The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1875, Page 6

: NEW YORK HERALD, “MOODY AND SANKEY, The Second Meeting Under the Leadership of the Great Evangelists. NORTIFIELD MOVED BY MOODY'S ELOQUENCE. The Spirit of God Invades the Valley of the Connecticut. How “We Are Whirled Along Like Poor Balloonists.” WAR UPON SIN AND INIQUITY Norruvm.p, Mass., Sept. 11, 1875. The war against sin and iniquity in the Connecticut Valley is being prosecuted most vigorously. Just how many bard hearts have been softened and precivus Bouls saved up to this time it is impossible to deter mine; but there is no mistaking the fact that Messrs. Moody and Sankey and their inaustrioug colaborers @Measrs. Whittle and Bliss, of Chicago,) are destined fo bring around a religious feeling —_here- Bbouts of no insignificant importance. Already they fave passed the stages of ridicule and curiosity, and at each meeting their hearers are visibly moved by their | pound and eloquent exhortations. ‘THER SECOND BVENING MENTING, which was held last night in the little Congregational Bbhurch, was one of rare and effectual power, and the very few sceptics who have bitherto maintamed that there was @ shallow sincerity in the efforts of the evangelists are mow enthusiastic in their praises. In fact, it would be un impossibility to find a single person who was present at the prayer meeting last evening to entertain, for a simgle moment, an idea that these missionaries are not laboring from pure and righteous motives Ad- mitting that there is something of the dramatic plement in their manner eof conducting the meetings, it is positively cortain that there is nothing in the line of affectation about it If | ‘there is such a thing as heavenly inspiration in a holy | work it is possessed in abundance by these celebrated evangelists. “SALVATION’S PREE FOR YOU AND ME.’? ‘The weather was not propitious for a general turnout of the community, but still there was as large an at- fendance as at the meeting the evening previous A beavy rain during the day was followed by B cold, damp evening, one not only suggest- Ing, but absolutely requiring, heavy overcoats; and yet the audience which filled the church edifice was represented by many who had driven as far as twenty- ive miles in search of salvation. THE OPENING SERVICES. Mr. Moody, as heretofore, seemed to have the general Management, but still there was nothing formal in his manner in conducting the services’ When the concourse of people had become seated he called upon his friend Bliss to sing one of his stirring melodies Then he invited one of the local clergymen to offer’ prayer, and subsequently Mr. Sankey thrilled the audience with his sweet vocal powers, The hymn selected was that or “| LOVE TO TELL THE STORY,” and the manner‘in which it was sung indicated that the ‘words, though not his own. were really the sponta- neous outburst of his heart. The chorus, too, was Joined in by the assembled multitude ina way that it ever was before, each word, lino and stanza fmaicating that every one was charmed and everfiowing with the spirit of the hymn. It was one of the finest of all that are sung at the meetings; and. inasmucd as it isto be heard throughout ths country, I appeca- the words in full:— Love to tell the story OF unseen things abor, Of Jewus and His glo OF Jesus and His | Tove to tell the story Beeanse I know ‘tis true: Tt satisfies my longings ‘As nothing else can do. Choras—I love to tell the story, ‘Twill be my theme in giory, To tell the old, old st ‘Of Jesus and His lo Llove to tell the story ; More wonderful it seers Phan all the golden fancies Of all onr golden dreams. Tlove to tell the story, Tt did so much for me ! And that is just the reasom T tell it now to thee. T love to tell the story: *Tis pleasunt to repeat What seems, each time [ tell 1s, More wonderfully sweet. T love to tell the story ; For some have never heard The message of salvation From God's own boly word, Tove to tell the story ; For those who know it best Seem hungering and thirsting To bear it like the rest in scenes of glory ew, new sony, e old, old story loved so long, MR. MOODY'S ADLRESS. Mr. Moody, introducing himself, then commenced She most effective and powerful address which be hag Jelivered since reaching the country. In a few words he first announced that he had received a request from | mother for prayers for the conversion of her sou, and from afather for an earnest petition to God for the young men of Northfield. The prayer having been offered, Mr. Moody read part af the thirty-fourth chapter of Ezekiel, following & with ao characteristic exposition of a few verses of the fifteenth chapter of Luke— She parable of the good shepherd and the Sheep. Probably, said Mr. Moody, we are better ac- quainted with this chapter than any other in the whole ; Bible Yet how often we lose sight of the one grand truth it conveys—that God takes the pluce af the seeker! No one ever sought for God aati) God sought for him. The first thing that took place after the fall of Adam was God secking for him. Why, Adam ought to have wandered up and flown crying, “Where, O where is my God?” But in nead of this it was God wh® cried out, “Adam! Adam; where art thou? Remember that it is God who aways seeks first for the sinner, and the moment that the simner secks God there is a union--the soul will Yome in contact with the living God. Now, the great Srouble is, people try to find God with their heads, and Bot their hearts, When addressing a meeting in Lon- fon some time ago I made the statement that I could Jeli the time when every man or woman in that andienee would be converted. ‘They were amazed. Phey thought that I was proclaiming inyself a prophet orason of # prophet, and was speaking unadvisedly with my lips. But tell them I could, and that from tbe Word of God They would every one be converted when they searched for God “with ull their hearts.” Hulf-heartedness is the curse pf the Chureh and the world to-day. If you really want to find God to-night—any of you that are not Chris. Mans—seek for Him with all your hearts. You will not bave to go home, but you can find him right here in the pew where you are. Again, I say, we must bear in wind that God takes the place of the seeker, and the moment the sinner feels kis need of Christ then will He be found. Now as to the parable in Luke, We find here that » Sheep bas left the flock und has gone out into the qilderness. When he has the flock in the fold the shepherd count them and finds only ninety-nine. “Well,” he says, “I’ve got a hundred sheep; where’s the other? Perhaps I didn’t count right." So he counts again, and still one is gone. Perhaps he counts them a third time, stili he can make only ninety-nine. What docs be do’ He fastens the ninety-nine in their fold and goes out to look for that one poor, wandering sheep. Phat is pot the sheep looking for the shepherd, but the | Shepherd looking for the sheep. It is God's work to fad us, Mis sheep, and to keep us safe, Now, this man went until ho found the lost sheep. He rent into the fields Now, 1 see him walk along the prook side and into the woods, every once ina while Wopping and listening aud calling the sheep by name; mt po sound is heard Again he stops Abt be hears a faint bleating afar of. He follows along in the direction of the sound Here on a | usb 1a a small piece of white woul, and he says, ‘Now fam on his track,” and away be goes. He calis ana the sheep answers, aud he finds it and takes it tenderly spon bis shoulder aud brings it back. ‘My brother told me something the other wight aud 1 thought I would use it, Some one came in and said his | and give it to Mr. Wright, one for $100 to sheep were in the street, At last we found them all | fi | $50 wo thie aed $15 im that, and say, but one, which was missing, and we could | is your money, 8 restitution money, belongs to you.” Weil, I think Mr, Wright would have not find st, Atlength, after searching a long time, 1 | confidence ‘in this man’s conversion. Don’t you think said, “Let it alone and it will come back.” “No,” , Be would? When @ man begins to make | said he, "| pestitution of money that he — has lost sheep never comes back to the fold.” | lly that is asign of his conversion. | You must seek forhim, even as this shepherd left bis | that b ninety and nine in the fold, and went forth to look for | ! Was a raseal before, and if he goes the one that was lost, and did not stop until he a man that he was Wrong that is aversion. That’s the way it was with The very next day he went into his offic tion of cheus, found it. Let the Christians lift up their hearts in sn out sheske to reyes ey org he had che é f dues yefore iy collecting taxes, His clerk carried one man a prayer here to-night, and ask God to save some Crock for $100 “What's this tory” says | poor lost sheep. He may find some one ajl ready here | the man. “Why ed \ says te clerk, “Zaccheus swin to-night. But bear in mind that itis the shepherd | you Ll 2 “7 BF y= nee, and oe aa * y ninety. | baying you back four fold “Well,” says the man, “I seeking the sheep. He is not seeking after the ninety- | guess he is converted, and no mistake.” 7 It was @ sud- | mine that are in the fold, but the one that is lost, den conversion, but 4 genuine one, | But let no one | ner the silver, | Suppose that he can be converted till he wakes up to Again, we have the woman seeking afer the silvl™ | the fact that ho's lost, When I was iu New York city It is not the silver seeking after the woman. I imagine | th¢ chaplain of the City Prison wanted me to go down (and 1 believe we have a right to imagine sometimes) | to the Tombs and preach to the prisoners. 1 told him T that some one paid her a bill that day, | would be glad todo it, I supposed the prisoners 4 and gave her ten pieces of silver. She takes them out | to be brought into the chapel; but when I got of her pocket and counts them, and one is missing. She | there I found that I had got to speak to thein counts’ them over again, and still one isgone, She | in their cells, 99 that all 1 could see turns her pocket. inside out and finds a hole in it, aud | was the bare wallX Well, when I had finished tlking she says, “This has got out of my pocket.” Then | to them I thought I would go round and sce what effect she stops and thinks to herself, “Where have I | my preaching had bad. In the first cell 1 looked into deen since I got this money?” She gets her | I saw three or four men playing cards. (I suppose it broom and seeks diligently it till she | waseuchre.) “Well,” 1 sudto them, “my men, how finds it, She sweeps diligently. I think I can see her | is it that you are here?” Well, the fact 1s, chaplain, te She raises the table and the orga, and looks care- | false witnesses appeared against us in the court and we | fully under them, and yet she does not find it Then | were seut up, but we are not guilty.” “Well,” | she sweeps diligently and has to ruiso great dust, and |] said, “there is nothing for me to do here, it is very unpleasant to have a great dust raised, “And | these men - ure innocent,” and I passed on when God goes to work He docs a great many things | to another cell There I saw two men and | that we do not like. But, my friends, if God is going | in reply to my question what brought them there, one to do His work, we inust let Him'work in His own | of them said, “I'll tell you how ’ts, chaplain, we got way. Let us learn the lesson that if we are going to | caught and the men that done the deod they got clear.” | invite God to work in Northfleld we must let Him work | “No ono here tor Christ to save,” said I, and | went in His own way. Oh God! let the work go on and let | along Ww the next cell, where there were some others, the souls be saved. | “Well, sir, how is it with your” “Oh, we haven't had | “Bat “she sought diligently until she found it,” and | our thal’ yet, We'll be out of here in a week or | then she rejoiced. That is the point in this same lesson | two.’ Well I never saw so many innocents in | brought out by this woman seeking for this sil) It | any ono day in my life. The only guilty, | wae not the piece of silver that rejoiced, but it | it would appear by ‘their remarks, were the was the woman; and she calls in Mrs. Dutton and all | magistrates and officers who put them there, But | her neighbors and says, “Rejoice with me; I have | after a while I tound a man away off ina cell by him- | found the lost piece of silver.”? And thus itis if one | seif. His head was resting between bis hands, and 1 should be saved here to-night; God will rejoice over it | saw two g) streams of tears pouring down his face. more than the Church or anybody olse. And | They didn’t come in drops, but in streams. ‘*Well, my may that soul be saved here to-night, | friend, what’s the troubie?”’ said 1, He looked up and that there may be reason for great joy im heaven. | said, “Oh, sir, my sins are more than I can bear.” If General Grant should die to-night there | “Thank God for that,” said I, and the man looked sur- would be a great commotion in political circles. The | prised. “What?” said he, ““Ain’t you the man that has story would yo round the world and create much ex- | been preaching, and you are glad that my sins are citement, but I do not know as it would be noticed in | morethan Ican beary” “Yes,” said L “1 thought heaven at all. ‘ou were a iriend to the prisoner?” said he, ‘And sol um,” Lanswered. ‘Well, why are you glad | “Because, heaven over the salvation of souls here in Northteld. if they are too heavy for you you can cast them on AN INTEKLUDE OF SONG AND SPEECH. some oue who will bear them for you.’ “Who's Mr. Moody’s exposition occupied but a fow minutes, | that’? -“The Lord Jesus Christ; He will bear them for yet so rapidly was it spoken that in the lips of most | you.’ I told him how Chnist left heaven, how he a But if that little girl in yon pew should | you said receive God here to-might there would joy in heavel, ‘And let us pray to-night that there may be joy in | that my sins ‘are’more than I can ‘bear ?? Speakers it would have been a twenty-minute Came down to the manger, of His love for address, Very appropriately it was followed by the sinner, and His willingness to save him, Sankey’s song, ‘The Ninety and Nine,” the After 1 finished my talk with him words of which I gave in my letter last night. | | suid, ‘Now let us pray,” und 1 prayed with him and | Now, as then, it deeply impressed the audience. | asked God to save him, Then I said, ‘Now you pray | Colonel Whittle, of Chicago, followed with a fer- | tor yourself.” * he said, “I cannot pray; it would vent address, in which he used graphically as an illus | be blasphemy.” “No,” I said, “call upon your God tration the balloon ascension of Donaldson and Grim- | and ask him’to save you.” wood, the speaker's home being on the shores. of Lake | When I left him I gad to him, ‘ow, I will be in my | Michigan, in which they were drowned. P. P. Bliss, of room between nine and ten o'clock, and I shail | the sume city, gave next the sacred song, “Almost Pere | be praying for you.” Next morning I met | | sunded,”? anda moment later Mr. Moody was again on | him ‘again, aud as soon as I saw him I | his feet, speaking the words which seemed to | saw a great change had taken place. The | crowding upon him for utterance, light of eternity seemed to be breaking around him, MR. MOODY RESUMES. | his face was lit up the moment he saw me. Isaid:—“L A few years ago, when the Prince of Wales came to | wish you would tell me all about it,” and he said, “I this country, all the papers and all the people were | thank God that he brought me here, for if He hadn’t guessing and wondering what his object was | brought me here I shouldn’t have received Christ.’ in coming to the United States. Was it | Christ went into that one cell and seta captive soul to look into the workings of a republican | free, and why? Because he believed he was lost. If | government? Was it for business or was it for | there are any here in this audience who will believe he pera: No one knew. But when the Prince of | isa sinner and wants to be saved He will save you. feaven came down into this world he didn’t come on | Young inan thank God for your praying mother, any secret mission, He came for a purpose; he came + Cherish her as the dearest treasure of your heart, She to geek and save poor, Jost sinners 4 | God's best gift Sometimes I like to take a verse or a passage ani Just as 1 was closing a meeting in Chieago some years hold it up and look all around it, and see what brought | ayy a young man Tore and. asked. leave 10 aay & fow itout, Once when a man from Jerusalem was going | words. It was rather late, and I thought at first 1 would | to Jericho he saw sitting by the wayside a poor blind | cy him to speak some other time; but I told him to go beggar, who says to him, ‘Please give a poor beggara@ | on He told how he once had a praying father and farthing.” ‘And this man from Jerusalem takes his seat other, and how,, after his father died, his mother RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, ‘| Ministerial and Church Movements. THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND THE MASSES. Reopening of the Jewish Synagogues-—The Mission of Israel. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. Dr. J. D. Fulton will preach in Hanson place Baptist church this morning a sermon ‘Commemorative of the Life and Character of the Late Charles G, Finney, D. D.,” and in the evening asermon on the “Book of Esther.” Rev. Drs. Sabine and Howell will address the Morn- ing Star Sunday School at their monthly concert this afternoon. “The Lives and Labors of Messrs, Moody and San- key” will give Rev. Charles E, Harris his theme for this evening’s discourse in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church, Rey, I. D. Ganse will minister this morning and afternoon to the Madison avenue Reformed church, “The Truth as It Is in Jesus,” will be delivered this morning by Rev, C. P, McCarthy, of Albany, in the Bleecker Street Universalist church. He will discourse in the evening on “The Wicked Turned Into Hell.”” The Rey. H. W. Kuapp will preach at the usual hours to-day in the Laight street Baptist church, Dr. T. De Witt Talmage will preach in the Brooklyn Tabernacle at the usual hours this morning and even- ing. ‘The Rey. J. H. Lightbourn will speak in Seventeonth street Methodist Episcopal church this evening on “Temperance, Political Economy, the People the Nation’s Real and True Wealth, Development of Man- hood the Aim and Duty of Government.” The Rev. W. W. Page will preach at the usual hours to-day in the New York Presbyterian church. “Christian Growth in Grace” will be indicated this morning by Rev. Alfred Taylor in the Jersey City Taber- nacle, . ‘The interesting praise meotings at Mr. Albro’s house in West Thirty-sixth street are continued as usual on Friday evenings. The Rev. Edward H. Bronson, of Haddam, Conn., will supply the pulpit of the Berean Baptist church this morning and evening. sé “To-morrow”? will receive some thought and consid- eration to-day from Rey. W. T. Clarke in Unity chapel, Harlem. Rey. J. D, Herr, of Pittsburg, Pa, will preach in the Central Baptist church this morning and evening. “The Gospel’s Conquest” and “Selling the Soul” are the themes that Rev. J. Spencer Kennard will speak upon to-day in the Pilgrim Baptist church, The Rey. Samuel M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and after- noon. by the bones side and says, “I haven't any silver to jeaded with him to receive her Lord and Saviour. give you; 1 cannot give youany gold; but I cantell ro" suiq' «No, mother, g will not do it now; Fou some news, something you will be gladtohear. | 1 yayen’t got time ‘enough. 1 want to see | There’s aman over in Jerusalem who can give you |g jittle of the world. His mother kept on | sight!” “Not that cannot be! Iwas born blind. He praying God to save her boy, her darling boy. | | cannot make me see. Yes, he can! There was | He couldn’t stand her prayers and ‘he ran away. After | | a man who was blind and he guve him 4 jong time he heard that his loving mother was sic sight I saw him and talked with his father | Ho knew what that meant; he knew that his condu and mother, He was born blind, and this | wag killing his mother, and he concluded that he would | man I told you of gave him sight,” and po home, ‘Then his pride was up, and he said, “N for the first time in his life poor Bartimeus’ heart saw the star of hope. “Where is he? Where is the man that was born blind? Who is this man who gave him sight? How did he do it?” ‘Well, I can’t tell you how it wus, but there was a man called Jesus, who met him and gave him his sight—Jesus of Naza- reth. can’t tell you about it, but he | whe moon was commencing to shine just as he began to was ,dorn | blind and Jesus | gave | ,DIm tuk | tread the familiar paths, and as he was passing the old sight.” If God's pie 40 Loh peri Srey graveyard he thought he would stop.and look at his pews root he yy ok ere to-night He may come and 10 | father's grave. His heart was shrouded in gloom, | He d, The idea of my preaching would have been | oy, Ldhragers sh, rm amido Pegg ave vey | overshadowed him who would pray for his lost soul, gece 2 as eo ge hol Ml ore | now that his father and mother were gone. ae or Oe ae Tey aight out, "He | He resolved to pray for himself, and there by tho pe ingests ggg, put pec, | Side of his mother’s grave he knelt and asked God to could see.ne well'es any man. No man ne ad bet- | Save him; and he didi’t leave that spot until the ight ter sight, and Jesus didn’t charge him anything; God | or wernity had broken into bis soul Young man, if will not go home,” and he stayedaway, At last he heard that his mother was worse, aud the thought flashed across his mind—“Suppose’ she should die; I neve would forgive myself,” and he started for hom There was no railway to the village, and the stage couch left him a mile and a half from’ home. saves without money and without price, = i i a. * v8 “ 5 - . : you have got a praying mother treat her kindly; you pert brent ee ee tan ikind = | Will not always have hers and Jet me ‘beg of you to- | night to open the door of your heart to your Saviour, the man said to the blind be pany Fb: bees y sked “him | gang, with touching and tender earnestness, a little eT eekiseict CIC = fo ey meh by acon song, the burden of which was an appeal to a ‘wayward : Just | ‘sou to come home. ee ere ees il pearance | raver by Mr. Moody followed, and the meeting con. | : , | eluded with the doxology and. benediction, During al you can get it right here, and you haye not got tousk | 4¢7 Moody's remarks it was plain that he had awakened | oe 36; Auos Jos tabs It | an intense interest. Before he had concluded many i day Haris, hear, he fouatep, of co | Sera were eas, aid ns the meting chose Pup Fee er ea i cecorhlag He thinks a | bested sobs were heard from several whose hearts were | q * * ouched. | ust be that Nazareniai A ieee ome ade Me kuew | there seemed to be real ground for hope that the re- ec rgad cease cil ian balk pk inion: vival for which Mr, Moody had prayed and labored so Se aan ee ee Tnibeberuniocry outrThou | earnestly had already begun, There will be inevitably bn oe cua he begun to cry out, “Ted qnother large crowd to-morrow might, and on Sunday epee gh oleate he aig IE Know wheitwascper, | tue audiences will no doubt reach many thousands. haps it was Peter; it may have been John. ““Sh-sh-ah,'? | Three preaching services are to be held during the day Don’t make so much noise. Now that is the way with | #nd one children’s meeting great many Christians to-day. Pray, but don’t let gar, eight, | | anybody hear you pray. This beggar Was not ashamed, CEPTION 4 | aud again cried out “Thou Son of David, have mercy on | RE ION TO MR, BEECHER. nm displeased, but voice } | Sania tn the case ot we Hon oF God.” Do ‘you notknow | ‘The friends of Rey, Henry Ward Beecher have en- gaged the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the purpose that Jesus would hush every harp in héaven to hear one poor sinuer cry’ And the Lord stopped his on- ward march and said, ‘*Go and bring itu to me.’ I see them as they run to him and say, “Be of good cheer, the Master calls for thee.” Aud Jesus said to him, "What can I do for you ”” and he answers, “Lord, I want my sight,” and Jesus says, ‘Thou sbult have ; i,” And, like the flashing of a meteor, in aa instaut, as when Jesus said Let there be light, and there was | light, the blind man cvuld see, and the first light that | met bis gaze was the Son of God himself, I shwuld like | to have been in the place of the poor blind beggar then; | correspoudsto our cbr! I should Like to bave been in his place when be litted up his voice and sang “Hallcluyah, hallelwab to the Son of David.” served throughout lis dominion or wherever his sub- 1 can sing as well . Mr. ion y or Pas’ Bliss. 1 on ' jects reside, Services appropriate to the day and occa- not get it out of wy lips, but 1 can sing praises to Go 4 iia nian 3 froee tap. hiberts OS eruaiee ae ae ae vs finging #0n were held In the Iussian-Greek chapel}, where the Hallelujah wo God! Presently be thinks, “Why have Mtargy of St, Chrysostom was chanted by the Rev. never seen my-father or mother or the wileofmy Father Nicolas Bjerring in the presence of the Russian bosom? Won't she be glad to know that Lbave £06 Gnarg¢ d’affairos at Washington, M. de Voigt, the Russian Consul Gencral at this port, Mr. W. de Bodisco, The rev ber 2. ception will be held on the evening of Septem- THE CZAR'S NAMESDAY -~THE GREEK CHAPEL, Yesterday was the “namesday’’--the day that nearly ening time—of the Emperor | Alexander of Russia, and as such it is religiously ob- | In Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church the Rey. J. 8. Wills will this morning remind his hearers that there 1s “A Time to Die,” and in the evening will tell them about “The Philanthropy of Christ.” Divine service in the English language in the Greek chapel this morning. Preaching by the Rev. W. B, Merritt inthe Sixth avenue Union Reformed church this morning and evening. The Rey. J. B. Hawthorne will discourse on ‘Watch- ing with Christ’ this morning in the Tabernacle Bap- tistchurch. This evening Dr. Chambliss, of Charles- | ton, 8. C., will preach there. Dr. John Hall will preach in the Fifth avenue Pres- byterian church this morning and afternoon. “Footmen and Horses” will receive attention from Rey. William Lioyd this evening in Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, The Rey. Dr. White will preach this morning and evening in the West Twenty-third. street Presbyterian cburch. The Progressive Spiritualists will be addressed this morning and evening by Mrs. F. 0. Hyser. The Rey. William N. Dunnell will minister to the Protestant Episcopal Church of All Saints this morning and evening. At Stanton street Baptist church the Rev. W. H. Leavell will preach morning and evening at the usual hours. The Rev. John Johns will preach at the usual hours today in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, ‘At the South Baptist church, Rev. A. C. Osborn, D.D., pastor, preaching at the usual hours. The “discouraged” in Mfe may hear something to their advantage from Professor Loutrell in Plimpton Hall this morning. Bishop Snow will tell the select few who gather in the University Building this afternoon, “What the Bible says concerning the special herald of the coming Saviour and his work.’” The Rey. W. P. Abbott will preach this morning and evening in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church. Divine service in the Church of the Resurrection this of receiving him on tis return to his pastoral duties. | morning will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Flagg, In the Central Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. C. S. Harrower will preach this morning and evening, as usual. Divine service this morning and afternoon in the Chureh of the Incarnation, Rev. A. Brooks rector, Rev. Dr. Davenport will preach this evening in the | Church of the Heavenly Rest, Rev, Dr, Howland will officiate in the morning. | The Rev. Morris A. Tyng will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity. | Litany and holy communion this morning in the Church of St. alary the Virgin. Vespers in the after. Ooh. ! professor Hume will speak on “Spiritualism and So- cial Reform’? this evening in Harvard Rooms. my sight? I should hike w sve what kind of a wile Thave got and who more surprised than Mra Sur- timeus : raed comes into the house with two good | and the Kussian Consul General at San Francisco, Mr. eyes in his head.” \ de Wanteke ce ‘On his way home he met Zaccheus, a prominent man | W- d¢ Weletsky and oth apd apilatscivaiet > of the place, and when Zaccheus saw him coming he | Whatever uniou of the Greek and Old Catholics and An- looked at him and thought it was Burtimeus, and then glicans may result from their late conterence at Boun thought it wasn’t, for he passed him by, and then nd any other conference: hold here- turned around, looked at him again, aud finally he cried after Mr. B, how his chapel out, “Bartina is that your” ' “Yes; that’s me,"? services whi Rughsh pt on the first “Weil, I thought it was when J passed you, but I Sunday tn moni, when the Slavumie lun- * i condi Pa couldn't believe my sens “Where did you ed, ‘The litte church on Second uvenue get thos ? How is this that you can ier inadequate to the wants of the orthodox pool t met Jeses of Masatetti, aid He Catholics in this city and the friends who gather ut beautitul zy was here lows every W of the place. on Le gave me my sight, Want to see him just run right down yout will ind Him. 80 Zaecheus rushes down where ‘tbe xington avenue; but is de. crowd will pass to see thix Jesus of Nazareth, who s been done toward the erection of & works such wonderful things. 1 can imagi him = chure st should properly set forth the great standing there in the path. He isalitte short man— ness and the wealth of the Russian Empire or fitly | shorter than our friend Mr, Mather, (Law r.) He represent th wk commercial houses of thia city, of isu short that he could not get a glimpse of the Which we have fourt ed principally in cotton Stranger. I can sce him stand ob tiptoe try. and Kast India goods, st Spring urgent representa. ing to look over the rhoulders of the tions were tmade w the muperial government, and a crowd. Rich men don’t often run, expecially short time Father Bjerring bimself visited St see Christ; 1 wish they did) 1 wish Petersbury had more ‘men like Zaccheus, but Zaccheus curious to a Nagarene and he climbed awaiting the slow proc- tree, Perhaps te is up among the 3 Now pe which prevails at the home government, structure will be a beautiful 4 architecture, the main part ty public worship, with resi- underneath the pricsta, The amount re ut $86,000, These p ve been fo rsburg, but Lo has been re- collected ly ye, “Lean wee Him and he can't Rich don’t otten lke to Le 4, especially in such . seeking lor Christ’ Perhaps some uve come here to-night, as Zacchous went to see Christ, out of curiosity. They say, “1 don’t care inuch 4 j about the — preacting like to se speak and sing. in the Oriental etyle one, of which is to be devote dences ed ts abs including a p Winans, of sees the crowd coming, and when he can yet a good contracts sight of them he lovks down at and says that is Duke Ale when in this ¢ not Him. Then be looks at Peter and Thut Edifices tur the Greek Churea in Edropeln capitals have can’t be Him; then atJdoln, ‘fbat can’t be Him; been built exclusively with ioney from the imperial at last his eye falls on ube that is fairer thau the sobs treasury. ‘The Greek churels in Paris ia a splendid struc of men, and he exclaims, “That must be Hun.” ‘The ture, Which cost over 1,000,000 frauen crowd on and at 48 comes under the very tree where Zacchens is and Zaccheus looks right down apon b fi aud lifts up his vorce and says to lim, “Z ike LIV haste and come down, for to-day | must at thy sn house. Zaccheus’ first thought was, * Who told E I At midnight on the 4th inst. was here? He couldn't see me I never was introduced to Him." A LIGHTKEEPER "SAVES ELEVEN ch abide Mr, Trawin, keeper of Passaic Lighthouse, Newark Bay, and the mombers of Tnover spoke to Hun came But suil he down, and it was a good thing that he did, for Christ his family were alarmed by cries of distress proceeding | never passed that way again’ Vetbaps Jesus trom tho bay. Having boen previously o Seace said to him, “This is the last wme | SB Lerharadina fel saentredme dl daeAbanved bays ses ever pass this way. This is the jase time that by ye rties and others shouting in mere wan. 1 shail call on you to open your louse to me t Trawin was at first loth to start, but accheus made haste and ¢ Jown and received H continued | Ane usd & ow, you men Who talk ag on nail boat ary, ‘They yreht capsiz me how long it Wook God to convert Zucch: ersons clinging to must have been converted somewhere bewween the — her for dear lle. Tt was necessary to branches and the grouyd. Perhaps some of you say, prevent the swamping of the small bout, as, with’ an “[ don’t believe in sudden conversions, If men are reasouiny inetinet ior & preservation, all wanted to converted suddenly J don t be they will hold oun” board her Aller an nee of halt an ur the boat Let sume oue of your chic ube converted in returned With three of the pariy, one almost dead, The to-niyht, and let him give one-balf uf bis large boat of the station was then despatched and had to the poor, The poor will ble: him and will the good fortune to rescue the remainder Not one bulleve he is ried, Let lim make outa check Was vost and all Were kindly cared for until able to de- | for $1,000 aud give it to Mir, Joues, another for $600 | park Grout crodit is due to the keepers of the ght sy i ‘The Rey, A. F. Perry will preach in the Baptist Mari- ner’s Temple at the usual hours to-day, In the First Retormed Episcopal church the Rev. W. 'T. Sabine will officiate and preach to-day atthe usual hours. A. 8. Green will speak this evening on “Opposition to Progress." The Rev. W. H. Thornas will preach this morning and evening in Beekroan Hill Methodist Episcopal chureh. ‘The Rey. James M. Pullman will preach in the Church of our jour at the usual hours to-day, In Caual street Presbyterian church the Rev, KP, Payson will preach this morning and afternoon. In Calvary Baptist church the Rev, R. 8 Macarthur will preach this morning and evening. The Rev. D. R. Van Buskirk will preach this morning in the Church of the Disciples of Christ, ‘The Rey. F. H. Marling, of Toronto, Ont, will officiate in the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church this morning and evening. Preaching in the Fifth avenue Baptist church this morning and evening at the usual houra by Rev. Dr. Armitage. Rey. Dr. D. M. Graham, of Chicago, will preach this morning and evening in Grace Bapust church. ‘The Rey. Dr. McGlynn will lecture in Lyric Hall thie | evening for the benefit of the Church of the Holy Name on “The Poetry of Religion and the Religion of Poetry.” | St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal church, which has been open all summer, will have services as usual this morning and afternoon, Tho musical attractions offered are fing | A WARNING AGAINST THE QUICKSANDS OF | FATALISM. | To rus Eprron ov Tue Heraip:— Of all the many and widely different doctrines and theories which have been advanced in the cause of religion there js none which has taken @ wider hold or which exerte a broader influence to-day than the so- Jed doctrine of “Fatalisim.”” And as it seem@ to mo at nothing can be so damaging in its influence, or 80 ruinous to progress and advancement as this theory, 1 would to say @ few words in reference to it Churchmen and orgy will dispute the fact that the fatalistic primeiples of the day are the result of ro- ligious teachings; but 1 claim they are, as they are the | direct result of the doctrine of foreordimation which is | taught in so many of our churches The man who SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. tells me there is a hell for the wicked and a heaven for the good, and who, at the same time, tells me that my fate is foroordained, teaches me that Iam the creature of destiny, and, if I believe his teaching and accept his statements as true, he instils in my mind the prin- ciples of fatalism, Therefore, I claim that this theory of fatalism is the direct result of religious teaching, and ie one of the many erroneous and baneful dogmas that have been forced on the world by religious zealots, But, however this may be, the fact stands undisputed, that the doctrine exists, damaging in its influence and ruinous in its tendencies, and it js need- im a state of hopeless degradation ?” He then comments on the means of reaching them as follows :— Here we meet at the first step in England a Church of grand proportions, established for ages, inheriting vast dowments, wealth, privilege and titles, with all the means of exerting the utmost influence on the national mind, For this what has it to show? It has great cathedrals, with bishops, and deans, and canons, § whole retinue of beneficed clergy, men who read 01 to chant the services as, if mustered together, would make asmallarmy. ‘The machinery is atuple, but the result, we fear, not at all corresponding. On Sunday last we attended two of the most famoug Places of worship in London—the Temple church and ens to-snay that. «the ‘Bible teaches no | Westmiuster Abbey. Tho former bolongs to an ancient id of tach such doctrine, but that this theory 18 | Siidaio “sud tho “Inner “ Temple,» “sorporaiion the fruit of man’s imagination, To say that all men oe Leven byte of years, whi has yo group runn! down to the Tham are the creatures of destiny, and that, whether their ac poi ee cine ine aa rersy tions, lives and sayings be good or evil, it 18 from no fwult of their own that they incur no responsibility or deserve no commendation, as they have no power to resist the course of circumstances, is to make @ state- ment which {@ at direct variance with every accepted social principle and at war with all the teachings of the «| Scriptures, Yet this ts the thoory of fatalism as ad- vanced by the fatalists of the day, and which has takgn such @ broad hold on the minds of mon that it is to-day exerting a mighty influence tn the world, Think a moment, I can see no sense or reason in this doctrine. It ts an established and undisputed fact that all men are free moral agents, with mind and reasoning faculty to distinguish good from evil and will to enable them to follow out or resist the inclinasions of their nature. It is true that “emergency makes the man,” but at tho same time in any great emergency of @ man’s life reason, thought, will and all the attributes and charac- teristics that make and mould his being are brought tnto play, and he accepts or rejects the opportunity accord- ing to his own inclination, The emergencies of the times made Napoleon Bona the master genius of political Europe, but if be bad rested secure in his be- jiof in destiny, making no effort, if he had failed to bring into play his wonderful will aid determination, a thou- sand emergencies might have presented themselves and the greatest mind of Europe might still have slumbered ‘on in obscurity, and Nay would have lived and died unknown and unhon: No; emergencies may serve to call out the prominent traits in a man’s character, may aid in making him conspicuous and Leaf cad the man jg what he makes himself, Hat Danie! Webster, Clay, Calhoun and all the other great men our own country has produced in the past fow generations, to say nothing of the multitude of hon- ored names history hands down to mo from the world’s earliest stages to the present day—had all these either from lack of application or want of energy tailed to seize the opportunities, would they have gained undying fame from the emergency of hour? Surely no thinking mind can say yes. I have often heard it said that, because I refuse to take my own life, I have not the power to do so, and am, consequently, not a free moral agent; but to every thinking mind the absurdity of such # statement must be palpable, for ny own love ‘of life is the motive and my own will is the power that keeps me from the deed. Take it in any connection oe will, a man’s own will is the power that controls ‘his life aud actions Fatalism is contrary to our ideas of Divino Providence and is detri- mental to progress, advancement and civilization, and hence should be rejected bi reasoning, thinking minds as injurious, That it is detrimental to progress aud dangerous in its influence must be palpable to any one who thinks of the influence it would exert in the world. Let fatahsm become a generally acknowledged fact and an accepted principle and you will tind that the grand motive power that impels men to labor and search for unknown truths to raise themselves and their fellow man to a higher plane of respi will fail to exist, Make men feel that they ure but the creatures of destiny, entirely dependent on the emergencies of life, and you deprive them of their independence and take from them their individaality and they become a great, helpless muss, trusting to their destiny tosupply all their wants and make them- selves the slaves of its caprices. Surely we cannot afford to accept such a doctrine without tho most indu- Ditable proots of its truth, LIBERALITAS, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, METHODINT. ‘Thus early in the season revival prayer meetings are held in De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, after the preaching services on Sunday even- jngs. Last Sabbath, after the pastor had repeated the story of his cure and dismissed the congregation, 800 or 900 persons remained at the prayer meet- ing. Fifteen or twenty persons arose for prayers, and some went to the altar, where one or two were con” verted, The Rev. John Atkinson, of Trinity church, Jersey City, bas received a call from Grace church, Chicago. He will probably accept, as he is advised so to do by Bishop Harris, through whom the call was made, ‘The quarterly meeting of the New York branch of the mission rooms, 805 Broadway, New York, on Thursday, 16th inst, Grace church, Bay Ridge, L. I., will be dedicated to- day, The Rev. W. P. Corbit, of New York, Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Brooklyn, and the Rev. C. M, Giflln, of Brooklyn, will preach throughout the day. Rey. 8. A. Seaman is pastor. Thirty-iilth street, New York city, A.C. Moorhouse, pastor, reports a glorious revival in his church since the close of the Sing Sing camp meeting. RPISCOPALIAN. ‘The Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, has dur- ing the vacation expended $10,000 on enlarging, re- pairing and refitting their house of worship. The Archbishop of Canterbury has recommended Episcopalians througbtout the world to observe No- vember 30 prox. as a day of prayer for missions, ‘The Church of the Transfiguration, Philadelphia, has given their rector, Rev. Dr. Conrad, a few weeks’ vaca- tion, They have ‘also removed their temporary chapel to a more eligible location. The Sea Grove Association (near Cape May) have donated a lot of land 100 feet square for the erection of @ Protestant Episcopalian church for services during the summer, PRESBYTERIAN. ‘The Washington Heights Presbyterian church, of this city, has never been closed on the Lord’s Day since its erection. The labor of cleaning, repairing and recar- peting has been accomplished the present summer by doing a litle of the work each week. ‘The Presbytery of Chicago 18 likely to compel the Fourth church to drop Professor Swing as its pustor or be itselt dropped from the rolls of Presbyterian churches. Professor Swing is ready to step down and out if need be, bat he thinks his church will reorganize as # Con- gregational society and give up their church building, ‘on Which a heavy debt rests, and build a less expensive church or hall in the vicinity. brethren who desire to change the standard of the ‘Westminster Confession.” he Christian at Work syinpathizes with brethren of all denominations who desire to change the “standard” of their own lives, the Christian life first, it says, and then take up the creeds and conform them to the new order of things. Mr, John J. Bond, of Fort Hamilton, a graduate of Tabernacle Lay College, Brooklyn, has received and ac- | cepted a call to the Presbyterian church at Corry, Pa ROMAN CATHOLIC, Mgr. Roncetti, in his report of his visit to this city and country, does not quite like the show of democratic ‘equality with which be was received here, nor the very small sums of money that were presented to him for the Pope and the Church—$30,000—a far smaller sum ‘than he anticipated. Right Rev. Vincennes, has recovered froia his recent tndisposition, A band of Paulist Fathers from New York com- mence a series of missions in Minnesota next Sunday. Rev, Jacob Kemmerlin Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, succeeds Rev. John J. Al- | bert (deceased), as pastor of St. Joseph's church, South Easton, Pa, Rev, John D. Condon, 8. J., i# detached from St. Francis Xavier's church, Si Louis, Mo., and assigned to missionary duty. He is succeeded by the Rev. P. ‘Ward, 8. J., us pastor of St Francis Xavier's. A mission was ba seg jast Sunday in St. Patrick’s church, Brooklyn, N. Y., by Rev. Father Damen and his band of mismonaries, Six Catholic churches ave in process of erection in Brooklyn, and all in districts where they are greatly needed. Bishop Loughlin is anxious to run the entire number up w fifty. BAPTIST. “ The Rev. J. 8. Backus, D. D., late secretary of the Baptist Home Missionary Soclety, has accepted the district secretaryship of the Publication Society for Western New York, und has entered upon bis labors. trip to Europe on Sunday afternoon. His pulpit was supplied by the Kev. Dr, Bridgman, and at the opening of the evening service, when the returned pastor en- tered the house, the choir and congregation arose and sang from printed slips a beautiful original song of wel- come. ‘The Rey. Mr. Spurgeon has received the £10,000 be- ueathed by Mr. Mutthews—£5,000 for the college and 000 for the orphanage. A number of new students have been udmitted to the collége, and the work of the orphanage will also be doubtless strengthened. The Rev. D, Moore, D. D., of Washington avenue church, has returned to Brooklyn from his vacation mach improved in health. The installation services of Rev. W. 8, Goodno, at Hoboken, will occur on Wednesday evening, September 16. Sermon by Dr. Armitage. MISCKLLANHOOR. ‘The Jowish inhabitants of Urange, N. J., will have a place of worship open for the ensuing holidays, and doubt not that, ere long, @ permanent synagogue will be established. THE ENGLISH ESTABLISHMENT. FULNESS. of this city, gives the following vi the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society will be held in | engaged Rev. Leroy F, Baker as assistant minister, and | ‘A contemporary sympathizes ‘with our Presbyterian | and pities those who do not. Raise the standard of | faurice de St, Palais, D, D,, Bishop of late of the Church of the | The Rev. Dr. Jeflery returned from bis brief vacation | HOW THE STATE CHURCH TRIES TO REACH THE MASSES—AN AMERICAN'S OPINION OF ITS USH- ‘An Englishman having thrown a doubt on the utility of the Established Church in Great Britain and the value of preserving it, an American, the Rey. Dr. Field, and opinions of what he heard and observed of that great State institu- tion as a incans of elevating tho masses morally oF | secured permanently by this congregatior socially, Referring to the depths of degradation and | earne: vice which he had observed in the efty of London, be avks, “Is it possible to reach thia vast and degraded | population with way Christian induences, or are they courts and full of lawyers’ oilices, Standing amon; these is achurch celebrated for its beauty, Le thgeem} belonged to the Knights Templars, some of whose bronze figures in armor, @ying on their tombs, show by their crossed posture how they went to Palestine to fight for the Holy Sepulchre. As it is a church which belongs to a private corporation, no one can obtain ad- mission to the pows without an order from ‘a bench- er,” which was sent to us as a personal courtesy, The church has the air of being very aristocratic and ex- clusive; and those whose enjoyment of a religious ser- vico depends on “worshipping God in good company”? may feel at ease while sitting m these high-backed pews, from which the public are excluded. The church is noted for Its music, which amateura Pronounce exquisite, AsTam not educated in these ‘things, I do not know the precise beauty and force of all’ the quips and quavers of this most artistic rformance. The service was given at full length, in which the Lord’s Prayer wag re- peated five times, With all the singing and “in- toning,” and downsitting and uprising, and the bowing of neck nd bending of knees, the service occupied av hour and a half before the rector, Rev. Dr. Vaughan, ascended the pulpit. He is a brother-in-law of Deao Stanley, and a man much respected in the Church, His text was, “Ho took our infirmities, and bare our sick- "from which he preached a sermon appropriate to the day, which was “Hospital Sunday,” a day ob- served throughout London for collections in aid of the hospitals. —[t was sae and practical, and gave one the impression of a truly good man, such as there are thousands in the Church of England. But what effect had such @ service, or a hundred such, onthe poor population of London? About ag much as the exquisite music itself has on the rise and fall of the tide in the Thames, which flows by, or as the moonlight has on vegetation, I know not what mis- sion agencies these old churches may employ elsewhere to labor among the poor, but so far as any immediate influence is concerned outside of a very small circle it is infinitesimal. TEMPLE EMANUEL. THE MISSION OF ISRAEL—THE FIRST OF & SERIES OF DISCOURSES BY THE REY. DR, GOTTHEIL. ‘The most active month in all the year for Israclites has come, and in all their synagogues pews are rented and preparations made for the proper observance of the approaching holidays which crowd into this and the next month. The congregations having very generally returned from the country, begin to fill the synagogues, and yesterday a goodly number gathered in the Temple Emanuel, to whom Dr. Gottheil delivered the first of a series of discourses on matters pertaining to the mission of Israel. His text was Deuteronomy, xxviil., 1, 2—"And it shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to ob serve and to do all the commandments which 1 com- mand thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.” ‘The Doctor explained that the last clause of the tex! meant superior in power, wealth, war, politics, govern- ment and everything that constitutes outward pros perity. Itisas if the great lawgiver had said, “Be virtuous and God fearing, and you will not fear, but be feared; you will conquer, but never be conquered; lend to others, but never borrow. It implied the spoliation of the weaker by the stronger powers, for then there existed no recognized law of nations, no public opinion that could be invoked for the protection of the do fenceless, The sword ruled with unrelentiess cruelty, and if there was to be an Israclitish nation at all it must be powerful enough to inspire fear, or it would soon be crushed under the iron heel of the conqueror, Might was right, and the will of the strongest was the highest law. Not only the nationality, but the re- ligion likewise, depended on the supremacy and inde ndence of the people of Israel. All the ancient re- igions perished with the nations that professed the: and Israel’s would have shared the same fate had no’ Providence endowed them with ‘THE ABLLITY TO ENDURE s above all other nations of the carth, Their hbo & was equal to every emergency, and they stand for to-day miracle and a tangible proof of prophatical wisdom and foresight, Still we stand, said the Doc- tor, but in how different acondition? Instead of rely- ing for our preservation on the fear we might inspire, we seek the esteem and contidence of the nations of the earth and strive to obtain their acknowledgment that our religion is superior to all others, The idea of gathering material force to sustain that claim has long ago been renounced. The national sword 1s not sheathed 5 itis broken, and the fragments are not even preserved as relics, The only war that Israel engages in now ia ‘one of ideas, and, freed from all national encumbrances, their religion stands before the world now on its merita us a spiritual power only willing to be tested in the crucible of experience and of science, and to be adopted or rejected as mankind may decide. The attainment of this degree of freedom has been of incalculable value to Israel, to truth and to humanity, in that it has released the former from the fear of their neighbors and removed from the latter a disturbing element and allowed truth that freedom which is necessary to it complete development. And all this has been accom- plished by the destruction of the national life of Israel. ut their mourning has been turned into joy, and for ‘sackcloth they have put on the garments of praise. Had they continued a political body as they were, relig- jous progress would have been hindered, and the word | of truth, which they have preached, would have had to be backed up with the bayonet and the caunon, while now the very dofencelessness of religion excites the ad- | miration and wins the approval of all candid, thinking minds. The Doctor here dwelt on the longing of some minds for the restoration of Israel to the Holy Land and re- marked that their minds had grown too large to be shut up in that little corner of Asia, even if all its ancient splendor could be revived. To the countries of our birth or adoption, he said, belong our heart's uifection | and devotion, and even religion cannot staud between us and our country’s good. We thought that there is @ jury in the Fedsism that knows no nationality, that may be az pure, as complete, as potent for good in Germany as ip ‘America, in France as in England; a Judaism that thrives in the orange groves of Italy as well as in thé | pine forests of Scandinavia, on the borders of the Rhine as well as on the banks of the Ganges; ‘A JUDAISM THAT IS REPUBLICAN HERE and absolutistic in the east of Europe and Asia—in short, a Judaism that is spiritual and that only, and | that is capable of assuming many forms and yet re- maining essentially the same. What cau Palestine or Jerusalem be to us? the Doctor asked. We belong not to ourselves, but to humanity, God, who guides all | hearts and controls all minds, has.with His own hands intertwined our feelings with those of our fellow mep of every nationality. And we owe it to God, to our. selves and to mankind, said the Doctor, to speak aloud and to spare not; to cease retiring into the corners of humanity muttering in hushed and — matted accents the truths we hold, Like a trum- ot voles should the word go forth trom jacob and the law of the Lord from Israel. No longer should worship be clothed in foreign garments and in forms that puzzle and frighten the beholder; no longer | should. we tear to denounce error and oxpose bigotry and hypocrisy, The nations of the world so far from hindering will welcome us if the truth be in them, for ‘we aro the aposties ef freedom and advocates of ap un- fettered reason and unobstructed science, We are eno- mies to all hierarchical oppression, and defenders of the individual priesthood of all men. The God whom we how profess, great, mighty of ali—embracing love and boundless mercy; that God will have our unreserved submission or we must live without knowing Him, To Him we all belong and He will never disown us. His goodness and wisdom are mightier than the perversions and heaped up sins of the world, and He will cast them into the sea of His forgetfulness. Shall we not, then, | preach this God to the world? Shall we cravenly try to curry favor with powers thet be and their wicked. ness aud vices unchauenged? Knowing that freedom, | righteousness, charity, compassion, equality of all mer and the kingdom of God on earth’are promoted by t teachings of Judaism, we must go forth in the strength of God and be His witnesses again as of yore to great truths, PEW SALE IN A NEW FEATURES IN JEWISH WORSHIP, After the sharp fight which the orthodox and the re formers in the congregation Bnai Jeshurun have had, | the reopening of that edifice, under its new and trang formed style, isan event in Judaism. Following the | example thus set, another congregation, in New Eng- land, has gone to the civil courts on a like difference, and, though the result has not been noted, it is be- Hioved that the reformers will win there also, The ‘Thirty-fourth street synagogue has been thoroughly re- fitted and altered, and presents now the appearance of Christian eburch rather than a Jewish syna- gogue. A fine organ has been introduced und female yoices will be heard in the choir once again, Some time ago, for a short time, female singers were allowed there, but for the sake of pew they were set aside, and the old forms prevailed, The wa have been rearranged for families, #0 that hereat- ter any pious Israelite can take his wite and ehildrem SYNAGOGUE. into the same pew with hinisell, mstead of sending thera up into the gallery us of old. The reader's desk and the pulpit remain about where they were and 4s they 4 were, On Friday evening the synagogue was open: for divine service, and an address was delivered by th Rev. A. F Ornstein, This gentieman came bither a fi months ago trom Australia, on a visit to the United States, but it is more than likely his services will be He is an thoughtful preacher, and his divcourses already delivered in the Thirty-fourth street synagogue have been very hein ‘he regular pe pews in “ synagogue wil take place to-day, at weleck A and u lively time is anticipated, i “intone” the prayers, with such hosts of men and boys ,