Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1874, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JU 7, 1874, sy cvenings. Wednesday Roberteon’s g;':‘;,;{z comedy, * Home," will be played, 3Ir. fothern 48 Col.” John White, Miss Walton a8 Juey Dorrison, and Mr. Bowers aa Capt. Mouni- e THE ACADEMY OF MTSIC. «Funin a Fog” is by all means the most de- pifal of the rketclies given by the Vokes. It j wildly sbsurd aod fuil of marini; {fun, such as e Yokes know how to dispense. Its popularity e hosn by the extraordinary run of business B fich it has been drawing during the week. Tizo four performances of this piece will average K dut tho same as the first week of the Vokesat S heademy carly in the season. The Dbill for tho present week contains varicty enough Lo "ely eversbody. - Monday, Thureday, ° and iordsy nights the “Bellea of the Kitchen” Sehe mven ; Tuesday night, *The . Wrong o tho Right Place ;” Wednesday eveuing B Baturdsy mativee, “ Funin » Fog.” The f the week will be tho bennfitperfoxmsnca Frday pight, ¥heu, {a addition to ‘ The Wrong e in the Right Place” Miss Rosina Vokes wilpley Nau 1o a familiar farce of that name. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, Tresre at last toenjoy 8 trest to which tho {oveia.of the drema Lave long looked foriard a5 evcut of the greatest poseiblo interest— ferforsenzes of Augnstin Dalv'a famous G2 ireaue Company st Hooley's Theatre. It 1 ot 50 much the Doveliy of tha pieces in which tey play, 38 tho perfection of acting, which has Tor them and the danntless mavager who +ht the members togeiler, a reputation £ach £ 1o dramatic company in thie country or B eland bas eajoyed ‘in many vears. A ‘foiw iabout the membera wmdividually msy not be devoid of interest. Mr. Daly himself is & young man, and has o bis pame Ly £heer enterprise and ability, snd while e hes been censured eometimes for introducing the French sciiool of tho drama into ericsn life, bis most jealous opponents can- A Geny the value of the serviced Le bas ren- dered the modern stage. Hiideas are miage Cicent, and his encrgy aud pradence have aided P in carrsiog them out. His journalistio ex- Tedence, pertiaps, gave Lim advautages which F e mavagers bave lacked. Jr. Daly, a few Senis ego, was the dramatic critic of tho Ferald, and commenced life ase playwright with 3 etartling drama, ** Under the Gasligbt,” which {we bim bis first impetus. Since then pe hes originsted and vritten —many s popular pieccs, among_them “ Divarce,” wMan sud Wife,” *“Frou-Frou.” “Leah the Foreaken,” and “ Folline,” all of which have beea played nuder Lis management with extraor- Giary fuccees His pet schowma was to havo s frst-claes comedy-theatre, and hia prosperity for the pagt five glearn is encouraging to others wdolikewise. Aany of the best artists in che country owe to bim the position they hold before fhe public, among them Clara Blorris, Agmes Eihel, ana the members of his present com- poay. Migs Ads Dyas, the leading lady, is & . Rited. intellectiial Eoglishwoman, and was a freat favorito in London, whers sho made n Bit in The Woman in_ Whito." is sn excellent actress, snd has & distinguo air and atately manner which are yery effective, Fanny Davenport is the daughter of the famous actor EA%AA Daveoport. She is one of the most beautiful women on the stage, snd the favorite of Now York. Sue has, within fhe past three or four months, developed aston- ishing powers £s an actrees, and etartled even ber warmest admirers, Sara Jewett is ycung, 12d promises with experience to become note bhe is & light spintuello being, an excelient contrast with the English stateliness of the lesding lady. Mrs. G. H. Gilbert, it is noedless toremark, is the best * old lady " on the Ameri- an -stage. Such ectors are very rare, and Chicago has the good fortune to possess two out of five. Alice Greyiau deshing comedian, and Nins Varian a verv protty and riging actress. Mr. Charles Fisher is too well known to need any particular refsrence. He has. pluyed at Daly's and Wallack's theatres for many years. He is 2 man of middle age. )y leading man, is a polished ector, and plays sach parts as Geofrey Delamayne and Alfred Adri- anse. James Lewis, the comedian, 1s another actor of so wide & reputation as to render notice superfinous. He bas been with Alr. Daly about £ve years, and has made several great hite, as in ugaratogs,” mnd the latest piece “Moneienr Alphopse.” Owen Farcetta is the low come- disn, Willism Davidge, the best character actor in the country, Georsze Parkes, the juvenile man, s ensy. elegant, and polished gentieman. . John Moore, end Messrs Gilbert and Davan are other members of the company who coutribute to its sirength. Bijou Heron is & marvel. The costumes of the lndies are, of course, the richest worn upon tho stage. The acenery and upholstery will be the best that can bo obtained. To-morrow * Divorce ” will be played. It isun- zecessary to give the cast. It will be repeated Tueadsy night, snd_at the Saturday matinoo. Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturdsy nights ¥an and Wifo” will be given, and Fridsy pight * London Assurauce.” TEE ADELPHL ‘Barnand’s popular burlesque “Ixion” will be pat upon the stago s the Adelphi this weel, ¥ith original music, and some excellent scenery by Mr., Noxon. Mr. Mowes Fiske will play in his ofiginsl partof Minerva. Among the attrac- tions of the pieca will be the Abdallah tronpe of Arsbs from .Femnlem, which performed before this Khedive of Egypt upon the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal, and obtained uni- versal reputation thercby. ‘In muscular and sensational feats they are upequaled. The other novelties are Minnie Gray, song and dence ariist, the Hupgarian ballet, and & host of others. Lolo and the De Glorisns remain. THE CHICAGO THEATEE i2 closed for one week. Mr. Haight has with- drawn from the management, and Mr. Leon do Leon, tho athleta and gymnsst, has taken pos- eession of it. It will reopen 8 week from to-- morrow, with Luln, the grest sensational lady gymnast, as the star. 3 PARIS BY MOONLIGHT. Addstional ventilating faciities have rendered the gallery from which the picture is seen Agreeably cool. This wonderfnl panorama still tnacts numbers of peopls. It is unfortunate that the ventilation was nog provided ealier, 88 ibs. Xm{reninn got abroad that the heat was esdurable. In addition to the promenade con- certsai the exposition, Mr. Mumford has an- other attraction, This is a superb painting by Dubufe, author of the * Prodigal Son.” It representz Don Juan ana Haidee surprised by the return of the Pirate. The latter figure is & marvelous etudy. Space preventa an extended Rotice of this beautiful work of art. gvent of brou; THE CHILDLESS MOTHER. e o e race {n the silence in tyilight's P 02t et 1 shadows, oft and dun. " Bteals like a star my baby's faze. Socking cold ars the world's poor jors,— How poor to me all its pomp and pride! Iz my lap lis the baby’s idle tovs,— In this Yery room the baby died. Tl ehut these broken toys away Under the 1id where they mutely bide; - Ivilamile in the face of the noisy dayy [ Just as if baby had never died. o8 | T will taka up my work once more, 2 Ali!lhnudpmiexhldnda\rn; . Wkowill dream that I ever wore Motharhood’s fine and holy crowa? Who will deem my 1ife ever bors Fruit the sweeter in grief and psin? ‘The fitting emile that the baby wore Outrazed the light of the lofiiest brain, Tl meet him in the world’s rade din Who huth outiived his mother’s kiss, . Who hsth forsaken her love for sin— i L¥ill be spared her pang in Man's wy is hard and sore beret 3 Alny must £all, but few can win, R, dear Shepherd! My lamb is safe,— Balo from sorrow and safe from sin. Fevertheless, the way is long, And teara leap up in the light of the sun. Give '?,{ w‘urld l&rb- cn:]le—!;mg, R S 8 kiss from buby—o: one. Loy Clemmer Ames, > —_—— THE SEA-SHELL. 2158 of the ses, of the flashing epra {he white-winged ehip on its bouns the corat reef, and the sliver strand, Lhe holiow Foar of the enifting sand, H“lmm 1am, *s the same to me,— ‘717 3 w2ill of thie reatless sea. R’y g weY, E (‘n“ many a tale does my moaning tell 1 the mighty ooesn I love 50 well; n.»““ Tropic heat, or in Arctic cold, 0 2 feserteands, or in clties olIdk,”' fireeides warm,—where'er Tmurmns st of the distant eea, In{'?‘ of the wild and treach’rous ses, R mutinous windr, and the Lillow’s gleo; “:6 ehipwreck'd crew in the gnsp of amhl hen Hormas lash the sea with 8 futal breath Jeerever Pm vorne, my soug will be mournful song of the solemn sea. E. H. oo Putlivgion Board of Trade msn got into ™ hi':b" letting his business weigh too heavily fs8 mind the other night. His wife hgard g 20mur in his eleep, * Ella, dear Ei s Vil i tonderly, and ss ler nsme i3 s yatle. she woko him with the bald end of r-brush, and asked him who. “I was 2Xing of Ells Vator,” the wretched man said T\ and chuckled off to sleep again. I LRI Mr. D. H. Harkins, . RELIGIOUS NEWS. How Preachers Are Paid in Chicago. A Criticism of Prof. Patton’s Appeal. The Opinions of ‘the Religious Press, ¢ Their Sentiments Concern- ing Prof. Swing. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. : Church Services To-Day. SALARIES OF CHICAGO MINISTERS. ‘That the Gospel is not-altogether preached to the poor in Chicago, is ' evident from 'a slight glance at the scheduto of the salaries paid to the clergy of the more prominent churches. They whose feet are beautiful npon, the mountains, end that bring glad tidings to the pioneer and the benighted Granger, of whom the circuit-rider is an example, perhaps got selaries ranging from’ €14 per annum to $500 por annum. They lay up jittle treasure on earth ; but hope for sometbing in heaven. e - The ealaries of the pastors of the large metro- politan churches compare favorably with the best stipends attainable in secular life. For mn- etance, men who P Break thelr birth's invidious bar, And grasp the skirts of bappy chance, Aud bresst the blows of circumstance, Ana grapple with thelr evil star— men who grasp the keys of 2 municipelity, or burl the thunderbolts of ‘the law, of give legal opinions, or collect taxes, do not receive more than our best clergy, whether they preach -the doctrines of Calvin, of Jonathan Edwards, of ‘Ariminius, or of Jobu the Baptist. e . CIVIO BALARIES. . For instance, among our city officials, the Magyor geta 4,000; Corpcration Counsel, $6,000 ; City Attorney, £5,000; City Colicctor, £4,000; Buperintendent of Schools, £4,000. THE LIBERAL CHURCHES, As 8 wholo, probably the broad gospel -of the_ Unitarians and Universalists takes best care of its promulgators, aithough not one of its cloray in Cnicago receives o salary as high as is paid fa the more evangelical churches, 80 called, Laird Collier, who, before he went to Europe, received £5,000; and lived in s parsonsge which cost the Church of the Messiah some $32,000, is perhlga as well_provided for as any clergyman in_the city. Robert Collycr receives £5.000. The Rev.: M. J. Bavage. of the Third Unitarian Church. Tocelves a ealary of $4,000. The Rev. Dr. W. Ryder, pastor of St. Paul's Universalist Churc! bas a salary of £4,000. Mr. Wendte, the popu- lar young divine who is pastor of the Fourth Unitarian Church, has a salary of $2,500. ~ THE CONGREGATIONAL OBURCH has perhaps the widest range of salaries, run- ning from the very highest paid in the city, to salaries 8o low that the Home-Misgion Society is called upon to foot part of the expense. The | Rev. Dr. W. A. Bartlett, pastor of the Plymouth Church, is credited with tho highest salary, $7,000. Next comes the Rev. E. P, Goodwin, of the First Church, who reccives 5,000 and the use of a pareonage to correspond. The Rev. C. D. Helmer, of the Union Park Church, re- ceives $5,000. Tho Rev. L. §. Chamberisin, of the New England Church, gets $3,500. Other Congregational churches have salaries as fol- lows : Forty-seventh Strect, 32,500 ; Tabernacle, £2,500 ; _Beiblehem, $2,000; Lincoln Parl £2/000; Leavitt Street, 22,5005 Wicker Pa £1,200. THEE PRESBYTERIANS. Of all the *ortliodox ” churches in this city, the Presbyterian takes the best care of ita pas- tors. The Rev. A. E. Kittredge, of the Third Church, receives £6,000; David Swing, pastor of the Fourth Church, has £6,0005 Mr. Gibson, of tho Second Cuureh, also reccives $6,000; the Rov. Arthur Mitchell, pastor of the First Church, is paid £5,000; the Rev. C. L. Thompson, of the Fifth Church, receives $4,000; the Rev. Bon B.Ely, of Grace Church, gels €3.000; and Arthuf Swazey, of the Ashiand Avenuo Church, Teceives £3,500. . . METHODISTS. In the Methodiet Church, the ministerial sal- aries range from €600 per munum, without & parsousge, to. 4,000 .with & very fair mausion thrown in—the lat- tor boing the compensation paid to {he Rev. J. 0. Peck, of Centenary Church, whils tho former is pai tb & young, unmarried circait- rider, who proaches at the Dickson Btreet Church. The Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Clark Stroet Church; receives $3,500; Dr. McKown, of the Wabash Avenue Church, receives £3,000; Trinity Church pays its pastor, the lev. 8. McChesner, £4,000; Ads Btreet- pavs the Rev, Dr. Dandy $3/600; Grace pays the Rev. C, B, Felton $3,000, with & parsonage worth €1,500 per annum Westorn Avenue pays the Rev. A. Youker £2,5005 the Rev. Mr. Damels, of the Park Avenue Chureh, gets €2,000, it o parsonage. Grant Placo Chnrch prys the Rev. T. C. Clendenning §2,000; Alicbigan Avcnuo pays_$1,800; St Paul's, $1,600; lalsted Street, $1,500; Simpson Church, £1,500; end Forty-seventh —Siroot, £1,000. . THE PAPTISTS. ) There are but comperatively few large ealaries among the Dapiists. The Rev. W. W. Everts receives £5,000: the Sccond Church pays £6,060 to the Goodspeed brothers; the Rev. A. J. Frost, of the Bmversih Place Church, receives £3,000 ;- the Rev. F. M, Ellis, recently called to fhe Michigan Avonue Baptist Church, has not yet had bis salary fixed, but it can hardly be less ihan §5,000, 8 he is yery popular, .and the church offered £6,000to Wayland Hoyt, .wha did not come ; the Rev. John Gordon, of the West- ern Avenne Church, Teceives £2,500. 'Lhe sal- aries paid by other churches range down a8 Jdow 25 $1,000.° THE EFISCOTAL guoRoRES W enerally pay vory good salaries. Among the gzg].\on argny;n: of the Rev. Edward Sullivan, Rector of Trinity, £6,000, which incindes the nse of the Rectory. Dr. Clinton Locke, of Graco Church, has been receiving the same salary. Dr. H. N. Powers, of St. Jobn's Church, is paid 23.000, besides the use of the Rectory. Inquiry shows that theso salaries, Qhou%b large, are usually promptls and fully paid. It is not believed that any Western city can show better care taken of its spiritual guides then is shown by Chicago churches. et st PROF. PATTON'S APPEAL. To the Edtor of The Clicago Tribune: Sm: Your criticism on Prof. Patton's *‘Ap- peal to the Synod of Northera Iitinois” is very just. Sostrange a document from so eminent asource should not paes unnoticed. Permit me, in addition, to say a few words. The reasons for the verdict, as drawn up by Dr. Patterson, in the estimation of some of our ablost lawyers, form & remarkably able, clear, and conclugive psper. Noua few capable and unbissed men ventured the remark, on reading it, that even Prof. Patton would not think of an appesl after having ita conclusive statemonts 80 clearly before his mind. Bot his flfl!arn_llul- tion to convict Prof. Swing hadled him likes drowning man to grasp at straws. Let nagnofica some of thoso straws. ‘V_e find four of them under the head of “irregularities.” The first was the admission of the testimony of the Elders of the Fourth Church when the ser- mons of Prof. Swing were in his possession, and, though called for, were withheld, It was shown in the trial that very many of those sermons bad peen destroyed in the fire; and that one of them, at least, bad disappeared ot the Seminary. probably had been retained sud preached by gome student, who supposed it Prof. Patton's. No attempt was made to show that any of them could be prodaced. The Presbyiery regarded the Elders of TFourth Church, who heard the scrmong preached, 2 capoble of_testifsing regarding them a8 Prof. Patton himsell. He eays the Presbyterry al- Jowed the Modurator to express his opinion, and o vote. The Book of Discipline is far clearer i o cording the Moderztor this privilege than is the Confession of Faith in defining certain doc- trine The oldest members, those most famil- et coclesiastical law, believed he bad 2 Tight to yote. Aato the Elder of the Ninth Church, 0o one hzd the power to prevent bis voting 5o long a8 the church he xeprpmut.ed was regulurly on the roll of churches connected with the Presbyterry. He eays the Elder of the TFourth Churchshould not have voted because be was interestod. There is no rule that would e_xclude him ; and certainly he was as capable of voting as any member, and as much interested ;z;;wunct Prof. Bwing if proved a heretic as any Prof. Patton appesls also because the Presby- tery hastened to a dacision , and would not Wnylt for Lum to get the testimony of Laud Collier, which he considers very important. It is pase- mg_'utuuxe that any man of good sense would have ever thought it possible, in view of the peculiar circumstances of the case, that Leird Collier would testifv if ho were here. It was p’mxnoaterous to think of it. But even after Prof. Patton knew that M-, Collier had published in 5 letter to Tue TRinUNE. thot be shonld **treat tl¢ tummons with contempt,” ho makos this the strong poiuts of Fis snfosl: Avother ground under the hesding of * Preju- dice ” is that remarks were made by more than one member of the Court, favoring a lax sub- senption to the Counfession of -Faith. If Prof. Pation means by this that the letter of the Con- feesion is to ba inaisted on, in. violation of the reunion compact agreed upon by the two com- mittees, and contirmed beyond any question of doubt at Albauy, he might a3 a1l waiiaand, before he goes anv further, that the Now School portion of the Presbyterian Church will never eubmit to it. Dr. Patterson, acting in bebalf of the New School Assembly, anticiputed just such trouble as Prof. Patton i$ now making, and_con- eeuted to the reunion only on the specific as- surance that the theologieal views pecuiiar to the New School Assembly should be tolerated. Wo do not, never have, and never will, subscrile to a literal interpretabion of the Standards, Prof. Patton interpreis tiie standards s tench- ing the doetrina that Clrist died for only a_por- tion of mankind, while wo believe He died for the whole world. Prof. Patton Leliéves thai God from sll eternity elécted a portion of tie humunTace to be eaved without:regard 1o tho question of their frec-ngency,—&. mere arbi- trary’ decres, while wo believe that God elected - the meaus, as well as tho .end; that is io eay, Ho elected that those who were to be'saved, would bo _saved through repentance” and faith. Prof. Patton belioves that, literally, menare tobo eaved through justi- fication by fuith. We abate nothing from the importance of Justification by Faith, but as the Bible, in the words of the Apostle James, and of our Lord too, gives works a befitting place even wrthe ground of justification, we accept their teaching, for we beliove that the whole Bible is the inspired word of God. i . Prof. Patton also objects, that it was afrmed by the defenso, and also by leading members of Presbytery, that the issue befora the Presbytery was one of Old and New School Presbyterianism. ! It'seems hardly possible that Prof. Patton can be honestin denyiog 8o peceistently as he docs that this'ia the real issue, or that it is insepar- ablyinvolved. Has he never read the history of the Presbyterian- Church inithe United States ? Has he nover..inquired into the causes of the disruption_which ledto the organization of the Newchool Assembly ? . Is he.ignorant of the charges preferred against Mr. Barnes by the Presbytery of Philadelphia as drawn up by Dr. Ashbel Green? Dr. Greea says: 4 He," Barnes, */ says,"—"‘ the Atonement was made for all mep. It wasan offering made for for the racs. It had mot respect g0, much ° to .individuala as fo the law and perfections of God. It was an open- ing of the way of pardon, a making forgiveness dopeistent, a presarving of truth, a magnifying, | dnd had nb particular reference to any class of men.” The atonement of ituelf socured the eal- vation of no one, except a8 God had promiced His Son that He should see of the travall of His goul, and except on a condition of repentance and faith. He gid oot indeed endure the penal~ ty of the law, for His sufferings were. not. eter- nal; nor did He endure remorse of. conscionce ; ‘but He endured o mach suffering, bore so much agony, that the Father wus plesesdl to socept of it in the place of the eternal torments of all that should be gaved.” Dr. Green also charges Mr. Barnes with using the following language on Ability, Natursl and Moral: *It is not to soy patt of physical stréngth that this rejection is owing, formen heve power onough in thomselves - to hate'God and their fellowmen, and it requires lees physical power tolove God than to hata Him.”"" Dr.- Green' aleo complains that Mr. Barnes taught that man’s inability was solely in tho will, 2 ' Anotber charge was that Mr. Barnes did not couform to the Standards, and again he quotes Alr. Barnes' language as follows: “ It is not de- nied that this laoguage varics from tho state- ments which are often - made on this subject from the opinion which has been entertained by many. It is admitted that it does mot accord with that used on the same subject in the Con- fession of Faith and other Standards of doc- trine. The grest principle on which tuo author supposes the truths of religion aro to be preached, and on which he endeavors to act, 18, that the Bible is to be interpreted by all tho honest helps within the reach of tho preacher, and then proclaimed us it is, let it load where it will, within or without the circumfer- enco of sny srrangemont of doctrincs. He is supposed to.be respousible not at all for itain- {ringement on any theological syetem; nor is be to becramped by any frame-work of I'aif that has been reared around the Bible. : Another charge was in regard to Justification. +1¢ is not satisfactory,” says Dr. Green, ** that tho sermon of Ar. ]llmza‘ gavs that, ‘Christ died in theplace of sinners,’ that it speaks of the *merits of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ'— *,of the love of Christ,’ of being ‘wll- ing to drop into the hands of Jesus, and be saved by His merits slone,’ of God, *sprinkling 6o the soul the blood of Jesus, and frecly par- doning all ite sing,” ‘“since, says Dr. Green, “this language may be used, and is actnally ased, by some who exphcitly deny that Christ teok the law place of sinners, bore the curse of God's law in their room and stead, and that they aré saved only by tho imputation fo tuem of his perfocs righteousness.” ) Now, who can read the charges and specifica- tions of Prof. Patton, and fail to see that they involve the same leading doctrines in regard to Which Mr. Barnes was regarded herotical 2 The saime also were involved in the charges on which Dr. Beecher was tried. Prof. Patton knew, When ,he drew up those charges and specifics- tions, {hat Prof. Swing could not bo tried on fhem without opening the old sore afresh, and brioging up -again ol the old iseues. It is not manly for him to throw off the responeibility of it. His persistent denial that this caso need not touch the old issues, does not alter the facts in the case, nor will he succeed in making any one believe it who is familiar with the history of our Church. : : Prof. Patton also complains that Prof. Swing a8 not censured by the Presbytery. Neither was he censured for failing to maks good his charges. He also says that * the case wasclear- Iy proven, therefora the vordict of Presbytory was an unrighteous one.” Presbytery, by & very declded vote, declared that the cese bad not been proved at all. Who told Prof. Patton it bad been clearly made ont? Where did he get this information ? Oh, it was his own opinion, very modestly expressed in the face of the de- cision of Presbytery. & Prof. Patton may possibly gain his case be- fore Synod, but be will find when be gets into the General Assembly, with it the men of brains, the men of culture, the men of great Christian hearts, will not be' propared to rend again the Presbyterian Church, or ®rangle over her Standards. . M. WAREMAS. Drspranes, June 5, 1874, il PROF- SWING. The Rev. C. D. Holmer, in the last Independ- ent, says of the Swing trial: Tho intense excitement of the public mind, the wide- spread indignation agaiust tbe prosecutor in the cuse, and the general surprise that such a thing could hap~ pen in the light of this latter half of the century, make this trial remarkuble, There Las bren s smell about it such s the traveler motices in the old cathedral crypts—close, damp, 5Ul estive of antiquity and de- cay. It SR, oo 80 4t of date_that many have Tubbed their eyes and looked, wondering, to eeo hether the sun hsd not, by some miracle, gone back o ceturies on the theological dial. "This, then, clearly enough, istho precise lssue in this ecclealastioal controversy : One party demands a rec- oguition of the law af theological progresa ; the other et only refuses this, but sccusea of beresy'those who mukewach s demand. It is not Prof. Patton and Prof. Swing s0 much 84 it is the ofl and water which ihe reunion of the Preabyterian fragments in 1889 put into ans bottie, with & good vigorous shake to make them miz, but which are Dow eeparating again, according 1o the immutable laws of afEnity, And this trial, un- Jess the better judgment of tha denominations throughout the land gives the boitle auother hearty shake, will be very likely to make two boitles again soem to ba quite desirable, The Adrance welcomes Prof. Swing to the fold of : Congregationalists so soon a8 he shall apply for membersnip, and explains how Prof. ‘Patton's Presbyterian heresy may be orthodoxy in the Copgregational Charch. The Adoance Eaya : : Fut then Congrazationalism has ever held the grand ‘doctrines -of - the Christian faith in a w=y of largeess and cherity, and with a_reasonsble freedom from $igotry and tiarrowness. ‘It lias sleadly fhrown opea the shutters to admit “ inore Light to break forth from Gad's Word ™ fsom the tme o John Raobiason's fa- mous ‘addrees down to the preseat bour. It For " inos been & happy combination of conservatism 233 progrees, It etarted with a gencral uniformity of 2Sroiment in tbe Calvinistic system, set ever souglt P orrect the forms Of etatement td better the ex~ agests, and to perfect the philotophy. s ‘Prof. Swing, in this week's Adcance. writog of the *“ New Duties " of the Charch of the pres- ent time, vavs : It seems the plaln duty of our generation to quichiy aron & Limpla Diatiarce, wad tous frneter g energy of the whole Caurch from the work of mutual comparison and mutual =émiration or depreciation to the sublime external task of feeding the multitude, Any modern eect {3 good enough for the sricked world if it will only eoften its debats and redouble its love; define its dogmas leas, and increase mora ite gi the destitute, and cnlarge its eanctuares, aud cl ita pews. A new church at each cross- is better than o new investigation of the Triuity; and a calm reasoping with the skeplical, a brotherly grasping of their hand, fs the best snd only way of contending valiantly for the faith once delivered unto tho saints, ‘The wonderful 1evolt taking place in the outer world of scicuce and rezcon 8 a loud, ebarp voice &s from God, calling the Church to look away from jteclf over £0 this tumult In fhe wide etrcets, and, if possible, fly to it with the whisper of peace. Orthodoxy may be so studied as to become only cgotizm. ‘The St. Lonis Democral says: & All doubts about Prof, Swing's Leresy are sct at rast by the aunouncement tha he ¢ £oinz on 4 fhing ex- cuzsion to Colorado with Henry Ward Beacher and E. H.Chapin, Tk termous he will freach afeir sleepiny sevoral weeks under the sanie Lianket with {wo snci cicrichl reyrobates will zot bave the faintest tinge of Calviniem Lem, When Beccher was recently asked if he was not 3 Calinist, Le answered that ho was, bat_cxpiained by saying that he Lelleved in_the kiad of Culvinism tbat Juh Oalvin wonld presch if be wers pow living, and bad kept pace with the progress of civilizaton. 138 WEEDEN. 81, CLuIRSVILLE, O., Juns 4, 1674 To the Editor of the Cliics 13 Tribuas ;. Bir: Would thou bLe pleased to give the Quaicer Ageut of the American Peaco Society a quater of a column in thy paper 2 If o 1 will say to Prof. David Swivg, who was tho first one to tell me to ** Go into -the Temperanca Move- ment,” that 1 huvo goue in, snd will help the utriots of Obio Lo fight it outon tho Lne of * No License ™ till the 18th of August. I am Roing to lecture this afiernvon at Lloydsvillo, Suuday at the nest villago, next Monday night 8t & mass-meetiog in this place, and Luesday mght st a massmeeting in Bridgeport, by special invitatioa of Mrs, Dr. Rowlas, the Pros- byterian Secretary of the Ladies’ League. She belongs to the claes of Presbyterians of which "we infer the number is as forty-five to fiftceu among the leading mombors of that denomination in your oity, which epsaks much for temperance, hberty, and peace. Ispoke on temperance aud peace both at tho Quaker vil- lage of Mt, Pleasaut, but the Friends sad, “Thee had better lecture on_temperance for the present.” Ilectured at Wheeling; W. Va., too, but not on peace,—for L beliove in carrying the war into Africa. Tho country is delightfal ou both gides of the Ohio, birds and blooms and corn- rowa areplenty, Warm weather has caused the peace-advocate and temperance crusader to lay aside tho “ heavy overcoat-looking sack,” ehe wore in Chicago lasi winter, and to say to those - who may remember ber in that city, I am glad that the glorious spring of 1874 finds ma in good health and fine spirits. I #m glad I did not ive in the days of Borvetus, but in the days of David Bwing. Mn‘{ the number of the Lord's hosts bo multiplied, and the kingdom of the devil be demolished.” Thy friead, JANE K. WEEDEN. ———— THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.’ The public meeting marking the close of the forty-ninth year of the history of this Society was held Sabbath evening, May 17, in the Broadway Tabornacle Church, New York. . A large gather- ing of friends of the Society, including many rep- resentative men, attended to the close of the meeting, which was * enthusiastic as in old times, the palmy days of anniverseries.” In and around the pulpit were the Rev. Drs. Taylor, dutton, Prime, Ormston, snd Seward, and Mesers. James Brown, William E. Dodge, Frederic Marquand, Stewart Brown, and other old friends of the czuse. The venerable Dr. Tyog presided in the sb- sence of the President, and, after the opening exercises, reverted to the first annivereary, held in 1826, when he was present and made an ad- dress. He said forty-nine years have passed, and never was the wisdom of any enterprise, in its plansand operations, more signally vindi- cated and sealed with the Divine blessing. Every year had established more manifestly that thereisa Churchaboveall churches,a powerabove sltpowers, able to bring aboot results that put to ehame our feeble faith. He greatly rejoiced in that evening's demonstration of this truth at the close of his life. The Society stood ona basis stronger than adamant, and might well blow the trump of jubilee, while it worked on towards a still nobler union of the people of God throughout the land, to be consuminated aronnd the throne of God and the Lumb, Prof. Cyrns Northrup, of Yale College, gave a clear and conviacing address on the value of the elevated and Christian literaturo this Society affords for the promotion of the gospol &od in supplanting the sepsational, immoral, and anti- Christian issucs of the socalar press, Tho Rev. R. 8. McArthur, of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, spoke with great earnest- ness upon the great power of direct perzonsl work in “advancing the cause of God. Christ “ tasted death for every man,” and preached His goepel to individuals. The 300,000 personal ap- Peala of the colportenrs the past year wero s power that could haraly be exaggerated. The Rev. Dr. Johu Hall next epoke, with his usual power, of the influence of the press, with its immenso issues, good, bad, and indifferent ; and of the necessity of this bonevolent Union Hociety to furnish the good. The law of supply and demand would not meet the case. Those who most nooded Christian literature would not seek it any more than infidels would build churches, the ignorant or children organize schools, or drunkards form Temperance Socio- tios. A® the grain from = hundred Western farms, and {armers of many nationalities, pour- ed into a great elovator at Chicago, become one bomogeneous mass—the food and seed for the nation—so_in the issues of this Society tho Christian thought and life of all branches of the people of God combined to form the bread and seed of life for tho nation. Tha vast power of direct personal appesl, and tho secret of success in personal devotion to Christ, were illustrated by doeply interesting incidents, and the audience were urged to consecrate time and means to this work. ‘The Rev.JohnR. McDougall, of Florence, Italy, gratofully acknowledged the valusblo aid render- ed" by the Society to the work of God in his adopted land. He described the wonderful rev- olution which Providence had so quiotly brought about in Rome, after 120 distinct efforts to throw off the temporal tyranny of the Papacy had been quenched in blood and fire. A few years ago not & word could bo spoken or prioted there againet Romanism; now the leading pub- lishers were very ready to issue Protestant books with their full imprint; and a grand building for al1 forms of Gospel-work had been secured and opened under the very walls of the Vatican. The olosing address was by the eImil:nnt Rev. J. H. Wilson, of Edinburgh, Scotland. He Warmly eulogized the Tract Society for the acknowleged superiority of its issues, both in their contents and their style of 1llustration snd issue. He dwelt with great earnestness on the importance and power of such Christian work a8 the Bociety promoted, and seemed impressed with the belief that the United States, with their {ree institutions, their public schools, their vast territory and resources, and the groving pover of Gogpel institutions, were destined to lead the Christian world in the final campaigns against the powers of darknees on earth. He could imagine nothing grander than to ues America and Great Britain laboring side by side under tho leadorship of the Lord Jesas Christ. SDMAARY FOB THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 81, 1874, The Boclety enters on ita semi-centennal year with the feeling that gratituds to Him who has enabled it to exert such & wide and _powerful influence in molding the charscter and history of our nation, requires it to mark this year as eminently a year of jubilec, The whole number of new publications issued from the Tract House during the year was 136, of which 64 wero volumes, "The Soclety ta now lssuing regularly six perindicals : the dmencan Jcasenger, the Amerikanischer Eots- chafier, the Clild’s Faper, and the Morning Ligh monthlies; and the Jliustrated Christiar Weekly an ha Deutscher Fotkafreund, illustrated weeklles. ‘The four montblics are well established and exceed- ingly useful papeis, with an_aggregato circulation (e past sear of over 500,000 monthly,—an Iasue 50 great as £ make them all_neif-sustaining st the low price for which they are afforded. The two woekly papers, in English and German, both illustrated, heve proved very successful, winning {he very highest encomiums for the excellence of the nattor and the beauty of the engravings. The Ilius- Irated Christian Weekly bas now s clzculaiion of over 5,000 coples; the Folksfreund 6.500. Thelr muccess 15 longer questioned by any. The Christian pross 204 the Christan publio have cordially indorsed them s goodand timely enterprises, well planned and most puccessfully carried out. ‘During the year, puliications for circulation ameng the destitute, inclading annuities, have been granted. amoanting 46 £45,661.03, or morethan 63,000,000 pages, They have been mainly distributed through those en. gagéd in persomal effort for souls, and have proved B Siluable suxilisry to pastors, home and foreign rafs- Fionaries, chaplains, Sabbath-achool Buperintendents nd teachers, members of Young Men's Christian As- Sociations, and the colporteurs and agents of ths So- clety. Raceipfs for the year, in donations snd legacles, $143,501.10 ; sales, $391,013.49 ; making, with balance In thie Tressury, and balance for ren:-fusd, $533,391.30. Espended 11 manuficturing books and 'tracts, 21,7 g periodicals, sgencies, and depositories, $90,705.12 ; District Becretaries, $20,051.39 prittions for forelgn aad pagan lands, §7,000; sl other Gxpenses, as by tho Treasurer's report, $35,027.033 Sotal, $551,645.56 ; balance in the Treasury, $345.74, “This year completes the third of a century during which the Soclety has prosecuted Usion Missionsry “by & promotion to tlié Presideucy of the North- Cdlportage. The record of its toils and triumpha are its commendation. Its cearly5,000 Lay preachers have been effictent auxiliaries to the churches, seeking the peopls in their homes, supplying them with suitable Tes them to Christ, inducing them to attend the sanctuary when accessible, and preparing the way for tue organization of chusches in destitute fiolds,” They have been the means of comforting and edifying many believers, and of saving s multituds of souls. During the year 224 colporteurs, including i1 students from 16 colleges and theological seminaries, Laboring in 3 States and Territories, and in the ad- joining_ British provinces. They held or addressed 8,810 religious meetings ; mads. 501,205 family visits; converse personal religion or prayed with 180,524 fumities; found $1,355 Protestant familles Who habitually neglected attending ovangelical preach ing ; 9,684 farailies of Roman Catitolfcs,” 15,300 fami. Ties destitute of all religions books except tho Bible, and 8,503 Protestant familfes without the Word of God. During the thirty-threo years sincs missionary col- Dortage was insugurated by the Society, the statistical results iave been as followa: Time employed equalto the eervices of one an for 53,376 months ; 10,353,637 volumes sold ; 2,750,610 volumes granted ; 369,272 religions meetings held or nddresssed ; 11,820,637 fam- ily visits made; 6,137,899 families conversed wath on perzonal religton, or prayed with ; 1,540,357 Frotestans lical pre 912,269 families of Roman Catholica; 572,761 Pro! families destitute of tha Bible ; 840,697 families tute of all religious books except the Bible. b ol e METHODIST MINISTERS. It is understood that the laymen in Chicago Methodist Churches are longing for the coming of some great men of their denomination to fill the pulpits, if not the shoes, of the great men that have, through one way or another, left Chi- cago within the past few years. They mention, with regret, the namo of Dr. Hatfield, who fired the Methodist heart in Wabash Avenucand Cen- tenary Churches, now traneferred to the Phila-~ delphia Conference. Drs. T. M. Eddy and J. 3L Reid, tirst-class Sulpit orator, were placed by tho last Geueral Confeience as Miosionary Becrotaries and stationed ot New York; Dr. E- O. Haven, formerly President of the Northwestorn ~ University st Evanston, a pulpit orator of no mean ability, was by~ the same General Couference -placed at the head of the Methodist Board of Education, with headquarters also at New York., Dr.J. H. Bayliss, formerly of Tflmg Chureh in this city, \was trabsferred to the Indiana Couference, aad stationed at Indinnapolis ; and finally Dr. C. H. Fowler was practically removed from the pulvit, western Univorsity. Without at all detracting from tho well-known merits of the Methodist pastors romeining in Chicago, it I8 still trus that the Jaity of the city are very generaily looking for some stars in the East that_thes may wor- sliip, or at least to whom thoy will offer tho gift of 8'good salary. PPy, RELIGIOUS PRESS. NORTHWILSTERN ADVOCATE. A correspondent of tho Northucestern Adrocate, .who claims to-bave been behina the scemes in “the late Louisville General Conference, gives hig interpretation of the motives which induced ihat body to vote down the minority report on the relations of the AL E. Church Soath with the AL E. Church, which recommended a course looking towards ultimate reunion. The corre- epondent says: I learn that nesrly all the mifnisters known to the Qhurch twenty and thirty years sgo—the veterans of Southern Methodiam, tho soldiers who have fought on other ecclostastical flelds—favored the minority re- port. But they were overborne by tho majority, Who Becured the passage of & paper expressing their idea, in which paper they enter into an argument; make an appesl 10 tho public; go outaide of the record to say that they are not g to unito with the Mecthodist Epiacopal Church when nobody had proposed it— gratuitously sssigning ressons, etc, Was thisa de- sign to check a tendencyin that direction inthe South? I note prominence given to the idea of dif- ferences—insues, Whatarethey? I know of none but that connected weith the property-question, aud in reference to this there are counter. THE BTANDARD. The Standard discusses the relation of Bap- tists to the State nniversities, and argues that the denomination should favor the installation of ita best echolars in such Btate Universities. Bays the Standard : ‘We can thus have s corps of Baptist instructors in any Btate school. They could give lecturea in history, metaphysica, snd such other departments as bear ‘more especially on religious thought, We would not sk them to engage in sectarian polemica in thelr reci- tation-roome, for that ia not done_in our distinctively Baptist achools, such a8 Brown, Rochester, and Chi- cago. But they could act ax Christian brethren and pustors in the university community. . . . And would not such & Baptist faculty ina Btate university mee? all our denominational desires, 8a well 3 8 sepa~ rate Baptist college? Answer this. ' Can » half-dozen rofessors excrt any influence over o hundred stu- Btnte, in a Baptist college, which they could not ex- ert over them if they all, professorsand students, werc but parts of & State university? Does any pro- fessor in Brown or Bochester oxertn Haptist influ~ ence over hin classes, which he could not exert ina State university 7 That does not look like very strong support on the part of the Baptist_organ of this city, if the scheme to endow the educational institations of the donomination with several million doliars by the comiug of the National Centeunial. Has the Standard * gone back™ on the University of Chicago ? THE INTERIOR. The Interior is_ largely devoted this week to lecturing the. critics of Dr. Patton. It first anawers the New York Qbserver; moxt it warns the Ecangelist that it *cannot afford to give its sanction to broad-churchism;” it tells the Chris- tian Obserter that the Presbyterian Church will nover “quail and temporize.” The Inferior W oats the backs” of the Presbylerian and the Banner for “ standing mpobly by us, giving no uncertain sound.” ~ The Oliristian Leader (Universalist),says the Tnterior, “indicates its ignorance of the Presbyteiisn Church;” it tolls the Liberal Christian that the Synod and Genersl_Aseembly will tell a story wsich that paper will not like. Dr. Patton tells 3r. Boocher, editor of the Ohristian Union, ihet “he hai better save his checks, and not make himself ridicalons,” and finally requests tho Independent *to make its charge (that Dr. Pation is & literalist and insists upon the ivter- protation of the Confession of Faith ipsissimis Terbis) good, or take it back and send along its apology.” NEW ORLKANS ADVOCATE. The New Orloans Advocate, organ of the M. E. Church South, says of the General Conference action on fraternity with the M. E. Cburch: That report s calenlated to guard our own people and others sgainst all misapprehension. We are will- ing to fraternize when the way s made clear, while any thought or possibility of organic union, under all circumstances, fs disclaimed. Delogates to bear our Christian salufations to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church are provided for, and & Commission authorized to meet 3 Commission s0d to settle all existing difficulties. The Churchman says the sad work that the « Reformers” have made with revision inclines the Revisionists in the old Church to let the Prayer-Book alone. Some wished to strike out the word ‘‘servant” from the prayer forthe Presdent because he does not serve the Lord always, Some would not have the minister even furn his back to any of the people, but how avoid it in circuiar chancels or cruciform churches? Some would abolish the cross every- where ss a heathen abomination. There wera ten modifications to the invitation to the com- munion a8 in the Prayer-Book, which simply i invites all who are here present.” The Standard of the Cross insists that candi- dates for orders shall not _only be questioned as %o their theological snd literary qualifications, but that tbe man should be questioned the heartiness with which he means to throw him- aself into his work, and the manly and thought- Zal way in which he has gone sbout his work of reparation. How much hsroism has he ? How old, how ready, how irresistible he is ? Let us think more about what the man Is. Church and State (Low Church) condemns the strong feeling at present existingin certain quarters for legislation at the next General Convention for the Suppression of Ritualism. It affirms that it is contrary to the spirit of the age, and will rouse public sentiment ; that it will be dangerous to attempt o regulate public wor- ship by canon rather thao by rubric; that it will lead to retaliation, and that it will fail in its end. The thonghtful men of all schools appear de- cidedly opposed to modifying the large toler- ation of tne Church under any fea: or spprehen- sion. The Church Journal says of the late Council of the ** Reformed " Episcopal Church that the Stmovement is one of but little consequence to the Church or the country, and it 18 ungenerous to utter one harsh word about these erring brethren. Their own words and doings leave room only for pity and sorrow.” NOTES. CONGREGATIONALIST. The Congregational Church at Jacksonville, 11l., received twenty members 3ay 24, Dr. J. E. Roy ia to give the address of the an- niversary of Denmark Academy, Iowa, June 17. The graduste class numbers eleven. BAPTIST. . A new Baptist Church was dedicated at Ellis Grove, Bandolph County, I, May 10. he Michigsn Avenue Church are very much Jessed O thelr ‘o pastor, tho Rov. F. AL e -The congregstions, withinthe ast week" or two, have been very large, and are increasing. & new interest bas sprung up in the Sunday- £ehool also, and evervthiog promises a new and pro ressive era for the church. The National Anniversary-Meoting of the Bap- tists was held last week at Washington, D. C. Tha Missionary Union reports & total of 3311- 122.45. The report states that tho following named missionaries have departed for their sev- eral ficlds of labor, viz.: The Rev. J. H. Arthur and wife, to Japan the Rev. F. H. Eveloth avd wifo, the Bev. B, P. Cross and wife, to Burmalh; the Rev. David Downie and wife, the Rev. R. It. Wiiliams aud wife, the Rev. \¥. W. Campbell aad wife, to the Teloogoos; Mre. J. J. Lougley. Miss Elizabeta Lawronce, Mies Clara L. Daldwin, Miss Helen E. Wateon, to Burmah. 3rs. Long- ley and Miss Lawrence are under the paironage of the Womnn's Baptiet Missionary Society, and Misues Baldwin and Watson, of the Woman's Bap- tist Miseionary Saciety of the West. The officers elected for the next year are: President, tho Rov. Barnas Sears, D. D., Virginia; Vice-Prosi- dent, the Rev. E. G, Robinson, D.D., Rhode ]alr:]r_ld; :ghu lgon. J‘illt.ni)oolitlle. Tilinois; Re- cording Secretary, the Rev. G. W. Bo: . D., Massachusetis, v I METTIODIST. The New York Adrocale £ava of the 1ste Gen- eral Confercnce of the M. E. Church South: “TIf there must be a now outbreak of interve- cine warfare between the two Method.sms, it should ke a cause of rojoicing on our parc that this state of things is not of our own secking.” The Methodist Book Concern, at No. 57 Wash- ington strest, had a narrow escapo from destrac- tion by fire last week. About midpight emoke was discovered issuing from the building by o olicoman nesr, who -immediately geined en- ance_into the building, and, by breaking open & couple of doors on the second floor, discovered that the fire was confined to a wall adjacent to tho dental rooms of Faller & Harris. A fire-ox- finguisher was brought to bear, and the flames put out, but not till they had ’ birnt a gection outof tho wall from floor to ceiling. Every- body connected with tlhe institution felt that but” for the labors of this faithfal policeman, whose name is still unknown, the M. E. Book Concern wonld have been = thing of tho past. . PRESDTTERIAN, The First Presbyterian Church of Clam Lake, Mich., is to be dedicated to-day. = A baptistry is to be placed in a neéw Presbyte- rian Church to be buit in Newark, N. J. The Rev. John . Sutherlnud was ordained and installed pastor of ‘bo Lighth Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis last Sunday. The Presbyterian Chnrch of Waukegan re- ceived forty-six now members Sundsy, May 24— five by letter and forty-one by profession. The Honesdale Presbyterian Church of Penu- syivanin 16 one of tho wealthiest in tho State, Laving property to the smount of $100,000. The Sixtesnth Genersl Assembly of the United Presbyteriau Church . held its eossion st Mon- month T, last week, This body oppropristed $20,000 t0' build & Colored Normal Collegs ia Tennausoo; it reported tho ' whole smount re- ceived during the year for foreign missious at 259,460.98 ; total amount paid out for the samo during tho yeer, $64,935.9%. The. Board of Charch Extedsion received $19,311.90, and paid out §19,310 during tho year. caTHOLIC, Defalcation bas dovelopod itself in Rome, in tho Treasury of St. Peter’s, its Secretary, Sigoor Fornari, being the defaulter, and the amount of the deficiency being 135,000 francs. The New York Herald ssys: “Tather Damen, g, J., has concluded a very successful mission in 8t. lose’s Chinrch, Cannon atreet, ot which 7,600 communions Wero received, twenty-six converta were reported, and 675 persons were confirmed.” 'EPISCOPALIAN. California bas voted, with the sanction of its Bishop, for a division of its diocese. North Carolina protests against any change in the liturgy of the Prayer-Book, venerable inits | antiquity, snd containing mothing contrary to sound doctrine and Holy Scripture. Grace Charch, in New York City, contributed for religious and benevolent purposes in 1373, the sum of $215,314, aud has for five years given $100,000 per year for outsids benevolence. At the late Council of the Diocess of Missis- sippi, & colored man was elected 8s & delogate to represent the Parish of the Holy Comforter, composed almost exclusively of white poople. Dr. Littiejohn (Bishop of Long Island) thinks that the clergy have fallen into a habit of court~ ing and craving popularity. Ho condomns in strongest terms sensational preeching. A Church Congress will be held in New York City at the same time with the General Conven- tion. This will be open to all the clergy and the Iaity of the land to expréss their viows in an in- formal manner. = Dean Stanley recently added snother to the many evidences that he is in sympatby with the discenting churches of England; pamely, the Enflicipntiou in the dedication of the Rev. Dr. orter's * City Temple,” in London. ‘The Church Journal, after all its anti-ritusl splutter, comes out againet the General Conven- tion snactingany canon against the Ritualists, but ‘merely passing & resolution against certain prac- Hioen. Khe tempor of the Church ia not to nar- row its platform, or sectarianize its catholicity, for fear & few malcontents may secede. Tho Irish Synod has erased the dsmnstory clauses of the Athatasian Creed, and thus tbis explicit and analogical statement of the Trinity is rotained in the Prayer-Book as & profession of the Chrutian faith. This was offected by a vote of both ordors. Ono hundred snd thirteen clergy voted for and 13 against the change, and 122 of the laity voted for sad 26 ngainst. It must be read on Christmas Day, Whitsunday, and Trinity Sunday. Dr. Jobas (Bishop of Virginia), in his last ad- drees to the Btate Convontion, eays: *The Chureh is, in its organization, its Creed, and its form of worahip, what it was when our National Independence Tendered nocessary its separate ocolesisstical existence. It is decidedly Protes- tant, duly Episcopal, and distinctly Evangelical. . .'. Thero is as little icterference with indi- Sidual freedom of thought and action 26 is pos- gible. I know mot where under heaven we could be #o fres to preach the glorious Gospel or have such unrestrained access to its precious priviloges. . . . Fow things have been more encouraging than the racont shout of log- alty for Church aod Book which has risen from all parts of the dioceso, drowning the murmar- ing of & fow (Cumming' men), a8 in the full diapason of & grand orgsn.” BEFORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Cummins, the_Rey. Walter Windeyer, James L. Morgan, snd Benjamin Ayerigg, have been elected delegaten to the Convention of the Free Church of England. The Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng. Jr., has pre- sented the * Chiurch of the Bock of Ages,” Lit- tleton, Cal.,, with & bell for the new stone charch recently completed.. Thomas H. Powers, of Powers & Weightman, Philadelphia, has made the munificent gift to the new church of the expense of publishing the entire firat edition of the revised Prayer-Book. MISCELLANEOTR. The colored people in Baltinora have five Episcopal ch es. Miss Colling, & missionary among the Califor- nia Indiauns, counts 800 converts among them., The Boston Young Men's Chiristian Associs- tion now numbsrs 930 active members, and 1,285 associste members. The Young Men's Christian Aesociation held & rayer-meeting in & cucus-tout at Amherst, iass., & short time 8go. The First Congregational Church of Lexing= ton, Mass., is nsing a Bible that was presented to the parish by Gov. Hancock in 1793 The Reformed Presbyterisns, in seseion at Philadelphia, have condemned, uneqnivocally, the socret order of the Patrons of Husbandry. The new Divinity Hall of Yale Divinity Bcbool will be ready for occupation at the be- gining of the fall term. It is 170 feet in length and 4510 width. Chancellor Winchell. the head of tho 3letho- dist University st Brracuse, has published a Serios of lectures, whose aim is to harmonize tho philosophy of evolution with Christianity. John Bright has written a letter to the British and Foreign School Bociety, in which he ex- presses tho belief that the public opinion of Great Britain is in favor of some kind of re- Tigious instruction in the public schools. An addrers was delivered at the recent annual moeting of the Balfast (ireland) Bible Boctety, in which the opinion was expressed that the world could not be converted till the press, the modern Tower of Babel, is converted. The receipts of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association for the past year wers £43,311 ; the running expenses, £21,906. The As- sociation has assisted soout 700 men to obtain places, and has deposited $1,493in savings banis for them. The religions newspapers are scenting out heresy in cflh other's colnmns. The Presbyte- rian discovers it in the Christain Thnion. because the Iatter does not I;eu": cmmmx:ung"?"{“fl tter jes that othel us %—:de. l:ud lpu;r.::np that even Panl, if he bad Pata™la thess latter days when Old Bchool theology had settled averything, would be hauled np befors s Presbytery on sccount of some Weak pomt in his theoiogical armor. erican Tnitarian Aszociation, af Bos- w::h;;»ofiad the name of the Rev, William J. Potter from the Year Book, becauso he declared that he did not eall bim 0 2 indicates tha tho Usitariaas o not shooss. 10 afilliato with Froo-Religioniats, so-calied. s i PERIONAL. ety CIICAGO. 8 Rev. D. H. Hamilton. is supplyin: pulpit 'of the Lighth Prosbyterian ohus 1 this city. The graduates of the Garrett Biblical -Insti- tuto last week woro W, O. Pect, G. F. Davis George K. Hoover, A S. Tattle, 4 The Adcance sas : * Prof. J. T. Hyda, D. D., of Congregational faith axd practice, donned Bishop Clienoy’s gown, and sapplied his pulpit, on & recent Sunday.” The religions gatherings at Evanston the past weok have called to this city a large number of prominent Methodists from various portions of the conntry. Among those who have beon in the city during the week are the Rev. Dr.J. H. Vinceat, tor of the Sunday-School Journal ; the Rev. Dr. E. 0. Haven, formerly Presidsnt of the Northwestern University; Dr. Aaron Wood ; and the Rev. Dr, O. H. Tiffany, formerly of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago, now of the Metropolitan Church, Washington, : __ELIEWHERE. Cardinal Louis Vanuicelli-Casoni dledin Koms, Ttaly, May 29, eged 73. ‘The Rov. W. C. Keith, a Baptist clergyman, died at his home in Brickwall: Ind., Spl 29, 8ged 55 yoars. ‘The Rov. Dr, J. L. Reid, Sfissionary Seoretary of the Methodist Episcopal Chnurchs, 1 S Chioag ftis wastr, o Clnssh, S gxpecisd James Anthony Froude, the bistorian, nished Holy Orderr, according to the England, Sept. 21, 1572. : The Rov. Dr. Luka Hitchcock, Western Agent of tho Methodist Episcopal Book Concern, re. turned to his home ius Cincinaati last wask. The Rev. Phabe A. Hanford, thelady preacher of Jersey Gity, N. T i6 (o dolivor 8 pocs ot the commencement of Buchtel College, Indiana. ‘ The Rev. W. H. Ryder, D. D., will deliver an address at tho eighth anniversary of the Ero- sophisn Society, of Lombard University, Gales- ‘burg, 11, June 16, _Bishop Jobns (the Low Church Bishop of Vir- ginia) says that ho never met with » single in- stauce of perversion to Rome produced by any oxpressions or practices of tie Prayer-Book. The misled may try to shelter themselves here ° 8s they do under some plrases in God's Word. . But these originate not the error. The Blshop of New Jersey, Dr. Odenheimer, has s1x months’ leave of absence to recruit from . his exhausting labors. Since his consecration he has confirmed 16,000 perions. 'The diocess doclaro that whatfs termed “Ritualism” 13 mainly a question of taste, temperament, and conatitution, and that * Ritual of poature ' finds no warraot in the office of administration of the Lord's Suppor. The diocese has determined upon & division. relin- faws of — RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. The Czar has had presented to him bv the Archbishops of Canterbury and York a Bible trauslated into Russ, by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The pregent Popo ia the 257th Bishop of Rome in succeesion, from St. Peter. He is now in his 824 year, in the fifty-fifth of his priesthood, in the forty-seventh of his episcopate, and the ° twenty-eighth of his pontificate. The work of restoration of Worcester Cathe- commenced in 1864, is just completed at cost of s half million. The building was rededis oated 1n June, 1218, 1od was grestly dsmaged by Crommoll's troops in the seventeenth contury. Inthe quaint old City of Naremburg two Re- formed Chureh pastors were recently arrestod nnd condemned to pey & fine for the crime o! starting the first Sunday-school in the city. On appealing to a higher court, however, they wero acquitted. At Trevitio, Lombardy, a priest has just been sentenced to seven monihs’ imprisopment for a practical joke. He puta atroog ometic into the wine used in the celebration of mass, to punish two prieets with whom he had held sundry dis- putations. Tho progalytes to Ritualism, ssys tho South Wales Daily News, aro rapidly and daily increas- ing in Cardiff and the neighborhood, while dis- scenting Protestantism is witkering, ad Prot- estantism wichin the cstablishment 15 constantly waxing fainter aod feeblor. The Rev. Mrs. Hanaford noticed. while at- _tending Beecher’s lectures to the Yale theo- logiaus, that, whenever ho seemed to upeak in such a way that Jouathan Edwards would have sharply reproved him for laxits of dostrine, tha applause from the students was prompt aad hearty. A man claiming to bethe Messish, has recont- 1y sppeared in Arabia, where bis fame has spread far and wide. Hecame forth from the desert,where he spent many years mortifyiug tie floeh, and he protends to work miracles in proof of his divine mission. He Las s melodions voice, remarkably brilliant eyes, and s fascinut- ing appearance, and is winning followers. Sherkh Husein of Faoury, a Damascas dervish of holy descent, has been discovered to be tha leader of.a band of robbers who have plaudored Damascus residences for many years, He had always been thonght & raintly man, and the belief was only dussipated when o great amouut of plunder was found 1n his house, concaalod in the sepulchor of ono of his ancestors. In the Episcopal Church sarvico, “N™ standa for the Latin word Nomen, name, and 3I," which is an abbreviation of “N. N,” for Aomina, names. In tue Marriage Service the lettora aro roversed, *M" coming firat, and “ N second ; but there they have an entirely different mean- ing, “M™ standing for Alarilus, the bridezroom, and “N” for Nupta, the bride. The clergy of the Church of England are dreading the threatened approach of church dia- establishment. The Rev. J. C. Rtyle, in a recent lecture, said : 1 declare I had far rather see tha Eplscopal estab- lishment upsct, and the Baptiats or Indepsndents made the cx‘ablished Church of England, than to eee the Stute cezsing to recoguize God. 1 had far rather sco our pext sovereign crowned in Westminster Abbey by Mr. Spurgeon, or 3Mr. Binuey, or Dr. Cumming, with an oxtempore prayor, and the Archibishop of Cantere bury standing as 8 private individual in the crowd, than ses our Government turning ita back on Chriel! anity altogether. In the Christian Union & querist asks Mr. Beecher: ‘What can we do for a friend for whom we bave prayed a long time, and all that we can say or do only ‘makes him mors determined to have his own way 7 r. Beecher replies : Nobody likes to live in an atmosphere of inceseant reproof. If you want to win bis heartand melt his opposition do not darken his life by making bim feel, even by your looks or air, that you are groauing over him as 3 mirerable sinner. Make life cheerful to him; make your own love for him a source of joy ; let your plety be full of aweetnesa and light ; show thie utmoss sppreciation of his good qualities, snd be patient, Tzo case, a8 you state it, is not a very bad one. Tne Irish Society of the Episcopal Church of Ireland, in_tbeir Iast report, at their anoual mesting in Cork, present some remarkable facts. The Irish-speaking children under 10 years of age are, in Clare, 8,25¢; in Cork, 63895 in Kerry, 5,017, &c. ‘Tho number of Irish-npeak- ing betwoen 10 and 20 years are, in Clare, 10,467; in Cork, 2L,071, and_in Kerry, '14,896—17,000 in three counties, or 63,000 under 20 years Epesi- ing the Irish language in threa counties alone. Thore were 300,000 persons in these three coun= ties alone speaking Irish, and 30,000 who couid not speak any English whatever. There sra 229 achools in which the Irish alone is spokea. The Church Union, edited by George E. Thrall, formerly an prmfin minister, £ays @ #f the Reformed Episcopalians underatood tha day they are living in, they would frame ali tha materials before them, a servica 8o simple and devotional, and doctrinally corract, a8 to. be ac- ceptable fo all evaagelical denominations; a Jiturgy with nothing about bishops, or contro- Yarted rites ; & manual of worship, and nothiug more, and go with it into the grest universsl Church of Christ ; then they would become s power Indeed. Bat they do not sce this; they are trimming to catch Episcopaliacs. Instead of looking into Scripture to sce what ia proved and established and undoubted, tbey are looking into the old Prayer-Book to see what cau be left outor put in, to make them popular with ths prelatic body they have left; aud so, instead of worlung for the great one Chuzch, thoy are mere- Jy building up an improved rect.” o b i SACRFD HUNOER. QOh! Ma, Ma, Johany's got the urn &ad Iz spilling Pa's s<hes ovor the floor.” **Oh! what » naughty Jobony! Get the foather dustor sl sweep your poor father right up.”" A little boy was recently presented with a toy trompet, to which he became greatly sitached. Ono night when he was about (o bo put in hia Hittlo bod and was resdy to ssy bls prayers, he Bidod his trumpet wo_his graudmother, saying, ¥Here, Gras'ms, you blow while I pray.” 4 WWhere do wicked hittle boys go to who fsh iSeo Terth Page.]