The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1879, Page 10

10 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE The Baptist Conference---Min- isters and Money. CHAT BY THE WAY. Programme of Services To-Day— Synagogue Worship. Divine service will be held at the usual hour this forenoon in the Russian Chapel, Rey. Father Bjerring officiating. ‘The revival meetings in the Central Baptist Church, Rev. J. D. Herr, D. D., pastor, will be continued this week by evangelist De Witt. A large number of per- sons have been converted, and twenty are to be bap- tized this evening. Preaching at the usual hours to-day. . Atthe Church of the Divine Paternity the Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin will preach at the usual hours to-day. The Rey. E. Guilbert will officiate as usual to-day in the Church of the Holy Spirit. Dr. R. 5S. Howland will preach morning and after- Boon in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. At Grace Chapel Dr. A. B. Carter will officiate and preach morning and even Dr. Talmage will discourse at the usual hours to- day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. “Fruits Meet for Repentance” will be brought forth this morning by Dr. J. M. King, who in the evening will tell Washington Square Methodist Epis- copal Church that ‘this Man (Christ) receiveth sin- ners.”” At Stanton Street Baptist Church the Rev. 5. J. Knapp will preach this morning and Rev. M. H. Smith in the evening. The National Camp Meeting Association will con- duct services in Willett Strect Methodist Episcopal Church to-day. Dr. J. B, Simmons preaches in Trinity Baptist Church this morning andevening. Subject for even- ing, “Indebtedness of Baptists to Other Denomina- tions.” A Gospel temperance meeting will be held this afternoon in Grand Union Hall, led by Mr.C. A. Bunting. Gospel services will be conducted by Mr. Sawyer on Tuesday und two following evenings in Thir- teenth Street Presbyterian Church and this evening in the Park Theatre. In Harlem Congregational Church the Rev. S. H. Virgin will speak this morning of “Human Needs, How Supplied,” and this evening will describe “A Btreet Preaching Scene Twenty-three Centuries Ago.” “Nothing but Christ nd ‘All Things are Yours” are the topics on which the Rev. George H. Hepworth will dilate to-day before the Church of the Disciples. “Missions in Connection with the Great Religions of the World” will be discussed by Rev. R. Heber ‘Newton this evening in the Anthon Memorial Church. In Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church the Rev. William Lioya will preach this morning on “Waiting for the Angel Helpers,” and in the evening will ex- plain the symbol! of “The Conqueror on the White Horse,” as mentioned by John in the Apocalypse. Rev. E. A. Reed preaches as usual to-day in Madi- son Avenue Reformed Church, Dr. Bridgman preaches this morning and evening in Madison Avenue Baptist Church. Dr. Tyng, Jr., will preach to non-church going men who may attend this evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity. He will preach in the morning, also, and Dr. Tyng, Sr., in the afternoon. Rev. F. M. Van Slyke will preach in the Pilgrim Baptist Church at the regular hours to-day. Rey. W. W. Evarts will preach in the Bergen Baptist Church, Jersey City Heights, this morning and even- ing. Rey. C. C. Goss will hold 9 praise meeting with short addresses this evening in the People’s Church, ‘West Twenty-ninth street. i “Suggestions of Unbelief” and “Christ as a Phy- sician” will be considered to-day by Dr. Burchard in Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church. Rev. E. C. Sweetser and Rev. A. G. Rogers will preach morning and evening respectively in Bleecker Btreet Universalist Church. “The Beast of Prophecy” will be described and lo- cated this morning in Clinton Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, by Dr. J. D, Fulton. Rey. R. 8. MacArthar preaches morning and evening in Calvary Baptist Church, Rev. B, E, Backtis preaches this morning and Dr. Thomas M. Peters this evening in the Church of the Holy Apostles. Mrs, Sehertz will speak on her usual subject this evening at the Christian Israclite Sanctuary. Dr. Shipman preaches as usual to-day in Christ Church. “The Reasons of the Christian's Hope" will be given this morning by Rev. Alexander McKelvey, in Canal Street Presbyterian Church. ‘The Brand” will be plucked from the burning by htm in the evening. The Union Praying Band will conduct services in Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal Church to-day. Meetings will be held during the week, led by Rev. J. 8. Willis. “Babel Building” will be discussed by Rev. J. D. Wilson this evening in tho Central Presbyterian Church, Preaching service in the morning also. “The Welfare of a Soul” will be considered by Rev. 7. M. Pullman this morning and “Pair Dealing with Doubts,” this evening in tae Church of Our Saviour. Dr. Newman will preach in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church this morning and evening. “An Old Man's Conversion” will be described by Rev. J. W. Ackerley in Duane Methodist Episcopal Church this evening. Mr. Ackerley will preach in the morning also. In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. D. BR, Van Buskirk will preach as usual to-day. ‘he Honest Doubter” will be kindly received this evening by Rey. J. BR. vr in the Fourth Presby- terian Church, Mr. Kere preaches in the morning also. Rev. W. T. Sabine and Rev. Dr, Deems will occupy the pulpit of the First Reformed Episcopal Church this morning and evening respectively, Rev. J. M. Stiffler, D. D., of Hamilton, N. Y., will Preach morning and evening in the Pirst Baptist Church, Dr. Armitage preaches at the usual hours to-day in Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. Baptism of con- verts in the evening. “The Harvest Period” will be indicated by Rev. J. F. Richmond this morning and “The Second Coming of Jesus Christ” this evening in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. A. Lowery will preach this afternoon and even- iug in Allen Street Methodist Episcopal Claureh, and Dr. Woouruff in the morning. Rey. Joseph Cook will lecture in Association Hail on Thursday evening on “Does Death End Ail ?” ‘The American Temperance Union will hold a meot- ing this evening in Cooper Institute, where Mr. W. MM. Evans will deliver an address on ““Husks.”* Memorial services will be held to-day in Stxty-first Btreet Methodist Episcopal Church, when Rev. Dr. Crook will preach, and in Eighteenth Street Meth dist Episcopal Church, when Rey. W. F. Hatfield will preach. The National Temperance Institute will hold a ‘ting in Cooper Union this afternoon and be ad- dressed by Rey. W. B. Affleck and Mr. H. ©. Fitz Williams, a prmed setor, of London, and an elo- Quent temperance advocate. At the Helping Hand Chureh this morning Mr. H. ©, Witz Williams will relate au experience of “A Night in Ja.” in the evening Rev. W. B. Afieck will speak on “Repentance, Keproach, Restoration aud Reforma- “Kora, the Reformer,” and “The Groat Revival of Nehemiah’s Day” will be discussed to-day by Rev. A. H. Moment before Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Miss Nellie Brigham will address the Spiritualists At the usual time aud place to-day. A sermon on “Easy Religion” will be proached this morning by Rev, W. N. Searles in the Thirty-tourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, “Oid Fashioned Methodist Revival Work’ will be described in the evening. Dr. Deems this morning and Bishop Fallows this | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY. 26, 1879.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. evening will occupy the pulpit of the Church of the Strangers. Rey. Samuel Colcord will preach this afternoon in Chickering Hall, Dr. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laight Street Bap- tist Church this morning on “The Triumph of the Advent; The Setting Up of the Kingdom of Christ.” Dr. Kuapp will preach in the evening also. “The Christian Race; Its Conditions of Success,” and “The Rich Man and Lazarus,” will be considered to-day in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, by Rev. D. B. Jutten. Dr. C. H. Fowler will preach in St. Luke's Metho- dist Episcopal Church this evening on ‘The Waste and Want of the Prodigal.” Dr, Fowler preaches in the morning also. “The Man Who Never Was Buried” will be intro- duced to the South Reformed Church this afternoon by Dr. ki. P, Rogers. In St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church, Harlem, the Rev. W. R. Davis will speak this evening about “The Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land.” He will preach in the morning also. Roy. George Van Alstyne will preach at the usual hourg to-day in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Revival services will be continued this week in Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Rey. B. H. Burch, pastor. Rev. W. I. K. Little, of Manchester, England, will h this evening in the Church of the ‘Pransfig- tion. “The Manifestation of God” will be discussed by Rey. R. B, Hull this morning, in the Tabernacle Bap- tist Church. In the evening Dr. Bright, Miss Merrill and Jerry McAuley will address a public meeting. Rev. Dr. Ferris will preach at the usual hours to- day in Thirtieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church. ‘The twenty-sixth anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association will take place to-morrow even- him be executed on the spot.” There were no more | interruptions, ‘There is a certain pathos mingled with the polite- ness of the little boy who, on being asked by his Sunday school teacher who made these everlasting hills by which we are surrounded, replied:—“I really don’t know, sir. I have only lived in the village about ten days, and haven't yet made any acquaint- ances.” ‘There is a fearfully romantic story going the rounds of the papers to the effect that a young man who was packing eggs wrote on one of them a request that the purchaser would correspond with him, and that the incident led to matrimony, This is all in accordance with natural law, however. We have been told thut an egg is full of ‘meet’ and the couple met eggsactly as one would eggspect. The only fear we have in connection with the transaction is that the husband was hen-pecked, Dr, Talmage has the most wonderful powers of rhetoric which have ever been displayed on platform or stage, and some of his facts are of the most alarm- ing character. He must have sources of information which are closed to most people, and he piques our curiosity to the degree of incipient insanity when he informs his people that if he should tell all he knows about some people and things the city of New York would reel like adrunken man, He speaks freely of clergymen who wear diamond rings, and who are in the habit of running their fingers through their “soap-locks” for the purpose of showing the shin- ing tacets. Have we come to this? A minister with a diamond ring? Impossible. And Dr. Tal- mage knows his name, and won't tell it? That is still harder to believe. We have hitherto been under the impression that the Doctor told all he knew, and then drew on his imagination, It can’t be that he has kept dark about such a fearful crime as that. The public safety demands that the miscreant be brought to the pillory at once. And to think that a clergyman should toil hour after hour at the look- ing in Association Hall, Drs. Washburne, 0. H. ‘Tiffany and Mr. De Forest Lord will deliver addresses. Rey. N. L. Rowell will preach this morning and Rev. 8. Colcord this evening in the Free Baptist Church. Evangelistic services during the week. Dr. Vermilye will preach this morning and Rev. W. B. Merritt this evening in the Sixth Avenue Reformed Church. The festival of the Italian Mission Sunday School will be held in St, Ambrose’s Protestant Episcopal Church this afternoon. CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘When you say you can see the villain in a man’s face you ought to look a second time to be sure that you do not see it by reflection. Some people's ideas of religion are about as sensible as those of the woman who gave to a poor soldier who had lost both legs a tract on the sin of dancing. It is no harder to make the wrong right by arguing about it or excusing it than it is to jump across a hole in two jumps. ‘What was her exact intellectual condition it would puzzle a professor of metaphysics to discover. When asked to boil the eggs just three minutes by the clock she declared that it was impossible, because the clock was full a quarter of an hour too fast. In fighting a duel the parties who are to give and receive the bullets ought to be careful not to take any undue advantage of each other. When we heard last week that Judge Hilton and H. B, Claflin had re- sorted to pistols we thought at once of the size of the combatants. It seemed no more than fair—since Mr. Claflin is rather a small man, while the Judge is portly—that the seconds should chalk on the person of the Judge a target just the size of Mr. Claflin, and that if the dry goods merchant hit outside that mark it ought not to be counted. However, the whole story turned out s canard, and nothing more serious oc- curred than a friendly hand shake and » good laugh. According to the rules of equity it should also be de- creed that when two persons fight a duel, one of whom is near sighted, the man who is near sighted should be pliced just four paces nearer his opponent than his opponent istohim. How this is to be done we do not pretend to know, but that it should be done is beyond question. When Silas Barnes, of Boston, aman of great eccon- tricity and a shrill tenor voice, was asked to give a subscription to the Baptists, he agreed to do it on condition that they would all be baptized in boiling hot water. Silas Barnes has departed, but he has lett bis mantle om the shoulders of Dr. Fulton. The denomination to which he belongs is every once in a while deluged by his hot, unwise and unclerical criticisms. He isthe hot water boiler of the body. He insista on letting off steam in the faces of his brethren, who hang their drooping heads and wonder why he was ever born—a conundrum whichfthey in- variably give up. However, Dr. Samson, with his years of experience and scholarship behind him, and surrounded by the affection ot those who know him best, must feel very like «lion when a wasp alights in his mane. One good shake, and the insect will discover that he is biting the wrong individual. Spiritualism is 9 great moral force, if the following anecdote is true:—A man, who denied the existence hereafter and took every occasion to scout it as a fable, at length died. After alittle he managed to make himself known through a medium. The first question his wife asked him was, incongruously enough, whether he had changed his opinion as to there being an hereafter. He replied in the affirma- tive, as would be expected under the circumstances, whereupon the partner of his joys and sorrows em- braced her lost opportunity to say “I told you a0.” Further investigation discovered his whoreabouts. He did not spell out the word which indicated the locality of his residence, but he preity strongly hinted at it by asking his wife to send him his linen coat and the thinnest pair of pants she could find. Herbert Spencer, when engaged in the solution of ‘8 metaphysical problem that claimed the whole of his vast mind, never looked more speculatively ab- sorbed or more determined to produce results than a deluded hen whom we saw last week persistently setting on half a dozen glass door knobs. She gave us the impression, as we watche| the varying ex-- pressions of her countenance, tat she had reluct- antly arrived at the conclusion that protoplasm was practically dead failure, Sympathy a] ways indicates a certain refinement of nature, but it is sometimes curiously misplaced. ‘The Siamese twins were on exhibition, and among the spectators was an Irishman who had an original way of looking at things. He tolda friend who was standing at his side that the most fortunate thing in the world was that they were brothers, because if they had been strangers to each other they would never have been able to get on together. Here are two thoroughly characteristic answers to the same question from two of our representative men, During the last Second Advent excitement a deyotee met Mr. Parker—Theodore, of course—and said, “My friend, do you know that the world is coming to an end next week?” Parker meditated on the solemn problem for a moment, and then bright- ening up, said, “Well, that don’t concern mo muc llive in Boston.” A little further on he met Emer- son and gave him the same piece of valuable infor- mation, The great philosopher looked at him with very indifferent eye, and with the merest possible shrug of the shoulders replied, “Well, let it come to an end; we can get along full as well without it,” Some people are inclined by the depravity of their minds to make @ statement so large that it topples over of its own gravity. As, for iustance, a political speaker, before a promiscuous audionce, was rolling out his terrife periods on the subject of human equality. “Gentlemen,” said he, “it i# my belief that one man is as good as another.” One would think that any reasonable audience would be satistied with such @ statement as that, Not so an Irishman, however, who seemed to be full of good spirits, of what kind we cannot tell. He sang out at the top of his voice, “Yis, Your Honor, one man is a» good as another and better too.” This is only equalled by the illogical character of the feminine mind. She was regarding twins in a very reflective manner and concluded her meditations by seying, “How much those children look alike.” That ought to have been enough; but no, she undid it all by adding, “Espo- cially the one this way.” Sheridan never lost his balance, While he was once in the midst of a telling speech he was vastly annoyed by # gentleman who constantly sang out, “Hear, bear.” He bore the sting as long a he could, and then began one of his grandest periods. “Gen- tlemen,” he said, “where will you find in this realm a man so low aud base that for a few miserable pounds he would betray his country?” The same voice answered, “Hear, hear;”? and Sheridan, tarning in the direction from whieh the voice came, causti- cully replied:—"If be is here, as you say he is, iets ing glass in the manufacture of ‘‘soap-locks,” and then spoil their beauty by running his fingers through them. It is almost too terrible to think of. ‘The Second Adventists are right, and the world ought to come to an end at once. Nature cannot bear such a strain as that for any length of time. There is a certain want of logical sequence ina boy’s mind which is appalling. After being told that he ought always to spit out the skins of grapes be- cause they were unhealthy, he came across the story of Jonah. He reasoned that if the whale would swallow one man he would not object to another, and that he was probably in the habit of exercising the throat muscles whenever an opportunity presented. Still his mind lingered on the grapes, and in some unfortunate way he got the two subjects mixed, for he said to his mother, “Do you think the whale always spits out the skins?” If you spare the rod and spoil the child, ought it to be regarded as another instance of a “misplaced switch?” DR. FULTON VS. DR. SAMSON. PROBABLE ACTION OF THE BAPTIST MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE ON DR, FULTON'S INSULT—IN- TERVIEW WITH DR, HOLMES—DR. SAMSON'S WaR RECORD, The Baptist Ministers’ Conference will hold its reg- ular weekly session to-morrow in the basement of the Oliver Street Baptist Church. The brethren cannot, in justice to themselves, allow the incidental pro- ceedings of last Monday to pass without turther no- tice, If any of them have accepted Dr, Fulton’s re- gret as a quit-claim for the insult offered to them- selves and to one of their number, honored and be- loved by his brethren, they will simply deserve to ba treated in like manner again. The interview with Dr. Fulton published in Wednesday’s issue of the Heracp, shows that that worthy knight had no idea of backing down for anything he had said touching Dr. Samson’s war record. On the contrary he re- affirmed what he had previously declared, in @ more offensive form, if possible. Dr. Samson was presi- dent of Columbian College in the District of Colum- bia before and during the war and, it is said, was a candidate also for that of the great University of the South, which was then the absorbing topic in all literary circles. The patrons ot Columbian Col- lege were mainly Southerners because, ag Dr, Ful- ton insists, the vacillating policy of the faculty, who were Northern men, had driven away Northern students. It was with the college president and his asaociates @ question of Policy versus Patriotism, and they preferred the former, and hence disgusted Dr, Fulton, who, from his castle in Boston and from Washington, fired patriotic hot shot into the rebel lines. Toa man of Dr. Fulton's temperament and patriotic impulses it was simply unpardonable that Baptists, who have suffered eo much for liberty in the past, and who clxim now, as 8 denomination, to be the great bulwark of civil and religious liberty against the encroachment of ecclesiasticism and statecraft anywhere, should hold any other than the most pronounced position on the issues of the re- bellion. And Dr.Fulton yas not the man to let such supineness and vacillation in s Baptist minister pags unrebuked. But the question has, by his action ‘and words last week, taken on larger proportions than that of amere verbal difference between two minis- ters of the same faith and order, It is now a ques- tion of honor and moral honesty toward a hundred ministers of the Baptist denomination in New York and vicinity, who were, doubtless, as patriotic as Dr. Fulton himself during our civil war. DR! SAMHON'S WAR RECORD, Dr. Samson was not then and is not now a political preacher. An incident is related of him during his pastorate in tue District which shows what he thought of political reterences in the pulpit. A new Baptint church was to be dedicated, the niembership of which was about equally divided between the antagonistic sect ons of the country. President Lincoin and Secretaries Seward aud Stanton were on terms of greatest intimacy with Dr. Samson. The great War Secretary orderea that the Stars and Stri be wrap] around the pulpit, which, when Dr. ‘Bemson saw, he protested to the President that ip the Almighty’s hous and in His work there should be uo emblems suggestive of differences and ware; that this church was not to be dedicated to the Noria or to the South, to Union men or to rebel, but to the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose work both sides believed, and for whose glory they had un.ted in erecting the edifice. The church was filled with people, and it was then too late to remove the symbol of freedom aud national unity, but Presi- dext Lincoln assured the Doctor tha: it should not occur again. So assured were the Presi- dent and Secretaries named of Dr. Samson's loyalty that they used him in important missions and rela- tions with the rebel government, and largely through his influence and instrumentality the hitch in ex- changes of prisoners was overcome. And it is to the record thus made by him during the war that Dr. Samson last Monday referred his doubting and inquisitive brethren. Bui they did not want to go to Washington for that. His record of a lifetime is be- fore them, and four years of indecision, if it can be called such, or of “trimming,” a8 Dr, Fulton is pleased to style it, cannot undo the even tenor of thirty or forty years’ successful teacning in the pul- pit and in the professor's chair. Dr. Samson's repu- tation is not local, it is national and international. As an author his works are in Buropean as well as American libraries, so that he has uo uced of letiers of commenséation from breturen in Brooklyn or New York. But because these things are so, can the Bap- tist Ministers’ Conference allow last Mondays émeute to end as it did and where it did? Not likely, DR. FULLOY CANNOT LE TKUSERD. Dr, J. Stanford Holmes, who inade the motion for Dr. Fulton's exclusion from the Conference, was visited by the writer to know whether he would or would noi press his motion on Monday. The Doctor could not tell. He would be guided by the cireum- stances of the occasion. But he was sure that the matter would not be allowed ty rest im its yrreee® shape. The Couference showld protect itseli from such breaches of courtesy in the future. Dr. Holmes voted against the exteiision of time to Dr. Fulton, because knowing the latter he could not trust him. He is sure to betray the confidence thus placed in him and the courtesy thus shown to him. He has done it again and again. At the National Convention, in Philadelphia, @ few years age, he would have been expelled for an’ insult offered to Dr. Sears in debate but that be was more prompt to withdraw his offen- sive remarks than in this case before the Ministers’ Conterence. ‘Lhe Couterence,” said br. Holines, “is an offence to me us it is at present conducted. merly it wus @ private meeting of ministers held book depository, in Ninth street, but when De, Full came to Brooklyn he insisted that its proceedings should be telegraphed over the country every Mol day and given ‘to the local press, Indeed, he rested not until he had its meetings transterred from Ninth street to Oliver street, since which time they have been public.” Dr. Holmes agrees with Dr. Bright that it would not be the wisest or best thing now to close the conference doors against the press, but rather to curb the brethren’s tendencies 6 say things that do not look well in print. They meet as Chris- tian gehtlemen, and nothing should be said or done im their weekly gatherings that one gentleman should not do or say to another. Dr. Hoyt, of Brook- lyn, ut whose Urgent request Dr. Fulton amade the feeble apology that he did make, afterward regretted that he had used his influence in that direction at all. For, to make matters worse, Dr. Fulton announced to his brethren that be expressed his regrets for in- trodueing a political matter in @ religious discussion St the request of his friend Dr. Hoyt; whereas the latter urged him to make an apology ‘to save him- selt”’ from the threatened exclusion. What the up- shot will be will probably be decided ut the Conter+ ‘ore ence to-morrow. Brother Potter, too, may huvevs- word to say about Dr. Fulton's fing et his youth. MINISTERS AND MONEY. 4 DOCTOR WHO DOES NOT LIKE MINISTERS, AND 18 ESPFCIALLY GRIEVED WITH TALMAGE, A correspondent, who signs himself “Dr. Nic! 4 is not pleased with Dr. Talmage’s defiant nof re- ward any one who will inform him concerning any responsible person who may hereafter repeat the slander concerning the drowning of the first Mrs. ‘Talmage and the punishment according to law of the slanderer. Dr. Nichols thinks this is not ex- actly as ‘the meek and lamb-like Saviour” would have done. He taught that if a man strikes you on one cheek you must turn the other, and that if a man takes away your coat you must give away your cloak also, But “Dr, Nichols” should bear in mind that this climate and the present weather is hardly mild enough for throwing off overcoats and cloaks, and that acouple of clicks on the cheeks is apt to produce neuralgia or toothache and conse- quent doctors’ ills, which the Saviour never intended to increase in any house- hold, But “Dr. Nichols” thinks that as a min- ister of the Gospel, ‘Dr. Talmage has lowered him- self very much by manifesting such a spirit of defi- ance and combativeness.” And from this very excel- lent text our correspondent goes on to read a lecture to ministers on their partiality for the root of all evil. He thinks church members, too, are merely “vain, deluded mortals” who will “grope in darkness just as long as they can procure money enough to gratify the demands of their high salaried minis- ters.": And notwithstanding the extravagant salaries paid to ministers “Dr. Nichols” insists that “reli- gion is the cheapest thing under the sun, ’tis free and if earnestly sought casily found.” Now the “Doctor” is slightly inconsistent here in his attempt to make the cheapest thing under the sun cheaper, and that which is a6 persee ly free, freer. But our correspondent is evidently a poor man, for he tells us in his letter that he believes “it is a sin to be rich, especially when we have so many suffering poor around us.”” The majority of our ministers, he says, are accustomed to the luxuries of life and fare sumptuously every day, while thousands are shiver- ing over the last pail of coal and the last crust of bread. The “Doctor” did not read the last call from Presbyterian missiouaries in tne West tor a few dol- lars of back pay, long overdue, to keep their families trom starving. If he had he could have conceived something o: the luxury that $350 year can supply to a irontier miss.onary who may hive half a dozeu moutus besides his own to teed, But “Dr. Nichols” is airaid that our love of money “fiat” money, of course, is age to rob us and all iinisters and t people of the true riches ot heaven. “How many of us,” the ‘Doctor’ asks, “take no thought tor the morrow what we shall eat and drink and wherewithal we shall be clothed?’ ‘Woll, quite a number do this, amounting in the year to several thousauds. The State, the county or charitable institutions have to supply this lack of thought for the morrow which thousands in this city display every year. And if the Doctor” is anxious for the answer to his query he can eusily get it. “We can manufacture ministers as fast as we will, but we can never get one iota nearer heaven by their efforts.” t is partly true. Neither heaven nor its ap- proaches depend upon the “manufacture” of minis- ters or of laymen either. But it is not quite true that the minister cannot help us to draw a little nearer to heaven than without his help we might do. “Dr. Nichols” goes in strongly for having us all ministers, so that ‘we will have no use for a hired hand.” But, unfortunately, this rule applics to other things as well as the ministry. If we were all “doctors” we should have no need of hired nands in artment either. But we are not all doctors” ters, and we are not likely to be. Hence the necessity tor ministers like Dr. Talmage and “doc- tors” like our correspondent. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. THE ANNALS OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB—SERMON BY REV. HENRY S. JACOBS, Rev. Henry 8, Jacobs preached yesterday in his synagogue on West Thirty-fourth street from Isaiah, xxiv., 22:—*Therefore thus hath said the Lord ‘unto the house of Jacob, He who hath redeemed Abra- ham; not now shall Jacob be ashamed, und not now shall his face be made pale,” Atter critically examining the text from the stand- point of the old Hebrew commentators the preacher proceeded to say that the annals of the house of Jacob present an instructive page in universal his- tory, though # page too often blistered with tears and blotted with innocent blood, yet one illumined with glorious lessons and bright examples of con- stancy, faith and fortitude. With the destrtction of the national life these annals exhibited a new phase under the leadership of Iochanan b, Zaccai, one of those extraordinary men whose character never fuils to leave its impress on the age. The religious forces of Judaism were then reorganized and showed their strength in their subsequent contact with imperial Rome. Well was it so; for the reign of Domitian, Hadrian, Verus, Commodus and Constantine were, marked with cruel persecutions, which sorely tried the vitalicy of the Jowish race. Passing rapidly trom this view of the subject the reacher took # brief survey of the condition of the ouse of Jacob in other parts of Europe some cen- turies later. ‘The rigorous exactions in France till the reign of Philip Augustus; the outrages prac- tised on them under the Norman kings of England; the atrocities perpetrated in Germany; in Spain the blood-thirsty rule of the Inquisition, ‘which culmi- nated in thelr expulsion in 1402, wore all rapidly re- viewed. PRESENT CONDITION OF JUDAISM, This was in the past, said the preacher, but what of the present? 1s there not # verification of the words of the text, ‘Not now shall Jacob be ashamed, ‘and not now shall his face be made pale?" Germany has become tue pioneer of liberal thought aud hay ven us such men as Lasker and Jacobi, Zunz and poport, Gergor and Graetz, aud a host of others, to illustrate the intedectual growth of the age. France has given prominence to nen like Grochaux, Fould, Simon, Gambetta and Cremieux. England has crowned herseit with glory in honoring such men as Jessel, Goldsmith and Montefiore. ISRAEL'S POWER IN AMERICA. America presvuts also perceptible evidence of the inunense growth of the moral power of Isracl—in resources and enterprises whose results astonish the work, I am proud as a Jew at these vast strives. Contrast our condition with what it was thirty or forty Years ayo; Low we have conquered by pationce and educational development, and again may we make personal application of the words oc the text:—“Not now shall Jacob be ashamed, and not now shall his face be made pale.” Do not tell me, then, of any silly proguostications of the death ot Judaisin, Perhaps “the wish is tather to the thought.” while I point out to you our peaceful victories, let me re- mind you that the batile with error, bigotry and prejudice iy not yet won. Therefore | beg you not, halt not, Relinquish not your arme yet a but move on, so that It may be said of this genei tion and the one immediately to succeed it, “They sanctity the Holy oae of Jacob and the God of Isracl | they reverence,” and the means whereby to attain | this glorious end must be that proper religious edu- | not merely of 1, but of home; uot | iy of lips, bat of life. “Then they also that | were erring in spirit shall acquire understanding, and they that murmured shall obtain instruction.” MR. BEECHER'S HEALTH. It is authoritatively announced that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will preach to-morrow morning. His illness was much more seriaus than was generally | known, and the fainting fits that seized him were ro- | garded with apprehension in view of bis full-blooded | condition. Mr. Beecher has often said in the pulpit that he wished to die with his harness on, and not be kept here atter the day of his influence aud work done. The ismmeusity of his work and the ear- nesiness with which he does it nave much to do with the anxiety of his frieuds when he suffers the least indixposition, CHURCH FOLKS UNDER A CLOUD. ‘The Quarterly Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, of Long Island, was held in Jamaica yesterday afternoon. The parties excom. | municated from the church at Jamaica, who, it was expected, would appeal from the decimon of the official Board, did not putin an appearance. Sister Minem lodged charges with her class leader, Mr. Byard, bso the minister, and Brother Byard wis to have brought her case before the Con- ference. On Friday night, however, when Sister Minem called ou Brother Byard, be informed her that the minister had reinstated her in the church, because he did uot desire to be silenced until the next Gencral Conference, a he would be were her charges preferred, Sister Minem expressed satistac- tiou, but refused to become reconciled to her shep- herd. Brother Cisco, who was excommunicated for having invested in lottery tickets and wou $200, also took dn appeal, but tailed to appear before the Con- ference. BURGLARS INTERRUPTED. An attempt was made on Thursday night to enter and rob the safe in the meat market of Amos 8, Briggs, at Tarrytown. Tho burglars eucceeded in getting into the market and stealing « few dollars. ‘Then, with « crowbar, several tools and # bottle of pow- der stolen from the railroad tool house, they made an effort to force open the safe. They had made but littie Drourens, however, when the pet’ @ hast; and powder behind them, Two young met their names as William Newman an wards, Were subsequently arrested on 5 mon picion of having committed the burglary aud ceny, but, the evidenee against them not being con- sidered sufficient to warraut their commitment, they were discharged, | fidel. MONEY CHANGING IN THE TEMPLE, 18 IP AGAINST THE RULES OF THE CHURCH? ‘To rue Epirox ov THe HeRaLD:— Twas glad to see the letter of “Clericus” in your Paper yesterday. It hit the nail on the head; but I wonder why he did not mention the fact also that this charging at the door for admission to the mass is contrary to the laws adopted by the last Plenary Council at Baltimore. How is that the commands of the Council are not obeyed? Please refer to the second Plenary Council of Baltimore (1866) on re- ceiving money at the church door (page 205, n. 397). CANONICUS. PAY AND SAY NOTHING ABOUT IT. To tax Eprror oy rue HenaLp:— Why all this fuss and parade about charging for seats in Catholic churches? Is not a church debt an obligation that must be met, principal and interest, like any other debt, and is it not honester and better to make all reasonxble efforts to meet the debt of a church than to default in its payment? Catholic churches in this city and in all places where the num- ber of Catholics in a parish make it necessary have from one to four masses every Sunday morning free to all, and the charge for seats is only to those who attend the nine and half-past ten o'clock masses, and who, judging from their appearance, are well able to pay the trifling charge for seats. Many ot the people who complain so loudly about this trifling charge spend ten times the amount for amusement and unnecessary stimulants. Practical Catholics do not complain of the system of charging at. certain times for seats. They take a common sense view of the matter, and either go to the early masses or, if they go to the later masses, pay the trifling charge demanded and say nothing about it. Theatres, rail- rowds, steamboats and places of secular instruction have all to charge for what they impart, whether in- struction, amusement or accommodation; they could not exist without solngen. And how are churches to be maintained and ¢) many heavy srpenees aie if some charge is not made? CATHOLIC \YMAN. THE GERMAN CHURCHES HOSPITABLE TO THE POOR. To THE Evrror or THE Henatp:— / When I read Father Flattery’s account of the opin- ion he formed of Catholics as he saw them in foreign countries it struck me that he intended to imply that there were no good Catholics except those who came from Ireland. Now, I belong to a class of Catholics who uever turn any one from their churches at any mass, and whose churches are less in debt and finer, the Cathedral excepted, than any in hecity. Lt you will fad space for these tew re- marks you will oblige A GERMAN CALHULIC. THE VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF AN EX-USHER. ‘To THe Eprror oF THE HeraLp:— Having been an usher I teel that I know the diffi- culties of the position better than your previous cor- respondents. That money must be raised is a fact, ‘but how to do it is a question. A synod of the Amer- ican bishops at Baltimore, afew years ago, forbade the exaction of an entrance fee as a prerequisite of hearing mass. But the synod did not pay the debts of the churches, and could not if they would, A pastor burdened with a heavy church debt has to resort to all possible means of raising money within the limits of exclud- ing those who will not and those who cannot pay. If it is wrong to ask pergons to pay for a seat it is also wrong to ask persons to pay for pews by the quarter, Many of the churches incurred heavy debts during high priced times, and it is hard to pay them out of the small earnings of to-day. Some of your correspond- ents would complain if the savings banks defaulted in interest or principal because the Catholic churches could not and did not pay interest and prin- cipal of their debts. The churches of this city, at least many of them, are in the condition of ba UF ti holders—that is, they would be better off if they could begin ail over again, without debts ani without property. However an in uvidual may squirm out of his debts the church cannot, and wust pay or stop preaching. Although the church may be robbed she inust not rob. There is too much shifting of by termes ed in this matter, from ushers to pastor, and vice versa. Ushers and doorkeepers should be gentlemen, with a knowledge of the world and the people in it. Not old and crabbed meu, a8 a great many of them are; not men to whom the small pay for a day's work done on Sunday is an object, Such men are not apt to know more than the law allows. Alas! most of the ushers and doorkeepers are of these classes. Nearly nine years ago the Conference of St. Vincent de Paui, of which the writer was then andis yet a member, proffered their services as ushers of the church to which the conference was attached, the usual pay to go ‘into the treasury of the conference for the poor. The pastor accepted, with the excep- tion that he should keep the money to help to pay off the large floating and funded debt of his church, with a promise that he would help us by lectures, &c., which he did until he died. The pastor thereby secured the best men that can be got for the purpose—men that did not need to do so for the sake of the pay—men with enough for themselves and something to spare for the pocr. Some of them were rich, some were Dosses, storekeepers and well-to-do mechanics, and all were friends and servants of the poor, and not likely to browbeat or ill use the penniless, The pastor was always at the meeting of the committee each month to hear complaints from ushers, to report complaints of parishoners and to in- struct then in the duties required for the position, and to encourage them by reports of a fast diminish: ing debt and interest promptly paid, and as there was rotation in the work, none felt it too severe. The committee received many compliments and many insults, but they always found a gentleman to be forbearing and olite under all circumstances, Other people acted Hifferently, ‘Tho writer remenibors landing one cur (who had tried the patience of two or three ushers) not only outside the door, but tried afterward to fiud 4 policeman to take him tv the station. I tear most OUF pastors are too anxious to reduce the debts. United States government is more capable of payi its debt immediately or by the same geuera- ion that incurred the debt than are the Catholic churches of this city, but it is not considered wise todoso. It the generation that fights or founds pays its own running expenses and a part of the principal if is oe fair that their successors should pay the remaind since it is for them more particularly the fightiag or founding was done. The churches of Europe to-day are free, for the simple reason that generations long ago forgotten paid for them. The people of some countries in Enrope have ao little to pay for re- ligion’s sake they seem to eare very little for re- ligfon, and that fact has caused one clergyman to say if he was not an Irishman he would have been an in- Perhaps he is one now, for be does not na to know anytuing about the sacrament of penance; that is, if reporters speak truth, If this controversy will cause priests to listen at- tentively to humble complainants; if it will teach lay mou that redress is to be found inside the church ; if all ons concerned will understand why money is and must be taken at the doors, this coutroversy will have done good work. The door coilection is the only effective method that can be devised that will reach every one that is in duty bound to coutribute to the church and who reap the benefit of having a ehurch building. Oue-fourth of the people in Catholic charches rent pews 4 the quarter, Is it fair that the other three-fourths should go, freer Suppose ouly every fourth property holder should have to pay taxes and the other three leit to do as the: pleased, what a nice time we would have. Wi politick would be a poor profession to follow. Church after church has had to adopt the door collection in order to increase the revenues and equalize the bur- jens. It this communication should induce the Confer- ence of St. Vincent de Paul to take upon themseives the work of doorkeoping and ushering, the pastors to be present at the mectings of the committes and the salaries to be paid into the conference fund for the poor, a great good would be effected. An opportunity would be afforded the rich member, or storekeeper, or bows to earn the money he gives to the poor, to earn it by hard work and warm work, too—a labor far more laborious and meritorio before God than the slinging of & pen in making a check of hundreds of dollars for poor—and to their poorer members a chance to increase thei dona- tions by @ little more exertion. You may rely upon it such men will not insult the poor nor — to the rieh, though they may deal miy with a sneak when they find him. ‘Then if the pastors will act as ours did there will be less cause for complaints and less complaints made. His instructions were that it would be better that the whole collection ve dispensed with than that one person should not hear mass for the want of, or the withholding of five, ten or fifteen ceats, and to seat every person who did pay and all who could wot pay, TERENCE, 18 IT srMony? To Tue Eprror ov tHe Heranp:— I was of the opinion that all disputes among those of our religion were generally settled in a quiet, amicable sort of way, without resort to the press; but it seems we have outlived that age aud must make all our quasi-grievances open and public, for the dis- cussion of too eager enemies, If any one of your correspondents was a true Catholic he would be con- tent to suffer a slight inconvenience for the sake of his faith—merely an inconveni » If t thonght there was anything like simony sanctioned by the Jawa of our Church I would immediately leave if, On contrary, such a state of affairs ay your corre- spondent describes is simony, and is reckoned among the number of sins. Now, whut are the real facts of the matter? Simply these :—The number of Catholics in this city and means tor their accommodation, in comparison with those of other denominations, are on the one hand very | and oh the Stiee very limited. Our ohbsokes cannot hold our worshippers, consequently we are obliged to hi several nervices a morning. Every Catholic church has at ist three masses on Sunday—sumo ‘Ss four iy Bae Que of these all who cannot or will not share the tex of su) ing what expect to reach heaven by. Every church has a mass, None of your ents have snorted that | wont were charged i every mass, Now, wo sare Very poor in pro- portion to our numbers; it is our badge; fand whanco can we gain the means of sup our priests and rrving on @ ehurch? The necessities of the " uineteenth century preclude the possibility of itinerant preuchers and way- side altars. By pew reuts? But many of us cannot even afford the small amount necessary to hire @ pew. Well, persons with a moderate income can pay ten cents toward the support of their faith in this city every time they attend, chureh. If too poor to do even this, let them attend an early mass, when there is no tax. We have national, State and cit tases; if we join a club we are taxed; we dri taxed water and seratch taxed matches; we have taxes on every side; yet, if good citizens, we do not complain because forced to sup- port the State; but when called on to sup- pe Church and faith for conscience’s sake—not % ain fe » ween vend the , by rising earlier trom © “growl” *aien in the Chureh!® he nee aecdael seems to me that most of your correspondents are of those who sleep till tex o'clock on Sunday morning, and then, attending religious exercises for decency's sake, expect a fashionable velvet-cushioned pew, an slonuent preacher und beautiful music for the miserable. one cent they drop, with the back of their hand to the collector, into the collection plate. Do they expect a warm reception hereafter? Fey deserve it. VERITAS, THE COURTS, HOLDING A HUSBAND AND WIPE JOINTLY LIABLB FOR 4 CRIMINAL OFFENCE. A point as to the right to make both husband and wife liable for the commission ofa criminal offence has just been raised by Messrs. Howe & Hummel, in the case of Barnard and Anna Goldstein, recently tried in the Court of General Sessions and convicted of re- ceiving stolen goods, and sentenced by Judge Gil- dersleeve to eighteen months’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. On the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber last the premises of Joseph Morris, at No. 92 Baxter street, were burglariously entered and forty- four unmade coats stolen. An hour later a portion of the stolen property was found in an unoccupied room of a tenement house in which the prisoners occupied two rooms. A door of this unoccupied room led into the bedroom of Goldstein's apartments, and another door ted into the hallway, At the time the property was tonnd srs. Goldstein was in bed im the adjoin- ing room. At the close o: the cave for the poople counsel for the risoners moved that the Court direct the jury to acquit Mrs. Gold- stein on the ground that the proof showed her to be the wife of the defendant, aud as such he insisted that she acted ynler coercion, The District Attorney, in opposing the motion, admitted that the artivs are husvand and wife, but insisted that the usband was not present at the time, and Court thereupon denied the motion that the jury Ay to acquit Mrs. Goldstein. The prisoners were both found guilty. On the point raised, however, Messrs, Howe & Hummel immediately after the sentence re. moved the case to the Supreme Court on appeal and obtained a stay of proceedings, In the meantime an application was made to release the prisoners on bail, which was decided in their tavyor. It remains to be seen what decision the appellate court will give on the point raised. * LAKE MAHOPAC IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Upon application by the directors of the Lake Ma hopac Improvement Company to have the company dissolved, Judge Barrett yesterday ordered a refer- ence to ex-Judge Fancher, Messrs. A. V. Stout, Jo- seph Seligman, John H. Cheever, William H, Guion, Christopher Meyer, John Q. Hoyt and Andrew Me- Kinney are the directors. The company was incor porated in March, 1871, the incorporation be- ing for thirty years, ‘with a nominal capi- tal of $1,000,000, divided into 10,000 sharey of $100 each. Out of the shares 2,500 were sold for cash, and 7,500 shares were given for improve- ments. The company owned 714 acres of land around Lake Mahopac, and large amounts of money were ex- pended in improving it. Owing to financial embar- rassments in 1873 mortgages were made upon the property to raise money for takes and interest, which were subsequently foreclosed, and all but thirty-five acres of the company’s land were sold. The petition states that there are judgments against these thirty-five acres far exceeding their valuc. For more than two years thecompany has been insolvent, and its business was entirely suspended about a year ayo. THE STANDARD CLUB, ‘There has already been published the particulars of a suit brought by Josiah Jex against various mem- ber of the Standard Club to recover one quarter's rent of the building, corner of Broadway and Forty- second street, formerly occupied by theclub, of which they took a ten years’ lease at $14,000 a year rent, but vacated at the end of seven years, alleging that it was damp, leaky and uninhabitable. A default was taken in the suit and application was made to Judge Barrett on behalf of the defendants to have the default opened. This application was granted yesterday, the following being the Judge's cision, which is important as relating to the prac- tice in opening defaults and in view of the stringent terms imposed:—‘It would be harsh to shut the defendants out altogether and deprive them of an opportunity of presenting their defence before court aud jury. I would, perbape, in view of the very strong appeal on the plaintiff's part require security but that the responsibility of the dofendants wae not questioned. All that can be done, in view of the well settled practice of the Court, is to impose s:ringent terms. The default may be openel on con- dition that defendants pay $50—trial tee, term fee and costs of motion and the disbursements ~f the in- quest, and stipulate to try the cause peremptorily next Friday; and, in case it occupies more than the hour, to refer if plaintiff ia pad it. Coste to be paid and stipulations given within twenty-four hourg after the service of the order to be entered hereiu.” Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer and A. L. Sanger appeared tor the plaintiff, and Messrs. Lauterbach & Spingam for defendants, DR. JOHN BISHOP’s WILL. After several previous hearings the ¢rial ef the com test over the will of the late Dr. John Lishop was resumed yesterday before Surrogate Calvin, By his will Dr. Bishop left his property, worth about $50,000, to his wife Anna, His dau,hter, Mrs. Amelia E. Briggs, to whom he left nothing but his love and affection, contests the will on the and of undue influence and alleged insanity of the testator. Dr. John Parker was on the stand for a second time. He Wis one of the subscribing witnesses to the will, but his testimony yesterday elicited no new facts. After some discussion the further hearing of the case wae adjourned until the th of April next. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES, Richard D. Barnes, charged with passing eountes> foit teu cent coins, was brought up for exumination yesterday before United States Commissioner Deucl. ‘The rather novel defence was made by defendant's counsel, Mr. M. L. Hollester, that the counterfeits were such poor imitations that they could not deceive any one. Edouard Drohle and Francesco Belbo were brought before Commissioner Shields yesterday, charged with passing counterteit gold doliars. A few weeks ago the parties went to the tobacco establishment No. 206 Chatham s/reet and purchased three 1 moulds, offering in payment one of the counterfeit dollars, Max Ostrescher, a boy employed in the store, recog- nized the two men and had them arrested by a police officer, Upon searching Drohle at the station house three counterfeit coins were found in his pocket. They were held for examination, AN AGENT'S COMPLAINT. John Costello, a real estate agent at No, 2,153 Third avenue, told a rather amusing story yesterday to Judge Bixby, in the Harlem Police Court. He said that he was the agent for the sale or letting of « dwelling house in East 115th street, near Fourth avenue, and that the ssid house had been seized unlawfully by Matthew Me- Gowan, who now holds possession. MeGowan, aceording to Mr, Costello, formerly owned the house and lot, but lost it a year or two ago by the foreclosure of a mortgage. After he left some difficulty was experienced in finding « tenant, which fact came under the notice of McGowan, and a tew weeks ago he moved into the house with his wite and furniture unknown to Mr. Costello, aud has, according to the latter's story, all the doors and windows, Mr. Costello. says that MeGowan has intimated his willingness to vaca the premises whenever a good paying tenant can bt secured, but meanwhile he thinks he is justified in Mr. Costello says he retaining session rent free, wees trcaet bl hy saoeeet es toe ae for ion # “round blue eye" has a ar blind, and siterward appeals for admission by his rt have been disregarded, Judge Bixby, acter hear. ng the itp 1 ae gece, that in the halal Court, on t me floor, there was leasan browne. Sud ge, who tinderatood canes. or titat sort, and advised him to submit the matter to him. PRODUCE EXCHANGE. The Executive Committee of the New York State Dairymen’s Association and Board of Trade sent a communication to President Edson, of the Produce Exchange, requesting him to appoint delegates to at- tend their convention, to be held at Utica on Feb- Sand6. In rdat ith the above the Towing aot were mointed pore lowi ntlomen were hurnee John ‘anderson, Nhoman Bamber, Alexander