Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1874, Page 6

RELIGIOUS NEWS. Life of Dr. R., W. Patterson. Prof. Swing’s Wednesday Evening Lecture, Netes and Comments of the Relizious Press Result of the Moody Revival in Scot- land. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To=Day. ROBERT W. PATTERSON, D. D. The Rev. B. W. Patterson, before retiring from his long pastorate over tho Second Presbyterian Cliurch, had beld the pastoral office longer than any other clergsman in Chicago. For many years the Second Church, situated, 28 it was, in the hears of tho city, was the ceatre of & very powerful religious influence. Its societies wero thronged by the young and energetic clerks and bueiness men of the city, ard its prayer-meet- ings were the centro of & fervid religious in- fluence. Dr. Patterson was, for more thana quarter of s century, the guiding epirit, the patron, and promoter of the well-being of the Church ; apd his influence upon the moral and religious state of the city is second to that of no mav. In his retiracy from the pastorate of his Church, not only bis own denomination were conscious of & great loss, but all other Protes- tant Churches sympathized more or less 1n the regrat. . Dr. Patterson was born in Blount County, Tenn, in the year 1814, and is pow G0 years of age. He is a descendaut of Scotch Presbyte- ricns, and owes to this fact that ragged conetitn- tion which enabled Lum to go throngh the hercu- lean efforts at sclf-cducation which were essential to overcome his almost total neglect of oy book knowledgo up to the age of 12 years. ‘With a little help froman itinerant schoolmaster, at the age of 1, he was enabled six yeers after to pass an exnmination which admitted him to the preparatory class at Ilinois Cellege, Jackeson- ville,—~he having determioed upon becoming a ministor. Fivo years aftarvard he graduated from this College, and, in 1837, went to Lane Seminary, near Cincionati. Dr. Lyman Beechor was at this time President and Professor of The- ology 12 this Seminary, and no one will for " » moment doubt the inflnences of the great theologian upon his teachable and vigorous pupil. Ha was ungble to sinish his course, and became a_tutor in the Seminary after two yenrs. In 1340 Le began precching, and temporanly supphed theSecond Presbyterian Church in Chi- apo. He finaily recaived and aocepted a call to this chureh in 1842, and from that tima until ‘withia the past _year has been & dearly beloved sud eificient pastor. Thechurch had but twenty- &ix members at its organization, but at the time of his separation from its pastorate it must have had G600 or 700. The buruing of this church edifice. situated npon tha corner of Wabash avenue and Washington street, was succeeded by much delayin locating a siie, as therc are al- ways so_macy to clease in settling such ques- tions. This delay, and the restlessness such de- Iays are sire to bring, undoubtedly had ma:h to do with. Dr. Patterson’s seversuce from the chutch afcer a pastorate of above thirty veers. Dr. P'atterson. in person, is tall, stately, and dignificd, and combining, as be does, broad learniog, good judgment, and & wisdom ' whicls seldom erre, he commants the respect aud con- fidence of all who know him. In bia recently assmaned poition aa 3 member of the Faculty of tha Presoterian Theological Seminary of thi Le will, without doubt, attract to his fec- tare-roola_many studen.s who Will hereafter adorn the Presbytertavism of the West. - —_—— PROF. SWING’S WEDNESDAY EVEN- . ING LECLURE. The Wednesday evemng prayer-meeting at the Fourih Presbyteriau Church, corner of Rush and Superior streets, was weli attended> Prof. Srwing féad the 424 Pealm, taking as his text ‘more especially the 11th verse : Why art thon cast down, O my €oul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thon in God, for 1 eball vet praise Him, who is the nealth of my counte- nance, and my God. He eaid: Tais pealm is said to have been written while in exile, when Ins enemies were sshing David where Lis God was,—vwritten, per- baps, with heathen surroundings, wiere there were many gods. Kis desire is for the living xnd trae God. Ta reading the psaims we must remember th at shey were composed for the music of the Temple, nd that the repetitions wers often the chorns of the music. They should always be read as bymns; 1 the original Hebrew they are ar. ranged in rhythmical form in some sense, mo that they conid he easily chanted. The chief thought in thus psalm is the constantly-racurring verse: Hope thou in God, for I shull yet praise Him who is the bealth of my conuntenance, . There is little doubt that relizion is designed for the happiness of mar. That must be the grest meaning of 1t. And I think those philoso- phers were not far wrong who found that happi- Tesa is the end of evers buman movement. The only arror may b i this: that happiness is the moral motive of life, It does not seam prob- able that happiness is the higheat motive of life, but that we shoald do the right bscause it is the sight, Although that may be the highest motive of life, vet happiness lies at the end of every path which God requires us to follow; 80 thar, whatever may bo the motive of liviog and of acting, happiness is- always befors the human béing that God made: that is, it is the explana- tiou of his existence. God would not create in- tellizont and sensitive beings expressly for a carcer of misery. If we shomld come to a career of misery and of final unhappness, it will have to be considered as & departure from God's plan,—one of the dreadful devistions from His method. We caunot conceive of God except 28 a beiug of happiuces. The meaning of tho word *‘god " is good. If God were not a being of happiness He would be Satan—the false cre- ator. God, therefore, being the absolute idenl of happinces, and religion being, a8 all feel and Lnow, the chain that Linds us to God, religion must be a chain that binds ns to a supreme hap- piness, It is the golden cord that fzsteus us all 10 the hapnicst desting. Now, raligion .has very often been thonght of 58 a sorl of offeet for bad deeds. Persouns who bave lived & wicked Life feel that they must make some componeation for it by becoming relizious, Baut true religion, true Christianity, is bo sort of compensation for a bad lifo; it is the object of Jife from the very outset; it is a form of our bappiness ; it is nothing else than human happi- ness going away from the ordinary fields, aud climbing a step higher. As your love of natare cnables you to draw bappiness from the fields, from plants, from the sky, and from the ocean, 2na 38 your love of truth ennbles you to draw happiness from the sciences and all the books, so religion comes mimply o enable you to draw happioess from a path sbove other patha ; it is a happiness found a lit- tle pearer to God.—the highost happinces of mind, of sonl, of spirit. Bat, of course all moments of life cannot be 1oll of joy. Here is where we make & great mis- take. The Christian expects all moments of life 1o be full of eerenity, peace.—s couscionsness of God's presence. And 1 have met Christians who bave mourned that they have no: felt Lavpy in their religion for wecks or for months. Bat not all of the moments of life can be full of active bappinoes. No ome can go throngh the world with s heart overfowing with joyousness. Ko reflacting person does, and for eevoral reacons, the chief one being this: That this world is educational. And- fog the purpose of education many trials some That is my explanation of it. This world je ap educational world, sud all education is, for the moct part, 5 isborious process. Thero ja pain 1y it. If 300 trr io bend & crooked tres o'y straight’ form. it is paiuful; the cells of it arg twisted; it is racked. And 80 it is with the buman mind; these educational processes, are for the most part lsborious sad fol. Hemce, 1o large humsn iife flat - we live, althoush religion be a groat path destioed to lesd in the main to bappluess, and lesding to happinces for the THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY that education being very much made up of temp:ation, end trial, and dark bours, bereave- ments, sorrows, and dissppointments, they mast como of course. Why should we compiiin of tins when our elucation, away from Christianity, i8 for the most part painful 2 Yon ail remembor how dificals it was for you fo lenrn the art of reading when you were young—to learn this or that study. I remember s schooiniate who said be would rather paes throngh life without know- ing how te read than to go through the process of learning. And yet, ai we have got over those few years of discipline aud trizl, we lay hold of this art of knowing how to read as one of the groat- ost joys of life, and noshing can pluck it from the eoul, though there were a few moutas or a few years in ite when to secura tho artor the power was painful; and yet, after those few years are over, wo have the great art of reading books—a grand possession of everyday life, 8o it is with the Curistinn _rei i, In the forming of cbaracter days of trial como,—dack~ days, dave fall | of tears, Bat efter awhile thay have got bebind you, u you bLave the Curistian character—the ever- Iaeting posseesion which no one ozn take from vou ; and, uoder its influence, life begins to geltle down into s serenity, & peace, & coufi- dence, a great hope. The “only consolation that scems to be of valus, or the only help that seems to be of value 1o us, is to enlarge the out- look of life—to make it seem #o long and so Lroad in its scope that tha little ills of to-day or to-morrow count pothing in its great length and great breadth and great dopth. Enlarge your plan of buman life, and give it fie ; and, doing this, these ills that come to-day or to- morrow are onlydregs in the great ocoan of your existence. 2 R The great part of our unhappiness in this world comes from concentrating our existence into the present momeat, and feeiing that there is nofhing beyoud. e are not sura of the fu- ture, and therefors we want the present to bo full of this overfownz bappiness. That wo bave no_confidonce in. the morrow s the diffi- cultz. We do not hopo in God sufliciently. The very moment the heact increases its hops in this great God,—this Jehovah,—and permits iis owa life to oxpand 1ato the divine proportions of the Almighty,—the life expanded into a great immortality,—the ills of to-day are as nothing. Bat if we are such creatures of soase, if we are such creatures of appetite, if we 8o lova riches, and so love pleasure, and so love fame, that our life 18 all grouped down into a day, and we want all happiuess now, and canaot gee any futuro, our conaition is pitiable indeed. Witk this great hope in God, this great outlook in life,—an out- look 80 extensivo 1n the future that the lovers of the present are as noaoght—with this great hope in the infinite (because the hope in God is nothing else but the bupe of jmmortality,—all the ills of to.day anl to-morrow become only the temporary trials, the tears that fell in oar schoolday hours yexrs and years ago, whica we no longer remember, mauch less regret. A lady called at my house last week who bad Jost ber only daughter by the falling of the bridge at Dixon. I believe the cluld was carried away from her in & moment of time, and she de- clared thar, sinco the event, life bad lost all 113 significance. **O! what howms have I sat in the room where that daughter was witbont ss much aa speaking to her! Whole nours passed unimproved, uueajoyed, and now ehe has gooe forever, and there 18 noshiug Iaft in life.” This came from a too narTow view of Life. Thereis, jndeed. nothing valuable in life unless you bave this great hops in Gud—this greas outhook iu the fuiura—this immensa scops Zthia imwortality. And hence the Pealmiat very beauufully says : ** L shall ye: praise Him who is the heslta of my counteuance, and my God." ** Notwitastanding those dars days sroucd me, notwithstanding my enewiss codie up and say - Where is thia God? You canmot see Him. Yoil cannot_touch Him. nor hesr Him,” yet shall I praise Him in that great future on acconut of these very days which seem to moso ful of daikness, so full of ftial. Why, then, shouldst thou be cast down, O my soai? Hope in God." Now, out of thia scnotence of the Psalmist comes' »gain that argument of immortality, wiuch bt to me before us in almost every religious meeting. We ought to becoms 8o thorogahly couvinced of immortality thac this great hope would niwass be pear us. To doubt the future life is to lose evervthing ; it is absotutely to give np eversthirg, becauss if there be no taturs Life shero is no God. There scems to be no choice between a belisf 1n that and Atbeism. If thers be no fatuie existeuce for you avd me, there certainly is no God iu the “heaveus. 'We must all bavo come by chance. 'The mind, the soul displayed by she human © bemng beire; the intellect, the sensitivencss, the love, tho feoling,—if all taece ars mede _simply 1o go back to dust, there is no Father in Heaven worthy the thought of you and me. 7Lhere is no beiug above us that we need worship if this be all. "Heuce we must be fuily assuced of the great ou'reacaing of this life, becanse npon this immortahity of your soul depends the existence of God. This great hope ju God, thea, should always bewithus. B Auother remeurk 1 wish to make here is this: That God, a8 a hope, is the God of most value toyou and me. God as » hope,—not God as a punishment ouiv, for that frightens wus, that chills tho heart, and makes us wih that death were an eternal sleep; not God as a Creator alone, for thas shows us how tse stars and the earth came, and_has no regard to our relations here, our frieudsbips ; 1t bas no refereuce to our dead childzen, dead brother, dead sister, dead fricud. a3 a Creator is not a God near the human heart, bat eimzly a Goa as a great mechanical force. Therefore, God as a fesr is oot cuongh, although we dars not 1gnore Him a3 o justics,—as & power that punishies. God as a Creatur is nos enough, fur that expizins only the great unive:es around us. God a8 a hope i the only God worthy of the soul. God is the promise of the life thut novw is, and toe lifa to come. This 18 & God thas the heart can take hold of, and hence I have heard wicked men in extreme sickuess say: I hope thero it s Heaven, nnd I hore [ may get to it.” Thnis Lopo 1n God ia the great ancbor of the soul, sure and sicadfsst; aod everything thas stands in the way of God being %o yon a hope should be removed. Are thers sins that debar this idea of God from your hsart—that weakeu your hopes in IIim? Try and rise above shem. get rid of them, and seek that holy influence which shall remove them from your heart. Are there doubts about the existenct of God so that this hope is wesk jo_ your heart? try to remove those doubls, if possible; try, if there be any means ouder the sun, and #ee if you cannot rise above them, and feel that there is around you everywhere and at all simes this God. Do everything you can to cultivate that hope in this Great Hoing. One resson wiy God 38 a hope is eo valnable, is because 1le is not a God behind us, but a God before us. _Nothing is valusblo to a humsn be- ing unless it is before him. Which of you to- Dnight cares for the past? What care yon cven for Iast sprivg—Iast summor? The past is wholly gone. _ What youand I want is & God be- fore us. And hence this great question of tho scientisz about the God back of us does nct seem to me to coms any whers near the Christina beart. Nobvdy saems to care what the scientitic mea thinks about those millions of years far away. It is the God in the form of a hope, the God in the form of a Savior sbout t0 receivo us into a better world tban_t who lends us along through this coming winter aud the coming voars of }ile, gu: is 5o vnlul{)ln. , my friends, every one of you, t; e mezlus poesible 1o Al your hoacs with® gga, A 35 2 foar, not a8 a great power, not as a creator, but a6 » hope, sure aod stesdfast. Nothing in buman life comes without effott. We become religious by cffort. We believa in God by a long practioe, by a long worship. The result of long Lymn-singing, and praying, and reading, and thinking {8 that at last God 18 mear us, By every mesns let us build up thig belief in God—by our solf-power dispell- ing doubte ail through life, and our- hearts la()iug bold of that which is best; and then, after a few years, the path of religion turns into tho path of peacs. As we grow older doubiy disperse, sud heaven comes a little nearer, bo cause 80 many friends are 800 to £o up iuto it, aud beeause you yourselves secm coming meat toit. I traveled not long ago with s man in his 82d year. His hair suow-white. He twas an en- tire utranger. Wo sat togosher in the car, aud, begivuwg to talk, bhe told me his age. I asked him how he felt, and he roplied, “Well, I fool that heavon is very meor me,— much nearer thau ever before. According to the natural courss of things, I can live only one, two, or tbree yoars, and you have 1o lfu& my friend, of the nearness of God to me.” Thas the path of religion becomes a: lagt the path of hacpivess. Begioning with a God of Lappinees, it ends as a path of hap, iness ; and, lke the contury plant which holds its blossom hidden for & huadred yvears, and thin suddenly thrusts out a great bunch of beantifal Dlossoms, this isner religion must pasa along torough doudts aud dazkmess, showing no bud, Do flower, bt in the end 1t opens out, and ahows you that Christisnity ia simply & path of blesged. mess: and heoce the Bible beautifully calls it the path of happiness,—the path of plénsantness and peace, A Ay THE RELIGIOUS PRESS, THE ALLIANCE notes that— One of the most interssting and indeed o stances of Adelity was observed 1h the smnfl:fififia% ozt part, yet, this world being educational, and the other day, when eleven ‘members voted to sustain the Laird Collier specification to please Mr. Patton, altho.gh Ar, P.had admited fo his corraw that tie proof of that chsrge was not within his reach ! If tie New Zork Qoserver bas a betler dog story than this, let it bring {t on ! The Alliance sums up the faults of the greet Swing Deresy case as follows: (1.) A once peaceful Church thrown into dlgcord from Muine to Califorata. (2) Toe Preshyterfan churches all throngh the Northwest oxcited almost to division, (3.) Friends truneformed into enemtes, (4) Presbyteriznism thrown under aclond among the most cducated clasees of tho communily. (5.) The Gospel minintry somewhat dpgraded in the eyes of tha business and common-s uxe men, (6.) Congregationaliém and Methodiem afded and beautified by the forced contrast with Prof. Putton's form of ecclesisstical organism, The zame paper has an editorial on The On- ward March ' of true religion ; one on the im- portaat duty of discharging oue's pecuniary lisbilities, even in hard times; and s satirical account of the conclusion of the late trial of 2rof, Swing in the Synod of Illinois North. THE INTERIOR congratulaves the Synod of Illinois North upon the gravity and prompiness with which its work was done, and the Christian epirit it exhibited. Tuo Interior uaturslly thinks the rentence of the Court in the Swing trial will commend itself to the Church, The editor thinks the Synod estab- lished two facts : Pirst—The Presbyterisn Church will maintatn ths doctrines of her standards, and will not tolerate fun- damental heresy. Tho secular preds may as woll ro- consider its allirmation, that the Presbyteri-n Clurch baa no creed, The action of th Synod shows that sbe hna o creed, and a Calvinistic creed at that, Second—The Presbyterian Church {6 in no danger of dhiviston,” The effort to muke the Swing case an issue Detwoon the Oid and New 3chool wis & complels fuilure, Tho Inferior characterizes the sending of delegates from tho late Unitarisn General Con- ference to the Congregational Council which assembled at New Haven as ** romarkablo over- tares.” It observes that the parties to the correspondence aco— not given to gushing, like Bishop Lee at the Northern camp-meeting. Thoy zre gentlemen whose oulturs gives them caimnees and self-command, This warmth of expression never would have been induiged with- out first being sabfected to the dry, cool light of the inteéllect, Itfs a subject upon which nelther party could afford to trust to {imimlse and emotion. Such being the case, there could be no more {nteresting dis- cussion than one which should bring the new relations of the two types of fuith clearly to view. The Inlerior has ““ Another View of Sound Doc- trine,” and takes note of Mr. Gladstone's essay on Rituahsm, and the defeat of Ritualism in the Protestant Episcopal Convention. THE STANDARD discusses the question of how a pastor shall col- lect Lis delinquent salary. A correspondeut asks if it would bo right to sue the church owing the salary, to which the editor snswers: We wish somebody else would answer fhis, Donbt- less it is what none of ns would like to see- miaisters ioners in courts of law “implesding one . But what shall a minister do whose family are suffering, simply becauss bis brethren wit! nat pay what they promise? Unqoestionably, the necessary bardships incident to a minister's feid of service he should bear cheerfully; but how about those which are ot neceatary 2 Tha injustice and un''~iness of un- godly men ke should beir in sileace; b4 about thoss f his own brefuren? We are much wistaken if there are not matters involved in these queries whicn call for the most serions consideration. 1t s nat kikely thiat the writer of theae linas would ever go to law ™ for this or any other purpore, lesat of sll with o Chuis- tian brother, Yet1f he should hear some -day that tna writer of the letter quoted above has resorted to this expedlent as thie alternative o sturvation, he is not sure that e should blame him very much. But have not the churches a remedy for fafs very scrious evil {u theirown hands? Bhould ft not e made a matter of discipline in a member o treat with the contempt many do their promises to_pay toward churchexpenses? May wa not go still furtuer, and a:k if the refusal to eifber promise, or o take any share I the pecanisry burdens of tae caarch fs mot Jjust cauge for disciplive 7 THE ADVANCE g speaks its mind about the action of the Synod in Prof. Swing's caze, as follows : Tha Synod's setion Bpon the caze was extraordinary. We think we are eafe n saylug that the pubtic, sutside tho Fresbyterian Church, universilly rogard that ac- tlon 28 3 solemn farce, if, indeed, it can be sa'd that tliore was suything sojemn in it. Inside that Charch the feeling seema to be very genersy one of mortifi- cation, that Zoal for * sound doctrines” should Eave led Curictisn men 80 strangaly to disregard the plain. &st diotates of common seuve and of ordinary justice, We auould heritate $o use sich emplatic languags if it were not our sirong conviciion that this traveaty of a judicial trial has orought no smali reproach npon our tommon Christianity. . . . This extraordinary in- qrest did not Inck 3 fittfog Anaie, Tt began in 3 re- £dive, on the partof the Synod, that they had a de- fendaant ; it ended in a confeasion that they had not, The cass'was not properly jssued by 2 euwpenrion of Trof, Swing, wiica #houid have been done in view of tbe Sadings of tke Court; but the Synod directed the Proebytery fo strike his name from the rol,—a thing ‘which the Presbytery Lad already done, and which the Synod bad pronounted uull. Here is consistency with a vangaance! Tlke samo paper diecusees the question of the control of ihe relimious societies within the Cougregatioral body, It ikewiss ocxpreeses 1ts mind zbout the late article on Universalism frow the pen of Mr. Marriam, ono of the editors of the Christian Union. The Advance saya: As 3r, Merriam bocomes familfar with the litersture of tho stibject, hie will see that Lie intrnss epitiets have been more than suticipatod by many other writecs, and all uis poiats of “ Lorror ™ more powarfully mads Dby Wiiliameon, Builo, and others, All these things bavabeen loog and ably pushed, and fully consid. ered. Wero be fo become more widely acquainted wilh the evangeifcal chucches, he would find his no- tions concerning tne desue:ude of the doctrine of fu- ture punishment to bequile exaggerated. If he had attended church with us, for example, s fortnight ago, ha would have heard it fully discussed, and_every obe stacle he ralses, and mora, aiso, exterminated, Toot and Lrauch. No doubs the influence of some noted preacn- ers, and some professediy religious journals, bea bean slocdily eet against this doetrine; & ‘more than some other great truthe, kept in the background, But the Christian Union must not be mistaken for the general atmosphere of the churches, §o faras our scquaiut- auce extends, those ministors and churches that fally accept the ultimate aud binding suthority of the Now Testament firmly hold the doctrine of cadless punish- ment, Wo are not awaro of any coneiderabls excap- tions among the ckurches of this conntry. THE INDEPENDENT has an article on **The South as a Theologian,” br Prof. Swing, at the close of which comeas the followin Persons living far zway from Chicago—the arens of & good largs heresy caso—mzy not, perhaps; know how fac the theological fight now raging In that city has spruug from the fact that a Vicginia colony soms years ago moved morlliward—not to escapa their fn-. stitutions, but to sccumulate riches: and with that mottve alone it migrated, [Tium Italiam zortans, Not alargs army (bit compensating for any numerical wedkness by individusl prowess and self-consciouu- naen), this colouy Bas alwiys found ampls time. for pursutug either a good worldly pursuit or a doubtful theologian. We hav2no sympathy with any one who £ays that, slong wibh their business checks, they keep biank **nppealr,”and “ protoate,” and “ chargcs,” to be signed when' their religions couris amemble? for tiis 18 not » habit of the clxss that can bo well attested, and heace, wo should rather confine oursalf to the geueral remark ihat, 80 far 25 oppor:uaily offers, they seo slways voady wili2 kind of heclogluai challensc, ppointing time aod place where religious sstiefaction can be kad on shard notice. e e ‘The grest and_ .sduatrions Prof, Patton, who came recently to lead theee exllon from Virginia, did mot simply import his own peculiar distrenscs ; bat ho has rather gathersd up - and formulated the sore Tows that bad been lying around loosely hete for ye:rs amonz this peculiar people. Come plainf has been made by hasty mewspapers that the Professor gathored up 80 many a8 twenty-cight Lamentations ; but, 26 3 good woman_ance told her iil- Datared boarders that they would think her butter ‘very clean if they had only scen wat she had takea out of 5, they would confoss his charges moderats in number did they only know what a vast amount of ine #ults to religion Le had been compelled to omit, A clergyman who some years ago proposed to minater 10 1hid peculisr people was wuited upon by a chief in power, and was rebuked for drawing an_fllustration feom & battle of the Iron Duke, when there were hoty battles iz 3he Bible that coald be alluded to with mors propriety from the sacred desk ; and the same bappy servant %1 requested not to losn any Boaton mage. zine to the youth, becaues anything that came from Boston was almost certain to have 20 * fxm ™ in it of some shsps. Worderful 2s the compilation of critaes is which Drotlier Patton has made and published, It would scem brief 1o auy one that could kuow what toars be falied 10 get into his meisnehioly bottlo, Bat this ia a 10ng digrowion, and yet we sk {0 ex- tend it long enough tostate our distelier. of the gory told by a Western clergyman—that, when the thoologh, cal Professor wns packing his books at Sirooklyn to go to Chicago, he did it witls a feeling that the Genius ot Theology was for the firet time about $o go West (Tor we hiave seca 00 evidence of any such supreme self-appros ciation upon the part of this great prosecutor) ; but it ia lmply true that ho folt that a very great thevlogical movement ¥aa_on foot, and that, 38 in the cany of Aruold Winkelried, much depended upon a sndden Tush of eome first-class individusl. The mustake of the theologian lay in bis miscing the Great West and. i mh{g; llllppuil:d Teaching fro 0ld Dominion up fo Lake Michigan, 0 bo ths Wesr 1o prrobable, but somorantin factl excusat newinen ; and. hence, upon him must fest just such a defeat ‘of de. signas_ betell Sinbad, who, Inding upon a continent 0D night, a8 Le supposed, and hasing unshipped sl Lis goodu and provisions, diecovered to his sorrow that he had encampod on & whale, and, bis continent going down. poor Sinbad had o swim Jor life and sutferod loss of personal property and happiness, Th sallor in the sea of theology should have missed a pone tinent and have leaped upon only the back of great fish i an error that asks for a general sympathy, As for the great South, under the infltouce of Hberts, and edueation, and jndustry, she will 50om begin g <l in alt her bid outstanding theblogy, andwill eran. cipate not only her tlaves, but her women, 8o thet they yrill resd, and publirh, ‘and teach; will emancipaty D8 from the power of old custom. and maXe them scorn the duelio in church courts ss deeply 33 the elvilized States scorn the duello of lteral Sro. arms and purple blood ; and love nothing so much as uuion of Clristiun poace and industry, THE CHRISTIAN CTNOSURE of Oct. 29 has an editorial on ** The Great Apos- tasy Begun * THE Ca10400 TRIDUNY, which advocates a % broad . 3ot with some mark of astonishment gives entire an article from the Rov. Georgo 8, Mer- Fium, a Congregational minferer, and assiatmt editor of EL'W, Bccher's paper, the CAratian Unim, which commits that paper to Almple, valgur, bald Univer- salism, ‘The Christian Gnfon editor, after uuurfln? that the doctrine of the endless pumshment of the wicked {s a + elander upon God,” which is “*rapld'y dsing out of the nuinds of men,"!' proceeds to say, “ Mankind cou'd Dever huve got out of some of jta ruis if it bad not, by a divinely implanted instinct, trusted ita own best in- tolligence ugainst what seemed to be {nspired teach- ing.” Aguin, **On such a subjoct 2a tho eterual des- tiny of tlio race, it seems to me at least as satisfactory and a8 ressonable ta usk our own minds what ia con- sistcnt with suprems intelliganco and goodro-s, as to scudy the }robabile correctness of Aristotle's evymology of aion.” The whole article s consistent with these extracts. It is an appeal to that *mankind# who cracified God’s * Beloved Son;™ and who would haye cracitied tho Eterual Father, if they could ; whether that Fater can consistently with bis * suprems intel.igence and goodness,” punieh sinners during their eternal volun- tury pereiatencein sin! Nay. the writer charges that if God does so punish the wicked dead, Hewlil be guilty of “shutting them up to efersal sioning. Whereas, Christ has not shut up “ Satan and hus x; gels,” for whom hell 13 “prepared;” but they met, and'tempted, and resisted him, aud * ftormeuted men on earth, The Scriptures feach that hell fs the voluntary chosen home of the wicked; thnt they pro- fer it to heaven, ss roguesand prostitutes prefera liquor-hell to 3 Prayer.miecting, oven whils * wailin and guashing their teeth,” and “cursing God an looking upward.” So the Commune prefers ita politi- cal hiell to weli-ordered society in France to-day. True, Jokm eaw an angel fiying in the heavens “having the key of the bottomiecs pit, and a great chain fu Lis haud ;7 aud be bound Satan, snd * hut him up.” This is virion, photograph, prophecy. But, we are told in liter=] Lingusge, that Satan is 10 be “%destroyed by the brightnoss of Christ's coming,” L o., by the prevalencs of truih. And to chargs God with sbutting up mon to sin becauze be punishcs tiem for siuniug, is a8 impudent and illogical as for Ku- Elux briginds snd cut-throats to cliurge the United States with * shutting them np™ in the dons and fast- messes to which they fies from the society of good men, a4 men will flee to ths darkness and discomforts of Lell because they love darkness and hate light, Reason hus no protest against the eudiess punish- ment of incorrigible men. -~ We have seen evil pursus folly, and misery vice ; and it is rational to suppore it may bo so {u bell whers there aro no prayer-meetings, Sabbath-schools, and other mosns of moral recovery ; ilie doctriu of endless punishment must depend on revelation, s muat all doctrine of the world besond this. And if the Bible teaches anything, it toaches endiess punishment. Job declares: * The eyes of thie wicked shall fail and he shall not escape.” Moses, thut God will * hide His faco from them » at the end ; Isaish, “ Eo that made thom will not huve mercy upon them, ‘and He that formed them will show them no favor;” Daniel, that *They shall rise from the doad to shame aud everiasting contempt;” Jude, that the wicked Sodomites aro suffering * {hs vengeance of sternal fire;” and John, that “ they shall be torment-. ed forever and ever in 'tho presence of God and tue amb;” and the Son of God and finsl Judge of men, ‘They shall go awsy iuto everlaatiny punt<h- ‘Therefors to chiarge the doctrine of * endlcss pui ent " on the few faith{ul ministers that preach it while the Bible evorywhere asserta it, is worthy ocly of sneake and cowards who dare not yet directly imab and insult the Bibls, and s0 chargo its plain teaching 04 good men and abuse them for it. But what prodnces this jrotest against endlees pun- isnment by that paper now? Are its readers, the ad- mirers of IL W. Beecher and his managing editor, Oiiver Johuson, who_disbelieves the Biblo 10 be God's word, in danger of belng consumed with overmuch fear and dread of Divine pumishment? No. They bave shown that it Mr. Beecher should commit adui- tery Baturday night, they would Lail and refish bis preaching noue the less on the Sabbuth following, We raspect{ully request THE TRIBUSE to inser: this our prozest against the impudence and irreligion of the Chriatian Union. The endless punisiment of the wicked desd in to-day an atticle of professed belief in all tuie evangelical churchies fo which that paper looks for its support. ~ And the coolness of fts impudence toward thoss cliarches in deriding and scouting this article of thelr belief ia ouly equalud by its bissphemy of God in chorging Him with & shuitiog up to eln” the lost in boll, uless he gives them tke liberty of the nfverse. ‘The thine will coms when ruch s4-ets s the Unian will not bealiowed in the Louses of Christian men and women,. TILE NORTHWESTERN ADYOCATE has an editorial on “‘The Lats Woman's Con- gress,” one on the importance of & practice of hygienic moasuree, and a siguificant discusslon of the work of the M. E. Church at the South. In the course of the laiter.editonal occurs the following : Oar Southern Metliodist Lrethren sy, and traly, that thcy cannot ac-ent our Church withont repudis- ting every whit of Jcir own bistory since Idid. So 2150 cantiot we abandon or modify our work yonder without constructivaly 1ndorsing that self-same Moth- odist Listory. Our discipline ought never for one +ingle momeut to bave tolerated a Mlaveholder insice tho Methodist communion. The mother Church that made Me-liodist ulavehoiders possibie at any time in the past, owes delt to the des endants of every slave holder, aud of every alavs, by way of moral reparation, Blavery s gone, L0 De sure, Lut the caste idea tuat jus- tified slavery, and still survives alavery, must meet ita death at the bands of the Church which once mads it posedlls for a Methodiat fo own, buy, or sell his Methodist Lrother fn_Christ. Every argument that sanct:oued every discipliuary deprecation of slavery from 1750 to 186 dewmands that we publish the true Gospel of Curistizn bro:herhood In esery corner of this contivent. Of course, th-refore, we will stay in the South, aad abandon’ Peunsyivanis rather than Louisizna. At the same time, while weurge all ministers down Scuth 1o preach » plain Gospel in all its applications, we degrecate all the particulers which either lame them in their work or unrecessarily offend their ri- ya's. If. therefore, even two of our Southern minis- terial workers are Government Postmzsters or Revenue Collectors, or folitical offze-holders of any sort, we implore them to resign eather their Church or Guvern- ment commizsions. e sball be glsd if tho Miesion Board will lainly say that when it pays funds to a worker In the South it demands undivided eorvico and & minimum of obatrucnons o his work. —_— THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. A PORTION OF THE BUILDING CONTRACTS LET. This body once more, and for the last time, retiled the question of rebuilding, last Friday evening. The late divergences of opinion are Do greater than the divergences which ariso in soma other churches; but which, by difference in charch polity, aro suppressed from the pub- lic eye. Daptists, as a denomination, form a pure democracy, snd aro subject to the little iempests which arise from the knowl- edgs that each member iz a deflnite fac- tor in all the transactions of the Church. The First Baptist Church of Chicago has this pecnliarity: that itis the onty real hisiorie charch of the denomination in the cily. Its members are as proud of ita name (and fame) as the old settlers aro that they ever came to the metropo- Us of the West when it was ooly & group of blockhouses. The church is large one, having some 800 members—so larzo that, perliaps, ac- cording to the philosophy of evolation, it has begun to * diferentiate.” Lat the late dificaltics and inharmonies which bave been developed during the discusaion of the question of rebuilding promise to be al- layed ns soon aa it is known that rebuildiog has actually begun, And readers of Tar TrRIbUSE may learn to-dav that _the Building Commiites yesterday, in Mr. B. F. Jacobs' office, let the contract for the mason-work of the main build- ing, sud for the work complete of the chapel or rear building. The ocontract for a transfer of the Jot was also signed yesterday; and it is tbo inteniion of the Commit- tee to biesk ground this week, if possible. Aseoon as the fact became known Yyesterday, the prominent loaders in the late movement for a coneohidation with the Michigan Avenue Church apnounced their determication to_ coase furthor opposition, and to barmovize witls the majority. The paetor, t00, Do donbt, will learn some- thing from the lata plain talks which will enable him to sui: bis preaching more thoroughly to the wauts of his people. It a fow mombers should find their disgffee- tion 80 invotorste 18 to compol them to wittiraw entirely, the cburch will probably be all the utwnxzvur for it, and will not utter a syllable of objection. The events of ths last two months have dovol- ovod the fact that the earncet and persistent de- fendars lnrl]ugporteru of Dr. Everts aro not only in a decided majority, but that for the most part they represent that part of the Church whose members aro thrifty, though mot rich: they belong Iargely to the class who have much of tfe and expericuce lving yet beforo them; consequently they represent the growing, plastic portion of the body. While they admit that their pastor is mot perfect, thoy vet love, es- teem, and respect him for hls many good quali- ties, and look about in vain through the denomi- nation for the preacher they would put in his piace. St MO0DY AND SANKEEY. Charles Terry Collins, in the Christian Union, zays of the Scottish revival; All through the summer the work has gon: - ot relazation. Tho1o0 of tho iy eroaselina Lo been one steady march of deep, earnest revival foeling, 1t 45 said by sober men well acquainted with the {acts thist no church which has reccived them with sympa- thy has been nnblessed, The coming of the sumrer hos generally been regarded as deadly o the continu ance of revival activity, This summer has but doep- ened and broadened the revival work in Scotlnd. When the cities became thinned of thewr wealthier population, smong whom the revival had principally been, the carnest worksrs carried the work down amoug the poorer people.the churchlces oncs not here. tofore reached, and in cut-door meetings and tenia ihete has beerl a wonderfal soul-saving work smong these. Some thousands of tho lowest are thougnt in Glasgow aloue Lo hary boen converied. Wien ti tant Work on the Green was s 0 o, Gamp. aatumn montn aver 2,000 “ooing o converia stood upon the books of that one mest ing. Nor wero those who left the city less active, Young men agreed to spend their vacations wherever the commiiteer deemcd they could do the most good ; while every one who hisd been awakened fn the ties tcamed to go forth a relf-appotnted vangelist for suze ez work. All Scotland has been sblaze this summes, 1 will venture o assert that there has not been a single gabering-place of summer-iourisis in Which arnest NOVEMBER 1, 1874--SIXTEEN PAGES. -mest not been held. Mr. Sankey wa s sy before the summer ended, and Ar. Moody rrosecuted the work alone, visiting every section of North Scotland. After s summer of wondrous activ- ity, s furewcll meeting of all Chrisitan workers was calied for Aug. 37 ju_Iverncss. dither came fiom all parts of Beotland those who had been sesocisted in the work, and, after a day full of mestings and re- unlows, 3r. Moody devarted for Ireland, stopping on the way to awnken Oban and Campbelfon. He bas beea joined in Belfast by Mr, Bankey, and they have been greeted by audiences vaster even than those which they lad tn Scotiand. Thelr work Lere has been pecuifarly smong nch and fashionable peoble, and great hopes are entertained thal a year may lic before Ireland similar to that which has olessed Scot~ land. Moanwhile, in Scotland tie: work goes Lravely on, and everything seems to predict tuat the revival thére will continue this winter, —_—— FIFTH PRESBY(ERIAN' CHURCH. The Executive Committea of the First Bap- tist Charch are negotiating with a committeo of the Fifth Presbyterian Church for a sale or transfer of the lot on which is tne present Indl- ans Avenue Church, on the corner of Inaiana avenue aod Thirtieth street. Should the trans- fer be consummated (zod it is likely to be, as the Firat Baptist Church Committee have been ziven power to act), the Fifth Presbyterian Chorch will immediately commence the erection of their new house of worship on the Indiana avenus Iot, 8o, the next weck promises to see two very fine churohes vigorously commenced within a few blocks of each other in the South Division. —— DISCIPLES OF CERIST. The New York Tribune says of this denomina- tion : * The Disciples of Christ” forma numerous re- ligious body, which is zttaining great strength and in- fluence in some of the Wesfern States. The Disciples are distinguished as an organization for their mission- ary enzerprise, their efforts for tne extension and im- yrovomeat of educational institutions, and their rapid increate in numbers. Duiing the last twenty-five years they have held snnually a missionary conven- tion, the only national organization they bave, to do- liberste upon the best modo of conducting the mis- sionary worx and gafning pronelstes. The efiiciency of their system andthe zeal and energy exercieed in earrying it out are plainly shown in the rapid growth of the churches. Their determined efforts to perfect a plan of education have resulted in the es- tablishment -of various uaiversilies, colleges, and schools. Their General Missionary Convention for 1874 organized last week in Cincinnati. The functions of this Convention are to establish snd ‘maintain missions, provide for the support of Bible socaeties, and transact such otber businees concerning thio general futerests of the churches os may present itself. The present sesmion is to include the cetolra- tion of the completion of the first quarter of & century of the exiatence of the Convention. It is 1 ed to form a woman's missionary soclety. General Conventlon, thers are several State tions, whose object is eimilsr to th:t of the General Convention. It Is eatimated that the D:sciples number over 500,000 communicants. They are strongest in Ken- tacky, Tndiana, Obio, and Iilinois, They huve 6 weekly 3dicals, 2 semi-monthly, 16 monthly, 1 quarterly, anil 2 annual, They alro have 12 academies and_achools, 3 universities, xnd 14 colleges, of which f4 sre for fematen, Thelr Sunday-schools contain aver 250,000 scholars, —— D. SEYMOUR’S DEFEAT. WHAT DR. PORDRS TIINES OF IT. From the New York Herald, Oct. 29. The Rev. John Murray Forbes, formerly Dean of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Chu:ch, at the corner of Ninth avenue aod Twenty-socond street, is sald to bave plared a most important part in the recent defeat of Dr. Sey- mour, the Bishop-eloct of Illinois. It has been generally understood that his influence over the Convention was largaly instrumental in effeoting Dr. Seymour's dafeat. Dr. Seymouris at present the Acting Dean of the Seminary, aad has for long time been on bad terms with his predecessor, Dr. Forbés. Somo years ago Dr. Beymour, who was already a memberof the Fac- ulty, published a pamphlet, in which be charged the then Dean with an imoroper assumption of pomp, and for this publication Dr. Seymour was openly censured by the Faculty. Itis, therefors, easy to understand that the tworeverend geatle- men are not ths best of friends. In order, how- cover, to give the Rev. Dr. Forbes an opportunity to explain accurately the part he had taken in the recent action of the Qonvention, resulting in the defeat of Dr. Seymonr, o Herald representative oailed npon hum at his ‘elegant, though modest, residence in East Fifty-fourth streez, whers the ex-Dean of the Seminary now lives in complete retirement. Dr. Forbes, after soms slight hesitation, de- clared himself ready to give ail the information he possessed oo the subject. - *‘Isit trae, Doctor, that you have been inatrn- mental in procuriog Dr. S8evmonr’s defeat ? “I will answer you frankly,” the Doctor re- plied. “Ihave notcrossed the street to speak to any one on the sabject of Dr. Sarmour's con- firmation as Bishop of Iilinois. I have not been present at the Convention except once, and I never introduced the sublect to any one.. How- ever, when some of the Bishops and lay depa- ties came to me and ssked me about certain facts which were derogatory to Dr. Seymour’s standing, L s a clergyman, whose hope it was to promote the best Interests of my Church, felt zilh;o"be my duty to tell them she truth, aad I “And what were the facts, Doctor, if I may inquire 7" *+ 0, it would take mo hours to go into thess details. I can eimply tell you the gravamen of thocharges. Ono of the greatest objections to Dr. Sevmour's confirmation 28 a Biskop was felt | to be his itimate conmnection with extreme Ritonliets. He has preached for the most Rituelistic clergymen, has associated with them, snd has beon their coustant apologist and sup- porter. Another great objection refiected mors upon his personal character. Heis not frauk, nor i8 he consistent io Lis statements in refer- ence to these charges and to other matters which have since come to the notice of the Convention. That is & very grave fault, as everybody will ad- mit, The whole truth. in & putebell, 18 simply this the certificato which the Houseof Clerical and Lav Deputics has to give to a Bistop-elect in confirming him iy that they conscientiously believe him not to be ‘lLiable’ to any ramors which might be injurious to his character, and they were unable to give him this certificate, ss rumors of such a character did exist.” * But is not the best clergyman ‘liable’ fo such rumora ?” “Well, the burden of proof rests upon the nominee, and not upon the Convention. It is not their business to prove that these rumors are true, but it is his duty to disprove them if he can. This has always been tho practice In tho fliflmpnl Church. Horace Binney, the celsbrat- Pennsylvania lawyer, made this doctrine widely known in the well-known case of the Rov. Dr. Hawka.” **Then the Convention was mainly influenced in its action by rumors ?” Well, there were a greas many things which influenced the Convention. Bishop Cox, of Western New York, wrots me a letser a year ago, which was read in the Convention, and evidently had lfo:d deal of offect. The substance of the lotter is that Dr. Seymour had aflowed an_ox- treme Ritnalist to come to the Seminary and es- tablish intimate relations with tho “students, which would only be accompanied by the most dangerous results. I did not furnish the letter, and I roally don’s know whero they obtained a copy of it.” *‘It hasbeen siated that Dr.Seymour had never even worn the Eucharistic vestmente 7" ‘'Ob, the fact that Dr. Seymour has never worn auy oertain garment is of no significunce whatever. He might for all that hold doctrines substaatially borrowed from the Romaa Church. Now you know, and everybody knows, that this aping of the Church of Rome isa miserable farce. There are many things in the Church of Rome which the Ritualists imitate aithough they stand thero upon a footing usterly different - from any they can obtain in the Epis- copal Charch. - The ceremonies and doctrines of the Roman Church are an organio whole; there is a consisteacy and congruity in $hem which, of course, is lacking when they are engrafted upon a church to which they do not properly belons. 1t is a poor imitation, this ro-called Ritualism, this elavish apmg of the Roman Clurch, which 1 heartily despise.” *“What do you consider Ritnalistic practices 2™ ** Well, generally, whatver teads toward em- ‘bodying the doctanes and symbols of the Church of Home in ours, such as the Eucharistic adors- tion, wearing of chasuble and parti-colored atoles, invocation of saints, suricular confes- sion, prayer for the dead, ete. It is quite prob- able’ that Dr. Seymonr. who has been always a cautions man, has mot adopted sy of these practices, but 'bis conduct might, nevertheless, nofit Lim for the exaltod poaition of a Bishop, One'of the sevcreat charges sgainst him was that be defended and pleaded for a young cler gyman who preached a sermon on the Eacharist, attering a dootrine which was exaotly that of tho Roman Church.” **Doea Dr. Seymour stand any chancs of being re-elected by the Liingis Emscopalians ? " * Oh, no, and even if he wore, it eis not at all lixely that he would be confirmed by & majority of the standing committecs in every diocese and of the House of Bishops. Besides, I do not think that any attempe will be made in Illinois to re-elect him. The first effect of the rejection will andoubtedly ba disappoint- {oa: but when the Episcopal people of Illinois obtaio the information about him whiok tbe Coavention bad shoy will quicily acquiezce in the decision and go to work to se- lect a better candidate for Bishop.” g ¢ There is no doubt sbout Di. Seymour being the free choice of the Illinois Diocese 7" “No; 1 was told tbat they first wanted to et Dr. Deoven, of Wisconsin, whois a well- nown High-Chirchman. As they found ou: that it would be Impossible to e'ect lum in the Couvention, owing to his well- known Ritushstic = doctiines, thev took Seymour, whom thoy reearded as an equally out- spoken [Tigh-Churchman, who, howeser. bad not yet commtted bimself as openly as Dr. De Koven, and might thorefore bo elected. Others, I was' told, wete ssked to_help in pushin throueh Dr.’ Sevmour's election, and their ai obiainad by plausible representation that he was no Ritualiut at all, but & good moderate churchman. You see Bishop Whitehouse, of lilivois, was a decided High-Churchman, and hence it is no wonder that the Episcopal Church in Ilinoig has still a decided tinge of Ritnalism, ““What will be the probable offect of Dr. Sey- mour’s defeat 2" “ It mll be a ealatary warning to all extreme High-Churchmen, showing, as it does, that the Episcopal Church at larzg is opposed to Rituak ism in every shape. I am also glad that tho cahon on Ritualism which forbids the burning of incenss, etc., was adopted on Tuesdey by the Couveution.” —a— THE NEW EPISCOPAL BISHOPS. THE REV. MESSOS. OARRETT, WINGEIELD, AND ELLIOTT. From the New York Tribune, Ort. 29, The Rev. Alexander C. Garrett, D. D., Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, who has received the nomination by the House of Bishops as Missionary Bishop of Northern Texas, is about 43 years of age. He wasborn in England. and is the gon of a clercyman of the English Church; but the whole of his clerical life has been passed oo this continent. For ten years ho officiated with the Bishop of British Columbia, and was afterward called to a cburch in San Francisco as its Rector, from which position he was appoinied to be the Dean of Bishop Clarkson’s Cathedral Church in Omahs, an office which he has held for the last three years, represeuting the Diocess of Nebraska in _the present General Convention a3 Clerical Deputy. It has been stated by many of his friends that for accurate scholarship, grea: learning, and wonderful elo- uence ho has no superior in the Protestant %piwopll Cburch. During the sesaions of tho General Convention he has madoe = very marked impression s a speaier, aud those who know him best bear the hizhest testimony to Lis fideli- 4y &8 & pastor, lis ability as a preacher, and his onergy aud aclivity 8 a worker. In personal appearance ke is & man of fine presence, aud during the debate on Ritualism he gave evi- dence of being an educated and finished gentle- man. o The Rev. J. H, D. Wingfield, D. D., Roctor of St. Pavl's Church, Petersburg, Va., who has been nominated by the Houss of Bishops as Mis- eiopary Bishop of Northern California. is about 50 years of age, aod was born in Portsmoath, Va., where he was edncated, recoiviog his degrea of Doctor of Divinity f1om the Coliego of Witliam 20d ary, Williamsburg, Va. For some time he assisted his father in tho church in Portsmouth, after whica he was called to be the Rector of Trinity Church. He was subsequently selocted as the Rector of §t. Paul's Churca, Petersburg, where he now is. having declived over thirty calls to other parishes, amoog which was one from the firincipn.l church i San Fran- cisco. He is spoken of as possesming groat { power as a preacher, and as beiog very ouergstic a8 a worker in the Protestant Episcoral Church. He is nos a member of tito present General Con- vention, Lhe Rev. R.W. R. Elliott, nominated as Bistiop of Western Tcxas. is a youog man, compared with most of the Bishups, being only 34 yoars of sgo. He was born iu Beaufort, 8. C. and was graduated at Columbia Collegs in that State. Dunng the late War he held the position of Major 1a the Con- fedorato army. After that he turced his atten- tion $o religious matters, and was ordained as a deacon at Rome, Ga., by Bishop Quintardin 1368, Hoe afierwards came to New York and pursned his studies at the Geperal Theological Serninary, During part of bis deacouate he served as as- sistant minister at the Church of the Incarnation in this eity, and then had charge of the Chapel of ths Reconciliation. He was ordained nsa priest in Easter, 1871, at Christ Church, Savaa- nab, by Bishop Beciwith. In November, 1871, Le accepted a call to St. Philip's Charch, Allan: ta, Ga., where he is ssid to bave been very suc- cessful, the church baving been anlarged twice 1o order to accommodzte his increasing cougre- gstion, Heis amanof et abiiky 5 8 preach- er, and 18 universally beluved oy his poople. —_ DRACONESSZS, A PEDITIVE OBDER. From the New Fork Trioune. Oct. 29. The Committee on Canons acksd yesterdny to te discharged from the consideration of Orders of Deaconceses, In their report they refor to the vagueness of tho general knowledge about this primitive order. The opinion among emi- nent critics of the Scriptures is that St. Paul re- {ers to it 1n his referencs to Phebe of Canchrea, Theso Deaconesses are supposed to have been not merely godly women, but to have formed an order of miuisters in the early Church. Whether this i8 80 or not, thers is no doubt that the early Clurch included ia its active agencies tao Chris. tian usefulness of women, who were known as Deaconesses, and performed in a certain limitad gense minieterial fanctions, such as baptism of iufaots in exlremis, inetructing the youns, and looking afcor tho sick, poor, and meg. lected. They appear in"the Chuich up to the eighith or ninth century; later than that the order disappears, undoubtedly throngh the growth of other religious ocders, of tae character of sisterboods. It owes its revival to cortan Protestant communions in Germany. Pastor Fliedver's successful institutions at Kaisers- worth, on the Rhine, for educating women for foreign missionaty work and for_[abors among the poor, are well known to most European trav. elers. Thus attracted the attention of the En- glish clergy, and lod to stops for the revival of che order in England. There it waa attended with great soccess, aud in London, Laverpool, and elsewhere there exist flourishing communi. tien of deaconesses, who aro Iaborivg to sucoor tie deatituto, eeking out and training the young, ministeriug in hospitals. and assistiog in every form of philanthropic activity. Tho at- tention of the Church in this conntry was called to this roviual in 1868. The Board of Missions appointed a committee to prepare a report upon the suojoct, which was read at the General Gon- veotion of 1871 by the Rev. Dr. H. C. Potuer, of this city. Threo orders of Deaconeszos were al- ready in existence in this country. Sioce then othiers have sprung up in the Diocese of Long Island and elsewhore, There are also succe-sful organizatious in Alabama and some of the West- ern dioceaes. The growth of the order has not been as rapid, however, as it would lave been bad there been any canonical provision for its recognition in the Church. The proposed oanoa waa (o supply that want, The repoit of tho Committes does not at sll condern_the ordar, but leaves its encoursgement to the Bishops and diocesan authorities. ~Awmong its promoters aro Bishop Wilmer, of Alsbams, Bishop Littlejoba, of Loug Island, Biskop Whittingham, of Mary- land, Bislop Spaulding, of Colorado, tho Rev. Dr. Hnntington, of Massnchusetts, and the Hon, William Welsh, of Philadelpkia. e T RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. The famous puilosopher Edward von Hart- maun, of Berlin, whose treatiss on “Uncon- scions™ has had more success than any mets- plyaical work of our time, and bas slready goize through six editions, has gone into tho field of theology to come out with & religion of Lis own, after a fashion. He bas no paticacs with the carrent attempts to liberalize tho stern old Chrisianity, and he maintains that liberal Prot- estants, however orthodox in name, neither ac- cept tho flery Measianic Judaism of the New Teatament nor the developed theocratic system of the Catholic Churoh, but have patched upa method of their own, which talks of Heaven and goes for the world. The Protestant minis- ter, he saye, prenches renunciation for his com- fortable parsonage, and denies himsolf, with the Lolp of his buxom wife and the fruttful cow. Ha thinks the Ultramontanist is the consistent churchman, and be caanot be put down oxcept by changing the whole ground and trising ouc into the open fiald of freo thought and coemo- politan fallowsbip. a2 has revolutionized religion, a8 well a3 politics, he says, and set this world above the other, aud made religion a mat- ter of human welfare and eocial concern. We must have a religion for the people, or taey will terd to Romish supecstition or Communist fa- naticism. The Jews are fo_give the alement of unity to the new creed, nd ILdia is to coutribate ita broadth. Tho croad is fo be Unitariaa Paa. eivm. —_—— NOTES. METHOUIST. A new M. E. Church st Hickory Grove, the Rev. B. D. Alden, pastor, will be dedicated Nov. & = A now Methodist Church will be dedicated at Nunda. TIL, Nov. 15. The Rey, s, will preach thé dedication sermon, The General Missionaty Commy 3e thodist Epizcopel Church will ::::\Z{v ; AWy | at t he Book Room in New York. Tho folloring programme has ] for 1875 by the National Cnmp-ll::;: m;;fi" § tion: Shelter Island, dnne 10; Fepms, B Pailadelplia, June 23; Upper Toxy, gapeor % | bana, 0., July 22; Orchard Beac, dgg o) I burg, Aug. 25. =¥ ¥, Tbo Albright Methodiats hav a7, Ies in active service. There have been vereons converted in Enrope. the pest year were 570,584, The Hev.J.S.Inekio and the Rey . | 3lcDonald, of the Nasionsl Camp e, LA ciation, will bexin a ten daya' mnhu;‘;‘g Ution Methodist Episcopal Ch Nov. 22, el Gty B Lo | s Nortiern Christian Adtocatragas ey, «ve 975,000 towards the fopt 2eed 1y that mstitution, plovidc; u:a‘tu: :Tflfé’: 8175,000 is obiained. Tho Norge o thinks the latter tlung ean be done, The Peck family had a reaion j other dsy, Itiaa largo and pranis s i Distionyy, o 1,0y '-“’"flwpu :: 3 G faify it prisiog a Bishop of tho M. B, ; teen other divines. nearly of qansiy Pl ace Metliodists, - They supplied al] the i dist pulpits of Syracuso oo Supa Jel goodly bumber of preachers for thy g} & Domiuations, and some who did not preach,. & R The stotistics of German Methoding g United States for 1874, z:comirer::hm Dr. s Bazt, of Cincinnatl, zra as follows: -y, o> & and probationers, 35,173: loosl presspe it £ churches. 552; _valus, £2,039.915, e ;B 254 valuo, SILLTS; espouded for S buildiogs, S157.090; for iiniserisy Tt §19.200; Smnilas-schools, G17+. gtV teachers, 6,443 ; acholars, 25,011 ubm,bo;:: The pastor of Ames Charel, ; Afiorican chiureh in Louiaas, reeony™™ b Boston Ministers® Meating. gars se oo 3 G2 o stato of Lis charch, which is agt esent, & ing. o etated that Lo Lad not found e i fmest churches, largest . congregations, o) meal:hiest of membershive. a8 hapay iyl to expect; but, on the coutrary, su ard " chuten, in'which the average congregatirs bered Bbout forty, and whosa menpei and is absolutely foor ; hat ho aiferly Lo reach Southern families of Hethodiety Locad tios; thot macy Northern Methodists 0oLk retamned their certificates of memunn.'pm’ stead of lianding thom £o him, being sctpria tLis non-committal courso Ly the fuar of e business, social ostraciem, and otber sxs "8 the political carpet-bagzers spont therr gyt in holding political couventml;s, or i:"uf},’.'f.',‘m"’ suits, but rarely, if ovor, at chufch ; that neifey (;1;::1 :h{e pa.r(l.!y of the& oz the one hand, nor tha p: of murder on the ofher, il Eoyihing o liops. bad B chorey The Paotist Church ot L e e Pavtist Church at Lexington, 1., compleied a houss of worship, Suhnm The new Baptigt house of worshi Howard, Wit., ianxpr_oschmz compl:-{.x!:: l!’:fi xg\ (l};zluc otyle, and is a very neat and. tastolc] uildiog. Tho net gain of the thirty-f ? ch‘;:'dmibof Boston, l}u pn‘:‘;e:r?rwzmfl‘fi‘ making the present total Baptist ip cf the city 10,022, ek mimbesahiy ot During the twenty vesrs' ministry of i, Re Dr. Parmly in Calvary Buptist Uh‘:!"‘-h of .?emeevy. City, 1,400 have united with the Canrch, of whom 715 were admitted by baptism, Mrs. Joel Ratbbone, who recently died in AL bany, left in her will bequestsas follows: Albay Baptist Missionary Unlon, 35,0003 Amencty Baptist Miesionary Union, $10.0005 Ameriecs Baptist Home Mission Society, 810,000: Womsa's Union Missionary Society of America, $10.09; and to various other institutions a fotal of 825,000, At the Chicago Baptist Ministers' meeting fo- morrow, a pager o0 * Reading the Serptares iy the Pulpit” will be expected from Dr. orgaa, The Rev. F. M. Ellis will discuss the qaeskion, “What shonld the Church require of s esad date for membership, s to bis_religious exceri. ouce, and ho.s siould the experienca be girea by the Church 2™ CATHOLIC. The Catholics of South Amboy, N. J., ars erect. ing a bandsome houso of woiehip. 1t is 120 fes} long by 60 feet wide. More startlinz religions news from Eneland: Ten Protestant laymen have just seceeded to Rome, as the result of a mission of Redemptonss Fachors held at Tyldesley. The preliminary arrangements for the canori- zation of Joan of Arcare in progress. Requesty have been forwarded for conferring the sams honcr upon Lonis XVL The London Table! saye that ninety-sevencoss vents have been seized in Italy by the Giunta Liguidattice: 2,192 pensions hava been given o expelled inmates of religions honses. Tae New York Herald says: **Among ths eme vents recently suppressed by the Italiaa Gosem- ment in Rome 1s that of Sant' Ambrogia dells Massima. It is situated near the sufech Mattd Palace. and enjoys beautiful views of the Eter- nal City. An’oll tradition declaresit tobsva been built over the site originally occupisddy the paternal honse of St. Ambrose. In A.D. 350 it wos iohabited by his sister Mareellins, who, when her brother Latyns died, dwels ber alone. The convent belonged to the Hesedo- times. The municigality intende pulling dava the convent, but will leave the church 3 isfoe the present.” The statistics of the Pronagands, coveringths period botween 1765 and 1973, show ibe remyt- able growth of Catholiciem iu Great Britain vt~ in that time. Thus in 1765 England snd &t land cootsined only 60,000 Catiolics, in 1521 500.000, iv 1842 a8 many as 2,500,000, sod ia 1345 —threo years later—3,380.000. The ince® in three years is very remarkable. Since 1843 i numbers of the Catholic comn;union hava siesti- ly grown. Judeing from previous dates itia fsir to asume that the total namber st present Great Britain amonnts to soveral millions. convorsions are estimated as aversgiog (X € aroum. In 1873 there wero 1,503 priests, 1453 churches aod chapels. ei; gix eonvents men. 258 convents of women, twenty-one Catbt~ lic g¥mnasiums, 1,249 schools, aud twooty Caite otic diocesos. REYORMED EPTSCOPAL. Bishop Cummins has gone to New Bruoswick znd Nova Scotia in angwer to mrgent calls from various towns and cities to organize Beform Chuiches. New Drunswick has pow parishes, and a good prospect of several more. The Reformed Episcopal Charch of the Be- demption, at East Liberty, Pa.. a suburbof Pittsburg, was dedicated Sunday, Oct. by Bishop Cummins, in the prezence of 8 large 5- sembly of people. The new dznominstion has now two orgat, the Episcopalian, of Philadelphis, one ths oldest Episcooal Church papers in te conndrs, and Qur Chyrch_Porch, just statted by tis Social Union of Christ Church, Chicsgo, v although at prasent soracthing of a local sheet promises to largely employ its .colamms i aid of the Iteformed Episcopal Charch. EPISCOFAL. — Sundav,"Sept. 20, B. F. ivorris, Eurl.,omnfl‘ at the corner of South Park avenuo and Treats- soventh sireet, the Trinity (Eviscopal) nulif& Sunday-sehool, with an attendance of about scholare. To take careof aud toatract this l:'.if number of children there wers but seven fet i} ers present, so_that r. Noma found himself with a large echool and an insufficiency of »ewh ers to take proper cara of it. The sccond Sao- dev witnessed a decided increase in attent S of children, but s:ill aecarcity of teachers. parsevered, Lowever, and on the third Sm:fllg; natice having beeu given i Trinity Chburch kl— teachers wore very much needed in the echodl » sufficlent Dumber of ladies snd gentlemen were pretent to fally oflicer the school and charge of tho classes. The school now nambe 175 scholars and _oflicers, and promises 10 it~ crease to a etill larger extent. Mr. Norris {3 e~ onded by bis wife, who has charge of the iofa3t class, nambering ' nearty half & huodred. 2 Superintendent bas insnzurated a eyetem O weekly offerings by the children, and the E:R thus collected is to” Le expended for the beu 1 of peeds little oncs, members of the echiool 20 others. “Friends of the Sunday-school c:m!sdgfl show thoir friendship in no_batter way than by attecding this school at 3 o'clock to-day. CONGREGATIONAL. beMd An old-fashioned cxperience-meeting wad " last Sunday in the Congregational chapel ¢ Alaywood, led by Alr. 8. 5. Kemp. F ‘Fo-day will be dedicated the new First Con- r:re:mm’;.l honge of worship at Oak Park. _%4 is a fioe stone cdifice, whick cost abone 245,000, It is 80 feet fn lengtls oy 310 width, with 3 t0%¢T feet in height. Jthas sealing capacily {of 525 persons. A bell weighing 2,500 pouads call the peoplstogether. * The building has beea tastily frescood, and is altogether a very o€l sreciinen of architectura. Tho dedicatory Ber- vices to-day will comrpse a repors of the Bo: of Trustees, the religions sod