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VOLUME 28. FINANCIAL. TEHE ‘ Herchants', Farmers', & Mechanics' Savings Bank, 76 CLARK-ST., CHICAGO. INVESTHENT CERTIFICATES. Purk, Seority—Lieral Inerest, FABLE of increase of Investment Certin- » gecured on Improved real estate, bear- {og Interest, puyable In quarterly fnstall- wents, &t the rate of 73-10 per cent peran- gum. Sbowink the accamulation of sums in- vested for the benefit of Children or others: Amount ted upon the baals that {nterest, when dus, is jted o0 savings account, and {ovested in INVEST- MENT CERTIFICATRS whenover 3100 s thas accamu- | Azybolder of » Certificats hax the priviloge of ezamin- tng the copdition of tho trust st any time on calliag at the ofice of the Trastee. Ourtificates forwarded. and interest, when dus, refn- 'nud-na.nnd,ornnlmdhy draft or express to say United States. Address mad e SYDNEY MYKRS. Manager. THEHE STATE Savings fnstimion, 80 and 82 LaSalle-st., Chicago. OLDEST AKD LARGEST SAVINGS BANK IN THE NORTHWEST. 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Slack’s Mammoth Grocery House, 109 MADISON-ST. EXCURSIONS. (rand Pleastre Excrsion TO LAKE SUPERIOR. The Magnificent Low-Pressure Steamer “PERERLESS” Capt. Allan Mclutyre, will lesve for DULUTH, Il Royale, and the North Shore, on THURSDAY, Aug. 26, atNp.m. 'No imore delightfal tour for pleasure or bealth can be teken than that o either the elegant steamers Peer- less or J. L. Hurd of this line, which are the only firat- class passenger boats on tue Chicago, Milwaukee, and Lake Superior route. Send for Excurson Ci and apply for paseage to 'LEOPOLD & AUSTRIAN, 72 Market-st., Managers Lake Superior People's Line Steamers. GENERAL NOTICES. NOTICE TO THE POBLIC. The undersigned property owners intersstod in 1ands Ising to the southwest of the city and on theline of the Chicago & Southern Bailroad, deairs to state for the information of the pablic thaf nd sgents ar brokers zre authorized for sale the said property at any price Eeretofore offered for the same. Recent developments of the district named have greatly enhanced its valus, The lands ore for sale st fair prices, but not at such sscrificons are those in some other localities, The undersigned are fully convinced that tae period of discounting prices has passed, and that property in Chicagoand Cook County is'm demand at paying rates and destined to rapidly sdvance in value, = Being perfectly able to bold property at a fair consideration, ibey positively refuse to take less tian its actaal value, DAVISON & WELCH, 3. M. W. JONES, E. R DAVISON, B L DAVISON, and thers. HAVING WITHDRAWN Our Branch Houss from Chicsgo, we will not b re- sponsible for any debts contracted on our account from this date. WAL L. ELLIS & CO. Baltimore, July 1, 18 TEAS. THAS. Gunpowder, per ib, 50, 60, T5e—Standard Yoang Hyson, per ib, 50, 60, 75c~Standar Japan, per Ib, 50, 60c—Siandard. Oolong, per Ib, 40, 50, GCo—Btan: $ pez set, for only a few days more. Warranted the oL peribt o Stnda 3 Dt Plling and extracting at balt-prics and miheut | ERg e D et rsared for saceiizncy of Office, 57 East Washington-st., Room 9. favor. BentC. 0. D. to all parts of the United States. e J. HICESON, REAL ESTATE. 167 South Clark.st. For Sale or Exchange. |z =5 ’;‘g‘]’% TN 403138, corner Btate and Harrison-sts., | cnoiee apping Crawfords received daily i car lota with building. from Delaware. HOLMES & SEARS, . P. O'NEILL. 182 Btate-st. 304 183 Jackson-st, CHICAGO, SUND RELIGIOUS NEWS. Under the Shadows of Trinity Church. What De Koven’s Friends Hope to . Do at the Dlocesan Convention, That Circular of the Standing Committee-~-Importing a Bishop. Why Dr. Eccleston Should Not Become Bishop of Jowa. Reception ot the Ameri- can Evangelists in New York. One of Moody’s Sermons-— His Financial Affairs. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Charcb-Services To-Day. UNDER THE SHADOWS OF TRINITY. THE CITY OF THE DEAD. To the occasiopal visitor of the great City of New York there are countless objects which de- light snd surprise, many that pain and sstouish ; but to the dreamer, idler, or aotiquarian, tum- ble-down rookeries, or time-blistered, decaying buildings looming up throngh the years, are rich with associative interest. Sauntering down Broadway through the crush of the burrying crowds to the head of Wall street, whose ceascless din resounds so loudly thronghout the whole commercial world, one will almost resistlessly pause before the City of tho .Dead to pass beneath the shadows of Trinity. Although the edifice, grand, unique, 2nd im- posing, has atood but listle more than foar de- cades, yet, 88 it rests among the deadof two centuries, and its dim and time-worn walls, gathering additional interest from its present strange location, #ise monastio and solemn like 2 boly man among & restless people, it cannot but compel mute reverence, and compel atrange, ‘weird thoughts that fantastically follow each other like ita own shadows flitting upon the broken nead-stones over the choked and leveled graves. Such thoughts will come to you and me who are strangers o it ; but to those who have looked upon it daily for years, giving .it no heed or place among “more practical matters, it has be- come as vuid of interest as thae little farm-houses and all the common things behind the hilla. But 1n old-style letter upou a dingy stone pre- served over the inuer entrance is the ioscription of the tormer edifice consecrated 1790 TRINITY CHURCH, Was founded in the ycar 1696, Enlarged and besutifiod in 1747, Sovation of Tog Cite Se.k. 21, & D, 17, s W R et erected on the eite of the former cHTRCH In the year 1788, The preseot edifice was begun In 1831, and completed 1n 1846. It has cost nearly S1,000,- 00u. The entire height of the spire 13 234 feet, and midway betweon bsso and spex is s grand chime of bells nine I number. To climb to the bells and it familiarly among them ; to eye thelr tbick druukard-tongues; to pad their russet old shoulders as if yon knew of all their witchery snd secret connivance : td re- member their sacrifice in the furnace and their despair at tho rost, dust, aod slavery that have falles upon them ; to dream of the memories both sad and sweet that linger in theit chime; that they have leaped aud shoated, tolled and wailed ; and that from awav back, where the years grow dim aad undetined, their cheerful, musical confusion, or their dismal wrangiiog bave always meant more than a thousand books could reveal ; and then, to look forward through the years and wonder bhow many strange hands w:il give these old bglls voices, and of the cheery ur weary hearts of which those voices will bo the glsd or despairing exponents,—is to passa long and s bitter-sweet time in dreamland ! Far above the bells you will come to a Ittle room like a hollow truncated cone, where & pair of swaifows might live comforiably were they not given to quarreling, and iu this yon can be assured that you are 198 feet towards®heaven. The wind moans weirdly aboat vou, and you feel a giddy, yet pleasant, Bense of insecunty steal- ing over you: while the sounds of the street creep up in baif-caught, far-off murmurs, like pleasant voices growing fainter and stiller in some dreamland reverie. From this height yon overlook the entire city. You see Harlem RKiver losing itself between Long Island and the gruff hilis of Weatchester; Spuyten Duyfel stealiog through the marshes at the feet of the grand bluffs of the Isiand; toits west the Palisades ; in the dim far-away of the noith, just a ghmpse of the legend-haunted Catskills; whilo you receive a shadowy sense of the vastness of commerce as your eye follows the miles of wharves and shipping of Hoboken and Jersey City, washed by the broad, majestic Hudeon. "To the east is seen Brooklyn, City of Churches; below it, Greeawood, where Between the city and tho murm'rous ses The dead are restiug 'neath the summer sky ; At rest in silence snd in mystery, Whils dreamily the distant salis glide by, So near the laveand lapsing of the sea ; So near the glintings of the golden sands { 80 far from all the world'a 5ad Tivalry Bo near the touchings of the dear Christ’s banda | 0 solemn silence ! brooding o'er the blest ; 0 friendly shade and earth's green velveting | O wayside inn ! where weary Sous may reat ; Bera peaca eternal folds within its wing { To the south lies the beautitul bay studded with populons islands ; beyond the Highlands of the Neversink, ghmpses of whose rugged wase- wasbed sides hava lighted the eyes and thrilied the hearts of millions of incoming wanderers, and then—the blue sea. 1t is a grand sight, and, were it possible, such a place with its inspinog associstions might te titly chosen to work out some grand design, A quiet air of rusticity, homeliness, and rest seems to pervade the localitv. The stout iron piczets guard it from sacrilegious loungers, and repel the vuigar public; while all that the public caa do 18 to insers its inquisitive nose and gaze at the hoadstones as thougn they were grnim sign-boards of some suspicious underground trade. Some look at the graves ina scared, trembling way and hurry on. Men have always been inquisitive about the fomb; but to some its gilence and mystery ara awful. A strange, sweet seizure will possess you as you wander about the solemn sisles of Trinity ; and the pict- ures of the esints; the graund, sombre arches balf-lighted with 8 mellowed richness which dreamily touches them from the flow- g tracery of the unique and high- Iycolored windowa; the mighty organ with its gilded tubes : the white-winzed canopy like a hovening Benedicite; all fire you with a some- what that may be indefinable pleasure, that may be reahized sacred sympathy and relationshio ; but let these emotions possess you aa they may, and, if you sra‘imaflnafln. let your fancy con- jure whatever it will, the strangest day-dream- ing and the most solemn aesociation of thought are found witbin the other shadows that tit amoog the graves. The ground upon eitner side aod in the rear is iterally choked with them ; and, it is 8aid, a spade cannot be inserted without disturbing the aahes of eome uarecorded one; while the crumbling head-stones, still | standing in » mckly defiance of the centuries, . Jostle each other in a cruel way as if grudgingly guarding their insecurs portions. ‘The reason that such vast numbers are resting here s, that, in & ume, many, many years ago, the phlegmatic Dutchmen who constituted the sovereign mupicipal tuchorities of Gotham, and who were not yet out of wooden shoes nor into msthetics, saw no inconsistency in thus hetero- geneousiy commingling the Iliustrious and Uc- Kknown ; and, therefore, compelled the ** Keus- ter " of the then modest Trinity todecently inter all who saw fit to die and choose quist Trinisy gociety, the legal tariff being, ** Aduits, 2a; chil- aren aod infants, 66" Anotherand a graver rea- 8o, and one that sends an indignant thrill through every American heart npon mention— the dead of the ** Old Sugatr-house Prison,” In the rear of Trinity burial-ground, and the former site of the ofd prison, was aa ailey, or, at that time, ditch, into which were thrown the bodies of the martyred patriots who died from starva-~ tion. or through cruslties received, where theg remained to offend the nostrils of the Britisl soldiery, untl their wretched aod broken-hearted friends stole them away by night at the risk of & sentry's bullet, tnat the kind earth might re- ceive them under the shadowsa of Tnnity. Of a pleasant evening, when the human tide chaoges sad wearily ebbs back upon the isiand, and quiet begins to sattle upon the locality, 1t is reating to ateal within this hush and etiliness, which seems intensified from the sacred charac- ter of the place, to dream an hour away among the sombre surroundings; and, if you can elnas the vigilant eye of the sexton, & brisk little fellow, who is truly & coudeoeed Dutch colony of himeel{—untll he locks the iron gates with a Joud slam, and jingles and clat- ters away into the dusk that is fast wrappiog up his importance, yon are just ready o give your- selfup to a weird, strange spell, and to feel that you have secured sacrod companionship. You nod familiarly to the grinning pargoyles, while a swift intelligence links your thought to the bands which rudely chiseled them, and the tumes of which they are a rude exponent. You trace the ancient lettering, eeeking whose ac- quaintance will carry you farthest back among the years,and yon find that one Richard Churcher was lucky enough to die in 1681—nessly 240 years ago! You find interest hore, You place your hand upon the stone and wonder, perhaps, bow long it wilf be before 1t mingles with him whose name it bears; and how many more hands will touch it, 28 yours does now, if time be as patient as it has been; sod a vast ihroog of fancies flit through your mind until you stumble upon the leveled suone that tells you that poor Charotte Temple at last found ~rest—saod, we trust, pesco. Near this is a crumbling stone bearing the quaint legend : Here Iyeth a wee childs, Tooken before she got wilde, A littlo haif-defaced cro:s—a mere scratch— npon the stome proteciing the Livingatone manor vanlt, indicates thas Robert Fulton is ssleep; while Hemilton, Lawrence, and huo- dreds whose names are brighter 1n men's mem- ories than upon cantotaph or obelisk, are at rest in this quiet place, the one only secure retreat trom the turmoil of Gotham. You would linger longer bere, but the dusk comes down, the lights flare out upon the great city, and the shadows close about the shadows under the shadows of Trioity. Epcar L. WAREMAX. THE DIOCESAN CONVENTION. WHAT IT WILL HAVE TO DO, To the Editor of The Chicago Trioune: Cmicaco, Aug, 20.—Canon Knovwles, as Secre- tary of the Coavention of Illinois, has issucd bis potice for the regular annual meeting of the Convention Tuesdsy, Sept.14, and the election of a Bishop, or putting the diocese in commis- eion, are soms of the questions which occupy the minds of Episcopalians in the diocese, 8o that its regular and legitimate business falls quite into the background. These questions have been almost inevitably excited by the circular is- sued some time ago by Messrs. Judd, Sheldon, Larrabee, and Page to all the clergy and parish- es whom they supposed they could influence, and subsoguently published fa Tax Omoago TaisysE and Times. They have been intensi- fied by au interview with Cbancelior Judd, re- vorted ia Toe Trisuse last week, and repeated with indignation, excited by the cool impudence of a leading editorial in the Times of Sunday, Aug. 15, All thesa things suggest to us a review of the situation of the Diocese of Illinois within the last year since the desth of ita late Bishop ‘Whitehouse, more particularly with reference to its fruitless efforts to obtain a Bishop, what is now proposed, and what are the prospects in that direction, Thesa ovents have now become & matter of history. Prof. Seymour, of the New York Theological Seminary, was, on the 16th of September, 1874, declared to be elected Bishop by the Convention of Illinois, then in session. The legality of this election Las been called in question, zod 18 verydouabtful, the lay vote being vitiated by the votes of the Chancellor of the Diocese ani the Chancellor of the Cathedral, to both of which strong objections have been made, and without which Prof. Beymour did not re- ceive & majority of all the votes cast. Notwith- standing this, the credentials of Prof. Seymour a8 Bisliop-elect of Illinois were forwarded to the General Convention of the Protestant Episconal Church, convened in the City of New York in October, 1874. According to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United Biates, no one can be acknowledged a3 the Bishop of any Diocese in said Church un- less his election has been approved by the Gen- eral Convention when in session, or during its recess by & majority of the Standing Committees of tho fully organized Dioceses of the same. A concurrence of both orders, liberal and lay, is also required for such action inthe General Convention. Aftera careful examination and {ull discussion of hischaracter and qualitications for the Epiacopate, extending over msny days, Prof. Seymour failed to obtain tie vote neces- 8ary for his confirmation, and so the Diocese of Tilingia_continued without s Bishop, To moet this difficulty a Special Convention of the Diocesa was called and held from the3d o the 5th of February, 1875. At this Convention Dr. De Eovea was pro- posed as & candidato for the vacant Bishopric. To this nomination it was objected that he was obooxious to the same objactions as Prof. Seymour, and that there was no probability of his being approved by the Standing Committee of the Cburch if hswero efected. That Prof. Seymour had beea rejected by the General Con- vention on account of his connection with the Ritaslistic movement, and that, although Prof. 8. many ardent friends who represented bim in the General Convention had denied these charges, yet he could not obtatn the vots neces~ sary for his confirmation as Bishup of lllinois; bat. that tbe position of Dr. De Koven was much more objectionabla than that of Prof. Seymour, and that Dr. De Koven was regardad thronghout the Church 2s the ablest leadsr and most ingenions defendex of Ritualism. That 1t was in fact "his speeches, at leas: aa muoch a8 anything elss, chat created the ex- citement, and determined the action of the General Conventioo agawat Ritualism. That his statements in the Genersl Coaveution at Balti- more in 1871 on tho subject of Ritnalistic adora~ tion had not ooly shocked and alarmed the Church. bot awakened general attontion to the subject. causing ths mosl serious apprshension 28 to the tendency of such teaching on this sub- ject,which has 80 long bevn the debating ground and lineof distioction batween Protestauts and Romanists. That it was those speeches of Dr. De Koven in Baltimore that had lost him his election as Bishop in Mamachuserta and Wizcon- 8in, and Lhat 80 concentrated the public opinion of the Church as 1o make the Canon on Ritusl pass through the Geneml Convention st New York in 1874 almost byacclamation. That Dr, De Koven had in that Coavention mainly exarted all his ingenuity, his wit, and eloguence, to ex- plain his position, to refeve himself from the charge of Romanizing tendencies, and to pre- ment the passage of the Canon on Ritual, which bo knew was not only a nost formidable barrier to the furthec progressof Ritualism, but, £lso, little short of a formal condembation of himself persoually. That, in view of 2l these facts, It was out of the ques:ion that either the Btanding Committee or the Honse of Bishops would con~ firm Dr. De Koven, thonld he be elected by the Coovention. Bat ali such representations wers ineffectaal. Dr. De Koven was elocted by a decided majority of theclergy, and the laily, who had rejected hiz, were finally 80 manipuisted that Dr. De Eoven had & least the form of ezn election by bdth orders, though the lemlity ct the lay vots was sgaio, s inthocase of Prof. Seynour, open to doubt Jand ot the AUGUST 22, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES, and dispute, all the vates cast not bein, g connted, and the Chancellors of the Diocosa snd of the Cathedral being allowed to cast their votes, mthout which there would not have been evea the appearance of a majority for Dr. Ds Koven. The result is well known. Al the pradictions of the leaders of the minority of the Lilinois Convention wera fulfilled to the letter,—~more thao falfilled. Dr. De Koven did not 'receive one-thurd of the votes of tue Standing Commit toes peceasary for his contirmation and election a8 a Bishap of the Episcopal Charch of the United States, Notwithstanding the mosc uo- heard-of exertions by his friends, both in the diocess and in all other partsof ths Church where tbe’d could be found, the kBlmbli.!m: party, sod its orgsoization kaown a8 *“The Confrateraity of the Blessed Bacrament,” being everywhere active and unscrupulous in his support. Notwithstanding all thus, Dr. De Eoven recsived ouly twelve out of the forty-five votes of Standing Committees,thirty-three votes being either cast agaiost him or wizhhsld from bim. That is the decision of the American Church in the United Sttes, and it could not be well more decided or emohatic. It refuses to receive Dr. De Koven s ons of its Bishops. ‘What, now, do Dr. De Eoven's friends in the Diocese of Ilinoie propose to do under thess circumatances ? The editorial of ths Sunday Times (Aug. 15), and the circular of Meesrs. Judd & Co., already referred to, wmdicats the policy recommended by a portion of these gentlemen. However carefully dis~ guised, and with whatever fair pretexts urged, it amounts sirply to this: That the Diocese of Il linots shall refuss to submit to the decision of the whole American_Church, ahall insist npoa the election of Dr. Da Koven, refuse to elect any one else, and 8o malotain s state of chronic rebatlion until the General Convention or the Standing Committees can be forced into sccept~ ing and oconfirming Dr. De Koven, Frof. Sey- mour, or any one else whom they please to nom- inate to them. In a word, thess gentlemen pro- pose to inaugurate a revolution in the Govern- ment of the Episcopal Church in the United States, to make each diocese independeut, and thus to destroy the wmmity and solidarity of the Church in' this country. ‘A presentation of the wain points in these two articles, which evidently bave a com- mon origin, will make this plain: First—The circalar commences by saying: ** Wo are satistied that it i the very general de- sire of those who supported Dr. De Koven for Bishop at the Special Convention in February Iast, and of some who did not then support bim, to secure his consecration if it be possible.” From which it is_plain that, though the great body of the Church bas declared that it does not wish to have Dr. DeK. among its Bishops, they are determined, it they can in any way effect it, to place him in that position. cond—The Times' editorial argues that thers is no man io the American Church worthy totake the placo which it nsists shall be reserved for Dr. De Koven and given to him alone, to-wit: the Bishooric of Illinois. It says: “*It is argued that the Diocese suffers for want of an Eniscopal nead. True, but might it not sulfer more wita an Episcopal head who would be feeble, distaste- ful, and uatitted for his work ? 1f 8o, then pa- tient waitiog will be no loss. Attention is called to the Episcooal failures of the Charch, whers Bishops bave been elected in haste, and both diocese and Bishop bave repented very soon and very long. A mere Bishop 18 not the desidera- tum, but one who is fitted for the office and work of a Bishop.” According to this, onr stock for Bishous in the Amsrican Courct has been for some time exasusted. Not only is Dr. De Koven the only one that the Diocess of illinois can now obtain for this purpose, but othar diocases have saffered terribly because taey did not take the only man now known to be fit forsucn a poasition. But our confidence in this judgment is greatly sbaken when we remember Liow greatly it differs from that of tho great body of the American Charch. The writer scems fo think that Dr. De Koven is the only man that the Diocese of Hlinoa can find who is at all fit to be a Bishop. But tue Amencan Church has, through its Standing Commitiees, by a majority of nearly three to one. decided that Dr. De Koven is alto- ‘| gether unfitted for this office, and that the Dio- nl:eue_ :nde & very grave musiake in selecting him or it Third—This sage editorial proceeds to tell us that, In all life eelections there ought to be more than ordinary care.” Verytrue indead. Bat who does not understand tkat the Diocese of Ilmois could make no greater mistake in this most important matter than by selecting as 118 Bishou & man who does not_enjoy the confi- dence of the Charch generally, of whom the representatives of more than one-baif. neariy toree-fourtus, of our dioceses have said that ho ¢hould not be 3 Bishop, and that the Diacose of Illisois committed a great mmatake in electing him? Fourth—But 3r. Judd, and the other gentle- men who bave under:aigen with him to dictate the course tbat the Diocese of Illinois should pursue, proceed to t8ll us that the Standing Committees were mistaken in their judgment, and that they may be brought to take a different view of the matter, reconsider their voto. and confirm Dr. De Koven as Bishop of 1lhinois. They eay, ‘*There is no doubt that the ~ fallure thus far to secure the necessary cousent to his consecration i8 due to & misunderstanding of the views held by our Bishop-eloct in rsgard io the Holy Eucbarist. A proper conception of those views can be gained only by a careful examination of what he has said in somewhat leugthy speeches and writings; and this fact may accoant for the continued misunderstanding that exists. There is little, if any, question that a brief, pointed explaustion of those views by the Bishop-slect, in reply to & reguest to that end from the Con- vention of the Diocess, would secure his speedy consecration.” i ‘Chat is certainly & very remarkable view of the case. Dr. De Koven, it is declared, was rejectod by the Standing Committees because they mis- understood his views on the Eucharist, which views he has explainedat great length, in various speeches, sermons, sod publications, for many years past. But it is confidently asserted ihat if he will wow give a brief ex- olanation of them, he " will make them 50 clear that everybody will understana them, and so acceptable that no one will have any ob- jection tothem! These gentlomen certainly have a very singular appreciation of Dr. De Koven, and remarkable faith 1o bis ability. He has failed to make himself understood by loog explanations and expositions. perssvered in for many years, but now, in a fow brief sentences. thrown off, perhaps, in_as many minates, he mll make the doctnine and his ortkodoxy as clear as toe light! Howis that? Will it be some new tght that Dr. De Koven has received, or will it bo the resulé of tho socratic method of investi- gation to be pursued by the Diocese of Illinois under the guidance of the clear-headed Chancal- lor of the Diocese? But we bog leave to suggest to the learned Chancellor, aad to his theological associates, that Dr, De Eoven may Bavo baen rejected by the Staading Committees not because they did not understand him, but becauae they did understand him. And any one, whethor a theologisa or a simple cburchman, can understand thus mach, that Or. De Koyen is in this matter departing from the plain and wall eatablished views of the Chnroh,—the Protestant Episcopal Cburch,—and that ia s suffcient reason why Lie should not be a Bishop in that Church. Bt even if this were not 8o, and if Dr. De Koven basbeen a8 unfortuoate as these gentlemen would have ns believe in not bsing able all this time to mfke bimself understood, thon we @y he fsils of that most important qualification required of & Bishop by St. Paul when he says, * A Bishop muat bs spt e Iy isit absurd to propos to ifth—But not only isit absurd to pr nsil;'{mll the momination of Dr. DeKoven to the Standing Committees of the Church, but it is disrespectfal to them, undignified and humil- jating to the Diocese of Illinois, and contrary to the plain and sound principles of our Apostolic system of church- wvernment. It is disrespect- ful to the S:auding Committees, sud to the Church which they represent, as it implies that they have decided so importsnt s csss withont properiy consideriug it, and that thoy regnire to bo farther instracted by Dr. De Eoven and the Diocese of Illinois. We fear that the Church Wwould come to regard the Diocese of Illinoisassn uoraly member, and that they would view this as owly a fartber manifestation of the pirit of A CERTAIN CATEEDEAL CANON _ who preached a sormon againat the action ot tue General Convention in the case of Prof. Sey- mour, {rom the text: *'Simeos and Levi are brethren, the instruments of cruelty are in their habitation.” Such petulance may be pardoned in an individual, but would certainly be un- worthy of & body like this Diocess, which forms an important part of that Church which is not only Christ's body, but - the pillar and grosnd of the truch.” Our dignity 88 well a5 our duty require. us to_submit caimly aod patientls to the decision of tns whole body of which we are only ooe member. S{Lxm—xmther ia it to be doubted that the decisions of our General .Convutu;m. Btanding Committees acting icago Lailp Tribune, in its name, and by its _anthor- ity, are of the nature of the canons and decrees of a Church Coancil, wnich are conclusive, and not to be called in question by the members of the Charch who have called for it, and in thair adoption of the Constitation of the General Con- vention, accept and promise to abide by it. To do otberwise is to enter upon a conrse of rebell- ijon and to mamga arevolution of the system adopted by our Charch at ita esrlieat organiza- tion in this country, Serenth—That we do not misunderstand or misrepresent these gentlemen is shown by that patt of the Times’ editorial in which we have those niterances : ** Patient waiting i8 on the mde of principle and diocessn rights. What Commonwealth would permut interferencs. . . impertinent interference 7 The gieat lesson must bo learned that the General Con- vention is not the integer of the Argemcan Chnreh, but the Diocess is the integer.” And then it proceeds to argus upon the political prin- ciples of State-Rights in a manner thrt may be quite natural to one sympathizing with the quon- dam *‘Knights of the Golden Circle,” but is ceriainly quite unintelligible in a layal Charch- man desirons of Leeping ‘‘the unity of the Spirit in toe bond of peace.” Does tho Dioceso of Iliinois intend to follow such leading? Will it perm:s ite)lf to be arrayed sgainat the whole body of the Cbarch? Wil ic enter upon such a courss of agitation, and en- R3go1n & warfare that cannos, indeed, deatroy the fair fabric of the Church in general, but will undoubtedly be_deeply injurions to it- solf particularly ? Wil it follow the lead of such sgitators as—bat we will not believe it without stronger evidence than this editorial presents. The evideace of re- action in the Diocese in favor of Dr. Da Koven's Tenomination i2 no doubt as unfounded and fai- Iacious 28 that alleged in favor of Prof. Sevmour, on the ground of his reappointment as Dean of tbe Faculty of the New York General Theological Seminary, in which some of the largest Dioceses of the Cburch are not represented. but of which the Ritualista have managed to get posseesion, aund to control it, justas hsa happened in the Diocese of Illinois. The circalar and the Times' editorial tell ns that the editora of the Diocese—a small monthly publisbed at Knoxville, Iil., by the Principal of the Young Ladies’ Seminary ia_ that place—take their views of these matters. But in the August namber of thst paper, Dr, Cushman, tha Chair- man of the Standing Committeo of the Diocese, also acting as corresponding editor of the Diocese, distinctly and empbatically informs us that he does not favor the plan of *‘putting the Diocese into commwmission,” under the care of the Bishop of avother Diocese, but desires the immediate election of a Bishop. Dr. Cushman i8 well known as one of Dr. De Koven's warnest friends in our late Special Convention. No man has better opportunities for unders:and- ing the needs of the Diocese for Episcopal Bu- pecvision, aad we are assured that he and others of the most pronounced friends of Dr. Do Koven will give no countenaace to this scheme. Nerthor do we think that the minority of clergymen and majority of laymen, whobave, from the begimnng of this discussion of a Biehop for [llinais, taken the viewof matters indicated in this article, will bo frightened from their propriety, and change their views now after thosa views have been so emphatically indorsed and sustained by the great bods—an_overwhelmiog majonty of ths Church in the United Siates. Al that they have todois to STAXD FIEM AND REMAIN LOYAL, aa they alwavs have been, to the Charch repre- sented in General Convention, aud to its Con- stitation, and that of their own Diocese. Thus only can they hopa to sea sound Church princi- ples triumphant, the Church united. their Di- aceso respected, efficient, and presided over by & Bishop enjoving the contidence of every parish and of the whole Church. Lec each parish send up to our approaching. Conveotion a delegation fairly representing its septiments, endowed with good common sense, and possessed of old- fashioned churchmanship, and we sball have no fears of the result. A Bishop will be elected—nct a party Bishop, not the Bishop of a faction, who will regulate their ritu- al by the ideas of a cathadral canon, or shape their idess of charch-law and justice by ** the ‘measare of the Chaocellor’s foot "—but a Bishap, sonnd, liberal, enlightened, old-fashioned in his theology and practice, desired and accopted by the whole Diocess, and approved by the wuole American Church, throngh its constituted and constitutional advisers, the Standing Committees and tho Bishops of the whols Church. hid —_——— THE NEW BISHOP OF IOWA. THE PROTEST AGAINST HIS CONSECRATION. 1t will be remembered that, at the time of the election of Dr. Eccloston a3 Bishop of Iows in May lust, & protest was presented sgainst the declared election. . It bas been prepared for cir- calation, and gives the following as the grounds on which it is based : First—As to the legality of the declared election : In Art. VIIL of the Constitution of the Diocess is found the following : * In electing a Bishop, the Con- vention ehall vote by Ordors and by ballot. Tha clergy shall vots t, and o majority of each Order shall be Tecessary to a choice.” Here it is distinctly stated taat a majority of each Order, nots majority of the ‘votes cast, ehall be uisite to s choice, 1In the Convention held at Cedar Ripids there were twenty-five of the Clerical Order entitiod to s vote, and tairty-four parishes ware represent and i ‘was entitled to only one vote, 18 ‘parish the vota of eighteen and _ of thirteen clorgymen was mecessary to s valid election. Oa tue sivteenth ballot, which was declared to elect, Dr. Eccloston received 14 clerical Yotes, and was declared to have reccived 17 lay votss— majority of the Clerical Order, Lt not a constitutional majority of the Lay Order. Wado, therefare, contend that thoelection was invalid from a legal point of view. Second—The mannerof the elaction from a moral point of view : We do most serlously contend that if thers 1s any one ‘place more than another where political tridkory, © log- Toliing,” bargain and sale of voies s out of plice, t in the election of & Bishop in tho Clarch of God. But thatan stlempt was meds to vse such, ond tbat such ‘warsused by the {riends of Dr. E-cl3stor in the declored election, we have directas well as srosg circumatan- tial ovidence. ‘After todious balloting through the grester part of two days, without concurrence in chaice of the clergy 1ad alty, s commities of conference wis caliod aud appolnted for the purpose of harmonlzing, it possible, D tion of the tos bpdcres To tais eny . b pro- Dosed by the portion of the Committes selocted by the Inity, that the old candidates be dropped, sod some new ome bo brought forward upon whom sl conld unite, bat, from the responses which came from the portion of the Committes selectad by the clergy, itjwas evident that a partisan Victory with Dr. Esclesion, with » divided diocese, was of more imporiance to them than harmony with any other man. The only condition upon walch the portion of the Committes selected by the clergy would agree to report any other ‘name was, thas there shoula be taree ballotings more before the new name should be announced. 02 the third ballot (being tho sizteenth formal) the opposition lay vote fell fram 20 to 16, thowing tv: the three of Dr. Eccleston's supporters who had voted with the opposition on the second baliot, had now re- turned o bim, and had taken with them oas of tho opposition, thus giving Dr. Eccleston & majority of tho Iay vote cast, Wo do contend snd believe that this was brought about by bargaln and zale of votes. Ve believe this is the only rational explanation of the incresse of the op- position lay Yote on tha ss:ond ballot, aad its decreass and defeat upon the iast ballot. We 'believe this be- cause several who had yoted steadily with the opposi- tion have declared they were approached by friends and supporters of Dr. Eccleston with the- proposition to trade votes ; this was tru in the ciso cf tha dele- gate from St. Peter's Purish, Fairfiold, aad was not denied ; another delegate his made s liks declaration, whoee ame can be given, with his_cooscat. It may bo said that this s not povitive evidence that such & Dargain and aale of votes was made. We have to say in reply that many & msn has been convicted of crime 1n courts of law on rircamstantial and moral evideace of loss strength than this, Weare willing to leavs it to the candid and impardal to decide whether wa are ot justified in our allezations ythat tho final result was produiced by means of this charicter. "Third—As to tho testimonials of the Rev. Dr. Ebcles- ton now laid before you, 1¢ you will carefully examine thoss testimontals, you will 8se that they are sigacd by a majority of the defo- gates representing only seventeen paisties, only one- Ralf of the parishes represented in the Convention, and not s majority. Seventeen parishes, by their dele- gates, refused to sign those testimonials In convention, and continued 50 torefuse up to the time the testi: ‘monials were forwarded to the Staading Committees, ‘This refusal is the most solema protest that can be tmade against the manner of the election of Dr. Eccles- ‘used 1o sign the testimonials bave an aggregate of 1,041 communicants, or only efght less than one-half of all the communicants of the Church in the parishes of the diocese represaated in the Con- vention. . Thus, one-half of the parishes represented in the Convention ssw reasons’ satisfsctory ta themseives why they should not sign the testimcuials of the Bev. Dr. Eccinston ; and 28 weeks and_mantha have passed away, they have seen 0o reason to reconsider the posi- tion faken in the Convention, aitaough repeatedly so- licited to do &0, but on the contrary, new facts and ev- idence bave cowme to light which Lisve sdded strength to their convictions, ‘Nor is this opposition o the consecration af Dr, Ec- Cleston » parsisan one, for among the names of thoss oo Fetastd o fign the Lestimonals, thout protestiog and tnose who have affized their names to this memo- rial, aze men of almost ali shades of churchmananip ; nor is their opposition npon the character of personal traits of the Bev, Dr, Eecleston, bus upon the parishes that NUMBER 363. unjust and ,a,“mum;wihwmuu;mmh The protest thea proceeds io set forth the amn which would be brought tpon the Church by the conswamation of the election, It is signed by the delegaes from the parishes of St. Mark's Church, Anamosa ; St. Paul'a, Balls- yae; St. John's, Buffalo : Trinicy, Cascads 5 S Lnka' %, Cedar Falis; Trimty, Davenport ; St Jobn's, Dubugae: S:. Paul's, Durant Chriat, Dyersrille : St. Peter’s, Fairfield ; St. Gaorge's, Independence ; Sc. John's, Farley ; St. Jamee', Keokuk; St. Luke's, Lavsing ; Grase, Montross ; aad St Mark's, Wa- St. Thomas’, Sioax Cisy; **lbe’ Wardeos ad V. nron 6 Wardens and Vestry of Christ Parigh, West Union, also units in &hn‘ymch':h s THE AMERICAN EVANGELISTS. XEW YORK'S RECEPTION OF MOODY AND SANXTY. The American evaogelists, Measrs. Moody sod Saokey, arrived in New York by the steamer Spainon BSaturdsy morning. The news of the arrival of that steamer in the lower bay was telearaphed tc the city at 6:30 a. m., and those ‘who had made preparations to recsive ths great revivalists at once started to meet them. In this party were Robert McBurnie, Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York ; L. P. Rowland, Secrotary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphin; D. W. McWillisms, Superintendent of the Rev. Dr. Cuyter's Sanday-school; the Rev. G. C. Need- bam, George H. Stuart, of Phiiadelphis, and Joseph Hillman, President of the Round Lake Camp-Meeting. The party received was com- posed of Mr. Moody, his wife and daughter, and wo young children ; r. and Mra. Sankay, with their tire children; J. Sabine Knight, an En- lish revivalist; John M. Denton, of London, Can. ; and Messra. E. Elroyde and J. Witherley, of AI.;O‘L“;' Eog. - the barge carrying the welcomio, ] proached the steamer, greetings wmifc‘flzgfi between tho evanzelists and thsir frionds. As 8000 a3 the deck was reached and hand-shakings ;voxu \;;'lar. “ Praise God, fhxsm ‘Whom all Bless- ugs Flow.” was sung, Mr. Sankey leading. Thio Rov, Mr. Neodlam then offared a prayes; gving thanks to God for the safo retarn of the evangelista aftor their areat and successtul work abroad. ‘The party was landed by a Goveroment boat, which had been engaged for the purposs. Mesars. Moody and Sankev were detained for some time at Pier No. 42, North River, in select~ 1ng their baggage, they having severat trunks to take care of. Some of these truoks, Mr. Moody said, wore fgll of sermons which well-moaning persons had sent to the svaogelists, thiuking that they might have occasion to use them. Mr. Moody said in reterenco to hia future plans, that he and Mr. Sankey would hold ro- vival meetingsin this conntry similar tothoss held in England some time next fall. The de- tails had not yat beon arranged. He wanted first to visit his new church in Chicago. In En- giand they had heen treated with great kind- ness, and had done a great work, which he hoped ‘would have permanent edect. Ar. Sankey and himself needed rest for a faw weeks, as they had taken no toliday while abroad for two years. Mr. Knight, who accompanied Messrs. Moody and Sankey from London, intends to go smon; the freedmen of the South to spread the Gos, there. Daring the voyage from England aapiril of religious fervor wprung up on board the Spain. Mc. Sankey sang at the request of the passengers, and prayer-meetings, at which ad- dresges were made by Mr. Moody, were held on the quarter-deck. _ Mr. Sankey was interviswed on Saturday even- ing by a New Yorz Tribune reporter, to whom o related the following : ) Mr.3Moody and myself do not wiah to s in public, {hiréngh interviews, 88 sperking much abont our work. It is our desire not to thrust oureolvea for- as if we attached any rersonal werit to what we bave done. Our work has been greatiy succesaful, bu e do not ascribe it to o s though we have done anything particularly praisewarthy. e know and recognize that it is the Lorl's work, and not ours, in which we have been engaged. Wa have goae right an and preached Christ to. the peopie—thal ) We bave had a great many applications from various towna and citivs in the United States to hold meetings, and to begin at once; but we have made no arrange- ments yet. We need riat, and jutend to take vacations of from six weels Lo two montha before beginaing our work again, Mr. Moody has already gone homs to hi fam:ly in Northfield, Mass., and I shall go Tacaday ta viddt my parcats in Newcastle, Penn. After our vaca tion we nball g0 to our church In which we are anxious to visit, and wa shall have some work do there. In the fall, T can't tell exactly when, we wil ‘begin our work, on the same general plan which w pursued in Eogland. We have not detarmined wherv to begin, but it will probably be in. one of the gres Esstern cities,—New York, Brooklyn, or Boston., ‘The press in Great Britain treated us with marksd respect. We uniformly declined to be interviewsé whilo there, bus wero trsated with great fairness and consideration, and we have not had to compluin of much mistepresentation. The great lsadlng Engiles paper, the London 7'mes, especially spoke of ow work in a manner and spirit ominently fair and Just, Of course, us public men we aro subject to criticism, and we cannot fear that, for our only object baa beex to preach Carist, Still e do not like to havo our worl misrepresentod. Ths charactor of our meetings {s perhaps misznden stood. ‘There is one fact that I should ltks to hava the public hear and that 18 that in our meetiog thers wa no excieement, Wo distinctly discountenanced any hysterical excitement, confusion, or noise. In all ou meetings thers was not a single case of hysterica Some people have wrong idea about this. Thoso whe ‘have never attended the meetings may think that wi attempted to stir up roligious excitement. Ou thn con trary, tho exercises wers charactarizod Ly the best pos: sibls order, hr. Moody would not go om without it No church services wers over conducted more quistly and salemnly than otr great meotings in the chisl cities of Great Britaln and Irelnd. Our audiences froquently numbered many thousands, but they came, listened, and went sway with surprising good’ order. Once in London we held a meet ing for men, from which somen ware ex- clnded. Thers wern 10,000 men prescat. Just think waat 2 ncems I that vast assemblags had once risen] But they st and Leard us ss quistly 23 3 church congreyation. Thers Was Dever apy out side distarbance of the meetings, The crowds ou rero as orderly 2a thoso within. They wers respectful and_ quiet, aud never grested us with mockery a1 Jeers,” Thore was no sign of it in the meotings. Waen o nold them in Doblin and elsewhers in Ireland we expected to be diztuzbed by the Boman Catholics, bui we worenot, The large meetings of Irishmon whick we addressod wers na orderly as any I ever jaw, Tha Teason was bocause we sought to excite no oppesition from the Roman Catnolics. We avoided affeniing them, Welsft controverted questions alone, and mersly preached Christ, and that could give offense to o« body, Our business was not to discuss sccleslastical questions, but to preach the Savior to thoas #ho nesd- ed Him. InScotland we had the sams success. Qur great mestings in Glasgow were wonderfully ordarly aad eJective, The peoplc ahowed the utmont sarious- Dess, and were solemn and attentize in their demeanar, Our plan was zoretimes to boid Ave or aix meetings st once. In Liverpool, for instance, wa ooald mok meet in one piad®. ‘who wanted to worship with us, and 10 w divided them upand met in different placos Mr. Moody bas four or five times Inona evening, and I hfve sung as many as seven times. T would Legin by soging an opening bymn at the mest- ing where Mr, Moody w3s, and then drive rapidiy in a. carriagn to another mecting and sing there, and so on ot T had sug At seversi places. 1 did not feel great eabaustion atter such ibor, | Leoutd sing mm ease. In Agricult ndoa, the in England, which will bold 20,000 people, and bas seats for 15,0(0, I mang so that my voice flled sha building without getting tirsd. It was vary easy for ma todoit. Inever saw a better place to sing in. We were disturbed only onco ia London, and Iwil tell you how that happened. It was in Camberwell Hall. That was a large building of corrugated tron. put up especially for our mee:ings. It would hoid 10,000 poopie, and under the high gallsries which run sround the interior walls of the building thers was & separate plice where wo Leld prayer-mestinga witn converts after the great meeting waa over, Allacound the buliding 3 hign fence was put up to keep out the crowd after it was fall. It happened that when we met in this ball the building was filled atan early bour. The floor %as sp with sswduat, and chairs wers placed npon it 38 closo togeiher as tiey coult stand. and people coming o walked &3 hoiselessly s o o cupet = Taat nlght o large delegation from the conntry had coms in on'the evening trains, and of course they were anz- fous, baviag come from a distance of 10 or ) or even 40 miles, 0t to miss the meeting. When they arrived, Bowever, the hall waa already full snd the duora wers closed. Ir. Moody, learning of the arival of thess country people, many of whom were poor and had bought return tickets in order to go all the wsy home after the mesting, made a speech to the audience rep~ Tesenting how mailers stood, and aaking them to crowd up a little closer, and get three instead of two on 3 chalr, jn order to allow the country peopls to come ia. “They cheerfully compiicd. Ths Coramittes, ;nm went ouLteopen the gate: but Thau this was one, along with' the country people, the crow from "the city outsids began to pes hfl, Tae rmeeting had just been opened, I sung, and Ar. Moody was beginning to speak, Sikhl:‘; oa the platform, I could hear the roar outside sound- inZ like tae ro.ling in of the ocean on the shore. Thers was 5o sound of ¥nouting, but only a beavy roar of the rushing multitude. Finding that they could noy all get into the hall, they got from the outsida into the prayer-room under the gallery, There wers 1o lights in this place, and, being able to hear or see nothing, these peopls began a nause of stumbling and as they crowded in, which interrupted the msating. 3r. Moody said we would not go on unlcss they rov tired. Tacze was something in bis declded maner 'l‘;l:: :flnvmmd fl:flnhfihfl he was in earnxt, and w! © gave out a hymn, which we szng, during which o ‘saud they snould go out, the. intaclopers quistly retirsd, and laf} the meeting