Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1874, Page 6

i ! { | 6 THE- CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1874. which mosts Sept. 9, at Brosdhgad. He romains | Germany, while the meatings had bocomy e e e RELIGIOUS NEWS. ‘Life and Labors of the Bt.-Rev. Bishop Cheney. Comments on Prof. Tyndall’s Recent Address. Dr. McKaig's Case under Consider- ation in California. Tie Opinions of the Leadiag Re- ligious Papers, Notes znd Ferscnals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. BISHCP CEENEY. he Dt.-Rev. Cierles E. Cheney hes, for atleast Baif u dozen years, Leen one of tho most promi~ pent clergymen in tho United Stales, owing much to tho fact that ko has seemed to personi~ £y, in his ccnlest with the late Bishop White~ Bouso, the canse of what i8 Lnown as the Low Corch bracch of the Episcopal Chureh, a3 op. 2d to the Jligh Chuich party. And yot this on Lias boen moro apparent than roul, sinco treo controversy belonged moto $o church order 2nd an noquestioning obedience to church outhority than to any divergenco in church Cheney was born in 1836, of New England uts, and claims his descent from the Pil- grme. His birtiplace was Canundaigus, N. Y. o weut through school sud college withittlo from any one but himself, haviog to ** work . s it is termed. He gradusted from Iighart College, Gepeva, N. X., in 1857, with credit. In tho fall of the same year ho en- tered tho middle claes of the Episcopal Theoloz- icc) Seminary at Alesandris, Va. Ho left tho Seminery corly in his senior yeer, and was or- d Dcacon by Diskop De Lancey, of Western Yorls, and becwme nesistant minister of St. o's Chiurch, Rocheater. ter remaining there nino months, ho was o to teko charge of -St. Paul's Church, wrane, X. Y. At thecnd of o shert_stay here, he was ordained Presbyter by BishopDe Lancey, ard soon alter cmme to Chicogo, where ho ched his frst sermou g8 Rector of Christ Sarch 11, 1560. 1t will thus be scen liop Clheney’s reputation is all a Chicago growth, as is that of Several others of our most w2 clerzymen. Christ Church, when r. Cheneytook chargo of a3 o suell, dimost insignificant, body, com- tion of sbout forty pensons, whom were communicants, snd s in’ a emall frano building upon leased ground. As e specimen of rapid growth and development, it may be well to noto that 1Liis chureh at the present timo has nearly 400 communicants. The Home Sunday-scheol num- Eors come 300 teachers and pupils, and the valne of it5 property is cstimated at about $100,000. tion to the chureh proper, there are thrao uu dependent npon the coutral associn- 1 for eupport, namely : St. George’s Chapel, Chapel of the Good_ Sheptierd, and the Tyng <s 3ir. Cheney is, therefore, everywliero ognized as ono of the most laborious, earn d successful refigions tenchers in the conntrs ; t was this fact that was o largo elemont in pawer that enabled him 8o lovg and go suc- +fully io contend azainst tho most scholarly i derermined Bishop of the Drotestant cpal Church of tho United States. Al- b, perhsps logieslly, be' may have been et the peopie wero with him, and Lis 8 conciantly poivted to his works as his beotdirloma. Neitkor figs nor figures such ad <2 conld be ko product of a tnistle. Judged , Lirhop Cheuoy must be classed s uiler iu the Chnstian profession. Tho loog rnd the widely-reported controversy ctween Mr. Cheney and 1us Bishop in regard to fonaer's omission of the word * rogenerate” £;0m e Daptiemal corvico for infants, seemed 10 give a ng: impatus to tho smouldering fires c: thelanti-Ritualistic controversy in this country. Tithep, clergy, ard laity began moro and more 1o full into the so-called clasees of ich and Low Church; until, in the art of 1873, Rishop Cammins apnounced cossion from the Protestunt Epiccopal . and, on Dec. 20f tho same year, tho cntion was held fn New York which organ- d the Reformed_Episcopal Church with Bishe Cnuwics_and Dishop Cheney a9 its high ec- setic. Sinco that fimo tho Church has growu. by eecessions from the Protestant Epis- al and other churches, until it has now somo Ivénty-fiv clergymen, and over twoaty perish zetionn. There aro now two congrega- in Xew Breuswick, ono in Ottawa, four in er places in Tilinals, ono in Missouri, one in York, oue in Brookiyn, two in Philadelphia, Tiltsburz, ouc in Louisvillo, ote. Thé ination, therefore, is @ growing ono, vitslity largely'to the encrgetio f Bishop Cucney. d o fact (l:e r. Chency was omitling & word or iwo in (ho Daptiumal servico came liy to tho cars of tho late Bishop Vriitebouse, whosoon after called upon alr. & -, and requested bim to conform literally o1 yer-Dook. AMr. Cheney steadily and Tersistenly refosed, and the refusal ended in o {rolonged contlict, during which trial, suspen- tion aud a final sentence of degradation from s Mimetry took pluce. Notwithstauding this, Cioney contmued his miniatrations, hig <h Leing enthasinstically in bis favor, and urch roperts cmeining in his possession. Tithop Cheuoy is n man of edium size, frank ead cordicl in his intercourse with others. A £ 04 meniery, 2 command of the best English, iwd close babita by study,and observation, cnabla : Aoin bis sermons with the attribitcs of iatory ; and ho bas made & reputation a8 the Tory Lcst pulpit-epeakers 1o tho city. Sk Chotier relurned sesterdny from Can s, whero Lz has been sponding several weoks 10 work of orgauizing aud pushing forward 'k of the Iteformed Church. He speaks ouragingls of tho prospeets thero. Two 50t 1o copfirmed thirteen peraona ani lastSundz.at 4 rims and purposes q It is quite probable .urined Church will bo organizediu that £oon. ife in Canada. Bishop Chenoy preached in ntrcal, in tho Young Men's Chriatizn Aesocia- 1, whcro ho was cordially welcomed by a large co. Dishop Cheney s still s young man, £nd it iz mot nnlikely that ho may bearin the =00t promment part in the religious of tho county. N DR. IPRAIG. The St Francisco Rulletin of Aug. 27 hns tho Sollowing in referenco to tho case of the Rev. 5, of tho Ninth Proebyterian Church to whose couree tho Presbytory of fon Inst May who is now the “stated sup~ th Prosbyterian Church of Cuicaga, nito Presbyrery for tlat city about une ’ us to Lis_srrival on this cosst, u religious duties under the aurpices of Prosbyters. and, to a great majority of tise jesrlo resident hers bishupe is comparatively 71, but nicet Presbyterians of the Stuto will ro- 5 5 which will appear hercafter, = e rosidenco Iu this Stato Dr. MeKaig officie— ot o charch in Maryeviie, and rubsequently od 1 orate of a church in Stockton. Whils tockton Lie deliverad o eermon entitied Lot Wife,” which was published in the Qccident, £:0 orgzn of the Presbyterians, and sttracted more of 1 icn. Tlio opinions of the Doctor clashed ihe Jnforsed feas of (he Preebyterian drnomina- red worthy of speeial atten- tioa by the lezders of the Church on this cowt, Tho e wan thien Semedsi by the 010 Predvioringy ad & nizn of fair ability, with soplomorical tendencies 3 5 man who westo be piticd Tather thon feared, and would finally scc tho errors of his cotwse, Leaco gl the doctrines of the Churcl, e+ Lot's Wifa " to his Chica- g0 congr: . The Cliicago Presbytery deemed his ves hiereties], and the state of the ceee was not 7rosed when ft waa kuown that ne (the Rev. Dr. ai), althongh presching in a church under 1ho 1 of thie Ciiicayo Prusbitery, bad refuscd to mako cation to (it body fof formal cdmicsion. The 1rch w24 called £0 sccount by the Presbytery, and 4t czed nlie thie call and callers, An Examiving Com- o Dr. Robert 1\, Pattereon at its rrocecded to the Ninth Church 10 cxamine McEcigs heretial tendegcics and eo moas. The Commitice sscertained hat i Fumons wer Lighly flavored with “frec-hink- ing” and_“evolution,” sud showed that Lo bad 1o felth in biblical inspiration. Thetcrmons on Lot Yofo™ and snother subject wers reported upon 1o the Dr, Ho was pever zegularly | Hion. This Proshytery conld not summon Dr. McEalg, but, instesd lhnrz:{, it orderad ts statea clerk to for- wurd thie fingings of the Committec ta the Scramento body, and recommended them to nvestigate. Dr. McKigs care waa taken up by tho Sicrauetito Pres- bytery, ond certain questions wero forwarded to him regarding bfe views upou the dovtrines of tho Church, He nuswered the questions eertatim, aod thso swers are now being considered by tar Preebyter: Meanwhile, the Doctor js momipaliy tho pastor the Ninw Ciurch of Chieazo. e cuse of Dr. MeKg I8 of special intcrest 10 the Presbyterisng of thia State, aud all the Dewa concerning it is eagerly sought aficr. A lnter number of the samo paper bas the fol- lowing: Hincs tho recont reference to the case of the Bov. Dr, MeKaig, nominal :zator of the Niuth Presbyterian Church of g, it kas transpired that tho Fresby- Yerana bave dudded mpon 3 soarching Investigation of his present hcretical tendencies. A commitice q'f fho Sacramento Preshytery, consiztiog of the Bev. N. Biater, Sacrotury, and the Ttov. Ar. Zfayhow, corre- spondod with the Rev, Dr. McKaig and jnquited of him a5 fllows : “ First—1f ho still maintained his pub- Tithea statements that ho rejccted certain portions of 110 Old Testament A rovesied {ruth. Sesond—If ko wee still In connection with tko Precbyterisn Church. The reply 18 rerorted 1o Lave heen that{ “ First—Ho oiill maintalned his publivhed vlews ; and cecond— 1iis connection was just o8 the Presbytery bas a mind to cousider it.” Tho Sacrameato Presbyters meet noxt mouth, and 4o leading features of its prococdings will bo the'con- giderution of Dr, ig’s course. Moautime tho Treabytorians of Chlcags are moving for sn investiga- tiou of the Doctor's vicwe. e TEE SWING HERFSY. THE EXPRLSSION OF GRAVE DOTATS.” To the Editor of Phie Cliicayo Tribune: Sm: As thisis an sge of doubt, and Chicago is a place in which all men freely express their doubt, and somo havo gone 8o far a3 to * expresa grave doubl," IDbave found m‘)'acu inclined to ‘doubt some things, and to give Sxpression to that doubt. 1. T doubt whether Dr. West, of Cincionati, who signs himeelf *Alethes” in tho Interior, would not Lave done better to have sigued bis roal name to those articles. 2. Tdoubt whether it is wise, Christian, or amisblo for him, under the gnise of of & criti- cismof Prof. Swing, Lo attack the Presbytery of Chicago so ficreely. i 8. 1doubt whether it is not a violation of ec- clesiastical Inw for bim to take the whole decision out of thelends of Synod, and decids it ex cathedra. = 4 Idoubt whether he has the right, in a log- ical or physical sense, to ram bis conclusious down o neighbor's throst, aud thou, a8 o cx- tracts them again, condewn s neighbor for Leving such o thing within him. 5. Ldoubt as_to how the coler of Dr. West's articles in the Inferior can bo explained, except on the principla that to one with gresn oyes sll objects become grean. : A 6. 1 doubt whether o ran who, in all his life, hes nover cousented to be contradictod, is the best man to deal out opinions. 7. I doubt whether that man who prophesicd that disnster would cemo of rounica in tho Pres- Dbyterian Chureh will be ablo to restrzin himselt {from tho attempt to secure the fulfillmeni of theeo prophecics. 8. 1 must also *exprees pravo doubis™ nato whotlier Dr. West, whosehistory is so well known in Brooklyn, in .Cincionati, sud nore recenily in his disastrous connection with Danville Tleo- logical Sominars, is the man that candid Chris- tish men desiro to heer from just now. 9. T donbs whether 1t is not tho consciouscza of ihe above consideration that has led him to eign himself * Alethes,” instcad of Rev. Na- thaniel West, D. D., who was of Brooklyn, and was of Cincinnati, sud was of Denvillo Theo- logical Beminary, but now of Lincoln Park Church, of Cinciunati. Yours truly, 13 Cmicaco, Sept. 1, 167/ e PROF. TYNDALL'S RECENT LEC- TURE. It is too catly to obtain the views of the relig- jons journals generally in regard to tho late- expressed matorislissic doctrives of Prof. Tyn- dall before the British Association for the Ad- ~vancement of Science, at Belfast. The opinions already expressed are mot very belligerent, how- ever. Tio Independent eay: A hzsty reading of the ful text of Dr. Tyndallead~ dress, at Belfaut, beforatho Britisi Association, hardly Dears out the poricutous cormments of the rib: Dr. Tyndall has thrown off no disguiae, tas advance to Do new attitude, has done no eapecizily brave act. He has cnly once more argucd, very pohicly, if some— ‘what unscisonably, that religion hzs boen tho ancicat foo of sclence; that ecience i3 tho victer; that religion bas ita placo among the scuthwents, tnd mi allowed for Ly any Atatesman or philoscphe matter hos potencies—among them that of eel ization. This is tho cxtent of the * moterilism which lio avows, Indoed, o apparently taks psing {o disavow the génuino arlicie, and ssys that between matter and senmation thers {a & chas’ which no phys- ical science can bridge ; for which ray of Liopo loft yet to mental philosophy end religion wo should feel a lit~ tle more grateful vere it not that, while Lis coveats 5o prudentty look foward the ofd faith, which is yet om- ‘nipotentin tho social circios of England, his gencral principles und the force of ail his arguuuits look tho othier way, We wish ho would carry Gut Lls principlea to thefr ultimste conclusion, and let ux goe what wo hava to fight, THE CHRISTTIAN UNTON. Tho Christian Union says: Prof. Tyndall bza just delivered a remarkable ad- drcss, o8 President of tho British Asociation, which will eall forth a great manpy shricks of horror from eople who hiave not the intelligenc or will not tako the troubla to thoronghly understand him, It will afford also a groat deal of profitablo and Fuggestive thought to thuse who will sttentivoly follow Lim in his whols line of tiought, roserving_their independeut Sndgraont as 1o :is couclusions. We differ from Jrof. Tyndall about some things, and we hold witl strong— est conviction and deepest affection rome things which be donbia ot disbetioves, But neither truth nor re- ligion—not that the two cau have separato interests— czn suffer in the long run from the lalors of such men a8 he. Nay,in the event, the world inust e deeply indebled, not ouly for increased mowledgo, Dut for impulec toward right living, to man so large- minded, 50 di crested, and 80 sincero inthe search for truth s Prof. Tyadall. THE EVAXGELIST. The Ecangelist (Presbyterian) thinks the doc- trine of epirit 25 entirely separated from mott, can nevor bo successfully controverted. This is what it saya: Tuc opening addreee of Prof, Tyndll, on his being Toored with the Presidency of fhe British Asscelation for the Advzncement of Science, at its meeting at Bel- fact, on_Aug, 19, natorally attracts affention on se- count of (ho npparent frankncss of ils positions. A daily contemporary regrrds him a3 goaded into theas expressions “ by the criticlsms of Ui Teligious presa vpon Lis proposition fer a scicutific test of the eflicazy o th prayer.” Howover this may be, we are suro that ic cause of truth will Teccive no damago by his best eflorta to make himgelf understood. Tho worla will ore and more Lold 1o the doctrina that God 15 & spisit, notwithstanding hin declaration, in effect, that God " {5 matfer,—the laltor contsining fn itself all tho elements necessars to accoout for the rhenomens of crestion,— tho promise and_po- lency of every form and fquality of lifa” without the interferenco of a personal Oreator. Yet s “matter " s _too subtic for even Prof. Tyndall, and Lo £o procaimed it—a now discovery perhaps to Beicuy, €0~ =, but certainly not a now idea to thoro whio Lizve 10wy < belioved the deciaration of (be fa- spircd Word. “A will be seen, the words of Jobars found to bo frue, sud a3 3 beginning this is good, mud may in due timo induce that humble and_feachable frzmo of mind which proparcs tho way for feith—that glft, not of matter, but of Ged, which elps tho under- standingof both wirc and_ foolish. Wo may regard the folluwing declaration of theaddress as markug tho most advanced point .in the debate between osienco znd rellgion. Thie cricible and tho microscopo bave done their Leat, aud zre baffied: **In fact,” gays Tyn- dall, “ the whole process of cvolution 1A (hé manife ta- tion'of & power clsofutely fnscrutable to the jutolicct of man. As Jittle in our ds a8 in the duys of Job, can man by scerchinz find this powcr out. Conridered fundamentalls, it is by the oporstion of an incoluble myetery that Life i8 evoived, specics ditferentiated, and mind unfold:d from thelr prepotent cleents it the immenasursblo part. There fe, you will obcerse, uo very rank materialism here.” THE OZSERVER. The New York Observer shows the strongest dispoaition {o fighkt the new doctrine. It eays: Tho scicnce which tho ritien Association represents is puroly experimental and domonstrative. It zecepts notuing a8 true Which i3 not capable of such proof. But Prof. Tyndall pas uow gena beyond the donizin of seience, aesorted what he eannot demonsizate, and assumed tho wiklest spoculation as a fact. Theslozy never took se much for grante en the Dritisa Associaticn prodnces su fxellectes] Leing out of {hat ter in which Prof. Tyndall e25s Lo sees it, we will aceept Lis theory as heicnce, Now, it docs uob de- serve e name. TSR THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. The Western Adrocate (Methodist), pub- liskied at Cincinnati, says, in referenco to tho work of tho Noribern Methodist ClLurch in tho Southern States : o insist on the right, and hold it fo be the impera- tive duty, of tho Metkolist Ejiscopal Church to ex- tead 1t work ; t Lave schools and houses of trorehi in every State of tho Guion ; to reach, with its inesi- tutions and infisence, tho white 35 wall 8 the colore and tho colored o weil cs the white, population. It auy one in the Metliodtst Eydscopal Church thinks our worls iu tho South, zmoug cither ths white or the ol ored population, should bo abandoned, wo ara Eorry, To do #o, under existing cireums:ances, would be, in our judgment, a stupentious folly aud's stupendous crime against fhe truth, sgainst 1norcy, sgainct humane ity, and against {ke country. When the colored pea— ‘ple'and tlic poorcr whites Liave their rights before the Law, unquestioncd and_unquestiomablo; when {hey have freo echools éntablished, and_in vigoroas opera- tion in all the Southern States; when tie Southera chitrchica hell outatrip those of the North fa their ef— forts to educate ard cvangeiizo tho poor, the fgnarant, ord the degraded ot tlcir doors, and thoss eZorts bavebeen crowned with succest. We sy perhaps Chiczgo Presbyters Ly tho Committes of Investiga~ Jiston paticntly to o propocal to withdraw from the South; but sssurcdly not until then. And then we imagifo no ono will wish us to withdraw, Instead of withdrawing, wo must insist oo immediato and uni- versal protection for all our_{eachers, preachers, tnd members—whits and ‘colored. Our Church authori- ties ought st ence to appeal fo the civil authorities of the States in which outrages have been committed, o are feared, and -demnand protection. If thisis not grauted, if mobs aud organized bands of Ku-Llux are allowed 40 rule with Dioody hand, then tho entire body of the Methodist Epfscopal Church should, with tbe support of sistar churches, units in demanding of tho General Government_the rolief and protection which the ruflianiem of the South makes necessary. NEDALD AND PRESBYTER The editor of the Herald and Presbyler (Pres- byterian), published ot Cincinnati, passed throogh Chicago about a weel ago, and, in o let- ter to his paper, says: The Swing trial hus done 3 sad work in Chicago, for which, {n my Judgment, both parties aro responsile, and will suffer, without’ being nblo to sympathize with each other iu their tribulations, My intercourse with bretron on both aides confirms the judgment,which T expressed in an oditorlal, about the closo of tho trial, that the caso is complcaled by tho ravival of 0ld fssuca and prejudices which prevailed in the 0ld-School be- fora tho reunion sud in tho uniied Church since, It i8 local, and ought not to agilate tho wholc Church. X Dave said 10 both parties that, s tho Teuniied Church 18 agroed on tho questions of subscription and doc~ trino, this case will ba sottled without trouble on its merita. It tho charges are not properly mado aud proved the upper courts will eay so, 1f the testimony *hows unsound doctrino tho decision will be in ac- cordanco with the facts, If Dr, Patton uscs his paper 10 beget intcrest againat tho Preabytery and in his own favor, tho Synod cannot notico it, or in auy way travel out of tho rocord. If the Presbytory is slanderously reportod 2 tonding to rationalism, and e prosecutor 18 callod @ heresy-hunter, tho tpper courls cannot 1is. ten to such things, for they arc not fn tho case. Tho only queetion Is whether tho defendant is gullty of an eccicsiastical offense, 24 charged; and, i not, whothe er tho ovidence in tho case, of his defense, or both, prescat facts to Justify or requiro any advice, admoni. Tion, warning, of roproof, Thess jadicial cases To- quire oxact dealing and docisfon, aud those minfaters and clders who allow outside ‘matters to fnfluence thew are unfit o it in a church court or & civil court, TOE CHRISTIAN OTNOBURE, an anti-secrot-society paper, ealls upon the Infe- rior to go on the war-path, as follows: Whon Prosbstorian Doctors of Divinlty wero whip- ping femalo slaves with hand-saws bafore goiug to Dreach, this sort of people, Who get 80 merTy over sectarics, wero looking onin eflenco while *fmpe- counious reformers " wer forming sociotics and hold- ing prayer-meetings to freo the oppressed. Again, at ths present time, Freo Masons are monopolizing tho civil_offices, trampling upon_ justice, snd killing out tho Christiah Church, The Interfor lately contained an arliclo proving clearly and well that Fres Masonry 'was a religion without Christ, It stated thatit wasa rival religion. ‘This is true. Now, the Iuerior knows ihat thera are Masons in Presbyterian churches, North and South, Just as (hero wero slaveholders ffteen yours ago, and would be now if it was lawful to hold Blaves, What does the [nferior proposd o do about it? The Inferior rosponds: Dot know. e give it up. But the whipping of women with hand-sats, before going to proach, strikes s &3 cortainly = very exhilarating exercice. Tho main trouble would bo that the Doctor of Divinity would be Iiatle,in these days of woman’s rights, to get more exercise than ho bargatned for. Still, the iden is n good one, Doctors of Divinity who aro troubled with dsspepeia should not Lsitate to try it. Susan B, Anthony would be s lively subject to Legin with, . DAPTIST CHURCH GOVEUNMENT. Just now tho Baptists sro scriously consider- ing the evils which seom in somo respects neces- earily to flow from its ultra-democratio form of Church government. Tho Slandard, this week, roferring to the recent Council which restored tho hand of ministerial fellowship to the Rov. Mr. McCarthy, says : A council of rocognition being catled, three churches, onio componed of farolguers, responded ; two minis ters wero present, one af them pastor of the church last named. At the recogmition service ono of theso ministers sttended nud preschod; tho other, tho foroiguer, was present subscquently at au ordinary ico nnd gavoe the band of fellowship. The preach- j olztnent of this church are now regularly =n. nounced among those as Baptist churches in the daily raers, 1t pastor s, aceording to daily newmpaper authority, * restored,” and, 80 far a8 Ly that kind of anthority’ ho can be made s, 18 still » Baptist minister. The Standard nrges that in such coses o8 this, the question of recognized ministerial standing in the donomination does not rest with tho do- nomination, the ministry, nor anybody reprosont- ing the ministry; ** but it rests with any organi- zation that pleases to take upon itsolf and to ex- erciso the fanctions of s Baptist church. Should such an organization choosoto set at defianco acta of Council, or any ottier expression of the denominationsl jndgment in a particular cage, to assert in tho face of all such scts or declarations that any individunl it pleases to maintain in that character is & Baptist minister in regular stand- ing, then, whatever may be the viows of tho de- nomination o its miuistry in the case, they must Tecognizo him, fellowship him, though with aver 8o much of discrodit to both. Another resuli which follows, if thie sort of church procedazo bo admitted a8 valid, is thatcharchindereadency means the absolute domiuion of each individual chureh over all othor churclis, even in matters of common intercat. . . . *“Thus it may easily happen that the mi ters of nn asscciation, for uxnmvlc, will o com- pelled to extend ministerial fellowship to 3 per- son from whom such fellowship hns been form- ally and publicly withdrawn! They annonuce to the world, to-day, in tho published verdict of a Council, that he is o longer a Baptist minister; to-morrow the Association meots, and, because be is pastor of one of the churches composing that body, they are obliged to rocognize him asa minister still, eating their own words, and sub- mitting as they may to the bumilistion. Does clmreh indopondency, then, mean church dos- polism ?” “Such & proceaura,” farther says the Stand- ard, **annuls and eots avido all that is implicd by ordination; for, if ordination menus suy- thing, it means that ministerial standing is not 10 bo deterhined by the act of any one church in the denomination.” THE ADVANCE isnot altogether suited with the report of tho Plymouth Church on tho Beecher-Tilton caso. Ttways: The Congregationsl churclies of tho land, indecd 1l Clu inx churches, have their own lionor at stuke, in ap = et of tuis kind, in tha most oectnal virdication of tha Christlan character and our Christian instilu- tioua. It coucerns moro than Mr. Beccher, or apy ono man, or any one church, Nor would tho religious press be iruo to its position end wide-embracing Tesponribilities If it sbould fail to note injnrious ir- regularitics of metliod, and insist upon the completest protection of tho sacred honor and purity of tho churches. Some may rerhaps consider this case 6o poculiar £s towsrrant fecullar methods. Dut we are decply per- susded tiat they aro ot wise friends who excite sus- picions by thie very methods by which they eeek to al- lay and dispel them. It fs_never wise 10 daub with untempered mortar, Mr. Beecher's court of inquiry and Plymoutk Church may feel sbeolutely certain tat Ee has done nothing wrong, end thut be 1s_only tho in- moceut victim of the basest conapiracy; so much the more ouglt there, then, Lo bo tho greatést carcfulnesa in conviicing the public that they aro not afrald of tha light, or disposed 1o ovade any of the authorized modea of yudicial investigation. And although it could mot 1be rearonzbly expeeted that, under the circnmstances, tho Tiymouth Church people would restrain within ‘moderate limits their unbounded delight with the re~ {‘):rl of the Committce, novertlieless, it certainiy would ve been more impressive if they had not acted npon tho report in quila 50 Lasty and tumulinous & manper, ending almost in a riot, g INFANT VS. ADULT DAMNATION. To the Editor of The Ciicago Tribune: S1n: In o rocent issue of the Inferior, of your city, may bo found eomo rather interesting mat- ter relating to the dogma of “infant damna- tion,” and we are more than pleased fo 8ce Prof. Tatton bring up o large an array of ominent divines to disprove and repudinte this hatefal ralic of the benighted ages. However, as thero are importent questions connectod with and growing oat of said dogme, it may be well to in- yire into its origin. Tbe dogma of infavt damnation, no doult, bad its origin in and was the nataral saquenco of the so-called *fall of man,"—for whick offense, wo are told, God pronounced s cureo not only npon Adsm and Eve, but slso apon their de- ecoudsnts, aid curse being summed up in the phrase, *liviog death.” This punishment, the astato theologians of tho orthodox porsussion sssuro us, i to bo literally carricd out, to-wit. ternal damnation in hell fira] Wo mako theso jueliminary statementn as the basis of & few per- tipent remarks which the subjoct demands. Wo will admit, for the eako of ressoning on tho question of **Infant Damnation,” that' the Lypotesis of the ** Fall of man through Adam,” sud tho eubsequent curse, is truo to tho letier; and that man heeams contaminated by herodic tary tnint in consequencs of taid *fall *; hence is under tho signal, or Adrmic, curee; which mast, also, neccesarily invelvo bis infantils ex- istence. o are further taught that in this very intri- cato and critical stale of afizirs, the wisdom of God ordained and devisod & ramedy, whereby He could be just, and etill save some a: least of tho unfortunates who “fell in Adam;” for it.is written that “as in Adam all die, Ao in Christ shall all be made alive.” This declira~ tion being rathertoo broad for the self-righteous, they hold that ite literal application in the caso of the adult is coapled with conditions ; and thut its application in tho case of the infantis cn- tircly unconditional. It is toutly and sbly maintained by the some- ‘what-progressive orthodox of to-day that all the infauts of the human xace, Do matter what their state or caodition, aro *‘heirs of salvation,” ‘when they have the good fortuns to die before that stage of existenco when moral and apiritnal scconntability begin. Now aait is our object to contrast the reapective conditioas of tho infant and the adult inregard to the claims of cach on God’s mercy, we will first examine concerning the claims of the infant. Hero the question srises, Why is the infani made an unconditional recipient of God's mercy? The apswer is simply this: Becavso it would be o violation of tho principles of justice to pun- ish an irresponsible moral agont.” Again, let us pursue tho investigation rclative to the * uni- versal taiut, through Adam,” with tho view of arriving st just and true conclusiona. Evidently the infant dying in infancy, thoroby cecaping the ponalty of damnation, and tho infant per- mitted to eojourn the allottod threc-gcore-and- ten years, are cach 60 nearly related in pra-natal nnd post-natal desting that it would bo ex- tremecly dificult, if not impossaiblo, to indicato the lino of demarkation. Indeed, does mot in- fancs, to spesk correctly, extond thronghont earth-lifo? Tho infant that is suffored to attain to adult ago docs so undor the hereditary {aint through Adam; and this ‘*taint™ must necds rompt Lini t0 whatever wansgressions may Ea 1aid to his charge, or at least to greatly mit:- gate their force; for even the adult cannot bo fully heldas o frécmoral agent, 16 hohad neither act nor part in_tho trausgression and fall of Adam. 'Fruo, Adamic postority may be g0 un- fortunate a8 Lo inkerit the Adamic wcaknesses, butcan they bo justly hold to such cruol, vin- dictive after-punishment as is 8o oft asserted by tho apoatles of damnation ? 3 Now, if it is unjust to hold the infant respon- giblo for Adam's trausi od horeditary taint and curve, gurely tho all-wise God will hoid tho adult (if guilty at all) & fit subjcet for morey ; in- deed, it cannot ho maintained thsy God, *“tho great creator and muintaiver of all things,” ever puniches, 8avo for tho ultimate well-being or raf- ormation'cf tho punished, Just hero, howaver, the boliovers in ‘ hell and damuation ” deviate from God's truth ; their idea of punishment is for miter and hopoless ruin,—without oven hope for reformation. Such » dogma 28 this is ovidently & libel upon God's atéributes of justice, gooduess, mercy, and truth; nay, mors, it 18 an impeachment of His wisdom in * foreor- daining whateoever comes to pass.” Therafore, if infont salvation 18 universsl eod uncondition- al, then it would bo an act of injustice to mako the punishment of the adult other than that of & roformatory charncter,—to oducate Lim out of the Adamic slough of depravity, up to a stand- ard of intelligence and virtuo. Thera is one fact, however, that wo may reat sssurcd of, and that is, the Good Fathor will not Iay upon any of his erring children more than thoy are able to bear; and in no csso will llo enact tho part' of o pertial or unjust judge. Pro- grossive dovolopment, from (Mo radimental stats up to the perfect, is God's broed, universal, and invamable’ Iaw, Tho infaut called bence carrics with it to tho Kingdom of Heaven whatovoer of taint it may have inherited throngh Adam ; and, morcover, Wo cannot sup- poso thnt infancy is & permancut sfate ; we con- clude,-therefore, that infants in Heaven mmust w and bo cducated up to & stato of moro or oss pulectinnl‘;s the case may be. And who will say that o like system of moral and spiritual elovation is not employed in behalf of tho adalt sinasr ? X Ia it not at onco more reasoneble and in better Kkeoping with the spint of justice to hold that, 08 all aro partakers in & common hature, S0 8rd all partakers in a common salvation # ~ D. P. DULUQUE, Ia., Soptember. 1574, e NOTES. caTIOLIC. Some English papers say thet the Doan of Centerbury appears o allow the Roman Catho- lics to mako what uso thoy liko of ti:o Cathedral *Pilgrims " vigis tho shrine of Thomas a Becket, and go through strange performances withont let or bindranco. This is not all, for, if we are still farther o belicyo a. Romleh nowepaper, ti:e Reman CatbLolic Dishop of Canton has sicared a piece of the Cathedral pavement ass *‘relic” for his own church. Sinco 1867, when the Italian law fer the con- “fiscation of church-properly becams oporative, “tho amount of property disposed of is eaid to Lo equal to 290,000,000, aud the work is not com- “pleted yot, Bopt. 14, 2 Chweh Congress is to be held in Bonn, on the Rhino, at the call of tho Commit- too for the Promotion of Christian Union. All lovers of Christnin anion, who wish to assembio on tho basis of tho ancicnt creeds that wero ‘Beld beforo the divikions of Christendom, avo invited. Tho mission of Father Dutler, 8. J., of Augusts, Ga., in Irelsnd, is highly euccoseful. Ho 18 on Lis second visit to that istand in search of candidates for the pricsiliood, to serve in tho Southern Statea. The 0l Cathiolic Congress which meota short at_ Fribourg will consider tho question of union with tho Eastern Church. A lizt of the degm and liturgical difforencos has been prepurcd consideration. In & charch belonging to the Josnits at CLili, thero is, according to & German paper publivhed at Valparaigo, tho roprescutation of purgatory, in which_aro seen tlic figures of the Emperor William, Bismarck, and Dr. Flack. Ds. Fosrater, tho Prince-Bighop of Tree s forwarded to the German Government a dee: laration of the Bishops in which thoy eay that tho Church cannot submit to tho ro deerces affectiug ecclesiastical offa Popo alono belougs tho povwer of Telative to church roatters,—Ifis Holiness, bo- ever, always nccepting the Teservation that su Tnws shall not contravene the ccclcgizsticnl pri ciples of the verious governments. orument has simply acknowledged the receipt of tho aocument. “Tho Puulist Fathersaro abont crccting a hand- some churel: at Lok George, N. Y. Exs Thelate Rocky Mountain Ceaferenco of tho M.E. Church shows a rapid increazo of fhat Church during the past year. Tho members and probationers reported aro an_inerenso of 876 ; the nnmber of church edifices, 11. a gan of 1; Sonday-schools, 27, s gainof 11; Sunday- echool officera and_teachers, 165, an incresso of 60; echolars, 1,301, increaso of 457. Tho General Conference of the Colored . Cuurch Liss just created (w0 nosw anpual confe ences, that of Indians, embracing tho tifarca of Indians, Illinois, and Jichigan, end that of Florids, embracing Florida and several districls in Georgia. Aug. 23 o beantifnl church was dadicated in Pekin, 111, to German Mcthodism, Dr. IL Licl hart pronched. ‘Tho entire vont of lot and buil: ing 16 $27,600. Tho sum of $7,600 was raieed on dedication-day. Sig. Ragghianti ds Viaregzio, an es-monk of tho Fraaciscan Order, famoua as a pulpit-orater in Southern Ttaly, hias offered himscif 28 o can- didate for the Wesieyan ministry n that country A Professor at tho Vatican Seminary in No Las also joined the Mothodist Church. Tho Rev. 3. 1L Todd, late Presiding Elder of Sionx City District of the Northwesiern Con- ferenco of Tows, publishicd a card in tuo Sions City Journal of Aug. 29 resigning Lis eldereliip, aud declering himsell withdrawy fiom tho 3. Ii. Church. Tho couse of his withdrawal is nob mentioned. During the present week four Methodist I coral annual conferences held i Seott pro- iding; the Blichigan, at Jatemazoo, Lisuop Simjron preeiding; the West Wisconsin, st Lroathend, Bishop Ames prsiding, and Lo Dra Moines, at DezMoincs, Bishop Haven precidiog. BAPTIST, Tho twenty-ninth_aunual session of the B tist Couvoniion of Nova Scotia, aud Princo Edward Islend Jobn, N. B., Aug. v was choren President for - 'kho fol- Towing etatietical report wag prasented: Nova Beotin—171 churches, 19,905 members. and 2,332 Daptisms ; New Drungwick—133 churches, 10,5.3 members, aud baptiews; Irince L d Teland—74 churchies, 930 membars, and 154 Lag- tisms. Total—323 charches, 31,603 members, aud 3,021 baptisma. The uet Increase is nearly 8 per cant—the bighest rito obiaincd since tha formation of the Cenvention. Twelve ministers Wero ordnined during tha year. ~gcnaol of the Fourth B: Church :mim first shaeal piedie at River The Lake SBhore Bantist wa3 recognized Aug. 25. eight members, Who are ecid to be earscet und experieaced Daptista. The Rev. E. E, L.Taslor, D. D., 1o of tho Strong Placo Bapiizt (1 died ot Marlboro, on the Ludson, on Tucsuav, the 18ch inet. “ Ho had ween,” the Oiwcrrr ays, “in delicate heatth for ecme time. but Lis illness was not considered to be scrious, Jor some yiaws past ho has bzen Secretery of il American Baptist Home Mission Saciety. o ‘as & man of remarkable enerpy. and very e cessful in his efforts to advance the intcresis of tho Baptist Church. Hs orgauized and suce fully established tho Strong Place Bantist 8o . and bis effoxts in the Bavtiet Hows Aission- ary Society huso lergely contributed to the suc- cces of tho Society. Tio Memorial Daptist Church, of Philadol- phiin, whose corner-stong was laid on_Aug. b, will bo amplutheatrical in form, and will cost £85,000. Scventy-one persons have foined the German Baptist Chureh, in Brooklyn, N, Y., during the Ppast year, uader the labord of tho Rov.J. C. Griuuell. Tho Now York Zlerald says the Rov. Ernost Wealay, o Methodist preacher from Piormont applicd for baptism in thy Los Avenno Daptis| Clinrch, lost Triday evening, and was according- Iy baptized. Hehad previously roquested r. Knanp, of Pajorson, to baptize him, which be s o reudy b0 do, untif o found that ko bo- lisved iu froo communion. CONGREGATIONAL. "The Congrogationalists havotho oldest church- o8 in Connocticut. Tho ono at_Windsor wes or- ranizad in 1630 ; the Hartford Firat in 1636 ; tho New laven Firat 1n 1689, and one at Milford in tho same year. Churches wero also formed ot Stratford in 1640, Stamford in 1631, Woodbury in 1670, and at Old Saybrozk in 1646. Tho minutos of the Ennzsas Congregational Geaerul Associztion reports 115 churchos, cloven of which have baen organized duriog tio yoar. Tho total membership is 8,999, Tho additions during tho year Liavo boan 690, Boven yoars ago thero wero but forty churchea and about 1,000 mombers. Tho Rev. 3. D. Baker, of Plymonth, Ili,, has received fen persons on profession of faith in his charch at Plymouth, and, assisted by a re- cently-converted Jawyer, has been the mesns of couverting about a hundred persons in six little towps cear Plymouth. A Congregational Church Las been orgenized at' Winnetka, 05 the result of o rovival last spring. Tuo new Congrogational church at Osk Park i drawing towsnrds completion. It is finished in-~ teriorly somewhat after the style of the rirst Congrogational Church of this city. Thoan- dience-room will soat about 1,000 porsons, and will coet somewhere near 000. 1t is expect- od that tho main room will be occupied nest menth. Ii. W. Austin, Esq., 8 residest of Oak Park, hao prescated the Socioty with » fine bell, REFODIMID KPISCOPAL. Tho following dispatch from Toronto sppears in tho Montreal Wifness, Aug. 29: “ A wove- ment to orpanize s branch of the Reformed Episcopal Church has beon set on foot. Last Tueaday & depatation of parishoners of Holy Trinity Church, who wero dizsutisfied with tho Ritualistic proceodings of theirclergyman, waited on Bishiop Bethuno and asked him to divide the parish and nomircato the Rev. Mr., Harris, of Onillia, 88 pastor. Yesterday they received an answwer from tho Bishop refusing iheir request. Threo hundred wmembers from Holy Trimty Chuzch havo ecceded in consequence, and havo iuvited tho Rev. Mason Gallaghor to organize a branch of the Refored Episcopal Church. It will also comprise n number now. attending St. Geargo's Church. The Rev. Mr. Gallagher will Tecturo Sunday and Honday evenings.” A large meoting of Epiacopalians was recently beld in Brantford, Cauads, and a_request nont 1!111:0[1 Cumaius to send them s Reform mimis cr. shop Cummins, although not entirely re- stered Lo health, in answer to calls for aid in or- ganizing now cliusches, hes gone to New DBruna- Wick. o preaches in Toronto, Canada, Sunday A correspondent in the Boston Heraid says of Bishops Camming or Cheney shonld come this ¥, they wonld find fields white for the NIVLRSSLIST. eution of Universalists held ville was a very successful meet- ivg. aud largaly attended. fost of tho promi- neut clergrien of the Stato were presout, and on uwusually large number of parishes repre- gnted by delrgates. Tho indications of the mesting gave enconragement to tho friends of tire deniomiration for the onsuing year. EPISCOPAL. Messrs. Flurd & Houghton bave in press “ Tha Deily Service,” a book of oftices for daily ueo throngh all the seasons of the Christian year. It contning soven daily ofiices for the pub- lic worship of thet Church—adapted also for private aud family aro; o morning and evening gorvico for ench senson; al3o special sorvices Clrisimas eve, Passion-tide, ond .Easter- , and ofiices for neq of tho clergy and visi- tho eick. Tho calendar contains a ms for morning and eveuing ser- o each week of the Cliristisn vear, including two seta of lesaons for Sundays. Tho pealma are mranged under seveuty-nine eclections enited to tho eeasona. It contains t5 centicles from the Scriptaras, soven nics, sud _shoat 500 prayers, with intercos- for various occasions. It will boepecially hia for ueo in 6chools, colleges, seminarics, and Sauday-echools. Books of similar aim have beaif publiched for use in the Loglish Clureh, but thi3 is tho first compreheneive and conkervaiive ono undertcken in Americs, and wiil no doubt excite wide interest. Ths English Charch Union has raiged $18,000 to Gefond two High Church ministers, againat wkom prosecatioas aro pending for ritualistic pinctices. % The Proteatant Epiecopal Bishop of New York decs wot likke the proposed Church Congress to be licld in New York the first week in October. Ho refuses to prevido over its deliberations, and has written a letter in which he slates that he is wbolly oppotod to tive mode in which the Con- gresa was called, and to the time and place se- lected for its mecting. The firet steps wero taken nt cousnlting him at all, he says, and ho tho clergy Luvo full anough to occupy them week without any mow cngagoments, Ho does mot opposo all schemes for holding 8 ¢ Chureh Congroess,” and he might be inclived to presido over ono if it woro called in this city ac- corling to Lis idess of propricty at the proper time, aithongh he docs not see the need of such maciings a3 exist in England where there aro o fow general assemblies of clergy andlaity; andho fon:s that unccraiortablo and unruly spirits will get tho upper hand in the proposed Congreas. PRESDYTERIAN. A dopatation from the Ohatham Presbytors, nads, will visit Chicago this week to look after the Scotch Presbyterinn Church. “Io Presbsterian Beminary of the Northwest opeued ity foll ecssion Thureday of last week. Al tho Profestors except Dr. Patterson, who is ascni placing his youngest son a3 Yele College, wWoro present and i good health. MIECELLANEOUS. Sevoral picnica end festivals wore held last ., among which aro the following : _Picnic hia Fourth Baptist, Church ot River Forost, pt. 4 ; festival at tho Temple Daptist Church Thursdsy ovening: Sociable in the Indiana Aveumo Christisn Church Thursday evening ; concerts in the Ialstod Strect Mothodist and Trovidenco Baptist Churches Tuesdey ovening. Aag. 27 waa sot a3 tho timo when Mesars. oy ond Sackey woald bid farewall to Seotland, Tiso ecrvices woro {o be held at Inverness, sad Weza to ocoapy the whole day. Aug. 19 tho Methodist parsonago in Plainfield, Va., was struck by Jightniog, shatterivg tbo floors and windows, and setting the carpet on fire._The pustor, tho Ror. T. Landson, with Lis family and some oiher persons, tew 1o all, wore in tho bouse, but miraculously escared with notising moro ‘than some bruises and & sovero el The London Tsraclites aro roported to havo a rabbi, Hirsh Dainon by name, who rivals Spur- geon'in the carncstness aud Tervor of bis elo- quence. Zetland Iall, whero ho preaches, is nties ag well as Jows flocking to his The Amorican Board of Foreign Missions will hold its vest euuual meeting ia Portland, Me., 3 . 1t is catimatod that tho Board are about £70,000 in arrears. Estensivo revivals areroportod in tho Method- ist, Presbyterian, nod Baptist Churches in tho B,:th, An organ of tho Southorn Methodist notes over 2,000 conversicns in o inglo Cawmp-meetinga aro said to bo vary seeeselal ;. Tho recent logislation in Northern Indin for the suppression of female infanticids appears to Tavo baen decidodiy succeasfal. Tho Caloutta \deut of the Lendon Times states of fcot in loss than Evo years: “4'ho result ol ilia epecial polico agency has been this: that i ilation of nearly 509,000 no fewer thaa hava been eaved. You may imaging «ful disproportion of tho sexea when I say {Lab oven after this gain _there aro still ia thel guilty population only54,712 girls to 101,002 ngland, nays an exchange, sapplies Japan 1 ot Livlesand idols. The Birminghem 1] ruanufacturera aro liberal subscrib- teb snd Foreign Lible Society, vo shipped considerable cargoes of ron, and otuer metallic idols at good , for Japancso worehip. S, PERSONAL. i carcago. Bichop Ames, of the Methodist Episcopal Cherel, arrived in Chicago Friday, on his way to premdoattho Weat Wisconsin Conference: in the city until to-morrow eveling. The Reyv. E. 0, Haven, D. D., LL. D., former- Iy Presidont of the Northwostern University, will be inangurated Chancellor cf Syracase Uni- vorzity Bept. 15. ‘The Rov. J. G. Townsend, pastor of tho Meth- odist Church in Oil City, has gono over to tho Presbyterian Clhurch. ) Dr. M. C. Driggs, paster of the Methodist Episcopal Church &t Evanston, presches, Tues- day, the dedication sermon of o new ehurch, sitnated on the Cincinnati Conference Camp- Ground. ? Pregident Moss, of Chicago Univerzity, is in tho city, propared to enter upon hia dutics at tho commencement of ths catlego yoar. Tho Rov. H. . Brown, the Daptist Evan- gelist, was in the city lIast woox. Ho bogtna series of revival-meotings in Wavarloy, Ia., Bopt. 4. The Rev. 0. W. Wendts, pastor of tho Fonrth Unitarian Church of this city, is on his way homno from Europo, and is expacted to be in his pulpit next Sunday. Tho Rev. W. H. Ryder, D. D., preached last Sunday in the First Univorsalist Church et Ra- clne, momnivg and ovening. The church was fillod to ita utmost capacity by representatives of all donominations. ‘Lho liscine Journal speaks 1n high torms of the discouraea. Bishop Haven, of the M. E. Church, spent an hour o two in the city last Thuraday, being on his way to_tho Des Moines Conferonce, which meets at Des Moines Wodnesday. Tho Rov, W. H. Haro, the Missionary Bishop of Molrsra, i8 visiting tho city. Tho Rey. Arthur Mitchell has gone to Mlar- quoste, Mich., for s month's recreation. The Rev. T. O. Clendenning, of Grant Placo Methodist Church, is attending Camp-Mooting st Lennox., The Rov. J. T. Mathews has roturned from & short vacation at Pewaukes, is. ExsewmERT. Tho Rev. W. H. Dorward, of Western New York, hos accepted thoe unanimons call of tho Baptist Church at Freeport, IIl. 1{e commences his labora during tho present month. 1t ia proposed to_orect a monument over the grave of tho Rov. Dr. Whitman, tho pionecr mis~ sionary to the Pacific coeat, who woa musdored bytho Indisus in 1845, is Walla Walla Valloy, to. ThoRev. Dr. Joffrey, racently pastor of the Ninth Sircot Baptist Chureh, Cincinnati, and earlior pastor of & Daptist church in Chicago, vas married in Brooklyn, Aug. 18, to Mer. Ewms Lord Rawson. Tha Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deoma, pastor of tho Church of tho Btrangers, Now York. Eas ac- cepted tho Presidency of Ratgers Female Col- Ioge, in addition to bis regular pestoral labora. Dr. Cherles Richard Sumner, formorly Bishop of Winchester, England, died’ Aug. 25, in his 82 yoar. The Rov. R. W. Dickinson, one of the oldest and_most eminent of the Fresbyterian ministers of Now York, died at Fordham a few days ago. A farowoll meoting was held in the First Re- formod Prosbyterian Church of Philadelphia on tno ovening of Ang. 26, 12 sond Miss Jane X Woodside £0 labor aaa’ Bibla reader in India, under the zaspices of the Woman's Board of the Presbyterian Church, Tho Rov. IL. I1. Spalding, for many years mis- sionary among the Nez Ferces Indians, died at Lapwai, 1daho, Aug. 3, aged 70 years. Mrs, Prime, mother of. the editors of the New York Obserer, died last week, aged 86 years. Bichop Janes, of the Methodist Church, is aguin prostrated with tho chronic silmcns which tronbled bim two years ago. o is ot hia home in New York, The Rev. Dr. J. M. Refd delivered tho mis- sionary nddress beforo tho Docky Mountain Confcrence of the M. E. Church iast week. Tho Rov. Dr. Dashiel, tho Rev. Dr. T. M. Ed- dy, the Rov. Dr. L. itchcock, and several other _divines well known in Chicago, aro stumping tha “Northwestern States in tho interests of Alothod- ism whilo the aonual conferences aro in session. =Tho : Baboo Protap Chunder Mozoomdar, a iember of the religions denomination culled the Pramoo Somsj, receatly preached in London at & Unitarian cureh to a largo congregation. Tho colebrated Fathor Angustin Theincr, of the Order of Jesus, died at the Vatican cn’ tho 10th inst. After being for many years Prafect of tho secret archives of the I'apal See, be lost the Popo's favor by the literery hielp which Lo gave to tho npgeaitien Dishops during the Vailcan Council. He was 69 years of age, and was at tho timo of his death occupicd in writing o History of tho Council of Treat. Nrs. Ellen T. Wilber. who recenlly died in New York, left by Ler will $11,500 to he variona benavolent boards of the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Theodors L. Cuyler, who was in Loodon recently, wrent, of course, to hear 3r, gpnrguun preach. This is what he says of that ¥ino o § plants that broad, fat fignre of his beforo the crowded thousands, and opens his homely mouth, 2nd a ceaseless stream of racy Eugilsh, pure gospel truth, and treachant appeal 10 the conscience, poura out as steadily as water from Croton Ieservoir. His * notes ” would not cover moro than the Lack of an or- dizary envelope. Iic never precomposea oo Eeatence. Dt e has tho whole Eiblo on the end of his tongue, and uees it with rare dis tion and pofnt. . . . His versatility is wonderful e superintends & chnreh of 5,000 members, s theological school, an orphanage, and several other institutions, ita & nowspane rreaches threo sermons a week, writes books of il a1 commentary, pullishes Lis own almanzz, end adits his own book of bymns, An Eastern paper £ay8 the Rev. Dr. Walker, of Cambridgo, has raceived, among other gifts upon tho 0th smniversary of his birthday, a bronze statuo of Pythagoras for bis study, with tho suggestion that it hecomes tho placo, not only because tho Doctor is s philosophicel thinker, bat becanse Lo is mastor of silenco 3a well as of specels, nnd knows how to keep Lis mouth shut as woll as to open it attho right time. The Rev. D. F. Caranban. of Urbana, IIL., hag boen called_to tho pastorate of tho Daptist Church: at Dixon. 1t is understood thet ho will accept. The Rov. A. A. Rassell, who Lias been supply- ing tho church in Morrison, Iil. has accapred o call to tho pastorate of ifio Daptist Church at East Minneapolis, Minn. Tho Standard snnounces -tho death of the Rov. J. T. Wostover, pastor of tlo Baptist Church in Nebraeka City. Ho dicd suddenly in Waukesha, Aug. 27. Alr. Vestover was, for severul years, pastor of tie Baptist Church in Kenosha, when that body was n flourishing or- ganizotion. Ho occupicd, for_g short time, tio pulpit of the Eifth Charch in this city, soma two yeara ago. 3r. Westover is widely Lnown {hroughout Wisconsin, Tows, and Northern Iili- nois, as one of tho leaders of Lis denomination. seEi NS RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. Thoe religione journals geuerally expross a great disliko for Dr. Iollsnd's characterization of the “Average Preyer-dceting,” in tho Sep- tembor Scribners. Dr. Curry, aditor of the Now York Christian Adcocate, who opened the religious eorvices at Round Lake s fere weeks ago, after the intro- duction of President Grant eaid: “Now wo shall Dbave tho privilege of worahiping tho King cternal, immortal, invisible.” Tho Book of tho Bunyan Festival ™ is ths titlo of a work that 15 in preparation by the Rey. W. H. Wslic, 2n English Daptist minister. In addition to tho addrosses delivered by Dean Stanlty, Eerl Cowper, aud the other orators of the accasion, thovolume will contain un historic- ol egsay and notes, in which now light is_thrown upen varions, polnts in the career of Dapyan. Tie suppoeition that tho Bunyans were Gipui i nhown to bo groundless : tho bamlet of Ha: rovden, in the Parish of Cardington, is put for- wardin the place of Elstow 83 being perbay tho place of Jobn Dunyews birth; asd reneons are ndvanced for holieving that, &3 cr, Banyan_fought i tho ra) amentary, and not of ths Rogaet, srmy. Tacts arc citad which throw doubt on the sup- Pposition that Bishop Bariow ever bofriendsd tae tinker prescher, aud tend to provathat it was net ho who procarad Banyan’s retease from jail. Tho familizr story of Bunyan's going abioad when Lo was a prsoner and coming back of bis own accord in time to eavo tho jailer ia ahown {0 bo pomewkat dubious. It is cortainly re- markable that & procisely similar story 18 told Dy Jobn Gratson, & Qusker, of himsclf, whilo 00 euch incident is rolated by Banyan. At tholast meeting of the Gustayns Adolphns Union, which was hotd in Cassel, Germsuy, and was the twenty-zoventh oassmbhing of that noted P'rotestant society, & movewert wasmado toward putting a monument of Gustavas Agol- hua upon the ficld of Lutzen, whera he fell in Bx\!tlc, ‘and 81,350 was raised toward the object. It was etaied that ginca tho last mecting at Cas- pel, Kixteen yeers bofore, tho amount of movey raised hied in o1l risen from 21,000,000 to £4,000,~ 000. The associations of wamen, which had then hardly begua. now had oresd thxoughout ular festivals and tho society i o of the people. iy lzselfan nstitatog Father Hyacintho nss written a 1 which he 8875 he resigned his occlasinsiior, tion becauss ho could no disonss qasations ek men who confounded Radicalism with Libpp ism. Me will remnia in Gencya, contiong presch thero, and await o clexiion of o B and Synod.—tho only autbority he recoguis Ho w&gf {hae e dosk not il 10 ercats ‘s pey T al nf luce reforms in th i Charch! e it An Eastorn paper eaya ant-czemationi rojoico to learh that tha Tave - 2023?6'4'-‘” suthor of “Tho Modo of 3fsn's Immosaligy is to bo tried beforo o mho'gf-, tribunsl for {3, €1 of doal 0 rest tho material bady. : g Tho English Independent defines S dramatic cant, and cum:digious @ Tho trado in manuscript sermons gland, among the clorgy ot the Chureh, :NE: very romunerative. The Primifite Methndig of London gives somo of tho pecaliaritiosof theso edvertissments, which show thap g varioties of occasion, topics, and tastes, ary takou into sccount by tho sormon-mongors, Ty says: ¢ In tho columns of tho Eeclesiastical Gor zelle of the Ytk of June, thefd appear no legy than_thirteon distinct advortisemonts proclain: ingall the blandishments of *s0und dactrines ‘pure clocution,’ ‘moderate views,' *legitly Baudwriting, and tho ‘sitictest confideace’ etc., in tho shape of ready-mado manuseiy sermona for tho reliof of dall, idle, or brainleg clorgymen, or Anglicsn priests who are 60 mas cccupied in resding daily prayers to half- silly women, or in superintending the upholst work of thoir decorations that thoy bava neihey time wor opportanity for eomposing vermonss that is, for doing that which oughs to be thap first and highest duty.” — CHOIOE EXTRACTS. A Placervillo (Cal.) clergyman insists that by 88w a red and black enako 40 fcet long, and g big aroand as & barrel of whisky. Wohava g9 doub ¢ that he did, but ho uoquestionably sy the barrel of whisky befare he saw the srats— Courier-Journal. Charles 11 playing at tennis with a Dean, a9 struck tho ball well, the King sad, “Thayy good stoko for a Dean.” “I'il giva it tho stmys of a Bishopif Your Majosty pleases,” wus the suggestive rojoindor. A Minnesota clorgyman has sued thiry mombers of his chuteh who refused (o pay rent becauss ho called them * cmpts-hasdss “*Husband,” eaid the wife of a young clergy. msn, ‘‘rend me ono of your sermons; I fal @readfully wakefal to-pight, and I'wish to Elegp” Says Jobu Paul: “*Tis veryhard to bea Christian when ono has a weak digesfiau.m sometimes fency that a chenge of esomad would benofit the morbid siuncr almost 4 mik 28 & change of heart,” On a chorch wall in Valparmso, Chili marck ad the Tmporor William argpetsens: squirming in the flames of hell, while ths der i;}:al‘ur.;f the Cbancellor in tho back with a red ot for Hore Is a description of n mean church, whigy bas 8 moral in it: After tho old pester died, thy deacons went sbout for a £230 minister, nfi]q can get abont as moch minister for that pricass you can get psalm tanes out of 3 file, Tho Milwankee Senfinl rolates that whisy prominent proacher of that city was recenty making a passoral visit, the lady brought onty E2 noober of engravings eho had jast jpurchusl |5 Thao csutions pastor flow through tho front. and scat his boy around for his hat afterward, The Rov. Jobn Craig, 3. A., Viear of & Saints’, Leamington, Ens., hos Deen roquestt by some of his parishioners to resign his livin, £, on tho ground of lus age end plysical disabilly F. to visit the sick, elc., in conseqrence of tho los | of one of his feot, through eenile ganzreno, The othor day tho revorend gentleman pablisked ¢ reply to this request, in which aro set forih the conditions under which ho is willing to comply, o axpresscs bis intention to do 8o only & torms whieh will includo equitable arrangemocis with everybody. e saya: “I am dotermind not to resign my Living to" a *dark horse, De foro I listen to any proposal of terms of resigns. tion bio (tho Viear's successor) must be troftal out, aud we mast ace who hois. I ehall not 7 sign toa dark horss ; bo must come to the dsy. Dight, or X shall stay 38 I am, howerer delizhied 1 shonld bo to see tho Holy Landand otherplsces of the deopest intorest to mo.” Robert Buchanan, the poet-dramatist, gl i soundly from the London Hornet for havag 1. 5 peared in answer toa “call " apon the oxasian ; of the production of his new picco at the Hay. market Theatre in & coatume **between thst of g 8 iz} 3 casual and a gamekoeper—an old brown velret coat, check trousers, and a woolen maffer, which completely obscared any.sigus of the presence of & shirt.” Tho new Globe Theatre in Bosion is nestly finished. It will ba openod in Dacember, and $ho programmo for its first soazon s as follows: December, the Strakosch Italian Opera Troups, thes wankss Jin, 4, tho Aimes Freach Opes Bouffe Troupo, two weeks; Jan. 18, Toole, the English comedizn, twowecks; Feb. 1, the 8ok dene English Opcra Boufio Troape, two weks; Teb. 3, tho Kellorg English Opers Treape, threo ‘woeks; 3larch 8, Janouschek, thrs weeks; Alarch 20, Ristori, ono week; April 18,3 second scason of Lialian opers by the Strakoseh tronpe. To suo for £10,000 damages for beiog called *2 swindlor," and to got 2 verdict for £3, i not exactly pleasant,—but (his was the faladl Mr. Bain, who claimed to be the * Original P> Christy Minstrel,” and who broaght suit agains Afr. Moore, the mansgor of tho “ Original Chris ty's llinstrels,” wkoso declaration that the “nover porform outsido the city of Loodsa® & stares at you from every boarding and nai = way station in tho Kingdom. Tho suitwsss very absurd one, eince 1t Was shown that peither Moore nor Bain had the slishtest cleim to o thomuelves & ** Christy,” Tho titls of * Chit b t5' Alinatrols " was firut introduced in o 4 in 1850 by a Mr. Raynor ; in 1320 Lain a it and used it in the provinces; in 1564 Mot adopted it =nd sot up his company in Hall; and from 1563 until the precont tmd Xooro has persecuted Bain by advertisementt aud posters, declaring that Bain was & swindst andan imposter, and igi Christy " was himself. Dramwell and a special jury for a whole day, s resulted in a verdict of %30, —not on tho that Bain was an original minstral, but bessat Moore had called him *agwindler,” Tastd not allowed in England. - & e RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS. ' EPIYCOTAL. The Rev. Henry G. Perry will Rold morning E ovening rervico in tho Al Saints’ Church, corser d I North Carpenter and Fourl strects, : —There will Le mornizg axd eveniag serviontaf: & Btephen's Church, oz Jobmecn sireet, near Tope Hloraizg eubj “Tho Mem i house,” by tle Ter. Dr, Cushinan, —Tho Rev. Dr. Stocking will ofiiciate morning 18 evening in the Church of tho Epiphany, on'Tte? street, between Moroo ad Adame, —St. Peter’s Missfoa Chapel, The Rev. Genrge C, Street, m ing prayer, 10:30; holy commmus Allso.ta fr. —The Rey. . IL Bmytho evening at thie Chureh of ti:c Hi Duarjorn streat, botween T-rou Btrects —Tho Rev. Dr. Barr wiil Bt, Jaraca Cisurek, ZDr. Lo ke will praxeh thit toaing &t Grice Church. orning subjoc! iu Paradiaa —Thera will be full chu he Ascension, F. Walker, B: —The Hey. I, s 8t John's Church on Ashiand avenue, TAPTLT. Tuo Day, Florenso 3cCrthy will preac! Church, Marting's Hafl, on Ada etr Iforning sobject: “Igvest Thou subject, 4 o'clock: “#nall Wo Dance thie Fail1” —Tiao tev, L. T. Dush will prech moriod & evening in the Twenty-ifti-aircet Church, west Wentworth svenue, Thero will be 50 preachiz; at tho Fourh Cos2 to-day, as the reyairing is not 3 X}D:g a5 : —Oifvct Church, the Rev. hold rervice in the chapsl, corn X and Twentioth sirest, Dodicatory cervices at 3154 sermon by tho Rev. J. M. W hitelesd, Ur, Da BoKS! “ill preach mormicg and oveainz. —ite 3falvern will presch o evening in the Freo Communion Church, Loomis and Jackson strezts, Motning subyxit Coumunion Unreasonails cnd Cosctptaral” o —Tbo Ras, W. W. Evests, D. D,, will prosciiet @ & Wabnsh avenua this moruing. o ZThe Riev, A. J. Frost will preach moraieg evening In tho University-Flace Bsptiot Church '—The Rav, T. . Bgbert will preach at the Ty 3 sevenihsirect Baftiss Camoel, near Doarbom ' oelock this aftergoon. i Tfhe Rav. A Janeir, the convertod Jenha TSME £ De Baptiste, pestar, 55 Wentwe: th st Greenville, 8. 0., will reach in tha Weaters A3 72 %‘npfl':l:‘?bmmknanfm Preaching in tha & & ing by the pastor, . 2 % Tio Bav. F. M. Ellls will preach of tho MIHF i SRR