The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1877, Page 15

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements— Chat by the Way. Bynagogne Worship—Local and Foreign Beclesiastical ters. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. —-—— ‘The Rev, Michael Riordan, of the Visitation Church, Brooklyn, will lecture in the Church of our Lady of Grace, Hoboken, N. ‘sbis evening, on “Protestant and Catholic Orders, This evening, in St Ann’a Protestant Episcopal Church, the fifth anniversary of the Courch Mission to Deaf Mutes will be observed by a sermon by the Rev. F. Courtney and othor exorcisos, In Grace Chapel the Kev, W. T. Egbert will preach ‘his morning and Bisbop Elliott in the evening. Preaching in Harlem Presbyterian Church at the Usual hours to-day by the Rev, J. 8. Ramsay. “Tne Antagonism of Keligion and Culture” will be enalyzed this morning by the Rev. Goorge H. Hep- worth and ‘A Troubled Soul’? will be pointed rest- ward in the evening. The third of his series of lece tures om ‘Travels in Europe” will bo given by Mr, Hepworth to-morrow evening im the Cburch of the Disciples, “Sunlike Christians” will be encouraged by the Rev, Wilham Lieyd this morning, and “True Manhood” ‘will be illustrated in the lives of the three Hebrew ebildren in the evening in the Reformed Church, Mad- {eon avenue, A memorial service will be held in the Contral Bap- tist Church, Brooklyn, im connection with the anni- vorsary of the American Biblo Union, whose seore- tary, tho Rev. W. B. Wyckoff, LL.D,, died recently. Drs, Sarios, Fulton, Reed and others will deliver ad- dresses, In the New York Presbyterian Church the Rev. W. 'W. Page will preach to-day at the usual hours, A prayor and praiso meeting will be held this atter- Boon at No, 110 West Forty-second strect, Professor W. H. Thomson will resume bis Bible class Instraction this afternoon atthe hall of the Young Men’s Christian Assvciation, The Rev. Jobn Quincy Adams will preach in the Berean Baptist Church this morning and evening. Ip the Fourth Presbyterian Church the Rov, Joseph RB. Kerr will preach this morning and afternoon. “Tnou Wilt Be Missed, for Thy Seat Will Be Empty,” and “Prophecy Fulfliled, An Evidence of Divine In- sptration,”’ are the topics that Dr, Woscott will discuss to-day before Plymouth Baptist Church. Dr. H. W. Knapp will preach at the regular boars to-day in Laight Street Baptist Charch, Rev. J, Stanford Holme will preach in the Pilgrim Baptist Church this morning and evening. ‘Ihe Rev. Dr. Seymour will preach before the Gulld of St. Cecilia this evening im the Churoh of the Heavenly Rest. In Sixth Avenue Reformed Church the Rey. William B, Merritt will preach to-day as usual. The Rev. Dr. Crawford will preach in St. James’ Rethodist Episcopal Church this morning, and this the Rey. W. #. Davis will speak tu youag mon ubout “Lost Birthrights.’”? Preaching and reunion servicos morning, afternoon and evening to-day in Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rey. J. 8. Willis pastor. “Babel and Babel Buud will be viewed and Feviewed this morning by the Rev, A, H. Moment in Bpring Street Presbyterian Church, In the evening “Penteocat (will be) Contrasted with Babel.’” De. J. B. Simmons will preacn at both services y in Trinity Bapust Church, The Rev. George ‘Maller, of England, will preach there on Friday evening, “The Christian’s Strength’? will be exhibited by the Rev. Robert B. Hull this morning in the Tabernacio Baptist Church. In the evening “Christ Crucified” will be presented. ‘Thie evening, in Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. B. H. Bareh will answer the question for young men “Is it Vain to Serve God??? Communion scrvice in the morning. In tho Thirty-iourth Street Reformed Chureb, this ‘Pvening, the Rev. Carlos Martyn will present some “Lessons from the Obildhood of Jesus..’? Preaching in She morning also, “Coming to Christ” and “‘Joseph’s Dreams” will be ponsidered by the Rey. G. 8. Phinley in the North Dotch Charch, The Rev, J. N. Galloher, D, D., will preach at the Usual hours to-day in Zion Protestant Episcopal Church. In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal Charch sho Rev. W. B. Dunnell will preach this morning and evento; “Wilderness Work” will be laid out for the Ameri- ean Free Church, this morning, by the Rey. ©, P, McCarthy. in the evening the taking topic will be @iscuased, ‘Are our Pulpits Dumb Dogs? or Talmage on Morrissey.” At Chickering Hall, this afternoon, the Rev, Samuel Colcord will speak about ‘Man Seckiag for Goa.” At Stanton Street Baptist Cburch the Rov. & J, Koapp will preach to-day, as usual. The Rev. Joseph E. King, D. D., president of Fors Edward lostitute, will preach this morning in Wash- ington Square Methodist Episcopal Church, and in dhe evening the Rev. J. M. King, D. D., will consider “Who 18 Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, ” Jn Alanson Methodist Episcopal Church, this morn- Wg, the Rov, Dr. Crooke will give ‘*Bible Readings on the Lord’s Prayor.”” In the evening a sermon to “Our Young Mor At Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. J. E. Searles will preach this morning and even- In Be Miss Nellie Brigham will lecture for tho Spiritual- {sts in thorr ball this morning and evening. Mr. James M. Choate will give slate tests after the morn- ing lecture, The American Temperance Union advertise an oxtra programme for their meeting in Cooper Institute this afternoon, Tho Kev. William B. Affleck (Benjamin Heipinghand), of England, aod tho Kev. Kobert B Hall, of the Tabernacle Baptist Church of this city, ‘will deliver addresses and ‘Aunt Sally Winsiow’s Oid Folks’ will sing. Io tho Freo Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. J. Jobns will proach this morning on ‘Scenes on the Lake of Genesaroth” and in the evening on “Nails in Sure Piaces,” The Rev, T. Do Witt Talmago will proach in the Tab. eroucie, Brooklyn, this morning aud evening and on Friday evening will lecture there on current affairs of ‘ho day religiously considered. in Bleecker Street Universaust Church the Rev. E, C. Sweetser will lecture this evening on “Travels in the Holy Land—Betbiehom, Jericho, Dead Sea and the Jordan,”’ Preaching in the morni: The pulpit of the Contral Baptist Courch will be Billed this morning by the Rev. D. B. Jutten and this evening by the Rev. J. D. Horr, D. D., pastor. De, Deems will proach at the usual nours to-day in the Church of the Strangers, In the Chureh of the Covenant (Presbyterian) Dr. Marvin K. Vincent will preach this morning and afier- Boon, Lecture on Wednesday evening. Ja the Church of tho Disciples of Christ the Rev. D. RY | hours to-day, Dr. Crawiord will preach in Eighteenth streot Meth- odist Episcopal Church this evening and in the morn. ing tho pastor, Rov. W. Hatfold, will administer the sacraments and receivo probationers into fall member- shin, The ttev. W. T, Sabine will proach in tho First Re- formed Episcopal Church this morning and evening. Preaching in the Five Points Mission (Mevhodist) this morning aud evening, Sunday school in the aitornoon, Rev, ©, 8. Brown, superintendent, God, Our Father’? and “Peter's Doubt’ will be comment d upon and explained to.cay by the Rey, N, L. Rowell, in the Freo Baptiat Churet. Dr, Armitage will discuss the qusstion this morning with the Fifth Avenue Baptist Cburcn, “Was Oar Lord Joyful?” and in the evening, “Joy of Heart for His Servants.” A sscrod concert will bo given in the Church of St acant de Paul this evening. J the Grand Union Hali Mr, John Carter will proach NEW YORK this morning, and tm the evening the Rev. William Humpstone will preach. A temporance meeting will be held there im the afternoon in the Churoh of the Holy Trinity the Rev. 8. H. ‘Tyng, Jr., will this evenimg begin a sertes of dicourses on “Nature and the Bible” Tne design is to illustrate biblical references to nataral objects and facts by the Jatest demonstrated discoveries ia science, These lectures will be continued for several Sunday evenings, The subject tor this evening’s lecture is “The Sun.”” In “the Anthon Memorial Protestant Episcopal Ubureh the Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach this moraing. Bishop Garrett will preach in the evening *‘Is There Really a Personal Devil?’ will be consid- ered this evening by Rev. R. & MacArthur in Calvary Bapust Church. The Rev, A. T. Arnold, assistant rector of St. Peter's Protestant piscopa!l Church, having returned trom Europe last week, bas resumed hia work to that parish with increased health and ronewed vigor. He will preach to-day us usual, At the Russian Chapel there will be divine service this morning atthe anual hour, The Rev. Anselm B. Brown, having received ‘ananimous call to the First Congregational Charch of Morrisania, N. ¥. City, will preach there to-day at the ‘usual hours, CHAT BY THE WAY. It is all very well to pray, “Get thee behind me, Satan,’’ but it’s very bad to iet him get benind you for the parpose of pusbing you toward the wrong you contempiate, ‘The world is fall ef toil ana trouble, but yeu can dodge « great deal of It if you only try. The diMcalty with mapy people 1s that they hold a‘ magnifying glass over their griefs ana then pull the curtal: wo when the sun tries to come out, We ail felt very happy when Rey, Joseph Cook said, “Boston is ip her sophomore year and does not know i,"* That was palpablo hit, and wo all laughed. But when the reverend lecturer added, severely, “Some sections of country have not been to college at all,” we felt thas there might be something personal in the remark, but did not ask bim to oxplain, The man who In these days donies tho personality and success{ul mission of the devil mast go into ex. ceptionally good soctety, and, possibly, never look in the glass. Some of the prayers of eccentric men have been Worth repeating. Adam Soott had aboy Rob who was @ great terrortobim, He prayed very earnostly for him, and once in this wise:—*0, Lord, ba’e mercy on Rob, Ye kon yoursel he is a wild cailant, and thinks ‘Rae matr o’ committing sin than a dog does 0’ licking @ dish; but put tby book in his nose ana thy bridio in bis gab, and gar him como back to theo wi’ a jerk that be’ll no forget the longest day he has to live.” But hero isa very tender and pathetic prayer by as he was calloa, who lost bis son:— seen meet to remove the staff out of my right hand at the very timo when, to us poor sand- bind mortals, it appeared { stood maist in need ot, But, ob! it was a sure staff and a dear oneto my heart, and bow I'll climb tho steep hill o’ auld age and sorrow without 1¢ Thou mayest ken but I dipna,”” Mr, Tyndall is very unbappy unless be succeeds in stirring up the theologians. In his late a Birmingham he made assertiona which gav. fonca, Ho {s not even willing that the deludea, thoughtless people, known as Christians, should enjoy their dream of bliss, but breaks in on it with the as- sertion that there is no sach thing as a soul or a will, and as for responsibility it is a myth Those things are only the result of chemistry and electricity. What & boon it would be if he would only become a prison chaplain and prove to the convicts that they are in no wise responsible for the felonies and murders which have brought them to their cells, And what a com- tort it would be to bave him lecture in New York the coming winter and show conclusively that whon a man falls to keep bis accounts straight !¢ 1s not his faalt, Dat the fault of his stemach or liver, We should have f milleaniam, of something elso, here in three months, When our ancestors preachea it was a hit straight from the shoulder, They did not cover up the fires of hell with smooth rhetoric, vut let the fames burst out in all their terror. What should we, who ait in cush- foned pows and sleep through an eloquent rormon, say to such a statement as this? ‘St. Austin is of opinion that the pains of a soul in hell during tho time required 10 open and abut one’s eye are more wevere than all snat St. Lawrence suffered on the gridiron.”? When Jona- than Edwards talked about the possible future he drow such vivid piotires that men and women tainted from sheer fright. A fittie wholesome talk about the cor. tainty of retribution is what our own times neod. We are too apt to smooth over the wrath of God instead of presenting tt to the mind of the wrong-doer asa jagged and awtul fact, Tho theology of sugar and spice and everything nice has been preached so much that men begin to regard both the penitentiary of this world and the bell of the next as shadows without a substance, How intensely suggestive is the conversation of some people who aro apparently talking aboat the most innocent thing in the world, For instance, a gentioman of color, who was vory ill, expressed « wish to have just a taste of spring chicken and asked his son Ezekiel to repair forthwith to the market ana procure the songster. Tho wife, who overheard the request, followed ber only boy out in the yard as he was going on the mission, and, in a maternal ander- tone, remarked, ‘‘Zekiel, I’m offie afeared dat long sickness has ’tirely destroyed de ole man’s intollec’, Jus’ think, sonoy, of his askin’ you to go to de mi ket to buy achicken when de moon am all shut in and everybody’s chickons are rocstin’ within reach,” It 18 also truo that a person may sometimes convey bis meauing by a gesture or a look und without saying aword. It is very enraging to tell an improbable story and when you have dono have the listener look at you with that poculiar quizzical gaze which being transiated means, ‘My friend, you may, be Baron Munchausen, bat who do you take me tor?” The other day we were quietly seated in a car, homeward boand, with head buried In tho depths of a newspaper in order to avoid any emergency that might arise in the settlement of the quoation how twelve persons can sit down in tonseats, Aftor alittie a lady entered and grasped the ip over our head, We felt vory uneasy, as though some magician were making mesmeric passes over us, We fixed our glance with more intensity, If possible, on tho para- graph wo wero reading, but the burning words of Poe's “Raven” kept ringing In our cars, “Take thy beak from out my heart, take thy form from off my door,” and we wore wretched. At last we looked at her with a startled glanco, as though wo were tor the first time aware of hor presonco, then rose and offered hor our seat, which she took with the air of one who Why didn’t you do it before?” Since that we sighed for a private carriage, What shallwo do withthe tramps? They will not do anything for themselves, Money enough 1s care. lessly given away overy day in New York to fully sup- ply all the necesnities of the deserving poor, We do not want to appear hard-hearted, but if a man will not work when work is offered it ts 9 good rule to let him starve, If wo should deposit an immonse pile of wood on Union squara and tell every tramp in the city that bo could have three square inenis a day for every day's honest work 1m sawing that wood he would dodge Union aquare us he would a pestilence, aad vot cnough work would be done to keep the saws trom rusting. “Bat I have no work for you to do,’ said @ philaa- thropic Indy to a man who applied for assistance, “Ab, Madam,’ was the reply, “if you can imagine how small a quantity of work would ly me.” That is the trouble; and so long as it is casior to beg than to Jubor w large proportion of these mon will roum the Bireets, Tho peculiar political economy of the darky has many students just pow, Me told the Chaplai ho waa im prison for borrowing a small sum of money. “iudecd,” was the tender hearted response, “Lwas not aware that im these enlightened days a man could be put in prison tor simply borrowing. “Well,” answered the political economist, “you soo there was somethiog unusual about my case. When the !onder leuds trcely then the law rocognizos only the ordinary mothods of trado; but 1 was compelled to knock tho mau down two or three times before he showod any willingness whatover to lot me have what T wanted, and even then I had to quickly and rapidly slip rouud # corner with the pocketbook in my hand.” Thero aro maay other “borrow of the same kind who use means moro oF leas “persuasive,” though sometimes more within the letter of the law, Kcclosiastical conceit haw its ludicrous side, Lt Js quite eneugh for aman to think himself orthodox and all others outside barbarians, bat to way und to act so are very disagreeable, And yet it Is very funny 10 8e0 a littlo man, Who has the rogulation cat to his a him cambrio needio with the HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1877.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. feeling that be bas room enough to take long journeys and even to lose himself, patronize and criticise a epiritual giaut who could wear bim on bis wateh chain, The Christian world bas not yet learned that {8 18 fe and power, and not the cut of an ecclesiasti- cal coat, that makesa mao, Aad so we smile at the British tar who only followed the example of his bet- tera when he said on Sunday morning, as he gave ne- toe of the service about to ve held:—*Reg"ars, stand where your har; fancy religions, fall bout.” The French have a very sharp way of putting ‘shinga, Dr. Monod, who was sent as.» delogate to the Van-Presbyterian Council in Edinbargb, is said to have remarked, “1 come here to Scotland and find you Convuleed over the question whether you shall sing hymus or not. In France we are absorbed with the question whether there ie a God or not” One ts im- pressed with just this diflerence in the two peoples, In Paris, and Paris stands for France, you can Oud al- most everytbing except Christianity. Science and philosophy got under the shelter of the Church, and ‘when religion compiained they turned and kicked her inte the street, as tne camel did the Arab in the Oriental tale, It would certainly be regarded by the condescension on their part to admit the possibility of ‘he existence of God, A science which worships iteelt @ the claims of Deity. Agreat many people would be religious if they could only make a hving out of i, Dr, Potter has Jearned shia jact by a rather hard experience. A poor fellow who wont to the morning prayer meeting was @ society, connection betweon his ndance at tife meoting and bis ability to pay his rent better than between his souland Heaven, Dissatisfied, how- sb this simple competency to mect the neces- Bities of living, and, reaching forth unto some of its loxuries, he expressed the decided opinion that unless Doster turned up to givo bim what he wanted he was terribly afraid that he woula nave to attend at least two prayor mectings a day, There is a great deal of this bread and butter religion in the community, too many who eel that they must listen to tho sermon In order to get th are of the loaves and fishes after the welcome amon has been pro- bounced, PRAYER FOR YOUNG MEN, The Triennial Conference of Young Men’s Christian Associations, of a'l lands, at their Inst seston desig- nated the week beginatog with tho second Sabbath in November—to-day-—es a week of proyer throughout the world for young men. In this they ask the spocial co-operation of charches and Christian people where, In many of the churches of this city special sermons will be preached to yeung men today. In ‘be Grand Union Hall Mr, Carter will address the Androw and Philip Society connected with the Churoh of the Boly Trinity, Dr Crook, also, ia Alanson Methodist Episcopal Uhurch, will preach to and about our young meu, The Rev. William Lioyd will speak to young men in Madi- Reformed Church on true manhood as it is illustrated in the character and courage of Shad- rach, Mesbach and Avednego, the three Hebrow princes who were made to pass through the flames in Buvylon by order of Nebuchadnezzar. The Kev, W. KR. Davis will preach 1m St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Uburch, Hartem, to young meg on lost birthrights, aud Rev. B. H. Burch will uddeces young men ulso in T went y: fourth Street Methodist Kpiscopal Church, on the service of God in demonstration of the proposision thas it ts uot a vain thing to serve Him. In all the Christian Associations of the land, and in those of tuls city, special services will be neld to-d ana during tue week. In Associativn Hall, Four! avenue and Twenty-third street, a public mecting will be held this ing for addresses und general re- marks. Similar meetings will be veld every alternoon during the week at bali-past three o'clock, excopt vn Satardey. Prayer meetings will be beid daily ut nali- past eight A. M., bail past twelve M. and hail-past six and mio P. M., except on Saturday, when the late meeting will bo beid at eight instead of nine o'clock. In the rooms of tue Youog Mea’s Christian Associa- vion at Yorkville (Eighty-sixtb sircet and Third jue) special services will be held a: eigut o'clock ery cVoning of the week except Saturday. The Rev. 5. H. Virgin, ¥,-D., of the Congregational Churoh, Harlem, wilt preach or deliver an addrees to-morrow evening; Dr, Thomas V. Anderson, of ibe Firat Bap- tut Church, will speak on Tuesday, and he will be fol. lowed by Dr, Sapiue, Reformed Episcopalian; by Dr, Hall, Prosbyterian, and by Dr, A.D. Vail, Methodist, On the successive evenings of the wook. A GENERAL METHODIST RALLY. Reunions and rallies aro becoming quite popular in these tines among Methodists as well as amoug other Christian denominations. Next Wednesday evening there will be a “grand rally” at old Forsyth Street Meshodist Episcopal Church, New York. Dr. Daniel Gurry will preside and Bisbops Bonman and Peck will’ deliver addresses, Prolersor George 3. Weeks will s0e that some good church music is renderod—and ail*tor noting. Next Sunday morning Bishop Peck will Preach im the same church and in the oveuing of that day Dr. Bennett Mitchell, of lowa, will preach. In the afternoon the Rev. Jobn Parker, Kev. Thomas H. Burch and other ministers will deliver addresses, Professor Robert Kdwards will direct the mosic on that Occasion, To-morrow evening the first of a course of six popular lectures will be given in Forsyth Stroet Church by the Rev. George H. Corey on ‘American Womanhood; a week trom to-morrow evoning the Rev. J. H. Richmond will doliver a lecture on “Genius,” and ou the following Monday ovening, November 26, tho Rev, Joun Johos will portray some 1 the pecaliarities of that erratic genius and pioneer of Methodism in tho West, Poter Cartwright, “Na- poleon Bonaparte” will bo described vy the Kev, Natban Hubbell, December 3, aua on December 10 the “Mysteries aad Miserics of Tobacco’? will ve revealed by Rev. Kobe! lones, On the eveni: erick Brown will a the Church. Aud thus tne course will be flied out and tastruction and entertainment Provided on six evenings for $1. The Mothodists of Brovkiyn are preparing tor ell on & grand scale toward th month. euing of F Y, 234 inst, aud they propose to spread bounteo tavies, to tur excellent vocal aud instru ausic and apiried hte hs uante y charge each pei entertaiumont, ‘the fund thus however, 1s designed to relieve two of their churches—oue in n Btree| uth Brook. lyo, and toe other in Flatbush, Besides the beuvyo- tent of thw reunion it cannot fail to work to Methodisin in many ways by brioging together men of the game tuith aod same city where they can become acquainted und feel 41 friendly grip of one anothe: Bi lym, and those of kindrea ire wOXIOUsly Watching to see how it succeeds, For if 1t does succeed they will repeat it, but if 16 fails hero they will lot it alone. The Presby: torimns of St. Luuis and perhaps of some other ciuos ght in number, wit ipusiaiming base, They mean to do wis by o tomatic plan of giving. tho demand feeble chureues to Vo met within Hx ‘This sum tho ull 10 Fa The plan ts said to be 4 Du Wt 18 inuorsed anu en- beat business men im that rvices will be held also to-day in Attorney Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The rev. J. J. Waite, of Williamsburg, a Jormer pastor, will preach in the morning, and Dr. C. H, Fowler tn tho evening, A laymon’s mooting will vo in thy alieruvon ua- dor ine loadersip of Sr. Daniel Barker, “THE WHOLE DUTY OF To tnx Koitor or tuk Hewaip This was a work of much repute, pablixhed many years ago, of goodly #tze, und cuntained (if 1 recollect aright) @ penance for each day of the year, The namo always seemed attractive, The book iiseil was too heavy and is now, | believe, out of print, We find howovor, the “whole duty of man’ is contasned in a very small compass—viz., “Tnou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with ail tby soul, aud with all thy mind, and thoa sbalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” And the Saviour (who imparied these commands) adds;—On these two commandments bang all the law aud tho prophets.” OF course we Cught castiy to udmire and love tho moat beautiful, the most kind, the most benevolent, lovely—the MAN.” Wisest and best of all beings. God is love. We nave only to repress our own seif-estimation, selishnoss, and court humility, Tho imvitation is “Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy jadon (wit troubies, anxieties) und I will give you rest and yo shall receive; seck und ye shall tnd and 1h shal be opened uo you. Co-operation is what the Almighty arks of us. If He competiod, Instead of asking, the result would net be productive oO! love, Jave canuot be coerced. It would not be Jove if It were dictated to, but merely its vile Hnita- Hoo—decet, It must be the free, undirected sen ment vi the soul Nothing could be tiner or ore comprehensive or explanatory of dontiment than tne | denuition given vy Stewart, in Worcester, vin ‘Tne Word sontitnent, ugreeably Ww the use made ot it by our best Kuglish writers, exprosses very happily those complex doterminaiions of the mind wien Fesalt from the cooperation of out rational powers and our moral jeelin) We do not speak of a mua’s Soutiment concorning & mechauicul coutrivance, or « Physical bypoth of concerning any speculativo Question whatever, by which the tee Hable te be roused or the heart affected, Mand to “Lovo thy neighbor wh thyself’ in aso easily accomplisuod. Wivest your mind of the, evil ways, the evil passions, tho forbidding ‘“ppearances which surround your neighbor {rom the Your neighbor, and iook upon the human ry child of Ged your beavenly Father, aad your love and affection toward your ncighvor will be to relieve oue thus oppressed, by evil ways and pas- sons, (rom these evils; and thereby you would be forming an act of love, which would mecessarity soul sod bom convincing proof Theso acts of ot followed that pathway ‘oBsingly sceptical that fruits would not be produced thereby, Ihey never seek to ‘them by following the precepts of the great Teacher, the true guida WM COVENTRY H. WADDELL, 4 TALMUDIST ON A ST. LOUIS RABBI, Nuw Yor, Oct 30, 1877, To Tas Epiton oy tus HeRauD:— 3 In your issue of Sunday, October 28, under “Re- ligtous Lateliigence,”” Or, Sonnenschein, of St. Louls, te reported to have asserted, ‘But what is the Bible to She Israciites? Even for the Talmudical Jow it doos not deserve the credit it obtains among the Christians, Tho Talmud itself says that the unwritten law is bigher aud more to be honored than the written, Those who dealt with the canon of the Jewish Bible knew that they bad to do with the work of man and did not be- eve ta its divine origin.” Now, although Dr, Sonnen- acbein is a prowuchor of a Jewish cong gation of St. Louis, he o by 20 means ® true expounder of Jewish principles nor entitied to be called a Jewish rabbi Rabbi 4g an honorary tile for a wan learned in and strictly livieg up to the Jowisb jaw, a unag distin- guished tor ‘almudical lore and great piety. Nove Of these characteristics cum be ciated fer Dr. Sonne. wobeiu, The whole spirit of the Talmud evinces the highest reverence ior tue words of God ua expressed 1a the Bible. Every exprossion, syllabic and letter 1s scru- {imiged to deduce thereirum rules tor the relig:ous und morat life, aud Dr. Sonneurehein hus the arrogant au- $0 uesert that the sages oi tho Talmud did not origin, The assertion hseif that the fe to be hon- {8 not the invention of St Louis, but a plagiarism trom apostate Nicolaus of Rupella, who kiodied (he first pyre lor tu uction of the ‘Talmud under Louis the Holy of France, ‘That apostate had the auvautuge over Dr. Sonnenscheta 1 Sheroughiy, but o Feligionist Talmud Bivle by their synods, und only decisions shall roguiuto the re- they preserved Judaism tor centuries trom sonia: Vagaries of Dr. Sonnenschein would Only descrve silent contempt, his assertions are enerally 4 tissue ol perversions, had not your rgely Circulatea journal taken notice of them, “8, THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON MAR- RIAGE, The voice of tho Episcopal Charch, through its chief Pastors, at the late Convention in Boston, gives no un- Certain sound on the question of marriage ana divoror, The theory of the Protestant Episcopal Church on these questions is as strict ag that of the Roman Catholic Church, But the practice of members of both differs trom each other and trom their respective theories, The bishops, however, in their pastoral letter to the Church, deprecate the present want of Adelity to the sacrednees of marriage, This evil, they say, 1s shown in the levity with which marriuge is cou. tracted, in the unscrupulousness with which it is entered upon by men and women to whom it is for- Didden by tho laws of the ancient Charch of Gou, by the laws of the Christian Church, and, in gomo in- ances, by the laws of nature itself, Tho same un- happy tendency is shown tn tho readiness with which divorces are obtained on slight and insuficient grounds, and subsequent umiens formed which are called mar- Tiages, but which our Lord has pronounced to be adai- tories, The bancful and unchristian s| of public opinion which tolerutes und ireqnently even legulizes such Qcts 18 a portentous omen tor the luture ol relig: upd society in our country. ‘ihe sanctity of marriage 1g the moral power which mainly binds together and uphoids the duties, the interests, the chartti a decencies of social life, Without it conjugal cays, parcatal love is weakened, the purtur training of children are neglected or perverted; the purity und peace of the Christian home are exchanged Jor the corruption, tho strife, the frequent homicides, the anarchy of heathen society. All human nisiory Seaches us that in an nge or country where mar: lightly esteemed the people become d effeminate, aud at the same time tierc Jawicss, [be great nations, the beroic, treo, havo been marked by this characteristic, that they honored marriaga, And what is of immeasuravly more importance, where marriage is disregarded tho souls of men are grievously imperiled and many times lost; for Ho who 1s our Judgo a weil as our Saviour has distinctly forewarned us that he who mur- by i Jigious rites ‘Th commits adultery. They (ihe bishops) therefore urgi Upon the ministry the duty of instructing the families eommitted ~o tnelr charge with renewed care and dill- ce in (nu ew principles of moral purity which give oncr nna esrougth to Christian wedlock, And they urge upon psteuts the duty to irain their children to a clear knowledge of what the law of God required in the relations of the sex well ng in guarded habits in whatover pertains to the manners and intercourse of social tie; and upon all the people of the Church to preserve the chastity and constancy of that divine bond between busband and wite which our Lord bas choson as a living image to represent the wystical uaion of Himself with His Bride, the Church, A OATHOLIC MISSION UP TOWN. At the Charch of 8s. John the Evangelist, East Fif- ith street, the well known missionary, Father Damon assisted by a band of Jesuit fathers, has boen conduct’ ing a very successful mission for the past two weeks, ‘Their labors have been crowned with unwouted triumph ana many stray sheep have been ro- claimed from the byways of sin and wickedness, The mission will close on Tuesday morning, when the @acrameot of confirmation will be administered vy Cardinal MoCloskey. This evening a locture will be delivered in the church by Rev. Father Damon, on the subject of “Popular Objections to the Catholic Cuuren,’”? Tho lecture will be preceded vy grand Vespers, song by the choir of tho church, and com. mencing at seven o'clock. PRESBYTERIANISM IN KUROPE Tho Presbyteriall Oburch of Kngland now consists Of 258 congregations, divided iuio ten presbyterics, Nearly one-half of the 268 church buildings are frec. hold, and the insurance on the samo amount to $2,500,000, The debts upon churches and manses amount ia ali to $500,000, fully forty per cent of which is on tho churches in the London Pres- bytory, These buildings have together 106,774 sittings, of which 61,363 let or appropriated, Several congregations have adopted the sysiom of not letting sittings, The government of tho Church is entrusted to 1,203 elders, 494 deacons and 1,666 managers, Tho memborstip of the Church consists of 43,434 communicants, A considerable num- ber of the congregations havo but few members, as many as filly having less shan 100 The largor con. gregations ure principally im tho presbyteries of New. casele, Liverpool aud London, During the yoar, while 6,512 communicants have beon added by admission for tho first time and by certificate, as many as 6,023 have beon removed eithor by certiicate, death or lapsing, leaving only 1,489 gain, During the yeor thero have been recorded 485 marriages, 2,066 baptisms nnd 625 deaths, The workers inthe Church are 1,400 district Visitors, 1,726 members of Dorcas societies anu 4,367 Sunday school teachers, having under their curo 42,068 scholars © are, Moreover, connected with the Church 6,743 aay scboiurs, 2,035 members of young men’s societies and 6,601 memvers of Bible classes, Tho stipends of miniaters amounted to $316 03, of which Jorty per cont passed through the sustentation tunu, or augmentation fund, aud sixty per cent was contrivuted ts supplement by the cougregations. Che toval income of tue Chareh irom all sources was $787,275. The Church employs two Jewist missionaries in ihe Kast of London, The susteniation tund receipts for the year were $117,655, and the committes have declared tun equal dividend of $260 jor tho firet quarter of ine current year, The church building fund subscriptions ammount to $98,865, The thankegiving tund exceeds $540,000, lu scotland the Presbyterian Church consisis of 240 Parishes, whose church buildings provide sittinus lor 163,800 persons. ‘I'he value uf ihe Church buildings, endowments, &o,, 18 $5,500,000, and ont of the endow- Mont it 18 proposed to aad 100 additional parish churches and other buildings throughout the province, ata total cost of $750,000, A correspondent vi the Christian at Clares that the itberals of Fraves, irritated with the Charch for leaning toward despotic instita. Hons, are become indiforont, or are quitting her aitogother, Among the 1aboring classes in Paris th is & Very decided movement in tavor of Prot and several of the Reformed churches are Catholics, who, without openly vreaking communion with their owu Chureh, preter tho doctrine of Unlyin to the Sy!lavus, M. Surccy givos a curivus account of 4 wholesale conversion Which appoars to have taken place in the Departmentot Aim. In the villoge ot st. diaurice de Gourdans was a schoolmuster who gave general satisiaction to the inhamnants, He was sud. Work de- decly removed at the tnstigation of the curd Villagers #ent @ deputation to their Hist the dismissal of ihe curd, but We Bishop retase Tecerve the delegates. Their next step was to xo to Lyons and ask the Synod to evangelize their parish, The hext Sunday two pastors repaired to St. Maurice de Gourdans, and all the heads of tne piace, with tho Mayor at their head, wore convertou to tho humvuer of 160, and a commit was formed to reewive further adhesions. At the samy Lime that this cplaode Was ponsing beyond the walls of the recond city of Franco tho Arehvishop of Lyons was on, pastoral to hig clergy on tho eutjo po 1 mmaculate Conception, in whica lio declare wes solely owing vo ¢ Fourgieros that Lyons w: vasion in 187], ‘Muy,’ prayors aad supplications of protection of the Virgin of aved from tho German tp- Mgr. Caverot, ‘saw tho dipoeso ascend to hor || ib throne, and with her hand she drove back the enemy, who bad almost arrived at our gates.” WESLEY AND HIS PERSECUTORS. A correspondent of the Episcopal Methodist of Balti- more relates the following incident in the life of the Rev. Joba Wesley, which shows the meekness of that good man under abuse and the retribution of Provi- dence upon his persecutors, It was related many years ago by a eigbty years of age, a Roman Catholic, named Sheert bo lived near the town of Boyle, Ireland, and who not only saw the incident, but also the subsequent end of the family. In the course of © conversation about how some families melt and die oul witbout any apparent cause he gave the tacidentas jollows:—I remember 4 circumstauce that occurred when 1 was avery young man, 1t wason @ holiday, alter coming out trom mass, in the chapel of Boyle, as it was cOstomary then, as itis now, to stand in Bridge street aud have # chat with the neighbors, At this place there was @ botel, owned by one of the richest men tn town; be had two tanneries, several large ierms well stocked, together with other property, I saw ong John Wesley, a very nice old man, with long white bar. When he came lorward to the part of the street where the crowd was, he got up on a stone outside of the hotel door, that was used for at, and commenced preaching to the people, ina few minutes after be ad commenced some ol the family went up stairs procured a chamber vessel and emptied tho contents out of a window down on his head, le scemed to take Do notice of what wos done further thau takin; his handkerebief and wiping his head and face. When the peopie saw whut was done, aud he took it so pa- ently, they said it Was a shame; and from that timo they listened to him very attentively during fF of his sermon, ry led bis discourse, he turned, and . Bald, ‘God forgive you and L looking at the how forgive you, But lam oot sent of God if that umily comes tv 4 good eud.’ The old man said the predic. ton of Ar. W id true. In twelve months after one it death, and the daugh- ter became « castaway; the father aod motner were reduced to extreme want und nota trace of the family was to be found iu about five years’ time,” This oc- eet irom the old man’s statement, between tne years 1780 and 1790, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, BAPTisT, Offences and divisions will come, but it ts by no means universal for churches to settle their troubles with so much good common sense as it has been donw in the Baptist Church, at Erie, Pa, The contending parties were evidently advised by | common senso council, and the church was wise onough to act upon their advice, The result ts unity and hope, instead of division and despair, About 145 members had gono off from the old church, under the belie! thata new organization would be desirable, Both organizations were becoming demoralized—one charch retained the pastor but were uoablo to pay him, the other had no pastor, A new charter and new officers wore chosen, and now harmony and peace prevail Dr. Danie! Read is bappy again. Some months ago ho asked the Baptist Ministers’ Conference for money enough to purchase an elephant for tue missionaries, Mason and Phillips, laboring among the Garos of In- dia, He now acknowledges tho receipt of $254 84 for this purpose, But this is hardly sufficient. Rev. D. Thomas MacClymont preached his farowell sermon to the Second Baptist Church at Stillwater, N. ¥., on Sunday last, to a Iarge audience. During his threo years’ pastorate there havo beeu eighly- seven additions, sevonty of which have been by bup- ism, He leaves with tho beat wishes of the cuurch, Rev, H. 8, Loyd closed a pleasant pastorate of nearly nino years in Waverly, N. Y very picasant manner, Sunday belure last. With a menn berabip of over three huudred and sixty, a fine pri r erty unlucumbered by debt, without o ripple of ‘die. senelon, with a flourishing Sunday school, full prayer meetings and Sunduy congregations and inquire seeking Christ, the church 1s certainly in good condi- tion to part with un old pastor and to welcome a new one. Brother Loyd goes to Hamilton as Financial and Corresponding Secrotury of the Education Society. PRESBYTERIAN, Presbyterian Christians, suys @ correspondent, mokiug three mistakes—they are doing only ry tithes of whut they ought to do to help the ireedmen up; they are choosing sites for churches, now build. ing, away trom the population, because the site is sightly, They miss it; they are not so polite w new comers in the community (uuless they ve handsome peopie) as they might be, or as other people are. Thus they lose good material, the Presbyterians have 270 churches, 205 ministers and 21,812 members in the state of Virginia, ‘Tho ‘Presbytery ot Elizabeth, N. J., proposes heres after Lo pay tue mileage of 118 Own cominiasioners to the Genoral Arsombly und retuses to assess ite churches or members any spocific sum for the General Conmuis- woners’ tund, Its churches, however, are at liberty to contribute as much us they please to this fund. ‘Lhis action was oalled forth by the Inst Geueral As- sembly passing a rosolution iuisisting hercatter upon the pay mont by presbytories of their full assessinent jor this iund, The Presbytery of Elizabeth velevos Buch action to be unconstitutional It a majority of the presbyteries foliow this euit 14 must lead to a re- duction in the number Of commissioners or ihe dis franchitement of many small and poor presbyteries, The Presbyterian Synod of Now York reprisents 165 churches, which gave last year $993, about gue-third of Which Was ior the various benevolent ob- Jects of the denomination, Giving und growtu scem to go together, as this synod bas proved by the adui- tion o1 2,472 members on examination and 1,144 by letter, The Union Evangelical services conducteu by Rev. Mr, Hammond there bave steadily increased in interest and are now abserbing the attention of largo numbors in that city. very evouing during the pust week Mr. Hammonu, with some of the ministers, has spoken in Getty’s square to an audience varying irum eight bundred to tweuty-tive hundred persous, The Rev. Sherman Hoyt, of Sait Point, nas removed to Pleasant Platus, N. Y. Rev. laaac Switt, of Oak- field, has removed to Akron, N. ind Rev. D, J. Biggar, of Verone, to North Litehfielu, N. ¥. ‘The Prespytoriaa Church at Phelps has called the Rov, V, A. Lewis, of Port Byron, torate, i. Yi, 00 tte pas oted as a pleasant incident of fraternity that ¢ installation | ot Rev, H. M. Parsons as pastor of the Lalayeite Stroet Presbyterian Church, Baffalo, vr. Van Bokkelio, rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Charch, assisted in the oxercises, METHODIST. Hanson Piece Church, Brovklyn, Dr, Reed pastor, is the strong church of the Conference, having a church property worth $92,000, @ membership numbering 950, with a Sabbath school having 80 officers und teachers and over 1,000 scholars, Last year was a year of glorious revival. The pastor reports 113 persons received on probation, ‘The new Mcthodist chureh in Gollad, Texas, 1s com- plete and roady for occupaney. A ehurch 14 soon to be butit ia the Greenwood settiement, Goliad county, Texas, Miss Almira Li formerly and for many years a missionary in this city, bas gone to pursue her voca- on among the Mormuns, At her farewell meeting, ia Willett Street Church, the Rov, J. £. Searles suid that Mormons were of all creeds and nationalities ex- cept irish and Jews, He said be bad nevor met an Irish or Jew Mormon. Dr. B. F. Rawlins dedicated a new Methcdist Epis- copal church 1a Owensville, Ind., on Sunaay lant. Bishop Disney, of the British 'Methodias Episcopal Church (colored), Vominiou of Canuda, hax issued a pastoral madres, designating December 6 ‘as a day Of fasting and prayer.’ Kev. J, F, Loyd, of Cincinnati Conference, has ac- Copiod the presidency of tho Femalo Coilege at Hills. borough, Oniy, im place of Rev. J. Me), Matthews, D, D., resigned, ‘The Rev, Julius Nelson ts paying off tho romains of an old debt which tor years has rested on the Church at Sheepsuend Bay, The membership and cor Hon arc increasing, and a good, religious spirit Hesting sell, Kev. Wallace W, Dancan, of Woflord Cotlogo, x. C., brotuer of the late Dr. J, A. Duncan, bas been clected President of Randolph-Macon Coliego, Virginia, Kishop Marvin, of the Church south, Writing from Athens, says he Greek Church seems wholly destiinte of the ile of reliwion, 1 am convinced, irom Jarge wwquiry, that the people know absolutel, ing of repontance, of living faith, and the gr ot the new birth, Inbor. noth. it twee Iba great field tor missionary EPISCOPALIAN, Mr. BO, Gould, of trinity School, Tivol, N. Y. correcta an item whieu apppered in these colum Fecontiy tat cortain evangelical bishops of the A iW herenttor to members of the BOW proscribed Society of tho Holy Cross by deciaring that sach re- fusal Would be illegal, Mr. Gould wisoaneisty that the Rev. Arthur Lootu’s position is the only logical and tenable ono iu the Kngiish Charch, and in proof thereot he cites the monster meetings And receptions givon to that gentleman, If this be so, there 1s citer A Bifange poversion of tacts somewhere oF appearances are ry ive, lt is bardiy probable that Mr, Jooth, Who defies tho law of tue land and the law of his Church and its officers, can bo looked upon by any fair-minded man in avy other lightas a wilul ofuader, ‘fad one who bas dospised his ordination vows and sot bis own opiniou above (Hat of the recognized uuthority fu both Chureh and State. A churchman of Chicago offers a house worth $12,000 ur un episcopal residence in case tho pro. posed division into three dioceses 18 effected. Thirty- five thousand dullars worth of church devts bave been paid during the last twelve months in the propos diocese, 01 which $25,000 was paid by Chicage. The Rey. Willam Foster Morrison has aocepted the rectorship of tho Church of Our Saviour, baltimore, Mad. The Pacyic Churchman, which was suspended, lay quiet only lor a week of two, and now, through th Kindness of a good jayman, in on Its leet again, to do a good Wotk for Calilorma aud tho Pact St. Stepacn’s Churet and improved ab au expense of $4,000, of which Mr, George Hl, Kirkham contribuves $3,400. The cathedral system 1% Lo be introduced into the diocese of New Jersoy, aud at the convoeations of Jersey City and ot N were appointed to cooler on the ma cungent of (he bishops to its 1atrod Tue Rey. GO. V, Kastman has ship of Zion and St Jobu'schurel The Kev. Witham ©. Starr bas ‘aud obtain the ti0n, igned tho rector. Manchester, Vt. yacinthe to lay the the Fathor was al jan Church bad refused ordination or would re- | pathy with the Episcopal Church of America, tree b - ait ahackise, toe catholic, liberal and ristian.'? The Rev, George Stuart Baker the restor- ship of St, James’ Church, Batavia, N. ¥., to become 4nd superintendent of St. Luke's Hospital, in tered on bis work last week. . O. Ellis Stevens accepted the rectorship of the Church ot the Ascension, Brookiya, B. D., and en- ered on hig pastorate last Sanday, re Western Convocation of the Giesene ot New ‘ork wil! meet in St, George's Chui jowburg, oa Wednesaay next _ — ROMAN CaTHOLIO, The new Catholic Carch at Hopewell, N, J., will be dedicated by Bishop Corrigan to-day, Father Doane, of Newark, will deliver the oration, Senator MePhor- son has contributed a» stained giass window for the editice. The Roman Catholic popaiation of Virginia ts set down at 17,000, fwenty-oue churches the re miu. issered to by twonty-iuree priests and one bishop. The Rev. ¥. A. Stauton, of Vhiladelppia, Provincial of the Augus' Order in the United states, has beea mado 4 Dector and Master in Sacred Theology. During the recent mission of the Jesuit Fathers in tho old Cathedrat in Desrou fourteen Protestants em- braced he Catholic faith and were baptised und con- Ormed therein, ‘Three of the Odlate Fathers of Lowell, Mass, have concluded a mission in St. John’s Church, Syra- cure, N. Y., of whieh Father Guerdet is the old and Venerated pastor. The mission lasted two weeks, apd Was productive of much good, as thousands availed themselves of this opportanity to receive the sacra- ments, The same fathers have gone to Northern New York to give missions in the diocese of Ogdensburg, Bishop Lougolia, of Brooklyn, has enterea on the twenty-fiith, OF jubtiee, year of ‘bis episcopate in shat diocese, At the church of Wintield, L. 1, Father Dauflenbach, pastor, on last Sunday the Bishop ade miulstered confirmation to ninety-live persons. The Sce of Napies, which was jeit vacant by the death of Cardinal Kiano Sporza, has not yet been filled by ine Pope. ‘The Holy Father, yielding to the entreaties of His Eminence Cardinal ’anevianco, toe condition of whose heulth prevents his continuing to exercise tne func. tions of Grand Penetensiary, has rebeved bim of big charge and uppotuted His Kiniuence Cardinal Bilio in bis siead, Curdival Martinelli succeeds Cardial Billo as Preject of thy Sacred Congregation of Rites, Rev. P. Toohey, who bas successtuily governed, ag President, St. Joreph’s Coilege, of Ciucinnati, for some years, has been uppointed to assist Rev. P. Coo- ney, 5. U., in giving missions The direction of the Coll thus made vacant, bas been placed in tne hands of Futber Franciscus, Ali Saiuts’ Day and Ali Souls’ Day, of the Benedic- tine Urder, November 13 and 14, will be observed with impressive ceremonies in St. Mary's and St, Benedict's, Newark. ‘Tho Redemptorist Fathors are conducting a mission at Elizabethtown, N. J. Very Rev. Francis Jassen is now the Administrator of tue Diovese of Kichmond, and of the Vicariate of North Carolina, until a bishop of the Diocese be ap- pointed, MISCELLANKOUS, At the annual meeting ul the Jewish congregation Shearith Israci, beid iutely in Nineteenth Street syna. gogue, the reports showed that the total receipts for the yeur endiug July 1, 1877, were $18,254 92, of which $9,857 were receiveu 1 ats and 33 66 for offerings, The expenaituret ‘© $17,699 of which the Hagan received $4,000; the Snamas, $2,000; the choir expenses, $1,85, 53, aud paid on account of the Polwnies ‘I. hool iund, $1,615 52 The total amount of ti ove school lund 18 $23,581 84 ‘The balance In hands of tho treasurer of the congregation 555 OV. Forty y go @ missionary was not allowed upon the Fiji Islands. Now 40,000 young Fijians attend Sunaay school, ‘ The Lutherans bave @ memorial church in Wash- ington wi has property worth $100,000; but the society has a pressing debt, woich Lutheran churches ure asked to help puy off, Manya clergyman bas broken down through preach. jog fue print Prius peopie, One hundres chapels aod mis- sions in San Francisco give one place of worship to Xclusive of “the strangers within id wervices aro conducted in Freucn, Spanish, tussian, Scandinavian, Italian, German, He- brew, Wels, Kuglish and Chinese. Jt 1s proponed 10 1 World’s Missiopary Conven- ndon next fall, enoial Conierence of the ¥, M. C, A of all be beld io Paris in 1878. ‘he twentieth annual Convention of the New Jersey jay School Association will be neld in the Willis St Baptist Church, in Paterson, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 14, 14 and 15, THE PURIFYING WAVES, BERMON BY THE REY. DR, HUEBSCH IN THR JEWISH TEMPLE AHAVATH OHESED, " The Rev. Dr. A. Huebsch preached yesterday in the Jewish Temple Ahavath Chesed, Lexington avenue, taking for his text Genet vil, LlL—“Aad the dove came to him at the time of the evening, and lo, am oltve leat piucked off was in her mouth, The fact of a miguty flood that covored the earth ia tte earliest period ts chronicled in the record of all am Gient nations, Moreover, itis imprinted in the vast shoets of tho various continents, so that the most scoptic cannot duabt its truth, Many of its seientifa details can be studied in the diferent museums where the respective excavations are preserved. The Bible, however, in spenking of this carly event, makes it her task to display the picture in all the majesty of ite moral significance betore the cyes ot our mind, and abe succecas so thoroughly that we may salely assort that this ono chapter of the Holy Book, if well under- Stood, imparts suilicient wisdem and love to provecs and guide mon on the checkered path of life, ONK SIDK OF THR GRAND PICTURK, Let us view, said the Doctor, tho different groups of this picture, and we shall be ablo to jadge of its unsurparsed merits, Thore we seo the young terres- triat globe blooming and beaming in the glee of youth, inhabited by a genoration that was blessed With abundance, vigor and longevity. All tne physle cal condition lor uudisturbed prosperity prevailed. Only one thing was missing—morality, This want, bowever, blighted the boauy of the earth and ‘andermined the wellare of iis inbabitants: ail tho riches of the young planct, ull the health and stongth of @ gigautic raco were of no avail; where the gbawing worm of immorality, of godlessness, feeds on the precious piant of prosperity there, like the gourd of Jonah, it withors in one night Man may become deocived by his apparent prosperous state; thetorbear- aace of the long suffering God may lull him tmto the fatal belief that there t# boither faith por judgment; suro and certain, however, it is that the moment we begin to ignore the supreme power und to déty the ruling Wisdom of the Eternal we seal our own sentence, Retribution begins bis troa march, We cannot evade, Wo cannot resist i, Bo the station of the sinner yet as high retribution comes like the sweeping torrent, pouring Jown from on high, breaking torth from the dark deptos, rieivg bigher aud ever higher until it covers tho highest mountains of buman greatnoers and the roar of its unchanged billows proclaims to the trembling world God is justice, ANOTHKK SIDE OF THE PICTURE Then to apoiber side vi tue wondorlui picture The struggling earth has uisappeared. The messeoger of God has conquered. Far, tur away ts spread the soli- tude of waters, and as on the day of creation the spirit of tho Omnipotent movos aloo over the im- mense deep. But yonder, oa the iar horizon, what is the litte speck moving to and fro—now vanishing ag Mt devoured by the hungry waves, now again cmerg- ing us if torn by tho haad of the Aimignty out of the yawning jaws of death? Tuis is Noah's ark. ‘This is man’s track on the stormy flood of lie, This Irugile vessel floating safely on the eloment of destruc tion, and carryiog 1m the midst of ruin the seod tor & new and better worid, is the endowment of God's providence—is the illustration of that cardinal trata. that justice and morcy meet in Him. The same hand that desiroyod a sinini world holds with a iathera Care over the waves the faithial child that chngs to Him, Seatarer on the trowvied ocean of ile, that tt. tle speck, tossed Lut not bariped by raging cloments, speaks 10 thee, It prociaims to all sufferers tho hoavenly message, ‘440d 1s love.” NOAM AND THY REAPPRARING WORLD, Tho waters avate; nearer and wearer dri the bark to the newly cmerged shore, We can see it now aia. tinetly, Tbe window of the bark opens, The head of A man appsars in Luv open window; gray ta bis hale, the features of his face bour the trajes of the 190 days of such a sea voyago a4 Nouh made. Bat his eyet how enraptured st grecis the long missed rays ot the sun, how joyfully it rests om the first boding of the ‘reappearing world! It cannot be mistaken what this part of the grand tavleau means to say. It preaches tho great sermon of HMie—remgnation, Bate feror, as Jong as the flood of misfortune rages keep close within the God-given ark of faith, There 1s the Window, (rust alter Lhe stormn it will open, thy eyes will grect again the rays of tho rising sun; after a lost world thoa wilt Ond & new und brighter world, lor God 8 the hope and God ts tho fulflient. THK RAVEN AND TIE WHITE DOVE, Now what is in our picture? The raven, flying out of the open window of the ark and the dove bring: the olive leaf, The formor is the ead :mage of who docs not profit by the jexsons of iife, Black was the raven before the flood and black he remainod aftor the same. All the water of the Deluge could not change bis features into white, and hy into goodness. So on ian: purifying process of Divine visitation is on them. They learn nothing and they forget ing They never cujoy the sweet iruit of enjoym tn faith, ‘Its contrast i# the dove; & neart that ope ite chainbers to the sai 01 1ts Maker, a soul that goos forth cleansed aod ennobled from the cractl of tribulation; that is the white dove, bringing heme in the time of 1ife's evening tbe olive leaf of peace aad contentnent, of @ happiness that, when entered o@ earth, begins in heaven never to end, A OONTEMPLIBLE SWINDLER, Aman about thirty-dve yoars of age, who gave big name as John Murtha, called at St, Malachi’s Roman Catholic Orphan Asyluin, Brooklyn, on Friday after. noon, aod stated to the Sisters ot Charity in charge of that institution that he bad a bargain im groceries \ which ho was desirous they sould have, Subsequently he drove up to the door and teft tuere what he rop- ied to bea barrel of sugar These arvcle sold for $50 60, A ohed! When he bad opened the barrel, where the: sugar, and in the chest the quarter of the quantity of tea they They hed been swindled out of §40, contomptre described as being about Sve tees a4 Of sandy complexion, ang bie swindler, who f