Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1874, Page 6

i ) b RELIGIOUS NEWS. Card from the Rev. Robert Collyer. ’ Life of the Rev. Mr. Park- hurst. Prof. Swing’s Wednesday-Evening Lecture, * Smnday-School Work, and Ifs Neces- sity. 'Accumit of Brother Moody's Preaching and Its Results. The Spirit of the Religious Press Notes and Personals at Homoe and Abroad, Church Services To-Day. OARD FEOM ROBERT COLLYER. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sre: Permit me, please, io'say a word -n'ent s note I find among your editorials this morning. I never said or thonght my people did not love me, and, if 1 had thought o, I should not have said 80, becauso when & minister begios to talk like that it i8 & sgn ho has forfeited his right to bo respected oven by those Le sorves, and love without' respect is something Ihave heard of ppt do mot understand. Furthermore, 1 think A% man 1 eomething of a fool who can permit himsell to hanker after words and tokens of lovo from those who attend his ministrations or belong to bis charch. Such words and tokens are generally out of all proportion to his merits anvhor, and out of tune, 8s & general ruls, with hisbest work. Tho simple truth, once for all, ts thig: Some men aro fountains which er run dry, no matter what thodrain may be; gfl:em are mks that run dry in two, five, ton, or fifteen years, and need to go to a new place, aad euter into nmew relations, before they can il again and work to any parpose. In the old or- der of things, it was no great matter whethor the tsnk was full or had run to *empting.” The man was settlod for life; parishes had not come to comder the Sunday discourse the Alpha and Omega of the Christian migistry. - Thoy were of the good old Deacon’s mind who said onc Son- day morping to Dr. Baucroft: “Docior, I al- ways did hike that sermon anyboy.” And things went cn inan eagy jog-trot fashion. It is not 20 now ;_=nd especially it is not &0 in this curi- ous, wide-awsko city of ours, which, like old Athens, is go eager to hear and te]l eome new thing. The consequence is that our ministers soon wear out. I think thatin the fifteen years of my ministry hero the churches have had on an aversge threo ministers esch, taking one with another £0 ns to make the odd3 even. Of this, again, I do not complain at all, be- canse I take it to pe one of the conditions of the life we arcliving. We shalldo better when things clarify and scttle down. Yot this way what made me listen, so far as I have listened, to this cull to go to New York. Here I am tho oldest minister saye one in point of settlement in aur Protestant English-speaking churcnes. Reasons external and internal I peed not nsme have grad- ually led me to feel that the tank was ruuning low, aud I must ga the way of all my order be— come as popuiar as the pastor has been in former associations. 3 g The part of the cityin which Mr. Farkhurst is jusc commencing his mmsterial work for the Dext year is ono in which bo will be able to ex- hibit “much of his exccutivo and organizing talent, since it is rapidly increasing in popula- tion, while tho church eaciely if young, thrifty, and Tall of plastic material to_bo molded into s very strong and influential organization. pss s bl PROF. SWING'S WEDNESDAY EVEN- ING LECTURE. The Wednesday evening prayer-meeting at the Fourth Prespyterian - Chureh, corner of Su- perior and Rush streets, was not 5o well attend- od us usual, owing to the rain. Tho subject of Prof. Swing's lecturo was *“The Sunday- Bcibool.” He said : I will read a portion of Ecclesiastica this even- mg: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy soutl, whilo the evil days come mot, nor tlo yeurs draw nigh whea thou shalt say, I have no pleasiire in them ; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, bo not darkened, nor the clouds roturn after the rain, Itis always delightful, in Nature, aftor a se- vero storm, to seo the heavons remain clear; but if, after a heavy rain, when we all rejoice in the clear sky, clouds come back again, the heart sinks. The writer eays, ** Romember thy Crea- tor" beforo the duek comes, sod the clouds come back after the rain. In the day whea tho koepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders shalijcease, Lecsuse they are few, ond those that lcok out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall b ghut in the strects, when the sound of the grindingis low ; and Le shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music 11 be brought low. Aud when they ehall be afraid of that which is high, snd foure shall bo i the way, una the almoud tred sball flourish, and the grasshopper a burden, Tt desire b fail ; because mian goeth to his loug home, and the mourners go about the streets, Or ever the silver cord be loosened, or the golden Dowl be Lroken, or the pitoher be broken at the fouu- tain, or the wheel Lroken at the cistorn, Theu shall tho dust return to tho earth as it was, and the spirit shall rotura unto God who gave 1t. I havo read thess versesin order to bring bo- fore our minds to-night tho general idea tanght in them, that youth' is tho great period of edu- cation, the formation period: that, as soon as we pass beyond that division of life, to some ex- tent, the sun becomes darkened to us, the light of the moon and stars becomes dimmed, and the days sre s little heavier; the clouds begin to como back after the rain, and the keepers of tho house—that is tho arms, tho feet, the whole nervous system—begin to tremble, and capnok do the amouut of work they once did; and man- bood begins to bow itself, wo become stoop- shouldered, and the looking ont of the windows 18 obscured—the -eye begins to fail. The whole chapter is a beautiful summiog np or the charms snd tbo usefulpess of youta—the growing period, the formation period of the mind and of the soul. The word *‘Remomber " is itaclf a poetic word, and haa reference to that gathering up of God in the heart, rather thaa trying to reach some intellectnal conception of Him, the words following, ** In the days of thy youth,” show- ing its meaning. Itis not expected that chil- dran will press at the bottom as & scientific man or a deep thinker wonld; and heuce when the word * remember ¥ ia used in' connection with these days of youth, it means lova rather than thought or study. ‘ Remember now thy Créalor,” receivo Ilim with thy heart, is the mesning of it. And there is & 'dif- forance, too, between * remomber” and “recollection.” * Recollection™ is a mere intellectual word, and it means simply to keep inmind past ovents, Thus you rccollect his- tory, but yon remember your friend; vou' recollect problems in = mathematics, but you remember your mother and your coun- try.” And thas tno Christian writer, after going aver eleven chapters embracing the various du- ties of life, in this last chapter sums them alil up, and says the best thing one can do is in the days of youth to ses to it thas his heart becomes woll filled with the Crestor. Now, if youth be the great forming period, and if this remembering the Creator be one of the chicf dutics of life, from theso two facts spring the hife of the Sundsy-school—the point to which I wish to direct your attention to-night. fore the thing went much further. It ywas not the "lack of love or sympathy, God fmows. Of al this I bave bad 14 rich an endowment a8 any man could wish for. Ay thought wzs that another man could take up Iny work here, carry it on to a better purpose, ind let moe go whera I should not have to gay to -aelf when I am writing a sermon, I wonder how many times I have said that to the same peo- lo befare. Well, it scems s if tho folks in mity, and some ont of it, prefer the old stick 1o a newsapling. Whether 1t is tho wisestthing, I doubt ; that itis gracious aad good as 3 piecs of heaven I do not doubt at all; and it is eatite- Iy probable that I ehall stay, and fall back as yoon s possible into the quiet ways of my min- Istry, where interviewers never come,—thonzh the question cannot be surely settled for & fow days vet, as thore is one confingency not. very liliely to strike me in which I should find it ai- most impossible to_go back on the friends in New York. This) have not mentioned, and can not, snd need only say further that it would be full proof of my unfltness to stay here, if the wealth of goed will I bave received all theso years from my fellow-citizens did not compel me %o prefer Chicago for myself and family to any vihier city on the plapet. Yours, indced, Cucaco, Oct. 17,1874 Ropert CoLLYED. : - THE REV. MATTHEW IM. PAREK- HURST. Mr. Parkburst, whoso 2ppointment to the pas- Yorate of the Michigan Avenue Methodist Epis- sopal Church, of this city, was announced last xcek, was born in Oswego County, N. Y., 1834 He apprenticod to the business of -coach- making when 17 years of age. A short time aterward he was converted, and turned his at- ‘tention to the ministry, leaving his shop and tools for the theological school. After & period of six years of study he entered upon the active work of preaching. and was stationed at Barta, Mass, At the breaking out of tho War of the Rebellion, Mr. Parkburst recruited a company, chiefly from the members of his own church, and was chosen Captain of the same. After spending a year in the field, he was gent home 1o recruit for the thinned ranks of the Union armies. He spant nearly two years in this work, sending faryard a large number of men. In April, 1864, he again returned to the minis- try, and was stationed at Worcester, Mlags. For the next six years he served his church in or Dear the subirbs of Boston, and performed duty a8 Ghaplain of the State Prison during_the last wesr. In 1870, while on his way to St. Louis, he etopped in Chicago and preached in Grace AL E. of thiacity, A vacancy occurring in tho pastorate of the church soon afterward, e was woastmously chosen to fil} it. His labors in this church were marked with great success from the first. The church in- ereased i pumbers, and was improved in its epirttual condition. When the great fire camo ‘it swept out of ex- Istence the home of every family of this church, —some 250 in number,—and yet it did not dis: ourage the pastor. At the Rock River Confer ence, which met the same _week, Mr. Parkhurst eied only to be stationed on the ruins of his 91d church, and ke would see that a new house of worship was built within sixty days. His promise wos fulfilled, and largely through the sioria of Mr. Parkburst has the Society been tegatherad 1nto & strong church again. 3ir. Parkhnret is not regarded s an eminent preacher. His strong point is in his ability to brganize bis people and set them to work. Sill, his sermons aro pointed and effective. He is o tloso sud caretul obsorver, and has a largo tund of varied personal expesience, upon which he cau and does draw for the illustration of his yulpit themes. For many months after tho great firo, Mr. Parkhurst was engaged upon tho Relief Com. mitzees of this ity, on which he did most effect- fre work. For at least a year alter the great sonflagration ho was regarded asa sort of grand master and general organizer of the North Di- vision, a lenst among the Protestants. It is guite probable that he might have been elected to Congress if there had been votes emough. He became weil known to delinquent policemen of the North Diris.on a8 one who had asharp oyo 55 their failures in duty,and his approach spersted upon such officlals a5 & tonic sud & i b“;:: ’l;— faithfulness. e 0 years ;2;o Mr. Parkhurst obtained the cousent of his Bishop to make & trp round te world with Bishop Harris, who was appoint- d by the General Conferance of 1872 to yisit Ef Methodist missions throughout the globe. . Packburst bas, on several occasions sent rommunications to the papers of his denomina- koo, which are full of graphic power of description, aud mark the dischminating and observant mind. While in Scotland, Mr, Park- buret paticipstedin tho religions ‘awakening which has foliowed the labors of Mr. Moody and Mr. Saukey. Ha preachod several sermons, and formed & wide acquaintance, one of the results of which was that he married a fiue Scotch lady, who is to set up housckeeping for him in a few days 1n one of the beat sections of the city, and where they sro bosh destined, no doub, &9 bo- These two simple premises—that we must learn to_lova our Creator, and not be continually thinking about Him, reasoning about Him, proving His existence, bnt that we must learn to love Him, and muost have our bearts filled with this sentiment in youth- ful days—form the great basis of tho Sunday-school ; and this topic I think should come before this church this evening. and an- other evening. It should be thoroughly in- vestigated, that wo all iy appreciate the worth of tho whole Sabbsth-school movement,—ihat every one may appreciate bis or her relation to the duty that springs out of it. This Sabbath-school movement is compara- tivelynew. Itisone of the movements that haye spruag night out of the benevolence of our contury. The great maxim revealed in the very earliest parc of the Dible is that you should love your brother,—'¢ Where is_thy brother ? "—and that great principlo runs all through the Bible, and eecms to grow larger and larger untd the Savior came and died for the human race,—and tinally developed._itsolf into thia Sunday-school life. "It is nothing else than the love of the older for the younger,—the outburst of a loying care, one of the great forms of benevolence, Our century goon began tq remember that Rreat pxiucifila that you should care for. your neighbor. Hence it bogan to pursuo these warious paths of regard for one's fellow-creature ; it began to freo slaves; it began to visit prisous, to sce that justice was done—that no one yas sufforing from zross cruelty; it Pegan to think of the orphan, and of tho deaf and dumb, snd to build asylums for them; it began to think of the nnclothed in the streets, and founded night- schools and_rapged-schools; avd, following this great principle of Josus Christ, that every one should love his neighbor, it came straight to the Sunday-school, whero the yomth showd all gathored, and taught tho highest form of “truth, even the way of selvation. So that what wo call tho Sundsy- school’ is fouuded in one of the noblest princi- ples, not only of the Biblo sad of bristianity, but of human nature; and henco the world would never take it back. The Supday-school is full of the besutiful fruits of a high Christisn civilization. g One reason why I wish to speak of it in this way is, that & good many have donbted the value of “the Sunday-school;” and you would infer, even from the feebloness of the echools, from the unwillingness of teachers to come, and to star, and to work, that that donbt is quite gey . eral. But I feel perfectly willing to contend that the Sunday-school is in every sense of the word one of tho strongest arms of religion,—of Christianity,—from the rea- sops I Lave given. It takes the heart in youth, when itcan boshaped. That is its great secret. But thore aro thoso who hava op- Pposed Sunday-schools—some in other denom- inations bave opposed them, and others have doubted their worth—opposed them on the ground tnat they take'the children away fr their home-training, claming thaf, as Sinds achools increase, the old "home-training de- creases. This Iwould deny. It may bs that the home-training decreases, but not from that cause. There are other causes which are all the time sapping this home-influence. Alen are he- coming more and more wodded to the pursuits of business, moro and mare disposed to idolizs commerco, the paths of trade, and that is a Yery great cause of the decline of homeé-insfrac- tion, ~Thero is no rosson conceivablo why the Sunday-school should detract from home-instruc- tion, and henco ywe must doubt whetlier it does, gr' at least must deny the necessity of its so oing. i But_the Sunday-school method of teaching youth bas very great advantages above the home ethod ; aud thoy are chiefly thess:. All onr young people have tneir agsociztions of busi ness and pleasure, but witbont o Sunday- school they havo not the sssociationsof religion, Each home is a separate institution; there 18 no nh%xoqu commingling. . Youth mect together for business, but never in the name of God. Tho Sunday-school builds up 2t once & religions as- sociation, and binds their hearts together by re- ligious ties; ond hence itis not the whola of thoir life to seek cach other's socicty for pleas- are only. in the great outer fiald of the world, but they seek ome another in tho house of God, and build up a kind of relizious friendship, both beautiful and lasting. Home, of course, has its value,—its valie cannot bo measured,—but there is some. thing sclfish about home-life. There should Le this religions comingling; and, without draining hom in the least of its influence, the Sunday ecliool builds up & new sesociation,—-one of roligion,—aud our youtbs pass thieir early years, not simply in the balls of pleasure, not Eimply in the etores whero thoy are clarks, or in the echool-houses where they atudy books, but they pass their hours also in the house of God, where they meet each other in sacred soog and sacred conference about truth. Now, one of the greatest parts of education is an intercourse with the world. I doubt whether 205 great Leart or mind can bo reated up within the walls of homs alone. I think home alone induces selfichoess, narrcwness: at least it brings an ignorance, perhaps, of the great wide warld. But the moment wo come to sasociate witlrothers, selfishness is all broken down i me admit our wants to othors, we speak kind words 10 others ; and we find the whole lifo is changed by this larger assoclation. Thers is another thonght that has ofton passed through my mind, and it is this: That one of the great drawbacks of the past has been that persons have been afraid to speak to each other upon religious topics. _The oldest people in this house know how difficult it is to spesk to cach other umpon religious topics. They know that thirty years ago, twenty-five Fears 8go, it Was very uncommon for pefions to talk to each other about Jesus Christ, about tho soul’s salvation, about the meaning of God's Word. Thoe heart was sealed. But this Sunday- school teaches our children in early life to confer with one another, and with their teachers, abont God's Word, and' the meaning of that Word. I doubt whotlier anyinstitution 8o opens the heart, making it willing to speak upon religious sub. jeots, to confess its Iaelings, to confess its doubts, and to soek light, as this Sunday-school. It meots want the pulpft cannot meet, when the pulpit spoaks, all else are dumb—all others sit iu silence, and men come and go, and come and go, all through life, to thegreat prinoi- pal room of the sanctuary without ever baving expressed themselves upun a single point of re- ligion. They have asked no question have brought forward no difficult p God's Word, they have had no conferences nt doctrino, no excgeaia of Scripture,—all they have dono is to listen. Dut, going mto tha Sanday- gchool, where thers are classes of cbildren aud of aduits, where there sra teachers whom thay all love, the beart is open and _always willing to speak, to conless its feelings, its doubts, hopes, dapgers ; and those ars lad toJesus Christ whom 1o pulpit would have ever lad thither. These are the thoughts, brethren, that I gub- mit to yon on this occasion, and I hope others will add thewr thoughts. Some- thing should bo done that we may bo epabled to exert the full force, the full power, of thincongmfnlion in this ono direc- tion,—the Sabbath-achool. All the young peoplo who belong to us in any way should be gathered in. Instead of having & hundred, wo should havo bundreds ; instead of Laying Biblo-clusses with & few adults, we ghould bLave large classes,—~all should come a8 far 25 passible: not coms from any accident, or from some simplo desire to pass an hour, but come fesling tho worth of tho grand institution, feeling how eroat ita basis' is, for it grows right out of the Biblo, right ont of the teachiug of the Lord that you must love your neighbor,—springa out of 'this phrase, 1 bavo resd, that we must remember cur Creator, and wo must leara {2 do s0 in the days of our youth, ars thoge groat evil days come, full of businass, and then full of woariness, full of dimness of sight, full of trembling limba ; be- fore thoso days come when the **goldan bowl” begins to break, should wo seek this Creator. Tius church has under its care two imporant schools—one here, and another, numbering 400 children, clsenhore ; lot us tako these two schools to our hearts, and from this day forward do our whole duty toward these youth. Ove gentleman thought tho Presbyterian Church ought to assume, as did other denomina- tions, that children were born Christians, and that, if they were taught the precepts of the Bible, they could not fail to be benefited. Another did not believe it was right for peopla ta go to church and gat good, and not do good to others. . A third belioyed that work rather than long pragers would make s Sundey-school efficient, favored conducting the school on & busiuess bazis,—spending monoy and making it attractive. e el MOODY IN SCOTLAND. A letter to tho Christian Union from Oban, Scotland, gives the following account of Ar. Moody's revival work : ‘The revival in Scntland is 8o largely oonnected with the labors, and follows 60 cartainly tho movements of Mr. Moody, that 1o trace hig journeyings is to track the course of the great tidal wave of religlous feeling which is aweeping over Scotland. In the Assemblivs of the different Presbyterian churches this instrumen. tality of the American ovangelist Lias been 8o freely and cordially acknowledged, that clergymen and lay- men of il denominations everywhere logk forward to the coming of Mr. Moody as to the advent of & revival This was evident_ day before yesterday in onr quiet watering place, when printed posters announced his unexpected coming, and the peripatetic bellman, after shouting out hixnotices of * Breakfaata on board the morning steamers,” *Cheap herring,” * Lost,” ook breath and procluimed the coming for Friday night of “the Amerlcan Evangelist.” hers e nataatly great bustio of preparstion, and a certainty of expec. fation that anticipafed ond to a partisl extent ex- lained the result which followed. Men expected’a lessing, prayed, acted, spoko as though they expect- ed it, and it came, : ‘Tho Uniled Presbyterian Ohurch, tho largest in the place, was crowded long bLefore the sppointed time, all ytanding-room being occupied, und the vestry and class-room back of the pulpil belug woll illed, Every surrouniding village had sent in its contribufion, and many went avay unablo to fnd evena standing place. Tho meefing began st 8 p. m, Moody, After traveling from 7 in the morning to reach Oban abont that time, anatclied s hasty tes, and at balf-past 8 to the grest salimfaction of all, sppeared at the Yestry door. Ipstntlya change ealne over the char acter of tho meeting. All means of ventilation wers opened ; Mr. Moody's authority obtaining what & Scotch audience are slow tu yield, plenty of fresh air. Ho limself come into the’ poipit in & freah, breezy way. “One felt thers wasan end to cant snd drswl in that meeting. The chapter read was Ez. Xxxiv., from thie 11th verse. Then “ The Gate Ajas 7 was sung, and Mr. Moody hegan, choosing for Lls text Lukse xix., 10, ‘o the Son of 3ap Ia come to scck and fo save that which was lost.” "Iiis style is too well known at homo to need dexcription. Being in Scotland may have pol- ished his language somewhat (tho Scotch certainly claim it has), but he still says **ba coms,” “to save You and I," and the nagal twang in his voice would b offcuisively sirong even in thé Giates. Al this makes at unpleasant Impresaion at first, yet to his sudience there 18 3 strange novelty in it that fascinates, ‘His speech was an earnest conversation, which in- sinusted iluclf by jta novel and familiar style, It was much aa follows : Christ camo for a purpose, snd Ho has told it. Tt is $o seek and tosgve. When the Prince of Wales visited® {he Stites the newspapers wondered wLy ho had come, but be uover told us. He visited us and went away, But when the Princs of Heaven came 1o earth Io told us why Ho came, If there was any great sinner thers it was his own fault if b2 was not saved, for Christ came to esvehim. * God hos taken the place of the secker.” You would expect the sinner toseck, but, no! fts God: * He came to Adam the vory Brut duy and He _cried, ‘ Admin! where art_thou?’ and Adam, who bad sinned, was bid away in the bushes,” Just so all b aud grandsons are bidden sway, and God s secking them. Then followed a description of the shepherd aeeking tho sheop, and tho woman the plece of moriey. You could fairly see tho nervous haste of the” woman, moving fhe furniture, and using Lor Dbroom, ‘Theri he carrid us back {o the blind and s in Clirist’s time. “Thero was a blindman in Jericho, —born’ blind,—and ho Wwss_a-begging ono day, and there came along a man, and he said to the blind foan, Y sawa fellow like you the other day in Jerusalem, born blind, a fellow that once hadn’ any eycs, and he could seo.” *T don't believe it,’ eaid the blind man, ¢But e did havo them ; T saw them, and I asked him about it (e was of age), and be said'one day a prophot camealong in the streef, and ho pplt on- the ground and maade mud and plistered his eyes with it, And Bo told bim to go wash in Siloam; and o weot, and 'he got two pplendid eyes,! It'm mado a great'stir down our way in Jernsalem, Then the other day he met a leper, and the m cried, *1f thon will thou canst mike me clean y nd fle just touched him ana Lie was clesn, * - Why, even the devils aro subject to him; and they do £s that 16 has raised a man from thedead. His name is Jesus, and he lives in Nazareth, but He goos about 1rom ¥illage to village, atd if ever He comes this' way you just present your case to Him; there's no coms miftee; ou can go right to him; and, beat of all, He won’t chiarge you acent.” Then followed & graphic description of the Lealing of Bartimens; of his meet. ingZaccheus, and of Zacchens rushing off to find . 1 seem to seo it,” eaid Mr. Moody, sgain and 2§20, 3nd ame bogan to 'feel Lo did *goo 1t 7—snd - therefn Ioy his power. The whole story was one vivid reality to Lim, and he made sou feol it to be 50, too. (A Scottlsh gentleman said tome, the other day: ' One Teason of Jr. Moody's power 1a that so much Christfan truth has come a5 a new thing to bim, snd Lo s sbls togive it 10 you just as it has fashed in fresh on his own mind. Hé does not tell you anything which you nover knew before, but he makes it real, somehow. By this timo the audionce were in perfect sympathy with the speaker, and hin words grew more pointed. The Scotch didn't believe in sudden conversions, but Tere was one. Christ spoke to Zaccheus and * ho was converled somowhers botween that branch and the ground ; that was quick work, voan't it7" Then came he feast of Zscchous, sad so the origin of Clirist's words {n tho text chosen. From this. point Lo began to appeal in fresh, earnest ‘words, to hia an- dlenca'sneed. “ Do yon say you're not much of 3 aln ner? Why, you've sinned hindrods of times ; snd if God drove Adam out of Eden for one sin, what nre you going todo 2" The fault of men ia that they try Lo justify themsalved, Christ wasin carnest, and 1t would be well for us fobe. A lost soul Is & fact, There was no particular method. Anacdote follow- ed anecdote, touchingly old and enforcing some earn. o6t bomo-thrust. We might perhapa find fault that thers ‘wax £00 much effort o play upon the feclings of those who had lost friends, and thus to_enforc. the truth {hat God sought ther througl thels aMiction. But bo that a8 it may,it certataly swakened some ko the It was nearly 10 when Mr, Moody, closing his ad- dress, asked 1+ Is there not somo one here who would like to be remembered in our last prayer” some one Why, I was ju a moeting the other night and Wiirty-ninearose. Ton't just one risp tonights Afier s ito hesitation ane young man rose, then sa- other person, and another, “Amid tho breathless hush of the multitude, Mr. Moody counted them as they arose, **one,” * two,” “ihres, * till ttwenty-five wern numbered, 'When Le called for those® Christiann wishing prayera there was movement on the part of the larger portion of the andience, and in a fonchmg prager ho commended these all to God. The class ang Bession-room were then cleared, and fully thirty, many of them yonng men, came in. Through lack of ey, tem among thove who conversed with th . ar, and othera of equal earnestness and power, it has been imposaible 1o gather even & mesting of inquirers, In one short all this x::tamrk !lflmld:o hnu:emumad. This morning . Moody departed ; be has Iefi bobind him tha aflect and oxampls of as Hva meeting, and there seem: hopa that thers iow ba s reviral to Focord at Opaa, T g THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. THE NORTHWESTERN ADVOCATE haa an editorial discassing the question, *Shall Other Denominations Copy Our Itinerancy Sys- tem ?” It aldo givesita viows on *‘The Gospel of Love,” and concludes it is not to be blamed for the falling away of Mr. Beecher or any other proacher who may teach” that gospel a littls too practically. Tho Advocate, after contrasting “The Gospel of Law " with * Gospel of Lovs,” mays: - ‘ The praacher who holas, msintains, and proclaims with s much boldness 83 we think he should, tho rillinguess of God n the ealvation of man, must nec- esearily leave himself open to the charge of ' preaching too muach “love” and 0o Little iaw, in tbe cstimation of thoso fishers of men who aro embarrassed by the fear that more fish will bits than are predestined to be caught! They becoms tangled in their fishing-tackle; and some trip, while some tumble headlong. In 80 far as the phraso * gospel of love * means substitution of hu- man expadiency for the divine requirement, we are sorry toway that the orthodox househas too much lasa about {t to warrant any of ita ocoupants in throw- stones into the habitstion of beresy. . . . In certain Protestant, a3 well s in certajn Citholio coun. triee, the commou people are complained of for being devotedly religious, whilo Jax in morality, This i the £ruit of, not the * gospel of love,” but of the geapal of 1aw,—not the mornl law of the New Testament, but a theological-ecclesiastical law as formulated from 1te pages. 1f wo suletitnis & theory of how to get to heaven for a theory of how we ought to behave on earth, we becomo ns Paul said of tho Athenians, “too religious,"—that v, mora snxious to be considered cor- Tect in our opinions of tho future life than to bo right in practice during this life, THE ADVANCE bas s roviesr of the National Council at New Haven ; & discussion of the prevalence of lying, and what is to come of it, and how it isto b stopped ; aud an aditortal on the “ Dollinger Conference of the Old Catholics.” The editor of the Advance has gotton into controversy with n lady contributor, becanse hor last articlo was hpaded *‘ The Per Se of It,” in- stead of *- Tho Prose of Ir,” as she wrote it. She thinks the printer is to blamo ; but the edi- tor, after examining tho manuecript, thinks the faolt is with the lady contributor's writing- master, aod he is dead ; 50 nobody is to blame. The Advance is gotting on well in its fund for buyiog a horse for its Red River Home Mission- ary, who has traveled on foot 28,000 miles the past yoar, and now longs for a Rosinante. Tho sum is already 878, THE INTZRIOR defends itrelf and the fifteen Presbyters who voted to couvict Prof. Swing, from a statement of Dr. B. W. Patterson, in tho Evapgelist, call- ing attention to the fact that the n)'gmnenu of Prof. Swing were chiefly 0ld-School divines and sympathizers with tho ‘lato Southera Rebellion. he pamo paper claims that the recent consoli~ dation of the Home Mission Boards of tho Presbyterian and Congregational Churches was firat suggested by Dr. J. E. Roy, of this city, and was discussed and favored in both the Adrance and tho Inferior. “Woman's Work" in tho missionary field is also discussed; and the ladies are exhorted to raise mopey for the in- crease of missiouaries’ salariea rather than to ship “‘boxes” to them. Comparing the New York and Chicago pulpits, the Inferior says: Any one who will carefully compare the sermons of tho New York and Chicago pulpits, a8 reported each Aonday morning in the daily papers of the two cities, wall perceive tbat there is not only a wide contrast be- tween individual sermons, but that thoy reprosent dif- ferent types of pulpit oratory, With no local pastiality in thia mutter it appears to fhe writer of this, that, matehing orthodox against orthodox, brosd against broad, aud liberal against liberal, the Chicazo pulpit displays s degree of originality, freshness, vigor, and of rhetorical beauty, amounjing Lere and there to splendor, which excieds the pulpit of New York, Thcre i+ more stttention pald here to the graces of eloquence, but that ia nocall. The veneral impreasion which 2 comparigon gives is that tho ministers of the Eastern city are gaing aloug In an casy, complacent way, while those of tho Western city aro doing their Ievel beut, striving for the bighest ideal of their art, and putiing forth the utmost strength of intellect and Licart, This is not surprising. It is 80 in other avo- cations, "‘There {s no city in the world whore men uss thiemselves up so rapidly, even recklessly, as Lese, THE HERALD AND PUESBYTER, _ a leading Preshyterian papor publishedin Cin- cinpati, bas the following : The Inlerior of last week ssys: “Tne Synod of Tllinols” North will meet in Chicago on the Lith inst. The occasion will be ono of great interest, and tho duties which will devolve upon the body will bo of tho gravest nature, They are to eay of two Fresbsterian ministers whether one has been unfaithful and is un- sound, or whether the other in & slanderer.” We don’t think that the Synod will be obliged to pronounce Dr. Patton “ a slanderer,” even though it may fail to pro- nounco Mr, Swing “ unsound.” _ Our Discipline sys “If an sppellant is found to manifest a litigious or other uncnristian spirit in tho prosccution of his sppesl be shall ba censured socordiug to the degres of his offense.” We guess {hat Prof. Patton hardly in- tenas to manifest an evil spirit. Our Book of Dis- cipline also provides that a proseciitor is Linble to cen- sure ““in proportion to the malignancy or rashness that shall appear in the prosecution.” Succevding or uot in tLe prosecution we presume Dr. . will try Lo avoid befng rash or malignant. Whether Prof, Swing in found to be sound or unsound, faithful or unfaith- ful, jtisnot » necessity that either glory or shame ehall fall on_Dr. Patton. It would be ss woll for the Interior to leave it tothe loderator of the Synod to charge the body in regard to the solemn responsibility ;:.l'\;o’vedln(.ry 1g the appeal of tho editor of the In- o, 1t 13 disorderly, and very oppressive, as well as un- fair und ununual, for the Inferior to use its columns, asit has done, Lo asperss the Prasbytery of Chicago, ng indoring various hereales, 2a witbholding a rightcous verdict, as indulging in Litterness of feeling intenso and conspicuous, in _projudice unparaleled, in_mad- ness or blindnees, and sach like things, Ought su an editor who Is 3 prosccatar to use or allow hia paper tobo used in such a way? Who are the men thus severoly dealt with? Two Profestors in the Theologi- cal Seminary, colleaguey of the prosccutor and editor, and seyeral “pastors of tho highest standing and suc- ces,s—Atitchell, Kittredge, ‘Thompson, Johnson,—pas- tors of our best churches, and many othors, men whose orthodoxsy, usetulness, and piety arc known and read of all men. These hard things are sald, because these men have given a verdict that does not suit the accuser, and whilo his appeal is pending before the Synod, 1s this pursuing the things that make for peace, and whereby one may edify another? The Standard considers editorislly *“The Power to Ordain™; shows how Christian peoplo Ehould *“ Work Their Pocketbooks™ for the best interests of Zion, and the promotion of thecause of roligion. Inregard to Mr. Beecher, tho edi- tor sy by We must remind the brother who sends ns s list of questions from the utmost *down Easl,” that we Dave never expressed an opinion of Mr. Beecher's guilt. We must also say to him, in plain ferms, that 0 far from copsidering it our diity to uphold a-man in the face of sppearances so damaging, becauso he is minister and professcaio be o Chrietian, we make him smenable o 2 standard sil the mors strict just becanss he bears thase two sacred names befors the world, Ploaso observe that {he case ianot that of a man simply accused, but of a man with 3n amount of evidenco mado public sgainst bim, which staggers many of his stanchest friends, whils the defonss he makes, taken at its very beat, 15 80 fiabby and weak as to be almost 88 damaging as the accusation. We are not under oath to'sustain Mr. Beecher, right or wrong. THE ALLIANCE chides the Rev. Mr. Thompso for urging that it was only a lack of courage that would induce 1ministers to try to harmonize Tyndall and Chris- tianity. The same paper charges that tha New York Qbserver— —took & passage from a Universalist newapaper, and, cutting off the confession of the paper that Mr. Swing was o Universalist, printed the remainder to show that Mr. Swing did well on withdrawing from a Church ‘where separata rooms are assigned to Divea and Lazarus. Whether, after 3 whole year of rest, all the great Primes and their compauions worked up to- gefher the editoril as Besumont and Fletcher com- bBned In thelr great studles, or whether it was the result of some single mind, we know not, but, as they all congratulate each othor over the withdrawal of Mr, Bwing, we would love to congratulate editorial asocia~ tions over ‘& withdrawal of the Oosercer gentleman from any tripod that was connectod in any way with Datural or revealed religion, g Another editorial thinks Mr. Tyndall has at length ¢ reached the bottom™ of tlio controver- 8y between religion and scepticism : *Heo bas gono atl over the ground and has found in matter the potency of all forms of 1ifo, and, having dona 80, he now cor:fesses that he docs nof know where the potency came from, and that Atheism will not £olvo {or Lim any of the great mysteries of man, —_— NOTES. CONGREGATIONAL. Ten new members were added to Wicker Park Congregational Church last Sunday. ‘Wicker Park Congregational Charch received tennew members at the last communion, The Congregational Church at Towa Falls, Ia.. havo erccted a parsonage, to cost, including lots, about £3,000. The experiment of the two churches at Belle- vue, Ia. (Congregational and Presbyterian), employing the same minister, which was begun last year, works satisfactorily to all concerned, Mr. Burnell blew his gospel trumpet at Men- dota last week. This week he does the same thing at Rock Island, Bushnell, and Afonmouth. The Congregational Church at Wauwatoes, Wis., have given their pastor, the Rev. A, 3I. Gase, 8 heasty call fo remain atother yeir. Tho membership has increased nearly 50 per cent the past year. The_ Rev. T. K. Beecher's new church in El- mirs, N. Y., is nearly ready to bo_opened. Itis 8aid to be the largest Protestant house of wor- ship in New York. 'he statistics of the Copzregational churches of this country, presented at the New Haven Congress, are s follows : The total of churches has incressed 204 in three years, 413 have beon organized, and 209 hava been dropped from the Tist ; net gain in church-members, 17,161, or 5.720 per year, as against an average increase for fifteen years, of 6,65 ; additions by profession, 40,462 ; increase of 1874's benevclent ?cntrlpu- tions (imperfectly reported) over 1871's, $259.- 260.24 ; total eontributions for 1579, $1,413,816, of which $556.833.19 come from New England § theological semivaries, 7: Professors in 1571, 32; 1874, 25 ; lectures in 1871, 11 ; 1874, 15_; sto- donts in 1871, 272 ; 1674, 327 ; churches in New England, 1,451 ; in Now York, New Jersey. and Pennsylvanin, 850 ; in Ohio and to tho Missit~ Bippi, 858; betweon tho Missiasippi snd the Hocky Mountains, 552 ; in Pacido States, 76 3 in the Bonth and not inclading Missouri, 55. Presbytorian church af Lims, N. Y., was A new Prosbyterian churcl & A acdionted taat youn The Presbyterizns of Red Wing, Minn., aro enlarging their house of worship. Tbe Sccond Presbyterian Church of Still-® water, Mian,, has bacome self-sustaining. The Phillips Memorial Presbyterisn Church of New York, the Rev. 5. D. Alexander, pastor, i$ to be dedicated to-dsy, Oct. 18. The Presbytery of 6t. Paul has commended the Rev. H. P. Wellon, pastor of the church at Hastings. Mion., es s successful evongelist. The Second Presbyterisn Church of Louisville, Ey., bave just comploted & 90,000 houso of worship, on whick they have a debt of $20,000 remaiving. It will seat 1,000 persons. The Lafsyette, Ind., Prosbyterian Church, which has been struggling almost for existencs for soveral years, has recently become quite prosperous. Last Janus thero was an acces- sion of twenty-ono members; in April twenty more; in June vino, and Oct. 4 twelve more, mzkiog sixty-two for the year. The Rey. A. E. Kittredge, pastor of the Firat Presbyterisu Church of Chicago, preached his fonrth anoual sormon last Sunday evening. Among the facts relating to the history and de- velopment of the church _he stated that 867 per- sons had been received into membership sinca his coming, of whom 812 wero on profession. The present membership is nearly 1,000. METHODIST. Thoe Park Avenue Primitive Methodist Church, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was dedicated last Sunday. Anow Methodist church ia to be dedioated to- dsy at Cardington, O., by Bishop Fostor. The hundred and ei{;htlx anuiversary of John Street Mothodist Eplscopal Church, the first gotlbgsdiit Church in America, will be celebrated ct. 25. A Methodist Episcopal collsze is likely to be located at Kearney, Neb., since ths sum of 57,000 bas beon pledged there towards the founding of the justitution. The statistics of ths Wisconsin Conferencs, whoso seesion was held at Qshkosh a few days 2go, are 85 follows: Members, 13,642 ; proba- tioners, 1,560 ; local nreachers, 123 ; churches, 1933¢, 'valued at $807,950; parwonages, 99, "l;eod at §119,677 ; scholars in Sabbath-school, 16,350. As showing tho rapid growth of Methodism in Iowa, it may be noted that the first Methodist sermon on lows soil was proached in Dubuqus, Noy. 16. 1833, In 1336 tha Church bad in Jowa 136 memvers. In 1814 the frst Iowa Confor- euce organized. To-day ity members in this State number about 63,000. Tt is eeid that 6t, Paul's Mothodist {Episcopal Chureh, in New York City, the Rev.J. A. AL Chapmaa, D. D, pastor, is tho wealthicst Math: odist Episcopal Church in the United Statos, Its first regular pastor was Nachaniol Bangs, D, D. Tho present membership of the church is 692. Their collections for mussions alono aver- age from 6,300 to 11,000 per year. ° The Rov. Nr. Peck, of Centeaary Methodiat Episcopal Church in this city, has just been granted o vacation of several yeeks. " The Doc- tor preferred to stay by hia church during the summer, and gatherioto her folds the large number of probationers left on the rolls from Jast winter's revival. During bis absence the Rev. Ira Bidwell, D. D., of Boston, 3luss., and President Charles Fowler have been invited Ly the Trustees to minister in the pulpit. BAPTIST. Two additions were made to the membership 3! the Western Avonuo Baptwst Clurch lagt Sug- ay. An interesting temperance meeting was held inthe Second Daptist Church last Thursday evening. In the Mankota (Minn.) Baptist Church fifty- eight bavo been added to the membership within the past seventeen months. Tho Baptist Theological Seminary at Roches- ter, N. Y., is said to be in a flourishing condition. There wers nevor 80 many students in the inati- tution as now. Tne Central Daptist Church at Jamestown, R, 1., has became Open Communton, and has asked 10 be dismissed from the Providence Association for that reason. Prosiden: Moss and Chancellor Burronghs, of Chicago University, are to be 1pstalled in their respective offices Oct. 29. The Hon. William B. Ogden will preside. As an instanco of unusnal prosperity in an individual chureh, it is mentioned that the Rev. Henry Duy has just closed his thirteenth year a8 pastor of the First Baptist Church of Indian- apolis. During the timo members sufficient to form three flourishing Baptist churches havo one out, yet the mother church is at present arger in nombers and moro harmonious in nctxl(‘m than when ho bogan his ministerial dutics with it, The Baptist Union (Free-Will) gives the doc- trinal characteristies of the Fres Daptists, as follows: *‘Frce Baptists are neither Calvinistic nor Arminian. They aro generally classed with the Arminians, but those who know them best, and’ thoroughly understand the Arminian sys. tem, never make that mistake. They are more inclined to accept the facts of the Gospel, and roverently believe that they may be saved, than to attempt to fathom the deep counsels of God, and solve the mysteriea of s ways. They most thoroughly toach impartial and sovereign grace, atonement for tho sm of the world, human abili- ty aud responsibility to repent, and absolute in- ability to merit or .secure salvation by york. They are Baptists, insisting upon a converted church-membership, believers’ baptism, immer- sion the only lawful baptism, the union of all Baints in Cirist ; that the blood of Christ, and not water, qualifies for the Lord’s table ; snd on the power of the Holy Ghost in believers as a guest, guide, insniration, and life. For the sake 'of peace and efficient work, they do mot receive persons into their churchos who adhere to the doctrine of infant baptism, or sprinkling for baptiem, and yet they unchurch no Christian, since they hold that every Church of Christians is a Christion Church, and fellowship them all a8 such,” EPISCOPAL. The new Enpglish church in Brussels, the *“Church of the Resurrection,” was opened for divine service on Qct. 15. American Episcopalians are asked to contribate $15.000 tor the completion of St. Paul's Church in the City of Rome, which is to ba devoted o travoling and rosident Americans. Trinity Episcopal Cliurch in Natchez has been repaired and ropainted, and now presonts a yery beaatiful appearznce. ‘This parish is the oldest and strongest in the Diocose of Miseiasippi, the present number of commnnicants being 159, The Diocese of New Jerseyhaying been divid- ed by the Episcopal Generzl Convention, Bishop Odebeeimer has 1ssued pastoral letters to the two dioceses, callinz conventions to meet at Bur- lington and Newark respectively about Noy. 10, for itho purposo of comploting _thoir organizations. He bas chosen the northern sec- tion for his diocese, and will reside in Newark, but in consequence of ill-nealth will residen Southern Europe during the winter. T. C. Ever, Eaq., chief officer of the American branch of the Contraternity of the Blessed Sacra- meut, sass, in a letter to the New York Tibune, that persistent eflorts have been mado to cast odium upon the Society, by calling it falsely a secrot mssociation. Ho says the work of the Confraternity is prayer ; and that it bas never minglod in church politics. It hoids but ono meeting a year, aod that sits with open doors. A heretical momber of the Anglican Church, in Clifton, Enfi., who told bis Rector that b did not believe either in the personality of the devil, or in eternal punishment, was informed by his clergymsn, that unless he eent him a letter re~ tracting these opinions, he would refuse him the Sacrament of tho Lord's Sapper. Tpo layman did not send the retraction, and was paseed over at the next communion. Alter this waa repeated, the layman wrote to the Bishop about it, who re- plied that the incumbent was not justified under the clrcumstaucee, in refusing the Sacrament. The layman says he will attend tho Sacrament once more, and if refused, will commence pro- ceedings against the clergyman in the proper court. Copies of the original edition of 1820 of Bishop White's Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America bave whoily disapreared, and the reprint of 1832, under the editorship of the Rev. Francis L. Hawkes, D.D., LL.D., has become equally difficult to obtain. The work 13 arecord of the organization of the American Church after its severanco from the Mother man best qualified to transmit to posterity the story of the Church over which ho 80 long pro- sided. The plen adopted_by the prasent editor, the Rev. Dr. Perry, Historicarapher of the Amar~ ican Episcopal Church, 1s to give in one con- nected narrativo the separate statements which during the lifa of Bishop White were given to the public in the form of & ‘*Narrative of the Organization and of the karly Mensures of the Protestant Episcopal Church.” CATHOLIC. The deidcation of a new Catholic church will take place at Washington Heighta to-day. ‘The Redemptorist Fathers have just opened & pew house a: Quebec, with the Rev. AL Burke, 0. 8. 8. 1., as Saperior. The Bishop of Yucatan has issned an order ex- commnnicating all Catholics who contract civil marriagess. A Cathotic_church in New York rocently com- memoratqd the weizuro of Rome by tho Italian Governmitnt by appropriate deprecatory -ser- vices. A letter written from Rome to tho Philadel- hia Bullelin, and datod Sept. 18, says of the ops : He holds daily receptiocs, not ome, but many— eoliool com mittees, French priestsen voyage or pil- grimage, fcweign vimtors to Rome, editors of clerical Jjournals, etr. ; the name is lezion' of the gente who ook an sudience of the oly Father, and his bene- diction. He. walks in the garden of tho Vatican on clear dovs; on many days in the Baphael Loggle; and goes up and down stairs faster than any of tke Court Cardipals; he often laughs merrily, I am told, st soiue of the old gentlemen who surround bim, sod eries ont gayly: “I'm older than any'of you; youarealla set of zoppiconi (cripples).” Aud 50 they afo, itis trne, His Holiness haw nover left the Vaticga since the autumn of 1870, four years this very daxr. or to-morrow, when Le went to the Termini Piaz:a, opposite the Batlia of Diocletian, and bleesed the Aua Pio Marcia and the uew fountain. During the four years the Cardinals and Monsignora of bis Court have suffered greatly from the Vatican confinement ; they bave o leave Rome ut cortain peri- ods for changeof air; some have died, others have been afflicted with alarming fllneesea; Cirdinal Amat has latoly had :t stroke of apoplexy; but His Holiness #eoms o thrive.on that which is 80 injurious to tho others—confinement.—RZomes Letter (Sept. 18) lo the Philadelplng Bulletin. — DEFORXED ETISCOPAL. A congregation called the ‘Third Reformed Epiecopal Church, of Philadelphis, has just commenced services in that city, Through the liberality of the Hon. A. Bird- eall, of Binghamton, N. Y., a Reformed Epis- copal Church, called St Btephen's, has been organized in that city. Bishop Cummins con- firmed a class of seven there, recently, On Sept. 28, a Reformed Episcopal Church waa formed in Toronto, Canada, under the name of Christ Church. It is compased of some 300 secaders from Holy Trinity Charch, in_that city, who withdrew in consequence of the Ritualistic tendencies of ihe Rector. The Rev. Walter ‘Windeyer ws olected temporary Rector. A MISCELLANEOUS. The chapel in process of constraction on the campus of the Union College grounds, at Schenectady, is of extraordinary dimensions. It is to be 100 feet in diambter, and from floor to ceiling will be 150 feet in height. It 18 sixteen eided. It will be covered with an iron dome surmounted with a bronze statue of Dr. Mott. The chapel will cost $250,000. It will be rcollected tuat a great hubbub was raised in Enpland secently because the Bishop of Lincoln refused to let a echodist minister engrave the title “ Rev.” on a tombstone erected to the memory of his danghtor ina Charch of England buryiug-ground. ‘The matter has been settled, bowever, 10 the highest court of En- glich ecclesiastical judicature, by Qaeen Victoria writing a nota to the “Rev.” &r. W. AL Puooshon. A Bishop of the Rassian Church, the 3letro- politan of Kiev and Galitch, has presented 33,000 1onbles to'tho foundation of an asylum for azed and indigent ecclesiatics. It is reported that the Christian Church num- ber in the United States 609 churches and an ag- gregate membership of 60,218. The Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States will bold its abbual session in Bethlehem, Pa., to commence on tho 21st inst. The Massachusetts Association of Universal- igtahold a three-days’ Convention at Salem, com- mencing Qct. 20. A wrriter in the New York Mefhodist suggests that should a great Molhammedan leader arise, with anything like the eoergy of the original Prophet, the 3fosloms would give the defonders of Clristianity a bard fight. The Christian Age, the Rev. Dr. Dennis’ pa- per. has been consohidated with the Church Union. The new paper will b issuod as s -gix- tecn-pago weekly. Among the recont converts received into fel- lowship at Mr. Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Taber- nacle bave been several Roman Catholics and Ritualists, who aro deecribed by Mr. Spurgeon ‘hils tho othe 38 a0 artist. It s stated Jos thes 118 ttugy hopes to see them in the Minjatry, 7 fizher g The Rev, Willism T, e Engiand | hashuccerll)!zd fl:":{“s'mm’h ional hia work, 0 0veh I, ang Berefete The Rev. Joh R, Sath Pyoshsuerica Church, xnnfi'ff;,j:’u‘lg-, Eighy 8 oity, was marri [ Mar, Yori, Oct. 7. o m"""‘-‘“‘t’h@g New York, Jacob Wainwright, Dr. Lir, ociel 5 Gonary Soddety ol undnnuatmni’aufi The Rov. A A. Kiehl Seminary, will bo orained by riotae of T 5¢. Panl, hnd fostalied pey 3 Aveauo Ghurch on the eveatng oy 12 Fralyr Tho resignation of threo prog... - glorzymen is announced, vig: Jprant®t Buy Robbins, D. D., pastor of 'ty L0 RV Chusch; the Tor, A & Mipas the Becond Universalist Grursh » ool of W. 3. L. Murray, of tue Perk gy 008 The Springfield Repub Edwara 8. smpmnfl,zh;w?;,:fl’,' the 3y, from tho Dapiisia at ‘Bosion, ang e2o%ia nounced at a recont Daphist mipee 19 Mgy asa sortof clerical bummer, ang . Retig & questionablo character any’ s, PCekdof meet his denonucers in some’ panj, [P0k dare, and claar up Lis poriion ng sl ey The Rev. Moses Coit Ta 700k OF w0 140,28 baving feperesiiial, turn to the Michigan Umiversicy ; pook 0 e 53id o hava accepted a cal] go? f oK b Congrozational Caurch in Migdlgpyd 20! @ of oi still more recentiy it is atat " Comag copted » Profassorship. (n ot B3 bus 3 in that place, eslayan Ufli’in'r, An Eestern papar says that Chagi E. Grionell, formerly of tha Dtartr in Lowell. has abandoned the mi® Cousy tered upon the study of the lay. "E::gh‘,}* euougly tie church frcan which g oTLly b aktinded sa iavittion o Vil By 5o of the late. Edward doucd the law for the ministey. ” "0 B9tk Enastern papers are it i soltishiacas [n Eno ranes %;thns;zfinqmm o e that the Rev. W. I, Cadworth oirl: ith g refused an offer of 810,003 “;fl‘:' 2 Bovog, g a ow York church. 'Ho brofanud Bk placs at $2300. Tho Rew w° Menchester, Preseat : J. Tuczey, H.. has dacli inai] Now York at a aaiury of 100 'f,fi'(‘f,‘fn“j‘ "’ stay where he is at one-fourth the -mnum.n‘ % The Now York Graphic ss ¢ Clerzymen all over fhe comrs. SoLetly: their charges, genenally to the regret of ifl; perishioncra. There is evdently ssms ek discontent which ju at the batiom of this taeg [} § by f atfairs, and prabably it is tho nok. unaagane ot sire of abie men to come to New Yo they can have an sudiencs aopre Ya:fir i good word and work. 3lr. Tiobars Oare TS it Is almost certoin, 6905 bocome the ey, accupant of a pulpit in this city, in spr ) there soems every probability that 3ir. gorcl 7o ha just now broken with the Presbyncl Church, il take Mr. Collver's Unitum wod n Caicago. ‘The Rev. Aditondack Nursy 1ot degiined to overwork himszIf in Bosion fr e old salary, and Tikely enough ho will ssory Ly bis tale eloquently in New York. Cleris] di content is very apparent throughont the lad? gl RELIGIOUS MISCELLAYY, There is really a movement on foof in Frazey to Puritanize Sunday and rescoe the day g tho almost universal holiday aspect givan to it by the custom of the people. Atthough the peg. tions which have been sent to the Franch Assery. bly to obtain s better recognition of Sadiy have been rejected, the variona religious socs ties have resolved upon another means of g taining their desire, of whizh the following jsa specimen : *Ou a Mooday moming receally, y lady entercd the shop of un grand negogity who kept his establishment open persanlly, sod asked for her account. *Bat, madame, we an only justin the middlo of tho sessan, Ha madame any cause of complaint? *Xo; bai [ belong to an association for the obsersazgs of Sunday, 20d I cannot continue my custon g ehops which keep open on that day.’ Anhewree 80 after brought enother lady, and then anathsr, each with the same complaiat, until thy thix keeper took tho hint." This movemen is nx confined to Paris only, but oxtends to other lirgs cities. ‘The Unitarian Church in Kolosyar, the casil of Transylvania, has sent ta tho Rev. fr. Iils church a beautiful silver paten for ks conge- nioo service. The plate is of silver glt, in the simple workmsaship of tho tims snd couniry, and is one of tho oldest pieces of plaein ths s having become tired of the emptiness of sacramentizm. The American Tract Society will be 50 yesrs old pext May. It will celebrate the event by a jubilee, and an effort to raise a fund for tho en- largement of its work. A Mecthodist minister of twenty-one years' standing was immersed into the Baptist Church of Uniou Ceuaty, Ky., & 16w days since. A native Greenlander, Tobias Morch, has been ordained at Copenhagen. towork as a missionary Church of England, and & history of tha inde- pendent organization for & term of years, by the among his conntrymen. This will bo the first native missionary in Greonland. Bishop Reinkens, the first choice of the Old Catholica, is described as very like Wendell Phillips, although not 60 handsome s man. He has o olear, dark complexion, deep-set eycs, and is 28 healthy as & rusaet apple in November.” The Catholics in Canada being in a majority, and owning the larger ehare of the church prop erty, says tho Independent, are anxious that church property should be toxed. ‘That paper eays it ia pitiful to think the Protestants in the United States would sze the justice of the measure much sooner than they do if they were in the minority. Bethany Sunday-school, at Washington Heights, bas raised 350 by penny subscriptions towards the purchase of a bell. —_— PERSONAL. cmrcsgo. Bishops Ames ana Haven, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, wers in the city last week. The Rov. Dr. J. E. Boy preached last Sunday in the Plymouth and Mayflower churchea of In- dinnapolis. Prof., J. T. Hyde went to Osago, Ia., last week to preach the dedication sermon of the new Con- gregational church at that place. The Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., and tho Rev. 8. J. Humphrey went to Madison, Wis., last week to attond the Congregational Conference. The Rev. J. C. Hartzell, editor of the South- western Christian Advocale, who has been sojourning in this city for several weeks, returns to his home again on Wednosday of this weol. R. F. Queal, Esq., one of the members of the Chicago Library Board, has been invited to de- liver an address at_the meeting of the Charch Extension Society in Brooklyn, N. Y. Bishops Simpson and Foster will also speak. ‘The Rov. S. McChesney left Chicago for his ney home in Minneapolis last Wednesday. He chartered a car to carry away himself, his fam- ily, and hus Larcs and Penates. Ho has left ‘many friends in this city, who will think of him {frequently, and will be gied to hear that he has recovered his impaired health. The Rev. J. L. Vincent, editor of the Sunday- School Journal, was in Clicago last week a day or two, looking after the Snnday-school intersat. He proposes ghorsly to publish o new Suaday- school journal of a thoroughly professional character, containing elaborata esssys and ont- lines for normal Sunday-school work. The New Uotenaut says: *We welcome tho removal of the Rey. S. Ellis from Alassachusetts to Illinois, He has becomo the successor to Dr. Forrester in the pastorate of the Church of the Redecmer in this city. He is a Christian gentle- man in every sensa of tha word, and his removal to this place is & personal plensure to us, and a valnable accession to the ministry of the West. ‘We trust he will have a long and happy residenco with his now charge.” ELSEWHERE. The Rev. E. 0. L. Brown, late of Keokuk, Ta., is cailed to the pastorate of the Unitarian Cliurch at Bolfast, Me. The Boy. W. W. Whitcomb, of Charles City, Ta., has accopted 5 call to the Baptist Church ¢ Owatonna, Minn. The Rev. William Gallagher, of Boston, be- gins his labors as pastor of the Congregational Charck in Blocmington, IIL, to-day. The Rev. H. O. Hitchcock, psstor of the Con- gregational Church at Kenoshs, has retarned from his six weeks' vacation at the East. The Rev. Maurice Ldwards, a graduate of Auburn Seminary, will be ordawed pastor of Dayton Ayenue Church, St. Paal, Oct. 22, The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, of London, recently baptized his twin sons, now in their 18th yoar. Ono of them hag entered a merchant's office in Metropolitan Churgh of Transvivania. It bows a Magyar inscription, which may be tius trsis- Iated: “To the one true God and Hi Sop, tis Lord Jesus Christ, in honor.” Mr. George William Curtis is lay prescheraf tho Unitarian Church in New. Brighioa, Staten Island, and will officiato during the sutumn aod wmter. The Liberal Ohristian ssys it is not every church that is so fortanate aa to have such a preacher, and thiuks ** It would be s vary ex- cellent ides it more laymen of the denomination would feel called ’to lend a hand when the regular pulpit supply, for ons reason ar anoiber, is ot forchcoming. There are alwaysgood priot ed sermons to be caad, and there seems ta be ns reason why a little society should not keep to- gether, even whero it is impossible to suppart 3 pastor, if the laymen aro williug ‘2 take a littls trouble and assume soms extra respansibility.’ Tho Independent thinks the Union of Chris- tians which Dr. Dollinger contemplatesis not of avyery comprehensive chmr&hmm it omity 195.000,000 Catholics, ond all the Nestorians, Arminians, Abyssinians, and Copts, numberi 6,000,000, a8 well as atl the Protestants not ga¥ erned by Bishops, which must include 8 populs- tion of 80,000,000 mors. His highest hope, &3 the Independent, seems to be to bfln;zvxbg_, some sort of alliance between the 01d Catbolics who aro. 8aid to be about 100,000 etrong, 4 Anglican and Americen Episcopalisus, oumber ing in all porhaps o posnhhox} of | s,ooo.wg ha the great Greek Church, which coun! o smons jts adberents something liks 70,010,000 of people. Ont of tho 370,000,000 mare o lcss of Christians now living in the world huu!w poses_to bring into unity abont 8,000,008 o considerably less than one-quarter of the #holé. X oo iigioten DEVOUT HUMOR: Inviewof the fact that Watt's hymosbsm been transiated into the Choctaw Isogusge, sod have become favorites of the braves, an sdmiret of the noble red men says it is very affectmg think of s noblered man sitting upon a{encs and cingiog, * How doth tho lLittle busybety while ho watches his wife carryinghome & ME of bushels of potatoes upon esch shoulder, wondering if ho couldn’t swap that squaw ford jog of robust rum. A Boston Deacon mado 2 sad mistake the o2 night. Riding home in a horse-car, he wass Deacon, GERIE costed by a friend with: -+ Ab, Decon, EO3E home rather late, eh “Well, ‘yeg" P the Deacon, *'tia'a littlo latg, bat § hitosk tended a prayer and confereqca meeting over Chelses tgis’;vcning. and theinterest '"P;; longed.” Just then he inadvertentl gt bis hat, posuibly to relieve_bis.conscience, S0 two theatre checks feil out oa the floor. ncedlees to add that Jooes aod the Doscon P22 ‘without speaking now. - The only unoccupied real estate in S’-";’m- is advertived thus: * A nice three-cornered =iy a cemotery, short, and just righs for a a8 B3 with only one leg.” i A littlo boy was recently presented with s trumpet zo::vh_ich he became greatly :;Wm% One night, when ho was about to be Put it il + Tittle bed,” and was ready to ssy his prasth he handed the trumpot to his grmdmflhtflrrm! ing: *Here, grandins, you biow whilo Tpr¥ “ Got anything for o sick maa to resd2y = quired a pug-nosed boy at a mmmn‘blu- other day. ~* Yes, anjthing you want— B aied poems, religious books, and 3o forth, P8, tho clerk. * Biblos ! ” echoed the boy, | €0 think dad's a hangel? Gimme & mu:‘-’”,,, novel—one with an Injua sculping & solker- A A colored preacher down Boath took faf Td text the words, Though after my skio To destroy this body, yet in my fl "‘"“‘, s God," which ho divided into threo pasts. &% 1y lows: * Firet, skin-worms; second, Wit/ done ; third, whst the man seon after 118 ap.” A convorted liquoz-compounder bas, beat, 2 vulging the secrets of biy ’i’f:h”m'm‘ o coruer-groceryman could got to ,_‘; T ers’-beuch what & world of good he mighs st “ What can we do,” inquired the Hu‘lgbnhl ministers, ‘to make Enbhllh-lchnah_nwflr teresting ?” And an nnmpgnamh"p\wkfl gests, **Take the boys aut fisning.’ = In Osfordshire, England, lately, the e wardens of 8 _certsin pansh received & abos that had - been seut by direction of u&g, "o throughout the d d.mcf;e. puttiog. q‘:gafxu ch charch-warden to ae3w e ta20 0] ;‘upxnfihun gomo moral and gocisl POt