The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1876, Page 11

“RELIGIOUS TRTELLIGENGE, | Ohat by the Way—The Week of Prayer.” MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. A Pious Protestant’s Fraud—A Missionary Farewell. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY Tne Rev. Henry M. Sanders, pastor elect of the Baptist church in Yorkers, will minister to-day to the Tabernacle Baptist church, Rev. J. B. Hawthorne pastor. Union meetings under the auspices of the Moody and amoug the broken pill | ! ministers to a remarkable degree. General Grant ap- verted, make the very dest kind of Methodists, The moeoting was held under a tent, with gorgeous lanterns Dung adout in picturesque beauty, The second fact of terest 1s that a Chinaman can become an orator. We have Known the cloquence of Ah Sin, an eloquence of deeds, pot words, but in Foochow they have a Celestial sensationalist who ts in great danger of being invited to | wake ebarge of one of our vacant city pulpits, His pame is Sia Sek Ong. Which of these words stands for | Mr. er Rey., and which is the Smith or Jones element ‘neas can tell, but nevertheless the man is a good Metho- dist and a fine preacher, ‘The Zablet, Roman Catholic, says of Mr. Moody that ho gives ‘in the midst of an age of mockery and un- Deueving a kind of carnest testimony to Jesus, and we cannot find itin our heart to say it is not of God." When the Protestants think ana say the same thing the revival will begin to work successfully, The ditfi- culty with the movement is, in our judgment, that the clergy only make believe in it’ They have chilled it to death with cold embraces. Dr. J. P. Newman has excited the envy of bis brother pointed him inspector of consulates, with a liberal salary, and he has had the pleasure of looking in upon the officials of the United States m distant countries, and of bunting all over the Syrian Desert, and 3 of Palmyra, the sand Sankey conamittee will be held inthe Reformed chureb, | heaps of Nineveh and ihe half buried colonnades of corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street, daily. Dr. Wiliam M. Tayler will lead this afternoon. The Rev. William B. Merritt will preach, in the Sixth avenue Reformed cherch this evening on ‘The Royal Feast.” The Rev. F. H. Marling will minister to the Four- teenth street Presbyterian church this morning and evening at the-usua! hours. The Rev. Dr. Backus and Rev. GeorgerGuiry will fill Babylon for Consuls who were never appointed. Why he went to Nineveh to find a Consul tt might be hard to guess, but to Nineveh he went, ertheless, and on horseback, too, ani evidently had such a proftabic time that we have come to the con- clusion that a United States Inspector of Consulates ‘s aman who enjoys an ample income, whose wife is ap- Pointed private secretary at a salary not to be despised, and whose chief business is to bestride the blood the pulpit of the Fifty-third street Baptist church this | Arabian or the humpy camel and follow the Israclites morning and ewening respectively. “Things Old and New’? will be presented by Rev. George 0. Phelpssbis evening in Allen street Presby- terian church. Preaching in the morning also. In the Charch of the Holy Apostles (Protestant Epis- from Rameses to Canaan, making detours now and then to other interesting localities. Whata pity itis that the White House has only one chaplain! One day's record of crime ought to make the univer- sal heart of the clergy ache. Kvery possible iniquity is copal) the Rev. D. L.. Schwartz, of Albany, will preach | boing enacted under the very shadow of the churches, this morning, and the:Rev. Dr. Geer im the evening. A | whichare the only inhospitable buildings in the city, missionary service will be held there in the evening, | being shut so much that the hinges of the doors have at which Dr. Howland and Mr. Schwartz will speak. In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. ‘W. N. Dunnel!l will preach this morning and evening at the usual hours. : To-day is the anniversary of the Church of the Strangers, and Dr. Deems: will preach morning and evening. Services in St. this morning and afternoon. The Rev. John Johns will speak in the Free Taber- nacle Methodist Episcopahchureh thie morning about “The Barren Fig Tree,*and in the oveming about “Almost Persuaded.’’ “The Dead Year, or TimesExpiring,”’ and “The Divine Inspiration of the Scriptares” will be considered by Rey. C. P. McCarthy in Bleecker street Universalist chureb to-day. In the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Rev. Dr. How. land, rector, services this morning and afternoon as ‘usual. The Rey, James M. Pullman will preach at the usaal hours to-day inthe Chunch of Our Saviour. morning a New Year’s sermon will be delivered. “The Watchman’s Outlook’? and “New Year’s Sug- gestions” will be givento Calvary Baptist church to- day by Rev. R. S. MacArthur, to the pastorate of Washimgton avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn. ‘The Rev. George Howellrwill preach this morning in the First Reformed Episeopal church, and the Rev. W. Tf. Sabine this evening. Mr. Sabine will preach in the Reformed Episcopal church, Cumberland street, Brooklyn, in the morning. The Rev. W. H. Reid, late rector of the Reformed Episcopal Charch of the Incarnation, Cumberland street,. Brooklyn, will be installed to-day as rector of the new Reformed Episcopal Church of the Atone- ment, on Broadway and Fourth street, Eastern Dis- trict, which he recently organized. Clergymen of dif- ferent denominations will assist in the installation services this afternoon. Dr. Armitage will speak to the Fifth avenuo Baptist chureh this morning on “Old Ago as Forsaken of God,” and this evening on “The Prodigal Son,” s sermon to the young. The'Rev. Walter H. Brooks, of Richmond, Va, will ‘address the Sunday school of the First Baptist church this afternoon. Bishop Snow will tell the church of Mount Zion, this afternoon, ‘‘How and When the Glory-of God is to Fill the Earth.” “Old Clothes and New” whl be shaken out and aired shis evening by Rev. J. A. Seitz, in Harlem Universal. ist charch, In the Pilgrim Baptist church, this morning, the Rev. J. Spencer Kennard will speak about “The Visit of the Magi,” and this evening about “Baptism.” The Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. “The Parable of the Sower’’ and ‘‘fne Race for Life” wilt bo considered this morning and evening in Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. Jon 8. Willis. “The Atonement” and ‘The New Year” will be con- sidered by the Rev. J. H. Lightbourn, in Seventeenth stroct Methodist Episcopal church to-day. In Laight street Baptist church this morning the Rev. H. W. Knapp will show that “The Abiding and Abound- ing Christian Is the Victorious One,” and this evening that “The Human Heart Is Satan's Resting Place.” The Rev. 8. M. Hamilton will preach at the usual’ hours to-day in the Scotch Presbyterian church. Tho Rev. Charles E. Harris will make “The Saluta- tory of 1876” to-day in Allen street Methodist Episco- pai charch. This morning, in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal chureh, the Rev. James M. King will preach, and this evening there will be a service of song and praise. Dr. William Adams will preach in the Reformed church, on Madison avenue, receatly vacated by Dr. Ganse. ¢ The Rev. W. D. Walker will preach in St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church this morning and evening. “Life as a Thought’’ will be presented in Stanton strect Baptist church this morning by Rev. W. H, Leavell, and “The Day of Salvation”’ this evening. In the Church of the Holy Trinity the Rev, 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach this morning and even- \mg, and Rev. J. W. Bonham this afternoon. In the Greek chapel di¢ine service will be held to-day the usual hour. Christmas, old style, will be kept there next Thursday, The Rev. J. V. Saunders will preach in Willett street Method st Episcopal charch this morning and evening, aud will make some suggestions for the New Year. The Rev. D. P. McLaurin, of Canada, will preach this morning and evening in the Baptist church in Hooper street, near Broadway, Brooklyn, FE. D. The Rev. Dr. Scudder will proach in the Central Con- gregationa! church, Brooklyn, to-day, and at the morn- ing service wili take in 100 new members. Charles Helmer, of Chicago, will begin his pas- torate with the Tompkins avenue Congregational charch to-day, preaching morning and evening. i CHAT BY THE WAY. The American Tract Society has distributed since 1835 something over 40,000,000 tracts. This immenso numeral indicates a spiritual cause, whose effect fs incal- culable by buman arithmetic. Tho revival meetings in Philadelphia are as chilly as en east wind. Mr. Moody can't preach nor can Mr. Sankey sing the general discouragement away. Every. body is waiting for that fabled “more convenient feaso The Churchman very properly insists that no edifice should be called a church which is under any indebted. fess, The word “church,” it says, ‘means the Lord house" How cau it bo the Lord's house while the carpenter and mason havea lien on it? If this ts to be the criterion of judgment it must be confessed that the Lord owns very little real estate in New York. The American Bible Society onght not to complain of the hard times, [1 has been able to give a Bible even «t9 those who had no coal or food. Its receipts for the Past year have been nearly $600,000, and it has issued #!most 1,000,000 copies of the Word. During the fifty nine years of its existence it has scattered over overy Part of the planet 32,000,000 Bibles, There is hardiy ‘Thomas”Protestant Episcopal chyreh | become a missionary among the heathen. In the | amount of active Chri grown rusty, and yet, so absorbed are religious people by the ignorance of the tribes of Centrai Alrica and (he castes of India that they are indifferent to the worse form of paganism that thrives in our madst, It strikes us thas it might be well to let the Sandwich Islanas, for ‘ance, lie fatiow for a couple of years and spend that appropriation in two or three of the lower wards of this city. We give a good Methodist amen to that minister who told his congregation that he bere to is tearful people flocked about him to offer their tender farewells, when he said:—‘“Brethren, your good byes are un- necessary, since, in becoming a missiouary to the heathen, 1 do not propose to leave town.” Here is a singular fact, certainly In Bryex, Bohe- mia, several Catholic priests attended the retigious service at the synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, and when mourning services were held tor the de- ceased Emperor Ferdinand, the Prior of the Piarists, upon {nvitation, appeared’ im the synagogue in his robes, with the decoration of the Order of Francis Joseph, and attended the worship; and again, Dr, Kisch, Rabbi of Bruex, in his quality as military chap- lain, attended high mass for the Emperor. It is barely possible that neither priest nor rabbi was in- jured by this interchange of courtesies. Our impres- sion is that if our moral and religious leaders could be induced to shake hands once a week for a year the ity mm the community would be exactly doubled in that time. There is more re- ligion in honest fellowship than a bigot ever dreamed of. ‘Somebody, and a very bright and polysyliabic some- body, has clothed himself in the disguise of Darwin or who bas just been called | Huxley, and, ina fit of inspiration, rewritten the first chapter of Genesis. Confused as we may have been by the text of the Vulgate, we cannot fail to have a per- tectly clear conception of the mysteries of creation after reading this paraphrase. Aliah is Allah and Dar- win must be his prophet, ‘Let there be light,” and Huxley appeared—Genesis, chapter J. :— 1. Primartly the Unknowable moved upon cosmos and evolved protoplasm. And protoplasm was inorganic tiated, containing all things in potential enorgy, and ‘spirit of evolution moved upon the fluid mass. 4 3. And the Unknowable said, Let atoms attract; and their contact begat light, heat’and electricity. 4. And the Unconditioned differentiated the atoms each after its kind; and their combinations begat rock, air and water, 8. And earthly atom in vegetable protoplasm begat the molecule, and thence catne all grass and every herb in the earth. 9 And animaicule in the water evolved fins, tail claws and scales; and in tho air, wings and beaks; an ‘on the land they sprouted such ‘organs as were noces- sary as played upon by the environinent. 13. Out of the ascidian came the amphibian, and be gat the pentadactyle; and the pentadactyle, by inherit- ance and selection, prodaced the hylobate, from which are the simiadae in all their tribes. 15. And the platyrhine bogat the catarrhine, aud tho catarrhine monkey begat the anthropoid ape, and the spe begat the longimanous orang, and the orang begat the chimpanzee and the chimpanzee evoluted the what- srt, 21. And man grew a thumb, for that he had need of it, and developed capaeitics for prey. '22. For, behold, the swiftest men caught tho most animals, and the swiftest antmals got away from the most men; wherefore the slow antmals were eaten and the slow men starved to death. 23. And as types were difforentiated the weaker types continually disappeared. Fe And the earth war filled with violence; for man strove with man, and tribe with tribe, whereby 1! killed off the weak and foolish and secured the survival of the fittest. Just imagine the comfort of a whole Bible rendered thus rhythmically. It would be almost as musical and fascinating as Martin Farquhar Tupper's ‘ Proverbial Philosephy.’’ Such a Bible could be put into our com- mon schools and read without the inost distant fear — any religious inflmence whatever was beiug exer- eu In London the Flower Mission is doing great good. Its members visit the hospitals and jails, and even tho homes of the poor, leaving at each bedside the fra- grance of a flower anda kind word. The silent minis- tration of beautiful things is a force unreckoned by the Church. We shonid cheerfully recommend a flower mission among the poor of New York, but, if we may be permitted, we prefer to call it a flour mission, Bread before beauty when the mercury has a hold on zero. At the Church of the Disciples a somewhat novel, but certainly very instructive, course of lectures by noted physicians is proposed. It is for young men exclu- sively, and the sutyect is, “Tho Consequences, Moral, Physical and Spiritual, of a Fast Life.’ The names of ‘tne lecturers, among which wo find that of Dr. Willard Parker, will insure the earnest attention of the com- munity. Ifthe Church had a little more courage and a little jess prudery and dared to talk about painful facts in plain Engliab, many a young man might be saved. After all, the best Church work is done im the vestry or chapel, when the minister forgets the rules of rhetoric and simply says what he means. There is a great deal of difference between preaching to be pop- ular and preaching to do good. Dr. Talmage says that the reason why his paper hi increased its subscription list is that the ‘scissors and paste pot” are used sparingly. The Doctor's English can hardly be called “undefiled,” though for rough strength it cannot be equalled. What the effect would be on Addison, or any other man who has made for himself a pceomege 6 selected vocabulary, after reading an editorial from the coarse pen-nib of Dr. Talmage, we do not dare to trust ourselves to imagine. Dynamite sinks into explosive insignificance vy the side of some of the Doctor's sentences. Here is one, which we quote as the finest illustration in tho world of the way in which an idea should not be put:—‘Clerical corre- | spondents are apt to take out the liver and lights and gizzard of old sermons and send them, with some new ttle, to the editor’s room.’’ We don’t know the class of men who write for the Christian at Work, and if this is really their method we should ne sorry to make their acquaintance. Dr. Taltrage’s language does not con- ceal his thoughts, cértainly; perhaps it would bo better, however, if they were just a bit disguised. All the world bas shaken hands, over the new year. We have crossed the thresho.d and stand face to fac world a list of useful inventions which have changed the whole course of human industry, thought and feek ing, It is no light privilege or responsibility to be bear- ing the “heat and burden of the day’’ at such a time. ‘The coming years will have broad shoulders and great duties, No one can mistake, no one need stop to dis- cuss them. They are apparent to the most thought. Jess, and in solemn tones demand fulfilment. Our re- 10 become something better than a creed if t at its death 1s to put its hand om us in blessin, We have watched the last puise of the old year, and are now lifting tho latch for the new to enter. Puts it sweetly, and with one of his best bits ot music we utter the old wish for a Happy New Year, “His face is growing sharp and thin, Alack ! our friend is gone; Close up his eye! Step from the corps, and let bim im ‘That standeth there alone And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face att my friend, A now face at the doo CHRISTENDOM ON ITS KNEES. THE WEEK OF PRATER—HOW IT WILL BE OB- SERVED HERR AND ELSEWHERE—ITS PROS- PECT AND PROMISE. It was @ very felicitous thought that inspired the tie up big chin; = language this side the gutterals of the Bushman into | which the Rook bas not been translated. Well, a great maay people are willing to give money to send tho Bible vo the heathen who don't spend much time in reading It themselves. Religion is a thing absolutely needed—by others, At the innual mecting of the Foochow Mission some very cnrions aud interesting facts were developed. The fratope is that the Chinese, when thoroughly con- | | Christian missionaries in Indi ind other heathen lands a fow years ago to request the believers in Jesus ai! over the world to devote the first week of every year to prayer for the success of their work. The suggestion bas ¢ince grown into an institution, and pow the Evan- gelical Alliance provides @ programme of services to be observed al! over the world on this first week of prayer, There ts perhaps no feld in all heathendom ia | whish Caristian missions has had such saccess as tn i India, And after it comes Japan, whore the Gospel is winning its way mightily among the people, Only ® few months ago ® mis- Tennyson | | 1 | ! NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. sionary was invited to an interior city of that Empire to organize a native Christian society. No missionary had ever been there before, and he was surprised to know how they came to know God and believe in His Son, He ascertained that years ago one of the natives had procured a Bible in one of the seaboard cities and had read it and lent it to his neighbors until its influ- efce had been felt in the entire community, all of whom wore atthe time of his visit either real or nominal Christians. A similar case was recently found in Mexico also. Prayer and thanksgiving for such results as these becometh the Church in Europe and America, Hence the woek of prayer will girt the globe beginning to-day and ending next Sabbath, 11 experience can ¢ anything the experience of the Chureh from the time when our missionaries in India first pro} week of prayer to this present time proves that God hears aud answers prayer. It is not without reason, therefore, that 1! sacred time receives an ever-in- creasing emphasis in the whole Church of Christ, It ig approached with larger faith, The Christian heart beats quicker as the hour comes round when sundered nations and diverse tongues girdle the world for a week with one accordant cry, “Thy Kingdom Come!” In looking over the subjects of prayer and meditation which the Alliance has provided it will be noticed that there is no direct allusion to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, on whom depends the conversion of the world and the success of all agencies looking to that result. The Churchseems to be ready to-day for a general advance along tho whole line. If we look abroad God scems to be mar- shaling great events for tho triumph of His Church. Great Britain has been stirred as never before; the Con- tunent is rousing itself to throw off the Papal yoke; the Old Catholics are drawing near the cross; Mohainmed- anism is weakening in its ancient seat; caste is being broken in Indian; China is open to oar missionaries, and Japan is beckoning to our shores for etvilization and Christianity. Surely God is going, ere long, to bring in the forces of the Gentiles. And then, tn our land, who can read of the great movement in Phila- delphia and other Eastern cities, and of the tidmgs that begin to come from many Western churches of deeper interest in spiritual things without the conviction that Gor is waiting to be gracious, In this city Union meotings will be held this year, as Jast, in Dr. Rogers’ Reformed church, Fitth avenue and Twenty-first street, daily at three o'clock. City pastors will preside at these meetings, as follows: aday. Rev. R. S. MacArthur, Baptist; Tuesday, Rev. Dr. Tucker, Presbyterian; Wednesday, Rev. Dr. Chapman Methodist; Thursday, Rev. Dr. W: lian; Friday, Rev. Dr. Wedekind, Rev. Dr. Hepworth, Congregationalist, Tho Methodist churches on the east side will group thomnselves and hold similar meetings, alternating in each church edifice. As, for instance, Allen street, Nor- folk street, Forsyth street, Willett street and Second strect churches will upite, and the pastors of each wi 1 preside at the meetings ‘held in other than their own churehes. In hke manner Seventh street, Seventeenth street, Twenty-seventh street, Thirty-seventh street and Fiftieth street churches will combine in the ob- ervance of the week of prayer, their pastors also al- mating in the leadership, Tho Methodist churches ‘on the west side will probably unite with other denom- imations in the meetings to bo held in Dr. Rogers’ church, The following 13 the programme of topics for prayer and consideration Suxpax, Ja, 2—Sermons—The Love of God per- fected in him who epeth his word. "—1 John, il., 5. Moxpar, Jan, 3—Thanksgiving and Confession.—A Totrospect of the past year. Texspay, Jan. 4—Prayer for the Church of Christ.— For the members recently added to the Church; for the union of true believers in traternal fellowship and active co-operation; for the removal of error, the in- crease of godliness and a clearer testimony among livers to the doctrines and power of the Gospel of the grace of God. Wepsespar, Jan, 5—Prayer for Families.—For God loss parents; for prodigal sons; for ch‘ldren at school; for those entering upon professional and commerctal life; for widows and orphans; for sons and daughters in foreign lands; and for all who are mentally or other- wise affticted. ‘Tuurspay, Jan. 6—Prayer for rulers, magistrates and statesmen, for soldiers and sailors, for national in- stitutions, for philanthropic and charitable societies, for prisoners. and captives, and for the persecuted and oppressed. Frrpay, Jan. 7.—Prayer for Christian missions and for the conversion of the worid to Christ. Sarorpay, Jan, 8&—Prayer for all nations, for the maintenanco of peace, for the cessation of tumults, wars and civil strife, and for the removal of intemper- ance, immorality and infidelity from the land. Suxpay, Jan &2—Sermons. "The Ultimate Triumph.” Psaim, Ixxii., 17. THE GREAT REVIVAL OF 1734-42. ‘THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION AND THE GROWTH OF SOUL LIBERTY THE OUTCOME. ‘The Rev. Dr. Lincoln, of Newtan, Mass., contributes to the Ezaminer this woek an interesting article in- dicating how the Baptists first came into being in New England as an outgrowth of the Separatists. And in his sketch he gives the following concerning the great re- vival under Whitfleld, Edwards, the Tennents and others which ran over a period of about eight years:— The great revival of 173442, under the preaching of Edwards and Whitefield and the Tennents, introduced a new order of things, and prepared the way for the separation of the Puritan element from the Arininian or Unitarian element, with which it was closely blended. The preaching was direct, pungent and un- equivocal. It denounced vigorously the half-way covenant, and asserted tho absolute need ot the new birth as a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership. AS the work went on and converts multipliod the peace of the churches was disturbed, and parties formed in sharp antagonism. Some ministers and churches, led by Dr. Chauncy, opposed the revival as an outbreak of fanaticism, futal to the quiet and good order of the churches. A second party, under the fried of Edwards, adored the wonderful grace of od displayed in reviving the churches and converting sinners, and hoped, through the working of the Spirit, to restore the churches to the original standard of purity. They did not favor any separation of regeno- Tate trom unfegenerate members by the organization of new churches, but aimed to change the whole lump by the new leaven. A third jarty were called Separatists, because they thonght it a plain duty for the godly to come out from the ungodly, as there could be no irue union between Christ and Belial. As the Pilgrims had separated from the English Establishment to form churches distinet from the world, so this party held that true Christians were false to Christ if they con- tinned in church union with those who gave nu evidence of the new birth. A strong body of Separatist churches sprang up, composed partly of new converts and partly of older Christians, whose spiritual instincts were quickened by the revival. .* * * The Separa- tists were soon called to sufler for their faith, It was a breach of the civil law to form a new church without the consent of magistrates. It was wilful rebellion to withdraw from the regular worship and listen to un educated prophets. Fines and imprisonments multi- plied; magistrates and general courts sought to crush the new heresy; but persecution gave it new unity and force and the movement gathered a power which defied control, The germ of Baptist charches lay in this movement * * * The Separatists aimed to estab- lish spiritual churches, made of truo believers onty. They recognized it to be a subversion of New Testament Jaw to admit unrenewed persons to charch membership But the question was immediately suggested, Does not the same law hold for both ordi- nances! If want of regeneration bars Soa the Sup- per, does it not bar against baptism’ If iufants are entitled to baptism, why are they not entitled to the Supper as members of the church? A carefal study of the New Testament followed, and berg & the Separa- tists were compelled to give ap infant baptism as desti- tute of a divine warrant and of harmony with a spirit- ual church, Others clung tenaciously to infant bap- tism and gradually receded toward the old régime THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL, A PRESBYTERIAN VIEW OF THE BEECHER CASE— POINTS THAT OUGHT TO COME BEFORE A MUTUAL COUNCIL. Tho editor of the Observer, writing before he had heard of lymouth’s acceptance of a mutual council, thus sums up “the Beecher case,” after all its trials, civil and ecclesiastical, and in the newspapers :— 1. The caso has never yet been investigated except from one side of the house. In the civil suit of Tilton vs. Beecher all that might have been proved or dis- proved by the denials or admisstons of one of the parties implicated, and all the persons with whom she had conversation on the subject, were excinded. This leaves one-half, at least, and perhaps more, of the case unexamined. 2 Tho investigation had by achurch committee se- lected by Mr. Beecher himself previous to.the civil trial, being wholly ex parte, never affurded satistaction to the public, However candid and ingenuous the gen- tlemen were who composed the committee they found no cause for investigation, while the trial and the present action of the church show the contrary. 3. The resolution of the church last week to call an advisory coanctl, that 1s, an ex parte council, a council predisposed to favor the church and the pastor, is simply arepetition of the Church Committee investi tion, It will not hare weight in the sight of the wo By its nature 1 is incompetent to give an opinion to which value 1s attached by those secking impartial in- wiry. A thisis the more painfully true when the genes of it is considered. council wo consider & certain sate of things. The chureh acceded to her request provided qnestions wiieh it proposed should be submitted. She accepted the questions and assented to their submission, pro- vided certain questions which she proposed were ulso admitted. Their questions did not involve the merits ind to the Supper. would be possible to make a deliverance justly com- manding the respect of the world. 5. [tis not impossible to reach the truth in regard to — the Beecher case. The course pursued by the church and its pastor from the beginning has produced the impression (right or beng ‘on tho public of a desire not to haye the whole truth revealed, as if there were something yet mntold that they would not have know: Whether this impression be well founded or not, exists widely and is felt deeply, and we give expression to a general sentiment when we make this declaration. But if all the parties in the cxse, and all the persons to whom the parties in the case have made communica tioms on the satyect, and ail the written papers were brought before an intelligent body of ministers and iaymen, the trath might be palpable to the intelligent perception of the great majority of the judges, and Mrs, Moulton asked a mutual | their pronounced opinion would have convincing power | with the public. 6. There caa be no reasonable objection to such swomission of the case from any party willing to have the: whole truth kno 7. Christians who believe that Christ js in His Chureh | Fiorida in 1540, Maino im 1614, | and that his promises to be with it in its discipline are perpetual, may be assured that he will be in the midst of such an assembly to direct in the way of all truth and to bring light out of obscurity and cover the wicked with confusion. 8, With the sincere co-operation of both parties all witnesses required could be readily induced to appear voluntarily, and all the documentary testimony already en record would be in hand. All the evil to bo feared has been done; the good would be to get at tho real truth, whieh is certainly attainable, and, indeed, is in- evitable, when the facts from both sides of the house come to the light, as they have not yet. It as in the interest of pure and undefiled religion at large that we ask in the mame of the Church for such an inquiry as no one-sided council can make. And until such inquiry is had the good name of the pastor of Plymouth church will be clouded, and the zeal of the Church will thicken, not disperse it. Every man of them should say, people and minister :—‘For Zion's sake will I not hoid my peace, and tor Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness.” PROTESTANT PIOUS FRAUDS: LOWER LIFE MEANS TO SECURE “HIGHER LIFE” ENDS—SANCTIFIED SHARPERS IN THE BOSs- TON TRACT SOCIETY. The Observer condenses from the Congregationalist a sketch of a pious fraud which was perpetrated upon the American Tract Society (Boston) last June. The facts have been made public now because they have come before acivil court, And what makes the frand more reprehensible is the fact that its perpetrator is one of the “higher life’? Christians of which we have so many lying arourid loose in all the denominations, who are neither useful nor ornamental to any, and the further fact that he was an officer of the society. It appears that last June a meeting of the society was called to elect a depositary, in the place of Mr. Broughton, who had previously been removed by the Executive Committee. A treasurer was to be elected also. Mr. J. Wyeth Coolidge was tho assistant treasurer, and he coveted the vacant treasurership, with its salary of $2,000 a. year. Aresponsible gentleman friend of the society was willing to perform the duties of treasurer withont salary, and. lest he should got the position and off Mr. Coolidge purchased votes enough at $20 each to elect himself. And being a “sanctified” man he usod money given to the society for other purposes to secure his own selfish end. Among the new voting mombers of the society were many grocors’ clerks, me- chanics’ apprentices and young men occupying similar usofal and respectable positions, but whose tastes and tendencies seldom lead them to take interest enough in such a society to purchase the right of membership or to attend its meetings. Nearly ali the young men em- ployed about the Tract House and many personal friends of the deposed official and of the “higher life’? candidate were also prosent, and when the books were examined it was proved that 109 names had been en- tered in the handwriting of Mr Coolidge as having been constitated life members on the last two days of the financial year, This led to an inquiry, Where did the money come from? Mr. R. W. Morville advanced $5,000 to the society, to be returned to him on certain conditions. These were not complied with, and ho sued the society for his money, and it then came out that part of it was applied to the manufacture of theso voters, who were to make Mr. Coolidge treasurer! Further still, the late Mr. John Tappan had given $1,000 to the society for the pubiication of “Higher Life’’ tracts, and, after repeated conferences between Mr. Coolidge and a'son of Mx. Tappan, liberty had been procured to place certain names upon’ the so- city’s list of life members in virtue of that donation. The use of Mr. Morville’s money, says the Observer, was a fraud, and the use of Mr. Tappan’s questionable, and the whole transaction utterly unjustifiable. Tho Morville matter was concealed from the Executive Com- mittee, and was intended to create voters by means of which the plans of the Executive Committee could be thwarted and Mr. Coolidge himself secure the office and a salary of $2,000. The Observer is willing to concede much inore than we would—namely, that the contriver and engineer of this pious fraud is conscientious and thinks he is doing God service by thus promoting the publication of ‘Higher Life’ tracts and that the end sanctifies the means, But such transactions, adds our contemporary, are fraudulent, inconsistent with re- ligion or common morality. And, whether perpetrated by men of higher life or lower life, by saints or sinners, there is only one place where the perpotrators belong, and that is not in the Churen. A MISSIONARY FAREWELL. DEPARTURE OF MISSI! BS ARIES FOR INDIA—A SOLEMN WATCH NIGHT IN OLD JOHN STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. While the great bulk of our citizons were preparing to make their Now Year's calls yesterday a little group might be seen in the morning early on the pier at the foot of Tenth street, North River, waiting to take the parting hands of missionaries about to sail for India, There stood a vencrable father about to say goodbyto a daughter whom he may never seo on carth again. ‘And there, too, stood tho Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, under whose auspices the pastor of old John street church, of this city, goes out to the same land, though to another sta- tion, waiting to bid him adieu. Friends of both Miss Green and Rev, N. G. Cheney were there to bid them a last Godspeed and to offer a prayer and drop a tear at their parting, It was an occasion of mingled joy and sadness, such as parents and frionds might be supposed to feel at the giving up of dear ones to Christ and His cause. Tho night previous, watch night, the more formal tarewell was said to Mr, Chenoy tn tho church to which he had so faithfully ministered for nearly three yoars. Dr. John M. Revd, the Missionary Secretary ; Dr. Du Puy, a former pastor of the church, and Dr. Greene, the father of Mr. Cho- ney's travelling companion, were present. Miss Greene goes out to Barcilly as medical missionary, to take the place of Miss Swayno in the Methodist hos- pital at that place, Tho latter is obliged to come home to recuperate her failing health. Mr, Cheney goes out tor of the church in Nynee Tal, in the northwest vince, That city is the sanitarium of India, and the jethodist Episcopal Church the foremost in the place, Th:ther during the hot months of the year the Gover- nor, Murr; the government and military officials; the nobles, both native and foreign, repair from the burn- ing sun of the plains below. ‘Mr. Cheney will there- fore have A SEURCT CONGREGATION to minister to during six months of the year. The other six months his church will be closed, but as he 18 aman of deep piety and fervent zeal, he will not sit idly down for the other half of the year while there is so much to be done for God and for men all about him. The cburch to which he goes is self-supporting, +o that his sulary will not be paid by the Missionary ‘So- clety at home, though his expenses thither will be. He will not have to spend months and years learning the language of the country, as others have done before him, for his hearers, whether native or foreign, speak the English language as fluently as the missionary himself. And there are thousands all around his charge, or in the missions below, to whom the bread of life can be broken without any lingual obstruction. If Mr. Cheney can exert an influence over thozo who shall make up his summer congregation he will, a8 Dr, Reid said on Friday night, influence a largo rt ot India through them. The eburch in eo Tal yas never had a regular pastor before, but depended on chance ministers who might be sent to them from ume to time from the missions inthe lowlands, While the Jia is more than five times that of the ere are but 300,000 Christians in it, And yet these support more foreign missionaries among themselves than aro supported there by the missionary societies of America; so that a self-sustaining Churen ts being raised up in India. At the farewell meeting on wateh night Dr. Reid gave the departing missionaries very great encouragement for their new fields of labor, while at the same time making due acknowledgment of the saerilices which they make in parting from home and triends and all that may be considered dear to them on earth, Miss Greene was not present at this tormat farewell, but her father spoke briefly of her devotion to God and His canse, so that when the Woman’s Foreign Mission- ary Society calied for a medical lady to relieve Miss Swayne, MISS GREENE ANSWERED THE CALL, and heraged parents cheerfully, though not withont feelings of parental regret, bade her go. They deem themselves highly honored of God to be thus connected with the evangelization of India, Mr, Cheney atthe same meoting, with deep emotion, as he thought of the past, but yet with joy and hope os he looked out on tho nsecrated himselt to God for this work. Had angers of India and its climate been a thousand-fold greater than they re he would not surink from the duty. His faith is strong in God, But as he. stood there on the last night of 1875 and the last that he might ever spend in America, thonghts of the past crowded in upon his md, He remembered bis mother, who died when he was only seven years of age, but whose sacred influence has fol lowed"him to the present hour, He remembered bis dear New England home and the aged father whom he leaves behind; he remembered the beginning of his ministry and the several steps through which he had come to this hour, and as lie thought of these things it was natural for him to feel deeply. But the Church has made him what he is, and to her he belongs. It was, therefore, with faith and joy that he could bid’ the Church he served ‘and the friends who bad gathered in with them a final adieu and could step on board, as he did yesterday morning, with- out a regret and with a buoyant heart, After these tender remarks Dr, Du Puy, ina few practical words, applied the lessons of the hour to the unconverted in the andience, and in the solemnity of the midnight moments during the administration of tho Lord’s Supper twelve persons rose and testified that with the new year they desired to enter upon a new life, Th fact greatly encouraged Mr. Cheney, and many a good- by was said and many agilept tear shed whiie the year was passing away. It was a memorable watch night for the oid Mother Charch of Amercan Methodiem, ROMAN CATHOLIC ORDERS IN THIS COUNTRY. The Catholic Standard giving a brief roview of the religious orders Of the Catholic church ia the United States, says: The services conferred on the church tn America by the religious orders have been incaiculable, The very | iret missions in America were by the Jesuits, the Do- roivicans and the Franciscaus The Jesuits entered Maryland The Franciscans came in 1528, and the 1689. Aw tho primary object af the orders is the preaching of the Gospel and t ! Sion of sinners, they were naturally fires in the field, Tho third Order of the Francigeans (composed of ue living mm the world) bas a quarter of a million of mem- bers tm the United States. The Carmelites entered Cali- | fornia in 1002, and tho Augustinians came to the United | States in 1700 The Lavarists, Redemptorists and | Passionists congregations of clerks | have ail commenced — their country im the present century; old Benedictine and Cistercian Order of Monks, | the former date back In antiquity 1.300 years, and was introdaced into the United st lattor German Lutheran and o Presbyterian (West wr) in process of erection, the: iso have Sab- schools and regular public w Presbyterian churclt will be re dy apancy early iu February and will en. tirely free from debt. ne med church in this city, whiek “Rave its or, Dr. Ganse, wo St Lous, has Vited the 1% A. Vanderlippe, of that city, to thelr vacant pulpit, and with a prospect of ues” ancopt- ance, Dr, Ganse will be inetalled in his new charge im | the West to-day. People who build churches whew they are not needed, apd with other folks’ money, are often put to theit ‘wits’ end to “raise the wind’ er the money to keep the enterprise out of the Sheriffs har jn this efort in 180, The i are represented by its severest | Whey sometiines fail ‘The latest and newest effort in form—that of ‘Trappe. The Trappisis have two | this is one adoptediBy the ladies of the Presby. Abbeys here, one wh Kentucky and one ip lowa, AS td the religions Orders of women, there are merous houses of all the sisterhoods trom tho Si of Charity, who were established in the United States by Mother Seton in 1800, the Sisters of Merey, of St, Joseph, Sacred Heart, Little Sisters of the Poor, and others too numerous to . For teaching young ladies, serving the hospitelé) visiting the poor, and Practising all the supernarmral Pirtues, the vaiue of the | Sisters is inestimable. For the instruction of boys, there are the Christian Brothers, Hrothers of Mary, Xavarian Brothers and other commenities of self-deny- ing teachers ail over the land, The Archbishop of San Francisco is a Dominican; the two suecessive bishops | of Buflalo have been Lazarists; the first Bishop of New York was a Dominican; and in Philadelphia Bishop Egan was a Franciscan, and Bishop Netmann a Ro- demptorist, and the present Bishop Gross, of Savannah, is also one of that Order. The Vicariate Aj lic of Kansas is governed by Bishop Meige, & Jesuit, and Bishop Fink, a Benedictine. THE UNION SABBATH SERVIQB. The attendance at the union praise and prayer meoi> ing in Dr. Burchard's church last Sunday afternoon ‘was so great that the large audience room could not accommodate them and many had to go away. Thise| afternoon at the same placo (instead of Bedtord street Methodist Episcopal church) a similar meeting will be held, at which the diferent ministers of the neighborhood will atiend and take part, But the lay men and women are expectet to do their share also im making the meet- ing interesting. It is a people's inceting as well as a minister's meeting, and both classes and orders and sexes should do or say whatever the Holy Spirit and the occasion shall prompt. The lecture room, as well ag the audience room, of the church will be open to- day, so that if there be an overflow the people need not be driven away. The Sankey hymns will be sung if church at Evauspon, {li., who furnish “reli, ? to provide y to furnish their new house oft worship. The y Was burned out last May, but they have built an me house at a cost of $18,000, whieh they entered iree of se! t Sabbath. There af® so many churches gn Brooklyn Heights, where im late years trade hus so greatly encroached as to drive wealthy families away vnd made it diM- cenit for those that remain to keep up the same nomber religions establishments as belore, that a process of nion and absorption seems to be going on all around, The Baptists of tho First and Pierrepont street churehes united some time ago; the First Presbyteriat ehureh and the old ehurch so long served by D Spear have recently dated with Dr, Van Dyke of the former tor of the unjted body, and now it ‘Ansolidate the Presbgierish chureh op is suggested Henry street with Dr. 4 ed chureb, and the Second Presbyterian ) Clinton street with “the Reformed chureh back of City Hail Any of these churches have room for ers, and there are more of the same sort around The south Con- gregational charch and the Wi syteriaw church might with equal promt be con» bmed. Nothing but dcoominational koops them as they are now in a sickly or dying condition. \ The Presbyterian Hospital of Philidelphia has treated facing the year 454 patients within itg ‘Partdiog, and 2 without. The total expenditure was $69,341. 14 ‘an endowment of over $300,000, and offers its bene Ly -* Sya ‘ey. George E. Adama, D. 1), died at his house in N. J. on Christmas Day, aftor a long tile ness. wag born in Bangor, Me., 1 1801, For forty years 6 Reldthe office of pastor ot” aehurch at Bronse wick, Me, Which was the chapel of gBowdoin College. His healtl ing hat he removed several to Orange, Ny tor: three inonths he the pulpit of the Bi ih. During th svear and e’ ght months Dr, Taimage has received Into the niemership of his Brookiyn Tabernacle 12 new embers, a nuinber quite out of all comparison ond the product of a continuous revival in ane without any special ofort, tor over thirty months, the people bring their books. ‘Those who want to sing will, of course, bring them. The pastors of the Kighth and Sixteenth wards are preparing to inaugurate simi- lar mectings in those wards, and if all the city churches: gathered in such union neighborhood meetings bigotry and sectarianisin would very soon die for want of sus- temance. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. BAPTIST. The new Baptist church in Evanston, l., lately dedi- cated by Dr. Evarts, cost $40,000, all save $6,000 of which has been paid or pledged, It will seat comfort” ably 700 persons, The Baptists of Michigan number 16 associations, gathered in 307 churches, with a membership of 21,448. They have, including 7 licentiates, 304 ministers, of whom only 147 are pastors, leaving 157 churchless ministers, or more than halt of the whole number, ‘There are at the same time 100 pastorless churches. Dr, Kendrick is to take the professorship left vacant by the death of Dr. Hackett in tho theological depart- ment of the Baptist University at Rochester. Dr. Ken- drick is to assume his oMco Jannary 1. Tho Baptist church in lowa City, Iowa, have called Rev. E. T. Hiscox, Jr., son of Dr. Hiscox, of Brooklyn, to becomo pastor and expect hit to commence labor with them to-day, ‘The Baptist Society of Warsaw, Ind., will dedicate a new church edifice to-day. Rey. Mr. Folwell preaches to the Baptist church wor- shipping on Mecker avenue, Brooklyn, E. D. Anew church edifice is going up, which, when completed, prom- ises to equal any ofthe churches in the Eastern District, The church has long needed an attractive house of wor- ship, and that long felt want promises soon to be sup- plied. Mr. Henry M. Sanders, now pursuing his studies tn the Theological Seminary, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Warburton Avenue Baptist church, Yonkers, N. Y., and will enter fully upon his duties after lis’ graduation im the spring. ‘Ten years ago there were but two Baptist churches in Toronto, Canada, with » membership of 500. Now there are six churches and 1.700 members and 1,500 Sunday school scholars. This 18 a small number, though inaicating rapid increase in a population of 60,000 souls. They are about to build another church in the western part of the city. In the discussion in the pastors’ conference last Mon day of the best methods of reaching with the Gospel the Roman Catholic population of the city the Rev. Mr. Toomath, the blind missionary, made the points that they should be approached in the spirit of love and contidence, and that Christ should be preached and con- troversies be avoided, Differences of nationality should also be regarded. The Baptist charch in Sixth street, ghis city, has had a varied experience, but under its present pastor, Rev. D, ©. Potter, its success seems to be assured. The church has been greatly altered and improved, and a newt $3,000 organ introduced, and to-day the society will dedicate it without the burden of one dollar debt. The Missionary Union reogipts have so greatly fallon off during tho last three months that if they continue to decline for four months longer the indebtedness of the Union will be alarmingly tnereased. The receipts for eight months of the fiscal year amounted to $52,348, including $10,907 to reduce the debt of the Union. There are but three Baptist churches in the State of Michigan with a membership of more than 400; six of more than 300; seventeen of more than 200; fouricen between 150 ahd 200; thirty-two between 100 and 150; seventy-five between 50 and 100, leaving more than | to follow, 150—nearly half the churches in the State—with a mom- bership of less than 50. The meinbership of the First Baptist church, Brook- lyn, has increased nearly eightfold during the last halt century. It has excluded more than 130 persons from membership within thattime. 1t has had eleven pas- tors besides its present pastor during that period, so that their average pastoral térm 1s a little more than four years. This is nearly as bad as Methodist itinerancy, Four pastors served the church less than one year. There have been added to the chureh during half a cen- tury by baptism, lotter, experience and restoration, nearly 4,000 persons. UPTSCOPALIAN. The Episcopal church at Wiiliamsbarg, Va, has a communion set presented by George IIL, which will be exhibited at the Centennial exposition. The Rev, Edward Bradley, of Nashville, Tenn., has accepted the rectorship of Christ church, Madison, Ind., and will enter upon his duties there to-day, The high church journals both of England and Amer- fea are mourning because their festival days are not. observed as they formerly were, or as the Reman Catholics observe theirs. In London they regret that on St. Andrew’s day many of the churches were not even opon. Whata pity! But those dear sonis have another source of trouble in the tendency of their Church and ministry toward Congregationalism. And the English Churchman deprecates because thereby “the position of the Engtish clergymen would be reduced to the level of his nonconformist brothren.” Dreadful to contemplate isn’t it? Bat troubles seem to thicken around the Charch in Kngland and in America. This year, on Intercession Day, Dean Stanicy invited Dr. Moffat, the great African missionary, to speak in Westminster Abbey. No one finds fault, saya oneof our Episcopal exchanges, with what Dr. Moffat said, ‘but real Churchmen, think that there 1s @ matter of principle involved im ‘inviting to the pulpit of the Abbey, one who refuses to take orders iu the Church. But the Dean, besides being un- ehurchly, i« discourteous to his Bishop, who but a fow weeks before published a letterstrongly disapproving of inviting Noncon(ormist ministers into the puipits of the Church."’ Worse and worse, And still there's more The Episcopalians of Philadelphia have formed an association to maintain freedom of all seats in churches, and to promote the abandonment of tho sale and rental of pews; “to encourage as much as possible the prin- ciple of free will offerimgs by all the worshippers in churches; to promote the revival of the weekly offer. tory as the best means for raising funds for religious purposes.” Bishop Potter recently raised to the priesthood in this city Rev. A. T, Ashton, of Amenia, N. Y.; Rev. Spencer S. Roche, of brooklyn; Rev, A. KE. Jotinso of stone Ridge, N._ ¥.; Rev. Joseph H. Young, of Mount Kisco, and Rev. EB. H. Van Winkle, of Jersey Cit During the present century the Church of EF has spent $90,000,000 in church bullding and § tor educauonal purposes, ot Koglend, during the year 1574, gavo 2,000,445 to foreign mixsions, ‘oncoformists, $817,925 more, nection with $1,515,610 for foreign work, of which the Wesleyans gave 668,795. The Rey. Samuel D. Hall, from the diocese of Easton, has succeeded the Rev. George K. Warner in charge of the Advent Mission, South Baltimore, ‘The Rev. B. 1. H. Mayoock, late of Minden, La, bas been elected rector of 51. George's, New Orleans, La. Bishop Jaggar has been actively at work in bis new diocese and has organized a parish in Mount Auburn, wealthy suburb of Cinemnati, ched ins hall there on Christmas -y thirty families pledged ‘Snemseives to support the enterprise, ESBYTERIAN, re an overture to the for either an additional secretary over the Sustentation Department of the Board of Home Missions or the separation of the two departments outirely, that they may be ander indepen- dont management. T wt) D. D., has accepted a call to The Rev. Loyal You the First terian charel, Parkersburg, W. Va ‘The civil courts of Newburg, N. Y., are to decide a dispute between (he Associate and United Presbyterian churches concerning a certain theological seminary, hh belonged formerly to the former, but is now ing anew church in the a society Orgahized there that time in that part ot only one Gerinan The Preshyterians southern part of St. Louis for two years ago, There were at the city of Protestant church: Lutheran and a small 5) mission church. Now METHODINT, The missionary secretwrigs start this city fos i nell will visit. Ce Dr. Reid uth Carolina and Mis ho South to-morrow, Dr. oustana and the three Tex: will visit the North Carolina, 8133) aN oI Tie’ Methodist Kplscopal charch at San José, Cal which recently added Lov sittings tothe main audienod room, is still pyercrowded with attendants. A secong church is a? needed, The Rey. 8 I Craven, of the Theological School of the Boston University, left afew days since for fe 1eo, whither he xoes t6 telaforce the Ete gd Rey. George Hughes has become editor cate of Christian Holiness, Philadel in of Rev. William MeDonald, who has retired the editorial office in order to devote himself to istic work. A Methodist church in Newark has sent out a cirou- lar inviting concurrence in a motion to reduce the number of the Presiding Eiders’ districts from five to two, the tormer being the present number. The pew chureh edifice at Bondsvilic, Mass, will be dedicated January 18 Rev. J. M. Buckley, of Stam- ford, will officiate, The new Methodist Episcopal church at Cross Keys, Gloucester county, N, J., will be dedicated to-day by Bishop Seott. Tho Rev, H. P. Turner, of Madison county, Alabama, while returning from the recent session of the Nortt Alabama Conforence, at Birmingham, was thrown from, a mule and Killod alinost instantly, The Rev. G. A. Hall, the efficient Secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Washington, D. ©., has resigned in order to labor in a similarcapacity in Brooklyn, N. Y. B. L, Sayer, of the Providence Conferonce, ickness bas been announced, 1s still very feeble, with no prospect of resuming ministerial work tor the present. ‘The Southern Methodist Charch recently established a mission in Key West, Fla, for the benet of the Cubans, four thousand of whom are said to have sought a home there. The mission jfromises to achieve much, Among those who have been brought to Christ are two young mon of talent and education who desire tobe uso(ul by entering the ministry During the recent session of the Methodist Episcopal (South) Board of Missions in Louisville, Ky., plans were discussed for bringing the negro race within the pale of the chureb. The board seemed to think the Catholio church was ina fair way to do this, and immediate ac- tion was necessary for the success of Protestantism in that object. The church at Thirty-fifth and Spring Garden streets (West Philadelphia), which professed to be a Methodist Episcopal chureh, tias withdrawn from the denomina- tion, There was some difficulty im regard to their oMcial recognition. The corporators went into court and had their charter amended s0 as to make the enter+ prise independent, A Methodist minister of the Church South recently visited the Hon, A. H. Stephens at bis home im Crawe fordsville, Ga. He found him reading a Sunday school book and’ perfectly resigned, quietly awaiting his end, Though not a Methodist Mr. Stephens has given a lot and several hundred dollars to that church and they have built a neat house of worship near bis residence. ROMAN CATHOLIC. Rey, Father Quinn’s new Church of the Sacred Heart, Philadelphia, is said to be one of the gems of the diocese im architectura: aesign. Kev, Father Cartan, of the tivity church, Chicago, Il, has just closed a most successfal mission, and is’ intending to build a new church next summer. There is a Catholic priest in Kansas—Fathet Pongelone—of the Usage Mission, who is a distant relay tive of Victor Emanucl. He was once a lawyer is Turin. Father Imsand, of Mobile, Ala., has retarned frorg Europe with his health cousiderably improved. There aro two fine Catholic churches im Augusta, Ga, @ convent and school for young ladies, 1m cha: of the Sisters of Mercy, and another for both sexes, and they are building on® more for boys, and expect te buiid — second one also for boys. At Macon, Gu, the Catholics have the finest college in the Stare for boys, and at Savann: hey have in course of erec- tion a beautiful cathedral—all duo to the energy and zeal of Bishop Gross. ‘At the Catholic Cathedral, Hong Kong, China, re- cently, the Key, W. J. Cullen was ordained to the riesthoud by the Bishop of Victoria, Most Rev. Dr. umondi. ‘The local press, which notices the event, informs us that no Irishman or Englishman had beem previously ordained in Hong Kong. Rev. Mr. Cullen 18 a hative of the county Kilkenny, The anti-sectarian appropriationists of Baltimore ¢ enjoined the Mayor and City Council thereof from paying out their usual donations to the cleemosynary institutions of that city, The Catholic institutiona, schools, hospitals, orphan asylums, &c., receive about $15,000, and all others a tittle over $48,000. The civil courts Lave the matier under review. The Pope has extended tho time for obtaining the indulgences of the Jubilee to the Sunday after Easter, 1876, in the discretion of the chief pastors of the Church. Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, has annoa: the fact to his diocene, Yesterday was a holiday of obligation in the Catholi¢ Church, and the early masses were wel! attended. The Rev. Father ——, pastor of St. Augustine’@ church, Brooklyn, is contined to his room by sickness, The Rev: Robert McGuire, of St. Paal's charch, Brook« lyn, has so far recovered from his sickness as to be abla to officiate. Catholicism in Minnesota, which in the boyhood of its recently consecrated Bisnop, Ireland, consisted of @ few missionaries, ministering in log cabins to the pto- heer settlers aud the Indians, has grewn to @ maguifi~ cent hierarchy of three bishops, one mitred abbot and an ariy of secular and religious clergy, a monastery, @ Jesuit and Benedictine College; a score of convents, with their schools and charitable ins’ : magnifi~: cent church editices dotted all over the State, wi parochial schools attached, and a Catholic population 000. ‘The receipts of St. Mary's Asylum, Newark, for the year just coded, were $13,043, gnd the expenditares $14,448. Two hundred and forty children are at pres- ent in the institution. A mass is offered up once month for the benefactors of the asylum, living a dead. It 1s conducted by the Sisters of Charity. Ste Patrick's congregation, Newark, have contributed dure ing the past yoar $5,012 for the support of the childrem in St, Mary’s Asylata and the Provectory at Denville. ‘aish, of Hoboken, has been inted as. sistant pastor of St. Mary's, Jersey City. Fathow MeKiernan, of Jersey City, has beon transferred to st Mary's, Hoboken, as assistant to Puther Senez. Rev. Dr. Henry A. Brann, the distinguished leoe turer, will preach a charity sermon in St. Colamba'g church, Newark, next Sunday evening. MISCKLLANKOUS. The receipts of the larg Gieties in bngland during the ye Father follows:—Wesleyan Missionary $899,730. Church Missionary Society, $579,175; sectety for the Propagation of the Gospel, $674,190; London Missions! ary Society, $517,765; Baptist Missionary Society, 2), 00. ‘The English Society of Friends has sent a missionary party, under the charge of Mr. Bli Jones, to labor among the ruses in Syria, An English Quaker evans gelist, Mr. Stanley Pomiret, has come on a preaching tour through the United states, The report of the comin appointed by the Gen- ral Synod of the Reformed Church in America to exe aflairs of the Board of Publication states payment of all outstanding debts, the jue of the property of the Board will be $20,299. nual ex| of this Board hereatter will be only $4,092, and the agent will necd only $5,000 capital ta carry 08 the business of publication. In one county in Goorgia a missionary of the Amerie an Sunday School Union has within seven weeks or- ganized four Sunday schools in places where there was neither church nor school before. Bedtord Avenue Reformed church, Brooklyn, has 750 scholars and teachers in its home ‘Sunday schoo! and 260 more in its mission school. : Professor Swing has started in MeVickar's Theatre with immense ¢cia4 Ten thousand dollars’ worth of sittings were rented on the first day of sale, In tis opening sermon he rejoiced that he had come out of the wilderness of Presbyterianiam, “where he was starved and sore pressed by barbart ** and could look oat toward the wide expanse eee out, like Xenophon's army returning from tains of Armenia, ‘The sea! the sea! it will us all home.” * Fs there,aro, in addition, three Methodist organizations— two English speaking, the other German, each having small bouses of worship and regular services—and a [RY The Bnai Brith Benevolent Society to build a home for their aged and