Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1875, Page 2

— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY: JUNE 90, 1875 —SIXTEEN PAGES ihey kiss our bands end very feet as their deliv- ere:s. Go still further back through the buried cen- tenes, end we etend at the foot of the Eryotian Pstamids. Thousands upon thousands of God's ebildren are toiling .n tbe blazing sun under the Iseb of reientleas and cruel tasxmasters. Our hearts are melted with pity at the asd sight of tue fainting and dying maltitade, aod we in- quire the reason of euch av apparently useless Wasteof Ixbor aud treasure. The priests tell as that it ie 10 prepare.4 mausoleum for their dead. We teli toem in reply that the work of the ignorant laborer conid. be ceed to better advantage in beaatifving the earth; thet of the engineer ia diecovery ; and chac of the acholar in developing the ec:ence of navigation that the future might eee the ends of the world united, and the races of the earth merged into one common snd united brotherhood. He saya in reply: ‘“ Take the ides ont of our Cyurch that the embalming of our dead with labor and paina, and the laying them swat in these imperiahable structures, is 5 ase- Jess ceremony, aod oar religion becomes but an empty sham.” It is an empty sham then, we tell him, and we place in his bands also the in- struments which science has constructed to mens- ‘ure and weigh the oniverse. Can we bold him Suiltless if from that moment he does not throw away bis cuperstitiovs,‘and begin hie search for the fac's which God bas, in earth, and 663, and eky, epread oat before him ? Como now down to the times of Christ—s tosn of sorrows and acquainted with grief, who ‘With bleeding heart endeavored to perform for the poor. blind, anc ignorant multitnde in Pales- -tipe the services wo have rendered to the simple Aztecs end the cusiaved Egvptian. What was Eis fate? Anybody who at that time beard His scathing and buroing words to the proud Sonbe and fauatical Pharisee as ect forth in the twen- ty-third chapterof Matthew, ccald have predicted His tate with absolute certainty. He tore’from _ them their masks of guilt and bypocnsy, yotal, maddened by bis trothful and conscisoce-smiting ‘words, they nailed bum tothe Cross. Even then His charity and tove for the crue! and ignorant, as weil as the downtrodden, shove forth in His eweet words, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!” and so He died, to be an example to us for ali time, His hfe was writ ten by ignorant men whose minds were clouded by the superstitions and mythologies of the age in which they lived, but etill the region of bu- manity and the torchings: of the Christ, even wheb stripped of all legends and mythology, sbine forth sa calculated to lift up the down- odden, and bring tha captives out of captivity. What bae been done witb the Crist? He has been made » God bs ignorant priests whoforessw the influence that His teachings and death would have on all the fuiure, and who wished to per- petuate for their own selfial interests the power that the priests of the Jewish Church bad over the muititude. Come sui! jown with me through the centuries, and bebold the ignorant Catholic bowing a: the confessional. ‘be priest ea Porecswed of the secret of his life, and from that moment he is the slave of the priest, bis feJoug biackmailer. His inno- sent pleasures, and even the noble desire to educute bis children at the public school, surround them wits the books and news- papéts of a freo press, are tortured into sins bya priest who educates bim to believe that his abso- Intion can alone cisanse kim from his sins. This is the natural outgrowth of a supernatural rebgion. You may think it auimnocentandcom- meudable matter lo presch a mystical religion (8s yours certainly wif you cannot prove the truth of the miracoloua birth of Jobn and Christ), but the present scd future generations will bold you steruiy responsible for the further Propagation of ignorsece and falsehood. You epeak as though ths church should not be made a lyceum. Since a certain youth of 12 noe confounded the wise dectors in the temple at Jerusalem, it has not ceen thought pradentto allow tne common people any voice in the churches, JI venture to predict tuxt the first church in Chicago that will give the people a chance to be heard within ite walls in opposition to wumistere who coutinuelly make the grossest mistakes iu their cuneeptions and teachings of troth, will be the first to crowd every part of tho butiding. with ap interacted and excited aude ence, the first to pay off its burdensome Gebt, tie first to create a demand at the book-stores for, boos on every con- ceivablo subject, and the first to start the work of the new reformation, the grandest the world hasever known, and upon the very threshold of which we are pow standing. Call to your aid the entire theological talent of the city, and show thet the birth of John and Christ was (or could by avy possibility have been) in the manner indicated in the New Teata- ment, or else be bovest und candid enough to ailow tbat superaatoral relig.o2 ig dead, and should be lad ‘aside wizh’past Paganisw,—and the future work of the miuister and teacher to Joarn and teach that the universe is governed by fixed and invariable Jaws, the anthor of which is the oaly true and livicg God. Pnosrsraxr, THE AMERICAN SABBATH, REPLY TO MR. JAMES RAILEY'S CRITICISM. To the Eastor of The Chicago Tribune: Cmcaso, June 18.—In writing for Taz Tar- UNE the communication published inst Sunday, criticising my sermon, previously reported, on the American Sabbath, Mr. Bailey soems to have had his mind fixed upon only one point in the sermon, and that an incidental one, which yet be caila its ‘‘central idea,” namely, as ne puts it, “that the Ssbbath is ané-seventh part of tim and not the sevesth day specifically im weekly order.” His mind appears to be so filled with the one proposition which be nas been accustomed to maintain, that Saturdey is the only legicimate Gabbatb, that my discussion of the history of Sabbath observance in Europe and America, its relation to our civil and religious liberty, and ite value with reference to the inteiligence and rit- taeof the people and the permanence of our free ivstuations, sums to have been wholly lost. ‘upon bin, Uniy « vision narrowly confined to the Jetter Cau fail to see that the c.mmand, “Six days ebsit thou fabor and do all toy work, but the weventh day is the Sabbath, in it thon shalt not doauy work.” m oteved when men, beginning With Monday aud working six dave, observe Sun- day an aday of sacred rest, Waen Mr. Bailey cate iuty ihm worid aud found Christendom, Wity the erceyuun uf au meigaticaat eect. in practics of reserdiug the Sret daye* av the Curetian g2bbath wise for bum to ue" - Spero Was good Feusnn Cur thet gra, and, when reading the New destament.he fond it recorded that our Lord arose from the dead on the first day of the weck, and thet the sariy Christians were accus- tonied to asaetable for worship and for -bresking Of bread vn Uin drst day of the week, he should have four reason enough to deter him from 14 wacradness of the Lord's Day by the utwusj2 2 snuw tbat men were under obli- gation to etep holy another day of the week. Sir. Gauey ubjects tu what be calls my “in- detiuiteuess in the exposition of the law,” by which, Laurooxe, te oieans indetiniteness with respect tothe tay ef the Sabbath, sod says such “indednitevers, with ite strendant divis- jops of opunen, mnst forever be a hin- drenca tw « cousmentions observance of the Sabbath.” But the Christian world has alwave beau satieked with the observance of tae Girst day of tue «eck, and it is the stickiers for geventh-day obsczeauce who deserve blame for introdaciug tadequitvuses and division of opin- ion. The eucmim & tha Sabbath, thosé who ‘would turn the Lord &#xy into a day of dissipa- tion and czrousal, acg#hving the workingman of his day of reat by taking away ite sacredaess, are well pleased with the efforts of Jews aud Seventh-day Gaptiew to disseminate their opin- ious, and they cheerfully c:xrculate the aocuments pngosted by Mr. Uailey and others on this eub- ect < if it could be of any avail, we would earvestiy ootreat alr, Bailey, and thore who agree with Aum, to lay aside their partisan prejudices, con- sider the sacredness of the Lord’s Day and ita Yalae to working hamanity, and labor with us Weecuse its better observance, Norway A. MILLER, gee PIOUS PICKETING. PICTURE OF THE NOODIITE INQUIATTORS, ‘The Saturday Keview, the staidest and most Precise of essay receptacles, works itself into sumething very like wrath, or certainly indig- nation, over the ccnduct of the followers of Moody, who are but carrying out his priaciples to their legitimate conclusion. Following is an extract: It would eeem that the’gust of American revi winch bas been px over the country, eee Dike the enst wind, pretty well blown itself out, What Was beraided as a great morement for the salvation of the masses has quietly aubsided into s mild afte:- hoon or evening's amusement for the lesa occupied Part of the middle clasas end for s epriniling of tee arietocracy. There cap be no doubt that Moody and Sankey Snd themselres much more com, fortable at Her Majesty's Theatre than they were al the Hall and that they have a more tuansgeable sort of audience to deal with, Itis true thet Gn one occasiun at the Opers-House a misguided vegell ua to imaging that ha ba taste ary oreo" gine that make as much noke ta Mz, Moody, but be caries “a ~ 10 been renher, an incident which ‘rench saturical injunction ; ‘This summary ‘no doubt merved Hi sors to keep their £¢ under control, ahd Dotto take whet BM says too seriously, It shows, moreover, that whatever may have been the naturd of Mesara. Moody and Sankey’s operations dur~ fing their country tour, in London, at Teast, they bave thought it as well to defer to the prejudices of pro. priety. ‘They have, in fact, abandoned their original pretensions, and, instead of attempting to rouse the Jower orders, have dove their best to cultivate the fa- vor of good society. Arrangements are made by which spiritual aspirants of respectable position may avoid the unpleasant crush of the mob at the celestial gates, and tsko their spiritual consolation comfortably in private boxes and reserved Btalls; and the tone Of the performances haa also been adapted, as far as posible, to the exigencies of polite ‘repose. Judging from the femeanor of the company in the Haymarket, we should be disposed to think that the effect of revival services was rather soothing than stimulating : but this ts perhaps in some degree to be accounted for by the fact that apparently only persona eho aro already parfecsty ‘sure of: their own conversion arein tho babit of attending, Anyone woo bas visited the meetings in different parts of the town must have seen that the greater part of the au- dience wae composed of just the sort of peaple who are already provided witn abundant religious minis trations of every kind, while of the classes which are outside the ordinary psleof the church and chapel going world there waa hardly » trace, Yet the pres- ence of the latter would have been the only justifica~ tion which could be pleaded for the preacher's vulgar language and degrading burlesque of sacred things. “Chat persone with any of education and culti- vated intelligence should take delight in bearing the most solemn and affecting subjects diseussed in this atyle must necessarily indicate » depraved and morbid jaste. Bucn people go, not for the sake of grave and ‘elevated tesching, but merely to be tickled in a new way. Mr, Moody, with that practical shrewdness hich be has favarisbly ahown In bis business arrange- ments, is himself perfectly aware of the cause of such success as has attended his performances, What was wantod, he said, at a recent conference on the sub- joct of revivals, was something new. The old methods might all be very well in tneir way, but then they were old and that was enough. Tho world was tired of them, and must haves change. And, be sdded, if the new bait does not eucceed, wa must ‘try some other, and if that falls, too. we muat go ou trying until we find s bait that will do, It is obvious tbat an argument of this kind might be used to justify some proceed- ings of rather a startling character, a8, for lastance, if the preacher was todiscard bia clothes as well as gram- war,and ordinary decorum, and also that a change made for the mere sake of change is apt to waar itself aut very soon. There can be no doubt, however, that this Tethe principe on which the revivalists have been operating, and their bait has been found attractive chiefly by people who have lost their relish for plain and wholesome fare, and are already beginning to dis- cover that the new sauce is getting to bs monotonous too, =» ‘That a consideratis number of persons who have for the moment exhausted other forms of relazation findin these services a means of not unplessantly beguiling their houre of leisure, ie of coursy plain enough ; and some of them may probably derives certain smount of spiritual comfort from the exervises at which they asafat, especially on the days when they find them selves in the company of a royal Princess or a Duch- ess, A sense of social dignity fs thus combiaed with the enjoyment of prospective spiritual advancement, and tbe beat ie got oat of both worlde at a very moder- ate figure, The fact, however, remains that the ser- ‘vices are rather a religious recreation for people who are already comfortable about their souls than a means of awakening hardened sinners, or a stim- lua to practical feligion. There {a no donbt, on the part of Mr. Moody's audiences, plenty of suxiety in regard to the salvation of the world, bat it ta that aort of anxiety which chiefly relates to the impending disastera of other people, There is » well-known story of a revivilist in another generation whose services had been attended with much unction by s lady of rank, and who, in calling to pay his compUmenta to her, happened to express a hope that sbe hed repented of her sins, upon which the lady summoned her husband to put “that man” out of doors, A considerable element in the charm of the revivalist services ia evidently due to a sort of Lucre- tian natisfaction in witnessing from a safe shore the tossing of poor wretches on the stormy waves. The sense of personal security is quicktued and intensified by the contemplation of the unfortunate persons who are at any moment liable to be aubmerged; and, thongh the apectators are no doubt sincerely sorry for the sufferers, aud anxious that they should be saved, yet it may be quostioned whether they would feel their ‘own complacer:t happiness quite so acutely if it were not sharpened by the consciousness that ai least they are quite safe themselves, Itis, in fact, not their own deficiencies, but those of other people, which are constantly in the minds of the elect, or rather of the self-electel. They feel that they are rather reGectors to disseminate and add to the brightness of the light than part of the darkness to be illummmated, Hence the prayers by “three “wives that reason may be restored to tueir busbands;” by 9 “ Christian in behalf of a backs!jding brother,”and 0 on, And this characteristic bas been very strikingly brought out in some of the practices which have re- eulted fram Messrs, Moody and Sankey’s exhortations, We had heard before of the bouse-to-house visitation which bad been organized in various country towns as Anatural and necossary part of the revival aystem j and it now appears that it has been introduced in London, | Bands of Moody and Sankey‘tes prom! about, break into private houses, catechise and insult tbe inmates, and supply 3 cover ror" others persons on. similar ‘pretexts 10 steal the ombrelles and spoons, Caihng at a house in order to inquire after theapirit- al health of the oocupsnts, is not as yet au indictable offense, but if it continues to be ‘practiced in the fashion and spirit in-which it has been taken up by the people.of whom we are speaking, it will become an intolerable nuisance, It 1s, in’ fact, » form of pious, picketing, quite as annoying and un- Justifisble as that of the Trade Unionists, and a gross outrage of the aanctity of what aed to be called tho Englishman's castle, No attempt is made to ascertain whether the visits of these Moodyites are agreeable, no introduction of uny kind is sought, nor ix byen any Rotice given. The sickets are societimes men, but, a8 might be expected, more commonly women, and they allot different districts to themselves as {f by some taght of tecritorial jurisdiction, They knoek at the door, and ask to nee the master or mistress, bat with- ont stating tueir business, In most cases they are civ- ally shown into the parlor or drawing-room, on the supposition that they have really an errand which may warrant their intrusion: and, on any mem- ders of the fanniy appesring, they are assailed with questions which imply. snd indeed almost explicitly procliim, a strong convicifon on the part of the visitors that those whom they are addressing are utterly destitute of ansthing in the nature of religion, aud probably doomed to eternal perdition, uniess they at once change their ways, buy a harmonium snd 4 bushel of hyma-books, and place themselves Lumbly at the feet of the emf nent apostles, Moody and Satkey, It is easy to noder- stand the sort of unpleasant shock which is produced ama quiet household by the apparition of a coup'e of fierce tunatics going round with denunciations of this kand. | It ia true that they would probebly go aw:y ab once if firmly ordered off; but stolld impudenca of the kiid with which theyare armed is a powerful weapon, and is often mercilessly used in the case of weak women, Under any circumstances, the intrusion can hardly fail to be extremely irritating, for even persons of the feast sensitive character do nut care to have admonitions of the most sojemn kind flung at at them by persons out of the street to whom they ure perfect strangers. A certain bond of acquaintance, if ‘not of close and permanent intimacy, is essential os a foundation for intercourse of ao delicate a nature, ‘The whole thing {s, of course, sn itnpertinence of the most glaring kind, This ia not the cage of a quall- fied snd accredited missionary going to the houses of people be may reasonably suppose to be in need of and uot unwilling to receive bis visits, A Mondyite mauisitor is simply anybody who chooves to arsume a rpiritual superiority over the rest of the world, and has a taste for poking bis or ber nose into other peo- ple's affairs, It 1s impossible to suppose that any good can 88 done by this rude aud imtating invasion of domestic privacy, but no doubt it gratifies the spiritusl pridg of those who indulge in it, ‘Tuis system of per- secution has, happily, not been adopted, so far a3 wo are aware, by any other sect, but it is eaky to conceive what would be the state of the world if it were to be- come general, and {f every competing set of religious agitators were to send out its bands of oN Grest deal has been said about the resulta of the re- vival movement, and it is boasted by its supportera that its track bay marked by the symptoms of active religious life. Tt certainly does not appear that in Scotland and the North of England, though minis- tera may have been more busy, magistrates have bad Jess todo: but whatever may have been the effect of ‘the public nervices, there can be Little doubt that the sort of inquisitorial invasion of private life which has in many places followed in their train 1a hardly calc lated to develop Christian chanty, pesend ae kn PURGATORY, GATHOLIO REASONS FOR BELIEVING THR DOOMA. One of the dogmas which most widely separate Protestants and Catholics is that of Purgatory. ‘The hondred millions of Protestants of various denominations deny that the Scriptures teach the doctrine of a state of existence after death equivalent to what is uoderstood by the term Purgatory; while the two hundred millions of Catholics sccept the dogma as true, and profeay to beliave it. It is so long since the question has been dis- cussed in Protestant pulpits that comparatively few of this generation appear to know the basia on which the belief rests in the minds of Catho- lics. The following communication, from s gentleman of Catholic sentiments and scholastic attsicmonts, seems to present the necessary in- formation on the subject. It is 350 years since all Protestant sects rejected the Purgatory dogma: 5 ’ Tothe Editor of The Chieaoo Tribune: __ Aware that the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory isone which 1s little understood by that well- known individual, the general reader,—s being, in this age of printing-presses and newspapers, to be found everywhere,—I beg leave to state, in your columns, what it is as Catholics conceive it, and what are the grounds of the Catholic’s be- het init. The lines of Dante, in which he sings of Pargstory as tho place Ore Yumano epirito si purges, E di sare al ciet diventa degno, are well known to all! readera of that immortal Poet. Longfellow has faithrally rendered them ; ‘Wherein the human spilt doth purge itself, And to aacend to Heaven becometh worth, ‘The definition of the bard is not a bad ons. It eeems, however, that Catholics do not hold agof faith that tory is a place. The Latin Purgatorium, from which it is ger:ved. means a Place of purification, but it bas a secondary sig- nification,—that of the state of the individual Guring the process of purification. And all that is obligatory on a Catholic to believe concarning Vurgajory is, that there is a Purgatory, aud that the souls detained there are aided by the prayers of the faithful on earth. ° By Catholic theolo- Gikos it ts spoken of and Written of as the: con ditign after death of those souls who have .do~ ‘parted this life not pure enough to enjpy imme- diately: the Vision of the Deity, and yet “not de- prayed enough to merit the tormenta of everlast- ing punishment. The sins of the eouls detained” in Purgatory have, according to the teachings of the Catholic Church, been forgiven ; bat ths for- giveness bas not yet been followed by satisfac- tion or penance. Hence, Pufgatory is § middle state. Itis noty according to- Catholic theology, a state of probation’ but of grace and of penance.--Tho souls thera ara .assared _ af. eternal happiness, althongh they do not yet en- joy sth Mae a ace i ‘The chief ground in the mind of the Catholic” for bis belief in Purgatory is, that the Church teaches tt, Purgatory ta a Catholic tradition, and tradition in the Catholic Church is aa authorita- tive as are the Scriptures. The word tradition is used hore in its theological signification.” It is by tradition thatthe kaowledge ‘of Christian doctrine is transmitted from generation to gen- eration. Christianity with Catholics is not an. abstraction. It i3a something definite and cer- tain, and which can be kriown with définiteness and certainty. ‘It is objectivetrath. it is God’s eternal, unchanging word, communicated by the Creator to thé creacura throngh the medium of a Divine Person. Tne successor of that Divine Person on earth, as religious teacher of the human rece, is not a book, the larger portion of which oxisted before him, but an orgsoization of living men, supernaturally aided, to whom Christ gave His ‘promise that He should abide with them forever, and that the Spirit of God shonld teach them ati truth necessary to salvation. That this Supreme, ever-present Teacher incul- cates the doctrine of Purgatory ; in otber words, that that dootring bas been ‘handed down by tra- dition in the Church,—is sufficient reason for the Catholic to believe 10 it. : Catholic writers admit that the Scripture is not aa explicit on this part of their creed as on most others; yet they support it by various pas- sages of Scripture, in some of which they claim there is an intimation of it, while in others it is | assumed as- oxisting.: ‘One of tho passages most frequentiy cited in support of the doctrine of Purgatory is froma book not accepted by Protestants, but embraced in the Catnolio Cauon, the Second: Book of Machabees. We there read, Chapter 21, verses 43-46: “And, making & gathering, he sent 12,- 000 drachms of uilver to Jérusalem for sacrifice, to be offered for the sins of the dead, turating well and religiously concerning the resurresi. sa; . it 18 therefore a holy:aod wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loo.e1 from sins.” It is inaisted that this is prot etsv'ute of the practice of praying for the dead unger the Alosaic flaw, Judas Macha- beus evidently did not introduce the custom, It is mentioned in the Book of Machabees ag one already established and wel! known. It is not to be presumed that 12,000 drachms of silver could at that tune be raised for such a purpose, ubless the practice of praying ior the dead was recognized by the contributors as 2 “holy and a wholesome” one. But praying for the dead supposes a Purgatory. It were uselees to pray for a being hopeleasiy and everually damoed, and equally useless .to offer up suppilcations for souls enjoying everlasting bappiness, Not so of soula ina stave of ‘purifi- cation simply, that their sufforings may be shortened. iam Phe chief passage in the New Testament in- which, according to Catholic theologians, the doctrine of Purgatory is assumed, is Matthew, Chapter 12, verse 32. We there read—the quota- tion is from the Dousy version: ‘And whoso- over shall speak a word against the: Son‘of Alan, it shall be forgiven bim ; but he tnat shall speag, against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world nor in the world to come.” . St. Augustine, e De, and 8. Gregory, gather from thase that some sins may be - forgiven in the next world, and that, therefore, there in. a Pargatory, or middie place or condition of souls. To this these Fathers are followed -by ali the others. Among the ancient Christian writera «whose works and utterances give evidence of a belief in Purgatory, are Clement Alex., Origen, Eusebius, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Naz- ianza, Gregory of Nyses, Epipbaoins, Chrysos- ‘tom, Theodoret, Dionysius Areop., Euatratius, Tertullian, Lactantius, etc., etc, It would not be difficult to cite passages from their works that give proof of their belief in Purgatory. The Cathohe doctrine of Purgatory is em- inently reasonable. To this there is very .bDigh testimony. from . eminent. .-wri- ters nov Catholics themselves, Mr. Alger, aothor of a very interestuug work on the Doctrino of a Future Life, says: {Traces of a belief in Pargatory early appear among the Christians. Maay of the gravest Fathers of the first five’ centuries naturally concoived and teught—as is indeed intrinsically .cossonable— that after death souls will be pnoished for their sing until cleansed, and then will be released from pam. . . . The conception of Purga- tory as held by the early Christians was merely the just and necessary resuly of applying to the subject of future puuishment the two ethical |- ideas that punishment saould - partake of degrees proportioned to guilt, and wat it’should be restorative.” It is needless to add that Catholics do not agree wich Mr. Algef in his yew of the origin of the belief in Purgatory, nor in-some of hie deductions. . AMr. Bacinz-Gould, in his Origin aud Develop- mout of Religious Bolief, writes on the Catholic system of & future state: “To those who die without a care for anything better, -thore is an eteruity of protracted’ staguation, embittered by consciousness of loss, by envy aud pate. To those whosa souls, however undavelooed aud marred, retain some hopo and desire of botter thinga, a gradual purgation, a atruggling of the apirit to appreciate what it knows to be good, ‘but which jars against its disordered appetites. To those who have pat forth a:l their talents to usury, Wave,on wave of varied and unending beauty, flowing from the inexhaustible fountain of all perfection.” = Cc. —_+—. CANADIAN PRESBYTERIANS, UNION OF THEIR FOUR BRANCHES. The Agsembhes of tne four. Prasbyterian “bodies in Cunada on the 15th inst, consummated sn organic union, the negotiations for which were begua two or three: years aco, the parties being all the Presbyterian bodies in Canada, to |° wit: the Canada Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with tbe Chusch of Scotland, the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the Lower Provinces, aod the Synod of the Presbyterian Church io connection with the Church of Scotland of the Mantime Provinces. The firat-named ody is the largest, and was formed in 1861 by the union of Canada branches of the Free and the United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland. It hsanine- teen Presbyteries, 319 ministers, and 51,612 com- municsnts. The second Church ‘in tne liat has upward of 14,000 communicabis. The Charphes in the Lower Provinces are amall bodies. The United Church, which ia to be ‘called the Pres- byterian Church of British North America, will bave 650 ministers and more than 90,000 com- municants. The basis of anjoa, which hag bean duly ratified by the “presbyteries, kirkt, ses- sions, and congregations,” declares: First—That the Scriptures of the Ola and New ‘Testaments, being the Word of God, are the only in- fallible rule of faith and manners, Second—That the Westminster Confession of Faith shal form the subordinate atandard of this Chureh that the larger and shorter catechisin shall be adopted by the Church. aad appointed to ba used for tha tn— struction of the peopie, {t being distinctly underatood that nothing contained’ 1m the aforesa{d Confession or catechism regarding the power ard duty of the civil magistrate shall be held to sanction any principles or Yiews inconsistent with {nll liberty of consctence in matters of religion. : Third~That the government and worship of this Church shail be in sccordance with :the recognized principles and practice of Presbyterian Churches, 35 laid down generally inthe “Form of Presbyterian Church Government,” and in the “ Directory for the Prbkic Worship of God.”" =. : In the supplementary articles is expressed the desire of the Church to hold fraternal inter- course with othar Churches, and its willingness to feceiye miaiétera and probationers from churches of the same doctrine, goverment, and discipline as itself. This is the ‘second ‘import- ant union movement among the Protestant Churches of Canadas within o year. Last Sep- tember the anion of the three’ Methodist.bodies was formally consummated and # largé atid‘in- fuential Church formed thereby. : Ripey paca eae, a THE IRISH CHURCH, =. DANGER OF ECBIsM. The completion of the work of. revising the Litany of the Irish (Disestablished) Churoh bas not been followed by entire approval of the work, During the debates Archbishop Trench gave adtice that in the event of the onligsion of part of th3 Athanasian Creed he shonld “bi other choice but to decline” the uss of the new Prayer-Book. The action ‘which’ gives tost offense to decided Churchmen is described in the preface to the Prayer-Book as follows: With respect to the Athanaaian Creed, comm: calied, wo bave retained it unaltered pn oar fore mularies; but We have directed that only thal tof it which is strictly speaking a profession of faith shall be recited an ‘certain dars, instead of the Apostles’ Creed, declaring, nevertheless, taat in this order tt is not our meaning to withdraw the ‘witness which the Church is ever bound to bear (and which we here ole emnly bear) to the Incarnation ‘of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the obligation which ifés on evéry man, sabe regards’ his“ everlasting silvation, to dcquaint Dimself, sccording to hie abinty, with sii Uiat God bas revealed, and to atcops with faith and humility, called 5 |} in his De Crmiate’ So e over shall. lenth sed to him out of" the, ‘Word of Goaaad proved by plesr and certain warrany A. meeting bas been held in Dublin, with th Archbishop in the chair; of'¢be opponents of the action of the Synod. It was resolved that ‘an sspocistion be formed called ‘The Athanasian Cread Defense Ansocistion,’ having for ita ob- jects: To bring before~the--membera of -the Church of. Ireiand the character and conge- nences. of . coprea taken by the General Synod in the matter of the Athavasian Creed ; aad to adopt all conatititiond! means to arrest final legietation thereon.” * wg TE ete ‘Atteation ‘bas been catied to the fact that the American Protestant Episcopal Church bas whol- | fy omitted the Athanasien Creed‘ both from 18 Liturgy and-ite Articles, and that, therefore, tho Pan-Anglican Synod, ‘which meets iv 1877, will ‘be composed in part of Bishops who occupy the position on this question of the irish Obareh. “~ A PREACHER ON THE, PRESS, . | WHAT THE REV. 3. ‘M. GREGORY .THINES,OF DAILY PAPERS. — Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, * Des Mores, Ja., June 15.—Yesterday ptter- hoon the Rev.,J. M. Gregory, LL. D., President of the Illinois State Indagtnal University, de- liyered a lecture to the State Baptist Ministerial’ Tastitiite; in which He uttered “the'“most bitter” and scathing philippios against the secular daily newspapers, His subject was, ‘ Préparation for Pulpit-Work ; "bis topio, “ What £0 Road.” He said: Neyer read the daily papers. No man of culturé or literary ambition, or who desired to improve bis mind, would do it, He would sg soon ask his servant to empty a pail of slop on bis head every day.from the chamber-window as to read the daily papers. They are mado up of short’ paragraphs,—mere hash... They have no great, leading thongbts in them,—~nathing to in- epire the mind; and their influence is per- nicious. And so he went on, until be finally, in substance, - declared that no- body should read the daily. . papers. .Jf they desired knowledge, get a book. Then an hour could be spant with a continuous subject to think about. Then the mind will-go back tothe book. With adaily paper, you read it a fow moments, and you never take it up again, because there is nothing in it to feed the mind. The remarks of the reverend gontleman rath- er surprised his sudience, which was composed of people who read the papers, and know what ia going on in the world, mithout waiting for the newa to come through the pages of a book, Perbepa the gentleman bas forgotten, or per- haps he does not know, that, under the very shadow of the institution over which he pre- sides, has lived a man, now dead, who, through the columns of Tae Tarsune and other papers, has dijaeminated mora valuable, practics! in- formation upon agricultural and isdustria! par- auits; tedding to elevate lus kind, than has come from within the walls of that institatioa since, by the power and influence of the press, it was inaugarated and secured an existence. Had the speaker qualided his remarks and said the Chicago Times was peruicions, or that ex- clnsiye newspaper-reading was bad, all would ‘have said Amen; but be did not. —— RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY, 2 * ‘THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The first Reformed Episcopsl Church in the State of Ohio bas been organized at Put-in-Bay. Prof. Swing preacties the dedication sermon in the new Presbyterian church at River Park at 4 p.m. to-day, A special train Jeaves the Pacific depot, corner Larrabee street and Chicago ave- nue, at3 p.m, reached by the Larrabee street cars on Clark street. St. Paul's. Church, Indianspolis, is bereafter to be the’ Cathedral Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Indians. By: agreement the Bishop ovtaing. rights and privileges equal to those con- ferred by. any Cathedral organization in this country, tf not in tha world. 2 The Board of Education in the Presbyterian Church was charged in the General Aasembly, at. Cleveland, O., with extending.aid to some ‘theological studeats who regard cigara and two horges, ope of them with s gide-saddle, gs‘nécas- sary to a theological education. E Since. the reunion of the two Presbyterian branches, the Board of Church Erection las en- abled 902 congregations to complete their houses of worship free from debt, thus securing church property worth $4,550.00, aod affording church accommodation to'307,000 worshipers, ‘In the-work of the Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church during the year just closed, ninety-threa new organizations were effected. thirty-eight made self-supporting, and 5,533 have professed conversion. -The ‘number .of home missionaries employed was 1,123. . As the Rey, Mr, Street, npon whom the noon- day services st St. Peter's chapel have hitherto principally rested, is about to be absent far some time from the city, the responsibility of either sustatoiog or discontinuing them will now de- volve upon the rest of the Episcopal clergy. ~ Avew monthly paper called the National Protestant has been started in Now York on the basis of intense opposition to everytping Cath- oe, The firat number devotes considerable space to various controversies with the New York Herald, which seems to bo. injudicions at least. On the question of liconsing women to preach, Bishop Bowman, of the Methodist Episcopal Churoh, is reported to have satd,-at an Annual Conferonce, that + the whole tenor af the Disci- pline is against, tho licensing! of women to preach, and that license to preach implies the right af ordination.” . 3 Atths annual Convention of the Diocese of -Ohio the following tesolution was referred ta the Committee on QOsuonss * Resolved, every female communicant of the Prot Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio. over 18 years of age, shull be, and ia hereby madé, eligible to hold offica in the respective Vootries of every pariah in this -Diocesx” Twenty clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church haye left the old Communion and jomed the Reformed’ Episcopaliana’ during the past year, Three were connected with the Diocexo of Virginia, two with Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, and Kentiicky, snd oné each with Maryland. Tennes- see, Alabama, Aipany, Masgachusgtts, Long Iel- snd, Indians, Colorado, Kansas, Central New York, and North Carolina. eh eEe Father, O'Reilly, of Bt, Panis, in conyereation with a reporter lately, said that ho believed that in ten or fifteen years henco we would have four or five additional Cardinals, one on the Pacitic Coaat, one in Baltimore, one in St. Lonis, it being the central city, and one um the Northwest, probably Chicago. ‘The first in point of time will be Baltimore, sbout which, be esid, there would be very little delay. The next would pe 8t. Louis, then the Pacific Coast and the North- west, and after these would come others. "Phe activity of the’ Ronian Cathoite Church in the South, especially in thie Cotton Scates, writes the Rev. J. W: Lee tothe Northwestern Advocate, « hag given thém since the war an increase of at ledst 70 per’ centin their chugch and achool work; Under the direction of ‘Fythor Byan, the poet laureate of the ‘lost cause,’ and one of the most successful Jesuits in the South, they have, by missions and other megns, converted or per- verted scores ot Protestants, In Augusta, Ga., aloné the number of such codverta is set at 200.” During tho recént yearly meeting of the En- gliah Society of Friends in London one of the most striking usagea of the Society was aboliah- ed, namoly, the nlsory support of the poorer members by the Society. Practically, the rule has been found to prevent the incresss of mombership. Mr, John Pright, MM. P., took an active part in procuring the change. ‘Ihe statis- tuba of the Society in Edgland are ag follows: Regular members, 14,199, against 14,080 last year; attendants on. worship, not..members, 1,767, an increaxe of 517. - Madizon, Ind., is-in the midst of s revival that ig ssid to have no -paraliel in. its past history, Over 750 souls have professed conversion, the grest majority of them young men and young Women. . Some two weeks ago afew young men of the Young Men’s Chtietian Association went to that city to bold a convention; expecting to remain about three days. The work commenced at once, and bss been growing in interest from aay to By Ovsn-ale mmeptings are held t¥o or ree times a day, a8 no church can contain multitudes that aagemble, . the . , FEMALE EDUCATION IN IXDTA, ‘The following ih an essay sent home by ons of the miasionartes in India.“ Shé tafe, “Tha fol- lowing essay ong. of the girls of the firat class read at our examination. She is only 14, and thia is her frat attempt. Remember, too, that it is in a language foreign to ner": ‘In ancient times there was 401 the women of India, but in. course of timo this even ied away, obinion of the ple of this coun- try is, that women should got be edtcated. Afi that ahe need to know ix how to wait on her husband, cook ‘his foot, ete. Book learning,” they aay, “isa very dangerons thing for woman ; i¢ will make tham prond nd lazy to:lehrn to read and write, and to know some- ng of the’ great world from which’ thay “hive” go been abut out; they will no longer be willing to stay in their close Louses, and to live and work a5 wd want them to.” But this“fecling among the men of thts country hia been changing very much for some yeart, past, A many are ty willing bi Eisious to have: thetr daughters: sisters, and ives edutated, -Schools hays bedn apened in many places eduestion among reda of'gtrls and women ste, Being Dy deschets from ‘England and America. ‘What a happy. i will maketu:the condition of the women Look” at tha Hindoo woman ss she ‘many’ years, abo is a ‘mero baby, mute’ to be 3. slave to her husband, not daring to disobey his command tanght solook up to himasagod whom she should serve with fear; living in dirt, wretchednens, and {a norauce, aitting on tha mud floor: eating after her husband whatever he chooses toleave; seeing her ehildris gra gp in the sabio\wretched condition, There is no‘daily gathering around the family altar; 3o gound of isle voices repeating softly. “ Cur Father who art in Heaven; for the poor fo know that. God: ‘is » father to ber. and. hér ut tlo--ones, Her only “idea of -God- is thet be is s terrible being who is constantly requiring offerings and sacrifices to keep off death from herself and her family. But now that the blesa- Ing of education has been given to women, wa begin toes alittle brighter picture. We see the little girl in spbool not only learning to read and write, but fobs neat and clean in her dress, bor ap dell her 3 to be it, wnsel- fab, loving, ced useful Whes ate has bopi's um raf years in s@ool, and has-‘becoms Atted to be Fine ‘Goa meant pooh to-bey—-@ belpmneet: to man,— ahe is married, and goes to make a comfortable, happy home for ber husband. She is happy because ber educstion bas made her s companion for him and not a slave; her education at school’ has not unfitted her for work at home; her children and everything about her sre as cleau and neat os.ahe can make them} her children are taught to love God aa the(r Father, and every morning father, , and children knee! together and worslup Him 2s the’ giver, of al) thair blessings, We hope that female education will go on Jacreaging in this besutiful Isnd of ours wll every child bere aball aye the same blessings which we are, enjoying ; and we hope, if out lives our spared, to be allowed the privilege of giving to others the {nstraction and care which | fete bes carefully “Leones ‘upon’ in Dehra Christian Girl g- herr é ‘The gchoo! of which the above pupil is°s mem~- ber the pnet year numbered 116. Mise —— has the entire charge of the boarding and clothing departments, and of the school, with. the aa- aistance only of one young, inexperienced girl, together with tho monitors or older. girlsin the school. Bewides ail thia, she bas been obliged to write her-own text-books. The punils learn and were éxamined in English, aud stood aa high, she enys, os girls of the same age in thia country. JEEFEDSON PARK FRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Cuycago, June 20.—Ever since Prof. Patton accapted the. pastorate of Jefferson Park Pres- byterian Church, the attendaoce bas heen steadily increasing, and Jarge accessions have been ‘made to the ‘membership of the church: We hear dismay haa arisen among tho rulers of the Third Church on | agcount of some of their prominent mem- bers having joined Jefferson Park Church, as the recent departures are bat tha prelude to & " much larger exodug. Thea prospects sre thst a handsome church will ere long take the place of the unpretentious structure now used as 8 place. of worship by the congregation of Jefferaon Park Church.’ The lot belongs to them and they are free from debt,—a state of things much to be desired. by some of. oar city, churchea,. The eburch is supported by voluntary contributions, and the'seats are free. -They pay all expenses that this ia the true Scnptural weekly, believing method. feast Bia f : _Tpe Sacrament will be dispensed in the church upon thé second Sabbath of July, and persons desirous of uniting with this promising congre- gation shonld come forward at an early day. ~ ~ PRESBYTERIAN, —_—. PERSONAL. - ‘The Rev. Dr. Knox.jof New York, ts making a considerable stay in Chicago. ‘“ ‘The Rev. J. E. Storm wae ordained by # Con- gregational Council at Lockport on the 9th inst. Sermon by Prot, Fisk, of Chicago, ‘ The Rey. B. G: W. Hall has recently taken charge of the M. E, Church at Desploines, and ig calling together the acattered forces. The Rev. A. M. Piper, of the Chicago The- ological Seminary, is spending his vacation’ at Dougias, Mich. looking: up anew church. -- The . Rev. Hr. Humphrey, pastor df Cal i Pragbyterian Church, Philadelphia, hag accepted: the Professorship in Lane Seminary, to which he was lately ¢lected.<- | OV a wae The Rav. C. G. Denaging; member of the North Carolins M. E. Conference, has been iu the city during the past week, sod addressed the minis; ters at their meeting on Monday. = Bishop Bedeil, of the Episcopal Diocese -of Ohio, is still at Rome, with but littie changé ip. ins, health. “The physicians agree that” tronbJe8 arise from nervous exbanstion. The, Adems Street Baptist Chugch, of Peoria, |: has excluded Herbert H. Mills, and withdrawn hiy Mcense to‘presch. ~The cause pppears to be: Mr. Milts’ “ giving way to liquor,”: gs the official notice phrases it. ve eae oe he |, Lhe Southern Presbyterian -Churoh, within s "short time, has lost by death several of her lead- ing men :. the Rev. Gilbert Sfotgau, D.D:, aged 84; the Rev. J. W. Phillipa; the, Rev. Al: M> Coran, in the 8ith year of his age;-and: the Rev.-Dr. J. C. Bayliss,—have.all gone to their eternal rest, following each other in quick suc- cession. e ee. = The Rey, John O. Foster, of St. Charles, was chosen by the State Sunday-Schoa! Convention: af Alton to represent the mteresta of that Con- vention in the First District, comprising the Counties of Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, ‘Dupage,’ Grundy, Jo Daviess, Kendall, Lake, Lee, Mc- Henry, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, Will, and Winnebago. iy — The Rey. John Gordon, former pastor of tho Western Avenue Church, of this city, has re- ceived and accepted a call to the Olivet Baptist Church of Montreal, and has left, with his fam- ily, -for his now field of Inbor. “The Olivet Church is a new buf strong body in means and influence, and is engaged in building one of the finest Protectant houses of worship in Moatfeal. Itis located in the western part of the city, which is growing rapidly. ° - Lord Shsftabury bas expressod a very high opinioy of Mr, Moody. At a meeting of the Churck Society of Loudon recently, he axid ne was thaukful to God that Mr. Moody had not been educated at Oxford. Ho (Mr. Aloddy). had a wonderful power of getting ac-.‘14 bearts of men, and, while the common peuple: heard him. gladly,- many persons of high station bad been greatly. strack. with the marvelous simplicity of his preaching. The Lord Chancel~ Jor of England had said ta him, *- The simplicity of that man’s preaching, the clear manner in wich be sets forth salvation by Onrist, ia to me the moat striking and delightfal thing I ever knew in. my life.” His Lordship expressed the opinion ‘that “Mr, Moody is no fanatic.or mere enthusiast, ae ; - BREVITIES, “Goté to meet his nocle on his mother’s side.”"—Feceng obiluary, » John Heary wanta to kt} Peaimist remarked, ** Lord, inak end,” he had any. reference tos hard-tro! saddle-horse. - -° > “Ma,” waid a small boy, spprosehing his mother, and exhibiting unmistakable symptoms of sevore pain in the bowels, “do green growin heaven?” > oF “Dar! de great git-ap-in-de mornin! day dohe come!” said an aged colored brother, the other night, when the lightning. strack a church at Vickeburg, Miss., filled With colored people. Our 2-cent, and §-cent pieces have the mottd “In God we Trust,” put our pew 20-cant piece Hssn't. When a man gets that waalthy be don't propose to trast anybody, you know,—Cincin- whether wher thé Children should be. geen and not heard,” quoted Mrs. Jones ta Jobnpy the other night, Shea he ie) too noisy after being put to bed. ‘onnny, who can see 8 point, immediately kick the clothos off, but Foululn't say his orayeras ee A pious minjeter in South Carolina, but a great belicver in certain weather signs, was asked to petition ‘thé, Throne of Grace for re- fresbing showers. He replied: °“ My friends, will dg ‘86, but. ibis not going to rain till the moon phapges!” e Ti consequehes of the’ Hard times; ‘a Noiris- | ! town young man was compelled to toss up a cent to- decide whether to give up-his pew in chyrch or stop smoking. Fortnnately the cent came down in favor of retaining the cigars. It ig thought he would have tossed the second time if ft had bot. ” i a when the preacher mi ed down toward him, palling an A8-inch bowie-knite. trom his boat- i ie : ‘ 2 Hobe was ongo stricken with what everybody supposed to be his Inst sickness. He'called his son John to hié hedside,. snd gaid ip a husky yoiee : “Jolin, when I am'gono I wish my death to be published in the papers... Oh, Joba, will you put in the words I tell you?“ ~“Oh, yes, father," aid the niourning sen. ell, John, put in-the papera thet I was the, sickest man that ever died” oF este tle Sunday-sehoot-teacber: ) Samed. how did God know that Adam bad asten the apple in the gar- denof Eden?" James:.'*Du-00, suze; praps he seed the skin layin’ under the tree.”* ‘each: Married when |, ‘Bat why should he carae Adam‘ so for ing § single apple?” James: ‘Waal, now, tedchiey, that’s & sticker, and I don't’ seo ‘thou his apple crop was, oncommon short that year,” 3 ors Rails County (Mo.) Record: A gentleman re- siding near Perry, this county, went to church recently, and before starting was requested very “earnestly by his better baif-to be ‘sure and re- member the text. The textwas: ‘An angel came down from heaven and tooks five caal fromthe alter”. Before.he got home. the text had slipped his memory. When his wifé what the text washe answered t ‘There was an Indian céme down fron New Haven and'touk- & live colt by the taif and pulled his nead ont of the halter.” While preaching the other day, a Roman priest turned in his discourse to make a very tender appeal on behalf of & poor msn with a lsrge family that needed the immediate assistance of his hearers. He portrayed the necessities of this family in such pathetic” strains as to move his audience in tesra, and then said: “Such is the exigencies of this caso that I will ‘stop here in my sermon pid take up @ collection.” He @eacended from the tribune and passed the bag around among the people, who, being greatly moved by his appeal, dropped in the dire very hountifully : but on returning to his place, he emiliogly said: “ This poor man is the Pope!” Mrs. Fawcett, ia her new novel, tells of 3 pre- covions infant who déveloped s marvelous origi- nality in extemporaneous prayer. When she said her-prayers a¢ her-motber’s knee, haviog been told that she was not to learn any form of prayer, but to ask from her heare for whatever she most desired, she prayed for “a red cloak wiv yolvet. bottons, ‘xactly like Amy Grey's. “: Vere is anover at ve shop.” Then, when instructed not to aak for material, but for spiritual blessings, bear ipter-. pretation of ‘a’ spiritual blessing was that there might always ba short sermona tn church. When she bad ecarlatina, ana her mother had begged her to pray for wer recovary, she having beep told that when she was heginning to get better her skin would peel off, and that when it was all off she would be quite well, joined her little hands in bed and said in a soft voice, *‘O dod, peel me quick.” ee tee GHURCH SERVICES, PRESBYTERIAN, ‘The Rev. D. J. Burrell will preach at Weatminster Church morning and oventng, Morning subject; © Answering Our Own. Prayeis,” Evening subject: Man Created in the Image of God.7 é. —The Rev. H.T. Miller, of Lockport, N. ¥., will ‘preach mornmg and evening st the Sixth Church, com ner of Vincennes aga Qak avenues, —Prof, Francis Patton will preach -morning and evening at Jefferson Park Church, corner Adama and ‘Throop streets, i ~The Bev. J, Monro Gibson will prezch morning and evening at the Second Church,. corner of Michi- gan avenue snd Twentieth street. * : —The Rev, Albert Bushnell will preach in tho Fighth Church, corner Washington and Robey atrezta, at 10:50 a.m.’ The Rev. George Daffiela, D.D., of Ann Arbor, will preach at theeame place st 745 p.m, -—The Rev. J. W. Bain will preach at the United Chureh; corner Monroe and Panlins atreets; at 10:30 a, Mm tTeher ME MeRaig will preach st ths) Ninth : at -the Church, Elis avenne, near Thitty-coventh street, at 10:45 a, mo, and 7:4: 5 P. MO. —The Bev. Arthur Swazey will preach at 10:30 s, m. at the Ashland Avenue Church, corner Ogden avenue and West, Washington street,’ Subject; “Signs and jor a) ‘The Rev. GC. L.. Thompson will presch at 10:30.a- im. af the Fifth Church, corner Indiana avenue and erat treet, “Subject; “A Manly Beligion for fen.” a EPISCOPAL, eg s_Service will be held morning and evening at the Cuareh of Our Savior, comer of Belden and Lin- coln avenues, morning and evening. ane Rey’. N. Lugon will officiate at the Church of the J any. morning and evening. etie hor Dr, Goskaaa ‘will “Oficiats ot St, Stephen's Church, morning and evening. —The Rov. Dr. Powers preaches as usual at St, Jobn’s Church, Ashland avenue, Morning subject: “The Meaning and Ministry of Tesrs.” —The Rev, Francia Mansfeld officiates morning and evening at the Cuurch of the Atonement, corner. of ‘Washing vind, Robey streets, & tthe ie Peary wall ofictateat All Baints? "Rev. H.G. Perry wil Charcirmorning sud evening. . —Thg Rav. K, F. Kerfoot, of Evansville, Ind., will officiaté at the Church of the Ascension, corner North LaSalle and Eim streets, Holy Communion at 7 a, m.; morning prayer and litany (choral) at 10:30 4. m.; erenaong (choral) at 7:45 p. mi ~ine Rev. HO; Kinney wil oficiate at St. James Church, corner’ of Cass and’ Huron streets, am. 5 —The Bev, Herbert Smythe will officiate at’ tho Memorial Chorch, Indiana avenue near Thirtteth treet, at 20:45 '2, m, and 7:45 p. m, i —Full Cathedrat service at the Cathedral of 8S. Peter and Paul, corner West Washington and Peoris streets, af 10:40 a. m, and 7:30 p. m, Foes ~The Rev. Richard Hayward, of Grace Church, Balttmors, will officiate at Grace Church,- Wabsah avenue near Sixteenth street, at 10:45 a.m, and 8 p. mo. —The Rev. H, C. Kinney will officiate at 10:45a, m. and-7:20 p. m, atthe Church of the Holy Communion, Soutb Dearborn between Twenty-mnth and Thirtieth streets, “\"yi+ BEFOBMED ETJSCOPAL, ‘There {ll be preaching morning and evening at Im- manuel Guugch; corner of Centre snd Dayton streets, —Tne Rev. Dr, Fallows will officiate at 10:30 a: m, at 81, Paul's Charch, comer of Lake atreet and St. John's place. The Rev, Albert Walkley will conduct the eyen- ing services and preach st 7:45 p, m. . —Bishop Cheney will ofticists morning and evening at Christ Church, comer of Michigan avenue snd Twenty-fourth street. Morning subject: “A Divine Argument, * Evening subject: “ The Man Who Fol- lowed the Lord Fally."" = * . —The Rev. W. M. Postlethwaite will officiste in the evening and administer the Holy Communion st Exianuel Church, cornér’ of Hanover and Twenty- eighth streets. ‘There wiilalso be service and preach- ing fir the morning, ies —The Rey..A. Walkley. will preach in the South Bap- tist Church, corner Locke and Bonaparte streets, at 3 p.m, id . - 2 DAPTIST. —« The Rev, Florence McCarthy presches morning snd evening at Amity Church, Morning subject: “The Duty of Christ.” Evening subject: “ Infidelity. —he Rev, J, D, Burr will preach morning and evening at Immanuel Church, corner North Halsted and Sopliis streets, 5 at The Rev, A, W. Clark will presch at 11 a.m, at the South Church, corner Locke and- Bonaparte atrects, The Rev, RP. will preach st the game place at p.m, ~-Georgo O. Barnes Evangelist, will preach morning and evening at Temple Church, corner Sangamon and eRe De Ete, a preach ¢ the -sichig = vi Dr. Ellis, wil at the Bichigan Avenue Ghurch, Michigan avenus pear Twenty- Strect, otlla.m.and 8 p, m. Morning subject: “The Home at Bethany a Type of the Church.” ~The Rev, ‘Dr; Oheney will preach -at- the Fourth Church, corner Washington and Paolina streots, at 10:30 a.m. and 7:45 p.m, Baptism at close of eveo- “—The Rev, T. W. will preach to the First Ghurch at lis tay deo Tabernacle, No. 656 Wabash avente. tage api Pay Preach at the This- —The Roy, W. W. Everts, Indiana Avenne Chapel,.Indians avenue corer tech street, in the evening. sera ioe ae cone e Onanel pei and evening jn the le Park Oba) =e Mite Rev. 3, Pividtebtaa i Baik wil lornmg: evening at North Star Church, cortier of Division and x Maaue or supplies.’ Zvecmg’ mueas «Bae 08 ay 28," vi ma) sy Blaes of the Giqud.” = : —The Bet. J. Malvern will preach at 10:45 a, m, at the Free *Chi , cornés Loo: West J: bed ih rurch, é mis and West Jackson Teter, c.g: tattle frm merig and . C. Ge 2 el mi ant evening at the-Ads Street Church: | —Tue Rev. Johu Williamson will preach at 't Webssh Avenue Church this morning. - SGbject : Be Angry and Sia Not. —The Rev, Thomas Guard, of Baltimore, will Preach at Trinity Church, fadiana avenue ‘néar ‘Twenty-fourth sureet, at 10:3% a, m, and 7:45 p.m. —Tha Hev. R. 8, Cantine will. preach ab the Fulton Street Church, corner of Fulton street and Artes! avenue, morning and evening. “Morning subject : Map.” Evemng subject : .* Guides,” ; -—Tho Rey. William .0, Webb, of Baltimore, will preach at10:30 a.m. in Centenary Church, Monroe Atreet, neat Morgan, The Rev, Dr.'Peck will preach at the same church at 746 p,m. Bubject: “The Judgment, When? “Where 7* The Hev. H. §, Axtell will preach morning and evening in Park Avenue Ctiurch, corner Park avenus and Robey street. Moraing aubject : “ Saal—the God. Abgndoned King.” Evening subjed:.“ Danid’s Thin. ty Years In the Furnace.” —The Rey, Dr. Thomaa will oresch et the First Church, coritr Clark aia Washington treets, at 10:43, Am and 745 p.m. CONGREGATIONAL. ‘The Rev, F. A: Warfield, of Greenfield, Yass, win preach & the Lincoln Park Church, morning and even- og. —The Rev, J. W, Dniteld, of the Eighth Presbyte- fan Church, will preach at the Leavitt Street Ghurt sm the morning, and the pastor in the evening. panne fer N. A. Millera will preach at the W arch “mornin evening. Mornt set ths Proper Obssevance of he Sabbatne —The Rev. William Alvin lett presches mornin, and evening at Plymouth Gburch = —The Rav. Charles Sumner will preach at Oakland Ghureh morning and evening, at —The Bev. C.D. Helmer will morning’ evening in Gnioa Park Gaureh, corner Ashland seas snd We = resaiogten street, - —The Rey. John Bradshaw will prsach morz: evening in the Clinton Stren Cuurch, Cosmet of ‘Cin: ton and Wilson streats, ‘Mforning subject = Detar of Bis Feoples the Cuarch fi ject : “ The Exhortati ‘Almghtz ; Sioa of's Crimson Dye Slade White” of Pree Hee. Dr Healy | wll preach st 16:29 4, m. and 345 DB: wi, ‘ateraacly Chui Indiana and Morgan'streets, TSE See ee UNITABIAy, Herford prearhes morning snd ch of the Sceyah, Eversog eae bers,” ” 3 Stipes ‘Uf Seu Francisco, Will each th at Uuity Ou Y Stas" Rev. E, Berswels ill Church, ecraer “Monroy and Det: morning, ~ Subject : -*rIn the inte Inspired 2” ~The Bay, 0, Ws Wendts will peeace ab 1:45 3, i, z iF a The Rey. Brooke orening at she C. “The Py inthe Fourth sais Beast Church, corner Prarie srenue and Thin, 5 at the old schoo}, urch of the Redeemer the annual cao ‘Sunday,” with baptism of children, will be ob. The Rev. Dr, Ryder ‘morning and even, Bt, Paul’s_ Church, Michi BER Ser Males sents ‘The Rey. Ramana Bolte it preted X e Rev, Zamund Belfoart wi at the Church, of tha Holy Trinity, coruer of Desrtorn and Eris atrecta, morning and evening, * Tos Rov, M. T Disney, of Indians, wh preach ind evening 1a' Campbell Hel comer ef ‘avenue and Van Buren strset, Morning abject: / Only five Loares and Two Piabea.” Ryet ing subject : “'The Ina and the Outs,” reach ine church Condor of Talca trang wit 0 corner of Ini ENronty-fith street at Nats, SYSBES i Hall, corner af Prairie svenue and Eighteents this morning, and st the Temple, corner of Washing ton atreot and Ogden avente, this aftemoon, wer eTuomes G, Baxter ill speak at Tabernacle —Toomiad. 8 Wo, 92 South Green street, in the morning, payed “Unanswered Prayer." J, Williame will speak softs same nlace in the etening. “Spies “Benes ~The Rev. G. W, Cooke, of Sharon, Wis, will pei in Unity Church, Gak Park, at 5:30 p.m = pee swaps CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK... 7 AL, ‘KPISCOPS June 20—Fourth Sanday after Trintty, June U4—Nativity of St. John the Bapitst, GaTHOLIo, June %—Fitth Sunday after Pentecost, Ly June 21—St, Aloysius, Gonzaga, 0, : June H-et Pachaas, BG ia of St, Jobo pts, Suns H—Nauvity of St: John the Baptigh | June i Willtsm Ab, Gt Joho and Paul, - ae THE EVENING SONG, Oh} sing to me, Sweet! the song that Tove, ‘Whose notes up and down, like children af play, Dance in thy voice; for I need its spell,—~ ‘My spirit 1s torn’by the cruel day} : Ob! the world ts rough, snd the hearts of men’ * Are trodden to dnat in the busy street, As on the pavements, with steady ring, ‘Falls the iron scourge of our Mammon’s feet, ‘Chineis oily a ripple of song, I know; ad ‘Yet it carries me back to ihe happy years: ‘Time waa not a hard ryrant aa 2ow, Buta fair child~angel, whose amiles and eee ee abagon ant shine on Lue gras, en the. wild epring-breezes, passing Pause for s moment, to let the Birds i Snatch from the hushes a bar of song |. Aa Lilsten further, I seem to feel, Bteal o’ey my being, the lazy pesce Of the summery nook where, a boy, slept, _ To the drowsing hum of the tireless bees, Busily bringing on lnlaby wings. - z ‘Their harvest awest from the meadow aud grove, ‘Which I boyishly counted {ifo's sweetest ‘Not yet having tasted the ips of oval But the years that wesve on in the of God, * Shaplag and joining the tastes afte Om ‘aa together, and here we are, the morrows as husband and wife? with the brown-headed boy on my knee,— haan with the mite mee bay on ae Ene wy Discoursng, betimes, of our ways and Of pains St hope that slitzes; Brought Fs that are past, and And our castles rise oft in the affable air, Kissed by the light that has never yet shones* They may wand rough our dreams, but ihe first Sy ene ab Oerain From the earnesteyed Morning shall topple them down, ee : But now let us rest : my spirit, that sailed. ae Out on a song to Gulbecd see On s current of thought hra drifted back © -. In sight of the breakers that beat the strand? - Cacico, Boren H, CaMPuELIy “ BLOSSOM.” A little white flower, so frail, so fair, ‘That ‘twould seem t6 melt in the wintry at, " A wonderfal sweetness, as if the breath + OL angels had scented it ere its death, Folding its petals and drooping ftehead,- =; My wee, Uitlo tender blosim is deads "> A Uttle white lovely, 0 fatr, hat the mule ofan angel lingers there: x | A.fow faint sighs, and the cold lie of Death ; ‘Were pressed to my darling’s, ant bushed her breath, A folding of Httle white bands on her ‘And baby, wea blossom, in safe at text. ‘To another region, more pure, more fair," - ‘Where the barpe of seraphs ring on thealr, ‘The angels have borne my littio white flower}; But ah! bow I miss her every hoor, - And kneel in the darkmose bosids tha bed ‘Where Nes my white blossam, lifeless and dead, - esa in anguish those cold lips to mine; But cho bebda it ueves eke gives oo sigue But lids in that eflent, unbroken sleep, * ‘While I in my sorrow, aud smile ss I weeps For I know she looks down from beside’ the Throns, And’ there ehiall I find her, my darling, my own! Jose 15,1378, > ae ee DrLwan, . THE OLD, FIRESIDE. Tiong for s romp ‘neath the old efm’s abad 4 ntroif where the brook in ita beatity play A skip and a dance o'er the verdant plain; And & quaint old song gives ms joy again’ Away o'er the past my spirit doth glide Tos smile and a song by the old fireside, T long for a roam io the woody A bunt for the rose and the Woot Harebell ‘The sun’s gorgeous dyes at the clzze of day, And a aweel child's dream on the scented hay? My cld rustic home, my cherished pride, ‘Thinks there’s nothing so dear as the old Sresids, Tiong for the lark's ever-gleefa) figh! ‘ ‘Pho Erighl, ansion| shosa of the teva’: allvery Ughig I gaze al the billowy felde of grain, And J list to my spirit-barp’s Jow refrain O’er life’s stormy sea my thoughts caiinly ride, ‘The dear circle to join ‘round the old frosids, Llong with the loved ones again to be thers, ~ To build in the relight those castles of .air, oa To see but again that ouce happy throng ; For my heart's ail aweary, waiting so lon, Oh ! bear me away o’er the old oct3n's tde,—= Tam pining for home and the old Sireaida, Carcaco. JDEAL RHYME, Drearily, drearily, fala the rain ‘Daeg aa the Bours. F Ah! mournful wind, T echo your sobe,m Pe ae 2 the Hpe T would tas yr the bani wor anc i Aro distant ati; ~ ae ! And the dear bive eyes, fn whose tender depths ant ae would pon c a padip} e royal woul, clearly ae page _ Gt eesaee ‘book, 4 Linger to-night, with your sobbing voice,’ ‘Near bim, O wind ? me : Till1 hie Beart exch mournful toma. Shall an echo find ; ‘ ‘Till he Longs for the clasp of a fxtendly bangs... Close, close 18 his, Aang a chartabed.voiee to eoften the soand Pus, - GOOD DEEDS. fad Good deeds are the interpreters of souls, And genial warranta of untrammeted spheres’ 48 dew-dropa tremulous ou loafy spears, - “++ ‘Their tocense vibrates to ut goal, 4né ghuts with glory Heaven's divinest rofls, - The sooia fabric of ihe temmprral years Quakes in the imminence of self-taught fears, “(And good deeds anti: on chimeric knolla, Worthier than legions of moat exquisite sighs Is the untinctured mem'ry'of good deeds t The grand soul-eloquence that never dies, But, still berotc and sublime, on leads,— Dallaghs by cunning and unbosod by cow and unboi y creeds, : Wares Srescz PaLeee SS Church Sus: . cisy. Pirgienio (Neo.) Enterpriee, _ ro A yellow pat has been easing his home in the Methodist Church at Aust. Last Sanday be toox ® position on the big pedal bass of thé chturch-orgau,’ He wae enjoying a comfortable Dep. when the services opened, and, whea the organist came gown on the pedal base, thas cat went-up into the body of the church likes rocket. He hit on the bavk of a pew in. the te! {foot the courch, and, witb an ‘nnegrthly bow he humped: himself and proceeded to claw. the shui’ out of au adjacent waterfall, With tic reckleseness ths lady, toinkinz no doabt the detit was after ber, turned’a complete tof the pow and fanded “on the other aid6 Of ithe aisle. A general Bampode was cal! Yooted "by tho ceeape of the’ cat put of near the palpis. %