The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1876, Page 6

RELIGIOUS INTHLLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements--- Chat by the Way. The Methodist Conferences— The Essence of Judaism. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. The Rev. J. V. Saunders will preach in Willett street Methodist Episcopal church this morning and Rey. Dr. Kettell in the evening. ‘The Rev. Dr. Robinson, President of the Brown Uni- rsity, will tell the congregation of the Washington | avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, this evening, “Why Baptists Should Celebrate the Centeamal, and How to Make the Celebration Most Serviceable for the Century | to Come.” ‘Tho Rey. S, M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon, In the Park Congregational church, Brooklyn, the | Rev. Matthew Hale Smith will answer the question this morning, “Ought Moody and Sankey to Be Sus- sained ¥” Dr. William Adams will preach in Madison avenue Reformed church this morning. The pulpit of St Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church will be occupied this morning and evening by the Rev. W. P, Abbott, The Sixth avenue Reformed church will be minis- ered to to-day by Rev. W. B, Merritt at the usual hours, Reformed Episcopal Church services will be held at Ao, 29 East Twenty-ninth street this morning and even- ing by Rev. George Howell. ‘The Rev. Cuarles FE. Harris will preach this morn- ing and evening in Allen street Methodist Episcopal eburch, In the West Twenty-fifth street Presbyterian church the Rey. Johu Kirkpatrick will preach this morning and evening. “The Constraining Power of Christ’s Love” will be tonsidered this morning, and “Right and Left’? this tvening, in Stanton’ street Baptist church, by Rev. W. A. Leavell. In St, Thomas’ Protestant Episcop#i church the Rev. Dr, storgan will ofliciate and preach this morning and aiternoon, ‘The Rev. James M. King will preach in St John’s Methodist Episcopal church this moruing and evening. | “Three Steps” will be taken this morning in the Bpring street Presbyterian church by Rey, W. D. Nicho- | las. H The Second Universalist church will hold a generat | reaching | ing this afternoon at Harlem chapel. there also morning and evening as usual, | The Kev. A. M. Jelly, of Baltimore, is to occupy the pulpit of the Thirty-fourth street Reformed church at both services to-day. ‘The Second Mission Baptist church will enter a new ball to-day, on Grand and Allen streets, and will have & special service therefor, The Rev, Samuel Alman will preach in the morning, and Rey, R. 8. McArthur in the evening. A general service will be beld in the Afternoou, at which eminent laymen will deliver ad” treswen The Green street Mothodist Episcopal church will to- tay bid goodby to its old homestead. A general re- +m/on of old pastors aud members will be held and ad- tresses will be imade by several ministers and laymen. Next Sunday they will worship ta the stone church Washington square. , J. B. Hawthorne will preach morning and beruacle Baptist church. ). Phelps will discdss the “One | Thing Lacking” m Alien street Presbyterian church | thos evening, iu All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. W. M. Douwell will preach this morning and ovening At too usual hours Presching in Pifty-third street Baptist church this ing by Rev. T. S. Samson, of Newton, Masa, Sunday school anmiversary iv the evening. Poth, le Trials ang Rewards,’ will be considered the morning in Lhe Washington square Methodist Epts- cope eherch, and “The Midianue Soldier's Dream’) this evening by Rev. William Lioyd. ‘The Miseos Bowrd and Logan, of England, will con- Nowe r Bible readings for ladies in the chapel of | the Holy Prietty Protestant Episcopal church this week | = The Rev. 8 MH. Tyug, Jr, wall preach there this morning and evening as usual The Rew, W. W. Andrews will expound the Apocalyptic ery of the departed saints in the Catholic Apostolic church thie evening. Al the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Kew John Jetne will preach this morning, and in pe Abe evening ob The wad Closed Door,” | te Hiewetor street | realiet church the Rev. C. P. MeCarthy Wal the morning consider “Christ and His Kiestotk, or the Journey to sud from Emmaus” In the « be will discuss the proposition, “Then Cometh the Bnd When!’ The Kev Joreph Jewitt will preach in the Advent | Kyereope! church the morping aud evening. The Nev, demeee M. Pullman will preach in the Uni- voreniiet Churek of Our Seviour this morning and even- he Herries: (hie mornimg and afternoon as usual in the Church of the Heavenly Rest; Rev. Dr. Howland, rete The Rev, & GB Jotten will preach in the Sixteonth | sroet Rapes church this morning on “The Resurrec- | ee, and & the « The Conversion ot Zac- She as eed He | aeons Bedep Mutter «dl simenister the rite of coufrma- tom thet meormens om the Chereb of the Holy Apostien fee Kee BB Backus will proach there im the evening. There & premching tecday, as weusl, in the Five Peete Bineoa obi towers ff the day veten Drawe, uporetonteot Gonpet enews tor laymen oil be held this after. | woe Berra Mothediat Episcopal chapel, tear evemer BR. aad i Wonler chape, coraer of Stanton OP) | sheee etre | fee srendage epee & the PUD avence Baptist | eres ee eereng about “Verus at the Feast of tore” Set a the evening ebout “Gospel he Vee ordomary eer coe to the i ppedeume will be con Peeet prot) tay the Swek, except to morrow and the ar sabbath services oud an annoal reception | oe Thursday afternoon; Kev. C 8. | atree Wr Sealed aml the other apert madeume will give Reem BOM oren Mall the evening Tee Ber Rehere Breeeen, pester of BA Hose of Loew Chere ©0l Gelwer © free lectare to young re Wee aay i Mary» Imetitaie, Madison street, om et A RgErE amer wll be Dodd im the bgt this evenng e the Browhiy » Aube A Qentereere of apreniote and liberals eil) be pete ie Marvard henme ths sera sed ovee ing pies the mowing the Rev gore The bitect of the Mibte | 60 © Mane Mend,” sat i the evewing be will speak sheet “Trestag © Het aad le voll Tee Ree © BR Aer 8 pre thee morning io fe Ubereh of the Mequad on ° ene femmte ot Late, and te tho ereming on ee ree The Bev Comanrey Gites #.\\, thie morning exptan to the Berdeeborgan Sewer S What Bavuy Fah is, Mow Ht be Gemed aed Lroried, std How Salvation Ie Rptecope! Chere will ment Wo morrow evening mm Lal cary cherch, whee Kev K Heber Newton will discuss The An of Qeertw ie, ‘The Bev, Dr, Bwer will preach thie moreme and the | Rev, € T Cimatend tm 84 Lgwatios’ Prot eatans hpiwoopel bor } Te Priamy Baptiet cherch, Brooklyn, thw rorping, the Rew, W. K Wright wil eprak about the “Pre-em | sence of Jesus.” end to the evening about “Sie | Leprosy aed Lis Core Mr. Marvbass, of London, Kagied, #1)! proach again Wie evening © the ol) Chatham Street Theatre Loi), Sankey's bymns snd we cule woe ‘The Shakers will meet te Cooper Union Hall this evening, and Kider Kvans will deliver on address on | great eflects as an extra missionary, | from an unknown tongue, The evangelistic songstor | 0 Std phony Be | says he has copies of his tune book in twenty-five or | | school a plucked rooster and saying, “Behold the man NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 18 from ‘our to five P. M. to-day. Rev, Mr. Lioyd will | lead. The Rev. E. D. Murphy will preach this morning and eveuing in the Mariners’ chureb, CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘The best prayers are thore which you try to answer yourself, after you have uttered them. Never trust to gentus, but put your confidence in hard work. When Giardini was asked how long it would take to learn to play the violia he replied, “Twelve hours a day for twenty years.” Determined toll is sure to tell when nothing else will There is an Arabic proverb to the effect that if you Pitch a lucky man into the Nile be will come up with » fish in his mouth, while the aplucky man will come up 1m a Osh’s mouth, Swilt says very quaintly that the reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making fets, not in making cages. Christianity ts the only material out of which to the true gentioman. Religion and politeness are more nearly allied than we think, To be loving in heart is to be courteous im manner. It is a curious fact that the materiais out o' ich the Reformed mission church in Japan was recently built were taken from demolished Buddhist temples ‘These temples had fallen to ruins through disuse, and when the Christian missionaries were looking about to find the wherewithal to erect a church they saw the ruins and determined to utilize them. That Reformed | mission church is thus made a very significant mile- stone in the pathway of the world’s progress. The editor of a heaghen paper in Bengal says, in article which will pass for a sort of review of th Scriptures:—“‘If a person studies the English language with a view to gain wisdom there is nota book m worthy of being read than the Bible.” The head of a gang of thieves went into the inquiry room after one of Mr, Moody's sermons, and Was 50 troubled about himself that he resolved on a ne’ Kindly hands were extended to him and he went about to several church prayer meetings, making very effective talks and, without doubt, doing good, But his old gang got bold of him, partly laughed and partly coaxed his religion all out of him, and he went back to his old ways again, Ho sent a letter to one of the uptown ministers who had befriended bim, bidding him goodby, aud declaring that hope was gone, and nothing left but the vortex of crime, The poor wretched soul was lifted up fora moment, but dropped into the mud again. Here is a very common experience of the converted. “Mo you think, Sammy, that you bave been born again?” “1 do think I have, minister.’ “Well Sammy, whose work was it?” “Oh, minister, God did apart, aud [did a part” ‘Ab, indeed, what part did you do, Sammy?” “Woll, sir, 1 opposed God all I could, and He did tho rest.’” It is possible to find a suggestion in this bit of a story. ‘Is the sermon done?'’ some one asked as he met a member of the church. 0, no, man, not yet; it is preached, but it still rematns to be done,” This iegend bas the ring of true music about 1t:— ‘A certain pacha, dead five thousand years, Once irom his burem fled in sudden tears, And had this sentence on the city’s gate Doeply engraved:—'Only God is great!” So these four words, above the city’s noise, Hung like the accents of an angel’s voico, And evermore from the high barbican Saluted each returning caravan. | Lost 1s that city’s giory. Every gust Lifts with crisp leaves the unknown pacha’s dust, ‘And all is ruin, save one wrinkled gate, Whereun 1s written, ‘Only God ‘is great!” ‘A very interesting Evangelical Alliance meeting was recently held in Japan. The missionaries of Yokohama and Tokio, of all denominations, met to shake hands and | pray. The effect was salutary, not only on the clergy | and delegates who convened, but on the olive colored but intelligent population of the two great cities. It is not best to carry sectarian quarrels, together with the Christian religion, to the heathen, The exhibition of unity of purpose and fraternal regard will produce as The rulo should be, “if our missionaries disagree and quarrel with each other instead of doing their work as brethren, have them eaten on the spot.”” What a delightful place some parts of Africa must be for a man who wants to preach the Gospel. A rocent letter from one of our missionaries im that favored locality pictures the home and work of a clergyman in such golden tints that we wonder the whole ministry does not make application for foreign work. While the family were busy in other parts of the house a huge boa constrictor, fled with a natural and laudable | curiosity, lazily wound his way into tne parlor and lay down on the rag foranap, He seems to bave been entirely satisfled with the arrangements of things in- side the house, for after a while he wriggled out again to garnish his own inside with a dog ora baby, as chance might offer. Instead of our little, buzzing mos- | quitoes, huge spiders drop down suddenly from the ceiling, “take a bite’? and then hurry back to their hiding places, Altogether this portion of Africa has fescinations which do not optain in many other locali- tes. ‘The chief charm about Saukey is that he really sings ‘usb, Some people, when they sing, say, Ro Kov a gest cle furm oc,” but Mr. Sankey translates as he goes on, and sings, ‘Rock of ages, cleft for mo,’ and the people scem to be pleased with his renderings | thirty !anguages, but he always takes the English copy to the Hippodrome. The Liberal Christian, with becoming modesty, de- clares that all the honest statesmen of the present generation are Unitarians, This sufficiently accounts | for the fact that the denommation 1s growing smalier every day, and is in imminent peril of boing altogetner extinguished. There will soon be absolutely nothing Jeft but its unassuming modesty, and that can never, never die. ‘The scientific definition of what peculiarly consti tutes a man is certainly suggestive, Plato saya that a man ts simply “a two-legged animal without feathers.” Socrates once ridiculed the master by bringing into his | Man 18 sometimes called “a Jaughin animal,” sometimes “an animal with thumbs,” and sometimes ‘a lazy animal” But Adam Smith was pot far wrong when he called him ‘ap animal that makes bargains. No other animal does this, No dog exchanges bones with another.’’ These definitions are pot adapted to feed our conceit, however valuable they | may be in other respects. We have always beard a vast deal about ‘blue blood”’ and have looked upon the happy possessor of this cerulean fluid of life with considerable envy. But like ‘a groat many other idols this also is destined to pall, Some wise M. D. makes us satisfied with our own ruby current by declaring that red blood alones feeds the tissuoa, nourishes the brain and makes a man of us, while the biue blood 1s loaded with carbonic acid gas ‘and the effete matter of the system. So, goodby to an- | other hobby horse upon which we have been prancing these many years. To most people this world is a solid reality, while the other world has only the dim outlines of a dream. Hut the time is sure to come in every man's existence when this world will fade away in the distant past of memory, and seem likes very dream, while the other world will loom up before us asa grand or terrible | reality. : ‘A grocer, who bad been at the Hippodrome and who bad gone through some mysterious experience in the inquiry room, was accused of overcharging his more wealthy castomers, He admitted the fact with the biandest of stiles, and, pulling out a pocket Bagster, declared that he was simply obeying a Scripture in- jancvion, His assertion was, of course, doubted, but be turned to L Timothy, vi, 17, and read the following words, which he had underlined with Wwe fk, that bis eye might rest on them alone, “Charge them that are rich in this world.” He said hee never omitted his duty in this reepect, and felt un- der deep obligations to Mr. Moody for calling his atten- ten to certain passages vot far from this one, but which had passed oot of mind the moment he read this particular and important command. Ever sinco | thet tume bis “weighs have been weighs of pleasant. bess and peace." ‘The Cremation Society of Dresden seems to be active of Plato!” | stk «= They call the process of calcination a “dre burial,’ and extend @ cordial invitation to ail who are about to die to speak a word in favor of their oveng | So euthumastic are some members of the society that they are sotualiy looking forward to the time when they exn “give their bodies to be burned” and urned. The average American, however, has too many pleas- ant aescelations connected with the daisies of the cemetery to have any longing to be reduced toa cin- der erther before or alter death. Here i# « sermon on revivals of which It would do the | crowds ot the Hippodrome uo harm to take heea, | Ferry, of Orange, wore elected delegates tothe Gen- | where they sicpyed to visit Rome end ofew other | Ninety apd Nine,” | laborers iu this city out of employment, to whom baif | | Christ to feed | one church tn that city recently and the other churches | are going for the old man.” | methods created dissension among the people, and a The preacher was a little off color in his cuticle, but the spirit level would adjuge his heart and head in the right place. He said, “My brethren, ‘ligion is like the Alabama Kiver. ring come freshets, an’ bring all ‘the old logs, slabs and sticks that have ben lyin’ cn the bank, carry them down the’ current. Bymeby the water go down; then a log catch here, an’a slab es cotched there, an’ there they lie until there come another freshet Jus’ so there come | revival of rehgion; dis ole sinner is brought im, ‘m dat ole backsiider come back ‘n’ we have mighty times. But pymeby 'vival’s gone; den dis, ole sinner gi caught in bis ole sim, an’ dat backslider gits catebed where he was alore; and they what got 'llgion Nes all along de shore ‘till ‘noder ‘vival Belubbed brethren, keep in de current, 'n’ den you are safe.” ‘The leer whieh Antonio Borrero, newly elected Present of Eouador, sent to the Pope, asking his blessing epon “my goverament and myself” is a mode! of ite kind. He declares that a ‘‘man is always power- Jess without the assistance of the Most High,” and then asks His Holiness to pray that during the term of nis office be may scminister affairs with impartial justice. It would do bo harm if the Republic of Ecuador should send a representative of {ts policy to the Centennial. We can ourselves send a specimen politician who would make (he contrast abrapt and startling. Nothing could better show the quality of Mr, Moody’s ebaracter thaa the bour devoted to asking and an- swering questions at the recent Hippodrome conven- tion, Questions very heavy and questions very light wore hurled at his bead from all quarters of the great hall, but he caught them on the fly, with indomitable good nature, and threw back an answer on the instant whi jas either very wise or very witty. He made the vast audience cry like #0 many children at the re- cital Of some tender personal reminiscence, and then he turned their tears into uproarious laughter at some repariee, Altogether it was a scene which will not soon be forgotten by any ome who had the good fortane to be present Mr. Sankey treats church choirs to a very free criti- cism. He thinks that most of them should be wel- comed to hospitable graves. They are a stumbling block in the way of church work. They are not sub- ordinate to the service, but oftentimes destroy the whole effect of sermon and prayer by trills and solos, - which are admirable ag exhibitions of personal ability, but terrifie as component parts of public worship. With perfect suavity of manner he waved them iuto the background, apd read their death warrant with the same sweetness of voice with which he sings “The CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND THE POOR. To Tux Evitom or THs HeRaLp:— In Sunday's edition of your independent and en- lightened paper appears a letter, signed “A Constant Reader,"’ concerning abuses in the Catholic Church, or, 1p other words, ts the Catholic Church totended tor the poor? While Catholic Church claims to be the only trae Church she bas for many years been copying the extravagance and folly so promiment in | other Christian denominations, The groat majority of | the laboring class of this city are Catholics, Hard | times and forcod idleness have reduced them to ragged | beggars and disqualified them for associating, even in | the house of God, with their more fortunate and more | pretentious neighbors, At presens there are 25.000 enough af dry vread would be a g bey muy | find reluctant access to eariy mass, where they never hear the Gospel or any instructive ‘sermon preached; | but they cannot enter any Catholic church in this city without ten or fifteen cents admission fee. ‘here are, to my knowledge, ti of | families who would think it @ luxury to havo | ten or fiftcen cents’ worth of bread. I know one instance where a poor man gave ten cents on entering one of our uptown churches. It was handed back because he could not give fifteen. He left the church orrowlully, and offered up his prayers to his Great Creator on the street as best he cou! Many of those poor men have contributed liberally, when they had the means, toward the support of those charches where now they are denied admittance, Many of the most exucting of those Christian pastors are speculating lorgely in real estate, ride in costly car smoke fine cigars and are bursting with fat, while are perishing for corporeal as well as spiritual i. One, if not all, of the apostles were commanded by bis sheep, and also hia lamba, and the | Bible informs us that the Good Shepherd will lay down His life for His flock; bat our modern shepherds take good care to shear all the sheep that are fortunute enough to have fleeces, but those without are uncared for and left to be preyed on by political as well as Christian wolves. The workingmen of this city are | under many obligations to the Hzraup for past favors, | and are hopeful that you will exercise your powerful influence in behalf of justice and the crete poor. Maxcu 29, 1876. A CATHOLIC LABORER. THE REVIVAL. ‘Thore was no meeting at the Hippodrome y. "4 but a prayer meeting was held, according to announce. | ment, at Association Hall, corner of Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue. There were about 500 pres- ent, many of them Ygung converts. Dr. Kennard pr sided and Mr. Pecham, secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, led tne singing. The meeting opened with the singing of the hyinn, “Ring thé Bells of Heaven,” and then Rev. Dr. Kennard addressed the audience on the subject of “Grace” He said that | by the grace of we are saved and by nothing else. No man is saved by his own effort. The Spirit of God must come down on him, and imoue | lim; and the way to have that spirit is by prayer. We hope that the Spirit will remain with Mr. Moody and | Mr, Sankey, and that tens of thousands of the people of New York will be converted, Rev, Dr. Kennard called on any one in the meeting to stand upand pray, and several persons stood u| ad been saved by listening to Moody, One man trom 600 members had joined ‘he preaching of Mr. Newburg said that were réveiving humerous applications for membership also. Among those who joined the churci there was one partictiar cage he remembered. It was of quite a ung man who-had been led to Christ, His tather Tops casioen, and he took care of it. But ho gave up | the saloon and everything else to enlist \imsel! in the army ot the Lord. Another of those who rose to pray was Jerry McAuley, of the Water Street Mission. | Brother Jerry thought that the ministers uptown | were not clean of heart, for if they woro they could do more work with their congregations, Men will not be converted except by those who are clean of heart and clean of mouth, Let those ministers up town throw the tobacco out of their mouths and go to work like disciples of Jewus, and they will bave success. ‘Why,” said Brother Jerry, ‘we have twenty-five of A. T. Stowart’s crowd converted in our mission already, next week we | * Several other prayers | and experiences were and the meeting closed | with the singing of the eighteenth hymn, ‘Rescue the Perisbing.” THE TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH. Last Sunday we published an item concerning the recent disbanding of the Temple Baptist church, in Harlem. We have since received irom the church | clerk a communication, signed by himself and two | deacons, which gives, in several preambles and resolu- | tions, the reasons for their action. It may be remem- | bered that a few years ago the Rev. Mr. Lucas, now of | New Jersey, was pastor of what was then the Firatand | the only Baptist church in Harlem. His manner or party seceded from the church and, with the pastor, Set Upan opposition organization. Some litigation followed, and Mr. Lucas went to Europe for a while and left his friends and foes to Nght their battles with- oat him, When he returned he touk another charge | in New Jersey A8 might be supposed, the rival | churches were unable to sustain pastors, and appica- | tion wis made to the Southern New York Uaptist As- sociation and to the Missionary Union, for admusion to the former and tor aid from the latter, It was understood that {i the society which then and now clanned to be the First Baptist church (lately disbanded) should reorganize under another name, since both parties claimed to be First, the association would recommend them to the Missionary Union for assistance. They did so and ized a8 the Temple Baptist church'of Harlem, under which title they bi ked ous & miserable ex- stence for fifteen months without pecuniary aid from the Misstonary Union or recognition from the Southern Association, Being unable longer to main- tain themselves as a church the little society dis- banded. But their rival organization had a couple of years ago called the Rev. G. W. Sampson, D. D., then «4 Professor in Rutgers College, to be their pastor, and his society ba a recognised and aiced by the association and the Union named. This is whi the disbanded society characterize as the ‘‘climax of a ing process, which for a long time previous had vematically and covertly brought to bear against them by unscrupulous enemies,’’ But three other Baptist churches in this city which had the Tecognition and aid of the institutions named have re- cently disbanded. Hatred of one another is a bad basis on which to build any church, aud hard times and b debts will cripple many @ chureh in this city yet, they have done heretofore. The }} denomination, according 10 18 own authority, has made vo perceptible progress here tot the pas: tw: hve An item recently publisbed concern the weakly condition of the Sixteenth Baptist chur is corrected by a member, who says the church is financially sound, that last Sabbath fourteen were added by baptism, and that the membership now num- bers sib souls, This is good news, which we gladly publish, NEWARK METHODIST CONFERENCE, THR NEEDS OF DREW SEMINABY—DELEGATES TO THR GENKRAL CONFERENCE. The Methodist Conference continued its session in Newark yesterday, Bishop Scott presiding im the fore- noon, Rev. J. N. Fitzgerald and ex-Mayor Georgo J. iP | im this city. eral Conference, After the disposition of some routine business Rey, Dr. Porter, of the Ceatenna Committee, made a brief address relating to the im portance of the claims of Drew and Wesleyan semi naries. He was followed vy Mr. Ferry, who dwel upon the same theme, referring particularly to the needs of Drew Seminary occasioned by the financial embarrassment of its founder. He was gratified, he satd, to be able to state that money had been pledged ral wealthy Methodists A de- foreney 000 and $30,000 was necessary to be supplied to 8 the Wesleyan University and he hoped that next year an endowment of $500,(00 would be raised by the people for this nobie institution, President Floss, of the Wesleyan Semimary, followed Mr, Ferry, remarking that he had not she least doubt ‘that if ealthy laymen of the Church re- fused to contribute toward the endowment fund 100 ministers could be found, each of whom would contrib- ute $109 or more per annum to sustain the noble institution. Bishop Janes made a __ stron; speech favoring generous support for the col- Jegiate institutions of the Chureh. A resolu. tion was adopted that centennial offerings be made for the liquidation of the debt of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., and that $40,000 be raised to en- dow a Janes Professorship. ‘To-day the clergy will spread their efforts in the Various Methodist churches of the city. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. artist, ‘The Rev, W. ©. Van Meter is in this country on & begging tour for his mission schools in Rome, One of his assistants in that city has recently written to him ‘that the Pope has just made a large appropriation of money to tho school that was started in opposition to Mr, Van Meter’s peur the Vatican, and has offered suit of clothes, shoes and all, to every girl who aball leave Mr. Van Meter’s school now, and a liberal dowry when she is married; but there bas been no diminution in the attendance at Mr, Van Metcr’s school on this account, The Rev. Dr. James 8S. Dickerson, late editor of the Chicago Standard, is dead. A short time ago one of his limbs was amputated apd he was in a tair prospect of recovery, but a change for the worse came. He was fity-one years of age and had been fifteen years in the ministey, The Rey. Dr. Wharton, formerly of Louisville, Ky., having taken 4 charge in Augusta, Ga, for lis health’s sake, has resigned, not having received the veneiit he sought. Rey. W. W. Landman, of Shreveport, La, has become his successor. Dr. E. W. Warren, of Atlanta, Ga,, has received a call to the First Baptist church of Richmond, Va, and Rev. Mr, Jordan, of the same city, has answered a call to South Carelina, Meruopist, ‘The Southern Methodists are in a terri¥le flurry over dancing church members. Their discipline makes this practice un offence grave enough for exclusion; but in many gether, question under the circumstances, One minister about it asa plague, aud deciares that be will do his utmost to destroy and root it out of the Church. Thesouthern Methodists have resolved ‘that Bishop Haven having told so much ut the South that 1s un- true ougut to desist from the exercises of bis episco- pal office until there is a thorough retorm in his morais.’” ‘The Sunday school room for the Methodist Episcopal — at Hunter's Point, L. 1, was dedicated last Sunday. In Communipaw Methodist Episcopal church, Jersey City, over torty have been saved, some of them trom the intoxicating cup, One mah, who had not been in the house of God for filteen years, has been converted. At @ recent ordination in the Pittsburg Conference Bishop Haven invited a local elder, Kev. W. H, Kin- caid, to assist him by the laying on ot hands, and the Feligious press are wondering at the innovation and ask What vext? It is tho first instanced on record Ot a local preacher assisting at such service, Bishop Merrill has so far recovered from his illne: as to be present at the Pittsburg Conference during part of jon. He is expected to preside at the Northern New York Conlerence. ROMAN CATHOLIC. Archbishop Parcell, of Cincinnati, who is now sev. enty-six years old, will next month celebrate the jubi- Jee of his admission to,the priesthood. Rey, A. A. Lambing, of Pittsburg, Pa, 18 the posses- sor of a Biblo that is halt a century older than th Reformation. The Bible is ip the Latin lan, isa thick tolo of 934 pages, printed on very heavy paper, in old English type. A House of the order of St. Francis is to be estab- lished mm O'Neill City, Neb, Ot the expatriated German Jesuits eighty-four have gone to settle down 1p Asia and twenty in Africa. Ip the diocese of Nushville, Tenn., which was or- ganized in 1837, there are now 29 churches and 80 clergymen, 1 coilege, 2 orphan asylams, 9 female re- ligious institutions and 6 female academics, ‘A life-size wax figure of St. Benedict, together with some relicg of the salut, will shortly be enshrined in the Passionists’ Monastery, West Hoboken, N. J. The Roman Ca.holic population of Greece is confined to a small section of that kingdom, and numbers only 5,440 souls, The Right Rev. Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, R. L, has made the following clerical appointments in the diocese:—Rev. Jumes Smith, of Taunton, to be as- sistant priest in the French church, Woonsocket ; Re George Mahony, from Freuch church, Woonsocket be assistant in St. Michael’s church, Providence; What they should do, thereto ve James Goodwin, from Grand Seminary, Montreal, to be assistant in St. Mary’s, Taunton. Right Rev. Ur. Seidenbusch, 0.8.B., Bishop of Nortuern Minnesota, was in Newark last week on a briet visit. He was for several years prior of St. Mary’ in that city, The Benedictine Monks are once more in Scotland after an absence of 300 years, and propose to adapt tl premises Fort Augustus, Invernessshire, to purposos of a college and monastery. The German government baving caused the expul- sion of the Bishop of Paderborn trom Hollan bas proceeded to England, whence he bas already formally declared that be inteads continuing to conduct the ad- miuistration of his uiocese, ‘The refusal of sees in the Catholic Church 1s becom- ing a8 frequent and notableas in the Protestant Epis- copalChureh, The Rev, M. Hurley bas now refused the bishopric of the new diocese of Peori, IIL; but | ‘the Pupe may insist on his acceptance of it. EPISCOPALIAN, A Mexican League designed to aid the Episcopal mis- sions in Mexico, under Dr. Riley, has been organized It hes the approval of Bishop Potter and prominent clergymen here. Bishop Potter administered the rite of confirmation in the Church of Our Saviour on Thursday evening last toa large number of candidates, To-day and wext Sunday the *Stabat Mater’ will be sung 1m tho Church of St, Mary's tho Virgin, in Forty- filth street. ve ‘The Rev. T, K. Conrad, D,D., has resigned the rector- ship of the Church of the Transtiguration, Philadel- hia, Pitne Rev. . D. Miller, of Milford, Conn., has ac- cepted a call’ to the rectorship of 3% John’s parish, Harttord, and will enter upon bis duties about the lat of May, The Rev. W. A. Rich, of Canton, N. Y., has gone to * Key West to assist Dr. Stecle in looking alter the Cubans and the people, The Rev. Perceval Beckett has been unanimously | elected rector of All Saints’ church, Pittsburg, Pa, The Rev. H. B. Ensworth has removed irom Ger- mantown, Pa., to Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘The Rev. William T. Fitch has officiated for some Sundays past at St. Mary’s, West Brighton, S. I, Find. ing that serious trouble exists between tho vestry and former members of the congregation, which prevents unity of actfon in the parish, and tearing that bis repa- tation as a clergyman tnight suffer by remaining there, he has declined a second call tendered him. The Rev. George J. Magill, of Wicktord, R. 1, has been elected to the rectorship of Trinity church, New- | Jewish rabbi, but is now a canuidate for the Episcopal ministry, it fe believed would make an excellent mis- sionary among bis love coreligionists. It is said that many of them come to Lim pow for instruction. PRESHYTERIAN, In nineteen churches 1m the eity of Troy and vicinity the couversions of late uumber 574, Seventy-nine new members were added at the Brook- lyn Tabernacle last Sabbath, making 991 new wembers Teceived ia the two years of the present tabernacle. “Ninety and Nine” were received into the Second Presbyterian church of Steubenville, Uiio, a ite last communion season tn March. A new Presbyterian church t# to be erected at Throgg’s Neck, at a cost of $12,000. The Presbyte: J. church at Branch N. en! "ar ‘a sous aud from the Christian prosely users il recentiy completed six years’ into 'the feflowebip Ske Foal ‘The chai raised all dur. lug those six S13 82 MOVE 'S OF MISSIONARIES. A few day: the Rev. J. D. Brown, wife and child, and the Rey. T. 3. Jobusou, M. D., missionartes of the Methodist Episcopal Charch 1m India, returved to this country. The Rev. F. B Cherington and wife and Miss Swain, M. D., also missionaries in lodia, accom- panied Messra Brown and Jolnsom as tar as italy, places to exclude all the pious dancers would | be equivalent to shutting up the meeting house alto- | 76.—_QUADRUPLE SHEET. Places of interest, They were a!! in as good health as could be expected after #0 long a voyage. Mr. Browm was on a visit to this country @ couple of years ago, because of the feebleness of his wife's health, and.as soon as she recovered they returned to their mission field. He comes home again because of another break down in health. Ir. John- fon has been in India continuously since 1862, and is the first missionary whose constitution bas been ubie to withstand the climate of that country for so many f spa 41 succession, His wife eo son Ped c ol country about two e, on this port, hastened on to the West to see them. | Yesterday a couple of temperance missionaries from pee as this port for land: SAe they — spen summer, an r the wint too, Mr. and Mrs, nk vonnson have been invited bya teow w and Christian philanthro- Piste of England to visit country and lead a tem- perance crusade against the beer and brandy arinkers Of Great Britain, They are to hold meetings in all tho great centres of the land and wake up the Christian zeal and enthusiasm of the people on this subject, They have both travelled extensively in the United States, organizing temperance associations and brother- hoods, and their good works having gone before them they are now asked to tollow to the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Johnson was the Corresponding Secre- tary of the SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. THE ELEMENTS OF JUDAISM—WHY SHOULD NOT JUDAISM COPY TRE Goop IN OTHER Isms? ‘The Seripture lesson read in the Temple Emanuel yesterday was trom Genesis xxxv., which Dr. Gottheil antounced would form the groundwork for his second and third lectures in his course on ‘What Is Juda- ism?’ His second lecture was given yesterday, and tho third will be given next Sunday, 9th inst, which is the first day of the Feast of Passover, The text was ‘a long one, and included the first eight verses of the chapter indicated, . The narrative is that about Jacob’s departure from Padanaram, where he baa married and grown rich and begotten a large family, and the first part of the narrative was made the basis of Dr. Gottheij’s discourse yesterday.” He said the bousehold is the place where, by common consent, all our AYERCTIONS TIN Team EaOrED areEne, the conjugal, the paternal and the fraternal. Judaism, taking its root in that hallowed ground, at omce aban- doned all hostility to the social relations of men. It did not spring from the heated brain of an anchorite of an enthusiast, who knows nothing of the love or Jo} ofa parent's heart. Judaism came directly, as a well of living water, out of God's sanctified band. There- fore it stood within the world like the righteous nan by the river's side; its leaves did not wither, Ail who know anything about our religion, said the Doctor, know also what strength it possesses ang liparts, and how much is drawn from it to-day. And those who know Judaism know that it befriends men at sight. It desires to see men happy and hopeful, and, as tt has been Gyeraig iw by a great preacher in the vicinity of this city (Beecher), Judaism is the only religion that makes joy a part of worship, 1¢ frowns on the ascetic ; and on those who are discontented with the conditions in which God has them here. Juadism is the witness of tho personality of God on the one | hand and the only powerful protest against idolatry on the other. Only here and there comes up a faint echo from the philosopner’s study, but never powerful | enough to raise @ nation to the which Ierac! occupied thus early in the world’s history. And it seems to me, said the Doctor, that if there is ever to be peace between religion and modera science it must bein the peace of Israel's faith. And, therefore, to | propagate Judaism 1s not to propagate sectarian. | | ism, but rather to subserve the best interests | i of bumanity. Judaism is & development; so that the Judaism of to-day, if we are worthy profess. ors of At, must be better than it ever has been ii past, We are not, therefore, called to defend the c! | acter of the men of the Bible as perfect. They were men of flesh and blood hke ourselves, and were better | than men who lived around them, but not better than men Wy have lived since, We have no experi. ences o MEN IN 4 STATE OF PERPRCT PURITY, We take the men and women in the Bible just as we find them thestrength and purity of our moral | perception: more than mere belief in any book or in any man, By my own light 1 must walk and judg | and thus will we search the Scriptures for odification and for instruction, We must not allow ourselves to | be turned aside alter man worship or miracle workers, | Our futhers examined the Bible for this in the ‘s past, and they found as we find that Judaism is the perfection of the monotheistic idea to the daily life; and hence we are as ready to receive new light and life | as we are to impart both to allwho seek. Let us not laugh at the contention for substance and forms, for | we know not how easily our own hearts may be led | into such mistakes, But now brighter days bave come | and they are God’s prophets aud messengers speaking | to us Israelites to change our garments and cleanse | ourselvea. But we are said to be giving up the contest now because | ‘WE HAVE INTRODUCED CHRISTIAN CUSTOMS ' {nto our worship, Have we, indeed? Where did | Christian worship come from first? Who wrote the | Psalma’ Who read the Bible in worship first? Who broke bread and drank wine in the Passover first? and | ho baptized firstt, These questions answer them- | selves to every thoughtful mina Judaism has in | former times permitted Persian, Greek and Roman customs to enter into its worslip, but did it on that account become Greek or Roman or Persian’ If put a turban on rz. head and garment on my rson am I thereby transformed jato a Turk ? asked the Boctor. If wo borrow. from others have we not taught them enough to expect something in return? Thank | God that we are free to do this, that our eyes can seo the good, and that we can do as the Talmud recom- mends—receive the truth from whomsocver can teach | it! Thank God that we have no ecclesiastical authority, which some jemqrecs are so earnestly hankering alter, to hinder us! Judaism is the oak on the mountain top that bas defied the storm and lifts its head to heaven. | The oak is one of God’s trees. Thank God that we | have gained that knowledge and that we prize our | religion for its self—tor its own inti orth, and not for the props that have been put to it! We believe in Judaism, but not in habiliments and customs, Let | us have the ‘ight to say to the world, Remove the strange gods that are among you and let ‘us be faithful to God, and He will be faituial to us, ‘BARON” GRANT. yesterday by the announcement that the world renowned “Baron” Grant was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel On Friday night s gontleman, without bag- gage, engaged rooms at the Filth Avenue, and tered himself ‘Alfred Frank, Monires”” Yesterday morning he left the hotel aud wont his way, whither js not known, A_ learned clerk, with a | world of mystery in his eye, informed the | writer that the Baron had gone to fare, but to what spotin that abbreviated sovereignty was not | known. From the description at hand of Alfrod Grant, | and those given of the ‘gentleman from Montreal,” an | identity is established, notwithstanding deniala from | | quarters that the Baron is not in America. On the Hxeatp announced tho arrival of the it te stated that the aristocratic financier of the most public hotels and registered his name, tn order to break tho force of the Hxsanp's announcement that he was in the city incognito. THE EMIGRATION COMMISSION. The Commissioners of igration waited on Gover- nor Tilden at his residence, No. 15 Gramercy Park, yoaterday, to consult him in reference to the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in re head money. The Governor, after hearing all that was to be said in reference to the matter, stated that he was considering the advisability of making the recent ae the subject of a special message to the Lexisla- | ture, cor Friday Baron, THE MISSING BROKER. Mr. William E. Conner, the missing stock broker, re- | sided at Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City, from last | Wednesday until yesterday morning, when be le! without telling his fature address to ite clerk. . AN ITALIAN CUTTER. During a quarrel which occurred yesterday afternoon between Michael Rotto, an Italian laborer, and Francis Fuery, of No, 22 Tallman street, Brooklyn, the former drewasheath knife and stabbed hisadversary in the hd licting a serious wound. Rotto was arreste 68 Adams street and locked up. ABOUT MR. HARNEY. New Yorg, April 1, 1876. To rus Eptror ov tas Heaatp:— Having had our attention called to a certain com- talee, it (otemated that Mr. Lawrence Harney, in unexplained, received “perquisites out of and Fag nen A we, the openers and mm the Appraiwer's Department, do declare that such statement is In every partic. ‘that bo “perquisites” or contributions of have ever been exacted from us by Mr. Ha and nd we have falles y- ened by all the employés of Openers’ Department. BOOKS RECEIVED. Annals of the Civil it of th een otaast ike Sona Beata tet Washington: A i ‘ceigetine ‘ane Syria by K. Baedker. Leipsic: Assi ments. 2 Co. Co. New FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The Stock Market Feverish : end Lower. GOLD UEAVY AT 113 5-8 A 113 3-4 Money on Call Loans 3 and 4 Per Cent—Inveate ment Securities Barely Steady—Gov- ernment Bonds Easier—For- eign Exchange Quiet, WALL Street, Satorpay, April 1—6 P, a} Evon were the difficulty of gender removed, stock. brokers can scarcely be looked upon as Peris, or stock: exchange doors as “gates of Eden,” yet the former bung about the portals to-day as ‘‘disconsolate” as the fairy 19 Tom Moore’s poem. There was reason, too, for this dejection, for it was the fatshing up of an unprofit. able week, and the advent of Saturday night (sacred to sweetbearts and wives) with a purse too slim to fur- nish cadeauz for the former or keep the pot boiling for the latter. Lake Shore and tho St Paul stock received the larger share of attention, but it was by no means com- plimentary to them in the light of valuable securities, since figures grew ‘‘small by degrees and beauti- fully less” as the heurs passed, and quotations at the end were about the lowest of the day. There appeared to be no special cause for this decline save that an artificial rise was followed by a natural fall, Prices had been marked up by rigging the market; the know- ing ones had quietly shiftea their load to the Johnny Greens of the street, who are intoxicated with Centen- nial promises and shares which are as unmarketable ‘asa drove of white elephants. The absence of Gould from the market not only diminishes dealings in his own fancies, but reflects unfavorably upon the entire list. There isa howl at his presence and a grow! at his absence, and the board, N&e a venerable dame & pet malady, while 1t com- plains of the affliction, is loath to part with it, Apart from general reasons Lake Shore is weak on the prospect of achange in direction. Although the record ot Commodore Vanderbilt shows that in rail- road management he takes as naturally to water as a milkman to a pump, yet his reputation for integrity and general cleverness begets a feeling of confidence ‘Sat is invaluable to any corporation over which he may be called to preside, and the possibility of his re- tiring from the management of Lake Shore is viewed by permanent stockholders with apprehension. If there are reasons for Lake Shore to sell down, there are reasons for the St. Paul stock to sell up—that t@ if credence can be given tothe reports that both Kinds of the stocks are to be treated to a 3% per cent dividend io August, Whether from the reasons we have written above or whether it has been discovered ‘that the payment of dividends in bonds is siunply a matter of getting the company further into debt, it is evident that the course of St. Paul shares is in the direction of lower figures. Erie bung about 194; the entire day, and in the absence of the Teutonic element even the third rait and coupon funding points were as blunt asa ‘prop. erty” broadsword, The same apathy characterized Western Union, which at present is loft to its own devices; still the anxious bench in the shape of Atiantic and Pacific continues te exist as part of the new bullding’s furniture, and on ita stability depends in a great measure the chances of the next dividend, A reference to quotations tells the story of the reet of the share list, which is one of figures and nothing more, ‘THE BALES TO-DAY. The transactions atthe Stock Exchange to-day ag- gregated 116,000 shares, which were distributed among the most active stocks as follows:—New York Contral and Hudson, 600; Erie, 10,900; Lake Shore, 46,200; Nortnwestern, 6,000; Rock Island, 100; Pacific Mail, 8,409; St, Paul, 11,300; do. preferred, 3,000; Ohios, 8,000; Western Union, 10,000; C., C. and I, C., 1,2004 Hannibal and St Joseph, 700; do. preferred, 1,000, ‘Michigan Central, 4,700; Missouri Pacitio, 1,200, OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICKS, The following table shows the opening, highest and Jowost prices of the day:— Pittsburg. | Milwaukee and St Paul Milwaukee aud St Paul pref. Vhio and Missisai NOD. 0s vee Atlantic and Pacific Tel... Pacific Mail . + Aripple of excitement was occasioned in this city | Pan 2 ae 2 re Bat me nt a Missouri Pac ADVANCE AND DECLINE. The following are the changes in closing prices com pared with those of yesterday :— Apvaycer.—C., G, and LG, 4; C, 34: lntmois Central, Nj New Jorsey silver, 4; Consols in London, \. eral, 5 Hi K ereh bs Shore, 3 4} Northwest Ono and Mississipm, Ly; i St Paui, common, 345 do. pre hy, S} Union Pacific, 44); Western Uuion, St Louie and Iron Medotatn, \ i, ee SrationaRy.—Atlantic and Pacifle preferred, ogo | Delaware, 4 Lackawanna and Pacrtic Telegra; Western, THE MONEY MARKET. Money at the close was supplied at 3 and 4 per cent. Prime papor continues to pass at 4% and 6 per cent. - ‘The following were the'rates of exchange on New York at the undermentioned cities to-day: —Charleston, par a 1-16, % premium; Savannah unebanged; Cincin- nati firm, 75c. to $1 premium; New Orleans, commer: cial, par a 1-82; bank 4 premium; Chieago, par, and St. Louis, 100 premium. Foreign exchange is firm, but inactive, with few bills offering at unchanged prices, Prime asking rates, 4.87! and 490; soiling rates, 4.86% and 4.8044 a 489%; reichmarks, 9a 954 and 95% 996; cables, 964 09635; prime Paris, 5.13% and 5.11), C., ©. and L., Con ‘THE GOLD MARKET. Gold declined from 113% to 113%, and closed at 113X, Cash gold loaned dat at 2, 13, 1, 23, 3, 4 and 5 per cent for carrying. * ‘ CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT, Currency exchanges... not ot} Currency balances. + 2878006 Gold excbanges... « 8,496,440 Gold balances... . 1,002,614 WEEKLY CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. $1,089,197 1,177,120 16,391, The specie shipments to Europe to-day were $260,000 gold com, by the Chester, and $20,000 guld coin, and $162,357 Mexican silver by the steam ship Baltic. ‘THR UNITED STATES TREAStRY. Suet despatch to.an evenmg paper says:— he silver payment the Senate Finsuse Ooehinstee” ‘seat fospeeys nia ia the opinion of members of that com: materially moditied, The dill Seale hive bmn he Senate without Regan's amendment, & very strong opposition to allowing be paid partly in silver, at least tw witht o enor Soran tad sone, will, without doubt, be siciehen eat ane extent. It is understoou that the bill, ae passed yesterday, Is not satisfactory to the Treasury by Tho Treasury operations for the week included te