The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1879, Page 13

| | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1879.—QUADRUPLE SHEET—WITH SUPPLEMENT. B RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Denominational Notes--Chat by the Way-- Synagogue Worship. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. The Anti-Chinese Bill and Missions. Gospel meetings will be held in Dwyer’s Mission, ‘a Barrow street, this and every evening this week. Dr. E. H. Chapin will preach in the Church of the Divine Paternity to-day as usual. The Kev. FE, Guilbert will officiate at the usual hours to-day in the Church of the Holy Spirit, and also on Ash Wednesday morning and afternoon. “The first human sin” will be analyzed by Rev. Dr. Howland this morning in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Bishop Seymour will preach in the evening. Services on Ash Wednesday also. Dr. J. P. Newman will preach on ‘Washington's Religious Character” this evening in the Contral Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Foster will preach the annual missionary sermon in the even- Ing. At Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev, B, H. Burch preaches this morning and evening. Revival services during the weck, At Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. A. C. Morehouse will preach morning and even- ing. 8. Halstead’s praying band will conduct services in the earlier purt of the week and J. RK. Ryerson’s in the later. Union evangelistic services will be held in the Forty-third Street Methodist Episcopal Church, with preaching to-day by Kev. 8. Colcord, and during the week by Rev. Drs. Corey, Tyng, Jr., Herr, Bevan and Mr. Sawyer. Dr. J. B. Simmons preaches this morning and even- ing in Trinity Baptist Church, “Tenement House Reform’ will be discussed in mass meotings this evening in the Anthon Memorial Church and in the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. “The Place of Blessing” will be pointed out this morning by Rev. R. B. Hull, and “Disobeying the Gospel” will be deprecated this evening before the Tabernacle Baptist Church. “The Present and Ultimate Success of Missions’ ‘will be discussed this evening in St. George's Prot- eetant Episcopal Church by Rev. Dr. Hall, of Brook- lyn. Bishop Bedell will preach in the Church of the As- consion this morning. Dr. William Aikman will preach in Spring Strect Presbyterian Church this morning, and Rev. A. H. Moment in the evening, on “Haman and Mordecai.” Drs. Dashiell and Fowler will occupy the pulpit of St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal Church to-day. Rev. C. B. Lightner will preach in St. Mark’s Prot- eatant Episcopal Church this morning, and Dr. Rylance this evening will consider ‘Religion as a Social Power.” At the Sixth Avenue Reformed Church the Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach at the usual hours to-day. “The Woman Who Was as Wise as Sho Was Beauti- ful’ will be introduced to the South Reformed Church this afternoon by Rev. Dr. Rogers. “Laying Up Treasures in Heaven’ will be the topic of thought for Rey. J. M. Pullman this morn- ing in the Church of Our Saviour. In the evening Mr. Pullman will address young men on “Choosing & Business and Choosing a Wife." Dr. H, W. Knapp will preach in Laight Street Bap- tist Church this morning and evening. At Madison Avenue Reformed Church the Rev. C. A. Reed will preach morning and evening. Mrs. Van Cott will speak this morning and even- ing in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church. Re- vival services during the week. “Our Homes and Homeless Ones” and ‘The Race of Lite” will be presented for consideration to the Church of the Disciples to-day by Rev. George H. Hepworth. Rev. Dr. Bridgman will minister in Madison Ave- nue Baptist Church at the usual hours to-day. In Madifon Avenue Presbyterian Church the Rev, ‘William Lloyd will speak this morning on “Safe to Lend” and in the evening on “Tho Angel with the Golden Censer.” “The Heroism of Right’ will be discussed by Rev. C. C. Goss in the People’s Church this morning, and in the evening Rev. Mr. Horn will preach. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. C. 8. Brown will preach this morning, and in the evening ‘The Parable of the Lost Sheep” will be explained by Rev. W. N. Searles. “The Law” and “The Gospel” will be contrasted to-day in the Fres Baptist Church by Rev. C. J. Fowler. A Gospel temperance meeting will be held in Sey- enth Street Methodist Episcopal Church this after- noon, when Revs. W. H. Mickle and J.T. Vine and Judge Pittman will deliver addresses, Dr. H. M. Gallaher, of New Haven, will preach this morning and evening in tho First Baptist Church. In the First Reformed Episcopal Church Rey. W. 1. Sabine will preach at the usual times to-day, “The Evil of Our Times aud tho Remedy” will be vet forth this morning by Rev. W. F. Hatfield, in Eighteenth Stroet Methodist Episcopal Church, In the evening “The Scarlet Thread” will be hung out. In tho Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. Dr. K. Van Buskirk will preach this evening, and Rev. George E. Walk, of Morrisania, in the morning. Dra. J. M. and J. E. King will preach in Washington Bquare Methodist Episcopal Church to-day. “In Vain” will Rev. Carlos Martyn talk about “‘Mad- Rev. 8. J. Knapp will preach as usual in Stanton Btreet Baptist Church to-day. “The Prospective Great Moral Issues of the Amer fan Republic” will be presented to Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church to-day by Rev. J. E Bearles. “A Terrible Tenement House Story” will be told by Rev. J. W. Kramer, in Wainwright Momorial Chureh, to-day, “Man's Obligation to Man” will be shown by Rev. 3. F. Richmond, this morning, in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. “A Convenient Season” will be expected in the evening. Dr. L. H. King, of Yonkers, will address the Na- Nonal Temperance Institute, at Cooper Union Hall, this afternoon. At the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church the Rey, Dr. Armitage will preach in the morning and evening. At the Helping Hand Church, in Bleecker Building, the Rev. W. 1. Affleck will speak this evening on “Marthas tho Necessity of the Times.” ‘Temper. Guce meeting in the afternoon. William M. Evans will continue his temperance Meetings another week in the Berean Baptist Church, Bervices daily afternoon and evening. Mrs. Nollie Brigham will address the Spiritualists this ovening on “Spiritualism Contrasted with Ancient and Modern Religious Systems.” Dr. Talmage will preach at the usual h In the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Rev. 8. Colcord preaches in Chickering Hall this afternoon on ‘The Important Preparation.” The American Temperance Union will mect in the Lycoum Thoatre this afternoon and be addreasod by ‘W. M. Evans on “Bottle, Pledge and Fiend,” Ex- Perionces will be given by reformed men, Rev, E. C. Swoetsor will preach at the usual hours bo-day in Bleecker Street Universalist Church. Rev. J. Q. Adams preaches as usual to-day in the Berean Vaptist Church, Mrs, Scherts will address the Christian Israclite Bocioty to«lay, im their Sanctuary, on the “Ingather- ing of Isracl.* Dr. Herr will preach morning and evening in the Central Baptist Church, Rev. RK. 8. MacArthur preaches in Calvary Baptist Church morning and evening. Kev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., in the morning, Rev. Dr. Tyng, Sr., in the afternoon, and Rev. J. y, Blacko, in the evening, will occupy the pulpit of the Church of the Holy Trinity. in the Church of the Holy Aposties the Rev, B. E. to-day Backus will preach this morning, and the Rev. Dr. Orgood in the evemmg will address the Young People's Association. Dr. Shipman preaches in Christ Church as usual to day. In the Church of the Strangers at the usual time to-day Dr. C. H. Deems will officiate and preach, Rev. J. W. Ackerley will minister to Duane Meth- odist Episcopal Church this morning and evening. CHAT BY 'THE WAY. Every man seems to be perfectly willing that his wife's love should cover the multitude of his sins. "The man who dodges behind his newspaper when 8 lady enters the crowded car is the man who piously hates a hireling ministry and retuses to pay his pew rent on principle, The women of Massachusetts are competent to take a philosophic view of the most perplexed prob- lems, When one of them was informed that there were more women than men in the State she at once replied that the fact was in accordance with the scientific doctrine of the “survival of the fittest.” An epitaph can easily be made to suggest the do- mestic history of many years, For instance:-- Sacred to the memory of Anthony Drake, Who died tor peace and quietness’ sake; His wife was constantly scolding and scoftin’, So he sought for repose in a twelve-dollar coffin, Be very caretul, if you reyard yourself as the guar dian of your own honor, that you do not occupy the position of a sinecure. An infidel said sarcastically toa clergyman:—‘T always spend Sunday in settling my accounts.” ‘The reverend gentleman did not wither as expected, but simply replied :-—*‘And you will probably spend the day of judgment in the same way.” It is sometimes just as well not to go into the homes of great reformers, because many & man is more able to tell others how to reform than to prac- tise his own preaching. The mind of the mule is very peculiarly con- structed, but not altogether illogical to an impartial observer. The secret of his mode of action is the conviction that the man who owns him is an un- reasonable being, who wants him to do an unreasona- ble thing. The mule’s logical power lies in his heels, and it is not safe, even for » philosopher, to approach him from that end. He is like a great many men in that he will either have his own way or break things to pieces. ‘No man is ever good for anything until he has found two things—first, something to love, and second, something to reverence. ‘The season is approaching when the Christian world will put on a close resemblance to umbrellas— i. e., they will keep Lent. "The ability of the ordinary policoman to keep out of the way when he is wanted amounts almost to genius. When he isn’t needed he races across your track at every minute, but when a couple of ruffians garrote a lady on Fifth avenue the police force has always just started for a trip to Timbuctoo, and will be back ton minutes too late to a certainty. Darwin was last seen in his study in meditative and yet triumphant mood. He had solved a great problem, proving beyond a peradventure that man is only an inferior animal, made up of the leavings of the rest of creation. “Why, d’you know,” he said, “that even a cat; yos, sir,a mere cat, can have something which no human being ever had since the world began?” His wild admirer looked at the great naturalist, ready to devour the new bit of informa- tion, and asked, in breathless excitement, ‘Indeed, and pray, Mr. Darwin, what is it?” The stern phi- lowopher looked at him with saddened eyes, wiped his tear-bedimmed spectacles, and replied, “Kittens, my dear friend.” Our likes and dislikes are expressed in ways which are characteristic of sex and age. The young lady’s dictionary has no intermediate adjective between what is perfectly magnificent and perfectly horrid. And yet there is one matter on which there never has been, is not, and never will be a difference of opinion and conceruing which adjectives of all kinds are in- valid. We do not refer to the mysteries of dogmatic theology, or the absolute necessity of having a gilt- edged prayer book in order to induce a devotional mood, but to that hirsute and oft-caressed ornament of the human face, that longed-for and boasted decoration of @ man known as a mustache. It is said onthe best of authority that every woman in the world sets her face against it, provided it is on the right individual. The negro jury of the Detroit Free Press resombles the white juries of other parts ip its recent verdict. “De Hon, Standhoff am hereby acquitted ob de charge ob takin’ fiahwood belongin’ to somebody else, but de brudder is warned to bea little more keerful in de future.” The believers in the efficacy of blue glass are by no means extinct. A certain lady whose lover was too bashful to ask the long looked for question re- quested him one day to take a walk with her in the conservatory, the roof of which had four largo panes of blue glass in it. With that facility for management which is peculiar to the sex she halted him just where the rays of the sun would strike him on the head and breast and anxiously awaited results, In two or three minutes he became ter- ribly restless and uneasy. His words came with evident difficulty, aecompanied by a frequent stam- mer, Atthe end of not more than ten minutes, so powerful was the blue glass, he had asked the ques- tion, received his answer and was on his way to tho printers to order the wedding cards. Events will work contrariwise sometimes, in spito of our best cfforts. Just think of the feelings of a man who, seeing two persons drowning, springs to their relief, grasps one of them at the risk of hisown life and succeeds in saving him, only to find in his vest pocket when he searches him a little unsettled bill against himself, There is something very sad and significant in the words of one of Brigham's wives when she said that she had uniformly received good treatment from the members of the press and from Congressmen, but that she had been misused by Christians everywhere. ‘The two conundrums of the hour are, “Why is Dr. Fulton like a gentleman?’ and “In what does Dr. ‘Talmage resemble # man who honestly pays a church debt?’ Probably no two puzzles have been worked over as these have, and yet everybody has beea com- pelled to give them both up. Revenge is sweet, and sometimes even those who make religious professions indulge in it. The owner of @ steam sawmill in the West became indignant with his pastor, as laymen occasionally will, and de- termined to hold his own religious services in the mill, which was just opposite the village church, where the brethren did not dwell in unity. He hades large calliope that could be heard for miles around; which was so vigorous, indeed, that it could drown outa thunder storm. The pastor of the church gave out the hymn, “Pass me not,” but the little asthmatic organ had no sooner made the first wheeze than the calliope started on the same tune and made noise enough to blow even # good sized mortgage from the building. Just think of congregational singing led by a calliope which compelled every man to stop his ears with his fingers lest his tympanum should give way. The sermon was on the duty of making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, and the minister was compelled either to come to terms with his sawmill parishioner, or movo to # healthier locality. There is food for solemn thought in # recent ro- port of the financial condition of the country. The writer announced that in the market monoy was close, but not close enough to reach. Alas! so near, and yet so far! Most men find it easy to oxcuse any course of con- duct to which they are inclined. The scales of jus- tice in which they weigh their own doods aro no bet- ter than fish scales. The true boy speaks thus:—No, I can't give you a bite of my apple, because it is a cooking apple, and I feel very sure you wouldn't like it; but when 1 get 4 real sour one, then ask me.” Even # clear headed man will sometimes get con- fused, But it is truly said that when you see a man dodging a lightning bug ons summer night, as though it wero the headlight of # locomotive, its safo to say that he ought to adorn himself with @ bine rib- bon. A boy's mind looks at everything from the stand- point of basoball and marbles, “Why do you sup- pose,” said a Sunday school teacher to his class, “why do you suppose they took Stephen outside the city walls when they stoned him?” It was @ poser, but one of the aspiring youths was equal to the emer. wency, He said, “It was so they could get a better orack at him, I guess.” DR. HEPWORTH’S RESIGNATION. OPINIONS OF 1HE RELIGIOUS PRESS ON THE SUBJECT. ‘The religious press of the city express opinions on the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Hepworth, and those opinions are very generally regretful of his depar- ture. The Haptist Weekly says that “as a preacher ho has done noble work and gathered a grand working church.” In regard to his successor the Weekly adds that the Methodist Church must be rich in ministers to contribute so many of late to other denominations, and some of her ablest preachers must be greatly dissatisfied to be so ready to leave her. The Independent says it is with regret that the friends of Dr. George H, Hepworth heard of his resig- nation, last week, of the pastorate of the Church of the Disciples, in this city. Thechurch, which began with twenty members under his pastorate, seven years ago, has grown to a membership of about eight hundred, ‘The society has struggled under a terrible burden of debt, which, partly by payment and partly by sale under foreclosure, hus been reduced $100,000, and now amounts to about $85,000, Dr. Hepworth finds his health impaired by the labors of the long struggle, and will go abroad for along period of re- cuperation, With no delay, the charch has chosen as his successor 9 young Methodist clergyman of Harlem, the Rev. Wesley K, Davis, who bears a high reputation as a preacher, and who is not unwilling to give up the itineracy. The Ciurch Union notices the Doctor's resignation without comment, but quotes the words of a well known preacher on his successor, Rev. W. K. Davis: — “I would rather be the author of his discourses thay of any other preacher I know.” The Avanyeist calls Dr. Hepworth a “constructive Congregationali: and remarks on Mr. Davis that he is logical and Calvinistic in his preaching as well as his prayers, and hence there may be more reasons tor his sudden change than appear on the surface, The Church of the Disciples, the Hvungelist thinks, is fortunate in securing the services of so 4 4 man, But our contemporary wants to know if those frequent secessions from Methodism are to be taken as proots that John Wesley’s masterpiece of organization is a fuilure? The New York correspondent ot the Christian Leader referring to this matter thinks “the transfer of Methodist to a Congregational pulpit would seem to indicate either that the preacher has been in the ust Or proposes to be in the future a hypocrite.” lot necessarily so. ‘There is no real and substantial difference in doctrine to-day between Calvinism and Arminianism, and among men who “preach not themselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord,” there is no difference at all. Mr. Davis does this, and hence can preach in any pulpit in the land without hypocrisy or change of views. THE CHINESE ay SIJON FROM A RELIGIOUS ANDPOJNT. The Observer, commenting on the Anti-Chineso Immigration bill, lately passed by Congress, says it is not probable the politicians will let it rest as it is. ‘They are too anxious to secure the Pacific coast vote; but one hope yet remains iy the President's power of veto. The Baltimore Methodist confesses to a feel- ing of shame for our country at the passage of this bill on the part of Congress in positive violation of good faith and in the face of express treaty stipula- tions, Our contemporary recognizes the impor- tance of adopting some means to prevent such an influx of this Mongolian element in California as would affect the character of our civilization or social status on tha Pacific slope, or interfere with the occupations ang industries of our own citizens; but this should be a matter of mutual arrangement between the two countries, and not be forestulled by any arbitrary enactment on the part of Congress that contravenes the provisions of international law. It fears that the course taken by Congress will complicate mat- tera between the two countries and seriously inter- fere with missionary operations in the Celestial Em- pire, now in so hopeful a condition. It still hopes the President will prevent the bill from becoming a we The Inde; ¢ says the “hoodlums,” the ‘sand lot orators” and the Kearneys were last week faith- fully represented by a majority of the Senate of the United States in the vote on the anti-Chinese Immi- gration bill. The country may well be ashamed of Congress in both houses, and if the President con- sults its honor and does his duty he will meet this bill with » plump and square veto, informing Con- gress that he will be no party to the passage of a Jaw that violates our biper with China. That such is the character of this bill no one pretends to deny, ‘To way that there was any emergency affecting the interests of the nation and imperatively demanding such legislation, without any delay, is an insult to common sense. The truth is this bill is a political bid for the vote of California at the sional election, and the iy part tho Senate determined that neither should outbid the other. Should the President sign the bill, the Chinese Emperor will have just cause for abrogati every treaty between that country and the United States. ‘Tho Baptist Weekly calls attention to the fact that through all our history as a nation only one thing has belied our professions of loyalty to the rights of men before the law and to the doctrine of equality in opposition to that of caste, countenanced b: nearly all other countries, When slavery wus aboi- isned by war it was the confident belief, says the We , that no fresh stain of caste proscription would ever jain sully our statute books, but that, out respect to race or color, our government wouk afford equal protec- tion to men of every nationality. In this, it would seem, our belief imay have been too sanguine. The Weekly enters its indignant protest against the injustice oc this bill, not only to the Chinese, but to ourselves, and one that should be resisted as a measure fraught with the gravest results. Let this prohibitory be carried through and at once all the advantages which have accrued to us from com- mercial relations, and all the opportunities which have been gained for American missionary work among the Chinese, both at home and abroad, will be entirely lost. The National ist (Philadelphia) says the bill was inspired by the infamous spirit of caste prejudice and narrow minded selfishness and is an attempt on the part of both political parties to bid for the vote of the Pacific States. The Christian Intelligencer most heartily condemns this bill and calls attention to the facts that the 60,000 Chinese now in California contribute over $15,000,000 ey to the revenue of the State; that the Chinese importers at Sun Francisco pay into the United States Treasury $1,800,000 in duty and that the value of roperty in California held by white men has been Pseoet during the past ten years $290,000,000 by Chinese labor. It also calls attention to the fact that thirty-five or forty years ago, when European imuini- gration set this way, American born workmen's ‘wages were reduced to fifty cents a day by the over supply of labor from abroad. Bat most of all the h 1ge seqeele this Congressional action on re- rounds. ligious the ‘arustian Union is glad that the President is not @ candidate for re-election and is independent of the “hoodlum” vote, and it therefore hopes to see in his veto of this new phase of Native Americanism an exhibition of his quiet and unostentatious strength of principle. Our contemporary gives a sarcastic dratt of a bill that ought to be passed requiring every emigrant to give at the Custom House satisfac- tory evidence that he is # member of some Christian Chureh or tion aud holds to # Christian creed; that he intends to be naturalized and to vote early and often; that he is married or is prepared to give bonds that he will marry within & year; that he eats meat at least once a day, and that he would rather stay idle aud join the nuble army cf tramps than work for less than $1 aday. ‘These em- Bad arguments against the Chineso, and the C Unwn thinks if it is right to exclude John because he will work on the rauch for less wages than Patrick it is equally right to exciude Patrick be cause he will work in the factory for less wages than the Yankee farm boy. RELIGIOUS OPINIONS ON THE INDIAN TRANSFER. Bishop W. H. Hare, of Niobrara, writes to the Churchman @ letter on the Cheyenne Indians, in which he denies cortain acts of cruelty and doubts others alleged against the military authorities at Camp Robinson. And then the Bishop makes the foliowing arraignment of the government in its treatment of the Indians, based on personal knowl- edge and observation among the red men :— Wrt—That we try to meet the Indian question expedients instead of applying to it great princi- 53 Second—That in order to devise expendients we are quick to make Indians promises which we can never keep. Third—That while wo break 2 tho framework of their own social order we leave thom destitute of the discipline aud protection of those laws which are the framework of ours. Fourth—That we proclaim to them tho excellence of iving Up their roving life and of choosing each a tarm lor himself, but neglect to adopt that legislation without which the course we commend to them is an impossibility, From these causes it results that the Indian re- qurds us neither as brave foes determined to van- quish him nor as straightforward friends bent on treating him with magnanimous justice. He be- comes to us what we are to him—a tickle friend, a fickle foe. ‘he Observer thinks that the massacre of the Chey- enne Indians, the massacre of the British officers by the Zulus and the invasion of Afghanistan, with its attendant sufferings by the natives and the invaders, ought to arrest the attention of the Christian world, If Christianity has no right to speak to governments civilization might surely be permitted to put in a word, Our own treatment of the Indians is the root of all we have with these savage tribes, When es inquisition for blood he will require theirs at our hands, and if nations meet their penal- ties for wrong, as they must, in this world we have & terrible reckoning to pay. The Freeman's Journal, against the opinion of the Rey, J. B, Genin, long « missionary among the Sioux Indians, and chiefly on the basis of Commodore Boutwell’s opinion, who never was among them, considers it very desirable that the care of the In- dian should be turned over to the War Department. THE CHURCH OF 'THE MESSIAH. The Church or the Messiah (Unitarian) has come out of its long struggle ut last triumphant. Its debt of $125,000, because of which it was feared that month heuce the society would be disbanded and its property sold, has been provided for. Persistent effort has been rewarded with success, and now that the society has come out ahead of the Sheriff it pro- poses to have a supplemental St. Patrick's day jubi- lee on the 19th of March, which date will also be the fitty-second anniversary of the organization of the Church of the Messiah. At tne same time the Uni- tarian denomination, which, through the American Unitarian Association of Boston, has contributed to this joyous result, will hold a general conference he ‘The twenty-five original members of the Church of the Messiah still left, and the fifty or sixty new ones who joined since the debt was created and still remain, have contributed $68,000 toward the debt. Dr. Bellows’ Society of All Souls have cancelled $22,000 worth of bonds against their brethren of the Messiah Church, and the Unitarian Association al- ly named gave them $35,000, Through the intlu- ence of the Key, M. K. Schermerhorn, of Newport, K. I,, collections were taken up recently in churches of the faith“in New England which yielded $10,000 of this amount. The Church of the Messiah will now put down the pew rents so that people of very mod- erate means can enter the church, A new minister will be called within 4 month, probably in time to be installed on the 19th prox. The Rev. George 8. Mer- riam, of Springfield, Mass., formerly one of the editors of the Christian Union, will preach in the Church of the Messiah to-day. AIDING A NEW CHURCH. Since the completion of St, Patrick's Church, Jer- sey City Heights (one of the most magnificent church edifices in New Jersey), the pastor, Rev. Patrick Hennessey, has devoted his energies toward the liquidation of the debt by fairs, lectures, charity sermons and special and general collections, In recognition of his zeal in this great work the ladics of the parish originated and carried to un unexpected success a unique plan in wid of the church fund. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenjngs of last weck a tea party was held in which the thirty-two counties of Ireland were represented, At the close of the testivities a handsome green silk banner bearing the picture of St. Patrick was set up for competition among the four provinces, and was won by Ulster, the 1ollowing being the votes representing the number of tickets purchased :— Ulster, 854; Munster, 665; Connaught, 330; Leinster, 151. The receipts netted nearly $600. A grand musical programme, in which the national airs of Ireland wore ren , Was an attractive teature of the entertainment. WHAT CONSTITUTES TRUE WORSHIP. To THe Epiror or THE HeRatp:— ‘The several rather severe criticisms on the fashion- ablo modes of worship pursued in the leading Catholic and Protestant churches of New York at the present time that appeared in the HEenaup this morning brings to my mind the following inci- dent:—Some years ago I attended a Spiritualistic convention in Boston, presided over by an aged gentleman, I think from Beverley, Mass, There being a temporary pause in the proceedings of the meeting, the venerable Chairman said he would avai) himself of the opportunity to relate a vision he had witnessed on the previous night. He thought ho was standing in the pulpit of the most gorgeous and magnificent cathedral he had ever seen. Before him was the priest or pastor of the church, and beside him stood an angel with a tablet and pencil in hand, whose mission it was to make record of every act of worship or prayer that transpired in his presence and ascended as an acceptable offering to the throne of God. Every pew was filled with richly attired worshippers of either sex, The most sublime music that ever fell on his curaptured ear filled the air with melody. All the beautiful Ritualistic Church services, includ- ing @ surpassingly eloquent sermon from the gifted minister, had iu turn transpired, and yet the record- ing angel made no entry in his tablet! The congre- Layer ‘were at length dismissed by its pastor with a ngthy and beautifully worded prayer, followed by benediction, and yet the angel ‘made no sign!" Attended still by the angel, the speaker left the door of the church in rear of the richly attired con- gregation. A poor, tattered castaway stood in the utter beside the curbstone with her pale, famished and extended, silently pleading for alms, As the richly attired worshippers from the church sod by they shrank from t! rv Magdalen, the ladies withdrawing aside their silken, jewel-bedecked robes lest they should be polluted by her touch. Just then a drunken sailor came reeling down the sidewalk on the other side. When he got opposite the poor forsaken he wi red across the street to where she stood, and, taking a few pennies from his. pocket, he thrust them into her hand, accompa- nied with ‘the adjuration, ‘Here, you poor, G—d d—n forsaken cuss, take this!’’ Acclestial radiance now lighted up the face of the fecording angel, who instantly entered the drunken sailor's act of sym- pathy and charity in his tablet, and departed with it as @ sweet sacrifice to God. T. RH, New York, Feb. 16, 1879. DENOMINATIONAL NOTES, REFORMED (DUICH). The Sunday school of the Collegiate Church, on Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York, has sent $225 to the Reformed Dutch Church at Pella, Iowa, for the purchase of a bell. Other churchesand friends have contributed enough to free the church from debt. ‘The German Evangelical Mission Church, in Hous- ton street, New York, Rev. J. W. Geyer pastor, celo- brated its annual missionary festival last Sabbath evening. A sermon was preached by Mr. Schulte, of the Baptist Church, and an address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Seibert, of Newark, N.J. The occasion was one of great interest to the Germans. The German Reformed Church in the United States has six synods, forty-five classes, 710 ministers, 1,369 congregations, 147,783 members, 90,993 unconfirmed members and 1,237 Sunday schools, with 89,932 scholars. Bedford Avenue Reformed Church, Brooklyn, has succeeded in lifting its debt of $17,000. Dr. Porter is to be congratulated upon this achievement. St. Poter’s German Evangelical Church in Brook- lyn, E. D., has had a peculiar experience. It was organized twenty-five years ago, and in the begin- ning promised well, but it built a house on which o debt heavy fox a little band rested. They reduced it 4s well as they could and then became discouraged. One by one they dropped off, and in January, 1867, when the Rey. J. M. Wagner became the pastor, they talked of selling the property and disbanding. Not one of the deacons was capable or would pray in public then. Eighty persons belonged to the soci- ety. Now the church is full, the debt of $4,000 has been paid off and the Sabbath and parochial schools are prospering beyond expectation. EPISCOPALIAN. ‘A pastoral has been issued by the Bishop of West- ern Michigan condemning worldly devices for the purpose of raising money for church objecta. Since Bishop Jagger, of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, entered upon his duties, the number of parishes and missionary stations about Cincinnati has been doubled. ‘The congregation of the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, of which the assistant bishop is rector, and the Rev, Dr. J. H. Elliott associate rector, has raised $140,000 toward the payment of tho cost of the now church edifice. Of this amount Mr. Corcoran, who is ® member of the parish, has given nearly one-half. The church is located upon one of the best sites in the city, is built of white stone, is Guthic in style and cost about $200,000, ‘The minister of the Established Church of Gar- loch, Scotland, preaches to three families, numbering a dozen hearers, while the minister of the Freo Church has a congregation of 900. The corner stone of the first of nine Episcopal churches in Shefield, England, has been lad. The nine churches are to be finished in five years, and £50,000 haye been subscribed for their erection. St. John's Church, Jersey City Heights, has 400 communicants organized into several societies for carrying on its parochial work. Its contributions last year for benovolent and church work amounted to $11,000. A correspondent of the Churchman says :—“Judging from chureh statistics that appear in the public prints the religious condition of Berlin is most do- plorable. It is not only in church-going, but in the neglect of other ordi that this anti-religious teeling is displayed. #@ the children born of Protestant parents in 1878, one-fourth of the legiti- mate and nearly two-thirds of the illegitimate were u y one-third of the marriages were ized by any religions service, It is, fortu- mainly in the capital and in a few other large that this newlegt is so crying.” new Protestant Episcopal Church at Stafford Springs, Conn., with the lot and furniture, cost $6,500, The basement is of yranite aud the upper part of wood, It will seat 260 persons, Its styie is gothic, 30 by 10 feet, with a tower 70 teet high. UNIVERSALIST. The Clermont Avenue (Brooklyn) Universalist So- ctety have taken the initiative toward the building ot @ new church edifice. The prosent chureh is ill- contrived and poorly located, neither adapted to the needs orthy of the wealth of the parish. The society 1# strong in numbers and financial ability, It has very many carnest p ople, who have made and willing to make great riflves for their faith, with an opportunity t 1 the old chw the Penn of builaing at tl gether with the pressing need of su wor not seom 8 dificult work to build such achurch as will honor the society and the denomination in the City of Churches. ¢ fine brick chapel that is being built by the Universalists at Wiretown, N.J., stands across the street from the old Potter Church, which now be- longs to the Methodists. It is surrounded by a nat- ural grove. The workmen are putting ou the roof and laying the floor. It is built in the most substan- tial manner, and when finished it will be a desirable place to visit. Every gift is recorded, whether sinall or large, on the records of the chapel. ‘The Universalist Society at Hari h voted to build a new chureh, and plans have been prepared and acommiteve appointed to push the work during is year. ‘The Universalist parish at Dov to build # new church. ‘Uh the plans, The friends have a yood lot, an organ a bell, and they hope to raise cnough to build a neat and commodious church. The church in Kichmond, Vt., under Rey, 8. C. Hayford, is also about to build. Several thousand dollars have been raised. The church which has been in course of erection in Onconts village, N. Y., for a year past, has been e. pleted and dedicated. The Kev. L. F. Porter, the astor, hus wo! early and late, and has reason to proud of his success. BAPTIST. Peddie Institute, at Hightstown, N. J., is to be saved to the Baptist denomination through the self- sacrificing efforts of the Rev. W. V. Wilson, who has succeeded in making an arrangement with the par- ties holding judgments against the property. The Baptist Church in Paterson, N. J., of which Rev. M. C. Lockwood is pastor, is having a season of ingathering. Within the past year anda half sev- enty-flve or more converts have united with the eburch on profession of faith. Meetings are held every evening, the pastor being assisted by Kev, Al- tred Millington, formerly of the Methodist denomi- nation, At the Willoughby Avenue Church, Brooklyn, there are tokens of special religious interest. There is a very remarkable work going on in the Sunday school, Between thirty and forty conversions have occurred, and of this number thirteen have been baptized, ‘There is now a Baptist church at Shechem, near the place where Christ had the conversation with the woman of Samaria. The congregation averages a hundred peasons. The Rev. E. L. Karey, the pastor, is a Syrian, and was educated iz Great Britain. The Vineland, N. J., Baptist church is in trouble on the communion question, Some of the members recently conmuned together with Congreyationalists, ‘This was a heresy that could not be countenanced, and they were expelled from the Church, Then with- out any such formality many more, who sympathized with th m, withdrew, and the once happy family are at loggerheads. The Central Chureh, Brooklyn, E. D., Rev. C. Rhodes, pastor, is fayored with’ revival intluences, Five converts have recently been baptized and a num- ber of others aro waiting to yo forward in the ordi- nance. ‘The Centennial Baptist Church, Brooklyn, Clinton avenue, near Myrtle, Rey. Dr. Fulton, pastor, has been in @ state of revival since the Ist of January. Indeed, the Doctor says it bas been so almost con tinusly for three years. During the past week Preaching Evangelist DeWitt and Singing Evangelist J. A. Maxham, ‘the Baptist Sankey,’ have held meet- ings in the church every afternoon and evening, and with very marked success in the number of con- N. H., is tryiog verts. BR MAN CATHOLIC. St. Josoph’s Roman Catholic parish, Matawan, N. J., will commence the erection of 4 new church building carly in the spring. The Tablet’ makes an able plea for the revival of Peter's pence, which have greatly fallen off since the death of Pius IX., owing, as the Tablet thinks, to the fabulous inventions regarding accumulated millions in the Vatican treasury. ‘The present Pope is suffer- ing in his court and in his spiritual work for lack of funds. Boxes are hereafter to be placea in the churches to receive contributions for the Pope. The Pope has proclaimed a general jubilee, to ex- ¢ architect is at work on | tend from March 4 to June 1, Pentecost of this year. ‘A despatch from Rome announces the recovery of Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, N. ¥., who was seri- ously illin Italy. The prayers of his diocese were asked last week for this result. A band of Lazarist Fathers aro giving a mission in the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Vir- gin in Shenandoah, Pa. Right Rev. E, C. Fabre, D. D., Bishop of Montreal, has prohibited female singers in the choirs of his diocese after June 1, ‘Lhe Sisters of Mercy at Yankton, D. T., will erect a school building, to cost from $12,000 to $15,000, on the hill north of that city. Preparations are being made for a Catholic school under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy, in Nor- walk, Conn. A deed for the land of the new Catholic Hall, East Boston, has been given to the Archbishop, but the erection of the building will not be begun for an- other year. ‘The number of worshippers at the Oratory of the Holy Face in Tours has become so great that it has been necessary to build another chapel. It is dedi- cated to Our Lady of the Seven Dolors. A magnificent Sodality Hall, which will coat $3,000, is being erected by the Jesuit Fathers attached to the Church of the Holy Family in Chicago. It will con- tain a library, reading room, lecture hall, &c., and when completed will one of the finest buildings of the kind in that city, Aseries of Lenten lectures will be given in St. Pat rick’s Church, Chatham Village, and St. Bridget’s Church, Copake, by Kev. James J. Moriarty, be- ginning next Sabbath with “The Mass and Its Cere- monies.” This will be fotlgwed on successive Sab- baths with lectures on “The Confessional,” “he In- tercession of Saints,” “Devotion to the Blessed Vir- gin,” “Purgatory” and “Infallibility,” METHODIST, At the Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenland, N. H., the pastor, G. W. Ruland, has received thirty- five adults on probstion. ‘The New Jersey Conference will moet at Keyport on the 12th of next month, Bishop Merrill on a At St. John’s, Brooklyn, Rev. J. O. Peck, D. D., the astor, received 113 on probation last Sunday week. ‘he revival continues, St. Paul's, New York, Dr. Tiffany pastor, has re- ceived about thirty on probation, and the church is peopleot Sp: arevival. Fifty-rour A revival is goi field, Iowa, are in the midst of we been added to the church, torward in Pennington (N. J.) Seminary also, and twenty-five students have becn converted, ‘The Methodist Recorder, of London, publishes a cor- respondence which shows that all the clerical fools are not dead yet. Two young iadies named Hird were members of the Anglican Church at West But- terwick, and taught inthe Sabbath school. They oc- casionally went to the Wesleyan Chapel or “dissent- ing meeting house,” as their rector, Rev. D.J. White, calls it. ir. White having heard that the sisters were guilty of such a crime wrote to them to know if it was true, and at the same time telling them that if it was they might consider their further services in the parish Sunday school declined. One of the young ladies wrote back a short, sharp auswer, which hag saved the rector some trouble, but mado him a laughing stock among the dissenters. The new Methodist Episcopal Church on Park sqtiare, Lynn, Mass., will be ‘dedicated on Thursday next by Bishop Foster and Dr. C. D. Foss. PRESBYTERIAN, The Home Missionary Board of the Presbyterian Church is in debt $90,000, The Synod of Kansas (Presbyterian) was organized in 1871 with four preabyteries. Since then it has grown to nine presbyteries, and a new synod of three presbyteries haa been organized, containing thirty churches. During the last ten years 200 churches have been organized in the bounds ot the synod, During the last ten years ninety-six churches have been organized within the bounds of the Synod of the Pacific, and there has been an increase of 5,546 mom- bers, ‘Besides this fifty-six houses of worship havo been built or bought, estimated to be worth $500,000, and a theological seminary established free of debt. The Unit Presbyterian Presbytery of Edinburgh has agreed to recommend to the synod that marriage with » deceased wife's sister shall no longer be a bar to membership in the Church, ‘The Westininster co: egation, of Baltimore, has riven unanimous call Rev. W. J. Gill, of Des ines, Iowa, This congregation had not been ya- cant quite two months; and it is a matter of expecial credit, in this age of candidating tevers, that they did not allow the fever to run very high. Mr. Gill is a native of Ireland, and was well acquainted with Dr. Hall, of New York, before either settled in this country. ‘The English Church Times learns from ent that the Princeion Review “is not # pe has any connection with the Americ: the chief organ of Yankee Presby "Bat will it tell us,” asks the Christian Union, “what is the American Church?" ‘The Presbyterian Church of Dixon, Ill., has just been helped wholly out of debt. Two women took the matter in hand and contributions had to follow. The members of the First Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, reduced their debt of $13,000 to $60 by subscription a few Sundays ago, ‘The Free Church of Scotland, with a membership of 1,000,000, contributes as much for missionary purposes as the whole Church of Englat with its Fa,000,000 wiherents and unlimited weait! Rev. Mr, Atkinson, of Morgan City, writ Presbyterian Church at Grenada, Miss, transterred.”” Three elders and most of its died at their posts during the yellow fever. Only eleven out of 300 merubers of Rev, Dr. Boggs’ church, in Memphis, Tenn., remained in the city during the fover rage. correspond- jodical which b MISO ‘The question whe his own marriage ce for the last three years in the decision finally reached is valid. ‘The Moravians report 323 missionaries, occupying 95 stations in Greensand, among our Indians, in the West L South Africa, Australia and Central Asia, have beon gathored 70,640 adherents, |i municants, ‘Che receipts for L which $34,430 were from “societies and frie other Christian denominations,” leaving $25,495 as the amount received from their own ANEOUS, ‘clergyman can perform wony haw nh in litigation Ireland, marriage that it is now definitely settled that the next, which will be the seventh, General Conference of Christians of all nations will be held during the present year at Basle, Switzerland, beginning on August 31 and con- tinuing until September 7. The “Christian” or Campbellite Church in land received into its fellowship between 1869 and Is78—ten years—4,601 persons, and excluded 2,645 during the same period, There must be something rotten in that phase of Christianity. rteur of the American Bible Society in Mis. she found some young men of the age of eighteen or twenty years Who seemed to know noth ing about the Bibie. They showed him a book of 160 or 200 giving historical events of the Bible which they thought was the Bible, Tho Christian at Work saysi—Wo have before ox- pressed our opinion of some of the Sunday school lyrics of the day, Here is a gem from 4 new pub- lication called the ree of Life. The Sunday seboot child sings :— 1 love to see my teacher's smile, Tlove my classmates, too; Tiove to learn iy lessons, while I've nothing else to do. Lord James Butler, the Protestant Evangelical champion in the Irish Church Synod, has formally separated himself from the Chureh of Ireland, on the ground of his dissatistuction with the results of the revision of the Prayer Book. FORTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY—THE LESSON OF ANNIVERSARIES—SEBMON BY REV. DB, F. DE SOLA MENDES. At the Forty-fourth Street Synagogue Rev. Dr, Mendes preached yesterday on Proverbs ii., 9-20— “Then shalt thou understand righteousness and | judgment and equity; yea, every good path, that thou mayest walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.”” The generous and enthusiastic nation among whom it hath pleased God to cast our lot, said Dr. Mendes, celebrate to-day the natal anniversary of their great general and statesman who efficiently con- tributed to the foundation and maintenance of the Republic of liberty, equality and fraternity. Ameri+ cans are not, generally speaking, prone to live in the past. The pressing present, the uncert , ll vos- sible future appeal more strongly to both¥he practi- cal and the imaginative elements of their mental composition, Such a birthday celebration is hardly in keeping, perhaps, with so vigorous and progres sive a temperament. Now Judah might be called a retrospective nation; we have a long series of glorious centuries behind us, We have fought against such foes as ignorance, cruelty and oppression; Judah is the nation which should ob- serve abundant anniversaries, and, calendar in hand, point out to each new day a lesson from its anteco- dents. So one would say who knew not the facta, Men confuse what ought to be with what is, They proclaim lofty ideals and bow down before petty mockeries of them. The rigid censor might find fault with Israel on this head. Few nations are so unmindful of its past. In none other, perhaps, is the cultured man’s acquaintance with the authors, statesmen and warriors of his people confined to so few names, While sternly practical America to-day honors her illustrious dead, how many of. retrospec- tive Isracl know that the 7th Adar, a week hence, is the birthday of Moses—our liberator, leader and legislator? THE CAUSE OF THE NEGLECT. We must plead guilty to this indictment of callous- ness and ignorance, but the cure will come with time. America’s comparative youth in the roll of nations deprives her of the patriotic satisfaction of a long line of ancestry. Israel, old as a nation, is yet young on these shozes. Freed trom the hampering restrictions of the Old World it feels itself here new born, and must for the tirst century bend its best en- ergies, in the first place, toward the necessities of life and leave ornament and’ polish for gradual and sec- ondary acquisition. If we neglect our history in other lands it is because we have to make ourselves a nation here first. Culture and intellectuality take time to develop out of ordinary intellect, like the full prize blossom of the horticulturist trom the simple wayside flower. Give us but a few more dec- adex of the liberty and prosperity these hospitable shores afford, and in a golden age of learning we will again, as in the Middle Ages, be the priests of knowl- eo; and, while studying with the most devoted the science of the age, Will disclose to the world the treasures of observation and experience our oldest books contain, and introduce the poets, the philoso- phers and men ot science of our past history to the world of the day. EXAMPLE. Dr. Mendes next spoke of the part imitation had layed in the world. ‘The floating tree gave man the idea of the raft and boat, thus more than dou- bling the traversible area of the globe. ‘The lines of the tish’s body are the best example of form where naval speed is to be attained. The earthworm taught men to surmount mountainous obstructions by piercing them. — In the moral education example is of the utmost importance. Parents and teachers permit themselves license of deed and speech in the presence of their children which are in glaring con- fradiction to the doctrines of charity and pioty they attempt to inculcate. There are no keener critics than children; their unsophisticated fearlessness and frank guilelessness furnish forth many a scath- ing criticism on would-be teachers. I would remind parents, strict and precise as they may be in conver- sation with strangers in the world outside, to be ten- fold more so in deportment before the little eyes and busy brains of the household. Injury is inflicted irretrievably by carelessness, At the saine time this imitative faculty may be cultivated for blessing. Many a man has felt the lessons learned at his mother’s knee, or when the father with reverend head asked blessing on his dear ones, to bea preservative against the world’s temptations—a preservative which time enhanced. ‘This 1s the force of example—that we un- wittingly do take on the habits, modes and thoughts of those sround, good or evil be they, and do incor- porato them in our nature. Therefore patriotio hames are celebrated that their lessons may excite imitation. Happicst the nation that has most such anniversaries: its sons unconsciously reflect the virtues of their sires; like the annual taper of our households, the spark engenders each year the holy flame of ardent admiration aud imitation. May the time soon come when Israol’s illustrious dead shalJ be rescued from forgetfulness, that a renoyated Judaism, pure as in the author's first conception, founded ‘ou the firm pedimont of the past, and cont secrated by the living example of those who strove for its maintenance, shail be the heritago of all the worl GARROTED ON THIRD AVENUE, Garroting was revived in Morrisanis on Friday last, the victim being William H. Phillips, son of @ Methodist clerg: in the Twenty-third ward, About five o'clock in the afternoon of that day young Phillips'was walking up Third avenue, on his way home, when a man sprang in front of him, flung his arms around his neck and squeezed him until he became partially unconscious. When Phil- lips recovered his senses he found he had been robbed of a fine meerschaum pipe, the only article of value on his person. He had a talk soon after with Roundsman Dennerlein, of the Thirty- third precinct, and gave him a description of the thief. Yesterday the officer invited Mr. Phillips to take a look at John Borden, s young man living in 143d street, between Willis and Brook avenues, whom he had taken intocustody. Phillips at once identified Borden as his assailant. The prisoner was then arraigned before Justice Bixby, in the Harlem Police Court, who committed him to answer in the Court of Sessions. SECRET INFORMATION, © THE SPY SYSTEM OF GERMANY AND HOW IT 19 MANAGED OVER THE WORLD. (Berlin Letter to the London Globe.) The ominous reports of an alleged treasonable communication of important military secrets to@ foreign Power have produced quite a sensation. Strange to say, the government, always ready to con- tradict even the vaguest rumors as soon as they cast the least discredit on any of its officials, has hitherto abstained from referring to the deplorable subject. ‘The only paper which, so far as I know, has published a denial of the current statements is the Tagblatt, which does not, however, enjoy such authority as to set at rest the mise givings generally felt. The person said te have been grossly maligned is a Saxon officer, who, on hearing of the grave accusation laid to hischarga, requested a thorough investigation into his conduct, which, according to the above mentioned paper, re- suited in establishing his entire innocence. He in tends proceeding with energy against his defamers, who certainly deserve severe punishment if their calumnies are proved to be without foundation. 7 am at a loss to conceive how these disreputable ao counts, so openly discussed, not only among officers, but even in pPiitical circles at large, can have been propagated for such as length of time without immediately meeting with a categorical dixayowal, ‘Che Saxon Minister of War, who lately passed through Lerlin, appears to have had an audi- ence of the Emperor, to whom he minutely explained the whole matter. If the Saxon major so wickedly slandered succeeds in bringing to justice his ac cusors, We stall probably be enabled to state the ori- gin of the base attacks to which he has beon sub- jected, As the pretended treachery was compared with the criminal proceedings of Baron Ertl, the Austrian lieutenant who is now undergoing a long term of imprisonment in expiation of his unpardon- able offence, it will perhaps be interesting to hear nan General Staff has since that time Hiy revised its method for the acquisition of secret information respecting the organ etliciency of foreign armies. Previous to ims peachment of Baron Ertl, who seems to have been onnected with, if not incited to lis treason iiflitary repre: government in Vienna, th accredited abroad were Cabinet obtained the having exposed the mental to theit honor as to engage in any utative of the German litary Plenipotontiaries chiet organs by which the information, These attaches selves to reproaches so detri- sntlemen, they were transactions which might injure their personal reputation, As the government is still extremely well acquainted with all the particulars of foreign armies, viligenee is pros f ospionaye, me on good is having no whom on det ithout hesitation be forrettin, obvious that this in H tion any connecti disclaimed, are out the secrets t in anyway dosirable regret to own, are almost exclusively natives of the countries betrayed by them, receive their instructions direetly trom headquarters and are uot known even to the diplomatic represeutatives of the Kuvire,