Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1874, Page 6

AL sinsrierm B st o i " THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIB Fa% E g UNE: ST SUNDAY, NOVEMBER peteggen 22; RELIGIOUS NEWS. fife of Bishop W. L: Harris. Criticism of Monoure D, Con- way's New Bible, Deseription of Trinity Method- ist Episcopal Church. Dally Life of the Pope-Tho Irish Cathelic Bishops om Prof. ' Tyndall Opinions and Comments of the Religious Press. Notes and Personals at Home and ~ Abrond. Church Services To-Day. BISHOP WILLIANM L. HARRIS. " An event of much more thsn usual importance and interest in Chicago Methodist circles wag the arrival of Bishop William L. Harrie, D D, LL. D., yesterday, tofix his permauent residence in this city. Tho family of the Bishop, cansist- ing of his wife and two dsughterssud a soa, pro- ceded him by about ten days, and bave bec}: tho guests of A E. Bishop, Esq., Bishop Harris ar- rived on the 10 o'clock train Testerdsy from New Yark, and is expected o preach in ona of the Methodist churches to-day. F i Inthe entire Board of Methodist Episcopal General Charch Superintendents there is not one who is more popular than is Bishop Harris. - By bard Iabor, peraistent study, good nature and merit, and royal good health, he haa reached the highest oftice in the gift of his Church. He has worked Ius way up from the ranks of tho min- istry in Buch a way a8 to have the satisfactionof 3 noiversal acknowiedgment that he is worthy of the place, > A slight sketch of his life will not be uninter- esting. He was born 1o Richlazd County. Oluo, Nov. 3, 1517, snd was educated at Norwalk Sem- wnary. In Lis 17th yoar ho was converted, and was Ticensed to preach sbortly afterward. He foined thie Ohio Conference in 1880. Here, in wddition to the work of the Conference, studics ecessary to his graduation as a minister, he also carried forward a parallel college course, upon which he was examined acd admitted regulariy to tho degree of A. B., just as though he hed been in college. He was chosen Secretary of his annual con- ference for several vesrs, au office of honor sd responsibility, which shows that be early was marked 28 a man of ability. In 1848 he was elected President of Baldwin University : and, in 1551, he accepted 3 professorehip in the Obio Weslevan University as an associate with Bishop Thompson. He was elected to the General Conferenco in 1856, and has been a member of every General Conference since. He was shosen Sceretary of the General Conferencoin 1836, which place ho filled in every subsoquent session of that body until his election to the Bishopric in 1872. In 1360 he left the University to fill the oftice of Secretary of the Missionary Board, having becn elected to that office by the Geoeral Con- Terouco of that year. After serving a term of iwelve years in this ofiice, aod gaining many friends’ by his admirable executive sbility, he was, in the General Conference which assembled in Brooklyn in 1872, elected to the high ofiice of Bishop. _In the following year he was eppointed by the Doard of Bishops to visit the mission Selds in Japan, China, India, snd Europe, con- pected with the Methodist Episcopal Chaurchi, a duty which he has just accomplished. After an bsence of pearly a year and a half, he returned to the United Btaws in October, in timeto at- tend tue aonual meeting of the Mis- sionary Board in New York. Among tha twelve members of the Episcopal Board present bis influence was conspicuous, During the seasion he was constantly called upon for in- formation respecting the proper sums to be ap- ropriated for mission sustentation dunng 1875, he Bishop proved, by his remarks, how clearly be had observed, and how intimately acquainted be is with every missionary sbroad. ‘Bishop Harris is Iarge andstalwart in frame,— & peyfect specimen of vigorous mankood. Open, frank, and cheerful, he wius the hearts of all with whom he associates. He likes work, and bas done his share of it. As s writer be is vig- arous, clear, and terse. Daring the culmination of the Anti-Slavery struggle in the Methodist Episcopal Charch, iie took an sctive part, and rote considerably on the subject. His coming to Chicago for his permanent residence will be welcomed, not merely by his own Church, but hy all the religious = bodies of the city. Dec. 6 he will attend the general anniversary of the Mis Bociety in Boston. Dec. 16 he will hola 1n Chicago & judicial conference for the settloment of appeals from the annual confer- ences, there beiug five such cases to be settled. {mmediately afterward he will go South, to at- tend several annusl conferences which are to be held during the early months of the new year. e THE NEW BIBLE. To the Editer of Tha Chicagc Tribune: Sm: Wehave s new Bible, at length, in Mr. Cenway's * Sacred Anthology.” 1t is an eclectic Dibls, ths Bible of all nations. . According to the promise that was sounded in advance, and the aseurance of Samuel Longfellow, ane of the ring, in the 128t number of the Old and Kew, it in a candidate for pulpit use. Now it strikes me that, for thix purpogo, it will prove a failure, While it may.serve some of our moods, and prove 2 gennino comfort to s class of very thonghtful ‘and meditative minds, it seems to me doomed a8 & book for public reading, on the following gromnds: .. - . irsi—It is too abstract. There is no life about it. Itis not pictorial, not dramatic, not freah with the spirit snd play of character. The truths have no setting, The prinaiples are not animated and personal. © is no human element here to eulist & quick and sure sympathy. We miss the central figure, thegronp, the illage, the landscape, the normal eurthly belongings 1o wisdom aud viriwe. And be must be 3 good vesder wh can detain and impress tho common ‘mind with thess ‘“*dry lights” and sbstract periods, He will soon find the Old and New Testamcntnarrative, illuminatingand illustrating the page, gives an indespensable advantage. . Second—The ** Bscred Antnology ” 18 made fip ‘mainly from Orfontal sources,—Hindoo, Persian, and Chinese. Aod when the thonght ia good, the oxpression fails, by rezson of & 100 lutge play of fancy. The tisau is too fine spun. ~ Thero is not opium enough in our atmosphera to in- duce a corresponding mood; and these dreamy poriods, these fine thonghts within fringes, will &carcely move us. The Hebrew waight and golid tramp on the hard-pan, characteristio of Moses and Paul, and theintervening writers, aro far more to our nature and meed, and to the want of the coming man the world over. We like, and mors sod more demand, the Sazon rip of thought and phrase that the Hebrews, ‘Bven more than tle Greeks and Romans, an vasuly more than tho Orientals, have 5o marvel- ouely anticipated. The public reader of our £ible must feel that be is hurling rocks icatead of cotton-balls ; that be is bandling real lightning iuatead of tinted firo-works ; that be wields a posrer that the mere fancy cannot arrest and di- yert, but that will-break through to the con- scionce and soul. A large share of Mr. Conway's Bibie ia 5t for but & singlo reading, and that not 4mid the earnestness of publio worship, and a lesiro to move and mold the people, but be- tween sundown aud dark of a June day. I thank him for the sweet infiuence of many of his pret- g i:.iggg;..;zi '1‘1;::l a‘&f Working purposes, in my ) 0 grasi Prg';h:iu ;x[:;i gz: Am%l?n'.“y Aai-Toms of tia ird—Mr, Conway's Biblo is an accreti ot & growth : & compilation and not o granans and fails to impress s with any show of unity ond parpose in the working of Providones There is no culfus carried forward, no plan. wy dealing of God with man, no history, which ja the best revelation.” There I8 no n e on tho chese-board' to evinee mind, but a ether of unrelated pieces. 'Hapomg:;lg ‘n% future bere, because no points of pr‘cgmn_ It o is a Bible of rei . instead ‘prospect. 1t proposes to do m hss 1o scheme, fore- casts 5o end, is not & book of commandments, ig not & call to conversion, submita Ro design, and urges no performance. These bends hava ! no_string. Theve. u 0o orgapism to this body,, | aud thereforo no law of growth is revealed. It i“8hows a chacs, and not a kingdom. It seems an- attempt to gather sometbing aronnd nothing, like dressing & vacunm with pants, -coat, aud dicky. In this respect, our Testaments bring us mach closer to a Providence, and foster infinite- Iy more our seuse of a living God., S, E. Caiosco, Nov. 21, 1674 g ——— TYNDALL AND THE IRISH BISHOPS. Cardinal Callen and the twenty-seven Catholio Bishops and Archbishops of Ireland have issued a pastoral address with reference .to the recent meeting of the British Association at Belfast. It dents especially with the addresses of Profa. Huxley and Tyndslt, and their so-called material- istio philosophy. The pastoral deolares that the opinions set forth by these Professors were held by the earliest Pagans, and wore condemned by Plato and Aristotle. It proceeds to define what the attitude of the Church is toward modern scienco : The constitntion de fide Cutolica set forth the entire ‘conception of the just jdon of the science in the world of truth, The Church, far from opposing the cultivation of human arts and sciencés, in many ways Ticlps and promotes it ; but sbe refuses to belleve it poesible that between her dogma and any soience which confines itself to its own subject-matter, and investi- gates according to its own proper principles and method, there can be any conflict, for she ssys no real conflictean occur between faith sud resson, since the ‘God who reveals mysteries and Infuees faith is He who givestothie soul of man the light of reason, and God cannot deny Himself, nor can truth contradict truth. Enlightent by the teschings of the Charch, the Catholic may view in pesce, and even with de- 1ight, the progress of sclence, If he hears of a con-~ tradiction between science and religion, it will soon be found enly an appearance of contradiction ; or if & contradiction really exists, it wili be found that thé bousted discovery which creates it is but an ephsmeral theory, sod not the truth; or if ita truth be beyond gaingay, and the contradiction plain, thon the doctrine with which it is In confict willba found to bs but a theological opinion and not d jor if it be & dogms, it hss besn misund, or not explained mg:(fingwme mind of ‘the Church. The address peaks of Prof. Tyndall’s prediction 8 to the mild u“};fi.or science bresking schoas. the Toinds of the youth of Ireland 2s an evidence of the polemical and ‘propagandist aplrit of materialism, and ssks who will ot feel the necesaity of ssving Irish Catholics from the dreadfal choloe ‘alluded to by Prof, Tyudall, be- tiveen the leap of the torrent and the stilliess of the swamp, by maintaining for them in s Catholic uni~ versity and in Catholic achoals & living fountain of Chrisnan education, whereln, side by side witk faith, 4 springing up into life everissting,” thero shall run the river of true sclence, the stréam of which maketh Joyful tho City of God.™ o S THE POPE'S DAILY LIFE. One of tho extracts which is making the round of tho press in Europe at prosent, is & skotch of tho daily life of the Pope, written' by M. Bernadille from faots givén by no lesa wateh- ful an observer than the valet de chambre of His Holiness. The Pontilical lackey differs from others in this ; thathia master is & hero to him, while be in tarn is & person of vast conse- quence. One of the most interesting festures of the Papal biography hers given is the cars be- stowed upon the particulars of his diet. He rises at 5:30 o'clock winter and summer, snd spends threo hours and- s quarter in praver, receiving the Gnorament, ond visiting the - chapel which contains s frag- ment of tho true cross, another of the orib of Bethlehom, some tecth of St. Peter, and & piece of tho skuli of St.John the'Baptist.~ A basin of broth and a cup of coffee at 8:45 con- stitute his breakfast; a bowl of soup and s glass of Bordesux wine, made from his own particalar vine, make & good lunch; at 8 he dives on & bowl of soup, with clock-work regularity declin~ ingto taste tho boiled fowl and meat which sc- company tho soup, but enjoys some Roman {riture, vegatables, and fruits. At 8 o'clock a bowl of soup, two boiled potatoes, and some fruit afford bim a frugal supper, and then he goces to bed, torepew next morning the routine of his daily life, His Holiness was in his 80:h vear before he could drink Bordesux wine with any relish. Provious to that time he pro- ferred common white wine. What he now takes is made by the nums of St. Joseph for his especial use. The frugal habits of the sugust prisoner, as he delightsto be called, bave secured for him worderfully good health for a man of hisasge. His doctor and surgeon visit bim once a weelk, Teel his puise, assure him he is free from fever, and retire. The babbling of the valet de chambre is interesting to octogenarians. — TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ‘The main anditorium of this fine edifice, eitu- ated on Indiana avenue near Twenty-fourth street, is rapidly approaching completion, and is 0 nearly finished as to admit of mention. This Society bhas worshipod for three- years in the lecture-room of the bullding, which is a modal of convenience and beauty; and is alone amply capable of accommodating an audience of 1,000 persons. On Christmas or gome time during the holidays it is expected that the auditorium will be dedicated. Thisis a charch gathoring place second in £izo, convenienca, or beanty to none in theoity. It will accommodate easily 1,600 per- sons with seats, being 72 feot in width Ly 138 in length. The ceiling and walls have boen frea. coed in fluo tasta ; while the two .great windaws which light the transept are models of the art of decoration. The room is surroucded on three sides hi[ gallery much aftar the siyle of Cen- tenary M. E. Church of thiscity. Tho organ oc- cupies & place at the rear of the polpit. ltisex- pected to be oue of the best of Steer & Turner's make, Westfiald, Afags. The pulpit is more & platform than_snything like the traditional place where Alr. Foundtext is sccustomed to emphasize the Scriptures by mamusl thumps. ¥t is some 20 feot broad, and 18 approached by steps which climb its entire front. No sembiance of s desk is xpparont, only & stand at one side to hold a Bible and a bymn- book. It is understood that this platform has bean constructed to suit the suggestions of Dr. ‘Tifflany, whois to be the pastor in charge after next February. The galleries are to bs seated ‘with cbairs, whilethe main floor will have seats of & pecaliar style, which arenow being manufacturea at Richmond, Ind. All the woodwork is black walnut. The hestiog and ventilation are of most approved character. Coils of pipe along the trangept, and flues in the front portion of the auditorium, leading wp from coils below, convey ample hest to the room from boilers constructed by Winno & Co. The floor is to be ted by & design which ia now in process of manufscture. The building, when completed, will cost sbour $80,000, which sum in these times of cheap labor ana cheap building material, it can readily be imagined, will bnud a most ele- Eim church. Adjoining the lecture-room, are a ies’ parlor, Davivi !gmn.ry and study, and an ample kitchen. The Building Committee are: J. W. Waug- hop, Esg., A. Danks, J. E. Wilson, Amos Gr: nig, and F. Bradley,—Mr. Danks acting a8 gen- eral superintendent of the work. ' phiss s diing; THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. THE STANDAZD has an cditorial on *‘ The Mission of the Jour- nal,” in which, with some -complimentary allu- gions to Tie TRINONE, it urges that this jour- nal should preach temperance according to tho ‘Standard's temperance standard. The same paper, taking as a text the case of the eocentric St. Louis woman who proposed to drown hell and burn paradise so that nobody sbould act from selfish or low.motives, remarka that it would be a sublime sight indeed, that of men serving God without a thought of heaven or hell. But the editor of the Standard cannot #ea how it is to be done, even though so grestly o be desired. ‘The Standard also, with an sye elngle to the glory of close communion, warns its readers that when they begin to neglect * #mall differences * in creed or belicf, they are on the r0ad to gener- al looseness of belief,” 1t urges that the motto, “*in essentials unity ; in non-essentials charity,” i fallacious, since charity ought o be in eegane tials a8 well a8 the other. N __ THE ADVANCE - cousiders editorially * The Secret of Liberality,” and conciudes that it is dependent upon three things, viz: Consocration. intelligence, and syptem. Under the last head the editor says : No man prospers in business” merely from oo- casional work, or merely from knowing what wark totime a0d method, ur ke will lose money notwith- standing bis xbor,” And giving muet be. 0 hete joit toimpulte as earning. A man mast give by rule, upon plan. His intelligence should guide as to tho amount and mode. Eapecially should he devote to penevolent pt 0 pér cont of all ke gains. Only then will hie be sure to contribute a mitsbls amount, and only thua will ho have a fund on band from which he cab at any time draw, as objects appeal farald. Aost men are not aware how small a propor- ton of thelr income is bestowed in chiarity, The same paper discusses * Growth ology,” and has samething to say. nboutEAIg; rious Sort_of Religions Liberty;” the religious liberty which Catholica axs said to teach, ki editorial o ‘ng_zmon d 5y an_edit on *Giving and Missing,” which is discussed the questions nhtl%g ;.2 wise and . unwize h:{fl for the poor. This paper also discnsses * Infallibility in jland.” . THE ALLIANCE, = bas aa editorial on “ Thanksgiving,” sad ane on needs to be done. Ho must systematizo his work, as' a “ Hotel for Girls.” On this Iatter subject, the writer says somé pertinent things, as: s Now that that form of benevolence called a Hotel for Girls, s on the card for discusaion, it will be in bar- mony with the main question £o state that as rapidi 28 possible the working-girl, 33 she s called, ahot supersede the working-man in saoy of the business’ branches of the lurge cities, With ‘the philosophy which sball build or bay hotels to be mado the homes of sewing and clerking women, shoald come s phiioso- pby that will graaually send young men Lo thelr owa partof the big domain of lsbor. Thatyoung men make excellent clerks, is ot to be denied, nor ix thera the least shadow of disgrace in being '3 knight of the yerd-atick or scissors ; but in this ‘immenss world of varied Work, the young men should take the great outdoor -fleld, and leave to the “égirls” the indoor pursulta.’ This 18 the general principle, and Eence we would promote éach'male clérk of all the trudea wp to 1ho office of raitsuad bullders, or farmert, r miners, or en| o al rs, or o lqflnnde:‘::’urlnmm-dn?en. "Thiero 87010000 of thase more rugged pursnits, snd our vast Western world 18 ‘Wwaiting for m, of young men to come out to pur- sue these pat nd thousands of young women aro waiting for them 1o vacats the dry-goods store and go outside. We havo all livod to see ihie country. achook maater slmost abolished by the natural differéntiation which sots apart the proper person for the task. ‘Where the pedagoguo used 10 be seen crossing the fSeld to open 1he school-houso dutics and ferrora for the day, we can now, for the most part, seo the neatly- dressed lady repairing to the schiool-houss, which has been painted white on her account, and her the thil~ dren are running to meel %o much terror baving passed away with the retreating Hercules. . . THE PACIFIC CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 5 devotds a leading editorial to the discussion of Mrs. Van Cott's claims to Deacon’s orders in $he Methodist: Episcopal Cburch. ' It points to the fact that Miriam, Deborab, and Anoa were prophateases 1o ancient times, ‘and argues _thaf 1t Mrs. Van Cott had lived in them, she wonll have been claseed a8 3 prophotess. The Adyocate giys there 'are nearly forty Methodist women Ticensed to preach tlio Gospel, and they are doiog the work moat vobly. . Ir, says the editor, - the ministry of women is blessed, ag it seems to bp with marked success, who ahall say it is wroog Tor the Church to confer tipon her authority to sdminister the Bacraments?- Mrs. Van Cott's case has been appealed to the General Confer- ence of 1876. ¥ . . . TBE NOBTHWESTERN ADVOCATE . analyzés “ The Spiritual Element in Preacliing,” and shows that it is something else than sym- pathy, and more ‘than love, even the most in- tonse, Men filled with spiritual power say and do things which kindles and inspire. The same paper *+ gos for * the Church of England, nhich solls the Rev. James A. Spirgeon’s clock to make up the tithes which be refused to psy vol- untarily ; and becuuse it refases burial to * nn- baptized babies.” . Tne sume_paper asks whether the Republican party 18 dead, and seems to hope it is not. THE CHEISTIAN USION ° quotes the_couplet sbous the King of Franco and the bill which he marched up and then down agaln, with 40,000 men; and then says : ‘But the Synod of Notthern Iilinols has, after all; im- proved on the King of France's exploit, . The case ptanda thus: As Mr. Swingis quietly and effectually Delping men to serve God, somo one says, * Brathren, Dadn't we better ask Brother Bwing to step out of our fomily?” Tho brethren debate it, and anawer, “ by nomeans,” But Mr. Swing says, * Don’t let mébes cause of trouble,” takes Lis hat’ and walks out, ex- changing 3 cordial good-bye with his old sssociates, #8ynod! Synod I” shouts the complainant, Enter Synod; hears the cane ¢ pronounces judgment : “ Yo are very wrong in bidding Mr. Bwing good-bye aud saying ho is goue. Ho is notgone, Heiahere. Now we will kick him out.” And $ynod solemuly opens thy dogr, and—iicks, into empty space! % We thank the Syucd for 80 effectunlly making hereay- bunting ridicoious.: We thank the Presbytery, firet for standing by.David Swing, and next for standing aloof from a fight with shadows. And we congratulate Preebyterins tat, though Prof, Swing bas lefs them, thay Lisve yet & multituds of clear-headed, couragoous, earnest men, who will deliver their Church from the bigotries and frivolities which a few of moro zeal thsn iacretion seek 1o fasten upon her. i NOTES. . METHODIST, : A pew Methodiat Episcopal Church was dedi- cated last week at Hesperis, Mich. A mew Methodist® Episcopal’ Church near Moyeville; O., will be dedicated to-day. Tho Mothodist Episcopal Church' at Water- manp, IIl, bave repaired their parsonage aod The Methodist Church at Desplaines held a three days' meeting ladt week, resulting in sev- eral convergions. i The Methodist Church at South Evsoston held & pleasant sociable last Thursdsy evening as' the residence of Mrs. Goodenow. * . Revivals ara in progress in several of the Methodist churches. Eleven have been t5 the Church at St. Peters, Miuo, ‘The First Mcthodist Epiacopal Oburch of Bt. Paul dedicatod s fine houze af sorship last Sun- day, Atthe services tho sum of 80,800 was raisod towards balancing the indsbtedness. * The Albright Methodists aro close imitators of John Wesley. They number nearly 90,000 com- municants, have a publishing-Louse in Clove- 1and, and expend annually about £70,000 on mois- sion work. d Thbe Methodistz of Munds, IIL, dedicated s new church last Sunday, The dedication ser- mon was preached by the Rev. Dr, B, A. W. Jewett. The church it under the pastoral care of the Rav. E. M. Boring. The late James T. Calvin, of Tows, has msde bequests to the Methodist Episcopal Church Boath as follows: To tue Nashviile Publishing House, $15,000: to the Sunday-School Depart- ment. $5,000; 1o the Board of Missions, £10,000; and to the widowa and orphans of preachers, £10,000, The General Missionary Committes of the 3, E. Church, at. ita recent scusion in New York, found it somewhat difficult to make the appros priations mect the demands of the various mis- sions of that Church. They lélpmm'ill.ed €1,875 for the German missions in Californla ;" £3,000 for miesion work in the" Chicago German Con- ference; $7,000 for the Esst German Confer- ence; $2,600 for the Louisiana Conforence; 5,000 for the Northwest® German Uanferance ; $10,000 for the Southern German Conferance; 37,000 for the Southwest German Conference; 87,600 for the Chinese Mission in California. To Indisn missions appropriations were made 28 follows: Central New York, $400; East Or- egon and YWashington, $400; Detroit Confer- ence, $900; Michigan 'Conferenco, $900; Wis- consln Conference, §250. A motion to establish 5 mission smong the California Indians, and to appropriate 81,000 for that purpose, was laid upon the table. The Metbodist Episcopal Church-Extension Board held its ninth anniversary meeting in St. Joho’s Church, Brooklyn, Nov. 12, Bishop Jumes presiding. The Corréesponding Secretary, the Rev. Dr. Kyuett, reported the total receipts to be $96,800.10, aud the disbursements €81,622. The number of churches aided during the year by donations slone was 125; by loang alone, 23; by donations and ~ loans, 27. This ' work was organized in 1864, Duaring the pine years ending Nov. 1. 1674, - tho _ Bosrd ~ hss collected and disbarsed - $804,763.94, of which © sum $200,541.03 belong to the loan fund. OFf this loan fund, $33,395.35 has been rotarned to the {reasury to be reloaned to other churches, The Board has aided in all 1,385 churches. ‘The total number of churches 1s 15,000, 'of which 5,000 have been built within the last nine yeara; 80 that the fund ha:, no doubt, greatly sided in the development of xethodism. Rovert F. Queal, of this city, was one of the pringipsl speakers at this meeting. CONGREGATIONAL. * Tho Green Bay, Wis., Cougregationalists have recently eulargod their edifice by the addition of 200 sittings. g g - The Coogregational Church at Lansing, Mich., have called the Rev. T. P. Prudden, of Now Haven, Conn., to the pastorate. : The Cm:gro;:ntianml Church &t Dubuque, Ia., “of which the Rev. Dr. ‘Brigham is pastor, ia just finishing a fine tower and steeplo. - By the death of Julia C. Marse, the Congre- gational church at Binghamton, N. Y., recalves 8 legacy of $1,000, the interest of which is to be used in purchasing Sunday-school books. = . A Congregatjonal church has been bnilt on the identical spot where the house stood in which Cowper passed the last few years of his life. The _yestry of the church, containe the decorations -and woodwork:of the room accupied by the poet. . . BRFOLMED EFIRCOPAL. ' 7 ‘Twenty persons unied with the Church Incaruation, Brooklyn, Sanday, Nov. 15, Deap Cridge, formerly of the Cathedral, Vic- toria, British Columbis, baving, with 350 mem- ‘bers, withdrawn: from the Protestant Eniscopal Church, has united with' the Reformed Epiaco- “pal Church. " the astran Brown, of the Chapel of . Y., has withdrawn from the Protestaot Episcopal and umied with the Re- formed Episcopal Church. He has accepted & call to Chiist Church, ¥ouctoo, N. B, 4 A Reformed Episcopal Ohurch has been started &t Gloversville, N. Y., with the Rev. Edwin Pot- ter a8 Rector. Tha local papers report the new church 28 organized nnder favorablo circum. stances, aad predict for it a prosperous fature, The growth of the Reformed Episcopal Church reince its founding, eleven months ago, must bo 28 gratifying to ts friends as it is surprsing to its opponenta, Thirty active and self-support- ing parishea Ravo been organized, and forty mioisters have identified thomselves frith the' movement. o . Bishop Cummins, it is said, will scon, take np his residence in . Baltimore." The Bishop was | formerly Réetor of the'old 8t. Peter's (Protestant Eoiscopal) Chufch in that city. This will doubt- t]e‘ss result in organizing ‘s Reformed Church ore. .. EPISCOPAL \ A eociable by the Iadies of the Evanaton Epjs- copal Church, was given at the - regidence of O. D. Paul last Thursday evening.” - - ; Bishop Steare, of the Diocese of Zanzibar, in- tends to establlsh miseions on thio shores of Lake Nyassa. _ He desires also to efect a church, = schoof, A% iosprtal 1 the Towa of Zanzibas, on the gite of the slave-market. - Thée English correspondent of the Churchman thinks the annual cnarch con, es in England will result {n Iulrodm:ing tha lay eloment into tha English Church, and thus tend to oheck the tao exalusive clerical spirit and moderats Parlis- mentary interferenca. . H 3 . The -Rev. Phulip Brooks, an, Epiecopal clergy- man of Borton, is said to have recelved an” offer of $20,000 i he would accept & pastorate in Philadelplus, and $15,000 if he would accept one in Now York. Iis doclinod both propositious, Bis new church edifico in Boston is estimased td cost; $1,000,000. : o The Ohurch Journal thinks the Iate eventa in the Church indicate that the old parties are dy: ing out, aud that.the Church. in fature, is to de- velop in two directions, the dogmatic and the rationalistio. The High Church party will lead inthe former and the Low Churchmen in the Intter. ' The -editor thinks the two tendencies will figaily unite in & comprebenaive catholicity. CATHOLIC. 3 " The 1ast Jesnit in Germsany, Father Jo!egh Heh, died at Manster, Westphalia, Sept. Sk At the timoof the suppression of the Ordor he was too ill to leave the country. The Catholic priests of Ireland are endeavor- ing toprocure the ‘closing of the public houses on Sunday. Meetings in favor of the movement are bolug held throughout the country, The Pilot says : $ ‘Whilst in England and Americs numbers of per- sona are forsakiug the errors of heresy to find the truth in the Church of God, in Germany whero per- secution is rife, heroio souls leave all to embrace T 80 menaced and threstened by unjust lawa. Frota the Cotirier de Danzellen we leird thst the celo: brated Proteatant historian, Oono_Klopp, has a short time sgo abjured heresy and entersd iuto the Catholic Church, Tha same journal relates that a rumor is current in Germnany that the Queen of Wurtemberg, sister of the Czar of Russls, proposes fo_embrace the Catholie fuith; In the Vaieriand of Vienna i the fol- lowing: “If our information iu corroct, the only daughter of Prince von Blamarck is disposed to enter into the bosom of the Roman Church.” This Istter newa s supported by other journals. F Baden, in Germany, takes to O1d Catholicism in such a way that denomination threatens toswnllow up the regular Catholic Church. In sixteon piaces parish churches have boen handed over to Old Catholic organizations. In many cases charch and - endowment ate given’ in Thiengen, tha parish church and a chapel; in Kommingen and Schwaniogen, the parish churches; in Baden, Mesakirch, and Pforzbeim, tha hospital churches ; in’ Freiberg, the Jesuits’ choreh ; in Manoheim snd Schwetzingen, the chapels'In the castles at Offenberg, Heldelberg, Carlsrulie, also districs churches. Three other villages, Futzen, Grimmelshoven, snd Blumen- burg, have been polled at their awnxe?‘llleut,lnd nga voted by vast majorities for Old Cathol- icism. The Bishop of Orleans has written a letter to » French journal, expressing tho opinion that the temporal power of tho Pops is necessary for & proper administration of the epiritusl powar. He says the Pope demsnds an independence and scvereignty, withonut which he nngoyu no liberty, for he is at present a subject of Victor Emmanuel, and, in epite “of the ridicolous and insulting law of guarantees, ho s less fros than ihe humblest Roman, who can go in aod ont of tho city, wheress the Pope cannot. In bis pamphlet be invited Italy to study its roal in- tereat. and offer the only pacific solution which can effectively guarantee the rights of the Holy Father and the rigbts of the Catholic world. to that solution, nothing can of course be_done without the Pope’s consent and decision, without which everything would be null 1t was in this sensa that, alluding to a convention between Italy and Catbolic Powers, he said, **This might be the solution if the councils of wisdom prevnilmz:.md if Italy and Enrope displayed any foreaighl The new Cathedral in Portland is a remarkable structure. The Boston Giobe, in describing it, ays : The first impression which is made on the beholder when he enters the main door {s one of immensity. Stratching out before him is a length of 300 foet, un- varied by a single obstacle with the exception of a slight elevation where the altar will stand.~ On either side ia a row of columns, nine in number, which act 24 8 support for the cenfral roof, and serve to reliev the monotony of such s vast inclosure, The height of the building s the next object of sstonishment, but hero again the tastes of the dcsigrer and srchitect come in 10 relieve the mind of the obearver fram too heavy a losdof jmmensty. Altbough the distahce from the floor to the ridge-pola 15 120 feet, yet the stylo 1n which the cefling {s finished apparently reduces the spaco ove-balf, and the combination of colors and stylea makes that portion of the interior s plessant subject for study. Arriving at the altar platform, & view of the transept windows can ba had, ss well a2 tho decorations which have been deaigned for the arch of the sanctusry. ~The northerly transept window represents the fiuding of the trdo cross,” an event ‘Which ocourred in 629, On the south side of the main altar will be the ehapel of the Blessed Virgin, contain- ing an altar and o beautifnl statue of the Virgin, while the northern wing contains ihe clupel of tho acred (eart," ‘The New York Frceman’s Journal savs, in re- gard to the Philadelpbia priest who ran_away with the female organist of his churea, and soms of his parish friends: In face of the Beecherisms of Protestantism, the fall and abaconding of the priest Gerdemann is's testi- many to the truth and purity of the Catholio Chuzch. But, as toward God, Oh, Jesus Christ, our Savior, how thamed and bumilisted we stand ! A priest has fallen —one of the blood royal of our Divine King! The Biahop of Philadelphis, in the ways he kuows of Catholic practices, will strive to atone at St. Donifacius Church, and throughont his diocese, for this horribla sacrilege. Bat this 15 not enoggh to stay the vengeance of our Divine Lord ootraged. All of us Oatholics, priests and lay-) le, in place of talking of the hor- ror, in place of criticising our Bishops—who are but fieab and blood like the rest of us—let us have masses #ald, and offer our communions to the Sacred Heart of Qur'Lord, who, in His Passion, bhas suffered for, and Xnew of, all such acts of horrible sacrilegs, We must doit, or fall of our duty. We are one body in Ohrist, our Bavior. W cannot put such matters off ou our Bishops, or on tho clergy, Theso are sot to rule us, by God Almighty, but wa 00 are of tho ssme body— fleah of the same' flosh snd bome of the samo bone. We must not look on them as human socictiea look on their rulers. Our prelates and clergy are not 'ss 4 Princes of the Gentiles,” who lord it because of office aver us, » They are, at the samo time, our bretbren. In Bcme statistics have recently bsen pub- lished giving mformation concerning the gni- dation of the religious orders of the city. y the 22d of Beptember last thirty-five sa{en bls taken place of the immovable property belong- ing to tbe orders. The property of .the sup- pressed communities, disposcd of in twenty-two les, produced 5,161,202, or an increase of 816,517, over the rederve price. Thirteen sales have been held of the property of the orders not 'suppressed, .but - whose pofses- slons have gone to the Stafe. - Theso realized 8,286,580f., which was also an sdvancs of ,802,480¢. over the reserve price. Inaddition 10 the other propertics, the Committeo of Liqui- dation in Romo bave also takon: possession of forty-eight libraries, two museums, two scientific ‘cabinets, and one astronomical observatory. On the other hand, the pensions granted to monas- tics up to the 22d of Beptember last were 2,169 in number, representing a total sum of 1,002,283¢. There were 717 ogenalouud priests, representing & total of 337,400F.; 516 laymon, with a total of 142,6501. ; 636 choristers, with pensions to the amount of 8382,182f.; and 800, Iay monks and nuns, peosioned at a eost of 9,000f. Of the ‘whole number of these pensioners. 1,238 are men and 936 are women. No statement is here given, ‘howevar, of the amount of pensions, granted to those members who by reasori of age or ill hen;th are wholly unable to worit. * - DAPTIST. The ladies of tbe Baptist Church at Evaunston are .making arrangements for a fair in Union ‘Hall, Dec. 10. i The fifty-first anniversary of the Connecticat Baptist' Association, held Oct. 20, raports $6,600 for missionary work. &3 Bay k A very pleasant First Church sociable was held on Thiiraday evening Prof. G. ‘W, Northrop. ¥ \ The question of close or ‘open communion ap- S““ to_have divided the Gethsemaus Baptist hurch of Brooklyn, N. Y. A minority who fa- yor close communion have seceded, and have! formed a close communion, which meets at' Broadway and Gates avenus. The Baptista of Maseachuselts reporied at their recent sseociational meeting 283 churches, 230 pastors, and 44,671 members. The Blate .Convention met Oct. 39. During the past' year it has aided 55 Baptist churches, nearly ove-fifth of &1l in the State. “An important workiwaa re- ported to have opened among the Bwedes in Bos- ton. A resolution in favor of prohibition was passed. ¢ PRESBYTERIAN. The Chicago Preebyterian Theological Semi- pary enjosed & pleasant semi-annual reunion of ita members one evening last week. Abount 200 students snd ladies were in attendance. The Fullerton Avenue Church ladies furnished a fine supper. . L A fine Presbyterian ohurch was dedicated at Mondoro, Wis., Nov. 8. . A good deal of religiod intérest is manifedtsd inthe Third Préabyterian Clitirch ‘of this ¢ity, and a ravival is expected. . The Presbyterian Church at Kalamazoo, Mich., has recently illustrated the: great feasts ol the Biblo in an evening entertainment. . “The - City of Phiiadelphis has 2,035 Presby- terian communicaats, or neatly 1,000 mora thad ¥ors i tho United Siates in 1608, The Presbytorian and Congregational Ghnrches in Portisnd, -Mieh., have made the preliminary arrangements for the union of the twa churches. ¢Tha Corminittees appointed by the Presby- terinn churches, North -and South, - to consulé about- the- eatabtishment of -fraternal relations, will meet for the purpose in ‘Baltimore; Jan. 7; . A new institution of benevolence, s Home for Widows and Sibgle’*Womep, bas lately been opened in_Philadelphis, under the auspices_of Presbytorians, at an ontlay of $70,000. One of tho most spacious and conspicuona baildings there has been erectod by the Methodists as a ‘Home for Aged Men. _.Tho Cumberland Presbyterians seem to ba tapidly increasing in numbers, The total num- ber' of ministers is1,437,—an Increase of 82 congrégations, 2,116,—increase, -144; additions to. the membership, 9,858, —{ncreass, 1,181; beptigms, 5,718,~incresse, 655 total income, 9337,800,—increase, $32,282. . T -~ - -. . MIscELLANZOmS. . ! The new Universalist churcliat Jéffersonville, Ohlo, will be dedicated to-day. : ° > The Jewish Messcnger 18 gorry Gov. Talbot, 'of Massachusetts, has coupled Christianity with Thanksgiving proclamation. .. A soclety of Mormons has' been organized in the south part’ of Douglas,’ Mass. ; they dedi- cated s chapol thers recently, . The members aro not polygamists. : 5 % : " - A priest at Meersburg, near Constance; Switz- erland, haa been condemned to teo da; prisopment for teaching the school omo scurrilous lines on a Jewish manufacturer, ./The New York City Mission will celebrate, in December, ila forty-eighth aonivérsary. . The ‘soclety employs thirty missionaries. Its chapels are Bg-rgnniud on the basia of the Apostles” cro . In'the Lebanon !éiian of Syria there has been a great roligious awakening among the members of the Greek.Church. Many have i:ulmd thom- solves Protestants, and bave calied for religious lieachers. A The Bishops of Servis and Concepeion, in Chili,” recently issued s pastoral excommuni- cating ‘the President of the Republic, several ‘members of the Counoil of Htate, and & number .of Depnties and Seuasors. o mat The Working Church thinks the time will ocome when Christian brethren will not -refusa to commnue M.Euhex on acconnt of differences in the mode of baptism, and when they will be ‘ashamed of their party badges. The Rev. B. ¥. Taylor, of Golden City, Col., writes to the Norfhueslern Advocale that he at- tended the fanerals of three murdered men io an equal . number of days, He thinks- that little place is not 80 near heaven 4s ita altitude wonld ndicate. o ik Itis stated that the first copy of proposed new readings, preparatory to a final revise, sug- gested by the New Testament Revisiou Com- mjttee, of that portion of the authorized version they bave dealt with, ‘is in prirate areulation. i .- : An old Luatheran church, the sscond oldest building in Philadelphia, has been, pulled down Tecently to make way for businesa, It was erocted in 1743, and was known as Old St. Michael's, *~ The Old Swede Church, which is still standing, was bullt prior to 1700. Tbe Christian Register of Boston, says that the Free Raligious Association, aaa body, are not theists, neitber afirming nor denying the ex- iutence of a God. This is one of “their open Qquesuons; and avowed atheists are members of the Association 1n good and regalar standing. A meeting was held in Cincinnati, Oct. 21, be- tween conterence committeea from the Disciples and the Christians, lookiog towards a union of those two religions bodies. They substantiall agreo to fake tho Biblo aaa rule of faith an piactice. Should they unite, they would become a large and influential communion. A book-store recently opened in Syria for the sale of Bibles and religions books, Laving be- come ‘a popular resort for old and young, the Greek priests complained to the authonties, and the proprietor was given tweaty-four hours to leave tne town. The matter has been brought to the attention of the Turkish Government by the ican Minister, ‘The movement which began several years ago for a union of the Dutch Beformed and the Ger- man Reformed Churches of this country, seems about to be accomplished. Committees of con- ference were appointed by both bodies, which met 1ast week on Wednesday to perfect a plan of union. This plan remains to be ratified by both bodics; but as there is scarcely any difference in the bellef of the two, and & strong disposition to unite, there is littls doubs bat s union will soon be perfected. The Rey. John Murray, the founder of Uni- versaliam in the United States, began his min- Jast week at the house of | istry In Gloucester, Mass,, Nav. 3, 1774 The handredth anoiversary of that day was cele- brated with mach enthusiasm in’ Gloucester, The church was decorated with flowers and leaves, an old barrel-organ, the tirst nsed by the coogregation, was placed near the pnlpxck and addresses were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Eddy, the Rev. C. C. Clarke, the Rav. T.G. Farns- worth, and the Rey. A. D. Mayo. The: total number of Protestant Sabbath- schools in Canada is 4,404; teachers, 85,7453 Boholars, 371,384, Of these schools the Method- ists bave 1,767, with 16,241 teachars and 115,441 scholara. The Urion Schools number 900, with 8.400 teachers aud 86,000 scholars. The' two branches of the Presbyterian Ohurch-—Canads Presbyterian and Church of Scotland—have 703 schools, 5,289 teachers, 56,754 scholara; Church of England, 455 schools, 4,700 teachers, 4,150 scholars ; Co:gngufianlhns, 76 schools, 1,198 teachers, 11,487 scholars; Hegular Baptist, 280 schools, 1,950 teachers, 13,000 scholars; Eva gelical Association, 67 schools. (34 teachers, 4,223 scholars; Evangelical Lutherans, 29 achools, 174 taachers, 1,912 scholars, { s SN £ PERSONAL, camiciao. . The Rov. Githert M. Hair is supplying’ the Presbyterian Society at Lawndale. Prof. William Mathews has gons to Grandville, 4 0., ‘wnore he lectured Friday evening. The Rev. 0. D. Helmer, of Union Park Church, has go far recovered his heaith 2s to praach half a day. : The Rev. C. L. Thompson was elected Cbair- man of the Presbyterian Ministerial Association in this city last week. The Rev. Miles Sanford, for many years pastor of the First Baptist Church of thia city, died at Balem, N. J., Oct. 81. o A powerful revival is in progress o a Detroit Presbyterian church, under the management of D. W. Whuttle, of this city, and P. F. Blisa. - Prof. Fisk, of the Congregational Theological Seminary, Lias gone to‘r\vumeakur, Mass., to preach the sermon at the inetallation of the Rav. H. E. Barnes, late of Moline. 1o Tho ?2&3{5 - Smith, » graduate of tho Sem- pary al 0, is at present supplying the pul- 11 of the First Baptist. Church st Tockford 1L e hag been 50 successful that he may be called aa the regular pastor of the church.’ Hirs. Hsggie Van Gott has beon preaching to : aggie Van tt bas been i crowded ).mgnea in Baltimore. p é The Rev. E. P. Hammond opens his revival meeting at Galesburg, IiL, Nov. 28. The Rev. 0. G. May has accepted a call from the Congregational Church at Baraboo, Wis.. - The Rev. B, F. Jackson has accepted a call to the pastorats of the Pittatield, Il., Congrega- tional Church. i ‘The Rt. Rev. A. D. Pellicer is to be conse- crated Bishop of the Catnolic Chaurch of San .gatcnlo, Tex., Dec. 8, in the Cathedral at Mo- e. - Ars. Ann’ Eliza_Youog, the Iady who has been lecturiog on Mormanism, haa united with g:_: Protestaut Episcopal Church of Sals Loke ity. ‘The Rey. E. P. Hammond, the revivalist, has been laboring successtally at Nashua, N. H., z6- - cently. The largest churches were crowded nightly. S| It is reported that the Rev. W. P. Arrick, Bector of Christ Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, in Beading, Pa., has declined accept the China Missionary Episcopate. -The Hon. 8. J. Tilden, Governor-elect of New |- York, and_Willizm H. Wickham, Esq., Mayor- |- elect of New York City, arc members of Iladison-Squara Punh;(yur!m Church, New Yc;‘: At the farewell meeting of Mezsrs. Moody and Sankey in Belfast, Irelaod, over 1,000 persona were present, and special trains were run to tha meeting from tae surrounding country. Thewr first audience in Dublin is 8aid to have number: ed 8,000 persons. - .. - . y i Tt {s repotted that Prof. Dunan, & tvell-known geholar 1'34 ‘preaclier of -the- Congregational Charch,_is to be invited to the- charge of - the Becond Unitarian Chureh, Boston. It is re- marked A8 anottief indication of tha tendency of the Church to return to more orthodox teaching. .These texts for their farewall sermohs aro sug- gested to thres Boston ministers who have lately resigned: Dr, Bobbins—*1 have married a wife and cannot come;” Mr. Murray—** Ihaye bought five voke of oxen, and must needs go o prove them ;" and Dr: Miger—** No man can serve two masters,” L il *-Barnabas Root, s tative African, who Has been eduosted at Galesburg aod Chicago, was ordain- od. last- Bunday. at the Brosdway Tabernacle Church, New York, and will return to his own country, and will Jabor under the auspicés of thie American Migsionary Assoclation in the Mendi Mission: -+ oo " ¢ & 5 3 ' The Rev. Olsmpla Brown-Willis, Having ret cently been obliged to defend herself from slan< derous charges préferred against her while she was, abseot -duriog her summer vacation, the Trustaea of her church bave published a card in. the New York Sunstating that the charges were 8o unfounded a8 to be withdrawn 'befors the in- vestigation could be finishud; and that between tne officers of the charch and Mrs. Brown thers exist very smicable feelings of mutual respeat aod friendship. : “ Good Sir Moses Montefiore,” says the Jewish Messénger, ' has reached Bis 90th year, and, hap- pily, his facalties are as bright, hia step a8’ frm &5 years ago, when he traveied long journeys to succor the oppressed. He hes lived fo see Iaraal admitted to equal rights -in nearly all habita- ble cv\mu-iua‘the barriers removed -that shut théem in the dark places, the Ghettog a name on- Iy of the dead past; even uncivilizad Roumania i8 slowly—alas, how :slowly ! ~doing justice to the Jews. Beloved by his own,. aud by those of his dissenting creed, bis voice is ever heeded, his name respected the world over. There are no descendants of his to’ woar his name ; and yet, a8 with George Washington, millions of people ‘will call him father and bless. his memory. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. 2 The Radical Church of Philadelphia seems to be_chiefly devoted to the work of opposition. Ita manifesto, issued recently, seems to comprise the following principles : R sppropriations 1o charitable or sducational institutions connected with churches; no Bibls in the public 0 Thankeglving ‘or fast-days appointed by public suthority ; no enforcement of Sabbath laws, and the ‘laws enforcing Christian morality } 10 ji oatha to be administered ; no sdvantags given 1 the Christian religion in the Constitation, . Fhe English Chuirch Review presents the fol- ing portraiture of situaistl Iadies in that King- Pty ; b They are sosked with worldlinoss 1 It fs sstonish- {ngAhe amount of fatigne that some—more often mid- die-sged than_young women—will gothrough in the pursuit of religious excitement, ‘They have favorite preachers, whom they hunt all over London and ts environs ; they are at every church featiral within On a8t yoar T foid itig him. I have tot heard Jon Ll LG ::allv‘: montas b has dia!ingni.h:‘n;fi:‘l& 3 S T el i A Chicago . pork-packer, raised ' to §25.4 exclaimiq Fnreas g, B Hero's & nico state of affairs. - Tpo o™ Cong | 1p and pork goiog down. Whatly o3Pt s, us 2"l l? becon, RELIGIOUS ANNOUX, coxanza The Ber. Dr. Boskdaa S e o svening in the Lincoln Park Churcy, . ind Mobawk sirceter X O %‘:‘3: oy —Tho Bov. Willisma_4. -Bary : morning 1o the Plymonh Chusear ol 2k avenne and Tweaty-sixth street, ra, % 1 ey L T —Tiig Bov. &. Bushnell will presgy thie -Ledvits . Streat. Ohurch corviid this: - Adams street ERes ot 134 Adams streets. Bablath-ackod] cancert d‘g" iy —The Bev. C. D. Heliner wit evening at tho Union Park Cirapen 10 Boraty “The Rev. L. T. Chamboire ain il prescy and evening fu the New E; S place near North nm:mngf::f"g?h' h M —Thie Rey. Dr. Healy will presch m % ingn the Tabernzels Church, cornar- of ngem, and streeia. Evening ity “—Prof. James T, Hydo'wili presey m{n‘ ln"t.hs Oakiand :&M l!nm(n! onomy.” Eening aubject; ot Fuheni 3 METHO) E DT, The Rev. Bobert D. Sheppand prex evening {n the Western pemiranes Monros stréet. Moruing subject - na splfl‘t;" Evening subject: The —Dr. Fowler will prosch morning Trinity Church, xnmm:g, e Ty £ —The Rev, W. H. o B e 0 Mt s thoereatag oyl peach i e dar Bl 30 woen Luko and Fulton sireets Tho Bev. Dr. McKown i oy Zmhy —The Ret. J, O, Peckw the Centenary Churck, on B30, A mass temperunce meeting will by hfi‘:‘h; ' Sabbath-school at 3 p, Bav, Dr. Thomas will o eveuing in-tEs Ohuresof 1ha bang, o Ghurch of th sirmet, betwocn Monroo sad Adsniy el 12 subject : ** Queen Elizabeth and the) £ g ihe Tev. & . Pawers wil oficits seasag . 3ol treh, Ga Ashland e street. - .'Mflflqm —The Rov, Luther Pardea will preach evening in Calyary Oburct, oo Western ek S wnea akley st ud Worlen svnc. s —The Rov. W. mythe will Tresch momity sreaing in i the Charch of e Ty by am Sout o ween ] ThiFsioth stpeetar ™ 2o¢h Teatyehy posaible reach, get into a perfect fluster over Easter and Christmas decorations, eonvert priest-hunting into sn exhilarating sport, and, in fact, lead very fast lifo under tho shadow of the Church, 'To do many of them credit, they are early communicants, and sufficlently obedient in theory to written dogma. They also lny 10 their soul the dattering unction that thus making a aort of express train of religion is beneficial to them, » +. o Armed with waterproof or umbrells, our Cathiolic 10uce batakes herself to the “ Underground,”™ andis lEeedUI transported Lo the ecclesiastioa itheatre, —such it i to her,—where she sings heartily, gazes her fll on_crimson, gold, an idery, takes notes of Der pet preacher’s sermon, and returns home, a8 she balieves, much the better for her journey. . The Rock eays in regard to this matter: “ We bave all read of those who *lead captive ailly women,’ but in this case there would ssem to bave been revolt. Otherwise why hold the de- linquents up to ridicate ? Buch is not the way of cayaliers.” METHODIST CONFERENCES. The plan of episcopal visitation for the ‘Methodist Episcopal' Church for the next six months has just been settled. It is as follows : e Place. Time, - Bibap, By ham. b s A i ) R i India oo South Gamiia Southern Gormai Misaizaippt Hmr!":-. Weat Ti Harris. Arkansas Harris. Tireinia Peck. Wasnington Peck. Sheth caas. h Mo S ‘Baltimoroes March3, . Perk. Now Jarsey. * Maren16. Simpson on SMarcni0; ‘Foator: er 10. Merrhi Pl St. Loais. Esat Ge: Newark Missox o New York.. New York Eas New Eng! Providen THE WEER R, The British branch of the Evangelical Alliance bas issaed ita annual circalar, sugzesting as the week of prager, st the begining of the year, the week from Jan. 3 to 10, 1875. The invitation, which ia to all Christian peopie in the world, i3 sigued by commitiees of the Alliauce in En- glsnd, Scotland, Ireisnd, tho Unitod States, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany, Swedan, Holland, Norway, Turkey, Greece, and Syria. —Tho Rev. Arfhur Brooks will preach fauiztesy b evening in St. James’ Church, corner o g & Row Erancla Manafield M«hu ] —The Rev. will ey and evening in the Church of the AW g of West Washington xud Robey streets, PapTIET. The Bev, L. T, Bush will preich moraligunis ing in the Twenty-Afth Street Church, Tweaty. B!XE% ';l Ofr}v’;nlwrtb avenue, st & - —The Bev, Florence McCarthy will ing 1 the Amity Ghurch, corser of w.n.'fi;'.'; sad Robey stroct Bubfeck: “The Light of or] —Thie fourth annual series of Stmday [N conrts toyoung peoploln the Eirst Topid of Esanston. < “ The Condition of By f: 140 Tears Ago.” T 5 . 3 —The Bev. D. B. Cheney will preach haizg sf evening in the Yourth Church, corner o Vuthg | and Paulin streets. =5 “Tbe Tey. W, W. Everta preaches muiig ‘evening in the Tabermacle, N5 668 Wabss vice |- W. W. Everts, Jr., preaches in the Indiana Arey |- Chapel, : —The Rev, John Gordon moraiag vy ureh, Moy evcning in the Western Avenus Ch 3 : “Going Back to Bethel® A serman boywg f; subjq ladies in the evening. . i = e T, wening at the University Place Ghurch, : —n-B&vfiNi'l’. Raylin' will presch mornin i evening at the Templs Crurch, corner of Harrisa ngmn::m'}.'w Goodlped. proach u —The Bev. T. W, will morning, and the Rev, E. J. o o gt at the Sccond Church, corner of Morgan and Moy §5 strcoty, Tho latters mubject will be: 1 5ball B [ FRESEYIZRAY. The stev, U, D, Gualick will preach stroota. M Evening subject: s 2 he Rev. G. M. Hatr will preach this eveuing Campbell Park Chapel, on Leavith street, cond o Tho Rev, A. E. Kitirid will preach morning aad . —The Rev. A, E. g0 evening in the Tnird Church, corner of Taubhgca and Carpenter streets, Friend that Stisketh Closor than ” Eveai B subject: *Tho Bemedy of Cerl Schurs snd of Ower [ lodern Reformers of Sin Ve tha Cid-Tashioed Gaspel.” —The Bey. Ben E, S, Ey preaches. wi K evening o Grace Church, corner of Viacennes 16 0k s avenues, Morning aubject: “ The Secoad Caiogdl B Christ.” - —Prof. Patton will presch fn the marning, 104 & Rev. Dr. Vau Doren in the evening, at the Jefern ‘Park Church, corner of Adams wrets, —The Bev. J, Monro Gibson will ‘manicg ‘and evening at the Sccond Charch, corper of Michipa avenue and Twentieth street. Tha erening disezzm | will be the first of o serics of loctures from Eres- Bev, J. B. MeClure will presch at Birer Bk in the morning. E —The Bev. David Swing will preich io ths Zormsg e vir Busbrid will presct fn 130 mer3~ - —The Rev, Mr, Sur] Ze frlf S ing and the Rev. Jir. Joaes the erening e —The Rer, W, W, Mcalg will preh o el eveping in the Ninth Church, on Ellis sveare. 3 ing subject: ‘“5hall We Know Each Othr 3 F The topica propased for the succestive days aro s follows: Sunday, Jan. 3, sermons, * t, the One Prophet, Priest, and King;” Jao, 4, thanksgiving and confession; Jan. 5, national objects for prayer,—those in authority, soldiers and sailors, she rich and the poor, xxisoum, the aflioted, and the oppressed: Jan. 6, home objects for prayer,—children, tator and guardians, colleges, the Clristian winistry, avd Suoday-schools; Jan. 7, ‘"‘if“ objects for prayer—axtension of re- ligious libecty throughout the world, prevalence of peace, increase of harmony among Chris- tians, mubordmation of all interests to the spread of Christ's Kingdom; Jau. 8, missionary objects for praypr—conversion of the Jows, sproad of the Gospel in beathen lands; Jan. 9, ‘praver for religious revival; Jan. 10, sermons— *-The essential unity of Christ’a Church, and the obligation binding on all its members to madifest it * in the bond of peace.”” The circu- lar containing the invitation offers tho following topics for daily prayer throughont the year: Sunday, Sabbath-schools—there are about 1,000,000 Sunday-achool teachers in the world;, Monday, Christian missions ; Tuesday, Bible-so- cieties; Wedneaday, abolition of slavery and in- temperance ; Thursday, tract societics ; Friday, ontponring of the Holy Spirit on all mankind, Saturday, ministers of the Gos i — 2 BREVITIES. The prayer of an offica-seeker—* Ok that I were an event, that I might taks place I No man ever warshiped & bLrazen image who had ouce tusseled with a life-insurance agont.— Terre Haule Ezpress. . 2 At what hour did the Devil make his appear- ance in the Garden of Eden? Some sayin the night. He certainly cams after Eve. - Adarkey preacher lining put s hymn from memory said ; Rl ina of dark despal T I L An axchange calls the Beecher-Tilton business % the great social hydra.” This must be because it has farpished the ewspspars wilh 80 maoy “ . A St. Louis clenrymm:sgetdng excited in his sermon, buiat out with the exclamation: *Itis To use- mincemeating matters.” He had been enting hash-igh.” - ' < " Harry, after - looking on while his new littls sister cried a¢ being washed and dressed, turned .away, eaying, **If she screamed like that up in eaven I don's wonder they sent her off.” A mav ot West Waterville, Maine, -offered to lay the plastering of the Methodist vestry if a “clergyman wounld earry the mortar. The clergy- man consented, and the work goes on briskly. The beliet is_becoming_atronger every day in the East that, if John Morrissey should give Harvard or Yale College 250,000, the Lord would commencs an entire naw account with - A Helena (Mon.) divice, who has spont the best part of tas wammer in Christianizing a Chinaman, thought he was gecting slong nicely, until John made s proposition to bim, the oiber day, to “*put in " with him and start a faro-bank. Tn Walter Besant's * French Humorists,” one of the stories told of Moliere's timeisofa preacher, who, having to celebrate a cortain ‘Ealnt’a_day, delivered the following sermon :- My brethren, it is to-dsy the feackef St —. Heaven 27 —Tho Re, Dr. Sxazey presches in {he mornizgs the Swedenborgi«n Temple, on Washingtas street, &= Dnlon Park, before the congregation of tho Ashiel Avenuo Chure —~The Rev. Waiter Forsyth will presch o thesar 7 aclaachlan ing and the Rev. James in l.hu. orealy in the Firat Scotch Church, coraer of Sengsmaa i _Adams street TSITARLY. The Rev. James F. Bixby, of Watertown. Mase, vl preach morning sad _evesing in the maog of Alomros and Lafim streets. Marniag Jocts = Heart Calture.® , Eveningsabjoct : “FES B e e fary of & —The Rev. Rush_B. Shippen, Secro T e {hicd stress and Michigan avenué, Therowil%= evening service. : —Thé Rev. C. W. Wendta will presch in tho mass in the 'rmcumh,mu of Prairie arecd i3 ‘Thirtieth streot. ity 1ing in the Centrul fan 18 " and Warren streets, Morning -ubm._“fl 3 —The Rev, Isaag e o tith atmt, 12 0 ¢ Avenugand Tweniy-Afih ot tenth lecture in tha course of * The Sbes demption.” *. The Rev. Sumuer Ellis will evenlng in the Church of l‘ha ]':dm’ 3 ‘Washington and Sangamon stree! O O Ths Dev. Dr. Ryder will proach moritd =2 evening in St. paul's Church, on 3fich between Sixteenth and Hgbk;lél:r::lc-l- REFORMED Z¥: n Bishop Cheney will presch morning sad .% -Clrist Church, corner of Sichigan avenie b, gy _ty-fourth strest. Morning subject: “OU! Gate,” Evening subject: * Lifted Up’ 15C f2d ing in the English Lutheran Chorch Tr?nél!, i-;gn:'ng h'nxx:m nn:ba“ zénb‘ngd‘n% ) . —The Progreasive Lyceum af Chic3; e ‘Good Teraplars’ Hall, corner of Tashugt on, 403 Sre iy in tha Green Street Tabernacle, uflr_.\hdb“! Ay —The Bev. Dr. Hibbard (3wedsnoarghit) mzw"“ in the morning in the New Clurch B3t O e Prairis avenueand Eighleanth sireet, sndie T g ing in the Temple, corner of Wz i den avenue. ¥ O e Disciples of Christ o meet a1 X0 DIFE ¢ Randalph street at 4 o'cl n the afterDocL. ; e Rar. 3. . Bardes wil preach in 00 2655 in the Masonic ali, Hydo Park. e s OALENDAR FOR THE WEEE EFISCOPAL. Yoo, 22—Trwenty-Afih Supday after Troiite DOMAN CATHOLIC. e Nov. 22—Twwenty-aixth and lasb Sundsy £UF coat ; St. Ceclli, V. M. Nov. 23—8t. Clement, P. 3L Nao. 34—St. John of the Croas, O, - - 23—8t. Catherine, V. . Nou, 25 Votive of the Bisssed Sacramest. Nov. 21—Feria. . oz, 23—Vigil of 6t Androw. g W I TR 1L —The Queen of Holland has an exquisits %30 for uzm?um, and writes with abillsy g;;‘;u]r’::f ; ment ; the Empress of Germany Is 801" 5,/ elaquence ; the Emprees of Austna {5 COBS g to bo the most beautifal swoman in ELO7RLL0 the Queen of Denmark is un_urkxbh i F polished manner in "the way in W L ceives hor guests