastor of St. John’s church, Baltimore, will shortly leave in search of @ warmer citine ior the winter season. His health ts poor. On bis recent visit to Humettsburg Archbishop Pareell, o1 Cine:nnati, conierred the oMee of the priesthood on the Rey. Michael Hayes, wno is sta- tioned at Mount St. Mary's College, On Sunday week last the new Church of the Assumption, in St. Paul, Minn., was dedicated. it ts amonnced that two new dioceses aro to be created in Pennsylvania, the sees of whicil will be xed at Heading and Pottsville. Tne bath Rey. Manrice Waish, V. G., of Philadelphia, is spoken of as one oF the new bishops. ‘Lhe bulls are daily exe pected from Kome. One of the most illustrious savans of Germany is ‘dead, Fathet Richter, canon of the royal Basilica of St. Galtan, Munich, in his sixty-flth ear. He could speak, read and write seventy nguages. ‘rhe Archbishop of Paris has at last selected a design made by M. Loats d’Abbadie, for the na- tional Church of the Sacred Heart, which Is to be erected at Montmartre. The churen will be but of striped marble and is tobe an almost exact re- Production of the Basilica of the Superga at-furin, which contains the tomos of the kings and herves of the house of Savoy. A8 an incidental testimony to the wisdom of the Protestant Npiscopat Convention in rejecting Dr. Seymour for the episcopacy in Iitinois, we find in the Catholic Review that Mr. Russell i. Nevins, @ graduate of St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, an lustitution founded by Dr. Seymour and presided ever by him tor many years, bas gone into the Troy Semmuary to study for the Catholic priest hood, He was a postulant for holy orders in tne Protestant Episcopal Church. The Rey. Charles A. Foster, Protessor of Latin in the same institu- Uon, also resigned his chair with the intention of joining the Cacaolic Chureh, and is now studying Philosophy m the Provincial Seminary, Troy. A third geutioman has done the same, and is now studying with the Paulist Fathers in New York. These deiections trom the Episcopal ranks irom one institution bave aitracted attention to the character of the stucies pursued therein. Rev, Fathers McFiroy, of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Brookiyn, and O’Rourke, leit this port yesterday ior Italy, to rest and recuperate tueir lailing health. Yesterday being the twenty-first anniversary of the elevation o1 Bishop Laugitin to the episco. pate of Brooklyn, the event was duly celebrated by religious services im the churches of tae dlocese and by social gathermgs in the evening. ‘The diocese of Boston contain at present 175 priests, 100 churches and 15 other church buiida- Ings, 34 cuiapels and Stations, 68 clerical students and a Catholic population of 310,000, These figures show an increase ail round. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union (monthly) has a full record of the Fourth Annual Convention of the organization whose name it bears, he!d at Chicago a few days ago. ‘the total abstinence movement is spreading throughout the country, ‘There are now 497 societies in this organization, representing about 100,000 members. An emigra- tion bureau on an extensive scale is to be mme- diately established in connection with the union, Assistance, mMlurmation and protection to emi- gragts who may be induced to join the movement are the principal icatures, Mr. J. W. O'Brien, the | National Secr-tary, is to have charge and receive ail communications relative to this emigration scheme, according to @ resolution passed in the Convention. Tue new Catholic Church at New Egypt, N. J., is inctosed and roofed, and will soon be ready for oc- cupancy. St. Francis College, on the outskirts of Trenton, N. J., which has been in process of construction during the pasi summer, is nearly completed, It is Laut uf OFICK, tnree stories In Netwnt And nas a cut stone front. A new church in connection with the coltege 18 atso to be built, Btsnop Lougalin will hold a confirmation service at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic churea in Hunter's Point this aiternoon, PRESBYTERIAN, The Rev. §. 8, Sheddan, for many years the swag? of the First Presbytertan chureh of Ranway, , J, died on Sunday, Oct ber 18. ‘The Fourth Presbyterian ps hu of South Boston, which ha3 been organized abort two Years, NOW propose to build @ neat nouse of wor- slup of Wood at a cost of about $6,000, The Rev. J. B. Dunn, of the Beach street Presby- terian chureh, Boston, reports that tor over five years there bas not been @ single communion when numbers dio not anite with the churcn on ; Protession of faith, nor a single week ‘‘woen per- Sous did not come to us with the inquiry, ‘What must We do to ve saved {'? The number of com- municants is largely m excess of a thousand. ‘The Presbyterian church at Lowell, Mass, hag bought @ 325,000 church building for $15,000, and are now happily housed, Rey, Joun S, Gilmer has been released from nis pastoral relauion with the Presbyterian chareh im Titusville, N. J., and is now In New York. ‘The Rev. I. O, Fillmore, late of Jordan, has re- cently taken charge of the Presbyterian chureh of Green Island, one of the (eer suburbs ot Troy. It is with pleasure that we notice the recovery of the gitted wile of the Rev. Dr. Field, of tne Rvangenst, The Doctor makes Known the fact m this Week's issue o1 his paper. ‘The Rey, N. M, Chite has resigned his charge at Vlean and accepicd a call to Deposit, N.Y. Rev. Jotn Reid has been installed pastor of the Third Presbyterian churey, Paterson, N. J. Key. d. W. Heaicy, D. D., has beon recalled to the Tavernacle churci, Chicago, whose Sabbath schoois number 1,400, Rev. W. CG, MeKaig’s case has neen referred to the Chicago Presoytery to make the inquiries needitti in order to determine nis actual theologt- } cal position. Ail the docaments in the case buve been forwarded by the Presbytery of Sacramento. The Key. Herman N. Barnum, D. D., of Harpoot, Eastern Turkey, in acknowledging the recetpt of | mouey forwarded to him through the New York | Goserver tor the relief of sufferers by the earthquake Jast spring, gives a sad account of the groat suffer. ing caused by these and other calamities in Kast- ern and Western Barker. The Kev. ©. M, Des Islets, of Hamilton, Pa,, has gone to Leon, Towa, The Rev. J. B. Preston, of Woodville, has gone to Manis, N, Y. The io eae Presbytery having Soret, Dr.- Swing’s resignation as a member thereof without censuring him, his prosecutors protested. The Presbytery ratifled and defended its acuon and an appeal was taken to the Synod of Northern Illinois, Which body last week condemned th tion of the Presbytery, sustained the appeal, but had no power to pass sentence on Dr. Swing. tow: ever, ordered his name to be taken [rom the rol of the Presbytery of Chicago—a thing which had been done, bi BPISCOPALTAN, jonton Tatualens vi peoacare LJ Lg ALS con- ation tn ee iscopal chure! ose! L. L, this afternoon, id sites _ Anew church, under the title of Grace Mission, has been organized at Rocky Hill, Conn. In sy Ueki Lab) ho Kptscopal misatons tn Haiti, W. 1 Dative priests are laboring. The Protestant Mpis- copal Charch has how about 170 families, (rom 250 Vo 600 communicants, and 750 attendants in its fold there. Not a very enco: thre fas" Sat Bika Recent Re ornare Ow atl Camp Meet! ai will t 0. Offshoot sey, have. ofered eliebis nnrelt a sm ‘ed an el copalians if the; fereune R letad beget Toms tae ev. Dr. Hoff in LUTope, confirm the reports previonst \° nounced of his restoration neath ‘and! iis early return to his cha! of the Diocese of Central T= Pe FS asylvania are :- parishes, 42 clergy canont- ally resident, 8 pandhcaten for holy orders, 5,863 commanicants, 8,286 Sabbath school scholars, 84 eburches, 22 chapels and school butidings and 88 parsonages, ‘Tne value Of the church buudings is $860,200, and the financial offerings for the year amount Lo $166,852 62, The next session of the Convocation of West | Virginia is to be held, ta Grace church, Raveus- wood, Jacxson county, on Wednesday evening, November 4, and jollowing days. ‘the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of the | Transfiguration, Thirty-sccoud and Chestuut | sireets, Piuladelphia, bas extended @ call to Rev. | Thomas K. Conrad, D. D. (now rector of the | Chureh of the Heavenly Rest, forty-sixth street and Filth avenue, New York oul) which has been accepted, and ne will enter upon his pastoral du- | ties at New Year. ‘The statistics of the last Convention of Wisconsin show that there are 77 charcues aud musslons | there, 82 clergy, 4,735 communicants and 12,622 | attendants on worship, 3,462 Sunday scholars, and that its contmibutions for the lust ecclesiastical year amounted to $131,487 94. in lowa there are 57 parisbes. 44 clergy, 2,991 communicants dnd 8,694 attendants, 2,850 Sunday | scholirs, and the offerings amounted to $75,643. The Chinese converts in Carson City and Vir- ginia City, Nev., have butit a neat chapel in the | former piace, where serviess are now held. They propose building another chapel in the last-named pla_e by and Vg The Rey. U.S. stephenson has accepted the ree- torsnip o: St. Mary's, Mort Haven, N. ¥. The Rov, Henry L, Ziegeniuss twkes charge of Christ church, Poughkeepsie, daring the Rev, Dr. Cady’s abseuce in Lurope, Tie Rev. Kaward L, Stoddard has accepted tne rectorship of St. Jon's pariah York, Pa. ‘The Rey, Benjamin 7. Hal has resigned the rec. torship of Grace chureh, Mexico, N. Y., and gone | to Syracuse, N.Y. | ‘The Rev, J. L. Steele, D. D., late rector of Christ | church, Ottawa, MIL, nas acce id an election to St. Paui’s, Key Wes*, in the Diocese of Florida, ‘The Rey. John Bennet, late of Sussex, Wis. has accepted the charge 01 5t. Mary's Mission, Savan- | nah, Mo. The Rey. Thomas Betts, late of Weston, Mo,, has removed to Wyandotte, Kan, ‘the Rev. James P. Fugett, late of Manhattan, Kan., has accepted the rectorshtp of Grace church, Jeferson City, Mo. Rey. Wilham 8, Porkins, a presbyter of the Dio- cese of Pennsylvania, and for many years rector of St. James’ church, Bristol, Pa, has united with the Reformed Episcopal Church, The Rey. P. A. Almquist, of Big Rapids, has | gone to Marquette, Mich., aS Missionary along the Swedes, Bart The Rev, Dr. Shaver has retired from the editor- ship of the Christian Jndex, wad has been sac. ceeded by the Rev. D. E. Butler. The Rey. D. ©. Hagnes, late of Newark, N. J., fssumed the pastorate of the Union avenue Bap- tist caurch, Greenpoint, last sunday. The Gethsemane Baptist church have, by an al- most unanimous Vote, withdrawn from ‘the Long Island Baptist Association, on account of its iile- gal and unchristien treatment of Dr. Jefirey and Mr. Smith and their respective churches. It is rumored that seven other eharehes are likely to Withdraw also, and that anotier association will be formed on Long Island. Last Sunday evening the Rev. J. Hyatt Sauth reviewed the action o1 the association in tui ning his church out, Dr. Thom of the Kirst Baptist church, also condemned it, an trutus and principles in which he believed, The chureh of which the Rev. J. ¥. Osterhout is pastor, formerly known as the First Baptist church of Hariem, bas been organized as the Tem= ple Baptist church of New York oity. The Rev. A.D. Gillette, D. D., 18 called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Sing Sing, N.Y. The Key. F. EB. Osborne, of Melrose, N. J, Wag accepted a call to the pastorat oitice at West Hoboken, N. J. ‘rhe Rev. Lewis J, Gross has assumed the pas- toral charge at Jamaica, Long Island. It is sara that Dr. Falton predicated tis own suc cess or failure in Brooklyn on his ability to crush Dr, gonrey, He beileves his success is now ag sured. ‘The small sect known as Christians, or disctples of Christ, and the open communton, or Free Bap- tisis, have coniercnce committees now looking jor @ basis of union betweon the two denomina- tions. They are nearly identicat in faith and prac- tice. The corner stone of the First German Baptist churca, Newark, N, J., Was laid October 22, in Mer- cer street, ‘The Rey, T, A. T, Hanne is so much of an invalid as to be compelled to tuke a sea voyage. During his absence Rey. M. C. B. Oakley will supply the pulptt of the Fish Baptist charch, Williamsburg, The Missionary Union have decided, in view of the unsettled condition of affairs in Spain, not to send out any more missionaries at present and to continue bat one American missionary there and to aid the native workers already ongaged, ‘The poverty of Dr. Aagne’s healti has compelled him to senile the pastorate of the Bapust church at Orange, N. J., and to spend a year or more in Europe. METHODIST. Mrs. Van Cott, the evangelist, was in Brooklyn last week preaching and exhorting among the churches, She drew@ large congregation to the poston ty Methodist Kpiscopal church on Sabbath eveaing. The Kev. G, W. Woodraft, of the New York East Conierence, is peer ating in the West lecturing and recruiting ms health. The Rev. J. C, Castle, of Chicago, is going to Colorado to promote Ins health, Toe Rey. John Williamson vegan his ministry with Wabash avenue churei, Chicago, last Sunday, and vad President Grant among his congregation, The Rev, Mr. Miulgan, President of the New- foundiand Methodist Conierence, was in New York last week on @ visit. Bishop Ames returned to Baltimore last week from his Western tour of visitatioa, The Rev. Dr. Seager, an eminent minister in Western New York Conference, died tn Lockport, October 22, aged sixty-seven yeara, He had been in the ministry forty-one years. ‘The Rey, Benjamin Kelly, pastor at Port Jervis, died ou Saturday, October 24, of typhoid erous layman of Camden, N. J., hasremoved t of $30,000 from the Third street Methodist Episeopai chureh of that tty, Rev. J. P. Mooney, pastor of the Methodist Epts- copal , Weatherby, Central Peunsylvania Coulerence, has just closed a meeting in which 110 fouad Christ, Rev. N. M. Skipworth and Rev. James FE, Brad- ley, of Louisiana, have received appointments in the Urezon Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rev, J. 4. A. Ahrens has received his degree of Master of Arts in course irom the Texas Unt- versity. Ho is a eradnate of tha Soulé University. MISCELLANKOUS lam of the New York Magdalen Asylum, Nas re- signed his charge of that Institution, His sueces- sor, Rev. Mr, Battersby, and wife, in jucure will conduct the religious and Comestic adarrs of the The Rey. Charies (. Darling, so long the chap: ! 15 cussion sow, and the acilon taken on it was. concurrence with the bishops im i2¢ adoption, vote was—cleriowl yeas 38, nays 9; lay yeas nays 1. It was afterward informally statea deputies that there should be « canon pronibiting elevations, bowings, 4c., and such canon will, doubtless, be introduced imto the next Generaa Convention. it would have been brought up in thts had not the deputies believed that thele canon would have been adopted. THE GHOST OF BAPTISMAL REGENERATION aGaIm, ‘The report of the Committee on Canons, provid- ing @ permissible rubric after the office of infant baptism to relieve the weak consciences of low churchmen, was brought up for action, and Dr Vinton, of Massachusetts, led the low churcl parts in its Aotence. He urged its ado: be- va nore than one-sixth of the ¢l w Chured had asked ro: He said it hl id Many pions persons that baptism is @ cove! aad that tts grace depeads upon the fulfilment its conditions, Those who hold this theo believe that regeneration may precede’or may fe jow the bapisinal act. Lt nad been adjudged laws jul, the Doctor remarked, to hold tnis view im Church of England, aud th this country the bisho| in council had Geciared that oo moral change was certainly detertuined by the words of the bape tismal oMce. lie maintained that regeneration Was a moral change. I! tt was justitiabie, theres fore, for ciergyinen to hola unk theory, he des manded, in the name of simple fairness and jus tlee, that they should not be required to nse a form of language witch falsified ther private teachings. He argued that alteration of @ creed did not coustitute a denial of in It would be said that alterations itke taese wouid open the. way for greater changes, but tne meu who Invored for the interests of the Caureh could not thus be likened to & Weak, imdule gent mother. Many clergymen signed chig petition, net for themseives only, bdut tor otuers. He pleaced for strong trutn, and dweis on the great expediency of granting chs petition, Tuts messure had been before tue Church for years; apes alter appeal had been made tn benalt o: it ‘this Courch was indepted to many of these mem who had signed tuts memorial for her present con. dition of thrift and grace, This Church could nos afford to lose these mea. Notwithstanding alt this he had no hope that the petition would be granted, He felt that ne was singing its requiem, but its principle was vital, and it would be reaur. ‘ruth crushed to earth Would rise again,” and treedom of conscience could not be stifled, It willcome up again whe! there will not be such strong opposition to tt, ai it will pass aud be incorporated into the rubrica of the Charch, CHENEY AND CUMMINS NOT BISHOPS, The Rev. Dr. William Adams, of Wisconsin, exe pressed himself opposed to the granting of this memorial, Fr ixths of the clergymen in Charen were, he sald, against it, aud this wae suilcient argument why tt should not be adopter Bishop Cheney nad peen deposet tor adopt Just such a cuange as this, and he was now a bi wandering about and consecrated by Bishop Cume mins. And yet this Convention {fs asked to res verse tms decision and virtually declare that Cheney is a bisiop. And every supporter of hte would recognize the action proposed as a justiticae tion of his course. In his opinion the corscienced tronoled by this office were either diseased or ame instructed. Hf, alter juli consideration, these come setences coald not be reconciled to the use of the words in question, let them withdraw from the Charch, and might God's blessing go with them, Dr. Jennings, of Missouri, spoke in defence of the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, The Church 1s not a heap of sand, as some men may think. fis argument was based on the parables found in Masonic and pelitical organizations an@ in the saturalization of foreigners. in entering i. rected in better times, | into associational or national citizenship, a mam Dr. Jefirey read to his people a brie! statement of | must go through @ certam process before he cam be declared @ member or @ citizen, Even so, | coutended, a person must, by some process, he at not pretend to explain how, enter into vital union with Onrist in the office of baptism, whereby the man or tie child is MADE A MEMBER OF CHRIST, @ child of God and an inberitor oi the kingdom of heaven, If the principle was true as applied to merely human organizations it 18 certwnly true im the spirtiual organization. And a maa or @ child thus taken from (he world in baptism will De more likely and better able to butid up a religious character, And yet, he said, we allow men stand. Ing at the baptismal font to deny this doctrine of baptismal regencration, A minister stands there in the name oi the Church and has no right to speak his own words there Wo must stop this, he added, because It emasca- lates the Apostles’ Creed—a creed which came into being even before the Church itself wad organized. The conflict is on us, and it 1s one between rationalism and supernaturaliam, us bury this proposition beyond the possibility @® resurrection. Mr. Meigs, a lay deputy from New Jersey, re marked that for 200 years taey had been consider. ing the alteration of the fundamental doctrine @ the Church, The consequence oj letting in thm enlering Wedge would be ihat every minister must cither teach this doctrine or violate his or dination vow. The doctrine is in the Bible and ®& is fu set forth by the Chureh. Mr. Welsh moved to lay the whole matter on the table. This was lost by atie vote of Mity-six. Te Was taken over avain and lost by a larger vote It was Chen moved that the vote be taken on tig question in five minutes, and on this motion Fulton got the floor and laid the stitpes bard and heavy on those who doubt or deny tne doctrine ot baptismal regeneration, The men who ask this alteration, he said, are uot brave men. they were they would tel us that thetr com sotences are abused. The whole catechism is ve be swept away and ‘THE GRACE OF BAPTISM 1s to be nullified if this change is made. We must also sWoep away an article in the Nicene Ureed and half a dozen verses from the ape goer We have some conscience ourselves, he said, and Fue terly deny that particle of apostoticity betongs to Bishop Commins, to whom these men threa' ‘us they will go if this permission ts not gram These remarks Of the reverend Doctor were loudly hissed. The vote was then taken on the questiom by dioceses and orders, and by an almost unanh aan report of the committee was de- feated. ‘The question of shortened services came up thea for action, The Committee on Constitutional Amendments offered an amendment giving te each diocese authority to grant the required hef, Adeputy from South Carolina moved the change be made by rubric, ag tt was vir an alteration of tie Prayer Book and should be a@ made. Tais amendment, on Dr. De Koven’s tion and alter some remarks, was defeated, Jennings then moved to lay that part of the Come muittee’s report transmitting the power of to the dioceses on the table. This was cw and the rest of the report, Which was of small age count, Was adopted, & REPORT ON PROVINOIAL SYSTEMS Was next put on its passage. The report said im substance that the Charca did not want any ence system at this time. Dr. De Koven argued ln ia favor, and maintained that without it no church, college or university cold we wade rf =. ew roundca te ANG TNS 13 tho principle on Wien vem veses in the South sustain the University of t South, Mr. ituggies and Judge Wilder repli opposing any such system. Dr. Adams, of Wiseom- sin, fayored such a system among droceses tn one State, but opposed it as between separate suite dtoceses. It was laid on tne table, and tie House Asylum, Miss HL G. Brittan, Miss Marston, Miss Kendalt and Miss Woodward teave New York tor Calcutta on the 14th of November, Dr. Jonn B. Thompson has resigned the pastor- ate of the Reformed church a6 Cortiandttown, N. Y., nd the Rev. Wiluam Brush, that at Ford- ham, N. Y. The Kev. G. W. Laban has. accepted a call to the pastorate of the Reiormed church at Blue Moun- tam, N.Y. A call has been extended to Rev. Isaac L. Kip, of Schodac Landing, N. Y., by the Reiormed chureh of Peeksxitl. Rev. Kdward Ackerman, of Wurtsborough, N, Y., has accepted a call to the churches of Currytown and Spraker's Basin, N.Y. The total number of Sunday school oMicers in Essex county 1s 3,$00, and Of scuolars 27,500, THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Baptismal Regeneration Maintained= Bishop Cummins a Bishop, but Without Apostolic Succession—Shortened Ser. vices and Provincial Systems Thrown Overboard. when the Convention came to order yesterday morning Mr. William Welsh mtroduced a resom- tion asking for Lhe appointment of a commisston, to consist of two bishops, two prosbyters and two laymen, to secure the better governmont ofthe General Ticologicai Seminary, which was adopted. ‘The trustees of the Pand for Widows and Or- phans of Deceased Clergymen were announced as the Bishops of Raston aad Delaware, Drs. Potter and Dix, and Messra, S. R. Nash, W. A. Smith and L. W. Wells. The louse decided to sit until 614 P. M., and to adjourn on Monday evening after tho Bishop’s pastoral has been read. The closing de- Votional services will be held in tae Church of the Hoiy Trinity, The Conference Commitiee on the Ritual Canon reported the same, amended by the omtsston therefrom of the specifications of incense and the crucifix as symbolizing erroneous doctrines, but adding in another partfof the canon “and ail other doubtiul practices,” The leaving ont of these Specifications, it was argued, did not approve their tise, but left the question of thelr iegality Where it had been before. Dr. De Kovou opposed the canon mainly oa the ground of its uneonstitu. tionality, He thought that bowings, prostrations and genufections might very properly be protib- ited by canon. Kneeling {s the only act of adora- ton that adevout heart secks, He dtd not think that ceremonies could be prohibited by canon, It should be done by raorte, The canon having been Well discussed belore thore Waa no need for dim thereafter adjourned, Several unimportant mes sages Were received irom the bishops and acted upon, THE THEATRE BEFORE THE OHURCH I® GERMANY, : The Second Chamber of Hesse has, Octeber voted the religious, or rather the anti-Catholic, bills submitted io it Witham unexpected rapidity and zeal. The voices of the Catholics were Almost stifed, and the Protestant majority harangued at ite ease against the Pope and the “morality of the Jesuits.” The Mamzer punishes a very remarkable articie in which & reproduces a report to the effect that the Protes- tant majority made those lawsthe price of ite vote in favor of rhe theatre of Darmstadt. “fnus,” exclaims.the organ of Mgr. de Ketteier, “we Catholics ure to be. oppressed and persecated ig order that the innabitants of that town should have a brilliant theatre and be able to feast their eyes on the péirouetics of a dancer and theit eara on the roulades o| a singer’? Grand Dyce! Hesse counts about 230,000 Catholies, Sgainst 600,000 Protestants. A STEPFATHER’S ORUELTY. A Young Girl Burned to Death, [From the Cincinnati CommerctaL) On the night of the 13th of last month a barber, named Jacob Zimmer, living at No. 93 Race street, returned home drunk and commenced to break up the housenold furniture. His crippled step. daughter, Della Brossard by name, attempted te pacify him in his intoxicated rage, aud he, maademe ed by her persuasive endeavors, seized a burning coal of] lamp rom @ table and huried it at ber. The lamp was shattered upon the floor, and the com tents igniting set fire to the giri’s clothing, burn. ing her body terribly before the flames were quenched. An account of the atfair was publishe@ in this paper the day after it occurred, Zimmer was arrested and taken to the Third Strect Poltoe Station, where the charge of disorderly conduct was entered against him. In the Court his cai was continued to a1 the development of the injured girl's case, the prisoner in the meantime was sent to jail, Drs Hoicomb was called to attend the parent aud did What ho conld, but owing to the poverty of the jamily the girl was not as well Jecene for ciroumstances called for, Soon after the coat pT) the bed of thi from @ lamp i tho han: apyenaing | er, and had not Oficers Quina given, and ex! ul Tortuhate creature would undoudtediy have. bees Toasted alive, In the second fire, bowever, the 1 Was Dot 8 a ce LLM ner ere h as to cause inte! ing which until yesterday mmornfag the Screams of the uniortnnaie discressad the nelenborhoed-