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14 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE THE LENTEN FAST APPROACHING. Ministerial and Church Movements. A Rabbi on Balaam’s Sophis- | try--Correspondence. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. ‘The Rev. Dr. J. Duffy, of St. Josepn’s church, Mew York, will detiver the first of a series of lec- tures on Catholic subjects of interest tnis evening im the Cnarcn of Our Lady of Mercy, Brooklyn. The Rev. George J. Mingins will minister in the Fulton street church to-day at the usual hours. Services at the usnal hours to-day in the Russian enapel. A Russian quartet will sing in the Scia- vonic language. The Rev. J. V. Saunders will preach this morn- ing and evening in Willett street Methodist Epis- copal church. Evening subject—‘Snail We Know Bach Other There?” , The Progressive Spiritualists, who meet in the ball in Thirty-third street, near Broadway, to ay, will be instructed by E. T. Wilson morning and evening. Dr. Talmage will preach in the Tabernacle, Brooklyn, this morning on “Universalism vs, The Bivie.”” In Allen street Presbyterian church to-day the Rev. George 0. Phelps will preach morning and evening. The Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach this morning and evening, as usual, in Washington square Metbodist Episcopal church. “Tne Priesthood—Who are They?” and “My Neighbor—Who is He??? will be asked and an- swered to-day py Dr. Holme, in Trinity Baptist ebaren. . ‘Tne Rey. W. H. Dunnell will minister this morn- img and evening in All Saints’ Protestant Episco- pal church. Professor Taylor, of Chicago, will address the Spi itualists, in Harvard Rooms, this morning and evening. Dr. a. C. Osborne will preach in the Soutn Bap- fist church at the usual hours to-day. Common Life made Abundant by Christ” will de illustrated this evening in Beekman Hill Metho- ist Episcopal church, by the Rev. W. H. Thomas. In she Berean Baptist church, at the usual hours this morning and evening, the Rev. P. L. Davies ‘will preach. . “Rignteousness is Lite’ will be discussed by Rev. J. M. Puilman, in the Church of Our Savidur, this morning. A sermon on “Good Manners’ will be delivered in the evening. In Calvary Baptist church, this morning, the Rev. R, S. MacArthur will direct his people’s atte. tion to “Jesus Only,” and in the evening to “Dis- Playing the Banner.” Dr. Moran, in the Chureh of the Strangers, will peak this morning on “Prayer” and this evening on “The Historic vVevelopment of Religious Truth.” ‘The Rev. D, R. Van Buskirk will preach at the ‘asug! hours to-day in the Caurch of the Disciples of Christ. Dr. T. D. Anderson wil! preach to-day also in the First Baptist church. Dr. Armitage preaches as usual, morning and evening, in the Fifth avenue Baptist church. “Roman Catholic, Greek ana Protestant Wor- ship” will constitute tne basis of Rev. W. W. An- arews’ discourse this evening in the Catholic Apostolic church. In Grace Baptist chapel this morning and even- mg tne Rey. Robert Cameron will preach at tae usual hours. The Rey. M. R. Forey will supply the pulpit of Plymouth Baptist church morning and evening. The Rev. S.R. Hamilton will; minister in the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning aud al- ternoon, “Eating and Drinking Damration” will be de- plored this morning by Rev. W. P. Corbit, wio ‘this evening will speak to the wickedest men and women in New York, i! they will hear him, 4m Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church. In Laight street Baptist church, this morning and evening, the Rev. BR. W. Koapp will preacn as usual. The veteran stage driver, warrior, evangelist and preacher, Rev. H. K. Stimson, of Kansas, will Speak in Association Hail this evening and in Caivary Baptist church to-morrow evening. The Rev. H. W. Page will minister to-day, as usna!, for the New York Presbyterian church. Services at the usual hours this morning and afternoon in St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal ehuren, Rev. Dr. Morgan, rector. The Rev. J. B. Hawthorne will this morning ad- wise the Tabernacie Baptist church to do what their hands find to do witn ail their might, and this evening will show to young men the portance of an Intimate Acquaintance with the Scriptures.” am Zion Protestant Episcopal church, at the ‘usaal hours to-day, the Kev. Joba N. Galleher will preach. At the Third Universalist church this evening the Rev. E. ©. Sweetser will compare aud contrast “Universalism and Orthodoxy.” The Rev. C. C. Tiffany will officiate and preach, this morning and afternoon, in the Protestant Episcopai Church of the Atonement. Service at tour o’clock this alternoon in Grace Protestant Episcopa! church. At the First Baptist chareh, in Noble street, Greenpeint, the Rev. D. Henry Miller, D. D., will preach this morning and evening. In the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Resur- | rection the Rev. Dr. Flagg will preach this moru- img and evening at tne usual hours, ‘The Oith lecture to young peopie by the Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will be delivered this evening im the Church of the Holy ‘irinity. Morning ana afternoon service besides. ‘The usual services in St. Ignatius’ church to-day ‘will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Ewer. “Tne Theology of the Bench” and “The Sabba- tarian Question” will be considered to day by Ur. Porteus in Eim place church, Brooklyn. WDivine services to-day, at tne usual hours, in the First Reformed Episcopal charcn. The Rev. W. T. Sabine will preach. Services also on Ash Wednesday morning. “The Jeoparay and Security of Man” this even- ing and “‘A Littie Child’ this morning will be con- a@idered by the Rev. W. R. Alger in tue Church of the Messiah. Ip the vburch of the Holy Sepuichre Rev. J. Tuttle Smith will oWiciate and preach to-day at the usual hours. Dr. Forves will preach this morning and Rev, Mr. Paige this afternoon tn \ue Authon Memorial Protestant Episcopal church. AN unsectarian meeting 0! a!l who choose to at- tend will be held in De Garmo Hali \nis morning , afternoon and evening. In Pifty-third street Baptist church the Rev. W. i. Pendieton will preach tuis mormiug aud even- | ing. Rev. Mr. Hepworth will speak in the Church of the Discipies this morning abour “A Friend o: sin- ners,” and this eveuing on “Rigot Motives.” “(PRUDENTIUS’ DEFINITION OF ULTRAMON- TANISM AND PAPAL INFALLIDILITY. To Trax Eprror oP Tuk HeraLp;— “Pradentius,” in your issue of January 9, #1 “The reptile press of Germany has had reco 1 the clever trick of bestowing on the Hema.p the appeliation of ‘ultramontane,’ tn the nope of @hereby destroying ite iufuence on pubile @pinion;’ as if the rose would not “smell as sweet by any other name.” ‘The struggie for supremacy on the “Continent,” awoich the “familiar tactica” of Prince Von and the ultra-Protestants and ultra- radicals, and their ‘unscrupulous apoiagies for his Dome ane foreign policy,” Well deserve the aiten- “Im- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1875.—QUADRUPLE SHEET: tion of the HER‘ LD and of mankind as well. They are certainly paimialy and ominously conspicuous in the tart aud weil written articles o: “Pruden- tius,” These issues on the Continent lie deeper, however, than Bi8. mere play upon words, deeper than mere Jocal nicknames, as the outgrowth of limited though totemse partisanship. He should Know atthe term ‘‘ultramontane’’ has lost tts local, though not its extreme import, by the amazing, yet oft recurring historic marvel, by which the miner absorbs the major, and a part gives tone, color, and even substance and form to the whole, Revolution {8 the result of something deeper and more occult than the surface actors or ex- pressions of the straggie. Revolutions, whether political or religious, whether the outgrowth of ancient or modern thonght, are suoject to in- evitable law. Terms are thus intensified, and, while they may retain some o/ their local signif. cance, the transition intensifies and enlarges their meaning. Here, inan emineat degree, isthe trouble of “Prudentius” in bis curious and learned attempt | todefne ‘“ultramontane.” He “The word | puzzles me; itis quite new to me.” “You,” he lurther says, “designate them as a mischievous sect—an impractical faction.” Who these ultra- mooutanists are in Europe and America it puzzies him to know distinctly, unless it be a very small fraction of the great Catholic pody, whose temper would lead thein to advocate @ crusade for the ex- pulsion irom Rome of Victor Emmauuel, or to push legitimate Catholic principles and doctrines to extreme and unwarrantable conclusions, Yet the transition of the term bas been bistoric, and has developed juil-orved Roman Catholicism, whico is really only crystaiized ultramontanism. ‘The term ‘“uitramoutane,” locally representing beyond tue mountains, but literally and dogmati- cally represenis the extreme factions and ex- treme doctrines as to the Holy See and papal dig- nity and prerogatives, Thouga always ready by crusades to push “the legitimate views” of Belar- min to eXtreme and unwarranted conclusions, they lave ceased forever to be extremes eitier 1D word or fact, for the sufficient reason that the woole Church has assumed, formally, officially and dogwaticaily, precisely the ground which both ex- treme and faction once occupied ; ana by the inex- oravle iogic of events, and by the ormal dedui- tions of infallibility itseif (7), uitramontane, instead of being limited and local in iis sad imp. rt, is now “ecumenical,” or universal, in its sadder sivnification. The feariul claiis with which an eXtrewe action barmiessiy invested the Pope are now found out to be the legitimate investure of pontifical dignity, Just a8 this great Repuolic, ior human good and in obedience to the demands of human spe tas now occupies the po- sition of the extreme abolition school of humaui- tarianism and their extreme and once incendiary doctrines by revolution have not only received the Sabcilon Of organized law, but become the hignest and most urevocable expression of American nationality, 80 bas Catholicism, by 4 revolution as Tedical and as reali, tnougn per aps less biovdy, yet with only evil in its issues, become uitramon- tanist in substance and in fact and beyond all controversy. The revolution in each case is ir- Tevocacly permanent—the one with issues which only look to human weai, the other, | jear, to re- sult in DUMAN Woe, unmixed aud uninitigated. Iv ig unparalleled and world wide and danger- ous revolution, that Prince Von Bismarck has bad the braias to comprehend and tue courage to meet its issues, To claim that he has not erred in minor matters, or in bia personal issues with Von Arnim, or tn the coOijateral resuits o! bis home policy, would be to invest him with the infallibllity which alone bolongs to ine Pope, al- ways legitimateiy his, but only divinely and unt- versaliy known according to ultramontanisis since the last Ecumenical Council. But the policy of the great German statesman, Von Bismarck, indicates that he compretiends the situation and understands the issues which as the irrepressible couflict are to colwmand the attention of the Con- tinent, the HERALD and mankind. ULRIC VON HUTTEN. NEWMARKET, Va, Jan. 11, 1875. “PRUDENTIUS” ON GLADSTONE AND NEWMAN. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD: ‘The American public have now in print Dr. New- man’s reply to MA Gladstone’s “Expostulation,” and this reply, for the great majority of Protestant readers, will be likely to be the ouly argument heard with any degree of interest or of patience | oy those who have prejudged the case as against Rome. It is @ remarkable document, not unworthy of the world-wide !ame of its venerable author, or ol Deing his last utterance in delence of that creed for which he has sacrificed so much of this world’s bovor and happiness. English Protestants aud English Cazholics have been awaiting with equal anxiety the appearance of the ‘Letter to the Duke of Norfolk.” What its effect has been in Engiana | We have yet to learn, But on reading the copious | extracts published jrom the advanced sheets a week ago by one of your contemporaries I coniess to a feeling of disappointment and pain. A letter wnich I bad written under the frst impulse of this feeling I withheld, however, till I could read Dr. Newman's pamphiet in full and carefully. Having suffered myselfso keenly from hasty judgments formed on hearsay or most imperfect infermation, it would have been acrime in me to judge hastily one for whose genius and virtues I have enter- tained lijeloag admiration, Dr. Newman’s pamphlet is now before me, and, after a most attentive perusal of it, I am impelled to biess him ‘or this supreme service done to the cause of Christian truth and Christian civilization. The impressions conceived from a@ perusal o/ the long extracts both in the HERALD and Tribune are effaced by a careful study of the context. This mentous doctrinal! discussion, to judge of a writer’s sense even by a lengthened extract, and without Any one portion of a book isolated trom what goes before and follows after it may bear a coustruc- tion quite foreign to the author’s true meaning and purpose, ‘To know of a certainty what he means and what he Is aiming at, ene must, In com- mon fairness, allow what precedes and joliows to shed its light on the passage sing!ea out for criti- Severe animadversions on Engtish Catholic writers “who for years past bave so conduoted themeetves as if nO responsibility attached tw wild woras and overbearing deeds,” neither to exmit too much over the castigation administered to such as are wont to ‘stretch principles til they are close upon snapping,” nor to be downcast, as if the grea: a@pologist Meant to strengthen the hands of Mr. Giadstone or throw blame on the Pope and™nis omi- cial counsellors, Some ‘oficious advisers” come in for @ castigation that many will deem merited; | but not one line or word in the pamphlet irom be- ginning to end warrants the conclusion drawn oy some that br. Newman meaut thus publicly to cen- sure the ultramontanes, properly so-called, or the great religious order, whose members have been foremost in upholding the doctrine of Papal infal- | bility. The “officious ad | “wild words and overbearing deeds,” who “stretched principles till they were near snap- ping” are well known to bea few journalists in kurope and eisewhefe, who, more Roman than ultramontane Rome itseli, have been ever egging oa the Reomau congregations and the Holy Father luimseif to the most uu wise and untimely measures, fous the present eaitor of the Paris Univers, backes on the one hand by such untrustworthy eXtremists a8 Roaracher and Gaume, and op tne otuer oy liberalists like Padre Venwura and Jan- gevists like AUbé Guettée, has for more than a quarter oi a century been intriguing at Rome to ob ain the triumph of traditionalism to philosophy as against the Jesuit sysvem in favor of reuson and science, and the condemnation of the use of pagan ciassics in CUNTisuan schools a8 againsy Hisu0p Dupanioup aod (ne Society of Jesus. The me quarre: which for years convuised the ureh of France and arrayed one-balf of the bishops agaiust the other iad its tempest-in-a- teupot miniature ig Our own country ID 1849-50, when amotuer semi-ecclestastical editor traduced Moti tue phiivsophical aad classical teaching ol the desaiia, ine latter, consistent with themselves from their very origin, nave always upheld the pre- rogatives of ice Papal See, ave been the most strenuous advocates of the Pope's oMeial in- jailibuity a8 well as the teachers of the most | liberal, Gomplete and consistear tueories concern- ing the use of reason in philosophy and the ireedom of the human will under tue action of divine grace. Heace their fate has been, 12 the controversies | oceusioned vy the Council of the Vatican, to have he tuem of sacrificing authority to reason in philor phy, of having corrupted the youth of Unristen- dou for 300 years by pa anism in education and of | having in Cluna and india made a monatroun al- | | Hance of heathen rites wito Coristian ceremonial. | Yor these men the Jesuits themselves are not | suMcienuy ultramontape nor the Roman curia orthodox or pure enough. {hese are the men who | think they serve Catholic truth by scattering “wild words” broadcast among 4 credulous ana ignorant people, and who think they gioruy Goa | and promote the cause of true religion by the | | | “overbearing deeds” so repugnant to the tradi. tionai moderation of Ror and the sei!-sacrificing devoteaness ot the sons of Loyola. | | itis ti terances and pablications of thia ex- er the which pefore, during and Vatican, gave @ color and a once more proves how unsafe it is, in a mo- | examining & anew in its place in the context. | cism or examination. I would, therefore, caution all of your readers who have | been startled, like myself, by Dr, Newmen’s seers,” the men of | Jounei! of the | treme wing ot 2 advocates of Papal infaliility, | President and Mr. Menagh foudauon jor tue tu | Jersey City, of which Rev, Dr. Eddy ja pastor, nas | trigues of Hohenlohe, Bismarck, Olltvier, and, to a certain exient, uf Gladstone himseil, For these uite: ances an publications the Jesu- {te Were wade responsible; lor these, though again and again repudiated by their representative men, they are now suffering obloquy, exile aud tne de- struction of their establishments, These tacts have to be taken into account if one would understand aright the history of the va- uucan Council, the persecutions which followed in Germany and Switzerland close upon the decrees of July, 1870, and many passages in Dr. Newmun’s pamphlet, These considerations will also help toa right understanding of the chapters on the Encyclical Syliabus of 1564, Dr. Newman 18 not to be under- stood a8 direculy or indirecily Dlaming the Holy See jor having enacted extreme, unwise or un- tumely measures. ‘There «re those near, or with access (o the Holy Father, who would, if tney could, go much further in the Way oi assertion and command than the divine assistentia which oVersiaiows him wis or permits.’ When J first read these worus isolated from the coatex!, and without any means of comparing It therewith, 1 conieas I was saddened, ana wished that Dr. Newman bad abstained irom placing beiore pis reader’s mind either the Holy Favwer or his hema gy even the extremists who have access to nim, He is now imprisoned and beset by his rebellious culidren. Tne one duty of al! of us who remain faithiul to him is to stand by him in his need and to alow no one word of censure to be cast on lis person, O18 administration, bis Minisrers or their acts. Wotle the head of the Christian fumuly is beid captive and reviled by ail the enemies of his authority our honor must not permit as to allow friend or foe to ascuse or to lame with impunity. When the common parent 1s free and independent once more, it will be tine enough to listen to accusalions, Bul Dr. Newman does not accuse, Under my irstimpression of resentment I read, perhaps, with the latent hope of finding myself justified in blaming the writer. But a (uil and calm perusal of every part and paragraph only satisfied me that this “levter,’’ irom beginning to ¢ is an honest expression of the great controversialist’s faith, opinions and sentiments upon the mightiest Ol the question, of the day. Perhaps there are those who could have wished him not to mx up anything relating to his own life with the considerations about the validity of the Vatican definitions, In lke manner it may be thought he would have done better to omit his theories avout “moral unanimity” in ecumenical councils, His justification ites in the necessity of cleariug himself from the suspicion of inclining toward Dr. Doilinger and the Old Catholic party.. The charge had been repeatediy brougut ‘against him i the public press. His leiter io Dr. Ulathorne nad cast a shadow on his orthodoxy. He could do no leas than explain it, and with this explanation is coupled a clear and explicit pro- fession o1 faitn in the Pontifical infallibility and the validity of the Vatican decrees, * Theologians wno do not accept Dr. Newman’s theory of ‘ecumenicity Will vot regret that he has given to the worid one more memorable chapter vo be acded to the “History of My Religious Opinions.’ In speaking of “conscience” and the “Syllabus” Dr, Newman charges Mr. Gladstone with misun- derstanding, mistransiatipg and misrepresenting the propositions condemned by the Holy see, pre- cisely a8 1 did in the HERALD of December 8 On individual freedom aud civil allegiance in their re- lations to the Poniiical authority your readers will find tbe assertions made by me through your col- umns not only confirmed, but exp!ained and ilius trated as only the foremost writer of the day could do, in conclusion, Dr. Newman’s reply 1s a publica- tion to be studied carefully and calmly, A serious and attentive perusal will cause the reader to praise where he mignt be at first disposed to blame. No Catholic, at any rate, can rise from it without a deop sentiment 0! intellectual satisiac- tion ag Weill a3 of gratitude and admiration ior Jong Henry Newman, PRUDENTIUS. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, EPISCOPALIAN. The Episcopal fund of the diocese of Maine amounts to $19,988 with about $600 more to be paid in. w» Next Wednesday, being 4sh Wednesday, begins Lent, The Rev. J. W. Leek, of St. Michael’s, Marbile- head, Mass., has accepted an election to the rece torship of Trinity church, Gainesviile, Fla., in con- Bectiou with the charge of Grace courch, Ocala, aud the mission at Cedar Keys. He will enter upon his duties early in Lent. The Rev. M. M. Benton bas accepted an election to the rectorship of the church of the Nativity, Maysville, Ky. ‘The Kev. Lawrence H. Mills has accepted the position of associate rector of the Protestant Epis- copal church in Fiorence. During bis stay in Eu- rope he has officiated as opportunity occurred, and during the last winter he hau charge oi the English church at Heidelberg, The Rev. J, J. Norwood has accepted’the rector- ship of the churches at Fincastie and Buchanan, Botetourt county, Va., and expects to enter upon bis duties tue 1st of March, Asort of “Congress” like that which was held here before the last Episcopal Convention ts tu be heid im London, February 17 and 18 It is for “prayer, praise and short addresses on spiritual snbjects.” The letter of invitation, which is gen- erai, has been signed by many of the leading Evangelical churchmen, including the kKevs. Messrs. E. Aurial, J. ©. Ryle, C. D. Marston and E, Bayley. ROMAN CATMOLIO. There have been of late, in St. Louis, several conversions of some eminence trom Episcopalian- ism, and among others of an Episcopalian minis- ter, He wul probaoly become a priest. Very Rev. Arngid Damen, Rev. J. Zealand, Rev. D. Niederkarn and Rev. V. Puiten, of the Society of Jesus, from the Mission House ol the Hoiy Fam- liy, Chicago, IL, have just completed a very suc- céssiul mission at St. Peter’s church, Jersey City. ‘The success of their iabors is summed up in 7,000 communious, 26 converts from other or no de- | nominations and 150 adults made tueir first com- | munion. These missiouaries have gone to Ron- | douw | Tbe new Chureh of the Immaculate Convention, | in Wasuington, D. C., will be dedicated next Sun- | day. ‘tie Very Rev. Dr. Chatard, rector of the Ameri- | can Coliege at kome, Was one of tie special preachers appointed to deliver the sermons for the | Octave of the Hpipuany tn the Evernat City. | The Very key. Jumes Conlon, of Cleveland, Ohio, is seriously ill. ‘The Jesuit Fathers in Jersey City will commence | the erecuion of a seminary in that city during tne | present year, Several plots have been placed at Uneir disposal for the purpose. ‘The monastery and church building of the Pas- | Sionist Fathers at West Hoboken are at last com- pleted. The ola paroctiai church will be closed. The system of boluing conierences of the Catho- Ne clergy, which was taken up for the first time in the diocese of Newark last Wednesday, 1s to ve pursued 1m several ovher dioceses twroughout the country, There is no movement yet on 100t, how- | ever, jor the establisument of canon law, as sev- | era: of the visuops belleve that such @ movement would be premature. METHODIST. Bishop Wiley will atiend the next sesaion of the . Newark Conference next mooth. The Bishop was jormerly a member of the Conference, ‘The Rev. Alexander Craig, of Rahway, has gone to Fiorida, sick; Rev. George F. Dickinson, of | Patersou, N.J., aud Rev. 8. H. Opdyke, P. E., of | Newton visirict, N. J., are also prostrated. Rev. | Dr. Pattison, of Philadeipnia, 18 not expected to live, and Rey. W. L. Gray, of tue same city, is also very iow. ‘The First Methodist Episcopal chureh at Rahway, N, J., 18 1n the miast of a gracious revival. Con- y r } at Prgteavilie, N. | New York city, 50; Grace church, Philadelphia, 20; Green street, Ptiiadelphia, 60; Sumnierfield | church, Philadeiphia, 100; at Hancock street | ciurch, Philadelpnia, 20; at Mount Olivet, Ky., 30, ‘The Newark City Miasioa will be absorved next | Spring, aud will lose its distinctive character, | The next session of the Hadson Kiver Minis- teriai Association will be held at Hudson on Feb- ruary 8.ana 9 The Poughseepsie District Conference will be | heid in the First courch in Sing Sing, commencing | On Tuesday, February 9, with 4 social reunion and | Collatiou at noon, and closmg on Wednesday even- | wg, the 10th; Dr. Crawiord presiding. An effort for the benefit of the Itaiians was be- gun at tne Five Pomts Mission some time ago. There are now Sunday morning services to cou- | gregations of parents and chiidren, and biwle Ciaases of men aud women. | Avevival is in progress in the Zion Methodist Episcopal cnurcn in Jersey City. The action of the pastor, Rev. Cyrus Oliver, in denouncing the con- duct of two members of tve congregation tor levity during Divine worship lias been indorsed by the Cougregation. PRESBYTERIAN, “The Rey. J. J. Pomeroy has resigned the pastor- ate of tue Upper Octarora Presvyterian churen, Pa., and accepted a cailto the First churcu, of Rahway, N. J. ‘dhe Kev. David Thompson, of Ohio, has heen ap- pointed interpreter to the Unived states Legation at Jeddo. Mr. Thompson was one 0: the earliest missionaries to Japan under the care of the Pres- byterian Board, Rev. Joseph Beers bas been called to the newly nized church of Whitestone, L. L ‘he First Presbyterian church in the city of New Haven, Voun., has been disbanded. _ Rev. C. Ouls Thatener, of Troy, N. ¥., has ac- cepted a call to the Westminster church, of Worth a Minn. fhe Presbytery of Westebester has voted in the negative on the overture of the General Assemouly relating to the eldership. Rev. Fanatieroy Seaour, late of Newport, Ky., has received and accepted a cail to tue Seveuth Presbyverian church of this city, Kev. H. M. Condon, late of Malone, has removed to Wavertown, N. Y, Rev. Mr. Baldwin, of Plainfield, has received a | unanimous call to tne qensoree of the Presbyte- riau church at Bound rool 4, over whica Rey. Dr, hodgers was pastor jor jorty years, The young terabers of the Second Presvyterian church of Jersey City nave orgauized an associa. too ior the muitual improvement of the young people connected with that church, Dr. Fleming Caraw was elected President, Mr. A. R. Allea Vice Secretary. The membership of the Union chureh of 80 increased during the paet year that it is pro- oaed Lo erect & new and spacious church edifice, his is the only free church tn Jersey Uiiy. Tue judgment of the Presbytery of Jersey City 1 the Gienoenning case will be tormally promul- gated to-day In the Church of the Scandal. So! of the trustees have entered a protest, but tne Rev. Mr. French, Stated Clerk of the Presbytery, has notified them that the decree of that body must be carries out. The report that Gienden- ning has retired gitegether is without founda- on. ‘The trustees of the Prospect avenue church, in Jersey City, have concluded not to extend a i to avy pastor till the troubles of that cuurch have been settled by the action of the Synod. The Rev. Mr. Wiggins, Rev. Mr. Bidwell aud other clergy- men will. officiate im tue meantime. BAPrist. Great regret is Manifested in Baptist circles here at the resignation of Dr. Thomas D, Anderson, Pastor of the First church, in this city. Last Sunday morning the Calvi Baptist cburch, New York, made a generous contribuuen of $6,600 to the New York Baptist Missionary Union. Other pledges to be mace will swell the offering to about $4,000, In times like the present this isa nobie donation. During the monsh just closed twenty have been baptized by Rev. D, ©, Hughes, pastor of tne Union avenue Baptist church, of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as the iruit of @ very interes ing work Of grace, which still is in progress and from whicu Much more is anticipated. The Rev. Charles Keyser, D. D., has tendered his resignation to the Central church, Trenton, N. J. He bas held the pastorate for tour years, MISCELLANEOUS. A Universalist Conference will be held in Brook- m, N. Y., next Wednesday and Thursday. A similar conference will be held a week later in Athens, Pa., when the Rev. Rees Williams will be ordained and installed pastor over that society. | Rev. 8 B, Rawson has resigned ms professorship in the St. Lawrence (Universalist) University, Canton, N. Y. The Old Catholics have now in Prussia one Bishop, Keiukens, and twenty-two priests. Regu- larly appointed priests serve in the following fliteen paris :—Cologne, Dr. Tangerman; Bonn, the Bishop and four professors; C.efield, Essen, Dortmuad ana Bochun, Hagen ard Witten, Bres- lau, Kattowitz, Boppard and Cébienz, Saarbric. ken, Glemwits and Dusseldorf, Tweive other tow! will have regular services When priests are pro- cured for them, ‘They are:—Berlin, Duisburk, Lennep, Sotingen, Wiesbaden, Attendorn, Konis- berg, Netsse, Insterourg, Conitz., Braunsberg and Bielelell. The frst Old Catuolic cuurch in Austria was recently opened at Warnsdor!, Bohemia, The young Israelites of Boston have formed an association simular in porpose to the Young Men Heorew Association o1 this city. Nearly 100 me: bers are enrolled and much interest 18 lelt in the movement, In view of the long continued financial depres- sion of the country the Christian at Work cails upon His Exceilency to prociaim a day of tasting and prayer throughout the iand, At Elmira, N. Y., the new church in course of erection for the Rey. Thomas K, Beecher is to be one Oi the largest in the State. Mr. Beecher has been preaching at the Opera House every Sunday evening, one cent admission being charged. The size of the audience at this novel figure has been suficient to cover expenses, Cunsidering . low many people there are who go to church and give I only tais inconsequential sum when the box is handed to them apd how many there are who give no‘ning at all, but only blandly smile on the col- lector, wouid not this plan be a wholesome novelty to introduce elsewhere ? A Woman's Board of Missions of the Disciples of Christ nas been organized. Rev. Edward Beecher, D, D., will preach until further notice in the Firat Congregational church in Paterson, The First Congregational church of Woodbriage, N. J., has engaged Rev. Mr. Holmes, formerly of the Lee avenue church, Brooklyn, to preach for a period of six months tor $1,000, TEMPLE EMANUEL. BALAAM’S SOPHISTRY EXPOSED BY DR. GOTI- y HEIL, Yesterday the Rev. Dr. Gottheil preached a practical sermon on the sophistry of Balagm in his conversations with the King of Moab, who called him to curse Israel when they came out of the wilderness toward their own tand. The Doc- tor refreshed big hearers’ minds with a brief ree cital of the leading events contained in that nar- rative, The King of Moab wanted to prevent the onward marcu of Israel, and he sought the aid of Balaam to hinder their progress. He reasoned. that, if they persisted as they had done, they would devour him and bis peopie, as they had otuers through whose country they had passed. Balaam entectained the messengers who had come from the Moabitisn King, and God came to him and asked who these men were. Balaam told Him, and God said, “Thou shalt not go with them.” When this word went back to the King he thought the re- wards offered to Balaam were not large enough, and he increased his gifts and promises by the second set of messengers. But Balaam assured them that if the King of Moab should gtve him his house full of silver and gold he could not say or do contrary to the word of the Lord. But, neverthe- less, Balaam covesed the rich gifts offered to bim by Balak, and he went with the princes of Moab,\ but was met in the way by an angel of tne Lord and was reprovea by the ass which he rode, be- cause his way was perverse before God. Considered as a record of events that actually occurred the narrative is interesting, but as a delineation of a class of Men and of an infirmity to which human nature is liable, it 1s tae product of @ master hand in its minuteness of detail. We ke the Scriptures as a book of religion. We in- cline our ears to HEAR THE DIVINE MESSAGE coming down to us. Kut the true power of the Worid’s thoucht must be in this, that tne Scrip- ures reveal to us our true selves and bring to us our real pature. ihe bible puts, as it were, its finger on events that we don’t like to see or hear abont, and opens the wounds that we would have heaied, What awicked man Balaam was as we bave known him in @ar boyhood days! What a stupid, bungling sort of man he was to invove himseifin such disgrace and discomfture! Butif he was anything be was‘lever and specious, and he tried to outwit God by his cleverness, Mark his efforts to stifle conscience and at the same time to get the oribes offered for violating the trutn and the law of God He thinks the second and the third time. He is a type of that class who, in the Scriptures, are stigmatized as scorners, but even scoru- ers must praise God. ff his first impres-ions Were such asare ascribed to him then his sin was something appaliing. Man is made bad only by his own agency, (hough he does not know this unti) he tries to rid bimseif of bis siniul hav its. Balaam’s lips dropped honey and his mouth was like the honeycomb, How full of gold ana silver algo were 13 words, “I! Balak would give whe his house fuli of silver and gold | cannot go be- yond the commandment of the Lord.” The Doctor referred to the difficulty oi sitting in iegisiative balis and refusing to accept a creck for $4,000 or any other sum stmply on the ground of moral principle. And here BALAAM TRIED TO COMPROMISE WITH GOD and with principle. He tried to induce God to say yes, when He had said no. And do we not try the same species 01 sophistry wich God, and seek to pergpade Him that that 1s inuocent which at first sight appears to be guilty? The Doctor therefore cantioned his congre- gation against taking the frst steps in such a career. Here was aman who saw the Lord with unvetled eyes, aud yet he could not see ihe things that were rigot beore bim. His mind revelled in the pleasures that awaited hii, and he saw now his Own immediate danger. How marked is the Perversion of this man who said of God, “He is not @ man, that He should He, neither the son of man, that He should repent; aud again declared of him: seif that he could not say good or baa, save us the Lord gave tim the word, And yet here we see him go through a process of mental and moral sophistry such a8 we sometimes behold in men im our day in commercial, social and marital reia+ tions. Trespassers will be punished, A similar kind Of sophistry was brought to-bear upon our first parents in the Garden, but God Wil never interfere with the ireedum of min made in His own tmage. i we contd only get God to say 3 when he has said no, but Me will not. We coax, we be we prag, aud these e‘forts being of no avail we push Gd and conscience out oi the way and then try to gioss over sins that we have committed against them. We denounce Tyndall and Darwin and such men becuase they would matertaize spiritual things. But there is a species of spirtt- uniism in our midst—not the system vi jugylery called by that term—witich 1s eating out our spirit ual lie. it 18 toils species OF sopoistry indulged in by Balaam, But to attempt or hope to deceive by such sonhistry is like trying to change a crimin- al’s character by substituting a gentleman's attire for his striped prison garb. Men oj mark, of power and of influence are found try to do this thing, and it becomes the duty of religion to sweep away this covering of lies and show the temptation aud tne tempter in aii their naked hidcousness, HOW SOME METHODIST PREACHERS SUFFER. Rev. G. De La Matyr, Presiding Eider of Omaha district, Nebraska Conference, writes, January 26, from Fremont:—I attended a quarterly meeting January 16, where tne pastor was not abie to got to the meeting. He is a stirring, energetic. godly man, aod surprised-all by his absence, A bi other who was preseut said pe slept wita him ten days before, ana found that, though his pants were tia and worn, he had po underciotnes, ho stockings, bo | mittens, nothing to Wrap avout his neck and ears, and no oversives. As I came home to-day I jonnd a lewer stating why he was absent. he attended a /unerai on Wednesday bejore quarteriy meeting; the day was very cola, and he froze his ears, Ongers and one leg severely, and it is thougnt bis ears Will come off. He yeports aa increase of jorty-iive members during the inss quarter, What Ihave said of nim is true of o¢ner wainisters—they have not received above $15 hor the'current con- ference year. One famtiy nas not had a fire for four weeks, except such as they/ave made out of Airaw Wo cook, | Viterbo, FATHER NEWMAN AT HOME A Special Herald Visit to the Ora- tory at Birmingham. A, Genial Reception by the Great Tractarian. His Anathema of the Apos- tate Achill. How the Oratorian Fathers Live. BIRMINGHAM, Jan, 2, 1875, As I left London the ground was thickly covered with snow, and the snow in this city ts deeper and the weather colder than has been known for many years. The ground isin excellent condition for sleighing, but I am told that there are no sleigas, Still Birmingham has an air that is more American than Engiisb. This is observable in the shops (the goods are not all in the windows), the thronged streets, the well-dressed people, and even the cabmen, who, while quite as independent as their confréres of New York, are far less insolent. I saw an instance of this in the respectful refusal of acabby to drive two ladies through the streets onamere sight-seeing excursion, he intimating that the Vines of the ground gave the horses so much labor that he would only drive those per- sons whose errands were of a business nature. A VISIT TO THE ORATORY. My cabman did net object to the two miles’ drive to the ‘Oratory,’ evidently thinking that my visit was one of “necessity” and not “mere pleasure,” After riding through a very long and handsome street, composed of spacious villas in pDeautiful grounds, we arrived at the “Oratory,” a great pile of buildings with an architecture of se- vere and even ugly simplicity. HOW THE FATHERS LIVE. My call at the door is answered by a lay brother, towhom I handed my card for transmission to Father Newman, I am conducted by him through @ long hall to a little rvom with a cheerful fire. In this room is the plainest confessional I ever saw, consisting of a screen, with a piece of lattice work im the centre, and having on one side a straw has- sock for the penitent and on the other a chair for the confessor. On two tables Me several stoles, and afew pictures adorn the walls, In a glass frame ts an filaminated letter, addressed to Father Newman by the Provost and Chapter of the Cathedral of Birmingham after the trial and conviction of the former for publishing a libel upon the apostate priest Acbilli, who, after being unfrocked and degraded from the priest- hood in consequence of having been detected in the commission of a long series of outrageous crimes, was welcomed in England as ‘a great Protestant reformer’ and began to deliver dis- courses against Roman Catholicism. Father New- man denounced him in a burst of the most terrible invective ever written in the English languaze. This was about twenty years ago, aud so splendid is this philippic in its rhetoric, and so admirable a specimen of Father Newman’s style, that I tran- scribe a portion of 1% for you. NEWMAN'S ANATHKMA OF ACHILLI. Ah! Dr. Achaii, I might have spoken of him last week had time admitted of it. Tne Protes- tant world flocks to hear bim, hecause he has something to tell of the Catholic Churco. He has a something to tell, 11s trae; he has a scandal to reveal, he has argument to exhivit, it is a simple one and a powerlul one, aa far as it goes, and itis one. That one argument is bimeelf; 10 18 hig presence which is the triumph of Protestants; itis the sight of tim which ts a Casnolic’s con- fusion. It 1s, indeed, our great confusion that our Holy Mother could have had a priest like him. He Jeels the force of the argument and he shows him- self to the multitude that ts gazing on him, “Mothers of families,’ he seems to say, “gentie maidens, innocent children, look at me, for. 1 am worth looking at. Youdo not see such a sight every day. Can any Church live over the tmputa- uen of such a production asian? Ihave beena Catholic and an infide!; I have been a Roman priest and a hypocrite; I have been @ protiizate under a cowl, I am that Father Achillt who, a8 early as 1826, was deprived of my faculty to lecture for an offence which my superiors did their best to conceal, and who in 1827 had already earned the reputa- tion of a scandalous friar. Iam that Achilil, who, 1m the diocese of Viterbo, in February, 1831, rob- bed of ber honor & young woman of eighteen; who, in September, 1833, was found guilty of a second sucn crime 10 the case of a person of twenty-eigut, and who perpetrated a third in July, 1834, in the case of another aged twenty-four. 1am be who aiterwards was found guilty of sing similar or worse in other towns of the neighbor- nood. 14m that son of St. Dominic who ts known to have repeated the offence at Capua in 1834 or 1835, and at Naples again, in 1549, in the case of a child oj fitteen, Iam he who chose the sacristy of the church for one of these crimes, and Good Friday tor another. Look on mey ye mothers of England, @ conlesgor against Popery, jor you “ne'er may look upon my like again.” 1 am that veritable priest who, atter ali this, began to speak against not only the Oatuolic faith but the moral law, and pervertea others by my teaching. lam the Cavaliere Achilll who then went to Cor‘u, made the wile Of a tallor faithless to her husband, and lived publicity and traveiied about with the wile of a chorus singer. 1am that professor in the Protestant College at Maita, who, with two others, Was dismissed ‘rom my post for offences which the authorities cannot get themseives to describe. And, now, attend to me, such as lam, aud you shail see what you shall see about the deh atid and proiigacy of the inquisitors of me,” You speak truly, O Achilli, and we cannot an- swer you a word. You are a priest; you nave been a triar; you are, it is undeniable, the scandal of Catholicisia and the paimary argument of Prot- estants by your eXtruoraivary depravity. You bave been, it is true, a profligate, an unbeliever and a hypocrite. Not many years passed oi your conventual l1/e, and you were never in cnoir, always in private houses, so that the laity observed you. You were deprived of your professorship, we own it; you were prohibited irom preaching and bear- ing coniession; you were obliged to give husti- money to the javhero! one of your victims, ax wo rh from the official report of the police of You are reported in an official docu- ment of the Nespolitau police to be “known for habitual incoutinency.” Your name came before the clvii tribunal at Corfu tor your crime of adul- tery. You have put-the crown on your offences by as iong as you could denying them all, You have professed to seek after truth when you were ra- vening alter sin. Yes, you are an imcontroverti- their vows. You are your own witness. whiie you teed not go out of yourself for your ar- fument neither are you able. With you the arau- ment begins; with you, too, it ends, The beginning wud the ending you are both. When you have shown yourseli you have done your worst and your all. You are your best argument and your Sole. Your witness against others is utterly in- validated by your witness against yourself. You jeave your sting im the wound. You cannot lay the golden eugs, for you are already dead. Dr. Newman's “Lectures on the Present Position DR. NEWMAN'S POPULARITY. For publishing these burning words Father New- man was indicted and condemned to pay a very heavy fine, tor the fact of the libel being true made it more itbellous. The amount of the fine was at once raised by his friends, and the letter above referred to was sent to him by all the Catholic priests in the diocese of Birmingham, as a testi- mony of their appreciation of his boldness and of their sorrow tor the persecution he had suffered. A KIND RECEPTION BY THE VENSRABLE PRIEST. Father Newman soon appeared, dnd welcomed me with great kindness, He is now seventy-three years oid, but bis eyes are pot dimned nor nis natural strength much abated. He was dressed in @ plain biack gown reaching to his feet, and around his throat was that indescribable and wonderful collar with which those who have seen his photographs are familiar, My business with him was s00n despatched, Lut he begged me to re- main longer, which | was glad enough todo. He said that his health was good, although he was not yery strong, and, in addition to his namerous | and heavy labors, he nad been writing N13 KEPLY TO Mie GLADSTONK’S “£XPOSTULATION,"? Whicu Was already at his publisher's, Mr. Pigkering of London, @ volume of ove hundred pages. He nad resolved at first not to attempt this work, for he feit tuat to do it thoroughly would require a vol- ume. Kut he floally concluded that it was hisduty to write this volume, and je had done it. I re- marked that | supposed ke had given the coup de grace vo Mr. Gladstone. “Un,” he replied, with a sinile, “it is nothing vo the point what I may think I have done; the question 18 what otners may think of wy work. Hat Mr, Gladstome has made a Very grave mistake, a fatai error.’ VOLUNTEER POLEMICS, We spoke of the many letters and pamphiets called forth by the expostulation, and re- ble proo! that priests may fall and friars leet | ub of Catholics in England” (Loudon, 1861), p. 197-199. | diy and with too much bas'+ into the contro« He was not ac ail surprised, he sald, tal tthe tone of the most !mportant Amert- can secular jouPnal had been as a rale strongip condemnatory of Mr. Gladstone's pampniet. ea le are,” said be, “so much fairer over there thi they are hére—thev are apparen'ly quite free fro the bitter and traditional prejtidices which Db! the eyes of so many Englishmen.” THE INNER MAN REYRESHED, Fearing that I was occupying too much of hig time I again rose to depart, but he insisted on m: having luncheon, J protested, out I had to Jiel “Let me accempany you to tne refectory,” he; “you must eat luncheon with me before you go.” "The refectory 18 a large, square apartmen’ With a lofty ceiling, On one of the walls ts @ greai crucifix; ing 1 @ splendid portrait of St. y Neri, the founder of the Oratorians; in a@ niche 1s an image of the Virgin, and*r und the walls ara portraits of priests and carainals, who hi members of the Order, anid in Ove corner reading desk. Father Newman, to iasten the pre aration of the luncheon, himseif brought some dishes to the table. I told him | was distressed see him waiting on me, but he made a pleasant reply, and I offered my Own services, 80 we sew the table between us. He ‘old me th was established in Birmingham by, th Cardinal Wiseman, when he wus Vi The proper number of fathers in nse twelve, In addition to their ordinary parish wor! they have a very large boarding school for boys, in ‘which, the fathers, there are five masters employed. The Catholic popuiation of Birmingham 18 about 28,000. {he proportion of Irish among them is not nearly so large as im Liverpool or Manchester. MODERN SPIRITUALISM. ‘“CNQUIRER'S’’ SHARP REPLY TO THE SPIRITUAL IsTS. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I do not wisn to continue a controversy be- yond the limits of courtesy er profit; bus this matter of Spiritualism bas assumed such pro- Portions that, to my mind, it invites attack and needs derence. the signature of “M. D.” rather provokes me to @ plain statement of facts and principles. I believe Ihave never denied the possibiity or the proba-« bility of communication between the two worlds; but have simply asserted that these men wno pre- tend to accomplish supernatural results by means of an unknown power within themselves do consciously and wilfully practise fraud on the community, and ought to be denounced as charla- tans: and tricksters. I shouid be very sorry to give up what faith 1 bave, that unaer the roof of modern Spirftualism certain phenomena have actually occurred which cannot oe roferred to known science; but I do contend, beyond all fear of contradiction, that Mansficla reads commauni- cations by holding them up to the light, because I have seen him dott, and because I can read questions in the same way; that Slade and = Foster do employ slelght-of-band to perform some of the most remark- able results, because 1 have myself caught tnem in the act, and, farther, because I can do the same thinzs with the gse of ordinary human agencies. If Ican do what Slade and Foster do and explain how I do it, why am | called upon to beiteve that spirits do it for them while @ little skilful juggiery ts suMcient for me? Your correspundent, ‘M. D.,” states that I am not able to form a judgment, because | have seen Foster only twice, while he has seen him many times, That, I confess, ts a style of argument to which Iam not accustomed. Ii 1sce that a horse: is lame the first time I drive him it is not necese sary to drive bim every day for @ month tm order to put the fact beyond peradventure. If I catcha man in 8 palpable lie 1am competent to assert his untrutafulness without listening to his conversa- tion forayear. Repeated interviews have noth- ing to do with the correctness of my judgment. On the contrary, I adopt as my rule the old saw, “If @ man cheats me once*it is his fault; if he does {t twice itis my fault.” I have seen Slade and Foster end know what they can do and also how they do it, and have no more money to waste on their trickery. Now, I do not wish to appear precipitate in this matter, and will make this proposi- tion:—If Mr. Siade will permit me to take an ordinary donble slate to bis house, place ® piece of pencil init and put it on the table—he may put his fingers on it, for the sake of t - netism, or do anything except putit ul the table where 1 can’t see it—and will then cause to be made thereon asingie mark three inches long, or to be written a single word, | will take back every aspersion I have cast on him and publicly acknowledge my error. So sure am I that this can’t be dune thatI will make him a present of $50 to accomplish such @ result aud acknowledge that! have been mistaken in him. I make this chalienge with the bope that he will accept it and algo witn the hope that he may be success- ful, for if there 18 one desire of my heart stronger than any otner it 1s to believe in this new theory, which in mahy respects is ull of comfort and con- solation. One word with regard tothe proper state of mind in which to visit # medium. If “M.D.” will allow me to say so, {think he makes certain statements in respect to this which will not bear the test of reason. He telia us that these medt- ums are sensitives and extremely subject to taks the mood of the sitter. If this be so, andl will net at present deny it, then I solemnly affirm that I was in tne proper state of mind to be con- vincea. When I first went it was not as a sceptic, All my prejudices and the general bias of my mina were in favor ot the medium. Mind you, L was not ip a candition to accept with unquestion- ing confidence everything tnat mignt come, but [ was periectly willing, and even anxious to be con- vinced, if the testimony offered should be satis- factory and sufficient. Now, what more can he asked than thia? “Test the spirits,” 18 a good old biblical rule, and if the spirits could pass the test it would be enough. 1 will not require of modern Spiritualism any other test than that which every honest, trutn loving man is bound to Tequire of any new philosophy which presents itself for his acceptance. Woen the raps iret came to the Fox girls they were bewildered and did not accept the new philosophy until they had subjected those raps to all sorts oj questionings, ‘They did not become Spiritualists with the first rap that came. Ov the contrary, they scouted the ideaand attributed chose raps to a variety of agencies bejore they Were wiliing to admit their supernatural origin. When the raps proved them- selves, then, and then only, were they accepted. Again, 11a new theory of light, or of astronomy, is asserted, the proper state of mind jor an investi- gator is not that of credulous acceptance. When @man is asked to receive it he does so on the basis of indisputavié facts. Now, I do not find fauit wita auy man or woman in tne world who has experienced these proofs for believing. I simply say that no such experiences have come to me, and that, thereiore, 1 can’t believe. Neither 1s my faith to be founded on another man’s state- ment. If lassert that Ihave been to the moon & dv not blame men for doubting my word. Ido not expect any one to believe it unless he has been there himself. When you come to me and swy, “Ihave seen the Chairs move ana the table tip, therefore the spirits did it,” I answer, can’t be, for If also have seen the chairs and table move, gpd I know how it was done, because I can do it m@elf.” linsist that. 11 modern Spiritualisin 1s @ fact it should be per- fectly willing to sutmit itself to all honorable tests, and ifurther tosiet that the emiuently proper state of mind foran investigator is # very watch- ful willingness to accept anything whico can’t ve accounted for except on the basis brought for- ward, He ls a fanatic not to be trusted who in- sists that you shall believe before you bvave inves- tigated, and the very word “investigation” implies doubt as a pre-existing condition to conviction, “M. D.”” says further that the medium takes the condition o/ the sitter. That is very curious, If £ go down to the Tombs to pray with a man who isa thief 1 do not necessarily begin by picking some- body’s pocket myseli; andi [ set myself to taik with a profane man Ido not take bis mood and begin be swearing at him. In like manner if the spirit of my father really comes to the earth my doubt whetner he {8 actually present or not does not compel the medium to le vo me, and if I subject the spiric. of my father to @ cross-examination in order to find out whether tt is really he or not, that fact does not make the medium cheat me. My Jather, before he died, knew that it is not my habit to accept ag truth important statements not properly vouched for, and he approved of my course, Wherever he is at the present time he is, of course, just as well acquainted with this havit of my mind, and, whether he approves it or not, he Knows ‘that’ the surest and shortest road to conviction is to prove humself to be my tather im some way which admits of no doubt. If lam will. ing to receive such proof and willing to be con- vinced by it no sensible spirit, either in or out of Vhe flesh, can complain. Now, then, let the mediums of whom I have, spoken submit to ao honorable test. The truth is not one of them dares to doit. I will not call it nonsense, but i¢ strikes me that it ts nearer that than anything else, to say that a sceptioal state of Mind is not tho proper one for an investigator. It i the only state of mind tnat insures a careful sifting of facts and statements, and if Spiritualism is not willing to submit to it then so much the worse for it 1 think that is the verdict of all right-minded mea. AN INQUIRER, A MEDIUM’S DEFENCE OF SLADE & CO. “A Medium” defends Messrs. Foster, Slade and Mansfield irom the imputations of trickery and jugglery cast upon them by “An Inquirer” in last Sunday's HERALD, and insists that conditions are as necessary in tne science of Spiritualism asin f telegrapby or anything else. “An In- quiter,” otntnks, 1 one whose magnetism or “No, — that conditional state is unfavorable to spirit manifes- and he might not have wa&d the experi- ti ave had, But his inability to results does not prove that there ences tl obtain gratt!, marked that some of tug writers had rugnea Unad- | iano trot {2 evirivual phenomena, bee: ‘alittle A letter in your paper over |