The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1875, Page 11

cininnihaieniabelioemeneniesapnecinr “PASTORAL PREACHENG Difference Between Being Near the Kingdom of God and In It. THE VALUE OF THE SOUL Catholic View of the Efficacy | of Prayer. A DESIRE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Presbyterian Idea of What Constitutes True Religion. Justification of Sinners Through the Saviour. MADISON AVENUE REFORMED CHURCH. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING NEAR THI KING- DOM OF GOD AND IN IT—SERMON BY THE REY. BH, D, GANSF, The congregations of the Rev. John Hall and Rey. H. D. Ganve met at the Madison avenue Re- formed chureh, corner of Fiity-seventh street and Madison avenue, yesterday morning. Rev. Dr. Ganse, after cordially welcoming all the members of Dr, Hall’s ehurch to worship with his own Congregation while the summer season lasts, an- nounced as his text St. Mark, xit., 3a—"And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto bim, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God,’’ The Sadducees and others had tried to confute the Saviour by flimsy argumen’s, but the Saviour’s reply was always too much forthem. There was ® Pharisee lawyer standing near during gne of these conversations, the wnole of which he heard and the result. The Pharisee asked Jesus the question to which we are coming. There was @ subtle temptation in the question, and he wished to try the Saviour’s ability to answer it. His atten- tion was not oniy taken up with the petty ques- tions in wich so many people of that day found interest, but ne asked of Jesus the great, the one leading commandment to whten all the rest are gubject. And when the Siviour had answered, that to love Got the Lord with his whole heart ana his whole soul is the greatest commandment, and the second Is like unto it, to love his neighbor as himself; the lawyer said, that to love the Lora with his witele soul and his neignbor better than himeelf is MORE THAN ALL BURNT OFFERINGS and gacrifices, This was truly a wiso answer. In this reply, a8 Well as ia almost all that Jesus Made, we can not help but notice the delight our ‘Redeemer took in speaking encouraging words. When tne centurion approached him He spoke words of kindness and cheer, We seldom even find case where fis goodness of beart is withheld for any lengtn of time. But whon the Pheenician woman came to Him He did not speak the sweet, encouraging Words at first, because by hojding them back He Measored her faith. Ti was only fora moment that the kindness of His heart was withheld fro the humble suppitant, Let no man think thac he takes a step uphelped. He needs Christ's bene- dietion, aud if he Serves Him he witli be near to heaven. Notice thé form of the anawer which our Saviour gave:—“Taou art not fur trom the Kingdom of God.” That kinzdom belongs to no section, to no land, but it isa kingdom in which every citizen Js a sonof the King and greater than ali the Old Yestament prophets, There each will biend his voice with the voices of angels and arch- angels for all time. It is a great thing to be A MEMBER OF THAT KINGDOM, Dut Ié 1s algo great to be near that kingdom. Let us consider Woatis implied by nearness to the kingiem of God. Woat had tais lawyer doneinat he should be near that biessed abode? He had only expressed nis conviction, and yet our re- deemer said to a man giving such an utterance ag he gave, ‘‘Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.” This lawyer had but repeated in effect ul language of Christ, who had in turn repeated from tbe old book, Deuteronomy. Let us notice the det that enter this confession of faith. First, he acknowl. edges the being of God; second, the unity of God, and third, ne recognizes and acknowiedyes the Bole aud absolute claim of this God upon all the nations of the world and upon ail the creatures He has made, Tne service, as ‘he intimates iv, must not be other than a perfect service. It must not be merely exterual, but eu- trely resting upon jeve. He then adds that this love must for God’s sake be feit toward other men, not with the whole soul, but as men tove themselves. To make it all clear he adds that duty like this so established is more than all burnt offeriugs and sueritic Bat far above all mitual and ceremontal he made a clear confession of faith in God, Such @ delice! is the foundation of ail religion, A youns collegian was seated in a room fall of colléve friends and, as is apt to be the case, their language became light and hollow when they be- peg Kk upon religious subjecis. They had en taiking about the new and strange ideas ‘whiew have licely been advanced on some religious joints, and were speaking like ® set oi young ufldelsy, When my young friend rose up ana spoke with an energy and truth which starticd them. He said, “There ts a God, only one God; He made you ‘and He made me, and His laws are greater thal man’s.” Right views of duty are apt to lead on to rigbt feelings of Christ aud saivation. In our Carftian sanctoaries, in our sunday schools, and in our Christian homes, where par- ents, With prayer aud wise counsel, eudeavor to Jead cliidren to the Good Shepherd, how many are there who are not iar from the kingdom of God? Jesus hes told us that, “except a man be Dorn agatu he shail not see the kingdom ot God.” He may be near it, but he never gets In sight of it. ST, IGNATIUS’ CHURCH. THE VALUE OF THE SOUL—SERMON BY THE REY. MR. NOYES. ‘The services in this church yesterday, which are ritualistic in the fullest sense of the term, were conducted with characteriatic solemnity. The congregation was not large. At half-past ten o'clock the procession issued {rom the vestry room headed by across bearer, and proceeded to the altar, upon which were lighted candies, The organ peaied forth melodiousiy, and altogether the effect was very impressive. The Rey, Me\. Bernard Noyes was the ofliciating clergyman, and at tne conclusion of the first gospel preached a sermon, taking his text ‘rom St. Mark viii., 36— “Por what snail it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul /? = These words, he satd, told of a loss greater than that of Wealth, honor, Ife, The secular teachings of Christendom here recognized this tact in the legend confined to no single nation, which tells of soul eutering into @ compact with the evil one and receiving present gain for the final joss of (teelf, The story bas been told in immortal verse and wedded to song and limned on canvas, Stripped of all poetic fancy and artistic adorn- Ment it bears witness to the fact asserted again and again throughout Holy Seriptare aud believed mM the heartof man, that the soul can and does sell itself, and thay Satan 18 the pur- shaser, Those who were ilving In any known sin, doing whatsoever seemed good to them, Whetherit involved the breaking of ten commandments or Oniy one, whether it involved havits of ain or only one act unrepented, hie Sn aS truly sold themselves to Satan and received their reward as did the subjoct of that awint + Satan does not fsa for the souls of men Bt with a bare hook, If he did hell would ve empty and he would nob be monaren of his mighty reaim. He tempted our first parents with that which was pleasant to the eye and the taste, Every soul he has snared since has becn taken with some specious batt which haa Egneealed the cruel steel beneath, The soul Whidi is not siiyed on God, and which, got having Uim—whom to possess is to have all thinge—ia ever desirmg that which it bas not; once attained and still finding the vold wniilled, It longs for the yet unpossetsod, Your body, clamorons, Jongs now tor this, now for that, Your foul, dumb it may be a ignorant of its true wants, requirds sas- ‘Tenance. You give it not bread, but astone, The reverend gentleman commented at Jengia on the evil results which @ desire to obtain riches en- lalled, He drew & vivid Poth of a life devoted to pieasure and sel!-indulgence, and pointed out in eloquent terms the rapid stages of iuin which indifference brought about. The soul was Of priceless value, Oblivion conid not be found Jor it; it could not be destroyed, tor it was im- fer eRable, mvery time you enter a temple, every ime you utter @ prayer, every fime a silent as- piration ascends from your heart you have a p' Of the existence of your soul, That sow vary Ja { the sorrows, honors, disgraced of the boay. Th frazca yout’ of hell might be cleft and men could gaze therein. Millions agd millions Ife there who whea ep earth were be worse than those now livin millions a millions who made the same mistake people now mal There they progidal and wise men; there they are—s e queen Of soctety, she the frail, fair Srivolous one, she the wily woridly-wise, the youth so easily ied, the maid 80 laughter-loy- Ing, the boy 80 impure—no Worse than people now living, and yetin anguish upspeakab'e, in woe unimaginable forever. The reverend gen- tieman conctudea by exhorting the fongregstion to follow the traths laid down in order to secure evernal salvation. 8ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. THE EFFICACY OF PRAYRR—~SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER O'VARRELL, OP RONDOUT. AS @ genera) rule througa the summer months when the attendance at the high mass services at other Catholic churches in this city is somewhat less than daring the other months of the year, there is always a large congregation to be found at the haif-past ten o’olock mass at the Cathedral, But it would seem that the regular attendants Who are pewholders have now leit town, for yester- day there was & comparatively small congregation. No pew was crowded, and those pews which wero comfortably (uli were, for the most part, occupied by strangers or members of the parish who do not boast the posseasion of a pew the year round. The sermon was preacied by the Rev. Father O’Farrel}, of Rondous on the Hudson. The sermon was briefs, the subject veng ‘THB RFFICACY OF PRAYER. The reverend father treated the subject inan eloquent manner, and began by calling the atten- tion of nis hearers to the fact that prayer was ab- solutely necessary to saivation. In fact, said he, a person “may be srved without the sacrament, but without prayer never.” He eularged upon this branch of his discourse by arguing to show that God looked upon prayer as a recognition on the part of man of his utter dependence upon his vureator; lor the very act of a man begging of God—tor instance, the grace to lead a good life— Was an evidence of the man’s faith that he of him- self could do nothing towurd gaining heaven; that God’s grace was a necessity to him, and that to obtain that grace ne bad to forit earnestly outly, AS became @ C! ure Upon whom God had beatowed life end all the blessings that itentailed, We were taught to watcn and pray always. When we were in danger of failing nto sin we should resort to prayer, and when ip the mistof worldly anxiety as to businese and dogiestic alfairs our minds were overwhelmed, prayer should be our stroughold—prayer, in Which (o adk God for His help to bear up and suf- fer for tissake, He who prayed aevoutly and with @ heart lifted up to God, uo matter what bis Uials, his ‘emptations on this earih, he would be sure to Hight the good fight to the end and tri- umph gloriousiy, St. Augustine had said that prayer was uot Only necessary because it is com. Manded by God, but because in THY ORVINARY DISPENSATIONS OF PROVIDENCE, Without addressing ourselves to Almighty d and asking His assistance We could not be saved. ‘Then, again, Whar a power Was prayer! LL turned aside tie Wrath Of God, 1¢ obtaimed for us the for- giveness of our sins and opened to us the gates Of heaven, conquering, as it were, the Armignty Hunself, The Old Testament abounded wiih testi- inony to its power; tt was full o! evidence of ils wonderrul effects, of tie numerous blessings God had granted His people through simple, devoul prayers. Through its potent tafluence cities aud Kingdoms had been saved, the dead brought to lie, battles gained; through it “even the sun was made to go from tae west to the east and the moon (o stand still.” And yet prayer was merely the raising up of our minds and hearts to Ai- mighty God. The reverend father then aliuded to the power of prayer as manifested whea Moses prayed during the battle between the Israelites and tne Amal- ekites and When Joshua caused the sun to stand stl, We should, he said, fee! proud to be al- lowed to speak to God as we really dtd when we prayed, and by it do all that we could do to ovtain OUR ETERNAL SALVATION; jor we had the assurance of the Saviour Himself that God wouid not turn an unwilling ear to the soul that prayed to Him with a devout heart. He nad said, “Come to me all ye thatare beavily Jaden and twill reiresa you; call upon me in the day of danger and Iwill reiteve you from all pert.” In order that our prayers showid be ac- ceptable to God they should, the reverend father remarked, be fervent and devout and humpie. We showd, in praying, pray with alt humility of thought and full of trust in God. Tae humility of the poor publican and the faith of the centurion showed what powerful elements in prayer were humility aud faith. ‘ihe reverend preacher cloged by earnestly ex- horting hts hearers to pray with humiuty, con- fidence and perseverance. By aoing so one Gay, like a ship auder tnll sail, they would, after avoid- ing, by God’s guidance, all the rocks and shoals ou their tracé, finally arrive salely at the harbor of our destination—beaven. CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION. BALAK'S DESIRE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS—SERMON BY REV. G. H. HOUGHTON. The Chureh of the Transfiguration was well at- tended yesterday, and it wasa noticeabie fact that Many strangers were among the congrega- tion, The minister, Mr. Houghton, took for nis text Micab, vi., 8—“He* hath snewed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, Lut to do justly, amd to love merey, and to walk humbly with thy God?’ Micah introduces, said the preacher, in his writings a conversation, the like of which cannot be found in any other part of the Holy Bibie, Itis.that one between Balak, King of Moab, and Balaam the prophet. ‘The conversation was the righteous man of the Lord, the righteousness He desired and the righ- teousness that Was uot at allacceptabie to Him. Baiak desired TO SERVE GoD, and it was this strong desire iu his heart that In- duced the prayer from him to God that he might live the life Of the righteous man and die the death of one. He asks of Balaam, ‘Wnrerewith shail I come befere the Lord, and bow mysell before tie High God? shall L come vetore Him with burnt oferinss, with calves of a year old?” and Baiaam answers him in the beantiful words of the text. All men have at some time of their lives a desire for righteousness and ail men have a knowledge of the Kind of righteousness vhat ts acceptable In the eyes of God. We can ail understand when God shows us our duty, and He makes His siiow- Ing 80 plain that we cannot mistake that duty, We Know what it is to do justly, and let us look to ourselves tnat we fall not to do justly, know what it is to love mercy, because we know we need it at the hands o! our rulers aud our God, and let us not fail to BY MERCIFUL to those who may be unde? us, We know what walking humbly with God means and we should strive to do so, Balaam walked hambly tn His sight because he wanted to live a righteous lile and die the Geath of a righteous man, and it we desire righteousness we must do so as the Lord commands, ‘Ihe laws of God were not hard to obey If we wished to obey them; uot one of them was oppressive; they ail were pleasant and led to ways of pleasaniness, And the same fulfliment of the promises that God had made to those wio lead a@ jife of righteousness acceptable to Him should induce us to cast off our evil ways ana walk hambly before Him. ‘He hath showed thee, O mun, What !8 good; and what doth the Lord re- quire of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy, aud to Walk humbly with thy Goa?” ROURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE RELIGION—sERMON BY THE REV. MR, DICKSON, A congregation, pretty fair in regard to num- bers, attended divine service at the Fourth Pres- byterlan church yesterday morping, Mr. Dickson preached from Romans, Xiv, 17, 18—“For tne kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righ- teousness and peave and joy in the Holy Ghost, for he thatim these things serveth Curist ts ac- ceptavie to God and approved of men,” Ia the primitive times, in spreading the Gospel, the apostles came into contact with the disposi+ tion toward ritualism, @ disposition to obser- vances and ceremonies and celebrations, Men Were willing to undertake anything rather than submit themselves to the righteousness of God. Henes the apostles met with this dimculty, ang the larger part of the epistics of Paul and Peter are Intended (o explain the divine nature of God. You observe the language of Paul 19 striking. He tells them, alter talking about days and weeks and observances—ho telis them emphatically—“vor the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and yeace and joy in the Holy Ghost, and the man that serves God faithfully in these things is pleas- ing to God.” Now it becomes our duty to consiuer the terms of the text. First ig “the kingdom of God.” From the time of David and Solomon re- ligion was described oiten by the name of “the kingdom of God.” This form of expression was empioyed to denote that NEW EMPIRE GoD intended to create in the persom of His Son, It therefore explains religton ag that which binds mento God and secures His pardoning mercy. Whatever that is, Paul tells us it does not consist in meat and drink, or In these observances, or rites or ceremonies; may be part and parcel of ita manifestation but tre marrow of. the thing 1s not in them, and when you come to x their relative Importance you must remember that they are as the chaff to the wheat. Our queg- tons to ourselves iu the Way Of #eil-examina = We, OR | and who does not examine himself; it 1s indis. pene ‘bie and will arise instinctively and compel 1 guswer—and the only anawer truly satisfactory ig the word oi God. A man, when he examines Dimeelf, if he attends io the outside of the latter and cup, and says is it scoured? is it cleant of the mars. It is the meside that it is necessary to have clean, Tt ts not bi been baptuzed or is minister of n may be that and but sounding brass anda tinkiing cymbal. Pau telis us a mab may be able to prophesy all events and to work miracles et WHEN THE LAS? TEST COMES be found wanting. Hew important to be sure What we have is gold. I commend you to- day to put the test tO. yourselves, beyond all doubt, whether the kingdom of God 19 within you, or whether it consists in eating and drinking, for if it does, hearer, stop just now and be satisfied that what you have 1s gould. Having said what the kingdom Of God is not, 5%. Paul goes on to tell us whatit is, He says real reitgion, tue kingdom of God, consists of righteousuess and peace aud joy in the Holy Ghost; that these are its constituent eie- ments. He does net deny that it has other ulings, but these are the great things. What is righteousness?’ J read to you ip the twentieth chapter of Exodus the law of God—what He requires of men. ‘Taere 18 no one can say, and when L “Phat is wroug;? give you the sum of it, which Is to “love tne Lord, tay God, with all thy might, and thy veighbor aa thyself,” you say thatis right. I read it that you shouid see that, if that ts the standard, we are geing to bring to you the cyavichon th M that be true, there 1s mone righteous; no, mot one, Bat God made the sacrifice in the person of His weli-be- loved Son. That 18 the Joundation for His Kingdom. He fulfilled all righteousness. Now, that we may Call the objective view of right- fconeee. If a man says, “Iam lost, but I will lay hold of Christ,” he is righteous, The king dom of God has come upto him. Subjectively religion requires that I should be a rixhteous mab, a holy man. ‘The moment this rightco ess 18 received by a penitent soul there comes: A THRILL OF DELIVERANCE, and a feeling of “What snali 1 do for Him?’ ana Re po:nts to His law, which He has made hon- crabie, aud save, ‘*inis 14 the law of your life, IF YOU LOVE ME keep my commandments.’? Now you see how true religion is jounded on the righteousness of Carist. ‘The second element is the peace and joy of tae Hoty Ghost. ihe soul 18 like the sea, God say, Sobbing ail the time; hence there ia no peace. When you were unredeemed you never thonglt of God or death, but taat you felt concerned, aoxioas. That i hawan nature. God iooks on With compussion and says ail ought to be at peace. THE SENSE OF DISTURBANCE arises from the sense of sin, ‘he moment a man accepts God's righteousness tha burden slips off his and he feels @ kind of rest and quiet, On, Whata relief to feel that! Leis your fathe ‘That is religion, and that is the way it shows 1 self, Religion is righteousness and peace, FIRST REFORMED EPISCOPAL ° OHURCH. JUSTIFICATION BY JESUS—SERMON BY THE REY. DR. SABINE. The Rey. Dr. Sabine, rector, preacued yester- day morning at this church, There was a good sized congregation in attendance, and atter the sermon communion was administered by the reverend gentieman. Yesterday morning he took lis text from Romans, tli., 26—"Just and the justi- ler of him which beileveth in Jesus.” He said :— Paul lays thé foundation of the soul’s everlasting Wellare upon the reck of divine justice, What, our sincerity in God’s uprightn®ss! Our refuge in Gow’s equiiy! Does that sound strange? It is nevertheless true. It is @ customary way 0° speech with us to say, “Our hope is in His merey; we rest in His compassion.” Have we now changed our base? Have we Low turned a moralist? Do we mean henceforth to ciaim heaven on the ground that we deserve it? Are we going to stand before the Evernal Jucge and say, “itis wy right. Ihave earned it, Gtve me my fair wages.” No, sucn can never be the ap- peal whica they who know themselves sinners make to tat Being of witom inspiration testifies— “Our God is a conseming fire.” What then? We bring the blood of the siaia Lamb of God and say, “Benold our satstaction!? We point to the dying victim on Mount Calvary and say, “Behold our substitute!” We quite agvee with the moralist in asserting that tue contentment of divine justice 48 our corner stone ot hope. and we are willing to Adopt much of his phraseology as our own, With this qualification, that when he writes the letter “1? we write the word “Jesus,’? aod where he speaks in the first person we speak in the third, We learn irom the tex(—First, one of God's relations te the beilever: seoond, one of the peliever’s reiatious to God; third, tke ground in which these relations were, Plaimly the thoucat uppermost in the aposcle’s Mind {s that of jadgment, sincerity, diecrimina- tion, One being passes upou the motives and ac- tions of another being. ‘The character of Him wio ercises this high funetion is described as just a His decision 18 declared to justify. ‘The reia- tions, then, which God sustains to the believing soul is the same as that which @ pure and high- minded judge, Whose ermine 1s uustained, woose intecrity is unimpeachable, who swerves never so much as by a hair's breadth in his allegiance to truth aad = right, bears to an accused person agatust whom he is satisfied the law has no valid charge, and Whom in tie exereise of bts prerogative ne las pronounced guiltless. This relation manilestly Gitters altogether ‘rom tbat which the same judge sustains to @ crimiaal whom he has pardoned Two men leave his presence; oue houorabiy ¢ charged, his tame antarnished, lis character vin- dieated, a just magistrate has justided him, and he passes trom the court room without fearand Without repro:ch—as one wio las aright to ve free. The other convicted; its reputation lost; a foul biot resting on his name; released indeed, but released not by the justice but by the Mercy of his judge, As ‘for the believing soui’s relations to God, it is pronounced just. It stands before Him exculpated, exonerated, righteous, mnvocent; and as out of His relation to It as (he justifier grows Eis approval and delence, $0 Out Of Its relations to himas the Justified spring the analogous conditions of joy and confivence. Multitudes of Christians aito- gether jail to apprectate tis glory of their im- heritance. Living far down im the valley they acidom get up to (heir heights. If one among you, my beloved hearers, shail stand unbelieving, and therefore unjustified before the bar of tne Eternal, the awful consequences must rest not here, not there, but on the soul of lim or her who having heard the message of this day refuses to adopt the word of te apostle as the deliberate expression of 1t# own solemn ea ge and say 1 have believed in Jesus Christ thavl migat be justified by the faith of Ourist, CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR. REY. G, T. FLANDERS ON A FUTURE LIFE, A sinall congregation wus present at the Chureh of Our Saviour yesterday morning. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Puliman, is abroad, and the pulpit was occupied yesterday by the Rey. G. T. Planaers, D, D., of Lowell, Mass. His text was trom the seventh chapter of Ecclesiastes, first verse—And the day of oife’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.” The preacher briefly discussed the character of the author of Ecclesiastes, anu sald that nothing occurs in human experience which cannot be met by sometsing derived from, ine Bible. Whether it be of joy or of sorrow, of leasure or of pain, itis ail the same. The bible fefeminently a book of variety, and Solomon, per- haps, more than any one else contributed jargely to its variety. Indeed, ae gave abundant evidence of bis preiound knowledge and profound wisdow Bat in What way is tne day of one's deata better than the day of one’s birch? In the fuct of one's birth taere seems to be a sort of contract implied, Jor birth tntroduces us to Ife; to its manifold cares, duties and sorrows, it introduces us to everlasting, to etgnal life, while dean seems to piunge us into profound dark- ness, mto @ land of wnexpiored mystery, and in almost every instance, even with the most devout, death ia associated With a feeling tha: it isastepin the dark. Each thing made is of a two-fold or dual nature. A physical world is the result oi wn interior world. Ine body is the result of the spirit and not the spirit the result of the body. A flower 18 the result of interior forces. ‘To look uy on 4 human form is but to look upon a tion in things progressive is not nd consequent.y a future state ts an absolute Decessity to explain the present, to explain the cause of the branching out im the material World in all forms that is susceptible of progress. But progress tn the material world is the final source of its dissolution. We come into the world, and alter an allotted time put off the earthly body just a8 one would lay asiwe a gar- ment. Dr. eh Leeng ty b Bes J ovner arguments gotng to prove that a future state was iat atsoluté'ne esity for the completion of the designs of God In making man, BATTLE STREET CHURCH, BOSTON. Here ie Rey. Matthew fale Smith’s sammary of a leading churolt edifice in Bostou—Kattie street church—just completed :— This stracture, costing $500,000, has just been Qnished by the completion of the tower. The building resembles a station house more thaw it does a church, [t is distinguished for its umlt- ness. The interior is as plain as a barn, without the usual break of place of hear- ing It could not b uipit has been sacrificed to the arch: jm, and changes have been going on ever since the church was erected to enavie the people to hear. The pulpit has been id and lowered, brought forward and put back; the sicoves Miied up and everything done that coi done to remedy defects, The house ts as @ inilure as & $250,000 house can well be, Worse than all, a very heavy debt rests on the concern, while the congregation 1s but small. This socte:y was at one time the aristocratic soctety of the city. Here the courtly Buckmiuster attracted his overflowia, audiences, Here Edward Everett ran dis sho but brilliant career as & preach bit sat fora season as a hedrer, and ieft under the ministry of Dr, Pat ‘The saying 19 attribute to bim that ‘Tne preaching was as effective as the railing Of shot upon shinies, YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1875.—TR IPLE SHEET, FREE METHODISTS IN CAMP, 4 FORLOEN CAMP GROUND AND A PECULIAR PEOPLE—THE JINGLING RELIGION AND MUD- -POOLS OF THE WORLD DISCARDED FOR THE PURE WATER OF SALVATION AND THE GLORY OF GOD, Dover, N. J., July 30, 1875. Amid the storm and rain of Wednesday “the resolute few who dare go througi”’ the strait gate and narrow way of the Free Methodists gathered here, in Casteriine’s words, to hold their annual camp meeting. They are far enough from the great city to be free from the prying eyes ana in- trusions of those who like to jest at their expense. But, ‘rom appearances yesterday and the day be- fore, they are also Jar enough, if not too far, away from the accommodations of ctvilized life, for a more forloro and aeselate looking place, end I might almost add people than this piece and these people have appeared for three days are not easy toimagine, A ride of two hours over the Merris and Dssex Railroad, a dist«uce of forty- three miles, and then a wagon ride of two miles more, over @ muddy and hilly road, brings the pilgrim to thts halting place on his way to Can: Dover itself isa kind of one horse town of 2,500 or 3,000 inhabttants, whose main support is the iron mines in the vicinity and whatever little traffic the railroad brings tott. It used to be something of a manufacturing piace, but Its only rolling mill has lain idle for seven years; it has one foundry, whieh employs a few hands, and the railroad company have a dilapidated and almost deserted repair shop here. There was a railroad car factory here a few years ago, but a fire de- stroyed it, and the manufacturing business was transferred to another place; but repairs are done here, Some persons have been here lately nego- tating for the deserted rolling mill, go that a litte new life may be infused into the piace again, Toe Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists and Free Mewhodists have each a caurck here, and the Catholics have One about a mile south of the vil- lage. There is A SUBSTANTIAL DISTRICT SCHOOL HERE also, and a modest looking hotel. Tne livery stadles depend for their support very largély on the railroad passenger traffic, and on such a day as yesterday they charge Just as much asa pile | grim can afford or 1s willing to pay—from twenty- five cents to a dollar or two—to be conveyed irom the railroad depot to tie camp grounds. Hereto- fore the railroad company sold exeurston tickets atreduced rates to tuis eucampment, without apy res'riciiens, but they discovered that vusl- ness men, for mere worldly gain, suddenly and in great numbers became “pilgrims in the narrow way,’ and took advantage of the reduced fare to look afrer thelr own interests, Hence all who would thus avail themselves horeaiter and saye half a couar on the round (rip must get an order from some Pree Methodist pastor vouching for them that tuey are bone Jide pilgrims, Not being Jamillar With this arraugement, I was not apie to reap any advanlage from tt, and I now note it for the benefit of atl whom it may concern. A more dismal time for a camp meeting than the last two days have been need hardly be wished by the Worst encmres of such gatherings. . With a brief respite on Wednesday and a lew hours’ grace yesierday the ram las poured down upon usin torrents and Uriblets so that &.square inch of dry ground would be au impossibitity here. Tae camp ground iiseif is 4 complete picture of foriorn dis- tress, Twenty tents ordered and sent from Rochester, N. Y., one week ago have not yet ar rived here, and the people are all at odds and ends lor Want of suelter aud aceommodations, Roenester is one of the strongucids and centres of the Free Methodist denomination, and as they beiieve in aad practise the faith that they should deal only with teew pilgrims like them- selves they get their goods at tils distance, By at the cost oF such taconvenience and deiay. These teats ure expected hele to-day or to-morrow, and the delay 18 ed to the Oifictais of ine Dela- Ware, Luckawauna and Westera Railroad. Mean- tme they lave jour tents here which, alter a jasiion, give shetter and cooking and sleeping aud boarding ana preacuing aecom- modations to the 150 persons now present here. Bui considering the many disappolmiments they have suffered dud the IMconveniences tney put UD with j:om (ho weather and tie railroad compa- mies and other things together, it must be admlt- ted that tue people here do possess their souis in peace. As they express it themselves, they must let patience Pave her periect work, hey appear tobe weil satisied with tae taward glory 1 With the outward surroundings, tarough this encampment, SCATYERED IN PICTURESQUE CONFUSION, May be seen stoves With their appurtenances in duferent stages of oxidization, tables, siooly camp caatrs aud other belongings to ordinary aud Well reguiated encampments. And iw close prox- imity to \bese may be seen, here and there, a box ortrunk whieh contams the wardrove and larcer, and which may serve, as [ have seen them (under sheiter, however), Instead ofa baby orth. It Would ve amusing, it were Not 80 serious, CO pass along through this encamp- ment and see tie good housewives trying to iuuke five and cook 100d With wet sticks. Those who have ever tried t will know that it is worse than making briess without straw, And yet ap- pareniiy oblivious of the weatner and its prob- abilities, and above the din of sturm and rain, is heard the soug of joy of these pilgrims on the way to Zion as they cook and sig togewer. As may be inferred, where there are only (our teais not Here aud there among so mwBy people, there must be a display | in sowe sort of the milk Of human Kindness. And there is. 1'woor teree or half a dozen tamiites gather gypsy-like unuer the same cover and eat of the sume improvised table-—those who have enouga and to spare Very cheeriully soaring with those Who may lack oO! the things temporal ‘The majority of the pilgrims present are from New York aud Brooklyn, wud are, as one of the preaci- ers called them, “‘maturalized Duccomen.” Lhere are a few here from Alleutown, Pa., and Pniliips- burg, N.J., and irom the interior of New York State. Between this date and to-morrow evening they expect 300 or 400 persons here, and a Oid Probabilities has been against them for two days, they parpose to prolong their meetings, perhaps, over the second Sab- bath. Apout half a dozen persons came here yesteraay afternoon through all the rain and | 8.ush, but this morning’s train brougot hitherto goodly number, Aud MOKe are expected during tue day. This Conference, jormeriy tue Susquehanna, has lately been wivided, so that there ts no expec- tation of a8 large a gathering here this year asin former times. The New York Gonlercuce, in a which this place Das been thrown, humbera now ony CWenty ministers and charges—iess than one- toird of What it had a coupie ol yearsago. ‘ine entire denomination does uot univer over 10,000 members, They are Methodists in form wend jaith, but ‘uree” from Hpiscopal supervision; iree irom conformity to tue world in dress, jashion, fiery and Irippery; tree irom everything that would Inder or Hamper thelr progress toward tue Celestial City, and periectiy Iree to jump and suout and tumble and toss about like so mauy maniacs when they get “gloriously happy,’ as you would agree if you saw them, a3 | pave s in such @ state, Indeed, f was never more convinced than | have been while here among toem tuat their condition A MODIFLED FORM OF SPIRITUAL MONOMANIA. As iiooked upou them gathered in their large church tent for worship [ was strangely tm. pressed witi the lack of intelligence displayed in especiaily of so many of the women pres- ma the majority of those here are Women, Many o! them, and, indeed, of those throughout the denon ination, are malcontents from other Metho- Gist bodies, though they count some original con- veris among thetr members, One Of thetr preack- | ers here present, the Key. Mr. Bradbrook, is a reclaimed sunaway youth, who having traversed this continent, working at his trade as a carpen- ter aud stairbuilder waen he could aad spending his earnings in toolish pleasures, was nabbed by | the Free Methodists a couple oi years ago, and is now Walking in the marrow way. He now iraveis around with the Presiding Eider, Rev. Mr. Goald (a Very xeutal and toteiligent Christian gentie- Inan, iormetly pastor at this viliage, but now a resident of Harpersville, N. ¥.), and gives his ser- yives free to the Lord and to feeble societies, both mechanically, inteliecinally and spirituaty. He can iay down his hammer and saw aiter he has built &@ church house, and, like the oid pioneer Me‘nodists, take up his Bibie and hymn book and eens and sing With the same Vim and Vigor uit he can drive @ nail or cut a board. On Weanesday evening this camp meeting was opened with @ general meeting for prayer and experience, Oid Solsnone out for afew hours in the alternoon and rendered it passaoly coimwfort- able to hold such & Service in Irovt of the preach+ ers’ stand; but yesterday and wils morning the services were heid in the large churcii teut which | Mr, Gould carries aboat with him in his travel and pitches and preaches in wherever he finds a Pree Methodist Society who have no churcl penn ee no minister to instruct and lead them. The preaching has been done here so tar by Mx. Woodruff, a retired -tinsmitn, from Wind- sor, Broome county, & local proacher in the Freo Methodist Church; by Kev. tol, of Pennsylvania, and Kev, Mr. Ladou, of Brooklyn. And there are besides those, of the clergy, the Rey, Mr. Ketties, of New York city, and the Rev. Mr, Jones, of Dover, also here pres- ent. Asamplo of the preaching may be accept- able to the readers of the HenanD and 1 give it herewiti. it Is taken irom yesrerday afternoon's service, preacher was the aforesaid Mr. Woodrum, o long, lean, reguiar BROTHER JONATHAN SPECIMEN OF IIUMANITY, His theme Was the contrasted glory o. tho frst and second tempies at Jerusalem; god the glory of the latter house was greater than the former. Speaking of the fabernacie in tue wilderness, ue said, “Could you have looked on theae red dyed badgers’ skiny and otner fixing you mint be Tamily ditchen, | en them, © Mr. Bris- | gratified with the sight, but I'd rather have the flor that excelleta here” (striking his breast). erring to the fashionable religion, which so largely prevails in the churehes at this day, he said, ‘I see men running and grasping after sen- Sual good, and I den’t kuow what they want of it At is ‘very small potatoes’ to get down to the pre ing that tells peopie they must not go after th ‘Jingliug religion.’ People ougut to know | enough for that themselves, But people ho have fs religion, a# they say, do go alter sacb trasb. tell you they baveu’t the genuine article. If be o 1b Almighty had nothing better to offer ue tha | Jimsiing thing toey call retigion 1 would call \6 and Aim and ail apout it a sham; Ia bave nothing to @o with it, and Pd advise ye to let italoue.”” Referring again to the glory of the | latter house—which he claimed ia the human body and soui—and to the right Of possession of divine tuings, he remarked, “We are not wacur- alized into this Kingdom as some of you Dutcn- men were nase citizens o: this Kepupitc. We Were treevorn. We belong to the royal line, glory be to God! and iuherit everytuing that 18 our Fauner’s, . THE TIDE RISIN: The enthusiasm began to barst forth ac this point im shouts and caterwatis of | ‘iory ) “Auen |? “Halelujab!? and like expressions, and the stretching forth of arms to receive the incom- ing “power and baptism of the Holy Ghost; and, ta oe advantage of tnis fayorabio tura, the preacher sat down and wrapped @ shaw! around him, 411s brethren in the meantime had started tue bymu, Whose euorns was, The Lion of Judah shall break every chain And give us the vict’ry again and again, The Rey, Mr. Ladou then followed in an address designed to lead the peopie to the “altar’—a rude benca in front of the platiorm, irom which he spoke and at which they were expected to kneel on the damp ground and seek pardon for sin and jurity of heart, And, by way of encouragement, told them that “magnificent as was the first Temple, covered in-ide with $9,010,000,009 worth ot gold—whteh,” he added, “is iaree times our national devt—ine second Tempie was more glort+ ous, And yet I know not why’ he said, ‘unless is be that Jogus Crist walked and talked init, But when He lett it the glory departed; and now Where 1s this temple Which contains the glory | tiiwt excelieta ? Kuow ye now that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost and that the spirit of God dweliett in you? ‘there’s the temple and that’s the giory which the Jewish temples could Rot contaiu. Now, if you get your bodies cieaned Tight out," he added, “you wou't want any more Of thia jingiing religion that my brother has been Speaking woont, for you will have something vet- ter. It you only get free and have this well of Savation springing up um your souls you won't Want to drink any more at vib MUD POOLS OF THE Wor This exhortation bad the desired effect, and the “altar? was very soon crow! and tuen | Brother Gould and a few others sung a hymn pe- | caliar to this people, very mach like a plantarton melody, which cue can pinke up as be zoes along, the chorus of which 1 give you:— c narrow way, e Narrow way esoimie few ‘9 through: Di take the narrow way. While this was being suug some of tae worship- pers were ssoutiug und jumping up and down and “playing old Harry” with retiglon and getting “giorwosty bappy.? But, amid all tis excite- ment and tumult, In one corner of the tent lay an lonocent babe snugly ensconsed between two pillows and sieeying souadiy on the top ef a ” trunk, Restirg on cach ‘side of mother’s lap and stretched at full jengta on the benca lay two more Httle chubdoy-faced ues, while otkers of larger growth siept im the mater- halarias. The mien and the women sat ou sepa- | Tate beuches, as In the primicive times, so thar there could be no Winking and binging’ carried on uvkoown to the domioe, Some ol ihe men were coaticas, having just left their tent pitcaing to attend the serv: ihe women were bonnet- less, andoniy a iew of them had cloaks or snawis on them. Many of them had hoods or hanaker- enieis tied around tueir heads, and ali were dressed in the piainest and most Inexpensive cot- tom and woollen garments minus dounces and | furbelows, jeathers and flowers, ribbons and Ax- Ings, suck aS ocher churen-gomg people don. In these things they are iree, Tue scene was one Wellsuited to Lhe pencil of an arcst, and itisa sample of what may be expected here during this encampment, With, of course, modificatioas of | Shade and color of cireumstance and surround- ; Ings, There was no public service eld here yea- terday morning, a8 tie people wore busy pitcding tents ald arranging them in some order, THE PROGRAMME OF SERVICE | from day to day will consist of an early morning prayer Mectiig at ive o’ciock, an experionce and | exbortation meeting at ntue A.M, preaching at haif-past ten A. M., half-past o and Nail-past | Seven ». M., witha children’s meeting of an hear thrown im at hait-past one P. M., and tne various inmuy gatuerings Liat are looked forss soon as the eXpeeted tents arrive and are pitched. In- deed, ibis one continued service trom morning Uli night, broken oniy by the time necessary tor eating. Aud the meals are preceded anc followed by siuging and prayer, and the bretaren and sis- vers dweli together in unity and peace, helptog @nd belplul of one another, AFRICAN ROYALTY IN PARIS. THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR DOING THE SIGHTS O¥ THE FRENCH CAPITAL—HIS RECEPTION BY THE PRESIDENT AND MME. MACMAHON, [From Galignani’s Messenger, July 20.) ‘The Sultan of Zanzibar went on Saturday to the | Nationat Library, accompanied by M, Soeifer, in- | terpreter at the Miutstry of Foreign Atfairs for O: ental languages, M, Rawaud, Consui ot Zanzibar at Marseilles, and five persons of his suite. A crowd was gatiered in the prectnets of the Louvre. The Suitau and his attendanis were con- veyed in hired carriages. DRESS FASHION His Highness wore along black tunic witn red facings. Alarge opening, commencing at the shoulders and termmaung at the waist in a point, showed an under garment of red flannel, over which was a heavy gold chain, His turban was of diferent colors, and without diamonds, Loosa white trousers, and sandals jastened by strings rolied round the legs, completed his costume, Wich, beside, Was somewhat the same Jor vie persous OF Mis suite, AT THE LIBRARY | ne was received by M. Deusie, who was accom- panied by M. Bugene Vortambert; Baron Reille, Secretary General of the Internauioual Exhibinon ot Geographical Science; M. Slane, the Oriental. iat, &c. tis highness successively passed tnrouga the Salie Mazarin and the depariments of geog- Taphy, Mabuscripts, &c, M. Siawe drew his at- tention to the rick collection of Arav, Persian and Cinese documen ud the Sultan inspected the engraviogs and admirea the pilates of Oriental | dresses possessed by the library. ‘Lhe Mlustrious | visitor seemed greatly 1aterested in all the curiosi- ues shown him, and particularly examined the | large giobes 01 Coronelli, thirteen feet in diameter, | and which were turned to show him his own country, M. Seneiter expiaining to him various | geographical detatie. | On leaving the Rue Richeneu the Saltan went4 to tne national printing ofl | Temple, and atterward return Louvre. | Lhere was no oMlcial dinner in the evening. Yesterday His Highness WENT YO VERSAILLES | Mm an open Carriage, leaving Paris at about half- past One, and on arriving alighted at tae Hotel de Réservoirs, A carriage of the Marshal was ia waiting there and conveyed lim shortly after to the Presidential residence. A body oi infantry drawn up in thecourt yard received’ tim with ail due honor. ‘The Marshal was attended by his multary housefold, as wel! as by General de Cissey (War) and M, Bates (interior). After a short in- terview tho Suitan procesaed to pay a visit to Dake d'Audifret-Pasquier, President of the Na- tonal Assembly. He afterwards waa present at the /éle organized by Mme. de MacManon in the patace, for the in- undated, and Went out to witness the great Water works, returning to Paris tu the-evening, This day tis Highness and suite wilt visit the | Garden of Acclimatization, at tour in the after- | noon, and in che evening will be present at a per- formance iu the Crreus of the Champs-blystes, His Highness has been invited by the Marshal President to be present ata grand dinner to be tven on Luursday next at the Presidential Hotel, | Versatiles. THE BRITISH CROWN’S ADVERTISE- MENT. {From the London Examiner, July 17.) Mr. Macdonald was very severely taken to task for saying that the working classes were not favorably disposed toward paying the expenses of the Prince’s visit to India, Mr. Macdonald ougnt to Know tie feeling of the working classes better than Colonel Beresiord, who declared that nine- tenths of them would repudiate What Mr. Mac- donald said; and Mr. i. A. Vaylor strongly bore out Mr. Macdonald's opinion whea he quoted his OWN experience of 8 Mass meeting Of more than 10,000 persons in Leicester, But waatever may be | tue opinion of those of the working Classes Who | have thought on the subject and formed their own Views, it is tolerabiy ciear that the nation | ought not to be called on to pay the expenses of visit Which Its representatives had no share im | projecting. The expenses of sack an vadertaking shonld be patd by those who profit by it, aud | most impartial spectators will agree that tue royal family wil gain more by the Frince of | Wales’ visit to India than the English nacion. The commercial character of this age haa made us familiar with the benedt of keeping anything well before the pubde. The New YORK Herany has Rue Vieilie-au- d to the Herel du fonad a subsianual mteres: ¢ exploration of Africa, and the Daily Te as enlarged its circulation by Jurthering ‘esearch among the Assyrian antiquities. ihey have been able by th means to fll other newspapers wiih thelr names, and yo to Jester in mea’s minds a fixed idea tiat they are indispensable. Our royal famuy may reasonably expect considerable ad- vantage jaa sliniiar way, When the Prince goes to India Je Will De accompanied by special corre- spondents, who will fil columas every other day With bruiiant sketches O; bis proceedings for sx rey months, and Will estabiish more aed more in tha hearts ofthe people bow wondertul # thing ru: altyis aud how essential to the welfare of country. Royalty will gain immenseiy by can be bo offence tn this commereli scribe ad & gigantic advertisement. yalty is able to pay for tals, and there is no reason way ib should hot. DON CARLOS PROCLAIMED KLNG, A SPANISH MONARCHICAL CEREMONIAL, BUT OUTSIDE OF MADRID--DON CARLOS KING— SPEECH OF THE MONARCH AITRR THE AN- NOUNCEMENT. {Paris (Jaly 16) correspondenee of London Times.} The Gazette de France gives @ glowing account ofthe ceremony at Viliatranca a few days ago, when “tue very noble and loyal province of Gul- puzcoa”’ proclaitned Don Carlos King of Spain. I reads like one of those popular fetes of large pro- Vivelal towns styled ‘historical cavalcades,”’ some- times representing the return of Francis I. to France, sometimes St. Louis’ departure for the Holy Lana, Nothing ia jacking, neither costumes, horses, streets frimmed with tags, the enthu- Silastic cheers of the population, the addresses read, nor the speeches in reply. THE PREPARATIONS, We are’ firet told How ‘the juntas resolrea on proclaiming the King; how a telegram was sent iniorming him of this resolution; how tue King was cheered on his arrival, and bow illumimations, vontires and dances were kept up till lace into the nighr, THE ROYAL STANDARD PRESENTED, We are-snext told how the Mayor presented the royal standard to Don Manuel Unceta; now the procession marched to the palace to fetch the King; how he was hailed with acclamatious and bell ringing, and how be was couducted to a dals in the market place, surrounded by cavairy and thousands of people jooking on from Windows and housetops. Then loliows a deseription of THE CEREMONY ITSELF. Don Manuel Unceta waved the fag three times, called for vivas ior Onarl¢s VI., to Whica sue peo- ple responded, waved the Mag bejore the King, and tien returned it to the Mayor. Thereupon the Correwidor asked the peopie whether they swore homaye to the King, to waten they of course replied in the attirmative, Then the members of the Junias deflied beiore their sovereiga, bending the knee and kissing his hand, while belis, can- hous abd human tiroats made the welkin ring. DON CARLOS THEN MADE A SPEECH, in whic ne spoke of irs se ie against tuose who claimed to keep ir hands the fragments of & banver they had torn aud sullied, anc of his being called vy God to reunite all the elements Which would Save Spain, He iauded Guipugeva as & model of the harmony existing between order and real liberties, pecween re- ligious faith, patriotism and menarcny, ana de- ciaved that ina time he hoped not far distant their wntagonists would bless those now laboring WIth pin lor the preservation of tae Spanish re- ligion, territory anu law. PRANTIC APPLAUSE followed these grand and noble words, and there Was thes a procession to tae churen, where the riest swore the King at the altar to respect the Trancns. sud customs of the province, the priest jug nim tuat if he kept bts outh God would aid bin here aud grant him His glory im the other world, while 1f he violated it he would have to reader a bitter account here aud to en+ dure the torments of hell hereafter, RETURN TO THE PALACE. After repatring to the Town Halland signing the minuies, listening aiso to a speech whicn pre- dicted thas De would courer days of happiness on @ heroic nation worthy of @ better fate thantt now enjoyed, tue King returned to the palace, Add to ail this the despatches from the theatre oO! war, and one cannot help admiring the ime jantioe serenity with which Doa Carlos iends himselt to artless santasies, SIR JOHN AND ADY FRANKLIN, THE MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS FOR TEER TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. {London (July 20) correspondence of Dundes Aa vertaser.} Apropos of the death of Lady Franklin, which took place yesterday, 1 may mention tuat Mr. Mathew Noble, the sculptor, only on Saturday compietea the cutting of the inscription on the admiravty conceived aud highly picturesque and Ornamental bust of Sir John Frankiln, waich he has just executed for Westminster Abbey, and Which will shortly be erected there. This buat rivals, aS & Work Ol art, the same sculptor’s mas- terly statue of the Arctic explorer whtch stands by tno side of the Athenwum Cisb, and cannot fali to attract hosts of admirers. On tae apex of the marbie niche inclosing the portrait aconger eel and the motto “Nis i text, “O ye irost and cold, O ye te less ye the Lord, praise itm, and forever,” with a bas-reiief of the and Yerror locked im by the tee, aud the verse froa: the pen of Mr. Tennyson:— Not here; the white North has thy bones, And thou, Lerote satior #9 Art passi thine happier Voyage now Toward no earthiy Pole. On the left side Of the monument the following inscription is cut:—To the memory ot Sir John Fransim. Bora Aprtl 16, 1786, at Sprisby, Lincoin- shire. Died June 11, 187, of Point Victory, ‘ozen Ocean, The beloved chief of the crew who perisked with him in compietiug the aiscovery of the Northwest Passage.” Asuniiar inscription to the memory Frank composed by Dean Stanley, placed on the right side of tins niche hionument is erected in the Abbey, BRAZIL AND URUGUAY. of Lady ft pe A SERIOUS CABINET QUANREL BETWEEN THE SOUTH AMERICAN IMPERIALISM AND THE RE- PUBLIO. Ro JANEIRO, Jaly 10, 1 Beside the diMcmity with the Argentine von- federation, affairs at Montevideo are in a very critical state, ‘Lhe government of the Uruguayan Republic nas not only a fierce quarrel with the Brazilian Envoy about the protection given to Sefior Herrera by the Brazilian Legation, put ie behaving with insane violence toward the mere chants who resolved not to deal with any one who Wouid insist on paying ola debts in the eighty per ceut depreciated jegal tenders. A meeting of the foreign representatives Was held iw the Brazilian Legation aud one of the foreign naval commanders in the Brazilian fagsnlp, and it was resolved to give the Braziian commodore the chief command Of the foreign torees ta case it became necessary to intervene for the protection of :oreign citizens, WHY IS IT 80? The coatinued sheiter given to Herrera by tne Brazilian Minister at Montevideo 1a not fully accounted fer and the Braztiian government has as yet given no explanation of the reasons for not sending him away, Last week the Montevidean Minister of Foreign Relations directed to the Brazilian Euvoy a long and sowewhat furious note demanding the delivery of Herrera, but the note of the Brazilian Minister ts not yet made public. Fora me it was feared the Montevidean government would seize Herrera by matn foree, but this has Not occurred, and on the sth D. José Candido de bustamente arrived here ou special Mission, having for its object, tt is sald, the settle. meat of the dimiculty. FIGHTING FOR A CHILD. IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE KNAPP IN JERe SEY CITY-—THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS. Some weoks ago a young girl named Mary Gately, residing in Jorsey City, was sent by her father to the House of the Good Shepherd, in New ark, The girl was not only of & wayward dispost tion, but, from evil &ssociations, was becoming positively depraved, The father tried to eifect a reformation within the family circle, but his efforts were iraitiess. At last he placed herin charge of the good Sisters, with the request that they would not only inculcate a spirits of morality inher but would teach her to read and write. A few wiuserable fanatics in Jersey City, hear- ing of the case, determimed to take girl from the control of her father the Sisters of the Good Saepherd by legal p They applied to several lawyers, « fused Lo wid them on hearing evide: gir’s wayward tendencies, At iust awyert named Chapman took up the case aud applied to Judge Knapp for a writ of habeas corpus. The Judge readered his decision on Saturday, denying the writ. In giving his decision, the Juage said that t! the giri was not of legal awe her father had asmuch Mght to send her to the House of tae Good Shepherd in Newark as he had to send her to school, aud NO ove could interfere with lis rignt. He said he could not grant the writ ap- plied for, Uniess Mr, Chapman would in- corporate in his applicatuen au that tne girl was of legal age Chapman replied that he could nor do si and the writ was accordingly reiused, Mr. Cia) Man argued that the House of the Good Shepherd in Newark was of the same character as an instl- tution bearing the same name in New York, that the latter was & house of deteation to whic! persons were committed by due process ol law, and that an effort had been made at a late seas Sion of the Legislature to have a law enacted Making the Newark imstitution # house of de- tention. ‘But,’ said Judge Knapp, tuterrap ting, “the bill did not pags.’ That settied the tsaue, and the girl must remain in the taatitution til she is of legal age, ualegs her father removes her sooner, the and