Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1875, Page 1

e s £ 3 Al el et e it e et i . | VOLUME 28. FINANCIAL. - CANADIAN BANK OF GOMIERCE, HEAD OFFICE: _ TORONTO, - - - ONTARIO, Capital Cpaid ) - $6,000,000 Gold Reserve Frmd - - - $1,800,000 Gold I, WILLIAH HOLASTE, Pt An Agency of this Bank has been opened st the Offices, 198 W ASHINGTON-8T. (cor, Pxchange Place), Chicago, for the purpoze of transacting a General Banking Business. Accounts of Country Banks kept under special arrangement as to interest, eto, Bterling Excheuge bought and sold. Collections made in Cenada and elsswhers o the most favorable terms. J. G. OBCHARD, Agent. THE STATE Savings Instintio, 80 and 82 LaSalle-st., Chicago, ' §HR OLDEST AND LARGEST SAVINGS BANK IV THE NORTHWEST. ..$500,000 %9, Three and Go-Tlcif Milltons. usiness exclusively tha: of a Sarings Bank. it Deosice at suarate of § pér wanh pax "CHICAG) HORTGAGE LOARS, JOSIAX . REED, 9 Nasaust., New York, ropresented by JO! H.AVERY &CO. 159 Lasalie-st., Cuicazo. Firat-cluss facilities for Snancial nezorintiona in Landua, Hillside Goal We have now on hand all gizes of HARD COAL, For Domestic or Steam Use. Also, Coal for the Trade. Also,some Briar ‘Hill Screenings for steam purposes: F. M. WHITEHOUSE, AGENT OF MINES, T 19 Chamber of Commerce. Pock—Indiana-st. Bridgo. Lackwama Coal FIRST ARRIVAL * W are unlnadicg 1,20 tons Rancs and sobr. Anaie Vioght £t onr new docks on the groun B e b R RE INDIANA BLOCK COAL, For sieama urposes, by single ton or car losd. WALDRON, NIBLOOK & CO., FOOT SOUTH WATER-ST. Cheap Coal. Indison Nat, #2.50 per tcn, delivered. Bodnd s«u’fxn?r e itiomestprices. Jinufscturors o Targo-consnmens 3 s G o ar Laarel T kad Coal Croow Hinca st v ‘prices that affurd us merely & miniog W. P. RERD & CO. ICES—154 LaSallost., crracr Carroll and Anaata,, owroe: Poora ard kiario-sta , carner 4de and Kinzls-sts! 'Ordecs by Postal Card promiptly attended to. Lackawanna Nut Goal For sale by J. L. HATHAWAY, Oi- fico and Yard, corner Market and Randolph-sts. PEREKINS & STERN, 90 East Washington-st., Chicago. e (fon of all thy ho desire good and. PO W T PR TR o o PORT, Vintage 1864. ANGELICA, Vintage 1864. MUSCATLE, SHEERRY, REISLING, HOCK, and CLARET WINES. n‘n!i'.' chotce stock of Pare Californis GRAPE BRAN- whicn, in poin: of llavor and ezeslleacs, ars un- . K bor the placo, %0. East Washingtoa st DISSOLUTION. The ecpartusrship horotolors existing botween the wderdgued, under the firm-nome of BENSLEYS & 'WAGSER, i3 hersby diazolved by mitual conseat. Cmugo, May b, 1875 l FURKITURE. Furniture! GREAT BARGAINS In every Department of Caine! Fornifure [PHOLSTERED Go00S All of the latest designs and thebest of stock, Warranted. We deem it a pleasure to show our goods. Spiegel & Cahn, 222 Wabash-av. BUY DIRE(CT FROA THE HAKUPACTURERS, Through their Agents, Sampson, Greane& Go, And save the RETAILER’S FROFIT for ell kinds of . e FURNITURE! AND-BEDDING. 192 & 194 State-st. 1t will poy you to coms up stairs one flight. et domnch e 8 A i et s s REMOVALS. DECORATION Will s6on be in the happy homes of thoss , - who now visit the Salesrooms of B KUGEMANN & (0. © 174 Xadison-st. We have removed our Salesroom and Manu- tfactory from the lower psrt to the First, Second, and Third Floors Of the Building 174 MADISON-ST., and. by the Gecreasc of geusrsl expenses, are en- abled to sell at WHOLS. and from our immease 8t0Ck of 0K GLASES, FICTURE FRAMES WATER COLORS, CHROMOS, PATNTINGS, Eto. At prices that defy competition. WINDOW CORNIOES and REGILD- ING & Specialty. DR. JUSTIN HAYES REMOVED HIS Watical & Flegtricel Instifute * T | 876 Wabash-av,, cor, Fourteenth-st, May 1. Teo houss 1s tho olegant home of Wm. B. Howard, Eaq., bulle wita all o Dnprovezmonts for bis ra- Tarso "Thoss who dosirs a home wilh us, and our care and treatment, will r: e the benefit of .ur extra means ;dmnn:‘axnllléhll":fl Ulnl fB_fl::svflJm&hfiTflb‘a isa ation: nic on», farais! i pproprizto 35\ “from. (b Nervous Dyspoptic o' thoee re- for all guest 1{roz fon sl caret S oo Do REMOV.AT. C. R. E. X0CH, Dentist, s removed his ofice to No. 67 Waslflggton—st. REMOV.AL. SWASEY, Dentist, to Ho, 1124 Hichigan-av, WANTED. PARTNER - WANTED, With $30,000 to $50,000 in cash, for six months, $0 handia one of the best paying products of the country a8 a specialty, wi an old-established house, having unusually good facilities, Money will be perfectly se- #ire, and the business promises good profits. Address, with namo, stating where interview can be had, O 93, Tribune ofice. ano Daily s CHICAGO, SUNDAY, MAY. 16, 1875.—SIXTEEN, PAGES. PIANOS. PIANOS! PIANGS] KNABE Grand, Souare, and Upright PIANOS, \cknowledged by LUCOA, KELLOGG, ALBANI, DI ‘fURSEA, SAURET, snd all leading Artists, o3 tha SEST fu the market. Every instrament warsanted for 2n ualimited timo. Tho FAVORITE BAUER J0UARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS, “Varranted n supeior fnstrument 13 every rospeet. A Ol isortzacnt of ihe above, especlilly of tho UPRIGHT PIANOS, Prices from $350 to $1,000, * ALWAYS ON HAKND AT JULIDS BAUER &00.S Cor. State & Monroe-sts,, (PALMER HOUSK,) CHIOAGO.& WATCHES, SEWELRY, &o. W&tchés. | Horse-Timers We offer at low prices s very fine assortment of Ladies’ and Gentle- men’s Gold Key and Stem-Winding Watches, Chronometers, and Quar- ter Secand Chronographs. The cel- obrated ¢ Chas. E, Jacot & Co.” ‘Watches sold only by us in Chicago. N.MATSON &CC. " State and Monroe-sts, - OPPOSITE PALMER HOUSE. ENITTING BIACHINE. . THE BRANSON KNITTIHNG JACHIIE: A MARVEL OF SIMPLICI AND DURABILITY. Knite & Btooking, heél and toe complote, without a seam, in six to ten minutes. Knits Lodies', Gentlemen’s, and Children’s Btockings, Leggings, Scarls, Tidies, Fringe, and all kinds of Fancy Worx, PRICE ONLY $20. _EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE ONE. HAWLEY & BRANSON, Propristors and Manufacturors, 204 & 206 WABASH-AV. TO RENT. Those Pleasant Avpartments for Light Ecuackeeping, in Buites of 4 Eooms each, in tac Marble Front cupancy this week, Fo- “arms apply to S. M. MOORE & GU._.4INGS, Agents, 119 end 121 LaSalle-st. Coal-Yard To Rent. - Centrally located, with good reilroad con. pections. Rent low to good party. C. H. & G. C. WALKER, 13 Chamber of Commerce. DOCK FOR RENT. 150 feet river front on South Branch, near Polk-st. © C. H. & G. C. WALKER, 13 Chamber of Commerce. " To Rent.: stoen Rooms in Bullding 1f8 Sonth Clas Pty ckat, Wi bopat in frstclasa order, and will reut cheap te ons pasty. s Store fo r rent. 'Br'C. COLE & 00., 144 Dearbornst. Partner Wanted, unusnal opportunity 3ud safe inwestment Is offered R Taito, Gupito]. , Businsss 3 monopoly 5nd profits large: is Iagitimate aad opea to strict investis gation, . Refetences cxchanged if deairod. Amountneo- Sasary, 25,0, & portion of which may remaiu on time. Kddracs, for three duys, A.C. LEONA! A Partner Wanted With a capltal of from £7,000to §10.000, in 3 WWholzsale tabliched: doing a lergo country and city e e o woald iake &n aciive part proforred. X 15, Tribane ozico. ESTABLISEED D, Tribune offico GEORG# It, BENSLET, | for over 30 voars, and located on ons of t30 bet: burinoss JOMN R. BENSLEY, streess of, B Salumore, ‘;!“glxg Accept }E’Sx&%‘&”’x‘ifi o DAVID W, BENSLEY, | adde reliabley sod seReinQlne GHOTERS D, DAVID C. WAGNSR. | Box 56, Baltimore: :1d. FIRE INSURANCE. COPARTNERSHIP. The undensigned hovo associated themsalves togothor fe¢ the tran-aation of aGENERAL COMMISSION BUSINESS, ®adertho firm-axme of BENSLEYS & WAGNER. Ltberal cash advanoss made on Consigamentsof Grain, Boads, Provicions, &e. Option Orders ia Grala or Pro- ¥iafcus exooutad promptly. Cash m-;verhll bought sad eamargins, oz shipped ta ather markcts. rRPReS GRORCE L. BENSLEY, g LEY, Cercano, Hay 5, 1875, DAV, WIRE SCREENS. Wire Screens For Doars and Wind he old stand, 2 FRETeY B505 Tribune Bullding. T':mn WINDGW AND DOOE =;:jun§xs.“x fineat sty o e of walaut-frome W Scrosns Doat ave sades Will be (ariahed a¢ loner any ofiered (n this or any otger chy fo this A discount r)vun to tho trada. W or}‘,&:parwr Rerery respect. ’ Call d tn GOODWILLIE & GOTTWRL e, Factors 2od Ofido & Obioet., North your S 1t ¥ work and S BB add 3 Rorth clazk-i. WIRESOREENS) f GERMANIA INSURANCE GOHP'Y, W ORLEANS, LA. --Commeaced Business 185 justod and paid at this ofica. R, Gen'l Agént Northern States. HAIR GOODS. KEW GPENIHG OF EAIR STORE, 205 WEST MADISON-8T. B o T certa S mocutie: and Hatr Catisy ia tho latest Call and judg3 for yourself. DS‘T“K[’["SJH‘?“ Diess! style. placs, FOR SALE. H T0 LIVERY STABLE KEEPERS AND HORSE DEALERS, We havo on kand 1,000 Linen Ash« ton Selt Sacks, end ior sale by A J. LATHAM, Agent, & 50 South Water-st. . To Rent. ‘The Tour-story and Basomeat Stone-front Buflding, 54 200 6 Eraukifteetey 40259, Wil ront 3a & whols or sap- azate floors vervlow, - : CHAS. B. HOLMES & CO., 72 and 74 Desrborn-st. - For Rent. BStores Nos. 254 snd 255 South Water-st., lately oeca- pied by WEADLEY, DENNEHY & CLEARY, who have removed to No. 40 South Watar-st. DOCK FOR RENT. 150 fost river front, near Twenty-sccond-st. Bridge. ‘Railros? Tracks on the proporty. Apply to JAMES GAMBLE, Koom 5, No. 4 Dearborn-st. ‘For Rent. ‘Btere southwest cornor of Clark and. Washington-sta., formerly occupted by the American Express Company. Apply at Room £ Exchange Buildinz. CHINA, Zo. $35 516 Ts a1l wo ask now for | a White French China, Dinner 8et, 166 Pieces. Best Porcelain, Opague, 123 Pleco Dinner Set, for §16. Bays & Decorated Chamber Set, best goods, worth §13.50. Since our reduction in prices, buys'a §110 Decorated Dinner Set 75 870 2 $100 Set. - Now buys 8 dozon Cut Glass Goblets wo always sold at $12. Buys a dogen Cub Glass Goblets, sold elsewhere at §6.50. Gets a_dozen GOBLETS we used to sell at $2.35. ‘We sell a beautiful Deco- rated Chamber Set' for §6. our ling, it will’ pay 40c A. PICK, Succossor to B 0. LAWRENCE & 0o, - 876 State-st. to 65¢ is what we ask for Fruit Dishes we formerly sold at 75c and §1.50. In fact,if you want gnything in At Cost! (R ENTIRE RETALL STOCK COMPOSED OF . Decorated and Plain Chins, = ~ Dinner and Tea Sets, ' ) Chamber Sets, .. I g d Vages, Glassware, : : Silver-Plated Were, “Table Cutléry, and Fanoy Goods, - SITIVELY AT COST UNTIL CLOSED OUT, in- ol " cluding Show-Casos and Tables. - BOWEN & KENT, 262 & 264 Wabash-av., % sxomnd_ths coraer from Hunsokeepers' Kow, . Jait armnod e JEAN BUSLNESST REAL ESTAT FOR SALE. Tho finest Cottaze in Hyde Park, 5. W. carnor Cottage Gruve-av. and Forty-socond-at. Furnsce and fuel-room, fire-proof collsr, kitchen, Tanch-room, pautry clocots, ' and sorvants’ bodroom in ba:oment, with dumb-waiter up. Parlor, living-room, china oloset, conscrva-ory, bed- roorm, closot, bath-room, ball and vestibalo on tho first floor. Two bedrooms, clossts, aad slop-closet on the socond floor. Hot and cold water, gas, and farnace-hoat. all over tho house. Mantels, ete. In fsct, overything first-class. Small barn. 2 Smzll cash paymont; balance on long tims. An extra- ordinary chancs for any ono waatiag something nice. g -E. 5. JENISON, Arohitcct, 103 Stato-st, FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR COUNTRY PROPERTY, ¥y Biook, “ Hemlock Block,” qorner Mich~ ;:i!:‘.n‘-uv'. gnd It_.nsflle-st’.& Five Stories, in -top shape for manufocturing purpeses. ?gya now 3400 per month, end is one-third ogeupied. T'o Bome man -who will take hold of this thing 51,200 per month can readily be reslized. I have moved t0 the nonnfly and will seli chesp. Apply to E. C. MOREY, Reaper Black, or 1 : , Atkingon, TIL. Also residonce property woil located. " DWELLING TOR SALE, The Marble-front House, No. 39 Twenty- fifth-st.. with Brick Barn; all mocern im- ovements ; ‘splendid location ; lake front, roperty is uningumbered ond in_good Tee Bir. ill be sold at u.bu&gm. Inquire of . H. & G.C. WALKER, 13 Chamber of Com. For Sele ot 2 Bargain 72x1684 on Wabash-av., between Madison snd Washington-sts. Party Wall on“each side. Prige, SH00 per foot. “This is the most cheapest first-class Business Lot in the mare ot. _Inquire of J. HENRY & JACOB ‘WEIL, 1468 Dearborn-st., Room 3, FOR SALE. 44x113, with building, carner State and Harrison-sta. 40x100 Fourth-ar. 3 Applyto P. O'NEILL, 183 State-st. SLAUGHTER. ‘Brown stane houso, 8'storins and attie, with all modem improvements, for 86,600. Ono-third cash. * - GEO. H. HFSS, 105 Dearbornat. | BUSINESS CARDS. CLOSING-OUT SALE Of tuo larga stock of Street, Shade, Ornemental, Evor- groou, and Frait Tecos, Ornamsaial Flo.ting Shrabs and lancs ot extzomo low prices kt 257 South State-st. Stock 1n fing ecndition for safe tsenspieating. LLWIS LLLSWORTH, Propriotor of DuPags Jouniy Nursories. BUSINESS GHANCES. "BUSINESS. A retiring partner offers Tor'salo ono-balf intercst n an old, wellstablished and proeperons business in Ohicago; £40,000 carh requized. Well worth investigating by par tios: having mecessary capital. Address S 40, Tribune offios. Business Chance. Tho wellkngwa Boston Steam Carpet-Cleaning and e b lkiment, 41 and 46 \Wen: Adamest.,: CFiceeo, Ly, with Uoiler, F: Foor Wagoas, Horscs, Hargiess, tAtzchines, snd all Fistures compléta. Dalr cas of fromn 10 to FE per, gas.. Call oc ac Higkland Park Buiding €0, - T OGeo’ of this Compazy iy remoyed to 8 Washtag- e O o oty FUR BALI O LXOHANGE & Iacga list of j-ke-sliro properiy ia, this beansifal sub- urban tows, cobrecing £uno cholce Diwelling-Housos of modern o2 # ‘Oneor two nice Residencen to, et for tha euanlng. P o s, 1 o e 3 casl ross 34 above. G. REIMANN & 0., Nickel Flaters, Boom 7, Market & Bandolph: Doctors’ Iostruments, Musical Instruments, Sewing Hackino Attachments, Haruess Wiork, vic., piated in tas bost_manger, Cestings propared fad from tha Fougts Tpe nickelteced & ooty P oLoE - REAL ESTATE.,: (e o 1 All those who sre looking for Real Estato, Honses, Stores, Yarms, ote,, for inrastmant. recidence, of any ofder pur- porg shonl end JoeUEIE AT SRR Room 3, 165 Wasningtoaatss Ghcagor o & & o1 Burial Flowers : PRESERVED BY S%‘fi\'}g?l}éi‘ynm u XOI}TEA _LATUNDRIES, LAUNDRY. || said, * to avoid calumny,” to insers the disputed OFIOES-—-128 £ Biganst et 3 w. 13 “Michiganat.; 19 RELIGIOUS NEWS. Errors in the English‘ver. slon of the New Tess tament. Ongm and Progress of the ; Bible-Wofl_;inChinago. Oppressions of Methodist Presiding " ¢ Elders-—Genealogies of : Jesus, ‘Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Church Services To=Day. THE NEW TESTAMENT. KRHORS IN THE COIMON VERSION. Tothe Eduter of The Chicago T'ribuns : Cxicaco, 3ay 15.—Perhaps the most remarka-~ ble case of interpolation in the Common Version Teibune. money from thoss women who cannot go st but who would love to obey their Master and carry the Gospel of peace and comfort to every croature,—to delegate it toa body of Christian ::‘n;in wh‘s!w;ucghdly g0 wih caps of cold , words of Jater, words of chser, garments to clothe, sad That the render may kmow something of-the variety and scope of ths work being done by :Km b‘;n]d‘of‘ ‘]abt:rem. the following is given a8 16 result of the last year’s work—the firs! of the Society’s uiate’nce: : ’Ntr Number of cottege prayer-meetings held. Number of mothers: mastingseeer . ous men and visit themselves, _No report is made of variona oth of kindness and chanty; of individuals arrested in their ways of sin and shame, and bronght to moral amondment snd contrition; of homes ‘made cheerful and comfortable; of the purity end the piety which hava taken the place of rum, ruin, and miserv, Can such a body of womsm workers call i vain upon the Bible-loviug_portion of the publis for so much money and other aid as will kesp it 10 vigorous operation and makeit s blessing tc this great city? Oxzo. - i e THE METHODIST PRESIDING-ELDER- . SHIP, of the New Testament occurs in L Jobn, V-, T 8. |1t i mitor of T Chicaog Zridunes . These vorses read thus: * For there are three that bear record” in heaven, the Father, the ‘Word, and the Holy:Ghost ; and these threa are one. And thero are threo that bear witness i earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the bliood ; and these three agree in one.™ : L The whole of these verses between the word “record” in. the seventh verse, and the words * the spirit ” in the eighth verso are unquestion- ably spurious, and should -be-rejocted. This being the fact, these verses should read thus: *¢ For thers are threethat bear record, the Spirit, and the water, 'and the blood: and these threo sgreo inone.” Thesaid omitted words arenot con- tatned io .tho Binaitic, Vatican and Alexandrian manuseripts, and Tischendorf, Trezelles, Alford, nd-ail other -critical scholars of tho Greek New essament, now omit them. No echolar of the prenent dav will atiempt to de their genu- inevess,: The way. in which”thase 'spurious words became a part. of certain editions nof the Greek New Tes:ament, and thence - trans- Iated 10to the common English version, roay in- tercst your numervns readers ‘who may mot hrppen to be already famulisr therewith. . The first outire printed - Greek New Testament was comploted Jan. 10, A, D., 1514. It is known a8 tho Complutoosian Polyglot.. It was printed in Greek and La:in, dnd derived its fame from Complatum, the Latin name of Alcala in . Spaio, whera it wag printed. ; It was'not. publishe and circa'ated till atont A. D. 1529. It was edited and printed ander tho auspices of o celebrated Spaniard, nomed Fraucis Ximepes de Cisncras, Atcisbiehop of Toledo. It was editad by foar tearned Spaniards, chief of whom was Lopez do Srueniea. 1t Hlustrions patron- died Nov. 8, A. D. 1517, at tho age'of 81, o few months after its Ccomplenon. -~ Its- editors-bad 1o manuseripts, either Greqic.or Latin, of an early date. It pever recaived great adthority. It contiined the spuri- ous words above quoted. Erssmus pablished the'fivéc printed ‘edition of the entire Groek New Testamens in A, Di,-1516. 1t -was done with recitless hasta in order to anticipate the Compla- tonsian Polyglot.. : Soveral editions thoreof were published. The manuscri;ts used by Erasmus are -nearly all .still praserved st .Basel in ‘Switzeiland, where His edition was’ printed by tho enterprising Siss “printer, nanied Frobeo. Erssmus relied mamly upon the Greok manu- senpss then -kmown, -but often’ resorted ta the La'io Valgate. Ile did not.bavo accesa 1o any ecrly Greek manuseripts. . > . Cibes editaon did not contain the disputed words above quoted. For that omission he was 4 Blitesly Gssailod. especially by Stunica, the chief editor of tho Complutonsian Polyglot. He re- plied-that it was ot ‘a"case of omission by him, ‘butiimply a non-addition. In order, however, to appease . his. sssailants he promised, as he werds whenever s :Greek manuscript_was foand whiel contmned them. He published a second edition in A. D. 1519, with tho above disputed wozds omitted. - Ho published a third edition in A D. 1522, which contained the dispated words in & certain Form; but' not just like them as'thoy appear i the Commun Version. * Between A. D. 1519 and 1523, a Greek manuscript was produced from England which contained .these words in & certawn form. It was called and is known by the name, of the Code Montfortianus, and is nuw]pramr'vulintha library of Trinity Coliege, Dublin. .~ i It is & copy of slatc Latin mauuscript, and asesnes but little or 0o authority. Erasmus lid tiot believe the disputed words to be genuins when he published them. He ‘published them t0 lroep bis promise, aod thua did violence to his better- judgment.- - Hencs thess disputed and purions words wera retained and published in ‘subsequent and-varions editions of. the Greek Testament, and from ‘theso editions they were retainod, translated, and publisned in the Com: ‘mon Englieh Version. e The rejection of these words removes one of tho ‘gtrongest proofs of the doctrine of the “Trinity. Altbough such- is ‘the result of their rejection, yot thare are passages of onquestioned gonuinenoss ~found elsewhere in ‘the New Testament which tench and support that wonder- fol mystery called the Trinity. ‘Che fandamental doctrines of Christianity will pot suffer or be ghaken by the*fearless extirpation .of spurions passages; but, on the: contrary, I believe.thay will be confiumed and strengthened. - 2 . In last Sunday's TRIBOWE,: ‘*W.”-asked me certain questions., - These questions, are theo- logical. Lam pot o theologian, snd have not assumed to be; such, and, thcrefore, shall not attempt to discuss such questions. I desire simply, by my occasional communications, to give information concerning the text of the Greck New Testament, and to correct soms manifest errors’ of trauslations in the Commoa English Version. I shall leave theological’ questions to others. - -Cuances H. BEED, | A —— .+ "BIBLE-WORK IN CHICAGO. WHAT THE WOMEN HAVE DONE. e ths Edutor of The Chicago Tribune: Cmicaao, May 15.—Please give room in your columes for a short notice of tho undertakings and doings of the - Christisn women who are en- gaged in Bible-work in this city. Inaquiet ana unobtrusive way they have been at work for the Jast yoar' and more, snd the “Christian public ought to know something of their atigin, aims, methods, and requirements, . Mr. D. L. Moody-imported the plsn: of the work from the Biple-work io England, and in- trustod its managemeat and details to Miss Em- ma Dryeér, who has devoted all ber energiesto it, with much special tact and experience: - - Tt ‘aims to carry the Word of God by the ‘hand of female - visttors “to" the families of the destitute in the lanes .and .alleys ‘of the city, where religions instruction rarolycomes; to visit tho gick ; to Carry assistance to the noedy and desticuto ; to: counsel,” comfort, - sud aid those-in distress and want } to organize mothers® meetings’ and: ¢ottagé prayer-meetngs ; indua~ trial scfi:nls. toloarn girls to to sew ; todo, in gpocial and in genersl, what & Woman's Chris- tian Association sooms eminently fitted to do,— infuge » Christisn civilization into the massen of tho ignorant, belpless, hopeless: population, for whom, in o, greatcity; so_fow peoplo scem. to. b ‘Its methods pre to employ paid female visitors, to go from house to’house, i lanes'and alleys, an4 deatitute tlaces,—liko Sisters of Charity, as’ fadecd: they are,—who, in & sectible, charitable, loving ‘w&y, sball do’ what their Divine Masier sould have His chilaren do, to wnom He has given opportunity and the means of relief. In addition to this personal work,’ the Bible- swork bas a training department, under the Rev. Mr. Erdman. of Jamestown N. Y., ‘w here -the Yisitors are instructed fortheir work, where any’ yotuntsry workers- in: tho city *or from other, places. may. come for instruction.. ‘This i8 & most valuable braach of the work, and onc which. Was especially near-to Mr. Mobdy's thought.: this way, tharonghand jodicions: plaoning will be lwl.’und thda. ‘best material; mll, and al o Omcaco, May 14.—The time is fully come, it seerns to me, when the arrogancy “and abuse of power that hasso long and so generally char- acterized the Presiding-Eldership of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church should be met with em- pbatic disaporoval and contempt. The criti- -clams thas bave been 8o frequently pronotnced against the -extensive authority vested in our College of Bishops are, of course, miataken, tnd, in & Iarge degree, unfair; but bad they been wuttered against the undue power exercised by the Presiding Elders of almost every Annaal Conference througnout our entire connection there aro very few, I apprehend, who would bave taken occasion to contradict them. The firat words of advice I received on entaring an Tilihois Conference, some four or five yeara ago, were to the effect that, it I wished to be fairly dealt with, it would be nacessary for ce to keep on the ‘“good side” of the Presiding Elder, and there are bhundreds aside from myself who have heard the rame cautionary suggestion, and per- hops, in Jarger measure than they expected, found it valuable. A case came under my notice Dot masy montbs 8go, illnstrating in a perfect manoer what 1 have said: 1t appears that s young man of ucquestioned character and edu- cation bad, in the interval of the Annual Con- forence, been roceived and appointed by ooe of these great ecclegiastical magnates to s field of ministerial lsbor. A ’short - time after his appointment, in diecussing with his patron some sabject of very little importance he failed to agree with him ata certain point, and was throatened with immediate dismiesal. On one otber occasion, this- same Presiding Elder re- royod oo of his men very sharply for attompt- ingto write a letter which, for certain good rea- sons he was obliged to write on Suonday, re- marking at the same time that he did not even read higletters—such a3 came to hand on Sun- day—untl Monday morning. ‘Tet minutes after this conversation, at the dinner-table, this same ‘dovoted Babbatarian took from his pocker s lot- tor he had recently received aad resd it aload to the company present. *You say this man is an exception. Isavhe1s not, sad there are hundreds 1n the Methodist ministry, in every section of the land,—did they dare cai! their souls their own,—that conld bear mo faithfal witnese. It has notbeen loag sincs, daring a ses=fon of one of the Eastern o- ferences, s munister was appointad by the Bishop to s certain church, and afterwards changed to another. poi: because oue of tha Presiding ‘Elders foimiag tho cabinet, who could say noth- ing against tic man'a’ characrer or usefuiness, by the vilest kind of insinustions intimated to the Bishoo—who. of course, was not personally acqaninted with the man—that such an sppoint- ment would be-very injudicious: I wish ooe- helf the chicavery and _prostitation of ‘anthority that these infallible heads of the Church are guilty of could take form, and. in sll ita hideousness, stalk through the midst of our entire communion! It has come to be that, in_ enteriog the ministry of the Methodist Church, one must renounce his frac- dom of conscience, aad become o slave to the whims and caprices of ‘a few unscrupulous men. Perhaps I write with some bitterness ; if 80, no one has had groater occasion; bat this I know : the statements I have made are true, and can be fullv substantisted. To the question, *Why do away with the Presiding-Eldership ?”" Iwould sy, Because it is corrupt; because itis Bse- less; because it is a clog to the entire machinery of the Church, and & e to the body that smstaios it. under- stand perfectly that I shall be denounced in a thonsand ways, for what I hava written, but I shall know that, in secret, thoussnds are glad that I have spoken. It may be asked why I do not leave the Methodist Cburch. I have no wigh to leave it, simply because 1t is afilicted by a single evil,—an evil too, which I think is to bs shortly overcome; I prefer to remain iu it, sod hasten, if I can, the destruction of a feature of its polity, obnoxious to the last degreo. I pub- lish this article iu Tz TRIDUNE, because, had 1 sont it to a Church paper, its publicaiion wonld have beon refased me. MrTHODIST. THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS. 5 A CORRESPONDENT ANSWERED. To the Editor of The Chiwcago Tribune: Cr1caso, May18.—Yourcorrespondent, ** W.,” in .lsst Sunday's TRIBUNE, asks of Charles H. Reed three questions touching the genealogy of Josus. ' Lest Mr. Reed should not bave the time or dispomition: to answer the questions, I offer “YV.” the following explanation, compiled main- 1y from the annotations of several old Biblical conitics, who bave long ago examined into, and, I think, satisfactorily settled, the point raised by “W.” We willtake up the questions in their order : . First—Inasmuch aa Matthew deduces the genealogy of Joseph from Solomon, while Luke traces it from Nathan, the brother of Solomon, which of thess ac- oounts, If elther, is inspired 7 Both are correct, 1f we except the names of three Kings omitted from Matthew's list, accord- ing to the suthorized list, but evidently-' thcough o clerical error made in transiaf Matthaw's Goapel from the Hebrew, ia whick it was' writ-. ten, into the Greak ; the ‘name Ahazish in the Hebrew—or Och-0zias in the Greek—the son of Joram, having been confounded with Azariah in the Hebrew—or -Ozas in the Greek—the fourth from Joram. In like manner, and probably from a like cause, the name Jehoiakim, the son of Jo- sins, and the father of Jechonizs (see I Chroni~ clos, itl. : 15, 17), appears to have been omit- ted from tho eleventh verss of the third chapier of Matthew. It does not follow, however, that vlivinah:mflfion was required in making up the genealogy by either Evangelist, as the open- ing chapters of the first book of Chromcles gave themall the information thoy required as -to the esrlier names, and the lator onos- the ' Israelitish tribal relationship and prido - of ancestry possessed. by each family would essily enable them to secure. The point of both genealogies, howerer, is to prove his heirship fiy both lines of descent’ to the Throne, of David, ond his sbility to folfll the predictions recorded in LuzeL: 32, 83 ; Isaiah ix.: 6, 7; and Ezokiel xxi.: 27. " 2 Second—Of what consequence is the goneslogy. of Joneph, o Eaamas ot (oo father of Chr'st, xad bow ‘does bis descent from David ahaw that Christ was ““of the seed of David ¥2 - 5 Much, in the oyes of thoJaw: and we must remember that Matthew's Gospel waa firat writ- ten in Hebrew (eight yeara alter the ascsnsion ot Jun:l). and primanly to the Jewish Church, there being at that time no Geatils Clrarch (the transiatfon into the Greek wa3 not made until thirty years later). By tho Mosaic law, the wife 2nd her children became heirs in due cours2 to the inberitance of the husband (witnees the gtory of Buth and Boaz), and thus Jesus in this way, if in 1o other, becams heir to whatever in- heritance Joseph had in the Throne of David. - " Phrd—1¢ the genealogy of Christ, on the human £ido, was of - sy consequence, why was it not traced fhrough Mary, who was really bis mother? - 5 "It is tracedsthrongh Mary in the genealo; iven by Luke. .While the lineage mwg fin&thw is traced, for the reasons given, from David, through Bolomon, fo Joseph, thatde- where the well-known. NUMBER 265, saribed by Luke (written A. D., 63, maialv for the bemefit of the then numerous Geotils churches and sddressed to a Greek Bishop)is traced through Nathan, another son of David, ts Heli, the Zather of Macy, thus showing tho Gentile churches, first, that Luke at least did oot believe that Jesus had any nearer, fleshly, : male ancestor’ than his fiandflthar Hali, sand, second. that ough the lineage be traced back throngh the fleshly line of the mother, it siill points to Jesas 85 a true inheritor of the.Tbrone of hin father David ; and ** W.” w:ll doubtless remembur thed tho poiat that the Meseiah muat botie son of Davidiamade s strong one by tho Pharisees themselves, and is frequeutly incidootally as Inded to by Luke. According to the received tradition of the Jows, incorporated into théxr Talmad (which pational testimony thers can bo no renson for calliog in question), Heli nas the father of Mary, and_as it was the cus:om of the nations then, including the Jews, not to ad- mit the names of females into their gonealegion, the name of Mary is omitted, and the next ma's in the line, Heli, his grandfather, is taher. The disc oy -.between this' ‘statemens and thas of "Luke iii:23 is only an apparent and not real one. Tg take tue verso 28 it atands, one might reascnably argne that Luke stated that Jesns was (za well a8 was sup- posed to be) the son of Joseph, and it is cer- tain the trans'ators did not. intend it to be so understood. The diference inthe order of the words in the oldest copy of the mauuscript (with probably one exception),—the Vaiican copy,—and jn tho Iater copies’ from which tke recsived taxt is taken, reveals the arror inveter- ated in the “latter. The Vatican copy of {te Greek reads thus : on huios hos enomizcto tcu Joseph, tou Eli. or, strctly translated * beng the som, whilo b was supposed of Jorepn, of Heli,” or moro freely translated, beiug the Son of Heli, altbough he- was suppcsed tobsof Joseph. The * gon ” here answers ogualy 5 well 83 8 Hebrewiam for grandaon or of a direct fon 10 the samo seose in which he is called tie **Son of David;" the mother’s name being ignored. . Geonas F. Wosz. 2 wHY ? To the Editor of The Chicaco 7Trfdune : CH10Ag0, May 15.—Now that the genealogy af Jesus is under discussicn, will Mr. Reed or soma other ‘scholar kindly stats why it ia tuatin the the genealogy according ‘to St. atthew the names of only four women are mentioned, all of them being either persons of questionabls char- _acter or who got husbands by guestiomabls means? - They ars Tamor, who sat in an open ‘glarj by the way to Timnath, and begmled udsh ;© Rabab, “the - harlot, who shsltered the spies in Jericho; Ruth, who laid_her down on the threshing floor by Boad; and Batbuhebu, who played the wanton with David. ‘Why aie their names varaded, snd thoss of ol the chsste wives of Judrh's descendants omitted ? A L ——— ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. . BAIN V8. IZRFCRD. To the Blitor of Tae Chicaco Tribune: . Crxcaco, May 14.—In Mooday’s Tampxs sp- peared a sormon presched the day befors by tia Rev. J. W. Bain, which shows how pettifogging a prescher can be when an honest statoment does not serve his purpose. His subject is the doctrine of faiure punishment, andis an answer to Mr. Brooke Herford’s sermon on ** Common= Seose Coristianity.” 1r. Harford doss not be- leve in the dogma of endiess punishment, and ventured to say 80 in his sermon. ‘I'nis red rag roused Mr. Baio, and he proceeded to gore r. . Herford. Here 15 ‘one-of his conundrums 4 Mr. Brooke Horford says that for God to sul- for the sinner to be eternally migerable is un- just. We ask, How do you know, Mr. Horford 2 Can you comprehend what is right for- ths in- finity, wise, holy, and just Onetodo? . . . Gatber spy namber of criminals together, aod the greater the number the more com- mon will bo their sense that to punish them adequately is uojust.” Here is an mn- called-for insinnation that Ar. Herford is a criminal. Will Mr. B. pleaze state what crime ke bas committed > - Or is he a criminal only in a Pickwickian seose? Mr. Herford said: “It ia not possible for man, in ‘thes briaZ peried of u core-and-ten years, to am suficiently to jeopardize his soul for eternity.” . To which Mr. Bain replies : * We know that, according to human lsw and ths finite sense of justice, man in five minutes cao commit sin enough o forfeis his liberty for ninety-nine years, cr to forfeit his life.” That is true enough'; but what has it ta do with what Mr. Herford sud ? Will Xir. Bain plesse tell how much, ** according to buman law aod finite secse of “justice,” a man wounld have to gin in order to dsserve the punishment of having hot lead poured into his enrs contiun- elly for ninety-nine years, supposiug that ha could live throggh it 2 If the greates: criminal that ever lived were to be senteaced to such s punishment for ono week, or even ono hour, X believe that Mr, Bain bimself could be persuad- ed to enter a mild protest, But this would be very Homeopathio punishment ‘compared te what God (according to Mr, B.) has in store fox sinners when be gots them ints the inke of fire. Some people are ready to condema cruelty and tortare when practiced by man ; but, whon God ,.mlm fiend, it is all right, and. everything it oyely.. 5 Mr. Bain thaoks God that thers are thousands besides Mr. Spurgeon who believe this **fearfal croed.” Well, I have no wish to doprive Mr. Bain of the comfort this affords bim, if he will only refrain from maling falee statemants as to the effect of tt.is dogma on the character of men. He claims that a rejecrion of it **eafnekles the character in warp and woof ; the textare is eoft and loose a8 woolen threads, . . . and men are more like empty mill-bags than pillars Bociecy ;” and that ** A faithful preaching of this dread might save even the fiithy debsuchee, the very learuec, polite moralist and inddel, and some Unitarisos, from making their eternal abods - there.” Where - does Mr. B. get his autbority for these sweepi assertions ? Let us look up some of these * mill-bags.” We will. take Abrahsm Lincoln, Chsrles Smmner, Horace Greeley, Samual J. May, ote., aa speci- mens. When we considor how feabls in warp and woof the character of thess mill-bags were, and what a Pillar of Hercales Mr. B. is, we must admit “this fearfal croed” is » big thing. ‘Whether a preachiog of this “d trotk™ 8avos enybody from an eternal abode in hell oz not, I have no mesns of knowiog. What I would like to know is, does it make men honest and useful 1o this life,and * pillars in sociaty ™ 2 If Mr. B. can show that all men whodo nos pubscribe to his “dread truth " Ez) sre. thisves, swindlers; and rapscallions, and thas all who do subscribe to it are men of uprightness of char- acter,—that iy, pillars,—then I sball baaten to join hischarch and il:xlam s pxudai:ug. 3 RELICIOUS MISCELLANY, THX CHUECH IN QESEEAL. The Baptist City Mission of New York City supports seven,mission-stations, five ministers, three Bible readers, and eight Snudly—u_cboou. The American” missionaries at Amoy are still making & vigorous movement to prevent the bindiog of girls’ feet. Maoy pledges againat ths practice have been obtained. -« A new sect haa recently arisen in Manton, B. L, who teach that three baptisms by immersion will cure any disease, and insure salvation..” Tho converts are £aid to be numerous. The Iowa Confersnco of the Albright IMethe odists has 6,702 members; church edifices, 63; missionary ‘collections during the Inst year, 879,357.28: Sunday-schools, 106; scholara, 5,004, _Osaka, Japan. is eaid to be the most religious city in the workl. bocause it has 1,913 places o worahip. 'Ihgrprsn]entmoda the Buddhiss and Bintoo. There sre 830, inkabitants in Banday, 24 iost., was & great dsy for the Pres- byterian churches in Uuca. Tho Westminstor Clurch _received ~ fifty-nino ; First Chaich, thirty; West Gtica, forty ; and Bethany Charch ® large number. Two Iadies of Glasgow have given $3.000 for the establishment of & Home . for negiected ani suffering children in that city. This waz & dizecs result of an appeal issued by ir. Moody during the recont revival there.. i The Uni#sd Evangelistio Committes of-Glan- oW expecta to raise $10,000 for the eraction of a hall, fi:uwhll.’h ixeligious services will ba bsil. “This Committee has catried oo the work begtin in that city by Moody 20d Sankey. The old Dutch Church property, the block bounded by Nasesu, Wi 7 and Ano streess, New York, including the socms daily prayex-mesting rising