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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
A SKETCH OF DIR. HALL.

When DIR. Hall was called by his present church
he was preaching in tho Church Of Mary's
Abbey, now Rutland Square, in Dublin. lie
was born in County Armagh Ireland, on July
81, 1929, aud Is "a member of ScOtch-lrsh
family which originally settled ut Armagh in 1900
at the age of thirteen years he sent to Belfast
College and began his preparation for the ministry
lie began his ministerial life a missionary III the
west OF Ireland, among Roman Catholic pOpu latlOn
In three years lie calleu 10 the passionate OF the
FIRST Church at Armagh, the capital of his native
county, where lie WAS installed Jn June 30 1902.
Alter preaching Tor six years with great success IN
Armagh DR.. Hall received cal! to Dublin. where lie
remained until he came to this country. While liy
ing in Dublin. because OF tine interest which he
manifested IN popular education ne received from
Queen Victoria the honorary appointment Of Com
missioner CT Education for ireland. Al this time he
owned and edited The ErdHgcIicai Wuness, In 1867
bo was appointed by the irish General Assembly
n delegate to the General Assemblies in this country
Before returning home he preached in the Fifth
Avenue Church, which soon after called him TO its
pastOTate.
Perhaps no pastor IN the city Is personally known
to more people than is DIR. Hall. Besides having
membership nearly rs large, he often attends the
missions connected with his church aud deliver
frequent lectures in other Missions He makes
many calls. and every morning he receives callers
for an hour ut his home. Ho breaches twice on
Sunday in his own church aud often delivers third
evening. While he breaches without manuscript
his sermons carefully prepared and written,
partly mcmorzed and then left in the study. In
personal appearance DIR. Hall is much above the
figure His face is clean shaver and his hair Is
tinged with gray. He Is total .bstaineT and does
not use tobacco IN any form.
For ten years DT. Hall has written colamn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY, g. 8sa-TwELvE

on The Miracles; Helps to Faith, not Hindrances."
He also published In the same year " The Lost
Found, series OF sermons on the fifteenth chap
ter of Luke. In july. 1872, Mr.. Taylor received
the degree of Doctor OF Divinity from both Amherst
and Yale.
Dr. Taylor IS of medium height. with a vigorous
frame. His head is large with round high brOws
that 0yerhang clear. obser,ant eyes. His greatest
power lies in the force of his pulpit 0ratOry. lie
always reads his sermons. which be begins i'll calm
manner with clear and fOrcble language. speakingia
a full. powerful tone of voice. His manner be-
comes more earnest as he proceeds aud he makes
more and more iorcbe gestures until he reaches
the OratOrcal climax OF his DISCOURSE His action
and delivery become then thoroughly dramatic
without being in any sense sensational He always
wears black robe in the pulpit.
When DR.. Taylor became pastor of the church. its
membership was 57S. This number has been In
creased since then to 05I an increase Or476 900
persons have matted with the church In the eleven
years of Dr. TaylOr's DaStOrate The amount OF
money received from the renting OF pews last year
was S37,434 OF. The expenses amounted TO
$32,535 50. The estimate of the expenses for
this year, including the pastors salary, when
is $1,000 is $4,000. Last year the CHOIR
cost the church $i65G "a. The ohoir has consisted
of quartet for q number OF years. Mrs. Marion
Christopher has been the 0rgahst for twenty years
and j. /. Beckett been the leader of the choir for
long time. The total amount of the contributions
made by the congregation last year was To2, 10 81.
More than $50, 600 of this was devoted 10 the
building fund of Bethany Church. which has grown
out of mission established by the Tabernacle so
ciety fifteen years ago. The Sundny-School con-
tansd $40 SCHOLARS and fOrty'tVe officers ana
teachers.
The Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the
church sent out in 1892 twenty-five trunks,
with contents of a total value of $f,0Sl 90. to
missionaries in twelve States and Territories.
The Cheerful Workers were busy all through last
year with good deeds of many kinds A Helping
Hand Society also formed by women of the
church to assist deserving poor women by teaching
them how to help Themselves. Tho average attend
ance at the classes of this charity was twenty
three. Weekly prayeI-meetings and conference
meetings are kept up vigorously and successfully.
a young peoples prayer meeting has been organ
lied recently and has been carried on with
gratifying results The work OF the church Is d.
vlded into departments, each one having its own
officers who are responsible for the prosperity or
failure OF the work they have IN charge. These
departments are follows: Missions, visitation OF
poor and sick. charitable contributions, strangers,
and edncation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
DIR. HALLS CHURCH.
NEARLY AS OLD AS TIE CENTURY

FROM CEDAR-sT. TO FHTH-AvE.-AN ENERGETIC
PASTOR AND HIS SUCCESSFUL WORK.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church recoi yed
its present name in 1852. wheu it was removed
from Duane and Church-sts to Fifth-ave and
Nnetsenth-st., on the site now occupied by The
store of Arrold. Constable & Co. For sixteen
years it was known as the Duane Street Church.
and for the preceding quarter of "A century II WAS
called the Cedar Street Church, under which
name it was organized in 1903. The Rev.
DR.. John i. Romeyn, OF Albany, was the
first pastor Of the congregation. He was in
stalled on November 9. 1903 and four DAYS later
he organized the church with twenty-eight nem-
bers. DR.. Romeyn died IN 1925 and was succeeded
by the Rev. Cyrus Mason, a student of PRINCETON
Seminary, who was installed as pastor OF the
church on December 7. 1926 Mr.. Mason resigned
his charge in 1885 to become the principal of the
Grammar School Of the University Of the City Of
New-YOrk, but not until the emigration from the
lower to tho upper part of the city made neces-
sary a change in the location OF the church in
order to preserve the identity Of the coupreeation
The old lots were sold for $75, 900. and new ones
purchased at Duane and Church-sts A new bnild-
ing was completed and occupied on the first Sum
day in January 1886, when the Rev. George
Potts hOm the Presbytery Of Mississippi, became
the third pastor. He was installed i'm the follow
years The Rev. James w. Alexander entered
upon his duties as pastor Of the church in October
1874. Five years later he accepted a professor
ship III Princeton Seminary 10 which he wos mn
pointed IN 1919. The same reasons that made
necessary removal from Cedar-st operated with
greater urgency TO demand second change Of site
For nearly two years the pulpit was vacant, when
DR.. Alexander was recalled by the church. OF
which lie installed pastor n second time in
1851. In the following year the new building at
Fifth-ave. and Nineteenth-st. was Dedicated and
the corporate mans Of the church was changed.
Dr. Alexander died in 1859 and was succeeded two
years later by the Rev DR.. n. L. Rice. of Chicago.
In consequence Of impaired health DIR. Rice
offered his resignation in March, 1867, and at
OF the congregation. held on July 81, 4
1867, a unanimous call was cabled to the Rev. DIR.
John Hall. of Dublin who became the seventh
pastor Of the church, being installed on November
3 of that year.
THE PRESENT HOME OF THE CHURCH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
DIR. TAYLOR CALLED TO THE PULPIT.

DIR. TAYLOR CALLED TO THE PULPIT.
As Dr. Thompson had decided to go to Germany
for his health he was asked to take tho society $
unanimous invitation to the Rev. William NJ.
Taylor. of Liverpool, to become pastor OF the
church. This he did Mr.. Taylor accepted the IN
vitation and was Installed in the position which he
has since occupied on April o, 1872. The Kew
Henry Ward Beecher preached the installation SCI
mon and many of tho most prominent ministers oil
this city took part IN the services. MIR. Taylor
was born in Kilmarnock. Scotland In ls20. lie
was graduated at tho University of Glasgow III
1910, and at the Theological Hall of the Chited
Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh IN lS2Z' lle
was urst settled a pastor in the little village OF
Kilmaurs. Ayrshire in June, lS53. ne stayeu
there for two years and was then called to he Derby
Road Presbyterian Church. Liverpool; lie went
there toward the close oil 1899. ms churoh was
missionary enterprise among the middle classes anu
the skilled operatives of the city. during MS
pastoI ate tho membership of the church increased
from forty to 600, while the regular attendance ~
the services was between 500 and 300 persons.
new church costing $50. 600 was built while no was
there. Ia 1871 Mr.. Taylor visited tins country
and supplied the pulpit of DR.. Storrs's charcn IN
BroLklyn for TWO months. He made very iavOra,,
BILE Inn ression in that short time by the power Oh
his elOuuence. lie was contributor 10 ONO
of the Scotch reviews for many years. In loo- he
published q Life Truths." and in 1868 two volumes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06

THE PRESENT HOME OF THE CHURCH.
The church building at Nineteentb-st. seated
about 900 persons, but as the membership soon
rose under DR.. Halls preaching to thousand per-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
Rum and Crime.

We see nothing in the communication of
sc. c. F.'' which is published elsewhere, to
lead us to change the opinion which we re-
Gently expressed that rum-drinking is not
the chief cause of great crimes. That 1t is
one cause we have not denied. The citation
which our correspondent makes from the
Boston Herald has no more force to prove
his proposition than would the citation of
q death from small pox have to support
theory that the chief cause of the country's
mortality was that disease. Neither is
the fact that the Massachusetts bureau of
statistics attributes IS per cent. of all the
crimes committed la that State to intemper-
ance conclusive, for large part of the Grim
inal offences which comes before the courts
of that State and which undoubtedly form
the basis of these statistics are minor offences
and not crimes which imply deep moral tur-
pitude. The remaining fifteen per cent.
will, we think, be found to include most of
the crimes Of this latter character.
We based our assertion that rum is not
the chief cause Of great crimes chiefly on the
criminal statistics of this State. An exam
ination of those statistics convinced us that
either rum was not the chief cause of great
crimes or that rum-drinking had been on
the increase in this State for the last thirty
years. We found that crime had increased
enormously ia that period and the sonelu-
sion therefore was irresistible that rum
drinking had increased also, If the assump-
ton that rum-drinking Is the chief cause OF
crime Ia correct. Our correspondent un-
dertakes to point out that we erred In leav-
ing out the effects of the war. 1t Is to the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

demoralizing effect of the war, he says, that
we are to look for the explanation of the in
crease in the number of State prison con-
yicts which we noted. This explanation
will hardly bear the test of examination.
From 1860 to 1870. which includes the war
period the criminal records of this State
show that 534 persons were committed to
the State prison for various crimes. After
the war the reform movement set In and
there was great decrease in crime, says our
correspondent. Yet our criminal records
show that from 1870 to 1880 602 persons
were committed to the State prison, an In
crease of 6S over the numper for the previous
ten years, not taking into account the large
number who were sent to jail workshops,
the most of whom would have been sent to
State prison under the law as it existed from
1850 to 1870 Thus the hard fact still re-
mains that while the liquor law was being
vigorously enforced the inmates of the State
prison were growing more numerous. Now
this fact proves one of two things, either
that liquor-drinking is not the chief cause of
lilo CTlncs kuOWu DIS lelOul6S OF budt Lie
liquor law did not have the effect of d.
minlshing drinking. If our correspond
ent still clings to his opinion that rum is the
chief cause of great crimes he can do SO on
ly by admitting that the prohibitory liquor
law has failed to accomplish its chief object.
We do not believe he is ready to do
that. At any rate the PRESS is not. 1t be-
lieves that the prohibitory liquor law has
accomplished great good for the people Of
Maine and that it will accomplish much
more In the future. But it does not believe
that all crimes will disappear with the rum
shops. There will still be left to feed our
prisons and our jails, hate, revenge, lust
and the love of money which last there is
the excellent authority of the New Tesla
ment for pronouncing "the root of all evil."
Rum-drinking promotes bad passions, no
doubt, and weakens the moral nature; but
depravity will lead to tho commission of
monstrous crimes without any aid from
rurn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

We have much doubt whether Senator
Frye's scheme for reconstruction of the
basis of representation in the Republican
National Convention will be accepted by the
National Commute; but some such plan
ought to be adopted. The present appor-
tionment is unjust and it tends directly to
corruption and weakness. There ought to
be some way of giving Republican voters an
equal voice in such important matters as
making nominations. Why should the few
Republicans in Arkansas have larger rep
resentation than the many in Maine? Why
should the States which are hopelessly DEM
ocratic be enabled to impose on the party
Candidates who are not strong in the States
from which Republican majorities are ex-
pected? In other words, why should the
majority of the party be weaker than the
minority in National Convention? Senator
Frye's plan appears to be fair one. 1t
leaves no section of the country unrepresent-
ed, however weak the party may be there
and it secures to the sections where the par
~ is strong proportionally stronger repre-
sentation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

One Phillips, who was once Congress
man from Kansas, has latterly been a sort
OF attorney in Washington for the Chrokee
Indians. He has been superseded in
the confidence Of the Indians by Mr..
Bondinot, an educated Indian who has been
clerk of congressional committees, and held
other places of responsibility. Congress at
the last session passed an act appropriating
three million dollars to pay the Cherokees at
previously stipulated rate for their land in
the Indian territory, on which the govern
ment has located other tribes. Phillips
charged the Indians what they considered a
big fee for bis services, and Boudinot told a
st. Louis reporter that Phillips told the In
dams thai Che reason he charged SO much
was because he had been obliged to pay
Secretary Teller and Senator Dawes for get
ting the act passed. The reporter published
the story, which nobody who knows either
Of the men will give an instant's credit to.
Now Phillips denies that he ever said SO,
and Boudinot asserts that he did. Whether
Phillips told the story to impose on the In
dams, or Boudinot told it to spite Phillips,
may never be known; but neither of them is
capable Of making such a story seem pro-
ahia
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

Thursday was evacuation day in Harris
burg. The legislation adjourned and went
home, the members taking along with them
most of the money in the State treasury.
No other legislature in the history Of the
country ever spent SO much time in doing
nothing and got SO much pay for it, and no
event since the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg,
has afforded the people of Pennsylvania SO
much Joy as its adjournment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
ITCHING and BURNING !!
ITCHING AND BURNING !!

TcCZEMA or Salt Rheum, with its agonizing itch
r. ing and burning, instantly relieved by a warm
of CUTIcURA, the great Skin Cure. This repeated
daily, with two or three doses of CUTIcURA REsoLr
VENT. the New Blood Purifier, to keep the blood
COOL the perspiration pure and unirritating the
bowels open, the liver and kidneys active, will
speedily cure Eczema, letter Ringworm, Psoriasis,
Lichen Pruritus Scald Head, Dandruff. and every
species of Itching Scay, and Pimply Humors of the
Scalp and Skin, when the best physicians and all
known remedies fail.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

Sir Henry james, the English Attorney
General, has written letter to Chief JUS
sice Coleridge, criticising the conduct of the
counsel for defence in the O'Donnell case,
and intimating that it was possible with
good management to have secured the ac-
quittal of their client. 1t would not be sur
prising If it should turn out that O'Donnell
was the victim of too many lawyers paid by
subscription.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. s.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
tion but guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
THOUSANDS OF Letters

In our possession repeat this story: have been
terrible sufferer for years with blood and Skin HUI
mors; have been obliged to shun public places by
physicians have spent hundreds of dollars and got
no real relief until used the CUTICURA REMEDIES
which have cured me, and left my skin and blood as
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
SCRATCHED THE BLOOD.

certify that only used them about Elk weeks
until was entirely well, but before commenced
using them, my face, breast and back were almost
a solid scab, and often scratched the blood from
my body. I am now entirely well, and think your
CUTIoURA REMEDIES are the best for skin diseases
that ever was brought before the public.
+. M. Fox, Caddo, Indian Ter.
Sold by all druggists. CUTIoURA, so cents. RE-
SOLVENT, 81; SOAP, rs cents. POTTER DRUG AND
CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
Send for Chow 10 Cure Skin Diseases.v
dec5 WS&w2w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

The Boston Advertiser says s'there is no
chance of drawing the color line on the tar
if question" Does it mean that free trade
Democrats in the South will let the negroes
vote for Republican protectionistsa We
.l,.li 900
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

When we read what the department of
justice has to say about Washington juries
we are almost surprised that Guiteau was
not acquitted. His conviction shows that
even Washington juries draw line some
where between permissible and lnexcusable
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

Since the election of Mr.. Carlisle as Speak
er of the House the New York Sun has
ceased reiterating "the Republican party
must CO." But the phrase has had no par
ticular significance since the November cleo
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

The sincerity of Southern professions of
desire to be just to the colored men may be
seen in the proposition preached since the
recent decision of the Supreme Court to re-
peal the South Carolina civil rights act, re-
enacted last year. The alacrity of the South
ern Democracy in repeating laws favorably
to the freedmen is restrained by nothing but
the United States constitution. Where
have they ever done more for the colored
race than the national governments COM
PEELED them TO do?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
ITCHING MINORS.

Bakers Barber's, Grocer's, and Washerwoman's
Itch, Itching Piles and Delicate Itching Humors,
peculiar to both sexes, which particularly dis
tressing at this season. are instantly relieved and
speedily and permanently cured by the above treat
and the perspration abundant to cleanse the blood
of Impurities, and the skin of torturing and dis
hpnrinp humorS.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

The sea serpent is growing corpulent
The last time he was seen he was thirty feet
wide A creature ninety feet long and thirty
feet wide wouldn't look very snaky.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

The blasphemous utterances of the Salt
Lake News show that the Presidents re-
marks on the Mormon problem made pain
full impression. 1t is to be hoped that Con-
gress will contrive some means by which an
impression still more painful may be made
In that locality. With few of the saints
locked up in jail for bigamy, we are inclined
to think there would be general and
rapid decline of the belief that their pecu-
liar institution has the sanction of the Deity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

According to the Washington despatch to
tai telegraph bill is likely to develop strength
enough to brighten the telegraph companies
considerably. Already the latter are ar
ranging for powerful lobby to work
against any bill that does not contemplate
the purchase of existing lines. Senator Ed
munds's bill does not do this, but provides
for the building of independent lines.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
CUTICURA REMEDIES

Are the greatest medicines on earth.
j. W. ADAMS, Newark, o.
The half has not been told as to their curative
powers. G. A. WILLIAMS, Providence.
They cure in every case.
H. w. BRocKwAY, NJ. D.. Franklin N. H.
Ny friends know how suffered from Salt Rheum
until cured by them. MRS. A. R. BROWN, Maiden.
Cured me of Scrofulous Humor of thirteen years.
duration. j. E. RICHARDSON, c. H., New Orleans,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

It will be pity if Boston does not escape
from Democratic partisan municipal govern
ment this year. There is good chance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08

Some of the papers are already abusing
Congress for not going to work. 1t is use
less
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-08
Tennyson's New Poem.

rhe YOUTHS COMPANION, in its issue of j
tn, win publish the following new poem
arly Spring." by ALFRED rENNYsoN:
Once more the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And domes the red -pl0w'd hills
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The throstles too.
Opens door in Heaven;
From skies OF glass
A Jacob's-ladder falls
On greening grass,
And DER the mountain-walls
Young angels pass.
Before them fleets the shower,
And burst the buds,
And shine the level lands
And fash the floods;
The stars are from their hands
Flung thro' the woods;
The woods by living airs
How freshly fann'd,
Light airs from where the deep,
All down the sand,
ID breathing in his sleep,
Heard by the land!
v.
O follow, leaping blood,
The seasons lure!
0 heart, look down and up,
Serene. secure,
Warm as the crocus-cup,
Like snow-drops, purei
VI.
Past, future, glimpse and fade
Thro' some slight spell,
Some CLEAN from yonder vale,
Some far blue fell,
And sympathies, how frail,
In sound and smell.
VII.
TIL at thy chuckled note,
Thou twinkling bird,
The fairy fancies range,
And tightly stirrfd,
Ring little bells of change
From word to word,
VIII.
For now the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And thaws the cold and fills
The flower with dew.
The blackbirds have their wills,
The poets too.