Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1874, Page 6

THE GHICAGO DAILY' TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, e ‘JUNE ‘21, 1874. RELIGIOUS NEWS. Growth of Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States. What Did €alvin Think of Infant Dam- i nation? Notes and Personals at Home and Abread. The Comments of the Religious Press. Church Services To-Day. AMERICAN NUNS: “The Catholic World for June gives & pretts full higtory of the progress and work of the American Nuns, The article in question states that twen- ty-five years ago there were only sixty-six cou- ventual schools conducted by Nuns or Sisters in {he Tnited States. Now there aro 400 academiea and 240 select schools, or an sverage of four to pach diocese. These are all pay-schools ; but the poor-schools taught by these religious women, including the parish, free, orphan, and Industrial scbools, are rockoned by moxma‘nds. wnd the pupils atiending them by ‘myriads. In the Diocese of Now York there are forty-ix of these femalo schools, with over 20,000 children, whose tuition in gratuitous, be- cides some 8,000 mmates of orphan asylums end otber charitable matitutions for juveniles. In the Philadelphia diocese there are thirty-five Bisters' free schools, with an aitendance of vessly 10,000 pupile, in addition to tho orphans. ¢ is extimnted thot the expense of this grest work of charity, if it were nov performed with- ont compensation, would bo st least §§,000,000 aunuslly. Tho World estimates that about 550,000 femalo children zre now under the care of tbe Nuns of the Catholic Church. The Nups aleo superintend somo 300 orpban, foundling, desf and dumb, or other beneficent ingtitutions. THE DISTRIBUTION = of tliese benevolent institutions is given as follows: In Buffalo lics; in Cleveland, 10 13,000; in San Albany, ope to 18,0005 b > Juti, New York, Brooklyn, and Philadclphis, one 10 23,000 ; Newark, Alton, and St. Paul, ono to 95,0005 Boston, oneto 80,000; Milwaukee, one to 40,000; Chicago, one to 45,000; Galveston and Providence, obs to 60,000 ; Hartford, ove to £0.000+ ud in Springfield, one to every 150.000. Of the less populous dioceses, Oregon pas ome; Burlington, one; Columbus, two; Covingwon, three; [Erie, omes Fort Wayne, threo; Grass Valiey, three; Mobile, ihree; Monterey and Los Angeles, five; Nash- ville, two; Natchez, iwo; Natchitoches, three ; Nesqually, four; FPortlsnd, two; Richmand, hree ; Rochester, five; Sante Fe, two; Savan- pah, three; Vincennes, four; Wheeling, twe Wiliuington, ono; Kanese, two ; Nebraska, one; Charleston, two ; _Green Bay, Harrisburg, La- Crosse, Little =Rock. Ogdensbuxg. Arizons, Colarado, 1dabo, and Nor:h Carolins, il small dioceses or sparvely settled vicariates, have therois ono to every 8,000 Catho- St Louis, and Louisrille, oue Francisco, one to 15,000; in in Pittsburg, Cincin- noe. : The Nuns devoted to teaching belong to THE FOLLOWING NAMED ORDERS: The Ladies of the Sacred Heart, the Ursulines, the Visitation, the Immaculate Conception, Pre- sentation, and the Swsters of the Precions Blood, Loretto, St. Clare, our Lady of Angels, St. Ann, Et. Mlary, Sacred Heart of Aary, Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, Humility of Mary, 8t. Agnes, Incarnate Word, Holy Child, and Danghters of 1be Cross. The Carmelites, Servite Nuns, and Bisters of St. Anthouy are contemplative com- munites, thongh, in some special instances, the poor are taught and sesisted in their convents. TIE FIBST CONVENT established within tho present boundaries of the Tnited States was that of Ursuliues, opened in New Orleans in 1727. The first Carmelite nup- ety wos erected in 1790, near Port Tobacco, AMargland. In 1816 tho first Visitation conyent was founded in the District of Columbia. Mre. Tliza A. Setou was the fouvdress of the Sisters of Cherity in the United States. The Catholic World speaks as follows of TIIS REMAREABLE WOMAN: Like 2l men or women whom Providence eelects for great ends, Alra. Seion rassed througha lang novitiate Of rorrow and trials Lefore sb was found qualified 1o Lay the corner-stone of cx institation which, above all oibers, hos made_Catholic charity end womsuly eclf- sactlfis most useful, most _respected, and beloved in this country, Born in New York on the 23th of At~ guet, 1774, of wealthy Protestaut parents, her infancy Zud girthood were passed nmid all the scenes of pleas- U snd Jusury that family pasition snd affluence Could command; and it was not til ahe had marzied 300 entered upon matronhoon that she experienced ber first great grief in the deathrof her father, Dr. Togley, who, :n his devotion to the sick immigrants, at 1L:at tme very numerous, fell 3 victim to sip fever. 15z sudden death mado such sn impression on her} Spirits, and such inroads on her health, that sle wus ouliged to make a tour in Europe in company with her Inusband, also an jovalid. Her mind had early heen|l imbued with strong_religious impreasions, £5 well waf cultivated by cureful study sud exteusive reading. Durlug ber stay in Southern Europe she had smple opporiunities of vielting the churchics and conveuts, snd studying, Her hustand, dying in December, 1802, Was buried in Jtaly ; and she, now left the sole guur- dian of ber children, resurned to America. The mo— uent it was known that ebe had become a conver, every {ricod aud rolative, ihe companions of ker Jouth, aud the sharers of her blood, shrznk from her Srith positive loatbing, as if her touch was infectious. All forsook ber except her children. But she was 2 womun of undaunted cournge, 58 well za of impficit © foith, Bhe resolved ta leave New ¥ork, and fake up her rosldence fn Bullimore, then the only city in the ‘country where Catholics bad either influence or sociol stzuding. Here. by the advice of the Archuishop, she determined to devole berself to teaching, and, to car- ¥y out her idea more fully, 10 establish 5 commumty, Accordingly, in May, 1809, we find ber, with four corp- panions, Eettiug out for Emmettsburg to take posses— tiou of n Jog house and commeuce Ler grand enter- .. On the lst of June these ploneers of the Sis- s of Charity of the United States arrived at their deetination, and on the day following, the Feast of Corpus Christi, they appearcd in the Httle church of the College in their habits,—* white muslin caps with crimpt borders, bisck crape bands round the bead and funtened under the chin, black dressce, and short capes Eumilar to those of the religious of Italy.” At first the community was called the Sisters of Bt. Jceeph ; butin 1810 it was agreed to assimilate it to <he Congregration of Charity in Earope. 1t is said there are now more than 20,000 mem- bers of the order throughout the world. . TUE SISTELS OF MERCY . is an order founded in Dublin, Ireland, in 1827, Ly Caslerine McAuley. Miss McAuley was born Sep. 17, 1787, of Catholic parénts; but thoy dyiug when shewas young, her guardianship was assamed by 8 Protectant famils, who brought bLer up in their own faith; but tha girl eatly developed a remarkable inclination to Cetholic- 1ty, sod, when of uature age, reunited herselt to the Church of ber fathers. At 34 sho found herself in the possession of a largo forturic be- queathed to her by her adopted fatber, who had Lecome s Catholic on his death-bed ; and this, with il her subsoquent life, she resclved to dedicato to the gervice of the Almigbty. She, thereforo, built at her own expenss, in the most fuxhionablo part of the city, a magnificent con- vent, and, associating with herself_soveral othier ladics, commenced the work of ivstruction and thevisitation of the sick and poor in their homes and in the public bospitats. The Most Rev. Dr, Murray, Archtishop of Dublin, gave ber all the Bssistance in his power, and, after consulting witn the Holy See, approved thenew founda- tion. In 1841 Pope Gregory XVL confirmed the congrogation, which is nOW 80 strong in the Uuited Kingdota that it numbers 185 convents, beside numerous charitable institutions. Un- ko the Sisters of Charity, this congregation has 10 Superior General, each convent bemg inde- pendcat and self-governing. louzh introduced into this country by the lute Bishop O'Counor, of Pittsburg, sbout thir- ¥ vears ago, the Sisters of Mercy have spread sapidly over the United States. ¥hey bave al- — ready nearly fifty asyluny sud hos pitals, eighty scademies and delect schools, an 1mimenss num~ ber of gee ml;o:hu_ Sonveuts almost as numer- _us as thote of e Sisters of it} - - siderably over 1,300 member: Gty Kot — CALVINISM, The next great Church question to be settled is the actual belief of John Calvin, o, perhaps, whether there ever was any Calvin or not. Itis cliarged by the snti-Calvinists that ho did bum Servetus; that he believed in witcheraft, and in tle domnation of infants. Some Presbyterians sre arguing that Calvin had nothing to do with Berveins, But the Independent in 1is last issue 5ayB: \When they deny that he was guilty of the blood of ‘Michacl Servetus they are guilty of 3 mest transparent frond. But his belfef in witcheraft and bis approval of the punishment of heretica by Ll;u civil magistrate beld up thelr hands in 'of their patron safnt. other fact of history, the stupidest 1nsin- of his thick-and-thin devotees Dorror at our alleged_elander But the fact ia as patent 33 any and only the densest ignorsnce oF cerity will deny it. s How absurd it 18 clo “‘K"TE t&n‘: g:n CMH ? ramed by fersions of Foith that weso frametd by, Tl A, SELL i iea present i contemporares sTaetl ey of e satcentt t B en through and through the creeds oot e Fushioned then. Somo of their pbrates sro Aablguous ; but we kuow what they mean by kuowlsg e tSho men believed who made them. Read fn the gkt of histoty, meny of thelr aflitmations are uttetly Peplignant to e moral senge of the multitudes who b3 ected to subsrribe to them, and utterly contra- ot Clristendom now understands to bo fue epirit of the Gospel Thoy are a clog to faith, They are » scxndal to reason, - The churches must cut juose from them or bo crushed by e —— RELIGIOUS PRESS, THE INTERIOR pays its attention to the denominational papers which bave shown anti-Patton sympathies, and explainy at great Jength why it is absofutely neceseary to continue the prosccution of Prof. Swing. in order to rottlo Presbyterian doctrines. "The same paper hss discovercd a beretio among the Congregationalists in Milwaukee, and tltus poiuts bim out : 1t our Congregational brethren can stand it to have the Tev. J. & Dadley's Gospel,of Milwaukee, eulogized 2 bigh, good, full of all the goodness and power of the Godheatl, regepersting, cleauting.” etc., the very cream of the Congregational theology, s tho dlhance ‘W eball cortainly nob eomplain, But such ex- travagant prolse of such a teachur must be Lhe TOVErso of soothiug to our solid Congregational brethren. Birds of feather,” etc. TRE ALLIANCE. ‘The Alll'anc? mukes 8 ples thouyht and toleration, sayiug: Pbe Chnstian reviewers of the theory of Darwin and Jrusley must find themeelves emburrassed by tho fact {uai there ure devout Chrietians who hold to this hathod of world-development. Whether these Chris- fians hold the Darwinian theory in whole or in part, and whetlier thoy defend at formally and ardently is & sl matter, but the fact ml:;.li:- tiat wuch a theory of earili's progresa docs not imply athelsm, nor neces- e afdeiity, nor evon frmply heterodox Views of the pature sud misvion of Christ. The sumple fact that fhere nre Darwiniun Christiuns stands, and cestajuly is I aitbout its siguificance. This fact Jeads to the Zonclusion {hat those who stand us defonders of the gospel and beralds of Christ should not hasten to do- Elare porrons to b enemies of Teligion Who sy per- Tiaps be willing fo be claimed as its {riends, . . But in tbe Courch there is such a busto o ery infidel and atheist that it hes made it seem very easy for a human and indeed difficult to read and fhink without winning the epithet of iufidel from all tho pulpits found along the paths of middls or later life. A48 inan futelligent sge therv s nothing which fends moro to make men honorallo than tho aeswap- tion that they are 20, 80 nothing will belp the Clurch Tore than her own assumption that all educated men ‘2te favarable o Ler faith, Ler work, and her hopes. THE CHRISTIAN UNION, ] after_giving & good deseription of ordinary Preaching, which consists in firinginto the cir an essay to somo imaginary and unreal audience, describes an ordinary congregation and what thoy need in the way of sermonizing, 88 follows : Take, for example, an average city congregation. “Thers are, probsbly, no heathen in t, through if the preacker Gould draw in the heathon from thie streets JUmight be bis highest praise. Thers are very few in- fidele nu infdels aro not generally church-goers; tho Qoublers are very few; the echolars not LUWIETOUS, and thoy have a hundred sources besides the pulpit dictory. for freedom of from which to feed their scholarly tastes. But here aro scores of men who are be g swept mlong s that fierco stream of ich mbsorbs the best strength of America. Some of thess men ars drawn futo the trickeries of trade. Others of them aro engaged in irsuits where ono man grows rich only as another comes poar, pursnits which arg ouly gambling, which is thtt.” All of them To by (belr circumstancey in danger of becondng hsrd, worldiy, spintual. They are in danger of blunting the nobier faculties of the Boul, its fervor and sspiotion and tendernwst, in the Dot struggle for wealth, These men are the boue and sinew of the community ; they are the men who sre orking out the istory of the nation, sud prepariug itafuture, To inspire them with n poble idea of their work; to strengtien them' gaiust insidions dishon- esty; 1o direct their fntense energy into beneficent chabnele, and touch. their active Lives with some high gense of spiritual things—this 1s as dillicult and us {000 5 work as any preachier need desire. THE_STANDARD, under the titleof ** Mixtures,” discusses Presi- dent Graut snd the * third-term ™ doctrine, and hints that the Baptist denomiuation could vet up 5 good candidate to offset President Graut, who fainderstood to be under the patronage of the Methodist Church. The Standard siys it can point to & gentleman well known both in and out of the Daptist denomination, & frm and fast friend of education, and of every other good a statesman, s gentloman, and a Chris- muney-gotting Wl cause, tian 3 who enjoys smong the_politiciaus tho pe- tuline digtinetion of being an honest man. aud ent of some who know im who, in the judj one of the bess Presidents well, would mak gince Washington. THE CONGREGATIONALIST. The Congregalionalist suays there is a good deal of drifting among Cougregationalista of England, and hwts that mauy of tho most prominent tenchers of its theology are lesuing strongly towards universal salvation. Tho ed- jtor say# that some persons aflirm tbat there is but an wconsiderablo percentage of the London Congregstional pastora who would be willing to proseh anything Tesembling tho old theology on that subject. TuE ‘Y INTERIOR" CRITICISED. To the Editor of The Chicazo Tribune: Sir: The Rey. Prof. Patton without doubt un- derstands medial theology as well as Calvin or Turretin, and is perfectly acquainted with tho art and mystery of stirring up a heretical brother With a sharp euck; but ne does not know how o ‘‘keep a hotel ™ or to edit a newspaper of the nipeteenth century. Tlis articles smell a8 musty a8 a pile of parch- meats four centuries old. Taka tho Interior of the current week. The first article relates to «Solifidisn Sophistry.” How many of the in- habitants of Chicago conld form the slightest idea—unless they should refer to Webster Una- bridged—rhat ‘eolifidian sophistry ' means, and whether it relates to something in the heavens sbove or in fhe earth bemeath. When it is csplained, how many of them would feel the glightest interest in the gubject or in a long essay upon it. “Prayer,” the next subject, is certainly important, but not particularly novel or attractive to most readers of a nowspaper. The next, Hero and There,” Degine with * the three Hebrew children,” and T did not read any further. “Avoid the Appear~ ance of Evil," like prayer,is on unquestioned duty, but most readers of the presout century do not think the daty of reading a school-boy com-~ position on the subject equally obvious. These articles, aud a aself-glorifsing editorial about * Myself and Prof. Swing,” oceupy about 5 page of the paper, and are & very large propor- tion of its original matter. The original matter of any newspaper, secnlar or religious, must relate to matters of present interest, and treat them with terseness and point, or they will not beread. Sophomorical essays of nuknown writers may be interesting to elder- Jy clergymen and elderly Iadies, but very few other persons will read as for 2 the second. line. If the learned Professor wishes any read- ers except of the two classos just named, To tad Dotter get a now pen aud new pzir of glasecs. Cmicaco, June 19, 1374, el E P NOTES, * BAPTIST. The German Baptist Church at Eankakee hing had thirty-one recent accesslons. Four persons were baptized into the Western Avenue Baptist Church on last Sunday evozing. 1t is eaid that a Liberal Free-Communion Bap- tist Chureh is proposed among the colored peo- ple in Richmond, Va. The total memberehip of the Second Baptist Church of this city is 1,840. Itissaid tobe the largest church in the West. Tho Rev. A. J. Frost, pastor of the University Place Baptist Church, has undertaken to provido places of entertainment for the Baptist delo- gates to the Educstional Convention to be held in chis city July 2. y A dnily paper is responeible for the following: “The Rev. John B. Brown, a Preebyterisn clergyman at Russellville, Ark., has boon sen- teuced to threo years’ imprisonment for counter- feitivg. He manufactured the Spanish dollar, Unitod States 50 and 25-cent picces, and nickels.” L GATHOLIC. In New York City thero'are forty-five Catholic churches, besides twenty-four chapels. ‘The Catholic Telegraph notifies members of the Catholic Church that thoy cannot connect thomeelves with Graugers nor Trades-Unions without infringing one of the laws of tho Church against sccret societies. Thbo New York Obsercer says there is great op- Eusman in Italy to the law promulgated by Victor Emanuel, requiring that marriages shali be au- thorized by the civil suthorities befure the priesta shall perform the ceremouy. Archbishop Purcell sent to the Pops, on tho twenty-ninth unn‘iver!ary of his 1cc:mustima, a congrntolatory telegram, expressing the hope that he might live to see the triumph of !usliog;, truth, and order, and the Qiscomfituro of anti- Chmnistian consrirators. Thureday, the twenty-eighth acniversary of the date of the beginniug of the reigu of Pope Pio Nino, was solemnly and besntifully celebrat- ed in the Church of the Annunciation, situated on Sixth and Labadie streets, St. Lows. Nover before in ita long _histary has the church boen privileged to the observance of such an anniver- are not the only proofs of Calvin’s fallivility. He be- Jieved also in the damnation of infants, en we ‘mads {his assertion, and proved it, & year #g0, certain T gary in tho life.of any of its Pontiffs, and this fact lent additional interest to yosterday's serv- oturch was draped in Papal ices. beautiful o, T bond yellow.-and its_foral decora- colorg—white and yel fions were mudo with a roficed taste and careful labor which _the import- spce of the oceagion enlisted. The paYieh Sobool ehildren wore all present in festive sttire, a large class of the little girly being arrayed in white veils and wreaths. The chureh was crowded 1 every part by devout worshipers. A graud hymn, entitled * Viva Pio Nono.” com- posed by Gounad for thia occasion, in whic® that Piaster did jnetice to bis reputation, was render- ed most ariistically. A grand high mass ‘was celebrated by the Kev, Father D. J+ Doberty, the Tausic being of the characterof a cantata. . A large number of communicants partook of tho gactament, after which Fathoer Doberty pro- hounced an elojuent culogy upon Pius IX., ro- Viewing the interesting_features of bhis _ver oventful life, and cetatling the biessings whic Tis twents-ojghith years' reign Lus brought upon the church. 7 FFPIBCOPAL. r Thero aro thirty-five Protestant Episcopal churches in the City of Baltimoro. A Congregstlunalist miniater of Nebraska has just beon Teceived into the miniutry of ihc Church. Bishop Kip bas issued a pastoral to the laymen of Californts, on the **abscuco of children from the public worship of the Church.” ‘The extreme Rituslits of England are report- ed to bo rendy to form a Free Church in case they are dnven from the Establiehed Church. Rev. Mr. Hanckel, rector of Christ Church, Charlotéesville, Va., during the eession of tho Jate Couvention immersed a number in the Tivanns River, At the summer rotreat of tha Churoh, Long Tuland, successivo companics of poor children aud women ere supported for oue or two weoks each by the benevolent of the church. The Jetter of the Rev. Dr. Ssmuel Buel, of the General Theological Seminary, uporEucharistic Adoration, in answer to the Rev. Dr. Do Koven, is said to have produced a profound sensation among Episcopalians. The Rov, Dr. Hudson roplies to the statement ihat much that is in the Chinreh would grow into Romanism if developed, that it iy true, For this is but alirming tho system to be tho Gospel, for has not Christianity in fact been doveloped into Tomanism? At the Iate public meoting in Now York of the Tree Church Guild, the speakers contended that the Free Church systom does away with * selfish~ ness nnd exclumivencss in God's house.” Sim- Tlicity of spparel was doclared as essential to makiig churches really free for the poor. The Rev. R, F. Spencer, a clergyman of the Chureh of England, announced to conduct the pervices in a Nonconformist church, was warned by the Bichop of London that such n course would incor sorions penaltios. ALr. Spencor re- plied, charging the zoalous ritualists with being e sclivmatics, and not those who cultivated friendly relations with other Christian bodies. The Bishop of Alsbama says: *“The prayor- book has been revised by men who were giants in their day. I confess, however, to a sinking of heart, when I contemplate such a thing in this, our new worid, where learning is 8o super- ficial, piety €0 Awarfsh and ouly our native conceit, like our p:imevnl forests, fully grown.” The Bishop of Missouri, in his Iate annual address, declares that ‘‘mew guestions have arigen with referenco to tho afiiliation of new Taces and creeds with the Church, looking to more complete Christian unity, snd demanding grave consideration.” Work among the Germans and tho colored people hus rocoutly received & new impulse. It is eaid that tho Episcopalschurches in St. Touis are pot entirely harmonjous in matters pertaiving to tho forms of worsbip. The in- toning of tbe services, worshiping toward the altar, and displaying cross symbols in a variety of places in St. John's, sre practices vory dis- tasteful to tho Low Church element, and may possibly open the way for the organization of o6 or more Reformed Episcopal Cliurches. The Rev. Dr. Clark, Bishop of Rbode Island, in his address, says: *As a catholic Church £he (the Episcapal Church) does tolorate, and is Dound to tolerate, whatever is not inconsistent with the fandamental principles of Christiauity and is not fatal to her own integrity, This com- prehensiveness i is one of her chief glories, and is what lifts her ont of the range of sectarianism. We should bo sorry to see any new limitations of Der frecdom.” The Rev. Dr. Huntington, Bishop of Central New York, thus speaks of Dr. Cummins: **The Tenunciation of the place in which tho provi- dence of God and tho Divine Grace of Oiders had set him, appoared to me to bo without rea- son in iteelf, without justification in its circnm- stances, without logical weight or clearness, or oven pathos in its expizostion; weak in its issues and only distracting 1 its effects, barren of all blessing, likely to be futile even a8 a gchism, 8 bitter and cruel seif-hurt to the se- coder Liimself, and a melancholy iudignity to the Body of Christ:" METHODIST. Tho Oakland Methodist Church received nine new members last Sunday. The Methodists in_Yorkville, IlL., have com- pleted a parsonage valued at $1,000. The new Oak Park Methodist Church will not be completed until some time nest spring. 8t. Louis, Mich., dedicated a new Methodist church on the last Sunday in Aay. It cost £4,800. Bishop Andrews dedicated a littlo Mothodist Church at Kearney Junction, Neb., May381, which cost about £4,000. The Gorman Methodist Church, of Chicago, tho Rev. F. Rinder, pastor, received ten new members last Sunday. The Western Avenue M. E. Cburch received seven new members last week, The total mem- bership is now 370, all of whom except twenty- two have joinea mnder the proaching of the preeent pastor, the Rov. A. Yooker. Referring to the claim of the Tev. D. Cobb, “Presiding Elder of the Minneapolis District of the AL E. Church, that Bishop Merrill, who had overruled one of the Presiding Elder's dacisions, had no jurisdiction over thoe district, the Nor(h- western Advocale takes occasion to say that tho Bisbops are general superintendents, and have » general jurisdiction over Mothodist affairs. The meotings of the Aunual Conferonces of lthu M. E. Cnurch South aro announced as fol- ows : Coe Western Virginin South Carolina. Baltimore.... Northwest Texas, West Texaa, Eust Texas! mce orgal 4ima and plac. Bishop Keener bas ‘misalon in Me: Denver. Columl Tacifto, Los Angeies, Bouth Georg REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The new Church is enteriag the mission fleld. Mirsionaries aro now laboring in Kansas, Colo- rado and Washington Territories, and scveral more anticipate following their example. Of the two deacons ordained in Chrst Chiurch, Chi- cago, the Rey. Dr. B. B. Usher will commenco Dbis_ministry in_Aurora, L., while the Rev. H. H. Brooks will Iabor in Washington Territory. The Christian al Work says: ‘“Bishop Hese, of Central Pennsylvania, while opposed to the new Church movement, yot spoaks of 1ts Bishop a3 one whom the Church once delighted to lonor, sud ono whom it would be very uube- coming and gratuitous to deprecato now.” Con- trasting those words with other Episcopal utter~ ances, it observes: ‘‘By bis own conscience surely overy man must stand or fall; and when & course is dictated by thorough conscience and siucenty it may bo doubted if to apply to it vio- lent language mmjurcs avy but the party using it, if, indeed, it does not put a weapon in an sdver- sary’s haads.” A th \'m P o anr Spokas mong’ the Nez Percos and i tribes 920 are Christian converts. e The Sixth Universslist Society of New York has erecied an elegant stone church at the cost of 125,000, , A member of the Madison Squsrs Presbyteria: Church, New York, has e rentin ;fim’f 2ge buildingand grounda to a Congregational church jna New England town, where he re- ceived in youth bis religious education and training. The Lutherans proposo to ercot & monnment to thoir founder, on the centenntal grounds at Philadelphia It is understood that a number of Indy students are to enter the Boston (Mofimdiut) School of Theology uext fall, ‘Tho spiritual pilgrimsge which has been con- ducted in the cathedral, Natchez, Alies., ¢ince May 25, is to close July 14. The_Dritieh aud Foreign Biblo Socicty last year isued 1,651,089 copies of Dibles, Testa- ments, or portions of Scripture. A large number of strawberry festivals wero held among the weveral church sacieties last weok, nearly ali of which were finaucially suc- coustul. K Eastern papers do not alono misreprosent the West in regard to financlal matters, thoy nlso calumniate its clergy. They report that & Pres- byterian minister in Illinols was found to.hnve two wives, and excused himself by saying that he had experienced Mormoanism. ! The editor of the Cumberland Presbyterian objects to the great waste of time caused by pro- longed jingling of tho D. D.'s and double L. D.’s appended to the names of the delegates to the great church meetings, and _is glad tho general Assembly of tho Presbytoriau Church has de- cided o drop theso titles in its deliberations. The Chriatian Observer prints with gres® ‘fil.da the religions endurance of three women : ‘' They walked to tire church, avar threo miles off—and back again, making eix good miles on a warm day. Omno of them is in ber seventy-fifth year, and the otber in her fifty-fourth. “At snocher church an_old lady, sgzed 76, rides _ to church: on horsoback, a distaces of ten miles, and over one of the worst roads in tho State.” The last report from Brooklyn, N. Y., was that she had clurclios ns follows : ~ Episcopalian, 38 ; Roman Catholic, 3+: Methodist, 33 ; Baptiat, 32 Prosbytorian, 33; Congregational, 18 ; Reformed Duteh, 15 ; Lutheran, 12; Nou-Episcopal JMetho- diet, 4 Unitarian,8; Golored Methodist, 5; German Mothodst, 2; Jewieb, 6; miscellane- ous, 6 ; or about one church to every 4,700 of the population. —At thoe recent Sabbath-School Convention in Towa, the following wero submitted ns the sta- sistics of Sabbath-Schools in the State: Number of schools, 2,463 ; teachers and ofticors, 23,824 goholars, 145,780 total memborship, 279,613 The number roceived into the Church from the Sabbath-Schools during the past year were 3,646; amount oxponded for Subbath-School purposes during the year, §30,20L. The students of the Union Theological Sem- inary, Now York, ought to becomo good theologians. They aro under the constant in- struction uf such men as the Rev. Mr. Adams, D. D.: the Rev. W. G.T. Shodd, D. D.; Philip Schafl, D. D.; Georgo L. Prentiss, D. D. ; be- pides lectures delivered by J. W. Dawson, LL.D. ; D. Tilden Brown, AL D., and tho Hou, William Strong, LL. D., Justice of the United States.Snpreme Court. r. L. C. Tangerich, a zealous Swedonborgi- 2D, of Philadelphis, desirous uf promulgating tue doctrines of the great apostle of his creed, has offered to farnish to every Protestant clergyman in America who may desire it, a copy of Sweden- borg's Trae Christian,” & large_ octavo volgmo of over 600 pages, in which the theology of the pew Church is set forth, The bookis obtsinable of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelplin, by send- ing 40 cents for postage. Tho Christians of the Southern States havo is- sued o circular address proposing union aud co- operation with all Evangelical believersin Christ. Thoy cloim that tho ** Church of the Strangers ™ in Now York, of which the Rov. Dr. Decms is astor, and tbe *Church of the Peoplo” in rooklyn, of which tho Kev. Hugh O. Peutecost i pastor, havo been organized on tho same prin- ciples which govern their organization. It is quite common for Roman Catholic priests to so wodify their belief as to permit them to throw off their vows of celibacy. Ex-Dean Grassi, who scandalized Papal uociet{llnu: year by turning Protestant and Dapuist, bas taken znother step in apostasy by leading a bride to the altar, T'ho wedding was attended by Fathor Gavazzi and six or soven other ex-priests. Tho ceremony was pertormed at the Mayor's office at the Capitol. Tho Abbe Chevard has also en- tored into the married state, hus bride being a young French lady of Marseilles. Father Hva- inthe officiated at the wedding, and delivered an eloquent discovrse. ST g PERSONAL. €1116AGO. The Rev. A. J. Colby has recently assumed tho pestorate of the Maywood Baptist Church. Bishop Whitehouse has been holding confir- mation scrvices wm several of the Episcopal churches of Wisconsin. Tho Rgv. W. H. Daniols has resigned the pastorate of the Park Avenue M. E. Church, Chicago, on account of ill-health. The Rev. D. J. Burrell has been unanimonsly called to occapy the pulpit of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of this city. The Rev. Robert Collyer delivers tho annnal sermon before the Natioual Conference of Uni- tarians at Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 16. ‘The Rev. Dr. Ryder will leave this evening for Massachusetts. (Wednesdsy ho_is to deliver tho Qdedieation address of the new Dean Academy in Frauklin, Mass. The Rev. J. T. Morris, pastor of tho M. E. Church in Tampico, 1il., blown down by the recent tornado, was in the city last week, solictt~ ing aid to rebuild. Prof. Swing, in the last Alliance, eulogizes tho Rev. James Miller McKim, who recently died in Orange, N. J. Mr. McKim devoted the latter yoars of Lis Jife to the work of educating tho freedmen in the Bouth, Tho Rev. James Freemsn Clarke, of Boston, ‘having declined the call o the pastorate of the Church of the Measiah, New York, the church has extended an invitation to tho Rev. W. H. Cudworth, of Eaat Boston. Mensrs. J. V. Farwell, D. W. Whittle, J. H. Cole, 8. A, Kean, E. D. Ingersoll, J. M.’ Hitch- cock, and W. W. Vaparsdale, are delegates elocted by the Young Men's Clristian Associa- tion of Chicago, to atteud the National Conven- tion to be held in Dayton, O., next week. ELSEWHERE. Bishop Odenheimer has been granted a vaca- tion of six months and given a purse of 1,000, The Rev. Dr. Dix, of New York, is to have s vacation of six months, and will shortly leave for Europe. _The Bishop of Missiesippi ndmitted, on Ascen- gion Day, Mr. George H. Jackson, a colored man, to the Diaconate, The Amorican Cardinal is_going to be either Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, or Archbirhop Porche, of New Orleaus ; 80 those say who cluim to be posted. Jean Francols Landroit, Aschbishiop of Rheims, » diotinguished prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, is dead. He was born in 1816. The Bishop of Durbam, well known for his opposition to the progress of ritualism, is slowly zrecovering from an attack of sickness. The pastor of the Shawmut Congregational Church, Boston, is to haye a vacation until Sep- tember, and a thonsand dollars extra to help him epend 1t happily. A correspondent of the Standard (Baptist) spesks some very eulogistic words in favor ot the Rev. E. Q. Taylor, recontly ivstalled pastor of the Ionis, Mick,, Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr, W. D. Howard, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, has Just completed the twenty-fifth year of his pastorato, and the occasion was duly celebrated. The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in his last sermonat Bostou, before eailing for Europe, said : **The worat influonce comes from * mcanly admiring & mean man.’ The sdmiration of the noble and truo i the essimilativg process that lifts us from lower to higher planes of life and heart.” The Rev. Mr. Novin, a presbyter of the Dio- cese of Pennsylvania, is building a fine Episcopzl Church s Rome, Italy, to cost $100,000, and to seat 800 persons. In one of his sermons, Mr. Nevin discussed tho question : *Is the Roman Church exclusively the Catholic Church? If ro, 8ne must prove it by historical svidence orby the evidence of hor work on earth." The sermoa showed that history did mot favor the former claim, and he pointed to the state of society in Italy and Bome againsy the latter claim. g RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. The pl}ce for holding the next meoting of tho Evangelical Alliance is now uoder discussion, and a corres pondence has been begun for the purpose of determining whether the body shall meet in Jeruealem or Rome. Ar. Spurgeon eays ho remembers one Sundsy evaning, whila preaching to a crowded congre- gotion, saying: * There is o man in the gallery now with & gin boitle in his pocket;" and al- though the statement was merely madetoenforce a point, with no idea that it was literally accu- rate, thers was uot only a man with & gio-bottle = at that eide of the gallory to which he pointed, ! but there was another ‘man at tbe other gide similarly burdened, and both these men from that hour were convertod. 5 An Eastorn clorgy cost the United States nually ; the criminals, $40,000,00f £70,000,000; rum, $20,000,000. 1t is reported that tho Royv. Roland 3lacphor- son, of one of the Edinburg churches, is some- what anxious about the future of the Seotch establishment, not becauso he fears the Roman- ism that (ireatens the Anglican Church, but be- enuso itisdrifting soward Something whick *is much more dangerous,’—uamely, Congregations alism, Surrey Chapel, the sceno of the Iabors of the Rev, Rowland Hifl, was built through the influ- ence aud assistanco of Lady Hantingtou, duugh- ter of the Earl of Ferrars, whom Horace Wal pole styled “The Queen of the Methodist: Oue of Ler daughters was appointed Lady of thoe Dedenamber at the Coart of (teorge ILL., but her motter begzed her to be released in o fow montbs, a8 sho would not allow her to play cards on Sunday. The new Congregational Memorial Tall, which bos just boon comyleted inLoudon, England, contains an suditoriut capablo of seating 1,200 persons, & library whick will accommoidaLs 300 persons, a boavd-room and 25 ofiicers. 1t stands ou s postion of the ground wlich was occupind by the Old Fleet Prisop, whoro some of the earliest martyrs of Indopendonce were confined, aud from whose gates, 200 years ago, sevoral of them were led forth to the scaffold. Exclusive of the site and the furniture, the building cost about $150,000. The New York Observer saya: A lacture was given recently in tho Colosseum at Rome by Prof. Fabio Gori, of Tarin, in which he at- tempted to show that there were, positively, no Iistorical grounds whatever for the long-cher- ished iden thst the arena nad ever been the ap- pointed place for the martyrdom of the early Cbristians. 1In his opinion tbere was uot ghadow of authority for this assumption, al- though the Cirous Maximus, and other large arens appropristed o public games and civic commomorations_of various kinds were, no doubt, occasionally made the sceno of such martyrdom. & In a rocont lecturo on the Roman Catscombs, Dean Scanley, of Westminstor Abvey, said that the oldest chamber of tho catacombs, whict dated from about the beginniug of the secoud century, contained represcatations of a josous nature, Thoro wero uo crosses or illustrations of torture, or dzath's heads, but wreaths of roscs and children ot play. Usathen paintings were very freely copied, the figurcs of Orphous, Psyche, and Bacchus being frequent. In the midst of so much heathen imagery was the fre- quent representation of the Good Shepherd. Tho religion of the first Cliristinns, as it appeared in tho catacombs, was a religion of a joyful nature, ono which had & tondency not to repel but to in- clude, pot to condemn but to save. Besides tho Good Sheplerd the most_prominent figuro wus the vine, which ran over tho whole chamber, A carious caso of diecipline came up in the Presbyterian Chnrch of Packersburg, W. Va. A member of the church, who is a milkman, was errugned bofore_ sestion, not for watering bis mill, but for serving it to his customers on tha Lord’s Day. He brought in a double defense: Firstly, that his merchaudise was of such a perishiable nature that it could not be delivered on Setarday with assurance thazit would be fit for use ou Sunday. This wasdebated at someleogth. But when, a8 hia_*‘ Secoudly,” tae man of milk proved to the satisfaction of the session that the Zame of the pustor and two of the elders helped to make up the roll of his customers, it was agreed to call the case square all round, sod so d:scipline was dismizsed. Would that every case of ecclesisstical discipline would end as satisfactorily and conclusively. A sacrilegious robbery of raro andacity has taken place at the Churchof St. Puulippe du Roule, in the Faubourg St. Homnore, Paris. Somo workmen were lately employed to do some repatrs to the roof. The day after they had done, threo men with & horse and cart camo down at noonday o the bick of the charch, set up a ladder, gained the tcp, sud threw down sheets of lead, which they made off with. The neighbors, fancying them to be the same men before employed, took no notice of their pro- coedings. Thoy continued their robbery for three days ruoning, snd mado away with as much as 6,000 pounds of lead. It wasmot till the rain fell through the roof wpou the vestry- room that an inspection was made, which led to tho discovery of the theft, but not of tho thieves. The Nazarenes are o scct in Austria, and par- ticularly in Hungary, estimated at 50,000, or more, The majority of them came out from the Greek and Romish churches, but not infrequent- 1y they gather recruits from the Lutheran and Reformed. They aro diligent students of the Bi- Dle, and, as some silege, read no other book, maintain the doctrine of the Trivity, and of sal- Vation through the stonement of Christ; con- scientiowsly refuse to bear arms, even at the cost of imprisonment for years; never restore to fel- Jowship such as are once excluded for an irregu- Jar walk ; pay nosalary to their pastors ; baptize none except those who make profession of faith, but practice both immersion and sprinkling, and 2dmit only their own members to participation in the Lord's supper. Several of their members, not long since, were brought before the courts in Vicons and punished, because thoy refused to Liave their children beptized. A recent English paper says: ** The unvoiling of the Bunyan statue at Bedford, Eogland, this ‘eck, whero the glorious old pilgrioy plied bis trado of tinker and suffered imprisonment for conscience® sake, was attended with much eclat. The statae is the gift of the Duke of Bedford, & churchiman, and broad-bearted Dean Stanley a3 a reverent assistant at the ceremonies, which forcibly suggests the progress mado by the world ia religlous toleration sinco two centuriea ago, whea & brutal English JSustico thus gave judgment sgainst diesenting Bunyan: * You Tmust be Liad back to prison, and there lie for thres months following ; and, at three months’ cnd, if you do not submit o o to churéh to hear divine ervice, and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if, after such a day 28 shall be appointed you to be goue, you hall be found in this realm, or be found to como ovor again without special licouse from the Riug, you must streteh by the neck for if, I tell you plainly.'” - 1t appears that all tho so-called Evangelica bodies are striving to be first 1 occupying tho old City of Rome, and in doiog g0 are gving riso to all the evils of too_minuta a subdivision of religious effort. A religious journal aays ¢ o place shows o livelier pcturs of tho competition of sects than this unfortunsle city. Itis muchto bo hoped that the zeal and mouey of some good and in- fluential Christians may Le coployed In harmonizing and co-ordinating these incobiercut afforts to do good, in which so lurge a part of the forco cmployed is lost Yy means of tho crors purposes of the agents. If thoso who have in hand tie enterprise of the American Union Chapel only appreciate their opportuaity, what & capi- fal thing they may do by muking theirprojected build- fug not merely » religions Lotel for wojourners, but, at the eame time, 3 great tabernacle for ths comnion evangsiteal work of the city, surrounded with offices and smaller chapels for every departmert of miesion wark, and for the uee, not of onc eect, but of all. Suck » building wonld syinbolize and_demoustrate tho sulb- ‘stantial unity of Frotestant Christinnity. ” ——— RELIGIOUS FRIVOLITY. A Vermont debating club is now struggling swith the question, * Which eats the most chick- cus—ministers or owla?” A Brockport, Pa., parson, who, with Paul, be- lieves that it is better to marry than burn, offers twenty cords of wood for a wife. Abit of oraoge peel eat & good Iowa deacon flat on his back while passing the contribution~ box. Orange peel ia very popnlar there now. *“Who was the moekest roan?” asked & Sun- day-school teacher. ¢ Moges.” *Very well. Who was the meckest woman?” ' Never wag a0y.” Itisa lLitle straoge that Batler's children phonld take to piety, buthe hasason whois President of the Pi Eta Society of Harvard.— New York World. A Minncsota clerzyman has sued thirty-five ‘members of his church, who refuse to pay pew- rent because ho alluded to them in oue of his sermons us * empty heads.” A Kansas boy earned a nice Bible by commit- ting 800 verses to memory, and then he traded his Bible for & shot-gun and accidentally shot Lis aont in the leg. Sunday-school teacher (reproyiagly)—"* Boys, do_you know. what day thig is 2" Street-boy— “fIi, follers, Liere's a cove as don't know what day thus is!’ I guess he's been out all night!™ Mr. Beccher objects to persons who make it a habit to go around from prayer-meeting to pray- er-moating relatlog thoir experience and indulg- ing in lou, prayers. Ho calls them * spiritual bummers.” A couniry curate complained to old Dr. South that ho received only five pounds for preaching a certain sermon at Oxford. *‘Five pounds!™ said the doctor; *‘why, 1 wouldn't have proached that sermon for fifty] ™ Bayard Tarlor has secured the correspondencs tust passed between Joxeph and Pottphiar's mife, and wants to'translate it. It sppears by the cor- regpondence that what has beea hitherto heard $12,000,000 an- ; the lawyers, aper gives theso statistics: Tho. ) he stepped aside, aud hoard, “Sauners, I say! of the story was only Joaeph's version, as he re- ports it to his wife.—New York Herald. A small Aberdeen child being asked by hor Sunday-school teacher what did the Israclites do after theycrossed the Rod Sea, auswered: **I do not know ma'am; but perbaps they dried thomselves.” , Thackeray tells of an Irishwoman begging of bim, who, when sho saw him pattiog his hazd in bis pocket, cried out, “*May the blessiug of evening In (he Michiga ; Toord e, - ichigs8 Aveatis Churct néot Ty, —The Rev Mr. Remingte u # thia marning iu the First Gosenr . Qs il gy Gospel-meeting in the evenlng, o A4 bay —'Tho Rav. W. W, Everts, Jt., will presch fygg o+ ing. and Dr. Evcrts this evening, in th .00t B nue Chapel, corner of Thirticth street. in —Tie Rev. Dr. Chenoy will preach thisme cvening in the AsGland Avenus Chureh rotsaed onroe acd Paulina streete, > “0mer of ~—The Rev, C, H, DeWolf will' presch at Emmanuel Chapel, corper of Cemnm;l; Fogiag: 801 and Sangamon strects. God follow you all the days of vour life!” But ) T VREE G - ' & when bo. drew .out his snuff-box, ehe quickly Festy, and this evoniog In the North Star Cuorey added, **and nover overtake you.” Chureh of Rockford, preaches ;;&‘;"L‘f‘-& Bing In s country town in lnino)i)s S {)c:; evenings Y“’l:,gf‘;::k- ey i i since, at & panorams of the Biblo, & Jittle 8-year- | ;0 % Dreach, thy s "orapped in sdmiration at the dcono | oo STERIOE i the Touple Chorch, comey of & until the picture of Jacoband Revecca attho well appeared, when Ee looked up ond said : «pn do you soe that picture ? T'll just bet 35 they'ro Grangers.” The lata Dr, Fletcher was’preaching an even- ing sermon to a crowded audience in Edinburg, when a note was handed up to Lim to intimate that if Dr. Sv-and-0 was in the church he was urgently wanted. Haviog read tho note, and soging the Doctor moving off, ho immediztely added, with great fervor, ** And. may the Lord have mercy on bis patient.” Judgo White gives us an evangelical story of the first water. Ouo of his students was a con- vert at & protracted meeting, but, not finding the peaco ho hoped from bis couversion, he waitea on his minister, and informed him of his back- sliding condition. *'Your heart is hardened b your profession,” solemnly said the man of God. “Quit the law office; retire on your knees to your study, and be broughv out either s Christian @ a corpse.” 7 . A story told by Dr. 2cCoeh, of Princeton Col- logo, is Geasonablo. A negro in a religious gath- erinfi prayed earnestly that bo and his colored brethren might bo préserved fromiwhat he called their " upseutin’ #ins.” # Brudder,” said one of his fricnds, at the close of the meeting, * you 2in't got tho hang of dat word. It's * besettin’,’ not *upsettin''* * Brudder,” replied the other, s+if dat's s0, it's so. But I was prayio’ de Lord 8 i T avenue, near Tweaty will be the luat scrvice of the scason, St, Paul's Church, No evening servis, :%d cvening at the Leavitt Street and evening in the Unfon Park Church, preach in the evening. will preach this evening in the New Englany The paster will preach in the marning, vice. the English Luthersn Church of ner North Dearborn and Erie streets, AWEDENDORGIAY, The Rev. S, 8. Seward will preach fo g, Secey wedenborglan Sociery at Sy Chapar et ninth ‘strees, at 3, o Ty —The Rov. J. It Hibbard will preach at ¥ey g Hall, corner Eighteenth street and T okiock, and st Dafon Park Tengls s e avenge 3 The Rev. J. E, Farrester, D, s D., mil evening at the Church of the Redeemer, ington and Sangamor i3 will be devoted to the childrez, i n streets, The m;‘:&;’”‘ux —The Rev. Dz. Ryder will officiats this pory Fomlg iy CONGREGATIONAL, L The Rev. Albert Bushnell will PIEch uma. 5% o of —Tho Rev. C. D, Helmer will preich'ihs g —The KRev. J. T. Hyde will conduct 3 il ico this mornibg in the Oakland Chard, ‘,}"fm of the Eenwood (x, Gy, Drach 1y —The Rev. E. ¥, Willl —The ltey, (Willlam Alvin Bartlett will TPiymouth Chureh, corner of Indians sve oy wenty-sixth strest, at 10:30 8. I, No evening preachatita tae Holy Tl o LCTHERAY, ‘The Rev. Edmund Belfour will UNTARLAN. Tho Rev. Robert Collyer will preach fhis to 6ave us from do sin of intoxication, an' if dav | st Uaity Church, corner of Déarborn ol ain't do upsettin s, I dunno what am.” Strects, on + Tho Tender 21ercy of God.” o snack Dr. Barton was a punster to the backbone. | “—There will be s service of b D Collons Tlaboy to | Chnreiot Tho, alianahs o ot Atmeatsils have an organ in tha chapel; but L put a stop to | sad Tweaty-third sireét. Fho Rev. Heory P it;" whether for the sake of tho pun, or because | Will give &3 address on slave music, which wil by n: distiked music, isuuucnrmin. He invited, for g‘gg;kd by the Humpton students, who wiil by the love of punuing, Mr. Crowe and Mr. Eooke —Tho S0 g with imand baving iven Me. Birde | 5eTion ohacrh: snn The My of Samistly more, another guest, a hiot to be rather bebind time, oo his sppearing he saud, *Mr. Rooke, Mr. Crowo, I beg leave to introduce one Bird more.” He married lus niece to a gentleman of the hopeful name of Backle. Tue enterprise succeeded ::Innd hiy expectation. Mrs. Buckle was delivered of twins. * A pair of buckles 1 “Boys or girls? inquired a congratulating friond. Theanswer may be supposed. To bim, though it Lias been attributed to others, belongs the glory or the shame of having said to one who, having ro-established his health by a diec of milk and eggs, took s wife: _**So you have been eggéd ou to matrimony. 1 hope the yolk will sic easy on you.” A gentleman had occasion to call on the Rev. Thomas Campbell when he was at Glasgow. “Is the dominie in?” he inqured of a portly dzma who opened the door. *‘He's in the yaird, sooporintendin’ Sauners, tho carpenter. Y6 can see lum the nooif your business 18 vera precise.” d into the yard where ho skly planiug away to tacair of *Maggio Lauder,” and the dominie s:anding | 1 by. Uuwilling to intrudo on thoir couversation | V. v Can ye no bearme?" *Yes, minister, I hear yo. What's your will?” #Can 3o no whisila kome meir solemu aud godly tune while ya're at your work?"" % A-weel, minister, if it be your wull, I'll e’en do it.” Upon which be changed the air to the ** Dead March in Saul,” greatly to at the Third Church on *‘ The Myste of Afiiction The Rev, Heary Powers will pr:n{thu{n’mn eveing, . METHODIST. ‘The Rev. J. M, Phelps will preach this morning apq ening in the Michigan Avenue Church, Tl Rev. C. G, Truedall will preach this morning and grenfug 3t ihe s{;& “Avenue Church. —The Bev, A, J. of Michigan, will preac morning and evening at the Church of God, precry Warren avenue and Robey strect. - —Elder G. G. Muliins wili prea the Central Chisistisn Church, neas Joferson Patk, o “Tye Old-Fashioned Goxpel.F - —The R: ‘Western A Tho Rev. Dr. Thomas will preach this morning end . evening at the First Church, corser of Clark aad Washington treels, —The preach. Trinity Church, on Indians avenue, near Tweatye fourth strect. —The Rev, J. 0. Peck preaches as wual by Cexe tenary evening subject s, #A Liberal Lteligion.” ch this moming in . A, Youker will preach a8 usual e Chareh, T e Rev. 8. McChesney will &8 woualap Church, on Monroe street, near Morgan, The MISCELLANEOCS. Preaching in Green Stevec Trbernacle morning ad evenivg —Finst Society of Spirit! ‘Bible class 13:30 p. m.. alists will hold eervices of 5. m, and 5:30 p. ., in Grow’s Opers-Houwse. E, Wilion will lecture in the morning and hold sexacs the evening. —Adventists will meet in their hall No. 213 Weet Modison street at 10:30 a. m. snd 7:30 p. T, Breaching by Eider joch. * Prim; 8 et 3N, 504 Yan Vrés, comer of Fraukin i H. G. McCulioch. ary Council No. 1 of the U. A, of 10: a.m. Lecture by T. 8. A, Pope. Subject, “It 0 Gy e | lism the Superior Outgrowth of an the hindrance of tho planing. Ths dominio | CBFstisnity?” o ARIS. —The progressive Lycenm of Chicago meets af 12% looked op for some minutes in ilence, and then | = "38 BRAROTR RS Sl S8 SO said, **Snuners, I heo another word to say till ¥o. ' Did the gudo wila hire yo by the day's darg or by the job2” ¢The day's darg was our sgresing, master.” “Thes, on_ tho whole, Shuners, I think yo mey just as well gie back to whistling * Donpis Maggio Lauder.”” Tt is related in the Congregationalist of the father of the late Rev. Dr. Storrs, of Draintreo, ass., a strong advocate of the docirine of fore- ordination, that havioy ooce made an appoint- ment to exchange with the late Rev. Dr. Osgood, of Suringfield, be started for the lsttor place with his own team on the Sunday agreed upon, aud when about half-way thither met Dr. Os- good ar¥ing down. Thoy stopved naturally, for s moment's conversation, and Dr. Storrs goon glided into his favoritotheme. * Why,” said be, i uee how wonderful are the decrees of Provi- dence, Here it has been foreordained from all eternily that we should excliange pulpits to-day, and snre we are met talking the matter over.” @ \hat's that 2" said Dr. Qsgood, not quito sure on this foracrdination business; ‘“do you eay it bas been decreed that we should exchango pul- pits to-day 2” **T do,” replied the other solemn- Iv. **Well, thon,” returned Dr. Osgood, “I'll break one of God's decrees, for I ehall preach in my own pulpit to-day ;" and, turning his horse sbout, he drova rapidly homeward, Jeaving tho astonished Dr, Storrs to return to Longmeadoy, musing on the possible uncertainty of decrece. e CHURCH SERVICES TO-DAY. EPISCOPAL o The Bav. Dr. Stocking will preach in the Church of the Epiphaoy, Throop street, betwcen Monros and Adaros, at 10:30 and 7:45 o'clock. —The Rev. Henry G, Perry will preach morning and evening in All Saints’ Church, corner of North Car- penter and Fourth streeta. —The Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers will officfate 8 usual {n St. John's Church, Ashland_svenue, near Madison streot, Morning subject: * The Miracle of Dreama.” —Tho Rev. W. J. Petrie, Rector, will preach morn- ingand evening in the Church of Our Savior, Belden and Lincoln avenues. —The Rev. Dr. Cushman will presch morningand eveningn St. Stephen’s Church. Morning subject : # The Relation of Pastor and People.” _The Rev. George C. Street will conduct eervicesin thi 23) ; St. Paulinus, B. June 10); Vigil of the Nt made without auy regar tions, his eplendid hnm:h‘thu order aod magn nificence of his palace, nd oo mercial prosperity of his reign, the writings s tributed to bim, and above all tho silenco iz Washington and Desplaines stresis, —_— CALENDAR FOR THE WEER ZPISCOPAL. June 1—Third Sundsy after Trinity. “Fune 24—Nativity of St. Job the Buplist. BoMAN CATIOLIC. =Fourth Sunday after Pentecost; Bt. Aloye Magdaleno of Pazzi, V. (from Ms3 June 21 sins Gonzagy, C. June 22—St. Mary June 23—St. Margaret, Qnueen of Beotland, W, (frorg ivity of St. Jobn the Baptish, | June 24— Nativity of St, Jobi the Daptist. © T June 235-8t, Willlam, Abb. June 26—S8, John and Paul, ML June 2701 the Octave. LIFE. Arosy clondlet, born of the Sun, 1n the West, er its goldoa conrse i runy Suiling the tkics in the eveaizg light, Gathering gloom in its onward light, Tl it ' lost I the darkening night "Round it tost : Such is Life. A fioweret budding in merry Spring, Nureed in tho shade of an Angel's wing, ‘Blooming fresh in the warm Sun's 13ss, il it droops in the cheerless Antumm-lsy And s swept 3 From its brother's Zazg, Scarc: unwept: Buch is Life, A strosmiet laving the mountain’s fe ‘Euriching bright meadows and felds Kisting the wald flowers bending low 4 its breast, till it 's gone in tho 80w Of'the se3, Liko s moment g0 To eternity 1 Such is Life, Jaxes LivaLIT, PRy T e 'Fhe Song of Solomon, Tho reign of Solomon is tho Hobrew ideal of o profans or purely 1 6 -ular life. His allisncet for religions distino e indugtrial and com* sed on those formidablo agitators. the * nabi” } 0 St Petor's Mission Chapel, No. 45 Third aveate. | by prophets, ali point to an nterval of carelest Morning prayer, 10:30; celobration of Ioly Com- | gnd joyous festivity. Whatever the inflnence munton, 11:30; Evonsong, $:30; second Evensong, | Moses once was, it was lost now. Ewald Iadesd with sermon, 8 p. m. 1as shown in tho most conclusive maner —'The Rev. W. ff. Smythe will officiste as usualat | the faine of Moses underweot a long eclipeo 36 thie Ohuroh of the Holy Communion, Dearborn street, noar Thirtleth. - B hio Bov. J. F. Walker will presch this morning at Catvary Clinrch on Warren, neot Western aveaae. The Tiav, Dr. Locke will preach in the evening. The Rev. Dr, Locka preaches this morning in.] of Grace Chnrch on “ A Brother's Treachery.” The e ter bis death, that _his . Tuown uuder the Judges and during tho et sges of the monarchy, Within two centurie of the faliof the Kingdom name was almosf uD- ‘and that it was not uncl Judab that ho attained hus subsequent grrads eur. Thus tbers was a kind of toleration 0% Frank Fleetwoud, of Marquette,will preach in the even- foreign cults, induced by intercoursa with of mré. uations, snd supported by tho infinencs, '€ 'he Rev. 7.'W, Bonham, Evangelist, who hasre- | of Egyptiap, Phanician, and Moasblte cently returncd from the Cliy of London “Ten Dasw’ | yomen, It 'was sn interval in the jexiom,” wall eliver a disconrse this morning in bt. Paul's Church, Hyde Pazk, cn *Tbe Great Rovivaly® Blso at 7:45 p. . REFORMED EPIFCOPAL. ‘The Rt.-Rov. Cuarles Edward Cheuey will presch in Carist Chiurch, cornes Michigan avenue and Twenty= fourth strect, morning and evening. Morning sub- Ject: © Knowledgo and Leve.” Evening sublect: “ The Latter Raim.” PRESDYTERIAN. The Rev. W. W. McEaig will preach fn the Ninth Church, Ellis svenue, Bear Thirty-soventh strvet, morping and evening. O The Rev, Ben E. 3. Ely will preach In Graco Pres- byterian Ghurchy corner of Viuceuncs sad Oak ave- nites, morning and evening. 2 e Rov., James Maclaughlan will preach morning aad evening in the First Scotch Presbyterian Church, orner of Saagamon and Adams streets, Xl Rev. C. J. Hlll, of Princeton, 1il., will preach {nts morning and evening st the usual hours atthe Fagitsh Church. e Ruv. Abbott E. Kitiredge will preach this morning ia the Third Church on “The Death of OrRIOR a6 this evening on 1 was afzald,” or moral cowardice. b Tier. J. Monzoo Gibson will preach as usual in the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue snd Twentietn street. Tho evening sermon is addressed to young men. ZThe Bev, David Swing will, preach this morning iu this Fourds Church, cormer of Bush and Superlor streets. I Tho Bey. Charles L. Thompson n tbe Fifth Ohurch, corner of Wal Forty-first street, The ‘morning subject is, Work 1 the Church.” e Tiov. J. B. McClure preachesst Tiver Park this moruin; e e e D, Burrell will preach s ususd ot the ‘Westminster Church, corner of Jackson and Peoria stroets, Themorning subject s, ‘Woman's Sphers in Socioty and {n the Church.” e Rev. E. R Dave i proschs this evealag in the Campbell Park Jisgion. g Hingihi, ot Kankakee, will preach ~The Rev, Mr. tbTa morning and evenivg in the American Beformed and Jefferson Park Church. DAPTIST. cal of of sul is to ches a8 sual Lash avenue and Woman's at which the cousciousness tiny was as yeb unfelt. c as these tho dramsa wo are considering was Pro- duced. For it ious, it is true, Tas ‘been regarded on the one hand a4 & poe properly go called, with both unity sud progrect ogy of their nature. But g id- Laustive examination of u.wh work jteelf, consids, ered verso by verse, has shown in manver that it is & pastoral drama. The chal-, acters are distinct sud well detined, and it hostility to pemdcys tho whole comvosition, The fred tribes of tho North preserved to tho 1ast zaort, of the Semitic spirit and nomadic impatience o} organized coutrol, and, ern composition. ‘matis persoum are as follove: , young girl of the tribe of Issachar, carried 0. from Ler mative village Sants of Solomon, and brougnt into the baremk: same village, follows her, who is displayed ss the powerfal roor of Taraol—s liberal Iatitujinarisn sge, i3 of an all-absorbing dex-; Under such conditions; isa drama, The widest oplus ‘have been Lold on tbis point. 1 events, and on the other ns 3 mero collection Jovo-songs, boand together ouly by the sml- M. Rensn, by an &X- tho cleares! ficient to ssy that, whoever was its anthat, certainly Solomon was not. The parthe playk but oor one, and indeed an l-disguised N B Nis | reizn snd his memorf as we shall have g S liow. tho *Song” was undoubtedly 8 uoth Driefly describ the dra: e e amile, 5 of Sulem by the ser' Tior lover, & _young mau of the and with whom, afie; veral interviews, ato at last escapes, Solomam, but nnaccess Jerusslem. ful suitor, and various choruses of meu Women of Jerusalem, odalisques and Isdies of thi the drama tht o seraglio, and at the close of brothers of the Sulamite. The conclading verset l&l)rm a moral drawn from the play, eveats of tht mouth and wera doubtless placed in: the ‘ thep, &’ sago or elder. The Song of Songs, A composition oecupying a middle position be-’ tween=the regular dramas svd the logue . Regular drams, indeed | . E. 3. Goodspeed, D. D., will preach for | OF pastoral dialogue. i e e B = Ghrch, st bemliary Buliding, Hyds | in our sence of the word, did Dot exist snond: Park, at 10:45 5, o, The lev. E. J. Bisliss will preach | the Jews. The ides 58 well as the Y‘muco ! 2 217130 p. . Bufect, ** Joy Among the Angela. entirely opposed to their habita of thought, Abc, E. J. Baylisa will preach in the Second corner Morgan aud Monroe strects, 15 %he moruing, and the Rev. E.J. Goodsgecd in the evening. Baptistual service in the morning. - Evening nbject: * Chiarity and the Teeth of Hatred.” e Rev. J. Malveru, pastor, will preach in the mmunton aptist Church, corner of Loomis —Tbe Bor. in Bagtist Church, ec aversion. later times they regasded it with tho 8irons! 4 The iligh Priest, Jason, 1 rated for having establisbed & jasiom 8 Serusalom and colobrated the Greek festivale, Herod outraged this feeling still more : When he built a theatrs in the Loty city and e~ deeply’ The taste, tdackaou structs, morniug snd evening, Sub- | cquraged dramatio ropresentations. ‘The Pealmista’ Fall nd Rectoration ;7 even~ | g0 ufiu it indeed, ta still "n:mgmr-mfl' ing, Stngiriin) Bosporablliy Exact Proportion | gotiic gxtraction. Tho Musealman of our 0T, o'the Tru c : e Tlev. Florenco MeCarthy will presch to tue | day suill retains his old antipathy towards Amity Baptist Society in Martine’s Hal, Ada steect, I Tiear West Aadison, as 10:30 a. m. snd 3 p. m. Morn- Ing subject, * Letting Down tho Net;" afternood supjoct, ** Can You Hold Out?” Z’The Rev. Dr. Stowell will preach this sfternoon aud evening in the Tabernacle Chorcn, cormer of Thirty-sizih and Butterdeld streets, ZThe Rev. E. M. Ellis will presch this morning snd tberefore, we spoak of this poem 258 we must_entirely everacted publicly and with what we consider$he O asary decorations of a‘thoatre, Asd yeb undonbtedly is was acted.—The Review. er succecded even in Algeris. -YWhen,, has nev . being Iay agide the idea of its i) Westminsler : Y TR YT IR