Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1874, Page 6

/ ] RELIGIOUS NEWS. a Baptist Possibilities of Schism. The Doctrine of Universal Salvation Gaining Ground, A it at the Proecedlass of the Synod in the Swing Case. _Commonts and Opinions of the Re- ligious Press. Notes and. Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. THE BAPTIST SCEISM. week All tho religious papers during the past weel have discussed the prospects of a serions dlvi- glon in the ranks of the Baptist Church of this country on the question of open or closs com- munion, The text of the diecussion has been the action of the Iate Long Island Baptist Association in excluding the Lee Avenue and refusing to re- ceive the Matcy Avenuo Baptist Cburches, of Brooklsn, for avowing their beliof in, and adtho~ sion to, the doctrinos of open or free communion. It scems that thesympathies of other Baptist bodies 10 Brooklyn bave been aroused in favor of the excised congregalions for the Gethsomane ‘Baptist Church, in Brooklyn, 8 vigorous andlarge crganization, of which the Rev. H. Btewart Walsh is pastor, voted promptly, by =n over- whelming_majonty, to withdraw voluntarily from tho Long Island Asscciation, and DE. 3. B. THOMAS, of the First Church, recently pastor of the Michigan Avenae Church of this city, entared a Yigorous protest, in lus own pulpit, against the course of tho Associaton. He said in the course of his sermon that : e had never known a case during hia conneciton with the Baptist dencmination 1n which there bad been » proposition ever, to discipline a member Locause of auiy peculiarity of 'views with reference to the subject of communion, The question Las now srisen whether a church should be cut off from the fellowship of the Aseociation becaure of iy Views in 1elation toopen communion, The result of his deliberations has boen that ho believed ¢ was zot the will of God that any church or individual should control the judgment of ar.y man, or that any oue hasthe autlority tocondemn bocause of differing beliefs, He'held that no man or body of men should e excluded from the fel- Jowship of ihelr neighbors becauso they enfertained Bonest couvictions, wnich did not interfere with the hbuilaing of Chrlsts kingdom. Tho spostles Taud down simple rules of doctrins upon this Foint, into which the subject of open communion did not enter. DR. JEFFBET, pastor of Murray Aveoue Baptist Church, is well-known 38 cne of the most popular of the Baptist ministers of Chicago in former years, Thus Chicsgo, after finishing its Swing contro- versy, han, through two of its former Baptist divines, opened another important diecussion at- the East, which promises to divide a great de- romination, unless that Church should eee fit to tolernte a differcnce of opinion on the subject of the commanion. The sermons of Mr. Spurgeon, who is & well- known open communionist, and who is regarded everywhere ss the greatest Daptist preacher iiving; bave exercised a liberalizing influence upon the more intelligens American Baptists. The further fact that English Baptists aro al- most universally open communionists, following inthe footsteps of their great leaders, Bunyan and Robert Hall, 18 anotber strong argumeat in favor of an equal liberality on thisside of the Atlaatic. TEE NEW YORE OLSEBVER argues that closs communion is now the only real barrier to a eymgathetic fraternization of all Protestant Churches in this country, and ehows that the tendency to contend for close communion is contrary to the spint of the age, vhich favors the suppresmon of non-esscntials, as between denominations, in the interest of the common cause of Christianity. But there s1e many Baptisia in the denomina- tion who imagine that close communion is the ‘most importaut dogma of the Church, Thess will cliug to it and feht for it, and denounce the ‘more tolerans brethren as doubting Thomases, aod excise them ir possible, The batile over close-communion promises to equal in_interest that over Ritualism in the Protestant Episcopal Church; or the Holy Warin the Methodist Church ; or the battle over Liberalism in the - Unitarian Church. : ’ The leader of the Conservative Baptists ia the saintiy Dr. Fulton, who writes io the Journal and Mfessenger as follows : ‘The victory is won, and for it ws give all the praise £9the Cuptaln of ouf calsaiion, Aawereview the con- ct and tes how the bostaof the enemy have been scrttered, we canmot but fecla pity for the Baptists of *The Boston North Association,” who last year xud this year have betrayed their trust and permitted the Bev. George F. Pentecost, the avowed open com- ‘munlonist, to retaina seat in the body, and the Hadson River Noifh Aseoctation, which lacked the courage to deal with Dr, Reeves and the First Cuurch of Albuny. ——— UNIVERSAL SALVATION. The recant editorial in the Christian Union {favoring ths views of the Universalista as to the ultimate salvation of mankind has awaken- ed much discussion. Reczntly the Adcance, of this city, expressed the opinion that, * So far as onr acqusintaoce extends, tbose minisiers and , churches that fully accept the ultimate and bind- ing awhority of the New Testament firmly bold ibe doctrine of endloss punishment. We are not aware of any considerable exceptions amoag the churches of this country.” To this the Rev. Dr. W. H. RByder, of thia city, takes exception, in the most vigorous maa- per, in a communication publisbed.in the Aew Covenant. Dr. Ryder says : ‘We do not want to be discourteous, but we find it difucult to characterize tlus statement a8 it deserves, and not seem to be. Fur theimpertinencs of any suck pretension is only equaled by tue faisity of tue im-~ ‘pression it is intended to make. It is simply not true, and the scholariy and critical editor of the Advance ¥nows this as well as any one, that the ministers and churches that reject the tenet of endless mitery also Teject tae New Testament as bLinding anud uliimato zathority. He accuses his_bre! wrongtully, and oistakos what from personal knowledge Lo knows to De their opinions. The Umversalist Caurch of Amer- 4ca accept the Now Testament a5 ultimate and bud- ing authority, as heartily aud rev.rently as any exist— ing Protestant eect, and they certainly do not believa in endless misery. " And the same i true of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousznds, nay, even millione, of esrnest Christians in this countcy abd in Europe, They do mot find the doctrime of endless Tusery in the Bible, and belicve ius teaching in thia sespoct bas beeu misapprehiended. While, thercfare, they reject this interpretauion of the teachiug of our Lord, they cling with a more tender sympathy to His fracicus words, now that the conviction of the resson 18 in sccord with the love of the soul. Finally, we dexire to call the attention of the editor of the Advance to the fact that the doctrine of endlcss misers, 25 generally held by the Calvinistic churches of New Euglaud, 18 0ot now, and never was, the faith of Christendom.” New England Calvinism with its horrid conceptions of taaterial torment, and an avenging God, isimply 5 provincialism, never the scoepted bollef of the great booy of the Canstian Church. 1f our brothier af thie Adcance wowd Liko the proof upon this subject, him open the columna of kis paper 10 a communica- tion on that tople, and the proof will be forth g. Thero are some evidences of the advance of more liberal feeling among orthodox churches with regard to the doctrines of Uaiversalism. 4As, in Jefferson. Wis., the Rev. E. Gartfleld, a Universalist minister, has preached in the Meth- odist church of that placo three times, at the ro- uest of the pastor; and a couple of weeks ago the editor of the New Cotes who is an incor- rigible Universalist, was invited to participate in limg‘dmatinn of a Meshodist church at Blue g THE SYNOD. IT8 ACTION IN THE SWING CASE. The last number of the Independent has an article by Dr. Duffield on the recent action of Ihe_Synod of lllinois North in the Swing case, which concludes aa follows = Meanwhile thern much . Church, began o see daylight for a mon.ent-and Lo the first time to coneider what some of us, s corre. zpanding members, had suggested from the very som mencement, viz.: thal this was precicely one oi those cases conteipiated in the book 32 a proper subject for tefeceuce to the General Assembly, Tho Synod, fiad. tng tat the chariot-wheels drew 80 heavily, was just Ina fit mood to welcome such an olive-branch, i- dently the wary but weary Aloderator was hoi aile- Bether averse to the case faking this direction, and s getting the elephant off his havda, The Jadicial Come imttes—through whose total And iguoiiinions fallure he had been left withont his right arm, and the Synod in such & muddie—hsd nothing to #by, a8 usual, and said i, Brother Moore (perbaps repenting of his rash ‘and hasty decision a8 & judge before he had beard s single word of evideuce) was wisely silent ; 80 was Father Frame ; and a0, fora won~ der, was Ben'Eara Ely fra— tion, |.hn‘zmh)|.|;‘lc:ltri.l O not speak it Five mion ma’:?;., ‘and Lindly feeling, snd I had no doubt the ouid have been refersod to the am‘ni.mm{h . strong wajority, to the great relief of the Synod, the 0y P Eha Nortawesh and the still greater satle- faction of the eutire Churc] Bu: this Jull inthe storm was only for & moment, The rift in the clond and the little apot of biue sky ahd feturniug sunabine was soon to disappesr, The gooil Urethren bhad been counting without their hosty Far fn the rear of the room, futently gating throngh s spectacica and leauing sgainst a pillar (rrecisely 82 T once saw Willism McCalla in similar circumstances in Pufladeiphix), wus thie master spitit of the torm, i the pervon of Prof. Patton, “No postpouement I* No compromtes 1* for him, * Was this Bynod pre- redto say thatit would not prodecuté and pamish eresy 77 r must be voted down, No “whip” in the Houssof Commons ever brought » demoralized party into mors immediate and complete subjection, Even Robert Breckeariage him- self might Liave been proud of the szertion of the bne- man power that was here put forth, and confessed toat the viotory of Danville over New Albany might soon find its counterpart, Voted down the .psper wWas most emphatically, and with that paper went the lasi ray of hope that any real peace can be expocted by the friends of coustitutioul Hberty in the Reunted Church other- ‘wise than by promptly unsheathing the sword in solf- defause, The sagaclous motto of the Iuritans— & Ense penit placidam quietem V—~has once more o new meaning, und 18 just ax trua in the Church as in the Sfate, The attempt now 80 insidiously made of identis fying the *Naw School” with the * Swingites " is equally fales and foolith and uxflusl, The breturen of ihe Chicago Presbytery ute nst detending Prof. Swing. By withdrawing from the Presbytery and the denome ination he its_generously relieved ihem from thst re« eponsibliity, From that momont Mr. Noyes Wak no longer bis counsel, Posaibly Brother Jeukins would say, as Prof. Swing is * constructively ” a heretioand Prof, Patlon ** constructively ” an * aggrioved party,” 80 Mr. Noyes may be * constructively” cousflared an such counsel; but there it no other sense in which it istrue. Wemayas well state he teal truth of this matter in just 80 many words, snd then thers will be Do mistako about it. The Presbytery are simply re- siating ecclesiastical tyrauny in the person of Francis L. Patton, ahd that is the wholo of it, Most sincerely {0 they hops that from this time forward this, as the real aud ouly remainiug issuc of the case, may be fully and fuirly understood by all our ministers and all our churches, —_— THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. THE NORTHWESTERN ADVOCATE discusses the * Hotly War on the Question of Sanctification” which threatens to break out in the Methodist Church; in fact, bas broken out, simco several of the official papors, iocluding the Methodist Quarterly, have receatly published ar- ticles denunciatory of the * Holiness " gatherings. The Mathodist deuomination promises to be dividod ere loug on this question. A small part of tho denomiuation, which belisves in complete porsonal holiness and perfection, has become & sort of thorn in tho side of tho great body, by its vigorous and radically expressed Dbelief, and has alresdy created & considersble publishing interest, which is, in short, opposed to tho similar interest of the great body of Methodism. The article in the Northweslern is for the ose of mollify- ing the growing divergencies. The game pupor has an editorial on **Some Things That Lamo Us." These things are olassitied as bumptious- vess, superciliousness, false modesty, affectatian, vanity, and the Lyeterics of adulsuon. The editorial appears to be a consideration of tue value of good manners; and the people lsmed by bed macners are to be counted in larze pumbers outside of the Mettiodist Church. The editor defines the first-mentioned sin & fol- lows: Bumptions people are particularly offensive in priat, It is racher remarkable Low msny people escapo learn- ing the maxim of rhetorio which prescribes o manner adapted o gain the good will of the reader. Bome of them are the bumptious clan, always blabbing about the well knovn 28 though they had” just found it out for the first time in the world, and guahing and galor- ing abous jt ot the top of their lunge, rho best safe- guard against it {8 modesty and reflection upon the ‘principles of self-roipect, A reader does not hixe it to be assumed that he {8 3 £ool,whether ho be ong ornot. The same paper oxprosses & decided convie- tion that toe Chicago School Board are not on the track of true reform in prng\mi‘ng to double the sessions of the High Bchool. THE ALLIANCE says: **Old School iusolence is well illustrated by the Presyterian_Bauner, in desiguating all dissenters from the Patton style as *gentlemen who have drifted into the Presbyterisa Church witlout knowing auything of 1ts history.” The Banner ought to have been more explicit. The sapient editor meant—gentlemen who bave no gaude'nloglc-.: zonnection with the North of Ire- Jand !” It reminds such men &s Wendell Phillips that, even though slavery is finished, the:e 18 plenty of work in moral reform for him and them to do yet. It discusses the gxospaot. of an approach- m% religious revival; has ac appreciative edito- nal on the mission work to be done amongthe poor and outcast children of the city, and pitches into the Long Island Baptist Association for twning out tho Lee Avenue and Aarcy Avenuo Baptist Churches. * The Coming Re- ligion ™ is depicted 38 a more spintusl, snd therafore & more universal, betief "DOW ex- istas e There will be less_importance attached to these points on which dénominationalisms mow thrive, “Chat is, a8 an fllustratioy, it will be seen that it is ot Dy immersion or close communion that the Baptists snccead ; nor by Apostolical suocession that the Epis~ copals live; nor s Calvinism the life-element with Presbyterians; nor the itinerancy with Methodists. Indeed, the time will come when the Church historian will marvel that ever a great Cliurch was built, not on Laptism, but on the mode of baptism ; or that & Church could live 50 long with = Aurk Calvinlsm sa fts central ides, 1t 18 the precence dynef: m, 20d vicart- ous love, and life-giving spit and savin, fhe souls . of “meus and his alone, ap gives religlons life to =mny of course, & Church may exist a1 & government overan ignorant and euslaved people, or feed upon their superstitions withont much or even scarcely any of this saving element: but it cannot 8o exist in & frea country, and among inlnking people. With e ad: vance of the universal in religion will come also the exaltation of man as man, The badges of natfonalittes and race will sink down and human rights il rise up, t5i in Christ there bo “ neither Jew nor Gentile, bond nor {ree, male nor female.” Andin this comlng ra- ligion there will be the brosdest catholicity, and the widost freedom of thought for each mdividual, and, instead of scientists and religionists guarreling over their respective fields, each shall gledly bring hu richest oflering to a common sitsz, and joyfully wor- mu{'m one temple—ths templs of God and of human souls, THE STANDARD treats on * The Testimony of a Good Name," and congratulates is readers upon the cheerful outlook for the Baptist Churah in the Northwest. The same paper, quotiog the Rev. Dr. Jeffrier's recent repudiation of the doctrine of close com- maugion, Iabors tnmnfih s column aud a balf to «bow that, 88 a good Baptist, ki ought to inclade the dogma; yet the author of the editorial evi~ dently sympathizes with the Free Commusion Brooklyn Baptist churches, THE ADVASCE takes for a text tue recent address of the Hon. W. B. Ogden, at McCormick Hall, or tha: part of it wbich warned the country that wholesale corruption was on theincreass, and argues shat amore intonse aud careful religious education is required to stem the oncoming flood. The same paper discucses ** Religions Literature,” arguing that the waut of the age is not 8o much » deuominational as a Cliristian literaturs of & high order. It thinks the Sundsy-school litera~ wure, which did 2 good work fifty years ago, has grown thin and degenerated into woak and enor- vating religious romances. It has faled to make reasonable progress either in its themes or methods. The time has come for a new in- ventory, says the Advance. ~It adds : But this is not all. The Church snd the commn aro #adly Jn wani of n religiom. INeratare Toriin times. Here the Church is not up with the world. The immediste past 3ad the present aro ly rich in historical, Liographical, archmological, elentific, misslonary mterial, which' remalus unused for the cause of the Master. An immense fresh field of tho works, providence, and grace of God remaing to be ap- propriated to the uses and fllustrations of His word, Now wants are created, new ditficulties aro rawed, new themes suggested. The whole socular sphere of writ~ ing teems with new and attractivo works, But there is & sad vacuity in the religious sphere. A multitude of pressing topics call for fresh and wise trestment, Whole provinces of thought demand new guides, Skepticism also requires the right kind of attention and provention. It intrinsfeally is no mors able and formidable than it always has been. BHIl it has clianged ita mothod, and requires 1o be met in fis changed armor and on new battle-flelds. The French Encyciopedists, the English Deists, Julian, Porph Celsus, and their allfes, were just 28 skilifol and a8 threstening in their times ‘a8 are modern skeptics, ut the ssme weapons that were good gainst thoss e not good sgainst thess. The same ability, wis. dom, and skiil, however, will do the work, The Advance also diecusses railway reform, ple st NOTES. CONGREQATIONAL. The Congregational Church at Potterville. AMlich., hest just completed a neat house of wor- ehip. The Holland Congregational Church at Alto, Wis., sent to Fatbertand for a miniater, recently, He was ordsined Nov. 1. The ladies of the Fox Lake Coogregational Church have greatly besutified their church by adding vome furniture, carpets, &e. The Tabernacle Congregational Churoh re- ceived cight new members last Sunday. The Linooln Fark Church received aix ;- the Ken‘mo; Church two: the First Church fifteen; the Loavitt Btreet Church st : and the Clinton Streot Church eight on the same day. The Advance saya in regard to the dedioation of the Cougregational church st Oak Park last Bunday: **No appeal for money was made,—a gociety meetiog the evening previous having raised the $56,400 needed to clear off all debt, oxcept & $10,000 loan, One man gave the (3,500 pouuda), another the frescoing, snother tho stained glass, another the $4,000 lut, and several thousands besides, The acoustio prop- erties sre pertect, the venhiation superb, the furaishiog and embellisbment besutiful indeed. The house will seat 500, and was crowded, The church is not yet twelve years old. Under Pas- tor O. E. Dickinson, the first four yea:s 1t had missionary aid, which has all been patd back with interest and & good deal more. PRESEYTERIAN. Last Bunday the Third Presbyterisn Charch received thirty additfons; the Highland Park Churel four; the Evanston Ohurch ten; and the Westminster Prestyterian Church nine. The Fourth Presbyterlan Cburch of - South Toston, which has beén organized two- years, is sbout to build » noat houss of worship at A cost of abont $8,000. ‘The Beach Street Presbsterian Church in Bos- ton is in & successful utate of growth. The pas- tor, tho Rov. J. B. Duun, reports that for over five vears there has not beeu & single commun- ion when numbers did uot unite with the church on profession of taith, nor & slaglo week * whon persous did not come to us with the inquiry, *What must Ido to be eared ?'" ‘Lhe quxbur ou- of communicants is largely in excess of & wand. The Presbyterians of Chios held thetr third Synod at Chefor, Aug. 4. The Llev. Dr. W. A, P. Martio waschosen Moderator. Thoe Com- mittee appointed to trapslate the standards of the Church reported the work nearly done. It was reported that the propeaition for the anion of all Presbyterians in Chiva was admltted to be desiyable, but ic was the general opinion that the time had not yet arrived for such & consum- mation. The Bynod adopted a recommendation for this formation of a Presbyteilan Fedoration ia China slmilar to the one proposed in tndis. In the Synod thera aié 34 foreign miesionaries, 14 native pastors, 6 ltoentiates, 17 oandidates, 22 native shurches, and 1,003 tmembers; 223 were receved the past year. The next Synod will be held in 1878. METHODIST. A new brick church, 40360 feot in size, i butlding in Liborty, 1a. The Rev. A. B. Kendig dedicated a new Meth- odist church at Panora, Ia., Oct. 25. Oct. 18, a Metbodist church was dedicstad at Rausey, Wis. ’the Rev. William Thomas is pas- tor, A fine Methodist charch was dedicated at Toich Lake, in the Upper Peninsuls of Michi- gan, Nov. 1. President Jooslyn, of Albion College, Alichi- gan. will dedicato a new. Methodist charch in Casevillo, Mich., Nov. 15. The new Methodist Episcopal church at New- ton, Mich., will bs dedicated Nov, 18. The_Hev. Dr. McCarthy, of Jackson, will oliciate. A new Methodist church was dodicated at Deer- field_Cetre, Mich., Oct. 29. Its entire cost was §2,560, and it was dedicated free from debt. President Fallows, of Bloomington, Il., dedi- cated a new charon building at Rankin, IlL., Oct. 13, and on the following Sabbath he did the saime thing at Gibson City. The Primitive Methodists of England report for the past year: Total income, £35,207—an increase of about 814,000 over any previous year. The Society has on hume stations 181 mission- aries; in Australia and New Zealand, 51; in Canada, 46; and in Africa 7, making a total of 287 missionaries, who labor on 156 stations. During the Jeu 14 now chapele and schools were erected at home, 33 new_missions opened, and 4,400 open-air services held. BATTIST. The Hyde Park Baptist house of worship will be dedicated to-day at 8 o'clock. The Rev. A. J. Dean has assumed tlie pastoral care of the Baptist Church at Wintersat, Is. Four persons were baptized in the Western Avenue Baptist Cburch last Sunday evening, The North Star Baptist Church has completed its bloci of buildings, a portion of which it oc- cupics for religions services. The colored Baptists of Miceouri have located an academy at Kaosas City, and propose to eatablish there a denominational paper. During the month of October the several Bap- tist Churches in Chicago and vicinity received sixtean members by paptism and tweuty-seven by letzer. The Baptist University of Des Moines is re- ported to bein a very flomishing -atate. The prosent uollaga-{m is to be signalized by the graduation of a class from a fall c.assical course. A now and elegant Baplist church is to be dedicated . to-day at Fori Howard, Wis. The Rav. N. F. Bavlin, pastor of tho ‘Lemple Bap- tist Church n this city, is to preach the sermon. The New York Herald says the Gethsemane Baptist Chureh, of Brooklyn, N. Y., have, by an almost uoanimous vote, drawn from the Loog Island Baptist Association, on acconnt of its illogal and unchristian treatment of Dr. Jef- frey and Mr. Bmith, and their respective cburches. 1t {8 rmmored tha: soven othor churches are likely to withdraw alio, and that another sssociation will bs formed on Long Island. Last Sanday evening, the Rev. J. Hvatt Smith reviewod the action of tbe Association 1n turoing his church oun:. Dr. Thomas, of the First Baptist Church, also condemued it, and Dr. Jeffray read to his peoplo a biier statement of tratbs and principles in which he bolieved. CATHOLIO. Within the last fifteen vears the Catholics of the world Lave sent the Pope over 820,000,060 The chapel lately erected in tho cemetery of St. Alphonsus, Baltimore, was consecrated last Bunday. Two new Catholle dioceses sre fo be created in Pennsylvania. tho sses of which will be fixed at Reading and at Pottsville. The Very Rev. Manrice Walsh, V. G., of Philadelphs, is spokea of as ons of the new Bishops. Nov. 1 Bishop Hendricken, of Provi- dence, confirmed 555 young people st Arctic, Pheenix, sod Crompton, B. L., and asked of each person & pledge to abtain from the nso of 1n- toxicating dnnks until they were 31 yesrs of age. -~ The new Catholic University College at Ken- sington, England, was opened Oct. 15. A Jow mass was said, and an address delivered by Dr. Manoing. The college contatns a theatie, leoture rooms, & -school of gcience, & discussion room, and a cbapal. The Archbishop of Paris has sclected a design made by M. Louit d’Abbadic for the national Church of {he Bacred Heart, which 18 to be erected at Montmartre. The charch will be built of siunped marble, and ie to be an almost exsct reproduction of the Basilica of the Superga at ‘lurin, which contalns the tombs of the Kings and heroes of the House of Savoy. _BEFOBMED EPISCOPAL. The following important telegram to the effect that Dean Cridge hns withdrawn from the Church of England to connect himeelf with the Reformed Episcopal Church, has been received by tho Vostry of Emmauuel Church, Octaws, Canada, and fully confirmed by a subsequens messago: Victorn, B, 0., Nov. 1, 1874 The Reformed Eplacopal Gaurch hu orgentsed uare with 350 members, The Very Rev. Desn Cridgs takes charge of the new congregation. Send 400 coples of the revised Book of Common Prayer, one large read. ing desk, and Bishop Cummine’ licenss to the Dean to oficiatoas s minster of the Keformed Episcopal Church. T, W, Higorxs, Proprictor Brttish Coloniat, Victoria, Bishop Commins administerea cownmunion to the members of the Reformed Eplscopal Charch at 8t. Johns, New Brunswick, Sundav, Nov. 1, and, after visitiog the other churches of that %‘:nam"(anltmn in the Province, expects to go to oronto. A conventi ?mtsxf”;’h £ ntion of the Protestant Epi Church bas been called to meet at Dnvpn:;?r:,l {,;.,IB::. 9, to elect & successor to the late Bishe The Protestsnt Episcopal miesionsin Hayti omploy seven native priests. The church has ooly sbout 170 families, from 250 to 800 com- munioants, and 760 attendants. The Archbishop of Canterbury has asked hi rural Deans to inform him a8 to the gcnm-fi opinion of the laity with respect to ths orna- ments, rubric, and position of the celebrant. _ An Eastern FAner notes that one of the no- ticeabls acts of the Protestant Episcopal Conven- tinn has been the refusal to establish by law the order of Deaconesses. and the decision to loave the subject to the authorities of each diocese,— a atep of caution that had some connection ably with the ritual questions relating to sister- boods. The Iatest statistios of the Protestant Episco- al Diocese of Central Pennsylvanis are tg fol- lows : Eighty-seven parishos, oighty-two clergy canonically resident, eight candidates for holy ordets, 5863 commuaicants, 8.236 Sabbath- school scholars, eighty-four' churches, twenty- two chapels and school buildings, i) ‘thirty- elght parsonages. The value of the ohurvh prob- |- buildings is $860,200, and the flnancial offerings for tho year smount o $166,852.62. i Dr. Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester, England, writes as follows to the Bishop of Mel- bourne: “Icall mysglf sn oldefasmoned En- glish churchman, and 1 find more to 1epel me in anv one of the extremie schoola of thought in the English_Church than I do in aoythiog I have Been or heard i the Old Oatholics.” The Church Congress recently -held ia Brigh tov, Eugland, is reported to have besn a very successtul meeting. Tho assembly filled to overtlowing the lLugs pavilion of George the Fourth, The Bishopof Chichester presided, and iaymon as well as clergymen took part in the discussions. The next Congress will be held at Btoke-upon-Trent. . MISCKLLANEOUS. . A powerful religious revival is In progress in Jaffrey, N. H. Prof. Henry writes that it is a mistake that the Smuthsonian Insticution is to be opensd Suadays. The Indian Evangetical Review estimates the number of converts to Chrlstianity 1o Hindostan for tho year 1873 at 5,000. It is'Tepottcd that the Christians, or Djeciples of Christ, sod'the Opun Conunuaion, &r Free Baptints, bave appointud conferenve committoes, with instructions to devise a basis of union for the two bodics. Titus Balt, the wealthy English philanihropist of Sultsiro, bas laid the foundatiou-stons of a college at Bradford for students for the iade- pondent mimstiy. The cost of the building will be about $100,000. 5 An Etstern gentleman named Thomas Maok, who hesrd Dr. Dudley preach in Milwaudes a few Suuda; . was 80 ploased with the sormon that he sel m s check for $100 from his coanting-room in Bostou. It is said that the Chiness converts in Carson City and Virginia City, Nev., have built a neac chapel in the former placs, where services are now held. Thev propose building another chapel in the Iast-named place by and Ly. Tho Young Men's Christian Assoclation of Chicago bas undertaken o Beries of mostiugs in Northern Iilinois. A threo days' meeting re- cently hald 1 Rock lsiand aud Molize, was tendod with very satisfactory results. Tle Methodist Ministers' Couvention recontly held in Pittafield, Mass., discussed the question of advertising church gervices in the newspa- pers. Murh talk pro and con was had; but no formal expresdion of tuo opinion of the Conven- tion was given. Bome timo ago it was announced that ths Sun- day-sbool cause in St. Louis was ina very un- eausfactory and declining state. Ouve of tho ministers of that city recently explained that the decline was owing to the fact that ** the mors re- flecting part of the 8t. Lonis Ohristian public had lost their faith in the scucol as a Christian agency." Bocrates’ Praver—0 God, grant meto become beautiful in the inner man, and that whaiover outnard t.ings I hava may be ac peace with those within. May 1 deem the wise man iich, aud may I have such a portion of gold as noue but a pradent man can either be.r or employ. Do we noed aoytbing elss, Piwdrasn? For myself I Liave prayed enongl. The New York World savs ihe Evangelis: fathers, Rivington and Hull, are to hold a i sion of twelve §-yu, from Nov. 1to Nov. 12, in the Church of the Advent, Boston. This is tho ounly mission atter the full mouner of the En- 1ish misssons in this country. A mission was ajely held in Poiladelphis, aud atiendsd by from 600 to 800 in the week and 1,300 on Sunday evening. The Rev. Dr. Cumming, the famous pastor of the Scotch Churoh, in Loudon, Eng., has taken ouce more to predictions. Ho stated in a ser- mon on a recent Sunday that Europe was upon the eve of ‘*ove of the mos: tremendous cooflicts that bad evor happeped upon tho earth.” He Dad referred to this in his prophetic warnings of the past twenty-tive years, and although he had been scoffed at, he was neverthéless ** glad to sea” tbat, according to ths presen: Primc Minister of England, bis prophecies were about being realized. All Protestant denominations appear to have ‘becomo emulous of occupying Rome as the seat of tneir missions, ne Chrisiian journal says: Italy is like an estats where the game has been carsfully preserved from poschers, which has suddeuly been thrown open to everybody who carries a gun. In they have rushed, all the sects of Eogland and America, tambliog over one another, blaziag away with prodigious energy, but hardly brioging down game enough to pay for the powder and shat. The American Board, sosing tYu; has annonnced ita determination to retire from Lialy. Tho London Missionary Society, some time siuce, seut cut the Rev. Dr. lfiliens and the Rev. John Pillans to Madagascar, to aecertain the exact stato of the misxioas in toat fsland. It will be recollected that about six years ago the Queen professed couversion to the Christian re- ligion, and shoand 300,00) of her subjects be- camo nominally Christ:an. —Theso misslonaries bave recently 1eturned, and report that there are about 1,000 congiegations organized; and thiat the membership is_about 33,000 B sincece Christians, althourh the rolls contain 60,000 pames. They report that membership is made too easy, but say that it is ceitain that the entire 300,000 among whom the London Society is la- boring havo renonaced their idol-worship. Tae Woman's Foroign Missionary Societv connected with the Presbyterian Charch held its semi-annoal meeting, Occ, 29, at tbe Presby- terian House, Philadelphis. Tho past yoar has added thirty-uino auxilisrv societies and fourteen mis=gion boards to the long liat before ia opera- tion. Ten new mis-ionaries are reported. six of whom are jus: ensering their flelds. The special abjects at preseat demanding tho at:ention of the Society are the printing of the Bitle in_the Laos language and building a bonse for Miss Belz, their faitful Zonaos worker at Etowah, India. The firat entorpriso lac.s but 8500 to in- sure its complotion. The sum of $18,917 was re- ceived during the first mx months. At tbo meeting, krs. W. W. Eddy, who has just ro- turned from Svria, and Miss McFairen, from Bogota, South America, gava iuteresting accounts of their work. The Christlan sects iu Jernsalem hava taken to quarreling among themselves, An Eastern cor- respondent says tiiat, * Waile the Greek and Latin communities are disagrecing over the decoratioa of the Grotta of tho Nativity, the Christians of a'l rites are much concerned avout the fate of tbe Pillar of the Scomiging, which is their com- mon property. This pillar, which is kept in a Latin chureh, snddenly disappeared, bat on in- quiry it was affirmed that it bad merely been placed in a box for safety while the church was undergoing certain necessary reglira‘ The other communttica therenpon set their aeals upon the box, and all excitement was for the moment al- Jlayod. In the meantime, howsver, rumora have been #ct on foot that the Latina had packed up and sent to Rome the true pillar and substituted for it another piece of stone.” —_—— PERSONAL. CcHICAGO. The Bev. Glen Wood has returned from a month’s tour among the churches of Iowa. The Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers has gone to Jowa with his family, to spend a foew days among friends. The Rev. James Maclachlan; pastor of the First Scoteh Church, of this eity, on his return from Caoada was presented with $350 by the members of his church. The Rev. B. T. Vincent, of Colorado, brother of Dr. J. H. Vincent, of New York, passed through tbis city one day last week bound for New York. The Rev. A. J. Jutkins, Presiding Eldor of the Chicago District of the Rock River Conference (M. E. Church), has been seriously 1ll for sev- eral weeks past, but was mble to perform his daties again Iast week. Robert ¥. Quesl, Leq., starts for Brooklyn to- ‘morrow morning, to be present at the mnofifig of tha Charch Extension Committeo of the Meth- odist Episcopal Ohurch, on Thuraday next. Tho Rev. Dr. Artbur Edwaras, editor of the Nortlwestern Advocate, leavés to-morrow for the East to be present at the mecting of the General Mis sionary Committee of the Methodist Episco- pal Church in New York, Nov. 11. The Rev, Dr. William MoEaig is reporied to have sccepted the plenary inspiration of the Beriptures as taught in the Presbyterian Confes- sion of Faith, and to have expresseda purposs not to teach aoything cont to ! 0k 10 fasch moybaing - contiacy fo dhia sandards Bishop Harris, of the M. E. Chureh, had a very warm_reception from the New Yotk Meth- odists, at the Sturtevant Honse, on the evening of Oot. 36. Bishop Janes and the great Meth- odist leaders of New York, Brooxlyn, and vicinl ty were present. It is understaod that the Ohi- cago Committes, who bave iu hand tus selection of a residence for the Bishop in this city, have rented s fine mansion on one of tho fashionable avenues in the South Division. Bishop- Harris, with his family. is oxpected in Chicago soms time this moath, after the - meeting of the Mis- sion and Oburch Zxtension Boards, which take place thia week. ELSEWHERE. ' Mrs, Van Cott was preachicg to crowded houses in Brooklyn, N.'Y., 1ast week. Tbe Rev. E. P, Hsmmond begias a series of revival mestings in Galesburg, Nov. 15, The Rev. W. H. H. Murray is to preach in Musio Hall, Boston, whila the” soheme for a new charoh is pushed forward, The health of Dr. Hngna, pastor of the Baptist church1n Orange, N. J., lias become 8o pour a8 to compol him to spend a year in Europe. Miss H. G. Britton, Miss Marston, Mins Ken- dell, and Miss Woodward, leave New York for Calcutta on the I4th of November. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Grace (Cathollc) admin- istered confirmation’ and dedicated a naw church 4t Caledoms, Houston County, Minn., Oct. 25. The Rev. Henry Powets, recently of the Charch of tho Messiak, at New York, has been ca'led to the Unitamsn Church at Manchester. The Rev, M, E. Schermerhorn, formerly pastor of the Church of the L'rinity, at Boston, hus ac- cepted a call to the Unitarian Caurch at Buffalo, The Rev. 8. 8. Sheddan. D. D., for nearly a quaiter of a Censury tne pastor of the First Pros- bytenian Oburch in fabway, N. J., died Oct. 18, aged 64, Tho Rev. J. W. Bradshaw. Coogregational minfster, way ordajoed by Council at Datavia, Qot. 29. " The serinon was preaohed by Prof. B. 0. Bartlott. s Bome excltement has been causod by the re- centlv-announced conversion of the Queen- Dowager of DBavaria from Latheranism to Oatholicism, The Rev. J. E, Boy loft home Taesay last for = miss1onary tour fo West Virginia, and to assiet in the dedicativn of the new charch edifice, at Huotington to-day. The Rev. C. H. Eston cloted, last Bunday, his threo yoats' Iator at New Windeor, During hia miniatration the church bas grown from éloven to forty-elght members, and the goclety has built and pald for a house of worslip, . The Rev. A. O. Wright declines s unanimouns call from the . Congrogatiousl Churcti at Ocono- mowoo, Wis., becausoc his present church at New Lisbon refuses to lat him go. The wifo of the Rev. Dr. Field, of the New York Frangelist, has just 1ecovered from a serfous fit of iliness. She bad a wide acquaint- ance among the litesary circles of New York and Brooklyn. ‘The Contennial Committse of the Preabyter- iao General Aesembly have decided to erect a statue in Plnladelphis to the Rev. John Wither- 8poon, one of the signors of the Declaration of Iondepeudence. ‘The recently-chosen Bishop of Bhanghal is s native of Marylaud, and is about 85 years old. He gradusted at the University of Virginis, and studied theclogy in tho Divioity School of Phila- delpbis. He was ocalled, about two years ago, to the rectorahip of the catbedral in Readiag, Pa. et iy RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. A speaker at a recont Sundsy-school gathering in Montreal thus speaks of one of the Indian preachers among the Northern tribes: * Strip- ping bis shoulders to show that he had thrown off all deceit, he stood up and said that he had had avision. Hesaid the Grost Bpirit made firat the sun, which took bim s week. He then rest- ed. He went to work again and made the moon, s0d then, as it bad nothing to sbine on, oar mother,—tho eartn. Then he croated the buffa- 1o, tho greatest gits to his people. After this came the red men. He put them here and said : “You stay there.! He then created a little island and put the pale faces on ‘it and sad: “You stay there;’ but they had so mpch fire in their bones they couldn’t stay there, and had to go everywhere, and crozsed the water and came hers. The Great Spirit must have put them in s bad country, or they would bave stayed in it. They had no businees to cross the big lake st all, but they have gome bere and have gat to stay bere, aud I've got to tell you we had bacter let them alone.” Mr. Boeohor is delivering leotures to his church on prayer. Recently, io one of his Fridsy even- ing loctures, ho said : T have a recollection, in my ch'ldhood, of three kinds of prayer. One was family prayer, where my father officiated ; the second was ths prayer of my mother,— ‘my second motber, that brought me up; snd the third was the loug prayerin church, There were two things that always atrock me, as 4 child, in fumily prayer. Tie first was that my father's prayers wire always sbort. I think that {t {s s great inhnmanity to get chiidren down on their knces snd then pray by the Balf houe tull the flesh is weary, and the spirit too, snd the waole exercise is irxsome, Not only were they ehiort, but, after the earlier and elemensary petitions, they always broke out in the language of foresight or hope. He believed in the millennium, and he almoat al- ways went forward 1nto the Fmt triumjhant future when the devil should be put for s thousand years un- der lock nd key, snd when tho angel should go trum- peting about. o usea to walk through the heiveas with magnificent figures of every kind. To these I was very seusitive, und I always waited for that part of bis prayer,—and {o that I was with him. So, on tho whole, my recollection of my father's prayers is very agreeable; and I think they were profitabls to me, ai- though T was s Little child. The English Ritualists point with exultation to'tho * perversion” of Lord Ripon as ome of tbhe first fruits of Dieracl's attempts Lo put down Ritualism in tho Established Charch, and predict, 1f the war is continued, that multitudea of Churchmen will follow his example. **Brought ap,” eaya the Church Herald, **iu a school cf rigid Evangelicalism, Lord Rison's mind was t00 honest and his heart too warm to be con- tent with tbe traditions be inhorited. An 1n- stiactive rejection of the narrow scheme of Calvinism left him—as it has lets thousands of those who, in their carly years, have learoed nothing better—a liberal and broad charchman. But Lord Ripon is a man both of deep religious faeling and of large cuiture. He has 16ad eaough to find out that our Lord and His Apostles not ovly enlightened the world by their teachiog, but a'so founded s Cburch; and when, hke Lota Buie, he looked aronnd him to find the one divinely grounded religious polity which had the right to claim his submission, he failed to discover ita characteristics in a religious organ- i1zation superintended, in the latitudinarian i terests, by Archbishops Tait and Thomsop, un- der the control of a Parliamentary majority. ‘Thersfore, like an honest msa as he is, he ac- copted what had become to him the only alter- native, and with it whatover obloguy it may unpg from those who are unablo to appreciate bhis motives.” . ‘The English public are just now exercised as to the authionity and title of the so-called Patii- arch of Antioch, who has beon made much of by the clergy. There are twelve persons who claim the title, and among them all it seems quite Embnblo that this one may bo an adventurer. A ondon correspondent eays : 1t has beon asked whether this friend of the English bierarchy is o Monothelite, s Monophyaite, a Nesto- rian, a Jacobite, or “a defender of the Thres Chap- ters," whatever they may be. Ons_object of this in- Quiry is to ascertaln whether the Patriarch who goes about giving his benediction to the English clergy 1s not one of the heretica who are periodically cursed in the Athanasian croed. It appeirs {rom tho answers that have been given, that thera is too much reason to fear that the Patriarch really falls nnder the maledic- tions of the High Church clergy. He belonga to the Syrian rites, has no conuection with the Graek Church proper, by whom be {s regarded a8 a heretic, and as a Jacoite, & Monothelits, and, to some extent, a Mono- physite, all rolled {nto one. It may be suspected that the innocent English Bishops were_chiafly impressed by, the vanerabls appeacancs of the Patriarch, and took artbodoxy on truat, 3r. Bery Ffennell, writiog in ZLand and Waler, eags: * Ope matter which I think will impress most strangers with a feeling. of disap- pointed-surprise 18 & visit to_the Cathedral City of Dowupawick. It is peither the city itsell nor the fine substantial catbedral on the bill that evoko this fusling. Tney are well enougb, trim, thriying, 0 rofortable-looking on the whole, and neod not fear comparison with other eathedrals or euthedral ciiies of Ireland. But something more than disappointment, something like indig- nant surprise, takes possessiou of one on being led up to what is said to be beld sacred aa the erave of St. Paurick, and which a8 such is vis- ited, X am told, by multitudes of American strao- gers every year.. It lies in the highest and most central position in the otherwise decently-kept churchyard surroundiog Downpatrick Cathedral, and is the ome spot of earth in the whole place that n;pum Riven up to complete neglect and desecration. Around are graves and gravestones, ancient and modern, all well- ordered aad nasily kept, some_showing the ze- coat touch of hands directed by loving care, while the one which strangers would bave ex- pected to find most honored and revered is the only dishonored gravo smong them all. The unsightly-looking hote, nomarked by cross or slab, now half filled with loose rabble of broken bricks, stones, and eartb, is a disgrace to the oplo of Down, who, bo they Protestaots or 'apists, in tnas they cofum to be Christiaus, have aa equal right to honor the resting-place of this faithtul, fearless preacher of Chnstiavity, who waa the first to bring the_Gospel of Truth into Irelsnd, the firat to introduce the dawn of civi- lization among her then wholly barbarons Princes and people, and whose feet first touched the Irish soil upon the shores of the County Down. 1 hall feel proud, indeed, if these observations “THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY:; NOVEMBER 8, 1874—SIXTEEN ' PAGES. belonging to the neighborkood, bicrh byt take same interest in this mat- or the county, to ter. The Boston Pilot (Cathole) is not in favor of installing the iadies, elected some iime ago, to the Boston School Board. It says : A matter of inlerest to the whale country Is Boston's expertment of electing womon to the School Commit- tee, Now we ahall maintain to the bitter end that uny- Dbody who s a member ofsuch an {nfidel body a3 the Radlcal Olub, of Boston, & set Of unveileverain any- thing excopt themselves, {8 no type of true woman- hood, mor fit to auperintend the education of chil- dren] We protest that the woman who coolly listens while & so-called “ Reverend " reads of the trigedics of *Socrates, Curist, and Napoleon "—compariog and utting the heathen and tie blood-thirsty deapot side- )y-udo with our Lord—is no womsn {o be beld up as & modelor example. Yot }iss Peabody, who would be of tho School Board, and Alrs, Cusnoy, were Ltely pres- ent at thin roading, and are potaule members of the Radical Club. o protest that thoss intidel men wio deny God ought not to be placed in position to poison, by word or example, the minds and heurts of children. But, with all oursoul and all our inight, we protest againat the woman who has Do faith or religion being ut upasa person of influsnce on educetion. Lt ez rotura to ber home, if sho has any, angmake dark the present and future for her own lhlldren, if Heaven has 20t In mercy forbidden such a calamity. We should like to_submit this question of commitiss women to m;a:lmm in_the public schools. 7o 4 man ws be; on, to & wOm3D also, therew Dt one voto on the matter, and that & docided—No1 2r. Gladstone, in a recent note to the aditor of an Enelish rehgious periodical, says in re- gard to his own religious belief: ‘**A firm ad- harent of the pricciple of dogma, and under atrong convictions as to the central elements of the dugmasic system of Cluistianity, I joyfully admit that the moral and spiritaal results of that religion in very many casos overtlow its dogmat- ic borders, such 2a I seem to see them. I have hed many friendships with Unicarians, and have derived much &mfls from them; and I am truly glad to think that the Almighty is Lot stioted or Iiited in his modes of ogeration. aud that those who in fact bear the blessed likeneds of Christ are most truly and surely His.” Father Hysciothe bas recently published **A Few Words'on the Reading of the Bible,” which indicate, as plainly as anytbing be has recoatly uttered, ais divergence from the Catholie Church, Ho says of the Bible: It is the Book of men inspired by tho Holy Ghogt, g tratha waich never pass,—truths which suy6 and feed our souls, From the origin of‘mankind —from the patriarchs and prophets—down to the com- ing in the fieal of tue Divine Word, His life, deatd, and resurrection, hore we have God's Book, contuine ing God’s Word, although in humsu form. o under- stand the Bibie, as ouce told me Ly an American Curistian, we must read 1t with boat kness, Yes, the Bible must be read with the bent knees of our soul, before Him who speiks, corrects, inatructs, or com- forta - After rmiding it with tho inaer disposition, mploring the Spisit 0£,God given to the Church never to forsake her, tuen we read it in that light o modern eriticlsm. The Istter is, without the Holy spini, poweriess to throw any ligat on religious subjocts, and 1O leas unable to darken the sacred truths which we have contemplated with sdoration. BREVITIES, The Prophet is failing. He cannot expect to B. Young forever. Minnesota Sunday-school boys put grasshop- pers into the boxes iustead of pennies. A Bundsy-school teacher recently told his class thas Jeremish was the firas Prince of Wails. A Danbury little darkey refused to go to church *kaso he dido’t want to look there like a huckleberry in a pan of milk.” It is said that the resignation of the Rev. Adi- rondack Murray was accepted in 3:1437,—the fastest time on church record. A child, being wsked what were the thres great feasts of tue Jews, promptly 2nd not un- uaturally replicd: * Breakfast, diuner, and sapper.” The latest feature of thechromo gift business comes from Dexter, Me. They uave a church thers which gives a chromo to every new con- vert.— Boston Globe. 4 4¢ What sort of a sermon did our pastor preach this morning, Gussie, dear 2" said aa 1nvalid wile to the beleved of her soul. ** Ob, baly! 'twas only fifteen minutes.” Henry Godnose Bailey is the name of a boy in Springhele, O, If we were your parient, Henry Goduose, we'd knock your middle name out of jca.—Qincinnat Times. There is 3 man in issouri who has got s dog which doesn’t resemole Noal’s Ark. He says he +haa kept him forty days and forty nighta with- out hig lighting on ary rat.” Alabamians are very prompt in paying bets which have been lost on horse races, but when it comes to settlo for pew rent they get mad if they are pushed.—De’roit Press. In Eansas, a man who was not at all popular with his_neighbors was struck by h;,vl.mmg-1 and killed. The Coroner's jury returned the foliow- iog verdict: * Killel h)' the Lord; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Advertisements are a species of commercial literature. As such mav be mentioned the fol- lowing : * Use Jones' bottled ale 1f you would Kkeep oat of hers,” which was wscribed m latge white letiers un tho wall of a aity burying- ground. A member of Parliament at a London dioner party was selected to ssy grace, He ended: *-Ob, Lord, make us tralv thankfal, and what do you thivk of the improvement along the Thames?” the questiou being pat in the sams bresth to an Ambassador who 8a: on his sigot. The Detroit girl who wrenched off bell-pulls and upset ash-batrels recently as she was return- iog homs alone from a late supper given io a cburch coapel for tha bonefit of the poir. It wseems that some of the voung veople discovezod the soxtou’s sacramental wioe aemijoiu. A teacher, questioniog littla boys about ths graduation in the scalo of being, asked, ** What comes next to man ?" wherenpon a little shaver, who was gvidently sma:ting under a sense of previous defeat, immediatoly distanced all com- petitors by promptly shouiing, *‘His shirt, ma'am!” 5 A Pittsburg preacher hss been rar‘nesmd to repeat his sermon, and “say it slow.” Ioono of hus sentences ho remarks: “ Tho marvelous multidinousaess of the minutim of the corrodar- ating circamstances are the insarmountsble dif- fealties whica unmiatakably prevent the skeptic fiom discovering truth.” . A Nashville proacher’s little boy was reading a religions work the other day, aud coming acrosg she word *‘matrimony,” was somswhat puzzied 28 to its meaning. Tarmng to his brother, who swod near by, he asked what it meant. ** WWhat do you think 1t moans ?"” was the reply. *‘ Weli, 1 don't know; if it don’t mean h—Il, I doa't koow what it does moan,” responded the sprightly urchin. A gentleman sat down at a table ‘in an Osh- kosh restaurant the other day, aod called for ** a bill of particulars.” * Brookiyn, by thunder!* roared the bystanders, io a gust of mora! indig- Dation, as they shot him throngh tue doorway with the velocity of & Remington rific ball— Rrookiyn Argus. A doctor went out West to practice his pro- feagion. An old friend met bim on thestreet one day, sod asked hi ho was succeediug in_his business. * First-rate!™ he replied; I've _had one osse.” * Well, and what was t?2" “I. was a birth,” said the dootor. ** How did you succeed with that?” * Well, the old woman died, and the child died ; but, by tho graco of God, 1'll save the old man yet!™ An exchange gets off the following on delin- quent subscribers : ** Lookiog over an old ledg- er, we 506 a fong ArTay of names of former sab- scribers who are indebted to us. BSome of them bave moved away and aro lost to sight, althongh to memory dear. Others are carrying the cou- tribution-boxes in our most respectable churches, aud others again have died and are angels in heaven, buc they owe us juat the same.” There are s good many stories afloat about the Enm:uhoua observance of Sunday in Scotland. ut we remember nons more illustrative of tha absurdity to which the custom is carted than the following, which is told by the Couat De Modiue_Pomar, in his newly pubhshed work, ‘“The Honeymoon:" *‘It was at the hotel of Dumbarton, I had just gat up, and rung the bell for some hot water for shaving. A waiter snswered my call. ‘I waut some hot water, if you please,’ I gaid. ¢ And what for do you want the hot waler?* *For shaving,’said I, “‘Yocan- na havo hot water oa the Lord's Day for sica thing as shaving," said the waiter, horror-struck at theidea. Iipsistad again but with the same effect. *Na, na,’ said he, ‘ye canna haveil.' Necessity is the motber of invencion, 'tis said, aod this aroused mine. I thought that if I coul arianga the order in such a way that it wonidnot affact his religious scruples, ho wonld bring it directly. - I toerefore proposed that I should like somo toddy, and told him to bring me the mate- rials for making it, consisting of whisky, sugar, aod boiling water. _Thess ho bmnght witbout the least demur. I yave him the whisky, which he drank, aud I used the hot water. soicnce was satisfied.” P RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEXENTS, - PRESBITIRLAN, The Rev. Ben E. 8. Elywill presch morning and evening at Graco Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak svenues, —The Rev.David Swing will preach fu Pourth Cbureh this morning, Bo con- =The Bev. C, Chiniquy will preach af the Firet Beotch Church, corner of Songsmen etreets, morning and evening, by lppo).uh;::‘% Chath sm Presbytery. . .- 5 oty —The Rev. J. H. Walker will presch at Presbyterian Church morning and erenf) —The Rev. J. B. McCluce Ll preach at By, this morning. TRy —The Rev. J. W. Dalnwill preach Preabyterian Chureh, corner of Moarog s po% yroets, moruing and evenlsz. orag. sqppes e Hope.” . i “The Only Hope” Erealaz: wmas h,,,j T Rev. U, D. Gulich will presch cvenlag af tis Aendscon Rt el Caurey, 381 fon srect, near Kzo. o Wasaiag, —Tue Itev. Dr, W. W, M-K: Ninth Ghurch morming and eveatag P20 # —The Rev. R W. Patlerson ll preacy Second Church, cormer of Hichigan oot B4 Tventleth streets, toruing and evening, 2% 14 the Beupjey —The Rev, 8 W. Daitield, of Ann Ar, churen, st oo o wney, preach at tha Eigmh s moraing and evening. —The Ee: oiothe e 3 At tha T i.nu-;:' ey stsest, near iabey, morming g et —Tho Rev. Jomea Maclaughlin will preacy Firat Scotch Ghurch, corner of Saogamag rap 1, s cormes of Saagaman sad Agees ~Too Rov. D.J. Birrel will prexch mortng srening i te Wettuiuster Gureh, Cornes ap 81 sora atres i HiE ey 030 Open Stamarn 0 E L0t i, will presca a7 —The Rev, A. E. Kit orning u;:': &y Cliurch ‘morning snd_evening. “The Second Cumiag of Chrise” Eveppes, on Cazmal, or How 10 Sectro a Horival of Hilatie i The Rev. N, H, Axtell Wil preach g o Rev. N, H, Axteil w o nue Church mornlay and eventag. Sorogs i A * Tio Hiding of Hin Power.? Evening % aictt from the Juniper Tree to the Motnt of Goa. evgthe o, £ L. atinin wil proach eaingat &:. Pil's Chures, avenuo snd ALl St T e —The Rev. Dr. Thomas will preach morain evening at the First . 18 wfl%‘%ggd.n Church, Eenlag sabject it —The 7. Dr. Raymond, of Evanston, will ¢ urch’ 3, E w 39?"&:‘:’:: Church ia the mraing, 10d DF. Farler gy —The Bov, B, D, Sheppard will orp Aveaus Catirch moraing and ‘evesiny Tk subject: “ Conditions of ® Intimacy with ‘o Evening; “The Easence of the Ohristian Bepnts —G. i, Fowler, D.D., wil preach at Church this morning. D g r. Ra . o Tiev, 3T 3. Parkiirat Wil prmses ot 80d evening at the Michigin Avenus Cuarch, —Tho Bev. 8. IL, Kellogg will preach ¢ Kq Bireet \fisaion this afternoon, Bauzy Brof, Bosrdman will_ preacs. mosaing 1ad e . Boardman tach st the Baion Porc Charch: 12d evene —The Rev. J, Bradsbaw will | evening at ihe Glinton Sireat b 2028220 mmunion servics will be Leld st Church this moraing, Oy Ghuseh this moraing, and S.bbth-schoe] coner —The Bev. Albert Bushnell will preach evening in the Leavits Sirest Church, m‘l':"'&'if.?j deAd.\xan .‘EMP..&) " —Tae Rev. E. P. Goodwin will preach st tha¥ey Presching by ty England Obarch in the morning. pasior in the evening. REFORMED EFISCOPAL, 5 of Ml avehne 308 Foaty o Chirty e chigan avenus and Twenty.-§ Y ing and evening. S The Ber. R G. Perey will presch e Rev. . Perry orsing erening st All-Saint’, cormer of Cirpenter 1o Fouza —Tha Rev. Dr. Stocking will presch morning md evening &t the Church of ti ] stres, Dotmas Monioo and A1 > 2ds Toroop —Tue Rev. Dr. Warren will st Bt Mty presch Church in the mornin; Solimado, tythe oractay 1V 188 Ret. D Yoarmal —Services 28 usual at th: urch ~ corner of Deldes and Lineoin srememsc O Suriow; —The Rev. F, d will presch morning and evening at the Church of tonems corner Wasiingion and Hobey stsest, 4 o2eme2l % —The D, Arthur Brooks will preach mornmg and eveniug at St, James' Ca ‘cora aron _52'5* .S urch, corner of Hacon md vices a8 usmal st 8L, Paier’s Free Chapel, N Third avenue, Commuvion sarvice at lfl::i‘,:.‘,m?‘ i —The Bev. Dr. Moore, of Coiorado, will preachay St. Stephen’s Church this morniig, and tha pastariy the evening. ~—The Rev. E. Sulllvan will preach moraing sad eveningat Trunlty Church, comer of Iwenty.fxh street and Michigan avenue, ’ —Services at tae Cathsdral 8S. Peter and Paul more ingand eveuing. Communion services in. the merne —The Rev. Dr. Incke will preach at Grace Church, morning and evening. —The Rev, W, H, Smythe will presch morningaad evening at the Caurch of the Holy Communion, guntl Dearborn street. Evening subject: “Joseph; or the ‘Way to Wealth and Famc.' cnRwrLY, The Bel:mlfluflfiaflpnuhmglamd evenin; Chrs wrch, corner of Indiany Svemuc and Twenty-afth streok. —Eider G.G. Muliins will prewch at the Central Christian Church, morning and evening. BAPTIS 7. The Rev. Florence McCarthy will preach 2t 3 p.=, Subject : * Elijah's Sinful Bequest,” —The Rev. D, B, Ciieney will preach at the Foarty Church, corner of Washington and Paalina streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. Joon Donnelly, of Omabs, will preach o} Engiswood morning and evening. —Ths Bov. J. B. Stlison will prosch atTempls Church, corner of Harrison and Singaiam atteets, this eveniug. Prayer-mesting in the morning. —The Bev. Dr. Everts will preach at tas Tavermads, No. 566 Wabash avenus, this morning. ~The Bov. John Gordon wil preich moriug md evening in the TWestern Aveatie Caurch. subject: * Bocing God.” Evening subject: “Da Soul’s Redemption.” Baptism at the closs of oveaing | service. A TOTARIY. The Rev. Dr. A. B. Stewurt, of Lysu, Msay, o g)!muh morning «nd evening st the Churchof ths casiah, —The Rev, 0. V. Wendto will presch this menieg st the Fourth Church, Subjeck: “dJesus Chrish He was, is now, and ever shall be.” —The Bev. E. R. Sanborn, of Lawrence, En, vl preach morping and eyeuing st the Thixd (Rurch, Corner of Monroe and Luflin streats. —Tno Bev. Robert Co lyer will preach this moraing at_Unity Church, corner of Dearborn and Whitoeg strects. —The Re. 3. N. Pardes will nreach at tha seideacs of C. B. Dupee, corner of Woodlawn aveaus asd o sizthost., Kenwood, this afternoon. UNIVEBAALIST, ‘The Rov. Dr. Ryder will proach 2¢ St. Psuly Giusdy morning and_evening, —Thne usual servics a¢ Marray Church, Indisos st noe, near Twenty-ninth street, MISCELLAXEOUS. FElder Mendell wid preach ut Advent Eall, 213 Msds 1s0n streot, morning and evaainz. A —Tho Progreasive Lyceum of Chlcago meels 3% 12:30 at Good Templars’ Hall, corner of Wasniegin and Desplaines nireets. —The Disciples of Christ meet this afternocs fat worship at No, 229 West Randolgh street. —Tne Kev, E. Balfour will preschat the Ecslsh Lutheran mg;'umn, Ccorner of Dearporn aad Erle sirselsy mo; —Tuo Rev. J. B. Hibbard will presch ot New Churchy Ball, corner of Eighteenth street and Prairts svennsy ‘morning, snd at the Temple, corner of Wast Wi ing stceet and Ozden avenue, in the alternoxz. e it Chideis. Progrenive Lyceum mesd row’s Opers Hall at 12:30. —\irs, Amelia Calby lectures befors the Finit of Spiritualists at Grow's Opera Hall, moniog evening. —There will boa meoting for worship st rfln‘fi meeting-house, Twenty-sixth street, ‘morning evening. —_—— CALENDAR FOR THE WEEEK. EPISCOPAL. Nov. 8—Twenty-third Sundsy ufter Trizity. 5 DOMAX-GATHOLIC, o8 Nov. 8—Twenty-fourth Sundsy after Pentecosty tave of All Salnta, Noo. 9—Dedication of St. John Lateran, Noo, 10-St, Andrew Aveliiao, C.: 8%, TyR@ 3 Respicius, and Symibe, Nov.11—8t, Martin, B. O.; St. Meonss, M. ¥ov. 12—6t. Martin, P, M, Yoo, 13—8t. Didacas, C. Nov. 14— Sianislas Kosta, C. —_— e — OVER THE WAY. 1 saw her one day in the early Spring, Over o way,— A pot of three summers, 3 winsome (hizg, ‘Asairy and bright 08 a bind on wing, With & face ko a flower, and golden-crostedy And a baby-emile that rippled and rested . Over Lips s0 g3/, = While out of the deeps of her wonder-6yes Tae pure joy flowed, ifke the light from kst As se todaied, laughing, her nursa And then ran into ber fathar's door, e Over the way. 1 saw her agatn when Summer was gree, Over the way,— ¢ With clieeks of roses, and out from betwnsd Danced the dimples of “aweet zixteen,™ 3 While tné long-bent lashes conld hardly cover “The arrowy gleams that pierced hee lover, a bay, - pped in the worship of face and cutl, As, playfally mocking, the radiznt gisl~ + Buirly foated b steps afaz, 4 And then trippod into her father’s door, Overthéway, T saw her once more in the £all of the Jeady Over tho way,— A fair young mother; but esrly grief Had sadiienod her beauty beyond belicf, . With locks grown browner, £ad eyes ‘Evfl Hinesys Throagh faith diminished, or trust tha true’? Ab! who could sa7 1 But her step was alow, and ber willowy form. Bowed like roed in the Autumn-stori, As she feebly faltered her shadow belorsy Andso into her father’s door, Over the way, . I looked fn vain for the lovely shape, Over the way, — Bat my tears fell fust as T markod the ra) Frow ita oilver mountings the doorwsy ‘As tie white tlakes drove Lho air m: - ‘And beat o the bliuds taas ware drawa so closels Til all wssgray; . Whtle a funeral train paced by the steps of stons Whith her fest s ehild, girt, woman, had knowd ; And, with mourners behind and mourners befary 1In aer cofin aho came from bar fother's doos, i Over the way, ~Xathan D. Urnar. rapsy