Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1874, Page 6

G RELIGIOUS NEWS. The Spirit of the Religious Press. Their Views on Tempcrance, the iymounih Council, Etc. Communications on a Variety of Subjects. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Bervices in the Churches To-Day. RELIGIOUS PRESS. THE ALLIANCE. The Alliance contains an editorial on ** Prayer and P olitics,” from which we takothe following: e would not for a moment question the entiro all Tiko overything else, has ita con- usslces to ignoro $hewe, or o venturo upon wild expeditions and dopend rhaken; but ditions 'znd rayer, mitations, and it s upor er for success, It is only in Larmony with obd"‘um;nyrpoeu that prayer can prevail. Itisnot God’s pian that tho prager of one person, 0r a dozen, ora hundred , shall changs the Divine Govern- fent from the basis Of personsl iberty and individual Tesponeibility, so 3a to compel everybody to do just st tho prayerful want them t0 do. . . o+ o o Thero was no good resson for beliering that prayer cocld chiango the set purposs of the City” Couneil, nor {hat it conld carry the late electiona in favor of radical temperance meastres in tha cities whero the majority of the voters wers oppgsed to such a policy. It would Te just a8 reasonabls to supposs that prayer could put 3u end tosll the ollier wrongs of socicty, sch a3 Tnurder, infanticide, the social evil, pride, dishonesty, etc., 2 that it conld control the tempernnce question or the palitics of the country. Wers such the power of prayer the world Liad Jong sinco been saved. Wo must work as well aa pray, and wait o _well work, and be willing that socicty sdvance by the ways and in tho time it best con, and not expect to bring everybody aud eversthing to our plans, THE ADVANCE. The Adrasce pitches into Ruskin and high ertin the construction of houses of worship. Bays tho Advance : Tho reprodaction_of eruciform and extreme Gothic or clazeic models, with little regard to convenieuces or comforts, eannot b excued on artistic gronnds. Our modern notion is o put a given number of sittings in Dear and unobstructed communication with the pul- pitand cholr, The voom must be properly heated, ghted, both day and evening, and thoroughly venti- lated. ‘This chief apsrtment must bo escorted by roper Sunday-achool accommodation and such other kocessories of parlors and minor Tooms &3 our eocizl ogo requires, The rlanding puzzla of acoustics, which ia_ geiting st " least a nogative ‘eolution, must bo mastered; and you have icused thefundamental utilities of 8 mouern Christian home. The dim religious light for sore-eyed CLris- tians ; the installation of foulair, that genius of epi- demica; the charne! chill of damp walls, that ally of {lie ecxfon; and that reverbemting jargon of sounds which bewilders the mind as though the painted sngols in the archos were Bpeaking in nnknown tongues, or ‘were rattling through gymnastic excrcizes on the open timber.work of the ceiling,—theso lunatic offoots hava coexisted_with tho most admired church architocture of the past. High art has delighted in cities filthy with low pestilonce, and whose suburba were combed by banditti, There is an editorial on the Temperance ques- tion, which recommends, among other things, the discouraging of the social custom of treat- ing, and suggests ihat an anti-treating society would serve a good purpose. Another thing recommended is, to havo the laws against dis- order snd drunkenness strictly enforced, and alow no intoxicated person on the streots. A strict enforcement of the laws against the adul- teration of wine and beer is also urged. Inno other article of commerce or general consump- tion, it is said, are the peoplo so shamefully im- ‘posed apon as in the aaulterstion of liquors, and Do reason is seen why the law in this case should not bo as rigidly enforced 28 against the adul- toration of food. It nlso contains an article on the ‘ Consolida- tion of Seminaries,” wherein it is stated that there are half-a-dozen theological echools in the Preabyterian Church which should be melted into ons at some such place as Chicago. In some of them it has cost the Church $3,000 a year for each student. THE STANDARD. The Standard, commenting upon the recent Council which tried the Rev. ¥lorence McCarthy, thinks that Councils hereafter should hold their sessions in secret, The Slandard remarks : 1t bss beon & most trying service for the brothren felegated by the churclies to actin the caso ; made the more trying and difficult by the fact that it has not been allowed them to observe any real privacy in their proceedings, or o prevent the parading of all the par— ticulars of the case—oven the most unseomly—bo- fore the pulilic eye. The Council have evidently wished to give no occasion, not even any apparent one, for g thom with an intention £0 act under cover, #ud in- the circumstances perhaps have had no choice. None the less is it to bo ro- gretted that church councils, especially when anatter comes before them of such's mature s much ihat has been recited in the procecdings of thia one, 2ro not allowod o respect thie public senso of decency v Lolding their seasions without the prescace of ro- 1o, rethren engaged upon this Council Wero men every way competent to conduct procecdings of this character, and we believe that they acted in all Chris- t4an honor and honesty. e cantiot see how it was possible for them to reach a different result, much o3 we regret the necessity that was upon them. This whole matter has becn an excoedingly patnfal Many things in the history of it ars fit only for on, not in anyscnse for record Or even dis- cussion, one, ol THE INTERIOR, The Interior contains five * hinta™ to North- western Presbyterinns: 1. Sustain the Inferior ; 2. Oppose any attempt to cut off the Board of Paoblication from contact with the churches; 3. Bustain the denominational educational institu- tions and endow new ones; 4. Look compla- cently and kindly upon the younger colloges, from which the ranks of the ministry are ro- cruited; 5. Make the Theological Sominary the centre of Presbyterian theology for tho North- wesl. - The Interior contends for tho sectarisn organs, 85 against the last Scribner, which ‘“sces tho Church pspers fecbly trombling about, bat in band, repesting tho petition: ** Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, whose tottering limbs have Dborne him to your door; bay my little chrcmo, and may God reward yon.” Tho editor thinks there i8 no cause for levity or melancholy when considering tho religious press; but exprosscs tho belief that much of the interest and ad- sancement in the churches is attributable to the organs aforeanid, THE NORTHWESTERY ADVOCATE. _The Northwestern Advocate discusses the reln- tionof tbe sexes to the quostion of work, and thinks the time is coming’ whon women will ro- ceive just credit and reward for work well done. That paper saya: When the day of thorougk common sense on this sabject zzrives, we shall Lavo an end to all the {ojus- * tice that denfes certain things to zn applicant becausa slie §a a woman, and an end also to the illogical wesk- noss that granta other thivgs simply Lecause sha who ks in 3 women. -We must neither tnderdo mor overdo the matter. Ask only, * Can this applicant do the work 7% and * Can he or she give sn equivalent for hire as well aa another poraon of the same sex 7" Vers soon wo shall—or shouid—hear far loss of ‘men'’s work and woman's work, and of men's societica and woman's focieties. For instance, in mission wark, our church -and-by, ceaso to hear of the Pa- Tent end the Woman's Missionary societies. Thebody of devoted womnn-workers, already so.wtrong, is o Iogical antcome of man’s monopoly of management of that enterprise, Tho long list of mansgers and_com- mittees doca not contain the name of s single womao. ‘Thst has been pravidential enough in the pst, but i 1nay bo a discussable quoation for the future, We zeo litle miore reason why no woman shall have official appointment on a gencral conference mission- ary board, than why all mistionaries sball bo men, or :’r:-].; thesemen shall carry tho Gospel o heathon men Ee e RELIGIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE. 3 T the Editor of Tha Chicago Trivune: Bm:_Wu all talk very glibly of the beanties of tolen_tmn, but there is nothing more difcalt than its excrcise, and notling more essential to the order and well-being of socicty. Toleration is 8 state of mind which pati g ations end individuals only sttain to by growth. It d0cs not come by vature. 1t s the result of athored strength, not of heroditary weakness. unatics ind children are proverbially violen. /"The adveree opinions of ‘others are regarded by tham with !mred and contempt. They caomot bose -.u;mmg which is Bt variance with their ove Vill. The selfichriess of human nature Dlinée their weak and disordered intellects, so that they can see no goodness in whatever seems opposed to their own intarests and de- wires, This parrowness of vision prompts them toacts of injustice in every form. Their own view, o1 C'sh, or opinion, is always the right se. Contrary views aro intolerable, and_ thosa catertain them are often regarded with «; 'ine of intense personal hostility. suieranee is but another name for ignorance. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, ATRIL 12, 1874 e e 1. It is tho ree proportion prejudica, «nd 3 root from which has spr of the evils from which 1 tind hos sutiored. It has been thacanss of eimost esery war and nearly every misundarstanding between nations. It has caused more blood to flow, and more tears to be shed, than all other infludzices togotber. It has severed tho ties of kindred, and thrust a aword between those who should Lave been friends. 5 Humanity has no foe so powerfal and 8o diffi- cult to overcome as the spirit of intolerance. Christianity bids us love, intolerauce bids us bate, our fellow-man. ‘Intolersnca, beiug the genius of hatred, undermines tho very founda- tions of socioty, and dissolves overs genial tie by which the human race is bound together. 'In common lifo, the intolerant man becomes a post.In religion, he becomes & bigot,—3 man p> intensely intereated in the Baving of his own - miscrable soul 2a to be in- different to tho sonlsof others. What signi- fics it to our_bigoted friend if all others are dnmned, provided he is 8o fortunate as to es- capo? The bigot is hemmed in by a little ecir- clo, and can seo nothing but darkncss outsido of it." His feolings, thonghts, and opinions have their centro and circamfercnce in himself. His olitica—his religion—aro alone orthodox. is standard of interpreiation is infallible. Those who -differ are simply heterodox— Sictims of '‘tho worm that never dies,” and food for the unquenchablo fires. A privats council of damnation_is set up in his own heart, beforo which overy dissenting soul is tried and everlastingly condemncd. Your real bigot is the ‘most horrid and dotestable of all boings,—amonu- ment of mesnness and uncharitableness, of epiritusl avarice and pride. Thess men go about society, like dovils in disguise, sncering at evory innocent pleasure and mocking at every joy. They fancy they are thus doing good sor- vice. They are aim{)l!y, but surely, destroying the seeds of overything that is good in their own pature. They are debasing their own souls; and, so far from being a help, are a curse, to other men. The time was when to differ from tho estab- lished faith meant death. Protcstautism and Catholicism aliko kindled tho fires of martyrdom. To tortureor putoutof cxistence those who Qonied the binding force of church-decree was, for a long period, the prevailing rule. To hang, or burn, or torment the nnfortunato ** heretic,” was considered a religious duty. He had no right to live, savein humble submission and abase- ment to ecclesiastical law. "Thus religion became a fosrfal despotism. In- stead of a Divine hand, leading tho blind and sustaining the weak, it was azod, iuflicting eapricious punishment upon mankind. t seems strange o .look back overthetrack of years and perccivo the dark reign of universal intolerance which 0 short & timo ago provailed, and from the shadow of which the humar raco ianow beginning to emerge. Surely the world is moving on in u straightforward line, in spite of the many obstacles which scem to chango ita course or checks its progress. The geoeral en- lightenmont is impressicg on men's minds the great ovil and egotism of intolerance. Itisan evil which shonld bo left to rot amid the rubbish of the past, Tho infinite varicty of mind, snd education, and humsan circumstances, reudors it impossiblo that we should think alike, or uadorstand alike, the simplest doctrines, or even the simplest language. The same word often admits of o number of poesible interprotations. Widoly- different religious gects go to the same Bible for the evidences of their faith, and, to this day, aro disagreed as to the truo significance of many passages that, at first sight, would appear to be perfectly plain. This being an indisputable fact, both reason and common senee deciaro that a liberal toler- ance of other men's viows and other men’s in- torpretations is absolutely essontial to tho peaco of society and the happiness of private life. ‘Withoutit there can beuo harmony, no progress, no religion. What a lamentabla spectecle it is, Catholics fighting wilh Protestants, Protestant sects fight- ing with Protestant sccts, and shades of socts fighting with other shades of tho same sect. This last specics of contoation is, of all kinds, the least dignified and the most pernicious. Bome timo this month, Prof. Swing is to bo arraigned befors a Presbyterian Conncil, to have the question of his orthodoxy passed upon. The Profesaor is guilty of infusing a larger spirit of Iove into his Christianity than was ever dreamed of by that queer saint, John Calvin. Heace the advocates of o religion of hato and fear are soveroly troubled. Ahe spirit of Calvin, rising from his grave and shaking his * gory locks," must bo appeased. Tho public are looking forward_with deep in- terest to the decisions of this Council. Has .** Charity " any place inthe Presbyterian Church ? If so; Prof. Swing will_bo_vindicated, and tho uuity of the Presbylerian body maintained. CarmoLICUs. THE PRE-CHRISTIAS CROSS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc: Sm: In Fridey's TRIDUNE, in an article on archmological discoveries in Mexico, occurs tho following sentence: *‘Thore are . . . . & largo number of crosses, for which, under a heathen dispensation, it is excsedingly diflicult to acconnt.” Perhaps it is worth while to take enough of your space to correct what appears to boa widely prevalent misconception on this point. Itis by no means - exceedingly difficult to ac- count” for the existonce of the cross in Mexico, a8 s religions symbol, when the fact is known that it is one of the oldest and most widely used of sacred emblems. It is by no means con- finel;i to Christianity, noither did it originato with it. And this statement holds true of not ono only, bat of sl the differont forms and varictiea that the cross hos assumed. Thoso peasing under the name of St. Georgo, St. Androw, the Aaltese, the Greek, the Latin, all may be traced to the remotest antiquity, and havo appeared in both hemispheres. I have no time at this writing to enter into detailed description, or to discuss the meaning of the pre-Christian symbol, though it might bo interosting and profitable at another timo. I only wish to call attention to the fact. Yours, AL J. SavAoE. c., 678 WeST MOXNBOE STREET. ‘WHO WOULD LE A MINISTER? To the Editor of The Chicaiio Tribune: Sim: Who, indeed, would be & minister? Not I,—rathor an honest hod-carrier, or auything whero not constantly undor_the apprehension of being victimized. A poor, simplo creature, want~ ing both in litorary ability, moral and physical courage, may do well enough,—because, like a mict but goaded beast, he will stand slapping in e faco on onc side without resentment, and then turn the other to bo treated in tho same manner,—but & really good, talented, and courn- geous minister, is at once liable to envious and malicious attacks by thoso towhom an ecclesins- tical court affords 80 much chauco of success, whera they can bring chargos without specifica- tions in & definite shape, but 2 chapter of innu- endoes, insinuations, and hearsays, and the wuse outside to anonymous let- ters, or resort of sany other strategy. In the name of common sente,if 3 man is gmity, does it require all this mancuvering for two or three years to prova it ? Now, admitting theso eccleaiastical courts wore instituted by tho best of men,prompted by genuine motives (which, no doubt, they were), and thet in somo cases, by shatting out the publio gaze, good results may follow, still, in others, it absolutely deprivesa man of all chanco of defondingihimzelf. First, if the sccused and his witnesses are honorablo men, then, being honorable, their word, whothor undor 0ath or mot, is egually re- 1iablo ; whereas, the accusers may be of the most dishonorable order, with witnesses whose words are a8 *‘ dicers’ oaths " when not in fearof being cm.;\ght st perjury. Good peopls, and par- ticularly ministers, think what & posi- tion is this for a man who nover has as yet heard bis antecedents questioned. Then, again, inas- much as the accused cannot compol tho'attend- ance of witnesses, he is virtually doprived of them, for the reason that very, very fow when tried are found to be, like the Rev. John Gor- don, ‘“ current gold, indeed,” a8 they will not in- convenience themselves in the least, and neitber for friendship nor principle’s sake can thay be coaxed: to the mark. ¢ Msn's inhumanity to man™ reminds one of & echool of porpoises; injure ono, and he is instantly set mpon by tho whole school and devoured. How often do wo Lear said, *‘I dont't believe a word of it; but I dent't want to get mixed upin the matter.” Thas they will see a follow-creatura trodden to death for fear of offendiny his persecutors. Such 3 man does not reflect that the Evil One is al- ways on the alert, and that he himeelf may be the next victim. Unfortunately, the pablic ear i3 always open, and ready to receive with avidity a rich morsel reflecting on another fellow-being, and here is a wido field for malicious scoundrels to work. They know how to pick their hearers, and carefully avoid thoss who would wish to know both sides, and who would pause to think why theso peoplo ate 80 anxious to injuro others. Crartes MonaaN. BLUE Istaxp, March 6, 1974, DE. PORTEOUA. To the Eaitor of the Chicago Tribune : (Sia: Lest weok von publishod s brief motios of the Rev. Dr. Portoous. The following may prove of interest to many from the old conntry about the church in Bloomsb: » London, built by Dr. Dodd, hung for forgery. 1tis from the Gt::nock I;flgraph and Clyde Shipping Gazetle : o weeks 3go wo related the carious story of the church in Bloomsbury, London, which wuorguflt lag Dr. Dodd, the clerical forger who ended his days on {hio gallown, which somo years ago was rented hy Mr. D:llew, and which is now in the market for salo, ita 1a%t occupant being » Mr. Porteous, originally 3 tom- peranc missionary in Ayrhire, then a pastor of & Small Baplist Chirch ot Irving next a Swedea- borgizn minister, and fioally s priest in the Anglican Church, Mr. Porteons, as wo stated, was under the necessity of leaving Irvine, when it wes dicovered that the degree of A. B., which he Iisd been in the habit of appending to his name, was an honor to which ho had no titlo ; and subscquently, 4n a controversy with Dr. James Morison, of Glasgow, into which bo hiad thoe temerity to enter, it was shown Dy that able divine that ho had appropristed from ottier soarces tho theological lora which ho was giving a3 his own. Frow an American paper just Teceived, we lesrn what is tho lmst chapler in the carcer of this clerical adventurer. Ho has turned up in the United States as the Rev. *Dr.” Porteous, claiming to bo a dnclfimm of the English Es- tablishment, but preaching mainly in Presbyiorisn and Cougregational churches, Oné of the American papers aayn *‘ He is o man of much pulpit power, fine delivery, and elegant diction.” The same jourpal, do- scribing his apppearance in tho pulpit of 3 certain Dr. Duryes, whero' Do was eogiged fo prosch for two Sundays, writea: * Throngs io hear tho motropolitaa preacher and were de- lighted. Seversl gentlomen of monns offered to unite and form s congregation and build an elegant church for tho English preacher. Whether bo will ac~ copt the propoeal 18 not yot known.” Our Amcrican cousing are rather slow at learning a very old lesson, They ought to bo a little more wary in such sn im- portant matter sa forming a congregation aud build- ing a church. Wo shall keep an eye on our American contemporaries, to see how the Rev, “Dr.* Torteous prospers in the land of the fres. There is great scope ‘on that boundless continent for & man of his resource and peculiar genius, TITE TIMES AND TIIE REFORMED TPISCOPAL CHURCH. To the Editor of The Clicago Tribune : Srn: Tho Chicago Zimes isloud in its claims of showing “fair play;" it boasts of its liberali- ty towards all religious denominations; yet, in the Sunday notices of services published in the Times, it invarisbly occors that tho Reformed Episcopal churches are loft unnoticed, so thata Btranger visiting ¢ Jour city and taking up that paper would bo led to boliove that, for somo un- explained canse, thore_were mb sorvicas of that Church in tho city. Whilo the splecn of the editor of the T¥mes has been fully manifested, in his paper, towards tho Reformed Episco- puliang, the pablic expect that he will have a httlomore scnse than to exhibit his partisan facling to their inconvenionce, making thom sufler by his personal dislikes. ~ Looxen-ON. e NOTES. CONGREGATIONAL., The Rev. W. E. Holyoke closed a pastorate of fivo-ond-a-balf years with the. Wicker Park Church, 3larch 29. During this time Mr. Hol- yoke eucceeded in building up & thrifty church, in erceting a church-building valued st £12,000, ond in gathering together a large Sunday-school. The Rov, L. Taylor has just comploted his tenth year as pastor of the church at Farming- ton, 1L, only four other pastorates in the State having excoeded hisinlongth. During this timo 127 parsons havo been added to thochurch, cighty by profeesion. Thorohavo been but fourteon deaths in an averago membership of 165 persons, and he hus officiated at seventy-one weddings. DAPTIST. In Minnesots there ars 182 Baptist churches, with 5,987 members. § In the First Baptist Church thero will be some balf-a-dozen immersions to-day by tho pastor, the Rev. Dr. Everts. A grand organ concert, accompanied by vocal music, will take placein the First Baptist Church on the evoning of April 14, The Second Daptist Church, Chicago, received thirteon porsons by baptism and one by letter during the month of March. Fifty students aretn the Baptist Theological Beminary in this city, studying preparatory to entering the Chri stian ministry. A reslval is in progress in the Baptist Church in Cedsr . Rapids, Ia., under the labors of the ovangelist, the Rev. H. W. Brown. Tho annual moeting of tho Baptist Woman's Missionary Society of tho West will be Leld in the Second Baptist Church oo the 7th and 8th dags of Msy. An interesting party assembled at the house of Daniel Boone, on’ Aichigan avenue, Friduy evening last week, tho date sud place of the Michigan Avenuo Baptiet Social. The tont in which & Baptist congregrtion of Philadelphin bas been worshiping for two years Lias been removed and & permancnt chureh edi- fico is to bo erccted on the spot. Daring the month of March there wero twenty- ono members reccived into the Baptiat Church atAurora, Ill.; twenty-two into the First Church, Chicago; and twenty-nine into the church in Elgin. Mrs. John Crawford and Mrs. Hiram Crawford presented to the Baptiat Church in Lawndale, Isst weok, a very elogant communion-service and a berutifal marble-top table. Theso ladics were among the first baptized into this church. Tho First Baptist Church of this city seems to bo gathering into ity ecclesiastical net fish from sll seas. Last Sunday the baptismal waters cov- ered ono Unitarian from Laird Collior’s Church, one Lutheran, ona Episcopalian, and ono lad of Hebrew parentage. This evening the Rev. Dr. Everts will adminis- ter baptism to from twelve to fifteon convorts in the Baptish Church at Highland Park. Nine of the candidates have boen gathered from n revival at Highwood, and the romainder are from High- land Park. Amoung the candidatos for_baptism is 5 Congregational preacher from England. This will ba the first time the new baptistry at Highland Park is used. The Michigan Avenue DBaptist Church, which is still without a pastor, has invited the Rov. J. B. Clark, pastor of the church in Albion, N. Y., 1o preach, with a view to giviog him acall. Ar. Clark will preach in the Michigsn Avenuo Church to-day, in responso to_ the invitation. Heisa young man who has a first-class reputation at the Last. There have boon addedto the Baptist Church in Albion, within the past three years, under bis ministry, 800 persons. _The choice of this society for pastor scoms to have been nar- rowed down to the Rev. Frank Ellis, of Eapsas City, who preached lest Sunday, and the Rev. Mr. Clark. The church will decide in the nexi waek or two probably upon calling one of thesa two gentlemen. AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSTONARY USION. The reports of the several districts of this so- cioty, for the year ending March 81, 1874, have just beon comipleted. Tho total amount io bo raised during the year was estimated at £276,- 069.64; ard, although the reports from the sov- eral districts have not yet been all reccived at hoadquarters, it is thonght that the ecstimated sum required will be reached. The Secretaries of the Northwesterr District, the Rov. S. M. Osgood, D. D., and the Rev. C. F. Tolman, bave just forwarded their report to Doston from this city. It shows the following collectiona : Regulur missionary contributions. .$22,294.99 Thank offering in June.... 2,332.27 Women's Migsionary Boclety. . 8,893,18 For Telogoo Seminary. 2,436.54 For Earen College. 300. Total........ SIETHODIST. West Denver, Col,, is to have & new Methodist clurch that will seat 500 anditora. A new Aethodist church wes dedicated at Escanaba, Mich., March 1. Orver 100 persons have united with the Metho- Qist Episcopel Chureh in Omro, Wis. Eight hundred conversions hava taken place in the TFlint, Mich., District, in the Mothodist Episaopal Church alone. In Mesico the missionarios of the Methodist Iipiacopal Church proach in a cathedral situatad on the sita of the old ha!ls of the Montezumas. At the approaching session_of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the question of increasing the nnmber of Bishops will bo considorod. Sinco the death of Bisliop Early there remaia ‘aight of those ofi- cials. A vriter in the Atlanta Advocale says the Mothodist Episcopal Church has a whito memn- borship of nearly 5.000 more than the Mothodist Episcopal Church South has, in East Tennessee. But during the Inst few years tho latter Church Lias been increasing mora rapidly in numbers than the former. Tho - Methodists roport large nnmbers con- veried, most of whom join tho charch * on probation;” but, according to the Northern Christian Adrocate (Methodist), only abont twenty-two in every 100 remain permauent mem- bers; and that paper says inregard to theso statistics : * Any system that 10s6a 75 per cent of its converts in one year mast ba capable of im- provement, and certaialy graatly nesds it.” The Nashville .4dzocale of March 23 givestha statistics of the M. E. Church South for the past year. Some of the more important items are a8 followa : Traveling preachers, 8,13¢; superan- puated preachers, 237; local preachors, 5,34k ‘whitomembers, 650,677; increase, 22,151 ; colorcd ‘membors, 3,029; decrease, 123 ; Indisn members, 4.779; total incresase in members, 22,441 ;: San- y- le, 7.019; Sandsv-sclhool - scholars, 821,572; incresse, §,818; collections for confer- ence claimants, $64,013.70; decrease, 31,218,745 ealle: w6 for miasions, $38,644.31; increase, $2,504.36. PRESEYTERZLAN. . . The Rov. Mr. Hammond, the revivalist, i3 proaching in Galveston, Tex. The Third Presbyterian Church of this city is tenth in size in the United States. Sixty-eight mombors have been added to the membersliip of the Prasbyterisn Church of Tip- ton, Ind., and this while tho charch is without & pastor. In Peoria, March 80, Graco Mission Chusch g(l)’mabylerian) was dodicated. Tho building is %60 feot in size, neat and convenient, and fur- nished with 2 fine organ. The Gieneral Assembly of tho Southern Pros- byterian Church will meet as Columbus, Miss., in May, and the Goneral Assembly of tho North- e Cl{nmh ‘mocts at the same time in St. Loais. Dr. Halgey, who has beon for many years con- nected with tho Presbyterian Theological Semina- 1y of the Northwest, is seriously considering the guemon of a removal to the South for the bene- t of his impaired health. Avriterin a Presbytorian oxchangn makes the suggestion that tho cloven theologiesl semi- naries 1n the denomination ba consolidated into four, which would give but little over 100 students in each. These could then bo amply endowed and the bost talent put into thor faculties. The reccip!s of the Boards of the Prosbyte- rian Church in the month of January were ag follows: Board of Home Missions, £45,665.00; Board of Education, $6,737.32; DBoard of For- eign Missions, $74,196.04; Board of Publica- tions (missionery fund), 5,334.65; Board of Charch Extension, $8,823.55; Fund for Dizabled Ministers, ¢6,762.63; Committee on Freedmen, £8,515.54; Committce on Sustentation, $2.885.- 16; the Committco on Benevoleuce and Finauce Teceived $16,633.15. The Theological Seminary of the Northwest (Presbyterian) closed last week. During tho term twenty-nine students have been in attend- ance. The Seminary is reported to be in n good, healthy condition, The Interior gives tho desti- nation of several of the students, ss follows: Mr. Colisson goes to Willow Creek. Mr. Cowan goes back to the old country to tell the mother of us all that tho Presbyterianism of Westmin- eter is the Prosbyiorinnism of the Wost. Mr. Dayis is wanted in Kansas, Mr. Sutberland goes to Indianapolis; Mr. Wharton to Wilmington, of this Stato. The Interior says the Rev. J. Monroo Gibson, of Xlontreal, has accepted tho call of the Sccoud Prosbytorian Church of this city. The Infcrior saysof him: *3Mr. Gibson waa oducated at the University of Toronlo. His carcer was brilliant. At ustion, he carried off the gold medal in ‘motaphysics, tho gold medsl in modorn lan- guages, and tho Princo of Wales prize for geu- eral proficiency. Ho is a rapid, fluent speaker, s mon of rofined tasto and elegant culture, & roverent student of tho Word of God, aud a faithful preacher. Ho has beon pastor for some yeats of ono of the leading churches in Mon- treal, and. sinco the establishment of tho Pros- btetian College in that city, bas filled, with great acceptance, the position of Lecturer on Now Testament Greek.” BOXAN CATHOLIO. The election of officers for the Catholic Li- brary Association i8 to tako place on the first Monday in May. The meoting of the Directors of tho Catholic Library Association, which was to have taken Dlaca lust Monday evening, was postponed until to-morrow evening. Faithful Catholics in this country are request- ed to sond donations of Petor's penco to the Popo by tho heuds of the pilgrims who are soon to depart from Now York. Tho Pilol, published in Boston, says in 1525 thera were ouly oight Catholic churches in New Ingland, while now thero are six Bishops, 411 pricsts, 192 churehes, and nearly a million Cath- olice. The Roman Catholic Church of St. Pius, on the corner of Paulina and Van Horn strects, has now a resident pastor, in tho porson of the Rev. Hugh McGuire. The school in conoection with the parish numbers sowe 800 children. Addi- tions to the school and church’ buildings are in contemplation, the work to be done during the spproaching summer. EPISCOPALIAN. The London Church Herald favors the resero- ing of the sacrament. The Church Times announces that the Arch- bishop of Canterbury will formally resign mithin & week or two, aad that Bishop Jackson will be bis suceessor. Tho Scottish Epiecopal Church has lately con- socrated Dr. Callaway Missionary Bishop for Kaffraris and will soon consacrate Dr. Cornish Missionary Bishop for Aladagascar. In tho antumn of 1873, an American Episco- pal Chiapel ot Nico was opened, and it has been crowded with worshipers. An enlargemocat is roposed. Thero are 418 Amorican families at Nico. The Faster services at the Ritualistic Church of St. Albans, N. Y., were conducted with great pomp and magnificenco—vespers on Easter evo; matins at 10 on Easter day; the Encharist at 113 vospers at 4; and at 8 o'clock * Complins.” Lights were burning as at Romanist churches during tho Commanion. Another recent cause of much oxcitement in roligious circles, and of extended comment in church organs, is sottled. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury has approved the coursa of his Dean at the meeting of the Evangelical Allianco in Now York last sutumn, and he has confirmed his approval by appoiating him his ropresentativo at the next meeling of the Alliance. The business of the Church of England is not couducted by Parliament, 8s is sometimes sup- EOM' but by the two Convocations of Canter- ury and York, composed ocly of membera of the Church. A' tho opening of the Convocation of Canterbary, which has lately been in scssion, Archdeacon Bickeratelp was for the fourth time elocted Prolocutor. ‘Ihe late Convocation of York petitions Parliament to legislato against intemporance. - Tho Episcopal Mission at Indianapolis was productivo of great good. The churches were crowded nightly. After collections and singing, tho Evangelist preached extemporaneously, anc which those who wished retired. Large num- bers remained nightly, and over 100 persons: commenced & new life’ sod were prepared for confirmation. Services wero held at the mills and Stato institutions, and in the cottages, and among mothers. ‘The Bishog of Minnesots, at his Iste visit to the Indian Mission at Whito Earth, undor tho Iodian _clergymap, Enmegahbowk, confirmed twelve Indians. ‘The Hospital for the Indians is full of patients. In his address, the Dishop Baid: “When I first came smoug yon, fourtecn years_ago, thore was mot in God's universea more hopeless race than the Uhigpewas. T uco before mo now single Iodians who own more property than the whole band of Chippowas then posgessod.” _Thoro arefourcandidates for orders among the Chippewas ; one is tho son of the Head Chief, ono is tho son of the Head Medicine Man, and o third is the don of the Tndian clergy- man, the Rev. J. J. Enmegabbowk. MISCELLANEOUS. Estes & Lauriat are about to publish sketches of “One Hundrod Representative Ministers.” . The United Presbyterian Assembly of North Amorica convencs in Monmouth, Iil, the iast Thursday in May. Dr. Porteons will use an abridged liturgy and oxtemporancous prayer in bis Independent Episcopal Church. Tiwo pereons in Philadelphia have given $10,~ 000 each _toward & building in that city for tho Reformed Episcopa! Charch. The Congregationalist states that out of 1,525 foreign missionaries sent out by the American Board only eight have died by violence. The revival in Aan Arbor, Mich., has made rofessing Christizns of two-thirds of the mem- ers of tho Law Department of Michigan Uni- veraity. ‘The New Covenant is about to go into an ex- haustive examination of the Greek word aion. in order to overthrow tke orthodox doctrine of the duration of hell. Tho pew-reztals of the Third Unitariaa Church of tuis city (the Rov. 3L J. Savage’s) azo doublo what they have been at any tima in the previous history of the church. A Universalist minister, the Rev. Mr, Eber- hart, of Neenah, Wis., rocently took patt in two union gervices, one in the Presbyterian and the other in the Methodiat Church of that place. _ St. Paul's Church (thoRov. Dr. . H. Ryder's), in this city, reported, last Sunday, $4,499.08 raiged by tha various benevolent organizations of the church in aid of the society duriug tho year. 5 09 advertisoments, and claim mesns they reach 3,000,000 2ek—n mach larger number than could be raached in any other way. tsays: Ar. Talmage acknowl- us for the Tabernacla fLay C: Do Wite, 2,000 Josiah Hoyt, $500; John Macdouald (Louzonio), & A Friend, §2,000; Tabernacle Sabbath-School, £1,500. Tho rovival in Paoli, Ind., has resulted in the union of 225 persons with the Church. It in estimated that 1,000 new members were added to the Baptist churches in New York during the month of February. The City of Huntsville, Ala., has voted $50,000 to the Southwestern University, which is to be established by the Presbyterian Church SBoath. The King of Sweden takes an intorest in Chi- cago affairs, s is evinced by the fact that be has ordered a collection 'to be taken up throughout his Kiogdom for the benefit of Emmanuel Lu- theran Church, in this city. Tho Geperal Conferonce of the Methodist Episcopal Church South will meet in Louisvilla about the ond of April. It will bo composed of 400 members, representing 700,000 communi- cants. Tho last meeting was at AMemphis foar Feans ago. The Evangelical Alliance is said to have taken tho whole tenitory of America under its juris- diction, from Alasta to Cape Horn ; and propose to bring missionary agencics to bear upon the entiro domain, copying, in this respect, Boman Catholic usago. Tho Liberal Daptist Union of New York has got fairly under wiy ; has issued a declaration of principles, and the Ceutral Council of ffty invite Baptists in all parts of the country to subscribe to it. The Society is especially organ- ized to toach liberality in regard to the Lord's Suppor. The Presidentinl Committeo of tho American Board of Foreign Missions baa issucd an appeal for greater effort and benovolonce, in order to eave the intereata of the socioty from great in- jury. They report the Treasury in debt for old work to the amonnt of 340,000, and for the new work raore than $25,000. Nothing, they ay, but a largo advance in contributions can avert & serious calamity. The Christian Union praises Anna Dickinson's lecturs in Chicago on the *Social Evil.” Thal paper says sho bent the bow of Ler eloguenco against tho scheme for liconsing prostitution in Tilinois, and tho arrow is said to have killed the project. Nothing whatever is said of tne 16,000 Indy Protostants of Chiu%(; who Eflynd thio Legislature of Illinois to prol ibit the licens- ing of theevil. Such offectivo and summary weapoos_are good. That model reformer, Mursin H. Bovee, ought to havo just such a fatal arrow to fire off at Capital Punishment. gty PERSONAL. CIICAGO. The Rev. Arthar Mitcholl, of this city, and the Rov. Arthur Pierson, of Detroit, exchanged pul- pils jast Sunday. Tho sermon in St. Mary’s * (Roman *Catholic) Church, Easter Sunday, was preached by the Tev. Father Lawlor. Tho Rev. Robert Patterson, D. D., late of Jef- ferson Park Presbyterian Churchin this city, has accopted g call to the First Church i San Fraucisco. The Rev. Dr. E. J. Goodspeed, of tho Bccond Baptist Church of this city, who has beon spend- ing soveral weeks at Atlanta, Ga., i reported to be slowly recovering bis health again. Tho Rov. Dr. J. AL Walker, agent of tho Western Branch of the Methodist Episcopal Book-Concorn, waa in the city last week, looking after tho intorosts of the Chicago Departmeat. The Rev. Henry Powers, of New York City, has been ongaged by the Church of the Messiah, in fhis city, a3 ils pastor for threo months, or until tho return of tho Rov. Laird Collier from Europe. Tho Rov. Fethor Damen, of -the Jesnit Church, lett the city Thursday for the Eaat, to resume s series of missions, which bo has been holding there for several weeks and which ho tcmpomrflz left to be present in his own parish on Easter Suudsy. Dr. Elliott, s member of the faculty of the Presbytoriza Seminary of tho Northwest, will spend the summoer in Europe. I:isin contem- lation to obtain the endowment of another fol- owship, tlat tho Doctor may be relieved of a portion of his onerous duties. Dr. C. R. Blackall, the popular Superintendent of the Second Daptist Sunday-school, resigned Lis offica last Sunday., No successor has been chosen. The church is anwilling to loso the services of Dr. Blackall, who has filled the office for four yoars. The school is one of the very largest in the city, numbering about 1,000. ELSEWHERE. Mra. Vaa Colt will commence & series of ra- vival-mestings in Taylor's Falls, Minn., 2lay 2. Tho Rev. Orville Dewey, pastor of the Uni- terizan Church of the Messiab, New York, has reached his 80th year. The Rev. J. E. Roy left the city a short timo gince, for a short tour in tho Soull Heis ex- pected back about April 25, Tho pastor of the Milwaukeo Asbury 3l E. Church received a donation from his people a short time ago amounting to 3400. Tho Roy. William Ostler, ono of the pupils of Spurgeon’s College, in London, has zccepted a call to tho pastorate of the Bapiist Church of Adams, New York. The Rev. J. Ccllie, pastor of the Congrega- tional Church at Delavan, Wis., was presentod, a short time since, with horse, carriago, and har- ness, valaed at $400. Mrs. Lucy A. Williams, in the name of her brothor, who died recently, has presented the Methodist Church in Pittsfeld, 111, with a par- sonage, valued at $1,200. The Rav. Olin Crane, of Morristown, N. Y., has been appointed by the Americau Board of Foreign Missions to orgsnize the Central Turkey Collego, st Aintab, in Byria. The Rev. Father Garosche, woll known in the West a8 an oloquent palpit-orator in the Roman Cstholic Chuxv}x, is_lying @angerously ill in one of the hospitals of New York City. Tho Rev. Dr. Goss, of Sheffield, Conn., has cloeed his labors with the Bngfinh Church of that place, of which ho has been pastor for thirty-four yoars. Ho will spend the summer with his sons in Chicago, ssys an Eastern paper. Among all tho other church sensations that havo lately arisen in Brooklyn, N. Y., ia the case of the Rev. T. T. Kendrick, of the Grand Street Mothodiat Church, who was recently tried by his brethren on charges of drunkenness, gross im- morality, and an approval of dancing. The Advance says: ‘*Mrs. Julia B.'Nelson, of Red Wing, Mion.; who has been for some five years amirsionary of the A. M. A. in Texas, and who last summer, whilo on tho toachers’ excur- sion in England, groatly interested a large au- dionca in Manchoster by an addross upon Fread- men’s Missions, has enlisted actively in the cause of temperance in Minncsota, and i8 addressivg enthusiastic meetings in different places.” An Eastern paper says: * The Raev, Cilara Maria Babcock, of tho last graduating class in tho Harvard Theological School, had. like most voung divines, been married and ordained about the same time. Shoe is now the Roy. Clara Maria Disbeo, wife of the Rev. Herman Bisbeo ; aod Loth she and ler husband (an American) min- ister to a Unitarian congregation in England, be preaching every Sunday morning, and she in tho evening.” The New York Sun says the First Universalist Church of Jorsey City have called the Rov. Phaebo A. Hannaford fo preech for them for threc years. She began her labor yesterday. She has takon a house in Summit avonue, and on tho 1st of May will fit up and throw open the hospitable doors of her parsonage. Tho Rev. Pheebe A. Haonaford hasn son in college, o daughter of 11 years who lives with her, and a husband who is a physician in Boston. She has a clear voice and distinet srticulation, is thor- onghly feminine, yet preponderatingly intel- lectual. She is of medium size, hag rich brown hair and oyes, broad forehead, and brunette complexion. In the pulpit she has tho firm atti- tude, freo gesture, aud fluent delivery of a practiced speaker. g RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. y AT DOME. The First Colored Baptist Church in Peters- burg, Va., recently celcbrated ils centennial. A Temperance Bible-class haa been organized in Nisgara Square Church, Buffalo, meoting every Sebbath at 12 o'clock m., to examine the Bible-teaching 1n relation to the temperance- movement. . The Goiversalistsin New York are raisings fund for the crection of a free charch for mis- sion-work in that cily. Already & large amount is subseribed for the objoct. The baptismal regeneration that Bishop Cheney bas had so much trouble to get rid of is the only kind of a regeveration that Bishop Beckrwith, of Georgis, knows anything of, it he is correctly reported by s Methodist preacher. A New England paper ssys the funds of the Masaachasetts Baptist Clantable Society, for tho relief of widows and orphans of doreased < L ministers, haviog bzea placed in tho handsof & Troasurer who was s member of a firm which has failed, are all lost to the Church. The Oskalooss (Ta.,) Ecangelist aays thst tho Church of Christ contains £0,000 adheronts in Iliinois, and one-third a8 many in Iowa, and that the ratio of ncreass of this religious 'body is far greater tban that of any other one of the great Proteatant religious bodies of tho country. The New York Christian Adrocate editorially declares that Methodist ordination i3 ¢ Presby- terian, not Episcopal,” ss Wesley and thrce other * Prasbyters * ordained Coke for America, and that the Diecipline provides for ordination of a Bishop by Presbyters, if there beno Bishop. One of the most persistent controversios of the Christian Charch was about the day on which Enster shounld be celebrated. One party held that, like Christmas, it skould bo on the exsct anniversary of the Baviors resurrection. Tho other, that it should be on the first day of the week, and on the first Sunday after the anniver- sary. The one party claimed the authority of St. John; the othar, that of BS. Peter and Paul. The Church of Englm and tho Church in America, and the whole Western Church, cele- brate on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox—necessarily on the Sundsy following the exact anniversary of the resurrectior. ABBOAD. The Convent of Ara-Cocli, at Rome, is now oc- cupied as a harracks by 400 of the Italian Na- tional Guard. The Austrian Government has resolved that the Theologicsl College at Inusbruck, which is gn Ithe hands of the Jesuits, be broken up next oly. A colossal -bronge statue of Bunyan is to be erected on St. Peter's greol Bedford, Eng., tho place where the old pilgrim plied his Voca~ tion of tinker. g Itissaid thatthe largest Baptist church in tho worldis M. Spurgeon’s, which returns a moembership of 4,366. The second largest church is the old First African in Richmond, Va. Thore are now 50,000 Sunday-school scholars and 4,000 toachers in Germany. _Ton yoars ag0 there were none. This is partly the result of the Iabors of the Foreign Sunday-School Association in European countries. The Old Testament is about to be translated into Hindi, a languago spoken by about 80,000,- 000 of people in the northern aud central por- tion of India. Tho editor of the great Franch Catholic jonr- nal, the Uniters, has written a lotter to Gon. Cathelinean, advising him to hold his sword in readiness, as *‘the day of vifitu? and martyr- dom in tho struggle for Church, Fatherland, and King is approaching.” An Eastern paper saysall the other pilgrims to tho Holy Land are up in arms sagainstDr. Beke and his now Mount Sinai. They do not sgreens_to which of the half dozen peaks claimed is the trae Sinai, but they a!i mnitein scouting tho Doctor's. A religious nowspaper thus sums fl{) the prog- resg of the Old !Bnthalicu: 1t is less than-a yoar since the work of reform began in Genovs, and slready the priests are chogen by - the Church; the forced confossion is relieved, the clergy marry, and divine worshipis 1n the lan- guage of tho people. Lord Shaftsbury is opposed to the Wesleyan Charch joining tho Established body. At tho ro- cent meeting of the Wesleyan Home Missionary Society, he dilsted apon the advantages of Chris- tian division, and advised the Methodists to re- tain their Protestant independence. It appears that tho gentlomen engaged in tho revision of the Bible have undertaken the work a8 a literary enterprise. An exchango 8ays: *Tho committee at work on the revision of the Bible do not expect to complete_the translation in less than six years tocome. No public fands have been voted to them, but they expect to re- coive amplo pocuniary compensation by selling the copyright of the naw version.” ‘Mesers. Moody and Sankey, of Chicago, con- tinuo a great centro of interest in Scottish re- ligious circles. The revival in Glasgow contin- ues, and instances of remarkable conversions are given almost withont number; such as, a man went to pay & debt long due; sur- prise was expressed at his coming on that errand, but ho explained all by saying, “I was brooght to Christ last weok > Tho London Primitive Methodist of March 12 speaks of the Tevival a8 spreading oyer the whole City of Glas- gow1 * Maetings for prayer are now moro at- tractivo than the theatre. Business men are leaving their merchandise for the middsy meet- ing, and many of thom are now seeking to Iaymp trcasuro in heaven. Ministera are coming in daily from tho country, some from remote par- ishes in the Highlands, all anxious to receive a baptism of holy fire, that they may win souls to Christ in their differont spheres.” ey OHURCH BERVICES TO-DAY. ° EPISCOPAL, The Rav. W. E. Smythe will officiate to-dsy st the Chureh of the Holy Communion, on Dearborn, nesr Thirticth, His evening subject is, “The Church- God’s Organ for the Conversion of the World.” —The Rev. Arthur Brooks will officiat to-day at Dr. James' Church, eorner of Huron and Cass streeta. —The Rev. J. F. Walker will ofiiciate, 88 usual, at Calvary Church, on Warren, near Western avenuo. Tis morning theme is, “ Christ in Hell.” —There will bo services to-dayat St Peter’s Mis- elon, 328 State street, —7The Rov. Dr. Stocking will officiate as umual at ths Church of {he Fpiphany, on Throop street, betwean Monroe and Adams, —The Rev. Francis Mansfield officiates to-dsy at the Church of tho Atonement, corner of Washington and Tobey streets, —The Rov. W. 7. Petrle will officiate as usual at the Church of Our Savior, corner of Belden and Lincoln avenues, —Tho Rov. Henry G. Perry preachies morning snd cvening in All Saints' Chureh, cormer of North Car- penter and Fourth streets, —The Rev. H. W. Powers, D. D., will officiate a3 usual in St, Jobn's Churcl, on_Ashlind svenuc, south of Madison strect. In the mormiug, & sermon for Eastertide. —Tho Rov, Edward Sullivan will bold morning and evening service in Trinity Church, corner of Twenty- eixth atroet and Michigan avenue.’ Morning subject : “ The Doctrine of Abeolution. —The Boy, IL, C. Kinney will preach moming sad ovening in Si, Stephen’s ‘Church, on Johnson stroct, betwoen Taslor and Tovelfth strects, - BAPTIST, The Rev. W. W. Everts preaches this morning in the First Churcl, on Wobash avenue, south of Hubbard court. B, F. Jacoba will lead the evening Gospel meeting. —The Rev, W. W. Everts, Ir., will preach this morn- ing, and Dr. Evorts this evéning, in tho chapel corner of Indians avenue snd Thirtieth'streot. —Tho Rev. A. J. Frost proaches, this morning and evening, at_the University Plsco Church, on Douglas place, opposite Rhodes avenue, —Tho Rev, N, F. Ravlin will presch this morning and evening in ihe Temple Church, corner of Harri- 5on and Sangamon stroets. Ilis. evening sublect i3, “The Womsn's Temperance Movement.”" —Tho Rev. J, W. B. Clark, of New York, preaches thia morning snd evoning at tho Aichigan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street. —The Rev. M. T. McCormick will preach this morn-' .ing, and tho Rev. J. Malvern this evening, in the Freo Chiizeb, corner of Jackson and Loomis etreeta. —Ths Rov. Dr. Mitchell will preach this morning and evening for the Ashlsnd Avenue Church, corner of Paulin and Monroostreets, —Tho Rey. 0. H. DeWolfe preaches to-day at the Immanuel Mission, corner of Centro and Dayton Btreets, B —The Rev. Florence McCarthy preaches in Grow’s ‘Hall, at 3 o'cl on * Peter Walking on the Water” to tho congregation of Amity Church, —The Hev. J. M. Whitehead will presch morning sad ovening in the North Star Chuzch, corner Division A gwick steols. (n evening, by request of tho Ladics’ Temperancs Committee, the sermon wiil bo upon “ Temperunce—Organization for Eficiency and Buccessful Work.” : —In tho Bocond Charch, eorner of Morgan and Monroe streets, tho Rov, E. B. Basliss will preach in ‘the morning o * Popular Failacien; " and the Bev. T. W. Goodspeed will preach In tho ovaning. PIESDYTERLLY, The Rey. W, W. McKaig will prosch this morning and ovonizg at tho Ninth Church, on Elli-ay, - —There will be the usual services this evening at the Campbell Park Mission Chapel, on Leavitt street, nesr Harrison, —The Rev, Abbott B. Kittredge will presch this ‘morning st the Third Chiurch on_ * The Golden Calf Beforo Mount Sinal,” and this evening on * Liberty Ouly Through tha Gospel of Christ,” —Prof. Haven will preach thia morning, and the Tov. C. L. Thompeon this evening, at the Sccond Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth stroet. —Tho Rev. D, J. Burrall will preach to-day.at the Westminster Church, corner of Jackson and_Peoris streets, Tho morning subjoct 15 * Consider the Lilica of tho Field.” = —Tho Bov. BenE. S.Ely will preachas usual at Grace Church, corner of Vincennos and Oak svennes. —Prot. Blackburn will preach this morning in the Fifth Church, corner of Wabaah avenus and Thirty~ first atroct, In tho afternoon the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Thompeon, will preach to the Sundsy-school No evenisg Bervice, —Tho Rev. J, H. Walker will preach this mornisg and evening st tho Beunion Charch, on Fourtéeath streot, near Throop. —Prof., F. L. Patton, of the Theologieal Y will {813 morning and evening at the American Reformed and Jefferson Park Church, on Washington street, near Ann. —The Rev, James Harrison preaches this morning 423 eveniag'st the Teath Church, o0 Ashloy sisoet —Tho Hov. James Maclaughlan preaches to-dsyin e Scotch Chiureh, corner of Ssagamon and Adams streets. —Tho Rev. L. M. Reid will preach this evening in the Holiand Presbyterian Church, corner of Noble snd Exie stresta. —The Rev. J. B. McClure will proach at River Park this morning. METHODIT. Toe Rev. J. O, Peck will preach to-day st the Cep- tenary Chureh, cn Monros street, near ’ evening subject s, The Woman's \mqu\s:%mE': Dr. Felton will presch today 5 Qoo f LeSalle cnd White strecty, i —The Rav. J, W. Phelps will preach this morns, and evening at the Michigan Avenuo Cunreh, o8 —Dr. T weill 03 usual at tho Firgy i Thome will presch urch, corner of Clark and Washi 3 The evening subject is, * The Heavenly. féf,fm_‘-'-"““‘ —The Rev. §, AMcCherney will vraich as gega) Trinits Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Tanst ty-fourth street, The evening subject 1s, Dogs (ry Bible Authorizo Wine-Drinking 77 il —-Tho Rev, A Youko: prosches as nsaal of the Wes crn Avenne Church, 8 evesing sub; “Total Aboitnence.” : ey T —A panorams of *'The Great Apocalypse ; iston of L. John,” will be exhibied a1 the B Stroet 3L E. Church, on Dickson street, near Nown avenuo, Monday and Tuesdsy evenings, April 2 anj 21, Tho exhibition consists of Afty-two fins ol pains. Ings, each 10 by 15 fot i alze, begiaing wits i, ven Golden Gandlesticks,” and en "Ju«;:emefi: D}’i:, o ST —Tho Rev. John Roecker will preach morning ang evening in Immanuel Church (German : corner of Laflin and Harbine nn::ns. St Prof, . W, Fiskz, D. D, will pres oruty . ¥. W. Fiske, D. D., will preach this mor and tho Bev. Joseph Have, D. D, thin oventng, oty Union Park Church, corner of Ashland aventls agg e fior: Aibart Dush —Tho Rev. ushnell will this and evening at the Loavitt Street Srtoeey 2t momaizg —Tho Bov. L. T, Chamborlain will preach this mory. ing, and tho Rey. Charles McLean this evening, st thy New Eugland Church on Whito stroet, near Deas born. —Tho Rev. Willism Alvin Bartlett will ing and evening in Plymouth Church, eo’;mrmxfi 03 svenue snd Twenty-sixth stroet, —r. D, W. Gilmore, of the Chicago Theologieat Seminsry, will preach’this moming 10 the Wieker Park Chi MISCELLASEODS. 3foses TInll preaches this morning and evening be. fote the Primary Council No. 1 of Iilinois, of the Cay versal Asaociation of Spiritualists, at 181 South Ciar) strect. The subject 18 “ Whether of them twain, dig thewillorho Father> —R. E. Hoyt will lecture this evening befors Freo Beligious Socioty in Rice sud Jackson's n.n,'f: “ Treforms and Reformera.” At3 p. m. thers will bog converational meoting, the subject being “ Waat Ip Freo Beligion? —Tbo Adventists moet n their hall No. 213 Madisoy streot, this morning and evening. ElderL., Cob Iins preachea, —The Rar. Edmnnd Belfner presches this morning at the English Lutheran Church, corner of Deezbors and Erfe streets, and this evening in tho chispel, core nor of Sangamon and Phillips streets, —The Progressivo Lyceum of Chicago meets at noon st the southwest cornez of Washington and Desplainea strects, 'ho First Soclety of Spiritualists moots mornin and evening In Grow's Orpe el g orming while under spirit control, answers questions and dov seribes spirits. —Thers will be preachingat3p. m.and7p. m, in tho Larrabeo Streot Mission, Evoning sermon by ilr. Edward Touzaline, Subjoct—*The Wise Man.” —Mr. Hammer will presch in the morning f the school-house at Maplewood, and at 3 p. m. ot the Kime bl k-:h::l&l;:ue. ‘Thero 7ill bo addressés by Yewre, ws, and Flock, preachers of the H Misalonary Society. < The Rev, 3. 3. Savage will Drosch this e Rev, 3. J. Savage will presc morni tho Third Church, corner of ‘Mootoe and. Lotin strects, Hia subjock 15, Somo Thisgs that Women presches this morning and cvemng at Unity Church, on North Dearborn s t. —The Bev. Henry Powers will preach at tha Ch of tho Measiah, corner of Michigaa avenue and T:\r'?; ty-third street, in tbe morning on **The Power of a Nohla Life,” and in tho evening, ** How to Savs God.” —The Bev. George W. Patton preachos this morming at the Fourth Church, corner Prairie svenua ang evening S. r on “Is it to Love our Enamies 7 =4 TNTVEDSALINY. The Rev, J. 2. Forraater will preach this mornia and evening at the Church of the Redesmer, corner o Washington and Sangamon streots, —Tho Rov., Dr. Ryder will preach this morning =t 8t. Paul's Chiursh, on Michigon avenus nes: Lighle centh treot, In'the ovening there will bo a Sundas~ School concert, —The Rev, W. 5. Ralph will preach this morning and evening t the Third Charch, ca Indiana aveoua near Twenty-ninth strect. - [EWEDEXDOTGIAN. The Rev. J. R. Hibbard witl preach in the morn= ing in New Church Hall, corner of Eighteenth streel and Prairie avenus; and at 3:30 p. m. in Unica Dark Temple. Bubject—Lat tho Desd Bury Thele —Tho Second _Bwedenborgian Society will moet for worship at 8 p. m, in Murray Chapel : REFORMED EPISCOPAL, Bishop Cheney presclioa this morning fn Ohrist Charch, corner of Michigsn avende and Twenty< fourth street, on ‘‘The Anchor that Holds,” and in the evening on * How Asron Lald tho Blame on God.” CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. April 12—First Sunday after E:ster. ECMAN CATHOLIC. April 12—TLow Sunday. . ‘April 13—St. Hermengild, 3L ‘April 14—St, Francis of Pauls, C. (from Aoril 2); BR Tiburiius, Valerius, and Mazimus, Aprfl 15—St. Isfdore, B. &, D. : ‘April 16—St. Vincent Ferrer ({rom April 5). i ‘April 17—St. Lo, P. 0. D. (trom April 11); St Anicas tus, P. M. April 18—Votive of the Immacniate Conception, —_—— A Startled Bridegroom. From the Boston Courier, Not many weeks ago a wealthy and middls. aged bachelor of Ban Francisco espoused ous of tho fairest daughters of that city, and the wed- ding was celebrated in one of the most fashion able churches, aud in the presenco of an assem- bly of the cremo do la cremo of San Franciscs society. The bridegroom was & Forty-biger, and he Lad once been anything bal a sober and industrious atizex. Thex had even beon rumors to the effect that when ' ho mado the over land journey he left behind in ‘ the Statea™ a wife and two children, and theso rumors wera awkwardly rovived when his recent marrisgo wes first announced. But nothiog camo of the gos- -sip. Tho Forty-niner was now undeniably rich and respectablo, and people wors genarally dis- ‘posed to pass over hia antecodents without sab- jecting them to a scrutiny that might prove dis- agreeablo. And eo the wedding day arrived. When the Forty-niner and his bride tamel from their places in front of the altar, after the clorgyman had pronounced them man znd wife, the spectators wero astonished to seo s tall, it mal-looking, and sable-habited man rise froms placein one of tho front perws, approach the bridegroom, and gently tap him on the shonlder. The effect of this proceeding on the Forty-niner was rather singular, for his countenance 3&- gumed a ghastly expression, and he quickly re- signed his newly-mado wifo to her friends, sod turned anxiously to the stranger, who simply re- marked, “Iwish to talk with you &momet privately, sir.” The Forty-niper struggled hard to concenl his emotion, and finally said: 1 sssure you, gir, that—that—whst in thunder aid you cormo at such a timo a8 this for?” ** A mo- ment will suffice,” replied the ln_nerul]:lnohn;‘;‘ gentleman firmly; * pleaso step ioto this pew The Forty-niner 'did so, whils the assembled company busied iteelf in wicking and whisper~ ing, ond looking alternately at the fainting bride and tho sgonizod bridegroom. *Whea 3 men gots married, sir,” eaid the dismal gentlemsx it ia necossary for him to look with prdence upon the fature, and he cannot_ begin 00 5000- Now, sir, 8 lot in tho Oakdalo Cematery, which association I_repro—." Tho eentence ¥23 never finighed. cro was o chorus of female shrieks, and a general rnsh of gentlemen, 28 tha Forty-niner waa suddenly observed to seize hus interviower by the collar and kick him into te niste. The enterprising cemtery-sgent Wid quickly disposed of, the trembling ride re- gamed her color and'eomnornro, and therealte &1l went merry as a marrizgo bell. $ Reman. a Letter from 3L, D. Conway in the Cincinnati Comma cial. I fonnd Emnest Renan workiogon the lsst pages of the munuscript of his ** Onigin of Chuéz tianity.” Heois a man of about 50, thick et L1t | not tall, with s full face and a strong biow. eye is at once sweet and penectrating, and h;’ voice both gentle and firm. He gives one ‘d impression of a man who has & greak d! work in him, and ono likely to givo the orthodo far more troublo than he has even yet dm% - With his smooth-shaven face and bh.cl;AtldflTh dress ho conveya still tho impressionof priest until he converses, when he ia felt to Y more than all ascholar. He divides his hgxgd between his theological writinge and the Asis! Bociety, of which he is_Secretary, and which, 1 deed, rests mainly on his shoulders. sond 3L Renan spoko very warmly of his old frier? Strausa; the war mado no change in tief frioudship. He eaid that ho thought that Bt was too skeptical concorning the religions look of the liberal mind of mankind whe: (Btrauss) oxpressed the belief that no O 2] tion woald ever arise to succeed the CLri* 2 Charch when it hod passed away. He Smn“’_ had no donbt that sunple Theism, entirely 82Pe rated from Christianity (which is 8 ucct){ “'?1 8 bo able to unite the ethereal and ideal elems! of the world, ufld form :l chuzch which woB havo a great and univereal career. 3 nection ho spoke of tho work which Theod § Parker had done as propbetic. ad 1! and reread Weiss’ “Life of Parker, garded the great Bostonisn as haviog SUIOSEE any Christian among hiscontemporarios iz £ | and pure piety. He also spoke with enthus 7] of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1t bad been his 857 fortune to meet him recently in Paris, 30d was as deeply impressed by the manas by =t works. He certainly was ooe of the l":;a living who could be describzd in the 80¢CLs sense of the word as * philosophers. .Bflflfl,l most intimato friends are Honri Taine . Bainte-Benye. Taine lives but a few stepd and is still hard at work on his * Contempon s France,” and also on & ** History of the ¥F! Bevolution.” .