The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1876, Page 15

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1876—QUINTUPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements—Ch-t by the Way. THE METHODIST GENERAL © CONFERENCE. Synagogue Worship—The’ Injustice of the Press to Jews. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. —_——_—— In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev, W. M. Dunneil will preach at the usual hours to-day. Rev. George 0. Phelps will ask Allen street Presby- terian church this evening “Why Should the Work Coase?” The Rev. William Lloyd will explain te Washington equare Methodist Episcopal church this morning how “The Saviour can be Locally Absent and yet Universally Present.”” In the evening he wil: speak about ‘The Esprit ue Corps of the Chureb.”” Atthe Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. Jonn Johns will preach thia morning and evening at the usual hours. “The Frail Bridge, or Judaism to Christianity,” will be discussed this morning in Plimpton Hall before the Fitth Universalist Society. Rev. H. L. Hastings, the evangelist, and Dr. Robert Crook will preach in Sixty first street Methodist Epis- copal church to-day. “The Essential Importance of Immortality” will be shown by Rev. C. P. McCarthy this morning, and “When and Where the Day of Judgment Will Be’’ this evening in Bleecker strect Universalist church. Dr. Talmage will preach in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning on “The Recognition of Friends in Heaven.” Dr. Marvin R, Vincent will preach in the Church of the Covenant this morning, and in the afternoon Rev. Lyman Abbott will deliver a memorial address, The Church of Our Saviour will have a memorial ser- vice this morning, and in the evening Kev. J. M. Pull- man will preach about “A Lost Soul.” Rey. 8S. H. Tyng. Jr., will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity. A Bible reading will be given in tho afternoon by Rev. W. Humpstone. “The Noble Contention” and “The Simplicity of a Wonderful Cure” will be discuseed by Rev, J. D. Herr In the Central Baptist church to-day. The musical programme of last Sunday will be re- peated to-day in Christ church, with orchestral in- ttruinents and a chorus of forty voices. Dr. J. B. Flagg will preach morning :.nd evening. Rey. B. E. Backus will minister at the usual hours to-day in the Church of the Holy Apostles. Services this morning and afternoon tn the Chureh of the Heavenly Rest by the Rev. Dr. Howland, Dr. John Lord will lecture in West Thirteenth street Prosbyterian church this evening on “Mosea”? Dr. Burchard will preach this morning on “The Ascension of Christ.” Bishop Snow will speak about “The Little Horn of Daniel’a Vision” this afternoon in the University shapol, ‘Tho Beaati ui s.40" and “The Door Shut’? will be eomsidered to.day by Dr. Armitage in Filth a Bupwiss church, ‘ Rev, Mr, Rowell will preach in the Free Baptist shurch this evening on “The Trembler.”” In the Harlem Universalist church the Rov, J. A. Seitz will preach at the usual hours to-day. Mra, Bullene will lecture for the Spiritualists this evening on “The Murderer and His Victim in Spirit Life,” Mrs, Stoddard will give materialized demon- Strations of Spirit power. Kev. Dr. M. S Hutton will proach in Madison ave- ue Reformed charch this morning. Rev, 5, M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Presby- terian church this morning and afternoon. In St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church the Kev. James M. King will,preach to-day as usual. “Lassons from the Life and Death of the late 4, T Btewart’’ will be given to young men in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church this evening by Rev. C. K. rig, Dr. John Dowling will preach in Fifty-third street Baptist church this moruing and evening. . Rev. J. Spencer Kennard will ask the Pilgrim Bap- Mat church this morning “Shall the Work Go On?” and in the evening he will speak about “The Prodigal Son.” The Rev. Dr. Rylance will preach this morning in the church of St. George the Martyr, Thompson street, Rev. Dr. Crawford will preach this morning in St, Luke's Methodist Episcopal church and Rev. W. P, Abbott this evening. God’s love will be proved this morning by Rev. W. H. Lea and in the evening he will deliver ‘A Bible Reading” in Stanton street Baptist church, Rev. J. B. Hawthorne wil: preach morning and even- ig in the Tabernacle Baptist charch. Rev. H. S. Hastings, of Boston, will preach this ‘ening im Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal sbureb, #hd Rev. J. H, Lightbourn this morning. Wiilets strect Motnodist Episcopal church, which was lo ed last Sunday for lack of a pastor, will be opened o-day, the cburch having found a temporary one. Divine service in the Russian chapel this morning. To St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church to-day the Rev. Dr. Ewer will continue his holy week series of discourses, epeaking on the events of Easter. Rev. W, T. Sabine will preach in the First Reformed Episcopal church this morning, and Rev. Bishop Reinko, of the Moravian church, in the evening. The Kev. George Howell will conduct Reformed Epis- sopal Church services to-day in No. 29 East Twenty- ainth street, Rev, W. W. Andrews will lecture this evening in the Catholic Apostolic church on “What is Lacking in the Revivals of the Nineteenth Century,” Rev, W. H. Thomas will preach in Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal charch this morning about “New Bottles for New Wine,” and this evening about “Horo- {sm in Common Lif At Harvard Rooms Mrs. Amanda Spencer will speak to-day before the Association of Spiritualists. Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach this morning fa the Church of the Disciples on “The Holy Ghost in Our Lives,” and in the evening on “The Way to Glory.” Mr. Thatcher, of the Hippodrome, will lead the singing, and during the week revival services will be held every evening and short sermons delivered on the sinner’s relation to God, forgiveness, tho atonement, Christian happiness and heaven. The Rev. W. T. Egbert will preach in the Wainwright Memo-ial church this morning and Rev. E. F. Reming- ton in the evening. The Rev. Chauncey Giles will speak in the Sweden. Dorgian church this morning on “The Holy Spir ‘What it is, whence it is, what is ite office and how it performs it.” “Mansions in the Skics,"’ a myth, will be the subject of discourse at the Christadelphian meeting in Frankiin Hall, Jeracy City, this morning. Rev. 8. M. Hail, D. D., will preach this morning, and thurch, CHAT BY THE WAY. Pagans can teach us « few Christian lessons. In some sarts of Africa there is a rite calied the “brother rite,” After it hae been performed, if one of the members is w trowblo ew b of the otners say, “It is myrelf that ts im troubie,” and hastens to his relief The general adoption of that kind of beathenism would do us no barm Tue man who bas charity has ol! the othor Curistion virwes, Charity is atthe top of the pyramid, and he who possesses it must needs have taken each succes- Bive step from the ground to the apex. The Master wever promised that Christians should have no burdens, Ife na its burdens ior all, and there i# no way to get rid of them unui we pass the Jordan, But when one trusts in God the power to en- dure comes with such ebundance that cries out, “Sty yoke is easy and my burden is light.” The Chris. tain’s yoke never galls, but his neck is so nicely fed bo it that he can pull the load with the greatest economy of strength. It 1s said that @ bill bas been introduced Into the Obie Legis'ature imposing a fine of §60 for profane » E. D, Marpby this evening, at the Mariners’, swearing. Whether this moans that for $50 you can, as it were, get an annual heense to say what you please, or whether it means that only rich men, who carry $50 bills with them, can indulge in the luxury of an oath, is not clear. Ifthe enforced it will be easy enough to pay off the national debt, Cardinal Manning has been talking very plainly to the people of England about their national sin—intem- perauee. He says that the masses ure “without the sanctities and order of domestic life,” and insists that the conventional ‘trop too much” is the tirst drop a man takes, ‘The two evangelists, whose tents have been folded up, ®ilt be remembered very sweetly for many a year tocome. We had doubts about New York when their approach was announced, and felt that the whole movement might end in an iguominious hegira. But the earnest actermimation of Moody and the tender songs of Sankey won all hearts, They came, they saw, they conquered, All alike were charmed—the poor man in the third story, back, and the millioun on the avenue. Indeed, the world never saw so many hippodromedaries before, and will not again unti! these indefatigable misstonaries revisit our bieak shores. Vice 1s always vice, by whatever name you call it, We speak of “irregularities” in these polite days, and intimate that a gentleman has borrowed"? funds when he suddenly determines that his health requires the balmy atmosphere of a foreign country with which we bave no extradition treaty. One day when Cardinal Mazarin accused his Archbishop of cheating him at cards the accused replied, “‘No, Your Excellency, 1 never cheat; 1 only make use of my opportunities.” There ure some men in these days who never let an “opportunity” go by unused. The best rule of Christiag conduct isto forgive others at once the evil they may have done against you, but to lorgive yourself for what you bave done agaist your own soul with great hesitation andfonly afier a severe reprimand. We are too stern in our Judgments of others and too lenient toward ourselves. If you want to know what you really amount to go to yourenemy and heed what he says. He may make an overstatement, but still his words are better than the words of flattery, if you are bent on self-improvement, Talmage says that three-quarters of a million of con- verts have been made by Moody and Sankey. The Doctor has been dreaming of the mailtiphcation table and disdains the slower processes of addition, His computation indicates a wild flight of the imagination. If the evangelists can count up acouple of thousand genuine conversions they will do more than wo think possivie. If Dr. Talmage reckons his own converts in the same way there ought to be an auditing committee appointed whose skill in addition can be relied on, lt is bard to keep the adjectives of the Eoglish language under perfect control They sometimes slip out so quickly and unexpectedly that one is himself astonished at their forco and gmphasis. We saw a gentleman the other day bit his foot against a sharp stone, and the pain must have been intenso for a moment, for te uttered under his wrath just one word, but he said it as though ‘+his heart im that one word he did outpour.”? We pitied him, and passed on witha hope thut we should not be led into a like temptation, and with a feeling that if the same thing should ever happcn to us We ought not to de held accountable for the expression of opinion which might inmediately follow. , He who ts not perfectly satisficd and happy in the friendship of Christ does not deserve to have it, If your religion makes you bappy it it is genuine; if it makes you miserable it is counterfeit. “Ephraim 1s a cake not turned’is often quoted to prove that some Christians are only halfdone. Wo are apt to forget that there is an equal fault at the other end, and that a man may be also overdone. We have seen some Christians so crusty that we are sure they were not only ‘turned’? and so done on both sides, but turned again and again until the upper crust and the under crust came together. There is a project on foot to publish the private lite of Mr. Beccher, as that of other great men has been published, The task will be by no means an eusy one, He is one of the few men in the country who has no private life. Everything he says and does is made pub- lie by the avidity of reporters and interviewers. We know what he hus for breakfast and at what time he retires at night, His passing remark toa beggar in tho street ts in type within two hours of its utterance. The color of his clothes and the size of bis boetsare all known to us. He lives under a microscope, and there is only one little matter that seems to be hidden, and that he will not tell, and the man who writes his pri- vate life will not probably be able to find it out 1f Solomon tells the truth it is impossible to have the “oil of gladness” im our old age unless we have the “oil of birch’? ia our youth. It ought to be remembered that there is no recoil to the discharge of one’s duty. Pernaps the following epitaph could be written over nearly every grave, It contains a homoly, but a unl- versal sentiment— Here hes the body of Alice Wooden, Longer she wished to live, but A cheerful heart lightens the burden. The old ballad bas it:— Jog on, jog on the footpath way, Your sad tires ina milew” The Archbishop of Canterbury says that there is not a Bishop on the Bench who accepts the Athanasian creed, Aod yet Dr. Tait receives a salary of £15,000, with ecclesiastical palaces and a quantity of perquisites, because he solemnly agreed that the creed of Athan! asins ‘may be proved by more certain warrants of Holy Scripture.” Consistency, thou art a jewel. Such a crowd goes to hear Spurgeon that he has been trying to coax bis regular attendants to stay at home and give others a chance. What a pity that some of our own churches are not near enough to receive the benefit of the overflow! The only secret to this great man’s success is bis earnestness. He preaches no bet- ter than a dozen other ministers in London, not as elo- quently or even magnetically as some, but he gives you the impression that if you want to know anything about spiritual concerns he does not guess about them, bat ¥ sure of what he says as though he had spent jummer vacation in the New Jerusalem sad investi- gated the matter with great care. There is no power on carth to compare with that of a man who talks be- cause he believes himself what he says, A very sharp controversy has been going on for some time in Memphis between a Baptist and a Methodist clergyman, Each eloquently tnsisted that the otnor was wrong, but the crowd probably insisted that both were wrong. It 1s better to eave gouls than to fight about the rights of sects, All sects are right that have Christ, He is not confined by the limits of any one’s ism. . There seems to be aquiet sort of unpleasantness in progress between Professor Dwight, who upholds the Advisory Council, and Dr. Dexter, who regards it with suspicion. We have been amused to note bow near two gentlemen can get tocalling each other hard names and yet not quite do it. They bandie their quills very carefully, and, so far, all obtrusive adjectives have been disponsed with. It is pertectly evident that if Christian grace should be withheld for about five min utes an entirely different and more forcible vocabulary would be called into immediate requisition, It isa little diMcult to quarrel and keep good tempered all the ume. Dr. Krauth, of the Lutheran Charch, says that the Aposties never “exchanged pulpite’”’ with the J or Pagans, and therefore he himself will not exchange puipits with the ministers of other denominations, The exquisite delicacy of this logic will bescen ata giance. It must be very pieasant to feel that you are not ‘‘as this poor publican hat you are a sort of “Lord Mayor of New Jerusaiom,” as Hudibras bas it It must be a dizzy height from which the members of other sects look like “Jews and Pagans,” and some nen might even forget the duties of Christian charity toward the less fortunate; but the good Doctor casts a pitying glance at us and maintains his sovereign com- posure If a man 1s near the cross he ia near everything that is good and voble, The cruss 1s tho only thi earth (hat never casts a shadow, To be near it, then, 1s to be in eternal sunshine, The Rev. Mr. MeM) seems to be having a bard time among the Mormor He is endeavoring to re- convert them to the old laith in Christianity and monog- amy, but bis progress is very slow. He goes into the pulpit armed, for bis life has been threatened, and is ready to dispense either Bibles or bullets, according to the withes of the congregation, He has a vory small ‘church, tut a very large Sunday school. The old folks stay at home and bug their delusion, but a score or two of the children can steal away from each family with- out being missed, The Pree Baptists held @ convention somewhere if New Bngland last week, and managed to crowd into a ‘couple of resolutions enough heresy to make each tn- dividual close communion huir on the denomimational head stand on end, They asserted that if a man has been redeemed and his sins forgiven he basa rignt to sit at the Lord’s table whether he nas been sprinkled or immersed, There is certainly no hope if we are to be as liberal as that. What the Baptists will cometo at last if they begin with that decree of charity, which embraces all men who love the Lord, we dare not ven- ture to predict, Just think of loving a man who bas been ouly sprinkled, while we have gone dowa into exactly sixty-eight gallons of water, Until your faith affords as strong evidence as your senses you will full short of what is yoursight. It ts safer and surer to walk by faith than by sight, for sight 18 your sight, but faith is God’s sight. The eccentricity of the most moral word tn our lan- guage is quite alarming. Hereafter, it you please, we Shall let Wright write rite right, and then, perhaps, we shall be able to read our title clear. A lazy man, either in the Church or out, gete very little sympathy. And yet laziness and luck are some- times quaintly conjoined, for we heard the other day thatthe reason why a man who had tumbled from s roof into the street and bad not burt himself was that he was so luzy that he couldn’s fall fast enough to injure bimself. There is a very curious suggestion in the query of the little girl who was told that Mr. Smith, aneighbor, had got the nomination, “Got the nomination? How terri- ble. Mother, do people ever die of it?” For the an- swer we are referred to the men who have been “Ship- wrecked on the sands of time." METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE. One week hence the General Conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church of the United States will assemble in quadrennial session in Baltimore. The delegates, even with reduced representation this year, will pumber 500, and will represent a constituency of 2,500,000 church members and twice that namber of bominal adherents in this country, and fraternal dele- gates from other bodies of Methodists in this and other lands, The sessions of the Generai Conference seldom occupy less time than one mouth, and trequently they overrun that period, leaving mucn of their business unfinished at the fluai adjournment. The Academy ot Music hus been hired and prepared for the use of the Conference and the people of Bultimore have gener- ously opened their homes to entertaim the delegates, Four years ago, when the General Conference met in Brooklyn, N. Y., they adjourned to meet in St, Louis, May 1, 1876. But tho depression of business and the grasshopper plague have so impoverished the few and feeble Methodists of that region that they could not entertain the Conference for a month without very greatly increasing their burdens and crippling ther energies, The Methodists of Baltimore, who four years ago were anxious that the Conference should meet with them, in this case came promptly to the rescue of their Western brethren and renewed their invitation, and one annual conference after another has accepted it, and to-morrow week there will be 4 bustle and stir m thas city such as it has not witnessed for many years, Asa preparation tor that gathering the Bishops have recommended that next Friday be observed throughou, the churches as aday of fasting and prayor fur God’s special blessmg upon the Conference; that He wil, graciously guidg and assist the delegates in all their de. liberations and bring them to wise and just conclusions on all questions that may como belore them. Some or these questions are of very great importance to the Church at large. They include the FUNDAMENTAL IDRAS OY METHODISM; the number of biBhops and their support; the character, duties and tenure of their office and their proper care when old age enfeebles them and unfit, them tor active work; the number and method of electing the presiding elders or sub-bishops of the Church and the manner of their support; the itinerant system; the probationary system; the Sunday school department, its conduct and relation to the Church, The ritual of Methodism, and the expensiveness of the machinery of this form of Christianity, will come up for a hearing betore this General Conference, At the close of the last General Conference the Methodist Episcopal Church bad thirteen bishops. One, the senior Bishop, Morris, has died since, and Bishop Janes, of this city, is now bis successor in years and pastoral work. He been forty-six years in the ministry and twent: jur in the episcopate, ‘The last General Conference assigned the bishops to separate districts for the purpose of r lence only, They make out their own plun of visit to the an. nual conferences to suit themsolves, us heretofore. But wh@ locating of them wes designed to pro- vent the tendency, very apparent among bishops and presbyters, to settle on the Atlantic seaboard aud leave the rest of the country in a measure uncared for. There has since grown up among the churches a provincia: idea which would contine each bishop to bis own district or province. This, however, will hardly find tavor with the General Conference, as it would sub- vert the itinerant system to which the bishops as well as the presbyters required to adhere, Previous to 1872 the bishops were supported i A 4 proiits of the Book Concern in this city, bat the last General Con- ference,threw this burden over on the Cuurch at larga (about $40,000 additional per annum), with the proviso that the Book Coaocern should make up deticiencies. These aggregate more than haif of the entire amount needed, and it the epi y should be increased this year, as many section’ ask and expect, the withdrawal of such large sums of money from the business of the Concern will very seriously interfere with its usetul- nessa. The Germans are clamorous for one or two bishops of their nationality and tongue, and the colored Methodists waut more than two of their race. But simitar demands were made upon the last Gen- eral Conference and were demied, and they will be, without doubt, by tuis Conference also, A vewspapei controversy has been waged during the past year con- cerning the bishops’ orders and their tenure of office. As deacons and elders they received each two ordina- tions, and the point in dispute is whether the third one fs necessary to the authority or fitness of their episco- pal office, seeing that they are thereto elected by the votes of the General Cunference, THK PREUATICAL PARTY insist that the opiscopacy is a third and higher order tn tne Charch than the others, and therefore demanu: separate form of ordination or cousecration. | presbyterial or radical party insist that the clection gives them ali the honor, authority and dignity that a ottice bas needs, and that they are simpiy elders like the rest of the clerical body, only that tor the time being they are chosen to the superintendency of the Church, This party would rotate the ottice overy four years, and when a bishop, through sickness or infirmity of age or other cause, ine disqualitied for active service, it would send him buck to the Con- ference trom whence he was taken, to be supported b that body insteaa of by the Church at large. This matter will be thrust upon the Geveral Coutereace which meets in Baltimore next week, and will need a set- tement. The presiding elder system comes in importance next to the episcopacy, and will probably excite much more interest and controversy, There are 423 of those sub-bishops in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their office takes them away from the pastoral work and makes their support a burden on all the churches, en by so much—as some pastors think—tbeir ‘ies. The cost-of the cidership is trom tive to eight per member, system the cen! this ge presidi Two priucipal modilications of are demanded, One would en- districts and reduce the numver of thereby giving them @ better support and the The other would reduce t dis. triets, so that a presiding cider could retain pastoral charge of acharch und receive his support thereirom, and atthe same time exercise a certain supervision over churches in his vicinity. With these a third pro- position ts conuected—namely, to elect the presiding elders in annual. conference instead of having them appointed by the Bishop, as they are now. This propo- sition is based on the idea that the bishops appoint favorites to those positions, and ses men over the chareh who are often the least esteemed among their brethren, And over this matter an animated discussion has taken place during the past year, ope party claim- ing that in the early history of the Courch elders were elected and not appointed, and the other equally strenuous in asserting acd maintaining by historical facts wad premises the contrary. The last General Con- ference had 421 delegates altogether, of whom 292 were clerical, and of these 185 were presiding elders. This 1s considered u large Lok esa vut ot the entire pre- siding eluerstup, created a little jealousy in the minds of some men, who think their chances to go to Conference are reduced by the election of so many elders, who, they say, are chosen because of their office, and not for personal ability, ‘THM ITINERANCT is becoming more and more irksume to ministers who have tat salaries and good position: city cburches, the Bishop who may have the supervision of the partic place. But this is vigurousiy opposed by mini who under the itinerant pian bay to obtain city appointments a churches which unaer the same rystem can sometimes get a first class pastor for asccoud class salary, 1's opposed sito ou the grou of 1t# anti-itinerant ten- deucy and as Injustice 10 the majority of charches and ministers im the denomination. 1 the 12,000 itinerunt ministers in the Methodist Episcopel Church more than halt change their sale every is, they ear, so that, taking this as a proper Be'considered aa favoring # reduction instead ot thereture scarcely crease in the rai term, There @ probability that any change will toral term or iu the 1 D widespread desire now lay deiegat ited to annual conferences, a# they are to the Gen- I Conference, and the latter body will have meas. ares beiore 4 looking to this result, ‘The probation system of six months is begging for i Kdered too long, and system, Al ty-five ry the Methodist npecopel Cosret become full m bers. The remainder, thirty-five per cent, either tali denominations, where they are conlession of off to ott Focarved “into full membership upon faith im Christ. The Church, too, it is believed, loses much of the power and tntluence and help of those who Reolty unite With it, becuuse of this protracted proba- THE RITUAL OF THN CHURC! im respect to the reception of members, the adminis- ‘ration of the sacraments and other things, needs modifying, and to-morrow the Preachers’ Association of this city will discuss what and wherein changes should be made, The definition of the relation of the Sunday school to the church is, perhaps, the most im- erative demand of the hour in other churches as well ay inthe Methodist, In many places the school and the churet are rival institutions, and im most they are conducted independently one of the other, Sometiines to the injury and scandal of both. This General Conterence will be cailed upon to settle this question once und forever, and it will need all the wis- dom possible to steer clear of the snags that lie abead, The growing expensiveness of Methodism is becoming alarming to many. It is, very much on this account, ceasing to be the Church of the people. It fails to reach the masses agit used. Collections must be taken up in all the churchos annually for general missionary PUrposes, and for the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society; for the freedimen, for education, church ex- tension, for the support’ of bishops and presiding ciders, for tho Bible Society, for the Tract Society and the Sunday School Union, for superannuated preachers, and every fourth year for General Conference expenses, So that there is one of those collections provided for nearly every mouth inthe year, Then there are con- ference claims to be wet and the current expenses of the ministry tfom year to year and the interest on heavy mortgage debts on many churches. These consti- tute a burden under which the people are groaning. And yet the aggregute of all these do not exceed much more than $5 Ler member per annum tor all the Metho- dists in the land. But thou-ands are unable to pay this much, and there must be curtailment somewhere. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. | LESSONS OF RELIGION THE LESSONS OF LIFE— DISCOURSE BY REV. H. 8. JACOBS. The congregation in Thirty-fourth street synagogue has very largely increased since the Rev. Mr. Jacobs became its minister. fie is a xood Sunday sehoot worker, and takes great interest in the education of the children, and especially in opposition to the tendency toward Christianity and pothingarianism which seems to have taken hold very largely of the Jewish mind ‘There was a Jarge congregation in the synagogue yesterday, but it Was noticeable tnat a large proportion—perhaps one- third—caine in just before the sermon. There ought to be no valid reasonwby those members could be Present belore and participate in the prayel id other services of the sanctuary, The habit of running out and in at ceriain parts of the service lessens the sense of sanc- tity and solemnity that one should feel in the house of God and disturbs those who are spiritu- ally minded and worshipfal. The basis of Mr. Jacobs’ discourse was a part of the Scripture lesson for the day Leviticus, tenth chapter, third verse: —““This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and beforo all the people will I be glori- fied.” Tho authority of the Holy Seriptures, Mr. Jacobs remarked, 1s confirmed by the testimony of experience that the lessons of re- ligion are the lessons of life, To go no further than the portion of Scripture read to-day we finda beautiful ilustration ia the history of our fathers dur- ing their pilgrimage In the wilderness, It is full of interest for us to-day. The tabernacle and its appur- tenances had been completed and seven days of conse- cration had followed, and now Aaron is installed in all the functions of the pontitical office, The heart of the poople is lifted up with joy, and when they looked at the scene they shouted for joy, But in the midst of all their triumph a calamity takes place like the fore- casting of the cloudy on a summer day before the thunder cloud breaks and drenches the earth with rain. Or as in the tropica when a calm prevails and suddenly uature becomes convulsed and homesteads with tueir human occupants are engulfed. Even so in this case the terrible calamity came upon the high priest’s fam- ily. Two of his sous, tho Talmud says, while drunken entered the tabernacle to offer strange fire before God, and there came forth fire from the Lord and consumed them, and they died there in the very sauctuary which they had defiled. Imagine the DEEP HUMILIATION man 80 lately installed as the religious and acal head of the nation, this father whose sons had thus dared to defy God; imagine him whose gar- ments were made for glory and beauty now trailing them as it were in the dust in grief and sorrow at the shame brought upon his office and his household. The man who loved peace and sought to bring his fellow creatures to religion, how his brow must have felt a sense of horror at the degradation that bad taken the Place of the inscription Holiness to the Lora, His eyes must have swelled with briny tears and his lips ‘trembied as he exclaimed mayhap with another, I am the man that hath seen affliction,” or like Israel reat monarch when his son was slain exclaimed, “Wonld God I had died tor thee my son, Absalom | My son, my son!’? But there stands Moses calm and placid, the faithful expositor of God’s word, taithful in atl his house, H6, as the messenger of inspiration, says:— ‘This is what God hath spoken, “I will be sanctilied in them that draw nigh unto me.” We all grieve for ourdead. Nature «peaks in lier tears, and itis no wonder that in the midst of our tears we can’t perceive the justice of God’s avcrees and shot ourselves out trom theworld, But the text teacves us that the lesson of religion 1s the leason of Ife, and it bids us fit ourseives for !ife’s duties and honor God before all the people. Aud thus doing here we shail be qualified to approach him jn the better world. This is no wild strain; it is the holy aim of honest work, the call to toil for our fellow creatures as well as for ourselves; to be earnest and active because it is the sum of life, the lesson of immortality for those who fit themsoives to draw nigh to God, Without this lesson of immortality the lessons of life would be but mere phantoms, With- out the assurance which religion and. the bible present to us that, though we part nere, wi all meet those we love in the future life, what would world be to us? How are we to make these lessons applicable to our- ? By learning to toil for others as well as for ves, and because we ure Isruolites wo should at- tempt to better the CONDITION OF OUR FELLOW CREATURES, Mf. Jacobs cited the names of men of bis race like Montetiore, who stand forth brilliant examples of un- sellish devotion to others’ good, and called upon his hearers to imitate their noble example and thus draw nigh to God and be sanctified by Him. Two lads, who Lad been made bar-mitzvah, received some practical advice touching the nature of their new relations and their duty to their parents, to Judaism and the syna- gogue, and to their race and the world, with which the discourse closed. Dr. Gottheil preached yesterday in the Temple Eman- uel on the evidences of the Jewish religion, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, BAPTIST. Nine Baptist churches of Chicago last month received into their fellowship by baptism twenty-two and by let ter thirty-four persons. A new mission 18 about to be started at Twenty-third and Oxford streets, Philadelphia. Four pastors of that city have been Iaid aside by sickness—Rovs. Peters, Spencer, Ferris and Pendleton. ‘The Baptists of Illinois will obsorve to-day as a day of prayer for the prosperity of the present educational movement, Centennial sermons are to be preached, ‘The Lake Avenue Baptist church, Rochester, N. Y., have called Mr. A. J. Barrett, of tho Seminary senior class, and he will enter on his work soon after Com- mencement ‘The Rev. J, Benedict has been conducting a serics of meetings at Rosendale, Ulster county, N. Y., which have resulted 1p the conversion of about forty souls, while the work gives promise of still larger results. Eighty couverts united with the Baptist church at Frechold at its last comniunion this month, The church at Rondout received ninet ght, that at Kingston sixty-four and that at Saugerties, N. ¥., eighty, as results of their revival lately, REVORMED (DUTCH). The Rev. George H. Peeke has resigned his pastorate of the Reformed church at Owasco, N. ¥. Forty have united with the First Reformed church of Ghent, N. Y., and still there are more to follow. A deep religious feeling exists in all the region round about, An interesting work of revival has existed for some time, and is at present progressing in tne Reformed Dutch church st Oyster Bay. Many have been converted and added to the Church. Seventy have united with the Reformed Dutch church at Glen, N. Y., and twelve are warting to be receivoa at the next communion season, The Reformed Society at Auricsville, N. Y., whore house was recently destroyed by tire, has raised $2,500 and intend to rebuild at once, The Church Building Board of the Reformed Church (Duten), whose design is to build new churches in weak und neglected parts of the West and to help feeble svcietics already sturted, wants $14,000 to tree it of debt so that it may start the year fresh and free. A low Sabbaths ago cighty-iour converts united with the Reformed church at Epbratah, N. Y, Tl ‘foreign Mission Board of tho Reformed Dutch bey wants $24,000 by May 1 to bring it out tree of \e! PRESBYTERIAN. A grand revival sw: the Cumberland valley, Penn. syivama Twelve yterian congregations have re- ceived 700 persons to communion, aud the Methodist and Lutheran churches more than twice as many more, Mr. T. M, Stewart, of Philadelphia, was recent! dropped from the roll of the North Caned Prest noriea church im that etty because be belonged to Oad Fellows Order, Me appeals to his Presbytery for res- ‘ation. The Rev. E. W. Hitchcock, pastor of tho American ib be rel red here as the faith, The church ts self-supporting, end last year raised 23,500 fraues, aud was able to engage in benevo- lent enterprises, This The revival in Washi Hamm ond's m:nistration: Two opes air meetings bi masses achanee to attend, aud the week past for evenin; teended aud the results are gratity- ing. Neighboring towns are reached, and nearly all the churches in the city have been revived. The new Presbyterian church now tm process of eree- tion tn Boston for Rev. J. B. Dunn will cost about $80,000. It will front on three streets, will be built of brick and brown stone and bave a tower 160 feet high. METHODIST. Mrs. Bishop Janes is in such « low condition that little hope of ber recovery is now lef. she bas been entirely helpless since she was stricken down with paralysis ast fall, and for some time past bas seemed to be gradually failing. The Kev. J. U. Peck, of the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal church, Baltimore, received on Sunday last seventy-five new converts. The Rev, H. B. Ridgaway, formerly pastor of St. Paul's and St. James’ churches, of this city, has been selected us one of the preachers’ betore Cornell Univer- sity for 1876, Bishop Keener, of the Church South, bas just re. turned from the missions of his church in Mexico, The Rey, Dr. Cox, of 3t, Paul's Methodist opab chureh, South, has been appointed by the Baltimore pastors of his denomination to invite the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Cuurch, South, to bold their beXt annual meeting in that city, Twenty Protestaut converts have been recently added to the Methodist Rosoopel Church iv Rome and twenty- four to that 1n Naples, Italy. Bishop Andrews and Dr. Tree dedicated a new church at Addison, N. Y., on Friday last. Rev, Dr, Wentworth, of Evanston, [Il,, with bis wife, will sail May 1 for Europe on » summer trip, at expense of a former parishioner and triend in Buifalo, ‘Tho Central Methodist Episcopal church, Yonkers, has paul off $4.000 of its debt since October, besia keeping up its other collections, ere is a good ligious interest in the church. | Over 6.000 have been converted in Newburg district, New York Conterence, EPISCOPALIAN. The Rev. George 8. Teller, late of San Francisco, Cal. bus come 10 White Plains, N. Y., to reside and pastoral charge. Rev. Mr. Joyce, of Pennsylvania, has been d rector of St, John’s charch, Georgetown, D, C., whieh position Dr, Orrick declined. Bishop Litulejobn, of Brooklyn, is to sail from Europe on the 4b of May, and preparations are to be made to receive him here about the 15th. Bishop Stevens, of Peunsylvania, has returned from Bermuda, West Indies, where he went in Mageh to re- cruit his health, which has becn tor some time very vetne Appeal, organ of the Reformed Episcopalians, rates the spread of Romanism ia the Protestant opal Church by the simile of « prairie fire. ‘To prevent the tire spreading the grass must be cut in its path t Romanism spreading im the churches a simi ¥ must be performed. The Church Missionary Society has resolved to carry the Gospel tothe powerful Mohammedanized tribes who live back of Sierra Leone and on the upper banks of the Niger, For this purpose the translation of the Scriptures into the Foulah, Mandingo and Hausa lan- guages is to be furthered as rapidly as possible in con- nection with the British Bible Society, The Rey. C. J. Hendley has accepted the rectorship of Si. John’s parish, Baltimore aud Hartford counties, Miryland. ROMAN CATHOLIC. ‘The Rev, Edward McCarthy bas been appointed pas- tor of St. Augustine's church, Brooklyn, to succeed the late Father Khatigan, Father MeCarihy was curate of St. Peter’s church, He bas as assistant with him in his new parish Rev, D. D. sheeny. The Dominicans, who have been recently at St. Paul’s, Brooklyn, will now divide into two bands, The first of these will give a two weeks’ mission at the church in Somerville, Mags,, of which Father McGrath is pastor, This band will consist of Rev. Fathers Byrne, Hoban, Collins ana Powers, The second band, consisting of Rev. Fathers valy and McKenna with others, will give @ (wo weeks’ mission at St, Anne's, Brooklyn, Rev. Father McMeel, pastor. A mission will be commenced to-day in St, Augus- tine’s, Newark, Rev. C. A. Vogl, pastor. The Rey. Father Egan, of Tarrytown, is now per- mitted to celebrate mass in the Westchester County Poor House. This 1a very reeent concession of the Superintendents of the Poor, ‘The pew Church of St Vincent, Chicago, which has been in process of erection since last tall, under the supervision of Rev. E, M.S8mich, C, M., will be dedi. cated on sunday next by Bishop Foley. Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, will preach on the occasion, and Bishop Ryan, of Buftulo, will lecture in the church the game evening, A large number of eminent ecclesias- tics is expected. This chureb is the tirst foundation in Chicago by the Fathers of the Congregation ot the Mission, The establishment of a college und parochial schools is in early contemplation Father Smith has left in Brooklyn noble monuments of his zeal for re- ligion and the cause of education, and he will do no Jess in Chicago, The Church of the Sacred Heart, on Clermont ave- nue, Brooklyn, {8 progressing rapidly toward comple- tion. Rev. Thomas F, Delany, of the Order of Fathers of Mercy, Brooklyn, is suffering from a se ronchial affection, and, acting upon the advice of his physician, he sailed for Florida on Thursday last, CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN’S WILL. WHY IT 18 NOT ADMITTED TO PROBATE—JOHN YOUNG SCAMMON, OF CHICAGO, A WITNESS, WANTED. Newrort, R. I, April 19, 1876, Notwithstanding the renowned actress, Miss ‘Char- lotte Cushman, has been dead for some time, her will has never been probated. Her counsel presented it at the Court of Probate for admission March 10, and it has been presented several times since, but the Judge ot Probate has refused each time to prove it, The at- torney of the deceased states that he represents Wey- man Crow, Edwin C. Cushman, nephew and adopted son of Miss Cushman, and William H. Hargadine, all of St Louis, trustees of the last will and testament of the deceased, which was ex- ecuted in Chicago January 11, 1873, in the presence of four witnesses. The handwriting of two of the witnesses to the instrument has been proved, The third witness, Willis W. Felt, 1s dead, and the fourth, J. Young Scammon, cannot be found, ‘Tho latter is believed to be in Chicago, although Kdwin C. Cushman, mentioned above, alleges that be is in Washington, D. ©. Everything bas been done to ferret out the whereabouts of this important witness, and it 1s one of the most singular incidents on record that he has not written to the heirs, injorming them of hisresidence, The attorney mformed the Judge yes- terday that he considered the delay unnecessary, bad appbared to oppose the ad- as no one mittance of the will to probate, in view of the fact that the codicil had been proved and that everything had been done to find tbe missing witness, He continued:—A will to be adinit- ted mast be made to appear by proof to have been signed, sealed aud declared the will of the testator in the presence of w certain number of witnesses as prescribed by law. The primary proof was that the witnesses must be first called; and If they cannot be found and are beyond the power of the Court or party to produce, from death, insanity, or otber cause, sec- idence must be given and that secondary v! must be considered as frig positive of the witnesses’ havdwriting. le §=cuntended that the proof of the handwriting of two of the witnesses in the case in question pecialiy when the codicil had been it Was a question for the discretion should be ex- ly proven and & avy further de- was sufficient, proved. However, of the Court, ang that, he strougty ur ercised to decree that the will was le; should be admitted to probate with jay. He argued that when there was bo opposition to a will which bore upon ite face due regularity the wit- nesses ought not te be required to attend the probate court before any ot tion Was thade, even if the wit- nesses were near at hand. Judge Sterne, of the Probate Court, was called npon last evening by a Heratp correspondent in order to see what that gentleman had to say in reierence to the matter, He stated that the proof of the will, as tar as presented, was not satwiactory to him. ‘Only one witness bad been founrt to the codicil and two witnesses to prove tho signatures of the subscribing witnesses tothe will, He had no proof of the two remaining signatures. He would be willing to prove and admit the will if be had but one of the persuns who signed it to swear to the same, The others, he could leyaily claim, were out of his jurisdiction, This was the prac- tice in this court and he thought elsewhere, and he should adhere to his original decision, not to prove it until be could bave proot of the handwriting of the dead witness and of the witness whose residence was at present unkdown, and so he continued the casa for two weeks longer in order that the persons interested might have ample time to tind the desired witness, The family, he stated, were Kgdores Age gongs Jet the law take its course, Others state they have been put to bo iittle annoyance and toconvenionce by the action of Judge Sterne. The later gentleman, who has held the office for many years, and who, by bis wisdom and adaptation tothe business of the Provate Court has bever through mismavagement or otverwise had any difficulty m the settlement of wills, Ka, has consulted the best lawyer in the city and one of the most learned in the State, Francis B, Peckham, Keq., upon the matter, and the latter has informed him that he has pursued tho right course, and that it is bis duty to re. fuse to probate the will with po further than has been brought belore the Court. Judge Sterne will, therefore, as Mr. Peckbam 18 the City Solicitor, hig advice 1p this important matter, Iv is understood that Miss Cushman has left about $600,000, and that, contrary the expectation of many, she bas not left anything for charitable pur- ‘This, of course, is mere rumor, as no one oul. ily aad their attorney know anything of 1 uy aro determined that the be kept in darkness as to its contents antl pal such Uime as it is duly fi a Moroes ©. Cush: son-in-law of Me. Crow, occupying the elegant villa of lute Miss Cushman ta oeuye it is lovated ou Rhode Island avenue, and was built four vears Sneed for its late owner. having been ta the abit of to Newport the summer months and ane tpleutee events of days at this, tas queen of ‘watering places, 15 THE SOUTH. POLITICS Sentiment of Democratic Leaders In All the Late Confederate States. Siiemeanil Tet the North Give Us a Good Conservative Candidate and He Shall Have All the Southern Vote Except North and South Carolina. Southern Republicans a Unit for Conkling. Wasutxatox, D. C., April 21, 1876, Ihave made a caretul and complete reconnolssance of the political outlook im the South in regard tothe Presidential contest. The democratic, or, a8 they call themselves in the South, the conservative members from the late Confederate States, comprise among them many men of parts and experience in affairs, though aliofthem, except Lamar, of Mississippi; Regan, of Texas; Ben Hill of Georgia, and perhaps a few others, lack ante-belluwn political experience, They, however, have bad the training in the command of men that fits them, more than others, to lead and to fole low, to command and two obey. They know each other, having generally served together in the Southern army and Legislatures, and they are cool, discreet, self-com troiled and rapidly falling into the line dnd habits at party discipline and parliamentary tactics, You have observed that notwithstunding the efforts thas have been made to entrap them into indiscreet discus sion few have been successful, tave the outbreaks of Ben Hill and Ran Tucker, which were at once sup. pressed and which will never be repeated, They are resolved to show by word and deed that they intend t¢ maintain the Union, the constitution and the laws and the administration of the government honestly and fairly to all sections and all citizens It is this deter. mination and spirit tbat is a@w controlling tnem in ref erence to the PRESIDENTIAL KLECTION, Correctly stated, they advocate no candidate and they object to none. This judicious and wise temper and this perfect control of themselves may be observed all over the South, They are in dead earn and meap, if it t possible, to ald the Northern democracy to get possession of the government im March next, Their power is pretty well organized and compacted for that purpose, No radical party of capability or force exists im many of the Southern States, With a democratic candidate of tair record, a good Union man, but one who has never been extreme in his opinions against the South, all the Southern States can and WILL Bk CARRIED except North and South Carolina, In Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Texas there is really no republican party worthy of the name ofa party. itis routed and disorganized, and cannot be brought into @ canvass, 1n Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida there is a remnant resting on the old carpet ‘bag basis of public plunder, but that will be perma- nently scattered in November, South Carolina ts hopelessly controlled by the thieves aud plunderers who have ruled her so long. North Carolina, however, is HSSENTIALLY DOURTFOL, Both parties claim her, but neither can foretell what her vote willbe, Colonel Thomas B. Keough, Chair- man of the Republican State Committee, is contident of carrying the State by 7,000 or 8,000 majority tor the republican nominee, The republican party there is differently constituted froin any other Southern State. Holden, an old democratic leader himself, carried many ‘democrats off ‘with bim, and besides cup. tured maay who had been good Coniederate soldiers, Tho issues have never been possible th that have brought the other States under the con: of the democracy. One side could not claim to have been especially trac to the Union, because there were Union men in both parties, Nor could either profess to © the Coniedvrate element, because good sol- ro found in each organization, From the ranks of the democracy and the Confederates the repablicana have hud many good, able and leading men. Judges Settle and Dick, of the State Supreme Court; General Rufus Barringer and Colonel Rodman, also a Supreme Court Judge, are men all of whom had distinguished themselves as party leaders or us capable and gallant soldiers, Therelore it is that the republican party of North Carolina contains more ability, more character and moro sagacity than probably can be found in ite ranks {n all the other Southern States toget Hence, and tor these reasons, 1 consider her vote is exceeaing!y doubtful. DEMOCRATIO PRUDENCE, Tho feeling among the conservative leaders of the South is that they desire their Northern allies to make the candidate and the platform. only ask a cam I be above suspicion and & declaration of principles that will insure bonest govern The Richmond Whiy puts the matter squarely as follows :— . said, we dosire success as the reward to engage in this summer and autumn, uve prepared to sacrifice all persoual preter individuals, The vote of the South, South Carolina ted, we rely upon as certain for the demoerut cafe not who may be the eandidates pres sented by the republicans or the democrats. Pro only, the St. Louis nominees sre statesmen whose fidelity to their principles are wbove suspicion, we doubs wheth ould be an appreciable diffrence in the jouth of Masou and Dixon's line because of £7, particular candidates, It is the myth in party that h e South, and not Tilden, Cock, Bayard, Thurman, Davis or’ Hendricks, True, @ ticket might be presented that might fuli to bring out the vote of the South that it wax objectionabie in If ! jemocratie column. ‘The Southern people will be satisfied with Thurma Hendricks or Bayard. There 1s a feeling that 1t woul not be wire again to nominate a candidate from New York, which miltates against Tilden, und that th preter not to try another experiment to catch th dependent or liberal republican vote, like that of Gree- Jey, which casts a cloud over Judge Davia General Hancock is exceedingly popular, especially with the young men who served in the Confederate army, and the old ones too, and perhaps his name would create greater enthusiasm that that of any other aspirant named, But it seems to be conceded that the cam- paign will be ono of GRAND TACTICS, of great manwuvres ior position, rather than a gen. eral engagement, and that the fight willbe confined to » few isolated points, where desperate efforts will be made to retain the positions the democrats now hold. The general view among thoughtful observers is that California, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut may be counted on with roasonabie certainty on the same line of policy. The problem ts to hold these States and also to carry Ohio and Indi- ana and make a fight for Wisconsin, Northern dem- ocrats say that all these States may be carried, How tocarry them and hold on to the Eust is the ques tion. JUDGE Davis, Many leading democratic members of Congresa say that the drift of opinion is toward David Davis; not that he is preferred, for he is not. Ho has been a republican. He has nover beep a democrat, and there are no ties of sympathy between him and the ex-Confederates. But bis opinion in the Milligan case, decided in 1866, 1s considered as show. ing suificient respect for constitutional law and suff. ciwnt courage to enforce it to entitle hits to the sup port of the South, while his decision in gle legal tender cas it is supposed, would reconcile to bim the soft ntiment of the West. The fact that he is @ man of large property, it i beneved, would give him the support of that powerful body in the Middle Statea whose support is neccessary to secure New York, New Jersey apd Connecticut. His candidacy, however, it hardly seriously considered aa that of any of the others, though there is a decided current settling ia that direction. « WAITING FOR DEVELOPMEXTS. So much depends on the Cincinnati Convention that there will be no deiinite policy agreed upon until after it meets, There is a generni feowng that Conkling will most likely receive the votes of ali the Southern repub- ican delegates, even among republicans themselves, As tor Bristow, as far as the Sout! wing of bis party is concerned, he will get no support south of the Poto. mac. Blaine bas been making prodigious efforts te get delegates, but people familar with modes of republican partisans in the Sout! say tiv not the candidate who gets tho from the delegates who will get their vot sees thom last. Thereis now an abiding ‘that Conkling has got the a VEDRRAL PATRONAGE AT WIS that he can give offices and take them witha ivy backing of money from the wealtny re- pabiicans of New York and Venpsyivania, the sinews of war will be supphed at Cincinnati, and the whole carpet-bag-and scalawag vote bagged for him. The invention of rotten boroughs of States, which the republican party got up to rule Congress £7 Ropes rep Tesentations from negro districts and sti ballot South with but he who condidence