The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1877, Page 13

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial Movements--- Chat by the Way. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. Pfecious Revival Work Through- out the Country. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. . In St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church to-day the Rev. Mr. Hubbard will be installed as rector of the parish. Bishop Littlejohn will be present at both services, The Rev, 8, Millor Hageman, of Brooklyn, E. D., has been invited to deliver the annual address before the United American Mechanics’ Association in Cooper Tostitute on the 22d inst, and has accepted the same. There will be divine service this morning !n the Russian chapel. ‘The Rev, J, J. Muir will proach in Macdougal street Baptist church this morning on “The Importunute ‘Widow,’ and this evening on ‘“rhe Typical Disease.” At Harvard Rooms Dr. Boynton will speak this evening on ‘The Deluge in the Light of Science.” At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. William Lioyd will preach in the morning on “Worthy is the Lamb to Receive Riches,” and in the evening on “A Hiding Place from the Wind.’” “Lessons and Warnings of the Past’ will be given to-day in Willett street Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. J. E, Searles. “Good from Evil,” “They Cast Him Out,” are tho themes that Rev. C. P. McCarthy will discuss to-day before the American Free church. “The Great lnvitation” will be given in Spring street Presbyterian church this morning by Rev. A. H. Mo- mont, In the evoning he will utter somo'thoughis on “Obadiah,” The Rev. Dr. Dunnell will preach at the usual hours to-day in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church, The Rev, Fred Bell will ask his Academy congrega- tlon'in Brooklyn tnis morning, “What is Your Age!”” ‘and in the evening will tell them some things about «A Short Life and a Morry One.” Atthe Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. John Johns will preach this morning and evening on “Victory” and ‘All Over,’’ The American Tempeyance Union will hold its meet- ‘ng this afternoon in Science Hall, when E. A, Morse will deliver an addrese, The afternoon sermon to-day in Chickering Hall will be the second in the series on “Light’’ by Rev, Bamuel Colcord. The Rev. T. DoWitt Talmage will preach in the » Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning to clerks, malo end fomale, in stores and offices, In Bleecker street Universalist church this morning the Rev. E. C. Sweetser will preach on “What Mannor of Man is Thiv?” and in the evening Dr. Nye, of Brook- lyn, will preach to young men on ‘‘rhou Shalt Say No.” Services this morning and afternoon in the Church ef the Heavenly Rest, Rev. Dr. Howland, rector. In the Church of the Strangers the Rev. Dr. Deems ‘will preach at the usual hours to-day. Dr, Landis will speak this morning in Science Hall on “The Pulpit, Stage and Press: Are They Retormers or Deformers?” In the French Protestant Episcopal church of the Holy Spirit the Rev. Leon Pons will preach this morn- ing and evening. The Rev. M. B. Smith will occupy the pulpit of the First Reformed Episcopal church to-day, the Rev, W. ‘. Sabine, pastor. “Caring for Souls’? and “I'he Penitent Thief’ will occupy the Rev. N. L. Rowell’s attention to-day with the Free Baptist church. Dr. Armitage and the Fifth avenue Baptist chureh will take Look Into the Future’ and learn some- thing about ‘‘Money Making’ to-day. In the Free Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation the Rev. E. 8. Widdemer will preach this morning and evening. “Popular Scepticism” will be discussed this evening by Rey. W. T. Egbert in Grace chapel. In Grace Baptist church the Rev. J. 8. Kennard will preach this morning and evening. Lyman C, Howe will aadress the Spiritualists this evening on “Moody and Sankey; or, the Philosophy and Moral Bearings of Revivals.” ‘The Rev. William Lloyd will preach this afternoon in Mad‘som avenue Reformed church on ‘Humanity Lost, Sought and Found.” In the morning Rev. G. ¥. Moore will preach. Dr, Armitage will preach in Grace Baptist church on Tuesday evening at tho ordination service of M. C, Lockwood, Mr. B. ©, Taylor, of Crozier Seminary, will preach in the Pilgrim Baptist church this morning and even- ing. In the Chureh of the Holy Trimty tho Rev. S, A. ‘Tyng, Jr., will preach this morning and evening, and every evening during the week, except Saturday, Rev. Jos, Odell, of Brooklyn, will preach. Rov. J, D. Herr preaches this morning and evening in the Central Baptist church. Tho Laight street Baptist church will receive the Ministrations of the Rev. H. W. Knapp this morning on “Offending God’s Littie Ones,” and this evening on ‘god's Word a Hammer to Beat, a Fire to Burn,” Revival services are held in the Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, where Rev. J. H. Light- bourne will preach this evening on “Weighed and Vound Wanting.” Rev. W. B. Merritt will proach at the usual bours to-day !n the Sixth avenue Reformed charch. Rev. J. M. King will minister as usaul to-day to St, John’s Methodist Episcopal church. Dr, Ewer will officiate and preacn in St ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church at the usual hours to-day. The Rev, AE. Waille, of New Brunswick, N. d., will pfeach in the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning on “Tho Christian’s Aim,” and this evening on “No Condemnation to Them that are in Christ Jesus." “The World versus Tho Soul” ig the topic on which | Rev, Carlos Martyn will preach this evening in the Thirty-tourth street Reformed chureb. lp West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church the Rov. &. N. White, D. D., will proach at the usual hours to-day. The Rev. G. H. Hepworth will preach in the Charch of the Disciples this morning on ‘Ploughing and Sow- ing,” and in the evening on “He Neither Siambe: Bor Sleeps.” To-morrow evening Mr. Hepworth wiil give the toird of bis illustrated lectures on “The Holy Land.” These lectures are very interesting and instructive, The Rev. Mr, Vosburgh will preach at the usnal bour to-day in the Bergen Baptist church, Jersey City. In the evening he will baptize three recent con- veris, In the Church of the Messiah, this morning, the wev. W. R. Alger will preach avout ‘A Filial Conseions- 8 of God the Universal Need of man,” and this evening on “The Relation of Man to the Creatures Bo." Jow Him.” The afternoon service jn Grace church from this day forth will begin ot four P.M. Rev. Dr. Potter will preach as usual to-day. Iu the Christian Israelite church Catherine Schertz Will preach on her old subject this evening. Professor Rawson will speak belor the Society of Humantty this evening on “The Influence ot Religion on Patuting.” Rev. Dr. Washburn will preach in Calvary Protes- tant Episcopal church at the usual hours to-day. In 3t, Syephen's Protestant Episcopal church the Rev, A. B. Hart, rector, will olficiate this morning and afternoon, Dr. Basticgs will preach in Harlem Presbyterian + @bareh this evening. The Rov. Chauncey Giles will deliver his second lec- tere this evening in the Swedenborgian church on death and the resurrection, Subject—"The Death of the Soul” He will preach also in the morning as Osual, CHAT BY THE WAY, To the courageous difficulties are only new incen- tives; but to the tiniid they are impassable barriers, “Trust in Providence and keep your powder ary,” is re a te ee NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1877—QUADRUPLE SHEET. adapted to warlike times, In this slushy weather the Will, while another man when talking about matters of better rendering is “Trost in Providence and keep your feet dry.” In a great city like this how many lives there are which are— Like ships that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shor ‘There is nothing 1m the world more useless than a gilt edged Bible which bas been bought ior show and not for use. f When two angry men call each other fools the chances are that they are both speaking the truth. teu eat deal easier to look into your neighbor's character and examine it critically than to do the same thing with your own character, The logical faculty is a miracle, Itcan prove any- thing to be true which any one thinks ought to be true. In politics and in religion it runs parallel with our prejudices. There are a great many opinions which are based on the close and conclusive logical reasoning of which the folio 18 au example:— af the man who turatps cries, Cry not when bis tuther aies, Then *tw plain that he would rather Have o turnip than bis futher, When a boy is at bia pranks, or, in other words, when be is genuinely boyish, it avery bard tor the rheumatic father to remember that in the misty past he was himself © boy, and so be patient, It is easy enough to way petulantly that you never behaved so when you were young, but the trath is you have con- veniently forgotten all about it, Still, we confess, it is not always easy to bear with the practical jokes of a young fellow who is bubbling over with animul spirits, We can’t help just a single throb of sympathy with the victim of the following:—A man who was afraid of an earthquake—that is, afraid it would shake hia home to pieces—sent his boys down to a triend’s to remain until the Ganger bad passed, In the course of a week he got u letter to this affect: —**Pleuse take tne boys home and send down the earthquake instead.” 1t ta very pleasant and profitable as one goes through life to look for and enjoy those little sparkles of fun and wit which are easily found if you look for them, Smiles make life bappier and our burdens lighter. Never cry until you are compelied to, and even then the timo will come soon enough. We havo enjoyed this bit of experience every time tt has come to mind, Aclerk, toa young lady from the country who has bluntly askea for stockings instead of hose, “What number do you woar, Miss?” She iooked at him an ingtant with ineffable scorn and shon roplied, “1 wear two, sir, Do you think | am acentipede?” We have great sympathy for a clergyman who ofll- Clates at the funeral of a wealthy man who is a little “off colot Notto tell the trath scems cowardly, and to tell itis rumous, There is some reason In the sneer of awit who said, “Every rich man goes to heaven, if you can judge by what 1s said at his funeral.” We can hardly conceive of a more ridicu- lous or embarrassing situation than this:— An elegant drawiog room, filled with the rela- tives of the acparted and buildiog air castlog on the strength of his will, the afflictsd family in the front chamber, and the minister stand- ing balf way up stairs, staring at a white wall, and o: pected to speak so that all tn the house, up and down stairs, can hear, about the dead man as one of the saints of the earth, when everybody knows that he Just missed being everything that was bed. Poor ministers, they do not get money enough for the hard j 8 in my work they have to do, Is not this a little strong? Dr. Bellows thanked God the other night that Russian guns, English swords and American powder are likely to biet out the Turkish empire, He is in this dangerous state of excitement because some Turks have killed some Christians, That certainly is bad, but docs it mend matters for some Christians to kill some Turks? The Doctor seems to think that be Ia living in a tent near Sinal. “Put up your sword in its place,’’ is the command- ment. It wo are to pray about this matter, let us pray for arbitration, not for murder. We feared that Mr, Vanderbilt would not be allowed torlie quiet in bis grt He had hardly begun his Journey on the other side before certain Spiritual me- diums began to tap for him to come back at once and tell them how be felt and what he saw. Of course ho loft everything im order to rap with bis spiritual knuckles on some medium’s table, When asked how he was gotting on he intimated that although he left & good deal of money he was novertheless glad to come to the other side, as there wero certain advantages there which he could not enjoy here, When ques- tioned moro closely he said that be ‘could carry out his plans better, since he had nothing to hamper him.’” Plans, what plans? #iave they a Celestial Central Railroad, or an Interstellar Rapid Transit, or does he contemplate running Charon into bankruptcy by more commodious ferryboais on the River Styx? ‘What bampered him so when he wason the oarth? What plans has he that be wanted ta carry out und couldn't? Wedowish that medium would have an- other mild attack of catalepsy and explain all, Mr. Moody is having a season of triumph in Boston. The granite walls of tbe city’s doubt are crumbling be- fore the trumpet tones of the great evangelist, We have been wondering if anything can resist Moody and Sankey, but came to the conclusion that Boston was the only piace on the continent that had ico enough to cool of the singer and thepreacher. If, however, Bos- ton, with its memories of Theodore Parker and its love of German rationalism is subdued, and can sing “Hold the Fort,’’ then infidelity basn’t a corner on the conti- nent to hide its diminished bead in, and may os well y, ag did Julian just before he died, “Gaiilean, thou hast conquered,’’ and give up the ghost, ‘Town people can learn by reading, but others can be taught only by hard experience. Three men were standing by @ buzz saw which was going so rapidly that it didn't seem to be going at all. Number one said, “That saw is going very fast.”” Number two accepted the statement on the authority of his friend and was satisfied. Number three wanted to sec for himself Ho was not one of those people who receive anything at second hand. He wouldn’t believe anything until ho had proved it for himself. So be took hold of the saw, and in about two seconds ho saw that the saw had nearly sawed bis @and off. He afterwards contessed that tt is cheaper in the long run to take some things on faith, and that tho spirit of investigation may some- times be carried too far, As an illustration of this he held up his stump with the remark that it took just about two seconds to settle the question whether tho saw was guing or not, but that it was nearly four months before he got bis band out of a sling, and even then {t wasn’t worth much, Another clerical quarrel. Nothing cau digprove Christianity; but if anything could it would be the hot cheeks and hotter words and angrily flashing eyos of @ couple of gentlemen who wear white necktics and preach from tho text, “Let brotherly love cun- | tinue,” Mr, Sweetser shakes his fist in Mr, McCarthy's | face, and Mr. McCarthy doubles up the thunderbolts of the law and hurls them at bis antag. onist, They are not, os you might suppose, two little boys at play, who in a fever of excitement scratch cach other and then amicably go | on with the yame, They are not two dovs or cats who have come across tbe same bone and very naturally | use their claws and teeth as a jury of urbitration, | ‘Lhey ure two gentlemen of education, culture und ex- perience, who carry Bibles under their arms and visit their wicked parisiioners and teil them that they ought to forgive one another, Now, however, they show their teeth and snarl and bite and grow! a naturally as though they had juat stepped up from a quadrupedal condition and had not got used to the new lite. Haclergyman cannot keep his claws woll cut, in order that he may practise whut he preaches, it were bettor that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea The epitaph which « mutual friend had eut ona | tombstone over a married couple was simple, but | sadly suggestive: “Their warfare is accomplished.” Epitaphs are not generally written with even the most distant reference to the trath, but once io a while trath, like murder, will -out,”” Dr. Carry says he doesn’t “believe in weeping, sing- jpg and mesmeric preachers.” When a minister | weeps his people generally smile, Nothing is mor out of place thun for a man to cry or laugh at his own stories, As for the mesmorism, it is not confined to the evangolists against whom the Doctor directs his sarcasm. ‘There is too much of it in all our pulpits AS @ general rulo—and this criticistn is the result of lung experience—ministers preach as though 1! only half believed what they way. If a clorgymun should attempt to well dry goods or stocks with the indifferent tone of voice with which he tries to persuade sinners not to go to bell he would become vankrupt m a fortnight, There is more gonuine and hearty, enthusi- asm in a half bour of the Stock Exchange than there r of pulpit Ife, even it you wore to pile the puipits all together, We have nover yot found out why it is that a man who has a hore for sule can wax | compa: supremo importance, even about the difference be- tween eternal biiss aud eterual misery, keeps bis eyes fixed on his manuseript, talks without animation and has the general bearing of one who dian’t care « rusb- light which direction you took, If there isany place in the wide world where enthusiasm rightly belongs it 4s 1p tue Christian pulpit. REVIVAL NEWS. At the Central Methodist Episcopal chureh im this city a precious revival work is in progress, aud in- creasing in interest, The pastor, Rov. C. 8. Harrow bas been assisted during the week by Rev, Benjamin ‘MM. Adams und others, sir, Samucl Halstead, leader of the veteran New York Praying Band, 18 aiding Rev. J. M. Buckley in a good revival now in progress in Stam- ford, Conn, Thirty five more in addition to those previously reported have recently professed conver- sion and the interest increases daily. A very gracious revival is now in progress in Wosiey chapel, this city. A dozenor more bave already projessed faith in Christ Sixteen were at the altar lust Sabbath evening, and ® number of others rose for prayers in tne congregation, The converts’ stutis- tice at various points gathered from our latest exchanges are as follows:—At Westown, N, Y., 40; at Pvint Pleasant, 40; at Hatpesvurg, N.J., 50, and o meoting bas been commenced at Columbia; at South Mundy, Mich,, 60; at Bapksville, Pu, 90; ut High Prairie chapel, on Muscatine Circuit, lowa, 70; at Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church, Phila- Adelphia, 23; at Grace church, Philauelphia, 1 Richmond, Pa, 7; at Park avenue, 37; Front street, 32, and Memorial coureh, Puiladelphia, 20, At Montelal dN, J., 17 were received last Sunday, converts of tho proceding week ; at Lowiston, [il , 21; at Wilkinsburg, t Leech’s Corners, Erie Conferences, 105 bon, LiL, 45; on Cincinnati ¢harge, lowa, 27; ou Co- lumbia charge, Des Momes Couierence, 49. A very powertul revival is progressing in Sulem, Va., under the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Leo. Rosser, evangelist, who has seen 75 converts there within u couple ortoree weeks, bus gone to Big Lick, Roanoke county, Va., where he lubored with only partial success, owing to the great depth of suow on the ground and the dithiculty Of travel to rearh the church. He bas ji Fineustle, where nine converts greeted hi after the first day or two. In other paria of Virgin id Weat Virginia our exchunees repart 176 con’ ng aud auditions to the churches. The Asbury Park J.) Journal reports a gracious revival in St. Pau!’ ethodist Episcopal church ut that place. A large humber of young men have been umong the converts, In Tweaty-soventh street Methodist Episcopal church, this city, and in Thirtieth street church, where Mrs, Vau Cott has labored jor two or three weeks, over 300 persons bave been converted, Last Sunday evening seventy-tive persons presented themscives ut the ultur ag penitents, An cifurtis to be made to retain Mra, Van Cott w labor in this city during the rest of tho winter, Her engagements aro made usually one year abead, and her present engagement here was made by Mr. Corey im Fovruary, 1876, The Rev. A. C. Morehouse took in twenty-three sons on probation in West Eleventh street Met! Episcopal church on last. communion Sabbath, Three were received iuto full mombersbip ut the same time, Forty persons have recently united with the Metho- dist Episcopal church at Forestville, Baltimore Con- ference, At Media, Pa, seventy new members have been added; at Covenant, Keading, Pa, twentv-live have joined on probation. A revival is in progress ut Grove charge, Philudelphin Conterence, in which thirty have professed conversion; on Fulton circuit, game conference, sixty-one have 'uutted in full m bership aud twenty-Ave on probation, Over 100 per- sous have been reveived into full membership in Village Green Circuit, Philadelphia Conterence, und a new parsonage bas been built, ut a cost of $3,300. At Eust Newark Vulley charge forty conversions ure re- ported; at South Paris, Me, iilty have professed faith in Christ and the revival continues, ‘Tho interest is scurcely lees intense among the Pres- byterian churches throughout the land than umong the Methodist, but the former do not so systematically and regularly give the results to their people as the latter, ‘The Rey, KE. P, Hammond, evangelist, closea series of meotings in Nowbury port, Muss,, a few days ago, where upward of 500 persons protessed saving juith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Nowburyport: never had such a religious awakening since the days of Whuetleld, Mr. Hainmond bas gone to Terre Hatte, Ind., to labor jor a short poriod, In tho Presbyterian church ut Newton, N. J., last Sabbath, twenty-two per- sons wero received on profession of faith and a solemn pervades tho congregation. Several ihe Presbytery of Nowton have continued their meetings right along from the week of prayer, and with very marked success, At Branchville church, sixtoen were received just Sunday, and others expect to bs received at the Dext communion service, The interest continues, In the Chambers Presbyterian church, Philagelphia, there exists at the present time a deep interest on the sub- ject of personal salvation, Sixty auve been added on protession of faith during the last ten mouths, and twenty-eight Boa Luet Uctober the Rev. R. G. McCarthy, of San Francisco, assumed tho pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Windham, N. Y., and during the weck of prayer the Methodists ana Prosby- terians beld union services, which they have continued right along, the result being fiity conversions, Rev. J. N, Lewis commenced his labors with the Milton and Bagdad churches In the Presbytery of East Ala- bama in 1866, with ten members in both’ places. In 1868, the Milton people built and pa for a house of worship, da church wus organized with twenty-eight members. In 1873, a new church was built at Bagdad. Engbty-six persons bave been added to the churches on profession of their faith, and thirty-six by letter during the ten years. During that time the people Lave given about $23,000 to various church objects. The uccessions to the Second Presbyterian cuurch, Chicago—Dr. J. M. Gib- son, pastor—at the recent communion reached tho round number of cighty, S:xty-seven were on protes- sion of their faith, Nearly as many more who ure connected with the Sabbath schoovs of the church, give evidence of conversion, ‘Twenty-six were received at the First Presbyterian church, Chicago, Rev, Arthur Mitchell’s, and @ pumber have united ut the Railroad chapel supported by this congregation. In the Third interest churches in | Presbyterian church of thut city 161 were added to the membership at the last communion season, when for tho trst time in the bistory of the church the elements had to ve administered in the galieries as well ag in the body of the nouse to 1,250 persons. At the same time the Reunion chureh, Cni- cago, received vighteen, the Fourth Presbyterian chorch twenty-three, the Filth, at the commun:on preceding, twenty-one, the Sixth eigbty-two. A good state of interest is telt in tho Baptist church, at Northvilie, N. Y. Kev. J. G. Shrine, the pastor, baptized ning lately, and others aro expected to follow soon, The Rev. F. T. Cailhopper, of Flatbush, L. L, has received fourteeu by baptism lately, aod at Lulghs street Baptist church, in this city, juss Sabbath, the Rev, Dr. Knapp buptized eleven recent converts. At the First church, in Brooklyn, there is a very marked Teligious interest. Karly moruing mevtings ure held in the Pierrepont street edifice at uiue o'clock, continuing one hour, avd special services ulmost every evening. A number. of marked con- versions have occurred, and on Lord’s day evening, at the close of the sermon, seven believers were bap: tized by Rev. Dr. Thomas, in the presence of a crowded congregation, At ‘the Baptist church of Waveriy, 1. L, there ary tokens of great interest The Rev. G. KR. Harding expects to baptize a number of Tecent converts this evening. Some very interesting and fruitiul meetings huve lately teen beld by the church at Pine Pinus, N. Y., Re Ds asior, Over filty have been bopelully converte lwckport, N. Y., 8iXty persons have sought the Lo during the pase month have been couverted; ut Sanb ‘Tho Reading ( recent in the Schuylkill River, near Green Tree, Norristown, which barely escaped being a disaster, The Rev. Javob Gotwals, a Dunkirk minister, was baptizing — five cunverts at the pluce numed, where the current is ex- ingly swiftand strony, ‘The waier was extremely ihe Duvkard ceremonial differs im some re- spects from that of the Baptist. The converts enter # tively sallow portion of the water and kneel down, They are dipped three timex, immersed once in the numne of the Father, th onee in tho namo of the Holy Ghost. mersion the convert is given time to recover bre One of the novitintes in thie jut Indy. At rl When she entered the waver #he lost her balance, Mr. Gotwals is vot very strong, and was pretty thoroughly chilled, aud when he caught her he too was curried away. "A thrill or horror rau through the crowd as the paste and the lavy were about to be swept swiftly r the solid i Two gentiemen on the bank } d boldly 10, caught them apd saved them from their peril, Another lady, alter she bad emerged from te water, came wear tuintiog from the cold and ex. posure. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, ROMAN CATHOLIC, Archwologists have discovered an inscription in the Catacombs of Rome which proves conclusively that St. Peter was really im that city. This disposes of tho time-honored quarrel between Catholics and Protes- tants on this question. The Very Rev. G. H. Doane is about to have im- provements made in tho Cataedral of Newark, N. J., to insure salety in case of fire or panic. That the Pope does not spend his money foolishly is evident trom the statement, if true, that he has $32,C00 000 to his credit in the Bank of Italy, A retreat will be given in St, Anne’s church, Brook- lyn, by Rev. C. W. McKenna, 0. P., commencing to- day, Father O’Beirne, of St, John's church, Gowanus, Brooklyn, will celevrate the twenty-Mith anniversary of bis ordination on Thursday, After baving held successful missions in Auburn, Syracuse and Ithaca, N, Y., the Paulist Fathers will open one in the Church of the Epiphany, in this city (Rev. br. Burtsell, pastor) next Sunday, The Rev, Father Moriarty, of Chatham Four Cor- ners, baptizea five converts into his church, at Co- pake, N. Y., on Sunday, 2lst ult, Two of them are trom New York city, The Rev. M. J. G. Browne, of Syracuse, N. Y., has been appotnted to the parish of St. Hugh, Canada, Very Rey. Father Leray, of Vicksburg, has been elevated to the Bishopric of Natchitoches, La, Bisvop Foley, of Chicago, has coulirmed 6,000 per- sons in the course of Inst year, Kizht Rev, Abbot Martin has established an Indian Mission at Standing Rock, D, T. @loquent and actually make you buy against your The Pope hus outlived 114 of bis cardinals, five of whom died during the Bishop of Corcyra, and died recently at Hong Kong, China, whither be gone for the benefit of bis health, Archbishop Blanchet, of Oregon, is the oldest Cath- olic prelate in the United States, being now over eighty yeurs of age, but still active in ecclesiastical duties. Right Rev. Abbot immer, VU. 8. B., will shorty make a Visit to the house of bis Order, in Newark. Rev, Father McCallon, of Warren, BR. L, is going South on a health irip, Work 18 progressing favorably on the new cburch of the Redemptorist Fathers, on Tremont street, Boston. When completed it will be one of the largest churches in the archdiocese, Rov. Edward 3, eburch, Newourg Arkaosas for lin dinal McCloskey, RPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. Francia J, Clerc, D. D., hos resigned the Tectorship of Burlington College, New Jersey, to take elect Februury 15, The Kev, Dr. Urum has re- signed the churge of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn. The Kev. Culeb Dowe bas resigned the rector- ship of St. Joseph's church, St Joseph, La. The Reva, Dilion Lee, of Michigan, and J. W. Duvn, of south America, both of thein formerly of Louisiana, bave been visiting New Orleans latey. ‘fhe Kev. Mr. Artburston, of Cauada, bus also been there recuperat- joy Foe Rev. lnnes 0. Adams, deacon, bas been sent by the B.shop trom Pulestine to take charge of the imis- sion embracing Matagorda and Brazoria counties, Texas, the Rev. Emir Hamvasy bas accepted « call to “the rectorship of St. Stephen's church, Huntsville, The Rev. J. W. Doremus, of Nashotub Col: has been transtorréd to the diocese of Texas, he will be ordained priest at Galveston Murch LL. The Rev. C. H. Babcock, tor rly of Brookiyo, has within the past two pears very quietly revived aud built up an od and alinost delapidated parish in the South End of Boston. Tue reorgunized and wow active parish of St. Mark's bas just made this faithiul mis- slonary their recior and entered upon a carver of ueo- fulness, The Rev. Charica William Turner bas resigned the charge ot St. Jobu’s, Long Island City, and begua work as rector of >t, Matthew's, Brooklyn. ‘Tue health of Bishop Whitungham, of Maryland, ts measurably Improving. Kev, Samuel Earp, of Grand Rapids, Mich,, will tace charge of St Audrew’s church, Hurlem, N. ¥., oo April 8 prox. Mr. Eurp very nurrowly escuped veimg made Bishop of the Western Diocese os Michigan when the old diocese was divided. Grace church, Brooklyn, haga guild which during the pust your’ disbursed $2,768 80, together with 11,927 rations, twenty-two louds of wood, medicines and inedical attendance, clothing and ober uecessa- rigs to worthy poor of tbe parish aud neighborboud, Its receipts Were $301 ks than its disbursements, They ought to have beon more. It is a worthy orgaul- zation, doing a noble work, In the Episcopal Dioceso of Northern New Jersey the sularivs of tue rectors range trom $5,000 to $260 o year, there being one of each umount, Kleven receive the same suiary—$1,500 per year, ln the line of educsuonal institutions the Episco- palaue have St Stephen's, Hobart and Columbia qol- joges, With twenty-three members of faculties, live endowed projessorships, 203 studeu: 31,000 volumes in Huraries, $568,882' of grounds und buildings, $4,660,000 of productive tunds, yielding $213,000 of fucome; $43,872 of scholarships and $10,300 of tuition foes, Brady, pastor of St. Patrick's bas gone to the bot springs of Ith, with the permission of Car- Bart. The Baptist church at W pustor, Rev. C. jold, Mass,, bas given its C.K. Keyser, D. D., » vacation wll Muy 1 to resto: health, shattered in the church’s service, Through «xertions the church debt of $33,000 bas been provided for, Dr. Keyser 1s visiting friends in Philadelphia, ext Wednesday a Baptist church will be dedicated at Mayville, N. Y., by Rev. Fredorick Evans, of Frunk. hin, Yu Mr, Evans has r-cewed into bis own church during the month of January tifty-two persons, anu the Feligious interest continues there, ‘The Rev. E. A. Fravcis has been aiding Dr, Fulton, of Brooklyn, tor two or three weeks past, und » deep ‘re- ligious’ interest prevails in the Centennial Buptist church, where several have already proiessed saving faith 1m Christ, The Rev. G. W. Rogers received 200 coaverts into bis burch ut Dailus, Texas, during the pust y Nine Baptist associations in Kusiern Penosylvania eoutuin 251 churches and 34,759 membera, This gives & proportion Of one church to every 8,000 of the popu- Jativn aud 1 member to every 58 in the population of 2,046,180 in 2! counties, In 26 counties in tue central purt of the Stute4 associations contain 94 churches anda membership of 7,076, mot including Germun, Welsh und other churches not associuted, and which foot up 126 churches and 1,342 members, or 1 church to 49 members aud 1 Baptist church member to every S4 iohaditanis. in Wostern Pennsylvania. § associa. tions contain 169 churches and 15,194 members, be- #8 Which there are 5 otner Baptist churches in this rict which have ives ope Bup- Uist tw evory 61 and 1 church to every 6,622 ol the pop- ulation, The total Baptist church membership in the ‘State is 62,255 and churches 561. PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. C, A. Munroe, of New Orieans, La, with his wile, arrived ut Crystal springs, Miss, afew days since, and has entered upon his pastoral work at that Ace, ‘9 Rey. J. H. Colton and family, en roue from Indian ‘Territory to North Carvliva, ure visiting in the tamily of Rev. U. Newtou, New Orleans, La. y ot Dr. J. W. Moore, of Franklin strect Now Orleans, while ou Ark., ‘for pis health, bas thrown a great gloom r his lute charge. The death of the Rev. Charles H. Paysou bas ulso saddened the Memorial church of this city, of which he was pustor for seventeen years. He was cut off in the midst of usefulness aud in tho prime of life, at the uge of forty-iive years, by that dreaded disease pneumonia. ‘Tue Rey. KE. P, Hammond bus been invited tu labor at Terre Haute, Ind. The Rev. J. A. Wells has re- signed the pastorate of the Presoyterian church at Springville, N. Y., tu take effect April 1. The Itev. J. P. Stratton has also resign N.Y. another charge The Presbyterians at Canaseruga, N, Y., dedicated a new church ut that place last week. ‘The Presby- terians of Morris‘own, N. J. (Svuth street), ure about bo build 4 $40,008 church of stone of pressed brick, to replace one recently buraed, It will have a seating capacity for 800 persons. ‘Lhe Presbyterian churches at Barton, Moscow and Lonaconing, Md., have heretotore united in the sup- port of one pastor, who divided his them. But now the latter feels strong alone, aod bas called tho Rev. W. 6 M pastorate, The other two will bave anotuer pastor be- ween them, ‘The hougo of the Second Presbyterian church, Cleve- land, baving recently been buraed the church just week decided to rebuild, A new site bas been pur- chased for $35,000, aud the society bas $25,000 with which to start burlding operations. ihe Rev. 3. E. Wishard has resigued bis pastorate at Franklin, after five yeurs’ service, during which 200 new members were udded to the church. The cause of his leaving is that the church reduced bis salaly below the living po MKTHODIST. The Methodist bishops are visiting the Southern conlerences, Bishop Harris ope the Florida Con- ference ub Jacksunville on Wednerday last, On the same day Bishop ‘doy 4 opened the Arkansas Conier- ence at Fert Smuth. Bishop Ames will preside at we Virginia Conference, to be held at New River, Feb- ruary 21. Bishop Haven has reached Africa safely, and been heard from by lewer to the Christian Advocate. He presebed vo Sunday, December 17, just alter landing ut Monrovia, and the uext day opened the Liberia Con- Mf the Bishop coud muke connection with Town, South Africa, be would visit Cape Palmas, the Cuge of Good Hopo ‘and other places, and return thence 10 England and home. But if be sailed he would revurn eariier by way of Madeira and Knglaud to the United States, Dr. Frestoa Wood, premding elder of Bloomington Disirict Liinols Conierence, bas beeu confined to his house by sickness lor several weeks, Bishop Audrews is to preside at (he annual meeting of the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Mision ecburctes in Italy, to be held lu Rome, commencing March 7 Filly persons were on Christmas received inty full connection ab the ‘*Malliary”? Methodist Epis- hey church at Ro yr, Reid, of this city, spent Subbath last with the Fayetio street church, Baltimore, aiding in the mia- siwuary meetings. Dr. Dashiell, mivsionary secretary, asmisted the pastor, Kev. W. W. Clarke, in Twenty: seventh street church, im this city, and the result wus that lust Sunday they raised $850 for missions—a large advaneo on last year, putwithstanaing the hard times, ‘The Rev. W. C, Stecle, of Brooklyn, bas recoivea but declined w call to Chicago, Dr. J. M. King, of St. John's church, New York, will succeed Dr, Tiffany in cburch, Chicago, and Dr. Hatfeld, of Phila- its said 1s going to the same city wetead of coming to Brooklyn or New York, as was expected, Rev. J. F. Nessly, of the South Kansus Conterence, has been elected chaplain of the Kanvay State Senute Dr. Godman, who tas wen laboring in Philadelphia in behall of the Ireedinen, has been called back to New Orleans by the needs of the university of which he is President. \ During the time he has been there he has raised $3,500 tor the Freed: y 2,600 subscriptions for the Orphanage in Louisiana, Inuking @ total of $6,000 im four months, Dr. Rust has also gone South to Wok alter the interests of the Freedmen's Aid Society. ‘The Rev. J. H. Knowles, who has been laid aside for two years, bas now go far recovered health ax to bo able to take work from the New Jersey Coniercace in the spring. FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. THE DIETARY Laws, Rev. Dr. Mendes took for his subject yesterday morning one of the laws of the Pentateuch, which ts religiously observed by the Jews and which 1s thought of no account by the Gentiles, bat by the observance of which (Dr. Mendes warned his Gentile friends) they would be much benefited, Freedom and law, said the speaker, are two mighty elements that stand fest in our nature; but are pot Hberty and law opposed to euch | other? Does not liberty unbind, while law restricts? If it were go, then did Sinai destroy ali the Red Sea achieved, !t i# true there are crocds whose doctrines bave brought restraint rather than bat it has universally come to be that religious jaw apd religious liberty must go band in hand, just as the ai broathe, which is always quoted as the vr of freedom, 18 yet bound down by certain 8. e will turn now to an important clement of religious law found in Exodus xv. ‘And the Lord said If thou wilt dui gently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, und wilt do that which is right jn his sight, and wilt give our to bis commandments and Keep uli his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which 1 have brought upon the Kygyptians, for I am Lord that he thee.’’ Obedience to Moven’ law will cure freedom or comparative freedom from disease, What mod acienco has to say | voy oe ae Je Tori, on this fry rafied our theme to-day, | was gradually tastening round the throat of the | whole case, aud thus change the issue, enumerated tions that refer to the — of health, t ne welect those |; jood—so-ealled dietary lowly an act of life as eating, Bus F argument is used, the fact remains, Such anewere enucied; what could have induced them? ‘Thefe are two distinct reasons, One is a puysical on the avoidance @f whatever is unclean und detiied; | second, us the mere avoidance of what is bad is uot | enough, we must seck for what is good, we buve «physical and a moral reason. We hav Teady seen that true irecedom necessarily introduces An amount of wholesome restraint, These principles | re continually reierred to in the Pentateuch, Take marriage, for instance, The = marital | Union 18 encouraged, yet a restraint ts placed on =the = inter-murria; blood relutions und intermarriage among those of another fab, There ure « dozen other instances, all of which go to show the wisdom of restraiving our pavsions, The same idea is at the bottom of the tood laws. We read in Genesis that God guve the whole earth for man’s food; but yet, im order to guard against riotous living, He saw fit to pronounce His veto against certain artic cles of food, There ts the moral reason; now jor tne Physical reason, and that 1s one on which modern science hes much to say. Of all the instruments w man bas invented, the telescope and microscope bi t ausisted men to knowledge. We turn trom tie ions of the microscope with horror, The air he, the water we drink, the very flesh of the animals is Gilead with life. The very at- mosphere we breathe is the common bearer and diffuser of diweass and death, the gorins of disease are carried in the wir and repulsive insect life surrounds us on every aide. But how now shall we avoid these germs und’ insects? Disease and health are topics to which | have given a great deal of study, and | bere assert that 1t would be ditticult to devise a more periect waleguard against these evils than in rigorously ob- serving the Jewish laws of diet. First, | would stato the case of the insects that dwell in the flesh of maisand fish, Behold, they are the very anit: fish named tn these laws. Even the most carei mustadmit the advisability of proscribing those art cles of tood likely te be so tpfested, and it would be well lor our Gentile friends If State laws were passed proseribing certain lavorite articles of food. Our imtelligence teaches us to avoid as places of abode those spots tilled with miasma; but the animals have no such intuitions, und ure they not likely to bave these gerina in their bodies? Modern science tells us to-day that the common receptacle of these germs 1s the blood, and Moves wrote, 3,000 years ago, “Ouly the blood ye aba uot eu”? And thus Jews, in preparing their food, ren the blood as much as pos- sible, How terribly suggestive ts that verse in Pro- verbs, “He that guardeth’ bis mouth prexerveth his life, but he that openeth wide his lips prepareth bim- self tor destruction !"" And blessedibe the Almighty Boing, who, white He opons His hands and satisfies His creatures, is yet just aud merciful, THE CHURCH WAR. THE REV. MR. M'CARTHY RETORTS ON HIS ACCUSERS—REPELLING THE CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL, No. 223 Wrst Trurit steurt, New Youu Cir, Fob. 3, 1877, To Tox Epiton ov THe HERALD:— ‘The sentence of the Committee of ¥, 0. and D. of the New York State Convention of Universaliste, whieh appeared in tho Hexatp of the 2d inst, mis represents aud distorts my position and statements, Tne despouc und unlawful conduct of these modern star chambers is gradually becoming more known, and their deeds of infamy and shame are being ex- posed, The denomination has within it a cancor which, im the shape of an ecclesiastical ring, like a vampire is sucking 118 life blood. It ls not long since two of the wire pullers withia this quasi-religious machinery bad @ bitter quarrel. The one accused the other of packing a State Convention the tor purpose of bis expul- sion, The conflict continued until pobhtical phraseology and slang failed to supply the combatants with words suMficieptly vituperative. These men are leading ministers and ecclesiastical wire-pullers within the ring, and hence they are un- tried for their clerical misconduct. Within the limits of the charges brought against me the Board ot Trustees of one church would have been provea to have condoned a State rrison offence of their minister nd to bave allowed him after dismissal to enter upou the duties of a neighboring parish with his recent erime concealed trom the trustees of his new charge, The Board of ancther parish would have been proved guilty on solid evidence of misappropriation ot $2 which had been collected to build a church, In short, 1 was fully prepared to ret torth on trrefragable tosti- mony the truth of that sermou, which the New Yoru Heraup so well und 60 accurately reported, as preached by me in the Bleecker street church on the 80th of April, 1876, DEVELOPMENT OF TUB CASK. Dr, Fisher was the shrewdeat and coolest member of the court, who, daring its fourth session, suspended the genoral dritt of cross-examination. He began vo feel the toils gradually winding, not only round kis friend Mr. Sweetser, but also around the whole ac. bomipation, Fora moment he lost bis temper, and accused me of ‘*quibbling” atthe very instunt | bad convicted the chief witness for the prosecution of lying, and doing so in the teoth of his registered oath, T was then able to smile at the undignified personality and submit (as L did throughout tue trial) te the Court's ruling, ACCUSED OF CoNTEMPT. From the foregoing statements it will be seen that the Court wus driven to tne ulteruative of accusing me of contempt or allowing the trial to goon. My grip tire ecel tical faction, [t was then determined to choke ana stifle the trial, The reporters, who bad been ejected by Mr. Sweetser and the Court by @ preconcerted arrangement, and admitted with passes trom me, were busy as bees at work, [t wus, therefore, found that secresy w: impossible, It was seen alsu that the case for the prosecution was breaking down by the sheer force of the contradictions elicited through my cross-examiaa- tion, Nothing was left, therefore, but to abunt off the AN UNLAWFUL DEMAND, ‘This wasaccowplixied by 4 subterfuge, Another witness, a member of the Council of the State Conven- tou, presented himself, with a document which in iself is a curiosity. I present it in this place with the Signature which the owner requested | would o spoil, because | happened to subsutute “Kdward tor 10.77 wus required of me that I should sign this tilegal and one-sided document, | bud already iniormed the Court at the opening of the in- vestigation tnat 1 had prosecuted my traducer tor libel in the Supreme Court, ana the entire proceedings bad been up to this point, the close of the fourth ses- sion, couducted under a perfect knowledge of this tac! 1 had also secured a full bevy of New York report knowing that concealinent to me was death, and un open aud pablie court lite and Vindication, The Court and Mr. Sweetser—ench and all personal frienas and within the riug—unitodly tailed to eject the press. A reporter ot the Sun bad been, by the authority of Mr. Sweetser and the Chairman, sent away velore the trl commencod, thus showing a preconcerted ar- rangement between the court and the prosecutor, The tullowing is the document :— New Youk, Jun, 31, 1877. sto certify that the undersicued herev¥ agree and hut in the caro now being tried before tho C F. U. aud Dis. of the New York Stute Conve rsalixts in the church corner of Bloc streets in be city of New York, no chur of this or ation, LK DWIN C. SWEETSER. MY REFUSAL, I at once declined to attuch my signaturo to the nt. | propose to take the advice of my uble solicitor ou the que: and bis directions eutirely accorded with my Judgn He appended the fol- lowing opinion to the document :— LAWYR2'S OPLNIO: Dr. MeCarthy would be unwixe to sign anything like the With respect it Ie fvollah. and, iF shgned, would not ‘ ge or sult wt ‘any other State or 1 then pointed out to the court that tt could not in- sist upon any surrendering my privilege that the law of the State im which I resided gave to, wnd that to in- sist upon their demand woul! be also contravening the laws ul the Convention which constituted them un ‘The canon of in laid General Convention fur the instruction of the Court was as follows:— “Ht must be understood that in religious organizations of reference must always be hudto the re mal or Si The following draits a their present furm, only where + shall be found to permit, and with the that, in all other eaves, ‘they shail be y modifiea to cuuiorm tw what te State re- ‘The Court itself seemed ignorant of such an instruc- tion, and, alter considerable tumbling, some of its members found and admitted its existence, This in- struction of the Convention to ite Disesplive Commit. too establishes the fact that, in this respect, I cannot | bo truthfully judged in contempt, but the court 1s clearly ignorant of its itou ana 8 far guilty of unconstitutional proceed)! in attempting to override the law of the Moreover the demand itaelf, judged by honest men whose minds have not been tainted by the mal- ces of these Klar chumber committees, must on ty and one-sided, Tuink of a clergyman of rly thirty yours’ standing accused by # young minister only six or seven yours in the ministry of crimes involving the integrity and ve- racity of lis personal and ministerii character, All these charges being published and culminating in the odious crime of BLACKMAILING, further to aay, ‘the question of blackmail, the trustees x MLERCKER STRERT CHURCH to vilify my character after I left I ed them at law tor my salary, £ woula ask. Does « biack mailer entreat and implore that the question and claim in dispute be submited for Haul decisiun to tho society itself, and when @ society meeting is refused toa court of arbitration? 1, the charged black mailer in this instance, did make these offers, an’ IT was then wilung to lose the money and determined to let it go untii 1 found that im hupisterial charucver for iruthtuiners was attacked, document would been the Theo T pus ihe case into court and re fused every offer stort of the sum due accord. ing to coutract, t 1 ecopted thik and Fell Rot usa lavor but my part tuward the choren. iD act of grace on Io this #pirit it was ace cepted all round, Mr, Quentin MeAdam, under whose Jegal advice thig compromise was completed on the very eve of trial, was present, aid in the spirit of » true churchman and a good man, which | beheve bi to be, he sugested that the adverse pw should shake bands, romarkiog that was large enough’ for boll sides, und could allord to be cordial triends. And a act of grace on my part to save the Bleecker stroct | church trom exposure is the act of abiackmailer, whom. theso trustees affectionately greet with the band, but which the present Ciuirman of the Board confesses to be ay act of wiltul hypocrisy pertormed to please Mr. MoAdam. ity und partisan character of the Court is further evident the indecent haste manifested by every member of the court and tllus- trated in the statewent nude by Mr. Durling that no power should keep him in New York beyond Wednesday evening, Also io the unfair assistunce given to the prosecutor and Hewlett, the only witness examined, ‘he cause for the prosecution started on the assertion repeatedly given that I was dismixsed—o which Mr. Hewlett sustained in a variety of Much sothat the Court reprimanded tne for giving the question such variety of form, Bu ben I pace duced Mr. Mewiett’s registered oath thut 1 WAS NOT DINMIsa but left of my own voluntary action, Mr, er, momber of the Court, in whose debt I had beon a few dollars, and Who iw tho personal friend and relative of Hewiett, at oncu cried out, The witness should be protected by the Court,” There are many other Patong upon which | should have wished tv say a word, but space forbida 1 close by asking for justice from the public, a8 4 wronged and maliciously persecuted minister of religion, aud I veal trom the sentence of this star chamber Courtto the righteous judgment of a properly constituted court of law, 1 am yours truly, CHARLES P, MoCALTHY., AN HOUR WITH A MORMON PRIEST, * VISIT TO THE COLONY OF LATTER DAY SAINTS I@ WILLIAMSBURG—A PRIEST'S VIEW OF THB FUTURE OF MORMONISM—MORMON COLONIEA TO BE ESTABLISHED IN NEW YORE AaND OTHER CITIES, On the top floor of a large tenement house at No, 160 Grand street, Williamsburg, lives » bent and heavy bearded Englishman, with a bright-eyed wife,a few years bis junior, and @ couple of flaxen-haired little The apartments fre clean aud decent, althou, four persons occupy us living room, dormitory and parlor a space scarcely equal in cubical capacity te a respectable ball bedroom iu New York, This man, Henry Worthington by name, is the priest of the only Mormon orguaization tn the vicinity of this city, On the top oor of another tenement house of ¢ better class, at No. 92 Meserole nue, Greenpoint, lives one H. G. Bywater, a pressman by trade, with his wife and a pair of sunny-haired little seraphs of girls, ‘This mau is the presiding elder of the Mormon congre- gation mentioned ip the preceding paragraph. MEMOKRUIP AND PROSPXCTS OF THE WILLIAMSBORG MORMONS, ‘The organization has, Mr. Worthington states, from ninety to one hundred members, but is not nearly s¢ large as it bas been at different timos during the last few years, It has hada ductuating and irregular ex. istence of more than thirty years, Mr. Worthington, who acts as janitor, deacon &nd priest, combining three functions in one, has resided in this country twenty-nine years, in associution with this and other missions in this vicinity, most of which bave had a very ephemeral existence, The main cause of such Qn evanescence in Mormon congregations iu this ume proznising climate is not, as would naturally be ine ferred, to bé sought in any extremo unpopularity of Mormon doctrines, but in the tact that until recentiy it hus always been the ambition of every Mormon to Join the taithiul at Sult Lake City, and thas the moment 4 Mormon bere bas accumulated the favas esseutial to eungration be turns his eyes to soiling sun and hastens to associate himself the parent organization, where, if he has amassed & respectable property by transactions with the Gentiles, he has a prospect of ri 10 the world, and where, on the whole, the prejudices of the uneniight ened are less likely to occasion impertinent inquiries ay to the number of bis wives, There is telt, of course, aller these cimigrotions, 4 torlorn aud impecunioue Tomnant, who maintain the semblance of an vocies astical organization, and carry on the mission work with @ wild enthusiasm that’ compens: measure for their luck of intelligence and pecuni exources, 4 NEST OF SAINTS. It having been reported that measures were in prog- ress to establish 4 congregation of Lutter Day Saints 10 this city @ representative of the Haxatp visited the Mormon colony in Williamsburg and Greenpoimt yes- terday afternoon, with @ view to ascertain whether the report bad any foundation in fact, and, if so, to elicit sowe information as concerns such # radical ulteration of Mormou poley as would be implied in thus discoura- ging the emigration of wealthy saints, by founding Permanent local congregations in our larger clues, AS tho Saints court publicity the clew to their forges und Operations was ‘neither difficult to nor dillicult’ to follow, and our tative . wus svon stumbling up No, 160 Grand street, where, after blundert wroug door half adozen im id the mishaps ineident to exploring a catacomb, Mra Worthington was tinally jound. Her husband was out, but would be in 10 ball an bour and would bave no ob Jection to giving the required informution. ‘The patient Kgyptologist, who bas ever explored a whole pyramid to pro nummy, and bas at last stumbled upoa the sought-tor crypt only to find the mummy ge cun tmugine the depression of spirits that folio Vhese dismal tidings. The buiding is planned as ex- actly as possibie aller a Roman catacomb, The fires fight of stutrs points one way, the second apother, the third another and so on. The balls are manufs red with & view to secure the large with the smallest waste of distauce, at intervals besides with abrupt elevations and de pressions. Now you ascend two steps, thi descend two steps. Next you turn a corner a: two stops iu the dark; then you turn another corm and fail down two steps, with the possibility of butting your head against the door of a suit of apartment, und entering ou all fours unannounced’ This build- tog is species of Mormon colony, ad all the angles and elevations and depressions hi moral purpose, First, they serve to cultivate the beautiial residents of the establishment, to sobriety; for the man who would get intoxicated at the tmn t peril of ver icked up the next morning in the i with bis broken and turned. over to the Coroner mast be go lout to the moral turpitude of his conduct that Mr, Gibbs, of the American Temperance Union, could not save him, And such mea bave no ineligation to join @ Mormon colony. ACKOSS THK MARSHES In a very desperate called upon seven dil would be in in about A jaunt of tea minutes across a dreary level ot marshes, in con- tempiation of which trom the car window one wowen- wirily expects to see dead dogs jump up and run away, takes tue wayfarer from Williamsburg to Greenpoint, where our reporver sought the residence of Presiding Elder Bywater, who was out, Mrs, Bywater said, sus- piciously eyeing the tntruder, thut he would be in ia ubout half wn hour, or wt least im the course of the evening. Was not Mr, Bywater the presiding elder of the Williamsburg congregation? He was, Had Mrs. Bywater any objection to giving certain in- formation concerning the number, ceremonies and organization of the Saints here?’ Mrs. Bywater had no objeciiun, but the reporter had betor see Mr. Bywater, Profoundly dispirited our reporter rode musingly Across the marshes, and alighted at Grand street, Williainebary, trom @ car which was obviously ja- tended for the shippage of sardines, tare, aring a large ball of twine at an adjacent groce: y, he madi Joop in the free end, lussved the key of the stroet door and let the twine unravel as he traversed passage altor passuge; ascended, descended and ascended an turned aogles in one direction and anules 1 direction; until wt last, without serious accident, the top floor at No, 160 was attained. ‘THe PRIEST DIVCLGRS, Mr. Worthington was in, and pleasantly vol to give any information in bis possession, It ‘a thus @ specml emissary from Salt Luke City bas tor weeks beon quietly engaged tm irying to work up local congregations in New York, Brooklyn, Jorsey City and Newark. ‘Tis movement isa concerted one, and pro- oses the establishinent of permanent organizations of Patter Day Saints io all the leading cities of the Atian- tic States. Mr. Worthington preferred not to g! ame of this emissary, but volunteered the informa- tion that he bad succeeded veyond expectation, and that the day was not very far distant when the Latter Day Suints would constitute one of the most poteatial religious forces in the United States. In the propaga | ton of this movement the practice of polygamy ie | to be discouraged rather than advised, and tho tenete and doctrines of the Suints are to be modelled | Into @ creed that can readily be accepted by the ma | ane AB to the progress of the movement tn New | ‘York Mr. Worthington states that a considerable - ty virtue of patience in Second, they ¢ doing summoned bofore a court of his peors, and then adjudge ty of contempt because he refuses to ive @ guarantee and unconditional indemaitication to Nedoph abe and all witnesses called by bim they si! what thoy may say. In point of 1 requiring me to become particeps criminis in an aoe to evade the State law and tous offer a promium for libel, siander and the perpetration of malice and revenge. It will now be soon why the Court arbitrarily deter- Miued not to cali in a notary public and tke evidence on oath, ery aie bate te = ane ois been xc wo me jace of 80 1 an attempt defy the Siete law ss is conwined in this braseo that | ‘be responsible to no court or authority for | centage of the members of the congregation, in tamsburg, are residents of this city, while ve in Newark, a few in Jersey iad and oom 3 two ag Hoboken, |The subject of opening a place of worship | In Now York has been frequently discussed of late, but its establishment bas been postponed. Such ap Organization is on the tapis tor tl ng ert, however, and wi!l be pressed with on shou! be added that the services io Will which | take place every Sunday, at threo P, M., e large in ul | hal at No. 176 Grand street, bave no pevuler Joatures th tinguish them from religious Services as Come | queted by otner denominations, Prayer, reading from the Mormon Scriptures, singing, a 1 for tho relation of and @ benediction, constitate the regular order oa y