The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1879, Page 15

RELIGIOCS. INTELLIGENCE. Chat by the Way—Syna- gogue Worship. DENOMINATIONAL NOTES. Programme of Services To-Day. “The Apostle Peter's Ilustration of the Power of Grace" and “Queen Esther Bringing Haman to Ruin and Saving the Jews from Death” will be considered to-day by Rev. A. H. Moment, in Spring Street Pres- byterian Church, “Commercial Morality’ will be discussed this evening by Dr. J. M. King, in Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church. “Christ-Mindedness” and “Ruin” will occupy the Rey. C, Martyn’s thoughts in Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church. At Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. E, Searles will answer the question, “What shall be the Church of the Future ?” At the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning Dr. Tal- mage will speak of “The Doom of Sectarianism.”* Dr. Armitage preaches as usual to-day in the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, At Stanton Street Baptist Church the Rev. S.J. Knapp will preach morning and evening. In Bleecker Building this morning Rev. W. B. Affleck will speak about “Virgins” and in the even- ing about “Bible Teetotalism.” In the afternoon a temperance meeting there will be addressed by Ed- ward Carswell, the renowned Canadian temperance orator. “The Joy of the Christian” will be set forth this afternoon in Chickering Hall by Rev. 8. Colcord. “Woman's Infiuence” will be discussed by W. M. Evans this afternoon before the American Temper- ance Union in the Lyceum Theatre. Mr. Evans speaks in Bedford Streot Methodist Episcopal Church in the evening and continues his temperance work in the Berean Baptist Church during the week. Mrs. Brigham will address the Spiritualists to-day at the usual time and place. A oulogy of ‘America’s Incomparable Orator, John B. Gough,” will be delivered by Mr. Fitzwilliam this afternoon before the National Temperance Institute in Cooper Union. Dr. T. 8. Lambert, Professor Stover and others will interest the audience also. “The Genius and Mission of the Universalist Church” will be pointed out this morning by Rev. E. C. Sweetser to the Bleecker Strect Universalist So- ciety. Mrs. Schertz will address the Christian Israclites this evening on “‘Redemption and Eternal Life.” Tho Rev. Dr. Herr will preach in the Central Bap- tist Church this morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Johnson this morning and Rev. Dr. Deems this evening will occupy the pulpit of Calvary Bap- tist Church. Dr. Deems is to preach in the Church of the Strangers this morning and Rev. B.S. MacArthur this evening. At Canal Street Presbyterian Church fhe Rev. Alexander McKelvey will preach this morning and evening and lecture on Wednesday evening. Rey. J. D. Wilson will preach to-day in the Central Presbyterian Church at the usual hours. Dr. Shipman will minister this morning and even- ing to Christ Church. At the Church of the Holy Apostles this morning the Rev. B. E. Backus will preach, and in the evening Rev. C. C, Tiffany will deliver a sermon before the Woman's Missionary Association. Dr. Newman preaches to-day as usual in Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. J. W. Ackerley preaches morning and evening in Duane Methodist Episcopal Church. In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. D.R. Van Buskirk will preach this morning and evening. ‘The First Baptist Church will receive the ministra- tions of Rev. W. M. Kincaid, D. D., of Rondout, N, Y., to-day. ‘A gospel temperance moeting will be held in Seventh Strect Methodist Episcopal Church this after- noon, when addresses will be delivered by Revs. Dr, Brush, of Austin, Texas; J. T. Vine and J, L. Gilder, and by Dr. Newton and Judge Pittman, of this city. At the First Reformed Episcopal Church the Rev. B. B. Leacock will preach this morning and Rev. W. TT. Sabine in the evening. “The Success of the Church” will be pointed out this morning by Rev. W. N. Searles to the Free ‘Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church. ‘“Scarcely Baved” will be discussed in the evening by Mr. Bearles. “The Limitations of Christ’s Blessing” and “Christ & Wonder” will be considered betore the Free Bap- tist Church to-day by Rev. N. L. Rowell. “Evanescent Piety” and “The Soul's Longing for God” will be analyzed to-day by Rev. 8. H. Virgin in Harlem Congregational Church. Tee Rey. William Lloyd will preach his first anni- versary sermon tiis morning in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church on ‘Hitherto Hath the Lord Helped Us,” aud in the evening will consider his “Tearful Sowing and Joyous Reaping.” A Gospel temperance meeting will be held in Grand Union Hall this afternoon and Tuesday even- Ing, led by Mr. C. A. Bunting. A Gospel meeting will be held in the Church of the Holy Trinity this evening. when Dr. Tyng, Jr., will preach, and Mr. J. 4. Maxham will conduct a praise wervice preceding. Rev. Dr. Bridgman will preach this morning and evening in Madison Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. E. A. Reed will preach at the usual hours to- day in Madison Avenue Reformed Church, Mr. Sawyer will conduct a gospel temperance meeting in the Park Theatre this evening. Union Gospel services will be held this afternoon in the People’s Church, at which Father McNamara, of Water Street Catholic Mission, will speak. In tho evening Rev. C. C. Goss will speak of “Women and ‘Their Work. Rey. George H. Hepworth will preach this morn- ing and evening in the Church of the Disciples. Rev. W. P. Corbit will preach in Fiftieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church this morning on the twenty-third Psalm, and in the evening Rev. John E. Cookman, D. D., will preach. Dr. H. W. Knapp preaches at the usual hours to- day in Laight Street Baptist Church. “Lhe Rational Side of the Temperance Question’ ‘will be considered by Rev. J. M. Pullman, who will preach a memorial sermon for the late Dr. Fisher this morning in the Church of Our Saviour. “The Wages and the Gift” will be considered this evening by Rev. George Van Alstyne in St, John’s Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. RK. L. Dashiell will preach this morning and evening in St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach for tho Sixth Avenue Reformed Church at the usual hours to-day. Dr, E. P. Rogers’ lecture in the South Reformed Church this afternoon will be on “The Great Woman.” The second Lenten sermon in tho eeries of St. James’ Church will be preached this evening by Rey. Arthur Brooks, Rev. Dr. Harwood, of New Haven, Conn., preaches this morning and evening in St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal Church, “The Use and Abuse of Crosses” and ‘The Travail of Creation and Its Deliverance” will be discussed to- day by Rev. Wesley Rt. Davis in St. James’ Mothodist ¥piscopal Church, Harlem, “God's Purposes Concerning Chinamen in Amer- joa” will be discussed this evening by Rev, Dr. Sim- mons in Trinity Baptist Church, ‘Lhe Gain of Godliness” and the Unanswerable Argument” will be presented tothe Tabernacle Bap- tist Church this morning and evening by Rev. RB. B. Hull Union Evangelistic services will be held in the Church of the Disciples every evening this week e: cept Saturday. Drs. Hepworth, Bevan, Colcord, Tyng, Jr., Newman and Mr. Sawyer will speak in succes. sion, Dr, Paul A. Chadbourne, of Williams College, will NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1879—QUINTUPLE SHEET. address the Young Men's Christian Association, of Yorkville, this afternoon, Rey, B. H. Burch will administer the Lord’s Sup- per this morning and Mr. Samuel Halstead will con- duct a revival meeting this evening in the Twenty- fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, At the Anthon Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church the Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach this morning, and in the evening will continue his series of discourses to young people on the culture of character, with special reference to “Circumstance on Character.” On Thursday evening Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt will deliver a lecture in this church on the “Mutual Relations of Capital and Labor,” In the Swendenborgian Church this morning the Rev. S. 8S. Seward willcomment on the parable of the wise and foolish men to illustrate Spiritual Housebuilding; or, The Only True Foundation of Spiritual Life.” Rev, A. D. Mayo, of Springfield, Mass., will preach in the Church of the Messiah this morning on the phrase “For Love’s Sake,” and in the evening will analyze the grounds of ‘Moody and Sankey’s Great Success in the New Revivalism.”* ‘The Rey. Dr. Howland wiil minister in the Church of the Heavenly Rest this morning and afternoon, and on Wednesday evening will speak on ‘Phe Sin of Rebekah.” Dr. F. C. Ewer will preach in St. Ignatius’ Protes- tant Episcopal Church at the usual hours to-day. Divine service will be conducted in English this morning in the Russian chapel, by Rev. N. Bjerring. Easter Day in this Church occurs on the same day as with other churches this year—the difference in the old style and the new being lost at this time. The Triennial Convention of the Jewish Order Kesher Shel Barzel will open in Pythagoras Hall this morning and continue in session during the week. It will embrace delegates from 190 lodges in different parts of the country. At the Church of the Divine Paternity Dr. E. H. Chapin will preach to-day as usual. Rey. A. B. Carter, D. D., will minister in Grace Chapel this morning and evening. “Hindrances in Life” will be pointed out by Rev. E. Guilbert this evening in tho Church of the Holy Spirit. Morning service as usual, CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘Number one is the most attractive unit in any ag- gregate, and when we are inclined to do the greatest good to the greatest number wo always choose num- ber one to represent our charity. * A great many people in this world closely resemble the letter E, and because it is always to be found m debt. : Religion is sometimes strangely applied. Mrs. Brown sdid, with great emphasis, that when she looked at the rich shawls which the Smith girls wore and then at the wretched apologies for shawls which her own girls wore, if it were not for the consola- tions of religion she really didn’t know what she should do, It was Brougham who said thata lawyer isa very learned gentieman who rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself. We never weary of reading a good epitaph, one which indicates the work of a lifetime in a few short, crisp words. Here is one, for instance, which needs no explanation. It was inscribed on the tomb of a cannibal ‘He loved his fellow men.” And here is a double obituary, which shows that the state of mat- rimony is sometimes a havpy one: — Iam anxiously erpcorne you. A. D, 1827. Herelam. A. D, 1367. According to the following lines there are some clergymen whose eyes are never visible, and for the best of reason! I cannot praise the doctor’s eyes; Inever saw his glance divine— For when he prays he shuts his eyes, And when he preaches he shuts mine, The Bufalo Express has spent a great deal of time in experimenting on the intricacies of logic, and has acquired a rare facility for putting an argument in its most convincing form of expression. Its masterpicce is in reference to the use of tobacco, and it proves beyond tho possibility of doubt that the noxious weed produces longevity, and does it in such a skilful way that the inference thrusts itself onthe mind with marvellous force. ‘The ancient Egyptians,” it says, “were never known to use to- bacco in any shape, and, mark you, the ancient Egyptians ure all dead.” Ergo—but wo forbear, for the conclusion that aman who uses tobacco never dics is too clear to be stated. ‘The severest, and perhaps the truest, thing said of Talmage is that he is the presiding genius of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. We have found no boy’s composition of late which seems to put the Father of His Country on a stranger moral basis than this one. It serves the still further purpose of showing that where there is real, irre- pressible genius, great ideas somewhat precede the mere knack of spelling:— george Washington was a little boy what onct lived in Virginny what had a nax give him by his old man. Wen george he got the nax he cutted a tree what had cherreys up on it andeat the cherroys he and a nother boy, Wen georges old man foun out what george an the nother boy done, he called george too him an he ses, george Washington who cutted tha bark ofen the cherrey tree! george sais i did ‘Tha old man sais you did george sais i did and i cannot tell ali. Why cant you tell@lisais the old man. Coz sais george if i tella lithis here feller! blow on me an then ill be spanked twict. thats rite sais the old man wenever yer git in to trouble tha esyist way out is tha best. Some one hastaken to himself great credit for the @iscovery that kerosene, when properly applied, will make tin and even silver shine like a mirror, This is but a feeble attempt at a right appreciation of that article. We saw an account the other day of a young woman who was toying with a kerosene can which she held in one hand, and with a lighted match which she held in the other hand, soon aiter which there was an explosion and a blaze, and not only the kitchen utensils shone, but the whole neighborhood, with a brilliancy that could be seen for miles around, The fact is that kerosene is one of those obstinate chamical products which produces its greatest effects when it is improperly apptied. The human heart when it has committed a wrong always yearns for forgiveness. A tender hearted man had a fearful quarrel with his wife, and after many hard and bitter words he left her. For years he struggled through a bare and wretched existence, followed all the time by remorse, and at last when he learned that his better half had suddenly inher- ited a large property, he could stand it no longer, und fell at her feet and asked to be forgiven. Another scare about the world’s coming to an end is on the tapis in London. We have about recovered from the etfects of the one we had a few months ago, and can aifurd to smile at the London savans who pretend to know more than any human being has a right to know, no matter how large his head ts, It is a pretty well ascertained fact that the world is bound to come to an end some time, but it is per- fectly safo to make preparations to honestly pay the note that will como due next year. Bailey, of the Danbury News, hits this phase of eccentricity in a very neat way. He says he knew one of these Second Adventists who made a fair living out of his peculiar notions, He used to borrow ao hodful of coals and a pound or two of sugar and two or three logs of wood of his neighbors, giving as an excuse that the worid was coming to an end so quickly that there was no use in laying in a great stock of provisions. He lived one whole winter in this way, bat in the spring it was suggested to him that there were not people enough in that region who sympathized with him to make it an object for him to live there any longer. It is all very well to pray to God with unctuous eloquence provided you don't contradict your own prayers by preying on your neighbors, " A vessel recently sailed to Africa laden with innu- merable hogsheads of rum aud evarrying one poor, weagre missionary. It certainly could not be ex- pected that a single missionary would be the anti- dote to the rum, though it might easily be predicted that the rum would be & perfect antidote to the mis- sionary. Consistency i# @ great jewel, and hereafter when ships are laden with those things which are expected to beguile the poor heathen it wiil be far better to send one article at @ time—either all ram or all missionary. There is no part of the humana frame so sensitive as that small bone which runs from the knee joint to the ankle, and known in the classic lore of physicl- ogy as the shin bone, It has always been a wonder to us why that particular bone was not permitted to grow out of the top of the cranium, #0 as to be out of the way. Asat present arranged, it is just in the place where it can be hit most frequently, If a boy in the innocence of his youthful heart is toying with ® bat, it is sure at some time or other in the play to land on that sensitive spot, and tempt you to use lan- guage which 18 reserved for grand occasions only. If you are walking quietly along the street and hap- pen to tread on a barrel hoop, the further side of the hoop is sure to rise up and catch you just there. i you are groping about the room at two o'clock in the morning in order to strike # light because the baby has just been at- tacked by fourteen fatal ailments, the sharp corner of the rocking chair, as though it had been lying in ambush for just such an occasion, takes you right on the sharp edge of that ossification and makes you feel for a single brief moment as though a dozen earthquakes and volcanoes ad libitum had been let loose. Of course it is all right, and that delectable bone is undoubtedly in the proper place; still, the problem looks a little curious when you examine it closely. One of the finest puns was made by Erskine. See- ing an old tea chest, he wrote on it the Latin inscrip- tion, “Tu doces,"” This bit of classic lore, when prop- erly translated, means “Thou teachest.”” It is said that there never was # woman 60 illiterate and uneducated that shé would not generously giver the man of her choice a picce of her mind, This matter of the heathen Chince and his intru- sion’ on our fair landscape is more important than it at first seems to be. Our great men in Congress are wiser than we give them credit for. They are utterly unable or unwilling to tuke any measures to keep the yellow fever away, but ready to go any lengths to expel the Celestials, which shows that in their logical minds the yellow fever is comparatively harmless, The policy which they have inaugurated to kill off all cheap labor is one of those things which becomes more beautiful the more you see of it, Now, @ man can’t possibly make shirts at eight cents each, aud the whole feminine gender is thus interfering with masculine prosperity. Just as soon as the almond eyes of the Chinese are shut up measures must be taken to get rid of all the working women of the world. They have no native land to which they can be sent, but that they can all be drowned by legislative enactment there is comfort in knowing. After that we can take in hand other classes of the community, and, if the principle is carried far enough, we cun co-operate with the law of natural selection, and leave the universe in the hands of afew whocan charge their own prices and grow rich. It may be alittle hard on some of us who are willing to work for what we can get, but even in starving to death we shall have the sublime con- sciousness that somebody will get a larger price for doing our work, and will be glad that we are out of the way. ‘The power of association is greater in some minds than in others. It is not always safe, however, to give expression to everything that happens to sug- gest itself. Two gentlemen were walking along the street ina friendly chat, when a donkey started on a musical bray. “What a cold that donkey must have,” said No.1. “Yes, yes,” said No, 2, “very bad indeed. And, by the way, that reminds me; how is your own cough to-day?” A CHURCH’S GROWTH. A year ago to-day # few admirers of the Rev. Will- iam Lloyd, who had left the Reformed (Dutch) Church with him, believing that he was badly treated by the consistory of that body, leased the vacant church building on Madison avenue and Thirty-fitth street for a year. They have held re- ligious services regularly ever since, and their success has been such that the trus- tees have just purchased the building in which they have worshipped. But not only this, they also propose to build a new church in another locality and continue the present house mission. During the year over one hundred pers: have been added to the communion of the church and 100 new fam- ilies have rented pews. ‘The expenses of the church, over $1,000 4 month, have been regularly paid, so that the new year begins without a dollar of debt, ‘This is certainly signal success for # minister and church starting off as did the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. And best of all crowds attend the church at every service and hear the Gospel, and converts are added monthly, if not daily. It will be in order, therefore, for the successful pastor and church together to ‘review, as they will to-day, their difficulties and triumphs and their remarkable growth for one year. And with the divine blessing the future may be as the past and more abundant. DENOMINATIONAL NOTES, CONGREGATIONAL. Dakota has twenty-five Congregational churches—a growth from one within ten years. A revival has prevailed for some weeks in the Congregational church at Woodhaven, L.I., of which the Rev. Mr. James is pastor. Several convertsshave been added to the church. The Congregational church at Ann Arbor, Mich., received sixteen new converts at its last communion season, the result of a revival still in progress. The will of the late Mrs, Elizabeth Whitehouse, of Pembroke, N. H., gives $60,000 to the New Hampshire Missionary Society (Congregational) and an aggregate of $30,000 to other religious and benevolent organi- zations, The Rev. Christopher Cushing's Congregational Quarterly has received, as he believes, its death blow by reason of the action of the National Council of Congregational churches in providing for a Year Book of denomiuational statistics. Of these statis- tics the Quarterly has hitherto had a monopoly, and they have kept it alive. Its publication is now to be suspended, Meantime Dr, Cushing has been chosen treasurer of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in place of Mr. Charies Demond, ‘The New England Congregational Church, Brook- lyn, has a membership of 200 on its roll and very little congregution besides. There are 260 teachers and pupils in the Sunday school, and a mortgage of $25,000 rests on the church property, beside a float- ing debt of $ BAPTIST. A prominent feature in Henry Varley’s new Taber- nacle in Melbourne, Australia, will ve a large coffee house, where eatables will be furnished at a little over cost price. The whole edifice will cost about $100,000. ‘There is a very general awakening at Greenport, L, I. The pastor, Rev. Charies E. Hiscox, has been assisted by his tather, Dr. Hiscox, in extra meetings with remarkable results, Rev. F. A. Brady has been two years pastor at Deihi, Ont., and in that time has baptized over one hundred believers. He reports that Baptist views are spreading rapidly 1m Ontario. ‘The Missouri Baptists regard water as essential only for three purposes—uaimely, for navigation, irrigation and immersion. ‘Chey use other fluids ex- clusively tor drinking purposes, The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Union, as pared with last year, are $33,255 66, instead of $65,285 66, ax Wo have stated. ‘The larger sum ought to be the correct dyures, though it is not, Rev. George Balcom’ has tor some time been engaged in revival work at Painted Post, N. ¥., where the Baptists and Presbyteriaus have been holding a uniou meeting. ‘The Methodists have been holding meetings also. “About thirty have come out in eaci. church,” he says. The Beaminer and Chronicle says of Rev. Arthur Murseli’s snecr against American close communion Baptists who received him here with warm-hearted, social aud pulpic hospitality that he must needs go to the infernal regions of a beathen mythology tor & triple-headed mouster, a fiendish mixture of bul dog, serpeut and snake, with which to caricature em’ under which he was everywhere treated as tian gentieman and minister, ‘Luey did not iupathy here, but neither did they expect such # course caricattire. ROMAN CATHOLIC, Tne Holy See hus erected Afyhauistan into an apos- tolic prefecture, and has intrusted it to the Society of 8..Joseph of the sacred Heart, ‘The Catholic bishops of St. Hyacinthe and Ottawa sailed together trom Liverpool for Canada on Ash: Weunesday, Thero are now four Catholic dioceses vacant in the United States—Chicago, Maruford, Marquette and columbus, ‘The Most Rev. J, B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincin- nati, has had the satisfaction of seeing more of his priests crowned with the mitre than, perhaps, any bishop of the century, some twenty odd in nun- ber—Archbishops Heuni, Wood, Alemany and Lamy; Bishops Quinlan, Gilmour, Fitzgerald, Machebeout, De Goesvriand, Towbbe, Dwenger, Borgess, Luers, Juncker, Carroll, Miles, Whelan, Young, Rappe, Baraga and McFarland, Patuer Bapst, 8. J., who is in ill health, is for tho presout resiaing at Boston College. Lhe Catholic diocese of Hartiord waa established in Is4, and now has 83 churches and 10 buildings, 3U chapels and stations, 100 priests, 50 clerical stu- dents, 9 female academies, 43 parochial or free schools, 19 religious institutions, § orphan asylums and @ Catholic population of 150,000, ‘A movement tor tho relief of disabled priests in tho ose of Pi Jence was recently started in Provi- dence, K. L.A goodly number of clergynien are en- gaged in the and @ comnititee has been appomted to p matter through until every Privsi 1 the diocese is brought into it, A band of Jesuit missionaries, under the zealous Father Maguire, 8. J., are giving missions in Boston churches wuring Lent. The Bishop ot Louisville, Ky., has prohibited any More religiots services over the dead in houses or enurches, They must be performed hereafter at the @raves. A correspondent of the Ciurchman, writing from Berlin, says the Uld Catholics of Germany are very quiet. The negotiations between the Pope and Prus- sia, or rather between Cardinal Nina Prince Bis- marek, are said to be progressing, but really are at a standstill. The recent letter of the Pope to the Archbishop of Cologne, and his encyclical against “socialism, Communism and Nihilism, “mean a wish for more peaceful relations, but neither negotiatiny party seems inclined to give anything beyond good words. Meanwhile the ‘spiritual destitution” of the Prussian dioceses is increasing day by day, The pastors of the Catholic churches of Pottsville, Pa., and neighboring towns have given notice thatall Catholics who remain members of the Knights of Labor Society will be excommunicated. METHODIST. The London Afethodist reports country places in the York Wesleyan circuits where professed liberal land- lords will not sell sites tor Methodist chapels in vil- lages where Methodism has secured alinost the whole population. Mrs. Bishop Simpson and many other Methodist ladies of Philadelphia are actively engaged in the work of founding an orphanage and are vigorously at work preparing for a tair to be held in its interest. This project, which has been talked about for several years, may now be considered a fixed fact, Revivals are reported in North Ridge Chureh, Cambria, Pa., resulting in 41 converts; in Janesville (Wjs.) First Church, 70; in St. Paul's, Middletown, N. Y., 40, and in Foundry Church, Millville, N. J., 50. The triends of the Belmont Methodist Episcopal Church are erecting 4 frame chureh, 60x90, on the northwest corner of Forty-third and Aspen streets, Philacelphia, whieh will cost about $4,000, The Rev, M. H. Wiison, pastor, has received about two hun- dred persons in full connection during his two years’ pastorate, The British Wesleyan Methodists set out at the beginning of the year to raise a special fund of $1,000,000 for church building, debts, &c., one quar- ter of which they hoped to raise in Great Britain and the rest throughout the world. But already two districts in Londou have contributed more than the quarter, and now it is expected that $1,000,000 be- ide will be raised. This is noble giving in hard times. ‘A few days ago the Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica visited their pastor and lett with him as a fare- well gitt a set of “Chambers’ Cyclopwdia” and $150 in money, or its equivalent. Mr. Saunders leaves this charge in excellent condition, having during the three years of his ministry reduced the debt of the society $6,000 and built a new Sunday schoo! hall, at acost of another $1,000, and at the same time not neglecting the spiritual interests of the church. Some fifteen converts have been added on probation, PRESBYTERIAN. The debt of the Ross Street Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn, N. ¥., is $40,000, of which $7,500 is a floating debt. ‘fhe pastor, the Rev. Archibald McCul- lagh, on a late Sunday, asked for $10,000 to wipe out the floating debt and repair the church, Over $3,000 were raised, A new Presbyterian Church was organized a couple of weeks ago at Caro, in Tuscola county, Mich., a young and growing town, reached by a new railroad from Vassar. The Presbyterians haye now in ‘'us- ealo and Huron counties nine churches, all mission churches except Vassar. With three exceptions all are supplied with a minister, ‘The Presbytery of Pittsburg has answered the overture on reduced representation in the affirmative. ‘The vote stood 42 for to 15 against. The great Presbyterian Prayer Convention, held by the Presbyterians recently in Pittsburg, has al- ready resulted in some substantial good in some churches. The United Presbyterians are now dis- cussing the propriety of holding a similar conyen- tion for prayer and conference, Before the Presbyterians of Westfield, N. Y., had completed their new church Mr. G. W. Patterson made them a present of a parsonage, for which they were duly thankful. During the recent series of revival meetings held by Rev. E. P. Hammond in Pittsburg, Pa., sixty per- sons united with the First Church South, South Side. ‘The Union Theological Seminary of this city has the largest number of students of any seminary in Americs, and with one exception—that at Leipsic, Germany—the largest im the world, 122. Nineteen States are represented and fifteen colleges. Canada sends four students and Turkey one. The entire number of students connected with this seminary from its beginning is 1882, of whom 1,589 are sup- posed to be still living; 107 have become foreign missionaries. ‘The joint committee appointed a year ago last fail, representing the two synods ot Missouri, to consider practicable plans for co-operation in the support of the Westminster College, at Fulton, Mo., was revived lust week in St. Louis, after a comatose condition of over ayear, The Southern Synod is vigorously at work with the hope of paying off the present in- debtedness of the college, which amounts only to some $11,000, Atter remarks, questions and answers by several members of the committee it adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman. REFORMED (DUTCH). Rev. A. N. Wyckott, of Brooklyn, has accepted a call to the Canal Street Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, La. A German Reformed minister named Gans, in Bal- timore, has gone over to the Roman Catholic Church; his name is not Gunse, and he never was a pastor in New York; so that his identity with Dr. Ganse, of St. Louis, late of this city, is not made out. A new church in Paterson, N. J., to be known as the Union Reformed Church, has been organized by members trom the Sixth Holland Church. The new society starts with over one hundred members, and the Rey. William Honbolt as pastor. ‘The Reformed Church in the United States, formerly known a# the German Reformed, has entered upon the work of foreign missions under its own Board and management. Tne Rey. Ambrose D. Gring and wite were recently commissioned, and are now on their way to Japan, He is ason of the pastor of the (German) Reformed Church at Shrewsbury, Pa. He expects to reside for a time at Lokio while learning the language, and to gather information there that shall decide his future location. The wish of the Board he represents is to co-operate in the most fra- ternal aud hearty manner with the Reformed Dutch mission in Japan, EPISCOPALIAN. St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church, Long Branch, N. J., is greatly exercised over the secession of two ot their members to the Roman Catholic Chureh, Grace Church, New York, is generally looked upon ag the church of the fashionable and the wealthy, who mane their religion as much of a show and as little of an inward reality as possible. Probably most people never think of Grace Church as an active, benevolent church; yet the facts tella very different story. During the past ten years this church has given, for purely missionary purposes, the sum of $1,082,368, Not a dollar of this sum hus been ex- pended for the maintenance of the church services or in the beautifying of the church edifice. Probably no church in this country has given so largely a3 Grace. ‘The Episeypal Church has in this city twelve mis- siou stations ia which services in the German lan- guage wre regularly held, At two of thesc stations 100 persons were recently “confirmed,” aud the num- ber of communicants bas largely mereased during the past year. The expense of the Church German Socicty’s work last year was $4,000, About twenty chapels and mission ‘stations are under the control of the Episcopalians of New York. A new church has been organized in Philadelphia to be known as St. David’s aud the ves!ry has called to the rectorship the Rev. Dr. J. W. Claxton, lately of the Church of the Advocate in that city. ‘An Enghsh ritualist having written toa London Jiyious journal to prove that the Thirty-nine Arti- ome ot them) of the Church ot England are ing in their spirit and tendency, the Central ian here says it would not be surprised if ay the attempt should be made to prove that estmminster Confession was not intended to be \i-papal aad nothing but a protest against popery. rhe arenes ae of Vinginia have started a theo- logical school for colored divinity students at Peters- .Va.,and four young men have entered—one being at present a Methodist min to whom the rivileges of the institution are f extended. The Church Missionary Society (English) has re- ceived $25,000 from the widow of aciergyman, The socioty extimaces its ordinary expenditures for the year at over $1,000,000, MISCELLANEOUS, The I ames S. Deunis, professor in the theo- logical seminary at Beirut, Syria, has received the degree of D. D&trom his alma mater, Princeton Col- lege: more recognition of the fact that mission- aries are often excetient scholars. Mr. Dennis is the author of several books written and published in the Arabic language, which have been widely circulated, The uext General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance is to be held in Basie, Switzerland, to open August 31, 1879, and continue till the 7th day of Sep- tember. Members aud friends of the Alliance going abroad next swimmer will find it very pleasant to be in Switzerland at that tie, The Anti-Papal League, of this city, propose to utilize if not to Honize Dr. J. D. Fulton, of Brooklyn, now that his brethren have cast him out. He is to lvcture before that bo in Brooklyn on the 20th on witnessing for the truth with Special refer- ce to the overthrow of the papacy; so that the Doctor's great talents in this line will not be allow to rust if the Auti-Papal League can help it. V many ministers of this city of different denomina- tions are mombers of this league, and have united in # special call on Dr, Faiton tor this occasion, ‘The “Table Talker” of the Loudon Methodist an arrow at the Christian at Work, plained that the theological pro ag ministers es respon too much, Perhaps some of the semina: murked deficiencies, chiet among which » to teach Christianity: the theology of Jesus, in place of much that is taught. But to attempt to hold them, or aay school, responsible for not giving ‘common sense’ to the students who are deficient in that quality is absurdly unjust. Lt is clearly ‘lying in the face of Providen: A ‘Professorship of Com- mon Sense’ would sound well, wouldn't it? And when the chairs were all filled by the persons most fit tor the positions who would edit the religious newspapers, I should like to know ?” Au infidel society composed of twenty or more woil known native scholars, with an American, Pro- fessor Morse, at the bottom of it, has been organized at Tokio, Japan. They carry on discussions twico a month in # publi hall, They swear by Spencer, Mill, Darwin and Draper, and use the writings of those scholars a8 text books, The Rev. Julius Soper, an American missionary in that country, peals to Christians here to vend him tor sale and ribution several hundreds of books ot lectures bearing di- rectly and pointedly upon the relation of science avd religion—Personal Cause, First Cause, Huxley ism, Darwinism, &e.—presented from 4 Christian standpoint, TEMPLE AHAWATH CHESED. OLD MEMORIES AND YOUNG LESSONS—SERMON BY RABBI HUEDSOH, ‘The Rev. Dr. Huebsch delivered & sermon yeater- day to his congregation in Temple Ahawath Dhesad Lexington avenue, taking for his text Psalm xxx. 12:—“Thou hast changed my mourning into dancing for me; Thou hast loosened my sackcloth and girded me with joy.” ‘The reminiscences of a remote past, said the learned rabbi, are held in veneration, even with those portions of the human race which stand as yet at the threshold of civilization. tribes have their revered, ancient love. The further a nation advances in cultural development the more care it bestows to keep alive the memory of the im- portant events which mark the course of its life. With the descendants of Abraham history began early to form a constitutional part of their religion, ‘The birth, growth and development of the Israelit- ish nation were scrupulously chronicled in the same books which contain the highest truths and moral principles tor the confessors of the Sinaitic erced. he successive events as they took place in the life of this people were to serve 8 an embodiment and exemplification of the truths which the sacred docu- ments promulgated, Our history is the teststone of our religion, and our religion is the explanatory key to our history. They are so closely cutwined that you cannot feel true affection tor the one without embracing with like devotion the other. THE BOOK OF ESTHE There is one book in the sacred collection of the Bible in which the name of God—imuch to the taste of our modern philosophers—is not even once mon- the book of Esther is of a pure narrative character, It was under some Persian King—his- torical probability points to Xerxes—that eminent danger threatened the Jews of that country. We distinguish two groups—the persecutors and the ersecuted, Both are sketched with masterly out- ines, The preacher then went on to describe the character of the Persian King, Mordecai and Esther, and how the devotion of the two latter saved the people of Isracl from persecution and death. He conciuded—Thus the Lord chose the poor orphan as the vessel of his merey; thus virtue and purity carried off the victory over impious power. Thus the sackcloth was loosened and with joy wero girded once more the afllicted and hope! What precious memories! What beautiful lessons! HIGH AND LOW CHURCH. THE CONTEST OVER THE RECENT ELECTION FOR BISHOP OF TORONTO—SKETCH OF BISHOP SWEATNAM. Toronto, Ont., March 6, 1879, When Bishop Bethune died, on February 3, it was anticipated that the election of a successor would be the occasion of @ determined struggle for supremacy between the High and Low Chureh party, and tho result did not belie the anticipation. Prior to the departure of the venerable deceased churchman for the Pananglican Synod at Lambeth Palace an effort was made to elect a coadjutor bishop, but without effect, after two days had been spent in what, if a silent, was a determined ballot fight. On that occasion venerable Archdeacon Whitaker, Provost of ‘Trinity (Episcopal) College, was the stan- dard bearer of the High Church party and the Bishop of Rapert’s Land, the Bishop of Algoma and Rey. Arthur Baldwin severally claimed support from the Low Church party. On this occasion Provost Whitaker again was the nominee of the High Church party, but it was clearly seen from the beginning that he could not secure his election, as he was not at all acceptable to the laity. The latter combined to elect Dr, Sullivan, formerly of Chicago, but the nomina- tion possessed no attractions for the clergy. The electorate showed by its voting that the clergy of the diocese are essential- ly ritualistic, and that the laity are as markedly evangelical. After nineteen ballots had been taken Provost Whitaker, who is a man of fine sensibilities, pleaded earnestly to be relieved from the candidacy, and, it being apparent that a deadlock had occurred, the solution of which certainly did not he in the continued candidacy of Provost Whitaker, the name of Principal Lobley, of Lennoxville College, near Montreal, was substituted. To accept the latter gentleman was regarded by the Low Church party as preferring the fire to the frying pan. Both gentle- men are ripe scholars and in every way qualified for the office of bishop, except, say the Low Church party, in regard to certain ceremonies which they conduct in church, Neither clergyman is what would be termed a High Churchmen in England; indeed, they would unhesitatingly be put down by an Englishman as Low Church, However, Canadians of the Church of England havea different standard of Church measurement, and set down such church- men as the two mentioned as Ritualists. The ballot- ing was continued and the declaration of the twenty- third ballot found a deadlock still between the sup- porters of Sullivan and Principal Lobley. The five days that had by this time clapsed had seen herculean proselyting efforts, made by men of per- suasive powers—powers so persuasive that it took them all this time to arrive at theconclusion reached on the first day by every one not dipgectly interested— that a compromise was the only possible solution of the difficulty. A COMPROMISE. Yesterday forenoon, accordingly, a conference took place between deputations ot both parties, at which it was agreed to combine on Archdeacon Sweatnam, and atter an afternoon's deiiberation his election was carried on the twenty-iitth ballot by 4 vote which was practically unanimous, Concessions had to be made on each side, perhaps the most exacting being that demanded from the Low Church party—the dis- banding of the Church Association, rolls of which are to be found the name: ot the most influential lay Englishmen of Ontario. However, the raison d’éire of the society is gone, now that a bishop of views satisfactory to the members of the association occupies the see. It is questionable if the organization did much for prac- tical Christianity, its Operations being too transpar- ently in support of evaugelicalism as evangelical- ism to command respect and iutluence. Of late years th has been a lack of practical results from theministrations of the clergy owing to this spirit of antagonism in the laity. Bishop Sweatnam now holds the power of welding these factions together, and if he rule with love aud firmness there are grand. possibilities if the future of the Church of England in Ontario generally, aud in the diocese of Toronto in particular, THE NEW PRELATE. The Globe of this morning yives the following com- pilation of the new Bishop's “record,” if such a word be here admissible:—“The venerable Archdeacon Sweatnam, M. A., was born in London, England, and graduated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, receiving the degree of M. A. in 1862, For the next three years he occupied several distinguished positions in Eng- lish educational institutions, chiefly at Islington, aud in 1865 was invited by His Lordship Bishop Heil- muth, then Dean of Huron, to the responsible posi- tiou of Head Master of Hellmuth Boys’ College, which he filled with great ability and suc . After severing his connection with that institution he heid for some time the position of Mathematical Master of Upper Canada College. Ln 1872 he received a call fro! the Bishop of Huron to the rectorship of Grac Church, brantford, and this position he filled tor two years with much acceptance. He then returned to London aud was appointed Canon of the Cathe- dral, ‘two years ago he was solicite . by the Bishc to tak» his present position of assistant minister and acting rector of St. Paul's Chureh, Woodstock, and was appointed Archdeacon of Brant. He las uniformly for many years past been appointed cleri- cal secretary of the Synod and was chosen to the im- portant office of secretary to the bench of Bishops during the Provineial Synod. While His Lordship the Bishop of Huron was absent in Europe for sev- eral months past Archdeacon Sweatnam discharged the duties of commissary. Those who know the new Bishop intimately speak hopefully of his ad- ministering the ailairs ot his diocese in a manner tuat will not fail to command respect, win esteem and further the Interests of a religion which bears ever in mind that really the all in ail is ‘Christ and Him crucified,’ not TO BE FOOLED. Mrs. Louisa Waterman, of No. 502 Henry street, Brooklyn, walked up the steps leading to the station of the New York Elevated Railroad at Twenty-third street and Third avenue, yesterday afternoon, with several parcels in her hands. Her pocketbook was in the side pocket of her cloak, and as @ young man brushed past her on the stairway she dropped her parcels and felt for her pocketbook. It was gone, She seized the young man and accused him of stealing it, whereupon he re- turned the pocketbook. Mut Mrs, Waterman dis- creetly looked inside and found that a five and a two dotiar bill were missing. The young man ran toward Fourth avenue, but was captured after a short and sharp chase by Officer Kiernan, ot the Eighteenth preemet. In his possession was found a two doilar Dill and @ pair of yold spectacles belonging to Mrs. Waterman, He was arraigned before Justice Morgan yesterday afternoon, gave his name as George Ander- son and was committed in default of $2,000 bail. CUSTOM HOUSE REFORM. It was reported yesterday at the Custom Honse that the plan for carrying out practical civil service reform in the various departments of the customs service in this city, as agreed upon by the Collector, Appraiser, Surveyor, Naval Oficer and United States sub-Treasury, as published in the Herat last month, having been approved by the President and Secretary Sherman, Collector Merritt went to Wash- ington on Friday on matters connected with his office aud it is expected that on his return the new Board, of which General Graham is president, will at once commence operations. There are at present nearly, it not quite, two thousand applicatious for positions on file with the Collector. Ali the statesmen backing the applicants are clamorous, and the Civil Service plan has been the armor which has protected the vuinerabilitv of the Collector in this siege for places. Most of the savage | 6 18 OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. [Nore.—Letters intended for this column must be accompanied by the writer's full name and address to insure attention. Complainants who are unwilling to comply with this rule simply waste time in writing. Write only on one side of the paper.—Ep. Hrratp.] HORRIBLE CONDITION OF EAST FIPTIETH STREET, To rae Eprron or THe HenaLy:— Where is the Street Cleaning Department? Is it yetasleep? East Piftieth street from Fourth avenue to Beekman place is disgrace to the tity. It has not been cleaned since time immemorial, and the quan tity of ashes, garbage and dead cats to be seen along the gutters make it an casy matter to spread Right under Dr. Chandler's office window in the School of Mines a dead Spitz dog has pean im peace all winter. ANTLDIBT. WHEN WILL Iv Pay? To rae Eprron or rue Henanp:— I desire to ask for some information regarding the Manhattan Savings Bank which it seems impossible to obtain with any degree of accuracy from the bank people, Do they ever mean to pay off? Every few days Ieall there, and each time am told “in a very tew days,” or perhaps they will name 4 day, until it has become what the boys call “tatfy.”” Iam poor, have yreat need of my money deposited there, and call upon your valuable journal to investigate this outrageous delay. A DEPOSITOR, PREPARING FOR THE SPRING FRESHETS. To rue Epiror ov tHe HERaLp:— ‘The Street Cleaning Bureau evidently fear an ine undation of the city by the waters of the rivers during the spring thaws, else why the height to which the streets are being graded with ashes and filth? It is not necessary to travel to Egypt to view the Pyramids, but just step into Hanover square and there you will behold the most symmetrical of conical pyramids arising to the height of two and three feet above the tops of ash barrels, while the centre of the street presents the appearance of the most romantic of Brooklyn dumping grounds. It is so long since an ashman was here ea peor forget what he is like, and should one at any sei it is likely that he would be followed by @ rabble, re- him as @ natural curiosity. HANOVABIAN, LOAN OFFICE IMPOSITION. To rue Eprron oy THE HERALD:— A year ago I deposited goods in a loan office on the Bowery, near Spring street, on which I received $50. ‘The legal rate of interest on loans up to $25 is twenty-five per cent; on larger sums, ten per cent. On redeeming the goods, a fow days ago, the lenders demanded twenty-five per cent interest, using, ap- parently, every little artful device to force the con- viction on me that such was the legal rate of interest and that I must pay it. On informing them that the rate of interest for such sums was ten per cent, and that if they refused it Iwould go away and return soon, they remarked, “Well, we will take what you will give.” If the writer had not been posted they would have unjustly extorted from him fr 50. Par- ties treated in this way should offer them the topat interest; if refused, they should visit the City who will send ai shal, room No.7 City to regulate matters. THE SIXTH CORPS BADGE. To THe Eprror or THE HeRALD:— “Veteran” (a militiaman) says, in his answer to “Vermont Brigade” (an old soldier of the Army of the Potomac), that “the Twenty-third regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., wear the Sixth corps badge by right of actual service therein.” The Twenty-third regiment never served in the Sixth corps, and this fact is clearly shown in a communication furnished by the undersigned and published in the Brooklyn Eagle January 26, 1879. In that communication ‘*Veteran’’ will find an account of the service of the Twenty- third regiment in the Pennsylvania campaign, by them “Our campaign around Gettysburg,” and the reason why this regiment and some other New York and Pennsylvania militia regiments were not attached to the Sixth corps or to the Army of the Potomac, and also why the Twenty-third regiment have no claim to wear the badge of the Sixth Army corps. SWORD KNOT. CENTRAL PARK AND THE NATIONAL GUARD. ‘To Eng Eprron or THE HEnaLD:— ‘The usual hue and cry against anything which will be of benefit to the National Guard is now being made against the proposed parade ground in Central Park, What could be more appropriate than this bill? It would afford ample room for drill in the necessary street manquvres as well as other move- ments essential to the efficiency of the National Guard. It would also afford an opportunity, to those who desire to, to witness the drill; and the fact of their spoiling the grass, &c., is a very poor ar- gument, as the police can regulate that. At present, the only available space are the streets, which (owing to the corrrupt jobs in played out pavements and surface railroads, as well as the fine condition in which they are kept by apother “‘job’’—the Street Cleaning Department) are anything but passable or safe to march on. I fail to see how “great injus- tice” or “irreparable wrong” can be done by the passage of the bill, It would be only partial recog- nition of the services of the National Guard by the city, who ure very loath to give them their due, but are ‘very anxious to seo them incase of a riot. I doubt if any of the military authorities are opposed to it, for they are fully alive to its importance. As @ member of the National Guard I cannot conceal my indignation at this evidence of narrow mindedness, selfishness and ingratitude. There is room for base- ball, but none for those who give their time (thereby risking their situations and lives) in defence of the city and this very park. NATIONAL GUARDSMAN. R EAL ESTATE. The following sales were made on the Real Estate Exchange March 8:— BY BLERCKER & SON. ki, referce—Forvelosure sale of the three brick dwelling, with lot 24.7x8%.: 186, jougal st. w. &, 106 ft. «. of 4th » jongen x , the two story brick burlding, No. 121 Amity st., nm. 6.65.9 ft. st.; to Louis Vaudongen E. B. Shafer, referee—Foree! frame h wo and two lots, each 25x1) uv., known as lot No, 23'on «a may rose (3d ward); to David P. Arnold. Total... with lot 2 w. of Macdou; OFFICIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, The following is a statement showing the real em tate transactions recorded in the Register’s office, March 8, 1879: rd place, W. A. Ferris and husbs hobs ff d to Anthony O. or of Bayard st., 50: Mediuire ni MeGuire, . . 100 Lith st. s,s, 170 ft. w. of 3d wy., 17.6x100,11; Jo- sup PB. Murray to Isabella Keoch (exeeutor)...... 6400 2d av.,¢. s..00 ft sof Both st., 20x75; James Me- 5000 Ixirroguinrx jernard Kelly and wife to Wm P of Ist av, ‘elly to Hannah 50; J. 8. Lawrence (referee), to Graco Snelling. Paging . ftw. of 2 toJobn H. Rik nm, &, OO ft. Ww. of Washington xirregular, John White to George O. ‘go O, Clarke to Ann White.... Nom, . dot No, 413 23d ward); Joho White to George O. C aes 6 netitbyree tn Ae. Same property; George jarke to Ann Whit pee se dot No. 110), 2488100; John B. Moi to Ann E, Allin . . ees geges . Tith st. nos, 2UG.7 ft w. of Sd vv., 17x102.2; Richard H. L. Townsend and wife to Barbetta 8. ¥, Holler... ......- 7,000 Lith av. wos 0 n. of 40th 42100; also AY. Tw, Co if 4th st. as; William and wife to Drew as 464, store): Chri BYOMPH ea vetween Drondway an 4 Commoualty to I ian Sauer to Honry Rengstort . 49th st, Al RECORDED MORTGAGES, Glass, John, Jr..to Charles D, Mathew: Seth St. w! of Huth ay.: L month 750 Gooring, William and wife, to Joseph 11th ay, and 42d'st.; 1 year. 1,460 0 Anna M. Oary, 5 a of 16th st, dM. ¥ eo), @ 8 OF 127th st. o, of Sth D your... Kooch, Isabella (executrix, &¢.), to Josoph P. Mur ray, & 8. of LL1th st., w. of Sd av.; 1 your ‘ x00 RECORDED ASSIGNMENTS Andorson, K. C. uh Compan, Moore, array, Pauli, ka D.. to Catharine A. Mari ‘oseph P., to Bortha A. Doane. mily M., to Dents He Alexander F..to Phi rpogl, Aaron J. (adwini ukley Vanderpuel ony fame to same...