The New York herald., 1869-04-25

OF ministers and laymen were present as delegates,
among them Colonel Hope, well known in con-
nectlOn with the slope Express Company" who
ROselle, stir ng young village on the Central New
Jersey Railroad This congregation has recently
from debt. New Churches have also been erected
recently at Westfeld and Liberty Corner, and con-
siderable repairs and renovations made on the
churches in Railway, Planheld and Eliza0ethport,
This Presbytery is decidedly in favor OF the reunion
Of the Old and New School bodies. 1t elected the
next General Assembly, that meets in New YORK In
May. namely:-The Rev. Drs. Plumey and Lucas,
and Messrs E. NJ. Hunt ana Hagamen.
Religious Notes.
Rev. DR.. Parsons will deliver lecture on "Reli-
gon and PatriOtism' at st. JOseph's church this
evening. The proceeds will be devoted to the benefit
of the parish schools under the charge of the Sisters
of Charity. The lecture will be followed by sacred
concert
The East Side Methodist Episcopal chapel. York
ville corner Of Seventy street and Second
avenue, Will be opened to-day with appropriate SER
vices for Sunday school and other religious pur.
poses. Services will be conducted at nine A. M.
and two and half past seven P. M. Rev. B. x.
Pierce, chaplain OF the House Of Refuge Will preach
The Most Rev. Archbishop Will administer the
cred rite Of confirmation to-day april 25) in the
church of ST. Nicholas, Second street. between First
and Second avenues.
paragraph yesterday, concerning thirteen ministers
who had been spanked In infancy for spanked" read
"sprinkled.' Upon which the Philadelphia National
Baptist humorously remarks:-''If these were good
minister's as we are bound to believe, they were no
doubt spanked as well as sprinkled IN their in
fancy and il would be an interesting point to ascer
tam whether the spanking did not do them vastly
more good than the sprnkling." I'VE respectfully
suggest to our clerical brethren the OF the word
'Spragued" instead OF spanked" as Infinitely more
euphonious and genteel If not devotional.-EDl
The other Sunday lady preacher in Wisconsin
diSCOurSeU
and the next week the gallant youths OF her congre
her ace Ed a oae tho entire
support Of foreign missionary beginning with the
present year.
Of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, calls
for 100000 for the current expenses Of the present
year. -"e~ -
$4,000 They have 1855 churches, that furnish sittings
for 289, 900 persons.
In matters OF great concern, and which must be
done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind
than irresOlutiOn-tO be undetermined where the
Is so plain and the necessity so urgent to be always
intending to lead new life, but never to find time
to set about 1t.
'Mrs. Van Coot, widow and a licensed preacher
over 1000 persons within the past year in Northern
New York and yet 1t Is proposed to turn her out OF
are probably afraid that she viii convert all the sin
ners and thus ruin the business
The COngregdttOndlist says:-"The whole business
persuaded, is an ill-judged excrescence upon our
system, II not positive nuisance. 1t will die out
long before the Millennium"
The Evangelist says the Reformed Church must
feel the loss OF two such ministers as have just died.
yiz.:-the Rev. Dr. N; Wyckoff for thirty.two years
pastor OF the Middle Reformed church, Albany, and
years pastor Of the Reformed church. Of Harlem-the
former at the ripe age Of seventy the latter
with the harness yet on, in his ffty-seventh year.
No candidate for membership In the Providence
except tic for medicinal purposes viii ss' be admitted
upon trial or to full connection" "Tobacco for
medicinal purposes is good IL Ii useful for killing
rats and mosquitoes.
The brick edihce known as the New England
church in Forty-first street, near Sixth avenue
senting the Committee on Church Extension OF the
Methodist Church. The building stands on leased
ground, which accounts for the small price oh.
In the Nebraska Conference, nine years old. there
are forty preachers, 2,3lS members and thirteen
houses or worship, worth $85,500. The Sunday
schools have 2,272 pupils.
The agent of the Albert wesleyan University, Of
Beville Ontario has received $4,000 in ad Of that
The German Methodist churches Of Iowa have
There are in the I5 1856 Sunday schools OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church 1926 s33 officers teach
ers and scholars, number exceeding that OF the
Church membership by II, 76s.
The Congregational and New School Presbyterian
churches OF Plymouth, Ill., have entered upon the
following cooperative plan. They are to worship
six months in the Congregational edince and six in
the Presbyterian each to keep Its separate organ
ization: Rev. Mr.. swift OF Iowa, Is preaching for
Marriage Is evidently not becoming an obsolete in
sttution or losing favor in the city OF Gotham. The
number of persons married and legally certified by
cergymen during the month OF March L. 1885,
and for the first week In April $40. The suits against
some OF our cergymen who failed to report the mar
riages at which they had oficlated have been with.
drawn on their promising to report in future.
Hints to Teachers. DO not teach what you
do not thoroughly understand. q Do not tell
scholars what they can tell you. 3. Whatever you
tell your scholars make them tell you again. 4. Give
only reasonable commands, and then insist on their
b. scholars
patton while they are in the class.
The Methodist churches OF Boston have organized
Woman's Board OF Missions,
In the New York Conference the past year there
has been q net increase OF 1,442 members, twenty
ss pssacners anu hSe houses OF worship worth
g. The first sabbath in May is set apart by the Old
tion In behalf OF the Board OF Publication.
The Second church, Philadelphia. received four.
teen new members the 18th inst. making their num-
Der forty-three. They sustain two missions, one OF
which has chapel. The sunday school numbers
4Oo. Their new sanctuary, seating eoo persons, Is
The report for 1865 OF the Southern province of the
Moravan Church In America states that there are IN
cants and SIS children The sunday schools contain
52s scholars and sixty-fve teachers
Albany has queer trouble. Two members OF
church choir having seeded therefrom have been
singing in the congregation Justify. out OF tune to
break down the enemy Arrest and discharge and
re,arrest followed to no purpose, the offenders still
Mrs p. A. Hanaford. who has accepted an invita-
on 70 De pastor b0tn OF the Unversalist society at
bingham and Waltham Mass, Will successivelv
preach two alternate sundays In each place, and
supply the other by substitute. She receives 81 900
from each society.
A year ago The Genital Presbyterian church in
Rochester, N. u, dismissed eIghty-two members at
one time to form the Westminster church of that
city, and now the 4th inst the mother society re-
ceives slxty-three converts on profession of their
faith and eleven persons by letter. There Is that
scattereth and yet increasethn The truth of this
paradox might be vndcated In this way much more
frequently than 10 Is 70 the multiplication OF the
churches and to the edfylng ofthe body OF Christn