The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1876, Page 13

“RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, | “Ministerial Movements—Chat by | t. ¥ ty ay * » the Way. Sunday School Convention and Camp Meeting. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. “Abraham the Pilgrim” and “The Last Night of Belshazzar” are subjects that Rey. William Lloyd will onmder to-day at Washington syuare Methodist Epis- Sopal church. At All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. WM. Dunneil will officiate and preach to-day as usual, Rey, C, P, McCarthy will give ‘The Solution of Suf- @ring’ this morning and “Tho Cure of Moral and Physi- es) Maladics’’ in the evening in the University chapel “The Harvest aud the Vintage; or, tho Judgment Begun” is the startling theme that Bisbop Snow will iscuss this afternoon in the Medical Coliege hall ‘At the Free Tabernacle Mothodist Episcopal church this evening the Rev. John Jobus will prescut “The Vision of Holy Waters by Exokiel. . At Plimpton Hall the Fifth Universalist Society will bold services this morning. Dr. Paddock, of Philadelphia, will preach this morn- ™g inthe church of the noly Trinity; Rev, W. Hump- Mone will give a Bible reading in the afternoon, and in the ning Rev. 8, H. Tyng, Jr., will preach in the Gospel Tent on Thirty-fouith street near Sixth ave- ue, Dr. J. B. Flagg will minister to Christ’s church, Protestant Episcopal, this morning and evening. “A Well of Li Water’’ will be opened im tho burch of Our Saviour this morning, and “A Short ‘Btudy of Nobleness” be indulged in,this evening by Bev. J. M. Pullman, * Dr. W.J. Tucker, of Madison avenue Presbyterian eburch, will speak in Association Hall this evening. In the First Reformed Episcopal church the Rev. W. “T. Sabino will preach this morning and evening. Dr. Armitage will speak about ‘God’s Plantation’* Jhis morning, and ebout ‘The Great Trumpet” this “wening in the Fitth avenue Baptist church. “Christian Progress’’ and “Opportunity” will be wonnidered to-day by Rev. Mr. Rowell in the Free Bap- Ist church. Rev. J. A. Seitz this morning and Rev. R. H, Pull- man this evening, at eight, will occupy the pulpit of Qo Harlem Universalist church. “Love for the Church” will be encouraged in tho Gightcenth street Methodist Episcopal church this morning, and ‘The Firat Martyr’? will be called up this . evening by Rey. W. F, Hatfletd. Rev. J. D. Herr will occupy the pulpit of the Central Baptist church to-day, In the Madizon avenue Reformed church this morn- ing the Rev. Dr. T. Vermilyea will preach and admin- ist@ the communion, In the Church of the Strangers this morning the Rev. Dr. Decma will speak about ‘The Call of Mat- thew.” This morning ana afternoon, at the usual hours, the Rev, 8. M, Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Presby %erian church. “ - Rev. Edward Love will preach morning and evening dn the Stanton Sircet Baptist church. Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach this morning and @vening in the Sixth avenue Reformed church, Divine services ai the usual hours to-day in St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church, Dr. Ewer will preach at both services to-day in St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church. Dr. George 1, Hunt, of Mystic River, Conn., will Preach morning and evening at the Tabernacle Baptist eburch, Divine service in Thirty-fourth street Reformed shurch at the usual hours to-day, conducted by Rev Carlos Martyn. . Dr. N. A. Reed will preach this morning and evening in Filty-third street Baptist church. The Rev. Father Byerring will conduct service in English this morning in the Greek chapel. Dr. MoGlynn will preach at the dedication of the Whurch of the Sacred Heart this morning. Tho Rev M. J. O'Farrell, of St Peter’s church, will lecture in the evening. In the Church of the Sacred Heart, Brooklyn, the e@bservance of this devotion will be furthered to-day by @sermon on the object of the festival, to be delivered by Father Preston, of this city. ‘The Ninth ward union praise meoting will be held in Dr. Burchard’s church, West Thirteenth street, this aiterngon at four o’clock. Rev. Mr. Lloyd will lead. Phia will probably be the closing service of the season. To-morrow evening a mecting will be held in Rev. Mr. Page's church, West Eleventh strect, to organize an association of Christian workers to carry the meetings on during the summer 1! possible. The frat anniversary of the dedication of the 111th Mreet Methodist Episcopal church will take place to- @ay. Preaching services morning, afternoon and evening. - The forty hours’ devotion commences this (Sunday) morning, in the Church of St Alphonsus, South Fifth ‘venue, at five o'clock. There will bea procession ater the solemn high mass and again at the closing on Quesday evening. “The Hopeless Lamentation” will be set up in tho Jixteenth street Baptist church this evening by the Rev. D. B. Jutten, At Spring street Presbytorian church this morning the Rev. A. H. Momont will traverse “The Road from Jerasalem to Jericho,” The fresh variety in true religion and the dead monotony in superstition will recerve a few polishing touches this morning from Rev. W. R. Alyn, of the @hurch of the Messiah, who therealter takes nis va- cation. Dr. Joseph Wild, of Elm place Congregational church, will preach in Leffert’s Park, Brooklyn, this afternoon. Rev. Charles E. Harris, in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church, this evening, will deliver the third im his series of sermons to Israelites on ‘The Claims of Jesus Christ as the Jewa’ Messiab,”” In the Church of tho New Jerusalem the Rev. Chauncey Giles will, this morning, explain ‘The Mean- ‘mg of the Holy City, New Jerusalem, described in Revolation xxi.” Services at the usual hours to-day in the Church of the Holy Apcsties, conducted by Rev. B. FE, Backus Rev. George H. Hepworth will speak in the Church ef the Disciples this morning on ‘Laying Up Treasures $m Heaven,” and im the evening on “God With Us Just dow.” CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘There is very little use in preaching unless you can put your sermons into practice, “Fire low’? was the advice of Cromwell to bis soldiers. The clergyman’s target should be tbe heart, not the bead. if you fire heart-high you bring the congrega- Mon to their knees, and if you aim head-high you are fikely to miss altogether. It will nover do tur a surgeon to cut in a dangerous Mace with a trembling knite. Neither will it do fora minister to falter when he ts telling a truth the people @ught to know. Mon ought to get filled up on Sunday and then scatter the xood they have learned all through the week. We Should not be of those who bang their religion and thew Sunday garments on the same peg, but rather of those With whom the melodies abide OF the everlasting chime; Who carcy arusic fa their heart ‘Throagh dusky iaue and wrangling mart, Viying thoir task with buster feet, Meenuxe their souls « huly strain repeat, You can never arguo with a man after you have knocked bim dowo, You may overcome him by good temper, but you will tail to convince bim by calling hun hard namex The tougue is a mighty member, but it mast cut smoothly like a sharp knife, not tear Hike wsaw, Love draws a tian to you, but hate makes im take root where he is, Durmg tho summer solstice short sermons are in great demand. The people have so much sympathy fof the eleryy that they are exerediagly anxious not overwork them. Besides, ib ix pretty nearly as bard {0 listen as it is to preach, when the mercury ambi- Meusly climbs the nineties. Don’t leave your ‘“‘amens” mM home, but put them in anywhere after the first Ofteen minutes. Fopularity aud brevity are xynoayms uring the three bot moaths, A new edition of the Bible im Chinese is to be issued NEW YORK HERALD, to tho Ceiestiala, Someboay satirically asks if a great many of our A.ncrican Bibles might not jast as well be printed in Obinese, Dr. Talmage, whose pulpit elocution is somewhat highly seasoned with rhetorical expressions which would wura the hatr of a vensitive man gray in twenty- four hours, lately described to a delighted audience, which cheered and applauded him, tho way in which a man ‘Can go to bell ata 2:40 gait.” Brooklyn boasts of the only genuine pulpit sensationalism which this country affords, Yhe Christian Register, a Unitarian paper, has re- ceived an underground telegram of the most startling character. After making fun, ina way peculiarly its own, of the popular theology, is affirms that ‘‘Holl is closed for repairs.” That paper seems to:be the only authority on the subject, and is, perhaps, more favored than others in baving @ personal friend at that court, "These people who call themsclves liberals seem to be a class that insist on your tnahenable right to think just as they do, while to differ with them is evidence of insanity or egregious folly. ‘The anvual conferences of that ccoentric people called Adventists occor thts month. They are looking forward to the immediate coufingration of the world, and an experiment in cremation which will not even leave an ash behind. And yet they are willing to specu- late in real estate, and givoas a reason that if they havo misinterpreted Seripture they might as well take ad- vantage of the hard times as otber peopic. It is pretty bard, after all, to divorce a man’s mind, however religious he may be, trom the simple tacts of aspecie basis, ‘The Dunkers, u religious soct that practices abati- nence and mortification and other simple virtues, have been congratulating themselves over their success in point of numvers and property. They have not ab- stained from a very lucrative business, and aro not Particularly mortified at the result of their labors, lt is very ainusing to see certain bodies of Christians, ‘who profess to despise all woridly possessions, making shrewd bargains and saving a penny for the rainy day. We are teariully and wonderfully made, indoed, There seems to bea surplus of ministers. The Metho- dists lately refasod to receive candidates, on the ground, as a worldly man would, say, that the market 1s over- stocked already and the article isa drag. The Preaby- terians lately proclaimed that a very large proportion of its ministers are out of pulpits and can’t get tn, Indeed, a vacant pulpit resembles a stray fly on a trout half out of water in its anxicty to getit. At the same time a large number of our important churches aro without ministers. As Mr, Choate once said to a com- pany of law students, “Gentlemen, tho pit may be crowded, but there's always room on the stage for any one who has the ability to get there.” . One of the Baptist papors says that Dr. Fulton has a peculiar faculty of drawing fire on bimeelf all the time. No harm can come of it, however, since he lives so mucn under water, Boston has for months been making a piteous appeal for the preservation of the Old South. The great fro spared it, but now it is to bo torn down. Boston takes great delight in revolutionary relics, but it worships its pocketbook also, #We Americans find it hurd to caro anything about the things of yesterday. The mighty to-day and the mighty dollar are the only things in which we bave implicit faith, ‘Tho Presbyterian Association of Edinburgh have had ‘@ meeting in behalf of what is called ‘the purity of public worship.”” Their object is to banish all instru- mental music from the churches. The organ is looked upon asa fatal horesy, aud Dr. Talmago’s cornet player Ys only worthy to be burned at the stake. Theso people regard Mooay and Sankey's tune-book as an in- ‘vasion of the sanctity of public worship. Such bymus as “Nearer, My God, toThee” and “Rock of Ages” only tend to lead the mind in wrong paths, Just think ofa church with straight pew-bucks, with no carpet on the floor, no cushions, no organ, no choir, but a sermon that soars into nineteenthly and ends with in conclu- sion, lastly and finally—three separate steps of fiftecn minates each to let the congregation down easily! After all this the minister complains that the young people don’t go to church and that half the older ones wouldn’t go if they dared to stay at home It is re- markable that such a cheerful view of religion should not be more attractive, The Methodists have made a terrible raid on tobacco. At first it was thought well to pledge new candidates not to use the weed, but some one questioned the pro- priety of compelling a presiding elder to forego his favorite pipe in order to show the ovils of smoking to a young man. To do it with his pipe in his mouth would be clearly ridiculous, and to lay aside the pipe for tho time necessary to deliver tho plodge was too great a sacrifice. So the wholo matter was tabled, and Method- tem can smoke for twoive months more, The various evil tendencies of the times scem to have been concentrated and symbolized in a child lately born with two faces, in the olden times there was a bi-fronted deity who could look behind and be- fore and so protect-himself from enemies in the rear while he advanced, But in these later and less pootical days to be doublo faced means to wear an expression of injured innocence when the investigating committce is cross-examining you, and another and perfectly satisfied expression when the last committeeman has gone to the lunatic asylum in despair. On the whole, 1 is not mach of a compliment to the nineteenth cen- tury that the logical result of its dealings should be a race of two-faced children, The human cranium has always becna mystery. The thickness or thianess 1s supposed to be the indi- cation of brains or no brains, Where, then, is the secrot hiding place of that tinted brother's intellec- tual faculties who, on crossing a field during a thun- der storm, and being hit bya bolt from the clouds, quietly put his hand ona tender spot on his head and romarked, “That’s the third time I’ve been hit, to- day; 1 think that’s about enough?” Poor lightning! Wo havo almost a throb of pity for its defeat; but this 18 lost in admiration of that human skull that can ab- sorb a whole thunder shower and simply feel the gentle titrations of a galvanic battery. An effort is on foot to compel Spiritualists to take out a license before giving their exhibitions, This is equivalent to saying to those who are dead and decently buried that they have had their chance in this world and ought rot to come back without paying hand- somely tor the privilege. What a {rightfully restless people they are on the other side! There doesn’t soem to be anything for anybody to do, or else they become’ terribly avaricious, for they are ready by day or night. to show their faces at $5 a balf hour. If the descrip. tion which Spiritualists give of the other world be true they ought to bo made to take out a license to tell the story, and everybody who dies ought to be paid for going over Jordan. Amore undesirable Jocality can- not well be imagined. Think of Daniel Webster tipping a chair and Henry Ciay thamping on its leg, and Dante sitting, invisible under the table and pinch- ing the sitter's leg or tugging at bis waistcoat, and all to prove that the soul is immortal! The old song, ‘I want to be an angel and with the angels dwell,” ox- presses tho wish of very tew people indeed if this nonsense is true, and those few are to be found only in’ the incurable corner of a madhouse. By all means make the Spiritualists take out a license, like any other Jagglers. ‘The religious papers are handling tho biography of George Sand with a delicacy of touch tbat is very sug- gestive. Too many church people have read her in- teresting novels to make a wholesale denunciation expoihent, and besides, if she ts roundly berated it will insure the sale of s new and larger edition of ber works, It will never do to keep still and it will never do to say anything; so the quandary is complete. All these columns of criticism must be written in such a ‘way that they will do neither good tor harm, and it is somewhat amusing, therefore, to read what is said on this delicate subject, A CONNECTICUT CHURCH FESTIVAL, OXS BUXDEED AND FIFTY YEARS OF PEACE AD PROSPERITY OF THE WILTON CONGRE- GATIONAL CRURCH—-HOW THE PILoriMs’ DESCKNDANTS REMEMBERED THEIR FATHERS. The ancient and honorable town of Wilton, Conn, bas a Congregational church which was founded 150 yeare ago, and on Toursday, 22d inst, the church peo- ple and the smbabitants of the town celebrated the in @ becoming manner. Pooplo from near and remote parts of the State were present, and the old church was literally (ranaformed, for, the time being, into a bower of roses to receive them. Prominent above the pulpit appeared tho Ggures 1726-1676, wrought {nm natural flowers. Hon. Charles Jones, of New York city, who fosters pleasant associations of Wilton, acted as president of the day. Rev. 8. J. M. Merwin delivered the address of welcome and Kev. James W. Hubbell, of New Haven, responded, The istorical address, covering the whole period of the church from the time of {ts organization, marrating the stroggles of the fathers, their adversities and triumphs, was given by Rev. 8. G. Willard, of Colchester, Cova. Among other selections, the choir sang ‘Tho Pilgrim Fathers,” words by Mrs. Hemans, set to quaint and very ancient music. Rev. J. G. Davenport, of Bridge- port, recited a poem, Then came the Doxology—tune, “Old Homdred,” {uly 1,000 voices joining. Next im order was the coliation, prepared by the ladies and served ina tent adjoming the church. Addresses by clergymen, cousisting mostly of reminiseences of t chureh and people, followed. As an uppropriate con: fou, a hytap, by Elizabeth Stuart Pielps, author of ‘he Gates Ajar,” written in honor of this auniver- Phe Tho Rest of all our weariness, We are too dull to understand ‘The gentle pressure of Thy hand; ‘Too biind to see (or cold to try) ‘Tho light of love within Thine eye. Joost children tu the mystory Tmt darkens ‘twixt our vouls and Thee, Wo join our trembling hands and ery, “Show Thyself to us, or we die!” In the dim thicket called Thy Chureb, We grope for Thee, 0! to oue search He growing Light’ While wonk we ream, He Strength, be Hope, be Love aud Home! We blows the gloom in which Thon art, We hear the beatings of Thy heart, Across the shadow tortuous Oh, God! we know it beats for us, Ot clasp ay to it! hold us thore! Till some stad day the dawn breaks fair, Til on the sweet far plains it fall And trash for ono is Truth fur all, SUNDAY SCHOOL CONIFERENCE AND CAMP MEETING, ‘To-day a Sanday Schoo! Conference will be opened in the Presbytorian camp ground at Sea Grove, near Cape May, N. J., with a sermon inthe morning by Dr Her-’| rick Johnson, of Auburn Seminary. Lu tho evening Dr. Thomas Murphy, of Philadelphia, will discuss “The Church and the School,”’ The Conference will sit for one week; and Drs Henson, Randolph, Newton, Dickey, Breed, Nevin, of Philadelphia; Doems, Crosby, and Frank Beard, tbe artist, of this city; Drs- Duryea and Talmage, of Brooklyn; Dr. Withrow, of Indiavap- polis, lately called to Park street church, Boston, and Drs. Wiswell, Dulles, Allen and other clergymen and a number of amivent laymen of New York, Philadel- phia and other cities will take part In the proceedings, Among the topies to be discussed in the Conterenco are:—‘“The Bible and Personal Character; ‘What ‘Sunday Schoo! Workers May Learn from Secular Teachers;” ‘The Pastor with the Children and the Su- | perintendent with the Young Converts;’’ “The Bible and Scienco;’”? ‘Uses of the Imagination in the Study and Teaching of the Bible.” Messrs, Sherwin and Johnson will give theoretical and practical instruction | 1m Sunday School music, and tho international lessons for July and Aagust will be richly ‘llustrated and expounded, The fraternal camp meeting at Round Lake began on the 22d and will continue until July 2 The Round Lake camp meeting has become tamous as the pro- moter of Methodist unity; not organic unity or any other human patent, but the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace of a great body of Christians who trace @ spiritual lineage to John Wemey. The essential unity of all our flocks, says the Methodist, isa truth dear cnough and strong enough to give large signifi- cance to the occasions on which we rally around it. The method pursued at Round Lako is the only possi- dle one—not to talk about fraternity, but to practise it, The preaching of men from Canada and the Gulf, from England and India; the praying together of citizens of many States and twenty branches of one Church; tho social and Christian atmosphere where all are united in a common effort to build up Christ’s kingdom and many other things beside conspire to solten the senso of differences and to strengthen the ties of a common brotherhood. Bishop Janos will be present as long and as often as the health of Mrs. Janes will permit, and bishops and eminent ministers and{aymen trom South and North, from Canada and Europe will also be present to take part. The Centennial, which 1s drawing so many from the camp meetings north toward Philadelphia, bas an influence on this, but the ume of holding the camp necting has been placed earlier than usual to meet this draft in part and to give delegates to the General Con- ference an opportunity to enjoy the gathering boforo | they return to their homes, Tne Round Lake meetings ure the eloquent preface of a rich volume of union, fraternity and salvation to be issued by the Methodism of the near future. RELIGIOUS TESTS IN CIVIL COURTS. ‘To tux Epirok or tax Heratp:— A caso was recently reported in the Heratp In which {t appeared that a question was asked.a witness touch- ing his religious belicf, with the view of disqualifying him as a witness, Remembering the scientific developments of irce thought, the rapidly increasing number of its ad- herents, and the growth and progress of hiveralistic tendencies, this question becomes not ouly interesting but vory important, It not only affects atheists, tree- thinkers and scientists generally, but that very large class of religious people who bave given up the old heresy of a fature state of punishment, and iti s likely | atnovery distant day to cause great trouble, In this State it is sufficient to beliove that punishment ex- ists for perjary only, and generally it is enough if ono | believes that punishment visits us in this world only. But even this would prevent Darwin, Spencer, Huxley aud their followera from bemg competent wit- nesses, And yet no one would be foolish enough to Bay what men like these would be unlikely to testify to the truth, or less likely to testify to the truth than the most orthodox of be- lievera, Tho question arises whether a law dispensing with the formality of an oath and punishing the giving Of false testimony in the same manver as perjury is punished now would not bo equally as offective and even better than the one existing at present, as well as more iu consonance with our forin of government, In almost every case involying a question of fact, whore A. usserts and B. denies, one or the other must evi- dently falsity. Again, as a rule, a man who is prepared to testify falsely is not going to be roxtrained by an oath; and, leaving sentiment aside, the fact is that tho fear Of punishinent nod disgrace here 1s more potent than tho fear of hereafter, as overything that is pres- | ent must be to everything that is remote. The natural tendency of man is toward the truth and the good. Wero it otherwise ciy.lized ex- istence would be impossible, As Greenleal says “tho disposition to believe may be termed instructive.” The fact that a man is bold enough to give expression to his sincere convictions when they are contrary to all received notions, aud more likely to bring odiam than praise upon him, should be in itself proof of hw hon- caty, The law has gps treed itself trom old rules which required one to take a very low estimate of human nature, and it is time this Jast shackle was broken. Huw’ can a religious mun say that the nature Mg be believes to be the work of the All Good is It seoms atrango to hear questions of religion dis- cussed im the courts of # country which 1s supposed not to recognize such # thing; and it ts still a very grave question whether a law which deprives one of the important right of being # witness, because of his Dolief upon the quoxtion of religion, is not directly opposed to the words and the it of tho United States constiution. WALDORF H, PHILLIPS, + No, 161 Broadway. MACHINERY OF METHODISM. GENEBAL AND OTHER CONFERENCES, To tux Rorron ov tax Herato:— ! ‘The General Couforeuce of the Methodist Episcopal Chirch, lately in session ip Baltimore, is the highest judicatory of the Church and its only jegisiativo or iaw- making body. No department of the Church cau act only as authorized by the General Ponference, This body is composed of delegates from each of the annual conterences, the bishops and agents and other officials of the Church, and meets every four years, The bishops preside alternately. All things connected with tho interest of tne Methodist Episcopal Church aro proper subjects of legislation, The bishops are made and unmade, The powers and dutics of presiding elders and preachers .are defined. Quarterly district and annual conferences aro subject to this body, as well as book agents, secretaries of Venevolent societios and editors. The journals of the annual conferences are rigidly examined aud approved or condemned, New annual conferences aro made and their boundaries defined. Even tho law decisions of the bishops must receive the sanction of this body or they are null and vord—in short, the voice of this body is the voice of the Church in all of {ts departments. Tue first General Conference met in timore in 1792. Conference has met in different places every four years since. At firstail the preachers of the Church were members of this Conference; but as their numbers increased the annual conferences ciected del- egates ona numerical basis fixed by the General Con- fereuce, The preachers bad it all their own way in tbis body until the session of 1872 when by a direct vote laymen were admitted to its councils, ANNUAL COSPERENCES, ‘ ‘The first Annual Conference of the Church was hel io Philadelphia July 14, 1773, by direction of Mr. Wes- ley. It was composed of ten preachers—the samo number as wero present at tho first Wesleyan Conier- ence in Bugiand, Only 2,100 members belonged to the Church in 1773. Until 1792 the Annual Conference was | composed of all the preachers belonging to the denom. ination; but since that poriod it has bee n composed of Preachers within a given district. here are about ninety annual con‘erences, embracing the territory of the United States, with a: erage of about 150 ministers to euch Confereuce, These meet annually and ure pre- sided over by one of the bishops. At these gatherin, the private ‘character and official conduet of enc! preacher pass formally in review. Persons are aduit- ted and ordained as members of the body and as min- isters of the gospel, and are laid aside quietly, some- times against their own will, or are expelled or sus- pended as circumstances require, Much interest gathers about the ‘stationing’’ of the preachers by the bishops, This is done at the Annual Conterence, at the close of whose session the appoimtments, or in many casos the disappointments, are ‘read out” in Open conterence. Men often realize a sensation as if prerced with a bullet when their names are announced | for places where they aro averse to going and did not expect to be gent, The places sometimes rebel also against taking certain porns. ‘The Bishop always prefaces the reading of the appointments with un ad- dress designed to prepare the minds of tho ‘ear ; brethren” for disappointment, — and hint- mg very strongly that the forthcoming an- bouncements being the voice of the Church must be the voico of God. Whether the other tmede of preachers putting themselves into the ecclesiastical mart and waiting for a cus- tomer is preferable to episcopal supervision 1s a ques- tion yet unsettled. There is muchawore friction in the annual conferences of the Met jis Charch on this point than formerly, and the jon is quite prevalens } that the General Conference will soon give the bishops carte blanche im respect to the time that a preacher may remain in any oue appointment. Tho legal limit now 1s three years, the optional either one, two or three. More than half ofall the preachers in the connection change pastorates every year. DISTRICT COX7ERRNCES, ‘The geographical territory embraced within an an- nual conterence ts divided tuto a given number of dis- | trict, watched over by sub-bishops, styled presiding | elders. A district conference is held twice a year. | These gatnerings comprise the pastors and ordained | ministers, loca: preachers, exborters, and one district steward from each local church. The work of the District Conference is the promotion of Sunday | schools, missions and Church matters generally within the bounds of the district. Local preachors are licensed by the Conterence and are re- sponsible to it tor their Christian character and con- duct, Exhorters also—a class of once useful men now fast becoming detunct—are hero mado | This District Couference is an experiment in Method- | ism, authorized, agit was, four years ago by the General Conk It was left optional with the quarterly: nees to accept or reject it, and very | few nave adopted tt. Tho same experiment sub- tantialiy was tried $20, and alter successive lailures was repealed by the Geucral Confereuce of 1836. QUARTERLY CONPRRENCES, These are held overy three montis in connection ; With cach local chureh in cities, and with two or more churches in country places. It's held by tho appout- ment of the presiding elder, who is its chayrman, It is composed of the preacher or preachers and wll the cial members of the church or churches, The busi- | hess of this Conference is de: ted by the General | Conference and is printed in the “Discipline.” Expelled | iy ie of the church may appeal to the Quarterly Conference; but no member of the Methodist Episcopal church can'be expelled except for cause affecung his or her moral character, wand «aller he or she has had duc notice of the charges and a full oppor- tunity to bo heard before the committee of the church appointed for that purpose by the pastor or preacher in charge. Buta church member hus a right to appeal from tho lowest to the highest tribunal of the Church, on atair showing that justice bas been denied him in the lower judicatory. ‘Quarterly conferences in ¢ goue by, when circuits wore large and the people seat- tered, Were imposing occasions and a necessity; but now, in the altered condition of sociat hie, they have become very formal institutions in the Church, PASTOR'S CONFERENCES. These are held in connection with cach local church once a week, or as often as circumstances require. They | are composed of the pastor, who acts as chairman, and the stewards and class leaders of the church. ‘The lead- ers report to the pastor the spiritual condition of the members connected with their various circles, groups or classes, and the trustees report and pay over to the tor the funds they have collected toward his support. | Pastors now are generally paid their salary monthly, in | advance, and not weekly. At this Conference plans ure gmatured for the temporal and spiritual interest of the ‘Church, In all this machinery thore {Is very little friction, ag the duties of each officer of the Church, a8 well as tho business of the various conlerences, are minutely de- fined and lad down in a little book called the ‘Disci- pline,” asdirected by the General Conference. Indeed, the business of the General Conference 18 to take up the machinery of Methodism and adjust it to the changing Circumstances of experience. Hence the laws ot tho | Methodist Church are not like those of the Medes and | Persians, that changed not. They are changed more or less every quadrennium, and the “Discipline” which records theso laws 18 reprinted at the close of each Gen- eral Conterence. To that great organizer and founder, Jobn Soper. tho Church is indebted for the plan on whicn all its operations are based, C. C. GOSS, 97 Varick street, ‘THEISM, To tue Eprron or tHe Hinaty:— Worcester, iu his dictionary, says tholsm is “a be- | licf iu the existence of a God; opposed to atheism, | Tho words deism and tholsm are, strictly speaking, | Perhaps synonymous; but it is to bo generally ob- | served that the former is used ia a bad and the latter ina good sense. Custom has appropriatedtthe term deist to the enemies of revelation, and of Christianity in particular; while the word theist is considered ap- plicable to all who believe in ono God.”” Probably all Ciristians, in one sense at least, believe im one God; buta portion believe in three self-existent | persons in ono God; though oven they assume to still consider even that conception to be a belief tn one God. | I do not intend to open the endiess discussion of the mystery of tho Trinity; bat, having recently discovered some very clear elucidations of tho character, boing and mission of Christ, at varianco with both Trinita- rian and Socinian or Unitarian doctrines, and which | aro, I think, clearly borne out by tho qsacred record, I | ask space to copy a little therefrom in your liberal | Journal. Assuming, therofore, as this author does, that.Jesus Christ was more than ‘mere man,” | and that He was not the self-existent God, the ques- | tion arises, “Who say yo that] aw’? Answer, “The only begotten Son of God, the only begotten of the | Father.” Our author says ‘that to affirin that Josus | Christ 18 personally the self-existent God, und at the | samme time traty the Son of God, is precisely the samo | contradiction that st would be to aflirm that tho Princo ot Wales was truly King George LIL, and also truly the son of King George UL. The proposition that Jesus | Christ ts truly the Son of God is so obvieus in its natu- ral Import and so» plamly scriptural that many may suppose it requires neither explauation nor proof: Yet | Such is the stato of things in the Christian world that | both explauation and proof ara necessary. For al- | though there ts no one point in which Christians aro | more universally agreed than in calling Christ the Son of God, there 13 scarcely any dhung about which they | are more divided than that of the intended import of those terms. But anid the variety of opinions which have been formed on the snbject, the nataral import of the words has been pretty uniformly rejected, and almost every other possible meaning has boen allixed to them, in preference to that which the terms natu- rally excite. Indeed, it seems to have been generally taken jor granted that it 18 impossible with God to have aSon, For smatance, Athanusians appear to havo | taken this for granted, and finding tbat divine Utes, | divine attributes, divine works and divine honors are ascribed to Him in the Scriptures, they have set it | down as unquestionable truth that Christ is su far | from being the Son of God, in the natural sense of the | terms, that He is the very self-existent God; yea, the | very God of whom the Scriptures declare that He is the Son, Other deoommations, taking for granted the ing principle, have pronounced the Saviour to be a mero creature, more or less dignified or endowed. | And thas, ou the one bund or the other, almost every | possible grade of intelligent existeneo and dignity has | been allowed Him, excepting that whieh ‘3 naturally imputed by His title—the Son uf God. | Feuring I may trespass too tar on your valuable | space, I deter the exempiiication by which 1 intend to Sustain the record (in a future number) that Jesus Christ and Him crucified was actually the only be ay twa Sun of God. Ww. GHW. FRANKLIN AND WHITEFIELD, PRACTICAL VERSUS THEORETICAL RELIGION. Ag American gentleman, travelling in Earope, found the folloing epistie from the great humanitarian to the great ovangelist going the rounds of the French press and translated and sent itto@ friend inthis city. It | wa pure and simple expression of faith in man as well as in God, and is withal a gentle reproach to the great preacher, who, it is to be presumed, like bis class, gé erally makes much of man’s relations to God amd litle or nothing of his relation to his fellow. in cen- tenuial year of our national existence this letter of Franklin to Whitefleld will bear repetition for the very exceilent Jessons which it incuicates and suggests. The Kindness alluded to in tne letteras done by the phi- losopher to the preachor was that franklin had re. lieved Whitefield in @ paralytic stroke by the application of olectricity, Tho document, it will be remembered, ws 123 years old, It is ag follows:— ‘ WRANKLIN’S LETTER, Paitavecruta, Jone 6, 1763, Sim—I received your kind letter of the 2d inst, and ‘am glad to hear that you increase in strength. I bope you will coutinue mending antil you recover your former health and firmness, Jwtine Know whether you stil use the cold bath and whas effect it has, As to (he ness YOu mention, | wish it could re been of service to Ms Bat if it the hanks I shou! desire is that you indo yee’ A ready to serve any other per- son that my your asiwtance, and 80 ict good oilices yo round, ior ‘mankind are allot atamily. For my own part, when I am employed in serving others | do a pow upon myself as conterring favors, but us paying di Ju my tr and since my settlement, 1 have re- ceived much kindwess from men, to whom I shail never have apy opportunity of making the lewst direct return, and vumberiess wercies trom God, who is inf. ouly ely abuve beng benefited by our services, Those kinduesses from mem I can, therefore, only return on ther fellow mea, and I only show my gratituie fer those irom SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET: God by a readiness to help His other children and my brethren. For I don’t think that thanks and compliments, though repeated weekly, can discharge our real obliga- tions to each other. aud mach less those to our Creator, You will see in this, my notion of good works, that Lam far trem expecting to merit heaven by them. By hy mm, we understand a state of happiness infinite ia Tecan do nothing to degree and eternal in duration, merit such rewards. Ho that tor giving a draught of water to a thirsty person should expect to” be paid with & good plantatio: would be modest in his dewand, compu: with thoso who think they deserve heaven for the little good they do on eurth. Even the mixed, imperieet pleasures we enjoy in this world are rather trom God's goodness than our merit! How much more such happiness of heaven! For my part | have not the vanity to think I deserve it, the folly to expect it, nor the uinbition to desire it, but content myself in submitting to the will and dis- posal of that God who made me, who has hitherto preserved and biessed me, and tv whose fatherly good- Bees I may well confide, that He will vever make me nuserable, and that even the ulllictions 1 may at any ‘time sufler shail tend tw wy bene fit. The faith ou mention has certainly its use in the world. do not desire to see it diminished, nor would [ endeavor to lessen 1 in avy man; but I Wish it were more productive of good works than I have generally seen it I mean real good works— works of kindness, charity, werey and public spirit; no holy days keeping, sermon hunting or hearing, performing church ceremonies, making long prayers filed with flatteries and compliments, despised even by wise mon and much less capable ot pleasing the Deity. The worship of God is aw duty. The hearing and reading of sermons nay be useful, but if men rest in hearimg and praying, as many do, it is as if a treo. should value itself on being watered and patting forth leaves, though :t never pro- duces truit. Your great Muster’ thought much 1ess of these outward appearances and professions than many of Hig modern disciples. He preterred the doers of the Word to the mere hearers; tho son that seemingly refused to obey his father and yet periormed his com- mands to him, that professed his readiness but neglected the work; the hereticul but charitable Samaritan to the uncharitable though ortho- dox priest and sanetitied Levite; and those who gave food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, rai- ment to the naked, enterwinment to the stranger and rel.ef to the sick, though they never heard His name, He, declares shall m the iast day be accepted, when thogo who ery “Lord, Lord,” who value them- selves upon their faith, though great enough to pers jorm miracles but have neglected good works, shall be rejected. He professed that He came not to call the righteous, but siunors, to repentance, which implied His modest opinion that there were some ta His timo who thought themselves 20 yood-that they aid not hear even Him for improvement; but nowadays we have scarce a little parson that does not think it the duty of every man Within bis reach to sit under his petty ministrations, and whoever omits them offends God! I wish to sach more humility, and to you health and happiness, being Your friend and servant, B. FRANKLIN, PRAYER OF DR, FRANKLIN, Merciful Gog! Wondertul Power! Increase in me that wisdom which «discovers my truest interest, strengthen thou my resolution to pertorm what that wisdom dictates, and accept my kind offices to Thy other creatures as the only return im my power for ‘Thy infinite goodness to me. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, PRESBYTERIAN, Rey, William Steptienson, of Hamilton, Canada, has resigned his position in the Mothoaist Conference, and Joined the Presbyteriaus. Mr. Talmage goes West, the middle of July, to attend & convention near Chicago, and to speak in somo of the Western cities, Rov, H. P. V. Bogue, of East Avon, and formerly of Syracuse, has received and accopted a permanent call from the Central Presbyterian charch at Avon, N. Y. Rey. J, Clement French will leave Brooklyn shortly for the summer. Ho will pass his vacation for the moat part in the Adirondacks, The Rev. Mr. Colfelt, pastor of the Firat Presbyterian eburch, of Philadelphia, has beon caught plagiarising in the pulpit, He admitted that he used other men’s thoughts to adorn his own, and tho Preshytery of that city ordered a written reproof to be read in his pulpit. But Mr. Colfelt proposes to read the reproof himself waiving all delicacy in the matter, Rey. L. Pratt, of North Adams, has beon offered the Professorship of Rhetoric at Williains Colloge. The Rev. Isaac Bird, one of the earliost American missionaries to Syria, died at the residence of his son, Mr. James Bird, ut Great Barrington, Masa, on Tucs- day morning, June 13, having nearly completed his eighty-third year. His funeral was attended on tho 15th, and a memorial discourse was delivered by Rev. KE. D. G. Prime, D. D., one of the editurs of the New York Observer. Rev. Dr. E. F. Hattleld, of this city, will spend the summer at Englewood, N. J., and Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, will summer at Martha’s Vineyard. Smali congregations and smaller pay have compelled Rev. J. Beers to resign his charge at Whitestone, L. I. President Grant, being asked to give a centennial mesgago to the children and youth of the United States, advises them, through the Sunday School Times, ‘no matter what their denomination 18, 10 held fast to the Bible as the shoct anchor of their liberties ; to write {ts precepts in their hearts and practise them in theirlives. ‘To tho influence of this bouk, be adds, are we indebted for all the progress made th civ: and to this we must look as our guide in tl “Righteousness exalteth w nation; but sin is are- prouch to any people,” The Avangelst's editor, hearing that Rev, C. HL. Spur- geon, of London, 1s likely to visit the United States in the fall, 8: he will be moderately glad to sec him, notwithstanding the crowded state of the hotels and houses of the original thirtoen States. And if the Eastern question and other posed prophetic enfulil- ings will be in a state of sufticic nt quiescence to pormit the coming of the Rev, Dr. Cumming, we ald be y glad to yee him also, adds this write Rey. Alexander McKeevey tendered his resignation Presbytery of Elizabeth on Monday last, on the ground of the late action of the General Aewemby, The Presbytery cited the congregation of Westileld, N. J., to show cause on Tuesday next why the resignation should not be uccepted, Rev, Dr. Roberts, of Elizabeth, actod as moderatar, EPISCOPALIAN, Bishop Potter, of this diovese, has expresged himself reatly delighted with the religious Work which has Soon begun in this city by the Kev. Stephen H. fyng, Jr., in the Gospel tent, and says that a8 goop ax he re- turns to this city he will preach iu the tent hinself The Reformed Episcopal church, of Rahway, N. J., has received from Judge Savuge @ deed of the property occupied by them in that town. Tne Episcopal church at New Rochelle has had an ecclesiastical pot secthing for some time past. |t has at last boiled over, and now the society bas split and two woak rival orgauizations will hereafter exist in- atead of one harmonious strong one, Instead of ‘a woman in the case’? a man js at tho bottom of this, The Rev. Mr. Watson could not please everybody, so that somo are for him and some aro against him. Rey. Dr. Riley, Bishop-etecs of Mexico, deciares that a large number of the clergy and laity and 800 churches, formerly of the Roman Catholic taith, are connecied with his mission—the chuscb of Jesus, Rev. Dr. Van Rensselacr, late President of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., will sail on July 1 for Europe, with nis family, to be absent three yours, Late advices trom Bermuda, W. L, announce the death thero of Bishop Feild, of Newfoundland, at tho age of seventy-six years, Ho was in the episcopate thirty-two years. “He will be succeeded by bis cond- Jutor, Bishop J, B. Kelly. Tho Very Rev. the Doan of Edinburgh, Scotland, has come over to see tho Centennial Exhibition and to make a short tour in the United States, ‘The Rev. Bernard Schulte bas resigned tho parish of the Cross and Crown, Erie, Pa., and entered upon the associate rectorsbip of St. Luke's Memorial church, Utica, N.Y. ROMAN CATHOLIC, Cardinal Manning has lately been preaching in Lon- don on rationalism, which he represents as the end of an inclined plane, the veginning whereof is ordinary Protestantism, and the mid part sentimental pietism. The adventurer, trasting himself to it, slides into en- ture scepucisin oF ditbelief. The Bishoprics of Cabu, West Indies, United States, are vacant by the recent di cumbents, ‘The Catholic negroes ot Hayti have collectod 4,000f, for the persecuted priests in Switzerland, aod one of their priests bas forwarded the amount te Europe. ‘The common sense, not to say the logic, whicn de- clares, ax the Tablet does in its last issue, that ever Since the anuouncament of the divine law “He that believeth not shall be damaad,” whosoever dies out of communion with the Roman Church, whieh is the mys- tical body of Christ, wilfully, with full kuowiedge, i and Florida, jeath of the in- lost. At the present momont; the vory fast of being a Methodist insures the loss of the unfortunate person's soul, unless be has the excuse of invincible ignorance, is not commendable, “Man, who made thee a ruler or D it the Church of the Sacred Heart in this city will tke place to-day. Rev, Father Power, V, G., pastor of St. Paul's, Wor- cester, has returned frum Europe much improved in health. . ‘The Rev. James Sheeran, pastor of the Church of tho Assumption ot our Lady, at Morristown, tained from Bishop Corrigan sence, und sailed jor Kuro ‘Yhere are pow in Prassis 6,000 vacant parishes. Very nearly 6,000 priests have expelied or imprisoned since the beginning of the “Kalturkampt.”” Rov. Father Gambosville, of Boonton, is about to make x vieit to Kurope. St Mary’s charch, Bergen Point, Father McGovern pastor, is soon to be consecrated, Bishop Corrigan bas directed that special services be held in all the churches of the diocese on July 4/ Religious services wiil be hold in the Catholic churches tn this diocese also. The London Universe publishes a highly improbable story avout a French count who lately retired to a Monustery, and when a lawyer came one day to tell hima that, by the death of « rich he bad falien bear to 4,000,000t., he answered, corn me, now | bear the vesper bells; give the to those who need thom.’’ Mf this story wor should be able to record somethin ‘On May 21, 1877, filty years will ba Pope Pius 1X. was ppointed Arctbishop Pe Leo XI, In 1860 His Holiness celebrated bis Foye oon, Priest; im 1871 bis silver jubilee as Spoleto by Heolaban, whe Bas been located at Millord | 8 for some years, has been appointed to the charge of tre churéh in Keene, N. i. The Catholics of Whitefield, N. H., are building & church aud parsonage Tho corner stone of # new Church of the Sacred Heart was laid in Doouldsonville, La, by Bishop Eider last Sunday. Jt will be im form Of a cross, 150x54, and will cost $60,000, BAPTIST, By some sort of hocus pocas arrangement, kaowm only toa few Baptists, 4 law bas becn imposed upom that body im this State which the Baptist Weekly prints and declurcs to be “a legal measure to. tm pose trammels upon cur eburehes by making them subject to the ungodly.” It gives the right pot only to church menibers but to yvery person of tuil who sbull for ove year preceding have beca & payiDg pew holder or seat huider” to vote for trustees In any Such church as they siatedly attend It often bappeus tha: a congregation of 1,000 persons will represept ® Wwembership of less thon one-fourth of that number, And by giving the larger and ungodly portion of the society the right to vole equally with tbe godly on @ merely movey basis opens a way for the diversion of Baptist eburches, and perhaps ol other churches also, from their logitimute uses to others for which they were never designed. The law is therefore heartily condemued by the Weekly as impertinent and uncalled for. Tho Baptist Publication Soeiety has put forth a volume of statistics designed to show the progress of the denomination in tie United Staves for the past century. But the compilation has been so carelessly made and the stausties are so unreliable that the de~ bominational press on every hand cundemns it, The Laptist Weekly, tho Watchman, Christian Secretary and the Western Recorder are emphatic 1 their desuncia- tion of it, The latter “declines to advise any one te purchase, save as a rather inditferens specimen of bis torical patchwork, this much lauded ‘Baptists and the National Centenary,’ The Baptists of all sorts in the United States have Increased from 35,000 members in 1776 to 1,815,300 im 1875. In all other countries of the world the Baptiste number onty 460,000, nearly halt of whom are in Eng- land. ‘The 4,500' in’ Massachusetts have increased to 45,000 In 100'yeurs, the 14,960 of Virginia are now 169,310, and the 428 of Georgia have grown to 174,543. Kentucky follows with 144,267 and North Carolina with 113,414; then come New York and Tennessee, nearly oqial, "Almost haif the Baptists of the United states are found within six adjoining Soathern states, They have now S80 educational insututions of all kinds and churches, fhe Fifty-third streot Baptist chureh (Now York) can raise $6,000 within a few days, and their building, which has beer sold under a foreclosed mortage, can be redeemed, They bave a bittle, and they strongly appeal to their triends tor more money toward thir object. On the Gth inst. the First Baptist church of Lowell, , celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its exist It was never more prosperous that it is now, nt house erected by the Baptist . ¥., was dedicated last week. a few months past received ite 238 converts, ‘A special ins aud last Sua. enc The new and ebureh at Whitebal Dr. Fish has witt the First Baptist ebu making the. present 1 terest still exists, With night! day nigh’ retained to the second meeting. Rev. W. Murshail resigns his pastorate at North New York; Rev. Joseph Greaves resigns ut Westteld, N. J., and Rev, F. 1, of Rock ao cepts a vali to Demarest, N. J. The Centennial Bapust Mission Church in Philadel* phia was dedicated on Thursday last, MxTHODIST, The venerable Marion ison, whose genial countenance and apostolic presence always wole cowed at the camp meetings around New York, will be cd this suiMmer trom those religious resorts, On pesduy, Juno 14, at bis home im Poughkeepsie, be exchanged ' wo: Ho was cighty-live years of age and had spent sixty-eight of them in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Janes, of this city, olliciated at his luneral, iishop Harris is at tue Book Room in this city busily d editing the new’ Discipline, by which the j#to Know What changes iu polity or govern. ment have been made vy the last General Conference. this work’ is completed the Bishop wit) cial tour of conference in the Far West and coast. . J. B. Wentworth, of Evanston, Mil, sailed urope last week, to be absent three months. & ‘The ladies of Gien Cove, Roslyn, Port Washington Shit will open a’ fair at the latter place om th, for the benedlt of the Old Ladies’ Home The summer bome for the aged ward k has and Sea Thursday in that place. of tho Methodist Episcopal Charch in New You not been completed, and for two years they ha been able to occupy It, An eflort 18 now beiig'made te fluish the work and give the old folks the benefit of the country. ‘The Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Cuurch in Canada, which recently closed it session in Brock: ville, request appointed traternal delepates to the Reformed Episcopal Cuurch Counc.) which meets in Uttawa next mouth, Bishop Carman und the pastor of Ottawa West church were inted such delegates, The Rev. Edward W. 3. or St, Mark's chureh, in this city, has been appoited fraternal delegare of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the General Com ference of the Alrican Methodisi Episcopal Ziou churet, which body is new tn session in Louisy Ye Dr. GW. Woocrull, the secretary of the Genora) Conterence, is buxy casting the journal of that body s¢ that it ean be published at an early dat The Wesleyan University, of Athens, ‘fenn., has cone ferred the Uile of doctor of divinity Andrew Jack. son Church, pastor of the Metaodist Episcopal church at Stadurd Springs, Conn. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Hillsdale, N, J.. will be dedicated to-day, The Poughkeepsie District Conference will hold ite next session on Phur at Matteawan, N.Y, The Jersey City District Conterence will meetin Hackem sack Sts w Rev, Dr, Arthar Edward, editor of the Northwesterm Advocate, with bis tunity, has been spending a few day at Long Brauch, but returned last week to Chicago, MISCELLANKOUS, “Ordinari'y,”? says the Northwestern Christian Advocate, “a scoundrel likes to pass ior an honest maa. Most liars, when publicly detected in a falsel ‘plush to find it fame,’ ‘The rogues who, in arranging a bargain, draw on their jmagmuuion jor their facts, wish to be considered as of Puritanic strictoess in the matter of trath telling. Dr, Schalf' denies tue current ramors that the Bible Revision Committee had agreed to make certals changes im tho authorized Version of the Scriptures, ‘Yheir suggestions are werely provisional, and no part of their work will be published until the whole 18 com pleted ¥ “A Vonfederate Abolitionist,” writing for the Chris tian Union, declares that “the future of Protestantism in the World and the destiny of tbe cause of the political brotherhood of man under a republic depends upon how we deal with the min * * whom God has emancipated’?--the negro. ‘The Loadon Missionary Society has completed cighty-two years of its existence. The iacome last year was $500,915, and ous expenditures $677,260, Twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars have been given to establish a mission on the shores of Lake Tapganyika, in Central Africa, in accordance with Mr, Henry Staniey’s suggestion. The Free Church of Scotland is providing the Livingstonia Mis- sion at Lake Nyass, the Church of England Missiog will be located in the districts of Karague and Uganda upon Victoria lake, and the London Society Mission as above, 50 that three missions will be established is Contral Africa by nnd by. ¢ moctings of Mr. and Mrs, Needham in different parts of Ireland seom to be signally blessed, The gatherings in Dublin have averaged frora 600 to 1,000, mainly trom that class which it 18 most desirable t¢ reach. Many have tarned to the Lord who did not know before that the Muu Jesus Christ isthe only me- diator between God and man, and that His’ blood cleanseth ire all sin. Mr. and Mra, Needham ge next to Limere nd then they propose a briet seasos ‘of rest France and Switzerland before leaving fot their home in Ame The London Sunday Schoot Union bas now tp France 1,090 Protestant schovls and in Germany 500, and they are constantly starting schools tn Italy. It i said that 300,000 children are connected with thos schools ou the Continent, It has wz been a sourco of criticism that the Hebrews, jo form so large and influential a body in Long Branch, should have no gal worship durt their !ong summer stay there, We learn that. a mov year been set on foot by the Di city, to hold divine service r 4 day. The fact that the D will preac! ly is likely to insure saccess and stability for the project. Mr. Samuel Coben, of Long Branch has entered warmly into the plan. FENIAN JOY IN DUBLIN, [Dublin (June 11, Sunday) correspondence of Belfast News-Letter. ] A torzhlight procession passed through the city to night, headed by several bands, for the purpose, it wag understood, of celebrating the escape of the Femas prisoners, OnGrattan Bridgo they burned a quantity of fireworks, The bands were followed by several thousand persons, The police did not, interfere Is the absence of the Police on Gratwn lism they burned eitigies of Mr, Disraeli and the Duke of Cam bridge, the effigies being set up on the parapet of the bricge. The Prime Minister was represented as a. Chris tian Jow, with the word ‘‘marderer’’ oo his back, aad the Duke of Cambridge as a Germanic Briton, The po. Hee seemed te be quite unaware that Ud eer oct effigies with them, Two tram ears, when to move along Wellington Quay, were stopped rar mob and their windows smashed, The processios started from the front of Catharine's church, ness Thomas stroet, where Emmet was executed. The pro ceedings seemed not to be waderstood by the general ublic, wre, m0 sang through the streets ‘God Save Ire. ud. CORONERS’ CASES. Poter Brady, aged eight years, of No. 874 Tenth avenue, attempted to steal a ride om a Hudson River Railroad train yesterday aftefnoon. At the corner ot Fleventh avenue and Filty-fourth street he fall off ané ‘was killed, Jecov Conslider, aged eleven, of No. 104 First a' went ander a treight car attached to w Hodson Ri Railway dummy in West street, nour Bank, yesterday ivored to come out while the care ‘was ran over and instantly oe Bis head being severed irom hia body. The taken to his lute residence, and word was sent to the Mice, ‘The jury in the case of Thomas Grower, ae inmate of the New York City Asylum and was drownod on the Sih inst, while East River, brought in « verdict of TFeecen Shy aged two years, of No, db ren Fis james ? toonth street, fell into a tub of bot water Sbroveo of Kis mother and scalded bmsolt om Friday alternoom from the