The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1875, Page 15

HROOKLIY.PULPIT. ORATORS Characteristics of the Lights of the | City of Churches. MEN OF THE PAST AND PRESENT. What Religion Does and Does Not Do for Brooklya. Interesting Personal Sketches of Her Lead- ing Clergymen. THEIR MENTAL CALIBRE. Salient Points of Character and Temper. Iti easter to se6 why Brooklyn was first styled than why it remains distinotively called the City of Churches. 1t never has had more churches in proportion to its population than Washingfon, Philadelphia or Baitimore. Time was, however, ‘when it had nardly any other places of public resort tnan churches. The principal theatre ts Dut three years old. [ts oldest theatre bas been in existence only since the first of ‘the war.’” Ite Academy of Music 1s not a decade old yet. Prior to 1860 the charcnes were ali that distinguished tho life of the city in the sense in which that ilfe ‘Was attractive and helpful to outsiders, Acity wachetically developed m just one direction was ‘bound to be popularly baptized into the interest exclusively characterizing it, Hence “Age Olty of Churches.” ABLE AND ODD.PREACHERS, Besides this there have always been a number of preachers in Brooklyn either unusually able or unusually odd, or both. These have made their mark upon the nistory of the city and upon the history of the denominations to which they have belonged or do now belong. ‘In cases they have even impressed themselves upon the literature and traditions of the entire Protestant body of Chris- tiantty, the world over. All ideas vo the contrary, notwitnstanaing, the number of historically dis- tinguished clergymen in the past in Brooklyn ex- ceeded the number of that degree of prominence in the present, When Rev. Drs. Bethune, Carroll, Samuel Hanson Cox, Spencer, Fariey, “Dominie” Johnson, Charles Robinson, Heman Bangs and Molivaine, simultaneously preached in Brooklyn, alarger and more distinguished list of ministers reflected lastre on the city than can be indicated of the present array of pulpit talent, distinguished as 1t may be and overtopping any one of the former, 6 one or more of Brooklyn contemporary ciergy- men mayo, The more notable ministers now preaching in Brooklyn may be named, Without injustice, in the following - order:—, Congregational—Storrs, Beecher, Budington, Scudder; Presbyterian—Cuyler, Talmage, and Durye: Methoaist Episcopal—Haynes, Davis, and = Buckley; Protestant Episcopal—Hall, Schenck, and Homer; Baptist—Hyatt Smith, defferey and Fulton; Universalist—Nye; Uni- tarian—Chadwick and Putnam; Reformed—Rev. E. 8. Porter ana Rev. J. H. Carroll. As & whole, this list is notso eminent as the one we have given of the preachers of the past. In both lists, however, are included the names of minisiers who for the past forty years have made Brookiyn &@ renowned church centre, PREACHERS OF THE RECENT PAST. The traditions of the city and its present iife are fall of stores, statements and sayings which either refer back to these men as their authors or become annexed to them io other respects, All such things stated in this article are authentic, yet all of them have heretoiore escaped chronicle. ‘The matters mentioned comprise a body of fact through which can be perceived suggestive evi- dences of the kind of infinences which have made up and do now make up the moral life of Brooklyn. Naturally, the mind will best be satisfied, and pro- portion and propriety will be best observed, by Geveloping the peculiar traits and utterances at- tributed to the Broogiyn divines of a generation ago. REV. DR. BETHUNE. Rev. Dr. Bethune was a man of imposing presence, and he possessed elocutionary powers of an excellence which was as much the proof of gentus as of fine training. He aiways selected his hymns with a double view, He desired them, ©f course, to be appropriate to his sermon, and; he also was véry careful to select such songs of the church as were im- pressively suitable to his voice. His idea was that “the pulpit of righ? demanded a man’s best powers of every order,” and that “it was as much of a man’s duty to preach weil as to preach sincerely.” He relied in no small degree for legitimave effects upon his hymnal reading. It was NO extraordinary, it was a customary thing for him to move people to tears by his reading of the hymn— Alas! and did my Saviour bleed? and to terror by his rendition of the hymn— Twas on that dark and doleful night! The rousing, inspiriting, almost exbilarating re- sults wrought by bim in reading some of the jJubt- lant songs of tne church can hardly be indi- cated, Changing a line of Tennyson’s,. the effect seemed “ike perfect wording set in noble tones.’’ No man was more stately in the pulpit; yet no Man wag more aumorous out of it, Most of his good things have been pubiished. Of what havo mot been this is about the best:—There was 2 man in bis congregation whom the Doctor had long believed to be in a fit frame of purpose ani bellef to join the chureh, yet who was troubled by mental dim- enulties which he did not make known. At last those difficulties appeared to ve about the subject of baptism. The man himself resolved them by Joining the Baptist churchy The act reuieved his doubts, and he came and told vr. Bethune, with great animation of manner and countenance, “Doctor, | have joined the army of the Lord!’ The Doctor quietly asked, “Which wing of the army?’ With a gleam of humor the man replied, “The right wing, Doctor, depeud on it—the Bap. tists.” “An.’? said the Doctor, ‘the Baptista are not the army of the Lord at all; they are the navy of the Lord.” The record of the story ends with {ts humorous climax, for the reply of the man, if any was possible, is not preserved. . AS appreciative and devout a hearer as any he had was the cultivated wife of Dr. Bethune. The lady was an invalid, sequestered from religious service aud irom society by that fact for years, ‘The parsonage, however, adjoined the church on Pierrepont street, and in the commen wall ‘of the two buildings a ‘Judas window” was cut, through which, seeing and not seen, Mrs, Bethune on her couch took part in the worsntp and heard the sermons of every Sunday. The Doctor usea to score a double point in warning his hearers to circumspection, “We canngt teli who is looking at as,’ he would say. REY. DR. CARROLL, THE ELDER, There are many reminiscences cherished of Rev. Or. Carroll. Ha was a Presbyterian, and the father of the Rev. J. Maistead Carroll, D, D., paa- tor of the present Bast Reformed church, on Bed- ford avenue. His congregation worshipped tn a building on the present site of Plymouth cnuren, When a young man Dr. Oarroll is said either to have been a blacksmith or to tave understood how to be one. He used playiully to refer to Awful Gardner, the converted prize tighter of years ago, and to nimself as “iwo poeweriul ‘ex-pounders.’ The joke was good: when it was new, and it was new then, A parishioner of the Doctor's tnsisted on the latter retaining all day the paper which he subscribed for, All the parishioner needed the Paper for was to read 1+ at night. The Doc- tor cared more for books than the journals of years ago, but he found out that it offended his friend if the paper he toaned did not bear tne ap- Pearance at least of having been read, The Roc | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. tor there'ore formed the habit of “earefully ramp- ling the paper for Brotaer H.'s coméort.” BEY. DR. COX, Dr. Cox was the most exegetical and dogmatic of Brooklyn preachers. He would not nesttate to translate @ text ‘as it oucht tobe” and preach from tbat rendertag. He would similarly criticise the hymns, and if the poetry was poor or the theology of them defective, in bis judgment, be would flay them remorseiessly. He astounded a prayer meeting which he entered one night while the audience was singing, and his point was em- inently characteristic. He came in as the people were singing the verse:— T ean but perish, if I go, 1 am reselved to try, For if I stay away know I must torever “Stop that nonsense,” thundered the Doctor at the wonder-struck leader. ‘He can’t perish if he goes, and he knows he cant, God is not to be made a liar by a mushy, false hymn. Let bim go @t once and m6t doubt about it in that way. Be- sides, in another verse the hymn says:— Perhaps he will accept my ple ernaps will hear my prayer, But it [perish f will zo ‘And perish only there. There is no ‘perish’ to @ seeking soul. There isno ‘perhaps’ in tne Gospel. The hymun’s bosh, Never give 1tout again. Let us pray.’’ ‘The effect was electric, A number avowed their faith on the spot. REY. DR. SPENCER. Dr. Spencer was par excellence @ pastor. Als book, “A Pastor’s Sketches,” is @ classic of tie Ouurch. He was denominated “The sohn,” be- cause he was go beloved. In his wisdom there Was perfect confidence. He settled more troubles and made less fuss about it than any clergyman of his time. There was little which was characteris- tic about him. His faculties were in too perfect polse for eccentricity. In many respects he seems to have resembied Rey, William Adams, D. D. Dr. Spencer's counsels in@uenced the lives of more Brooklyn people-than those of any man that ever probably lived in Brooklyn. He was known to be & good sermonizer and teacher, but the existence of the constructive literary (aculty was not sus- pected, In his volumes, however, entitled “A Pastor's Sketches,” story-telling skill, founded on fact, yet never uncovering the personality of those sketched, was revealed to a degree scarcely exceeded by the charming author of *'The Diary of @ Physician,” M OLD HEMAN BANGS, Presiding Eider Heman Bangs entered but a few years ago into his rest. Already, however, Metho- dist literature has become enriched with reminise cences Of his originality, intrepidity and simplicity. He was pastor of Jonn street church, New York, when the Battery was the centre of domicile wealth and sociai aristocracy, He itinerated be- tween Brooklyn, New York, New Haver and Hart ford, and was alternately the Presiding Elder of the Connecticut and Long Island districts. He was @ man of most hearty and unique prejudices and of indomitable courage. He neared four- score belore he requested to be placed on the superannuated list, and then wanted to recall the request as s00D as ne had made it, Fine churches, “instruments of music in the sanctuary,” beils, written sermons and “an artificially educated ministry’ be regarded as “abominations.” He Passed the middie age before he concluded that it Was not the province of Methodism to war on “Calvanism as well as other forms of sin.” It was plain to gee that the old man did not believe that the world would “stay fixed” if reclaimed by un- Arminiun agencies, in his diary be exultingly records :—“Preached twice on Sunday at H——, and, by the grace of God, leit Calvanism bleeding.” He was converted with great demon- strations and amid terrible struggles, and be was whipped of all the cords of business disaster, until he was “scourged into the ministry.” He vowed himself a preacner over the smoking roof- tree of his burnt-out home. The old man was an out-and-out democrat, Most of the Northern Metnodista are republicans, When one of. them is a democrat he 1s as ‘essentially so as the actor who blackened hiwseif all over to piay Othello, ‘“n order vo feel the part.” At the very outbreak of the war a large Methodist Conlerénce was in sessioa in Brookiyn, Loyalty ran at food height. Tue Conerence as a@ body proposed to vote its moral and syimpatbetic support to President Lin- cola, When all the rest stood up on “tue grand Tising vote,” Presiding Eider Heman Bangs and One Or two others sat still. When calied to ac- count he returned censure for censure, ana did it With @ right positive clearness und iorce.” In his diary the old man eloquent, a8 he was called, de- piored “the unreasonubleness of ail wis brethren.” He outived the unpopularity which wis undoube edly conscientious adherence to bis views cost him; but he characteristically appoinied suc of his brethren as agreed with him to be his pall bearers. There were others also who offi- ciated, but only because there was not the “regu- lation” number uo agreed with him to go around, REY. DR. FARLEY, Rev. Dr. Farley is considered the founder of Evangelical Unitarianism in Brooklyn. Tne church he built om Pierrepout street is as elegant as almost any im either city. He was a pastor of emuent social tact. He early saw that what his denomination necded was recognition, and that that would best come through two channels—the identidcation its Ministry With “imatitutions,’? and the association oi elegant msthetic effects with the services of his ciiurch. Accordingly it was not long before he was comiortaviy tdeutified with numerous directorates of elegant and humane and educational tustitutions, He wis a wise counsellor, a charming companion and @ thorough geniieman. He did much to reassure the suscep- Ubilities of those who apprehended that liberality of creed was in some seuse or other dangerous, even to those who did not snare la it. For wsthetic ends be developed the musical features oi fis service to high excellence. He also instituted the now quite general ‘‘vesper services,” and put them at an hour early enough to warrant subse- quent attendance upon tne more solid preacuing exercises in other conventicles, He was very. wise in bis generation. Young Brooklyn thronged to his. philmarmonic feasts, and got no harm at least. He firmiy established not only Rimseli, but his denomination in Brooklyn, Dr. Farley, though 4 man o/ a good deal 01 natural dignity, had @ keen realization o1 a joke. He was too thoroughly discreet, however, to offend vy the capacity for sarcasm which was so consider: @ole in him, His use of his wit was rare aud al- most involuatary. He remarked 01 @ prolix, con- temporary, Who had beea # shoemaker and who Was ineanly ashamed o the facs, that Brotuer S, 80 far forgot his old business in his mew that he never got to bis last.’ Of another, a nebulous and @ polemical person, he deciared, “He believes nothing, and will not let anybody elise do so either.” Dr, Farley has been succeeded by Rev. Dr. putpam, who combines many of the cuitivated and thoughtful quaiities 0 his predecessor. “Domiute” Jonngon was for many years rector of the Episcopal churen o1 St. Jonn’s, when it stood on the present aite of the Brookiyn Theatre. He was the senior Episcopal ciergym: of Brookiyn jor many years and by many years. He interiered very aotively im the affairs of the city, and several of Ais descendants have occupied stations of trust and honor {0 municipal service. Brooklyn knew him and ne Brovkiyn as New York and Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring Knew one anotner. His ad- vice and counsel were sougit in many matters aside irom such ascame within his regular fuuc- ions. He was & great healer of quarrels; the scuoolooys of younger Brooklyn foundin hima Stanon iriend, aimost & companion, and it was bis delight to tell them stories of “the time wo the cowa roamed on ve Fiatbusn road ;’” of “the old whtpping post which stood in Red Hook lane ;”’ of the rope ierries between the cities and 0. the cornfield (now Ciimtom avenue) in ‘hich Jonn W. Hunter's father built @ house, “two miles out o1 town.’ There is a very charactertetic but heretoiore unpublished story of @ dialogue between Dominie Jounson and Kev. Dr. Farley, just reierred to. When Dr. Farley's fine church was built em Pierrepont street it was, next to Holy Gag the most imposing structure tn Brooklyo. Dr. Farley never tired of walkin round and round the structure while it was bald ing, like the Psalmist walking round about Jeru- salem. He never ceased admiring the batlding and he was of nothing so proud as ol the admiration excited by it tn others, One day. Dominie Jonnson came up to Dr. Fariey and said:—‘‘Ah, Dr. Fariey, that is a fine church you are ouilding. I admire it aud L teli you im Confidence that i 1 was not an Episcopalian I would te a Unita. rian.” Not observiny the merry twinkle in the eye of his neighbor Dr. Farley suspected nothing and Was very much pleased. He said:— “Dr. Johnson, your adM@iration and liberality de- Ugnt me. 1 wise your denomination were all as iiveral as you; but, alas: we Unitar are regarded as littie better than reprovbates by many Episcopal people. It rejoices me to hear you say that if you had not been an Eptscopatian you would have beeu a Unitarian. It rejoices me, air.” “Lam giad of tt,” rejommed Dominte Jonason, ‘1 am glad oft, In saying 1 would have been @ Unitarian tf L had not vecome an Episcopalian, Lonly obeyed the injunction of my lather. He used to say to me, ‘Ke something of nothing, my son; be something or nothing,’ and [ became something; otherwise I Would have been—a Unitarian.” fae old Dominie bau worked up to this “point so neatly that Di Farley enjoyed it, in spite of the fact that it was at his own expense, Lv. ‘AINE, Not many cuaracteristic things of Dr. McIivaine, alterward the distinguished Pact of Obio, have escaped publication. His lite was lived largely be- fore the world’s eye. He was a decided social as Well as ecclesiastical force. No man better uader- stood or practised legitimate tact. He was rector of old St. Aun’s for @ while, and his congregation numbered many representatives of both extremes of circumstances. It aged to be said the poor were never avie to impress Dim with the fact that they were poor. He bad che greatest knacx for not seeing disagreeable things. Colonel sellers’ mem- orable Nospitality With turnips and water would ot nave disconcerted him, “He would have even anticipated taat worthy With \he most hygiente encomiums of @ simple diet, and would have “tossed in’? more turnips tuan his host and host- ess pu: together. The social influence he ieft on Brooklyn survives a8 & sWeet and gracious mem- ory to this day. No city in the land contained more mourners than Brooklyn containea when this cultivated cosmopolitan and wise prelate ex-, changed worlds 6 triumphantly. PREACHERS OF THE PRESENT, The path we are pursuing almost tnsensibly changes when it leads away from the former to the present distinguished preachers of Brookiyn. Where the lines o1 the men ef yesterday join the lines of the men of to-day the junction 1s alm &3 imperceptible a8 the transition from the dim | Consciousness of a dream to the gentle oblivion of Unpunctuated sieep, Not atew of the coutempo- rary clergymen strike roota into the past. Nota few of them were coileagues of the men who kB: deen for a time looked at on the niches in they stand in the olden life of the city. REV. DR, STORRS. Rev. Richard Saiter Storrs, D. D., LL. D., for in- stance, pastor of the Chureh of the Pilgrims, and the senior Congregational clergyman bos Ip yogis and distinction of service in the city, is on '§ fourta decade of labor in Brooklyn, snd has ween the place emerge to dimen: fm their extent. He could truly say "of the Progress vl the city, “‘all of it I nave seen,” and could as truly say, “Much of is you have been.’ Dr. Storrs is the recognized chief spokesman for evangelical Obristianity in the United States on ali occasions when it t# thought essential tor elo- quence and culture to concur tn higu degree and with exquisite art. His sermons are all of them ex tempore now, yet he was under bondage to Manuscripts ior a quarter of a century. He broke away from them when repairs to his church drove ‘him to the Academy of Music. Having once taged the delights 01 unhampered oratory he revelled in them and has never abandoned them. Beiore, he bad always oad the most cultivated audiences. Since, be has had multitudes flock constantly to hear him. Very sell-depreciative, Dr. Storrs al- most morvidly Tegrets “the years he lost” veiore oe iscarded “notes.’? le does injustice thé ptocesses of accumulation and filling up he was then undergoing. He was etting unegualledly ready jor the grand work ¢ is now doing. Dr, Storrs’ present methods of sermonizing are very similar to & great iaw- bhp '8 preparation of a great brief, barring the fact hat he does not confine himself to the elucidation of one side only, and with the difference that ne carries the points in his head instead of putung them on paper. He “gets up’ the subject thor- ougnly by careful thinking. The greater part of hia labor consists in rejecting arguments and illus- trations rather than in adopting them, s0 rich is his mind in suggestiveness and so,ripe in reason- ing powers. This aMuence Of iancy and demon- stration at times gets the better of bim. He gets credit for more preparation than he ts entitied to, from a small towa Admittedly one of bis greatest-speechas was that last spring before the Brooklyn reqa tional Council. part of the history of th speech is known to put a very few. its main plan was changed on the spot, and tully @ third of ite won- deriul illustrations were improvisea, Owing to the ‘unexpected and sudden _ pre- sentation of “protest” of Piemaas church bdetween twelve and one P.M Early in the aiternoon Dr. Storrs began speaking, and did not end tili about five o’clock. Every part Of bis speech was of equal force and finish; yet a great deai of it was in direct reply to the protest prepared for Plymouth church by Mr. Thomas G, Shearman, the celebrated raiiway lawyer. The speecn Dr. Storrs had prepared was entirely dil- ferent to the one’ he delivered in great respects, yet’ he mingled the prepared and spontaneous parts so deitiy togetner while “thinking on nis legs” that they sounded and read as a single pro- duction, The art thus exhibited was regarded as one of the greatest achievements recordea in instances of orato y. The speaker had veen taking &@ Continuous part in the discussions of the Council and bad had vo time to change his “system” till he rose to speak. .It sould not be thought, how- ever, that Dr. Storra depends in any dezree opon what 18 vaguely cailed “inspiration.” Thought, not feeling, is What he draws from and appeals to. The only outward velps on which he relies are’ the manifestations o1 interest in the audience, Their attention aud approbation greatly strengtoen him, It is the fecling of a conversationaiist, not of an orator, to which he coniesses in the lew reier- ences he consents to make to his moods and modes, He 1s periectly capable of carrying on a doubie rocess while Speaking. He can develop the subd- ject and at the Same time he can observe the eflect Of it Ou certain listeners, and vary the eifects a he goes aiong, jor the entertainment he derives from @ study oO! the manifestations of mind in action. While delivering the speech reverred to he stood on a slightly raised platiorm between the snail tanles of two stenographers. He inseusibly found himself observing how regular and unvoim was the pace of one and how nervous and raid was the pace of the otner. Jt became an “object? with nun to try while speaking to hurry up the piacid phonographer and to reassure the panicky one. Accurding.y, be “rushed”? his long words and “slowed” nis short ones, These alternate processes produced exactly the effects he sougut, and ali the tine cots diversion which the Doctor was Organizing on his own account became an im- petus to the general subject as it worked out (rom his mind. REY. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Of Mr. Beecher propriety wouid dictate writing little im the present supreme crisis of his life. That suggestion, both Of humanity and good taste, 18 rendered easy by the fact tuat much writing heretoiore has left little vo be said of nim which would be both new and true, The public may not generally know his modes of Preparing his sermons, and a statement of those modes, in the case of a man go celebrated, ts not unlikely to be us interesting asa peep behind those “scenes,” im which, whether in mistrionism or journaism, mankind do se love toindulge. Mr. Beecher would seem to disregard the Pauline statement about the van that “this thing was not done tn a cor- ner.” He at least prepares ail his sermons ina corner oi time—that is, the morning sermon on Sunday morning vefore and after broakiast, and the evening sermen.on Sunday afternoons. Is he, then, tndoient that he so crowds himself? No,there ignot a azy boue in his body. During all the week he “filis up” by reading and by talk. He is a@ Voracious devourer of newspapers and mag- azines,and av insatiable extractor of thought aud imbiber of impressions trom others. A student of the present and of “ile,” he babitually bends texts to aconfirmation to bis views of men and things and externai phenomena. Six days’ ming- ling with the world 1s taus preparatory sermonical Work With him, and wheu he sits down to write 1t is but drawing from a fuil cistern within him. He dashes oif tie outline of a sermon in this way im two hours, and ne has often preached away from his noses as in lime with them. This happens loss than irused tu bappen. He is more likely to read closely for twenty-tive or even thir y-five minutes tnan he is to beak out extemporaneously in that -time. Toward the middie of each sermon, however, he warms up and piles Pelion on Ossa Sing Seen Tue great preacaer, watle m cuurt, nas found, he says, a new capacity \o Work amid noise, or, rather, an old capacity has renewed itselfin nim. In mot unhappter, if les3 celeorated, Indiana days, Mr. Beecier lived in two rooms, of which one was tne study and the other the lamily room, A thin par- tition did taose bounds divide, On one side would be tue preacher, working Out a discourse; on the otner would be his devoted wile, Martha like, ‘looking well to the ways of-her housenold.'? Whete there are cliiidren there ought to be noise. There were both at the Beecher *mansion.” It was @ Condition to the preacuer’s mental comfort and literary tacility either that there be no noise or regular, Uniiorm noise. Kither suited. “so now,’ says Mr. Beecher, ‘if the Court will oni: keep up iisclatter, my mind wili work. But if there is a succession Of clatter and silence things don’t go rigut.’? REV. DR. BUDINGTON. Willtam Ives Budington, D. v., is certatnly en- titled to all tie messings which Wait on the peace- makers according to piomise. Of more than aver- age abilities as a writer and @ speaker, @ gentle- Man Oj the pi est culture and w profound schelar, his forte, never‘heiess, 18 advice-giviug and the settlement of quarrels. He is a boro arbitrator, with tne judiciui faculty strong in him. Persons and churches, ranging lor situation trom either Portlaud to the Rio G beng have made out tueir cases and unbesitatingly left him to pronounce judgment upon their ‘‘statenients.”’ His ability to discern and jelicity \o deciare the right are almost extraordinury. The confidence and leve of which such a confidence ts legically the production speak for themseives. Dr. Budington nas done some great. speaking in his time, aud the great- est has been that expressed out of him by unforeseen ewergencies. The sudden iliness of vr. Storrs once compelled Dr. Buding.ou to extempo- rige @ speech of “God speed” to a whole company of returned and redeoarting missionaries at the Brooklyu Academy, Hesitaut, excited, and deeply moved at the speciacie of those deserting Civiliza- tion again to plunge for the Master's dear sake into the obscurity .nd abnegations of varbvarism, Dr. Budington detivered one 01 the loftiest ad- dresses that bas ever jailen from human lips in modern times. [t brought thousands of hearers in tears to their feet, amd was one of the most memorable occasions on record. REY. DR. SCUDDER. Henry Martyn scudder, lawyer, doctor and min- ister, 18 rounding of in Lrooklyn the labors of & life which started in Ceylon and came to its meridian in India and Oalijornia. In the Urient tt behooved him to be a doctor of bodies as well as souls, and he seems to have acquired his legal learning “between times.” His medical kuowledge and bis carefu: readivg has kept him abreast with science to a degree remarkable jor a minister. He appropriates science and does not reject or ex- aggerate tt any more than he would any other portion of truth. Missionarying has made pim very colloquia: tn hia preaching, Very dtiect in his tions, The ability to think in many lan- a would appear to quicken the vocapui nataral to one to talk, the one Lato which one wi reared, Dr, Scndver is thoroughly grounded tn the ‘‘ancient languages” and in the pervaps more ancient languages o; the India of to-day. His mas- tery of English 1s that of the scholar and the ora- tor, and his publitc use of it {8 very, very rapid, His illustrations and his habit of throwing truth into the form of narratives are unique and pictu- resque. He is altogether an original man, and he 18 doing & great: legitimate work, wita tne ald of no meretricivus efiecis, REV. DR. CUYLER. Theodore Ledyard Cuyier, D, D., temperance agi‘aror, hebdomadal essayist, indefatigadic. pas- tor, practical preacher, notable platform orator and Ireguent traveller, has ao written his lie on the pages of the press aud the moral events of the time ag vo leave littie in addition to be said about him, The people and the good causea he jas served love him. Tue shams and evils be has lashed and probed hate nim. He is wearing out, but mot rusting out. His bodily senses are closing to outward phenomena. Sounds reach tis ear with difficulty, Ine world recedes trom his cloud- Ing vision. But “tne powers oi the worid to come” movea never so strongiy in him. His abilities as Conversationalist are almost unequaied. very scene he has beheld at home or abroad burns itsel! into his memory and is photographed jile aye in big Words, The djstiagdished men ol | and population metropoiitan » | feat totes ste ay, ave atses rect an. ve i } to btm te vest thoughts. These he has worked ) OUL ID 4 ile as beneficent a# it has been Ouey. Dr. , Cuyier is essenciany journanauc. His mind per- ceives njecla ata giance. the | eoility to decided.y an: we | lays words vu tn exactly the rigmt places. Often | & controversialist, be hae ‘he peWer of piact his adversary at & great disauven age mmpy i * mivor devect in & manner to weasure been the product of parder iadur. Bad deslth, « wrecked aha reduced irame, @ Jelermination 204 fo sink the preacher tn the pastor, or the pastor fn the prescber, thereby ep ailing douole work ow } Bimaak, Reve wee , ae de cig, meat unuorm ane legitimate, He vwee ao: Cc | shat disproportion of acuity called gcmias of to hat | hadit of (aise view and grovesque manner calied Sensa'ionalism. He has commanaed popwari'y, but he nas never meretriciously jured i, There. are 00 Unsusiained preiences (a mis modes aud work. His capacity lor jabor and to stumulate lsoor i@ extraordinary, There «re no wee to a hive, He devotes himeeli entirely © ms own odicais are given to lis own people ret. cessive individual ty has wrougDt lots of « his manuer, and even in bs Bature, bu core he [s Kind aud true and brave. ie has made a definite and deep mark oo we uistury of Cure tlamity in this land, . REY. DR. TALMAGR. Thomas De Witt Talmage, |), D.—thongh why D. D, would puzzle “ail creation”—is oue of the Ao +m to uave solved the problem 0! & a white heat and o/ reconciling < gress with con with a dance with wnceasing Murry, He vegau Mewbership of nineteen and an atie of suout 300; he now s ship of more than 1,000 aad te: five. times that number. Force, orig masity, courage and energy are tae things Which expia this. Hi» polioy—tf bi eaid to have been compounded and radicalism. In theology he vative. preacues the literai r yin and Edwards. In the choice 0: tn he should carry wis appea! was extreme! al. He deliberately souzht lof those wi ally went to no churches, He thus struc nd fished im no other d his BOOK for b ue pooamee 'y device of iustration, appeal made old truti In the incidents of pubiic service, h 4 veloped noveity to even loonoclastic extent. | His church edifice ts finis! uke @ cathedral in Walls, roof and windows, and like an opera house ip the pitch of the pews and in the acouat He abolished the pulptt and suvstituted a for it. He aboilshed choirs and provided pre- centor. Him he too dispensed wita and retained @ cornet soioist. an organ mam: It had more 1 & chime of same started a lay colege ana a newsp: “go”? JnLo everything. ture Of @ poet, an actor and an orator, He de scribes grandly; he appeals impassionediy; he ius*rates by a system remote irom all critical limitations, His very deiects leip lum. he knowg a8 littie of puliticul and scientific economics as che law allows; ue will, beverihc.ess, “tuckie’? them with @ Vigor that caries couviction in everybody wuo feeis relieved wuen somedouy else gets up a vig fignt with alleged ueresies on nis own account. What otner men tall tu reach by logic he will attain under tie impetus o1 ardent leeling. He knows now to heat the masses by setting Limseli on ore, His sincerity and ear- nestuess and sympathy are large aud cou roiling, and his saving Cowmon sense and eminently dewmo- cratic Ways keep nim irom running on rocks and irom yetting spoiled, A rare and always Kind and pure Qumor, thougn it is often undignified, makes hima vrotner to ghe masses and -easous bis whole lie with @ relish ior oimseli and his people. Jeaiousy, rivairy, Covetousness aud any form of opposition he neither teeis nor excices. xe dves excite great and hot criticism and a de- bate about what he does anu the way he does tt. ‘Tuere 1s little Likelihood o/ this ever ceasing or of him ever gathering the beneflt Whioh can be se cured from even malevolent comments. He is not the Kind of Man to change his styie While it pro- duces opposition, aud as bis toeuries of popular enects are evolved irom his Own notions, ana not from those principles of art which are tue canous of taste, he wili probavly hoid on to them wiik an ardor exactly adjusted to ihe dispute which tuey provoke. The work le dves is vasi. His care of bis body, that tt may be capabie ot! it, is conscien- tious and systematic. He walks, runs and exer- cises lu an improvised gymnasium of his own regu. larly. He ‘‘ailots sleep’ to Mimsel! in unvarying amount. Eight out of the twenty-four hours must be devoted to that. Ji itis but six on one night it must be ten the uext, s0 48 to .verage up tO the euht. He likewise “ieeds” with tne same regard to strength and health. He ts, in short, always in training. in one respect oro her it can also ve aid that he is always ina fight, though his an- soulst is always “the world,” and not his breturen. He puts He 18 intellectually a mix- REV, DR. DUR¥RA. Joseph T. Duryea, jor characterization, may be Called toe thevlogical preacher of brovklyn. His Methods are aumost ex¢iusively metapoysical. He reasuns, analyzes, expounds, His appeals are always to ihe moral throug? the mentai nature. ‘This rOle is seil-assumed; natarally nis tacuities rua out toward figures, description, teeing and hortatory appeal. At the start he was “a dowery preacuer” par excellence, He worked away iroiu Kev. Cream Cueese toward i’aul, aad though not audicted to iogic, he made over all his methods into it till it became wis second nature. Inat second nature has made him one of the nrst men j 19 the American pa'pit, He Das filled aimseif wid ; study, ad im Lig sermons he pours bimseif out. A fine inguist, an accomplisued master of tue Vioiiw, the plano, the harp and the organ, a very forcibie speaker, capavle Ol great eifrcts, ne bas deuveraiely preierred gush to growth io bis own case, aid culluce to mere excitation in the case of his audience. Hts cong:egativam ts @ scacoi of Bard studeuts, Their pascior, who is their teacher, is the hardest studen: of all. br. Duryea always preaches extempore, but his sentences ure as terse as those of & proposition in Euclid. He works his sermons down irom the complex to tue simple, as He1bert Spencer commends, and tueo he builds up the meauing sou the iesson most thorougaiy. in tais double Work Of analysis aod ayntaesis he almost Cuniers @ liverai educativn on those who hear niu. RKV. MR, HAYNES. Rev. Emory J. tiaynes, in present charge of the Hanson piace Methodist church, is a rising preacner iu his denomination. He 18 an orator raiher than @ thimaer; but ois cuiture 18 con-it- eravie and iucreasing, and bis knowledge oi ba- mo Dature; threugh sympathy and ovservativn, remarkaole. His sermuns are exnortations, pic- tures aud appeals, ratuer than jogicai produc. tiens; but his methods, tnough peculiar, are never garish, and bis devotion tu hid work seems earnest, uoselfisa and hearty. In tie special qualities Wuerewith (0 move masses he is 1ich.y endowed, and thougw very young, bis sense, Wwod- esty amu entire docility have taughs him many lessous which less sentient men lave to get expe- rience to hummer into them, Mr. Hiymes has as bright @ future deiore bum as any puipiceer of his deuomination in ei\uer vemisphere. REV. WESLEY B. DAVIS. His colleague, Rev. Wesley Xt. Davis, of the Simp- gon churcd. is & comiribation of Baitimore 10 Brookiyn, He is Mr Haynes’ equal in aitractive- ness, bUt he is quite different in the conszituvion o. his miad, Mr. Davis is Morid, @sihetic, nice’? and very dramatic wituin the prescriptions of culture in all his effects. Scaolarty “always, he is } sometimes Original and striking, and bever unsat- tsiactory, His elocutiouary po Wer®are wouderiul. His voice would make tus fortune as a reader, and he avails himsei! of all the eupaonic opportunines sented by tae severely sim)le Meinodist Aet- vice, His pulpit preseace is imposing and grace- fal, and tis sermous, delivered without notes, bear evidence o! a siudy #nd polish alter the sest moueis. His oratory is Marked by the ease of the Southern school, yet it is devoid of violence or abrapt anuthests. Mr. Davis has made a fi pression on people oi correct taste. An ex artis bisdefecs. [tis a defect which time and the knock-about life of the ittuersnt cure or trans. mute into the strength of simplicity, REV. J. M. BUCKLEY, Lawyer, doctor, preacher, Rev. James M. Buckey has the most logical mind und unauected mauner Of any Brooklya Methodisi, He is mu of plainness 2d ;eadiness of speech and clearuess ol view. His style is almost colloqutal, Me studies men and the books of men. He reads newspapers, not voraciously, vut discriminating!y. A compicte sell-command is jortifed by a memory that 1s said to be a8 ‘prodigious’ as that of the pedantic and ponderous Dominie Sampson. Mr. Buckley is, in a thoroughly professional sense, expert in law, physic and divinity, His sermons are up to tae tumes. He never betrays that arrogant and exas- perating ignorance of Contemporary caillngs, by means of whichso many clergymen render them- seives contemptible to laymen of culture. The new culture and the educated power distinguish. ing modern Methodism are strong characteristics of Mr. Buckley. He ts a good jecturer, a jaciie de- vater and a ciose reasoner. Exact, Without dry- heas; methodical, without formality; animated, without rant; plain, without commonpiaceness, tuls gentleman, both a8 4 theologisn and a@ popu- lar preacher, exceis in a denomination im whica it is becoming More diMoult every year to excel. consciousness of his own abilities. mars Mr. Buck- ley’s public Dearing at times. Both aod Mr, Duryea, who resembles him, are sometimes too apt to draw upon their own methods and pre- scribe them to others in public address. It savors of egotism and of @ survéy that goes no further than oneseli. REV, DR. HALL. Rey. Oharies H, il, rector of Holy Trinity, came irom tne Oturen of the Epiphany, Washing. ton, a8 the successor of Bishop Littiejohn, im Brookiyn, He is a middle-aged, trim and poitshed preacher, He writes siowly and trenchantiy, ana Dota in the pulpit and oat is What is called a com- mon-sensiMe, practical man. His individuality and force of character are considerable. In a sease he resents the conservative limitauons of nis denomination, and by some High Churchmen he has even been culled Mevnedistical, whavever that means, He is addicted to reproving ois com giegation for uppuuctuality, tnhospivality to Strangers and ultra-adiesion Lo lashion Wee he thinks he discerns those errors in them, It has deen said that he advises young rectors, starting out, “to acoid at the people, because every hearer Mitta the rebuke over on lis neigabor and chuckies at what @ creasing down he is getting. Scold, but be impergogal in your scalding,’ Conse. 4 he steady contributions be makes to pert | es im ‘at the | newest accessions to Brooklyn chureves thourh | he 9 DOW laboring On bis seventa year. He has | been ® wonder worker in that ime, und he seems | achares at | tinuous novelty and excitement and growth | * tone, ‘De. Hat Qna tae Mont “adependene™ rectorin brooklyn He. De os OG “rusoing” Dis charch, chuir and all REY, ChARLES W. HOMER. Dufereat wo him w Rev. Charies W. Homer, ree- tor of St. James’. Who we Bil geutiouess, tact eGerty, Ht churce ie sew. Mf w fied with middie Class peowie, of all classes the jest to f~~ with and the most exacting. jut tor } J duscreven hey Would harrow Dr. Homer to ter, What W 8 Datural vone, for prectice Dr. sebenca fas adapted it VO 407 tone 6 oratories ase. His (riends boast of Sm as “Loe Man Who can throw five tones into the bened.¢Uou,” aD does alternate gatiural, OFvl vad, baritone, pectoral aod tenor ta the bene S:c08 Most eMeotuahy. The art of bie voealism tres tae bearer Who pays ati but f Laat Learer proceeds to ox: ea wit & popaar speaker, ad very energetic torw: polity of bie churet and th representing i in tne LVENyeliCal Aisagoe, of Waied he ts & leading OM- chal. 1p hae tbe: Dr. Sebenck us may be deaouinatea Cturcenan, lu contradi Macon either to Low or High. ‘BY. 4. MYATT smrTe. Rev. Jeremian Hyatt smith is better own tian any other Bapust preacker on Long and. His afticiose commuaioa fight within the Dounds of Bis own depomsation sad the as saults be received on his ouckier have wide ertised bm. Hots a funny man, 4 very /uDn jokes, puns, parodies, quips, jests out of him ifke water out of the a subsiratam is not set to dignity t get due credit ior it. Hels a short, plamp, Cusiiinug tue man, with intensely black eyes, and snort, combatiy ing 10 ugiy spl for acannon bal. W jacks tn culture he makes up in orgnality, Wit ana “ooance,” KV. KECKEN JEFFREY, D. D. As Unlike Mr. Smith as possibie is Rev. heuben Jetrey, ». a church, He isa Schularsnip and a cul orator, His iiustrations an their serm compac rare avility vo Sauely toe lew and draw the many to He is & Man OF power in the Baptist Paiptt, and he ts also celevrated a8 @ “churen bulider, either estabfsaing new Churches oF Uiliug mori- bund oues into lle, JUSTIN D. FULTON, D. D., of the Hanson piace Baytist couron, has made a good deai Oi Dose in ne papers, and Ui not a quar- Telsome man has adm ravly succeeded in being the vecasion of quarreiliag im others. His rtlte with Mr. Toeodose Pion, Kev. G. #. Pentecost, Rey. Dr. Patton and Mesers, Suuta aud Jeseryare well known. His specialty has been heted his oretaren and faneying that he was the exclu- Sive second haud recipient of “the trath once de- livered to the santa’ He has reormed, how- ever, and no more .ries to shepuerd ail the other shepherds, it was & good business to abandon, no matter whetber be Was forced out oO: it or gave 1b up voluntarily, Crude, loud, hall-educated, dog- matic, he is Nevertheiess bright, ready, energetic, And with ot @ little natu-ai force of character. He can fairly hola iis own in any Geld in which he does not unfairly try t Doss bik Orethren. If be dove uot procure # Cali to some other city ne is resulved to begin w new career of work 10 BrooR- lyn, Marked by @ Ces#ation ol his interierence policy, Which hag veen & paipabie ‘auur REY. DR. PUENAM, R Alfred Putnam, D. D., Dr. Pariey’s euc- ces , 18 a slow, scuolarly, Cultivated and rateer heavy preacber. He is & man scretion, dig- nity and critical talent, La theo.ogy he is Moder. ate, awe and tolerant, He makes neither mis nor sensations, Soctaily, he muca teemed and respected, He pastors a rich flock and wisely conserves the results of bis prede- cessor. His place in'the Unitarian (rain is that of the brake and the cuapiing ta one. Asa rule, be neither exceeds nor disappoints expeciation. RBY. JOUN CHADWICK. Younger blood is needed in Brooklyn Unftariah- ism, and Rev. Jona Chadwick pours it in. is & poet, dreamer, & novel Writer, aD esRayial aod acritic, He ts the F ocningham of Brooklyn, ring the deuvery, Which makes toe New York man pleasing. Than Mr. Chadwick's deuvery noth: could ve more exasperating. He drawis, an almost cries, not wiih tears, bat with tae ory! aud his voice is thin, jeeble and strained. iscourses, however, wre literary models. He writes with the vigor of originality and the finish of an essayist. His discourses tead more toward developing eXisting Unitarianism than increasing that sect, Jor be works in @ Way rather to repel outsiders than to win them, He is intolerant of ortnudoxy, and he protrudes rationalism offens- ively to those not steeped in it. Revereuce { tradi jous he has none. Allowance for disere: of views and education he shows little of, ssion, / pracdal ue w caste Ful “3 is attempting the poiygiot Iconoclasm of Moncure D, Couway, but he- lacks his art and Uis meilowness, ‘Tume will, however, temper down Mr, Chadwick, He wil The area of trath will enlarge to his e. ot mind gain the catholicity and culldlixenes: which so broaden and strengthen @ man. REV, DR. NYE, of the Clermont avenue Universalist charch, taken up Valiantly the cuagels of his fait bas beaten its tenets ito the heads 0: Dot a jew. He bas (alien tuto line wita the polemical and crisadiog spirit which has possessed his deno ination of lute in this vicinity. His sermons are pluusiole, positive and eluquent, and betray care- tul study. His delivery of them is animared and appropriate. He isa young wan of brigit prom. ise. If sume more decided Universalist centre than Brooklyn does not snap hid up, as has hap- pened tvo ofien in other cases, Dr. Nye wii Make 8 mark on the churca Iie o1 Sae city. DRS. PORTER AND CARROLL. Brooklyn was settled and named oy the Dutch. More aggressive aud Pigueameet nationalities soon overiaid tollandic influences, The Reformed ciurches at tois day are few. Rev. Eivert 5. Por- ter and Rev. Joseph Halstead Carroll are the two more Rotable Brooklyn ministers of that denom- inativn, Dr. Porter bas just celebrated sne twenty-fifth anaiversary of his pastorace of te Healord avenue church. Furtoer @ast on thatave- nue Rev. Dr. Carroil is building up a new church, ‘The one very well fita into the past, the otuer Into the present. Dr. Porter 18 conservative, stub- born, old fashioned and stardy, He 18 po incun- siderable part of Willlamsourg. Me has euwrapped bimsell be and impressed himsell on her im stitutions, If her iocal peper does not one he will iend a hand or give i+ a box on ear. He is @ ripe schoiar and a good reviewer, He is pastor of his ckurch in a very real sense, and he Goes not scrupie to et his vretaren of oper faiths know when they are biandering, In the neart of acity be fills out excelientiy the oid time rural feature of local lie Which made the minister the “vest man’? im the commanity., Dr. Carroll is mild, shrewd, pleasant, gentle and tactical He would be a@ good politician, @ reassuring family doctor, the ladies’ deligut oa (he a safe ofice counsel at the bar or & scholarly, tender critic On the press. He isa prodigious worker to boot, He has organized bis church from the vot. tom up, attracted considerable numbers d set Working in them influences which wiil is: in homogentty. It has been new and aphili work to him. ‘The bistakes of his lie bad been ta taking hold of churones afflicted bandicapped with cranky patrons, Tuis time he wrought on & dem- ocratic and independent line, His iavor now basin Lt no elements to hamper normal development. He isa dramatic and tasteful preacher, thorougaly ainted With the vest sermonical standards. trained himselt — He out of redunaancy into com- pactness of expression, and he has sued of many ef the rather tawdry effects almost lnsepara trom a tropical imagination, to which too much rein was given in tue shaping years of his career. REMARKS. The foregoing inciuues an attempt to reproduce Brooklya churen ite Of the past and to ludicate It in the present. Many clergymen have escaped mention; but, with no wish CO be invidious, It 1s veileved that the principal ministers of tie do- nominations treated of have been brought before the camera. AD unaffected desire to de Accurate bas governed the writer. Lf that tas been real- ized the result may be accepted as @ true portrait of the church lie of a city mulaly, if Bot exclu sively, characteristic as to its churches, Li kk be added that “scandai’’ is the present predominans distinction of Brooklyn, that assertion only en- forces the former observation, Lecaase the “scan- aal” which gives point to the criticism ts Goth- ing if mot cuurchly im all ite rise, bear. ings personages—a ‘“heatoen’ excepied, poke en” ve pot the peculiar gawe of churches, Though the moraf and relig.ous in- terests ate the most important it ts evident that they do not conflict with and cannot ve substitutes for ovher essential elements to city character bullding, Some of those elements Brooktyn lacks, It is apart from the question to say wheiher ex- cossive churchism has interfered with their de- and ‘heath owers of this world need rookiyn. veam to have. however, aD amDiC advocacy. reiniorcement in The powers of the world to come woud 15 THE LENTEN SEASOY. Anticipations of the Coming Penance. History of the Penitential Season, in Early Times. ARCHBISHOP M'CLOSKEY'S CIRCULAR Wednesday next will be Asn Wednesday and the Girst day of the penitentia! season o! theyear. For | sx weeks the whole Christian world will put om more or less of sackcloth and ashes, and then the glorious festival of Easter brings the world in again vo every unrestrained enjoyment consistent with the teachings of the pastors. But THE COMING SEASON of penance does not arrive without penaltics end pangs to mankind in general. There are many troubled minds on account of its coming, and thousands of the “fairest of the fair’? ti they do not exactly ewear at it “out loud,” entertain decided opisions and unexpressed thoughts tending in that direction. The Jews of old ased to usher im the fast with sound of trumpets, just the same as they would a festival; bat it woud be @ very diMcult thing nowadays to get either Jew or Gentile to emit other sounds shag groans at the approach of Lenten regulations in New York city. Else- where they may do otherwise, for reasons best Known to them, and which do not at ali suit, as may be easily imagined, at least so far as the SBRIOUS ANTICIPATIONS of moderate fare go, the mental and rastronomi¢ longings of citizens hereabouts. In Rome they have thetr carnival, likewise in Venice, both of which are world-celobrated for their abandon and reckless jocularity and for more serious charac- tertstics, New Orleans, too, gives ttself up to the hysterie evolutions and wild spirits of she carni- val, and Paris turns out in all the gay epiendor of is Mardi-Gras, and dresses itself for the occasion im an extra Parisian cos tame, But with @ thermometer below sero it t# not so comfortable a thing to oe giving & farewell to roast beet and boiled mutton and other solid comforts of life. Hence, nt BO carnival in this great city; better jor 3, need, have amore generous dealing on the art o DATE COME FIRM BUT BENION ANT ARCHBISHOP, the year when he does any- forth before Lent begins , the ig pie would say, that to most people tuis visitant isa very unwel- come guest. Even by otherwise well-aisposed Cons’ ia received as @ necessary bore, and ther out of respect ior the ordi- ch than oust of the individual for it, To the unmortified and seli~ gent citizens ita approach brings a chill- sort Of inexpresasibie dread of some impenaing calamity whicn it ts impossible to arrest. |ENVINE CHURCH-GORRS Jook apon tt, however, as a peculiar and choice grace of God sent for their special perfection and sanctidcation, and if vote were taken these good __ jar ahead in being permitsed monopely of the heavenly gift. Perhaps aiter all, jor oar ancestors to the tions, back to the centuries before ve ne vhe pen of Lent must restore people 0 soder feelings about's custom which bas so pre- vaiied from the time of the Fishe: man. ANCIENT OBSERVANCE Lent ts of very ancient observance. {t is mene tioned tn the earliest counctis of the Charch ‘and writven about bj writers of even the first cen- tury. Is was rsaily established tn the fourth century. im the second century, when &! pute arose about the time for celebrating Fi r, the ante-paschai it was an acknowledged tack . both by Eastern and Western charcnes, Discus sion was had by the earliest writers as to whether ‘the fast at first was for the fail Le A days or only tor the week before Kaster, caded the ante-pasc.al ing infuences of ‘lance at toe history fast; out ls Would seem from the autoor thas some fast of forty days in honor of fast the ante-Pascl it was of the hal fas %, aud (hat this was the diference among the writers. The disputa- tion Which arose avout the time of THE BaSTBR CRLESRATION in the middle of the second century, when some disciples of the aposties er pos! by the Onuorch, and at this time tt was main! the Fort, that y Days’ Fass should be the uni- versal custom. Learned sutuorities tn early centuries had many discussions on these ints, which were then jeading questions. in the t, (rom the earliest centuries up to the present time, @ strict fast has been always observed, not- withstanding the fact that the orthodox religion has been separated (rum Rome since the Sith cen- tury. In the fourth century one tenet o: the Ariaa Deresy was that e one might fast when he tuoughs wpe, tb wing that the cusiom was theo gener: Among the Jews, in the earliest the synagogue commanded extraordinary and fasts to appease the Almighty. The ancient Jews observed aunual fasts, the which was that Of ¢xpiation jor thetr sins, om the 10th day of the seventh month. There were other fasts in the fourth, fiitn and tenth months, THR KABLY CHRISTIANS fasted every Wednesday and Friday. These facts ‘e submitted by the religious writers as snow: the ancient origin of fasting an, argam trot which they deduce that the Christian hash apa fas = =6stil §=6tfe =6pow order & certain — penitential as Lent, and Lay gays of fast! for special purposes. agreed upon vy Cathouces and heretics that tne Christal ould fast ano on the days of the fasts of the THE MONKS. Drinking as aret, as Weil as cating, was stri } bus @ collation of wine was the bing of jenteacy at the General Chapter of Bene- dictine Abbuts, 10 617, ich was ordered by Emperor Louw § Devonnaire. It was 6 “ll necessity shail require it, on account ard iabor, —— ‘ompline 0 ge e even in Lent, re COM) r oMoe of the dead is celebratd, they are aliuwed to take the same teenta century wae bread allowed wits the wine, by rees tue coldation was permitted to take somewhat larger di 4, Dut the tood was necessarily of the quality. At tee Present time ip Ua THR MBAL AND COLLATION are allowed, and the collation dves aot differ at all from the coarse (are of centames ago. The rule also apples bo Cathouce 18 Protestant countries. Bisnops, however, & the privilege, whem se- rious reasons demand it, Of mite of the collavon and of determ Gays WED abstinence is required, some o| the biscOps deal more their subjects than otvers do, met Many dioceses ubstineaoe irom fesh meat required op Saturdays. in this archdiocese The folowing i the crrenlar inseed OF the Arcnbishop of New York saw Lenten arrange men's :— REGULATIONS POR LENT. L_ Ail the week days of Lent trom Ash Wednesday Fuster Sunday. are fast days of ‘08 one me: with the allowance of & am “Frye precept of taging implies also that of abet ne@eo from (Re use of fiseh meal, Kut, by dispenen o1 Besh ment is allowed is daeoone at © i od tnaredays ion monary ba | exception of Hoy wOether fast aor abstiacnce bo be ooserved on sai of Leak. & itis Got allowed to ase fish with moat at the same ~mecal ia Lent 5+. here ts he pronsbition te ase bateror provides the rules of qeaaaty proaribes by ine tan : i i : ? ifs compued with, 6 Lard may be ased to ules, ae. 7. the Obureh ox: ou the ¢ onmg Dut Dot of Abstinedoe from Meal thor i Cases oF sickness oF The UIKS) Me foLlowine © ver- sous —Pirst, the infirm ; thone whose dutar ere ol exhausting or who are actaining Ubel uy or narming: old age. | The 9 churches seven o% **On ing e nenet=sf o 0 J ‘. *% Anthony's velapment or not. Be that asit may, it becomes | de bhe city to make np its lacking constituente in a full cutsare. a needs fo abler Bar. pus needs an * “oe opinion dictated by artis, not by pat 4 teeds pirit which wil assert tteeif in maakt La Lenteedeae Brooklyn more a limb of the Commonwealth it. Panis (Nin werely a swelling of a commonplace isiand. I remenst heeds a tone which will elevate its politics above _\,, jobOery, its sanitary politic’ above makesnifta, ana De in its club aud home taik above gabbie and small i. ne r beer. 118 obvious that & greats city can ve great or tao in churches oat yet infested with these | tanville), and st. evils and marked with these defects which we have On hata , in Se Suggested, Hither the ministers have mot done | Harlem ea vheir (ui duty, or secular m to tmprovemens ge , a have been letiag or nave been lost sight of. The a dot cr wwe Mom he s sas? * ool