Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1874, Page 6

____.___————’fl\ with the preaching of an flliterate tinker a gencration almost one, the preacherof the - RELIGIOUS NEWS. 7 Tife-Work of a Chicago Layman. B, F. Jacobs and the International Sunday-School Series. Spurgeon’s Aftitude in Regard to Open ' Communion. Comments and Opinions of the Relig- jous P'ress. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. The Rev. G. G. Fnllins on the Eodern Pulpit. Church Services Teo-Day. A CHICAGD LATMAN. hile Messrs. Moody and Sankey are th the hieasts of the solid eons of Caledonia with en Inzermixture of Gospel preaching and Sundsy- scheoi bymns, thus giving to our brothren of tho 0ld World & sample of what Chicago lasmen can 30, it should bo remembered that we still have ieft in tLis city some lay-workers in the Lord's sinerard not e whit behivd their more famous srethren. Within the last tweniy vears the work of evan- relization in cities has fallen very larzely upon sarnest and devoted laymen. They are the Pauls who transplsnt the young converts into tte shurches, while the ministers are the Apolloses who, with the ceclesigstical watering-pot, kezp the ground mellow, and the tender riants grow- ing in grace and the knowledge of Calvin, Wes- ley, end John Bunyen. The grester majosity of all the converts re- retved into the Evangelical churches, come now #rom the Sunday-schools, and hence theso nur- rorics of the Charch are cuitivated with tho greatest caro and assiduity ; the Saperintendexts zre chosen from the most devont aud zcalons zewbers of thg Church, in order that the pur- pose may be fuily subserved, and we propese in this ekeich to give some acconnt of one of the most Euccessful managers of these schools,— MR. B. F. JACORS. N 3ir. Jacobs was born in Taterson, X, J., in thie veur 1885, His parents'were poor but honest, nd brought up their son torespect and revere tho principles of religion. Afr. Jacobe, when a yourg man of 19, came to Chitago. His education hod been condumeted in the commen schools of New Jersey, and, of _course, wes zot vesy broad or very profound. Dut the g man was full of zeal, aud, from the tra- ous of his_family, who were Baptists. he denomina- « drifted tonvards the Church of that tion. Iu'the game year HE WAS CONVERTED, £ud became a member of the First Church of this city, and immediately set himself to workin the home Sabbath-school. In 1855 he took a class in tho Taylor Street Mission, a branch ot thie Second Fresbyterinu Charch; andin the following year Lelped to organize THE FIRST BAPTIET MISSION SCHOOL IN CHICAGO, ou the corner of New and Duiterfield streets, zfterwards known as the Shields Mission. Soon ufier, or some time in 1857, he became Superintendent of the school, filling tho oflce unnil 1864, Soon ‘atter this mssion was com- menced, Monday-night meetings wero begun, in which Jesse B. Thomas, then a Inwser, and a tezcher in the school. took tarns with Nr. Jacobs 1 conducting the services. Iu the fall of 1857 iesers. Moody and Stillson orgenized THE ILLINOIS STREET 2UESION, and Moody xnd Jacobs soon became fast frisnds aud carpert fellow-workars in tho same cause, 1d mutual edmirers of each otber, which reia— fonslips have not faded by time, but strongth- ned, until now they regard each other not mere- 25 Chrietmn brothers, but as members of the same household. Moody's successes are Jacobs’, aud vice verra. DBut while Moody's Christianity wos of the muscular sort, Jacobs' wes tender crsuasive, The latter has never been ered- od with collaring boys in tlc street, o ging them to the Subday-sehool, or Of earr: fiem on his back to tho **little hoaven below, o which the enthusiastic poet once went aund el would go. TOE Y. 3. C. A, Tn March, 1838, tho Young Men's Christian Association’ of Chicago was organized. snd Alesars. Moody and Jacobs were the most promi- zeot leaders of the orgamzation, aud held several street-meetings ‘and union prayer-mect- ugs, When tho war broke out, the Young Mon's Christian Association became a promiuent power in the orzanization_of Clrist the armf, and Mesers. J. V. Farwell, D. Moody, Tathill King,and B. . Jacobs were oy ted the Army Committeo. Theyimmedi- commened holding public meetings niih tho soldiers, who were forming camps in and about the city preparatory to tak~ the field. Bometimes as many as six or hit meetings were held in a singlo evening. ieetings were olvo held among the Confederato dicrs at Can:p Douglas : and 1t is claimed that the work of the Christion Commisaion, which sfterward beceme so famed, originated with tiseee zealows laymen in Chicago. iyt the work which impartial history will give Z1r. Jncobs most credit for is his share in organ- g end msking popular the ERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSOX SERIES. Ir cbout five years ago each Sabbath-school pursaed its own lesson, without regard to topics, teven verses being tue traditional quantity of Ecnipture to be committed each week. But now the Sunday-schools in America, Europe, Aus- ualta, and cven in Todia, pursue the some lssson each Babbath, ask the same guestions, and give o sime expofilion. In this country, Moth- odist, Baptist, Congregationalist, Prosbylerian, Episcopalian, and even Guiversalist, with sev. eral other denominations, pursue the eage Icseons from Sunday to Sunday. All - the vurious denominational prpers givo weekly ez~ eieses of ihie lessons, and_even ~ the commenti- rics ave constructed to suit_the lessons. The present lesson series bas been laid, down for keven years, and anly two_years of %he course Jiave yet been finished. There has been no such thorough universal and catholic_organization of Christian effort in tue world as this of the Inter- natioual Lesson Series, .. The uniform lessons zre kaid to be printed now iu twenty-seven dif- ferent languages. Imparlial history, as bus al- ready been remarked. will give to Mr. Jucobs * THE PRINCIPAL PART ing on foot aud organiziug this grand chcme. Ho will, of coumse, share the merit of this performance with Dr.J.T. Vincent and dward Egrleston, both _formerly of Chicego, suq who Leld, with Mr. Jacobs, many connsels iogether over the subject. The Iniernatiopal Lesson Scries is certainly a Chicazo producti £1:d 3ir. Jacobahas tho. honor of suggesiing it, ng 1t to 3 succossful tral azaiuet o3, especially thos peraiuic to le. I 1869, at the National Sunday-School Convention held iu Newack, N. J., ho fifst pronosed a uniform bt Zea for 2ll denominatiors and for ail tries. Bofore, this uniform lesson series had adopited by the Methodist donomination under tho load of Dr. Vincent, and by the Bap- tists under the lead of Mr. Jacobs, who com- menced ju 1868 to preparo the lestovs in the Sandard of this city. But the International Seriee, so-called. was niot agreed upon until 1571, wlen an’ Execative Comumittee, of which Afr. Jacobs whs President, decided to ask for the ap- poiutmen of a committee of twelve persons, ton from the United Btates and two from Casada, representing all the promineat denominations, to prapare a series of leessons for seven yeers, This Committee met in 1872, and mado tiio eo- +luch comprises portions of the Diblo from Genesis to Rovelation, embodsing © is supposed to be tho vital doctrince of Christizatty and tho Mosme thoism. Ar. Tooobg pal TS LGRS, T. Jacobe has been ono of the 3 peaizors o the Suale Sundas-Sehool Bremet 07 cen Chairman of the Executive Commitide of the Society for several vears, and Presidont for ore term. He orgauized a Bibleclassat the Firet Baptiet Church in 1565, commeucing with n dozen members. On the Ist of January! 1871, tho claes had increased to 457, aud at fhe preeent tie Lic conducts a large Bible meeting in tho Fisst Church esch Sunday evening, the preach- ing service boving been suspended for that pu- pose rineo siortly after the great fire. ‘T paczion for Sunday-sciools seems to be TNHERITED. TRAIT ; Lathier has been for years, and is F .. AN £ax Xir, Jacok of the First Baptist Sundas- J., whilo cne of_Li broth- ers in Indianspolis and snother in Chicago occupy eimilar positions. Mr. Jacobs has becn siuce 1864, and i3 now, the popular Superintead- entof thb First Bepitst Sunday-school of this city. Itis stated thus bis first efforts to speak in meeting_aud 10 cdify his brothren wera of an order below thie average in ability ; but hio is 8 profound student of the Divle, aud Las a deep sympathy for children, which, with preat caruest- nees and evident sinceriiy, aré thechicl clements of his power. : — 3 still, Superintendent £chdol in Newark, . OPEN OR CLOSE COMMUNION. The open-communion question i continually comirg to the surface in Laplist churches, A% the Baptiet ministers’ meeting, held ia New York lost week, the Rov. A. Stewart Walsh read a paper on the quastion, *‘How and for what causes ought s Daptist church to bo cut off from associational fellowship ” He mein- tained thnt a church that reteinod tecitly in its fellowship membors known to be open commnn. ion in sentiment, could not consistently dis- followslip ‘churches which openly professed open communion. But such a courso would dis- fellowship every Daptist church in the conntry. Mr. Spurgeon, -the great Englich Baptiet preacter, in bis paper, Sword and Trowel, in Tesponec’to thoso Americans who claim that ho would be & close communiouist if o were in this country, speaks as follot: We cannot judge the Dearts of members of ches, whether veptized or nmbaptized; we are in corzmunion with the whole visible Chnzéh of our L5rd Jesus Ghrist as such, ard, if any heve eutercd that Church who are ot regencrated persons, we aze Dot able to cease trom fellowsh.p Wil the wheat L cnuse the tures have sprung up therewith, We wiil our oppoucnt one questi If, among the Uving mbers of the Lody of Clrist thers Ls au uuii- mersed bellever, how can he drase to hava fellowahip with that one, rocing $hat all the members of one Dbody must, of neceeeify, bave Mlowship witd _eacl otker? Will he deay the oxistence of such members 2 t Le gives them the enbstince of bt daras not givo th:n the sign? Wa would not have eaid even thix wuch, but it 1s asked for Ly our pugilistic by and we hope it will pleee them now (hat they bave got it We loyo them too well to be furher provcked by {hem. Yo oniy waut them to beifeva that our silonce dord Dot erise frem onr having nothing to eay. It would ap- swer no good end t vjen . controversy about come fon, tnd, therefure, we do not intend to da it: eliould shiow fight it will be no fault of these zealots g their fists w. ure forever &l er, in our face. SRR THE MODERN PULPIT. A LETTER FROM TKE REY. G. G. MULLINS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tridune: Sx: The learned German Huoffell eays that, without the pulpit, Cluistianity would not last & century ; & biight would fall upon our civiliza~ tion, and the world would inevitably relapse into astatoof barbarism. Whilo many muy reject this 08 & mere proofless assertion, fow will deny that there is good gronnd for Cowper's posi- tion : —The pulpit (in the sober Of its legitimate, peenliar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall etand, The most important aud effoctual guard, Suyjost, and oruament of virtue's cause. Indeed, a moment's tnoughtfal study will dis- cover two notable things covcerning the pulpit: Tirat, through long ages it has been tho source of tremenduous mornl &nd religious power. Second, from some cause, that power has beon greatly diminished ; and seems to be so rapidly losiog its hold upon men as to intimate that tho doy may possibly come when the pulpit shall b as obsolete g8 the stono aliar of tko ancient Druids. This1s enough to invest tho subject with great intorest, and to challengo tise, kobor attention of an enlightened people. In view of tho manifes fact tiat a once imm: power, which swayed the world, is now APPALEN 6, DYING, indifferenco and reckless complacency are both alike unpardonable. Surely it is high time that preachers, at least, racognize the actual scatus of the palpit ; that they open their ey¢ to the ugly rocks in the sea, diligently examine their charts, and prepere to &teer throngh tho storm of & night which, unless all signs prove false, will be the most perilons ever known by the Church. It is my purpose to determine the origin, ecope, and burden of preaching as s religious institution ; but more espocially to find tho causo of the mournful de- cay which is gradually destroving tho mightiost Twotive power ever known among men. In pussing, I, of course, rccognize the fact that there is in the printing-press a caure tlat would naturally bo expeeted to circumecribe the pulpit and grestly modifs tho power of the Dreacher; but it does not nocesrarily even weal- cn that power. 1Its legitimato effoct thould only be to stroigthen tho vreacher, by throwing Lie energics back into tho ono appointed eacred channel, and by giving bit an_intolligent and sppreciative neopile to liston to his me3sage. Tho prozs is perpetuslly engeged in disontangling, climinating, and distilling trath: in digging at the great problem of human lifo and govern- ment; in Imx‘n_ving the fear(nl conscquarncos of n sin; o Proclaiming the wisdom and honor of viriwe. Unless, thenm, ig- noranca _bo the ground of religion, the pross is not a ruthless ensmy, but a power- ful and friendly zlly, of the pulpit. However, notwithstandiug this pleasant consideration, we must ecknowledgo that the press. in changing the face of the world, and in giving undreamed- of movemcnis and combinationn to life's groat battle, has laid atrong hands upon the pulpit, and has plzced the minstry under solemp neces- sity to abaudon its long train of baggage- wagons, throw aside every incumbering weigit, and, with tho simple armor and sword of Chrit, begin to war for the truth, as it has not done in, tho Inet decade of years. Let us now think more decply, get down to the root, 2nd discover tho eficicut cause, which, unless it bo removed, must, goon or late, bring irremediable ruin upon the NOW AUREADY WORM-RITTEN PULPIT. We live_in & period of Luman_history that might fittingly 'be stsled tho Msteoric zgo. Everything is charucteriaed by breathless hurry, {lagh, and boom, followed by intersals of silence ead night. The very atmo:pliere about our keads is tremnlons with abnormal excitement. aud the spurit of peace, like a frightencd bird, has flown beyond our horizon. ‘Men's nerves bave become intensely electrifind, their braing are feverich, and ell their lives are hurried. True, here and there mas be seen somo cceentrio individuzl who is contertto Iive and work 1n the old congervative way: but the great multitudes of men rush scrambling wildly on, as though stung and driven by the very demon of desper- aie uurest. Society, toa mournfal oxtent, is tormented with fictitious wants, and is given up to fictitious ways, Itis fast growing plethoric with that spirit bf misernble pretention which compelsmen and women to affect to be what they know Uiey are no!—wise when thoy ore ignorant, rich when they are poor, zeod when they are bad. There 18, in fact, o bollowness and & mers out- eidedress, a venesring of bright colors, abont all our modern civilization, very suggestive of tho conch-shell: it wes_once the palace of a living creature ; but now it is empty, or filled only with Tesonant air, which tmes to cheat us into the poetic belief that it is.the musical murmuring of the imprisoned ocean-spirit. Whoever intelligently considers the condition and tendency of society, both in sccular and sacred deparcments, must be led to exclaim,with Solomon. ** Vauity of vanities; all is vanity!” Impaitence is universal; prido 1s stronger than lova of live or the fear of deat! women, aud children are everywhere po: with tho idea, that, cven though thoy re: most desperate mecasures, they maust, fashionablo seare, keep up with the simes. note the marks of this vanand restive spirit in the way we build our houses, and the way we eat, tho way we talk and read, the way we walk or rido; in short, the eame trace of VANITY AND HASTE is tpon all our moAsrw ways. In edueation, f... timewas when it required hard work, thorough drill, and restricted appli- cationto s few etudies, to male tho respeetablo scholar; and the old-fashioned school-course ofien illustrated that eignificant saving of Horace, ** Bewaro of the ma of one book ™ and agam the snawer of the iaunted lioness, * Only one, bat alior !” For while, on account of tho 1abor, time, and patience neceseary, compare- tively few were turned out upon the world as educated echolars, yet they were men of strong ability, becaiee of eplendid disci- clive, of eolid and massive attainments fromlong _study. _Now, there is an_ immenee amount of sham in our educational svstem. ‘There are fine buildings, costly libraries, Beards of Education and Institutes. There iarlenty of system, high-stilted tueones, aud abominabie Tegimo’; but thera is very littlo of sterling worth in”our’ infiating, decorating mschines called echools, Every child in the land is given an armful of text-books. but only s few gver ‘got even 2 smattering knowledge of what is in them. Hurried ail over Mo aniverse within aa incrodi. bly short time, they return with 4 vague notioa of evervihing,—a positive knowledge of notning. Perhaps the influence of tlis nineteenth- ccnt Epint has nowbhere fallen with moro Twnos eiect than it has upon the pulpit. In Gorpel was empliztically God's man. He was a humble meseenger. who eaused the peoplo to trample by s terrible denuaciations of sin; who, without respect to pereons, in God's name commianded all men everywhere to repent ; who, i auce made eublime. by his awful eurvestness, pointed to the Lamb of God, and n'oss immortality. He came, pro- own strength, nor relied upon but believed thiat all thut should give interést and power to his miseion wag in the messaze he brought. Mo wos so crade aud £0 unphilosophital as to believe the way of Chrst and [is Apostles the best and only way to seve tho world. It will ot ba de- nied that among carth’s greatest beuefectors, emong thosg who Lipve dono most ta bless and cxalt mavlind, the old-siylo preacher stdads the highest and nobloct. LOOK AT THE CONTRART! Nor, it bas come to pass that many 3 eo-called preacher is siyly 2 moral essayist, a relizio- philcsophical lectucer, a wore professional, who i regarded as huving & callor a inission just in the dezree that he bas learnivg, oloquencs, and et to eatisfy Lhe dyspeptic appetite of the pub- c. This medern popular preacher is expected to send up a rocker aud make a geusation atleast once a week. Ile must en'* from the gardon of =il litersturo the raest and sweetest tlowers, 2 them in det, and present thiem fresh and beautiful to - his admirers. Ilo must fill the o with golden mist and delicious perfumes, and, assisted by the finest mu- ricians, moie his wervice the very ideal of DTaradisaical delight. Of courso he iu to avoid that rudeuces which would trouble tho conecionce of bis people, und will, therefare, 1gn0re evory unpleasant tiud. 1le will bs ready t0 discourse upon tho excitiug news of the day; will deliver an_oceasional psendo-scientific lect ture; aud, while the profound but modest scren- tist may declino to o dogratize upon tho con- jectural theory of Darwmism, tins dountless Diescher boldly aunounces that, los others do a8 they will, as for himself ho glories in having de- secuded by a direct cham from the monad, Trog, and monkey. Arcund his lectures ho_ wreathes ® great deal of cntiment, which he is pleased to dignify with the name of love. Dus bis _conceptions of ive love are in 1o wise woditied by any tlwoughts of the justice of the lawof God. Thie only notion nce i which Le delighis1s that of Unele ‘Tobr, who would not hurt & £y for the waild, but tenderiy take ity the leg ead pnt it out the window. Fiually,it would Lo wrong to forget that it is within the provinea of i e minister to deliver eulog! men just as fast as thoy dic. THIS YEOSTITUTION OF THE SACRED DESK has growu to bea gigantic folly, su cnormons evil, i our Iand;; and, Tunless it Uo xpeadiy put | away, there can be littlo hope for the Church Can it be & matter of reasons- is o jittlo of prayer, and nthe Clurch; toat there d tho mem- and’the nation ! ble surprise that ti reverence, and pioty, is 1o cohesive power of love to bers ; that there 18 discord, and an: #ud un- blusbing siu, rampaut in’ the flock, vhen tho professional 'preachiers are given to eny and everything nuder the eun, envo the one greet work to which thoy were czlled by the voico of God and of Humamty? The clérgy need uot suathemstiza the 1ufidel and the Jress,— need uct piously conclude that {ho last deys fhave come, and chargs the gloomy ~ etate of afinies in the religions world to the awful natural depravity of the human hestt, or to a possivle want of etliciency 1n the Gospel of Christ: but thoy do need to recognize the fact that, while oceupying the position of its ministers, by their folly they have themselves boen the most burtful foos o the Ciristian religion. “hey do noed to repeut in sackelozh and ashus; for, too_often yielding to the overtures of earthly ambition, they havo ——lent their gift To blight and 1ar the moral universe, And set adritt The anchored Lopos of millions, In other words, I mean to ssy that preachers have themselves Lo thank for the desttuction of their power-tor good, and_the decay of the pul- Tit; and all bocausa, in . thelr vau 1onig lost eight of the face that STRICTLY A DISINE INSTITCHON, and the preacher Douing more than u humble uiite, & ork, fi1s o bi ngeut for a d " : ct, that ibis institution did ne: Wiedom of nyau, Lut in of the Foundec of the Curistian reli one of the ci i “Lrue, men imvo been minuuities, as in tribes, na oud emics, iudis viduals bave, by force of mmure as of cirnmstances, rion un fo persuade wud cozmund thoir fellow-men by the power of orsiory. Hence, p speaking mey be re- garded a peceksi owIng out ot the wants of Humay soci Dat public speakivg ana preacking are by no means the same reacuing is uot an mventad expedicnt o but, we repeat, 10 is an_institution of God, and should b held us szcred as the religion it was intouded to proclamm. So far trom Laving been devised by tne wiedom of man, it is violently dtoit; it 13 foolishness, and has etood Lug d_for over eighteen centuries. n that bad gradually grown us wants and exorcises of men, thero wouid be the very greatest Jatitude in the province of the preachor; then tho pulpit might, with propriety, be con- sidored the rostrua for the discussion of any &ud every subject within tho reaim of thought. As it i, both zeligiously and logically, not only is the preacber shui up to the pulpit, but over the pulpit is written the chaige, in letters of blood, mora solemenly impressive than thoe fiery hand-writing upon Bélshazzar's wall : **PREACH TIU WORD!" Theso reflections will suggess to all the im- portant questiun, What is tha legitumate scopo or iutention of preaching? The answer invoives some noteworthy truths rarely thought of, 2ud the genoral negloet of which has been tho cauze of wide-sprozd contusion and the most do- plorable evil. Wo find, then, in the firat place, contrary to tho evident notion of many, thut tho aim of preach- ing most cortawly ia nov poluical. Indeed, un- lees by the most nmserupulous perversion, 1t does noteventouch the affairsof State. And this need not cause alarm and lamentation among the patriotic ; for we have statesmen and politicians, wa Lavetho great publio press,to occupy the field of politics ; and_surely they are far moro competant than the miniatry to educate the peo- ploin the things of Cmsar's province. It is not philosophical, and the vain discussions of Phil- osophy_ snd Science should be suminarily re- manded to the schools sud lecture-halls, whers thoy indisputably belong. In brief, the object of preaching is not educational, only in 80 much a8 cducazion is incidental. The aim is one worthy ot God, worthy an institution born of in- finite wisdom & IT I8 TO BAVE MEN [— to save them from emn, and despair, and desth. The human raco bas been suined by s, aud is doomed to dio. Men bave no knowledgo or power to save themselves. They have never been able to break the thralldlomof in; nnd the world's experionce proclaims that mankind must look for help from On High. When Philosophy Lnd failoed, &und all mero human efforts had proven vain, “*It plessed God, by the foolishe Dess of presching, to enve them that beliove.” Proud human nature rebelsagainst the thought. To the learned Greel, 1t ir foolishness; to the solf-rightoous Jew, it is a etumbling-block: but, to them that beliove, the power of (6d and the wisdor of God. If it bo true that proachiog is an fnstitution onginated in the mind of Omuiscience ; that its lepitimato nud solo aim is the salvation of men from ein (and who will contradict the state- ment?),—how far irom the origival design is the ‘modorn pulpit and the modern preachor ! Tho one, worm-caten by human pride and ambition, is tottering; the other, recreant to his high and hu!lf mission, serembles in the dust for the placo, and wealth, and_praixe of & fashionabls world, 1If these reflections sholl excite any to * think upon their ways,” our discussion shall not bo profitless. G. G. MoLLINS. g RELIGIOUS PRESS. THE NORTUWESTERN ADVOCATE editorinlly defenda ths lato delegates from the Aethodist Episcopal Church to the General Con- ference of the AMothodist Episcopal Church South fromthe charge made in some Southern papers, that they do not represent the Nort:ern Jiethodists. Tt oxpresses thobope that tho tem- perance voters in the Northwest will carry their convictions into politice, and “vota their mind as wellas epeak it It deprecates tho amall amount of attention paid in the public schools to instruction in morals. THE ALLIANCE. One of the editorials in this paper is on *The Clergy and Froperty,” and sounds much like Prof. Swing. It commences: It 15 to e feared that the materird philorophy of tho age will rcon begin to a¥ect the relations of the Gorpel uinistry to moaey, sud make that profession ter the murket-place and fee: £ull With the crowd, The question, Wy ehould® not the preacher look out for himself znd his family ? 18 being aaked by the clergyman, and by his pearest friends, with great {re- auency and eignificance. The love of momey has become o popuiar and stropg that ft is now in- qiired whether the pulpit and the corner-lote may u0t be made comparions through this mundaue vale, In obedicnce to the spirit of the generation, not a few preachers of the Gospel have already one foot in the Dulpit and ancttcr in tho subdisiéions cf some praz- isig boldes of 2cre property, uch a8 we Liope that 2do guch as to nd decently, vet wo will ever come to tends to Le wedded to the calarles of 1 enable them to Jiv do Bope izt she desir: containinute tho heart spintual things, Regarding Mr. Beecher, the paper says: In eite of what our usually scosible neigibor, ths Adtance, says this week, we remain of the oplnion that “ werg My, Beecher ¢ome * man in the moow,’ aud ch correspondingly secluded,” the Bnay— othermen's sffairs would by no means lst Dim alone. Thoorthodox ceclesiastical telescopes would Le leveled at him, togetner with ail mouner of privats glasses, to discover,“if possible, at least some od burnt-out crater of gossip. No,no! trausferring the Plymouth Church to the moon would make no differ- ence. There would huve to bea council ; and ail tho olier_churches on this planet would olomaiy ‘hound To know allabout it, Does the ddrance suprose that it would make any difference with Trof, Patton, whether heresy were in the moon, or swinging round 1l cirele among the rinys of Saturn, or & Chicago Tresbyleriau church ? Distance may *lend enchant- o view,” but it does Dot discourage nter- § THE INTERIOR thinks some Msthodiats do not like to carry ont in practice what they adyoeate in theory, teking tho_opposition of the Northwestern Advocale to the ordiuation of women as miuistors of the Gospel for a text. Says the Juterio 1f they like feminine pulpit oratory so yell, why in the world do they not lead o2 Lot the Lislop give 3 n half dozen of Reverend Misées Cynihb. Katy, Arubella, Joszy, and Susie, in plice of the light and heavy doctors Who now orsiaruent the Metkorint pul- pits Of Cliicago with thelr grice, aud muke the pulpit floors crack with their weight, | There are #0,030 [or- Qainod) Methodiet preachersin thls glorious laud of oura (Fourth of July ), and, 60 far % We kuow, uot a ‘Womat: among them Accordingto the Interior, whoro managing editor iy dotng all the editorial, vow that I'rof. Patton jssick, Proshyterianism is ot sucha uur- row creod as we have been led to believe. Says the Interior: Conld anything bo further from narravmess, un- eharitableness, igotry, or iutolerenre thiu the polity, known of ull men, of the Presbytorian Clurch ? But now what about church members? Do wo not ut them through the 400 prapositions of tho “onfestion of Falth? The fact i, there is no Church on earth requires s0 little crecd of ita meimbers a0 the Presbyterisn Church, The ouly st o put is tho apostalic test :~ “ Bulieve on the Lord Jesus Christ.” Lven oyr dear Congregational brethren often requirs amsent to u long coveunt, But we would ouly krow sehzether they beliove with the heart, So far from re- quiring thim to be Calvimitic in thelr thealogy, We do mot require sny theology beyoud that of faith In the Crucified. Or they mny hold a theology ditferaut from our own onalt outlying noins, It & st shouwld come beforo sny sexeion saying, “ I 3 Jusini Cirint us my Divine Savior and own ud poffudlon of sin, aud trust my wicked sl in Iis blerzed hands,” and phonld then . “But X do not accept ¥our dortrine of pred ced of tha divine natnre of Pres. byteriun government, uud I hold fmmersion 10 have en the aostolic mode of buptism,” what would that session way 7 They would iy : Whether i icology, a Congrogatios ly 1 rdinance, u3 these doors st: you will be afhorm» with b dn th We ehaim therefore for our O t the widest Christian liberty, prociaim from every puipit, *“Ho every ons that thireteth, come” THE ADVANCE bas editorials on ** Faith in God,” “ Glorying,” aud **The Crisis of Iomanism in Gormany.” 1t answers the question of the Alliance ns to what right thie public has to thrust itself intotho exclusive busiuess of Mr. Leecher's church, ay fallows: B Briedy, bocause it 8 not the exclustve businoss of that particular church. Yeere Mr. eecher some “mun in the moon,™ aud Lis church correspondiugly sucluded, ” the care w be wholly different froma what it iv, whea for a quarter of a ceatury My, Beach- er bas stood at the very front of the Continent and ¥ ublic ecclesizstical permon tufutake to forget or ignure it to the entire sjsterhcod to protest from wroug thy ntation of T, and that o man {2 3Mr. 's yosition owex ‘e entire Christizn world 0 trido with o theur conidence in hini. TOE WORKING CHURCH presents the church statisties of the United States, ne given in tie last census, and remarks: Of {ke wholo number it will be seen thut more than 13,000,100 2ro counccted with the Methodiat, Bantist, anu Covgregationnl Churches. The Roman Cutholics Lavelosw than 2,060,000, and the Epikeopaifans lesa then 1,690,000, This' s rather hard on the Apostolic n—of which these two pocies, in thedr diftor- #, 4Ta tha champions. IE seoms that * uncoy- d'mercy” 13 a8 three 1o Cwenty-iwo ieora o than all the grace that cames through the ylod 4 Catholic and Apastoiical Churchew,” EBAFTIST. Two persens were baptized into the Testern Avenue Baptist Church last Sunday. The right hand of fellowsbip was given to fif- teen personsin the Evanston Daptist Church Jast Sunday. Tho excursion of the Hyde Park Daptist Church to Sonth Chicago last wock resulted in a profit of 85 for the church. The Ashland Aven ue and TUnion Park Baptist Charches havo consolidated and taken the name of the Fourth Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. W. W, Everts will dedicate a new house of worship for the Baptists at Hinckley Station, 20 miles west of Aurora, to-day (July 12). A special train leaves Aurors at 9 8. m. this morning. The Rev. W, II Stifler, pastor of the Baptist Church at Cedar Falls, Ia., bas been wrongly namod. In a pestorate of £wo years hie hus sus- ceeded in more than doubling” his membership, romoying 8 heavy dobt, and placing s weak aud very fosble church in & strong and promising conditi The University of Chicago scems destined, now that it has got an sccepted President and a vigorous Chuacellor, to er:ter upon a ues career of promise and success, ‘The Standard says,in aliuding to the election of Prof. Moss to tha Presideccy and Dr. Burroughs to the Chan- cellorship, that *tho causes of old division, it is belioved, aro substantially removed. Wiy, nor, should not the denominstion on the field of the University’s constitnency, bo & upit in sus- tnining the present policy of tho Board, and in furnishinz the means for effectusl relicf and en- Jargement? 'Tho opening hour for o mew ers has struck; Iet us all mark the signal.” PRESBITERIAN, June 27, 107 new members were received icto the Watson Presbyterian Chtuch, of whom 101 wero by profession. The Rov. F. T. Brown iy organizing & mew Tresbyterian church in St. Paul, Minn,, the fifth of that denomiuation in the city. June 28, & new Presbyterian church was dadi- cated in Greeno, Ia. The church and furniture cost about £3,500, aud it is all paid for. At tho prayor-meeting in tho Third Presby- torian Church Wednesday evoning, the Ttev. A. E. Kittredge maue 5 short farewell address toLis poople provious to his departure for a vacation yeriod. He stated that 175 members had bsen zdded to the church since the beginning of the year. SETHODIST. In the Englewood Methodist Exiscopal Church six additions were mado Jast Sun In the Michigan Avonue e two members were roceived last Sunday, and in’ the First Methodist threo gy Tho Iadies of the Methodist Chrch at Evans- ton realized sbout §500 from their entertain- ment given July 4. Twolvo persons united with Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday, and_tho Simpson Church expects thirty additions to-day. A pumber of cendidates for Drew Theological Seminary have been turned away for want of room, as the utmost capacity of 3he buildings havo been reached. The fine Methodist churchbuiiding which bas been in process of construction for a year past i8 to bo " dedicated July 19. DPropably istop Simpson or Bishop Foster will preach on the oc- The church cost about £60,000. casion, ‘The Methodists in New York are urging the establishment n_that city of s English lay and thealogical college, where special attention will be paid to biblics] ipstruction, elements of medicine, law, 2nd the patural ecicnces, instead of tho neual clasis course. A sult in chancery, growing out of the separa~ tion of the Methodist Church, in 1544, juto tw branchos, the M. E. Church South and the N E. Church, was decided in Jonosboro, Tena., fow daya eince. Tho property, says the Green- ville Union * is in the suburbs of Jounson Ct:r, cud s of itself valuable. The land was deeded in 1811 to the L. E. Church for &_camp-ground. It passed to tho 3L E. Charch Soutb, 88 this Church claims, by the * plan of senaration’ of 1584, from which tfme until tho closs of the War tuat Chinreh held 1t, baving in the meantims erectea on it a parsonage. In 1865 some of the Trastees of tie Charch South, having gone to the Church North, pat the property. into the possession of the latter, which croated s, Doard of Trustees to hold the property. Tho suit was decided in favor of tha Trustees of the . E. Ciurch South, and rents allowod from_the date of the filing of the bill. This is tho only church et botwesn theso Charches yet tried in which the property was decded beforo the separation of 1844, and hence is important, a8 the fial decis- ion of it will dotermne » whole clasa of suits.” cATIOLIC. The Jesuit Church of tuis city ia having s fine tower built into tho lerge_structure, Too work is now in progress, and will cost abont 25,000, The parish of the Jeeuit Church of this cify has begun the erectiop of a wing tp the Jesnit College, which will cost about $25,000. Itisto Ve completed as early in the fall as possible, The Catholics of New York are zhout to erect & mngoiticent chureh, which is to be paid for 2 fast as the work proceede. The Liberal Christian enys not less than 3,000 Catholic priests hayo left the Poman Church 1n this country for various reagons, and aro now engaged in sccular purenits. The Union Catholic Library Association hasa picnic at Tracy Grove, Thursday, July 16, Trains leave the Chicago, Rock Island & FPacific Rail- Tozd Dopot at 9 3. m. and at noon, Btopping at Twenty-second and Thurty-tirst streets. The Church of the Annuncistion (Crtholic) s opdered plans for a fine house of worship in the viciity of the North Dranch Rolling-)z I will cot about $60.000. Work upon the build ing is shortly to commence. A correspondent of the Poston Pilot writes, concerning the degradation of Catholic churches, that **in Naples tho Church of San Martino. one of the richest chutrches in tho world in respect to marble statues, mosaicy, snd paintings, has be. como o muscum, In Derugia, ome church ia torned fnto a pictare-gallery, the altar torp up, and pictures from convents, and mounsteries, and churches hung around the walls; anotber, in the kame city, is used s a hay-lofe. In Foliguo, tho grund old Church of the Domivicans, with its Gothie wheel windows, 18 turned into a stablo for cavalry horses.” CONGREGATIONAL. The Wankegan Cobgroxational Church re- ceived siine members last Sunday. The Congregationalists at 3Miller, Neb., dedi- cated a new honse of worship Ji 20 49, The Congregational Chnrchat Ovid, Mich., has almost doubled its membership within a year. Tho Congresational Church at Brainard, ., received Ewenty-two persons to member- sbip Juue 23. The Downer's Grove Congregational Charch are bilding a houso of worsbis to be completed this summer. . i) “The Tirst Congregationsl Church recsived fourtesn mombers Jast Sundsy, and the Union Park Church fiv At Maywood, a_Congregational chapel was dedicated last Sunday. The Ilev. J. E. Roy de-~ livered tho germon. At Park Ridge, tho Congrogationalists aro building o substantizt house of worship, which will shortly be comploted. The Rev. Homer J. Parker, late of Yermont- ville, Mich., has accepted a call to the Congrega- tional Churchat Pontiae, 2ich. The Congregetional Church at Oln 1., or- ganized oue yeus ago, has secnred a subscription of §3,000 for a Lionse of worship. The Vine Street Coagresational Ch Minncapolis, now the Second Church, ween the bascrent of the new edifico Juno 24, Tho Union Park Congregational Church re- ceived eight members Jact Sunday, and the Leuvitt Street Church exactly thoe same number. The Rev. J. E. Roy preached the dedication germon of the new First Congregational Church building at Minneanolis Juno 23, on which occa~ #10n the people raised 26,000 to clear oif tho in- debtedness of the society. At Faribault, Minn., the two Congrogational churches, which have for some time dragged out = sickly existonce, consolidated July 1. The pastors of cach of the original churches have re- signed, 80 as to leave the consolidazed organiza- tion at liberty to choose a new mazn. EFISCOTAL. Tho Piskop of New York (one of the five diocenes iuto which tho Stats of New York 318 divided) confirmed 2,300 within the past two months. Tho Iouse of Bishops was convened last weck by the Rt. Rev. B. B. Smith D. D., presiding Lishop. Bishop Cummins was doposed by tie House of Bishops. The Biehop cf Texas proposes a Dishop for tho colored population of Texas ulone, who ehall bear the same relations to the diocese in all rospects that ho himself bears. Ohio has been divided into two Episcopal dio- ceses, nstead of five, as Bishop Bedoll advised. %ushop Bodell will be Bishop of the Northern Diocese, residing at Cleveland. At Christ Cathedral, Reading, Dioccse of Cen- tral Penneslyania, with the Eckort memorial chime 40.000 changes or transpositions can bo sounded, with the c:ght natural notes. On the ten bells can b rang 3,628,830 changes or trans- positions. The Chief Justice of the nation h=s roceived from his Alma Mater, Kenyon Colloge, the de- gree of LL.D., and has besu elected to repro- geut the Dioccse of Ohio at tho next Geoeral Cunvention. The Bishop of Olio, in his late address, exposed the absurdity of Dr. Cummins’ astempting to carry away with him ana to con- tinuo to oxervise tho Ehiscopal oiice, aad de- clared his every Episcopal act sinee his necession uolawful, aad, with all 1ts issues, ho Leld void ab initio. The Episcopal Register says: *Ttcan neverbe forgotten thet the reformation of the Church in England was national—not ono man nor & party going out to fonnd a church upen their private opinions. Thus different from nttempts to found a eect or party. It had suthority. It acted legitimatoly. There was no grand revolution aud no disorganization. Ths clargy continued to discharge their ofices. Tho Epiacopal powor was duly exercised and transmitted; the churches were resorted to generally, and no doc- trine which had beea held by the church cathol- ic was renounced. How different this from one man of his own funcy declaring doctrines and decreeing ceremonics.” REFORMED EFISCOPAL, A Reformed Episcopsl church has recontly been organized in Jefferson City, Mo., with flat- tering prospects of success. The new Church has just received two valn- 2ble accessions, the Rev. James H. McMechen, of Wheeling, W. Va., for nearly forty years an eatcemed Episcopal_rector of the Diocese of Virgivin, and the Rev. W. 8. Perkins, of Bristol, Tn., formerly rector of St. James Church in thag CL¥. Althongh the new Church has surely and steadily increesed in power and members since its ipsuguration, its more rapid advancement bas been somewhat checked by two causes: ths shadowy hope ontertained by many low chureh— men that the Genoral Convention in October mey take stops to revise the praver-book, and legielate ngainet ritualizing, and also by the con- tinued ill-heaith of Bishop Cummius, whose phy- sictan forbids active work for several months fo como. I JISCELLANEOTS. Thero are scid to bo at present thirty-eight women preachers. Marees, Bishop of Nicomedia, has just been elected tho Armenian Patriarch 2t Constantino- ple. The Free Chnrch of Scotland has raised $39,- 000 for the erection of mission buildings in India zod Africa. The Young Men's Christian Assoctation had 185 addutions to its memberabip during tho past two months. Dr. Parker's City Temple, London, sents 2,000 persons, and cost, including grounds, building, and furniture, £200,000. Bishop Peck mourns becauss the Mothodist Episcopal Bishops are obliged to bo continually traveling, and have oo home. The Evangelist protests against what it terms the pulpit yell, as calculated to empty tho mind of hil serious thought as surely 2s a water-spout bursts with its contonts 48 soon 88 it is rup- tared. The total incomo of the Irish Presbyterian Church Jest year was 8710,740, being 2n inerease of $53,615. There bas been a decrease, how- ever, in the number of members of 1,000, the total being 109,395. Tho contributions for religions charities in England for the year 1873 wes muniticent, and tho aggregate amount given by religious asso- ciations that have their headquarters in London was more than $8,000,000 in gold. . A writer who claims to know says that fifty- one Poston churches bave quartette sinzing, thirteen have congregational singing, eleven Lave chorus choiry, ono hzs a children's choir, one a man and boys' choir, and one an adalt and children's choir. At the recent Southern Baptist Convention, Eeld in Jefforson, Tex., thero was o large at- tendance of Indian delegstes,—nine Creeks, six Choctaws, and one Semiuole. The Muskingums reported forts-six nativo preachers and 2,000 church membera. The Rev. W. II. Claogett, sttor of the “Litile Churca Around the Corner,” in New York, has resigned becango one of its Elders refused to givoup lx’qll}zr after promising to do #0, on which condition Jr. Clazzett was persusded to take the pastorate of the church. . The London Standard, in sn_ ill-natured arti- cle, cuiticises tho British'and Foreign Unitarien Association, at the conclusion of which it says : **We only express some_little wonder that the TUnitarians should be willing to contribute and expead £3,000 a vear for_tha privilege of send- ing half-a—dozen sympzihetic ‘or congratalaiory letters, and of shaking baods with a dnsky heathen or two, whoso hames they can neither remember nor pronounce.” An Egsterp papor aays cighteen scres of land and £40,000 io money bave heen subscribed to- wards building a theological .seminary of the Swedih Lutheran Church at Rock Isiand, IL The “traveling scholarship " established in TUnion Theological Seminary excites great inter- ost aroong the students. Tho interest of tha fand amounts to $700. Its pogeessor can travel }mc{i study for two years in foreign and BEible lands. A valnsblo lot hasbeen presented to the Swe- denborgian Friends in Nawark, N. J., on condi- tion that & chureh edifice shall be erocted on the premises. The lot is on o main avenue in the _best part of the city. The Southwestern Advocate publishes a map of New Orlepns, an which ars indicated the locali- ties of the churches balonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church in that city. It shows there are ecventeen churches and ona with & membership of more than 4,000. A correépondent of the London Specialor claims that Calvin did not keep the Sabbath af- ter the Puntan faxhion, and ho supports his claim with soree undeniable facts, which show that tho present mode of keeping the Sabbath was not & part of pumitive Christianity. A large number of Sunday-school picnics took place last weck. The Westminster Church Sab- ba:h-school went to Winnetka; the First Meth- odist went to Mouut Forest; Wabash Avonue, "Irinity, and Michigan Avenue Mothodist Churches had 2 consolidated pionic at Wild:rood Thursda; The First Baptist Sabbath-school went to Higl laod Park. ' According to the Rav. Dr. Hamlin, of Con- stautinople, Mohammedanism is lomng ground in Turkey and Persia. He msutions, among other things indicativg ths fact, that the great public ctarities of Islam, which have adorned some portions of its history, have neariy all dis- eppeared. Pligrinages, praver, fasling, and alms-giving are tho clief works of merit. A letter-writor states that the farewell meet~ ings Leld by Mosxrs. Moody and Sankey 1n Glas- gow cantinued through six davs; in that time nino meetings were Leld in Crystal Palace, the largest place of asgsmbling in “Scotland, which was crowded to repletion on overy occasion. From Glasgow Mesars. Moody and Sankey pro- coeded to Edinburg, the two Presbyterian As- semblies being in sesuion. . Here Mr. Moody ad- dressed an open-zir meeting of 15,000 people. The Rev. Georgre L. Walker, in the Chrishan Union, tells how he went to a Waldensian rayer-meeting in Venice, in & gondols, Ac- cording to his account, this Protestant mission is doing a good werk in that city. He expresses the earnest hope that for some time longer the Venice church might be loft unworried and un- diviaed by sectarian war, That it might have &titl louger a plain, clear fleld, unembarrassed by rival *missions,” and by tho * fire in the rear of any other organization having a different ehibboleth to teach. The gospel of the Vfal- denzes is good enough for them yet. ST, PERSONAL. CHICAGO. The Rev. E. F. Williams is soon to go Easton : a pleasure trip. The Rev. U. D. Galick has returned from his Esstern tour and is at his post agsin, The Rev. M. F. McCormick, late an Epiecopal minfiter at Petersburg, Va., is reported to havo joined the Free-\Will Daptists in Chicago. The Rev. Arthur Brooks, rector of St. James Church, has gono to Europe with his brother for a threo months’ tour. The Rev. G. C. Noyes, of Evanston, with somo friends, are arranging a fishing excursion to some of the Wisconsin lakes. The Rev. Dr. Robert Patterson, formerly of this city, is reported to be prospering finely in his new church, the First Presbyterian 6f San Francisco. The Rov. M. M. Parkhurst, of Chicago, late pastor of Graco M. E. Charch, is reportod as preaching to large andiencas in Scotland. Ho is to bring homa a bride from Stirling, Scotland. Mr. Hind Smith, Superintendent of the Y. M. C. A. at Manchestor, England, proached in the Chicago Avenue Churcls (Moody’s) last Sunday, ‘The object of his visit to this country is to in- terest the youth of the land, through'the Y. AL 0. A., in the study of the Scripturas. ELSEWHERE. The Rev, E. P, Himmond, the revivalist, has returned to his Kome in Vernon, Coan. Bishop Haveun will deliver the annnal address at Mt. Union College, Mt. Uion, O., July 20. The Rev. Dr. Wardor, of Clinton, Mo., has ac~ copted a call to the pastoraie of tie Baptist Church at Lawrence, Ean. Miss McHenry, of St. Stephon’s Church, Phil- adelphia, has raised 3300,000 for three Charch Homes, which take cars of 600 children. The Rev. W. 8. Perkins, of Pristol, Pa., has withdrawn from the Episcopal Church for the purpose of nniting with the Reformed Episco- Bendigo, oncs a noted British pugilist, has be- come a Methodist prescher, and is devoting his time to Teligious work among the poorer claises of England. Tho Rev. Henry Boshm, who was 100 years old June 8, still preaches’ occasionally. o is appointed to preach the centeunial sermon be- fore the Conferonce which is to conveno in Jersey City in April. next. Mrs. Emile Cooke is_sbout to settle in Lau- saune, Switzerland. Sho expresses profound gratitude to the friends of bher late husband, who have, by thexr subscriptions in America, England, and France, placed herself, with hor zoven children, entirely above want. An Esstern paper says: “ Efforts are now being made to secure the return of Mr. Moody aud Jr. Sankey, the evangelists now laboring abroad with such astonishing success, 8o that they may lead in a co-operalive effort of all the evangelical denominations of Chizago. The Rt.-Rev. Bishop Wholau, of the Roman Catholic Dioceso of West Virginis, died July 8 at Bt. Agnea Hospital, in Baltimore. He was born in Baltimore in 1807, and was ordainod Bishop of Virginia in 1841. He was an active, earnost map, and bis labors in building up Catholicism aud erecting churches, schools, and asyluma wera attended with the mos: successful results. Lord Radstock, who has of Iate had a curlous religious career in St. Petorsburg, has more re- cantly been preaching in Borlin. ~'A correspond- ent, describing his etxle of presching, says : “He is not rhapsodical like a fanatic, mor sophistical like an impostor. He talks quietly, like o well-bred gentlemsn, and he appoars guiltless of anything more than utterlug = series of dull platitudes to pions and enthusi- astic ladies.” RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. The wifoof & Now Ilaven surgeoa makes an appeal through the Congregationalist for mis- sioary nurscs. We need, she says, Protestant Blaters of Mercy, deaconeases, missionary narses; call them what yon will, their work is tho same, to look after the sick among the rich or poor in all oar cities and villages. The Methodist thinks that the Rev. J. W. At- wood. in a toast at & recent TUniversalist anni- versary in Massachusetts, gave what would make = first-rate working motto for Christians of vari- ons names: *‘Our fellow-workingmen of ail churches; thoy do not raiso our flag, but they Lianl down the flag of our enemy.” The Bishop of Manchester, England, preschod to the delegates in St. Paul's Cathedral recently, taking his text from the prophecy of Isaish. that » timo wonld come when the wolf would lie down With the lamb. The Bishop defonded Christian- ity from the chargs that s a rule of life it leit uutouched man's duty to the lower szimals, and strongly condemaed polo. pigeon-shooting, and other sports, as being 2s little in consonanca with the temper of Christianity as gladiatorial contests st Rume or bull-fights in Seville. The soldiera in the Cerlist army must bo orthodot. This i3 one of the rulea: He who blasphemes the holy name of God, of the Virgin, and of ths Sxlnts, will_ be Immediaeiy pelzed and chastised, the irst time by the disgracefal penalty of the gag, which he ahall ber two Lours in tho ‘morning aud two hours 1a_the evening eight days in succession, ater having been bound to & post, And if De relapses be shall without fall have his toagus rubbed with a hot iron by the hsnd of the hangmam, ond afterward be ignominously exoelled from tha regiment on the deciulon of the Concil of War. Dean Stanler, in his address at the unveiling of John Bunyan's statue in Bedford, Loglaad, & short time 230, 8nid : There are certatn places which we pas i wanderings in Iife ike that which the ,axm.rlxn‘z”u:f T which two glants dwelt of old, who were efther dead many & year before, or grown so crazy and st in their Joints that they conld do little mors than sit in ths mouth of their caves and dained r:?::is:ter, and then {n the rape orme‘:"::% ciergy, sl.ut him up for ten yeara in- B “scopy this s dead and ggfl,:lrlormyn odtord jal, ke old glant is still alive! He be sbapes on all sides, 0 in mény voies, pal, 7 buruings aud the spizik of imprissnments et altogethier departed from. manking, el ipeas 2% Churchmen or Nonconformisiv; but the joungy ofltD giant azo sery stitF and cruz¥, and. whon, og jpot (L clergy and magistrates of Bedford ary seen 3% In common with their Disseating brethre a1 0.0 auguration of a memortal to bim who oa0s pag it . the handa of their spiritual forefsthers, if 1 20 & that the world has, at lcast in this respect. £.bPoX littlo more Christisn and a little mors chariggy * become a little more ealightened ond mors capyu Ufeences, seeing the inward good behind outwar, e ik DEVOUT EXTRAGTS, ‘Thio Rev. Charles Kingdles obsorvos thal the latost device of tlie devil “ to sham dagg s ® Spicer's opinion in regardto the Decchsr iy i3 that the game is not worth tho (s)eundy) When was beef-tea first mentioned iq hist When Henry VIIL. dissolved the Papal py ! Philadelphia was first borrified and (e gy, lighted, last Sunday . by the apparition of acle gyman dressed in white linen. Donn Piatt says the proper thing your horee is running away is “to the seat and say your prayers, fast to your seat,” A notorious miser, having heard queat chanty-sermon, exclaimed, « Thiy co,o0" sirongly provas tho hecossity of alm almost a mind to turn beggar.” wan 1t is exsy to tell that Westminster Abbey, louniog place of Americans on Sbies Eite noons, by the specimens of fine-cut chanty cr. bacco that are subssquently sweps ony sanctuary. K Cincinnati has a sensational minister wh to his congregation: * Frea Jime my yeoll T'm as froe s & 103 onice. Yes, 'm s fuluens: ent a9 n bog on ics. My education cost 3Lgg; 2nd I can paddle my owi cauce.” e The doctrine of purgatory wis one disng, between the Bishop of Waterford sad Faie O'Leary. It is nof likely that the former convinced by the arguments of tho latzer, why todow bold quh: Anshow, hojj howover, closed it very neatly by telli Bishop, * Your lordship may go farfher angfey worse." A Protestant, from the conatry, who spent the other Sundsy in New York, told his wife, on b roturn, that_he astended * Dr. Alban'a ghurck in the morning.” He expreesod himself o pleased with kaleidoscopio Christianits, by said he was surprized to find that the Ro Catholics now used the English languazs iy their services. Did I ever quote the remark of Mr. Cirlrls?= that if Christ should reappear on earth and comy in London bLe did not think anybody here woui pay him much attontion. Then, checking b self, *Yes,” gaid )r. Cariyle, * I thin THoughton would givo Christ a breakfast. don Leller 1o the New York Tribune. A Sunday-school teacher was giving & léssor on Ruth. 8he wantad to bring ont the kinduesy of Boaz in commanding the reape:s to drop lurger handfuls of wheat. ** Novw, children,” sly said, “Boaz did snother nice thing for Ruth ; caz you tell me what it was?” “2Alerried her!® £aid one of the boys, 4 AL!;omlm_ wh&wfli beptized recontly fost her ack hair in the briny wave. Her husb baleviug that i S Religion never waa designed To make our pleasures lcar, fished out the appendage with a_hoop-pole snd aried it on the rocks.—Delfast Jouru‘:z At the Rev. Dr. Scudder’s charch, in Brook] N.Y., on Sunday, Elijah E— was -udaez?} called to act as precontor, in the absence of thy regular musical director, and accordingly monat- ed tho platiorm with some trepidation, but se. quitted himsolf croditably. 4 fow miautes lieg the pastor followed with his text, ‘What doest. thou here, Elijah ? " A little 5-vear-old boy had beea to the circas, with which, of courte, ho was deliglted. Sabv urday night come, and, whie leading him £ bed, his cousin seid, = Vell, Sinalair, { supposs you want to go to church, to-morrow 2” The little fellow psused 2 moment, and then answered, *Cousin Mollie, if church was anythung e cir- cas, you wonldn't have to sk me to go." The Rev. Mr. Parry, of Worcoster, Mass,, thinks he has found a way to fix the nlenxln‘::} Lis congregation. Every Sundsy ho annouaces the topic for the following Sanday’s sermon, and aske them to hunt up the appropriate text. . The following are oxamples of his announcements : *Up & Treo,” *Come down, Zaccheus,” “Da- formed Feet,” **An Apostle's Lost Bazpage,” *The Strange Contents of a Lost Trauk,” * Ty Cloak I Left wich Troas at Carpus.” “0h Lord! Thou knowést,” prayed a Cone necticnt Deacon in church-meeting, *‘that [am afflicted with a most impions aud deprased son. Thou knowest that ho will swear, and lie, and steal, and do all einful things. Thou knowest that on the lsst Sabbath day ho was secu walke ing down the principal stract in the village, v his handa in his pockets, whistling the follos ungodly tune”—. And the congregatioa were astonished fo bgar *Yankeo Doodlo™ flow melodionsly from the Deacon’s pursed-up lips. If Auerbach had lived a couple of years in America before writing Waldfried he wou!d have escaped not a few mistakes. Bocanso we liave no State Church he imagined we have no religion, and the old peopla ut lioms receive the son and his children a8 horetics. Annette wondered how Wolfgang, one of the new arrivals from Ameri ca, must feal on seeing church-towerd and hear- ing church-bell. He seemed to her lire ono fiom a future age; and she wanted 10 question bim, to learn how things were to ba after our dcys bad passed away. Dut perhaps this i3 mot 80 very far our of the way; Wolfeang hsd been brought up in Chicago.— Golden Age. In the parish church of Fettercaism, & cur tom existed, and, indeed, still lingers in foms Farts of the country, of the precettor, on con: munion Sabbaths, Teading out each single tine of the psalm, or paraphraso, before it waa sung by the congregation. On one communion Hundsy, tho precentor observed tho noble family of Eglantine approachiog tho tables, and Lkely to b kept out by those who prossed in before them. Boing very zoalons for their accommodation, b3 called out to aa individual whom he cosidsred to be the principal obstacle in clearing the pss- eage, * Come back, Jock, and lot in the nobls family of Eglantine ;" and then, turving to bis pealm-book, o took up bis duty, and weot 0a £0 read tho line, * Nor stend in &inners’ wazs." ) A Comstocker tells the following story of how he ‘“put his foot in it " a day or two since when coming over from Californja by rail, A gentlomsn who occupied the samo seat with him in the car complained bitterly of the heat in Sacramento, and was loud in his p:aise of .the coal air of the monatains, He agaio and again recurred toths heat end mosquitoes of Sacramonto. He had suffered terribly there from both. Theheatwas frightful, unbearable, and the mosquitoes swarm- ed in myrisds. In Sacramonto there was norest, day or night. Our Comstocker at laat said: 4 man liviog in Bucramento wants s placo somd- where ontside as a summer-residence.” * Very rue,” eaid the stranger, *but whers could he find # place,—whsre conld ho go to better bi- self?” *Well,” said tho Comstocker, **from sour description, I should think, 88 8 change from Sacrameato, he'd be very comfort- able in heill” *Sir!” said the stranger, sud, gatheriog up hia traps, ho moved to tho farther ond of the car. Tarning to tho man in tbe Dexs eeat, our Comstocker said: “1 thonght that msa was some stranger who had been atopping in Sacramento. but I guess he must be a roesident of the town, as he sgemed a good deal offended 2t what I said.” ‘*Why, dida't you kuow who youwas talking to? He ia the Rev, Dr. Polyzlos, tho great Baptist preacher!” “The thunder you eay LY cried the Comstockor: then added, "WS“‘) Imoved him, dida't 1#"— Virginia City (Aev Enferprise. I confess.” says Spurgoon, “I pever had the ability to manage o small church. Theyar® lixe those cances on the Thames—you must nob £it that way or tho other, or do this thing or thab thing, lest you should be upset. Ihappen tohave a church like o big steambont, and whsther I walk here or there my weight will ot upset it If 2 big fellow thinks himself to be_somebody, his importsnce vanishes when he joins & bif chureh like mine.” e BELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS: BEFONTD EFISCOTALIAN. _Bishop Cheney will presch {n Christ Church, corel of Michigan avenus and Twenty-fourth stroet, Tore ing and eveninz. The Rov. Bobert Collver will preach in the morpig ot the Third Church, corner of Whitney und Dearbor strects. —The Bev. J. W. Cracraft will preach in the mors- ingat Piymonth Church, cornex of Indians avenus apd Twenty-alxth strect. CONGEEGATIONAL, The Rey. Prof. James T. Hyde will presch morniog and evening at tho Oakland Cox: tional Chuzek, " The Bey. Norman A Whiard will presch morsiog and evening at the Wicker Park Church, o under the Commonwesith Intolerazco—a glant who,. fixs;. ahapé of the Presbytensd clergy, coud zob Beir in" the —Tho Rov. Albert Bushmall will vréach morming sad evening'at the Lesvitt Street Church, corne = rrrmopT, Thé Dav.'B, WcChiszey wil présch mornieg saf PP