The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1879, Page 4

4 ELIIOUS INTELLIGENCE —_—_--—_-—-- Churchly Changes—Chat by the Way. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. Programme of Services To-Day. ol ‘The Rey. J. Q. Adams will preach an annual sermon to young men this evening in the Berean Baptist Church. At Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church the Rey. Dr. King will speak this morning on the text, have not passed by this way heretofore,” ‘nd in the evening on “I remembered God and was troubled.” In Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. J. F, Richmond will preach this morning on ‘Ihe Gift of Power,” and this evening on “The Unwritten Chapter in Life’s History.” At the People’s Service this evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity the Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr. preach on “The Cross, the Token of Love.” ‘Tyng, Sr., will speak in the afternoon. In the Helping Hand Church this evening the Rev. W. B. Affleck will speak about “What a Model Mayor did and what our promising Mayor should do.”” Mrs. Van Cott conducts services in Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church to-day, including a love feast this morning. Price’s Praying Band will also participate. ‘This morning the Rev. Dr. Talmage will enter into an extended review of the moral condition of our great cities, including Washington, Boston, Phila- delphia and Chicago. At Stanton Street Baptist Church the Rev. M. H. Smith will speak this morning about “The Ark of God on a New Cart” and in the evening on “Religion in California.” At Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church the Rey. Carlos Martyn preaches at the usual hours to-day on “Israel's Heathen Queen.” Dr. Armitage will preach a sermon to the aged in Fifth Avenue Baptist Church this morning and to young men in the evening. Mrs. Nellie Brigham lectures for thé Spiritualists this morning and evening as usual. “New Year Hopes and Purposes” will be discussed in Chickering Hall this afternoon by Rev. 8. Colcord. ‘The New York Musical Union will sing selections from “The Creation.” The American Temperance Union will mect in Clarendon Hall this afternoon, when Dr. Remington will speak and converts from the Christian ‘Temper- ance Home will relate their experiences. “Lessons from the Nobleman of Capernaum” will be drawn for Spring Street Presbyterian Church this morning and “The Joy of Building God’s Temple” be set forth thie evening by Rev. A. H. Moment. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church the Rey. W. N. Searles will preach this morning on “Revivals,” and in the evening Francis Murphy will conduct a gospel temperance service. “Christ Our Master” will be exalted in Bleecker Street Universalist Church this morning by Rev. E. C. Sweetser, and in the evening Rev. Dr. H. R. Nye, of Brooklyn, will preach. Rev. Alexander McKelvey will minister to Canal Street Presbyterian Church at the usual hours to-day. Dr. Deems preaches for the Church of the Stran- gers this morning on “The Fourth Word of Christ on the Cross,” and in the evening also. On Wednesday evening the Doctor will get over one of the hard places in the Bible connected with “Elisha’s Bears.”” Dr, Shipman officiates as usual to-day in Christ Church, “The Misunderstood Altar” will be explained this evening by Rey. J. D. Wilson in the Central Presby- terian Church. Mr. Wilson preaches in the morning also. Rev. Edmund Guilbert will preach this morning in the Church of the Holy Spirit. Dr. Samuel Cooke, of St. Bartholomew's Church, will preach in the evening. “The Promised Land” and ‘The Hidden Life” will be considered this morning and evening in the Church of Our Saviour by Rev. James M. Pullman. In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. D. R. Van Buskirk will preach this morning and evening. Dr. J. P. Newman will preach this morning and evening in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Religious services will be held every afternoon and evening during this Week of Prayer also. In Duane Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. J, W. Ackerly will preach this morning, and in the evening on “Signal Voices in Life.” Rey. W. T. Sabine will preach as usual to-day in the First Reformed Episcopal Church, In the Free Baptist Church, this morning, the Rev. N. L. Rowell will preach, and in the evening a grand temperance rally will be held. In the Roman Catholic Church of the Epiphany the forty hours’ devotion in honor of the Blessed Sacra- ment will begin this morning. Rev. J. W. Morris will preach. To-morrow morning Rev. Thomas Kil- leen will preach, and on Tuesday morning, Rev. Dr. Burtsell. St. Cecilia’s Society will render Haslinger’s Mass this morning. In the Church of the Disciples the Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach morning and evening. Dr. C. D. W. Bridgman will preach in Madison Avenue Baptist Church at the usual hours to-day. ‘The Rey. William Lloyd will give “A New Year's Greeting” to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church this morning and will speak of “The Sover- eign of the Future” in the evening. The Rey. E. A. Reed, in the Reformed Church on Madison avenue this morning, will speak of “Our Church—Past, Present and Future.” The National Temperance Institute will consider an important question at their meeting in Cooper Union this afternoon—namely, “The Best Means to Continue the Temperance Work.” Mr. Murphy, Judge Pitman, Captain Sturdivant and others will address the mect- ing. Mr. C. W. Sawyer will conduct a gospel temperance meeting in the Park ‘Theatre this evening. Dr. H. W. Knapp will give the Laight Street Bap- tist Church this morning his views on “The ‘Tri- umphs of the Advent—The Anti-Christ.” ‘The Rey, Dr. Herr will preach morning and even- ing in the Central Baptist Church. The Week of Prayer will be observed here also, In the Fiftieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church y. W.P. Corbit will preach this morning a "s sermon and this evening a sermon on “God's Call and Man's Refusal.” Revival meetings during the week, Rev. Dr. Hanlon will preach, Rev. Dr. Abercrombie will preach in St, Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church an auuiversary sermon this evening. Dr. M. D'C, Crawford will preach in St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church this morning, and Dr. 0. H. Fowler this evening on ‘Outside Revelation In St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. George Van Alstyne will preach morning and evening. “The True Vision of God” will be made known to 8t. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church this morning and “Man and His Responsibility” will bo set forth this evening by Rev. W. I, Davis, ‘The Week of Prayer will be observed here also with special ser- vices. In Sixth Avenue Reformed Church Rev. W. B. Mer- ritt will proach at the usual hours to-day. “The Man Without Father or Mother" will be troduced to the South Reformed Church this after. noon by Rev, Dr. Rogers. Preaching in the Tabernacle Baptist Church this morning by Dr. G. J. Johnson aud in the evening by Rov. R. B. Hull on “The Lord’s Paths.” Meetings every evening during the week. Henry Schroeder will lecture on social questions in Science Hall this evening before the Millennial Church of the Lord. Preaching in ‘Thirtieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church this morning and evening by Rev. Thomas B, Smith. Union evangelistic services will be conducted in Kighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church to-day by Key. W. F. Hatiield, and during the week by Revs. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1879.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. 8. Co1cord, J. Odell, Dr. Tyng, Jr.; D. Teed, Dr. Bevan and ©, W. Sawyer. Yorkville Young Men's Christian Association will be addressed this afternoon by Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Anderson, who in the First Baptist Church this morning will present his resignation of that charge, and next Sunday will preach the annual sermon to the young of the church, after which he will retire trom the pulpit here, In Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church the Rey, B. H. Burch will speak this morning about “Our Advocate” and this evening about “A New Year's Choi Revival meetings through the week. St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal Church will present a grand musical treat to-day, Buck's cantata in C, Dr, Walters’ evening service in A, Dr. Elvey’s an- them, “Arise, Shine,” and the grand ‘‘Magnificat?” by Emerig, Dr. Ewer will officiate and preach at the regular services, Dr. E,.H. Chapin will preach in the Church of the Divine Paternity to-day at the usual hours. In the Church of the Heavenly Rest this morning the Rey. R. 8. Howland, D. D., will preach this morn- ing on “Will Your Life Prove a Failure?” aud in the evening on “Thought It Not Robbery to be Equal With God.” Dr. A. B, Carter will officiate at the usual hours to- day in Grace Chapel. Dr. Lyster is to speak in Dwyer’s Gospel Mission in Barrow street this evening. ‘The Ladies’ West Side Temperance Union will hold their regular meeting in Bleecker Building, near Morton street, today, Mrs. M. A.N. Pollard, Mrs. Nesbitt and other speakers will address the audience. The Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach in the Anthon Memorial Church to young men this evening on “The Secret of Happiness.” In the West Presbyterian Church the Rev. Thomas S. Hastings, D. D., will preach morning and after- noon. A public missionary meeting will be held in Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church this evening. Bishop Potter will preside, and addresses will be de- livered by Dr. Galleher, Rey. Abbott Brown and others, with special reference to the mission work in Mexico. ‘The Rey. S. S. Seward will speak in the Sweden- borgian Church this morning on ‘‘The Holy Supper,” which afterward will be commemorated. — - Rey. C. W. Morrill will officiate and preach at the regular services to-day in St. Alban’s Protestant Epis- copal Church. CHAT BY THE WAY. It is only the fool who is rash enough to think himself a wise man; the really wise knows he is a fool. ‘There are some men who are so very shrewd that they would rather cheat themselves than not make a good bargain. One may: be such a devotee in the worship of him- self that he has no time to find out whether there be a God or no. ‘The attempt to make a lie seem like the truth is very like trying to make 3 horseshoe fit a gosling’s foot. You will sooner succeed in the difficult task of swallowing yourself than in escaping the conse- quences of a dishonest act. ‘The object of bigamy is to enable every man who has a wife of forty to change her for two twenties. A school teacher is like a razor strop—he uses him- self up in sharpening other people's blades. If we were only gravediggers there are some people of our acquaintance for whom we could work with great pleasure. One evening Jerrold saw a very tall man waltzing with a very short woman. ‘“Humph!” he said, “there is a mile dancing with a milestone.” ‘There was great good sense in the boy who on being threatened with a whipping requested that he might be whipped in the Italian fashion—the light strokes down and the heavy strokes up, A lady said to one of her admirers that another ad- mirer had the softest lips in the world. “Then,” was the caustic reply of jealousy — As like as two bey Are his head and his lips. No one is so greatly to be feared as the man who is willing to tell you all he knows, because the chances are that he will tell you a great deal more. Apreacher may get soaking wet’ on his way to church and yet be exceedingly dry the moment he mounts the pulpit. ql While everything is going smoothly with us and good luck insists on having her own way in spite of our blunders, we put the comms in the right place when we quote the passage-— ‘There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will. But when everything goes wrong and ill luck in- trudes itself in spite of our best endeavors, we still quote the passage, but with the comma in the wrong place— ‘There's a divinity that shapes our ends Rough, hew them how we will. Sometimes a man will tell more truth by making a downright blunder than in any other way. A certain Sunday school ordered banners made for its different classes, for each of which the scholars chose a fitting motto. One class of boys, who were just at that age when neither heaven nor earth can hold them in, benigniy concluded to call themselves “Little Reap- ers.” The sign painter was an illiterate man, who had evidently never had the bencfit of a Sunday school training in his youth, and when he painted the words the spirit of truthfulness must have taken sudden and complete possession of him, and the banner issued from his hands inscribed “Little Rip- pers.” The superintendent looked at it sorrowfully and then at the boys above whose heads it was to be waved and said, “Well, it’s about as near the truth as we agn get after all.” ‘There are always two sidesto a story. While it is impossible to say too many-tender things of some mothers, the opportunity to tell the truth about others ought not to be lost:— Who was it that spanked me and sent me to bed, And made my heart feel like a lump of lead, Just for giving a twist to'the kitten’s tail? Who was it that spoiled all ny fun as she said, “Bad boy; you'll be sorry when I am dead,” Until I'set up my childish wail? My Mother, In return for the foregoing, and as a kind of retort in vindication of the occasional tse of the rod, a dis- tracted mother has eased her conscience by these supplemental verses :— Who is it that put’s a bent pin in the chair, And watches till grandfather takes his rest there? ‘The Bad Boy, And when the old gentleman leaps in the air, And says wicked words that make you “Who is it that says, “It's a terrible sin h pranks with an old bent pin,” father sees through it and says, “It’s too ‘The Bad Boy. Some men lay the flatiering unction to their souls that they are very charitable, because they every morning clothe the naked and feed the hungry, which, being properly translated, means that they dress themselves and go down to breakfast, Modern phraseology is at times defective. A fi mer ouce declared that there is money in hens. ‘The boy took him literally, and went on a tour of in- vestigation and discovery. Tt was not until the Jast biped fluttered in headless fury that he was convinced that for once the old gentleman had made a mistake. While it is true, as Lamb says, that “alaugh is worth a hundred groans in any market,” it is also true that men show what they are by the things they laugh at more than in any other way. The high toned man only enjoys pure wit—the repartee, the sharp retort—while others langh immoderately at the double entendre, one side of which is bright, while the other is smutched, Enjoyment of wit gives the Y ure of the man, If he is clear-headed enough to appreciate the needle point you may invite him home to dinner with impunity; but if he can laugh only at wit that is called “brow you are excusa- bio if ‘onelude to pass by on the other side, ‘The boy who swallowed a box of percussion caps said he intended to keep another box in his pocket and take on y time he was naughty. On being questioned as to the philosophy of so remarkable # proceeding he answered that his mother didn't dare to strike him for fear of an explosion. ‘hore are few things more thoroughly enjoyable than a Hibernianism. A farmer of this persuasion advertised—Lost—An empty sack with @ cheose in it, On the saek the letters BP. G. are marked, but they are so worn that they are entirely illegible.” Vashion sometimes makes funny definitions of terms. Does it follow when a person goes into half mourning that the individual mourned is only half dead ? Here is an epitaph quite appropriate to the season through which we have just passed:— Here lies a miser, who, beside ‘Ten thousand other nig On New Year's Eve expressly died, For fear ot making New Year's gitts. And we must not omit its mate, which runs as fol- low: ‘The last great debt is paid; poor Tom's no more, Last debt? Tom never paid a debt before. We never knew till now that 4 kiss has a strong re- semblance toa sermon, ‘They a¥e alike, however, in three particulars, They both require first, an intro- duction; second, two heads, and last, an application. A delicate compliment—not one with the sharp, pungent odor of eau de cologne, but with the re- lined and coy bouquet of the tea rose—is a rare thing. Here is a good illustration of one, however. Louis NIV. having gained a victory, the Due du Maine said to him, “Sire, 1 shall never be anything but an ignor- ant dunce, for whenever you gain a victory my tutor gives me a holiday.” Dr. Johnson was in the habit of saying very wise and profound things, per- haps because he knew that Boswell was right behind him taking notes, but he seldom said anything really witty. You would hardly expect a sledge hammer to be as sharp as asurgeon’s knife. He re:narked, how- ever, when he heard that a friend of his had married second time that it was an instance of the triumph of hope over experience. England hardly knows yet whether the war in the East is ended or not. She has gloriously captured dhe or two forts with a few frightened soldiers in them, and by a masterly movement to the top of a hill has seen the enemy flying in the distance amid a cloud of dust. She can’t tind out how strong he is, because it is impossible to catch him. Goliath using the ferule in a school of unruly infants and telegraphing all over the world the news that he has just cornered one child and made him cry, and then taking his seat with a wreath of laurel on his brow, 1s a pretty good illustration of what has been done. Great England blowing a penny whistle is a very funny spectacle. This whole Eastern business is Ameer bagatelle. ‘The morals of horse trading are somewhat pecu- liar, A gentleman bought a fine trotter, who was warranted to be without fault. It was discovered, however, that he was blind of one eye. The sold re- wonstrated with the seller, and indulged in a long discourse on the virtue of truthfulness, just as though horse dealing was not outside all the rules of commercial ethics. “You told me, sir, that the horse was entirely without fault, and yet he is blind.” The casnist looked blandly into the irritated countenance of the loser by the transaction and said, with charming naiveté, “I do not regard blindness as a fault, sir; it is a misfortune.” A MONTH OF PRAYER. OBSERVANCES OF THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN—REASONS FOR PROLONGED PRAYER. Starting out to-day with the observance of the or- dinary Week of Prayer, which has grown into a uni- versal religious institution for the first weck of Janu, ary every year, the services will be continued through- out the entire month, in accordance with the sugges- tion of Mr. Moody and the Baltimore ministers at their late Convention. The cities of Chicago, St. Louis, Rochester, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other places, through their religious representatives, have agreed to adopt the suggestion, so that it will be very widely followed in this country. There are un- doubtedly a potency and stimulus in united prayers for special objects which is rarely attained in single or secret prayer. More courage is given and more Christian work of one sort or another follows. In the topics of the current week there is no mention, directly or indirectly, of the presence, influence and work of the Holy Spirit in the world. This is regarded in many quarters as a serious omis- sion,, which the lo meetings will change and remedy. Only one evening or afternoon, und that Saturday, is devoted to the consideration of missions at home and abroad. The arrangement that places such important themes on the day when congrega- tions are likely to be smallest and the considera- tion to be bestowed the least, is condemned by the religious press that has noticed it. This is the more remarkable in that the Week of Prayer was first instituted and suggested by American mission- aries in India, and forvign missions have always held a prominent place in the topics for prayer and thought at this annually recurring season. In foreign lands, at missionary stations, in warm climes, where visit- ors gather to escape the cold, everywhere Christians will spend a part of every day this week in a concert of prayer. RRASOXS FOR PROLONGED PRAYER, | The observance of this week has been attended with great blessings in the past, but, as is well known, in many cases the cheering expectations excited have failed to be realized. Though all seemed ripe for large spiritual results, the week having come to an the interest has subsided. Hence tl tort to prolong the week into the month. great need of quickening of the religious life. forces of evil concentrating in our large cities, the alarming encroachments on the Sabbath, thickening snares for the young, the eo scepticism as well as the intensely secular an: materialistic spirit of the these things awaken apprehension for our institutions and tor the social tabric itself, This spirit and tendency it is hoped to counteract by united prayer during the current month. A series of topics have been pre- pared for the attention is as most of expected to concentrate. But the gatherings will be of a union character, embracing different denomina- and the order of conducting services euch, it is suggeated that the pastors who may have charge should instruct their official men and such as usually take part in social meetings of the church beforehand that they must be prompt in their responses and participation, so that there shall be no flagging of interest in any of those gatherings. And as the topics are announced beforehgnd it will not be difficult for the pastors’ helpers to prepare each day tor the afternoon or evening meetings. MEETINGS IN NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN, In this city meeting will be held at half-past three P, M. daily in the Reformed Church on Fifth avenue and ‘Twenty-ninth street, to be led succeas- ively by Drs. Genalaton (pastor), 0. 2 Tiny (Metho- dist), Bridgman (Baptist), W.M. Taylor (Co) Hons), 8. D. Burchard (Presbyterian) and Dr. Wasbe burne (Episcopalian). Religious meetings will be held in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Seventh avenue and Fourteenth street, at four P. M. and eight P. M. daily during this week, and in St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church, Harlem, in the evenings. In Eighteenth Street Metho- dist Episcopal Church union services began to-day and will be continued two weeks at eventide, when Drs. Tyng, dr.; Bevan, Colcord, Odell and C. W. Sawyer will talk. Mectings will be started in Fiftieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church on Tuesday event and be continued nightly by Dr. Hanlon ai Mr. Corbit. In Brooklyn “a union prayer meeting will be held every morning this week from half-past eight to half-past nine o'clock in the chapel of the Middle Retormed Church in Harri- son street and in Strong Place Baptist Chapel in the evenings. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union will observe the week by @ series of meetings at three P. M. daily in the parlor of the Young Men’ Christian Association, Gallatin place. In the fol- lowing named Brooklyn churche: Week of Prayer will be observed by evening meet- ings in some of them, short ‘ermons on the topics suggested by the Evangelical Alliance {already published in the Hrmatp) and in others brief addresses by ministers and laymen:--Sands Street, York Street, Warren Street, First Place, New York Av- enue and Carroll Park Methodist a iscopal churches and in Gethsemane Baptist, ford Reformed, ‘Tabernacle and Hanson Place Baptist churches and éhe Church of Christ. CHURCHLY CHANGES. CONGREGATIONAL, A Congregational church has been organized at Granger, Fillmore county, Min A new Congregational church has just been organ- ized in the-city of Grand Rupids, Mich., the Rey. E. ©. Olney, pastor, being the third of this order in that town, ‘the number uniting was forty-three, Of these one-fourth were by profession of faith and nearly one-half were a colony from the First Church, One of the clergymen, the Rev. James Ballard, who took part in the formation of the church and in the council, has seen all the three Congregationsl churches of the city organized in the space of forty- two years, Connecticut is the stronghold of Congregational- ism. Its growth, though slow, is steady, and a large part of the wealth and culture of the community is directly or indirectly allied with the denomination, ‘The latest statistics show that there are 294 churches in the State, two of which were organized in 1877, and all but 36 of these churches are supplied with pastors, ‘These churches have 64,077 members 35,795 Of Whom are women. During the last year 1,999 persons joined by profession and 11,138 by let- ter; the losses were 1,081 by letter, 870 by death and $2 by discipline. the sewisit, ‘The tirst Hebrew congregation of Oakland, Cal., is making considerable progress, considering ‘ite lim- ited number of members, It has engaged Mr. W. Wiel, late chasan of Congregation Beth kKiohim and Ahawath Achim, Brooklyn, N. Y¥., as their chasan, witha salary of $75 per month. This gentleman is well suited, and will doubtless prove worthy of the ition vethe Key, Dr. Benjamin Artom, of Bombay, chief rabbi of the Portuguese and Spanish Jews of London, is expected on a brief visit to New York. He is one of the most eminent preachers in the East. ‘There as @ considerable falling off in the attendance entire month on which public | at the Poal Zedek Synagogue, corner of Twenty-ninth sireet and Eighth avenue. ‘There is some prospect that the ground left by the late Sampson Simson fora Jewish theological semi- nary and scientific institute will be utilized atter all, PRESBYTERIAN. Since the presbyteries of Austin, Trinity and North ‘Texas, embracing the whole State of Texas, have been organized into the Synod of Texas, an organized effort has been made to classify the wants of the State and to fix upon strategic points for missionary opera tion. There ere now in the mind of the brethren of this new synod several points which no other Chris- tian body seems able to supply and which appeal openly to our Church for help, ‘The Central Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, Mo., ey, Dr. Brank pastor, is so burdened with debt it feared the society would have to give up their property. They held a meeting the other day aud resolved that, heavy as it is, they would pay the debt yather than sell or give up their property. A convention of several synods will be held at La Crosse, Wis., January 21 and 22, for mutual counsel. ‘The Presbyterian’ church in San Francisco to which Dr, Scudder, of Brooklyn, ministered some years ago and where Dr. Cuyler spent a couple of months last summer preaching, have called Rev, R. E. Field, of the Puritan Congregational Church, rooklyn. to be their pastor. The church in Brook- lyn and the church in San Francisco are heavily in debt, and Mr, Field does not care to leave the ills he knows and fly to others he knows not of, BAPTIST. ‘The revival at Owensboro, Ky., is still in progress. More than two hundred converts are reported. A new church, with 150 members, has been organized, and a new house of worship is in progress, ‘The Peoria (Ill.) Baptist Church, composed of those who recently left the First Church becanse of difler- ence of view on the temperance question, have just dedicated a new house of worship. ‘two hundred dol- lars of the indebtedness was raised on dedication day, leaving $300 yet to be provided for. ‘The Summit (N, J.) Baptist Church accepted reluc- tantly the resignation of their pastor, Rev. A. B. Woodworth, who goes to Newark. The separation is alike paintul to the retiring pastor. President Anderson, of the University of Chicago (Baptist), hus raised the first $10,000 toward the pay- ment of the debt, and reports a hopeful prospect. ‘The Baptist Church in Paris, France, is now com- posed of 110 members, At least two-thirds are con- verts from Romanism; so says the Baptist We The Rev. D. C. Potter visited this chureh lu mer and found seventeen Frenchmen in Hoyt, of Brooklyn, says the members seventy-two, Dr, C. R. Blackall, for many years the efficient de- positary of the American Baptist Publication Society, at Chicago, has been appointed depositary and Sun- day school secretary tor New York and vicinity. In addition to managing the depository he will visit Sun- day schools tor the purpose ot interesting them in the benevolent and missionary work of the society. ROMAN CATHOLIC. Rey. J. Keegan has been appointed pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Providence, to fill the place of the late Father Cooney. Rev. J. J. Maguire, of Provincetown, has been transferred by the Right Rey. Bishop Hendricken from Province- town, Mass., to Harrisville, R. I, The Very Rey. Father Hughes, Hartford, Conn., netted about $4,300 at the fair for the benefit of the orphans of St. Patrick’s parish. Rev. Father O'Connor, of Clayville and West Win- field, N. Y., said mass in the first place Christmas and started for West Winfield in his sleigh to keep his appointinent with his good people at that place. The anitts ‘were 80 bad that he could not drive tar, so he returned to Clayville, chartered a train ut his own expense, got to his destination and celebrated mass without telling how he reached there, ‘The congre- ation found it out, paid the expenseand made their ‘oted pastor a Christmas present of a purse of $150, It takes something harder and heavier than snowdrifts to keep Father O'Connor at his home when duty calls him away. ‘The Boston Cathedral will compare with that of New York in dimensions, though not in cost or ex- terior elegance, the former being 3é4 feet long and 170 feet wide at the transept, and its spire 300 feet high; the latter 332 feet long, 170 wide at the tra: sept, and the towers destined to be 328 fect high. The Cathedral in Boston occupies over 46,000 square feet—more than an acre of land—and takes more space than those of Strasbourg, Posen, Salisbury, Vienna. Venice and Dublin. During the twenty-three years of Archbishop Pur- cell’s episcopate in Cincinnati his annual salary for support has not exceeded $1,000, ‘The wealthy Catho- lics of that city are raising, with commendable promptness, the $100,000 needed to remove his finan- cial obligations, and a petition has gone to Rome beg- ging that his resignation of his see be not accepted. Rev. Patrick Strain, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Lynn, Mass,, last week celebrated his twenty-eighth Christmas in that parish. His first church was sitn- ated in West Lynn, and his pastoral charge at one time included Chelsea. «he new Church of the Sacred Heart, Fitchburg, Mass., is nearly completed, and was used for the first time for Christmas services. The structure is built. ot wood inthe early English Gothic style, eighty feet Igng by Atty wide. EPISCOPALIAN, The Foreign Committee of the Protestant Episco- pal Church have before them at this time no less than fourteen applications for missionary appointments. Your of the applicants are clergymen, four physicians, two laymen, three women and one is a candidate for orders. The committee, however, lack funds to em- ploy more than one man for Japan. The Scriptural, ecclesiastical and civil laws of Eng- land differ very much on the question of divorce and remarriage. Every bishop is a law unto lumself in his diocese on this matter. The Church of Eng- land body ise Society has addressed a memorial te the Archbishop oi Canterbury asking that the laws on this point be made uniform. A Cuban Guild, —, of the Bishops of New York, Long Island and New Jersey and certain minis- nd laymen from those dioceses, has been es- tablished, the object of which is to aid financially and otherwise the mission work ot the Protestant Epis- copal «hurch in Cuba, W. I, Bishop Smith and Bishop Lay, of Maryland, also unite in this Guild and its objects. ‘The annual convention of the diocese of Albany will be held in that city on the 14th inst. Bishop Doane, who has recently returned from Europe, will on that occasion deliver an address on the Lambeth Conference and his after visits on the Continent. ‘The Bishop is very enthusiastic over Pere Hyacinthe new chureh work in Paris and the Protestant Episco- pal Church mission in Rome. ‘The Church of the Ascension, Baltimore, Md., is in debt to the amount of $16,000. The Kev. Campbell Fair, the rector, has pledged himself for $3,000 to be paid on Easter, 1380, on condition that the church raises the remainder. ‘Che latter has already sub- scribed $6,000, and a meeting is to be held this week to increase that amount, when it is hoped that the en- tire sum will be subscribed. MISCELLANEOUS. In St. Louis the pastors and churches generally have suffered a prejudice against our so-called “evangelists” to such an extent that cv reat and good a man as Mr. Moody tailed to receive trom the Evangelical Alliance a desired invitation to visit us in the 7 of the winter. Nor is this prejn- dice unfouns but rests upon admitted facts per- taining to the effect of such large, exciting meetings, long sustained, Upon the organized uctivities of t churches. It is certainly a shame for any religious paper, with the knowledge of its editors and publishers, to adver- tise ‘good watches for oniy $4 each; warranted for when they must know that a watch that ‘@ week could not be sold for any Freeman's Journal, of this city, ex- poses the sham thus made public through the West- ern Christian Advocate (Methodist), the Herald and Presbyter (Presbyterian) and the Journal and Messenger (Baptist), Christian Standard (Campbellite), Star in the West (Episcopalian) and others. Such advertisements are intended to deceive those simple rustics who place confidence in anything they see in a religious newspaper. The Freeman's Journal has refused a $20 advertisement of those articles. NINETEENTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. GRATITUDE—AN UNPAID DEBI--SERMON BY REV. HENRY P, MENDES. Rey. H, P. Mendes preached in the Nineteenth Street Synagogue yesterday, taking his text from II. Samuel, ii., 5, 6—where the men of Jabesh Gilead were thanked by David for their gallant rescue of the body of Saul trom the Philistines, thereby showing their gratitude in return for Saul's delivering them forty years before from Nabash, to whom they were on the point of submitting. ‘There are few virtues, said Mr. Mendes, that enter more into our lives and upon which wo trade more often than gratitude, When those thousand little deeds of love are practised, those acts per- formed that anticipate each other's little wants, those words spoken that are redolent of honest affection and true regard, then gratitude may be said to be in- terwoven in our lives, for the desire to show it con- stautly moves us to repay such kindnessos as they merit; but when love is only evinced in words that we may be benefited in .return, when friendship is pretended from interested motives, t indeed, it must be confessed that we trade upon it. It is well known to you, my friend, that com- paratively few years have elapsed since our nation emerged from the gloom of the Dark and Middle Ages, threw aside the gaterdine and finally torsook the ghetto. ‘To describe the n ct of life to which our tathers had to submit is scarcely necessary. Hedged in by fanatic laws from communion except the most limited with the outer world, ostracised “from society by the bigoted sentiments of those that com- posed it, there was every temptation for our people to throw off allegiance to the religion that entailed such sacrifices. ‘ihe belief inequality is firmly seated in every intelligent brain; the desire for unfettered association with our fellow creatures beats in every heart; but no equality was granted the Jew, no asso- ciation tolerated for many a long century. Yet the desertions from our faith were compuratively few. "Lis true there were some recroants, some Whose minds were too weak to forfeit their wealth for faith’s sake, sore who seceded for temporal adv tages; a Marcus, whose riches blinded him; a Poste who joined the Jesuits; a Pfetferkorn, who sought to injure nis former faith; but our fathers, as a body, were true, and all those years preferred, rather than bask in the parhelion of Gentile favor, to tre “the valley of the shadow of death, fearing no evil.” WHERE CONSOLATION SPRANG FROM. But who encouraged them in those trying times ? Who inspired them with bop; ae them hig hog to suffer? Who but the rabbi? It was to him they looked tor consolation; it was his example that up- held them; it was he who championed their cause, whether like the rabbi of York, cucouraging them to » Dr. number die by their own hanils sooner than fail info the ~ of the besieging human demons to destroy them, or as a noble Abarbanel, with bigoted Spain for the revocation its su! decree, or a Manasseh making his manly ap for the readmission of his people to the land where the contest in the name of religion had been so bitter, But for the self-denying activity of the rabbi, the nephitic breath of the night of the Dark Ayes would have been fatal to Judaism, He it was who tended the altar of our faith, who kept alive the flame of our religion, ‘To the rabbi, then, a debt of gratitude is due; but how has it been paid ? TAX RABBI LITTLE UNDERSTOOD OUTSIDE OF JUDAISM. With many of us to 5) ofa rabbi is considered equivalent to speaking of a medimval fanatic. ‘To the great majority the word personifies an unreasonable, bigoted, and, except in Hebrew lore, an igvorant and uneultiva man. To say that the rabbies of ancient days said so and so is to expose their dictum almost to ridicule, as if they were actuated by no motive save to make the observance of Judaism as difficult as possible. How little they are understood! ‘Their iotives were ever sincere, their intentions ever pure. “Not for my sake, nor for the g my house, but to ‘prevent disunion and schism from becoming rampant among us.” So spoke a rabbi, chief of the Sanhedrim, and in speak- ing thus he struck the keynote of rabbinism. ‘They gave Us a faith founded on Moses and the prophets. To-day their successors lead us to believe that the Holy Law is the cogitation of Moses. We are to take the prophecies figuratively, We must e’en dethrone Moses from his niche in the temple of our hearts if the spirit of the age, as it is enphonistically termed, demands it.’ Nay, let vis admire what is good of Socrates and Spinoza, the Nazarene, Voltaire, Zoroaster or any new Saul among the prophets. ‘This is the cry of the day. Cer- tainly we must admire what is good, but when the good is embalmed in so much that is objectionable it must not be communicated to minds untrained to receive it, or the remedy is worse than the disease, NOBLE WORK OF THE RABBIS. ‘Tho rabbis of the age just passed did their work nobly and well. Fifty years of new policy has not decreased but rather increased irreligion among us. y their successors perform their task as well; may their ery be, “Not for my honor nor for the glory of my name, but to prevent disunion and schism from being rampant among us.” IN MEMORIAM. In memory f the Rey. Father Jeremiah W. Cum- mings, the founder and first pastor of St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, yesterday being the thirteenth anniversary of his death, there was a solemn high mass of requiem at the church in East Twenty-eighth street at ten o’clock in the morning. There was a large attendance and the altar was draj in mourning. Rev. Dr. yo celebrated the mass, assisted by Dr. Curran as deacon. COMMISSIONER DUNCAN. The motion in respect to the charges preferred against Shipping Commissioner Charles: Duncan was before Judge Blatchford, in the United States Circuit Court, yesterday, and an order was issued that the deposition of Patrick Murray be taken on Monday next at three o'clock. ‘The hearing of the motion to require Commissioner Duncan to answer the charges and specifications is fixed for the 10th inst. A SLAP AT EDISON. A CINCINNATI ‘‘WIZARD” RIDICULES EDISON AND CALLS HI$ ELECTRIC LIGHT A FAILURE. (From the Cincinnati Sun, Jan. 2.) Abroad his reputation is even greater than at home. Colonel Nick Anderson says that in England Edison is looked upon as a being little shortof supernatural. ‘Thero is not a man in all the world who is to-day so great a hero and so wonderful a personage as the shock headed, flannel-shirted, tobacco chewing Ohio boy, who made the phonograph and invented a method of sending four separate despatches over a single wire at the same moment. When the invention of the Jablikoff clectric light was announced, and even after great halls and public squares were brilliantly lighted by it in London, gas stock in that city was not in the least disturbed; but a mere rumor. flashed along the wire under 3,000 miles of ocean that Edison, the awkward young man, located im a mos- quito flat in New Jersey, had solved the great prob- lem, created an immediate panic in gas stock such 86 ‘was never experienced before, and stock went down to figures never previously reached. One gentieman in a week lost in gas stock, on this report about Edison, £30,000. But as week after woek went by, and nothing but promises and interviews and hints of 3 to come were received fro: ent, while there is a cont it ing among people that finally the problem will be wore, pat pe pares i< mr Aanieeta will suc- ceed gas, an a greatly reduced expenditure, there has been gradually snd naturally growing a feeling of distrust in Mr. Edison and a suspicion that perhaps he is only mortal after all, although up to within » ‘week or two such a belief expressed would have been looked upon aw sacrilegious, Such is the state of feel- ing at present toward Mr. Edison; one of great ad- miration, of enthusiastic regard great expocta- tation, but of gradually deepening distrust when ex- pectations have been almost limitless. Yesterday a Sun reporter met a gentleman well known in eloctri- cal science himself, und possessed of intimate and life-long knowledge of Mr. Edison, his abilities and his achievements, and capable of judging him fairly and amctemmengpein “Have you seen Edison lately?” asked the San man. ‘Oh, yes,” was the reply, “within a few day ‘How is he coming on with the electric light “He isn’t coming on at all,” was the reply. “He has not made a single point beyond what hus already been done by other men. He has merely gathered together all that has been achieved by scientists and workers all over the world, and in company with his assistants has been striving to put into practical op- eration the theories of other laborers and the results of their investigations. In this he has notsucceeded up ie date, and there is not the least prospect that he will.” “Do you really think that?” said the Sun reporter, knowing that the gentleman he addressed was a thor- oughly versed man in electrical science, and perfectly capable of judging and feeling the importance of auch sion from such & source, sk " to-day not than he know it,” was the reply. one whit nearer a solution of the problem was two months ago,”” “But you kuow that the cyes of all the world are on him now, and it he fails he will, as it were, ‘go up,’ in the public estimation. Then it will be a ‘go up,’ sure?” was the reply. ‘Do you not have faith in Edison,” was asked. Edison,” responded the gentleman, ‘ts o vastl; overrated man, and the ne per men of New York in search of sensations are in the main responsible forit. No inventor ever took out so man; of which so few were any better than worthless. has taken out abont three hundred, and only about twelve of them are practical aud useful and profitable. He is # hard worker and his success of late ix owing in a great measure to the conditions under which he labors. He is at the head of un institution organized for the creation of inventions, as to 5] The laboratory at Menlo Park in an invention factory, and by receiving promptly from all parts of the world the latest and freshest results of the labors of scientists and inventors, combining and applying the same and experinenting, Edison, assisted as he is by such a genius as Batchelor and others, 1s enabled to utilize the brains of all the inventors of the age and produce results ahead of what any single person could do, The telephone, reproducing human voice through vibration of « diaphragm, by means of eloctricity, suggested the rep action ‘of the voice through the vibration of a diaphragm by mechanical means, ‘This wax a suggestion that would occur to any studious person. Mr. Edison got at it in the simplest manner and anticipated others by » few days only. Any ingenious and thoughtful man, with the telephone ¢lucidated, could make a phonograph. Mr. Edison, planing and organizing and establishing uch an institution as the invention factory at Menlo ark, has shown more genius than he has exhibited in any of his many Inventions in the line of the curious and practic jut about the electric light?” urged our reporter; “that is the important poiut.”” ‘Well, Edison has been furnished by the New York Edison Electric Light Company with $100,000 with which to prosecute his experiments. He has used, I think, about $76,000 of this money up to date, and has developed nothing but promises, and none of them will be fulfilled. You can put it down that no reat electric light revolution is to come’ from Menlo Park for fifty years, at the present rate of progress in the matter there. What is done then will depend in a great measure upon what is the result of all the investigation and experimenting going on all over the world, all of whict is promptly reported to Edison.” THE BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT, [From the Boston Post, Jan, 3.) A private exhibition of the Brush electric light was had on Thursday evening at the mills of the Merrimac Manufacturing Company, in Lowell, and it was witnessed by a large party of gentlemen from Boston and elsewhere, The exhibition demonstrated readily the superiority of the electric light over gas as an illuminating agent. ‘The engine which operates the light is situated in the basement, and is the largest ever put in operation for this purpose. It is of thirteen horse power and gives # lignt equal to 36,000 candles, keeping sixteen lamps steadily burn- ing on @ single cireuit. There aro 540 pounds of wire wound on the magnets and 160 pounds on the wheel. In the weaving room, on the first floor, where formerly 140 gua burners were used, are now twelve electric lamps suspended from the ceiling. On the next floor is the spinning room, where forty burners were formerly used. Malt this apartment is still iuminated by yas, while in the other part four lamps are mounted, giving # light nearly five times as intense, Some of the advantages of this electric light are, that it is nearly as effective as sunlight, as ® ray passed through a prism shows the. colors, its spectrum being contiiuous, while that of gas shows only the yellow and red-dines. It also ty. entirely tree from heat, aud the danger from fire and explosion is entirely obviated, THE COURTS.: IN THE CHRISTMAS HOMI- ' CIDE CASE. Before Judge Donohue there was brought yester- day, on a writ of habeas corpus, sued out by Mr. William F, Howe, his counsel, John Brown, accused of killing on last Christmas Day, in Baxter stroet the Italian, Giovanni Regli. It is claimed that Brown was uking with some friends in his own ents) when Regli and some other Italians burst into the room, when u scuiiie en- sued, during which Regli was struck on the head with a club, sustaining injuries from which he died. It is insisted that Brown acted in self-defence, and at the utmost that he is guilty of no higher grade of olfence than manslaughter, Assistant District At- torney Leary, in opposing the motion for Brown's discharge on bail, said that thero was testimony showing that after the fight in Brown's room the lat- ter and his friends went to Regli’s apartment, where the fatal assault was committed. Judge Donohue took the papers, reserving his decision, HABEAS CORPUS MARSH'S SECOND MARRIAGE. In Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Donohue, a motion was made yesterday by ex-Judge Culver to commit William Marsh for contempt of court in failing to pay his divorced wife $10 a week, as directed by decree. Judge Culver stated that whonshe obtained her divorce Marsh was forbidden by the decree to, marry again during her lifetime; that he paid the alimony for some time; that the arreara now amount to about $500, and that Marsh has since married in New Jersey, Ex-Judge George M. Curtis, his counsel, contended that Marsh had a perfect right to marry again in another State, He had paid the alimony so long as he was able, but had not now the means to make further payments. This proceeding on the t of his former wife, he urged, was prompted by vindictive feeling owing to his second marriage. After final decree counsel claimed that defendant could not be attached for non-payment of alimony, and that the only remedy was by exccution against his property, Judge Donohue took the papers for exumination, SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. Judge Donohue yesterday granted an injunction restraining the proprietors of the Harlem Music Hall from giving furthe: rformances until after payment of their theatrical license. Aunie Churchill and Walter $, Churchill were mar- ried in April, 1878, and lived together until the June following. Mrs. Churchill now charges her husband with adultery and has commenced a suit for divorce inthe Court of Common Pleas, » The case was yesters day referred by Judge Van Hoesen to Adolph M. Pet shaw. REAL ESTATE. The following sales were made on the Real Estate Exchange yesterday :— Peter B. Olney, refere story brick building, with lot corner of 41st st.; B, Kennedy, referee- a . Foreclosure sale of one lot, 25x102. 25 fi x er of East 75th st., 125 BY ¢. J. LYON, Francis ©. Reed, refereo—Foreclosure sale of the three story brown atone frout dwelling, with lot 18,9290.11, No, 206 East 128th ft. of 3d uv.; to John Finlay... bak BY JANES L. Wi James C. De La Mare, reforov—Foreclosure sale of a plot of land, 125x271.6x123x277, on Monroe ay, south corner of Orchard st. (24th ward), to plaintiff 2,050 Total. $18,078 2,000 OFFICIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following are the real estate transactions ag recorded in the Register’s office, January 4, 1879:— Nos. 11 and 13; John Varian to Louis 4 23,500 jos 325, $27, J2V, 331, 333 and 3 also Nos. 82, 84, 38, and 90; also Clift ‘79 and 81; Fletcher U. Harper and wife to Harper & Brothers. . as om, + By + We wy., 260x100: Bayer and. wife to Elizaboth Schmidt. ae Tear. w. 8., 41.6 ft. m of SUth st. 38.6x90; Albert G. Fp and wife to Williau E. Mott (executor)... 15,000 Seth st.,n. 3. 150 ft.e.of Lith av., 25x98.9; John Dunham and wife to Mary T. Gav 108th 196 ft. @..of Sth av 8.8, 150 ft. w. of Ist av., 256x102, ne and wife to Ellen Murr 40th wt., n.6., SU. f -Sinyih (refei le. Caunon st... w. 8, 100 ft. of Rivington ot, Lavinia Gilos to Franziska Kemi Prince st., n. 0, 40 ft. @. of South Jno. Kumerle Imes (referee) to William L. Gallagher. ie 141.6 mS CS Ed Eras- janson and wife to John M. dole ti in. &.. 117'ft. ¢. of Lexington av., 10,0100.5' sl W. C. Trull (referee) to Lewis J. Old-Albany Road (ath ward); E. F. ‘eree) to Jo: RKCORDED MORTGAG Bruning, Charles, to Late ral #. @. corner of 10th mont tod Staten Trust Woodford, iam L., to Henry Schioss, "w. of 10th av. ; 1 year, . Magy T. and haab: ith at. @. of 1th your... . tothe Astor Library, n. 6. of 47th 3 yoars. : and wife, n. of . 3,500 nd, to Jolin Dunham, a, S . 60 Cannon st; J years. Knos, Franz and another, to Ludlow st cars. Herma: ¥., to Christian F. Zobel, w. av., nm of 44th st. 54 at, 199 ft, Kaban, Joba P. to Day ‘B9Uh st.; 3 month Lorillard, J. and Oliver av 3 Lyoar, and wits, to W corner of 7th ay, and 52d #6, and notes...... Mock, Frederick, to Conrad Hotter, w st, near Broome st. ; 3 yours. Morgan, Louisa J. und busban gan, 0. s, of 53d st., @. of Lexingtor Mouninger, Catharine, to Leopol: St. Mark’s place, ¢. of Ist av. 2 y New York Co-operative Tailor Pauline Hiller und another. OBheuginessey, John W. and wife, to William Sor: ley, Westehester turnpike, 3%, weres; 3 yeurs.,..-. 9,000 Reichart, Jacob wn to Pnilipp'Hetlerer, No: 3 Canon st.; 3 yer 2,000 Jacob Bertram, n. #. of Sth st, Scherrer, Michael, years. und and w: "ERR RECORDED ANSIGNA Baron, Samuel to Johann: Baumgarten, August, to Blankman, Bonjamtn J., to Bogurt, Daniel and others (executors, to en jamin J. Blankman.... te sess 9,000 Deane, tha, to Au 225 Draper, Henry M Kagel, William, Heunenaey, Deu Lindemann, Ann wean iy ‘ebb... Manhattan Savings Institution to J Marsh, Valeutino, to Johann W. Bri Motropolitan Savings Samo to Elizabeth Parse . Tallmadge, Frederick 8. (rastes kerald.. ‘Tay lor, Williain, to Jolin A MESSENGER’S MISTAKE, It was reported on Wall street yesterday that bi1!s of exchange drawn by Drexel, Morgan & Co., and ainounting to £9,112, had been lost by the messenger to whom they were intrusted, Ono of the bills was for £5,000 and drawn on J. 8. Morgan & Co., of London; another was for £3,000 on the London and San Francisco Bank, and @ third for £1,112 drawn b; the Canadian Bank of Commerce on the Bank Scotland. It was subsequently stated that the bills of exchange had been recovered, the messenger hav- ing delivered them to the wrong party, who returned them, They would have been of no value to any per- son, when the lows was discovered payment On the bills was immediately stopped. A HALF MILLION ELOPEMENT. {From the Cincinuati Commercial, Jan, 3.) Application was made yesterday in the Probate Court for # license by Mr. A. D. Young for his inter marriage With Miss Elizabeth White, The applica- tion was refused on the ground that Miss White was # resident of Xenis, Some hours later the lady arrived in the city from Chillicothe, probably on re- ipt of @ telegram, and between three and four oFelook .oue f-4 re .Y to the Cae me and 0) 0 6 clerk, in com, ith Mr. Hestifled thet whe intended to tam 0 Cindiaatl ‘hee future home. The license was theroupon issued, aud, as our reporter was informed, the marriage ceremony was performed within halt an hour, It is said the bride and bridegroom were acquainted only a short time, and never very intimately, aud that the contract of marriage was brought about through the interven- tion of other parties, one of them a well known poli: tician in this city. , The bride, who is about twenty- five bead he only daughter of w wealthy " ne ey | in aes and the heiress to Mars. parents were opposed to the match, vn)