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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Programme of Services To-Day. CHAT BY THE WAY. Synagogue Worship—Fruits of Ritualism. For the better accommodation of the crowds, the American Temperance Union will meet this after- noon in Steinway Hall, instead of the Lyceum Thea- tre. Mr. W. M. Evans will take “A Retrospect,” Mr. Evans will also continue his usual mectings noon ‘and evening during this week in the Columbia Opera House. ‘This evening the Rev. Carlos Martyn will preach in Thirty-fourth Street Reformed Church on “What Is Christianity?" The Rev. J. L. Peck will preach in Willett Street Methodist Episcopal Church this morning, and Rev. 3. E. Searles this evening will say farewell to his people, having finished his pastoral term, ‘The. Rey, Mr. Clifford will preach this morning, and the Rev. J. F. Richmond this evening in Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. 2! 5 Dr. Armitage will preach morning and evening in the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. “Sin Forgotten and Forgiven” is the topic to be @iscnssed this evening in the Church of the Holy ‘Trinity by Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. W. N. Searles will speak this morning of the “Promise of Comfort,” this afternoon of “Mis- sionary Novelties” and this evening of “Defeat and Vietory.” At Chickering Hall, this afternoon, the Rev. Samuel Colcord will preach about “The Righteous Rejected and Sinners Accepted.” ‘The National ‘Temperance Institute will meet in Cooper Union this afternoon and be addressed by Mr. Eli Johnson on “What He Saw Over the Ocean; or, How to Get Rid of the Great Evil.” ‘The thirty-first anniversary of modern spiritual- iem will be observed in Republican Hall this afte.- noon. In the Helping Hand Chureh, in Bleecker Building, this morning, the Rev. W. B. Affleck will preach on “Divine and Human Forgiveness.” In the evening the Rey. Joseph Odell, of Brooklyn, will speak there on “‘Sensationalism.” “The Straight Gate’ will be opened this morning by Rey. E. C. Sweetser for Bleecker Street Universalist Church. Sermon in the evening also. The Rev.J.Q. Adams will preach in the Berean Baptist Church this morning and afternoon and Colonel J. F. Hay will conduct a temperance mecting ‘there in the evening. Dr. Talmage will preach as usual to-day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Rev. R.S. MacArthur preaches this morning and evening in the Calvary Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. Crawford will preach in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church this morning, and Dr, Newman this evening will continue his discourses on “Lost Empires,” including ‘The Romans in Proph- ecy.”” Rev. W. P. Corbit will preach in Fiftieth Street Methodist Episcopal Church to-day at the usual bours. In Canal Street Presbyterian Church the Rev. Alex- Qnder McKelvey will preach this morning and after- noon. ‘The Christian Israelite Church will be addressed by Mrs. Schertz this evening in their sanctuary in First street. Rev. Dr. Shipman will officiate to-day, as usual, in Christ Church. Rev. J. D. Wilson will minister to the Central Pres- byterian Church this morning and evening. Bishops Potter and Smith will administer the rite of confirmation this afternoon in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. Dr. Howland will preach there in the morning. . Rev. J. W. Ackerly will preach in Duane Method- ist Episcopal Church this evening on “The Gospel’s Unchangeable Decree,” and in the morning also, In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. D. R. Van Buskirk preaches this morning and Rev. E. T. Williams this evening. Dr. T. H. Pritchard, of Raleigh, N. C., will occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist Church to-day at the regular hours, The Rev. W. T. Sabine will minister to the First Reformed Episcopal Church to-day as usual. Rev. Ernest Wesley, of New Jersey, will preach this morning, and Rev. N. L. Rowell this evening, in the Free Baptist Church. A gospel temperance meeting will be held in Lex- ington Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church this ‘afternoon and be addressed by Revs. W. H. Mickle, d. L, Gilder and J. T. Vine and by Judge Pittman. The temperance meeting at Grand Union Hall this afternoon will be led by Mr. C. A. Bunting and re- formed men will deliver addresses. : “Christian Freedom” will be discussed this morn- ing by Rev. 8. H. Virgin, and an “Explanation of Bickness Nearly Thirty-eight Centuries Old” be given this evening in the Harlem Congregational Church. “Light on s Dark Doctrine” will be thrown by Rev. J, W. Kramer this evening in the Wainwright “Memorial Church. Dr. Bridgman will preach for the Madison Ave- ue Baptist Church to-day, at the usual hours. In the Madison. Avenue Presbyterian Church this morning the Rev. William Lloyd will speak of “The Hem of His (Christ's) Garment,” and in the evening on “The Man Who Wished To Be Saved in His Chariot.” “The Bible First and Last” will be the theme of Rev. George H. Hepworth this morning in the Church of the Disciples. “Our Father in Heaven” will be presented this evening. To-morrow night Mr. Hepworth will continue his: illustrated-lectures n “Travel in Europe.” The Rev. E. A. Reed will preach. in the Reformed Church, on Madison avenue, this morning and even- ing. Mr. C. W. Sawyer will conduct a-temperance mect- {ng in the Park Theatre this evening. The Rev. Mr. Goss will hold a temperance meeting in the People’s Church this afternoon, and in the evening Mr. Honry Bergh will address young people, Dr. Herr preaches morning and evening to-day in the Central Baptist Church. Rev. J. M. Pullman will tell the Chare) of Our 8a ‘viour this morning “How We Ought to iinink of the Dead,” and this evening he will caution young men against “The Lying Spirits of the World.” Dr. H. W. Knapp preaches at the usual: hours to- day in Laight Street Baptist Church. Preaching at the usual hours to-day, inSt. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church, by Rev. George Van Alstyne. “Christ's Temptation in Jerusalenr’ and “The Land of No More Sea” will be thoughtfully con- sidered and presented to-day by Rev. W. I.Davis to Bt. James’ Methodist Episcopal Chureh, Harlem. Those sermons complete Mr. Davis’ pastorate in that church, and probably end his ministry in the Methodist Kpiscopal Church altogether. “Tbe Man With the Face of An Angel” will be pre sented to the South Reformed Church this afternoon. by De. KP. Koge The Bev. William B. Merritt will preach in Sixth Avenue Reformed Church this mourning andevening. Dr. C. H, Fowler preaches at the usual hours to- @ay in St. Luke's Mothodist Kpiscopal Church. The first of a series of sermons on “Infidelity” ‘will be given this evening in the Spring Street Pres- byterian Church by Bev. A. H. Moment, Subject— ~Paine’s Age of Reason.” ‘Does Christianity Enjoin Intellectual Culture?’ {@ & question that Dr. Simmons will answer to-day to Trinity Baptist Church. “Tho Bule of Divine Peace’’ will be laid down this morning by Rev. It. B. Hull and “The Opened Booke” will bo read by him this evening in the fab- ernacie Baptist Church, “Khe Ways and Evils of Liceutiousness” will be NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 380, 1879—QUINTUPLE SHEET. : discussed this evening by the Rev. George H. Hum- phrey in the East Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Chureh. “The Peril and Safety of the Church” and ‘The Freedom of the Truth’ will be discussed to-day by Rev. Dr. King in Washington Square Methodist Epis- copal Church. These are ‘the closing services in Dr. King’s pastorate there, ‘The Rev. B, H, Busch will preach in Twenty-fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church this morning and evening. Dr. B. H. Chapin will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Divine Paternity. The Rev. A, B. Carter, D. D., will preach at the ‘usual hours to@lay in Grace Chapel. In the Church of the Holy Spirit the Rev. Edmund Guilbert will preach to-day as usual. “The Will in the Culture of Character” will be dis- cussed this evening by the Rev. R. Heber Newton in Anthon Memorial Church, Mr. Newton will preach in the morning also, Dr. Ewer preaches as usual to-lay tn St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal Church. The Rev. James De Normandie, of Portsmouth, N. HL, will preach in the Church of the Messiah this morning and evening. ‘That “All Spiritual Virtues Are Dependent Upon the Literal Keeping of God's Commandments” will be demonstrated by the Rev. 8. 8. Seward before the Swedenborgian Church this morning. CHAT BY THE WAY. The good man isthe only one who can be indif- ferent to a slander; the bad man must needs chase it and try to head it off. It is not always possible to keep from having mud thrown at you; but you can always keep from throw" ing it at others, Some people are born to be contrary, and they ful- fil their mission with religious zeal. They are like the Irishman’s frog, who, he said, always stood up when he sat down and always sat down when he stood up. A wag, who was also s philosopher, once said that if some men’s bodies were no straighter than their minds they would be crooked enough to ride on their own backs. Many 8 man spends money enough on a single vice to bring up two children and give each of them a handsome dowry. Every one ought to be busy, but no one ought to be so busy that he can’t do his work well. An over- worked man is like acertain plough of which we have heard, which turned up a great deal more than it could turn over. Do you always tel! the truth? Certainly I do. What, always? Well, hardly always, There is very little grammar but considerable common sense in these two lines :— Him shall never more come back to we, But us shall surely one day go to he. It is said of Sir Isaac Newton's nephew, who was clergyman, that he always refused a marriage fee, saying in atone of pleasantry, “Go your way, poor children, I have done you mischief enough already without taking your money.” ‘The best authorities tell us that a healthy man should eat but twice a day. A luncheon at noon is ingratitude toward breakfast and a premeditated in- sult to the dinner. The following epitaph is simply a sign of the times. It repeats in verse what we have all thought of in prose:— “Drawbridge shut,” the signal said. *Twasn't shut. ‘Alas, how solemn! Such islifo. See list of dead On the other side this column. It is not a bit easier to bring right result out of wrong beginning than it is to raise canary birds from canary seed. Popular proverbs sometimes lose the original shape in which they won their reputation, and, like the fashions, are changed to suit the times, The good old saying, “Train up a child in the way ho should go,” &c., is hardly apropos to the advanced thought of the nineteenth century. While it was fitted to the days of the stage coach it has no sig- nificance in an age of such vast enlightenment as this, We therefore change the proverb and make it altogether more significant, and certainly more ap- plicable to the youth of this favored land, by render- ing it, “Train up a child, and away he will go.” ‘There is another fossiliferous proverb which was well enough in its day, but which has evidently outlived its usefulness—viz., “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Now, in an age of casuistry such a proverb would be # gem, but in the midst of an eminently practical ‘generation like ours, which ad- mits, for ineance, that 1t was intensely human in the South to secede and attempt to destroy the gov- ernment, and that we are only following the Golden Rule in agreeing to pay their war debt and to pen- sion every wounded soldier who wore gray, and es- pecially Jeff Davis, whu has passed beyond tho “sour apple tree” period and looks forward to an honored old age and a large inconie, the gift of » grateful Congress, that proverb has no place. We can change its wording, however, and give ita sig- nificance which every man recognizes. It now reads, “To owe is human; to pay up, divine.” Human nature is very discouraging. Put up the sign, “No thoroughfare, danger!” and every teams- ter on the continent feels that that particular street is the only one that leads to his stable. Or, as some one else has suggested, put up the sign, “Fresh paint,” and every passerby will touch it with his finger to see whether it is dry yet. ‘There i: tory told of a patriotic Russian which shows how far the worship of the powers that be can go. He was boasting in the presence of an Eng- lishman of the excellences of the Czar. He proved beyond a doubt that he possessed more gifts and vir- tues than all the other crowned heads of Europe put together. The Englishman naturally rebelled, and ‘at last said in tones of superb sarcasm, “Well, my friend, you will at least acknowledge that the Czar is not equal to the Almighty.” The Russian, unwilling to admit even that, replied evasively, “Perhaps not; but you know the Czar is young yet.” We are all very like the little boy who said he ought not to be scolded so much for being naughty, because he was not half as bad as he could be. Noth- ing will so help a boy who is “from fair to mid. dling” in character to develop into an incorrigible pest as constant teasing and fretting, and the reiter- ation inevery tone known to bad temper of tho tender phrase, “Oh, you bad boy! Some boys are brought up on that kindof food, and you might as well expect a horse to be docile who enjoys the presence of » burr under the saddle as to expect a boy who has a pin stuck into him by ill-tempered criticism every time he comes into the house to prefer to stay at home rather than steal out of the back door and go fishing. Some parents scold and frot the wings off their children’s backs without knowing it. There is nothing in the world which better enables a boy to see the fun of skating on thin fee, with the chance of getting s drenching, than the tecling that he will get « drubbing at home whether or no. ‘There is a great deal of sound theological sonso in the remark ot the little girl who was told to say her prayers and thank God that she had not met with a railroad accident on her way home. She thanked Goa for not letting her get hurt, and then added, “But the next time I'll go in # wagon.” The Chinese question is very far reaching in its influence. Almost every calamity that happens is in some way attributable to the Mongolian race. One is almost led to believe that if no Chinaman had ever set foot on our shores we should never have suffered from toothache and Wall street speculators ‘would never have become peculators, When a man in San Francisco fell down stairs and broke his neck the jury—it must have been a struck jury—rendored 8 verdict to tho effect that tho accident was indirectly connected with the fact that the Mongolian hordes had ravaged our fair land, and recommended the an- nihilation of every ene of them, It is all very well to attempt to account for the financial condition of the country by saying that the ‘Hast is glutted and s “Westward ho” would relieve ‘us, The times could easily be made better if moro people in the Kast would take to the hoe and use it industriously. Tho difficulty with this ago is that |. there are 80 many people who are willing to look on ‘and seo other folks do tho hoeing and unwilling to lend 4 hand. Tho-Sweet By and By” has always been a popular song, but # new one callea “The Sweet Rock and Rye” is being sung by more people than ever at- tended a revival. ‘Tho Loan Exhibition mot-with & groat success, but Abo peculiarity about it was thet everything that had been loaned was returned. Now, then, let us have &n exhibition of the things which have been loaned and not returned, If there is no building large enough to contain the articles, we might lease of the government a good sized prairie. There would prob- ably be the finest collection of bank bills of difterent denominations, varying in size with the credulity of the lender and the strategy of the borrower, that the world has ever seen, The ten dollar bill that was borrowed until the morrow that never came would be largely representei. The-single dollar, with a few odd cents, which several thousand per- sons who had been robbed wanted in order to pay their railroad fare home, where they had plenty and would return it by the very next mail, which some- low never arrived—this also would oceupy a promi- nent position. The greater and smaller sums which the bank rather unwillingly loaned to a defaulting cashier, whose health required an immediuty sea voyage, would form an attractive feature. We opine that an extra prairie would have to be leased, and ono that ran on close to the Rocky Mountains, if any kind of justice should be done to the innumerable umbrellas which have been taken by mistake, and a mistake, too, which has never been rectified. To such a loan exhibition almost every man, woman and child could-ontribute something interesting. PERE HYACINTHE, WHAT RIGHT REV. BISHOP STEVENS, D. D., OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, THINKS OP THE REFORMER—HIS GIFTS AND HIS FAIL- INGS—THE BISHOP'S HEARTY SYMPATHY. PHILADELPHIA, March 28, 1879. In the interesting interview with Pére Hyacinthe, | in Sunday’s Herat, explaining hts ideas regarding the new reform movement and the Catholic Chureh, it is stated, on the authority of Mr. Cornelius Roose- velt, an American resident of Paris, that Bishops Stevens, Doane and Littlejohn, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, will receive contribitions in aid of Father Loyson’s great reform work: BISHOP STEVENS’ SYMPATHY, I had a conversation to-day with the Right Rev. Bishop Stevens regarding Father Hyacinthe’s plans, Bishop Stevens expressed his hearty sympathy with the Catholic clergyman, but declared that he had not authorized the use of his name as being willing to receive subscriptions for the benefit of the Pére’s reform movement, ‘The reverend gentleman did not seem annoyed at being brought forward in the mat- ter, but officially he had no connection with Father Hyacinthe, and it was a mistake to announce him as in that position. He supposed that his name had come to be mentioned because of the fact that he had known Father Hyacinthe for several years, had always sympathized with him and had corresponded with him, Only afew weeks ago he had received a letter from Mme. Loyson. HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PRIEST, ‘The Bishop said that he had first met Father Hyacinthe in Rome several years ago, before his ideas of reforming his church were as advanced and developed as now. He was groping after the light, but had not progressed very tar. His last meeting with him was when he was in Paris last summer. The Bishop had put aside the Hxnaxp article to read, but had not yet done so; but he was well acquainted with the priest and his plans, and when I entered his office he was reading a private letter froma friend in Paris on this very subject. Bishop Stevens favored me with a portion of this letter, in which the writer speaks of two sermons which he had heard trom Futher Hyacinthe, vividly describing his eloquence and the wonderful effects upon his crowded congregation. WHAT PERE HYACINTHE LACKS. The Bishop said:—‘:Pére Hyacinthe is a wonder- fully eloquent man. He is a yreat speaker, and you cannot imagine what an influence he possesses over his hearers. He would be a grand man as an apostle, but he has no executive power, and he needs the gon- tinual presence of wise and judicious friends. He has been brought up in the priesthood, and does not know the ways of the world. He does not know how to manage » great moyement like this alone and unguided, because he is not a poli- tic man. He is a great thinker, a a speaker, and a powerful mun in every respect, but I do not think heis a man to be the organizer of a new effort like this. We want a calmer and more judicious man to aid him. Pére Hyacinthe can Youse the people, but he cannot organize them after- ward. Until he left the Church of Rome he was part of a great machine. He did not control this machine, aud had only his part to do. Therefore, you see, he has not been trained as anorganizer. He heeds some one to do the parish work while he does the preaching. ‘THY REFORM OF THE CHURCH, “To the general principles of this great movement I am committed,” said the Bishop, “though course I cannot always approve all the details—all the ways of doing things that Pere Hyacinthe has. But to give his work permanence as I have said, he needs judicious advice and help. He has my hearty sympathy in his efforts to reform the CatholicChurch; to revive the Gallican Church, with the old rituals and the ancient torms; to re-establish the Catholic Church as it was before it became the Roman Church ; to remove the errors and abuses which have in- crusted it under Roman rule. I believe with Pére Hyacinthe in reforming the Catholic Church from within, and in building up the Catholic Church in France on the old Gallican basis.”” “Then, as Pére Hyaciuthe intimates, he is more nearly allied to the Protestant Church of England and America than to the Roman Church?’ I asked. “Yes,” the reverend gentleman replied. “Weare Catholics; we believe us the creed says, in the holy Catholic Church. This movement to’ purify the Catholic Church has our sympathy, because it will accomplish great good in "Phe Bishop was then understood to intimate that the new Catholic Church will meet with more favor than Protestant- ism, because the Continental idea of Protestantism is that it is a series of negations. They understand what Protestants do not believe, but they do not know what they do believe. Recurring again to this inchoate movement, as the Bishop denonsinated it, he said that while he was full of sympathy for Pére Hyacinthe, he was that one man could not have the talent to organize and conduct such a work. There could be no church without a bishop or episcopal government. As an illustration of what the Bishop meant by saying that the earnest and enthusiastic priest needs an organ- izer, he referred to a passage im the private letter from Paris in his hand, in which the writer says that Pere Hyacinthe, against the advice of all his best triends, determined to begin his services without waiting tor the arrival of Mr. Miel. I asked the Bishop who Mr, Miel is, and found that he is the rector ot the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Sauveur, the French congregation of this city. He is a Fronchinan, and is professor of French in the Pennsylvania meyrmare a He was ordained about five years ago in the Protestant Church. He had torn been @ priest in the Catholic Chureh, Father If; inthe has a liking for bim, and he would de an able assistant for him in organizing the new movement. It is still uncertain whether or not Mr, Miel will go to Paris; but Bishop Stevens said that he thought not. He cannot go unless @ position can be le a him. This, it is thought, cannot be ar rang FRUITS OF RITUALISM. TROUBLE IN THE CHURCHES UKKE AND IN ENG- LAND—SECESSION FROM THE REFORMED EPIS- COPAL CHURCH—BISHOP GREGG AS PONTIFF. Arecent defection of five “priests” of the Estab- lished Church of England 18 noticed in the Kock, the Church paper, which refers to Bishop Durnford’s distress and indignant condemnation thereof. For it appears that the “priests’’ took # large proportion of their respective congregations to Rome with them. A correspondent of the paper named gives a scene which he witnessed in St. Barnabas’ Church, London, ona recent Sabbath. It was “Dedication Festival,” ‘and he saw banners, flags and incense carried in pro- cession by boys arrayed in the colors of the “scarlet woman,” and the “priest,” Father Noel, has adopted the Roman tonsure as part of his vestments, The same paper reports the visit of a young woman to her “priest’’ in Oxford to tell him that, as he had done her no good as oft as she had confessed to him, she would go where shoe couid find a real priest who would help her, The ritualist was not a whit dis- turbed, but told her it was tho best thing sho could do. No wonder that the Reformed Episcopal Church makes such headway as it does, both in Great Britain and the United States, when within four years it has established parishes and organized congregations in seventeen States and ‘Territories of the Union; in the Dominion of Canada from 8t. Thomas, Ont., to Digby, N. 8., and British Columbia; in the island of Bermuda and within tho dioceses of the Church of England in the United Kingdom, with its five bishops, its more than one hundred clergymen and its thousands of communicants. And during thoso years only two clergymen who camo into tho Re- formed Episcopal told have returned to the old Church, Whon Protestant Episcopal bishops hanker after “croziers” as the Bishop of Culifornia does, who had one presented to him recently in San Fran- cisco with unusual pomp and ceremony, and after “tonsares” and “initres” and other ecclesi- astical millinery, it is time thet some one rotested § against the Protestants. This the Reformed Episcopal Church is doing, and doing very wuccesstully—o succosstully, indeed, that just now it is likely to have large accessions in the diocese of Wisconsin, where, as 4 Chicago paper intimates, the unhappy schis which i brewing there is “tho legitimate fruit of the much-millinery-ritualistic- coniessionalistic-cathedralietic system which is being so rapidly hoisted upon the Protestant Episco- pal Church.” ‘This millinery party has captured Bishop Welles and has led St. Mark’s Protestant Epis- copal Church (Detroit) to yo over in a body—vestry, congregation, rector aud all—to the Reformed Epis- copal Church. The diocesan authorities of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church propose to resist in the civil courts the attempt of ‘Society of St. Mark's to carry their church property over with them. So that we Bay see a content 04 ual in duration and bit- terness to that in which Christ Church (Chicago) and its rector, Bishop Cheney, were so long engaged with the late Bishop Whitehouse. How unseemly ure such rents in the body of Christ. SCHISMS WEST AND NORTH. ‘This schism in Wisconsin is one that has been smouldering for a considerable time, and the out- break at this time only discloses its existence and the irascibility which has been engendered in Bishop Welles’ domain, ‘The Cathedral is said so be at the bottom of the strife, and Rev. ER, Ward a prime mover init. The contending parties have rushed into print and are carrying on an bia hl decidedly per- sonal discussion. The evangelicals charge the ritualists with having sold, deeded and handed over to ritual- ism the di of Wisconsin without having con- sulted them, something after the manner of the pro- prictors of the Christian at Work, as testified to the other day, trying to sell out that paper without con- sulting Dr. ‘Talmage. No wonder that the evangeli- cals, like Brother Talmage, object to the bargain and refuse to fulfil the contract. ‘The schism has spread into the diocese of Toronto, Canada, also, where churchmen are separating into parties represented by the “Trinity College Association,” which includes the ritualists aud the ‘Church Assoctation,”’ which was organized to protect the rights of the minority or the evangelicals, Tho ritualists have for some time made strenuous efforts to drive the evangelical ministers out of the Church or out of the diocese, but have not succeeded to their sutistac- tion, The’ plan of the ritualists was to fill the churches of the diocese with Trinity College gradu- ates, but the evangelicals insistea that every parish should be left free to choose its own rector, whether high or low church. The evangelicals in certain parishes, not having been allowed this mght of choice, refused to pay their diocesan and other financial obligations, dnd hence the ritualists sought to have all such recaleitrant churches and ministers excluded trom representation in the synod of the diocese, Thie suicidal movement of course failed, but the controversy is not closed yet, and meantime the Reformed Episcopal Church ‘is reaping the ad- vantage of the squabble. A NEW SECEDING CHURCH, But everything is not serene in the Reformed Epis- copal fold. The work of disintegration has begun in its body and Bishop Gregg, who a few years ago was consecrated in this city Bishop for the Church in Great Britain, has already seceded and set up a rival organization under the title of “Lhe Reformed Evis- copal Church in the United Kingdom of Great Brit- ain and Ireland.” The Reformed Episcopal Church is bounded by no national limits. The tirst parish that joined it is in the Dominion of Canada, und it embraces congregations in England, Canada, Van- couver’s Island and Bermuda, as well as the United States. In the year 1877 a number of clergymen in Eng- land were received into it, membership as Presby- ters, on complying. with the canonigal requirements, ‘Among them was Dr. T. Hubbard Gregg, who, in con- sequence of the request of several of these clergy- men, and the indorsement ot other gentlemen in England, was elected by the General Council of 1877 a Missionary Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and assigned under the canons to the juris- diction of Great Britain and Ireland. Bishop Gregg formed his standing committee and proceeded to organize parishes and receive and ordain presby ters, ‘At the General Council of 1878 a communication was presented from Bishop Gregg to the effect that it was essential to the proper prosecution of the work in England that the clergy and parishes there should be allowed a certain degree ot independence— that in consequence of diversity of laws and cus- toms they desired to be permitted to form a Gen- eral Synod and enact 4 constitution and canons tor their own separate >_forernment, not inconsis.ent with the fundamental laws and’ principles of the Church, and to adupt a prayer book, to be revised for themselves, on the basis of the book of the Church of England, which — differs largely, from tht used by tho Protestant Epis- copal Church, which had formed the basis of the American revision. In view of what has now oc- curred it is probable that Bishop Gregg did not ex- pect this request to be granted; but if he then sought an excuse for secession he was disappointed. "Tho Council took the action desired—constitutional difficulties being avoided by a unanimous vote—and appointed three commissioners to conter with three to be appointed in England, for the. purpose of pre- senting to the Council of 1879 such amendments to the constitution and canons of the ant as might be necessary to give to cach branch of the Church— that in England and that in America—such inde pendence in local government as might be consistent with organic union and with the fundamental prin- ciples of the Church. HIGH HANDED ACTS OF BISHOP GREGG, One of the commissiouers appointed by the Coun- cil visited London last fall and attended the Re- formed Episcopal General Synod where a constitu- tion and canons for the new organization were hastily adopted. They were not fully in accord with the wishes of the commissioner nor with the consti- tution of thé Church in this country. At this meet- i ¥ Synod the Rev. N. A. Toke. was elected a bishop. He raised objections to certain provi- sions relating to finances, and Bishop Gregg was asked to reconvene the Synod, which he refused to do, but, contrary to the constitution of the Church, undertodk to make the required changes himself. ‘This course was objected to and the Bishop, in vul- ar parlance, ‘got his back up,” demanded a letter imissory from Bishop Fallons, of the Refarmed Episcopal Church hero, and then, without waitin, tor its receipt or refusal, set up his new independent organization, in which he will not allow Reformed Episcopal ministers to officiate without # special license from himself.. Each bishop consecrated by him is obliged, publicly, at his con- secration, to ‘profess and promise all due reverence and obedience to the Primate of the Church and to his successors,” and to these solemn words:—“So help me God, through Jesus Christ.” He has consecrated the Rev. Mr. Toke a bishop in his new church, altered the prayer book to suit tne new organization, and in’ its preface sets himself up as primate, and in ecclesiastical contro- versies has a Ss Faviee, the ultimate arbiter. There is to be a Synod as the supreme legis- lative body in the new Church, but the primate only can change the place and time of its meeting, call ial meetings and alter the number necessary to constitute a quorum. Aud from the decisions of the primate there can be no “ee |. The Synod of the reformed branch of the Episcopal Church,. from which Bishop Gregg has , met without his call and supplied the defects in the constitution that he bad foisted on the body and thereby added another to his reasons for secession, ‘THK NEW POPE'S AUTHORITY. In his cotstitution for the seceders, however, Bishop Gregg is evidently guarding ngsinst any ques- tioning of or opposition to his authority, Ho prac- tically makes these orders in the Church by provid- ing in all questions before tue Synod the bish- ops, presbyters aud laymen shall vote separately. No 'dlocesen synod can bo formed without his ap- proval. The ti of a bishop must be with his ap- proval and the sentence be pronounced by him, but there is no provision fora trial of the primate him- self, and, indced, why should there be? He 1s the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the Church's government in one. He departs so far from the practice of the Reformed Epis- copal Church im the U: States as to require the reordination of ministers of other denominations who may desire to enter his, except with his special permit suspending that cer- emony. And thus, by various acts and ways, Kishop Gregg has carried things in the new Church with » retty high hand, But fortunately the original Re- Bnasa jpiscopal Chureh in Engiand was not lett withouta bishop by the secossion of Messrs. Gregg and Toke. Bishop Sugden, who had been consecrated by Bishop Cridge, ot Canuda, adhered to the mother Church, and ho siands now as the head ot that Church in Great Britain and Ireland. The authori- ties of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the United States naturally feel bad over this secession so early in the life of their Church, but they hope, they say, ever to maintain betore the Christian world the fundamental principles that a bishop cannot assume the position of s pope or pontiff among them; that the will of the individual cannot override the will of the supreme body to which it owes allegiance, and that the sacred rights of the clergy and laity shall be faithfully guarded. If Bishop Gregg’s secession shall result in settling the disputed point as to the were and jurisdiction of @ missonary episcopate it will not have been in vain. It itis clearly under- stood to be a fundamental principle that local primates cannot spring up in the Retormed Kpisco- pal Church, and that a tendeney to anything like episcopal despotism can always ‘be checked by an exercise of the power of assignment to another jurisdiction, then the Church here and in Great Brit- ain may be thankful for the mysterious dispensa- tion that sent even a Gregg to teach the necessary Josson to the infant Chureh, CHINESE MISSION IN BOSTON. The Chinese discursion has led Boston Christians to make a canvass of that city and ascertain how many Mongolians are resident there and what can be done for their evaugelization, Cho missionarics dis. covered 120 Chinese, all men, in that city. Most of them had spent some time on the Pacific coast and are engaged in tho laundry and cigar manufacturing Dbusinesses, It is reported that they are very shy and suspicious of strangers, but once win their confidence ‘and they are found free and hospitable, 1t* is found they do not livoona mere triflé, a6 has boen sup- posed, but on beef, chicken and rice, and other wholesome food, and in sufficient quantities to prove that they are mon of like appetites with the rest of tus. They hardly depreciate wages, for their custom- ors know that their prices for washing are as high as tho highest, but they yenerally do their work well, ‘The usual compensation tor those employed is $20 per month and board, @ higher rate than many laborers can get through the year, There is a strong sympathy among them, and they aro watchful €or each other's interests, They aro not free from vicer, but on the whole are sober and industrio After ascertaining their number and condition @ system of religious instruction was organized for them and the Ubambers Street Congregational Chapel there has been yathered a litle group vf thirty-four Chinese laundrymen, who are tanght from week to week the truths of Chris. tianity. For more than two years o lady missionary working under the direction of the City Missionary | Socioty, has given special attention to the Chinese | who have come te the city, and recently Rev. David Jones, who has labored in this work in Chicago aud St. Louis, came here and joined her in the work, ‘They visited the laundries ether; and being able to 8] Chinese tolerably \—and it being so novel Orientals to hear ‘their own language so far from home and from the lips of a white mau—he succeeded quite easily in securing the confidence which be sought. He pro; to them that they should attend his school every Sunday afternoon and learn to read English; and the sible advantages to be were 80 great their eyes that in very short time fifty-two of them had been enrolled, and the average attendance is more than two-thirds of that number, A tew of them can speak English very well, a few not at all, and most of them just enough to be able to make known their ordinary wants to understand common phrases, Of course the ultimate object of the school is to Christianize them. But betore anything can be done toward securing this end they must be taught to un- derstand the words by which the impot of Chris- tian truth is to be conveyed to them. It is easier tor them to learn the English than for the teachers to learn the Chinese, besides having the advan- tage of giving them idea that they re comtaly the gainers. ot them can read their own language. To each teacher is assigned one pupil. The primer used is published by the American Tract Society, in which the English word and the Chinese churacter stand side by side. The teacher points to the English word and pronounces it distinctly, and the China- naan repeats until he becomes fumiliar with the word. At each session of the school there are short religious services, with singing ut the close by a voluntary choir, and, though nothing is said pointedly to the Chinamen about religion, they have ome curious about it, as it was expected they would, and are ask- ing questions which are answered fully and in such @ way as to induce them to inquire further. RELIGION AND NATIONALITY. New Yors, March 24, 1879, To rue Eprror oy tux Henaup:— A somewhat uncbristian controversy has for some time back been carried on between the Right Rev. Bishop Baltes, of Alton, Ill., and some Catholic journals anent the recent ‘instructio” of His Holi- ness Leo XIII. This ‘‘instructio,”’ as the readers of the Hxraup are aware, circumscribes the wanton power of bishops, and places priests beyond the demarcation line of episcopal caprice, As was but natural to expect, the worthy Bishop, on the appear- ance of tho “instructio,” kicked against the Papal barriers, With ludicrous inconsistency they seemed to maintain the ng t of exercising “private judgment.” Among the denounced by the Bishop of Alton were the editors of the-New York Freeman's Journal, New York irish World and the St. Louis Western Watchman (Archbisho) Kendrick’s official organ, if we mistake not); an the main charge against them was that the editor of one was # Scotchman by birth or descent, the other an Irishman, and the last mentioned a Canadiun! It seemed more strange when it came from the pen of a nativeof Rhenish Prussia, Heretofore we had believed that Catholicity recognized nationalities only to unite them. This week the Right Rev. Bishop of Alton has issued a pamphlet with the caption of “Appendix,” retracting what he said wuent Mr. Me: iter, of the Freeman's Journal, and asserts that his only motive for introducing the question of ua- tionalities into religious issues was to show the na- tionality of the Rev. Mr. Phelan, a Canadian. We fail to yrasp tho tenableness of this episcopal logic, Moral—More Christianity and less railing. A CATHOLIC, NINETEENTH STREET SYNAGOGUE. INCONSISTENCIES OF THE DAY—SERMON BY THE REV, HENRY P, MENDES. Having occupied the winter Sabbaths by a series of sermons on their national history and the lessons in- culeated by it Rev. H. P. Mendes yesterday took his text from 2 Kings, xvii., 33, and described the first scenes, the Assyrian invasion, the carrying away of the ten tribes and the settlement of col- onists from various parts of the Assyrian kingdom. Having noticed the attempts to identity the lost ten tribes with the English speaking nations, Mr. Mendes then introduced the subject of the day, the condition of the Assyrian colonists, who, according to his text, “feared heaven, and yet revere their own gods.””” He said:—Upon reading this passage I was struck with the resemblance between these inconsist- ent colonists and Jews and Christian of to-day, who are heaven fearing men, but who, justas inconsist- ently, worship their own gods too. A cursory glance at the events of the day will suffice. Look at the scene being now enaéted in Brooklyn, the beautiful and edifying display of cordial feeling, manly sentt- ment, brotherly love and: Christian charity. The actors are all heaven fearing men, but whether the idol worshipped there is malice or jealousy or noto- ricty, certain it is that some such one is among them. Is not that inconsistency? Recall, too, the equally editying spectacle of a recent eonference of ministers, where one reverend brother was so troublesome to the others. hey were all heaven fearing men, but the fear of heaven involves peace and concord here below—then was not that inconsistency? Wit- ness, too, ahigh church functionary who, through carelessness or incapacity in business matters, is the doubtless innocent cause of that suffering which ever attonds such, He and his advisers tear hoaven surely; bat the iear of heaven involves brotherly solicitude. ‘Then is there not inconsis- tency there also? Behold, again, a Jewish minis- ter, who leads his temple, built for the honor of a Unity, to be used by a Christian congregation for the worship of a Trinity. Of course he is a heaven- fearing man, but is not that inconsistency? Cite, again, those ministers, also Jowish, who signed their names t toleration, with the memories tresh in their minds of the intolerance and disabilities that p #0 grievously upon their fathers. Is not that inconsistepcy? it muy be said that these are isolated instances. It matters not; wo have yo guaranteo that they will not happen again. The very fact that they and others do occur shows that the practical effects of neither Ju- daism — nor are per. Christianity fect as they should _ be. we need further proot? Some of the horrors of the tenement system are published; we are told how the inmates of the worst of them are morally and physically poisoned by the atmosphere of institutions which outrage decency, destroy health, make com- forta name and ruin morality. We are virtuously indigvant and wonder how such can be consistent with the sentiment of such an age as this. ‘Then again, besides pious but fraudulent bank directors who ever and anon appear, look at those standing rebukes to the chief tuiths of this city, Christianity and Judaism—the societies, one for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chiidren, and the other for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; alas, that they should be even necessary, that Jews and Christians should be offend- ers to both, that Jews and Christians should have to support them! Yet we are told by the latter that it is a Christian age, by the former that it is an Se of progress, Then weask, if it be a Christian aye, whic as truly peace and good will, what meaneth the wide- spread vico? Where is the ‘peace, with millions of armed men supported and ready to march to scien. tifle murder legalized slaughter and robbery? Where is the with socialism and nihilism blanching the faces of honest men with the thought of whose turn next to be assassinated? And where fs the good will with every Power watching with lynx- eyed vigilance the slightest demonstration of anot! 4 And if our own people assert this is a progressi 8, What means the vice among our lower orders, the irreligion and apathy among our higher classes? Is itall progress? Yerhaps it is and we know it not. Doubtless we are all heaven-fearing men, but it must be coufessed that, like those old colonists, we, too, are guilty of gross inconsistencies, ‘The question is, How are these inconsistencies to be removed? They are of two kinds—phblic or gen- eral and personal. ‘The formor can be corrected but gradually. All we can do to help is to give our moral support always and our active support whenever oc- casion requires. The latter can be removed by striv- ing atter greater earnestness, First among the iuflu- ences most antagonistic to that purty, at which as intellectual beings we over aim, they force them- selves into our lives and are a natural result of our human weakness. But by a practice of honest selt- examination we can eliminate much of the incon- sistent trom our nature; and unless we exercise this constant vigilance upon ourselves our sincerity tn the pursuit of that purity which, as I have said, is the legitimate and proper aim ot our ambition, must ied in question, THE HALL WILL CONTES'. ‘Tho hearing in the trial of the contest over the will of the late Mre. Mary G. Hall, who left the bulk of her property, amounting to about $200,000, to her husband, Dr. Frederick Hall, was resumed yester- day before Surrogate Calvin: The gvidence was almost entirely professional. Dr, Allan McL. Hamilton being caljed as an expert, the questions put to him by counsel were for the most part hypothetical, After the icts had beon stated to the witnoss at great length, he gave it as his opinion that the deceased was of @ Woak of unsound mind, and was not pos- sessed of testamentary capacity. He did not think a erson would become iusune simply because of 41L Eieeuneot, but considered it necessary that there should be some tag og = toward insanity, No other witnesses being at hand the furtner hearing of ‘ad ease was adjourned until the ist of July nex! B QUITE A DIFFERENCE, “Augustas Cannon, you aro charged with having sold liquor without @ license, One hundred dollars vail to answer. No bail vere? Well, send for it.’ And Augustus is shown aside and given an opportu: nity to send for a bondsman. John MeGints, who was tound drunk in the neigh- borhood of Cannon's saloon, is next arraigned, ‘The Court looks sternly at the prisoner and fines him $10; but as he has not the inoney ho 18 not given oe 6 rtunity to send for it, but is unceremoniously justied into prisons ‘ to-day . Do Cae ccer career ee errr ee reer reeecre e cece cnneaniaientieemensh OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. {Nore.—Letters intended for this colump must be accompanied by the writer's fall 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. Hxpat.} WANTED-—A DIVIDEND. To rae Eprror ov rug Heracp:— About five years ago the Freedman’s Savings Bank failed and only paid thirty-five per cent dividend. Will the Commissioners let the colored depositors know when to expect another dividend, if ever? WAITING D) 18 THERE AN OIL WELL IN THE MOON? To tHe Epirow oy Tue HERaLp:— In company with my wife, on Saturday afternoon, Thad occasion to cross the “L" railroad at Forty- second street and Third avenue, and received & shower of greuse, oil and water, which entirel; ruineu her dress and my overcoat and hat. Can suo the company for damages? Very senpecttully, YREE LABOR BUREAUS, To rue Eprror oy THe HeraLp:— T called to-day at the Free Labor Bureau, No. 8 Clinton place, but the gentleman in charge would not give me 4 minute's attention, although he con- versed with a lady there at least halfan hour. Can you be surprised if poor men grow desperate and are riven to crime when they meet with such treat ment from svi-disant charitable institutions’ A READER. WIAT ANSWER? To rae Eprtor or tHe Heratp:— Is it not the duty of the Grand Jury to forbid the New York Elevated Railroad Company to run trains over the old unsafe portions of their structure on Greenwich street and Ninth avenue? Mr. Field con- fessed last year to a HERALD reporter that those por- tions were unsafe and would be taken down. If it is so the authorities should forbid its use at once and not await the pleasure of this notoriously economb> cal company. ONE OF NUMBERS. OUB DIRTY STi.EETS. To rae Epitor or tHe HeRraLp:— The filthy condition of Broome street, especially between Wooster street and South Fifth avenue, is utterly disgusting, Will you kindly insert this in your valuable paper and thiereby confer s favor upon fhe community in general, J. Be To rue Eprror oy tHe Henatp:— How is it that Forty-ninth street, between First and Second avenues, has not been cleaned for the last three months and no ash cart been seen in a month? Has not the Police Departmont time to at- tend to it, or ia it out of their jurisdiction ? To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— About week since a gang of laborers came here and scraped up the dirt in the street in little heaps, Since then no cart has been to remove it, and it ts now all spread over again. This is no way to keep disease away from this city next summer. HANOVER SQUARE, To Tax Eprror or THE Henaup:— Will you kindly call the attention of the Street Cleaning Bureau to the condition of Sixth strect, be- bikes bay ie pene oo aps, ee ou ne attention of the new County Clerk as to the right of patron: in his office by the Germans? . on AN ELEVENTH WARD TAXPAYER. To rue Eprror or Ts” HERALD:— Will you through the columns of your paper call the attention of the Street Cleaning Bureau to the filthy condition of Charlton street, between Varick street and the North River? ‘The same to my knowl edge has not been cleaned since early last fail, and im some places the inud and ice are knee deop. PROPERTY HOLDER. To THE Eprror ov Tux Hrraup:—* ‘Why do not the dirt carts come along and take away the mud piles that were made by the street sweepers on the 6th of March and refreshed on last Tuesday in Forsyth street, near Houston street? 1 have written to the police captain of the precinct, but he pays no att ion to the letter. March 27, POTATO To rue Epiror oy THE Henaw:— It being my opinion that joys divided always gain and never lose, I bring to the notice of the public that the finest collection of manure, dirt, or what- ever it may be called, is to be found in Thompson street, betwoen Broome and Grand. For farmers and agriculturists it is worth their while to take it in. It ought to fill their hearts with delight. Prob- ably the show will continue for several months to come. Therefore it would be a capital idea to use this patch for raising potatoes, and to distribute the money fairly earned through such proceedings, in the first part, among the street cleaning department as a token of our gratitude, and finally the rest, the widow's mite, to be given to the fund of the newly constituted society tor the amelioration of tenement house life. A TENANT. MORE LIGHT WANTED. To THe Eprror or THE HERaLD:— That those great and grasping corporations, the railroad companies, are responsible for the ruined eyesight of thousands of travelling people cannot be denied. In answer to this it mi be said, “You needn’t read in the cars after dark.” But can one imogine anything more dreary than travelling by rail over long stretches of desolate country, fre quently with no one to talk to, and then to be de prived of the consolation of reading, and that sim- ply because the company is too wee. or careless to offer a suitable prize for the best lighting system as an incentive to inventive genius? ‘This appears to mo to be ® matter affecting the welfare of millions of peoplo and should be thor oughly discussed, MEN A STATION AGENT'S PLEA To rae Eprron or Tax Herarp:— Thave recently noted several complaints in yout paper regarding the conduct of employés of the ele- yated railroads. Not to contradict or justify such rudeness do I mako this communication, but to ac- quaint the public with the position of some of ita members, trusting that it may gain their sympathy instead of abuse. Space being an item I will illus trate one subject only—viz., station agent. This title designates the ticket seller from eight A. M. w seven P, M. This badge of honor places upon him the responsibilities of his station. All men connected therewith are subordinate and subject to his instruo- tions, he recciviug his ordors in « printed form from the general manager. He is expected to check any controversy between his men and passengers, to sco that his station is kept in verfect order, to note accidents and to pass passe: manner 44 possible, not forgetting to his accounts; at the same time avoid controversy, decline trade dollars aud mutilated coins’ or cur- rency—viz., coins with small holes, smooth, in any manner (tic saine are refused by the treasurer and returned to the agent). Hi qualifications for handling tickets must be at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 per hour; bis accqunts must tally with tickets paid out—-mutilated and counterfeits his loss. He is in- structed to watch ond permit no bulky matter to pass on the cars, to designate children of taxable es, oye woveral grades of badges and check police and report mail ‘overheat passengers witk worculess tickets, td receive all manner of axe, to keep’ his tempor and check any rudeness on the part of those under his supervision, tor all of which he is gener ously compensated with $1 75 per day, and hounded by @ pack of jhirvelings (detectives), who are paid to make up 4 case of dishonesty against him, he ia qualified to manipulate the telegraphic instrument he hus an addition of fifty cents per day. From said generosity he is compelled to don tho regulation uniform at a tax of $22, ‘The Sabbath be knows not, He lubors 365 days to the year, eleven holirs to the day—uniess he can feign sickness and afford the Joss of # day—his lunch (if he has one) to be eaten at the ticket window. We who have tamilies to feed are frequently made to blush at the display we make to the public on such occasions. Our systems must bo regulated to correspond with the hours off duty, but in cases of emergency We Cun Use & gateman at our own risk, And now to those who uss many de- viccs ut the ticket window to gain a free passago— viz, counterfeits, three-cent and twenty-cent pieces, overchange and misplaced tickets, Give him a kind word where errors occur, as he and not the corporation is the loser. As space will not allow me to specify other matters pertaining to his duties I bog indulgence for such » lengthy communication, and trust he may be more generously troated by the patrons of the road. A STATION AGENT, MR. SPAULDING'S GEOGRAPHY, To tux Eprron or Tax Henarp:. In the report of tho first lecture of tho Rev, H. @, Spaulding ot Chickering Hall this season on “Italy” he was made to sayin your paper that the ruined temples of Pacetum are on the Bay of Naples, & thought your reporter was slone responsible for the misstatement, but judge of my surprise when af the second jecture I heard Mr. Spaulding make the same blunder, I must therefore exonerate the reporter. Is such a reckiess statement excusable in one who comes torward to instruct the people? Any one who has visited the ruined tempies of Pavs- tum knows that they are on the east side of the Gulf of Salerno, seventy-five miles south of Napica Is the Rev. Mr. Spaulding describing to Meo that he has not visited ? LEON iD. Newanx, N. J., March 24,