The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1877, Page 13

v RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements--- Chat by the Way. Bynagogue Worship—Revi- val Notes. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. EE At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. Dr. Hazelton, of the Irish Wesleyan Conter- mee, will preach this morning, and Rev. William Lloyd this evening on ‘The Proud Persecutor Con- verted,” “Paul's Prayer for Rome’ will be repeated this Morning in the American Free Church, and ‘Drugs and Theology, or Healing and Preaching," will be dis- Cansed this evening by Rov. C. P. McCarthy. “The Duty of the Church Toward the Theatre’? will be laid down this morning by Rev. Fred Bell, and “Knocking: Who Is Thore?’ will be considered this evening by him, in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. The Association of Spiritualists will be addressed this evening in Harvard Rooms by Mr. Anthony Hig- pins Dr, Boynton will address the American Tomperance Union this afternoon in Science Hall on “Temperance, Beience and Religion.” Rev. Dr. Dunnell will minister to AJl Saints’ Protes- tant Episcopal church at the usual hours to-: “Tho Netherlands Founders of New York” is tbe Wtle of a lecture to be delivered on Tucsday evening by the Hon. James W. Beekman in the Holland shareb, in Wost Eteventh street, Rev, A. H. Bechtold pastor. . A meeting im the interest of toreign missions tor Mexico and.China will be held this evening in Calvary Protestant Episcopal church, Bishop Potter and the Dishops-clect of China and Mexico will deliver ud- dresses, At Chickering Hall this morning and afternoon the Bev. 8. Colcord will preach; afternoon on ‘+Light,’” “Tho Shining Oues’’ and ‘‘Snakes In the Grass”? will form topics of thought tor Rev, John Jobns to-day in the Froe Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, Rov, J. Smith Dodge, of Stamford, Conn., will Preach at the usual hours today in Bleecker street Catversalist church. “A Sermon To Lawyers’ will be delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning by Rev. Dr. Tal- mage. In the Church of the Advent the Rev. Joseph F. Jowitt will preach morning and evening. Dr. McVickar will ministor to Christ church to-day at the usual hours. Dr. Decms will preach in the Church of the Stran- ers this morning and evening. In the Church of the Heavenly Rest Rev. Dr. How- land will officiate this morning and alternoon, and preach also. The twenty-first anniversary of the Sunday Schoo) ?*.sslonary Association will be observed in the Four- teonth street Prosbyterian church this evening, when Dr. John Hall and Rev. F, H. Marling will deliver ad- dtesses. Rev. Mr. Marling will preach there in the morning. “The New Song” will be sung by Dr. Armitage this morning in the Filth Avenue Baptist church, and “Financial Revorses” will be made to yield up their lessons in the eveNtpz. ‘The Protestant Episcopal church of the Reconcilia- tion will receive the ministrations of the Rev. C. 3. Widdomer toda; In the Reformed Episcopal church the Rev. William f. Sabine will preach this morning and evening. Dr. D. M. Graham will preach this morning in the Free Baptist church on “Ecce Homo.”” The Rov. J. Spencer Kennard will preach in Grace Baptist church this morning and evening. Special services during the week, Dr, Tyng, Jr., will preach on Tuesday evening. ‘Im Grace chapel (Wrotestant Episcopal) Rev. W. T. Egbert will preach the second of a series of sermons op ‘Popular Scepticism’? this evening. “Mediums and their Sustainers; Frauds and their Abettors,”? will be criticised this evening by Lyman C. Howe, before the Society of Progressive Spiritualists. In Madison Avenue Reformed church the Rev. Will- lam Lloyd will preach this morning vp “Show Mo Thy Glory,” and in the afternoon on ‘Sons of God.’” In the Pilgrim Baptist church the Rev. J. S. Metz, of Honesdale, Pa, will preach this morning on “Josus Chriat the Great Fact of History,’ and in tho evening on “Tne Mighty Seviour.”” “Self Denial” will be enforced this morning in Sov- enteenth street Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. J, A. Lightbourn, and in the evening he will preach on “81x Days Shalt Thou Labor.” Dr. 8. H. ‘fyng will preach in the Church of the Holy Trinity this morning and evening. Dr. H. W. Kuapp will preach in Laight street Baptist mission church this morning and ovening. “Tho Manna” and ‘The Royal Stranger’ are the | ‘hemes on which Rev. J. D. Herr will speak to-day at she ueaal hours. PaBio services will bo held in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church thia morning and evening. Ing by Rey. James Mt. King. Ta the Sixth avenue Reformed church the Roy. Will- lam B. Merritt will preach to-day us usual. “Sufficiency of the Pian of Salvation” and ‘Love for Christ and Rogeneration Identical,” will be made ap- parent to Stanton stroet Baptist church to-day by Rov, W. H, Lavoll, Preaching to-day at tho usual hours in St. James’ | Methodist Episcpal church, Harlem, by Rev. W. R. Davia. In St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. Dr, Ewer will officiate at the several services to-day and preach as usual. The Rev. A. H. Moment will preach in Spring street Presbyterian church this morning on “Indecision” and this evening on “Decision.” Dr, John Cotton Smith will lecture this afternoon in the Church of the Ascension on ‘The Influence of Christianity tu the Futaro in Promoting Temperance, Purity and the Brotherhood of Nations,” In the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning the | Rev, E, P. Farnham, of Rochester, will enforce “The Claims of Worth,” and in tho evening wih renew “Chrint's Offer of Salvation to the Poople.”” Rev, Carios Martyn will preach this morning and @vening in Thirty-fourth street Reformed church, ‘The Rev, J. E. Searles will preach m Willett street Methodist Episcopal church this morning, and in tho evening will speak to “Wayside Laborers of Jesus.”” At the Greek Rassian chapel this morning the Rev. N. Bjerring will officiate as usaal. Rev, Dr. Graham, late President of Hillsdale College, will lecture before ine Young People’s Christian Ass Blation to-morrow evening in the Freo Baptist church on “New Light from Old Lands,” Professor Briggs, of the Union Theological Seminary of this city, will deliver the next lecture in the course ‘o-m@rrow evening, velore the New York Sunday Behool Association, in the Fourth Aveoue Presbyterian church, on The Languages of the Bible.’ The Rev. Dr, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., will preach in Bt. Joha’s Froo church, on Summit avenue, Jersey City Hoights, next Wednesday e ng. To-day being the feast of St. Agnes the church of which sho is the patron saint, in Kast Forty-tnird street, will commemorate her honor in an especial mauner, The smasic will be of a high order, Signor aod Mine. Krignon, Miss Lotue Simpson and other Brtists giving their service: Rev. Fathor Langcake will preach at the high mass, In Trinity Baptist church the Rev, F.C, Morgan will Preach this morving and the Roy, Warren Randolph, D. D., in the evening. ‘The Rev. Chauncey Giles will preseh in the Sweden- Dborgian church this morning at the usual hour, Sub- Jeet, “Truth the Essential Moans of all Progress ,Both Sprrituai wud Natural"? AUSt, James’ Methodist Kpiscopal church, Harlem, to-morrow evening @ musical and literary entertain- ment will be given, Miss Emma Thursby and Mr. Townsend Langdon will be the features of it, and the pastor, Rey, W. K. Davis, will give some dramatic and humorous readings. In the Chareh of tho Disciples this morning the Rev. George H. Hepworth wilt preach ou “The Christian's Portion’’ and this eve “Tho Good Shepherd,” Tomorrow evening Mr. Henworth will lecture on Preach- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1877.—QUADRUPLF_ SHEET. “Mount Sinai end Environs,’’ illustrated with the stereopticon. CHAT BY THE WAY. If you have religion you need not tell people about it; they will Ona it out after trading with you a little while. ‘That wasa good prayer which the old fashioned Methodist minister uttered:—“0 Lord, start us right, because if we get startea wrong we are hard to turn.”’ Within a couple of weeks two strange occurrences have been recorded. First, a marriage, in which the bridegroom was over ninety and the bride over eighty. Second, a divorcecase, in which the husband was more than eighty and the wife more than seventy, If the latter had waited patiently for a few years they would have been divorced without application to the courts, 14 is not always gafe to regard the famous argument of DesCartes as conclusive. He says:—‘ think, thereforo lam.” But suppose you don’t think, then what? We aro sadly certain of the existence of some people whe talk so much that they have no time to think, . What is remorse? It is having your hands tied behind you and being laid inthe sun on an August day, with acloud of persistent mosquitoes hovering about and wondering where they will begin first, Whittier wrote— For ot all sad words of tongue or pen, ‘Tho saddest are these, ‘it might have been,’? But there 18 a profounder depth in these additional lin But sadder far are these we often seo— “Ibis, but hadn’t ought to be’? We somotimes think that theology might be defined ag metaphysics once were by a Scotchman, ‘Meta- physics ?’’ said he, looking vacantly at space and then speaking very slowly, *‘why, it 1s Where two men are talking together, one of whom don’t know what he 18 talking about, und the other doesn’t underatand him," There are few men in the world who can be theo- logically correct, and even then nobody would kuow whether they were or no}; but every man can be religiously im the right way. 16 ts said that in prayer one’s attention should ba riveted on the petition. There was, however, a divine of New England, whose mind seoms to have had a nomadic tendency, While saying grace he would once in a while instinctively open his eyes to sce that the household was attentive, He prayed thus one day:— “0 Lord, bless this portion of food now in readiness for us, and—Lorenzo, take your flogers out of that pie. Amen.” He romnds us of a pre-Raphaelite prayer said over a wild Western dinner of bear or doer meat :— “Lord, bless to our use this—well this—O Lord, thou only canst toll what it 1s.’” It you would have rea! happiness in your religion don’t spend your time in trying to find out the color of the serpents that bit tho Israelites, but go to some tired or troubled home aad give them sympathy. There are some questions which it is not worth your while to solve, euch as whether Noah’s ark was copper- fastened or not, what was the color of the dove that brought back tho olive branch, aua whether that olive branch be any buds on it, and there are other ques- tons, suey 3, are you really born again? are you sure that you ajg.n Lonest man? which you had better settle righ,sf. Don’t waste your time’with the shell, but get at the meat of the nut as soon as possible. ‘This rethinds us of what Mr. Moody said in Chicago lust week:—‘-Thero is that man, who claims to have repented, but who has not paid his board bill yet, though he could have done it. Ho is dofrauding some poor widow, and yot ho talks of veinga disciple of Christ.”” That xind of doctrino nas the ring of com- mon senso in It. To confess a creed is nota proot of your conversion, but to pay your honest debts is very likely to be. Genuine religion 1s more apt to do than ‘to tell what it does. If your religion makes you up- right and downright you can afford to be satistied with it, but if at fails to do this you may safely conclude thi you have bought the wrong article. Who cau fora single moment doubt bis origin atter this? Dr. Hermes, of Berlin, has been presented with a young gorilla, This fact 1s not extraordinary. Other gorillas have visited Kurope, but no gorilla like this gorilla bas ever looked ‘uto the face of man and tried to pronounce the word “‘brother.’’ This gorilla ts “tho missing ink.” He checkmates Genesis, and gives the game into Darwin’a hands, Alter sloop he stretches nimseli like” a°°man’ and yawns, But the other day he was sick witn chills and fever, and as ho Jay on his couch he looked so imploringly at Dr. Hermes that the good man at once gave his poor relative a strong dose of quinine, which cured bim. At bis next visit the gorilla recognized his benefactor, nodded to him in ‘a familiar and friendly way, and then went up to him and deliberately and in the tenderest fashion squeezed his haud. Did any one ever express gratitude more delicately ? The gorilla, cured by quinine, squeezed tho doctor's hand. If that is nota proof of the humanity of the gorilla, or the goriliarity of man, or something else, then logic is lame. A Wesleyan missionury has bad an experience which exhibits the trials of clerical life ia the wilds. He travelled through some of the Australian groups of islands, dispensing the good news to every savage who ‘would lend a listening ear, and was very hopetul of hie work until one day when he went into the house of a native on some trivial errand, and saw a weman who was nicely roasting the thigh or leg of a mau for the family dinner, Alter that he was somewhat dis- couraged. To beeaten is not an enviable fate. To preach for nothing and to become a roast dinner for your own congregation ts asking too much of any man. George Francis Train has again becume editor of a Paper, every iasue of which, he says, “will be charged with torpedoes, bombshells and volcanoes,” Hoe has go lar become “evoluted” that he great many things which he did years ago, This js a kind of evolution which might be beneficial in othor cugos (han that of the most eccentric, but, as he says, “the most sane man in this mad world. his own power {9 #0 great that he asserts his ability to “throw his psychologic magnetism’ over ono and give him a new lease of life. To live im such dreamiand must be very delightiul, ‘Tho last sentence in ono of his lotters, however, 1x worthy to be learned by beart—"Cheer up, old fellow, thero is sunshine in the sky.” It seems to be easy evough to get along with St, Paul, on the one band, and with the woman question | on the other hand; but what shall we do with the two together? The Presbytory of Newark, N. J., 13 driven nearly wild over the subject, Uniess some com- promise is eflected that most august body will be- | come an assembly of careworn skelotons. | You see, the difficulty i lydra-headed, and when the very minute one head is cut | off two others spring from is roots, What did | Paul wean when he enjoined ‘silence?’ Silence and women have never met, and don’t know cach other, Women are not to preach; that is one point caimed. They are not tv pray; there isa shade of doubt on that question. But, then, can they sing in duets and quurtets, and especially can they sing solos in the | presence of the congregation? Singing 1# not silence, | by any means, and yet what shall we do if we are pelled to abolish our choirs? The whole Presbytery | have wished many 4 time that St, Paul iad seen fit to omit that part of his letter, for it has entailed a tearful amount of perplexity, Unul the correct exegesis Shall be attained, however, the women propose to do just us they please. Itis suid thata Western man who was sadly given | to bis cups onco ngreed with his wife that he would | give up drinking if she would give up scolding. She {bought the matter over very carefully, and thon came to the concluston that st would take all the sun. | shine out of her life to give up her habit of finding | faut, W happy home that must ve, | How small a thing will annoy # congregation almost beyond ondurance! We went to a church once where the sexion wore creaky boots, By what fatality he was controlled we do not know; but when all heads wore vowed in prayer we could bear that creak, creak, as he walked up the aisle, pole in haad, 10 open the windows, The irou head of the pole would stirke the pane with a metallic thud, ind, alter slipping two or three times, would get 4 good grip on the susb, Then, with @ sudden rush, down came the window. That sexton soon after died, and we have always bad the feoling that there was some hidden connection be+ tween his creaky boots in prayer tine and ne dean, At unother time, when the minister was in tho midst of an eloquent passage, a dog leixurcly walked up the broad aisle and snatted the pulpit steps, if left nione | he would have walked out avain; but, of course, come | kindheurted wan left bis pew 10’ order to put him oat. The consequence wus a chase all over the church, a | whine aud « bark on the dog's part und some pretty | rough thinking on the part of the deacon, The sermon did as no good, THE LAW WITH A VENGEANCE. Daring the past two weeks the Rev. William Taylor, formerty known as the “California Street Preachor,” ig ashamed of a | His idoa ot | | their church | York) Methodist Episcopal Church, has beon leading revival services inthe Seventh avenue Methodist Episcopal eburch in this city. A correspondent attended his service there on Friday cvening, and writes to us con- demning the performance, chiefly, however, for the lists style of preaching “nell and damnation” rather than “grace, mercy and peace.”” As samples of the exhortation our correspondent sends the fol- lowing extracts:—‘You’re damaed! You're damned! You’re damned! Your soul is doomed to hell! Heil is waiting for you! Some day you will tee) yourself falling down, down, ana find yourself a mags of flames! But one chance 1s left to you. Come up here & the altur rail) and let me pray for you! gate is still open, and I can save you. ‘This 1s the last chance; this is the last night—to-mor- row will be too late! ‘Come up here now, or remain forever damned! Prepare for hell!’’ This is certainly preaching the law with a vengeance, and we don’t wonder that only one sinn it the danger of hell so near or #0 great as to induce him to go forwurd. While our correspondent believes in the honesty purpose and aims of revivalists generally he objects to them because they do more harm than good, and, however uuintentionally, be thinks they injure public ri They drag heaven down to earty instead of sing earth to heaven; they speak of the Creator us ey weuld of the most ordinary mortal; they bring God down to the level of man, instead of lifting man up to God ; they neglect reason, aud instead of appealing to the betier feelings of nature work solely upon fear; they paint everything so black aud damopable that one shudders to listen; they make thy world and every- thing in it so vile that we wonder it was ever created; they give Satan as much power, and more, than they give the Lord; they prey upon the emotional nature of man and create u state of nervous excitement which, if Jong continued, must wreck the mind. Our corre- spondent is convinced that for one sinner who hovestly retorm# through these means ten bigots and maniacs are made. Mo suye, a8 Colouel Hay said of Jim’ Bludso:— He weren’t no suint; but at jedgment I'd take my chance with Jim, ‘Longside of some pious gentlemen ‘As wouldn’t shake hanus with bim, REVIVAL NEWS. A very widegpread revival prevails in the churches ofall denominations throughout the country. From our religious exchanges we collect the following tact and figures:—In Blairstown (N. J.) Presbyterian church, 41 persone have la‘ely been received as the frait im part of a revival now in progress there, Thir- {wen persons have lately united with tho Forty-tirst street Presbyterian chureh, Chicugo, and a spirit of earnest inquiry exists umong the congregations mn the First ana Third Presbyterian church of the same city, At Dixon, IIL, where the evangelist, H, P. Welton, has been laboring, the revival prospects are very encouraging, and at Ash Grove, Ill, 52 persons have been roceivod into the Chureh on profe: sion, Religious services recently held in Fairview Presbyterian church, Iowa, have resulted in the con- terian church, Dakota, of 20 persons in four weeks, ‘The good work progresses also in the Methodist Episcopal church at Churghville, Va., in the Baltimore Conference (South), where 40 conversions are re_ ported. A Washington, (D. C.) correspondent writes that in eleven years’ residonce in that city he had not witnessed a more gracious and unusually prosperous spiritual condition of tho churches than exists at this time, Without any great excitement or overwhelming spiritual power thero has been a general awakeniug and converting power manifested in all the charges. ‘The congregations of tho churches are full, the people interested and attentive, and the aggregate con- versio number about 100, of whom the Foundry church received 12 in one week, Forty have been received ou probation in tho Stullwater charge, Newark Conference, N. J., and others are seck- ing. At Somerton, Philadelphia Conference, 21 been thus received, In the newly dedicated Aiamingo church, Philadelphia Conference, 60 conversions have been already reported, thero is @ good feeling manitosted in the Hatborough church, North Philadelphia, Rev. J, 8. Waketield reports from Bolivar, New Fior- ence, Pa, 20 conversions. The interest in the Seventh avenue Methodist Episcopal church, this city, in- creases under the ministrations t Rev, William Tay- lor, of India, during the past week, ‘There is a pood fecling manifest, also, in the Methodist Episcopal church at West Danby, N. Y., and she new nouse of worsbip in Rochester, Mich, is nightly crowded with persons ipteresicd in the great salvation. Mectings held in Tacony Methoaist Episcopal churcl, Plilaael- phia, have resulted in 30 conversions. The Rev. Peter A. Moelling writes that the Lora bas greatly blessed Lis little mission in Hoboken, N. J., of late; that 24 have already joived the church, and that 10 more have been converted. Over 60 persons huve been convertod in useries of meetings just closed in the Methodi Episcopal church im Yatesville, N. Y. Av Falls Met! odist Episcopal church, Wyoming Conference, 115 conversions are reported, with ‘‘more to follow,” Dr. Montgomery’s Baptist church, in Lynchburg, Va., has recently been bicssed with a season of ro- freshing, which resulted in 60 conversions, after six weeks’ extra nyotings, A correspondeat notes the sudden ‘taking off” of two young men as having a wonaertul and poweriul influence on the minds and hearts of the people of this church and neigubvorhood, One of the young men was a railroad enginecr and the other his fireman, They had been frequently urged to become Christians, but hud refused; and one night, when both were inthe church together, the corre: spondent had urged one to decide the great question then, but be would not. Iho other refused tho urgent appeal of his aunt and silenced ber by saying, “li Lam ever killed by the train let my blood be upon me.’’ ‘The wees following, as the train of those young men stood on a side track to allow another to pass, their engine exploded and both were hurled into ete nity, Thisevent, so like a divine judgment, had a very sulemn fect upon the people und was the means of leading many to Christ. There js a marked spirit of inquiry in the Fourth Baptist church, Philadelphia, and baptisms occur very Irequently. Crowded congreg»tions attend tho ministry of Dr, Peddie. The churches in Sherburne, N. Y., are enjoying a precious work of graco uoder the leadership of Rov, A, B. Earle, evangelist. Rev. J. C. Rooney, a missionury of the State Conventin at Ca dor, N. Y., writes that about 40 have prot tuith in Christ during the lust few weeks. A ser! meetings has Leen for some time held by the Baptist church at pele barrge N.Y. Over 30 bave been hopelully converted. Fifteen have recently been added by baptism to the chureb at Atticn, N.Y. The additions to the Baptist churches of Michigan were this year 2,800 in nuyber, au increase of nine and ope-bult per cout, At New Bruoswick, N, J., both the First and the Kemson avenue churches are favored with the tokens of the divine favor. The religious interest in Newburyport, in conn’ with the labors ot Rev. E. P. Hammond, 1s gi er than any kuown in that city fortorty years—so the pastors say. Night after night the largest audience | roum 18 too small to admit ail who come. Hundreds remain to the inquiry meetings. Thirteen members were added to the Washington Heights New York I’re byturian church last Sunday, Dr, C, A. Stodard pastor, The Rev. George J. Minging ‘bas heid revival services in the Central Presbyterian chureb of this city with very marked success during the past two weeks. ‘The results are not stated, Faith chapel, a mission of the Weat Presbyterian church of this city, under the pas- torate of Key. J. H. Hoadiey, has been very successful during the yeur 1876, Its ereaged by 139, and now numbers 350 souls, and its Sunday school numbers uearly 1,000 scholars, 67 of whom were added during the year. The re- ligious imeerest is increasing. The Momortal Presby- terian church at Rochester, N. Y., - CyB. Colt pas reased its membership by 37 last year, Kev, A. B, Earle, the evangelist, began a series of inectings last Thursday evening in the Westminster cuurch of Utica, THE WORK OF MISSIONS. While the financial outlook of the various missionary societies and boards of the churches here 1s not very bright or promising, the spiritual status of missions is ail that could be expected or hoped for, The Presby- terian, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Romun C: ohe, Relorwed and other churches are more or iess heavily in debt for their mission work, The Retormea is the feast involved and the Methodist tue greatest, | The figures aro relatively about $50,000 to $260,000, but the ability of each is about im the same rauo. The Methodists have their secretaries and committees trav- ng over the country arousing the enthusivsm of the people to the mission cause,’ The F the Reformed send fourth official facts through papers, ‘The Baptists and the Bpis- copalians do likewise, but in addition, also, they hold conventions and meoungs when the mission work in all its extent and bearings is presented. mass tribute to missions, about one-half of the Methodists and in those or between those proportions in other churches, Tho Methodists have resolved to increase their contributions at lease tweuty per cont over what thoy gave last year wnd to see that every charge gives nething, The Sunday school children guve avout one-third of the aggregate contribations to missions last year, Already the receipts for th's cause are com- ing in quite liberally. The Christian Advocate reports the Amounts received during the first week of Javuary at $4,107 60, of which sum $1,600 was given by sum- mertield charcb, Brooklyn, some portion of this mouey 18 desiguated by Lhe contributors tor tie pay- Mmentot the debt of the’ Missionary Society, Besides this the Missiouary Bourd, veiore seuding out its com- mittee to arouse the Church, put tself on record as contributing individually to the extent of $15,000, And we Have already noticed that Bedtord street (New jd Sing Sing First churches bad each taken ap collections wmounting to $1,500 tor the missionary work of the Ghureh, the British Weste; for foreign mi Church contributed Inst year Hons $795,080, the Methodist Charch oF Canada, $155,000, Tue advance in the ag- gregute is about $30,000, fhe Association jor the Propagation of the Faith, ac- cording to the last repuria, contributes to the Cathone Churen 10 this country more than it receives here, It gives $360,103 and receives but $47,486 from th country, The Iargest contributors to this missionary organization are the diocoses of Albany, $5,927; Cin. einuati, $4,088; Baltimore, $3,487; Arizona, $4,001, é but naw n member of the Indin Gonteronee of the Hl Phiintelpie, $3.01 Wimington, Detroit nad Grage version of 10 souls, and in Lone ‘Tree Luke Presby- | membership has beeu in- | byterians and | About one-third of the Episcopal ehurehes only con. | Valley givo between $2, dioceses give between $1,000 and $2,000, mainder contribute leas than $1,000 eacn. ‘The largest receivers from the association's funds are the dioceses of Galveston, $25,500; Arizona, 22,152, und Northern Minnesoto, $22,500; Nactitoches and Little Rock, — euch; Brownsville and Santa Fé over $19,000 ei St. Augustine, Marquette, Kansas and Colorado over $16,006 each; Natchez, over $17,000 and the rest from $1,200 10 $14,000, except that Louisiana gets only 967, New Orieans only $215, and sixteen dioceses get nothing at alt. ‘Twelve dioceses do not contribute any- thing to this tund. ‘Thirty years ago ftaly and Spain were closed against the Gospel; now there are at least 200 preacning sta- {ions in those countries aud @ church memborship of 10,00, according to the latest report of the Rev. R. 5. Ashton. ‘Tho French-Canadian Missionary Society was organ- ized tn 1839, and works on an undenominational basis, It-employs colporteurs, and ag a Bible depository whieh issued last year ! copies of the Scriptures and 6,000 tracts, papers and books, Since the forma- tion of the society there have been circulated about 43,000 Bibles and 500,000 religious publications, The society's chief educational work 1% at Point-aux Trem- bles, Where there are 80 pnpilé in the boys) and 50 to the girls’ school; 15 of these, mostly of Roman Catholic parentage, were udded to the Church on pro- fession of faith. 'Simce the opening of the mission sebools about 2,000 pupils, mostly children of Roman Cuthoties, have received a Seripiural education; over 20 have become ministers of the Gospel, 70 have taught school and 40 have engaged in colportage. Protestantism is gaining on Mohammedanism in Palesune, There are new 250 Provestant churches in the Holy Lund and 7,600 children in Protestant schouis. lo a single district of Japan seventy-one Buddhist temples Lave been converted mio dwelling houses: since 1873, und during the last 8.x years upward of 600 have thus been diverted trom reigious use. The domestic missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church throughout Canada number 339, with 383 mis- sionuries und a membership of 33,472. Total number Of paid agents of the Missionary Iourd, 515. The in- come of the Board of Missions for the year ending June 30 was $162,639—au excess of $3,982 over expen- diture, In the mater of Christian giving for benevolent and missionury purposes the Cougregationalists lead ull other denominations, their ratio per member being $242. The Methodists of Canada tollow with $1 8 ; the Presbyteriaus, North aud South, of the United States, $1 25; the Episcopahans, $1 22, and the Meth- dist Episcopal Church, oly lorty-two cents per men ver, The Chr Advocate, of this ci im view of this state of things, ts moved to say that a decent ro- spect for the opinions of naukind requires that Method- ists should either give more or talk less, ‘Thereare thirteen missionary sucieties in England whose contributions to inigsions last year were es fol- lows:—Chureh Missionary Suciety, $975,580; Propaga- tion of the Goxpel, $626,470; Wesleyan Missionary Society, $795,530; ' London ' Missionary Society, $590,915; Baptist Missionary Society, $225,810; Ci lonsat and Continental Missionary Suciety, $167) Moravian Missionary Society, $91,900; United Metho ast, 2,710; Souil American Missionary society, $63,205; Christian Vernacular Education (India), $64,210; Colouial Missionary Society, 980 ; Evangelical: Conunental society, $16,385, and’ the Ladies’? Zonana Association, ‘$4,515. ‘Aggregate, $3,789,840. bisbop Willams, of Yodo, reporis that the Protest- ant Episcopal Mission in Japan, of which he is the head, has live clerzy, one physician and one woman, Un an average about 30 persons attend the Sabbath -and weekly meetings at Osaka; 22 pupils attend the girls’ school, but not more than bulf a dozen the boys’. ‘The missionaries bave enjoyed yroater facilities tor preaching the Gospel in Yedo during the past your than therelofore and w very encouraging incrouso in numbers is reported, There were during the year 17 baptisms, 16 confirmations ana 20 commanicants added, and the boys’ school at Yodo bas had an a daily attendunce of 45. Tue Bishop hopes to open a girls’ schoo! there very soon. Two conventions have recently been held in the diocese of Long Island, to devise measures to awaken the interest of churchmen in the cause of missions, to secure funds toward tho payment of the debt that now encumbers the work, and to secure hereaiter regulur contributious from the churches for missions, The Protostant Episcopal Cuurch spent during the yeur on missions wiuong the colored people in tho South $28,850 71. The receipts for this work wero $29,617 73. ‘Thurty-iour schools and missions are inaintaiued by the Church in that section, exclusive of night schools and schools that aro open only a portion of the year. They have fiity-seven teachers and 3,100 cholars in those ingtitutions, The Episcopalians also spent $46,845 during the year just closed on their mis- sions among the American Indians, The Women’s Auxiliary Missionary Society have also expended $15,874 among the Indians. Steps have beon taken by the Foreign Missionary Committee of tue Episcopal Church to organize a sta- tion at Cape Mount, Atricu—quite an important point. Thia Cape, torty miles north of Monrovia, is high enou,h, it t# believed, to be largely tree from the malurial jufluence prevalent at other points on tho coast, And it will be also a very important centre for missionary work, being near the Vye people, the most enlightened of all the tribes on the West Coast, a opie who have formed for themselves a written language, ‘There are also to the east of Cape Mount, and at no great distance, very superior tribes, chiefly Mohammedan, very many of whom are quite well Acquainted with the Arabic language. These people nave gladly received Arabic copies of the Scriptures that have been givon them, and would probably wei- Come missionaries that may be sent, CHURCH BUILDI AND IMPROVE- MENTS. The First Congregational church in Wost Meriden, Conn,, is erecting a new churcn edifice at acost of $150,000, The First Congregational church of Newark, N. J., Rev. W. B Brown, have remodelled their house at» cost of over $8,000. Rev. N. L. Ova’ congregation at Crystal aro about vo build a church edifice 30 by 54, with tower ana spire, to cost $1,600. Mr. Pardeo has builta church and presented It to the Presbyterian congregation at Hazleton, Pa. It cost $40,000, Mr. Markle, of Philadelphw, presented an organ and bell costing about $3,000. ‘the Presbyterians of Braddocks, Pa., have recently dedicated a new church which they built at a cost of $10,000, For forty years the Southern Methodists at Str burg, Va, have owned a Jot ana hoped to build a church, They have worshipped wherever they could, | but now they are putting up a neat and convenient house, the corner stone of which they laid a short time ago, ‘The Methodists in Cohoes have organized a second Methodist churcis, called the Bowery street Methodist, Yhey uumber sixty mm inembership und have erected w $1,600 chureb. The Methodists in South Abingdon, Mass, are build- ry neat, commodious house of Worship, ne Methodist Ept copat church at Farmington, Me., | has wrranged to build a now chureh eaiice, It with py a lot ydjoinug the home of the noted Jobo | Alben, of camp meeting fam | inge Methous: | delphia Conference Wave recontly dedi | Episcopal Society Phiias od a new | church edilice, The Metho building at Antwerp, N. Y., whi st oF $20,000, was destroyer by fire « short Line ago, here Was Au Insurance oF $16,000 on It, with whieh the society will begin again to bold, ‘The rool of an- otwer Methodist Episcopal church in Mouroe, Lu., was crushed in the other day with the weight of snow upon it—w remarkable ineieut for that latitude, The Church street Methodist Episcopal Society of Boston proposes to spend $125,000.00 a new church building én Columbus avenue, tn that ci Phe build heatri lowe necessary { entrance and egress, and the ebupel and Sun- vol room 14 to be so arranged and counected auditorium that the capacity of the two will 4,00 persons, who cun ull sev wod hear the | pendent of its baildings and lots, amount in valae to $28,634 13. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. PRESUYTERIAN, The Rev. H. M. Grant, late of Stirling, is now pastor at New Providence, N. J, The Rey, W, A. Rice bas resigned at Westerville, N, Y., to accept a charge at Marshall, Mich, ‘The Rey. C. 8. Vincent has resigned his pastorate at Tur, N. Y., aud Rev, John Kellang, of Franklia, bas gone to a charge in Flushing, Mich. The Rev. George ©, Yeusley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of Hudson, this State, preached his first anniversary sermon on the 7th inst, The ser- mon shows a marked epirit of unity among pastof and people, and evidences as well that the prosperous congregation have read and applied chapters from the Gospel of Giving. Rev, A. 'T. Norton, D, D., Superintendent of Presby- byterian Missions for the Synod of Illnois, South, bas resigned his position after eighteen years of faithtui and successive service in the special work of the church tv which he had been calied, President Smith, of Dartmouth College, insists on the acceptance of his resignation (on account of ill health), which the trustees have already declined, and the latter are now looking for Dr, Tucker, of this city, to succeed him. They took Dr, Smith from New York thirteen years ago, Rey. William M, Baker, late of the Fourth Presby- terian chureh, Boston, is making his howe temporarily in Brooklyn, He has been preaching for Dr. E. 5. Porter, Mr. D. M. Scudder and also for the Westminster church, Brooklyn, EPISCOPALIAN, The Rey, William Kirkus, of Baltimore, formerly of New York, has beou called to the rectorship of Corist church, New Orieans, to succeed the Rey. Dr, Leacock, who, after twenty-eight years’ pastorate there, retires full of years and honors, The Rev. Dr, McKenny, of St, Philip's church, Laurel, near Washington, D. C., has resigned op ac- count of age and infirmities consequent thereon, The Rey, Mr. Sloan has also resigned tho rectorship of St James’ church, Danbury, Conn., to take eflect April 1. Tho Rev, E. W. Benson, D. D., Chancellor of Liv- coln Cathedral, England, has accepted tho new bishopric of Truro. Tho Crown will nominate his successor as Chancellor. The Rey. Robert 8. Barrett, of Staflord county, has accepted weall to Christ chureb, Richmond, Va. and the Rey, Mr, Nelson, of Lexington, a call to Wythe- vile, Va. Tho parish of St. John’s, Charleston, W. been for some ume ip a languishing state, fr ous causes, but recently the Rev. A. Cobbs, son’of the late Bishop Cobvs, has taken charge of 1, and under his juuicious care it hes sodur revived that the ladies of the parish bave now undertaken the purchase or erection of arectory for tim, ° BAPTIST, Rev. C. A. Johnson bas resigned the pastoral charge of the Baptist churet at Greenwich, N. Y. His resig- nation takes eflect May 1. The Rev. George Guiry accepts the call of the Mount Pleasant church, Newark, N. J. ‘At the recent upening of a chapel in England, seven Baptist iniuisters wore present who bad becn vlergy- men of the Establisued (Episcopa:) Church. ‘the Rey, J. B. Simmons, D, D., late agent of the Centennial Education Commission, haying completed bis work in that fleld, has Bow become district secre- tary for the American Baptist Missionary Union, with headquarters here. The Rey, A. S. Thompson was recently ordained and ipetal led pastor of the Baptist charch in Spartansburg, Pa. The Rey. M. W. Homes goes from Lima to Monroe- ville, Obio, Dr, Buckland, of Rochester (N. Y.) Theological Sem- inary 18 laid aside trom his work by sickness, Rev, J, J. Entrekin has resigned at Drakesville, N. J. KOMAN CATHOLIC. Tho Rev. Father Quigioy, of Bulfalo, N. Y., is apend- ing the winter in the South tor his health’s sake, Kev. Father Clinton, of Newport, R, is confined to nis room by sickness. ‘Tue Rev. Paul McAleny, recently ordained, has been appointed assistant priest at St. Peter's pro-Cathedral, Hartiord, Cunn. ; the Rev, James Gieason, ulso recent- ly ordained, hus been appointed assistant at Stamtord, and Revs. J. Phelan und Thomas Preston, assistants respectively, at Southington und Danielsouville, Coun. Tue Rev. J. Anstaett, ulter an absence of six mouths in the North, has returned to New Orleans; the Rev. William Rogors, of Greenwich, bas been transterred to Stantord, and the Kev. Donais Cremin, of Hartiord, has been sent to Greenwich. ‘the Rov. Father Fitzpatrick, of Westerly, R. 1, has been transferred to St Patrick’s church, New and ccveded by Rev. Father Lyneh, of St. church, Hartford, who in turn 1s succeeded by the Rev. Father Tierney, of Stamford, ‘The oldest membor 01 the Sacred College of Cardinals is De Angelir, Archbishop of Fermo, who 1s now eighty- five years of ag ‘The Rev. M. J. McCall, of Ameabury, Mass,, has been appointed to the pastorate of Concord and Maynard, Muss. Last Sunday Rey. James Murphy, a recent graduate of St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, was orduimed to the priestiiood, Alter tity years of faithful service tn the priesthood the Kev, Menry Lemke has retired trom the pastorate of St. Henry’s church, Elizabeth, N. J., and yone to St. Vincent’s Abbey, Pa., to spend the remainder of his days with the Bened Father Athavasius has succeeded bim in Klizabeth, and Father Fuoke, his aswistaut, hag been assigned to the hike position in St, John’s church, Newark, N. J. Rev, Gustave Limpens has been transterred from the Church of Our Lady of Help, Detroit, Mich., to the pastoral charge of St. James’ church, Grand Iap- ids, Mich. The Bishop of Rochester was im Newark, N. J., a few days ago on a briet visit. METHODIST, Bishop Andrews and tanuiy, after visiting India aud China by the eustern route, have returned to Ltaly and Will spend & couple of months in Rome. ‘The Rev. 3, F, Huestis, President o: the Nova Scotia We in Conte for bis heaith’s suke, Dr. L. D. Barrows, of the New Hampshire Confer. bas been elected president of the Conterence Semimary and Female College, and also to fill (he cba of moral philosoply and social and biblical learning. Dr. John SL Reid, of this city, has gone to St. Job N. B., to spend a few days there aud in parts adjac in addressing missionary meetings. Dr. Whedon, of y, has been ordered to Bermuda this city, Who so harrowly escaped from the railroad | accident south of Washington, u few days ago, left the cupital ince tor Florida, where he will remata until the spring opens up. D. Ferguson, formerly a member of the Black River Con erence, but for fitteen yours past a minister in the Protestant’ Episcopal Cuurch, bas returned to the Chureb of his first love and united with the quar- teriy conlerence of Bergen, Geneva Conterence, New York. Bishop Marvin, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, bas arrived gately tu Japan and been beard irom.’ He 1s pleased wiih tho religious outiook, but thiuks there is much hard work to be done beiore the millennium comes to Japan, MISCELLANROUS, Tho Rev. J. A. Hoyt has resigned bis pastorate at Beile Plain, Iowa, ‘The Rev. V. 1. Carroll bas been in- stalled pastor ol the Reformed chatch m Warwick, Orange county, N.Y. and Rev. J. Warnsnaix, of Marion, has ussuined the pastorate of the Retormed er vi lhag Y. Rey ¥. Powell continues bis ministrations as usual emple, Baltimore, and hopes to be able to build « Universalist chureh ‘iu the west end F summer. hin Middleport, N. Y., ns, pastor, five members were cently added to the church. Filleca Procestant churches have peen established in Bra: re- wWoues Epghish churchmen have spent an aver- of nearly $4,000,000 per annuin tor the last forty neva, Switzer Crowded With Worshippers 3 dled to build a new a larger church, Ww xt Jaly, The cost Of sitelund but cued $20,000, Rev, Arthur Mason, of New York, has accepted the rector. | ship. | De. Nevins writes from Rome, Italy, to say that the tower of St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church im thatenty 18 flushed aud is sioguiarly beauty the did ays that it has b | Grace church, Sandusky, Obio, is building a stone | hosp have ready in the tall. It will cost $10,000, Pp Perry, of lows, makes a pressing call for ) to Save LWY Churches in tis diocese— y und the other at Cascade rit, They ure worth $4,100, ‘Them | and reredos jor Trinity church, New York, will $40,000, They are being prepared 80 as to be in reads hers to seb Up on A white marble, the slab ii crosses, (0 represent the wounds of the Ite ‘The curving ot cornice will wheat and clusters of grapes. to represent the bi und wine of the Lord’s supper. The rerodos, of Caen stone, Hlustrates the eartuly life of Uhe Saviour. Mr. ES&S Henry, a Protestant geutleman, residing in Rockville, Con., bas recently pre athe I J. J. Furlong, Catholte pastor, witu $500, to aud in the erection of a hew Uuthoie church, now in course of construction, Several years ago an effort wax made by the New York Lutherans to osiabiist a I widows und oid men in this eity or vicinity. It now Haildings su table for xuch a bow New York. a suburb of Brooklyn, at | ner of Sheffield and Fulton avenues, and a con. ble sum Hus been paid in toward the endowment iwetitution, Dr. Mwner, ot Boston, itely dedicated a new Univer- salist church at Concord, N. H. A Universalist parish has been organized at Geneva, N. Y., and a house of worship ia talked about Lo the Chapa Home, of this city, out of the thirty. SIX inmates at present there only cight Univer, ud two Unitarians, The rest belong to evang ininations, so-called. The receipts of ing is last Nsoat yoar were $16,862 53, tho expenditures, including $1,400 for Donde, $10 828 TO and urchase of estoration of old churches and the building | 1 140x100'feet, the maim portion of which they | ptist church, of Klizab own sold un will reorganize under a new pure edilice vow offered for sale tor $5,000 and begin hy ping again on a less expensive scale than they hav tofore, This isa bad year for chure! society changed with aday Dr. Hepworth M v Taber aylor, and the Bro of the Ly cle y cure ot $1,400 toward the payne banding. That society 18 now reducing its $100,000 debt at we pate oF $1,000 a week, ‘The ministerial uid synagogue has just ana nee of the Forty-fourth street gone @ material change, AL b, has | | tho gallery come sort of bette the unnual meeting on Sunday last Rev. 8. M. Isaacs, | the thitty-tive Yours? pastor of the congregauion, re tired froin wetive duty and Will bencetorty discharge fives us del used, of preacuing tw! AregAtION for © pastorship who has seryed ye Forty-tourth aynagogue inay be sngratulated on their selection, and have every surance that auder the new regime roxperity will continue to shine upon the tortanes ots aray Jephila. FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE, THY MIRACLE OF TURNING THE NILE BLOOD, “And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voree to Jet Israel go. 1 kaow not the Lord, neither will I let Lerwel go”.—Exodus v., 20 And bh Called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, Kise up and get you forth trom among my people, both ye und the children of Israel, and go and serve the Lord as ye have said.”—Exodus xii, 31, This wax the text Chosen by Rey, Dr, Mendes yesterday morn- ing, Said he:—For the last two weeks we bave been describing tho most unequal struggle between Moses and Phar: Pharaoh was staggered by te request INtO that these bondsmen should be set free; were they not boru vassals to Kgypt's throne? to they that sent given his tans, who would put they wore wondertul, Pharaoh's heart was hardened he |i ned not, Bul now the time was come for barsty measures, apd Moses wer told to meet Pharaoh on the banks of the Nile, and be wer by 4 deny, 8 tO ‘The nevots of the Home, inde. | sald, “The God of the Hebrews hath cent mein ray He demandea signs | ing the closing benediction | dd taithtully for the past three | on. | i | spectable jh to thee to set my people free,” and when Pharaoh de manded turther evidence that he was sent by God he noid | smite the waters of the river and shall be turaed to blood,” and at the the sacred Nile ‘rolled by a putree fying mass. No one who does not kuow the deep Veneration in which the sacrea stream was held can understand the consternation of Egypt. But again the magielans assured Pharaoh that the transformation was poeta very difficult task, ‘There is ho one 80 Open Lo persuasion as he who wishes to believe, 80 Vharavh's heart was hardened and be thus, by bis obstiuacy, laid bis laud open to the devustations which followed. Of course we bee lieve that, whether these are to be called miracles or uot, they are to be explamed by patural laws, God ww too great, God 48 too mighty and His universe is too mighty or us to believe thut God allows those laws to be modified for the sake of convincing au obstinate Bgyptian, These events must be explained by natural laws, for we may be assored that fixed and evernal lowe always govern them. We may not have discovered them, or, baving discovered them, have not applied them, The present miracie wos the intusion of @ sinalt red insect into the water; how God caused the appearance of tho infogariv in the Nile at this precise time 18 the miracle here. Wo dou’t understand it, 1 have hin! t the terrible water priv: suffered, i eon of the inch whom God has permitted to slake foantains of prosperity and napp: hot unworthy by acts and words we feel ourselves battiing in ¥) foartul oads, slowly and surely all the while God w working eut bis plan for our salvauon, kcitug the repulsed into & Chaim that raises us, >o bes it been always, Let this be the lesson we take from bere to- day, that the misfortunes and trials and troubles of life aro the thorns in the garland God is weaving for us—lor our glory. Sif, TERESA'’S MISSION. During the past week Rev. Father Damen, assistet by several pricstsof his Order, gave a mission, lor women only, in St. Teresa’s ck urch, in thiscity, The mis- sion ended lastevening, Thousands approached the sac- raments, and the church was thronged every day from five A. M. until midnight, A mission for men oniy will commence to-day, Fatber Damen will deliver one of his most famous sermons at hall-past ten to-day, when he will opon the mission for men only. Muci of the success of the mission thus far is due to the untirmg eflorts of Key. M. C, O’Farrell, the pastor. THE GERMANS IN ROME. To Tux Kpiror or THe HeKAlp: It scems a pity to spoil a beautiful sensational ac. count in the Protestant Episcopal Church Journal of tho reception of un entire Roman Catholic convrega- tion at Rome, N, Y., into the Episcopal Church, by Bishop Huntington. Your paper of last Sunday Mik wiso relerred briefly to tho case, but omitted, a3 the Journal does, to give the whole truth, Six years age a minority of the congregation of St. Mary’s church at Rome became tnsubordinate respecting a change ot location of the church edifice, and sought to bring tho majority, who were sustained by the parish priest and the Bishop, into complew obedience to their views respecting the change. Their hostile attitude continuing alter every means were used to urge them to co-operate with the majority, the minority Were ignored by the Catholic Bishop and t floundering the mire of Protestantism, A cher of the Unitarian or Universalist persuasion the corner stone of a new church for them, and a rman apothecary and ministers of various devoai- nations officiated tor this model congregation trom tine to time. Bishop Huntington, who, it will be remembered, made quite a flourish over the acces: sion of a Cuthoiic priest into the Eviscopal ministry, without reordivation, but who it was subsequently discovered had never becu a priest at all, took these wandering Germans into the Episcopal fold. The prayer book turnishod them is not the Book of Com- mon Prayer in use among Episcopanans, but a book containing many additions taken trom the Lutheran ang Roman Catholic liturgies. An eigot days’ ‘+m sion’* was conducted during lust Advent, und in nis address at the opening servicos of this new addition to the Protestant Episcopal Church U Bishop used language respecting the blessed Virgin Mary which must seem like a sugar coating to satisty those who change their entire faith in the immaculate conception, celibacy of the clergy, and so on, through ail the alstinctive features of the Roman Cuthonc Church, simply because the authorities of said Church found it expedient to build 10 a more desirable local. ity. May it not be considered a safo rue that when ‘the Catholic Church is done with individual gregations those who tuke them up will n toemu very protitable to the sanctity or honor of their new found homes? X-PROTESTANT, REFUGE, straggling THE NIGHT A LODGING HOUSE FOR THE, RESPECTABLE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY--AN INSTITUTION THAT OUGHT TO LE SUSTAINED- The Night Retage, corner of avenue D and Tenth street, 18 pow runuing in excellent order, and gives lodging and food to hundreds of persons. Ail the sta- tion houses are gupplied with tickets ot admission for” this refuge, and no person can be admitted without a recommendation from tho police, who are supposed to be able to discr minate between the “revolving” clase and the deserving men and women who are homeless and destitute, The butlding fitted up at the corner of Tenth street and avenue D, was, some time since, grammar school, and had been the Strangers’ Aospital, It has ample aceommodation for about 500 men and 100 women; but at present tt gives lodging only to 22t malos and twenty females, The males aro supplied with bunks, the clean buards being the bed, while the women have pallets of straw, Washrooms aro ranged tor both men and women in’ the wepurate departments of the institution, and the greatest cleanliness 18 preserved throughout the building. A curious feature 1p the management of the retuge 18 that the jnmates are not allowed to remain jor more than five nights, They then have to leave aud must necessarily be,as badly off as they were be- fore. It 18, however, a lact that Very few of those who have been sheltered have tried to return. The peop who come to Unis refuge arcof the better class of the ks and workinginen, who are completely A number of those who bave been lodged there have secured situations before leaving — The anagers of the institution interest themselves In ber 11 of thoxe who are deserving, aud seuk to procure them employment. During the past week the tollow- ing were the numbers lodged:—Friday. 178 men aud 166 men and 4 teinales; sunday, ws men and 18 poor— prostrated. day, 202 1n females. The gentlemen who mainly susiain the retuga are theodore Roosevelt, Temple Prime, Pnihp J, Sands, J. Coleman Drayton, Alfred Beil, George A. Rovyins and Henry A. Peilew, fhe saperintendent ts ward Cooper, lormeriy connected with the Sailoh ter, corner of Prince aud Marion streets A Klust is furnished every morning to cash lodgor, and this meal in tature will be of a more substantial wrt than that hitherto given. Only one meal aday ie upplied, e of the class known as “buminers” | are admitted, the closest eerutiny being observed in s particular, Newspapers and periodiouls are scattered around the rovms. ‘This matitation, m that i 18 in goud working order, meets a want Wat hus been felt ince the winter set in. It property su ed this Night Retugo can accommodate all the ro homeiess and hungry who tor weeks past have becn wandering around the city seeking for 4 lodging tn the station houses, THE SHILOH SHELTER. A CROWDED BUILDING EVERY NIGHT—TOH HELP THAT 18 GIVEN. ‘Tho Shiloh Shelter ts located at the corner of Prince and Marion streets, in a building formerly oveupied ag acburch, The pews and gallery are all still retatnea, and the basement is utilized for the purposes of cook- ing, washrooms, &c. Each pew is occupied by twe lodgers, one sleeping on the seat, the other on the floor beneath, a plece of wood serving asa pillow. O Provision ts mado, and a bank here costs ten cents Each lodger’s passport it a cloan towel, which he is supposed to use the morn after admission. A breaxtast is sdpplied uw every ger who has two cents to pay, bat any man caa work for tis breakfast arouad the baildiag if he 40 chooses, ‘The brenkiast is served every morning six to eight o'clock, and consists of a mush indian meal, cach lodger being invited ich of the jood as he chouses The nightiy lodged is Sid, all thas can Accommodate, but sometines even ® per is received, men ean continue to sleep here as long ast ave themselves, but What 18 known as the * bummer” class ix excluded, A room has been especially prepared tor those homeless men Who Dave been wandering In the streets for some time, so that they may clean th mo solves, tsute made by which the same u bank ain in the 3 Arranges will continae as long as A Hknabe reporter pected the building and foaud it elewn. supe lent, J. K. Fitzpatrick, stated that the woeking lodging in the Shelter are all respectable en Who can get nothing to do, and tha tb rly and conduct themselves properly. Th inatitution, with (he one atthe corner of aveaue D end Tenth street, are now nightly lodging over 500 idle mon. ANNIVERSARY OF A REVOLUTION, ‘The committee of the survivors of the Polish revo. Jution of 1863 residing in this city have completed arrangements to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary Of the outbreak of the revolution, which occurred om the 22d of January, The celovration will take place ou Monday evening, at No. TL Washington square, and un tavitation is extended to all the Poles tn the ¢f and thowe who sympathize with them, Tue revol Wom OF 186 against the one of the most me it began oo the night of Januar. troops in Warsaw, Block, Voss, her places were simultant attacked. Tne revolutio jas Maintained for over pite Of the greatest efforts of the Russian gov. ernnent (oO supporters tt