The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-12

says he wishes he had "he requisite facilities for q
curtain lecture" He may be misguided. but his Ian
guage is very neat.
We have always supposed that the old Scotch
womans definition of metaphy sics-that it is "the
art of telling what you don't know in language which
can UNDERSTANDINGS correct and satisfac-
tory The late editor of the Graphic however.
has demonstrated that metaphysics. n,,rabe dictu.
can be used in ordinary conversation with great
effect. He too modest to say that certain gem
teman a falsifier, he declared that 1.-The sub
jecve order of his thought did not correspond with
the objective order of the phenomena" Just learn
these words by heart day when you have no
business to do. or take them with you on a summer
vacation and spend the leisure hours of many weeks
in trying to fasten them the end of your tongue,
and you will find them OF great moral benefit When
properly uttered and with the air of man given to
profound research they will so confound the auditor
that his tit of i'll temper will be over long before
he can find out what you mean. and il he does hap
pen to to the conclusion that you have called
him hard names, Just ask him to reproduce your
language word for word. and you VIII find that the
ordinary North American brain is not equal to the
strain It is very hard to tell your wife that She
no matter what-but very easy to say my dear, the
subjective order of your thought does not cor
respond with the objective order of the phe-
nomena." She may possibly think that you are
trying to tell her in your own modest way that you
think of presenting her with new sealskin sacque.
Our Baptist friends must not be too boastful Of
the size OF their denomination. When they are
sfted down to the last analysis it will be found that
they only Congregationalists with close COM
munion attachment.
CLOSE OF THE PRAYER WEEK.
80 %bo
were better observed and by larger number Of
churches and people than at any previous Week OF
Prayer since the suggestion first made by mis-
sionaries in India Several churches while not in
creasng the number of their weekly meetings. Sc
cured fuller attendance of worshippers at the
regular services and considered the topics for the
week presented by the Alliance In this way feel
ing of unusual tenderness and solemnity diused.
Meetings were held daily at the Union Theological
Seminary, at the Young Mems Christian Association
Rooms at the North Dutch Chapel in Fulton street.
and at the Broadway Tabernacle Chapel for ladies'.
There was also MONDAY meeting every day at the
First Presbyterian Church in Fifth avenue and after
noon meetings in the Marble Church on Fifth ave-
nue. and the Central Methodist Episcopal Church on
Seventh Besides these several churches
held meetings in the evening-some of them of q
union character-n which Baptists, Metho1ists,
| Presbyterians, Reformed and other denomi-
nations participated They began q week ago with
| Christian union and they ended yesterday with the
hope OF the worlds conversion. And between those
| extremes the church. education, the family, Chris
tan associations, peace and religious liberty, the
press, temperance and other social reforms, and
home and foreign missions received less at
tention and consideration in public prayers and
marks. And this evening some OF the churches at
least will hold grand Jubilee, at which the object
and work of the Evangelical Alliance will be presented.
| In Brooklyn similar meetings were held daily in
the rooms OF the Young Mems Christian Association
| and in score of churches of different denOmna-
tons In some churches there and in this city meet
| ings will be continued throughout this month,
and should the interest warrant they will be
| continued until the spring opens. So far
as may be practicable it is suggested that
union meetings be held specified evenings
ated. The topics selected by the Evangelical Alliance
were ignored by the Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton Of Brooklyn, which chose topics instead that
Good ,a or Evil Their Choice and the Importance Of
Right Choice" and the Ike. Last evening they
considered Sowing and Reaping, as a business in
which spiritually every young man is engaged
or the churches that have arranged to continue their
meetings this week may be named :-Asbury Wash
ington square. Fiftieth street. st. James, Harlem.
Eighteenth Street and Twepty-fourth Street Metho-
dist Episcopal churches also in the Central and Tab
versalist Church. Meetings will be continued this
week also in the Young Mems Christian Association
Rooms Brooklyn; In the Centennial Baptist Church
| in Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal Church, East
Congregational. Fleet Street Park Avenue and First
Place Methodist Episcopal churches First and
Sixth Avenue baptist churches. Mayaower. Mis-
sion of Plymouth Church (Mr. Beecher will
| lead this EVENING", simpson Methodist Episco-
pal. South Congregational Church in the mornings
| and Strong Place Baptist Church, afternoons, and
evenings Ut Twelfth street Reformed. Tabernacle
| Baptist and Warren Street Methodist churches
There WILL doubtless, be other churches engaged in
similar meetings during the month, that the wish
of the Baltimore ministers will be, in part ut least
complied with. Mr.. Newton. in this city, will take
an outlook Of the past week. and speak of the sym
phony of religions ~ 1t appeared to him. Mr. Millen
IN Brooklyn. will review the work OF the Evangelical
Alliance, and also look the field of prayer In
| the world.