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RELIGIOUS, INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements--Chat by the Way. SYNAGCGUE WORSHIP. Programme of Church Services To-Day. A Gospel temperance meeting wil! be held in Beventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church this afternoon, when Dr. Brush, of Austin, Texas, Dr, Newton, of the Medical College, Revs. J. T. Vine and 3, L. Gilder and Judge Pittman will deliver ad- dresses. A similar meeting of friends of temperance will be beld in Grand Union Hall this afternoon, to be led by Mr. C. A. Bunting and reformed men trom tho Christian Home, A temperance meeting will be held in the Helping Hand Church, Bleecker building, this afternoon, when Rev. W. B. Affleck and Mr. Fitzwilliam will Speak. Mr. Affieck will preach there in the evening on “Milk.” Mr. Sawyer will conduct a temperance meeting in the Park Theatre this evening. At the Lyceum Theatre this afternoon Mr. William M. Evans will address the American Temperance Union on “Bond or Free.” Rev. Dr. Eddy, of Jersey City; J. N. Sutherland and others will also deliver addresses. ‘The National Temperance Institute will meet in Cooper Union this afternoon and be addressed by Helen M. Slocum, Susie W. Best and J. B. Galway. ‘The temperance revival in the Berean Baptist Church, which has been carried on four weeks, will be continued this week by William M. Evans. Meet- ings every afternoon and evening. Mrs. Nellie Brigham lectures for the Spiritualists to-day at the usual time and place. Rev. F. Hitchcock preaches this morning and Rev. E. C. Sweetser this evening in Bleecker Street Uni- versalist Church. Mrs. Catharine Schertz preaches on ‘Spirit, Soul and Body” this evening in the Christian Israelite Sanctuary. “Light and Duty’ will be discussed this morning in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Churcn by Rev. J. F. Richmond. In the evening the Buell family will con- duct a service of song. “Christian Expediency,” “Under What Yoke," will be considered by Rev. Carlos Martyn in Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church. At Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. W. P. Estes will preach in the morning, and in the evening the Rev. J.E. Searles will answer the question. “Is Christianity » Failure?” The Rey. S. J. Knapp will preach as usual to-day in Stanton Street Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. King preaches this morning and Rev. Dr. Hall this evening in Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church. At the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church the Rev. Dr. Armitage preaches this morning and evening. Rev. J. E. Searles preaches this morning in the Allen Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Rev. D. A. Goodsell, of Brooklyn, in the evening. “God Asking for Man’s Heart’’ will be discussed by Rev. 8. Colcord this afternoon in Chickering Hall. Dr. Herr preaches morning and evening in the Con- tral Baptist Church. Rey. Dr. Fulton will preach this morning and Rev. George Balcom, of Kansas, this evening and every eveniny this week in the Centennial Baptist Church, Brooklyn. Services this morning and afternoon, with sermons by Rov. Alexander McKelvey, in the Canal Street Presbyterian Church. At the Central Presbyterian Church Rev. J. D. ‘Wilson preaches morning and evening. At Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, the Rev. J. Walker Jackson, D. D., of Phil- adelphia, will preach this morning and evening. The Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach morn- ing ond evening and Rev. Dr. Tyng, Sr., in the after- noon in the Church of the Holy Trinity. Rev. R. S. MacArthur preaches this morning and evening in Calvary Baptist Church, Dr. Shipman ministers to Christ Church at the ‘usual hours to-day. “A Christian” will be introduced by Rev. J. W. Ackerley this evening to Duane Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Ackerley will preach in -the morning also. At the Central Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. Dr. Newman will preach morning and evening. Rev. J. B. Cleaver will preach this morning in the Church of the Disciples of Christ, and Rev. D. R. Van Buskirk in the evening. “The Reward of the Faithful’ will be presented by Rey. W. F. Hatfield this morning, and a sermon to young men, on “Mistakes in Life,” be given this evening in Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The First Baptist Church will receive the minis- trations of Rey. 8. Burnham, D. D., of Hamilton, N. Y., to-day. The First Reformed Episcopal Church will be in- atructet religiously to-day by Rev. W. T. Sabine. “Submission to God” and “The Irresolute Dis- ciple’ will be considered by Rev. N. L. Rowell before the Free Baptist Church. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. Dr. Crawford will preach this morning, and the Rev. W. N. Searles in the evening on ‘‘Rest.” “The Soul's Cry of Pain’’ and “The Soul's Cry of Boy” will be analyzed to-day by Rev. 8. H. Virgin in Harlem Congregational Church. ‘Misunderstood Passages of Scripture” will be ex- Plained this evening by Rev. J. W. Kramer in the Wainwright Memorial Church. Services in the morning also. Dr. ©. D'W. Bridgman will preach as usual in Madison Avenue Baptist Church to-day, “The Transfigured Christ” will be presented to Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church this morning by Rey. William Lloyd, and “The Devil Imprisoned” will be exhibited in the evening. Divine service in Madison Avenue Reformed Church, this morning and evening, will be led by Rev. E. A. Reed, who will preach at both services, Mrs. Van Cott will speak this morning and evening in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church and lead revival services during the week evenings, In the People’s Church this morning the Rev. C, C. Goss will preach to Christians, and this evening to young people, on ‘Helping Each Other.” Rey. F. M. Van Slyke will minister at the usual hours to-day for the Pilgrim Baptist Church. “How Christ Was Made Perfect” will be discussed by Rev. W. P. Corbit to-day in the Fiftieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church. “The Pulpit and the Theatre’ will be contrasted this evening, and “The Social Life of the Church” will be presented this morning, by Rev. J. M. Pull- man in the Church of Our Saviour. Rev. W. B. Merritt preaches morning and evening in the Sixth Avenue Reformed Church, “The Man of the Sorrowful Name” will be intro duced to the South Reformed Church this afternoon by Rev. Dr. Rogers, ‘The Rev. H.C. Potter, D. D., will begin a series of Lenton sermons in St, James’ Protestant Episcopal Church this evening. In St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church tho Rev. ©. H, Fowler, B. D., will preach morning and evening. “Christ Choosing Witnesses and Teachers,” will be considered this morning by Rev. A. H. Moment, in Spring Street Presbyterian Church, In tho evening Mr. Moment will speak of “Hamun's plot working out his own ruin; Satan's gun often kicks himself over when he aims to shoot God's peuple.” Preaching in St. James’ Methodist Episcopal Church, Harlem, this morning, and in the evening on “A Blind Soul,” by Kev. W. R. Davia, Lecture on Wednesday evening on “Beginning a Now Life."* Tire Rey. De, Waters, of St. John, N. B., will preach fn Westminster Presbyterian Church this morning, “The Chvistian’s Motive” ana “The Christian's Ploasutes” will be discussed to-day in the Tabernacle Baptist Church by Rev. KR. B. Hall. Union evangelistic services will be conducted by NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1879.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. Rev. Samuel Colcord every evening this week in Forty-third Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Preaching nightly by Revs. Van Alstyne, Hull, Mac- Arthur, Bevan, and temperance talk by Mr. Sawyer. Preaching morning and evening in Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church by Rev. B. H. Burch. At Grace Chapel the Rev. A. B. Carter, D. D., will officiate to-day as usual. The Bev. Edmund Guibert will preach in the Church of the Holy Spirit this evening on “Thou Shalt Say No,” and in. the morning also, Dr. E, H. Chapin ministers to the Church of the Divine Paternity this morning and evenirg. Bishop Potter wil! administer the rite of confirma tion this afternoon in the Floating Church, foot of Pike street, East Rtver, Rev. R. J. Walker, pastor. The Rev. Father Damen and other Jesuit priests will open a mission to-day in the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, Brooklyn. Father Damen will preach this morning. The Rev. A. H. Laffety, 8. P. M., has just arrived here from Pari§ and to~lay will begin a series of Lenten lectures at the French Church of St. Vincent de Paul. He will discuss the religious crisis in France, and on Wednesday evening will consider dif- ferent phases of Christian life. CHAT BY THE WAY. Aman professes religion when he confesses that he is asinner; he possesses religion when he suc- ceeds in keeping his good resolutions, and he ts @ hypocrite when he borrows a long face to cheat his neighbors withal. Excitement in religion ts like» delicate and de- licious perfume which {s soon dissipated, but a solid religious conviction is like musk, which per- fumes the Ife torever, Clouds beautify the sky and at times hide the sun, just to show how dependent upon it we all are. So sorrows beautify this life and seem to hide the face of God, to teach us how much we need Him. It is a sadtruth that a wrong deed, as it were, whistles itself, while it is quite an effort to get up the proper pucker for a good deed. When a man begins to flatter you hold on to your pocketbook, for that is his objective point. You are more sure of success in the end if you re- gard yourself as a man of ordinary talent, with plenty of hard work before you, than if you think yourself a man of genius and spend too much time in watching your hair grow long, that you may convince people that you are not like other folk. It is acurious fact that on the track of knavery a misplaced switch will be found somewhere, and it is sure to wreck the train. If you do not want to have a wrong deed known there is one rule, and only one, which leads to per- fect success. Don’t do it. The anti-Chinese législation of Congress resembles a sausage, of which it may be said that we lose our respect for it when we learn how it is made. Logic affords a soothing unguent to a certain class of consciences. Some men who are very tender in their notions of right and wrong are no more deter- mined to break the law than they are skilful in find- ing an excuse therefor. This kind of logic is illus- trated by the story of the gentleman who, cigar in mouth, jumped on a street car. The conductor very politely pointed to the sign which read, ‘No smok- ing allowed,” and requested the offender to throw away his Havana. “My friend,” was the reply of the philosopher, “I am shocked (puff) that you should for a moment think (puff) that I would break any order of the company. Will you kindly notice (puff) that Iam not smoking aloud (puff), but doing it in the quietest way possiblo?” So in the old een iibwens ugh we ella ae priest exclaims, To James, in angry strife. “Ido not swear at a “But only at my wife. When bachelors are so desperately afflicted with the malady of matrimony and have been so unfortu- nate in personal application to eligible parties that they are compelled to advertise for a wife who is willing to share their lot, they ought to have the forethought to put into the advertisement the size of the lot and what it would probably bring under the hammer. We have observed that ina great many matrimonial speculations the size of the lot often times determines the acceptance or the “mitten.” There are a great many fanciful troubles in life which will d r if you face them. They are like the boots h the shoemaker made for a very particular customer. On being told that the soles were altogether too thick he replied, “If you will just put them on and wear them you will find that that objection will gradually wear away.” There is one matrimonial rule which can be de- pended on as of universal application. A husband will nover find any difficulty in footing his wife's bills, provided the wife is so put together that she is not ashamed to foot her husband's stockings. Is it evidence against the moral character of an in- fant. and would it be right to accuse him of being a thief of tender years, simply because it is a well known fact that he his his mother’s eyes and his father’s chin. You cannot make yourself better by simply resolv- ing to be better at some time or other any more than a farmer can plough his field by simply turning it over in his own mind. A good resolution is a fine starting point, but as a terminus it has no value. It seems just a bit incongruous, and yet it is true, that a great many churches are paying off their floating debts by means of sinking funds, It is very dangerous to make up your judgment concerning @ youug lady's weight by measuring her sighs. The creative minds of history can be numbered on the fingers of either hand. We are all plagiarists, but the difficulty with us is that we do not always pick out the best ideas to use. If a man holds out to-lay a gold coin and a silver one we know which to choose without thinking, but it often happens that in the stables of the past we pick out a hobby horse rather than an Arab steed to ride. There is nothing in the world which a man will fight harder to retain than a “crotchet” or s “kink.” Well, we can at least all stand close together and sing in chorus— Ah, I fear there's nothing original in me, Except original sin. Words that are spelled the same way have some- times very different meanings :— ‘The French have taste in all they do, Which we are quite without, For nature that to them gave gout, ‘To us gave only gout, English grammar has its uses after all. It may be an unpalatable study, but it will at times savo us from the smiles of our enemies. A farmer who wished to enter some of his live stock at an agricul- tural exhibition, in the innocence of his heart, but with more truth in his words than he dreamed of, wrote to the committee, saying, “Enter me for one jackass.” Republics do certainly find it easy to forgive an in- jury. Tho quality of mercy is not strained, the poet says, but in ita conduct toward some of the leading and still outspoken politicians of the South America has certainly’ come as near giving mercy a bad “strain’’ as she could well do. We are quite willing that bygones should be bygones, and we believe in healing a wound by forgetting all about the ill temper that caused it as soon as possible, but our cyes open vory wide when wo seo in a Mississippi journal the declaration that Jefferson Davis should be re turned to the United States Senate because he could do noble service in “unifying” the people of this country. So far as wocan judge of the gentleman his peculiar gift does not lie in that direction. We are willing to acknowledge bis great talents, but we have been led by certain circumstances in the past to believe that the talent for ‘unifying’ the people of the United States was not so prominent in his character that a phrenologist would easily find the corresponding bump on his cranium, Accidents and theology! Who would over think that there could be the remotest connection between the two? A gentleman who for thirty years had been a high Calvinist, an honored momber of an ortho- dox church and without the slightest taint of heresy attached to him, had « bad fall and struck heavily on his head, He was unconscious for hours and then delirious for weeks. When he was sufficiently re- covered to take au inventory ot his theological ideas he found to his surprise that he wasa Unitarian in full bloom. He aid not fall on a Unitarian side- walk, nor did he fall by marrying into a Unitarian family, ho simply bumped his head all oat of shape, and then found that he had become @ Unitarian in thoology. Rey. Dr. John Geddio had an epitaph which, in» few words, told the whole story of a long and labori- ous life, When he died on the island of Ancitvum the people erected to his memory a tablet with this inscription :— When he came here There were no Christians; When he went away ‘There were no heathen. “What is a good remedy for a felon?” asked a poor sufferer from that most demoniac malady, and one which can bottie up more solid pain in five minutes than the Asiatic plague ever dreamed of. A rough, Unsympathetic Westerner who was standing by vol- Unteered the information that about twenty minutes hanging on a lamppost was regarded as @ sure cure in his district. The swolien finger grew silent fora moment, as if in astonishment, but soon re- covered itself, and turned on the lightning, and vol- cano, and earthquake once more, No man has gone through the entire curriculum of education, or has any right to say that he knows what life is made of, until he has watched the slow and sure growth of a felon on the finger. It is an experience that no haman being ever wanted twice, CLERGYMEN’S SALARIES, To tHe Eprron or THz Hurnatp:— In your Sunday issue, under the title of “Mammon and the Pulpit,” I noticed that clergymen when questioned in regard to their salaries, especially when they have fat ones, use their stereotype expres- sion that “They don’t get half what they could make as lawyers, for instance.” Now, I will inform the clergy and the public generally that one-half, if not two-thirds, of the lawyers in this city and State or the United States do not make as much in the legiti- mate practice of their profession as journeyinen car- penters do at their trade. Clergymen seem to think that lawyers make their money easy. A few of them do, and so do a few clergymen in proportion wo their whole number. But many, yes, most law- eset have to work as hard for their money 4s day jaborers, and then sometimes, as the clergy say in Tegard to their salary, “they don't get it.” And a reat many times they devote their time, money and jabor in the ends of justice and right—charity—and do not receive one cent for it. It is the crying shame of the legal profession in this city and elsewhere that they pay their clerks a mero pittance and e1 ploy avid as sons, who can live home with the parents, and those less fortunate, who have stru, gled through college and in their studies to fit them- selves for practice, are crowded out or have to work for next to nothing or starve. ‘Ihe preaching of the Gospel is different. It does not require money or education fora personmto be a Christian. Pride and luxury are not required of clergymen if the New Testament tells the truth. Christ and His apostles did not teach that ministers should have big salaries, fine clothing and costly array, fashionable churches (clubs), but they did teach to give to the poor and to bind up the broken hearted. 1 sometimes think that clergymen ‘skip’ apart of the New Testament or twist it to suit themselves. Let us have more ot the New Testament Christianity, and not pride, luxury, vanity, Mammon—self-sacriticing Christianity us taught by Christ, who gave His life to save sinners. LEX SCRIPTA, APPLICABLE NEARER HOME, Last week we gave an extract from one of our re- lgious exchanges half spologetio for Dr. Talmage’s eccentricities on the ground of his convictions. The Methodist now comes forward with an Alaska case, which, as the late Artemus Ward would say, is “slightly sarcastical.” Our contemporary says powerful Alaskan took to the pulpit of his native province, resolved to be notorious. When this preacher had achieved notoriety one of his pew holders retired, saying, ‘I don’t want & pew in a church where I capnot take my family.’ It being suggested that this Alaskan preacher had convictions, the said pew hoider ex- pressed the opinion that he had three of them:— First, that he needed and ought to have a great deal of money; second, that he was the biggest man on the globe, and, third, that everybody in Alaska read his sermons. ‘The pew holder objects, however (or did when the steamer lett there), to several things in the conduct of his Alaskan pastor that was, and says that honesty and truthfulness are still the jewels of the true ministry in that cold country. Perhaps it’s the climate that ails this pew holder; he is making trouble in the church, you know.” Apropos of the same subject, the IJnterior, of Chicogo, which has repeatedly published specimens of the homilitic enormities which ‘that man Talmage” perpetrates from Sabbath to Sabbath, and gives another in its last issue, saying editorially, with keen sarcasm, that aman “who has no more respect for the ‘sensitive moral feelings’ of great men like Mr. Crosby, who preach in great cities to little congregations, than to preach such sermons, deserves to stoned, sawn asunder and then thrust through with a dart—two darts, one to cach piece of him! One form of mar- tyrdom would only be a beginning toward doing him justice.” THE BIBLE SOCIETY AND REVISION. Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, has written a letter on Bible revision which seems to reflect upon the constitutional integrity of the venerable Ameri can Bible Society. That society, it will be remem- bered, is constitutionally prohibited from circulating any save the common English Bible without note or comment. And because of this prohibition all evangelical denominations (except Baptists, who have a revision society ot their own,) are represented in the management of the American Bible Society. But Bishop Coxe intimates that the society will alter and amend its constitution to enable it to circulate the newly revised Bible, the New Testament ot which will be ready for publication next year. If this statement of the Bishop were true it would be equivalent to the breaking up of this valuable and venerable society, because thore who now contribute to its work on wndenominational grounds would then withdraw, Hence the ofticers of the society here hastened to correct the false impressions ot the Bishop made in his letter. They deny that the question of Bible revision has ever come officially before the Bible Soviety, and that, consequently, it was impossible for that society to act upon it; that the Bible evision Committee is totally distinet from the American Bible Society, and its action 1s entirely independent thereof. It the British Parliament, which has among its upper House the bishops of the Established Church, shall adopt and have the revised Bible printed, then there will be something tor the Bible society here to act upon; but as it is they have nothing before them, and the officers justly complain of the attempts to fasten the responsibility of revision upon the American Bible Society to its injury. IN MEMORY OF PIUS_ IX. THE FIRST SOLEMN MASS FOR THE REPOSE or PIO NONO'S SOUL. (From the London Globe.) Rom, Feb. 7, 1879, The first of the three solemn masses for the repose of the soul of Pius IX. was celebrated to-day in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinal di Pietro, Dean of the Sacred College, sang the mass, and the Pope assisted, giving the benediction and absolutigns, Few foreigners, except those connected with fe various embassies to the Pope, were able to get admission to the Sistine on this occasion. No tickets were issued. Invitations were sent to the Roman nobles and to the diplomatic personages in Rome, and to a limited number of persons possessing Javor at the Vatican Court. It was said that Leo XIIL. reserved to himself the privilege of granting admissions, and that even the Cardinals had no power of intro- ducing their triends, Among the sortunate recip- ients of invitations were two English ladies, Lady Eyre and Mrs. Lyster, and an Irish gentleman named Scully, The royal tribune was altogether eu very singular circumstance, for it ts seld Rome on such occasions is without a royal highness or a Catholic prince of royal or semi-toyal blood. The cardinals w im great force, almost all the cardinals in Rome attendiag, and of archbishops, bishops, generals of religious orders and there was abundance. ‘The mass was by Pales: trina, with a Jes ira by Mustafa, and the singing was admirable. The friar, Giovanni, who possexses the famous tenor voice, Was present in the choir, but did not, I think, take part in the singing.” His voice is doubtless fine, but something more than a voice is required in the Sistine, aud the frate has had no musical training until a year or two ago, and his powerful notes are best heard in son florid solo, being too undisciplined tor the severe majesty of Palestrina, It was rumored that the frate is about to leave Rome, and that this was the last opportunity this season of hearing him, Tho Pope looked remarkably well, and his voice was heard distinctly, every word he said being clearly spoken in tones not usical, On either side of the Pope's throne sat # cardinal deacs it hand, with a cardinal be- tween, sat Prince Orsini, prince assistant at the throne. The mass did begin until eleven A. M and was over at a quarter past twelvo, Card Howard, the Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Clifford, bis of Clifton, and the Hon. and Right Rev. My mund Stonor, were among the English ecclesiastics present. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, BAPTIST. The Rov. William Ostler has resigned at Fulton and gone to Morrisville, N. ¥.; the Rey, Allan Curr has closed his ministry at Dubuque, Lowa, Professoe T. J. Morgan, of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Chicago, will sail from New York on the Sth inst, for an eight months’ trip in Europe. His family accompany him. The Rev. T. J. Muir has offered his resignation sa pastor of the Macdougal Street Baptist Church, New York. This venerable church had previous to his coming been greatly reduced in numbers, and he hae rendered faithful and useful service in strengthen- ing it. The Rev. A. F. Mason hae resigned his pastorate of the Calvary Baptist Church. Washington, nh. O.. which he has held three years, during which time he has baptized 200 persons, and now leaves large con- gregations and a prosperous church. Rev. 8. Hartwell Pratt has closed an interesting series of meetings with the First Baptist Church, of Troy, N. Y., and the church unanimously gave him their warmest commendation as & wise and efficient “tellow helper of the truth.” Emmanuel st Church, Albany, have extended a call to the . T. Harwood Pattison, of New Haven, Conn. ‘The Rev. J. 3. Baker, for eleven years pastor of the Baptist Church at Navesink, on Stinday tendered his Fesignation in order to agoept a call trom the Baptast Church at Marlborough, XN. J. The Rev, Arthur Mursell, of England, who has Deen liontged by American Baptists during his tour in the United States, has written to the London Chrighan Worid his opinion of the close communion- ists. He says he ‘will not affect to aympatinize with stem which chains a sectarian Cerberus to the of the Lord’s table to bark at every comer who does not phrase our shibboleth exactly in our per- fect accent.” EPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. Marshal B. Smith has resigned the secre- taryship of the General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Rev, Edward Wilson, D. D., of Metuchen, N. J., bas been appointed Mr. Smith's successo: The Rev. R. Anthony Bilkey, formerly of Bermuda, was lately installed rector of Christ Church (Re- formed Episcopal), Toronto. The Church of the Messiah, Washington, D. C. recently organized with fifteen members, has called ‘to their pastorate the Rev. J. B. North, of Sussex, N. B. The Rey. James Lavelle, late of the Protestant Episcopal Church, has taken charge of St. Paul's Reformed Episcupal Church, Digby, N. S. Tho Rev. Elisha Whittlesey, associate secretary of the Society tor the Increase of the Ministry, has heen appointed corresponding secretary, in place of the Rev. Dr. H. W. Spalding, resigned. The Key. Joseph Wayne has assumed the rector- ship of St. Paul’s Church, Angelica, Allegany county, ‘The Rev. F. B. Gilbert has resigned the roctorship of St. John’s Church, Fort Smith, Ark.,on account of ill health, and has accepted an ppointment at Armiston, The Rev. . , of Little Rock, will attend to the duties of the secretary of the Diocesan Council of Arkansas in Mr. Gilbert's place. ‘The Rev. Dr. Pitkin 1s in temporary charge of St. John’s Church, Detroit, during the absence of the Rev. Dr. Worthington, now abroad. The Rev. J. T. Webster, of Emmanuel Church, De- troit, Mich., is in Florida, recovering from nervous reneeretad which at one time threatened disease of e 3 Rev. P. B, Morgan has been working with Imman- uel Reformed Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, for the it three weeks. He reports this parish as actively engaged in the work, strong in the faith and steadily adding to iheir numbers and efficiency for good. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Pope has far outstripped the President in the matter of civil service reform. He has substituted ordinary Latin for the ancient Toutonic characters in apostolic letters, bulls, &c., and thereby done away with copying those documents, which was a source of revenue to the small politicians of the Vatican. He has also abolished the use of the lead seal in such documents, and thereby saved a large item in postage, and, worst of all for the sinecurists, who formerly drew large salaries for looking in at their offices every day, he has insisted that every mean who draws money from his treasury shall render an equivalent in work from nine A. M. till oneP. M. each day. The tardy will be fined for each offence, and, if incorrigible, will be punished by sus- pension from office and from pay. Hence the small politicians privately denounce Pope Leo and sigh for the haleyon days of Pius IX. The first collection of Peter's pence ever made pub- licly in the churches of Rome, Italy, was taken up on the first Sabbath in February, by order of the Pope. ‘The Fathers of the Holy Cross, from Notre Dame, Ind.—Kev. Fathers Cooney, O'Mahony and Robin- son—closed a mission in St. Patrick’s Church, Cov- ington, and the forty hours’ adoration in St. Mary's Cathedral, in the same city, last Wednesday, and to- pers will open a mission in St. John’s Church, Alban: At rocent mission of the Jesuits in the Church of the Visitation, Philadelphia, twenty-four converts were received into the Chure! The same fathers— Coghlan, Verdm, Bouige, McGill ana Venneman— opened a mission in the Church of the Assumption last Sunday. The Freeman's Journal is in terrible distress, and its editor, in a doleful article nearly two columns long, tells the reason why. It is because Bishop Baltes, of Alton, lll., has interdicted the reading of the Journal by the priests or people of his diocese atter the expiration of two months. And the Bishop, being 8 German, speaks sneeringly in his pastorai of the editor as ‘James McMasters, a Scotchman by birth or descent, and a convert to our faith.” This riles the journalist, who rejoices that he has not in bis veins one drop of German blood. He promises to see that the Bishop shall withdraw his interdict within the two months, and meantime advises his readers in Alton diocese to follow their Bishop's ad- vice. In asecond brief article the editor denies that the approval of the late Archbishop Hughes was ever witl wn from it or that his Journal has been placed under the ban by Cardinal McCloskey. He admits that the last named prelate did once admonish him. A mission will be given by the Dominican Fathers at St. Joseph’s Church, Chambers street, Boston, commencing March 2. Rey. Father Peters, S. J., of St. Mary's Church, Endicott street, Boston, has returned from the South with improved’ health, and resumed his duties in charge ot Catholic services at Deer Isiand, Rev. J. F. Callaghan, editor of the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, has had the title of Doctor of Sacred Theotogy conferred upon Bim. Bishop Loughlin has transferred the Rev. M. Far- ley from the assistant pastorate of St. Vincent de Paul's Church, Brooklyn, E. D., to the pastorate of St. Raphael's Church, Blissville. Rev. E. J. McCabe, of the Cathedral, will succeed Father Fariey at St. Vincent de Paul's and Rev. James Mitchell, of Mon- treal, will take Father McCabe's place at the Cathe dral, METHODIsT. At a meeting of the preachers of the New York dis- trict, held last Monday evening at the Mission rooms, Dr. L. H. King, of Yonkers, received a majority of all the votes cast for the presiding eldership of the district. Rey. Samuel McKean, presiding elder of Cambridge district, Troy Conference, and brother of the late Judge McKean, of Utah, has received the degree of D. D. trom Union College. Owing to the death of Dr, Reuben Nelson, of the Methodist Book Concern, the Book Committee and bishops of the Church will meet here to-morrow to appoint his successor until the next meeting of the General Conference in_ 1880, Dr. Nelson was treas- urer of the Missionary Society as well as agent ot the Book Concern. Dr. FE. Q. Fuller, of Atlanta, Ga., is making a tour of the annual conterences in this vicinity in the in- | terest of the Freedmen’s Aid Society and mission work in the South. He spent last Sabbath in this city and preached in Jane and Seventh Street eburches, Rev. William H. Mickle, pastor of Lexington Ave- nue Methodist Episcopal Church in this city, has re- ed the honorary degree ot Master of Arts from nion College. Dr. Vincent is to open a Sunday school congress in Chicago March 6. Bishop Harris will meet the Baltimore Conference in Baltimore next Wednesday. Bishop Peck has re- cently visited several churches in Baltimore and Washington, preaching and encouraging the people. CONGREGATIONAL. Rev. George Porter, pastor of the East Townsend Congregational Church, Vt,, has been made a doctor of divinity by the University of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, ip hog om Dr. Bnoch Pond, of Bangor, Me., Congregation- alist, though oighty-seven years old, still writes ser- mons and essays, He ha» been an ordained minister sixty-four years. The Kev. J. B, Thrall, a graduate of Amherst Col- loge and Yale Theological Seminary, has been or- dammed as pastor of the Congregational Church of Benicia, Cal. Atter six years of success at Milford, Neb., the Rev. A. H, French has resigned the Congregational pas- torate, Withdrawal of home mission help starved him out, Professor J. B. Chase, of the German Theological School at Crete, will supply the charge. Rey. 5. W. Meck, of Frankiin, has accepted a call to become pastor of the Congregational Chureh of Bellevue, Ohio, Rev. John M. Chase has resigned the pastorate of the Congregational Church of Worcester, Otsego county, x. The Kitot Congregational Church of Newton, Mass. by a unanimous vote, have called the Rev. G. Walker, D. D., of Brattleboro, Vt., to be their pastor, it being understood that he declined the call which ho had received to go to Springficid, Mass, Dr. Walker having recovered his health, the loss of which was the reason of his leaving Hartford, it is hoped that he will again enter the active work ot the y, and pt ly at Newton. One of the pleasant features about the call is that it has had the warmest support of the Rev. 8. M. Freeland, the re- the church, who has come to Tomp- who was formerly pastor urch on Harrison street, Brookly for the past few years pastor of the First Congregational Church of Plainfield, N. J., has recently resigned the pastorate of that church and 1 now holding Sek saad services in Ridgewood Hall, corner ot Raiph and Lexington avenues and Broadway, in the Eastern District of Brooklyn, there | being no Congregational suciety in that he gg A Congregational Council in Traverse City, Mich., the other day refused to ordain as pastor of the chureh there a young man named Crow, who made in his examination a clean sweep of pretty much all the fundamental doctrines of the Goxpel. The Coun- cil with but one dissenting voice refused to ordain him, But he had proved himselt able to “draw.” ‘The seats had rented better than ever white he preached at Traverse City, and the church just set aside the veto of the Council and insisted on having Mr. Crow for their minister, and still insist on Con- | gregational fellowship, probably with a view of showing how much Gospel truth a church can reject and still be accounted orthodox. ‘The Congregational- ist wants them to withdraw. ‘The Central Congregational Church, of Boston, have called Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Brooklyn, to. their vacant Pulte and have ® conviction that he will accept. They await his answer, PREABYTRRIAN, wan Rev. Dr. Langa CT ogy ed stanch ne inn, says women SI y at his prayer meet- ings, and he should like Bisse anybody stop them; and the women say #0 too. Now for another trial, The Kev. 8. K, Winn has offered his resignation of the pastorate of Culpeper Churcl. and eccevted the call tendered him by the Second Church at Peters burg, Va. ° The Rev. Charles Newhall, New Jersey, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Oceanic, on Wednesday sailed for Constantinople and the Holy Land. The Rev. George C. Yeisley has been three years re of the First Presbyterian Church of Hudson, ‘. ¥., during which time !24 persous have been added to the membership and $50,000 contributed for congregational and benevolent purposes, $5,000 of which was for missions. ‘The Rev. Dr. 5. C. Logan, recently completed ten Fears of pastoral service with the First Presbyterian Church, Scranton, Pa. During those years be has added 479 persons to the membership, which now bumbers 441, These have raised for the cause of re- ligion during the decade $201,072, of which sum $73,704 were tor benevolent and charitable purposes. A few Sabbaths ago they paid off $1,800 of indebted- ness on their property besides. The Rey. Dr. Katon, of Palmyra, N. Y., has returned to his pulpit after a trip abroad, which was extended as far as the Holy Land. The Rev. F. V. King has resigned his charge at Hanging Rock and accepted a call to Bloomingburg, Ohio. The Rev. W. H. Babbitt has resigned his pas- torate of the Presbyterian Church at Glendale, a suburb of Cincinnati, where he has been eleven years. The congregation, however, refused to accept the resignation and await its withdrawal. Mr. Bab- bitt went from Hoboken, N, J., to Glendale, The Presbyterian Church at Elba, N. Y., have in- vited to their vacant pulpit the Rev. John C. Baker, chaplain of the Penitentiary at Rochester. MISCELLANEOUS. The seventy-fourth Protestant Christian church is shortly to be built opposite the Colonna Palace, at the outlet of Via Nazionale, Rome, Italy. This shows wonderful progress in ten years in that city. Bishop E, De Schweinitz will attend the forthcom- ing Moravian General Synod in Germany, by virtue of ary office, and as representative of the Provincial Board. A Chicago boy was so impressed by his Sunday school novels with the desirability and beauty of dy- ing young and thus quitting this wicked world that he committed suicide. The crying necessity of the times in Sunday school literature and teaching is an intusion of good common sense. Ifthe new lights could (says the Inferior) they would take the souls out of cnildren which God put there and put in new, improved, patent souls, made of chalk and charcoal, lubricated with tears and treacle. When the priest and the Levite beheld the wounded man on the rordside between Jerusalem and Jericho, they passed by on the other side. They did not stop to inquire how it happened—whether the man had fallen among a pack o: thieves, or had fallen himself, and so taken injury. But, even so, their example might be looked at with profit in these latter days. They did not cross over to where he lay and maul him some more. Quite a sharp controversy is now being conducted in the daily press of St. Louis, Mo., between Father Damon, a Catholic pricst, and Rev. Mr. Snyder, the Unitarian minister of St. Louis. The points so far in controversy involve the reliability of Protestant history of the Reformation, and the relation of the Catholic Church to modern civilization. The St. Louis branch of the Evangelical Alliance has given a hearty and unanimous invitation to the American Alliance to hold its next annual meeting in October in that city. The St. Louis branch will hold monthly meetings hereafter for the purpose of giving united testimony on great moral questions, such a6 temperance and Sabbath keeping. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. THE SANCTUARY OF HOME-—-SERMON BY REV. HENRY 8. JACOBS. The Rev. Henry S. Jacobs preached yestérday in the Thirty-fourth Street Synagogue, taking his text from Exodus, xxv., 8—‘‘Let them make me a sanc- tuary and I will dwell amongst them.” After allud- ing to the thirteen free will offerings spoken of at the commencement of the day’s scriptural lesson the reverend gentleman called attention to the text, and said:—It is beyond doubt that the words quoted in the text had special reference to the tabernacle erected in the wilderness by Moses, with the assistance of Bezaleel and Aholiab, skilled ar- tisans, whose share in the sacred work is duly re- corded in the Scriptures; but in presenting the words for consideration I have no desire to urge to- day the importance and efficiency of public worship, as the subject has so recently engaged attention. The speaker wished his hearers to study them from an- other standpoint, which is of equal value and con- sideration in a moral and religious senee. EVERY MAN'S HOUSE A SANCTUARY. If “every man’s house is his castle,” it is a grander thought to say “every mai house isa sanctuary.” The former may have political force, but the latter is of spiritual consequence. The com- mand to make the home a sanctuary where God is reveronced, His name adored, His law obeyed, is em- braced in the spirit of the text. In the home purity must pervade its precincts and no defiling thought find entrance. There piety must consecrate every impulse and every deed; there faith and works must be ministers of religion; there the incense of prayer and of praise must be watted on high as on eagles’ wings unto the Throne of Grace. There is God's temple; there does His presence dwell, and there, according as we make it a sanctu- ary unto Him, there is the promise fulfilled which we realize in a thousand ways, “He will dwell amongst us.” The home, then, is to be preserved in its holiest relations as a sanctuary. The homo is to be elevated in its influence and power, and as on the building of Solomon's temple the sound of axe and hammer and the tool of metal was not heard, so there, as in another tenrple, no jarring sound of dis- cord or dissension must bo heard. It must be the abode ot love and peace if it is to be the dwelling place of God. APPEAL FOR TENEMENT HOUSE REFORM. When we think of the home in these pure and holy relations our mind, continued the reverend gentle- man, is carried involuntarily to the condition of those homes which are the abode of the poorer and the vicious classes of society. Attention has recently been directed to these plague spots in our com- munity, and earnest endeavors are being put forth by philanthropic men and women, without reterence to creed or doctrine, but all actuated by the highest sentiments of humanity, to ameliorate those terrible evils with which we are afflicted in the shape of the tenement houses, Last evening an influential meeting was held in Cooper Union to consider the grave mutters involved in this question, and 1 present the subject to your notice from the pulpit to-day in order to direct your attention and invite your sympathy to this grand movement which seeks to reform the evils con- nected with the system, The reverend gentleman then «poke of the moral and social aspects of the subject. He showed the sufferings which dwelt in these dens of disease and misery; how the germs of moral and physical pestilence were genorating in them to be wafted to the homes of the more fortunate who fancy themselves sate in their palatial mansions with all their luxuri- ous surroundings. The question was an urgent one and demanded prompt rectification. It was one which appealed to our human sympathies and reli- cious fectings and he hoped thet the lareclites who are ever forward in all philanthropic and benevolent enterprises would on this occasion be equally ready to keep abreast of their follow citizens o her de- nominations in the good work which was so im- peratively demanded of one and all. He con- cluded @ stirring appeal on this topic by invoking the blessing ot God on the noble and selt- sacrificing labors which will in the end remove the plague spots from our midst and give homes to the unfortunates—ay, even to the most degraded of our fellow beings, which will no longer be godless abodes of sin and misery, but sanctuaries where God may and will be among them. TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. New York, March 1, 1879. To THE Eprror of Tax Henacy:— Mr. Watson has borne witness to the efficiency and bravery of the firemen during the recent fire on Fifty-third street. To this I desite to add my testi- mony as to their courtesy, delicacy and kindness as men. They, with the Captain of Police and the In- surance Patrol, had possession of my house during that night, and every word and act of all these men made us feel that we were in the hands of judicious protectors. The outstanding wails of the stable were broken cown by ladders projected from my windows, aud yet eveu the curtains which hung there were not injured, and when my furnily returned to the house everything was fond jnst as it had been left. We onght to be proud of an organization whose members exhibit such manly bearing and high order of quali- tres as did those Who came among us on Wednesday night. C, G. KEED, No. 6 Bast Fitty-third street, THANKS TO THE FIREMEN, To THe Eprron or THR HenaLp:— We would like to express through the columns of your valuable paper our thanks to the firemen for the manner in which they prevented the flames from spreading to the adjoining buildings during the fire in Fifty-third street on the morning of the 27th ult., and we desire to say, furthermore, that if the only way of reducing the city taxes is by cutting down the firemen’s wages then we would much rather the taxes remain as they are, c, R. PURD Ww SHANNON, No, 657 Pitth avenue, THE POLICE. PAY OF Some progress is being made in the courts in re- gard to the applications recently made on behalf ot Inspector Dilks, Captain Walsh and Patrolman Carroll, for mandamuses to compel the payment to members of the pohee foreo of the twenty per cent deducted on last pay day, The papers in the caso were submitted yesterday to Judge Donohue in Su- preme Court, mbers, who intimated that he would speedily enter an order directing the matter to be heard fore the Supreme Court, General ‘Term, and thay, if necessary, avoid delay in carrying the case to the Court of Appeals. The sole question to be determined is whether the act of 1866, provid- ing that whon gold was at par the pay of the police should be reduced twenty per cemt, has been re- vealed by the act of 187% b ts) this SAAT stk i IB Rat THE NEW DOMINION. British Columbia Agitated by the Chinese Question, SE IN CANADA, CATTLE DISE Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture. ° IMMIGRATION STATISTICS, Orrawa, Feb. 27, 1879. To the petition from the inhabitants of British Columbia, recently prosented to Parliament with a view of obtaining relicf from the influx of Chinese labor, s few interesting stxtistics have been ap- pended exhibiting the total Chinese population of the Province, estimated at 6,000, and a classification of their respective occupations, as follows :—Domestia servants, 300; gold miners, 1,800; shoemakers, 160; laundrymen, 300; gardeners and farm hands, 1,500; tailors, 100; employed at fisheries, 1,100; gen- eral laborers, 700. ‘The total population of the Province, exclusive of Indians, is placed at 25,000, one-fourth consisting of Chinamen. Attention is drawn to the fact that out of the whole Chinese population but four are lauded proprietors, and that the combined value of their estates amounts to $12,000 only. Objection is raised against the filthy manner in which they live, generally from twenty to thirty occupying one house, placing at de- fiance every effort to maintain sanitary regulations. The principal objection is, however, that whileevery inducement is held out to the white emigrant to settle in the Province, he is obliged upon landing to compete with artisans and laborers; to whom the first principles of civilization are as foreign as to a Fiji Islander—in fact, they are a nearer approach to the brute than to civilized beings. Such, in sub- stance, are the views upon which the protest is based, and the problem will be a somewhat difficult one to determine upon. If, however, the petition fails to be productive of a satisfactory result it will not be owing to any lack of persistence upon the part of the indefatigable member from Victoria, whe has been representing the case to the government. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. The annual report of the Minister of Agriculture was laid upon the table of the House yesterday and furnishes a vast amount of useful and instructive in- formation. The report having been somewhat de- layed in its publication an opportunity was afforded to give a preliminary recital of what had taken place during the present year (1879) relative to the Canadian cattle trade with England, and of the steps taken to prevent any interruption on account of the appearance of pleuro-pueumonia among the cattle in certain parts of the United States. The attention of the government having been called to the outbreak of this disease in certain localities of the United States, the services of Professor Me- Eachran, of the Veterinary School of Montreal, were immediately employed to visit the places reported as the seat of the contagion. The rumor was subse- quently verified by Professor McEachran, who, upon becoming aware of its correctness, communicated at once with the department at Ottawa, and while the matter was yet under the consideration of the government a cablegram was received, on the 2th January, from an officer of the department at Liverpool, England, as follows:— Steamer Ontario, arriving with cattle from Buffalo, vie Canada, having incipient plearo-pneumonia ordered to be slaughtered on 4 pbably necessary you guarantee no disease in Canada and prohibit etry Arierican cattle, Can then export from Hali Without further delayan investigation was instituted, to inquire into the state ot the health of Canadian cattle, resulting favorably. Considering the great im- portance to both national and international interests that the importation of cattle trom the United: States should be for a time prohibited, the government reluctantly passed an order in council limiting such prohibition to three months, leaving, however, subject to inter- retation, the prohibition of the transit; this, owever, on further intelligence from England, was also prohibited as well as the importation by order of the 6th February, superseding the order previe ously given. " This naturally led to protestations from the several interests immediately effected, especially forwarders, Yet, notwithstanding the arbitrary interpretation placed upon the measure of prevention taken, it hi in the end secured to the country the continued en- joyment of this branch of trade, that, under ot circumstances, would have been subject to the same restrictions as are the cattle now exported from the United States. The department having learnedof two sudden deaths among cattle at two points in the Province of Ontario, an investigation and inspection was at «nce ordered. The disease was, however, simply of acommon nature, neither infectious nor spreading, although the fact has been sufficient to start the most absurd rumors as to the appearance and spreading of pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle in the neighborhood of these localities. PATENT OFFICE REPORT. Within the last four years there has been a slight decrease in the total number of patents issued, while the number registered from the United States shows an increase. The total number registered for the year 1878 was 1,264, a decrease of eighty-nine as com- pared with the preceding year. The number of United States patents registered was 771 against 757: for the year 187%. The fees collected during the year amounted to $3,663 67. ‘The wave of general depression has not proved an incentive to the prosecution of inventive genius, as the demand for industrial improvements must, in # greater or less degree, be regulated by the immediate and actual requirements of the country. IMMIGRATION. There is a noticeable increase in the number of immigrant passengers and settlers arriving during the past compared with the two preceding years. The total number arriving was 40,052 against 35,285 the preceding year. Out of this number 29,807 have reported their in| f settling in Canada, The value of person ot intended settlers amount inst $344,503 the previous year. the amounts of money reported 4 have been brought into the country 78 (including 124,000 roubles sent by Mennonites), $763,000, It thus appears that the total value of money and property brought into the country during the past year amounted to nearly $1,250,000, During the year 11,226 immigrant py n assengers passed through Canada for the United States, an in- crease of 5,586 over the year 1877. These immigrants were principally en route for the Western States. ‘The total cost of immigration, including all estab- lishments in Canada, the Unitea Kingdom, the Con- tinent of Europe and the United States, for the past year amounted to $177,044 53, or $5.04 per captta, REEFING FORE AND AFT. A large number of seafaring men lined pier 9 East River yesterday at three o'clock to witness an exbi- bition of Captain Dickerson’s new method of reefing fore and aft sails, The reefing was done on his owm vessel, a three-masted schooner. By the new method a lumber reef was taken in the spanker, the operation occupying six minutes, whereas by the old way of hand reefing it would have occupied at least fifteen minutes to do the same work. The new sya tem consists in clewing up the canvas by means of & line attached to the gaff peak and running through @ series of “bull’s-eyes” drawn over a pulley screwed into the mizzenmast. The « row of bull's. eyes, through which a li peak and runs transve pears the m The ang! tween the line of buil’svyes and the gaff measures the area of canvas that isto be taken in. Yeeterday the watch, consisting of three seamen, did the work, apparently satisfactorily. The spauker being set, the word to reef was given, and the men lowered away the aft and hauled npon the lines passing, through the bull’seyes, and as the lines passed’ through pul gaff and mast the pulling om: them clewed along the gaff and close to it, thus reducing its surface by the size of the angle already named. The lines of bull’s-eyes are set opposite cach other on either side ot the’ sheet, and the places where they are fastened to the canvas, are strengthened by patches of that material. The advantages claimed by this new method of fore and aft reefing is that it is quicker, easier and gives ® good stormsail to handie the vessel; it also enables the me to jibe the craft with greater facility than by the old way. In the old way it might require, with @ reef tackle, two hours to do in @ gale the work that 16 1s claimed the new system coukl accomplish im twenty minutes. The sea captains and others present expressed their satisfaction with the results of the ext ibition. THE FIFTH AVE GARROTER. ‘The latest phase of the case of David Pender, wha VUE was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in the State Prison on Wednesday Inet, by Julye Gilder sleeve, for robbing Mrs. de Mary of one of her die mond earrings on Fifth avenue, came to light inthe sterday, on the appire Supreme Court, Chambers, ; dumme! for a writ « cation of Messrs. Howe & error in behalf of the prisoner, A jaror havin, ¢ had formed an opinion as to the att Hows exeppted to his serving « tho case, A Was overruled ated tite furor sworn, and for this reason it will be someht te fore the conviction reversed, Tho writ ot erter wt Allowed, and the entire proceedings will be rewt woe im the General Dorm of the Supreme Court nest hee