The New York herald., 1873-10-12

1 spoken champion or ScepticlSm Sprlnglng
| up whole congregation OF admirers OF the
! Nazarene. Oh, that our strength would enable us
to hold grand Anti Evangelical Convention
| where all would be as sincere and thorough as he
CONSISTENCY.
A Text for the Evangelical Alliance
| Convention.
NEW YORK, Oct. Q, 1879
| To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
On one page Of the HERALD OF this morning ind
| that the 'C0nventi0nn has been fierce in its on
slaughts on the Catholic Church, and the old
| slanders and abuse have been INDUCED in with
zest that argues poorly for the "Christian
charity" by which the members OF this body are
actuated. Now, sir, suppose some of these
gentlemen take as text for discussion
| the question that sFaith Is best shown
| by practice" and they will find In the deaths
OF five or six Catholic clergymen in Shreve-
port from yellow fever contracted by their attend
ance on the poor victims OF the plague in that III.
| fated town. an Illustration to point their argu-
ments against the Catholic Church. Another Illus
| traton Is furnished by the death or Father Carey
| In Memphis, announced in the HERALD OF this
morning. Father Carey was Dominican-one OF
the most hated orders OF Church which we are
asked to believe Is the prolific cause OF supersti-
ton and nfdelity. Suppose the Alliance send
down committee OF their reverend members to
| Shreveport and Memphis, just to make inquiries
among the fever patients at the hospitals there
what they think OF the superstition OF those sur
their own lives in the midst OF plague and death.
! II these Evangelical gentlemen are inspired by
that charity Of which SO much has been said in
convention" would 1t not be well, even IL they
have no inquiries to make OF said pa
tents, to depute few Of their mum nm
conduct on the part or a priesthood who
hold their own lives OF such little account COM
pared with the performance o! sacred and to
TO them, an imperative duty Should these gentle
men, however, have any objection to going so far
n Nav n cIa
Of women who are so utterly obivious to the aprog
ress or the nineteenth century," not to say negli
gent OF their own ease and comfort, that they have
given themselves wholly up 10 the care and treat
ment OF the orphan the helpless and afflicted OF all
Uf course this is not charity, and is the duty OF
the Convention to expose the impOsture by holding
IT up to the full glare Of our modern civilization
and the intellectual scrutiny OF the age. j. NJ.
The Lazarist Mission in Brooklyn.
The past week has been one OF special spiritual
enjoyment at the Church OF the Nativity, corner
OF ClassOn avenue and Madison street, Brooklyn.
The Lazarist Fathers, under whose direction the
mission is being held, have cause to feel pleased
with the practical evidence OF success which has
thus far crowned their labor. The Lazarist Fathers
engaged in the work are Revs. J. II. Koop, James
Magll and T. NJ O'Donohoe The exercises open
at five O'Clock each morning, when mass Is cele-
brated, and sermon or instruction given. This
service Is specially for those who have 20 be at
business at an early hour. The next mass is at
SIX A. NJ and the last at eight O'Clock, at which
latter an explanation OF the Christian doctrine is
given. In the evening" at halEpast seven O'Clock,
the rosary Is recited, benediction Of the Blessed
sacrament B given and sermon preached. Each
morning and evening during the past week the
church mas been crowded to excess in every part,
not only by members OF the congregation,
but by people from other parishes and
''dissentng brethren" also. The eloquent .ap.
peals OF the Lazarists to the errlng ones affect
the audience deeply, and as the obdurate OF heart
realize their position and the love and mercy or
God in their behalf many are the resolutions made
OF an amendment Of life for the future. One OF
the principal attractions and incentives to devo-
tion Is the excellent volunteer choir, under the
artistic leadership OF the accomplished Organst,
Mrs. william NJ. Adams. The pastor, Rev. NJ J.
Moran, may well feel proud OF the success which
choir since the dedication OF the church year ago.
To-day Won weber's Mass in G will be sung. The
mission will be continued for another week, end
ing upon sunday next, the anniversary OF the ded-
icau0n. Confessions are heard daily from early in
the morning until late IN the evening, thereby af
ments OF penance and the holy eucharist.
True Christian Unity.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
To disinterested observer of events as they are
being evolved by the proceedings OF the so-called
Evangelical Alliance, now in session, one thing
must appear, to say the least strange and incon-
sistent, viz. that in the avowed object OF Christ
ian unity, whereby 1t is promulgated as the grand
essential element thereof that Christ and Him
crucifcd, and faith in Him and in His teachings,
are what constitute the true Christian and what Is
wanted for the Christian ministry is sympathy for
and with mankind, where dogmas and doctrines,
creeds and customs are deemed only secondary
that the representatives OF the Roman Catholic
Church are debarred from participation in the pro-
ceedings OF that Alliance. That this is true, must
be evident from the utterances OF such men as
In Tr vh<
have expressed their thoughts upon the vital
questions now agitating the Christian world
They seem to realize the position in which they are
placed as being an ntagonistic to their sentiments
and as far as they dare, Notwithstanding the re-
stralnt, delicately Intimate that injustice Is done
Notwithstanding their ritual and their ceremonies,
their superstAion and their image worship, still
lead up TO higher and better life the thousands
that throng to hear told the unspeakabie riches
OF Christ by men whose sympathy for their fellow
men has not been and cannot be questioned.
One cannot help but be reminded OF this thought
as he hears or reads of those noble sentiments
urtered by the great men OF both continents now
in our midst and to utter the prayer that the time
may soon come .when Christians would form
truly Catholic Church composed OF all who
believe that man Is saved by iaith in Christ
alone" AS the Ohio, Missouri, st. Peter
and the other great rivers OF the
North rush along IN their impetuOus, t0rtuOus and
turbid courses and find their outlet in the Great
Father OF Waters as the various planets, with all
LHclI CHduBcs dnu SJlll recognize
obedience to a law In their revolutions around the
great giver OF earthly light and heat, SO let 1t
to pass that all who profess and call themselves
Christians consider that through all the misty tur-
bulent and dangerous dogmas and forms OF every
kind, character and degree, there IL one way lead
ing out OF them all and up the Great Father and
Giver OF Lille and Love through iaith In Christ and
HIM crlclned. And when that blessed union and
unity shall have been accomplished, inndelity
and every form OF unbelef Will have received
blow that will paralyze the arm OF Reason as 1t IL
now welded, shatter the forces OF Science as they
are now led ana make them all subservient to the
great power OF true Christian unity. J. w. Is.
Ministerial Movements and Charges.
RPisCOPALTAN.
The English religious papers are strongly adj
vocating the abolition OF the once OF godiathers
and godmothers. The reasons assigned are that
the original duty OF supervising the spiritual edu-
cation OF the child is never attended TO, that
there Is no Warrant In Scrnfura for Ruch office.