The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, (PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY Ministerial and Church Move- | | ments, Correspondence, &c. | Sayings and Doings of the Protestant Episcopal Convention. | } | | Services To-Day. “Tne Central Idea of Christianity” will be set forth this moruing by the Rev. M. 8. Terry, in | Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church. “The Power of Eatire Devotion” will be the sub- | ject for the Rev. W. H. Boole’s meditation this morning in Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal | church, ‘The Prophet of Fire’ in the evening. | The Rev. John N, Gallagher will offictate in Zion Protestant Episcopal church this morning and | aiternoon. The Rev. George D. Matthews will preach in | Westminster Presbyterian church this morning | and evening at the asual hours. «Let tne Dead Bury Their Dead” ts the topic on which Mr. Hawthorne will speak this morning in the Tabernacle Baptist church. “Faith the Sole Condition of Salvation” in the same place this | evening. “Almost Persuaded” will be presented this even- ing by the Rev. W. B. Merritt in the Sixth avenue Reformed church. The Rev. Dr. Rylance will preach at both ser- vices to-day in St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal church. “What We Know About Heaven’ and ‘Bible Penitents,” as illustrated by Balaam, will be power it is absolutely true to say that the sum of | treated to-day, at the usual hours, by Dr. Ganse, | jn the Retormed church on Madison avenue, ‘The Rev. W. W. Newell, Jr, will preach to-day, at the usual hours, in the Forty-second street Presbyterian chureh. The Rey. Dr. Wild and Mr. A. A. Smith will aa- | dress the Brooklyn Sunday School Union to-mor. | row evening, in Hanson place Methodist Episcopal enurch. “Christian Perfection as Progressive; not a | Gift, but a Reward of Pious Diigence,” 1s the elaborate titie of Dr. Wild’s discourse this morning in the Seventh avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn. The Rev. H. W. Knapp will the usual hours in cuureh. The Rev. S. M. Hamilton will preach this morn- ing and afternoon in the Scotch Presbyterian church, “The Recognition of Friends in Heaven’ and “Tne Judgment Day” are the topics of thought chosen by the Rev. W. P. Corbit for to-day in Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church. “The Words of Jesus” this morning tn the Pil- grim Baptist church, and “Precious Truth” this evening in the same place, by the Rev. J. Spencer Kennard, The Rev. J. W. Barnhart will preach to-day tn preach to-day at the Laight street Baptist the basement room of the Forsyth street Metho- | leads him tnto is the supposition that Tyndali’s at- | the Rev, Dr. Dixon, dist Episcopal church, The Morning Star Sunday senool will hold its monthly concert this alternoon in the schoolroom, tn West Twenty-sixth street, The Rev, Father Damen will lecture this even- | {ng in Couper Institute, in aid of St. Francis’ Hos+ pital. | The Rev. George 0. Phelps will minister to-aay, | 8 usual, in Allen street Presbyterian church. | Communion service 1n the afternoon, | “The Gates of Heaven, or the Law of Satvation’ | 15 the taking topic on whicn the Rev. W. R. Alger, | every substance, material or ‘spiritual, 1 | minutest atom and vastest sphere,” lask, but a second edition of the theory of “ema- | | opposing a blunderbuss to a mitrailieuse. the Rev. Dr. Porter will be commemorated to-day im the Bedford avenue Reformed church, Brookiyn, when Drs. Porter, Ganse, Ten Eyck and Talmage ‘Will address the audiences, Drs, Adams and Hal! will address the public thts evening in Madison square Presbyterian church on “City Missions," The kev. W. . Pendleton will preach to-day tn the Filty-third street Baptist churen. ‘The Rev. Dr. T. D, Anderson will preach in the rst Baptist church this morning and evening. ‘The Rey. Robert Sloss will occupy the pulpit of the Second avenue Presbyterian charch this morn- ing and evening. ‘The Rev, L. H, King will preach tn the Free Tab- ernacle Methodist Episcopal church to-day at the usual hours, The Rev, Dr. Armitage will preach In the Fifth Fi | avenue Baptist church this morning and evening. In view of the secession of certain members of nane Baptist church, Brooklyn, for the purpose of founding a new society, the Rey. 4. 5, Walsh will preach this evening on "Splitung a8 a Means of Grace.” “Prudentiuy” Pagan Answered. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— While the various dissertations of your corre- Philosophy | spondent “Pradentius” cannot have fatied to at- tract universal attention by reason of their cogent argumentation and admirable spirit, serious ob- jections may be urged against bis “Metaphysical Essay on the Creation.” It bristles with Platon- isms throughout, such as “the type of the divine nature,” “the divine mind,” “reproduction of the essences of things,” “correspondences,” ‘imdnite reality copied and reflected,” ‘beings whose vital acts copy the divine,’ &c., and, Indeed, reads ag af wholly borrowed from that venerable philosophy which John Locke boldly controverted and David Hume successiully assailed. Plato, however, never ventured to deduce matter from essences, types | or archetypes, whereas Prudentius does, in these | words:—“When Goa wilis to exercise His creative being and reality 8 not increased by the produc- tion of any namber of cesmic systems, * and what ts said of one creature may be said of worlds. They only reproduce, in limited degrees, | the reality, the beauty, tne life, which are the one | infinite, living reality of the most perfect God.” Not only ig such .a proposition subversive of the cardinal dogmas Of Christianity but it is Panthe- | ism in its nudest, rankest iorm, rursuing the theory of essences, types and archetypes to its legitimate conclusion, *Pruden- tus” continues:—“*But all tuese (the forms and forces, &¢., Of the universe) correspond to and are | the reproduction of the essences of things in the Creator's own mind. Makin, & proper and scientific use, We can {htellectually | behold behind every existing world and every one being within tts compass the infinite reality which 1t copies and reflects. In every form and force, in can but behold the pervading presence of the uncreated substance ‘sustaluing every being, &c., with God as the central principle of body and spirit, of What is this, nation,” which the Pagan philosophers symbolized by the spider and Its web? Nor is *-Prudentius” more original or more or- thodox when he holds that “before creation ex- isted there was the boundless ocean Of tne dwine | substance to which the philosophic intellect can conceive nO centre or circumference; no height, no breadth or deptn.” We have here but the anima mundi of the ancients, the world-soul of be moderns, the creed of every materiahst and atheist. Another strange error which “Prudentius’’? zeal tacks are specially directed against Christianity, and hence it is that **Prudentius” makes continual references and appeals to tne patristic writings and the wrangles of the churchmen, Tyndali, [ | beg to submit, wars not against the Christian | relgion, but against religion opposed to science, | and to call up the ghosts of the fathers of the Church to do battle in the name of science is like The Port Jefferson Baptist Speaks Again. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Iam fully of the opinion that you would not Pastor * Of our imagination | of Boston, will speak this morning in the Church | Wrougfully make use of the tremendous power of of the Messiah. | the Henanp to Wrong an innocent and unoffend- The service in the Russian chapel this morning | 198 Person. 1tiink the following facts will be wil be conducted in the Slavonic language by the ply sufficient to lead you to do the manly and Rev. Nicholas Bjerring, pastor. just thing by me, “Universalism and Common Sense” is the theme sayin na Veneer rae a eee of Mr. Sweetser’s meditation this evening in the “chronic weakness Jor writing abusive letters,’ Bleecker street Universalist church. Divine service to-day at the usual hours in the First Retormed Episcopal cuurch—Rey. W. T. Sabine rector. ings of the parties | have exposed lor nearly eighteen years without writing or publishing a line 18 sumicient answer, and that every Baptist who | knows me knows | did do, | Second—I the jact that 1 had suffered irom the secret work- | “Tne Man of Earth’ will be treated of this even- ing by the Rev. N. G. Cheney tn John street Metho-, dist Episcopal church. Rey. O. A. Darby, of Col- never wrote or publisned a word against one Of these parties until they had so de- veloped themselves that I couid briag them into court and put them under oath, when whatever | was developed would be put ina shape not to be disputed; nor had | ever had any personal quarrei With any o! them, or given any of them any just cecasion tor assailing me. umbia, 8. C., will preach in the morning. The Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach this morning and evening im the Anthon Memorial eburch. the very time they were detected in their mis- The Rev. C. C, Tiffany wit! o} at theusnal chief. ‘his was shown up In court. rs to-day in the Protestant Episcopal CI | _ Third—I dia not, even with the evidence of that pena a 4 id ¥ eS | trial in my hands, publish a line until they had re- of the Atonement. | attacked me in the Long 1s.iand Association clan- The Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson will review the | destinely, with the purpose of unsettling me as : of the Generai Convention th they had done many times velore, Alter the first ee ee ee ee o pn this evening 1D | 4ccick 1 waited eigiteen months, when ny chureh n (Protestant | presented the facts to the association, at Babylon, . Dr. Conra in @ printed ietter, Which any Church has the rgit totale ea todo. Another yéar passed and the church sent She Sraret a. wee uo enay up anoter printed lecter to the session held last The Rev. S. H. year, in Hanson place Baptist church. ‘These church of the Holy Trinity this morning and even- | two official letters of the church, of whioh ing and the F Dr. Irv $s afternoon. | Lwas one of the bearers, are the only printed Dr. Ewer will spe “The Creed” this evening in St. Igna Totestant Episcopal enurchi, Divine service wili be conducted this morning andevening by the Rev. Dr. Fiagg im the Prot- opal Church of the Kesurrection. . H. Kk. Nye will speak about “The Un- association. On the first attack that was made body were privately mutilated, and the name of my church was starred, and 1's Statistics were leit out for that year to keep my name irom ap- pearing on the roll, This boid piece of work was | gone by private parties alter the body had ad- journed, and without a shadow of authority; and | you say you based your statements upon the pardonabie Sin” this evening in the Universalist | “published documents of the association.” What i: re e nue, Brooklyn. | respect you can have for such documents I am un- ehurch ou Clermont avenue, Kiyo. | able to see, or for an ecclesiastical body or any Will tell Ali Souis’ Protestant Epis. Ne Lakes pony eng bie m3 i kn hure, Brooklyn, sometning “ ask who Gid this alter the facts were laid beiore it ir church, Brookisn, sometning about “The | ithe first printed letter of the cure, ‘The tact fate of Suicides” this moruing, and will adjust oy private mutilation was indisputable. They some discrepancies of fact or assertion between | had had our money ior the printing of these min- winls d Genesis this evening. utes, and the thing was @ base fraud upon the rah as iP eae ‘ | church, The mmmutes were worthless as de- Dr. Alexander will preach this morning in the | pominational documenta, and just the Phillips Presbyterian church and Chancellor tiings to decetve you with. Tne association Crosby this evening in the same place. | did, however, acknowledge the wrong done to the “Christian Fear” and “Wells Witnout Water” are the topics on which the Rev. W. T. Egbert will speak this morning and evening inthe Wainwright but the parties who took the matter into the asso- ciation did not cease to push their point, and tiey pushed it Jor three years before I published the | pamphiet entitled “Light for the Long Island Bap- Memorial chur fist Association.” That pamphlet was published Mr. Join &. Wolf will explain Spiritualism and last January gud there has been no meeting of the mediumeh!p scientifically in Harvard Rooms to- | S88gctalioif si ublication uatil this lace hee jt Twent ta ti | Session. is last session in company day. The Hutchinsons will sing at the entertain. | With some friends, but took no part in the proveed- Tents. ings and had no documents with me, as they can The Rev. C. C. Goss will address the meeting in | testliy; eo thas 1 was nos “there with my usual . 4 | Dudget this year also,” as you represented. Mr. Albro’s house on Friday evening. | _ AS to my “‘unchristian” utterances in tne docu- Dr. Holly will be consecrated Bishop of Hayti , ments I have Carey if you will read those ing a aren or documents you Will take that back. My statements this morning in Grace church. Bisuop Whipple | gre hacked at every step by the sworn stateraents will preach in that church in the afternoon. | of the parties whom they are designed to expose, The Rev. Dr. A. C. Osborn will preach this | and it wey until 1 had been reattacked ani » South Baptiste | followed up persistently for three years that | made morning and evening In the South Baptistchuren. | that exposure. If you take pains to read these The Rev. Father Beeson, e venerable Indian | documents you will put the brand of ‘“unchris missionary, will tell what he knows about Indian | bop 4g a the f man ee bore until 4 | he cow sear no longer, bub upon those religions and why General Canby and Dr. Thomas | who are breeding corruption for our whole were killed, to-day in De Garmo Hall, The Rev. W. M Dunneil will preach at the usual hours to-day in All Saints’ Protestant Epis- | copal church. | Mr. Lyman C, House will entertain the Progres- five Spiritualists this morning and evening at No. 1,195 Broadway. | The Rev. P, L, Davies wil! preach this morning end evening in the Berean Baptist church, The Rev. W. 4. mas wi.! preach in Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church to-day at the Usual hours. Preaching in Canai street Presbyterian church this morning and alternoon by the Rev, David | Mitchell. | «Weakness and Strength’ and “Lot Choosing | Sodom” are the themes apon which Dr. Deems will | country nnder the cloaa of religion. If you look | at the Baptist Weekly for last week you will see that the editor barely makes note of the associa- You's action with this remark, tion “declined to receive my church's jetter and the correspondence of a body made offensive by rs with which they did not deem It wise to 7 Isn't that remarkable’ These fellows a@ttackes me and my church and pushed os three years, And then, rather than stand up and meet the issue tuey had raised like honest, Christian men, they kicked the churcii out 0! doors because, to their surprise ana consternation, they had found a “matter they did not deem it wise to meddie with.” Lam mosttruly yours, te, - FP. FRANKLIN JONES. NEW YORK, Nov, 2, 1874. A Remarkable Family Gathering. One ofthe most remarkable family gatherings agen that ever took place in this State, perhaps on this hte ctcaid Church of the Strangers this morning | Continent, was held week before last in Syracuse, “Bow to cave & Christian Datiy” | N.Y. It was the gathering of the descendanta of in Daily” and “The | Luther Peck and Annis Collar, who gave five sons 17 will 4 Question of Heli” will be treated to-day, morning to the Methodist ministry, and these, together end evening, by the Rev. J. M. Pullman in the | ” Chureb of Our Saviour. | with the offspring of the daughteys also, have “Victorious Young Men" and “Pan given fifteen more tothe same work. The original V's Mission to | ay, % Cyprus” by the Rev. R.S, MacArthur to-day in | five ministers were present et the re. Calvary Baptist church | unton, the oldest being eighty years of x | age and the youngest sixty-three. The Mr. Orson Tay.or promises to eclipse the Daven- ports, Warren and others with spirit juggiery this evening. “Catching and Keeping; or, The Gospel Net,"’ is | Sum total of their ages is 364, Of the second and third generations nine ministers were present. 4éi the number eight are, or have been, presiding elders; tWo bave been editors and one Is & bishop. On Sabbath morning, October 26, the minisrers the titie of Kev, James Kennedy's dgscourse in the | were distribuied tirougn the Methouist pul- Fourth Reformed Presbyterian church this | Pits of the city. In the afternoon all were ening. present at t University avenue ehuren, evening. where Rev. Ur Te Peck, now in Mis seventy- i witha Visor worthy of his ty saty- Gfth aaniversary of the pastorate of | cigninyeur, preaci ihad the high written | and iresh commenuglions Of two of the parties at | documents 1 have taken to or circulated at the | upon me in the association the minutes of that | church and ordered its staustics to be restored; | that the associa- | deiegates, and thus vindicated its right to refuse | younger days, At the desire of the family they then all received the Lord’s Supper together, dangtlags ty. eae ee ba m the evenip, shop large audience on the e.Vooution of the Christian Minister.” Ministerial and Church Move PRESBYTERIAN, nts. ing at Nashua, N, H., during a portion of the past month, and the largest churches, holding 1,000 or Ings, The Presbyterian Board of Education received during the two months past applications for aid from 203 students for the ministry. The increasing number of young men seeking the ministry asa | lifework rejoices the heart of the autboritics of | the Church, | ‘The Rev, B, A. Williamson was ordained and in- | stalled pastor of the churches at Tueresa and Pilesis, New York, on the 27th ult. Rev. Isaac Clark, formerly pastor of the Elm Place Congregational church, Brooklyn, was re- cently installed pastor of the Rondout Presb) te- Tian church, Kingston, N. Y. | Rev. Alvert Worthington, late of Washington, | has accepted the call of the Presbyterian church in Livingstonville, Schoharie county, N. Y. Alter seven years’ ministry to the Westminster Presbyterian chureh, Rochester, N. Y., the Kev. H. M. Miray has left that charge and gone to South Bend, Ind. | Rev, H. W. Gilbert, late pastor of the Congrega- tional church of Peru, Mass, is about to remove to Binghamton, N. Y., to take charge of the Pres- byterian churen there. The Presbytertan church at Batavia, N. Y., have secured the services of Professor Huntington as | their temporary supply, | The Rev, H. H. Kellogg, Jr., was, on the 29th | ult. installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Seneca Castle, N. Y. A revival is in progress at Ross, N. Y., under the evangelistic labors of the Rev Mr. Parker, and many persons have united wita the Presoyterian church there, Union revival meetings are to begin in Clyde, N. Y., to-day, under the Rev. A. B. Earie, the Bupust evangelist. The Rev. ©, H. A, Buikley has resigned the pas- | torate which he has held for seven years with tue | Presbyterian church at Malone, The Rev. George Swain, of Brooklyn, has gone to Allentown, N. d., to take charge oj the Presvy- terian churca in tnat place. The Rev. A. H. Brown bas left the Presbyterian | care at Vineland, N.J., and gone to Puiladei- ae Ry The Rev, A. D. White, for many years pastor of | the Second Presbyterian church, Trenton, N. J., city, on the evening of October 26, Rey. Henry W. lelier was installed pastor of the Evaro yveripey church at Sprivgtield, N. J., on the | 23th ult. Rev. F, Le Roy Senour has received a unanimous call tothe Seventh Presbyterian churcn o1 Piits- | burg. | sey, recently in session, 1ound the complaint of Rev 3. 5. sheddon and the appeal of Chauucey B, | Ripley and Dr, F, A. Kinch against the Presbytery | Of Bilzabeth in order, ordained the proceedings Of the Elizabeth Pres- | bytery irregular, and unduly hasty in the settle- ment of Rev. Alexander McKelvy over the Presby- | terian church of Westfield, and directed the Pres- | tery to reconsider the whole matter, giving the minority, appellants, a full nearing, and consider aiterward whether or not the pastoral relations | shail be dissolved or continued, The vote of the senting. METHODIST. The Methodists take from as wellas give to other denominations. Their latest accession ts apeminent Baptist minister, | who united witn the Methodist Episcopal Church | in Indianapolis, Ind., a couple of Sundays ago, The Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church are now hoiding their semi-annual session in Baltimore, Dr. Pershing, of Pittsburg, Pa., has gone to | Southern Cait.ornia. | The Rev. J. A. Couper, of Philadelphia, was mar- | Tied a few days ago, in Baltimore, to Miss Rutter of that city, J: | Rev. J. B. Van Meter, of the Baltimore Confer- ence, sailed with nis family, on Saturday last, lor | London, He goes out a8 United States naval | chapiain for duty on the alaska in the Mediterra- | nean. He expects to be absent about two years. ‘rhe trial of Kev. T. in Indianapolis, for heresy, resulted in the dis- missai O/ the cuse by the committee. Don Alceste Lanna, Projessor in the Academy of Peace, Doctor in Sacred Theology and in Pniloso- pay, and late Provessor of Theology in the Vatican, a8 toilowed the example of ex-canon Grassi, and | on@ recent Sunday evening, in the congregation in Via Cremona, passed trom the Catholic priest- hood imto the Methodist kpiscopal Church. He made a public confession Of faith. He will be em- oyed at once in the Methodist mission. The Methodist Episcopal cuurch, at Milton, N. Y., | Rey. H. Wood, pastor, wiil be reopened, | The Methodist Preachers’ Association, of the | East End of Long Island, wil! meet in Greenport on the 17th and 18th o. November, | ‘The Centenary Collegiate Lustitute, at Hacketts- | town, N.J., nas 180 pupils, including 100 young | men, twenty of whom have the Methoaist ministry | in View. Au experimental course of weekly lec- | tures by eminent miuisters and laymen bas been | inaugurated and has met with great success. Two have already been given on successive Friday | large numbers to listen, Fity-six persons have lately been receivea into |-full membersmp ta the Lirmingham (Coun.) chureh, Within two weeks forty persons have been con- | verted at the Ashiand, N. ¥., Methodist Episcopal cturen, Rey. F. L. Wilson, pastor. Thirty-five huve | projessed conversion at Laurel, Ohio, in a revival sw going on there, Rey. William A. Harris, president of the Wes- Jeyan Femaic Institute, Stauaton, Va., had-the de- Gee of Doctor of Divinity conferred upon him py | Randolph Macon Coulege last week. | The Kev. George K. Woodward, late of the Main street Methodist church, Newark, N. J., has been appoited pastor o! tue Evergreen avenue Meth- odist Protestant church, in Brovklyn. BAPTIST, j ne | Since the revival meetings began at Chester. town, N. Y., the Rev. ©, H. Wyman bas baptized nine, and twenty-two have uniled with the cuurca, ut forty-five have been hopeiuily converted, | the corner-stone 01 a new church edifice, and Rev, O. P. Weeks bas deen installed as their pastor. | The Baptist church at Pocahontas, Ill., recently | deaicated a new house of worship, costing about | $2,000, iree of debt. ‘rhe Leicester street Baptist church at Norwich, N. Y., Rev. J. D. Pope, pastor, has just built a $6,500 parsonage. The dedicatury services of the North Baptist | church edifice On Orange street, Newark, N. J., occurs on Wednesday, November 11. The Rev. Dr. | Bridgman, of Alvany, and Rev. John Peddie, of Philadelphia, will preach, A little more than a year ago, in compliance with Dr. Fulton’s wishes, the Hanson place Baptist church, Brooklyn, was enlarged s0 as to have @ seating capacity tor nearly 2,000 persous. The con- gregation has unfortunately not increased 4s was | Moped, but the church reported 671 members to the late association. On Sunday lust, a beautiful day and communion Sabbath, the spacious gal- leries showed sixty-nine p: nS, abd a Carefal | count of the whole house footed up 548 ave- | nue church and Marcy avenue cnurch were crowded, The former holds about 1,400 persona and the latter about 500. Just the diterence be- | tween the arene and the oppressed, ] "Whe Rey. F. E, Osvorne haa closed his successful astorate at Melrose, and last Sunday en- tered upon his labors at West Hoboken, N, J. The services Of public recoguition will occur on Tues y evening. 'wenty-lour were received to tho fellowship of the Marcy avenue church last Friday nignt. ‘Yhe new liberal church, formed by Mr. Cleaver, | Tecently pastor of the Sixth avenue Baptist churen, Brooklyn, 18 flourishing. A fine vand of young men are enlisted Wita the pastor in his great en | terprige. | “Phe Lee avenue church rejoices In liberation from the Long Isiand Association, Their house 18 too small for the throngs who desire to listen to the pastor, and @ large number stand as candi | dates for baptism. | The Rev. S. H. Pratt, late of Clinton avenue | Baptist church, Brooklyn, has received and ace | cepted the unanimous call of the First Baptist | church of Syracuse. | Rev. Willa Mardin has resigned the pastorate of the Free and accepted that of the church at Saliord, On- | tarto, Canada, { _ Rev. J. trekin has resigned at Mount Olive and has t n charge of 4 newly organized in- | terest at Drakevilie, N. J. | ROMAN CATHOLIC. | Catholic priests im Onicago are engaged in cir- | culating among the workmen of their congrega- | tions piedges, not merely to retrain from sne ase | of liquor, bat frou the temptation also, The pledge | binds the siguer to avoid going into a saloon or | place where liquor is sold, on any pretence, Cardinal Cullen and the ontire Catholle Episeo- pate lave written letters denouncing Proiessor ‘tynda.i's address at Belfast, beiore the Britta As sociation, as a revival of Pagauism. The Pope 1s reported to have sent to the Mar- quis of Ripon # crucifix. ‘The figure of the Saviony and the ornaments are of silver and the pedestal contains @ relic, The Redeinptorist Fathers Hoelscher, Kaborn and Holans, of Baltimore, opened a mission im the | Church of the Holy Cross, in that erty, last San- day. vatner Cronenberg 1s expected to unite with them this week, St. Francis Xavier's church, Baltimore, havin, | Undergone extensive repairs, will be rededicate: | this moruing by Arcovisuop Bayley. Pour Dominican fathers opened this week @ mis- Sion in St. Jonn’s churgh, Grange, N. J, This 1s | the church that Was saveu to the denomination by the most heroic sacrifices and efforta last | winter, The Bishop of Brooklyn has just created a new Parochial section between Greenwood and the S The Rey, Edward P, Hammond has been labor more persons, have been crowded nightly, all the | “ evangelical pastors uniting earnestly in the meet | bis heen made Minister of Public Worship and Was installed pastor of the Filth church, in tat | |. The Judicial Committee of the Synod of New Jer- | ‘Tne judgment of the Synod | | Synod was 68 sustaining the juagment and 17 dis- | Goodwin, local preacher | | etty tine. He has taken tt from Father O’Betrne’s charge of St. Jonn’s, Gowanus, and bas placed it | under the charge of the Rev. Michael Hickie, the assistant priest of St. Joun’s church. ‘The Rev. Dr. McCarthy, the successor of the late lamented Bishop Keane, Bishop of Cloyne, Queens- town, was consecrated on Wednesday, the 28th of October, by the Metropolitan of Munster, as- sisted by the Bishops of Cork and Limerick and | | Others, The consecration took place in the Roman | Cathoue church at Fermoy and the sermon was | | preached py Bisnop Croke, of Auckland, Australia, | | Father Potter, 8. J., formeriy @ professor of | matural philosophy in Switzerland, from which | free Republic be was exiled for conscience sak Education in the Republic o: Ecuador, The Rev. Messrs, Rosencranz, Elliott, Bodfisn, | Brady and Desnon, Paulist Patners, of New York, have just conciuded a mission of twelve days in St. John's parish, Trenton, N. J. On Friday last allot them, with the exception of the Kev, Mr, | Elhott, who remains to finish the good work, de- arted for other flelds of lavor. The edifice of St jonn’s was crowded during the services, which Wer held daly, beginning at early morn and | dlosing late at Hugh and the sermons deliy: by the reverend Fathers were truly eloqueit edifying. | _ The new schools under process of construction | in St. John’s parish, Trenton, N. J., are fast ap- proaching completion. The building ts composed of brick, with pione uning, and presents @ sub- stantial and 4n attractive appearance. A new church is being builtin connection with | St. Francis’ College, in Trenton, N. J., under the auspices of the Franciscan fathers of gthat city. EPISCOPALIAN, To-day the Rev. James T. Holly, recently elected, will be consecrated Missionary bishop of Haytl. The Rev. Dr. Garrett, of Omaha, will be conse- crated Missionary Bishop of Northern Texas and | the Rev. Dr. Wingfield Missionary Bishop o! North- ern California also to-day, The Rev. Dr. Robert W. B, Eillott, the recent! elected Missionary Bishop of Western Texas, will be consecrated next Sunday, ‘The primary convention to ratify the division of Michigan into two dioceses and to select a bishup jor the new diocese will meet at Grand Rapids, | December The Rey. Dr. William Stevens Perry, the estimable Segretary of the General Conven- tion, is mentioned as the probable incumbent. The Rev. M. A. Johnson has accepted the rector. ship of Caivary church, Clitton, Cimcinna.l, Ohio, and entered upon his duties, The Rev. Samuel K. Slack has accepted the | rectorship of Trinity church, Weymouth, Mass, The Rev. G, J. Prescott has entered upon his duties as rector of the Church of the Good shep- herd, Boston. The Rev, O. H. Young has resigned the charge of Christ church, ‘Glendale, Ohio. Toe Rey. J. G. Armstrong has accepted the TaptOEeED ef St. Matthew’s church, Wheeling, The Rev. A, P. Anderson, of Grass Valley, has regees the charge of Trinity churcn, Nevada he Rev. H. H. Cole, of Bristol, England, has | become connected witn the diocese of Virginia. The Rev, B. B, Cartmill has resigned the charge of Christ church, Oberlin, Ohio. The Rev, D, Flack has been elected assistant minister of the Church of the Advent, San Fran- cisco, Cal. | | | ‘fhe Rev. S. W. Garrett has resigned the Mission | | Work at Newourg, Onio, and accepted the rector- | | stip of Christ church, Hudson, and the Bethel | | church, Peninsula, Ohio, | The Rey, J. J. Norwood, of North Carolina, bas | | become assistant minister in St, Paui’s cnurch, | | Richmona, Va. Bishop Stevens, who for six years has had | charge of the Protestant kpisc.pal churches and | congregations in Kurope, bas resigned this posi- | tivo, and it 18 announced that the Presiding | Bisuop has transierred the commission to the "tH between persons divorced for any cause save that of adultery, unless it be the remarriage of di- vorced persons, The Convention also expressed its emphatic disapproval of our modern style of church singing, in which the devil receives greater homage than the Lord nimseif. A subject which is supremely dear to the Episcopal heart, espe- cially of that heart whose ideas are exalted, or tending that way—namely, the unity of the Anglican communion int@ one Ecumenical Council, or something akin thereto—also recetved attention. And a joint Commission was appointed to periect such union between “The American ) Church” and the English Church in Canada. Pro- vision was made also for the mutual exchange and transier of ministers {rom one country and Church tothe other. And in like manner a deposition or suspension from the ministry by a Bishop in one country 1s made obligatory upon bishops in the other country. Of a kindred nature to this action was also that which provided for representation in the next English Church Congress at Stoke, and a second Lambeth Council, and the efforts to get all English speaking Episcopahans throughout the world to unite in a kind of universal patriarchiate, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as supreme pontim™ One of THE GREAT DELUSIONS OF THE AGE, not only in the Episcopal Church but in other Churches, 1s, that the pretensions and assumptions of the Church of Rome can be met only by a visible Union of Protestantism under some sort of apos- tolic succession, What care the masses whether the preacher claims descent trom an apostle or now? That which makes any man good and true is oftener acquired than inherited, while the evil and weakness in every man is both inherited and acquirea, In the same'general line also was the attemp t to have the Nicene creed altered so as to conform to the orthodox Eastern Church’s version of it and the continuance of acommission on union or fraternal relations with the Greek Church. The Convention decided in this case that no such alieration was needed, since the phrase which descrives the Holy Ghost as proceeding from the Father and Son (the Filioque) can be explaimed and understood tn an orthordox sense. The Con- vention refused to grant the prayer of petitioners for & court of appeals, to which all questions tn- volving doctrine, discipline and worship siould be referred for adjadication. This would necessariiy involve the weakening of the episcopal power, of which the Bishops are extremely Jealous. In view Of the condition of affairs in the South since the war closed, and especially in Lou'siana, South Carolina and ‘Tennessee, the change in the Prayer Book asked for by Mr. Cornwail, of Ken- tucky, will be fully appreciated. He wanted the sibstitution of a prayer for the rresident and all im auinority (the sathe that was used in colonial times with the insertion merely of the President for the royal iamily, prepared in 1759), jor that nowinuse. The chief difference between the two is that the one proposed has a petition Jor grace, wisdom und understanding to be given our ruers, that they may execute justice and maintain truth, and that the people may lead quiet and peaceavle hives in godliness and honesty. There is an impli- cation i this proposed substitution that our rulers lack the qualities of heart and intel.ect prayed for, aud that, therefore, all our troubles have come upon us and continued with us, The Convention also erected 81X MISSIONARY EPISCOPATES | Rignt Rev. Dr. Littlejoun, Bishop of Long Island. | the Rev. W. M. Postlethwaite, rector of the | | Church of the Intercession at Washington Heights, | | has resigned his charge on account of the finan- cial embarrassments of the church. The present | | debt amounts to .$107,000, but the congregation have aetermined to bear this heavy burden, and | persevere in efforts to reduce I. Rey. William 8, Perkins, of Pennsylvania, late a | preatrest of the Protestant Episcopal Cuurca, has | | followed the Rev. J. A. Latané and formally united | | With the Reformed Episcopal Church, | MISCELLANEOUS, To-day has been appointed as a day of prayer | for youbg men’s christian associations and their | | Work, and as such will be observed through- | | out the country. The number of assocta- | | tions in tne United States and Oanada is continu- ally increasing, and 1s now 945. The annual ex- | penses of 250 Of these amount to $500,000, Forty. | seven report buildings valued at $1,963,000, Last | | year there were thirty-eight valued at $1,754,450. | _ The Rey. Oliver Crane returned by the Cuba last | week to his home in Morristown, N. J., alter an | absence of about seven months, spent chiefly at | Aintad, Turkey, whither he went at the instance of the American Board. His healtn wouid not per- mit his continuance in the work he was imstru- mental in establishing in earlier years, The Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohin of Brook- | | | | are merely sects, while that which has bishops, and elected bishops thereto, namely:—Two in Texas, one in Caliiornia, cne in New Mexico and Arizona, one iD Japau and one in Hayti, W. 1. The theory of the episcopacy seems to be that the More bisvop the more Churen and no bishop no Church. Hence the denominations that are not favored with such high ecclesiastical dignitaries but not of apostolic descent, is no better, but | and for the union of the holy churches of the Lord, ——- pretation of Beritare the theologians leave com* mon sense benind. Another method of retief asked for was shortened services. This was granted because the com- Mitvee who had the matter under consideration decided that there was nothing in the constitution Or canons of the church to Jorbid the separation of the service into three parts, eituer or all of which might be used separately or together. This Measure was songht as a permauent relief, but the Convention refused to take the cone Stitutional steps to make it such, and the hext General Convention may undo all this. Whether the Low Church party have gained any Teal advantage from the protracted sessions of the late Convention may be fairly doubted. ‘Ine ritualists have lost little or nothing by any legis- lation that nas taken place, save in the rejection of Dr. Seymour, and his place may be supplied by & man equally as high Betore a year has elapsed. The General Convention of 1874 will be remem- bered as One of the most important church coun- cls ever convened, butit witl be as remarkable for what it failed to do as for whatitdid. And three years hence the trouble in the Church will be greater than it Is to-day. THE CONVENTION'S PROPOSITION SPURNED BY OR- : THODOX CATHOLIOS, Apropos of the efforts of the vrotestant Epls- copai Courch for @ closer union and affiliation with the orthodox Eastern Church, the following letter translated from the Birzheviga Vedomosty, a Rus- sian journal of a sem)-oMcial ecclesiastical status will be interesting. It1sa reply to the petition of the Protestant Episcopal Church for a more 1nti- mate Union with the Russo-Greek Church, and ts now for the first time publisned on this Conti- nent:— To tae Wett Berovep 1x Curist, ann tax Ricat Rev- BREND Commitrex or tHe Hovsk o¥ Bisnors or THE Protestant Eviscorat CAUKCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF Amznica:— Your letter addressed to His Excellency tno Procura- tor General Count Tolstoy, having been presenied by Bum to @ consideration of the Most Holy Governing Synod of Russia, together with the report and the con-, currence of the House of Mishops, approved by the House | of flerical and Lay Deputies, i ference té the — esi penment upon a true Catholic basis of a spiritual fratefMlty betwoen the American and orthodox churches, especially in the ‘Territory of Alaska, was received by the Most Holy Synod of all the Russias with the utmost pleasure as @ New proof of respect shown by the representatives of the Episcopal Church, and of thelr esiinable purpose con- cerning the union of the churches. ‘the Most Holy Sy- nod on their part will make itan object of their ‘con- stant care that a spirit of Christian tolerance and frater- nallove and esteem, in accordance with the precepts and usages of our Church, shall continue to pervade all the relations existing between the members of the or- thodox Church, and those of the Protestant Episcopal Q , and particularly in the Territory of of reciprocal participation im the solemn performance of the sacrament of the eu- charist the sastern Charch firmly adheres to the prin- ciples and convictions so clearly stated in the messages sent in 1723 by the orthodox patriarchs of the East in reply to the anglican pinboe. Itconsiders a previous agreement in faith as absolutely indispensable to the practical mutual participation in the sacraments, inas- much as the first is the only possible groundwork or basis tor the last. In order to attain this most desired end thorough ‘study and investigation of | the ditfer: ences in the doctrine of both churches would be absolutely requisite, and to promote this a great principle of co-operation will undoubtedly bo found in the spirit of peace and charity which animates both churches, the orthodox as well as the America and in those pravers for the peace of the whole worl which arise to the God of truth and merey from the orchodox churches, and which are wost certdluly shared. in by the American Churches. Having been authorized by the Most Holy Governing Synod J assume the duty of prescnting, their answer 0 the House of Bishops of the American Episcopal Church, and beg you, to accept the assurance ot the highest es teem of your brother and coservant in Christ oo ete First Presiding Member of the Governing synod of alt the Russias, and Metropolitan of Novgorod and St Petersburg. The only ecclesiastical representative of the Russian Church in this city, the Rev. N. Bjerring, has corroborated the facts set forth in this letter, and lurthermore stated to the writer, in answer to inquiries, that the orthodox Caurch seeks not exclusive allliation with the Angiican and Amer- jcan Episcopal churches, but desires to hold tmendly relations with all Christian denomina- tions, and in this spirit of fraternal love he re- ceives in hig own house as personal iriends not only members of his own household of tatth, but perhaps a iittle worse, for it sets up a claim to which it has no right. Tne | Roman Catholic Church, with 4,500,000 ad- herents gets aiong passing weil with sixty- five archbishops and bishops; the Methodists | with 10,000,000 adherents manage their | ecciesiastical affairs with nineteen bishop: the Moravians have two or three for their limite following and the Episcopalians have torty-eight | regular besides the missionary bishops reterred to | and the Convention has also taken the necessary action to add another diocese and bishop to New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan d Wisconsin. So that When these and the vacancies now existing are filled the 260,000 Protestant Episcopalians in the United States will be governed and supervised by nearly sixty apostolic shepherds. ‘The secret discussions which took place over one of the candidates for episcopal honors were not very creditable to either party in the controversy. There nas been a great deal of misconstruction of | lyn, E. D., Rev. Dr. Grossman, rabbi, are about to | erect a new and hanusome synagogue at a cost of | | $60,000, Their present house of worship has be- | come too small jor the increasing congregation. — | | | Rev. Henry Powers, jormerly of tne Church of the Messiah, in this city, has accepted a cail to the Unitarian church in Manchester, N. H. The Harvard chureh in Brookime, Mass., have | extended a cail by Leisgeay ¢ words and acts UM not of downright falsehooa and lying. Indeed, among vulgar persons the contra- dictory statements of the contending parties | | would'be called barefaced lies, but of course min- isters and bishops of tae Churea would not stoop | toguch weapons to accomplish their ends. Had | | Dr. Seymour taken the manly course of Dr. Orrick | | and withdrawn bis name as soon as the secret op- nto Rey, Mr. Thomas, | position mantiested itself against him he would | of London, who preached for them severai times have stood 100 per cent higher to-day amon, on his recent visit here. They propose @ salary of | churchmen and others than he does, He coul $5,000, besides $1,000 to pay the expense of removal. | also have given the Convention arepuke on that The Rev. Mr, Scherwerhorn, of Boston, has ac- | line o1 business, which no one else had so good & cepted a call from the Unitarian church at Buffalo, | chance to administer to it, But he preferred to N.Y. | take the chances, and both he and the Convention evenings and the town people have gashered ia | The Bapust church at Bethienem, Pa., have laid | aptist church, at Highiand, Micb., | |. The Church Union publishes 9 constitution con- | taming thirty articles of faith and discipline upon | which it expects existing denominations to unite | oranew denomination ot united churches to be organized. But the sects seem to be going the other way. | Henry Varley, the evangelist, 1s nowin this | country preaching with great power. The American Missionary Association finas a needy and accessible fleld among the Cninese of | San Francisco. They have 405 pupils in their | evening schoois, oi whom thirty-five have given | | He idolatry and several have professed Chris- janity. ‘The new and attractive chapel recentiy built by | the south Keformed church of this city, Rev. Dr. Rogers, jor their large and flourishing mission school at No. 243 West Twenty-sixth street, will be dedicated this aiternoon. The Jndependent says Dr. Fulton 1s arguing now- adays, in puipit and in paper, that infant baptism is asin. How about lying? asks the /i 2 Is that one of the Christian graces? nis 18 a | broadside at the champion of close communion. The Rey. H. R. Harris has accepted a cail to be- | come the one of the Congregational cuureh at | Orient, L. 1. | ‘The ordination of the Rev. John H. Wyckofr, of Hightstown, N. J., ‘a3 missiouary to India took ince on Thursday evening last in the Second Re- | formed church of New Brunswick. The services | were attended by a large number of people, and | | by the Classis of New Brunswick. The sermon | | was preached by the Rev. Dr. ©. D. Hartranft, | from the fifteenth chapter of St. Paula epistic to the Romans, verses 20 and 21. THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. | Its Doings and Undoings—An Inspira- tion Given to Ritualism Rather Than a Set Back—Nothing Gained by Low Churchmen Nor Lost by Ritualists. After nearly four weeks of ceaseless labor and | debate the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church has adjourned, and tts deputies | have gone back to the,r homes and quiet frestdes, | in country village or city populous. Their acts are now the property of the public. The Convention | itself was the largest, as it was the most important, that has ever met in this land. A finer body of men | physically has rarely been convened in this or any other city on this Continent to discuss any matter whether of Church or State. Not one of them looked as if he had been bronght up on vegetabie | } diet. On the contrary, their physical as well as | their ecclesiastical personnel was unmistakably “nigh? and indicated that bullock or buffalo | might have been the staple of their diet. Whether | there be any real connection between high Uving | and high churchism we cannot tell; but it might | | be made an interesting study for some speculative | mind, Ecclesiastically classified, the high and the low churchmen were about equally divided; the | broad church had one or two representatives; the | ritualista two pronounced ones, and the great | majority would call themselves conserva. | tive. But their conservatism was not of that order that others would call by | that name. They conserved the Prayer | Book not as Dr. Huntington suggested as the true method and principle of conservation by repair, | but by locking up the doors go a8 toshut out, a8 completely as possible, tnose who would attempt any repairs, And yet this 1s the dook that has made all the trouble in the Church for the last 200 years, It has been | A BONE OF CONTENTION IN BNGLAND until ever and’ anon Parliament steps in to settle the Church's disputes by legislative enact- ments. It has prodaced scarcely less contention here; but as we have no State Church the legisla- tion remains tn the hands of the Supreme Council ofthe Ohurch. This is the Counctl whose proceea- ings for the last twenty-six days have been re- ported tn the HeRaLp, and which has now ad- Journed leaving the matters on which relief was | asked practically in the same condition as they | Were a month ago. ‘Trae, the Convention did some things for which theydeserve the thanks not only of the Episcopa communion but of the entire Christian com- munity, They expressed very clearly their ab- horrence of our free and easy legisiation on mar- Tiage and divorce, and prohibited any minister in | tices were not actually condemned by this vote. | In the Convention realy sympathized with, tuough | now. | Convention who hold the doctrine, P| ers and advocates of this doctrine base their views have talien thereby in the es‘imation of right thinking, sensible persons. That THE REJECTION OF DR. SEYMOUR was @ proper act cannot be questioned; but the pe atsebod 9 which that result was obtained may be question One of the charges pressed against the Doctor was irascibility of disposition, which some of bis aefenders Claim is the motive power of a man; the steam which drives the jocomotive and draws the train along A correspondent of the HEBALD gives an outline of the kind of man that is needed for the episcopacy, no matter tn what | diocese he may be called to labor. He must be a | man of humanity, just and fair dealing toward bis | clergy; not insolent because he has power, not @ minister or stirrer up of strife—one who ts maniy enough not to go back upon his word, and | exhibit a douvie dealing that would be considered | mean and despicable in secular vocations of any | sort and under sny guise. A bishop should be, a3 | much as possible, & non-partisan in Church quar- rels if he would not drive scores and hundreds away irom the communion of the Church. Hun- ; dreds ii not thousands of people are shut out of the Church from this cause—& want of wisdom, decision of character, definiteness and justice on the part of men who in all things shouid be examples to the flock. Bishops should be wen of | principie who will execute justice though the eaveus fall, but who at the same tune will | not grind the faces of their clergy by oppression and cruelty, thinking thereby to establish them- selves in the confidence and affection of the laity. This trouble sometimes arises by making men bishops before they have Jormed a character of decision and of manliness. With rare exceptions, No man ought to be consecrated to the ofiice of a Bishop tn the Charch before he ts forty years old. | And thep it ought to be well established tnat he is not only @ good man, but a man of suMcient moral Jorce to deal honesty and justly toward all men, But such APOSTOLIC TIMBER DOES NOT GROW very abundantly in any Church as our correspon- dent indicates should be put into the Kpiscopal bench. And, perhaps, Dr. Seymour would meet some of the requirements named quite as well as | = successor to the late Bishop Whitehouse. ‘he vote by which the Doctor was deieated was | in itself a remarkable one. His views and prac- | Indeed, they received a larger indorsement than the public would suppose alter eight days’ secret discussion over them. He and his principles merely lacked @ constitutional majority to make them the expressions not only of one diocese in the Church, but of a score of dioceses, And in the subsequent votes, direct and indirect, on ritual- ism 1t Was apparent that the majority of deputies they would not openly ayow, the extreme views of the supposed minority. The Low Churchmen sought to gain relief in three ways:—First, by a canon on ritual, condemn- ing it, of course. But they were as weil oif before the adoption of the canon last month as they are (t does nothing that a bishop could not have done without it, Fyruglism does not frow very Tank or rapid in dioceses presided over by bishops of pronounced Low Church views, and it may safely be assumed it never will. It does grow, | however, where the diocesan is an avowed ritu- | alist himself, or ts in sympathy withit. The canon lately adopted merely suys in @ roundabout way | that the bishops ‘shail be the judges im their respective dioceses whether ritualistic prac- tices do or do not symbolize doubtful or erroneous | doctrines, And then it adds the standing com- mittees of the dioceses asa joint court of trial against offending presbyters, provided the Bishép | or bishops have occasion to call them in. But the dioceses of New York and Albany contain more Titualistic churches than all the other dioceses | combined, and they are not tn danger of being | repressed by the diocesans of either. So that i party seeking it did not obtain great relief in 13 WAY. Another method by which the Low Churchmen sought reltef was in A PERMISSIVE CANON ON BAPTISMAL REGENERATION. This relief was denied, ana {t was amazing to conceive of the large number of deputies in the je support. on the Saviour’s conversation with Nicodemus when He said that except man be born of water and of the Holy Ghost he cannot enter tnto the kingdom of heaven, They argue that because the two baptisms are there placed in juxtaposition they must go together in actual expericnce. And fo their hypothesis 1s that by some mystert process @ germ of the divine natury is parted to @ child in baptism, and if this germ is’properly nourished and cared for the child will grow up in piety. But inasmuch as the Saviour also likened the spiritual birth to the blowing of the wind the baptismal regenerators Saar ter a to explain how this divine germ 1s if tt in the human soul nor how it develops. nig theory 18 the very antithesis of the Baptist theory and {8 about a8 forcetul. To an ordinary reader the words referred to do not seem to com- pel a uaton of both baptisms at the same Ume, jor Christ 18 speaking to and of @ man, not of @ child, S80 that if the language is to be con- their Church from soicmunizing marriage ja future strued literally at all it 1s an bas ey gs against rather than for iniant hantiam, tj in the ingar- , the World of Christ.”? | words in regard to his Liverpool statement: ministers and members of the Lutheran and Keformed churches, Methodisis, Bani Sie copalians and Roman Catholics, with all of whom he maintains the most cordial re- lations, But he declares that there can be no such thing aS sacramental union between his Church and any other unless there shall have been first complete agreement in dogmas and an uncon- ditional acceptance on the part of the affiliating churches of the authority and acts of the first seven Ecumenical Councils. This 1s a conditto sine qua non from which the Russian Church cannot move @ step nor deviate one line irom the dog matic truth handed down to her from the Apos- tolic Church; nor can she at the same time per- mit anything to be added to these dogmas. But While she requires full and unconditional fidelity to the dogmas the orthodox Russtan Churca neither asks nor insists upon uniformity in rites by local churches or congregations. She respectd local customs and traditions that are notin coni tradiction to her own docrines and teaching, but she demands unity in the vital matters connected with the holy sacraments, 8T, STEPHEN'S CHURCH FAIR, ‘The ladies’ fair and musical festival now in prog ress in the basement hall of St. Stephen's church, East Twenty-eighth street, has special claims om the patronage of all who would spend a really en Joyable evening in pleasures, the recollection of which ts certain to bring no alloy. The brilliantly lighted hall 1s nightly crowded, while the voices of the ladies in charge of the different tables, as they gently request the visitor to “take a chance,” Mingling with the enchanting strains of music, produce an effect not easily described, Last Wednesday evening an additional table was fitted out under the management of Mrs. Thomas Murphy. It is numbered 12, and ts well stocked with choice selections of beautiful and costly articles, The portratt of Archbishop McCloskey, which graces the centre of the table, 1s an admire able likeness. Mrs. Murphy is assisted py her daughter Nelite, Mra. Dr. Burke, Miss Hastings, Mrs. and Miss Kent. The fair will continue open until the 21st inst., in order to give the pubiic an opportunity to spend @ really pleasant evening and at the same time have @ part in the praise yee work of freeing “the house of God’ trom edt MR. GLADSTONE ON RELIGIOUS DOGMA (From the London inquirer, Uct. 19.) The following is part of a short correspondence which has recently passed between the Right Hon, W. E. Gladstone and the author of “The Spirit and It 18 proper to state at once that the extracs from Mr. Gladstone's letter ts published with bis express permission. This let. ter, it must also be explained, was occasioned by @ passage occurring at pages 113-115 of the work just named, where some remarks ar@ made on Mr. Gladstone’s address at the Liverpool College in December, 1872. io reference to these remarks the letter first expresses the writer’s general adherence to the proposition of the address which called forth the comment upon tt in the work relerred to; and, in Telerence to the unanimity which exists among Christians respecting the incarnation and the Deity of Christ, observes that this “is, to say the very least, among the most remarkable facts im | the mental history of our race.’’ Then, alter one or two remarks on another point, Mr. Giaastone goes on to use the following “in one respect I could wish my statement to have been more careful. A firm adherent of the prin- ciple of dogma, and ander strong convictions as to the central elements of the dogmatic Christian. ity, T joyfuily admit that the moral and spiritual results of that religion in very many cases over- | flow tts dogmatic borders, such asiseem to see them. I have had m friendships with Un! tarians, and have derived much profit from them and 1am truly clad to think that the Almighty ts Not stinted or Itmited in His modes of operation, and that those who in fact bear the blessed like- negs of Christ are most truly and surely His.” AFRIOAN ROYALTY AND SLAVERY, (From the London Post, Oct. 23.] During the recent mission at Coomassie the King made use of every effort to induce our Com- missioner, Captain Lees, to assist him in reuniting again into the kingdom of Ashantee the tribes that since his deleat have revoited. Of these the most powerinl are the Juabins. Their royal famiiy are connected with that of Ashantee, It wus the last and most powerful tribe that the Ashantecs brought under their rule, Captain Lees having (Qoubtless in accordance with his instructions) refused to interfere, the disintegration of Ashans tee {s completa, The Kings of Becqua and Adaust having separated themselves, end the Juabdini having made @ treaty on the footing of their ind endence, It may now fairly be considered that he King of Juabin is the most powerful monarch of the country. At Cape Coast the slave question is making a great stir; the recent debates in Parliament have, no doubt, excited the attention of the more edu- cated slave owners, The regular pay, also, which fo large @ portion of the black population received during the war tor the various services in which they were engaged, must nave presented, even to their inert minds, some new reflections on the subject. of capital and labor. Cape Coast Castie will probably remain the seat of government, the swamps close to Kimina being thought conclusive against its bemy chosen as the capital A new native town {s being laid out at Elmina to replace the oue destroyed last year. EXPLORATION OF WESTERN CHINA. (From the Edinburgh Courant, Oct, 23.] It is stated that the appointment ot the explot+ ing party te complete the survey of Captain Sprya’a route to Western China 1s in the hands of the gov- ernment of India, who sre now occupied in the matter; that the expedition will start from C cutta in the course o| a few weeks and will prob. abiy be in o’arge of Colonel Horace Brown and he. Andersoa,