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RELIGIOUS. INTELLIGENCE _—— + Ministerial and Church Movements. THE LONDON REVIVAL. Chats by the Way—Critical Correspondence. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. Revival services will be conducted in Seventeenth etreet Methodist Episcopal churca to-day by Price's | Praying Band. Rev. 8. M, Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Pres- | byterian church this moruing und afternoon, | A reunion service will be beld in Twenty-fourth street Methodist Episcopal chorch to-day. Dr, Chapman will preach in the morning aud Rev. William Lioyd in the evening. Rev. James M. King will preach in St. John's Metho dist Episcopal church this morning and evening. Rev. D. B. Jutten wil! preach in Sixteenth street Baptist church this morning on “Impartation the Law of Christian Growth.” In the evening on ‘The Babylon- tah Captivity. "” “Seasous of Tribulntion the Harvest Time of the Church” and “Christ's Cail to Repentance” will be | considered to-day in Laight street Baptist church by Bev. H. W. Knapp. Rey. J. Spencer Kennard will this evening speak of “Things That Accompany Salvation” tm the Pilgrim Baptist church, “Josep”? will stand for tho study of Rev. W. B Merritt, this evening, in the Sixth Avenue Reformed burch, Bishop Hare, of Niobrara, will preach in the Episco- pal Church of the Transfiguration this evening. Rey, Father Bjorring will lecture next week in Asso- ciation Hall on ‘The Oriental Church and Ite Friendly Relations to Other Religious Bodies” “The Revival We Neca’ will be discussed this even- ing by Rev. James Kennedy in the Fourth Reformed | Presbyterian chureb, This afternoon and evening, in the Church of the | Holy Trinity, the Rey. Dr. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., will preach. | Service also in the morning. People’s service in the | evening. In the Thirty-fourth street Reformed church tho | Rev. Dr, Stryker, its old pastor, will preach this morn. | ing and evening. The Rev. Goorge H. Corey will ask the Thirtieth treet Methodist Episcopal church, this morning, “Wit It Pay /” to be religious, and this evening will present ‘The Poril of Hearing the Goapel.”? Dr. A. ©. Osborn will preach in the Tabernacle Bap- fist church this morning on “Winning Souls,” and Rey, Samuel Curlisle this evening on “Tho Great Heart Cry.” Rey. Mr. Lloyd will preach in the Washington square Methodist Episcopal church this morning om “Tho Kingehip of Josus,”’ and this evening Dr, Crawford will preach. Dr, John N. Galleher wil! minister in Zion Protestant Episcopal church this morning and afternoon, In the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church | the Rev. M.S, Terry will speak this morning of “Chris- tanity in the Home,” and this evening of “Christianity in Busines Rey. J. B. Smith, D, D., of Geneva, will preach this morning and evening in the Fifty-third street Baptist eburch, “America for Free Schools” will be discussed by the Rev. Oscar Hugo in the Seventh ayenue United Pres- byterian church, “The Christian’s Present and Future’ will be consid- ered this morning, in the Stanton street Baptist church, and ‘The Everlasting Words” this evening by the Rev. W. H. Lavell, In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rew. W. N. Dunneli will preach this morning and evening, The Rey. John W. Kramer, of Grace church, will preach before the Young People’s Missionary Socicty of the Church of the Holy Apostle, “Carmel and Calvary’ will be contrasted this evening in Allon stroet Methodist Episcopal church by Rov. Charles EK, Harris. Rov. J. S Nathan, » converted Fabbi, will preach there in the morning. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal chureb, the Rev. John Johns wiil preach this morning on “She Sleeps,” and this evening on ‘The Easy Yoke.”” Bishop Simpson, Rev. J. M. King and Rey. William Lioyd will address the City Missionary Society on Tuesday evening in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal ebarch. “The Conversion of the World the Problem of the Church To-day” will be discussed by Rev. ©. P. Mo- Carthy in Bicecker street Universalist church. In the Berean Baptist church the Rev. 1. G, Barrett will preach to-day as usual. Rev. H. B. Chapin will preach in Canal strect Pres- Dyterian church this morning and afternoon. Rev. J. D, Herr wil minister to the Central Baptist eharch this morning and evening. Dr. Thompson will officiate aud preach at the usual | hours to-day in Christ church. Dr. Deems is to preach to day at the usual hours in the Church of the Strange Bishop Snow will speak about mystical Rabylon and how it is to be destroyed this afternoon in the Univer- sity chapel, In Fifth avenue Baptist church the Rev. Dr. Armitage will preach this morning and evening. Rev. J. A. Sietz will talk about ‘Certain Great Evils” this evening in Harlem Universalist church, “ancient Philosophy of Spiritism in the Past” will | be reviewed this afternoon by Mr. Sothren for the | Progressive Spiritualists, Mrs, Bullene wilt speak for | them this morning. Rev. H. D. Ganse will preach at the usual Lours to- day in the Madison avenue Reformed church. ! Roy. W. P. Abbott will preach this morning and even- | ing in the St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. de Medici will conduct a normal Sunday schoo! lass for object teaching this morning, in Trenor’s Hail, | Brondway. “How to See” the real and spiritual meaning of the Holy Scriptures will be explained to-day by Rev. Chauncey Giles, in the Swedenborgian church, In the Church of the Messiah the Rev, W. R. Alger will preach this morning on ‘The Religious and Theo- | Jogical Position of Unitarians Among the Sects.” This evening he will continue his lectures on the poets. Raphael's superb picture of St. Cecilia will be unveiled next Sunday in the church dedicated to her name. A Jecture will be given by Father Flattery on the relation Detween music and religion. The festival of the saint will be observed with becoming pomp and ceremony, Rey. W. T. Clarke will present some “Thoughts on Thanksgiving” this morning in Unity chapel, Har- jem. Rey. George 0. Phelps will speak tn Allon street Presbyterian church this evening on “Shipwrecked.” The ‘Biind Preacher" will talk to railroad men in the depot of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company in Hoboken this afternoon. “The Way of Escape from the Great Tribulations” will be pointed out this evening in tho Catholic Apos- tolic church. ‘The Rev. Dr, Chapin will preach this morning in the Church of she Divine Paternity and deliver an address this evening. Services before the Fifth Universalist Society this morning in Plimpton Hall and this evening in Brevoort Rall. Divine service this morning and afternoon in the Church of the Atonement. Rev. ©. 0, Tiffany will officiate, A conforence of Spiritualists will be held in Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening. And another in McPherson's Hall at the same hours. Rov. Dr, Ewer will officiate at the usual services to- day in St. Ignatins Protestant Episcopal church. ‘The tenth anniversary of St Alban’s eburch will be vbserved to-day by sermons delivered by Rev. ©. W. Morrill, 4 SPIRITUAL MAN'S ANSWERS TO A NATURAL . MAN'S INQUIRIES. To tne Eprrorn ov roe Henaio:— A few weeks ago you wero kind enongh to publish * critic of ming pp a sermon preached bx My | me.” | the Frothingham and previously given in your columns. To this communication a ‘‘Natural’’ man subsequently replied, or thought he replied. But if l exclude from nis letter all the extraneous matter bearing on topics that 1 did not name or touch at al! I should have little to reply to now. Indeed, his letter is as good a proof as | could ask that my quotation of the apostolic statement that “the natural man receiveth not, or knoweth not the things of God, which are spiritually discerned,” is correct. In his opening paragraph he acknowledges himself ignorant of that which | criticised, and therein shows his own incom- petence to become my critic But since he expresses | # desire for further ‘tight and information on the topics treated in my former letter, I will take up bis inquiries seriatim and reply to them in order. First, the “Natural” man shows his naturalness just as the preacher whom I criticised at first showed it by confounding nature with God. He says: See in this world only nature,” &¢., and then immedi- ately thereafter adds, “According to the Scriptures Clirist was God and God created Christ, or, in other | words, Christ was God himself, Christ was a ‘thing formed,’ says my ‘Natural’? critic, triumphantly, “and you will not deny that he was ‘the former of it?” | Tho best recommendation that 1 can make to my “Natural” friend is to study a little more, until he be- comes capable of making a distinction between a per- | son and a thing, between the article manufactured and | the manufacturer of it; for, if Christ was “the thing formed," my critic’s own rationalism, loose as tt may be, forbids that He should be His own creator. Secoud, my “Natural” friend asks, in all serious- ness, “of what possible ase are spiritual things if natu- ral men cannot understand them? If the Bible is sealed to ail except those who profess to be Christians, of what possible use is 1?” Now, this “Natural”? critic pretends in his ietter to know something about the Bible, and {f be bas read mach of it | may remind him that ‘t 1s no more ‘sealed’ than nature, with which he seems to be so familiar, is sealed. The Bible ts one collection of truths; nature is another collection, There are many truths in both that “Natural”? men cannot fathom or unseal, But there are many more plain and easily un- derstood. Let me refer my ‘Natural’ friend to Mat- thew, v., vi., vil, and Johan, 1ii., and when he bas ap- peshcneee these piain truths | may suggest others to m, If be will read IL Timothy, tit, 15-17, he will ot want again to ask of what use are the Scriptures, “Weare all natural,” adds my friend, ‘Now, who,” ho asks, “was the first natural man who made these | spiritual discoveries ” && Well, aa far back aa my roaaing extends, if Iremomber rightly, Abel, the son of Adam, was rha; the first to make these discov- eries, Enoch, Nou and Abrabam; isaac, Jacob and Job; David and Solomon ; Laaiah, Jeremiul ‘and Daniel; Paul, Peter and John; Luther and Wesley, and others, all along the ages, have made discoveriog ‘in this field, and it is, to say ihe least, unpardonabie ignorance in | any man, “Natural” or unnatural, who sets himself up as @ critic pot to know something aboutthe discoveries of those men, especially as their writings and sayings are in all our public Ibraries and are within reach of the masses of men, I presume my “Natural” critic did not expect me to reply to his query, “Who are the unnatural men of the present day who are so much wiser and better than their fellows?” since he answers rp bie inquiry more satisfactorily to himself than I should, . “We have plenty of creeds but very little religion,” says my “Natural” friend. Very likely. 1 won't con- trovert this point, though I think 1 could show any natural mat that pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is not such a scarce commodity as my friend and his class deem it to be, ButI am asked in the next place “if any man can be a zealous member of any church without being injured by it.” Here is a lamentable display of ignorance concerning the obliga- tions and Br vileges of church membership. And while 1 answer this interrogatory with the most positive as- surance that a man cannot be a “zealous member of a church’? without being benetited by it, I very respect- fully suggest to a “Natural” man to test this’ thing for himself. There are no eceret oaths, grips or passwords requisite for membership in the Christian Church, and any denomination will readily receive a ‘‘Natural’’ man on probation and under instruction in spiritual things. 1 shall pass over my critic’s personal allusion to myself, and will ask him to prove his off-hand statements about the wrangling among the churches. It is so much easier to make a sweeping chat of this kind than to prove it, And I may remind @ “Natural” man that an asser- tion, however positive, is not a proof of the fact or thing asserted. Heand are probably both agreed as to the worth or wortblessness of steeples on churchos, but I might remind him that those who spend most money on churches and steeples are they wlio most frequently answer the orphan’s wail for bread. ‘Natu- ral’’ men like my critic, who take no interest in the church or the steeple gave to condemn both, are not very likely to be anxious or interested in the condition and welfare of the orphan or, the widow. They put their money where they think it will do most or more | good—not to others, but to themselves, Can “a pile of bricks and nfortar add to or diminish the glory of God?” asks my critic again. I answer it can. Jcbovah Himself gave David the pattern of the Temple to be built at Jerusalem, and when it was dedicated He filled it with His glory, And for centuries afterward the sory, of the Lord abode in the Holy of Holies of that Temple But, furthermore, Paul tells us whether we eat or drink, or whatsoever we do we sbould do all to the glory of God. Butif it does not add to or diminish from His glory of what use to recog- nizo God at all at our meals or in our churches? Why not convert them all into club rooms and conform our worship to suit the tastes of natural men? ‘The next inquiry of my “Nataral”’ critic is one that rolates to the cross, which, at the crucifixion, became the symbo! of religion. And he is puzzled to know wh} Christ should say, ‘Take up your cross and follow The epiritual void and vacuum in “Natural’s” mind {s apparent to the most casual observer fh this inquiry. If the cross be merely the symbol of religion, as he states, what could be more natural and proper than for Jesus to say, “Take wp your religion and fellow me?” And I respectfally suggest that if “Natural” was following Christ and His religion, or with His religion in bix neart, he would not write as he has written, But this communication 18 already, I fear, too long, ana I must leave two or three more thoughts in my ‘Natu- ral’’ friend’s letter for future consideration. SCRUTATOR. “4 SEARCHER” WHO CAN'T BELIEVE CHRIST DIVINE. To rng Evrron ov Tae Hrratp:— A few ovenings ago I heard Mr, Moody preach a ser- mon, in which he summoned up many spirits to prove ‘that Christ was really and actually the Divine Son of | God. He certainly appeared satisfled with the evi- dence which he adduced without allowing or inviting any one to defend the charge or refute the argument, 1 therefore take this opportunity of laying bare a few facts on the subject matter, to which I beg to call Mr. Moody’s attention. The advent and divinity of Christ are supposed by the believers in Christianity to be predicted in Isaiah vii, 14—‘Behold a virgin shall couccive end bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel.” Now, if Mr. Moody will turn to @ correct version he will find that the word “vigin’? has been erroneously translated. It should be “young woman.” clearly misapplied, as any unbiassed mind can deter- mine for himself by reading the chapter in question, In it he will find that the prophet in comforting Abaz, who was beset by Rezin, Kitig of Syria, and Pekah, King of Israel, who were ‘then warring against Jerusa: jem, said that ‘within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken that he be not a people.) Kphraim was then contederate with Syria. The prophet said to Ahaz, “Ask thee a sign ; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.” But Abaz said, ‘I will not ask,” and the prophet then gave him the sign:—“Behold, @ young woman shall conceive and bear a son an shall cail his name Immanuel. * * * For before chiid shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings,” which referred to Rezin and Pekah; and tt is well known how this prophecy was fuliilled. Consequently it could not apply to Christ, But 1 differ from Mr. Moody in many other respects on the divinity of Christ, and can sumtaon nu- merous witnesses to prove my position; but in this article I shall cail only the prophets and’some of his own witnesses. And the drst shall be Isaiah. 1 will ask him if Jesus was of the house of David, trom | which he prophesied that the Messiah should ‘come? And be will answer, saying:—“if Joseph was His futher, then was Christ from the seed of David; but if Mary was blessed with the immacalate conception, then was Christ from the house ot Levy, and He could not bo as I promised.” Secondly, the events to havo | occurred at the time of His coming were not fulfilled at the time of Christ's advent Then willl summon up Joseph himself, and be will say :—''God is all power, all wisdom and all greatness and goodness. He mado His laws ages before man, and His laws of conception and inception are immutable, I did not admit paternity for fear of being sto wiil summon one of Mr. Moody's own witnesses— Judas—and I will ask him why he betrayed Jesus? And he will say, ‘If Jesus was God incarnate He must have known ail’ things and must have compelled me to be- tray Him, and in doing His will I never dreamed that 1 could be punished for it as his servant, and as I was punished I cannot accept Him as an incarnate God.” Then will I call another of Mr. Moody's witnesses—tho thief who was crucified with Jesus, and whom Christ promised to meet in Paradise that day, and the thief will say, ‘Jesus did not keep His appointment until the third day, consequently He could not have been God on earth.” 1 will then call Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, and band them over tor Mr, Moody to question, while I subscribe myself A SEARCHER, SPIRITUAL MATERIALIZATION, To tae Epiror or tae Hera) More than a month has elapsed since Dr. FE. P. Miller, of this city, in along letter which he addressed to the public through the columns of an afternoon Prper, took occasion to lay before the readers of that paper bis experiences of the Eday family and the séances held by them for physical manifestations and materializations, In this letter he proctaims his posi- tive belief in the genuineness of their performances, which he says have convinced him not only of the truths of spiritualism, but also of what he was pleased to term “the indisputable fact that spirits can not only manifest themselves by moving physical bodies, but shat they ayo the Rower to materialigg 69 AB $0 am, “AS we can | This propheoy is | ed to death. ”? Then | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1875.—QUADKU and recognized, by their friends.” epistle to the afternoon papers it seems that Dr. Miller had addressed a communication to a morning paper | Upon the same subject, which the editor of that jour- | hal says “made the inconsequent Miller write bimself | down an ass in legible characters.” This not very appre- Ciative criticisin app to have aroused a warlike spirit in the breast of the venerable yegetarian hotel | Keeper, for, in the course of the letter to which I refer, | he has issued a long challenge, in which he throws | down the gauntlet—firet to Dr. George M. Beard, who has called the Eddys “lars and frauds; then to the | editor of the same paper, who has called him (Dr. Miller) an “ass” for announcing his belief; then to the editor of the New York Times, who said'he had been made ‘ta stoo! pigeon for sisilful jugglers;”” then to the | editor of an afternoon sheet, who bas’ incurred his | wrath by finding fault with doctor's spelling, and | dually to any “atheist, infidel, magician, doctor, law. | yer, clergyman, editor or any ‘sceptic. on | the’ Mico “of the globe” to prove Mrs. Mary | | Eddy Huntoon, the sister of the Kddy brothers, me such physical forms as are seen and heard, felt | Previous to this | | @ fraud, and he offers to stake $5,000 that her | manifestations prove to be genuine, I should have an- | swered Dr, Miller’s challenge long ago had I not thought that some one of the very humerous classes of citizens | whoin he has specified above woold step forward and claim a prior right to do so, A’ none of them have ap- peared, and as a recent letter of Dr, Miller to a morning Paper seems to show @ disposition to withdraw his challenge, | herewith declare my acceptance of it, and | | will not only undertake to prove Mrs. Mary Eddy Hon. toon a fraud, but will reproduce all the materializati | or manifestations she may exhibit without any spiritual | assistance whatseever, asl have been to Chittenden | (the Home of the Eddy brothers) and was fortunate enough to discover the whole of the modus oper- andi by means of which the Eddy family are | enabled to play upon the credulous and disordered | Imaginations of a very large portion of their visitors. As Dr. Milier proposes, I will leave the decision of the matter to a committee of twelve persons mutualiy agreed upon, and I would suggest that each of us lodge the sum of $5,000 in the hands of some responsible third party, such sum to be'devoted by the winner to the benefit of that meritorious charitable institution, the St. John’s Guild. Should Dr. Miller decline to entertain this proposal it is open for acceptance by Mrs. Mary Eddy Huntoon should she feel desirous of improving so advantageous an opportunity of setting her character and the truths of spiritualism generally | ina more favorable light before the public than that in which they have hitherto appeared, Respectfully, W. IRVING BISHOP. CHAT BY THE WAY. Mr. Moody, in the religious meetings of Iast Monday, Just felt the pulse of New York, aud seems to be rather hopeful concerning the patient, Dr. Budington says that Mrs. Moulton is right and will be sustained by Congregational usage. If she de- | mands an investigation it must be had. It is bad enough to have a skeleton in one’s closet, but to rattle its bones in the ears of your friends is a courtesy that may weil be dispensed with. It is acurious anomaly that the Universalists are enjoying the present revival more than any one else, and engaging in it with more interest and spirit, It is said that sixty Mormon missionaries are sent out from Utah as religious drummers among the people of the Western States, It is, however, very difficult, in the present financial condition of the country, to persuade any sane man that it is a privilege to pay the bills of Ann Eliza No, 16 and those of fifteen preceding conjugal felicities, Not even religion can imposo such @ strain as that on a man’s business, Father Hyacinthe seems to have grown weary with the unequal contest of the last few years, and proposes to make a new home for himself in this country. There is a little too much explosive material in his composi- tion to allow him continued happiness under either Romanism or Protestantism, He is so sélf-willed that he refuses to do as the bishops tell him, which is the Jaw of the Church of Rome, and so obstinate that he | won’t even do as he has a mind to, which is the privi- lege of the clergy in the Protestant Church. ‘At the Episcopal Church Congress, heid in Philadel phia last week, the falling off in the number of theo- logical students was deplored. Other denominations are making the same moan. If it should be confessed that ministers are the poorest paid class of men in the community, and have the most fault found with them, one reason for the deficiency would be discovered. | Men of talent and promise will hardly be satisfied with a life of pinching and financial anxiety when a life of competency and luxury is within reach, In the Cath- one Church, when a man enters the priesthood, he is taken care of for life. He knows no trouble about his bills and has no anxiety whatever except for the spir- itual welfare of his tlock. When he grows old he retires to a hospitable roof where every need is antici- pated. Protestantism is cynically unjust to its | clergy. ‘The Church has no responsibility concern- | ing him, As long as his talents command a price | he gets it; when he gets the bronchitis a purse of a few hundred dollars is made up, and he is quietly sent out of the way. After that he becomes a book | canvasser, an itinerant temperance lecturer, or 18 per- haps shelved as underpaid secretary of some benevolent | society. No wonder that young men, instead of rash- ing into the field as they do into the’ arena of law or medicine, hesitate, and then conclude to become useful in some other way. Professor Proctor said in a lecture lately delivered in Boston that ho seceded from the Church when theolo- gians refused to absorb the Belfast address of Mr, Tyndall Since then he has belonged to the “Church Universal,”’ which is one of those glittering generalities frequently used to cover some sort of infidelity, He puts the matter into algebraic shape, and the unknown | quantity, the z of the problem, seems to be his own | self-conceit. The Brooklyn pastors have not taken up the work of Mr. Moody as earnestly as he expected. Nearly all the meetings are to be discontinued, and the revival will be left to take care of itself as best 1t can until Mr. Moody returns. The evangelist has not yet succeeded in getting the clergy more than half awake. They are ina kind of trance or somnambulic condition, going to the prayer meetings 1 a listless, automatic sort of way, but refusing to lend a helping hand, Mr. Moody must shake the torpor out of the pulpit before he can get at the pews. The ministers can have a revival at any time i they will only revive themselves firat. in England and Scotland, during the visit of the two evangelists, 3,551,000 of Mr. Sankey’s compilation of | hymus were sold. Religion set to music 1s the impor- | , tant peculiarity of the revival, and the new converts | are expected to beat time as woll as to beat Satan. Spurgeon preached a sermon on the loss of the Van- guard. His text was from Psalms, civ.,26—“There go the ships.” His verbal picture of the rolling deep was 80 vivid that several of his congregation had well-de- fined and unmistakable symptoms of seasickness, Dr. Talmage says there are 15,000,000,000 children, all dressed in white and singing in chorus around the throne in heaven. This is very beautiful, but isn’t the estimate a littie darge? We dislike to question any statement by the cloth, but we bave so much to do with figures—mostly lay, however—that we are inclined to ask Whether the account has been properly audited and whether it came by telegraph or private post. Religious papers, started in the interest of individual | churches, seldom live long enough to arrive at years of discretion, The last death recorded is that of The Levite of the Temple, edited by Dr. Lorimer, of Boston. | ‘The existence was so brief that its demise will not be | inconsolably mourned. It was followed to its infant | grave by a select few, who dropped their tears on an- paid bills. There seems to be a mania among minis ters to have an “organ,” but so many of them have collapsed in early life that one 1s reminded of the | touching epitaph above the mound of the little two- day-old :— Now that Tso soon am done for, T wonder what E was begun for, Some of the religious papers aro strenuously adv cating the doctrine of the “higher Christian life.” | | We need more and better illustrations of the lower Christian life first. We always suspect a man who professes that he has “committed no sin in ten years. '? He may be very profitable as an element of the prayer meeting, but we would rather do business with a man | of ordinary honor. We haye seen men 6o fearfully good that they were a little sharp at a bargain, ‘The Tablet of last week paid avery just tribute to the work of Mr. Moody in Brooklyn. “Aitnough it re- | gards the mintstry of the evangelist as irregular and | Unauthorized, {t yet commends the results achieved, | | This looks like a generous appreciation of the revival | | by Romanism, and if the two great divisions gf Chris- téndom would In{t their hats to each other oltener 1t | might do no harm. But here follows a sentence which shows in what a sweet and gentle spirit of charity the Methodist responded :—“We shall not lose hope of the | heathen concern represented by the Tablet as long as | its organ shows signs of a glimmering of religious | | knowledge.” This looks a little like asking a fish and | getting a serpent. A certain class of religious people seom to think it | their duty to pray not only against methods bat also | ad when a physical calamity befalls a | pablic man who is nota member of the Church, they | regard it as a direct answer to their petition. For ex- ample—the Chicago Journal reports that Edwin Booth has Jost the use of his arm, that Clara Morris has some spinal diilicuity, that Fechter has a stiff knee and that George L. Fox is more deoply afflicted still, and then adds this query, ‘Can it be that the prayers of Dr, Tal- moge bave been card?” To ali which the Herald and Presbyter responds, “We have the authority of Serip- ture that ‘the effectual, rervent preyet of # righteous man availeth much,’ Perhaps here is an iNastration of it” It would be @ curious state of affairs f Dr. Talmage or any one else could pray poor Fox nto a softeuing of the brain, but if any one haa the power he might at least designate some milder disease ‘than that which wrecks a man beyond the hope of re- covery. As to Fochter’s knee, that is not beyond hope, for the same young iady, who claims the gift of he: | Ing, who cured Dr. Platt’ might exercise her power for | | alinancial remuneration to counteract the power of | prayer. When Christian men and women have noth- ing better to do than to beseech Deity to send an assort- ment of weak spinal columns and stiff elbow joints and knee pans for distribution among actors, their religion | is of very little value, | Brusch Bey, a professor of Eastern lore, has proved | conclusively, to himself, that the Israelites never went through the Red Sea at all, but crossed the Serbonian Bog, on the shoro of the Mediterranean, He says, | further, that the Egyptians were drowned by a tidal wave which at uncertain Intervals sweeps over tho. marsh, Well, some people can believe anything sooner than the Bible, and are ready to account fc ie unac- countable by something more unaccountable still, It makes but little difference to us who “are marching on,” whether Pharaoh’s chariots are at the bottom of the Red Sea or in the Serbonian Bog, Still the old story is more reasonable than the new one, __ Quitea number df the daily papers record the fuck. | | | tendered to him by the First Prosbyterian church of | need that becomes daily more apparent. Dra, Brookes, that General McClellan has made up his mind to live hereatter in Baltimore, This is in opposition to ortho- dox theology, which declares that “about these things one can’t always tell,’’ but that the place of our resi- dence hereafier, whether in Baltimore, or nearer the tropics, 18 to be decided by our cunduct bere, and that we are not permitted to “make up our minds’ one way or the other. ‘The Bishop of Lincoln says that one object of the Prince of Wales’ visit to Indi “to further the cause of Christian missions”? In what way this is to be ac- complished by that particular young man, and what are his special adaptations for such a work, the learned divine doer not suggest, There are many things the Prince might teach the untutored savage, but this of missionary 1s one in which be would be likely to fail, The element of sham crops into everything, Our sugar has sand in it, our milk has water in it and our eligion has buncombe in it, ‘Pound sociables’’ were the rage last year, and churches which would not en- courage raftling for the world soldat auction these pack- ages, contents unknown, to the highest bidder. The people were expected to bid on an uncertamty, but in the hope that they might get more than their money’s worth. This year the favorite pastime in churches 18 “mush and tmilk’ parties. The truth Is, religious amusements are of the slowest kind. All the healthful excitements have fallen into the hands of the world, and the Church takes what is lef and is satisfed. Satan tries bis little games one by one, and if they take well be keeps them, but if they are stupid and unpopu- lar he passes them over to religious people. The Sunday question seems to have a bad effect on tender consciences. Some of the papers are clamoring for the prosecution of every railroad company that | sends a train out on the day of rest; and yet these very folk, who are shocked at other people's deflection, will have their horses harnessed and drive up the avenue to church, the observed of all observers. It is so easy to keep other people’s consciences and so necessary to | have every convenience for one’s self. We have read | the discussion of this matter in the religious papers, and regard the arguments as one-sided affairs. If the ministers who write them were popular enough to call a crowd from every quarter of the city and from Har- lem, with special trains to accommodate the numbers, ‘the thing might look more reasonable, and this Sunday travel might be regarded as an obvious necessity. 1t is 80 easy to judge when one has no personal interest in the question at issue, It makes all the difference in the world whether it is you or I who happen to be popular. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. EPISCOPALIAN, In the diocese of Massachusetts there is a league for giving aid to the missionary diocese of Dakota Tho offerings of this league for the current year are $3,287 82in money, together with $3,309 60 worth of clothing and supplies. Northern New Jersey diocese has a clergymen’s re- tiring fund which amounts to $700. Any minister in the diocese muy become a member by the payment of $10 or by taking up a coliection in his parish therefor, At the age of sixty a minister may retire with a com- fortable pension from this fund. The society recently held their annual meeting in Newark, N. J. ‘The Rev, Henry M. Barbour has accepted the rector- ship of Trinity church, Trenton, N. J., and will enter on his daties on Advent Sunday. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, issues an appeal for aid to his Divinity School in Faribault, in which are more than twenty students for the ministry at this time, The Bishop asks his friends to found scholar- ships in the divinity schools, A Baptist merchant in Bridgeport, Conn., bas made a very liberal cash donation toward the erection of an Episcopal church in Logan, Utah, where a small Prot- estant Episcopal society of twenty members has been gathered-—the only Christian church in that town, The corner stone of @ new church was laid in Collins- ville, with appropriate ceremonies, Wednesday after- noon, November 10, by the Right Rev. John Williams, D, D. The Rev. Mr. Breed is the rector. The Standing Committee of the diocese of Long Island has given consent to the consecration of Dr. Eccleston as Bishop of lowa, Dr. McLaren, Bishop of lllinois, and Dr. Brown, Bishop-elect of Fond-du-Lac The Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer, President of Hobart Collége, has tendered his services to St. James church, Watkins, free of charge, until Easter Sunday—nearly six months—or until the church has a rector, on condi- tion that the stated salary paid the late rector, tho Rev, D.C, Mann, be continued forthe benefit of the be- reaved. ‘Tlils generous offer has been accepted, and the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer began preaching at Watkins Mee fete C. M. Callaway, late of Charlestot county, W. Va, bas accepted acall to Hundred, Dol. Rev. A. W. Weddell, rector of St. John’s church, Richmond, has been called to Christ church, Winches- ter, vacated by the death of the Rey, Dr. Meredith. Rev. I. M. Jackson, of Blackville, has accepted a call to Greenville, S. The Southern Churchman, commenting on the appro. priation of $12,000 by the Methodist Missionary Com- mittee last week to Virginia, adds that it requires an enormous amount of industry in the Virginia Diocesan Board of Missions to raise $6,000, Bishop Whipplo writes that last year the Protestant Episcopal Church gained only twenty-eight clergy over the deaths, and that there are many dioceses where there are hot enough capdidates for orders to suppl the loss by death. In four yeara, from 1870 to 187: there was @ decrease of over 200 in the number of can- didates for orders, This decrease is felt most keenly tn 5 new folds. Rev. Benjamin B. Leacock, D. D., of Staten Island, has accepted the rectorship of the Reformed Episcopa- lian church of the Corner Stone, Newburg. The con- gregation are building a church on Souto street, in that city, The church was organized a few months ago by Bishop Cummins, yn, Kanawha Brandywine The Western Convocation of the Protestant Episco- pal Church, comprising the parishes in the counties of Orange, Ulster and Sullivaa, in this State, held its annual session in St. George's church, New- burg, on Wednesday. Provision was made for the support of three sions in Sullivan county, main- tained by the body, Thus tar the assent of twenty-five standing commit- tees has been given to the consecration of Dr. William E. McLaren as Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Illinois, The Rev. Dr. W. R. Nicholson has accepted the bish- opric in the Reformed Episcopal Church to which ho was elected in May last. PRESRYTERIAN, Rev Charles Cuthbert Hall, of New Windsor, Cree county, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Union Presbyterian Church, Newburg, to succeed the Rev. Wendell Prime, now of the New York Observer, Rev. John McNaughton, of Slatington, Pa, has ac- cepted a call to the pastorate of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church at Newburg for ono year. There are only two churches of this denomination remaining in this country. One ofthem is at Newburg and the other iu Sullivan county. Rov, Mr. Lattimer, formerly of Ireland, and more re- cently of St. Louis, has been called to the Union Church, Yorkville, in this city, and it 1s understood that he will accept. Rev. J. R, Kerr, of Philadelphia, has been called to the church in Thitty-fourth street. near Stxth avenus, of which Dr. Join Thompson was recently the pastor, and will accept the call. Dr. F. H. Marling, of Canada, will enter upon his labors as pastor of the Second avenue Presbyterian church in this city the first Sabbath in December, Dr. Asa D, Smith was called trom this church some years | ago to the Presidency of Dartmouth College. Alter visiting St. Louis and taking a view of the ground Dr. Ganse of this city has accepted the call that city, whose late pastor, Dr. Dickey, has gone to Philadelphia ‘The Presbyterian element around Lafayette Park, St. Louis, is concentrating upon a new church to supply a Niccolls, and others, are deeply interested in the move: ment. A lot will soon be purchased and the organiza- tion completed. It will not be a mission, but a self- sustaining church, A largo number of prominent families reside in that locality and have offered liberal subscriptions. The work of the missionaries sent by the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, to work among the degraded Chinese women of Cali- pha ie Bong to be attended with good success. Tho work has been organized two years and a half and has branch sogetics in fourteen churches, An industrial school, st#@ed last April, has sixty-five Chinese women and twenty-four children as inmates, The Rev. J. K. Demarest, late of Hackensack, has = a call to the Presbyterian church at Gettys- arg. Rov. L. P. Cummings, formerly of Grace chapel, New York, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Pres- byterian church of Morrisania, The twenty-eighth anniversary of the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church Sabbath School Missionary Association will be held on Sabbath evening, November 21, in the ebarch. ‘The Prosbyterians of Stapleton, Staten Island, aro about to build @ $7,000 Sunday school chapel to replace one recently destroyed by fire, They recently helda bazaar which notted them $1,100. ROMAN CATHOLIC, On Tu y evening last four Jesuit fathers, “mis sionors,” completed a seventeen days’ mission at St, Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Newburg, N. Y., M. J. Phelan, pastor. The mission is under the cha: of Rev, Father Coghlan, been held each week di Y J, Three services nave aud five will be held on Sai days, The Jesuit fathers go from Newburg to Beth- er Pa, where they are to open a mission, ‘ather Nardenclio, stant pastor of St. Orange, has been transferred to St, Michael’s, Jorsey City. A mission will be opened in St. John’s Church, Orange, N. J., by the Dominican Fathers to-day. Last Sunday and Saturday were observed by the Benedictines of Newark, as All Saints’ and All Souls’ = ‘The ceremonies in St. Mary’s church were very 10) ng. ‘he Carmelite Monastery, now building in Paterson, Ay y FA Ante two stories high, of brick aud will cost The Jesuit mission in St Peter's church, Barcl street, has been so euccess{ul that at the five A. M. mass the church {s so crowded that standing room can- not be The mission is expected to close this evening. Rev. John Fitzmaurice, pastor of St. Agatha’s church, Philadelphia, expects to get his magnificent new churen under roof ina tew weeks, The present church, which ‘wags ones an Episcopalian place of worship, has been enlarged since it came under Father Fitzmaurice's bri but as it is still too small tho reverend pastor decided to build a new church and use the old church von school purposes. Mit Riga Father Sorin, Supertor General of tho Con, n of the Holy Cross, sailed from New York Sone Fes Europe, on affaira of his congregation La Bay, ¥, Machmanne, of Watertown. Wis. after o ive | PLE SHEET. monthe’ absence in Europe, reached thie port om Su day last in good health. Very Rev. Clement Staub, 0, 8. B., bas been ap- inted prior of the Abbey of St. Louis, Minn., aud father Valentine Stimier, 0. 8. B., succeeds him as | pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, | St, Paul, Minn, ‘The Gate of Heaven parish, South Boston, proposes | to build @ new church on the corner of Fourth and I | streets, Key. Jacob Karicher, for some time past connected with St, Jutnes’ church, Baltimore, has been trans- ferred to St. Mary’s church, New Orleans, and left for his new fleld of labor, Rev. August Pingel, of Chicago, has been transferred to Baltimore, and will fill Father Karicher’s place at St. James A band of Paulist Fathers from New York are now giving @ mission at Minneapolis, from whence they will proceed to Faribault, Winona and Rochester, A band of Redermptorist Fathers, under the Rev. Father Sauer, R. have been recently giving a very successful of missions at Warsaw, Pavilion, Perry and Bergen, N. J. Right Rev, Thomas Foley, D. D,, Bishop Administra- tor of Chicago, 8 making great preparations for the early dedication of his new cathedral of the Holy Name, It is said to be a magnificent building. A mission will open to-day in the Dominican churcb, in Sixty-fifth street and Lexington avenue. A religious revival of great power and interest among | the Catholics of Boston is reported from that city. | Rev. John Parkman is leading it on, The Methodist fashion of getting the people who desire to lead a reli- | solid and lasting results would have been obtained. been expended on the ordinary means of grace some in four months, in London alone, a sum has been ex- ended more than six times the income of the Home issionary Society, and more than one-fourth of tho entire revenue of the London Missionary Society, Tho worst of all thig 1s that the money that used to be given to these most beneficial societies, and to others of the same class, has been lavished on this so-called revival, MOODY AND SANKEY. ARRIVAL AT PHILADELPHIA—EVERYTHING READY FOR THE MEETINGS—MR, SANKEY SINGS “HOLD THE FORT” IN THB NEW HALL, PutLaDRLPHtA, Nov. 20, 1875, Messrs. Moody and Sankey arrived in this city oy the 9:25 A. M. train from New York. They were met at the depot by some gentlemen of the committee promoting the revival movement hers and, after re freshments and rest, were taken to the meeting place which has been improvised from the old freight depot, The accommodations for seating 10,000 people in the audience room, beside the 1,000 ministers and singers who will occupy the platform, are all prepared. ‘The beating and lighting arrangements are completed, and the workmen are busily engaged giving the | linishing touches to the interior decorations, which are gious life to stand up is resorted to, and at one of their | Under the care of Jolin Patterson, who, like every one meetings in the Old Chambers’ 'strect church 2,000 | ¢l8e connected with this movement, seems to have set persons stood up and solemnly renounced the world, | bis whole heart in the work. All the necessary work the flesh and the devil. to the building is done, and the first meeting will beheld Mzrsovisr. to-morrow morning. Mra, Maggie Van Cott, tho well known female evan- | , The revivalista wero delighted with the hall, whitch golist, is to commence revival meetings in St. John’s | faf Surpasses in capacity the Brooklyn Rink, Mr. Methodist Episcopal courch, Newburg, December 4, | Moody spok few words from the pulpit, in whieh he | Thislady made quite a stir in’ religious circies in Yon- | Suggested some slight alterations and found that the kers recently, where about 100 persons professed con- version in her meetings. Free Tabernacle, New York city, J. Johns, pastor, has received eighty persons into the Church sinco Conference. The spirit of revival is resting on the congregation, A revival has commenced at Summit, Twenty five have professed conversion. A wealthy gentleman has given $1,500 toward paying the church debt, and an- Other friend $1,500 toward the parsonage, now build. ing at a cost of $6,000. A remarkable revival has broken out at Port Morris among the employés of the Delaware, and Western Railroad, As many as thirty have been at the altar in a single evening. Forty bave joined on probation, It is conducted ebiefly by railroad men. Watters B. Day is particularly active, One of the most vital questions to be brought before the next General Conference will be that of the elec- tion of presiding elders by the annual conferences’ in- steadof their appointment by the bishops, More than half the annual conferences Lave already chosen their delegates to the General Conference, and Rev. W. B. Pearne has made a calculation av to the way they will voto on this question. His tables foot up:—Yeas, ministers, 4 ‘men, 18—total, 60. Nays, ministers, 64; 107. Of the sixty yeas Mr. laymen, 43—total, ne believes he knows at least ten who will not e tor the measure when the time of action comes. he eighth anniversary of the Freedmen’s Aid So- ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be neld at Metropolitan church, Washington, D. G, on Thurs- day, December 2, 1875. The tenth anniversary of the Board of Church Ex- tension of the Methodist Episcopal Church was heid in Camden, N. J., on Friday evening last. The Methodist ministers of Chicago have adopted a protest to the Board of Education of that city agaist the removal of the Bible from the public schools aud a request for its restoration, The Paterson avenue church, Paterson, has been awarded $1,150 damages by the city for injury to their property by a change in the grade of the street at the point where the chureh Is situa The Rev. Dr. Dean, late of the East Tennessee Cen- tra! University, has returned trom his European tour in improved health, The Rey. F. 8. Stein has resigned the position of princtpal of the Rocky Mountain Seminary, Salt Lake City, and returned to the East, We report revivals at Platwsburg, N.Y. ; over 100 con- verted. Port Jervis, 150 accessions to the church. Green, M. Galt, pastor, reports 60 conversions, and the work going on with power, Henvelton, W.. F. B: autor, over 100 converted, Rockaway,'N. J., W. lakeglee, pasior, 30 conversions | Janes chapel, Vienna charge, P. D. Day, pastor, 20 conversions’ Hackettstown, C. B. Littie, pastor, 20 forward for pray- ers on last Sabbath, the ocoasion of the visit of railroad men to that place. Glendale (N. J.) Conierence, M. W. Ayres, pastor, & conversions, Barriat. The cotored Baptist chureh in Williamsburg, Va, has contributed during the year, in addition to the salary of its pastor, over $600 for ‘mission purposes. This ix more than has been given by ali the other churches in | the town. The Baptist churches of Mount Hope, Melrose and North New York are holding union prayer meetings each week—Weducsday evenings at Mount Hope, Thursday at North New York, and Friday at Melrose, The meetings ure greatly blessed and are promising a rich harvest for the blaster. The North Baptist chnrch in New Bedford has ex- tended acall to Rev, Churies & Snow, of Taunton, all, E ‘The Baptist Union meetings, looking to a revival, aro held weekly every Thursday afternoon, The atteud- ance is large, with an increasing interest. ‘The Rov. irs B, Hawthorne, of the Tabernacle church, New York, has been at tho gates of death, For several days iast week a council of physicians despaired of his life, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. The Rev. J. G. Shrive, formerly a Methodist minister, but who was baptized a few months ago by Rev! John Quincy Adams, of Newburg, bas accepted a call trom the Baptist churck at North- ville, Fulton county, N. Y., and has entered on his labors. In’ most of the Buptist churches in this vicinity there are cheering tokens of 3 rey.vai. The solemn attention giveu to the Word by increasing congregations, tbe Prevailing spirit of prayer aud the appearance of anxious iuquirers indicate the beginning of “times of | refreehing.” ‘Let us pray,” says tho Baptist Weekly, “that revivals may be enjoyed throughout the land Never was there more need.” The new chapel on the tots belonging to the First Bapust church, Harlem, was opened for worahip on Sanday, It cost $8,000, and is nearly paid for. 1s is 42 feet wide and 68 feet in tength, and will scat about 450 persons. The sermon was preacbed by Rev. Dr. Samson, pastor. Dr. Ellis, of Michigan avenue church, Chicago, last Monday lectured against the retention of the Bille in the public schools The Board of Education, em- boldened by the diversity of opinion among the minis- ters, bas decided to expurgate from the singing books ‘used in the schools all references to God or the Saviour. Hail, Columbia, happy land! MISCELLANEOUS, Rev. J. F. Thompson was recently ordained and installed pastor of the Universalist Society at Church- ville, N. ¥. Whatever may be the extent of the goofdone by Moody and Sankey among the unrepentant of Brook- lyn, there can be no doubt, says the Christian Union that the evangelists are awakening the religious and the churches, The motives under which the Unita- rians, Universalists and Episcopalians act are not sup- plied'directly by Mr. Moody. They may in somo casea come from no higher source than sectarian jealousy, but the results are what most concern the world, aud these aro good. Tho new chapel of All Souls’ Universalist church, Brooklyn, is roofed and the slaters are at work. The chapel will be avery fine building when completed, ‘The Rev. B. F, Snook, assisted by other ministers of the West, dedicated the Universalist church in Webster City, Iowa, on November 17. At Pittstleld, Mass, last Sunday morning, the Rev. Mr. Bartlett, of the Congregational church, invited all to the Lora’s Supper who Jove the Lord, whether mem- | bers of churches or not At the celebration in the af- terncon the general invitation was modilled, in conse- quence of dissatisfaction in the church, and only mori bers of evangelical churches were welcomed to thie table. The pastor is likely to resign because of this dis- agreement, Himself and the deacons had a thorough disagreement, As harmony was out of the question he was advised to resign. He took the matier into the pulpit and retorted by advising the deacons to resign, A church meeting was called and a majority sustained the pastor. The officials and strong men of the parish were in the minority. ‘The pastor ac- cepted the vote of the majority as the will of the church, and resolved to stay. Oliver Johnson has decided to step down and out of the management of the Christian Union at the clyso of this year. Bishop Schweinitz has appointed this day as a day of prayer among the Moravians for their theological Seminary and its students, THE LONDON REVIVAL. ‘The Covenanter, of Londonderry, presents the follow: ing cheerfai financial aspect of the great revival in Lon- don last suramer, ander Moody and Sankey, together with the dolofal spiritual results of the same, from which the Brook committee and churches should learn a lesson, and not let the work slide nor its fruits be lost now when these evangolists have left us for an- other field. The Covenanter says:—A very suggostive document is now before the public, which has been called “The Revival Balance Sheet.’ It is the (nancial account of the committees who had chargo of the move- | ment in London, in which Messrs. Moody and Sankey were central figures, The receipts reached a total of £28,258, from 2578 subscribers, One gave £550, — soven uve «£500 each, twelve £250 each, forty-six £100 cach, thirty six $10 10s, eac! 209 £10 cach, vixty-nine £5 ‘58, and 469 £5 each. Only twenty-seven sent in half acrown each, and, stranger still, only fifteen contributed a shilling each. “The sig- | hificance of those figtres cannot be exaggerated, and tho fecling they are caloulated to excite is deepened when we remeinber tho daily advertisements of the committee, ling on these who had received benefit to contribate, Woe read of the tuousands, nay bun- dreds of thousands, who filled the places of ‘assembly, of the multitudes who crowded the “inquiry rooms.” 1f100,000 had sent in a shilling cach the balance sheet would have surprised us lesa. But what of the spiritual results?, These can only be known by their effects, Wo have seen that the money raised came from a comparatively small number, and these among the wealthy classes. The prayer meeting has dwindied down almost to nothing. Where thousands assembled when Moody, Sankey and the American organ were present, only from ten to twenty are to be found. The reqnests for prayer, which took so long to read thas they had to be classified, have all but ceased. A large increaso of church membership was expected, een in the north of London, ro the cultural Hall, whore the meetings were so crowded. But, instead, the ministers report an actual decrease in the number of those seeking the membership of the Church, Lackawanna | building were un- through the centr rpowe of light ant | acoustic properties of tha usually fine, a wide nave | built ortginally for the ventilation, answering, by a happy accident, the pur- poses of a sounding board. Mr, Sankey sung, “Hold | (he Fort,” his favorite hymn, and every note of his clear, sweet voice was audible in the furthest corner of the room. | _ The last rehearsal of tne chofr took place this even- | ing, andor Mr. Sankey’s direction, THE BROOKLYN REVIVAL, ‘Messrs. Moody and Sankey ieft Brooklyn yesterday morning on tho half-past nine o’clock train for Phila- delphia, They are to give their tnitiatory revivalist sermon this morning at half-past eight o’clock in the “City of Brotherly Love” at a place known as the “old depot.” As the nows of the departure of these notable preach- ers was not known early yesterday throughout Breok- lyn, qaite a large number of people attended morning service at the Rink, and the immense auditorium there was comfortably filled. Tn vhe absence of Moody and Sankey, Mr. Needham, the Irish evangelist, ied the services. The opening hymn, ‘All hail the power of Jesus’ name,” was sung with fervor and feoling. A portion of the lirst cbapter of the Gospel according to St John, commencing at the eloventh verse, was read by the officiating divine, who then pronounced a discourse anon the labors and great works that were performed by the Aposties dts, Petor and Paul Deacon Hawley read requests for prayers, among which were supplications in bebalf of a number of churches; for parents, children; wives for husbands, and brothers for their sisters. Short ad~ dresses, romarks and prayers followed, the most of | which had reference to the revivalist movement, and expressed hopes that the labors of Moody and Sankey would be rewarded with complete success. Before the congregation was dismissed notices were giveu by Mr. Needham of various meeting SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. THE KIND OF REVIVAL WE NEED—RELIGION & LUE, AND NOT A MERE PROFESSION. A very large congregation gathered yesterday in the synagogue in Lexington avenue and Fifty-fifth street, to whom Dr, Huebsch preached on thoughts suggested by revivals, His text was Exodus, xvili., 23, in which Jethro gives his son-in-law, Moses, advice concerning the administration of justice among the people of Israel. Moses was in the habit of hearing and adjust ing all the troubles of the people among themselves, and Jethro advised him to select a certain number of the elders, who should hear and decide all the trivial matters while he listened to the weightier complaints that might come up. Moses was to be the mouthpiece of God to the people, and the elders were to relieve him from the daily routine of a tner of appeals, This ad- vice,was in accordance with wisdom and experience, and {s in itself irreproachable, But if we consider to whom this advico was given little criticism may not bo out of place, When Jethro said to Moses, “Thou shalt surely wear away,” was he, the priest of Midian, aware that the man whom he addressed had conquered the hosts of Pharaoh, had divided the Red Sea, bad brought water out of the rock and with the lifting of his hands had scattered the hosts of the Amalekites? Was such aman likely ta wear out or not endure? Does not this advice of Jethro imply a doubt in the might of Him, whose agent the great prophet was? And yet Moses approves of | and God does not object to the advice thus given. From this fact we may draw a very important truth, which is able to shed light upon our pathway through life, Re- ligion fs one and indivisible in it8 mature; but in its manifestations it depends apon outward circumstances, Those rare and isolated occurrences which make shake and thrili our hearts are more apt to make us inclined to listen to the voice ef divine teachings than the uni- form course of everyday life, Stirring facts close our ears against the buzz of the world aud sharpen us to perceive the sublime sounds of higher revelations. It is easier for a Moses to divide the sea, to elicit water from the rock, to conquer EGYPT AND AMALER than to make the people confident and firm believers while engaged in the search for their daily bread with no other wonders before them but their different pur- suits. Moses bad to choose from the midst of the people able men, or else he would have proved insufficrent. Religion must form an intimate alliance with common sense or else she will become eliminated from daily lite. ‘This alltance must be based upon the consciousness that individual or general prosperity is not possible tor man unless it ts founded on those principles which religion recognizes as her own. Our conviction is that with increasing culture {n_ society religion will become more developed and better understood, but there ; will be no such time when the complex of the highest principles will become dispensable for mankind. We | hear the general complaint that religious feelings are decreasing inourtime. But it is afact that in the hours of heavy visitation men in these days are just as relig- fous as men in times gone by. When we stand at the | Red Sea of suffering, and yearn to pass safely over or | through tt; when we contront the rock and languish for | areireshing drop; when wo are vexed and pursued by | the Pharaohs and Amaleks of bitter events in our life— | tnen we look as anxiously for i THE MESSENGER OF GOD ; and his miraculous staff as did the generations of old. | We are believers on rare occasions; we are unbelievers, | however, in our every day Ife, The connection vetween | religion and our daily pursuits becomes severed. Why? | Because the consciousness of the utility of the neces- | sity of faith and belief becomes more and more bedim- med and shronded into darkness, Is there vo balm in | Gilead for this evil? Is there no resuscitating power for | the dying daughter of heaven, religion? Yes, there aro revivals, Rovivals, if they have a vivifying power, are the best remedy against death and deadiy illness, a A true revival, however, must impart a natural, strong and healthy growth, and not an artificial life, Is re- | hgious indifference ‘to be cured by religious excite- | ment? Tam afraid, said the Doctor, that the reaction | that must necessarily follow will leave indifference | doubly indifferent. Our modern prophets may succeed with religion as Elisha did whea he stretched himseif on the Shunamite’s sou—they may make tt sneeze | Seven times or a dozen times, but whether it will be. | come alive and will be taken up by those great num. bors that listen to them, and carried with love to their different places of business to manifest thero its vig- orous life, that f# a question to which the answer is | very doubtful. | PREACHING, SINGING AND PRAYING | are very good, but they must be done in an unostenta | tious way, or else peopie will fall into the mistake that | the sermon, the hymn and the prayer are the whole of | religion, Where the lack of religious life 4 most is in our business places and in our domestic “and social | circles, There the revival must take its issue. The | alliance between lifo and pure religion must be renewed there; and the chosen agents to effoct such a salutary change are the men who fear God more than the loss of worldly goods, who love truth more than earthly their own gains too much to sacrifice ¢ highest interest of mankind. Let men of this caste join hands and jointly work to reform tho different spheres of life, then | the blissful work of revival will surely succeed, In the Thirty-fourth street synagogue Dr, Isador Kelische, of | Newark, N.J., preached yesterday morning, in o| | dience to the law of God, which, he remarked, was given for all time. Error, be said, is more ext ely known than truth, There are to-day more {dolaters in the world than true worshippers of God. The eifects of religious efforts are the real touchstone of their truth. Why can’t we unite all the religious parties? he asked, A great many know what is right, but will not doit A great many take to religion, but don’t care what is right or wrong in religion. A it many observe ox- ternal bey oodoone think they are doing all that is re quired of t) Every step we take in the path¢ Virtue will lead to salvation. Weare required to lova’ tho Lord our God with all our hearts, not merely when wo gather in His house two or three times in the year, ‘bat in our rr date counting houses and stores, There wo can show beauties of religion. SHAAR HASHOMAYIM. The congregation of the above synagogue, which is situated fn Rivington street, resolved at a recent meet- ing to exbume the remains of bodies now in their old bury vroundon Bighty-ninth street, between Madison and avenues, and to remove them to their new lots in Cypreus Hill Cemetery. The old ground, whi Tr owned by the congregation, was 1849 «and closed «by = Ach Of the) twenty-two years later, all the ted for graves having been occupied. Not mor wever, than 100 persons eat buried ihe hot Eighty-ninth street cemetery, which atmo distant day. The work of Daring the past two years about a quarter of a million has been expended on the work of these Americana, WeJook for xegults jo yain, 1 tho game amount had of Mr, commence to-morrow, under the direction Lippmann, and + Magee a: will be Ves ya OF UTOSS