The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-20
RELIGIOUS NIELhNENCE.
APRIL aO---LOw SUNDAY.
PULPIT EXERCISES TO-DAY.
Herald Religious Commu-
nicantS.
TIE LAWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
LIGHT WANTED FOR A SCEPTlC.
Is the Doctrine or PurgatOry
Sound?
A Wall from an Orphan
of the Heart"
RELIGIOUS ToLERATION IN JAPAN.
The Genealogical Records Of
Our Saviour.
The Whale Of Scep-
ticiSm.
SIN AND ITS PUNISHMENT
The Genealogical Records Of
Our Saviour.
The Whale Of Scep-
ticism.
SIN AND IT'S PUNISHMENT
RELIGION IN POLITICS
MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY

Services To-day.
Rev. DR.. William Morley Punshon will preach
this morning at st. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church.
The Bishop OF New York will administer the rite
OF confirmation at st. Adams this afternoon, at
four O'Clock. High celebration Of Holy Eucharist
in the morning at eleven.
Pastor Cameron will lecture on ''The Book OF
Leviticus'' this evening, in Seventeenth street
Baptist church.
Easter Sunday services at the Russian Greek
chapel, al II A. NJ, in English.
The Baptist Lay Preachers Anniversary will be
held in Laight street Baptist Mission this evening.
Rev. Halsey w. Knapp will preach in the morning.
Rev. Dr. I. De Witt Talmage will preach to the
Tabernacle congregation in the Brooklyn Academy
Of Music, at the usual hours, morning and evening"
At the Church OF the Messiah Rev. r. d. Burr will
preach in the morning and Rev. Henry Powers in
the evening.
meeting in behalf of the House of the Good
Shepherd will be held this evening in st. Bartholo.
news church.
'The Sign OF the Son OF Man, is Bishop Shows
subject for the three o'clock service at the Uniyer
sity.
Rev. W. II. Pendleton will discourse upon special
subjects at the Fity-third street Baptist church.
morning and evening, baptisms following.
"The Unknown Way'' is the topic upon which
Rev. j. NJ. Pullman Will dilate this evening at Lyric
Hail. He viii preach in the morning at l2sS Broad
way.
The new pastor, Rev. ]. F. McCleand, will
preach, morning and evening, at St. Lukes
(Methodist EpiscopaD.
Rev. DR.. John Cotton Smith breaches in the
Brooklyn Church Of the Messiah this evening.
At Fourteenth street Presby terrain church Rev.
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Dr. William NJ. Paxton will lecture to young people
In the evening.
Rev. DR.. Gillette breaches, morning and evening
In Plymouth Baptist church.
At st. Johns chapel, confirmation services in
the morning and preaching by the Rev. A. Wiswail
in the evening.
Rev. Wayland Hoyt will preach in the Baptist
Tabernacle in the morning and at Steinway Hall in
the evening.
Rev. DR.. f. o. Flagg breaches morning and even
ing in the Eighty-nfth street church.
Spirltuslist services at Apollo Hall at ten A. NJ,
halfpast two and halfpast seven p. M. Professor
s. b. Britton lectures in the evening.
Rev. W. c. Dawson breaches at the Church OF
Christ morning and evening.
At the morning and evening services at Presby.
terrain Memorial church Rev. DR.. q. s. Robinson
will preach.
r. S. Macarthur, the pastor, win discourse upon
interesting topics at Calvary Baptist church. this
morning and evening
Rev. J. X. Demarest breaches at Westminster
Presbyterian church morning and evening.
Rev. G. II. Hepworth will dilate upon special
subjects at the Church or the Disciples, morning
and evening.
At All Saints the rector, Rev. w. N. Dunncll, win
conduct the morning and evening services.
Services this evening at All Souls. Preaching by
Rev. George ID. CLANCY, OF Boston.
Rabbi Jaeger, recent Hebrew convert to Chris
tianity viii preach this evening at Trinity Baptist
church.
At Anthem Memorial church Rev. r. Heber New
ton will conduct the services morning and alter
ooon; special subjects.
The Dean of the General Theological Seminary
Rev. G. T. Seymour, breaches at st. Chrysostom's
chapel this evening.
Rev. DR.. stephen II. Tying Jr will oniciate at the
temporary Church OF the Holy Trinity morning and
evening.
A. Higgins, Jr., will lecture on spirltualism at
Franklin Hall, Jersey City, tliss evening.
Ex-Alderman Wilder will address the Cosmopoi-
tan Conference at Turnveren Hall, this afternoon
on "Csrporation Monopoly"
The Laws or the Old Tesla mcnt-A Reply
to "Audftor."
To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
In last Sundays edition OF the HERALD you print
q communication from an auditor who takes
exception to what he considers IA remarkable SER
mon,n recently preached In st. Johns church, New
York, by clergyman who was so shockingly ig.
norant OF the duties OF minister OF the gos-
pei, as TO actually preach upon "a text from
on, horror Of horrorsl what do you suppose--"the
ou testament "being an exposition Of
'unmitigsted Jewish law, and an approval
oil the samel" And further the writer goes on to
say mat ne wonders how that "can harmonic
with the Christian doctrine,n and laments the fact
that most ministers "are addicted to this sort Of
pnchristian preaching except the Methodists and
Roman Catholics, "who stick to Jesus through
thick and thin. He has, however, the generosity TO
forgive 'sthe genuine Jew' who "errs in igno.
rancer while for the protesting Christian who
obeys Jewish laws he forebodes q pretty rough
time OF At In the great hereafter.
Life IL too short Mr.. Editor, to waste upon argu-
ments based upon such false premises. and on
opinions so ant ag0nistic to the advanced In
tegence OF the age In which we live; but
Is there may be some other Auditors" who have
INDUCED In similar vein OF thought, we ask them
n the laws OF the Old Testament, and the Old
Testament ITSELF be abolished, what becomes Of
the New Testament According 70 the new dis
pensation there are many laws contained In the
old Testament that are no longer binding upon
the professors OF Christianity but II does not fol
low that because certain laws are rendered In
operative by subsequent laws made " What V