The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1875, Page 15

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE Ministerial and Church Movements. a DECLINE OF *EPISCOPACY Universalism and Spiritual- ism to the Front. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. , IN All Satnts’s Protestant Episcopal church this tnorning and evening the Rev, W. H. Dunueil will oMctate and preach, Professor Taylor will this evening discuss the troth or falsehood of Spiritualism m Harvard Booms. The Rev. George 0. Phelps will minister in tho Allen street Presbyterian church to-day at the usaal houra, ‘ At the South Baptist charch the Rev. Dr. Osborn Wiil preach \his morning and evening. This evening the Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach in Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, In the Berean Baptist church the Rev. P. L. Davies will preach this morning and evening at the usual hours, The Rev. Dr. Adams and the Rev. David ‘Taylor wih Sccupy the pulpit of the Churey of the Strangers this morning and evening. In Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. W. H. Tuomas will preach this morning and evening. + “Christ's Greatest Sorrow” will be considered tuis morning by the Rev. R. S, Macartour in Calvary Baptist church, Thé Rey. H. W. Knapp ‘Will preach in the evening. 41n the Church ot the Disciples ef Christ the Rev. D.R. Van Buskirk will preach this morning and evening at the usual hours, : The Rev. E, Borel will conduct tne services for ‘the French Protestant Episcopal church this suorning in Calvary chapel. In Filth Avenue Baptist church the Rev. Dr. Armitage will preach this morning and evening 28 usual, Mr. KE. V. Nielson will lecture for the Progressive Spiritualists this morning and evening. “Present Movements for the Revival of Wor, ship” will be considered by Rev. W. W. Andrews shis evening in the Catholic Apostolic church, “The Harmony of Law and Grace” and “the Un- pardonabié Bip” will gccupy the attention of Rev J. S Kennard and the Pilgrim Baptist chorcn this morming and evening. p Tne Rey. 8. M. Hamilton will minister in the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon, Dr, R. 8, Moran will discuss the “Elements Which Ensure the Progress and Perpetuity of the Christian Religion” this morning and afternoon dn the Forty-second street Prespyterian church. In the New York Presbyterian church the Rev, ‘W. W. Page will preach this morning and even- ing at the usual hours, Dr. J. M. Reid, of this city, and Rev. L. W. Pilcher, @ misstonary from China, will preach on the subje: * of missions to-day tn the Seventeenth street Metiodist Episcopal church, The Rev. J.B, Hawthorne will discourse this morning in the Tabernacle Baptist chufcn on “(ross Bearing.’ Ip the evening Dr. Randolph, Of Philadelphia, will preacn. This morning in the Church of Our Saviour the Rev. J. M. Pullman will review Dr. Talmage’s ser- mon on Universalism against the Bible, delivered last Sabbath, Mr. Pullman will give a familiar tulk on “Business and Marriage” to young people in the evening. Mr, Clegg, of the Howard Mission, will address Sands street Methodist Eprscopal Sabbask school (Brooklyn) this afternoon ov the work of his mis- ‘sion. A company of his little wanderers will sing on the same occasion. In Zion Protestant fpiscopal church the Rev. John N. Gdlieber will preach this morning and aiternoon, “The Woman and tne Dragon,” the ninth sermon in the Apocalyptic series, will be given by the Rey. M.S. Terry this morning tn the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church. In Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church ‘the Rev. Mr. Plicher, from China, will preach this aporning, and Dr. Reuben Neison this evening. The Rev. C. S. Harrower will preach this morn- tug and evening in St, Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Bistop Cammins will preach this morning in tne Retormed Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Brooklyn (Cumberland street, near Lafayette ave- nue), Rev. Mr. Reid, rector. The third sermon tn the course in vindication of Chrisyan faith and expertence against the as- sumptions and deductions of modern science willbe delivered this evening in De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, by Rev. 8. H, Platt, pastor. ‘rhe Rev. J. V. Saunders will talk about‘The Baptism of Power” this morning in the Willett street Methodist Episcopal church. This evening, in the same place, Miss Almira Lozee will preacb. Divine services in English this morning in the Russian chapel, Rev. N. Bjerring, pastor. The Sediord street Methodist Kpiscopal church Praying Band will conduct the services to-day— morning, afternoon and evening—in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, Thirty- fourth street, near Eighth avenue. In the Third Universalist church the Rev. E. C. Sweetser will speak this morning about “Work- ing Out Our Uwn Salvation,” and this evening about “Tne Church and the World.” “Christantty is for All” is Mr. Hepworth’s theme ior'tnis evening and “The sSuccessiul Seeker” vbis morning in the Caurch of the Disciples. Divine service conducted at the usual hours to- day in the Church of the Resurrection by the Rev. Dr. Flagg. Bishop Littlejehu, of Long Island, will preach tn the Church of the Heavenly Rest, tn, chis city, this morning. : In the Charch of the Atonement tbe Rev. C. C. Tiffany will oMctate at the services this morning and afternoon, In St, Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal charch the Rev. Dr. Ewer will oMciate to-day at the asual hours, “Things Seen and Temporal as Related teThings Unecen and Eternal” will be considered this morn- ing inthe Church of the Messiah by Rev. W. R Alger. “How Mach Owest Tnous or, the Six Debts of Man,’ Is the theme for the evening’s medita- tion, In the Anthon Memorial Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach this morning and afternoon. “The Beautitui Women of the Bible” will be talked about this evening by Elder Latze. Divine services will be held this morning and evening in All Souls’ church, Brooklyn, Dr. Por- teus, pastor. The Rev. W. T, Sabine will preach this morning and Bishop Cummins this evening tn the First Re- formed Episcopal church. The Rev. William Kirkns, L, L. B., of Gragg, church, will preach on “Conscience” tnia event in the Wainwright Memorial church. The Rev, W, T. Egbert will preach in the morning. The Rey, H.R. Nye will this evening teply so Dr. Talmage’s attack on Universalism, last Sun- day, tn the Universalist church in Clermont ave- nue, Brooklyn. The Kev! Dr. Preston will this evening begin @ feries of Misgourses on the “Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin” in the St. Ann’s Roman Cathoile ehurca, ENDLESS PUNISHMENT DEFENDED. To gue Eptror oF THE HERaLD:— The Sunday HzRato of January 81 contained an article headed “Endiess Panisament Abandoned," in which the anthor informs your readers that Henry Ward Beocher has abandoned the doctrine NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Of endiess punishment, enlightened Christian feel- ing declaring that it could not be true, and defends Beecher'’s apostacy from the faith of hig fathers by quoting Scripture, We will not ask what Beecher’s enlightened Christian feeling is, We know that animals are guided by feelings, but enlightened Christians should be guided by reason enlightened by divine faith, no matter what be their feelings, 1 wish to address @ few remarks to your correspondent himself. Although he seems to display @ great deal of erudition in quoting not only Scripture, but Lasin, Greek and Hebrew, I must censider him a very poor 1o- gictan and astill poorer theologiaa. For, granting the correctness of all the philelogical researches which he quotes concerning the original meaning of the words “shcol,” “hades,” “gehenna,” “tar- tarus,”’ “infernus,” he does not prove that neither the Jews nor the early Christians ever used them to designate a place of eternal punishments; but from the fact that those words oan be taken in & differeys sense, also, he concludes (a posse ad ase) that they must be taken in that sense. The word “cornu” is often taken in Scripture for | strength, but originally it meant a horn. Hence if we read, “Anna prayed and said: My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn ts exaited in my God” (et exultorumest cornu meum tn Deo meo), according to your correspopaent’s logic we must believe that Anna bad horns, because cornu originally means a horn! Judith, in the Old Testament, knew well the religion o/ her fathers. She believed as firmiy in the truth of endiess punishments as any Christian, who never changed the faith nanded down to the saints, “For,” (Xvi, 20, 21) she exclaims in pres- ence of all her people, ‘woe ve to the nation that riseth up against my people, for the Lora Al- mighty will take revenge on them; in the day of Judgment he will visit tuem. For he will give fire and worms into tneir flesh, that they may burn ani may lee! for ever.” It was not the valley of Gee-Hinnom which bounded Jerusalem on the south where this fire and these worms, as the author alleges, were to be found, but after the day of judgment, not dead vodies and offal, but living flesh, capaovle of burning and feeling for ever, should endure the punishment which the Lord Almigoty 1s to infict upon the enemies of God's people, whom Judith had so gloriously conquered, The author’s interpretation of the words of Jesus Christ, “Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not extinguished,” must excite pity, if not laugh- ter. As the Gospel 13° written not for the Jews. Fanaa ek i ts RESO Roar alone, but for all natieas of the worid; tor (Rom. xv., 4) “What thimgs soever were written were written for our learning,” our Saviour would threaten ali nations of the earth that il they were to sim their bodies aiter their death should be cast into that Valley of Gee-Hinnom, near Jerusa- lem, where the fire hag been extinguished many hundred years ago! Neither 1 it che body alone that is to be cast into this gehenna ignis, but soul and body. “fear ye not them that kill the boay and are not al te. the soul, but rather fear Him that San destroy both soul and body into hel.'? (Matt. X., 28.) But how 1m toe world your correspondent can quote the cetebratea parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke xvi.) to deny eternal punishment fe @ thal 17°. Can comprehend. ‘And in hades 6 lifted up eyes, being in torments.” “Sothe only places,” says your correspondent, “where we can be called upon to admit the horrid defini- tion given by Dr. Staunton as the place of ‘final torment’ must be those derived from gehenna.’ Lf hades (hel) is nothing else but Gee-Hinnom, the valley of abomination near Jerusatem, we do not see why the bedy of Dives should have been cast there. We do nut read that he had committed any public crime that probibited giving mm a de- cent burial. He lived a lite of self indulgence and intemperance, a8 many rich men do nowadays, neglecting the daties of charity, but kept his posi- tion ot Feapectability in the world. {[t does not appear why body should have been thrown into that place of defilement outside of tue-city. Be- sides, Ui it was the dead body of Dives that was buried in Gee-Htanom, how did he see Lazarus? how did he speak ? lf he was buried in that valiey of Hinnom (the rich man also died and was buried in bell”), where was the fire, the famey for ‘1 am tormented in this flame,” he exclaims. And what of the “great chaos’? | fixed between Abrabam with Lazarus and Dives? “Beside all this, between us and you there is fixed @ great chaos; so that they who would pass from heuce to you cannot, nor from thence come hither.” (Luke xvi, 26.) The whole parable de- ictg the utterly nelpleas condition of Dives after jeath, without a ray of hope; is it not a wicked thing for one who calls himself a Christian to thwart tne Haren ton, of Christ, which is to excite the fear of ihé heart of the sinner, and ‘BS fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm cx.), and to make Dim say quite the con- trary of what he wanted to The truly enlightened Ohristian is enlightened by God wita the superior light o/ divine iaith, not yA sensual feelings and the pradence of the flesn. le ieels more Jor bis God than for himself, as ne loves God more than bimsels. Hence an offence to God be resents more than any injury done to him- self. With his enlightened reagon he sees that i God is infinitely good and just He must be in- finitely good and just ro Himgoif first, and cannot yleld the prelerence to any Creature A suffering himseli to be insulted with impunity. Even if holy Scripture did not mention anything about ever- lasting punishment sound logic and common sense would (cach us that toe law of God, likeevery other law, must have its sanction of re wards and punish- ments; that if the reward is eternal the pA in- ment, as the other scale o1 the balagge of Justite, must be eternal also. As ao infail just and holy Goa He cannot permit that wickedness, no matrer after what length of time, should receive the same reward as virtue. As an infinitely holy God He hates sin infinitely and shall hate the sin- ner as long as he cleaves to his sin and does not offer an infinite atonement. But no amount of suffering of the sinner ts, or ever will be, an infinite atonement; it is always limited. Only the atonement of Christ is infimite, and tnis the sinner rejected either by unbelief or negiect of the means by which 9p secure to himself the merits of Curist; therelore (18 Buffering must be illimited, infinite in extension of time, in eternity. MoreVer, the lower the conultion of the offender and greater Tag ey of she person offended the greater is the offence. If, thereiore, the condi- tion of the sinner 1s compared with that of God he sinks dows to less than nothing; bat the dig- nity of God’s majesty is infinite; the offence also amounts to Infinite, and an iniinite ofence de- mands an infinite punishment. But 1tta objected: God 1s teo good to condemn His children to such cruel punishment. 1iGodis good the worse 18 the sinner that offenas Him. The Tees the goodness 01 God the greater is the malice of him Who offends God, the blacker his ingratitude, the greater his guilt. God does not cast away Hi children. God’s children are those who do the will of God, whether they have preserved their baptismal innocence or washed their garments, dewiled by ain, in the biood of the Lamb poured out over them tn the worthy reception of the sacri ments of Christ. But aa tor .those who sin and re- main and die tn the state of sin Jesus Christ calis them, not chiidren of God, but children of the devil (Jonn, vill., 44). Finally, we might say, strictly speaking, it is not God who sends the wicked 40.-the piace of eternal punisnment, for He ‘wills not the death of the sinners, but that he be converted and live;” but it ig the result of man’s own choice, When ne com- mits sin he separates himself from God, and as God ts all good sinner deprives bimsel! of all good; depriving himseli of all good what ts left to him but ll evil; and if he dies in this ‘state of sia he carries with oimself nothing put the result of his chotce—all evil. A temporal abseuce of all good is net yet all evil, bat en eternal absence of all good. Calji this hell and you have the eternity of Rell beyond controversy. Let those who are inclined to abandon the belief tm endless pnutshment meditate first on the enor- mity of the injary and injustice which 1s done to the majesty and goodnéss and holiness of God, and they, enlightenes true an feeling, will ask with amazement, not whether the punishment of hell is oternal, but why there are not thoushnds oft helis prepared tor him who dares to offeng so infinitely great, good, holy @ Majesty, IP. HOW DOCTORS DIFFER ABOUT RITUALISM. To THE EpiTos OF THE HERALD:— In your issue of the 9th inst, there was inserted an essay detivefed by the Rev. Hugh M, Thompson before a society called the Church Conference. The purpose of this essay was to declare his opinion that the Episcopal Church was declining in this country, and the reasons for it, As We expression of the views of a single clergy- Man before a jew brethren tt can do no harm, but when published in @ widely circulated paper and read by thousands who will not weigh the argu- ments by which such @ conclusion was arrived at, itis fraugut with mischief and calculated to do more injury than the supposed evils which he en- deavors to point out. Dr. Thompson’s first argu- ment is “That the Caurch has not made any progress in this country the past ten years.” He means, by progress, relative progress. He was witling to concede that she haa made absolute progress. By this he wished to be underswod that the Church had mot advance in this country with tue increase in population. His concession that sue nad made absolute progress is aii that ts tecessary to prove; for everybouy Knows that the Increase of populauon in this country is largely de up of Irish, who are loyal eubje to the if ‘There- fore, in estimating relative progre: element, which comprises 80 large & propor' of the in crease in population, should be left out. He states, @8 @ reason for tke decline in Rumbers taking boly orders, ‘That it is owing to the distrust of the Church in the Of the American people,” and ee his dicta, ‘That this distrust is owing to the lief that tie tendency of this body 1s toward ultramontanism, if not Romanism," wi i man {festly absurd; lor the great mass of American Protestants do not trouble themselves to define, and for the most part are unable to define, the difference between ultramontanism and Romanism proper, His conviction is that the form of worship started tn St. Alban’s and elsewhere is another cause of this distrust. If the reverend would only cast his eye over the Church throughout the length and breadth of tnis land he would observe @ great tmprovement in the devout manner in which divine service is celeprated this past ten years, and the thanks jor this improve- ment 1s mainly due to the lead St. Alban’s and a few others gave in a devout ceremonial. instead of disturbit at for evil, they have helped us out of a rut, this more decent ritual isa reaction from the sordid indifference with which the ser- vices of the sanctuary were wont to be conducted, and the reverend gentiemau should know tris if welf Would not dare to have Parish church were it not for the precedence given in St. alban’s and else- where. @ Teal cause of the decime in numbers Spplying tor holy orders ts, it is to be teared, not that ritualism frightens young men, but they Know that the average. stipend of a priest is less than the salary paid to young entry clerk in our city counting houses. This fact devers young men from taking holy orders knowing that pecuniary embarrassment is likely to follow them all their lives; but this I believe has only to be reahzed and our laity will remedy tne evil In all movements of reform there must be leaders, and in this rejorm, if ceremonial, we have those Who take the lead. It 18 not possible or likely vhat every churcao throughout the iand can have elxborate services, and while some appear to go beyond the ordinary service, the whote land 1s permeated with a healthy reaction from meanness and irreverence. To be sure this restoration to order and reverence in the manner of opnducting divine service is by many suoderstood, but this is owing to @ lack of information respecting the beauty O! holiness, and this is to be remeaied by tnstruc- tioa, and im due time we shall not hear ol the masses being terrified into the idea of the Kpis- copal Uhurch going to Rome, unless some more such verbose essays are sent helter-skelter throughout America and the fame again fanned . those of our own household. The cry of “Wolr?) 1s now old enough, and instead of the Churoh going to Rome, the Church grows stronger tn its taith in primitive Christlanity, which 1s ag far removed trom modern Romauism as Presbyte- rianism is irom Boiacopacy. The Church declining? Why, sir, on every side she 1s increasing! If not, why her increage of the Episcopate? Why her great demand for more clergy, to take hold of new fieids daily opening ? The Charch is moving on in her grand mis- gion as never she moved belvre, while there are a lew on either side who* hold extreme ideas, the great mass oo! the Church marches onward steadily and as unitedly as can be expected in a large and rapidly develop- ing country like ours, with its heterogeneous pepiistion and their diversified Spetiotis. am sorry to see one from the ranks of her clergy, who ought of all men to stand by the belm of the Church if she be in danger, utter sach loose and fippant language respecting her as the writer of this esaay | refer to, Who that was really in earnest in vot pus On onan route oe Lerch rgyiha o! € ving @ Punch an tka racd bn deg te ") he thought fit, ana wivhout hindrance? ! the writer has no faith in in the Chureb how can he stand up and do his duty to try and convert sinners to her fold? If there are errors anywhere the way to combat them is open. Language, to gain respect, must be sober and to the point, not thoughtless and ir- relevant. Yours, JAMES N. SPARKS, Rector o1 St, Mark’s Church, Mount Kisco. THE DECLINE oF EPISOOPALIANISM, _ New York, Fed. 13, 1875, To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— In the HERALD’s report of the proceedings of a conference of Episcopal clergymen in this city February 9, it was stated that Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson said “he was informed that Mrs. Jariey’s wax works had been exhibited in ap Epis- copal church.”” Immediately on seeing this state- mentl wrote to Dr. Thompson, referring to your report and respectfully asking “in wnich Episco- pal church he had been iniormed that Mrs. Jariey's waxworks had peou exhibited and the name of his informant.” I baye just received the 1ollowing reply :— My Duan Sta—I do not hold myself responsible for the Correctness of the Hakanpis reporta, Very truly. HUGH MILLER THOMPSON, Now, whether the Hera.p’s report was correct or not, it 18 quite clear trom the above reply that Dr. Thompson has no such injormauion on the eh ag will bear the test of cross-examination, and inasmuch as your report was read by many, and as a similarly indefinite statement of the ap- palling degeneracy of the Episcopal Churcn in consequence of tts contamination by Mrs, Jarley’s Waxworks was made by some rambling, but. no doubt well meaning, member of the last General Jonvention, I beg that you will insert this com- munication. Yours Feapecemly. GEO. PAYN ACKENBOS, No. 831 West Tweaty-cightn street. CONUNDEUMS FOR ‘‘PRUDENTIUS.” BROOKLYN, Feb. 11, 1875. To THE Eprrog oF THE HERALD :— The jollowing questions 1 desire to propound to some of your learned suvscrivers, vig. :— Is the mind the soul? Ig the mind an element of the soul? If the mind is an element of the soul, is it inde- pendent of tn al, Or 18 the soul responsible, ac- cording io Christian teacuing, for the conceptions of the mind? If “Prudentius,” whose articies I have so mach admired in your columns, will give his attention to the above, he will oblige an casnest and sincere KER OF LIGHT. MACAULAY ON GLADSTONE. To THs EDITOR OF THR HERALD: In an article entitied “Church and Sta‘e,” while giving ‘praise to the author under review, Macau- lay Bays:— ‘Whatever Mr. Gladstone sees is refracted and storted by a false medium of passions and prej- udices, His style bears a remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and, indeed, exercises great influence on bis mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and per- plexes the logic which it should illustrate. Halt his acateness and dilizence, with a barren imagi- nation and 8 scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator—a vast com- mand of a kind oi language, grave and majestic, but of vageand uncertain tmport—of a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the loity diction of the chorus of clouds afected the simple-hearted Athenian, * * * “When propositions have been established and nothing remains but to ampiity and decorate them this dim magnificence may be in place; but if it is admitted into a demonstration it is very much worse than absolate nonsense, just as that trans- parent hage, through which the sailor sees capes and mountains of iulse size aud in false bearings, 18 More dangerous tuan utter darkness. Now, Mr. Gladstone 1s fond of employing the puraseology of whica we ape ak in those parts ol his work which require the utmost perspicuity and precision of be 4 human language ts Capabie, and {n this way be deludes first himself ana tnen his readers, The foundations of his theory, which ought to be buttresses ef adamant, are made out of the flimsy materials which are fit only tor perorations, This fault is one Which no subsequent care or industry can correct. The more strictly Mr. Gladetone réasoms on bis premises the more absurd are the conclusions which he brings out, and when at last his good sense and good nature recoil from the horrt! ractical inferences to which his theory leads he B reduced sometimes to take refuge in arguments inconsistent with his iundamental doctrines, and sometimes to escape {rom the legit- imate consequences of his fuise principles under cover of equally false history.” (See Macaulay's Essays, vol. 8, pp. 246-7.) And again:— “If is not unusual for @ person who is eager to prove a particular proposition to assum‘ major of huge extent, which includes that particular proposition, without ever reflecting tuat is in- cludes 8 great deal more, ‘ihe fatal facility’ with which Mr.Gladstoue multiplies expressions, stately and sonorous, but of indeterminate meaning, emi- nently qualifies bim to practise tnis sleigut on himself aad on his readers. tHe lays dowm broad general doctrines about power, when tne only power of waich he is thinging is the power of governments; about conjoint action, when the only conjoint ackion of witch he is Shinking 1s the conjoint action of citizens in a State. He first resoives on his conclusion. He then makes a major of most comprenensive dimensions; and, having satisfied himself that it contains bis con- clusion, never troubles himself about what else it may contain. And as soon as we examine it we find that it contains an infinite number of con- clasions, every one of which [sa monstrous abe surdity.” (See Macaulay's Essays, voi. 3, pp. 256-7.) would appear from his recent pamphlet that the late Premier bas not improved tn his logic since ois publication of “The State in Its Relations with the Church” im 1839, probably because his mind is essentially tlogical. UDEL. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. METHODIST, Last Sunday @ few church in Kanona, N. Y., was dedicated by Rev. A. B. Morey, P.B. The Third Methodist Episcopal church in Delaware, Ohio, was algo dedicated by Bishop Foster tast Sunday. Another, at Tom's River, N, J., was dedl- cated on Tuesday, Another, at Oregon Gill, LiL, ‘will be dedicated to-day. At Byfleid, Mass, Henry Mathews, pasir, a great work has taken place. In cwo weeks 130 sought Christ, and all except one professed con- version. Rev. Dr. W. H. Oooper, one of the Methodist mis- sionaries to.Mexico, is to retarn to Ohicago next month, Ml health is said to be the reqson of his leaving Mexico, The revival influence amvears to be extending, + and with the following results since last report :— West. Milford, N.J., fifty; at Fort Listieton, Pa, forty-four; at Parsippany, N. J., thirty; at Port Monmouth, N. J., thirty-six; at Nazareth, Pa., Ahy-two; at Fishkill, N. Y., fifty-nine, Tne venerable Heury Boehm 1s well again. He will be 100 years-old in June next. The Newark Conference expect him to preach a “centenary sermon” before that conference at its forthcoming sesaion. The venerable L H. Tackett, a wellnown superannuated minister of the Erie Conference, died a few daye since at his Lome in Forestville, N.Y. Rev, W. £. Barnes, son of Rev. Mr. Barnes, of Tirinots Conference, has become assistant edttor of the Central Christian Advocate, The Methodist Episcopal church, Arfington, N. J., Philip Bartlett, pastor, will be dedicated Sunday, February 21, at two P.M, Bishop Janes and Dr. Dasnielt will oMctate, Rev. Dr. E. H. Myers, D. D,, late President of the Wesleyan Female College at ‘Macon, Gu., has been appointed pastor of the leading Soutnern Metno- dist churcn in Savannah, Ga, Rev. C. Larew, ot tue Newark Conference, and stationed at Haverstraw, graduated at the Medt- cal Eclectic Oollege of New York on the 28th ult, asa physician. He does not design to enter into regular pragtice until physically disabicd for the ministry. Rev. W. W. McKatg, once'a Methodist minister, and more.recontly a Presbyterian minister, has Withdrawn fiom the latter Church, aud has ap plied to the Centenary Methodist church, Onicago, jor church membership and to tbat Quayterly Con- ference for recognition as a local preactfer. At Hopewell, N. Y., I. Harris, paster, over sixty Dave professed conversion, and the work is stillin progress. The work of grace in the Summerfield church, Brooklyn, J. M. Buckley, pastor. Makes stead progress. It is most marked in the Sanday schoo! Sunday, February 7, becween thirty and torty per- sons, the larger part of whom were Sunday school scholars, were received on probation. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Rose- ville, Newark, N. J., was dedicated last sunday by Bishop Janes. The Rev. Thomas Guara 1s to be transferred to she California Coniereuce tn March, the heaith of his wife necessitating a change of climate. Lt ts Understood that he will remain at Mount Vernon Place until June. Revivals are reported at Oxford, J. P. Macautay, astor, with over forty conversions thus iar; at eadington, J.P. W. blattenberger, pastor, with over 120 conversions. Over 100 persons nave becno converted in the Franklin street churcn, Newark, RS. Arndt, pastor, auring the last few weeks, At Grace church, Wilmington, Del., avout seventy have deen converted, and the work seems to ve increasing 1n Interest and power. A great revival is in progress in St, Paul’s Meth- odist Episcopal church, on Third avenue, Jorsey City. Sixty persons were converted during the past week. Tue pastor, Rev. Mr. Lowrie, devotes his sermons chiefly to young men. A spectal ser- vice tor mothers and sisters will be held this after- noon. Rev. J. L. Ostrander lectured in the Hedding Methodist epuccae! charch, Jersey City, on Thurs- Gay night. This gentleman has sojourned in the East many years, and is thoroughly acquainted with Ha sablece By the ald of twenty young peo- ple, attired in the various costumes which were facsimiles of those worn in the days of Abtabam and later of the Saviour, Mr. Ostrander pe" enabled to give & yay Gigtinct idea of 8 appearance of te Afabs alia OI the Holy Land. 3 Joints in Bible history were brought gut and may or sp mparisons used by we Sividdy were viviaiy ed and explained. A genuine arab Jew, Yacoub Puuab Mesbullam, as sisted Mr. Ostrander. The members of the Centenary Methodist Epis- copal church in Jersey City on Tuesday evening presented their pastor, Rev. E. W. Burr, with a handsomie gold watcn at his residence in Seventu street, ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Cavholics of Waxabachie; Texas, are bulid- ing a neat brick charch, 28x55 feet, at that place. {ts within the present limits of tue diocese of Gaiveston. Mgr. Napoleon Joseph Percn¢é, Archbishop of New Orleans, accompanied by Rev. Father An- stadt, sailed from New Orieans on the steamer Juniata on the 29cn ult, for Havana, where he goes to recruit mis health and to ‘solicit aid for bis diocese. A small soctety of Catholies in Gratton, Ont., are butiding a new church, 35x80 teet, lu that village. The Jesuits of Milwaukee, Wi%., are also about to build a church and school tn t! city to accommo- date et parishioners, near State and Eleventh Blreots, ‘The new church at Harleigh, Pa., has been so far completed that inass can be celebrated init. It Dresents # very neat appearance. The Catholic church at Newcastle, N. B., ia now almost complete, It ts @ handsome edifice, the main building being 75x45 feet. Tne situation 18 very fine, commanding a view of the Miramichi for miles, The style is Gothic, ‘The cost of the church 1s about $30,000, In the two cities of Pittaburg ana Allegheny, Pa., there are no less than forty-eight Catholic churches and chapels, most of which have been built wishin the last twenty years. The Catholte population of this diocese, which comprises filteen counties, ts closely estimated at 200,000, The Archbishop of New Orleans has appointed the Rey. T. Briordy pastor at Clinton, La., and has given bim authorization to collect tuads to build a church at that piace. Delegates trom Young Men’s Catholic associa- tions and iiterary sooieties of the United States wilt meet in Newark, N. J., on the 22d inst., to form 2 national uoton. James F. Hagan, Secretary of the Cathoitc Institute, Newark, will give all neces- sary toformation Rev. Fatner McCarthy, of Dover, N. J., who bas been suffering from vurioloid, ts recovering. The success Of the recent fair in connection with the Catholic church at New Brunswick, N, J., was unprecedented. Over $2,500 was realized on a Teena slik flag. The total amount is about ‘rhe rule with regard to abstinence from the use of flesh meat has been elaxed in the diocese of Newark for the 17th of March, because the pro- cathedral of the diocese will be consecrated on that day. ‘The Pope’s bull, establishing the new diocese of Reading and Pottsville, in Pennsylvania, 1s daly expected. BAPTIST. A good work ts in nase in the Worthen street Paptist church of weil, Mass, Rev. E. A. Le- compte pastor. Extra meetings have been held torougk the month af January, and nine candl- dates have just oeen received for baptism. Others will soon tollow. A precious work of grace ts in Progress in the North Baptist church, Newark, N. J. Services bave been held almost every evening since the beginning ol the year. Eiguteen have bepn bap- Used thus far, and several are awaiting bapttsm. ‘Tbe Nixon street church, Allegheny, Pa, has been holding extra meetings for the past four weeks with encouraging results; the church liself has been greatly revived, and more tan thirty have professed conversion. The Harvard street Lae fect church, Boston, in view of the resignation of their pastor, Rev. Dr. Eddy, were looking for Dr. Fulton, of Brooklya, but Dr. Eddy has concinded_ to stay with them @ ttle longer, so that Dr, Falton will probably remain in this vicinity another while longer. ‘Tne Rev. Dr. Dickerson, on account of til health, has resigned hia pastorate ai South Boston. Fourteen persons bave been received into the chureh, Natchez, Miss., has recetved the honorary Sen Master of Arts irom Princeton College, rsey. The Kev. J. 1. Norwood has acceptea the rector- ship of the churohes of Fincastle and Buchanan, Botetourt county, Virginia, and expects to enter Upon his duties the 1st of March. ‘he members of St. Matthew's church, Jersey City, last Tuesday evening presented their pastor, Rev. Dr. Abercrombie, with a purse contawing a handsome sum in recognition vf nis zealous labors since his instaliation in that parish. PRESBYT! i. Green Ridge, 8 part of Seranton, Pa, nas almost compieted its chapel, and whea this is done another church will be organized, another minis- ter needed, and another light bang out vo direct man to the haven of rest. So great is the religions tnterest in Scranton, Pa., that business men have closed their stores to permit themselves and their employs te attend the courca services, The Presbyterian aud Metn- Odist courches are said to be thronged every evening, and men all through these congrega- Mons are asking wha. they must do to be saved, The Keve F, Newman has restgned tue pas- tora! care of the Presbyterian church at Saratoga Springs, N, Y, Tne Rev, W, H. Rice, formeriy a Congregation- alist, was, on the 1st Inst., received into the Pres- bytery of Washington, D. C., two of whose churches are pastoriess. The Rev. Wilham A, McCarroll, of Erte, tras ac- cepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbytenan church at Shippensburg, Pa. The Rev, Henry Rinker, of Newton, XN. J., nas accepted a calito the Presbyterian church at Digkenbon. Pa. V. 8 Augustus Davenport, of the Presbytery of Elizabeth, N.J., bas been catled to the churel orang He nytt CORBA Pa. ev. Ansel D. Eddy, » ied at Lansin, N_Y., on Sunda, ase ang The Rev. G Gardner, of Genesee Valley, Was last woek installed paster of Westminster Presbyterian churcy in koohester, N. Yo Impaired bealth "has compelied the Rev. N. M. Sherwood to resign bis pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church, of Elmira, N. Y. The Rev, S, B, Bell has yeaignee nis charge of the First Presbyterian church of Hillsdule, Mich, He goes to belt Che College, California, Rev. Davia Thompson, of Ohio, Presbytertan Iissionary to Japap, has been appointell inter- preter of the United States Legavon at Jeudo. Tn view o! the pecuniary embarrassments of the Various boards ol the Presbyterian Oburch, the Presbyterian Union of Cleveland bas apponted the fourth Sunday of February us a day of special con- tributions in the Presbyterian churches of Cleve- land lor their assistance, It requests the other Presbyterian cunrches of the country to unite with it on the same day for this object. ‘The Presbyterian Church, North and South, with the Untted Presbyterians in the United Siates, have a total Sunday school membersnip of 625,434 aqgolars, MISCELBANEOUS. The Congressional Temperance Soctety, Vice President Wilson President, renew this year thelr earnest recommendation that intemperance and its remedies occupy the attention of Christian meee and congregations on the 2st of Feb- ary. Tne Rev. C. T. Collins, who has been giving de- Valls of Sankey and Moodey’e labors in this city and vicinity, has accepted the pastorate of the pode Congregational church, of Cleveland, 10. The Congregational church at Ellsworth, Conn,, has called Kev. J. 0. Stevenson, of Yale Divinity School, to be tts pastor. ‘The statement fs aals, that the number of Jews who have become Christians in Prussia 1s about 5,000; in Amsterdam, Hoiland, 3,400, and in Eng- land at least 3,000, ore than 100 of these converted Jews haye Betaplial ohare of England. N€lormed church at Prospect Hill, N. J., have called thd Hae. Ri pale eae 6. Talmage, of Paagewoon, Ned, tO je slgts astor with she Kew Dr. Quack- Whois feeble neal i eggu g bi rly at the sunset of a weil spent Itfe the Rev. Dr. Williams, the missionary to China, te soon to return to this country to spend the rest of his days. Ho has lived there forty-one years as a missionary of the American Hoard of Missions, during which time he accepted the position of Secretary of Legation to the United States gov- ernment, Drew Theological Seminary has a pre-eminence in the Variety Qf nationailties that walt upon her instructions. _Hindoos, Bulgarians, Italians, French, Japanese and the natives ef many other lanas are among her students. Twenty-three dierent languages are spoken in the institution. A polyglot society jnas beea Yormed, and op Wednesday last 168 frst anniversary was held, at which all these languages were represented, Rey. U. H. White, D. v., formerly of the Howard avenue Congregational church, New Haven, bas been appointed Secretary of the British and Amer- ican Freedmen’s Aid Society, and will sali tor Eng- land after a brief tour through the Soutn. At @ recent special meeting of the Congregation Beth-El, of Norfolk, Va., Rev. 8. Mendelson was re-elected by acclamation to the oftice of mintster and teacher for a third term, ‘There 1s am urgent call, both by the denomina- tional press and the people, for Hebrew preachin; among the deserted Israelites on the east side 0: the city. Tae Rabbis in charge of congregations are asked to volunteer their services on alternate be letec in some hall or place that may be pro- vide FOUR NEW ACRHBISHOPS LN AMERICA. The Roman correspondent of the Boston Pilot, writing on January 17, sends the news that the Pope has been pleased to raise the dioceses of Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Santa Fé to the dignity of archdloceses, and thetr respective bishops to that of archbishops. The correspondent adds:—“It is also said that the diocese of St. Paul, Minn., will be divided into two.” The bishops woo are thus elevated are as fok lows:— The Right Rev. John Joseph Williams, D, D., the fourth Bishop of Boston, was consecrated on March 11, 1866. The diocese of Boston was estab- lished in 1808 To all Catholics within the dio- cese—priests and people—this great honor to their reverend Bishop will bring heartfelt Joy. In the United States there is no bishop more beloved than he, He is eminently fitted by mature te guide wisely, to judge dispassionately, and to take safe charge of all the high interests which belong to the hierachy. Arcabisnop Williams is @ native of Boston and 1s in his Aity-third year. The Right Rev. James Frederick Wood, D. D., the fitth Bistop of Philadelphia, was consecrated, cum fure is, April 26, 1857; succeeded January § 1860. ‘The diocese of Philadelpuia was established in 1809, Archbishop Wood is a native of Philadelphia, a convert to the faith, and is aixty years of age. The nt Rev. J. M. Hennt, D. D., the first Bishop of Milwaukee, was consecrated on March 19, 1844, in which year tne alocese of Milwaukee Was established. ‘The Right Rev. J. B. Lamy, D. D., first Bishop of the diocese of Santa Fé, was consecrated on No- vember 24, 1850, ‘Tne diocese is very large, com- prising the Territory of New Mexico, with a Catholre population of abou: 90,000 Mexicans, 8,000 Pueblo Indians and 1,000 Americans. As an instance of the rapid growth of the Catho- Ne, Church tn America we may take the dioceses of New Engiand. in 1825—just fifty years ago— when Bisnop Fenwick arrived in Boston, tuere were:— One priest in Massachusetts. Baptist charca at Turner’s, N. 1., since January 1, by profession of faith and immersion. The First church of Jonesville, Mich. are en- joying @ precious revival. Twenty-three adults have requested prayers, and many have been happy converted to God. A new Baptist chapel is to be opened in Rome during Easter week, at No. 35 Piazza Sap Lorenzo in Lucina, @ small square leading off from the Corso. The chapel and schoolroom adjoining will accommodate three oF four hundred hearers. Rev. A. P. Graves, Baptist Bvangaiist, is now holding revival meetings in the Souta, The church at Lockport, N. Y., Rev. R. B. Hull, pastor, bave been holding meetings every evening jor five weeks With blessed reauits. About twenty have been baptized since January 1. The paswr reached bis first ansual sermon January 3. He baptized 110 during the year, During bis pas- torate over 150 have been added to the church. The Hackensack. Baptist church had @ day of special interest on Suni Several converts were baptized and a number are waiting for the ordinance. The Rey. Mr. cemrrepees has sailed from Eng- land for Madras, where he is avout to labor among the Tamil speaking population, This will be a new work so far as toe Baptist Missionary Society is concerned. The First Baptist church, Lowell, has voted unanimously to cail the Rev. Orson £. Mallory, of Batavia, N wo the pastorate. He is brotuer of the Rev. N.C. Mallory, late pastor of the church, now of Detroit, Mich, The new edifice of the Greenwood Baptist church, Brooklyn, 18 80 near complesion that its dedication Is annonaced for Monday, February 22, Seven converts were baptized fast Sanday in the eg avenoe Baptist church, Brooklyn, and thirteen previously been baptized in January, The revival there increases, The Second Bapust church, of St. Louis was dedicated last Sabbath. Seventy-five members were added to the North Baptist church of chis city last year. The present membership 18 645. The Rev, J. J. Bronner is | stor. puiter five years’ labor with the Saptist church at Peekskill the Rev. OC. J. Page has tendered his resignation Oo! the pastorate. EPISCOPALIAN, The latest reports from Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, report him as very {ll and uigh unto nd the prayers of tne Church are asked for storation. Rev. J. Howard Smitth, of Knoxville, Tenn., ted a call to the Reformed Episcopal bi The has acce) church of New The Episcopatians have in Kansas 29 cl n, 81 congregations, 1,073 communicants 1,060 persons in their Sunday schools. The contribu: tons of the churches jor the past year amounted to $15,154, Bishop Bedell, of Obio, spent the Christmas season at Bethlehem or Jerusalom, and is new 6 ding a few weeks at eons at Cairo, Egypt, tmproving The Rev. &. H. Ketteli has resigned his position Qs assistant minister of the Ouurch Oo! tne Holy Trinity, New York otty. ‘tne Rev. Alexander Marks, reacor of Trinity One prest in New Hampshire, One priest in 8. Eight churches, of which one only deserved & higher title than a@ chapel And this was the Cath- olic Charch in ali New England, Ten years later, in 1835, there were -— ‘Twenty-seven priests, ‘Twenty-two churoles, Forty thousand Catholics. In 1844, ‘when Comnecticut and Rhode Islang Were made a new diocese, there were out Thirty priests, ‘Thirty-seven churo! Sixty thousand Catholics in all New England. To-day in New Kngiand there are one arch- diocese gnd five—probasly soon to be six—dio- ceses. Everywhere you find the Catholics with their churones, schools, colleges aud academies; With their hospitais, asylums and houses of reiuge. In the New land of to-day we number One Archbishop, Five bishops, Four hundred and forty-one priests, Four handred and thirty-two churches and nearly a miilion of Catholics. YOUNG LADIES’ SEMINARY, FLUSH- ING, L. L Tne Sisters of St Joseph have erected a large addition to their handsome academy at Flushing 1. L, which now stands’ among the foremost of our young ladies’ seminaries in the country. The addition will afford the necessary room so urgently needed, and the academy, no doubt, will be filled to completion before many weeks. There 1s a beautiful Rall on the top floor, whichas finished in the best possible manner. The first foor ts laid out into class and recitation rooms, and will serve excellently lor these purposes. Besides the flourishing academy the Sisters conduct a private seminary for young boys between the ages of six and ten years. Here avout twenty-five little fel- Jows are hard at work at their studies, ander the care of the Sisters. MODERN SPIRITUALISM. A COTTAGE FOR THE £XPOSER OF SPIRIT NUM- BUGGERY, * To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Having had my attention drawn to an article in @ late Sunday’s HenaLp on “Modern Spiritual- ism,” [ challenge your correspondent ff he can Sustain all his paints against the alleged nurapugs, Blade, Foster and Mansfield, 1 will make him a present of a covtage house and lot in tre city of Paverson, N. J., and | am prepared at any time Ar make the necessary arrangements with the gentleman to test she matter to the bottem. He has ne moral rigi¥ to call any man a humbug ankess he has unmistakable,evidence that he ig cook, He reat deal to say @bout these gentiemen, root vo offer: and as lam a faar bas no pi lover of trath ana 6 ministers in the. ; LBs) play I usterty @speneve nis statements until he ves them to be true. And here let me say, I ave invariably noticed in these exposures of itaalism the would-be exposer always exposes own ignorance of the subject and bis want of fairness aod impartiality in dealing with matter. A mian Wao is of prejudice cannot be @ truthful investigator of the astounding nomena which 1s connected with this aew science, for such it is. Twill further say that Iam unac- quainied with Messra. Slade, Poster or Mansfield, but I have seen saMictent of their mantiostasions to convince me that they cannot be explained away with the absurd and silty s! mens ad vanced by your correspondent, AN INQUIRER. “LOGOS” CASTIGATES “INQUIRER.” To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD fm a recent Sunday tssue of the HERALD your correspondent, “Inquirer,” has taken the bul by the horns tu relation to Spiritualism and done the work to perfection. Having generousiy undertaken the direction of the mental faculties of the pros found scientists, lawyers, judges, philosophers~ of the bankers, doctors, statesmen, governors, hard-headed business men and otners who ere bow engaged, from time to time, in the investigm tion of the wonders of modern Spiritualism, he informs them that they are to trust neither their eyes nor thelr ears, but to give themselves up wholly to ng able guidance, and bow to his supe. rior adrotsness and intelligence. Now, having, Sirona the — of Mr. Foster and Dr. Siade, investigated the phenomena of Spiritualism, I shal! venture to assert that “Inquirer” has never ha a scance with either of these geatiemen, or that 1 ne has had one with either or both of them he is incompetent $0 deal with the subject which he as- sumes to have exhausted with such ability. Im every tnstance cited by him he bas stated what is untrue regarding the slate writing of Dr. Slade and the paper lets of Mr. Foster. There are hundreds of tudividuals who can make afMfidavit that the slate has been written on while tt was in their own custody and at a dissance of some fees from any portion of the person of Dr. Slade, while 1t can be proved with equal force that Mr. Foster not only does not open the pellets adrottly and read their contents, or that had he even become aware of what they contained, the phenomenon oCounected with the would, from the pecuitar- ity of the mantiestaijon, be just as inexplicabie as ever. Now whether lam a believer in this modern Gospei or the reverse has nothing whatever to do with the case. we want to the premises is trath, and there are some peopie who are desirous that the HBRaLD shall take this matter in hand and give it @ fair bearing through honest, clear- headed and able representatives, in whom the public would pave confidence. I! Spiritualism be a fraud let it be exposed on some reasonable, some logical grounds, and not on such an impos- sible basis ag the palpable drivel and obvious dis- honesty of! “Inquirer” presests. Out upon such shallow brains as have been brought to bear upo: this matter by those who ought to be anaes truth and of a clear understandi! 3. NONCONFORMITY IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Jan. 21, 1875. This week—namely, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 19th and 20th tnst., the Nonconformists of Engiand—that ts to say those who dissent from, the principle rather than the doctrines of th State Church—have held a great festival in Lon- don aud opened their grand new hallin the city. In the year 1802 1t was resolved by Baptists and, Tadependents alike that agreat effort should ba, made to commemorate the great exodus of goalg men who, in 1662, leit the Cnurcn of Engiand ratuer than subseribe to the infamous Act of Uniformity which Charles IL and bis servile bishops strove to force upon the clergy. Of the stirring cvents of that period Americans and Englishmen are alike well cog nizaut. Many of those who for conscience sake were ejected irom rectory and vicarage and thrown penniless into the world, without home or Prospect of getting one, left those shores, and Im the New Worid found thar consideration and sym- pathy which had been denied them in their native land. Their descendants have steadily matn- Vained the .sturdy faith tor which they suffered in both lands, aud the memory of the great deeds they achieved are as dear to the Noncon- formate of the Untted States as to those of Great Britam, When, thereiore, in 1862, it was proposed to raise a large fund which shoutd be employed to perpetuate the memory of those who fought ior conscience sake, Americans wrote letters and even made journeys to Engtand for the purpose of expressing their concurrence in the scheme. All over England services of a special nature we1@ held. The Nonconformist ministers guve lectures, in which they toid of the sufferings of the 2,000 ejected men who lived two centurie: large subscriptions of money were sent in, @ last It Was announced wat if the sum of 000 sterling coulda be raised a oral hall shor ve built in tue city 9t Londo Monument to the mewory of good men of tee olden time. The money Was nearly all subscribed, and a site having been, alter considerable difficulty, obtained within the city borders—for freehold land 1s about the last thing ene can obtain nowadays ine side the boundaries of the city proper, the building was at length begun. Is was to con- sist of a huge Clubhouse, a library, a large ball for meetings, rooms for committees of all kinds, offices jor the use of the various missions, chapel buildings, Sunday school and other socteties con- nected with Nonconfermists, and generally to be @ home in the city of London to which strangers who thought with the founders could repair, with & certainty of gaining information and ae iriends, The idea was a has been worthily right hand side of ranning frem Fleet street to new | Hoiborn Viaduct, now stands @ magnificent structure of stone, with a high spire and @ very ornamental Jayade, That dullding is the Nencomormist Bicentesary Hall, and it was opened on Tuesday and Wednesday wisn all pos- aible ceremony. Everything about tt is mindful of the time it is intended to commemorate. In the very founda. Uons of the building were discovered by the work- men the two ceils in which it was once the~ custom to confine religious ners, when the old Fleet Prison eteod near the spot. Hard by is the place where numbers of Noneonformists were beheaded and even ourned for persisting in the principles they helé to beright. In the great hall, which will accommodate 1,600 persons come jJortably, 18 a grand stained glass window, which illustrates the departure of the Pilgrim Fatners from Plymouth for the American Continent. In the library is another, wherein are depicted those grand old champions for liberty of consefence, Joba _ Bunyan, Jonn John Howe and Richard Baxter, with others of more modern days. very style of the building is ancient, being Gothic, and altogether the place on its very first aay appeared vo possess an odor of sanctity consonant with the objects for whtoh it has been built. In the library 8,000 volumes have already been placed, and more are promised. The debt on the building 1s now only about £3,000, and tals will speedily by io that everything is in 8 very flourishin; Tne services in connection with the opening were in every respect a success, Nonconiormists from all parts of the country came and partici pated in the proceedings of the two days. In the chair was Mr. J. Remington Mills, the richest com- moner of England, estimated to enjoy an income of £150,000 per annum. He had given £10,000 toward the hall, and his great age, together with his hign position as a man of good —s and great in- fluence, single him out as the leader of the enter- rise. porting him were Mr. Morley, M. P.; Mr. |. Richard, M. P.; Mr. Hill, M. P.. and many other distinguished Dissenters, and the occasion was one of considerable jubilation. One speech made by Dr. Parker, a minister who lately built a gr G chapel not far from the New Hall, and who s= teemed as the leading London Nonconformist reacher, is wortay of a short extract, He satd:— ‘pe buliding would henceforth be ths locus classt- cus of English Indeperndency. He trusted that all “questions, whesner controversial or apy, would be @igcussed im a spirit of charity. Is bi been sata Wish great truth that the pew building would bring together all the churches of Oon- gregationalism, and even Independents, more closely. (A laugh.) Speaking of himself, he said he never folt he Was a more thorough and staunch Nonconiormist than he was at the prosent time, When they fad men like Miail as the front of No! coniormity there was nothing to fear. He kh: been received with scrimonious abuse, censure, criticism, and had endured very much undervaiu- ation of character; and were they to be miles ve- hind bim, taking all the venefite and leaving nim nothtng but the abuse? When Mr. Miall spoke it was with their vetce. When be laid down principi and or them with teil! eloquence he speaking in their name, in fact, whenever he ad- dressed the country, Nonconformity, in its ba litical and spiritual aspect, addressed it aiso through him. With regard to the future, he (D. Parker) wondered what might be the name of the hall a generation or two hence. People might ask what it was in boot A tker would com OU Vhe tale of 1662, archmen might say wey would have nothing to do witha hail that en- shrined such memories, bat possibly there migut be no o¢casion for them to do so. Tab sufferings of the great men who constituted the exodus of 1662 bad been narrated, and he was struck with the fact thas afl their consciences were trained ander hich (ree men now lived. carrie a noble men belonged to the those They only went out from it fot conscience sake, and as tor the Memoriai Hall, les 1% mot be destroyed, for a biessing was in It. The speeoh echoed the of ell present Spread teat hee ae eet up in'rogaks to tbe Onurch ef England. Denn y Realed. He is greatly mistaken. never was more Drounorty feling exhibited or felt between Dissenters and Churchmen than existe to-day; bas the breach was never Wider than itis now. It can never be healed,