The New York herald., 1870-07-31
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Services To-Day.

The subject of the Rev. Charles B. Smyths SER
mon before the American Free Church, at Mason
ic Hall, is "The Franco Prussian War, Viewed
in the Light of Prophecy"
Rev. Moses Hull delivers his closing discourses
before the Society of Spirltualists, at both SER
vices, at Apollo Hall.
The Prophet Snow will speak on "Christ Com
ing from Edom," this afternoon, at the University.
Rev. David Mitchell breaches on "Signs of the
Times" at the Canal street church, this morning.
Rev. Abbott Brown will deliver q sermon this
forenoon, at the Church Of the Reformation.
Professor w. II. Green, of Princeton, breaches
at both services, at the Forty-Second street Pres
byterian Church.
The ceremony Of laying the corner stone Of the
new church of st. Rose of Lima, in Cannon street,
Rev. NJ. McKenna, pastor, takes place at half-past
five O'Clock this evening.
Revival Of n Baptist Church in Hackensack.
Recently few Baptists assembled at the resi-
dencc of Mr.. VIM. DeWolfe, Hackensack, N. j.,
and uniting with him and his wife, revived the
First Baptist Church of that place, of which they
were the only surviving representatives. Es-
tablished thirty-ive years ago, in a community at
that time hostile to such an enterprise, after
struggling few years, the unchristian conduct of
an evil man who occupied the position of pastor,
eifectually scattered them. Without house of
worship, pastor, or money, this small band of
twenty-five or thirty have undertaken to hold up
in that town those principles which are so dear to
every Baptist
Henry Ward Beechcr ON His Reported Ser
mons.
Mr. Reaahor npaoidod doff fbo 1xuoo
meeting and lecture room talk on Friday night for
the last time for the season. Before next Friday
he will have left the city for his annual six weeks
rest.
1t is usual on the annual recurrence of this
special Friday evening for Mr.. Beecher to say
something in the shape of retrospect of the pro-
gress of the Church during the year. In the
of this talk he said that the past year was
remarkable for the increased number of hearers
who had gathered in the church to listen
to the truth. No year had exceeded or
even equaled the number. In this con-
nection, he said, he could not but feel very
grateful nay, truly thankful, for the multi
plication of himself by the printing press In this
respect the year had been remarkable. Never
before had he been so faithfully and so extensive
ly reported he was followed as it were by sha-
dow of himself, and not only throughout this
country but in England were his spoken words
reproduced to an incalculable number Of readers.
His father had during his ministerial career always
been anxious to write something that should live
after he was gone. But with the burden of the
present duty always weighing him down, that was
not accomplished. He (Mr. Beecher) had seen his
fathers mistake, and though inheriting the same
constitutional difficulty and surrounded by Cir
cumstances that were unfavorable to this kind of
reproduction lie was thankful to have the rehec-
ton that when he died there would be left behind
him words of truth that might be blest to many
an erring one.