The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1875, Page 13

, NEW YORK HERALD, SONDAY, JUNE 20, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ———__—_—_—___-—— RELIGIOUS INTELLIGRNGE. ‘Ministerial and Church Movements. Inherited’ Vice and Virtues. seibcetireeat XED? Congregational Singing--Endless Punish- qent--Five Points Mission. * PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY, The Rev. W. G. McKinney will speak in tag Chureh of the Incarnation, Maaison avenue, this morning, concerning the religious needs of the | Bouth, and especially among tne colored people of New Orleans where he labors, ¢ Bishop Potter will administer the rite ef confir- Mation this afternoon in the Church of All Angels, Rey. ©, F. Hoffman recior. The addition to tite ehurch will be opened at the same time, Mar. Seton will preach ts afternoon at the Passionist Monastery, West Hoboken, and will, atthe same time, bless three bells about to be raised to the towers thereof, In tue Russian chapel the Rev. N. conduct service in morning. C ta All Saints’ Protestant Episcop.! charch, the Rev, W.N. Dunneli wil) officiate and preacn to- @ay at the usual hours, “The Eternity of God’s Salvation” and “Christ Lifted Up,” are themes on whicn the Rov, Wiliam Lioya will dtscourse this moruiug and evening 1n Washington square Methodist Episcopal church. A Spiritual Conference wiiloo held at Harvard Rocms this afternoon and evening, A ladies’ my oting will be eld tus morning. “Family Worsnip’? is wat tho Rev. E. C. Swoeetser will speak about this morning in “Bleeoker stro. t Universalist church, How to be Saved” and “Jesus our Martyr- King" are the topics on whicks Dr. Deema will Speak to-day in the Church of the Strangers, The Rev, R. 8, MacArthur will preach as usual to-day In Calvary Maptist charch. In tne Church of the Disvipies of Christ the Rev, D. R, Van Buskirk will preach this morning aod evening. ‘This evening tn Fifty-shird street Baptist charch the ali sionary Association will bold their anni- versary. Matthew Hale Smith and others, Dr. Armitage will preach in Fifth avenue Bap- tist churcn this morning and evening as usual. Dr. Cyrus Dickson will preach in the Fourth Presbyterian church this worning and afternoon, In the Churen of Our Saviour the Rev, James M. Putiman will preach this morning, Mrs. F. O, Hyser will address the Progressive Bjerving will Spiritualises at the usual hours to-day in the hall | in West Thirty-third street, Mrs. Dr. Boardman will address Grace Baptist charch thla morning, aod Dr, Boardman in the evenlag. “Humility Before Honor” and “The Wise and Foolish Burlder” will ve treated tn Seventh street Methouist Episcopal cbureh to-day by Rev. Jonn 8. Willis, “The Whole Family in Heaven and Eartn” and “The Immortality of Man’ will be aiscassed in Seveutermth street Methodist piscopal cuure to-day by Rev. J. H, Lightboura, Rey, J. Spencer Keahard will preach this morn- , ing on “The Church of tue Catacombs,” and this evening on “iiome Life,” in the Pigrim Lapis ehuren, “The Seoret of Happiness’ will be revealed this | evoning in St, Joha’s Methodis: Episcopal church by Rev. J. M. King, “rhe Young Man Wanted for tho Times’ will be sought for in Allen street Methodist’ Episcopal chureh tuis evening by Rev, Charlies &. Harris. “Phe Troe ideal of Womanteod” and “Noses a Moaei for Young Men’’ will be held up to-day in the Tabernacle Baptist church by the Rey, J. B, howthorne, inthe Anthon Memorial church, the Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach this morning and af- ternoon, “True Christian Zeal” will be presented in the Churoh of the Diselples tils morning vy the Rev. George H, Hepworth, who will give a Bivie read- | ing on the “Lord’s Way” iv ti® evening. In St. Ignatias’ Protestant Episcopal church, the Rev. Dr. Ewer will odictate and preach at the usual services to-day, Rev. Clement M. Butler, D. D,, Professorin the Divinity College, Philadelphia, will preacu in the Church of the Holy Trinity tuis morning and atter- noon. Rev. Arthur Brooks will preach in the Churen of the Incaraostion this evening. In Ali Souis’ Episcopal church, Brookiyn, Rev. Dr. Porteous will preach tuls morning and ovening, Subice’s—"Lack of Self-Reliance Among Religious Classes” and “The Function and Value of Public Opinion.”’ Rey, Morgan Dix, D, v.. will preach tu Grace churep this morning at the usual hour. “Leadership of the Sp:rit’ is the subject on whicd Rey. George McCampbell wili preach this morning in Spring street Presbyterian charch. in the Chureh of the Atonement the Rev. 0. C, ‘Tittkoy will minister this moroing aad afternoon. “Papal Infaliivdity” will be aiscussed in St Paui’s church, Brookiyn, this evemmg, by Rev. Father MeQuirk, of New Brighton, 5. L. Mr, William Clark, of Bristol, Bugland, will ad- Gress young men in Asaoctation Hail this evening. In the Firet Reformed Episcopal churen toe Rev, W. T, Sabine will preach this morning aud even- tog. the Rev. Dr. Flagg will miatster to the Charch of the Resurrection this morning and evening, Moses Mull will address the Progressive Spirit- walistes of Brooklyn, E. D., in Latham Hall this afternoom CONGREGATIONAL SINGING. fo tas Eprror or rue Henato:— “Congregational singing ts a bumbag!” “Po you mot believe ta the people doing their | worship aa singers?’ “Yes, those who can sing.” Tuls conversation tock piace between the Rev. Mr. 1D. nd the writer; and the question is agitating one-half of tne Christian Chureh at this time. If there Is attributable to that half of the Christian Church termed Protestant it is for attempting to make congrogatioual singing appear worship. If in any one point comparison is favorable to tho polity oftie Church of Rome it is for its high cultivation of church music, Who ever heard @ vast assémblage shout aloud ina | Roman Catholic church to the tafnite dis musicians? Fea) ful, fearfal is the Suaday m style of organ playing placed before congrega- tions, Not that the organists are at fa Not no! They are capable of the purest and most sacred style, The fault iselsewhere, To really sing de mands years of careful study and culture, Alow and conceited estimate is the concomitant of a | ---gabthe use of the lungs of a mighty congregation. Worship! Ye gods and ye goddesses of muetc, how long shail the people roar at the request of Pulpit orators! An orator, It take’ more to produce a singe Spontaneous. yocal ability exists about im o1 yoice ina hundred, transcendent 10 one in one hun- dred thonsand, The pulpit orators reverse the fact and act on the fiction taat pinety-nive in a hundred can vocalize, Like spontaneous com- Dustion spontaneous vocal ability takes rarely, Butevyen when found tn spontanelly it requires time to study to perfect it No branch ( science transcends tn its laws that of ounds are the medium of commun mind with poe erg With mind, ant Inamimate § With instinct, The philos ner divides sound tuto noise and music, wii Share extremes, Congregational mnging ig at the verge of the one extreme— urch pnrity and es'y should aiways enlist in whe canae a3. Progress is toward the other extre Noise is a pleasure and pastim of the savage and barbarous races, Music Is pal of the culvure of Civilization and énitgiteamen Phere ares fw cfaad chorals which tae Protea the Slavonic language this | Addresses wili be delivered by Rev. | It takes many years to produce | lace | weil, not more than thirty, Is ohurch Ny to stultify example before ine o3 by banishing choirs and cultivated singer jo ‘om the service of the vemple, thus ki mg the theatre the sole aid of the Roman Cat lic people in Church in the work of educating thelr future songs? There al ceptional churches in this regard among the Prot- estants, In wmoh the best works of mu- s.cians are known and appreciated by the eulire congregation. Among these congrega- tional noise is @ poly horror. Among these true congregationa! singing is heard, ‘Those sing wao gun sing. Those who can’t sing have gatned sense enough to keep their lips sealed. ‘Vue mach-pe- Drawed stugme of the Methodists is ignorance plastering vanity. Culling the noisy singing of the camp meeriog music 18 a libel on progre-s, & falsehood against law, & stuitification of hovesty. We bave heard a single voice at Sea Cum camp Meeting produce wonderful effects—eveu more, beauriul and oxquis.te—because of the time and the cireumstance. Why? Because it was a single | ray from tne clear sunebine of trae music, the silging of & highly cultivated volce. And what did the votaries talk about in their tents afters ward? | “Uh, did you hear Mra, —— sing the ‘Heavenly Gates Ajar’ and ‘If l were a Voice!’ There was not adry eye ta the whole asgembly. * Nota word aoout the notse, And so tt was—the true efiect of eOxguisite vocal culture, tho oasis im the desert of But the seif-elate shonters soon recom- ) # mutual admiration bana of try to do for choral singing—it ts the con- Ibis pos in the worship of the temple. There the best music that patience, per- severance, culture and means can alford should | ba the rule, the choral the exception. All will ad- mit that the house Of God should have the best and wisest man posatvle ior its shepherd and orator. Why nos, then, the best paintings, sculp- tures and masical soudds with skili interpreted ? Are daubs, pilaster casts and congregutional noise preicrable ? OG. H. & jevence meeting. A LONDON LADY ON ENDLESS PUNISHAEN’. To rHe EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— Tread in tho HERALD lately a communication on “Endless Panishment Abandoned.” Two or three | yeursago [ heard a sernfonon tho same subject bere in Eugland, ant the same arguments were used that I read in your paper—viz., “Where the worm dleth bot and the fire is not quenched.’ If struck me ten, ag now, that if should be said, tt the offal were not burned it would breed worms. But, they add, tt was barned outside oi Jerusalem, and then, how could lt breed worms? As the two | in a natural manner could not exist—fire ana Worms—so notulug on earth can be Hkened ty or explaio our Saviour’s words. “Again, whosoever shall say, thou fool,” &0, Every Jew who uttered that word conid not be burned, and waat punish- ment {Is there for them now? Because our Saviour’s Words are to continue forever, What isthe meaning of, “The wicked shall be turned imto hell,” and ‘fhe wicked 13 reserved for the day of cestruo:ion?’’ That which 18 destroyed cannot be renovated; $0 16 | Matters very littie what the piaee be Called or What itis like, bata place for tae wicked there certainly is, ‘hea is it not a pity that clever men should (ry to make it appear that thelr punish- meat ig noLeveriasting? Wold {t not be better to cimploy their time 11 teaoning inen how to avoid it instead of giving them a lieense to sin? Will Dot many argue that ag they will not be eternally punished they may as well enjoy themselves ib this world, having ho ‘ear of tae world to come, being assured there ts no such place as hell? Bat oh, how dreadful if from the sleep of deata they should awake aud find to thelr cust there 13 such a@ place! Surely it would be oatter to teach us how vo escape all panisninent by accepting the forgiveness of sins. fo what end is this doc- trine preached and what purpose will it serve? It canbot make men better; rather the contrary. Not being learned, | cannot under- Stand why itis prexciied, 30 wiil stil believe in the everiagting punishment, and by the help of God nepe to escape tt, ue having given us the means whereby Wo can do 80, Lf we choose to ac- ¢opt the terins. The clergyman whom | heard preach has Jef? the churca, his coneregation hearly ail leaving hin by degrees, through this (What is called) dangervus doctrine, Tsincerely hope our Church will never ect the old doc trine, or enlightened Christin (eeling (query, should not the World be darkened ?) declare that lt cannot be true. With this hope, 1 subscribe myself, sit, yours faitbiaily, MARY KNIGHT, Andergon street, Chelsea, Loudon, Hogland, FIVE POINTS MISSION, To THE EDITOR OF THE HkBALD:~ Iu the year 1848 several Christian ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church bad their attention drawa to tke Five Points as a prover Meld for missionary effort, They bad a year or twe velore organized a socicty for intssionary work in the neg- lected parts of the city, In their report of that | yoar they say:—“We intend to make a new point | in Centre or Elm street, in the vicinity of the | Tombs. Weexpect to employ a missionary there, who will avail himseli of every providential open- ing for usefulness,”’ To the Christian men of that day the undertaking seemed hopeless and vision- ary; but what ts too dificait for women animated by te love of Jesus to accomplish? In 1850 they applied ‘for a muisstonary, in full faith that a way | would be made for bim to act efficiently and profitably.” ‘They found a room on the corner of Little Water | and Cross streets (now Mission piace and “Park | street), twenty by Jorty feet, Their first congre- gation was described by an eye-witness as “a more vivid representation of hell than she had ever imagined.” They opened a Sabbath school With seventy scholars, Immediately they felt the Reed of a day school. It was necessary to bave the childen continually under Christian training toexert that influence over their homes essen- tial to the moral improvement of the neglected Multitudes at the Five Points, In 1363° their work had so far progressed that they had erected a mission foure, seventy-five by | forty-five feet, five stories high, having roemus for schools, a chapel and 4 home for the mission- Since then thsir accommouacions have been wely increased, and they have tow year taagot 993 enlidren in tne day scnool and have between 600 apd 600 cbdildren in attendance upon their Saobath school Coapel services are held at balfpast ten A. M. and half-past seven the Sabbath; a leotore on and a o oa Friday mings, | The children of the Mission are fed dally ana clothed, #0 ar as the means of tue Missien will 2 e: e Fy & = S years since the joundation of 8 Missiod some Oo: tho ladies who were instru- | mentai in its foundation bave labored as. amid the greatest obstacie: or ward, for the moral and religions welfare of this section, The principle upon wh:ch the Misston 13 cgiried on 15 that home and the family is the place to rear the child, Asyiums and prisons, which herd the chtidren together, cannot exers this influence, aod, hecessarily, are to this extent defective as @ means of morai training of tno chiid, Besides, tbe eect of these children trained in our schools is constantly elevating upon tne bomes tu which they dwell, Alrendy a very great moral transiormation ts apparent at the Five Points. Bat there ts ati 1a great work to be done, and no outlay of money for benevolence yields 40 rich @ return a8 the money expended under the supervision of theee ladies, Their means 0; use- fulnesd have been somewhat cartutled during the last year Or two, a8 & nataral result of the panic, It 1s hoped thit all who feel that they are stewards = of and desire to use some portion of their income to advance His cause wal look into the bistory ana work of this Mis- mon, We are satixfied if they do so they will And original Mission at the Five Points 4 trom whted all similar missions have origin. ed, is doing to-day, for means expended, the moat efficient work of all the missions. Rey. C, 8, Brown, No. 61 Park sireot, is the present Superin- oO; the Mission, to whom ali inquiries be addressed, all donations sent aud who Wii take great pleacure in exp! ings of the institution. Toe Sunda: ast two o'clock I’, M. every Savi Union alm WHAT WE LOSE BY NOT TAXING CHURCHES. To tHe Eprron or THe HERALD: The arrangemeat for calling forth and pubtish- ing various religious views ta te SUNDAY HnRaLp | i@ worthy of general approbation, as in tt there is room lor hope of counteracting the power of re- gions bigotry, and therebvy eradicattag somo of the erroneous doctrines which Rave got into tho charches, In consideration of the views recenily | pudlisned Ia the SuNpaY Henan, favoring the ex- emption oi church property from taxation, I pro- pose, through the sume source, to offer a lew op- postug remarks,, In consequence of tne exemp- tion of such property In Brooklyn and New York | to the amount of nearly $350, 000,000, taxation is increased to about $12,000,000 annualiy, which amount Is forced unjustly from the hard pressed taxpayer, Moreover, evory dollar of this large amounts has to be produced by the laborers, the | most of whom are terribly overworked— the poor iug the riches churche’ se it ig virta- $12,000,009 _ annually, Olzations without propert; y government support, whic should algo be the condition of the churches of Wealth, As churet property is but tho property if iogizigeats, wiy Dot tax itin the same ratio? This king of government support of sectarian Fe. for the purpose of helping inere| needy, of wealthy aily giving them poor church or; are levt without ba for Vion ts jus inproper and unreasonad| would be to ate 10 polibical seotaria: i capmot perceive aoy jastice sare. ind vidual aid for the support of religious dogm: To me it looks too ike an at! muck itis voca! bh demn in the Koran Ohuro onuatle w 2 sal tig demanded. To trample upon both the pectaolary and Peligions. rights uf @ person is not only unjust put infamous, a6 sycl ad to large portion of the orimes wit! bas to d My ooncl of the clusion is ths : ‘ 0 illiberal a ~t a , as to require go uppo! se. worthy or any supports PPrarcher: that the More wealth and rich cet in chOrches the jess is the doetrine of Jesus and Tener ee practised by them, . Le De GIVE AN INVETERATE BBADZR MORZ CHURCH BROOM. To THe Eviror or THE HaRsLD:— . Your correspondent in this morning's WeRALD May weli complain of too much jostiing in the Cutholic churches, It 18 my own experience. I have been jostled going tn and coming out—jostiea in the pews, jostled in the aisies, jostiea iu the Galleries, jospled in the poren. There is too mach jostling in the Qatholic churches 1a New York, Bu thére ought to be more eliarches. AN INVETERATE READER OF LHE HERALD, New You,’ June 13, 1575. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The new “Catholic National Itailan Churoh,’ lately organized at Naples, 18 exoected to be a rival of the Vatican estabiisbment, if we may judge from tho enthusiasm and promise with Whica it starts, Whue it is the counterpart of the 0.4 Catholic movement in Germany it is expected also to attract all classo3 who find tho Ohurch of Home in italy elther too decrepit or prosentions for their religious home, Rey. Father MoColtum will open the new church on Clermont avenue, Bipoklyn, for divine service to-day. The Rights Rev. Bishop Loughlin is ex- pected to be present, and the Rey, Dr. McGlynn, ot New York, will preaca this morning. The clos- Ing service iu the old cuurch on Vanderbilt avenue was held last Sunday. Rey, Father Fagan is bard at work preparing for the laying of the corner stone of the now Church of the Transfiguration, Brooklyn, on July 4. The Roms correspondent of the Catholic Review records the following “miracie” at Milan re- cently :—‘'Tho feast of the exposition of the relics of the patronsof Milan, Saints Ambrose, Gerva- sius aod Protasius, was vbeerved in that city with much pomp and ceremony. A vast crowd fre- quented the basilica of St. Alnbrose to pray before the ebrines of the saints ia question. Among them was a woman named Poletti Carolina, who wes almost instantaneously cured of long tilness, for which she was stiil an 1pmate of the prinetpal bos- pital of the ectty., Her cure has created a profound sensation througuout Lombardy.” The offerinzs sent to the Pope from the Italian faithful, on the eccaston of his elghty-fourth birth. day, exceeced 100,090 frances in ready money, be- stdes a very large amount of jewelry. The Catholic population of Newark, N, J, 18 up- Wards of 40,000, There are now eleven arcebishoprics in the Cnited States, There are ten parishes and 40,000 Catholics in the city of Providence, R.I, The new episcopal residence in that city will be ready for occupancy in a few weeks, The Bishop will dedicate the new Portuguese church of New Bedford next Sunday, Rey. Hugh J. Smyth, of the Weir, East Taunton, Mass., sailed yesteraay for @ three months’ visit to his native country, The Rey..A. Girardin, of Gallion, On10, is going to build a Oatholio church at a cost ef about $50,000, The Cathoi!o population of Pennsyivania bas doubled since 1860, It 1s now 600,000, They have 22 churches, chipels, &o, and 51 priests. Archbishop Bayley will confer the palltum on Bishop Wood tn the Cathedral, Phitadelphia, next ‘Lbharsday. The ground fs béing orcken at Red Creek, N, ¥.. tor a new Catdolic church, The struoture will be but a short distance irom the raijroad depot, and in size will be 36 by 60 feet, On Thursgay, 10th inst, Right Rey, Mtcbaei Heiss, D. D., Bishop of La Cros:e, Wis., laid tue corner stone of a new church at Pine Oreek, Minn., where the Rey. Adolph Snigurak has gathered around him some oue hundred and twenty Polish AIINeS, The splendid new charch of tho Paasionists, at West Hoooken, that cap be scen looming up off the Jersey Heights by passengers on any of the New York railways of the west side, 1s to be dedi- cated on Sunday, July 4, by the Right Rev. Bisaop of Nowark, Bishop Verot, of St. Augustine, Ma., sailed for Havre, France, ou Saturday, June 12, Very Rev. Thomas Burxe, O&O S B., wi ilmess bas caused so much anxiety, is progr 2g most favoral He has jound that. the rest en- joiaea bas eatest benefit so Lim, and such is the effect of the native air of Galway, where be 1s now staying, that he is every day regaining strength. Tro Catholic Total Abstinence Union reports its constituents througnout the country as purpos- ing to erect a centennial feuntarn in Philadelphia next year. St. Michael’s charchin that city has alroa y, contributed $500 to that object. CardiuabMcCtoskey will leave Balftmore Monday at four o’clock P. M, 10 Visit Mount St. Mary's Gu'lege. A general call has been issued to ali the Old stadents and patrons of the college to visit His Eminence on Wednes- day, the day of the College mmence- ment, Ail the Students are to be present also tor the formation of the Alumpi Association, An, Who may Rot have received an invitation mu! consider themselves invited, as it was Impossipie for the committee to notify ail, On Thursday, Jane 24, the Caratoal will visit St. Joseph’s, near Emmitrsbarg. The forty hours’ exposition of the Biossed Sacrament will Commence this mierning in > Alphonsus’ ohureb, South Fith avenue, with @ sulemn high mass and procession at half-past five M. The Oustumary services On Monday and Tuesday, Rev. Thaddeus Hogan, pastor of St, Pius’ cburch, in Harrison, N, J., bas estaplished a Young Men}s Catholic Association, which 1s the first ever organized in t parish, rhe ceremony of blessing the bells in St. Michael’s charcn, West Hoboken, will take place to-day, The belis weigh 3,000, 1,500 amd 000 pounds respective Bishop Corrigan administered confirmation last Snuday in Beilevi N. J., tO ninety oniidren. ‘This Was the Bishop's first visit and he received a great ovation. The cuarok i+ without dept and the management of the schoois 1s admiral Rev. Fatuer Kelly is erecting a church at South Ambey, N, J, whicn will be the handsomest churea ediiice La that section of the State. METHODIST, The new Methodist Episcopal church at Flack- ville, N. Y., will be dedicated on Thursday next, 24tutost, On Friday next the new Methodist ae charca at Anaover, N. ¥,, willbe dedi- Oakley, pastor of the 125th street iscopal church iu this city, sails for weacay, June 22, . Dutton, of Georgetown, S. O., bas raising money to Eurepe on Re o ‘orth for the purpose 0 bulla a churel in that pi be Bishop Sumpson left Philadelphia for Egrope by the fitnots on Thursday morning last, @ goes immediately to Ltaly, purposing to hold the annual Mission meeting In Rome, commencing June 30. fie will also preside at the conference of Germany and Switzerland, July 8, at Hetlvronn, Over 40,000 new members were received Into the British Wesleyan body during the last ecclesjas(i- cal yeat, The namber of probatiouors tx 25,000, ‘rhe Methodist Episcopal church at Dexter, [l., wiil be dodieated to-day by Nev. @. W. Hughey. Sonth Harlem Methodist Episcopal charch will be dedicated to-day by Drs. Reid, Miley, Foss and others. It is one of the mission poiuts uf the City Church Extension Soctety, ‘ne leciure room; of St. Paul's Methodist Eptsco- at chureh, North Ri! Abed Wil be dedicaied o-day. Hisaop Janes will preach jn the moroing, Rev. Wiiam P, Abbott im the afternoon and Rev, Dr, Crawford in the evening. The new Metoodist Episcopal church on Knox Circuit, Tennessee eg ta ap was dedicated on Sun@ay last, Juno 13, Bishop Haven oMciating. The eloquent Rey. Thomas Guard, en route to San Francisco, dpe ane twice ab Centenary church, Chicago, last Sunday, and will give to-day to Trinkty church in that city, The Ruse Aili Methodist Episcopal Sanday school (Twenty-seventh street, besween Secoud and Third avenues), having completed ics fiftieth year will hold & jubilee reunion festival on Wednesday evening nox, Tho anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill was celebrated with great solemnity at the yraveriey Methodist Episcopal church, in Jersey City, Ih great feature of the colebration was the address of the ogatenarian Father Boehm, who was born before the battie of Bunker Hull was foug @ thanked Goa that in tuis Country people could worsuip their Creator according to the dictates of thelr conscicrce. He also sang a German a, which he learned ninety-five years ago from & Hessian soldier Who Was captured at the battie of Trenton. PRESDYTERIAN, The dedication of tue new Presbyterian church at River Park, Chicago, Lil, will oconr to-day, ‘The First Presbyterian church of Cumberiand, st Anished a $50,000 stone church, It debt of $12,000, and accordingly the trustees had prepared beautiful bonds and jully expected to carry avout $3,007 a8 a debt; bat at the dedicatory services recently the church re- moved the devt and now exhibits the bonds as cu- rigsities. Rev. Dr. 2, M, Humphrey, of Philadelphia, ac- copts bis call to the Prot rahip of Church His. tory and Polity at Lane Seminary, and will enter a daw the beginniog Of 4 st —one Which is antag. nary yeur. the views of many from whym suc’ | Tao Prosoyterian ministers of Ohicazo have zune. im, 09. tevitecion, ~ motene, Moots. 08 expected home mon 9 conduct series of revival services ta that dity. Other ministerial bodies in Chteago are taking, or havo taken similar action also, Dr, Charles 3. Ro! sot, pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian ¢burch of ti city, will yo-dey an- pout oda Kor ny a na ae 3 i oat recenily h ‘om the Park street Congre; Wonal church, Boston, i eats Mr. Jobo D. Countermtne, of 50 nectady, w: licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Alban, the 9-0 inst, ‘ailing bealth has compeiied Rev. Hf. F. Bickock to resign his pastorate of tne Cenwral Presbyterian ohurch, fants. Rov. Henry N. Patie, of Minneapolis, Mion., bas taken @ pastorate at Auburn, N. Y., and began his work. Last Sunday twenty-one members were added to the Oxtord Presbytertan churen, Philadephia, and $10,009 raised jor altering end enlarging theit chapel Ryliqiog. Rev. H. F. Hickok, of Caynga, eepted & call to the Vresbyterlan ange, N. J. The membersnip of the church of tue scandal, in Jersby City, has dwindled away trom 130 to forty regular members since Mr. Glendeuning re- sumed the pulpit. BapTist. Dr. G, 8. Bailey, of Chicago, has received a call to Cunton, Neb. ‘Tio Rey. W. B. Pendleton has resigoed the pas- torate of the Fifty-third street Baptist church, tuss city, because of tailing bealth tn himsell an @ heavy debt on the church, He will remain, however, woul a sucgcasor can be secured. The Rev, CU, E. Vordo, of Warwick, N. Y., has re- moved to Salem, N, J., and taken charge of the First Baptist churoh there. Kev. E. U, Miller, a graguate of Crozer Theolog- ical Serminary, Was erdained at the Lonesdalo Baptist church June 9, and Revs. B. A. Green aud R, S. Colwell at the Central Baptist cuurch, Proy- gH Oe KR. L, June 10. = foe Rev. P. 1, Davies, pastor of the Berean Baprist churen of this city, baving been sick for a couple of mouths, improved @ week or two ago 80 that he occupied bis pulpit again, A relapse was the resuk, and his life is now despaired o& A committees of Baptist ministers was a inted last Monday to convey the sympathies of lis breth- ten to him. The pew and elegant Baptist church edifice at Chelsea, Mass., was dedicated lasy-week. Rev. B. Hackett, D. D., of Rochester, has Satied for Europe, Rev. Messrs, Reeves, of Albany; Garner and King, of Boston; Co: per, of Rondout, and Gooduo, of Blockley, Pa., visited the Baptist Ministers’ Con- ference last Monday. It is reported there are 500 Baptist charches in Kentucky who have no Sunday seliool, ‘Toe Rev, Coaries. Hull, of Nortnvitio, N. Y¥., 16 called to the pastorate of the Mariners’ Harbor oharch, Staten Isiana, ‘rhe Rey. Joun Gordon, of Chicago, Iil., bas ac- cepted gue call to the diver Baptist chareh re- cebtly organtved in Montreal, Canuda, ‘roe Baptists of Groat Britalu report a clear in- crease O1 10,582 insmoors during the past year, the largest gain they have nad in any one year since 1564, The formal spans of the Brooklyn Baptist Home, corner ol Greene and Throop avenues, will occur On Tuesday afterhoun next. Key. J. W, Saries, D. D., will Ueliver the ddtiress and words ¢ Ci may be expected from other pastors and riends. ‘The Central Baptist church of this clty has ex- tended 4 unanimous call to Rey, H. M, Gauaner, of Elizavetn, N. J., t0 become their pastor, Tne Seventh Day Baptists propese forming a church settlement, tn order to gather into one colony tuelr scattered members in this country. ‘The colored Baptists of Georgia imteud to sound @ Normal and Theviogical School at Atlanta. Toey have adopted the centennial plan of dollar sub- scriptions from their own people in order to pro- cure the desired amount, At the annual meeting of the New Jersey Bap- tist Association, held iat week, the following re- port was made :—The twenty-seven churches re- port thirty-one houses of worship, with an agere- gate seatlog capacity Of 11,702, and the total value oi churon property $316,300, on whicn there ig a total maebtedness of $51,373 48. Seven churches report no debt. There has veen paid $11,992 60 on debts, Three churches report no houses of wor- sain, The houves of worsi a will seat the woole Invmbersnip and leave 6, seats for strangers, The total Membership is 6,27, Baptisms, 449 during the past year. EPISCOPALIAN, The Episcopal Convention of the diocese oF Fond du Lac, Wis., has elected Rey. J, 8. Sbip- man, of Lexington, Ky., as Biskop. Bishop Howe mourns the decline in Episcopal candidates ror holy orders in the diocese of Cen- tral Pennsylyavia. In 187i the number was a4 in 1874 is Was 228. Small salaries and few parson- Agos are suggested as canses Of this decjine, ‘Rev, Mr. Mathers, of Gaspe, has veea Appointed to aS ata 1n the Episcopalian pulpit of Bath- urst, N. The Rev. Benjamin R. Gifford baving restened Trinity pariwo, Bridgewater, Mi has aecepted tke rectorship of St. Paui’s, Natick, Mass, and entered upon its duties, Rav, Jolin Cotton Sinitn, D. D., has resigned bis SIMON ws editor-in-chief of Ohurch and State. Smith was not only an able, but @ most cour- teous editor. Kev. Custis P. Jonas, of St. Mary’s Olty, Md,, has accepted a call to the rectorsmip of St Paui’s Cauroo, Beaufort, N. C. The Rev. J, WD. Morrison has been ananimousty elected rector of 3s. John’s parish, Ogdensbarg, N.Y. Christ Church, Quincy, Yass,, will be consecrated ‘D. Y.) by Biskop Paddock to-morrow. It is ex- ected that the right reverend the presidiag bishop and the bishop ot Niobrara will be present and © part in the services, Sermon by the Rev, Stephen H. Tyng, D. D., of this city. Qaincy was Dr, lyng’s first place, and here he had nis first Suaday schoo}, @ first Reformed Eplseopal church in the State of Obio has been organized at Put-in-Bay. ‘The Rey. C. B. Stevens sailed for Europe last Week to spend the summer. MISCELLANEOUS, A wonderful revival has beeg in progress at Madison, Ind., for nearly two weeks past, unde the direction of the Y. M.0. A, About 700 con- versions have taken place The Rev. 3. Putnam, of Boston, finds that “christianity almost universally understooa”’ he cannot @ecep' and leaves the Unitarian bouy, Dr. Bellows of this city, “sincerely re ts”? and “heartily respects him ‘a, B incerity and can- dor” which would indicate, says the Baptist Weekly, that the Doctor's mannors have improved since Mr, Hepworth left, only, perhaps, if Mr, Putnam bad become orthodox ne might not fared so well. N. Y., Ras ao- churen tu Or- a Dr. BR. ‘ond ts settled In New Providence. Ho 1s 8 man of large wealth, His riches baye not given him the bronchitis, nor compelled bim to travel abroad, Ho took a declining caurch in New Jersey dit from extinction; healed its alievations, made it strong and dbie to sus- tain & pa He then moved to Provi- dence, took dilapidated and declining churcd, after several years of devoted labor, sees ‘uit In the uolon anda prosperity of tbe body, and Its ability to call and support a pastor, Dr, Fair- child now leaves this fleia for another, where ho may pyerm the same Work which has disting- vished him for many years past, Rev. Cornelius Von Chief, D. D., one of the old, est ministers of the Reformed Oharch in this country, died at Poughkeepsie on the 13th inst., a seventy-six. He had just completed the inte year of his ministry. esent Statistics of the Reformed Church ed States are :—General Synod, 1; dis- in the trict synods, 65 Ciasses, 44; ministers, 637; candl- dates jor the ministry, 107; congregations, 1,355; members, 144,351; Suaday school scholars, 73,2i7; contribusions to general and iocat benevolence in three yonrs, $497,217 20, Rev, Wiiliam M, Taylor, D. D., of New York, ts to address the Theological Society, at Dartmoutl Coliege, to-day. At Amberst, Rev. William Ormiston, D. D., of this city, Will address the Society of Ingairy, Suu- evening, July 4 There were cighty gonfrmants in the Jewish Temple Rmanuel on Shevuoth, The children an- swered tHe questions put to them with much readiness. Dr. Gottheil addressed ae with even more than his wonted earnestness. The flo~ raj cocorations, were, as usual, abundant, The Forty-fourth street Synazogue presented in untsnally festive appearance oa the recont entecost festival, The ladies of the congrega- tion haying taken fa hand the matter of decora- tions the floral dispiay was quite rich, and ever- arzens saspended in front of the galleries and about the ark and pulpit added largely to the el- {ect There wore sermons on both days, Advices from Russia announce a large migration of Mennonites this year, AS many aA 208 families were expected to start in May from one neighbor- hood. ‘The settlement in Manitoba ts reported to be prospering. Large colonies of poorer members ave been settied at Florence and Great Bend, ansas. Aid is still liveraly givem to these strangers by their American breturen, Ata mecting of the Jewish congregation Ohabet Sholom, Boston, Mass.,on Sunday last, the Rev, E, Roscugwelg was re-elected minister. he Rev. ©. W. Tomlinson, of Hudson, has con- sented to take an active part in a canvass for funds to place the Albany Universalist parish on a Bnaneial footing, so that the church property shalt not tall into the hands of the Unitarians, Rev. KE. W. Puller, of Le Roy, N. Y., las re- ceived sud accopted’a unanimous cali trom the Universailst parish at Port Plain, N. Y. THE LAWS OF HEREDITY. WaY NATIONAL, COMMUNAL AND INDIVIDUAL VICES PREVAIL AND RELIGION 18 80 FREBLE, : A few Sundays ago 4 couple of sermons or lec- tures were delivered in De Kaib avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, by the pastor, Rev. S. H. Platt, which, for (heir selentific afd religious value, ougot to be laid before the thoussads of readers Of the Hgrarny, {t accounts in part for many of the problems of social life and morais which have exercised the thoughts and hearts of good men for many generations, It accounted for the warlike propensities of nations, for tho idle and vicious habits of individuals and for the povorty and weakness of religion upon the prin- ciples abd iaws of transmission, And certain great facts In the experience of the race were cited as iy Ailastcative of Lug proposition The Orst te ana. | inherited wasaions tranamitved to them a a ftonal tact—the wars of Obristian nations, which are opposed to all the better instincts and jadg- ments ef the human heart, and which serve to inject s substratum of savagery into the race. And Onristian nations sre still in war or in prep. eravion for war, and this ie the strangest fact of all, The preacher poloted out certain characteristics of nations 88 80 totally opposed to War as to make ware between them tho strangest part or their experiences, Such, for instance, as w conscientiousnesa of the Scotch, the per- sistence of tho Engiish, the home love and the freedom love of the Swiss, the suavity and reck- leusness of the French, the stolidity of the Spanish, the patience of the Germans, the thrift and enter- prise of the Yankees aud the exclusiveness of the Jews. And, notwithstanding the Intermarriages Of nations, these great distinctions atill exist. The preacher also reserrod to certain social facts, such as the existence among enlightenea nations of slavery unttla recent date. Like war, stavery ia opposed to every instinct of justice, numanity and sell-interest, so that its existence until w recent period 1s a great problem to be accounted for, The reconstruction probiem of the South, in which are four clements—tue old staveholders, the ex-slaves, the poor whites and the imimigrants—is another fact Im social solence, The first subverted and embittered the lives of the slaves psychologically and pbysicaily, and degraded the poor whites, Who, though demoralized, are still capable of doing something; and the fourth class, compris- Ing all sorts, these are elements with whioh the Southern problem 1s to be aolved, What an out- come from our boasted liverty and onlightenment! That such a problem a@ reconstruction can exist atall isa greatenigma. Then there are SOCIAL VICKY COMMON TO ALL CIVILIZED NATIONS, ‘These are matters that command the profound- est wisdom of statesmen, philanthropists, pelice anthorities and health boards tn all civilized lands. ‘The vagavondage and thievery of the gyp- sles Is another singular and significant fact, Dwelling in every nation of Surope, some in America, childish and purely animal tm sentiment and morality, they are still incapable of settung down to the ordinary industries of lie, And to show their incapacity for higher and better things Mr. Platt olted the case of Burrowghs, who undertook to evangelize them, and translated the Gospel of St. Luke for them, But they only hung It around their necks when they went out to steal and torob, The individual vices, such as alconal- lem, tobacco and opium eating, which are tnher- ited by childrem from their parents, received elaboration at the hands of the preacher, ana Ulustrations were given of persons who bad such uncontrollable appetites in these directions that thelr best efforts to escape the power of tne par- teular vice failed. ; ‘That ohit@ren should be sprung tnto the world, With predispositions to vice to such an eftent as indicated, is one of the confounding mysteries of the world, And the same remarks will apply to gambling, for which vice many persons have a propensity so strong that they cannot control iy. The “hoodlum” class of our large citles furnish iiastrations of the same facts, The larger pro- portion of criminais nowfn our large cities are young men known as street ner loavers; in California designated “nood!ums.” These fill our prisons, hospitais and asylums with an amount of youthiul perversion that becomes a serious threat to the superiority and morality of the rising gen- erations, The unnatural criminal, like THE WHITE-EYED MURDERER OF BOSTON, Pomeroy, Who commits crimes without any me tive, is another tilnstration of this law-of trans- mission, Sometimes wiole families seem to be smitten with these peculiar criminal! tendencies, like that of Jean Creichton, whose three sons had four children, and those four had eight, and of the twelve children and grandchildren four were murderers and seven robvers, making eleven out of the twelve criminals, The idiotic and insane and the constantly dis- eased existing in such numbers all abouts us are frequently such Lot by any fault of theirs, bat by the presence of some iorces in them over whlch they have no control Jn one family, in three generations, thirty-sevan persons became blind between the ages of seventeen and eignteen years, The physical infertority of enlightened nations, owing to the prolonged life of the feeble, in conse- qneuce of better care and better medical skiil, in- dicates the presence of @ like force. Now the grand question is how can all these and @ muiti, tade of other mysterious facts be accounted for, The answer is found in Jeremiah, xxxL, 29—“The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s The warlike propensities of modern nations have been attributed vo the fact that in tne Middle Ages the Oburoh thrast into the retirement of monasteries the amiadie, the kind, the religions, leaving the feudal lords and thetr bands to propagate the race, Slave. noiding has e' fouod its chief streugth in the tendencies organized into the ohildren of slavo- hoiders to domineer over those within their power, National characteristics @ been handed dow from generation to tion by this law o! traasmission. re gypsies and Jews are Jews because of tridai or Ciannisn pro- pensities of the parents, Tae social vices reap- pear tn eacd succeeding generation because virus has been rec from the preceding eration, Dypsom aud gambling propensities assert their power in the ohiidren because of the tnduigence of she passion In the fathers. ness and criminal ingtinots shvot forth in the ‘hoo lums” because they have been implanted aad fostered by parental conditions and example. Tho appot.te of the fatier freely tudaiged becomes the overmastering Impulse of the chitd, while in leas mournful cases the teavencies of parental consti- tutions Sppear as abnormal physiological or psychological devolopmeants in the child, TWO IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS, All this leads 40 two conclusions, FPirst—It transmission has such power for evil it must nave corresponding power for good. Hence tt should be the aim of Coristian parents to induce religious temperaments in their children, Second—As every parent is projecting more or jess of himself upon the coming generation it should be the noblest aud best possidie. Dr. Bushneli’s work on the “Populating Power of the Christian Stock” contsins & ee ge that is worthy of the attention 0! ji Christian peuple. It is not only that religious temperaments may be prodaced in incividuals, bat that the religious variety of humanity—that ts, those with religious tendeiiotes trom their youth—shoula be produced. And this is the great Want of the worid ag And the Scriptural tliustration of this idea is found In the emphasis given to “the godly seed” in the Old Testament, It has been proved that ohildren born in war tlme become themseives in @tult yoars warlike. Toe history of our owa coun- try demonstrates this, Tne psychological law of heredity ts just dg Maneat as the physical, Mental states depend on the condition of the brain, and any competent physician has the power, bya ocareitil manipula- tion of phy-ical remedies, to ba | about any men- tal condition of bis patients, And tho fae vig | and cause of this fact 1s found in this, that ail Dodies are creations of cells, and every portion of the softer, and, re of the harder texture, too, of bodies Bas the power of developing ana re- produging itself, {tis alaw of nature that every one of these cells can reproduce itself, so that whatever was in tho old will bela the new, Tha 18 the Jaw of uniformity like begets like, and this ruos Cty the human and ingdoms. And then there is anotuer law—tne jaw of diversity, growing out of the fact that Whore two wnlikes go to make a third that third will be aolike either of its pragenitors. Every man Lad the: efore, a sort of concentrated essence of generations who have gone belore him. He may differ in many respects irom his predecesso but the type remains tautially the same. We May cToss the breed of sheep, but We can never Make them into oxen. And so tt is with man, We can never make apes of them. But wo may change the variety of the man or of the sivep so as to produce biack or red or yellow, &c.; and here comes in the law of transmission of tabits, bulldjng up in the cells through which he passes, ACQUIRED HABITS OF VIC8 are pecullarly liable to transmission, It is a set- tled law in science to-day that every child begot- ten in Intoxication is born an idivt, There are three periods of impression tn the history ofevery beiog—from birth to death, from conception to three months preceding the individnal ufe, and from that to birt, in Which acqaired vices are more apt to be impressed than auy others, have beea develop! ng arace of deformed females in this land for the last hundred years, and mica three generations more we sali mae & Vhol- oughly nervous race, if we go Oh as we hay Re in dross, fashion and education, N at of every ton persons in any or- dinar, al - congregation will go to wutimely grav ja becatse of some Vico or Weakness that have inherited from their paren But comes in here a biessed provision—biessed y respects, though not in ali—namely, that es tend to revarn to their original species val and type. And if (his were not so there would fot 6¢ 10,000 native Americans in the United States to-di Evoluvion tends to fix the variety, eriect not withstand - original type. Ana and survival of the w Ox the type. Now, Hons, appetites, may bo transiait- ‘mon may be cursed with predispositions. in every congregation or comma- been all their | long nik] ete nity who B ee The ‘hoodlums” of be great tee, ee id o@ Gur street corners, @ Of vice, where they grow aWwnlie, riot a rot awnille | Impressions are born im tha serves, wh is little else tn children tha: re erves; and nothing is so easily tm ag che nerves. Evolution and survival of the fitvess ai withio our oWo control, We may change the va- tiety if we will, Evolution ts aided by the Holy Ghost, and He 18 go helpiul that taore Is a vo! plete emergence from the dimiculty. Now, wa should hold no sentiments, form no appetites, en- gare nO passions that we do not want orgun- -tzed imto the lives o! our children. One great reason Why We have suck poor church members ia that most Christians are begotten wuile thelr pa- Tents are in an unsaved condition. The depravity Which we display is begotten in us, WHY I3 NOT THR WORLD SAVED? Because the Ohurch brings @ supernatural gran sudicient +o dgbt with ao organized invate de pravea heart and life, Christianity seems to ne 4 latiure, but is so only on the suriace, seer a Majority of our Church members are converted at or before the age of eighteen years; walle balf @ century ago the average age for conversion wad twenty-five. This is a good sign, and if we carry it on the time will come when children will learg fo love God with their earliest lue. There is very great meaning In that purase 80 fronaott found to the Scriptures; the “godly seed’? and ti Jewish race are to-day eminently a retigtous ri In view of the foregetng facts and principl young persons should seiect partners for life bj ibe laws of nature aud by the impulses of senti+ mentality Or passion. Temperaments should be crossed by marriage, itis a terrible fact and ex- perience that more first ohtidren die than of any Other io succession, and this because of reasons assigned above. iMence the importance of attends ing to the laws of nature and of God, CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN. ANOTHER REFORM RABBI LIKELY 10 SETTLA AMONG US—DISCOURSK BY REV. MR. ORNSTEIN, OF MELBOURNE. Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Ornstein again preached in the Synagogue, in West Thirty-fourth street, to a large congregation, and with evident satisfac. tion to the majority, who listened most atten- tively. Tbe rabbi spoke with more confidence and with better voice aud accent than on the preceding Saturday, and the probabilities ara that the congregation wiil cngage ms services for & term of years. In his sermon yesterday he took Strong reform grounds against an established liturgy and a@ reiligiou of forms and ceremonies, and insisted tiat with the destruction of the tem- Ple the sacrifice ceased anid prayer, morain; noon and evening, took its place. He showe from the Bible and by many illustrations what prayer is not and what it is, and if, as tho Word of God declares, it must be an expression of tu@ Deart toward God, why, he asked, should they ciing to liturgies and forms made jor other ages ana generations instead 1 giving expression to the feelings and affectiong of their own hearts in the language ef to-day, His text was Psalms, ly,, 17, 18:—“Aa for me, I will oall upon God, aud the Eternal will hear mej evening aud morning aad noon will lery aloud, and he shall hear my prayer.” Mr, Ornstein re- marked that when men turn from themselves to observe the things around them they must behold wiracies everywhere for which they cannot ao- count. Man remarks with astonishment now all created things appear to have been called inta existence merely for his use, His intellect calls bilm to solve many of tne hidden things of nature, and yet when he reflects how puny ts bis arm aad how woak bis intellect compared with the strength and wisdom of the Almighty, be must acknowl edge his littleness and say within bimself, aa did the Psalmist, “When I look at thy heavens, tha work of thy -flagera, the moon and tho staré waich thou bast ordained, what is man that thoa art mindful of Livi and the son of man that thou . Togardost bim.’” ,Wo may travel throughout tha world, even im lands where civilization and edu- cation are unkuown, but in no place shail we find man without seme knowledge of God or of @ Supreme Being. Ia all places ani at all times Nave besn ‘ound THE SHRINES AND TOE woxstiPrens. Bat if thie be so—if pature oails forth from human hearts the worship of the Almighty—how much more shouid we raise a shrine to God and worsiip firm and offer praise and prayer to Him moruing, noon and eveaing. If we consider tha great gilts of God to us—the biessings of life, and love and strengto—zratituce and thankfalnes: should prompt us to address Aim in words o! prayer. And if we consider ourselves, also, Wa must {cel and perceive the necessity for thus de- peading upon God. For with all our boasted strength Dow Weak are we; with ail our knowl. edgo how foolish We ure! to our Strengtn God oan cast the mantle of death over us and diot ud out of His signt forever, But if He gives us so many blessings should we mot return thanks to fim morn evouifg, But, ss prayer must proceed irom the beart, how can we eXpress curseives by an established liturgy ? wey has not mumanded ia the Mosaic prayer been Pi rayer, word of thanks- ling of grativude, cannot be cow- Ver proceeds not from tho heart tt t Valaciess, it must bo the spontaneous oatbura: S a and be uttered in love and co: PI YOu if we e@: y that prayer has been practised irom the ai times, We find the immediate descendants est, of Seth caitng upon the name oi the Lord. Abraham rayed fer Sodo| and be taught his nousenoid 4 bis servant prayed went to look for a wile tor Isaac, and | ont in the Meidy meditating aod praying when Rebekah came to bis tent, and afterward en- treated the Lord for her because was barren, And when with tears ho sent away Bia son Jacoo he prayed also; and Jacob, too, called upon God for food and raiment. Moses, too, ofven entreated tue Almighty, and his prayer comtog from 4 true beart he never went unanswered, David aad Solomon prayed. | ueed not point out to you, said Mr. Urnsteia, the Deautiiul prayer or Solomon at the dedication of tie Tempie. Nor need | tell ou that God is not picased with any beautiful or elaborate forms of prayer. When MOSES PRAYED FOR MIRIAN nh comes from the heart, that only, is the prayer that shail And favor How, then, suail we address our Maker God. y moans of any éstablisned liturgy’ When tas towpie was destroyed and the sacrifice coase it seemed as If @ BavONAlity Was to be destroyed; that nothing was left by which the people coutd be kept together; that they must surely be ab- sorbed in the Dations whitacr they dwelt. Buc what are sacrifices without she devotion of the heart? The sacrifice is gone, bur the devotton oF the heart remains, and prayer now takes the piace of sacrifice im every pluce where Isract may be scattero’. Three times each day woou the temple stovd was sacridce offered on the altar, This, like prayer, Was and was to be but the outward sign of worsip Sy whic Israei adored Ris Maker. Prayers are naugnt except to piead in contricion, do not mean, said the roi, the prayer bouk as we have it he day, but those which were prepared Ezra and Nehemiah at the dispersion. 4 Will flad- here iu ihe Bibie prayers sued to evory occasion of life, aud this isurgy can do more to keep tne P: of Israel together and to Belp them truthfully and stacerely to do the will Of God than anything else, The rabvins of old have been mucti misunderstood 1a this regard, The @ supposed to bave adyocated Many ra} d repetitions, but they deciare on the contrary that betteris & littie prayer with devo. tion than @ muititude of words without. The set. vice of the heart, that is prayer. Bat how ts i disregarded ia these days; and In the language of Isaiah, mea approach God with thelr lps and honor Him with their months while their hearts are far irom Him. The mere show of devotion —@ multitude of words cannot do honor to God. The shaving or weartug of the beard or the coverin or wucovering of tae bead cannot hgaor God. No No! Thisis merely lip service. 2 you addret your prayer in stacerity to God morning noon an Dight sou shail receive blessings irom God. Thi prayer of Hanna was cited in tilustration of hear worship, acd the answer to as will be like that her, God gragt thee thy petition that thou hase asked of Him, THE JEWISH COLLEGE AT YONKERS Toe Hedrew Leader vas the following serious redections on a very important Hebrew institu. tion that is to be iounded sometime, perbapa, after the Brooklyn Briage is cumpieted:—“The grounds of the Jewish Thevlogical Seminary and Scientific Institution, now located within the corporate limits of the new oity of Yonkers, pre sent quite an Inviting appearance, be oman elevated platform, with superb views of the North River and mountains on one side and the Kast | River directly opposite, Maga nt residences surroun it aod the preperty, which was be. queathed by the late Sampaon Simson, is now worth asimall fortuag, A momoer of cows Visit daily, aad Took up strangers, favoring thea with # genteel ‘ooh,’ and refuse to be Unless some of the college faculty pay their pects {a person, The people in the vicint! the piace the Jewish synagogus, though is RO vestige of @ buliding on’ it, uMpkip asked very complacently where tl S lege We replied, ‘it is coming.’ He looked up and sald, rather demurely, ‘So is Christmas, With that a dock of wae feathered? gease came along With pr onal dscoram, Thay croaked, ‘Whore?’ ‘where?’ ‘wnerer’ We ere “- New York,’ meaning that the oMicefs of tb9 col lege veionged w York, Thereayou the head cn Went ‘quack,’ ‘quack,’ aad ai the othera japped their Wings and nodded, Amon, Wille we Wous Mar matioring ‘Dad Yanna!”