Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1874, Page 6

’ ~ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1874 RELIGIOUS NEWS. "i‘hé Next Church Controversy-—May ! __ Anniversaries. 4n 014 Trlal for Heresy in the Pres- byterian Churchs The Opinions of the Religious Press. Notes and Personals at Home and ) Abroad. i Church Services To-Day. i HE METHODIST CONFEFENCES. "Irhe Northwestern Adrocate publishes the fol- Jowing etatement of the forthcoming annual. Chnferences of the Methodist Epiecopel Church : The schedule wes propared st Columbus, O., ab 4he meoting of the Bishops held May 16 : ~ Conference. Piace, Time. Eishop. Wiimington. . .Colorado Springs. the New School, the Old School was vigilant, and [ Jeynes, 4. Haven, Jun, 38.. Feb.- &., nsad Feb. 19. shop Harris not havizz completed the vieitsjion e missions in Europe, other work is not dssigued THE MAY ANNIVERSARIES. The Christian Union gives & summsry of tho rosults of theso anniversaries. It says thers’is & zradual decline in the interest shown-in-the but “of course this does not mesan-that the vari- ous societies themaclvea ara losing their hold on the affection and pockets of tho churchea; but eimply that the country is too large to be repre- sented iIn the anniversaries es it used to be, ar Ihat people’ are, too busy to travel far to hear speeches. The reports indicate no falling off in tho work of the eovaral bodies.” . The Bibls Bocicty contiones to scatter the Seriptures by the hundred thousand; all over the world, - It isened a million volumes in forty dif- fcrent languages last year, at an expense of over £390,000. .. . g s ot : Tho Home Missionary Soclety reports the re- ceipte for the year, st §290,120; expenditures, £2%7.662. Tho number of ministors in the ser- of the' Bociety in tlirty-three dii Stece and Territories has been 969. ~ Thi~ missfonaries have preached to colored ople, and .. thirty-two in foreign languages— velsh, German, and Swedish. The numbor of tongregations and misslonary utnfiunrsnyvllm ia 3,195; -pupils- in_Babbsth-sohools, 74,40, Fifty-seven churches have been organized dur- ing the yosr, and thirty-fivo have bacome felf- supporting ; forty-seven honees of worship have boen comploted, 110 repeired, end thirty-twoare in process of building. : Tie American Seaman’s Friend Bocioty ex- peided over £66,000 last year. i The Americen and Foreign Christian Union hs3 confined ita efforts: for tho year fo homeo mizsionsamong the Catlolics, to the American Clapel ob Taris, end to publications, and is en- couraged in tha belief that it achieves succoss in its somewbat difficult fieid. — TOE NEXT CEURCH CONTROVERSY Vil probably be that of open or close commun- o1 in the Baptiet bady.” The teachings of Spur- geon have had a great influence in thus country, o8 well as in England, and, as he teaches and practices open communion, hia example has had much to do with_lenvening the Baptists of this country wilh the Rotion thst closs communion is ono of the non-easential dogmas not taught in the Bible. The -Liberal Baptist Union, organ- ized but recently in Brooklyn, N. Y., seems to be rapidly developing and gaining strength. At & recent meeting, the President—tho Rev. George F. Pentecost—counseled decision ana'p firnr ex- proseion of convicticns.wifh: regard to commun- ion. Many letters wero roceived from Baptist ministers and laymen, epproving the objects of of the Unicn and asking for documents. In re- &ponso fo'theso demands, arrangemonts ware made to circulste tho documents with increased vigor. The Rev.J. D. Fulton, the great dofender of Baptist orthodoxy, recently said: * Let us bo understood. New York and Brooklyn is tho denominational battle-field,—here the commun- ion qucstion is to be fought out and settled, In tho Long Island Association it is to bo docided whetker itis poesible to exclude a church for adopting open communion practices and botra, Ing thio principies ‘underlying Baptist *poli An open-communion society aud a closs-comuiun- picn one in Willot Village, N Y., have united on open-commuuion principles. ——— -CORRESPONDENCE. THE FIEST HERESY TRIAL. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : £ 3 " 'Brai Asthe rubjects of theology, of ortho- doxy, of creeds, docirines, and horesies, are rgifating the public mind just now betweex the ‘extrémie 1dens of Presbyfirianiem, I wish to con- tribute = littlo history and my own thouglits upon tho gubject. The tsial of Prof. Bwing is not the first- trial for hereny in the Presbyterian Church, nor the rovarest, by aoy mesns, - Befors Chicago was o 2nd probably before eny member of the Chicago Presbrtery was ordaired minister or el- der, and while most of them wera boys, and many of them unborn, 8 far more exciting trial was had, beginning in the Presbytery of Phila- ‘Geighin, sppealed to the Symod, and then to the Genoral Assembly of the Preslyterian Church of Ameriea. 1 wus a member of the Gonersl Assembly, eit- ting in Pittsburgh at tbe time..Irelats the circumstance from memory, and, tho every word may mot be Lteraily correct, yet, in the maig, it will bo sufficiently reliable. Abont forty years ago the Rev. Albert Barnes, & Pregbyterian minister in Philade!pkin (the au- -therof *Barnes' Notesupon the Bible "), preach- od & gormon upon the subject of actual and im- puted sin. In that sermon Dr. Barnes denicd that man was actually and personally guilty and punish- sble for the sin of Adam. He ehowed the fal- tacs and unreasonableness of this doctrine, which was then as strong a point in Presbyterian pribodoxy 28 the redemption by Christ now is. Nevertheless, Dr. Barpes mainteined that Adam was the father of the human race, and that he disobeyed God; he violated His command in cating the forbidden fruit from the central tree in the garden, and thereby sinned, and fell from ‘his high estate of purity; and that ve, being .joint partaker of the frult, and in the crimo, that both parents sinped snd corrupted them- _selves; that they being the parents of all man- iud, their pesterity partook of the fallen and einfal nature of fheir parents, and therefore sll their posterity, hsving einful natures derived from the head of the race, | cumelsion;? ncm;ld!lnnem, nuccffinfi Iy ariod of rosponsibility. £ To this do?{finc, orty\‘luw of original sin, tho Rev. Doctor or Professor Judkin, who was then 3t the head of somo theological institation, took exceptions, and brought Dr. Darnes befora the rosbytery. for. proaching beretical doctrines. Dr. Barnes had his trisl in_the Presbytery, and {he failing party appesled to tbe Synod, and agalh the Josing party—L do not recollect which— appealed to the great General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, next to &i¢ in Pittsburgh, P a. 3 Tn May, 1396, this General Assembly met, just thirty-oight years ago this month. There was great oxcitement throughout the Presbyterian Church, Iach Presbytery was a8 camnest in clocting delogates to that Assembly who repre- fented the views of the body upon this doctrinal point as any political party is in selecting its Toprosentative. If I recollect right, neerly overy Presbytery in tho United States sent xeKrMennlives to tbat body. I think not moro than one or two very remote ones failod of & representation. There were 400 delegates: pres-at—every one in earnest for us mde. There werc not then, s hers now, twenty- nine specifications to debate. My recollection i8 that this one point made the issue. Possibly there were some collateral points. I heard the prosecution (Dr. Judkins) for several days,. with his Seriptural proofs 1o favor of his posi- tion. Then.I beard Dr. Barzes in reply somo days, with bis Scriptural proofs in Lis defonse. the pamphlet may be thus stated in the words of tho author: The Bible affirms thres Dispensations, in -which truth has been developed progressivly from tho leas to the more pezfoct, both in light and purity, These _three for the proscnt may b dealgnated: Firsi, the Patriarchol, or Dispenaation of Crestfon. Bocond, the fosae, or Dispensation of Law, - Third, the Christian, or Dispenastion of Truth and Love. By intolrin tlieso (hree, which the Bibla expressly forbids, an socking Jor perfect truth and love in Sich, good mea do constant {ajury to tho cause they endeavar to pro- mota, sy i Without intendingto indorse all that this little treatife contalns, I_do hoartily commend it ssa frosh, vigorous, and able discussion, and os likely to be helpful to many minds. The pamphlet 13 roprinted from the English edition, by the author, who ia for the present in this’ cliy. Prige 25 cents. W. H. Rxpes.~ g THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. The Northwestern Advocale spproves of & late editorial in Tux TRmMONE onthe * Machinery ot Religion,” whorein it was ciaimed that if churchos could hire an infidol to do the singing, they oould, with equal consistency, biro an in- fidel to pray or to preach. Tho Methodist organ admits that this isa * most vital and sensible point.” ; The Advance describes the trials to plety in spring, including moving, house-cleaning, un- certain woather, and the deluge of beauty and -, 3 they arrived at tha T thiuk it occupied abunt cight days. Dr. Jud- | variety whioh dissipates religious thought. It kins ropresonted the Old School and the slave- | advocates the taxing of church property ; dis- holding sontiment of the churelies. Dr. Barues | cusoes tho ovils of soctariauism upon the_ pro- gre?s of missions, and says nothing of the Swing trial. Tho Alliance has a lstter from Prof. Swing on “ Dogwood and Victor Cousin,” wheiein Lo de- claros that, notwithstanding Prof. Paston, his heart still stands by the latter. Tho paper has editorials on * Thoogical Progress,” tho “ Iicalth Lift,” ete, | The Religio-Philosophical Journal says : We have not heretofors alluded o the fact that Prof. Swing, of this city, bad been arraigued befora an .ec- clestaatical tribunal for promulgating Uberal views. He is an attache of the Presbyturinn Church, but has putgrown his orthodox clothes, and yearna for & moro Tiboral sult, To our readors, an account of his trial would not be intereating, The whole proccedings are epreseuted the New School seutiment. - ‘Tho ;n‘:; was taken, and, as I recollect, & m:\jomy, of about thirty votes was given for Dr. Barnes' scquittal from heretical teaching. .1t this was not the end.—it was only abo- ginning. For the noxt year, whon thers was no B oneral question of importance spprehended by rallied their forces, and st that Assombly, held in r'biladelphia, bad 8 majority of Old-School delogates, and they voted sll the Now-8chool Presbyterians out, thus faurly kicking Dr. Barnes aud tho New School out of the organized Gen- eral Assombly of the Presbyterian Church. X This wss in 1837, thirty-seven yoars ago this May. Tho Now-School Prosbytenans acceptod ihe sitaation, and organized thoir own Bynods puerila, 2nd tho stalo soplistry used for argument by o etoation, a0 o apakinand sopicato | bolh sies would b slskonlag 2 a hougbtcul Sy two years, and in 1869, to’tho' pstonish- and the at Work deprocatea the prac- of all parties who knew tho cause, The Christian NI i i ildren for committing 11 history of the elogular snd degrading treat- | tice of giving prizes to children 2 geut Zflr tus Old Schoamlltuwnrda thggi'ew hool, | to memory verses of tho Bible. 1t says: The publis_may remember that one smzll Illinois girl learned ail the 31,173 verses of the Dible, and got the mug, For thesocond prize sn Omaha child lesrned ithe comparitivoly trifiing amount of 23,632 verscs, and ‘wans promptly presented with a mug ‘of powter. Thothor thesy children still Live to carn more mugs in itcquiring a farther knowledga of sacred trutb, or {whegher uetr osboa are preaccved in Bunday school ures,—who shall tell us? Tho Northwestern Advocalo hss a thoy rounited. g This vote in 1837, which drove the New-School, Prosbyterians _ont from thie bosom and confi- dence of tho, 01d, and from the General Assem- Ly, wos based upon the idea of original sin, 2nd was & practical condemnation of the doctrinos Leld by Dr. Barnes and his sdberonts. How- ever, tha Guestion of sluvery gava force and humorons courkgs o tho fuith_and-feclings of the Oid |1 3 a rou Sohool. The Old School was pro-slavery, end | editorialon ! Splitting Haira with » Broom,” in ‘tho late Swing trial. 'Lhe oditorial has reference to tho fupny oxamination of witnesscs ta‘sim\'a that Prof. Swing was heterodox on tho subject of tha divine *call” of ministers. Bays tho editor, in speaking of ono of the witnessos : o the witness succeeded in nothing but tn amusing the endience with his rupeated endaavors 1o hit with- out splitting the hsir, which we may call * God's providntial care of His convertod children, - Hia ob- Ject was to leave the hair whola—that 13, his object was 1o prove that God * called,” ur:d guided, and fllumined His proachers, by proviag that ull the rest of His serranta were laft without calling, or guldance, or illumination. Finding that this waa the ‘ dilemea ho h=d got into, there was notling for Lim to say tut—nothing. Ho would *undertako” to say +that Prof. Swing suld tuzt tie merchant discipls of Christ, Who was naturally fitted for his occupation, was giided of ihe Haly Spirit, bt he would not under- take fo say that tho minister who was nsturally un- fitted for his profession was not guided of the' Holy Spirit. So the huir remained unspli—untl 1t was split Uy tho prosccufor himself, and that foo with an . instrumont of 48 Littla 6dge as a Lroum. tho~ New Sehool wus profesaedly anti-siavery in gentiment, although &t tho time not very pro- ficient in oction. S ) Eech school lived in peace and quiet, In tho froedom of its own faith and discipliue, thirty- twoyoars. The New Bchool prespored excoed- ingly, but tho scduber came, and’ blinded tho mind of the New Schookto tha degrading insults of tho O1d School in turning iv out-doors i 1837, ard Lo H#5 dogmatic doctrinel exactions. Neyortholeos, the New Sohool, forgetful of ita tude troatment by the 0id School in 1887, and forgettul of its own dignily end Integrityas e- strong and popular religious body, aud of the doctzines it-nad been tried for_holding, in tho pereaa of Dr. Barnes, yielded up its selfhood and manhood, and went'baok into'the arms‘and embrace of the Old Bchool. accepting and adopt- ing the exact articles of faish =ad formulated docirine from which it had absolved itsclf in the cage of - Dr. Barnes' trial, thus submitting to & wonderful humiliation, in the eyes of othar ro- Ingious bodies,-aud of the outside worlds -~ - = S “I'he cauen of this separation had its source in i NOTES. a triai for herosy in 1836, thatof Dr. Baraes, and | . CONGEEGATIONAL. A groat religious sakening Las taken placo at Waverly, LL 5 Ths Congregational Club, of Boston, bolds its fifth anmual 7estival in Fanow! Hall, Aey 23. An association called * \illing, Hearts_and ' Hands " has been formed amoug the converts of ' Plymouth Church, Adrian, Mich. _ .. Fifty-three .New England - Congregstional | Churchos report the reception of 834 members of thoe May Commanion.; 758 of them by. pro- _Two members of theAllogan, Mich., Congre- gational Church, Mra. Booth and Dr. Goodrich, Dave presented the society with a fine loi forsa ‘ house of worship.. " | i Tho Congregational Church at Grand Haven, : Mich., after several years of suspendod anima- tion, caused by tho burning of its honse of | worship, has been reorganized, and welcomed to the fellowship of Congregational Churches. The twonts-first roanion of th Congregational Unicn, which was ‘held on the avenin%n! -May 14, in New York, was presided over by Dr. T. M. almost the first important thing ibat transpired |! after the union iy another tifal for hersey in the person of Prof. Swing. The first-went throngh |. 2ll the judicatories in tho Presbyterian Church to the highest. The latter promises.to do the same, ‘Thon, Prof. Judkin represented the Old School and Dr. Barnes the New. Now, Dr. Pat- ton represents the Old School and Prof. Swinfi represents the New. In .both cases the Ol School has been tho prosecutor. Prof. Swing, and evory Presbyterian ministor, at his ordina- tion afiirmed their beltof of the doctrines £s for- tulated end set forth by Dr. Patton, and thoy promised fidelity to them, clse they could not have -~ been' ordained to the ministry. Wouid - it- mot be more ' appropriate for Prof. Swing and his learned cosciontious co- sdjutors. in the miniatry, called Naw Bchool, to adopt new Articles of Faith, in simple language, conveying exactly their faith withont equivoca- tion or double meaning. tiat eould n 0 min- comstrued ? This would save much duplicity, and greatly enlighten aud relieve the minds of the Inity in your churches. LT snggest sgain to-this ministry, whether they can tako the Westminster Cetcchism fn their right hand into their pulpits before their fi congregations and, fn -langusge cOD- | post of St.' Lonis: Addresses were delivered sonant, W“Rl and 1!‘““““,“’ o of the | 1 Dr. Post, the Rev. H. . Gallaber, Dr. Hall, Xk & ,‘“;; es “'BN‘PQ QUnd, o SES | 2nd Dr. Nicholson. Tho principal object of the and defend every -point’ called the five | y,ion is to aid fachle churchea in building their points, to their congregation ; 4f not, why con~ fuse yourselves and your hearers in circuitous evasions? I have sttended this trial of Prof. Swing. I bave Leard the arguments and proofs, and of all that T havo hoard I think Dr. Patton is most cleerly In the lines of the Presbyterian Articles of Faithand tho Westminster Catechiem, 23 formulsted, aud ss known and taught in tho historie Church by the Rev. Jonathan Edwzrds and Dr. Lmmons, of New England memcry, great lights in the Church, whose sermons of concentrated Calviuism are now extant. Dr. Palton is & true, legilimate. ohild and & living, loyal representative of the creed of the houses -of worabip. The contributions thus ' made last year amounted to §67,044.19, During tho year aid has been given forty-six churches located in the various States and Terntories of the Union. The Chicago Congregational Association held ita twenty-first annual meoting with the Fort: geventh Stroot Church last week. Tho Rov Bascom, at_his-otwn request, was-dismissed; and recommended to the Fox River Union. The Rev. Mores Smith was recommended to the Jackson (Mich.) Association. The churches of Maywood and .South Chicago ,were received into follow-~ Proshyterian Church and tho standards that the nhig. The Revs. E. P. Goodwin, D. D., and L. New Beliool adopted in_the return and reuniops | T-Chemborlin, and Jamea Scovill, Esq., wera of tho two bodics in 1369, Dr. Swing and tho | elected delegates to the National Council, with the Reva. 0, D. Helmer cod E. N. Packard and the Hon. 8. B. Gookins as alternaios. : REFORMED EPLICOPAL. Bishop Chensy preached lst Sunday to & yery Intgo congrogation in the First Rofoiwed Epii- copal Church.of Now York. In s column and a Lalf on the progress and prospects of the new Church, the Philadelphia Press editorinlly ssya; -**It cannot fail to re- ceive large accessions, and, with its broad and liberal platform, speedily become & great power in the land.” An Eastern paper gives several facts indlcative of tho progress of the-Reformod Episcopal Chureh, “The Rev. William T'. Sabine, pastor'of tho Firat Reformed Church, is likely to call to his new sphoro large numbers from tho church which he 8o recently left.. Abount fifty familics have already.gone tothe new connection, ¥ _The E cecdings of the Second Gerneral Coun- cil of the Chiurcly have received marked atten- tion by the public press. - The'Now York Trid- une 8ays : . ! ‘The most important decision made the Counc whick touches the vitzl point of Bh‘x’-;ymm bmflx‘:‘x‘: 00d, Was thiat concerning the admisslon of others than members of the Episcopal Church to the Lord's Supper.- Hero the broadest and most Christlike charity waa exhibited by the newsect. Nof only meme ‘bers of other churches, but all who love our Divine Lord and Savior Jesus Christ In slncerity, are affec- tionately invited to partake in thia symbol of brother- bood. As secular obscrvers we have no concern with any soctarion distinctions, save one like this, . whigh marks the progress of a greot Teligious body towsrd tht docpor genss of nntty betwean all wew striving for true and right ends, which is the surc«t indication of the advanca of Christ's toachings in tha sinpls in- tegrity, undsunted by dogma or prejudice. BAPTIST. -*The First Baptist Church of Dotroit has ex- tended a call to_the Rey. N.-O. Mallory, of Low- elL, hiess., offering him & salary of £3,000. _.Tho Baptists of Decatur, DL, have purchascd grounds for a nuw church edifice. oy will proceed at once to erect a wing of tho new d- but will occupy the old houso until it is Nerw Echool are illegitimate. They do not and cannot stand 1p to the Ligh fone of the Articles of Faith and Catechism of the Old 8chool. * IIow can two walk togeiher. except. they be agrecd ?” And “ Why call yo Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I sz7 " Why seil under a ban- ner that you cannot unfurland maintain in its fullest sense ? -, For more than twenty years I was a momber of the Presbyterian Church, and sn officer in it purt of that time, earnest and realous for its doctrines, and should_have remsined 80 to the present day if thére hiad not & -higher, brighter, and purer light bent in upon my sonl, which, in’ contrast, shines out' my formor® visica'ns the rising sun drives into darkness the twin] stars of night. R e Nevertheless. my present sympathy and ‘pro- clivitios aro -with tho New School Prosbyterian Church, and regerd 1t 28 oa _important olement in the growth and development of . humanity in its progressdo & bigherlife. - - - - - [HOMAS RICHNOND. i 2 NERESY. 2 To_the. Editor of Tha Clacaqo Tribune Bin; Perhaps tho preeent is not an inopor- tune time to recall an old definition of heresy from Paul: - Al 3.5 A man that i o heretic arler thefirct snd recond adnionitionTeject, knowingthat be thatis such ia rubrerted [overthrown) and sinreth, Leing condemned Horesy npogtn.s{, sin, and self-condemnation are plain Intelligible qualitics in the tribunal of conecionsness a8 here stated. In the racent trial in this city, couneel - for the dofense held that Abechargelof unfaithfulness waa indefinito, inas- much as ail, judges aud jnrors in the cas untaithful. If this is_a_fadt™ad stated, i ‘much ~» more importance than - any issue of the~trial. it~ is -an open scknowledg- ment of conscious sinfulness end infidelity to the'spirit of truth, in the lives of a-body of men claimed and distingnished 28 prezchers of righteousuess. To be sinful i rad indeed. St were they ashamed when they had “com- | 25 mitted abominations ? Nay! they were mot at | G2N0 - o - : il ashamed, neither’ conld thoy: blush.” Thero | * Throe tho First Bap tist Chureh last Sunday. Dr. Everts- tho pactor, preached & sermon commwemaratise o, Miss Maria Brooson, & ‘missionary in Irdia, ro- chetly deal. Tho eighth tnniversary of Deacon E. 8. Albro's Bible-clnss, cornocted with the. Becond Baptiat Cnurch of this city, was held Monday oyening of 1ast week., The average attendance of the class during _the year has beon 132, and it has con- tributed §423.46 to meet current expenses, and to al young men studying for the minist Saveral addresscs were made, and Mrs. C. was nol even ah apologz.™ Read 126 Romans ii: 17, tothe end, subatituting for % Jow " and * cir- 0 . " Teacher” or “ Profoasor.”. .Hap- pily the Scrptures and those in,whom ita spirit 15 exemplifisd ‘Taske contrasts and distia that preserve a wholesome, assuring faith, :Baid Paul, “I thank Christ Jesos onr. Lord, who hath ensbled mo, -counting me faithful, putting me into the mitiority.” Again, “Ye are ‘witnesees, aud so is God, how_holily and -justly ‘and uoblsmesbly wo behaved curselves among you thet believed.” . And agsin,: * Afark them that walk soas yo have us for an example.” Bhall we cling to the" Christian records of snch .3 Paal, even though wo find & feerful “elij ping away” from his -record? The only thought itis donired to bring into'notice herois thet holiness and sin aro-the irsues that sink all | others, the former as the © gifu of graca.” If these citatlons boar on “thoro who admit that something of* holincss inkieres in Faith, how do they regt on those who meke no such sdmis- mion? . “N. B, Yision. Thoe Standard says that at & meeting of tho Auvisory Committes of . the Natioual Baptist Educational Commission, held a fow days eince in this .city, three vacancies upon the Com- mittce were found to have becn made by death and by removsla. These places were filled, as follows: that of Dr.. Talbob, deceased, by the Rev. A. J. F. Bahrends, of Cleveland ; of Dr. J. B . B. Teomes, removed to Brookiyn, by the Rev. D. - \¥IHE'TRUE DEPARTURE." - |-B. Cheney, D. D., of Chicagos; of the Rev. Dr. T the Editor of the Chicago Tribuna s - Read, removed 8130 to Brooflyn, by Prof. T. J, an;l{ bave just finished mwlng of n:| Aorgan, of Nebraska. amphlet of thirty-two pages ing the title, |- Tho educational conference to be hel Fhe Troa Deputnm_,E which seems to mo | Chicago Uiversity, July 2, ia expcc!edhtfr gox:xn—' worthy & wider circulation than it is likely to | prise representatives of the Baptist denomination get, unless in some way public attention is | throughout the West who ars engsged in- the apeclally called to it, The purpose and seope of | work of education.” This" tpeeting is to baa’ Dlacksll read selections from.SBir Launfall's grand point of depertnre for the raising of the centennial educational fund. METHODIST. Bishop Bowman dodicated a new Mothodist church 1n Burnside, Ill., May 3. . Five porsons were admitted to membership the Ada Street M. E. Church last Sunday. .At the Halsted Street 3. E. Church, last Sun- Aoy svening, 126 persons signed tho temporance- plodge. " Orer two thousand conversions zre reported in tho Methodist Churches of Loug Island during tho past year. . . P At Springficld, Wis., 125 persoas havo been re- ceived on probation, and 6 by letter, as the result of alate revival: . The Bo:thern Gsnoral Confersnca of the 3. E. Church has voted not to increase the present number of Bishops. The church in Austin, Minn., hes been en- larged and improved, and will be reopened June 7, Lishop Merrill officiating. The Christian Advocafe (Methodist organ) speaks slightingly of the doctrine of perfect ho- liness, a8 taught'and preferred by the Rev. Ar. Juslkip and his followers. A great revival hag'besz in progress.in tho First Swedish M. E. Church. About 150 converts have united since the beginning of the year. The Rev. E. Bhogren is pastor. . The Rev. Jesse O, Peck, Pastor of the Cén- topary M. E. Church, lecturcs every Monday ovening, to a large agsemblage, mostly young convorts, on * Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.” . The aunusl meoting of tho United Méthodist Froo Churches of England took place in Exeter -Hall April 26, the Lord Mayor presiding. The ‘mission report showed that thore were 43 mis- gionarics—an increass of .8; 5,888 members—an iucreass of 835; 87 chapels—an increnso of 5; 4,679 Sunday-schools—an fncroase of 290 ; 1,98 day-schools—an <ncroase of 6. The total re- ceipts had been over £14,503. The mesting of the Exccntive Committeo of the Woman's Foreign Mission Socioty of thie M. E. Church was held in Philadelphia from May 6 to May 13, Miss Bigomrnoy Traek, M. D., Miss Annlo E. Ritchio, Miss Lotita Mason, 31, D., Miss Julia Sparr, Miss J. E. Walton, M. D., Miss N. O. Ogdon, and Miss Julin Lore, 3L, D., danghter of the Rev., Dr. Lore, editor of the Northern Christian Advocate, were sccepted for missionary work. The apportionments for the ousning year were ns follows: New England Branch, £10.245; Now York, $18,910; North- iwestern, £12,825; Western, $4.020; Pbiladel- his, €5,260 ; Cincivpati, &10,67: Baltimors, 4,112 Total, €61,04. - CATHOLIO.” St. Btophen’s Catholic Church, of Chicago, is to have a bell, weighing two and & half tons. The corner stone of the new Church of St Benodict was laid in Brooklyn, N. Y., last weck. Bunday, June 4, sall the churches, oongre- ‘finlians, snd religious institutions of the Catho- c Diocese of Milwaukee will be consecrated to tha Sacred Hoart of Jesus, by Bishop Herni. ay 14, about 2,000 Catholics from Washing- tou and Baltimore visited a shrine of the Virgin Mary at Whitcmarsh, about 25 miles from Wash- “ington, in Princa George's County, Md. 1tis tho first pilgrimage to an Ameriean shrine.- - Ths 12th of April was tho annivarsary of the return of Pope Pins from Gaets, in 1930, and of his eacape from the Catsstropho of St. Agnesi in 1855, Mayis tho anniversary of his birth- gny li!d June of hia succession to tha Kays of t. Peter, The colored Catholics of Bt.. Augmstine'a Chureh, Louisyille, K., have signed an address to the Pope, which they sond by the hand of thi pastor, Father do Mounldor, who goes out with the g:lgrimnge‘ They elso send the Pope o gold-headed cane. An exchange gays 1 “ Several thousand young Parislan girls, members of the Society of Enfants d» Marie, went on a pilgrimage to the Catbedral of Notre Dame recontly. The line of earriages bringing thom strotchad ovar a mile. Each pil- grim was robed in white, and held a torch in her Land; every rank of socicty was represented, from tho grand damo to the poorest of the poor.. - At Bordeaux a similar demonstration taok nlu:l and 5,000 women walked in the procession, an at Orloans Algr. Dupanloup presided over anoth- er like ceremony. a EPISCOPAL. The Episcopal diocese of Toronto is to be di vidoed. % A2 o The first stone of the Episcopal Cathedral at Edinburgh, Scotland, was {aid May 21. The pews in St. James’ Charch, Baton Rouge, La., were made f{ree by the vote of the Yestry Easter-Monday. The Rector of St. Paul's, Taeltoville, Ark., recently baptized & number of men and women by immersion. Tive Dissenting ?h:pels at Gresnwich, En- gland, have passed inco the handa of the Cirurch within tho last cight yoars. ' There are fourtcen graduates of Cambridgo and thirteen of Oxford on the Epigcopal Bench of Englaud. The oldest Bishop is Dr. Thirl- wall, of St. David's, born in 1797, and the sonior also by conseeration (180). Notes and Queries shows that the omisslon of the word **Holy” inthe Nicone Creed bofora the words ‘‘Catholio Church” iaa printer’s fault. It occurs in the Latin Prayer-Book of Queen Eliz=both, and also in that of Parsel. It occurs in the french version, in the Greek, in the Latin, and in the Spanish. It is omitted from tho German, modern QGreek or Italien transla- tions. The Bishop of Massachusetts confirmed 1,100 in his diocese last ycar. In his addrees, ho uttered . regretful words for the defcction of Bishop Cummins, who hsd “left the Church and become the author of & schism. The Rsv. Drs. Vinton, Huntington, Bargess, and Lambert, and Rovert ‘0. Winthrop, Mudge, Shattuck, snd Bennett, wero elected Deputic to tho Goneral Convention. + The General Synod of the Irish Church fs dis- cassing the Athanasian Creed. Oue gentleman Lizs proposed to- strike it ont of the, Praver- Boolts anotker to omic tho damuatory clauacs, and the Doan of Limerick to prefix s declaration that it is to bo. taken £s 2 warning, mob con- Jdempatory. Tho damnatory clanses are no part of tho creed, and the creed itsalf has no refer~ exca to anything but the Divinity of Christ. Tho Rt. Rev. Dr. Kerfoot, the Bishop of Pitts- burgh, in » late addrees, said : _** Just five Jearo ago Bishop Cumming wrote : *For myself, I love the Protestant Eplacopal Church moro fervently a8 life advances. To me she is tho fair and pure bride of Christ, the glory of the Reformed Churches, loyal to Christ and His trath in her articles, offices, and_homilics, and probably, sg freo from impberfections 83 & charch can be, composed of fallible men, in whom the svork of God’s graco ig alwzys incomplete.”” e _ MISCELLAXEOUS. The Independent has removed its oftice to more commodions quarters, at 251 Broadway. - Tho British Wesleyaus at Haukow, Ghina, havo 189 church members and 168 probationors. .——-- _.Tho First African Church of Richmond, Va., at a lato, business- mecting, excluded seventcen members for dancing. Sl W Seventcen missionaries belonging to tho Pres- terian Women'’s Foreign Missionary Society are Isboring in forcign Jatda. Yale Theological Seminary gradusted twenty- four ministers this yoar, and Union .thiriy- four, one of them s colored man. ~ The ‘Philadelphia Central Presbytary report thy feception “of 694 members on ' profession grfl?g the last year. . The total.memborsluipis An Eastern papersaya: * Tha Mercsntils TLibrary Association of New York. City hava de- cided that the opening of the library on Sunday iaa failure, the persons nsing it being few, and not of the class it was bopad to reach.” The Naw York Herald states thatit is pro- osed to anite the Church of the Mecasiab with r. Bellows' . congrogation. . Dr.. Bellows baa been on a furlough for six months. His pulpit has been occupied by strangers, who have praached to very sparse congrogations. The house has been in the market for some timo. Notwithstanding the various schemes for in- suring tho lives of ministers, and the acknowl- edgod importanco of the subject, a writer m the ‘Fvangelist says thet ont of 65,000 clargymen in the United States, belonging to various 2e tant denominations, only 2bout ons in nine has o life policy, and of theso oply half remain in force, the remainder lapsing from failuro’to pay the premiuma. “Tho New York Sun gives the story of the rieo and fall of an Independent Episcopal Charch. In 1869, Mr. George E. Thrall, the Sccretary of the Committes which proposed the Union Piayer Book, resigned as clergyman of the Episcopal Church, tc join in the Union Church movement, Several clogymen wero joined With him at first, smong whom were the Tyngs ; bu$ they backed out, and Mr. Thrall went on alone, and built his church on Fifty-seventh street, between Lexing- ton and Fourth avenuos. The movement failed, and the church bas fallen into the hands of its creditors, and is advertised for sale to somebody ; clse who wants a house of worship cheap. " A crusade has boen sttempted by certain ex- tra-Protestant newspapers, against publiab-- ers of Appletons’ new cycl the charge boing that, in matters of Church history, the poblishers havo employed Roman ‘atholic ‘Writers, who have given versions differsnt from the ordinary Protestant accounts. The Chris- tian Union says: A more neadless and baseleas charge was nover made. Wa bave examined the facts with some care, and soquit the gentlemen engaged upon this national work of any such design, or of falling into any errors by hocdless— Tiess. YWe bonor them for calling Roman Catholf:s to iheir aid, It is right that they should, It s timethat e had done with the senseless prejudiccs which re- Roman Catholia priests as of conrse unchristian, #0d Boman Catholie zcholars as Jesuitio, insincers, and untrustworthy. Some of the noblest prelates an ‘most raliablo schiolars of to-day are Basuan Catholica, g PERSONAL. > CHICAGO. A. M. Waxann, a student in the Baptist Theo- logical Beminary at Chicago, has accepted a call to tho pastorate of the church in Concord, Mich, The Rev. N. Millard, late of Benton Harbor, Mich., has accepted a call to the Wicker Park Congregational Church of this city. The Rev. B. Gilbert, late of Chicago, accepts & call from the Central Bquare Universalist Church at East Boaton. Mr. R, Cheney, of Chicago Theological Bem- inary, will spend his vacation with the Congie- gational churches at Rio and Wyocern, Wis. A considerablo number of Baptist, Presby- terian, and Congregational ministers of Chicago will ba found to be absent from their pulpits to-day, having gone to attend the soveral reli- gious gatherings of their denominations. The Rev. Father Gareschs, the eloquent Jesuit missionary of Chicago, bas boen so prostrated by ovorwork in New. York thathe haa been com- pelled to take a vacation. He has gone to Charleston, Sonth Carolina. . Tha closing exercises of the Baptist Theologi- cal Semmary last weok, brought 1o this city quite » numbor of prominont Baptist divincs sud teachers, among whom were Gen. T. J. Morgan, Prosident of the Nebraska Btate Normal 8chool. - who went to Washington to attend the - Baptist annivorsaries, and goes thence to West Point, as one of the Board of Examinars. Dr. Brooks, President of Kalamazoo College; the Rev. J. W. TFish, of Wisconain ; snd the Rov. J. RB. Stome, D.D., of Fort Wayne, were also present. Bishops Ames and Andrews, of the Methodist TEplscopal Church, came to this city last weck, from Columbus, O., where they have recently been attending a meeting of the full Board of Bishops, to fix the date of the annual confor- ences for 1874-5. The latter left for his home in Des Moincs, Ia., Friday. Bishop Ames is still in the city, the gaest of V. C. Dandy, and will preach this morning in the Ada Street M. E Cburch. The Bishop will start for his homs in Baltimoro to-morrow morning. ¢ ELSEWHERF. “Pere Hyacinthe is secking a pew dwelling place in Germany. Mra. Ann P. Pearno, wife of the Ttev. G. H. Pearne, D. D., died in Cincinnati, May 14. The Archdescon of Ontario, for forty-five years in the ministry of the Church, died’ sud- denly. April3e. - The Rev. Thomas DeWitt, D. D., died in New York, May 18, aged 83. Ho is said to have been tho oldest pastor in the city. ? The Washington Avenus Baptist Church, of Brooklyn, N. Y., have offred their tor, the Liev. Dr. Moree, a four months’ vacation. Dr. Rust, Corresponding Secretary of ‘the AL E. Freedman's Aid Bociety, 18 on a four.of viai- tation toshe Freedmen Echools of the Boutb. The Rev. Henry B. Ensworth, & Presbyterian clergyman, was ordained as an fip!ucopnl clergy- man by Bishop Williams, of Conneécticut, a short time ago. The Rov. Earl Cranston, pastor of the Metho- dist Episcopal Chureh ot Jacksouville, IiL, was married, May 14, to Miss Laura A. Martin, of Baltimore, Md. The Rev. J. H. Vincent, editor of the Sunday- School Journal, is attending Sunday-school con- veotions in the West. e was in Michigan last week, and attends the Illinois .Convention this week. At the recent meeting of the Methodist Epls- copal Bishops at Columbus, ‘0., Bishop Wiley wau provented from attendance by illness, aud Bishop Morns by weakness, the result of old age. \ Jacob Wainwright, the black boy who accom- panied Dr. Livingstone's remains to England, will, after further training, retorn to. his native country, to be employed 83 a teacher in the Church Missionary Society's East African Mis- sion. . The Rov. J. P. Coleman, pastorof the Method- ist Epitcopal Church at Garner, Is., went oub fimmi!xg the other day, and ceme near losing his fo by the esplosionof ono of his gun-barrels. Mis oycs were badly burncd, and he was dis- abled from pulpit efforts for soveral Sabbaths. . A New York paper says: * The Jowish Con- grogation Templo Emaouel, in Fifth avenue, have allowed their sonior pastor, the Rev. Dr. Adlor, to retire on an sonuity of £4,000 a year for life. They have also iucreasod the salaries of Dr. Gotthetl and Mr. Kubin,—tho former to, £6,600. v s Bishop Wadsworth, of St.. Andrew’s, Scotland, resigmed his-See, but not to found = now eect. He mado st ono tima groat efforis to unitethe Episcopalians and Prosbyterians of Bcotland. He is known for his famous groat grammara. He rotires to England, . aad nccepts tho post of Fel- low lu«lSub-%Vlmiéu of Wincheater Collego.™" * ~ prat ey RELIGIOUS MISOELLANY. The religious statistics of Australia now show 73,700 _ Episcopalians, - 208,637 Prosbyiérians, 213,436 Methodists, 45,032 Independents, 583,412 Paptists, 49,550 other Protestants, and 435,436 Roman Catholica.. PE PR The Rev. Narsan Sheshadri proposes to estab- lish & model Christiza village in Indis, to be called Bothel, and which will bave well-ventilatsd houses, & church, manse, industrial schools, etc. It will cost about $59,000. ) ™ The Ircnch Acadomy of Inscriptions has & couple of army officers in Palestins who haye mudea map of Galilee. Another party, Ger- mean, we believe, is at work investigating Tyre, mainly with reference to the. time of the Cru- sades. Tho Sultan has granted & firfisn allowing the restoration of the aqueduct from Solomon's Pools to Jernenlem. -1C18 reported that theex- peuse will be $100,000, of which the Daroness RBardatt-Coutts sl boar -half, and tho Greck, Latin, and other roligious corporations tho other ST A 3 The Archbishop of Canterbury has brought his bill on ecclesiastical offenses formard with guccess in tho Iouse of Lorde. It proposes thiit tho Bishiop of a Diocese havo threc Ae- gesaors, one of ' whom is_to be either Doan, Archdencon, or Chancellor, -another n * bar Tister,” and the third the Dishop’s nomineo. Any compliint made sgmmst & clergyman by his Archdeacon, Rural Dean, or by any parish- jonter will be submitted to this tribunal, if the Dishop deema it not a trivial case. Thero may be an appeal to the Archbishop of the Province. That good . Presbyterian women may know when it i3 meet that they should expound the Gospel to fallen. humanity, a contributor to the Eeangelist tuus specifies for their benefit: 1. Nob where thore I8 3 sufficleut numbar of woll- qualified men. 2. Not whero pride is the prompter and vanityis the result, wherenotoriety is sought and s morbid curlosity is-encouraged. -8. Not till-the duties prescribed by their mental avd phyriezl constitutions and “circumstances ave performed, and it ehall &ppear that they can preach better than men, 4."Not till sons of thundor ara obsolete, and daaghters of thander are demnnded. Tho London -correspondoent of the Liverpool Fost, mriting on the 27th of April, says: * The so-called religions ravival in tSicotland has been auite & Godsend to gome 0f the firms engaged in tho publication of Bibles. The ordors recoivod from Heotland since January Jast are sufficient to give a copy of the Scriptures to one in every five of the population, There haa been no such salo of the holy book since 1839 or 1800, when it seems that in Beotland and the North of Eng- land, men and women searched the ‘Scriptures with'an assiduity which had been nnknown tor womo time before, and which till now haa been animown gince. hldcedh{or five yoars the trade in Bibles had becn so bad that ono firm in Pater- noster row gavo it up and bogan publishing edu- cational and other mors popular works. the itinerans Americzns now preaching in Glasgow produce s much effect in Manchester and the ‘ingl.ish towns as they are reputed to have done in the Scotch onos, eelling Bibles may azaln be- come a locrative business.” The Bishop of Manchestor, Eng., st the con- secration of s burial-ground, said of cremation, that, though the notion at present made him shudder, he conld conceive of its familiarity snd doption a hundred yoars hence. **The aucient belleved in immortality, and ye Romans t they | il burned their desd. Cremation was dertainly | 4 quita as decent as the practice of {nterment, an¢ 'Waa more picturesguo than coffins. -His hesrers | -sion Chapel- must dissociate the resurrection from physical condisions. Would it .be more impossible for God to raisg np & body st the Resurrection out of elementary particlos, liberated lg the burn- ing, than to raise up a body from dust and the elomonts of bodies which had -paseed into the. structure of worms? He would raise tho dead, whether out of church-yards, or, jike the ra- mains of soms anciont Roman, out of an wrn in which they wera deposited 2,000 years ago.” T i RELIGIOUS HUMOR. A clergyman at Springfield, who has a bad habit of sading “ah” to many of his words, told last Sunday of those who had been brought up on the Lord's side-zh. . At an examination of some girls for the rita of confirmation, in answer to the question, “What {s the ontward, visiblo .sign or form in baptism?” one of them ropliod: * A baby, sir.” A Peldn (IiL.) women was esked by the preach- er if her husband feared the Lord. ~Shereplied: © Foar him? Bless you, he is o feared of Him that he never goes ont Sundsy without taking his gun along with him.” Littls girl—"Mamma, I don't thinkthe people who make dolls are very pious peoplo. amma —'Why not my child 7"~ Littla girl—‘‘ Bocause you can neyer make them kneel. L always have to Iay my doll down on her stomach to say her prayors.” A little 4-year old in Richmond, very fond of & certain dish, when ssked by bis mother if he wonldn't like to be an_angel with wings, and fly about Heaven like his littlo brother, replied, after 8 pause, ''No, ma; I'd a heap rather be s hawk, sud live on chickens.” A Sunday-school teacher, desirous of weking the dormant powers of & echolar, asked the ques- tion: What are wo taught by tho historic inci- dont of Jacob wrestling with the angel?” Tho cautions reply came: * Dunno, 'zactly, but 8'poso 'twas to tell ug that wo musn’t rastle.” Hearing that his paator intended to preach on the recognition of friends in heaven, a parish- oner tuggasted that ho should preach on the Tecognition of friends on eartb, since he had :bson sitting in his pew for twonty years withont *being recognized by the cocupant of the next pew. > Dr. Gathrie, In his inimitable autobiography, referring to the affected - address of oertain modern young mlbjaumé&sd)enks of ono particu- larly, who, instead of calling children by tho wholesome old Scotch term bairns, spoke of them as * those sweet and intereating biped that call man father.” - A bright Litls girl of our city, not lon since, was urging her mother to go np-stairs au hear her say her prayers beforo retiring. Her ‘mother, not_ finding it convenient, told her thzt Jesus could hear them just as well. * But, mother,” responded the little doubter. ‘¢ Joaus ;can't turn off the gas."—XNew Bedford Mercury. .One is not bound inall cases to be as funny 88 he can,. .Use & wholosome discretion. Thus, when your worthy clergyman, who may be .bopest and deserving, if .not brilliant, confides toyouin a moment of overwhelming modosty that he somatimes thinks he has mistaken his calling, it is far from neoessary for vou, who 870 onoof the pillars. of his church, to reply that you think so0 25 often 24 evory Sunday. § " A distinguished profeesor; residing not r thou- sand miles from Andover, was recontly on au ex=" cursion to Europe. Being in Edinburgh one vet Sunday, and desiring to go to chuzch, he bired o cab. On reaching the church-door bho tendercd a shilling to cabby, the hfi:l faro, and waa some- what surprised to hear the cabman ‘say, ¢ Twa shullen, sir.”' Tho professor fixed his eagle eycs upon the extortioner, demanded iy Hia charged two shillings, and 'tho cabman_dryly answered, Wo wush to discourage traveling on the Sawbath as much’as poasible, air.” Listle Johnny wanted to go to chureh. His ‘mother was afraid he would make a noiso, bus his father said, * Johnny kmows bstter than to make o noise in church.” So hewent. Ho kopt very still till the last prayer. By that time grown tired of sitting atill and was standing on the pew-cuabion, with his back towards tho pulpit. Whon the lady who was sitting in. the next seat bowed her head for prayer, Johuny thought she was crving, and his sympathy got the better of his judgment. Ho leaned over and. #aid to the lady 1o a tone that was moant for a whispar, bat which was only too %lm.nly heard : * Poor Iady . What eo matter ? Does 02 stom- mut ache . - This is #aid to be a g of some English schoo Alsdot 11, wholiad been four yesrs in s parish echool of the Estabished Church in England, when seked by tho school inspector to write out an answer to the queation ** That a thy duty toward God 27 wroto as follows: 3y duty tonds God is to bleed in him to fering and to loaf withiold your arta, withold my mind, mmolmm and with” my scroth to whirchip snd to giva to put my old trazh in him, to cali uj him, to cunsr hiz 0ld namte and his world, and to save’ bim’trulyall thedsys of my Lfe's ead.” Another wrota out Lis helief as follows : * I bellove in God the alimighty maker of Heaven snd in Jesus Christ the anly gon of God wwho was conseved by the hoiy Gosk born of the yurgen Mary nofed under ed plited ‘was Squeat fled dod and boded Lis desceuded into heel and the third day he rose again from the ded ha de- acened into Heaven and sotted had the right hand of God the fether sll might maker of Hoaven snd earth tho see and oll that in them s and rested upon the Beventh day and Howard it.? - A !Scotch parich once bad for s minfstera good man remarkable for bis benevolent diepo- Siton. Meoting oro of bis parishioners one dsy be said, “Jesnie, what way do I mover see yoit in the kirk?” * Well, sir,” said Jesnio, *t0 bo ?hin wi' yo, I haena a pxir of shoon to gang wi.” © A pair o' shoop, Jeanis! Jeanie, I'll not let yon gtay az hame for that; what would a pair cost ¢” “ Aboot four shitling, sir.”- Putting kis hand into his pocket, he gave Jeanio the mouey and went his way. Homo timo after, meeting her again, ho ssid, © Dear me, Jeanlo, I've never scen vo in tho kirk yct; what way is that?” “Weol, sir,” eaid Jeanis, “to bs plain wi' ye, when the weather’s guid, and I has time, I profer gaun to Dumfarlin’ to’ hear Ar. Gilles- io.” *'Oh, indeced, Jeanio. Iaes, that’s the Way o't, ist! You might hae glen me the first day o' tho shoon ony way, d've no think 7" A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer tells tho following story rospecting & Baptist preacher of strong common scnsd, but very Tough-hewn theology, who was widely known aud much liked and reepected in Southsids Vir- ginia many years ago. The old parson was preaching very earnestly about the certainty and. the terrible nature and degrese of tho miseries of tho damned, and when he had succceded in working up bimself and his awe-struck auditory into a high degreo of excitement, and the latter into terrified admiration of his barrowing detail of horrors, ho capped the climax after tbi fashion: ““ My frends, yonall know iaj. Clarka's furpace; you Linve scen it often, how tho white- Tot coals Just melt up iron thrown into it Like a8 if 'twas snow. Well, if you took a einner out of hell and threw him into Afsj. Clarke's furace, scimen of tha graduates he'd have an agur in two minutes.” 5 —_—— OHUROH SERVICES TO-DAY. EPISCOPAL. The Ror. Dr. Locke will officiste marning and even- fog in Grace Church, on Vwabash avcaue, south of Fourtecnth street. i —Church of tke Holy Communion, Dearborn street, near Twenty-niath, Tho Rev. W. H. Smytho will oi- clate in the morning, and in the eventng Bishop White- house will preach and administer confirmation, The Tov. Froncis Mansfield will oficlate in tho morning, and the Pav. W. J, Petrie in_the ovening, in tho Church of Our Bavior, corner of Belden ayenus and Orchard strest, —St. Poter’s Mission, No, 45 Third avenue, Mora- ing prager, 10:40; holy communion, 11:30; evensong, 3:20, % *"—Tho Rey. H. N. Powers will preach as usual fn St. Jonn's Chnrch, on Asbland cvonte, south of Madison siret. Evening subject: A May Afeditation.” ~Ths Rov, Dr. Stocking will proach_mornig and evening in tho Chureh of the Epplauy, on Throop stroet, between Monroe and Adams, ore will be morning and evening services in the Church of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Robey streets. - “Tho Rev. Hoary G, Perry will presch morniog and evening in Al Saints® Church, corner of Oarpenter and Fourth streeta, © . —There will he a full Cathedral serviao in tho Cs- thodral of B, Peter and Paul, morning &nd evening. Tha Bishop of Minols will officato. The Hov, E. Sullivan will cfiiclate in- Trinity Chureh, corner of Michigan svenue and Twonty-sixth street, Morning subject : * How to Ralso Money for b Prirposes.” CELI.}E” Rx:E:J J. P, Walker will &3 I!‘:_unlt in vary Chur on Warren avenue, near Weslern o cmm?'}zz themo: “The Church of the Pezta- avenus, oost.™ PREIBYTVRIAN, B i a < Rov. 7. 3. Gibaon will preach morning -an evening o tiie Second Church, corner of Michigan avenua end Twentloth street. T e Rev, Azthur Swazey will presch in 'the morn- Ing fo the Asbland Avenus Boclely, in the Swedentor- 152 Chiuren, on Washington streef, near Unlon Park. 0 Bibls lemperance resding will bo Licld this even- ing in the Fifth_ Chuzch, near the corser of Thirts- 15t atrest and Wabashavenue, Bring Biblcs. ' Toe Tav. James Maclaughisn will preach morning sod evening, in tho First Scoteh Church, corner of Adams and Sangamon atroets. The Bov. J, B. Jackson, of Greensburgh, Pa., will roach at 3:30 p. 1., 1a the’ United Chureh,” corner of onroe and Penlina atrcets, —Pref. Patton will preasch morning and evening in the American Roformed and Jofferson Park Caurch, o Washington street, near Ann. —The Rev. E. XN, Harrett will preach in the morn- Ing. and the Rev. D. J. Burzell 12 the evening, in the Third Charch, comer of Washington and Carpenter treets, - ‘—Evening service 3 usmal in Campbell Purk Mis- on Leavits street, near Harrison, = " ington streets, tho —Prof. Bwing preach Church, corner of Rush “The Rer. Dr, W. W. this meratag, i d Buperior surees’ and ovening in the Ninih Church, on Pyp Koy, " Thi Rar, Ben E. 6. Ely Wil presi tiTesee 4 Graco Chiureb, corner of Vipeaid W - —The Rav. J. B, McClars o this morning. —Tke Rev. D. H.. Hamill of. Ry, BrUsches at Riry preach morning and eveaing In ey, ippim 80t Chary! 5 ® Amity Churfed, Mattine's b g pantor, the Rev, Florence Mlc%amyAa:mm‘“ Ty 10:20s. m 4nd 4 p. m.Morming subiec: Tyd o Stons ;! 1b; 2 g, = Bt it —The Rev. N, F. Ravlin will préach m, 2 evening tho in Templa Chur s T Singamon straets, - 5 COmes ot Mgy of —'The Rev. Dr. Btowell will preach in tr ner of Butterfield and Thirty-sixth strecty. L% Banday-school st 2 .m.“; i, sy —~The Rev. J. vern ‘preach T A ‘munion Church in the morning, on "%fi:‘g‘% r in University Plice Church, and fn Doy Peranco mesking will ba neld - ° T aied —Sacond Church, corner of M 4 A Lawyer’s Reasonin ., the Rev. T. W, Goods e —The Rev, F. will Avenno Ghated cormer of Twhaig bt Tnalet ing subject : “The Tas of Doctrine”; eyey 0> Joct : ** Christ and the Common Peoplen - 8RS ~The Bov. Dr. Chenoy will prech moray, s evening in the Ashland A iy Monres snd Pautiza streats, o B —The Rev. Dr. Mitchell ‘will prosch moryy, - evoning tn the Union Park Bapiist Chureh, ecags Panlina end Wasbingtoa streta. ey The Rar. C. H. DeWolf vill presch m : evening in Emanuel Aissi roon o B SEH A o, comer ot Cony f —Tho Rev. J, O, Burroughs, D. D, 3 tho morning wul {he ReveB B, Afinu‘nmm"u?‘ : et of Yoy § and How to Praaoh;” in the evoing, og g Professton in Contrzdistin Thecry Frofuton 1 ¢ stion to Lha Ty el —The Rev. A. 3, Frost will preach iz tn, strcots, At10:0 &, the Rev. B. 3. Geca, Yoy Aboat mm:"?‘.’fi'fl a peed 0n ¢ Current'y i ing, in the renty-fifth Btreet Chi worth avenua, " ey Tho Bev. P. Biners v s, ing, in Immanuel Church (German), comerof 1= sad Latlin srosts. ! D camesl gy —The Rev. Dr. Felton will preach 10 Grace Churen, cormer of LaSula and Tossit on *The Bigns of tho Times,” Eu;-';.g = Erventng lnhjm;‘!’?"gfg i —Tha Rev, L. Meredith will preach, morgty .evening, in the Oakland Ch s sad Thirtyniath sireta. Rt COmET of Ligy —The Dev. J. O. Peck wil. presch, morning evening, in Ce Chareh, e grening, in Cénicnary Charch, on Monkos i ey gan., Ta. ihe First Ghurch, carner of Clark Rev. Dr. Thomas il morning - on- “ The Heresy Trial,” the Tenneseans will give & sacred coucert, ‘o3 Tho ftov. Bishop Ames wil preach n o s, an e Rev. Dr. Dan ning, w4 Bireet Chara - o 48 the eveaing, In th 1§ —Therawill ba mumg morningand eveniagiy, 0d Fuy, preach i 0 8l ey pestor n the Afl Avenite Chiarch, f CONOREGATIONAL. ! TheTev. Willam Alvin Bartlett will presch iz g moming n Plymouth vhurch, cormer of fadazaun oie and Twentysixth streef. Eventag priu v ca, —The Rev, A. Bushnell will o Stroct Ohizrel i tho morming + b the evczing l“;“ perance m!nuuiwndnc!ed by the ladfes, , —The Rev. L. T. Chamberlain will preach faiy New England’ Church, corner of Dearborn and Way — v. C. D, Helmer evealng fn tho Union Park Charch, o ~Prof, . Fiske will presch in ths morning Prot, Jaimes T. Hyde In tho eventng, a the Ouiheg —Tho Rev. Norman A Willard will presch o and evening n the Wicker Pack Churdt, . 2 = UNTTARIAXN. In Unity Church, corner of Daarborn =nd Whisy -mna Te. Tiobert Collyar will preech tn &4 mor on ¢ The Unita: aith." Inthe wely v tenpocance meeting will be beld, —The Rov. M. J. Bavage, of the Third Chures, ¢ East this avaning €0 stiend the Boston sonivamita 10 bo absent until the 1st of June. The Rav.:Emy Powers and Robert Collyer will prasch for him thar Bunday evenings of his sbsence. Mr. Savigs vf preach thls moruing and Mr, Powers this evenizsa :z:a ml;hlrd Church, corner of Monros sad Iify irocts, v —The Rov. F. L. Hormer, of Quincy, 1L, wilj this marning in the Fourth Ohurch, corner of bu: avenue and Thirtieth street. No ovening servica, —The Rav, Henry Powers will preach this iy In the Chusch of the Measiah, corner of Michigum nue and Twenty-third sireet. Subject: ¥ Soms i sons of the Swing-Patton Trial” No evenisg ra, TNTVERaALINT, Sy The Rav. Dr. Byder will presch this morningfa% 2 Paul’s Church, on Michlgan avenue, Dear mhlg £ street, Bubject: *‘The World Moves” No evesy o _Murray Church, on Prairie avenus, near Treis ninth street, Preaching in tho mornirg by the part, the Rov. W. §. Balph, who will b formally fustalled the evening as pastor of tho church, Sermm by thy Bov. J. E. Forrester, D,D. —Church of the Bedeemagl corner of Washingin and Sangamon strco's. The Rev. J, E. Forrete vl reach in the morning on Presbyterianism va. Whd r. Patterson Call * Universaiism and Othar Erros* - SWERENDORGLAN. The Tiov. T. & Savard, of North Bridgemater gy will preach for the Second Biedenborgian Society i . m., in Murray Chapel —Tho Bev. J. B. Hibbard will preach fa themeey {n New Church Hall, corner cf Eighteenth sirests Pr: rie avenue, sad ‘st 8:30 p, m. in tho Uniow Bl Temple, - Bubject: “Pantecost.” - - © IRCELIASEOTE, . Young Men's Christian Axsocistion ammommoezd! Banday evening, Gospel meeting, condusted by EC Cook;_ 4:30 p, m., moeting in Bailway Readingra on LaSalla street; evening, mesting in Hols Hoe; Tuesday evening, Tyceum. _Christ Church, Beformed Episcopal, corer d Michigan_ovenue and Twenty-fourth strsst, P James T. Hyde will preach in tho morzing. Noms ing service. —Primary Council No, 1, U. A. of Bplritualists,cat morning std svening in Union Hall, No. 18 €1 At10:30 3, in., discussion of the social pri¥esj at 7:30 p. m. 3 lecturs on “ Human Needr.” —Tha Progressive Lycenm meets at 1330785 Good Templar's Hall, corner of Washingtor exd De- piaines atreets. —2forning and ovening services in the Groem Erd Tabernacle. —3frs. Shafeldt, & recent Heantiate of the Yot Church, will preach this evening in the Merbatt Templo, corner of Michigan and Markot strasis. —Tho First Soclety of Spirituslists meets Rred and evening in Grow’s Opera Hall, No. 517 West Y2 son street. . Dr, Henry will Jectura and gl demonstrationa of the truth of Liis assertions. i Chicea bl H E . ) ’ i e —The Adventists mee* mornizg aad their ball, No, 213 West Madizon streef Etder IL. G, McCullock, - -~ —Tho Cheistadelphiins meet this maricg 2% uppor hall of Dylirenturtl’s Business Collsge, S Bandolph st —The Rev. Edmund Belfour will prexch’ & |- morning in Trinity English Lutheran Clurch,exd | of Dearborn aad Irle streots, and in tha rierig S ;- Bethichem Ohurch, corner of Bangamon 4a E trects. v —Eldor Georga G. Mollins will presch thymemiy £ in_the Central Christian Chareh, on Throop &7 near Adawa. No evening gerrios. - & —The Freo Religloas Society will dircusa ths ¢ E: tion, **Ia Man a Religicus Belng?”at thelr BLH & ner of Bxndolph and Jeiferaon streets, this evesi2E, | —Sunday-afternoon Lacture Foclsty, Wallt B corner Adams and Halsted streats. Mrs, Eaie % Dogpett lecturcs to-day, at 3 p.m.o0n padd! ‘Tha lecture will Lo ilastra % —_— CALENDAR FOR THE WEEE. XPI3COPAL, 3May 24—Whit-8unday, 3fay 25—Whit-Mopday. 3Lsy 26—Whit-Tuosday. May 47—Ember-Dsy. May 29—~Ember-Day. - * Bay 30—Ember-Day. ROMAN CATHOLIG e May 24—Pentecost, or Whit-Sundave - - sy 25—Whit-Monday. : May 28— Whit-Tuesdaz. 5 27—Ember-Da; — . i A Pricst Trics a Practical Soke = From the Pull Hall Gazette. o - Itis not often that » prisoner 1% bm‘-‘:ma trial upon the charge laid agamst [-lwl Baronius, when ho appeared before the mbw %t Troviglio, in Lomkbazdy, last week.. TH0 worthy ecclésiastic was sccused of paizd strong emetjcinto the wina whick some 'f‘k, brother priests waro ubout to use in the oei°iE tion of mass, and his only dcfense was he3 wanted to play & practical joko upon ¢wo of ! who had recanily come to Trevigiio. jonged to an-opposite echool, of theclogl, ¥ TFathor Baroniua, who geomed eurprised % application of emetice to religion shozid S caused 8o groat & scandal, thought that il could not convert them ho might at Joast. P20 them, It would have been nscless for pim have denied the main facta of tho sccusality the dcso was so strocg that one of Lhe V“_"‘g was il fora week, while the doctors s Trmc. 3 posaessing but a very elemeniary oW, the healing art, tnonfhz that ke M‘ e peizoned, and submitted him to 50 3e7ere b that he waa reduced to a skeleion. TheoTer priest was charged upcu the double cod! misdemennor sud sacrilago, sad was aenteocsd to seven months’ imprisonment. o SRl A AnIndian Alarm. tonio receutly s bare-h epey = ynith the alsrm " InBa eated ride] rushed farioucly into town J tho Indians wera coming. 1t doesn's take B3, to stir up »_Toxas town when Indins &8 subjact, and very soon_every svailsble fires=3 “ was in requisition, and a company of speedily organized for defense. The mezst: after soeing that the whole town m‘;d e and expectation on tip-too, calmly, IO multitude u‘;n: the Indiw’ln'hcan}l.:nga g’;’m e @ squaw and pappoose. They lock of hnirpmgmlma of the mes3en; ol #hoes. Itwas ail that could be K