The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-26
So-Called "Holy Men" After the
COrruptiOns of Rome.
A Nationalist" Replies to
a "NOn-CathOlic."
Is CHRISTIANITY A FALSEH00D i?
Rev. DR.. Deems and the Church
of the Strangers.
Episcopal Cathedral on
VancOuver's Island.
Services To-Day.

Services To-Day.
Rev. William Il. Pendleton breaches at the morn
ing and evening services, in the church corner Of
Fifty-third street and Seventh avenue.
Bishop Snow holds forth In the University, at
three O'Clock p. N.
In the Blocker street Universalist church, Rev.
G. @. Sweetser discusses at the morning service,
'sThe Test OF Christianity" and at the evening SER
vice, "The Universalist's Idea of Cod"
Rev. Robert Cameron holds morning and evening
services in the Baptist church. Seventeenth street
Rev. Henry Powers dscourses on prayer" al
the morning service In the Church Of the Messiah
Rev. Russell Bellows breaches at the evening
service.
Rev. Frederick Evans breaches morning and
evening at the Central Baptist church.
Rev. DR.. Flags conducts morning and evening
services in the Church OF the Resurrection.
Rev. w. @. Dawson breaches at the morning and
evening services in the Christian church.
Rev. DR.. Cuyler will be the preacher at the dedi-
cation service (morning) at the Memorial Presby-
terian church, In Madison avenue.
Mrs. Alderdice speaks at the evening services In
the Eleventh street Methodist Episcopal church.
Professor Curr, Rev. G. J. Murquies and Edward
Tggleston address the Seventeenth street Baptist
school at two O'Clock p. M.
Rev. DIR. Ever continues his Sunday evening lee
lures at st. Ignatius church.
Rev. DR.. Fairbairn explains, in the Chapel Of st.
Chrysostom, how ''rhe Church ID the Educator OF
Her Children"
Rev. Hasey W. Knapp breaches in the Laigh t
street Baptist church at the morning and evening
services.
Rev. George Fl. Hepworth, at Steinway Hall, dis
cusses the subject OF "Halting Between Two
Opinions" at the morning service, and debates on
@'Christ and the World" at the evening service.
At the evening service in the Church OF the Holy
Trinity the Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., gives his
views on preachers anaPreaching for the People,"
Rev. J. w. Barnhart conducts services morning
and evening in the old Forsyth street Methodist
Episcopal church.
Rev. f. Borel breaches at a morning service
French RefOrmed) in Association Hail.
Full choral service as usual in the Church of st.
Mary the Virgin.
Bishop Clark breaches in Calvary church at the
morning service, and addresses the Sunday school
Of the church In the afternoon.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., speaks at the
morning and evening services in the Brooklyn
Academy OF Music.
Rev. M. Dunnell holds service in Ali Saints Epis-
copal church morning and evening
Rev. P. L. Davies breaches in the Berean Baptist
church at the morning and evening services.
In the University chapel, at the evening service
Rev. DR.. Checver contrasts Gods love and mercy
in Christ with the cruelty and fataism OF natural
devotion.
Rev. DR.. Brown breaches in ST. Luke's Methodist
Episcopal church at the morning service and Rev.
G. 8. Narrower at the evening service.
Rev. DR.. Gillette discourses in the Plymouth Bap-
fist church at the morning and evening services.
Mrs. Stoddard and Master Hough give q seance
this evening at Republican Hall.
Rev. G. M McCampbell breaches at the morning
service In the Spring street Presbyterian church.
Rev. w. T. Egbert gives advice to young men at
the evening service in the Wainwright Memorial
church.
Rev. @. Swift discourses In the Sixth avenue Re.
formed church at the morning and evening ser.
'vices
81 and Three Other Holy Men"-After
$3.50. the Corruptions OF Rome.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
The HERALD Of last Monday chronicles dis.
course delivered the Sunday previous, by'a rev.
erend gentleman, in fashionable Protestant
meeting house up town, the amount Of which, the
report states, was "a fierce dlatribe against the
Roman Catholic Church." To convince his hear
ers OF the feasibility Of his arguments the reverend
gentleman related his experience OF Cathocity
during aresidence in Mexico, where, he modestly
country seething with the corruption Of Rome"
This plan OF argument never benefits an assailant
or his cause We would think it strange indeed
were foreigner to hold up our American consti-
tuition to contempt, and illustrate It's workings
only by what he had CLEANED from our police courts
and criminal records.
The condition OF religion In Mexico, South Amer.
lea and Cuba, owing to the distracted state OF these
countries, and the Church being entirely under the
control OF shifting and irresponsible governments
has long been source OF sorrow to every sincere
Catholic rom the Sovereign Pontn down. 1t cannot
be denied that years OF civil has the
Mexican people into sort OF nation OF brigands,
ruled by inscriptions aiventurers hostile to reli.
gion and morality, under whose tyranny the Church
mas crSe s9Tered' Her bishops are poweress
mission-which Is seldom granted-exercise
their right to reprimand, silence or pub
ncly excOmmunicate a recreant bad priest.
who. amid civil strife and contact with de.
moralized, desperate men, may fall away from
power BY whom they retain their position in direct
opposition to their bishop. IL was such state OF
things as MS when , Srosgnt tne a.e sanity Arch
banished his successor into exile. Yet, with all
these terrible drawbacks, there are good, pious
such, however our holy friend (he must be holy,
as we have 1t from the highest authority-himself
tai theress business was with the sefexcomm n
picated, drinking, cock-nghting padre no matter
whether he was cut on from the Church by living
In direct opposition to her commands and teach
ings or not, his priestly garb and name answered
tue purpose OF our holy friend and his three COM
panions.
But why did the holy man travel out Of his way
70 STUDY Catholcity In Mexico when he might have
gone 80 In his own free land where religion Is I'M
trammeiled by the Slater Mexico is not the Cath0-
nc church, nor the Catholic Church Mexico. II he
sincerely seeks truth, let him study the Church and
ner priesthood throughout the United States in
france, Belgium, Holland, England or in Ireland,
wnere MS ancestors came from. He will not ind
the Catholic clergy scavengers OF religion rakinQ
up mre 10 cast at their separated brethren. In.
steau OF prosututing their pupits to uncharitable
courses on boiler explosions, gold panics or Tam.
many rings, ne VIII md them preaching peace and
good will to man, toiling increasingly for tho VOL,
fare OF their nocks and the good OF society II Tho
Catholic Church is what this holy man In his Chris
tian zeal would make us believe how is IL that So
many. from every shade OF Professionalism, are daily