Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1874, Page 6

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY." MARCH' 29, ‘1874, M———————————Mw verted, among them nestly all the students in | vise him torefrain from preaching for some | cate the hizhest conoeptioa of the clerical call- [ ton street, mear Dnjoa* Park, - Presching by the Revy _RELIGIOUS HEWS. Letters on the Patton-Swing Controversy, The Spirit of thel Beligions Press Last Week An Effort to Find a Compromise Gronnd on the Temperance Question. Nolcs and Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. PROF.SWING AND DR. PATTON PROY. SWING'8 DEFEXDERS. To the Editor of The Chicapy Trabune Siz: Is Tre TRISONE of March21 four friends of Prof. Bving come kindiy forward to hies res- cue. The oue who assumes the siguatiire of +¢Catholious ™ deserves s brief answer. It is in 10 hope to convince that writer that w6 repls, bt io vindicate the Presbyterisn Church from ths terrible charge ho makes. We will only pre- 1mige, that he might as well say all disputations toucbing politics sre **useless.” But religion .is of infinitely grester moment, therefors by no ‘means useless. Ll Another charge is falee, Preebyterians donot plesd for their system in order to “got others by the cars.” We will not eay this i3 calumei- ous; but men can in Church aad State dofend their views without beiog justly chlrg}ad with being malignant. We pity that writer’s peace of mind who dare ¢all the ministers of Christ who never disturb the quict of even a dog un- Tess Lie endangers their safety, “ vesmin "} e calls the grand truths of Revelation * mon- esgentint” Has “Catholicus™ set -to learn that those doctines whioh Prof. Fatton doubts whether Prof, Smbg Loids, are to the system of Hivle truth, in our faith, & the bones in 2 man? Tzke out these ekeleton-bones from the beef, and you bave a massof quivering. shapeless, woriiless meat and blood! Has * Catholicus " et to read up the A B C of the pistory of morals, 28 kus own_free-thioking Dr. Lecky bas recorded them? For what doc: trinea were all those thirty millions of Christian 1nartyrs sent to the flames? Wit did they bold with a death grasp, shown by the German 28 his ‘boat dashed to fragments on the Niagara's rap- ids? How he seized 8 piece of timber fixed on the verge of the cstaract. How bo clung with living and dying agouy to that thing of hope! 8o thosa mertyrs ciung to this eame creed! *+Non-eseentials,” indeed ! *Catholicus” woald irest the groans of those grand martyra with mockery! Heears''we want somothing sta- ble raly and bravely said. Yoe, sir, emid n universal change, whers the clouds above the Lumap race, aud all tho glories of earth bencath are passing, passing lises pight vision, we do want something statle. And it there be anght in God's universo on which the troubled epint, the victim of nnrest sud despair. can Snd peace, itistint very dogma * Ca holicas” ecorus—tle Atonement of CLrist—the Rock of Agea! Thnat writer afiirns Prof, Swing is * anti-Cal- +vinist,” 1f he bo certain of this, lot me ask bim if ¥rof. 8. once tonk 3 solemn vOw—adminise tered o every minmter when oidained: ‘I Eincerciy receive and adopt the Coufession of Feauth of this Chureh,” ete.,—can he deny those cardinal docurines and honcstly remain in 1t 7 The Liberals of Chicago snd Boston claim him, 2nd he enters no prozest to their impressions. Is not Prof. Bwing weicoms to have s church where “dogtaas opposed to resson, justice, aod common sense,” accoding to ** Catholicus,” ar preached sud actually believed. He closes with Words are mortal.” Yes, they are liaole to change. All the fashions of literatura and hypothesis of science are tran- sient. But, fricnd ** Cathiolicus,” truth is immor- tal ag tho Throne of God ! Our old Presbyterian creed, founded on the word of God aloae, stands like a cedar of Lebsnob. Iis yoots are sunk deep into the uncbangeable attributes and ele- ments of the eferl-iving Jehuvan ! They have béen eoriched by the blood of Calvary end moistened by the blood and tears of millions ol martrys. Under the siadow of its goodly branchee, countless husts of thvse now in glory lave reposed. And until the last trumpet ecunds, that creed will, we humbly trust, prove the joy and peace of myrisds yet unboru. d - PBCEBYTER, THOSE EDITORIAL TUNCTIONS.” To the Editor of ‘he Chicerp Iribune; . Sie: Ao article under the stove headingw— whick: it scems the In‘erior would not publish— eared in Tre TRILUNE of the 21st inst., which Iregard &s éaiculated to mislead those of your rs who take aninterest inthe ¢ Patton- Swiag " controversy. B 1 nas present at that now famons ‘‘ ministers” * meeting,”"aed =m greatly surprised to learn from “T8 " article that no censura was either intend- od or expressed in the resointions which were officred to and entertained by that bod{ Oue tesolution dietictly ¥ays: ** We do most emplaticaliy protest " sgaiust the cowrse of the Interior, * as being to the last degree unfair and injurious™ towards Prof. Swing—as being pre- jugisial to religion and the Church of Christ, *and wholly trancending the fauctions of the religions preca.” And yet, despite this strong 2nd unmisiskuble language, ““F ” bas the bold- Desa to assere the resders of Tz To1puss that 1o cexgaro was infended, and that the resolu- tions “ contuin ho censure other than inferen- 4ial” By what eystem of etbics 1" mrives at ench & conclusion I lesve your readers to deter- mine. Again it was reeolved that the foregoing reso- Intion, which Ao etrongly and pointedty censured ihe Inferior, “ be conimunicated to ite cditor." Ard et T " teils s no censure 7as intended of ciiher the Inferior or its editor. Ir 1™ ehould preach a sermon, and shonld teccive from his Session, whom he had hitherto regard>d as his friends, a geries of resotutions in whioh they expressed their etrong condemna- ti0u of his discourse, and in the most emphstic way declaring tbat Le bLad wholly transcended &g paipit functions, I wonder would he regard that ss cen~uring him directly, or only inferen- tially. The statement of *T'" thet the resolu- tions contain no censure has not the meiit of being oven ingenious. Azain, “T" eoys the resolutions were not “gollen up in the interest of Prof. Swing"— aud yet they. emphaficlflf protest agsinst the Interior's attack upon Prof. Swing. In the course of his strange aricle, “T" explains Liow tho resolutizna camo to be drawn np, snd 6oy that " certain gentlemen who disapprove of the courée of the Inferior in relation to Prof. Bwing," determived to zive the Inferior rad its cditor s castization ; and vet Le says the resoln- ti0us were not gotteu up for any sush nurpose, Lut ouly in seli-defense, when cveryono kmows they were not attacked ; orio_order to save the Prestyterian Church, which they declared the Interior was endeavoring to destroy. Is anyono except “T." prerated to swallow that pill? Docs anyono believe that the ministers a8 a body (perhaps that i5 botter than Ministerial Assacia- tion) needed to defend themselves, when they weré not_attacked? Or doss auyone in his ccuses believe that the Inferior is an enemy of the Prebyterian Chureh and Ler minfsiry? ~-Not s bit of it." Why does ““T.” deny _thiat which the resolutions assers most sirongly ? Again, the re-olution empbatically protests aguner Prof. Pation and the Jnferior, and de- clazes it o o “to the last dearee unfair sud in. farious” to *“attack any mi of the gospel 12 zopular ecclesmstical stauding.” Thero sou hovo it—the cousulidated wisdom of *“T" and “‘certain _gentiemen” who disapproved of the course of tho Inferior in 1¢lation to Prof. Swing; and yet censure was nol thought of or “aimed L" " Let me ask “T7 if the pastor-elect of the th Church in Chicago 18 not in regulsr escle- stical standing, aud wete tie resolutions in- 1 d to cover hiy csse? Are editors, and es- yeeially religions editors, to be denied ibe right of “attacking " & minister who teacher and pub- iishe~ bald intidelity because ho happens to be in » regular ecclesiastical sianding? So the resolu- nioas offered in tust *minwsters’ meoting” eay, and so mays “T." Now G i3 & well known fact in tho Presbyterian Church, that of thoso who are tried by Y'resby- tery, either for heresy or other crimes, but es- peoially Ior botesy, the attack is seldown made in ihe first insiance, either by Presbytery or in Presvyters. Pavlic men are hable tobe attacked, and if their published- ntterances warrant it, weither they nor their friends should complain, For they have a remedy. Prof. Patton is no less Smexsbio to Presbytery than Prof. Swing, sud ho knows it; and if he has atiscked Prof. Swing 1o the.last degree uufairly and injariously, either Swing or his friend ought to_tako up tiie muatter, sud deal with him sccordingly. But it1s mero childisnness for & body of ministers to creek the whip over the besd of an editor or a ‘brother minister, because he has ventured to criticiee a pablio document, 2nd, in doing eo, deatared that he doubted it8 orthodoxy. To ths queshon jraised by “T," which he 8258 was the only issme, 1. 6., ** Was the editor of e Inlerior justifiaplo in publisbing the para- fraph quoted in tue firat of (o resolutions #” 1 au=wer: There is nothiog either in the preaniblo or reaolations to show thas he was nof Justified. There is no quotation from Bwing’s sermons ta show that be teaches the divinity and expiatory eacrifice of Christ, and the other points abont which doubts were expreased—and I re-pectfully submit that i Prof. Patton—{rom tke reading of Prof. Swing's sermone, or in any other putlio way, was led o enjgrtain doubls about Prof, Switg's orthbdoxy, he not only bad the rizht, but it was his daty, to give expressions to these doubts; nor was he bound either by courtesy or precedeat to reservo his attacks of Prof. Bwing until be ehonld come before the Presbytery. In conclansion, I believe both Professors aro Lonest, and each is abundantly able to defend Iumsetf., ¢ T RELIGION OF FEAR—STALL PROF. SWING BE BUBNED ? T the Editor of The Chicaco I'ritrime B12: ‘There ean be no question that the tend~ ency of the sge is toward a broadening of the hoes of thought. This ig a nataral result of in- creasing knonledge, sod of a desper plowing of the iotellectusl and moral fiolds. It .is also owing to the greater frecdom of the mind. Men are permicted to thivk and act, with no more restraint than is imposed by pubic opivion and the common Iaws, by which the gen- eral welfare is secured. The more we know the more we wish to know, and the more strongly ara we persuaded of our ignorance. Ouly small miuds are biind to the Limitations of the livtle circl in which they move. Your positive and dosmatic men may succeed better in worldly matters then those of wider views and moro extensive scquirements, but theso aro not the men who promote the best progresa of maukind, Who wear 1ta noblest Ianrels, and win its most imperishable crovns, The woild ia growing info msnbood. Every dny is adding to 18 expenence. Many tning that troabled the humau mmd in the woilds ehildnood have been ne:madkor exist only in the form of dogmas, from which the original force and meaning have long since passed away. Calvimism is one of those gigantle super- gtitions, by which the sonls of men have been terror-ginicken, but which is fast losing its power. Fear is a tremendous force. It utterly crashes the ntellect and beoumbs the will. Calvinism 18 simply Fear organized into & sys- tem. Ltis, thereforo, s£uperstition, not & re- ligion. Religion is an afection, & passion, a love. Superstition is a monster, & nightmare, a curse, Relizion Jaoks up to a beneficent Cro- ator. Suverstition trembles in the presence of sn eternal demon. Roligion opens wide the doors of hope, and eprezds n celestisl mantlo over buman wretchedness. Superstition _consigns mankind to an endless despair, and seeks to pro- itiate divine wrath by the sacrifice ol every earthly ple:sure, i The fruits of Calvinism have been hitter to the taste and poisonous to thespirit, and surely noth- ing i8 more logical than that “‘a tree shoutd be Judged by its fruit.™ A treo which continues o ‘produce such acrid and uuprofitable fruit must, sooper or later, be rooted from the gronnd. It wastes the ferclity of the soil, and i8 & *cam- berer of the earth.” g Jobu Calvic was & msn of a cold, penetrating intellect,—~a manof ideas. not of fcelngs, He bad no more of whatis called * heart ” than a marble starue, His system wes a philsophy, not a religion. Men wera governed by fixed 1zws, like planis and amimals, and these laws estab- lished from the beginning, settled the destmy of every beiug to all eternity. Some were elected to everlastiog bappiness, others fo unending misery. No act or effort couid change the de- creesof God, Wo were wrapped in & fate from which there could be no escape. To a man whose thinking had brought him to such conclo- sions, lifo was_only 2 game of chance. Who nere chosen and whbo were rejected, were un- solvable myateries. Chosen and rejected before they were born, human souls had no agency in their own salvation or damuation. Heaven or Hell wero determinations, not of Divine justice, but of Divine caprico. Such was the colossal idol" which Jobn Calvin created for the worship of mankind. The God of Calvin was but the projection of himself. We are sll of us in one sense idol- aters, and make our own gods. Our idessof the Deity correepond to the stature aud color of gar minds. To one man, God is an infinite benavo~ lence; to another, Ho is av awiul Judge. To Calvin He was an overpowering Law, 2 merci~ less inteligence, an abstract for.e. Thinking as Calvin did, his sctions were consistent,—ihe simple carrying out of his stern and icy creed. Servetus wis an enemy of the faith, and there- fore it was right to put him fo pesth. It was not love for God, or hatred of Servetas, that in- fluenced Calvin. Love and hate can have but little place in such = mind. It wes an intel- Iectuaf zeal fo enforce bis opinions at any cost. Neverin this world was a more delibeiate and cruel murder committed. While paseiog through Swiczerlaud on his way o Italy, Servetus, at the instigation of Calvin, is arrested and thrown into prison. After 8 mockery of a trial, he ia con- victed of heresy and sentenced to be bLirned, which sentence is carried into execution. We quota Nero 83 2 monste: who was 80 ten- tered in bitmself that he did not allow the ourn- ing of Romo to distnrb his complacency. But bereisaman who beholds a human being in flames and uodergoing the most fearful torture, who, 60 far from beiug disturbed, exporienies o tind of diabolic rapturo. And yet this men is held forth o8 & species of eaint.” But saints of thus order, we are hanpy to believe, cannot be as popular in the Inture o8_they biave been in the past. - The beman mind is’ gelting more en- ligtened, aua the human beart s getting larger, if ot warmer. With the progress of Belence, and the study of Natute's laws, tho prevailing ideas of God aro becoming more comprehensive and grand. Calviniem is every day losing ground, It substilutes a demon for a God. Times change, cod_men change with them. Imagine Patton hounding on the fanatical eenti- ment sguinst Prof. Swing, €0 that be should be ar- rested, imprigoned, and Hoally buroed, for mere- Iy expressing viewsa little in sdvance of Lp age, or at veriance with some of the worn-out dogmas of the Calvinistic creed—a ery of _horror would g0 up, and Patton wowid: be rogarded as no less s murderer than Rafferty. In this century, the flowing of public thought sud public feeling is in the direction of bumanity. That religion which decpens our love for our feliow: man, and incites us to action for the improvement of his mental, moral, and physical condition, is tho only religicn that can ktand the scrutiny of the time. Superstitions and shams must go down, Underneath every so-called religious faith lies the ** Spirit of tho Age.” which is a liveral, gen- erous, tolerant, zud Joviog epint, and every in- stitation, whether of Cuurch or State, which seeks to benefit humanily, must pay due regard to this raighty, wolding influence, or its days for usefulness are forever numbered. CaTnoLICUB. DB. PAWERS IS THE INDEPENDENT. The Rev. H. N. Powers. D. D., of this city, in the last nuwnber ofsthe New York Independent, thus speaks of Prof, Bwing: Ko hus tenderncss and ho has strength; he has learning and ho has sentizient; be bas common senss and he has plety; aud with bl poctic vision ard ardor nre blended such Loly and renetrative sympathies as caable him to use Lis Tesourves in a way more helpfal o some tian could bo passible with cven greater futel- lectus] abillty and a less charzcteristic epiritual mold. Itis this peculiar coustisution tht en:ibles him to op- preciate well the hndrances o texson alone #nd to faith alone; but, while he ignores neither the laws of matter nor of mind, and, therefore, never treats Aip- tiy or' disdiinfully thie facts of sciene or the per- plexities of the intellect. he ncver forgets the naturs 2nd needs of the suul—he never forgty tuat * Christ cawe that we might hiave hife, and that we might hava it more abund.nily,” Spirit is the absolate fut with him, and ft fa the Commanding vitalities of Christian. ity that engago Lis heart aud inspire his mintstry, S THE RELIGIOUS PRESS, . THE ALLIANCE, This paper.among its many editorials, has ons on the temperance question, wherein it aays: It sceins to us the best thing to be done, in view of alt he faets, 18 fo try to fiud some common ground on which we cun best agree as citizeos. It may not b Just what elthier pariy or atiouslity would prefer, but would come nearest fulting all, Spch gronnd might e to discharge tho ¢ mmon sale avd tse of apirituous liquors. Coulid thns be due, two-thirds of tho evils of intemperance would Food disappecr. Some will feel Bhotked et the thought of tolerstipg ale, beer,.and wine, but are we not toleratiwg {hem all {he tima? Tho question _fu not whether we will have these in comunon use, bnt whether o will have whieky slso, Then we might ail unite to dfscotrags intersperance; ot the excesaivc use of these milder drinks. Referring to Dr. Patton's sermon published in Monday’s TRIDUNE, it says: Our good friend Prof, Patton ‘a5 published a sor- mon In tbe THIBUNE. Upon locking over it, we uze impressed with the orthodosy of the thoughts. It is bossible that some pooT miterable rationalist aud in- #idel may feel that to prove the Divioity or Christ from the words ** Anno Domini ” i3 3 form of argument that might cheer greatly the Masons when they look at Aano Lucis, or ihe Mohammedsns when they read 2bout the Anno Hegirm, and the Romusns with their Diccletian year, who wili see in those dates the divize origin of Mobaramed and Diocletian, “ the principls in both caces being the same.” THE ADVANCE. The Adrance draws some comfort for pugna- cious aints from the battles at present in pro- gress in several branohes of the church militant, 28 follow Thicrr: 36 & compensation i3 pugnacity, Itisdifficult 10 detesmie that the ver; outjousivg of that epirit is no: ceadioned upon tnis plowed-up sizte, G6d does muitize sy exeitement for spirtual purposes, It'was zaid that Or, Lyman Beether prayed best when he vwas mad, Church Aificultizs are better than Jetbargy and stufor. They are the Jethal foo of ennul and sloth. They often Lrove 3 spiritusl patent medi- cine which ro=scs the tizdy secretions of the churches’ liver and lurgs, and works with vigor ita cardisc pumps. THE NEW COTENAST. The Xew Cotenant of Murch 19, roferring to the recent attacks of certain religions papars upon Tue TRISURE, 50751 Tar TRMUXE baving been assafled for nn objection- sblo advertisement by the Adwance, Interwr, and Clistian Adrocate, retalistes most savageiy and just~ Iy, and refers to advcrtisements in each of these re- ligious sheets tnat throw their citation into the snade, and prove their little Arg:rs thicker than Trx Tars- Txe's foins. They rre utterly scnt to 83 in the controversy. Thespiritin whizh the thres religions s havo conducted this attack and their own de- Jeieria alncreditable to. journalism, minos the guali- fying word religious. . THE INTEBIOR. 5 The Interior detotes its leadiog editorisl to a conmderation of the **Sabbath-School.” It re- grets that * Thero fs too much disposition in gome quarters to mske the Sabbath-scbool sn independent organization, governed by laws of its own making, and presi over by officsrs of its own choosing.” 1t should always bp under- stood. Bavs the Inlerior, that the pastoris pastor of the Sabbath-school sa well 86 the church. Pastors bave sometimen felt much Ai:griaved by the remark that the Snbbatt-school was more important than the charch ; this is wrong; the Sabbath-chool 18 as much » part of the church as the adult congregation. he Inferior very justly denonnces much of the Babbath-school litorature tbat finds its wav into the libraries for oung peovle, and calls upon the church to se- lack porsons of the ripast plety and best culture to select the books which the youth are to read, snd 1ot Jeave that business to ignorant and un~ educated peoplo, as it 100 frequently is. TNE NORTHWESTEBN ADYVOCATE. The Northweslern Advocale of lust week is very largely devoted to the temporance crusade. It expresaen the belief that God is in the move- mont. It is & religious campaizn which any moral compromise will kill off. Therefore, tha editor savs, ‘1t is pot proposed 1o merely re- straip socie . from getting actually drunk, but to induce ail men to absiain from all uso of ali drinka that under any circumstances can intoxi- cate suybody. The man who drinks tbe mildest of wine or beer is in_dauger, and society's pres- ent Christian effort is to romove daoger of fu- tore drunkooness.” The Adrocate olmms that vhe experience of wino-making commnnpities it Americs is tnat tho business is demornlizing, sod incroases rather thau diminishes intem- perance. TRE STANDAND. The Standard, regzetting the excessive multi- plication of relicious Organizsatious for benevo- lent purposes, says : That bumerist exaggerated, who proposed £ give oo cent 0 the heathen 5ad & doline 10 fot it o lhglin; bt tho anecdats nvolves a principte of some impor- tance to the Christian publio after sil. Nor was {t much ‘mora extravagant than a fact stcted by the Southern Churchman, ~ That paper, roferriug to the Virginta Bible Society, shows that the amount recoived by them, during 'the year 1873, was §10,539,30, money was thus exverd, Sulary of General Ag:nt. Salary of District Agents. Salary of Depository. s Traveling and general expenses.. Expense of distritution Total.. 8o that out of w1 circulation of the Scriptures lees than the £1,500 was invested in Bibles and Testaments, sum of Tn this cabe it cost over £5 10 eocura the oxpenditure of S1 fur {he objects of the Soclets. This {z an extrome case, 2nd, we Lope, does not offen bavo a counterpatt, g NOTES. METHODIST. | There were twolve additions to the Clybotm Avenue Methodist Charch Isst Sunday. Thres huodred new converts bave justentered ‘Templo Btreet Methodist Episcopal Church, Bos- ton. ‘The Methodists have six churches in the City of Mexico, in which about 2,000 worshipars meet each Sabbath. The Aegone Socioty of the Wabash Avenue M. E. Church gave snother interosting enter- taipnient fast Thursday evening. One bundred and ninety-six persons hLava joined the Methodist Epiccopal Church in East Liverpool, O., a8 the resnlt of s revisel. Ground was broken in St. Louis, March 16, for a new Methodist Episcopal Church South on the corner of Chestnus streot and Lefiingwell avenue. : Mra. Jos2ph Hobron, of the Methodist Epis- copal Chureh in West Union, Wis., has given new evidence of tha value of woman's work. She has secured o new beil to replace the old one in the houae of worship. A theological union meeting is to be held at Garrett Billical Intitute, beginpiog May 26 and endiug Juné 5. Beveral eminent men of the de- nomination will conduct tho exercises. A pro- gramme is shortly to be puolished. The Methodist Chuich in New Hampton, I, dodicated » pew house of worship March 15, which cost about $3,300. After the devication, in the evening, forty persons, mostly heads of families, jolned tho church in fall connection. ‘The Northwestern_Adrocafe rays : “ The Lord is mightily reviving i3 work among the students in Nerthwestern Universitv. Three wecks ago President Fowler began to lectute on Sabbath afternoons, and to preach avery evening in Uni- voreity chapel. The religions studeats and Dr. M. C. Briggs and the fogulties rallied to the front. God heard prayer, and now believers ara revived and ecores converted. 5 Tievivals continue fo be reported in Methodist churches. The following are some of the more importint_reporied last week: Char- ter OQak., DeKsalb Co., L, twenty- soven; Tuna, Iil, sixty; Centrai City, Ia. fifty ; Staf’s Chepel, Oecatur, IiL, seventy ; Rock Fall, TIL, sixts-fivo; Manitowoc, Wis., twauty-six; St. Chavles. IlL., fifty ; Manchestor, Ts., sixty-one ; Grant Place Methodist Church, Ctileago, forty since the week of praver ; Bt, Fzul's Methodist Chureh, Chicago, ninety si tho week of praver: Berlin, Minn,, iwent Watseks, Ill., 100 ; Richland, Mich, tlx(rtv—fiv H Goneva, Ia., fifty; Millbrook, Mich., ninety-five Torlin, Wis., thirty ; St. Joseph, Mo., 156; be. sides five by letter. BAPTIST. The Free Baptiat Bociety, of this city, gave & concert and supper Thuradsy evening. The Triad Bociety, of the University-Place Bantist Chureh, geve an exhibition Jast Monday evening. . Twenty-four persons have been added o the Baptist Church at Winthrop, In., 58 the result of ' & revival meeting. The Michizsn Avenua Baptist Brruday-School gave interesting entertaiuments Wedunesdsy and Thursday evenings. Six baptisms took. place in the First Baptist Chaurch, Chicago, last Suaday and threo w the Wes:ern Avenue Church. The Bavtists of Clinton, Ts.; after spending six years in its construction, dedicated their fuo new house of worehip recently. ‘['veuty-seven mow converts. were baptized into the church st Davis Creck, Ta., during a re- vival meetivg which closed March 1. March 15, the Baptist Oburch in Fort Howard, Wis., received ten vew membets to ils commans jon, and several others were baptized. At Sioux City, In., during the past five weoks, tae additiona to the Baotiet Chutch have been two, just doubling the numbers of the church. The Batist Church fa Alpens, Mich., which was Organized Beveu years ago, 0oW Dumoers over 200. Fifty-five have boen added by hap- tism and letter eince Jaa. 1. The great revival now In progrées in the Bap- tisc Church in Racine, Wis., commenced from a feelibg of upivereal sympathy in.the church, excited by the sadden death of Deacon Janes, oue of the oldest membeis. A Baptlst ‘miesion wes recently establistied at tho corner of Dayton snd Centre streats; Chicago. C. H. DeWolf, of the Chicago Theo~ logicsl Seminary, has been preaching theie twice every Sabbath for some time, with encoursging success. The buildivg, erected by the Rev. Mr. Cooper a few yesrs ago for an ndependent Protestant Episcopal church, has been rented by the Baptist Union. CONGREGATIONAL. The Orkland Congregational Church gave a coucert Tuesday night. Eighteen have been recently added to the Congregationsl Church in New ]Zinbun, Wi, Fifteen Y‘emnu wero received into tha Congre- gational Church at Vicksbarg, Mich., March 14, A Conpregational Church, with the Rer. C. A Towle. pastor, has been organized in Somth Cticago. The Congrogational Church at Morris, T, received twonty new members March 13, by pro- fession. The Congregationst Church at Ottaws, TIL, Iavo called the Rev. ML, W. Beed, of Milwukeo, to the pastorate. The church at Geneva Lake is in the midst of a reviyal of great powér. Dr. Goodwin and Maj. Whitkle, of - Chicego, spent 0 or threa dayd there lagk weeks A large nufmber have been con- Mrs. Warner's Ladies’ Schooi. The Congrerationsl Church st Viroqua dou- ‘bled its membership s couple of - weeks ago by an addition of thirty-one, of whom twenty-six came on profession of faith. In the Pilgim Church, St. Louis, March 18, ninety-threa persans weta recoived to member- ship, seventy-four of whom wers on _profession. ‘The g»-ineivn! part of those uniting were regular members of the congresation. PRESNYTERIAN. I Bixtean wereadded to the church in Plymontk, Ind., March 15. The Presbyterian Cburcn in Moro, -IIL, has received en addition of fifty-one membere. The church in Nashville, Iil, received twenty- two persons as membera March 12. The Taslorville, Iil., Cburch recently received thirty-Ewo persons on proféscion of faith. The sociable given at Westminster Presbyte- risn Charch Thursday oveming was succsesful and enjovable. Prof. Swing's church have established a Sua- dsy sachool at the Northwestern Cer Shops, which 18 1n charge of Afr. Berch. Au incendiary sttempt to destroy the Piesby- terian Church in Flint, Mich, last week, was far- tunately discovered in time to avert the threat~ ened dissster. The Ninth Presbytorian Church, under .the chargo of the Rev. W. W. McKaig, D. D., Is ro- poited tobe in a very prospercus stale. The financial efatus of the church fs greatly im- proved, and the Sunday school much enlarged. The Inlerior says: *“The Presbyterians of Desolues, Is., are sgitatiog the question of & new University. Tho new proposition s £o se- cure the buildings snd prounds belooging to B. F. Allen, Esq., now of Chicsgo. This gentleman proposes to dooate $150,000 worth of property aud §30,000 for tho endowment of a professor- ship. 2BCELLANEOUS. Towa papers eay tho Episcopal residenco of the Bisbop of that State is cownleted at s cost of £20,600. An Esstern_paper says that the Rev. Edward Hubbell, late Rector of the Episcopal Church at Bath, Me., having given notice cf his withdrawal from the mintstry of that Charch, hasbean rega- larly deposed by tho Bishop. ‘The Rev. Mason Gallagher. will, it s eaid, bo called t tho pulpit of the Raformed Episcopal Church st Ottows, Canads, Already 120 mem- bors have rigned the roil. and $16,000 have been subscribed towaids the endowment. ‘The report of the adoption of plan of union by committees represeuting tle Northern Pres- byterians and the Cumberland Presbyterians proves to be premature. No plan was agreed upon ; the Committee merely expressing the opiuion that a unicn was desirable. The Interoatioral Sunday-School Lessons for 1875 bave been selected and scnounced. The first quarter they sro in the Bouk of Joxhua; for the second, in Judges and Samuel ; and for the thrd and fourth, in the Gespel of Joban. The Rev. Dr. G. B, Porteous lectured last San- day, in New York, upon the threo partics in the Charch of England, {he Broad. the High, and the Low Church. During the delivers of’ tha lecturs, the audience waa coumdorably disturbed by a Fligh Church ma, who exproséod s vigor- ous_ dissent to the doctrines promulgated, until he waa forcioly expellod from the houxe. A Union Charch of ssven members was organ- ized at Limestons, Kansas, March 1. Six de- nominations ars repraseuted. They take the Biole as thelr ru'e of action, and Christian char- 4acter s a text of fullmmhl‘!). The Rov. Geo. A. Woodward has beeu elected pastor-for one yea.. This is decidedly more senaible than for each of the six individuals above-mentioned to set up s orthodox charch of his own, with & membership of one, Tho churches of Chicago and suburbs have devoted & great desl of attcution recently to thio subject of temperance. In tho Fifth Pres- byeerian Charch iast Bunday evening 248 eigned tho pledge. The temperance pledge was rigned in the Jeflerson Park American Reformed Hun- doy School, last Sundsy, by over 100 pupils. ‘The Osk Park Cougregational Chuich heid a grand mass temperance mesting last Buadsy Gveniug. o ———— IIR. TILTON'S WITHDRAWAL. Tothe Edtor of T'he Chicago Tribune : 81a: The technioal point whioh has been made the ostensible cccasion for the assembling of the Congregational Qouncil pow sitting in New ork is not well chosen. It would have been more manly had the callers of ihat convention presonted the real issuo as arear n for its as- sembling. I doubtaf it has been the nsage of any Protestaut charch to attempt preventing tho withdreival of 8 mamber by his own act, without action on the part of thachurch. Noin- stance of the kind has ever occurredin my knowl- edge. It is srgnod that bezause 026 canaob unite with a charch without its formal cousent, therefore one canpot withdraw withoat its formel dismissel; but one caunot enter a housa a3 a guest withont consent of the housckoeper ; but his conseunt is mot thought essential co the right of departure; and peoplo do, Labitually, withdraw from churches wizhout explanation on their part or opposition on the part of the chareh. 1 was born & member of the old Bcotch Cove- nauter Church, baptizedin it, ininfancy, and unit- ed with it at the age of15. In 1345 0r 1846 I made charges against Judze Adams, one of the elders of our cangmgnfiun. I wade them pablicly, throuzh one of the most infinential daily papers of Pennsylvania, tho Pittsbargh Commercial Journal. I charged bim with belug the aily of mau thieves and adalterers; of those who stole bavies and sold women for the worst of purposes. I was savage, inflexible, because he, a8 Mayor of Pitteburgh;, had ordered ita illnmination in honor of some of our Mexican victories. H6 was a Cbristian gentleman,—ns good a man 88 any ohe can suppose Heory Ward Beacher to be. He was my personal_friend ; had &wood besids the death-ed of both my father and motber,—the sympathisiug, Christisn friend ; yet 1 pabl raigned him a5 the crimmal 1 him to be, and stuck fo my chargea. I refnsed tojcommune with him, and absented mysell from the church. When our pastor, Dr. Black, died, I did not like his successor, aud eontinned to absent myself, nntil I went to Blionesois, where we had no church. When I returved to Pittaburgh Lunited with another conzregation, of the same presbytery to which Dr. Black's congregation befonged, nnited on profession of faith. The gession knew all about it, and ac- cepted the fact that I had severed my relation to the churcb, without any action on its part. had done this aftor bringing public newspaper cnerges against the moral charncter of one of its prominent members. The case is 8o like thatof 3lr. Tilton that I thus recall it to show that these Congregatiouai churches are attempt- ing to establish a rule more striugent than that which prevails in the srictest of the Preabytenan churches, Iwasnot slune in my withdrawal ; for, at the time Mr. Donglass was installed, & Iarge part of the congregetion withdrew, some Just a8 I did, except that they wers not Liable to e catled np” for trialon the ~ground ' of . having slandered a brotber. In obe case where the person songhbt, after some time, to repew her memberebip, she heard that she could_only do %0 by Joining on profession of faith. By simply absening herself, two years, under circam- stances which might have justified her absence, o thie gronud of dificulty, or even impossibility of attendanoce, she waa held to have severed her conpection with' the chorch, just as. Hr. Tilton did, by staving = away, and this, for s shorter period of time than that duriog which be had neglected church privileges. 1t is 2 monstrous attempt at despotic ecclesiasti- cal authority tocleim that, after & man has actually severed his conneciion with a church, ard it bas taaitly accepted the fact, for years, it can turn and summon him to its bar to” answer g5 cliargos. This makes a church too much like tlie spidei’s listlo parlor. Yon “go in, but don't get out again." If there was anvihing wrong in the manner of r. Tiltou's witharawal, it was the neglect of the charch to inquire after him, and she his no right to take advantage of her own wrong. If ehe violated her patt of the church command in failing to walch over him, for his good, khe bas uo rizht to pursue him, for her own good and his pnuishment. a JANE GREY SWiSSHRIM. P et PERSONAL. oRicado, The Rev. W. B. Wright, of Boston, I visiting friends in Chicago. The Rev. Charles Kingsley, Canon of Chester, will spend tke summer &t Colorado Springs. The Rey. W. F. Johnaon, auother missionary from Indis, delivered sn address in Evapston Wednesday eveniug. The Rev. J. Gordon, pastor of the Western Avenae Baptist Church, lectured there Tusedsy evening on Robert Barns. Bishop Kerfoot leaves our city; where he has been spending & few weeks, to resume the datios | ef hisdioccre (Litteburg). His phyaicians ad- time yet Tao Rev. Ben E. S. Ely reenmes his Iabors to- day aa pastor of Graco Presbyterian Church. His health ia restored. The Rev. D. L. Loonard, yestor elect of the First Congregational Church in Hanmbal, Mo., in stopping ia the city for a few days. The Neosho Church, Mo., (Congremational) Do called the Rev. A. V. Smith, of the Sepior Class, Chicago Seminary, to its pastorate. The Evanston peaple listaned to su interest- 1ng_lecture on Hindoktan, Jast Taesday evening, by Prof. Yorke, formerly of Southern India. Bishop Neely (whose brother is a prominent merchant of Chicago) leaves his diocese (Maine) o vieit the Bishop of Litchfield npon his invita- jon. . ~ ELSEWHERE. Mrs. Van Cott began preaching in Ames Chap- el, New Orleans, March 15." Dr. Morris, Bishop of Oregon, with a band of clerzy, rec-ntly made & misaionary tour aronnd Puget Sound. The Rov. Edward C. Towne, a radical Unitari- au writer, has announced bis roturn to Loyalty to the Christ of God In Jesus.” The Rev. A. Cleghorn, D. D., resigned tho pastorate of the Otfawa, Ili, Baphist Cburch, recently. The resiguation was greatly rogrotted by the eharch. ‘The Second Baptist Church of Milwaukee bas extonded call 5o the Bev. A. R. Medoury, of Portland, Orcgon, to become ité pastor, ona salary of £3,000. Tie Rev. E. M. Boring, formerly fnancial sgent of the Home for the Friendless, bas been sgnointed pastor of the lMothodist Episcopal Church in Woodstock, ILL The Rev. B. . Cocker, Professor of Moral PLilogophy in Michigan University, deliverad an able lecture in Evanston, Weduosday aftarnoon, on the uses of ancicat religions. The Rev. Robert McKenzie, Iate of the Elein Presbyterian Church, baving accopted tha call of the Presbyterian Churck in Decatar, Iil., en- terud upon the duties of bis new field Maich 15. The many friends of the Rev. E. 0. Taglor, formierly pastor of the Kenosha Baptiat Church, and more Tecently of the church st Topeka, Kan., will b glad to learn that the worthy pas- Lor's. wife has presented him with & bran new baby. The event has created a new set of grand- oareate, and made o large number of sunts aud ancles. The Rev, Dr. Dewey, the Unitarixn Patriarch of Philadelphia, was 80 years old March 21, THE BEV. ME. M'CORMICK. To the Editor of The Chfcano Tridune: Sin: In s telegram in your paper you pub- Lish that the Rev. Mr. McCormick has joined tho now (Cutaming) movemeat. The foliowicg are tho facts ¢ Mr. McCormick is a Canadian clergvman, who has beon spending some timo in Virginis, aud, after visiting the scenes of his childnood, will come to Cbicago. Mr. McCormick withdraws from the Clarch becauge ho is opposed to infant baptiem, and it is thongbt that he will join the Baptists, but he has not fully determined. He wishes to take time to examine the subject fully before hie unites with them. Probably every year there are a_dozen clergy- men lesving tho Protestant Episcopal Church rom various sscigned causes, Generally they have been unsuccessfal in the ministry, and shoy attribute their want of success to the Charch, when more wisdom aud energy would bavegiven them fruit for their labors. No grester number have laft daring the Cammins movement than is nenal. While the loss ia a dozen a year, the gain from the religions bodies to the Church is a hundred ; 80 that tho net gain is immenss, and at no time has it been greater than smnce the defection of LEN Arppa. i RELIGIOUS MISCELLAN®. AT HOXE. The Rev. Dr. Adler, in answer to Max Muller, contends that Judaism is a missionary faith. “The Chrisifan at Work has enlarged <o twenty Pages, and Alexander E. Stephens is announced 24 » coutributor to that paper. A writer in the Presbylerian tpesks of & gown on a minister 1o the pulpit as a‘ man-devised edjunct of the worship of God.” Py The Liberal Christian thinks s'church in New Brizhton, Staten Island, should call George Will- iam Curtis to its pulpit, aod g0 * furnish & noble and much-needed cxample of & live church with a lay preacher.” Elder Grubbs, of the Disciples’ Cburch, in » kommunication to the Louisville Courier-Jour- bnal, states that the Disciples, more familiarly cnown as the Campbellites, number 70,060 mem- ners in Kentucky. The German Reformed Church, in Berks Couaty, Pa., datee from 1750. The first church was built in 1753. There are now in the connty 51 congregations, with 10,390 members, of whom 9,034 are communicants, & The statintics of tho Kentucky Conference, of the Mothodist Episcopal Church North, show 3438 probationers, 15.704 full members, 170 churches valued at $395,650, 12 parsonages val- ued at 319,400, 171 Sunday-achools, 1,263 officers and teachers, xnd 8,437 scholars. A recent book published bvtha Rev. O. L. Brace, on _the dangerous classes of New York, sbowa that the dangerous elements of that city, 50 far ss the pumber and condition of the chil- dren aro concorned, are decreasing, owing ta the industrial sud religious applisnces hrought to bear upon {hem. A new eori of Surday-school helps, advertised for in the Congregalionalisl, s ** 5 kind of over- shoes which wiil keeo out Sunday elueh, and of umbiellss which will keep off Snnday rain.” Tha supply needed would be chiefly of Iarge sizes, for teachers and adult scholara, Children gen- eratly do not care for them. Minnesota has 182 Baptizt churcbes, with 5,957 members. There aro eight ®ssociations. The members are of many nationulitics—American, German, French, Scandinavian, Danish, Africin, Thoy have only fifty-six houses of worship, but aro buiiding twenty mare. Thero ure in California not less than 530 or- ganized chinrches cf all denominstions, and 600 church buildiogs erected, with an drgrezate ao- commodation for 225,000 sittings. Church prop- erty is valued at $7,500,000. The Methodists lead in the number of local societies, having 190. A religious journal asys: Congregational Church in St. Louia have just iesued a manusl, in which it sppears thatno formal-deciaration of faith is required for ad- ion to membership, but simply & *profes- sional trust in Christ aud 2 mental covenant of faithfulness in Christian life.'” - A 1ady writiog from Sanivl. Nea Perces Rerer— vation, avs that many of the Indiaos travel ten cr teive milos on Sunday to attend church, and 5 more attentive or devort congregation cannot be found iu any civilized community. In prayer they are very earnest, and displsy none of the hesitation and baclwardness which may some- tumes bo witnessed among tho white race. The statistics of the Moravian Misgion for 1873 ehows 90 miseiou stations, of which 74 are in America, 12 in Africa, 2 in Asia, and 2 in Ans- tralia, The muesionariés numbered 822, inciud- ing miseionaries’ wives and_sgents. They bave 8ls0 1,533 native helpers, 21,969 communicants in the territory supplied by mssion labor. The total recoipts of the Board for tha year amoant~ ed to $99,000. The Episcopal Church fa Virginia is discussing quito earnestly tho future position of its clergy in regard to questions of church doctrine agd polity. A journsl of that State declares that there is no expectation® that the movement of Rishop Cummins sill be followed, but it is said to be not impossible that & wore 1mportant and effective protest against the new sacerdotalism’ which is represedted by the Bishop of Illinois and his sympathizers will be made, Thera are fifteen Protestant Episcopal com- tounities in the Unifed Btates called sisterboods or aseociationa of deaconesses. Some of thess are conducted in & very rigorons mauner, snd a recent Protestant writer says: * The work and the religious life are strikingly similar to that of the Roman Catholic Sisterhoods.” The lender of the rigorous system is the Rev. Dr. Dix, of Trinity Church, New York, tte Chsplain of the Sistera of Mary. The general average of Epiacopal diocessu ir: creass 1n 1873 was 4 per cent, and in the lsst ten years 45 per cent. @ preatest per centum of incrense has boen in Colorado, Montane, Oregon, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Minnésota, and North Carolins, Iliincis is the fourteenth diocese in bumbers, Texas shows the Iargest relativeincrease. Massachusetts has made the largest amount of average contributions per communicant, Mixsouri end New Jersey next, During 1873, there were 108 additions to the clergy hst. Dr. Yorteous said, a short time ago in Brook- Iyn, N. Y., that he came to this conntry “ to see whetger the Amerfcan people cared for him, and whether they would accept what he could give 28 nim—;q fl'l‘”' and Jvheum he mu)'d’r et money heré in a gentlemanly way.” “Thy avomal," saya tho Im??pmdent, L!' doswnot ‘indt< {*The Masflower |, * confirmat iog; but it has the marit of being intelligible, There is not the least bit of cant about it, and wo have no zesson to doubt that it is striotly true,” . The New York Independent asks the Examiner and, Chronicle (Ba%l!l‘ of New York, the fol- lowiag questiovs, to which it demapls categori- cal answers : - 1. Do you or do you not_consider the commemors- tive supper celobrated in Prdobaptist churches to b the -Lord's Bupper? 2. As adminfstered by {heso churches, is it or {a it not a.valld sscrament? 3, Is or {8 not the observance of tho supper by persons_wha Bavenot been immersed an offonse against Christ, committed efther in fgnorance or in willfnness? At the Teachers’ Bection of the last Stato Sundar-School Convention of New Jareey, in 1e~ 8ponse to an inquiry ss to how Superintendents can help teachers in their work, these aaswers were given by the different teachers: Snperin tendents msy help by not talking too much ; by Dot taking the teachers' time; by not giving scholars the idea that teachers are incompetent; by consultin}y the views aad wishes of teachers ; by recognizing echolars everywhare and convers- mg with them ; by sympathy with teschers and ceholars'; by requiring preparation in teachers ; by requiring attendanco at teschers’ meotings ; y inexhaustible kindness: by intelligible re- views ; by attending Sunday-echool conventions., T6 New York Independent classes as follows several of our prominent literary men and women, on the matter of religious befief : Amopng the Unitarian litteraii ave claseed Bryan! George William Curtis, Dr. Holmes, Francis Parluosn, Bumner, * Motley, Bancroft, Whipple, Howolls, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs, Spofford, Bret Harto, J. T. Trowbridge, James Freemau Clarke, Ed- ward E. Hale, Longfsllow, Lowell, Bayard Tay- lor. The Congregationalists are: Dr. Hollanc, Lucy Larcom, abeth Stuart Pnelps, Gall Hamilton, Horace E, Scudder, Wendell Phillips, Charles Dudley Warner, aod Mark Twain. Hig- inson and Parton are called fros-roligionists. merson and A._ Bronsou Alcott are transcond- entalists ; aleo, Miss L. M. Alcott. Epes Sar- gent and Bobert Dale Owen areSpiritualists. R. H. Daga, Jr,, John Hay, and Harriet Bsecher Stowe are Episcopalians, and Whittier is a ker. ABHOAD. The Archbirhop of York and the Bishops of Ripon and Chichesier have lately presided over large temperance meotings, . The Bishop of Ely. England, urges the neces- sity of daily service snd weekly communion in every parish. He condemas family pews. Mr. Gladstone recently lostured on “ The Uses and Abuses of Scripture Quotations,” be- fore the London Open-Air Missions. It is said that the house of the Bagsters in London is reaping a tich harvoss 1n theincreased sale of Bibles, cansed by tho religious revival in Great Britain. The Bishop of Manchester has just delivered a sermon of great interest on John Woeley, It was at the ordination of Weslsvan miniaters at Nowcastle-upon-Tyne. The Bishop shows thst Wesley Lved and died s faithful presbyter of the Chuch, . The Rev. Dr. Binney, the calebrated non-con- formist Brlttsh divine, who bas lately died, felt it to be tus duty, six months ago, to recall his bitterost expressiona of hosiility to the English Church, and to Introduce into his congregation the chanting of tne Psalms and the use of the, Litorgy. P Blshop Williamas s the Missionary Bishop for Cluna and Japan. A correspondent of tho Bos- ton Transciipt sags that the Bishop was foond in 8 Japanese boarding-house in Jeddo, in & room 9 feet squace, withous auy furniture except s pail, with aslies aud & few cosls, in the- centra of the room. In oos corner wero two blankots, with one of which the Bishop wrzpped himsolf, while be slept upon the otber. Thera the Bishop was found, ritting upon the flaor, engaged in the worlk of translation. The Jlale eimultancoua London mission smong all the Episcopal charches of the city aud euburks, and with tho spprobation of the Archbishops and Bishops, has been productive of El:nfl results. Hundreds of thonsands havo een brought under its inflnence. Fourieen thousand were in Bt. Paul's Cathedral at one j Thanksgiving service, The Pre-Lent miseion among fallen women in London has resulted in the recovery of great numbers. §t. Peter's Church, in the vicinity of Coventry street, the Huymariet, and the Regent Stret Quadrant, has been the ceatre of operaiions. Lord Derbygave $00,000 towardsa bailding taia church, in 1381, A statue of the martyred Bishop Patteson has been placed in_ Crist Church, Svdoey, ou the north gide of the chancel. This cenotapb i of that kind usnally known 24 ao “altar-tomb,” Ic bears in old English letters these words: ¥ John Coleridze Patteson, D.D., fitst Bishop of Melanesls. Klled at Kokapu, Saats Cruz 1slands, 20th September, 1371 Al the head, *The sood uheghexd giveth his Tife for the sheep;" and at the base, ‘' Father, forpive them ; for they know not what they do.” The Bishopis represented as lyiog upon o mattrese, his hesd reposing upon a cushion, and Lis uplifted hends folded a8 in prayer. ‘The Society of the Ezguo for the Defenss of the Christian Religion has offered prizes for the best essavs on the following gubjects: 1. What ia the tnflaence of Christisnity upon the condi- tion aud the lot of womon; snd what are the place and the sphere of activity which Christian principles agsign to womsn in modern society ? 2. Bust we consider the actual movement of the 01d Catholics as a passing event, or must we al- low that, plunging its roots ioto the past, it has aresson for being and a fature. The disserta- ticas fot tho prize, which is of 400 florins, must be written either in Dutch, Latin, ¥rench, or Germon. 1t is said that the following lotter, written by Chiries Dickens to his son, as the fatter left his home for Austtalie, defiues more sharply than anythiog elss tho mavelist ever wrote, hi own religions behef : 1 pit in & New Testament becatire it is the best book that ever was, or will be, known i th worid ; and be- caane 6 feaches you the best lessons by which amy human ereature, who triea to be tratbfol and fsithfol todaty, can possibly ba guided. As your brothers ‘have gone away, ong by one, I have written to esch such words #» I am now writing ta you, and have en- treated ther: all to guide thomselves by this Bool putting axide the Interprotations and_inventions o man, . . . Inow mostsolemnly impress upon you the truth snd beauty of the Christan religinn, as it came from Christ Himself, and the imppesibilily of your going far wrong if you humbiy but besrtlly Tespectit, Only one thing moss on this bead, The mote we nre in earnest asto fecllng it, the less we are disposed fo hold forth about it. Never-abandon ke wholesome practice of suying your own private pragers, night nod morning. 1 have nerer abandoned 1t myself, and I know the comfortof it, i 5=l SERVICES TO-DAY. EPISCOPAL., The inission services at the Church of the Atons- ment, corner of West Waehington and Robey streets, will be continued fcr five evonings of this week, by the following cleriymen : Sunday, the Rev, Fran. cis Munsfield ; Monday, the Rev. Edward Bollivan, D. D.; ‘Tuesday, the Rav, Arthur Brooks; Weenesday, the Rev, H.N. Powers, D. D.; Thuraiay,tte Bev, C.oton Locke, D, D. The Bishop of tho Diocess will sdminister the rite of confirmation in this church on Good Frday morning, at 11 o'clock, —B!uhor Whitehouse will preach znd administer lon af St. James’ Charch, corner of Cass and Huron streets, this morning, The Eov. Atthur Brooks will preach fn tbe evening. —The Hev, Eenry G. Perry will ofilciate morning mg vaumlng in All ita Church, corner of Qarpenter an strects, ~The Rev. W. J. Petrio will conduct forning and evening services in the Church of Our Savior, :snr.:n o e by f Stocing wil_pren ~ . ing wil ach morning and evening in the Church of the Epiphany, '1r00) sizety b-gm:l;n‘rvfi;nd 7 —The Rev. J, F. er wiil preach morning and grening in Calvary Olurch, on Wairea lvenue,';;r estern, —There will be mMmorning servica, sermon, and hol; communion at 8¢, Peter’s Mission Chapel, g’:‘s, !‘.’Shanfi 330 S:ate street, opposite Congress sirest, by the Rov, o s Frhacis Samstotd will ol —The fiev. Francls Sanafle 0ld morning and evening service in the Church of the AMflamg‘tnfi ner of West Washington and Robey streets, ~~The Rav, W, H, Smytle will ofticiate ‘morning and evening in the Church "of the Holy ‘Communion, on Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets, Evening mubject: finflnl.h, the Fattern ey, 3G, Kina —The Rev. B, C, ey will preack in the morning in 8. Stephen’s Church, on Jed’nlon street, ween Taylor and Tweltth strects, e —~Triaily Church, Highiand Park, wifi hold after— Toon sud evening service in the Baptist Church. The Rev. H. C, Kinney, of Chicago, will ofiiciate, Prof. Swing il proach moraing and evéniog in the 2 s ‘morning an e o Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Ontatio !&zeu. —The Rév. J. B. Drury, of New York, will presch in Lhamnrningi and the Rev. U, D, Gulickin the evering, in lh's American Reformed &nd Jefferson Patk Church, on Weat Washington strert, near Ann. —The Rev, Jaracs Harrison wiil presch morning and §ycaing in o Tenth Ohureh, on Ashley sireet, near —The Rev. A, E. Kittredge will presch morning and erentng in the Third Glirch, comer of Washiagton ‘arpenter streets. Evening subject : The Beauty and Posatbilltics of Youth,” 4 —There will be the ueual evening servicain Camp- Park Mission, on Leavitt stroet, near Harsison. ~The Rav, W. W, McEalg, D. D., will presch morn- ing a3 evening in ine Nints Church, on Lilis avenue. —Prof, ¥. L. Patton, D, D,, will preach mornicg and evening in Groce Church carner of Viucennes snd avzuucs, —In the Second Church, comnét of Trventicth stroet and Michigiz avenns, Prof, Hrven wiil dresch in the mornivg. and Pof, Swing fa the evesing, —~The Asbland Aveaus Chtrch will worehip in th, Hosning tn the Svcdctiborglan Temple, 0B Wshisg- A A —The Rev. W. T: Johmron, for twelra sears a iy sionary in India, will preach cn his Livors fa g corniry id the Reunion Canrel: this School concert in the eveaing. —The Bev. J. W, Bain, of Al Scoteh heny, Pa., will preacy n the mornirg n the Scoich Charch, sotser of Adamg snd Sangamon streets, and at 3:30 p. ., in the Uniteq Church, corner of Adains and Paulfna sireets, —The Rev. Charles L. Themy son will preach i thy moring in” the FUIR Church, corner of Wabaag avenue and Thirty-irst street, and 10 the svenihg wi Qeliver a Jecture on * Beligiots Art, The Rev. N. F. Rarin wil preach e Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach morntn eveniog in the Templo Churek, coraer of Herrisan sy Sangamon streeis, Evening subject: *The Trial s Floreuce BMcCarthy.” ~—The Rev. Austin Gilbe, of Rockford, IiL, wiy preach morning and eveniag in the Usion 'Purg Churh, corner of Washington and Paulina strects, —THe Rov, W, W. Ever's, D, D,, whl preach in the morning in the First Chareb, on Wabash avequs, cor ner of Hubbard court. Gorpel moeting ia the evening. ~—Tho Rev. . W. Everis, Jr.. will preach in thg moming in " tue Tndians Svents Chupel, comar of Thirtteth sireet, and the Rev. Dr. Bverts ih the svegr ing. —IThe Rev. G. W. Northrop will preach for the Aty 1and Avcaus Church in the morning, corner of Pag. Hina and Monroe streels, Proyer-meeting in the evan. e, £ —The Rey. C. H. DeWolf will preach morning ang eveatng in Ymmanuel Alission, cormer of Centrs a3 Dayton strects, —%‘nn ;3; n’A. {’_.;m:twi{l yreag:h m\;‘rflng and evenipg in the vorsity Vlace Chureh, of Rhodes sveae. el —Tha Rev, T, W, Goodspeed will preach morning #nd evening in the Second Church, carner of Morgay and Monroe strees, stromontsT. The Ror. Blshop Bowman will presc’ fo #ha morm. ing, snd the Rev. C. E. Felton, D. D., 1 the evening in Grace Chyrch, corner of LiSalls aist Woile m:peets’ —Tho Dev. J; O, Pock will [reach motning sad evening in the Centenary Chiureh, on Monros streal near Morgan, —Tho Bev. J, W. Walone will deliver a dlscourss og. the Fifteenth Amendment, and alio & ealogy upos ths Iife of Charlés Sumucr, this evening, In tho Dethel African Church, on Third avenue, near Taylor stresl, Aorniug rervics as usual. " —Tbe Rev, Dr. Rayniond, of Evanaton, will preact rorning znd evening in Trinity Church, on Indios avenue, near Twenty-fourth street. —The Roy, Dr. Thomas will preach fa the mornf on * Total Abatinence,” in the Firet Cureb, corser o Clark and Washineton strests, Thore will bé 3 wome 2o's alzsimaty mosting ln cie evening, with addrssica )y B.xhon Bowan, . Houser, & Veleran inise sionary, Mrs, WillinZ, and others, ; CONOREGATIONAT. The Rev. William Alvin_Bartlewt will presch in the morning o Piymouth Church, cornar of Tadiwns avenne and Tweoty-sixth stree; and Miss Britha, for sixtcen years & mirsionary in Africa snd Indla, il npeak 1 the evening. —The Bav, D. T. Chamberlain will prasch this morn- ng in the New Eogland Clurch, corner of Norh Dearborn and Whito streets; and in tho evening M. F. G, Eusiger %1l speak in’ behall of the American S Ty Albers Busbuell il oralng —The Rev. Albert Bushuell will preach m and eveuiog in tha Leavitt Street Church. —Tho Kev. C. D, Helmer will preach morning and evening in the Uion Park Churcii, UNIVELSALIST. The Rev. J. W. cditor of tha Kew Cove- zant, il predch In the mornfog sui (b Ton. S0 T Boveo will lecsure in the evening in the Charch of tha Radesmar, corucr of Washivglon and #1250 Rev, Dr, Tyder will proach morus ‘—The Rev. Dr, Ryder preach morning and evening in St Paul’s Church, on Michigan aven near Elghtecnih etreet, " TITARIAN, The Rev. 3inot 7, Sivage will presch in the morne fug {n the Third Chiuren, corner af Mouros and Laliy niresta. No aveaing sergics, —T~3 Der. Goorge W. Patten will presch {his mome ing in «bo Fourth Church, corner of Indinua avenus and Thirtoth sireet oo * Tho Spirit of tho Past rozsuy the Spicit of e Prasenl” “Tore will bo evealag 5 e, —The Rev. Rabert Collyer will preach 1 the morn.' ing in Unity Church, cornor of Nortd Dearborn and Whitney strests, and Miss Anns E. Diokinson wil speak in the evening, s 3 oERISTTAN, The Rev. A. T. Hobbs, of Oinclonai, will presch in the First Church, corner of I lixoa sveote sud Twents-fth street. Mornite subject: Good Worke; or Humaniturtanism.” Eveaing subject: ' Tie Tng Salvations —Elder G. G. Mallins will preach i the Central Church, near Jefferson Park, Morning aubjct: * Ths Streugth of Goa and the Weakaess of Men.” Evenlag subject: “ The Second Coming of Carist,* MISCELLASTOUS. ‘The Adventists will meet in thelr hall, Ko, 713 West Afadison streot, morning. Prosching by Riders Cok iins or Murston, —The Fir<t Society of Splritnslists moet in Growsy Opers Hall, No. 617 West Madison street, morning and eveding, Ssmuel Maxwell will suswer queations whils eatranced, 2ud will describe spicit frlends. Lycoum 211230 p. m. - ~Temperance sxpericnce meetings are held eath Sunday evering in the Chapel of ths Washin Howe, Weat Madivon sirect. —The Progressive Lyceum meets at 12:30 p. m, fn Good Templers' Hall, corner of Vashingion aud Despladnes streets. ~English Lutbersn services will beheld tn {ka church corner of Dearborn and Erie_efrdets, fn thu morning, and fu_the evening 4 the church corner of Bsngamon and Phillips stresis, i —Religious sorvices will by held this morning in the school-honse at Maplowood, with sermon By Mr. Thomaa Fluck, Also, at3 p. m., in Gimble Schook House, on Milwaukes avenur, “with addrsses by Messre. Bowen, Cook, snd Hamimer. —Gen. L N, 8tiles, President of tho Free Religlons Socety, will address 'the memvers and {rivzls of the Soclaty thiy cvening iu the hall on the corner of Ban dolph ana Jeffcreon streets, —Tné Hav. J. H. Leonard, chsplaty, will presch morning ana evening in tho Aariners’ Templs, corzet of Market and Biichigan sirects, Union tomperance prayer-moeting uf 3 p. m. Scamen and the Phopk generally are invited. Friends' meeting on, Twenty-sixth strect, betwoer Indisns and Prei:ia svécues, mezuicg and svsning. —Moszs Hull will preach, Tozming and evenine, be Fociatian of Spiritual in Jorkstreet, Subject: “Tie True Believer and i Work,” At2:30 p. m, Mattie B, Sawyer wil lectun upon * Wrat is Social Freedom 17 —The Second Swedenborgian Soclety will worshipst 3.3 In Marray Cliapel, —Dishop Chenzy will preach fn Chriet Church, cor er of 3ichigen svenuo_ and Twenty-four! Morning subject: *Is It Nolhidg to You?" Tnlue evemag, by request, repetition of list Wedaesdiy' lecture on “ Bliud Bartimeus,” kit OALENDAR FOR THE WEER, ErSCOPAL, E March 29—§¢=th Sunday iu Lenk, March 30—Munday befors Exster. March 31—Tuesday before Easter, April 1—Wedaesday before Easter, April 2—Thursday before Easter, April 3—Good Friday. April i—Faster-Even. TOMAN CATHOLIOY March 29—Palm Sanday, March 3)—Feris, March 31—Feria, April 1—Feria, April —Hoiy Tharsdsy, ‘April 3<Gaod Fri April i—Holy Saturd: THE ADVOCATES OF JUSTICE. Tothe Editor of The Chicagn Tribus: 8is: I desire, through your columne, foeo™ Bangamen -réct some of the false impreesions existicg in the minds of peplo concerning tho ohjects, aimy, and purposes of the new Order known as the Advocates of Justice, as well as to show out plins of securing pecuniary benefita to ita mexm- . bers, Nedrly every person with whom I talk bas con~ ceived the 1des that wo arte starting Co-operatint Stores; that wo are goliciting steek for thie same; that we are collocting money for that purpose, to be placed in the hands of some person, ¥l will go East for th e purpose of buying goods #4id who will forget to coma back. This is entirely foreign to our minda. Wears doing nothing of tho eort ; neither has {t bees suggested by & member of the Order, We hara & moch botter plan, We are, in the flnbplsnc:] & Fralernal Band, bound by ties of honor ¢ principles of justice. We hold weekly mectings at our Lodge-rooa, where we sro ali welcomsd on awocial equality, regardless of onr oocips- tion, pectiniary circumatances, or social position outeide our Lodge. Wo giye relief to our memte bers In sickness and adversity. Weeeok tomaks all our meetmgs 80 plecsant. by masical uod lit: etary exercises, that we ahall hold tho jnterest of the members; while our ritnal-oxdtrises a8 of & high morai character, Our Order is eddcd- tional. * We have secured pecaniary banefita fo our members by clubbing together and purcass: - ing our goods all at one” houss in each lnsof goods, aad ato deslitig with old established busl nesb-housés of reputation. Each imembst selects his or lier Gwn goods, of any quak- ity and in soy quantlty .thoy mer desire, mnd for ~ the fais. YR No money passes through ont hands, Wa bsve: 1o tax levied upen our members, saye s suficient sum to meetthe current expensesof onch Lodge. The initiation-fees are placed so low shaj it will enable every person desiring to do &0 to become & member of thé Order. We have now six Lodzes in Chicago, the members of which ata receiving all the pecaniary bencfits and advantages of the Pawons of Husbandry, which they havo 8 throngh the so-called Granger moveinent ; 83 inno single fnstance i1s8 s member saved less than 89 percent on groceries purchased onordery furnished by the Lodges e Advoctates Justice. A public mectiag of Alpha Lodge, No. £, of this Order, will e held at 96+ West aladmon street, an Thursizy eveming, April 2, to ) all are cordialy invited. Any partics wishing to esiablish a Lodgs o their locality can do so by getting togethet twelve persons, and giving notice of the meetivg to tho undorsigned, who witl meet with them, of send & Depoey, who will organize them into & bady, withs 2li the powers, priviloyes, aad ages guaranteed to Lodgos of onr Order. J. W, PoWERe, Doguty Graud Masker, 473 Woet Laka siresh ! | % Ea ot e Y RN ——