The New York herald., 1870-08-14
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Services To-Day.

Rev. II. r. Age speaks at Plmpton's building.
Rev. Isaac Riley delivers a sermon at the Thirty
fourth Street Reformed Church.
Professor Green of Princeton, speaks at the
Forty-secopd Street Presbyterian Church.
The st. Mary and Williams Catholic Church
(new) Of Williams Bridge, Westchester county,
will be temporarily opened for religious service
at ten o'clock this morning., with full orchestra,
when solemn high mass will be celebrated and
sermon preached, on the doctrine of the Immac-
ulate Conception, by the Rev. Father Kensella,
who will be assisted by many other prelates from
New York and other places.
PostpOnenicnt of the General Conference Of
the Evangelical Alliance.
At q meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Evangelical Alliance of the United States,
held August 5, 1870, the following resolution
among others was unanimously adopted
Resolved, That the Executive Committee of the
Evangelical Alliance Of the United States with
great reluctance yield to the expressed desire of
the Alliances in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Holland and Switzerland, that the General Con-
ference which was to be held in New York Sep
tember 22, 1870, be postponed on account of the
war in Europe, which renders their attendance
impracticabe; and The Conference il hereby post
poned at least for the present year, and until such
time rs the providence of God shall open the way
for its successful convocatiOn.
A Million Of Dollars for Church Buildinas.
Rev. George l. King, D. D., Of Jerseyville, ILL.,,
has proposed, by subscription of 81 600 to the
Memorial fund. to begin the work of raising
81 ,OOO 600 for church buildings Presbytcrian).
His gift for this purpose is conditioned on the
raising of 900 shares Of 81 900 each. share
may be subscribed by an individual OF by O con-
gregatiOn or by combination OF two more in
dividuals or congregations. The memorial
churches built in our cities, as well as those on
the frontier, may be included for their full cost
the gifts of the congregations who are to occupy
them also being counted. The plan is to erect
81 900 600 worth new churches in localities East
or West where they are most needed.
The Nathan Murder and the Jewish Domestic
Creed.
(From the Jewish Messenger.l
without intending any reflection upon
other creeds, it may seem possible to them that
a son could kill in such cruel way his own
father; but they must be utterly unfamiliar with
the Jewish householi--combining as it almost
always does, those tender and loving tions
between husband and wife, parent and child, and
brother and sister, which is not invariably found
elsewhere to believe it probable. The revolving
crime OF parricde is unknown among the sins Of
lsrael's commission, and we feel an as
surance, which amounts to certainty that
the present unhappy case will not prove an ex-
ception. But the innocent will suffer never
theless. Thousands who have read the grave
charges preferred by INSCRIPTIONS scribblers and
made up their minds adversely to the innocence Of
their victims will never read the exculpating tes-
timOny, and TO them they will ever be guilty; but
even allowing that their minds become disabused
there will still be lingering ling-particularly
in the event Of the murderer not being brought to
justice-that the accused are in some mysterious
tot,
the shadow of evidence to prove it.
The American Order of Priests-The Pauiists
and Their Founder, Father Hecker.
[From Woodruff & ClaGin's Weekly, August 1871
On Fifty-ninth street. between Ninth and Tenth
avenues, stands the church and monastery of st.
Paul. The place is known to the world Of New
Yorkers as the "House Of the Paulist Fathers"
Whoever comes to New York and is thrown in
contact with the most intellectual classes of Ca
tholics is sure to hear Of this church and monas.
terry and Father Hecker, its founder. 1t is a
handsome stone structure, built in modern
Romanesque style, surrounded by beautiful
grounds and commanding a view Of Central
Park. Among the bright flower parterres
within the enclosure can frequently be
seen, tending and watering the plants or cnng
flowers for the affairs, the black cassocked forms
of the high bred intellectual priests and monks.
whose home and headquarters are here. They
are all, with two or three exceptions, converts
to Catholicity; they are all men Of culture and
men whose vaulting ambition and aims would be
high and daring were they not moulded to the
nober end OF self-sacrifice. They are men to
whom the religion of Jesus has become the ro-
nance OF their lives. Most Of them are from fami-
lies Of ample means, whose sons could command
the usual qualifications of young Americans of
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every ordinary ambition for the nobIer one of
treading the thorny path of selfabnegation as
soldiers of the Cross.
THE FOUNDER OF THE ORDER
Isaac Hecker was young baker of New York;
his parents were German. The family was esti-
mable, vrtuous and al!ectonate in their charac-
terstics. Tie three brothers--George. John and
1saac-wero deeply attached to each other, and
began business al an early together as bakers.
But Isaac was not o man to keep his mind from
embracing the whole wide range of human thought
while working at his loaves. He nailed his
algebra to the wall above his trough, that he
might train his intellect while at his work. Not
long after this we find Isaac Hecker forsaking bis
business and making his appearance among the
seekers of wisdom at Brook Farm. Here with
Hawthorne and Curtis, &. A. Dana and Ripley, he
speculated upon the delusion Of arranging their
lives upon q better system of society than that
with which they found themselves surrounded
But after nine months abode among them he left
no wiser better off or nearer the solution Of his
problem than when he came. He experimental
farther with Thoreau with no better success; re-
turned to his brothers and their business still no
happier or wiser.
HOW HE BECAME 4 CATHOLIC.
Strange to say, controversy of o very heated
character and violent attacks upon the Catholic
Church first led him to consider the cllims Of
Rome to hearing. He had been brought up
with extremely liberal ideas by his Presbyterian
father and Methodist mother, so, with no deep
prejudices to overcome, it is not surprising that
he should become one Of an organization anording
him the most boundless field for the practice of
that devotion to cause" for which his ardent
soul burned. He was living with Thoreau, in
Massachusetts, when the decision that Rome and
Reason could be reconclled was made in bis mind.
He was then twenty three years of age, and the
enthusiasm with which he communicated his deci-
sion to his friend is now unabated at nearly fifty
years Of age. He soon found he had 'vocation,'
as it is termed. He became priest and finally,
in Germany in q Redemntorist monasterY. COM