Year: 1875




ributon box visible and forgetful about it the
opening night OF play, but that you ought to
level up ia church matters aud level down in other
matters and hit the golden in these days Of in
aation, the greenback mean.


rhe Baptist Happy Family met in convention in
Brooklyn last week. Dr. Fulton, who is very wet in
his theology, played the lion, while DR.. jeffrey who
has only been dampened down. assumed the lamb
They sat together in sweetest harmony and prayed
that Moody and Sankey might come and come quickly


On reading exchanges conclude that
OF the churches sick Of their minister's and
great many sick of their heavy debts


Queen Victoria dislikes the rualists delights in
a simple form of worship The Prince of Wales, on
contrary enjoys the forms of the Church whenever he
attends, which is seldom. His eldest sister is
Lutheran Lord Lorne a Presbyterian. The Duchess
OF Edinburgh is a Greek Catholic and her husband is a
Low Church Episcopaan Take them altogether tho
royal family little mixed in theology


The great popularity OF the present revival is its
splendid double teams The preacher and singer work
in harness together and the load OF sin is carried
the road at good gait Moody and Sankey will draw
crowds in Brooklyn and Whittie and Bliss are doing
the same in the West Well men can be preached
into heaven and some De sung there. Anything
80 long get there and don't quarrel the way.


Everybody is calling Moody and Sankey for help.
Why not eal on the Lord once in q while instead


The Warren Avenue Baptist church. of Boston, which
is bg enough, old enough and ought to know BETTER"
has Just voted that immersion is necessary pre-
requisite to membership. Ii labors under the delu-
sion that the kind OF Baptist is the who has
been immersed In the Holy Spirit and water is q
secondary consideration That church is 125 years DID,
and s either in ts doago else growing wise in its old
age, which only DR.. Fulton can determine.


Some of tho religious papers are discussing the
proper length of sermon We imagine that the YER
dict will depend somewhat on circumstances tho
is dull breylty will constitute its only excuse
for being preached at all II 1t is for fashionable
congregation Ii should be Just long enough not to in
teriere with the celebrated quartet who really run the
church, though the minister IS its convenient figure
head II it is for the Scotch Presbyterans it easily
run up nneteenthy and not interfere with any ones
comfort If however, the sermon is intended simply
to enforce tho Christian life and to sousand this
Is the exclusive object of preaching unfortunately
then thirty minutes should be the limit The dead line
Of influence right through the thrtieth minute,
and every word after thai deracts from the value Of the
discourse.


Bible in their public schools This is sensible and the
only tenable ground II want educational nsti-
to be perpetuated Concede everything except
fundamental iacts and principles, and make the light
there.


The importation fever stin prevaia The Church of
the Messiah which has been long In the Slough OF
Despond will settle Brooke Hereford, who is
pected to preach its debt into thin air. while Robert
Laird Collier will go to Leicester to thrive in
British fog Tho Americans q shrewd people; they
swap jackknives when they are boys and ministers
when they


The New York clergy have not yet arrived at any
unanimty of opinion about Moody and Sanky, and
probably never Will Some Of them want the evan
gelsts TO come others are very doubtful and the ma
jority don't care pin apparently whether they come
not The great revival that has been heralded with
such glowing clerical rhetoric is likely TO be flash in
the pan, so lar as this city is concerned at least After
all hardly help the feeling that the churches
themselves ought TO be converted before word said
80 the people,


Mr. Chamberlin, Presbyterian missionary TO Brazil,
told the congregation assembled one of the Collegiate
churches the other day that there 10, 900 900





ton" We have been puzzled by this statement and
have sat in easy chair front of the dimy burn
ing and drowsy fire, ponderng over IL for hours to-
gether. Ii the learned doctor, with excusable hyper
boe OF speech, intended simply to say that in Brazil
there 10 600 900 who don't go to the Presbyterian
church. but prefer possibly the Catholic form of wor
ship, then our pulse runs down from the dangerous
nineties to its normal beat We are inclined 10 think
that for sections OF the globe the Roman Church
Is benign in It's influence as any other IT, on the
contrary we intended TO make simple statement OF
fact, that this vast number OF people literally
s'going 10 damnation then three things surprise us
nightly: first, that the congregation sat quietly
In its cushioned and received the
nouncement without a murmer Of surprise
excitement though were matter
OF Indifference whether this crowd OF sinners went "
perditon not second, that offered 10 take up
q contribution TO send dozen, or twenty, or hundred
missionaries straight down 10 that region OF Darkness
and third, why in the name of common sense Dr. Cham
berlin len the field that white to harvest in order
TO make speech about what be hadn't done. These
problems which only church people can solve. II
is pretty evident either the religious community don't
care whether people 60 to eternal ruin else they
take the statement OF the missionary with grain OF


Mr. Beecher attended tho Congregational Convention
at Norwich last week Such strain the general
constitution as that which he has suffered would in
ordinary individuals result nrst class funeral
Tlton with his giant proportions, shows plainly the
terrible wear and tear OF the ordeal he is still
stately and erect but sombre and gloomy
as the sphinx That ndescrbable something
which the inward consciousness Of youth
always gives matter how white the hair may be- is
gone; and that other equally mysterious something
which spreads over the entire like a kind OF at
rnosphefe, and which the inward consciousness Of
WEAKNESS and old always sends, is there he has
been and torn by violent forces and the
left Like Geld that has been shaken by earth
quake he has gaps and chasms in his appearance Mr.
Beecher on the other hand although he has always
been phenomenal man, shows II in nothing 50 much
in the way he has borne his late terrific and fero-
cious shaking up Nothing 10 be able to daunt
check his animal spirits He smiled during the trial
until his friends felt that be did not appreciate the
gravity Of his position he smiled after the verdict
rendered, and went TO hIs Friday evening meeting,
and made the very raters laugh at his grotesque way
nothing had happened during the last three years This
may be fault perhaps; but to this invincibe animal
force he owes his greatness he is one Of the best
poised men in the country-L e. his body and mind
perfectly fitted each other His physical system and
his brains evidently intended 70 70 together He
is not tall and has very little 10 boast OF m the way of
longitude he is large, and yet his crcumcr-
commands the respect OF men, His head Is SIMPLY
enormous, and hts hair which s rapidly growing gray
and very long falls down almost " his shoulders He
has very picturesque appearance, and would attract
attention from the most unobserving There ls
not single wrinkle on his forehead, and only the
dmmest shadow Of crows foot about the eye He is
genial, happy and sparkling as IN conversation
and fairly bubbles when he is telling funny story
which he delights 10 do, and which he do with in
imabe humor aud gpce. Altogether, the miracle Of
the generation is that he could 60 into such ordeal
| aud come out Of il apparently young ever But
(6en be IA Reecher and when you have said that you
have satisfactorily accounted ior every sort Of npos
sibity.


1 THE HOLY TRINITY OF NEW YORK.


This is the most vigorous and reviyalistc Episcopal
church in the city. BY dogged persistency and IN
ceasng work the rector Rev s. II Tying Jr, has won
the right conduct his church affairs after his own
model He has three services the Lords Day-two
conducted by himself, and afternoon service con-
Quoted BIZ others The afternoon service leaves Mr.
| Tying free to adapt the evening service to a popular
audience Connected with the congregation are six
teen Sunday schools and mission sationE which are
under is control most Of these having chapes Of their