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the morning, and the RELICIOUS NEWS. PresbyterianSentiment on Prof., Patton’s Appeal. Tt Is Condemned All Along the Liqe. The Religions Press on * Elect In~ fants, Ete, Personals at Home and Abroad. Notes and Church Sorvices To-Day. ‘ DR. TIFFANY. It will be good news to our Methodist readera to hear that a committee of Trinity M. E. Church of thiscity has secured fromthe Rev, 0. H. Tiffany, now pastor of the Metropolitan Church, in Washington, D. C., 2 promige to become pas- tor of Trinity in cage the trausferis sanctioned by the Bishop at the meeting of the Rock River Conference next Soptember, and thereis no reason to doubs that the expressed preference of the church will be conceded, as it usually is in the larger churches of the denomination. Dr. Tiffany, as is well kuown, is now pastor of the shurch which President Grant with his family attends, when he attends any church, in Wash. ington. Dr. Tiffany was pastor of Graco M. E. Chiurch; Chieago, up to 1867, and hashad a locg- ing to return to this city ever since he left, as every liveman who has once lived hero bas ; and the desire is reciprocated on the part of thoso who heard the Doctor’s cloquent voice in years that aro past. Net the Methodists alone, but all church-going peopte, will welcomo back 10 Clicago Dr. Jiffany. el = THE SWING TRIAL. The Rev. John P. Gulliver writes & long letter from St. Louis to the Christian Union in refer- =nce to the theological siznificance of the Swing irial, from which the following extracts aro iaken: erods some disturbance, ovidently, smong tho School men of the reunited Presbyturian Church, 1210 the ¢ whereunto this thing will grow ” of the -ent theological controversy in Chicago, Dra, Pat- on, Swazey, and Noyes, in their ‘claborate aud -onsidered dofense of Prof, Swing, distinctly declared thatthis now conflict of opinion is, in ita epirit and arevival of the old-time assaulis upon New theologians which preceded the act of ex- n. Frof. Swing avowed himsclf 5 Now School vary much, I conjecture, a8 Paul, in similar cir- uncea, declared himself * 8 Phariseo and the son Pharisco.” The demand of Dr. Patterion for a sion of the Church standards, s038to conform t¢ir language to that unfversal in our cpoch, has beca 2xtenavely commented upon during the sessions of Assembly in thls city, by Old School men, in a sanner which has repeatedly excited the aiarm of the cpposite party, toeucha degree that it has once or tvlco neatly biirst out, fo the pevlic. Aiscassions. - 1a oue instance only a distinct and emphatic disclaimer on the part of obe of the speakers, Who Was euppoeed 1o refer threatoningly to the tolerance of New School views, prevented an open and spirited robuko of such a violation of the well-settled terms of the reunion. ‘It should b borne in mind by those who wisl to rnderstand the cuse that no direct issue has been mado in the Patton-Swing controversy on any point in dis- pute between 0id and New Schoal Calvinists, The nc~ cusation against Mr. Swing is almost wholly confined to his alleged denial of the nspiration of the Bcriptures snd Justification by faith. On both theso points he has used very loose language, indicating much more a want of _carefulness and precision than any actual error, M the Presbytery of Chicago had in their re- sult noted thia carelesances and alnos: reckicssness of expression, and candemned it, 55 I think they ought to aave doe, and as Prof. Swing's own udmissions Justified them in doing, I Bave the best nuthority for raying, all parties except the accuser would Liave buen sbundantly estisfied, and the whols agitation would Save censed. Asit i, however, the controversy has sxtendedto s general discussion of the standards of ilio Church, aud of thelr correctuess and autbority, fn- sludiug a direct demand from Dr, Patterson especially Ihat they be rovised. Besidea this, the silence of the Ehicago Presbytery cancerniug Prof. Swing’s use of Juch absurd phrases as “ inspired depravity "—the in- Jpirstion by God of 8 b bod pealm snd 3 bad law ™ 28 cwakencd the suspicion that the New Schooi men ¥ere intending to welcome the Broad Church of relig- Jous poets and pious philosophers, with ol their in- aumeruble vagaries, o the old FPresbyterian fellow- 1% is curlous to miote the antecedents of tho fwo men who have stirred up this strife, _They have neither of ibem sprung from the ranks of New School Calvinists, ¥hose responaibility in the case Las been made 80 prompent. Prof. Swing nurtured his beresies in_the Fery bosom of the Old School Presbyterisn Church in Indiana. Prof. Patton is not evenan American, but was born of Englieh parentago in the West Indies, and educated, T am told, in Canada. New Haven is -Iguorant of both af them, and Andover acknowledges them not. This is & heresy with which neither Con- gregationalism nor the New England theology has had «nything to do, The personnel of the two men needs also to be known Iz order to understand the intense feeling which bas heen aroused in Chicago and clsewhero, rof, Patton isa young and unknown mun, only a few years out of the seminary. He is a foreigner. He knows abeolute- 1y nothing of the histary and style of American theo I tical thoughit, or, for that matter, of the thought of the nineteenith century. Bobert Collyer wittliy said of him, that he appesrs tobe o young man, but this Inistake, for he was born on tho fame day with Calviu, and would bo 365 years old on the 0th of 1874, ‘Thiat this anclent tyro should precipitsto himsclf out of such starry regions 18 Bermuda sud Cauuda into ‘mundané sphere of American theology, aad should 3:t s flery tongue firet at such a sty a8 Dr, i¥ler and’ the sintly Miss Smiley, aud absorb the sime avd thought of the great Preshyicry of Brooklyn for weeke with his complaints sud - criminations, and thien, ehooting acroes tho continent into the peaceful phero of Cicago, should commence hissin ibout the head of its ablest and noblest preacher, an tien {ncontinentiy envelope its represcntative journal 1id 14 theological scminary in its lurid coma, and, vithont o pause, should irreverently issuo his burning nvectéve sgainst Dr. Patterson, the veteran of thirty- fnd a vordict sgaipst his victim, and should s out of the Church ils brightest orator and one 07 1ts lovellest mea—that such a phenomenon of ns- susunce, 2nd dogmatiam, and absurdity should appear tv’ threiten to rend csinder the united and harmo- us Presbyterian Chureh, before the Loneymoon of o naptaly is fairly ended, Is an event caloulated not to put too no point upon t—to make ex thad, That ench doings have been borno o . patiently, and spoken of so charitably, aad credited to onest but mistaken convictions of duty ss thoy have Leen by thoke who have een 20 excessively an. nosed by them, is a very rare picce of good fortunc, eui 38 falls to tho Tot of ‘o few men in this hard, con. tentious world. ‘THE XEW YORE ODSERVER. The New York Observer has this to eay of Prof. Patton's sppeal to the Synod: E There are some, it is to be feared, who would bo R12d to seo this case carried up to the S5nod, and then 10 thie. General Assembly, with all the consequences which must {uevitubly follow the revival of discussion aud controversy. Whiat thoso consequences will bo, fs Lnown wholly 16 God only. But it requires no in- tred prophiet to predict many of the calumities of [en I God alooo can tell fo. which sido succesa bo- 0. e cnemies of the church will be ploased to ses the oid sures torn open, the passion of the last. generation stirred aguin, partis formed in evers soction of the hurch, chools of opinion cstabliahed, the oditen, coloqcum revived, noses counted at the meeting of every Synod and Assembly, lines drawe closely, newe. Fapers, reviews, and pampllets filled with fercs Aght V45 be Qoo of cclesasiical bodles mate e asenuss « bitter polemics, and years of agitatios heart- Lrcslong quazrelv i U chuoch. i at wiil Clrist pieascd? That is the i for s to ank oed (0 suswer. A Aoy e Chiurch Lns Just now entered in tho fallng ber Gaited etrength upon tho work of educating sy evangelizing the country and the world, With favor of God most marvelously: ested she has ;‘;: ©on her beautifel garments, and begins to arise and suine, the glory of the Lord being riscn upon her, Peihaps she ban been proud of her greatnes 1a T rudden accession of that strength which unfon givos, She was going forth conquering and to conquer. | At such an hour 10 be plunged, tgain into the Loiling Faters of an ecclesiastical Lierésy trial; to have one of 4ts theologtoal seminaries divided agzinst ftself on & Question of doctrino; its veteran leaders, who have s Liviy aid aside thero anvor and joined hands f peseuul labor for the extension of the Chuzch. Bow 2;&(;5:1: Lo prepare for contict,—this Is indecd & 1t tempt i G only with bumiliation We knaw that thoussnds as trm tians s there are in the world are. ::‘nfl m&__(;'h‘g; matter may be adjusted without invoiving & Thiey feel that truth must bo upheld, bathey o of caso 8¢5 ihist the prosecution of this case Is meoceeary for d Mr, 8 ithdrawing, 3t is certainly possiulo to minke sucy oS ent of the question atissuess to save the 1 from the consequences of a new and Litter ag. n. hnve conversed with ten Presbyterizn clergy- £ hiel: etanding, not one of them in sympathy Witi Mr, bwiug's theology ; some of them the mast ed Oid School men ; and every one of the ed the most earnest wish that the further prosecttlon of this case might be discontinued. They were unenimous in (heir opniop, alsa, that Prof. Pzilon had dieplayed great ability in kis s but bzd fi 10 prove his chiarges. | l rguments, ‘The Church | Iately been ‘would Le greatly relieved and benefited if the sppel- [ Princess G— Iant, having now delivered his own soul, would let the matter drop, $ PHOF. PATTON'S APPEAL. The Evangelial (Presbyterian), roferring _to Prof. Patton’s aunounced intontion of carrying the Swing presecution into the higher Church Courts, says of such a courso : . This js not a prosecution, but ecution, Such long-contimod triuls would b a public scandal, ‘which, ‘Wwe are sure, Frof, Patton would be the last to wish to bring into the Church, But it is very possible for him to bo mistaken a6 to Lis present duty, In the heat of the coutlict he may feel that he {s_ihe champion of the Lord's ost; and that his * congeionce "—a dread- ful word when it is used to Jutity o one's eelf the determination of a slrong will —requires him still to pursue bhis holy war. No doubt those wha sympathize with him will tell lum the same thing. But we tell him {n all kindzess, but yet in all frankness,—as 2 brother and & friend,—thut b bas carried this thing quite far enougl, and thata further continuanca in it will work mischlef, and that only. Anobserver & thousand miles off can sco eome things not so apparent to one op the spot, and it wo muy judge {rom what we bear. tho feeling at the East is universul against this pertinucious continuance in 3 palnful controversy, If we know anything of the tom- per of tho public mind, the feeling of regret s likely 10 give place to te atronger one of disgust. CANADA. The Carleton Place (Ontario) Herald saya: 1t seems to be the impression in Chicogo that Dr, Tatton has the loglc of the situatiou, but that Prof, Swing has the religion. It is another lustration of the old jdea embodied in the fable of {he wind and thesunshine, Dr. Patton’ blast mode tho Prosbytery =hiver, but Prof. §wing's geninl and effukive spirit put them in tho Lest humor, and gave them s new illus~ tration of the power of kinduess, When they heard Dr. Putton, they said, *How smart Lo is!"™ After bearing Prof, Swing, they exclaimed, * Iow sweet and beautiful is Christianity 17 There i no question 18 to the discrepancy between tho Professor’s preaching and the Doctor’s theology, but the practical iasue is whether to alter the Confession of Faith orlot its mout popular preschor go. Tieke aro Lard timoa for the old creeds, and only those which have 3 good deal of gutta-pereba in thelr composition stand tho straius of modern thought and feeling without a deal of rip- ping and tearivg. 3 gt THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. TEE “NORTHWESTERN ADVOCATE,” under the title of *Baptist Sentinels at the Lord's Table,” calls to mind the curious circum- stance that, wherees Bunyan, Robert Hatl, John Foster, Roger Williams, and Bpurgeon are and wero Open-Communionists, yet the denomination in this country is etrongly Close-Communion in doctrine. It comments upon the rapid develop- ment of the Liboral Baptist Union, recently established in Brooklyn, N. Y., to disscmiaato Open-Communion teachings, and thinks the timo has come for Baptists to leave tho question of Open or Close-Communion to the vote of each in- dividual chureh, and thus dispose of the ques- tion, as the Presbyterien General Assembly bas of i woman-preaching question. THE *‘ WORKING CHRISTIAN." “Bball we have a new inquitition #” asks the Working Christian, Br. Tyng's paper, and pro- ceeds to show that we are dnfting in that direc- tion probably : Brother Swing, whoso theology may bo quite {mper- fect, is canceded to be a successful Gospel-preacher, His profescional bretbren in the ssme denomination in Chicago bear witness to his fidelity, But Le ia not Calvinistic enough for Dr. Patton, He must, there- fore, Lo tricd as for mortal ofience, and when fully ac- quitted after exhoustive examination, be threatened with rencwed prosecution, and driven out of tho fel- lowsbip of his sect. Bishop Cheney was depoted for still fess Iack of conformity ; Bishop Cummins, having bouorably withdrawn from the Churel, is pursned with ansthemas with the intent to discredit his minis— terial standing; Dr. Hyatt Smith and his church aro cut off from the sympathy of his immersed brethren for refusing to accept an extreme ritualism; and tho air is rife with threats intimating that screws ar everywhere to be tightened, and individual nunisters and Churches to be forced into sectarinn unity, Thia is the old spirit of the Inquisition. 3ethods are com- paratively unimportant, for the end is the same. D: Tor, eay e, ratk o man's body o death than fortara his'body by casting opprobrium upon it. THE ‘‘ ALLTANCE.” ‘This paper has an editorial on “Elect Infants” wherein it i said : The third point which wo desiro {0 make, and ono from which our indignant brethren can Ly £o means escape, is in these words: *That the Confession of TFaith, instead of being fres from the gross injustico of damning infunts, damns Do other kind af persons. Buch a Eweeping chargo is not based upon any infer- ence, not upou anything which Edwards may have said, not upon any caricature from the pen of come infidel, but it i based upon the elxth section of the sixth chapter of that book, which says that “criginal sin binds over to the wreth of God and makes subject to death with all misorios, spiritual, temporal, and_eternal.” Dut original sin fs that sin which tho infant has living, or dying in infancy, and inasmuch as the Telation of 4n sdult soul to the Ein of Adam 18 the same a8 the relation of an infant to that offcnee, for 1am no more_consclous of that original euting of the apple thun I* was in infuncy, the Con- fession not only damns 2n infant, but dambs an adult in an infantine character. Justead of not teaching tho punishment of little children, becausa of tho tujurtice of such an cternity of puin’ in tho caco of those who bave committed no actusl sin, it puniches adults for s ein of which they hava no possible consciousnesa and towhich they sustain only the relations of an infant soul. The indignation of the brethren is badly Dbestowed over ~the idea of puniahing an in- fant, when *tho fains of hell for ever? arc’ in their book not assigned to “sctusl sin” but to tho original tranegressicn of Adam, By looking into the maiter 3 litle, purbars tho severel 01d School theologiane will discorer why tha Alcthod. ista are not churged with holding * infant demnation,” and why the New School dissents from this sixth article, and why the man st St. Louis would better Dasten to withdraw his rewerds to any who will find infuut punishment in the Presbyterian Church, When tho creed dooms for original sin, the ein of Adam, it leaves no ground for s person Liolding that creed to object to the idea of Infant condemnation, for original £in is what thoge infonta possess, in the Westminster Confesrion, and the Cunfession thus having * formu~ lated” from God's Word tho perfect morit of dunna- tion by every iufant, the Presbyterian Church is bound to confess {liat their distinction Is just, or else re ate its sixth charter and fall back upon Raticnalisin tho Bible, both which resorts are inadmissible, THE ISTERIOR, This paper, under the bead of * Feelsiastical Legislation,” mourns over the_inflictions of the verbose, and eays: The Assembly is a great unwicldy body. Thelr {ime isalways more or lees (generally more) concumed by irrepresaible orators,—ome good, scme gascous,—and the consumption of paticace under such infifctions is in s geometrical rutio to tho consumption of time, Then a zealous brother, with voice thu proportions of which to his brain may bo compared 10 those of & cricket, asgaults the Assembly with bhis Littlo pioce of Iegielation. Ho generally fails, The Moderator, or sore solid old doctor, puts bis broad foot upon Lim, and he isheard in the Assembly no more forever. But it is Dot always so. The gryilidm are rometimes S0 numer- ous that it becomes necessary to throw them some sort of & compromise, 1n order thiat the business of the As- sembly may proceed, and the compromise may contain unseen clements of ' trouble. It ought to bo set down a8 a rule of order that no measura shall be debated in the Aseembly which can impinge upon the rights of conscience or the freedom of the membership, except under a motion 1o send it in overture to the Presby- es. The astronomical editor of tho Alliance has The celestial world, physical, 1s on the vergoofa Bew sensation, Right out of tho cerulean blue, 2 he- rehical comet is said to be fiying, head and tail, straight for tho Presbyterion Seminary in this city, Patton is announced ready, with ianumerable chargis and specifications, to fulminate agaiust the wandesur, as §t 6wings around the perthelion. It is not surpris. ing that be ehould object to such frregularities, but it may b doubted whether his cbjections will provail, THE INDEPENDENT. This paper says : Thero is & reapor whose name fa death to theologi- i reminarles, azd hin othier name i» Cyrus I, Mc- ormick, Th¢ man who drives team for him is Prof, Francls L. Patton. St REWARKABLE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN ST. PETERSBURG. While Mr. Moody avd Mr. Sankey have been stirring the roligious heart of the Scottish Capital, another evangelist hos been preaching with scarcely less success to upper classes in Bt DPetersburg. Lord Radstock, who devoted himeelf wholly to evangelical work sov- eral years ago, has created & very remarkablo religious interest smong tho aristocratic classos, chiefly women, in the Russian Capital. Tho Grashdanine, a St. Potersburg journal, says : **Balls aro forgatten and fine dressos discerded, tho fair owvers haviig taken to loving Christ, and receiviug ipatructions from & modern apostle.” The journal above quoted Bay3 : Lord Radstock has daily received - on the doctrines of Christ. 1fo us also been preach ing in the American chuirch, delighting a numerous female audlenco by rermons on Protestant truth, dee lvered in tho French und English langunges, Where ever hie shows himaclf, at pubiic or private mectings, our Indics ¢ Bim to fe i fezeh them Low to . They o5e gecompanicd by thoir thirat after the spirit ual food they have came to reced adbtock first kneels down, with his Dack b (o prbsid? e treating Christ fo inspire Lim with' fitting Agrs, Then, ising and turning round, o eaye, w1 oy pro,” an injunction which is tnthediatcly Gbeyed by all present. ~ After this ho opens tho Bibl, resdig th) first text upon which his eye hanpeus to fali, and Cor menting upon it in cloquent aad {mpressivo Aniegs The ladies are gradually excited to the highest piier o religious onthusiosm. As they sit wesping. befove Liay, they resemble 80 many Leathen women admitteq 1o tlie first krowledgo of Carist by the powerful teschs ing of St Paul. The cloae of the discourse is marked Ly loud sobbings. The fair devoters rico from their £eats, aud crowding around tho evangelist Lord, thank bira o paslonate termo s for ehowing them the 'wur of ! 4 Shepoon 204 directing them aud helr ehildren Tho same paper reports remarks which have mado by Aowe of the noblo Jadies. exclaimed: “1 only now kuow into | ostanism.” gll’n'ncees DP—— declared : “ Prot- estanism is the only religion I ever underatocd. It is beeed upon love, not upon rite and core- monv, s is onrs.”” These declarations are re- ported by the Russian paper to be ridiculed. Tho Grashdanine gays of Lord Radstock ; He is onoof those gentlemen of Weatern Etrope who, living in a community without any frm belief, Tias by his own myatic entiusiasm And. fapaticiam ent deavored to make up far the want, and enter into a personal and altogether fantastio ‘relation to Ghrist. Huving thus prepared himeolf for his postolic oflice, the nobie Lord has opened a sort of lostelsy, where direct iniercourse with CLrist, as he calls it, i3 vouvh- safed o every camer, P PRESBYTERIAN UNION. At the Genera! Synod of the Reformed Church, held in Poughkeapsie, N. Y., a committoe re- ported & plan of union between that body and the Presbyterian bodies North and South. Tha Committes rocommend, with rogard to the Pres- byterian Church South, that a committes of two shall represent each body in the Genernl Assem- Dlies of the other; that s vacant congrogation ehall bo at liberty to call & minister from either of the churches, according to the order estab- lished in that church to which he may be called ; and ho ehail conform to the order of the church to which ho is transferred. Where particular churches of cituer body are in locations much more convenient for a connoction with a Classis or Prosbytery belonging to tho other, it is recom- mended to tuem to scek n transfer in Buch & way as shall ba in conformity with tho regulations of both denominations. And whenever it may bo deomed advisablo for studeats of theology of cither body to pursuse their studies in institutions of the other, it will ba rogarded with hearty ap- probation by both. And students who havo pur- sued & full course of study in the theological eeminaries of either Church shall bo placed on oo equal footing before tho Presbyterios and Classes of the othor. The Committce a 180 recommend that thero be no separate denominational interests in for- cign migeion fields. The plan suggests that each body, 8 far as possible, act as dopositories for the other. No plan of union was perfocted with the Church North. The Conference Com- mittees of tho two Churchos, Lowaver, agreed upon tho desirableness of tho union, but think the time has not yot como to press that rosult ; that any union should be 80 arrayed that the two roots of the common Church should remain per- manently visiblo. A minority of tho Committea of the Synod roported against the advisability of uy union. —i, NOTES. EPISCOPAL. The old Whatcoat Methodist Church of Balti. more has been purchased for St. George's Church. The eminent jurist Sumner U.Shearman, of Rhcde fsland, Las been admitiod to orders by Bishop Clark. g The Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of Boston, has been called to Dr. Sabine's parieh, which remains loyal to the Old Church. The Rev. Dr. Clover, an Episcopalian clorgy- man, delivered an eloquent protest against the ritualistic tendencies of the Church, in Green- bush, N. Y., & short time ago. The Working Church says some of the leaders in the Protestant Episcopa) Church are now try- ing to lock the door after the borsoe is stolen, by abolishing certain Ritualistic practices. The Rev. Stophen H. Tyng recently avowed his eympathy with the Reformed Episcopal Church, and it is thought that be will join the movement at somo period in the future. In pddition to the seven churches belonging to Trinity Parieh, New York, thero aro_eightecn which receive aid from that ‘parish in the shaps of sonusl donations and coutributions to their support. The Convention voted to pay Dr. Cummins up to the 10th of November, the very date of lus abandonmen: of the Church, although for some timo previous he had speut his time in conspir- ing against tho Circh, John Pago, of St. Martin's Parish, Hanover, Ya., writing to tho Southern Churchman, says of tho Reformed movement, that, much 23 thelaitv roverence the clergy, they will give up any of them rather than the Old Church. The questions which are to be discussed in the next General Convention of the Episcopal Church aro atready talked sbout to domo extent in the Church press. The Southcrn Churchman argues that all that is necessary to put an end tngfiimnlistic tendencies is to farbid the gestures, costumes, and acts which teach real presencs in the Eucbaristic sérvice. ** Forbid these and you provent fales teaching,” savs that paper. * Here is tho backbone of Ritualism.” Dr. Porteous eays that tha rumor that ho was about to bocome u Reformed Episcopalian, a Prosbyterian, or a Laptist, is wholly unfourded. Ho Las detormined to remain an Episcopalian, To tbe Communion, however, he invites not merely tho orthodox and the pious Christians ‘who have scknowledged their belief in certain doctrines, but all who truly and earnestly repent of thoir sins, and are in love and charity K}th their neighbors, and intend to lead a now 0. On tho question of the revision of the Prayer- Took thero are likely to be the following par- tics, all of whom will want to bo Leard: 1. The Reformed Epicopalinns, who, despairing of getting & Tovision within the Church, went out of itand rovised the Prayer-Book as they wented it. 2, The Low Churchmen, who labor to sup- press Litualism. 8. The Libernls, ropresented by Dr. John Cotton Bmith, who want the vicws of all purties respected and harmonized. 4. The Sound Churchmon, led by Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson, who sro eatiefled with tho Prayer- Book as it Js, but are willing that ail ceremonics which tend to the adoration of tho bleesed Sac- rament should be condemned. 5. Tho Anglo- Catholicg, ropresented_partly by “‘Ihe Contra- ternity of the Bleseod Sacrament.” The Dishop of Kentucky thus alludes, in his Iate address to the Convention, to the Assistant Bishop Cummins : But far diffcrent and much harder to bear is the be- renvement which has fallen upon our stricken diocese, Had our late Assistant Blshop fallen at bis post, loyal to the Church of his adoption, and true to the solemn vows and promiees which he modo in this city less than eight years ngo, wa could huvo celobrated his ob- sequies with tonder, raternal, and filial tears ; but his abaudonment of his fost, and bis forgelfalnes of bLis covenunt engagements, overwhelmed us with astonish- ment and filled our hearts with anguish. But thia is a subject upon which I dare not express myself other- wio than 1n the worda of the loving and beloved disctple (I John, 2:19) : * Ha went out from us, but Lo was not of us, for if he bad been of us uo doubt he would huve continucd with us, but ho wont out that it might be rade manifest that ko was not of us.” _The Church Cons:ress to be held in New York City in Qctober will be mado up of all who chooeo fo attend of the clergy, including all ordere, Bishops, priests, and Deacons, and of tho laity, 1ncluding all conditions. 1t will govern itself by few rules of order. Papers will be read by clergymen and lavmen upon all questions of real interest in the Church a8 cannot or ought not to bo discussed in the several conventions, The debates will be freo alike to all ; the only cre- dontial will be ability to make tho Congrees listen. Applauso and sudible disapprobation will be permittod. It will bo a fair, open com- bat of ideas, and 1n no case will any dobate tor- minate in & vote. It will be in tho interest of no Enrty or faction. The Ritualist will be full; card, and the Low Churchman and the Hi[:i; Charchman and the Broad Chnrchman. Thus will the Church show thatshe is the home for all Cliristinn people, where free speech and freo thought are not only tolerated but encouraged. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Church Union thinks tho Reformed Epis- copal movement Los _gono too far to reach, Bishop Cumimnins conld hot compromise now if he would. “Prayer books will hereafter ceaso to be the platform for sects, and, like mnsic- books, will b chansed and improved as occa- sio D8 require, and thus ono giant obstaclo to tha union of tho Church will pass away.” The Reformed Episcopal Church have stripped the mariinge service of some of its ceremonials. Tho words *with all my worldly goods I theo cendow,” are cut out; and ngain, in the conclud. ing prayer, the passage, ‘ that ns Isanc and e~ becea lived faithfully together, 80 may these pereons surely perform and keop the vow and covenant between them made,” is dropped as “inappropriate.” But the provoking little words, *“And to obey," are retained. Nileioat mrsm;rgmu. eghany Theological Seminary will gradnate forty young ministoss this year. In tho Synod of the Pacific, nine now Prosby- terian churches were built l2st year. - The Red River Presbytery 1cports. four new church buildiogs consiructed during tho past year. Tho United Presbyteries have nine mission etations in t, aud the total number of com- municanis is 503, The Presbyteriana of Nauvoo, TIL, are about build 2 house of worship on the site of tho old Mormon Terple. The First Presbyterian Church, of Bridgeport, Conn., Lavo Adopted the subseription-pian of meoling the expensea of the Society, with much emccess. May ‘24, tho subseription papers woro collected, and it waa found thit over 84,000 Lad more than was bsen subscribed, whioh was & asked for. . =5 Tho Presbyterians of Goorgetown, Col., havo ocompleted a “fine stono church edifice, which ia to bo dedicated by the Gonoral Assembly, now on an excursion to Doenvor, Last Sundoy, the Rev. Mr. Barrett, pastor of the Prosbyterian Church nt Austin, baptized thirteen children. The church wau beeutifully decorated on the ocoasion. The Evauston Presbyterian Church is mourn- ing the loss of a large and costly pulpit Bible, It 18 a fact of bad omen, but s religious paper states that the book was stolen from the dosk during tho meetings of tho late Theological Union. DAPTIST. The corner-stone of Grace Baptist Church was lnd in rhiladelphin Jast Tucsday. 5 The noxt session of the Fox River Baptist As- sociation ia to be held at the Englewood Church. The Socond Baptist Church of this city reports 240 now members during the past year, 135 of them by baptism. The Raptists, as well ag soveral other Protest- ant secte, are thriving in Rome. A short timo n%u, the pows of 8 now churchin the Lternal City rented for &2,600. The Baptist Church at TFort Howard, o, which only a few years ngo contained only soven members, hag now a mewbership of 107, and a fine house of worship is nOW in process of ereo- tion. Itis enid that steps have been taken with a view of uniting tho Union Park and Ashland Avenue Buptist Churches. The former church, notwithetanding all its troubles, has a member- ship of 353, The pastor of the Daptist Church at Hinsdale, and the pastor of the Baptist Church at Kan- kakee, Ill., says the Atandard, have been obliged to resign on account of financial cmbar- rassments in tho charchee. A movoment, is eaid to be on_foot among tho Liberal Baptists of Brooklyn, N. Y., to invite tho Rov. Georgo T. Pentecost, D.D., back to that city. If ho comes, the people will build & new church for him. A correspondent of the Standard asks: * Tow does Christ teach us to mako a deacon?” The editor replies that Christ gave no instruotions on that point, but that Baptist usage has grown into the custom, of electing deacons as other chureh officers are elected. The Southorn Daptist Convention, recently Leld at Jefferson, Tex., shows that during tho year fifty-fivo missionaries were in active servico under the control of the Home Mission Board, who report 808 baptisms. The whole number of Indian commanicants is 1,915, aad of mission- aries, 19. A correspondont of the Standard regrets to learn that a church in Iowa, which for several Jeans bas been without a pastor, and meanwhilo as been served by *a regular supply,” bas mortgaged nearly all its valuable church prop- erty to the brothier who has supplied them, to securo to him the payment of $700 for his sor- vices, and now the house and lot, worth soveral thousand dollars, ere to be sold fo pay tho deb, unless outeide friends intervene to prevent it. Buch a transaction would be a shame, both to the church and to the * supply.” The thirty-ninth anniversary of the -Chicago Baptist Association will be beld at Duudee, LiL., commencing with o Sunday-school meeting Tues- day, June 16. The Association comprises alt the churches in Chicago except the Second Church and its brauches, with several suburban churches. Round-trip tickets can boe obtained of C. K. Binckall, at No. 61 Washmgton street, for §2. Tucudsy evening and Wedueceday morning will bedevoted to Sunday-school topics. At 10:30 Wednesday the exercises belongiug to the Asso- ciation propor begin, and will consist of the or- ganization, and reading of lotters from the church®s, and reading of tho report of the Pub- lication Society. In tho evening the doctrinal sermon will be preached by the Rov. L. M. Wood- Tuff, of the Elgin church. Thursday miscella- Deotis business will be discussed, forcign mis. sions, home missions, and the mission-work of the Association. 1n the afternocon a woman's miggionary maeting will bo held, at which ad- dresses will be delivered by Mrs. E. C. litcholl, Miss A, L. Stovens and others. The Association closes Thureday evening. ME THODIST. Sand Creck, In., will dedicate a Methodiet church June 21. The Central Methodist Church, Baltimore, have raised the money for a larger house of worship, The now Me!Lodist Church at Rogets' Park is to bo dedicated to-day. President Fowler will preach the sormon. Clark Instituto, a literary and social society of Trinity Methodist Episcapal Church, Cincinnaty, celebrated its eighti auniversary Juno 4. Papers are in circulation to procnre the post- poncment to a lator date of the Rock River Con- ferenco of tho Mothodist Episcopal Church, which 15 now set for Sepi 80. ‘The Northwestern Advocale prints an earnest call for help for the students of the Garreit Bib- lical Institute, who are, many of them, 8o poor that they aro oblized to waste much time in carning a support while pursiung their studies in that Seminary. To-day is * Children’s Day ” in all the Method- et Sunday-schools of the land. That is, tho children give money towards the siding of poor theologleal students. The Loard of Education of tne Methodist Church now gives aid to forty such stndents, aud i8 desirons of increasing the beneficiaties ten-fold. CONGREGATIONAL. A Congregational Council in Salt Lake City organized & church numbering twenty-five mem- Dera, May 23. The Congrogational Union of this city held ite monthly weeting and supper Tuesday at tha New England Church. This is the last meeting until the closo of the vacation season. CATHOLIO. New Rochello, N. Y., dedicated o fine Catholic church June 7. It is tho largest in the villago, The foundatien of o new Catholic church was Iaid in Hoboken June 7. It will front on tho public squarc, and will cost abont 8100,000. MISCELLANEOTH. The Brooklyn, N. Y., Sundey-School Union paraded_ 45,000 Bunday-school childrep in pro- cession May 28, Tho rovisers cf the New Testament in In- glaud are at work on the second revision of the Gospel of Matthew. The latest infidel movement, says the Now York Observer, is the brsaking of ground for a memorial ball to Tom Paine, in Boston. At an 01d Catholic meeting lately beld in Ma: nich, Prof. Fredrich stated that proparations had il‘l\g-cndy been made for the canonization of Pius The Gaboon Mission of the Presbyterian Church has recently much increased its converts and school facilitios, and the prospects of the Mission are brightening. A chapel has been erected by a Presbyterian missionary in Teheran, Persis, and public wor-~ ship is conducted in tho languago of tho peoplo without any serious molestation. The London Missionary Society employs 155 English and many uvative missionarics. 1t ox- pended last year £114,052 on the miseionaries of Ching, Indis, New Guines, Madagascar, and South Africa. Binco Oct. 21, 1873, Bt. John's Guild, benevo- lent organization in New York, Las received £23,352.19, and paid ont £21,102.70. The Socie- ty bas furnished aid to 35,000 people within the time mentioned. An English paper says: The great manufac- turing city of Manchester, Eng., is to have a new §4,000,000 eathedral to vio with that of Can- terbury at York, the money to b subscribed by fifty Lancashire gentlemen. The English Lutheran Church in the North ivision i8 about to ercct a now church-odifice, of brick, It will bo Jaree and imposing. The chapel only is to be comploted this season. The pastor, tho Rev. Mr. Lelfor, has received 150 members since last February. The First Congregational Church of Marble- head, Mass., was organized in 1684, and for the firat 116 years had but four pastors, aud during its entire history has had but ten, or one in Dinetsen years on tho aversgo. That is not much like'the short pastorates of the Ppresent day in the same Church. ‘Tho Young Men's Christisu Association of Cincinnati, the first society of tho kind organ- izod in Americs, hias just :-irchased o new build. ing of its own. It is situated at the corner of Sixth and Elm streets, and was formerly nsed as a hotel. The rooms bave been neatly furnishad Ly the Iadies of tho city. Lntheran statistics are as follows : Numberof Lutherans in the werld, 45,000,000 ; in the Unitod States, 528,630 ; United Presbyterians in North America, 8 Srnods, 56 Preshyteries, 772 congregations, 73,452 members, 47,000 Sunday- school £cholars, 37 foreign missionaries with 19 churches and 563 congregasions, and 21 mission- schools with 2,221 pupils, The Prosbyterisn Banner complamns of the Sabbath-breaking proclivities of ;:hu St. Lonis poople, and attributes thees habits to tho dis- regard to tho Sabbath manifested by its early Fiench and Spanish founders. *‘To this has been: added the tremondous influencs of tho Iarge German population. The desecration of the sacred day hegins ecarly in the morning and continues until late at night.” A potition has been signed by 146 clergymen of the Church of Eugland aud other ministers, asking that the public museums of London may bo opened on ths Sabbath. Thoy are of opinion, a8 the potition states, that tho opening of mu- seums, Librarics, and art gallerios on the aftor- noon of Sunday would not only conduce to the moral ‘and intellectual improvement of mary who find Sunday & day of epecial temptations, hut is in entire accordance with the design aud spurit of the Christian Sabbath. —lo PERSONAL. CHICAGO. The Rev, C. D. Helmer will deliver & lecture in Whitewater, , to-morrow,evening. Tho Rev. Dr. Boardman, of the Congraga- tional Theological Seminary, will spend his sum- mer vacation in Pittafield, Maea. Henry C. Bowen, editor of the Independent, was in the city last week, the guest of Prof. Yisk, of tho Cougregational Theological Semi- oary. Tether Damen, S. J., has recently concluded a very successful mission in St. Rose's Church, St. Louis, 2t which 7,000 communions ware received, 26 converts made, and 675 persons corfirmed. The Rev. A. J. Frost, pastor of the University Placo Baptist Chiurch, Uhicago, preached a doc- trival sermon before the Fox River Association, at Gardner, lnst week, which was #0 good that it was ordered printed in the minutes. The Rov. Robert Kirk, a graduato of the Iast classin the Congrogational Theological Semi- nary of this city, will be ordained at Danby, L1 I’.l:p«’s:dsy. The sermon will be preached by Prof. Fisk. The Rev. J. L. G. McEKown, pastor of the Wa- bash-Avenuo Mothodiss Episcopal Cburch, re- cently appointed a member of the Board of Vis- itors: to inspcct the Naval Academy at Annapolis, by request of Admiral Warden and Commander Dreese, proached to the Academic Board, the DBoard of Visitors, and Cadet Midshipmen June 1. He subsoquently dolivored the congratula- tory address of the visitors to the graduating clags, ELSEWIERE. Mrs. Brown Willis hus been chosen pastor of the Universalist Church at Bridgeport, Conn. The Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens, the historian of Me!fiofliam, with lis wife, sailed for Europe last weel. The Baptist preacher, Dr. G. F. Pentecost, bas preached in & Universalist church in Wash- ington. What nexe? The Pope was ovcrwhelmed with 20,000 lotters of congratulation of his 93d birthday, lust morth. Only & small proportion of them’ came from tal An Esstern paper says: The highest salary paid a pastor by the Baptist denomination is that received by the Rev.Dr. Elder, of New York City—g6,000. Tho Rev. James Freeman Clarke has declined the call to the ministry of the Churchof the Meesiah (Unitanan), New York, and & call has Deen given to the Rev. Warreh H. Budworth, of Eaust Boston. The Rev. E. G. Taylor, D. D., of the Coliseum Daptist Church, New Orloans, formerly pastor of the Union Park Baptist Church, of Chicago, preached the suaual sermon belors tho Soutiiorn aptist Convention held recently at Jefferson, Tex. Tho sermon i8 highly praitcd. Mies Sarah Higby, daughter of the Rev. John Higby, of Garduer, I, returned to her home about two weeks ago, after six yoars and a half missionary eervice in Bassien, BShe went out smong tho firat sent by the Union Woman's Mis- sionary Society, aud has been engaged princi- pally in teaching in the girls' school. Dean Stanley bas given the world avother proof of bis eatholicity of views, in aiding in the dedication of the Rev. Dr. Portoous’ City Temple in London, a dissenting placo of wor- ship. -Ho expressed much sympathy towards the Non-Conformists. He said 28 regarded the daty and the privilege of Lolding friendly and kindly iutercourse, and having a true snd Christian un- derstanding with members of other communions, there could bo no doubt or queation with any reasonsble member or minister of the Church of England or any church in the world. ahiile—t RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. An Eastorn paper says a new volume by the venerable Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, is in prees at tho Harper's. It is on the important subject of **Tho Geneeis of the New England Churches,” upon which he is especially qualificd to write. A custom calcnlated to break up the slug- gishness of tho average prayer-mecting, out of revival times, is tho peculiar method of proce- dure amoug the praying folk of Stuttgart, Ger- many. Slips of numbered paper aro placed on o tablo, and at the beginning of the meeting tho people draw them, lot-fashion, and pray or speak in the order their number indicates. A Wieconein Jnmeuu_vnx *¢ Some unknown per- son, for an undiscovered cause, draped a church in mourning at Oshkosh recently. All the avail- ablo places in the interior of the building wero draped with black crape, put on in a very artistic snd workmaulike maoner. The congregation baving vainly tried to discover tho author of this barmless freak.” A religious paper hintg that perhaps somo oue took that delicate way of hinting that some of the cburch members me too good to live, A writer in the Churchman, regretting the lane number of churches in a certain Western village which can really support only half the number, eaya: *‘Ten churches areto be kept open Sundays and at other times; ten sermons to be listened to, or slept througl, as the caso may be; ten pitiful offerfortes come creeping. up the aisle; and the ten congregations break up and go_home, scemingly perfectly satisfied with they in which they have spent the morn- ing, perfectly willing to go on frttering nway that which, if consolidated, wonld do tenfold the good, and moro; and perfectly unconscious of, or elee indifferent to, the figuro which they must malo in the eyes of the angels.” BT N LET US BE MERRY. A Boeton clergsmarn defines hell as “aplaco of eternal uneasiness.” Stinday-school tenchor—* Noxt Sundsy wo'll have *The death of Moses.” Overjoyed pupil— —*“Then be did dic at last?" Tho St. Louis Journal calls this paper “its religions exchange,” although there is not an obscene medical advertizement in it.—Danbury ANews. The San Francieco sea-Captain who traded the, ship's Bible for thirtcon plugs of tobacco is spoken of very sevoroly by the religions press of that city. * What becomes of dogs when they dio?” was what a juvenilo in Durlington asked his pa. “They go to tho happy laud of canine,” Lis parent quickly replied. Policeman, poking a recumbent form with his club—"1I say now, o on out o' this. What's the matter widye?"” Recumbent form—** Whaz- zer mazzer ? Nvzzen (hic) buz r'liguz 'citement, Lemme be.” Woe aro pained to notico that papers taking our items, and appropriating then us their own, seek to palliato the thefc by pubiishing a column of religions miscellany. “This gmay look well onough in the cyes of Heavon, but it don't sat- isfy us.—Danbury News. Slang words aro not always slang. Take the word “jolly.” In John Trapp's ** Commentary an tho Old and New Testaments,” published in London 200 years ago, is to bo rcad: _* All was jolly quiet at Ephesus before t. Paul came thither.” They have an astato citizen in Warren, who, aftor having heard tho church committes discuss whether it was best to have two or three aisles in their new church, broke in with: ‘*Wal, yon 1may talk about your nevw kinds of ilo as much as you'reamind to; bat I never yct sce any ilo or fiu that is as good asthe old-fashioned lamp- o . Tho Troy Times gays: *Recently, at a church fair on 1da Hill, 2 large and frosted cake was of- fered to the person who should guess nearest to the correct weight, at 10 cents & guess, The pastor of the church urged s young lawyer to in- vest a dime. ‘The practitioner replied, *I'll play you gamo of _cucare ta seo who gets the caie, but I don’t undersiand the other gamo.’” A Bunday-school inquiry and answer may ba told as follows: “Tommy Howell, can you tell me what 13 meant by the word * miracle, 20 often used in the Bible which younow hold in your haud?” ““Yes, Mies Harvey, I think I can.” Ma | caye, if youond Capt. Smuth, who was with you at tho Presbyterian’ picoic, don't marry pretiy soon. it will be n.mlncln."c' 2 An English paper advertisesfor sale *a High- 1and clergyman’s coplete tade mecum,” con- eisting of ‘miniatute Tesiament, very lzrge ounted apiri able corkscrow, fitted in superfine Russia-leather case.” Highland ministers, says the Independ- ent, evidently beliovo that *‘the letter Lilleth, but the spirif giveth life.” This is the way the San Antonio (Texas) Her- ald speaks of keeping the Sabbath: *‘We are satistied that to-morrow is Bunday. In the first place, we heard a demure-looking gentleman, Who plays cards, and was standing at the corner of the Plaza, make the remark, ‘To-morrow is the Lord's day, and I guess I'll hev to go a-fish- ing. I need smuscment.’ Another indication in tho number of ambulances coutaining promi- nent citizens with fishing-poles tied to them— we mean the ambulances.” = ‘When Mr. Cooloy cams into church last Sun- day, he placed his now high hat just outside the pew in the pisle. Presently Mra. Pitman enter- ed, and as she procegded up the nisle her abonnd- ing skirts scooped Caoley’s hat and rolled it up nearly to tho palpit. Cooley pursued hia hat with feclings of indignation, snd when Mrs. Pt~ man took her seat he walked bacic brushing his bat with bhis sleeve. A few moments later Mrs. Hopkins came into church, and as Cooley had again placed his hat in the aiglo, Mrs. Hopkins' skirts struck it and swept it along about twent; feet, and loft 1t ying on tho carpa in & demoral. ized condition. "Cooley was singing & hymn at the time and he dido't miss it. Buta moment later, when he looked over the end of the pew to gee if it was safe, he was furious to perceive that it was goue. He skirmished up the nisle again, red in the faco, and uttering sentences which_were horribly out of place in the sanciu- ary. Howover, ho mfi his bat down again and dotermined to keep Lis oy on it, but just as e had turned his Lead away for a momeat, Mre. Bmiley came in, and Cooley looked zround only “in time to watch the hat being gathered in under Mrs, Smiley’s skirts sud carried away by them. Ho started fu pursuit, and as he did so tho hat must have rolled against Mys. Smiley’s ankles, for sho gave a jump and screamed right ont in church. \When hor husband asked her what was the matter, she #aid there must be a dog under her dress, and she gave her skirts afwist. Out rolled Cooley's bat, and Mrs. Smiley, being very near-sighted thought it was a dog, 'aud immediately kicked it 80 navagely that 1t tlow up into the gallery and lodged on top of the organ. Cooley, perfectly frantio with rage, forgot where he was, and, holding his cleuched first under Smiley's nose, ho shricked, **I'vo half a mind to bust you over tha snoot!” " Then he flung down his hymn-book and rushed from tho church. He wont home bare- headed, and tho sexton brought his humiliated hat around after dinner. After tais, Coolay in- tends to go to Quaker meeting, where he can say bis prayers with his hat on. laz Adeler. —— CHURCH SERVICES TO-DAY. THE CHILDREN'S BUNDAY: Among the Universalists,the second Sunday in June 18 called the Children’s Bundsy. Morning worship is Biven up to the interests of little folks, baptisma occur, and flowers aro introduced to make the place cheer- ful. Tho custom of thus obszrving the second Sundsy in June {8 now very geeral with tho demomination. In St. Paul’s, to-day, among the children baptized will be one from Brooklyn, N. Y., and twvo from Kansas, T'le children do the tinging,and there are to bs recits~ tions by members of the Ssbbath-achool, approprizto to the day. EEPORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Cheney will preach at Carist Church, corner of Michigun avenue and Twenty-fourth street. Morn. ing subject: “st. Paw's Advice on an Important Toplc; * evening subject: * Men as Trees Walking.” UNITARLA, The Rev, Mr. Savaga will preach morning and even— ing at the Third Church, —The Rev. Henry Powers will preach at the Charch of the lessiah in the morning, Subject *The God ‘We Worship.” SWLDENTORGIAS, The Rev. J. Hibbard will preach in the Now Jerusa- lem Hall, corner of Elghteeuth stroet aud Pruirie avenue,in the morning, and at the Union Park Temple in the afterncon. His subject at the latter place wiill be * Leaven in Three Measurea of Meal.” —The Rev. 8, S. Swan will preach to the Second Bociety at the chapel, Indiana avenue, near Twcaty- ninth street, at 3 p. m. UNIVERAALIST. The anniversary of the Sunday-school of St, Paul's Church will be appropriately celebrated in the morn- ing. Tio Bev. Dr. Ryder will preach in the chapel at Rivorside in the morning, and at his own church 1 the evening. —The Rev. J. E. Forrester, D. D,, will preach at the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Washington znd Sangamon streets. Morning eubject: * Forty-riva Yoars of Life—Twenty-five Years in the 3Mintitry,” Evening subject: *Fruits of Idlenesa,” CONGEEGATIONAL. The Rev. J. D. Hyde will preach atthe Oakland Church. Morning subject Diecipline of the Tuoughts ;" evening subject: “Man Botter thana Leep. —The Rev. Albert Bushnell will preach morning a3d ovening at the Leaviit bircot Church, carmer of ams. —The Rev, William Alvin Bartlett will preach morn- izg and evening at Plymouth Church, corner of In- dizna avenue and Twenty-sixth strect. —Tue Rev. C. D. Helmer will preach morning and ovening at the Union Park Church, £ METHODIST. The Rev. A. G, Parrish will preach morning and evening ot the Dickson Sireet Church, near North avenue, —The Rev. J, O. Peck will preach in the Centenary Church, Monroe strect, near 3organ. The sermon in the morning will be to children; in the evening upon “The Great Mystery.” —The Rev. 8, McChesney will preach in the marn— ing at Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, near Twenty- fourth street, In tho evening thero will bo 3 prai meeting, m which tha Hampton singing students will e part, ~—The Rev. Dr. B; will prezch in tho morning, and the Rev. Dr. Thomas in the evening, at the First Church, comer of Clark and Washington strects, —The Rev. A. Youker will preach morning snd eveniug the Western Avenus Courch. Evecning subject : “Biblo Characters.” ~—The Rev, C. G. Truesdell will preach in the morn- ingat the Wabash Avenue Church; Sunday-school anntversary in the afternoon. —The Rav, Dr, Felton will preach st Graco Church, corner of LaSallo and White streets, morning and even” %Tho Dev. Mr, Clandenning wil presch in tho morning, and the Rev, J. W, Phelps in the ovening, at the Michigan Avenue Church. PRESHYTERIAY, Tho Rev, Aobott E. Kittredgo will preach in tho Third Church, corner of Washington and_Carpenter strecta. Morning subjoct: **The True Prophet;” evening subject : I Will Givo You Rtest.” —There will bo scrvices a3 usual as tho Campbell Park Mission in tho evening. —The Rev, J. B. McCluro preaches at River Park this mornin —The Rov. D. J. Burrell will preach st Westm!nster Chureb, corner of Juckson and Peorla strects. Aorn- ing subjoct: “God Wozking In Us”; evening subjoct: “Isit177 —The Rev. J, Monroo Gibson will preach morning ‘and evening at the Sccond Chureh, corner Michigan aventie and Twentieth street. —The Rev. Ben F. 8, Ely will preach morning and cvenlng at Grace Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak avenucs, —Prof, Cliarles Scott will preach morning and oven- ing a¢ tho American Leformed Church, Jefferson Park. —The Rev, James Maclaughlin will preach morning and evening ot the Scotch Church, corner of Binga- mon and Adamas streets. —The Rey. W. . McKaig will presch morning and evening at the Ninth Church, Ellia svenue. ‘—The Rey, Wiilis Lord, D. D., will preach morning and evening at the First' Church, corner of Indiana avenuo and Ywenty.drst street Evening subj “Unity of the Bac —The Rev. J. H. Walker will_preach moraing and avening at the Church of the Reunion, West Four- teenth street, near Throop street. —The Rev, David Swing will preach in the morning at o Fourth Churel, corner of Rush aud Superior streets, ET1COPAL. There will bo morning prayer at 10:30, celebration of the Holy Communiou and afternoon scrvices at 3:3 and 8 p. m., at Bt. Peter's Mission Chapel, No. 45 avcuue, near Van Buren street, —The Rov. W. H. Smyths wiil officiate morning and evening at tho Chiurch of the iioly Communion, Dear- Lorn strect, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streota. ing; % the Corentry uig::i RO 1 4y g, — . John v 2 Oommunon’ Cuurch, "corney Lol & ths iy, £ strects. Morning subject : ® Shg por Done iy £ Could s, 3 at John Gordon, spp) Hear Ye Eipy s 28 ect : oot = —Ths Rev. e Avenue Church, Subjects—ompecs 31108 Westery * Modern Liveralio » D207 Sty ingy” A. J. Frost . Flaco Chuseh moving and. epeeies, 28 Calregy eral peopl at the closs of the Tttep e s M2 gy eare Yov. 0. H. DeWolf will preacy s, : evening at Eimanuel iz Dagiostreetis - elo0, comer of m{:fi —The Rev, W. W. Everts wil at the First Chureh, Wabash avene | c-houl"},"’f T gourt, Ia the afternoon thern wll' by 3 50t Hubdarg b B ¥ Jacobs, Sl macy he V. W, W, I Bi morning at the Tndiana mn:’c‘hfl TR i gy W. W. Evertsin_the evening, to be Tolpa 28 Bz, Ear, ¥.C. Yan Meter, of Rome, -~ “ORelbyiy —Tho Lov, L. T. Bush will preac 1t he Twenty. Ui Sireat Chuuth, paey st LBt avenue. _Sunday-achool concert at Ty VRt +=The Rer. Florenco McCarthy wil pra, o iication by Faith ;v Tl ject: “How to Get to Heaten oo+ &t w MISCELLANEOTS, —~The Adventists will meet in hei West Madison street morning 3o :&mmm,. Ja. 2y by Elder 0. R. Passett, of Caltfornia, - 8+ Fridking —Elder Frank Bure 'will preach 1 i, the Green Stroot Tubernacte, 1} 20 Baryagy The Freo Religious Socioly will disensy ton: "% Onght Church Property to p' ¢ Government Support7” at their L) COrzar o 1. dolph and Jefferson streets, in the sycerr o L' Lie First Society of Spiritusliy their Lal, o, 517 West Madison stresy evening. =t CALENDAR FOR THE Wipy 2PISCOPAL, - Juno 14—Second Sunday after Trnig, BGMAN OATHOLIG, Juno 14—THird Sundsy afler Peatooet; gy, pyg 2 C.D. June 15—t Birnabas, Ap. (from ¥ Modestus, and cmu’mfly_’?'”‘ Tirng, June 165t Jobin Francis Regis, & June 17—St. Apgela Mericia, 6, June 18-St Francis Caraceloio, 88. Alurcus, and Marceliag June 19—St. Julizna Falconier, V.1 Sy - Protase, 3AL TR L) Jane 208, Jobin of Bun Facundo, 0. (e s 1y, peshakientlsaty b CO-OPERATION AND TEMPERAKCE, To the Editcr of The Chicago Tribuns: Stz: In your editorial, Iast Sunday, yon under a misapprehension of facts in'i-.n.]:m the Co-operative Teraperance Association, Wil you pleaso publish this correction 2 There sng intention of rejecting the trade of TOD-membery by that Association. Tho practics in that recys will be exactly like tho English Aseociationy which have boen most successful. It is intandsd to benefit, not one, but all. The Teason why fhy shares of stock are confined to temperance men, aad consequently its management, is to pravany failure, and is, in fact, the causo of ita yueey hitherto. Workingmen of this city attempiay to form & Co-operative Society during the Ju winter, but the movement fell so soon ints tho hands of snloon-keepers and demssogosy that 1t was killed. The last election proves ghay n‘mag‘onty of tho men of the city aro controlld by tho dealers in intosicating liquors. Trs temperance-clauso in our constitution is timply Drotective against this dangor. There is mf; member of the Asrociation who would havs 2y faith in its success if the deadbeats and £pead- thrifts who froqnent the dramshops, and tas, Leepe ero allowed to come in and swamp thy Association with corrupt mensures 1 thei ig- terests, or if they wero free to exrriss the eame pressure which is now exercised by eslogmn. keepers upon other public institutions ard legis. Iative bodies in oar cit) The success of our Xssoci&tim, to which yoq refer, proves not only the strongth of ths pricie ple of Co-operation, but of Temperancs as wail, 83 an absolute prerequisita to the saccess of thy other an tho Gity of Chicago; therstors, Boo | caccio's listle story is totally inapplicsble hers, We geek no controversy with Tz Tamrszy but, if space were allowed, we could array sucha mass of statistics to prove our position tht rag, Mr. Editor, would bo converted. We only ask, for the present, that you will suspend jadgment, nd not oppose the only practicsble mothod of inapiring_confidence among the peopls of Chi- eago in the principle of Co-operation,—tha only means of obtaining honest, sober, sensible, sud practical men to test it. W are only doing woat you advocate in the succeeding editorisl, 10 the same column of your paper, and what Mr. Bright recommends a3 3 means of curing intom) ¥iz.: ** He would make drinking unfashionable, He wonld banish wine from every table and from every house in England, not by act of Parlis ment, but by the force 0f public opinion, Lel people of character—those who give tone to o ciety—ceago to purchaso or use liquor of any kind. Make drunkenness agocial crime. Exe clude the drinker from society.” £ Therefore, we ask THE TRInUsEto be consist ent, and nof find fault with us for following ita own advice, and excluding the drinker from oar eociety ; especially when, by it, we reek to pro- tect and defend a principle_championed by your paper, ac.acated by Tom Hughes sud the Rev. E. P. Powell, of St. Louis, and declared by John Btaart Mill to have *‘made more sober men in Rochdale since it commenced than all other efforts of teetotallers have been able to make in the same time.” Rather, we ask your assietance in elucidating co-operation as a basia for th quict, peaceable reconstruction of society, ad affording a solution to the heretofore quarral some relations between Capitel and Labor. A MEXMDER OF TILE ASSOCIATION. Caicago, Jure 14, 1574 THE MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN HEART. Yl ppy Midnight past! Nor a sound of anght ‘J“:xgugl{u:nn sileat house but tka wind athis prayers. ; I sat by the dying firo and thought ; Of the dear, dcad women up-siairs, A night of tears ; for the gusty rain 14 coasod, Bt tho eaves wirw dripplog yob And the moon looked forth, a8 though in pain, With her face all white and wet, Nobody with me my watch to keep, But tho friend of my bosom, tl:a man T And grief has sent him fast asieep In the chamber up abose. Nobody elee, in the country-place Al ronnd, that knew of my lo-s bestds, But the good young pricst with ths Raphiel-face, Who confessed her when sho died. That good young priest 1s of gentle narve, ‘N ooy qrief S eabred pim Legond contral} For Lis Lips grow white, as T could vbserve, When specced her parting soul, 1 st by the dreary hearth aiono; 1 thought of the pleasant day of yore; Tenid,. * The sta of my life is gone; Tis woman I love is o more. #On her cold, dead bosom my portrait es, Which next to her heart Ao used to woalys Haunting it o'er with Ler tendur cyes 3 When 10y faco Was Dot thray. love; “1t 18 eet ol around with rubtes red, And pearls which a Peri might have kepdy For each ruby there my heart haths bled,— For each péarl my eyes have wept.” And Isaid, “ The thing is precious o me; ‘They will bury her soon in the churchyard-clay} It Tics on her heart, and lost must be I£ 1 do not take It away.” 1 lighted my lamp at the dying Same, Aund :mpl’up lge stairs that cracked for frighhy Till into the chamber of deatl I came —The Rev. J. F. Walker will officiate morning and evening ot Calvary Church, Warren aveaue, between Oakley stroet and Western avenue. —The Rav. C. P. Dorst will repest his lecturo on Ritualism at tao Church of the Ascension, corner of Elm ana LaSallo streets, in the eventng. —Tuere will bo full Cathedral services, the Bishop officlalirig, at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, corner of Washizgton and Peoria strects, mornlog and evening, —The Rev, Arthur Brooks will ofiiciate morning and eveningat §t. Jumes Church, corner of Huron and Casa streets. —Tle Rev. Dr. Locke will officiste morning ond evening at Grace Church,» Morning subject: “ School.” —The Rev, Henry G. Perry will officate morning and evening at All Saints’ Church, corzer of Carpenter and Fourth streets, —The Rev. Francis Manaficld will officisto morning snd evening ot the Church of the Atonement, commes of Washingion ang .y streete, _The Rev, Dr. Cushmarf will officiate at St. Ste- phen’s Charch, on Johnson street near Taylor street. Morning subject: “*The Authority of the Church;” evening subjoct : ¢ The Strife at Phillippi.” —Tle Rov. Dr. Stocking will preach at 10:30 3. m. and 7:45 p. m. at the Church of tho Epiphany, Throop street, betiveen Monroe and Adamasireets, BAPTIST. . The Rev. Dr. Mitchell will preach morning znd evening at the Unlon Park Church. '—Thé Rev. A. G. Eberhart will presch in the morn- ing, and the Rav. N. F, Kaslin in tho ovening, at the Temple Churcy, corner of Sangamon and Harrison strects, —Tho congregation of the Hyde Park Church will mect In tho Seminary in the morning. The Rer. E. . Bayliss will preachi on the question : * In What Davs thio Strength of the Church Consist? 7 —The Bev. . C, Van Meter will preach n the morn- ing, and the Rev. E. J. Goodspeed in the evening, st tho Sccond Church, corner of Morgan and Aonroe ta. —Tho Rev. T. 3. Ellis will preach morning and evening at the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, near Trenty-third street, Thera vill be a childrea’s maas— meeting in the erening, which will be addressed by tha Bov, W, C. Van Meter, 'of Rome, aad E. D. Jonis, of st Louis, —The Rev. Mr, Eil's, of Englewood, will preach in ‘Where sho lay in all her white, A8 I stretched my hand T held my breathg I turned us I drew the cartun apart; T dared not look on the face of d¢ 1 knew where to find her heart. 1 thought, at firat, 2 my tonch fell thers, Tt had warmed that heart to Life wish fovo; For the thing I tonched wss warm, 1 awear, And T could feel it movo, "I'was the hand of a mzn, that w=s moving slow O'er the heart of the desd—(rom the otier fided And at once the sweat broics over my brow,=— * Who is robbiog tho corpee?” 1 cried. Oppoeite me, by the taper’s light, . “Ihie friend of my bosom, the man I 1ovofl, Stoo over tho corpse, and all as white,~ And peither of s moved. “What do you here, my friend 2 . . Themas Looked St at fie,’and then at {he dead. “ There I8 a portralt here,' he began 3 “Thereis. Itismine!”Iesid. Said ths friend of = bosum,n‘; Yours, no doubhy Tino portrait waa, till a month ago, When this suffering angel took that oud And placed mino here, 1 know.” #This woman, ske loved me well,” sa(d T, T ot sl ould oy eioa th e “And in your throat,” I groaned, *youlis1® ‘Ho answered : © Lot ua'see.” “Enough” I returned; *let the dead decidep ~ And, whoever the portrait prove, lis wiual it be when tho causc fs triod ‘Where Death is arraigzod by Love.” We found the portrait there, In its placa§ e opened i in the taper'a shine The goins werozll unchanged ; Was—neith er his nor mins. «Ono nail drives out snother, at least T The face of the portrait there,” I cried, 4 In"our friend’s, the Raphacl-faced young prisly Who confee3cd her whex abe died.” —Ouen Mercdith,