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OUTDOOR RELIEF. CURRENT EVENTS. BIBLE STUDY. SACRED SONG. how far mere history can be inspired, and what relative degrees of authority and divine revelation are in the praotioal teaching of TAXPAYERS.

Meeting of the Central Association Last Evening. WEDKESDAS ETENOJG, JAjrjARV30, 1878. "Sherman ia my friend. Whatever he prom "isee, I'll stand to it "Wells' friends say that Sherman for Hayes promised him that if he would count Hayes and Paokard in, that Hayes would stand by Paokard and all the rest. It is unlikely there is any such writing.

It is most likely Sherman made to tho full the promises stated, but there being no writing, he is in a condition to deny them, and Wells is not in a condition to be believed. It is, however, writing or no writing, "very "hard lines" for the old man, and the House is just now in a humor to make Washington very warm for him. A Scheme to Keduce Waffes. It is proposed by act of Congress to reduce the wages otovery workingmau in the United States ten per cent. The abettors of the scheme have not avowed their purpose in the terms here used, but that the legislation they nropose must have the effect of reducing Ore to the Jacobus building in Hontclair, N.

J. A reward of $500 has been offered for the irrert of the persona who are supposed to haTO eel The price of coal was advanced yesterday, in some yards, twonty tlve oentB per ton and in others fifty cents, Mrs. Marcy, wife of General R. B. Marcy, Inspector General of tho United States Army, died in Baltimore, yesterday, after a brief illness.

Professor Peck, who is connected with a school in Horner, Courtland County, New York, has beon fined 8250 for severely whipping a pupil. Mr. Hilliard is likely to be Minister to Brazil. Tho Senate Committee on Foreign Relations yesterday reported in favor of him. The Bureau of Statistics connected with the How York Custom Houso will be abolished February 1, by order of the Seoretary of the Treasury.

The shoe manufacturers of Lynn are rapidly filling up their shops with new men, and many of the old hands are returning to work. The strike has proved a failure. The French Geographical Society, at its last meeting, adopted a resolution favoring Captain Hou gate's plan of Arctic colonization, commending it as of international importance. The Queen of Portugal, daughter of the late King Emanuel, and tho Pope's goddaughter, is refused admission to tho Pope because she is residing at the Qulrlnah Both Houses of Congress have passed tho joint resolution accepting tbe picture painted by F. B.

Carpenter, representing the signing of the Proclamation of Emancipation. It is tbe gift of Mm. Elizabeth Thompson, formorly of Boston, and now of New York, and was purchased by her from the artist for tho express purpose, at a cost of The anniversary of tho birthday or Lincoln, the 12th of February, is tho time fixed for its formal presentation. Eighty lodges ol Sioux Indians have departed from Rod Cloud Agency. Thoy went in the direction taken by the bands that had escaped before due north.

Since tho removal of the tribes to tho MiBSOUli River late last Fall, where they did not want to go, five distinct bands havo decamped northward with the avowed purposo of forming an alliance with Sitting Bull. Their escape cannot be prevented, for the small force in oommand at Forts Cnstcr and Koogh. oannot overpower them. The War Department is convinced that Sitting Bull is on this Bide the line, and in command of a forTMaam; ln(J we" rmed foros of savages. His band iBBupposed'tonumbciljOOO warrlorsweU armed and fully Bupplied with ammiiuitidil.

TheTattd cojniprtsos beside tho remnants of Sitting Bull's olet baud, all the Mr. Fairohild or Mr. Magone, who were rejected for that cause, under color of the pretense ot another one. The Senators who strained at Fairohild and Magone and who swallow CJark make a comical distinction. They reject those who were Tildon politicians, and something else.

Thoy confirm one who is a Tilden politician, in his party relations, and nothing else. The obscurity and acceptable inoffensiv ness of his record, however, disenable tho Senators from drawing a line at Mr. Clark, because to do so would add too much confirmation to the charge that tho Canal Ring is doing the business of a boss for the Republican Senators. The non combatant blamelessness of his life and the fact of an emergency in Republican affairs have caused the lines of the new Superintendent to fall in pleasant places and, we hope, he will have a goodly heritage of success in his new duties. Austria and England The most significant point of the news brought this morning relative to the Eastern question is the' announcement of a serious breach between Austria and Russia and a growing concord between Austria and Eug nd.

If this announcement prove to be founded in fact we shall within a few days find Russia deprived either of the material objectB she had in view when tho war opened, or will see Austria and England challenged to make good with arms their opposition to the part ition of Turkey. It has long been a fact recognized by the diplomatists of Europe that Austria is far more vitally interested in staying Russian aggressions than England is, and it is tho opinion of the best statesmen in Europe that the grand mistake made by France and England in the Crimean war was in that they took up the challengo which Austria would have been forced to accept. If there be one thing plainer than another it is that Austria cannot afford to have the Danube, which drains over eight hundred miles of Austrian territory, under Russian control. Pressed by Germany on one side and Italy on the other, the position of Austria would be most anomalous if she wore shut off in tho East by Russia but it is clear that to extend Russian influence over Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hcrzegovna would of necessity have that effect. There is reason to believe that some members of the English Cabinot have been controlled in their nonintervention policy by the belief that if Great Britain held off long enough Austria would be forced in self defense to take a decided stand against Russia.

The aspect of affairs has changed of late by reason of the astonishing recovery of Franco. Two years ago, when Russia and Germany commenced work upon Turkey France seemed to be not only powerless but was supposed to be doomed to inaction for a generation to come. To day France has au army of a mil lion men in fighting trims. Germany cannot be counted upon to engage in a great war for the benefit of Rn.ssia, with France thus prepared to enter the hold for tho recovery of Alsace and Lorraine. The passives in the dispatches of this morning whirli indicate a brfach between Austria and Russia, read as follows Tli St, lviei correspond ant of Wo jfYmej snya "TIiitj is no lenycr r.uj doubt tbat ihorir La boen what Mile I hue litUo between Kt.

I'etprelmrg r.nrl Hsaus. Austria, It S' ema, e.qrjct ofl that thi eomlitiar." of peace nild us submitioil to V.nroi on viiivs, or at least ecmmuninsteil, lor m. pi oviil, to tlie. ire rml'MS of (lie Triplo Her vrs extreme reserve, Vlieu tliH uriF occurred the Russian A artni at Vienna, who was on furlsugb. waa return f.

hi lr antl wok explanations iin.l n. ui iv wi.ieli it wan hope! the tilth uiiauaJcr. it. sntli! wi.nl i e.iiaUl'.4y rou.ovo:!. How far Ins nvrn ewre has nut yet trr.tcpire.fl, mi'.

v. the7 uot the inetau wr ieli v. as 'ilii at Berlin nys it is retn vtt .1 tli Courti Andin iz nircarly informed of Aiis'ria' oMectfrna to tlei Kun Biim pcire eoi.in:i ns, nt toe Kama linn that Aitsiria u. i cr acveut th; cxtetsBien of Uuhjaria or A'J. I.i'.ioplo.

't he i' liti'iiii c. vtivMocilsnt, under date of Tues in exeiieiacnt ani uuensiuews is c.ru.eifliav liy roiioita lhat Eunlnud ha.1 partially suc eeeJt I in Austria Heui the Triple Alliance, aw', hr coaitilfwial opposition tUo KaftHan noace programme. I IiavoRCO reason to boli. ve that tii reports aro ai least oxaiKOrnlert, but it ia evidont that some. eligM friction cxiHts between Austria and The 7W'77ij, Vienna paye "Austria a refiiFnl lo annex B.

snin and Herzegovina is conflrmod on Ministerial authority. Count Aiidrasy wilt sanction do nicaure calculated directly or Indtvoctlr to disaffected ludlans who havoescapod from the agon I prlanB to tho wad. But Jehoshapliat was hot con cies within the last six months include many Ne. Ujj li Percos. Qeaeral Miles' available force numbers only i Mu3 Ahab if thero was not Borne othor Drophet of whom To Hie Editor of the ItroMun Enjle In the columns of Tuesday's Kaoie there was an article headed, "A Bad Job; The Old Outdoor Relief System to be Revived;" also, in Thursday, "Sham Relief Stirred up by Ripley Ropes," who said that fifty per oent.

was going to unworthy persona, and that the whole system Is the core, and that tbe distribution of coal Is a damnablo fraud. There ware, Mr. Ropes said, poreons receiving It who wero not in distreaj. I can't see tho taso In mo light you do. Tho visitors being men of Intellect, veracity and integrity, it Beems to mo they would not recommend any unworthy persons.

But I think the visitors ahoul classify luo poor In three classosl, 2, 3, according to tho number in family and other circumstances. I am not in favor of ihe storo system, but in favor of Giving bread, groceries and coal to tho poor. By selecting a few bakers and grocers In different parts of the ward convenient to the applicants, I think there can bo bakers fouud willing to tako nine cents for a ten cent 1 loaf of bread, and there would be a greater saving than in purchasing flour by tho wholesale Also, grocers will tako a percentage off their provisions to Berve tha poor, aud the applicants to have tbe cbnic for his i wants. Some say tliat sugar, tea and coffee arc too lnuob of a luxury for tho poor. Who knows but tho luxuries going down the throat of the or arc more pleasing in the sight of Ood than to ace it nut Into tbe mouths of (be rich with a gold washed Silver spoon.

I euggest to have a seasou ticket with weekly tickets during the season, tho applicants to present tho season tiekot aa a pass for tha weekly llckcta, and the tickets to bo marked same as the visitors dofluo. No. throj loaves bread No. 2, four loaves No. 3, five loaves groceriei iu tho alius way, No 1, ovotity llvo ceutB No.

2, one dollar; No. 3, one dollar ami twenty five cents: ooaL one ton for each family; tho mjuey ap propriated for the outdoor relief, the Supervisors, Commissioners and Superintended to specily the amount given oacti applicant. The remainder of the work can be done by two clerks and one superintendent. Have a book for each diBtrict divided In three parts, marked 1, 2, 3, or threo books II required, witu the applicant's name and number of ticket. By arranging In thi way the clerks could write out a check for the l.ikerM and grocer's bill to a fraction, before tho bills and Unborn lie presented tbein If they cboso to.

To do away with Ihe stores and fuel mid be a saving of $540, and tha salaries for storekeeper and cleiks, $1,300 In toe aggregalo $1,510 for tvto months. This amount would help the poor a great deal. To do away with the fraud, select a nisn iu each block of tho ciiy for visitors, as they will kuow the worthy poor f.oui the paupers. Adapting the above scheme, 1, 2, 3, on a slip of paper, put It ill the lamp poat l.ttor box, tho carnorB to dollver them to the Superintendent or i whom icver proper, tho men aelectod to do the work without psv, the same as tho Lord Muyor of Loudon and hu suliordinales. It would not take forty cent, to gear the ubove machinery tl i irte J.

Put tills the talons of the Kaule, and it his legs are not tied with Ropes, ho would t'jrry it with of i nud no naves, that would aalonih the 'r vUnrx and surprise tho CominUiiouen. ll insurting tli nlnvo you w.ml 1 oblige a seventeen JojrV ren ler of the Laole, a uiBU of 70, a citizen, tpi jrand a friend to the poor, Tccly P. t'XrVKKSAMSlf. I To Oil Editor of th BrwMyii Eajlt: I was present on last Sabbath evening at tho Church of Our Father d'ulvorsulist) and heard tbo Bcrmou of llr Nye In reply to the, recent one of the pattor of tho Tabernacle, ou "Hell." lleforo a largo audience who listened with breathless attention, Dr. Nyercad from the ttxt Matthew i "And these Bhall ko away into ovcrlusting puuiah I moot, but tha rlghtoom into lifer eternal," nnd In ft scholarly argument completely proved tho un Bounduesa ot Br.

Tilmago's ballot, and many por ioiis nt 'aft th? Church convinced that Kulvertialimn was supports hy UlMo testimony and in perlect harmony with Christ's lans. The early ChilstUn fathers. Origan. Clomont Alexandria aud others, 'who wrote aud thought i'l tho Greek tongue and who boldly taught the final salvation of all souls, ua roqiieiitly In their writings tha words "everlasting tiro" aud ovor laslinir punishment," aud I cnuot ur.dorstaud why intelligent clergymen cu literally interpret theao words lu tho present vorrlou os meaning endless, when tho Christian fathers by their avowed belief UBed the words aa "ago lasting," aud tt is un indisputablo fact that those, mou were Fnivorsal Ists. Hell and heaven signify an inward spiritual lu this jrld or tho tiex.

Canon Farrar, one of tho greilcst miuda ot the century, In hiB sermon of November 11, preached in Wirat miustor Abbey, gave tho true iutcriirotulli.il of these words, and openly pr.tclal ixd and fearl challenged oontrfldtollon, Tho same areuinuut has he use I for a half contury by Murray. Ballon, Wbitteinore, i lupin. Thayer and others, and tho nerics of of Hanry Waul Ileocher rejprotln future pun'iitmioct, iu irVj List edition of the. Christian f'lirni. how the great change that Is taking plaoe in the popular holier, and certainly one mUBt wonder why mnny of ihe at present i 3 not openly procbmi l'.

r.i I'lavt aalists. Surely tor future has greater in sler for us ivhun u.on reuow fr their th tlm nijintuiMC viiimi ot barbarism. Dr. Nye will, on FroUy fveninu next, i end rind explain tlto 25 ti chapter of jtiherr, v. ver.

e. "And theio shall go away hit puni and auy In wriline; er o.atlv, rt f'e perlfhim to tbi enoje rt. t'r. rijirhv iu .10 mg next fir. tiyv pivaoh on anotb Bubject.

jrji turn's cak. Tt th Kt.i't I o.ic in yo'ir Mneliiy cvi rli; ace am, or the arreit ol r.arioy Me.M ih on i r.f ftlojr.u? misau.t up .1 geiitleronri uaiu i Mr lu Kyrs'in I. I was nut Ii tilling li i and know noiluuq uo. dr.Melve.iu. I er.i iu ny "ivn hoiHC on Sun lay my TiOth I ri' and four otli.

eaiii.i iu and ur.v.: lrr: lr.ui the honee. Into tho an 1 tal m. with th. le os. Jiy nuliier tried to ivc mo, and Oillc Uruei her on tli r.riu and olifl.

Her arm rs ill ,1 1 blow. There wan t.i.liticun u.h Vih who followed the r.i to th i. ati li. and kept firing revolver tho way up. He iu piiva watchman, aa wis ttato 1 in 1 apr.

11 siati.il around Iu Itil'y's II. i no watchman I am. 1 don't trunk he has a ot in the Cily of n. I also rw an article i your pap: about my being meui'ier tlie 1I low Oiug, thnt citised th dcjth el Uule 1 don't know suc.i a garit; aid when Othe S. iv.u I wai one hundred milra avray Brooklyn, nn was, killed halt a in.lt from wlier, my Ijtb.

lives. I uiu no loator. I work lor a living, mi lure ih.u, so sine 1 kj able. My lather foIlo me the bouse, when this limn half dr.iuk, took hold of him. ami calle 1 Ollieer ilntiJ and toid him to uko the old Htick in, too.

So (hey took him iu an I le a charge against him L.r iulurleriim ollieuie iu ihe discharge of thoir duty. Thoy in all night and he was disehargo in the morning. I hope vou will dome lavor of put(iu this iu your valu ble p.mer to coulradlot tho piece that wan iu Monday oveuiiig'a edition. By doing so you Hid ot.liuf liCUN.UUi MCYIAIION. TIIK K.VOI.K OS TIIK LAS1KHN qUKSTION.

Tn the fiditorof ihf Brooklyn Bitjl': Ah a resilient of llronklyn for many (and a Republican fll Ihal, I 'have daily taken your paper. At tuues I dufer very uiuili with you. and at times I nm vo uiiich plirasd wlt.i your a i rs that I find it difficult to refrain from writln to t.iank you I do not trouble you rioii, but let me say here that your article of bat Friday, on "Kuglaud's I' suits me so well that 1 hmv leader you my l.e thanks I for your noble def. nn of llie true ponltiun. I read one of the pir hr yen dauy (we take it at my hansel, th; ilrr iht.

Til T. I Bee; but the nlaii'l lliev have lakeu ot Lite as to "Kng lanTs true po'sitioii." 1 am sorry for Ih m. for li oy wi from filch a biyoteJ and irruw miotl su id point mat tli ad ih'i by a ejnsla lro, i up all along fie rv. rii'd la' ie. I tv I KuffUml.

vm. and America ton. Wnn each Ui rulit I pie.V. ILieiu "llterivnu I 'inp'ii i but I I truth than eithor country. I mint th do rof I our great leader, of tli" nr.

l.r ulyn and Nviv York ought to be abovj such R.riill li ni as trying to keep up unity tw l. grest roin I trll" who go hand ill llH'i'i in all Un' pr at nud n.ti.lr aiieh a ir 'iitntion i'i lVlav'(. Kaci.f: and you will ilo lor tn of Ivih iu I' ugue eiu U. airl i rti i. in both i will Me" Yl'll i.I l.M II.

It nn to in a', that SI'. Tdltri.iee h.T a sort ri'ligi UH Oliver Otf r. Writer lay snl.l he lu.1 been in the Tomb' nnd the 1U; mood iur. J.iil. He als deel.

ie 1 ihal h.r wi lb 'iv of l.i i iin'l'. iiti in iilide th visit I billiard UM and drank cPaMipagoe. Whit iiue 1 the rev. und Doctor do in ouch pUei B. TIIK llt'KKl' SKI.I.f.ll v.

7' Hi Kdit.tr of th llrvjklm KifjU: 1 ncile lilti ltoil for my kx on reeding Mr. .1. letter in Hiin.biyV Kaui.s. ir laiiii rl i herself, by ber Ricnaiiii to be wife, bill 1 d. iiM if sli a iu eb'j i iie ivuiil cui loy otli.

le.ri.ii than "imrn 1. ditty boys to li sl mdnvtrv. "Ma" I loriorlh'. inve 1 nek." Wle Ml iviiat i her aneestor i may tri I ii once, mid louud thern driv. ii to their ii.

to tli tune r.f i ell Tin Vanke trs uev go bark, an, it sin bai beeu i here long enough to get fhe no doubt found out, notwlibstaii the an 1 lo. on veuieiic eri.erieTiwd in a lrng hull where go sip and mystery arc the pr, vailing 1 Would that Uu. Yaukh eoul 1 cr.nv.l her out. I for nun alwajn jiarme (in my seal fkin au 1 gros gryiti) I my hnn.l (white gloved mid mini)), th l.y re.viiiug two little lnnriug my and nr lionet ln.liiBtrv. True religion Indorse" "lie and fi in nit'of the nrnver Iwdk.

Sneli fl ii ai tliat bitter note sualcli the i rnsl fi ni starving humanity, or the breast from a Y.uretf.. Jill. ZIPP. To th. Ih'.

ttrmktvn Kijl The EAr.E of lust Tluu siiiiy oi.t micI mi item ai.jllt myself whl il do' i in. great Ku.iwmg thil yo I lfhjve iu fair deiiin. 1 iui a ft" tbe.t vou wilt aiirtW lit" rolue aC" tn 5 our vein cr.lumirs I.T lirb 1 Mat in nt. I am nr. ud th tact taat tl.li.

i't of loy l.iiujudia'.e' llelehl. 'tt. yvh high In tli i iiniiiii'i ly, te stine.l in writing my jjowi charact Iwlorr the Unvl of 1' In an I Cireis 1 have lived iu that l.lo i rr iii en y.ai'J, and rve always maintained th; must friu lid! rel ii.i.v w.ih my wiiu l' is lo their kindly ui lowar 1 me. I tyvc ahvajnen.l ji.ir e.l lo'heip Dim to ti'o i mv ability, and ilrey ra. spouded tn tlie sain lriendly Gkoik Ztri', 4CJ Pulton TMi: To Ih: th'.

Itrwit'jii I'vi't In Inst ituviUy's ie at ii iiii'H gr.inlt fr.in: lefeni'i, tn 'iru iu ih L'nvtuH entitled "A Uiii.oh," ry lb B.s. in aud to corr 'cc liti eti.it. ntt: tr Ihe inimbir (.1 i 4 a i.ii.r "IVimai'v C.n. di not ee in to ti.Jt th i a I i. tv.

au Kngli)i and au An: iican bil.t a. I Iu MV. ll in italn lilsl he don ri.it. and i tlmri'ior a o'lso'lif t. and au ejcu t.

I Itral h. eo' b.yo.Tii tli" "Prim. I'M An Kiu'Itsii le me mliii 'U vslille t. can it only ui iud iii.llni.'A Had 'Pn marv kiio'vn lei be i.ili ceo ihtt Mr. Miicr ar ic! pIm.

it .1 lo an Kngh biiti m. lr Vet, Sir. "Pri mary it i a rv mttv tr article "I Sir. enierV. and judoubtcdlv La" louiid iti yyjy into uMi.y strap au if have made any all.

ration do not fail tv. this under It. S'tlinreiM'. THE I1II.I.IOM. To tin Kdit: cf th'.

flroef.lt'.i In tiic Eakle of Jn itiary 1 in. rl headed "A BililOD." in wh.etl Ihe liukrf ar of funnv stalenicnM. viz: Th. i a 'udi. 1, fol'yw bv a d'en cip nlso that .1 6: vein 17 diTi.

iur', m.t.'Ute mi to i drLou I'. i Mate ihroura column, your paper if 1 and ntue. cipher. do make a ip II. Jl'Ii.

uot no; ruouuli to UU' UP oriuou o. Jas. J. svtrii. COBNKK llll.MilSfi.

Henry Pearsall, of ManUh'n av. v.uo, his bscusnbjcto4 to much re rnlly, by young fellow, who atand in front of hu and friUenlly insult women wBn pas by. Sir. rearsa.ll Monday ordcrid Ciiarks Hbaw and WitlMni Hr.vJer. ick away from In front of bis preinucj.

of leaving they U'ed imultiog lanunaiic toward Mr. Prar. sail, who aulweijuoutly isiiued tlioir arruat. mtico liolt held them for cxamlotlkm. OH.

T.U.J! AUK'S OAT AM) His It 'Un. Tn 'he E.lit'ir llr i Vim In his uf Sunday Mr. a' It appeared to indirejtly ilcf' bin. It 'r the charge ..1 me ll made auaiu hi; in a I fr lo you of tl.e The r. ul Mlemtn, I mover, bai ci.inpl.

fly hi I api. 'ii in" the ionWs l'iiriid, li. ir. i Bimift's or 'e. slili to.

t. tr .1 hi ('. I yy. nio in io jmtify th th of liuiiuiii im enn nr. I ot tch iu at llr.

Tain." rib in nti. n. I e. hue. of om oilinoo hutnae iir.

the I' br. e'iea i i r. lay I mi lit i.e. pi I a i.ri invlt the getnimnii who to hi" nr. hum I ha "ji I I'r.

"It rrtii'ii to yo'i at a 1 crown of gl TV." 1 nv, e.ln lie who 'Vol i mat" w. lii' coal nouc ihat "ther I IU vr. dl. i.MuV war It. nr.

at bi' snd. vi Vr. we do not puntsb the thlt ve. i.rUlij. i would not be iu the pe uiteiitiariei el Dili in.t'OO crunir.j:B.

I It liM to 111 that Mr. Tallruef h.iv I i.B,.lf v. lerl nn llli.tr Otl'T. Y. OT lay he The ILessoa for Next Sunday.

Ret. Dr. Duryea's Weekly Locturo Falso Prophets and Modern Gorernnienf. Last evening Bev. Dr.

Duryca gave his Usual weekly exposition of tho Sunday School lesson for next Sunday In the chapel of the Clasron avenue Presbyterian Church. A good audience was In attend I ance. The lesson under consideration was taken from tho 19th chapter of Second Chronicles and tho 1st to 1 tho 0th verse, inclusive, and is entitled "Jehoshnphat Reproved." The usual devotional exercises prefaced i tbe lecture. Iu his remarks the Doctor devoted considerable time to the considering of the events of the chaptor just preceding the ouc containing the lesson, from that passed to the laemh of tho lesson. In his openiug remarks Dr.

Duryea referred to the claim which is made by government to regulate matters of faith and I practice as in tho Roman Church, and said that granting their promises, the conclusion which ttiev come to is inevitable. Ho then said that in the chapter the one preceding tho lesson ho fonnd a thc mc that it was exceedingly protllable to consider, aud which ought not to be left out of sight. Jehosha phut had Increased in strength and favor and had sought to strengthen his house and his kingdom with an alliance with Ahab King of Israel, and ho had made a family matter of it by marrying his son to one of Ahab's daughters. To strengthen ttio alliance paid a visit lo Ahab at his onpita) In liamaria, and appears to havo been received with great pomp and parade, for i we are told that Ahab made a grot least for him. Alter the feast Ahab sought lo induce Jchoshaphat to Jom forces with bim iu a campaign against Syria, who was the most dreaded enemy of tho Israelites.

Jchoshaphat during his whole life had learned to bo roveren I tial, aud to depend on Iho Instruction of there fore ho desired to inquiro of the Lord concern ing the proposed expedition, and he anked Ahab if i there were not prophet of tho Lord of whom they could inquire. Ahab consultod tho school of tho prophets which seems to have boen In a flourishing 1 condition about this time, for thore were a goodly 1 number ol them. It was a sort of thoological school i apparently, where tho teicbers of ihe people were traiuod up. These young theologians knowing what Bort of a reply King Ahab wanted, wero CAREFUL TO PLOPHIiSX i in such a way bb would please bim, and bj they told flipi to go up against tho Syrian snd he would rrevaU against them. They had.

fo. iut ai'l Z' a message would bo groliolo to the King aud thoy apoko 1 accordingly It was customary in delivering these lnessagu from God tor the prophets to Bposk and act Ujuratively, and so wo And one of i them making a pair of horses of iron and caporing about anil butting with them and then deelatinK that in like manner should tho Kin nuah tho thoy could Inquire, and mark Ahab's roply. Hosavai mere is yet one man, bat I hale him, for nas alwavs nranhnaitvt mrll nt.nlnr.1 mp Yon will nrtlMfl here that to truth is always unpalatable to a great many people, and that they bate tbe man who lella them the truth, and this ottou happens. Men will seek out those whom they know will tell them the things they desire lo hear, instead of going whera they know they will hear tha truth. It is one of the most instruotlva thiugi in human nature.

But Ahab desired to ploase Jehoahaphat, and, there tore, sent lor his old man, Micatah, their prophet, whom ho hated and despised, but whose words ha was willing to hear on this oeoasion to please bis ally. So he made a inossenger to Mioaiau, aud at the same tioio instructs the messenger to Intimate to tbe old man what the other prophets had said, and to instruct hun that his message should be tho samo as theirs if he would please the king. Here is another curious iu stance of human nature. A man will seek lo influence the message of truth whioh he seeks In order that it shall ba such as ho WANTS TO HEAR. Notice that (n this luslaucs thero is a great rati mado to influence ths old prophet's decision.

Af.ub and Jchoshaphat sit in the gato of Samaria, each clothed in his royal robCB and each on his throne. It was a parade ot pomp and power which is sometime aeou iu othe ways at the present day, when men tD use and Influence tho deliverers of the truth, and clothed In their royal apparel and with all tho pomp and clrcuni ttauoe of wealth about them, they sock to terrify the poor, threadbare mlmstor into preaching as thoy would like to have him preach and notas his irsnscienco would dictate sometimes they succeed and Bomotimes thejdouot, but it is to be bopad that tho per centime of thoso who will spoak tbe truth is tliorOYer.He of wnat it was iu this Instance, and doubtless it is, Iu Ibis instance thero would not have been an uttcnipt to aiolato an answer had it not been expected that It would lie what Ahab did not want to hear to, and here we hve a fine exposition of humau nature, for all piophots sra constantly beset by men to proach the words which they would iiko to hear, and uot the truth which they do not want to hear, because they do not want lo tnko hood to it and follow it. They constantly seek to put wor is iu the preacher's mouth, as did Ahaj, wlioso messengers told Micaiah to make hii mosHifie one which tho king woutl liko to bear. It was a Btiff answer which the old man roturnc for Ire said no would speak tho words which the Lord shiul I put In his month. We Fee here tli' re was not much in dependence of spirit In iho school ol theology among the ycuny and you can never look for very mucU progrrrB from schools of theology.

Tu arc oooHtrrva live, and whatever progress in made is mainly from the outside, aud pe rhaps it is woll that they should be thua conservative. The Pr.ifosors are under tho moat BOlomn oiths aud obligations not to teach anything else but what is laid down. Thoy must not go outside of and so they ko along iu tho Bamo lino yrar after year, until tho progress that is made outside produces a 'rho text S3ys that the Lord "put a lying spirit in the mouths of tlr yo prophets," that they should prophecy faineiy boloic the two kiugs, and thi i raisss one thing which should always be U.ipt In mllid. Tlie. Hebrew marie no riislincliou between what God ilid directly and what He permitted.

Eivry act, vhetoer it waa duo to Iho dtrout agency of UoJ, or whether He stmp'y permitied it to be, waa alike to him, and he looked upou both as tho direct handiwork of OoJ. This is a thing which, in the interptetatiou of passages, should always ba kept In mind. We see Micaiah was brought before the king and asked to deliver Ills message concerning the proj.osed expedition, aud at first hla speech Is in tho bitleroat vein of Irony, for tio out the message which he had een by the king's messenger to deliver, and then tbs spirit of truth that is in him, and his fearlessness when proclaiming tho words of the Lord aro seen, for ho pronounces that the expedition is doomed io Ignomlniom failure, for ho eiys ho sees tho children of Israel Bcat tered upon the mountains, as sheep having nosbjp herd. TlUi NEXT CHAPTER Is a continuation of tha event, of the precoding one. Toe expedition went out under the two kiugs against the Syrians, and was overthrown, and Ahab perished, while Jehosaphat returned in peace to his own kmg dom.

Aud uu bin return we see that he is rebuked by a prophet of the Lord, who says to him: "Shouldn't thou help the uugodly aud love them that hale the Lord?" Judah had ho part or lot with the trib that had succeeded. They had (rona away and had turned to idolatry, sinning against id, and the Syrian was the instrument In God's hnml for their punishment but hero was Jehoshapliat, the servant of (loi, heltiing those whom would puniHli agaiuat tho iustrutiieut which had dejijned for Ibcir punishment. He had made the allia nce in hH family with the fami.y of Ahab a basis for.Htale policy, a tliiui which he had no right to do. He bad uo riht to ums the mosey aud blr o.l of his subjects iu a for own aggrandizement. It was violudui! tho commands of Ool aud helping lus enomles, bad no war with Kria, but to strenjtbeu tbe bands and tho kingdom of Ahib JchOJliipiirit went to war with Hyrla, nnd the re.

ult wai the destruction of his royal ally. The speaker tliea drew a'j aualog.v between tha position of jv.iglaud in regard to the liafltoru q'te lion. If Ru.t ia was dangerous lo Kllglund, she would endeavor lo he'lp the 1'urk where be is a bulwark againat Kusniu, niii if the Turk not an abomination, then there isn't auy. It looks an thou.h the Kiill.li Prune Minuter wu. en doavuriug to pint what Ji tne.l 1 1 do.

uml no iVjuV. there nro pi nty of small propaeta ai.out him to fiiii nui aim iu hia mrne. Tho second topie. in the loiaon is his prpara for the a.lminiiUatton of justice. Wo see thut be established curti ot justice all turou'rjh the country; courts io try civil cases and courts to take charge ot maelerd of conseriein and failli and he also ostal.liah a court nf upp uils at Jeruniilf m.niiil to all tiieso judges Iik gave the sumo Instructions, that th' ehould aiiui whiter tho laws with the fear of tho Lord t.efore their eyes.

From this llie speaker drew tho coiieluHion that juilK' 8 ahoul 1 always bo lifted up aud rnuuiV.Ml from ail lnlluonces tliat cm sway or control them in any way. They should be above and out of tho way of nil evil ilillil' noes. II" thou went oil to speak of th Legislature of the Stntons it utrrally appeorn and ot Cuimres und ooidoimied tho i lo i that men under such tl nces evil going thither in.slrtie'tt'il ov men even more ignorant than ttiey, could l.rir: ivijo legislation to pass. A wi.su man sent by a fool would be likely to act as the fool wanted him to act. Tno lescou i.e'Xr: we will bo from tho 'Mth rliai tor of the same bjok aud io entitlud ipbot helped of tlod.

ITTl'KK PI'MISJIMKXT. the of tlie flc, Ku jlt: Iu the past fe'W woeks there Inn lice much said, and much more caviling regard men giving expression to thoir iu couueetiou with the manner aud material use to reward the wirli. and I mi hl add, the time Iho are to receive It. T.i subject Is loo larjo to do it justice in tho spat" allowed in your yaluable paper. Hut permit mn lo inak a lew remarks, by way of olucioatioa.

The (heme casting man, or taose of the human family who reject Goo's pian of salvation, into a liko of brimstone aud fire. Now, the drst thing lo be considered What io ih man composed of, for he it 1 to be cist into the lire? Ood nays he is duel (Gunesis ill, I'J); aud ay, ou acc unt of disobedience he shall leiurii tu dust. According to this, all Ihe component parts of mm aro ue. tiucUi.l He was made of dust, aud got his animal lifo by Ood bi eathing into Ills nostrils the It. ath of lives, e.r something he was to impart to others, ft is overlaying lite he reeeived by eating of the Irillt of the tree of llie thst was iu the garden.

But as soon ari ho was driven oul, ho could uot have access to the tree. therc lost everlasting hip, ami tjecim; ai any ou.r creature that God creale.1, having only the brea that wa iu bis nostrils, nnd that wa and is elementary, aud, oiifceipi ully. destructible. It is the Rome, as God tola hzsrinl. to prophesy on the dry bjiicu tho Name aa they rf.rt life from it was wind or air.

See F.ze.lia! xxiyii. 0: "The prjpliet calle I ou tbe wind lo give thein life, aud it did so, and they stood upou their feet like a great army." Kcclesiaste ill: ID aj they have oil ou? breatn. Then mu without GoJ'a Holy Spirit is aa inatrrlnlisttc as the chaff, or ur.s at Is ailegorlrr e.l by Die Saviour in the parnblu, they shall be ca't iuto Ihe lire and burnt up. If they would undergo a ciiau in tho grave they might eacape bt tng burnt up, but thy Herii turirs say there no chjnae in th grave. "For what soever a man that ho shall reap," Oil.it.RU9 vi: 7.

If you put a man iu the lire before he die, will bum up. If whe'K bo resurrected iherr is no change, then he will burn up also. Tbo name Scripture says: "If ye sow to tne licit, yo shall of the fie. reap cr Now then you huve' got the man resurrected a mas of corruption, and you put him in a lake of brimstone aud Are and keep him there for ovr an 1 ever, It is ridicul us, aiul impossible even for Cod. Let us hear what Ool soy on ihe subject: "They sh.ill suffer tbe second death." Ilnvelatlona xx: 14, 15.

I'lrey shall bo burned up," Matthew iii: 12. "They shall lw though as they had not been." Obad xvi. "They Fhall be blotted outi" Pi alrus 09, 2i. Slalaonl says, "Triey shall re as stubble," iv: 1, and "Ashes under the de of tne sain i' feet," 3. Now let us near what says: "Thoy shall be cast Into the lake of His dlseiples did not understand Him then, i a great number do not now.

They asked Htm to explain. He did and thev were satisfied with His exposition. You will Und it in Matthew xiii, from the 31 to tho 52.1 verse. Thero you will see not only tho wlckod but eierytmng that olfenda will be cast Into tlie lake of brlmstoue aud Are. Bear in mind, thti is to take effect when the trial is over and thr.se arraigned are convicted aud the sentence passed by the Judge.

Come up ye blessed, and depart ye cursed into everlasting fire. Jfatthew 'Tnis Is the yvases of sin Death." But some of you say they did die. Sly dear reader that is not the wajos of tin. If it is then the righteous get the same reward, for they die also. Tho cause of our death is disobedience in our forclathcrs.

"So in Adam all die," Corinthians This hereditary not tho remit of sin in ob. The punishment of the wicked Is, olernal death. That is, it is irrevocable. No reprieve, fiver lasting, It never will have life again. You cannot make thwords "everlasting" and death" exiat ahvaja together, bectnsfi one has a termination and the other bat not.

Everlasting is never ending. Death Is th absence of life. It is only prophetio language Now. therefore. It speaks in the future tense.

Such f. "These go way Into everlasting punishment." Matthew What is the punishment, "Eternal death that will know no waking." There never lived a soul on this earth that suffered eternal death. Neither arc the words used in tbe present tcnae, aa some of our pulpiteers would have tbe sentence put Iuto execution, belore it was passed, and 1 avo those who the Word of God stys ira sleeping in tha dust of tho in a lake of file and brttnatoue, that never was made yet. No, they are gone where the cease from troubling and the weary aro at rest." Dut when Je siiB cornea hack again the trumpet shall iotind, Ihey shall come forth to judsmwt to receive their reward. whether good or bad.

"Sale Savior." U. U. P. Christ himself, on the one nana, wnere wo can be sure of it, and the theoretical and doctrinal expansion which His followers and the churches have given it, are questions whioh Protestantism must meet with more, than a shibboleth," or lose its grip upon th public mind. Mrs.

Merrill's Will. Comment has frequently been made in these columns upon the tendency of the present day to disregard the wishes of testators in the disposition of their property. The number of will contests which have been tried during the past two or three years, indi oate that the expressed wishes of the deceased should not be considered binding unless they give general satisfaction to the heirs. This challenging of the sights of the testator to do what he pleases with his own property has in many instances, been carried too far, and the Eaole has on several occasions, where the opponent of the will has set up the plea of insanity, pointed out the evident injustice of a practice which ignores testamentary obligations. But the contest over the will of Mrs.

Merrill, who bequeathed the great bulk of her fortune, some $300,000, to Cardinal McCloskey, as trustee of a religious institution, utterly disregarding all her natural relatives and heirs, appears to show that insanity is by no moans a necessary quality in the inequitable disposition of property. The contestants in this case are seventeen in number and are all nephews aud nieces of Mrs. Merrill. It appears from the testimony that Mrs. Morrill had originally named ns the residuary legatee of her property the Right Reverend Bishop Bacon, and after his decease his successor in office iu tho Catholic Church.

Soon after Bishop Bacon's death Mrs. Merrill made an appointment with Dr. Chatard, rector of the American College in Rome, and Dr. Smith at the College, and there signed a codicil to her will, substituting Cardinal McCloskey for the deceased prelate. It does not appear that she had specified any particular institution to be benefited by her money, but promised to leave something to the American College.

An attempt was made during the first few days of the contest to show that Mrs. Morrill was of unsound mind because every night and morning, on retiring and rising, she kissed the portrait of Mose's Taylor. The charge of insanity, however, does not seem to have been pressed, the contestants relying upon the more satisfactory ground of undue influence to substantiate their claims. What testimony may hereafter be introduced to prove that Mrs. Merrill was unduly influenced iu disjosing of her property to tho church will be a question for the court to weigh, but independently of this there is a moral significance in the bequest which cannot very well bo overlooked.

It seems quite clear that whatever influence is strong onough to override the natural impulses of oonsanguiuity must be powerful indeed. Where there is provocation to disinherit a presumptive heir, the bestowal of property outside the family circle is intelligible enough, but in this particular caso there appears to have boon no motive for excepting the natural heirs from participation in her possessions. Some influenco stronger than family ties aro to be looked for, and since that is not to be found in family differences, it must re n'ide in other circumstances. Tho constant interviews between Mrs. Merrill and the clergymen interested seem to furnish the necessary clue.

Tho influence which will override family instincts must, of necessity be a strong one. The question to be determined iawhethor it was unduly exorcised. Without by any means assuming that the bonds of consanguinity establish an itialieuable claim upon the property of a lady with a handsome fortune, one would be reluctant to express a belief that relations have absolutely no rights. On the contrary, had Mrs. Merrill failed altogether to make a will her property woidd legally have gone to her relatives, her heirs at law.

These are the heirs who have received nothing, and who naturally assume that the representatives of the Catholic Church have actually usod undue influence. The public will be inclined to agree with them. As regards the bequest of property to charitable institutions no objection will ever be made, we fancy, to the devotion of a part of one's fortune to such purposes, but to distribute the whole of it at the expense of heirs presumptive, is to deprive them in a measure of their rights. The constitution of one of the Western States, Missouri, it we are not provides that no property can be left to charitable institutions after the doath of the testator. It must be conveyed to its recipients during tho donor's life time, or the gift is inv dated and passes to tho heirs.

Such a provision seems almost necessary, when wo find a valuable property like Mrs. Merrill's devoted vaguely to the interests of religion. A study of history will show that during the later years of C.dholic ascendency, previous in England to tho Reformation, tho practice of leaving money itT largo sums to the church became so geu. and gave so much dissatisfaction that thu church itsolf began to discourage it. It is true that when Englaud uuder Henry VI f.

abjured Catholicism almost the whole of the church property was restored to the Crown and was redistributed, but there is not much provocation or possibility of such redistribution iu this country. The church is so perfectly organized and io marveloufly officered that it scarcely needs donations of this kind. Its property consists, as all church properly should, in the offerings of the faithful, contributed in small degrees. We cannot help thinking that the right policy of tho church would be to dh courngre the making of enormous bequest. in its favor, especially since it can at nk limes secure onough from its adherents to supply its temporal uoods.

Sew Siiin ritttendciit of Public Vi'orfc. The caucus of the Republican Senators, In Id yesterday, unanimously agreed to vote to the Governors nomination of Mr. Beiijamiu S. W. Chirk, to be Superintendent of ritlilic Works.

As far as can be made out, Mr. Clark is a gentleman who has received neither special praise uor special censure. It is auuounced that ho has boon a successful and honorable cashier of a bank in tire Town of Malonc, mid that as warden of Sing Sing Prison, appointed by Superintendent Pils btiry, he has done much to bring that place to a SL lf suslaiuing basis. Having lived titty years iu this Stale, with this as the only Ihiug iu the nature of a "record" which he has made, Mr. Clark has apparently had the most uneventful life of anybody who was ever to be the second official, in power and responsibility, of any of the American States, especially of the greatest of them.

Any greatness has been latent in him, if it exists; and that its presence is unsuspected does not show, to a demonstration, that he has it not. But it will be amatterof complete surprise if ho proves to be a conspicuously able official. The probabilities arc that ho will bo an acceptable incumbent, to carry out the policy of stronger men who have discovered him. That policy in administration is one worthy of entire commendation. Its method of selecting its most important exponent could well have been improved, iu the Eagle's judgment.

A man known to be more than competent, able to magnify tho position by entering it, and whose appointment would stand out not as a doubtful or moderate investment, but as a striking example of the identification of a representative person with a representative place, would have produced a better effect on the public service aud the party. Governor Robinson, however, makes a pretty strong argument when insisting that this is an appointment in which his personal preference should be conclusive, because his personal responsibility is so great as almost to bo exclusive. The new system of canal management is made by law and by the amended Constitution, an outcome of and ru adjunct to the Governor's administration iu a very direct sense. The Superintendent holds office only during the term of the Executive. He is removable by him at will.

Everything depends for the success of the reformed management on the ability of the Executive to move through the new Superintendent, as a man moves in the coat which he nuts on. So Mr. Clark may be expect? to articulate thoroughly with the Governor who will be the Superintendent in him. This, doubtless, accounts for the gentleman's selection. We shall be very glad if it also vindicates it in full measure.

In general polities Mr. Clark is, of course, a Democrat. In particular Democracy he is a very thorough Tildon man ns much so as either The Uses of Hymns Discussed by Congregational Ministers. A Paper on tlie Subjeot by Her. Dr.

Palm, cr The Valne of Music in Religions TVorsblp Remarks by Roy. Drs. Storrs and Bndington A Proposition to Intro duce Chanting. Tho Manhattan Congregational Association, comprising ministers who withdrew from the regular Association because of their differences with Mr. Beecher and hie friends on dootrinat and other points, rosumed its eesslpn yesterday alternoon in tbe chapel of the Clinton avenuo Congregational Church.

Rev. G. W. Oilman, D. Secretary of tho American Bible Society snd Moderator of tho Association, occupiad the chair, and Kev.

Dr. MoFarlanc, tho Seoretary, recorded. The attendance was small, not more than twenty persons bein present, including spectators. THE TOES OF HYMNS. After the preliminary services, a brief paper on "Xlie TJbob oi waB Toad by Bev.

Roy Palmer, D. Seoretary of the American Congregational Unfon. He began by referring to the larao number of hymn books in use, saying that half a dozen new ones were prepared every year, A religious lyric nowadays was not always a uymn. Some of them were theological doctrine in metre and contained no poetry at all. Others wore replete with theology and yet wero poetiosl.

Imagery and ornamentation except Id the most chaste ana simple forms, were no mors to be tolerated in hymns than in prayor. After all, a hymn could not be defined like a triangle, A hymn might express emotions that may havo Zieen excited by thoughts not expressed in it. Another class of hymns express emotions and thoughts which naturally awaken them both together, such "Plunged into the Gulf of Dark Despair." Every true hymn would bo an expression of religious fooling at once both poetical and thoughtful. Happily the English loDguaga iB now rich in its hymuoiogy. It is not so much so, however, as the German language, in which thero aro over hymns.

It had bean said that if we should lOBe the Holy Scriptures we shonld flod in the German hYjiDn the entire epirit of tli9 Christian religion. The nrdt and moe familiar qf all Hjo qite tiouB connected with the subject was the place of hymns in publlo worship. Tlie speaker then went back to the time of the Emperor Augustus, nnd traced the course of tho ubo of church mitaic iu Christian worship. He referred (o (he groat improvement In religious musio during the reign of Gregory tho Groat, and of the change in this reBpoct inaugurated by Luther during tho Reformation. The words and music of Luther's bymnB, the speaker said, BTTLIi BEYEBBEBATED THROUGH HTSTOBTT.

He oho traced the rise of English hymnology back to the Sixteenth Century. The changes in singing hymns in our own coualryduring the last century amountal mcst to a revolution. Until a comparatively recent period hymns wore never thought of exceptiug a3 they related to pub'lo worship. Mow they weresunaat all times and under all circumstances. It ehould be the object of the hymn to awaken the tendor and devout sffec tioDB of the sonl, to utter what is there and to lift tbe eoa! up to the object ot its affection.

If the hymn failed in this it failed altogether. Artistic singing alone was not what was wautod. So long as musio attracted a'tlontion to Itself only as an art it stood io the way of devout feeling. As regards the minister he is bound to feel that praieo and worship tn tho form ot hymns brings man faoe to faoe with God, If the minister really feels this, bis air and manner will make the con gre.a(ion feel it too. The speaker severely criticised the carslesBneBB of some ministers in the matter.

He thought it was a great loss to the Bcrvico and some tlmea led to ludicrous results. Every service should have a certain unity throughout it would GREATLY HEIGHTEN ITS EFFECT. Care should be taken that the hymn was in the same vein as tbe remainder of flio service. It had beon said that these things were of no consequenoo, but that was not so. The speaker thought the hymn nhould always be reaa when it was convenient.

If that was done it would be moro likely to prove effective. Tho congregation would enter more heartily into the singing if it was carefully read by tho miuiator. The most eminent preachers had generally boen celebrated as hymn readers. The spenker noxt roforred to the use of hymns in social worship. It was formerly the custom to use them in the same method as iu publlo worship.

IIo could remember that hymns wfcrc only sung at Che morning and eveulng services end in tho prayor meeting. Groator freedom io this respect was permitted, not only iu the eooial ineotinaB but in the prayer meetings than was allowed some years ago. In rovivals hmna had beoa sung which were not uod at other times. During such poriodB an intenRer oxpresJion ivus ae tnantlcd. Dr.

Palmer warned his hearers, howover, thnt pieces which were often StNO WITH DEEP PEELTN'O at suoh a timo might afterward become unprofitable aud insipid. Many good and Hootive hymns had came Into use during the roceut revivals and many ot them were very poor. Dr. Phinney depended very llttlo on revival byniUB in his efforlH whilo Dr. Nottlcton was In striking contrast to Dr.

Phtnnny iu this respect. Mr. Moody had a great advantage because ho hart so many hymns to chooao from. The ffoct of many of theBs plecoa was nioro In tho novelty of their structure than any devout thought or sentiment which thoy might nxpreas. A trout dangor was threatened T.o popular tost i( those now plecoa wore permitted to crowd out tho solid old hymns of bygone days.

Among the other uses to whioh hymns could be devotml with good eftdot was by pastors in dealing with individual souls. The fact is, a hymn ad dreBBoa tho heart and manes it familiar with Its feeling and pathos. Iu leading awakened souls to Christ hymns might bo used with great fff ct. Thoy were also useful in assisting the aick aud cheering the dying. IK THE FAMILY OIBOLE and Sabbath School they were especially valuable.

Their uaa by the children was a matter of great importance to tho pastors of tho churches. That the tanlx ion of committing hyiuua to memory was passing away was very umoh to be regrntten. The speaker wished that in every Sunday School overy soholar could be required to commit nt least one hymn to memory every wook. The quoslion naturally arose ss to what were the proper hymns for childreu. Tho idej commonly entertained by the makorsof hymn books wus that children could not understand Ihe oid lashloned hymns.

Every child could understand them. It waB the duly of every mlaister to Bee that the people had rich evangelical nymni which would educate them and assist them In spiritual In conclusion Dr. Palmer spoke of the use of hymns as a means of personal private culture. This was growing more than ever before, and had proved to bo very benoQcial. OF Dli.

STORRS. Rev. Dr. Storrs, in moving a vote of thanks to Dr. Palmer for his very interesting paper, ho w.mld like at some future time to havo tbe subject explained more fully.

Among other things he would like to know what the ethics are of the alteration of hymns. He thought it would be well if they could have a dlstiuct rule as to what changes were proper as to what was required in altering the old hyinus to adapt them to modeun taste. Another practical jue3tlon was how fur it was prnclieable to introduce tho chanting of psihns iu the original and rhythmical form. It was done iu this country Iu the Episcopal churohes and also in the Congregational Church at Orange, N. J.

The soeaker was desirous that chanting should bo introduced in order that wo might get rid of these feiters of rhythm. He believed th.i ialai form was the bettor form of utterance We should get rid of A GfiEAT DEAL OF USELESS STUFF if tho practico of chantlug was introduced. He would aUo like to have the question of the uuity of the service more fully explained and discussed. Ho would prefer to have tho service much more general in its character than it now The broader the range of tho. service the better it would be.

Hvuius ought to develop and ooiphasize the truth. The hymns and tho voices wbich gave Iho lnnaic always had tw.i oihrcs to perform lliose of expression anil impression. The latter was the ofiice of iuculcatiog truth and (living it lodgment in the heart and mind. The choir wove not only to lead luo congregation but to teach the con rj gatiou. Thetofore ho thought tho custom of a choir superior to that of congregations! sinning with a precentor.

Dr. Storrs expressed himself hi favor of art In church music. It was very effective. He Lad beard in Europe and some of the churchoi in this country solos which were the most effective part of llie service. He also thonght that pr.nso meetings wero very useful aud concluded by again exprrefing the dearie thnt the qneatou might ho more fully iliac JsgeJ at some future REMARKS OF DR.

BUDINOTOV. Rv. Dr. BudiiiHlon Baid He had never been in F.ng aud Scotland without being impressed with the idea oi introducing ir.iauting into our own churches, He had been toid that it was lmp ssil.le to do it i'i this country, that we hadn't Bufflch ut culture, and ttia culture of England and Scotland was tho result I ceu Aud yet ho had men ccugrcg.iti abioa.l which were far below our own iu point ot culture, who successfully followed tho custom of chanting. It was an elevating and ennobling nerrico, and the speaker had labored for its introduction, but had auandnued his eflurtB when he louud there was so much opposition.

The Moderator said that in the church in Orange Valley the chanting was a great success. The range wni not large. They had only the selections of the hymn end luuebook, bat they did them uduurably. On motion of Dr. Storrs the Modirator and Secretary v.

ere iiiBtruetod to prepare paper on the subject, to br read at tho Autumnal meeting. After prayer by Dr. Budington the Association adjourned. MIM1.VKT MATTKKS. second platoon of Galling Battery, Fifth Drlgade, Lieutenant P.

J. Hollman commanding, wore exercisod last night in horsemanship by Prof. ssor Gerlach at the Brooklyn Riding Academy, 470 Tan lic street. Thore were eight horsemsu present. Tno exercises consisted in mounting, galloping, trotting and forming in tw.w and fours.

Xnirty vight members of Ihe Thirty second liejiinent have been dosiuated inarkJiiiou. Tho dnils for instruction of Coumiaud will be held at the Armory as follows: Line Oilicers, Monday. February i. Wing, Companies ii, on Wclnesdoy, February 6: Wednesday, February 20. Left Wing, Companies on Tuesday, February 12; Tucway, February M.

The companies of this regiment will assemble for rifle practice as follows: Company Captain Wander, Febru 7 aud 21; Company Captain Jfisse), February ami 25; Company dptaio Goldman, February 0 and 20; Company CapUin Schuiltl, February 8 aud 22; Company E. Captain Schlig, February li and 28; Company Ciotain Waagc, February 4 and 18; Company Captain Lutz, February 13 and 27; Company II, Captain Dillincier, February 12 and 20; Company Captain Schuchhardt, February 5 and 10. The following change? are announce in this orcanlzatlon: Promotions, Sersjeaut Mijor Charles H. Mour, O.duanca Sergeant Henry Ness, First Sergeant John Fahls, Company Sergeant Jacob Manx, Company Corporal John Weber, Company Corporal Otto Albreclit, Company Corporal Atitm Klotz, Company Corporal Philip Surras, Company 10. Reduction, Sergeant Major Rolwrt Peterson reduced to the ranks.

Resigned, Second Lieutenant Dledrich Cordes. atoKdc p. ooniMW. The death of George P. Gordon, the well known manufacturer of the Goidon printing is announced from Xurfolk, whither ho wont last Autumn forthebeueBt of hl health.

He wsb born in New Hampshire In 1810 and educated In Boston, but most of his life had boeu spent la Now York, where for many years he successfully carried on tho job printing buiiness. It was during this portion of his career that he conceived the idea of inventing and building a'job printing preES that ehould supersede all others, and inspired bv both interest and. pnblic spintedness he succeeded in hie purpose, and amassed a handsome fortune as Jiis reward. His great natural ability and taste for large enterprises were supplemented by systematic labor, enabled nun to do easily what most men would have failed to accomplish at all. Hi whole career as a business man has been singularly free from anything which needs suppression.

standard of business integrity and honor was a high one, and his success in following it, while so many others lesa scrupulous hive failed, i a lesson which the business men of to day would do well to study. He leaves an enduring monumsnt in the great enterprise he eo honorably and successfully conducted to permanent success 'bbooklvs fhilhauhoxic. At the next rehearsal of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, on Friday, February 1, at 3, the following orchestral selection will be rendered Symphony, "Lo nore," by Raff overture to "Coriohinus," Beethoven: "Wedding March and Variations" (first time), Gold mark, and overture to "Rlenzi," Wagner. At this rehearsal only, by request, Schumann's Traumorei" will be playod. At the next concert Mr.

B. B. Uito, pianist, will play. The Odorless Excaratlng Compauy'f Contract Brought Up Swift and FUhertj. Ripley Ropes and the Outdoor Relief A Protest Against the Additional Powers Proposed to be Vested in the Shore Inspector.

A regular meeting of tho Taxpayers' Con tral Association wai held laat evening at the corner of Court and Joralomou streets. Mr. Henry Huinford! occupiad the chair and Charles IV. Knilgn acted tm Secretary. The minutes of the prevloui meeting bslng adopted.

Mr. Wolcott reported that a Committee appointed for that purpose bid viiifsl Ux Mlocum and askad him Irow it was mat tho contract 1 been glvan to Swift at (8.000 and not to the lowest bidder. Mr. blocum said ho favored Mr. Chapmau's bid, but had rea ins for believing Bwift would do the work bolter.

He had moro facilities (ud Profojsor Chandler, of New York, stated In a private lettor that he waa doing tha work in that city bettor than any contractor had don It before. At far as tho Odorless Excavating Company's contract to clean out the vaults 'was coaoeroeel, (jeueral Klocniu lutlmated that ha voted for that ou goou faith bticauiu Dr. Crane told him It was a good thing. Mr. Baker prcsentel another report which stated that the Odorless Excavating Coiuprtuv's contract, tho terms of which bad been fully sot forth lu the Exaumot to.

i Vllh. was a swindle ou the taxpayer), and one that oiwht not to be loloratiil. lie understood that th validity of It Is ty be tinted iu court iu a day or two. Tho reports were ordered on file. ABOUT B1IOHE INSPECTOR PEBGUBSOK.

The followiug resolution wis offered relative to tha additional powers to be bostoworl.upon Hbora Inaprotor Fetgucriou, according to tho tenor of a bill offered by Ueiiator JacitM H'Atm, A bill has been Introduced In (he State Htt atc by Henator John C. Jacobs which confers additional pjA'crs aud patronage on the Sjore uspector, and the eineiiditnro of threo thousand dollar.1 by said Shore Inspector, to be used tn tha employment of such number of men and BUoh vwiols aa inriy deom necessary; and fifi The present liw relating to the powers an duties tho ijhonj inspector have been found 4 for the pwl th rafore be It R'mlcfi, That th 'I'aspareri' Central Association remonriisT6 bguirn the of fie act entitled 'Au Act tu aiuoad Chapter elOl of t.io I.an of 1B7R," being wholly unnecessary aud burdensome to tha tax pavers. Umlrfd, That a copy of this resolution be sent lo the several members' of tho Legislature Irom Uil oouuty. The preamble and resolutions wera adopted. Tho fodoivmg wa offered by Mr.

Elliott: Money being easily procured on good aeau rities, aad the rate of interest bung reduced in maoj Instance lo f.iur, live an 1 six per therefore bo it Thnt we, as Uxrurcra, petition tho proper authorities tj have all the and county bonds liara 1 after H.uMl near a fivf JlCT cent, intonut clauso Instead of seven ai lierjioore, deemmg tbe latter rite higher than the tiniM will warrant and tho former a Just rale or lutcruit where tho securities are so valuable and gol. PIUWIN'Cl RIPI.EX" ROPES. Itelative to the outdoor relief and tho action of Mr. UoO' iu the matter, tho fuilowlng resolution were oBered by Mr. Kusign, of tho Twenly icon Word It' That tha thanks of the Association bo tendered to tho Lion.

KipUy for hla earnest effort in itpp mititui try the present plan of outdoor, rollef ado( t.I by tbo Board of Uuperiisow, and approved by Supervisor Large Guthrie. AViri't That the statement mads by Mr. Mcflinley at a meetln'i of tlie Volunteer Keliol Viaitora" of tha different ward of this city. In relation to Ihe poverty uil'it na iu the Twetity snc nd Ward, is unwarranted by lb Irl. I'l.

Judge Tnompsoii objuoted to tbe second nwoln lio he il had nothing to do with Iho Oon Unl wliie'j Khoiild not be called upon tor ct.nti oeit wlnt Mr. McOiuloy or any one, oU had 'lb lit catd'Uiou was adopted, and Mr. Eualf Wl til ft'OOUd Mr. A. Hr tililintr, of the sixteenth Ward, pra detit a settiug lorlh thai tho pro ji r.

i rt i i rrt were not asse BSod iu proportion iii ir ii.eom.,. but by an arbitrary valuation, and a pr.r i iiiiv Hut Uio pr por ps would be takou jfy the state lawiu thin et. The oommn i. ieitl vvni ref'rre'tl to the loiuuilileo on Legislation. Mr.

iT 7 flu: tV of the Tax pi. erV he I' iii rate I to call on th lu trict Att iru to take n.Oicures to Indict tho Board Sopt r. i.T Kr inting out relief, the uunB i.i; I in. irhjirmria naid Uic had f. i ed to 3 l.nv Committee of the linanl super.

cr rtan If (lie inl had any right to urtiril urn liit.f i in ei i'i iy ornmrreo of flv, of which r.x Ju lg T' in llr irairio in, wai appot.itcd to vtdt tho In i VI Tii.t. tin 1 ronror with tutu as to the pro tf t. actl u. I'h in w. ni into executive session.

I ilik Ml iC.tlll SOCIAL. I i o. mid iloniant reception and 'yji by llr; Meteor Hutvinl riot, on Monday dl V.iver.' Ai i leiili, voruor of Court und ytate atroeU. 'i'li rt.oni un, ry comfortably tilled, und the dancing continu. in', I i lato hour.

Tb; the lirst reception wMoh tiu ltd have held, uud have reason la Or higli'y qrutiOei with tuoir elfurM. Tho guests arrived about nine o'clock, and did uot aw until l(u hour, and after having Bpent a very pleasant trvenin and which they tH oujoye.l. Among thoao pre eut were Mr. an 1 Sirs. Htimmerford, Mr.

John Ko vlea nnd Ml Mllli r. Mr. Willlim Mowbray, Mian Annie Uoodinau, Mr. J. O.

Tbursby, Sliss Alieo Molt, Sir. William 15. McN'ulty, Slltia McDoonoll, Mr. Cbarlm F. Thorns, Miss Bcardo Charsloy, J.

W. (Hark and Mus Klla DrisciH, Mr. O. K. ldwla and lady, Joseph Short and II Nellie llyjo, William Kaybrook and lady, Sir.

James Ml Mill, tbe Mlraaa Way land, Edgar Fe lljwei and lidy, CUarles Curl Is aud lady, Samuel T. Freeman and la 13'. 1'aTiek ilonlon and lady. J. Spiers and Mist Cleorgis Hems.

Mr. I. Ing and Uoyan. 11. Kne and lady, 'ft 8.

Bands and lady, Alfred Hurling and li ly, J. II. Uunleu and lady, Patrick Crafts aud liny, Mr, Titua C. Itcll and Udy, J.or.'!er and Mm Mount. Mr.

Purser and lady. Sir. and Mra. WillUui Ilailey, Mr. YaUenburgh, Mr.

Leterfdge II" 3 ml In ly, Widiam Storm and lady, Mr. O'Hare aud Kate Ilo iney, Alfred Leater, aud Mrs. Mai'r aud mauy others. Ktl'I'lC'KrN. SUNDAY KAGM3.

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ll I'l of Zt ullon tri't. In (lit' i'iltri) in trie ni.iiiy isyorjl.lii uipr vaion of pjlilia Oi i dut i i I lo ill ill, 1 OjiUMrrtHitviM. witri tlie umlly inil't ivimrents which the ait of pilot, graph)' has ad ied to that inv ntlnn. ptoturM ars coa ct to he tli ni' tru.hfti.', dltcate ntitl laatlne. Tr liriKlueod.

and persony bavie.i; yalu th im Injibly. Tii aro not to tk Ihe pl. of th itioil. rn but In re to il maod for a i.rfco 1 pi tam. ivh' should Ih? dlytl'icllve inerll nhlcb cbarma trrir.o tli nrtl.t'.

prr.d nctfotlv Sir. PI" A ft SAI.f. bay bft lo vlrn lb? iiiv nrlin r.f Dijiu nw On. of tha Kreat a.lvrrnta I' by ihey: p.rtrltt If that thuy cua be tiuihe 1 to a f' iimri'l, vyhich la a (rca4 convi.tilonee toparll bavinir bir. l.ttlo tlino to pard.

aad who nisi elais at ihnrt nolle and mod srr le Ther Sre put up in aubttantial ram yao'inilia iP'aHty and at la. and as lielrloonn aarpaa atiyttilnir ttiat ht i ori orprl the pillilio. rauus llr. e.1'1 'lageerreytypel which have lic.m.i injured In any ray van hay them rcn'ored n.itiilual aa mak ln Ill ill it i gnnA now. Mr.

PKA HSA1.I. would tw pt to C'Jb'nlt and prl rua a'. hl irallo. 29 I'nlt i st, nearly oppoaito Ixieiar'a. FORTIETH ANJtUAL OK TIIK KMKHAT.I) ASSOCIATION, IN All) OF TIIK BKOOKI.VN TIOSIAN CATHOLIC OIIPHA.V ASYLUMS.

AT THK ACADKSIY OF WKIlNr SI.AY KVIrNINO. JANUARY 33. Ti' KKlS. KKATb NOW i Olt HAI.i: AT 1IKOTI1KII.S. STHKET.

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CO it Falwa and 1 BrvaJ aj, H. Y. This Paper bat mo tiurarcst circula. ton of any Evening i'aper Published In the United States. It value as au Advertising medium it tucrcioto apparent Cue Soutbern Prosecutions as a Spectacle and a Licssoni It is announced in a New York pnper today, with an entire unconsciousness of anything comical, tragical, melodramatic or suggestive being in it, that Secrotary Sherman takes a gloomy view of the Returning Board trials, in New Orleans; is apprehensive that a bad future shows from the outlook: regards the prosecutions as a travesty of justice; thinks the conviction of the accused a matter of certainty; declares the proceedings a violation of the spirit of the understanding whereby the present settlement of her affairs was made sure to the State; and doubts that Governor Nicholls will have the courage to extend clemency to the condemned, in case thoy are sentenced 1o prison.

In ordinary time, such nn announcement as this from the principal Cabinet Officer of the United States would reverse the course of thinking in every part of the country and introduce the press, the pulpit, the business and professional world to a stupendous sensation and duty. All the elements or influences working on affairs from any quarter, for any purpose, would suspend their course, and unite to declare an emergency in the history and condition of the Union, and then unite to meet and master the emergency which they declared. This, too, would bo the result should the Minister of Finance in any other considerable country under the moon make such a statement as Mr. Sherman made, yesterday. The fact that his statement produces no displacement of the public thought is as extraordinary as the displacement which such an utterance from any of Mr.

Sherman's predecessors would have made. The country has wrought the fact of a stolen Presidency into the very structure of its consciousness. It does business under and with reference to that fact. It goes to bed with it and gets up with it. It tempers all its, talk and thought upon the Administration with the fact that that Administration is wrongly in power.

The names of Sherman, Hayes, and the rest start a drift or recurrence to an event of crime, the same as the name of Tweed converts to a synomym of stealing, or that of Nathan to au instance of murder unexplained. So when Mr. Sherman indulges in meditations as mournful as those Heralded of him, to day, they read not even as news, for there is no novelty or information in them, uot even as matters worthy of reflection or reply, for events of universal knowledge have long made such a reply to them as saturates them with the full quality of condign confession. The public's attitude toward these Betnwiing Board prosecutions is as remarkable as its treatment of what any high officials sny about them. There is neither disapprobation nor onthusiasm and to one of those forms of excitement the Aiuerlcau public is nearly always addicted.

The facts are road more as a matter of course and with a sardonic, quiet indorsement, than iu any other spirit. Though the incidents are fresh and have the element of rarity and comedy in them, they full on a public in whom, as to those things, the capacity for surprise or disgust is exhausted. Ten months ago the country would have picketed tho railroads ahead of Wells and fumigated, the taverns behind him, if Justice was engaged in a stern chase after him. Now he runs like a rat aud unlike a rat he will not turn and snap nor is he pursued lo speak of. It is felt (hat the sphere as a whole is a pillory for him, aud that it matters less than little on which part of it he heads up.

Nor is there any special interest in tho arraignment of his fellow rascals or iu the antics of their attorneys. The othor States feel that Louisiana can neither improvise any laws nor iu any way execute existing laws, so as to give them a moiety of the retribution by which they aro adjudged abuoxious, to a public opinion which outruns all statutes and which is equalled by tho resources of no tribunals. There iB no apprehension of any real dispensation with the forms and spirit of justice as to them, by Louisiana. Itis foil that she acts under the conscious observation and criticism of tho world, and that she will bo wavy and chary to suit. But tho abundant charges in Returning Board orgaus, that the accused arc being maltreated, do not even public curiosity to question or find whether they are correct or not.

Should the news come that a Or leans mob had overpowered the constabulary and burned the three docked Presidency thieves alive in the pnblic squire, the editorials of the next day, and the talk of the streets would be on the hideous novelty of Hit punish mennt, ot on any theory that tho swot lies litul not deserved it. There is a grim aceepUnce of the punishment of these fellows as hiring a matter of course, there is a grim conviction that not only ihey, but, one by one, all their principals and all who bone ftted by their crime, will come to slow torture or swift catastrophe. The fraud hns not only become a preserve of hup crime, but it has also become a source of complications, These complications foul and debauch the whole operation of the Government. They disfranchise what it or does, or promises of respect and confidence. They denude iis whole action of any moral 01 06.

The for bcaiTince. the habit of allegiance, tho cohesive power of self interest, the inclination to order, and various like causes account for tho fact that the Administration is tolerated. Noih ing ne.tountfi for the fact that it is trusted or respected for it is distrusted and disrespected. But the Louisiana instance shows niori than ihe complications revealed by previous events. It is the opening event of a force which 110 reflecting person doubled was oner ative in the fraud.

That force is retribution. If it bsjjins at the bottom, it is only that it may reach tho top. If it takes the form of law in Louisiana on the tools, it is only Unit it may refine its forms and multiply the number of its victims, as their station and influence increase. Tho wrath of sUtutes is discharged on Anderson, Keener and Case ziave. The wrath of the worse contempt of party hate, operating through party i age, is already felt by Matthews.

Hayes, Sherman aud the rest. For them, and tor Bradley, Edmunds aud all, is, too, the fearful looking for of judgment and firoy indignation of history, from the presence of posterity. In their life time they may not unlikely suffer for their acts. In their descendants, they are certain to be factors of shame aud apology and excuse. As the notion recedes in time from the fraud, the assumptions, the pleas special, the arguments of party policy, the texts and pretexts of rouges, the devices to effect, condone, justify, or veneer the wrong will grow less and less to memory.

Tho net form they will take Will bo a shamof id effort to commend or color a slnvmcful sin. The sin itself will stand out bare and black. The children of the men who to day, like George F. Hoar, are writing political ethics, will crawl into grave yards at midnight, to chisel their fathers' names off the faniilv tombstones, so that the next 11 generation may not be advertised of the dust of the dead, and thus be provoked to seek i out, so as to make its environment a part im the description of their crime and their estate in the annals of the people. Nor will retribution be so remote.

Every person prominent in the procurement, promotion or defense the crime on the people should read prophecy as well as warning in the Louisiana events of to day. The full divulgonce of tho method of the crime is expected cannot be long delayeda divulgehco as full as the realization of its enormity. That will challenge the multiplicity and ingenuity of the American resources of punishment, immediate punishment, on tho rovealud perpetrators. The challenge will be met with a vigor and variety of retribution that will make the social aud legal fate of evJry pariy to the fraud as signal as the fraud itself. Madison Wells is running by railroad to get uuder the wing of Judgu Humphries, in Washington City.

The three other Returning Boarders are on trial, Anderson, white, being tried and Caseuave and Keener, negroes, being nnded to turn State's evidence. Wells claims to have a writing from Hayes, saying wages ten per cent, can easily be shown, The proposition to which we refer is known as tho Bland Silver bill. Ostensibly its purpose is to make the creditors of the country accept t)U cents in lieu of the hundred that was promised them but what its most important effect will be a very simple operation in arithmetic discloses. The Bland bill, if adopted, will make a standard dollar consist of 412A grains of fine silver. At the present market price of silver grains of the metal is worth te fvactiou less than cents in gold.

The greenback now in use is worth about cents in gold. Tho greenback being a promise to pay cannot be worth more thau the coin which it represents, hence the moment the Bland bill goes into effect the greenback in which the laborer of the country is paid must decline in value from 98 to 89 cents in gold. In other words the purchasing power of the poor man's wages' tvlH be decreased about ten per and if the downward tendency in silver is not stopped, the loss to the laborer will be still greater than those figures show. In the history of Europe many instances aro presented of legislation designed to restrict the compensation of artisans, but in the whole of history no instance so sweeping as the Bland bill can be found. In plain terms its effect will be to take one dollar a week from every man who earns ten two from every man who earns twenty, three from every man who earns thirty, It may be said by the advocates of tho bill that if the purchasing power of the dollar is lessened the laborer will get more of them.

Of this there is no guarantee, and all experience will be set at naught if there Bhould be a prompt compensation in number for the decline in purchasing power. Experience the world over is that wages are tho last thing to rise and the earliest to fall in a fluctuating market. The uncontested fact is that wages will be reduced ten per cent, by the Bland bill. In this we have but another illustration of the principle that capital and labor are friends not enemies, aud that tho greatest sham in the political world is the demagogue who talks of benefiting the one by damaging the other. The Bland bill will enrich a pack of silver miners just as our protective tariffs enriched some Eastern monopolists at the expense of the entire country, aud as the Pacific Railroad schemes enriched two or three score of bloated railroad magnates at tho expense of every honest working man in the country.

Tt is high time that thctrtisaiis of the United States who have intelligence enough to appreciate the point here presented, made thoniselves heard and felt in opposition to the scheme. lie Great Question tor Protestantism. For many weeks the Protestant world has brioii discussing tho doctrine of everlasting punishment, and it has been interesting to notice that many of the leading clergymen in the Episcopal, Cougregational, Baptist, and oven Presbyterian communions have taken the rationalistic viow of the subject in flat contradiction of those, traditional standards of orthodoxy to which thoy have given, their formal assent aud which aro supposed to define the faith of orthodox Protestantism in the same way that Popes and Councils have declined tho essential dogmas of Catholicism. A curious feature in the present controversy has been the general omission of the devil, yet to formulate hell without him would seem like "playing Hamlet, with Hamlet left out." There was a timo whon the reality of the personal Satan and the demouoiogy which is its corollary, filled at least three fourths of the religious awe and sentiment of Christendom. To Luther the devil was so tangible a presence that on one occasion ho flung his inkstand at that imperial head.

But now, like witchcraft, belief in a personal devil is iu abeyance, if not extinct and even the smaller fiouds that were wont of old to make their home iu vagrant aud eccentric breasts aud, rather than be disembodied, ran into the herd of swine to their consternation and suicide. But underlying all these questions is another so vital to Protestantism that by it evangelical theology as a dogmatic system must eventually stand or fall. This is the plenary inspiration of the Soriptures. We suppose that all Christians are agreed that thci'o is inspiration in the Bible and that it contains a message of salvation and righteousness from God to man. But this is quite a different proposition from that which affirms that every book, chapter and verse in the Bible is pleuanly inspired and therefore free from all admixture of human error.

The fathers of the Reformation undoubtedly felt that without an infallible guide to take the place of tho infallibility claimud by Catholicism, their system would be iogijully incomplete aud have no bottom. The infallibility and plenary inspiration of the Bible, supplemented by the experimental work of tho Holy Spirit iu tho individual boliever, became, therefore, the ba iis and siip3ivslruoi iri of Calviuistio theology. Yot at the very start we find the elements of that disintegration which is so manifest everywhere iu the present day. Luther, as wo know, rejected with scorn tho second epistle of St. Peter.

AU the Proiestaut churches refused to receive as part of the in. spired canonical Scriptures the Apocrypha, which is counted as inspired revelatiou by the Church of Rome. Thus tiii Rule ot Faith'' upon which the doctrines of it uuui, depend, became itself the bone of couceution in Christendom. Availing themselves of that right of private judgment which orthodox Protestantism eoiiaedosin theory though it denies it in net, some critics of Germany and England have discarded one passage alter another, on which huge theories wero built, as interpolations of later date, wanting in the earliest manuscripts. Br.

Arnold rejected the Book of Daniel his son Matthew f'. IU us that tho gospel of John in clearly "the work of a theo logical lecturer of the lM itouic school. The Apocalypse has boe. rejeqted by scores of otherwise orthodox Protestants, some of whom have even called it the vision of an opium cater. Barrow, one of the four greatest names in the Church of England, de ohred that the study of it would either End a man crazy, or make him so.

Scholars, bred in the straitsst school of orthodoxy, like Francis William Newman and James Anthony Froude, the historian, who was formerly a clergyman, have devoted the best yenrs of life to the criticism of both Old and New Testaments, and have piled into volumes the contradictious, errors of fact, exploded super stitions, and fabulous wonders which they affirm to be in them. Ernest Reman, in France, though trained for the priesthood by Bishop Dr.pnnloup himself, has given us views of the lives of Jesus, St. Paul and the twelve apostles, which, if true, demolish alike the authenticity and inspiration of a lrtrg. fcUC U.lUUCIlltll.11 rf tuM of and tho whole super We state these mat tors as phenomena of the religious history of our time, and which cannot be ignored by the Christian apologist and teacher. It is in vain to defend tho outposts when the citadel is on lire.

Protestantism must be preparod to dofend jls original cornerstone or the edifice must fall, and a new kind of rational Christianity take its place. The two Newmans fairly illustrate the religious alternative of the age. Both scholars of the highest culture, both bred in the same Biblical Protestantism and educatod in the same orthodox university, the elder has embraced Catholicism as the only dofinite escape from scepticism, while tho yonngar has declared for rationalism and the free and full criticism of the books handed down to us as an inspired revelation. Even in tho least cultured and most numerous of the Protestant denominations, we have a ffcooklyn Methodist minister telling us that the Bible is not one work but many, a volume containing sixty six pamphlets." What relation these several contributions of different periods and such various authorship bear to each other, Par' i (1 it" u.Jlra 800 men, cavalry and infantry, and it 1b feared that Bitting Bull will advance and either attaok the troops, or strike at settlements which cannot bo covered by our small force. Major Walsh, commandant of Fort Walsh, denies that Sitting Bull has crossed tho Hue.

The Spanish cigar manufacturers and importers of New York hold a meeting yesterday for tbe purpose of taking action in regard to the proposod change in the present law governing taxes on cigars. Sixtoen firms were represented employing 1,345 hands, and haying a capital of Resolutions wore adopted protesting against tho proposod reduotion lo the tax on clgara and requesting tho Congressional Committee of Ways snd Means to repeal tho law which requires manufacturers to affix a caution notice on every box of cigars manufactured by them, A man who had murdered his little hoy, IK years old, by throwing him into tho Alleghany River, on tho night of December 15, was arrooted on Monday night, on the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge, near the spot where he had thrown his child into tho rivor. Ho was in the aot of jumping into the wator for the purpose of committing suicide, whon arre3ted. His wire had separated from him some time before, and had gone to live ime miles from Pittsburg. Her husband met her in tho siroot in that cily on Friday, and seizing the child from her fled with it.

She had failed to recover it until he notified her that he had drowned It. In a fit of romorBC he had strut her word, aud this fact led to his aire3t. The Post Office, Custom House and United Stales sub Treasury refuse to tako the trade dollar. Postmaster James, of New York, explains that the United Statos sub Treasury, in which the receipts of the Post Office aro made by law. has refused to tako the Crade dollar.

Tho trade dollar waj bsued lor a sp.rcial purpose and is not a legal tender. Tho trade dollars iu circulation now reach the sum of nearly 000, yet Conaross passed law July 22, 1870, to tho of fect that tbe trade dollar should not, that tttne, bo a legal londer, and tho Secrotary of tho Treasury was authorized to limit, from time to time, tho coinage thereof. The trade is worth only ninety two conts, and tho publio in future will not take it lor more than it is worth. Frank Leslie was arrested in Philadelphia, lnat night, on a warrant issued at tho instance of W. W.

Wngley, a Philadelphia lawyer. Iu addition to tho warrant.whicb charged Leslie with criminal libel, Wrig ley had caused a rapid) to be issued against his person, for damages In $10,000. These suits Mr. Leslie are the consequences of his alleged breach of contract with Wrigley and others to secure for him aud furnish to the subscribers of bis Centennial Historical Register souvenirs of the Exhibition. He had, it is charged, said of Wriuley that tho latter had swindled him, nnd bad published Wrigley's name In his lllus tratod newspaper of September 8, 1877, ns a fraud.

Mr. Lodlie had him arrcatod at Saratoga last Summer, and siHC2 that timo Wrigley has boen watching for his opportunity for revenge. Up to midnight Mr. Le3lio had failed to find any of bis friends in Philadelphia, aud was still seeking for somo one to go his ball to avoid being lodgod in the station house, Mr. aud Mrs.

Leslie were tho guests of the President yesterday at lunch, and were ou their way to New York when the was made. Theodore Fluek, a German, stabbed Jacob Rotchnianti in tho neek, in tho cellar of a lu.or beer brewery, at No. 34!) West Fourteenth stroet, New York, last evening, itilllcting a mortal wound. Rotohmann died in a short time. Fluek is a truck driver iu tho employ of the owner of the brewory.

The quarrel was brought about by Flunk's abuse of a cripple who was employed in washing barrels iu the brewry. After finding much fault with the boy Fluek seized him by the throat and knocked him down. Whilo lie was prostrate Fluek dragged him toward Ho mouth of a well with the evident intention of throwing him into It. Retctimann.wuo was standing near by, guessing Fiuck's purpose, interfered to bhvc Sohmitt, Fluek, terriblyturoged, turned upon Kelchmauu, aud drawing a pocket knife stabbed him in iho neek under tho lelt car. rjteichmann staggered back into the arms of a fellow laborer and died iu flic minutes.

FlLck llrrd from the cellar but was subsequeutly captured. Tho murdered man was years of ago and bad a family consisting of a wife and four children. Fluek 44 years of nge and has a family. Tbe latter Is said to be of au excoedinuly quarrelsome disposition atultohavo been engaged iu frequent quarrels. On the night of January M.

Armstrong, of Philadelphia, was killed at Cnrudeu, N. by some unknown pereon. Ik njiunin Hunter, of tbe former pince, lina been arrested suspicion of being the principal In the crime. Armstrong and Hunter werr formerly buinea partners and dissolved their partnership iu June, 1KT7. Armstrong held notes of the litter for aud also had his life insured iu Huutor's nume for Hunter made arrangements to accompany Aimstroug to Cnmden on the of the murder, nnd it was at his suggestion that a meeting was arranged be tweeu htm ami Davis, against whom the deceased held notes The theory is that Armstrong was persuaded to visit the house of Ford W.

Davis iu Camden, and whilo on his way thore was struck on the head with the woupoua found near his body. Those had Davis' initials cut in tho handles of them to cast suspicion on him. Tho hammer used havo been identified by a blacksmith who lent them moulhs ngo to Davis. Hunter has not accounted for bU whereabouts on the nlht of tho murder, and has been ldentifle.1 by fl police nfflcer. of Camden, as being at the ferry honso in that cily on the night of the murder, xcited aud auxlously inquiring tho time for the boat to oomo to Philadelphia.

A deckhand on the ferryboat also recognized Hunter. Tno examination made shows that tho initials on the hammer wero recently cut, which would go to show the planning of deep conspiracy for the purpose of defrauding the iiixiirnnee companies of some The policies of llfo fnauranco were for only threo months, lieuco the anxiety to realize this great sum The matter Is recoiving the most careful examination. DU.NM.XO'S I.1AJJIL1TIES. The scheduler of Edwin J. Dunning.

the bankrupt note broker, were filed yesterday, by his assignors in tho office of the ClerK of Ihe Court of Common Plea. The gross liabilities are The real assets arc placed at $1,817.41. The nominal surplus on the notes and collateral is $181,101.80, but tho uuniber cf failures among the makers reduces thai probibly lo nothiug. Ucuce the rsason why Ihe real asjets ore so small. The following are the cteditors who have collaterals almost entirely iu notes: Basks American exchange National Bank Currency, gold, collaterals, noted, $222, C0 Chemical National uanK i urreucy, jou.

um, $. 000; collaterals, uotes, United States i per cents. 10,000. Corn Exchange Bank collaterals, notes, Mirkel' National Bank collaterals, notes, Mcrctij0rit' National Bank collaterals, notes, UV.H..3!; V. S.

4 per cent. NaitODal Bank of Commerce Cm roucy, gold, cjllaicrala, notes, National of tho SMtc of New secured by notes and collaterals, not all known, tbe bank having declined to give a list, amounting lo nearly $.100,000. FinMB asd Goi.r Loans. Agents Bank British North America 2 collaterals, warehouse receipts and bills of lading. Jlooas, J.

B. 4: Boston Qnlil, collaterals, wurebouse receipts, C. T. 4 Co. collaterals, notes, Rrk'r' J.

L. D. 8. Gold, $15,000 collaterals, notes, gold, $10,000. Sundry gold loans $502,043.22 collaterals, American gold, $400,000.

Following Is the list of unsecured creditors American Exchange National Bank gold, Chemical National Bank $3,453.44 gold, $5,000. Com Exchange Bauk 0.420.50. Dix C.20: gold, Downer St. John $25,000. Glfford, Shermau IuniJ $21,734.82.

Hartford National Bank $12,200.30. Hedgcman Co. $29,867.71. Henry, J. Curran A Co.

$140,348.03. Howe, Goodwin Cole $33.340.68. Kummulbnrg Co. $24,724.47. National Bauk State of New York $10,470.50.

Reed Co. $11,704.50. Tufft, Truetdell Fiold $00,037.78. Weaver Sterry $20.638.46. The principal niakirs of nolcs pledged aa collatera aro Dlx4Morrii(19not3 Doirnar 4 St John (7 noto Dutoher.

L. L. 4 Co. (9notej) Fowlor. Crumpton 4 Co.

(14 (Jlfford, Sherman 4 Innls (1 Giles, sWlllain M. 4 Co. (2 noto) Uillis. Charles A. (13 notes) Hfjoman 4 Co.

(1C Honry, J. Curran 4 Co. (15 Ijyiyronce, tlenry A Sona 4 nolo!) Hood A Co. (10 TnlTt. Trcesdell ft FlW IW notoal SVeaver A Stem (1 notos) WeUierlll.

K. J. IS nolo) n.saa is 85.Si8.ti7 3d.l.)S 1B.TS2.71 145,000.00 U.763.SO I I i i 1 i i I 1 1 I i I I i I i i I 1 1 i I I I bring ao tut tho nun oi me uttonian liiionre. nun resolute atliuuo of Anuria ivithia the last feiv hoars has in a certain measure heen tu.vl" Known to Russia by Count Andrassy art well aa l.ori Derby, in the form of an identical note." It is hardly necebsary to ay, that Russia is in no position to oppose Englnnd and Austria, and the improbability of Germany lending EuKsia material aid is manifest. An Austrio English alliance or concord will, if effected, secure good government for the Christian subjects of the Porte, but will make the compensation of the Czar exceedingly meagre.

The Tulle Kound A There is a talk of "compromise" iu the matter. It is given out that the Silver men may consent to push the proposed 4i American dollar" up to a standard of 120 grains to leave out the provision that private owners can have then' silver bullion stamped by the Government ad libitum, or to provide that any gain or "seniorage" the Government makes in the silver business shall go to the benefit of the Treasury, not of the private owners. It is declared that by those concessions all friction and likelihood of a veto can bo avoided. This compromise talk is tho feature of to day. The feature of yesterday was the boast that the Bland bill as it was passed by the House should go to stay on the statute book, whether it was vetoed or not.

The talk of to morrow may be that the President and the Secretary of the Treasury have been "converted" and that they lie snug as two bugs in a rug. in the pocket of Stanley Matthews. This talk, iu short, roally goes for nothing. "What the Silver men want is the issue, aud if thoy can get that without the they will uot be any the less pleasad It should bo the aim of the single standard men to tight this measure at every step to resist till compromises as earnestly as they would the baldest form of the proposition, for tbe period is one which devolves a duty of steadfast adherence to principle on men of thought and influence, aud if the thiu end of the intruding camel is admitted into tho tent, the rest of the quadruped, hoofs, hump, tail and all will not be so far behind as au optimist or anatomical view would suggest. lit; l.nl'ayetie Avcimo I'rnml.

The decision by the Court of Appeals, published in the Eagle last night, in the Win field and Xc.vtowu Eailroad seems to involve death to the Lafayette avemic railroad fraud. Judge Barnard, it will be remembered, decided that tho Lafayette avenue charter had become a dead letter, because work had not boen commenced under it within the time specified by law. From that de cision the corporation appealed, and the decision of the Court of Appeals remains to bo rendered. The case decided yesterday, however, turned upon the precise point settled by Jhdge Barnard, and the view taken by Judge Bariiard was sustained. The Lafayette avenue operators affect to believe that tlie principle determined yesterday does uotjapply to their case, but what they affect to behove or deny is of alight consequence.

The difference for which they contend was stated to Judge Barnard aud he said thcro was nothing in it. Moreover Mr. De Witt presented other objections which would have boen fatal to the scheme had the consideration of mere compliance with the time clause in the charter boon deemed ineffectual. There is somethiut; irritating in the spectacle of a band of robbers pretending to believe that the law is, or may be found on their side. The charter wiis conceived in fraud and in so far as it is vital is fraudulent now.

No criticism can be passed on Mr. Tilden for having favored tho Electoral bill if he favored it. No criticism can be passed on him for not resisting the award. Omniscience is not vouched safe to men patriotism is to someSjj Tilden included. The bill seemed the wisest and justest recourse at first.

The wisest and justest men favored it. Its failure gave the geese a chance to cackle "I toid you so." and they have beer, cackling it ever since. As for preferring peace to war, on the condition that the bogus Heturning Board governments he let fall before local opinion, un upheld by troops, that was wi6e and patriotic. That man who wishes that the award had been resisted, bu not prevented, is named K. B.

Hayes, not Samuel J. Tilden, who is as philosophic as he is patriotic. There is a certain quiet humor in the spectacle of the anti Beecher Congregational ministers trying to determine what constitutes a Congregational minister. About three years ago they concluded that Mr. Beecher was not one, but thua far they confessedly have not been able to settle to their own satisfaction who or what is one..