The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1876, Page 13

> "RUUIIOOS INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY I3, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. F cho Fémartt Ht (? WE wai a Christian, we detect ato. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Cheat Sy the Way—Syna- ; gogue Worship. WROSRAMME OF SERVICES. Bg. J. A. Seitz will lecture this evening in Harlem {Unfersalist church on “Tho Study of the Beautiful asa ‘yrans of Culture.” fhe Rev. 8. M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Yrestyterian church this morning and afternoon. “@he Mission of the Gospel’ will bo presented this morting, and “Lost bat not Perished’’ this evening, by Rov.J. V. Saunders in Willett street Methodist Episco- pal hurch. - {Call for Laborers to the Harvest Field’? wilt be givm this morning, and “The Story of Naaman tho Bytan Leper” will be retold this. evening in the Six- tenth streot Baptist church by Rev. D. B. Jutten. Rev. Charles E. Harris will preach this morning and e@ening in Allen stroot Methodist Episcopal church, Rey. J. Spencor Kennard wil! minister to the Pilgrim Baptist church at the usual hours to-day. Drs. Heimer and Smith will address the Brooklyn place Methodist Episcopal church. Ip St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. James M. King will preach this morning and evening. “Enlisted for Life’ and “The End of the World” are ‘the topics chosen by the Rev. W. H. Leavell for con- sideratton to-day In Stanton street Baptist church, Four services will be held at the Hippodrome—this | morning at eight o'clock, this afternoon at three for women, aud this evening at eight for men only, con- ‘ducted By Messrs, Moody and Sankey, At nine P, M. ‘a service for young men also. The Rev. J. W. Bonham will preach about the “Blessed Dead” this morning in the Church of the Epiphany. Inthe Tabernacle Baptist church the Rev. 3S. H. ‘Greene, of Cazonovis, N, Y., will preach about ‘Tho Lost Sought and Saved’ this morning and about “Finisned Work” this evening. “Popular Scepticism” will be diseussed this evening by Rey. W. T. Egbert in Wainwright Memorial church, ‘Tho Rev. Frederick G. Clark, D. D., will preach this morning in the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church and Dr, White in the evening. The Rev. Dr. vowling will preach in the Fifty-third Btrect Baptist church this morning and Rey. Ed, Lowe in the evening. In St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. ‘W. P. Abbott will preach morning and evening as usual, Dr. J. N. Galleber will repeat his sermon in behalf of the Bible and Prayer Book Society in St. Luke’s Protes- | ‘tant Episcopal church this evening. Bishop Snow will talk about “The Approaching Mighty Trouble and Deliverance” in tho University chapel this afternoon. Mrs. Nellie T. Brigham will address tho Progressive Spiritualists at No. 55 West Thirty-third street this | morning and afternoon. In the Free Baptist church the Rev. Mr. Rowell will repeat his sermon on ‘‘Justification’’ this evening. The Rey. W. T. Sabino will preach morning and even- ing In the First Reformed Episcopal church, Dr. Armitage will give a Bible reading on “The Burnt Offering’ this morning and will speak about ‘Tho Ves- | sels in a Great House?’ in the evening at the Firth ave- nue Baptist church. Dr. Cole, of Nashota Theological Seminary, Wis consin, will preach this morning in Christ's church. In the Church of the Holy Trinity tho Rev. J. W. Bonham will preach this afternoon and Rev. S. H Tyng, Jr., D. D., this morning and evoning. Rev, J. B, Flagg will preach tn the Church of th o Holy Apostles this morning and afternoon, “A Question of Endless Punishment’ will be con- sidered in the Church of Our Saviour this morning by the Rev. J. M. Pullman. In Bleecker street Universalist church the Rev. 0. P, Mc@arthy.will this morning ask “What Dost ‘Thou Hear?” andin the ovening will tell ‘How to In- sure Success: Begin at the Root and Strike Where the Devil is Strongest."’ At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church ‘the Rey. John Johns will preach as usual to-day, In All D. Phelps will preach this evening from the text, “ «Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By.’? “The Trial of Abraham’? and the “Gain ot tho World Washington square Methodist Episcopal church by Rey. William Lloyd. In All Saints’ Protestant Eplecopal church the Rev, -W. N. Dunneil will preach this morning and evening as ‘usual. Dr. Jobn B. Thompson, of Catskill, will preach a Centennial discourse on “The Immovable Attachment of the Reformed (Dutch) Church to its Heirlooms of street Presbyterian church the Rev. George | | and dull; that it tal | unforeseen circumstances—such as nd Loss of the Soul’ will bo considered to-day | S cred to-day in | jiiewalk—ho is compelled to keop himeclf tn chee! Faith and Order” in the chureh on Lafayetie place | ‘and Fourth street this morning. Bistiop Clark, of Rhode Island, will preach the an- Ynivet-ory Sermon for the “Home for Old Men and Aged “Couples” in the Charch of tho Incarnation this even- dug. fy the Church of the Disciples the Rey. George H.” Hepworth will speak this morning on “Christ the Door,” and this evening on ‘God's Covenant with -¥ou.”” On Wednesday oveiing Surgoon Goneral Ham- mond will address men only on ‘‘The Uso and Abuse of Our Minds.” In St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church Dr. Ewer will preach this moraing on ‘‘Trao Godliness.” Dr. Kramer will speak in the evening. Dr. Samson will begin a series of sermons on the Jife of Christ this morning in the First Baptist church, Harlem. Subject, ‘‘The Authenticity, Inspiration, Col- Jection and Preservation of the Gospels." “The Temptations and Dangers of Our Social Life” | will be discussed by the Rev. Percy Brown, of Boston, fn the Church of the Atonement this evening, A conference of Spiritualists will be held in Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening. The Religio-Scientific Society wiil meet in Ecclesia Hall this afternoon and evening. Professor Vander ‘Weyde will speak on the “Spectrum Analysis’’ and Mr. G. L. Henderson on ‘Integrity, the Glory of Manhood.”’ Dr. Chapin will preach this morning in the Church of the Divine Paternity and deliver an extempore address | et vesper service, At Plimpton Hail the Fifth Univorsalist Society will meot this morning for worship. Prentice Mulford wril talk this morning about “Wo- man’s Rights and Man’s Wrongs” in Tronor’s Now Hall, A young men’s prayer meeting is held every Sunday evoning in the Church of the Holy Trinity preceding ‘the regular services, Sapkey's Gospel songs are sung. Tho Rev. Chauncey Giles will discourse on“*the Be- ginning of Mun’s Fall and What is Moant by Building a Woman from His Rib” In the Swedenborgian church ‘this morning, ; CHAT BY THE WAY. Tt Is not considered exactly orthodox to pray to the ‘Lord on Sunday and thea prey on your neighbors all the rost of the week, ‘We have the best of authority—that of the Bible—for enying that great and good results attend bard and honest labor. When Jacob digged many days he looked at his work and said, “It is woll.” Ever since that time “Jacob's well’ has been tho best kind. Some of the Western papers declare that there is one church in Chicago that has no debt, Its situation 4 80 peculiar and it is so completely isolated that its ‘usetulness ts sertously impaired. Doriug the last century the population of the coun- try bas increased eleven fold and tho churches thirty- seven fold. The most remarkablo increase has been “among the Methodists and the Roman Catholfes, Tho lattor Church ranka fourth In point of numbers and gocond in the valuation of church property, Mr, Charles O’Conor and Mr. Honry Varley are en- gagod at present Iu reading the various obituary notices which were written on their supposed departure. Both gentiomen aro sufficiently pleased with the estimation ‘In which they were hold by friends and brethren, Charles V, seems to have had ® preponderance of faith in his majesty from below. “May God do and Batan not andy’’ was one of his frequont sayings If jbo was a pagan, we can see a gloam of Chriatianiix in | | catch them and bring them back. | the seeret of gether too much paganism. Mr. Spurgeon has given @ great deal of wholesome advice to theological students. Among other things he Baye that Cayenne pepper is a “sovereign remedy" for the minister’s sore throat. We sometimes think it might do no harm if the cayenne were put into the eer- mon ag well as tnto the throat, There is an old Manichean tradition, in which the ladies bave profoand faith. It is to the offect that Adam, when made, was coarse and rude, with many habits like a beast, but that when Eve made her ap- pearance he very soon acquired an upright position, polish and spirituality. It is but fair to say in this connection that most of the Christian fathers condemn this legend as an uneallod for aspersion on the genial qualities of the masculine gender, Mr. Moody’s practice isto give theology in very small doses and religion in as large quantities as the patient can bear. He hits the sinner a blow with the brawny arm of a blacksmith, end then, when the poor feltow ta perfectiy convinced that he is going to perdi- tion, be takes him by the hand with somothing like a woman’s tenderness and startshim entho road to heaven to the music of “Giory, Hallelujab.”’ ¥ Mr. Emorson says very quaintiy, “Tho aboriginal man in geology and in the dim light of Darwin's mi- croscope, is not an engaging creature.” If Mr. Darwin 1g right we havo very little to boast of in the way of ancestry, It has required the education of cycles of time to change the primary chimpanzee into a consis- tent church member, Exactly how the transformation took place, how the claws gradually fitted themselves tothe lavender kids of the ninetoonth century, and whatever became of caudal appendage, which un- doubtedly had its use intho days of our forefathers, | none can tell, but that our family history runs back to Sunday School Union to-morrow evening in Hanson certain hajry and carnivorous country cousins of the ape species, science boasts that {t has proven. It coos not seom possible, when we see ~ chimpanzee in his cage, that wo all have the same family likeness, and there is none of that yearning toward him which would seem natural even among the most distant branches of the same family; still we accept the fact if we must, Tn Little Falls, N. J.,a@ donation party was latcly given to the minister in which the latier was not caten out of house and home, This is 80 rare an occarrenco that it deserves espocial notice. A surprise party is | breton like a cloud of locusts, which strips the nored host of all his worldly possessions, and his ‘surprise’’ ig apt to culmmate tn despair when be finds his dear friends have left bim without enough provisions for a hearty break(ast. ‘An English paper in writing of humor emphasizes the fact that the clergy has afforded the world some- thing more than its proportion of witty sayings, Some people have an idea that religion. makes a man stale it wero, the juice out of life and loaves it dry and tasteless. The greatest ministers have, however, been remarked for a geniallty and gén- eral good humor. It fs well Known that Luther liked a laugh as well as his neighbors, and was never happier than when on all fours on the floor playing with tho children. Calvin, whose printed works suggest almost everything except wit, enjoyed asharp repartee to ite fullest extent. Spurgoon at vertain times is just hkea boy. His diction is tree and exsy in company, and he does not hesitate to let fly an arrow, rhetorical, but none the less real, at friend or foe. Real solid enjoy- ment‘is not confined to the worldly, Religion increases the appetite for pleasure. There is a counterfeit which makes a man sour, but tho genuine article spreads a smile over the whole of life, Asermon need not necessarily be logical or gram- matical iv order to be cffective, Une may brouk overy known rule of correct speech and yet throw a bomb- shell into Satan’s camp that will disconcert his plans more than the most finely polished periods of elo- quence. Here is part of A sermon uttered by a reacher in homespun, whose parish is somewhere Between the Mississippi River and the setting sun, which seems to have touched @ very weak spot in the hearts of his hearers:— “Boys, you will find that this life is a little like a game of seven-up. You want to bo very cureful and gave your tons and look out for game, and never beg whon you've gota good hand; also be good enough to recollect that low counts as mach as high if it’s only a trump.” That paragrenit might excite a reasonable suspicion of emotional insanity if delivered by the worthy pastor of any of our uptown churches, but, on the other hand, it would prove to a pioneer crowd, eee in a red- ochre schoolhouse in tho backwoods, that the minis- ter’s brain was well baianced, and that his powers of observation had served him a good turn, Respectability among Bibles nowadays consists of dog-ears and thumb marks. Your spotiees, gilt-edged gold-clasp and unsoiled Bible is a more plebeian, ono of the commonalty, to be leoked down upon with some- ‘thing like scorn; but the Bible that hasn’t a clean page in it, that is scratched all taba i with many-colored inks, to designate the favorite shot to bo fired ander given circumstances, that has such a general look of | dilapidation that a second havd bookseller would re- fuse to take it at any prico, ab! thcro you have a gem which every one covets, Every stain adds to its value. Spotlessness in Bibles is a positive disgrace. Varley and Moody have turned the world upside down in this matter. Their Bibles look as though there had been a wrestling match on every particular page, and they wear tho scars of the conflict ag a king wears his crown. The better the Christian the more soiled his bodk is the motto at present, and on the whole It is a fair standard of weight, The arrangements at the Hippodrome ara well nigh perfect. There w but one | to erittetse- The sale Of photographs and books shoata be here They give a secular look to the movement. All idea ofmoney changing should be promptly eliminated, Do away with this, and the faultQnuer must needs be dum. here is sata to be a town down South which doos not require the presence of the evangelists. Profane Tanguago is regardea as a flagrant offence, for which a fine of $5 is imposed by an inexorable judge. If any one feela constrained to swear on osheag of some itting his hoad against a hitden corner, or slipping up on a mudd: until he gets beyond the town limita There is a class of adjectives which seem to have a close relation to every painful accident that happens to a man, and somehow they get a ay start, and are well on their way through the lips before one’s better nature can Bad words are yery ry andon the keenest fokout all the time fora chance to get loose. Aman must be pretty nearly a saint who can run against a lamppost headforemost on a dark and stormy ight and then ook up swootly at the dimly burning kerosene and say, “Thank you.” The revival seems to have set fire to a great many towns and villages. We hear of ovangelists of ail colors and both sexes. The reverberation is, heard on every hilletde, and Sankey’s by are the music to which the saved keep step in their onward progress. The religious world soems to be stirring up the irre- ligious world, and,‘without doubt, both will reeeive equal benefit. Parafine and immortality! The connection is not immediately obvious to the ordinary vision, but it ex- ists nevertheless, Once it was proved that the soul never dies, by arguments drawn with great care from science and philosophy, but in these days four or five pounds of mutton tallow do just as well. The groat advantage which the latter has oyer the former 1s, that while the former ouly approximated to a demonstration of this awful subject the parailine settles it once and forever. The modus operandi {s ag follows:—Mrs. Hardy, aspiritual modium, site ata table on which bus been placed the requisite amount of material, with a few quarts of water by its side. The wholes then covered by a cloth; yes, it must be nicely covered up, or the “conditions” Will be broken. After a suitable length of time you remove the covering, and, behold, the paraffino ic all gone from the basin, but im its stead is found a band and wrist very delicately moulded. Now, who moulded it? Why, the disembodied spirit of Michael Angelo, to be suré, who, having a geod deal of leisure, comes down from the seventh heaven to “gculp” in mutton tallow at $5 atime. Dear, good men, ho works ever so much cheapef than he asod to, but then he basn’t anything else to do, and besides it must be an immense satisfaction to prove to doubting mortals the tmmortality of their souls. A great many believe in paraffine who can't persuade themecives to believe ia the Bible. Chi haa a very remarkable chureh organization, Presi over by Rev. EF. P. Powell, who must be eatly gifted in cortam directions. ' We learn that fhere le 0 “church roll,”” which Indientes an of all thi cburebly rites and ordinances wh: thonghiles, have heretofore deemed important. We learn, turther, that Jews and gentiles, heathons and Christians, are cordially welcomed, and their ecctesias- tical rights jealously guarded. 'The minister who Preaches to this somewhat mixed congregation must, of course, be, Intoliectaaily avd gpirituaily, a com- pound of Christianity and idolatry, of radical'sm and conservatiem. His agility is the thing that surprises us. How he is to express a decided opinion on say subject that comes within the range of human thought, and not injure either tho pagan’s or the Christian's pet pas, ‘Surpasses our. comprehension. Blondin can a tight rope retched across Niagara, cy although we wonder at it we see that fag veangen but how the Rey, Mr. Powell, of Chicago, can keep his ‘happy family’’ of converts and perverts, of Spiritual- {ats and Calvinists, in a serene state of mind, is a mira- cle before which the passage of the Red Sea becomes a fiimsy commonplace. He can’t preach of immortality, because the radical will object, nor of the Decaloguo, because the “heathen” has seruples; nor of God, be- cause the atheist will sell his pow; nor oven of idola- try,, because the man in the farthest corner, who basa pe ted feeohng left in favor of Christianity, woul hurt It would be a great relief to us if revert. end would sond Rast a list of with Cea oe hed ween "Bh ay », alter all, that the Ch: letter-writer was deserib- be rig! asylum instead of achurch. That would Peambe ove peering through critteal spectacles to find . Moody's success, They discover his of the ordinary rules of grammar and a absence of anything like logical sequence In then wonder that such crowds at- his ministrations Well, we have been looking in Siret tag try gets tote et 4 ‘ waked up In ay ts isi ied man pouse night 8 in flames and that tho watchmen and the people are imply rashing through the oe ey eee Se a id put bis 7 th y and inquire concern It Mr, Mood "s cry results of ii ices the con- er it mildly take our seat just here with a remark that has beon uttered before, Go theu and do likewise," M'CAULEY'S WATER STREET MISSION. 4 BIVER THIRF AND PRIZE FIGHTER TRANS- FOBMED INTO A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY— SKETCH OF THE MAN AND HIS WORK. Few thoughtful persons can pass through Water street after sundown, when tho lamps are lighted and the dance houses and other disreputable places are decked cut in all the blazonry and shamelessuess of vice, without being conscious of two things—uamely, that Neathendom presents no more inviting missionary field than is found here, and, next, that if thore be on earth any place nearer hell than snother that place is probably Water street, between Beekman street and the Williamsburg ferry, It used to bo supposed that the Five Points was tho most God-forsaken spot on Manhattan Island; but trade and commerce and street improvements long since cleared that region of very much that was formerly vicious and degrading theroin, ‘so that it ts now relatively as safe for visitors there as in any other part of the city, City missionaries have operated there for a quarter of a century, and of course not without effecting somo moral resulta But antil recently little or nothing was dono for the debased and debasing donizens of Water street, The “Dover street mission’ sustained & precarious existence for a time, and then a few years ago it was discovered that the “wickedest man in New York’’ kept a dance house in Water street, A feeble attempt was mado to convert the man and bis house to God and His service, but it is still problomati- cal whether moro evil than good did not result from that effort. The Rev. W. H. Boole subsequently took up the dimcuit task of wining @ mission in that vicinity, and with such remarkable suceess that, with- out any sprelal appeals to the bonovolont and Christian public, but depending solely upon the ability of Jeho- yah in answer to prayer to give him all needed help, he bas kept this mission going for sevoral years, It was in Water street that Frederick Bell, ex-prize fighter and now “singing preacher” of Brooklyn, made for himself the name and reputation that called him to the ministry of the Primitive Methodists of Brooklyn. But there was room still in Water streot for the workers, and especialiy for such as understood the character and tho calling of the people who were to be benefited. One of their own number, A RIV!R THIRP, A PIUZE FIGHTER, a drunkard, and everything bad but a murderer, was raised up for this work, and for more than three = yoars tbe ay McCauley has conducted * a mission tn that morally forlorn of ail for- Jorn districts in this great city, Scores, if not hundreds, have there found redemption in the blood of the Crucified Ono, even the forgiveness of their sins. Services have been held there, at 316 Water street, every day inthe year since Thanksgiving Day, 1872: Its sign, “Helping Hand for Men,’’ expresses in four words what has been done and 1s being done daily in- side, It has been a resort for the forlorn wayfarers and sailors of the neighborhood and the guide of many ‘a poor sou! to the cross and to salvation, ‘ho man ‘“Jorry’’ McCauley has just given to the public a brief sketch of bis life of sin and his transfor- mation by the power and grace of God from a child of the devil to a servant of Christ, It readsJike a ro- mance, and aptly illustrates the old proverb that truth is stranger than fiction, Born in Ireland and brought up a Catholic, at the ago of thirtcen he camo to New York and lived for awhile with awarried sister, His father was a counterfeiter in his nativo land and became a voluntary exile before Jerry knew him. But the “trail of the pt’’ was over tho son as well as the father, and it did not require long training for the young MeCauley to become an expert thief, He and another youth about his own age purchased a boat and became partners as river thieves, boarding vessels and stealing whatevor thoy could lay their bands upon. Sometimes the spoil so- cured was not worth the labor and risk taken to obtain it, Of and again was he fired at by captains and guards of boats, Once he was saved from drowning, and frequently from death by other means, Being a largo, rough fellow, though a youth, his narrow escapes only served to make him more reckloss than ever, and he became A TERROR IN THE FOCRTH WARD, so that ‘a job was put up" for him by the rumsollers ot that war d be was arrested for highway robber: ent to Sing Sing for filteen yea nineteen yoars of age, Ho served about haif his term and was then pardoned by the Governor. McCauley, besides learning somethin; about weaving and bat making while in prison, bi also loarnod to read and write there. Ono day his old associate in sin, but at this time a comverted man, “Awful? Gardner, visited Sing Sing Prison and ad- dressed the prisoners so tenderly and sympathetieally that, while the tears rolled down his own cheeks as he spoke, the eyes ot McCauley and other prisoners wero wetted, and when Gardner fioished with a prayer there was nota dry oye in that striped crowd. One Bib! quotation which he made so {mprossed his old chum as to lead him to take his Bibie down and read from Genesis to Revelation im search of it, But in this rocess he found so many other strange sayings in that Book he forgot that which he started to And, and by the blessing of God he became, while tn that prison, & converted man and a working Ubristian among his con- vict associates. Soon after Jerry MeCauley’s conver- sion Jack Dare and other hardened criminals were con- verted also, and some of them are now living respecta- ble and conststent Christian lives in this city and elso- whero, But, for want of a helping hand whon thoy wore released from the clutches of the law, some of them fell away and became sevenfold worse than they had been, if that were possible. MoCauley was among this number, but after running his round of sin for a few years ‘he was again restored, anid three years ago, asalready stated, he he Step his mission in Water Street to help such as he had been, and scarcely a sin- glo meeting has passed since that time when one or more of those rough men and lewd wemen who hang around the docks and dwell in the dens of tho ncigh- borhood, and whose character and mode of life he is thoroughly familiar with, hav. not been converted to God. Especially since this winter began the interost seers to have increased, and Jurry’s visits to the sov- eral prayer gatherings in the city has led many a fashionable lady and wealthy gentleman to visit the Helping Hand and see what it is doing for the fallen and the lost, Such visite will be well ropaid. And such is the man who is directing this work, REASONS FOR A DOCTRINE. To Tum Eorror or tHe Heraun:— A very brief elucidation of the letter of Scripture may tend to eradicate some of the superstitions of tho day. The word hades, in the Gr translates tho word sheol, from the Hebrew. Dr, Albert Barnes, a very learned divine of the Presbyterian Church, author of Barnes’ Notes,’ &c.; Professor Stuart, of Ando- ver, and kosts of other learned men, agree that these words, either and both of them, as they were used by the prophots, the Saviour and his disciples (the Eng- lish word heii, into which they were subsequently ren- dered, not then having been constructed), conveyed this micaning, viz.:—“The dark, unknown rogions of the dead; the abode of spirits, good or bad; the resi- dence of departed men, whother fixed in a permanent habitation or wandering about, As they were ignorant of the size and spherical structure of the earth they seem to have supposed this rogion to have been situ- ated in the earth, far below us, and hence tt is put in opposition to heaven (Psaling, cxxxix., 8)—‘If I ascend to heaven thou art thero; if I make my bed in (sheol) hell thou art there.’ In the following verses tho Saviour used the word hades, and, of course, to tho popular mind, with the meaning and definition abovo referred to, viz. :—Mattbew, xi., 23; xvi., 18. Luke, x., 15; xvi., 23, Acts, ii, 27.. Revelations, i., 18; vi, 8; 3, 14. See the beautiful co: it set forth in 3, a8 well as UI staining of tho definition above set forth in the others, viz. :—“And thou, Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven (it was a city built on a lofty hill), shalt be brought dowa to,(uades) hell.”” Also seo Webster unabridged for the following defi- nitions, corroborating the above, viz. :— Saxot—The place of departed spirits, hades, Hapes—The tation of the dead ; the Invisible world or the grave. And Worcester unabridged for the following :— Sme01—The abode or world of the doad.—Kitto, The general state of the dead is denoted in the Old Testa- by the Hebrow word sheol.—Seare, os (Greek)—The place or state of the dead; the spirit- ual world. —Campbell, Or, William Staunton, an English divino of omt- nence, author of ‘Ecclesiastical History, &c ,” say: Heas— ilading, oud the por. reine taatn dikes ‘s descent into hell arives from the fact that two entiroly distinct words in the original of the New Testament are red in our vorsion by the tingle hell, vie, HADES and GeuKNs a. And Dr. Staanton, a minister of the Protestant Epis- copal Church, a full believer in endless torment, con- tinues:— ’ Now hades is never used to denoto tho place of final tor. the of the damned—but siguities the place of od apisits, wherher goud or bad. Compelied, however, to support hid own Calvinistic doctrine, he ‘adds: Gemensa—The original term for hell or place of final torment. “4 it The places in the Now Testament where the word is rendered into tho Engiish word hell, are tho ewes See ¥., 22, 29, 30; x.,\28; xvii, 9; xxiii, 15. Mark., tx.,'48, 45, 47, Luko, xii, 6, James, 6. “By ‘a reforenco to these verses in connection with the following quotation (rom the r.xeget. Essays of Professor of Andover, it wil appear why tho viour should have 80 repeatedly urged toa who so bighly prized tho ritos of pe gad the idea of how much rather should they be willing to loge an eyo or a limb than to havo their lies cast into so hormd ‘a place, Profossor Stuart says that “Tho word axienwa ta derived, as all agree, from the words goc-hinnome, The Valley of Hinnom is a part H which bounds Jerucalem on the soath, (Josh., xv., 8; xviil., Hero, in ancient times, tho worship of Moloch, he neces idol of the Ammonites, was practised. To this idol ebildrea were sacrificed, &6."” Worcester’s unabridged dictionary says:-— CAL LT Kiet i of Jerusalem, rtain idolatrous Jews had thatt cot atc iT ines, ai, 90. “ it valley of iano, the: ‘ Into this volley carcenes of anturzie und Detual bron mere Kept np to comcutse tn Prevent pentilonsial cdidvin. Dramas Webster unabridged is equally strong. As some people insist on —-s these guperst!- tions, aud urge thereon that many these passages have a double meaning, I would quote from Professor Stuart the following cogent vouack, _ What book on earth has» double senso, unless it is a Book of designed evizmas, andeven this bus bui one real ucaning. Teannot avoid making another extract from Pro- fessor Stuart, although not exactly where it ought to be placed in this article, In speaking of the horrors of GEHENNa ho says :— Perpetual fir k Pa stich was Usponed shes. And” a he fe ofal would © breed worm: 0 all putrifying moat of course does), the worm dieth and the fire pression “where —taking, by this exposition, a good deal of the fire out of the charcter attached to gehenna by tho Rev. Dr. Staunton, By ereer we find this definition of the modern word:— Hxtt—A. 8. hell or hel; helan, to cover or conce’ or helle; Bra., hol; Ger., ‘hulle: Ieel., hal; hella, of death. “The old Hala or Walhalla, the Shoo, of of the northern nations, may be the origin of hell. —~ th or the Bowworth, “Hell hath like apt appellation (as heaven) as bélng Aellet gyer; that ts to say, htddan or covered in low obscurity. Tithe rogion of the dead; the graves hades. “Ho de- scended into elk" Apostles creed. “I will go down into hell." —Gen. azweti., 35, 2. ‘The place of the devil and wicked souls or spirits; th abode of the wiekod alter death. ‘Lhe devils of hell,” — ‘Robart of Gloncester. Though our word hell in its ORtarN aL stgnification was more adapted to Ct bow ‘the senso of des toan , it is not so Now, Whert we speak as Christians we always express b: it the place of punisnment of the wicked after the gener judga boas one to heaven the place of the reward ot the righteous. —Dr, Camy l. ‘3, Wickod spirits; the infernal powors. “Much danger figs, muon toil did he sustain, While Saul and Mei/ crossed bis strong futo in’ vain,” See also Webster tothe same effect. Thus, if we overlook the empty assertions af Dr. Staunton that “gehenna” was the onraixat “term for hell," as tho definition is now given to that supposed place; ono of | the dotinitions in Worcester that hell 1s “the placo of the devil and wicked souls or spirits,”’ &c., without @ particle of evidence to sustain them, and, on the con- trary, in direct epporition to the well-authenticated views of the ancients themselves, wo will readily per- ceive that all theso horrors are ‘a modern invention, and that “God is love." WILLIAM COVENTRY H. WADDELL.~ VaLaatua, Jan. 20, 1876, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Dr. Ormiston, of this city, has received a call to the Central Presbyterian chureh, San Franc'sco, as | successor to Rey, Dr, Cunningham. Dr, Cunningham is conducting religious services in the Art Gallery of the Pavilion, San Francisco. The bronze statae of Dr, Witherspoon has been cast, and Is said to bo a perfect Iitgenoss. It weighs 5,000 pounds, but $19,000 are needed to erect it im tho Cen- tennial grounds in Philadelphia, The several Congregational churches of Boston gave @ total of $37,751 to the American Board last year. This is well, but tho $36,500 given to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions by the Fifth avenue Presby- terian church alone, at a Sabbath morning collection last month, is better. Tho Rey, Dr. Levi Parsons has just completed twenty years’ pastorate of tho Presbyterian choreh at Mount | Morris, N. ¥., and on tho occasion 200 of his church members made the event memorable, The Rey. Mr. McCampbell has resigned the pastorate of the Spring Street Prosbyterian church in this city. Dr. F. G. Clark, late of Tompkins Avenue Presbyte- rian church, Brooklyn, now a Congregational church, has untted witht tho Presbytery of Now York and will have a charge in, this city. Protessor Phelps, of Andover, writes to the Congre- ; gationalist in favor of uniting the churches of that name with the Presbyterian churches, making ono or- ‘nic body out of the two, His argument fp arawn om the essential unity of the churches in their doc- trine and history, tho principles of their government being susceptible of such accommodation as to render the fusion possible, Rev. Henry N. Payne accopts a call to the Prosbyte- rian church of Onondaga Valley, a suburb of Syracuse. Rov. W. L. Green, representing the German Theolog- ical School of the Northwest, at Dubuque, ts In the city makmg collections for the endowment of that most important and interesting seminary. He presented its claims before tho Presbytery of New York last Monday, The Rev. John De Wiit, who left Boston on account of hts impaired heatth, has been called to the Third Pres- byterian church of I’ittsburg, Pa, MEruoDisY. Rev. William Ross, of the New York East Confer- ence, who was suffering from ill health for more than a year past, {s thoroughly restored to health, so that he will bo able to takg an appointment for next year, Alo is at prosent resif@ag at cum, Rev. J, Stebbins, of New York East Conference, died at his resid in Bethel, Conn., on Thursday, | February 3. Notice of the event was given in the Methodist Preachers’ mgoting hero last Monday. Rev. Charles C Keys, of the Now York Conferenco, dicd February 1, at residence in this city, aged sixty years. He entered the ministry about forty years ago, but during the last seventeen years was oh the supernumerary perannuated list, The new Park Mo! ist Episcopal church, in Eliza- both, N. J., is enjoying very encouraging revival in- terest. On Sunday last sevenieen were received on probatton, Ninoteen persons have professed conversion within a fow weeks past in the Bergen street Mcthodist Epis- copal church, Newark. . ‘he North Carolina Conference of the Methodist | Eptscopal Church South will celobrate 1876 as its cen- tonnial year, and hasinvited adjoining conferences to ticipate, The programme taciudes a mass mecting arch 21, in the city of Raleigh; a contribution of $90,000 to education and $5,000 for a Metropolitan church in Raleigh, The now Methodist Episcopal church at Preston, Foderalsburg circuit, Wilmington Conference, will bo dedicated on Sunday, February 20, by Bishop Scott, BAPTIST. The Rev. Mr. Johnson, of the Calvary Baptist church, Chambersburg, N. J., has mysteriously disappeared, and nobdy knows whore to tad hin. Sister Anna Maines was licensed to “prophecy” by the Baptists of Burlington, Mich., last fall, and sho is now doing an active evangelical work. In Porter about forty have been brought to Christ under her labors; in the villago of Decatur eighty were brought to repent- ance, about one half of thom adults; a second series of moetings in Portor resulted in the conversion of over twenty souls, She hag also spoken with good results in Lawton and thence wentto erley to continue her efforts. ‘The Kast Brooklya (Bedford avenue) Baptist church is rejoicing in the Work which bas been gaining strength and force there for many months, unti now the revival spirit seems very fully developed. Tho numbers added to the churol within the last tive or six weeks are forty-seven by baptism, ton reclaimed and about thirty by letter, irteen are iting baptism, Rev. J. G, Binney, D, D,, aftor thirty years of ser- vico in the education of native preacbers in Burmab, is ou his way to this country, very much worn by bis pro- tracted labors, and tt tg doubtful if ho will over return to Burmah. ‘rhe growth of the Baptist principles among the Ger- mans of this country wassbown last Monday by Rev. Mr, Schulte in the ist Ministers’ Conference in this | city. From his statistios it appeared that iu 1352 they | had 8 small churches and 5 ministers; now they have — 100 churchos, with 1,298 members. They have raisod $23,200 for genoral benevolence the last yoar. There aro’ inthis city9German Baptist churches, witha membership of over 1,000, . ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Legislature of Ni Mexico, which comprises thirty-four Catholics and Protestants, has passed a law to tax all church property excopt church buildings and furniture. This, it is said, was aimed especially at the Catholic Church which owns a great deal of real estate in the Territory, The Tablet gives an porare of bigotry in the New York Oustom which certainly if trao is not creditable (o the iegconcerned, Certain beads and medals and other articles used by the ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church though by Jaw allowed to pass treo of duty were Dot ag dutiabie on the ground that they were ‘‘Romish trampery,” and be- Eause they were sach the law was strained to reach the re , however, when appealed to | reversed his subordinates’ decision. ‘The diocese of Newark has forwardod to Paris for the propagation of the faith $997 46, Tho jubilee is extended in the diocese of Newark to the end of the prosent year, and the facultios com- muntcated to tho rev clergy by the circular letter | of June ey, 1875, will continue im force until tho end of the jubilee. Bey. Father Collins, 0. 8, D., of Newark, poor heatth. Next Santas Fathor Damen Intends opening a mis- A. Farrell, lato pastor of Mam- ., died im the Sisters’ Hospital, Savannab, tanh Bendy, his thirty-cighth birthday, Ho ym vhis port only a week previous in search is in very ‘The Archbishop of Boston, acting with a committee of laymen, have issued a general appeal to tho Catho- i rowgholt the country to lend a holpiug hand, Mr, Donahoe, of the Pilot, to set hitn on ta response shoald be general. ‘The remains of Rey, Father Farrell, late of Mama- roneck, who died recently in Savannah, arrived here day, Tho fancral will take place to-morrow, Jom St Gabriel's church, Kast 37th fae A ‘& mass ten o'clock. The body will i i bo BPISCOPALIAN. Trinity church, Williamsport, Pa, is to be conse- crated (D. V.) on Tuesday, February 22. Nashotah Coliego, Wisconsin, has fifty-four candi- dates for the ministry-and wants funds. Rev. Charles Polletrena, of Brooklyn, has become rector of St. Matthow’s church, Unadilla, N. Y. ; bas accepted the rectorship of . rectorsbip of , bis resigna- Masa, has been iam, of Cainbrige, haa eeu ected reser SS A new chiirch at Cailieoon Depat was gious service op the 26th ult, Pr phe y tel ia the gilt of Mr. 0. P. Vinton, of this city, as a memo« rial to his father, the late Dr. Francis Vinton, of Tri ake Wey, Dan 800 ned e Rev, el @. Ander bas torship of St. Luke's, Troy, N. Y., pn prety ip of St. James, Great Barrington, Mass. ‘The Rov. Frederick 13. Cossott has accepted the rec- torship of St. John’s, Woodside (Newark), N. J. The Rev. Governeur Cruger, rector of the parish of the Divine Love, diocese of New York, bas gone to California, to be'‘absent one year. i ——w, THE REVIVAL, MESSRS. MOODY AND SANKEY BAVE A DAY OF REST—DISAPPOINTED HUNDREDS WHO WENT TO SBE THE GREAT BEVIVALISTS. Tho grand ball in the Hippodrome was Gilled to over- flowing at the noon service yesterday, the clear, brilliant atmosphere attracting wor: shippera to the tabernablo provided by the associated churches of New York for tho work A Retormed Episcopal church has been organized at | couducted by the new evangoliets, At the hour an- Millers, Essex county, Va. The congregation has suc ceeded im purchasing a building ee church, Tho | Rev. J. A. Latane has jately oMfeciated for it. | There will be no special convention in the diocese of Towa The election of a Bishop will take piace at the | annual convention in May. | ‘The Rev. W. H. Johnson, of South Carolina, bas ac- cepted the call from the veatry of the church in Mid- | dleburg, Loudoun county, and expects to enter upon | duty March 1, | The diocese of New Jersey contains 80 cburches and missions, 64 clergymen, 29 lay readers and 6 candidates for orders, 6,400 communicants apd 7,847 members of Sunday school. last yoar amounted to $299,429. MISCKLLANKOUS. Rev. C. H. Williains becomes the settled yaar 3 of the Howurd Avenue Congregational church, New Mayon v. E.G. Read goes from the Third Presbyterian church, Ehzabeth, N. J., tothe Congregational church, Bennington, Vt. Pere Hyacinthé and his family are coon to come to this country to reside, George Walker, who, since his retirement from Center church, New Haven, has been preaching at Buritugton, is to supply the pulpit of the Murray Hill Presbyterian church, in this city, for a time, A fair will open iu Dr. Chapin’s church to-morrow for the benefit of the Mission chapel fund, The Un. Yergalists have raisod thus far over £20,000 lor the ee of erecting a free church of their faita in New ork. There is some prospoct that the South Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, in which Dr. Spear proached for so many years, will pass into the hands of the Unita- fans, ‘It is inthe market, and Rey. Mr, Chadwick's society—the Radical Unitarian Society of the city—are | looking at it with a viow to the purchaso, Messrs, McAuloy and Dwyer are doing a very suo- cossful work in the low places of New York—tio one in Wator street, the other in Vandam street, The success of this work has excited the indignation of the baso population of the region, The Vandam Mission has frequently been interrupted on Sunday nights by a base crowd, and so far no adequate protection has been otfored by the police, Mr. McAuley has just written aod poblished 4n interesting skotch of his life of sin and of joLiness, too. Rev. Jacob C, Sears, D. D., of Franklin Park, N. J., is seriously ill, He has'been confined to his bouse for | several weeks, and much anxiety Is felt as to his ulti- | mate recovery. He is one of the oldest Reformed pas- | tors in Somerset county, having been gettled at Six | Mile Run over forty yoars. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. THE TEN WORDS WHICH GOD SPAKE ON SINAI AND WHAT THEY MEAN, The Rey. Henry 8, Jacobs, who has ministered for | somo time to the Congregation Shoauth Isracl, in Nine- | teenth stroct, noar Fitth avenue, has received and ac- | cepted a call to the pulpit of the Tbirty-fourth street | synagogue, which has been vacant since Dr, Vidaver went to California, This choice cannot fail to prove of groat benefit to B'nai Jeshurun now that that congre- | gation has taken tho initiative toward reform, iu which | direction it is known that Mr, Jacobs also inclines, | His present congregation was beginning to be fearmat | that his Influence might lead them toward reform, and | they aro not yet ready to get outof the ruts of | ages. Mr. Jacobs is a thoughtful preacher and ex- i pounder of practical Bible Judaism rather | than of traditional Judaism, and, as such, must bo accoptable to his new congrogation, Yesterday ho discoursed In the Nineteenth strect syn- agogue on the Ten Commandments, commonly callud the Decalogue. But Mr. Jacobs explained that tho first is not a command, and ‘that the word “Decaloguo” | means ten words and not ten commandments. Among | the many excollencios of the Bible, he remarked, we | cannot help noticing the tact that it docs not deal with moro generalitios but with that which is realistic and ractical. It deals not merely with the wrong when it | as been committed, but it warns men beforehand and afterward punishes with its legislation every violation | of law, [tis intended to purge out the very recessos | of the heart, in which lie the bases of all the crimes with which the universe is afllicted. And it gocs he- | yond tho mere outward act and soeks to extract the | Toot of the evil. {t punishes all alike, It knows no class or station or individual to favor. It is mtendod | for the stranger as wollas for the homeborn, for the | rich as well a8 for the poor, for the prince as well as for | And if we want to get at THE PITH OF THE SCRIPTURES we tarntothe Ten Commandments, which may bo called tho constitation of Judatsm, tho Magoa Charta | by which Israel serves God. As timo would not per- mit to treat the Ten Commandments Mr, Jacobs | briofly expounded five of thom. The first is not a com the peasant, The contributions of the Church | nounced for the opening of prayer the congregation was silently awaiting the opening ceremonies. Soft and low the tones of the organ were heard in the pro- jude to “Kven Me,’? and the assembled multitude Joined their voices in the music of the hymn, After the singing of several hymns, and while the People were looking anxiously, some curiously, for the expected preacher and his colaborer, the singor, Dr. Dodge reat the requests that had been written and sent | to him, asking prayers for sons and daughters, fatbera and mothers, who were far away, and for those whom distress or sickness or erring minds had overwhelmed with trouble, A mother entreated prayers that her three sons might be converted; others asked supplica- tions to the Throne of Grace for two sons—one in col- «tthe othe business—who for Many years; for two sous, tor whom prayer had long and earnestly been offered; for an only son, that lo might bo turuea from hie evil ways; for a husband who — waa loading a dissipated life; for an unconverted husband; for a wifo sick with consumption; Cor a Lackslider, wh folt that ho was fast going to destruction; for a family enspared in sin; and more especially ono’ member of it who was on the brink of @ drunkard’s gravo, and for an old lady very anxious about her soul, Dr. Hamilton then offered prayer, after which the thirty-sixth nyma, “One there is above ail others,” was sung by the congregation. Tho Rev. D. Booth then anvoanced that Mr. Moody and Mr, Sankey | would not be able to be present at the meciing. A low murmur of disappointment was heard through- out tho auditorium for a few moments and then the ser. vices wore rosumod, Dr. Booth reading eelections from the fowth gnd fifth chapters of Exodus, Ho theu made an cloquent address on the effeacy of prayer. De. Hepworth was particularly eloquent. Beforo clostag his remarks ho related the tncident of a minor who expericnced religion just before a fatal ac- cident occurred.” He depicted the physival agony and the spiritual joy of the dying but regenerated collier with telling eifect, and as-he repeated the dying man’s words, ‘i'm glu I didn’t put it of!"? @ visible tremor passed through the congregation. THE LATTER PART OF THE MEETING was dovolil of apy particularly interosting foatares. Dr. Hepworta’s remarks wero followed by prayer by Rev. Dr. Martin, and then Rey. Mr, MacArtbar delivered an address. Dr. Ladiow prayed, and the 11sth hymn of the collection, beginning, Am Ta soldier of the er Aioliowor ofthe Lamb?” was sung. Rey, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., delivered a vory eifective address. He related the story of the conver. sion of a hardoned sinner in « hospital, the point of which was that whenever “I think about Jesus thew Tm conscious Jesus thinks about me.” (ho Rey. Dr, Adams delivered the closing address, Not only bis venerable appearanco, but the way im which he explained the ‘power of Christ to gavo to the uttermost"? made a visible effect upon the people pres- ent. Before the cloge of the meeting it was announced that there would be no women’s mooting In the after- noon, but that this morning at eight o'clock thero would be special religious eervices, at which timethere would be delivered an ‘address to Christians.” Dr, Booth oxplained that tickets would be handed to “Christian workers,” and that no one would be ad- mitted at the meeting to-day without a ticket, This is the only meeting, however, where suca a for- mality would have to be gone ‘through with. The meeting was brought to a close by the singing of tho 112tn hymn and the pronouncing of the benediction, AN OPEN LETTER TO MR, MOODY, To tne Epiror or tur Heraip:— Ata recent religious mecting in Philadelphia you pounced as a fact that 1,00) Jews had rocently mot ia Paris, and that one of their number had boasted that thoy had killed the Christians’ God,’' which statement, you said, was applauded by tho assembly. You did not assert this as a rumor, but as an absolute fact, an inci« dont of which you were cognizant, You now excus@ yourself by stating that you read of the circumstance jin a London paper, The Jewish people, who would have known of such a meoting had any been held, deny the fact and call upon you for proof otber tham the mere announcoment that you read of it ina Lon- don paper; they call upon you for tho namo of the paper referred to anda copy thereof, While denying that any such meeting was held they utterly repudiate the sentiments of hate you thus published as be- ing entertained. by theif brettiren or the slightoat disrespect to the Christian religion, Unless you gubstuntiate your statement doubt will be thrown om your many other illustrative ancedotes, as the maxit mand, but enunciates the principle on which the whoie foundation of Judaism ts built. “Iam the Lord thy God.’? It teaches the untty of tho Deity and it points | outtho omntpotence of that God that brought tno | children of Isracl out of the house of bondage, But if it had been Cry pangs to teach the omnipotence | of Got it would have said, “fam the Lord thy God | that created the heavens and tho earth.” But man is | moro improssed with acts in which he ts himself a par- | ticipant than with those in which he has had no hand | whatever, however groat the latter may bo, In tho next wo are forbidden idolatry, ‘And some of you," | said Mr, Jacobs, ‘may ask of what importance is | this law when not ono of us is si degraded as to bow down to idols of wood and stono.”? | | brother?”” “also sa one thing Jalse in all,’ will’ apply. Bat sucha moeting had been held, will you kindly inform as why you related the circumstance? Was it to promote Christian love ? Weare reminded of Jamos ui., 8, where itis sald that “the tongue ne man can tame; it isan unruly evil, fall of deadiy poison; and of Titus, hi, 2 wherd Paul onjoins all “to speak’ ovil of no maa; to'be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness’ to all men,’ and ask you (Romana, xiv., 9) “Why dost thea judgo thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy Supposing some fanatic at a meeting of Jows in Paris did use offensive language, a good Chrig tian would remember the injunction (Luke, vi, 27, 28} But I say unto you which hear, love your énethiess . do yood to ¢ you; bless them that curse Well, he continued, wo may not bow down to those | > Parts " things, but are wo ‘not too often Idolators ot another | 30.034. gi, s2-—"'And ar pclae primate le A sort? When I soe a man sacrificing tho teachings #nd | toyou, «lo youlso to them likewise. For if ye love the claims of religion for gold and silver he is worshipping | gods of those metals; when I see a man bow down be- | fore the rich aud sell himself, as it were, to fashion and | pleasure, [ see an Idolator; and when women sell their nobility of soul for fashion and folly is not this idolatry | of the worst kind? We have nood, then, of these pre- | copts of religion to forbid us to bow down to theso | things instead of to tho Lord our God, who is worthy | of our adoration. And of the third, I ferr that too | many will confess that the vain use of the name of the Deity is becoming too common, It 1s. a shamo to hear common language used jn conversation which not only does got add weight to what is said, but shows that we are NOT WORTHY TO BE RELIEVED even when we speak the truth. As tho sages say, he who oxcuses acouses, Men attempt to give force to their uiterances by taking in vain the holy name of | God, Nor fs this the only way in which His law is vio lated, for when lying and calumny and sianderare in- | duiged the third commandment !s violated. And then we como to tho fourth, which calls for the observance of tho Sabbath day as holy. This’ does not require tha | eloquence of any man to enforce it; but it is not by | working on theSabbath day, nor by guing to our busi- | ness or commerce that we violate the sanctity of the | Sabbath, but when we go to the opera and the dancing | school, and send our children there on the Sabbath, wo violate this command. When we go to the sanciuary and engage in gossip and slander are we keeping this | command of God? The head may be elevated, but the | heart beats with slander and we are breaking’ the Sab- | bath day. If these are reformed sentiments’ of Ju- | dalsm, said Mr. Jacobs, we should be beneited by such | reform. | ‘The fifth is a very comprehensive command. | ment and ts for all classes of poopie, It is the only one, | too, which hasadivine promise affixed to it. Itex- | tenus to the hope beyond the grave, which the Lord | our God will give us. It is for the old as well as for tho (oak and the precept ie important, for we can never ‘absolved from the duty of honoring our fathers and mothers, no matter how old or how great we may be- como, This isa lesson which you read in every gray heir; it f¥ a lesson that outlives even their existence, whew you remember the kindness and affection which they showed to you tn your childhood days and which you ; J expect your children will remember when you come to your second childhood, Mr. Jacobs enforced this thought at great leagth and with many illustrations, } REFORMED CHURCHES DYING. | Though not formally disbanded the Washington square Reformed church have closod their house and susponded worship, This was at one one of tho largess and most fashionable Re. formed’ congrogations in Now York. It was the | University church, and was very strong and popu. | lar. The location alone docs not account for the } fer, Inthe neigitborhvod aré of tho largest and | most successful congregations io the city—Dr. Booth, Presbyterian; Grace church, Episcopal; Marble church, | Mothodiet; Dr. Burchard’s church, Presbyterian; Dr. | Deomsa’ charch, Independent, The church cannot bo | sold without the consent of the collegiate corporation, who haye a mortgage upon the property. A proposal has beon made to the Sixth avenue Reformed church to take the Washington square house and use it for a term of years without expense; thie yrortio being an- noxed, that the Sixth ty td gg) i pay Dr. Hat- ton a’ salary of from $3,000 to $5,000 a year during the oceupaney. Astho Sixth avenue church is a mis- sion church, and can now only jast keep its head above water, itis not probable the proposition will be ac- The is circulated that the Lafayette piace church, where Dr, Chambers is stationed, ts to be given = the property sold. Tho congrogation is very A NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN ‘ INDIA. Mr, A. ©, Lyall, io his administration report of the Rajpootana States, quoted in the Pioneer, says that a religious movement among tho non-Aryan tribes of | India has spread among tho wild Bhools on the Mey- war-Guzerat frontier. It is thus described by the political agent of Mcywar: ‘oars past been at wol le; Wear Gu frontier. He worship of one good will. God, peace His followers take an oatt to abstain from as bg and cog hk on Haaory and ones OS ive by the, ppoduee of hie soll ad to bathe before eating. jee “Loorjed has now a following of A ca i | wh | ism thine own eye. yeas | Spon! | str ing, They | do.” which’ love you what than ‘oye? for sinners al love those tliat love them. And ii yo do good to them nich do good to you, what thank have ye? for sin ners algo do even the samne.”” Again, a good Christian ar, like yourself, should never forget Mark, xi, , 2—‘And ‘when ye stand praying, forgive if yo have aught against any; that your Father also, which 18 in heaven, may forgive you your trespassea, But if yo do not forgive, nether will your Father which is im heaven forgive your trespasses ” On a mere para graph which you said yoo read (jut have not produced) im an unnamed paper, you uttommpt by implication te cast obloquy on a large number of peaceful, moral, re- | gpected American citizens, who fruternally refer you | to Matthew, vii., 1—“Judge not that ye be not judged.” You have lately concluded your meetings at Brook. lyn, L. L, where it was announced that soa had ¢on- verted $0 mavy in that city to parity and redeemed them from sin But among your Christian admirers there, and among many who took part in ‘the exercises that it was supposed edified tho inbabitants, a fearful, bftter, sntul warfare has broken out, deluging the country anew with scandalous, demoralizing, poisonous influcnces that ome of your zeal, might and power, i was suppose, hoped and prayed for, could and would have averted, Such would have been the result had your conversions to Christian principles been thorougl and effectual, and the Jews commend to you inall kind- ness and wishing you Godrpeed, the admonitions im Matthow, vii, 3, 4,5, 6, where it’ is pertinently suid— “And why beboldest ‘thou the moto that is ia thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam in thing own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me Nui owt the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a boam (In verse 6'two words are omit. ted from a desire to be pereonally offensive.) Fite cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou sce clearly to cast out the mote out of brother's eye.’ Theso excellent lossons of the Now Testament are to ve pondered oa by Jews and Gentiles alike, for until Christians have purified themselves and their churebes they have no right te adinonel oy to thelr communion. In Matibew, 2, it iy #0 “theretore, when thou doest thing ns do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypo- ‘0, in the sy Dagogucs and in the strécts, thal they ay have glory of men. Verily, L aay unto you, the have their reward.’ Again, verses 5, 6, 7 read when thou prayess thyu shalt not be ‘as the hypocrites for they love 40 pray standing in the ey: the corners of the streets, that they may De soem, of m Verily, way unto you, they have their re- ward, But (hou, when thou prayest, enter mo thy closct, and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy Fathér which is in secret, and thy Father, which see in secret, shall roward thee openly. But whea ye pray ‘use not vain repetitions, as tbe heatben do, for th think that they shall be heard for thor mu king.” -Thore is no doubt tuat the incident you relisted was repeated ag a moro idle tale, calculated to erubditter neighbor against neighbor, carrying with it no lesson of theology of morals, a stinple firebrand, the effect of which would be simply to kindle atrife and contention, aud as ex- preasly spokon of in Proverbs, xxvi., 17, 18. It may be be nae for one such, as described in Proverbs, xxvi, el Tepeat idio tales for effect; but it is said in came r, 20, 21, 22—'' Where (hore is no talobearer the ceases, As coals are to burning Gre wo is & com. tentious man to kindle etrife. Tho words of a tale down to tho innor- verve, xx., 19¥tt is bearer are as wounds, and they most part of the belly.” Io | gaid:—Ae that goeth about a8 & taloboarer revealeth seerets.” Sco aleo Proverbs, xvii, and Proverbs, tt, 13 If your illustration ts falye id that, as (6 1s aloged to be, you are roferred to Leviticus, xix, 16, a 1s—ttow shalt not go up and down aga talel among thy poople; noither shalt thou stand againgt the blood of thy neighbor, Tam the lord. Thou shale not hate thy vrother im tbice heart; thou sbolt iq anywiso rebuke thy nolghbor and not sulfer sin upom him, Thou shalt not avenge nor bear 7 oe against the children of thy people, but thou love thy oo'ghbor as thyscl, I am the Lord” Christ says—Mark, xit., 30, Sl—that except to love the Lord oud to love thy neighbor as thyself, “Phere is no other commandment greater than those. You will admit, Mr. Moody, it isa violation of these commandments to repeat anything truc or untrue that will engender hatred botween man. however, & Fecktegs tanatic should. somo day utter anything bias + phenous or disrespectful to thoae of your faith you should not hold any largo community rosponsidle with- out proof of ratifi ‘their part, but vo such blas Peeters Sorpivesie Ba) aot if ‘uther, OW w ‘Trlodearera, prom if haters ith id wevor of their brot and neighbors shoul: ber poe iL, 10—“Rave we not all one Father ® ‘20t one God croated us t"’ ay and affection. LAWIS ABBABAM D. G, Feb, 10, 1876,