Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1875, Page 2

b THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES, RELIGIOUS NEWS. Reply to Mr, Reed’s Letter on the Divigity of Christ, How the Christian Churches Trga.ted the Adventists, The Debt of the Chicago Univer- sity~-Female Evangelists. Notes and Féi'somals “at Home and Abroad. Church Services To.Day. - THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST, TRUTH VERSUS PALSEHOOD. Cineaso, April 22.—To Chavles H. Reed, By, : Firstly, our matual and hearty thanks are dos to Taz Cmrcaco Trimuxe for having openeda echool of philosophy whers men may come to- gether as in the olden times, and to-dispate with each other s to * What is Truth ;" acd these “ Letters from the People” will increase and grow in importance, incieasing the power of the prees, and stimulating in the highest degres re- search and investigation in every branch of sci- ence and knowledge, till the fame of Chicago as ® contre of culture and enlightenment shall rival that of ancestral Athens and Alexandria, and its influehice be felt in =il ‘parts of the civilized world. You have proved from the New Testament that 'Christ is a God, but can you build a structure -that will stand against the storms of controversy Tmless yon have placed the foundation upon the Yock of Eterna! Truth? Have you not fisst to prove that the sacred writings of the Christisne are strictly truthfol and authoritative, aod that whatever statements they make are incontrovert- Thle and can be implicitly believed? Is it not first b0’ be shown, for instance, that the stories In the New Teatament concerning the ** Angels™ that sppeared to Joseph, Mary, ‘and the Shep- ‘herds, and held familiar conversation with them ‘Soncefning the birth of Christ, are strictly truth- Tal, and not the trajifions and superstitions of au ignorant and legendary age? for,if these things are pot truthinl, then is the New Testa- mect convicted of errors almost in its opening pages, and whatever follows i no more trust- worthy than the Koran, Zend Avests, or oth- #r 8o-called sacred writings 38 the divinely-in- spired, and therefors truthfal, Word of God. Have you aver looked into the origin of the | beliefs in such creations of the mind as sogals, dovils, genii, fsiries, witches, etc., and, if 6o, have yon not traced them back to ignorant and “nenlightened races that ancribed to them and their inflhences all the then unetplained phe- nomens of nature? Bat have we no more ra- tional methods of aceounting for the seasons, for the any ond cight, changes of ‘‘weather, tides, eclipses, thunder and Lightning, fire 2nd smoke, Treat, vapars, €tc., or must we still believe in angels, wiiches, etc., in the present or past Sres, a8 being in intimate visiting reiations with untruthful dogmas. * Ye serpents, yo generation of vipers, !mw’?anye escape the damnation of ‘hell 2 QUESTIONER. —— THE ADVENTISTS. \ HOW CHRISTIANS TREATED THEIR PREDICTIONS, To the Edutor of The Chicago Tribune: ‘The deluston of the poor infatuated people who Tlooked Yor the second comilng of Chiiat 18at Mon- day pight, and the manner in which their faith was regarded by, orthodox believers in Christian- ity generally thronghott onr 1and, has & Agnifi- cance of a mosé important character, beyond the fact of so many persons etaking their all upon their literal interpretation of Scripture. To me it is & strong proof of- the real infidelity of the Christian world s to the doctiines jit pro- festes to believe. - The great mass of orthodox clergymet, and of the Isy brethren, and'of non- professing Christian believers, hold it as part of their = theological creed that Christ, is to come wmin in very form on. earth—to coms “ puddenly ws a'thief in the night—to come in the clouds in ‘great glory, surrounded by His angels and the souls of just men made perfect,—to coma to judge the -eirth, and to reign with His own on . earth a thousand years, They profess to believe that, when that time of ‘coming approaches, mankind will be engaged in the asual vosatious of life, and will -be geueraliy £keptical of anv such approaching event, as the ‘peopla of Noah's time were of the fmpending flood. They acknowledge that this coming mny be to-morrow or next week, for all we know £ ‘the contrasy. i Yet here was & class of men vho claimed that they hed made the prophecies a daroful stady for'years, and that the 19th dsyof this month Was certainly predicted ms the great day when Jesus should so appear. They proved their ovn sincsrity of befief by givig awsy all their earthly goods and proparing for the sublime event, ~Yet how was _this received by ministers of the Gospel and Christians gener- ailv? Did they seck out tke loaders of thesa ople, and with sarnest concera oxamine their Sfiancm. from the prophecies to see whetlier peradventur this thing might be so ? _Did they &can the chronology of Brother Thurmsn, end try to show that his figares did not demongtrate what Le climed they did ? By no msoner of mreans. They treated thie whole matter with utter contempt Or pity. The thing was too zb- surd in'their minds fo be worth a momont’s thought, a single honr’s examination of dates. What other fnference can we draw excapt that Thurman's followers. believed thoronghly, and with their whole souls believed, the doctrine of the second coming of Christ, and also be- lioved st they kuew-.- the- day.. -ap- pointod, while all Christendom besides really at heart believes nothing of the kind as to Chnisi's physical coming at any time, 88 set forth in 1te doctrines. : How would Christendom be_judged in tbis ‘matter from su impartisi mnd%wme, #ay by an intelligent, fair-minded Hindoo? He hg\mlg.ua pation’ professing to believe that thé great ebovah, the creator of mli being, is* to come, Booner or later, upon the earth 1in the person of His only begotten Son, is to come suddenly like lightning out of Heaven, rolling away tho Heavens 22 3 scroll, and sppeating in inelfable splendor to an awe:struck race, utterly unpro- pared for the event, and engmged in the daties and plessures of life, just a3 were the con- temporaries of Noah when tho delnge descanded on their devoted heads. Tha!at this _d?émnlng solva all boman jostitutons ara fo 3 like mist before the sun. Propary, social dstioctions, civil governments, everything; almost, that makes np human life and human ‘history, ate in an instant tobecome only matters of the past, while the Son of God enters upon His reign of a thousand years, during which this ‘whole eArth shall bs the patrimony of His saints and worshipers, That while the precise hour of this great event sball not generally be sus- pected by mankind, yet, neverthdless, signs enough will bo observable, by all who have faith enough in the Scriptures £ look for them, to put them on goard. Jesus commanded those Who believed to ** watch * for His coming. And ‘mankind? ) ‘Have you ever examined the sacred writings of the Parnees, the works of the, to them, Rivinely-inspired Zoroaster, in the truth of which the wise men who came from the East 1o Bothiehem, following 3 traditional star, were probably firm believers 7 I go, has it not oc- curred to you that the frequent mention in them of familiar interviows between gods, angels, de- mons, etc., sud buman beinge is psrily the aues of such superstitions beiog embodied so fargely in the macred writings of the Jews and Chmistians ? Bacdoes the fact that peoplo of 311 races and in all ages have beliéved in such thinga make them either possible or trathful ? Does it mot, on_the coptrary, convict the propa- gators of eruch beliefs as. writing in_ignorance of tho ways in whith God roveals Himself to mankind 2 Lotts hear from yon sgain after you have looked into the sacred wrikinga which preceded the times of the Jews and Christians in search of information 2a to whather the latter writings were not merely the natursl growth of the times can write better than he knows, nér un- infinenced by the dootrines that have been im- pressed upon his mind in_his youth, or that ara the carrent beliefs and opinions of the times in ‘which he lives. And wben you have learned, as yo surely will, that the sacred writings of all Dutions are equally of humen origiv, you will jprofound mystery, as you termit, of the Divinity of Christ is no mrstery at all ex- cept in the sense that ancient Paganiem, in any form, could so long have exsted and been car- ried forward In this zge of enlighteoment and overturned superstitions. When you have traveled farther and read more, let us kndw if the truth i not forced home upon you that those who first pronous tho truth-loving and gentle Chrnst tobeone df the Gods were meraly fallible men, and as lisble to er- Tor 38 others who have, 1nour own times, author- itatively pronounced the Pope to bo also ote of the Gods,—an intallibls judge of good and evil, of right and wrong, aud of truth and falsehood. But will it not be a most monstrous and un- truthful beliet for sll time, notwithstanding that itmay be, by wolves in sheeps' clothing, im- prezsed npon the minds of innocent children, =od carried formard in that way for hundreds or even thousands of years? Finaily, a8 concetns the discracelnl record which, in our own times, tho churches of Chi- 0 have been adding to the bloody and shame- z} histories of the x’\eh namely, the Whitehouse- Cheney barbarity, the Patton-8wing wickedness, 2od the ast and latest exhibition of ignorance, pride, and all uncharitableness, the Eoven Bitualistic controversy, will not the words of the Great Philosopher of "the New Testament apply with as crushing force to these priests who elaim fo sit in the seats of the Apostles as to those who in His day claimed to 8if in the seat of Moses? Listen to His words in the twenty. third chapter of Matthew: Then spake Jesuz 1o the multitnde, snd to Hia dls- cipies, Saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees it in Moses’ eat, therefore, whatsoever they bid you olflzral that observe and do, but do not yo after thelr warks, for they say and do not. ¥or they bind Resvy burdens and_grievous tobe borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their ingers. Dut all their works they do for to be soen of men ¢ they make broad their phylacterica, and enlarge the borders of their gar- and'leave the u ppermost rooms at fessts and chiel seats in the sypagogues; and greetings in ‘markets, and 1o be called of meu Rabbi, Babbi, But woe unto you, Beribes and Pharisees, hypocrites | for yeabut up the kingdomof heaven men; for e nelther go in youreelves, ncither suffer ye them that aro entering fo gon. Woa nnto you, Scribes and Pharisees, bypocrites! for ye devour widows houses, and for s’ pretenss make long prayer; . therefore yo sliall recelve the grester damcation. Woe unto yom, Beribes and P! hypocrites] for ye compass ses. and land to make and proselyte, 1nd when he is made, e make him two-fold more the child of hell than your- Scribes and Pharisees, Belves. Woeunto you, an 5o~ crites! for ye pay titho of mint, and anise, and cin- oamon, and bave omitled Che weightier mate tes 6f the law, judgment, mercy, and fah; thess ought yo to have dons, and nob 10 lasvo tho other undans, Ye blind guides, whick strain at gnat and ewallow 3 camel. Woe unfo you, Scribes & ees, hypocrites ! for ya make clasn the outaide of the cup and of the plafter, but within Lhey are foll of extortion snd_excess, Woo unto Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrfis{ for yo are like unts whited sepulctres, which indeed appess beautifal outs ward, but are within {ull of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even 0 ye also appear righteons 110 men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and - iquity. ‘Woe uBlo you, Scribes znd Fhansees, hypo. erites | betause ye built the tomba of the prophets, and the sepulchires of the righteous, and say, If we been o the deye of our fathiers wo would not bave been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets, ‘Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that se are the children of them which killed the prophets, Is it any wonder thac Christ wsa executed by s mob hounded on by the maddened and fanatisal priests of acorrnpt Church, and would not the churches of the present day crucify again any Christ wno would appear and attempt to tear {from them tho masls and cloaks that conceal their wickedness aud hideons deformities ? And this is true religion, to build lordiyohurchies on fashionablo avenues, to spend mouver, and time, aod Iabor wi.hout stint over worss than useless discosaiona sboat Tlegeneration, the Thirty-nine Articles, Ritualism. and the Divinity of Christ, ‘when our poor-houscs. insane. asylums, jails, prisons, and even tho strests of our city, are overflowing with ignorance, misery, suffering, wretchedness, and erime. ‘To the people of our country and of the racs, only vet {slowly lemerging from barbatism, and clamoring for the bread of souud instruction, you sad the churches are giving the storiss of why watch, unless by waiching tho watchers could anticipate the knowledge of -the heedless ? Our Hindoo beholds a class of zealous bo- lievers educated in this Christian-faith, who turn their especial attention to tie pradietions of inspized prophets, which are & part amd parcel of tho sacred writin; whose infallibility ia one of the cardinal 'doctHnds of tho, oreod of all Christinas,- They devole years of study to these predictions, claiming that they point to tho day of this great event. They verify, a8 they ciaim, the result of their deduc- tions by comparison yith astronomical periods and significant dates in history, and_annoutice that tho coming of Chfist is proved by these iculations to bs vertaib to occur on the 19th daoy of April, 1875, and ‘that such calculation is 2n Feliable and susteptible of proof sa Lo it cor- rectness as are the calculations fotr eolipses of the sun and moon. These people not only an- nounca this 48 their belief, but by their actions demonstrate beyond cavil that they fally and Titerally accspt these conclusions a8 the very trath. . Yet our Hindoo beholds but & few hundreds of the millions of Christendom who deign to 8o much a5 to open the leaves of the Holy Book which they profess to_believe contains hothin; but truth, &nd to look over the unfamiliar an mysterions pagsages whencs the arTul prediction s claimed o be defuced. The fact that s tonhecy of such awf: nt is, in the opini i men who have made 1t & Hife stady, abont, in- stantly to be fulfifiea, makes no more sensation among the Chrietian priesthood, the devount la- ity, or the iguvorant, believiog masses, than smong the infidels, atheists, and heathen of the outside world. A ramor of a failure on Vall street, or of an advance in the price of putty, would have elicitéd ton times the interest that thia did in any eircla of plous or profane, B What,conld onr Hiudoo, witncssing all this, do, but zay, ** Thurmanand his followers are the only sincore bsliovers in Christian theology ; ail the rest of Christendom profess it on the lps, but cherish hardly the phantom of & bolief in it in the heart "? And what the critical Hindoo would thus declars I myself profoundly am con- vinced of. Aside from the othical dottrines taught by Jesus, the theology of the Chiistida Church commands to-day, in my opinion, as faw el devoted believers thercin as does the Book of Mormon and the theology of Brizham Young. And I believo that if to-morrow half the clergy of our nation should proclaim that on next Fourth of July Jesus Christ would really make His sacond advent, a8 foretold in thé Seriptures, they would have unyitif\fl [ follumni 28 did poor Thurman last Monday. " Agvarg, - - UNIVETSITY OF CHICAGO. WEERE BHALL THE MONXY COME FROM ? ‘The Christian Era of Boston, speaking of the notice given recently of & design to introduce certain resolutions in tho Board of Trustees of the Chicsgo University, saya: If the design of the resolutions is to ake ‘an appesl to Baptists at the East, to ssve the University from paeaing ont of demominational control, 1t ought to miake the enra of every Tiiinols Baptist tingle with shame, Thers is wealth enough in the churches of Chicagu to audow tp University liberally, snd seliove it from all embarrassment, Tlcre is weallh enough among the Beptista of Tilinois to start auother Univer~ sity de novo, and equip it at onoe with buildings, sp- ‘paratus, and endowments, . Commenting upon this ths Standard ssys It is mot true that “ there is wealth enough in the churches of Chicago to endow the Unjveraity Liberally, and relieve it from all embarrassment,” It is absurdly untrue to say that “ there is wealth enough among the Baptits of Hlinols o slazt snother Unirvessity do novo, #quip it ot once with buildings, apparatus, and en- dowments,” 'The Esptinta of Chioago, oppressed . wilh church debts, occasioned largely by the o that , ill do what they can, alike for the University sud thd Beminary; butno man who knows anything about the condition of the denomina. ton in this city at the precent momant will ever make uch an extravagant assertion as this which we quote. The Baptists of the State mesn to stand by their inati- tations, but they have nosuch amount of means for edvucativnal enterprises as is Implied sbove, e FEMALE EVANGELISTS. THE TWO LABORING IN NEIY YORK. . Now that the English Evangslist, Henry Var- foy, has left New York, two others from En- gland havs put fn an sppearance, and 1 this in- stance both are women, They bogan their meet- ings at tho Church of the Holy Trinity, and the New York Herald furnishes tho following de- scription of their sppesrance: - It was said in other dayz of the women of France and Brain—snd it was doubiless equally true of the women of other couniriee in Euro it when age and the departure of ther charms prevented furthar indulgence in the vanities and_ pleasures of the world, they Lecame devotees, thus gracefully sielding to God What Do one else was willing to accept. " In more mod- times 1t hug been said of ihose women who aban. don the ordinary ephere of duty and pleasure which custom i0 their sax, to becemo devotees either to religion or to some misston which they fondly fancy i8 10 go far in ending sl the iils tbst suffering human. ity is heir to, that they have neither tho qualities of nar person 0 fit them to abino {n the sphereihey 80 readily bsudon, Miss Logan 20d Miss Beard sy o e and i s the elder of the two, an considersbiy teyond the hesday of South, mor iy withont ornament, with @ BIRek Bat, ¥t thsanh th at, which, thongh not in the modern etsle, was of aufliciently recent date not. o exciih o8 tention, Her faco was colorless, with something Earsh and secetic in the ontline, notet 21l relieved by the broad forghead, which indicated s prodominance of the dntellectusl faculties. 310 tho mmor pointy: Rex eves wer blus or gray, hernose excesnvely’ aqui- lin¢, 3ad the ipd thin and soloriest 0 becometh pn ioatructor in morals, Aiss Beard is something more odern—of that type frequently seen in Eugland, and sHll more #0 in Ireland, with blsck hair and gray, eyes, It isusually accompanied with s complsxion' known as red brunette, and has np&nul.nnd, to somre of the most distinguished besuties in the world, - Bitl it s not incompatible with extrems .ugliness, which, fortunately, Mies Beard escaped, equaliy fortu~ nate a3 Tegards the other cxtrems Bhé was dressed ‘black sillt,—or what seemed to be,—the only tribute in = 1o the yain pomps and" ¥AnifTée” of the~World~ mant< tested being the purple: trimming of her Laf, alée .00t of the latest mode, .- NS . Thair meetings hava a8, & .ganeral thing. baen slimly attendsd. 5 S RELIGIOUS MISGELLANY.. .~ TIE COUROH: AT HOME AND-ABBOAD. .. The fourth annual meesing .of the Woman'a Baptist Missionary Society of the West -will' be held in the Michigan Avenug. Baptist Ghurch, Chicago; May 620d 7.~ ', 1 - The Board bf Foreign. Mluu!nn! of the Presby- terian Church closes its fidcal yesr May I, and 130,000 must bo received to bring the Board, free of debt, throngh ite obligations. In April, 1874; the Board recsived $104,000. 'The Immanuvel Church of--this city has re- moved from the corner of Dayton and Centre streets to the corner 6f Sophia and Halsted streets. . It {s ‘hoped that s permenent-location and & houss of worship will soon be secured. At a receat confirmation in Washington, D. C., Aroubisnop Bayley adminstered - that rite to sixty-ginecanverts front tha Methodists,ten from the Episcopalians, nine from the Prosbyterians, and the balencs from other Protestantdétioming~ tions. Bishop Grosg, of Savaunab, n pleted a magnificent church in that city at a cost of $100,000, a1l paid for. This,- following, toc, 80 soon after the dedication of the college at Macon, Ga., shows energy and. liberality.on the part of the Bishop and his people. ‘ The are 400 religlous jourdalsin the United States. The Methodists have 47, the largest number; thep coms the Cnnmu:.ugwho number 41; the Baptists, 85; the Presbyterians, 20: the Lpiscopslians, 21; Lutherane, 14; Ger- man Reformed, 14 Jews, 9; and Congregation- alists, B, ‘The contributionsof Lafayatto Avenus Church; Brocklyn, for religions and benevolent objects during the last fifieen years have amonnted to $233,900. For sustaining thelr own church they have raised §264,500. Two other churqh organ- izations have gone out from thém Within the same period. The General Association of Genersl Baptiats haye called a National Convention of all Libersl aad Free-Communion Baptists to meet in Qo- Iumbip, Ind., in Novemuver, 1875, for the purpom of a thérough orgamazation of all the Libéral aptist forces in the . land in benevolent and church enterprises. The Moody and Sankey revival In. Gieat Brit- aia has stimilated the. aeraction of bulldipfu iu all the principal cities and towns for Young Men’s Christian’ Asdocfationis.’ In the City of Dandes, 25,000 in_gold; in Edinburg, $35,000; and in Msuchester, fim.oao,_am already been 3id for these purposes, and in many other towns has nearly com- s oaner sums. . The Catholics of Sheboygxn, Wis., have nearly Gothpleted oné of the bandapmest chirchies in that State. It stands in the centre of a square, is 180 foot long and 55 feet wide, of Gothic do- sign, and, when finished, will cost $38,000, in- stead of $100,000, which it would have cost but for the judicious mauagement of the pastor, the Rev. Father Harder, wha was his own architect, superintendent, and everything. 'Tlie anniversaries of Baptist Societies which are to bo held m Philadelphia wil, it is an- nounced, meot on the following dayss The Mi sionary Union, Tuesday and Wedhesday, 25, 26; Home Mission Bociety, on_the morning and afternoon of Thursday, Msy 27; the Educa tional Commission, on Thursday evening, May 27; atd the Pavlication Bociety, on Friday, May 23, the service continuing throughout the day. Last week the Churchman (Episcopalisn) was indiscrest enough' in ita reforeca to Mr, Var- ley's preaching to ininuate that a tame ele- phant with a hymn-book #ould attract & larer crowd and do s~ much good. To this the Baptist Weekly now retorts, **Does tho Chufchman Kuovw thet the Lord Jesus candescended to bs born in a stable? Might not that * tdme els- phant,’ if he had 2 surplice ahid prayee-book, at- tract a larger crowd still ? His cdpacity for * in- toning’ cannot be questioned.” ¥ The Freeman's Journal roiterates itx state- ment that the grand ceremony of conforring the berretta will take place on some day not Sunday, v St. Patrick's pro-Cathedral, in Mulberry atreet, It will probably take placs on one of the last daya of this month,—perhaps the 23th orthe 30th. 1t adds, too, that tho costumes pronor Yor Cirdinal McCléskey's inAuguration cannot bo bid, eEcept ad impotted from Baropo, aod this is the only reason why the giving of the berretta is 80 long delayed. It now anpears probable that the-question of the right of Diuenk‘ns toinisters in Ingland to the titlo of **Reverond ™ will be determined by law. The clergyman of ¢he Ghurch of England who refused 10 permit & Wesleyan minister to inscribe the word ‘' Raverend” upon & tomb- stoze, the Rev. G. E. Smith, of Owston Forry, has declined the advics of the Bishop of Lincoln to withdraw his" objections, on acconnt of the cost of a lawenit. He has issued an appeal for subscrintioss to aid him in the legal procesd- ings which the Wealeyan Conference intends to institute. . The second ennivéisaty of the Twenty-fifth Street Baptist Church of this city was heid Sun- day ovening. There have been sixty-thros addi- tions to tho church during the year; forty-two of this number have united by baptism. ~Five have been dismisead by letter, and one has died. The increasb for tht year hss been fifty-scve: Two years ngo the church was organizod with fifty-two members ;- it now nnmbers 984: The church enters upon its third year with enconr- aging prospects. Their pastor, the Rev. L. T. Bueh, has consented to remain with them. Of the above memborship, fifty-six compose the Bwedish branch of the church. . - The grest work of the “ Bollandists,” as the compilers of thq Acla Sanclorum are . called, is slowly snd quietly, says the Londan Times, but surely, progressing at Brussels. At proset this huge work tonaists of about eixty folio. vol- umes, which bring the student dowa to within three daya of the end of - the month of October ; but » large store of materisls is being utiiized in order to complote that month forthwith, and further stored hava.been accumulated .toward Thé Lives of the Saints for November and De- cember, about 4,000 such biographies being atill to be actually written. Ogt of the six Jesnit Fathers whoss names appear on ' the title-page of the last instalimant of the work, issued from the prees in 1867, four are already dead,.and ons more is disabled by illness. The Fourth Aveous Presbyterian Chirch of Now York, of which the Rev. Dr. Croshy- is pastar, celebrated its semi-centennial .snnivei- sary-last Tuesday evening, Aoril 20, when the pastor was' nemisied by the Rey., Dr. Adams and others in the services of the occasion. Tais church was orgabized by ihe Rov. Matthias Bruen in April, 1325, and on the June following he was installed its pastor: In 1826 & handsome stone edifice was completed on Bieecker street, near Broadway, the cornér-stone of whick had been laidApril 26, 1825. He wag succeded by the Rev. Erskine Mason, who died in May, 1851, The Rev. Dr. Joel Parksr preceded Chancellor Crosby, the present pastor, in charge of this church, and hé was, we believe, the first -pastor after the removal from Bleeoker street to Fourth avenue. The Western the Southern field, lIays claim, gays: . % There cannot be a greator mistsks mads In to' the fature policy and purnoss of the Meltaint Eplzcopal Church than o upbods that ik intends to surrender its work among elther the colored or. the ‘white people of the South, It Will not voluntérily sur- render that work; nor will it pause in ifs effarts fo meet the great respondibilities which God, in His nmfl:mm, has manifestly imoosed upon it in that Ghristian Atuocate, eposki ian Auocits, eposkin o 4o which tho Church Bath — PERSONAL. Ths Rev. Bobert Beer, of Valparaiso, Ind, was in the city last weelr, 4 g ¥ ‘The Rey, Dr. Cosn sddressed the pecpls of Hyde Park Wednesdsy evening. The Rev. Dr. Paine, of 8t. Paul's M., E. Church, Cincionati, visited Chicago lsst wask. = The Rev. Wayland Hoyt, of Boaton, fs oon- valescent. Heisnowat his father's house, at Clevelsad, £ A The Rev. W. W. Hammond, Iate pastor of the Bergen Baptiat Church, in Jarsey City, has gono to Burope, The Rev.. Mr. Tracy, of Chicago, has acosptad & call to the Congregational. Church a¢ Lacon, dil, at a gals 4 et tlhlx a‘r:: $1,200, avd will scon remove The Bev. T. 8. Ds'lrym}fle has, at_his own re- Eiilfiez, _be:)n d;::iue& :l‘:m mee PrenbyweIr’ of 20 w il o b in Iow: Shiod o i, gih e Prasyer n Tow, Bishop Harris has refurned fo his homs in Chi- ©350, 1n health and safety. . - During his absence of near p manth he has visited, and ad, oh’ missionary tonfcs, the Pittsburg, ‘Pednsyirania, Pliiadelplila, Nowark. NewJer New York, dnd Net York East Confereqces. Been in Chicago for somo time, receiving medicat treatment, 18 agaln''st his district work in the Roack River Conference. ply ing thd Forty-firat Btreot ‘Prembvtotian Chutoh, of that ociety. - Li-ia The Rev, Dr, O; E, Felton, tho' papular pastor of G Morholt Cmos O, B gone to Baltimore. Tho pulpit of Grace Church will be supplied during the absence by the Rev. Dra. Fowler, Tiffany, and others, ‘fho Rev. John' B, Reeve;’ years since left: the pstorate of the Lombard Btreet Church (colored), Philkdalphis, to acaépt Professorship {n Howand University, has boon recalled, and will sharly ba remsealled,. During the twenty-nino years of Dr. Cuvler's mlam.ryg be.bps logt buk two Nabbuths by bodily sicknass. , Daring -his fifteen years’ pastorata of Lnl-gnu Avenup Presbyterion Church, Brook- lyu, ha has raceived into charch fellowship 2,572 persons, baptized 857 porsons, buried 133 mem- bers, and made: over 12,000 pastoral visits. The present membership of tke church is 1,600, Bishop Pack,' of thé' Methodlst E&mcnv-l Church, is engaged in traveling among the con- ferences of the Pacific cosst, for {he prédent under his charge. The montn of Aoril aud -the first part of May he will spend-in- Qentral Cali- foraia, ihe romainder of Moy in Nevads, the month of June in Northern California, July in Oregon, ahd ‘August in Esstern Oregon and Washington Terzitory. © - - BREVITIES. As n resnult of this labors of 'the Troy praying bind 1 Osrthage, many.of the beat familics no longer play draw-posar on Sunday. A pious man who can drive & balky horse 10 miles without being set back ten yeara in his reliplon is xipe enpugh for s bptter world, At arecent wedding in Ohio, the miniater was about to saluto the bride, when ‘she stayed him witn, *No, mister, I give up them vanities now!" h - 5 s e < Thers is a layyer in Akron, Q., who, when he wishes to quote from the Mosaio Iaw, says: “XNoy, your: Honor, I will read from the Egyp- tian Reports.” A Jittle 4-year-old woks up very early one morniug, and, seaitig ths fullmoon fromthe win- dow, innocently -remarked : “X £kould think it was about time for Dod to take that moon in.” The Baptists of Catsklll, st communion, re- cantly.found themaolves. without wine. A thiet had, somehow, stolen it, and the Recorder adds, ¢ Any man who would rob a church will slide down hill in his grandmother’s coiin. When a clergyman _applies at _the depot for a minister’s ticket, and the official ventures to express a doubt. as to his clerical character, Le says: *I'll read one of riiy sermons.” The iickst is pastied over instantly, without any proof. ** I hats,” stid a Fronch prieat, “ to confesy an Irishman, for there are four questions I always havo to ask before I can get at the sins: * Are you married or stugle ?' *Yes, sir.” ‘Are you tmarried or ainglé #' *No, sir.' ¢ Are you married or singla #' ‘Yes, gir.’ ‘Are you a married man " ¢ No, sit.'? As ghe nimbly plied her neodle aronnd the ragged edges of acoat that had been ripped down the back, sho romarked, in o vein of philosophical expostulation which pradent wives always employ: ‘ John, if you can's perform at prayer meetin’ withont throwin® yourself round 8o, bustin’ off battons, sud tearin’your clothes, you'd better gét religon to home.” T¢ is said, but wo cannot "Vouch for £hé trath of the story, that » well-known divite recently made & very long and labored nrager on a ro- cent anniversary occasion. The noxt morning one of hig fnends met him on ths strect and 84id, “T hops you afe better, Doctor.” ¢ Yas, I'am quits woll, thank you,” was the.reply. “Entirely recovered, have you?"” . *Why," said the Doctor, with some sarprise, *I haven'tbeen siok.” ©Buy,” eaid his friend, “ hemd you pray last night, and thought yon wete suffering {rom cramb in the stomach.” The Doctor thinke he won’t pray above thrae-quarters of an hour next thme. 5 " An ioterviower in the Paris Figaro, who rosmed recently with Alexanire Damas all over that famous writer’s house—!* upstairs and downdtairs and through the lady's chamber "— tolls a good story of Dumas’ youngost daughtor, Jeannine, a formidable infan® of 6 years of age. Tho little damsel one Sunday morning declined oositively to go £ ahureh. Aftor sxhausting all othor argumens, hor nurse &t lnst said to her, ** But, Jeannine, it [ go to churchalone, what will the good God think when He looks down and misses little Jeannine from her place 7" This staggered the young lady for & moment, but, rapidly recovering herself, she replied : “Ohiyou ein tell Him' I Liath gors into ths country !" Buch is the pracocious unveracity of the female mind—in France | An English clergyman snd a Lowland Scots- mao visited ono of the best schools in Aberdson, Thay were strangers, but the master received them civilly, and inquired: **Would you prefer that I should speer fhese boys, or that_vou should should speer them yourselves?” The Euglish ciergvman, having asoertainod that to speer meant to question, desired the master to proceed. He did so with great success, and the bors answerad satisfactorily numerons inter- rozatories as to the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. .The clergymen tuen said he wonld beglad. 1 _his_tum tq speer the boys, and at once bogan, ** How did Pharach dis 7" ‘There was a dead ailence. In this dilemma the Low- land gentleman interposed, *‘I think, sir, the boyx are not accustomed to your English accent ; Iot me try what I can make of them.” And Ho in- uired in s brosd Bootoh, * H:é: did Phawronh dee?". Agsin there wasa dead silence ; upon which the master said, * I tunink, gentlemen, you can’t speer these boys; I'll show you how I doit.” And he proceeded, * Fatcam to Phaw- toab at his_binner end?” The boys answered, *“ He was drooned ;” auda smart little féllow added, ** Ony lassie conld hao told you that." —— ' CHURCH SERVICES, METHODIST, 5 The Rev, N. H'Axtell will preach at e Park Ave- nue Church, corner of Bobey, in the morning, Bub- Ject The Millenntum—How Sure ? How Soon 2 How Long?”, i ~—Tte Rev, M. Meredith, of Oakiand, will presch at the Wabash ‘Avenus Church, corner Fourtesnth street, in.ths morning; the Rev..John Willismson in. the evening, Siibject: 4 The Son.” i ~Bishop Harris will preach ot tho Ada Bireot Church ipthemorning, - _ sl . HeT g —The Rov, Dr. Tiffany will preach in the Trinity Qhureh, Indians, avenite, near Twpnty-fourth stroef, morning and evening, —Tho Rev. Robert D, Sheppard will preach at the Westérn Ayenus Church, corner Monros, in the morn- ing. Bubject: “Theories Concerning Human Life,” 1 =Tho Rev.Dr. 0, H. Fowler will presch st Grace Church, corner North LaSalle and Whits, in the morn- ing, In the avening, the Rev, Dr. Elliot, . EPIBCOPAL. . The Rev, Luthér Pardee will preach &t Calrary Chureh, Warren avenue, between Oskley streot and Western avenue, morning and svening, ~—The Rav, Dr. Stocking will preach st the Caurah of the Epiphany, Throop atreet, between Monros and Qams, morning snd evaning. .. os —Tlie Rev, Honry G. Perry will preach at All Sainta’ (Ghureh, cortier of Carpéuter'and Fourth, morning and vening., <] 4 ~—The Rev.. Francly Mansfleld ‘will .preach at the Church of 4s Atonement, carnar of Weat Washington and Robey sirects, morning and evening, @ - - —The Kev. Dr. Cushman will preach st St, Stapben's Church, Johnson, between Taylor and Twallth, inlg snd evening, 5 s —There will be 1o services in Bt Pofer's Chapel to-dsy, 58 the headquatters of the Miusion are about to ,benm;;'-anw 143 Boutn Sate atzec, ;i —Tho Rev, Dr. Powers Teach in St John's Cliured, Ashiand ivent, ia the moraing. 3 —Tn6 Tev. . C, Esnioy will preach at tho Church of the Holy Communign, South Dearbarn streat, bo- tween Twenty-ninth and Thirtleth, morning and vea- —Thers will be parvices at the Cathedral of Salnts ‘Peter and Paul morning and et < —Thero will ba sorvices at the Afemorial Obir Indfada avelue, mesr Thirtleth sttett; moriiug an greping. Eveaing Bubject: © “of Church tory,” i —The Rev, Ar, Hammoud, of Omaha, will presch at the Clinrch o the Ascension‘morning and evening. ZThe Rev, Dr, Locko will preach st Grace Chirch D Hov. - illivan win st Trint s Bov. ullivsn ach st Trinl huroh, corner of Twenty.sixth strest and Michigeh avenue, morning and eyening, —The Rev. Dr. D. F, Warren will st Bt Mark’s Church, Cottags Grovo avenué, cormer of Thirty-sixth street, morning and evening. 3 —The Rev. 3. J, Potrip will preach at the Church of 1., who several our Savior, corner of Balden swect and Bus, morning and sveatng. ey PRESBYTERIAN, The Rev. James MacLaughlin . will h st the Scoteb Ohurch, corner of Sangamon and Adams, morn- ing =nd evening. Evening subfect: *Tha Sunset e Bt 'me fect : *The 8 of —The Bev, Cizs. ompson. will. preach at the Fifth Chureh, corner Indiana avenus aad Thirtoth sirest, in the morning. s > —The Rev. David J. Barrell will preack: ot the West= minster Church, corner of Wast Jackson: and Peorls strests, merning and evenming, -. Morning subject dceased ;Oent;q . Ths Rev. Dr. Wiliism Goodfellow, who- has | Ch “hag recéived 8 nganimoud call 1o the pastorate’ e will-2006pte—~— |- ‘morn- | Vnpome R mon tha Crosd.” "~ i Bov. Me: Hurd wil proach st the Fourth Church §a the morning. , : ~The Bov. 5, Ef Wighird, of Frankiyn, Ind., will eoth st bna Shath Chureh, corner of V{ncennes and avenues, morning and evening. —Th# Rev. Dr. W. W. McKaig will preach in Carr's Hall, Cottage Grove avenus, —mear Thirty-seventh A -French Traveleis Inpressions of Chicago and St. Lomis, t h e o g+ Situnf: Tafemdenn | E e b @. 'W. .Bodine, of Bushnell, IIL, will Amecicha Teformed Oburch, Wert | The Former to Become the Metropo- , mear And, in the morning. ’McClurs ‘will prescir ar Kiver Park’ Roy. Samuel W. Duffield will proach at fhe Eighth Chiirch in fhe nicrning. Subject :.'* The fs. surance of Faith,? . ¢ 5 —Prot. B, L. Batton will ‘preach at Park Chureh mornivg snd evening. . —Thé Rav. . Mouro Gibeon will preschat the Seo ond Chtrct corger Mlobigan avenue 8nd Twentieth street, morning and svoniiig.: ; —Tho Rev. Dr. Swazoy wiil preach at the Ashland Avenne Church fn the morning. Subfect : *The Cre- tion, e 3 " 2%te Rov. G: A, Hatr will preachs at the" Campbell Park Church in the evening. i * DNITARIAY. . s Ttis Ref; Tobert Collyer will préach at the Church of 116 Messiah, Twenty-third street, in the morning. 'In the evening, the Rev. Brooke Herford. Subject: “ Thes Cbrist of the Credo and thn Clirist of the Gosp —Tho Bev. Brooke Herford will preach at the Unity Churgh it thip morning. —There will be no service.at the Third Church, —The Rov, O: W, Wendte will preachi atthe Fourth Dnitarian Chireh, corner Prairi svenus snd Thirtleth street, morning and eventug. Lvening subject: The Now giérmany.” sistie The Rev, Florence McCarthy will preach sb Amity Church, corner Warren .aveaue and Robey. street, morping and evening, Morning subjéct : “The Fall of Man: " evening: “ What X Know Abous the rres- Dbytariana, . . ; - —The Rev. B. P, Allison will preach ‘st the Seventh Chuseh, cortier of Locke and Bouaparte atreets, in the mornipg, . —The Rev. A. J. Frost will preach atthe University Place Church morning and evening. —The Rev. Dr. G. W. Nortbrup will preach st the Second Church, corner Aorgan ard Monroe, mornitg and evening, Evoning subject: “The Paradozes of the New Testamont." —The Rev, W. W. Everts will preach ¢ the Taber- Dacle, 668 Wabash nvenue, in tho morning, and at the Indiana Avenle Obapel i the eventay, —Tha Rev, John Young will preach in the morning, i of the World, M, Simonin’s Remarks About the 1 ‘Western Man.. - . - the Jefferson Mr. L. Bimonin, an eminent Frénch travele A'ndl writer,; who“sfient saveral yeard in this countr§ studying our institations, thas Written~ an article in the 1st of April vumber of the wall- Imown_French magezine, the Retus des Deuz Mondes, eotitled * Les Deuz Rivales de ¥ Ouest Americain,"or the two rivals of WeaterojAmerica, - which canpot- fail to be of interest to all Ameri- cans, and especially to the inlabitants of Chi- cago and St. Louis. The article isoneof a series now appeating ih that periodical. To the first of $he pomber, on tho street children of New York, Wo have “already called attention in an editorial article in Tug TRIDUNE.. Mr, Simonin may not be able'to fumish us with a grest many facts concernjng ourselves with which we are not already familiar. The pbseryations he has made it ixin our power to make any day af onr lives. But wo cannot view ourselves as a French- man views vs. There s an inforest of see- iog onrseives a8 ‘others ses _ms, ~ especi- ally when "that other is "a man of broad, methetic, economlcal, and philosophicsl culture; and such & man Mr, S8imonin undoubt- edly is. There will be occasion in reviewing this sle to find some fanlt with the observer, buf on the whole it necessary to give him credit for 20d the Rer. N. ¥. Ravlln in tha vening, st the Tem- | garpqul observation, for & breadth of mind, and B rarison aud Ssugamion siceets, | for tho accuracy mud trath of his judgments. her Wa Ho has sometimes fallen into errors from over- Chitreh, corner Washinglon and Paulins afreets, morn- COXGREGATIONATL. ‘The Bev, Albert Bushuell will preach st Leavitt Street Church, carher Adams, morning and sfter- noon. 7 ~—The Bar, J, F.. Hyde will preich at the Oakiand Chureh morning and evening. : —Tho Bev. C. D. Eelmer wall preach -a% the Tnlon Park Church {n the'morning. Subjéct: ‘‘The Com- ing of Christ.” ~Tho :Bov. Dr. Roy will peesch at Plymouth Church, corer Indiana aveyue and Tweniy-sixth street, in the morning. 3 ISTIAN. CHR! . The Rév, Ieasc Errett will preach at the Christian hasty generalization,—based on too fow data, and which s longer stay and enlarged experi- ence in the countly Would bive proved to him- self to bounfounded. “Mr. Simonin opens his articlo with 3 h = cHICAGO, & which he cglls, alter ourselves, la Reine des Prairies, and ‘Reing de 'Ouest,—uames which gcarcely need translation. He gives us credit for 500,000 inhabitarts, for belog the first wheat and cattle market of the world. He refers to the seventeen railroads which Jead to our *grande metropold,” and considers us the nataral contre | lstat | to which all the Atlaotic States con- e e o shoadug, e g Twentr M | Creqr ANl the railroads,” bo saye, o fTho Bev. Giidord Fy Mortimer preaches at the | Whish leave tho Atlantic . border quar- rel for the hanor of l.‘zrr,ring you to_Chicago Central "Church, corner Warren -avenus-and Robey 3 8 rapidly 4ad econamicsll; From his article we street, in the afternoon. - A uNTY 8T, y gatherthat be cousiders Chicago’s prospeots to be The fér. Buner Eil wil preset I tho Church of | $a¢ battos chart touse of SETats T Torr wiae by ml?'d%é';f'" corper of Washington and Sangamon, | geame to thiok well of the latter city, ha is pro- s g, fase in the superlatives be applies £o Chicago —Tho Bov, “Dr.. Ryder will preach fn St. Paul's Church, Michigin avenye, between Bjxteenth and Eighteenth atreots, in the morning. * © LUTHEEAN.- ‘The Bev, Edmund Be'four will o the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of North' Dearborn snd Erle streats, morning and oveiiog, ;. ¢ REFORMED. £PISCOPAL. The Rer. W. M. Postisthwaite will presch st Bt. Piil's, cornér St. John's Plics and Lake atrest, in the m A ; ¥k Rtev. Dr. -Cooper_ il proach in Trmmantel Lcnhamu, corner Centre and Daytun stesels, in the even- MISCELTANEOTS, - The Rév. D, Hibbard will frexch at New Church Hall, corner of Elghtoenth stréet and Prairis avenns, in the mbining, axd at the Tetnple, corner Wes Wash: ingtan stroet aud Ogden avenue, in the afternoon, —The Prograssive Lyceum of Chicago meets in Good Tomplare’ Hall, southwest corner Washington and Desiaings steeots, 12230 p. m. —Samnel Maxwoll, Quaker medium, will lecturs at Grow's Hall, -No,- 617 West Madiaon, morning and evening. er H, G, McCulloch and Socisty. will meet in Quarterly Conforence in Green Strect Tabérnacle morning and evening. ;. —Elder S, W, Thurber will preach in Green Street Tabernacle, between Madison and Monroe. -The Rav, 0, G. Truesdeli wili preach xt the News- boya' Home, Quincy street, in the eyoning. City and Chicago men. St. Louis, he romarks, ha8 in Iate years recoived an unexpected impulse forward,” and oven dispates with Chicago tho pro-eminence of he Wesh—an obsorvation which clearly shows that in his ovinion Chicago in at present in advance of St. Lounis. Coming, a5 this does, from an imoartial witness, it ought to have some woight with our slow consin on the Mississippi, and teud to satisfy them that their chances of catching up to Chicago are notag msny as they would have us belove. Mr. Bimonin-deyotes a considerable part of his article to THE WEST IN GENERAL He shows hoy the portion of oir tetritory coyer- ed by the ndme has t constantly narrowing. Time was when tho West embraced parts of New York- and Pennsylvania. But tho march of civilization” has besn westward, 3 the rate of 25 miles per year. At first the pionecr had noth- ing bat his ax. He had to make his wav, or Tather to hew it, through the primeval forest. Later the railway and the steamboat came to his assistance. At first thoy only followed him. Lmter-they preceded him. The whole territory batweon ege Misnotir] and the Rocky Mountains, 500 miles in length, was colonized in five yeara, between 1862 and 1887.' Tho immense plain lying between Qmahs and Cheyonne was opened to civilization by the construction of tho Pacific Balroad. - The difficulties in the way of the early settler and the privations he was subjected to in the peopling of this pew worid ave vividly described by the writer, Hus daily struggles, the absance of proper medas of transportation ; howtheman walked on foot, and how the mother carried her babo in her arms ; the absence of food necessary to supply such energy 8 was needed in a gitna~ tion thus trying and peculiar ; how the red- sisins, cruel, wily. and inexorable, Iny in wait for him, —bll of this is told in a manuer haw dven to sho Américan, who does not know a8 much abont the confemporary history of our territerisl col- onigafion as s Enropean might suppcap. i GALENDAR FOR THE WEEK, EPISCOPAL. Apracs-Fouin Bundsy afier Paster; S Mak, vang. . Aoy 165, Fhilig nd James, Ap, BOMAN CATHOLIC. Aprit:25—Fourih Sunday after Easter; Bf, Mark, g Apryl 26—88. Clétus and Marcellnus, FP, MM, i S ;:’3 Cross, C. “sc. Vitalls, ¥, Aprit 28—8t. _the Cross, C.; April 20— St Pelgr, AL lie=d Avpril $)~St. Catherine of Sienns, Huy1—S5. Fhilip and Jmes, Ap. ‘P. T. BARNUM HEARD FROM, Mr, Simonin finds ; 5 A GREAT CONTRAST - - between Europo and the United States fn this, thak this” cotinfry affords no. such soivenirs of the past as the former. . Qur picturesque shores aro dotted by tho riins of no dncient castles: Nolegends cling about our monotaias or lakes,— all of Whicli_scetii§’ éxtremely .6trango to one used to associate evéry apot of laad with its ap- propristestory. Even the Hudson, the Rhine of America; which is moro majestio_in the eyes of our traveler thao the Europeanriver, loses mnch in the comparison with it. It bas no moldering ¢astles oo its sides, Jiko tbis last, and ifis paliz Bades 16 topped by 0o old dungeon like thoss of the’ Rhine. for which Mr. Sfmonin would give any number of Ohips and Mixsouris. Eyen the little Takes of Bwitzerlaod are worth in thy Frenohman’s eyes ail oorinland seus, becauve of 1 An Interesting Communication Ree garding Fraudulent Shows which Afe Using His Advertiscments, and Endepvoring'to ‘fravel wupon Hijs. Reputation, To the Editor of Tha Chicago Tribune: New Yonx, April 20.—I undersand that a cer- tain organization, calling itselt a * Hippo- drome,"”: is advertisad .to xhibit in your city at an early date, und tbat it aonounces on its bills the spectacular pageants, Congress of Nations, Kele at Pekin, Donnybrook Fair, and Indian Life. In order that the citizens of your ‘city may not be decelved by the fraudnlent an- nouncemsnts of usscrupulous persons, and’ led t0 waisto thielt tiime aid money in witnessinga performance of scardely aversge merit; I toko thid méthod of warning them against such pre- tenders aud exhibitions as ndvertise thé above spectacles. -The 'Congress of Nations, Fate at Pekin, eto.; Yere firat produced in this country by me, and are given only at the entertainments of my Roman Hippodrome, which, during. the past year, have achieved such an enviable reputation in New York. - The sols right to exhibit the Con~ gress of -Nations inthis country was purchased by me, at great expense, from the Messrs® Bangers, of ‘London: { improved upon it, per- fected it, and now present it st my entertain- ments in the most gorgeous snd imposing style, tha wardrobe alone costing me $100,000 These figures, together with the fact shat it jakes eigh- teen’fundrad peopls to “produce it, will show how utterly impossible it 13 for any other party to present 1t with proper effect this side of tha Atlantio ; and yot thero are 4ome unconscion- ablo persons, uaknowmsave for their many fail- wres, who have 80 poor a rogard for publio in- teiligence, and such “thorough eontempc for truth, asto advortiseit with'the most unblushing effrontery. - Thess partids trade” upon iny name =ug roputatipn, cnp{(ng verbatim the language used by me in describing the Congress of Na- tions, Donpybrook Fair, Fete at Pekin, and other fentures wholly tine, sud produced by mo only, and which they do hot, cavnot, s6d dafe Rot, exhibit. - 3 In making this compunication $0.the publio throngh your kindness, Mr. Editor, it -is ot my intdntion to interfere with any legitimate ahow, nor to dictate to an intelligent peopla whom they shall patronize; but as 1 have werned them ba- fore, when they have been scandalously dsceived by charlatans and mountebanus, T take it for granted - that they will -receive -this additional warning with kindness, and in the epirit in which it is meant. Tais country is large enongh to af- ford ample encouragement to really meritorions shows, and there are many.such now upon the rosd.. They do_busiuess in a fair, legitimate matner, adveriising no.mors than they perform. Thosa ate worthy of oublic recognition. - But the others, the yampires feasting upon_the fams of honest showmen atid npon ihe credulity of the Enmlo, should receive the heel of bitter cansare. have spent many years and much maney in ex- posing their base acts, and in attempting todrive them back into the keonels from which they shonld not baye besn permitted to emerge; and I propose continuing to do so until thoy cease deceiving the public and preying nupon me. 1 I will visit your State with my great Roman Hippodroms during the month of June—not be- fnro-—s(opi)ing in principal cities, in each of which I will build a wooden structurs capable of holding 80,000 persons. Chenp excursion trains Bespect- Baryva. tne nsBociations that hover about them. There very Btome is elogment. The majesty of silence of these sbout all the great past is ap- palling. Nature with ua affords no means of communion wiib the past,—a fact which Mr. Simonin thinks drlves hosts of Atierienn travel- era to Eurove, whers alons tha vearning of the hesrt for intercourse with it ia sasisfied: O course this Is s one-gided visw, The West has scarcely yet hiad it historv; but the Eaast ia dotted with the buttls-fiolds of the Ravolation; and therd are spots dearer to the Américan ia his country, and more full of heart-stirring as- sociations than any Europa can afford him. Mr. Simonio paya a high tribute to OUR PARMING POPULATION as compared with the samo clesa in moy other wuntr{. Ho was strack by the air of comfort aud ol gentility which sursounds our country friends, - The parlor it never wantingin our farmer’s house, Noris the piano ever wanting. The table is always laden with good thinga and the linen always Imuisculately white,—a certain mark of sdvanced civilization. Our farmer, on- liko the European, has his three meals a day, and “plenty ‘of meat. The sbundante of the farmer's pies, and the reliah with which they are enjoyed in the country, e has considored worth recordicg for the edification of his readers. The manners of our country population scem to have been an agresable surprise to him. Tneir sim- plé manier of Living in the midst of abundance calls forth his approbation, especially when he contrasts it with the luxury apparentia our great centrea. He remarks thaf the *‘ number of his childrea causes no anxiety to the farmer. He does not, like the inhabitant of the city, limit the number of his desccndants.” He says that among tha . lattar tho family feeling is growing wesker every duay, snd that tho emigrant and the farmer impart to- the Americsn population the degre of Zorce sud virility which distingaish it still, Just hero Mr. Simonin is face to face with one of the gueatost of all gocial and maral problems, Wo :mmkr however, that ho has underestimated the morality of our great cities Whem he says : S 1t morality does not return to the grest Amer- ican cities which it bas deserted for soms timo if the corruption which reigns from tte lowest to the higliest round of the social Jadder doss nos digappesar, it may be said that henceforth the strong Yankes race is doomed to oxtinction.” By force of limitiog their families, be inclines to thiok, tho “forle race ¥ankee” will limit faelf ont of existence, in obedience to the laws of nafure and imorality—a’ conclusion " which no one would dispute if the premises wers trno, Bat the evil on which Mr. Simonin predicates 80 uniwélcome & provhecyis not as 'f\in—flptnld lsll;l: hbs:_ been’i]x;gunefl to believe. be being called in Earope the pessans,—that Epecies of wild animal described bgei':l!myera, black snd burned by the sus, clad in rags, bent towards_the ground, living on black bread aod Toots—is nowhero. koown in America; he has been eliminated by eivilization, a Proof that, slowly but steadily, man progrésses. . 2 ?:n thiok ¢hat Alr. Simonin: haa not done jus- i THE ‘‘ WESTERN MAN.* L rs Here, again, be bas been too i P~ alization. Hei s v mt’“’flf&“fi Haia gdod and kind, but ex- In a railysy-car, when his him, he takes them off in the presence of everybody, sad exhibits his stock- ings of doubtful color, forgetting sometimes to cover his fest with lh&:am. If he keeps bis uhgsn on, he rests them, muddy and all as: flmg'mny be, on the back of the seat In fronf of him; and if you aak him to take them down becauss he annoys you, ho locks will be run from the smaller fowns, fally, ek, B.T. ‘Now York, April 20, 1875. A man in Baltfmors called on & grave-digger ons day 1o have bis wife's grave sodded. He wes an exiremely peourious man, and higgled a long time over.the price of the sodding. Suddealy he became muta, whiile his eyes were fixed upon & neighboring tombetone. -His daughter and the aye-digger stood back in respect for the feel- ings of the old ianflemnn. in whoss mind they supposed the sight of that tablet had called np the memory of a dear, departed friend, for griaf was depicted in his countenance, and he was visibly sgitated. At length' the deep emotion which swelled -his bosom fousd vent in .this pathetic ontburst : ** My G—d !. when-did that msndie ? He owen mo §200, anid Tl never seo acentafit!” Y ———— e been wantingin good mannors, He talks famil. iarly to you, without going through the ceremogy of an introdaction. He aska wiera yon c from, what your busincss is, whether yog are rich, etc., ete. If you have no lady with you'sre placed in “'the men's car” Hare ous traveler goes on to eay,is & bell for ths E, peanc. Men smoks; chow tobaceo, mako hang, kercitiefs of their fingers, drink .the whcls. way, each man carrying his bottle of whisky | He sl It is best not to_incur the displeasure cf thees drinKers, leat they ahoi'a draw a révolver og Vou- which they carey in pocket invented for the] purpose by American taifors! 'Tliis description every American who has trare #leit known to bo verv much exaggerated, Sgey codrsoness in ;.h:h"wastnm man,” even in thy * mea's ca,” 6 exception, acd a not the rale, = ] Mr. Simonin has visited most of tn ¥ ‘Western cities. He devotea most of msa.fim to two, Chicago add St, Louia, ™ ©' ¢t SPEARING OF RICAGO he £373 tho populasion of this marvelous city donbfes in & few ~years: Ghicago hadin 183} only 4,000 inbabitants. - Thirty yesrs Mter, o 1867, when I first visited it, it iad 225,000, Tor year following it had 250,000 The' decenui census.of 1379 shoyed that it had about 300,qu, Iu 1872, spite of . the frightfui contlagmating of the preceding year, tie date of which will never be furgotten, althouch: ita traces’ have been sl ready neatly obliterated, ths populution had in. creaaed 80,G00 over that of 1371, and was 354, In 1873, the Chicago Coamber of Comwmercs osty. mated the population at 430.000. It ia noy 500,000, and will be over 1,060,000, perhapa; ip ten years. There is-no use insaying what jne population of such a city be. ~We kuow thy men of the ‘West. Heto ths poliahed, rofinad, and lettered society to be met with 1n the grast aities of the East and Souta is aimost entirely wanting (2) ; bat you woald look in vain sigg. Yhoéo for 40 many men of boldness and frord.” 2 sang. Speaking of z CHICAGO BUSINESS-¥vN, Mr. Simonin says: ‘‘Tha greater namber of them, by their loyal: anviuality, aod fidslicy to their ward, are an honor ¢o ihé Americy: commerce, and never allow their paper to by protestéd. Their commorcial virtus meets. with its reward. They mako princely fortunes whily the mere adventurers who coms to the city mesl with little success.” He hes s word to sy of our ““protey-girl saloons” which is calcaiated 1o convey a wropg impression. Thess institg. tions are not as prosoerous or s numerons a one might gather from his articls, and thal alfords anotier itlugtration of how easy a thing it is for even a friendly traveler to leave us” with wrong - ideas Of .oGr public moe rality. “Tho healthy populastion of Chica ;D," &nfim:;hm. Slnlmiu‘i *ig rem: or _indomit; energy sud enterprisa. H- is held back by 2o doibt. No ovstasle cag arrest it.” Qur system of supplymg the ity with water he considers a marval. How we haye: raised pur buildinga after they wara conatructad <commands his admi:atron. * Nosmung,” he adds, ‘‘can give a bettar idss of the andacious temority (?) of the innabitang of Chicago than what ook place ia thai city, after the confiagraiton of tbo Sth aud 9th of Oc. tober, 1871. The fire lasted twenty-two hour, and was extinguished oply by the rain fion heaven, ‘which fell with unheard-of violenca A surtace of more thao 2,200 acres, u quartsr of tha'entire city, and equal in extent to the Boip de Boulogne, was3 entirely burned : 17,000 builds iogs wero destroyed, gfim% houses sud pabliq iustitutions not included ; 100,000 perzons wers made homeless; some hundrede were vietimg® of the ce. The total loss in money has been valued at $300,000,000, The day after tho disaster, there remained is the calcined 8oil nothing but ruins snd a few etanding .walls. It was like the praurie in thy early days of Chicago, #aid one of tha wituoasss toms, 3 few mon:hs ago. A few daya afier, in the mids: of the smoking ashes, the archicects wero at work. No_one lost courage. snd Chi~ cazo aross from its ruins more s i over. I eaw the éity spaixr last July. More beautifal edifices arp.to b found powherein America; no mdz; sersets or betser paved; 3 more sumgtious dwellings, no more gigan:ia hotels, With facades.so mosnmABtALY " r. Simosin was. in Chissss in Joly last just after onr secopd fire, ngd bears l::nnnhis testie oDy £o our energy in beginning the worl o bnilding t50 days after. B g ‘We maie dojected ;7 eventng ; 1 Tho Ta- “THE RIVALS. . } 88 v0m in wonder, aa 1t to taquire whetter be 1ag e 1 OSE MNORE EXTRACT aboutour city from Mr. Simonin’s articls. He says: ‘‘No continental city, nos even in China, has such au extensiva matural s\stem of coms ‘munication as Chicazo. or 50 well designed, or pertacted by men. Thisis tha key to the come mercical importance of Chicago. "In 1873, the aggregate of the imports znd exports of thig privileged. city was two mullions and s half of ‘francs. This fizare is the third of the whole of France for the same year, and double that of ‘tho two largest cities of Inaia, Bomboy and Calcatta. Chicago received. in 1873 2,640,000 tons of grain atd tour, the eightl - part of all that was produced.in the Uuion snd the quarter of all produced in the Westers States. This isfour ticmes a8 much aa is handled inthe two greatest grain marketa of Burope Odcssa and Marsedles, What ehall wo add t ticsbwloments of success ? -That in 1874 thers were registered in the Hiock-Yards of Chicagy 4,360.000 boga, 845,000 cattle, snd £40,000 shesp Sinca the origin of this curiouy city, the variom fizures which bear witness to its iportance bavi not failed to incrozss from year to yo.r. Tht 1aw of progreswion hes nevar failed on a sing . point, Wot even afier tho great firo of 187L. Whero is tnis going 3o stoo, sud will Chicage one day sarpass New York, 8 it expecis to 2% - Mr. Bimonin gives © st Loum credit for & population equal to Chicago, saf * eaems to think that it may nival Chicago. Bai £upposing that they are now equal ‘in every re Bpect as to natural advantazes, the greater em ri8e of the pesple of Chicago, which Mr. i onin* bas not failed to obgerve, wil) alway give us the advantage over our slower aad mart’ Sonthorn neighbor. The rivalry of thg two cities afforded no Hith smusement io the Fronch travoler. When i cago. he 8ays, its directory in hande, claims 53, 000 inhabitagts; St. Loutw repties that the peaplt of Chicago 4ré nearly all old bachelors, livasl ~ hotels; that they arg clacks withoat famillos who bave come West in search of their fortunés; | that they bave all been put down in tha dirociory tiwice, once at their place of businass and onct at a boarding-honse. Chicazo, o says, replist that the city directarvof 8t; Louts contatns.over the names of the happy St, Louisans in the burring-gronnd. Mr. Simonin ¢ EXDEAVORS TO BE DMPARTIAL between Chicago and &t. Lows. He says thal both are 1ight i their claims, and that both will yoo .astonish the world. There have bess, be says, in the west of America two great contresol population forming for ome years paat, the ofif outhe Lakes, the other on the Mississippi, esck of which will have in a docads 1,002,000 of gonls; in twenty years, 2,000,000. New York, be siys will take twenty yours to double its ropulation, after which time Cliicago will have caugat upta it. In 1908, should Chieago oontiuue to progress 8 it haa hitherto, it will bavo 4.000,000 sonis. —mora than London has now,—while New York- will have only 3,000.000. He serionsly inquires Whether Chicago and St. Lonis will nct thea ba the two grost cities of the world. They will be. the two great contres of concentration of the -gflmuum and manufactured preducts of tha West. There is haro, concludes Mr. Simonic, ~ matter for profound reflection, A new worldis opening befors us, with a breadth and 2a enersy of which humanity has had no other wnatance, not even in the timo of pasan antiquitr. REMOVALS. : REMOVED. JOSEPH WEST ¢ HAS BEMOVED TO 81 STATE-ST, KNEAR COR. RANDOLPH, And is offering Great Bargainsin CARPETS, &¢c. REMOVAL. M.GLASSBROOK Has discontinued the West Side Branch at 203 West Madison-st. snd concentrated the entire business 8f 88 ST ATH-STY OPP. 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