Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1874, Page 6

8 3 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, (374--SIXTEEN PAGES. " RELIGIOUS NEWS. Iife of the Rev. William Alvin Bartlett. F:of, Swing Continues the Discussion cf the Sunday-School. Bescription of tlie Newly-Completed Trinity Episcopal Churchs I’ossibiu Tronble in the First Baptist Con- gregation—The Fith Pres- byferian, -_ Opinions of the Religious Press. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. THE REV. WILLTAM ALVIN BART- LETT. ] Among the Congregations] Churches of Chica- £0, 00 pastor is more widely known than the Rer. William Alvin Bartlctt. He wasborn at Bing- hamton, N. Y., in 1832, and spent bis early lite upon a farm. Ie acquired a good foundation for an education in the common schools of his neighborhood. At tho age of 13 Lie graduated from Hamilton College, and shortly aftermard undertook a Professorship in the Collegiate In- etitute of the Velloy of Virginis. While filling bis Chair in this seminary, he, ot the same time, fitted himaelf for the Bar, & profeesion which ho proposed to follow ; but = change in Lis religious ~viows turned bis atteption t3 the pulpit. At the e of 21 he left bis Professorship, and en- tered Unica Theological Seminary, in New York. At tho conclusion of his course of study hero Le wept to Europe and studicd 2% Halle, Berlia, 2nd Heidelbers, traveling exiensively, and be- coming acquainted with much of thobest of the art and literature of the Old World. Retarning, career 2t & he opeped hia pastoral litde Congregatioral Chburch in Oswego, N. Y. Dut Dkis abilitics sooc esmed for him s wider ficld. After preaching s short time at this place, be was called to iake sharge and brild up the Elm Stree: Congrega- tionsl Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. Me accepied Lae wnvitation, and commenced, with all his en- 2rgy, a ten years’ eminently succeseful pastorate éu'fi:z cit,\-.’ ‘The congregation, at Mr. Dutlett's soming. was wealks, without a house of worsbip, and vaable to support a pastor. 1n a short tinze, the Society bailta large, but temporary, taber- pacle, aud commenced the consiru of the slegant Elm Street Church. s Alr. Bartleit's popularity was a continual srowth from the time ho took charge of this Scciety until cailed to tho Plrmouth Chi Chicago, in 1869. Knowing Ly reputation tne Sharucter of this ity for enterprise. and regarding ¢ as a new apd tider field for the exercise of his enersy and talents, ho severcd his ploasant relations of he East, and came to Cli- g ere he bzs 2dded to bis previovsly-ac- quired famo. His church is only second in num- bers zod wealth in this city. since it cccupies in she South Division the gams prominence which the First Church holds in the Wesi. The great fire interfered with its growth. as it did with many ofbers; but the Socioty, after uniting with ko Somth Cinarch, bave commeuced, Bear Twenty-fourth street, oa Michigan avente, tho sonstruction of ope of the largest and finest Lonses of worship in tho city. The wallsare well up now, and the edifice will be completed gometime Dext epring or summer. 3r. Bartlett's stylo of preaching is mot com- paraule to any other pulpit orator in the ciiy His seutences are short, sparkling, almost ecintilating with fresh originality. He im- preasses oue with his blitheness, vigor, and schol- arstip. Of stout build, he zppears like s mus- sular giant; for, with ail his scholarship, e bas prascived completely his physical energy, aud is able to trawsform it into eloguence and iu- tclicctual force. Mr. Bartlett is more of a2 essayist or brilliant lecturor than preacher. His eermeons frequently luck that logicsl order 1nd colerence which are best celeulated to im- pross tho unregenerate heart. e is brilliant, witty, aod leeried, and it woald bo a mirecle to §nd one go to sleep under his pulpit m'nistra- ious ;-but ihere is a want of arrangement in bis scrmons out of which grows = diffi- zalty on the part of the hearer to discern the otan or theory on which the sermon was de- 7eloped, which fact interferes with it3 being epaciorslr remembered. Mz, Berllett writes his sermors, but allows simelf frequentls to diverge inio epinodes and usteatiors, which are mot the lesst Wlling parts of bis dicconrses. e sas spent the summer in Europe, where ho 233 stored his mind wilh new thoughts which will undoubtedis be developed in bis future re- ligions work. In a rapidly growing portion of slio city, and in the new charch-edifice now ap- proacling completion, we hope r. Bartlett will spend tho many fuzure years of aseful toil which pow scem promised to him. — PROF. SWINCG'S WEDNESDAY EVEN. ING LECTURE. The Wednesday evening prayer-meeting at the Fourth Presbrterian Church, corner of Rush and Saperntor streets, was well attended, very few of the seats bemng vacant. Prof. Swing con- tinuod his remarks on the * Sunday-School.” He zaid : 1t was suggestedlzst Wednesdsy evening that w0 resume to-night the topic upon which several of us then epoke,—tho religious edncation of tho soung ; and a3 af that time, we looked upon the dark side or, st lesst, upon the shady eide, of thismatter, and brought before our hearts and minds the shortcomiogs of our Church, Ihope to-pight thatweshall alllook upon the brighter side, and discuss the question moro in its general outlines, taking it for granted that our Chaurch is doing, or is about to do. its whole duty. I know of mo verse to read that will roswer our purpose better as a text than the familiat one, **Remomber thy Creator in the days of thy youth "—the one taken before. The period of vouth is not only the period in which the heart is moided, a8 we remarked the other evening, but it is the period above all others when moral truths are roqgaired. Iiis not only the period when the soul s easily fashioned, but it is the period in which man stores wway the great moral truths - which are, for the most part, to guide him tbroogh life. Andin theso days nesriy- every human being lara down tho constitution of his exist- snce. Juet asin the first yearor years of onr Republic, meu blocked out s gensral Constitu- aon that should guide it, 50 in the frst vears of svery one's lifesome great geveral principles are absorbed, if I may so speak, from the surround- iog world—(rom paronts, from friends, from Chureh, from State; 2nd they become the con- stitation of the wiole lfe. This is 3 very sen: eral rula, geaeral, yond our ordin: thought. and it immpzdmu the ednnfiwn&:} yooth so wonderfully impressive and important. Evers person beiween the ages of 4 yeers, E«[xrhzm. auad 16, is writing a constitution of Lis e; beis laring down thoe general laws that + sball guide Lim; and no young person is aware of it; uud neither is the older person by Lis side fully aware of the great chavge that is going on —tliis carving of letiers upan the zoul. And vet this scems to be the actnsl fact in the case. Wo gee thus not only in Teligions matters. in the ro- lizous Listory of the world, but in all hranches of history. Aund we fiud out often our duty in religtous matters by looking at the customs of men dwelling in the great onteide world. Thas we Jearn our own lsoguaze best by studymg scma foreign language, because in that foreign lazguaze We can see the macliaery of Fovernment sud of qualification ; wo can ses il the operstions of evntax as ve ees the nhecis * iu s wasch; whereas, in our own laaguage, which we Lave learned from infaucy, these thiugs are 21l so familiar tiat tho art is invisible. And to in morals. Wo may learn whst we cught to do in religion bv seeing what takes placo onzside of relizion. That illustrates con- tinually the Christisn’s duty. In the outside world yon. find the costitution of evers Life being Jaid in youth. If a man is going 10 be & painter he begins the &% in his childhood; it he i3 oing to be 2 mechznio he wants macbinery in his child- hood, and will seek it; and when he parchases a toy it is some kiud of an instrument, perhzps & locomotive or o steamboat. And evea the old heathen story saysthat when young Achilics waa taken into a10om where his nurse was display- ing scme toys, be caose tho sword, because a certain martial spirit bezan to reveal itself. Thus all the world outside of the Church cooies 1ight down o this land of the young, and picks out i:s leaders. Thev are all bemny made down among the children. It is from them all tue artisis are coming up; all tho architects, cagineers, mathematicians must come up; and, for the most pait, some friead stands by to en- courage tms particular drift of mind. This shows, therefore, that young years are the years that zre storing up all the ideas of life, aad, in fact, are the vears tbat are absorbing the whole color of life, ‘just as white wood dipped in the old Tyrien dye absorbed a purple that never could be washed out, Oid books sbound with stories of this ciaracter. We are tald that Hamilear took his son Hannibal when he was § years of aga to tho altar to make him swear eter- nal bostility (o the Romaps, becauss he waa sure it the young man grow up without bis heart be- ing perfoctly filled with tlus hostility to the Romaas hie would not be 80 good a warrior as he othorwise might bave been. He wantcd the hatred to be such that Rome would be destroyed, —that his son would never rest day or bivhs until it was ovcrthrown,—and beuce tukes him when heis 9 years of age and fills his heart with Dhostility, with augor, with prejudice, and with the war epuit. = Aod when the boy came to bea men he tiampled all over Italy, and was wiccesiful evarywhers, Lecause his father pre- pared bim for just such s trampliug upon the zecks xud souls of meu. Wo nre ziso told that the father of Cicero, when the boy was about 12 vears of age, know- ing that he was a born speaker, as he would muko speeches before the family at home, sold Lis farn, and took the boy dowa to Rome and put 1nm yuder the tutelags of anotator. You know whatthe result was, Al the groat painters began in their childhood by marking an the walls. Now, this great ouismds woild shows just whero tho human Leart is forming, where it is shaped in its feslings, and where 1t gets i ideas; snd, thercfore, the Church is bound to scize upon this great priuciplo of human nature, —this principle of God,—nud is bound to tako s youth by the hand and lcad them along in the'right path. If I mav speak of a personal matter : A boy of 15 years was placed under my care, some tiweive vears ago, in order Lo bs inetrugted £8 a private papil. Whilo walking with bim in the woods ono beautiful Saturdsy he zaid : “ How do you suppess all these things —these trocs, these flowers, all this magnificent woild—came from fire #” I discovered thon that tho boy's father was a materialist (what we call an stheist), and bad taught his child that all thus magniticent world came from some kind of zction of the elernents, and this lad of 15 years had no idea thzt = great intelligent Creator made all things. Ile pad livea a very secluded iife, and Lis beart was hterally empty of that ides of God which 1 entercsined Dy moet children. Uncousciously e had absorbed the whols macorialistic system —thao atbeisi-c systemi—and the father, perhups, bad smply taught bim through cwiiosity, not desiring to make 2n infidel or atheixt out of hus zon ; bad, perhape, taught bim for pleasure, or sccidentalty, maay of those prnciples. But the 12d heard no ono clye speak. Wis father was a Tich banker. and kept bts children apart . from the wotld, snd this Iad of 15 had all tho philoso- phy of old Lucretins, and the more receat phil- osophy of Tvudall (it was long ago) fally in his mind aud lLeart. Look st the Mahommedan cluld. Itisfull of Msbommedanism—bas ab- sorbed it. Now theeo facts show the path of the Chnreb just 2s plainly as thongh God hsd _como down frum Heaven, and spoke to you, 2nd gaid, *This is the way; wailk ye it;” just &s though the great God came every day, 26d £aid, *Train up the cbild in the way Lie shouid go, and when be is old Lo will ot Gepart from 1t.” The objection which a great many raiso is just this: * Why shoula I tesch my chuld these rélig- ous dogmss before ba 1a able to compreliend them #' Why? Juet becauss such is buman nature—such is God's plan of earth. All trucis 2ro taugit the voung befors they can compre- Lend them. Tlic cluld vho learus to play upon the piano does not comprebend music,—cannot then, fnall the later years of life, learn the meaning of those truthe, o TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Ono of the most clegant and beautiful churches in Chicago is near completion. It is the church of which tho Rev. Dr. Edward Sullivan is Rector, —Trinity Episcopal. It will be 1ecollected that this Society owned a fino house of worship be- fore the fire of 1871, situated on Jackeon strest, between Vabash and Michigan avenues. The building was one of the many costly churches that fell before the flames. The Society bave not been in haste to rebuild, aud have suited themsalves all the better, o doubt, for their deliberation. About two years ago a lot on the southeast corner of Michigan avenue and Twen- ty-sixth street was secured for a wew church- edifice, and - work upon the chapol was soon afterward commenced. A little lcss than a year ago the chapel was occupied for the first time a8 a place of worship, and, in the mean- time, work was prosecuied upon the main struct- ure, This was originally planned to cost about 55,000, but changes and improvements bad Leen mads as the work advauced, nntil it is estimazed tuat it will require at least $110,000 to cover all the cost. One radical change, for iustance, has been madein the mode of Lealing, which has increasad the cost of that one item from $3,500 to somo $8.000. The building isin the Gothic atyle, of Joliet stoue, wilh no special oruamenta- tion exteriotly, no tower or steeple, but Laving a look of remarkatle elezunce amd taste. One has but io walk inside to see that its internal finish is second to that of no place of worsbip in the ciL{; ¢ The building is 170 feet in longth, including tho chapel, and 92 feet in breadth of the tran- sept. Tho nave is canopied by a ceiting exquis- itoly frescoed and finished with open timuer- work, which is 65 feet above the floor. The ceiling, instead of following iLe rafters, as is oftea the caso, or heing molded into curvilinear forms, consists of five plans surfaces, The frescomng attracts the atteution atonce. It is done in red, blue, and gold. and consists almos: entirely of pleasing designs chiefly drawn from tho plzn-world, as trefoily, ceila-leaves, ana ertistic flowers, Everywhers Jittle gold crosses are conspicuously placed, and even tho plant tracery scoms to kave been sclected for ity reremblauce to the perpetual symbol of ths Clristian religion. Tue cbancal is froscoed in fine taste. This work hes all been executed un- der tho direction of Mr. Wight, of Tioy, N. Y. ‘Tha ceilings are all finished 1o Norway pine, znd the pews sud other woodwork ars i butternut and walput. The windows ara finished internally and extorually in etouo tracory, thore being uot 3 particle of.wood about the. The building is heated with steam, the pipes being vlaced imme- diately under tha floor, so thut each pew is beatod by a coil placed directly ba- neath it. 'The entire work hax been in chiarge of Mcsurs. McGlineey & Merigold, and Mr. $cGlincey bas porsonally supervised all the devartments as they wore in progress. On the part of the church, Mr. Anson Stager bas beon the principal adriser and aathority ; and to him are duo inoumorable suggesidons and changes which have added greatly 1o tie baauty of the sacred edifico, Ths work will be completed, and the bnilding will be occupied for tne first time, on the first Sunday in Noevember, should Dr. Sullivan be back in time. 'Those who shall be 8o fortunato 18 to be present ac the opomng will find them- selves Inside & church which has no second 1a point of bezuty. It will comfortably seat some 1,200 auditors. Tho organ. which is in process of construction, is built by a Milwaukes firm, and will cost some #8,000 or $9,000. It is rapidiy assuming ita final form and proportions. g FIRST BAPTIST CIIUROH. Things ere not altogether smooth in the First Bapust Church. Although the Socicty voted last Friday evening, by 80 large a majority as to seem practically unanimous, to go oo with the work of building a house of wrship on the cor- ner of South Tark avenus 2ud Yhirty-first streot, yot it is not gencrally known that there ars a large pumber of intluential members who are compore; it knows uotbing sbout the great science a4 understood by Beetboven and Mozat, The parent stands besids tbo child, and is re- spousible for it. The superior eye of tho parent 18 the guardian of the chiid. ‘Lhe parent siands betweon God and it. Tho paroat’s kuowledzo of mausic and of ‘education, aud of sl these thiugs, etands in the chuld’s stéad. Evers older persun is the medizior batweou every younger peraon =nd God. Every older person is the mediator between every youug person snd civilization and culture, and thus cternal Lifs alsa. Now the idex tiat one must not teach his cbild these dogmas because bis child s not old enough to uudersiaud taem is, perfectly 1n the face of all human ua:uro; and this is the very arzument _brought forward by maay per- soo. ‘They think this 8 liberty. I like no particular creed,” they say; *and I want relig- ions liberty ; and I want my caildren to grow ap in this liberty, and then, after they reach Ltho 2ge of 18 or 21 years, let them choose for them- sclves. Ob what havoe of education this meth- od would make in the realms outsido of the Caurch! Supposs wo sbould eay thas if my son at the nge of 18 ehould wish to learn to read, let Lim learn. If ho wauts to learn arithmetie, let Lim seek that branch of stndy. Tue piinciplo isall false; everv pariof it is false. Whatif vou zad I had beeu reared in a state_of nature, for exzmple, becauss our parents did not wish to prejudice us in favor of dr2ss, or in favor of this or that—let us do without, or chooss for oursclves, what would %o be but savages thisnight? The older pereon stands respousible. He stands between him aud civili- Zzauon, and i8 responsible in every seuss of the word for our early culture, sud for the great subscquent resuits of life, The general principie is this: Thet youth is the period when we are absorbing the grcat truths of life, which in after life we are touuder- d. Now this may seem parsioxicsl and zlse, but it is the great principle npoa which sccicty and seligion are based. We are to learn tue great truths of life in our vouth, arnd in after years undersiend tham. Wo learn music when we are young, and in after years drink in all the giandeur of that great art, aod feel that God is back of it. We learn tolove Nature when we zre children,—the flowers, the trees, and, in atter years, we perceive that God is behind them all. after years wo understand this great dis- pute among the zuthom:es in religion. We nuat learo its great cerdinel truths in early Life, and in sabsoquent 1ifo justify them, and go over the arguments upcn which they are based, and find the groat sense of them. But there is oue other idea tbat must always go with tuis. or elso the whole thing is adead Tailure, and worso than a failure. Itisthis: You are bouud to teach the trath. Thatis tho prmn- ciple. If the parent teaches o falsehood, the whole theory is exploded,—the whols plan of God 18 wrecked and ruined. The dificulty witha Ma- lhommedan child is that tho parent bas no truth. The principie that the older person must tal the yonnger by the band and lead 1t along is God-like, i8 divino ; but woe be to that ofder person who has falschood iustead of truth in bis heart. There is o arrengement made for teaching false ideas to cithor the young or the old. God bas no plan by which 2ny parent can teach zoything footish or false to the child, and Lence thiers are two e duties devolving tpon every ove of you. ‘The first is that yon take somo 08 © by the band 2nd “lead them: and the sce- ond is that von yourselt have the truth in your mind and iu your beart, Woo bo to vou if you lead anybody, and have not found the truth to which to lead them. Henco how careful should every church member be to rize above the narrow, fo rias zbove the small, to rige above those littls views that, perbaps, will Iast only for a few years, and then perish. ' Oh, bovw obligatory it is upon every one of you to find what aro the great general truths of Christianity—its mighty fundamental truths, its great constitational priuciples, and then to feed these to the young hezrt; and, in fataro life, thoy will mnidestand the grestness and beauty of them. But woe be to thet parent who feaches a child oply a great many half truzhs—one-tenta truth or even {falsehood, which in later yeers the child bas to reject ons Dy one, and empty its heart of falsehood, nb- sorbed from untaught and unthoughtfal parents. I znuouuce, therefore, these two principlés: that the grent truths of the Gospel must be taught to the young, but they must be trutha that are taughi: aud, in later years, thet person who has learned thess great mighey truths finds :lx.;e meaning of them‘even’where, und throws in e great aiguments thet go to support them. ‘Who in chuldiood knowa the m:np:ing of the wora **mother”? And yet, in childhood we learn to love ber, and, with tho future vears of life, wo gather in the arguments that teach us why we jove her. In all the future years of lifs, even down to extreme old age, that word “ mothor * 15 in the Leart unfoldiug its meaning. And I tell Fou tha: many & one at the sge of 60 yeers approciated the word “mother™ be never did in tho tiret twenty vears of life. Cow- er, in his 50th vear, thought it was an honor to & bis mother's portiatt _on the wall, and he wote his peelry even 28 be did in & dream ; O, that those lips had langusge. Thus you must learn tho traths of Christisnity —the creed of Christiznity - tho great crcea of the ]i:fle in youth, sll aloog up to 20 years, and young person or persons not satisfied with that disposition of affairs, and did not vote, though present 2t the meeiing. Some would like to havo the First and the Michi- gan Avenuo Churches coslosce acd worship in the fine building which is too large for the lat- ter, =nd would very nicely accommodate both societies ; but thero ars debts and personal in- teresty in the way. Others would like to see tiro First aud the University Place Churches unite ; Lut horo personai and University intor- ests intertere. Somo ars opposed to the church going so far scuth ; and =51t appears probable that the old First Charch, by one method or an- ouher, is Lo be largely deplcted and reduced in numbers as the result of the fire of last July. However, it remaios to be scen whether the wark of rebuilding a fino church_edigce, second to uone in the city, which is to bs mmmediately commenced, will not operate much as a tonic 2nd ndbesive fores to the body, end put an end to the little disaffectiops, which appeared to be growing larger so long as the fufure of the So- ciety was not well defined. e e FIFTH PRESSYTERIAN CHURCH. Tho Fifth Presbyterisn Charch, under the pastoral care of tho Rev. C. L. Thompson, hasde- cided to commenco the crection of a fine new boneo of worchip immediately. It is only some half a dozen ycars since the present stracture was built on Wabash svenue, near Thirty-fiist streo:, and 1t was then belioved to be capable of afford- ing ample accommodations to the Saciety for meny years to come. The church, however, ander the coutiol of Ar. Yuompson as paator, Laa lurge!y outgrown its old home, Last idon. day eveuing the Boczety, at & mesting called for the purposs of considering the queation ot build- 1ng, unznimously resolved to gcli che old house, and to commence the construction of the new oue this fall. The German Evangelical Associa- tion, whoeo church was destroyod in the great fire of July 141 bave made overiires for the pur- chaso of the old bulding, which will probably be They propose to romovs it saverai farther south. Itis not fully decided whether the Presbyte- rians will build on their prescat sito or reaiove & block or 5o farther south. It is provable, however, that the new struciure will be erected on the old site, which is ample cnough for all purposes. A the Socioty will be entirely with- out & place of worsbip, it will be thoir &im to get the basement of their now building ready for occupation as soon a8 the new year, if pos- sible. Several plans are now under considera- tion, whick are equal to some of the bast church odisices in the city. . e THE BELIGIOUS PRESS. . TUE NORTHWELSTERN ADVOCATE calls attention to the increased importance of &n educkied mimstry in the Methodist Cliurch; and especially to the fact that the Trustces of Garrett Biblical Institute sre cngaged in an effort fo raise $100,000 #6 sn endowment fund for tho =id of worthy candidates for the minis- try. It calls for donations, both to that fund and to the funds of the Ministerial Education Society of the Church. The Advocate also has something fo_say about ** Intellectualism.” It urges that ecionce in our day 18 too much ad- aicted to study protoplasm, worms, bugs, and rocks, and has too little to do with human duty. The editor remarks that— = A culture which makes af the intollect a great cal- cium light, and turns fte blaziug spiendor directly aupon the public £nd perzonal prublem of quty, must Lo tho greatest of blessings; & cilture waich gives light only for the study of worms, and buttersier, and protopleaias, and epoctrums, ia fatally defective,— comes utterly short of tle pressing wants of human istencs. If there were only oae man on this pianet, such eclection of study, such exclugivencss of culture, might scrve Lis end.’ But there zre of us jostling exch otiier on'the earth, and our earthly well- bemg depends absolutely upan’ our moral reiations and conduct. Tell uw how to help ourselron by bely- ing cach other, or censo to spesk of civilization,—that 53 2::1.10:; of morals, and thers ia 00 mors!s without Telig . THE INTERIOR has 2 word with ** Apologists for Error,” and ad- vocates 1n its place sonnd, unmistatable, and wholesome Presbyterixn truth. The Inferior aleo thioka the time bascoms for a modern Luther to atise and presch a reformation of the religion of sentimematism acd gush. Says the Tnterior Christ wan nustere on Occarions, a8 well as kindly, Ha £uited Lis course to the wants of the emergency in such wsy 04 1o lecve Do doubt that truth, justice, conti- nence, Lanesty, and the Xindred moralities, were re- garded by Lim 3 integral parts of a religiols charace ter. One eopecial reason why the morzlities should be observed, is the fact that tho leading aesilarts of Caristisnity are men of good repute, The Church cannot afford 1o tolerate moral laxity. Onos the names of Valtaize and Paine stood for infidelity, snd they wwere zen of kxown lovseuess of morals. - Eow sirong the contraet herein between them and Jomathan Ed- wards, Baxter, Bunyan, and the otlier great lights of their day! DBut now the leading ‘ckejtics are Frof. Tyndall, Herbert Spencer,.Dr. Buchuer, and Prof, ifuzley,'snd, going back s little, Mill, Comte, Kant, znd Theodore Larxer. In a mcral point of view, their reputstions are good. Never was there such nied an now thizs the Church should exemplify the eihics of tho Bible. Inidelity will prevail iu proportion as timantalism is sccepted =3 a Eubstitute for princigle, THE BTANDARD haza an editorial on ** Beligion in Sacalar Life."” After notingy the centrast betweon the present snd the past in one respect, namely, that then all persoas, the wicked and the good alike, were profuse in religious expressions, whilo now they are hanlly moutioned even 1u the letters of the most devoat, the editor proceeds to show that— At the sxme time, religion has & way of asserting ftaeit fn the secolar Jife of - even the present periad. ore :nd more we 0nd it enterine fato the record of current events, aad more and more promizent ameng the themes that enguge puiic atiwution. The daiy paper that should neglo:t 1o watch thu movements of {he religious world a3 diligently ax it doss thosa of the politicat, or fall to show fiseif couscious af tus great Spiritaal problems of the age, wonld st once lora its place as » well-conducted journal, It oven seems to bo now well-nigh adinitted 34 essential to eaterprising journalisu thiat the voica of the puipit abail Lo heurd througls it scarcely lavs than tis volco of the forum orthe Scnate-house. Indeed, the sermon fa to-dsy moro a conspicuous feature of the weli-mznaged daily Journal than is the volitical speech. oro czreful pro- vision in mnada for it; and we azizd nothing in saye ing that the aversge sermon iw s-ad with mnany times thy interest of the averags politicd harangue, THE WATCHMAN AND RETLYCTO:, a Baptist papor published in Eoston, says: Wo wrile for information, Wa want o0 know about the Chicago Times, not a8 fo it churacter, but about the constituency which it represents, Is thin journal 2 fair represeatative of the aversge Westcrn wan? Is it o be taken as an exponent of tus tasls of the busi- nesn community of Clucago? We trust not, To irm it would be to_ say thst Western civilization ia exscntinlly barbaric, that its moral seuse ia lieathensshe Iy stola, tust its implety is more course and groas than the ravare. "Iug Cuicagn Trzies of the 12th of October is before ue It cntsine quits full reports of five sermons delfvered in Chicago pulpits the Sunday And how ara thess reports iutroduced 7 There ‘s 1sarly a palf column of starug head-liges. It beglus . GREAT JEHOVAIL HOW HE WA3 INTELVIEWED YESTELDAY FROX GIICA- @0 ruLrrTy, Hore is hing which canuot fail to shock even arreligioun and the unvelieving man hin:self. H is blasphemy oo gross for the seusivility of tho veriest worldling. Thare are cerlain sentiments which beloug ta our common bumanity, altogether independeut of religious formx and ovei beliels, w! outraged atsuch languageas this, Civilized cow- munities, howerer drencked with inddeiity, hold some things 3s sacred. There aro some thoughts which even unbeiief would guard against a 100 taikiiar approseh, When {nfidelity has broken tirough into this iuner sauctity, and cast out into the strects the ob- jects which hava always clallenged the rever- bncs of _thoughtful men, then barbarism is close at hand. When French intidelity rbed a courtesan in the fnsiguis of divinity and towed to her in horrible mockery of woraliy lization was gone, Mol itself haa o grosser savagery than then began to riot ia the Freach Capitsl e bava papers In the Eust whi b are corrupt and corrunting, Wo have papers which flourih by meaus of the unclean taste which they create and stimu- Iute, We have papers thut are irreverent and unbe-s lieving i thuir epiris sud statement. DBut, tuke the wvorst and the viles: of them all, we do not Leilere that it ever matched m saerileze these almoat weekly utter- auces of the Chicage [ines. Agein we ask, has the great Western city no rebuie by which to swmita wuch Lorrible blasphewy as thia? TUE ALLIANCE has an editorislon ** Lue Church of the Future,” and ao interesting colown ox ** Dr. Kerr, of the United Presbytenan, or the Story of & Gun.” ———— THE SACRED BOOKS OF ALL AGES The Golden Age seys: Max Muller, in his address 2t the Orfeatzl Congress in London, aunounced that » effurt is making to el fect a translation of ths S:riptures of all nations iuto English, The uuderisking is a vast one. Some of the sacred books are trauslated alresdy. We bLave long had fair trauslations of tha Chiness classice, of Confucius zad Mencius, by Dr. Legge. We have ko tho 400-page octavo of the Zendavests, sccording to Bpiegel, aud in a yesr or less shall have it better cording to Havg; and we have the later Zoi trian Looks. Wa have the * Egypiian Book of tha Doad,” the only thing that Egyps Las keft in the way of a Bible. We hive Lwo guod trausiations of the Koran,—Lane's znd Roswell's Lations of the Hebrew and Chr Vedus bave been only parilally trapalsted 2s yet. They will ail be translated, Do doubt, bus the wark will bs very exteusive. Mix Muller laid before the Oricutai Coagrews, at the closs of his izsugural zd. dreey, the List piage, fresh from the prese, of ais edited test of the Rig Veda. Simply in arranging this Sinakmit fost he has Lesn twenty-five years at work, and bas in that time printed 15,000 large quarto piges. This fuct couveys an 1dea of the extent of Work im- plied in the transiation of thess earliest Scriptures of our race. Dr, Trumpp, of Munich, woo was pruseut during the earlier dzva of the Cougress, is eug ged in translating the # Adigrath " Bivls of 'the Sikus into both English and Geeman, in which lagnage he is equally well versed. Tis Lible of the Siklis, quite unknown aa yet 1o any btt Sanskrit rowders, is written on_ palm-lesves » foot sud a half long by Hve facies wide, and is half & foot or more thick, so that 4t 8 estimated to make 1,00 octavo page the writings that can be ealled Scriptures which require translaion, the Laws of Munu and Lesser Vedas huve iug been well rendered Ly Sir W. Jaues szd others. A translation of a!l the Bivles f the world would mean preparing and printing soms sixty or seveuty volumes about the size of that wisich containg our Uid and New Teslaments, A cocsultation his tafen plice with sn_emiuent London firm who are willing Lo be- gin the publication at their own risk, but are not pre- pared to promise to continue it. Tho cast would be immenae, since the best schiolsrs of the workd wouid have to be paid large sums to warrant them in turning aside from their regulsr work and giving themaelves up to allotted portions of this. Dut 3 bumler of wealthy men, hearing that such a project is under dis- cusaion, Liave come forwsrd and offered to guarantce large sums of money to sccure the thing, provided ALux Muller will devote Limseif 1o it, s o THE OLD TESTAMENT. To the Editor of I Chicaye Tribune: Siz: In commenting editorially upon the paper read by Dr. Koller before the Chicago Literary Society, you £ay that ho took a view of the Oid Testament tales which may startle eomo orthodox Israelites. Allow mo to correct you in this matter. There is not =an intelligent Israclite in this country, whether orthodox or reform, who would implicitly believe in any miracle, related in the Bible or any other book. The most orthodox Jewish paper in the United Statea Lias recently admitted in one of its edi- torials that the idea of a personal God is no-Jew- ish, snd that thers is mo other people in the world besides the I[lobrew. who have’ grasped compleiely tho idea of an 1mpersonal God. If such 13 the case, it is uot likely thata rational explacation of the miracles in the Old ‘Testameut should startle any of them. AN ISBAEZLITE. Citcaao, Oct, 24, 187 — KOTES. BAPTIST. The Baptists of Howall, Mich., having enlarged and improvod their housie of worship, wiil reopen it to-day. A new houss of worship for the Baptists at Bedford, Mich., is nearing completion, and will be dedicated in November. While thero are seven Baptist churches on the rairoad from Aurora to Freeport, Ill., thers are only two pastors. Will not somo unemployed Buptist minister go out in that direction, rod taie caro of some of these ebepherdless flocks ? 1t is anuounced that the codowment fund of 250,000 which was being_secured for tlis Cen- tral Univeraity, of Iowa, bas been fully made up. The Hyde Park Baptists have commenced the buildiog of & new bhouse of worship, to_cost abour €2,000. The aggregute membersbhip is about thirty. The church was orgenized lsst spring, sodisina healthr, gromwug state. It supports its pastor, the Rev. E. E. Bayliss, and bas provided about three-fourths of the amount neceseary to complete the new building. . Dr. Jefiry's now church (Baptist), T e D T aiacat Oos e DL Brooklyp, N. D Joflry T formerls pastor of ths Noith Daptist Church of this city. The life plan of missionary service in foreign lands seoms to be faling into disrepuie. Ab least & Baptist mizsionary in India proposen thit men and women who go OV 23 Wivsionerics shall ealist for ten years only. Hethinks by thisplan tho miesionary service would Lo wmore effective, 28 many missious are ruined by sick men hang- ing on, and by the retoution of men too old for hard service. ‘Fhe Philadelphis Baptist Aesociation has re- solved unanimoasly that they are not close but open communionists. S0 #ays aa Esstern peper. The Daptiets are carrying the war into Den- mark and Sweden. They count 10,000 rembers and 10,500 Sundsy-scocol scholars in Sweden, aud 1,396 members in Deuma: The Philadelphis Baptist Association is com- posed of 84 churches, with a memborabip of 80,000, and 106 Sanday-gchools, with a member- ship of 19,000. The Seventh-Day Baptiet General Conference recently heldin De Ruyter, N. Y., reported 83 churcles, with 8,237 memberz, The Western Avenue Baptist Church held their sevond aunivereary last Tuesday eveomg. Ad- dresses were made by the Bav. J. Gadon, B. F. Jacobs, and others, The Beptirt Church et Ozk Park gave an in- teresting cutertzinment Tueséay evening. The programme consisted of reeding and fableaux from * Pilgrim's Progress,” and was exceediagly weell done. EPISCOPAL. At the General Convention of tne Protestant Episcopal Church, the Dishops adopted the fol- lowing canon on church-music It shell be the daty of every minister of this Church, with such aamstancs as hie can obiain Irom perzons skillad in music, to give order concarning the tunes to bo sung at any time i bis church, aud especially it nkball be his duty to soppress all lighs snd unsezmly usic and ail tndecency and irreversace in the per- formance by wi 1f ¢h vain and ungodly persons prafane tuo service of L s BANCLUATY. The reredos controversy st Exoter Cathedral bas made that piace of worehip famous. Sinco the lost appent of the case, tns Catbedral bns Dbeen vigited by ¢ ver 1,000 persons & weck. Six- pence admission is charged. It is znnounce 41 that a conference of Anglican Bizhopsis tobe beld at Lambeth in November to consider the & £ 'bject of euchaistic vestncnts, which 18 al#o noy 1 uuder conaideratiyn by a larze commit:eo of th¢ Lower House of the Canter- bury Provines. I ne Biehop of Lincolu will lay before the Cunfe: 3 21ce A number of petitions re- questing tho san&:tion of & distinctive dressat tho administration; of the communion. Trwo Bishops we z 8 consecrated in Westminster Abbey on St. Bart! 1. 2lomew’s Day,—the Rev. Dr. ‘William Busil Joue 8 to oo Biehop of 5t. David’s, and tho Itov. Dr. x4 sere, of the Zanzibar Mis- sion, 10 be Bisiop «>.f Bouth Africa. BEFO § MED EPISCOPAL The Rov. Or. Csa : raft, of Gambier, 0., s man of recognized abilit ¥.. and formerly 3 Presbyter of 1llingis, is prescl u ug for & Keformed Episco- pal congrogation at . b rantford, Can., with a pros- pect of remmning at: that nuportaot pomt, Bishop Commins 15 expected to dedicate a new church building for the lteformed Episco- paliaus at Iasc Liber 4y, Pa., on tho 25th iuat. Christ Cbarch, Chie¢:szo, has ane of the very best clioira in the cicss Prof. Knoplal presides st tho organ, and 3rs. Lena Hastreiter Schoon- hoveu, the well-known: soprauo, bas lately gone these. MET EODIST. Thers appears to ba & growing ill-feeling be- tweeu the wombers of the Aetaodis: Episcopal Church South and the 1memoers of the Nortnern Methoaist Chuicn, A A'¢ek or two ago guoia- tious wers given from .3 Alobue paper making severo complsints &g 7 unst some AMethod.st mivisers of the Mets ¢idist Episcopal Church, and the [ast number of tie New Ocleuns Advo- cale, a conservative cu-'gan of the Southern Cuurch, says: Tue Methodist Episcopsl Church {n the South, es- cially in the S.ates of .\ twbama, Mississippi, and uisiina, 18 composed simc v &_exclusively of negroes. Urigiually they wero tolied off from the Boutuern Catrch by Lersuadiug them & hat wo were eucinics and opprensory, tat they wiust +cOme bLack to *motler caurch,” and that waile tue € Culh was wiserably poor the Northiern Courch was rici 3 aud able to help tuem, These very pleusille argum n ile, connected with the forciblo svizure of our cuurc b property, bad their ef- foct. For ten yeurs the purp x i0 aud intleace of the Northern Cuirch in tho Soutt Las been to excite dis- trust aud hatred in e Degros w: againat the whitea, It i8 by thix COUrsd tat they LC Y €10 maintain and ex- tend their cuurches 2moug Liem. 50 lougas they can Keep up this cistzust and ¢ 3 wpicion of thoe Chorch to whici they owe uesrly ail th ¢ y_know of the Gospel, and 50 longz k9 they catl itubuo . their winds Wik bit- terners aud buto toward the wi £'1e people, the negross will submit to e dictition iwd guidance. Whaere thero 18 any eynepiom of defect 3ou Weso colored Hocks ara caily Lierded and whipped ; 11t0 lino by missfonary Bhecels, snd by tho old fabaticals sppeal against alive- holders and Toveis. A new Mothodist church b g ilding, to cost 810,- 0tv, 18 0o to Le commencea, for Uccan Grove sud Asoury Paik. New Methodist churches w trre dedicated, Oct. 18, at Glendon, Pa., Ricivale, Pa., Frovideuce, R. L, and Alt. Pleanant, Md, The Methodists of Cincinnatii sre goiog to fit up the camp-grounds, vear Lo & elaud, in & fine mauner. A sale of lots takes |xlace Oct. 29. It 18 expected that wany will take 1wdvantage of the cull times jn the late fall and winter to erect Beat coitages for sojourcing in d uring the camp- ground season, The moueya iu:ceived for tue low will be used in decoratiiny tuo grounds, when tiey ase a!l peid for. The Methodist cburch in Hiaickley, IIL., bas henuoomoved and repaired, av an eIpense of 32,600, PRESDYTERIAN. The Cumberland Fresb:ierizn Church have cousolivated thewr church organ:s into the Ban- ner-Presbyterian. The mew pa;der takes the place of the Cumberland Presoyl urian asd tue Banner of Peace. The Forty-second Sireet Presbyt e dan Charch, of Naw York, has a debt of $30,000. It is said that the higheet Presbyt e rian charch in the world 10 at Fairplay, Colorsdix. It 1s on the east slope of the main range of’ the Bocky Mounzaing, at an elevation of xoout. 10,000 feet above the wes. It wes dedicated (Nt. 4, The services took place dunag & violent gwiow-storm. The Presbyterian Church in Maywoc d gave an entertaivment Tharsduy eveniog for v beaetit of the Sunday-school of that Society. caTmouIc. The lIatest fact in the roligious wanof Ger- mavy aod Bwiizorland 1 to the effect that the Catiolic priests of ' the Cantou of Gerwe va, who refused 10 take the oatn prescribed by the new *worship laws,” have been dismissed by the Council of State, sud the Superior C'atholic Couccil has been cailed uyon to fill the vacan- cies thus wade. 1n a joint declaration, syhichall tlie deposed cures rewa {from their pulpiay, they ead tha: they bad . refused to taks 2n oatls con- demued by the Pope; thuc they would cotitinue iu the midst of their Socks, ana coutront all sul- ferings in the prosecution of their dusies. :Their parishiouers are forbidden 1o acceps the sax vices of tueir successors, and zre warned that they will commit mortal ein, and will expose them- selves to tho punishments decreed Ly the cioon law if they takie any part inthe election «uf the Bew Fricats. The Unila Callolica publishes statistics tiow- ing that the Roman Catbolics in Englznd ip- creased from 60,000 in 1765, to 3,380,000 in L5, They now have 1,598 priests, L4355 chun:ties, 86 monasterics, 256 convents, and 1,260 scaools. The Catbolics of Germany have 20,000 primsts, 800 mouzasteries and couvenis, 20 bishorrics:, 3 Archlisbops, and three Vicars Apostolic. M18CELLANEOGS. To-day and to-morrow bave been appoirdad days of prayer teroughout Christendom for thio Sunday-schools of tka Church. Upiverealism does not seem to be 2 mission=zy orgauization. In Nesw Jerser, where 1t origina.- ed a hundred yesrs £go, itis bardly kuown: a dozen congregations, some of ther very feebl, comprising sil. As an organization it is weaker in Pennsylvania to-day than it was twenty-fove Fears ago. Alr, Gladstone has recentlv roused a good deal of religious resentwent agginst bim in Irelard by us recent alluzion to *‘ihe blocdy reign uf ary,” and by lus assertion that the efortto Romsniza the Chuich of Engiand is utterly hope~ loss and visionary. All-Saints’ Episcopsl Church, under the Rov. Henrr G. Perry's ablo rectorate, is making viei- ble progress. The church interior has been re- ceutly refitted, the walls naw colored, and chan- cel décorzted 1n very appropriate style, besides other improvemenis mado for comfort’s sake, and in good taste. The Church Missiopary Socioty, the represen- tative of the Church of Englaud, Les recently withdrawn from the ndusmscar field, leaving that island to the Londou Mission. The Sociaty has, in Africz and Iudia, 157 principal stations, ;dained missionaries. of whom 142 zre na- tive ministers, 34 unordained faborers. 2,244 teachers, 2,555 nativo commuaicants, znd 107,- 263 native Clristians. Much comment st the East has been passed upon the fact that a delegation of prominent Unitarians, directed by the Saratoga Convention to convey the good wishes of the Unitarian body 10 the Cougregationalists in session at New Haven, failed to couvey the fratornal wishes as ditected. It appears uow, that the Commuttee, of whora ths Liov. E. E. Hzle was & member, concluded to send » grecting lotter, 2nd not o ro themsclves ; and the leiter arrived too late to be read. Tho Second Universalist Church of Boston re- fused, lnst week, to accept the resignation of its pastor, tho Rev. A. A. Miner, D. D., bat passed a resolution requesting hita ' to absndon certain % terday morning. city nearly s week. ‘fha Rev. Dr. Irving, of New Yorlk. one of the Secretaries of tho Presbyterian Board of For- eign Miseions, who has bee visiting Chicugo, reports tho Board $30,000 beiund its last year's work a: the present time. Ar. B. F. Jacobs, who has, with great snccess a8 & Iny preacher, Jed the Bible mectings in the First Laptist Church during the past tivo years, resizned that offico last Friday evening. To- night will bo the last of these mectings under the anspices of tao Firat Baptist Cburch. It is underatood that Mr. Jacobs will horeafier spend bis time and Iubor in the work of evanzelization, under the name 2nd zuspices of ths Young Men's Clristiau Asspciation. Ha isabout to start tho publication of 2 new Sunday-school journal, which will engross much of i3 attention. Mr. Jacobs is so well sequainted with Suaday-sciool work, and has made =0 wide & repatation in that line, that s journal will start out with unusual prowise of success. ELSEWHERE. Mr. M. C. Hazard will prepare the Sunday- school leesons for tho National Teacher next yesr. The Brooklyn Eaptists have got acother so- cessiomst. ‘(he Rev. J. B. Cleaver has left the Sixth Avenus Daptist Chuicb, Brooklyn, aad started a ** Gospel chiurch.” His old cougrega- tiou refuse to give him » letter dismissory, and recently, dariag a stormy church-meetiog, ha carried off the puliut. which he claimed s per- gonal property. He keeps fase horses, and some of his old parishionors think this inconsistent with mivisterial piety. The Rev. William Hamilton, formerly 2 Units- rian, but whose opinions have recently become orthodox, was 2dmitted to the Congrogational mimstry in New York recantly. Tbe Rev. J. P. Davis, of the Southern Illinois Conference (M. E. Cburch), has united with the Reformed Episcopal Church. Tho young Duke of Norfolk, first on the roll of tue Euglish peerage, is aoout to become a priest of the Oratory of St. Plulip Neri. Bzboo Pootab Chunder Mozoourdar, brother of tie Otter Chuader, erc., has recently visited En- gland for the purpose of examining iws educa- tional system, 1ts indusiries, and 1té social aud religious hfe. Mar Yohanan, the well-known Nestorian Bish- op, died at Oroomiah, Porsia, reccutly, at the advanced age of over 70. He hsd been teacher and eupporter of Dr. Perkins, thie founder of the Nestorian Alission, in 1833, and bad eatered 1nto marnage, contrary to the Nestorian rule. He passed Lis closing daya in estrangement from the Old Charch, which was not ready to follow in bis reforms. The Rov. J. 8. Foulk, pastor of the German Reformed Clurch, Carlisle, Pa., has joined tho Presbyterian Chosch. Pope Pius IX. comes of a long-lived famly. His great-grandfather attained to the age of 73 years, his grandfather 93, his father 83, ana his mother 83. Ile alvo had three brothers wno reached respectively 76, 83, and 90. Dr. Voa Gerlach, in Germany, has been sen- tenced to pay a tine of 200 thalers or to serve a eix-week's imprisonment for wiiting a pampulet againsi the new German Civil-Marriage act. The Rev. Jacob T. Ellis, of the Washington Btreet Congregational Church, Toledo, hzs ac- cep ed & call to tho Congregational Church of Forest Grove, Ore. The Rev. Ira C. Bill- men, of Omabha, goes to the vacaut pulpii n Loledo. The Soringfield Kepublican ezys the Rev. M. K. Schermerhorn, formerly cf Boston, has calls {from the Unitarian Chiurch at Baffalo, N. Y., 2nd tho Third Unitanan Charch at Chicago. On the evening of Oct. 19, the Park Street Church, Boston, zccepted the resignation of its pastor, the Rev. W. H. H. Murray, zud now the rampant Deacon Farnaworth is pappy. It is 1eported that Georga Macdonald has de- :‘ermibed to meke the Uuited States Lis future ome. The Daptiets on the Chicago & Towa Railread | i love the P’resident of that Company, Mr. F. E. Hincaley. A correspondent of tho Standard 238 Lo 1s ** 2 Christian gentleman and geuuine DBaptuist, who by bis skiil and perseveraance planued and pushed to completion the Chicago & Iows Railroad, aod who is doing more toward the erection of meeting-houses and toaidin | * lanting and supporting Baptist charches on this The Rov. C. W. Roberts, of Macomb, III., has accepted a call to the Baptist Church of Wanke- sba, Via. Hois & young man, and s graduate of Shurtlel College. The Rev. J. 8. Frame, pastor of the Presby- terian Church at Champaign, 1IL, dicd suddeniy Oct. 13. 4 ——— RELIGIOUS EISCELLANY. Tho Moravian missionarics in Antigus, West Indies, have reccived during the past century H An English Baptist paper says that it has been left to the ingenuity of a modern painter the pictare No. 1,944, at the International Ex- mibition, Chriet is represeatod as-stopping up out of deep water, while John is asssting him [rom the bank ; the small shell which painters nsually assign to the latter (the common scailop) lics on the bank, as 1f just turown down by John, after being used fo pour water on the Savior's head. The Christign Tnion says: Turkish intoler- ance is becoming still bolder. It appears now that &n old regulation, which had iz many places becamo obolete, forbidding Christiaus to live in ‘Turkish quarters of Coostantinople, has been again enforced within tho last few weeks, with- out any special regson, and in deference, it iy alleged, to * superior orders.” Several Chris- | [} tian families occupy houses in the Tarkish quar- ter in tbe lower part of the Rus Koumbarad; bohind the Italian Orphanage; and lately Lfl. Mussulman clergy of the district, the imams, called ot all thess housos and gave notico to ths occupants to quit them withio fonr days. An imperial edict has slso been iesued, in which stiict njunction is Iaid upon the faithfnl fo fut- ill thoir religious duties with scrupulous exacti- | o tude, and to attend mosque regularly five times a day at the hours of piaver, or otherwise to bs taken there by force, The Turk is evidently moving all slong the line to resist ths encroach- ments of tho Chnstian **infidal” The throb of tho religious war-drums appears to be dyiog out, and the denominationai battle- flags zre boing furled. At the late meeting of Coe advocated the intimats union of Presby- and soconds a suggestion, made by & rolizious paper, that all the aggressive evangelical churches bo invited to act upon thosame Lasis of | bi hzimony and good will. ‘That difficuls and bitberto inexplicabls soxt which compares a rich man’s reascnable hope of Heaven to acamel passing through a necdle’s eve mas been 80 modified by recent geographical ex- ‘ploration as to let a few rich men into Heave: uader_certain favorablo circumstaices. The ent, the doors are to-dsy ss low as they wers 2,000 imade, througkz both of which & man can only paas whes stooping. An unloaded camel can scarcely creep through by crawling on its knees. These amall doors ara sull called by the Arats now, as they were 2,00 yours ago, the * Needle's Eve.” In this way thess new commentitors on this prasage think it ecsily ex- plained. Sooner can a loaded czmel paes through th ncedle's eye than the loaded man, wita wis vorld's riches on hia back, enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Tus Advocale indivuatea that tho cxplanation is a littls *too thin.” work which he has undertaken, not connscted with his pastorate. 1t appears that there are quite a larze number of German churches or sssociztious in the TUnited States which sre not connected witn 2oy synodel or other sectarian organization, and are aubstantizlly Unitarisn or Liberal. Nine are re- ported iu Cincinnati, seven in_Pittsburg, two ia New Orleans, and one or two in Chicago. Very little authorily is exercised over theso churches by the_sssocintions, and_tho ministers include wmen of all shedes of religious thought,—Free- thiukers, Hratics, Lutterans, Calvinists, Unita- rizus, and Trivitariacs, aud zdbezents of the Gorman, Swiss, and Dutch Reformed Churches. The New York Obserter suggests that the Eezstern Metropolis needs 2 great building liko Exeter Hall, London, for the accommodztion of the' great religious bodies which &ro coutinnally meeting in that city. ——— PEESONAL. cmicado. President Mozs, of ths Chicago Univerity, preached & very fine sermon at the University Place Baptist Church last Sunday evonig. A pleasant reception waa tendered to the Rev. N. H. Axtell, lat Thursday evening, by the members of Park Avenuo 1I. E. Churoh. Mr. Axtell was transferrod from Elgin by the last Reck River Conferoacs. | Bishop Haven laf; Chicage for Clnaisnat! yes. Why does the Pope refues to go oat from the Vaticen? Why doos his call kimse!f a prisoner? Mgr, Merdi, who probabiy speaks sami-oficially, repiies as follows to these queries, and probably gives the trne reasons: * Conld liis Holiness como ont to ece ths convents turned inio bar- | rij racks o cfiices, hiz ovn palace turved intos I know not what. thon bless? If 1t be a bad thing, it?" The society complained. replied: “You will find ms like ong rols of cider. phoftee rups.” ber mother one day, wheu sl to ber the last number of tha mamme, don't read ms that childish stoff; resd me about the Baccher case.” pame. bymn-book.” The neighbor expressod surpris sod taid shia Tad noves ootm tos nma?x‘:pn:; bymn-book she had ured. the mother of Mazin Grace. recollect that famuliar old bymn commencmg the Cungregational Council al Now Haven, Dr. | out of bis face, and his hieed dropged. waa_endently = men:al struggle. terizns and Congregstionalists in mission wouk, | straizbitened “himself, inevitable conclusion, hims de Lord knowa I's forgub nim, bat’—aod 2nd, wiih a lwgh, pointing 4 semewhat close proximity, she ann'L'l‘nMd- suppose that is Jacob kissiag Bachal ¢ sided, and offered no further expositcry but groaned under & ¥enso of GAWORDL ing the rest of tho visit. _Whataocver aman soweth, that shall be £ He has been 8 _/iug in the | schools. Five evang, cliets warg prescated reports ehowini s proupe BPIOTR, The pre; aration "‘U'_G)-‘]k‘l’ouu;L m'h dermy. p: of 2 new Lyzuebygy :Iiié To show what progress 4 bas mads v Madszasear ol ny Bocessary to sate taat thy Taupaiyl Society rocently dedicated t gl itsioge Church of Madagascar I et Bougry precipice whero, twentr-firg yeyl it rative Caristians wera oarnsd ang |2 Szl DUt to death. According to tan L O of thin wisdion, it hay aow oo LSEES English misxionarics, 50 nats S Dalive teachera, 67,000 chge LA 230,000 native adhoronts llo[)iennfl 576 echools, estel] and ten assistants bave reegus, Charch of Eariand peen diocese thera. d jiotts el i arics in Madagnecar. or o eeventy-four pizces of gxaaml:'m T Priests in tha central provigg. Fag The Massachuseits hold 3 Gonronion o5 ool 2 vy Thes propose tais vear to havo bep possiblo, a_complcte list of sy ot Lira, i ool in tho couatrs, the ‘anber o (2 aad sciolars, whetaer they all atudy & national Lessons, how many ‘ch e, Lie are ongazed in mission-echoa] worg o A comimitteo are now at wors eyt o2 statiztica, which will by publiey. 2P The Worcoster (lass.) Gazerres cont parish._chure ma.?u”ng‘.”‘.i"e'a’fi““‘"* called 10 tako action in'relation by cip, o5, tor, the Committes made 3 very fa e ils bfie of tho candidate, and the sentient of o5 10z peomed entirely favoralls, At 1y 028t elderly member 05 aad satd hats piB %3 eatistied with the report of the Goni2l8 T wauted an anawer to ons question :t:em&-" could cast bis vOto.—was this mag aFros ;?" b Tise Chairman of the Committes grarey 2% toat oy had songh the caudidsta's sy T boshood, thronzh hus colisgiate ang g, 3 course, and biad_visited tha pisecs when Pl besn settled. They had found, everse e M denco of Lis hizh charscter a5 1 muy "o 0% tian, and 2 miniser, bul they ad fagas” quire or to ascertain whether he was 3 mb > or alire compaay or 2 biss: baoj1 "y 0w confess, by ails 403 of dareliction frg Cory ot baty Tho Jesuics alio byrs o toy —_— s i EdXCERPTS. . Moore prayed st the meeti society. He eaid: h Lord, 'Eng vy It 1t be a go wilt 00 coeg Tho preacies When I tap it, I hav to taks why An Episcopal clergyman, who rather p, "y Jjoke, was engaged to read thg servica for brother minister, 20d was’ hurryiag to chuch litde belated on Sunday moroing. A frie sruck by his uncommon speed, inquired: “gy why g0 fast ? i3 runs may read.” In order,” axid he, * (33t by g, “ Yaller Moses.” a colored divins in Virzioly, thus conciuded oneof his recent disconrses: *But _yer must likewise ‘sarch de Seripturees Lew Marshall tell B,b White las' Sundsy, Pfi can we sarchScriptures when we dans. got pg Bible. and dunno bow toread?' Yes, I hear 'ig eay &0. Lreckon you taink ‘Yaller Moeea' gwine to sarch de Scriptures for de whols con. Fo cam only fell'you b ter make vorsits can only you how ter make yerselfs Bus ebery brudder, ebery sister, can mgfi Lisself and trace truth from ber mazy lair, 1od drag ber howlia’ to de ligat ob day.” No; old Moses can’t make yer zood; A ittls girl in Boston, only 5 years o, maidty Pproposed teading Nursery: “No, A fond mother in Ralls County, Missour, b nomed ber dsughter Mazin Grace. A naighbor nquired how shs came to select such ap odd *+La!" savs sbe, “Igot ib ont of the ** You haven't!” sif *Why. don't yoa ilazin Grace, how swees the sound " ‘When a Brooklyn woman feels that resistance lipe of road than avy other four men who can bo = i & e 5 el 5 to tyrants is duty to God, and kicks her hushaad fatad, . The Lipra biesd Beotiar Hitiklay, throuzh the front door, she borrows the sugss plum language of tue pastor, and calls her s tion 2n outward manifestation of * tzua inward. nees.” The Rev. 3Ir. Oshorne, of Florids, soeskingal s recent meeting of the Nationai Holincss Asso. ciation, urged the people to acek salvation ¢ from totacco, from crogquet, and from Free Masonry,” An English clergyman exclaimed, in s compazy of his fellow preachers, ‘Ah, well, thers is oply one thing in o mistrations mixe teving 6,101 adult memboss, and 5,921 boys and girls. | 3010 than preaching.” ' Indeed!” tiez “and what may that bo?” *¢Ilearng auy ous else proach,” e replied. A modest editor says that ‘“the defailzof to reprasent both modos of baptism =t once. In | A edest oCRor kers Mok © e Tral Too gross. you kuorw. A clergyman at Jaris, Ky., stopped bis prayar to lesd zn ucroly man out by the ear, and weal on; **As I wes gaying, O Lord.” Tt has beea discovered that the foinied fiskixg rod was invented because one can’c hido a loag cane pole under his cvat Sundaya. Stanley is going to take a Bible weishing 22 pounds into Atrica with bicy, and if 3 haods can be attached toit, it will prove 3 most &= structive weapon. A pogrooace wentto give his experiencan love-feast. He said he bad beon resting 3 bom {or some time, and be bad found no peace ; bst when the Presiding Elder opcoed his *mi ollutea™ hps the darkness d:sappeared acd ght sprung up. A case of religious persecation occarred in St Louis recently, A young lady was arceeted sod incarcerated for taking tho veil. It was 3lice affarr, and & policoman did tho busipess. A very cntertaining book is * Hampton sad Its Students,” and “T'wo of Its Teschers” gire somo curious iostances of the wass azd bumon f the colored man. The following dulogue is from a chaprer on ** Incompleta Sauctificstion,” in which & negro is statiag : expericoces:” **When you'vo got de glory i your sozl, 3@ can't bolp a-bollenin’ an’ a-skoutin'.” “Then, a3 you havo experionced reliion Mr. Jarvis, ] suppose ou Lisve forgiven jous master, baven't you ? 1w Tow died # It was an uacxpacted blow. The ”‘:-mi' 0 Lis features ect for a3 “Yes, sah! I fargud is oyo kindlzd as the humsn natur ! forth—: bet I’d gid my oder leg lo megt him & battie ™ Some timo since a party of ladies and zanll>- men wont on & tour of iugpection through Dat- bam Castle. The ** Lions " were shown o them by au elderly female of & sour, solema, sod 43 nified aspect. e New Yorlk Adrocate saya: tions, they ceme to the colebrated tapeztry fof In Syria and Palestine, x3, indoed, n the entirs Ori~ | Which the castlo is 30 famed. In the comrse of thoir pmgn?v * Thoeo," said the guide, in trao shOFIAA years ago; and in the larger gates small openingsare | atyle, tflavored with a dash of pisty i0 t 5o subject, and pointing to ssversl groups of ured npon the tapcstry—"* these represent 1n ths “- O, ry':::if;f? :'v'ctty!" aaid & youog dr; ifls @ langh, to tio Sraret “~'No, Aladam,” responded the mmm&zfli@* 1ady s3> remarks aa8 A0 with cruaking dignity, ** that i8 J witk lie angel.” The men haw-bawed, ths young ip. An epitaph at Ramsgate, Eogland, conclalet roral recidenco, impious caricatures ezhivited in | w iy hore th' zeute paius of yo gout forfesY public pizces, {ho streois having chanzed their old historical and sometitnes venerated names, and other revolutionary namea sabstitnted ? But besides that, this Year oniy one incident proved that the coming out of the Holy Fatber is & real imposuibility. "Ona evening of last June, a3 Le was standing at an open window of tho Vatican, hia faitaful people greoted bim ro enthuaiast~ cally, RBomans and foreigners alike, and among others, your countrymen, that the Governmont bad many arrested, condemaing them to two vears and differont terms of imprsonment. To all who know the preseut state of things, the reso- lation of the Pope not to show himset! outside of tho Vatican is not o ceprice, but a moral duty, and also 2 real neceasi:y. With regard to the indemnity, would it be seemly, wozld 1t bo re- | . spectable, for the bead of the Cathoiic Clurch to The Disciples of Chrizt havo zained a consid- er=ble foothold in Grest Britain. In Exnglind, Ircland, Scoiland, and Waley, thoy have 103 churches, eighty-two of which repocted at the J recent annual meating st Carlisle. ‘Tbe number of eommunicants dooa not exgsed 5,630, past year 3,133 attandad tha 7re with thankfulness.” eung withort diatincily pronouacing Provivens Finney, in_bi chorr es Iollov. 0, L anthem to thy praice. Thou knovest the ¥ but we do nat. We do pray Theo that . thus led s may opsn thsir months thes %0 know what they say. that we ma” praise, 7 3fay thoy nat 1ocl: Thee and offend TB pis. or tize Houce of God by making & (hemselves.” few weoks eince, and, it the Districe J: receive a salary from the King of Italy £/ Tl e ineicl cfico of tha jsil, xnd, addresmiag W——d, who was on daty a: tae tune, be adinitted. berlie bad the -n!g er, siinded 3 Fm{“ hava sued 12 One Sundsy, after tho choir at O! 5036 WA o in T2 May tioy not_sing to be heard of me% o i theckTd v the gights I3 bounds, conclude: , comgr of Founh 230 5 ance o put'in sn sppesrance 3 o7 A brother of Serator M— bich Washiugton So e o7 6aid the officer; “not on SundsT.! -‘i\%‘;h:;’-mx.mnmmflw ‘15 makes ne Qiffarsces, s} Bad 3 bom S8 B e b SR R v T werw o o» e peEs