Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1874, Page 6

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY I9, 1874 sge; nor the holy nasal tone which many men, who The Bev. A. Youker Preach RELIGIOUS NEWS. History of the Churches De- stroyed Tuesday. Growth of the First Baptist Chareh—What tlie Yarious Congregations Intend Loing. Comparison of the Religious Develop- ment of Chicago and St. Louis. Complaint of the Singular Con- duct of a Lutheran Min- ister. Oplnions of the Reliziouns Press on Pulpit- Preaching, Beecher, Etc. Hotes and Personals at Home and Abroad. 2 Church Services To-Day. THE FIRE. In the fire of Tuesday five religions bodies lost thoir housos of worship,—the First Baptist, the Olivet Bunptist (colored), tho Bothel Methodist (colored), the German Methodist, and the Jow- ish Synagogue. Of theso, the greatost eingle loss was that sustained by THE FIBST BAPTIST CHURCH, swhose elegant building, one of the finest in the city, fell before tho flames. This Society was organized in October, 1833, under the Rev. Allen B. Freeman, rent out by the American Baptist Home Mission Societs. It was the first Daptist church organized in the Northwest snywhero north of Peoria. From that time nn- til October, 1852, some four different pastors occupied-the pulpit of the church, chief among whom §as the Rcv. Elisha Tucker, D. D., of New York. In 1852 the Rev. J. C. Burroughs was chosen pastor, aud remsinod in that office until Ney, 1856. 8 He was followed by the Rev. Dr. Howard, who removed to New Orleaue in 1859, from which lat- to year tho Rev. W. W. Everts, D. D., has held tue pastoral relation. : It would perhaps bo difficult to find in this country a religious society which had done more to spread its own docirines than this charch. It hss scemed to possess o missionsry epirit from the first, the sim of which was to spread the Goctrines and increase the number of adberents of the whole body, rather than to build up simpls strone eingle church orgavizativn. In 1856, the Ediua Place Church, now the 3ichigan Ave- rue Bociety, waus organized, almost exclusively from membets of this church. In September, 1856, the Union Park Church was argacized, priucipally from members of this church. The First Church early commenced tho practico of establisking Baptist Missions in euch portions. of the m{ a8 were destitute of religions instruction. Ia this way the North Star Mission was formed, which has become an indepevdant church, owning a velustle lot in the North Divirion, on which it has commenced building a block, somewbst similar to tbhe Mathodiet Church Block, which sball coutain, watha hall for public worship, some six fine atores. The Bhields Mission, es- tablished in 1836, has now become the Tacuty- fifch Street Baouet Cherch, with a paetor of its own, and a sepacato chureh organization. This mission 18 not, however, pecumarly indspendent of the First Church. The Indiana Avenuo Church, now a co-ordinate Lravch of the First Church, was algo an ou:growth of the ckurch. In addition to_these enterpnses, tho Baptist churches at Evznston zud at Highwood, uow both thriving orgauizations. are the rceuits of the enterprise of the members of the Fixt Church. And the Coveatry Streat Church, formerly calied the Relling-Aill Miseion, is still another brench which has grown into an inde- pendent aund thriviug churck:, When, in 1864, the church moved from the corner of LaSalle and Wasbington streets to the building just destroyed by fire, it signalized the removal by au instance of liberality rarels to be equaled. It gave its old church building, valued &t #10,000, to the Sccond Church, and gave in mioncy to other Baptist churches the following- named sums: North Baptist Church, $6,50 Tuon Pask, £4,000; Wabash Avenue, §3,001 Bereen Sx:ovr the Temple Church), £1.000; Dlivet (colorad), &500. This aid to the churehe: whichi were then struggling in much adversity, gave the Daptists & new impetus. Notwithstanding all theee depletions, the So- cicty Lad, in 1871, just beforo the great fire, a total of almost 1,000 wembers.” At the present time, owiny to the fact that that event scattered the membership considerably, the membership is not as Jarge. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction ex- pressed among the momboers that the ofiicers whose duty it should have becn to look after the insurance allowed it to run down so low that at tise time of the tirc it only smounted to 30,000, on a valuation of at Jeast $125,000. But the Socicty will probably very soon set about the work of rebuilding, and it is certain that the first thing to be attended to will be the cuustraction of a church-edifice for the accom- wedation of the membership. This building will npecessarily be situsted romewhers scuth of I'wenty-second sireot, ity be a8 far as ‘Lhirticth street, in whici H uo doubt, be erected upon the large lut % in possession of the church, ou the coric: Indiana avenue and Thirtieth street. A vumber of the members, probably a majority, | &l=0 wish to see & church built upon the old site; | £ud it is pot improbabje thzt a building about the sizo of the old lecture-room' will be built on the rear of the lot, leaving the main portion of the lot to be hereafter built upon o8 the de- mands of business and the church may seem to decide. Ultimately, something lika the Boston Temple may e built there, depending upon the course which the city shail take in its develop- ment for the next few yoars. Thae materizl in tho of the old church is comparatively un- injured, aud can essily find & place in the walis of the new stracture. The Church has on its roll of members many enterprisiug per- 3ous, who are not at all despoudeut over the present zspect of affairs. OLIVET. BAPTIST. % w18 the oldest aud strongest colored the city. It was formed in 1862 from a cousolidetion of the Zoar aud Mount Zion Chur ‘Lhe membership at the time of the fire was G30. The building destroyed by the fire on Tuesdzy was comploted i 1967, 1t was n good structure, vulued at §21,000, and accommo- duted about 800 people. The Society has been nnder the pastoral care of the Rev. Richard De- Baptwste since June, 1863, aud has grown from & small chiurch of about 100 members then, to its preseut lurge proportions. About balf the fam- ilies convccted with the church lost their bomes also, But they area thnfty, hard-working veople, and’ witl not be casily discouraged by tlus Lard dieaster. Plans for the church's future bave not yetbeen perfected; but it is quite probablo that they will rebuild their house of worship ou the old site, the insurance money on the building destroyed, being sufficient to give them & good start. THE BETHEL CHUECE was a colored church of the Metliodist denomi- Dation. Luis church had, only a few years age, bt u very respectable building on Third aves e, & i1ti6 south of Taylor strest. The Society ] churches, and when one knows tbat nearly all of this wonderful development has been achieved within the just sixty years, most of it in balf a century, it seems more like AN ARADIAN TALE than tho sober, well-authenticated history of the times. 2 Indiaasand INlinois had been erected as Territo- ries out of the wild country known as ths North- west, and were admitted a8 States in 1816 and 1818. Louisiana was . purchased in 1803, aud a portion of it, called by tho #ame name, was ad- Initted a8 a Stato in 1812; and Missouri, carved out of it also, was admitted in 1821. During the oarly part of the second decade of the century, THE 21BSIONARY SOCIETIES of Massachusetts and Connecticat sent the Rev. Samuel J. Mills avd J. F. Schermerhorn through Penusylvania, snd down tho Ohio and Missigaippi Valleys to Now Orleans, on a tour of observation, and in 1814 the Massa~ chusetts Bociety sent Mills aud Daniel Smith on a second missionary tour. They were very kind- 1y received by Judge Griswold at Shawneetown, Gov. Edwards at Kaskaskia, Gov. Pogoy, of In- diune, Gov. Clark at St. Louis, and many others whose names are prominent ia the early history of the West. 8Y. LOU1S wasthon atown of 3,000 inkabitants, thref fourths of whom were French Catholics. It ia -desoribed by one who then saw it as *‘a tumble- down French villago, built mainly of wooden slabs and_polos set vertically, and well dsubed with mortar mixed with straw, though there were many log-houses.” e it romembered that this is only sixty years before the inauguration of tho great railway bridgo,—one of the most eplendid structares upon the continent. On the 20th of December, 1815, the Rev. Sal- mon Giddings, & cousin of Joshus Giddings, of Congressional and Abolition fume, and a graduate of Willisms College, received a com- mission_from the Connocticut Mresionary So- ciety tolabor in the West, Laving St. Louis as the centro of his operations. He left Hartford at onceon horsoback, snd did not arrive in 8t. Louis ill the 6th of April, 1816. Dr. Koy eays : *‘Dismounting from his faithful horse, ho walked lonely from house “to house {0 find a rosting-place, and took quarters at 2 small hobel Composing himself, and taking up a St. Louis paper, the first arucle that met his eye was hoaded *Cantion,’ and was a warning to tho poo- le of the city sgainst a man who sd becn commissioned to -visit them from New Eogland a8 a political maneuverer of the Hartford Convention! He found there no Protestant organization, ar house of worship, or minister.” 2R, GIDDINGS TOILED ON N amid every discouragement, travoling on * horse- back for hundreds of miles in this State and Missouri. St. Louis was at that time the least promieing preaching-place he had. A year and 8 half after ho arrived,—in November, 1817,—he was able to organize the first Protestant church (First Presbyterian) of any kind in St. Louis. In January, 1619, he called the peoplo together for the purpose of devieing measures to build & church. THOMAS H. BENTON was the clerk of the meeting. Not till Novem- ber, 1823, did the socicty ventureto buralot ; in August, 1823, the cornor-stono was laid, and in June, 1825, tho house, builf of brick, and costing S9,000, was _dodioated Among the _contributions was 25 from the President. Jobn Quincy Adams. Thus the first Protestant house of worship in St I'.cm's was dedicated leas than balf a century ago! “But the facts in regard to the COMMERCIAL AND RELIOIOUS GBOWTH OF OHICAGO aro still more wondorful, becsuse more racent. St. Louis was a large and prosperous city when, in 1829, James Thompaon was employed to sar- vey nud Iay off the Town of Chicago. His finst map bears date Aug. 4, 1830. In 1829, the fam- ilies of Jokn Kinzie, Dr. Wolcott, John Miller, “ who kept a log tuvarn,” and John B. Besubien, with three or fuur Indian traders, * who lived in log esbins on the West Side,” constituted, with the soldiers in Fort Destborn, the entiro popu- Iation of Chicago. The total receipts for taxes and revenus from all surces for Cook County in 1332 —only forty-twoyears ago—were $357.78. Our economical Common Council have tuxed us this year, for the City of Chucago alone, £5,432,343. THE FIKST PRESBYTELIAN CUURCH, the oldest in the oity, was organixed June 26, 1833, forty-one yeuns tgo. Iis drav pastor, the Rev. Jervmizh Porter, and one of rts first Eiders, Philo Carpenter, Esq., still live, and are by no masns broken down with age or incapacitated for the duties of life. . THE METHODISTS, in the person of the Kev. Jeese Walker, wore the first to preach the Gospel here, bub thair church erganization came later than the Presby~ terian. We might maltiply facts and coraparisons be- tween St, Louts and Chicago, but shis is unuec- essary. The able article of Dr. Roy shows that the commercial, socisl, and religious foterssts af St. Louis wers well established and Lighly prog- perous befare the plat of the Town of Clicago was surveved. Though our sister city kad large- ly the start, the census of 1830 will give her com- pelitar on Laxe Michigan the undisputed su- gremncy in wealth, population, aad progressive evelopment. [ERN— CAREER OF AN OPEN-COMMUNION BAPTIST CHURCH. Les Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., the pioneer of open commuion in the Baptist decomination, appears to bave reached a solid basis of success. The New York Herald says: Its pastor, the Rev, J. Hyatt Smith, orginzlly s Weatern pastor, came hither and Iabored ‘quictly with- out creating any, or very little, stir in clerical eireles, even among his own dénomination, until a few yoars g0, when he bogan to preach in favor of the union ana communion of Christizns 3 the body of Christ, Tuen from preaching he weut to writing bouks about “the gates ajar,” aud 1o his sacramental invitations he was careful {0 explain to communicants that the table pread beforo tuem was the Lord’s, and not Leo ayenue’s or the Buptist denominstion’s, and thst alle- ginnce to Christ was the prime qualification for pattic- ipation in the holy feast. This was objected to by many in the church and out of it, and the acceptance of this kind of invitation by unlinmersed Christians led to the withdrawal of ome influential and wealthy members from Loe Avenue Baptist Church. Their places were quickly filled by others of equal, if not greater piety, though with less money, The Soclety had anew louse of worshipon its huads, on which 1t enemies ihere wasa very hesvy morigage debt. sought to cripple it and to ehoke off THE HEDESY OF OPES COMMUNION, An offort was mede to get the pustor to resign or the _irty to rid itelf of him. But the church would not any proposal of separation, and he held on. onthis 3g0 there was s debt of 56,000 on the Teer Joty, 1is mortgiges wero forsclosed, Ita cliureh propor was sold by the Sheriff, and a deacon in one of the closge~cominunion churches—the Central— bought it in, hoping that the Lec Avenue Church would not be allo to redeem it within the timoallowed by law, St.John's Methodist Episcopal Church £nd tha Beformed Church, oa Bedford avenue, took up collec- tions sggregating 31,300, and other churches bero and elscwhere—of jts own and other denominations— Jjumped to tho rescue, The pestor continued to preach 3 full and afree salvation, and crowds flocked to his ministry 80 that standing-rootn within hearing dis- tauce—without any chance of sceing the speaker— could not be bad at any evening service during tho past winter, And, to give a beiter chance to tho masses who eamo to bear him, Mr. Smith provided separate scrvices for young men, when females were not sdmitted to the building st all. The church edi- fics will hold about 1,600 persons, and it was not an uncommon thing at those special meetipgs to see from 500 to §00 young men rirsin their seats, after one of his pungent Gospel sermous, and nsk the prayers of Christiaus in their bekalf. The CONVERTS MIGNT DE COUNTED BY THE HUNDUED, and baptisms were frequent ; 1,701 have been bap- tizedalready. And if ir, Smith'had hzd the Academy of 3ueic Le could bave flled it with young people ns casily s o did his own churchi, His peopls have now peid off their indebtednces, and are ogain free and independent, and they intend shordly to bave & jubl- lee-occasion aver tho event. e A SERIOUS ACCUSATION, The Faribaalt (Minn.) Republican of the 15th contains the following communication : 1t is now about three weeks since I was called to Mr. Rasmus Peterssn, who wns hurt in Mr, Hill's shop, snd doadly sick, about 4 o'dock in the morning. Aly wife did aizo follow me. On the reguest of the sick man, 1 sdminfitered o Holy Communion, and Mrs. Amalie Petursen (the wife of the sick man), Mrs. Tyr— holm aud my wife, Mrn. Anna S, Petersen, did partake with the dying man in this holy sction.’ The conse- cration waa done in a due way with bread and wine, and the common form of the Church. I also visited afterwara the man, cnd gave him aa mich a8 possible the consolation of the religion. To-day, the 7th of June, I received the notice that the Luther- s muck rmalier than that of the Olivet Church, ;\‘ujdcumm plans for the future bave yet been sade. e HISTORICAL. _ Wo find in the New Englander for July & very :;uesuuf l;;et;onm atticlo from' the pen of tadl thie hife and h);o‘: ;‘:m i e 7 TOX BEV. SALVON GIDDINGS, the first Presbyterian clergyman who settled in St. Lovia: but in doing this Mr. Roy groups to- gether the promineat facts in the religious his- tory, and muck that is political as well of that city and of Missouri, sud our own State. The more iinportant events here noticed oceurred bo- tween 1810-"20,—less than sixty years ago,—and scores of people are still living whose memory embraoes most of them. And yet1f one looks st the population and the progress of Ceatral and Soutbern Ilimois, and of Missouri ; the vast wealth of St. Louis, her railways and splendid Tridge; her commerce and her 460,000 people, with their banks, and colleges, and schools, ard an minister, Mr. N. Quammen, s, uncalled, been by Mr. Rasmus Petersen, and instesa of conscling him ith the Word of God, he has in a most cruel way re- buked him that T gave him the Holy Sacrument; that Be is 10w eternally loet; that he never will Lave abso- lution for this sin: that he alone (Mr. Quammen) ia pilest that Tan all other ministers of Furibsult sro e prophets, and o forth, o 'has now nearly put the dying man in a nearly frantic position, and lefc him with these hard and fanatic words, Mr. Editor, T bope you as 3 man of justice will ot duny me a place for these few lines in your honored paper. Ihave eecn s geat deal of evil doing and evil talking in my life, but & more heartless action I never eaw. 1 never thonght a man conld be 80 blinded by fansticism that he would distarb the last moments of 3 dying fellow-cresture, A sworn statement of this affuir can be produced by 3. Meyer, who heard every word of Mr. Quammen and also of the ladies present st my administration, ‘Please publich these lincs with my full name. ‘Estx L PETERSEN, Episcopal Priest, FuRmATLT, June §, 1874, el S THEE RELIGIOUS PRESS, THE INTERIOR says of Theodore Tilton's expected expose of the Beecher scandal : The most conspicuous msn before the American public just at this time is Theodore Tilton. s name anywhere in print will attract attention from that of President Grant, tho Crar, Queen Victoris, or any other great oficial perronage—and why? =~ Becsuse Theodore postesscs an odorous budget full of some- thing neaty about a distinguished minister of the Gos- pel. * He knows the value of his foul treasure, and hes Deen shaking out its nauseous smells for two years past, Now he promied to gise the waiting public tha grand opening. 'Inten days he says he will have it all ready, and wiil axplode it With a violence that shsll contamis nate the whole land. Aud then his occupation will be gone. He will bo like & cuttle-fieh which has lost ita sac. ‘The ambitlon of such 3 man i something that Do high-minded man can understand. The Inkrior has further remarks derogatory to Socrates this week, and an apology for Xan- tippe, That paper saya: Wa never read of ome [virtuous heathen]. A senti. ‘mental loafer named Socrates is named 38 3 specimen, Now it is well known to every rophoniore that Socrates ied s life which fully justified Xantippe in pitching slop-water on his philocophlc head and , and would Lave justified her in more vigorous measures, There is not n_respectable woman in the country who would not promptly apply for a divorce from a husband Like Socrates, Y It may be expected that tho editor will throw somo additional light on Penelope's domestic re- lations next weok. THE ADVANCE, in ite lending editorial, dotails the story of the wrongs of sovoral white teachors of colored schools in Texas. Tho Advance, among other things, Bay8 : Aparty of armed and masked men went to the house of Mr, John Geaner, whose son_superintended the colored Sanday-school, and dragged _the latter out of doors, with his fathes, mother, and sister. The fumily wero from Chicagn, and cultfvated a Little farm, ey used the father very roughly, and threw tho daughter against the house, tearing her elothes and brufsing her ; but she rushed again to ber brother and threw her arms around his neck so that they falled to get & Tope around it, though they struck at him with a pistol. The screams of the females aroused some of the neighbors, who fired off pistols to awaken others, and 80 alarmed the ruffians that they mounted their horses and rodeoff, Subsoquently Afr, Washburn and thie Gesuers wero eacorted to Seguin’ by the colored people. The Gesners will be compelled to Joae their ‘crop worth $500, and to quit the country, Discussing the question of picnics, the same paper has an unique and profound definition of *The Principle of the Picnic,” as follows: Paul says of & cerisin oollection for the paints Lot every one of yon lay by lim in store as Go hath prospered hini,” Hers was tho picnic principle applfed to Christian giving, Not the rich alone, but tho poor; not the liberally inclined ouly, but all, from the youngest to the oldest, aro to contribute to the common cause, The Advance maintains that * Vacation and godliness go together. They are helps to each other. Many 5hrismn peoplo_have not found it out, and their godliness of life is impaired theroby. Proper vacatian is not only ‘s means to religion, it is religion itself. Hear our Lord Josus: ‘Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and roat awlule.” One or twice Ho —divinely strong as Ho was—went into a ‘soli- tary place apart;' and, almost 88 a favorita word, rest repeats itself through the Word of God. One is surprised to connt the promises and ine juactions turning to the word reat.” THE BTANDARD, 5 v discussing the question of probibition or H- cense, 8038 The conditions of soclety have radically changed within tho past_twenty years, especially in our citles and large towns, When the probibitory triumphs wero achieved, there were comparativaly few foreign- era in the country. But sluce then they have come to us by millions ; they have largely concentrated in the citfes and incorporated towns, and eight-tenths of them are found on the side opposed to temperance. They have becomo Yoters, and their influanca is all for the liguor-traffio, Even now in thoss communities whers the mative element largely predominates lttio or no difficulty is experienced in enforcing prohibitory lawa. Eight-tenths of the liguor-sellers are foreigners in any community with which we are scquainted, Had the country remainod a8 it was, 2a to tha character of ita population, twenty-five yews sgo, the battle of temparanos would long aince have been over, and the victory won. THE NORTEWESTERX ADVOCATE has this on * Namby-Pamby Preaching " The namby-pamby preacher, like the preacher of any other distinct and separate school, may be known by his vocubulary. s words betray him. His termin- ology is decidedly saccharine. He babbles incessantly of *tzulture,” art, fluwers, aweet birds, and tre stars and the month of June, which menth, by the way, has Dot behaved itoclf 80 tamyecatoly theso fow years past 2 10 justify the partiatity, Heis forever ringing the changes on such wordd s * beauty * and * beautiful,” “love” aud “lovely," “mercs” and **charity.* Ilis djective i * aweet,” and hia fuvorite pronoun i8 “L" He is ordinately addlcted 1o both, He geaks of everything that suits him, and nesrly every- thing dues suit him, in the languags of concaitsd en- dearment, 8o ha ' babbles on, your namby-pamby Dreccuer, until kis misistrations become s wearisome moaotony of egotindle gual. He remirds one of thoso diminutive rivilets vitach ripple on aud cu, yesr in und your out, and never do anythiag but rigple, He can- turn 3 mall, or do more than ' thirst, He never has a freshet, a5d o uever dries up. The seme paper demancs the Chicago High- Selicol, and “thinks 1t ie not fulfliing its proper mission: The High-School courte, as =t present arranged, is 4 regurds the ends to bo at s ! -al Ror practical ; but a purpe Why should boys desert this achool as they do, aud swaru to the commersial colloges, where they arg obliged to pay & high price for tuilion, if it i <6 they are RatlsBed tiat, for their parposes, 1l neither o turo of beth. Why should our yootn, by hundreds, forego the truine ing they wouid have bLya full course in the High Seiiool, and enter banki es, lawyer's oftices, or ] Lusiness, uiives it bo that they polieve thelr best intercsts are beet attained by the latter aud not by the former course? Hence we say, and say It corfidently, that the Chicego High-School is not fultill- ing in practice what it promisea. THE ALLIANCE. Discuesing the Deecher scandal, the Aliance 8ays: Itis often said that Mr. Beecher belongs to the Amoricen people; and said in such 8 way @ to con- ey theidea that tho people own him and could sell or give him away, or do almost anyibing else with him, 1t Lias even Leen suggested that the affair in Brookiyn ouglit to be placed in the charge of a committee elect- ed from different paris of the land. As if the Ameri- can people had the right to adjudicate i the cuse. How and in what way did they acquire such a right 7 Mr. Beecher is pastor of Plymouths Church, in Brook- lyn, That is to 3y, be §s an officer, and tho chief officer, n un' ecclesiastical organization; and he i¢ primarily and directly amenabls to that body. They can bear and cone sider chargea against him; have the right to call him tosccount. And all that the American public bas to do with the casy, 18 to form just judgment when the matter {s fually settled by the proper authoritics. ‘The public judgment, of course, wiil affect Mr, Beech- er's teputation, for good or for bad: but to holst pub- lic opinion into & tribunal, that shall displace and overthrow the proper tribunals in & given case, is to pervert justico and convert government iuto mobocra~ cy. And this, substantially, is what some well-mesn- 1ug but unthinking people_soem very desirous to do. ‘We do not say this in Mr. Beecher's interest alone, It ia time, perhaps, that great men, or great Toputations, generally, had their individual rights more justly re- spected. The Alliance notices the recent professions of growing liberality on the part of the Inferior, in the following ironical vein: * Now what is most beautiful about this troad spirit is that it bas just arrsigued and tried ome man for epeaking lightly of the “hands of the Presbytery,” and another man for permitting some one to preach the * Gospel of the blessed God” in female attire, rather than in masculine cloth. In order for the In- terior to make perfect its proof of great brosdness, it will be necessary for the tool now toiling in that shop to show that AMr, McCormick has been a lfe-lon friend of Wendell Phillips, that Prof. Patton and Bol Ingersoll are borom friends in religion, and that ‘Trowbridge was invited into the /nterior ofice to sip brandy with the proprietor, and with Lim discuss “ the Gospel of the blessed God.” While these points remain unproven, # there will be those who will doubt the liberality of the Inferior, and we sball be awmong them, — NOTES. GATHOLIO. { JThe Rev. Brother Patrick, Assistant Superior- General of the Christian Brothers, arrived in Neow York last week from Paris. ‘The Catholic Church does not send its minis- ters swey on summer vacations, or suspend wor- &hip in the dog-days. So says a disciplo of that denomination. AnEnglish paper says: * The Catholic Dnke of Norfolk laid lately at Canterbary, England, the foundation-stone of a Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St. Thomas a-Becket, and designed ‘on s scals equal to the importance of the causa for which helaid down his life.’ » The Catholic Reticw remarks that, * Some of these days, we shall have our colored brethren, when they take occasion to refiect on the differ- ences between the code of morals observed to- ward them aselaves in States predominantly Catholic and that elsewhere practiced, drawing the obvious conclusion that the tree is known by its fruits, and that where doctrine is essentially wrong, as they have been taught to believe Catholic doctrine ta be, it cannot_ produce right practice. The Catholic Church, which in Louis- iana rnforced the rights of Christian marriage for slaves, and forbade the separation of man 2nd wife, is the same Catholic Church which ages ag0 abolixhed slavery in Enrope, and which, to- day, knows before her altar and in her priest- hood no dist:nction of color or of race.” METHODIST. ‘The corner-stoce of s new Methodist Episco- pal Church was laid last week 2t Toms, N. .? Dover, N. J., dedicated a new Methodist Church July 16, It cost &17,000. The Bish: of the Aethodigt Episcopal Church Son?{\uhave appointed a w?ek o? pn;u to commence Friday, Aug. 21. The Methodist Advocale says: ** Ono thing is certain: if ever there is fratarnity botween tho twe Methodisms, Dr. Curry, of the New York Christian_Advocale, will not help to bringit abont.” Dr. Curry has been writing 80mo saucy editorials about church fraternity Jatels. The Desplaines diuihedist Sundsy-school had 8 pleasant picnic Thursasy st the camp-ground. A very interesting tomperance-meeting was held Taat Sunday evealng in the Halsted Broos Methodist Church. The Lansing (Mich,) District Camp-meeting and Cnn{ercngce( are 127 be beld pear Delitt, Clinton County, Wednesday, Aug. 12. During the past week the great Round Lake camp-meeting has been in progress, not far from Troy, N. Y. Preparations have been made for this gathering for many months, snd it is said to be the greatost camp-meating gathering ever attempted on the continent. Bisbop Janos pro- sides, and it 18 thought the numbers may awell to 15,000 or 20,000. Al branches of tho Method- ist Church—north, south, oast, and everywhere else—arae represented, without respect to color. CONGBEGATIONAL. Eight persons united with Plymonth Church, St. Paul, July 5, four on profession. The Congregational Church at Calumet, Lake Superior, the Rev. N. W. Curtis pastor, was dedicated July 5. The building cost $8,000, and basafine organ and a bell ; the latter cost $1,000. The Congregational Church at Albert Les haa received between ©500 sud $60U from sister churches in the State to sid them in bulding their house of worship. The Congregational Church at Park Ridge will build & substantial house of worsbip during the summer. During the period of building the pulpit will be supplied by Ar. M. B. Bmith, alay member. Seven persons united with the Church at Web- star City, Is., the Rev. G. R. Ransom pastor, July 5, all but one by profession, sud sll heads of families. The Sunday previous tho pastor baptized three by immersion in Boone River. The Cobgregationalists of Vermont tried s sustentation scheme whereby miuisters’ salaries should be raised to §1,000; but the entire sum collected only amounts to $466, and this sum mado into dividends wonld add but a very small fraction to the already small salaries. EPISCOPAL, In five Episoopal parishes in New York, tho confessional ia used and penance taught as one of the sacraments. The Episcopal Convention at Canaba, Ala., haviog entirely moved away from the town, the building was given by the Bishop to the society ia the adjolning town. Dr. Vinton, of Boston, heads s memorial, which has been circulated’ among the clargy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, ssking that such ministers as do not believe in baptismal re- generation be permitted to omit the objectiona- £l words in the infant baptismal service. It is reported that the Episoopal Churchin Texas mow has thirty-two clergymen, thirty- eight parishes, and thirty-four missions, having grown since the election of Bishop Gregg from fifteen parishes and ten clergymen to its present gize, A proposition was eubmitted by the Bishop to &a ste Convention to divide the dio- cese 80 a8 to make shree, each of them haviog ample territory, and & population ranging from 200,000 to 400,000. BEFORYED EPISGOPAL. The Rev. Dr. Joseph 8. Maloue has accepted a call to the Reformed Episcopal Church of, the Redemption, Pittsburg, Pa. The Rev, James H. McMechen, of Wheeling, W. Va, has withdrawn from the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1n order to join the Reformed Episoopal. Emanuel Church. Louisviile, Ky., which has Just gone over bodily to the new Church, is one of the thres Low Church parishes of that city. It has avout 200 communiosats, snd numbers mauny infinential citizens among its members. Congregations using the servics of the Re- formed Episcopal have bsen organized at Min- nen%olia and 8t. Paul, the Rector, the Rev. Dr. E. D. Neill, Presidens of Macalster College, Minneapolis, officiating at both cities, preaching at St. Paul in the morning and in Minneapolis in the evening. Last March, s number of familles withdrew trom Trinity Episcopal Charch, Aurors, IlL., and formed a temporary organization. Their num- bers haviog increased, last Sunday s Reformoed Episcopal Church was orgsnized, with every prospect of increasing prosperity. The follow- ing oflicers have been elected: Robert Hainea 2ud Jawes C. Stone, Wardans; Yestrymen, Dr. J. A. W. Buck, W. H. diser, Dr. S. B. Hawley, and J. A. Creed. The Rector is the Rev. Dr. B. B. Useber. A strong Roformed Episcopal Church hasbeen organized in Susrex, New Brunswick, makin, the second in that Pfovince. The evangalical portioa of the parish of Sussex who would not endure tha itualistio rformances, the “ytrangn and erroueous™ which had crept into the old Church, obtained = division of the parish some time winco, and recently bave secured as their own the old church edifico, the High Church party rotaining the new structuro. BAPTIST. A pew Baptist church was_dedicated st Wa~ ve:ly, In.,, Wednesday, July 13. No persons wera baptizsd into the Indiana Avenue Baptist church last Sanday ovening. Three persons were bsptized in the Baptist Church at Norwood Park last Sunday evening, An English Baptist proposes to purchase a fine property in Romo, costing #50,000, for the use of English Baptists. The Baptist Church at Wooster, Olio, has called the Rev. Hugh A. sfarshall, a student of Spurgeon's Collego, who served a briof period a8 pustor of Wayne Street Church, Dayton. At tho meeting of the Execativo Board of the Woman's Missionary Society of the West (Bap- tist) laat week, liss Gaylord, of Bioux City, Ia., and Mies Wood, of Belvidere, 1ll., were ap- pointed 5 foreign missionaries. An Esstern religious Elner says: Within twenty-five years, oighty-three Baptist churches have been formed among the Germans in this country, and somo of them disfellowship mem- bers for not giving of their mesns for religious uses.” The new Baptist Church dedicated at Hinck- ley, IiL., last Sunday, is said to bo a fine speci men of architoctire, It is 82x50 foot in size, with o reur extension 10230 foet, and a ocormer tower 10x10 feet, terminat- ing_in & graceful spire. The styla is modern Gothic. The church was organized in 1873, with the Rev. Mr. Richards pastor. The cost of the house was £9,235. Mr. F. C. Hinckley sent out from Aurors a Bpecial train carrying, gratu- itously, & larze number of people to the services of dedication. Dr. W.W. Everts preached tho sermon, and raised at its conclusion aome §1,300 in cash and subscriptions to pay the balance of indebtedness. TRESBYTERIAN. The Fifth Presbyterian Church, at its last communion, added seventeen members to its roll of membership. The new organ building for Dr, Hall's new church in New York, it ia said, will be the lnirficst and most powerful in America. Its cost will be $25,000. AISCELLANTOTS, Onk Park has not a aingle liquor-saloon, and the Woman's Temperance Union of that place is in vigorous operation. A missionary residing among the Chickasaw Indians, says the Indian converts make about ag good' Christians as white people. The gecond Annual Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of Illinois will bo hold at Aurors, il., Aug. 6, 7, 8, and 9. The Turkish Government has formally _stated to'the United States Minister that it intends adbering to its recent probibition of the sale of Bibles in Turkey. The Maine Universlist Convention at Caslais, June 25, by a decisive majority, recognized the eligibility of women to the Christian ministry in an smendment 1o the by-laws, which forbids the Committee on Ordinafian to’ make any die crimination against candidates on sccount of sex. The Lutheran Home Mission Socioty bas had forty-four missions under its care, of which, three Liave become self-sustaining, ‘and one was tmnsfentcid. T];ef_;’miulons comt&risa Aifty-nine congregations, 3, ‘member: ty-four Sun- day-achools, abd 5,233 scholaca; The Iatest roligious statistics for Brooklyn are: Thirty-eight Episcopal churches, thirty-fogr Ho: man Catholic, thirty-thres Methodist, thirty- two Baptist, thirty-twe Presbyterian, - eighteen Congregational, fiftcon Reformed Duich, twelve Lutheran, four non-Episcopal Methodists, threo Unitarian, five colored Methodist, twa Germsn Methodiat, six Jewish, and six miscellaneous, or :bu':". one ohurch for every 1,700 of the inhabi~ ani A correspondent of the Liberal Christian writes that *the union of Unitarians and Uni- versalists in all practical work has been consum- mated in Wisconsin, and henceforth the liberal {orces move forward in one body. The recent Convention of Universalistaadopted a resolution inviting co-operation with the Unitarians, and & gen:al fellowship exists;” and the edifor be- lLieves that the spirit which has been shown by the brethron in Wisconsin is prevalent among many of the thoughtful men on both sides, and | whitecravated will eventually predominate in both denomina~ tions, There are thirty-eight women preachers in the United States. ¥ Twelve new church buildings are ix course of eraction in Philadelphia at the present time. The Conversation Bible Claas lately organized by the Young Mcn's Christian Association is £aid to start out successfuily. The several Protestant churches of Elgin are holding union meetings Sunday evenings, the several pastors officiating alternately. The United Brethren have greatly improved therr house of worship at New Haven, Hamil- ton County, O. It will bo dedicated in & few days. The Protestants of Australia numbor 1,358,535 out of a population of 1,920.375. ‘The Protestant churches advance in numbers at a more rapid rate than the population of the country. The families of Messrs. Prourer, Carrasco, and Cooke, lost by the Hotel de Ville disaster, have reccived donations amounting to abour 70,000, placing them entirely out of the reach of want. The Rev. George O. Noyes is said to be preclud- ed from acting 8s counsel for Prof. Swing be- fore the coming session of the Synod, owing to the fact that he exercised that office at the late trial of the Presbytery. Hagenbach, the chasch historfan, known in this country by his admirable ‘* History of Doo~ trines,” translatea by Prof. Henry B. Smith, died at his homo in Basle, Switzorland, on the Tth of June Iast. The Unitarians of Troy, N. Y., are going to build & new houss of worship. The Unitarians of Albany, who bave been without a house of worship for some_time, bave offered 1o raise £20,000 for a new church, if $10,000 can be raived eluswhero, and the latter sum has been promised by a vote of the Hudson River Unitarian Confer- ence. L June 29 the Amhblnh:'lp of Canterbury and a congiderable number of other prelates of the Church of England, deputies of the Convocation of Canterbury, gflun!ed an addressto Queen Victoria st Windsor Oastle. The address con- gratulated the Queen upon the mm'nia of the Duke of Edinburg to the only danghter of the Emperor of Russia ; it expressed joy over the result of the warin Africa ; hoped to see the glsve trado entirely abolished ; and that the Government would restrain such horrors as those which eaused the murder of Bishop Pat- terson. In conclusion, thé address expressed the belief that amid some unhl;my differences of opinion among tho clorgy, still they were more united than ever before in earnest efforts o re~ claim the vicious and instruct the ignorant. The Queen replied expreasing thanks for this loyal and dutiful address, g PERSONAL., - CHICAGO. The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will remain in the city during the vacation season. The Rev. C. IL Fowler bas been locturing in Davenport, Iows, on the * Coming Woman."” Bishop Harris, now in Europe, expects to be in Chicago next November withhis family, where he expects to reside in future, Tho Rev. E. ¥. Williams, of the Forty-seventh Stroot Congregational Church, Chicago, bas gone East for a vacation of six weeks. 3.B.T. Mareh, for several years managing editor of the Advance, has ratired from shat paper and opened s real eatats office. The Rev. A. E. Kittredge left last week for 8t. Paal, Minn.,, whence he goes to Magsachu~ sotts to remain & couplo of months. The Rev. W. H. Burns, of the South Evans- ton Msthodist Church, has been granted s vaca- tion of four weeks. Hae will go to Wisconsin. The Bev. Wilils Lord, D. D., in the absence of its pastor, the Rev. W. O. Young, is sapply- ing the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Charch. The Rev. J. B. Sutherland, of the Eighth Presbyterian Cburch, Indianapolis, has been spending several days with his friends in this aty. The Rev. R. W, Patterson expects to begin the diecharge of his daties as Professor in tha Pres- byteriau Seminary at the beginning of the next term. The Rev. Dr. Goodwin, pastor of the First Congregatiounl Church, sfarted last Mondsy for the north shore of Lake Spperior, where he will spend several weeka. it Mrs. F, E. W. Harper delivered » lectare in Providence Buglis‘ Church, on Wednesday evaa- ing, for the bemefit of the church, on “ Life Among the Lowly."” The Omnaha Republican u}wlkain Very com- plimentary terms of Gen. Morgan, the newly- elected Professor for the Bsptist Theological Seminary of this city. Gen. Morgan has been the priocipal of the Normal School &t Omaha. The Independent does not think Messra. Moody and Sankey will be likely to create auch s sensation in Chicago on their return as they have made in Scotland. It thinks the Chicago- ans are too much used to their modes of evange- lization to be very much affected. ELSEWHERE. The Rav. George ). Clark has resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Howell, ich. Bishop Bowman is to dedicate the new Metho- dist Epiacapal Church in Varrensburg, I, July 19. The Rev. Robert Parsons was installed pastor of the Oongregnfioual Church at Flas Rock, Mich., July 2. The Episcurul Bishop of Nabraska has had a silver pastoral staff presented to him on the oc- casion of his eilver wedding. President McCosh, of Princetoh College, and the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of the Broadway Taberna- cle, New York, sailed for Earopa last week. Dishop Clarkson, of Colorado, recently dedi- cated & new church in his diocese—the fortieth during his eight years’ missionary servico there. The Rev. Samuel Scoville, of Norwich, N. Y. ia pastor of the Congregational Church and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of his town. The Rev. Dr. Bione, pastor of the Baptist Church in Tarrytown, has withdrawn his resig- nation, and has been tendered a two months’ leave of absence. The Rev. Elam Branch, who died at Wenona, Mich., & fow days go, was one of the most ac- tive and successful missionary workers of the Congregational Home Missionary Bocioty in Norshern Michigan. K. A. Burpell, a somewhst noted lay preacher, is to have a dinner given him by his friends of the Young AMen’s Christian Asgociation of Au- rora, with the Woman's Association of that place, Aug. 6. 1t celebrates his 50th birthday. A Southern paper states that the venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce is extremoly feobls and greatly harassed with a severo cough. Ho ia st the Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga., where hs recoives overyattention. His son, Bishop Pierce, boing summoned by telegraph, is now with him’ The Rev. T. C. Easton, pastor of the Presby- terian Church in Belvidere, Ill., has been laid aside by sickness gince Jan. 1. He has gone to spend the summer in the Rocky Mountaios. The church continued his salary and hope to recaive him back again in better health by-and-by. Last Friday evening Mr. Beecher gaid: “ I do not_believe that I have ever written a lino against any other denomination, except a few Jotters in an obscure evening paper in Cincin- nati, many years ago, sgalost the Catholics. I bave treated all with a menly frankuness, as’l wonld treat my own.” SR RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. A native convert in Bengal, by the name of Bose, does a large amount of missionary work daily by the aid of a velocipede. He makes long and rapid journeys, and preaches along the high- ways to all who will stop and listen to his ear- nest presentation of Gospel truth. Dr. Doellinger, of Germany, recently spoke ag follows in regard to the Jesaits : ‘The experience of three centuries shows that the Jeauits bave no lucky hand. No blessing ever rests on thelr undertakings, ~ They build with unwearied as- E1duity, but a storm comes and shatters the building, or a flood comes and washes it awny, or the worm-eaten edifice falla to pleces in their hands, The Urlental proverb about tue Turk applies to them : * Where the Turk sits grass never grows.” Their missions in Par~ , Jaran, and among the tribes of Norts America have 10ng since gone to ruin, In Abyssinia they had once (in 1625) almost obtained dominion, but some time afterward (in 1C34) the whole concern collapsed, sud they mever ventured to return there, What fa left to-day of their laborlous missions in the Levant, the Greek Islands, Pereia, the Crimes, and Egypt? Bearcely a reminiscence of thelr former presence there ia to be found on the spot. Above all, tha Society of Jesua deroted its best ser- vices 10 ts Dative home in Spain, The result waa bankraptcy and depopulation of that once powerful gdom. The Congregationalist discourses in this man- ner on *‘The Pulpit Whoop “: aguay, Please to notice. It is & cry or shout. Wedonot here at all refer to the plous whine with which some apeakors bawall the ovil spirit of the are very sensible fellows ont of the desk, invariably— if unconsciously—assume when they get into it; nor the sepnlchral squawk which, now and then, some conscientious reprover goes down into his double bass to emphasize; but what we have in mind is the loud and glowing, the self-eatisfied and irrepressible, the oxuberant and car-stunning, the turgid and tremen- dous bowl-growl; the. sonorous, .umwrml;, npra‘muua, obstreperous elang, clangor, clamor, peal, awell, roar, blast, p::\uc. mbuh, ot hulinbatoo, with "which 5ome of our “great™ pulpit orators belabor an au- dience, under ths impression that thers can be no sin- cere and effective preachins of the Gospel unless so delivered that & deaf man with cotton-wool in his ears might be warranted to hoar jt at the distance of half a e, or thereabouts, This is what we refer to, . We call it the pulpit-whoop. A @ proportion of cles en in the Church of E]:;?nnd to-day are as pfi%fi? paid 8s the Vi- car of Wakefield” was in Goldsmith's time; for £150 at present, considering the cost of living, is no more than equivalent to the Vicar of Wake- field’s £40. Thers are now 4,385 benetices in the Ghurch of England under £200 a year, and no leas than 1,211 under £100a yesr in value, The Bev. E. 0. Johnson, an ex-officer of the British army in Indis, and now an indepondent missionary, has recently accomplished the dan- rous feet of visiting some of the tribesin entral Asin to explore the ground. He narrow- Iy escaped death from the fiercer Mussulmans, and wherever he went he was obliged to disgmse himself as & native. The result of his absarva- tions he gives as follows: *Ido not think the country is 80 firmly closed to the Christian in particular as to the European aa such, the prin- cipal danger being the political gusikion of every Englishman, Were protection demanded by the British Government for their missionaries oaly, thus trusting to subdne by the Cross alone, I have but little doubt but thas it would be grant- ed. Grest harm is done by the haughty and overbearing manner of the British in their own territary, and also by unprincipled men who be- coms Mussulmans when they journey in thoss countries.” —_—— MILD HUMOR. Jack (with alacrity)—'* 0! I know—'Few and short were the prayers we said.’”—Punch. That was bright little child who inquired : ¢ 3a, when cows die, do thay all go the * Milky Way2'™ Bunday-school teacher—¢ Anna, what must one do in order to be forgiven?”™ Anna—¢ He must sin! " Aunt Bolla (who has just resd alond * The Burial of 8ir John Moore”)—** Now, then, which of the verses do you like beat 2" A Down-Esst clergyman rocently lost two pairs of rubbers wrapped up in s circus-poster. ge i‘l‘melu.l tostate that the poster was second- an A Wayneeburg, Pa,, womsn has read the Bible through forty-eight times, and when she calla her busband, and waats bim to move rapidly, her Yoice is as sharp as the crack of & rifle. 0, Lord,” prayed s Methodist minister, ‘ keep mo humble and poor!" 0, Lord, if Thou wilt keep him humble, " 8aid the Deacon who next prayed, “ we will keep him poor."” An interesting little boy, timld when left alone in & dark room, was overheard racently by his mother $o say in his loneliness, *“Oh, Lord, don’t let any one hurt me, and I'll go to church next Sunday, and give you somo money.” A good deal of interest was excited this morn- ing by the speatacle of a policeman conducting two boys with bloody noses to the station- house. It was subsequently ascertained that they had peen indulging in a Congregational Council.—Brooklyn Argus. Hearing that his pastor intended to preach on the * Recognition of Friends in Heaven,” a pacishioner euggested that he should preach on the * Recoguition of Frionds on Earth,” since he had been sitting in his&:w twenty years ‘without being recognized by occupant of the next pew. In a Brooklyn infant-class there is 8 premuum for good behayior, tha excellence of the behav- ior consisting largely in abstinence from wrig- gling. A3 the close of s recont session, the amiable and accomplished feacher said to a small girl, ** Becke, my dear, you wers a very good little girl to-dsy.” ¢ Yes'm. I couldn't belp bein’ gaod. I got & 'tiff neck,” the yonthfal Beckie replied, with perfect seriousness. Church ushers are often aristocratio in their bearings. Indeed, a sexton of prolonged service bas much of the patrician about him, and is very discriminating in his attentions. It is told of a mau poorly dressed, that he went to a church seeking an opportunity to worship. The usher did not notice him, but seated several well- dressod porsons who presented themselves, when finally the man addressed the usher, say- ing, **Can you tell me whose church this is?" “Yes, this 1s Chriet's Church.” *‘Is He in?" was the next question, after which a seat was not so bard to find. . ——— RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS: EPISCOPAL. - The Bev. Dr. Stocking will preack morning and evening in the Church of the Epiphany, an Throop street, near Adams, * —The Rev, Henry G. Perry will preach morning and evening in All Saints’ Church, corper of Carpenter and Fourth streeta, —There will bo morning service st St. Jchn's Chureh, on Ashland svenue, near Madison street. Evening service will be omitted until further notica. ~The Rov. W. H. Smythe will presch morning and evening in the Church of the Holy Communton, on Dearborn streat, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth. —The Rt-Bey. H. W. Les, Bushop of Iows, will presch this evenin i the Episcopal Chuseh st Hydo ar) —Thers will be fall choral gervics, marningand evening, in the Church of the Ascension, corner of La= Salle and Elm streeta, —Tho Rav. C. J. Kelley ¥ill officiatethis morning in the Chigrch’ of Our Savior, corner of Belden and Lincoln svenues, No evening service. &, Poter's Mission Cbapel, No. 45 Third avenus, near Van Buren street; the Rev. C. Btreet, chaplain. Morning prayer, 10:30; Holy Communion, 11:35; evensong, with sermon, 8 p. m. PBESBITERIAN, The Hov. Charles L. Thompson will presch in the Filth Church, corner of Wabuah svenue and Thirty Tiret atreet, in the morning, on “ The Leper Healed,” a0d in the'ovening on *The Harmony of Bich and Poor.” ~The Rey. U, D. Gulick will preach aa psual in the will preach mo and evening in tho Ninth Church, on Ellis avenae. —Tho Rev, Ben E. S, Ely will preach in the morn- ing in Grace Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak avenues, No evening sexvice. “The Rov, J. W. bain will presch in the Taited Church, corner of Monroe and Pxulina streets. Morn- ing subject: “Rending the Hoavens,” Evening: “The Friendship of Christ.” —Evening service as usual ‘o Campbell Park Mis- slon, on Leavitt street, noar Harrison. ~—Prof, J. B. L. Soule, of Blackburn University, will preach morning and evening in the Eighth Church, corner of Robey snd Washington streets, —The Bev. Jumea Maclaughlan vill preach morning and evening io the First Scotck Chureh, corner of Adams and Sangsmon streets. —Tho oy, L. J. Halsey will preach in the morning in the Third Church, corner of Carpenter and Washe ington streets. No evening service, —The Rev.J. Monro Gibson will preach in the ‘morning in the Second Church, corner of Aichigun avenue and Twentieth street. In the evening the First Chureh Jolns with the Second in & unian service. The Rev, Arthar Mitchell will preach. ~—The Rev, J. B. McClure will preach st River Park this morning. —The Rev. and the Rev. J, Church, DaPTIST. First Church services will be held as follows : Wa- bash Avenue M. E. Church, corner of Fourteenth street, 10:30 &, m.; preaching by the Rev. W. W. Everts, D. D. Wabual K Avenus M E. Church, 7:45 p. m.; Goapel mesting conduoted by B, F. Jacoba. —The Rev. 8, P. Allison will preach in the morning, and the Rev, L. T. Bush in the evening, o the Twenty- fifth Street Church. . —Amity Church will worship at Mortimer’s Hall, The Re, Florence McCarthy will preach in,the even. ing, and ‘st 4:30 p. m. will occur the ceremony of recog- nition. The Rev. N. F, Ravlin will preach ; charge by the Bov. John Gordon ; right hand of fellowship by the Rev. H. A, Reichenbach. —The Rev. E. P. Bartlstt will preach in the evening at No, 330 Ogden avenue. —The Rev. C. H. Do Wolfa will presch morning and evening in immnauel Church, corner of Centre sad Dagton streets. —The Rav. A. J. Frost preaches morning and even- ing in the University Place Church, on Douglas place, opposite Rhodes avenue. The Rey. F. M. Ellis presches morning and even- ing in the Michigan Asenue Church, At the eves servico hs opeming asthem will be's mow * Glort, written by the organist . C. Enop! —The Rev. J. Malvern wiil preach in the Free Com- 8. F. Savage presches this morning, . Walker in the evening, in Reunion munton Church, eornar of Loomis and Jackson streets, Morning subject: *‘The Demands for Sympathy erishing, Ete . oo B, 3. 3. Wiitehead preachca this morning in the North Soar Church, corner of Divislon and Sedgwick streets, Temperance mesting in the even- ing, with sddresses by X, H. firrelle, & reformed saloon-keeper; by Mrs, Wilson, Chatrman of the Cen- tral Committee, and other ladics. —The Thirsy'scventh .Street Miston Church hold services on Thirty-sixth and Butterfield streeta unti] the completion of their new building, g at Comlialy fovie b3 600 3 Relping Bavd fo b otk cordially a helpin, to this much- needed enterprise, HEE MrTHODIST. 1In Trinity Church, on Indisna avenue, near ‘Twenty- tou e o 4 Rl e T ey Fa T : Bt Vaew Guliy | T - . J. W, elps will preach and eovening ia the Michigon Avenus Church, avening in the Western Avenue Chureh, —Tho Rev. H. L. Hastings, of Bostay, the morning in Moody’s Church, % Iho Dethel Atrican Soci 1 b — ethel ican ity < the Common Council Chazabes. .‘;’5‘&;‘;”" iy m. Preaching by the pistor, the . § 441 g by ¢ T W, ] —The Rev. 5. McChesney Preaches in oo, in Park Avenus Chureb, co, ne Py —The Rev. J. O, Peck v%“ o, ing in Centenary Chureh, on Monrge Laderm, | gan. _Evening sublect, " The Mase u"fi‘;_,’:bxx., —The Quinn Chapel Afri ; ton, formerly worshiping fg“&o?‘;f:"f.‘" e, but burned out in the lafe fire, will mog L%y Hall, cormer of Clark and Monrse strecot. & Tug sresing. At ho eveniag serice s P . C. Boo preach on & , the ey Firen Our Passags Thioggs g CONGREGATIONAT, ~ and evening in Wicker Park chn;m' Morntry Ject : “Relationa of Rich and Pogr iy {1 Christ.” in fh ZTis Bev. 3. 8. H preaches morning snd ;fih?m,mfly M, corner-of Ann and Washingtor Tha Rev, Willam B Serer ey 5 preaches morning snd_ovening o “*i";;fl”j Chureh, on Whita street, near Dapp *¥ Esslic Tho Rav. J, E. Forrester will preach g ) in the Chureh of the Redesmer, cormer of 5, and Washington streets. Subjecs: u gy, 28300 ures.” No evening servica, Uring Meas. —The Rev. W, S. Ralph preaches they Toring ; ] Murray Church, on avene, ninth street. No evening service, " AF Tweatp, 0 beve t presches morning ang ing in the Christian Chuzch, wrm, ana, Twenty. ol stroot. oorner of Indiana aven, —The Re¥. G. G. Mullins preaches fn ths in the Central Christian Church, mory near Jefferson Park. “ A g The Sunday-school 1 I o Sunday-school lbrary of the Ch Messiah will 'be open t 1050 . m, AR ot books will please return them for exchinge, " REFORMED EP1300PAL, Bishop Chenoy will presch in Christ Chiureh, ore of Michigan avenuo and Twenty-fourth street.” Yoo, ing subject: *Two Specimena of Pruysr,” hh:t‘ subject: “A New Testament Ministry,” MIGCELLANEOTS The Universal Association of Spiri! Prizary Eofl!inglflf;.)‘l,'gl Tlinois, meets 1t 330 p.. fay 0. 204 'Van Buren strect. s, willreriow thé sochl problem. Wl —Elder ing in tha Green Street Tabernac —Services 1 Olivet Railzoad Chapel at 10:30 am —The Adventists meet morning azd evening their hall, No. 213 West Madison strq Eider B 6. MeCulloch. v Mokl The Progressive Lyceum meets at 123 Templare’ Hall, corner of Washingion and Demgon sireis,” Plalo nexWodueaday 3% Try s e, % —The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches moing @vening {n the English Lutheran Church of the fi Trinity, corner of Dearborn and Erie strests. D, Mazwell will answer questions whil fa 4 tranos state at Grow's Opers Hall 500 street, in the morning. Cephoa 5. Lynoe will éa lver an address on “ Shakerism * in the evening, , will 4 hitla will preach and Prof, m!-?:fm““‘mfit - Frank Burr will presch morning aad gy - e, i No. 613 West Mah —The Rav. J. D. Sveninghaus will preach this mor. ing inthe Evangelical Luthersn Church, on 8as strect, near Chiczgo avenue. Subject; * Aus Gy Segen. 1t Alles Gelegen; ® or, “ The Lessons of ity ' it tion,™ grnt e CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK, EPICOPAL. July 19—Seventh Sundsy after Trinity, July 358t Jsmes. : BOMAN GATHOLIC, July 19-Eightt Sundsy after Pentecost; Bt Vin cent of Paul, C. Judy S0t Jerome Exnilss, O, BY. Margare, Y, July T1—S¢, Praxedes, V. July 228t Mary Magdalen. ; July zx—gf,cApnmmpu. B. IL; B\ Librimy July 24—Vigil of B, James; 8t, Christins, V. I, July 6—St. James the Greater, Ap.; 5L Christoy pher, ML > REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS, THE DRAMA, The week has been ons of nnprecsdentsy dullness. Two honses of amusement only hars been open during the week, the Academyof Music, with the Vokes Family, and Hoclay's, witk Tony Pastor’s variety entertainment. Thisbe« iog the case, there is absolutely nothing toell to mind except the benefit of Fred Vokes Fri. day night. This was pecuniarily a tremendong euccess. Mr. Brownell, of the Tremont Houss, desarves credit for the manner in whichit wa worked up. Tuesday night, on account of tha fire, Pastor closed his’ bouse, thualosing one night's receipta. ¥ . THE ADELPHL ! Last Sunday wo took especial pains to poind out the desirableness of thestres withoud Toofs for summer entertainments. The Adelph{ was the only theatre which has adopted the sug- gestion. Mr. Grover always was ready to avall himself of a hint. The change was made mora quickly than we imagined, though the immedisla expense to the management was uok 80 great g it might have been. Mr. Grover was in New York at the time of tha fire, looking oui for special attractions. He has re- torned now to build a theatre for hime self, and is debaung which of & sites to choose. One of thess is on Dearbomn stroet, between Washington snd Madison; 8 second ot the corner of Monros_and Dearborn 3 and the third, best of all, on Madison street, east of the Brevoort House. One thing is car~ tain: his prestige as a brilliant manager is e tablished. ANOTHER ENTERPRISE. Mr. Ames, of Pittsburg, managsr of s varioly theatre in that iown, is negotiating for Kingé- bury Hall, which he would like to convert inw & second Adelphi before Mr. Grover eaa gob his house st Enterprise is & mirable thing, but Mr. Ames WM in the city during the recemvmarummmn‘- and might be induced to remember that coly the most_untiring activity and liberal expende ture for first-class attractions will ensble him compete with his rival. THE HIPPODBOME. In the absence of any popular place of resorty such =8 the Adelphi, the prospects of Ar. Fra Clyne's venture on’ the lake shore seem bete than aver. The building is to be substantish and the roof will probably be armored, like of the Exposition Building, With tn or gAY ized iron. ME. JOHN DILLOY, fresh as & roee, will give hus farewsll performe ances st the Academy of Music during the pres- ent week, previons to going to California. Es will be supported by 3r. John Blaisdell's Come pany, consisting of that geutlemen, Mr. Web- ster, Mr. Ever! T. B. Jobnson, Nellio Mo Henry, Annie Douglass, Mrs. Dillon, 3iss Esstos, and others. He wil appearin s roundof bis specialties during the week. The price of mission has boen reduced, and seats in the loxer part of the house will be obtained for 5 snd cents. DRAMATIO KOTES. . Meilhac and Halevy are about producing & five-nct comedy at the Varieties. Buckstone will open the Haymarket, Londony in October, with 4 Lord Churchmouse. Miss Adelaide Neilson will begin st the Ly coum, Now York, Oct. 19, and Madame Rislocd on March 1, 1875. Joaquin Miller is at t in Venice. H8 haa just finished a play which be propases i put on the stage. ** AMercy preserveus! ‘ On_the return of r. and ¥rs. Florencs New York, fixed for Aug. 1, per the Scotis, they il appear in a new play, written expresaly 02 them by Mr. James Albery. Miss 1 Neilson has purchased :};759 uW_ “Ethel” from_its Englich anthor, J/Mortinet editor of the London Figaro, and will prodic? it next season in shis country. The London stage has lost the well-xna’: actress, Miss Nelly Power, now Mrs. Barnel This _is & severe blow for the burlesqua of b8 day, but a blessing to the stage at large. Tho manager of the Angouleme schuflFW Theatre, M. Firhol, has just committed suick by taking poison. He was ‘ering under mental depression owing to the non-succeid his speculation. The marble statuo of Shakspears by Bigool Bruccisni, according to the instructions of M:l A. Grant, L. P., has beea placed on its pedes in the centre of Leicester Square, Itis 9 foet high, and weighs several tons. And now comes s Bev. Stanbury, of FrookliTy declaring that every play-goer will be lot Fndy risos Brooklyn; fanny person Mr, Siab- bury.” Time and locality for this sort of thio5 are not very appropropriate. # Sothern has played Dundreary 4,053 times. he has lVErIgES £600 a performance, he has 1¢ ceived the enormous sum of 2,026,000 for bif efforts in this one character. He could bate bought the burnt district for that, and woulds ‘While Frederick J. Mlckleéi. stage mansger of t; the Arcade Theatre, Jersey City, was perfor== ing in the minstrel scene last night, Thoms o Brown, the property man, suddenly dropped i curtain, Alackley became iritated, and sre¥ & €Tt e e et e 13 e A T TR e —————— S R = e e ; g. 2 5