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The Christian Index VOL. 54—NO. 46. Table of Contents. Fibst Page. —Alabama Department: Culti vate Integrity of Character; The Ratification of the new State Constitution ; The Greenville Advocate on the Selma Fair : Record of Ala bame Events ; Spirit of the Religious Press ; Baptist News and Notes ; General Denomina tional News. Second Page. Our Correspondents : Sandal phon ; Information Wanted—J. W. Davenport; Fireside Education: Leaves from the Forest City—Rev. Timothy Harley; Bible Scenes - Bunnie; Bars of a Jail and a Medley—H. F. Oliver; Bethel Association—J. B. Cheves. Thibd Page.— Our Correspondents continued : Godin All Things, even Our Trials—Nemo; A Pleasant Surprise at Bethany. Ga.; The Chat tahoochee Association to tiie Churches she Represents. Home Mission Hymn—“A Lady of Virginia": etc. Foubth Page Editorial: Indepennt Jour nalism; Mercer University; A Seven Sentence; Bear With Us—Rev. J. S. Baker, rhe Mode of John's Baptism, etc—Rev. S. . Hillyer. A Text for Some Brother; Tue Index—How to Work for It; Georgia Baptist News; Rev. H. Woodsmall; Our Religious and Social Life— Rev. D. E. Butler. The Unjust Imputation— Bey. B, G. Manard; etc. Fifth Page. —The Human Will—Rev. A. J. Bat-' tie, D.D.; A Good Place to Repose—The Ar chives of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary -John R. Kendrick; The Baptist Re- Hector—Rev. D. E. Butler. Secular Editorials: Winning the Golden Key; “The Conquered Banner;” Deserved Compliment; Young Men’s Library Association; Literary Gossip; Bible Scenes; Georgia News; News of the Week; etc. ■'Twaddle”—An Old Baptist: Brunswick Mis sion-Rev. W. D. Atkinson; Home Missions— Rev. W. N. Chandoin; Good Work; etc. Sixth Page.— Our Pulpit: The Soul—Extract from a Sertaou by Dr. Wm. Davidson, D.D. Select Miscellany : Sabbath Desecration j En couragement for Workers in Missions ; Always —Poetry; The Power of Enthusiasm; Put Thy Trust in the Lord; “ Till He Come”—Poetry; One of Moodv’s Illustrative Stories; A Sharp Retort. Children's Corner : “ I W ant It;” Tne Two Graves—Poetry. Seventh Page. —Something About foreign Mis sions: etc. Eighth Page. —To our Subscribers; Texas Items —W. H. Parks ; Bethel Association Sunday school Institute—J. B. Cheves. Marriages Obituaries. Tribute of Respect. Financial and Commercial. Advertisements. INDEX AND BAPTIST. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. The Farm and Home, at Florence, has been suspended. The epizootic is prevailing in Montgomery. Rev. B. H. Crutupton has entered on the pastorate of the Greenville Baptist church. Four hundred negroes left Caiera the 10th ult. for the west. Richard Haralson is in jail at Pollard charged with the murder of his twin children. Rev. James Turner, of Limestone county, was thrown from his horse, and fatally injur ed, on the Bth. The Masonic Grand lodge of Alabama meets in Montgomery the first Monday in De cember. While Mrs.J De Yampert, of Gadsden, who had long been ill, was being removed to her brother's in Greensboro, she died at Stewart’s Station, on the Alabama and Chattanooga rail road. James Reid, a little grand son of Air. Guth rie, of Talladega, was accidentally shot and killed, in that place, on the day of election for ratification, by one of his friends, a boy about sixteen years old, who was handling a gun. The gun was loaded with No. 3 shot, the en tire load, except one or two shot, entered the person of the unfortunate boy just above the heart, and he was almost instantly killed. Alonroe Jachson, a desperate negro, who was tried at the Circuit Court of Barbour coun ty, last November, and sentenced to the Peni tentiary for twenty years, fur numerous crimes he hail committed in this county, recently es caped from the Penitentiary. A reward is of fered for his capture, and citizens ought to be on the lookout (or him. East Alabama furnishes her full share to the stream of emigration westward. Last Monday a large company left Opelika. Among the emigrants were Colonel R. C. Holifield, a law yer and political writer ol considerable ability; Mr. A. J. Cooper, many years a merchant of this place; Mr. Ed H. Alatthews, Clerk of the Circuit Court of this county, and Alessrs. Samuel Cook and George Cole, farmers. From the Eufaula Times we learn that Col. Ben Alorris, Capt. 11. F. Kolb and Mr. A. J. Kiddle, of that city, indicted in the United States Circuit Court, at Alontgomery, under a charge of interfering with a United States of ficer at the election in this city last year, went to Montgomery last week to answer. Alessrs. Alorris and Kolb were acquitted, but Air. Rid dle was held for trial for a violation of the En forcement Act, and will answer the charge with a number of other gentlemen of that city, who are similarly charged and arc now under bond. Even the New York Tribune says of the rat ification of the new State Constitution : While the vote its in some sense a protest against the carpet bag system of government, this constitution has excellent features of its own, aside from its marked contrast to that which it replaces. It does away with special legislation ; it prohibits the General Assembly from lending the money or credit of the State to works of internal improvement, and limits the rate ot taxation to be levied ; it reduces the salaries of executive and judicial officers by at least 25 per cent., and thus and otherwise ef fects large economy. There need be little doubt that it will lay the foundation of a re newed prosperity for the State, and set an ex ample to be copied throughout the South. THUD SOUTH-WESTERNr BAPTIST, of Alabama. cfltivate integrity of character. Young men should be deeply im pressed with the vast importance of cherishing those principles, and of cul tivating those habits, which will secure them the confidence and the esteem of the wise and the good. A young man may be unfortunate, he may be poor and penniless, but if he possess unbending integrity, and an unwavering purpose to do what is honest and just, he will have friends and patrons, whatever may be the em barrassments and exigencies into which he is thrown. The young mav thus possess a capital of which none of the misfortunes and calamities of life can deprive them. We have known men who have sud denly been reduced from affluence to penury by some overwhelming misfor tune, which they could neither foresee nor prevent. To-day they were pros perous, to-morrow, every earthly pros pect was blighted, and everything in their future aspect of life was dark and dismal. Their business is gone, their prosperity gone, and they feel that all is gone ; but they have a rich treasure that nothing can take away. They have integrity of character, aud this gives them influence, raises up friends, furnishes them with pecuniary aid, with which to commence life once more, under auspicious circumstances. We cannot too strongly impress upon our young men, the importance of abstaining from everything which shocks their moral sensibilities, wounds their conscience, and has a tendency to weaken that nice sense of honor and integrity, so indispensable to a good character. “Integrity of character!” Who ever possessed it, that did not derive untold advantages from it ? It is better than riches, it is of more value than “diamonds and all precious stones and yet every man may possess it. The poorest may have it, and no power on earth can wrest it from them. Young men, prize integ rity of character above all earthly gifts. Is it A Novelty ?—Brother Sum ner, President of the Judson Female Institute, Marion, Alabama, has in his excellent school, five departments which are new to us. It may be that we are not informed, or else they would not be so. They are : home department, governess, matron, housekeeper and mantua maker; every one of them are capital departments, and we are glad to see them in the very order he has placed them. If the young ladies in the Judson receive instruction in the home de partment, and in housekeeping, and also in making their own clothing, etc. —and as Lord Coke, or some ether lawyer, said “ etc. means a great deal not expressed”—then, and in that state of the case, the Judson is far advanced in the facilities it offers the school girls in Alabama. Many professors and teachers of female schools and colleges in the South, have yet precisely the same methods and programmes observed be fore the war. Instead of these, we in sist that a change is needful—to suit our new situation—and it strikes us that the departments alluded to are proper steps in that direction. The Greenville Advocate has the following trenchant remarks to make, relative to the odious feature of horse-racing at the recent fair, at Selma; It appears that liorse-racing was one of the chief points of attraction and display at the Selma fair, This was certainly a singular feature for a Grange fair, considering that many of the members of the Order are minis ters, deacons and private members of the church. It must have been inspiring to Ihe moral and religious feelings of the young, and of sinners in general, to see deacons and elders and Sabbath-school superintendents and teach ers, as Alasters and Overseers, and Pomonas and Ceres, and members generally, of the Granges, giving their countenance and support to horse racing and its invariable accompani ments of gambling and swearing. The fair is said to have been a success as to the number and quality of the articles exhibited ; but it was certainly not a success for morality and religion. Gambling was the rock that split the State Fair Association at Alontgomery, and the Grangers’ Fair will go the same way, if they keep it up. If people insist upon horse-racing, let them select a time exclusively for that purpose, and not thrust it upon those who attend fairs for some other purpose. Anew post route has been established be tween Tuscumhia and Falkville. FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, 11ECEMBER 2, 1875. Spirit of tiie Religious Press. Someone sought to stimulate a congregation to liberality in liquidating a church debt, by mentioning the ease of a poor working girl who, out of her wages ol $3 a week, gave $2 to the support of her aged father and mother, and yet from the remaining dollar saved S2O to give towards the new building. The In terior very justly remarks: This was praised as a remarkable self-sacri fice. No doubt it was an act of sincere devo tion. Put what are we to think of a wealthy congregation which would accept such a sacri fice? There are members of that church worth from $50,000 to a cool quarter of a mil lion. That poor girl should have had her faith in God cheered by the addition of five or six twenty dollar bills to her contribution, and the whole returned to her with the thanks of the congregation, and the suggestion that she employ it in taking a little rest lor herself, or in adding something to the scant comforts of the beloved old father and mother. That congregation missed an opportunity to round out an offering to the Lord in a way that would appear beautiful even to the pure eyes of the ar.- gels. —The Standard, reviewing anew work in tended for the song-service of churches says : To derive benefit from music we must like the music. If in church and we are singing, we must heartily enjoy the tune if it is to increase our affection'for the words and their meaning. We may derive enjoyment from singing sim pler music than we prefer out ol accommoda tion and good will to others, but then our en joyment is more Irom the good will than from the music. Alusic to be useful to us, must be adapted to our states —to those who cultivate it a higher kind, to those, who do not cultivate it, the familiar tunes. As an axiom it may be stated that musical enjoyment must be the guage of musical benefit. In every religious society there are two grades musically, those who cultivate music and those who do not. It might be a good thing if choirs and their admirers would give up the music best adapted to their tastes, and sing only that which all understand, and in which all can join. Some of our foremost church music reformers have said that this was the only right thing to do, but choirs will not do it. They not only desire to sing music suited to their more cultivated tastes, but they like to exercise their best powers in the ser vice of the church. It must be admitted in a majority of cases, where this is done, the choir and congregation become “performers and an audience” —the performers singing to entertain, and the audi ence listening passively, to be entertained. Sometimes, it is I rue, the people listen indiffer ently beh&fise they rn> not understand’or bee the significance of words and music, and some times unwilling because they do not consider such performances devotional. Still this goes on, and in very few cases is the music of our churches satisfactory when viewed from a reli gious standpoint. Ought this tube? Cannot muß’c be so adapted in a worshipping assem bly that the people shall listen to the choir witli pleasure and benefit, and the choirs join with hearty interest in the familiar tunes ? The Standard, therefore, advocates a plan wherein tiie choir shall sing the preparatory words, and all the people join in the familiar hymn, thus making one co-operative act of choir and congregational singing, of the nature of “solo and chorus” the choir being the solo, and “ail the people” the chorus. —Commenting upon Air. Pentecost’s avowed open-communionism, the Watchman and Reflector says : “We speak advisedly when we affirm the belief that our churches generally in Massa chusetts and New England, stand just where they have ever stood on this question. There is really great unity and uniformity for sub stance in apprehending it. Minor differences and divergencies have always existed upon this question, and always will exist. No peo ple can so well tolerate all these as they usu ally manifest themselves, as Baptists, especial ly New England Baptists, educated in the Ro ger Williams school. At the same time, as a body, our churches are loyal, and ever mean to be, to the old flag and ancient faith of the fathers.” —Speaking ol the results and prospects of the Centennial throughout the country, the Standard (Chicago) says: it would appear that more direct exertion in the way of improving the great opportunity is employed in portions of the South than any where else. So far, the Southern Baptist Sem inary at Louisville, Ky., seems likely to reap most abundantly ol all our institutions imme diate results.” —The Christian Union, commenting on the influence of Aloody’s peculiar preaching on the minds of the masses of our people, says: We take the truth to be that the great mass of the community are far less deeply affected by the theological speculations of our time than schol larly and intellectual men are apt to suppose. We believe that the effect of purely intellectu al forces upon the bulk of society —at least its immediate effect—is often vastly overrated. The man of intellectual habits—to whom ab stractions are more real than the things he sees and handles; whose conflicts and triumphs and joys and sorrows are largely in the unseen creations of the mind—can scarcely realize how remote these things are from the great majori ty of men and women. To most people, the practical and emotional elements make up al most the whole of life, and the purely intel lectual is an unknown or rarely visited region. It is the failure to recognize this difference that constitutes the greatest weakness of the educated ministry. The same failure perpet ually misleads men of active —and therefore progressive—minds. The strenuous tide of religious thought, which seems to those who are swimming in the stream to cover the whole world, hardly makes a ripple in the lives of nine tenths of the community. But when a man comes to them, as Mr. Aloody comes, full of helpfulness, full of courage, full above all, of. a contagious and irresisti ble confidence in Divine Love calling men to itself, the common people hear him gladly. The form of this theology makes little differ ence to them. It is love, it is faith, it is hope, that men hunger and thirst for—and getting that divine wine, the shape of the cup that holds it is of small account. —On the question of getting up a revival the New York Observer says: Therefore.ro men are to be waited for, but in all cases where Christians pray, aud ministers preach the truth, there the' Spirit of God should be expected with reviving and con verting power. It is the day when men are in a remarkably fitted condition to be im pressed with divine truth. It is also a day of abounding wicnednEss. Jn this city, and jn other cities, and through our country largely, is a spirit of intense worldliness, a greed for wealth, attended with such a de cay of principle, and honest uprightness, that faith in man is failing. Society is losing con fidence in itself. Who is to be trusted when those whom all men Irusted prove to be default ers and thieves, and forgerers and perjurers? Crime has become bold, impudent and secure. The revelations of fraud and corruption in public office are frightfal, and almost incredi ble. The community may well stand aghast before the mass of moral disease disclosed by every committee of investigation, and even more when the Indifference of the public to the awfnl revelations is considered. —The National Baptist has this paragraph ; “All is over; the blow is struck ; ‘the awful crisis that was to have arriven, have arove.’ To the intense delight of the Interior the Observer, the Congregationalist, and other advocates of— we really know not what—the Baptist denomi nation is severed in twain. On the one side stands brother Pentecost’s ilock, the Warren Avenue church ; on the other a feeble and shat tered remnant —the 22,50(1 churches, put down in last year’s Year Book. How long the latter will maintain the unequal and desperate strug gle, we ere not prepared to say.” —Under the head of “Romanism and Vice,” the Herald and Presbyter has the following critical commentary on some recent assertions made by Cardinal Manning, as to the relative morality of Romanists and so-called “ here tics.’’ That journal says: It is a remarkably cool assertion for any one to make, who is conversant with the facts, that “ the prevalence of vice is in proportion to the prevalence of Protestantism.” It is especially so when coming from one who is supposed to be as well inturmed as Cardinal Manning. And yet the great Cardinal proclaimed it in the British metropolis. Such a declaration could not, of course, be permitted to pass un challenged. A Liverpool correspondent of the London Times gives to that journal some ugly statistics concerning the former city, which make rather a bad (or good) commentary upon the Cardinal’s assertion. Liverpool, he states, contains a population of nearly seven hundred thousand. Of this number, five hundred and forty thousand are Protestants, and one hun ■ilred and fifty thousand are Roman Catholics. All the following facts come from a Roman source. Cardinal Manning ought to i*ef)h thm trustworthy. Thwchaplain of the Liverpool jail, who is a Roman Catholic, states in his report for a single year, that of thirteen thousand prisoners who passed through the jail, nine thousand were Catholics and four thousand were Protestants. These figures show, when compared with the entire popula tion of Liverpool, that the ratio of criminals to the total population stands as follows: one to sixteen of Roman Catholics, and one to one hundred and thirty-five of Protestants. These figures are very significant, hut prob ably nothing remarkable, as the same exhibi tion, substantially, could be made regarding any other city on either side of the Atlantic. So far as they illustrate the point, they show that the very reverse of the Cardinal’s assertion is true. And then it must be borne in mind that Romanists class all as Protestants, who are not of their faith, whereas, they class as Catholics those only who adhere to their church. If, in the number of criminals in the Liverpool jail, those only are held to be Prot estants who belong, realiy or nominally, to the Protestant churches, then the disproportion is much greater. Subtracting Jews, Pagans, de ists, atheists and other classes —any of whom are no more Protestants than Romanists, but who are haters of all forms of Christianity, and are found among criminals —and the remain der would leave Catholics, as compared with Protestants, almost sole masters of the field. The Cardinal’s assertion needs revising. —One of our exchanges has the following interesting paragraph : Among the marvels of the decade, which is to be so brightly distinguished by the Centen nial celebration of American Independence, is the rapid progress which printing has made in Japan since 1870. The advances achieved by typography in the densely populated, and for many years benighted Asiatic empire, in the short period of five years, can only fittingly be be described by one word—wonderful, In tin Oriental country, intensely prejudic and against Western civilization, where neither type, news papers, nor books existed ten years ago, there are now published thirty-four newspapers; eight of them are issued daily, and the major ity have been established since 1809. There has also been established a type foundry, which is in active operation. Many printing presses have been imported, and more are needed, and will, no doubt, be sent for. A number of Americans and Europeans are in Japan, busi ly engaged in preparing for the press, diction aries, vocabularies, phrase books, and gram mars in the English, French, German and Italian languages. Learned Japanese are translating, with a view of immediate publica tion, works of medicine, law, political econo my, astronomy and other subjects. The old time opposition to printing has vanished, and clicking of types and clattering of presses will do more in five years to civilize and Chris tsanize Japan than would have been accom plished in the same direction by fifty years’ bombardment from the combined fleets of Eu rope and America. Excellent Arrangement. We have perfected arrangements by which we are enabled to furnish subscribers, for IS7C The Christian Index and Vemoresl's Monthly Magazine, both for $5. The regular subscrip tion price for these standard publications would be per annum. This offer includes the choice of either of the following chromos, which will be sent free to the subscriber as a premi um : Home, Sweet "Home ; Old Oaken Bucket; After the Storm ; The Captive Child. This is a rare opportunity to secure, for the coming year, the choicest and most interesting family literature, as well as a handsome orna ment for the parlor. the CHRISTIAIT of Tennessee. BAPTIST SEWS AM) NOTES. —The first number of the Baptist Reflector. the new denominational paper, published at Morristown, East Tennessee, has been received, It is full ol promise of good things yet to come, and gives evidence of being managed with much business and editorial skill. We tender to the new aspirant for journalistic honors and usefulness our fraternal good wishes. Rev. O. C. Pope is editor, with the following as cor responding editors: Rev. I. B. Kimbrough, D. D., Riceville, Tenn.; Rev. J. F. B. Mays, D. D., Knoxville, Tenn.; Rev. J. L. AI. Burnett, D.D., Big Creek, Tenn. ; Rev. J. T. Kincan on, D.D., Bristol, Tenn. We quote the following sturdy words from ’the salutatory ; We are not ignorant of the fact that many religious journals have gone down beneath the financial pressure that is on the country. That the times are hard cannot be denied, so we will illustrate our idea by an anecdote. There was a Baptist deacon in Georgia, who owned a very poor farm adjoining the one on which he lived, and it was his custom, when one of his children married, to settle him on this poor farm for a year or two, and if he could make a living there he might be turned loose in the world. We spent a year on that farm, and learned how to live on little. It is a good time to start a paper, for if it can live in such times as these, there need be no fear of failure. We will run the paper for a year, hit or miss, and intend never to pull down our col ors while there is a dollar to be raised. The paper must be a success, and with the help of the brethren, and the blessing of God, it shall be. —Dr. Kincanon has not resigned the pasto rate of the Bristol (Tenn.) church, as stated. He has received a six months furlough, to raise funds for Bristol Female College. —The Baptist Reflector says that Elder G. A. Lofton, of Alemphis, has challenged presi ding Elder Boring, of Morristown, Tenn., to discuss the denominational differences between the Baptists and the Methodists, and that if Elder Boring accepts, the discussion will take place at Alossy Creek, Tenn. —As the Hanson Place church, Brooklyn, de clined, by a vote of 192 to 164, to accept the resignation of Dr. Fulton, he withdrew it, in tending to continue his pastorial relations to the church. Dr. N. W. Wilson, of Richmond, Va., has accepted the pastorate of Colliseum Bap tist church, New Orleans. —The Religious Herald says that a good way for the Baptists of the South to celebrate the Centennial is to double the circulation of their denominational weeklies; which could be easily done by each subscriber securing just one more. —Rev. J. 11. Butler has resigned the pasto ral care of our church at Gallatin, Tenn., to take effect the first of January. —The Metropolitan Baptist church in San Francisco numbers three hundred and fifteen members. —Rev. W. G. Inman, late of the Central Baptist church, in Nashville, Tennessee, of which he was pastor for six years, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Decatur, Illinois. He enters upon the duties of his new field at an early day. —The American Baptist Publication Socie ty has just issued a Question Book on Interna tional Bible Lessons, for 1876. The work is by Rev. Granville S. Abbott. —Fifty years ago the Ohio Baptist State Convention was formed at Zanesville. It is said that all the delegates sat down at one family table. Now there are in Ohio 565 Baptist churches, with an aggregate of 43,000 members. —The Rev. W. R. Williams, D.D., long the pastor of one of the most eminent Baptist churches in New York, has a library of more than nine thousand volumes. It contains more material for writing a history of the Baptist Church than probably any other libra ry in the United States. —Mr. Spurgeon’s “Lectures to my Stu dents” promises to be the most popular of his many popular works. At first the seers of “the trade” looked with unfavorable eyes on the book, thinking it would only circulate among professional men. Already, however, nearly 15,000 copies have been sold, and the demand shows no symptoms of decline. —The Baptists of Connecticut are making strenuous exertions to have their Centennial endowment fund for their Institution at Suf field reach SIOO,OOO. They have adopted a plan for dollar subscriptions, and hope to se sure, thereby, $1 from every member of every Baptist family in the State. —The American Baptist Year Book for the present year that contains a list of the ordain ed Baptist ministers throughout the country, gives the name of 160 by name of Smith. They are found in thirty different States and one Territory. New York has 21; Missouri J 15; Kentucky 11 ; Alabama 10; eight other j States have five or more. Connecticut has only two. —Some of the colored Baptist students at Raleigh, X. 0., are anxious to preach Christ in Africa. —Prof. Alexander Meyrowilz, Professor of Hebrew in the New York University, has abandoned Judaism and united with the Cal vary Baptist church. —Elder J. T. Zealy, D.D., has left Hous ton, Texas, for his new pastorate in Jackson, Miss. —The Centennial endowment work in Texas is progressing finely. —The Texas JJaptist Herald says Elder W. O. Bailey, late of Humboldt, Tenn., is giving WHOLE NO. 2797. very great satisfaction in his new pastorate at Jefferson Texas. He is young, strong and vigorous, and a valuable accesion to our min istry in Texas. The Graves and Ditzler debate is to be reported in several Baptist papers, but the on ly full report will likely be issued by the Southern Baptist Publication Society, Mem phis, Tenn. —A fine new Baptist church edifice has just been completed in San Francisco. Brother Link, of the Texas Baptist Herald, jokingly says; The inquiry goes out whether, in view of the fact that many of the brethren who attend the Southern Baptist Convention at Richmond, Va., will wish to go to the Centennial at Phil adelphia, the time of meeting at Richmond should not be changed? It is possible that the Convention at Richmond could not get on so well without our presence there, and our great annual Centennial commission meeting, at Bremond, Texas, occurs the 4th of July, and we do not intend that it shall get along without our presence; so the Boards had as well take this in the account in fixing a change of lime, if any is made. —The Lynchburg Star, of November 23d, says ; The interest at the revival meeting at the Baptist church, which has now entered up on its third week, continuous unabated. The exercises Sabbath morning and evening were deeply interesting, and those of last night re markably so. Dr. Alontgomery preached from the text, “What wilt thou say when God shall punish thee ?” This sermon was one of the most powerful efforts of the kind to which we ever listened. His reasoning on the necessity of God punishing sin, and the certainty of this being done, was of sucii power as to astound the audience. His arraignment of the sinner before the bar of the Eternal Judge and ur ging as to what he would have to say for him selt in excuse for not being prepared to meet his God in peace, was one of the mas terly efforts of pulpit oratory. The effect on the audience was everywhere perceptible. While there were not so many forward for prayer as usual, numbers bowed in the audi ence, thus evidencing their interest. We no tice that the attendance on these exercises con tinues to be large. We understand that the prayer-meetings are well attended—Dr. Mont gomery so stated last evening. Several persons connected themselves with the church Sabbath morning, an evidence of the result of the meetings. W e learn the meet ing will continue during this week. General denominational Hews, —Dr. Storrs has accepted the pas* torate of “The Old Brick Church,” Fift _ Avenue, New York. This is the church- in which Dr. - Gardiner Spring officiated for fully half a century. It seems rather odd that a strict Presbyterian church should invite a Con gregational minister to its pulpit, but so it is in the present case. The salary ofiered is $12,- 000 per year. —The Cures of the Roman Catholic church es of Montreal, last week, announced the re ception of a pastoral letter relative to the in terment of the remains of Joseph Gtiibord in consecrated ground. The pastoral says: “For we have truly declared, in virtue of the divine power that we exercise in the name of the pas tor of pastors, that the place where this rebel lious son of the church has been deposited, is separated from the rest of the consecrated cem etery, to be no longer more than a profane place—an ordinary piece of ground.” —The North Georgia Conference of the M. E. Church, (South) numbers 175 pastors and. 51,453 white members. —Moody - and Sankey are holding revival meetings in Philadelphia. Immense crowds at tend. The last census of the United States shows that there is one church for every 532 persons; that while from 1850 to 1870 the population increased 06 per cent., (we lost a million lives by the war) the churches increased nearly 90 per cent. —An Edingburgh paper says the Fast Day in Scotland is likely to be abolished. It was al ways made an occasion for hard drinking, and hard drinking in Scotland is worse than hard drinking in England, for it means the con sumption, not of beer, but of a fabulous amount of strong whisky. In olden times, however, the drinking was prefaced by atten dance at the kirk ; now-a-days no prayers are said before the process of intoxication commen ces, and the Fast Day has become a revelry.” —A considerable interest has been awaken* ed among English Congregationalists and Episcopalians at least, over the question of the presence of the clergymen of the latter de nomination in the pulpits of the former. Some time since Rev. W, H. Freemantle, rector of St. Mary’s, London, was requested to preach in an Independent place of worship. This he consented to do, but, regarding discretion the better part of valor, first asked permission of the Bishop of London to do so. The Bishop vetoed the rector’s plan, and the rector acquies ced in the Bishop’s veto, failing to appear as promised. Not being satisfied with this result Mr. Freemantle requested that the question at issue between himself and his superior might be submitted to eminent lawyers. Bishop and rector chose each his lawyer, and the lawyers decided that it is unlawful for any Church of England minister to preach in a Nonconform ist pulpit, or, indeed, to have any part in Non conformist services, and in this decision they were quite unanimously sustained by numer ous counsel. This decision seems to set some of the Independent ministers on their dignity, and they protest against all invitations to State Churchmen to come into Nonconformist, pulpits except on exchange.