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6 FHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY; JANUARY RELIGIOUS NEWS. Yistory of the Second Baptist Church, ¢ ‘ho Rey. Br. B. Pelsenthal on the Present Sitnalien of Judaism. \ Specimen Page from the Journal of a Bible-Worker. Press on the Louisiana the Religicas % Troubles, Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. * Church Services To-Day. THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. A few weeks sgo the Rev. Dr. E.J.Goodspeed, pestor of the Second Baptiat Church, of thiscity, lelivered a sermon, in which he detailed the de- relopment of that Society during the ten years ot bis ministry. The figures indicate a remarka- ply uniform and rapid growth daring that period,- On Deo. 1, 1804, there were 239 members on the rolls of the church. In five years. this number had increased to 936, and last December the records showed 1,292 members. During the ten years there were re- esived by baptism 757 persons, and by letter 1,079, while. tho number was diminished by dexths, exclusions, end dismissals, by 846. During the same period the congregation have contributed a total sum for religious and benevo- lent purposes equal to $325,662.01 These figures indicate that the church is an‘ organization of great vitality and power. There are few churches in the country that will equal it as an effective religious body. This church was organized Aug. 13, 1843, from members who separsted from the First Baptist Church, largely on acconnt of their mcre pro- potnced anti-slavery sentiment, for the First Church, in slavery times, was quite conserva- tive. It was called the Tabernacle Baptist Ch and was: recognized. Oct. 5, 1643. The first church edifice stood on LaSalle street. fronting the public square. It was built and dedicated within eight weeks of the time when tue enterprise was began. The Rev. C. B. Suuth was until April 6, 1844. He was foiiowed by the Kev. C. Blood, who resigned in 1645,. on. . account of il health, In 1846, the Rev. W. H. Rice be- came pastor, and held that relationship until May 1b, 1649. in the tall of the asme year, the Rev. Lewis Raymond was chosen pastor; during his paetorate a revival added a large number of peisons to the mambersbip. Juue 26, 1857, the church building was burned; and before the end of the summer a wew buila~ ing was begun on Dasplaines street. between Madison aid Washington. _ Nov. 16, tho base- Ment was occupied. Mr. Raymond resigned July 6, 1852, and was succeeded by the Rev. A. Eenyon in November. The new church was dedicated Feb. 3, 1653. In 1856 Mr. Kenyon re- signed, and was eucceeded snecessively by the Leva. J. E. Kenney, N. K, Green, and the Rev. N. Colver, D. D., the jatter of whom held the office of pastor for over three years, or until the pieteat seuior pastor, the Rey. E. J. Goodspeed, gen bis lxbors, Tae Society sesumed its present name in 1864, when the First Church, being determined to re- move fartuer south, offored ite house, which fem oocupied the present site of the Board of ‘Trade Halt. to the ‘Tebernacle Church, provided it wonld remove it and reconstruct 1: in an eligible place inthe West Division. Toe lecture- room of the present church was entered by the eburch, Oct. 30, 1864. The officers of the Church at the present time are: Zeacons—Samucl Hoird, George Brig! T. P. Kerley, M.D, W.B. Race, W. B, Sherracd, Thomas Tustin, J. M. Plumsted, Samuel Wayman, Daniel Gino, 5. R Wheeler, S. 8, Nutting A. L. Sweet, Trustece—C, X, Holden, E, Nelson Blake, John Spry, Jobn M, Van Oaiell Aven Salsbury, Finance Committeo—C. B, Blackull, W. W, Shaw, A, L, Sweet, 8. Wayman, J. A. Shaffoer, Clerk, az-oficio—L. J. Swift. Treasurer, ex-oficu—W. H. Holden. The Sunday-school, of which W. H. Holden is Baperintendent, is one of the largest and most successful orgurizations of ite kind in the city. The church sieo sustains two missions, and a large variety of organizations caiculated to de- velop aus keep in exercise the various talents cf wo farge a body. Among these may be men- tioned The Woman's Mission Circle, The Gleaners, the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Yotng People’s Missionary Band, the Cottagers' Prayer-mieeting Association, the Literary Society, atc. In these and other similar societies, the yreaé majority of the memberehip find ample Beld for employment and congenial work, edapted both to their tastes snd cavaciiiex. In this way the Second Baptist Churcia has come to have 3 repatation as x .thoroagbly live church. [te candlestick holds aloft a bright and far- reaching ligbt for the iliumioation of those who sitin darkness. Tbe pastor modeatly attributes the prosperity of the church to the grace and mercy of God. Itis quite possible that human + bill and good management should be counted as one element aleo. Many of the facts published above have been fleaned froma nest little pamphlet just epube liched by the Rev. E.J. Goodspeed, entitled, “Ten Yests with the Second Saptist Church.” ISRAEL IN AMERICA, FRAGMENT OF 4 LECTURE BY THE RSV. DB, FEI- SENTHAL. At the meeting of the Order of B'nai B'rith, held in this city Inst week, a lecture was de- tivered by the Bev. Dr. B. Felsenthal. After he bad spoken on some internal affairs of the fraternity, he continued as follows: 5 I may now be pormitted to follow a custom eetablished by all preceding annua! meetings of pur Grand Lodge, and to offer some remarks voncerniug Israel at large. And it is proper that this should be done. For, in a higher and wider sense of the word, every descendant of pur patriarchs, be be s. member of our fraternity or not, is, or ought to be, a Ben Berith (s Son of the Covenant). Is Judaism (we mean American Judaism) pros- perous or decaying? We are not «0 rendy to affirm aobesitatingly the prosperity of Jadaism, when an unbiased observation of the state of affairs forces the conviction upon us that the very exixtance of Israel is greatly endangered in Ameries. Before our eyes, so to say, hundreds of individuals and of families aro getting estranged, and | are graan- ally melting away from Judaism, in consequence of their indifference to all his- torical reuigions.. A greut pert of tho rising gen- eration is growing up in total ignorance of the religion of their fatherg, and remair utterly unin- fluenced by religious practices and institacions, Ins time wot very distant, vary many, of our descendants wil! not know whether they are Jows or pot; and if eventually some of thisclass should feel mnctined to jom a religious commu- nity, they will, a8 single and detached atoms, nat ly be attracted bythe larger end more powerful bodies of Christian Churches, thereby following the universal lawof gravitation. In the face of these facta, what little importance is in the wrangling of the pariies about the word- ing of some formulas in the prayer-book! What little significance is in the bot contests for or against same inoocent innovation in divine ser- ‘vice, When our very existence 2s a separate Jow- ish community is declared to be superaunuszed, or at loast- problematical! ong, “To be or not to be, that is he question.” And, in the light of this all-overshadowing question in the prov- ince of Judaism, all the various party strifer and ail wrestiings about mmor reforms sink into ut- ter wsignificance. In feansatlantic Judsism, “Reform,” ‘or “Emancipstion from Tauudiesl thraldom,” x have just claims to be considered as a party gbiwboleth. But in America,—iaAmerica, where “Reform” is a firmly established foct, where “ Orthodoxy" iz as dead asap Egyptian mumry, and where the talmudical Jawa, in their pracccal application, ere more astiqusted than ths code of Justinian in our courts of justice ? Not nude “ Reform" must be the watchword any longer, but’’“ Jewish Reform” (and the adjective “‘Jaweh” it is which must be om- phacized). Not “Roform” must be any more the ¢emend in our progresetve congregations and rocieiies, but “ Conservation,”—conserva- tun ot Fudaism. - 4n2 sch s conservation: is of tho utmost | cluded), and age-nel neceasity, uot for Israel alone, but for all man- kiud.- Still we must remsin conscious of the duty to be the appointed guardians and custo- diaus of pure monotheism, snd we cannot yet cease to testify, by our very existence, of the God’ of onr fathers, and to ve continuaiy a living protest against alf forms of polythen:n (tritheism and dualism in- Bul kinds of adulterated monotheism as wel] as against ail kinds of mod- ern atheism. “ Corservation ” is the word. No conquests are to be won any more for and in bobalf of Reform. No laurels are to be ac- quired avy longe> as champion of Hoform.. For every one is now a reformer, even those who in self-deception style themselves “ orthodox-” And the “ Moderatca” andthe ‘ Radicals” are ei- gaged in an opposition race-course, tiyiug who cao beat the other, aud with the speed of fleet horses are they ranuing through the arena of Judaism, and, wildly jamping over the hmits thereof, they land—who knows where? ‘What will be the consequences when Jewish preachers exchange pulpits with Christian minis- ters, and when people aro coming thereby to tho conclusion that it is justas good to hava Chris- tian theologians, or at Jeast Aryan Unitarians, a8 teschers of religion, as to have Isrselites as such, ‘and that it’ would be a mcuey-eaving or paying policy to merge Jewish congrégationsinto non-Jewish congregations? What will be the consequences when Jews and Obria- tiana intermarry, and their otepsing. are forever Jost to Judaism? When M.D, Conway's ‘'Sacred Anthology” is declured to bo just as good a buok for so-called enlightened Jewish ministers to se- lect texte from aa the Jewish Bible ? When the literature of the Gentiles is cousidered to be just as proper for ourreligious instruction and edification aa the literature of Israel? Wheueven the existence of a self-existing, supernatutal, and preternatural God is taught tobe an obsolete superstition ? oti 2 Aud yet the doctrine of the One living God is the very corner-stous of Judaism: With the same it standsorfslls. Tor Judaism is neither Feuerbachian theism, nor Spinozistic panthe- 18m, vor Voltairean deiam, but monotheism mant- fested in such historical forms sud institutions as wore created by the gonius of Israel, And with the psalmist, Israe! will never cease to pro- claim: “My heart and my flesh shout in joy to aliving God.” Forever it wi teach that there is more wisdom and true philosophy in the wordsof the inspired bard: “In ‘Theo is the source of life.... Thon yendest forth Toy spirit and they are created,” more truth in the yery first verse ef our Bible: “ In the beginning God created ths heavens and ihe earth,” than is all God-denying cosmogonies of olden’ or mod- ern times. ~ It is a very severe: trial which American Juda- ism has to stand. ‘ihe raging storms of perae- cution in the ¢etk sges did uot succeed in in- ducing the wandsrer lerael to lay eside his gar ments or # separate existence.- Now it remains to be seen whether the sun of liberty, under whose raya wa now live, is powerful euough -to cause the wanderer tocast off his Judaism, and to bo absorbed (at loaat » thousand years too enzly) by non-Jewish nations and creads, In our “struggle for existence,” the Order-of B'nai B'rith will, we hope, also prove to be an element of conservative qualities, conservative in the sense as indicated a few months ago. It will help somewhat to maintain American Israel intact. Let us, then, do our duty, brethen, as Israel- ites and as members of the B, B. fratcrmty. May Israe! in America continue to be a wituess of Him whom our forefathers nave confessed since thousands of years, and may the O:der of B. B. contribute its share to glorify the name of Israel, and of Israel's God. —: BIBLE WORKERS, REPORT OF A DAT'S DOINOS, ‘The following is the report of a day’s work of ono of the members of the Band of Bible Work- era, an organization connected with the Y. M. C. A. It is taken from his journal: : Nov, 20,—Mr. ——’s Report.—Morning "Bible class conducted by the Rev, Mr, H.; subject, * Tue offer- ing up of Isaac." At 11 o'clock want out to find per- sons for the noon prayer-mecting. At the Y. M,C. A. Employment Bureiu and on the street found eight. Gave out thirty Biblelcafiets. Held religious couver- gation with several and tried to get them to the meot- ing. Atthe Foaployment Bureau s man asked me, a5 Lhbanded him a ieaflet, “Is it for lunch?” I said, “ Yes; a mouthful that will satisfy you for time and eternity. Willyou take it?” He took the tract and bung bis hexd and said nothing, Next talked toa group outside. Itold them who I was, and whatI Was, and who Christ camato save. Said one of the crowd, “There are some good ones, but I am not one of them.” Isaid that Christ came to save the lost. ‘There are only two classes—saved or lost—“ for ms,” or “against me.” You are either a saved thief ora lost cue. **Muke up yorr mind that you Sre either going to heaven or hell.” “You are right,” mid ond of them, s: young man, who was wsit- ing, dinner ip hand, for a situation, I then asLad who would go to the prayer-meeting, “Twill,” suid the young man; and one after another started until we were eight, We all went ether. I prayed God to go before us, At the close of the meeving an opportunity waa given for any oue to rise who wanted prayers. My young friend got up (with his dinner ia his band), and ssid, “Pray for me,” His eyes filied with tears, Afler the meeting I spoke to him. Said he, “I want to bea Christian, My mother, in her last moments, suid, +1 want to mest you, my boy, in Heaven.’* 1 pointed him to Christ ; tol conditions of salvation; read to him John iiiz16. 1 said, “ Look st it for yourself.” “Is that ali?” said be, "*Xes." “'TuenI believe.” ‘The boy is now re- joicing in the simplicity of the Gospel, Daring this Ume Mr. W. was talking with another of the eight, and this one, also, came isto the light, I went to speak to another of the ei,)'~-s middle-aged man. I said, “ friend, do you w:: bessved?” He sai been a Christian.” I quoted Christ's words is able to pluck them out of my Father's “Oh!" “id be, bis whole body trembling, “I am lost!" > . ited 2 moment, and then read Hosea, xiv., 2-4, and sued that God puts the words in our mouth, Then I showed him, from John, fii, that he was the very man Chrirt died for, Siid I, ‘‘ No ono can go to Heaven bat lost men, women, and children. Will yon besaved now?” “i wil; God heip me!” said tie poor man, Threvof the eight were in s room for prayer wnen this man went in with me. Every one of these four men wept like o itttle child. The presence God was there, I think these four are now saved men. Later Imet two men who ere eailing on the lakes, Afters short conversation they toid me that they were boarding at a saloon, I told them to leave it, ‘They said they would make cne more trip and lay up for the winter. They promised to come and eee me again, I gave them my address on a card on onseideof which the twenty-third psalm is printed; told them that pssim is my comfort. They promised tocometo me fora boarding piace when they came back. After this, went to the North Side, toNo,— W—street, Found Mr. at his pisce, asleep, He hess placeas night watchman, As it wis 3p. mI thought I would awaken bim. He was glad toxee mo. We commenced our conversation on per- fect assurance through Christ our salvation, He said his doubts were fast leaving him. Said he, “ Afr, , Lam nota good msn.” Suid, “Christcame tosave sinners.” Le replied, “I know it.” * Weil, ‘won't yon belicve it and go on’ your way rejoicing that God is pleased with His Son and nof with you? Can't you rejoice with me that Heaven {is open, and the Son of Man is eeen sitting at the right hand of God, my substitute, and making prevailing intercesgion for me! Believe, and don’t dishonor Him any longer.” He said, “I wish Ihsa more time to talk with you. I shall be alone all night with God, Pray for me.” I next went into Mr. “s. I had been invited to call thero when Thad time, His experience is not clear, ‘but I think he is trasting, tut bis wife is not. The word of God finds no entrance to her heart, After I had spoken for come time from Acts, x, 43, abe laughingly said: “I am not as bed as other women.” Tiedt, pruying God to break her stubborn heart, Next went to X. W- street, Mrs. L, anda neighbor were silting in the Hitchen. Her hus- band and son came in; the four are unconverted. I asked the gon, aged 1! come to Sundsy-school, He would not "promise. I triod to tell them (the three) that they were approxching the evening of their dzya, and should certainly be making wise preparation for the'r eternal future. Everything about them indicated opposition to the truth. I ask the old man to come to meeting. He said ho had no time, Evidentiy they are among those who are led captive by the devil at his will. I went from this house to the South Side. Met several young mento whom I gave leaflets, Spoke to nine of them about the giftof God; urged them to close in with Christ, ‘Went back to the North Side to prayer-meeting ; -sub— ject, “*Secking.” I spoke on the sixty-first vere, showing that this man was still in the flesh; his friends wore, of course, the world, the fiesh, and the devil—the same friends that sre a part of our inherit- ance in this world. Fearful friends! that bave stuck close to us sinco we left Eden, After a soul-refreshing meeting, went to my room for the night. L8 pirvane aaeatiee THE RELIGICUS PRESS ON LOUISIANA AFFAIRS. THE INDEPENDENT bas several editorials on the subject, some of which seem to be on one. side, while others sre asatrongly on the other side of the question. Asa whole, this paper seems to regard the mili- tary invasion of the Louisiana Legislature as unwarranted, and to be deprecated. The Inde- pendent saya: ‘Does the reader ask: If the Wiltz organization was an illegal, lawieca, revolutionary usurpation, why com- plain of the Federal -roops for their interference? We answer; Because, first, the Governor hago right to call on the United Stutes ermy exceptiaffer the pro- ecribe’ antecedent steps to put down an‘fitsurrection, Here was uv msurrection, no fighting, no proclams- tion, no appeal to the President, We reply, eecond, that, supposing the Governor to have the'right to sum- amon the Federal troops, he has no right to doit for this purpose. ‘The Legislature is 2 body utterly inds- pendent of him. He is not judge of its membership or ion, The men gathered in its Hall of Lepresentatives were there of right for the saxo of organiration, and he bad no right there until the scene had degenerated into a pistoland bowic~knife fight, Phen he, orthe Mayor, or the police, would have beed . der. ‘THE ALLIANCE says: - ‘We see no solution of the trouble South of us ex- oept that found in the power af the Nation, It must defend the African from enemies just sa though his face were white, Our country was once based on color of skin. It is now based upon a justice that fs blind- folded, that it ay not see the ‘skin, nor the ‘clothing, nor the bribes in the hands’of the parties standing ag ij her bar, If it shall demand thirty years for the power of the negro to become confessed, then for thirty years should the intlitary hold possession of the revolting Btates, ‘Tho object of the General Government 1s to defend where States do not. Ifa few martyred Cu- bens mido the Southern Ulood boil for annexation and redress, the blood of end negro men killed in the past year in the South should make blood boll for jus- tice nearer home. THE NEW YORK EVANGELIST (Presbyterian) ‘says: " -We Lave read the statement of Gen. Sheridan in de- fenso of hig act, ut do not aee that if helps the caso st Ail, He thinks there was danger of violence and blood- shed. Then ho might order hia troops to Keep the Posed {but that in a very different thing from asrum~ 3 to'say who are members of 2 Legislature and who aro not, The forcible ejection of the mombers of the Legislature, giving the majority to the party opposed to them, comes nerrer to Cromwell's dissolution of the Englis’ Parliament than anything in our history, It forma what we cannot but regard as a dangerous pre- cedent, “Political expediency cannot be pleaded in Justification of it, ‘There is no safe course fo be pur sted in matters where the relations of State Legisla- tures to the General Government sre concerned, which does not accord with the strictest justice, and with constitutional law. : THE ADVANCE (Congregational) says: ‘With our present information wo believe that, when ‘the facts are fully known, the courae of the President thus far will ke justified. An organized and syatem- atic relgn of intimidation bas been inaugurated fn the South, which, if tolerated by the National Govern- mont, would ené in making » 'ropublican form of government " in Louisiana aud other Southern States simply an impossibility, Gen. Sueridan’s character- ration of the “ White League was blunt, but ft wus also exact, -Itiscbanditti. ‘The list of’ over 9,000 murders in that one State, which have gone unavenged almost unnoticed, of justice, is a terrible fact which if is sheer blindness to leave out of the account in judg- ing of the situation, and of what must be done in view of it, The sortal and political condition. of Louisiana lias been wholly anomalous, ‘The case must be treato. accordingly. Such of the hue-and-ery raised aboat the Constitution being endangered by the slightest in- terference, and a fetal precedent boing ect, fs an un- reasoning bugbear, The people are not made for the Constitutio: The Constitution oxists for tho- sake of the reople. Emergenciea must be judged on their merite, At the outbroak of the Rebellion’ red tape came Within an inch cf etrangling the life of the na- tion, There is danger of ceutralization and unwar- ranted excrciso of Federal authority, but we are not to be frightened out of our wile at the mere mention of THE OURISTIAN UNION rehearses the facts and the allegations, and von- tnres no opinion. It says: ‘‘We leave our readers to decide between the two statements, undor whatever further light they may bave re- osived by the time this reaches them. gee PERSONAL, cHicaao, The Rey. afr. Nate has boon engaged as pastor of the Ravenswood Methodist Church. The Rey. Edward Eggleston waa in tho city Friday. He was on his way to St. Paul to de- liver @ lecture. * The Rev. Edward Scofield has been dismissed from the Chicago Presbytery at his own request, and has joined the Ottawa body. - The Rev. Mr, Postlethwaite, the recently- chosen Roctor of Christ Church, was welcomed, Tuesday cvening, at. the residence of C.S. Hutchinson, “Esq. . - Mr. fankey,-now with Mr. Moody, in Man- choster, England, issued a ** New Yen’s Greet- ing" tothe young converts in Scotland and Ireland; which was published in the Christian, The Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., bas commenced the delivery of a special lecture course on Skep- ticism before tho students of the Chicago Theo- logical Seminary: The lectures aro said to be decp?y interesting. The Rev. Father Damen, 8. J., of the Churoh of the Holy Family, bas gone East to conduct “missions " in several. of the Eastern cities, He is now in Jersey City.. He will’ remain East until some time in Lent. s . The Standard of this week contains the inau- Rural of its new co-editor, the Rev. James 8. Dickerson ; a final word from its veteran retiring editor and proprietor, the Rev. Leroy Church; and a shor¢ editorial eulogy of Mr. Church. Prof. F..L, Patton was unanimously called to the Pastorate of Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, af a meoting beld Wodnesday evening. Prof. Patton has been supplying the congre- gation for several months, during which the «t- tendance has coustantly increased, ELSEWUELE. Archbishop Alemany, of San. Francisco, re- ceived a wedding feo of §5,000 from the wealthy miuer, Mr. Sharonf at the conclusion of the re- cent marriage ceremony of bis daughter. Last Sunday the Rev. Dr. William Honry Furness preached hts -fiftieth anniversary sor- mou to the Firet Unitarian Church of Phila- delphia, He is a uative of Boston, and he counis among his ancestry Capt. Clapp, a man of note amoug the Pigrim Fathers. . Bishop J. B. Miege, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas, bas retired from his episea- pate, in order to enjoy repose afcer a long period of fatiguing and Lonorab!e toil io the Church, A meeting composed of Catholic clergy, axssem- bled at Topeka, Jan. 4, adopted a series of reso- lutions very complimontary ty the retinng Bishop. ; 3 ‘Tue First Presbyterian Charch at Lockport, N.Y., have done « sensible thing. Its pes'or, the veneravla Rev. Dr, Wisner, who has fille the pulpit for nearly forty years in the most ac- ceptable manner, being unable to meet the de- mands of a large churoh, from tae infirmities of age, has been retired on a life salary of $1,500 per year, The Sunday Macaszine for December-contains ® sketch of Chatlotte. Elliott, author of the popular religious hymn, beginning “Just as 1 am,” etc, Sho was the daugiter of Cbarlos Eliott, of Clapham, and granddaughter. of the Rey. Henry Venn. ‘She wasan invalid from 1829 to the time of her death, about two or three years ago. A volume of extracts from her jet- ters, journals, and poems has just been issued by the Religious Tra ct Society of Rondon. 2 : RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCH AT LAngE. The day of prayer for colleges has been changed. It'ia tho Inst Thursday in February. Tho Park Ridge Methodist Church bave held revival services in the church every evening the past week. : Thirty-six people {a Lawndale have petitioned the Presbytery for the establisiiment of a Presby- terian church. — According to the Christian Standard, the Dis- ciples of Christ added 80,254 to their membar- ship during tho past year. . : The Baptist Contennis! Committee for Dinois ask for $1,000,000 for an educational fund to be expended chiefly in the State. A religions paper states. that there are eighty- seven Protestaut missionaries now working in Japan, nearly all from America. The Reformed Episcopalians are putting forth efforts for the establishment of a church in the West Division, with good prospects of success. Most of the Congregational churches of this city held religious aorvices every evening the past week, resulting in strong indications in several places of a deep revival interest. The Liberal Christian thinks before the New Year of the twentieth century all earncat and really honest religious men, whether orthodox or Unitarian, will be working in complete har- mony. Revivals are reported in many of the churches throughout the Northwest, the largest number being reported in Methodist churches, the Bap- tists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists fol- lowing. : Another stop of progress has been made by the English Bible-revisers, At the ‘twenty- seventh session, Dec. 18, the books of Sarauel were completed, and the first chapter of Isniah nearly completed. The Scotch Presbyterian Churoh of this city received twenty-three additions lest Sunday. The church, notwithstanding tbe difficulties of last zummer in relation to the withdrazal of the organization from the Canada Church, has 5 membership of 253, The Temple Baptist Church is prospering. ‘The audieuce-room is filled each Sabbath even= ing, and steps are now taking to complete the church proper. A fund isin process of colléctios top 8 & carpot, and some time next spring the society hope to gét into the main audience- room. . _ Maj. Whittle ana'P. P. Bliss have been hold- ing, during the past week, an interesting series of revival meetings in fhe Firet Congregational Church, Bach evening the main floor of the larga audience-room has been well filled: with auditors. The Yokefellows distributed 20,000 printed invitations to the mectings. - The Liberal Christian goes more than half way towards orthodoxy when it-eaye, as it did lest week, that “every Unitarian pulpit in’ the land stands open to any orthodox preacher who is willing to occupy it on terms of eauality with its occupant.” If orthodox churches will concede as much, the inveterate differences between the two Christian bodies, may, by-and-by, vanish. alto- gether. 3 i A Singular religious eomenmalty Baa dstely inte | existence ogland;* the iead ot © wornan named ir “and Kansas, nec: the town of Lymington. heir faith resembles that of the Shakers. Teefusing to work, and devoting themselves ‘o singing, dancing, and looking for visors. they fell into debt, their property was sold, spi they were ee sate the street, remaining phere for a day and 8 night, engaged in moging and pray- ing. At length thoy took refuge in ‘& bara and tho authorities are trying to disperse them. St. Ignatius College, connected with the Jesnit Church, near the coruer of Twelfth street and Blue Island avenue, has recently been provided with iron stand-pipes, reaching from the base- ment to ths roof, with two sets of. hose on each floor. The building is very high, and adjoinsthe cburch edifice, so that water can be thrown en- tirely over the roof of the latter. There is no church building in the city so thoroughly pro- tected from fire, is The Proteatant Episcopal controversy in this State as to the elegibility of Dr. Seymour to the Episcopacy, has broken out in Quincy, where the Rev. Dr. Corbyn, of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and the Rev. Dr. Corbett, of Bt.- John’s Ohurch, are chopping logic in the Whig. ‘The difforence in their theological views seems, to an outsider, tobe about ax important as the difference in their names. The Liberal Christian does not wholly like Dr. Draper's work on the ‘Conflict Between Scionce and Religion.” The Rey. John W. Chadwick, in that paper, finds in Dr. Draper. a Posuliar eplie against the Christian religion, and au ovident delight with the triumphs of Mahommedanism. He thinks that Dr. Draper, as well as other wri- tors of hia school, has busicd himself with the physical side of history to the. neglect of the moral and ideal side. There are some signs of a sphtin the Romen Catholic Church of this country, which may give rige to flourishing Old Cathollo organizations, ‘Tho arbitrary doaling. of Catholic Bishops with their priests has, fora long time, been s source of ill.feeliog in certam quarters. Father Stack. leotured, a few days ago.:before the Philadelphia preachers on this subject. The lecture was a protest against hierarchical tyranny, while, at the same time, it exalted tho Catholic Church. The Baptists have mado great progress in Ger~ mauy cince 1823, when they be; their work in that country. It is estimated that 100,000 con- versions have taken place; while at present there aro 103 churches, containiyg more than 20,000 communicants. ‘The nijssionaries are supported by .a large number of lay members, who maintain service at no lexs than 1,26) ont~ meatlons, Lhe Sunday-schools number about 00. The Church-extension apportionments for Roct River Methodist Conference are at follows: Chicago District—Missionary, §6,300 ; church- extension, $1,400. Rockford District—Misziona- ry, $2,700; church-extensjon, $600. ° Freeport District—Missionsry, $2,070; church-extension, $4€0. Dixon ° Distiiot—Missionary, 50; ohurch-extension, $600, Mendota District—. ionary, $1,990; . church-extension, $140. Joliet District—Miesionary, $2,700; church-ex- tension, $600. ‘The Oakland Congregational Church is gaining strength, Last year ie receipts more than equaled its oxpenditures. Nearly $2,000- were raised for arrearages, and $1,000 more pledged towards its old debts. With entire peace and harmony, in a rapidly-growing neighborhoo2, with an increaeing congregation, and ‘a large proportion of young people, with excellent Pprayer-meetings, with: s flourishing Sunday- school, under tho superintendence of Deacon Bt. Joba, and with the promise of the continued ministry of Prof. Hyde, it bids fair to prosper. Twenty-one wors added to the Church and two dismissed during the last yoar, leaving a gain of nineteen.” Prof. Schaff. st a private reception given to the Bible-Rivision Committee in New ork, ro- cently, stated that the object of tho revivers Was not to make a new translation or version of the English Bible, but. retaining the present langnage, to remove obsolete words, correct in- accuracies, render proper names uniform, and make such improvementa an aro demanded. by the scholarship of the age. Tho work of the English revisera is sent to ths United States, where it is sgaia revised and sent: back with suggestiona; these, if agreed upon, are adopted ; ir not, a committes of conference is appointed. Four years have been spent in England in, the Tevision and two. in thig country; and, at the present rate of work, Dr. Schaff estimaten that 1 mall take six or seven yoars moro to com- plete it. = DRIDGZPORI MIESION WORK. The folowing 1s an omismon frofia recent ner- mon, ‘Ten Years with tho Second Baptist Church, Cucago,” but very. naturally suggest the inquiry: With such helpers, how could any pastor fal of success? t In July, 1838, Daacon S, Skemp, of the S:cond Gureh, wept to Bridgeport in compiny with Drother 0. H, SalisUbry, and, on seeing the spiritual destitu- tion there, resolved ‘to work on this field, From the streets he gathered tairteoa children ond started ao Sabbath-school in a rcom he secured vver assloon. He obtaincd the help of six other workers, and in three months: the num! d increased to goventy-fire, Brother Skeinp theu hired tna “ Iron-Clad Temperance Hall,” he himself paying $150 rent for one yexr, In December, 186, the services of the Rev. John Gordon (inen a student in the Theological Seminary) were e- cured as missionary for six months, Brother 8. psying one-fourth of his salary. Witbin a short time Brother GJalzbors were blessed, and the South Church was organizod, The Rey, J, N. Williams succeeded him as tho first settled pastor, and the Gunren flourished un- der his psatcrate for iwo years, Brother Skemp hed enlisted the sympsthiev of the Second Church, which paid him hulf bis salary, Brother 8, giving Wterally to- wards the other half, fa the fall ‘of 1867 the Sceand Gburch purchased Iren-Olad Hall, Brother 3. glriag one-elerenth of the eutire amount, Shortly afterwards the South Church bought lots in a good location, and the building was removed by the Second Church, when it was improved aud reseated, muting it « comfortable house of worship, ‘The Sabbath-schoo} continued to flourivh under tue Syperintendency of Deacon Skemp, until i numbered 160 acholars. Brother 8. walked 334 miles every Subbath morning to hia chosen field of la- bor for four and a half years, and was never abeent. ‘Through all the storms of winter and heats of sum mer be was promptly 2t bis post at a quurter before 1¢ am Di these years this labor of love cost him personally upwards of $300 annualiy, Recapitulstion : He waiked 7 miles esch Sabba 1.533 nufies in four and a half years, and contrib $1,850, not missing ous Sabbath during the whols of his four and abalf years, "THE CATHOLIO CHURCH. ~ Sadlier's Catuolio Directory, Almanac, and Or- do for 1875 gives some new statistics with rogard tothe Cathohe Church. In this country thore are 7 Archbishops, 53 Bishops, 4,873 priests, 6,920 churches, chapole, and etations, of : which cer- tainls 4,800 are chorches, 18 theblogical semina- ries, and 1,975 studying for the priesthood; 63 colleges, 511 academies, 1,444 parish schools, 215 asylums, homes, and refuges, 87 hospitals, and a Catholic population (exclusive of Baltimore, Charleston, Erie, and Brooklyn, for which no eatimates are given), of 5,761,242. The comparative figures show arapid growth of the Church. Sixty years ago there were only 85 priests. It is alleged that census of 1870 adopted a plan to underrate the Catholic num- bera by giving only the sittings in the churches ; yot it made the Catholic churches 8,806, with sittings for 1,990,514, only in fact about one- third of our real population.~ But that census shows the proportion of Catholic to non-Cath- olic churenes, and tbe following curious facta result: In New Mexico all churches may be paid to be Catbolic, only two of any other kind axiat- ing. Ic Montana, 1 church in every two is Cathulio; in Dakota, Idaho, Nevada, and Wash- fngton Territory, 1 in 8; in Wisconsin, Minne- soia, Co orado, and Wyoming, 1 in G: in lows 9; in the District of Columbia, Michigan, Nebraska, and Oregon,1 in 10; -in Massachusctts, 1 in 11; in Now York, 1 in 12; in Maryland, New Jereey, and Mississippi, 1 in 13; Rhode Island, Lin 14; Texas; 1in 18. The smallest number is in the States from Virginia to Alabama, Virginia haviug only 1 in 141; North Carolina, 1 in 277; South Carolina, 1 in 100; Georgia, 1 in 243; Alabama, 1 in 100. MINISTERIAL DONATIONS. Now is the time when donations and ministe- rial surprises are rifo in the country. The most frequent form of the miniaterial donation now. ia such aa Will most effectually astonish the pas- tor and his good wife. The spiritual guide is generally invited with his family to # neighbor's house, and while there » ‘large part of his flock commit burglary upon the parsonage, the radical difference batween them and profeesional house- breakers being that the former leave the house Ticher than before they eutered.” Tho potato- bin is filled; a barrel of flouris rolled into the larder; ditto a barrel of apples; a turkey and « brace ‘of chichens gre left cn the table; and, finally, a little money given to the pastor, and a nice cloak to his wife, who are made to sppear: just as the burglars get shings nicely 5 Another popular method is for some good mother in Israel to go over to the pastor's house, take off. her bonnet. sit down, and commence knitting on hal?-finished. atocking, tu be sure the good people of the house are at home. Then the parish peuple consrive a conspiracy, the de- tails of which require that they shall arrive at the pastor's house seristim, bringing their bun- dies with them. The house is soon filled with chattering‘ pesple, who enjoy the excitement of the pastor and his family usder the suddon and unlooked-for excitement. ‘These donations are certainlya great improve- ment upon the way the thing was dois in the past, as - Cooper «describes it in his poem on ‘Tithing Time.” .° E ae UNIVERSALIST STATE CONFERENCE, . ‘A confersnce of : Universalist. churches of lili- nois -will be: held: in- 8.’ Paul’s (Universalist) Church (the Rev. Dr. Ryder), oa-Michigan aye- nue, -near-Sixteenth stcees,. Thurnday.-This is o Bia y 17, 1875.--SIXTEEN PAGES. 7 the first meoting of a series to be held in each of the Northwestern States this winter, and is in- tended to awaken a deeper aud ‘more vital in- torpat in the religious life and Christian work of the denomination. The following programmo is arranged: At 10 o'clock Wednesday morning conference will be organized, when will follow an addressof welcome, after which an address onthe purpose of this series of meetings. At 2 o'clock p.m. there will be special prayer-meeting for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the Divine blecsing upon the Conference. The topic for dixeussion at 3 o'clock is: ‘Our Work in the Northwestern Outlook.” In the evening there will be asermon. Subject: ‘Tbe Moral and Regonerating Power of Univorealism.” Thurs- day morning, conference and prayer from 9 te 10. At 10 the topic will be: ‘State Missionary Work and Howto Do it.” Inthe afternoon the topio will ba: “The Kind of Preaching Most Needed,” and “ Universsl- ism in Orthodox and Independent Churches.” Some of the most distinguished clergymen of the denomination will attend and participate in these services. While the topics will open broad fields for thought, they will also, together with the sermons, aim directly toward the one grest pur- pose of the meeting, The promise is of a largo and deeply mtereating meeting. “The public is invited. RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS, METHODIST. ‘Tho Rev. H. T. Martin will preach morning and evening at St, Paul's, corner of Nowberry avenue and Maxwell streot, —The Rey. N, H, Axtell will preach at the Park Ave- nue Church morning and evening, Morning subject : “ Perzonal Cost in Religion.” Evening subject: “ An Opportunity of Ohoice, but No Choice of Opportunity,” —The Rev, Dr, Thomas proaches this morning at the. First Church on “ Progressive Development,” and this evening on “ Sfotives to a Good Life.” —Tne Key, W. H Milburn, the celebrated blind preagher, will preach morning and evening at Trinity Chureh, corner of Indians arenas and Twenty-fourth a wSthe Rey. C. Z. Felton will preach morning snd evening at Grace Church, Morning subject, “Ex- cusea —The Rev. J. 0, Peck will preach at the Centenary Church, morning and evening. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Luther Pardee will preach morning snd evening at Calvary Church, en Warren avenuo, Le- tween Oakley street and Western avenue. Tae Key. B. F. Fleetwood, of Marquette, will oficlate at Grace Bylacopal Ch ure morning and even Scervices as usual morning and evening st the Uburch of Uur Savior, corner of Lincoln and Balden avenues, Paes —The Rev, Arthur Brooks preaches morning and gvening st &t. James’ Church, ecrmer of Huron and treet, re Hey. Francas Sfansfield presches morning and evening at tie Church of the, Atonement, corner of West Washington and P-ney streets, —The Rev, Dr. Bloceing will presch morning and evening at the Church of the Eptphany, on Throop street, between Monroe and Adams, Sunday-school toxchers wil: meet at 3:30 p. m. at the Cashedral, where a miusionary mags-moating will be held. —The Rov, Dr, Cushman will preach morning and grening at Bt, Stephcn’s Church, om Johnson, near ‘aylor, —Tho Rey. Henry G, Perry, Rector, will preach morn- ing and ezening at all Saint’ Church, corner of North Ourpeuter and Fourth streets, —The Rey. Dr, Warren will preach at Bt, Mark's Charch, morning ond evening, —The Rey. W. H. Smythe will officiate at the Oharch gf tus Holy Cominunion, Dearborn street, betwoen Twenty-ninth and Thirtiet —Tbere will be full Cathedral sorvices at the Gatho- @ral.of 88, Peter and Zanl, morning and evening. Children’s missionary meotiug in the afternoon, to be addressed by the Rev. Dr. Cuandler, : —The Rev. Dr. Powers will officiate at St, John’s Church, Ashland avenue, as usual. —Tho Rev. Dr, Chandler will preach at Trinity Church this morning, and the pastor in the evening, —The Kev, Frank’Fleetwood will preach at Grace Church this moraing and evening. - REFORMED EPISCOPAL. There will be preaching xt the church, corner of Hanover and Twenty-soventh street, morning and’ evening, rere iter. W. N, Postlethwaite, Associate Rector, will preach st Christ Ghurch this morning, Bishop Cheney wil preach at night, Morning subject: “ The Strength of Man Is God,” Evening subject: “A Question That Needs no Answer,” a ~—Lhero will be services at the Baptist Church, on Lock street, near Archer avenus, at 2:50 o'clock this afternoon. % . —The Rev. W, N. Postlethwaite will preach at the Beformed Church, Washington strest, near AnD, this aftarnoon at 3 o'clock. BAPTIST. The Rev, D. B. Cheney, D, D., hes’ morning and evening at the Fourth Church, corner of Wash- ingtou and Paulina streets. Bible class zt 2:30 p,m. ¢ Rev, Florence McCarthy preaches morning and eveing at Amity Church, corner of Warren ave~ nus and Rovey «treat, Morning subject: * Oppy, and You Will Know.” Evening audject: “Lawyera and Ministers,” ~The Hey. A. H. Holing will. preach morning and evening at the Free Couunhun‘oa Chureh, corer of Loomis and West Jackson streets, —The Rev. N.F. Ravin will preach morning and evening atthe Temple Church, corner of Hurrison and Bungainon stroets, Evening subject: * Is Curis:i- anity » Fulure?” —The Hav. W. W.-Everta, D, D., will prosch at tho Tabernacie this morning, No. 666 Wabash avenue, 5 im PSESBYTERUN. Tho Rey, James Mzclaughian ‘will preach morning and cvenitig at the Firas Scotch Churvb, corner of San- gamon and Adams sireois, 3 —The Rev. George AL Hair will preach in the mnorn- ing at the United Caurch, corer of Munroe and Pau- ius otreets, No evening service. —The Hey. U,D. Gulick will presch morning and evening atthe American Reformed Cuurch, on West Wasatngton street, near Ann. —The Rev. J. H. Walker will presch mozming ana evening at the Reunion Church, on West Fourteenth street, near Taroop, Morning sabject: “God Is Love.” Evening subject : “A New Heart.” —The Rev, Cuurles-L, Thompson will preach inthe morning at thé Fifth Cnurch, on Indiana avenue, near Thirtieth street. —Tno Rev. David J. Burrell will preach morning and evening at the Weatminister Oburch, eorzer of Jackson and Pooria streets, Morning subject: ‘“New the sorpent was more subtis than any beast of the fieid which the Lord God bad made.” “Evening subject: “Complete in Ciriat.” Tue Rev. F. L, Patton proaches to-day st the Jef- ferson Park Curch, corner of T und “Adama sreo:s, The evening aubjectis, “Tho Mystery of Revelation.” —The Lev. F. G. Surbridge will preach at the Wash~ ingtonian Home this afteravon, —The Rev. A. E. Kittredge will praach at thie Third Church morning and evening. Morning abject : Moses atid Hobal in the Widerners.” Evening sub- ject: “How the Wall of Jericho Fell.” —fho Rev, J. Mouro Givson will preach at the Seo- ond Ghurch, morning cud ovening, corner of Slichi- gam ayenuo and Twentieth stroat. —Tho Rev, G, M, Hair will preach at Campbell Park Chxpel this evening. —The Kev. S. W. Duilield will préach at the Eighth Church morning and evening, CONGREGATIONAL. - The Rev. William Alvin Bartiett will preach at Plymouth Church, corner of Indians avenue and ‘Twonty-sixth street, in the morning. ~The Roy. Alert Bushnsil will preach morning and evening at the Loarits Street Church, corner of Lear ittand Adame streets, Bible clasa at 2:99 p, m. —Preaching at the Tabernacle Church, corner of West Indiana and Morgan streets, as usual, morning and-evening. Morning subject: “The Three Crosses.” Evening subject: “Dungers of City Life to the foung.” —'ha usual services will be held at the Union Park Church morning and evening, —The pastor will presch at the New England Church this morning, Delaware place, near North Dearborn, The Rev, Jumnes Powell will preach in the evening. —Prof, James T, Hyde will preach st the Oakland Church ‘morning and evening, 2 ONIVERSALIST. ‘The Rev, Turner Ellis will: preach in the morning at the Church of the Redeamer, corner of Waahington and Sangamon strects, —The Rev. H. Xf. Corsble will preach at the old school-house, Englewood, this afternoon, —The Rov. Dr, Ryder will preach morning and even- ing at St. Paul's Charch, Morning subject: “The Proper Uses of Sunday.” Evening subject: “Long- ing After God.” UNITARIAN, ‘The Rev. J. N, Pardee will preach in the morning to the congregation of the Liberal Obristian Church, at Masonic Aull, iv Uyde Park. : ‘i —The Ley. C. W. Wendte will preach a memorial ser- mon this morning on “Tho Losses and Gains of a Church,” at the Fourth Uniterian, In the evening » converrational lectare will bo delivered by Mr, 0, D, Mills, Subject: “Oriental Thought.” —Tho Rev. ¥.'L. Hosmer, of Quincy, preaches morns ing and evening at the Church of the Messiah, ~The Rev. E. P, Powell, who bss accepted the call of the Third Church, corner of Monrooand Lafin streets, will delivor his first sermon this morning. CHRISTIAN. Elder G, Mullins will preach at 3p, m. at the Cén- tral Church, corner Warren avenue and Bobey atreeta, Sanday-school at 1 o'clock p. m. —Tae Rev. Issac Errett will preach morning and evening in the church corner of Indiana avenue and ‘Twenty-fifth street, as - + MISCELLANZOUS. ‘The Rev, Edmund salfour preaches morning and evening at te English Lutheran Church af thé Holy Trinity, corner Dearborn and Erie streets. : The Sabbath acrvices at the Mariners’ Temple, corasr of Market and Michigan streets, will be as. To - Jows: Sabbath-school at 1:30 p, m., Dr. B. Leonarc Superintendent ; song service st 7 p, m. ; preaching al 7:30 p, m., by the Rev. J. H. Leonard ; subject, The Oredit Due to Woman.” anane erocreste ace beheond at, 12:30 pilot at emplars’ xouthwest corner of West Waah- ington and Desplaines streets, <pe —The Disciples of Christ meet at No, 229 West Ran- dolph street this afternoon for worship. —There will bes mecting for worship at Friends’ ‘Mecting-House, Twonty-rixth street, near Indiana ayo- nue, morning and evening. —— CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL, Jon. 10—First Sunday after Epiphany, . ROMAN CATHOLIO. + Jan, 10—Sunday within the Octavsof the Epiphany. Jan, 11—0f the Octave; St. Hyginus, P. Jan.1s—Of the Octave, Jan. 1s —Octaye of Epiphany, Jan, 14—St, Bilary, B.C, D. 38, Felix, M, Yan. 1S—St, ‘Paul,’ Firat Hermit, Mo} Abb. oO y WOMAN. The Disagresabilities of a Feminine Truth-Teller, A Jewelry-Scrimmage on a Railroad.Oar. Stories of Female Sallors---How a Widower Behaved. Miscellaneous Items Relative to ths Better-Half of Humanity. THAT TRUTH-TELLING WOMAN. — Haunting the out-of-the-way placea of the world, especially the brains of philosophers, there seems to be an idea that 5 TRE GHAROH Tok THX TRUTH . should occupy the whole of the timo and talents of humanity; that all the miseries, from the Flood to the present time, are cauged ty her ab- sence; that the rey] Millounium will dawn on us, not when the Wrong shall fail and the Right triumph, but whea Trath shall have come forth from her eacret hiding-placos, with all her yeila and coverings torn aside, and shall stand In the fall light of day, grand, pure, and-holy, in tho might of her own beanty alone, owing nothing to times, places, or surroundings; that, standing thus, armed with her Ithuriél apear, aho will cause the cloaks to fell from all; and that the vicas and failings of each man will be revealed to the eyes of all men, and all men will be ber- efited thereby:. ‘ The idea is very pleasing, and the course of reasoning, to @ praotical mind, is very briof. If ‘Truth would be such a glorious thing for an age, it would be an excellent thing ina man; if an excellent thing in a man, it would be # delight- tal trait of character in 4 woman. When you hear that a certain neighbor of yours is - A LIVING EXAMPLE of thia great virtee, you think it would be de- lightfal to meet her. From what you have heard. of ‘her, she must be an extraordivary woman. Hor admirers tell you that she 1s one of the modern Spartans—one who will let uo considerations of fricndship orhatred swerve her from the path of duty and truth; that an enemy has nothing to lose from her perfect trathful- nese; that a friend has everything to gain from it, Bo you are introduced ta her. You were not especially pleased; but, then, it is impossible to form an opinion at first sight. People who are of any account do not usnally show off well, One cannot expect to be dazzled by a creatore of such sterling worth. But you think pleasant things of the times when you shail be admitted into the innar sanctuary of her friendship, aud be strengthened and sieetened by agzociation with such 8 girong, pure nature She redeents her promise to call on you, and you : . ADMIT HER INTO YOUR PARLOR. The carpet.and wall-paper have a decided - an- tipathy towards each other. You knew ‘it ‘long ayo, but did not think you could afford either to tear down the one or throw away the other. It bas been an eyesore to you from the first; but you tranquiltize yourself by the sweet delusion that no one else will notice It. When the belt ringg. you pull the curtains down in the day- time, and turn the gas a little lower in the even- ing. Your neighbor over the way called: She had the reputation of possessing exquisite taste and uoiimited means of gracifying tt. You felt 2 little uneasy ; bat she wes so entertaining that curtains and carpet were both forgotten. Your neighbor on the left called. You knew her pret- ty well by reputation, and her reputation was that of: hypocrite. You hadn’t the slightest doubt but that she would tell the next person she met that'you bad horrid taste, and your Tooms were as gloomy as a cavern ; but she only spoke to youof the pleasure she experienced from finding your house cool and dark, so rest- ful to the eyes, and 20 refreshing. No you reac- ily yielded to the flattery, and rather enjoyed the visit. “When that truchfol woman came, you kuew that the tortures of the Inquisition would be pozerless to make her utter a word concern- ing you that you would want to contradict ; but then she informs you that you have made ‘A BAD SELECTION OF ZOLORS in the room; that a carpet that coet half of what that’ one did would be much more suitable for your room, it the colora’ were only in harmony With thewalls and curtains; that the practice of sitting in s balf-darkened room is very in- jarious to the eyes. You knew allthis before, oat it never annoyed you so much as now, and all your anticipated pleasare from the visit is gone. You rstarn thecall. She teils you that yon langhed too loud; put, then, you were having a food time, and forgot yoursclf, for a momaut only, She sees all the defects in your toilette, aad ‘tells you of each-of them. -You always knew that 2 true friend is one who tells you your faults. It was your first copy, commenced with an enormous A, in your first copy-book ; it was the theme of your last essay at achool; it was the corner-stone of all your Spanisa castles dedi- cated ta friendship, m- after yeara;. but some- how you are -not quite prepared to evjey the reality aa.you thought you should, and you leare the honse, lesying ell your mirth within ; no: danger of Inughing too loud now.- The world has suddenly GROWN VERY DISAGREEABLE AND GLOOMY, 4nd you go home out of humor with yourself and evervbody else. = Go shopping with her, you don’t lik the goods shown you, but make some timid excuse for not purchasing. She tells tha salesman that hia goods are entirely tuo high she could buy the game article at one-third the price over the way; that he had better get in a new stock of goods, for ho hes sotnally nothing worth carrying home. So you meekly follow her from the store, feeling that the salesman regards yon es his nat- ural enemy for causing him to receive undeserr- éd insult, and that she regards you as an arch- hypocrite for not tolling the full trath'about the uatter in the first place, invite ber to tes, she will tell you that the: ia a heavy streak in your cake. You wanted it extra nice, and put in too much butter; but she seea only that heavy streak, and pays no atten- tion to the other side of the question. She asks your friend if her cousin is : KEEFING ANY STRAIGHTER NOW, and gives her viows of such conduct as he in- dulges in. You look all sorts at her; she pro- coeds, nothing daunted. You- afterwards remon-, strate with her. In vain you tell her that your other friend is not responsibie for the sins of her family, even unto the third aud fourth gen- ecation; but sbe utterly crushes you by saying that sho speaks only the trath,—no one should be ashamed of that. Youcall on some one to play. You probably knew that the girl was. not ® finisbed musician,—more than likely not » half-finished one; but eho is a kindly little bedy, who'likes to ‘play, and would -feel- burt if she were not asked todo so. After the usual pre- -liminaries she consenta, and naturally expects a little praise. It would not require much of an effort to thank her and praise the pieco s little; but your trath-telling friend tells her that the music is altogether too dificult for hor; that she is sadly in need of practice; and a whole day's pleagure is marred for one who was trying to please others. You wonder how it happens that people who pride themselves in saying just whas they think, NEVER THINE ANYTHING PLEASANT. You regret that all persons who do say kindly things are deceivers and modern editions cf the Scriptural liars; but you iather like them best, with all their faults, ~ You como to the-conclusion that philosophers who, as a rule, live some hundreds. of years hence, are aut always ‘the safest, and by no theang the pleasanteat, guides for the’ present. Tho- theories that look the beat on paper are often so unsatisfactory when reduced to practice, Truth misy bes blessed thing in th> Millennium, when poor humanity has gotten over its ‘faults, and is sufficiently exalted to be able to overlook the little a~noyances of life; but’she is a little too much for usnow. Truth has been crushed to earth too‘long not to have received many un- sightly scars, and the the veils and draperies abo DOW Weate are saving us from © 7 ‘ "AN-UNPLEASANT SPECTACLE. False woman may betray us: but we enjoyed friendship while believing them true. -Cat- like women may have deceived us: but they purr- ed before they acratched. But it remsine for tbst truth-tolling woman to diatresa avd annoy us in eexson and out of ceason, without any posmbil- ity of escaping her, and without ever receiving the fact that the young lady who : who wore, particolarly anxious that I should be enn by it, and, to farther her design, began muti the leaves of har magezine with a silver mee knife. For the purpose of showing her ture Was not particularly.dazzled,—in fact, that : was another auch in the warld,—I took 5 1a pencil from my pocket, and marked panings i my book : for my. bracelet was eqyal to hers. Os, serving that fact eho drew off her left glove o's carefully arranged her veil, that I mi not fe toes tho heavily chased ring which ate ftl, her finger. Icould “ go her one better hes “4 no, taking off my glove, I atew ogee 3s blind, flashing » rare topaz and a solitaire ac mond peers ber) appreciative ey, saw, and. quickly. palling off h displayed -= splendid Scoster dase Pots & gigantic amethyst. Iwas slightly Donpinsed, but, as she wore no ear-rings, I felt that afte alli was even with her, At that instant = drow an elegant little watch fromber belt. wit? she studied attentively tivo whole minutes, hac ing it up-in fall view, then turned to ma tine say, “Well, go on.” Thad done my = could not answer the challenge, but iourntully of my poor little locket in « drac, athomo, with one side all jemmed in. When ey last, the aggravating creature took a Jemel-cans from her satchel, 2ud held np a lovely coral set turning it this way and that to exhibit all ig beanties, fartively glancing at mo to be ence i ohanered, aes ten resins completa. ly routed, and so rreatly abzcz i that Idid not gee a thing. Y Rook “|” FEMALE SalLors, : It is no new thing for-women -to ‘become sai}, ors. We are informed in ancient Luntory that Artemesia, Queen of Helicarnassus, commandeg five ahips at the defeat of tha Persians: at aly, mis, and made a brave resistance, distinguishicg : herself by undaunted courage and ability, aud - Perfect knowledge of strategy. Toward the end of the battle, se@nog herself in-grest danger of being taken, aha lowered itec flag and attacked a Persian war-vessel with terrible fray. Her strat. agem had the desired effect, for the cong oH beheving her vesso! to be one of. thair own, failed. to pursue her. There are several instances oy, : oan of American ramen, wives of d aptains, navigati eir vessels the death of heir beobaodae > PO afte In the reign of George LIT. of Great . Trish woman named Hannah Whitney eae : five-years in the Royal British Navy, aod. and thought any recompense for the continued. miseries: she constantly inflicts, é _ Bora. ” A JEWELRY SORIMMAGE, Lady Correspondent of tha Boston Globe, ~ = One. day, on the trip up, when ceading & maga- zine, nsy attantion was attracted by the gutter of a gold bracalet, which; look whsré I wouhd, flash- od before iny oyes;-and ‘rurther sorutit'y réveaied 2thge i fe gga? She EM) Ted pee ot hes secret ao well that she was not known @ woman aontil she retired from the Terrien i" few years later a young Yorkshire girl walked from Hall to London in search of her lover, ‘Bhs found him enlisted on His Majesty's man-of-was = Oxford, and thereupon she donned a sailors suit, sesumed the name of Charlie Waddell, and enksted on the same ship. Her lover, not Bei as faithfaltoheras she to him, deserted the: ship, and in attempting to follow ‘his exam} Ne, she was arrested and her sex detected, To officers raised a contribution for her, and she -* was dismiesed from the service and ‘seni “noma In 1782 a Mrs. Cols becams somewhat famous on-board a man-of-war.asa common - 0 afterwards resumed her proper at- tire, and opened a colfec-house for sailors. In- 1800 a girl of 15 tried fo ship at London om board a South Sea whaler, and being refused sha © put on boy's clothes, and hired hervelf toa | waterman, and became very skillful in rowin, Sue did not learn to swim, however, and one das, the bost capsizing, she was nearly drowned: In the crisis ber sex wi hcovered, and she coazed to be ‘+a jolly young waterman,” and bev came a domestic servant in her own apparel.’ Another girl, oged 1%, named Ehzabeth Bow. den, bein ‘ctf an orphan, went up to London ig 1807, from a villegs in Cornwall. in adareh of employment. She did not suereed in finding svah work aa she desired, and putting on male attire, »: she walked to Falmouth, and there enlisted asa "boy" on board His Majesty's ehip-of-wez Hazard, and did good service aloft and below, Her sex was finally discovered however, and by the kindness of tae oficers tho poor girl wae placed in a proper poaition. Still another, named Rebecca Ann Johnson, hada crue! father, whd dressed her as a boy when she was 13 years old, and apprenticed bor toa collier ship, on which she served four years, and then left tha servica because a brutal mate gave her a severe beating for being slow whea called on watch. te Tn 1915, when the British wor veesel Queen Obariotte wae paid off, a negrowcman was found among the crew, who had served elaven years at sea under the usme of Wiiliam Brown, and had become so expert a sailor that she was promcted to be a captain of the foretop, She had all the pecuiiarities of a good sailor. snd-hsd kepc hes secret so well that no one suspected her real sex. This woman nad been married, snd h23 edapted a seilotis life to escape the abuse of cruel bus-, band. .. made : : WIDOWERS. . ‘When Mr. Blank lost bis wife he lay down o2. ths floor, and for seven hours without inte:mis sion, except for meals, he beat the carpet. vehemently. with his boot heels, and cried, “What shall Ido?” When his elderly servani mildly said, “She's ina better place,” he Deal the ground still more violently, and roared mort piteously thanever. S,ill nothing seemed te come of it, and echo merely sent his wild ques tion back’ again upon bis swelling heart, Io 4 sympathetic tone his faithful at:endant waroed him that he would wear himself out, whereat bt became inconsolable, and frantically exclaimed “What shallI do?” The eiderly woman advise¢ him to look ont of the window awbilo. Ht looked ont, and in six months ho was 1 newly married man. His neighbor, who hat sustained a similar loss, nover groaned, sad, never married agalo.—Dr. Parker in the Chris Gian at Work. . MISCELLANEOUS FEMININE ITEMS. A strong-minded woman will always be er of the house. Every negro in Savannah that owns over $5,008 worth of property is a woman. * : “They ssy that Vinnie Ream warbles likes canary, She ought to sing weil—there ara twenty choirs in a ream. A citizen of Syracuse has thirteen children, al] gitls. Syracuse would bes good puint for some gate-hinge manufacturer to locate in. met, Nice for Mamma—Engaging child (te Indy visitor)—"Do stop to dioner! Ma said if - you came she would not pross you, and then #¢ could eat up the cold moat,” Sballit be “chemiloon” or “chemijupe” is tho great question now agitating the reformers. ‘The names ‘chomilo,”* chemidrawara,” “shen lin,” and * getin” find few advocates. ae A Cleveland girl who mrsteriously disappeared the other night wasn’t eaten up by & pantber Dor drowned in the lake. ‘They found her in Buffale four days aftar, and shu was married tos man 4 feet high. 4 ie An old bschelor says: “ When I remember the girls t’ve met together, I feel like 3 rocstet in the fall exposed to every weather! I feel likt one who treads alone some baro-yard all d éd, whose oats sre fed, whove hons are dead, of all to market started.” is 7 The Scientific American justly denonoces the _ habit of visitors kissing the baby. A strictly. pathological view of the eubject leads to the be | lief that the best way is to kiss the mother, whet. nt she is young and pretty, and let her give i to fat, infant.—Brooklyn Argus. i In despair » French capitalist has invested all; bis woney in cosmetics. He says that national :<, obligations depend on politics, and politics ate’. uncertsim, ‘ang every recognized Beourity bas. gimlsrly gome weak point ; but coquetry is bu-, man, flourishes everywhere, and may always:D@:,"- counted upon. oe Asa Louisville girl was taking leava of 8 gan~ | tleman at ber father's house one evening recent; | ly she said to bim: “If you over boar that lam in the habit of allowing my malo sequaintances ss to kiss me good-bys you mustn’t beliove it, as F seldom allow such lidertics.” The closa of tha: interview msy be imagined. E A Byracuse girl declined to engage herself-# -' the object of her affections notll his father td aes given her a written’ guaranteo that his son 4, not only sound physically, but of good moral; gentle, and warranted to beliava both in: “six gle and double harness.” That -girl did not it tend to be seen in a divorce court, es To the correspondent who inquires "If th; has beet any atdden drop in dry-goods 9°. week,” 9 commercial writer anys: ‘Wo HO noticed but one, She said, wheu we picued §%. up, that ‘People who ate grapes ought ni throw their skinson the sidewalk.’ We prope it was grape ekina thas were referred to.” % , . A-spruce youngster, with his darling®b® came from the rural regions weet of Arcan® taxe a look at the bright feature of outtfe were standinc neartbo tickot otlice, at sh last evening, waiting for the departure <.thé train which was to take them home. It coal and dreary, and the temperature was seh up.the girl's ears and nose with 2 blolug.of . purple aod red. ‘Look bere, Josh [her claimed, petalantly, “I'm tired stax08-0P hore. .I'm half froze. Let's go to # Pl "roum). Everybody else goca you don’t!” ssid Joub, +! No aid! < I spent money enough now, and T airseOn.W pay to go in thare HE Depo nae : a Indi son