The New York herald., 1869-04-25
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Anniversaries and Ecclesiastical Meetings,
1860.
ANNIVERSARIES.
American Female Guardian Society and Home for the
Friendless-Annual sermon by Rev. L. Eddy, d. D.,
OF Brooklyn, on Sunday evening, May o. in the Fourth
Presbyterian church, West Thirty street. near
Sixth avenue. The annual business meeting, for
ladies only, will be held at the Home chapel, 20 East
Twenty ninth street, Wednesday, May IL, at ten
A. M. and at two p. NJ.
New York Sunday School Union-Annua meeting
May Is, In the Collegiate Dutch church.
New York Union Theological Seminary-Annual
examination May 4, Madison square Presbyterian
church.
Brooklyn Sunday School Anniversary, June l.
American Congregational Union-Academy of
Music, BROOKLYN, May =.
American Bible SOciety-New York, May -.
National Sunday school OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
New York Magdalen Benevolent society-May 9,
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES.
Old School Presoyterian-New York city, May 90.
New School Presbyterian-New York city NAV 90
southern Presbyterian-Mobile, May 20.
Cumberland resbyterian-Murfreesboro Tenn,
MAY 20.
United resbyterian-Monmouth, ILL.,, May 20.
GENERAL SYNODS.
Reformed Observation-Disclosures, Ohio, NAV TO-
Evangelical ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, d. c., May Is.
RetOrmed-Philadelphla June 2
German Reformed-Philadephia, November "A.
GEENRAL ASSOCIATIONS AND CONFERENCES.
Kansas General AssociatiOn-Lawrence, May H.
Michigan General Association-East Saginaw, May
Indiana General Observation-Disclosures May
20.
Illinois General Association-Farmingto May %.
Iowa General observation-disclosures, June 2.
Rhode Island COnference-Llttle Compton, June s.
Onio Conference-Akron June s.
Nebraska Congregational observation-disclosures,
June TO-
Connecticut General Association-wes Haven,
June 15.
Vermont General Observation-Disclosures, June Is.
Massachusetts, General Association -WOburn, June
oregon Congregational Association Salem, June
Maine General Conference Bangor June %.
New Hampshire General observation-disclosures,
Wisconsin Presbyterian and Congregational Con-
vention-Sparta, October 6.
California General Association-San Francisco,
October 8.
Minnesota Conference e-Owatonna October IA.
New York General Observation-Disclosures juno
Missouri General Conterence-sedaa, October 20.
ROMAN CATHOLIC ORDER OF THE FORTY HOURS DE-
vOTIoN THE CHURCHES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE
OF NEW YORK FOR THE YEAR 1862
May 2-Fifth Sunday after Easter, st. Nicholas.
May 6-Feast OF the Ascension. st. AlphOnsus. May
9-Sunday after the Ascension, St. Peter May 16-
Pentecost, st. Joseph May % Trinity Sunday, st.
Anthony. May 27-Corpus Christi. st. Paul, West
Fifty ninth street. May 30-Sec0nd Sunday after
Pentecost, st. Columbia.
Progress of Religion in the United States
Revivals-Church Organizations.
The number OF conversions or accessons through
revivals the past week reaches nearly 5000. or
these $50 were among the Baptlsts, 800 among the
Methodists, $50 among the Presbyterians and 600
among the United Brethren. In Holden, Mass,
fhnrA I'M
field, Mass, carries more than the usual marks of
genuineness. Not only prominent business men but
liquor dealers are among the converts and have re-
nounced the sale of rum DR.. shaw's church in
Rochester N. Y. Presbyterian) received $50 on pro-
fesSion last communion. The MethOdlss in Utica
have 200 hopeful converts. In GreenponJ, L. l.,
there have been $50 converts Of whom 40 joined the
Presbyterian Church at the last communion. over
100 converts are reported by the Lutheran pastor in
Cnurcntown \; T.. and over 30 In the Presbyterian
Accounts of the organization OF the following
churches have reached us during the past month";
PRES EsBYTERIAN.-From Milwaukee, Wis.,, a CORES.
pondent writes:-"By union OF Old and New
ScnOol Presbvterians residing on the west side OF
has hitherto been no English PRESBYTERIAN cnurch.
the Calvary Presbyterian church has been lately or.
ganlzed. 1t begins with communion roll OF nearly
100 members, and with fiourishng Sunday school.h
Churches have been organized in the following
places:-Brdgeton, N. J. West church,; Milwaukee,,
sas City. Mo- u. P.J Beatrice, Neb; Lincoln, Neb.
CoNGREGATioNAL.-l Boston the Highland church
was was organized last month, with membership of
ffty-twO persons Boston has now sixteen Congre-
gatonal churches. Newly organized:-In Boston,
Mass; Cape Elizabeth, Me-; smyrna, Mich; Mount
QGerman); Fort Scott, Kansas
BAPTIsT.-Newy organized:-In Hunters Point,
Pa COLCHESTER WI She shslbyve eu ind coIored fIe
mont, Ind. Mount olive Ind; Gaesburg Ill
lSwede); Kirksville, KY; Hastings, Mich; Castle
Rock, Mimi; Spring Valley, Iowa; Davenport, Iowa
(Germanl.
EPIsooPAL.-New parishes have been recently or
Harvard ILL., The Church of ie GOOD ssep6erd aas s
been formally constituted in Rochester.
The Mess Of Pottage and the Thirty Pieces Of
Silver.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
In the issue Of the HERALD OF Sunday last a few
thoughts were presented the subject OF "the al.
lance OF the world and the Church." 1t is proposed
in this article to merely glance at the relationship
existing between capital and labor as involved in
the transaction between Jacob and Esau, under the
old dispensation. and the change to be wrought In
that relationship involved In the transaction wherein
the thirty pieces OF silver are the counterpart In
the new dispensation to the mess OF pottage In
the old. In an article like this no attempt
VIII be made towards full illustration
OF the subject, as 1t Is one involving the mysterious
and triple transaction OF civil, religious and indi-
vidual rights. The latter it Is proposed briefly to
consider. In examining the Scriptures the vastness
OF the ends to be accomplished In comparison with
the smallness Of the means used, is in such striking
contrast with the preparations made by men In their
undertakings that the mind is at impressed with
the truth contained IN the born theory OF scrip
ture homeopathy. The bargain and sale between
Jacob and Esau is the first on record. 1t was the
institution Of the law Of rade-the foundation OF the
principles on which II has since been conducted, not
only by the descendants Of Abraham, but by all other
races OF men. without exception 1t Is the grandest
speculation recorded In history. IL is In which
the seller was emphatically sold IL was the pros
pectve acquisition OF much for the present release OF
little. IL was transaction combining the temporal
and spiritual, faith and substance; Tor In all large
speculations faith and unbeef enter largely into
them. The fearful and unbelleving are those who
adopt the temporal adage "a bird In the hand is
worth two In the bush;" while the bold man whose
view Of the future Is strengthened by his faith re-
CARDS two birds in the bush worth far more than
one in the hand, because he is enabled by his faith
IN hqfo m ~ fufu fha nf bta