The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1876, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, sterial Movements— Chat by the Way. Sysagogue Worship— Righteousness and Jts Effects. — + PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. Mini ———- vilcommentestions” will be discussed by Rey. Joseph RK. Kerr this evening in the Fourth Presbyterian ebarch. A memoria) service for the late Bishop Janes will be held in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Splecopal thorch this afternoon, Dr. C. H. Fowler will preach ‘ho sermon. Rev. J. D. Horr will preach In the Central Baptist church to-day at tho usual hours, In the Scotch Presbyterian church the Rev. SM. Hamilton wili minister this morning and afternoon, as sual “Rev, H.W. Knapp will preach tn the Firat Mission Baptist church this morning and evening, The Rev. F, Hatniin wil preach tn Jane etrect Mcthodiet Episcopal church this morning and evening. In the Sixth avenues Reformed church to-day the Rev. ©, Ro Blaavelt, of Newark, N. J., will preach at the usual hours, Dr. Ewer will officiate at the usoal services to-day in Bt. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal charch, “The Dutios of Church Membera” and “The Sa- Preme Question’ will be considered by Rev, W. H. Learell to-aay in Stanton strect Baptist church, Dr, Krotel will preach in the J.atheran Charen of the Holy Trintty this morning on “The Reformation of the Sixteenth Contury.”” At tho people's service in the church of the Holy Trinity this evening and 1n the morning also the Rev. 6. H. Tyng, Jr., will proach. Dr. EF. N. White will minister in West Twenty-(bire street Presbyterian church this morning and evening, as usual, Tho Rev. John Street, of Philadelphia, and Rev, 8, G. Platt, of Brooklyn, will occapy the pulpit of Sevon- beenth street Methodist Episcopal church to-day, Divine service every Sabbath, including this, will be eelcbrated at All Saints Protestant Episcopal church at the usual hours. “Lot's Wife” will receive attention from Rev. Mr, Moment in Spring strect Presbyterian church this morning. The anniversary of the Youths’ Missionary Association of the charch will be hela in theeveniug, Dr. William White will address the Spiritualists to Harvard Rooms this evening. &. V. Wilson will address the Progressive Spiritualists this morning and evening. At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church the Rev, William Lloyd will preach this morning on “The Sympathy of Christ,” and in tho evening will the ‘Fourth Scene in the Proaigal’s Carcer.”” “The Guest Chamber”’ will be visited this morning ’ by Rev. C. P. McCarthy, and tho “Everlasting Pun- Isbment of the Gonts’’ will be considered tn the even- ing before the American Free church. The Rev. J. A. Edmonds will preach in Asbury Methodist Episcopal church morning and evening. At Chickering Hall the Rev. Samual Colard will presich this morning and the Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of Chi- page, this afternoon, Atthe Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rev, John Johns will preach merning and evening at the usual nours, The Advent Episcopal charch will be ministered to fo-cay at the regular hours by Rev. J. F. Jowitt, tector. “The Mission of Good Men" will be set forth by Rev. J. E. Searles this evening in Willett Street Methodist Episcopal church, Services will be held in Christ church to-day at the ‘sual hours, Rev. Jobn Fulton, D. D., rector. “The Profitableness of Godliness” and ‘The Open Door” will be considered by Rev. C. E. Sweetser in Bleeckor street Universalist church to-day. Dr. Talmage will preach morning and evening to-day fn the Tabernacle, Brooklyn. Dr. Deems will ask and answer the qgestion this Horning before the Church of the Strangers, “What Will Yo Give Me?” In Calvary Baptist church the Rev. R. & MacArthur Pii! preach this morning and evontng. Rey. J. M. Pullman wiil preach in the Church of Oor Baviour this morning and eveving. ‘A commemorative sermon of the late Bishop Cum- mins will be preached in the First Reformed Episcopal fharch this morning by Rev. W. T. Sabine, The Rev. Dr. Osborn will preach tor the Fifth ave- tue Baptistchurch this morning. A general Sunday school meeting will be held there in the evening. In Graco Chapel the Rov. W. T. Egbert will minister at the usual hours to-day. Rev. G. F. Moore, of Cotumbus, Ohto, will preach in the Madison avenue Reformed church this morning and afternoon. The anniversary of the Protestant Episcopal City Missionary Society will be held in St, Thomas’ enurch this evening. The Rev. Chauncey Giles will preach in the Sweden, borgian charch this morfingon “Man’s Place in tho Creation: How He ts Related to God on one Side of His Naturo and is Different from Animals on the Other.” “Christian Maniiness”’ will be considored this morn. ing and “‘Jesas Weeping over Jerusalem” this evening by Rev. J. J. Muir in Macdougal street Baptist church, The Rev, F. J. Goodspeed, D, D., yrill proach in the Tabernacle Baptist church thts morning on ‘The Bet. ter Truth,” and this evening will give ‘A Practical Address to Young Men. Professor Felix Adler will lecture this morning m Btandord Hall on ‘Immortality: The Theory of Re- wards and Punishments,” “Professor Huxley and the Scientific and Religious Relations of Biology" will be disenssed this evening by T. B. Wakoman before the Church of Humanity, Dr. Dix will preach in St, Chrysostom’s church this evening. Memorial services for the late Captain Eliiott will be held in the Mariners’ church thisevening. Rev. Charies 3. Jones will deliver an address. The Rev. Dr. Rylance will preach at the usual hours, to-day, in St. Mark's Protestant Eptseopal church, CHAT BY THE WAY. The doctrine of election will be setticd In the course @f a couple of weeks, It 1s not difficult to accept the dogma of universal Balvation if you are allowed to pick the mon. One may talk about bis religion so much that he has mo Lime to practice 1, Onc good act, however, proves more than the longest sentence ever uttered. If a man says in tho prayer meeting that he bas not sinned for ten years, don’t trade with him, lest you Jead him Into temptation. We sometimes think it ts just us fatiguing to listen to a dull sermon as it isto preach tt. A groat many ministers preach without baving anything particular to say, and the people revenge themselves by paying Bo particular attention to tt Religion 1# somotimes undertaken for worldly ends A man in Raleigh purchased a lotiery ticket, and then went to his clergyman and asked if he thought his chances of drawing & prize woulda be improved if he should become” sorter good and join the eburch.” The clergyman tried to explain that if he should realiy become “sorter good’ he would destroy the lottery ticket, and“the man went away with tho fecling that religion 18.8 “curus kind of thing, a‘ter all.’” Lia man is expected to hold on to his temperance principles something must be done to the Croton Aqueduct, and that right speedily, We recently saw a drop of water under a microscope, and it was more variously rtocked with wonders than the New York Aquarium, One may delhght in temperance, but he does not want to convert his *4owardness” Into a fi pond, Cold water, it plays x good part In The awabbing of d nd all thats Apd Mt Binds its own leyol tor sartin, For ttanetinly drinks very ft. You masin’s expect your children to be better than you are yourself, You can ask nothing more of them than to learn the lexnons you set then, “Why do you walk co crooked, child?’ said an old crab toa young poe. “Show me how to walk straight, and I will try,’” was tho answer, ‘There i a Scoteh proverb to the game effect:--"'Trot feythor, trot mither, how ean the fonl canter?” It is well for parents to say to their children, “Go;" the more persuasive word 18, “Come.” In the Methodist of this week ts a Jetter on the weak- nets of American women. [t tricinphantiy denies the statement which so many mon aro fond of making, that women have nothing tu Go and that they do It faithfully, and asserts that there are members of the gentler sex who have endured more, physically, and accomplished as much, intellectually, ne the best speci- mens o manhood, The writer says, with @ ndivelé whieh ie absolutely charining under the circumstamces, and which as an argument is irretragt! Ubave known cases whore a woman bas raised s!x chilaren in | ton years, and done all her own housework and sewing deaides,”” and then adds, *Hercuics would have thrown down his elnb In cespair at such « task.” The mere statement of the fact carries conviction, and closes tho cage without appeal, Is ts gard that an Englishtaan has cared bim: | chronic form of the gout by breaking sundry bottles He insisis that he te indebted to a pecuitar kind of electricity for his cure, but his physicinn says that it is mostly due ton lack of ‘spirit’? im the man bimself, Ee further says that the remedy 18 of universal appli- cation and gives the following recipe:—-Feur bottles of champagne; ‘pour the contente on a rosebush in the garien and put the bottles under the bed. Note-—The rosebush wiil die, but the patient will recover. Another man bas been fourd in London whose crime fe that he has too mach faith. His child had scarlet fever and he refused to call In a physician, but went down on his Knees and asked the Lord to curo the boy. The Jad; id that the prayer was undoubtedly a good one, but that it onght te bave been accompanied with cbamomilotea, He then sontenced thecriminalto three months’ hard Inbor, dcelaring that it was not because he prayed, but because he did not prac- tice, Ifa man does the very best he can there will be enough lett for the Lord to do, but to Ife down by the sido of a plain duty and go to sleep, with the prayer that the Lord will both forgive your laziness and rank heresy. A church debt is like 20 much dynamite. It is bound to explode and blow the whole lastitution to atoms, Last week a minister in Boston gave up in despair because his salary} was overdue and there was nothing mm the treasury. A few days ago another minister in Chicago began to look for a larger fleld of usefulness for the same redson. And now Brooklyn, which has afforded an illustration of almost everything that 1s eccentric in the way of church methods, affords anotner instance of the same kind. It used to be said thata debt on achurch ts what ballast is to a vessel, but there is such a thing as having so much ballast tnat when the wind blows the whole concern goes down. ‘The Americans are enthusiastic and think they can’t have too much of a good thing. While it may be well enough to have a floating debt it isa very bad thing 10 have a sinking debt. Men have had their own way long enough. The timo of reaction is at hand. A new religious sect has sprong ap in Russia, one of whose leading tenots is that man js subordinate to woman, and that the former becamo a ‘ord of creation” through some misunderstanding. It is a rule of tho new seot that every man shall con- fess his sins to his wife at least once a week. Such an upheaval of the establiched order would drive us all to Indiana. Under a régime of that kind we are lost, Far bethe day when a man shall cease to ao as ho pleases and his wif shall ceaso to do as he tells her to. “fo arms! to arms!” he cried. Ann Eliza, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, has at Inst beaten her husband—in a suit at court. In her young days, when bhe read romances and wrote tender poetry, she thonght it the most delightful thing in thé world to be “sealed”? as number nineteen to the great Mormon, and, properly ticketed, sent into his harem. But frac- thunat matrimony has made her unbappy. To ve one- nineteenth of that crowd, which, being aggregated, constitutes the wife of Brigham, and to pozsess that small fractional proportion of his affections has ex- cited her jealousy and wrath. Her disturbed folicity has, however, recovered its balance, that is a balance of $4,000 which the great sealer was compelled to pay. She has now a fait dowry and a fair fase, and, under the protection of monogamy, still entertains hopes ot domestic bliss, Sometimes clergymen may learn a lesson from poli- ticians, This may seem a strango assertion, but stranger still to say that the politician upon whom our oye resis at this moment is that political geyser of Massachusetts, Benjamin F. Butler. We have been greatly amused at the controversy between that gentie- man and Judge Ebenezer Hoar. Mr. Butler may have .agreat deal of hot temper in his heart, but ho was careful not to pour any into bis inkstand. He even facetiously remarked that Judge Hoar bas unneces- sarily raised his Ebenezer. In both politics and reli- gion the laws of courteous controversy should be ob- served. It is not always necessary to call a man hard mames in order to get the better of him tn argument. Still we confess with some surprise that we can learn a lesson in politencss‘from that restless politician who never forgets to say ‘my dear Judge,” even when he 18 boiling with indignation. Rev, Joseph Cook, of Boston, who appears to bea walking encyclopedia, is fighting the evoiution theory with its own weapons. He ts perfectly willing to ad- mit that we were all tadpoles once, if scientific men will only agreo to that fact among themselves, So Jong as they disagree, however, he intends to hold on to Moses. He says that Huxley asserts that 500,000,000 years ago the protoplasmos, or seed of all life, began to develop itself, while geology says that at that par- tucular period the earth was in a state of fusion. That seod must have beena perfect salamander to have en- dured such heat. But to our minds Huxley’s theory is corroborated by theology. That primal sced or egg must have bad an awful roasting, and therefore devel- oped an imperfect life; and that Is where the dogmas of original sin and total depravity come from. It !s pretty hard on mankind, however, for geology says it came from a hot place and theology says it is going to one. WEEKS OF PRAYER. So much good spiritually has resulted from obsorv- ing tho first week in January every year as a woek of prayer that the weeks devoted to sueh services have deen multiplied throughout the year, Beginning next Sunday week (November 12), that day and the weck following will bo observed by the Young Men‘s Chris- tan associations throughout tbe world asa time of special prayer for their work. The American and Canadian committees have requested pastors to preach special sermons on tho morning of the 12th prox., and topics relating to the different phasoa of tho work ot Young Men’s Christian associations will be talked ana prayed about in the churches during tho week. The programme for the observance of the first week in January, 1877, a8 @ weok of prayer has been already issued by the British branch ot tho Evangelical Alliance. It embraces sermons on Christian fellowship to be preached on Sunday, Janvary 7; thanksgiving and confession in the review of the past year on Monday, 8th; prayer for the Holy Spiris on the universal Church and tor the Charch’s deliverance from error and corruption and its increase in faith, activity, holiness and Christian charity, on Tueeday; ard on Wednesday prayer for families, for the unconverted, for suns and daughters at college ,and school and for those abroad ; for apy in sickness, ‘trouble or temptation, and for those who have been recently added to the Church. On Thursday, January 11, prayer is to bo offered for nations, for rulers, magistrates and stateemeo, for ptilanthropte and benevolent Institutions, for a pure literature, the aprend of eound edneation among tho people and the maintenance of peace. On Friday Christian missions to the Jews and Gentiles, Sunday schools and the world’s conversion to Christ are to bo prayed for, and on Saturday Sapbath o' nee, temperance and the safety of travellers by will be looked atte The week will wind ap with sermons on the Sabbath, Jan- uary 14, on the unity of God, of faith and of worship. This programme tay be modiiled to suit localities and time, but the week 1s to be observed in some form of religious services all the game, EPISCOPAL VISIT TO LIBERIA. The polity of Methodism requires that every part of the work of the Church shall have episcopal super- vision. But previous to 1872 the number of bishops was too small to carry out in practice this theory of the Episeopacy. Avthe General Conference in that year, held in Brooklyn, eight now bishops were chosen and consecrated, The Church had then twelve offec- tive bishops and one superannuatod. But none of them hankerod after a trip to the Choreh’s wirsions in Alrioa, There was then and previously a missionary bishop for Liberta and the regions beyond—a colored man—who resided tn the territory ana exercised «pis copal jurisdiction therein, This good man died, and tho General Conterence failed or refused to elect a suc. cessor, on the ground that the work of the Chareh ig one, whether among the native or foreign population, white or black, and no such distinctions should be made, But the colored people wanted a bishop who should look moro especially alter their interests, and i ‘al Conference of 1872 gave them Bishop ¢ b whose episcopal residence i fixed at Atlanta, Ga., and whose district takes in perhaps nine. tenths of all the colored peoplo inthe South. Ae has done euch effectivo service among them that the Board and using the pieces to insulate his bedstead’ with. | stupidity and do all your work for you besides, is | ' bas planted and of Bishops havc appointed nim to visit Liberia and the territory inland where the Methodist Episcopal Charch nds to plant missions, He will @ail it a merchant vessel {rom this port next Wednes- day, accompanied by bis nephew and Rey. 8. 1 cey, of the Genesee Conference, and another passenger from Philadelphia. The American Colonization Society will send out » colony ef colored people to Liberia by the same vessel, The voyage will pe made in about forty days, After visiting the missions in Libet beyond the Bishop Lopes to be able, tf his Ume will permit, to make the tour of the African coast and ex- amine the condition of other missions besides those of his own Church, Bishop Andrewa is now visiting the missions in Europe and asia. nil USELESS CONTROVERSIES, To THe Epiton ov tux Hxwan: Ib as time that both philosophers and religious teach- ers should stop thts usclesa war over the first chapters of Geneais, which is spreading doubt and scepticism as to the truth of the sacred Scriptures and doing un- told harm to many. The use of our reason and the common eense with which the Lord has endowed us would often suve even teachers {rom grave mistakes and foolish controversies. Let any intelligent person, free from preconceived opinions and prejudice, read the first eleven chapters of Genesis carefully. 1 ask, Is it among the probabilities, or even possibilities, shat he would come to thé conclusion that therein ia con- tained a literal history of the creation of the material world and the first man and woman wpon 3t, and the literal bistory of their descendants? Let him dear in mind that the Lord when earth addressed His disciples in parables or comp@ed histories, and and thns conveyed the most important lessons of spiritual truth, abd that mauy portions of the sacred Scriptures are allegorica!, of olgo they aro meaning- less and genseleas. Also !et bim remember the mytho- logical writings, socommon among the ancients that even the history of Rome, as ‘we traco it.back, ends in a myth, or, more atrictly speaking, an { we but glance even hastily at the first chapters of nesis, 1t 1880 manifest that the narrative ta a pure allegory, baving no reference to the m but treating exclusively of the rege and his spiritual history, that it would seem that no intelligent person should’ doubt it, let us jook @ moment, Do serpents talk, or havo we any reason to suppose that they ever were enber a wise or a talkative race of reptiles, or ereated for any other mode of locomo- tion than upon their belles? Is it true that they eat dust? A tree of life anda tree of knowledge, of good andevil, Who could possibly imagine that these were Hteral trees, bearing material trait, when their very names scout the idea? A garden eastward in Eden, What point of the material compass was that? and tho serpent—a material serpent ot course—therein talking and seducing a woman from ovedience to the Divine commanas; & woman created out of the rib of a material inan, Aud are we to believe, in the fueo of all we see around us in both the amimal and vegetable kingdoms, that one jeration comes and another goes, that it was ever ended that man should live forever in his material body on the muterial earth, and that the death de- creed on his disobedience was what we call natural death, especially when he did not die materially on the day of his partaking the forbidden trutt? Does the Lord promise and not fulfil? ‘There ig a mental earth as well as a material one, and the serpent or the sensual and selfish in man se- duces him to-day, as it did the first men on earth, from obedience to the Divine commands. And tho declaration that on the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die is spiritually fulfilled now as then, To the extent just so fastas aman gives way toa life of seifls! ness aud sensual induigence, and makes self-gratifica- in the chief object of his life, heavenly lite, which nsists of loving the Lord and his neighbor, dies within him, The Lord is the tree of life, and the truth, Juvo and charity which ever flow down to man are its leaves and fruit, If a man commences to live according to the precepts of the divine word he is healed by tho leaves of the tree of lite when ho comes in heart and hfe to acknowledge in humility that all gooduess and trath are from the Lord, who alone lives, we being but recipients of life, The pride of His own intelligence and the feeling that He is good and wise and does good and originates truth, of Himself, is the tree of knowledge of ood and evil of which man was not to cat. The “ora’s Works and His Word are always in harmony, and in tho very nature of things—both being from the same author—can never conilict. A LAYMAN, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. PRESRYTERIAN, Tho old Presbyterian church at Cranberry, N. J., has had but six pastors in 140 years. Of the 4,744 ordained munisters of tho Presbyterian 26 are regularly employed in the work to which they were consecrated, Nearly one-third of the whole (1,418) are otherwise employed or unemployed. The Rey. D, J. Burrell bas resignea his pastorate of Westminster church, Chicago, He receiyet $2,000 salary a year, but that was not enough, The Third church was willing to add a portion of tts home mis- sion funds to Mr, Burrell’s salary, but the Presbytery would not allow it. Hence the resignation. Rey, B, N. Barrett, of Austin, will succeed him. New York Avenue Presbyterian church, Wasbing- ton, talks of selling to the Unitarians, and building a new and larger editice. ‘ A Presbyterian church has been organized in Orange county, Virginia, called the “Waddell church,’ the celobri bhnd preacher, Dr. James Waddell, who had an estate in that county and preached without remuneration to a sinall congregation in a log church, The Presbytery of Brooklyn, N. ¥., unanimously answer both overtures of the Goneral’ Assembly on uced representation in the negative, ‘The Westminster Presbyterian church, Cleveland, Oho, has been sold for $30,000. Alter paying the debts about $20,000 will remain to be employed in the extension of Presbyterianism in another part of the city. Rey. John M. Richmond, of Colambus, Obto, has ac- cepted a call to the First Presbyterian church, at Ypsi- Tanti, Mich, Rev, William G. Hubbard, of Barre Centre, has ao- cepted a call to Mendon, Monroe county, N, Y. The Rey, E. C. Lawrence has resigned the pastorate of Grace Presbyterian church, Brooklyn Rev. Daniel W. Catneron, having resigned the pas- torate of tho Marievilie church, Moriah, N. Y., for the purpose of locating In Canada, joined the Presbyterian Church of Canada at the late meeting of the General Assembly held in Toronto. xander Reed, lately of Brooklyn, being in king restored health, has taken eharge of the Central Presbyterian church at Denver, ‘The first Presbyterian church of Cadiz, Ohio, hi given a unanimous call to Rey. Robert Dickson, 1). D., of New Albany, Ind. Dr. Dicksoh will begin his labors among this people next Sabbath, ROMAN CATILOLIC. The Rev, K. Vaughan, an English priest, bas under- taken to circulate 50,000 copies of Scio’s Spanish New Testament, with notes, transtated from the Douay (English) version in the Spanish speaking countries ot South America. He began his work in the Argentino Republic, and at intest accounts was in Brazil, The Spanish Bishop of Minorca has added a new feature to Ultramontane proscription, He has issned a new circular enjoining on masters of primary schools not to admit sons of Protestahts and other dissentors, As Protestant schools are proseribed, the meaning of this jp that the children are to be deprived of all edu- cation, Of Catholic priests ministering to British troops in India there are at present forty-two in the Bengal Presidency, eighteen in Madrasand sixteen in Botnba ‘The now Church of the Holy Name, St. Loute, will be dedicated to-day, The Catholic Mirror reports the health of Archbishop Bayloy very much improved within tho past week, fhe Rev, J. Alph, Frederick, Inte assisiant pastor of St, Martin’s church, Balt‘more, has been appointed pastor of St. Mary’s church, Deer Creek, Harford county, Md. ‘The corner stone of St Cecilia's ehureb, s#hiladol- pbia, was Inid Inet Sunday, A band of Redemptorist Fathers aro engaged ina mission at St. Augustine's (Gerinan} church, Newark, OA. Vogel, pastor, he Catholics of Stanstead, P. Q., are building a $25,000 church, Father Keane, of Washington, is named as likely to be the future Bishop of Richmond, Va, METHODIST. Commenting on church management and church pole ity the Christian Advocate, of this city, very truly re- marks :—"It makes avery great difference in the results for eternity whether a ‘charch js so managed as to Torch 309,000 sowis in 300 yours, or 80 managed us to reach 2,000,000 souls in 100 years.” ? The statistics of the Evangelical Association (Al- bright Mothodists) for 1876 show 857 ttinerant minia- tors, 526 local preachers, 104,302 members, 1,350 churches, vatued at $3,619,468, ana_ missionary contri- butions to the amount of $66,200. The increase in min- intors 1s seventy-eight; In members, 744; in churches, 106, and in value of churches, $484,577. Bishop Peck dedicated a new church at Kuckville, N. Y., last Tuosday. Rev Dr. McCarty, of the Michigan Conference, hne been transferred to Ames church, Now Orleans, TI Rev. Ross C. Houghton, of Bu N. Y., bus ber transferred to St. Louis, and Rev. Goorge B. Strow. 0 Of Buftalo, bas beon sent to Kingston, Four years ago the General Conference made changes In the boundaries of three conterences in Central and Western New York, which changes did not please pas- tors or people, Last May the General Conference left the matter altogether to the latter to setilo They have done 80 by consolidating throe into two contor+ restoring old names and fixing boundaries to CONGREGATION AL. The Rev. A. S Matheson, the successor of Dr, Taylor In the Derby road church, of Liverpool, is now tn this city. He presenhod with marked ability, to the edifca- tion of a large congregation, iast Sabbath morning in Dr, Taylor's Broadway Tabernacle, Tho Rev. F. N, Zabrinskie, D. D., was installed pas- tor of the First Congregational eburch, Wollaston, Mass., op the 19th inst, Dr. Withrow, of Boston, aud seven other ministers participated, Rey. Dr. J, O, Means, Secretary of the Congregational Pablishing Society, Boston, resigns the office be has held so long. His successor is not nam The Congregationaiats of Wisconsin have 183 charches and the lresbyterians & They work to- gether vory barmontonsty in ail local efforts and me together In annual conventions, They met recently in Oshkosh and reported a united membership of 12,565, of which 1,652 were added during the year, They ha not added s0 many in a single yoar for eighteon years ast, i The Centro Ahurch, of Haverhill, Mass., calls to the pastoral oflice Rev, Henry K. Barnes, of Worcester, KPISCOPALIAN. Tho Bishop of Ubichester, Engiand, has teeved a pastoral to bis clergy suggesting that collections should OCTOBER 29, 1876.--QUADRUPLE be made for the relief of the enffering Christ!anein Bul- } garia, The Rev. Augustus Jackson has returned from Eu- ronie' sie, resumed tho charge of St. Paul's, Washing- ton, D. C, Hishop Oxenden, the Motropolitan of Canada, has prouibited the 2 J, Prescott, rector of St. Cle- ment's church, P phia, {rom officiating Io tho Diocese o! Montreal, Mr. Prescott is a member of the Society of St. John, Cowley, England, and has been colebrating a retreat atthe Chureh of St John tho Evangelist, the St, Alvan’s of Montreal, Rev, Edward R Johnson, Archdeacon of Chestor and rector of Northenden, has been raised to the Episco- ae of Calcutta, India, He is a high charchm: a achelor and fifty years ot age. By the addition of $10,000 to the Cornish bishopric fund the new see of Truro secures the $200,000 or its Brel jortion promised by Lady Rolie to the Home ishopric Fund, Dr. Farrar, Master of Marlborough College and chap- ain in ordinary to Queen Victoria, has written a Iife of Christ, in which be accounts for the opening of graves and the resurrection of the dead about the time of Christ's crucifixion by charging it to tho heated imagination of the Jews, to whom jt seemed as if the spirits of the dead filled the alr, who appeared after Christ had risen to linger in the Holy City. In no other way, be thinks, can the allusion of Matthew to this event be explained, During the summer services tn De. Tyng’s Gospel Tent about 600 persons professed conversion there. Bishop jell, of Ohio, wants the bishops of half a dozen dioceses around his to unite in founding a great sri untyersity at Gambier, Obio. The Protestant Episeopal ohureh received last year for its doreign mission work $97. and expended that amount and $8,883 more, Thero is a deficiency In its treasury of $41,589. The Domestic Mission Com- mittee, which has been operating separately since 1835, was organized in 1821. Since 1835 {t bas admin- istered in ite feld $2,400,000, The receipts .to this Board last year were $22,698, being $10,637 less than the year preceding. Rov. fr. Kramer, formerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Matawan, N. J., is now assistant rector of St. Mark’s church, on Tenth atroes and Soc- ond avenue, BAPTIST. A Virginia Baptist predicts thi increases as rapidly during the ncxs 100 yearsas it hag in the past century, it will mumber 20,000,000 ut tho next centennial. A New York brother, with a more prophetic eye and superior mathematical powers, shows that, in the same ratio of increase, thero would ‘be 114,299,070 Baptists in the United States in 1976, and that, 1n the ratio of increaso of population, there will be hore at that time 450,000,000 of people, fifty-two per cent of whom will be Baptists, However, our contem- porary will be satisfied if there are 225,000,000 of peo- ple anid 50,000,000 ot them Baptists in 1976. The Baptists of Topeka, Kansas, have Just completed an cxcolient church building, with only $1,600 debt on it, They say it is unsurpassed by anything in tho neighborhood, ‘the Rev. EB. P, Hammond, evangelist, ts about to visit Europe, but Mr. W. W. Bentley, of ‘this city, will all his place as far as possible, Filty-five thousand dollars have been paid in this centennial upon the debt of Peddie Institure, at Highs- town The American Baptist Missionary Union reports 350 mission churches plavted in Europe, with a member- ship of more than 31,000, Nhe Herkimer street Baptist ehurch, Brooklyn, bave enlarged their building by tho addition of twenty foes to its width and fifteen to its depth, ata coat of $3,300, It wil be dedicated next Sunday, The Baptists of Dubuque, lowa, are’ batlding “the largest nnd finest church edifice in the State’ of their denomination, and, strangely enough, without golng in debt for it, They hope to dedieato it December 3. Baptists in this vicinity are to be favored witha course of twelvo lectures on Baptist Church history from tho Rev, Dr. William R, Williams, of this city, whose researches In this department, added to his gencral scholarship, will insuro him an cager audienec, ‘the Rey. Dr. George W. Gardner, of Boston, late Seorctary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, has received a nnanimons call to the irst Baptist church in Cleveland, Ohio, Jate Dr. Behrends', ata salary of $4,000 . SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. WHAT IS THE REASONABLE AND REASONING FAITH WHICH JUDAISM DEMANDS OF ITS FOLLOWERS — DISCOURSE BY REY. MR, sacoss. * Despite the weather a largo congregation gathered In tho synagoguo'in West Thirty-fourth street yesterday, towhom the Rev. Henry 8, Jacobs preached on the reasonableness of roligion and the faith of Judaism, In the day’s sutra thero appears phases of Abraham's character which demanded attention, Called in the prime of life and manhood from the home of his ehilld- hood, from the circles of his youthful joys; called to abandon the scencs of his early habits, and yet ho was ready to obey the voice of God, And thus he left Chal. dea and entered Mesopotamia, He went there to assail idolatry in its stronghold. He went to bea shining light of the faith in the true God. Abraham lacked the support that springs from domestic training. His father Terah, according to tradition, was a maker of idols. And yet, with nothing mure than the conscious. ness that he was doing the will of his Maker, the pa- triarch went forth regardiess of tho perils with which ho was surrounded. There was Do doubt in his inind, There can be po doubt jn the mindé of such men when the volce of conscience, which is the yuice of God, speaks to them. Again, ho doubted nut when ho was promised a son by Sarah, his wite. He believed God, and staggered not in bis faith, and it was counted unio him for righteousness, And on this verse Mr. Jacobs based the query which ho adopted for consideratiun :— “What is the reasonable aud REASONING FAITH WICH JUDAISM DEMANDS of its followers?” it cannot be too often reiterated that Judaism 18 not a Slind belief in the ipse dizit say- . §f the denomination ings of any man, It allows the fullese latitude to human ‘opinion when . that opinion does not militate against’ the — plain Wort of God, Judaism 18 consonant with reason in its fullest exercise, and it knows no law to coerce any men’s opinion or belief. 1 recognizes the Divine pur- pose to give validity to the deeds of men, For what 48 motive without action? They are fboth necessary, that we may fortily those things that lead from sensi- ble and intelligent saith to sensible and intelligent action, Judaism does not ask any man to believe that which cannot stand the crucial test of logic. It is charged with being a mere sontiment; but it is more, albeit sentiment is as much a part of man’s moral nature as reason is cf his physical. But some persons object to all kinds of creeds, on the ground that they demand acquiescence in things that cannot be under- stood, Such opinions are fallacious, They are vpposed to truth and justice, They betray the same jogical error. Judaism 18 a positive treed, It is a religion, and not a cold philosophy.’ It cannot and does not exclude sent.ment, 1} has doctrines which aro fully consonant with reason and which can be defi Kant, ono of the greatest philoso- phers of day, deciared that beliet in God is something that cannot be proved by reason, But this is an error, Rational grounds can be given for such a Volict, and the fundamental proposition of Judaism is, that there is aGod, All nature cries out that thore is aGod, Clad in its springtime garments of green or in its roseate hues of summer flowers, laden with the Tien fruits of antumn, ornamented with the frosts and snows of winter, It teaches unmistakably that there 18 A GOD GOVERNING AXD SUPERINTENDIN all things. It teaches us what Abrabain’s lite teachos— faith in God. Yon seo law and order pervading all creation, and in the niost minuto organisma We may go further, and seo the Almighty hand spreading out the heavens like a curtain and teaching us, as in Ingpt- ration, that the law uf the Lord is righteousness. Of ail systems of faith is not this an intelligent fatth? Docé it not realize to the fullest extent what men rec- ognize as righteousness? This 18 a practical deliel. And this shall be your rightcousness when ye remember to keep ali the wards of this law. ‘This is the Ieston of Abraham's hfe which Jeracl has tried to teach — an Maintain, And this lesson has beot our righteourn: amid the troublous existence of centuries past. And this promise hay been fulfilled; and hete wo are to-day as witnesses of the truth befuro all the world, as the children of Abraham and the followers of his fab, And should we to-day waver im our faith of bo tempted to go anide and be deceived by the ignis fatuus of ravionaiiem 7 If we have so often been deliveren by + God when calamities have been upon us and s many things have been spared for our joy and bappinese, are Wo then to bo guilty of the falsehood of behev ips ‘thas God can be faithful to us in one thing and not in another? We have been preserved and sustained for nome great purpose, which 18 to be aocomphsbed in God's good time and in His own good way. Let tho Beopiic sneer, but Jet us grow in righteonsness, that we may toach it to the world. And let us so live that it can nover be Intd to our charge that wo have Jorgotten onr Father's mission, or that by un- righteousness we have forgotton the name of Abra- ham, whose children wo are and must continue to be. Let as continue in the path of that undeviating patriarch in personal and private and public lite, and God will accoun! tous forrighteouspese, and the work of righteousness shail be penec, and tho end thereot quietness and a ince jorever. Mr, Jacobs ed a jew words of advice to a outh who, had just attained his ceclesinstical ma- jority and assumed the vows of the Synagogue, THE REVIVAL SEASON BEGUN. Tho indientions already given point tow revival of ‘more wonderiul power this winter than that which swept over the land last winter. Alroady at McCon- neflevilie, N. Y., 40 have sought the Lord; at Gilber- ton, Pa., 84 have been received on probation during the past two weoks, and tho Methodist church altar continnes to bo crowded with penitents every night. At Cros# Roads Methodist Episcopal church, near Bal-- moro, 53 have professed conversion; at Annapolis Neck, Md., 21 havo been converted and others are seoking, at Franklin, W. Va., 12; at several charges in the Virginia Vonttrence ot the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 656 conversone aro reported, In olurcpes of the North Onarolina Gonference Nhodiat Episcopal Church South 732 con sion: in Hoiston Conterence churches Tennessee Conterence Church: Soath North Georgia Conference, 100; in Lo Conference, 117; in Columbia, 30 conversions. About « dozen have been converted tn St Paul's Meth- odist Episcopal charch (South), Baitimore, and the work incronses in interest, In Los Angeles six havo been added to tho Methodist Kpiscopal church recensly, In the Mississippi Conterence churches (South) a6 conversions and necerstoni to the Methodists are ro- SHEET. A MUNICIPAL WAR. A LIVELY BRUSH BETWEEN THE TRUSTEES OF NEW BRIGHTON VILLAGE AND THE TAXPAY- ERS--AN {INJUNCTION 6ERVED ON THE BOARD, For some months past it been surmised that the Managemont of the tinancial affairs of Now Brighton villago by the incumbent Board of Trustees was any- thing but just what ‘tsbould be; that much money had been squandered on ascless jobs, and that, not- withstanding the fact that several important munici- pal improvements wore sadly«@oded, the Boag had no money at thelr command, and that besides an utterly depleted exchequer the Board bad drawn to some extont ontho future income of the village. Tho village, at the expiration of tho current fiscal year, instead of having any surplus fund on hand, a8 had been represented, would bave ap in- debtedness on it of moro than $11,000. Yet in tho ‘ace of thts state of things the Board—eonsisting of Measra. Whittemore, Arnold, Mooro, Bodine, McDon- ald and Vroome—determined (with the exception of President Whittemore, who was on the side of the tax. Payers) to anticipate the incoming tax by tasu- Ing certificates of indebtedness upon which to bgrrow more money tor the running ox- penses of the viliage As soon ns the doter- mination of the Board became known a formal protest was sent to them signed by fifteen or twenty of the most wealthy and influential citizens of the village, Among the names signed to this protest- img document were J, W. Simonton, G. C. Norvell, Alfred Prentice and others This protest urged the Board not to issue the said certificates, since it would only tncrease the burdens of the taxpayers, und the Board was warned that if necessary legal eteps would be taken by the protestants to protect the taxpay: from the results of such action oa the part of the Board. This commanication, received and read at a regular meeting of the Board, was treated with ulmost sifout contempt, Mr, Arnold did pay enough attention to it to movo that it be received and placed on file, which was don Further than that !t was not the de- solute village tathers to bother with tion or the communicants. TMINGS BROUGHT TO A FOCUS. The Board on this certificato question was divided into two factions, the President, k, B, Whittemore, on the side of the taxpayers and against the issuance of the bonds, and all the other Uve trustees against Whittemore, against the taxpayers and decidedly tn favor of a little financial inflation. At tho first mect- ing of the Board heid after tho reception of the tax- payers’ protest, and in direct contempt of that docu- ment, it was decided (the Prosident alone voting in the negative) to issue the certificates, and on these proceed to borrow $6,000, at the rate of soven per cent, to be used in defraying the expenses of the village On Friday night last tho Board held another meeting. A number, of wealthy and influential citizens walked quietly into the pall and took and it began to look ag if there was going to be ‘muste in the air” betore long. A large lot of small bills had been audited and passed on when they camo to one which was a proposition for certain road repairs, when sud- denly ao injunction was served on the Board, 1asued by Judge Gilbert, of the Supreme Court, at the suit ot J, W. Simonton, acting for the taxpayers, enioining the Board from issuing any evidences of indebtedness, or from contracting any obligation in excess of revenuo actually on hund or already due and collectable, ‘Tho citizens are thoronaplt anaiitod and determined to fore- stall the rash acts of this villago ring, and certainly the proceed ngs of Friday night would tndicato a most timely and commondable vigilance op their part, It was a8 goods apy show now on the buards of our theatres. NEW YORK CITY BONDS. The following ts Hist of proposals received by Comptroller Green yesterday for $1,497,500 five per cent bonds of the city of New York:— Name. Amount, * Rate. Nicholas Canter, $0,000 100.25 Isabel M. Heiser, 600 100, 25 F. b. Tappen.. 110,000 100.21 Goorgo Sit 867,500 100.10 George 400,000 100 09 George 300,000 100.08 George K. Ststare, 200,000 100,07 George K. Sistare, Jr. 230,000 100.06 Ss. A. Lawrence 2,000 100.05 M. R, Walsh, 1,500 100.05 M. Reaben Merchant, 100,09 M. Reuben Merchant. 100.00 Louisa D. Van Buren. 100.00 E. ©. Forbes. 100.00 Total amount of bids ‘The award otf the stce! above parties at rates trom 100.96 to 100,25. ST. JOHN'S GUILD, To tne Eniton or THE HeRAt, Being regular subscribers of your papor, we would ask as a favor tho msertion of the following, which you will sce is amattier of interest to the public, but particularly to the vast number of members of St, Jobn’s Galld:— As members of St. John’s Guild we have re- cently received @ proposal for a change of the canonsof that organization. The canon to which we would part riy call attention, is canon 4, article 1:—fhe preseat master and originator of the Guild shall hola the otlice of master permanently, unless ho be removed by a two-thirds vote of all tho mombers of the Guild.” The Guild has at present about 2,50) members. on its roll book; a two-third vote’ of which would be about 1,675, But cavon 11 state: “That only twenty-five members shall form a quorum,” which directly refers to the preceding canon :—*The Guild shall have power to amend any and all articles ot these canons, except canon 5, or to make such new canons, orders and bylaws as may bo nocessary, provided that notice of the same shall have been given at the previous regular meeting, and that two-thirds of the members present concur’ —thus pee tbe entire transaction of meetings in the ands of twen ve members (generally samo persons), who always make it a point to be presont at such meetings. But the main object of these twenty- five members {s platoly seen in the preinde to the new canons, which reads:—Amendments to there canons may be considered advisable after. discussion, and in case of your absence it will be considered that you ac. quiesce in the determination then had.” Hoping that you will find space for this In your valuable paper, we remain, SOME MEMBERS HAVING THE WELFARE OF THE GUILD AT HEART. REAL ESTATE. At the Real Estate Exchange yesterday Ricbard V, Harnett sold, by order of the Supreme Court, in fore. closure, J. A. Goodlett, referee, a house, with lot 22,6x98.9, on Kast Thirty-first street, south side, 100 feet east of Second avenue, to J. J. Rurehell for $6,050. Richard V. Harnott also sold, by order of the Supreme Court, im foreclosure, John A. Stantenboy, reterec, a hotise, with lot 16,8x102.2, on West Soventy-ninth street, south side, 316.8 feet cast of Tonth avenue, to RT. Edwards for $3,000. TRANSFERS. 145 th. Ww, Of Bleneker, 20565; 0. Downing st.. ». W. Chapman and wife to J. W. Mitchell , Ww. 8. 24.81, 0 of BGI AL, 1S.6R70; jand and wife to K. Regn: (No. 199), 21-244 x71 220th at, <M a, 268.9 1b, Ww. of av, A, 1 Hequa to tM h at. ulbol 4 th js alto Washingion also Greenwich at, (No. 52), 2S. ax04 assignee) to D. 2 2,300 sth av. n W198 173; i Valkenburgh to B. F. Dunning. 80,000 Oliver st..0. 94 79 tt, m. of south 0) to Ba Greenwich (No. 55) 5 J. w Bist at. 8 on 52 and S43, and Washington «t. 1. Coleman (referee) to E. P, Sh Sailors’ Soug Mar. rt, 21 years, " THO wost of 4th av., same to same; 21 y 750 MORTGAGES. Ourry, D., t0 8. ¥. Rast Vonforence of M. F. Chareh, © & of Washington av., n. of lugh at. (24th ward) } TyORt oes 1,500 berger, Joseph A. and wi qe are 2,000 hh Waiters, No. 260i tam st 4,090 Foerator, Joseph and wife, to rf Broome st., w. of Pitt; instalment 6,000 Bame to @. Sehnaier, n. s. of Broo 5 years, « _ 12,000 Hecker, I. ¥,, to Emi, f. w, corner of Wh av, and Goth at ear... 62,000 Wailer, Wiliam nod, wite, to Chatics W. Hallett, #8 ot 87th at, 6, of ay. Ay L year, ‘ Harting, Augustus, to H. ¥. Nichola 6. 8 of Grant tral ag. (24th ward) ; 3 years. w York Savings Bank, 10,000 8,500 is 5.500 t oe, 3. 8 Of T7th at. 2,600 A. d. anit wife, to Germa of Lith wt, w. of 2 2,500 Moore, A. W., to E,W, ro poveit, Galvin 6. aad Uni patie rowel, Catvin G. aud wite, to U Company, s. 8. of Lith st. w. 4,000 Rowan, Jolin und wife, to a of 4th at; 3 Fours 400 Shotirsil, Theo, 30,000 10,000 Horbeanng: M8” Van Volkonburgh, D. KB. and wite, to B.*. Dunning, nw, commer of Sth av, dnd Teth st. cInatalments. 15,000 Van Volkenburgh, A. and husband, to same, w, & of Oth av., a, of 47th at ; Instadinents. ++ e4 15,000 THE MAGGIE BAUER MURDER Frank McConochie, the murderer of little Maggie Bauer, is the sov of John McConochte, who keeps & small shoe store in Gates avenue, near Nostrand, Brooklyn. The father is Scotch, tho mother Kughwn, and Frank was boro tm this country, He has two brothers and five sisters, one of the brothers beings physician and one of the sistors being married toa practical chomist, Frank admits that bis father once nt him to the Penitentiary for vagrancy, where he ved aterm of six months. When fifteen years old he was sent to the House of Refago, and, according to his own statements, be has over since lived the life of avagrant One of his sisters ts the only rolative who would hold any communication with him, and he occa- sionally visited her house. For the purpose of fixing tho crime and 11s method moro definitely, Detective Payne on Friday altornoon again conveyed MeConochie to the scene of themurder, whoro he was met by Dis- trict Atiorney Duwning and one or two other gentle- wen. Op the way ont MeConochie exhibited much pervousners, ud every fow minutes boxg that no violence = shonid = be commit against lim—being appurently afraid that be would be either shot or hung in the woods. He treely admitted having killed Maggio, and said he Was willing to. be punished for it, bat Lhought be wauld not be hung, as no one saw bim do it, He said he did Dot mind going up the rivor-—Lbal 1m, to Sing Bi id would tell God's truth” Uf they would not r3 In the woods o1 the Court House, He seemed to bave a particular borror of banging. When near the Bauer place be became atill moro anxious, but pointed out the different places whore he had stopped previous tothe murder, Mr. Bauer did not appear to be much agitated ut tho sight of the murderer of his child, but the mother could hardly repress ber feelings, On going Ito the woods, all persons excepting the District Al torney's party were kept back, a6 a precaution against any chance of violpave: ‘and n McConoctio found that he was not likely to be injured he became more culm. He then pointed out the spot where he seized Maggie; showed how ho sprang oat of the cornield upon ber, bowebe grappled her by the throat and walked ber through the cornileld*to the cedar bushes, and how be strangled her. He alo snowed the tree and the lind that ho had broken down to mark the spot, su that he could return after dark and more effectually secrete the body. He also ad- mitted that he took from Maggie the ten cent piece with @ bole in it, which Kato Hoifman testived to bay. ing given tober when she parved irom her at Haine mel’s barn, He doclined to say openly whether he attempted to violate Maggie's person, but whom qitec- tioned privately be Ireely admitted it. The w: in: whica the doctors were doubt stout were wade witb his bands, aod he strangle! ber to preveut het telling about 1, remaroing witb ber wotr be was «ire the was dead, Hoe was.so circumstantial in bis parr tion that, at the request of Detective layne, he folded a leaf and showed how be crammed 1 into the mouth ander the tongue. ‘The District Attorney now being Listed with the repetition, McConochio was returoed his ceil at the Jamaica Town Hall, and will bave his formal exarnination to-morrow. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY, AN INDIANA MAN SHOOTS HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW— TRIES TO KILL BIS WIYE--FINALLY BLOWS OUT HIS OWN BNArNs, [From the Cincinnat! Gazette, Och 26.) Resutineg, Ind., Oct 25, 1876, One of the most horrible tragedies thas ever occurred in Rush county was committed yesterday evening, Just after sundown, aboat eight miles southeast of thid place, and resulted in the death of Mrs. Jolin Rhodes and Chadwick B. Brittain. Brittain came to this county about two years ago from Paris, Ky., and worked as a {arm hand in the neighborhood for over a year, Becoming acquainted with the daughter and only child of Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes tney were married about ten months ago. They lived happily togetbor only about two months, when Brittain began to make himself disagreeable. He demanded that the ola foike give bim full possession of the farm, whieh they, of cow refused to do, yet they all continued to live under the same foof About two months since he bogan to drink considerably, and was more abusive and threatening In his may nee than ever befor, at such was his conduct that caine a terror.to hi young wife and aged motndimiaw. Last Friday ho was 80 boisterous that Me sthodes ordered him to leave the premises and nevor return. He left at once and the father, mother and daughtes thought that peace would reign again io their once happy home, but in this they were disappomted, About sundown yesterday Mrs. Rnodes saw Brittais approaching tho house, and tearing that he would kill or injure bis wife, who was encienfe and will soon be confined, sho locked her up in her room. Brittain en: terod tho house and. sald that he must sce bis wile, and attempted to torce open tho door. Mr. Rhozes tried to get im away, but failed and started out after somo wood. He had been out but a moment when he heara the rgport of a pistol anda scream from hw wite, as she fell apon the livor, He ran back and met Brittain at the door, who snapped the pistol at the old man, but, fottunately, it missed fre. Brittain im- mediately fired two ots, it is supposed, Mr. Rhodes, and then he shot bimsolf in the abdome This shot not doing its work ho placed the revolver d rectly over heart and fired, killing Nimselt stantly. A balf-pint bottle, partly full of whiskey, and the following letter, whieh shows that he Intended to kill his wife, were Jound upon bis person Rusnvutm, Oct 23, °76. ‘THts trouble is not my fault nor my wite’s, "The old lady ds tho troubs id i will revenge mysell inthis way. it it b it fair, my life ina misery t me and always wi be Bary me tand with my wile. CHAD. B. Hs was about thirty-lour years old and had been ts the rebel army. Mr. Rhodes isa tormor in good cir cumstance: ood neigh- bor. He was forty: emht. The daughter, ts almost de- throned by this awlul tragedy, which leaves her moth. erless and a widow, 1% about twenty. Brittain bad about $80 in money. He bought tho revoiver—a stnalt one, carrying a No 22 cartridge—of J, B. Kennedy, « hardware merchant in Rushville, only a few bours be. fore he committed his bloody work, OVERDRESSING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. To tar Eprron or tie Herap:— : Wo perhaps could do nothing better in thin conten. . nial year than attempt to return to the sinipheity of dress of our ancestors of the Revolution and restore equality, giving to the poor man and his ebildry samo advantages as the rich possess, To do this we must mako sotne improvement in the public schools, Al present they ate only available to those who are well enough oil to give their children good: dresses, Indeed, the girls zo Shere in sk and jewolry, and, sit Hing next toa less richly attired child, will taunt hee or tim with {ts poor attire, and the child goes home with tears and will not return to school until the hardly earned money of its parents 18 expended te more costly clothing for it, The very poor, therefore, cannot go atall; acnuse more powerful than law, ¢ barrier more dificult to pass than a battery of cannon, keeps tho little United States ctitzen tn tatters with, out—viz., tho scorn and ridicule of its richer school- fellow. ’ In most of the older settled countries thero 1 ite form required in the schools, and this would obviate much of the diMeculty, The Oxtord and Cambridge stadents, the Swiss, French and German seminaries for young ladies, require this, and for oor gitlsa uniform showing them to be sehool girls would be a great pro- Section In our streets, It need not be a conspicuous ono, but made of some gvod plain domestic goods, warmer !n winter, cooler in summer. For euch a cannot aflord to furnish their children with the cloth: Ing necessary there could be a ward committee of good women who would sec that they were furnished to them, Besides the want of fine clothes thero is an- other reason which keeps tho children of the poor from school; (his is that the older child is asl while the parent is at work, to take care of th smaller ones, and is therefore keptat home. To the public school there could be another departm: added—a kindergarten—where little ones could placed until the time ¢ame for’ their brothers or sisters to take thom bom This would enable us to diepense with those so-called industrial schools, formerly which are a very poor substitute for vor pub! ss earricd on in poor, badly ventilated and badly warm rooms, where very indiiferont instruction le provided and a iittle sewing taught once or twice a week for a few hours by some ladies—and as they are sapported by charity y are cartied on as cheaply a8 posmble, Ii there ladies would make themselves members of a ward comtnittee their work could be carri nection with the public schools, ana a ke rovidence created, which could foster talent and bring forward such os erty would otherwise hopelessly overwhelm, for it ot the children of the weil-to-d Classos in which the greatost talent is found, and in © republic we need all our good materials and ignorance 18 ® dangerous combi might be a general public school providence or charit, aid, formed of good women, with +omo fow mon o| fewure, who would undertake this work im our large cities. Bosides these advantages named the uniform would do much toward bringing about mphetty und econo y indress. Whata child bas been accustome to th: irl or boy wililike, and the woman and the man think right and propor for their children after them, and we will see fewer tlounces and furbelows and chenp finery, in tho shape ot gee and jew. elr: it will bring the rich and ithe poor together and sorve to blotout the invidious distinctions and soften the feelings of envy and jealousy toward such as have riches, For such at me and object to the uniform there are many admirable schools to which they could sond their ehildren, D. SHOT AT BY A THIEF. OMcer Connor, of the Sixteenth precinct, was shet at yesterday morning by a thief called “Dateh Hem,” whom he was chasing on Tonth avenae, near Twenty. sixth street. The ball fortunately only penctrated tie helt and coat, doing him no iojury, Tue tel eacape,