The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1875, Page 6

RELIGIONS INTELIMENGE peta RE aaa Ministerial and Church Movements. ~ Religions Persecution---Ministerial Sup- ply---Christ of Contention. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. ‘The rite of sonfirmation will be administerea this evening in St. James’ Protestant Episcopal eharch, Rey. ©. B. Smith, rector. Rev. 5. M. Hamilton will preach im the Scotch Preapyterian enuren this morning and aivernoon. The Rev. ©. S. Harrower, the newly appointed pastor of the Centrat Methodist Episcopal church, will preach this morning and evening at the usual hoars, In Forsyth etreet Methodist Episcopal ehureh the Rey, J. B. Merwin will milmister at the usual ours to-day. ‘The Rev. Wiiam Lioyd will preach in Washing- ton sqnare Methodist Episcopal church this morn- ing ani evening. The Rey. ©. 8. Robinson wii! address the Young Men’s Christian Agsociation m Yorkville this afternoon, “Romauism as America’s Dangerous Enemy’’ Will be considered tus morning in Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church by the Rev. M. 8. Terry. This being Baster Day in the Russtan-Greek Church, the Rev, Wather Bjerring will preach In English om the Resurrection. “The True Motive for Love to Christ” will be consiGered tis evening by Rev. J. V. Saunders in Witiett street Methodist Episcopal church, ‘the Rev. C. ©. Pitfany will oMciate at the usual hours to-day at the Churen of the Atonement, “The Central Truth of the Gospel’ and ‘The | Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land” will be considered to-day by te Rey, J. M. Pullman ta the Cheren of Our Saviour, “Life’s Lessons” and “Lot—the Worldly Life, will be presented, to-day af the usual hours by the Rev. W. b. Thomasin the Beekman Hil Metnedist Episcopal charch. The Rev. George ©. Phelps wil preach at tl usual hours to-day in the Alicea strees Presbyterian cnureh, Rev. W. P. Dunneli will preach this mornin: andevening tm Al Satnus Protestant Episcopal ehureh, ‘The Spiritualiats will hola @ conference 1a Har- Yard Rooms this aiterneon, and at No. 55 West ‘Ybirty-third street this morning and evening. The Rev. James M. King will preach at the usual hours to-day in St Joum’s Metaouist Episcopal chureh. In the Fast Seventeenth street Methodist Epts- copal churen the Rey. J. H. Ligttbourne will preach morning aaa evening. “The Immutabuity of God’s Law” and ‘The Soul Panting for God?’ are themes that Rev. J. B. Hawthorne will discugs at the usual hours to-day in the Tabernacle Baptist churen. tn the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church tne Rey. Jonna Jonus wil! preacn this morn- log and evening. “The Truest rriendstip’’ will be Rev. J. Spencer Kounard’s sheme this morntog, and “Tne One Nae” this eveuing, in tee Pilgrim Baptist church, ‘The Rey. H.W. Koupp will mintster to-day, as usual, in Laight sireet Baptist churca. Baptism im the evenin in the New York Presbyterian church (his morn- ing the Rey, W. W. Page will preach, and 1m the evening Dr. M, 8. Hatvon, of the Reformed cuurch, | “rhe Hievory of the Chureh” will be resumed | this morming 10 Fisty-third street Baptist church by Rev. W. H. Pendleton. in Christ churet tts evening Dr. Thompson wiht deliver bis secoud teciure on “hngland Belure tue Reformation.” The Kev. Robert Cameron will preach in Grace Baptist chapel this morning and evening. Bap- tism in the evening atter a sermon oa “ihe Only Way of Salvation.” A memorial service witli be rendered by the urphans of tne Asylum w Fitiern street, tals alternoon, in 8%. Vincent Ferrer’s charch. Faith O'Gorman will lceture in De Garmo Hall this evening on ‘Mer Relgiou: Experience.” The Rev. Mr. Krans will preach toils evening at St, Aun’s Protestaut Episcopal church. Services also tp the afternoon and evening. ‘The “friendsuip of David and Jonathan with a modern Parallel’ and tue “True Purpose of Man's Lie” will be considered by Bev, Wiliam R. Alger iu the Church of the Messiah. . ju St. Ignaties Protestant Episcopal church the Rev, Dr. Ewer will continue his discourses on “The Woretp of the Courch” this evening. In the Churcn of the Holy Trinity the Rey. 8. HA. Tyag, Jr., Wil preach this morning and evening. Rev. J. W. Bopbam will preach in the afternoon, Toe Rev. D. M. MeCatfey will preach this morn- | ing and ning in toe Church of tue Mediator. | mMici Of Science with Theology ; or, The Charetr oematic Teacning, Its Siguificauce and Propable Issue,” will be discussed 1m the Antbon Memortal cuurck this evening by Rev. R Heber Newton. | Tue E. Hathaway will Giscuss the “far- mony of Reasou and Kengion” in Pumpton Hall | tuis morntog. Bishop Potter wilt administer the rite of con- firmition thie morming ist. Mark's Protestant Fpwseopai churco. Evening service ax usual, come ducted by the recsor, ‘The Rev. Dr. Flagg wil preach in the Cnarch the Resurrection this morning and evening. Toe Rev. BE. C. Sweetzer will preach tu the Bleecker street Universalist churca tuis morning | and evoniog. | Ta the Courch of the Heavenly Rest this after- noon Bishop Potter wit! administer tue rite of coufirmatios, Prevcbiag 19 tae morning by the rector. “Out Depravity and Its Cure’? will be discussed by Rev. George HB. Hepworta in the Ubarch of the Dusciptes this morniug. In the evening tue ‘“Mid- night Prison’? wil copstitute his theme, | The French Revormea chure® will worship in Oeivery chapel tae morning, and Rev. E. Bore whi preach. vr. Armitage preaches this morning sad even- ing tn the Fifth avenue Baptist cunrch, } in the Pirst Reformed Episcopal churck the Rev. W. T. sabine will preach to-day as usasl. In the Charen of the Discipies of Corist the Rev. D. RB. Van Buskirk will preach this morning and evening. Dr. Doeme will preach “Christ among the Legai- | iste” thie morning amd “Night and aiormiag” this evening in (he Charca Of the Strangers, he Her. &. 8 MacArthur will pr jours to-day in Calvary Baptist church. f IMMORTALITY BY THE BESCRETCLION. To THe Hprros o- THE HeeaLDs— In Sunday's HERALD (4th inst.) appears an Article on the orthodox doctrine of the immor- tality of the soul, or # mever-dying part of the mortal man. This doctrine appears to ve en'er- tained by ail denominations of Christians, With fow exceptions its emuraced by all classes and condinions Of men, it has been tangnt ro all our religious in«titutions of learning, and mimisters of the Gospel teach the doctrine of “An immortal, never-dying #0u!”’ 48 ® part of man, aad, Bo doubt, many derive great comfort and consolation ther from, and it may be unwise to distury persons groanded iu such bees, but as the truth is what ‘We wantin ali matters of religion, | respectiuiy ask Whea and where this doctrive originated? Aiter & careful examination of the Biole, it does not appear to me to be taught there, except in , “And the serpent eaid unto the woman, thon snait not surely «tie? Previous to that it.was said to Adam “The aay thou eatess thereof thou sualt surely die." #ubsequentiy in Gon. iil, 24 ib @ Bald :— ‘Now so Be put forth bis band and take also of the troe of pie aad cat aud Live forever” he must “step dowa | tons OF the earth searched out beneath | will also | Wandering Jew, the witness of the book's divine | | from | neve 1 does ana ang out,” and he was driven away irem access to | report that the ecclesiastical property in New of $45, the (ree of life, Toe record here presents two | York and Brooklyn is vained at $20,000,000, om tly directly which taxes are not paid, and that, while with | than its recalpts the this Vast amount of such property there is not | sequentiy ehurch accommodation tor more than hait tho | | the antagonistical persons making appa Opposite deciarations, One is undoubtedly true | and the other false, It appears that man was not created immortal, for the record at this point teaches that in order to gain tmmortality he must | to $1,000,000 on single churches, he thinks that “our laws shold be #0 amended as to exempt “take also ot the tree of tiie, and eat and live ior- ever,” and he was driven out and lost the power or privilege of ite immortal, Lt may be of some tm- porsenee whether we ace pt tne true or false, he serpent no dount impressed Eve with the belief that she was tmmorcal, and under thatim~ pression she persuaded Adam into disobedience by watch they lost “the tree of jie’? So we, oy believing We ure immortal Woeu We are bot, may by such beliel be jed to jose [he opportunity of taking of “the tree of liie and ever.” Christ is tie wee of lie. “Whi so- ever belteveth m fim stall not perish but have everlasting life.” “Whoso eateth my Meal and drinketh my bieod hath evernal jue, ana I Whi raise fim up at tue lastday.”’ John vi, b4— “bxcept ye eat the fesh of the Son of Mah and a © bave bo lie lo you.” Se that eteraal lie are in Obrist by the jon, Those who suppose themselves to ve Immortal Without partakigg O! the tree ol Ie righ and bave no part iu the resu: rection. {here is nO Immortality Taught in the Scriptures except by the resurrection, St. Paul said, “if there be resurrection then (ev they which have falien asleep in Jesus have perished.” Christ said to His followers On account of their not lave ing immortality, “Beowase I live ye sbuil live aiso.” He promised to toem what possessed, and what they had not; that 18, immortality by the resurrection, And that His iollowers might Rot misunderstand Him and conclude they were immortal and would go to heaven when they diet, Re said to them, “As I said unto the Jews, whither Lt go ye cannot come, +o now I say tO you.”—Jobn Xul., 33, Aad in the same cobuece tion He sat ‘1 go to prepare @ piace tor you, and ii I goane prepare a piace jor you | will come agam and receive you uito mysel! thas where I am (when 1 come) there ye may ve also.” The usual mode of quoting (his passage of scrip ture 14 as 14 Was quoted in tbe HeRALD, to Convey the dea boat wuen peopie die they go Wiel Christ bas gone, and wat He waits and will there receive them. They do not, according to tms assage, go where He is to be received by Hig. | ut He’ comes again where they are to receive tuem, that where He lx—uor Where He was belore He came—His people ‘‘may be aiso.” Toere 18 _ some difference between going to Him and He coming to us, The question 18, Where Is the | piace * Ts it where He went when He said, “i go,” | or 18 It where He wiil be when He suid, “1 will come again?” It might be necessary jor aman now in [iis city to go to Bugiand to obtaim means to purchase and prepare a pace in New York jor bis jamiy woo rewain bere during bis aveence; but he comes back again and receives them Into bis newly and eiegantiy {urnisved mansion which he couid bave provided jor them in bo otwer way than by going to Europe. His parting ianguage With his immily-might be Jast like our Saviour’s parting words above, and Bis children woulda Teaduy understand ih moe ‘THE BIBLE AND THE UNITY OF GOD, TO THE EpivoOR oy THE HERALD:— ‘There is a book among all books that maintains as @ first principle, and never contradicts it, that there ia but one God, ‘Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.” The creeds and catechisms have it three persons in one Goahead, This book among all books maintaius that man 18 mortal, that “the soul that sinngtn, it shall die,” that man, Hike the beast, is of the earth, earthy, and that ‘all go to one piace,” and that the dead know not anything. This book is the Bible, Be- hold now the black-roved preacher a8 he holds aloft the little voinme, and, fixing his steadlast gaze on the painted veutila‘or, describes with glowing ecstacy the glories of the redeemed oiumortal — souls “peyond the realms of tie and space Do they agree? | Among all the vooks that were ever written tuere is but one in which the remarkable woras are | found, “Swear not at all,’? and modern civilize | won Bas passed over ali the others, und, settliug On 1bat obe, and acknowledging it a8 the Word of Him that jivein and abideth for ever, they take It inbo the court room and swear by it. The writings of the Hebrew propaets and aposvies Gepead not on the sermon-moogers of the n.ueteen(h century. The mistory ol the Jewish race, written by Gua’s servants Of old, conceruing tue destruciion of ter capital ciry, their dispersion among all na- tions under heaven, thei preservation amid tne most horrible persecotions, wile their name would be a byword and @ reproach among all na- tions, is a ving miracie that atcesisits autnersnip, | 1 8 a mirace gevgrapiical, & miracle Listorical, @ miracie social aod & miracle auiver- i. it i no dangled magic of priesteraft, | no winking Maconna; "is & wonder Lint keepa | 1unning Ou through the ages, obedieus to tne | word Of Jerewiab the propbet (31, 33). Thus | saith the Lord, Walch gsveth the sun or a lgat | by Gay and the ordivaaces of tue moon abd of the stars for a light by might, wach divia. | eth the sea when the waves tuereot roar, the Lord of Hosteis ils name. J! those ordinances de; art from Beiore me, saich the Locd, tuem tue seed of Israel also shall cease Irom being & bation before me for ever, Tnus sutia the Lon as | heaven avove Cau be Measured ana the fonnd t off all the Seed of Israel’? This is @ pars ivi- ent of the woudrous scheme, when tue cul- minating miracie will come to pass ana tue authority, svall be Called ayatn trom bis dispersion and the Jew King, Jesus of Nazareth, will reign over them tn “Jerusalem and belore fis ancients giortously,’ and “ihe Woo.e earth shall be filed with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.’’ LF. G AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION. To THE BpIveR OF THE HERALD: In these days of *:eorganization” and “new eat and five iors | NEW YORK WERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEET. . whtch has been reduced to $15,000, ‘The Poreign Mission: Union, of the same nomination, bas received $251,530, or $20,090 lesa receding your, At 1 Cou- iu deb. $43.4 southern New York Baptist Association need at once $26,000 to iiguidate thetr indeoted- 5, e people, aad yet congregations spend from $500,000 pegs jor the ecclesiastical year naw closing On | from taxation ail cimrches where one-nalf or more Of all seals, pe Ws aud VeNches are Iree TO Lhe Pubic, od taXxin. at hail rates ali otvers,”” And our corres SpOMHED! Adds Lual “i From $500,000 Lo $900,000 can be put mio a chures edifice ior the exciasive | use of 100 or 150 lamiies they should pay at least One-halt tue rate ol taxamon on 1, Li the public | exempt churches from taxation on the ground of “puolle Worship,” they Dave @ right | churenes to have | Woraoip.”? ‘this siatemeut appears to be just and reasonable, Churches have aimost ceased to be | public mm the truest sense of that word, GOid sites Bre too often sold, ne because there is & DEcessiLy for Lt ob the part of the congregation, but vecause | the ground will bring @large sam for business purposes, And then more maxynilicent evilices | are bulit on the most eligible sites Liat cau be ob- tained, not for the puvile, but (or the stall cor. ration that coutrois the finances, here are alfa dozen prominent exampies of this kind of ehureh specuiation that migat be named, ani the | law wigat be made to tax ail churcves in which | pe®s oF Beate are sold at ibeir iali market value. | 1 aman who invests $1,000 m a bulluing jot 18 Taxed ou the same, svould not a man Who In vests a similar amount or less ip a chureb pew as & permanent investment or speculation be taxed also? As our correspondent indicaces, churches that are free ure public aud WIN be exempt iro taxation, but churches taal are not free migdt be @hd perhaps ougus to be taxed, require < MOODY AND SANKEY IN LONDON. To Tu Eprron oF THE HERALD: Ishould be obliged could you allow me to give through your colamus the impress of a visit to the great American revivalisis, Messrs, Moody and Sankey, at Agricultural Mall, Islington. 1 shoula be exceedingly sorry to in any way convey the sightest Gisparagement of these eminent citizens of your great Repolic, but { am anxious to con- vey to the Caristian portion of your population my conviction that the altogether marvellous sight of 20.000 people assembling every nigut to hear these two men is God’s auswer—and an emphatic one—to the prayers that have ascended throughout your churches for success to the visit oF the revivausis to London, Siaadiang at @rewote portion of a side guilery the mighty Tha: Can Dever ve forgotten, While the #imost dead Silence enabled tue remotes to heur the iinying Words of tie, Lbeueve we in London wii be sound greatly indebted to these Americans, bot alone for their visit, but tor the permanent mtroduction of the cheeriul theology of American bymns. Who- ever was the individual that wrote “Hold Thee Fast,” surely 15 must ve pleasing jor him or her to KhOW tuat it's likely to strike deep root im our ADgUsA SOIL; DUI! We turn to the Warning VvoIco every goxpeller must sound, Allow me to exhibit the coptrast of kngash and American:—“Brother, the AMerican tells as ‘We may see the l’rince of Wales walking torough the streeis of our city, but | H, unneeding the Gospel, we shall not see tue | Rong.” Sail, sir, f Wouid, with your kind permis-, | sion, beg to repeat my conviction, the astounding SUCCESS Of tuese LWO ericab geutiemen 1s | direct answer to the pfayers that bave ascend: throaghout the churenes of America. | aim, sir, your ooedient servant, LONDON, April 10, 187 A BRITISHER. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. METHODIST. Bishop Harris bas recently visited several Eastern conterences and aroused the missionary | spirit by giving accounts of his recent official visit to the Methoust mission 1 foreign lands, Bishop Andrews has ieft ths city for Maine, to | preside at the Annual Conierence of that State, The Rey. H. F. Spencer, of Turin, N. Y., bags re- turned from toe South recruited in health and ready again (0 resame his ministerial work, The Rev. James Morrow, pasvor of Awea charch, New Orleans, bas lately become a Benedict. ‘dhe Rey. J. J. Stoddard, of Indiana Northwest Conference, ts seeking rest and improved health in the Southwest, Rey. George W. Wooaruff, D. D., has been trans ferred from the New Yerk East to the Proviaence Conterence and stationed at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, Fail River, Mass, The Rev. Mr. Ouiinger, @ missionary in Foo- Chow, Ohina, 18 hew en route to this country, ar- companied bj) a son of Rev. &. L. Baidwin, the superimtendent of uussions ia China, Dr. J. Wid, late of Seventh aveune Merhodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, has accepted the pas- torave oi the Union Congregational church of that city. Rev. L. J. Seott and (amity and Miss Saray Lem- ing, missionaries to India, are returning to the United Staves for a bricf vacation, Yuey have been absent several years, St. Paul’s Metvodist Kpiscopal cuurcn, Kiiaabeth, bas overgrown 1(s limita, and two societies ba’ Leen orgamised OL 4 It aud two pastors recenly appointed to them, Their od church property 18 be sod aad two new oulldings erected, (hus giving that town four Methods: chureses, Evergreen avenue Methodist Protestant | chureb, in Which the uwiuister apd some of tue departures,” when so many societies are spring- ing into existence, it ts gratitying to find such an | organization a the “American Temperance | Unioa,” combiamg, as it does, 60 much that ts | good, practical and worthy the support of ail jovers of temperance principles. Iw this city and tate there are a great lmaby socieuies, brother hoods and orgauizaiions engaged in the temper- anee work, and ai dotng duty noby ta their re- | spective fleids of labor; vet tne need of a concen- tration, 4 WulOD, & ore per.ect Ullization of their elements has Deeu apparent or some time past, | abd With that object m view, and to Darmoniae | and bring togeiber ou one piatiorm all who believe and are Willing lo carry on the temperance | work, the “American Temperance Union” vas beea formed. | it Wii not be conducted In the Interest ofany | particular “cugu Ting” of “Sect,” bat giadiy Weicuines an’ invites tue membersuip of all WhO beHeve io temperance principles aud are willing to do all im thetr power \O save men and wouen the effects 0; intemperal ‘the officers and wembers of the new organ the oldest aud most and success is certain, Poo exercises consiat of | prayer, reading cf Seripture, singing and eloquent addresses, t higicus and moral aspect of the work betng spectaliy considered, The Hateninson family are present every Sunday aud sing their sweetest hymas. If your readers will cail at No. Umon -quare, Sunday afternoon, three clock, they will fod much to tustruct as well as entertain them, L. © LET JEW AND CHRISTIAN UNITE IX ONE GOD. “J. S.," @ Jewish correspondent, writes that it would be @ good thing if Jewish congregations here would abolieh all their Genominational or national hotidays, since they are citizeus of this and every cyuntry In the world. He would also be witliag and would be giad to see his co religionists “‘worsnip the Unchangeable Supreme Architecs of toe Universe om that Gay Wiiea is holy \0 our dear, now-getting-enitgutened Coris- tian brethven.” Aad, since dew and Caristian | pave ali things in common except the belie! m the Deity of Jesus Christ, “J, 5." sees Bo Valid reason ior keeping up the wall Of rel.gious separationsia things that are out of time, “Way.” he asks, “snould bot Jews go band in hand wite a people that love the ¢ jand His children? If religion & @ we e€ abd peace, sen-ible, nous and enlightesed men Cannet hate each otner any longer, but imtermingie, imtermarry and live peaceably together.” Our correspondent projesses to have tue good of Israel at heart in these lines, and a-k# other Israelites to express their Views OB the subject, BEAVEN 18 WHAT WF MAKE IT. “A Spotted Countryman” sends to the HeRaLn the following as the Rey. Mr. Hepwortn’s desorip- tion of heaven, given not long ago it @ sermon, It is, a8 our correspoudent remarks, very much like the earth that he used to see and travei over jn his boynood, aud ir heaven be nothing more or | better it bardiy requires 60 mucd energy and aoxety to Gotan as ministers would bave Us be- some good People seem to ex- peud ja tts attarmment But here is the picture as painied by Mr. Hepworth :—"1 feasant leids, siniing valieys, golded-tipped mouniaing ‘aud murmoring brooks; is bright, beautiiul, pleasant smelling flowers; tne hum of tne bee and the breain of the vephyt; the xroma Of sweet-smelling plants, the sound o| many pleasant-yoicea birds, the Music of au the moses.” And alter gazing awhile ou Chis pio- ture t tist breaks oul in toe ollowiny raptur- ous loogtug:—"O, bappiness evernal | reat celes tial! dream of all ur axpirations, swvlimiely ma- Jesiic and gaperbly beantiial, do not our Cocughts awake, and dreams while aaeo) paint the para | dise which the Lord has promiged Jo mga!” To all of wi y add that it is probany one of Lhe resalia of dyspepsia. There ts nothing this poetic de-eripuog Of the place that Jesus has gone to prepare lor WI people that should inuace any well slaced countryman—not even a spoiled coun- | Jor bts ap trymai—io long for an exchanee And al parently less poetic qaurters here velow, diDATy CommMON 5eO50, — TAX THE COSTLY-PRWED CHURCHES, A correspondent, who «signs himself “Free Seats;" aiter punting trom the 6) was ed Of Wen OF lu word-paintiogs of heaven are worse {ham | mmbers bad & general row and # lawsuit, Is Dow ed, one party electing Mr. Woodward as their minister aud uoviver denouncing him, The Bisao, 8 of (.e Me‘nodiss Kptscopal Charen ‘will bold tuelr Hex! semi-annual meeting in UBle cago, commencing on Thursday, May 27. nday, May 2%, several of them participate i tie miselonary meetings in Ciocin~ nat, and on Sanday, May 30, Wid reiniorce the missionary secretaries in simuac meetings 1D Chicago. PRASUYTRRIAN, Forty-seven presbytertes have voted on the term service Of elders, and thir y-elant nave voted in its Javor Aud Ouly @ight against it and | This promises a great eal more than | oue te. the Constitutions) majority Becessary to carry the overwure, Heretofore ruling elders in tue Presvy- terian Unoreh have beeu eecied ior life, but by¥ tn Hberty to continue the ite term or to tiree or any other numer of years. remains With (he Man elecued, wuether for long Of short terms, but the service caunot be ren- dered un hed been elecrbd rom time to time. Ex. by this overture msde eliyibl to Synod or Lo Assemoly, as Well as tause im the active duties Of the olliee, ‘The Key. A. b. Cbandier, who for aome two years past has been preaching at back Ureek, , O,, singe the middle ©: kebi wary last bas veew Gon fi 10 bed IM consequence of 4 Wound om Knee from an axe. iy 4 sbytertan church, South Boston, have compieted (her new hou-e Of Worsdep, a Very | heat aod tasteful edifice, seating wbuut Jou, and } costing about $5,000, | woe Kev. Wiliam Imrie, pastor of thy View Presbyteriag cnurch, Paterson, N. J. egoed pastoral charve. rue Fira leriaa chureh of Cedarville, Ny J., has given aw Wmous Call to the Kev. James K. Wilson, and it is Gudersivod bo wil accedt tne same. Lake jay Fe ‘The Presbyterian church at Rordento rn, N. J, } OED & UbAUBOUs Cail ty the ley. Frede erek P. Davai, 01 etivcetom te Become Ibs pastor, Rey. Dr. Murray preached his farewell serm to, the brick ehUrcO O! bus City last Sunday, ava curing the Week ieit ior dis pro easional duyes at Princeton, has ex. Kev. Dr. Eilenwood, the missionary s cretary, | Who bat been Making # Circuit oF Fresvyterun missions tn ioreize lands, is on bie way Lome BOW aud i expected here in a lew dark The new pastorelsct of Madison equare Pres- vyterian church, New York city, Kev. W. de Tucker, Of Maucuester, N. i, will euter upoa bis duties here & Week irom GeX’ Sunday. ‘Throop avenue Presoyterian churca, Brooklyn, are aout to enlarge their © urct edifice to ace commodate growing Congregations, uee hey. L, &. Foote took Coarge bere sixtchn months ago, seventy-one bave umited wii Lue courch by leleer | 800 165 On profewsion of fila. 1A peesent meu berenip 18 05. | "Kev. Samuet Nichols, of the Reformed Church, having accepted the call Of the Firat Presbyterian eour thew brunewiek, N J., Wid be iastalled ou May 17. Yhe caurenes im the Presbytery of New Bruus- wie d., have rec ed during the past winter Addivns BUMUEFINg by ietier, 416, on prolessiva, 38. lata i jhe Preapyterians of Newton, Kan., have the corner stoue vi @ neat Church euifce m piace. P Rev. Davia Wi lis, D. 1., has Secented the cat! of the Western #resuyteraa churca, Washington, DO, Av ut forty persona have been converted re- centiy im (ue Presy; leriau Caurcé ab divatue vii ono, Rev, J. H, Thornwell (aon of the jate able mneo- logian of the sain? Lame), partor of the Popiut Tent cbured, ia the Synou OF North Caroina, wae been severely 1 irom an attack of paralysis, | During the past year 105 persous have been added ou profession wid jorly by letler tO Lhe | caureves in Harmony I’resbytery, Norsk Ostolna | "Phe Rev. Hbenezer Huliey, ». ., pastor of ine | Tord Presbyterian cowed of Atowmy, Ne Yoy | preached Lith wai, poe Hitiet tae ministry, irom the text, “/ bave been youny and now am ow." Hie | nrac charge was ab Sl. Andrews, scovand, tne scene oj (ue javors Of Join Kuox. T tren years | later ne came to America, aud fs Leen lor | twenty years pass tie pasior oF bis present cual ee. Kev. Josias Mevenaon, late of Waatington, Va, has removed to budaio, Va, BAPTIBT, The Baptist Home Mission society, whose fin ial year ts almost closed, has received irom bi churcnes $192,000 jor ita Work, $1,000 more than im ¢ Asscasor'a | amy urevivus year. ILvegan We sear With & devt | Becation of the lsre PUdIG And Dot piivale | sea of 20,000 upturned faces presented a sigat | you are hereny soiemuiy warned,” says the Koglish; | | Prince o1 Ligot walking in the city oi the Great e | St. Paul mission churches and stations and fo: missionaries: In tole eily, Seven mission stacious, ive ministers, three bible readers and exit Suuday schoois are supported by the Union. Five church. s are ed by partial support of their pastors, and one ‘on is aided DY payment Of interest on mortgage, Tae contributions made tbls year amount thus iar bo 000, Kev. 8. B, Gregory bas accepted a eall to L singbary and will enter upon his duties tere oF 1 Rev. L, Oasin, of Burtington Flats, bas accepted acall to Spriugfield Centre, N, Y. Key. C. M. Hrace goes iow Clarksville to the Second Muo churen, N.Y, o . Wilson Srauth retires from Franktord avenne Baptist church, Pitiudelpha, aud prob- ably will se'tle in Connecticut. On Wednesday nigtt Inst the Heriem Temple pes t church extended a unanimous call to Kev. iialsey W. Knapp, A huge commitiee waited oo wentiemon the next day and proifeed the call, The Sixty avenue Baptise charcn of brouk- lyn is ready todo the same tuing. ‘he Clinton avenue church has @ committee ready to invite Mr. Knapp to that fleld. In the meanitne be 13 pastor Oi the Laight street Mission church, where he is Going a very acceptabie service. ‘the co regations are large ald @ great deal of religious Lerest prevails. T: ere are nine Protestant churches in Hoboken, N. J., Dut One Las just becom» pastoriess by tue room of Kev. Mr, Maul, of the Baptist urch. The Rev, Nathan Brown, D. D., writes that the new chapel of the Bapust mission at Yokouana was litely destroyed in a contagration whica Taged before a furious cyclone and burned Over & large district im that part oO: the city. ‘The Rey. 0, A. Williams, for many years the suc- cess(ul pastor at Mount Vernon, N. Y., has | accepted a call to the First Baptist church, Nebraska City, and commences Nis labors in thas new State May lL. The Rev, D. M, Crane has resigned the pastorate of te North Springticid (Vt) Baptist church, thouzh still sappiying them for the present. io Key, W. hb. Watkinson, Who lately resigned at Nicetown, Pa, has become pastor at bupis- town, Hanierdon county, N, J. Toe Rev, F, Kratz nas accepted the pastorate of the church at Mattewan, N, Y., and has euvered upon bis lavors, ; ‘he Kev. RK. M, Chenanit, of Madison county, | Ky., who Was tor sometime a stadent at Crozer, 1s ed to india as @ missionary o1 the Boston | Bowra. : | fhe Rev, A. J. Hires, late of Cape May Court House, N. J., is unanimously invited to the Broad- way church, Baluimors on Toe Bapust church! become their pean ‘Tie Rey. J. Wheaton Smith, of Beth-Eden church, Philadephia, has resivued, One of the reasons assigned for this action 18 Mis desire to preaca to | the Door, Who. lor some cause, do not seem to be | attracted to the new builaiog. |. The Kev. S. J. Knapp, o! Paterson, N.J., has | been Compelied, throug overwork, to cease mrn- | isterial labors lor some wees to come. ROMAN OATHOLIO. | The Rev. Father M. Borgazzi, au Italian mission- | ary, who lor twenty years has conducied a very | successini mission at Hong Kony, China, is now 1a Baltimore lecturing to raise funds to rebuilt and | repair chureves and scavols recently injured or destroyed by typhoons. ‘Archbishop Bayley tas appointed tpe Rey. Dr. | Joon Boley, of Si. Martin's cauren, his chaplain, to | accompan, him to New York op the occasion of the snstailation Of Cardinal Mcviossey, ‘Tue death 1% announced, in Indianapolis, of Rev. Fi ther George A, uriiton, a relative o; the late Archbishop Spaulding and jor thirteen years pas- tor o1 St. Mary's church in toat city. He was a native Kentuckian and was fifty-seven years of age. | Neev, Father Peter Van Dval, of St. Francis | Xavier’s church (colored), Baitimore, bas gone South on business conuected with the mission. Vicar General Qaiun bas had & Out 200/000 appli- cotious tor places in the Cathedral on Tuesday to witness tue Coule ring of ihe berretia on Vardinal mevloskey. About 194,000, for obvious reasons, | willbe disappotntea aud chagrined. On the 1th mst, fi ty-nine culored adults were confirmed by Bishop Gross im St. Benedict's church. Savaunan, Ga, and 1X Colored women received the waite veil irom the hands o1 the | Bisnop at the Same time. | St. Joseph. | ka.ner Toner's new cnureh in Towanda, Pa., cost $00,000, ail Of Which, save $7,000 bas becn | beid oft, Rev. Bugene Vetromtie, D. D., of Kastport, ba | beea elected member of the lnternauoual Cou- gress of AMericanisis in France. | The bew Cashoite college that is being erected at | Chambersburg, uear Trenion, N. J., by the Fran- cisean Fathers, will be dedicated next mouth by Bsnop Corrigan. | The Rey, Patser Zebo, who was the confessor of the Kwperor MaxXimiliaa op the day of (ne latter's €@Xecullon, 18 LOW pastor of the Franciscan courch | at Trent y. Bishop O'Brien, Tecently consecrated and cleva- ted to the @piscopaie of Kingston, Canad, ts tor- ty-tWO years Of age and bas been Dineteen years | in the priesthood. Lo 1564, ue became pastor of | | the churcd at Brookvili¢, irom Which oe has veen | | called Lo & meher position. His consecration took | | piace Inst Sunday, aud lis reception by Lis LEW parishioners Was most cordial and earnest. ‘Phe Catavlcs of Haltiax, N. 5. ure ralsing $7,000 | to fuga Sr. Mary's Cathedral, | | Father Dainon, ©. J., of tue Hoty Family eourca, | In Chicago, lii., stated from the puiptt, Suoday, | April 11, that the city contained 200,000 Catpolios, | Arrangewen's aze completed ior the erection of a Catholic church e@dilice at North Troy, Vt, tals summer. The Kev. N. J. Bourke, who has nceeptably } served the Cacholics of Newport, Herkimer county, LN, ¥., 8 about to sever tis COnuectVGs there and | Bo to Troy.” EPISCOPALIAN, Rev. Dr, Potter, of Grace church, will start for | Europe ta June,"to be absent One year, during waiteb U0 will attead and assist in U | oa of the bew Episcopal church im Kome, healy, Protestant Episeopal charea, Pater- sou, N, d., wul celebrate the Miticth auniversary ol tts foauding on Toursday next, | Si. dames’ Provestant episcopal Sunday school, Brookiya, began iv 1563 With a mere Bandini of scnoiats, It now pamLlers 95 officers and teach- ers and 723 scholars. bishop Littiejoun is expected to viatt St. George's parisa, in Hemp»tead, on the frat Souday in and administer the rite of couiimation. Bishop Wuipple, of Minnesota, is bow recraitiug | Dis besith at toe Arkansas Hot springs. The Epi-eopaiians of New London, Conn, a about to erect a memortal churca to Bishop Sea- bury at Groton, Wis Diurtuplace, and 91.500 have beeu rawed jor that purpose, Trey BOW as& aid irom Other quar'ers to prosecute their encerprise, | A Lew $6,000 Gothic Couren had Leen erected in | Parsons, Kan., a tow, not yet our years oid und containing 8,000 Inhabitants, W. Alired Danicl, B. A., Chaplain and diviniy iec- | | | ' { m, vl Colorade, having @ thorouchly cagrossed Im secular pursuits, | has been deposed irom the wintry vl tue rule | tant Bpiscopal Coureh. | The Re ia U. Laugdon, D, D,, rector of ‘Tolestant Byiscopal Church, is commg On & Visit to the Untied sates, and will arrive here eerily DeXt Week. A Sort O( trianguler fignt is now going on in the | charch press over the “Canon ou Rirual” adepted | by one jate General Convention assomo.ed in tain city. Kituaism will uot down eveu at tae mourn of canuns, lilinois at one extreme of the Church taiks of seceding [rom tue Geaeral Conversion vecause Goud Hot bave its choice Of Lisuop.—Seymour or DekKov Virginia, at tue OLher extreme, thioks itis tune jor ber, (00, to bacé out, since Titualism appears (0 be inuking such Wead Way in the Cnurch, | and the General Convention is puraiyzed aud | peipiess to interers. @ Rey. Joseph F. Jowitt has resigned Bis posi- tlon #9 assistaul muuister at dt, Tuouias’ cuuren, New York. ‘Toe Kev, Malcolm Douglass, D. D., has resigned | the Presidency of Norwion University, Nort: id, | Vt, and accepted a call as rector of Curist chured, Andover, Mass. Tue Rey. W. A, Williams, rector of All Saints’ chupel, Pontiac, ik. 1, sailed ior Kurope on Wedaes- | day, April 14, Lo be Hosen about sx InvUtLs | The Kev. G Wilam Caimp a8 resianed the par- | Ish of the Hoy Cross, North Pininie N. Tre comsecrstion of the Rev. Dn Taguae: to be | Bishop of toe bew diocese Of Southern Uliw, Will | bane place On Wednesday, April 45, iv tae cuurcl | Of Waick Me Ls ab present revior, MISCELIANBOUA, | The Rev. James A. Good, of Reading, Pa,, lately from whe Uniov raeoiogical Seminury at New York, | has accepieu a call trom the Meweiberg churca ab 01 A bew reformed congregation has been orgen- ized at Pecatonica, fiteca mies Wom Freeport, JL, and wuder tue pastoral care of Rey. J. Wernly, 1 that piace. Mr. Abram Becker has given to the chare) of Greenville, S. J., of Whied th» Rey. Alexander H, YOUns is pastor, tie MuBiMceRt puua Yi $10,400, LO be used ior Luiiding purposes. ‘doe Israelites of Puiadelpoia have just estab- lisbea a Very creditable organ of toeir (aith, 7ne Jewish Kecord, Mts toitial Damber bas very read- abie articies on Palestine and Jewish couversious wnd kindred |opios, Wii @ good Beiceton Of mike us readiug puinled im Clear, void type o1 good pay y 600 Reman Catholic Temper- ie There ance unions bow in the United Staves, and} organ, the Cotholic Union, hae come oui us a Brostnly, win the proms of & Weekiy waue by aud by. ‘The Rev, & Muller Hageman will be tnstalied this witernoon in Apollo Hall, Brookiyn, Be D., as | pastor ul Lue Uwiom Jaber baci ; ae | NINETEENTH SYREEL SYNAGOGUE. HOW MEN CHANGE THEIR MORAL ACTIONS WITH THEIR TEMPORAL CONDITIONS —DISCOURSE DY REV. H. &. JACOBS, ‘The sory of Hogsel’s visit to Elisha and bis gub- sequent elevation to the throne of Syria nnd per- lites jormed the basia of Mr ac Totteaviile and West- | | eid, 5. 1, Dave given Calis to Brother BH. Loux to | ‘Lhey become Sisters of | dediow | Tbe kev, W. J. E. Beonett has presented Rev. | Geneva, Switaeriaud, aud mus- | | Jacobs’ discourse yesterday im the Ninereentn street synagogue. Eusha, said Mr. Jacobs, hap- pened to be ut Damasons at @ period w Ben- | hadad, King of Syria, was so seriously Blok © 1 his life appeared to be short. Tie King hears of the man of God and sends a message to him con- cerning his recovery, Hazael, the messenger, enters the presence of the prophet, woo regards him intently In the face, and his agitation becomes irrepressibie, until the prophet bursts into & Passion of teara, Haziel asks the cause, and Elisha answers, be the cause o/ great calamity to Jaracl.”” Besuel ereupou responds, “Is tay servapta dog that he should do this thing??? The Lord bath shown | me, sald the prophet, that thou wilt be king over Syria, ‘Lbs narrative 18 more than nisiorical—tt | is didactic. It is a thing wiich bappens, and 1s a8 Visible to-day as It was 3.000 years ago. It is the le: of human muta'tons not more violent | Mor diflering Mucu ‘row Lbose wich we are ac- | customed to see, They, are moral Changes, and | i che Waman heart ty consietent in any one thing it 13 1M 118 inconsistencies. those tulngs whten in | one phase oO! ine are exceedingly odjectiouadle in | another may become quite agreeable; for seen | too oft we yrow Jamiliar wich their lace—at lirst we pity, then aumire @.d then embrace. but these chi are nOG part and parcel of our morat nature, These things are not tie develop- Ment O1 time, Dut the very baseness of our Own hearts. With ourselves the dauger ties; lor + oen there 19 no real spirit OL love aud stability witiin us these CHANGES AND MUTATIONS ARB PIERQUENY. They come and yo and ieaye nok a trace veumd. The worldly — conurt! | here of e More ti any changes of time produce those mutations of character, Hazael siudders ut tne charge a1 t he woud in ume tO Come pursue—the creel deeus that oe should in the future do toward fxrael. He 1s in ‘this condition the symbol of every one of us, low on aiter were the proppet’s words tulfiled, when Hazael performed ali those aeeds aguinss Israel aud became a success ju his o.vellies | toward tne Jews! This narrative was writren 8,00) years azo, and Uf you are faicniul readers of events don’t you see the same things happeaing every day? See now those waow you thing are men Of SLADLITY OF character Vacillate becween two opin- ions? And bow oiten you see the man lalsilying | the promise of the bey! You see some who bave | Cast of all the restraints of Jewish life, and you think of the boy who gave promise Ol all tral was pious and holy and good, But mauyood fonds him tue very opposite ol ail that we saw tn rhe boy. And there 18 @ Woman, the Very emvod mont of Jasbion aad folly. She is seldom seen tn the poase | of and wheu sae comes sue thinks | she honors the nouse and God by her | presence, But that womim as @ Was pious ana good, your expectations o. ber, fue Man of Weailh lor- Bets and lorsakes the God from whom a. bis b.e33- lags come, Whie ho was poor be thougat upon | God, but now ue violates vs holy day and the ordiuances of His house, And the woman ol jasiion bes jorroben ner aucient race aud | hneage, ao1 become the slave or the word, whicn | despises ner ior her chungeaole character. ‘Tuts 3s bul Hazael’s case repeated, The altered condi« tion was ad thal was needed to develop the’ | Character within, Tbe deieos of toat character wis radical, ana only needed aa opportuulty to | show itseif, Lvere is | NO SUCH THING aS HUMAN INFALLIBILITY, land we caa’i ve too watenial of our boasted | Strengta, lor we know not our real weasness uot we have Leen tried, Let us, therefore, trust | less to ourstives aud more in God, Our true strength ana depenuence re ts upou the hyaner powse A tower 0 streagth 1s tae name ott ord, L© Which the righievus flee und are exaite And yet inere 13 # lesson 10 Lnis—to look with | leniedt @: upon tne failings of olbers, To err 16 human, and snail” we noc recoy- nize in the brotnerboou of humanity tuat | there ls @ Weakness aud & jailing 10 Us al.’ But te | Would b@ jUS6 45 fuvlisa for us Teiuse to tli the 1a because tue fruit vi our tol may be swept ¥ WILE Ube Le; a8 (oO Gespair of irue prive succeeding because some have succumbed to | existence, Ynere are many Hazaeis, but aad there heen DO lack of principle that Rs ements Would not have passed uunoneed and walaprover We must guard ogaiast nese Hazaeis vy watching | BE LUG gates Of (ue Young, jor sia Lech wt Lert | doors, ana the text suggests taal we must survey our oWn hearts, 50 tat whea time DoiDgs Its | changes we may be ab'e to sand 11s aluretnents and rely more on heaven and jess on oars ly | Mr. Jacobs gave & Very practical appli ation ol & discourse to his congrecution anu Closed wita @ prayer (hat (ney uigut be taitiiul to God aud to dus holy law. PRISON LIBRARIES. subject Of bruries for prisons will commend and explain itsel | MISS GILBERT TO MR, HEPWORTH. | Rev. Geonor H. Hrrwonrn:— Dean Sin—l desire to thank you for the kindly interest you have shown in the iate of the erin. | nals of this couatry. There is no class concerning 18 peruaps the reason why they are leit Wo Lue doubtful mercy of circumstances, My object, a8 you may be aware, 18 twofold, In | the first place, 1 am very anxious (o furnisa every { jail and bo of detention, where wea and | Women who are more or jess criminal are con- fined, with @ library. Prisovers have nothing to | look at out the blank wads of their cella, and | notming to think of except their sins, aud | though tals latter may be @ very fruitini | theme it is not always # profitable one | ‘bey Would gladiy read youu works, aud tue vaue of such an iufuenee Cunnot be overestimated. You muss uot irget (hat a man Who would care | nothing for a hoek when he ws with Dis boon com- panions 18 ofenimes very grarelut lor it Woen he | ones IL have Kuowd Cases agai | Where wen ave Lol ony been Drougut to Buce 10F Lhe past, LUE (OB radical y Means of tue leW oooks any pretures to Which | tey ba’ lum pot asking aid to wry | an eXperiumeu i am ees belp to par a plan info operation the whica bas been fay — b sted. placed im the Covk County Jail, Liz the it, Louis County Jar, Mo; the Springfelu County | Jai) iL 4 the Ohicago House of Detention; the New ‘York city Tombs aud io other pisces of coniine- ment, od ibis tae Uoanimol WO have Charge Of Such UMatiUNous That tavoe librarics pave wade i easier to maint disci- pline and have been of t cuiavle benedt im otner Ways. Aly otver object is even more importan' und 1%, Lfear, attended by serious didicuiues. hi ound wany a guideu opportunity to adord a reieased prisoner tae meaus of ap wonest livell hovd, They Ougnt Hot to oe cut Off irom ali nope, wad yet how poweriess we are to do them good. We Oul rom the routine OF pri-on Iie inte the wild Whirl, and the more men Know | of them 'he less they trust them. It seems ag though every man’s liand were against thew, aud ja very truth that is preity neariy the case. God help them, seems to ve al we can gay. You do | Bot douvt thal this state Of Lungs is Wrong. If God cap pity We ougut to ve wing Lo forgive. It | 18 not rigut to rob even @ criminal OF Wid last chance, L have kuowWa Miay instances ia Which, had possessed thy requisite iunds, 1 e imeured tue ivation Of some I have ent very largely personal income, tor lseomehew dare turuat Luese piliable creatures out op charity of the Worid, Li some of she Wealthy geu- | Uemen of New York Would consecrate even au in- Kiguificant portion of Wher money to this object untold good might be accomplished. hopes that (he Youks ior tue projected lioraries | Wil be tai pisbed, ond tam not Withous fabh buat tue Woney Needed Will ve Jorthcoming. ‘Thauking you agai jor your uerest in ‘the ANDA GILBERT, 2 2 cause, | rewiin, very truly yo Naw Yous, April 22, 1975. HOW TO HRLP THE PRISONERS. To THE EpTOR oF THE HERALD: — | Ifyou will allow ine space | should ke to make an appeal to fhe charitable people of the city io behal! of the important work with which | Miss Linda Giibert is identified. That work, as | Landerstand it, ty tworeld. First, she desires to put into every city wad county jail a good livrary; | and, second, to as-ist and succor those wio-e | term of service has ex,ired, To those who have never looked into the matter this may seem to ine | dicate fapaticum., We are too much inelined to | give evil docrs over to their fate, Fair womea deem it ignovie work to wing any Cartan in | fuenge Ww Hear On ver @ iugals, wad houest men MHOle bbe ailocetner, | that When, even wader the (kemendous ;ressure | OF eTeSt Lempta ion, A mau comuMis & Crime be is COuM0ed th prisva tor a 'erm OF years, ang UO | Comes out to Hud that practically oO} Une day tvs not & Word w | As the World runs jo now, it would be better jor some sovieiy ior uhumMabiy tO Men and homeless ciass of | Mr. Bergh did to last summer, | them, om the ground, of lora society whac the dogs of New York He very auietly aspoyxiate | whieh i eaally dewnied, toat they bad ov friends, but only enemies, and that of let loose of tbe community they would | Ingyitably go mad and cause uuloid misery, When & prisoner, entombed tor a single crime, of jor a ries O1 Crimes, comes Irom his confinement he nds that be bas not a single rigat When any 1s bound to Tespec\. Every one's baud i him; aod since you cau Leer | expect, a Fe- sult OF 41% soars’ spent in bard Labuy gud the rigid ne of @ prison, that he will ardenty jor- give this state of Cungs and be honest wien every one gives bim creoit for baie 6 19 prac | Uealiy oriven, and by tue sprrit of Une age, snto his oid Ways ti he is @ man o; many sas OF 1bbo evil Ways if he ia mau Of & angie sin, This 18 Hot as ic svouid be. Lam sure thu the Christian ed ‘of New York are more than willlmg 0 Co- verale With those Who are Iaboriny to change this condition of things. Miss Gti nas ao cepted ber missiva very hearty, and has shown ber varnostness by spcuding & ConsWerabie Bars “1 perceive that thou wilt ) The following interesting cerrespondene on the | whom the Clristian padlic kaow so.tittle, aud this | eae ede iet re | TO THe EorToR OF THE HanaLD>— wart | She, wo. vas talsided all , i phere is “iuch to cheer us in the pathway ot | | ious character. Libraries Mave becn | OPADLON Of Luose | ihave gieat | | | Ttaty. of ner private fortune im behalf of the criminal. She says, very traly, that tae mea who | @re confined in our jatis and Louses of detention have notaing to do irom one Week to another eXcept to recall past crimes and concoct ne ones. It they could be educated by a good library untold good might be accomplisned, If these wretenes cannot be ministered to words of encouragement aud admon.tion they be at cop ne. baynt Rgepore of the printed . ul by such means 18 Worth all the books we shall ever give for this ob- ject. Let me then make this practical sugges'ion, Every one wo reads this letier has irom one tO many scores o good and strongly boand books, which are of no Value, Vecause they bi bee Rhey may, however, be put to @ very Imporrant usé ‘The Library in the Tombs bas actually made it easier The m a etcular to eniorce giscipline in that prison, mate: read WIth sharpened appetites and gr 1 he tude, The lioraries which have been catablisned im ocher quart have produced like resuits.. Let me ask YOU, then, to co-operate With 2% in this on- derrat: Choose irom your jibrary as many Volumes &% you can easily Spare. and them to my residénce, No 19 West Forty-seventn street, or to my church, Of the corner of Forty-tifth street And Madison avenue, Sod I will see thas they get into the bauds Of Miss Gilbert, IL dared I would also ask that money be sent for the Same purpose, utas lam to poor to give my- sell L) esitare to ask others. Both Gooks and Money, however, will be grateluily received, acknowledged and carevuliy used. { am Only too glad to commend tors work to the charitabe, and subjomn a letter lately received trom Miss Gilber& 1p corroboration of whut I said in beball of the crimnais of America, If God can forgive them we Cun at leas! aflord to pity and heip them, am, stueerely yours, GEOKGE H., HEPWORCH, New York, April 23, 1875. PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERIAL SUPPLY. ‘The Rey. 0. RK, Burdick writes to the Hvangetist of this city giving some causes Of dissaugfaction with ministers and their repeated ehanges of pas~ torate, The quession of ministerial, gly is now being agitated qutre extensiveiy, anu the Generat Aasembiy soon to meet in Cleve and, Onio, will ua- doubtealy de called upon to devise some means to abate the evil, which Dr. Burdick says is an alarm- ing featare in the practical workings of the Pres- byterian system, He therelore calis the prayer- ivlatteation of the Church to the evil and tts causes, among Which he cites @ Jaise tmpression in the mind uf the Presvyteriau commuuitive gener ally thas the Cuurca tas au Over-suyply Of Mims. ters, He tiere ore gives the jollowing statiaccs a8 a basis for disabusing the minds of his readers on this point. Last year he says the Presvyterian Charch lost from aér wluistry by deatn, Gis- missed to oO: ber vodies, 265 Lotal, Lil. She added 10 Ler m/Btscry trow her theological semimeries, 146; Irom other bodies. 55; total, 201, Deduct the loss, 111; net gain durimg the year, 9), Sve added to tie NUMMber of her cvurcdes during the same year by organizauion, 174; [roi otner bodies, 11; Total, 185. Deduct tUe loss by dissol/ucion, 63 and they have @ net gain Oo 122 Churches. Thus, he auds, we received 32 more churenes than minis- ters, ‘The toval bumover of reaes under care of the General Assembly 18 4,938; total number of ministers, 4,596; giving more churenes tiuD ministera by $10, Add to this number aii presidents, professors, teachers, eutors, secretaries, agents and retired miaisters, who re necessarily emoraced mn the above enomeration, and of necessity irom lack of mitisiers more than one-tenth of the churehes must remain Vacant, Unless they can intraduce the circuit sistem wore effectuaily, by which one TMunister may supply move than one churca, This accounts for not nore (han one-third, or at most one-hall, OF the Vacant cau ehes, Buttt shows that the evil complained o1 cannot be, to any ex- tent, irom & SUrpius OF Ministers, It does not tell us, says Dr. Burdick, why irow 500 to 1,000 ef our munisters are with ul charge, Ror way irom 1,000 to 1,000 move of them are seeking @ change, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN THE LOYALLY ISLANDS. s Mr. Ella, an Eoglish missionary in tue Loyalty Islands, relates a pitiful story of tke persecu ions to whicn Protestants have been subjected by the Roman Catholics m tvat colony. Twice the Kag- | lish government bas remonstrated wita France ta regara to these persecutions, but with only tem- rary suceess. After each interval, the crucities broke Out airesh, and with all (ne more ferocity jor ther short suspeusion. The Protestar ts wei driven iron their hories, Which were talu im cutis, ahd When Wwe Women caule Jorth irom their tiding places iM search Of jood for their starving euudre, tuey Were tled To trees by their humus, aunt were lessiy struck ob their suspended bodice With cubs mabawks. In some istunves tacit iets were at once Chupped OiT; and, tudeed, thie su Mary Method of execution appears iv itave g) - proved itselt to tue Koman Cato wis siouatto, a8 the Dest, DOLO as a pUUsLMsNt ava on Ww otwers Starved our, deach, @ good Many natives seem to auve ou wardly abjured the Protesiant tuita. Only som three nundred Protestants remain ane wey or ihe: prevected (rom celebrating public Worsbip. Villages are in ruins, tueir eoapels burucd to bh ground, their plantations devastated, ther groves Of CoCds LRGs CUL GOWN; wll ds desolation ates misery. TWO PREACHERS AT ONCE. The Methodist church in Nottingham, Mauioue recently bad a double service of a mosi wueud- A quarrel had divided the con gregation, and each party claimed to bs dom nunt, Each bad called & new minister, and the two clergymen were om baud to begin thelr bors, Tbe frst to arrive took posgession of the piulpis and the other sat bevind the chaneel rail, Tne Wao i the pulpit gave OUL @ Oyun, the olner man gave out another, and both were suug coniusehy vy the Fivel seciions oF toe assemby. Then tre mae belund the railing started of on his sermen, aad the otuer an ta read @ chapter of Seripture. When the readiog was over and it Was pain taar the preaching was going to last muca looger the partisans 01 Lhe reader sung another oyinn with a ,000 Organ accompaniment. Toe musical noise | crowned the Voice of the ciergyman in the pulpit, but when tt was over he was jiound to be preaca- ing right along #4 though nothing auusual had happened, The clergyman in tae Chancel, less cool, Was Unable tu Ux fis thouglts on & dim course, and so remaines sient aud teu. At the Close of this extraordinary Scene @ deacom ex- Plaimed that it had oven enacted “under legal ad- vice and to furcher the cause of Carist.” It is i uurther Uke cause Of Curis,’ ouiared te YOUNG MEN'S CATHOLIC UNION. The (oliowing addrevs has just been issued by the Committee on Urganization of the Young Meu’s Catholic Union to the Various young men's Ca holic associatious aud literary societies of New Yor The Young Men’s Catholic associations have for their ouject tae religious aod iatelectual im- provement of their members, Young Uatuciica, who suouid bewng 0 them, are scattered througwous the iengta and breadth of tue land, d especially in wue large cities, Young men are paturaiy bby aie tond Of company; they berd together. i they Rave not to belong to they will belong ber. they will iorm ti ‘coteries," their cabs and their associations o! & sitatar oature. How muon better to band them together Un: er the influence of tuelr religion, to rovide liurarles, reading rooms, gy Macs uns ood he like. Where Luey may assemibie togetner aud spend their leisure aours! Where they are ex- posed toso much Lempiation it seems to become wimost a hecessily that this provision should be must be taken that they a the members should s:rive ty be what ti calls lor, Cathoues Mm deed as wail aA ka heme. Youtu are especially exposed in our land and im our day fo three vices—blaspheuy, lace m~ perance and pen: ty. ‘fhe aun aud ovject oF lwe Uattouc ar ations already existing, oF to be estaviusned, should be to set their ‘aces againat those horribe eviis ahd to promote by muidal vod example the practice of ail the holy virtues That (herr religion pre crives among ihe members. wie bas shown that the fuilest devi Met Of OLgauiaations is Ob/ained Uy Uulied achion on (he part Of sociesies haying & COM NOL Object A conierence wil be nell the rooms Of dt. Mary's Libra 0, 235 Be oD mee ling th ry a be emplvyed ta secaring them will Tully wal B possivle i & commuaaicalion of this | kind. MISFORTUNES OF THE STREET CARS. Let me call your atiention to our troubles with Every morning when Liek@ ® Thwd ave- hue >ar itis mvaded by bands of Maians, armed i with shovels, going to their work, They crowd the ear so that it is dificult to get in orout, £ Tespect honest lavor, but am Not partial to dirt. ‘These sons of sunny Italy are #0 dirty that scap woud do tuem oo good, ‘lhe ooly way tuey could get clean would be to use thoir Spades Upun vaca oiher, and then they ag have tv dig lor hours to remove the stratified deposits of unwashed youra. hey are so Girly that the drivers aad conductors will tot Glow them fo ride Upom the piatiorma, Acrawing sensation ts produced by riding 10 (he Company Of these men, lo Whom Water 18 Unknown. ihe Third Avenne im permictiug 0 state of afuir t only to citizens who ride Witit ans, DULEO ali WHO use the same cal u 1 SUgKOS: bial special Cars might be or Luese people At ihe bour: wien thes go to Work; for certainly some prot forded to ti eneral bie, nh the worst ol kgvpt. Such ai outrage would not be in £0e street Cars Of aby Koropean town. ' in Toulouse; but in New York it seems the muat sori eWay ae well aa they can, 1 or, 4 SYMPATOUZBR WITH ITALIAN SUPFERRE t=, *e.owds,” their .