Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1874, Page 6

THE CHICAGO DATLY “TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1574 ~ RELICIOUS NEWS. Biography of the Rev. Clinton Locke, D. D. ) A Catholic Priest Denies that Father ‘Terry’s Lecture Was Heretical. The Religious Press on Infant Damnation, Ete. Differences Bétween Trials for Heresy and fmmorality. Notes and Opinions at Eome and Abroad.. Chureh Services To-Day. THE REV; CLINTON LOCKE, D. D, Tho near approach of the Hlinois Diocesan Convention, which bias had- devolved upon it, by the unexpected death of Dishop Whitehouse, the duty of sclecting bis successor, Lag, for this reason, assumed very much greater importance, and the prominent men connected with the Pro- test Episcopal minisiry aro beginning to be ear- nestly canvassed with reference to that event. ‘The subject of the following short paragraphical notice Lias beea promincntly mentioned as a can- didato for the office. 1t should be stated, how- ever, that he hns bad nothivg to do with its pub- Tication, and will probably know nothing of it until e sball read it in the columns of Tue TRIBUNE: 2 Tuo Rev. Clinton Locke was born in New York City. July 24, 1829, the eldcst ‘kon of James Lucke, a celebrated florist of Westchester County. He'was educaied at_one of tho well- kuown military schools at Sing Siog, 2nd en- tered the jumor clagsat Urion Collego in 1815, gradusiing fu 1810, Ho wag, soon aftervard, ongaged ‘a3 private tutor in Judge Douglas’ fam ot Charlestown, Va., where be re- mamed until 1831, In this latter year he en- tered the General Theological Seminary, in New York, to parsue bis studies for the pricsthood, to whichi bo had been_devoted by Lns mother frow early cildhcod. In 1853 ho went to Lurope s tutor to two young mem, Air. Charles Lanicr, of New Yerk, and Mr. Gordon Grant, now Vice-Consul 2t Geneve. He returned to Ameriea'in 1855, was immediately ‘ordained des- con. and passod 3 lew monthe of his deaconats 5 assibiant to the Rev. Dr. McVicker 2t Irving- tou and Dobbs’ Ferry, surrounded by fricuds who hizd known Lim from bis exrliest vears. To Juir, 1656, he was called to tho Rectorship of Curist Charch, Joliet, then a mere missionary parish. Ile remained there three years, build- , in that time, a fine church, and also & couu- church at Mapbattan, 10 mies from Joliet. Daring the three years tho number of communi- cauts increased from abont-ten to seventy-five. In 1854 ho accepted a call to Grace Protestant Epircopal_Clurch, Chicazo, and during the 15 sears of his connection with this church he has 2cqmired 2 reputation througlout tno West asa wise, czergetic, ond eucceskfal church leader, His church has becomo the largest in numbers in Chucago, comprising some 600 members, His cdmintsration has beeu marked by the building, gome 7 years sgo, of the fiuest chirch editice be- longivg to the denomivation in citv. The Lics of afTection betwecn the Tiector and Lis peo- ‘ple have been peculiarly tender and affectionate. Dr. Lecke was tho founder of St Stephen's rarish, on the West Side, and also of St. Luie’s Hogtal, of sliich he is the Prosident, and it iy 1o Lis care and watchfaluess that it chietly owes its ruczess. He has held, for many yéars, the bighest offi- cial positions in the diocese, member of the Etanding’ Committee, ‘delecate to the General Couvention; and Dean of tho Noribera Deanery. e was chosen to deliver the addrens of weicome tothe late Dishop Whitchouse on the return of that worthy prelate from Luroje some rears ago, and Fias ocen selected to_preach the memorial g~zmon of the decexeed Bishop at the coming Divcesan Cenven which meets in this_city carly in September. ile i also one of the Vicc- Presidents of the Church Corgress to ba held 1 New York in October. Dr. Locke Ixs traveled extensively, and1sa verv superior lingaist, o5 well as a fise scholar. His tcrmons arc ustally prictical and plain, winle, at the samo time, taey are adorned with o wealth of learving znd eradition. . o compara- tivelv seldom preaches on doetsinal ponss, al- thourh be 13 2 stiff adherent to the ntualand the forms of the Church as they at present exist. Heuce s sympathies were 2lwavs with the lata Biebop Waitchonse in “bis contfoversy with Air, Cheney. ' Dr. Locke, whilo not attracted by the radical Low Church man, cannot be #aid to ba High Churckor R:tualistic. He is conservative, and prefers to bold on to the Church as it is, rather than embaric in any clhunges eitber toward Riitualism or Low Churcbisi. § vie Dr. Locke is not pretentions, Heis . finent speaker, and muster of pure and nervons Enghsh, In Jaogars, 1859, Dr. Locke was married to Miss Adele Douthitt, of St. Louis, eldest daugh- tor of Robert H. Doutlutt, formerly of Pittsburg, Pa. Mre. Locke'is a highly educeted and cultis vated womau, fitted in a not=ble degreo to 1en- der moet officicnt 2id to her husband in his min- istezial calling. g FATHER TERRY. The following is a leifer written by a Lighly- educated Catholic priest lo a New York State waper relative to the celebrated lecture delivered by Father Terry, formerly of St. DPatrick's Church, before the Young.Men's Catholic Li- brary Association : To die Fditor of the Gaze You ‘will perait me fo requesta correction of h heading of an article ed_in Your paper of yer terday, copied from tho New York Graphie, 1t does Dot appear that tlie errcr {3 yours or thaf of the Grepliic, £nd, in evtker cave, I bolieve it was uninten- tional. 'The ohjectionable’ words are; “a beretical Catuolic priest,™ 25 he 13 eaid to be iu Clicago, As Bereey Is a viliful znd obstinate dendal of ane o more aricles of divine fuith, ft'is coariaercd by, the Charreh 3 most” gricvous offenre, 5 cutlicient réason for excluding from ber commuuion {bo- psrson hold- icg such opirions and ina man of Louor it will al Jys provea morive pomerful eucugh fo lead im to sbundon, of kis own freo will, 8 church with whoso doctrines his peculiar belief 18 incorapatible, I know Eothing of Father Terry but what I read in your anticie.” Asto the herexies charged thezeln -againet Diin, there isnot the rlightest shadow of beresy to bo fourd in sny one of them, “That {be earth was made in eix working days,” 5’52 opinion that no s2o mun can ind o accord with the truo Caristian cos raogony, The Catholic Church does not teach any &uch exrloded theory of creation, That the ible i 4 an eric product of Oriental genitis,™ in a trug rense, is a very 2fe porosition, according to Catholie theol: ogy nod human reason, That * Adam wae 25 years old when crested ” is 3 paradox ot in tho Bible, and . 3L it were, nobody coald Ledcve, No Catholie 4 1o ‘beheve any of the commentaries or exjlizations of wia Biblo s of fuith, As to what Le says concerning the Ak and its rather acnse population, thers s no: the remotest of Whoerer wiics to amuse 2l of hypothetical evolutions of eagels snd cherubim, in performing. tho onerous-tack of beartug to the Ark all jlving beings from the gnat tothe mezatlierivm, can mever hupe to bave euch {aneaful notions accested by the Church s of divine Laith, and they may be “received or Tejecied aa each oues taste or learning may suggest. The Bible is ot of equal autliority in dealing with matters of bistory, fhronolozy, grology, and kindred sciences, as when 3t treats of fafth and moralr. The portfona that teach Lese principles are the only parts that are inspired in ;l‘nnb 3 manter a3 to afford a subject of neceseary be- +t. Thé Bille can claim no higher divine antto Guanthe Church, but Tather the contrary. Yet tn church sever elaime freedom from error in fceching SGem not dircctly rovealed snd found in tho word Sioak lorcaver 3l things v the Bible wers not ro- paned :’s the Holyr Spirit, Renco rome things in it aro dimger ook THs ell Catlioliza may hold without Fovied Tum!;g,b and €0 it iy not fair to mocuse hie midied by (pery%s ¥2en it only appears that he ek, ology well, and Lnows whercof ho e Carnowre, FROF. SWING. Tho Inferior comes again to the sttack of Prof. Eving 3ud the Preubytery which clesrod bim from the'ch Y e n 0 charge of heresr. The Presby- teriau argan speaks as follows; 4 Pref, Swing ‘must have Lnov; Fresbrierionim, 38 undendood by u{ffa E;\\;-I_S:%n ol Tuge, and Now-School Presvyterianiem so o o Stuce dufmed it, aze two vastiy diferent things, vops gid lie pikicr in a donbicacnte® We by no teans L, gl tho court who wero s0' delicato upd oot that they would not inguire fuilrinto bis Ineaping, st dm dl;&:‘g 80 they might s, is veracitr. The court oweditto itseif, owed i €lhurclt of which it is a part, to leufifi.‘cfid:fi kt% ‘tf\g ‘ieaniog of Prof. Swing, befora they allowed his Dles 1o cater us am element in their decision, That they Degiected tosak him minutcly Tespecting his boded, Fhen it was appareat that bis ples was uzsatistactary e progccutor and those who Eympathized with ) Was & blunder, and gives only 10 much room fop { of thewiole world are admissible to bapt the surpicion thaf they” Werc ‘mbre anxlons to find a plausible pretext for tho acquittal of Mlr. Swing than they were to maintain the purity of the Church. To £, 28 s0ma do, of their being unable to go beiud Lis statbments, 4 allwocnshine, Webelieve In polite~ ness, but would suggest that on the oceasion referred tos ‘more cven distribision of it woald Leve been better., " 3r. Noren 13 cotrect in easiag that the defeuse have done all i their power 10 stop the appeal. It is equale Iy tre that they did sll in_ their power to frevent (b trial. They will find thiat they are us unable to wiop tho one 2¢ they are to prevent tco other. For we have somo anxicty to know whether the Presbyterian Church atill believes 1n tko Trinity, o whctuer she considersit s “conundrum * which'abe is willing to give up. e THE RELIGIPUS PRESS. - 4 THE ADVOCATE. It is the bother of all committees of arrange- ment for Methodist Conferences, that pastors will take their wives with them. All ED({!»O{ cunuing devices ‘are resorted tu to get the min- isters to leave their wives at homo on these oc- casions; but the Iadies come and nobody blames them, ckcept tho ‘afcresaid committoes' of ‘ar- rangement. The Aorthwestern Advocale, while cecietly Loping that tho mnisters' wWives wil more-acd more throng the confereuces, says : 1¢is o fact that nine-tentis of hosts prefer to enter- tain live men Fatlier tonn ou-wan aud wife. Tue meu have 3 way of slcejing sud cating and then get- ting themyeives ot of ho ' way, whereas s lady guest 1noves slower, and 83n0roapt (0 be in 16 way * bo- tveen meals,” and all that, Now, it is roully too bad 10 tell tuese desr wives Lo Atuy away from conference. Their year Lios boen unevestlul, busy, aud offen quite lonely, and they look forwerd 10 the aunual scasion 33 the one restful weck of the fifty-two, i The Adrocate, referring to Mr. Tan Meter's “driwatic wav Of obiaiuing money for ihe Rouan mirgion, by represcnung that the Itahsu Bitles aro printed in Nero's garden, so Lear 10 tho Vaticau thut the Popa must look down upou the presses at _work, aud thereforo must b very much * tore up " in mind, kays: Are the brethren of the Vaticeu mission *instructed 10 raise their voicos ” in prayer ahio fo 8 puch it will b au nggravati atcbers of tno Lo why not? If o ay £ Imcet though vexcst moto be & I by thy hymns, he mignt s aggravated into g altogether by being comp cations of the Aerican s they tise the Italian fanguage i tuci THZ INTERICR devotes & two-column earturial to the task of proving that Presbyterian: does 2ot requir beltef i infant dromtion. It sats Oar Confession of Faith dues not tea: of infant dutanation, Lut the doctrine of infsnt natva~ tion thirough the redemptive work of Christ, Salva- tion, und not damnztion, is the doctrivs of o dzrda ; the doctrine of our Chureh through cil tary in the Onl Worid aud the New ; the ductiine 1a6 whole American Church Lefore the division 1807 ; tLo docirize of Loth brauckes during the ke Tutlofi; (he doctrno uow of the whols reuni Wus much the duetrne of the Uid- Sclivoi 2k the The Inler resents the opinious of soch meu as Dr. Charles Hodyo. Dr. Robere J. Breck- inridge, Dr. . Rice, Dr. Asbbiil Green, aud Dr. Thomas Smythe, all expounders of reccived Presbyterian dictine, whose testis mony is that intzuts beforo years of responsibil- ityare aved. Ln conclusion it says: Ve need niot furtlicr arguea case liko {his, fally zccord with the seutiment of the grea O “1t°has lng been the dear aud cliers Church uf God that =li_ who die in jufancy X ‘We heartily respond to the words of Augistus Tap- ove of the strongest Calvinisis wito over lived ; “Ttestify my firm belief that tie souls of all deyarted fants aro with God in glor, i P predectiuation fo life, God buth includ=d a1l intendod to take 2wy in infanes; and that the decreo of reprobution hath tiothing to dg with thern,” Lat us €3y, then, once for all, aud to il wabm itmey coucern, that this is our }r sbyteriau theology,—the theology of cir standards, us we F stood them. The oidest eehool Jieved and fauzht ro other docirine. It is founded on Euch Seripturss as these: “ Sutfer the Little children to como wmto me and forbid thaia not, for of sch is the Kingdom of Where sin sbounded, gruce did much more abeund.” TIE NEW YORE EVANGELIST, commenting on the Leccler seatdal, dis tho question whother a minister of tho 18 ever wananted in payimg blackmadl, A muaster of Wc'ein swers iho question neganvely. the Gospel £hoatd never vietd to threats. . 1f ko is innocent he shsuld in 2o cas: pay u dolier to ve humeell rrom any charge whatever. TIE ALLIASC & says: Itcanbe no longer doubted that th minds Tich more severe tow: than towards alieged immoralitic papers have recently illustrated this 1. ‘wae a Chivaga wiuister sed of than tiey began to handle him without glover, Tiic not oply misreresent the d. but, while the care is paniding in a tiguer cours, 1 assime (o prejudge it in thoir own way. Tl alarined, ‘They scek to friziten everybad: ., an: o of liz_ thouyi: L again threatened wi Some of tiem fuirly ho souild doutrine 7 15 q; for weuks with no sign of chitcmeat. -5 it goss ver- sus alleged Leresy. But when s Drookiyn miniater is mist gross immoralides these same yap politenpse, if not more Curistiauity. Tiey pi therr kidsand weit more patizutly and more sorrow fully for the facts. Tiey do mot jumy Lo decis thelr own., 08 then ¥ are mo a8 and in v the evidence, Thew I their «hurity 1 And if court, thy Wil dotivdess, | ticuce, They wiluot peciled simply e to. any other sould iu pie worals are im- it thus far is 1n favor will not presch loud sermons to the Ton Commandments, Ttisnota 's7; 1t merely one of woraly, Tho paper also contzins editorials on the “ Camp-Mecting,” anlon “ The Trinity Abau- doned by Atwater aod *Alothes.’” THE ALLTAN Tho Ailiance says of Caivin's teachings in re- gaid-to infant selvation: There are phrzses in Calvin's writings which, nt first sight, scem to indicate an opinfon that air infants 10, and cutenco will fhow covenant I3, “writings when dvmgare raved, A elagsecr brief may misiead ; but the context, or parallel, that e {sajcaking of children within the and under the proziise, or children of Lelie The Alliance quotes from Calvin's quite freely to prove that— The covenant of God with iis people inchudes their children through all disvenraticha. These Children of e Covenzal are nguirked from :ll otlers. The infavt children of Christin parcuts, Leing ade mitted by God o the fnlieritauce of tac covenant as 8001 8 trey are bory, are sivo to be admitted to Lap. tism, Theso intants within tho covenant, ndopted and baptizable, are gaved when dyiug, even wi.bout Uaptism, On this poizt Calvin srygiies Trequently, Ee coustantly 2ssuines or explain: thus raved were entitled to' Lapt think it necesary to make 4 g diug infunts whose parenly wero were not under thy covensnt, they. and Denca” b therefore not baptizable; But be did di Ecarcely touched them, question as 10 tho fufants of Romantsts; and ke places the children of Rowaninis within the coveuzat, Le- cause of the katiclity of thefr diktant fozefathers, '1hs belief was that the cafidren of umbeilovers are not witlin the covznant, and aro not united to Clrist, o already skown, they beitg * (s impara eced,” and scparazed from those called “holy.” Tuey are not eloct, They ars wliil merely the chiiviren of Adam, and not the adopted children of God. Henco {hey are no: to be baptized, fur Calviu e nfants are baptized becsuse tiiey ate of the honschiold of tle Church, s i 'LESSONS OF THEE HOUR. To the Eitor of The Clican Tribune: Sm: Isnotihe presenta favorablo time for the Christian peoplo of our land to geriousiy ex- amino tho views hetd by the Society of Friends, and many other believers of the Gospel, mem- bers of 1o sect, who claim that the presens ex- isting order of a ome-man ministry, by Lufien ordination, is contrary to the Jeter and spisit of the New Testament Seripturcs ? Ts thero the pressing need, & clsimed, formen, sich in human' learning and etudied. eloquencs o win souls to Clirist, s that they chould bo sincere, Lumble followers-of the lowly Naz- arenc? ‘“‘Decauso’ tie foolishneas of God is wiser than men; and the weakmess of God is stronger than men. For ye ges your culling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mights, not many noble, are called. But God. bath chosen the foolish .things of tho worid to con- found the wiso; and God hath chonen the wesk things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. And those things of the warid, and things which are despised, bath God chosen, yea, and things which are not. to bring to naught things that are: That no flesh should glory in »s presence.” E 1t is readily granted that this is contrary tothe conclusions arrived at by htman wisdom. * God's ways are oot a8 man's ways, or Ilis thoughts as man's thonghts.” Where 13" tho suthority for having s body of men in our community who devote their entire time, professedls, to - (ho study and teaching of Gosvel truth? It occapied at xome nsefut labor agood rartof tho -ume, orking with their owa bands, that they might bave to mive to their Lrother that ~ necdeth,”—wouid they not De Gopt from much of tho pa- caliar temptation to which, ' as clags, they aro 8 1bject 2 Wonld thiey not oo by tor qualited o speak to others wh deperi- ence for 2 Living was upen their manual Iagor 2 Taul 18 often mentioned as the learned one among tho apostles, and, from Lis beinz calied, it is alleged “toat hizhly edutated men aro pas escelience the onca to preach ; yet we tind Paxl ‘- continued at Conuth teaching the Gospel of God among them, and because ko was of the same crnft, ho sbodo with Aquila and wronght | train of ten fallcirystirted over the Burlington (for by their occupation they were tcni- makers).” G o i Juhn™ Bunyan, the Bodford tinker, is but.a txpe of 2 largo part of the preachers of England fordhy outsias tho State Church ; thoy aro ‘nat depcndent upon salaries s preachers for » lising. "L'vo sincerity of tho great muss of our clergy is not questioned by tho writer, but sincerity 18 10 proof of corrcetuess. Mussulmen and Mor- mous. 28 bodies of men. are tnquestionably as sincelo believers of their professed faith as any people on earth, yet very few of us aro ‘thera- fore inctined to'sccept and follow their teach- ings. fy Jay wonot, in_consideration of recent devel- opments, study protitably, and éndesvor in the epirit of ‘our Lord to carry out iu practice, the lesson tanghe in Jobu viii.. § to11? PaNcrroy, L., Aug. 18, 1574, paeseibie B HNOTES. EPISCOPAL, Itis enid that $43,000 bave beon pledged to sustain o’ Bishop in tho now Episcopal Dioceso to bo composed of the western part of Michi- gan. The Rov. J. F. Conover, of Kalamazoo, and the Rev. G. D. G:llespio, of Ann Arbor, are the prominent candidates for the Bishop's offico. Bivhop Whipple, of Miunpsota, says in-his fiftcen yeers' episcopato fifty-threo churches Dave been built in his diocese, and twelve rebuilt and enlurged. There kas been au increasc of thirty-five clergymen; 4,116 adults Lave Leen confirmed, eud the church-offeriags umount to Anglican Chutch Congrees will be hton, Lugland, Oct. 6. ‘lho Bishop tor will opeu the proceedings with an Amoug tho subjects tor discussion will Le the Old Catholic wovewent in Lurope. The Proestant Episcopal Church Cougress, to be beld iu New York in October, promises to be u impuriaut rehrious gatacring. The Cobgless is the result of a mecting of Now Lugland cler- held in Now Waven some mouchs ugo. Tho ions will be held in Cooper Institute, Lhe weeiing will be devoted to a frank and courtcons dizcusrton of differcut views, without tho suthor- ity to setile or detennine anything, LAPTIST. 4o colored Bupiists of Indianapolis have just completed n new -house of womship on Michigan street, at a cost of $20,000. The audi- torin wiil sext 1,000 people. Lhe buitding has Leen in courso Of erection for the past Dino years. ko sixticth ‘annual report of tho Daptst Minsioanry Union kays tho total recoipts “for the year weie §251,500, an increnzo of moro than $45,000 over last sear. @ ciTioLIC, A Europeda correspondont says: The sopicn- nial 1biticn of hoty relics i the Cathedral at Ai Lapello took piace July 10to 21. Great crowds of pi i from Holtand, Lelgium, sud Geumauy attended. Ou the day of tho opening of the festival, o prucession formed amid the toiling of bells and the thunder of caunon, aud marcied to the Cathedral, (Lo pigrims i the streets falling on tavir Luces s the tain passed. Alter mass was said, ‘the relics were sbrougit furward and expused fo view. The principle objects we: 1. The clothes which the Virgia iTazy is bebieved to havo worn on tho night she govo birth to tho Savior. 3. The charger which contained tho bead of Jobu tho Baptist. 4. Tho iudiling clothes in which Jesus was wrapped iger. 5. The coveriug which Jesus it lis loing when he was crucified. Amang the less important relies were the leather girdle of the Savivr, hair of Jobn tlie Bapss, a 00¢h of the Abugilo Thows, ead atoe-nal of tire IToly Cutly op Manning’s paper, tho Tablel, din : hiew law 1or the regulation of pullic worshp, : *The Church of England, whick Legan 1t eareer by custing down Catholic aitars aud abelishivg the Chnsti ce, is s what 1t always was, and always will be. For such incxpiable enmes the oulyatouement is ex- tinctivn. Lo punfy a sect 50 lony saturated with deadly beresy is a work whieh man cannot and God wili not perform. The Ritmalists will underatzud at last that Christians who beiieve, as they profess to do, in tho Adorable Sucrifice of the Aliar, of winch the Roman Cbureh bas been for nearly 2,050 years the mnvincible guar- dian, are out of plicoin that tmpenitent wuct, which has existed only to blasphema it. Tliov will uot Le converted in masses, but tiiey will conue oue by oue, a fow hete and = foiw there.” The first case in Germany under the new law giviug Catholic congregations the power to e a pastor i the placo of the ons turned out by the Government occurred at Grasdosf, in the Drovinee of Hazover. On tho dry appointed by the Covern.ent for the election tho parishioue ers apoeared in great nnmcers and unanimonsly decliared bt they would ncither eleer nor knowledze auy other pastor bitt thn ono appein. Tise paerle, of co higan svaod hus 150 churelies, 155 mivisters, and nearly 13,000 communicants, A comparative summary of thie statistics of the Presbyterizn Chursh for five vears, says the Ja- depencia, sliows the followiniy resuits (tae Gg- uics fallow the order of the dates): Minislers, 4, 4,507 Chitiches, 4. Commuaicants, 416, 92,0043, 405,034, 50 yeu 4 tho falling off 'in this particular. The azgregate of Presbrieriazs 1w Canada is 57 v deribly m advance of the , or of the Method: budy bis been formed out ed ong inn, writing from Nound Lake, fass fans will Lave Lo adopt the Methio- g systom, or everybods will tura Metbwdists in ihe samaer time., The Preebyierian Chnrel ot Raclne, the Rev. . Bieire, raster, i growing 1apidly and re- g L ¥ Diemlers AL Gvery colmmunion. ankeo, tho mow Immanuel Church (Presbreerian) building 13 now o promivent fea- tureon ile Side; the lowers being com- Flete, and tho masons through with tueir woik. e cliurel: etands ou 2 pices of ground me: uring 210 fect front ou Astor street by 17 fect in doptin. “The totel lenath of the edi- fico 13 174 fret, audl the width is 108 fect. The ridze of the reof is 8 feet from the gronud. The main andicace-room is 76x89 feet in sizo, aud will coniain nearly 200 pows, seaziug 1,000 people. . The g t the north end over the vestibule wiil req making a total seating capucity of 1,350. Iu tho cenire the celling is 60 fect above tLe loor. The lecture-room is ia the north end of thio Luilding, divided from thg main audieuce-1oum by & veatibulo 1% fect wide. Tho main cutraice opens into the vestibulo, from which you turn to the right to go into tho main audience-rooin, and to'the left into the iecturc- CLUTE-Io0m ¢an also be ent from tie toweral the northwest corner of the building, The Sunday-school room i3 over the lecturoe roum, aud of the same size, and is reached by a stairway in the tower. The Presbytérian Theological Ssminary at 1060 North Halsted street will open Sept.d. ‘Tho opening address will ba given by the Rev. L. J. Hatser, D. D., Professor of Pastoral Theology and Charcl Guvernment, = B METHODIST. Tho Wesleynn Metkodicts of England held their 1316t Aunual Conforence at Camborne, be- ' July 29, Aboat 350 ministers were pres- The roport of the Chapel Committtee thoweatlat the number of extensions aud en- Jargements duriug the year were 395, at 2 cost of A837.000, Thero aro now 5.712 chape's, with 1,563,797 eittings. Bishop Harris asd Dr. Xrcauley, fraterval delogefes trom tho Method- ist Episcopal Church of the Umited Stazes, wero y:rcmnlcd to the coufercnce, and delivered ad- dresscs, X n_press at Lacknow als an English monthly, an 5 aud & Persian Urda Mere than one-fourih of all the peoplo of Tprer Canada, at, (he lust census. reported themselves as Methodists. More than Lalf of all the church buildings are Metl:odist. The Rey. J. F. Dasan, of Now York, has io- augurazed an international camp-meetiog, to be Leld Dercafter annuaily on one of tho islinds of toe 8t. Lawrence River. Oneof the Thousand Islnds will prokably bo seiceied, Tuis weel the fall eampaizn of the Methodist Episcopal ainual conferences begine. Tire Cin- cinoati Conference is beld at Civeimosti, Auz, 26. Bishop Foster presidiuz. Tho Central Gor- man Confereace will bo beld at Detroi, begin- ing on the sawe day, Bishop Peck presiding. Tho basemeat of (he new 3I.E. chureh at onroc, Wiu. vill be dedicated by D Steele, G. M. Presidens of Lawrence University, At Lo Clair, Ts., sixteen wero baptized into the Methodist Church Atz. 2, and twenty-nino received into fuil counection. The Aurora, I, ML E. Church started on a grand excarsion to Lincolv, Neb., Aug. 13, A & Quincy Railroad. The tickots aro good for twenty days, and e faieonly §17. © Tho-Adtan, Mieh.. District Gonfersnoey e~ centlyteld, “reports “seténtecn chrarchés- in ‘a good state of prosperitys The first Methodist charch in Idaho is in process of construction-at-Boise City. It will be of brick, and will cost about $5,000. _Tne Metliodiats of Gibsan: City, TIl, will d cito a ew house of nm;:lil}:_ Sept. 1. . Fal lows, Dresdent of Wealegan Uuiversity at Bloomington, will ofliciat Tho Methodists of Decorah, In., laid the corner-toua of a-new; Liouse of ‘worship August 1. -It'will Bo of "bHick, etuciform 'In £hape, and will cost about §25,000. : ? The Methodists at St. Charles, IIl., are repair- ing aud improving their church-¢difice. - Lhe Aetnodiste-will dedicate.-a new church at JMvumontl, Ta,, Aug. -30. The Rev. William kaweette, of Davenport, will cobduct the ser- vices. REFORMED" EFISCOPAL. 5 A pew conpicgation of Reformed Episcopa- linus bus been formed at Jeferson City, Mo., with good prodpéety aliead. . Bishop Cimining teked's hopefal ¥iew of af- fairs relativg to the Protestant Episcopal Charch. - He says that'he dves not spprebend that any reforms will be instituted at the Gen- eral Protestant Episcopal Convention, which meets thisfall, for the simple reason Lhat at least five-sixthy of the clerzy bold High Church views. Ho expects to £eo such men as Tyngand others, holding extreme Low Church opinions, #ecede from the Church as soon as the Iligh Chuzch tendencies become apparent. The Gen- eral Couvention of the Reformed Episcopal Charch meets in Chicago next May. Several ap- plicatious have beon received from mimsiers of the Droteetant Epmcoprl Chureh, but st present tiere is 1o ticld for them. Thoe New York Observer says: Tha new Prayer-Look of the Iteformea Episcopal Churen is now presing through the press, and will soon vo ready for ue. _ CONGREGATIONAL. The Rov. C. L. Goodell, of the Pilgrim Church, Lows, baving received 13) membeus to his chuveh, is taking Lis vacatiou-time to Lelp them iu geizing to work, and i having iarge audicuces ‘whils othier churches are closed. MISCELLANEOC. The Enmish Lutheran Church of Pittsburg, Pa., aro about to _bulld anew house of worspip on the coruer of Peun avenuo aud Tenth street. Withio the last s#ix months as many as forty: four new Lutheran churclies have beea dedicated in this couutry. Tho peoplo of Louisvitle, Kr., noto as an ex- traordivary event the tach thas Liehop Miles, the gev.or Bisiop of the Colored M. E. Church of Awerica, preached the firs. sermon ever de- hyeied in that city by s colored minister ina white church. He occapied the palpit of the Ttev. Mr. Littlo's churcn, on the corner of Fifth aud Walout stroets. ‘T'he Bisuop is saidto bea man of much ability. The Unitarian Itecicw saya that tho two great rroblems for their denomination to solyo Liret, to ind some motive power to continued ac tion'equal to tho orthodox doctririe of eternal puavishuent forsin; and, second, it must find & form of truth that shall make God as near. znd Lelpful to tho soul 23 tho orthodox doctring of tho deity of Jenus, Thg Jéwish Messenger professes an upwaver- ing faith m the cumivg of the Messtanic Eerivd, when tho world will be bappy. Picnica wero given to the Sabbath-achool of the Micingan Avenus Baptist Cburch: St. Peter's Misston 5 the Siuia sud Zion Sabbath-schools. Tho tendeucy so strongly noted in political matiers tor tho colored people of thoSouth to act apart from the whites seems to have invad- €d the colored churches of the South. The Zion Colored Presbyterian Church, at Charles- ton, 8. C., which bas been under’ the pastoral care of tuo Rev. Dr. Girardeau, who wos Moder- ator of the late Southern Presbyterian Axsembly, Las resolved to accept the plan of tho Southern Tresoyterian Avsembly for a seperato colored organization. Dr.. Carardeau bas accordingly reured, aod the church will be served by a col= cred pastor. A fox: other colored societios have taken similar steps. The Cumberland Presby- terians zro likewise orpamzing tuewr colored comswunicants into a separate church. The bi-dentenary of tho birth of Dr. Teaac Watts wea celebraied at No. 21 Freach atrec, Soatpamypton, July 17. e PERSONAL. cuicaco. The Rev. Dr. R. E. Pattison, of thoe Baptist Theological Seminary, is seriously ill at his z06ms in the Seminary. The Rev. Henry Johnson, of the Sccond Pres- byterian Church, South Bend, Indians, is visiting fricuds in this city. The Rev. Mr. 3aclauchlan, of the Scotch Tresbyterian Chusel, Lo applicd for adsnission into tho Chicago Presbytery. Tho Rev. Dr, J. A. Smith, editor of the Stand- ard, and the first pastor of the University Place Baptist Chureh, will preach for that Society this morming. The Presbyterian Churches of Riley and Gar- den Prairie, L., arc being supplied for the vaca- tion by 3Ir. W. H. Skuis, of the Congregational ‘Lheolvgical Seminary, Clicago. ‘The Rev. Dr. Luke Hitehcock, and Dr. G. 3 Wulden, ngents of the Western Méthodist Epi copal Book Concern, are spending a fow days in Chicago, The Rey. E. D. Hunlev, of the Junesrille, Viis.. 3L E. Church, aud the Rev. Dr. McKown, of the Wabash Avenae M. L. Church, exchasgod pulpits last Sunday. FLSCWIERE. The Rev. Dr. Neale, senior pastor of the First Daptist Church of Boston, entered upon the tuirty-cighth vear of his pastoral connection with” that people on last Sunday. Tho Rev. H. E. Voustermer, pastor of Im- manuel Baptist Church, LoWescer, bas an- nounced Lis intention to join the Church of En- gland, on tho ground that the Church, affords sreater liberty of conscience than that to which Do belungs. The Rev. W. S. Perkins, of Bristol, Pa., has withdiawn from the igcopal Church and will Jjoin tho Reformed Episcopaliany. Morloy Punshon s been clected, by s large majority, Prevident of the British Wesleyan Coa- ferenco for the cnsuing year. Dishop 1aven has Frumised to visit Pubuquo Ta., after the Upper lowa ). E. Couference, and will give a lecture for tue benelit of their Sun- day-gchool. ‘Tho Rov. Danict Blakely, for cight vears pas- tor of the Presbyterian Church at Steamboat Rock, fa., has accepted a call to the church at Stato Centre, Ia. The Rosul Family of England are considarably mixed in their church relations. Qitecn Victorin is Presbyteriau and Episcopalian by turns, ac- cording to hier residence. The Prince of Wales inclines to Ritnaliem, while his eldext sister, tho Princess of Germauy, is a Lutheran ; his broth- er-in-law, Lord Lorue, is a_Lresbyicrian other brother-in-law, the Prince_ Imperial of lussia, is 2 Protestant Luthersn?a sister-in- the Duchees of idinburgh, is a Greek Cath- c'; ber busband is a Low-Church Episcopa- lian ; the other brothers and eisters, hike their mother, alternato between the Epivcopal and Presbyterian Clurches, depending on their resi- dence for the timo being. The Rev. H. BL Goodwin and family, of Rockford, 'I1l., aftera rojourn of two years in Europe, errived 1 New York Ang.'12. The Rev. 8. H. Phea, pastor of the Main Street Hethodist Church, Dubuquo, Ia., has been geri- ously troubled with rciatica. g RELIGIOTUS MISCELLANY. At tLe Urbana (0.) Methodist cemp-meeting. Aug. 10, the Rev. Mr. Osborne, in an exkortation on * Holiness," eaid he thought the people were tired of the common kind of religion, and it was time to seck the uncommon religion. e drged ths people to eeck a galvation. which would save them from tobacco, croquet, and Freemasonry: a salvation that would eave preachers from the folties of the dasy, and the Bishopé from travel- ing on Sunday aud going to wine dinuers. His rees against the Lishops cecasioned some ex- citerient, aud he wes interrupted and interrogat- ed, Lut refueed to givo particalars, and said ho would 2nswer at the Couference for s action. A Methodist paper, commenting on this ecene, thinks that the Rev. Mr. Osborne affords a strik- ing confirmation of the’theory latels advanced, that the profession of ‘sanctification ™ tends to insanity. Tho Old Catholic Congress, which opens ab Freiburg Sept. 6, in looked torward to mith much interest. Members of other Chrustian Giaurches will..as on former occasions, bo invited, and Eu- glish, American, and Russian sympathizers aro expected. The Congress will endeavor to obtain, as 1o Prusets, a Inw siwilar to that already pass- cd in Taden, giving them a ebare in propcrty be- longing to the Iloman Catholic Chuich. It is 8t also proposed: that' priests shonld be chosen by their flocke, and that church property should be mauaged by'a commities elocted: by the commu- nity, subject, in all cases, to the approval of tho Goverbmcnt. . The regalations lataly adopted by tha Old Catholies in Sivitzerland will likswiee be discmssed. Since the disestablishiment of the Irish Epis- copal ' Cuurch, it seoms to -hayo developed a greavddditional strength. ‘A Dublin corresporid- ent saya: ‘‘Bf. Patnck’s Cathedral bas been reubvated: ‘at enormous expease, 80- as to look as if just newly rebuilt, insteaa of being actually 1,000"years old. Clrist's’ Catbedral, or @hurch-of the Holy Trinity; is being improved in the same way. St. Paul's, adjoining, s under- going a. complete chavge. St. Peter's, from bewy what it oucn was, in'a state of superanug- tion, is uow rebuilt aud modernized 4o as to be uurecoguizable. ln the pulpit s great change is perceptibie. Iustend of tho vid-tashionei dron- ing of a poor reader, delivering a poorly-yrritten, Drosy sermon, you now hear oratory,—vitality, plain, matter-of-fact appoals that canse you to wince; sbatts that cannot be dudged.” A correspondent writing from‘London, says of Spurgeowr: ‘“As a preacher he is less pootic mznsBzc::hcr and less humorous. But he has tho same originality, spontaneity, and kmowledge of human mtare. He bas- o full, agreeable voice, that bie seems obliged to tix somewhat in order to till hix vast suditorium. H:s propun- cintion ouly now and then betrays his English broguo in sich words as * hy-ahr * tor * heac? and * yalir’ for ‘year.' His chotes of words: is movt Dbappy and sificiently saperior to bis people (the inteliectual status of bis flock-bemys evidently of wuly ordinury ealibre), ho is at the same time | with them so thorougbly in feeling, and knows 80 woll tao height-to which tney can reach. and the nceds, temptatious, and requuements of their souls, that Lie stands in no dauger of plac- ing bis spiritual * fodder ' too lugh. e showa reat vigor ind (obustuess ot body, and London- crs guy ho Lus an * enormous sppetite for eat and drink.’ If I had seen mim a¢_the Tickborne tnial I should Lave ‘recogmzed’' bim 83 the claumant, #o strikiug is the likeness betweoen.the two celevrities.” The trauklation of the Bible into Japaness is now going on under the direcuion of a commit- toe, of whom tho Rov. ¥. R. Brown is Chairman, and-the Lev. 1. C. Greene Sccrotary. ‘ihs tormer i3 a missionary of the Dutch lieformed Church, aud tho Jatter of the Congregational Church. * Mesurs. Moody and Sankey count 3,133 con- versions in Glawgow, us 1ho product of their Iubors there from January to May. At Dundee, Mr. Moody is revorted to have audressed 12,000 persbu. There isn't much going on in Montreal on Sunday. No Sundsy paper is issued, no raitroad tisin enters or leaves the town from Satarday miduight to Mouday morning, no telegiam cau be gent or received durivg tue eaine time, and not only are all buns but il stures closed during that day. Tho-Rev. Samuel I, 3icade, formerly a Bap- tist miuster, aud vomo _time o clergyman iu tue Protestant Lpiscopal Church, made application boforaa Council of Baptist Churches, beld re- cencly 2t Brdgeport, tor 1estotation to the work of the Baptist nunistry—he baving sgain be- cume a wewmber 0f that’ denomiuation. After o loug discusrion it wus resolved by the Council that it was inexpedieut to recoimyze Mr. Meade a3 a mimster of the Laptist Clurch. Father Hyacinthe, who has resigned his charge in Geueva, began bis mmisrations taere ju 1373 For some time be Las been in coutroversy with bhis Old Catholic brethren. He was called pub- licty u hypocrite by Faibers Mouls and Jauca, who live in Belgium uwow, aud who were the promoters of the Old Catholic movement in Frauce. Later, Father Hyacmthe saw bis mod- erato views rejected by the Old Swiss Catholic Conference haid st Berne. Finally, ho had last month » bitter quaizel with one of bis own curates. All this grows out of Father Hya- cinthe's earnest acheston o extreme moderato views, whick brings um, indeed, on tho border- iund of Protestantism. He preached in a chapel itied up in the library of the ald culiege, known a3 Calvin's Livrary. ~ The dutinetive points of the Catholic reform, as introduced by him in Geneva, are as tollows : 1. The suppréssion of compulzory confesion. 2. The liberution of the clergy from 1uferced celibacs. 8. The election ol pastors by the people. 4. ‘T'ho nae of tao ver- uecular in chureh vervices. . AAAS s i FROM THE SUNDAY-SCEOOL, ETC. This is the ministeru’ loap-year. Angust, their vacation-month, bas five Sundays. A man edvertises ina New York paper fora barkeeper, *“who must be recommended by his pastor.” 1t takes practice to make perfect. Mr. Long, of Tuscumbia, Ala., had to practice eight yeans before he could throw a Biblo across the house and knoc a young Long down. #Do you know our good pastor’s chief end and ai asked a New York Sundiv-school teacher of her favorite pupil * Yes,” replied the sagacions child, **to get bis sermons printed in the Herald." In a Nevaas Snunday-school the lady teacher propounded this conundrum to ber clags: * Who betrayed our Savior ¥ This was too much for the little ones, and one after another gave it up, The question was repeated, when one little 7- year-old answered : */Oh! I know ; 1t was Bogs Tweed ; he's 2 bad man.” A clergyman laving indunlged himeelf too treely so filing up Lis glws, went one Sunday into the pulpit, and having given ont a hymn to his congregation, sat down; tho melody of the sacred ong svon lulled him tosleep, and he con- tinued for some time toplay & trcble-bass sym- phovy with nis nose;at lemgth one of the Deacons ascended to the nacred desk, and told him the bymn was out. “Woell,” eays be, ¢ fill it up—fill it upagain.” A Providenze urchin applied at the Central Stution the other day for a ticket 7o the poor cluldroa’s excursion of the Chriatian Aesociation, He was asked 1f hie was a Christian, and promptly unid he was. ** Are yowan hocst boy 7" * Yes, sir!™ The phreuologist of the force lifted tho lad's hat to examune lus bump of conscientions— uess, when out fell u ticket for the excursion. At a meeting in London, to rccelvo & report {rom the missionarics sent to discover the tribes of Isracl, Lord H— was nsked to take the chair. * Itaxe,” ho roplied, **a great interest in your rescarches, gentlemen. Tho fact is, I have borrowed money from all the Jows now known, and if you can find a new «ot I soall fecl very much obliged.” Dr. Neale, of Doston, tells this anccdote of Dr. Stillwan bis distinguished predecessor of rovolationary times : Oue Sunday morning he preached. as he thought, s poor ermon. 1t 18 very likely that it wad 50, for ministers eome- times do such things, "but they have different wa3s of meeting the humiliation. Some pat on a bold face and pretend to care nothiug abont i, gome Took diguified. asif they bad said some- thing xolemn aud deep, otbets comfort them- selves with the thought that they will do better next time ; but Dr. Stillman was so mortified with bis failure that he could not cat bis dinner and was_sick wbed. ‘ Jephthal,” he faintly said, I sball not bo able to preach thns afteinoon. You must sce the Deacons aud ask them to gct some other min- ister to supply my ‘pulpit, Mr. Chaancy, Mr. Kirkland, or 3r. Eekly.” Jephtbal, who under- &tood the case perfectly, £sid, very reapectfully, *To would go. Dr. Stillman wught fo have rest. dear man, but I feel bad for the people ; they will bo_disappointed, but folks is queer. ‘They doeen’t want to hear anybody else. I hearn Mr. Smith say this morning what o beautiful sermon the Doctor preached. But I'll tell the Deacons Massa Stillman is wearin' hisself out.” * You needn't go,” said the Doctor, brightening up, * I feel bettcr. Brush my boots, Jephthal, and I'll ry to_preach myeelf.” Ho went into pulpit, and never preaclied more powerfully and cloquently thaa he did that afterncon. The last specimen of Sco'ch metaphyrics has been reporied ou the Sabbath question. One Sunday fmorning a Jlnrly of Paisley wenvers, whose wives were ** down the water ” for a sca- son, were anxious to get across from Gourock to Duvoon. Deeming it » profanation, however, to engage an oared boat for the purpose, they om- plosed a friend to uegotiate with the Caprain of the Rothsay stexmer * to east ou: a bit o' his tow atd take them wi' him, as ho was gaun that way at ony rate.” “ But what's the moral differ- ence, pray,” asked tho negotiator, * between bo- ing rowed over mith oars and towed by a stesm- er?” * \nfference! There'sa bantle difference between rowing by the power o' man, wha maum answer for what he does, and twa water-wheels pu'tng us ; in ither words, gin ye wad hac us to be mair particalar, 3 steam engine’s no’ a moral being, it's no’ an ‘secountatlo agent ! Tke Winstead flerald saya: ** The conduct of o certain Deacon during bis visit to our town last week, which has already called forth much re- mark, which wit apjear in a less unfavor- able light when wo state some extennating cir- cumstances. Ho called simply for soda-mater, and bad not the slightest suspicion that ho was. drinking anything clse. But it scoms that cer- taia frequent customers ag the soda-fountain, [nested to-nominate thoir-sirtm, are.in tho habit ‘of execnting a dexterons wink, which means' neither earsapanils, nor lemon, nor zin- ger; but another -kmd of qualification, which wo - forbear. to name or even' charac- terize. ' Now it so hoppens-that _the Dea- con has -a nervous affection.: which causes the muscles of - bis left.eye to tmich occasional- 1y. - This involantary twitching was mistazen by the clerk for s wink, and the consequence was that tho good Descon fonnd ths sodaso very pal- atable that he called for six or eight glasses dur- ing the day, aud before night was the most gay, ufknfivn' and most:mellow man that ever adorned tho deaconate. When next he calis for soda- water, we trust he will ecrutinizetheingredients, and bear-in mind- the following remark from Paul to Timothy: - Likemee must the Deaccns bo grave, not double-tongued, not given to much doubtfol syrop 1o their eoda-water. Eli Perkins writes from Saratoga to thé Graph- ic, a8 follows:_ i s Even the Boston darkey--the’ Plymouth Rock Puantan darke /—bas & profound reverence for Boston talont. The T. Rev. De Witt: Talmage tells tho old storv here again, how, a few years ago, ho walked into a - Presbvterian charch in Boston. As he entored, a colored sexton, ot attending the Colored Convention in Baratogs, boed and said : ' -Have a seat, sah? plenty of seats dis morn- in', val,” g YNo, thank you ;-can’t-stay bit a moment. Just stepped in to see the church. What is the name of the clergymati ? - Can't eée vory plain. *‘That, sab, 4is the Revarend Henry Ward Beccha, #alb ! ™ Fine preacher, ign' Talmage. *‘Well, gah, peoples has dif'ferent notions "bout j-reachers—" * Bnt he seems quite znimated.” “Yeu, sah; consib'ble animated.” ¢ And appcars to have talent.” _“Well, rzh, 28 I said afo', peoples has such dif'frent’ notions 'bout preacliers. Dars some dat tinks be's mighty-good on de words. I tink Ec?" retorned Mr. myeelf he's & far man, sah.—n ver far man, ssh: but not of the prima facia class. He's a3 good man, -gah,—a well-meanin’ man, but not a tal- ented man. *Ile's a Now York man, sal!’"” PUBLIC WORSHIP BEGTLATIO! Aniondmentd proposed: by ez Punch, M. P. : That no clorgyman whose face is worth looking at turn his back on Lis ¢onpregation. If any.clorgymen is in doubt a8 to whether his face is worth-looking at, ho mav compare his personal appearance with that of the ordivary. That no Rector, Vicar, incumbent, or curato introduce auy innovation into the service without the requisité facalty--common sonve. That after twentv minutes' preaching the proper position for the mivister be deemed to be out of the pulpit. That celibecy bo inforced on thone.of the clorgy whose incomes do not exceed £200 peran- num. passed in That no clerpyman who has not honors be allowed to use the expression * phi- losopliy falsely so-called” in his sermon. _That the_Offertory ehall be'always accompa- nied by tho Collect for the day. peein viihyi RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS, METRODIST. The Rev. A. Youker will preachat the Western Av- enue JL E. Church at the usualhours, Revival meet- ings during the week. —The Rev, Dr. Thomas'will preach this morningat the First M. E. Church, corrier of Clirkand Washing- ton streets, E ~—The Rev. Dr: Dandy will presch at the Ada Street M. E. Church morning and evening. —Tbe Rev, C. L. Felton nreaches this morning and evening at Graco Church, corner of LaSallo and Whats strects, ErI7COPAL, The Rev. H. G. Perry will preach at All Suint's Epls- copal Church, corner of Noriti Carpénter and Fourth streets, mormng and evening. —The Rov. Francls Mansfield will preach at the Church of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Lobey streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. W. H, Smythe will preach this morning and evening at the Church of the Holy Communion, South Deasborn etrect, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtioth, ~—Church of Savior, corner of Belden and Lincoln avenucs, services morning and evening. —Tlo' Rev, E. Sullivan will preach morning and evening at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenne.” Morning subject Winistery of the Church Perpetual in Heaven. —XMemorial services will be held at St, Panl's, Hyde Park, this cvening. Address by tle Rector. Tize_Rev. George C. Stréet will officiate at St, Peter's ifisalon Chapel, No. 46 Tiird avenue, this morning and evesing, Holy Commurion a 11:30 3. m, —The Rev. H. N, Powers will officiato st St, John’s Church this morning. Subject: * Service.” —Tho Rev. Clinton Locke prezches this morning &t Grace Church. No evening serrice. PRESDITERILN. Tho Rev. U. D. Gulick will preach mofning and even- ingat the Amencan Reformed and Jeferron Park Presbytecian Church, Wesbington-street, nesr Aun, Evening subjoct : * The Exaltation of Christ.” —Dr. W. W, McKaiz will preachat tho Ninth Church, Ells avenue. morning and cvening. Morutag mab. Ject : “ Tno Mission of Littla Children, Hoth in Li znd "Doath.” Evening subject: *The World's the AMirror of the Soul.” —The Rev. John McLean, of Beloit, Wis., will preach morping_and evening at the Fifih Presbyzerian Church, Wabash avenue; near Thirty-firet strect. —The Rov. Dr. Hornblower, of Allegheny Cits, Pa., will preachat the Third Vresbyterian Church, this morning, corner of Weshinzton and Carpenter strects. —Services 28 usual at Campbell Park Chapel, Leav- itt street, near larrison, —The Rev, J, Monro Gibeon will preach at the Sen- ond Churcl, coruer Michigan avenue and Twenticth strect, this cvening, The eongregation unites with First Cburch in tLeservice, —The Rev. J. B. McClure will preschat River Park this morning. —Tho Rev. Ben E. S. Ely will preach a¢ Grace Church, ‘corner Vincecues and Oak avenucs, this morning, ~The Rev. J. W. Bain will preach at the United Church, coruer of Moarno and Pautina streots, morn- ing and cvening. Morning subject: “ Satictifica- tion.” Evening subject “ A Saviag Hope,” —Tho Rev. F. G, Surbridge will preach at the Tenth Chureh, Astley street, wesi of Bobey, morning and evening. —Tle Rev. James Maciaughlan will presch this morning st tlie First Scoteh Church. BaPTIST. 5 The Rev. Florence M. Carthy will preach at Mar tine's Biil morning and afternoon. Afternoon sub- Ject: *The Downfall of Beccher. —THe Rev. J. A, Smith, D. D., will preach at Uni- vesity Place Church this morning, and the Rev. A. L. Vail 1t the evening. i —Tho Rev. C. H. DelWolfe will preach morning and evening at Emanuel Churcl, corner of Centro and Dayton strecta, . —The Rev. F. M. Ellia will preach morning and* evcning at the Michigan Avenuo Church. —The even- ing sermon will be o young men, under the auspices of the Young Men's uhristisn Assoctation, —Tho Rev. W. W. Ererts, D, D,, will preach at the Tabernacle, 666 Wabash avenue, this morning. —The Rev. W. J. Rermott will preach morning and evening at the Coventry Street Baptist Church, corner of Coventry aud Bloomingdale strects. —The Rév. A. L. Egbert preaches at 3 o'clock In the Thirty-ecventh Street Church, ncar Dearboru street. —The Rev. T, W. Goodspeed will preach this morn- ing and evening at the Second Church, corner of Ao: gan snd Monroe atreeta, The morning scrraon is to mother he evening one to young men. —The Rev. J. Malvern preiches this morning and esening at the Free Communion Ciurcl, coraer of Jacksou and Loomis atreets, CONGREGATIONAL, Prof, Fiske, of the Chicuzo Theologiral Seminary, il preach at'the Union Park Congregational Churcl this morning. —Tho Rev. Dr. W. W. Patton will preach morning and evening at the First Church. , ~Tue Ror. L. T. Clamberlaino &l preach st the New England Chureh, Deldware place, near Dearborn street, morning and dvening, —Tho Rev. Norman A. Shllerd will proach at Wiekes* Park Chiurch this morning. Preaching in the evening at the corner of. North and Milwaukee avenucs. cHuISTIAN, The Rev. Ieaac Erreft will prezch morning and evening at the Cirstian Ohurch, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-fifth streat. —The Rev. G. G. Mullins will preach at the Central Christian Churcl, near Jefferson Park, this mora- ing. TNIVERSALIST, The Rev. W. 5. Raiph will preach in Murray Church, Indiana aventie ucar Twenty-ninth strect, this morn. ing. No evening service. MISCELLANEOUR, The Progressive Lyceumn of Chicapn meets at 12:30 at Good Templar’s Hall, corner Washington ana Des- plaines streets. % —Tho Rey. Elmund ‘Balfour will presch at the Engliel Lutherzu Church of the Holy Trinity, this morning, corner of Dearborn and Erde street. —The Pev. J. T, Hibbard, D, D., will preach at New Charch Jiall, corner Eighteenth strect and Prairie avenue, this morning. 2 —The Itev. J, R. Hibbard, D. D., will preach at Tnien Park Templo at 3:30 this afternoon, —The Rey., A, Ollendorff will officiate at tbe Church of the North ‘Star, on Divisfon, near Market street, the comfng Jewish holidaya, —Services in Green Strect Tabernacle, as usmal, Presching morning and evening. —The Kev. William A. Start will preach this morn- ing in Unity Chureh, O Park. —The Pirst Socicty. of Spiritualists havo services in Grow's Opera-1fall 5¢ 10:30 3, m, and 7:30 p. m, Same uel Mazwell, the Quaker medium, will, while en- tranced, answer acientific, philonopbical, or theologi- cal questions, sud also describe spiris. e CALENDAR FOR TEE WEEK., EPISCOPAL. ~Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. ~St. Dartholomew. 0MaS CATHOLIC. Aug, 23.—Thirteenth Sundey after Pentecost; Bt Philip Benitd, C. Aug. 25,—SL X., King of c. {tni. 27 St Zeshyrints, Prot, St Joseph Calasancuan, €, Ancstine, B, C. D.; St. Hermes, 31, —Beheading of St, John Baptist ; St, Sabina, Ar, REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS, -STRANGERS IN THE * “Who eupport our ‘thedtred ? Firal; Kenen. ous press,—bub lot: that pass. Tho pres & bound to eniconrage eversthing good, and demn eversthing- bed, whereloro st fhy grane, itona aid given to thestrea by the preas by dis. -missed 28 a matler of’ duty, . It is not & debatable question’ the theatres of s éity. T‘!lxa' mitié:ifnp::g::rg instantly roply that the methetic public supports the theatres, and in making that repl; will display’ s amérint of vanity mod.igee, rauce quite sstonishing, but quite pardonagle, The [ wéthéic "element " usually * besy g the goneral piblio & very small: proportion, —=0 smzll, indeed, that; if* managers dependey on it for support, one Week would be sufficient to closa overs theatre in tho city. It ia o g the lovers of art that the theatro i indebted 1oy its existénce. * If'it were thuos, fortunsto Rrevey frivolity would be banished, addgood scting— not a washy, clap-trap ecntiment stolen tlio copy-book—would win a round of spplagse. The contrary is actually the case; therefore, ay audience is not compaacd ectirely of- pérsony o calture and sense. Nor i it likely, or eyey desirable, that it should be. Actors wod fing their occupation gone, for not more than ons in fitry would bo palatable. Whatever' is, thore. £ore, is more or less right. Boston has the megs intelligent audiences, but they aro notaltogether rites with the majority of actors, ba causg they sce and know too much, . THE AVERAGE AUDIENCE, then, is not fatelligout. Thisis a piatitnde, b Lias 3 piace in thoso romarks, Thors is o' pe centago of a critical people ; a percentage of in. telligent people, uniaccustomed to critisize, bt Tnot dnxious to mar tha pleasure of ‘an eveniny by so doing; and a percentago absolately ire competont by Teason of cragial and cercoral i adequacy to form 3oy opinion on anything byt pora, or tape, o patterns, or styles. Tho last 1y a very large perceutage. Its tendency i moder. THEATRE, ately’ in the direction of what ‘is good, but tho kcopa is mot boyond © thy wrelched scntimont cribbed from by copy-book. This is, bowever, noarly sy it should bo. ‘Wo can o more live on Licbig's extéact of beef than on sawdust. There isn vast amount of nselcss matter in onr daily food —in the air we breatho. There must be a cor- responding amonnt of negative materal in theatrical andienze. We aro wufferers only in the excess of the macerial, that is all. Dus thiy is apars from tho subject. Viowed in another way, a theatricnl audiencs is composed of two classes of people—including dead-heads, three—remidents and STRANGLRS, and it is to tho latter cloment in a metropolitsa city like Chicago that tho managers look for support. Cut off tho means; of approach to tho city, and the audionce wonid dwindla dovn wery perceotibly. We might, with more local eelf-complacency than accuracy, cone clndo that the negative clement would bo ro. duced, and that the average inteiligence—dram. atic insight. ot practical business-capacity— of the audience would be raiscd. But accuracy i3 the maiu point, aud we forbear to draw any such conclusion. THE FIRST THING a rational animal does m cloosing the sits of hig babitation is o look to the proxmity of his means of subsistence. On tho same principl tho manuger, in eelecting a kito for a theatre, chooses one _within _casy distance—moz of the contro of tke dwalling-house district but of the hotels. Tao hotels ford the theatres, and thio hotels are primarily for the accommodaticn of strangers. Thoes trausient guests, Lhereforo, make up a larza proportion of a theatrical audioace. Amomg the strangers who como to town therearoof course all classes, grades, aud conditions of mon, The farmor, who eclls Lis produce or stock, finds the evemng hang heasily on his hands, and drops into the theatre murely to paca tume, 2nd bo able to s2y he has scen the plas, THE TRAVELING MAN, - i he is not engaged 1n less improviog amuses ments, drops into tho theatro to see Joe Jefer- son or Edwin Adam, or, if the fates are kind to bim, the more congonial sight af naked lezs of women, and more-intelligibla-to-him twaddla of burlesquo. T man_ of family, atoppingol: 3 day or two to take in all tho marvels of twa much-admired city, raust eee the theatro alxo. THE GOOD OLD DEACON from the coustry, or. even from some big city, tinding himuelf alone without friends, thinks of the theatre. In his own town or city he shuas too thentre. In his own town orcits, when soma pastor, unconscious of the pravailing scan- dal, condomos tio stage as tho gateway io bell and assails the reputation of virtuous men an women who play upon it, ho spolauds *the conr- age of tho preacher in attacking tbis tremendons ovil” In his own town or city the good old deacon would be afraid of the cousequences of being seen in a thoateo. But in eome other town or city Lus chances of detection in visiting the play-kouse aro mot great: and, after all, o beging to arguo, why should he not drop in and see what 1 is lke, Lis own consciousness of purity protecting him from the isidious wiles of—of what? Vagazly, of Satan. And chanco or inclinstion—chaaco, on bis jart, worthy man—may placo him in th seat adjoining the traveling man who is admir- ing the usked legs of women, 1t may oven be that TILE SAXE GOOD PASTOR who on Sunday shoed tue depth of his chari- ty, and tho loftiness of bis chivairy, vy aepersing women on the siage, will tind himself Tuesday intently watchiug thoso whom ho Las aspersed, heanng, perhaps, tho magestic beauty of Sbakspearo's thought read with now meanig to bis unaccustomed ear. He msy absolatoly learn something—.o, the perfect man, may ab- molutely loarn something from the lips af the + degraded " woman beforo him, who is playing Queen Katherine. He maynot, of course, but if Le fails ho must tuke the responsibility of op- portunicy thrown away, along with lesa rovored swuers. B After all, then, the Lotels may be contribut« ing valuablo intellectual material to tha theatrical andience. That fine head with the stern sot features, usually—but not now—zot off by a white choker, certainly contains a thought i harmony with the line : . Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I Tt must bave occurred to him at one time in his life. It nas toall of n, for Hazlett saya: It 18 we who aro Hamdlel.” He bad read human nature,—not his own, perhaps, but that vf sowme sinner,—and must marvel greatly at the projec- tion of it before his senses in some of the fro- queunt lines of the peerless bard. It may striko him_ that s vague impression bas taken form, and ho mayleave the play-houce with a newidea, 1f indeed such a thing be possible. Bat he has occapiod already, perhaps, more attention than Lo would bestow on Shakspeare on ths etage. LET US P93 TO THE NEST. He is a stranger, common-place ; o0 in brains, if rich in clothes. His diamond pin and gorgeoud atiire generally would tell ono before- band that his attention was nod fixed 6o firmly on tho ttago as on the Indies of the sudience. Lo applacds nothing, because bo hears nothiog. If-ho does gazo ai anything in {front of the footlights, 1t is femi- nive. Ho thinks ho is opserved ; hay made xn impression ; and thereupon wearie his masiva intellect in epeculation as to how he can convey to that ndorable being who &0 observably appre- ciates him, the depth of his passion. It would puzzle a'more maseive intellect than his, per- hapa, ¥ A theatrical audicncs is a fair sample of car soeicty, after all. The man on one's right may be a pardoucd convict, and the geutce! pervon on oue’s left 'a candidate for the same distins suished horor only hulf developed. Ot both may Pemen of the utalost honesty snd refinement, the poasible victims of a well-dreesed roper for gambling-house i the seat behind oneself. I 1% bard to tell what society opeis in. Furtingin s thesre may, therefore, result unhappils. Bat the pessibility of bipwreck wiil not d young ladies from indulging 1 the amusement. The hotels furnishing #o maay patrous of the drams, managers are ready to make it WORTH THEII WHILE to cater for them. ‘Thus, the Lill of fars at the Sherman Housa tells the guesta of tha: estimable hotel tbat tha Academy of Mumc pr- Hents - certain sirong autraciiong, whilo the cigar-stand at the Pacific 4 rcady to furoish reserved eeats to guests of that Lonsa without eubjeciing thom to the perila of a jour- ney to tho box-oftices of thedown-town theatres. ‘Phins, when the deacos happcos to let lip to his horrified wife-an admission that he went to the play-hotse, be can turn round and throw tko weight of Ius transgrresion on the Slerman Houso Lill of fare, or mccase the gentiemanly clerk of the Tremont House of haviug tempted hia till ho fell, —which of coureo breals the fll vory materially. Thie cruel clerk may sometimes Jead astray some elderly farmer whose $ympa- thies are are gnick as his honest scuse of ond wrong. When this wicied aci has bes committed, everybodv in the houss kuowa 1 by the londnees aad ecstacy of thie old geatieman’s joy when the willain of tke picco iv arcested, :ml tentenced to unbeerd-of penafties. All grar o3 of socioty are thero, but leb us Lope ihiai tho Indies and gentlemen who give troulle ace strungers to Chucago; that the man who 8718 ‘“-——‘-———-————_—___ EDOEGEE N 2 B8 S e o s e Y cogsBaEE