The New York herald., 1879-07-06

George Guirey. late of Newark of Oakland, Cal,
married May 80 to Miss Mary T. Carpenter,
teacher of Lincoln school, and they are visiting the
! Yosemite valley and Other points OF interest.
The Rev. Henry Varley has returned from ms evan
gelstic tour in Australia and has given the London
ers an account of his two years labor there He will
spend u few months in London preaching, but las
not decided on his movements thereafter.
PIEsBYTkIIAs
Rev. DR.. Cumming: VINO is now seventy-two years
old. and was formerly regarded OF the most
popular preachers in London. has retired from the
pastoratc OF the church at Crown Court Drury
Lane. His congregation are now endeavoring to
raise fund of SIS 900 il order TO purchase him
annuity. He has been their pastor nearly forty
years.
at influential conference of the representatives
of the Free. United Presbyterian and Congregational
CHURCHES in Edinburgh 1t agreed that the ends
justice the rights OF the Church aud the interests
OF religion scotland demanded disestablishment.
wood. y. j., and entered upon his duties supern
! tendent and chaplain OF the Presbyterian Hospital.
The Rev N j. conklin. for thirteen years pastor Of
the church Gouverneur, n. " las resigned both
pastor and as clerk Of Presbytery.
After to-day the evening service in the Central
Presbyterian Church of this city will be discontinued
until the Rev. j. D. Wilson's return from vacation III
/ Spring Mills, Pa. The church will be open all the
summer. except two weeks in August. and the pas
tor will be here until next week. Since last October
this church has had increase OF eighty-fve fam
| lies.
| Rev.J. E. Lloyd. of South .Ryegate. VT. has ac
cepted the call OF the church at Boonvills. n y
Rev W. B. y. wilkie. of Troy. No.. has been called
to the church at Columbia. No.
Rev D. e. a. Fullerton has accepted the call of the
church at Curwensville, Pa. Rev. A. j. Snyder has
accepted the call OF the church at Christiana, Del
Rev S. Foulk has accepted the call of the church
The Rev. DR.. Z. P. Humphrey has resigned his
pastoral charge in Louisville. Ky, where he has
! marked success.
The Rev. Dr. Jobe. having been elected principal of
the FELTON, DELI Seminary, has resigned the charge
OF the Presby church there the resignation
take effect the 1st of October.
The Rev. L. NJ. Findley has accepted the call of the
lately organized church at keyport. N j. the
society has purchased lot and will soon build
house of worship.
On Tuesday next by the kindness Of his church.
the Rev. William Lloyd sails for England to his
mother, who is eighty-two years old and also to
take run down the Rhine. During his absence the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church will be very
much improved. New stained glass windows will be
put i'll throughout The front will be fenced in with
ornamental iron fence and sodded. Mr.. Lloyd
expects to return early in September.
METHODIST
The Rev. William Taylor the famous missionary,
was preparing to sail to Brazil few days ago but
learning that missionaries were needed for South
India he postponed his departure, and is visit
! ing the colleges and camp grounds for young
men. Mr.. Taylor is the father of the South India
The Rev. Richard Hargrave. one of the oldest
bers of the Northwest Indiana Conference is failing
rapidly and il change for the better takes place
must soon pass away. His disease is dropsy or the
! heart.
! Dr. Daniel Steele OF Boston, and his son, Rev. w.
+. Steele of East Greenwich. go to Europe for the
summer with DR.. Tourjee's company Of musical and
educational tourists. The Rev j. L. Hurlbut. OF the
! Newark IN. J) Conference will supply the pulpit OF
Eighty sixth Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
New York, until the return of Dr. Vail IN September.
The First Methodist Protestant Church at Pitts
burg. Pa. commemorated the semcentennial OF its
existence last Sunday week. Bishop Bowman
! June - dedicated new church at Urbana Ohio.
! Bishop Haven is to for the Pacific coast July
and to spend Sabbath ut Omaha or Salt Lake City
on the way: but he expects to reach San Francisco
July -, and brief visit there push his way
! into Oregon and the Columbia River territory.
| DR.. Jacob Todd of Philadelphia sailed for Europe
/ vrAaEa H.. HaGa lafA aII Mt Isrnc ALAN
will spend July in Western Missouri. and Rev f. H.
Pitcher of Canada will spend the month with friends
! in Michigan.
CONGREGATIONAL.
"Old Colony, writing from Boston to the InteUi-
gencr the vacant sitngs of the Central Congre
gational Church of that city are fing rapidly with
permanent pewholders under the able ministry OF
Dr. Duryea. late of Brooklyn This, he adds is worth
tar more every way than the rush of what Deacon
Farnsworth, speaking OF the element that Mr.. MUIR
ray took away from Park Street Church. called "the
More than SIC, 900 have been recently subscribed
toward the improvements to Le made on the meet
Mass, Rev II. II. Meredith, pastor. This amount
The REV. NJ. Locke a missionary of the American
Board in Bulgaria. has just returned here tur-
| Tough.
Rev. P. S. Hubert of the last class of the Auburn
verify. n Y.
On the first day of next October Rev. Edward Ev-
erett Hall will have been the pastor of the South
Congregational Society in Boston quarter of CEN
tury. Time has dealt very gently with him during
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whom one can meet on the street, and he is fresh
as he is young
The Chicago Theological Seminary has sent out
fifteen foreign missionaries, and the trustees are
now endeavoring to raise funds for more ample en-
dowment OF it's departments of teaching and to add
other and much needed courses of instruction. The
seminary has graduated more than two hundred
students. and Its original constituency OF 400
churches has grown include 1887 indicating that
the centre OF Congregationalsm is moving West
ward.
The Rev. W. r. Davis of the Church of the Disc
/ NIL pp his Ha will dviIp
between Long Branch. n. j. where he is to preach
sunday, and st. Paul. Mimi. Mr.. Davis has been
ceeded in reducing the hoating debt of his church.
! Daring his absence the church building will be
thoroughly repaired and improved.
''CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM AGAIN.
WHAT DIR. SALE, OF BALTIMORE, WAS RE-
BE rRUE-CHRIsTIANIrY RETRoGREssIoN,
NOT AN ADVANCE, IN HUMAN PROGRESS.
Last Sunday a short article was published in the
HERALD under the above title. 1t condensed
from long editorial article in tho Baltimore
Episcopal Methodist which charged Dr. Samuel Sale,
rabbi of the Hsr Sinai congregation OF that city.
with saying great many things in q recent sermon
which letter from the Doctor himself now fatty
denies. He was charged among other things
with saying that "Christianity is an ad-
vance Judaism" He declares such state
ment to be sheer nonsense. and If he
believed it he would be morally bound to become a
Christian. But he fatly denies having enter
tanned such thought, much less declared IT in a
public discourse. IAN advance upon the Judaism of
the prophets far the cardinal points of religion
concerned hold to be impossible. and far from
believing Christianity to be such. hold it to be
rctrogression. think that it, like all dogmatic
lgon, has been lockchain the wheel of progress
and advancement. aud that true religion-the moral
and spiritual welfare OF mankind-has rather suf-
fered than been benent ted by dogmatism."
1t the Doctor believes hi the survival of the
fttest, and in his sermon he maint ntained that that
religion which adapted itself to different phases OF
thought and different stages of progress the
only MT one But he says he cannot understand
that disc alton between ''the religion intended
for humanity and the itest, tor the nttest in the