Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1876, Page 2

TH "CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, ]876‘—-SIXTEEN. PAGES. —_— 18 freely and effectively as he has me, were Iso lisposed and had nothing better to du..bntcul 1ono ? There is really bat one point of interest 104 value in the discuesion viz. : Wn_Slhbnh chservarce enjoined on mankind at creation s Mr. Lailoy asserts broediy and without aquaification \twas, Wewho docbtor denyssk Mr. B. for proof of bis assertion. He givesusa Tambling d of commentary or interpretation of certain Fagsages, and calls it proof. WWe ses nothiug in 1t baving even a remote likeness to p;nur of his proposition, but be declarss the doetrine pmveq, apd refuses or is unebie to give any better evi- dence, and still positively afirms that the Sab- Yath wes given to tho norld at creation, and that mankind observed it. Tiis is about tho way the mueiter etands a preseat. " Let us begin at the beginning and find out, it wa can, whether Ar. B, has any substantisl ground for bis assertion or not. The subject opens with the recorded fact that God blessed tlo sesenth day =and ballowed it. ect of God ie taken by the vocates of the Sabbath as sufiicient ground for the aftirmation that the Sabbath was given to @an at creation. But I ask, in all Eincerity, is this £ood gronad or avy real ground at all for the asscrtion ? If I ask how wes this blessing conferrod on the day; was it done by tho Creator in an audible voice, ina public, overt mauver, 80 that Adam or whoever lived could besr and understand? Even Mr. B. muost an- swer he does not know. The act of blessing was bevond all dispute the act of God, and, beiog g0, Low could men know what God did unless He zevesledt tothem? Is there a word, phrase, or geutence in the ‘record to ehow that God made any such revelation? The word Sabbath or tho phrase Sabbath observance is pot used, 59 far us the record shows, for 2,500 years after creation. The language in respect to God's bleesing the geventh dsy is unquestionably not that of 1njunction, but of plain recital of what God did.~ Man, or duty, or obgation is not meptioned or hinted at. There is not = whisper in_ 1t 4 of doiog, obeying, or observing. It is Dot in any Eense the langnage of precept, vor it is not sddressed to zny subject'as o rolo of duty. So far astbe mere langnage goes, it has nothing whatever to do with man. % What tte Divins purposs wasin blessiog the day 18 not stated, and can oply be inferred. Alr. Bailey xays Adam wes old and maturs enough 10 understand woat God esid. In this siatement Hir. B. drans on his imagivation, How does ho oo how old and mature Adam was? Was he present at the time, acd did he iuterview Adam, and learn his age and matarity ? Whether be wag cr not, he aszerts with as much freedvm s if be was cognizant of the whole affair. But sdmiiting that Adam was old and mature coough, bow dces Mr. B. know tbat God gave lum any precept at sl in respect 10 Sabbatu observance. 1s not the whole assertion bald sssumpticn? Neitber Mr. Patley, northe Chuich, vor 2if nor an3 of 1ts preatand learned men, cab know what God bas not revealed, sad the silcnco of the record 18 the cvidenco that the revelation has not been meade, But Mr. Bulev declaces they Ead veilal precepts, that they Jived 1o 3 grast age. and handed these veibal precepts cown traditiona'lz. That they lived to a great age, and that they mizht pass eveuts and transactions duwn traditioualy, aud 10 doutt did =0, 18 not guestioned ; but on what zuthontv coea Jr. B. rest the afirmation that Gea pave them verbal presepts ? Neither God ror man bes made any fach statement. How, thes, did did Mr. B. get the information to ensble bim to assert it €0 postively? Even if 1 ebonld adipit that precepts were given, or may iave teen piven, while the Scriptures are silent about them, hew can any man assers what they were? Hemay presums, conjectura. and as- cume eterpally, but when imaginstion has swept over tne whole fisld asd returns laden with the fruzof its off o, what is it ail worth 2s the basis of a doctrine or argument? Absolutely wothing ? Bot Mr. B. sod bhis friends lhave one never-fsilng resonrce, bLermeseutics. Yerly, grest is hermencatice. When tne theo- lognan hias exhaueted bis stock of dicect testi- mony acd finds bimself corsered, bis dernier ro- gort is Lermepemiics. On all coatroverted poiots of belief or doctrine hermenentics is not ‘worth the paper on which it is writtea. Every school of theojopy has ils own modo of imter- prowanion. and Zolonius sees in the cloud a camel, a wessel, or a whale, precisely 1o accord- ance with Lis preconceptious, and the hermenen- ticmedium thronch which hoviews 1t. Xdonot underrate bermeuentics when used within its proper spheie, which is simply to explain obscare or doubtful words or phrases in the text, but never to originate a preccpt and force it into the record, as 18 sonzht to be done in regard to the Sabbath. Let me eayin thisconnection that Liaving assumed the role of instracting the pab- lic throngh a public newepaper, I and all others who choose have a right to a<k Mr. B. for the di- rect and positve proof of his aseertions ; and he bas no right to evade or elude a siraightforwmd snewer, or to indulgein the art of **how not to d01t," as he has thus fardone. I have twice proposed to give up the discussion it he would point to any precept for Sabbath observance be- fore the time of Moscs. *‘Seguin has chal- lenged him for the proof slso. Has he given it ? [ do pot say ho canpot, for tnat wonld bo comsidered a wgaliva proposition. Dut does not evervb wha reads tuow beyond a question ihatif 3fr. B. bad the rmar be wonld’ give it instauter. He does not urnish it, because he has not got it—thero goes wnother negative. Well, I regret it, but I won't izke 1t back. Now, does Mr. B. see clearly the music I agk um to faco? 1 trust be does, for I dou't wantto ereat it ; and does he see that long, wordy criti- dsms of me and *Seguin” will not anewer the yurpose, however sdroit_they mav be as diver- idoas from the point atiesue? Why shouid he susie us time 1n criticizing such feoble produc- dons 23 mine aud *Seguin's™? Why not give e direct proof st once and make us and all ob- ‘ectors ashamed of our 1goorance and temerity 2 is & friend, I advize Mr. B. to cliog xsith the nn:fi of death to bis assertion hist the Sabbath was given to man at creation. Assert and reassert it, JIr. B., true or false, aroof or no proof. 1t is your only hope. If you wbaudon it or suffer yourself to be driven from £, you have not & rag of canvas left to spread lo “the wind, aod must henceforth gail under sare poles. DBut don't imagine that vour ipse lixit 'will go as far with the world 88 with a con- sregation of credulous learers, who bave im- sibed your Sabbath sentiments fiom infancy, ind aré in full accord and sympathy with yon, wd who never think of doubting your asser- Yoze. Justnow you sre breathing a different imomphere.” Thera Js . litle rin on yout an all sauk that yoa did t anticipate, jou may not be able to meet our liabiiitics, but you must- meet them {aillr for doitar or close up thue inettuiionp. I 1an imagine how very unpleasant it must be for zca who bave always boen masters of the sizua- sion, whose dictam has been lsw, who have had \L1D8 their own Way, Without question, csvil, or dispute, to bava objections rased, of which they have not thought, snd_sre thorefore not orcpared 10 meet. Al. B. does not know and srobably never will, for the reason, if no other, ihat he apparently belongs to a school of ibkers, that, hike old-time Democrats and Bourbon Kings, never change their views and aever make any progress. AMr. B., no doubt, ko pearly ail other men who accept the orthodox teaching in regard to the Sabbath, imlibed the belief in childhood that God's blessing the eeventn day made the observance of the day. in some mysterious way, of which he bad no definite concoption, rule of buman con- duct. We bave all taken it from our teachers with the same implicit trust, never supposing <hiat it admitted of doubt or question. 1tis, and uas been for generations, the doctrine of the Chureh, the teaching of the pulmt, and the sub- Ject of religious lieraturo; and yes it is base lecs as the fabric of a dream when put to the : tof Tim McCarty, as f reported his status throngh a me- ** jiet lives on suction and roasts in the " 1 will pot svy Jonger hide behind s fiction wnd stab Mr. B.in the dark. If myname will give him any satigfaction or.belp bim ont of his an!tm. dilemna, I will give bim all the bencfix A e czu derive from it. Jous MEerToN, ———— MILWAUKEE PULPIT-SKETCHES, THE REV. MYRON REED. Tothe Editer of The Chicaco Tribune: + Mrwavkee, Feb. 18.—Just a8 you in Chicago have your Swing, a man who refuses to be bound by the harness of sectariauism, and whopreaches wherever be can ratber than bind himself by the peculiar tenete of some varticular denomination, 0 in Milwaunkes we have our Myron Reed, AMr. Reed is a young map, rather tall and strongly tam!t, with s drooping mustache. and a large, mournful eye. 3 permons is geperally some topic of theday, bandled from s practical rather than & theo- . ; e onw | TatiL it i entizely paid forn SUmE of thm e logical stzndpoint. But let no one imarine that Mr. strictly orihodox. Heis, He even pre: When bis features are in a state of repose ilie countenapce is not by avy means a sinling ope, but when the eyo kindles and the £oal anakes, the Bev. Myron Reedis really a very uteresing-looking epeaimen of tbe man. He bus waguetism and encrgy, and preaches in the ‘Academy 10 the Jargest congregation in the citr. He ia popular in the exireme, is a forcills epeaker, Lis eentences are Carlylesque 1o their Lrevity snd pith. The eubjoct matier of nis sermon commenting somewhat stroogly upon the * revival business” as carried on by Moody and_Sankey, Whittle and Bliss, etc. But the large copgregations to which Mr. Recd preachios bave for tne most part no chureh association whatover, and thus, although Mr. Reed is a firm betiever himself, thoe exipencies of the case com- pel him ‘‘to bow down in tho houso of Ilim- mon,” and preach what paya rather than what pleases bim. Socially Mr. Reed 18 dsservedly popular. He is a membar of our now Rille As- sociation, 2nd Chaplain cd nearly every regimont: in the State. Although nominally a Cougrega~ tionalist, Jlr. Beed is apostolic in ane senso—ha in a great fisherman, and speuds bis vacalion ov- ery year among the baes and pickerel. x{‘ ‘ithout daning to set miyself upas a prophet, 1t may bo eaid of Mr. eed ‘that lue intellect will uot long remain eatisfied with the mere ploasure of oratory ; but ho may be expected some day, and that not far distant, to engage in the ective work of chanty and misgiouary labors among tho poor end miserable of aur crowded cities. In the words of s prominent clergyman of this city, Nr. Roedis * an ecclesiastical pirate fightiag under no particular flag, bat coping with Satan single-handed 10 his own domain ™ (the Acade- my). How long thisatate of afairs will exist I am unsble to eay, but 1 kuow thia: that were bo to fall into the ranks of the Church miiitant, and take ordersin the (say) Episcopal Church, few of ita clergy would be the peurs eithor meutaily or physicslly of Myron Reed, the most popular of 8ll'the popular preachers o the Cream City of tho Lalkes. - ) ity STEP BY STEP. TEOF. SWING ON PROGREESIVE RELIGION, The Alhance of last weck has the following editorial from Prof. Swing's pen : = Tho rumor that one of the lezéing Baptist Churches was sbout to declore for open commutiun reems to have been badly founded. 1t wrs built npon the sind, and when the pastor blew his b seath at it throngh the papers it fell, and great was the 181l of it. ‘This leads” to tha reflection, mot that rumors are sometimes false, but that it stould not have been expected that a large congregatio nshould bave become atonce converfed to an open-communion docirine, Ohanges of opinion come by irwdividual movements, andnot by any such wholesale progress of a large crowd, Little by lttle the old pwsses away, and litde Dy littie the new comes. That = whale town or an entire congregation should remove stance frum one idex to another, should not be exp:ted. The Presbytenian Confesaion of Ieuith has for at least twenty years been losing its hold tgon its old_denom- ination. Very elowly its doctrines pass:d through the different stages of surprise, negiect, doubt, fii-will, and abondoument. And, indeed, ths sbundonment i3 Dot yet umversal. By tlow snd aimost imperceptitle movement the Quakers moved away from their forsinlas abous spon taneous speaking and unpremedit.tod remark, Now they prepare addreases beforshand, and cunouncs a theme aud a speaker, for the next mecting. From ccordial Liaters of mrsic they have beoomne the rivals of Phillips acd S.ukey, snd yet they cannot. perhare, inform us wien tdey Hrst began to love the Lord s 0 ff’\;-un!d ‘be difficuit for the Metherdist denomina. tion to find the spo; where it Grst uban doned the phin barn-like hoass of worsaip, and firu reared a spire end hung & good church<bell in the stzeple. Thus quietly changes come. The palm-singing churches which would bave no commsnion with suct depraved peopls 23 thoss which sang Buman compo- £itions, have in tweaty years seen the:t feaacity soften into lenjency, 2ud it is quite certain 1kt of the clergy and Lty left’ within the Loundsof rhct ecct, nino tenths feal that singing bymns is 3 very pardonable cnme agminst religiva. ORe by one tim young clersy luve passed from ihe churchof their ‘childhood to Lymn-einging pulpits, and one by ous &hese ouce se~P| vere homes have admitted the hyma-Lodk of the litest selcction. No doubt there is marya Covenanting elergyman who, undor suitable aggravation, wuuld now reeh to tie popers and pulish a card dacliring: thai his do- pomiuation eutertsins no ides of au og 1 communion, And lus card would be trath itaclf, Fus Shess chunges come without zny entertainmert of thyy iloa, Tus last act before unconditional surrender is very often :1;:;.“' dedaring the iutention to “*die in tne lusy Ali poes along finsly with ail liberal idene. Let the Synods meet and declurs their undyiag love of the siandards, Let the closocommunion Baptist publish his sarnest card, let the m-ginger anaouuvs the eternal jatention of his depomingtion. 1uis isall in order, Let the Quaiker joln them and announce 10 the world that he will alw2ys wear drab, and then mark the careful fulfiliment of these words by nn age = few steps away, that will possass open communicn, will sing bymus, will not think znything of drab cr a bLroad- brim. 1t iy rather mean in great big Nzaure not to Botice the cards its children posted up a few years ago, 1t looks much like the strcng imposing upon the weak, But it is nothing of the kind. It isthe suwong doing business which we are unable o transact. e RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. TAE CUCRCH IN GENERAL. The Pennsyivania State Superintendent of Public Schools reports that in 14,500 of the 17, 000 schools of the State the Bible 18 read, with. out objection from any ote. The Chinese employed in the factories at North Adams, Mase., are outgrowing their supersutions in regard to the returning of their dend to China, and bave begun to bury them inthe North Adams cemetery. During the past eix years the Presbsterian Board of Publication ks sent ont 500,000 copics of the snorter catechism. The distribution of catechisms among the churches is now carried on st the rate of 60,000 copies a year. The Presbyteaians of Philadelphia bave suc- ceoded in finishing the bronze monument in memory of the Rev. Dr, Witherspoon, who was the only clerical signer of the Declaration of In- dependence. Itcost $20.000, and moncy has ‘been raised by sppeals to the chaorches and Sun- day-schoofs. ‘he monument will be erocted in the Centennial grounds, near Memorial-Hall, A very satisfactory table Las been published showing the growth of the Reformed _(Dnm:ch) ere Charch in the last twenty years, In 18: were 380 churches in_the entire bed; thers were 490. In 1856 the number of members added on confession of fairh was 2,551 ; in 1866, 3,120; in 1870, 8,68; in 1871, 3,863; in 15; 4,111; in 1879, 3,331; in 1874, 4,237 in 18; 11493 “These ' totals prove o steady increnss of accessions. - ‘The French Minister of Public Works has gent a circalar upon Sunday labor to the railway com- panies of Fravce. In'it he saya that if all work oannot be suepended upon Sunday, the wo: men should have an opportunity of attending religious worehip. He desires, therefore, that 88 many as practicablo be retieved from duty at 9 &. m. in summer and at 11 a. m. in winter, The companiea sro requested in the circular to ex- press an opinion upon the change. The Third Presbyterian Cburch is making an effort 1o sacure the large and eligible lot owned by the Jefferson Park Church, corner of West Adems and Throop streets, facing Jefferson Park, for the purpose of erecting a new church editice, and are to mive in payment for the same the bwlding now occupied by the Third Church. As both churches propose to build next spring, aud as this exchango would ?ethnps be a good thing ali roand, it will probably be effected. Tt is reported that the Government of Egypt Tas adopted the Gregorian instead of the ilo- bammedsn calendar, and that public Lusiness was done av New Year's upon the European sys- tem. If 8o, the fact is probably of more com- mercial than theological significance, and indi- cates the growing mercantile conuection between Chrigtian Burope, especially England and tho East, although otber ivfluonces may go with commerce, and secular dates may carry religions associations and tendencies. A meeting of the Western Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church is to be held at Racine College, Racine, Wis,, to take steps for the founding of a Church University in the West. The meeting at Racine will be the third cohference upon the subject. The Bishops of Michigan, Indiana, Tllinois, Wisconsin, Mione- sota, Missouri, Nebrasks, Western Michigan, Fond-du-Lac, and Colorado are expected to at- tend. This institation, it is stated, will not lead to the suppression of any of the &chools of the Church in the West. The present institution will be used a8 preparatory schools for the Uni- versity. Many great reforms have had their origin in New England,—such reforms, for iustance, as that for which the Rev. Edwin Bromley, of the Baptist Church of Norwood, Mase., is now strug- gling. He demands no less than the total aboli- tion of baked beans. ‘‘Baked beans,”he ox- claims, in avoice of seven-fold thunder, *‘are the devil's own food,” and to eat them 1s to be ever- taetingly dashed. Thisis a gigantic movement of Brother Bromler, but it 13 0 beawiful and sublime in its every aspect that it must com- mand the esrnest ympatby of every true re- former. Lot every lover of Lis race and_of ‘motal progress inxcribe upon—upon—something or other the banner-cry: “Down with baked beaus " —Courier~Journal. The Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia is now fivisbing & buildivg which will be even larger and more costly than the ono erected eome years 250 by the kindred association of New York. It is at the coruer of Fifteenth aod Chertnut streets, extending from Chestnut 1o Sansom. ‘The whole cost of buildiug and land wiil nat bo-less thaw balf 2 milliondollara, Abont onec-half the sum had been provided for, and the Directors wero wondering whenco ' they eLould procaro therest. Mr. Moody, principally of bis own accord, undertook the coliection on the night of the recent anniversary, and raised 2102,000, to winch sum & number Of additions bave seen been made,—sauch, for jostance, as the gift of $10,000 by an elderly meiden lady, +1t is now determined that the building, which will be ready in June, shonld not be opened rectors are men of Iarge means, who have liberally, and iutend to give more. They ato now 28 busy a8 bees in providing the rest of tho money, aud are confidsnt of accomplishing their intentions. : Thie question of throwing open parish grave- rards to Dissenters for the burial of their doad accerding to their respective bLurial services is discassed with much warmth in England. The bill proposing this change, known as the Morgan bill, was refected last year, and it is to bo brought up “sgain at the present session of Par- lisment. it has a strong opposition from the Bishops, but its friends think 1t will pass, The Bishop of Gloucester. and Bristol admits that thero is a grievauco, and thinks that its only possible romedy is by tho provision of ceme- teries wherover they inay bo demaaded by some fixed proportion of the ratepayers. But no Gov- croment, unloss bard pressed, would be likely to proposo such a measure as tlns, which would add snother onnco to the burdened back of the 1atepayer; and Mr. Osborno Morgan's bill cer- i viil not pass ; honcs the question is likely vnsettied. The Rev. G. II. Hepworths church ip New York is to be sold atauction in March, under foreclosure of mortzego. ** Burleigh " states that *tue builder who holds the second mort- gage says tho coocern shall not go jor any $100,000; ho witl bid it in for §150,000. Sev- enty-fivo thoueand dollars would be a fair price for'the church and lots =8 the market moes. 1f the builder1s as good as lis word, the Society will not atterupt to biiitin. Once out of tho house, Ar. uo&:wonh and the Society will come down-town nnd build n stracture that it can pay for and commnnd.” Aud * Burleigh " explaips the caugo or all the Bociety's troubles: A wealtby, supposably a millionaire, merchant told Mr. Hepworth: to go ahead, build a church to suit bim, and he (the merchant) would fuot the bill if the fund fell short. Just s the house was completed, tho merchent died, leaving no million bebind him—ouly enough to make his family comfortablo. '8 should be a warning to ministers not to put their trust in milliounires, If the tomper of the Baptist denomination is correctly reprosented in the resolutions of the Couvention on the Jeffrey case, the 130 open- communion ministers (and whatever parishes Aare on that side) in the 13,000 bslonging to tho denomination have the alternative of. recanta- tioh or sacession. It will not be a very consid- erable splt, 1f it Lappens. The Rev. J. B. ‘Thomas’ resolutions oo the point, presented at a Baplist mivisters’ meeting in New York, were somewbhat sarcastic. They proposed to repudi- ato any newspaper editor who puts tho sermons of one Charles H. Spurgeon in_his paper with- out at Ieast prefscing them with a disavowal of Lis opeu-communion opiuions ; Lo state that by the *'right to inquiro™ was meant the right to search- tho Scriptures for contirmation of old opipions, but not for the furmation of new aoes, a0d thelefore they discard the conduct of any brother who forms™ an individual opinion ; and that the ‘' liberiy to dider™ was resiricted to differiug from other denomisations, and not from the maujority of the Couference. lo this conuection, it is interestiug to read that the London Baptist Association, formed lon years ago by eixty-tour churches, on & platform broad euough to include Baptista of opeu-communion beiiet, has now 131 churches wich 82,851 mem- bers connectod with it. i PERSONAL. It is said tkat Chaog, the Chinese giant, has lately been received into the Deptist Church ac Shanghai. Tis height 18 7 feet 8 inches, The venorzble Dr. Lovick Pierce, the Patri- arch of the Southern Methodist Church, has lost his voice. He is now iz his 92d year. Tho Rev. William Patton, D. D., of New Haven (Congregationaist), has submitted to a severo surgical opdration at the ago of 78, and is rapidly recovering. Mr, Moody Las been invited by the Pastoral Union of San Francicco to visit California. He replies that he would like to go, but the work in the East presses him so that he feels unabla to plan bayond 1t, On the 18tk ult., the United Presbyterian Pres- bstery of Kilmarnock, Scotland, ordained the Hev. George A. Heaghan, of Dalbeattic, a3 as- sistant and successor to tho twidely-kuown Rev. Dr. W. B. Robertson, of Trinity Church, Irvine. Ar. eughau has a brotner living in Chicago, Tho labors ot Messrs. Whittle and Dliss in St. Louis meet with much favor. The St. Louis Presbyleian thus speaks of them: Plain, un- assuming men of very moderate education, thay have power n that they esalt Christ. They cut Do capers and abjure sensationalism, and thus far nothing 1n violation of the strictest decoram Liag occurred in their public meetings.” ‘The statement that Alr. Georgo W. Cartis had been reading the Ilev. Stopford Brooke's ser- mons in the Church of the Redeemer, Staten Ieland, hos created the report that ho has be- Ccome & lay reader in the Protestant Episcapal Church. ‘The Church of the Redeemer 18 Unita- rian, and 3ir. Curtis reads such sermons as seem o bim to be most instructive and edifying. Prof. von Schulte, one of the leaders of the German Old Catholics, has published a pamphles in which he advocates the sbolition of compul- gory clerical celibacy. He claims that before the Reformation the whole Christisn Church was agreed on three pointa only: (1) That a Bishop shiou!d not live in matrimony; (2) that a priest shon!d not marry a second timo; and (3) that a person who bad beea married twice sbouid not bo ordained priest. The Bishop of London has refased to grant the request of oneof Lkis parish-church mivia- ters, who asied that Bisbop Quintard, of Ten- nessee, might confirm some children in his church, It is not explained whether the refagsal was such as to imply any objection to the Bishop of Tenuossee's peculiar views or his American position, or whetber it was merely an act of offi- cial order on the part of the Bishop of London in maintaining the exclueive care of his own Diocese, . .- Sistor Anna Maines was licensed to *‘prophe- 8y” by the Baptisia of Burlington, Mich., last fall, and she is now doing an active evangelical work. In Porter about forty haye been broaght to Christ under ber labors; in the Village of Decatur cighty wero bronght to repentance, sbout one-half of them adults; s second series of meetings in Porter resulted in the conversion of over twenty souls. She has also 8poken with gvod 1esults in Lawton, and thence want to Wa- verly to continuo her etforss. 7 The Rev. 8. H. Meeker, pastor for nearly fifty- one years of the old Reformed Church in Bush- wick, Williamsturg, N. Y., died Feb. 2. Herose at his usual honr, but after being up a short time hesaid be felt faint. Ho then laid down, hnd died in perfect peace about fitteen minutes Iater. In 1825 he was installed pastor of the Bushwick Church, the oldess church save one in Kings County. He founded the first Snnday- school in what s now Brooklvnson Sunday, April 27,1827, During the fifty years of his pastorate be never missed but oue Sunday, by sickness, from tho pulpit ; and througtout the entire time has kept himsel! * froe from blame and reproach.” S BREVITIES. It doesn't follow bocause the knees of & man's black csssimere trousers are shiny, thereforo he is devout. The same might be caused by fre- quent friction against the legs of a billiard- table. oo - ‘What George Elict calls * warm paleness” is identical with the hue of a man’s face who strug- gles wildly on the perilous edge of an orange- peel, and is too pious to ewear. 1t is proper during lesp-year for youog ladies to loaf around church-doors and steps, and spit all around and talk about how pretty the blush- ing young men look as they modestly go in,— Home Sentinel. Half tho people who are making this uproar over the exclusion of the Bible from the public schools couldn’t tell on their own responsibility whether the Book of Genesis was written by St. Paul or Hamlet.—Danbury News. A man wae on trial in Wilmington, Del., ro- cently for habitualty distarbing the family prayer by his steplather. 1fis defonse was that the prayers were too personal and retlected upon the family. He was discharged. Combining business and doty : Ieneath this etone in bope of Zion, Doths rest the laudlord of the Lion. Rzrizmed unto the Father's will, The son keeps on tho business still! At s Jate prayer-meeting in 8i. Louis, one of ithe brethren directed attention to a stranger who was sittiug by himself near the door, and asked why hie wasn't invited to pray. Because,” re- provingly observed a deacos, ** this ain't no place for pracrical jokes. That man's the President of a gas company.” 3 A West Hill boy, says the Barlington Hawkeye, came in to his mother the otber dsy with two ¥yawniog reuts in Lis tronserloons. His patient mother eat down, after administering the neces- BATY connter-irritant, to repair the garments, ®ud was shocked to hear her dsrliog teil his sister that « Mother was an otd devil.” *Harry,” sbe cried, 2% what did you say 2 " s Ldido's 23y §, nothing, mother, snid that I was a devil: What did yon mean by that?" ¢ Wall, it's so, mother, 'caise my Sno-= day-school teacher told mo that nobody but the dovil sowed tares.” . il The following; ie & true copy of a Dotice posted upin & church in Monroe Towpship, Plitnam Couaty, Ohio: . ... . ¥ .please deposet + Forororseer L " atthe Doro by order of , . Dekens. —Pillsburg (Pa.) Commercial. ... - # A critio objects to the grouping in the picture of !3_“’1'&!111'1:J West, wher‘:in the Israelites and Philistines are represented as fighting brass can- non. Perhars the old paint-slinger dido’t know what he was about! Don's we read in L. Samual, xx., 40: - ** And Jonathan gavehis artillery unto the lad, and said uuto lum, Go, carry.them to the city "' ?—Graphic, A clergyman in a city not many miles away, on- a recont Sabbath, climbed up the long, narrow, and winding steps leadiug from the basement of the church to the pulpit, and, entering the audi- ence-room, began his scripture lesson with the words : ** Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way. tho samois a thief and a robber.”—Bangor Whig. * He was a Washington boy, and, We are Eorry to eay, it was his firat visit to church. As he camo down the steps, the little fellow that had scompanied him asked, *Bill, how d'se like it?"! “Putty good,” was the reply. “'I'wasn't good as Boiler Bill, but T tell yer, Sam, I was sorry forthat feller * **Sorry for him; why?" **Why, he cum out there, dun "tall by hisself, and didn’t get nary clap.” At the Sabbath-schoo} in Deering, Me., last Sunday, one of the teachers of 2 juvenile class was explaining the necessity and duty of prayer.’ Bhe finaily asked one little girl if sho knew what ‘was meant by prayer. The child replied that ehe did not. The teacher, to illustrate, asked the little girl, **\What did your father sy this morn- ing just before he ate his breakfast 2" The child innocently answered, ** Ho uaid, confound it, this egg is rotton.” ? A T-year-old young lady who lives on Daven- port street asked us what e would wish for if we had only one wish that * wouid come true.” With churacteris:ic piety we said we would wish that wo might nevor do a wrong. * Then,” said the littlo one, “ you wouldn't have much fun,” She eald further that,when people got to heaven, they wouldn’t do anything wrong forever there- after, and she thought that waa loog coough to be good—Omaha Heraid. Dr. Todd’s inflnence upon the rude people wrought ‘some measure of permapent good amoog them. A momber of the Leng Lase Cburch visited Pittstield gomo years later, snd when asted about Dr. Todd’s work in tho wilder- nasg, repliod : ** Oh yes, tho Doctor came up there aud did us a great deal of good, sent usa missionary, and oreanized a churcn; but be duin't quite undersiand us. Why, d—— tt, 1 was one of his deacons ! "—Harper's Magazine. He waa the ptoprietor of a restaurant and a {m’miaaut member of s fashionable caarch. \Whon the brethren passed round to coliect the subscriptions, he tumbled in his pocket for bis slip, drew ont a number of papors, and dropped cne'in the plate. The next day he was aston- iahed to reccive it back agaia, and much more astonished upon opening it to perceive rhat Lo bad coutributed not oxacily a subecription, but & paper beariug tho lagend, *Good for twelve drinks,” Such thonghts ag this overcome the ausc?fl- ble mind of the editor of the Livingaton (Ky.) Era: How often .huve we seen thoe Lloomiug maiden upon whoze face smilos danced like sun- Leams upon the bosom of the sea, and whose life gase promise of Lappivess unalloyed and “Yes vou did, Harer. Fou | hope ucrequited, sitting with a huge wad of gum in her mouth, and her beautiful chin risiog and falling like a wave uuon the ocean, while the meek pestor endeavored to puint her to the New Jerusalem. *I wouldn't be such a Christian as you are, John," sard his wife, as she stood in the door- way dreesod for church, *“You could go with me very well if you wanted to.” ¢ How can I2” be balf sobbed. *‘There’s the wood to be spiit, and the coal to be shoveled over to the other side of the cellar, aud no dishes washed for din- per yet.” ‘“Ab, [didn't think of that,” she murmured thoughtfally, arnd, giving her new cloak a fresh hitch aft, eailed out alone.— Brooklyn Argus. The Rev. Ira Munger has beon preaching in Brooklyn the near approach of the final con- flugration. Last Sunday night bo said to bis hosters: “When peoplo tell yoa that thera is no hell-fire bat the fire of conscience, yon'd better be cerefal an’ look out for ’em. There’s not a man in the hotee but will burn. I don’t expect ter met yer again uatil the day of judgment. Why have people lately dodged off ‘from this idea of Jiteral fira? I don’t know, but I tell yer that fire 'll bo the end of your stn. We've got ter have it."” It is siways amusing to ees the cart befors the horse. A clergyman on a visit to a neighboring church wished to deliver an efTective exhortation and make o favorabie impression, and in speai- ing of somo religious ideas ho rose to a grand climax in the following Janguage : * Kiugdoms and thrones shall be overturned, the most stu- pendous works of man, yea, the hills and inount- ains, shall pass away, but of these truths not one tit or jottle.” It wasnota sorious mistake, but an irrepressible smile spread over tho audi- ence. and the preacher scemed suddenly em- barrassed. One Sunday recently a Presbyterian congrega- tiop on the northein border. of Nourthumberland, ia England, were surprised to sve their minister ascend the pulpit ond commenca the services with his hat on. When tho circumstance was poioted out to him, the reverend gentleman merely remarked that he bad a cold. Taking for his text, *‘Be not carried away by every wind of doctrine,” ho reminded his bearers that his mansa was in bad repair, and wes not gblo toy| withstand the winds thal prevailed. A ‘some- what stormy meeting of the Session was held after the setvice. — — & NEW VERSION OF AN OLD STORY. “Monsieur Adam he wake up, he_ses une belle demoiselle aslesp in zo garden. Voils de Ia_chance! ‘Don jour, Madame Iv.' Madam Iv ahe walke, she hold her fan beforo her face. Monsieur put up his eyeglads to admire ze tab- leau. Zey mako onc promenads. MadameIv Bhe feel bhuogry ; she sce appel on ze arbre, Serpent #e promenade sur l'arbre make one walk on zo tree. *Mons. le Serpent,’ says Iv, *weel you not have zo bonte to peek mo some appel?” P’ai faim.’ *Certainement, Madame,” says ze serpent, ‘charme de vous voir.’ * Hola, mon ami! ar-r-etez-vous,” eays Adam; ‘stop, stop! Que songez-voua faire? What madness is zeis? You must not peck ze appel.’ Ze spake he take one pinch of spuff, he esy, ‘Ah! Mons. Adam, do you not know zero is nossing prohebeet for ze ladies? Madame Iv, permut mo to offer you sowe of tois fruit defendu.’ Iv suo make one courtesy; ze snake he fill her whole parasol with appel; he say. * Eritis si Deus, Bons. Adam he will eat ze appel, he witl become like ua Dieu—knaw ze good and ze evil. But you, Madame Iy, canaot become more of & goddess than you are now!' Aod zis finish Madame Iv."—i¥eds’ College Clronicle, —_— CHURCH SERVICES. PRESDYTERIAN. The Rev. J. W. Bain will preach at the United Church, corner of Monroe and Paulina ptreets. Even- ing subject: * The Theatre.” ~Tao Rev:"D. J. Burrell will preach st the Westmin- ster Church, corner of Jackson and Peorla streets, Morning subject, The Primacy of Et. Peter—* Thou art Peter, and on this rock L will build my Chureh.” Evening subject: *“Mymns of Refuge,” —The Tov. James Maclsughlan will preachat the First Scotch Church, morning and evening, Evening subject: “Prayer.” —The Rev. George C. Noyes will preach at the Fourth Church this morning, and the Bev, Dr, Swazey this evening. —The Rev. J. Monroe Gibson preaches morning and evening at the Second Church, corner of Michigan av- enue and Twentleth street. —The Rev. Samuel W. Duffield will preach morning and evening at the Eighth Church, corner of Washing- e Rov: Charics L. Thompson will preach — 5 n - ing sud svening ot the THIth Charcd, cotace of Jode ana avenue and Thirtieth streels. Evening subject : e v omcy T. Miller wall preach —The Rev.. 2 at the Sixth Church, corner of Vigeenneuml‘:m??fi enues, Subfect: “The Heavenly Storehouge.” Tho Bev, Arthur Mitchell will preach in the eyening, Tho Rev. M. . McCormiek iy o tiat Chuureh at Exiglowood ot 5:30 thih astammeon 28 1 Gkt cotaoe of Hombrer. Mot wamane, —The A 2l y wil X of the Good Shepherd, (?tl’u&! 0‘:’:‘&?&:‘2& %z‘llnr;g streets, morning and evening. —The Rev, Dr. Fallows will preach at St Paul's s , n the tops of the mulberry trees.” Evening subject: 4 perish~ eth, but the he: e 1o mnm!;%f'“m i —Bishop Ceney will preach morning and eveni at Christ Church, corner of Michiy: 5 I‘l’:'nfx:ln‘:g Tweaty-fourth u‘t’mg Mmoming subject ‘A Venturs gad & Fullure’” Evealng eusject: 4Si0p sua - EFISCOPAL. - ‘The regular services wiil be held at the Church Our favior, cormer of Belden and Tincoln avemrs: ° . Rogers will preach ab’the Church o A . Hector, officites C, ! L, 3 2 e Meimorial Gburch, on Indisua tn and Thirticth streets, 2 Grace Church, ~~The Rev. B. of the Epiphany —The Rev. morning and o\‘ex’}mg urzy ‘.fin avenne, between Tiventy-) b '—'Tl:e Rev, Dr. Locke will preach at’ morning and evening. —The Rav. Francis Mansfield will preach at the Churcuaa! ll:n Atonsment, corner of Washington »lmd streets; morning and evening. B B ,Bn:;,lwnev. r. 8, S. iarris officlstes at St, James' urch ing and evening. ch—Tha l!:‘euvr.n‘lfllxlhm H. I.Xopi(nl will preach morning and evening at St. John'a Ohurch, on Ashiand avenus, near, Msdisap street. Perry will preschmorniog snd —The Rev, Henry G. or eventgat All Saiata’ Chuseh, corner of North Car- nter and Fourth streets, Pe 2 The Tiew, Dr. Locis will presch {n_the afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and in the eveniug at St. Peter's Chapel, No. 143 State strect, —The Rey. Dr. Cushman will preach morning sud evening at §i. Stephen’s Church, on Johoson street between Taylor and ‘Twelfth streets. —The Rev. D. F. Warren will preach thls morning at St. Mark’s Church, corner of Cot 6 Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, Subject: * Repentance.” Tho Et, Rev. Bishop McLaren will preach 1n the oven- ing. - —The Rt-Rev. Blshop McLaron wiil preach this morning at Trinity Church, corver of Mickigan ave- nue and Twenty-tixth strect, The Bev, D, F. Warzen will ofticiate n the evening. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will presch morning and evening ut Calvary Church, on Warreu aveaue, betwean Oakley strect and Western nvenuc. : —Tha Bey. Arthur Ritchio will preach mornfaz and evening at the Church of the Ascension, corner of Em: and LuSalle streets. . ETIODIST. ‘The Rev. Dr. Jewett preaches at the First Church. i hrisuun Character a Growth,'” Ervening subject Bible Teachings in a Flower.” —The Kev. I, L, Murtin preaches at St, Panl's Church, corner of Newterry aud Maxwell strects, morning and eveniag, —TLe Rev.John Wil Avenuo OQuurch. Mo —The Rev. 8, 1. Adams will preachat the Centenary Ghurch. Morning subject: *Answer to Prayer.” —The Rey. Joun Atkinson will preach morning snd evenitg at Grace Churcp; corner of North LiSalle and White streets, =Tho Rev. N. H. Axtell will proach morning and evening at tho Park Avenuo Church. Moruing sub- Jock: * The Bible.—the Bams of Progress.” Evening Bubject : The Eternity of Future Punishment.” —The Rev, R. D. Sheppard will preach morning and evening at tho Western Avenue Church, nesr Monros street. —The Rov. Dr, W. C. Willing will preach morning and eveniug iz the Oukland Cnurch, corner of Lang- ley av=uue and Thirty-ninth street. —The Rey. Dr. Tilany will preach morning and evening ut Trinity Cnurch, on Indiana avenue, near Twenty-tourth strect. 1 UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumner Ellia preaches at the Church of tho Redeemer, corner of Wasington and Sangamen streets, this morning, —The Rev. Dr. hyder will preach morning and even- fnigat St. Paal's Church, 3iichigan avenue, between Sixteenth und Eigliteenth stroecs. CONGREGATIONAL. Tho Rev. Williaa Alvin Bartleit will preach at Plymonth Church morningand evening. —The Rov. W. I, sinckloy will preach at the Clin- ton Street Chui —Tne Rev, L. T, Chamberlsin will preach morning and evening at the Niw England Church, corner of Delavan piaco aud North Dearborn street. —Prof. Hyde will preach morning and evening fn the Unfon Fark Congregationa: Church, corner of Ash- land avenue and Washingion street . —Tito Madsson Stroet Mi-sion-School of the Leavitt Street Quurch will bo beld at 2:30 o'clockat Vun Buren Hall, cornerof Calitornia avenus and Madison strest, ~—Tho Rev. N. A. Millacd will preach morning and evening at the Leavitt Street Church, corner of Adams 2nd Leavict strocts, TUNITARTAN, Thé Rev. Brooks Herford predches at the Church of the Messiah, Morniny subject: “ An Old-World Life- Study.” Evening subject—tho second of the lectures ou Americaa life delivered in England : The Strength and Weakneas of Present Results,” —Tho Rev, E. P, Powell will preach this morning at thy Third Church, corner of Aonroe snd Ladin sireels. Sabject; ¢ The Tuird Church : Iis Work and Duty.” 1n the oveniog Prof. Gunning will give his closing lezture on ¢ The Exrth Befors Life."” —Tue Rov. Robert Cullyer will preach morning and evening at Unity Church, North Dearborn street, cor- ner of Lahyzfltrhm. —The Rev, J. T. Sunderland will presch morning and evenlug at the Fourth Church, carner of Prairie avenue and Thirtieth street. Subject: * Giving and Recetving,” DAPTIST. The Tev. Dr. EMs will preach at tho Michizan Avenue Chureh inorning and evening. —Tho Rev. W. §. Humlin will yreachat the Har- rison Street Church. Morniog subject : The Com. munion Question,” fn reply to the Rev, N. F, Ravlin. Evexing subject : ¢ Close Baptism.” —Tho Rev, N, . Ravlin preaches thts morning and evening at the Freo Baptist Church, corner of Jack- son and Loomis strects. s —The Rev. N. E. Wood prezches morning and evening at the Contennial Church, coraer of Lin- coln and Jackeon atreets. —Tho Rov. D. B. Cheney will preach morning and evening at the Fourth Caurch, corner of Washington and Paulina streets. —1he Rev, Dr. W, W. Everts will preach morning and ovening at the First Church, corner of South Park avenus and Thirty-first street. —The Rev. James Goodman will preach morning and ovening 2t tho Hyde Park Church. —The Rev, T. L. Colwell, of Mendota, will preach ‘morning and evening at tho Second Church, corner of Moryan and Peoria streets, _ —The Rev.J. M. Whnehead will presch morning ind evening at the North Star Church, corner of Di- vision aud Sedgwick streets, Baptsm'in the evening. CHREISTIAN. The Rev. Enowles Shaw will preach this morning at the First Church, corner of Indianasvenueand Twen- ty-fifth stréol, and in the evening at Campbell Hall, corner of West Van Buren street aud Campbell avenua, o MISCELLANEOTS. Elder H. G.' McCulloch preacbes at No. 213 Weat Madison stroct morning and cvening. —The Rev. Dr. fibbard preaches at New Church Hall, corner of Eighteenth stzect and Prairie avenne, this morniug, and at the Temple, corner of Washing- ton strect and Ogden avenue, this afternoon. Tue religions services a¢ the Protestant Orphan Asy- Tum, No. 789 Michigan avenue, Sabhaths afternoon at half'past 4, will bo conducted by Dr. Ryder, of St. Paul'a Church. Friends aro invited; all are most wel- come, —The Rev, Edmund Belfonr will preach st the En- lish Lutheran Church, cornex of Dearborn and Eris streets, morning and evening. —The Disciples of Christ meet st 4 o'clock in the afternoon at No. 229 West Randolph striet. —L. V. Wilson, test medium, lectures_morning and evening beforo the First Soclely of Spiritualiats at Grow’s Opera Hall, No. 517 Madizon strect. —A Gospel Temyerance service under the direction of tho Woman's Christian Terapersnee Union will be held at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the Clark Strea: Mothodist Charch, Mre, W, A, Barnes and Mrs. 0. 3. Atton will deliver addresses. s CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Feb, 20—Sexagesima Gunday. Feb. 24—Si, Matthiss, cATHoLlg, Feb. 20—Sexigesims Sunday, Feb, 21—Feria. Feb, 22—St, Peter’s Chair at Antloch, f’cn. 2. Peter Damian, B. S.D. ‘eb. 24—Oflico of the Blessed Sicrament; Err ent; Vigilof St Feb. 25—St. Matthiaso Ap, Feb. 25—Ofiice of the Immaculate Conception, LAURA. cottage-home, ht, o starry sky, A'mooniit porch whero woodbins clomb, A sound of late feet hurrying by. ‘Two lovers, underneath the vines. ‘With warm hands clasped, looked ont onlife,— A glowing scene, all sunny lines,— No tears, no clouds, no stormy strife, A swret perspective strerched afar, With rippling streams and vales of green, And Love the steady guiding-gtar; Could aught, could aught be thrast betwoen 2 How fair they wore,~cheek pressed to cheek, Gold locks and brown in mingled strands, A fairer picture one might seek 1n van through oll Earth's sunny landa, o SOTHN TSI, 5 The Summer waned; the nfghts greow chill; With stealthy Sngers Antamn Smey And clad the copae and wooded Bill In gorgeous garments, eplashed with fame, At eve, returning homeward Tats, Just as tho frosty twilight fell, 1 found young Lanra at tho gats, Counting the tolung of the beil, ‘The last stroke fell. Agninst her heart She pressed her band. “'Tis he ! ehe said; *No other sign of present emart. ‘Would skie had moaned, or wept, or prayed ! A grave upon a lone hill-side, Where Autumn leaves lay cere and dead, Here oft, at the cold even-iide, Came ilent Laura. bride unwed. One morn they found her, still and eold, With wbite lips pressed against the stone, While fn her muntle's erease and fold, 4nd on ber hair, the hoar frost shone. United. Round their lowsy bed The fierce winds howl in wild delight. Not thus, not thus they thought to wed; Not so they planned, that Summer-night Arres, Wis. t, ELLEN P. ALLEaTON, A Long Watlk in His Sleep, A Hartford man is a most remarkable somnam- bulist, if tho story he tells is true. He found himself, on Wednesday mornine, at Hayden's Btation, 10 milea trom” his home, and sad he .bado't the slightest recollection of making the journey thither. The last moment when he was conscious was about 11 o'clock, when he highted a cigar and went to the front door. He had evidently walked all the way on the railroad, and the wonder is tha: ho wasn't killed, for he met thres trains of cars. He saya his brother made a similar trip about a fortnight ago, and thas he l‘z‘xd sometimes walked about the houss 1o his cep. 2 GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES, What Made All the Difference in the World. The Documents in a Divorce-Cases=Too IMany Arrows in the Quiver. Some Cui‘luus Marringe-Statistics-==A - Leap-Year Incident---How la Weighed His Wife, A FACE. ers wasa fuce ‘Whose occult charm no limner's art Qonld steal; whose nimeless grace Elusive was as light that fulls Whiers waters part. ! A face 80 falr, Bo haunted with swost mysteries, It seem'd a face astray from heuv'nly scenes, And not of ono who e'er 3 ‘Had breckfasted oa buckwheat cakcs, Or dined on besus, —Droaklyn Arjus, WHAT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. Jacob Blivens (says the Pittsburg Leader) is o young man who lived is Allegheny; he was des- rerately in love with Amalia S—, snd Amelia was said to fully reciprocate tho youth's attach- ment. Jacob thought it waa time to broach the subject to Amelia's father, who was unaware that Blivens' uncle bad died two weeks before, leaving Jake a handsome legacy. The young man, with Amelia on bis arm, came inlo the awfal presence of the father, *‘Good evening, Mr, 8—," said slivens, hesitatingly, while Amslia grew scarlet. “Lh!” exclaimed the old gontleman, looking up, and his prophetic soal telling him what was coming. **What's this?” “Why, Amelia apd me—" ‘‘Amela!” interrapted the old man. “By dad! how the young dogs do get familiar on short acquaintanco; 1t was Alivs Amelin a weok 2go." * Yes, sir; but things have changed since last week,” said Blvens, boldly, **an' wae've come 1o ark your cousent—" ** Diaboli- cal wretch !-—"" Amelis here commoncad her part by stopping the old man’s mouth with o kiss. **Your coneent,” continued Bivens, tak- ing Amelia by the hand and kneeling at the ‘stern pericut's” feet, **to be jowed in the . bonds of—" ‘* Parnicious ceitift! Out of m house!” cried Mr. §—, wildly. *D’vs thinl my daughzor shall marry & beggar?” “Ob, just hold up a minuto: you git mad 8" easy that noLody can tell you'noth:n',” said poor Blivens. * My oncle died—" * And wha the deucs did he die for?" seid Mr.S—. “I1 dido’t ask ‘bim, sir; but bein’ as be is dead, and Amelia loves me, aad—-" *- Meudacious parvenu! Do you iove this villain, Ameha? " *Yes, papa,” rovliod tho fair Awelis. biushing- Iy. **I'll disown you for it,” said Mr. S—0. 1 oxpected greater things of yow.” * Wall, a8 I was sayiog,” Dlivens wens on, *shs loves mo an’I love Ler, an’ we both love each other, an’ wo want your consont.” This was very bold in Blivens, and the old man didn’t answer. Amelia looked bopefully 26 her jake, and Jake looked auxiously at Amolia’s papa. ** And if yon did marry her, what navo you gof in the way of farmtura?” at length smd JMr. Smith ; *“a Piceadilly collar and a boiled shirt, T suppose 2"+ No, sir; E'se got cight Piccadiilys and five shirts,” replied Jacob, afier & moment’s Lesitation, “ULesides 10,000 that my uncie left me, and—" ¢ \What, my dear Jucob! Why, mv deur boy, biess your hoart, why tho deuce didn’t you say so before " cried the old man, shaking Blivens by the band. ** Here, Amelia; take her, young man, and may Heaven bless you both.” It s reported that Mr. Smith bas asked his son- in-law for a loan of £9,000, aud tha: Jake has refused aod taken his wife to New York, where be intends to be free from father-in-lawism. TOO MANY ARROWS (N THE QUIVER. In Aubrey’s Nalural History of Wulshire, published somewhat more than two centuries ago, is a statement to tho effect that Edith Bon- bam, of Wishford Magos, in that county, bad seven children at a bith. “In this parish,” Aubrey says, ‘‘thero is a confident tradition that these children were all baptized at the fontin this church, and that they were brought thither inakind of chardger, which was dedicated to the church, and hunz on two nailes, which are to bo seen there yet, near the belfree on the south sids. Some old women are livieg that doe ro- member tho chardger. This tradition is entercd m tne register-book there, from whence T have takon this parrative.” Here we find, then, that the testimony from Aubrey himself was limited to seeing an eniry in the parish rogister znd two naiis 1o the church wall ; the old women could speak to having eeen a chardger, charwer, or dish; but, beyond this, information is lack- ing. Apotherstory of septuplets runs thus: in tho Kleyne Chronycke, published at Amsterdam in 1655, we are told that an engineer was told by an alewife that she was told by a Bargomastsr that he had been i o house by the Zuyder Zea, and eaw seven children sitting by tho lire, each with & porcenger in bis (or her) band, and éatiog rice-milk with a spoon. The Burgomester said to the womaa of the bouse, ** Mothar, you ara very kind to your meighbors, since they leave their children to your care.” *No, they are 21l my children, which I bed at one birth; ana if yoa vill wait & moment I will show you more that will surprise yon,” She went and fetched soven older children, similarly born oa one day ! How far the truth had beea magnitied in sne- cessive stages by tho mother, plus the Dargo- master, plus the alewife, plus the engineer, plas the chronicler, we are left to imagine a8 wa mar. Whether septuplets or sevenfold triplets are the more wonderful, 'twould no: be easy to dacide; but an old volume of tue *: Memoires de 'Acad- emio Francaige ™ solemuly tells us thas a baker's wife at Paris had triplet children every year for Beven years in succession. Happy baker! But tlus, according to a Brussels journal, was actu- ally exceeded in 1851, when 2 tradesman's wife bad, for the eighth time, threo children ats birth,—twooty-four of them in eight births in Dine years ; **a desperate case for the husband,” as the journalist sympathetically remarked, *who desired to tranemit his family name to his offspring, for they wera all girly.—All the Tear Round. ., HE HAS A CASZ. A man with a bad-looking nose and a melan- choly appearance gonerally (says tho Dotroit Free Press) entered Justice Potter’s office the other day, and slamming & paper down on the dosk he oxclsimed: *I submit the docs and de~ mand a divorce !” The Court looked at-him in a puzzled way, and tho' stranger continued : *“Hump the papers togelber mighty quick, for she's out after a dray to mova the furnitare!” ~I can't give you n divorce,” anawered his Honor. * Here's the cash down, mister!” said the stronger, pulling, out & small tin box full of shinplasters, *and here's charges that @il make your blood run cold!” He was instructed ) a8 to what steps he must take, and in hig excitement and confusion he went awav leaving the * docs on tbe desk. The charges read as follows : _**1. Pulling hair, jawiog, sod kicked me. 2. Mors putlwg bair. 3. Ricked me Christmas Day, and I can prove it. 4. Tried to pizen we, and then jawed arauad. 5. Sitting down cellar and reading dime novels, sud then striking me when I talked to her ike a father. 6. Teasing me to take her to a circus. and then getting mad and ruining a mighty good dish-pan. 7. Jawing, kicking, fighting, cassing, threatening, making up faces, and demanding money to buy ice-cream and candy for her darned old relashuns, And o forth, to-wit, and a good many other things which 1 can prove atzaighter'n o string. Geuilomen, grant mo thig divorce and 1 will vote for you 1 you ever rua for Aldermen. CURIOUS MARRIAGE-STATISTICS, Statistics of marriages .at Worcester, Alass., for the last year show that, out of a total of 463 marrisges, in twenty-eight casos widowers and widows were united for the second time, and seventeen widows took bachelors for their mec~ oud_ busbaods. Five widowers took widows for their third wives, and the same number took maidens for their third companions. One widow took a widower for hor third husband, and in ouo cate it was the third marrisge of both. In 850 cases the groom was the older, while in - forty-eight instances both wero of the same age, and fifty-nine brides wera older than the grooms. Oue bride was 15 years old, ona 16, fourteen were 17, and twenty-eight were 18, The youngest groom was 17, five were 19, nine were 20, and twenty-one wers 21 yeams of age. The FToom of 17 vears took a briwe of 18, and the bride of 15 took a busband of 19 A Widower 82 years old took a maiden of 49 for his third wife, A widower of 76 was_unitad to a widor of 58, 1t being the third marriags of each. A widower of 56 took a maiden of 30, and in acother instance 8 widower of 50 wook & maidea of 22. . . THIS IS LEAP YEAR. Married—On Wednesday, at the residence of Mr. Waymaa Clark, by E. A. Williams, ' Mra. Peggy Glover to Tommy Barret. Said Poggy is of the tender age of 50. Growip, weas i glo blessedness, eho sox out lastgsund? s ing ona leap-year courtmg excnmmn”z} Visiting geveral eligible eingle men, and X, ol to ke **No” for an answer, ghe “:mn; called st the Louso of Mrs. Barrer, soltSh of her atended vietim. = o 15 19 yegrs it has Jived in this wicked world long snocsid experience the inconveoiencs and dunlntigh“ the boy who was too big for hus mamma to g e and yet bas no one to sew on his buttops, s made Ler proposal with true bissextile bounsm‘ aud be, overcome with modesty and contgy: ot st blushed, signed, and fung gon head. But, after tantahizing her for £oms ¢ with bis coyness, he finally sank mpog o broast, and was inclosed in her lomng gyt You may guess the rest.—Sparta (Tenn.) lml—v’: HOW HE WEIGHED HIS WiFg." . She is a’ woman, weighing, it wag BUPDOse about 250 pounds, but ber husband coutg not iy, duce her to be weighed. So the other dayy, was dniving ont with'bis wifo, and drovo gy Mr. Dorman's etore in Auburn. The wife gig not notice that the team stcod on Mr. Bormagy Ly acales. Whilo ho maa talking with a geoy, man at the door his whole team was pa woighed, _He then drove over to Lisbon st and” left bis wifs to do some shopping.” The bo-drove back to Mr. Dorman's hiay seaies sy the team was weighod—minus the wifa. Iiw: but a eimpie sum in subtiaction to dxscnvemn welght of flie woman. On getting hom joke feaked out, but Lis neighbors Geclare t Caleb will never gee another day of judgmen; in which ke will be more sarry for' his Siny than be did the hour when his wifa learneq that she weighed two bundred ana forty odd Poundy, —Lewiston (Xe.) Journal.. MISCELLANZOUS NOTES, Grece before meai—A handsome womin gy market. Capital punishment—Hanging on the neck of & pretty gitl. The wife of tha Marquis of Bats was recently delivered of twins—a pair of Bates, asit wers. Aotto for the Girl of the Period: Vestigy nulla refrorsum—Dog’t gtep on my pull-back) The following dislogue waa overhesnd g other duy : Ie: * Aramints, je fadore!” Sho, ¢ Sbus 1b yourself " 'Fo us men, leap-year balls are highly. enjoratly, for it 13 80 nice to *-shake our fuot” whils thy ladies *“foot the shake.” Aimost 8 node depacture—The San Antseip Herald mentions * Miss Kitty Fewclothes” y among the ‘*departares by the Kingabuy srage.” . " She asked him if her new drass wasn't asaweet a8 o spring roge, and tho biute enaid it was, evag to the minor atiraciton of sull baving alittls due ou it. . A Washington physician argaes tha: love pro- ceads from the stomacl:, and that tha beart hy pothing to do witix it. He says shes curn-beet sud mealy potatoes beget love. Everyday or two we come az:ws & rala for computing the interest on mon'c*=: but neser find oue for computing the tuteres, on3 woman takey 1n the <uz of another womaa's poionwsy. A Buffslo man dreamed that ho was guiug over the Falls, and be had hiswife hy tha chroat «hen he wose up. Nex: night she bad a dream, sy broke bis nose as she struck at an Indian, TUpon the death of a Danbury woman, who was a chronic_borrower, an tufesliug neighbor observed : *‘She wou't bo buried thera s weex before xhe'll e calling on the uthor tenants for their flowers.” A Hartford girl treatinz a too freqent gentte- man caller ratier coolly drew from him ths mark: I fear yon are not doaliug squarsly with me?” + That's bscause vou ars 'round sg often,”” was the quist raply. . The young ladies of Brainerd are not beniadia recognizing theif rights under the leap year act. Two of our bolies have appited to us, na Clerk of the Comt, for marraze-licenses, and obtained them.—Brainerd ( Va.) Tribuae. Itisa bad sign to 83c 2 man who has beea mzrried but twelve montha gloomily pacicg his ohamter, with bis hands acrvously thrast ints s coat-tail pocke:s, and murtesing to Limseil s *+ The worla 1s tod much governed.” o Jloliero was asked the reason why, ia certain countries, the Kitg may assume the crown atlf years of age, and caniut marry beforo 13 “it 14,” answered Mloliere, ‘*because it is more difie calt to ruie & wits than 2 Kingdom.” A.voung lady who tenches ons of the publis £chodis iu Tow zceps her puptla in trim by suck talk-ns tius: Now, Bob, if you don’tquil--. pulling Sal's hair, I'l soateh you bald-ncaded ! Sase, quit your whisparing, or 1"l put a tin eaz onyou! That'stie sort of a hair-pin [ am!” A little Meridon (Ci.) girl, whose father re- cently died, Leing Qispleased that ber moiber had fallea inlove with another man, apphed to the Mayor, the other day, to Lave the afsir rtopped by the poli: whan infrrmed that thiay conidu’t € 2a; g abaut 1%, lofs tha of- fics crying. Mr. Punch, being asked his opinion of the present ladies’ dress, replied : ** { highly sp- peove tho g resent fashion, comprehending as it dces the highest graces of tha tvo most dis- tioguished models of fomsle beauty, beving ia front the Venus de Medici, behind the Vennsds Ilottentot! 2" s Yrobally none of the votaries of St. Vale- tina raceived oo the 1ith ins:i. 8o umiquassd costly 2 memento 45 a yoang lady of Troydid last vear.—an ox heart pierced with golden skewers set with precioas stones. Tho heart was ooon eaton up by the famuly watey aog, whils the darts weroc trausferred to the lady's bair. Onc of_tho novelties of o pew hotel in Jacks eonviile, Fla., i8 a crystal chandeliér ix ha Leidal chamber. Dy toucbicg 2 buttoo it is tighted; &t the same moment ot eprings a little Capid, who strikes with & hammer a chime or _bells, which peal out in the sweetest melody, **Rest in thia bosom,” **Let me kiss hum for nis motter,” ete. One day Jast week a young wan in s nexzhbor- ing town was iovited with Dis sweetheart t9 i~ tend a party, but unfortucately was not in pos- session of “eaough mouey to delray expenses. To provide it he Lifled a neiglivor’s dog, siinned it, nod sold the Inde to a tan-yard, realizing enough to supply bis nced.—Marysville (Ky.) Bulletin. 4 A motherly puff—¥aneavering mamma (anxs ious that her daughter’s chief artraciion should not escape the notica of the very edgible youdg man who is taking her—the davghtor—down t supper) : * Maria! Maris! Manal ™ Yes, mamma!” 3aneuveriog mamma (in loud whisper) : *“ Take your eyelashes out of iangle, darling | "—Punch. That was 8 shrewd girl, and not devoid of seuso either, who remarked, when other girs were making fun of Ler shorc skirts, and af- fected to be much shocked at the exhibition thereof ata perty: “If you'd only pull up your dreeses about your neck, where they ough! to be, théy'd be as sbort as mine!” She wss not troubled any more. - e sid, as he gazed In her beantifal f: &P Molly, o't say 1ts too thin, For I swear that I love you as man nzver Joved - Says she, * BUlly, pleiss wipo oX your chin.” “But Molly, my darling, hear mo out now, I pray =" “Come, Billy, do give'ns a rest; " “1 will not, dear Muily, till you promise mo that—" Ok, Biliy, just pull down your veat! : SONRETS. I REFLECTIOX. ‘Times coms when, like a mirror, Lifa's reposing so% 1ts tempests overblown, and etilled its ruftling cares, Reflects from its deep besom, broad, and caiz, apd : free, fiweex&;m:qnn, fhoughts, that Leam like mirrored st From a subjected heaven of world-wide sympsthy. . Between two heavens thus becalmed, O Soull $he wars Of Senzo and Being may not come, nor ught tha! o mars ‘The placid heights and depths of restful ecatasy. Now, v:\;i)c thou czn'st, abide and take thy Tes For soon the arbitrary tides will riseand bear theo 0% And Lifes vexed ocean spread grsy and restless ‘waste, - From which the Heaven's sweet image, all withdran, Shall ?dd the mirror upto wrinkling cares, that3 defuced And tortured image of thyself alone can cast fited 1L - DUTY. & ) A solomn Angel from the threshold of theDavn ., Called to the Conacience, “ Rise and come with me But Being, loth {rom restful pleasure to be torn. Repijed, * To-morrow, earnest Angel, I will follow thee.” B = #God hath not promised that & morrow e'er shall Lol The Angel thundered from s face of cloudy scorn & *Thou hast no right of ownership in days unbora: ‘rizg nad fallow, i€ thou would'st be crowned a0 oo 1" S < 5 Somewhat averse, T rose and followed where she led;- Ier dusky pinions gloomed for me tho morning suly But =t the noon their fervent plumes glowed flarprfl‘]i The same had changed to feathery gold whenid was done, . bal And in the twilight, when the conquered Day lay desdy She came and softly placed & crown upon my head. - CHICAGO, = © Borm H, S— ) o i