The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1878, Page 13

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBEK 24, 1878.-QUADRUPLE SHEET—WITH SUPPLEMENT. RELIGIOUS. INTELLIGENCE Programme of Services To-Day. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS---CHAT BY THE WAY. Synagogue Worship—Religion the Foun- dation of Marriage. “Joshua and the Rams’ Horns" will givo Rev. J. F. Richmond food for thought this evening in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Mr. McDermot will preach there in the evening. “The Midnight Explorations in New York and Brooklyn” will be pictured this evening by Rev. Dr. Talmage in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. “God Revealed by Christ” and ‘‘The Drunken Mon- arch and Fatal Festival” will be presented to congre- gations to-day in the Lycoum Theatre by Rev. J. W. Bonham. ‘That “Life May be a Success in the Midst of Earthly failure” the Rev. J. E. dearles will prove to Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church to-day. Rev, 8. J. Knapp preaches morning and evening in Btanton Street Baptist Church. At Trinity Baptist Church the Rev. J. B. Simmons, D. D,, will preach this morning, and Captain Stur- flevant will speak this evening. During the week Dra, Hoyt, Hepworth, Jutten and other ministers will preach. “The Cowardly Disciple’ will be condemned by Rev. J. Q. Adams this afternoon in the Berean Baptist Church. Mr, Adams will preach morning and even- ing also. Dr. Armitage will preach to the Fifth Avenue Bap- tist Church this morning and evening. “The Woman that Buried Five Husbands” will be commended by Rev. W. B. Affleck this evening, in the Helping Hand Temperance Church. Rev. Harvey Wood preaches there in the morning. A gospel temperance service will be held in Wash- ington Square Methodist Episcopal Church this morn- ing, when Francis Murphy and Dr. J. M. King will deliver addresses. In the evening Rev. George Van Alstyn will preach. A plea for honesty in temperance work will be made this afternoon by Mrs. Van Cott, the evangelist, be- fore the American Temperance Union, in Clarendon Hall. The same lady is announced to address the rival organization—National Temperance Institute— in Cooper Institute, at the same hour. How she can be in two places, five blocks apart, at the same hour, must be known only to the temperanco folk who prolish the fact. Miss Nellie Brigham lectures for the spiritualists in their hall this morning and evening. Rev. Samuel Colcord will preach this afternoon to young men in Chickering Hall on “‘Success.”” In the Church of the Holy Spirit the Rev. Edmund Guilbert will minister at the usual hours to-day. In the Bleecker Street Universalist Church the Rev. E. C. Sweetser will show how to “Profit by Mis- takes” this morning and will preach a sermon to young people in the evening. Dr. J. D. Herr preaches to the Central Baptist 0 urch morning and evening. Rev. R. 8. MacArthur preaches morning and evening in Calvary Baptist Church. “Disappointed Expectations” and “Hopes Real- ized’ will be discussed to-day by Rev. Alexander Me- Kelvey in Canal Street Presbyterian Church. “Christ for New York or New York for Christ” is the subject of Rev. W. H. Mickle’s discourse this morning in Lexington Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In the evening Mr. Micklo will give an illus- trated sermon on the “The Philippian Jailer.” Dr. Deems preaches as usual to-day in the Church of the Sttangers. “The Chief Value of Religion” will be presented this morning by Rev. J. M. Pullman, to the Church of Our Saviour. In the evening Dr. E. H. Chapin will Rev. J. D. Wilson preaches in the Central Presby- terian Church this morning and evening. Evening topic, “Heavenly Mindedness.”* Rev. Dr. Shipman ministers to Christ Church to- Gay, as usual, In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. D. B. Van Buskirk will preach at the usual hours to- dey. “Prayer for Temperance Blessings” will be en- forced and illustrated by Dr. C. H. Fowler this morn- ing in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal Church. In the evening the Doctor will discuss “The General Judgment.” “The Bright Side of New York, and How to Make it Brighter,” will be explained by Dr. J. P. Newman this evening in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor preaches in the morning also, After preaching on the Lord’s Prayer this morning, the Rev. W. F. Hatfield will inquire this evening, in the Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, “Do the Recent Crimes and Disclosures Prove New York Worse Than Other Cities?" In the First Reformed Episcopal Church the Rev. W. T. Sabine will preach this morning and evening. Preaching services will be held to-day at the usual hours in the Free Baptist Church. ‘A Gospel temperance meeting, led by Mr. Thomas Maslin, will be held this afternoon in the hall No, 118 West Thirtieth street. Similar meetings will be held in the same place on Tuesday and Friday evenings and in the Reformed Dutch chapel on Fifty-fourth street to-morrow evening, when Captain Sturtevant, the rescuer of Francis Murphy, will deliver an ad- dress. “The Bible and the Church” will be discussed this morning by Rev. George 8. Chambers in Murray Hill Presbyterian Church, In the evening ‘‘Salva- tog! will be presented. loseph Cook, of Boston, will begin a series of lec- @ures in Association Hall, New York, next week. “The Anglo-Saxon in India’ will be presented in Madison Square Presbyterian Church this evening by Rev. W. J. Tucker, D. D. “The Problem of the Poor’ and ‘Faith in Life and Death” will be considered by Rev. George H. Hep- worth to-day in the Church of the Disciples. Dr. William Ormiston will preach this morning nd Rev. E. A. Reed this evening in the Madison Avenue Reformed Church, Dr. Bridgman preaches morning and evening in Madison Avenue Baptist Church. J In the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church the Rev. William Lioyd will preach this morning on “Man Limiting God,” and in the evening on “A Dream of Two Worlds.” Rev. F. M. Van Slyke will preach in the Pilgrim Baptist Church at the usual hours to-day. This evening, in the Park Theatre, Mr. C. W. Saw- yer will conduct a gospel tenrperance meeting. Dr. 8. H. Tyng, Sr., will address young people this afternoon in the Church of the Holy Trinity. Dr. Tyng, Jr., preaches morning and evening. “The Nature and Necessity of Revivals” and “The Nature of Future Punishment” will be shown to-day, in Fifticth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, by Rev. W. P. Corbit. Rev. H. W. Knapp, D. D., will preach in Laight Btreet Baptist Church this morning and evening. “The Throne and Royalty” and “The Touch That Restores” will be discussed by Rev. W. N, Searles, in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Eptacopal Church, to- day. In the Tabernacle Baptist Church the Rev. R. B. Hull will preach this morning on “Our Blessings’ and this evening on “Leasons from the Life of Solo- mon.” The thirteenth anniversary of St. Alban’s Protest- ant Episcopal Church will be observed to-day, Rev. ©. W. Morrill will preach, In St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church this morning the Rey. W. 2. Davis will speak of “Meek- fess, the Power that Inherits the Earth,” and in the pvening will speak on rist's Wayside Sermon to the Woman of Samaria.” Union Evangelistic services will be conducted to- day in Spring Street Presbyterian Church by the Rev. §. Colcord, . and during the week by other eminent Ministers of this city and Brooklyn. “Reverence for the Aged” will be enforced this porning by Rev. D. B. Jutten in the Sixteanth Baptist Church. In the evening Mr. Jutten will bring sick persons to the Great Physician. Dr. George C. Lorimer, of Boston, lectures on Tues- day evening in Calvary Baptist Church on “The Teachers’ Teacher.” Rey. W. B. Merritt will repeat his lecture on “‘Mu- sic” this evening, and will preach in the morning in the Sixth Avenue Reformed Church. “The Sunday School Teacher's Responsibility” will be discussed on Tuesday evening at the meeting of the New York Sunday School Association in Dr. Crosby’s church. Preaching in Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Epis- copal Church this morning and evening by Rev. B. H. Burch, “The Second Coming of Christ” will be discussed this evening by Rev. Joseph Kennedy in the Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Church, Dr. E. N. White will minister at the usual hours to- day in West Twenty-third Street Presbyterian Church, Yorkville Young Men‘s Christian Association will be addressed this afternoon by Rev. William Lloyd. Dr. John N, Galleher will minister to Zion Prot- estant Episcopal Church this morning and afternoon, The eleventh anniversary of Eleventh Street Metho- dist Episcopal Church will be observed to-day. Mrs. Yan Cott will preach morning and evening, and Messrs. Schaffer and Cornell will deliver addresses to the Sunday school this afternoon. Rey. Dr. Carter will preach as usual in Grace Church. Rey. Dr. Howland will preach morning and evening in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. At the Thirty-seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. Arthur Foster, of Baltimore, will preach this morning, and Rev. ©. P. Corner in the evening. Rev. J. Hazard Hartzell, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Jerséy City Heights, will deliver @ morning sermon on “Loss and Gain,” and in the evening a lecture on “Rivers.” To-day being the feast of St. Cecilia, the church bearing her name on 105th street and Second avenue will present very impressive musical services at the high mass. Besides the regular choir of the church several artists from Colonel Mapleson’s troupe will render selections. A lecture, ‘At Home and Abroad,”’ will be delivered at St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn, to- night, by Rey. Bernard McHugh, who is at present associated with Rey. Father McMeel, the pastor of St. Anne's. Rey. J. W. Bonham will preach this evening on ‘The Drunken Monarch and Belshazzar’s Festival,” as announced by mistake for last Sabbath morning, At the Church of the Divine Paternity Dr. E. H. Chapin will preach in the morning and Rey. J. M. Pullman in the evening. ‘The St. Cecilia Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin observes its afniver- sary to-day. In the morning the society will sing Gounod’s new mass, “The Sacred Heart,” and Rev. J. C. Kerr will preach, In theevening the ‘Magnifi- cat,”” by Mercadante, will be sung, and Rev. C. T. Olmstead will preach, CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘There is a very suggestive proverb which declares that “There are a great many asses with short ears.” Every man’s roof covers a little corner of Paradise, unless he has a scolding wife, in which case the climate changes. It is easier for a tippler to go by #dramshop when he is thirsty than for a Christian to go out into the rain without taking some one’s umbrella. One active tongue can keep two ears full all the time and only feel that it is taking healthy exercise. ‘The dying words of President Raymond ought to be written on the sky:—‘‘How casy—how easy it is to glide from our work here to our work there.”” One half of the misery of human life comes from the imagination, and half of the other half may be overcome by a strong will, and the whole of it by faith. It was Wordsworth who sang of— That best portion of a good man’s lifo, His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. It is not true that women make better firemen than men simply becawse they wear longer hose. There are three lights. First, the sun; second, the moon, and third, ourselves; and the greatest of these, in our judgment, is ourselves. There are some deluded people in the world, not of the blue ribbon sort, who seem to think there is, close connection between a laugh and a “smile.” A little practical experience, however, in some of the ways of life teaches them that while the man who laughs is very jolly, the man who “smiles” is very apt to wake up the next morning with a bad head- ache, Sermons, it is eagely said, when they are effective, are like the eyes of a portrait on the wall, which seem to be looking at everybody in the room. Let us add, what is equally true, that a bad sermon is like the eye of a man who squints, for wherever you stand it is always looking the other way. Mr. Talmage says that if he could only convert aly the telegraph operators and all the editors the whole earth would hear salvation’s call in twenty-four hours, He simply means by this, of course, that every telegrapher would take his religion on tick, tick, and that every editor would issue an extra with an account of Talmage’s little expedition to New York in it, illustrated by diagrams. If anything can reconcile us to the total depravity which prevails among newspaper men and the telegraphic corps it is this statement. Talmage taken in still larger doses, the slime of New York spread all over the country, is too horrible to think of. The Baptists at one of their late meetings came to the conclusion that ministers ought to read the Bible lesson more dramatically. If they had said that the Bible qught to be read more understandingly they would have hit the nail on the head. We have heard ministers read it as though they neither knew nor cared for the meaning of the text. It is not necessary to put on airs in the pulpit, to strike attitudes, to roll up the eyes, or to mouth a sentence in the tones of a basso profondo; neither is it necessary to take quite all the sense out of a passage by reading it badly. The Bible must be of Divine origin or it could not have stood the awful strain of ordinary clerical elocution during the last nineteen centurics. But the criticism applies to the sermon as well. If a man should describe a horse which he has to sell in the utterly indifferent tone in which he talks about his religion he would havo to keep the animal until he died of old age. Neal Dow, the great temperance reformer of Maino, had a narrow escape the other day. For a whole gen- eration he has been regarded aa a consistent teetotal- ler. Buta tramp solemnly swore that he and Neal Dow stood at the same counter and imbibed brandy and water. Things looked 4 little serious for a while, and the temperance folk in that far-off region felt that even the greatest of us will once in a while have afall, The tramp, however, on the cross-examine tion explained that he drank the brandy and Neal Dow the water, and the whole State of Maine breathed freely once more. What is commonly known in good society as “pop- ping the question” is proceeded with ina large va riety of ways, according to temperament and oppor- tunity. Sometimes it seems to be very vasy of ac- complishment, and then again very diffeult. The shadow of & cypress tree or moonlight walk or a sleigh ride is cagerly seized by lovers as affording them the chance to get over their tremulous uncer- tainty, The Scotchman’s method, however, was more tniqno than any we have heard of. ‘The kirk was out, and he said, “Mary, wal ye tak a turn?" They walked through the graveyard, inspecting the various inscriptions, until at last they stood by the lot where Sandy's family were buried. He took her hand in his and said, “My fowk He there, Mary; wad ye like to Ne there yersel 7” She concluded that it was as good a resting place as any and so married into the family, ‘and in due time was buried among Sandy's “fowk. IMstory is bent on repeating itself, and we shall find out by and by that it is safer to let it have its own way, Several thousand years ago—or, according to the gospel of Huxley, several million years ago—it was the custom when a warrior died to bury his bow and arrow or spear in the grave. We nover quite un- derstood why this was done, but recent events have taught us that our pliocene forefathers were saga cious and wise, and that if we ever expect to lie quietly in the cometery we had better reinstitute the old custom, It has become absolutely necessary to deposit in the grave of every one who dies nowadays revolver all primed and cocked, that » body may de- fend itself from burglars. sorbs annually a couple of thousand dollars with her mellifiuous voice may sing “O for a thousand tongues” so sweetly that you wish you had them to give her, but if you will take the trouble to visit her quiet little home on washing day you will come to the conclusion that one tongue is about all the household can stand, and go away thankful that you haven't the power to increase the number. ‘The old negress had a philosophic brain and saw far into the significance of this enlightened nineteenth century who said, when some one asked her to define @rogue:—“A rogue? Wy, bress you, my chil'n, a rogue is a man who steals jest like other folks till he gits kotched, an’ de minit he gits kotched he’s a rogue." The theory of Darwin, when regarded in de-tail is very amusing. We have always had the feeling that if he hunted long enough he would cease to resemble the new York detectives, for he would certainly find what he was after. And he has found it, acoolie child with a tail, and is now occupied in waving tho British flag over it, and shouting at the top of his lungs, “I told you so,” and Huxley and Tyndall and their disciples gather about the cradle and reverently add “Amen.” There is only one physiological difi- culty, and that is, that up to the latest moment when the news could be telegraphed the poor baby couldn't wag that tail as monkeys are wont to do, or as the missing link, it was hoped, would be able todo. No, he can’t wag the tail, and this may after all throw shame on the theory of evolution, because according to that theory the power to wag is exceedingly important. But there is another side even to this matter, and we ask with tears, “If the baby monkey, or the monkey baby, or this long looked for missing link between a baby and a monkey, can’t wag his, hers or its tail do pray look again Mr. Darwin and seo if the tail can’t wag the baby. Give us that consola- tion at least.” There must be a wag somewhere, but, and it just occurs to us, perhaps it was a wag who got up the whole story. TALMAGE AND THE BROTHELS, To THe Eprron or THE HeRALD:— Considered logically and exhibitionally perhaps no man in the country is more open to the charge of ir- rationality, illogicalness and fustian than the Rev. T. Dewitted Talmage. First—In selecting for his diet the garbage of the streets of city life Mr. Talmage does not show a want of taste, but a very strong taste. Is it necessary that he should personify every frailty or personally ex- perience every manifestation of sin ta be able to warn others not to do as he has done? Cannot he preach, for instance, against drunkenness without getting drunk himself? Cannot he decently advert to the haunts of vice without gratifying his own prurient curiosity by a personal enjoyment thereof, under the guise of a religious reformer? If he must adopt such subjects as represent the feelings and failings of lower humanity cannot he find sufficient examples in the Scriptures? And if the same vices and crimes ex- isted in Bible days, when the Creator was said to be in direct contact and conscious converse with men of such character as Talmage now denounces, and He did not slay the evil doer and put anend to the supposed author rival, does Mr. Talmage think he is abler and wiser? Is his object reformation or declamation? Are the old subjects of the G ‘l too trite and stale for the ‘‘august assemblage” before him, as he terms his smiling audience? Second—Mr, Talmage’s mode of preparation for his midnight exploration displays a want of sense. If he wished to picture the worst side of his subject it would have been better if ho had gone without the police; for the proprietors of these haunts of iniquity, as he professes, are afraid of the police, and would naturally avoid an exhibition of their best or worst temptations. His other companions perhaps were better chosen to shield his fears of safety and to re- mind him of the “history of Susannah” and tho elders of the Apochrypha. Third—He has also shown @ lack of judgment. He vehemently denounces the places he took the pains to visit, yet he furnishes no solid reasons for deterring others from proving the truth of his glittering gener- alities by a personal inspection. In fact, he only ad- vertises what he claims he wants unknown and un- tried—e strange to prevent remembrance of or interest in any such place, Fourth—Mr. Talmage also displays a great deal too much conceit. It would be safe to offer any amount of money for a single sermon or other speech of hia which is not full of Talmage—what he did, what he will do, what he thought, what he thinks, what he heard, what he saw, what ho felt, what he knows and what he believes. ‘Studied cranialogically and side- wise his bump of self-esteem is enormous, while his organs of reason, &c., are wanting. He would make & good argument for Darwin.. When he says or does something he ought not it cannot be said he forgot himself; he never forgets himself, and fears some- body else will. He acts as if the eyes of an interested world were upon him espec: 4 ee some new and striking phrase or attit le is brilliant in promise, but disappointing in fulfilment, both in usiness and oration. If he thinks he frightens the “devil,” with whom he seems to be familiar, bis sulphurous majesty isa bigger coward than he is supposed to be if he is abashed by this knight in tin armor, on a wooden horse, with his sounding brass and tinkling fog horn. —Mr. Talmage also exhibits a lack of originality and ability. He has told us nothing not known be- fore. He fills up his time in discoursing of “the carriage,” the “high police,” the “horse's hoofs,” the striking of twelve twice ‘in twenty-four hours—a solemn fact—all acting as midwite to the mountain in labor, which finally brings forth a diminutivo mouse, ‘He promises specifies, but gives nothing but generalities. He misrepresents often, either through wilfulness or the force of a vivid imagination, or from ignorance, as when he compares the places he Visited with those now existing, as he says, in Europe—the Cremorne, the Argyll and the Strand— the fret two having besn ‘closed, tome time an’ the latter a quiet, respectablo resort. On ono occasion we heard him deliver himself from a certain text, and on the following Sunday, in another city, the same sermon verbatim, a gentleman present on the first occasion taking notes in full and following him word for word on the second delivery, showing that Talmaye had committed the sermon to memory literally, although he delivered it the second timo with tremendous artificial heat, with the evident in- tention of conveying the impression that it was im- promptu and inspired on the spot by the genius of the speaker. Eliminate his constant repetitions and lower his voice, substitute sense for sound, and where is he? ‘The most serious criticism of Talmage (to him) would be no criticism at all. He loves to brag of his free advertisements by the press, although it may be as they would mention any other show, and he often takes occasion to tell from the pulpit of the number of papers that publish his discourses. © REASON. THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. This order was founded by the venerable De La Sallo in France in 1685, and received its bull of appro- bation from Pope Benedict XIL in 1725. The mem- bers of this Order devote themselves exclusively to the education of youth, and they are to be found in every part of the habitable globe, Their long sablo gown and peculiarly shaped white collar is as familiar to the citizens of Cairo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Melbourne, as to those of Rome, Paris, Coblentz, Quebec or New York. The Order has been scarcely thirty years established in the United States, Its progress during this time has been almost miracu- lous, In 1848 Archbishop Hughes obtained from the Superior General, Frére Philippe, four members of the Bfotherhood who opened a school in Canal street. To-day there are over twelve hundred Brothers in the States and Canada, residing in the principal cities and educating upward of fifty thousand pupils in 120 parochial schools, twenty-five academies and twelve colleges. There is @ very largo number of candidates—probably one hundred and eighty at the present time—in their novitiates at Montreal, St. Louis, San Francisco, New York, and the one lately opened in Calvert Hall, Baltimore, un- der the auspices of Archbishop Gibbons, Still the demand far exceeds the supply. The Reverend Pro- vincial, Brother Paulian, cannot supply one-tenth of the demands made on him by zealous bishops and clergy from all parts of the country. Had he 2,000 Brothers at his disposal he could place them at work within two weeks. To facilitate this undertaking and the better to prepare subjects for the work of education a special training school has been opened in the novitiate for the New York district. This novitiate is situated on Classon Pointy in Westchester county, and commands an extensive view of the Sound. The property, which was pur- chased in 1872 from Mr. Schiefllin, had beon owned many years ago by Mr. Dominick Lynch. The room is still shown in the venerable residence in which the first masa in Westchester county was celebrated, ‘The training «chool is intended only for boys from fourteen to sixteen years who feel that they have a vocation to the active teaching life of the Christian Brothers, but who are yet too young to be admitted aa regular candidates, ‘The novi- tiate proper is destined for candidates of ages varying from sixteen to twenty-five. Here there is the double purpose of making the good religious and the accomplished teacher, thus combining the work of the seminary and the normal school. In a ciren- lar letter addressed by the Provincial to the directors of the houses in his province, among other things: he earnestly exhort® them’ to use their in- fluence to foster vocations in those among whoi , and also among the young men of their acquaintance who may have a vocation to the religious teaching life, There are many young men, he doing noble work as lay teachers who w add to thi ly excellent work the greater merit did they but know of the exist- ‘ Archbishop ren take great interest in a the work of tl GERMAN INFIDELITY ANITY. To THe Enron or THe Henato:— VS. CHRISTI- The sweet soprano in your church choir who ab- | In an article published in your valuable paper on . the 14th inst., entitled “German Infidelity” and signed “One of the Wicked Germans,” the writer ob- served the following sentence nd yet nobody there (in Germany) thinks it wrong, after worship- ping God on the Sabbath morning, to devote the afternoon to innocent amusement and recreation Will “One of the Wicked Germans” kindly give his definition of the words “innocent amusement and wecreation?”” Will it include ‘becoming intoxicated on the Sabbath afternoon and evening? playing ten- pins (auf der Kegelbahn)? cards and gambling, fol- lowed by shooting and stabbing affrays and hanging on the gallows? Will it include cursing and swear- ing, smashing glasses and windows, breaking furni- ture and fracturing the craniums of bartenders and proprietors because they refuse to hand over more of the foaming beverage (lager beer)? Perhaps he will classify the above as wholesome “gymnastic exer- cises;” for it is very wholesome for a surgeon to cut and dig broken glass out of the sufferer's face and eyes, because he gets a good fee, Will it include dancing at moonlight pientes, adultery and such like innocent things of a Sunday evening? And will such reercations fit the body for the daily avocation or for a “blue Monday?” But your reader does not give up all hopes as our “wicked German brother" believes in one God, Will he please specify which God it is? The God of the Holy Bible or the god of lager beer (Gambrinus)? Did Germany rise to eminence und civilization by the examples of Gambrinus, his in- yentions and such like innocent amusements, or by the power of the everlasting Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the labors of the reformers and their fol- lowers? What a ripe field for the labors of missiona- Ties, the prayers of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation and the exhortations ot Mr. Wetmore! A GERMAN. CHURCH OF THE VISITATION. On Sunday next, December 1, the large and hand- some stone Gothic edifice, built by the parish of the Chureh of the Visitation, on Verona strect, Brooklyn, of whieh Rev. J. M. Kiley is pastor, will be dedicated by Right Rey. Bishop Loughlin. Bishop Shannahan, of Harrisburg, Pa,, will preach, and Bishop Corrigan, of New Jersey, will also be present, The church, which will cost $130,000, will seat 1,500 people. It was begun seven years ago, It is handsomely fin- ished throughout. The ceiling is frescoed and the windows are of stained glass. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. JEWISH. Members of the Shaar Rachmim Congregation claim that their synagogue in Norfolk strect is one of the handsomest in the southeastern part of the city, and say if they were to part with it the Hebrews of this city would be great losers in consequence. Mr. J. Rosenthal is president of the Temple Sinat, New Orleans, and E, Heidingsfelder is a mohel or re- ligious physician, and has been a member of the synagogue for thirty years. Recently Mr. Meyers and family, also members, came to New York to escape the yellow fever. The religious physician on October 13 occupied their pew in the synagogue. He was ordered out by Rosenthal, who a couple of days later sent him a very insulting letter. Now the phygician sues the President of the Temple for $10,000, the value of the injury done to his good nam@, honor and religions standing in the Jewish community. The result has not yet been declared. ‘The Rey. Dr. A. 8. Isaacs has resumed his instruc- tions in the Children’s Synagogue in the Bowery, and for the past two Saturdays the attendance has been good. The Doctor preaches a simple sermon to the little folk and abbreviates the other services for them. The Rey. D. Wintner, formerly of Detroit, Mich., the newly elected rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, preached his first sermon Saturday morn- ing @ week ago in the synagogue on Keap street. ‘There was present a large congregation. The con- gregation is in a flourishing condition, The Doctor recently arrived in this city from Vienna, where he had been on an extended visit, and will doubtless prove a valuable acquisition to the Jewish pulpit. It is apretty Arabic tradition that the dove re- ceived from God aneckband of green by reason of the part it played in the story of the ark, whereas the raven who tarried instead of bringing Noah tho news of the flood’s cessation, was cursed with a pecu- liar limp. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Redemptorist Fathers have had a mission for women running very successfully in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, for the last two weeks. They opened one for the other sex last Sunday. The Re- demptorists have also closed a very successful mission at Sag Harbor, L. I. @he Church of the Visitation, Brooklyn, will be dedicated on the first Sunday of December, the Bishop of Harrisburg preaching. A number of dis- tinguished prelates will assist at the imposing cere- mony. It is said that nothing on Long Island can oqnal the beauty of tho interior of this magnificent edifice. The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Delaware, Right Rev. Alfred Lee, recently delivered a dis- course in which he characterized the Chureh of Rome as “a soul-crashing, soul-blighting despot- ism, which aubstitutes for the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ s spurious and unchristian faith; a paganism, ostensibly in the name of Christ, with the Virgin Mother, saints and angela substituted in His place,” and much more of the same sort. Bishop Becker, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Wil- mington (embracing the same territory as the other) replied to this arraignment, and showed that so far from being a despotism, &c., his chureh is thoroughly republican. Her priests aro chosen from among the poorest, and her bishops are chosen from among the clergy by the bishops of a province or by the voice of their fellow priests, and are confirmed and approved by the Pope, who in turn is elected by car- dinals chosen for that purpose. The Bishop gives the historical argument in detail for the claim of his Church being the only true Church. And altogether, as the controversy stands, the coutestants #eem to be pretty evenly matched. BAPTIST. The Rev. Mr. De Witt, evangelist, is conducting a series of revival meetings in the Baptist Church in Hinsdale, N. H. Rey. Frank Rogers Morse haa tendered his resigna- tion to the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Albany, and comes to the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Brooklyn December 1. Rev. Charles Howard Malcolm, D. D., for many years pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Newport, R. L, is about to enter the ministry of the Protestant Epis- copal Church. The Baptist papers here charge this defection of one of their favorite preachers to his lib- eralizing tendencies, and when a Baptist minister cuts himself loose from the old Baptist moorings they say it is hard to tell where he will cast anchor. Too bad! too bad! The Doctor now denies the soft impeachment. ‘he Baptist churches of Long Island during the ecclesiastical year just closed added 531 by baptism to their membership, so that they now have 10,339 members. Their total contributions for all purposes amounted to $185,000, or nearly $18 per member. The Long Island Association maintains ten mission- aries and nineteen mission stations, by and amon, whom 1,578 tracts were distributed, 2,822 pastor visits made and $4,000 raised during the year, PRESBYTERIAN, ‘Tho Independent thinks Dr. Talmage's influence is now the most pernicious that is exerted upon the English speaking pulpit, and suggests that Dean Stanley may have had him in mind when he ad- dressed the Union Seminary students and told them that “to write on all sorts of subjects connected with religion in a high-flown, inflated, exaggerated manner ix a fault into which American students of theology are especially likely to fall.” ‘The Southwestern aiken Fae in New Orleans, answers the charge of certain Homan Catholic papers here and clxewhere that the Protestant clergy had deserted their posts when the yellow fever reached them while the Catholic clergy Temained and died with their flocks, by giving a hat of Protestant ministers who died or had the fever and recovered, The list contains the names of twenty such ininisters in New Orleans, of whom nine were Methodist, seven Presbyterian and the rest of other denominations. Four Jewish ministers fell victims, and eighteen other Protestant ministers, acclimated, stood fast at their posts. One hundred and twenty-two members have been received into the Westminster Church, Brooklyn, Rev. James M. Ludlow, D. tor, sin of the church, and two bathe ago, Dr. Ludlow, $13,000 was raised in a collection, wipin, es 10,000 and all thi lobt. il do out a mortgage of $1 The work was well do: Kev. ©. P. Glover has bes to Bremerville, N. J. Rev. Gi moved from Abertleen to Baltimore, Md, arches of Lonaconing and Barton, Md., are to be united under one pastorate, by advice of the Presby- tery of Baltimore. Tey, William W. Halloway, late of Newark, has ro- moved to Dover, Morris county, N. J. The Rev. William Swan, of Stockton, N. J., has beon called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Batavia, floating ly. M EPISCOPALIAN, The Sothern Churchman raixes the question, Was Bishop MeCoskry, late of the diocese of Michigan, deposed according’ to law ? Tf he was, the Churciman axks, What was the law? The bishops who assem- bied'in this city convenod under “Title L, canon 15, section 16,” which merely gives power to accept resignation. This they did not do. Tho case of Bishop Ivox, which ott contemporary cites, was pro- vided for by a canon of the General Convention, passed before sentence was formally pronounced, and under it he was deposed. Hence the Seuthern Church- man raises the point that Bishop McCoskry's texigna tion not having been accepted, and his deposition having been accomplished not according 10 law, he is still Bishop of Michigan. The Rey. Dr. R. B. Van Kloeck has resigned the reo- rch, Hyde Park, Mase., and torehip of Christ one to Morrisani . Kine accepted the roctorship of St. Luke's Church, Troy, N. ¥. ¢ Rev. John W. Loa has resigned, the reetorship of Trinity Church, Martinsburg, W. Va. to accopt an appointment to missionary work on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The Kev. Dr, Meyer Lewin has been elected to the rectorship of Trinity Church, Upper Marlborough, Md. The Rey. John J. Lloyd has accepted the rector- ship of the church at Liberty, Va. The Rey. William Richmond, of Trinity Church, New York, has accepted an election as assistant to the rector of St. Mark’s Church, Orange, N. J. The Rev. Brooke Lambert has resigned the vicarage of Tamworth, England. In a communication to his arishioners he assigns as his reason that his income is insufficient, and that increased family claims pel him to'seek a living in some other than the calvocation. He says that in the English Church pay is not in proportion to the labor performed. There is least pay where there is most work, and vice versa. ‘Ye sock me not because ye saw the mirac which did, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.” MISCELLANEOUS. Many of the churches and clergy of this city and Brookiyn are changing their morning hour of servic from half-past ten to cleven. It ix xaid that one-half sin this city have accepted the change, reular letter is going the round of the Brook- lyn.churches to the same end. ‘The charge is sometimes made that Young Me Christian associations are hostile to or at least ri of the churches, The contrary is asserted by the sociations, and the action of the St, Louis branch to ‘bear out the assertion so far as it is con- young men belonging to that reet Presbyterian Church and a “Body of Christ,” as they called it—a kind of outh Brethren organization. They baptized verts, set. themselves forth as the true Chui Christ and made trouble among the churches gei ally. The association yery properly eras names of these members from its roll. During the sessions of the General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists recently held in Battle Creek, Mich., revival mevtings were held with won- derful results, the number of conversions often reach- ing 100 in one day, According to Frederick Douglass, out of the 103 churches for white people in Washington there is only one, the Congregational, which takes colored children Into its Sabbath school and has colored pew- holders, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. RELIGION THE FOUNDATION OF MARRIAGE— SERMON BY REV, HENRY 8, JACOBS. The sermon preached yesterday in the Synagogue ofthe B'nai Jeshurun congregation, Thirty-fourth street, by its minister, Rev. Henry 8. Jacobs, was based on the Scriptural lesson of the day, tho text selected being from Genesis xxiv., 3, 4—"“Thou shalt not take a wife unto my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell. But unto my country and to my birthplace shalt thou go and take a wife unto my son, unto Isaac The chapter which precedes the one from which I am quoting, said the preacher, presents us with a melancholy picture. Sarah is dead and her aged partner is stricken with grief at the aMiction which has befallen him. The one who had cheered his weary pilgrimage is taken away, and darkness has fallon over the home which was once #0 bright with holy joys that the Medrash says, in its peculiar style, “whilst Sarah lived the cloud of glory abode in Abra- ham's tent, but when she died it departed.” The patriarch rouses himself from his grief and buries his dead out of his sight in the cave purchased from the sons of Heth, which has since become one of the most hallowed spots on earth. The duty to the dead formed he turns his thoughts to the living. Jrasc's future claims his earnest ‘ard, and ho en- deavors with tender parental solicitude to secure for him that happiness which is intimately connected with the connubial state, and so his very next act is recorded in the twenty-fourth chapter and sum- marized in the words of the text. MARRIAGE AS AN ELEMENT OF SOCIETY. fe is an important element in the consti- tution of human society, one of its strongest bul- warks, one on which the moral welfare of our race largely depends. It is the pivot on which a whole life revolves, and is an essential condition of that mundane felicity, which is Our being's end and aim, For which we bear to live, or dare to dia, But to accomplish these great ends it must be based on religious sentiment, and hence it is that Judaism esteems it as a divine obligation, which"has all the sanctions of God's authority and blessing. It was in this light regarded by Abraham, and, there- fore, his anxiety that his son Isaac should secure a partner whose character should be formed on those models of religious excelience which afford the best guarantees of connubial happiness. He knew the evil influences of the women of Canaan, and he feared that the nuptial tie contracted with one of them iets wreck all hopes centred in the son he loved so ly. MARRIAGE WITHOUT RELIGION A BLUNDER. Abraham was right. The proof is patent to our- solves that the marriage which sets at defiance all re- ligious obligations is a blunder which becomes crime. However it may begin it is always sure to end in misery, ruin and disaster. Without the right foundation it is but a house built on sand, which cannot withstand the storm, but succumbs to the blast which will overthrow all its hopes. Religion must be the basis of the nuptial tie, otherwise is nought on earth which can bind the man and the woman lastingly. I ask you, continued the preacher, to heed the instruction of the text. Those of you who may con- template entering on the holy estate of matrimony should pause and reflect over the advice I offer you, over the examples with which your own experience can furnish you. Beware of contracting any union which Judaism repudiates a contrary to its laws and teachings. We may have noapprehensions of be- ing led into such close relationships with the Canaan- ites, in the literal senee, for they exist no longer; but I beseech you to remember and appreciate the princi- ple which guided Abraham in his parental desires for his child's happiness, That principle was afterward violated by Esau, and what do we read in holy Scrip- ture These women who worshi strange gods “became a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah. ADVICE TO THE DAUGHTERS OF IKRARL. Daughters of Israel, bo careful too in this matter. Perhaps it concerns you more than the other sex that your marriage should have the foundation of reli- gion, for it is essentially the important question of a woman's happiness, as its resulta are for her of even higher consequence. Your entire future may be made or marred on the venture. It means a success- ful voyage with prospering winds—e eful haven reached, sheltered from tempest and from storm—as it means shipwreck and irretrievable disaster. 1 bid you, then, regard carefully and prudently the lesson which the text suggests; and when you do join hand and heart in wedlock’s bonds make religion the guardian, the foundation of marriage, HEBREW NOTES. The Forty-fourth Street and Nineteenth Street syn- agogues will have a joint celebration on Thanksgiv- ing Day. The Temple (Forty-third street) boasts of one of the largest Sunday schools among tho Jewish congre- gations of New York. Similar schools are attached to all the uptown synagogues, the necessity ot religious instruction being insisted upon as far as practicable. Special lectures are given to the Hebrew Freo schools by eminent ministers taking the duty in turns. Rev. Dr. do Sola Mendes, Rev. Henry 8, Jacobs and Rev. Henry P. Mendes are already on tho list. ‘A ladies’ sewing society has been formed by some of the members of the Nineteenth Street Synagogue, supplementary of the others in existence, An im- mense amount of charity is in this way performed. The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem gave an entertainment at their rooms, No 2,291 Third avenue, on Friday night. ‘The programme comprised & musical and literary interlude by Messrs, Steifel, Kuentsler and Elder, Mr. Charles E. Perring and Mr. Hi. L. Martin, Mre. M. Miller, Miss Hannah Goodman and Mrs. David N. Carvalho, This was followed by Morton's comed; Pretty Piece of Business,” with Mr, D. N. Carvalho, Mr. George Goodman, Misa Belle Spier, Miss Rose Spier and Mixs Sable in tho cast, ‘ne hall was crowded and the applause frequent. ‘This association, though organized but a few months ago, is already on the high tide to success, It has s reading room, library and over one hundred mem- bers. The society invites to its membership all young men of the Hebrew faith living in Yorkville Harlem and the new wards. A course of lectures an a series of musical and dramatic entertainments will bo given during the coming winter. ENGLAND'S TREATY WITH AFGHAN. ISTA’ the {From the London Globe.) It is not generally known that there is on oxtating treaty with the Ameer of Cabul, which binds him to ternal friendship with England, and that in any dec- laration of war which may be mado it will have to be considered to what extent the Ameer has violated the termes of that treaty. It was executed at Peshawuron the 30th of March, 1855, and signed on behalf of the Ameer, Dost Mahomed, by his eldest surviving son, Hyder Khan, and on behalf of the Indian government by Sir John Lawrence. When Hyder Khan died, Shere Ali was declared heir to the throne of Cabal by his father; #0 that it is clear that the terms of the treaty of 1865 are still binding upon the present miler ¢ Cabul. It consists of three articles, and reads 8 — 1, Between the Honorable East India Company and His Highness Dost Mahomed Khan, Walee of Cabul, and those countries of Afghanistan now in his posses: sion, and the heirs of the ssid Ameer there shall be er and friendship. 4. The Honorable East India Company engages on their to rexpect those territories of Afghanixtan now in His Highness’ possession, and never to inter. fore therein. His Highness Dost Mahomed Khan, Waleo of Cabul, and of those countries of Afghanistan now in his possession, engages on his part, and on the part of his heirs, to respect the territories of the Honora- bie East India Company, and never to interfero therein, and to be the friend of the friends and the a the enemies of the Honorable Kast India Oompany. B A GOLD STANDARD FOR INDIA, INTERVIEW WITH THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA—WHAT WOULD BE THE EFFECT ? Lonpox, Nov. 9, 1878, Your correspondent interviewed Lord George Ham- ilton, Under Secretary of State for India. He was in- troduced by the president of the Chamber of Com- merce, Your correspondent at once asked Lord George whether the telegram of the Daily Telegraph of Saturday last in reference to the introduction of a gold currency in India, and of making the sovereign there a al tender, was correct. The news had created dismay in Austria and in the Latin Union States, as silver would be immensely depreciated should the India government really adopt that meas- ure, Lord George Hamilton replied that the tele- gram referred to did certainly not express the state of things as at present in reality existing. It would be an utter impossibility to introduce a gold standard at present, pur et simp, in India, as nearly all com- mercial interests would be ruined by such a rsh step. Besides, the statement that the sovereign should be made legal tender is an absurdity. The sovereign is de facto a legal tender for ten rupees, but nobody would be insane enough to pay in sovereigns at that rate when he could get ten rupees for sixteen shil- lings. ‘The only truth in the matter is that the Indian government, both here and in India, are seriously studying the curt question just now, and that some change in the present unhealthy and injurions state of affairs was necessary. But ax to a decision in this matter, the time is still distant when that would be definitively settled. The matter is too serious to be treated offhand, and the commerce of the entire world is interested in & good resolution of this question, PROBABLE EFFECT OF THE STEP. [From the London Economist.] A report has appeared to the effect that the goverm ment of India contemplates the introduction of a gold standard, with a view to obviate the losses occa sioned by the continual fluctuations in the value of silver. With regard to this it cannot be said that the present is an opportune time for such a change. The arrangements proposed for the pro- longation of the “Latin” Monetary Union appear practically, through the restrictions they tmpose on the coinage of silver, to amount to the introduction of a gold standard in France, so that atthis moment, if the intention attributed to the government were carried out, India might have to compete with France for the basis of the currency. No doubt the existence of a gold standard in India would save the finances of that country from the enormous losses in exchange which have n of late years such a drag on its resources, But this is not the whole of the question. To take one point only, the receipts from the land, which form a very large portion of the revenue of India, have to be consid- ered. The land revenue is at present fixed in silver, and the greater part of it for long periods in advance. Whatever the standard is, more rupees cannot be demanded from the taxpayer. If the gov: ernment follows the plan indicated above, without any further modification, it will further —— the value of the rupee. In this manner it will expe rience more, not less, loss in bringing the sums home which are required in this country. The ques- tion of a change of the currency of acountry is a most delicate one and requires the most careful handling. This is especially the case in India, which has been accustomed from time immemorial to a coinage of silver. Should such a change be resolyed on atime of perfect calm, both in finance and in Politics, would be essential to its success. OF HOLLAND'S MARRIAGE, [From the London World.] So unpopular among the people of Holland is the epproaching marriage of their aged King with the youthful Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, that the ceremony will not’ even take place within KING His Majesty's dominions. The King, who is now staying at Aroleen, will not return ta the Hague before the marriage, which is fixed to take place about the middle of January next, After the wedding the royal couple ‘will not, as customary, make their entry into Amster- dam, but will spend the honeymoon in solitude at the Loo. Tho Prince of Orange, who feigned to be recon- ciled to his father by the side of his mother’s death- bed, declines to witness the ceremony at Arolsen; and the Prince's only brother, Prince Alexander, of the Netherlands, will find it inconvenient to interrupt his travels, Both chambers the States General have received the announcement of the contemplated marriage, and given their assent to the alliance, without a word of debate. Granting that “Citron” is leading » gay life in Paris, there might be raisons majeures for this prolonged absence from his country. From the | tered of all his ances- tors the Prince of Orange has inherited the rare gift of keeping silent. THAT JEWELRY SEIZURE. An wcconnt of 8 Custom House seizure of valuabl¢ jewelry belonging to Messrs, P. R. Vengoechis, J. D, Moreno and R. Bollestas, passengers by the French steamer Labrador, was published in the Hxnatn yesterday. The seizure was made as reported, but it is claimea by the gentlemen named that there wag no intention to defraud the government, and that the action of the authorities places them in a wrong light before the public. They were on ther way to Savanalla, South America, but owing to the departure of the Pacific Mail steamer one day before tho arrival of the Labrador they were compelled to stay over. Mr. Ve chia said yesterday that the Hache’ seized, ins' ot being worth $12,000, was not worth over $3,000; that most of it was presents from friends in France to their relatives in South America, and was marked with the initials of the persons for whom it was intended. He said turther t! they expected to carry everything belonging to them from one steamer ta another, and it was only when they learned they would have to leave their trunks in bond that they took their jewelry from them and that this course was pursued by them on the ad- vice of passengers, who told them it would be unsafe to allow valuables to remain in their trunks and ad- vised them to put their jewelry on their persons. Mr. Vengoechia is well known to the business men of this city. He is the agent of the General Transatlantique Company at Savanilla and has had business dealings with Hondley & Co., De Castro & Co., Munoz & and other New York houses for many years, REAL ESTATE. ‘The following sales were made on tho Real Estate Exchange November 23:— BY JOHN . nOYD. Foreelonure sale—8. Wright Holcomb, the foar brown stone front building, with 6x92. 2x60.1X7.7x00, 1, No, 829 2d av. ft. «. of 45th at. to plaintiff. BY C. J. LYON. rofereo—of lot, 124.11 Foreclownre sale—Robert Dodge, referee—ot Shree story brick dwelling, with, lot, 38 8 Attorney at, @ m8, 1GLS ft Grand inet the , No. st, to 5,008 two throo story brick dwellings, with two lots, each 12 0x100.71, ns. of Bast fOUh st, BO ft. we of 4th av. one to Ro Richardson at $3,150, other to plaintiff at $3,000... ese. BY HOWARD Ww. COATES. json, referee—Foreclosure sale of brick dwelling, with lot, 20x089, wh st. 8m, DONT ftw. of 2d 6158 BY LUDLOW AND CO. , teferee—Foreelosure sale of the four welling, with lot, 25x98.9, No. M Went 152.8 ft. «. of Broadway, to plaintiff. frame house and 100, 30,008 houses, with lots of various sizes, on or nen corner of 138th at, and Alexander av., to plain OFFICIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. The following is a statement showing the real estate transactions recorded in the Register’s office Novem-* ber 23, 1878: — RECORDED NORTGAGKS. ‘Nara and husband, to Luis P. Walton, « 8. st. 0. of 4th av. ; 3 your iu Joseph 5 i Sarne to Leonard X. Bradtey, ton av, and Sint ab. ; 1 your ich Samo to William Tewin, w. «of Lexington av., 171g ft, Of BEBE RET LYON ccc Samo to Nicholas Betjman, n. w. corner of Lexing: ” hs 1. 8,000 si months bert Lard ar... it. Moore, * of 2d av. ; 1 yes Flaherty, Michadl, to E and 1058h at, surance Company, & w. corn aud 6th ati years. Mutual Life In- aration Company, No. 105 Clinton pines: 1 year . Bf vinin ©., to Hngh N, Camp (tens eae, ‘ockey, Beal. to John Webber... Leake’ ind Waris Orphan House t jer, W. Ti W: Miea. 0 ton Diine 70 0 ‘Mavinge Institution ta 8B Niehoie.::: a same... Oe