Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. 1ar and orderly succession of cause and effect, and that, in every branch of science, esperimeat has but one voice, and that voico tes:ifies o tho umiverssl seign of ltw. And then we will supplemeat his induc- tious by citing the fact that, in all ages, and among all peoplce,—and never more really or abundantly than in iais nge snd smong the most enlightened nations 10w 1naabitiog the earty,—multitudes of men rang- ing from the mightiest savans down to the rudest of eimple folk, have observed the paecomenon of prayer in i1 relations to the Divine Being. Tuey Lave per- ceivel an facts which can be doubted ou = *whn the tesiitony of the senses {8 suecestfu: hat they were prepared by the testinon 12 exre. , that prayer 1 efcacious urot G 1ie who fs the Giver of law, knd therefore of His Di iu 3 feeedom which the Crestar suri zo6e, Hince the cresture in bis epbere posscEses liko freedoms and that God, instead of being inexorably hutout' from them by seeming Umitations which Cthers call laws, does hear and answer prayer, upon thy conditions which He has appointed, with a fdelty fo promue and an noiformity of practical resuit which suggest the relstion of cause and offect a8 wuch a8 any orderly sequence in Nature. These, I eay, are fucts of obeervalion and experience as capable of verification as the most palpuble paytical phenomena. They are braided into the very texture of humau history. They are the most real of lifc's realities to mltions, Tleso millions resort to praver with the same naturainess and sente of con- gruity with which they euploy a_mechanical force to Fecure a given effect : ond the results have been so far from proving fictitious and lilumve that the suc- cemv generations of maniind continue fo make use of thir method of moving the Omnipotet Arm and appealing to the All-loving Heart. When the nstural- isL. therelore, urges his fucts and puts in the plea of experience, the supernataralist can adduce his facts Do less substaotislly auiestcl And a distinction which can be legitimately made between tha two i fatal to the assumptions of the former, for he bases Dis conclusion that God can uot or does not interfere with natural succession, upon negative ex- perienco, while tbe latter clatms that God does pon positive exparience,—upon ** facts of experience a8 real and certain ss the laws of planetary motions and chemical afimties; facts whish philosophy is bound t0 take into account, or to stand convicted 88 eballow and one-sided : fucts which can_deceive only 1f our whole consciousness is & Lixr and the boasted Yoice of reasor: itself but the echo of the universal lie.” Tt may be objected o this argument that the experi- emce of the scieatiic observer gived sbeolate Sty of sequence as between cause and effect, while in the rphere of prayer actual sequences are sorare that they must ratber be termed happy coincidences. _ 5o far 88 L ivine & Divine resy.onsss to potitions for moral bestowments are concerned, yum) men testify that the sequence i fized, umform, and cobstant, as God has paomised it should be; and I suppose it would not be difficrit for the objector to grant this, since there & 1o ap) t evidence to the contrary, But it fe atleged that prayers for outward and physical bleesings exbibit no uniformity of resuit. Thus ln the domain of natural law the given meleoroiogical conditions will fuvarizbly produce rain, while prayers £or rain may not be succesded by rain once in an hun- dred instauess. Tha objection is a petitio princiji. umes the very point at issus; for how can we in- fallibly sacertalr at any time whetber God sends rain, or produces the meteorological eonditions which causs rain, in the ordinary corzoa 0/ Nature, or in answer to some voice of prayer? ‘But we readily acknowledge that s things seem to s, 1ooking at them from the lower side, Iaw uniform- 1y produces results in the physical world, and prayer occasionally, only, Still we hold that as things are, no Tess with Tespect to prayer than with respect to natural law, the given conditions invariatly produce corre- sponding results, Coutemplating the universe aa the ‘handiwork of the Tocavsed and Absolute One, the Personal God, we recognize it s created and upheld by His will 'We perceive that He has willed to govern it by certain methods which we call laws, which are fixed sod upi- form in their operation. It fs to us & rutlime spectzcle—Natars moving along ita appoint- ed grooves sccording to the will of Nature's God ! Everywhers wa hear that echo which Caleridge beard when he gazed upon Alpine gloriss from the vuls af Chemounix. ow when prayer 15 offered to ty God for physical bleswing, it s not as though a mechanical farce ‘wers Lronght to bear mpon Him irrem»tibly compel- ling Him to grent y what we sak. If waare unwili; thut others shall invest lsw with a power transoending thst of the Lawgiver, we dare Dot propose to make praver ereign of ihe Hearer of prayer, Law xnd prayer the rubordinates of the 1te Wiil, and oper-te witb tmplicit obedien-e to the condi~ tions and fimitations whi-hhe has established for them. He sends rain when the npatural conditions &Te present, a3 He bas willed to do; and He rends rain when the conditions imminent in His will justify s response to prayer. Praver is asking God for things agreeatde to bus will. Tue condions reside in Him. Tnis is the simple teacling of Holy Scripture, 32 we Ziscover in the prayer of our Lord, “Thy willte done,” and in the sgonizing @y of Gethsemane, « Fatner, i it be possivie, let thix oup pass from Me ; neverthe ess not My will but Toine be done ! Thus also in the prayer of St, Chrysostom weray, Fulall 0w, O Lord. the desires and petitions of Thy sorv- ants, 38 may be most expedicnt for them.” Aad thia accords well with oar inatincts, for we do not hesitate to pray for blessings, thus confessing our belief that God can and may_bestow them if He will, nor do we rush into athelam because He does not sse fit uniform- 1y to bestow all that weask. Our experience is that conformably to the conditions whicn Himself has ap- pointed, God hears and auswers prayer as certainly nd fnevitably es natural law operatos conformably 1o #4s conditiona. Beverting to our argument, we offset experienos with «xperience. Weopposs tue assumed fixity and inde- pendence of the laws of pature in their pbyeical za- ect with phenomena from the range of paychical ex- perience which are fatal to these false Hhferences. But if we should concede for & moment that natural Lsw scems to operate independently of God we would tmmediately find ourselves confrontad with the argu- ment from buman consciougness. The value of soul §5 a2 resl es that of matter, and we insistthat oour intuitions contradict the conceded point. It is 1more probatle that God would impress spiritual truth upon the spiritual natore of man than that He wonld leave him to the terrible fate of discovering s institutions to be contradicted by the fate of soul- Jees rocks and songless stars and speachles animacule, But there fs no contradiction. Our coptroversy is not ‘with naturebut with ber falss interpreters, and we con- front them and their a] inferences with the um- wersal intuitions of the race and bid them reconcile their views with ench 3 mighty witnessing. They can- not doit. Iodeed their own feelings, when they are thrown off thelr guard, contradict their theory,” Dr. AlcCosh instances the case of Boussexu, and he might have ndded thas of Heine, who on Lis déathbed wrote: T have returned to God, like the prodizl son, after feelding swine with the Hegelizns for many years. Tho divine homesickness came upon meand drove mo forth through woods and vales over the dizziest paths of dielectics, On my wayI found the God of the Paa‘heists, but I could make nothing of him, This poor, visionary creature {s interwoven with and grown 1into the world, Indeed he is almost imprisoned in ft, and yawna at you without voice, without power. To liave will one murt have personubty. and to manifest one's self one must have c(loow-room.” It is that *divine homesickness ™ which Hetne felt which contradicts the foolieh notion that God cannot Lave “elbow-room " in His own creation, If He bas Do ear to bear, except ea in His far distant abode He Licars the monotonous plach of natural law Leat with clock-like regularity upon the ehores of matter, what slall we say of a Creator who has fashiongd His intel- ligent crestures with an instinct of deptndence on Jlim and = native impulee of prayer to Him? Is 1lie God we are tc worship axd love and enjoy foraver —a God who implants within us & feebng that we tre in His Lands, not as & soulless or sn fnexorable fate, but as a Personal Father sble and wiiling to stoop to our cries; and who, when we utter our cry, retreats to inacceesible Beights, with 3 cruel non possumus, snd_consigns us to soutlesa law or inexorable fate 7 ' Muserable, indeed, 18 thie lot of humanity and dark its foture if iis God e but & dismal crestor of contradictions! But our God in pot such, ae we read Him in the light of oar intuitione, The uniformity of pature, in the sense of excludicg supernstural intervention, 1% s got e intai- tive ion or mn cr‘lgu:i ith of rea- gon, while the senes of aependence snd the stinct of prayer.are; and, therefore, we interpret na- ture and law by our intuitions with s presumption amounting to demonstration that tae error lies in tho assumption that law estops the Lawgiver from inter- wentjon. Now returning to experfence, we find that what i a5 intuition becomes an sctuslized fact, Just as caro- ful jTocesses of calculation indicated to the French astronomer the celestial locality of an unobserved planet which at once revealed tself when tbe glass was directed thither, 80 our intuitive tense of the eficacy of prayer finas ita immediats correlative in divine nnswers, Wheg buman frality flees to Omnipotence, ita_testimony 8 uniformly that of the Psaimist; o bath attended to law wvoles cf my prayer,” ‘But dwelling 00 longer on theso ents from ex- perience and intuiton, jet us put the assumption of {he absolute sovereignty of law, independent of the power of will, to the test, Isjt true that in the realm of secondary causes, as distinct from God, thera is such independence of Him that no intervention can oocur? It would b fligical fcr any oneto acsert it nunlesabe had exhavstively explored the whole nni- veme. Even granting that s:ience nas faflea to dis- Sover any brea. may she not happen upon. evidences ©of intervention to-morrow? ‘But by what law of consistency do wa controvert the presumption of Divine futervention, while we are our- selvos constantly actua.zing the phenomeson of hu- man interference? Dy the self-deermined excrcise of the power of bis will, s man may modify patural order and arrest ssquences, The law of grawvtation lands my band to this table. Itself canoot move; but oow I will to move it upward, ard gravitation is arrested. 1 donot violate the law, but 1 intervene, an 1 will 1o do, and make the law do my hid- ‘ding, Way should not the Infinite Will have power on 2 hugher piane and to s grester degree to do what His creatures do in s lower sphere T Why ahould it not Le witin the scope of His prerogative, when He pleases (a8, for instance, when He is asked todoso by the woi. e of humble prayer), to bring into play & force of 'will that shaii so modify the succession of events with- out violating His laws of causation, as to produce re- sults which would not otherwise bave been produced 7 ‘Toe fact of human intervention furnishes = strong presumption sgainst the allegation of the eterval and absolute sovercignty of law, £nd arousesthe suypicion that scme onos_bas been generalizing from incompiete inductions. We turn, therefore, 10 naturs to ascer- tain whetber it 18 not possitle to trace evidences of the contact of 3 creative and providentisl will with the universe. Those who scoept historical Christianity find sublime proofs in the Incarnation and 1n all the supernturzlfacts and influences which radiate from that wonderful event. Butss our objector may de- cline Lo hear the testimony of revelation, wo turn Lo Lie favorite book of pature, and wait for R'm o dis- prove the testimony of geology that thers was a tima when uo genus of animawd being existed on the Carih. Tue demonstrated fact of supernatural intervention, howaver, does not preven: tne antagenistof Provi- dence from urging that interference implies caprice, which is inconmstent with the Divine Immutatility. Change impiies a previous error or an incapaafy to forecast the future, either of which is impossible with God. What effect, then. can prayer have on a change- lssaGod? How can that Being reverss or modify Hix 3% the beck of & human suppliant? Thisisa er of the ekeptical objection from the ty o immutabls law to the sovereignty of an immutabls_ God. Wermsy motica i, howaver, s ane reply il mact cither case, . Our argument that law fs not indopendeat of God and that Ho doea micrvens whea and how b chooses, i8 0ot deaigned to chargs him with capricaor fo de- preciate law, but to vindicats His fresdom in His own Dmiverse. Intervention in snswer 1o prayer does not fmply a chanoe of plan. It rather forms ode Lok in 1hs chain of the divine purposes, and the samo may be predicated of the prayer itself. \Vhen a praser reachea {ne Divine Ear, it {s not a surpriso or- o novelty. 1o, who fore-knows all things, bas heard that_prayer in eiernity and constituted boch it and its azawer pazt of the upchangesble order, aud if _the anewer inyolve &a interfereace with the ordinary courte of ss'ond causes, at exceptional actjon fa na much the preduct of Liw, o 'wien the fullness of its time arrives, s any event ; for L1 the ordesing of an immutadle not 3 cspricious od. We do mot deny but maiatain the immutability of 1aw. Wken the term is properly defined, what we clalin as interventions with law, a3 seen from tho ha- man side, are themseises under the control of law in tho divine sensa. 1 we restrict onr ides of law to the recurrence of natural phenomens, We shall with the naturalist incline to spotheosize mature, clothe 1t with the attributes which aro denfed tho grest God, and denoune the muraculous end providentsal sa impossibilities; but, il by law wo mean the expresmion of the W.II of Ooe who rita en- throned above overy second cause, endowed with the power of electing and applying other methods of act- ing than those which we ee, ~we ahall find ouar fdeas of the empire of law ex- panding, and we shall ive that tho torm *‘na- tare™ defines not a mere province of God territorially incinded within the sphero of our human coguition but passing beyond its narrow conflues and embracing the vast system of eauses and offocts, physical sud moral, which lie beyond us. The eye is thus uplifted from 4 part to the whols, and we stand in adering wonder before . magnificent universe of which onr ++ gystem of nature ™ is only worthy to be regarded as the outer gate of approach, We gaze upward futo tuis bouadtess realm of tue Infinite, with its world of angels 2nd their bright hierarchies mountinz upward in besutiful array to the crowning archanel We discover that world where, Paradise, the sprits of the departed serve God dsy and night. We ook outward upon the infinitude of forces aud magnitudes which owe their being to_the energies of an exhaustless Creator, avd wlich afford His creatures s field for unlimitod pro- greas and elevation. Tuus wa resch a nobler concep- tionof Naturesnda higher idea of lsw_and a wider sphere in which the Infinita God reigns, The phenom- enaof thst higher world may be supernatural ia our limited view of nature, but are not so much super- TDatural as superhuman—above us, but not above law ; and when, in tbe providence of the Universal Ruler, they are projected, s it were, into our lower sphere, a3in the case of miracles or of anawers to prayer, thers 1a neither auspension or violation of law, but the intro- Quctlon of a higher cause which operates according toa law of ita own, As v's see constantly, iu our own order, lower laws coming under the induence of higher, chem- jcal of vital, physical of moral, 6o hera ; and while the intervention may to our ears sound discordant) nevertheless the bells of the universe ring and alw: bave rang in chime to the ear that hears them all. Thus the incarnation of the Logos—the Eternal Re- vealer—was the manifestation of the higher within the sphere of the lower, and tho train of miracles and special providences which attended His advent, His ca- reer n the world and His departurs from it were the ontflashing of that more glorions order which Ho came to reveal conformably to its own lsws. They wers credentials of His mission, but thoy were more—they wese its natural effects, the inevitable sccompani- ‘ments of & Divine Incarnate, St. Peter. in bis Pente- costal sarmon, said of Him: * Whom God bath raised up, baviog loased the pains of deatn : besauso it was nof possitds that He ahould be bolden of it." Ols- Dausen parsphrases this language a8 follows : *It was Jmpossibls on acrount of the very naturs or being of Jerus Christ, since the Son was lite in Himself." ' T am the Life,” sald our Bleased Lord of Himself; and 13 contact with us by union with our humanity was ihe insugueration of a supernataral order in the world, in which at every step We meet supernataral tacts snd forces, end are ourscives lifted ap ont of the line of the firat or natural Adsm into the stock of the second or supernatural Adam. Luther said that the true mir- acle of Clristianity was the creation of spiritual lifs in ! o ul:l:Lnlna the ph t th t- 5 thus o phenomens of the supernal uraland the providential their in tho system of universal nature, we do_not adopt the creed of the paturalist. Law implies a Lawgiver, and the momeut you separate the emiciencs of the First Great Cause fTrom second causes you make the Iatter 50 many gods, and s0 restore the Romn msthology, or the deifica- tion of the powers of nature, Let us depreciats nelther the Lawgive: nor the law, In medid tuttssimus itiz, We make no concesslons £0 error in scknowledg- ing the truth that may be mingled with it. Our at- tack must be concentred on the errorist's negations and false inferences, and we must fortify our mnds in the conviction that our religion (ss Dr. Fairbairn bus said)— “ Neither merges God in the works and opera- tions of Dature mor ssoclates Him with one de- partment more peculiarly than another; while still 1t presents all—the works themselves,'the changes ihey undergo, and_every agency employed in accom- plishing them—in dependencs on His Arm and subor- dinate to His Will. He is in all, through all, and over all,” ‘How does the truth, thus vindicated and elucidated, Qignify prayer] How it solemnizes the act In which we 80 often’ engage thoughtlessiy and prosecute for- mally | How suggestive 1s it of the possibilities of faith, pleading at the foot of God ! Physical science msy be regarded aa nnfriondly to religion only in the sense that its incomplete revela- tions ara prostituted o unfriendly uses by theorists ‘who would substitute for faith in God s pitiful creduli- tyin themselves, Upon fair principles, science, in- terpreting nature, is the hand-maid of religion, and us to prayer. God's autographs on the e of mature and the page of revelation are {den- cal, In sssigning phenomena place in the symmetry of naturs acience is only demonstrat- ing the magnificence of the Presiding Deity, Let us, then, beware leat we releasa the grip of 3 manly faith on otir banner, and let us 8o establish our hearts and minds in the terity of * those thi which are moat surely believed among us, evon &a they doliversd them' unto us, which from the beginning wers eye- witnesses, and_ ministers of the word ” (Actsi., 1, 9), that we aball cherish with Hebrew ardor the beifef of the immediate supervision of God over His work ana His willingness both to hear end answer prayer, *‘ And this fa the conOdence that we have in Him, that, if wo avything sccording to His will, Ho besreth ue,” (L. Jobh, v., 14.) And, in the presence of our skep- tical nruallants, et us stand steadfast and unsbaien,— ++gtand like an anvil, and we wil by-and-by spoil the face of the lhl,mmm', 'and wear out the strength of the erars | g amid the bles:seducss of ——— THE RESULT. MOODY'S OPINION OF IS BROOELYN WORK. A reporter of tho Brooklyn Arqgus oxtiacted some opinions from Mr. Moody on the eve of his departuro from Drooilys, among them the following : “ Do you think that youand Mr. Ssnkey have so- mplished muca good during your sojourn bere 7" 4 Yess 1 am_perfectly ssusfied,—uo, I won't s2y that, for I wouid not be satisfied with our work in any plice unless I saw every man, woman, and child in it converted before I left. That would be full satiefac- tion ; but I don't suppose we can expect to attain that full ineasurs of glocy in any p I am satisfled, Bowever, that God's Uleseing ‘has rested on our labora here, and that we have plunted sced that will bring a great harvest for God s glory, and tne good of the peo- Ple of this city and neighborbood. “1 supposs the work will be continued in the churches afser you leave.” “Oh, ses. Our work is only preliminary.” We come Rere, and, under God's blessing, we stari a religious revival. Then, after we leave, the work rung. along in the regular chaanel, 13 continued, and, as far as pus- sibile, completed. You have enough churches, mis- wions, Sunday-schools, snd prsyer-meetings in this city to do the work. 1t only needs starting to contin- uein full force, and 1 ihink it has received an impetus that will carry it along. 4 iave you found the ministers of the city cardjl and concert in their efforts to help you 2" “ Yes, indesd. 1 cannot express sufficiently my gratitado to the clorgymen, Ouriftian laymen, and women, to the members of the Young Men’s Christian Assuciation, and fo the good peopie generally of the City of Brooklyn far their earnest eforis to help Alr, Sankey and myself. They have dons all in their power workifig with their whole souls, and have materially aidea us. We bave re:eived nothing but kindneas and encouragement. Our work bas Leen arduous, but Christisn eympsthy has greatly helped us.” %1t bas been stated in some of the papers that by far the greater number of reoplein your audiencea were church members, snd Caristians who wers al- ready converted, and that, therefore. your work was comparative fuilure,as it did notreach those who 5 needed to be brought under the influencs of re- ligion ; in other words, that siunera received no bene- fit, because their Christian brethren didn’t give toem N enatas wad. roilly 5ot o egh * I suppose that was at the beginning of the wor Christians naturally will come to a place of thot kind 8rst. They come because they like to at- tend the minisiration of God's Word. Sinners won't come until after the thing has got started. They come merely from curiosity, They read the newspapers, which, of course, give glowing accounts of the ‘meetings, and they say, ‘ We've got to_goand ses this thing.' . They don’ care for the singing, and preach- ing, and praying, but they want to see t0o show. Thus they are brought under the infinence of the Holy Spirit, and eometimes a word is spoken that touches their hearts and they are saved. Christianity and cu- rioty combined were the first large sudience, but when we found that we weronot g the ein- nars we took means to gain that end. _For the last two woeks we have been strenuously trying toget at ther, and I think we succeeded. Of courne we could not kéep out all the charch members, but I believa Istterly 8 far greater portion of our sudiences was com) of peaple who are not church memoers. ¥ “How long do you proposs i stsy in Philadel- proa T 1 don't think we will leave thers much before the end of January, but that depends on circumstances. From there wa 'go to the Hippodroms at New York. 1t has been engagee for three months, and it will take nearly a month to Aix it up. We expect to stay there two montbe, That will carry us up Lo April™ ' Have you made any engagements ufter thatn 4 No, sir. By that time we will be pretty well tired ont, snd will peed somerest. What we may do after our New York engagement will be owing, in great measure, to the condition of the wark elsewhere, and if wo sees field ripe for the barvest we will goand work, and God will give us the strength to carry it on. 1 have great hopes for the work {n this city and New York, ecause the meetings here bave produced action amoug the churches there, which has led ta the or- gunization of vrayer meetings and earmest work for tne ontpouricg of the spirit, and when ve get to woik §n New YOrk, iho mestings there will serve to pro.ong the feeling here.” 'BEECHER'S YIEW OF MOODY'S WORK. Plymonth Church lecture-room was crowded at Mr. Beecher's weekly talk Nov. 19. The bar- den of hin remarks was, what was the proper course for Plymonth Church to pursue, in fur- therance of the revival work, afterthe departure of Mesars. Moody and Sankey. He thought that to attempt to carry on the xrut meetings | that Fricndsha wonld be s mistake. * Shall we Attempt to have, a little rink in every charch? Bhall everybody try to be s kind of Moody snd Sapkey? Imita-: tions are always inferior, alwaya on the ‘ragd down-hill, sud to attempt to imitate those men succossfully requires that you ghall"be those men, requires that you shall bave their standpoint io theology, Tor caitainly they sre not careless workers; ‘there n&ver' were men working from wmore thorongh canception of the truth than those men. It was my pleasura to Lave two or three hours’ gonference, with Mr. Moody Iast Saturday at mv own house. and 1 Jearned more perfectly of the interior forces that are at work. and [ thonght I saw the secret of his working plan—I am not speakiog of the pecret of his Ohnstian life, bat sitmply of this one thing that gives point and poculiarity to hig labor. He is a beliaver in tho sccond advent of Christ, not only, but in our tine, and eays it is sheir mission workx, Thero are 17,000 Indians, uoder the caraof the Society. Blondsy eveninz Mrs, - Haonsh Whitall Smith, the évangelist of Phuladeloh:a, spoke toacrowded: house upon **Compblete 8anctitication and Gon- secration to Christian Work.” <Tuesday morn- ing Dr. J. T. Garner pave ap accoan: of lus Iabors among the poor whites of Tennessce and -Western-North Carolina, and -extiorted-Fiiends to zoal in this dopartment of misaion work.: CHARLES H. REED AND THE BIBLE INFORMATION CALLED FOB. To the Editor of The t:hicago Tribune : £X Curcaao, Noy. 37.—3r. Charles H.. Reed, in your Sunday edition of the 2ist inst., tells us, in speaking ot the rovision of the Bible, of the em- inent men who are 'called to” the worlk, of the groak care thoy are bestowiog upos their task, and of the time which will be required in 1ts 00 use attempting to work for tbis world. This 0ld Ark. be says, i gowng to eink, and the only thing to do is to get as mavy of tho crew and assengers out of hor a8 possible and let her go SOW::. sod that therafore the busioess of ev. Christian mgn and wozau s to work and waif Mr. Beecaer said, in continuation; that he conld not believe any euch thing, ‘IfL did beliove that, I should be a burning fire all the time : but 1tis nouse my trywug to believe it, in order to be a burning fire. ~ I should' like to believe as & ‘genuine Catholic does in the Virgic Mary, but that don’t help me; not a bit. I should like to beliove that priests are ordsined of God to hear confcssions of men and absolve them, 8o that when they had gone up smutty they should come cown clean aa linen. I believe that tho world is going to last and to grow better stead- iy, I befiove there 1sto bea future, which shall ripen the race, and thousands shall be con- vertod in & day; tbat iha pew heaveo snd the pow earth shall’ come, and by progression, not by miraculous appesrance. 5o it 18 for every Church to exert itself in iis own way, and they wmll reap abundantly, asI hope to resp abuo- dantly.” After some remarke by the brachren, Mr. Hal- lidsy told of one town in the coantry ‘where all the stores were closed, aud the merchaats and their clerks attending mesting. Mr. Beecher said ho had rathor have tnat than pothing, but that was not the right way. *‘What 0,” 8aid Le, **is that men can carry iness with religion, and do 1t a great n, [Applaase.} Don't, don't, don't do that? Clapping Peter at Pentecost wonld have basn a poor business, I think. I wantto sea the teauty of God made 80 sweet and the love of God o dear that the men scceptivg it shall be a hundred timea as much men a8 they wers befors.” AL THE ORTHODOX FRIENDS. BIENNIAL BUNDAY-SCHOOL CONFERENCE. The eighth biennial confersnce of the Ortho- dox Fricnds First Day School Associations of North America ended s four days' session in Philadelphia Nov. 16. This confersncs repre- sented the Garneyite, or, as they consider tham- selves, progressive branch of the Saciety, a8 op- posed to the Wilburite, or more conservative branch, Notmany years after the separation of the Friends in 1827 the Orthodox Friends were torn by dissensions concerning matters of doo- trine and church government, Thoy finally di- vided in every yearly meating, except Philadel- phis, into these two divisions, each of which claims tobo the Soclety of Friends. The Gur- neyites are pamed from the Englishman, Joseph John Gurney, and the Wilburites from a prescher named Wilpur, who was influential among them at the time of the separation. The Gurneyites are in favor of First-day, or B unday-schools, attach great importance to the Bible, 2s a means of conversion, as well as s rule of faith and practice; ars aggressive, zealous, greatly inter- ested 1n missions; not averse to muasic ; 'and, in fact, resemble in many respecta both the Metho- dists and the Low-Church Episcopalisus. The Wilburites are strictly conservative, vary plain in dress, manner of speech, and of living ; wonld excommunicate (at least 1n Philadelphia Yearly Meoting) any member who placed & piano in his house, and are not specially interested in mis- sions, believing that the ‘‘lNght within” is sufficient for mao's guidsoce hero and hereatter, and that the.efore the * Written Word,” ot Bibie, is not a necessity to all man- kind. The Gurneyites are more numerous and powerful in New England aud the West, whilo tho Wilburitea ars an influent:al bady in Phila~ delphis, Now York, and Baltimore Yearly Meat- ings. Some of the more ngid sevaroly eondemn the Philadelphia Yesrty Meeting for not haviog divided, declaring that il 18 held together by the enormous value of the landed propersy which it owns, to divide which would probably take long and troublesome htigation. Eleven Yearly Meetings, namely, New England, Now York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Western Ohio, Indians, Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, and Canads, wera represented in the Couference. Besides these, several independent First-day schools sent delegates. - The report of the Sta- tistical Committes shows that thers are in thess eloven Yearly Meetings 2,895 officers and teach- ers, 32,844 popils eorolled, snd.an average at- tendsnce of 19,768 upon Firat-day schools. Each session of the Conference was opsned* by read- ing » portion of the Scriptares. ‘Lhen followed generally one or more prayers and sermons by the ministers present. Dr. Dougan Clark, of Richmond, Indiana, wsa made permanent Chair- man, not by election (Friends never call for the veas and nays), but by the unanimous voico of the Conference. ‘The tirst question considered was: *How should teachers’ meetings be conducted 80 »a to be of most practical bevetit to, the school?” It was decided that the maoner of presenting sub- jects to papils sbould be settied at these meet- ings, 50 aa to iosure umformity of opiuion, . Mary K. Murray, of New Yors, thought that teachers' meotings should be mainly devoted to pisyer. On Friday eveoning, Prof. Thomas Chase, Presi- dent of Haverford Collegs, an orthodox Quaker execution, Norw, what I wish to ask, and what every thonghtful, sensible man in this and every other community desires tq a3k, is, Yhy, if the, Bible is, as is claimed for’it, the inspifed’ Word of God, spoken by the Almigty diract 1o the childrén of men, a Conncil had™ to'be convened every fow years to correct its errors and place it in accordauce with the spisit -of the aze? Did the Great Infinite make nffstakes in talking to his children ? Did He, at the timo of speaking to His offapring, overlook the progressive suirit of the age? These are questions mwany citizens would be glad to ges light apon. - A Geonog J. MAXWRLL. R i RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY, TOE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., which was opened this fall uoder the direction of the Methodis: Episcopal Church South,. vow has 400 students. - A memorial tree chapel and school building, coating 135,000, were recently copsecrated in Phuladelphia by the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania. The buildings are entirely free from debt. ) . i The Baltimore Afirror gives a list of seventy- fiva Catholio churches in that diocese where the forty houra® devotion will be observed during the current ecolesinstical ‘year, from liov. 23, 1875, to Nov. 26, 1876. The Presbyterian Board of Foroign Minsions reporia s doficit on Nov. 1 of $226,000. ‘ The deficit on Oct. 1 was $195,000. During October the receipts foll 4,000 short of the contribu- tions of the eame month last year. Concerning the engagement of & pastor by a church in Kentucky, a member writes to & relig- ious paper : ** We have secured his services for the ensuing year at the salary bf §100. We are looking fcrward for great blassings!” The Presbytery of Baltimoro comprises forty- pine Presbyterian ministers, four licentiates, forts-three churches, 4,708 communicants. - This Presbytery, with that of Newcastle and of Washingron Ciiy, constitutes the Synod of ‘Baltimore. ) A deaf mute, now & candidate for orders in New_York, is soon to bo admitted to the priest- hood, tho firat cass .since the day of Pentecost. ‘The New York Deat MateMission Society suprorts ahome for aged and intirm deaf mutes in Bast Thirteenth strast. g The African Repository states that since the close of the War 3,000 colorea persons have been sent to Liberia and established tnere by the American Colonization Soctory. “The rogular fall expecition of tbe Bociety to Liberia is to start during this month. The Boston Young Men's Christian Union, & Unitarian Association, hasissued a request to its friends for subscriptions to’ compicte its boildiog. The sum of $140.56) bas already been given; the further amount desired is §125.000. The building, it 13 expected, Wwill be finished next March, A The increase of Episcopal miniaters in the last year in forty-six dioceses was only twenty-eight overthe deaths, In four years, from 1870 io 1874. there was- a decrease of 200 " in the number of candidates for orders ; during ths same period the Presbyterian Church iocreased the number of its caudidates from 511to 800, and raised $250,000 for theological education. ‘Ihe number of Catholic Inodisos in the United Statesis as follows: In the BState of Maina, 1,400 ; in New York, 900 ; in Michigan, 4,000: iu Wisconsin, 1,480 ; in Mionesota, 10,800 ; in Da- kots, 2,000; in_ Kansas, 2,800: in Montana, 7,829 ;-in the Indian Territory, nearly 100.000; in Arizona, 1,50) ; in Idaho, 700; in Washington ‘Territory, more than 10,000 ; in Oregon, 1,600 ; in Californis, more than 6,000. Chureh property is taxed in California, and this exception to the general rmle among the States was bronght about by the heathen. It was found that the Chinese availed of the ex- extion of charch property to de taxation on their joss houses, which are very oumerons, and mainly merely opium-amokers’ resoita; and ro prevent this it wos found necessary to make goneral the taxation of all real estate used for religious purposes. At the Protestant Bpiscopal Diocesan Conven- tion of New Jersey last week = very bold and Eruuo:l sermon was preached by the Rev. eorge Z. Gray, of Bergen Point, son of Mr, J. A. A. Gray, of New York, and Bishop Odengei er presented thess statietics of tho last year: Number confirmed, 432 in thirty-five parishes; one priest and one‘deacon ordsined ; eight cler- gymen received from other dioceses, saven trans- ferred to other dioceses, and one deposed. ' The admission of lay delegates to the Aunual Conference is now the leading question before the Wesleyan body of Eogland. The special committee in charge of this subject has just held meeting, and adjourned to meet again in Jan- parynext, [ts recommeudutions are to be sub- mitted to the May district meetings, tbe mixed committes of ministers and laymen, and thenext | Qonference. Itis thonght that’iay ropresents- tion will bo, in time, ‘adopted. school near Philadelphbie, lectared upon the his- tory of the Engleh Bible, giving some interest- ing facts in regard to the new version now being made. Heis one of ths translztors, and hopes thac the New Testament will be finished in thres vears, The Old Testament will not be issued for five or 8ix yesrs. . During the discussion of the question, ** What are we to expect asthe resultsof the Bible School 2" Dr. James Rhoads, of Philadelphia, said that teachers should lay especial stress upon the teaching of George Fox and his followers, espocislly in their siogularly clear application of Chnazianity to the affaira of every-day life. The prevalens opinion seemed to b that the most importans resul ot Bible schools ie the ** conver- sfon * of pupils. An interasting illustration was given by Mary K. Murrayof the msoner in which sbo would teach ao adult class. She took a8 - her pupils the Friends mpon tho ** raised benches,” and questioned them to the entertain- ment of the rest cf the Conference. ** How to Study tne Bib!e " waa the snbject of a0 address by Mary L. Kimberly, of Burhugton, N.J. B8he told her hearers that they shou'd dis- miss all doubts as wolvesin sheep's clothing eent for the destruction of their souls. The Bible is God's book, and should be so accepted. oxas Kimber, also of Burlington, took the Book of Genesis a8 a subject, sud made a fari- ous attack upon the Darwiniaa -theory, de- nouncing it 88 equally falao, unscrupulous, and dang+rous, The guestion, * How can the Bible school be made instrumentsl in promoting the cause of temperance?” was answered by Joshua L. Bailey, of Philadelphia, acd by many ' other Friends, mostly women. It scemed to be the Reeral opinion that feachers of Bible day- schools should organize total abstinence socie- tios among their pupils, and use all their infiu- ence to induce those under their care to take the pledge. The terrible effects, phyaical, mental, and moral, of druokenness should be set before them in the strongest light. The importance of teaching the wickedness of war and its inconsistency with the New Testa- ment was spoken of by Daniel Hill, of O He thought this especially necessary, now that n;encale{:rl_liun D‘b‘hla cuumlann‘nl anniversaries of Revolutionsry battles will tend to fill with the martial spirit. pespls In :Enhng of tne Bible, Jobn Henry Dong- lags, the famous Quaker revivalist of Indiaua, referred, rathor zlightingly to that passage in Barcl. *¢ Apology for the/People Called Quak- ers,” which calls it a secondary means of grace, putting the *light within” firdl, Thie brought to his “feet Timothy K. Earle, of Worcester, Mass,, who, in & few earnest words, advocated the views of Friends upon the doctrine of the inper hight, and expressed his regret at hearing it #aid that when they made this prominent they began to decline. He did not beriavu this to be 80. This discussion was soon closed, it being plain that the Conference was suything but anited upon tuis subject. This is remarkable ag the only occasion upon which this doctrine was mentioned. * The Bible and Missionary Work in Mexico,” **The Bible and Missionary Work in Indis,” and ** Christian Worl Among the Indians aad Freed- men,” were the subjects of addresses by Mica- jah AL Binford, Iato of Matumoras: Elkansh Beard, of Indisna ; and Dr. James Rhoads, of Philadelphis, and of remarks from several other members of the Conference. All these showed ive been i n One of the most vjtel qusstions to be bronght before the next General Conference will be thab of the elsctioa of Presiding Eldara by the A nnu- al Conferences, instead of their appointment by the Bisbops. More than, Lalf -the Annunal Conferences biave already chosen their delegates to the General Uonference, and tho Rev. W. H. Pearne has made 2 caiculation &8s to the way they will vote on this:question. His tables foot up: Yeas, ministers, 423 laymen, 18—total, 60. Nays, mipisters, 64; laymen, lfif-ffltfl' 107. Of the'sixty yeas, Mr. Pearnc believes he'kuows at least ten who wiil not vote for the measura whes the tima of aciion comes. The Rev. Dr. Dix.maae some very plain re- marks at the anoual festival of tho noited choirs of Trinity Parish, lust week. He said: Church masic i8 now in a very unsarisfactory condition. Expensive churches ' requiro _popular music 28 well &8 popular preachers. _Instead of hearty congregational sioging we find the involntions, evoluzions, and ‘coovolutions of quartette choire, or else the faultlessexscution of a soloist paid 82,000 s year for sinLiug two sacred songs one day in the week: ‘The popular taste uncul- tivated apd uotutored is in fault. The rejui- sites of church musicare, thavit should be of the esseuce of worship, that it should be de- yotional, sod that it should be simple, 60 that all should tako part in it. The music would 000, One evening & faw days ago, we siTayed into thiy temple out of auriosity, and found a 0zen Irish | lg and two Irishimen, of the poorer class, walking l abont and admising is. Addressing s few inquirics ta thiem we found that they were-brimful of h ppy prida, i #ad gratification ; and they showed us about the bulld: 1og with an unafected rir of proprietorship. -1t was t ¢ rchurch, They felt Just as fres and happy, anl as much ot Lome i as if every dollar t Bad. been paid. gut of their own pocke Wo nizy carp, and fire ayllogisme, snd quote Scripfit and puletio the leagons qf bistory, as mu-h as we ks, #t Wil nat alter tha mizhty fact that hers wan a Mozher Clurii. And Uit fact is a bomb-proof. taouza the devii limsclf wore fnside of it, " Those girls were hav- inga Licf rep.te fm the ‘kit:hens and laundrics and menial servive of our Protestaut families. Wiping off thesteam of the waeh vats and the grime of the pots; they ware heartily welcomed juto a palace re- splendent with muar.le, sud gold, and brass, and pyint- {ng, and the peif:ction of -art. The b mother pressed these humble children to her breast as lovingly &y If they were Princes’ davghters. It was their pal~ ace. They owned it. Can we mae any such showing as this in our Protestant cburrhes f Theocetically, yes: practically and traly, no, No such aceno or senti- iment can be found in connection with any of our grand tpmples. ¥And<unto the poor the gopel is not préached " ag'it is fo the rich. a METHODIST MISSIONS. The General Methodist Misaionary Committes held its closing session in New York Tuesdav. The misatonary appropristions were complet«d. Italy was given $17.435. agaicst $13,000 last vear. Thoincrease wzs made after much de- bate, 2nd on the ground that Italy was the home of Romanism; that the work there was there- fore peculiarly diticult, and that the Pooe feared the Methodist Episzopal Church more than any other Protestant charch. The wporopriation for Mexico was increased from $18,500 to $24,000 on the same gronnd.. Japan was given $17,400, against §17.750 last year. Toe appropria- tions for miscellancous purposes were made $75,000, sgaiost $73,000 last . year, Additions of £600 to the East Oregon and $500 to the Soath Kansas Conferences wera made, and $250 was transferred from the Cantral Northweatern to tne Clicago Conference. The reduction made fell short of tnat proposed by about $4.000. The appropriations were then adopted as a whola by the Committee. It was resolved that to the ap- propriations the total debt, $185.562.84, be added. The Rev. Dr. Dasbiell, the Rev. De. Currv, the Rev. Dr. Nelson, and Bishop Janes were ap- . pointed & Committes to apportion the assoss- ments among the churches, The recapitula.ion of tho appropriations are as follows: 1875, 1878, Forelgn misslons, with ex- : _..$303,853.20 $297,275.00 11,000.00 185,562.84 Totals,. $521,853.20 # $361,216.54 PERSONAL. Bishop Potter, it is stated, will soon lead to the alter Migs Jay, @ member of the historical New York family of that name. The Very Rev. Father Sorin, Suporior-Goneral of the Congregation of the dloly Cross, sailed from New Yorx on the 18th, for Europe, oo af- fairs of his congregation in other regiona. The Rev. Dauniel W. Dye, the newly-called pastor of the Baptist Church as Eankakee, was ordsined on the 12th. The Rev. L N. Carman, of Indianapolis, preached the sermon. Dr. Ellis of Chicago, delivered the chargo to the chourch. # Mr, Hammond, the evangelist, is now in West Philadelphis. Ho holas saveral daily services, the first being st 8 a. m. The meetings are held in Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches, and are well attended. ‘The Rev. A. B. Earl, tno Baptist evangalisy, i8 preaching at Cleveland, O. Mrs. Maggie Van Cott, the well-known femala evangelist, is to commence revival meetings in St. Jobu's Methodiss Episcopal Church, New- berg, Dec. 4. This lady made quite a stir in religions circles 10 Yonkers recently, where about 100 persons professed conversion in her meetings. The Rev. Mr. Nobleis » Portage (\is.) Free Methodist preacher, who is carryiog oo his evangelistio work in an independent and original way. He has purchased a steamboat, ana with it be travels up and donn the Wisconsin River, holding revival meetings, and blowiog tho Gos- pel trumpet at every landing, The Rev. Johu Atkinson, the mew peator at Grace Mothodist Church, Chbicago, though not by a0y means an old man, has already produced several fino books. Ths titles are as follows : ©The Liviog Wny; or, Sugzgestions and Coun- sols Concerning Some of tho Privileges and Daties of the Christian Life;” * Memorials of Metnodism in New Jersey;” “The Garden of Sorrows; or, The -Ministry of Tears;” *Ths Class-Leader—His Work and How to Do It." Pl PIOUS JOKES. Otr brother did at Iast succumb To Death. Life’s active foeman ; His hands gat cold, his lefn got oumb, From the gripo in his abdomen. A baby came to & family in Augnsta, Me., last weok, and a bright 5-yesr-old brother, patting it plasfaliy under the chin, ingaired: **Ssy, how was God when you left 2" A good deal of sectarizn feeltng has been ex- cited in Cincinnati by & youog girl being sent to the workhouse for taking the veil. It was another woman's. It was an Indiana farmer who remarked, *I want to go to heaven, bat when a cow kicks me I'm bound to wallop her with the milk-stool if I pever got within o milo and a balf of tha gatos of paradige.” ¥ "'hat must have been a beautiful sight at the Moody and Sankey meoting when four mothers- in-law arose to’ present special requests for prayer that their sons-in-law might experience a change of heart, : + Humph,” grambled s cynical individual, a8 ke first caught sight of the emblams in the wia- dows of a church, “ That's well chosen, angway —na small 6ross and & big crown ; & correct meas: ure of modern piety.” . = A notice in Boston street cara reads : * Conn- terfeit money not taken for fare.” And now those who want to get rid of the bogua stuff are com pelled to exther go to church and put it on the colléction plats, or give it to the street beggars. The Rev. M. D. Conway told a,Chicago audience the other eveving that thero wasn's any such personage as the ‘Devil. And then jou could tell by the way his hearars pricked ap their ears, by the murmur of joyous whispers, aud by the merry crack of the perout-shell, what a bur- den of dread had been lifted frcm their souls. —Brooktyn Argus. » A new conflagration reporter in New Orleans haa failed to keop bis situstion, though he wrote like this : ‘¢ Near the entrance of the cemetsry stood the Grecian mausoleam of —— Fire Com- pany No. —, its gorgeous and brilliant cecora- tious sbowing that the gallant boys do not for- got_that toewr departed comrades are still brave- theu be the voice of the whole people, and not of the choir. ¥ A DROMAN CATHOLIO DEVIVAL. The revival -movement appears to be makin, its way thronghout the wholé country, aud Charches which, from tneir liberalism or their conservatism, were supposed tp regard the move- ment with little favor, are joining in it. The 1ast number of the Christian Register contains & long account of *Catholio Revivals in Boston,” 20d describes & meeting in the-old Chambers Street Church, once a Unitarian and now a Ro- man Catholic church. The smght from the choir, where ths writer, - Bat, was remarkable. No women, except a! dozen in the choir, were present. The meering had been held daring the whole week, and sometimes s8 early as 5 o'clock in the morming. Two thousaud men and boys occupicd the seais. ihe latter chiefly. in the gallenies. Tie *Rosary” was first said, the audience making the responses and repeat- ing ths ¢* Pater Noster " many times over. prasers at the altar were in Eoglish. At the close of the preliminary services the preacher, crucifix in hand, advanced iu front of ths altar and apoke from the text, *‘Choose ye thia day whom ve will serve.” After s very earnest ser- mon the preacber said: ‘Tnose who are ready. to reponuce the world, the fesh, and the-devil, stand np,” and 2,000 persons at leaat stood up and _in messured cadence repeated the solemn words. In reply to the guestion, ** How many will keep their vows?” J. P, replies, *Lwonld ask in return, Who knows? Protestasts some- times rmake solemn resolutions, sad some break and some keep them, at great revival meetings and elsewhere. “Who knows " - * - THE FEELING OF OWNERSHIP. The Interior of last week bas the followin editorial paragraph, which has ability and goo uc;n nough to have been written by an out- aider: ZLast Sabbath the Boman Catholics dedicated their new Cathsdral of the Holy Nama, aituated an the oor- ner of State and Superior streets, North Division. It is the most besutiful temple in ita interior and ‘execution we have sver sesd. - There is not a of | dabt oa i, thongh a0 building oast $300,-.| iy battling with the flery elements in another world.” A g The late Dr. Erskine, ons of the ornaments of the Scottish National Church, was a clergyman of deep and earnest piety. One day, when some- thing had occarred to irritate him and to put him into so violent 5 passion.that language eeemed to be denied him for a time, Christianity putting & curb on the rofractory tongue, the Leadls ratber archly queried: **Would an aith reliove ye, gir? " A Dacbury man's wife ig named Nell. Thers is nothing in & name, Sbakspears tslls us, but this Danbury man manazes to extract considera~ ble comfort from this cognomen. When he comes home at night and can't find his slippers, he screams out * Whers, Nell, is them slip- ers?” And theo, when she produces them nicely 1aid away where they belong, he sajs i1 a subdued voice, ‘*How, Nell, did I know they wore stuck baock there ? - 4 \What keeps Mr, N— from kirk, James ?" eaid & worthy mivister. * I bopo 1t's not Meth- odism.” ¢ No,” responded the verger; *it's somethiog worse than Methodism.” - ** What, then; is it Calvinism 2" * Worse, your rever- ence, worse I” © Surely, James, it is not De- ism ?” * Much worse, an’ it pleass yonr rover- ence, thaa even that.” * Good Heavans!™ said the astonisbed pastor, “*can it be Atheism which deprives us of the best church warden that ever shiook 8 box ?” * Truly,” respocded the pioua James, *+ 'tis & much more serious matter ; 1t is rhenmatism.” A good old Methodist lady, very particular ana very pious, ouce kept & bosrdin;-honse in Bos- ton. Stanch to her principles, she would take 1o one to board who did not hold to the eternal punishment of s large portion of the race. But the people were more intent on carnal comforts than spiritoal bealth. so timt in time ber house became empty, much to her grief and alarm, After some time & binff old sea Captain knocked 8t the door, and the old lady answered the call. «-Servant, ma'sm. Csn you give me board for a “few days? Got my ship here, and shall be off £oon 28 I load.” * Wa-al, Idon’t dmow," enid the old lady. % Oh, houss full}.ah 2. 4 No *Btt wha@ ma-am? " 9r€d:§'z Sl of caroal’paople in my honag!. What do vou fbe- Jieve 7" *¢ About what 2" *:Wh.db yoa baheve thatany ens will be cordemned 77 Qb toun. der! yeul™ v brightening an. -* Well, hos many souls do you tuiak will bo in fire eteraa 1v2 7 * Dont know, ma-am, reallv—noier-.calculated thal” youguess?” ‘ Can’t say—peruaps fifkty thou- sand.” * \Wa'al, hem!" "mused the 2o0d wo- man; “Igiers I'll take you ; fifty thousand 13 belter thaTnothing.~ -+ - ~- A The ‘death . has ocourtad, at tho age of -69, of ! $h6 Rev. Frank Burges, B. D., Re:tor of Winter: bourne, Bristol, and formerly Fellow of St Johw's Collegs, Oxford. author of that admirable tu guoque which si- lencod Bisbop Wilbarforca on oue occagion. Mir. Burges was once taken to task“by hia digcasan for buntinz : to which be replied inz ho did not thiok it was more uncleri¢kl than -dancing, hav- ing observed tnat tho B'shon bad attended Her Eajesty’s gtate bajls, The Bishop excused him- self by sayng: n:uf.‘}m wag pever in the same ropm with fhe dancing. To which ths witty re- tort was : ** No'more al ot the o o0 ™ Ty Y lopd 12 tho gamo RN AT, i CHURCH SERVICES.. : PRESDYTERIAN, Prof. Swing will preach at the Fourth Church, cor- ner of Rush and Superior streets, in the morning. —The Rov. David J. Busrell will preach at West minster Ohareh, carner of West Jackson and Peori streats, at 10:33 &, m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject : * Vice-President, Wilson; " evoning: “I Prsy Thes' ‘Have Me Excnsed.” : —The Rev. Chatles L, Thompaon will preach at the FUfth Ghurch, corner of Indians avenue-and Thirtiath street, and 10:32 &. m. and 7:30 p.m, Evening sub- ject:" *The Power of the Holy Gaosi™ * - —The Rev. H. M. Paynter will preach at Campbell Patk Church, Leavitt street, botween Lesington and. Flournoy strects. Morning subject: “The Victory of Faith.” G —The Rev. James Maclaughlan will preach at the 8cotch Church,. corner of Sangamon and:Adams streats. Morning eubject: “ Remembered Love; evenlng lecture, * Noah,” 5 —The Rev. HenryT.MiDler, pastor, will preach meraing and evening in the Sixth Gharch, corner of Vincennes and Oak avenues. Morning subject: 4 Henry Wilson, s Model for Young Men.” —The Rev. J, Munro Gibeon, pastor, preaches this morning in the Szcond Church, corner AMichigan ave- npe and Twentleth street. Evening sermon by the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D., of the Firat Church. ~The Rav., Dr. Samuel Fallows, of St. Pauls Be- formed Epiacopal Church, preaches this morning in tho kighths Preabyterian Church, corner of Washing- ton and Robey streets. Evening sermon by the pas- tor, the Bev. 5. W. Daffleld. ' —The Bev. W. 0, Young preaches at 10:30 &, m. and 70 p. m. in the Fullerton Avenus Charch. o "CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Albert Bushnell will preach at the Leavitt Btreet Church, corner of Leavitt and Adams screets, morning and evening. —The Rev. Wiliiaw A. Bartlstt will preach at the ‘Piymouth Church, Michigan avenus, betwoen Twanty- Arth aud Twenty-sixth streets, at 10:30 3, m. o service in tho evening at 7:30, —Prof. J.T. Hyde will preach morning and evening in Union Park Cuurch. —Tho Bev. L. T, Cbamberlain preaches morning and evening in the New England Cuurch, corner North Dearborn street and Delawsro place. : - METHODIST. The Rev, W. Willing will preach at the Oakisnd Chiuteh 1a tho morning, and tho fav. P F, Kidreth in the eveaing. —Tho Rev, Dr. . A. W, Jewstt will proach at the Firat Churct, corner of Clark and Washington sireets, 3t 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabject for the day? “God's inviible things shining tbrough the things that are wade.”® —Tho Rev, 8. H. Adams will preach st the Cente- nary Courch, Monroa straet, nesr Morgin, at 10:30 a, m.42d 7:30 p. m, Evening subjeck: Poailus Flaia ed His Molemn Baccsssors.” —The Kev. H. L. Martin will preach st St. Pauls Church, near the corner of Newoerry and Maxwell streets, st 10:40 & m, and 7:30 P, m.. —The Hey. Mary T. Latorop. will presch morniog and evening in Michigan Avanis Church, near Tnirty- second street. - i —The Rev, John Atkinson, pastor, will ‘preach at 1020 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. in Grace Church, cormer of North La8sile and Waite streets —Tao Bor. X, H, Astell will preach this mornizg on « Firat Principles,” and this evening- on “ It Is Fin- ished,” in_Park Avenue Church, corner Robey street. —U. W, Whittle and Prof. Bliss will presch and aing the Gospel this evening in ths Chicago Ayentis Caurel, corner of LaSalls struec, —Dr"C. H. Fowiér, President of . the Northwestern University, will preach this mornmg at 10:45 sad this erening st T:u0 in Trinity Odurch,® Indiana avenue near Twenby-fourth atreot. DBAPTIST. The Rev. Dr. F. M, Elis will preach at the Mich'gsn Avenue Ohurch, near. Twpnty-third strest, ot 1l e.m. and i:30 p.m, —The Rev, Florence McCarthy will preach at the Amity Church, corner of Warren avenus and Roboy Birest, 3t 10:30'3, D, and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject : #The Fatuso Triumph of the Church ;¥ evening: “The Trial of Jesus Before Pliate.” @ —Yhe Rev, Joun Dounelly, of tns Englewood Church, and the Rev. J. . Whitshead, of tns North Siar Corch, corner of Divirion and Sedgwick sireets, will exchange pulpils morning and evening, —The Bev. W, W, Everts, peator, will prech morn- ing and evening In the First Church, corner of Bouth Park avanue and Thirty-irst stract, —The Rev. James Goodman, pastor, will preach morning ond evening in the Hyde Park Chareh:™ * —1The Rev. N. F. Baviin will preach at10:45 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. in the Open Communion Buptist Chuzeh, corner of Loomis and Jackson streets. —The Ber. W. 8. Hamiin, pastor, will preach morn- ingand evening in Templa Caur:h, corner of Harzi- s0n and Sungamon Atrec's, Alorning subject : * Toe Daty of Chrisuan Purents;” eveming: * Opportumi- ties for Dowg Good.” —The ltev. D, B. Cheney, D. D., pastar, will preach morniog and evening in the Fourth Church, cofner of Waahinion-and_Paulina strests. Evening .tople : 4Thé Kevival of Pentecost” (contmued). = .~ The Rev, J. P, Butes will presch this mdrning in the Secona Church, corner of Morgan aud Monros streets, Kvening ermon by Lo pastar, the Rev. T, W. Goodspeed. _Baptism with evening service. The BHev. R. DeBaptiste, pustor,. preaches this moruing in Olivet Cuurch, on Fourth avenus, south of Polk street. Evening sermon by the Rev, T, L. John~ san, of Providence Biptist Caurco. —The Rev, Dr. Narthrop will preach morning and evening in the University Place.Charch, Dougias place, at the hiead of Rhodus avenus. ‘—The Bov, J. D. Burr, pastor, will preach morning and evening in Immanuel Courch, 853 North Halsced streot, near Sophia street. EPTSCOPAL. ¢ The Bov. Benjsmin A. Iiogers will preach at the Church of the Epiphany, Throop strees,batwesn Moa- ros and Adsums sirsats, at 10:30 3, m. aud T:0 p. m, —The Rev, Henry G, Perry will preach at All Satnte® o corner. of Norih Carpenter and Fourth sttests, morning and eveuing. * Tile Rev. Fraucis Mnsfield will presch at tho Church of the Atouement,corner Washington and Robey streets, at 10:: m. and 3 p, m. 2 Thio Rev. Goorge C. Street will preach at t. Peter's Chapel, No, 115 Staie street, at 10:w0 & m. Holy com- monion 3t #45a m. - < ‘Z'The Rev. Dr. Cushmsn will preach &t St, Ste- phen, Jounson street, beiwoen Taylor and Twéifth, 8t 10:30 . m. and 7:50 p. 1. ) —The Rev. E, Sullivan, Rector, will officiats morn- ing and evening in Trintly Courch. Aorning sunfect : 4 The Advent of Christ,” Evening suuject : ** Whare, and What, and for Whom, is Heaven 7 —The Rav, D, F. Warren, Rector, will oficiata morn- ing and evening in Sk, Muk's Cuurch, corner Cottage Grove svenue aud Thirty-aizth stréet, —The Rev, H. O, Kmnney, Kector, will officiate in the Church of the Holy Communion, South Dearnorn street, near ‘Twenty.pinth, morniogsnd eveniag. islahop Elliots, of Western Tezas, will otticiate thin evening in St Jomes Oaurch, corner of 'Cass and Huron strects, Morning service will be conducted by the Rector, the Rey, S8amue; S. Harris, ~The Re thur Ritchie will obiciale morning snd evening in thd' Church of the Ascenaion, coruer Eim and Iigalla sreets. AMoming subject: % Throe Notahla Duties.” Evening sabject: * Death.” —The Rev. Georgs Wallace, of Janesville, Wis., will oficlate morning and eveniog in St. Joun's Chirc, corner Ashland and Ogden hvenues. P BEFORMED EPISCOPAL. . The Rev, H. Hosworth will preach at Emmanuel Church, corner of Hanover and Twenty-eighth atreets, morning and eveuing. The Bev. Dr. Duitield, pastor of fhe Elghth Presby- terian Church, will preach in St, Psul’s Church, corner of Washington and Ann streets, {his morning. Even- ing sermon on * Jews, Greeks, aad Curlst Crucifed,” by the Rev. Dr. Faliows. T There wLi bo RO sorvice in Christ Church, Re- formed . Episcopal, to-day, owing to Fepaira made. . * 2 The Rey. Albert Walkley wiil preach morning and evening in the Church of the Good Shopherd, corner g e A wiveets, near Uaion Ralliag-iiils, . UmTABIAé(; i The Rov, 8. 3, Barrows, of Cambridge, Mass., will ‘preach at the Fourth Canre, corner of Prairio aveaus ind Thirtleth ntreet, at 10:30 . m. “—The Rev. E. oweli presches this morning ia the Third Church, corner of Laflln aud Monros streets, In the evening ¥rof. W. I Hoisington delivers his loctura on *Egyptian Antiquities,® ~Tho Rer. Koert Collyer preaches this morning in TUnity Chureb, ~Tho Bev. J. L. Dudley, the eloquent Milwsukes divine, 1s occupying the Charch of the Messiah pulpit pendiog the arrivai of the Bev. Brooke Herford, tor-elect of the Society. Mr. Dudley has not joined the Unitarians, but is offered, temporarily, & frea platform by this Soclety. Y JALIST. USIVERS) The Rev. Bumnper Eilis wil presch s sermon to Evung Peopl. on “Th: Universalist Conception of hrist ! this morning in the Church of the er, corner of Vasnington and Sangamon streets. : —Thes ravival sermons by the Zev, Dr. Ryder, in St Paul's Universalist Cnarch, have been Lirgoly attend- ed. There will bs two more in the serles. 1his even- ing he will discuss ths doctrine of the Atonement, and wiil especially consider the question, *In What Way Does Chriat Save 3en, and What Does He Save them From1” . EXGLI® LUTDERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfous will preschat the Holy Trinity Chureh, corner of North Dearborn and Ecle streets, at 11 8. 1. and 7:00 p. m. The Bav. Knowles Shaw will presch in tha Christian Church, corner of Indlans svenue ad Twangy-nith Do you?” swd tha gosd womani= s Can't., Mr. Barges is the | BJa>r H. 6. 2-Cul'och will preac 0. 213 West adinon arcent oomat oy el drent g, $#=Mr. Cors L.V. Tappad lovtures 1 poiidd: corner of Griea axd Wasbingon streets, at 1o oe) m, 80d T340 5, —CL‘ILHS:B.I will meet for worshi; <l No. 23) Milaakes aveaue, Vo Tellowy H—_s G. Spafford will preach at tha Harrie Bvet Cbapel, cornsr of Paullna streat;at 10:3) a g David Moncemery 3:79) 1. m, | kAl ~-Disciples.of _Carist. mees ab. 900 Wes _ Bany seex to young-men thin eve (LI, Subject: o Why Ehiwe Efgmxh,'.‘ e Tev. T S Cantiue wil ‘spest iy o e al X N R ;.?mfimu W y‘n,;.a:n 2 Home, o, 52 ey —Tae Bev. M. G. Enight wil Toaduct g~ Men's Binls Cass inTowar Farya a'.fi” smé‘gor;o‘n!;?w‘?pf;f e "”:R;l —Eor I3 St herion will dsliver o “Ths Mssion o ) s b L T e : CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK, " EPISCIPAL. Hov. M—Adveat Sunday, oo, 30—8¢, Andrew. L CATHOLIC. Nov, 25— Tirst Sunday in Adveat, Jov. 29 _Vigil of St. Andrsws St Satarntn, ot —sflnmw, il LN e bians, V. 3L 1‘;6‘. '::g(. EP‘:mcixcuX;fler. C. lecs 2, Peter 8010 Iy ) - Feier Chryaologls, B. 0. D.; 8 Butey, HUMOR. Agmart thing—A mastard-plastar, New Bedford 18 sad to have but o left,—a sehoolmaster, & e hily Tailor (measuring fat mkomu)—-'w hold tho ead, sir, while I go rouna?” lm!dyg It is the man with tight boota who talkn mogy violuatly of the etercal fitness of things, . Whoever it was that called & s3usgn ¥y ground-bog " has made tha best pun of rent manuz. ? e Teacher : *What is the definition of fitty. tion?” Intelligent young pupil: “I is aiteg, tion without intention.” “Isn’t your husband s Little bald 2" askeq lady of another. “Thereisa’t a bald hlring head,” was the hasty reply of the wife, A little 2-year-old girl, witnessing aznow. ?ta;m. ianttu her muzher,dmfing: * Memms, ook out of the Window, and ses faling.” S “-hu Jre **Alfred, darling,” tenderly obse: ME:;ukeo’ Wifs o her husband ¢ xfi&’m"i tal own your ears now ; Mariar the celing.™ L ol oy + What in tbat dog barklog at?" sszed afop ““Why.” said » bystander, * he 868 anof Py in your boots.” 5 v e o “The prlil:orner at the bar seems 5 have 4 very smooth face,” sai cectator o +Yes,” replied te jailer,. * ko -u.um'?fi before he was broughtin.” The boy's first really great lesson in acting usaally tikes place upon mestlug his mother search of the paotry-key, 'hieh%lel securely af tho bottom of bis tronsers-pocket. How was it that Capt. Boyton had ameh 3 very hzn&&wdghz to carry when he crosesd the English anel? Decause, as £0on as haliy on his back, his backers laid on him. Tho last and worst joke on the ig Bonsuzais that of the Professor, who. in reply to hia host’s apolngy that the roast goose was large and lssg, said that he **liked a big bone anser.” When a Chinese bauk fails, all the officery have their hoada cut. o acfl fung into s torosr with the assets; anbd jt bas beea 500 years aince there was & bank-failure in that coantry, Grandfather to his hopefal: * My sonm; which wonid you rather bave when you get homa s little brother or s little mster?” Grandson: *+Well, { would rather hava 3 little Jony.” A man rushed excitedly into & lawyer’s offcs in Towanda last week, and Asid: *“A min hss nied a loop 18 1oy borse's tail; can 1 do saything aboutit?™ .**Yes; go and uatieit. Fs $3 “ Has your son Timnthy failed?” inquued Gubbens of Stubbens the other day. *0b! not at all; he has only assigned over his: prop- erty and fallen back to take s beiter postion,* waa the reply. A A A little boy, carrying soms eggs home from tha shop, dropped them. ** Did yon break any2* asked the mother, when he told her of k. : “No," axid the liztle fellow, **but the shells cims off some of ’em."” ¥ +I can't, Abijsh,” she answered, when beof- fered to escort hef to the piano. *‘Can’t sbige mel " he exclaimed, indignantly} *the &~tyou can’t!” and the next moment his coat-tall vz iabed throngh the door. % A cow belonging to Suas Devis, of Vermonl, + ate six skeins of Ars. D.'s carpet-yar, sif knots 1o s skein, the.ssme being hang cas clothes-lige to dry; * and now they don's now whetber it is best to keep tho cow as & oW, arla weave her up ioto carpets. Tié other day when a Detroit grocer spalled sugac **8-b-n-g-o-r,” a friend powted ouk it word aod remarxed, * That word iso's quite right.” Ha! L#ac,” laugbed ths !, < ope would thiok I bad no education.” croased it out, aad wrote, **#-h-a-g-0-r. A wild goose flew into Oregon, and lts cop being opened, revealed s pew- kind of graa. From the &ced 40 bushels have besa i0d the Oregon farmess are sifting on the fences with, tuew elbows on their ¥nees, .wonderag what they shall call the new kind of whisky they will make from 1t i Acompositor, bleeding snd braised, spr for sdmiasion to - » Baltmore hoafital the otker day. 1ttaroed out that he bad setup “Tht Democracy have an abundauce of pless’ soasta read thac they had **au abundaocs of fleas And tha editar ead he'd have Eis revengs ithe wen to jail Shirty daya for it. A man went Into 8 farniture-room ibo gbet day, aud 83t down 0o a-wooden-poteomsd 1 He immediatsly atose, and danced aod box! nnke the wildest kind of dervisn, - Ttis aoxiously inquirad if be- had an steack of soy kind, *4 tackl" yelied the maa;.~ 1 sbasld say so. aud the confoundsd th.hl:g‘gwod‘n'll_ head, too!” " © o ¢ What is. 'h\'v?h,mx'fl' sl " :i;ld 5 mfi;fln t bis patient. ** Ava eatan S0P lmipl suppose they bave dmm?d‘.mh me. « Hava you eslen anything 8ls3 " ‘\’IaJ-Lm'; why, yes, I did, too. _That b, 1 took for m'y a mince-pie, four bottles of ale, and iwo of mn, and I have eaten the ogsters sinee, az really believe the oysiers wers not good for B As » colored resident of Detroit was br the atorm, with a new umbiella over mfi be waa halted by & friend lnd" hflflhfiv asked: °*Is datyour nmbrella? Y‘? _-b‘m‘ cont me $2,7 was ths prompt reply. e age,” sald the oiher, m{l soloanly, . v man will buy 8 82 umbraila ta kesp o8 wab % & 50-cont guit of cluso, what's de use ¥ about economy ?” e Little Spiffkins (who cas bardly affort new suib pSr lnunm(, bus pitronizes 8 fasbio= able tailor): * Oh! by tha by, M. Brows, a8 you suggest :ny mbalnq by ::b:w t: rg from bagging. Brown s w Wel, o fxflf:{ag nlyome w1107 , and that's what moat of m' 4 Z‘m‘l: Bpi&nnn: 4 Tell me | Whatisu?” :r’ Brown : * Well, they order tweaty or uuny» at s ums, eir! " e i Tt is said of Norbury thas he. would at 807 rather lose s friend thaa a joke. On 08 0 sion he began the senien wise : **Prisoner .j‘ lbc{ h;;.r M found guilty by 8 jury of ! of '.he?nml 1a1d to your charge, sod [ mn;':! 1 entirely sgree with the verdloty !&Wm 1 +scoundrel” wnitten in vour fsos e risoner interrupted with Txt_-;'--sme’ .Sacfiun—lmm your I,mjdalupl wherot ‘Judge, ksenly sppreciating the joke, mfl""“ the senteuce into transporiation far soven J —_——————— “LAURA R Little Lauza ! little Laural - b, my love, . . Lot s cold ard pougb, 17 1 4 whose baots were more. polished thaq his ideas, .