Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1874, Page 6

o O st S G, s country at the instance of the British Govern: RELIGIOUS NEWS. Eow to Manage Church Matters in the Suburbs, Prof, Paiton and His Procrusiean Bedstead. the Religious e Comments of Press. T Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. GOMMON SENSE IN RELIGION. Ope of the most sonsclecs things in church anagement is the dieposition in small towns, smong church people, to €60 Up churches rop- resenting the several demominations, even if thore are not more than half 3 dozen membera to man cach one. The doctrino is thay each feith must ect up its Ebenezer, and hope to at- track new converts to its banoers; but the ne'r coaverts do not come; for the reason that the people are lacking to make the converts out of. And €0 cach church, after being organized and started, dreg out s sickly existence. Such things bolong to sectarianiem gone to eeed. Tt ie & work of common senso that tho man- #gcrs of church movements in_somo portions of the country adopt quile = differcnt course. In the euburbs of Chicago, for instance, there is a geueral understanding among the so-called Evangelical churches that, when o suburb is £mal); and ope denomivation has already ob- fained u foothold, other churches shall Tetire aud give up tho field, until its growth in popula- tion shall warrant churches of other denomina- tions. In this way the Copgregationalists bave taken poesession of Ravenswood, for instance, and the people of other denominations who aro there are advised to go to tho Congrega- tional Cburch, until euch time a8 ' a church may be organized ropresenting more perfectly their views, snd which will be likely to be eelf-sustaming. Tho Methodists have possesscd South and North Evanston, and are the ruling denomination, az every one knows, in Evaneton_proper. Highlend Park has been carried by the Bapiists, aud from thst place Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregational- iatn naturally retiro. At Glearos tho Methodists will orgenize » church during the present week, ~ilio first Christian organization iu that placo. ‘As for union churchen, thoy do not genesally euccaed. One at Wilmetts is about to fall to Pieces on wwolnt of tho incougruity of its ele- meute,—the want of harmouy in tho views of the peopue. The only practical union in mall (owLs saems to be for the weaker denominations to Gocugy n subordinute porition in a church manued and maosged by the dominznt chwch. gt iy REL1:.0US PRESS. Tho Juferior devotes s loading editoris}, thres columns in longth, to a roview and criticism of the Swing trial. TLo editor maintains that be- fore the Presbytery could nequit Prof. Swing of Dboresy the followiug three conditions should bavo been eazsfied : Tio lnguago complained of shonld have been shcwn, without violence, to adwit of a favorshie con- struction. We venture to say that the verdict of the Proebyterian Church will bs tuxt Prof. Swing's Tanzusge on nows doctrines will not admit, without a rext deal of violence, of a favoralle construction, e accused must dissvow the slleged eror, Ias he deneso? Not in any surh seuse s should satlsfy the Presbytory. He fs charged with teaching false doc- trines on ike Trintty, Jusufication, end Inspiration. Tl Precbytery shonld have interfogated him in ro- to these doetr: He muust svow his belief in o doctrines alicged to Le tuipugued 7 3o Las not o6 80, Tha Northwestern Adrocate hints that the guescion of ordsining women to the ministry i tho 3f. E. Church witl- almost eurely_como up in some of the conferences this year. It thinks there is danger thatsomo sunual confercnce may take such action s8 the General Conference of 1876 may reverso; and recommendsa con- servative conrse: . Our known position on the woman quettion s by no rrcazs fuconststent with our opinion that, if such an {szue arises, the prosiding Bishop should not ordain the canciaste, but should refer the matter to the General Corference. Thet body Las never given jts consent or even constructive nuthority for sucha proceedure, and we beliova thst if one of our Biehops should or- dain s woman prior to the next General Conference, or even after that sessiou, in the absrnce of apecific suthorization, it will damage the entire “woman question,” and put e wholo iacue in a falue positiun. As 10 the quostion whether it is best to admit women to Annual Conferences,snd consoquently ordain them, 1t will pe tima to debute that pottit when z female can- didate for the itinerancy presents herself. If any Con- ference really withes to mako up an jssuc, it can be ‘Qoue by eclocting a woman to orders with the distinct understanding that the Presicing Bishop shall sus- Fend the matter until the near General Conference £hiall pacs upon the question. At tho eame time, wa Lope no mero sentimentality wiil induce anybody to risk tize brosd question of wozun's relation to huinzn = by precipitating any unzecessary, snd thero. fore, uniimsly, discussion. The New Covenant, speaking of the Swing trial, says : Itds to be hoped that this trial s the key-notoof a now deparire, that shall Inave the old sbominations {13t locate Prenbyteriznism among the forsil remaine of former epochl, Aany, if not most, Presbyterians, have abandoned tbe distinctive doctrines of the Pres- byterian Church. Wby keep the falso fisg still fiying 7 Church and State (the advanced Low Chnroh organ, of which tho Rov. Dr. Smith 18 editor) cditorially eays : e adyocate » policy and administration of the Church adapted fothe nineteenth ceatury and the American people. As b necessary consequence, We can have little symypathy with ritushstic theology or Fituslistic practice. Batwe do not hesitate to say tunt the ritualistic movement possessea enough of this fundzmental trath of Chirlstisity o warrant its ad~ berents In claiming to remein a» & legitimste schoal in the Church, 2nd that #s ecceutriciiies snd grievous deyariures, 28 we regard them; from the normal posi- tion of our Church, are much mors readily regulated aid restrained by other mothoda. than those of re- presaive legialation, The Clurchman, Hartford, says: “No one who truly and fo a broad and Kindly spirit loves the Church, wishes to see it mado uncomforta- ble to any who would gladly stay in it asib is. Thoee who wish to stay in it 1 ordor to change and porvert it silently snd disuonestly, no ono can wish to keep.” =S TN COMMUNICATIONS. TOE “‘TIMES” AND THE REFORMED ETISCOPAL CHURCH. To the Editor af The Chicago Tribunz: Smm: Whot change has come over the spirit of the Times? Last Sundsy's issue of that sheet contzins an_ecditorial on “The Latest Cuurch Orgenization™ that would astonish & perscn it it appeared Soywhere else. Tho circa- Lar proclisities of Andy Johnson, havo taken root afresh, and the Chicago Times has begun to ewing. Hitherto the vials of 1ts contempt Lave been Larled at the Reformed Episcopal Church, and, ignoring the principles of evangelical doc- trine upon which it is founded, it, for some strange reasan, souglit to blacken its foundors, thicking by ridicule to kill the organization. It guflnnv\' i to lllxle conclusion hat that cannot e dene, and e0 tho swinging i 25:d what was ailed by Bioiog oyt Wurated, tlded by the Tirics a8 * no Eaore then & gy the Croton reservolr” in ils effect oo the Protestant Episcopas Church, now appecss by the editorial spoken of, * {o coinmand thejn. terest of & very large portion of the membershi of the Protestant Episcopal Church.” Tt also 18 “the reciplent of a general sympatly,” and then tho old epirit has to crop out zguinist Bishops Curomins and Cheroy. Speaking of the Conven- tion just closed in New York, it says: ** That body bas concludel ita work, aud placed tho zew Charch on rocord os the most liberal of all S e at the ecales hav tho even of the Times, avd it :’;fi,?},’:fifi“‘fi‘, #ca comething more than two very unostenta- - tious Christians, out of whose minds, under the guidance of the Truth, have ovol ki eral Christisnity” it eces fit at m"ii‘mh& raise. It is abeurd for o newspaper to attack ho character and motives of men who are mere- ly stanaara-bearers. Truth baa fusg her anner to the breeze: we rally rommd er, nob the icdividusla who chunce to hold the position of londers, &nd who, s the satisfaction of thoso intercatod, are worthy of that honor. When the zdherents of Dishop mmins and Cheney ses occasion for censure, t will be administered, but o long 1 they are convinced that both these men ars aincers, earn- est, devotad Christians, nntarnished in any par- ticalar, both of them doing s vast amount of goodzhrongh thelr ministorial labor, woula it 04 bo ol for the Chloago Timesto let them slone now that it bas become convinced that the Reformed Church is dostined to have “its in- Huonce " on tho great *‘reservoir” tho mother Charch, and “religious denomiations generally. Tt is curions, (and gratifyiog on the one side) to see the Chnslian spirit manifested by the Times towards Prof. Swing, and the heatheoish abuse of an equally conscientious mun, Diskop Chenoy. How lucky for the Profossor that ho was not an Epiecopal cleczyman, Laviag & charge in the Diocese of Illinois. USTICE. PROF. PATTON'S PROCRCETEAN BEDSTEAD. To the Editor of The Clacavo Tribrme: ‘i Prosrustes had a long and a short bed- stead. When ho capturod & victim ghorter then his long bedstead he stretched him longitudinal- 1y on it, pretending to fit him to its loogth; but when he seized one longer than his short bed, o cut him off to its dimension. Some few religious denominations are very exact—insieting that their members subscribe to their peculiar tenets, without any mental ro- servo : all their number must be just as loog as their ecclesiastical bodstead. Boforo the. union of the Old and New School Presbyterians, some rigid men in the former rogarded the bedetcad of the Iatter as being by far too short to bo called Calvinistic = Presbyterianism. When the first efforts wero made to secure @ unionof thesstwo bodies, many in tho Old School woro vory aoxious toretain their lon[? bedstead —they would bo delighted with the Union, if it ehould be on the condition that all the clerical riombers, at least, should bo required to adopt the Confossion of Faith ipsissunis verbis, ac- cording to their interpretation of it. Tne Old School, plainly secing that no union could be se- cared on such & basis, reluctantly abandoned any further cffort in that direction. Wken tho unton was consummated, thero was no compro- Inise, one party sgreeig to_shorten and the other to lengthen its former docirivel bedatead Zby agresment both to interrret the Confersion of Faith as they had done before. Both bed- steads as such were to be withdrawn from the conjoined body znd placed in the Presbyterian Museum, as relics of its past history ; and, all canses calculated to keep in mind formor bellig- erencies wero to bo romoved. It was tho un- derstanding that no now edition of controversial works between the partics should be published —that the heavy ertillery of such men as Dra. Dauficld and Rice should bo spiked, and all, can- penading of this nature should forever ccase. Tho Union succeeded far beyond the sanguine ex- pectations of its warmest ndvocates, resulting in pesce, frazernal affection, and great prospority. Recently & young Anak of Old School theo- logical proclivitics, aud evidently poseessing & oulitent_disposition, unfortunately discoversd the OId School fossilized formulsted bedstend ; parloining it ho brought it into Chicago Presby- tery, covered with & peculiar quilt of avowed love for sound Presbyterian doctrine of the old stylo. Ho asks permission of Presbytery that ho may compato the orthodox length of Prof. Swing with the length of this stolen bedstead. Soveral Presbyters, at once recognizing that this waa tho Old School retired bedstosd, filled with | Borror, rolemuly protest agamst its beiug har- bored in tho body for a moment. Presbytery, not apprebending any harm, permits the meas- urement. B + Prof. Swing is ‘yflacad by the self-anpointed Inquisitor-General_about midway on the iron rack, 80 that the victim may be stretched longi- tudinally both ways. Prof. Swing, sceing how very far short hocoraes of tho long length of this bedstead, exclaimed, ¢* I am as long as tho New Scbool bedstead; I demand my right to ba measured upon it. Certainly 1t has as good & right to bo brought here a8 the O1d School ono.” The Inquisitor-General denies the truthful e ings of Prof. Swing, aud was intent upon meas- uring by the Old School etolen bedstead. This accuser of his brother made two iron eta- ples, or charges, fixing one at- the head 2nd the other at the foot of the bedstead. Attached to these staples were multitudinous ropes, or epeci- fications, with pullies. At the Liead staple were ‘four cords or ropes (specifications) intended for strozching the victim upward, sud, diclu ! tiven- ty-four cords to be pulled doweward. ~As tho ropes are fixed around the head, body, srms, toes, " feet, aukles, legs, etc., of Prof. Swing, fifteen, ready for the exccution, stand at tha Tarions ropes, ready to pull. But, lo and bebold! A great want of wisdom now is manifest _on_tho part of the Inqusitor-General in arrangiug both the staples_and the ropes, or charges and speci- ficationa.. Moet of tno fiftcen refuse to pull on several of the cords, 8s v.hef' appear £o be rotten— ropes of sand, futile, frivolous, and discoanected with the staples—yet the illustrious oxecutioners, with one or twoexceptions, claim the staples wero well made and drivea. Some of the ropes rejected by tho orthodox puro and_simple were tho following: Socrates, Penclope, Shufeldt, am- bignana.fanguage, Robert Leird Collier, Unita~ rian proclivities, Deiry of our Lutd, justinvatiuu by faith alone, Stuart Mill, five points of Calvin- ism, infant baptism, particutar call to the minis- try, futwre endless punisiment, evolaticn, plena- 1y ‘inspiration of the Bible, Snbellianism, gift worship, eclecticism, imprecatory psslme, good, meritorious deeds, etc., etc. No wonder that several of the dietingwehed fifteen thought It would not stretch Prof. £. much to pull on many of theeo trifling cobweb ropes, and honce many of them were unpulled. When Presbytery decided by an overwhelming msjority thet Prof. Swing shonld mnot bo stratched to the length of the Old School bed- stead; that he was innocont of the uncalled-for charges; that he bad aa goed right in_tho Pres- bytery ns Prof. Patton, or any of its New School membera, the multitudinons voices for his acquittal, loud as mughty thanders roll, wera heard far and near, and good Christians of all evangelical denominations gave thanks to God for the righteous decision of Chicago Presby- tery. The Christian world breathed more fmcf than during the permitted trial. ppore now the New Echool Department of this Prosbytery get their old bedstead ont of the Dresbyterian musenm, snd icsist upon uttiog Prof. Pastton on it, end roduce im to its dimensions, decapitating him and’ sawing of his legs fnr aenough above his knees to 1t ita Iength. Could ho question theright of the Prosbytery's 20 doing after puraming tha course ho has to- wasd Yrof. Swing? Carry ont the principle of Dr. Patton in ignoring the basis of tbe union of 01d and New School Presbyterians, and tho re- sult would be, that where either School should have a majority, it would decide which of tho bedsteads wouid be the measurement. Whers would the union bo under such circamstances ? It this cascis appealed to the Synod and Gen- eral Assembly, and the action of the Presbytery is approyed ana coufirmed by these bodies, or by the highest court, the blessed union will con- tinue evormoro: but should tho Genoral Asecm- bly reverse tho decision of this lower court, it will be the signal for tho Now School department all over the land to take the position among tho tribes of Israel it occupied previousto the union, Who, desiring the progress of Christ's causo and kingliom more than restoring the former status. of a denomination, would not deprocate such an eT~nt? i * “AwmATow Usiratis. B e NOTES. CATHOLIC. The Christisn Brothers have at present eighty establishments in the United States, and they number 1,000, s At a recont consistory the Pope performed tho ceremony of clomng aud . subsoquontly of ro- opening the mouths of tha. new . Cardinale, giv- ing them their ecclesiastical titles and rings. Tho Swiss Government has handod over the time-honored sanciuary of Notro Dams do Ver- bourg to tho Old Catholics. This shrine was one of the most frequented in the Republic. - The Roman Catholic Bishopsof Glasgosw, Scot- land, and’ Hexham- and - Newcastle, Englaud, lLave applicd to the Prussian Government for leave to visit the: Archbishop of Cologne in prison; but bave bep refused. Cardinal Culien, in bis May pastoral to the clergy af Dublin, says: * It is only by the Cross, which triumpliod over. pagan persecutious, that the Church can overcoms. We are engaged in building a nsw-church in which is to be deposit- .ed a-lurgo picce-of the rezl cross on which our Lord diod, given.to mo by His Holiness Piua IX.” The London Times eays the pilgrimago of last ear from England to Franco will be repeated, only its deatination will boLensinateatiof Paray- le-onial. Lens was the placo whero the two groat oxiled Bishops of Canterbury resided, St. | Edmuod snd 5t. Thomas & Becket. Tho pilgrim- 2go will bo led by Canon Tatbot. Tho Tablet says of the representative of St.° Peter at Rome, *'The Fope ifm the Bible muca the same 25 the Judge is to tho statutes,—the guardian and interproter of them, gavo that by | Divino Providence the Pope cannot err, where to efi yrould convalse tho reiigious faith of the world. In the. Roman Catholic Cathedral st Baltimore there aro said to be richer trossures than in any other church in this country. Jeweled ciboriums, gold and etdver chalicss—ail solid—patens and remonstrances, elsborate chasubles, mitrca, copes, dalmatiques, rochets, stoles, maniplos, beuediction seils, 2od orherecelesidstical vst! are caref T¢ in if = macles and nl:xiuties.’ imseyed laila abo The Catholic Telegraph says that if oo Gl Tographaays that It the wow tent of the intention of the framers, it wonld end the existence of the Catholic Church in . that country. It exvels religioys ordera. forbidy the orsction of convents and tho recep ices in those that at present exist. It deoies the right of the Bishops to imposs any spiritual consure for even the worst of spiritual crimes, and the preaching of false doctrine will goun- rebuked. A newspaper which has gathered some statis- tics about Koman Cathohe pilgrimages says there will be ssven groat pilgrmages this year in France. The first, ut the eud of the present mouth, to Romo; the secoud, 1n Juns, to Paray- le-Monial ; the third, in July, to Ste. Aune d'Au- rav; the fourth, in August, to Lourdes; the ftb, in Septembor, fo Notro Damo do la Gards, Marseilles, and to the St. Baume, the tomb of Mary Magdalene; the sixth, in Ogtnbgr, to St. Denis, and the soventh, to Tourain November. Much destitation is rgnmd among the monks snd nuns unhoused by the recent confiscation of ecclesiastical property at Rome. As an instanco, the Catholic Revieto cites the case of the nuns ol the Bapolte Vive Convent, who are of avery poor and very austere order, and wers in such immi- nent danger of bolng sterved to death that it was by 5 mere chance that they wers saved. The poor croatures bad had no food for tvo whole days, for they had no money with which to buy any.’ Fortunately, gomo ladies heard of their pitiable condition and went to their roscue. The peusions accordod to the friars aud nuns, it addw, Bre "rarely, it ever, paid, and as_they do not koow how to work' for & living, beiug for the ‘most part aged, and by their provions habits ut- terly ircapacitatod for & secalar condition, they depend for food and clothing on the pensiona given to them by the Government, and heaven nows they ato small enough, sveraging ouly about 5 American conts per day. BAPTIST. Dr. Lorimer, pastor of Tremont Templo (Bap- tist), Boston, has baptized 127 converts witlun the past soven months. The Baptist Church in Waterloo, Ia., as the result of the recent revival, has roceived sixty baptized convorts into its fold. A Baptist Ministers’ Institute for Minnaesota is to be held at Minneapolis, Minn., July 7, run- ping one weok. Prof. A. N. Amold, D. D., aud E. W. Northrup, D. D., of the Chicago Baptist :al Beminary, will deliver several leo- The Atandard saya Volk, the scalptor, hes roceived the order to place the bust of the Rev. Jeswe B. Thomas, D. D., the former pastor of the Michigan Avenuo Baptist Church, in 3 nicho of that edifice, and will obzy. it is #xid to boons of the artist's best works. B The June meeting of the Chicago Baptist Min- Isters’ Arsociation will be held et 59 Wasiogton stroct, June 8. The programme includes repors of pastors; remainder of Dr. Northruo's paper on the subject “Are Our Necescary Concep- tions of God Trustworthy”; paper by J. M. Whitehoad, * What We Owe Our Profession’; aper by L. M. Woodruff, *Organization of hurch Work ;" paper by Dr. Blackall, ** Church Finances”; Criticlsms and romarks. = Tho Baptists have held, during the past week, their snniversary moeting in Washington, D. C. The Publication Society reports its receipts as $430,854 during the past year. Its oatalogue of publications includes 873 Suuday-zchool library ooks, fifly-two infant-achool library books, cuty-five denominational and standard re- zious works, 362 tracts, and s large -number of more miscellaneous books for use in Sunday- schools, &c. - Besides, it_publishes’ five impor- tant periodicals: Our Lillle Ones, for the nur- sory: The Young Jieaper, the donominational Sunday-school puper; The Baptist Teacher; Tic National Laplist, » weokly nowspaper, ad The Baptist Quarterly, » theological review of great_excellenco and literary ability. The en- isenes of - the Scciety fcr fifty years bave 24,104,465 pages 16mo. Tho publishing Philadolphin. The Buptists are said to be untbrifty in En- gland, &3 & denomination. At the anniversary of the denomination in London last month, the incraase for tho past yoar was shown to be only abont 1 per cent, which is not up evon to the slow growtl of the popukition. This stagnation i attabuted, partially, to the negloct of homo mission work, Of tho 126 Baptist churches in London only twenty-one take up collections for this purpose, and ouly about one in 100 out of a membemnship of 28,300 give anything by porsonal eubscription. Mora than ten times 28 much is raised for foreign a8 for home missions. This state of things recalled to the Chairman of the miscionary society meeting the romark made to him by the Duke of Argyll, that there was great romance in crossing the ses to convert souls, but very little in orossing the gutter. EFISCOPAL. Grace Cathedral, Jows, has abolished pew- wantu and harama s free church. Omaha, Nob., is said to contain more comma- icants of the Episcopal Churcia and a larger attendance upon its eervice than any other city in the oountry in proportion to its popalation. The Bishop of Goorgia, in Lis late annual ad- dress, says : **Idonot think it necessary that the American Ciurch should take any notice of the Cummins movement, The secd of death isinit. Give it time and it must die.” In Ogden, Utah, & town of 4,000 peoplo, nine- tanths Mormons, the Episcopal Church Lastke School of the Good Shepherd, with three teach- ers and 130 scholars. In it the oorner-stome of an Episcopal Church has been laid. Tho Rev. Dr. Dix_was furnishod by the Vestry of Trinity Church, New York, with & handsome rectory. but ho declined the proffer until he se- cured tho old_rectory for & pansh infirmary. The Sisters of St. Mary will conduct it. In Logan, Utah, s town of 2,000 paoplo, pinety-nine-onc-hundredths Mormons, is_St. Jobn's Episcopal School, with fifty Echolars. Turee-fourths of the pupils in Ogden, nd all, withous_cxcephon, in Logan, are Mormons Born. Of the 600 children in daily attendance in Episcopal Utah schools, full thres-fourths #xe Aormon born. 1t in gaid there is & growing movement in the Episcopal Church $o bave the services of the Church fres. To promote this object a socicty has beea formed, embracing some of tho most eminent men of the Church. The colléc- tion is to pay everything,—the salaries, the mu- sic, the relief of the poor, and the misaion work. Each mewmber is to be called upon woeily 28 God has proepered him. The Rov. Church, New York, declates * that the times de- mand not_limitation, but breadth; not pro- scriptivo cdicts, but greator frosdom. Sarely, under all the cirenmstances, the watchword for the hour is * toleration '—toleration to_the very groateat loight and to the vory lowest dopit; {0 Lo vory threshold of medizval oiror, if thoy would, and to the very edge of ninoteontn cen- tury scotarisnism.” Not = stone of tho restored edifics of £, James', Milwaukeo, has boen faced with a chisel. The eotire structure bas been built of siones as they come from tha quarry. Bt.Jamos'is a free churci, without pews, nothing but open benches. A gentleman offered $1,000 to put up a pew, bat it ‘was refused. The church free to ail, without monetary or social distinctions, is its glory. It seats 800. It bas a chima of nine bolls, weigh- ing 10,000 pounds. Attached to each bollis a wire, controlled by a handle. The operator, etending at bis desk in_front of the haudles, plays a merry tune or asad one, a3 he will, from & music-book on the desk. A mecting of prominent Protestant Epincapal® clergymen was held in Now Haven a few days £g0, one of the important _discussions of which rolated to the calling of a Church Congresa. In the dircursion of the question, says a correspond- ent of a New York paper, tho platform of union was of the most comprelLcnsive character; end man as wide apart as the Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Rev. Dr. Da Koven, Dr. E. A. Wash- burne and the Rev. Dr. Soymour, tho Rev. Dr. John Cotton 8mith and Dr. Andrews, the Rev. Dr. H. C. Potter and tho Rev. Dr. Vinton, were ‘named a8 associates in the enterprise. _Bieban Slovens, in his eddross before the Nine#® . Aunual Convention of the Protest- ant e zeoai Church in the Dioceso of Ponn- sylvua:a, rocontly, was very severe upon the Cummius schism. He said : Since Inst we'met in convetion en gysnt has co- cutred which is unprecedeated in tha history of our Church, One of its Dishops has abandoned its communion and transferred, aa he declared, the work and office, which by cousecration he recefved from this Clurch, to snother sphere. That ofuer sphere b1 proved 'to be ths eatablisning of & * Reformed Episcopal Church.” This unfaithfainess to bis thres- Told vows of ordination, this Geedicss rending of the Church of Christ, Lo bas crowned by an act unpare alleled fn the snonls of Christ'a Clurch—the coune- crating by hia single eelf of a lzwinly-deposed clergy- man to the work and oftice of 8 Lishop, Vigorons ef. forta have been mado by this dissffected sect to aspers the purity of our Church and sow_seods of discoutent amid our clergy and lsity. To this end, false- Loods, misrepresentations, pervorsions, ave been re- sorted to through the press and the palpit {n Tefarence 10 our Prayer-Book, our polity, and our legislation, . METHODIST. . Wesloy Chapel, at Des Moines, In., has had an increase of ninety members since conference. The Methodist Home Journal, of Philadolphi: 13 hereatier to be the organ of the Nationsl Camp-Meeting Association. The annual meoting of thie General Commit- tee.of the Chicage District Camp-Ground Asso- ciation willbe Lcld Thursdsy, Juue 4, &t 4 o'clock p. m., on the grot The Methodist Episcopal Bishops, in seasion at Dr. Dix, Reotor of the Trinity- fore the Louisville General Conference. The new Mothodist Church in Romeo, Mich., will bo dedicated to-day, June 1. The Kev. Dr. Ives, of New York, will officiate. The first Protostant Chnrch built on the Pa- cific Cosst of Amcrica, from Capo IHorn to Polring’s Straits, was put up by the Methodists at Oregon City, Oregon, in 1542 The new Methodist Tpiscopal Church in Now Yorit, on Bixty-firet strect, near Third avenue, bad Its corner-stone laid Tucsday by Bishop Janes, assisted by Drs, Curry, Eddy, and Tyng, Jr., and others. The annnal confersnces of the M. E. Church of Canada ba-> = law which requires every preacher to contribute $2 per annum to the Su- perannuation Fund. It is suggested that the next General Conference will probably repeal the law, which does not operate satisfactorily. . PRESDYTERIAN. ) The Prosbytorian General Assembly is ex- pected to leave Bt. Lonis on an escuraon to Deaver, Col., abont June 4. i The Westminster Presbyterian Church. of De- troit, 3ich., dodicated its new chapel May 10. It is 90 feot in length by 45 in width, and will form a part of & very imposngand costly church edifice, 500n to bo ereoted. A Presbyterian Church organized in the Town of Rowley, lows, Aug. 81, during the winter orected & noat littlo chapol, and occupied it during the latter part of January last. Tho membership bas more_than doubled siuco the orgsnisation of tho socicty. The Rocky Mountain Presbylerian shows a bad szate of thinga in_Colorado, in the liuc of religious destitution. It says: Tuo imponitent sonsand_daughters of Presbyterian ministers, cldors, and laymen ate in the Weit and wilhout a preached Gospel. Bhell this atate of things continus?_ Ministers are ready to go, and the Board of Home Misalons to_send them, — Will the Church furnfsh tho money? Brothren n the Ministry, ther are your own brothers and sisiers sccording to the Besh without tho Gospel. Can you know it and not plead with your poopls to remomber their steward- snip? CONGREGATIONAL. Sixty-two members wore added to the Congre- gational Church at Molins, IiL, recenty. Tho Alliance eays : During the past year, the First Congregational Church has given $150,000 for charitable purposes, including the building of their new sanctuary. The corner-stone of a new Congregationsl chareb, to be called the New Bethany Union Church, was_laid at Weshington Heights last Saturdsy. The Rev. Dr. Roy took part in the services. The buildi 40xC0 feet in size, and will cost 84,000. The Boclety is a union of Con- grogationalists, Frec-Will Eaptists, and Episeo- palians. A Congregational Church of nineteen mom- bers has been organized st Barreit Station, on tho Chiorgo & Pacific Road. MISCELLANEOTS. The Amerioan Board have appointed two mis- alonaries to go to Mexico in place of Mr. Stephens, recontly sssasinated. Tho Mornvians have opened & new missionary station in the nortbern part of Labrador. Itis sud that as yet they bave mot with little en- couragement. Arrangements have besn made for holding at Moutrexl, next Octobor, 8 conforenco of the ‘anadiun branch of the Evangelical Alliance, to which tho leading clergymen and laymen of the various provinces of Great Britan and the Uunited Staces have Lecn invited. A religious papcr eays that the Roman Catho~ lic Socicty fog tho Propagation of the Faith has tho largoat income of anyof the missionary socictics. Last {clr it amounted to £1,104,833. ‘This was $15,000 loss than in 1872, when spe efforts wers made, in viow of tho Hfticth auni- versary of the Socioty. A Now Yori p?" says the gallery and upper art of the old Dutch Church, on Fulton &ad \illinm stroots, is to be refitted for the nze of the dusily proyor-meeting. The vacant lots around are to be built on, and the lower part of the church adapted to business purposcs, 8o that by and by this time-honored building will disappear. A printing-press has been set up at the foot of Mt. Ararat. The qnpu is called Whiffs from Ararat. It is largely dovoted to local mattors, 2ud quotes tho price of girls sold for matrimony st from §10 to 2100. The natives beliove that angelic_hosta ere stationed on the top of the mouutain to keep guard and drive away any profane person Who may be dispored to stesl zg cary off any portion of the indestractible The Qootaty far tha Propagatien uf tlts oSTEL recontly held its 173d anniversary, Lord Lyttel- ton in che chair. Tho contributions during 1378 amounted to §551,000. The Socioty Lias provided wholly or in part for the support of 464 ordained miesionnrios, Thoyare thus distributed: Amer- ica and West Indies, 320 ; Africa, 94 ; Asin, 12 Australia and tho Paotfic, 44 ; Europe, 1. Among these are included 45 pative clergy in India. There are also about 822 cutechisis and lay teacners, mostly uative, and 141 studenta in ‘collogos. Tho question of temperancs is now agitated in Scotland, to thie sorrow of the hore:ofore Chris- tian topers. The question whether a brewer is ah’g\:fla to the office of Elder in the Free Church of Scotland has been raissd by three gentlemen counected with that Church st Inverness, who belicve that the basiness of brewing is detri- montal to the best interests of society and the advancemens of religion, and wish tho Free Chureh to raise ita_tostimony against the trade b{ deolaring that a brower, however unimpeacha- ble may ba bis character, or however sound the doctrine he professes, is not fit to sssist in the oversight of & congrogation. Their views are not sauctioned by scksion, Presbytery, or synod, saud they have appealed to' the Acsembly. Acorrespondent of the Boston Journal, writ- ing from Washington, D. C., says of tho churches and their worshipers : . President Grant and_family aro regular attendsnts at tho Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church which is & showy etructure. with s chime of bells an: ‘memorial stained-glass windows. Uunnul Mr. Lincoln’s day the Presidents usod to ‘sttend at St. John's Epis- copal Church, which now numbers smong its congre- gation Secrofaries Fieh, Belknap, sud Kobeson, with their families, and is regarded wn the most aristoératic of worzhip in the city. The Episcopal Church Epipbany has & wealthier congregation, and the forms of the orsice sre thers more sirictly adhered to. The Roman Cutholic clurches aze always well sl tended, and some of the bost familtes aro devout wor- shipers. The siaging at5t. Aloysius, which s under the’ control of the Jesnits, s especially excellent. The Presbyterisns re numerous here, the Rey. Dr. Sunderland belug their. fineat palpit orator, Many New Englanders, including Speaker Blaiue, Senstars Buckinghany, Ferry, and Wasuburn, ¢x-Sonator fom- eroy, Judgo Poland, and M. Dawes, worship at the Congrogetional Church. The old Upitarian Church Exa an spprectative cougrogation under s prencling of the Rev, Frederick Hinckley, Tho leading Baptist churah ia the Calvary, which was buils by Amos Kon- all and rebuili by hlin after it had been destroyed by firo. The Lutherans, who belicso in the unaltercd Augsburg confession, havo seven churches, four of ‘which are principally cttended by Germans,’ The or- tnolox and the Hickeito Quikers have oach their meeting-houne, There i8 3 Now Jerusalem Church on CGapitol 1111}, and the Hebrews heve thoir Synagogue, where thero is servics overy Fridsy oveningaud Sat- urday morning. —_— PERSONAL. curcaao, The Rev. B. E. Manuiug, o recent gradunto of the Baptiat ‘hoological Beminary of this city, ‘has accepted & call to the church at Beaver Dam, Wis. Prof. Mathows, of Chicago University, deliv- ercd the annusl zadress recently-before the literary societies of Crozier Theological Bemi- nary. . The Ttev. N. 0. Westargrecn, editor of the Sandabudet, » Swedish religions newspaper, preached to s large audicnce of Swedes at Evans- ton Iast Bunday. The Roy. C, Wiszcr, pastor of the First Ger- man Presbytorisn Church of this city, went to Now York lnst Monday night. He will be gons about three woska. The Rov. Dr. Luke Hitohcock, Wostern agent of tho Methodist Book Coucern, is in tho city, 20d will remain for s fow doys looking efter the interests of his charge. Tt is said that Prof. Btearns, of Chicago Uni- versity, is abont to resign his chair in that insti- tion to go to South America to tako charge of an educational institution there, - P. P. Bliss, whoee well-known initials stand at the head of o great many popular Sunday-school songs, haa tendored his Tesignation a8 Superin- tondent of the First Congregational Church Banday-school, and, it is understood, has been iovited to take charge of the Sunday-school in the First Prosbyterian Church, wnore he is now leading the singing connected with the Sun- day zervices. s £ __ ELSEWHERE, A Wisconsin minister haa been dismiseed by gl! charch becsuse he built a fire under a balky orse. Bishop Colenso proposos visiting England in August next, accompanied by Jr. Shepstone, theBocretary for Native Affaira in the Colony of atal. : Heresy has raised itahead in the Topeks Pres- Columbus. .Q., Alay 20, unqualinedly approved | byterian Church. Tha Bev, William A. Starrctt, astor of the church in that city, has notified Thie Drosbytory that ho no longer holds to cortain Presbyterian doctrives, and has requestod that his namo bo stricken from the roll. His reguest has beeu granted. The Rov. Willism Full, pretor of the Nora (TiL) Bethodist Episcopdl Church, has been transferred to the Colorado Conforence. - Tho Rev. Stopford J. Rane, late Vicar of Pavonham, bas beon eppointed traveling Scere- tary to the Church of Englaud Temperance So- ciety. Bishop Harris, of the Methodist Episcopal Chureb, has concluded to make a thorough in- spection of the work of the Church in Scandi- navia, and will not return antil fall. . Tho Rev. Mr. Webb, pastorof the Presby- torian Church of Adrian, Mich., han resignod, and accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church, 1n Salom, 0. The Rev. A. J. Leyenboyer, late pastor of the Prosbyterian Church iv Kockford, I1l., has gone to Denison, Texas, to take charge of the Proaby- torian Church there. Tho Rov. J. M. Buckley, pastor of Summer- flold Mothodist Episcopal Oburch, Brooklym, N. Y., racaived a chock for $1,000 to start him in housekoeping with his new wife. A New Haven paper states that tha Rov. Dr. John Hall will succoed the Rev. Mr. Beecher for tho next yoar ss the lecturer on presching beforo the Yale divinity students. Tho Rev. Dr. Nelson, of Lane SBeminary, late pastor of the Pifth Presbyterian Clarch, Cin- ciunati, has preached his farewell sermou in that church, and has gone to reside in Geneva, N. Y. Prof. Edward Judson, of Madison University, who has bsen preaching lately in the Warburton Avenue Cherch, Yonkers, N. Y., is going to Bos- ton for a couple of yeara to pursuc some favor- ite studies. Tho vestry of Trinity Church, Now York, has dismissed the Rov, Alva Wiswell, for sixteen yoars an assistant clorgyman of the parish, be- Causo of an application made by Mrs. Wiswell for s divorce. Tho Rev, F. ¥. Ellinwood, one of the Secre- taries of tho Prosbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, is making arrangements for & trip of aight months to China and Japan, for the pur- pose of visting the missions in those countries. Tho Christian_Union mekea an elaborate apol- og to the Rev. Jobn P. Gulliver, formerly pas- tor of the New England Church of this city, for publishing an allegation that ho wrote the book called, “Law and Ponslty Endless in an Endleas Universe.” , . A New York paper says the Rey. Dr. Armi- tage, of the Fifth Avenuo Baptist Church, New York, and the oldest pastor in the city, keeps a greonhouse in his garden, filled with the ahoicest plants snd flowers. When called to visit.the sick, whother members of his parish or stran- gors, he cuta a bouques, a8 a gift to the aflictad ono. This tender thoughtfulness has been the | key-note of o long and succesaful ministry. ishop Wilberforco, tha late Diacesan of Win- cheater, England, was always sccessible to everyhods, always ready to go suywhere, nomat- tor how obscure the village or how amall its population, always devising how to smooth qver Gifferences and bring his clergy into unity iith ono another. _Young and ambitions men. after staying with bim_a week, would say, * Wel, it that is being a Bishop, I would as soon b & slave.” And tho slave of his diocese ho truly was. Only he gloried in his sla- vory. Tho Bishop of Oxford was but the Rector of Alverstoke writ large. If evor thoro was a man or Bishop who fullled the injunction to enduro hardnoss, and_tbat in many forms, that Bishop was Samuel Wilberforce. i ol s RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. A London Catholic priest has offerod to_say mess once a week for any one who will regularly sond kim the Zumes second-hand, on the day of its publication. The tollowing conundrum is asked by & relig- lous paper: *Iow many of the prayers which aro now made would bo mads if thero was no- body but God to hesr them?" The proselytes to ritusliem says the Soufh Wales Daily Aews, are rapidly and daily incress- ing in Cardiff and 'the neighborhood, while dis~ eenting Protostantiom is withering, snd Protest- antism within the establishment is constantly waxing fainter and feeblor. Ar. Spurgeon, in a recent lotter to the Chris- tian at ‘)70" attributes the remarkable prog- ress of religion in England, in lato yoars, to_tho earnestness with which the new doctrines havo been urged. ey have done battle against the deep-seated prejudices of the people in regard to Popory. r. Spurgeon sayd : It anybody bad told mo_twenty years Witeh of Endor would become Quéen of should s soon have believed it, aa that w have scen such a High Church development ; but the fact is the men were esrnest and _decided, and beld srhat thay belisved most firmly, snd did not hesitate to push their cause. The xge, therefore, gocs to be im- preesed : {t will receive what fs taught by zealous man, ‘whether 1t be truth or falaehood. M. C. Clermont Ganneau, who made the ex- posure of the alleged falsity of the Shapirs col- lection, maintains his general assertions in re- gard to the deceptions carried on in the East in antiquities of all kinds. ‘ Very recently,” he says, I have been offcred, for 10 francs, the vory'seal of *David, scrvant of Jehovah,’ en- graved in hard stoue in Hebrew-Pheenician let- ters, & littlo fantastic, but quite legible. And eomo time ago I was offered a stone covered with characters newly cut, something between Hebrew and Himyaritic! I expect soon to bave the tubies of the Lew and tho yellow Pheenician book containing the correspondenco of Hiram and Solomen.” A correspondent of the St. Lonis Globe, whois a Prosbyterian, says: *I will give s rowacd of $50 to sny ono_who will give the mamoof Presbytorian minister, wha is & member of & Presbytery under the juriediction of the General Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church of the United States of Amorica, who bas, at auy time, reached tho doctrine of infant damnation ; and will give $50 additional reward to any ono who can poiat out any article in the confession of faith or catechism of this Church tenching this horrid doctrino. As infant damnation has been charged upon Presbyterians in an editorial of re- cent dato in the Globe, the above reward is of- fercd for the proof.” The Testern Methodlst says : Chaplain Sunderland, of Washington City, fs s sort of Leavenly wirepuller, He excels that North Pols prager builder, bis predeceasor, Chaplain Newman. 1t seems tliat somewhers the funeral services of Benator Sumner Chaplain Sunderland ventured to ask blessings upon tho oficers of the Governmeat, and then, on the way toward Bosten,to tho burial it curred to the dietinguished petitioner to the throne of grace that he had forgotten the Vice-President. No doubt tho Lord would have overlooked any little omis-. sion like that, but Sunderlond’s prayer was directed to the newspapers as well ar to heaven— indecd, possibly, rather more toward tho press than the throne, And, ruminating upon the look of the thing in print, rather than expecting an answer from: thae nkics, Chaplain Sunderiany telegraplisd horizontl- Iy to Washington City to the printers to type in the Vico-President. Whiether he sent the supplementary petition vorticaily in such & way s to overtake the New Jorusalem message is not knows.” Pishop Korfoot, of Pittsburgh, inalate ad- | dress, thus discourses of the proposed American Prayor-Book of 1785, used by the followern of Dr. Cummins: ‘“Nothing but very groas ignor- Tauce, or a8 gross falsification of history, can explaln the recent and carrent statements made about this book. Tho 1gnorance is palpable and inexcusablo. Tho book never was the *Bishop ‘White Prayer-Book.” It never reccived the first sanction of the Church. It was accepted by only one Etate. Ths deputies were forbidden to chango tho English Prayer-Book, except 80 far 84 civil events required. Novestholoss, revision was azrecd to, Bishop Whito strongly objecting. Dr. White sat in the chair of the l!r adent of the Couvention, and bhad no part in any of the work, or in any chango. Ife is rosponsible only for the Lactionary.” The Dishop enumorates the defects of the book of 1785, end shows that it is **ope of the readiest avonues to Romanism I know of.” Dr. White condemns the uso of the proposed book. He distinctly and peruistently maintained t; the real service and litargy of this Church continued to be the old Church of England Prayer-Book, which, with few altera- tions, was recoguized anow 83 our rich posses- eion in 1789, He evidently had no lovo for that Empened book. Itis wrong, and an ineultto 13 noble memory to call it his book, and & racrilegions nutrath to reprecent;him a8 a model for this (Cummins') separaticn and its doctrines. The Chuich that adopts that book, or its like, will, I fear, before a goneration goes by, lose tho faith of the God incarnate, and of bis aton- ing death, and of this great gift of the Com- forter, the Personal Bpirit of God. The Bishops of England ars fall of charity. They are men “ mighty in the Scriptures,” in the original tongues. There -8 mo orator in England, whether in tho pulpit or ths Houss of Lords, equal to_Dr. Magee, Bishop of Peters- boroagh, an Iriehmau. There is no laborer in England who works so hard a8 Dr. Tait, Arch- bisk of Canterb » Scotchman. There is no Biehop in Englaod or the world who 1s more fuithfully illnstrating in_lsbor, sympathy, large mindedness and self-denial, the model Bishop of St. Panl's Epistles, than James Fraser, the Bishop of Manchester. He is par excellence, the ishop of England's . \When Inspector of the Bchools of Ei be visited this The Rev. 8. McClary, of mont to examice our school system. In 1867 he was Assistant Commissioner for in- quiry into the employment of women and’ children in sgricolture. Fitted to adorn the sslons of tho world and the soirees of the aristocracy, he prefens the simple living of tho carpenter's son, and chooses, like the Master, the company of the poor. To them Le i@ that **friend in noed™ who is the *friend indeed.” Yet bo does not offend, by his manly straightforwardness, the capitailsts and om- ployers. The farmers of tho eastorn counties were willing he shonld arbitrate between them and their Jocked-out laborers, and be judged “ righteous judgment” between tho two. Obloguy and abuse assail him in vain. He tells the farmers plainly what must come of their re- fasing the **just wage" of work, namely, the exodus of the laborors to other lands, where the chzace of living docently is not denied. Ha protests, as he tolls his assailant, tho Countess of Btralbroke, ‘agsinst selfish, extravagant luxury in every form, everywhere, whether among Lancashire merchants or London lntocracy,” and ‘‘ reproves the extravagance t wonld spend the rent of s 800-ncre farm upon such luxury, while neglecting all the pri- mary dutios to the property from which the money comes.” His position as Bighop, Gov- ernment_officer, and membor of the House of Lords, givo immense influence to his wo:ds and acts throughout the Empire. His life has been successful a8 it has been noble, At Oxford ho carried off every prize for which e wss com- potitor. Speaking at Lincoln on Thursdaynight, Mr. Odger said the Bishop of Manchester, by taking the side of the sgricultural laborers, had done rore to sustain puro and practical Chris- tianity than all the sermona which had been preached during tho last twelve months. e DEVOUT HUBNOR. A Toxas railroad Superintendent refused to give a hardshell preacher & pass. The preacher bhumbly remarked ‘that he was mothing but 3 Pook worm of the dust, and the Superintendent replied that railroads never passed worms. A Woatern oxchange saya: *The gift chromo business has reached its sublimest altitude in Washington County. An enterprising clergy- man offera ‘an elegant ehromo’ to every person who 'nhnll not miss one of his sermons fora yoar." We learn from the Territorial Enterprise that » preacher, while engaged in & little gamo of draw-poker, at Balem, Ore., the other evening, moved s litle in his chair, when tho hammer of his pistol caught in his pocket in some way, and the weapon was discharged, frightening the di- vine's opponent so badly that ‘he threw down # throes,” allowing the reverend to rake in a big “pot.” He wants to kuow whbat preachers carry pistols for. % i -Mr. Post, a Wistonsin Cbristlan, went to church the other morning and found Mrs. Behlimgen in his pew. Mr. Post did not follow the plan of some weak-kneed Christians—take snother seat and scowl at the woman through the sermon ; ho took brs. Schlimgen by the ear and yanked ber out of that seat 80 quick it madse every hair-pin in her chignon tremble. Young Amerios, although usually wide.awske, in due timo becomes sleepy, as did hitie Dickey, ono cvening. His grandmothsr put him to bed, and, 88 was her custom, read to him a chapter in the Bible, remarkinz: *“Now, Dickey. I have Tead you s whole chapter, and you mast go to Heopr p “‘ 0, grandma, I ain't sleepy now; read an- other.” Tho old lady complied, and said: “Now you :mmt go to sleop; I have read you two chap- ars.” '« - +No, not yet; read ona more=read * the rub- ber,’ grandma ! What-elso coad the good woman do? Toward the closo of his ministry, Dr. Edward N. Kirk explained the reasons of tha uniform gaod attendance npon the scolal meetings of the Mount Vernon Church: ** One reasonis, I think,” heaaid, “that I nover have scolded people for not coming.” A brother of Knox County, thus prayed during racent service : ** Oh Lord, have mércy on the old gray-headed fathers and mothers with one ft;oit In the grave and the tother no businees out of it A Boston dlergyman relatos as his oarly ox- perience that he cngaged to preach for & socioty for $50 & year. Upon a settlement at-the end of the year he found that the Committee had an item of 20 charged to him for the use of the pulpit to prectico init. One of the deacons, bowever, by way of sympathy for the pastor, presented him a pair of boot-tops. At a Conference meeting in Salt Lake City, recontly, Brigham Young, Jr., explained his sys- tem of praying for his enemics: ‘*I pray for our enemies, brethren, but L always pray that they may go to holl!” ———— CEURCHE SERVICES T0-DAY. CONGREGATIONAL. Plymouth Chureb, Indiana avenue and Twenty-sixth street, Preaching at 10:30 a. m., by the pastor. Tem- perance mass-mecting in the evening. —Union Park Charch. Services at the usual hours. Preaching by the Rev. Ar, Barnes, of Moline, TIL. —Leavitt Btreet Church, Leavitt and Adams streets, Preaching at 10:50 a. m., by the Bev. Mr. Bradshaw, thio Cinton Stres) Churcl, aad 42 730" p. m. by the T, P ilsnd Ghurch, Prof, James T, Hyde will preach. Morning subject, * Christian Growih ;" evening sub- Ject, * How to Avold and Heal Disscnxions.” Welsh Charch, Davey’s Block, Madison street, The Rev, David Wilkams will presch at 10:30 s, . and 7:15 pom. S BaPTIET. Tafon Park Church, _Ssrrices at the usual hours, Presching by the Rev, Dr. Mitcheil. —Fres Communion Church, Loomis and Jackson streets, Services atthe usual hours. Mornivg ser- mon, *True Carelesrnces ;" evening sermon, “ Doiug or Not Dolog as Otbers Do,” —Amity Church, Martine's Hall, Ads street, nesr Madison. Presching st 10:30 a. 1. and 4 p. m. by the Rev. Florence McCarthy, Afternoon subjéct, * Who Was Jesus 17 —Asbland Avenuo Church, Paulina and Monros streets. Services at the usual hours, Second Church, Morgan and Moxroe strects, The Rev. T. W. Goodspeed will preach in the morning, and the Bev. E. J. Goodspeed In the evening. —Temple Chiurch, Harrison and Sangamon stresta, Services at tho ususl hours. “Michigan Avenue Chburch, mear Twenty-third street. Services at the nsual hoirs, —Emanuel Mission, Centre and Dayton streets. The Ber. C. I, Do Wolf will preach moraing and evening. PRESBITERLAN, Reunlon Clurch, West Fourteenth strest, nesr Throop, Preaching st 10:30 a.m.znd 745 p.m., by the Rev. 3. H. walker. uib Church, Elis avenue, near Thirty-seventh stroet, Bervices at the usual hours. —United Church, Monroe and Pauling stecets, The Rev. 8. J. Cazson, Xenis, O,, will preach at 3:50 p. 1. —Grace Church, Vincenncs and Oak ayenues, Ser- vices at the usual honrs, —Ashland Avenuo Church, Washington street, nest Unlon Park. The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach in the morning. ~First Scotch Church, Sangamon and Adams streels. Bervices at the uaual hours. —Forty-firat Street Church, Prairio avenue, Service atlism —Titrd Church, Washington and_Carpenter atrests. Bervices t the ustal hours, The Rev. Dr. Patterson will preach in the morning, and the Rev, J. Chambers, of Edinburgh, in the oveniug. _--—Campbell Park Misslon Chspel, Leavits street, near Harrison. Services In the evoning as usual. _METHODIST. : —Trinity Church, Indinus avenus, nesr Twenty. fonrth strest. Tho pastor will preach at 10:45 . m. polls, will preach at 7:43 p. m Michigan Avenue- Chureh, near Twenty-fourth atroot, The pastor will preach merning snd_avenic, —1Wabash Avente Church. Preaching morning aud evening by the Rev. N. H. Axtol, of Elgia, —Weatern Aventie Cliurch, Monros srrcet, Preache ing Ly the pastor at the usuai hour. —Centenary Church, Monroa street, nesr Morgan. Bervices at the nsual Lom: —First_Church, Clark and Washington strea's, ths Ry, Dr. Thomes will preach morning snd evening 3 in the morning * In Memory of the Late Dr. Haven.” EFISCOPAL, Church of Our Savior, corner of Belden and Lincoln ‘avenwes. Services momiug end evening. Dr. J. L. Bylauce will presch {n the eveniog. —Church of the Atonement, Washington and Robey streets. Sorvices at the usual hours., —Church of the Epichany, Throop atreet, between Monros end Adsms, Trinity services at 10 and 10:50 m.and 7:45 p. m. Safnta’ Church, North Carpeater aad Fourth Trinity servicen at 10:0 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. John's Cburch, Ashlsnd avenue, The Eav. r. 1. N. Powers will officiate, aa usual, S, Peter's Mission Clapel, No. 43 Third veaue. Tha Rev, George C. Btrect, chatiatn. Morningz praser 2£10:30; celebration of the Holy Cummunion 2t 11:30; evening rervice at 3:30. Chureh of the Holy Communion, Dearborn street, between Trenty-ninth and Thirtieth, Services at tha usnal hoars, 1n tho evening tho pastor will preach oo “WThe Superlative Excellence of tho Gospel of Chxiat.” Trinity Chiurc, Michigin avenue and Twen sisth stroct. Bervices at the msual bours, In tiis Toroing the pastor will presch on The Plsce anil Valus of Mystery 1n Religlon.” T8, James Church, Huron and Cass streets. The Rev. Dr. Byiance, of New York, will preach in tne d the pastor n the cvening. strects. - =i Di i m_(um::xi‘hrdnl of 83, Peter and Pau), Washington and Pooria strects. Full cathedral service morning and evening. & . RFFORMED EFISCOPAL. Chist Chureh, Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourtl strees. Bisbop Clcaey will proach morzing and Subjects : Christians at Work " and ** The of the Reformed Episcopal Church and lts i bR R . Fous urch, Prairie avenue and Thirtieth street, The Ber. . E, Eittredge will presch in the morning on “Losing and Finding Humanity,” No evening sermon. Church of the Messiab, Alichigan svenue snd k. Prunhlng in Henry Powem on Methoy 7438 by e, e Cnity North Dearborn and The Rov, Robert Collyer will yrnchlv:h &?‘ g Thero will be no evening sarvice, Timaing, Chireh of the Redeamer, tange ) of the leemer, Han; ton streets. Dreaching by the pastor evoning. Morning sublect : “ Duiversaliy S8 Ad Rollgion,” Tsentag sablect - * T SoulkTighs —St. Pact’s Cuurch, Michigan av i Wiy B g il Bouts 208 Egte Murray Church, Indisma aveuns, mesr Toren niathetrest. Preaching in the mq W. 5. Zalph. 18 byl Trinity Ei m;xchwx: Deatbom ity Eng urch, Dearl Bervices at 11 8, 1. Tho Tiov, E. Dalfons g 'ty —Bothlehem Church, Sinzamon and Chicag P Bervices at T:45 p. m. Tha Bev. E. Beljgerit preach, Wi "The Rev. 5. 8 &!W‘Z‘Dd.flf?olfilk'. Y % s Rev. S, 8. Baward, of North Bridgewser 1y, il presch tor e Socond Swedeaborghsy Sy urray ape] ians aven! e . strect, at 3p. m. I Sneaincing Thus Rev. Dr. Stcwetl wil presen i s Rev. Dr. Stowol reach in th of Biittorfield &nd Thirty-sl5ih atrosts at o, T —Elder Mullias will preach ia tho Central Church, Adams street, zear Jefferson Pack, sty m. Subjoct, “ What Is the Trath 2" s, _Elder McCalloch will bold three sarsices Green Street Taberuacla &% 10:30 a. m,, 3an4 oy The Adventists will meet in thefr hatl, No, 73 hs Madison street, ot 10:30 a. . 20 7:30 B o, Praygy’ ing by Edor Marsion, - = Primary Conncll No. 1 of the U. A, of st Union Hall, No. 181 Sonth Clark street, -%'lgw mdt0pm i Ry —The Progreasive Lyceum will mest at 10 Good Templars’ Hall, corner of Washington sy gt plaines streats. o D —The Kev. William J. Howe will presch marg andovening 3t the First Clristian Charch, Tngd aveaio and Twmeaty- i ireet junday-Afternoon ture Boci comner Adams; kad Halsted Streetn 3 p . ooy - Eeith, on * Possible Bocial Conditfons of the Fajie —The Froe Religious Bociety will discuss thy tion, *Who Are Christians?" at thelr hall, and Jefferson streetm this evening. —Firat Socicty of Spirituallsts have Grow's Opera-House at 10:30 &. m. and 730 p. o el Maxwell will presch in te morning, tad b Henry in the evening. * e i S CALENDAR FOR THE WEEE, FPISCOPAL, May S1—Trinity Sunday. i May June 1—B, V. Mary, Heip of Christiana (from Juns 3§, Gregory VIL, P. C, D. (fnm'f m,z.xu'?fi Maroellinus Peter, and Erasmns, MAL ' June S—8t, Philip Nuri { C. (fram May 25), June 4—Corpus Christi, June 5—Of ths Octave. June 6—8t, Norbert, B. 0. LAKE GEORGE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribume: Biz: Among the most romantic and sitractive of Esstern sumimer-resorts 1s a sheat of watey. situated well north in New York, and known a4 Lake Genrge. Nature and Art ssem to bave united theiy efforts to furnish, in this locality, a field when Lumanlty can excluds ftself from' {hs hurry azd confugion of tho business of crowded cities, and rest undisturbed smid all the besuties of wild scenery, and upon tho gronnds which, but s fex years ago, were 0 closely contested by our forefathers. . Lake Goorgo is about 36 miles in length, with a width which varies from 13§ to Sumiles. B¢ clear are its waters that the white stones aqd glistoning sand of their bed ars distinctly vig- * ble at a great distance below the surface. ¢ On all sides of the lako, densely-timbersd mountains reach their blue summts to the sk, and alops rapidly, and_often abruptly descend, to the water's edge. While passing down the lake, the scenery constantly changes. At om point the mountains seem to extend into the waters 50 far as to complote by block the pus. age ; at another, bold, rocky bluff casts e flection upon the broad mirror in the fore; while at its summit, in the branches of a scrag- gy, dead treo, ia perched tho **birdof Ameriea” =2 bald eagle, i Tradition says that s white man named. | npon being putsued by a band of Indians, bimself overoue of these bluffs, and, croming l i { ] £ 8 the ice, which at that time covered ths iz, teached the opposite wood in safety ; hencs ths precipice is known a3 ** Rogors’ Siide.” Upward of 300 smail islands are scatiered through the lake, many of which are walltime bered, and some improved for the sccommods tion of pleasure-sookers, Thess form the camp- ing-grounds of innumerable partios of bunters and fishermen, who prefer a fos weeks of tha fraedom of tent-life o the crowded hotelash § tho head of thelake. Their preasnco s detecied in the evening, when, after ending the sport with the rod or gun, they ste gathered srouad the camp-fire, reciting the ovents of the daj, of passing tho time with joke and song. All along the lake, and for several milesin every direction, are grounds made historical, and deep interéat to the tourist, by the barde fought battles of days gone b{; Near its head aro the rcins of_the old strongholds, Fort i ism Henry and Fort George. Tic paamng eler, did he know of the sites of thess two forls, £ wonld hardly cast s glance at tho uninteresting heaps of stone which mark their Jocation. Theit ' wal i , which wero designed to protect their in- matos from porder and ball, have yielded to much less formidable instrnments,—the hammery of curiosity-seezers,—and been carried to dif- ferent parts of the country, until visitors have Leen forbidden to molest any of the romainins relics. At the gutlet of the lake stands oX Fort *Ti"—its crumbling walls aull risiz; proudly from the eminence on which they siazd But they, too, are rapidly dluphonnng,':nd in & fow yoars will ba numberad with the things of the past. A short distaoce from the ald forh stand the old earhworks, covered with foresie treas and grass, yet as perfect sa upon the sy when they sheizered & hardy bznd of troops fro the storm of lead which was poured upon them by the opposing party. ‘But what a chauge from the days when thess fortresses and intrenchmonts wers dis| proparty! In the placo of armed bodies of men, contes:ing the ground upon which they iaa free and happy party, enjoying thatwhicd was bought with tho blood of their ancestors) no oar or paddlo, save those of a peacaful et disturbs the bogom of the waters, and no bostili un breaks the silence of the air. Here, frtt rom the dust of crowded thoroughfares, frod the intolerable heat of many Eaatern citiey amid all that can pleass and delight the senses, can the touriat breathe the puro air of hearen, cortemplate the works of Naturo in their besgts, eud praiso Lis God from &n overdowiug hal % OUR FALLEN BRAVES. Wer, grim and flerce, within our land No Jonger rears it head, And gentle Peace, o'ar North and South, Her loving wings haa soread : Then let us lay the {ragraat wreath Orer friend wnd foo ke, And teach our hearts o fes! that each. Foaght as be thonght was right. B For human sight, at bezt, fs short, And little can ve know The workings of the human hears, From whonca its actions fow. ‘We stand upon the border of A future dio, unkuown; ° 7 And those who've gone befors us. thers, ) beir ovn sins most atone. b not, then, the ripcning pesce, Di; Whoso buds of proniise swell, By fceding firos of sectionul hate ‘O'ar the graves of those who foll. Upon the battle-flcld we stood Cantending, North xud South ; And ne'er stood worthler foemen & § H £ ] Tiefors tha cannon’s mouthi. - The struggle, hard snd long, did prove = Tiie metal of tae stock,— Tzat each bravo soldier bad teen nursed And Ispped on Freedom™ rack. Then pause, and drop & silent tear To the mem'ry of the desd ; Nor stop to ask, Whenco cama the blowse' ¥rom whence the bullet sped 7 - Alts ! alis I wo well may weop At victory bonght 30 dear,— Aiilions of homen, mada desolate, Tobbed of thelr life and chee=. Then lot ur, o'er thelr quict graves, Exztend, in their desr name, The kand of Fricndship to our foes— Not foes—our home, their home, the ST Let Friendship's floral incense burn - Alike o'er fos and friend, Nor let one word or thought retard Conciliation's end. 15440 GANSETT, late of Seventh Kansay Camlry, Alcohol ns a Remedy for Barns. Alcorol, recommended by Sydenbam, Las lately been employed by Leviceur, particularly witd children, as the most rapid and effcctive meard of alleviating the pain of burns. The affected part is_either mmply covered loosely with a8 icoholic compression, or is bathed with alcolol, Then the pain ipatan‘ly disappears, but returns aqain whon the application cesses, It must therefore, be continaed for one or two hourd snd then be repeated nt longer intervals, until the reddened epidermis is bleached and shriveled, or until any blisters that may have formed have opened and discharged, which will take place it {from six to twelve hours. Care must . especially where the surfasce to be treated -i8 Jarge, that the vapor of the alcohol does 20} affect the patient. Y