The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1876, Page 13

“Na RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial “Movements— Chat by the Way. Synagogue Worship—The Training and Education of Children. Disappearance of Churches—Cor- respondence, &c. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. “A Vision of Dry Bones’’ and “A Present Salvation” ‘will be presented to-day by Rev. J. J. Muir im ‘Macdou- gal street Baptist church, Services in the Greek chapel this morning im the English languag. “i lo the Fiith avenue Baptist church this morning Dr. Armitage will speak of ‘Happiness in Power” and in the evening on “Philip and the Nobleman.” In Grace caapel at the usual hours to-day the Rev. W. T. Egbert will officiate and preach. The Ri Jobn Peters, of Princeton, N. J., will Preach in Madison avenue Reformed church to-day. Nellie T. Brigham will aaaress the Progressive ppir- Wualists this morning and evening at their usual place M meeting. Dr. William M. Taylor, of this city, will address the Brooklyn Sunday Schoo! Union to-morrow eveniag in Lafayette avenue Presbyterian church, “Eve's Temptation” will be discassed Dy Rev. J. R, Xorr this evening in the Fourth Presbyterian churen. Rev. H. W. Kaapp wiil preach in Laight streets Bap- Wat church at the usual hours to-day. “Recognition in Eternity” will be proved by Rev. L 4. Lightbourn this evening im Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. Williams will preach this morning and Dr. Tyng Whis afternoon im St, George’s Protestant Episcopal shurch, ‘The Whole Family in Heaven and on Earth” will be tatroduced to St. James’ Methedist Episcopal charch, Harlem, by Rev. W. K. Davis this morning, and “The Sin Against the Holy Ghost that Never Hath Forgiveness’’ wi!l be indicated in the evening. The Rey, W. B. Merritt will preach at the usual hours to-day in the Reformed eburch on Sixth avenue, “The Accredited Exponent” will present his creden- tials to Stanton street Baptist church this morning through Rev, W. H, Leavell, Rev. James M, King will preach in St. John’s Metho- dist Episcopal church to-day at the usual hours, Dr. Ewer will officiate at all the services in St. Igna- tus’ Protestant Episcopal church to-day. Services in St. Thomas? Protestant Episcopal church to-day as usfl, ‘The people’s service in the Church of -the Holy Trinity will be conducted to-day by Rev. & H, Tyng, Jr., who will preach morning and evening. In the West Twenty-third street Pregbyterian church the Rev. E. N. White, D. D., will preach this morning and evening. ’ Dr. Deems will preach in the Church of the Strangers this evening asermon appropriate to the opening of ; the week of prayer for Young Men’s Christian Associa- tions. He will preach in the morning also. A solemn requiem mass will be celebrated to-morow (Monday) morning in St, Paul’s Roman Catholic church, Fifty-pinth street and Ninth avenue, for the soul of the late Cardinal Antonelli, In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. Dn Dunnell will minister to-day as usual, “A Silent Christ” will be prosented to the Piigrim plist church this ‘morning by Rev. J. 8, Kenuard. “Buying up Opportunities” will receive his attention ln the evening, Rev, ©. P. McCarthy will ask the American Freo _ church this morning, ‘‘Which Side are You On??? and In the evening will give a review of the “Influence of Faith on Charaeter.”” “Christ's Last Words to His Mother” will be re- peated by Rev. William Lloyd this morning, and “Ihe Vision of Living Waters’? will be expounded in the evening from Washington square Methodist Episcopal church. The’ American Temperance Union will hold a public Meeting this afternoon in Steinway Hall, Dr, Lam- bert and Revs. G. H. Corey and T. F. Parker will take part in the exercises. A sermon to “Men and Women of the World’ will be preached in Willett street Methoaist Episcopal church this evening by Rev. J. E. Searles, Rev. Fred Bell will preach and stng at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, this morning and evening. At Chickering Hall this morning the Rev. Samuel Colcord will preach on being “Saved.” In the after- noon Dr. J. M. King will preach. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal charch the Rev. Thomas E. Hildrety, of Ohio, formerly pas- lor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, Now York, will preach to-d the usual hours. Preaching this morning and praise meeting this dening at the Berean Baptist chureb. “Church Work” and ‘feart Religion’ will be eu- forced to-day in Bleecker street Universalist chureh by Rev. E. C. Sweetser. The Rev. De. Talmage will preach im the Taberna- cle, Brooklyn, this morning and evening. ‘The Rev. J. M. Pullman will minister to the Charch of Our Saviour at the usual hours to-day. In the Canal street Presbyterian church the Rev. H. B. Chapin will preach this morning and afternoon. The monthly concert of the Sabbath sckool in the evening. “A Message of Comfort” willbe given by the Rev. J.D. Herr to “The People’s Choice” to-day im the Central Baptist church, “Making Election Suro’? is the Rev. R. A. McAr- thur’s topic for consideration this evening in Calvary Baptist church. The Rev. Dr. Eccleston, of Staten Island, will preach in (he Church of the Advent this morning and after- noon, Services in the Church of the Heavenly Rest at the usual hour® to-day. ‘Josoph in the Dungeon” will be presented to the Eighiecenth street Methodist Episcopal ehurch to-day by the Rov. W. F. Hatfietd, “Christ Misjudged” i the Rev. N. L, Rowell’s morn- ing topic aud “Walking Surely” bis evening topic in the Free Baptist eburch. In the Fourveenth street Prosbyterian charch the Rev. F. H, Marling will preach this morning and after- aon, ‘@the Rev. Chauncey Giles will speak ot “Man as a Microcosm” in the Swedenborgian*ehurch this morn- ing. In the Church of the Disciples the Rev. George H- Hepworth will preach this morning on “The Matcbiess Love’? and this evening o@ “The House We Live In,” ‘The Rev. Dr, Preston, V. G., wili lecture on “Eduea- tou and Religion” in Cooper Institute on Sunday evening, Nov. 24, The Rev. W. R. Alger will pre this morning In the Church of the Messiah on “Tho Dramatic Spirit and thé Ascetic Spirit; or, The Battle Between the Cheatre and the Church.” .. Professor Felix Adier will ‘continue his lectures on immortality in Standard Hall this morning, his topio being ‘‘The Soul.” y “The Gospel for the People’ will be preacnea this tvening by Rev. Carlos Martyn in Thirty-fourth Street Reformed church. The Spiritualists will havea general conference in Howard Rooms this afternoon and ev. e- T. B. Wakeman will lecture on “Sociology” thie evening before the Church of Humanity, Rev. W. T. Sabine will preach at the usual hoars to- fay in the First Reformea Episcopal church, Services this morning and afternoon in Calvary Protestant Episcopal charch, Rev. Dr, Washburne rector, CHAT BY THE Way. Unless your life is a proof and an {Iustratton of your Preaching you will be doomed to deliver serhons to she deat and dumb all the days of your life. It 16 @ curious fact that when the barometer of the Ministers’ sermons saye “Very dry,” thas ef the people points to “Sudds ge"? Ls must be very comforting to know when you come ' der the head, “What is Truth?” you doa gr te die that you have paid your premiums regularly and kept your policy alive, and that your loss will be largely covered by insurance. Mr. A. T. Stewart was pot one ef those who wait for something to turn up. He went to work and turned it up himself, Instead of complaining of luck he mado his own luck as he went on, and was, theretore, sure to bo satisfied. If those who speua balf their time in grambiing about their ill forsune would spend the other half m an honest endeavor to succeed the number of our heavy taxpayers would be largely ip- creased. P The Western people boast that they have the larcest match factory 1m the world. There seems to be a grave blunder somewhere, If the announcement had been made that the West is celebrated for its ability to destroy matches we could agree, The startling facts are that matches are made in heaven and unmade in Indiana, Some of the devices of money-making men are peculiar, During tho heat of the Maine law régime every parcel that passed the confines of the State was closely examined to see if smuggled gin could be found ‘A shrewd dealer in the tnebriating beverage enclosed a few gallons in a coffin, and felt assured of the success of bis strategy. Tho ucfarious act was discovered, however, by the cunning officials, and tht remark was made that ‘while coffins wefe fit receptacles for bodies, it was Very unusual for them to contain spirita.’” If a man wants liquor he will get it, peaceably if he can, forcibly if be must, poor fellow in the South who was badly bitten bya tarantula was kept in a state of itoxication for a week, because brandy is supposed to be a sovereign remedy for the poison, A little while alter just soventeen men were found prowling round in the hope of getting bitten by the same animal, and the liquor dealers in’ hat section have offered a high pre- mium for a tarantula to be kept for the exclusive uso ot customers. We hear trequently of the craft that sail the seas, Dut after a few years’ experience In a cold and un. charitable world we find that there is about as much craft om the jand as on the water. It is well enough to go im & schooner, but not so well to have a “schooner” in you. City choirs akind of target at which any one fects at liberty to let ty an arrow. They are like “the eld lady of Floriaa,”’ who, Siu Vien she Ses bad sbooae nergeicee ‘The great trouble with fashionable choirs is their in- ability to speak plainly and their sometimes ludicrous divisions of words, The following announcement was once made from the organ leit te @ surprised congre- gation:— We'll cateh the flee, We'll catch the tee, Well catch the fleeting hour, And an equally remarkavie ment was made ia the lines, which were sung crescendo to close with:— With reverence the saints appear, And bow-ow-ow betore the Lord. Here is another unhappy medium. Truly Spiritual- ism is unfortunate of la Mrs. Buntoon darkened the room in which her guests, at $5 apiece, were seated, and after a tow minutes an upparition come out of her cabinet with asheet over its bead. ‘‘Is this my dear mother ?’’ asked one who took what she sup- posed tobe her departed maternal’s hand tn hers, ““We’ll see,’? answered a suspicious philosopher, and inatantly turned on the gas. The mother was gone, but there stood Mrs. Huntvon in her stead. If Spirit- ualism is to thrive we must go back to oil lamps. Too much, light interferes with the “conditions.” You can’t have « successiul séance unless you get together avery clever medium and a dozen@people who are anxious to be duped, Then the cpnditions are just right, and you can have all the revelations you want, duis by no moans a certainty that you would be bet- ter than other poople, whom you pity with a pity shat is very like contempt, if you were in their piace and surrounded by their circumstances and temptations. Rev. Johu Newton once said, as he saw a man going to the gallows, ‘There goes John Newion—but for the grace of God,” It does not always tollow that you aro betier than your neighbor because you don’t do exactly as he does. Some one once said very quaintly and very truly, that it 1s more creditable for some people to be half decent than for others to be saints, Thero 1s an innate love of slander in every human heart, That is a hard sentence to Write, but it you will look into your own bosom you will find that It isa true ono, When o rich man makes a public benofac- tion we atence say that he does it asan advertise- ment it excites our envy to see a man with a clean garment on, and wo feel more at bome with bim, and more content with ourselves if we can find a splash of mud on it How easy it 1s, while you sit by your warm fire- place, to pity the pocr. But the question which relig- fon asks is, “Do you pity them $5 worth?” This is a kind of sympathy which can illustrate itself by dollars and cents, ‘Thé New York Tadlet is as spicy as any réligious journal that finds its way to our table, The pepper it uses is 60. sirong that it could not bave come from the corner grocery, which is the synonym of adulteration, bot is evidently ground from berries of its own im- portation. Weare sometimes just a bit startied at its statements, and we confess to a desire to look inon the editor after reading tho following refreshing sen- tence:—‘Fair, honest boxing, according to the rules of the prize ring, is calculated to have a most civilizing effect on the rougher elements of society.” Well, that may be so, Some people may be civilized by that process and olbers may be rendered civil by an honest left-hander, which enables them to study. astronomy at midday, but as a general rale we prefer a milder kind of education. It is very well for a Cardiff giant to talk about the rights ofa man with musclo, but what are the rest of us, who aro no larger than a good sized interrogation point, todo? Those wno can’t box don’t want to be boxed, and must, therefore, get civilized by some milaer process, Tho hard times are affecting the ministry. In cer: tam country parishes, when it is impossible to engage the services of the Angel Gabriel at $300 por annum, the deacons haye determined to save expense by reading printed sermonsto their congregations. To take such a bull by the horns ‘8 to get tossed over the fence. Many a church cau afford to pay a large salary to a good man when it would become bankrupt by paying a smallsalery to any one. Brains are in the market, and can be had for their weight in gold. All the restis ther and prunella.” The bottom fact is that you cannot afford to bave the man who will como for next to nothing, Some ministers are dear at any price, and you don’t want them, Give a man ail he is worth, pay his salary regulurly, and stand by bim in his work, and then your deacons can keep out of the pulpit. A Mr. Kerr bas just died in Indiana, He was some-. thing of @ politician, but not enough ot one tosave large fortune out ofa small salary. Being thus de- ficient in ene of the prime qualities of a successful career it was deemed fitting to give him a gvod obituary notice, The author of this notice, whose knowledge of religious matters was somewhat limited, Said that such was the unblemished character of the deceased that when he yot among his peers in tho other world he would, by a iarge majority, be elected mpeaker tn “the house not made with banda, eternal in the heavens.”” WHAT 18 TRUTH? To tax Eptron ov ret HeRALD:— Inan editorial note in your I e of October 17, un- injus- tice to the Swedonborgian muintster to whom you refer and to the Swedenburgians theraselves, who believe, without any exception or reservation, that the Bibie t8 @ revelation of Divine truth fromthe Lord; thas is° ‘ea Divine book, and as much, superior to any book of moerety human authorship as the living man is superior to the marble image of a man, There are no Christians who have so large, full, exact and undoubting belief In the Bible as a revelation of Diviao truth from the Lord as the Swedenborgians. I presume you were misled by the report of asermon which failed to convey the idea taught tn it, and that you willdo usthe justice and the favor to publish this note in correction of a statement which is so directly the reverse of the facta, By so doing you will serve the cause of truth and doa great favor to the friends of the new Church Re- specttuly yours, CHAUNCEY GILES, Pastor of the Swedenborgian churc in New York. We have received two other letters on this subject (one from Philadelpaia), both giving extracts from Swedenhorg’s writings to prove his estimate ef the Bible asa Divine revelation. One says:— T jacred Scriptuses, or the Divine Word, ts not only the revelation of the Lord’s wilt and the’ history of pis dealings with men, but also cont: THM IN expressed in symbulical ond, theretore, 11 can be interpreted only by the law of correspondence between things natural and things spiritual Another quotes from Swedenborg’s ‘True Christian Religion” as follows :— “The Word, in tts innermost, ts God. '’—Section 6, ‘The Word ts the crown of revelation. "—Seetion 11. “The Word is pure Divine truth, having been dice tated by Jehovah Himself. "—Sectious 85, 189, 190. “The Word, or Divine truth, isthe only medium by which man ean approach the Lord. "—Section 142. “Jehovah God cesceaded as the Divine truth, whie! 1s the Word.'!—Sections 85, $6. “Ail tite Lord’s words are truth. "Sections 547, 349, “Phe Scripture is the Word or the Divine truth it- If," —Seetions 189, 243. ? “The sacred Scripture, which was dictated by the Lord, ts, in generai and in particular, a marriage of good and truth, ””"—Sectivn 624. ‘The above quotations are ali suiicient to demonstrate that Swedenborg maintains the Lord's werds not only to be truth but Divine truth—ineffable authority. WHAT IS LIFE? To tux Kpiror or Tus HeraLy;— Your valuable sheet—pro bono publico—looking on all sides, favoring all in the procurement of light, will, T think, aid me in reaching a ¢lass of sceptics who as- sume to believe nothing except they can place their bands upon it, It seems to be a lavor to them to aa: jyze w thought, and they conclude that only tangible ‘things exist Having had a very interesting interview with one of thus too numerous class, allow me to pub- Jish an account of ‘t in your columns. On reading tho ease of a reckies: icide in the Hszatp he remarked, What ig life? What mw is for? What's ail this rew abous?”’ My answer was that life was given for the greatest and vest of purposes, But he remarked, “That's ouly @ statement, What do we know about itr? Lreplied, “Strictly speaking we can really know but litte. In tho minds of most men, nothing Yet Paul says, ‘Now we Kaow tn part; but thon (hereafter) we shall know even as we are known,’ Bus then again besaid, “That's but a siatement, se premises of which for argument we aeny.”” “Well, then, my friend, a simple ements which lam cnabled to make frommy Understandi:ig to yours, and you to reecive, is some proof that we possess some inteliectual, metaphysical powers? You'll concede (perhaps you do?) that we possess Sorne imnagination, What is imaginauon? We wil bosh, f think, agree with Dugalc Swwart thas the fneulty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and (ae principal seurce of Lumau improve- meat. ‘This faculty, thea, 16 wiil be admitted, is 1 provable—can be trained. Addison construes the ré- Bult of traming to be, ‘something bave i added? Our own consciences convince us buat the faculties of the mind—the imagination, the wili--can be truimed to @ couscious perception lar beyond shat to which they Dad cisher once atiained. There is, therefore, it wiil be admitted, a consciousness, a spirit within us, to wul aud to JO; and we are conscious.add kuow, as weil as we can know anything not taugibie, that there tacul- es can be truiued bo velter and greater ciferts, and that os we “progress i our training we become conscious, and kuow, 1 part, that we are capable of nigber attamments. By anal- ogy that very improvement cuuges us to tcei, and af. terwurd by success Lo know that we will ascead higue: and as periection 1s, of course, the goal toward whic in ascending we progress, and to which we can never compictely attain (certainly we know that while we are ascending we Lave not attamed), we are therefore aspiring te, reaching alter, admitting that there is a Supreme Exceileuce, and that is God. Now, as naturally aud inevitably us we arrive at thas coucep- tion by enlightened buinan reason, we enthrone God ‘nour minds witu all tne higher attributes of love, wisdom, power, which pertain io the Great l Am. W doubtless admit trom revelation—ut avy rate we admit from our cenceptions of His excellence that we eman: aie from His jovieg kindness. But, in pur- sung the inquiry with which we eommenced our remarks, Why were we created? For wat is lite? Why were we made in this imper- fect state of bveing—progressing upward, Ddut with perlection anattained? simply because it was best thas it should be so, and we essay to advance our theory. If wo bad been created periect ihere would, ot course, have beem nothing for us to acquire, noting tovearn, no advance tobe made, no kuowiedge to at- tain to,’ By creauiog as in our present impertect stare of being, With a liguted freo will, vesting ua with th power (by our very imperfection) to wander trom the pach of rectitude and made conscious of the possibility of our attaiuing aimore exalted mental state by ac- kuowledging His power and iove aud grace, we, by ‘our experience, become, as it were, creators of & kuowl- edge of His gooaness, His care, His tatverly love and benelactions. Tnose that cail upon kim Ho willim no wise cast off, and no, good thing Will ao withhold trom them that lead a good fife, und these things He will do | within us of His good picasure. Without ths kvow!l- almighty power and iwve and grace, wired by us, we could vy no pos: bility have bad any evidence of its trath; we would have been mere machines, vebicles, to whom such knowledge bad been imparted trom auother mind, But in the mode which | have at- tempted to portray, enabilag us by an experience to acquire tis knowledge of ourselves, ling our own knowledge by our own experionce, we are immensely exalted and Jitted fora bicner state ol existeace. A plain examplé, daiiy occurring in our courts of justice, may aid in exemplilying what [ have noted in my con- cluding remarks, A witness appears in court contident that he possesses a full knowledge of the case then before the cour value, He takes the he facts in the case, when, Jo! 1 appears that all the superticial knowledge which he possesses is tbat which was con- veyed to uim, narrated by another, mere bearsay,.and not any evidence stall, dud be of course leaves the stand as an entirely anprofitavle witness Such, of course, must over be ull knowledge compared with that whieh we fe acquired by our’expe here, therefere, isa stato of probation i higher lite, ; THE TRINITY IN UNITY. DOES THE HEBREW BIBLE TEACH THB DOOC- TRINE OF THE TRINITY?—VIEWS OF 4 COR- RESPONDENT WHO THINKS If DOES aND GIVES HIS+PROOFS, To tux Epiron ov tax Heratp:— in the Sunday school jessou for thé last Sunday in October (internutivnal sori Philip ts’ reported to have preached Jesus out of Isuiab, fiity-third chapter, to the eunuch It is of course stoutly denied by Israelites that their Scriptures teach either a trinity or a plurality of persons in the Godhead, aud heace they are Unitarian tu doctrine and in faith, And yeta Jew, as in the case referred to, found Jesus so plainly de- worived by the prophet isaiab that he bad no hesitancy in interpreting the prophecy by the person and the evonts that had then recently taken place in Jerusalom, events which I dare say the eunueh was familiar with. And the explanation was sv rational to the mind of this Ethiopian that be readily accepted it and coulessed his belief in the crucified sesus of Nazareth as the Son of God, and was bapiized im that faith and upon that confession straightway. Is would be interesting to discuss the theories of in- carnation held by Israelites and by other nations of old and to show how Christ answered those"longings of humanity ia His own lie and pers®n; but thatia not my purpose. The query that was started in my owa mind was, Do the Hebrew Scriptures teacn either a trinity or @ piuraliy of persons in the Godhead? I very freely admit that tbey teach tho umity of God. The writings of the aute-propbetic age are Tull of the idea, But this was necessary for a peopie who had lately come out of Egypt, where there were lords many d gods many, whoro almost everything under tho earth and above the earth was worshipped. lt could not be too often iterated, therefore, that the God of Israel was ove and not many, as Were tho deities of the Egypuians and of the nations who were destroyed in Palestine to make room for the Hebrewn But while this ts truo I tnink [ shall be adie to show that ibe Heorew Bibie does teach buth a plurality aud a trinity of Deity. The very first chupier in tuat Look (verses , speaks of God and His spirit, aud of we latter as performing corimin creative acts while two OF Mure persons consult as to man’s crea- tion, Again, in Genesis, iu, 22, God ts represeated as con/essiug some sort of fear that the now sinning man might take of the tree of life and eat and live forever, since by bis previous trespass on auotwer trev be had to use tito language of this God, “become as one of us.” The Man Was therefore driven out of meol de- ght to til the ground whence he was taken Abd in the progress of yengrations wickedness tu- creased upon the earth until, 1m et vi, 3, we find the Lord threatening to withdraw His spirit irom striv- ing With meu who were beot on wod the subse- quent events seem to indicate that thie threat was exe- cuied, for the snbabitants of the world becamo so gromly wicked that God deemed 1 necessary to make a ciean sweep and begin almost anew with tho family of Noah. We pass oo, thea, a little way and find tila one God of the Hevrews consulting again, evidently with an equal, about confounding the yuages of the people’ and scattering them abroad on the face of the earth (Genenin, xi, 6-8), Now, tt is pertinent to ask, Who was this person, 01 those persons, who wi thus consulted on two such important occasions a8 the creation vu! man and the coniusion of tongues? And who is this Spirit of God who im the first place moved upen the face of chaos and browght forth order, and moved again on the hearts of ungodly men to restrain them im their career of wickedness aud sin? Applying only the or dipary interpretations of language to shee passages, we must surely admit that there was a veing besides God who was the equal with God, for He nad creative power and moral por too within His reach and Tealm. * But I come now to an historical personage, If all that Preceded him were myths and their history merely allegorical, it will uot be denied thut Abraham existed. There is an inoident in his lite reiated with all the circumstanuiality of trush, It is the offering ap of Isane by Abraham, on which occasion ‘the angel of the Lord’’ called uate the Patriarch out of heaven, not ace, but twice, and stayed ipiitted band and sod him with the promime thats hin seed so should bo a bless to all the nations of the earth, adding, “because thoa hast obeyed my voice?” ho 1 that as presamed to claim equality with the Lord aud to make uromises which at this dav are claimed by Laraelites to be fulfitied in and through them to the world; The first verse of this chapter (Genesis xxii.), takeu in con- nection with the eleventh, fitternth aud to the eighteenth, tadicates tnat this angel was indeed God. Ti may, however, be said that this was simply an | angel of the Lord, on Abrab: nt, perhaps, on this errand to | a hen Moi who ought to nown better, confounded “the augel of the Lord’? who appeared to bim in the taming bush at Horeb with God. And this God or angel moreover de- | Giared that he was the God of tho Patriarchs, Abraba’ I bd, aud gave Moses x command to xo down vo Egypt anc deliver Israe! (Exodus ii.) Aud that Moses believed this angel was the equal of if not the very God is proved by the readiness with wich he undertook this difficult and Gaugerous task. And that 1 was God ix proved by the wonders wrought in Egypt and by the mighty deliverance of Israel from bondage § ‘© that in later years when Moses was about authority to Joshua he reminded the uch a thing had never betore oceurred 4s ould take ope nation out of another as 1s- ken out of Egypt. neat journeyings of tells us tuat ‘tho Lord went before them by pillar ofwcloud” (Rx. xii, 21), and again, that the angel of God performed this or similar service (xiv., 19), But while it is clear toat this “angel of God’? or “angel of the Lord.” whoever he was, was equal ta power and dignity with the Jehovab of ttfe Hebrews, the I Aw, §t is equally clear iat they were distinct personalities, ln Exodus xxii, 21, in the midst of ries of domestic and dietary laws, this great and ighty God tolld israei that Ho will send an angel pe- fore them to keep them in the way and to bring them into tho place prepared ior them. They were to be carelul nos to provoke iim tor He would not pardon their trauSgressions, for, added Jehovah, *my name | isin Him?" Need tho Jew be told what this phrase impiies—ty nate is in Him ?—that name which, even in this day, with al! their reforms nnd progressivener they will bot speak or write, except ia the sacred ehar- acters. And who was this angel, su great and noble, that he could bear, without otfenee, tho dreadtul namo of Jehovah? Who was inis aagel who without offence to God could pardon transgressions or not, as he pleased. This ange! 1# again rolerred to in the third 0 Exodus xxxii., G4; xxxjit., 2, and by comparing other passages in the Pentateuch aione one with apoher We shail find proc! overwhelming that the ancient Israviites and the Patriarchs belore them be and wrote about a plurality of persons in the while at the same time they insisted on the unity of ‘bose persona in contradistinction to the variety and multiplicity of -gods ‘that existed among the heathen and were worshipped by them, Monosheism in Israel isthe only oppose io polytheism im Egypt and essine, and hence tho unity of God was rave m prominent than tho trinity, Butit seems to me the passages I have quoted (ant 1 bave not by any means exhausted the list) trom Moses alone leave no doubt thas he recogaized a Jehovah God, a Spirit of God and an angel of God as distinct beings, each acting inde- pendently and yet harmoniously for the common weal of Israel and of mankind, and each equal in power aud | might with the other, Ina subsequent letter I hope te make tnis point more decisive and clear, GRAPHO CHURCH UNITY—TWO KINDS, While the Wesleyan Conference was recently holding {s"sessions in Nottingham; Exgland, Canon Morse in- vuted the body @o attend service in his St, Mary’s church. Two hundred of the members attended, aud the Canon gave tom @ sermon proving that in Christ Jesus all arc ona On the same day tie pulpite of all denominations (save one) were occupied by these Wes- leyan preachers, But the Canon, who'proved to them out of the Scriptures that he aud they were all one, did not tavite ove of them inte his pulpit The Canon roagons just as the man did who said, “My wife and I are one, and I’m that one!’ + Mr. Henry Louther gives to the Evangelist a very in- teresting sketch of uviom of different denominitions of Christians in worship, which is perhaps without a parallel Ip 1870 be wasin California and returued Lome in October. Tho tram consisted in part of two fine palace cars, in one of which was a fine organ; both cars Were well fliled, and comprised those of several denominations, Among the number were Rev. Mr. n, Baptist, of Pitisiielu; General Robertson, of the United States Arimy, and ‘wile, and Dr. Ryder, of 2 Franciseo, and Judge Birdsall, of New York, copalians;' Mra. Byrne and Mrs, Beards: riley, Mowan Catholics, ond some fifty others. | On Sunday, October 9, they took breaklast at Laramie, in the heart of ths Rocky Mountains, Alter breakiast Judgo Birdsall suggested (hat it would be eminently proper tu get all the passengers together and hold rejigious services, and requessed Dr. Watson Vo acliver au appropriate discourse and Mra, Byrne to play the organ, and both consented, All the passen- gers in the train were tavited into the car conta:ming the organ, Several prayer books were found among tbe passengers, Judge Birdyal! read the Episcopal Church service. Dr. Waison preached an effective sermon appropriate to the occasion, and Mrs. Byrne's Performance on the organ was most effective. chere in the heart of the Rocky Monntains, on that bright, lovely autumn morning, miles from avy hving babita- tion, travelling at the rate of twenty miles an hour, about seventy-ilve of God's people of different creeds joined together in His boly worship. Many an eye ‘Was mncigtenea with (ears; the conduetor (an elderly man), who bad followed that business for many years, said he had never soen apy thing like it betore, and that he would have been less surprised to seo half of bis pussengers playimg cards, Mr. Louther says the bap- | Py picture can never be effaced trom hig tind, when Provestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentle, and those that proiessed no religiou® faith, were ail knecling to- gether im the worship of the living God under circum- stances Like ths. Lt turther goes to show what good one or two Cristian people can do under any eircum- stances when their hearts are in God’s work. —j——— DANCING AND DRINKING CHBIS- TIANS. Chareb going people in the North can scarcely realize to what extent dancing and drinking habits prevail among Christians in tue Southern churches unless a residence of some mouths ar perbaps years has made them familiar with them. But our religious exchanges come to us from time to time laden with articles against those vices and giving us the results of the application of church discipline to offending members, A short time agoascore of more persons wero expelled from a Baptist church in Virginia tor thoir too close alliance with the liquor trafic, Several others have been dis- ciplined by the Metnodist Church to States further south, But because tho majority ia many churcues aud localities favor both dapcing and drinking very little tu the line of reform can be accomplished, Aud Vices are not contined (o Baptists and Methodists they wre found as deeply seated in the hearts jour aud fives of Episcopalians, Presuyterians, Disciples of Christ and other denomioations. An Episcopalian minister of Virginia baving written to Or, Cox, of the Baitimore Episcopal Methodist, to publish something against rodud dances especially, the laier condemns all dances alike, and expresses his surprise that per- sons Of retinement could indulge in a species of pleas. common propriety as round dances do. How young ladies could expect to maiotain their maiden modesty intact whne submitting to such unwarrantavle en- crouchments upon it be Is at a loss w determine He | was once accidentally compelled to witness tor awhile, at a lasbionable wateriug place, this modern im- porved abomination, aud was shocked. Its danger les im it8 lascimation, as it is of ali species of worlaiy amusement the most fascinating, and tndulgence in it at home begets # fondnees for it that becomes an in- fatuation which cannot easily be liqned or restraimed, Tho dance in the parlor will soon bo'substituted by the protracted and exciting dissipation of the bail room the party JF gga The fondness tor the dunce becomes indeed a passion which o'ersteps ail | | te bonada of reason, dissipates ali serious thought aud unfits its votary for the relish ot religious enjoyments. Vr. Cox gives illustrations drawn from his uwo pastoral experience, Wherein tis pussion, car- ried to excess, caused the death of individuals, ana in one caso debarred a youug lady who expressed to him | bemdesire to bea Christian from becoming one, She | | could not give uy the aanse for Christ, aud she parted { with tbe Saviour and died from tbe excitement of the ballroom. But the Catholic hierarchy, as well as Prot estant Christians, have condemned im unsparing | | terms this lorm Of worldly amdsetneat, and Dr, Cox | chaileuges prov! of asingio instance wher tt can bo show that a truly spiritual Christan was fond of dancing. Tho dance is neither innocent nor bealchfal, Ibis anything but sanitary and improving, andahere- fore the writer calls upon ail Christian people, aad especially upon parents and guardians, to banisa as tar as they can from the enclosures of Zion un axnusement | that #avors only of this world, and Whose tenuency ho believes to be “evil, omly evil, and that continually.’ » DISAPPEARANCE OF CHURCHES. Twenty years ago there were fourteen evangelical churchos within @radias of au eighth of a mile from the Astor Library. Tho territory contained at that time some of the best houses and homes of the city, and was the centro of fashion as well as of popula- tion, Bot the uptown movement has aimost com- plotely changed the aspect of the entire neighborhood, Warehouses, hotels and tenoments have succeeded the, private bomes of other days, and that region is now the contre of @ vast puBiness, Tho Post Ufice station D, located {h this territory, in tbe maguiiade of ite baviness ranks tft to the couniry, veing abead of Brookiyn, Boston aud Baltimore Nw, alier twenty years’ growth of that part of the city, jour oniy of uose churches remain—namely, Grace and St Mark’s Protestant Kypiscopal churches, the Colle. giato Reformed church iu Latayette piace and Seventh street Method Episcopal chureb. Wh ‘8 wow the Charon of the Sirangers was formerly the | Mercer street Presvyterian church, which society could mot maintain itself there and united with tho Univergty place Presbyterian chureh, aad is now ably ministered to by Rev. Dr. Kooin, The old Keiormed ebured to Aree y fo square bas been bought vy the old Greene strovt Methodist &piscopal church and be- come the religioas home of th bury Methodist E pis- copal Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church has disappeared irom Brondway and Houston street, and the church buiiding on Broadway opposite the Now York Hotei haa teen converied into a thea 'wellth street Baptist churct bas passed throu, ‘8 Into the bands of the Roman Catholics, and the Amity street Baptist church long ago became a stable tur A. T. Stowart’s horses, The Bleecker street Presbyteriaa church was transformed into & savings bank, aud tho Sixth street Presbyteriau charch into ® synagogue. The Malberry stroct Mothodist Episcopal church (now St, Paul's) became St. Philip's cvlored Protestant Kpiscopal church, and ts still used by that society. Si. Bartholomew's Protestaut Epis- peared irom Laiayette place and the old St, | church, ure that so cumpletely sets at defiance the laws of | e . NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1%, 15/6 —QUADRUPLKE SHEET. those churenes dit well im transferring themselves and their property imto other bands The congregations of St Bartholomew's church or 3t. Thomas’ church are bardiy as large as they were or might Dave been down town, and their church ouildings are beavily mortgaged The Amit jad Twelfth street Baptist churches have dwindied al- st to nothing, and the Old Reformed ehurch of Washington square has disbanded. The only churches Oo! the group named that have succeeded at ali the Mulberry street Methour Episcopal church (St. Paul's) and the Mercer street Prestyterian (University place}, and, excepting its great debt, St Anne’s Roman Cathohe church. Hut nono of those that have moved up town can show as larze congregations as thore thet remained down town, though they are adoroed with more gigantic debts Some of those Magnificent edifices have to-day suct small congrega- tious and such heavy debts that they cannot maintain & pastor, and hence their pulpits are empty save as oc- cupied by “supplies.” is this a wise policy tor churches to pursue worally or financially? MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. METHODIST, ‘St. James’ church, Kingston, on the Hudson, wade vacant by the transfer of Dr. Ridgaway, is now sup- phed with « pastor. Rev. Georgs C. Strobridge, late of Asbury church, Buffaio, has been transferred to the New York Confereuce ana appointed thereto, The nowly erected Methodist Episcopal church in Fairfield, Central Pennsylvania, will be dedicated next Sunday, Bishop Haven sailed last week to visit the Methodist missions in Liberva and other parts of Africa On bis return we may expect an interesting book of travels A large umber of Methodist frieads ‘saw him off.’’ Tn the Michigan Conference, as the request of the | Couforence, Bishop Haven reduced the number of pre- | siding elders’ districts from ten to seven at its late Session, A new house of worship is eoom to be erected at Eustis, Me. Dr. Jamos Porter, of the New England Conference, and residing in Brooklyn, N, Y., spent some time in New England in evangelistic work, and lately labored in & protracted meeting in the Wesley Chapel charge, Salem, Mass, W. J, Hambleton, pastor. He returned to Brooklyn a few days ago, and last Sabbath preached @n eminently practical sermon for Embury Methodist Episcopal chureh, After six weeks’ protracted services at Cross Roads, Severn Circuit, Baltimore Conference, Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, the Rev. J. D. Still rejoices in sixty-four conversions and additions to bis church. The Wesieyan Methodists of Great Britain, with a membership of less than 500,000, gave last year for the Support of the missionary work $900,000, or nearly $2 per member. ‘It 1a with great difficulty the South- ern Methodist Cqurch, with,wlarger membership, can raise one-fifth of that amount, ‘The latest reports of the Central Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada show that in British Columbia there are dive Indian missions and tour missionuries; in the Northwess territory, nt missions and five missionarics and one nati assistant; Maaitoba, five missions, four missionaries and ono Indian assistant; Ontario and Quebec, twenty- five missious, twenty-eight missionaries, six Indian assistants; Japan, threo missionary stations, besides six German and eight Freneb migaion stations, with seven missionaries each, The Methodist Church, Wilhamsburg, Mass., ts en- Joying a good revival interest. So of the Courch in £ust Cambridge, Mass., unver the pastorate of the Rev. Jeorge W, Mansfield, A Convention for the promotion of holiness was held in Worcester, Mass, for several days, ending last Sab- buus, bat whet the people of that place have be- come any holier since or not we are not advised. Barris, Rev. Dr. Anderson, formorty a professor in the Bap- tist fheological Seminary at Newton, has become pastor* ofthe Second Bapust cliurch iu Chicago. The Baptists ure doing w good work among the Ger- mans in the United states, Starting in 1839, they bad in 1851 five ministers and ten churches. ‘Now they have two conferences, 100 tinisters, 100 churches and 8,000 members, They issue a weekly paper avd a monthly Sunday school paper. ‘They have established a students’ hall at Rochester, with $20,000, and bave endowed two chairs im Rochester University. Tbe Charles strect Baptist church, soston, 1s tna sad plight, ‘Thirteen years ago it was unencutnbered by debt, but finding itsel: unabie to n.:0t its runuing expenses, it has drawn largely-tor its maintenance on the property, until the house of worship has now a mortgage of $15,000 upon it, The pew proppietors have recently come forward in their capacity as society and taken possession of the house and closed the doors against the pastor and church. It has becn reported that the editice has been sold to the African Methodist Episcopal church of tnat city, Rey. James Patterson has received and accepted the unanimous gail of ihe Baptist church im Downer’s Grove, Chicago, to become its pastor. The Rev. br. Hawthorne, lately of the Tabernacle jew York, is receiving a warm welcome trom his new friends in Mouigowery, Ala, The congroga- | tions of the First Baptist church’ have nearly doublet since his arrival there, two or :bree months ago. The Rey. S. Swan, of New London, 1s severely ill. Unly a fow weeks ago lie addressed the Ministers’ Coa- ference of this city, to their great satistaction. The Rev. W. H. Marshall 1s called wo the Memorial church, Klizabeth, N. J. The Rev. 0. T. Walker, late of Providence, has ac- cepted the unanimous call of the Harvard street Bap- list charch, Boston, And noW we have proof that the Baptists do not recoguize Presbyterian ordinavn, The Rev. R. M. Neill, lately pastor of the Presbyterian church at As- sumption, [ll., was lasv month re-ordained as » Baptist at Orcana, mi the samo Stave. Where and such pretension stop. The Rev. Edward Ebenezer Bayliss has resigned his chargeut Virden, lil, for the parpose of devoung bis time Lo evangelistic work. ‘The Rev. Jaines Cooper, latBly of Rondoat, N.Y., bas accepted a call to Flint, Mich. Prolessor Walter Scott, of Sing Sing, was on Thure day ordained pastor of the Baptist church at New South Bertin, Conn, if The Rev, Wayland Hoyt, of Boston, has accepted the call of bis old charge, the Strong Piace church, Brook- \yu eat will re-cuter on bis pastorate there Decem- er The Baptists of Pequa, Obio, recently dedicated a handsome vut meXpensive church edifice, woich can seat 500 persons, ‘he church wag organized four years ago. so uow, whether or au PRESBYTERIAN. The Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia, at its an- Dual session u tew days ago, was groatly exercised over a cage of baptism by immersion which been ad. ministered vy Rev. J. H. Clarke, of Lackawanna Pres- bv. ‘That presbytery censured hie act vecause it coutrary to the Presbyterian standards, and be- s@ it was a bad precedent and likely to create dis- sension in the denomination. Mr. Clarke appealed, and the Synod, after spending @ day and a hall over it, concluded thut while brother Viarke did uot commit 4 moral wrong he did not conform to the letter of the standards which aliow sprinkling or pouring of water on the ‘candidate; but as they do not prohibit im- mersiou Mr. Clarke exercised his treodom in the case. The Synod, therejore, thinks that the supervision of th lackuwanna Presbytery should not have taken t form of censure. It luke telling the pastor be was @ good boy, but he mustn’t do tt again, fhe Synod ot Uhio reports an addition of church membership during the year trom 8,872 to 9,433; 10,336 schvlars and teachers are eprolied im the Sub- bata schools, beiug an increaso of 833 during the year. Several new churches have been organized and cid ones strengthened. in the Synod of Philadelphia ten churches and five chayels have been erected during the year, so that there ere now within its bounds 292 churches and 48,460 members. The additions during the year bh Le eo :—By exumination, 6,105, and by adult baptisw, 6 v he Rov, ©. W. Backus has become pastor of the yterian church at Chariton, NsY. he Rev. George stuart Campbell, B, A., pastor of the Presbyterian church ot Williamstown, ucester county, N. J., has accepted a call to the First Presby- veriua Chareh of Phauixville, Chester county, Pa The Presbyterian Church i bat When God | calls @ man io the ministry He alsovealis « congrega. tion to hear Lim. Hence the Church never ordains « man uatiihe has received @ pastoral call. Mr. G. .Yager, alicenttate, asked the Presbytery of Choster, Pa., 10 June last jor ordination without a church call, bus the Prosbytery refased aud recommended tin to pay attention to the study of theology, the sacra- ments and the Shorter Catechism, and to appear before the bouy inthe fall. Mr, Yager thoreupon asked for a dismissal to the Barnstable Conlerence, Magsachuseti, but was again reigeed until ho had complied with the requ®ements of the Presbytery, He thereupon sent an impertinent reply on tal card to the Presb tery, and that body has now withdrawn his license The man gave excellent proof in bis actions that he was eepoad unfit for tho sacred office to which he as. pired. i ‘Tho First Prosbyterian chureh of Bergen, Jersey ity, has had but one es, during its existence of twenty yeurs—Rev. E, W. French, D. D. Lt celebrated ite tWenticth anuiversary last month, ROMAN CATHOLIC. A monastic’establishment, said to be the largest in Great liritain, is in course Of erection West Grin. stead, near Horsham, The order tor whom itis built | of Connor's Creek, bt Lea received seven converte into the Catholic cbharch, id in Nova Scotia the Catholic 102,001 and all other creeds 435,719 There are now fifteen judges in the province id out of the Dominion ‘Treasury, but there is not a single Catholic among tho bomber. In New Brunswick the Catholic population numbers 96,016, and all other creeds 189,678, 1’ are leven Dommion judges, of whom ‘oniy on nty Court Judge, is « Catholic, 'rince Kdward Island the Catholic population numbers 47,000, and all other creeds 53,000. here sre six Dominion Judges, of whom only one, & iy Court Judge, is Cathalic, Dow Isidore 0.8.B., the new Vicar-Apdstolie of the Fudian Te: 7, Will have x vory arduous feid of lavor, ‘The region gontains 22,000 whites and 72,000 Indians, 6,000 ut whom aro Catholics, it ia entirely given op to teachers bot Catholic, Catholics aot hav. ing 80 Indch a6 @ single altar, priest or school, Retribation of peculiar phases tn its bur- pulation Dumbers ried march. For instawoe, im 1854 a ole tenant named Kennedy was driven Protestant nandlora wamed ne hey tecueee “ne a Catholic priest, Father Brady, the house, Kennedy and tan da, vecame the property of A. T. Btewart & Co,, and, though it still stands, is rarely it ever used, Jt is up open guestivn, and perhaps bardiy but Catholicism remain aod to-morrow i Galberry will ‘dedieate u Catbelve ‘chureh tm that place, where Catholics now constitute a majority of the ia- ante, Catholicism is spreading in and around Philadelphia quite repidiy, During the past Gre years the Ker. Father siommel, of Doylestown, bas built four churches io neighborhoods of that city, and ‘ast month he laid the coruer stone of another at Marieo- feild, twenty miles from Philadelphia, and 1# plagoing now for unother at Lansdale depo. Rev, Father Kirwan, of Gutweaburg, N. J, has re- e Commissioners ut note of thanks from Jor the donation of @ er EPISCOPALIAN The English Episcopalians haa a Church Congress » short time ago at which Dean Freemantle declared that the difference between churchim 1d DOL-Cou- formisis would, upon investigation, be fouud to be rather social than docirinal, And he recommeuded soirées and social gatherings to which nou-coutormists might be invited as a means of getting hold of thew. The Southern Caurchman commenting om this star ment, thinks that Uhere is very littie use of the Pro! esiant Fpiscopa’ Church in this coapiry trying to reach the large middlo clasa so iopg as chureumen are persuading persona of different social positions nob only to visit aufoog themselves, but to worship among themselves, Tue Church of the Rock of Ages in Baltimore, bas dropped that litle aud become the Bishop Cummins’ Memorial chureb, The work of raising the Cathedral of Saints Peter the old toundation, ced about three weeks ago, and the huge buildin ghing hundreds Of tons, hus been hosted level with the street, Rev, Mr. Rainsford, Evangelist of England, who bas been holding services in St, Peter's church, Baltimore, began special services in Moly Trinity church, Harlem (Rev, H. McK. D, D., rector), iast Sunda: Mr, Ratnstord was for some time with Rev. 8, H. lyag, Jr. Itis proposed to divide she Eprscopal diocese of North Carolina into three dioceses—one with Wilming+ loa Jor a cenire, another with Raieigh and a third with Asteviile, west of the Biue Ridge, the Rey. Dr. Harris, ot Cbicag Diocesan Convention of Lilie of the Protestant Episcopal church were without rec- wors, + The average number of confirmations in each year in the several dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal church. is ben por cent of the communicants, and Bishop Smith thinks rectors need not be despondent tf the confir- Mations in their parisnes, @uring a course ef years, come up to or exceed the general aver It frmatious fall below this average there is abunaat reason why the causes shouid be inquired inte, and, if possrble, removed. Rev, Edward Lewts, a young Folish Jew, who prov feased Christianity, was disowned by his parents, and afterward educated at the Riehmond coliege and ad- mitted to the Baptist ministry, has joined the Episcopal church in St Louis, ‘The Christian Sum thinks brother Lowis is “dodging about too muck among the denominations” tor any good porpose, The Southern Churchman understands thas the Revs Mr. Penick, ol Buitimore, has determined to accept the bishopric of Africa, to which he was elected. MISCKLLANEOUS. A committee of the American Board of Commissione ers of Foreign Missions has issued a lever asking the churches to deiermine upon what scale the expendi. tures for the year 1876-77 shall be made, Pastors are requested to conter with their congregations and te send Lotice ol what aid may be expected on or before Noveuber 18 next. Nearly 40,000 copies of the Bible, in native dialects, have been distributed within a year by the North India Society, and 3,000 copies of the Gospel by Johm aro now in course of preparation for distribution ia the zenanas. One of the students of Yale Theological Seminary has boen obliged to leave by being recalled by hie ehurch—of the Covenanters—with the admonition ‘hat the year spent at the seminary would not vq reckoned ‘as one of theologival study, and that be would be excommunicated if be sang the religious Sougs and hymns in the chapel services, or cast = vote for uny civil ruler. Kip Van Winkle supposes thas 16 is the year 1600. The Lritish section of the Good Templars, baving broken ther conacction with © of the United States, ou’account of the “color Ii jolved, to send a missionary to the Southern States, with the object of organizing Good Templar lodges among tne colored peopie. ‘Tho zeal of the Christian missionaries of New York, to provoke the conversion of the Jews to Christianity has bud the effect, among other things, of bringing forth a pampnhiot reply of fifty pages from the Rev. D: Mendes, of Forty-fourth Street Synagogue, who sho the unity of God; that Jesus was not and. coul ‘hat Jesus was no God aud did not ciaim to be; that the prophets did not prophecy conceruing hin, aud that the evangelists and Yaak have misquoted and perverted passages from Hebrow Bivle for the purpose of proving thoir own theory aud, finally, that the Hebrew Bibio and Talmud. contain as oxcellent precepts and of the same intent aa the Sermon on the Mount SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. THE PUTY OF PARENTS TO TRAIN UP SHAIR, CHILDREN ABIGHT AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF PAILURB, 7 A large congregation gathered yesterday in Thirty« fourth street syuagogue, to whom the Rev. Henry 3. Jacobs preached a very practical sermon on the duty’ of parents in the education and training of their chile dren and tho disastrous effectq of neglect or failure in this matter, His regnarks were based on 1. Kings, 4, 6—“And his father bad not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thow done 0? and be was ulso ‘a very goodly man, and his mother bore him after Absalom.” The narrative of which this is a part refers to the rebellion of Adonijah aguinst the throne and government of bis father David. It was the regular lesson of the day, an@ describes what Mr, Jacobs characterized as a revolu- tionary attempt to fix the royal succession upon the youngor son of David, a thing that was contrary te Jaw and practice. In this attempt to subvert uneasy erntnont of the Kingdom two meu aro concerned whose influence was very widespread. The two men are Joab, the head of tho army, and Abiath priest. Here we have the priest combining arcby of Israel. tuated by noble In politics there is very littie patriotism or pure mie tive; Do great singleness of mind ur purpese is exer cised. There is always a convenieut purpose mauilesw ing itselt in the clever manipulations of the ballot box. Wherever there 18 an aitempt Lo overturn governments the principal and actuating motives are the same. Theso meu had their motives and aims, Here was David, now seventy years of age, old and fe: unable to attend to the ca: Da duties of government. His physical powers bad almost ieft him. He was worn out by eariy military services and probably alse by the great mental strain that he was compel bear Joab knew that David had no respect or love for him, and he also knew the reason why. In the matters of Abner and ot Absalom be had violated his oath and honor and disobeyed the king’s command, And Abiathar had been thrust from the priesthood which hehad de graded, And thus if we RXAMINE SCRIPTURE TRUTIE we shall find lessons continually arising for our cons sideration, Itseeks to find out the causcs of wrong doing, and to warn 08 how we should carry ourselves betore God and our country,. The lesson of the text, and of the narrative of which it forms a part, is that ot parental duty, aud how its neglect isever fraught with danger, The lesson 6} 8 wisely te every one of am It ests to parents the propes training of children, while it portrays the consequences of youthfal detinquencies and mis- guided parental affection, The text demands that sense of duty which is the highest obligation that can bo imposed upon us. Whenever a paren? the kind of weakness indicated inthe text row in store for him. When we see in ous and women those things that we deplore do we stop to inquire the cause? No. itis too much negiect parental care aod correction that makes them whd¥t they are. Now the text tells as the cause of Adonyah’s reveilion, His father bad not at acy time displeased bim by asking bim why be had done 20, The futher is the very fountain bead of parental therity, and when tranafers this authority to other ho 18 laying out trouble for himself. The chil- reh are to be guided by him, and when y are the household becomes a temple of the purest domestic aftection, But how often do we sce this duty negiectod! The father is too immersed in business to look atter his’children, He does not grieve bis son by asking bim why be does this or that. How often do we seo parents ruining their children because they are two ignorant of too careless of their children’ weltare. There is another cause for omitting parent Pine by mothers whose takes auchority and who see only Adonijah was of a beautit he oe y the perso auty of their offsprin; is a great mistake, and wore than a mistake, neat which we warn you, said Mr. Jacobs, to beware. The consequences often become dreadiul, It was this pers sonal beauty, fortored into vanity by his parents, that caused Adonijah’s destruction It eased him to think himself superior to every one else, and thus became the cause of his dow: bis mother Dad borne two young men had not the same moter. ing of this phrase isthathe was the youngest son— the latest born of the household—and to this fact there attaches vory great importance, It isa bowutiful teel~ Ing, that of love for the youngest of the family. It ie part of woman's nature to love the feeblest and ten« derest, and so the love of her heart ts brought out. ‘This is well understood and 1a to be admired. 16, 18 to be reprehended and condemned that pareate should be Tho rnean- heir own children. Let reason an@ trae love, conjointly hold the reins of authority, aad harvest doave uot your childron to grow up @ biter of future years not merely to themselves but to you, bid you parents be warped of: whieh noglects the training of the child to man- hood or womanhood, when the baads of parental au- thority aresnapped and you are lett wo anything. And a0 excuse will then palliate Ject. Regard the moral and spiritual ebiidron it you woold then shame when they com and tp your experiences. Do ashamed of Judaism, if @ antegonisis ot Judaism also, and i pon ythege ne Ra 7 ousthe are the teachin, commen will rejotce in years,