The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1877, Page 15

~ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial Movements— Chat By the Way. ‘ Synagogue Worship—The Presby- terian Assembly. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. | ———_+—__—_. “The Reaction ef a Church Upon Its Pastor” will be get forth this morning by Rev. Carlos Martyn, and “The Prodigals of To-day” in the evening, in the Thirty~ fourth street Reformed Church. 2 Jn tne Twenty-third etreet Presbyterian Church the Rev. &. N. Whito, D. D., will preach at the usual hours to-day, “The Providence of God” and ‘Religion and Busi- | ness’’ will bo considered by Rev. Rebert B. Huil tn the ‘Tebernacie Baptist Church to-day. Spectal services wil! be held in the New York Pres- | Dbyterian Church to-day. The Rev. W. W. Page will Preach his annual sermon in the morning, and Rev, Joseph R. Kerr and other ministers will deirver ad- dresses in the ning. The usual services, with rermons, will be conducted | to-day by Dr, Ewer tn St. ignatius’ Protestant Episco- pal Charch. In Spring street Presbyterian Church the Rov. A. H. Moment will preach this morning, and the Rey. J. D. Wilson this evehing. brs, Van Nost and Hutton wi!l occupy the pulpit of Sixth Avenuc Reformed Church to-day. ‘Toles morning and afternoon the Rev. A. B. Hart will pfticiate and preach for St. Stephen's Protestant® Epis- tonal Charch. “Growth in Grace,” in Stanton atreet Baptist Charch, will be encouraged this morning by Rev. 3. J. Knapp. Preaching in the evening also, Kev. Drs, Scudder and Siicor will address the Sun- day Schooi Cuion of Brooklyn-to-morrow evening, at the Second Presbyterian Church, in Clinton, aear Ful- ton street. “Godliness” will occupy the Rev, G. 8. Plumle; thought this morning, and “Abrabam 1a Egypt” this evening, in the North Dutch Uhurch, “The Rev. James Waters will preaco in Laight Street Baptist Church this moruing and evening. The Rev. Mu H. Pogson, of St. Louis, will preach this morning in the Pilgrim Baptist Church, and in the @vening anniversary services will be held. . “The Crucial Test’? wiil be made by Rev, William Lloyd this morning, and in the evqning che Madison Avenue Reformed Church will be required to answer “What Will You Do with Jesus?” H, W, Brown, evangelist, and W. W. Bentley, singer, will jowtly carry on services to-day in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Seventh avenue, In Grace Baptist Church the Rev. J. Spencer Ken- Bard will preach at the asual hours to-day. In the Free Baptist Church the Rev, M. RB. Barnitz, Sanday school secretary, will prexch this morning, and Rey. x. L. Rowell in the evening. At the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, tho Rev. Fred Bell will criticise ‘‘Angols and Their Work” in the morning, and in the evening will put “A Personal Question” to each of his hearers,” é At Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Chureb the Rev. J. &. Searles will advocate “God's Life Insurance Policy”’ this evening. At Wasbington Square Methodist Episcopal Church the Ret, J. M. King will speak about “Tho Asconsion of Christ’? this morning and about “Mediation” this evening. A Spiritualist Conference will be held! at Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening, when Mrs. Herns ‘Will entertam the audience. Mrs. Nellie Brigham will do the entertaining for another society at No, 55 West Thirty-third street, The Rev. W. N. Dunnell will officiate end preach in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal Church to-day at the ‘usual hours, “ 4 * “The Temptation” and ‘Rey, John Miller’s Heretical Book" will be reviewed by Rev. C. P, MeCarthy to-day before the American Free Chuteb, “The Real Presence” and “Lot's Wife’? will receive attention from Rev. John Jones and the Freo Taber. nacle Methodist Episcopal Church to-day. At Chickering Hall this afternoon the Rev. 8, Coil- cord will set forth The Backslider’s Prayer.” In the morning the Key, William Humpstone will preach, “Jerusalom and [is Environs” will be described by Rev, E. ©, Sweetser, this evening, in Bleecker Street Universalist Church. Rev. J. M. Getchell, of Harlom, will preach there in the morning. tl. W. Brown, evangelist, will give Bible Readings in parlors of the Youvg Men’s Christian Association, thin city, evory afternoon this week except Sat- urday. Rey. J. C, Macdona, rector of Cheadle, Cheshire, England, will preach in the Church of the Holy Trin- ity this evening. Kev, ¥. H. Tyny, Jr., will proach in the morning. De, Ormuston will preach an anniversary sermon be- fore the Young Men’s Association of the Collegiate Re- lormed Church, on Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth Btroet, this evening. It will be bis last sermon vrevi- pusto his departure for Europe asa delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council, which meets in Edinburgh in July. In the Chareb of the Strangers the Rev. Dr. Deems will preach this morning and evening. “The Mission of the Spirit’ will be set forth in the Central Bapwst Church this morntog by tho Rev, J. D. Herr, who in the evening will draw “Lessons from the Book of Esther” for the benefit of his bearers. In the Church of the Rosurrection the Rev. John frimble will preach in the morning, ‘and the Rev. Dr, Morgan, of St. Thomas’ Church, tn the event: In Calvary Baptist Church the Rev. H. W. Knapp, D, D., will preach this moraoing and evening. Bishop Smith will preach this morning tn the Church of the Advent, and the Rev, Joseph F. Jewitt in the afternoon, “Dr, Crosby’s Position on the Wine Question” will be reviewed by the Rev. Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, this afternvon, before the Amertcan Temperance Union, as Cooper Institate. In Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. Nathan Hubbell will preach on the “Christian Races” this morning and on the “Day of Wrath’ bis evening. The Rev. W, T. Sabino will minister to the First Re, fermod Episcopal Church to-day at the usual bours. “The Good Shepherd’s Voico’’ will be heard by the Rov. Dr. Armitage and the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church this morning, and “Tne Waters of Maran” wil be Visite. .ad perhaps tasted this evening. In the Free Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation the Rev. E. 8, Widdemer will preach at the usual hours to-day, The Americau Tract Society will commemorate its fifty-second anniversary this evoning in Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Tne Rev. Drs. Bo McVickar and Phillips, and Judge Strong, of the Su. preme Court, will deliver addro: The Kev. Dr. R. & Storrs will preach the annual ser- tion before tho American Seamen's Friend Society this evening in the Church of the Piigrims, Brooklyn § Mr. Prentice Muiford will jecture to-morrow evening {nm Plymouth Charch on “The Oninese in California,’ Free Services in the Onarch of tne Heavenly Rest this morning aad afternoon, at the usual hours, itey. Dr. Howland, rector. “Tho Claim ef Theodore Parker'’ wiil be investigated by Mr. U. B. Frothingbam this morning to Masonic Tempia “the Anti-Christs of Christendom’’ will occupy the Rev. W. BR. Algor’s attention this morning defore the Cbureh of the Messiah. In the Church of the Disciples of Curist the Rev. Dr. S. BE. Shepherd wiil preach this morning and evening, Rev. Dr, Van Buskirk lectures on Tuesday eventing, “Shall We Know Kach Other in Heaven?" will be answered this morning Ly Rev, Georgo H, Hepworth, in the Chareh of the Disciples, In the evening “A Good and a Bad Temper’ will be contrasted, The, womon’s Meeting of the church is leld every Wea- pesday alternoon and the young men’s meeting on the game evening, The general prayer meosing 1% held on Friday evenings. v ‘Tho Society of Hamanity will meet in Science Hal! ths evening, when H. B, Brown and Henry Evans will discuss, “What Instead of the Old Faith 7°” The Rey. A. & Patton, D. D,, will preach NEW YO Place Baptist Charo®, Brooklyn, this morning. Rev. Wayland Hoyt in the evoning. At the Greek-Resstan Chapel divine services wi!! be held this morming @$ the usual hour, Rev. N. Byer- ring, pastor. Tho Rov. D. B. Jttten, in the Sixteenth Strect Baptist | Church, this morming, will speak of “The Primitive | Charch; the Seeret of its Success," and in the even- ; ag on “The Ascension of Christ,’’ The seventeentO anmiversary of the Sanday schools connected with the Southern New York Baptist As- ecciation will be Beld to-morrow evening tn the Pil- grim Baptist Chureb, West Thirty-third street, acar Ninth avenue, The Sunday echocts will moos in the {' afternoon ja different churches in the city. { CHAT BY THE WAY. * It by mo means follows that a man ta devout be- cause he bas « cold in bis head and |; his sneeze the most ofthe time. The human nature of canines | or the canine nature of men are sometimes deciared | to be imterchangeable terms. A maa once praised | his dog because when ansuccessful in bunting he j. nosed around the party and quietly seduced a brace of | birds trom some bag well Giled, and sagactously de- | posited them tm the empty bag of his master. The } question arises whether men have learned of tho dog | or the dog hag imitated bis owner, A celebrated physician, who has made the subject @ matter of careful stuay, declarcs that the only sure remedy for bleeding at tie nose is to Keep that useful ; member out of other peopie’s business, He furtbor | affirms that the most acate atuacks are caused by ask- mg impertinent questions, which questions are apt to Produce a severe nervous irritation in tho forearm of the man who is interrogated and which closes his fists spasmodically, giving them an outward direc, tion and making the questioner feel as though he had been struck by lightning. A new chareh bas been started. One of its restric- tions !s that every member shail wear bis week-day clothes to meeting. The gatherings are large at pros- ent, but when money becomes caster the congregation will probably change their constitution and bylaws, Lt is very sensible for aman to wear his old clothes to church—if he can’t afford a new suit, Mr. Moody bas produced an alarming change among the dry goods clerks of Boston, ‘‘Are these really Bnglish ?”” was asked. He looked bashfully down tor moment, and shen answered, “Madam, they were English before Mr, Moody came.’' The best definition of a baby is that given by a | Frenchinan:He 1s an angel whose wings decreuso as legs Inérease.’’ Somo people fear to tell the whole truth at once, “How 1s your wile, John?’ The reply was, “I have taken her to Banchory, Who could know whero or what Banchory was? ‘Well, John, I hopo the change will do her good,” It was a kindly wish enough, but John settled the matter by adding, ‘Sho 1a in the graveyard there, str.’” In this anniversary week, when so many conven- tions have aiet, we are reminded of the old Scotch minister who slways prayed at the opening of the General Assembly that it might be so guided that ‘it would do no barm.’’ Tho idea of accomplishing apy good never crossed his mind, and he thought it a great | point gained if it could be kept trom bringing tho cause into disrepute. Some people like to be defivite in their prayers. A minister was once asked to pray tor rain, ‘0, Lord! ‘we pray jor rain; not such a frightfal food as we had last time we prayed, which tore everything up by the | Poots and floated off John Winship’s barn, buta solt, | gentle rain, to give the crops a good start.” Evory man must look through his own evos after all. A temperance lecturer was Jaboring with a man ot stoady habiis—i.¢, he drank steadily for more than twenty yeare, He had «lmoat converted him, and was about to take the pledge from his pockct to bo signed. ‘‘Now, Donald, I am glad you are at last con- vinced that whiskey Is a very bad thing,” Donala looked up with a self-condeinnatory air, and said, in a childlike voice, ‘Ab, sir, you are right, Whiskey is the worst thing a man can drink, espectally bad whis- key.” You may as well be contented with your lot. The poorest man that lives must bave his three meals a day, and the richest can have no more unicss he wishes to add dyspepsia to them. -It is a great satisiaction to feel that the miilionnaire can wear only one overcoat at a timo, andeven a persevering tramp can do as much a6 that, Sometimes the tramp has the advantago in this respect, for he not only wears one of his own, but borrows another from the auguarded hat stand of the man of wealth. A witty vagrant was asked by @ Parisian Judgo where his last residence was. His reply bad tn it more trath than sentiment:—*My last residence, Your Honor, will probably be Potter’s Field.” Well, it 1s a curious fact, that the beggar and the prince will have to become bodfellows at last, He whom, alive, the world could scarce suffice, When dead, in eight soot earth contented lies, We have been learning some hard financial lessons lately, A poor man may bo sure of his poverty, but the rich man ts by no means sure of his riches, A conquered king was dragging the chariot of Sesostris, when the victor said, *‘Whatare you looking at?’’ “At the wheel,’ was the reply. “And why at tho wheel?” “Ob, just to notice how frequently the top becomes the bottom and the bottom becomes tho top, that is all.”?) Many @ man has found tt harder to keep than to get. Moral—Don't overiook others lest the time come wien they wil) bave the opportunity to overlook you, The Lutheran has had a severo attack of spiritual dyspepsia. It laments tho “fabbincas”’ of our religious convictions, and especially of the Moody and Sankey revivals. What it bungers after ts a good, solia theo- Jogieal sermon, one that will assert that there are very few men in this world who will ever get to heaven and will shake the einer over tho pit until he ts frightened out of bis senses and then let him drop in, It won’ do to say too moch about the love of God lest men forget that they are all boand to the wrong place. What wo want ts a religion that damons, not a religion that saves, Now abidoth faith, hope, charity, And now thero is trouble tn the Scotch Presbyterian Church, A large namber of its members demana a revision of the Westminster confession. ‘horo are threo important matters in which they do not betievo, First, that all the heathen are to be condemned be- canse they are heathen, and second, that anborn chil- dren are to be condemned because they wouldn’t be born, ana not being born could not learn their cato- chism, ‘ast of all, Dr, Peddie thought that the state, ment that the Pope was anti-Cbrist should be ox. punged. Why, if certain of the popular clergy should be rovbed 01 their chance to make capital out of the statement thatthe Pope is the canso of slavery, in- | temperance and the Russian war they would become vankrapt. Do keep the Pope in the confession, just for the sake of a topi¢ to discuss when cverything else fail, If matsers go on this reckless way Protestants and Catholics will begin to eay kind things of each other before long, and then we may expect the exd of tho world to come at any timo, Jo certain district in New Mexico, where there is anything bat peace between religioas deaominations, Father Bran (Roman Catholic) requested Dr. Thomas (Protestant) © cede a piece of ground for a Catholic cemetery. The reply was that ‘It could not be done, a8 he would thoreby be lending aid and comtort to the Cathoile religion."’ Cold comiort, indeed. Party spirit must run pretty bigh when ono won’s even givea graveyard to his opponent, There ts nothing In the world which soseverely tests & man's practical religion asatight boo. After you have worn it a little while you begin to think tm objur- gatory monosyllables at spasmodic intervals, But by and by your agony takes @ polyeyiiabic shape, aad your knowledge of certain departments of tho science of expression is surprising, The man who can smile when hts boow pinch is ready for translation. Judge Ailton 1s disposing of his large income ina gracefal and unobtrusive way, Many a charity sud- denly finds acheck at the bottom of Its empty treas- ury, and though it may be as grateful as it pleases tt 18 requested to eay nothing about 1. The letters, in every conceivable direction, rre ¢o multitudinous and sometimes 80 heavily laden with tbat compound metal Known in the communi: rags, that their re- ception at the Central Office 1# sufficient reason for the reoent giving way of the roof, Here is a itteral tran- seripion of one, actunily written by a clergyman, who, (ho over wont through college did it with such rapidity that even bis spelling book flow ont of his pocket; bat only @ genius could have put so many errors 1n coojunction ;— Gennsta, May 4, Mrs, A. T. Stzwant—Dear Missts, | se by your |!b- fal donations that you have @ pure Corrston bart, L have been a preacher of io goepie of Crist for thurt ears, & be i. Web howover, which pour throogh the post, asking tor aid | RK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1877.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. pieat, cant rals the -nmount, I feet your hart is all raped up in the gosple. Now Sister Stewart pleas jend s hand, & god will biess you. Send to the fowal- lng address, Sueh an appeal is certainly irresistible. 1¢ would be & pity @ot to help a sucksesful preacher of thirty years who says that you havea hart of any kind. It te very curious, woreover, th | spot God with a-smait , PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEM- BLY. ANNUAL MDETING IN CHICAGO NEXT WEEK— VITAL QUESTIONS, APPEALS, &C., REQUIRING CONSIDERATION, ‘The Genera! Assembly of the Presbyterian Chureh In the United 6tates will meet next Thuraday im Chi- cago, A year ago the Assembly was entertained in Brooklyn, when Dr. Van Dyke, of that city, was chosen Moderator, fle, therefore, will preach the annual sermon before the body in Chicago. The ees- Bions of this body are always imtoresting, as it coutaing many able and distinguished men both among the clergy and taity. From this city and vicinity there will go to the Assem- bly such representatives as Ors. E, F. Hatfield, clerk of the Assembly; ¥. H, Marling, C. A. Stoddard, Jos. R, Kerr, George 8, Chambers aud Charles & Brigga, together with “ilders David B. Pike, Bawin Francia Hyde, Walter Edwards, Jr.; Oliver KE. Wood, Jacod }, Vormilye, & B, W. MeKee, From Brooklyn ‘and other parts of Long Island there will go Rovs. J, E. Rockwell, H. J, Van Dyke, Moderator; J, Milton Greene, clerk of Brooklyn Presbytery; Andrew Spil- and, James 0, Nightingale and 0. A, Kingsbury, and Elders George King, J. Ogden, G. Burebard, H. M. Rose, G. W. Borgen and Francis Plain. From Westchester the Revs, ’, 8, Heroy, ¥, £, Barnum and John H, Eastman, with Sluera A. Trowbridge, U. Hill, Jr, and Stanton Cady will go, New Jersey will send Reva. J, G. Williamson and 3, Parry, of Kitzaveth; C, D, Shaw and John Reid, of Jorsey City; George C. Sie- bert and Henry W. Bailantine, of Newark, and A. T. McGill, A. D. White and J. D, Randolph, ot New Brunswick. And with them will go Elders Hegeman and Pierson, of Elizabeth ; Stiger and Halsey, of Jersey City; Taylor and Seeker, of Newark, and Mellvaine, Slade and Titus, of New Brunswick. Albany will send Revs, George Harkness, Anson J. Upson, D, D., James G. K, McClure, Eiders Asa Waterman, Willian Tilling- hast, Archibald McClure; and Troy, Keys. A. Bordinan Lambert, D. D,, George N. Webber, D. D., Henry Neill, Jr.; biders Thomas B, Cook, Calvin B. Sims, David Cowel. Boston will eond as its representatives Reva, Jobn Dixon, 1. B, Pert, and Eiders W. G. Irving and John D, Hubbard, Philadelphia and vicinity will send. Revs, D. Malin, J. W. Duties, L. M, Colfelt, A. V. Cc. Schenck, William Greenough, L. Y. Graham, Roger Owen, William E, Jones and John Peacock, together with Elders &. G. Woodward, J. H. Coyle, George W. Meares, W. BR. Stewart, Thomas G. Gayley, Charles Godfrey, Thomas Potter, C. fT. Van Aredaten and Andrew McMillan. Other cities will send their best men also, APPEALS ON WOMAN'S KIGHT TO PREACH, ‘Two important cases of appeai will come vefore the General Assembly, one involving the right of women to speak iu churches, ‘Two yeurs ago that ghost made 18 Appearance on @ case in which Dr, Cuyter, of Brooklyn, and bis church wero indirectly and other ministers and churches directly interested, Tho Assembly dodged a deliverance ov the subject then aud remanded 1t to the godly judgment and congidere- tion of churches and presbyteries. But other cases of the sume sort have since come up, votably shat of Sev and his church in Newark, wherein both sides were dissatisfied with the result, and both appealed. A few years 4.0, when the irateraal gusi was melt ing down Presbyterians as it did Methodists and others | Christian union’ received many kind words and gud- Speeds, At the meeting of the Synod of Cincinnati, held in that city in 1870, one of its members, the Rev. Mr. MeCune, made a report on Christian union, wach was 6o excellent that that body adopted it and ordered It to be printed, But vo or six years laver, when Mr. MoCune put the principles then advocated and so heartily indorsed ito’ practice they und he were pinced on triai by the Presbytery, though, techaicall; the Rev. W. C. McCune was only'so placed, The Ki Dr. Skivner, the leading prosecutor and « Presby- terian ritualist, was also on trial, The accused had without the consent of Prestyytery become the pasior of two Union churches in the vicinity of Cracinnati, at Linwood and Mount Lookuut, He was accuseu of various heresies, none ot them very grave, being gov- ernmenta! rather than doctrinal; and after a trmi last- ing thirteen days ho was acquitted by a vote of 29 to 8. Tue most that could be made out against him was that bis conduct was irregular in that be bad not ree ceived the assent of the Presbytery to his pastorate, Mr, McCune thereupon withdrew trom the Presbytery and the denomination and joined the Congregational Association, Whose jurisdiction oxtends over the ter- ritory covered by the Preabytery. Two appeals wore then’ takea, one by the prosecuting committee for having been discharged Without their consent, and the other by a member (Dr. Wost), because the Pros- bytery bad not sustained the charges against M been, The case has Jain very still ever since, and the appeals may not be entered or pressed bulore the higher court of the Church, DOCTRINAL IBRESIKS IN THE CAURCH, Tho reccnt action of the Presbytery of New Bruns- wick, N. J., suspending Dr. Miller, of Princeton, irom the mintetry ol their church because of doctrioul heresies which he holds did not take place early enough to admit of an appeal reaching the forthcom- tug Assembly. It will therefore go over ono year, ‘This would have been tho most Important ot any of the appeals that could come betore this body, because of the position of the Doctor and the peculimr torins of his heresies, In Philadeipbia the Presbytery got into a little muddle a few montns ago about baptism: A Rev. Mr. Clark administered this rite as Baptists do, by immersion, He was called to account by nis Pres: bytery becauso tho Prosbyterian Church believer sprinkling ts the seriptaral mode, bat tt at the tine allows a cortain freedom of administration which Mr. Clark exercised, He was publicly reproved and his appeal was taken to the synod which de- cided fence-wise that Mr. Clark was neither right nor wrong, but that he bad better notdo so again, The detosged brethron seemed to iorget that after ail, as the Christian at Work remarked, “tho kingdom of heaven is something higher and deeper than a matter ot water supply.’ Notice of appeal to the Assembly was given in this case also, but il it ever gots there it will probably be smothered im the committec room. The very vexed question of representation will be ao- cided by this Assembly, Last ycar a couple of over- tures were submitted looking to the oalargement ot ihe basis of representation to pearly doubie the present basis, The presbyterics have with very great unau- imity voted against both. A committee was appointed ut the same time to make recominendat ou this subject, but they bave thrown very iutle light upon it. 1t 18 provable, upd the mind of tho Church seems to go in that direction, that the Assembly will meot tri- cnniaily as the Episcopalians 1» convention do, or quadronaially as the Methodists do, Tne difficulty ofen- teriaiping so large a boay—somne 600 delegaies—would ve measurably reduced thercby. Now ihe Assombly meets every year and there are few communities largo cbough or wealthy enough to bear this burden and ex- pense for two or turee weeks ofevery year, HOME AND YORKIGN MISSIONS. The misstonary interests of the Caurch have a warm place in the heart of ibe Assembly, and as the wecreta- ries of the Home and Foreign boards go up bo Chicago this week they will probably be able to report ihe re- ceipts covering the expenses for the fiscal year, Four hundred and eighty thousand dollars were appro- priated for the home mission work for the year, ana up to May 1 current the receipts were only $15,000 shorto! thisamount. Thero was, however, adevtol $36,000 on the treasury at ie begiuming of the year. This bas not been removed or reduced, but may do increas by a deficiency in current expenses, More than ono- third of the home missionaries of the Presbyterian Chore are laboring In elds west of the Mississippi, and the emgle Stute of lowa bas 106ot them, Ab the yearly, triennial or quadrennial meotmngs of the afferent denominational nigh courts It 13 cuasom- ary to give a day, of iors or lene, to traternal dolc- gates ‘rom other bodies. This plan has not veen deemed the wisest and best by a great many people; but how to improve it was the problem, The Synod of Virginia bas uiseovered tho means, and a bas prepared an overture to the General Asseiviv of the Presbyteriun Church at Chicago to adopt 1 letters to be read instead of the speeches of de! At the meeting of the Genera! Assembly Brooklyn lass spring the = Irish Church delegai in Presbyterian bronglit aud read sucha lotier, but that did not aeprive bin ot making bis speech’ also, which thrilled the Aesembly mach more than the de- bomigauional letter did, Woe don’t see how mach is to be gained by we change. Tho iast Gevoral Assem- bly appointed Rev. Dr. Musgrave, of Philadelphia, ‘and Kev. Dr, Hawiey, of Anvurn, ¥., delegates to the Presbyterian Connoil which ts to meet in Kdinburgh in July dext. The General Symod of the lteiormod Churoh last year also appointed Drs, Wiiham Ornuis- ton, David [ngiia, J. MeC, Holmes, Charles &. Hart and Kider Bogardas delegates to the sane body. Those brothren will leave hore within two or three weeks. Other delegates from this coantry have al- ready gone to Kurope, The last General Conference ot the Methodist Kpiscopal Church in Baltimore ap- pointed Dr. Chapman, of Brooklyn, to represent it aud carry its fraternal greetings to the Presbyterian As. sembly in Chicago, Many minor matiers, will come betore the Assembly, put tbe questions of appeal, representation and irawrnity, whtetr i quite so gushing as | wasayear ago, aro importanw « THE JEWISH PENTECOST, ITS CRLUBRATION IN THIS CITY BY TUM TEM. PLUS AND SYNAGOGUES, Friday and Saturday next will bo celebrated by our Jewett citizens as the Fesst of Rentecost—~ihat ts, tie fiftieth day after the Passover, or Kastor. heralded to be the anniversary of tho revelation on Sinai, and in the synagogues and wmpies the Ten Commandments aro rehearsed with great solemnity. It is fittingly selected by the reformed sect of the Hevrews as the day tor the anuoal confirmation of the younger memuers of the Various congregations, Robed in white, the young aepirants answer questions in faith and’ discipline, and then receive ta certificate of contirmation, The bdatidiags are always crowded with fesure asscmbluges and decoraicd with the choicest soice- trons of plants and rare exotics, The Filth avenve templo 18 celebrated tor the apiendor of 18 florai | founding of the Jew! decorations, It being the grand anntvereary of tho bh ‘the Vario some people always | i? ‘cCune, as he (Dr. West) betteved they should pave Tt ts | rabbies and preachers have general reference to the: event. The following rabbtes will deliver sermons: In Temple Emanuel, . Dr. Gotthetl; in Temple | Abawaich Chesed, Rey. Dr, Haebsch; in Temple | Rev. Dr. Einhorn; tw Forty-fourth etreet Sy ua- gogue, Rev. Dr. Mendes; ‘in Thirty-fourth street Syo Mr, Jacobse; in the Nineseenth stroet Sy- ev. Henry P. Mendes, who is expected to city to-day in the steamor City of Mieh- In the temples the services are held om only one day—Friday, CONGREGATIONAL SINGING IN JEWISH SYNAGOOURS, Many Jewish synagogues have recently turned their Atlention to the subject of congregational singing. Temple Emanuel, in Fifth avenue, made tho attempt, | and the temple situated in Lexington avenue, corner | of Fifty-tifth street, has a very efficient amateur choir of over sixty ‘voices, ‘In the Forty-fourth strect synagogue, where Dr, Mendes recently madé an appeal lor a movement In the same di- ; Fection, steps will goon be taken to arrange for weekly reneursais by the younger members of tho congregation, The idea is popular among the Hebrews, aud will no doubt contribute largely to the increased | devotional exercises, The trained choirs will aiways + Be @ necossity in orthodox synagogues, whose congre- | gations object to the use of organ music, and are, therefore, dependent upon the choir for pitch aad time. ISRAEL'S FOURFOLD BANNER. DISCOURSE AT THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE—THE “GATES OF PRAYER” BY THE REV. Dn. MENDEs. Dr. Mendes was a iittlo indisposed yesterday and did Bot intend to preach at the Synagogue in Forty-fourth | street, but the very large attendance induced him to | make the effort. The lecturer announced as bis text Ezekiel {., 10—‘*As tor the likeness of their faces they | tour had the face of aman and the face of a lion on the right side; and they four bad tne face ol an ox on the left side; they four also nad the faco of an eagle,” The Doctor alluded to the fact that they"had shat day commenced to read the work of Numbers tn the Synagoguo ritual. In the preceding books those Tites had rece:ved law und precepts and a spectes of sanctuary where ther religious needs could find dis- charge, Buta system of order lor their political or military being was yet required, Accordingly a series of camp regulations was set down in the opening chap terof the Numbers. Fach mau was commanded to “encamp by his standard and the ensign of his fathers, This quadrangular camp of the wilderness, with the priests and the tabernacle in the centro, had received ample treatment on former occasions, THR YOUR BANNERS. Let us watch tho cump's progress—the march of Israet’s serried’coinmns through the course of history. The leaders of the four divisions of the camp were Judah, Reuben, Ephraim and Dan, ‘The tradition of the Medrash reports that each tribe had its ensign. On thatof-Judah was ation, on Reuben’s a man, on | Ephraim’s an ox and on Dan’s un exgle—to which Moses referred in his dying venediction, as Kzektel in the text quoted. A reflecting mind will notios tho curious fact that each of these emblems in turn seems to have acquired prominence in Israet’s march through history, THE BANNER OF THE LION. Judah was a lion, and like the forest monarch did Israel’s hosts burst upou Can: They had learnea to detest the abominable practices of tts Inhabitants, exterminated them, and won the land promised them for centuries beiore, ‘They put into practical oxecu- Vion the numerous civil regulations already provided, and formed the happy Republic of Judea, ‘a cluster of united States, federal with each other, bound by re- ligious belief, but each civilly supreme ia its own ter- ritory. It has scarcely received proper notice that we have here the tirst of three federal Repuviics of which this country is one of the latest and best ex- amples. The age of the judges was ua age of warfare, | and whon the Israelites, in spite of wiser counsols, In- sisted upon having a king their power rose to great dimensions, The iion was in the ascendunt, and strength was Israel’s banner then, The lion fell, en- tangled tu a net of idolatry, that saps the vigor of owertul nations, and Judah wandered captive to apy lon. REUREN’S RANNER OF THR MAN. In tho uext phase Israel marched ander Reuben’s banner of this man—typifying wisdom. It was the age of intellectual activity, The Bible was col- lected. Jews entered the lists of literature. We bave | the Jewish siby!, the philosopher Philo, and many others. hen, tov, flourished the wise rabbis, whose words formed a later misina, But there was strife be- tween these shopherds of Abrahum, and the kingdom fell before Rome. Although the flag with the man on 44 was (ratled tn the dust, true to its immortal vature, the tntellecp lived on, and wo have the collections of the misina aud tho gemarra, and all the bright list of bames, from Sardia down to Nachmane, until avout the fifteenth century, Israel’s flag wns chapged egain vy the violence of the Gentiles. EPURAIM'S FLAG—THE Ox. | Ephraim’s fag, the ox, came to the fore, tho sym- bol of servitude. 'Twa%a hard pesiod in our history, | stuincd with their father’s blood, black with tho smoke of their funeral pyres, "We grow angry nowadays at a Koumauian outrage, In those days Hobrews ere lashed = with scorpions in comparison. Not a town vf Germany but whose streota witnessed = =wholesale = muse sacres and pillage, for gold was at the bottom of thrso religious outbursts, The ignorant mobs o! those times were as little capable of fecting for religion as the Russian of to-day for that Christianity which he declares to be til treated by the Porte. This uppres- sion made our people servile in some countries, | greedy for gold in others, because oniy gold couid buy the rightto live. Through tue Middle Ages burden was thus !oaded upon burden, aud the yoke of the Gentiles was sore upon tno Hebrews, This lasted un- tl the last tow decades in Europe, while in thts conn- try oppression bas never been a committer standard, | Here, thon, always and recently tn the Old World israel’s fourth banner has been unfurled. DAN’S WANNER—THK KAGLE, The eagle is the symbol of freedom. ‘I bore you Upon engle’s wings and brought you unto me."’ 1b is a bappy opoch tor Israel, Allowed full scope, the Hevrows’ abilities, alter centuries of aormancy, have wakened, and it is already our boast that our Jew- jah statesmen have a sharo in the fate ot mighty na- tions, So, too, in tho realms of science, art and law, Especially in tbat noblest of ali sciences, whose Heayen blessed myssion it is to bring relief to euiler- ing bumanity. Jews are beginning to resume their ancient superiority us physicians in the largo cities of Frauce, Austria abd Germany. As tor the mercantile pursuits, they have tentoid increased that control of the springs of wealth and commerce, which thoir perseverence, industry and foresight gave them. This is the lesson. Now that Hebrews have Ouce more a voble standard In thetr van let them keop it floating by avolding the sins which caused tormor ebangee—namely, tho worship of the material, dts- sension and soulless plodding through life without a thoaght above earth. Instead, let them sonr like the eagly, far above earthly impurity, where they can gaze and testify to the glory of God, Our sages say;—"-bo swift as cagies in the performance of duty.’ So shail Israel’s youth and strength be renowed and the nation live a life of work and blessing yet. The Doctor closed with @ prayer for the protection of the Roumanian Jows who are suffering in the present Kuropean war, DR. GOTTHEIL’S SERMON REVIEWED To thr Epiton ov THR HeRaiD:— In your sketch of Dr. Gotthiet’s lecture tn Jast Sun- day’s issue there appears to me to be In it statements which the Doctor did not proporly digest vetore he | pepnod of spoke them. He places in coptrast to Jesus of Nazareth the Pharteeos, Scrives, &c., “the prop- erly constituted authorities of the land, whose boun- den duty {t was to take cognizunce of every violation of established usages, and especially of denials of cardinal truths. They were not @ pack of ignorant fanatics and beresy hunters," &c. Now, according vo Josephus, the Pharisees “who gat in Moses’ scat’? wore fatalists and free-wililtes, a mixture, perbaps, of Calvinists wod Arminians of modern times, to whom sach plain spoken words as the carpenter of Nazaroth uttered, though full of the best kind of common sense, would paturally be considered heresy. [f this man uttered heresy, and they wero the legally con- | | stitaved conservators of Judaista as Ur. Got | cinima, why then dia they not ennse | bis arrest in vpen day, instead of bri ng one of hie disciples fret to lead a midnight Jerusalem rabble to arrest him? Surely they did not want to ar- Fest « public violator of law Aiber this sneaking fash- ton. Toe enme Jewish authority, Jovephus, colis Jesus, | the Christ, Wise man, if it ve iawlul to 6: hima man, for be was a dove of wonderini works," aud adds that “he drew over to him both many of tho Jews aud many of the Gentiles.” low enme those people to be deceived by hin? How caine Nicodemus “a ruler of the Jews,’ and doseph of Arimativea “an honorable councillor?” a member of thie very ecclesustical nue thority that Dr, Goutheil speaks of—how came they to ve among his disciples aod bis tatthinl followers? Surely they wero uot ‘a pack of ignorant fanatics, ’? Bat the Sanhodrim must ether have been ignorant fanatics of heresy luntors, and knaves to Loou For ns it appears by the record, uncontradicted, the never proved heresy againet this man, They carried him belore four trivunats, two ecciesiastical and two civil and these are the sort of charges they made against bita:— “We found this fellow perverting the nation and for- Diddiny to give tribute to Cwsar, saying that He Aim- sell 6 Chtiot a king.’ This statement they knew to be a lie mace oat of whole cloth, and their witnesse could pot prove It. But at the last camo two witnesses, and satd, *1'nis fellow said I am able siroy the temple of God and to band tt tu three . This was apother of their charges, Wili Dr. Gounbeli tndieate the beresy tn ether of thare? Were the Jews at this time #0 enamored of the Roman rule that thoy cuuld not bear even ono of (heir own nation, 4 man, too, that bad @ larger tollowing than any tah of nin time, and who twice refused the hoaor of Kingsbip at their bands, were they, | say, so In love with the Roman powor that tt heresy for ® man to say that | he was a King of to say that sirangers and not the home-oora should bo wxed? Or was it heresy for a man vo Bay that a butiding whieh reqaired torty-sx years to erect coula be done in three days! The oposttion carries ite absurdity and its refutation om its face, ie and Herod, a Gentile and « Jew, j Add both representatives of Cassar, investigated these charges and jound in Jesus nothing worthy of death or of bonds, and the tormer proposed to ro- lease hits. Two bigh priesgs and two civil rulers did pot find heresy in bin either against the Church or Against ihe State, and yet this vory learned council, those ‘nen of hig’ nding in the community,” when | asked by Pilate to present their charges and their wik | Then comes the creation ot a | gesses, merely waved the hand as tt were, anc presum- 200 iF dignity and official position, declared “It were not a maletactor we would got have delivered him up unto thee." They gave no proof u he was such, and hence Pilate banded bim back again to be judged according to their iaw tor heresy of doctrine, But they could not prove tat eituer and yet they wanted his life. Ana if Jesus had not been put upon his oath as to His divinity, His Messiabship, He mht even then have escaped their fanatical wrath, But being thus abjured by Cataphas, Ho publiely declarod Himsel! to be the Sou of God, aud then tor blasphemy He was condemued to be worthy of death. Aud late, who knew that thero was no c#use of death ia Hita and that the Jows had dehvered {nn for envy, never theless, to please them, he logged Jesus, and (hus de- grading Him anything that followed was legitimate, It is @ mere Legging of the whole question tor Dr. Gowthet! to eay that the Paurisees did not ask Jesus to toilow their exampic, bus simply to sulmit to what was the law of the land.’ d not the two high priests or tho. two civt! rulers before whom he | Was takes # prisoner point out the law of the laud that he had violated ana punish bim openty tor Why gid not the Pharisees, seribes, ellers, 4 take the culprit to the law aud (he testimony? Under enher | Jewish or Roman law he, or any other violator, could be convicted by the mouth of two witnesses. ‘There Was DO noed, tierelore, 10 Uribe a traitor, to subern Witnesses aud to make & midnight raid with torches anu lanteros and sticks and swords and tho scum and rabble of the greatcity to errest au buarmed wan if he were acriminal, That's not the way civil or eccieatus- tical authorities do those things now, And there is no other instance of the kind anywhere on record. It was a sham put forth by those Jerusalem knaves and ; their igooraut rabbie, whom the Doctor #0 gallantiy | delends. And ii, as ‘he intimates, the disciples of dosus re law-breakers, too, why were they not ar- rested at the game tine and puntsbed with was then as easy to arrest a dozeu ar one. THE MOSAIL COSMOGONY. To tux Eviror or tax Heraup:— Will you kindly permit me to offer in your columns a few suggestions upon the modestly expressed, but excessively lanciful suggestions of your correspondent “Gueaswbo?” His letter supplies no internal evidence from which one may guess whether or not he is a be- jiever in the Christian revelation. It he is not, what I shall urge will Jose, to him, some, although by no means all, of its persuasivences, Does he not sce, or does tho fact not trouble bim, that the plea on which be would reconcile an alleged discrepancy between human sctepce and canonical | Seripture would ve fatal to tho beliet that the latter was written under the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost? In the very improbable, not to say 1mpossi- ble, contingency of an irrefutuble scientitic demon- stration making the order of creation narrated In the Book of Gevesis untenable we should have to botake ourselves to the obvious expianation that the Bible is, not a scientitic treatise, aud that for the Divine Belg to anticipate by thousands of years tho discoveries of science, tho toll of which wasa part of the penance Indicted on His fallon creature alter ho had forteited the intuitive knowledge of bis state of innocence, would have been to thwart His own designs, Yet, if, as Christians and Jews alike believe, Moses wrote Gander the direct inspiration of the spirit of God, ho cannot have misstated anything of importance ip the order or law of creation. In the absence of a.y .ref ragable proof to the contrary we must suppose thay the order of tho several stages of creation is of sui. cient Importance to have been stuted accurately. In such case, that the Divine Providence should permit an accidental fold ofa sheet of paper to talsify His own narrative from the first until the advent of your correspondent ‘Guesswho,” Is a fur greater difficulty than any human science cum conjure up, But this ingenious gentleman is fighting a windmill. There bas been enough, and tore than enough, God knows, of scientitlc conjecture ofntate years; but any- thing deserving tho tite of a scientitic demonstration contradicting the order of the successive stagos ut crea- Uon related in the Book of Genosis docs not exist. There is no greut difficulty, even to the merely philo sophical mind, in the circumstance of light being first created, and the celestial spheres, whica were to be the recipients aud dispensers of that liygbt, being created alter the vegetable and wnima! lite, which it was to quicken aud support. But there {8 «difficulty tothe inind wneniightoned by the Coristian faith ip the circumstance that aday of croation was devoted to the creation of the smallest of the spheres, while only a similar stage in the order of creation was appur- ently doveted to the creatiou of all the rest of that stupendous universe of worlds of which all the aiscuv- eries of mnodera science have only rewealca a corner, The Christian re solution of the difliculty, itis net u sigma ot a philo- sophic spirit Lo allow the mind to be more awed by mu- terial than by spiritial greatness, There is something of childishnees in thinking more of that iminite uni- verse of worlis reaching ww distances beyuad the power of the human mind to conceive of in its mere aspectof material grandeur than of one human being. What woulda i amount 10 without its meaning ? 1 is not unseldom urged toat ite mounin, the exal- tation of our idea of the greatness and yoodness of God. But this is not enough. Any vastness of oxten- #10u or ponderosity, or even beauty, does nut add to our idea of Omnipotence., That surpasses all, As tothe goodness of tbe Ureator we require something more in provl ol Chat than a mere show, howevor vast or ious, The God man—Ho it 18 whi is’ tne mean. ing of tho whele creation, He is the archetypal idea op to which the grout <Artiticer worked. We bave the authority of King David fer concluding ‘hat as the only begotton Son was generated trom ull eternity, eo was {t of tho eternal counsels that “a bedy should be propared tor bim,’? That body is the human nature which He was (o assume tn order tn it to make complete satisfaction to divine Justice for we transgression of Ils talien creature, and then crown Mt, us tho prodigal tor whom the Jatted calf was killed, with glory and honor, thought of God, Lt was the idea of the universe. According to it all the oniverse culminaws in man, whois 116 sum and end; as he culminates in tae word mado flesh, whois bis sum and end, All cise was consequently a substdiary creation to maa, having He purpose in him. It was to glorify its Creator, but in and through mi There t4 thus ‘noting even to surprise us in the fact of God’s devoting tve distinet operations to the creation of man’s home and bitnsell, and only one to the rest of ihe vast universe of spheres, universe of suns and stars millions of mes greater than (hat wiich now occupies extension in a moment as ina milleaniam, There tsgov time to Him, wor aro thero any limits, aod as ali was created tor man Itty only that we might have expected chat all the rest of the oniverse snould have been created in «space of similar duration to those He devoted to the creation of the planet Terra out of whose very substance the human body was formed, and tat body itself. The order of creation in the Mosaic narrative pre- sents less difficulty still, uor has any discovery of modern science produced any, [tis exactly what on ordinary intelligence might have expected, bearing tn mind che foregomg explanation, First, the primal archetype of Christ—Lignt—is created, of whose sub. | stance scichce Is us ignorant as whea some three thousand yeurs ago aud more God demanded of His servant Job, ‘Zndica miki, «1 noste, im qua via lus hadites, et tenebrarum quis loons sit??? Ne © rst step was taken toward making an aqueous void," covering abysses of inoiten ite, a lile-bearing sphore. Its superabandaat moisture was withdrawn by the creation of a firmament separating the waters above 1 from those Leiow it; avout which trmament aod tho waters it contains modern science van give nu better account than could Job when its Creator aomanded of hiio—"Numguid ingressus 8 therauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspesisti? © © * Puts dedil | eehementissino imort cursum, ut pluaret super terram absque homine tn deserto, ubin wins mortalum commora: | tur, us implevet in viam et deavlatum, et produceret | herbas viventes ?”” Noxt, the creation of vegetable and Quinal jite in ite venous forma was tor by tho withdrawal of the waters from the appear: ing dry land, followed on the swine day by the crea: | tion of vegetable lite, Is it cot natural, itl may em- ploy such a word with the contesi, ihut the creation | immediately following that of the most eiemontal form ot life should Lave been that of those receiver and dispensers of light. which He made ind for the support of every torm of life on th fina} tite ending with that of man. It is Doteworthy that, ta the account of the creation of the human body, on the sixth day we are not told that “God breatued into nis tace the breath of lie, | and mau became a living sou We are not wid that until aiter the day on which God ts represented to us as resting from His creative work, as if to imply tbat Uils higheet creation was undoished and was to go Jor the rest with the cooperation of man tiuisel retrogading Orst through an era of preparation of a stupendons manifestauion of divine power aod love, which regeneraied the fallen creatnra | fo the upimaginable exaitation of unron with the Divine Being, to be consummated when the mystical body of Christ triumphant is enthroned in the excel. lent glory, when titne shall be no more, the final Sab. bath shail dawn and man shall rest in God irom all his work. Yours, respectfully, 8. b. A. HARPER, 14 Gramencr Pan, May 877, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, LIDRRAL CHRISTIANS, A very Vigorous revival has revently beon held at Bryan, Obto, which has added twenty-nine new mem- vers to tho Universaliat Charen of that piace, A Untversalist Church was recentiy organized ut Gatlipolts, Obio, and Rev. J. 0. Laner, 0: Conover, Onto, has been mviied to its pastorate, The Rev. KL, Bennett has accepted a calito the parish at Chatham, Mass, Tho Universalist of Good Luck, N. J., are trying to datld a memorial church at that place, where their denomination began its actual oxtstence, work, They bave been about three or four years atit how, and though 100 Sunday ecbools have contributed and adult chdrch members have given something, the sum total thus far ts only $1,622 56, whereas $3,000 Is wanted. When the tunds give out the work ceases, because the committes wish to dedicate tree of debi The original church of the denomination bas fallen into the hands of the Methodists, and if this one te left with @ debs on it it, too, mi 0 the way of man, othors within the past few yearn” r i ‘\ Kev, J.T. Sanderiand has resigned the pastorace ot of the Fourta Unitarian Church of Chicago, leason, church deeply mdev. Six of eight pastors ot dittere ent denominations have r: ed in Goat city for this cause during the past your, Some Unitarians appear to teg! that the hold of their \ upon the co many i i. Weeker con- tantiy, and ome ef them, the Rev. J. ¥. W. Ware, af tion supplies us, I think, with a | Tho Incarnation was uo alter. | It 18 a8 casy to Omnipotence to create a | prepared | oneavio earth? | depravation in | Teta epntt) | 15 { the Arlingtoc Street Chureh, Buston, says very | teuly:—*We peec missionary work and a pronounced ool bof iaith. Unless we have these, our doom is sealed, and tu thirty y: deat out any one to attend the tuner RBVORMED (DUTCH). Rev. William B. Bird, for twenty-tour years a mis Sionury on Mount Lebanon, has been visiting his sis. | ver, Mrs, Vau | logham University, and im- parting vatua: on upon Syrian and Turkish aflairs to diferent cougregations in Western New York, He bas spent the last two Sabbaths in LeRoy aod Rochester, und conducted three services in ench place, greatly interesting large congregations. None can speak On missionary themes more intelligently. He was born on the ixland of Malta. His father, Rev. Isaac Bird, sailed for Jerusalem trom this port in 1822, himselt and colieague the first missionaries that ever Jeft our barbor. the Rey. Jona B. Chure' | the churcn of Tughkunte, | from ure Reformed Cour j county, N. ¥ | The itew. Dr. Ladiow, late pastor of the Reformed Church, Forty-cigiuth street und Fifth avenue, thia | OUy, Nas besn invited to the pulpit of the Westminster | Presvyterian Churct, Brooklyn. A iarge part of tho | eld Soatb Church bave lett Dr. Van Dyke's ministry | in Ciinton street and united with the Westminster, so h, for some years pa Y., has accepted a call of Roche: | soat Dr. Ludiow will find a large and united eburch | awaiting bim — There is a debt of $35,000 on the prop- On Dr, Van Dyke’s church there | ert isa debs of | $47,000, Dr, Ladiow bas consented to preach for the {| Westminster Church from next Sunday uoul the sum. | mer vacation, and then, if mutually agreeable, to be- } come the permanent pastor. H EPISCOPALIAN, | A cler correspondent wishes the Henan to | Yocate the paying o( the clergy for their extra services 1 | at iuoerals, inasmuch as “the parties served have uo | particular clum on a particular clergyinan.”” That is srue; und particuisr clergymen nave no claim on pur- ticular parties, though they often thiak they bare Abd, moreover, the burial of the dead ts 4 service that can be ad well rendered by any Christian man as by 4 particular clergyman, and we hope that whenever the Services of such particular individuals are required they will be paid for. | Whe Rev. W. W. Monroe has resigned at Swansea, Mass.; the Rev. A, H. Ormsboe has removed trom Adams to Trumansburg, N. Y.; the Rev. J. L. Taylor, | from Eaton Rapids to Charlotte, Miss., and the Rev, | C.J. Whipple trom Manville, RL, to ion, Li ‘The Rev. George Herbert Watson, sate rector ot St. Pei 's Chureh, Freehold, N. J., has been called to the rectorship of Laurel Hull, San’ Mateo, Cal,, and wil enter upon his duues June 1, The Kev, E. Bayard Smith bas resigned his charge ot the parish of St. John’s, Whitestown, of the mmission of the Good Shepherd, Kast Utica, and of the mission in Deerfeld, diocese of Central New York. | _ The Rev. Abiel Leonard has accepted the rectorship of Grace Church, St, Louts, Mo, The Kev. C. C. Tate expects to sail for Rurope, May | 31, to be absent three months. Dr, N. I. Schenck bas completed ten years’ suc- cessful pasiorate of St Anu’s Church, Brookiya Heights, The chureh observed the occasion a few days ago by presenting the Doctor with x box and $452 with which (0 put a net timepiece In his pocket. The Doctor 4s filty-two yeurs old, and he hopes to live longenough to pay off the $100,000 debt on the church editice, ‘The Rev, I’. G. Jenkins has accepted the rectorship of st. John’s Church, Minaes, La METHODIST, Chancellor Haven, yrucuse Univermty, has bees appointed fraternal delegate {com the General Confer: ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the British Wesleyan Conteronce. Dr. Foss, of Middletown Unk versity, and Hou, Will Cumbach, of Ladiaoa, huve been | appointed deiegates to the Methodist Episcopal Church, Soutn; Dr. Upbam, of Bostan, and Dr. Toad, of Philas delphia will represent the Metigdist Episcopal Churcly to the Mothodists of Canada; to the Atrican Methodiat Episcopal Cherch of the Uniteu States, the Rov. Vi entine H. Bulkley, of South Carolina; to the Method: Chureh, the Rev. William L, Hypes, of Cincinnati; te the Methvaist Protestant Church, the Rov. Alexanaer E. Gtuson, D. D., of Baltimore, and to tho Evangelicat Association, the Rev, John W. Freund, of the Kast German Conlerence; 10 the African Methodist Episcos 1 Zion Church, the Rev, KE. W. 8. Peck, of New hureh of r York; to the Colored Methodist Episcopat America, the Rev, Emperor Williains, of Lout the Wesleyan Connection of America, the Rev. H. Lyneb, 0. D., of Southeast Indiana Conterence, The visits of several deputations will be made tn 1878, 1n all cases in which the bodios to whieh they ara govorally accredited shall meet in that year; in all other cases the visits wiil be made in such year before | the next General Conference as the meetings of the respective bodies muy requiro. Bishop Harris retarneu to this city last week trom his visit to the Eastern conteronces. Bishop Haver. has veen so ulfected with African malaria he has gone to Clifton Springs, N. Y., by order of his physiciai Hishop Simpson was here last week, in excellent health, to attend the meoting of the Missionary Com- mittce on Mexico and South America. The ev, W, 5. Harrington, Presiding Kider tn Rock River Coulerence, haa sailed for Europe to bring home a daughter of bis, who has been studying on the Con- nent. ‘The Itcy, M. M. Parkhurst, of Chicago, speat a few days here last week, when be came to sea his wile of for bonnie Scotland, tie homo of ver childhood, Rev. BoM. Stratton, D. D., pastor of the First Churen, Rocues' +, Who bas been on the verge of the grave tor ten dnys, and given ap by bis physi: cians, secms to be improving, so that there are hupet | entertainod of bis recovery.” For two Sabbaths the First Cuurch was clused, and every attention paid t¢ the patient, Dr. Stratton was formerly pastor in Lex ingtou Aveuue Church, this city, the Rev. J. Walker Jackson, of the Philadelphia Conterence, recently appomted » chaplain in she Unned Stites army, has been ordered to report te General Terry, at St. Paul, for service at Fort Snelling, Minu, Ho passed through Chicago last week. Kev. D, A. Goodsell, of Brookiyn, expeots to sail for Burope, May 30 Two weeks Inter, Rov. George Ff. Reed, also of Brookiyn, will jotn Mr, Goodsell in Lon. Both aro to make the tour of the Continent, ca of three inoatne, don atter un abgen cmterences. The Mission Board of the Charch South wi the eaine time aupropriated $71,000 for the present your's work. Tho Northern bishops will moet in Cieve- iand this woek (17th) to settle their plan of visitation, vision Committoe will meet at the | ROMAN UATHOLIO, | The Nev, #ather McConomy, of Ybtladelphia, hi | visited Spain, had, at last accounts, gone to Ho bo present at the Pope's yabilee. hop Wadhams, of Ogdensburg, N. ¥., and his | travelling compamion, the Very Rev. Thomas &. Walsh, | bave returnod srom Europe tu excellent health, | The Rev, H. Delbaore, of Archibald, Ohio, bas re. | movodt to Antwerp, Paulding county, Ohio. Archbisnop Wood, having gone to Europe, ons ap- pointed the Very itey, Charles !. H. Carter, V. G. | administrator of the dlocese during his absence. Rev, H. Lane, pastor of St. Therosa’s Church, and Rey. John McGovern, pastor of St. Charies’ Kelley- Ville, together with Rov. I. Toner, pastor of St. Pat. rick’s, Plymouth, anda large number of persons, in- cluding many well known Catholics, sailed for Liver- | pool lust ruesday. it is said that Cardinal Cullen lost a bequest of $250,000 vy his refusal to permit the body of the late Colonel John U' Mahony to lie in state im any of the Dubin churches. The testator was alive, and being a | Fenian, cancelled bis will and disposed of his property in another direction. Kev. P. P. Cooney, Rev. William O'Mahony and Ret Joa Shea, ali members of tho Congregation of the Hy have just conciuded a mission in St, Jo- irch, Food da Lac, Wis, which resulted in 1 tho conversion of several per- re to beeu out of the réle of the Church, The mission has doue much good in other respects. Rignt Rey. John Moore, D. D., of Charieston, & C., Bishop-wiect of St Augustine, Will be consecrated im Charlestoa to-day, Vr. Moore 15 a native ot Devtin, | county Westureaih, Irciand, where he was born Jane rT His education jor the priesthood was ceived mostly in Fravee and | College of the Propaganda, dignity of the priesthood in 1860 by Mgr. Luigt Basso, | The mission given vy the Franciscan Fathors for the past two Weeks avSt Authony's Church closed Sun- day night. The first week was for women and she second tor mon. The church was crowded at ail we services and the Cumber of communions could not bo tess than 8,000, A grand inusical vespers under the suspices of she Hariuonie Svciety of Brooklyn will be sung this eve: | ing at the Chureh of tue Visitation, Verons atreot, ve tween Kichard aad Van Brunt atreets, Brookiyn, Kev, | Tee Hyma Book | ame (ime and pla ving me 66 Bis | J. M. Kiely pastor, Tne music will be ander the al. rection of Signor A, Cortada, ident of thu society. , Lol Vespers #4 complimentary testimouiul on the | part ot the Harmonic Society to Father Kicly, who | wus their intimate musical associate tor years while ou Aseistubt privet at the Cathedral, A lecture will | likewise be delivered by the Kev, W. J. Lane. | BAPTIST, the Rev. Stewart Walsh, of Gethsemane Baptia | Church, Brooklyn, bas just completed inte ith year as pastor of that suciety, dud a lew days ago the churel cow inemorated the iact by making things easy for him | 1 is study wod pleasant iu the meeting house. The Baptust Ministers’ Conlerence of this cy gave the Rev. It 3. McArthur a ministerial passport to hte brethron in Kurope whom be may vieit during ine summer, Calvary aptiss Caurch bave given Wim a Yucation and $900 to spend on the way, continued is salary, and will supply his pulptt duriag bis Dr, Fulton, of Brooklyn, wo bas recently | froma Wostern trip, ound denominational interests aa y low ebb'in Michigan and elsewhere, Bingvamion, N. ¥., the Quest church mm the city (Bapust) has « debt of $69.00 aud livtie or no pros pect of ever litting 1K. AC Jackson, Mich., the ap: Uist Charen i# in debs $16,000, At Grand Rapids the Baptists tiawe recently dedicated an eighty-two thou. faud dollar house of worsnip, on whieh there was | $20,000 debt on the day of dedication, Dr. Fulton | helped to reduce thts by about $12,009, ¥iret Baptist Charch of Brookiyn bas raised ), with which they expect tw start building a ew edifice next mouth, They will sell their Nassau street and Washington street property to supply the remainder, 60 that the church when dedicated shall oe tree from debe The Baptist Home Mission Society and the Misston- | ary Vovon will go ap to Providence, R. L, this year ta oir catiooa) anniversaries with treasuries greatiy the depivied. The former is $42,600 1a devt aud the latter $4,400. Tho Home Mission Society supports 175 missionar Daring the month of April the Bapt ministers of New York and vierlty added to if respective churches by smmersion 268 persons aud by letter and experience about a soore, Their brethren of Chicage in the game period added 110 vy baptism and thirty seven by letser aud experience. Laight street Baptist Mission, on which the Mis siouary Union of this cuy has spent $14,000 within 6 lew yoars past, bas, duder the ministry of the Ke | Dr H.W. Koapp, become self-supporting and free from debi 6 mall balance of $320, which ts due its own vers, Sixty-five persons bave been added wo the membership ‘by tmmersion dur- | tee the past winter, and ahous 100 transient visitors, erobants, beatmen end others douverted at ita meetings, who have gone to other efties and charches,