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6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1877—QUINTUPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements-— Chat by the Way. Worship—A Lay Sermon. Synagogue PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. In St. Stephen’s Protestant Episcopal Church to-day the Rev. A, B. Hart will officiat In the South Baptist Church the Ker will preach this morning, and the Re the evening and every evening during this week. The Rev. J. Stanford Holme, D. D., will preach in the Tabernacle Baptist Church at the usual hours to- @ay. On Thursday evening tho precognition services of Rev, Robert B. Hull, pastor elect, will be held. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sunday school of the West Twenty-third Street Presbyterian Church will De opened this evening by Drs. Prime, Hitchcock, ‘White and others delivering addresses, Dr, White will in the morning. “Slander” will be discussed this evening by Rev. Car.os Martyn in Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church. Mr. Martyn will preach in the morning also. Revs. A. Colville and George A. Sparks will occupy the pulpit of Seventeenth Street Methodist Episcopal (Church at the usual bours to-day, Dr. Talmage will speak in the Brooklyn Tabernacle thie morning ‘‘To the Men of Wall Street,”’ and in the evening will talk about **Common Sense in Religion.” Revs, Jobn Williams and John Broad will occupy the pulpit of Embury Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, this morning and evening. The Rev. S. J. Knapp, having accepted the pas- torate of Stanton Street Baptist Church, will preach there on and after May 6. Rev. P. Freeman will preach there to-day. Dr, W. N. Dunnell will proach in All Saints’ Prot- stant Episcopal Church to-day at the usual hours, “The sins of Good Men’ will be pointed oat this morning by the Rev. Fred Bell to the Brooklyn Academy congregation. ‘What Shall We Do With the Devil??? will be asked and answered in the evening. ‘The Spiritualiste will hold a conference in Harvard Rooms this afternoon, Mrs. Brigham and Dr. Mans- field will entertain others at Republican Hall, At Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Charch the Rov. W. F. Brush will preach this morning and evening. A “Gospel Meeting,” conducted by Layman Samuel Ralstead, leader, will be held in Thirty-seventh Street Methoaist Episcopal Church this morning and evening. “A Call to Duty’? will be issued this morning in Chickering Hall by Rev. Samuel Colcord. ‘‘Wonder- ful Love’? will be discussed by him in the afternoon, The Brooklyn Sunday School Union will meot in the Second Presbyterian church, Ciinton street and Ful- ton, to-morrow evening. “The Rich Man and Lazarus” will be considered by Rey. E. C. Sweetser this morning, in Bleecker Street Universalist church. The Rev. R, H. Pullman will preach there in the evening. “The Great White Thorno’’ will be described by Dr. Tyng, Jr., thia evening, for the Church of the Holy ‘Trinity. Preaching tn the morning also. In Calvary Baptist Church the Rev. R. A. McArthur ‘will preach to-day at the usual hours, Easter services will be continued to-day in the Church of the Advent, On Wednesday evening Dr. Eccleston, of Staten Island, will give an illustrated lecture on ‘‘Westminster Abbey”? in this church. Dr. Deems will preach to-day at the usual hours in the Church of the Strangers. The Rev. E. 8S. Widdemer will minister this morning and evening to the Free Episcopal Church of the Re- conciliation, Rev. N. L. Rowell will preach this morning and svening in the Free Baptist Church, “Jesus Evernally Young’ and “Soul Humanities” will be considered to-day by Rev. vr. Armitage, the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. The Ri Wilham T. Sabine will preach this morn- Ing and evening in the First Reformed Episcopal Cburch. The Rev. Leon Pons will minister to the French Episcopal Church du St. Esprit this morning and evening. “Faitbfal in Little, Faithful in Much” and “The Rich Fool” will occupy the Rev. J. S. Kennard’s thoughts this morning and evening before Grace Bap- bist Charch. The Rev. William Lioyd will tell the Madison Ave- nue Reformed Church this morning “What We Preach,” and in the evening will describe *‘The Mid- Right Struggle by the Brook.” In the Pilgrim Baptist Church the Rev. H. W. Knapp, D. D., will preach morning and evening. “The Disunion and tbe Union of the Christian Church” will be discussed by the Rev. George Howell ‘bis morning in the Second Reformed Episcopal bhurch. The Rev. J. D. Herr will preach morning and even- Ing in the Central Baptist Cbarch. The Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach in Sixth Aver Reformed Dutch Church this evening and will admin- Ister the Lord’s Supper in the morning. The Rev. S. J. Knapp will preach in Laight Street Baptist Church this morning and evening. 1n Spring Street Presbyterian Church the Rev, A. H. Moment will preach this morning on “‘Christ’s Great Appeal”? and in the evening will lecture about “A Man Secking a Wile.” The Rev. H.S. E, Pratt will preach in St Mark’s Protestant Episcopal Church this morning and Dr, Henry C. Potter this evening. Dr. Ewer will preach in St. Ignatius’ Protestant Epis- eopal Church this evening on “True Godliness,”” In the American Free Church this morning the Rev. B. P. McCarthy will preach about ‘Christ’s Resurree- Mon; a Matter of Fact, not Faith,” and in the evening bn “Marder, Suicide and Thereafter.”” In the Swodenborgian Church the Rev. Chauncey Giles will preach this morning on “The Rehabilitation of a Dosolate Soul.” The Rev. William R, Alger will speak to the Church of the Messiah this morning on ‘Justice to the World, or the Law of Victory in the Battle of Life.” In the evening ho will discuss the question, “Is There To Be a General Resurrection of tne Dead or Not?” The Rey. Mr. Alligen will preach in the Church ot the Disciplos this morning, and Dr, Ray Palmer in the evening. Dr. Newton, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Anthon Memorial Church this morning, and to children in tho afternoon, The Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach in the evening, giving ‘‘A Natural View of the Lite to Come.”” A council of Baptist chorches will mect at tne ‘Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, next Thursday afternoon, to admit Rev. Emory J, Haynes to the ministry in that denomination. The ordination end installation services will be held in the samo eburch in ths evening. Sermon by Dr. Armita; ‘The recognition services of Rev RK. B. Hull, late of | Lockport, N. Y., will be held in the Tabernacle Baptist Charch of this city, of which church Mr, Hull now be- comes the pastor, next Sunday evening. Sermon by Rev, H. M. Saunders, of Yonkers, The American Terperance Union, in mass meeting in Cooper Union Hall this afternoon, will be aadressea wy George W. Bungay, J. A. C, Pollock and others, Mrs, Pollock will furnish music, CHAT BY THE WAY. Justice is about the only thing which some men are raid of. W. R. Maul in If you are asked to take ‘“‘su’thing’’ the best thing | © you can do is to accept the invitation aud take a walk, Mr, Frothingham has just written a book in which he provos conclusively that the New Testament is | wrong and that nothing olse ‘s right. Joseph Cook has made the rash assertion that the Scepticism of Boston 18 not scholarly, When Boston proposed to ‘put a head” on him for the assertion ho replied, “Any bead but your own.” How we pity the young minister who got his lips | and tooth and tongue 0 inextricably twisted with em. Dbarrassment that he gave out as his text, ‘vo men gather thorps of grains or thigs of fisties?” The conscientiously obstinato man is tho hardest Man in the world to get on with, When he comes to you, looks you straight in the face with bis mild bive | of Him, your condition may be an inexpressibly sad one, but you area dvomed man, If you don’t believe that hovesty is the best policy, the dificuity 1s not so much with the logic of the prop- osition as with your own prejudices, If you will only try it once you will surprise your friends and learn something new, If you would take life easily, the following recipe is a good one:—Six grains of opium just before retiring to rest. ‘The Methodists are still determined to sit with closed doors. They'll not dare to ventilate their ideas for fear they should all take coid. In this beautiful season wi ‘Spring has risen from ber recumbent position in the lap of Winter and is just beginaing to go alone the favorite text of tho ladies is “Blessed Are the Dressmakers.’ His eyes flashed when bi }d to his wife—‘Do you know I have been grossly insulted? jgbbor Jones called me a har,” She lifted her arms from the tub over which she had been bending in the attitude of dovotion, and in a shrill, p! Ing voice cried— “Callea you a liar! Why didn’t you resent it, and make him prove it?” He suddenly took a seat, as though life had grown too heavy to bear, and an- swered—"That’s just the trouble, my dear. He did prove it.’? Moral—Don’t challenge a man to tell the truth, However unaccustomed he may be to that sort of thing, he may surprise himself and you by doing it When a man leaves our side and goes to the other side he 1s a traitor, and we always felt that there was a subtle something wrong about bim. But when a man leaves the other side and comes over to us then he 1s ® man of great moral courage, and we always felt that he had sterling stuff in bim. If you have a good character you bad better keep away trom those who have none. However much you may bave you haven't any more than enough for yourself, and the chances are that un! you are very careful you will have a bard time in holding on to what you’ve got, A great many people who have not yet arrived at the age of discretion have fully reached the age of discussion, They argue just for the sake of being on the other side. They are a kind of buman brier, and will tear the clothes and skin of any one who goes too near them, They would rather go to the other place and have a controversy than stay in heaven and keep till, It really does not always follow, as you might sup- pose it would, that because a man differs with you in opinion ho is therelore wrong and possibly a dolt. We can see the inalienable right of every man to adopt our judgments, but we reserve for ourselves “the sacred right of rebellion’? when we are asked to yield to some one else, To write our own names with a small “i”? is not only indicative of slender education, but it constitutes a herculean task In moral phi- losophy which very few have succeeded in accom- plishing. Unhappy marriages are described by an ill-natured celibate, who boasts of an ‘*M. D.,’? as diseases, which assume the character of ‘tie-tuss.”” There are some men who have so carefully traincd their seifishness that they could at once select tho biggest apple in the pile, even if their eyes were blind- folded. Here is a bit of human nature, and very encouraging it is, too. ‘*Arn’t you going to save ono of those Peaches for your hittle brother?” He replied, with Christian severity of temper, “Ob, yes, I don’t want to be mean. I’ve saved the rotten one for Tommy.” The position of the clergyman ts so difficult that ne can hardly hope for any great success until he learns how to assume a ‘*kneesy attitnde,”” The charu: of science is that it can solve all problems and satisfy all curiosity, The great question of the age is what becomes of all tho pins that are lost? Did you ever try to conceive the number of these useful and cheap articles that drop from dresses and neckties every year? Arithmetic itself is power- less to answer the question ana drops her pencil in despair, for decimals would give out if the attempt were made, But what arithmetic cannot do natural science can do with case, What becomes of the pins? My dear, said Darwin, they all go Into our mother earth below; There their development begins, And ending they are terra-pins. Tho aificulty with Mr. Moody in Boston is that the people will never forgive him for bis first utterance in the Tabernacle. He said that the human nature of Boston people was just like that of the peoyle of Chi- cago or Philadelphia or any other place, It was cer- tainly a shocking utterance, and, if true, should have been ,couched in milder terms than a plain and brusque statement of the fact, A great many people would have allowed themselves to be converted if Mr. Moody had only admitted that Boston certainly isa very pecullar place. There are somo little gems of poetry which cling to our memories whether wo will or no, We find our- selves repoating or singing them at oda times and in odd places. These two verses by Hood are like the sighing of the wind in the ti when the sun is set- ting, and aro better than many a sermon. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave ot life Kept heaving to aud fro, Gur very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; ‘Wo thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she die There is in a Western city what bas been aptly called a Mourning Reform Association. Its object is not so much to reform the mourners, howover desirable that might be, but only to reform the methods by whicn the public are accustomed to express their grief. Funerals, as at present conducted, are so expensive that it is, in the plain language of the original Celts, much asa man’s life is worth to die. It is the most ruinous thing he can do for himself or his family. It $s proposed, therefore, to abolish the deep black and introduce only those milder tints which are found in every dry goods store in the ‘mitigated mourning”’ department, Theso goods are partly white and partly biack, ana in we: ing them the widuw is prepared for any emergency which this enlightened and progressive age can pro- duce. If any ono calls to express sympathy, there is black enough in the costume to make the remarks quite appropriate; and if, on the other hand, a gay cavalier calls, there is white enough to keep the black from dampening bis ardor. This association proposes to look facts in the face, and intends by its projected reform to mako @ reconstruction of the family both easy and speedy. Shakespeare is triumphant at last, and the funeral baked meats will coldly serve thé mar- riage table, A BRIEF LAY SERMON, To tax Evttor ov tas HeRaLD:— For as I passed by and bebeld your devotions I found an altar with ‘this inscription, To the Unknown God; whom therefore, yr ignorantly worship, Him deelui Acts xvii Every one must be struck with the significant in- scription which Paul found upon that altar which bad been erected as an act of worsbip “fo the Unknown God.” How many are there since the days of Paul to whom this inscription would have been equally applicable tor the altar in their hearts, but who, on the contrary, insist that they know bim well—as a Power, a Force, a Cause; nothing more? They bestow the least possi- bie portion of time daily (if even daily) in a search for His possible character and nature, His unbounded power and love, Ot! course we may hore expoct the sceptic to say, What do you know aboyt Him more than we? To this we can reply, Both you and I will know more about Him if we will control our wilis, impress our minds with a suitable humility, to enavle » receive the influence of his Spirit, ¢ from a power which guides the planets as they roll, and become even thereby convinced that He is not a God of evil, Communing thus by our spirit with His spirit—tor spiritual things must be “spirit ually discerned”—we shail approach to a knowledge This influence never fats to maniicst itself re (he human soul actuaily desires 118 reception and is im a receptive state, and in the ways pointeu out by Him—viz., by 1aith and reliance, even up to an uiter abnegation ot sell. Now as this is the only mode by which, as is imed by His followers, that this influence and con- govduess aud Jove can teach us, it wiil not do for sceptics to ignote this proces# upon the sole ground of (heir opinions that it is not so, they having never | placed themselves in a receptive position to His influ- ence, and consequently have not the rigut of a nega- live upon a proposition which (hey arc incompetent tw juage, if one attempts the study of music or the | lutiguages be Is of course expecied to puss through the Tudimental stages, He must come in contact with the quavers avd semui-quavers, and with the rules of syn- tax and prosody, So with spiriiual, metaphysical matters; 1 one professing to be at ali versed in such MaLlors insist Upon the necessity of any rudimentary steps ox being requisite for an udvaneement therein it will not do for the sceptic to insist upon a positive de- niul of the useiuiuess or the necessity of pursuing that course until he shall have given a lair (rial thereto, And in the mode pointed out by the one who protesses any knowledge thereot. eye, and says, “I have prayed over this matter, and reve came to tho conclusion that you must give in,” | Tn this bumble method (it seems to me) we must Proceed If we hop9 or desire any favor in our progress, sequent HMpression metaphysieally of Lis unvouuded | One of the wisest sayii which I ever heard, and whieb is attribuced toa Chinese philosopher, wi “The wise map isthe man who knows what he docs not know,’” WM. COVENTRY H. WADDELL, A STATEN ISLANDER'S HEAVEN. To Tux Epiton or TH® Hematp:— Asso many sermons on heaven are being preached of late declaring that heaven is a place filled with sensuous good things, and speaking of it as though it re more of a place than a state of the soul or spirit, is may be of interest to your readers to ba differ- ent view, but one which does not exciude the trutn in the popular vi The first and perhaps the only essential point which is revealed by the Scriptures concerning heaven is this—that, whatever the bappi- ness of heaven may be, the enjoyment of it can be only so far as there 1s preparation for it in the soul of man, not the senses, The kingdom of God is not meat in ‘the happi- always by our Saviour indicated by a word which expresses spiritual activity, yet rests in lov infinity, Itas the word hile, and ‘what is this life which 1s heaven? Why, eternal Ife, What is eternal fe? It is, says tho Scriptures, “to know thee, the only true God, and "to have the soul tilled with the love of God and the spirit of Christ. The life of beaven is not mere outward enjoyinent nor mere sensual rest, The life of hoa life than that of sense. Tho reason terial symbols were used by the inspired writers view of the life of heaven seems to be be- lowest pl could they ral symools t aroused. They learn lessons of love and duty, then they are born intothe spiritual life. They gradually enter into the meaning of these symbols ang ideutity a heaven with the purest thoughts and the vest alfec- tol that they can cherish and their concep- tions of heaven grow with their character. Before heaven was to them merely a glorious lace ; they increase in spirituality i becomes less aplace nod more a state, Perhaps heaven is dif ferent to every soul. Here we live in the body; we live in the spirit—or | may say, perhaps, tl vout alroady live there in spirit. The believer in is often on the seaot gi fountain of living wate leaves of the trees that rit He olten drinks of the re forthe healing of the na- tions, It been asked by those who have been taught only oWill we know ) AC cording to my view, ts the higher state of being; earth the world of groeser substance. Here a person is limitea by want of love for much that is good and trac—there only by what Christ 18 to hi It this is a true view, then the spiritual knowledge which we have of each other here we shall have in he . Through the bumility ot infinite ove heaven 48 Open to every believer. God took upon Himeelf the ature of map, the form of a servant of servants, and through Carist, whose shed blood makes us spirits born of God, set free {rom self which Ininits love—love that makes twain one—we and the glorious Trinity, our higher life is hid in heaven, R. JAMES, New Brighton, 8. L MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. PRESBYTERIAN, ‘The Rev. H. Lancashire, of Malta, N. Y., has gone to a pastoral at New Preston, Conn. Rev. L. W. Bill- ington bas removed from All ny to Scotsville, N. Y., and Rev. H. Wickes from Rochester to Aldea, N. The Rey, C. R, Clarke has removed his pastorate at Le Roy, N. ¥. Seven Chinamen have recently become converts to Christianity, and three have uvited with Dr, Crosby’s church, in this city. They wore converted in the mis- sion at No, 527 Pear! street, whicn is now sustained by the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church. ‘The Rev. E. P. Marvin has resigned his pastorate of the Second Ward Presbyterian Church of Lockport, N.Y. The Rev. Albert F. Lyle has resigned the pastorate of the West Presbyterian Church at Utica, N. Y., and the Rey. W. D. McKinley that of the church at Castile, N.Y. Tho Rev. William Young, of Joy, N. Y., bas accepted acall to the church at Fairville, Wayne couoty. The Rey. Francis V. Warren, late of North East, Pa., bas removed to Angelica, N. Y. Dr. W. Aikman, formerly of this city, bas accopted a.call to the Presbyterian Church at Aurora, N. Y., and Rev. L. J. Sawyer, of Oriskany, has accepted one to Weitesboro, N, Y. The Rev. R. Barlow ’of this city will succeed Mr, Sawyer at Oriskany. The Rev. Thomas Crowther has resigned the pastor- ate of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, Brookiyn, located near Prospect Park, and has accepted a call to the First Church, Eastern District, where he will be installed next Thursday evening. The Rev. 0. B, Bidwell, of the Presbytery of New York, bas accepted a unanimous call to the Westmin- ster Presbyterian Church, Jersey City Heights, where he has been lavoring with gre: iccess und uccept- ance as stated supply fur nearly a year past. Meantine tue membership of the church has more than doubled, and the prospects of its {uture growth are of the best. On the last Sabbath io March, Di lmudge received forty-six new members to tho Tabernacle Church, Brooklyn, making in all 1,111 since the dedication of the new Tabernacic three years ago. It is now one of the largest of tive Jarge Presbyterian churches in the United States, **Death and tne devil are its chief hin- drances.’? ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Catholic Total Abstinence Union, heretofore pub- lisbed montbly as the organ of Catholic temperance, has commemorated the Laster testival by uppearing asa weekly, ina neatattiro and with an excellent bill of tary ‘The echo! question, which has been for a long time « bone of contention between tho Catnolics and Prot- estunts at St. John, N. B,, bas been satistactorily set- Ued by passing the Catholic schovls into the hands of the school trustees oj tuat city, whe will treat them hereafter us they do ail theother common schools. The Christian Brotuers are strongly opposed to this, but the Bishop has settled it. Very Rev. Vicar General J, M. Bruyere, of the dio- cese of London, Canada, has been raised to the dignity of a Koman prelate with the titie of Monsignor. The Kev. . Beresiord, recently ordaied at Over- brook, Pu., has been rtationed at Audonrei assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s Church. The venerable Arch op of Toronto has signified his desire for a coudjutor. ‘The proportion ot Koman Catholics to Protestants in Iroland is nearly three and a balt to une. ¢ Right Rev, Jobn Loughlin, Bishop of Brooklyn, bas determined that the long suspended work on the new cathedral building sali be umed this spring. ‘Tue structure was commenced ten years ago. It has been finisved to the first floor only, The edrjce, which will be one of the finest in America, will cust upward of a million dollars. Right Rev. Bishop Conroy, of Albany, will sail for Rome in a tew weeks, Kight Rev, Bishop McNierney will also sail for tho same aestination, Arcibishop Wood, of Philadelphia, will sail tor Rome on the 26tu inst, to be present on the Pope’s tiftieth Episcopal anni- versary. ‘The Very Kev, Father Henneast, V. G., of Detroit, has been for some time very sick im St. Mury’s Hos- p.tal, in thateity, but he is now slowly recovering. He bas been unubie to perform any cieri¢al duty what- ever. Very Rev. James Rolando, Visitor of the Gongre- gation of the Mission, has just returned to St Vin- cent’s, Germantown, Philadelphia, alter an extended Visitation to the houses of bis congregation in the West. ‘Tho Brothers ot the Christian Schools possess two important establishments in Egypt, one at Alexandria, the other at Cairo, ‘Tho Catholics of Auatralia have sent 1,000 marks to the diocese of Culm tor the reliet of the priests, whose salaries have been stopped by the Prussimn govern- ment The Catholic Review very pertinently remarks on Easter music:—“There Were too many Curholic churches in America ov last Sunday wuere the cou- duct of the orgau masters aud choir directors was reprehensible in almost the last degree, It might be well to remember tuat fa a Catholic church the altar and not the organ ix the centre of Cathoric worship, Qud that with an organ and choir it is possible to oul- rage 4s well as to hupor the altar, Rev. P, McGovern, pastor of 31, Josepn’s Church, Keyport, N.J., is recovering from an attack of pueu- monia, BAPTIST. The National Baptist sums up the number of ditions to patronizing churches since February 15 at 1,380. In Gethsemane Church, Puiludelphia, 65 were Added during the fiscal year just closed. ‘The Baptist churches of Brookiyn have added 140 to their member- ship during the mouth of March; those of New York, 97. A. 8. Burrows, a Methodist minister of few ys Sianding, has becume a Baptist, und last Sabbath evening was immersed by Dr. D. Henry Miller, of Greonpoint. br. Miller bimgelt was origin- ally a Methodist, Per contra, ue Rev. c. F. Huil, lately Baptist pastor at Marine: Harvor, 8. 1, bas turned Methodist, and last Monday was received oD trial in the Newark Conterence, The Rev. G. D, Knox has resigned at Bethel, Cam- bria county, Pa. ‘ine Rev. D. W. Sniggart also has re- signed at Mount Pleasant Church, Corsica, a, alter SIX years’ pastoraie, The Rev, 1. W. Brooks, a colored man, is passed around by tbe deacons of the Beulats Baptist Church, Alexandria, Va., as a forger wud swindler—collecting moneys in thei pame vp forged levers, Pass hin along. Toe Warren (Pa.) Baptist Church have called to their pastorate the hey, E, F. Crane, ot Little Falls, N. Y., who wiil enter ou lis work there Muy 1. Salary $1,000. Mr. Crane gives up a sulary of $1,600 1m his present parish for this. The Rev, W, Va an Meter has issued another letter missive, in which he deciares that two of his missions will not be avundoned-—the Vatican and the Frascati. ‘Ybo Rev. Dr. Tayiur will assume the entire responsi. bility of the toriner and the Kev. Mr. Piggott the lat- ter, Mr. Van Meter will return to America to raise money for rent and salaries of the teachers, In ‘the Greenwvod Baptist Church, Brooklyn, the Rev. Corl Damm, who, alter laboring two years as missonary umong the Germans of South Brooklyn, Was examined vy a council on Thursday, will be or- dained this afternoon and installed pastor of the church which he has gathered. The Key. . Maurer, a Lutheran minister at New | pleaded ( Utrecht, L. 1, has turned Baptist and resigned his charge. He, together with a few of bis former mem- bers, will shortly be immersed, and a Baptist Church be organized im that village. CONGREGATIONAL. Rev. J. L. Jenkins, of Amherst, has been called to the Second Congregational Church of Bridgeport, Cenn. Salary, $4,000, A good many have been looking in this direction, and the congregation have been a good many months in making up their mind. Rev. Addison F. Foster, of the First Church in Chel- sea, iscalied to the First Church in Jersey City, and bus accepted, There are 3,509 Congregational churches, with 350,658 members in the United States and 3,333 minis ters. In 1576 20,884 were added on prolession of faith and 12,400 by letter, There were 10,466 adult and 5,388 infant baptisms. The benevolent contributions re- ported were $1,278,252, and the expenditures were $2,584,166, There was a gain of 71 churches, anda large iocrease in membership, The jucrease in minis- ters was pot in |g pon to the increase in churches. The Rev. E. M. Pomeroy has resigned his pastorate of the First Congregational Church, Springeid, Mass, which he bas held three years. Rov. Dr. John Waddington, visiting Cairo, writes to the London papers that religious persecution goes on in Egypt, the Protestant missionaries being impeded by offictal action. The Khedive thinks secular edaca- tion snould be given to the Coptic children, and when they grow up they should select @ religion for them- selves. Two New England Congregational churches of strength and standing are repurted as refused to call to their permanent pastorates two prominent members of the senior class at Andover, Mass., because they used tobacco, ‘The two young ministers, to gain tne pulpits, threw away their ‘weeds,’ and now aro bappy. Rev. H. H. Waite, M, A., late pastor of the First Con- gregational’ Church in Hopkinton, N. Y., bas received @ ubauvimous call to the Secona Congregational Church of Jersey City. ‘Tis young church, which is eligibly situated on the Heights, is adding continually to its strength, and promises in time to become one of the most useful and flourishing churches in the city. The Kev. Samuel Colcord’s Chickering Hall preachin; services bave now been in progress six months. Wit nO congregation to start with, ar. Colcord, aided b; an undenominational committee, leased the large nail, secured a choras, choir and inaugurated the services that have inet with such remarkable success, He now preaches every Sunday toa cougregation that is large in the mornings, and which at the afternoon service com- pletety fills and often overflows the large hall, capable of seating 2,000, Hundreas of non-cuurch goers nave been attracted to the services by visiting committees and other methods of work, and large numbers have protessed conversion, METHODIST. The Brooklyn branch of the Women’s Foreign Mis- sionary Society sustuins in part the girls’ schools at Pavapore, India and educates three orphan girly in Barciily and one in Mexico. And this at the expendi- ture of $690 19 last ycar raisea by collections in soven- teen churches, The Northern Methodists in Atlanta, Ga, are build- ing a new and costly chapel in that city, which will be dedicated during the summer snd 1 which they hope to makea new Sturt, They are yet weak und under the Southern ban there, Sacramento, Cal., has tour Methodist churches to one each of tho Presbyterians, Congregationulisis, Episcopalians, Catholic and old and anew Lutherans, ‘The pulpits of all these churches are filled. The great work in Messian Metbodist Episcopal Church, Philadeiphia, continues. The church bas suc- ceeded in paying off nearly $3,000 of the church di About 200 recent converts bave been added to in First sethodist Episcopal Churcn, Yonkers, Since the organization of a Methodist church in Bos- ton, in 1791, vy Jesse Lee, the organization has so in- creased thas it now comprises o New England States 125,000 members, 1,900 mil rs, 500 churches, worth six or seven million dollars, 130.900 Sab school schol: libraries containing 100,00u books, 12 academies and colleges. EPISCOPALIAN, The vestry of St, Paul’s Church, Petersburg, Va., have granted a two months’ leave of absence to t rector, Rev. Dr. Haines, to en him to recuperate. The Rev. Robert White, late of Wytheville, Va., will supply the pulpit in the interim, ‘Tue Rev. James, B. Murray, of Dansville, N. Y., bas just been divinely doctored by the trustees of St. John’s College, ark. Calvary Chapel, in East Twenty-third street, was erected in 1873, 1t has now a congregation of upward of 1,000 persons, of which 450 ure communica: ny bas a voluntary choir of forty persons, and it sustains a woman's benevolent society, a iree reading room and Organizations of young men abd children for literary and pleasure purposes. 1t has two missionary soci ties which labor among the poor of the neignborbood. Quictly and unosteutatiously, but nevertheless alth- fully and seasovably, the Anthon Memortal Church of this city, with its rector, Rev, R. Heber Newton, is doing a good work, not only spiritually but tempo- rally, in its sphere. Its relief society expended last year $2,000 to aid 9,000 needy persons. Its sewing s0- ciety made and gave away 300 garmenis, besides a large quantity of old clothes. From its bread and beef houses weekly ratio! re issued to the needy, enough at a time for one weok’s subsistence. And thus 23,000 pounds ot food were distributed during the yeur, besides which the hungry call every day at its diet kitchen and got something to cat and drink. It has also an industrial school, a dispensary, an employ- meant bureau, a workingmen’s club and a committee to provide fresh air and recreation tor its poor during the sultry summer months; and as a consequence of this “doiug good’? the church services are crowded every Sabbah and much spiritual prosperity is seen. Rev. Edward Wilson, pastor ot St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church, New Brunswick, bas withdrawn from the cburch and joined the Reformed Episcopal denomination. ‘The Rev. J W. Kaye has become assistantat St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore, tho Kev. J. KE. Grammar, rector. Tue Rev, Samuel Earp, late of Grand Rapids, Mich., will begin bis pastorate with St. Andrew’s Courch, Harlem, to-day. * The Ketormed Episcopalians of New York and vicin- ity now count nine churches, and rejoice in signs of sveady growth, They have just takeu steps jor the erection of a “Synod of New York,” and will prob- aoly elect Mr. Sabine to the bishopric, MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Peter E. Kipp has been called to the pas- torate of the ee td idee! East Relormed Church, of Bediord av., Brooklyn, and will acewpt. The Rev. W. H, Gleason will be installed pastor of the First Reformed Church, Newark, N. J., on the 19th i e Rev, W. H. Phraner’s sickness has resulted jn mental derang 1, and | ast week he was convey€d from Sing Sing, his home, to tho asylum at Pougn- keopsic. His insapity 18, however, of a mild form, and hopes of his recovery are entertained. A party of orthodox Protestants in Prussia are mov- ing for the appointinent of a national day of fasung, bumilr and prayer, and Novemver 1 is named as a duy ly to be acceptable to all classes and creeds, f must have the sanction of law, bow to give it lorce. CHRISTIAN AND JEW. SERMON BY DR. GOTTHIEL ON THE INJUSTICE DONE 10 THE JEWS BY CHRISTIANS—BLOODY SHIRT THEOLOGY. Dr. Gowtbiel addressed a largo audience at Temple Emanuel yesterday morning, on the subject of the injustice done the Jews by Christians, He began his discourse by saying:—We have just read the story of the embassy which Moses sent to Palestine for the purpose of searching the land and examining its de- fences, The report was a disbeartening one, but it was not @ correct one. The scriptural record bas Stamped it as calumnious, and thus it reads:—-‘And the men brought up an evil report of the land,” This description of the land appears to mo peculiarly instructive, We all admit the wick- edness of slander when directed against an individual, we all brand the mau who uses that weapon as base and coutempuple. While we condemn the sin in indi- viauals, we are strangely careless and feel no compunc- tious in dealing with the good name of nations. We are apt, When we seo an ungenerous sentiment, to ascribe it to this or that gect. We have come in fora very lurge share of that wholesale und sweeping con- demnution, “The Jews.” Wo know bow much malig- bity 18 Sometiines expressed in that single word. When one i taken to task about such sweeping condemoation be suys:—"Well, we did hot mean you; we spoke Of people in gen- era”? That which i tue of the whole must be true ol its component purts, aud that which is vot true of every ind.vidual 18 not true of the whole aud ig a slander, Now, 1 wonder whether this ethical truth, sv simple and fo plitu to the least reflective mind, Was present to the clergymen who, OM the last ler Sunday, connected us tv the supposed event hich (hey thea commemorated, The least of Easter is (he central point o. Christian worsuip, aud it is but natural that the Christians should celebrate i with their highest efforts in ornamentaion and music and oratory, Whatever our opinions may ve tu regard (0 (he historical and philosophical pos sibility of the resurrection, we would always treat its celebration with the ‘utmost respect, seeing toat it has sunk so deeply into the bears of mithions and millions of our ieiiow beings, and the Easter chimes would ring out to our ears vuly the of grateiul souls were it not that with the chimes tail on out the dark mutteriogs of scorn invective which we joudly hoped had died away the uays of darkness aud persecution, The Easter chimes were the death knell of Wuudreds of thousands of unoflending Jews, and the ideatical words heard in this city infuriated tue mobs and set them hike wild vousts on the detonceless Jews to oiler « Holocaust of human being od of mercy and compassion, One preacher spoke of “Hebrew butrod,” notot the hatred of some Hebrews, and said all the Pharis niet Ub Pharisees are the spirnual fathers of the Jews gugue, Whom we hold im great reverence—T Whole sect was characterized by selfishness and invin- civle hatred of Wwe pew teacuer.’’ That geutieman might bave looked trom his puipit to this house and asked himselt whetuer he Would have the courage to suy bere Wuat te said there, Where no one could ruise a Vorwe in our defence, That 1s the diflerence between slanderiag a body aed ap individual, Lu avother in order to prove that judicial murder w which needs uo proof at ail, our (athers were painted about us black as Words would permit, and the chimax was finaly reached when it was said that tho “red iow’? was Bot wiped [roi the souls of the ehiuren of Abraham, That is to say, we—all of us—are still pur- wucd and accursed lor adeed 1m wich we had no share; in which tho nation kad no share, BLOODY SIURT THROLOGY, Tho ery uttered by the debased men who gloated in an execution 18 laid to our door in (01s nineteenth cen- tury, 1D # country whose prosperity wo helped to | burid up, bat from whose political ranks we have wisely kept aloof, Ot all thuse whose words | vould scun there was not ono who could try to do a little jus- tuce, Was there no mitigation? Suppose a man darkness and ignorance of the times, and where, then, is even if noth: ng ergy oot and forgive- , where that boas! com| ness? Seeing, then, with jound regret, that the old spirit iw’ not yet laid at rest, it becomes our duty to our deparied ancestors, our duty to our own dignity and religion, and 1 will say tt becomes our duty to our country, to speak again and again of these things, and do our Least to meke truth and justice gain a final victory over theological fanaticism. We must do our best to banish the bioody shirt theul —I know of no other name for it—out of the recotlections of men. | shall, there- fore, in these lectures consider several subjects bear- ing upon this general theme; pot—God knows it and is my witness—in any sp: of vindictiveness or self-rightcousness, bat simply in a spirit of duty und responsibility that is laid on me. There are two things I will mention in conclu-ton, One is, I think that words such as have been beard in this city and, we may say, througbout the cities of Christen- dom, ought to make our young and vid men think aod pause a little when they busy themselves in belittling our aucestors and charging them with barbaritics and crimes which they never were guilty of. Iu the sec- ond place, | do not wish you to understand that I wish to make accusations against bodies of men. On the contrary, the true spirit ofJudaism 18 this:—Moses: conjured his people, **Vo not oppress a servant, for ye were servants yourselves,’’ tn his spirit, never be guilty of talse accusations, the bitter stings of which you nave felt in your own hearts, Let your feeling of humiliation only have this effect—that it shows you the wickedness of such sin. VETERAN PASTORS AND MINISTERS. There must be some recuperating influence in the ministerial profession wheroby the days of the clergy aro prolonged. A few days ago a venerable Presbyte- rian pastor retired from the charge of the Presbyterian Church at Hackensack, where he bad ministered for forty years. Another, twenty years preceding, had beon im other pastorates, aud now, at the age of four score and five yeurs, he retires, full of days and honors, The Presbytery of Jersey City, of which the venerable Father Ammerman t consented to his Fetirement, But the marvel ot @ 1s surpassed by that of bis ability to do pastoral work at such an ogo, aud to proach with acceptaace to a cultured congrega- tion in this quiet suburb of the great metropolis, Sixty years |s a ronnd, full life of ministerial servico to which any man may be pleased to look back. Another venerable pastor retired also last Sabbath at Geneseo, N. Y. (the Rev. Dr. Sprague), at the ripo age of seventy-six. He, too, is a Vresbyterian, and bas spent nearly ftty-tour years in the ministry. Eight years ago, when he was sixty-eight years old, he was called to the church trom which he now retires, The membership of the church bas neariy doubled during that time uuder his pastorate. His previous ministerial lite had been spent in New Jerscy. The Rev, Mr, Kittridge will succeed the venerable Dr, Sprague, He will receive a salary of $1,700 a year fine parsonage und grouuds. The retiring till remarkably vigorous in mind and body, and his discourses ure aid to be as instructive and fresh as over. But the Presbyterians have not a monopoly of ven- ule pastors. The Rev. Dr. Bouton, of the First Con- gregational Cuurch, iu Concord, . has just com- memorated tho titty-second anuiversary of bis ordina: tion to the ministry. His pastorate of over balf a cou. tury bas been pest with this church, which he still rt with ability and much acceptance, And yet there are two Congregutioual ministers in New Hamp- saire Who bave been longer in tho ministry than Ur, Bouton. They arethe Kev. Abel Manning, of Gotta. town, who has been nearly fiity-seven ycars, and tne Rev. Liba Conant, of Bristol, who nas been fifty-four years a preucher of the gospel. ,. In the Methodist Church too there 18 Dr. Lovick Pierce of the Church South, now in his ninety-third Year, seventy of which he has spent inthe ministry, though tor somo years past he has not preached very frequently afd bas not vad a pastorate. But he writes vigorous articles fur the >outhern Methodist press, and 18 gatd to preach with as much mental vim und tresh- ness as he did in the prime of lite. In tus city, too, Dr. Daniel DeVinve, now in the eighty-fitth year of nis age, is able to write very pleasant reminiscences of Dearly sixty-seven years ot ministerial service, He does not preach much now, and has not bad a pastorate tor several years past, These examples of ministerial and pastoral lon- gevity are worthy the consideration of young men who wish to live Jong and enjoy the best of both worlds. There ara elements of value in the profession that counterbalance any pecuniary losses that it may entail, and not the least of these is the probability of a long and uselul lie. THE CANADIAN PILGRIMS, The Committee of the Canadian Pilgrims announce that the number who have already applied to pe en- roiled for the pilgrimages from Canada and the United States is sufficient to justify them in securing the en- Ure passenger accommodation of the steamship City of Brussels, While the steamer has first class accommo- dations for 170 persons the committee, in order to avoid the inconvenience of too large a party, have de- termined to limit the total number to 100. They state that Cardinal McCloskey, who has givea the committee expressions of his cordial good wishes for the success of the pilgrimage, will offer the mass for the pilgrims at St, Patrick’s Catbedral, corner of Mulberry and Prince streets, at eight o’ciock on the morn- tog of the ist ef April (the steamer sailing at noon), and the Benedictio Peregrinorum, sccording to the Roman Ritual, will be given. An extract from a letter from the reverend spiritual director of the Canadian pilgrimage says:—*'l have just received from the Holy Father fucu:ties to say mass and hear confession in favor of the pligtims from our starting from New York till our return, and the sane faculties are extended to every priest who accompanies the pilgrimage.”” The committee bave made favorable arrangements with the proprietors of the St, Nicholas Hotel for their suitable accommodation during their stay in New York, and would suggest that the pilgrims from the United States avail themselves of those ar- rangements. THE GENERAL OF THE JESUITS. A WORD OF TRUTH, To tas Epitor or THx HERALD Repeatedly various reports bave appoared relative to the Very Rev. Peter Beckx, General of the Society ot Jesus, Those reports are of so curious and so con- tradiciory a nature that they cannot be permitted to pass unnoticed. One attributes to him a settled plan of attempting on his own part to restore the Pope’s temporal power, while another makes him desirous of securing tho tiara for himself, &c. ‘the above assertions reveal cither a vast amount of ignorance or a vast amount of lying. For the world kuows that the Rey. Father Beckx 1s a foebie octogenarian, living in a secluded corner of the giobe, preparing himeelf tor his last home, praying lor his enemies, sorrowing over th to of aflairs in Italy and the spoliation und ais- persion of many ot bis children, As for his ambitious schemes, where 18 the Well-iniormed man who can credit them when it 1s remembered that according to the constitution of the “Order of the Jesuits” none ot its membere are allowed to axpire to ecclesiastical dignities, and if proflered to him he is required to do ail 19 bis power tu avoid them? ONE WHO KNOWS, THE A, O. H. The following !s the full text of the address to the people of the United States, unanimously adopted at the Nationa! Convention of the Ancient Order of Hiber- uians:— Whereas, For some time a stigma or cloud has rested over the Ancient Order of Hibernians on account of troubles existing in certain portions of Penosyivania, the onvention deems it necessary to lurnisn tor your cwrefui consideration a true staement ia regard to that cloud or stigma, As’ au organization the Ancient Order of ivernians exists throughout the length and Urendth of this country, and bas a very large mem. versiip. The Order, throughout the whole country, seeimg the necessity of having it placed 1 ite proper = light betore the American people, bas been careful in sciecting from the various States delegates to this Convention having the esteem and confidence of the peuple, ‘The doings of that Convention are published, clesriy showing that the order does not recogvize avy connection with any other orgapization whatever, and particularly with that terrible band of misguided mon that have committed such crimes 10 Pepnsyivania, Enemies of our order exist Who are ever ready to cast owum on our people. A searching investigation Was justituted by the national olficers ana the State oflicers of Pennsylvania vo ais cover Hany covacction existed between thembees of our society and tho Molly Muguires, Suid officers, iu their Wwisdoin and as evidence of their uetermination 0 en- force our constitution, Which usgaided aud uniortun- aie men had violaied, cut of from all connection with Our organizauion the following named counties:— Sehuyikill, Carbon, Columbia and Northumber- land. In’ doing +o they were satistied a great number of good men would suffer tor tho mis. deeds of a fow ungovernable ones, But the character ol the organization was involved, and goou men from all tions were demanding the expulsion ot those uided ones, Wo have enucavored, revising our cunstitution, to remove every cause of an objectionable nature, so 48 to make out rules in barmouy with the teachings of our Hoy Cuuren, Io woing this the convention looked to the elevation of | the rish race, We ure awaro that in this country, lent orgauiza- F people in sickness s beuevolence aud Where our race 18 so numerous, bi tious ure & necessity to care lor or want. Uur organization, by the influence 1 exercises in uniting vur people, should be commended, If qudividual mem. bers err. or commit crimes the sociwiy should not be hold responsible, as such members are summarily expelied, The end for which we are labor- ing 1s to Unite lor benevolent purposes our race and J, apd Wo varbestly desire the escouragement of inisters of ou We hope that the exphiit staten ve all existing prejus dices, and that the Anci of Hibernians, tnd vidually or as body, Wil never im futuro turuish @ item ior the press which will cause 4 blush of shamo to mantle the cheek of the most exalted of our race or croed. BOARD OF EXCISE, Last week tho Exci ¢ Commissioners granted forty- one applications for licenses and received the sum of $1,810, Tho whole number granted up to date is | 6,524, and tho total amount received was }290,641 75, ‘OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE NEW YORE STATE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS AND THEIR VIEWS UPON THE BUBJECT OF EDUCATION—MUST THE EXAM- INERS BE EXAMINED?—A UNIFICATION OF OUB DUAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM REQUIRED. The late discussions at Albany by the New York State Association of School Commissioners and City Superintendents bas again brought the question of pub. lic education prominently before the people of tnis State Yiu these discussions some exceedingly im- portant points had been touched as to the moral value of education and the effect of school training iv politics, Touching these matters it has beer found, upon inquiry, that there is but one wish among the great mass of the people; that is that po pains or expense should be spared to make the present school system in this State one in every way adequate to the wants of tho situa. tion. How this may best be affected, the people be- heve, is a matter for the State Board of Education and the Legislature to determine. The system it at present stands, although not so good as that of severa! other States that could be named, has thus far done good service to the youtth of both sexes who have partici. pated in its benefits; but it 18 claimed that the time bas now arrived for taking such steps as will crown the edifice of our State educational structure and ren- dor it equal to the task of training up the rising gen~ eration to a Ievol with the enlightenment and civiliza- tion of this age, ‘As to the vexed question of reading the Bible in the schools, itis one which bas very properly becn left in the hands of district trustees. It 1s atbing which is subject to no general rule and is placed entirely in the management of local boards. Thus it happens now that while in some districts the Bible 1s read in others the contrary rule prevails. In magt school districts of this city the Bible 1s authorized to be road, but in some of them itis not. Nothing can be fairer than for each district to be governed by the decision of its own trustecs. ‘WHO SHALL RXAMINE THE RXAMINERS? Unfortunately ainong us the public servant is like a gypsy’s pack horse, he 1s loaded to the ground with ali sorts of useless trumpery, aud abused because he 18 unable to inake much progress. But his want of progressive power should rather be attributed to the evils of a wrong *ystem than to any disinclination on his part to move on, Aad tho school examiners, like other ofticials ip this city, como 1D for their own share of public dissatisfaction if they fail, as they must, in discharging their onerous duties so as to please every- boay. The following letter, which comes frome one of the dissatisfied, speaks pretty plainly in asking who are to be responsibie tor the ability of the School Ex- aminers to do their duty :— To tx Epiton or THe Henao :— In there any provision made In our “admirable school system"? for the examination of our “school examiners?” If so the time bas come. it would seem, to call tor plication, So-called cami have lately place in certain of oui PI (to bring these exer. to the stupi cw ve approximated the natury of a far Kot at tho ““bottom fucks" you ms in Nene gen or tl re th no reflex of the st or, indeed, of the actual occurre! 1. a4 some of she ‘principals’! cau testify. The peop! inasmuch as they pay these gentlemen, are int ia the manner in which their duties sce periormed. Again £ ask, Woo shall examine the “examiuers SUPERINTENDENT KIDDLE’S VIEWS, Mr. Henry Kiddie, City Superintendent ot Schools had his attention called yesterday to tue context of the ve communication. He dia not know how to treat it. The names of the genticmen who have positions under Mr, Kiddie, are:—Mesers. (homas F. urrisoe Superintendent of ‘amar Schools; Norman a Cuikins, First Assistant Superintendent of Primare Schools ang Primary Department, Willlam Jones..0% sistant Superintendent; Joun Jasper, Jr., Asersvant Superintendent; Arthur McMullen, sistant Super: Intendent; Alexander J. dSchei int Super+ intendent, All these gentlemen are men whose edu. cational qualifications have never been called im question, They ure liberally educated, having been eituer professors of some branch of learning oF rind. pals ot grammur schools, They have served diffe periods, trom twelve to thirty yei or inore, in tl department of education in this city, and in what way they require to bo themselves examined it is diidcust to conceive, ‘THR DISTRICT SYSTEM. On ttre general subject of the New York school sys tem Mr. Kiddle said, in substance, that we still res tho old method of organizing by districts In ¢ other States, particularly througnout New Engla the orgat ons by towns is the method and th! found to work very well. a Hoo, Neil Gilmour, State Superimtendens of Public lustruction, has some time ago generally recom. mended the change in New York. Tae great difficuity in our State system is the inefficiency of County Come missioners, These offic'als have tho licensing of teachers, a duty, which }s in many respects the most important performed by any officers connected with the school system. It 18 obvious that tho standard of scholarsbip and efliciency in touchers employed in the districts must depend entirely on tho requiremenu asked tor tn licensing them. These Cominissions who wield the great power of licensing toachers art elected by public vote. They aro not, in many caseg persons who havo acquired a good ed; times they are by no means educated men. It 1 be remembered in connection with this fact that small out of the way districts want to obtain teachers at a low rate of compensation; and in this manner very imperfectly. preparec teachers are often employed in district schools. The result is that we | consider. ably the fraits of our normai school sy: normal school graduates being crowded out by persone who are without any previous professional pre] tion. The State Superintendent has recommended the fixing of a proper standard of qualifications for the Schooi Commissionors, in order to remedy this evil: THE TEXT ROOK QUESTION. The proposition to {ix the timits of tne school age— avery wise one—at six insteud of five years, as lore merly 1p the State, and to make the city Jaw in thie respect the same as that of tne State, which would raige the miuimum age of pupils attending schouls in New York trom four to six years, and thus very greatly relieve many of our overcrowded primary depart- ments, The matter of the diversity iu text bovks ts regulated by the district trustees. It would not bes good plan for the State Commissioners, as was suggested, to prepare text books and restrict the schovls to one set of them only; such a scheme would climinate competition with regard to the character ot the books to be selected and their intrinsic value with respect tothe muoger or getting them up, as well as their literary merit. This proposition involving the adoption of any particular set of text vooks tor the State was thoroughly condemned last week at Albany. A DOUBLE HEADER. In New York we have a uouvle system of education; & primary, which is under the superintendence of th Board of Regents of the University aud « secondary (t common school system), that 1s directed by the Sao Superintendeut, The visible want of unity between these two systems juterferes in some measure with their eficiency. A State Board ot Kdeation, properly constituted, would be preferable. The continued want of unity im our double systems of instruction must bave the natural effect of reudering the schools ferior to thoso of other States. ‘The normal high schools and collegesshould all be brought together and A proper rejation established between them, as 10 case in the State of Michigan and some other place: THE PRICE OF MILK. New York, April 5, 1877. To THE Epitor or TH HeraLp ‘There appears to be some agitation about the price ob milk. Now, the price of milk directly concerns every man, woman and child in the city of New York. Ii your child or yourself are sick you are apt to send for the doctor, and he at onco trics to ascertain the cause, Now, then, it {s our duty to ascertain the cause of the high price of milk. ‘The real cause of ite being one cont higher than it should bo is, that the milk dealers are paying to tho railroads the evormous price of one and a half cents per quart for bringing milk 100 miles ‘and Joss, In all the coutroversy that bas been going on in regard to the price of milk tvere appears to be no notice taken of the extortion of the ratroads, I call iL extortion because, in comparison to the price of other freight, it 1s nothing else. Before the war the freight ou inilk for the same distance was ono-halt per quart, und then the railroads considered itabout the best paying lreight they could carry, They havo 1 igure up until, about twelve or got it Oxed at the enormous now’ is, Sixty cents for forty quarts of milk, igh (can included) about one hundred pounds ion over. The companies will carry a barrel of sugar (weighing three times the weight of a c: of milk) from New York to Chicago jor about thirty-seven and halt cents, Now that you have commenced to agitate the high price of miik in your valuabie paper | would like very much to have you de Justice to tbe mikinen by using the influence of your iHuential paper agaimat the exorbitant freignt charged by the railruad companies. By doing this you wii) not only help the milkmen to reduce their price stil) Jower-to the consumers but you will be doing the pav- ie a favor which they shouid have had done them some years ago, as the railroad companics have been thriving on the public’s necessity and greatly to the milkinun’s disadvantage, Very respectiully, un admirer of justice, EK A. MOORE. TEMPERANCE WARFARE. The war on Staten Island betweon the temperance People on one side and tho liquor dealers on the other is being waged with great bitterness and determina tion, Mr, Munday, a iawyer employed in beball of j the Temperanco Alliance of Westiold, was arrested | and taken before Justice Garrett, at Stapleton, yestor: day, on a chargo of conspiracy in cansing suits ty bu in stituted against the diflerent liquor dealers ia, toa town. He was held in $1,000 bai, Im retaliation fot the arrest of tho Rey, Mr. Opdyke, of the Methodist Chureh, at Pottenvilie, and Mr. Munday, it is said that 4 number of the hquor dealers and some of the Deputy Shorilts of that town will be arrested and arraigued o8 charges of misdemeanor and perjury, and it is further understood thay several geutiemen im the town will subscribe $100 och to delend Mr, Ops of the Temperance ‘Alliances oe eee