The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1876, Page 13

TULIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE (Ministerial Movements--- Chat by the Way. BAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR. The Lenten Season-—-The Reformed Episcopal Church. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. ‘The Rev. W. ©. Steele will preach in Fleet street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, this morning, tn “Tho Moral Status of the Governmept: Is It Heathen or Christian?” The Rey. Alfred Taylor will occupy the pulpit of the Bpring street Presbyterian church this morning, and preach on “The Church in Her Glory and Joy.”” At the Russo-Greek chapel the Rev. Father Bjerring Will conduct religious services in the English language this morning. The Rev. D, B. Jutten~ will preach on “Unity of Heart in God's Service’’ this morning, and on “Christ's Mission to this World’? in the evening, in tho Sixteenth Btrect Baptist charch. At Willett street Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. J. V. Saunders will preach this morning about ‘“No Night In Heaven,” and this evening about tho ‘Yuscen Guest.” Dr. M. B. Anderson, of Rochester University, will deliver a centennial discourse in Washington avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, this evening, on ‘The spe- clal importance of education considered with reference to the destiny of our familios and the power of our ehurches,’’ At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church tho Rev. William Lloyd will-prociaim “Christ's Invita- tion to the Burdened"? this morning, and will talk about ‘Saul and the Witch of Endor’’ in tho ovening. The Rev. George 0. Phelps will indicate the sinners fn Allen Street Presbyterian church this evening by the words ‘Thou art the man.” All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church will be minis- tored to to-day as usual by Rev. W. M. Dunnell, rector. In Allen street Methodi t Episcopal church the Rev. Charles FE. Harris will preach this morning and evening. Samuel Halstead’s Praying Band will conduct services this morning, afternoon and evening mm the Free Taber- macle Methodist Episcopal church. Rey, John Johns, pastor. “The Science of Beneficence; or, How to See Josus,’’ ‘will be explained this morning by Rev, C. P. McCarthy, in Bleeckor street Universalist church, In tho evon- Ing he will discuss the ‘‘Reasonableness and Scriptural Warrant for a belief in a Personal Devil.”” At the regular service this morning Blahop Jaggar will preach, and at the people's service this evening, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D.. The Rev. J. W. Bonham will preach in the after. Boon. Dr. J. D. Fulton, in the Centennial Baptist church, ‘Brooklyn, this morning, will review tne ‘Findings of the Council’ and indicate our duty and our opportu- nity. In the evening he will speak about ‘God's Care for His Own. Dr. J. B, Flagg will minister to the Church of the Holy Apostles this morning and evening. The Rey. J. D. Horr will preach, this morning and evening, in the Central Baptist church, Dr, Doems is to preach at the usual hours to-day in ‘tho Church of the Strangers. Dr. H. B. Chapin will minister this morning for the Canal stroet Presbyterian church. In Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal) the Rev. J, W. Payne will preach morning and evening. Dr. John Hall will address young mon in Association Hail this evening. “The Christian Distinguished” will be considered by Rev. Mr. Rowell this morning and ‘'God’s Goodness” Shis evening in the Free Baptist church, West Twenty- ninth street, Dr. Armitage will preach this morning and evening In the Fifth avenue Baptist church, Dr. John Dowling will minister to Fifty-third street Baptist church this morning and evening. ~ In Harlem Universalist church the Rev. J. A, Seitz will lecture this morning on “Religion as a Means of Culture.”” Bishop Snow, who says he needs no whitewashing, will speak in the University chapel this afternoon on “Tho Time and Manner of the Judgment.” Miss Nellie Brigham will speak this morning and evening before the Society of Progressive Spiritualists, Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach morning and evening in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Three services will be held in the Hippodrome to-day ateight A, M., three P. M. and eight P.M. The first for Christians, the second for women only and the last for men only. The Rev. S. M. Hamilton will minister to the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon. Dr. Lorimer, of Boston, in exchange with Mr. Hep_ worth, will preach in the Church of the Discipies in the morning, on “Redemption;” im the evening, at half-past seven, on ‘Our Modern Balaam: The Union praise mecting in Dr. Burchard’s church, ‘West Thirteenth street, between Fourth and Fifth ave- nues, this afternoon, will be led by Rev. Mr. Harrower, of the Central Methodist Episcopal church. Eleven Pastors of the district are expectea to be present and Participate in the exercises. Sankey’s hymns sung. Rey. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laight street Bap- tist church this morning and evening. The Rev. James M. King will preach in St. Jobn’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. In the Pilgrim Baptist church the Rey. J. 8. Kennard ‘will minister this morning and evening as usual, In Stanton street Baptist church tho Rev. W. H. Leavell will prove that “The Peculiar Principles of Baptists are a Safeguard of the Republic’ this morn- fog, and in the evening he will answer the query, “How Shall We Dispose of Christ?” In the Sixth avenuo Reformed Dutch church the Rov. W. B. Merritt will preach this morning and evening. The Rev. 0, P. Gifford, of Pittsfield, Mass, will preach in the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning on “As Little Children,’’ id this evening on “Our Father.” a Dr. Samson will deliver his second Iecture on “The Life of Christ’? this morning, in the First Baptist chorch, Harlem, . In the Berean Baptist church this morning the Rev, L. G. Barrett will speak on “The Sound in the Mul- Derry Trees,” and In the evening on “The Convenient Beason."? The afternoon services in Grace church to-day will commence at four o'clock, The Rev. J. W. Bonham will preach in the Church of the Reformation this morningon “The Recognition of jends in Heaven,” and this evening on “London Churchwork at Midnight to Rescue the Fallen,”” The Religto-Scientific Society, in Ecclesia Hall, will be entertained this morning with a discussion on “Natural versus Crvil Marriage,” by G. L. Henderson, ‘and in the evening with the ‘Scientific Reconstruction of the Individual” by. T. B. Wakeman, | The Spiritualists will hold a conference in Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening. The Rev. Chauncey Giles will speak inthe Sweden- dorgian church this morning on “The Curse of the Serpent.” ‘The mectings at Mr. Albro’s house, in West Thirty- Sixth street, are continued with greater success than ever, and are free to all. Mr. Prentice Mulford will speak in Trenor’s new hall this evening. In Unity Chapel, Harlem, the Rev. W. T. Clarke will preach on “Nothingarianism’ this morning. A service of song will be hold in the evening, The Rov. Dr. Ewer will preach in St. Ignatius’ Protes- tant Episcopal charch this morning and Rev. Dr. Beach this evoning. In the Charch of Oar Saviour the Rev, J. M. Pullman ‘will preach this morning and evening. Tn the First Reformed Episcopal church the Rev. W. ‘T. Sabine will preach in the morning and Rev. James D. Wilson, of Peoria, Iil., in the evening, “The Pope and Mr. Gladstone.” A lecture on this Babject will be delivered by Mr. RG. Waters, at the Cosmopolitan Hall this evening CHAT BY THE WAY. It Is suggested that if Winslow had beon contented with the motto which his mame contains—viz., to win slow—he would never have got into dificulty. If reports are true the sky of Brooklyn is presenting asad appearance, There is more than ono “‘star’’ thore that 1s hastening to its setting. In ordinary railroad travel you can be accommo- dated with a drawing room car, but the only ove in which we can go to heaven is a very narrow box car. Agreat many people’s religion is contained in this free rendition of a familiar verso:— And if I die before I wake— But I guess 1 won't, Amen, German sebolarship indicates a patience in unravelling dotails to conceive of which is a weariness to an ordinary brain, ‘I fear,’’ said a dying scientist to his son, “I fear my life has been somewhat of a failure. I was ambitious and tried to fnvestigate the whole trath, Thad confined myself to one wing I might haye done more.” And, with a sigh of disappointment, he turned his face to the wall and died. Deaf people are sometimes appalling, ‘Have you been to Christy's Minstrels? whispered a dasbing youth in the ear of a grandame, who had come to tho | city to hear Moody and Sanky. ‘“Well,’’ she sald, look- ing him full in the faee with a smile; ‘well, I try tobe one, and have great peace in my heart. Are you one, too?” Of course, he couldn’t undeceive the old | lady, so he turned away very thonghtful, The Alta Californian speaks of the work of the evangelists as “a gigantic specutation.” Everything In California 1s big, and there ig no reason why its mis- takes should not partake of the same peculiarity. Ever since they have been in the field Moody and Sankey have kept the vow of poverty. If they were working on a large salary the confidence of the com- munity would ebb like the tide and leave them high and dry, The greatest factor of the revival in this city is the voluntary poverty and perfect stngteness of purpose which characterize these men. We nave heard of a great many mean men, but here is one who towers above, ordinary folk as Mount Blanc among surrounding hills. #He went to church regu- larly, for the religious instincts seem not to have been entirely obliterated; but he always sat in the very last pew, the ono nearest the. door, Why? do you ask. Well, because by 80 doing he saved the interest on his Money until the contribution box reached him. We have at last discovered the origin of Darwin's the- | orv of evolution. It is found in the musty metaphysics of India; and Adam was the first man who had a glimpso of this startling fact. According to the Indian tradi- tion the first man’s nome was Viradi, who, finding his solitude unbearable, fell inio the deepest grief. He yearned so intensely for a companion that Eve, or the first woman, was evolved from bis own body, She re- mained attachod to the man for a while, and happiness Rees, but one day she persuaded him to cut the | gament that bound them together, and ever since the | woman has been coy and hard to please. ‘There may be little historic value in these legends, and perhaps thoy would not stand the test of a severe criticism, but wo sometimes think, as in the above instance, that they are the outgrowth of an oxperience which, like death, comes to Kidd man in turo, Eve was undoubtedly a lady of lafge literary acquire. ments, though in this respect she did not greatly excel her husband. In the times iphanius a Wein of Eve" was extant, and among the Gnostics it was for a time bold in high repute, In Genesis v., 1, the words, “This is the book of the generations of Adam,” led tong | Led oe that Moses quoted from a book written gh rst man, That euch a book, of course apochryphal, did oxist in later times, appears from th fact that one of the popes in his decrees rejected it spurious. It is evident, then, that we come ot stock | which was intellectual even if it was so, Our ancestors know enough even when they failed to do enough, If they bad not stolen the apple we should | have every reason to be proud of them. Mr. Frothingham’s sermon of Jast Sunday was a re- warkablo production. It was Pegipoior a a6 showin how fara man can goin the denial of what the worl calls sacred. He ridiculed the custom of sending in requests for err at the Hippodrome, and assures us, with an ez cathedra air, that they will notbe an- swered and that we aro wasting our time. How he is so sure that they will not bo answered he does not tell us. Well, it may be so. Still, if tho Bible is truo, then Frothingham is wrong. We do not intend to derogate trom the authority which may | attach to the reverend gentleman's assertions in inti- mating even the possibulity that the Bible may be true, | but there is an impression abroad in the community | that prayers are really answered, and that prayer is a very sweet and refreshing service, Mr, Frothingham | intimates that the ouly prayer ho ever utters is “Thy | will be done,” and that this so exhausts him that he can’t do it every day, bot only once in awhile, A most | remarkable clergyman, and an equally remarkable con- | fession. | This reminds us that the Zndex, the editor of which | makes his own mind the measure of the possibilitics | of God, has a column called “Sanctuary of Supersti- tion,”’ in which is to be found favorite texts of Scrip- ture'and some of the sweetest sayings ol the martyrs | and the holy men of the Church. Tho /ndex ts the or- gan of those malcontents whose lasting grief is ; that they were not consulted in the making of the | universe, and who have never recovered from the | | | slight. The actual hold on the public mind and morals which a “pure and undefiled religion’? bas cannot be better illustrated than by the nearly bankrupt condition of the few infidel publications | which spend most of their time in gasping tor life. Tho | great tide of faith sweeps on, lifting the poor soul on | its buoyant wave and bearing it proudly, as in the | arms of agiant,to the shore of the immortal life, | while a few bypercritical and eccentric people who | seem somehow to be intellectually waterlogged insist that everybody is tn their own drowning condition. Rev, Dr. Thornton has read a paper beiore a British audience on the “Sorrows of Scepticism.” He as- serted that every man who has for any length of time entortained doubts shows it in the Imes of his face. Faith, like a happy temperament, draws the lips into a natural smile, while scepticism, like a saturnine tem. | rament, draws all tbe lines’ of the face downward. jt would not be strange if this were truce, at least in part. Beliet in revelation Is closely alhed to happiness, and a doubt of tho hereaftor must throw a gloomy shadow on the life, especially after the baby dies, If faith | were a delusion and scepticism the truth, we should hug the delusion and hate the truth, It can hardly be that all the truo happiness and contentmont we have come from a lio, avd that the more we know of the truth the more miserable wo If it be tndeed so | we live in avery strange world, and the preatest mis- | take that ever was made was in making you and me. | A belief in revelation is the only silver key that un- | locks th 8 of life, | That i boaatiful Russien proverb:—“Behind the orphan God himself bears the purse.” Hore is another | of a somewhat different character:—‘In the other | world usurers have to count red-hot coins with bare — hands.” This indicates a sorry pros} for some of | us. In Wall street millions change at two per | cent a m , and, if the above ral rigidly en- torced, there is hot work before us, witn a good chance | for bustered ers. | If there a revival in your church whese fault ist? Are youa looker at on the Hippedrome move- ment or are you a part of it? The visit of the cevangel- jats will be vain unless you do what the Druids used to do every year, carry home a live coul from the altar ofthe temple, The Lora will be in New York long after Moody leaves, and if the big revival shalt ho cut | up into about 500 pieces and distributed among that | number of churches, then each church will become a sort of galvanic battery, but if the thing dies when Moody buys his ticket for Chicago then tno churches | will congeal again and probably freeze solid for twonty years to come. | ‘The inquiry rooms at the Hippodrome are well filled | every evening, and without doubt an incalculable | amount of good is done, Mem and women creep in | there who would never think of going to any of | our churches, and a chance word of encour. | agement may chango the course of a lifetime.*) T. Moody's generous manner will open almost any ono’s beart, and bis singleness of pirpose commends | bi once to the seeker’s confidence. He is the most | earnest man of the century, and when he insists that — you ought to at ts religion, you instantly Cd the word * a begs 4 for tho article. He tolls you that be “done’’ something, but nt forget the bad grammar and remember only that really did do it, He reads the Bible very badly ; better if it were merely a matter of deciamation, but you have a feeling all t hile that he is simply hurry- ing through the words in his impatience to tell you ey menn afterward, His prayers are not {ar-off Uitions, but face to face talks. He prays as though ie were very sure pe nate at he asks for, and is | not at all surprised when ti swer comes, | The Brooklyn sorrow is the despair of the century. ‘The parties in it seem to have combined, in spite of their hatred of cach other, to make as huge a muddle | possible. Civil court ecclesiastical council have | done their best to get hold of the end of the skein and | unsnar! it, but so from successful have they been | that the public is in a greater quandary than ever. Mr. Tilton bas quietly withdrawn and js rocoiving ducats | from the curiosity mongers ail over the country, and | appears to be quite satisfied to took upon the whole & schoolboy could do motter asa mammoth advertisement of bimself. Mr. Moulton occupies an unenviable twang for while he stakes his tation on his ability to prove by wit- nesses a the worst he has said, nobody has sufficient confidence in him to ask him to say his and have done with it Mr, Bowen is full to overflowing with | accurate knowledge of the very closet in which “the skeleton,” as Dr, Bacon calied it, is kept, | bat he will only tell the story to a chocen fow, and they | mast solomaly promise not to tell it to any ono else, | Mr. Beecher takes the name of the Redeemer on his | lips and swears that neither Mr. Moulton nor Mr. | Bowen have bys Sepwryn 2 or documents which can _ ‘e are safe only in the conclusion that somewhere a whole rocky mountain range of lies, each one of which towers to the sublime, and that will occupy a very warm place in the fu- ture. jat are the initials of that mysterious some- body and what his motive {s io raising “such a pother over our heads” neither legal en hor ecclesiastical shrewdness can determine, All four of the pi ser know the truth, but not one of them will On tho whole, we have bad the largest wash of soiled linen that this generation has witnessed, but unfortunately the water used has been maddy, and now that it is allover none of tho garments are ft to put on. More injury to the cause of religion bas been done by this exhibition of Punic faith on the part of church mombers, this tripartite tas + feds still about an accusation of guilt, nudlic wrangling over a lie that none of the parties If |; 1 ¢ | narrative | Samuel was permitted by God to hold converse with | allowed a murderous spirit to control him, and under | | creed to death by the order of Jehovah Himself, and _ who was called from the dead im answer to the request are willing to fix on the man who told it, than all the Preaching vf @ scoro of years can undo, THE LENTEN SEASON. REGULATIONS FOR THE FAST—EXEMPTIONS AND DISPENSATIONS. The Cardinal Archbishop has lesued the following regulations for Lent, which commences next (Ash) Wednesday and ends Saturday, April 15. It will be observed that His Eminence grants the fullest conces- sions to the young, the infirm and other classes whose yocations/or condition renders it inadvisable that they should fast or abstain. In other cases not covered by ‘the regulations the pastors have in their discretion authority to grant permission to use such food and in Such quantities as they or their medical advisers may think necessary. The regulations read:— All the week days of Lent, from Ash Wednesday till Easter Sunday, are fast days of precept on one meal, with the allowance of a moderate collation in the even- ing. The precept of fasting implies also that of ab- Stinence from the use of flesh meat; but, by dispensation, the use of flesh meat allowed in the a of Now York at tl principal meal on Mondays, Tuesdays aud Thursd: ag Lent, with the exception of Holy Thursday. There is neither fast nor abstinence to be observed on Thursdays in Lent. It is not allowed to use fish with flesh meat at the same mea! in Lent, There is no probibition to use eggs, butter or cheese, pro- vided the rules of Oya prescribed by the fast be cowplied with, Lard may be used in preparing fish, vegetanion, ao e Church excuses from the obligation of fasting (but not of abstinence from flesh Lota except in spe- cial cases of sickness or the like) the following classes of persons ;—First, infirm; second, those whose duties are of an exhausting or laborious character; third, persons who are attaining their growth ; fourth, women in peeney or nursing infants; fifth, those who are enfeebled by old age. Tho public religious exercises doring Lent in the churches ofthe city, to commence each evening at half- past seven, will be:— On Monday, im the Church of the Nativity, of the Assumption (German), St, Michael's, St, Anthony’s (Italian) and St. Mary Magdalon Nadel On Tuesday, St. Jamos', St. Joseph’s, St. Vincent de Paul’s (French), St. John the Evangelist’s, Holy Cros: St, Gabriel's, Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Sorrow and St, Cecilla’s. On Wednesday, in St, Peter's, Most Holy Redeemer (German), St. ncis Assisi’s (German), St. Franc: Xavier’s, St. Apn’s, Annunciation, Manhattanville; St, Paul's, Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth street; st. To- resa’s, St. John the tist’s (German) and St. Agnes’, On Thursday in th hedral, St. Andrew's, St. Sto- phen’s, St. Columba’: it. Bridget’s, St, Alphonsus’ German), St. Lawrence's, Yorkvillo; Holy Innocents, St. Rose of Lima’s, St, Nichoias’, St. Josopn’s (Ger- ) men), Manhattanville, and St, Kiizaboth’s, Fort Wash- ington, on Friday in St. Mary’s, Transfiguration, St. Paul’s, Harlem; St. Bonifaco’s (German), St. Vincent Ferrer’s, St. Bernard’s, Church of the Eptphany, Holy Name of J ‘and 8. Joseph's (German), iighty-soventn sir These instructions will be read in all the Catholic churches of the archdiocese to-day tor the guidance of the faithful. Similar bas Hees have beon issued in tho diocosos of Newark, Philadelphia, Boston and Baitimoro, SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR. To tue Eprror or Tae Hsravp:— In I. Samuel, xxviti., .a ctreumstanctal interview between the dead prophet Samuel and the living King Saul is recorded, It has puzzled commentators and has given our modern Spiritualists and necro- mancers their strongest biblical authority for their tricks and devices, There is an affirmative plausibility about the narrative which leads and.has lod many per- sons to overlook the direct and forcible reasons that may be adduced against the seeming truthfulness of the supposed interview between the prophet and the King. I willimdicate a few of those reasons which I think will clearly demonstrate the utter improbability that any such Interview really took place. Dr, Whedon, acknowledged to be one of the greatest living commentators, in commenting on the discredits the theory of an inter- view, but our ‘Berean lesson” commentators tell us that there was actually such an interview, and that Saul, as narrated im the chapter named. That no such interview occurred and that the whole story is but an old-fashioned Spirttualistic séance will appear from the following considerations :—First, consider the character of the man who sought the interview with this woman at Endor. Ho had rejected the Lord aud the Lord had rejected him. During all his reign of forty years Saul never sought the ark of God to com- mune with Jehovah through it (1. Chron, xiil., 3) in any mattor relating to himself or his kingdom. He its Influence slew all the pr.ests of the Lord in tho city of Nob save one, who escaped to Davi nd David, his own con-in law, the slayer of the tof Gath, and the | commander of the King’s body guard, he chased us he would a wild roe on the mountains .for a period of twelve years. So perverso and selt-willed was he that he assumed the priestly func- tions on certain occasions and lied to Samuel and tothe Lord in the matter of Agog and the Amale- kites. Indeed, he seems from the very first to have looked upon Samuel as a superior necromancer or wizard rather than a great prophet of Isracl’s God, When he went to seek his father’s mules he took a fee in his hand to give to the seer to tell him where ho could find the m'ssing animals. His character las very few redeeming qualities in it, and I do not wonder that tho Lord reiused to commune with him or to answer his inquiries by eny of the ordinary methods—dreams, Urim or prophets. " (I. Samuel, xxviii, 6.) Consider, secondly, the character of tie woman whom Saul visited. She was a witch—one of that class who “peep and matter” and pretend to hold communion with the invisible world, just as our modern spiritual mediums do. She and her class and kind had been do- Saul had, so far as he was able in accordance with the divine command (Ex: xxii, 18), cut off those that bad famihar spirits ond the wizards out of the land, 1. Samuel, xxviil, 9.) So that tho king and the woman new perfectly well that they were engaged at this séance in an unlawful busmess, and one in the pursait of which the woman risked ber life. And now the Proposition 1s to ask us to believe that for the satisfac- tion of a bad man, whom He would not answer by any of the ordinary channels of communication, God did, nevertheiess, stultity tne and permit Hits great prophet to come from the dead to ropeut a very com- ng before, and to predict a result of the approaching battle which any man of ordinary intelligence, who not a prophet nor tho son of a prophet, might jast readily foretell Can we believe that Jenovah did that thing? nat, fartner- more, this proposition involves also the indorsement by God of an illegal business, against the traffickers in which He had decreed death prowptand mercilessly. To admit such a proposition ts to mako the character of Jehovah as contradictory as that of mon, and His Jaws more uustablo than thoso of the Medes and Per- sians, And yet He deciares that He is the Lord, and changes not. He ts not a man, that He should lio, nor ge sonof man, that He should repent. ‘And now consider again tbe cl ster of the man of abad man whom God had rejected and forsaken, and the incantations of a bad woman against whom the penalty of instant death stood out in bold relief con- tinually. During bis lovg official life no man could ont a finger to a selfish or disobedient act of Samuel. ¢ challenged the people to do so it they could (I. Sam: uel, xi, 2-5), but they acknowledged that bis character and conduct wore above reproach, That Jehovah held him m the very highest esteem, also, is evident from bis naming bim favorably with Moses, the great iaw- giver (Jeremiah, xv., 1), and from the fact that in answer to bis prayer, when the Israelites demanded a king, the Lord sent thunder and rain in such @ manner and at such a time as greatly to frighten the poople (L Samuel, xii., 17-18) and compel them to acknowledge their sin. “Samuel is the chiof type,” says Stan- ley, “in ecclesiastical history of holiness, of growth, of a new creation without conversion; and his mission te of the special missions which such char- acters aro called to {uitl."” Saul knew as well as any one t Samuel was in favor with God and with the people, and yet, daring more than twonty years of his life, the Prophet refused to do voluntarily, when tt was in his power easily to do it, what we are asked to believe he does now at the very first mutterings of this spiritual medium at Endor, He would not visit Saal when he was alive, but now, after he has been dead four years, he comes up ai the bidding of a witch and her ‘““damiliar’ spirit! Is the proposition worthy of belief tor one moment? The morai character of the three persons introduced to us in this séance utterly precludes tho tdea that Samuel could have been one of the party. The character of Jehovah and the immutability of His law, His great esteem for Samuel and His bat Yor saut and of witcberalt and necromancy preciudes it, The unwillingness of Samuel to do in life what he is com- pelled to do m this case—according to the Spiritualist theory—after life, precludes any such beliet. But, again, this witeh, by her familiar spirit, brought Samuel up and not down; the gods whom she beheld ascended out of the earth mateud of descending from heaven, When God's most faithful ones die do they descend, body, soul and spirit, into the earth’ OF doce the body only go to the dast from whence it came and the spirit to God who gave it? If there js ony tact in nature of In revelation better estabii-t another it is that “the body without + dead.” Samuel's body had lain in the enough at this time to have been in of decomposition. But here he comes Hi, a8 if bo had been laid away only 1 before, and bis utterances are scarcely as important as sume of those made by our modern ngcromancers, the Spirita- alists. or rative it bas are worthy God is of God jon we may put iterpretat n this nar. few lessons of a pract being noted :— First, penbe how ral 4, the ‘soul prey becomes third, when a man forsak es God he resorts to those who ‘ and mutter— the living to the dead;” and .fayrth, disobedience is death. The history of Saul proves these propositions. He was evidently insane; and having forsaken God and been forsaken spirits, and his disobedient life ended in a miserable death, Those who seck the counsel of S| Hist me. | diums at tho present day are they who ha woken the Lord, You will Gnd scores of backslidden Metho. dists, Baptista, Presbyterians, Rypiscopalians and others im every Spiritiet congregation. But no man a acum u insanit or rejected by Him of every foul fend {n earth or air; w by Him he resorted to the familiar | r woman or she who ona pray’ to Gad need go to those dead mutterers for cou oP advice, And if they do they will get only such as havo previously pre- pared themselves to believe. But our modern necre- mancers id to prove the doctrine of the soul's immortal! ae, their jugglery. It is, however, like the rest of the delusion—a pretence and nothing moro, How does this narrative of Saul and the Witch of Endor prove it? Tne only thing it could prove with uy degree of plausibility is the materialistic theory that the soul !s, like the body, composed of matter, ae Leonia in the grave. And all the mane ings and jugglings and rappings of Spiritists are noth- ing more than rank materialisin. GRAPHO, A LADY'S PROTEST AGAINST MR. MOODY'S ANTLJEWISH SELMON. To tHe Evrror ov tax Huratp:— Thad hoped ero this that Mossrs, Moody and Sankey would have made some explanation or retraction of thoir charge againet the Jews, made while they were in Philadelphia. They must have known that such words, uttered by men in their position, are as flre- brands scattered in our midst, creating a burning ha- tred and remowing false prejudices which wo had hoped had long ago died out. Christianity has always pro- claimed itself to bo a teacher of brotherly love and pewce; bat docs not such utterances rather prove it to be a religion of obstinacy and hatrod toward the Jows? Those revivalists Lave declared ‘the blood of Jesus to be on this people, and also, because of this, they aro scattered as 4 panishmont, und are as a byword among the nations of the carth.”” Such were the sentiments ‘Mr, Moody expressed, Butlet me tako him back a ‘Yittle over 1,800 years to the foot of that very cruci- fizston of Jesas of Nazar and see if He was not cru- cifled between two thieves, showing it to have been the Roman manner of exccution, and that it must have beon sanctioned by the authorities, and, moreover, it was the Roman soldiers whose spears subsequently metrated His body. | refer you to Cbristianity’s own istorical account of the evont, and, therefore, you cannot plead ignorance. There 18 nothing in history to prove that ovo stone was thrown by a Jew, though stoning was then their mode of punishing crime, and they could casily have stoned Him had they so willod, Either all history is false or this doctrine of Mr, Moody must be, which be persists in uttoring. Does its repe- tl tiun show brotherly love or tend toward peacer Docs it net rather spread Urebrands ana arouse latent prej- udices? Believe me, Mr. Moody, the scattering of this holy people has been for a higher’ and nobler purpose than their enemies proclaim, aud it has yet to be shown that the word ‘“Jew,”” the meaning of which, a3 understood by the Jews, is one who belioves in God as the sole Creaior and Sayioar of man, is not held in His eye as an honor rathor than as a reproach, as our oppo- nents declare, Tho Bible prophecies hi not all been = fuitilied; “the lion has not yet lain down with the lamb.’ There is yet to bo a future in religious history when brotherly love and peace will be taught and practised among the nations and their re- ligtous Witiecs and fanaticism will die out and jus- tice will be done tho Jew as wellas the Gentile. Tho assertion mado by you that over a thousand Jews had met in France rocontly for the purpose of rejoicing o the crucilixion of Christ seems to me to be hardly necessary to deny, as it must be 80 palpably evident, had such an assemblage met for such a purpose, it would have boon known to tho community on this side of the Atlantic as woll as to the English journal- ists. You, Messrs. Moody and Sankey, should remem- ber you aro not living 2,000 years back, when there was no telegraph, no press, no such journal as our wido awake Hexiup, bearing to us with lightning speed the ovents occurring daily from every quarter of tho globe. TRUTH. THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ITS GROWTH AND PRINCIPLES—POINTS OF DIF- FERENCE BETWEEN IT AND THB PARENT CHURCH. ‘Mo Reformed Episcopal Church has ceased to at- tract that general attention that was directed to it some time ago, and im the moro intense ‘sensations’ which have arisen since it has been forgotten or over- looked. It, however, has not forgotten its own mission. It prosecutes its work silently and surely, and its principles aro operating in Great Britain as woll ag in tho United States and Canada. It has two organ- ized societies in this city and two in Brooklyn. In one of the latter the Rev, Bishop Cumm.ns officiates, It has nearly a hundred othor societies throughout the coun- try, which shows that it supplies a want that existed among Episcopalians. But thore are many towns and villages throughout tho Republic at the present time which contain some Reformed Episcopalians who are able to sustain a church of their own peculiar choico, but who sacrifice their own Predilections and worship with the other communions in keeping with tho fundamental principles of the Roformed Episcopal Church, and, far above those, in keeping with the immutablo principles of the Gospel, The standing committee of the It formed Episcopal Church at largo does not encourage the organization of a Reformed Eptscopal church in any locality, uoless another church of Christ is needed for souls or as an antidote to the upas tree. The sublime idea of the Reformed Episcopal Charch is to farpish seeking souls who require aid in worship a spiritual help, and to those who are under tho yoko of oppressive ccremonialism spiritual freedom, Beyond (his its ministers and prominent laymen recognize and declare the fact that they baye no mission in the eccle- siastical world, and they deprocate sect making as much as any persons can. They aro nota set of propa- gandists, though they naturally desire to see their mis- sion succeed in the world. Bat they have no desire to ‘compass sea and land to make one proselyte” trom ahy otber Chureh, but rather offer their sympathy and fellowship to all who are consctentiously content in their present communion. The Keformed Episcopal Church in this spirit of Christian fellowship by its ministers exchanges pulpits with othor denominations, and has done so very ro- cently in this city with hodists and Baptists, and receives clergymen irom othor evangelical churches upon credentials without reordination, which the Prot- estant Episcopal Church sv strenuously and sec. tarianly insists upon. The Roman Catholic Church, as woil as the Protestant Episcopal Church, believes that it has in its possession the figment of apostolic suc- cession, but it holds its right‘aod authority under itin aboyance. It also receives mombers irom other evangel- teal churches, and dismisses them to other charches upon exactly the same conditions as those churches re- ceive or dismiss members among themeclves, And in every respect this Church seeks to bo in full fellowship with all evangelical unritualistic churehos and de- nominations, and to sabordinate the individual to tho meral good of Christ’s Church. Many accessions ave been made to this Church; for almost all the orthodox Protestant churches and this heterogeneous mass is now engaged in the laudable ondeayor of compacting, beautifying and building up this Church of their choice. Ministers who were cdu- cated at diverse theological schools, and laymen who were taught (rom diverse catechisms,are coalescing moat beautifully in the Reformed Episcopa! Church, and are working more vigorously than over for the salvation of souls, and in this also illustrating the trath that Christians of the most divergent viows in minor mat- ters may most barmoniously co-operate in the oxten- sion of Christ's kingdom, M One of the greatest hindrancos to the work and spread of this Church is the popular ignorance which prevails as sand Nig hegre of the leadors in this and the belief with many persons Uhat there is no substantial difference between tho Ro- formed Episcopal Church and the Protestant Episcopal Church, But there are marked differences between the two, as will appear from the following :— Pirt—T! churches differ essential!y as to what constt- tutes the Chureh of Christ. 1 Episcopal h of the 5S y of its ministers and vist exists only in on throefold ministry Lops, priesis ai sed on the divine right of bishops, who ace the successors of the apostles in their apostolic office, and derive the:r authority from them by succossion in an’ nnbroken chain. On this theory only such bodies of Christians as Pomens this order ‘and successioa—corrupt though they may bo in doctrine and in liwiny parts of Christ's Obureb. The Keformed Op rch protests this sheory as unebri in that ot the Protestant | evangelical ind us. It holds it the true Charch consists of all who are juined to heist by a living faith, and which, ander varying forms of organisation. is yet one in Christ Jeans. Th of the rt e re as above cite: polly, Ry. ‘Ten: je corporate capacity turns away from the Protestant churches around ts, 10 s00K fellowship with the old cx rrupt churches as, for example, the Russo-Greek Clurch—the Reformed Episcopal Church, with an equally histuric episcop: bishops who only are presiding presbyters, not diocesan prelates, seeks the fellowship of all Protestant evangelical 208 ite with their ministers and sits with them the "a table. Secoml—They differ concerniog the nature of the Chris tian ministry. In the Protestant Episcopal Church the called « and tho Ordioai contains this to many superstitions: strikes the word a8 to the minister, from its Ordinal and Prayer Book, but one priest, Christ Jesus. They differ as to the nature and elficaey of tho sagremonts Tt Is claimed, ax the Leaching of thelt and: yy & ini mt it u min “ tom! the Protestant trv ai Chareh, cha vey special grace, to be derived thry (a) Baptiane. The Protestant. Episcopal Church, as, thus Tepresented, holds that the grace of regeneration (a ee eration of some sort) is inseparably connected with baptism, {f2, he Lord's Supper. ‘Tn the sameway the Protestant Episcopal Chareh olde hn the. slemante Christ. ts and the 4 reel upon him bj mt ed oF conse am vated, regards. th id ‘divinely appointed moans, “epic al Church kuows of that ‘by the” Hlly Goat through te ‘apitau in Yo be regarded ax the ow ward i (h) The Lord's Supper. The Retormed Episcopal Church holds that the funper of the Lord Is 8 meniortal of our redemption by Christ's death, and that through faith we derive grace from Him in this Supper as we do in all other divinely appointed means. Fourth—The Prow oh I Charch suffers altars to a tod in its churvhos, and tolerates aurlenlar confession |. with other imitations of Rom 5 Church probibite the erection of rs in its churehos, ot introduction {nto public worship of anything cal to toach wwcordataliam. yih—The Protestant Kpiseopal Church “deposes” all clergyman leaving lis commmnion, following them. with an Attempted badge of disgrrce. |The Reformed Episcopal Cburek commends any bishoo or nembyter who desires ta NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1876:;-QUADRUPLE SHEET. {8 to anofner evangelical church, with its prayers pise. Church, commanicauts from Protestant cbpvehee nerally, onfos & rubric which requires thei to be confirmed. The ed Episcopal Church invartably receives to its mem ship, by loster or other satisfactory evidence, communie of other charches, dispensing with coufrmation unless Ps Seventh—The Prove: the uso of extenipors the Churen, protibitts copal Church allows and pore wrayer with its liturgy, and values u worship, in which the Jaliy participate. spiritaal growth of chur =e" it Episeopal Church discourages ous rviews oF A LENGTHY MISSIONARY TOUR. Rov. Dr. 8. Antlif, Migsionary Secretary of the British Primitive Methodist Church, and who passed | to whose onticing 4 through this couutry nearly two years ogo onan ollicial | © tour “round the world,” was la South Australia in De. cember, «He bad visited Now Zealand, New South Wales, Quoonstand and Victoria, travelling in those \¥ his a 3 oorey, who by the Prassian laws have been deprived of thoir living and reduced almost to a state of beggary. The Soctety of St. John the Baptist, Woonsocket, R. I, bas voted $500 for the rebuiluing of tne French chnreh that was wrecked by the storm a few weeks ago. A bew Catbolic church is to bo built at Green Isle, Sibley county, Minn. Kev. P, A. MeKenva, of Marlboro, M: appointed to take charge of Hudson, Mu wenty-five Sisters of Charity banishod from Ger- many have settled at Washington, Lowa, ‘The Roy. Father Vogtinan, of the Church of the Holy Crosa, Baltimore, is expecting an assistant from Ger many, who ts now ou his way thither, The new Church of the Sacred Heart, at Barrytown, was formally opened for divine service on Sunday, the 6tb inst, by the Rev.James Fitzsimmons, the pastor, al and cuergy its erection and opletion are chiefly due, ho Rov. James A. Rooney, Dominican missiomary, attached to the Church of St Lonis Bertrand, Louis ©, Ky., has sailed for Europe to be absent a year for hoolth’s sake. The Rev. E. Buffard, for eight years a » has been counirics over 8,000 miles (chietly by siege), aud | missionary priest im Texas, has obtained an eight [apenas on an averago about one sermon h day. | Mouths’ leave of abgence to visit his aged parents, still He expects to journoy through Singapore, Coyion, the | living near Lyons, in France, He leit this port on Red Sea and ‘the Mediterranean to Evglund, reaching | Saturday last London in May next. CONVERSION OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST. Somo of our exchangos report tho conversion of au influential Catholle priest in the south of France under the following circumstances:—An anxious penitent confessed to him that sho had been to a Protestant ser- Vico, Ho questioned her closely, for his curiosity was greatly excited. Sbe gave hima full account, and ac- kuowlodged that a great impression had been made ypon her mind. Tho impression communicated itself to him; and shortly alter he reqnostod his own sister to go to the nearest place where Protestants assombled, to listen as with his ears and under bis responsibility, and to bring hima full detail of everything. Reluc: tantly she did so, but faithfully reported all, The priest was convinced there wero trutns of which he was ignorant, entored into communication wiih the pastor, appointed a secret place for a prolonged inter- view, and found peace in the finished work of Josus then and there. The secluded place in which he tabors allows him comparative freedom of action, He preaches Josus; all his parishioners have the New Testament; the children learn of Christ, confessions are stopped short and beliol inthe full satisfaction wrought by the Lord Jesus is substituted for penance. GROWTH OF CATHOLICISM GREAT BRITAIN. A correspondent of tho Catholic Review has gathered from the ‘Catholic Directory’ the following statistics of the growth of tho denomination in Great Britain In 1878 tho Church in England and Scotland haa 1,893 clergy of al! ranks, and 1,253 public churehs, chapels and station Tn 1874 these numbers had increased to 1,966 and 1,268 respectively, and at the ond of 1875 they were 2,024 and 1,294—an ‘increase of 131 priests and forty-one churches in two years. The number of priests ordainod for England during 1875 was seventy- seven,.of whom tweaty-cight were regulars, There wore, bosides, seven pricats ordained at St. Josoph's Coliece, near London, for foreign missions. ‘The whole number of prieats in Seotland is 244, tho remaining 1,780 being in Kngland. Out of the whole number of 2\024 priests inthe kingdom 611 are regulars, and theso have nincty housos—to wit, thirteen houses of Jesuits, three of Redomptorists, seven of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, seven of Marista, tbree of Franciscans, four of Passionsts, two of Vincen- tians, one of Augustinians, two of Carmelites, four of Fathers of Charity, four of Domini- cans, four of Oblates of St, Charles, two of Oratorians, one of Pious Servants of Missions, one of Servites, one of Brothers of Mercy, four of Christian Brothers, three of Zavarian Brothers, seven of Benedictines, six of Capuchins, one of Cistercians, one of the Institute of Charity, one of Premonstratensians, ono of Brothers of St. Alexis, three of Carthusians, one of Josophitos and three of Brothers of the Christian Schools, uf houses of religious women there are 289, of which 270 are in Englaad and nineteen in Scotland. These are composed of four houses of Ursulines, forty eight Sis- tors of Mercy, twelve of the Little Sisters of the Poor, ten of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, seven of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, forty-cight of the Sisters of Charity, five of the Sisters of Nazareth, ono of tho Apostoliue ‘Nuns, one of tho French Sisters of the Little Schools, one of the Sisters of the Visitation, one of the Swurs de Marie Aaxiliatrice, one of the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, four of the School Sisters of the German Luetitute of Our Lady, one of the Sistors of St, Augustine, two of tho Ladies of tho Sa- cred Heart, threo of the Sisters of the Assumption, four of the’ Sisters of Bon Secours, two of Carmelites, one of Dames Anglaises, two of Dames de St. André, two of Daughters of the Cross, five of Dominicans, twelve of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, five of the Third Order of St, Francis, one of the Helpers of the ffoly Souls, seven of the Sisters of tho Holy Child Jesus, one of the Holy Sepulchro, two of the Sisters of Jesus and Mary, one of the Nuns of the Presontation, two of the Sisters of tho Fatth(ul Virgm, two of tho Canonesses of St, Augustine of the Perpetual Adora tion, one of the Dames of Marie, one of Marie Repara- trice, one of tho Congrogation of Mary, oue of the Most Holy Sacrament, two of the Most Precious Blood, twenty-one of the Bisters of Notre Dame, six of Poor Clares, three of the Poor Sisters of the Mother of God, stven of the Sisters of Providence, two of the Sainte Uniou, one ot the Dames Réligieuses de Ja Croix, one of tho Sisters of St Vincent, two of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, three of tho Sisters of the Sacred Heart, three of tho Sorvites, eight of the Sisters of the Most Holy Cross and Passion, soven of the Benedictines, threo of the Sisters of Penance of 3t. Dominic, one of the Visitation, ono of Our Lady of Mercy, two of the Sisters of St. Joseph, one of the Sisters of the Temple, three of the Teresians, ove of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge, three of tho Sisters of St. Paul's, one of tho Bridgettines, one of the Cistercians and one of the Marist Sisters. Many of these communities have but bing few members, but probably the 289 houses have not less than 2,000 mem. bers all told, besides their novices. The whole number of Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops in Great Britaid, ireland and the British coiomes and depend- encies is 126, of whora cightoon are archbishops. Add to these the sixty-five archbishops, bishops and vicar apostolic in the United States and we have a total of 101 English-speaking prelates of the Roman Catholic Chareh, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Barrist. Rey. 8. Hughes resigns bis chargo of the Cape Island chareh, N. J., on the Ist of May next. The Baptist Church Extension Committee havo taken hold of tho Fifty-third street church, of thts city, and Propose to reduce the mortgage on the property to $37,000 by raising $32,000, to be applied on its debt during the current year, The property will then bo transferred to the trustees of the association, and hold by them till such time as tho church is able to assume the $37,000 mortgage, the interest on which meanwhile is to be paid out of the treasury of the City Mission, At Blue Point and Waverly, L. 1, sixteen pew converts have been recently baptized. The Rev. A. A. Watson baptized eight at Clinton, N, ¥., last Sunday; twenty. | seven have been baptized into Pittagrove chureh, N. J., since January 1, and twenty into the Baptist church, at Moorestown, N. J. Tho Rev. K. Judson baptized seven converts at Orango, N. J., last Sabbath. Over fifty conversions are reported in Gethsemane Baptist church, Brooklyn, Rev. A. Stewart Walsh, pastor. The same number bave professed hope in Rov. J. Q Adams’ | church, Newburg, N. Y., and the revival contpaes, Tne new building tn Philadolphia of the Amorican Baptist Publication Society is to be dedicated February IN Tho Baptists of North Carolina have 100,060 mombers, white and colored, 750 churches and 460 ministers; 36 students aro in thoir sominartes, A reries of mectings in Hackensack, N. J., bi in progress for six weeks. Yomo have found others are inquiring the way. The First chur Island, enjoys a revival. Congrogatio souls have been converted and the goo: ues, ‘The Mount Pleasant eburch, Newark, N. J., is enjoying & revival, At Freebold the Baptist church has received, within a month, thirty-seven persons by baptism. Dr, Stiffor recently baptizod thirty-two con- verts at Hamilton, N. Y., and the revival is sull pro- gressing. BPIACOPALIAN, The Rev. A. J. Deniston bas accepted the rectorship of the Church of tho Aseenston, Jersey City, and will enter upon his dutier about the 20th of Apri The Kev. Kichard Whittingham has resigned the rec- ; that fol © wow Paulist chareh, now Ip process of erection, ot ! couipleted, be but little smaller and le. elaborate than the cathedral on Fifth avenue. | It will have a front runing from ninth to Sixticth etrect and Ninth It wil re three years to finisit it, and work w pushed forward as tapidly and as ble. The Paulist community boro (6 and thirteen ecclesiastical judiciously as. poss Bow nunibers tfteen pri studenta, Rev. Jonn Craven has been transte red from Clayton, Jefferson county, N. ¥., to Coustableville, Lewis county, The mission openca father Damen at the Church of the Transiiguration, oklyn, last Sunday, has lad & very successtul week. 'T athers trom Builalo are to open a mission in > Rey. H. J. Zimmer, pasto: Archbishop Willtams, $1,095 50 for Mr, Donahoe, of th v. Jolin Burry, pastor of Ro: who has just recovered from a sov "i Friday for Bermuda, whoro he will remain two mo Boforo leaving he was presented with a purse coutain- enedict’s church to-day, has reesived ing 009, the gift of his friends in this and on Staten'Island, He was escorted to tho steater bj a large delegation of clergymen and laymen fev. Father Rulando, of Hackensack, N.J., having obtained leave of absence from Bishop Corrigin, sailed for Europe yesterday. The forty hours exposition of the Bleased Sacrament will commence in the Church of the Kedemptorist Fathei Third = siroct, this morning, ad continue until Tuesday evening, whea there will be the grand procession, in which tho mili- tary company attached to the charch will take part. PRESBYTERIAN. The Witherspoon Memorial Committee have received from the First Presbyterian church, New York (Dr. Paxton’s), $1,625, including $1,000 from Mr. James Lenox. ‘ten thousand dollars more will set the statuo upon the pedestal, Workmen are now taking down the church edifice on the coruer of Ninetceuth street and Fifth avonus, once the house of worsmp for Dr, John Haii’s people. It 13 to be removed and rebuilt on Fifty-seventh street, forthe Central church, of which Rey. J. D. Wilson is astor, Kach stone is numbered, from turret to base, and in its order is to be laid again by the side ot ita eae the same, yot a new building for the worship of God. The First Presbyterian church of Cranberry, N. J. during the present month has received ffty-tive ot verts, tho fruit of a revival still in progress there. The Roy. E. C. Ray, of Utica, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Third Presbyterian cbureh, Eliza- beth, N. J., and will assume the charge to-day, Thi church was organized In 1851, has had only two pas- tors and has a membership numbering 450 souls. The Rev. B. Bruen has accepted the pastorate of the South Street rresbyterian church, Philaaelpbla. Roy. D, R. Fostor bag rosignoa at Pennington, N. J., and uccepted a call to Nunda, N. ¥. The Rev. B. 3. Fostor, of Andover, N. Y., has resigned. T ‘esbytery of Champlain has given a negative to the Assembly's overture on representation, An Englis! Prosbytorian has given $125,000 for de- nominational church extension in Englaud by way of marking his satisfaction at the c ummation of Pres- bytertan union which is to take place uext May. Dr. C, Westwood, who has been pastor of the Presbytorian church, Lancaster, Pa., has accepted aa nt call to the Chambers Presbyterian church, Phila- delphia, METHODIST. East Fifty-fifth street, beyond Second avenue, is to have a church for German Methodists. Lots have been purchased for $15,000, and the whole onterprise will cost $60,000, which sum the pastor, Rev. Christian Blinn, proposes to furnish himself, and ptesent the new church and sito as a free gilt to the Methodist Episcopal Church. After forty years’ ministry in the Methodist Spee Church, the Rev. Dr. Goodwin, of Dryden, N. Y., went to his reward last Tharsday. He was oue of the Regenta of the State Board of Iostruction at the time of his decease, and bad beon for several years before. For several weeks past a powertul work of grace hag been in progress in the Methodist Episcopal churches Millville, N. J. At the First Methodist Episcopat church over 200 persons have already been received into membership, and the past week closed with from forty to sixty seekers at the altar, Rey. W. H. Milburn, ‘the Blind Man Eloquent,”’ isto sai for Burope on a Iecturing tour about the middie of March. : The Methotist publishing houses at Now York and Cincinnati and their depositories soid last year of booka and periodicals $1,577,126 64 worth, Rev. D. Copeland, Ph. D., President of Wyoming Conference Senfinary, and Rey. Uhilip Krobn, pastor ol the Methodist two or three days in this city during the past week. ‘St. James’ Methoalst Episcopal church, Harlem, Sunday raed $1,250 for the Missionary Society; $7 of this sam were contributed by the Sunday schoot Washington street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooke lyn, took up $650 for the same socicty last Sunday. Dr. Chapman has taken thirty converts into St Paul's Methodist Episcopal church in thia city, and ro- vival services aro continued. Seven o'clock praycr mcetings were held every morning last week. In Bedford street Methodist Episcopal c ch in this city since the beginning ofthe new year more than sixty have been brought into tho chureh; sevonty-wo have united with Carroll Park Motbouist Eptacopal church, Brooklyn, 207 with the church at Monmecelio, N. ¥., and twenty-two at Dix Hills, Le 1 MISCELLANROUS, The attendance apon the several places of worship on Sabbath last was largely inercased, instead of bo- ing diminished, as many feared would bo the effect of tho revival mectings, Rev, Dr. Behreuds, late of the Baptist church, Cleve. land, has accopted a call to the pastorate of Unioa Con- gregational church, Providence, K. L Official steps bave been takon to foreclose the mort- gage on the Church of the Disciples, New York, and it fs to be sold under the hammer. It tho property brings $100,000 or under the parish will buy {tin. If it rune over this sum the bidder will secure the property. Ia the latter case the society will secure for itself, proba- bly in the vicinity of Union square, @ church edidce better suited to ite necessities, + HEATIN Episcopal church, Kingston, Pa,, spont st RAILROAD CARS. Cuesten, Pa, Fob, 25, 1876, To tHe Eprror ov THe HeRatD:— The shocking accident which is jast reported as | having boppened on the Harlem Railroad, by which two passengers were roasted alive and many others shockingly burned, makes mo feol it a duty to call attention”to a simple and well known me: of beating cars by which such an accident can be almost surcly avoided, and whieh has becn in succossful operation on the-Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Raftroad for threo years past, It is impossible for boman foresight to manage f railroad so that @ car shall never be crushed or overturned; therefore the stove or heating apparatus should never be placed in the car, for in the event of a smash-up the stropgest stove will be crashed like a pipe stem, and in gach a case, or oven the simple upeciting of a car, the live coalg aro spilled cut atnong the passengers and the combust ble material of the cur i# ablaze in a moment, the cat rapidly fills with smoke and in the awful bewrldermens oven uninjured passengers do not escape, who might otherwise eastly bave done so. A plata, simple stove beating apparatus, mado after the patterd of the common so-called “portable furnace, 0S- pended benoath thecar is all that is nocded, Then the ret thing that happens in tb so of an upset or®@ sinashup is tho knocking off of the stoves, and the car is nearly sure to be clear of thom. It this does not happen and the cars get piled on the stoves, the fre is utside of the car, and many valuable additional imlnutes of time are gained for the passengera to get out, and tho fires aro startod torship of St. John’s church, New Haven., Conn., and about May 1 will remove to Maryland, Tho Rev. Dr. Stecic has started a Cuban mission at Key Wost, Fla, and has organized a parish with sevonty Cuban families cntolled. There are 5,000 per- sons born and roared in tho Rowan Catholic faith on the Key, who, it is sald, greatly desire the ministra- tions of the Protestant Episcopal Charch, and fands are called for to help build a chareh and support heontiate who is now preaching and teaching his coun. trymer "the Rev. D. F, ee Began s Ape church, Norwich, has resigned the rectorship of St, Paul's church, Yonkors, N. Y., om account of iil health. ‘There are forty-five racant parishes in Lowa that need rectors, and many of them houscs of worship, An assixtant Isto be Ss for Bishop Green, of Mississippl, by tho next diocesan coangil. Christ chorch, Newark, N. J. has only had two rec- tors since its organization’ in 1860—the Rev, Dr. Lowell and the present incumbent (the Rev. J. N. Stensbury). Its twenty-sixth soniversary was celebrated on the 2d ar bee Rov. it Gwynne will enter (D. V.) upon & Teetorsbip of St. Jon's church, Cohoes, N. Y., next jupday, Tho Rey. J. Hebor McCandless has resigned tho roo- torship of All Saints’ church, Pittsburg, Pa., bis resig- bation to take effect in April, The Rey. J, Stowart Smith has resigned at Trinity charch, Cleveland, Ohio, and sccepied the rectorship Mark’s church, Evanston, fll, @ Rev. Zina Doty bas been olected rector of the Church of St. Ambrose, Now York city. The Rev. George Love, B. A., T. . D. has boen unan- jor. imoustly clected rector of St. Stephen's Parish, ence, N. J., to which is attached the miseion at Colum- bus, Right Rev, Bishdp Potter will administor the rite of confirmation in the Floating Ep scopal church, foot of Piko street, this afternoon (services at three) to a class of sailors and others, ROMAN CATHOLIC. outsiae, whero often those who get out frst can pas thom out, Moreover these are not all the advantages gained by this method; for by it a continuous suppiy of pure outside oir, warmed by passing through thie furnace, is brougtit tuto the car, of course displacing as an equal rate the ait already in the car, and thus aiding much in ventilating it, On the road named this kind of boating apparal has bee: connection with a system of gives an oquuble heat, the foor ing kept atont as warm aa tho top, and se ho foul pro- od. Roast. ducts of respiration as fast as they are ing passengers 13 a rare exhibition, but po with the foul and filthy exbalations from yoody' Inpge a very common one. Both aro easily avoided, ‘will continue bili pablie clamor compels it others wise, 8. D. Dy ning thea $s A WOMAN FURY. The following additional details were obtained fa, Hoboken yesterday concorning tho lov affair betweea Mr. Robert [dell, of the Hoboken Bt nd Miss Emme Lebman. Jt appears that tho parents of the young le refused to give their sanction to their upton, thd tho girl, feeling herself siigbte’ at Ideli's doolncse to her and obtaining back from her under false pre- 1 in engagement ring, paid the delinquent lover @ visit at the bank aod atte = 2 son ofa well eyes. Idell, who is tb siablo keopor, took to flight yestorday, apparently afraid of bis ferocious swoctheart, The girl is goo# jooking, but was comsidered comewhat ot a tartar, REAL ESTATE SALES, No less than half a dozen auctionéors advertises sales at tho Exchauge yesterday, bat all were adjoursed over, at the roquest of the several referces, Injunction following the wake of English | having been issued ta ts the sales by the Savrim The Catholic Catholics. calls for aadscrivtions here for the Gorman Cours