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m) RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE Ministerial Movements— Chat by the Way. The Presbyterian General Assembly on Roman Catholic Baptism. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES, In the Berean Baptist church the Rev. L. G. Barrett will preach this morning and evening. Dr. Lorrimer, of Boston, will lecture there on Thursday evening on | “Lost Virtues.” In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev, ‘W. M. Dunnell will minister to-day at the usual hours, “The Palm Tree” will be described and its symbol- ‘sm explained this morning by Rev. A. H. Moment, of Princeton College, in Spring street Presbyterian ehureb, ‘The Sptritualists in Harvard Rooms will be addressed | by Mrs. Spence this evening. Anniversary services will be held in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Rev James M. King will preach morning and evening. Roy. John Pegg, of Brooklyn, will preach in Wash- ington square Methodist Episcopal church this morn- ing, and Rev. William Lloyd this evening on “Thoughts Buggested by Decoration Day.”* At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church | the Rev, John Johns will preach this morning about “Jesus at Nain,” and this evening will speak about “Landlord and Tenant.” Rev. A. H, Sweetser, of Springfield, Mass, will preach this morning in the Bleecker street Universalist thurch on “Religion tn Nature,’ and this evening on “The Unseen Universe,” In the Church of tho Holy Trinity the Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach this morning and evening, and Rev. W. Humpstone this afternoon will give a Bible Feqding. Rev, A. B. Hervey, of Troy, will preach in the Church of Our Saviour this morning and evening. Dr. J. 8. Flagg preaches im Christ Church (Prot- estant Episcopal) this morning and evening. “The Symbolical Import of Baptism” will be pro. sented to the Central Baptist church this morning by Rey. J. D. Herr, and # sermon to young men will be preached in the evening. Rev. ©. P. McCarthy, in the Universalist chapel this | morning, will tell “Where I (he) Stand; or, the Skele- | ton in the Closet,” and in the evening will speak on “Loyalty to the Truth and the Cross it Brings.” Rev. W. F. Hatfleld will speak in the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal church this morning on “The Ascension of Christ,” and this evening on “¥oral Dangers to Young Men.” Rev. G. H. Ball will preach this morning and even- ing m the First Free Baptist church of this city. The Rev. W T. Sabine will minister to the First Re- lormed Episcopal church this morning and evening as asual, ‘ “Christ’s Military Order’? will bo repeated by Dr. Armitage this morning in the Fifth avenue Baptist church. In th ening, “There’s a Knocking at the Door” will be the theme, “Certain Evils’ will be censidered this morning and “The Book of Jonah” this evening by Rev. J. A. Seitz in the Harlem Universalist church. Bishop Snow will preach in the Modical College this afternoon on “The End of the World: What It is and When.” Reformed Episcopal services are held in West Twen- ty-sixth street cnurch morning and evening, Rev. George Howell, pastor. Rev, James Cargin, of Dablin, will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian chureh this morning and after- noon. “Woman’s Proper Sphere” will be considered this evening by Rev. J. H. Lightbourn, who will also preach in the morning in Seventeenth strect Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Dr. Carroll, ot Brooklyn, will preach in the Beventh avenue Presbyterian church of this city this Rev. G. 8. Plumley preaches morning and evening in North Dutch chapel, Fulton street. “Jesus, the Jews’ Messiah,” will be presented by Rev. Charles K. Harris this evéning in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church. Preaching also in the morning. Rev. 8, Carlisle will preach in Madison avenue Re- formed church this morning. “Strength Apportioned’’ will be considered by Rev. W. H. Leavell this morning, and “Why AmI Nota Christian?” this evening in Stanton street Baptist ehuren, “The Box of Precious Ointment” will be broken this morning by Rev. J. 8. Wills in Seventh street Metho- dist Episcopal church, and in the evening “Woman as a Factor in Civilization and Christianity” will be con- sidered, Rev. R. B. Kelsey will preach in the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning, and Rev, A. B. Hartwell, & missionary from China, in the evening. “The Dangers that Threaten the American Republic”? will be discussed in Masonic Temple this evening by Mr. A. P. Devlin, Rev. Charles Martyn will preach this morning and evening in Thirty-fourth street Reformed Church, In Fifty-third street Baptist church the Rev. N A. Reed, D. D., will preach this morning and evening. Rev. R. L. Tafel, of London, England, will preach in the Swedenborgian church this morning on “The De- sired Haven."” The forty hours’ devotion will begin to-day in St. Rose’s church, Cannon strect. Rev. R. Brennan will officiate, Hasslinger’s grand mass, for male voices only, will be sung by the St. Cecelia Maennerchor, Dr. E. A. Washbura will speak in Association Hall this evening. Rev. Mr. Darling, of Albany, and Rev. J. B. Dunn, of Boston, will preach in the York Presbyterian church, in West Eleventh street, this morning and evening. The union praise meeting of the Ninth ward churches ‘will be held this afternoon in Washington square Meth- | dist Episcopal church. M. L. Rossoalley, a wealthy Hebrew merchant of New Orleans, has‘ lately been converted from Judaism to Christianity, and is pow devoting his time in going from | city to city telling of his new found faith, He will tell «i sing the story of his conversion this evening, in the Fleet street Methodist Episcopal ehurch, Brooklyn. The Rev. Wendell Prime will preach in the Church of the Disciples this morning on ‘Christ Received by Zac- ebeus,” and in the evening on “Christ at Emmaus.” CHAT BY THE WAY. It is impossible to cleanse a spotted garment with foiled fingers, and equally impossible to lead mento | boli unless you are yoursei! walking in that path, TheDest sermons are those which are lived, not tho: which are spoken. The hallowed rhetoric of good deeds Constitutes tho highest and most effective eloquence. A great many people arc ready to offer to God that ‘Which costs them nothing, but they want to keep that which costs them pains It is & vast deai better to be a Christian than a Metho- ist, or Presbyterian, or Eplacopaban, unless you can be both at the same time. It ts a great deal easier to be charitable toward one who has done a wrong to your neighbor than toward ne who has done you a personal injury, Indiscriminate giving is falsely called bencvolence, Porty dollarn scattered by chanco do less good than a Dingle dollar rightly applied ‘The minister who refrains from admonishing a rich parishioner, because he isrich, may possibly point phers to heaven, but will find it dificult to get there Dimselt. Ventriloquy enables a man to speak from his stom. seb, bat cordiloqay is the power of speaking from the deart. The one excites our curiosity, the othor our Jympathy and admiration. A hobby horse is the most expensive animal for Dither politician or minister to keep. Besides, he is ppt to throw his rider at the most unexpected moment. Bommon honesty is the safest quadruped to rid. He bave a homely gait and sowetimes step with a foot, but he is sure to get you to the journey’s Jad at last, while sensation and popularity, though ‘and high-stepping steeus, may give you a ter- tumbie just when you are being admired most, Whe rich man is comyelled (0 walk lar iv yet somach —-veseiecncagmcaiciigstae shail for his meat, but the poor man wars no further to get |, than we think, re the ones we can bear best, though we seldom think so. Every man has sn impression that he could bear his neighbor's troubles better than | hisown, An experiment was once tried which throws | light on this problem, All the burdens which men | are bending under were taken from their shoulder and put together in @ huge pile. Every one was in- vited to go to the ptle and choose the one he thought it would be easiest to carry. The great company gath- ered, and after lifting numberless bi 3 to their shoulders and finding each a little heavier than the other, they selected every man his own old trouble and | went home with light hearts and with a feeling that God knew more about the matter than they did themselves, It is pleasant to know that Cardinal McCloskey is getting well again, Since we have an American Car- dinal, we are anxivus that he should be a robust churenman. We are not desirous to show the pomp and ceremony which attends such a prelate’s funeral, | and, besides, 1} might be difficult to find a successor, | since not every toot will Ot a Cardinal’s shoe. The praise meeting held inthe Church of the Dis- ciples this last week was a unique affair. Mr. Thatcher, the leader of the Hippodrome choir, bas his brains in his finger tips, With the full organ and a piano accompaniment as a background and 3,000 voices as a foreground, old ‘Coronation’ was rendered with such vigor that it seemed at one time as ghough tho whole debt of the church would be lifted off the build- | ing. Congregational singing is a wonderful power | | when it is good; but when tt is bud thea we vote at | once for rapid transit, Churches ought not to dod it diflcult to meet their | ordinary expenses, Systematic giving soon becomes | cheerful giving if it be found in the way of righteous- | ness, and if it ts distinctly understood that the organt- zation rests on the sympathy of the people they will abundantly provide for it Protestants are in the wrong on this subject’ They give the impression that | they are rich and at once begin to bog. They always apologize for the contribution box, as though it were not a legitimate part of church property, and ask for help as though they were ashamed to receive it. Their | congregations are wholly uneducated on the subject of giving and look upon a petitioner as a fraud. Every | Catholic, on the contrary, knows tbat the usefulnesse j of his church depends on his personal gift, and when | he puts a dime into the box he feels that be 1s lending to the Lord, Giving, then, is a pleasure as well asa duty, and he soon learns to ask himself not how little | | but how much he can contribute. There is a vastdif- | ference in the two methods, but the latter ts certainly | the more effective, { | Insignificant events are sometimes tests of moral | | character, The other day three men in rapid succes- | sion stepped on astray bit of banana peel The first was a Wall street man, and fora few moments stocks were lower, but with a tendency to rise. His expres- sions were short, sharp and somewhat crisp. Referring | tothe individual who bad imdalgod in that tropical | fruit, he did not hesitate to utter cortain wishes which, | if literally carried out, mght have a tendency to dart the offender on a tour of rapid transit, whose terminus | would be even more severely tropical than the favored spot which gave the banana its being. The second was a gentleman who owned a regal mustache and swung a gold-headed cane, the scoptre of ambi- | tions youth, His hat flow in one direction, bis | gold-headed cane in another, but he sat per- | fectly still for a moment and looked around to see who had observed his curious gyrations, He then gathered his lost treasures, aud with words immeasu- rably profound, and muttered with the emphasis of italics, disappeared with great speod down aside street, | | ‘The lat was a man of grave mein, and bore the general | appearance of a titled clergyman, or a priest of fame | and renown. He struck the sidewalk an honest blow, | but did it no injury. For a moment he looked in | plank amazement that such an accident could happen | to such a man, and then began to repeat in slow and | measured tones one of the denuncistory Psalms of David. The Old Testament seemed to supply material for the occasion not found in the New Testament. The strongest biblical language was appropriate and afforded some slight degree of satisfaction. It was an instinctive episode, and we went off-wondering what | we might say under like circumstances, and hoping that wo should not be led into temptation. : It is not @ little curious that what is called slang and profanity should constitute the most expressive part | of our language, There are times when the human | heart cannot find ventin polished periods. A short, sharp, explosive utterance can alone break the spell and give anything 4ike satisfaction to our perturbed | tempers. Not until the millennium shall we bury the last expletive. Human nature is at present so consti- tuted that the phrases which it 1s forbidden to use are the only ones which satisfy the demands of great occasions. For instance, one is walking quictiy along tho sidewalk with a pair of rather close-fitting boots on, when of a sudden he bits the toe of his boot against some projection. His whole body, his whole soul is jarred. For just about thirty seconds he suffers {rom emotional insanity and ought not to be held responsible tor anything said ordone, Whatever there is in his vocabulary that ap- pliesto the emergency comes out before he hasa @aance to look the language over and sclect the choicest words. He ought, therefore, to have great charity in judgment, y Somebody says very facetiously that it is not exactly “{mmortality to look at the Emperor of Brazil, and yet one does get a glimpse of King-Dom-come which is far better than nothing at all. | Once in a while we come across an incident which , proves the practical value of religion. A great many | people bave Christianity in their heads, but not in | their lives. They can argue about it, but they cannot live it, A poor German woman was dying in a tence. tment house. Sho was fairly tired out with evil fortune, | and was looking forward to a rest at last im the grave. | When the ministers attempted to hold out a hope of | recovery she shook her head and replied, ‘‘Nein, nein. Die Welt ist nichts ; der Himmel ist alles” (No, no. The world is nothing; heaven is everything). . That | little episode is worth more than a long sermon on im- mortality, and brings the fact of the future closer home | to the heart. | The Hebrows of New York seem to be no happier | | than the Christians, The tatter justly complain of | their heavy mortgages, with not exactly an Holian at. | tachment on the part of base contractors, who seem to think they ought to have their money when it is | due, and the former mourn in eloquent and persuasive periods the deciine of interest on the part of young | men, Human nature in the synagogue or the church | is pretty nearly the same thing after all. Still 1t does no good to stand sti!land sing adirge over impending | ruin, Wherever hearts are enlightened there piethoric pocketbooks will cheerfully disgorge, People are | always willing to pay for what interests them, Stir | up the Hebrew people and you can ba’ many col- | leges as you want; fill up your pews with earnest | | seekers and the debt will let go ite bold and drop off. | | Earnestness is the miracle working power of, the pros- | | ent contary. > | ‘The anniversary conferences have been conducted | with spirit, and, on the whole, with harmony. There has been very little quarreiling, considering the vast | number of ministers that have come together, The { Methodists are determined to give a respectable charac- | ter to the Centennial by prohibiting the sale of liquor | and shutting up the Exbibition on Sunday. The Pres- | byterians are looking sadly at the bloody chasm which | separates the Church North from the Church South, and then with refreshing mateeté state that not many young men enter the ministry now as formerly, | and wonder why. That internal dissension should | | have anything to do with it seems to be | | not even a remote possibility. The Baptists | are more than osually zealous, and seem w be | | aching to get the whole Christian world under water, | | ‘That experiment, however, was tried once in the days | | of Nouh, and people are not looking forward with any } pleasure to another shower of like dimensions. Taken | altouether tho meetings have been a great success, and | the clergy have indulged in their daily sandwiches and coffee with such @ lay appetite and zest that we have | come to the conclusion that they are prety nearly | haman after ail | A great many of the lesser evils from which we suffer arise from carelessness, It is Hood who truly says that Evil ie wrought by it of thought As weil as Wat of heart. | PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ' 18 THY CHURCH OF ROME A CHURCH OF cumist? —~ THR ASSEMBLY DIVIDED IN | | OPINION. i} | At the opening of (he business session of the Assem. | bly ,wsteruay De, Alora reported the actiou of the } | avenue Baptist churcl | A great work i | Dr. H. C, Riley, one of the Bishops elcot of tne Chureb | London Conference of 1875 on the Presbyterian Alli- _ meat for his stomach, We are moro nearly on an | ance. The spirit and sentiment of the Conference was | in favor of a closer relationship of all the braucl Presbyterianism, aud this feeling was strongly ox- Pressed by delegates from all parts of the world, Dr. Jared Scudder was substituted tor Dr. Talmage a8 speaker at the missionary meeting to-night. ‘The consideration of the report on theological semi- naries was made the fourth order for Monday. _ A letter from the chairman of the Centennial Com- mission, General Hawley, was read to the Assembly. | It thanked the body for the committee which it had | sent and for the Assembly’s approval of the commis- sion’s action closing the grounds of the Exposition on the Sabbath. The commission hope that it will con- tinue to have and deserve the hearty approval of the Christian Church in this land, ROMISH BAPTISM, In 1835 the General Assembly passed resolution expressing its opinion and deliberate judgment that the Roman Catholic Church, being apostate from the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, is not therefore to be considered a church of Christ, but is a synagogue of Satan. Last year the General Assembly substan- tually revoked this deliverance by giving another, rec- ognizing the validity ot Roman baptism and other or- dinances and doctrines of the Catholi¢ Church, This has been an affliction to some of the presbyteries, so that the six united in the Synod of Missouri ha’ imously asked this Assembly to reaffirm the deliveran o1 1888 And Dr. Breckenridge, of the Presbytery of Osage, was commissioned to present the overture of the Synod and to express its voice jon, Dr. Breckenridge said the Assembly should ‘k out and let the world know whether they take the Church of Rome to be the bride, the Lamb’s wite, or a totally dif- ferent lady. (Laughter.) That Church is tar more pagan than Christian, or at least AS MUCH P 8 CHRISTIAN, and ker practices are subversive of and contrary to t! word of God, It is suid that the Church of Rome holds much trutu, but, he remarked, so do the devils. It would be more pertinent and better if it could be said that this Church holds no errors. Must their mummeries in the place of the sacramonté which Christ has instituted? There is a streak of sound flesh in a joint of meat of which the rest is unsound; would you, asked the Doctor, give this to your children as good food? The Churcn of Rome is in possession of the trutl with her own traditions. A diamond im a dung hill, you say, 18a diamond still! Bust will the fine lady put iton her person and wear it with all its nastiness? (Laugbter.) Touching the contessiont . Breeken- ridge remarked that uf the vei whieh bi jt from our eyes could be drawn aside we should behold a condition of corruption tbat would astonish us, It degrades and debauches woman, Rome beheves in the forgiveness of sim, but her priests and bishops, from tue highest to the lowest, stand im the place of God to grant absolution. To her there are lords many and gods many, suowing how literall, ie Stands in 1 place of the great Ged to whom we offer homage, This Fares the question— ARK ROMAN CATHOLICS IDOLATORS ? It their religion’ teaches them that a priestcan for- give sing, you see al once that it can’t be considered a true Church of Christ. This alone, if nothing eise, should convince us of the difficulty of being saved in that Church. People who offer worsnip to apy other creature than the Lord God are idolators; it matters not whether it be to tho honored mother of our Lord or to amere bauble. It is therefore proved that this nota Cuurch of Ubrist, nor any part thereof, Their | treatment, of the Ten Commandments, of the sacra- ments, of the translation ofthe Scriptures, of mar- riage aud otuer features distinctive of the Roman Uath- olic Church was considered by the Doctor, who, in con- clusion, quoted from the Apocalypse the supposed de- scription of that Church, and urged the Assembly to reailirm the deliverance of 1835, Dr, W. KE. Knox agreed with Dr, Breckenridge, and remarked that he could not roceive into his church a member of the Roman Catholic Church ona letter from that Church, nor would its priests be accepted into any of our presbyteries; how then shall I recog- nize the acts of such priest as the act of a minister or Christ when I do not recognize bim a8 such minister? Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, of Brazil, earnestly seconded Dr. Breckenridge’s resolution and address, and said that if this Assembly sball deciare that Roman Cathol- icism is Christianity then he wished his commission pF emg eg ong to a Roman Catholic country with- drawn, for he had no heart for proselytizing. .Rev. W. W. Briar opposed the resolution. **It is too late in the day todo this now,’ said he; “the Roman Catholic priest uses the same words that wo do, so that words don’t make baptism, nor does it depend on the char- acter ot the person administering it. Tbe Roman Catholic Church acknowledges our baptism as gen- uine and we can’t afford to be less liberal. We have been trying to . PULL DOWN THAT OLD CHURCH for a long time, but we bave not been able to do so, 1t bas too many roots and has grown too long; but we can have it made a mighty power for go on the earth.” Mr. Briar related a touching anecdote of Father Sanchez’s labors among the lodiuns on the Pacitlc coast, and remarked that the priests of thatChurch are | doing a good work in many The matter was relerred to a committee of five, who shall consider and report thereon to the next Assombly. The Assembly accepted an invitation to visit the Presbyterian Hos- pital in New York and to have their puotographs taken on fear a ‘This evening a missionary mass meeting ‘will be held in the Tabernacle, aud addresses will be delivered by missionaries from foreign lands. LAYING A CORNER STONE. Yesterday afternoon the corner stone of the new Central Presbyterian churoh, in Fifty-seventh strect, between Broadway and Seventh avenue, was laid with appropriate ceremonies, ‘The Central Presbyterian church was organized at No. 132 Elm street, January 8, 1821,'and since its orgapization has had five pas- tore:—First, Rev. William Patton, April, 1822, Juno, 1884; second, Rev. William Adams, November, 18%, Febraary, 1863; third, Rev. August A, Wood, Feb- ruary, 1853, May, 1860; fourth, Rev. James B. Dana, January, 1864, June, 1868; fith, Rev, James D. Wilson, since January, 1869. ’ ‘The proceedings opened yesterday with the singing of the bymn commencing “All hail the power of Jesus’ mame.” Rev. Dr. Spaulding then read the Kighty- fourth Psalm, and prayer was offered by Rev. E. D. Murphy, pastor of the Mariners’ church, The pastor delivered an address to his people, reciting some of the history of the church, and stating that he confidently expected that when the church was finished. there would not bo a cent of debt on it, a8 at present there were $43,000 in hand, and = but —- $20,000 more was to complete the building. After the sing- ing Cf another hymn addresses were delivered by, Rev. Dr. Hastings, pastor of the West Presbyterian church; Rev. Thomas Armitage, pe rot the Fifth Rev. C. H. Payson, stor of the Madison square church chapel; Rev. J. King, astor of the St, John’s Methodist church; Rev. Dr. 'yng, Jr., pastor of the Holy Trinity Episcopal church; Rev. Dr. John Hali, pastor of the Filth avenue Presby- terian chu and Rev. Dr. Rovinson. Rev Dr. 1s address was very short but very pointed. He said that he was glad to sce the unity be- tween the charches that marked the proceedings, and he was glad to think tbathis own church had extended the hand of fellowship to the Central Presbyterian courch, which cemented a union between the Old and what is called the New School. The addresses having been delivered the Sun: school childreu formed u circle around the spot where the corner stone Was laid, and as many others as could crowd around it, aud all sung the hymn commencing Christ is our corner stone.” D. Wilson, then lifting the trowel, which be held in his hand, said:;—‘‘i lay this corner stone in the name of the Father and of the Son andthe Holy Ghost, Amon,” He then raised himself on top of the stone and, with 8 upliited, delivered a short praycr, calling on the mighty to bless the church und its people, In the centre of this Stone were placed two boxes, one taken from the old church in Broome sircet, coutain- ing a briet bistory of the church, church manuals for 1849 and 1854, copies of th w York HeRALD, Tribune, Times and Journal of Commerce, and of sev- eral rehgious papers. ‘The new box contains a history of the church from 1853 to the present time, copics of the New York Heranp, Tribune and Times, several | church manuais, “Memorial of the American Bible So- ciety,’ 1867; minutes of General Assembly of tue Pres- byterian Church in the United States and a copy of the programmo of the day. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. EPISCOPALIAN, ‘There are two societies of lay workers in the parish | of Holy Trinity, New York, which aro worthy of imi- tation, The Andrew and Philip Society of Young Men meet every Sunday evening for consultation and instraction in missionary work, tho name of the society having been adopted {rom the two discipies who were instramentul im bringing others to Christ. The Martha and Mary Society of Young Women meet every Tuesday evening for social intercourse and instruction in the chapel By means of this association workirg women and young girls are brought under Cnristian influences, The Mexican Commission of the House of Bishops have issued a circular to the Church commending the Protestant Episcopal missions in Mexico to the earnest attention and generous aid of the Church in America, jow progressing in that country, and of Jesus, in Mexico, 1s now here advocating its cluims for support upon American charchmen. He addressed the Cleve! (Ohio) Convontion a few days ago 10 this jaterest. Dr. Morgan, of St. Thomas’ church, will spend the gummer at Garrisons, N. Y. The Rev. William P. Tacker has accepted the rector- ship of St. Paul's, Holyoke, Mass, The Rev. Amos. B, Beach, D. D., has resigned the rectorship of Chrwt oburch, Uswego, Ceutrai New York, to take effect on or before October 1. Rev, Frederick Courtney, late incumbent of St Jude's, Glasgow, Scotland, having become assistant to Dr. Morgan, will enter opon his duties June LL. The Key. W. P. Kramer bas resigned the rectorship of the Church of the Atonement, Augusta, Ga The Divcosam Convention of South Carolina, recomsly ‘accept | but she has chained 1t down and covered it up | The pastor, Rev. James | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET in session tn Charleston, afer a warm discussion det : cided to preserve color line and caste, and refused the | admission of St, Mark’s chureh into the Convention. The clergy were favorable, but the laymen would not listen to the proposition. uerHoDist. The Southern Methodist Episcopal Church has appro- Priated $100,000'to foreign missions for the current | year and laid aside $1,500 for one of its bishops to visit China and other Asiatic flelds, Dr. George Peck, brother of Bishop Peck, and the Pioneer of Methodism in Scranton, Ps, died at that gee. the other day, at the age of seventy-cight years. }@ entered the min! at the age of eighteen and Was a man ty in the Scriptures, an author editor of note and a brilliant preache: uhamrauen Srna Si doses in New Brunsw: |.) Wo-day, ‘op Simpson. ‘owing toa difference ~4 Row. Dr. Moran and some of his official board, in Bethany Independent Methodist church, Baltimore, the Doctor has resigned his pastorate of that church, tion which the Ge er ht the friendly delegates of ithern Methodist Episcopal church received at the General Conference in Baltimore, and the ver; riate address delivered by the delo- gates, more Methodist urges the Conference now to initiate a Pan-Methodist Council, and adds, “Henceforth may there be no more strife, Do more dis- sension in the body of Christ.”” ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Rev. A. Murphy, formerly of Hunter, Greene county, N. ¥., has been transterred to Rome, N. Y. Rev. 'M.'A. ONeill, late of Wisconsi® has been ro- moved to soe Petpain county, Pa. | A Pontifical high mass will be celebrated at the Ca- | thedrai of the Holy Cross, Boston, on Pentecost Sun- day, by. the Most Rev. Archbishop Williams, | @ Rev, T. B, Malloy, of Linco, Neb., has been ordered by his physician to go to Ireland to recruit his declining heal : To-day the Jesuit Fathers will open a mission in St. Mary’s, Jersey City, N. J. The new Catholic church at Rogers’ Park, a suburb of Chicago, 1s rapidly approaching completion, The Rev. Father McManus, of Lowejl, Mass,, has been appointed pastor of A@bvurndale, Mass, | The Rev. Thomas J. O'Connell has been appointed tor of Holy Cross church, Oriel, Seneca county, N. ¥., in place of Rev. Father 6’Connor, who has been transierred to St. Bai r. New York, there are fif- | | teen pricsts and thirteen ecclesiastical students, i The Order of the Sisters ot Charity now numbers over 50,000 members throughout the world. Rev, Father Damen, 8. J., is recovering trom his late | Rev. Yather Sheeran, of M NJ. i jv. Father ol lorristow! . J., will visit Ireland for the bonelit of bis healt” Bishops Becker and Gibbons will dedicate St, Peter's | | church, at Newcastle, Del., to-day, Archbishop Wi | 1ams, of Boston, and Bistiop Healy, of Vortiand, will | | lay the corner stone of the Redemptorists’ church, at | Boston Highlands, to-dai : Bishop Gilmour, of C! latid, who has beon travel- | ng in Europe tor his bealth’s sake, satled on the 11th | inst. from Liverpool and is expected home this week. | _ Bishop Machebocutf, of Colorado, was severely in- jured, the other day, in Denver City, by being thrown from his carriage, He 18 recovering, however. The new Catholic church recently dedicated at Mon- Toeville, Ohio, cost $30,000, aud will seat nearly 3,000 | persons, It is an ornament to the town. ‘tne Dominican Fathers continue their mission thi week at the Church of the Holy Innocents, in this city. They have a nussion also in progress in the Visitation church, Brooklyn. Re . McGovern, baving paid all the debts on the church property of St. Mary’s church, at Bergen Point, | N. J., arrangements will be ie for the consecration | of the church very shortly. PRESBYTRRIAY. The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly, last week in session ip Savannah, Ga., has 64 p: ay oto | 1,084 ministers and licentiates, 1,797 churches, 107,33 members and 2 theological seminaries, The Cumberland Fresbyterian General Assembly, now in session in ee Ky., iz an outgrowth | of the great revival in Kentucky aud Tennessee in 1801-3. It has 1,000 ministers, 2,000 congregations and | 150,000 communicants, The United Prosbyterian General Assembly, com- | posed of the Associate Reformed and Associate Presby- terian churches, which bodies effected a union in 1858, | is now in séssion in Philadeiphia. It bas 600 minis ters, 80u Congregations and 80,000 communicants. The Assembly now gatbered in Brooklyn has 13 theological schools, $04 licuntiates and 676 candidates | tor the ministry, Its benevolent contributions ro- ported last year amounted to $7,000,000, | Last Sabbath an extra communion service was held | in the University place church to receive thirty recent { converts, At @ previous communion in Emmanuel chapel, the mission of this church, twenty-five were re- ceived into fellowship, The churches of the Chicago Presbytery, who a year ago contributed $3,287 for foreign missions, gave this | year $8,087, because of the hard times. The Fourth Presvyterian church, in West Thirty- fourth street, 18 greatly prospering under its new pas- tor, Rev. J. R. Kerr, late of Philadelphia. Pre- Sabbath afternoon last fifty-one individuals were re- | | qeived to membership, more than thirty of whom | made profession of théir faith for the first time. 1 | The Kev. David 8, Schaff, son of Dr, Solafi, of this ity, has just entered upon the pastorate of the lo cl ette avenue Presbyterian church, Baltimore. ‘ptist mission in Japan, Preacher of the Union church in Yokohama, has become a Baptist. He takes high rank as a preac' Rey. A.C, Willams has resigned his charge of tho church at Catskill, N.Y. Rev, A. J, Allen has closed his pastoral lubor ut Johnstown, N. Y., where he has been two yeara. Rev. C. F, Blakeman has resigned at Milan and Moravi i. ¥. The church at Grapevilie, Greene county, N. ¥., are desirous of settling a pastor at once. Rev. Wheelock bas closed his lavors at Gal- way and bas removed to Michigan, ‘The Galway aud Kast Galway churches wish to unite in settung a tor, pethe First Baptist church of Rochester was consti- tuted in 1818, since which time 1,524 persons have Deen baptised into its membership. ‘lis present mem- | bership is 623. Recently the church laid the corner stone for a new house of worship. A Baptist church has been organized at Hartsville, N. Y., and Mr. 8, Zuller was ordained ite deacon, An- other has been organized at Summit, N. J., with Rey, A. B, Woodworth as pastor. Six years the Rev. #. 8. MacArthur has labored with | Calvary Baptist church, this city, during which time 640 persons have been added to the church by bap- | tism, The membership is nuw 670. The amount raised | for benevolent purposes during that pcriod was over | $175,0u0, against $60,000 for home expenses, showing that they lived cheaply that they might give liberally. | Tho Rev. E, Nesbit, D. D., late of Rochester, N. ¥,, accepts a call to Rock Island, Lil, The East New Jorsey Baptist Association will hold its thirty-ffth anniversary with the New Market church, commencing Tuesday, June 6, gt hall-past two ~ Me The Baptists have an association among the Creek Indians comprising thirty-two churcies, besides an association among the Choctaws, Chi ws and Cherokees, and also a church organized among the | Semunvles, MISCELLANROUS, It is stated that the British New Testament Revision Committee have struck out, a8 spurious, the ast seven verses of the last chapter of St. Mark, id Rev, Protessor De Sola, of Mont has been spend- } ing a few days with Hebrew friends in this city and | taking a brie! respite trom labors. | _ Mr. Moody’s new church in Chicago is to be opened in w days, . j The Young Mon’s Christian Association of this city are cons.dering the propriety of starting a farm in the couniry a8 an auxiliary to their benevolent work in the | Bowery. The men whom they feed and iodge in that | branch are giad to work and anxious to obtain-it, Last | war this branch 10,716 persons, ga’ | 761 meals and found employment for 1,634 men, ' ‘The Fifth Annual Couvention ot the Catholic Total | Abstinence Union of Pennsylvania will be held at | Shamokin, Northumberland county, Pa, on Wednes- | day, June 14, | ‘The Jewish congregations of the land bad a) plight as the Provestant Christians for ministers. The following congregations advertise for minister | Abraham, of Portsmouth, Ohio; Ohabei Sholom, Bos- ton; Bnai Zion, Danville, Pa; Bnai Israel, Columbus, | Obio; Reth Israel, Juckson, Mich.; Benith Kodish, | hes! Ansne Emeth, New Brunswick, N. J.; Ansbe Emeth, Pine Biull, Ark, ; Boai Jesturan, Pat- | | erson, N. J. Rather suggestive, and the question is, | Where are they to get them? The Hebrew College will | come none tov soon it Judaism ia to be preserved in America. i The religious centennial celebration in Cincinnati will be held during the week commencing June 4 FORGING A MINISTER'S NAMB. John McClellan was arraigned before Justice Kas- mire, at the Fify-seventh Street Court, on a charge of | forging the name of Rev. Dr, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., to | & recommendation of himself asa man of goud chi a devout Christian and a person worthy of } aid of others, McCleliag presented the recommend: | tion to the Rev. Dr. Houghton, ot No, 1 East twent th street, pastor of the ttle Church Around ui who caased his arrest as @ forger. He was | itted until the Court can communicate with Dr, | Jr, about the case. The accused admitted that | wrote the recommendation himself, but said he did | 80 because be was poor and had no other way of got- ting bis support | POLICE AND HEALTH BOARD WAR. | | fy ae Ata special meeting of the Board of Health held yesterday the repors of Colonel Prentice, counsel to | the Board, defining the relations between that body and the Board of Police, was received. It regards as | I the action of the potice authorities in disvapd- | mg the Sanitary eoage ome and in adopting rules to | compel the Hourd of Health to transmit all orders for execution by patrolmen detailed for sanitary duty | the Board of Police. After receiving the pinion the Board adoptod resolutions, with apxiety the sudden change of rules, and respectiully reminding the police authorities of the Of the law found tn section 17, chapter 74, ‘of the Lawa of 1806, anu section 30 of saw act, as amended by eerie 2 ere Se of the son bony popped boar dl ch have hitherto constituted the rules ¥ | stating toat 1% o ol Boards, and which, it is claimed, are | atill in full force, 1 was also resolved that the atton- | tion of the Board of Police should be resvecttiully | called to the fact that great pubiic injury is L.kely to ensue if the services oi the members of the Sanitary Company, trained and experienced in the work of test- ing milk and reporting upon minor nuisances, cannot longer be Aas add te tak tae ee quested to cont the detail to special duty of the Recessury MO, | opposed to dancing and vious to the administration of the Lord’s Supper on | é! buts elke oo ve 3 aPC ne Ao PROMISCUOUS DANCING. The Presbyterian Assembly’s Deliverance. Different Clerical Views Upon Saltatorial Exercises. Promiscuous dancing, or the association of the sexes | 1p that amusement, has received the condemnation of the churches for many years past. It is considered an evil of increasing magnitude, and one that is highly in- Jurious to the morals as well'as to the manners and the health ot young people, Prayer meetings and church services are neglected because of it, and church mem- bers sometimes encourage it by giving to their children and their little friends balls and dancing parties and en- tertainments in which dancing comes in the programme somewhere, This thing has grown from a simpple amuse- mont to be a vice of hideous mien and deserving of the strongest anethemas that can be brought against it And henoe, the Catholic Church, not less than Protestant bodies, has lifted its voice against the evil, and through its councils condemned promiscuous dances, The Meth- odists, Baptists and Presbyterians, through their highest Judicatories have done the same thing. And they have done it year after so asto let their people know that It cannot be looked upon with any degree of favor bvythem, The General Assembly of the great Presby- terian Church, now gathered in Brooklyn, has followed the example of many illustrious predecessors and given a deliverance on this subject, and reaffirms former de- liverances on it, It conaemns the practice of promis- cuous dancing, and recommends the sessions of the several local churches within its jurisdiction to use all means in their power to repress this vice and to instruct | their young people againstit. And yet the vice or the amusement as it may be called by its opponents or its advocates, grows 1n favor, and there is in it manifestly ® great attraction for the young of both sexca The patriarchal and scriptural mode of dancing was by the sexes apart, and this is what the modern Church would go back to if it could. But there was a timé, too, when in Methodist and Presbyterian and other churches the sexes wor- shipped apart, Would they now go bavk to that style? And it not why not? No evil has resulted from this association of the sexes im worship, May not their association in pleasure, even in dances, be regulated so that no impropriety shall appear therein? Promiscuous dancing has excesses which might very properly and profitably be dispensed with, while it bas certain pleasurable at- tractions for the young which might be retained and ‘utihzed for their ‘There are two sides to this as there are to almost every other subject, and the varying of views of some of our clergy- men will appear below. Many of them, however, declined to express an opinion on the subject, deemi it, 10 this instance, a purely Presbyterian concern, The views of Rev, Mr. Frothingham, Father Healey, Dr. S. H. Tyng, Jr; Rov. J. D. Wilson, Rev. William Spelt man and others, briefly expressed, aro given here- with:— MR, "8 VIEW! Rev, Mr, Frothingham.on being interrogated said he ‘was not at all surprised that the Presbyterians take the position they have in this matter. It is generally understood that they are altogether the theatre, and it ag.as well known that all evangelical Coristians object to such amusements on principle. In liberal circles, however, little thought, if any, is givon to the subjet and dancing 1s regarded ag soinething which the soci code of the times not only tolerates, but encour. ages. Fashions are subject to change as well as all other things, aud what is to-day a means of recreation and enjoyment may in time become obsolete and un- popular. However, people follow social rules in mat- ters of this kind, and I do not fancy that the pulpit nas anything to do with it. Of course dancing may become the cause of abuses in cases where overexcitement is produced and causes detrimental to health and morals alike result from the commingling of the sexes in warm rooms where the mind is unbalanced by the wild delirium of the waltz ind where the proprieties of social lie are disregarded. But this depends entirely upon circumstances, and for my part I can see nothing derived from the dance in weil ordered society but wholesome recreation and real joyment. Personally I have seen many .young folks .engaged im dancing in the houses of friends, and it always struck me as ® graceful and innocent amusément, I clergy! ‘ibe it, Presbyterians and Quakers both object to dancing, as they do to all amusemonts overstepping simple recreation. A CATHOLIC PRIRST’S VIEWS, Father Healey, of St. Bernard’s Roman Cath- olic church in Fourteenth sirect, between Eighth and ‘Ninth avenues, sald:—*The Catholic church in general 1s not opposed to any innocent amusement; she only condemns that which Is of a criminal nature or criminal tendency. She does not condemn the th for in- stance. Neither docs ste condemn dancing. Of course ‘there are certain plays and certain dances she does condemn ; and she not only condemus but forbids round dancing as indulged in in modern society.” AN EPISCOPALIAN ON DANCING. Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., expressed himself as on the strict side ef the question. Tho influence of what are called ‘‘round dances,’’ he thinks, 1s certainly immoral, as proved by the observation of any one who studies life, This ison the general question. What the Presbyterians may do or think is scarcely his bu — He believes in Solomon's charge about # tim nce, A PRESBYTERIAN ON THE DANCE, Rev. James D. Wilson had not read anything about the question being brought up, He thought tho Gen- eral Assembly had too much cise to do to consume time discussing such a question. He did not think there was any im equare dances, and as to round dances he would not like to see his own children engaged in them. ‘However,”’ h i, Haha the gospel, and leave such questions to the people’s own intelligence, If to prohibit my congre- gati a ot, in my mind, the great pieces about dancing 1s keeping it up to such late ours. A COLORED RAPTIST’S VIRWS, Rey. William Spelman, of the Abyssinian (colored) Baptist charch, while conversing on the subject that he had always pursued a radical course in con- demoning the practice of promiscuous dancing because of his own observation of its evilfruite, It was one | of those pleasures, he said, which might be indulged in without bad results, but he had noticed that almost invariably whea young ple began to grow fond of it they became lax in their attention to the Church. ‘*Thus,” ho said, “I have seen them con- demn themselves. It is a dangerous pleasare, and on ‘hat account I have always opposed induigenco in it, because in that ‘course there is the only security gainst its temptations ANOTHER CATHOLIO PRIEST'S VIEWS, The foliowing is the subst»nce of what a Catholic Priest said to a reporter yeste dancing.. He declined to give his name tor publication in connection with his views, His reasons for 80 were that, while many viewed the subject in the same ight with himself, others. who Were his seniors in the urch, Were more stringent in their agg: ot ome of the expression of the Council of timoro on the subject, and he did not wish to tand ina ition which might be eonsidered pre- sumptive. His remarks were as foliows:—The Council ot Baltumore, in drawing the tion of Christians to the dangers arising out of the practice, had under consideration what are called round dances and prop- erly pointed and condémned miscuous indulgence in thom. He did not take their condemnation of the ractice in a radical sense, but merely so far as it con- lemned any indulgence which was the occasion of sinful thoughts and on occasions where the company is mado up of strangers or people but alighily ac- beater he thought it proper that round : neing ware LE gg me vere fc by j¢ most pure min because, avsolutel; free from danger of sin by veduipag in ft themselves, they could not auswer for their companions, [tis matter in which the conscience must guide us, and Church, in calling attention to it and pointing out the dangers attending the enjoyment of dancing, seeks to preserve the — conscience of ail Christians, that they may not be led into sin by it, He did not con- trae the expression of the Council to ban- ish the practice entirely, but only when danger of sinning was possible, and aid not himself condemn it where he thought"it_ might be employed as means of innocent pleasure. At home and among in- ees, Where proper influ- dancing he believed to be a barm- Jess amusement & source of enjoyment. Even ‘under such circumstances, though safe in ourselves, we can have no metaphysical certainty for our companions, but the consciousness of the purity of our surroundings relieves us from doubt, PAN- "RESBYTERIANISM, SPEECH OF GENERAL D, H. HILI—HE CHAR ACTERIZES NORTHERN AND EUROPEAN BYTERIANS AS INFIDELS AND BLASPREMERS, In the session of tho Southern Presbyterian General Assemply at Savannah, on Wednesday last, General D. AH. Hill spoke in opposition to the proposition that the Assembly name twenty-eight delegates to the Pan Presbyterian Council to be held in Edinburgh, He sald:— 1 do not like the origin of this Council, Its origi- nators ure given to sensation, and are notorious ior their opposition to our peopi ‘on the score of expense, if we send w fall d m2 ite yearly cost will be $9,000, Where is this money? Tho Charch cannot und will not speud $9,000 for the honor of having twenty.eight mon a big gathering in Bdinburgh 10 onjoy ‘big dinner, to hear post- Prandial speeches tui of seatimeatal gush, to pass Fesolutions of interiereneo with the regular of the Church, to devise my apd impracticable Projects calling iora fresh tak upon tmoneren, My g or a tax uj next objection is that this oy of LRAbDs TO THR In the palmy days of Augustus Cossar it was said that sexes. In public dancing halls ' broad church. ity, Hberal Christianit; God forbid that we forat & cnton with these Li or Ba acata “Oh we mina goa with them our: to ews to vetorms them and pul teal T have not so read my Bible, The Gospel is to preached to sinners, but alliance with them is ex pressly forbidden, for them, preach to send the Gospel to ti but form no alliance wi them, lest you bring upon yourselves the curse that came mn the Church of jus! The Mississippi ‘above the confluence with the tarbid Missouri isa bright, pellucid stream; below the combined streams are as dirty as the muddy Missouri itself, We believe that our Southern Church is orthodox and pure; but if this tiny little stream mingle its clear water with the filthy blood of heterodoxy and intidelity 1t will impart no purity thereto, but will itself be lost in the foul, un- clean current, - In the providence of God the Southern Church has been cut off and isolated from all the world. I have thought it was in order to keep our Church a pure Church and a conserver of the truth as it ig in Jesus, ‘While the whole world has been given over to the new | theology we have walked steadily in the old | While other religious bodies have been given over to | rationalism, to ‘advanced thought” theology, to pro- gressive Chriatianity, to liberal Carre cy to Socin- pote chriig Deism, or to blank, dreary theism, our ur CLUNG TO THE OLD STANDARDS and has shown the old reverence for God’s Word as the oaly infallible guide of faith and practice, 1% has not meddled with the world or tho things of the world, but has felt that its sole miasion was to go to the sinner in | his. Me id and wrotcheduess and point him to the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. She has stamped Do mighty enterprise of which the world } would but she has done many sweet and hiduen | chariti hich the Master willown, She remembers ‘that one of His most precious and instructive addresses was del! ‘not to a vast multitude, but to a solitary woman, and that woman a sinner, So, remembering our Church has not sought to have the world for an audience, but has sought to do its own quiet work with- out the blare of horns or the blowing of trumpots, | She has mot gone into any grand convention to talk of grand deeds of which the whole world shall hear, but she has done what she | could at home, content with tho Serorinn: smile of Saviour, Oh, my frionds! God is blessing us as he has blessed no omen ents upon this earth by mak! us the custodians of His truth. Let us not despise the blessing Dy entering into entangling alliances with those who have less reverence for the truth of God’s ‘Word than we have ourselves. God has greatly hon. ored us by making us the special guardians of the trath; let as not dishonor Him by uniaithtuiness to the sacred @ust. Moderator, | love my acar South land, and I have often periled life and limb in ber cause, I have thought that I could go cheerfully to the stake for her sake, but dearly as [love my country, my Church is stil) dearer to my heart. It is because of my great love for her that I raise my voice of warning against her goi, Ynto entangling alliances of doubtful constitutionahty, that can uniy stain her pure Presbyterianism, wit! out purifying the Presbyterianism of the less orthodox bodies with which she may be thrown. THE STEWART ESTATE, CAN THE WILL BE CONTESTED?—WHAT THR TURNEXS WILL DO, It is sate to say that, though there are a great many Torneys in the United States who pretend to be the “blood relatives” of Mr. A, T. Stewart, there are not enough of them to frighten Judge Hilton or to estab- lish their claims before any court of law, The sequet will show that, in their great anxicty to make them- selves famous and to bring their names before the pub- Hc ina conspicuous manner, they have, as far as the investigations of the Hxnaup reporter go to prove, committed the most serious blunders and havo given ‘utterance to statements which, mstead’ of strengthen- ing their cause, render it supremely ridiculous. The writer called upon Judge Hilton yesterday to interview him concerning the claims of the Turi and to find ut what notice he proposed taking of t! pce eins a made through the columns of a morning their claims af simply ridiculous,” said Judge Hilton. “I don’t care anything about them. They never would have appeared in print had not the news- paper which gave them a hearing recently cha pari woncriyt new bh very well, He’s fond of 10D, an report you reter to may be regarded asa coe a betraisia pow anything about Turney ?* asked N apatth ani id ‘ “No, I do not,” responded the Judge, “I haw never seen any of them, nor did 1 ever hear Mr. Stew art Je el ae es wie or pote “* Cot if Wi ave i in correspondenct with them or could he have been s visitor to any a their homes without your porsonal know! “Dy “I think not,” answered the Judge. “in fact, 1 may say it. would have been impossible.” ‘Then you mean to say that these parties, w! according tothe report ina morning n é about to contest the will, are persons with whom when alive, Mr. Stewart held no intercourse, of whos existence he had no knowledge and to whom neithe himself nor his wife 18 in any way related ?’” “That is precisely what I mean to say,” the Judge replied. ‘1 have read the article in which they state their views and was highly amased by i, I am in- different to their threats.’ “Is there in the statements rendered by any onc of the Turney family anything that bears upon its tace the slightest sembiance of truth 7"? “No; on the contrary, many of the statements are simply ridicutous,”” answered the Judge. “They show that the persons who uttered them know ‘nothing whatever about Mr. Stewart's antecedents These People are, according to this newspaper story, about to proceed against the will of a gentleman concerning ‘whom they are as ignorant as the man in the moon.”’ “How do you know this?’’ “Why, I know it from their own words; from what they say ‘with their own mouths.” “Can’t you give me an example?’ quoried the re. porter. | “Yes, anid the Judge, catching up the newspaper contali the report and pee phe ite col umns, jow, he Mr. George W. Turney, whoever ; he may be, says it there are nine of the Turne; } ee iuil of thee in the ie, und he says that, o there are fou r claim | be the children of Mr. Blowart's| sister. om obild these Roorle. Were Mr. G. W. Turney actually a relative of ir, Stewart he would certainly never have given utter- | ance to such a statement, 1 say again that I am cer- | tain Mr. Stewart never had anything to do with these | Turneys while alive. All stories to this may be set down as talse. I would have known tainly had such been the thing briefly,” continued | the statements may be regarded as shams. Pini have no claim whatever to Mr. it cer. that Stewart's THE OTHER SIDR, After holding the above conversation the reporter Sought the business office of Mr. G.\W. Turney. The gentieman seemed not at all inclined to say any! ene was a “blood relation” of Mr. A. “Are Teall take legal proceedings break the wilt ud previa i “We aro, certainly.’” “Upon what grounds?” asked the reporter. ee ae ene fe ee i’ was ‘adealited to probate?” hips “Because,” Mr. Turney, ‘‘we did not have 80,” answered time. The will was admitted to probate the night before Mr. Stewart was ‘ag far as I can ascer. tain, ve no more to say. We bave cane f of lawy wait until they appear in court with our clai: NINTH REGIMENT PARADE, At haif-past four o’clock P. M. Yesterday the dress parade and review of the Ninth Regiment, at Union square, was enjoyed byas many men, women and children as the park and surroundings afforded accom: boi = end Occasion was the fi:teenth’ aun versary joparture ot the war. Atthe hour named the ingone ‘pena ) and came under oilicial review in Seven- teenth street along the uppor line of the square; Briga- Vilmar and Stall; Colonel Van ” Wyok, . J » Major Orvis, M: Por a im Scott, Captain Berndt, Captain Wels, cones and Licutenant Giisey, h on the piazza of the Union ‘aquare Coca Evening Both civilians and brigade officers profuse in © favorable exciamations cu i \dier! - Pearauee of the regimen. NS the soldlerly ap. During the evening the Veteran Association con- nected with the regi Union Square Hotes + “eyed @ banquet at: the THE SOLDIERS’ HOME, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has raised $13,000 for the pencil of the proposed Soldiers’ Home, and more