The New York herald., 1878-12-04
DR. FEssENDEN n. OTIS ON THE RESTORATION
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destined to play high part in the comfy Of
nations. He then traced the history of the finding
OF the ship by the whaeship George Henry. giving
succinct account of her condition and the voyage to
the United States. Congress- with rare generosity.
her to the British government fully repaired and
equipped. She was reftted at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard and sent to England under the command
OF Commander Henry j. Hartstene who was then
great fayorite account of his successful Arctic
voyage and the rescue of DR.. Kane and his party at
Uppernavik DR.. Otis then described the voyage and
it's perils the arrival of the vessel at Sptheau and
the welcome hospitalites and honors which awaited
her commander He gave an elaborate account of tho
visit of the Queen to the vessel at Cowes and Of her
reception by Commander Hartstene, OF the officers
visit to Osborne House and Of the formal transfer Of
the vessel The paper had interest the story OF
unusual episode in the history Of nations.
REV. J. NJ. BUCKLEY ON QUACKERY.
Rev. j. NJ Buckley, Of the Hanson Place Methodist
Episcopal Church. Brooklyn lectured last evening in
the Fifteenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church
the subject Of "Quacks" before considerable audi
dence. He pitched severely into the class Of Spirit
ualsts clairvoyants. astrologers and necromancers
who pretend to do things through super
natural agencies, and insisted the the
ory that nothing is done Of which the
senses, or some Of them, are unconscious.
Shakespeare speaks about the midnight hags upon
tho weird heath. but that is poetical conceit and
the Bible aludes to the practice Of wichcraft among
the jews but Moses did not believe in it, though he
saw that the people were disposed that way and the
custom was prohibited by him. AL the witches
OF antiquity belonged to two classes, either those
that believed in themselves those that made
it business and pretence Of supernatural
powers to impose upon their credulous believers
All the instances of wichcraft OF arise
from belief ready to be yielded to the transpring
of supernatural effects. There hundred
and fifty people in this city to-day making their
living by witchcraft, and perhaps twice as many i'll
the city OF Boston In the matter OF magic. there
sent to Algers by Napoleon aud yet Houdin's hum
bug was exposed and laughed at in the long run.
Magic up to 800 years ago, made the rulers Of
Europe tremble. and taking up the question OF
second sight. what simple thing it is" said the
sye'ae', Sy combination @ % Of sounds SCUM and W syaSies.
the thing was quite feasible. He explained
that Robert Heller never allowed anybody but
himself to ask his sister any questions in his second
sight performances because it would have broken the
combination of sounds syables and letters that they
their acting: About cairvoyants he said they Of
two kinds-the sympathetic and the perceptive; but
he would give away everything he had i'll the world to
single instance where the calrvoyants ever did
anything outside Of the senses.
He referred TO Henry Slade, who lived like duke
in this city on the proceeds of his humbug cairvoy
ance and he visited him one day and handed him u
lock of hair Of his saying was that Of female.
and when Slade threw himself into clairvoyant
state he said the hair belonged to lady who was
a relative of his; and then he had musical
seance with sade and found him fraud OF the most
hair he submitted to Sadc to woman in Newark
who profcssed to be great cairvoyant, and she pre-
who owned the hair suffered
from. The lecturer explained how the fact Of
coincidences happening every day in the year along
the clarvoyants and astroogers that they have
chance Of making good guess at least one time out
of ten The speaker went along in rapid manner to
tell OF q lot of humbugs he met In his day in the
medical cairvoyant and other lines and showed how
small their pretensions were to either scientific or
supernatural power.
THE REV. THOMAS ARMrTAGE ON LAY PREACH
The first OF series Of lectures, which are to be
given during the winter, before the students Of the
Lay College of DR.. Talmages Tabernacle, Brooklyn,
Was delivered last night by the Rev. Thomas
ArlnItage. ID. D., of this city, Mr. John L. Henry.
President of tho Board OF Trustees OF the coll
lege. presided. There small audience,
but its attention to the address through
out was perfect. The speaker announced his
subject to be LAY Preaching" Primarily
the word clergy signifies fragment laid aside from
other fragments. and it implies lot order of
set apart as sacred calling. The word lay signi-
hes lewd or loose primarily, and relatively all
those who do not belong 10 the privileged class
nowadays conyentionaly. A preacher is simply
teller of good news or tidings. The word i'm
plies order of work than order
of men. We scarcely 90 astray IL in noting
lay preaching say that there is not person ON
the face OF the earth in whom there does not exist
a necessity tor such preaching. You cannot find
a nook you cannot tell the story OF the loving
Man who died on the tree. II knows nothing OF
lies and monarchies. There Is not more hard
working ministry in the world than the
practcable and impossible for the ministers.
especially of New York and Brooklyn. to undertake
to invade the field OF lay preaching. Who are then.
theproper persons 10 do the work of lay preaching
for those who need itf Why, nanifesty,
lay preachers;;, Who may be lay preacherss
Any one. What human authority does any
need to tell the good of Christ ? Gods
ancient priests needed special authority in making
sacrifices and doing the st ordinances Mans
priests need special authority to minister to
OF tiol in his heart has the right to tell it, DR..
Armagc then drew illustrations from the Scriptures.
Philip, he said was noble specimen OF lay evan
gclist in the church OF God. His injunction to lay
students While you do not full to do all your
work q lay evangelist. stop there. Co. invite the
tiinid crouch with you CT the foot of the and
leave the profundites of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. appeal
to the sympahcs IN the human breas. aud you viii
Mn. n. @. KEITH ON THE USES OF ELECTRICITY.
About one hundred parsons were assembled last
evening in the of the Academy OF the
Useful Arts, in the Cooper Institute. A pa
per was read by DR.. platt Familiar
Posons." II disclosed few new facts. and
had suspicious flavor OF the encyclopedias and the
nlatcria ncdica He laid down one startling dogma
70 the effect that when people disposed 10
init suicide their deaths would be good to society.
Mr.. N. =. Keith was then called forward and began
what he styled lecture "The Industrial Applicu-
tions Of Electricity" IL was little more than
recital Of what Is already generally known
TO the electric light but its ultimate perfection
was neither affirmed nor questioned. He recognizad
the gradually growing importance of the experiments
which arc being made, but confined himself to
general description Of the character and action Of the
active enersy til, IN nature. In utilizing 1T j.
resistance OF matter. In the electric light the
point OF greatest resistance was the voltac arc which