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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES L tion, thesalvation of the human soul is positively imposeible. Heuce we see why it is said, * With- out faith {t s impossible "to please IHim,” & Whatsoeyer, f8 not of faith is sin,”"* Without Ar IS i et ¥ Boengie Shiedding of the blood 3t Chilsi—that f5 HI§ death: one_ of the chain of facts necessary to the faith which worketh by love. As witlout this, the hub in the whecl o Divine condescen- sion to man, or to the law written in his heart, the scheme would fail to reduce human alicna- tion and enmity by awakening the sin-annihilat- US. Th; Doctrine of Salvation by Faith. . g virt; f I Work of the Home Missionary . lfi: E«L’gfltfl; these arguments 1t is i . oh BT Society and American Trom "being an- acbitrary Aeeres ot Divine sovcrelzuty, upon which—while He might, if disposed, just as well have chosen some other exercise—to offer “salvation by the remission of sins.® Indeed, it is casy to sce that this is the only successful process: of addressing to the "attention and natural Tract Society. botirion snd Hysteries, or an En- < _ 9, affections” motives naturally slmost glish View of Moody’s sistible,—the Babe _of Beihlchom . instend K Lllb Or'S. of the * Fearful Mnjesty,"’—bnt not perceived asrelated to the old prejudice and enmity. Thus, 3 mind, embittered and enraged against . 0.8 Del- | Siehton oo oAt el Mléclions sad = 3 miring, even loving be- -|address of the Pope to.a De! lief in the Son of God, and, o P on of French ally, as the faith may be, he is * transformed egati 1 info the same image, as by the Spirit Pilgrims. of the Lord.” “We love Him because (in our faith) He first loved us.” 1t is to be hoped that this, in itself, plain sub- ject will come to be examined directly in our earts, under the light of the Bible, as the Di- vinely-authorized copy of the law manuscript in our - hearts, without ploddln% the devious ways of = the effetc theologles of the schools; that it will be taught as one of the almost ly\osmvc sciences; that ** He that believeth on the Son of God hath— by the law of moral forces—ecverlasting life;” and Mustrated by the experiment of individuals and whole classes. **1f thou belicvest with all thine heart thou ma‘yrcst be baptized.” he Rev. J. A. HALLOCE. tes eand Personals at e Home and Abroad-- Church Services. SALVATION. WHY IT MUST BE BT FAITH. 70 the Editor of The Tridune. + gareaco, May 19.—Tf the salvation of 3 moral could consist ef, or be made up of, happy adjuncts, or attendants, then MISSIONS N3 sarroundings, ad)t 7 NS AND TRACTS. euch sslvation might be reached, or reach- THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. fmespective of the faith of the | qpe anpygl meeting of the American Home sble, 4 Omnipotence, in that case, might | yycq;, Soci % N, recipim B Missionary Society was held May 10 in New gimply avder the bappy adjunets, or transplant | york, Tie report of the Executive Committee the sonl, from whataeverof wretched inaptitudes, climes, displays, and attendants, and {he work would be done. But such is not the salration of the Gospel—is not the possible ex- of a moral being. . The human soul, all perverted and distorted sin—by the “ fleshly, carnal mind, enmity b (;L‘i?" # greused by the law w‘rhu:p in " jsno more within the reach of was rend by the Rev. Dr. Clapp...The Socicty has 979 ministers of the Gospel in its service in thirty-three different States and Territories. It has ten missionaries, who have preached during the vear to congregations of colored people, and thirty-seven who have preached in foreign languages—twenty-one to” Welsh, thirteen to German, one to French, and two :‘,‘{é’,&fl?m direct agency of Omnipotence | 10 Swedish cobgrégations, The num- {han by that of impotence. Nor' can agolden- | ber of pupils in Sabbath-schools ts 85,37, | “alled, peatly-ated, glory-lighted city of gold- | Ninety-two churches bave been organized by the missionaries during the year, and 41 have become scl!-sugportln%ss houses of worship have been completed, 135 repaired, and 20 oth- -ers are in process of erection; 202 churches re- port revivals of religion, and 500 missfonaries report 6,297 hopeful conversions. The addi- tions to the churches, as nearly as can be ascer- arrayed shining ones afford a_ single ingredient ite in the salvation of a Buman spirit. %w therefore, ministers say in the pulpit— a5 they oftew do—tbat if Gud had seen fit Lie irht hsve made salvation contiilzent upon some other exercise than faith, or that faith the believer just because God says it shall Baves r$ by multiply words without knowl- | talned, have been 7,836, viz.; 4,309 on profession O yoving not. what. they gay, meither | and 5,067 by lotter.’ The tolal receipte of the whersof they affirm.” Saying a thing is true | year have been $310,027.62, and the expenditures $309,871.84, leaving $13,906.62 still due to mis- sionaries_for labor performed, but not yet re- ported. In additlon to these past dues, appro- priations already made and daily becoming due amount to $87,915.42, making the total of pledges $101,31204; toward redeeming which, und to apply on other appropriations, there is a balance in the Treasury of $16,986.11. The report then proceeds as follows: ‘The summing up of the year’s results shows full oc- casion for grateful joy. The pumber of mis- sionaries employed exceeds by twenty-seven that of the previons year. The number newly commisgioned i5 greater by twenty-six; the years of servite are more by thirty-one; 302 more sta- tions have been supplied; 4,620 more children and youth were gathered into Sabbath-schools and Bibleclassest 59 more missionaries make mention of revivals, rcpurtini?..&fi more hope- ful converts; 1,475 more have been added to the churches; of these, 1,045 more joined on pro- fession of faith; 256 more churches were or- perer made it truc, no matter Who says it. The Bible don't claim to make any thing true. It don’t claim to be 2 book of en- sctments; it does clalm to be 2 book of revela- tions. ‘What it reveals is true, and was just as trae beforg it was written in the Bible as after- wards. The Bible don’t maka it true that ‘“The way of the trausgressor is hard,” that “The Tares of sip is death,” thaf “He that bebeveth mot the Som shall mot see life,” but the wrath of God abideth on him (in the same sense 85 when a man disregards the kind- 1, God-ordained 1aw of gravitation, steps off ane of these six-story roofs, that kindly law wonld, in hux;un language, deal with him fn So the fire-bell arouses us from sleep, and larms our f and we may be so short-sight- d 35 to wish to hush its alarms, as though thus we should get rid of an impending doom. Bat jthe bell don’t §make the fire, nor cause the doom, but merely gives us timely warning, that we may “foresce the evil and hide ourselves, ig““‘z"'d‘ 8 more became self-supporting; while the slmgle pass ou and are punished.” more {oung men are reported as Just 50, the Bible don’t make hell and damnation | preparing for the ministry. The re- true, but kindly gives notice that an experience | ceipts, npotwithstanding the ~ universal de- pression of business, were $1,180.80 in advauce of those of the forty-ninth year, which were $14,330 larger than in any year that went before it. The amount of legacies, though large (595,550.95), was_$5,700 lcss, and the contribu- tions of the churches and individuals were 6,537 more thaa in the previous year. The ex- penditures were greater by $13,031.19, and the $ of clothing, books, cash, étc., through the ety, but not entering into its Treasurer’s account, exceed those of any former year, being not less than $72,000. President Wooleey appointed Dr. A. H. Claj one of the Recording Secretaries; John B. Hutcliinson, Deacon in Plymouth Church; and Dr. Barrows, 8 Committee to report a list of in spirit is possible, which the poverty of human < cannot better describe thsn by a ing cast ioto 8 =;gicl!.lfl.[of fire, dwheremtncxst be weeping, wailing, and gnashin o Reh Toae"Moral e can toweh the e man. sFlflt, in auy world, or that any local or tangible_agency can, more than figustively, ‘have to do with'that inevitable consciousness of the unbel&efing sinner, that ** our God is a con- fire.! 'I‘n!iggmwhed consciousness, mh§\ed with a ‘ense of meanness, depravity, and ingratitude, ukmnr the case described by Solomon,—*‘a k spirit who can bear,"—a fate more in- slersble and resolutely to be avoided, if it rre ible, than any literal burning in un- e fire, but one from which no powers | officers to be elected. The Comuuittce, after a 1 Omnipotence or of buman will, directly ex- | short consultation, returned and presented the tted, affords the slightest hope of salvation. | following report: All the present officers of the Society, with the substitution of the Rey. Alden B. Robbins, D.D., of Muscatine, Ia., in place of the Hon. Jacob Butler, of the same city, for Vice-FPresi- Althongh the opinion that the soul 'departing bis li(:nn% eberm’t!))' to God, and out of harmony rith =ll the elements which coustitute heaven, aust enter a local “place of torment” where naterial fire shall rage in vain to amihilate #t, | dent; the Rev. Arthur Little, of Fond du Lac, 5, swely, a mistaken interpretation of the | Wis, in place of the Rev. Johnd. Winter, D. 8hie figires intended to convey the fearful | D., of Deaver Dam, Wis., deceased, and the ietchedness of 2 fallen spirit tortur- | Rov. Nathanicl J. Barton, D. D., of Hartford, W ad buming with remorse and the | Conn.,in place of the Rev. Robert G. Vermilye, D. D., of "Hartford; Conn., deceased, for Direc- tors; and the re-clection of the executive offi- cers, namely, the Treasurer, Auditor, Secre- taries for Correspondence, and Recording Secre- The report was concurred in. The officers clected and the Society then adjourned. TIIE TRACT SOCIETY. loss of its chosen carnal _enjoyments. Tet this opinion only mistakes in the attitude of tanses too subtle and spiritual for grosser minds fo appreciate, and_hence is scen tl wisdom of Inspiration in confiding these sublime mysteries to a repository of figures. But it must be manifest that salvationtannot consist in escaping such a literal hell of fire on the one lmnds nor in_ gaining a seatinsidcof | The annual meeting of the American Tract the heavenly city on the other. But “a meet- | Socicty was held in New York May 10 The at- ness 10 be p: ker of the inheri- | tendance, which was large, included several tance of the Saints in light” on the gmm(uent clergymen of the various evangelical enominations. The Rev. Dr. 8. L Prime, edi~ one hand, and an inherent cursedness ol impelling the workers of iniquity to take “‘to evuhifl%g fire, suited to thie devil and his angels,” on the other, must order the awards in these awful cases. No direct effort of Ommipo- tence, 0o arbitrary judgment of Infinite Sov- ereignty, will determine the balances here. Hence, we see the mistake of supposing that the Arbiter, if disposed, might_have chosen to dis- Ppease salvation on the condition of folly instead of faith. For unless there is something in the condition which effectually reconciles sinning ‘uan with Holy God, there can be 1o salvation. Now, for a condition adequate to this result. nciliation and harmony with God can only exist in the exercise of love; and in such exer- dise of love there can beno failure of the re- ‘iflrfll ony and reconciliation. Hence the ible places ail virtue in love,—* Without love lam nothing.” “Love God, and thy neighbor tor of the New York Observer, presided. summary of the annual report was showing that the whole number of new ublications issued from the Tract-House uring the year was sixty-onc, of which thirty-six were volumes. Amoug these were books for devotion and edification, re- vival manuals, cxgusihory ‘works, books for young vale and children, illustrated gift books, {llustrated tracts, and other works, in- cluding a Teachers’ Bible in several editions. The "g'rcgale circulation of the six periodicals uhlinfixed y the Society for the year was nearly ,500,000 copies. The amount of ints of pub- Heatfons for the year was $48,191.18, or over 72,000,000 pages. “More than one-third of this amount was committed for distribution to the home and foreign missionaries of the various cvangelical socicties, to Sabbath-school Superin- tendents.and teachers, Young Men’s Christian & thysclf, for on these two commandiments g all the law and the propliets.” “He that | Associations, and other Christisn workers. lovel hath fulfilled the law.” *Whosoever { Nearly one-fifth has gone by various agencics to loveth isborn of God.” “Wherefore, love is | the seamen, or through them to foreign ports. About 36,000,000 pages were used in connec- tion with direct personal efforts of the col- porteurs, agents, aud life members and life Di-~ TS eaivta, jhcing_$10L7I892 fn d 'he receipts, including 718.82 in dona- o and Iosaklos, were: $402,952.30; to whieh add $12,325.35, balance of sinking fund account and balance In the Treasury April 1, 1875, making the total resdomms for the year $504,- 57088 The enditures in the variousde- the " “w 3 z of the law:. Now, as ‘‘faith ‘which worketh by Icve,” like other faith of appreciated proof, competent, credible, that mmfdu is true; and, that idea issuch that, ris g entertained in faith a8 true, the believer E'“ml"-ed involuntarily to love, because the subject of the statement is loving and loveable, 80 fiea, in staicment, becomes a faith which worketh by love. Not that every faith @n or dots so work,—for instance, the very common faith that *money is the passport to | partments of the Society for the year, inclad- all good” does mot work by love, unless it be | ing §5,518.35 to_sinking” fund account, have the love of monmey; the faith that “a | been $501,508.96, leaving & balance iu the Treas- He well stock to is as good as | ury of $2,773.72. 'l;'“‘ trath” works quite other than l%wo hundred and twenty-nine colporteurs, in- ylove; the faith of the Hindoo mother i the cluding forty-six students from twenty-two col- leges and theological seminaries, Jabored in thirty-one of the United States and in some of tae adjoining British provinces. They held or addressed 6,735 religious meetings; made 191,- 062 family visits; conversed on personal religion or prayed with 119,905 families; found 26,105 Protestant familics who habitually neglected attending evangelical preaching: 10,032 families of Roman Catholics; 12,188 familics destitute of all religions books except the Bible, and 8,802 Protestant, families without the Word of God. Tirtne of drowning her own child in the Gan fin'l yorl]‘;obynl::'%, “for love worketh no ifto . n The truthis that faith afects the bellever lmmdlnggnthe idea believed o be true, even ftisnot truein fact- "hke an instance among thousands: the confidingwife has serene Joy fn'the mistaken faith that he husband is 5 e and faithful to her. Her tajth in the delity of her husband affects her jist the syne fl“‘ Wwere true, though it s saly false’ in gm point Iam aiming to reach bwe is that £ack {s man, that no matter what his pst life, sal‘msf;nt turbulence of spiri, it is posible to b W his attention away from his rémone and itter enmity st God, and his ras) and Toolishdevotion to temporal and carnal delizhts, contemplation of s sct of develogp, 5, With the proofs of genuirencss g }"-fll\!r in those facts, provided those factg hod orth God, in another person and attitude of be Ing than that jn which be has had his combative fless excited during his Tife of sing thus “see RELIGION AND HYSTERICS. AN ENGLISH VIEW OF MOODY’S WORKE. The London World. The increase which, according to an official report published recently, there bas been in the number of lunatics received into the asylums of Edinburg, is attributed to the waveof revival- ism and the religious excitement which swept not long ago over that part of Scotland. The statement is at least suggestive. If religious means, he would fail utterly with one lonaly listener. When we talk of the audience being carried away by the speaker the expressfon is a ST ann - thar e iod g oughly trausported out or themselves. Crowus do not reason, they only fetl; but because they do not reason f{s that, therefore, the best and truest sort of education which works through the emotions only? Many writers lave expatiated on the evils of an unlimited indulgence of theimagination; sorne have compared it to a horse withouta rider; others to a devastating torrent; all huve ngmed to coudemn it; yet, revivalist preachers, and the sacredotalists who would fain graft an antiquat- ed ceremonial upon the simplicity of the 4pos- tolic faith, rely for their success on such agen- des alone. Pathetle descriptions of the sor- rows of humanity; harrowing narratives of sin and its eternal punishments; voluptuous expia- tintions on the material rewards and the happi- ness of the blest; sensual accompaniments of lights, music, and perfumes, the whole subtle influence of which on the brain is scarcely 15 yet. fully recognized; the aids of fasting, privations, aud castigations—all combine to swell the loug string of Imaginative aids, and form thg strains such people delight to harp on. An undue use of the emotions blunts the fine edge of the reasoning and intellectual puwers, yet this is precisely the objectaimed at. # Nevoer mind what reason says; only fcel that you saved,” is the dictum of the Evangelleals, % iy all means restore church discipling,” Is the watchword of the Ritualists. These latter ain indeed at a _very real power, yct the effect on thelr worshigfers is but a phase of the emotions —nothing morc—a sensutional experience like any other *intellectual dram-drinking,” as the. Bishop of Manchester once aptly expressed it. Those who have scen the evils of revivals—- the languor succeeding on such exhaustive sensations, the dullness and despondenty. as the glitter and glamour faded away; pev~ ple discovering they are in pretty much the same condition as béfore, only a few minds‘ um- hinged, a few families broken up from nistaken idess of duty, as some of the shining convested’ lights have “followed the preacher’s fortunes, otherwise the body of the population lymg in the same state of fgnorance and darkness -as be- fore, except for the additional effects of the re- action conscquent on excitement; those who have seen ail this mn[y"“\\‘cll be tempted to share fnthe elder Mill's hatred of cverything that savored of enthusiasm. No doubt ihe enthusi- asm of an :gust.le giving u}) his life and his en- ergy to the dissemination of what he telicves to be the truth {s a tine and sztrringh sigiat, but the enthusiam of a crowd is mere bubble and froth. Our Lord to-day, Barabbas .to-marrow, are equally the cry and the_ idol of the hour.' The sensation fs passing, and the effects af it are not Iess transitory. i The most poor and unlcarncd woccasionally feel wiilin them o longing for; soncthing better—a yearning for eujoyment- superior to the material indulgences of o hard and grinding life. The rich, again, in this age of ¢ncrvating luxury, demand that even religion .should be highly’ spiced; and many amongst ecducated ‘women go out of their minds from a gtimulating course of religion, just as the Turk & es from an unlimited use of “hasheesh.” ¥iad-doctors will tell you thatalmost all their femrale patients” are crazed on the subject of love or weligion, the preponderance being on the sidef the latter. Surely, if religion is ind a valusble and a swred thing, it ought not to be used to unhinge the spicndid mechy nism of the mind, and leave the little gray matter—that sourve of wonder even to Plato ‘@nd’the philos- ophers of old—td perform no beliter functions than o rabbit’s brain? Bat, thess, those religi- “ous e¢nthusiasts, of whom therehave been plen- ty since the world began, say men must be awakened from the sleep of death at any price. What! is religious Junacy 2 more adinirable thing than reazon and sanity? Minds perpetu- ally worked on by 2 particiidar train of thought, perpetually stimulated and, etually at high pressure, trying constantly to feel a degree of emotion of which our imperfect faculties arc not capable, must lose the equilibrium which constitutes a well-regulated mind. Our Lord's teachings were of a verydifferent order. When people made to him violent demonstrations of attachment or unworldlin he quietly tested them by such sayings as, “Sell all that thou hast and give to the poor.” His own enthusi- is‘m was the perfect serenitynof faith and a good e To sum up, no religion cantbe that leads to lunacy—reason being the sole interlude be- tween ourselves and the brute beasts. Far too much strees is lnid in the present day upon a man’s feelings. Jeremy Taylor eays: **A good life is the best way to understand wisdom and religion.” Religion being the science of God, what we feel is'not theiniportant part, but what is the truth. If religion is a science, it must be governed by the laws of progress and enlighten- Inent, and sustained by the fundamental prin- ciples of truth and ordér. The fact is, true re- ligion is of so subtle and delicate s nature that the ordinary vulgar mind canuot conceive it inits purity, and tlotlica it in the fleshly faucies of a groveling mind. Mme. de Montcapan confessed and commmnunicated regularly, conceiving that by thus, as it were, compounding for other sins, she was free to Zollow the desires of her heart. How many converted sinners, whose reception has been matter of talk and congratulation in religious circles, have really persevered in good ways, and have not, while adopting the special phrases and cant expressions or observances of their own particular religious sct, carried on their business or their pleasure exactly as they did before? Religion founded on mers im- pulses or states of feeling of necesslty evapo- rates when brought into Tude contact with the evils and the hardships of human existence; honest minds are apt to relapse into sheer ne- tion, while indiffercnt and ill-balanced na- gres retain a venecr of sentimeats which their whole lile and_modes of ‘action belle. The sole usc of religion is to give men a ra- tional object of being, better and bLigher than mere money-getting, and to point out the best way of obuunin§ that object. The er number of emotional enthusiasts care Dot to reason thus calmly; they usually surrender themselves, their thoughts, and their *free-will to some spiritual guide whom it pleases them to erect into a demigod, and to whose dictates, whether right or wrong, they unguestionably bow. Especially is this the fact with women and in their case, being the weakest, the most sensitive, and by education the least log'iml, the , results are naturally the most deplorable. “The longing of the present for inquiry-rooms om the one hand and the confessional on the other is nothing but a very natural expression of weak- ness on the part of mankind, and of the easy desire to shifi moral rcspousi’bility on to seli- chosen monitors, warranted to govern their ac- tions and decide for them those questions which ought fitly to be settled between God and a man’s soul alone. % But the whole subject 18 well worthy of con- sideration. The influence of emational religion in destroying the balance of reason; the ap- parent craving cntertained by the nation for more racy teaching than is supplied by the Church, and the imi})licd uselessness of that in- stitution herself if she fails to earry out the purposes she was cvidently instituted for; the spread of luxury and self-ndulgence even into tge ordinances and' principles of religion—all these are questions pregnant with meaning, and fraught with interest not only to this but to fug ture generations. In the words of a great liv- ing writer, to whom such hysteric enthiusiasm is hateful, reljgion “is a meek and blessed in- fluence, stealing in as it were upon the heart; it comes quietly and without exdtement; it has no terror, no_gloom in its approaches; it does not rouse up the passions; it is untrammeled by the creeds and unshadowed by the supersti- ti’on! of man; . . . itupliftsthe spirit with- inus, until it is strong cnourh to overiook the shadows of our place of probation, and breaks, link after link, the chain that binds us to ma- teriality.” THE POD’E. IS ADDRESS TO FEMALE PILGRIMS, A dispatch from Rome to the London Zimes, of date May 1, has the follovsing: Yesterday morning the Pope gave a special andl- ence to a number of French pilgrims who have ar- rived from Toulouee, hended by Monscigneur Des- prez, Archbishop of that Diocese. In reply to the address presented to him, His Tloliness said that— +4Their presence reminded hém of the sacred rel- jes preserved in their city, and particularly of the body of St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor of the Church. The mewmory of St. Thomas recalled those times to his mind, and the sacl events which then affected Toulonee and other prrts of France. The Albigenses, and the followers of Almeric of Prague and of Gugliclmo de Sant Amore, who had nothing saintly abont him but his rame, formed together an infamous ailiance, fabricating errors and blas- phemics mixed np in the utrungest manner, and ihich was protected, unfortunatefy, by certain ru- lers, Raymond, Count of Toulouse, and others, who -sought ' to infect and corrupt the cople. THeflrst to oppose them wag the Patriarch Ing e shall see, not perceive, hearing be shall hear Perceive, 2 feeling, carried to excess, can and does produce Tact, uu‘ll "t’,{e““fl,fi,!?;‘,;"’” .'.“(’;“,‘:1 m&gr é;",:_;';{ insanlt;', it becomes mecessary to decide when Tecon the world unto Himsaf |the indulgence of #t begins to be injurious. :h“ nimpnfing their trespasses unto | Jessrs. Moody and Sankeymightly filled crowd- thaeh br;\;u 80 far hll_xge engross el mfgglé €l Inllg with rapturous devotees, and the efect 10}im hoconey !‘;Jve AT . icn. and thewe. | Of ‘hese exciting performarices was watched fore “whosoerer loveth is bor of God? | DY Prchological students with keen intereet. The law of the spirit of life in_Christ Jests | Uafortanately the deductions they may have w him from the law of sinan( | dravn have nwt yet been publighed to the world. ooy 'mc’l'hl;istge‘;gfimkfl}e& ith works by} Waat is it that attmets large audiences, and "This Is the fagth whick was once delivered to | FLatwe the results moraly and physically? + the Saints.” Everine is aware of the electrical propertics This is “ belicving to thesaving of s X e ted | of m ssemblage of human beings. There scems tmn some subtle sympathy through the aggregatsmultitndeavhich is utterly wanting to the solital; umt; the orator easily movesa crowd 0 Bhs, taars, and frantic lsughter by the son 7 % mmw‘:!- It is easy to see the part acted by _Without the evangelical ‘Warks by ¢ sgzhwa o B Jove reconciliation is very. simpl mems, though, using the same tion betwecn God and ciliation el ew Testame: the fal o ith and. G o this recon of the N nt, th which ively impossible. With- £ai Basltively fmpossible. , Without ‘snch reconcilia~ . Dominic, snd then St. Thomas Aguinas with his celeatial doctrine. Together they repuleed the assaults of the unbelicvers, the errors of the new eretics, and, disdaining the protection given them by certaln powerful persons, succeeded with God's helpin gaining the desired victory. Even then the new heretics asserted what another despic- able sect asserted in our day—that the Catholic Church had ceased to exist. “The heretics of the thirtcenth century believed that this end had come with the accession of Poupe St. Sylvester to the Pontifical throme. The herctics of the however, somewhat more resent time were, t. It appeared that they conceded Riigent 1 ppeared” Joe oy concede Fne 0ld Catholics of Germany were in accord .with all the other beretics of Europe—in. saying that the Church was not what it was formerly—that it had fallen, had become obscurcd, that it was not pure, and it appeared that they arrogated to them- Delves the right of purifyingit. Nor wasa Count of Toulonse wanting who al rotected the new _heretics, ag neither were powerful persons wanting WAV, ond e shrs | who farfonsly persecnted the Catholic religion. He would not, he said, speak of that ant-hil’of here- tics whlcly had sapcially procipitated iicelr. upon this ‘.‘“‘5.‘,‘,'3".1""“'5.‘.5."3 h_x‘s: x{m!r way with de- Sought to defle this beantitul ‘conntes O Noy he would not speak of this miserable mass of errors and erring ones, inasmuch us through thelr dis- cords and evil counsels they mutually de- stroyedl one another. But it St. Dominic by ‘his pragers and St. Thomas by his writings und sermons overcame the enemies of God and purifica the Church of so much filth and dross, they might hope to obtain the ssme ends by nsing the ¥ame means. Certain it was that now the good Catholics nsed the arms of prayer and of the Word to overcome the avsauits of the emissaries of Satan, Referring to his imprison- ment, but not nsing the expression, the Pope told the pilgrims that they had come to visit him in this comier of the capital of the Cathollc orb, a corner Dblessed by God, where prudence and necessity obliged him to live and reside. Ile biessed France in her families, in her cities, in her provinces, in her realm, in order that, throngh union andaccord, 3ud the abnegation of certain pacticulac opinions, enemies of the common triumph, all the people of thatnobleland might draw harmoniously togetherto sustain the interests of the Churchand of the coun- try. It was not true that diversity of character and disposition were ovstacles to union. Iic reminded them of the mystic chariotof Ezekicl drawn by four different animals. The ferocity of the lion went in accord with the reason of man, the awiftness of the eagle with the slowness of the ox. So many diver- #itica of nature were no obstacle fo the smooth and steady steps they took together, nor did uny one of those animals scek to draw the chariot in_ accord with its own disposition, but it went steadily for- wara because it was ‘zdfded and directed by God. All, then, humbling themselves at the fect of the Lord, »hould sacritice their particular‘opinions be- fore Him. Tic would then inspire their counsels and guide them to an end.™ THE,NEW TESTAMENT. INCORRECTNESS OF THE PRESENT VERSION. To tne Editor of The Tribune. The second verse of the fifth chapter of Sec- ond Corinthians reads in the common English version of the New Testament thus, viz: For we must all appear before the judgment seat one in his body, according 0 bath done, hicikior e he Gosd ertad i A person who carefully reads the New Testa- ment in the original Greek, will be often im- pressed with the failure of the common English version to give the correct meaning and full force of the Greck. The word “appear” in the above verse istransiated from the Greck, ‘phanerotheni,”” the first aorist passive intinitive of “phaneroo,” which signifies to be made known or myanifest. So the verse should read, *For we must all be made known gr manifest) before the judgment seat of hrist,” &ec. ~ There fs o marked difference be- tween the word “a!:gcnr > and the phrase “be made known” or ‘‘be made manifest.” The idea taught here is that we shall not simply ap- pear on that solemn and awful aceasion, Ymc we shall appear in our true light and be made known as never before. - Who can deny after reading this verse, that there will be "a final ]ud_::ment’dr:K wherein all shall be judged by Christ according as they have lived on earth? Surely no one who believes the New Testament. . That all shall not receive the same judgment is necessarily implied from the fact that each one 1s tobe judged according to the things which he did in the body, whether good or bad. Crianves H, Reep. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CUTURCH IN GENERAL. Atown of 500 inhabitants in Syria has been converted to Protestantism. A chapel and a school-house have been built, and a preacher and teacher stationed there. ‘The next annual meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States and Canada will be held at Toronto, Canada, July 12-16, in Shaftesbury Hall. A large attendan of delegates is expected. s Messrs. Moody and Sankey, after the State Sunday-School Convention at Jacksonville, are coming to Chicago. The different ministerial associations of this city have invited them.to hold a few union services at Farwell Hall dur- ing their stay here. . The present Presbyterfan Church at Hunters- town, Pa., was built in 1783. It took the place of a log building, which had probably been erected before 1740—at least a grave-yard nt- tached to the church has a headstone recording a death as carly as 1789, ‘The English New Testament Revision Com- mittec have struck out as spurious the last seven verses of the lost chapter of St. Mark. They have also strack out, as being a false lnter- polation, = verse n one of the Epistles which s requently quoted a5 a proof of the existence of the Trinity. A third English mission is to be planted in Central Africa. Thc London Missfonary Socie- "ii intends to found a mission upon Lake ungauyike, with headquarters at Ujiji. The sum of £5,000 has becu offered to the Society toward the purchese of a steam launch to be used upon the lake. There are in the City of Balttmore, where the Methodist Episcopal "Conference is now in ses- sion, seventy-six Methodist churches. Of these, forty-nine belong to the Metbodist Episcopal Church North, eight to the Methodist E{:lscopn.l Church South, eight to the Protestant_Method- ist, six to_the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the remaining five are independent. The Presbytery of Huntington, Pa., at its late meeting, admonished two preachers, first, for irregular action in preaching beyond the bounds cir own Presbyteries without any author- ity, and sccond, for ching doctrines known as the “ Higher Life, ich ‘are mot i%ucurd— ance with tfic truth as held in the Presbyterian Church, and, therefore, * dangerous and per- nicious.” E Of the 330 students in the University of Vir- %nln 106, together with 15 out of the 23 mem- rs of the §‘m:nlr.y, have formed a Christian Association. The Association has prayer-meet- ings in different parts of the University and conducts four Sunday-schools. The students are classified according to their actual member- ship i churches or denominational tendency: Episcopal, 117; Presbytcerian, 62; Baptist, 315 Methodist, 393 Disciples, 7; others, 15; ac- knowledging no tendency, 12; total reachied by the Assotiation, 253. A Parlinmentary report has just been issued in England about the additions made to the British. Museum during the year ending March 31, 1876. Among the rare uisitions are a number of Sanskiit works and six copies of Papal Indulgences printed upon vellum, which are very valuable. Onc Indulgence_is dated 1517, and is one of those granted by Pope Leo X. in return for contributions towaul the erec- tion of St. Peter’s at Rome, the sale of which through John Tetzel catled forth Luther's first remonstrance against the evils of his time, Lapland mothers are not in the habit of stay- ing at home with their babics. The Lapps are a very rclx‘ka.: people, and take long journeys to Tear theit pastors. As soon gs the family ar- rives at the little wooden church, and the reio- deer are secured, the father shovels a snug lit- tlc bad in the suow, and the mother wraps the baby in skins and deposits it therein. Then the fatlier piles the snow around it, and the dog is set on guard, while the parents go decorously into church. Often as many as thirty babies cnlll:xy gc seen laid away in the smow about a urchi. The London Times of April 20 says: “The Revisers of the Authorized Version of the New Testament met on Tuesday at the Jerusalem Chamber for the fifty-ninth session, and sat for seven hours. The were prescn& the Bishop of Glocester and Bristol (who presided), the Deans of Lincoln and Lighficld, Archdeacon Lee, Canon ‘Westeott, Professors Brown and Milligan, Drs. Angus, Hort, and Vance Smith, and Prependaries Humphry and Scrivener—in all, twelve members, and Mr. Troutbeck, the Sccretary. The com- any carried on thelr revision to the end of the 22d verse .of the 5th chapter of the Epistle to the Ephcsians.” The following advertisement appeared in re- cent number of a_religious EK(CH “Wanted, gold and silver, old studs or links, chain, or any kindsof jewelry, to melt down to form &vires’ (Exod. XXxiX., Sg to complete the fac-simile of the dress of the High Priest of Israel. Con- tributions to be sent to Dr. —, Who desires lso to make another—and he belicves much more_perfect—model of the Tabernacle of Israel, double the size of that in his possession, made by the Rev. G. Rogers,—viz., 2 inches to the cubit.,” He progmcs to have all the gold as'real gold, as described in Exod. y CLC.y and all the silver real silver. % A suggestion’has been made lately in the Lon- don Guardian for the election of Bishops by the diogeses. It proposes that the Prime Minister shall call upon the Diocesan: Conference to nominate a suitable person to recommend to the Queen, who could then issue the conged'elire in the usual form. In this way, so far as the nomination of the new Bishop is concerned, the initiative is taken by the diocese, while the au- thority of the Crown to condirm or to reject the nomination is recoy ‘The Episconalians of America, before judging of the justice and liber- ality of this plan, will te led:to ask what voice the'laity of the diocese are to have in making the nomination. The information concerning army chaplains, as gained by Congress ix the course of the in- quisition for army reform, is not very flatter- ing to those occupying that _position. Col. Palmer, who has scrved since calls them 1hs greatest incuboa d the aumu”’ and savs: ‘* A more useless and worthless set of drones and idlers were néver fastened on a body of men. The men who have been appointed to .these positions gre generally characterless, und: are no example to the officers or men, aund they bring the Christian _religion into contempt wherever they go.” fGen. Ord, also, whose services date from 1839,"says that not more than one in ten Is useful. At the Methodist preachers’ meeting, in New TYork lately, the Rev. Mr. Bowditch, on behalf of the Committee appointed to investigate the subject of providing unfermented wine for sac- ramental use, n:flortcd that good unfermented wine, which will keep for any length of time, can be made as follows: “Take any kind of ripe grapes and boil with a small quantity of water untll reduced to a pulp; stralp through fine muslin, and to every gallon of julce thus ob- tained ‘add from three to four pounds of com- mon sugar; then boil the juice over again, and pour while hot into air-tizht jars or bottles, which must be kept closely sedled. The wine will begin to ferment in a few days if exposec tothe air. The cost of this wine is shout §l per gallon.” ‘The London Mistionary Chronicle says that of the South African tribes, the Hone’;m are auxgrhlngl ly hard to convert to Christianity, snd ready to backslide. The Kafirs are iy su- geriur intellectuully and physically, yet they ave held out for fifty years against Christian| iufluences. There is scarcely a genuine coavert among them, their resentful, warlike naturcs being a bar to sympathy with the missionaries’ teachings. Redoubled efforts are being madein their behalf. The Zulus are equally unapproach- able. The Bechuanas, wmpm[nfithc other and much the largest race in South Africs, are mild and tractable. They take to Christianity readily, the Christian Sabbath is generally observed {n their territory, and they are givieg up their no- madic habits to become cultivators of the sofl. PERSONAL. . Dr. Samuel H. Cox, {n his 84th year, Commis- sioner to the General Asscmbly, will be the oldest member in that Assembly. Mr. John J. Blair has increased the endow- ment in Blair Presbyterial Aczdemy for the free education of ministers’ sons to $31,500. The Rev. William B. Sprague, D. D., L. L. D., dled at his home in Flushing, L. L., on Sun- day morning, May 7, in the 81st year of his age. Bishop Talbot, of the Episcopal Diocese of In- diana, recently confirmed nineteen of the con- victs at the State Penitentiary, presented by the chaplain, the Rev. John 8. Gray. The Rev. Dr. J. L. M. Crrry has returned to Richmogd aftera long tour abroad. He was formerly a member of Congress from Alabama, , and 8 now one of the most” prominent Baptist divines in the South. > - The Rev. C. DeHee, Presbyterian missionary on Cerisco Istand, West Coast of Africa, writes that a remarkable religious interest has been developed there. At a rccent meeting twenty [pereons rose for prayer. Tt is very remarkable that daring the month of April, and since the fourth day of that month, Bishup Stevers has confirmed 1,016 persons in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, nearly equaling the numbers confirmed in the whole State six-~ teen years 8go. The Rev. H. M. Collisson, late pastor of Wil- low Creck Presbyterian €hurch, Lilinois, .and now Rector of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Ottaws, Canada, has been upgolnted delezate to the Free Church of England by the Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Rev. David N. Vanderveer, of Kingston, N. Y., who has eccepted the call of the Union Park Congregational Church, Chicago, is a uate of Union College and of Printeton et , and has had nine years’ experience as pastor of the Reformed Church of Kingston. Last Sundny Bishop Loughlin administered the rite of confirmation to 1,120 candidates at the Church or St. Viacent de Paul in Brooklyn. Of this great number abont 300 werc adalts, one old man being 96 years old. Never before were 50 many peopleconfirmed at one time in Brooklyn. Mr. Plimsoll, the ‘Enoglish Parlizmentary champfon_of the sailors, proposes_to have the church help his good work alogg” He hus just sent circulars to all the English dlergy, asking them to get signatures to petitions in favor of the additional reforms which he desires in the shipping laws. The . Dr. Galusha Aunderson, pastor for two years and seven months of the Strong- place Ba%fiat Church, Brooklyn, closed hig Tabors with that churchlast Sunday. He willgo to Chlcu{i'o, carryifi with him the kindliest wishes of his Brooklyn congregation, who have found i him a faithful pastor and fxiend.~Inde- Tuie Rev. PoterStrykér, D. D.,5of the Flrst Pres- byterian Church, at. Rome, N.'Y., has received calls from the first Presbyterian Church at Os- wego, N. Y., the Firat Presbytcrian Church at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and_the Rutherford Park Presbyterian Church, in New Jersey. -1t is probable he will accept the call to Saratoga Springs. v The Rey. Charles P. Cole, of Portland, Me., has been invited to be assistant minister to tue Rey. Dr. James W. Thompson, of the Unitarian Church at Jamaica Plains, Boston, with a salary of $2,500. Dr. Thompson {s h_his st veay and has not been in usual good health of . late. His ministry has been long and effective. The eighty-fourth ‘anniyersary of thebirthday .| of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Shepard, who has been a preacher for sixty years, and for forty-one “years bas been conuected with the Cor - iogal Cliurch in Bristol, R- 1., wes celebrated last Monday. Very many mwns‘fcoplc and friends visited their aged pastor, and there was read to him a meseage from the Rhode Island Association of Congregational Ministers testify- ing to the many virtues and great success of thefr brother preacher. ‘ The youunger Tyng is again surprising his clerical il’cfl.\g:m by what is deemed a t ir- regularity. Not content with aiding and abet- ting Moody and Sankey,he has now opened Holy Trinity Chapel in New York to Miss Baird and Miss Logan, district mission exhorters from England, who crossed the ocean on his invita- tion. They hold meetings which are chiefly at- tendeds by women, every afternoon, preaching, exhorting, and using thé same hymns that the American_revivalists do. Nelther of these women is deseribed hs remarkable in any way; they are earnest and sensible, and a marke contrast in their style to Mrs. Van Cott, whose sermonsin Brooklyn were regarded as theatrical in style. Her labors there, which were very fruitful, are ended, and she has gone to Daven- port, Ia. » " BREVITIES. The boys of Detroit scem to be gofog down hill in their morals of late. Sunday one of the legion, who has always been noted for his respectful demeanor toward the great public, observed an old citizen yawning and gaping on a strect-corner, and said to him: tBetter not open your mouth too wide."” “Why?” was the surprised query. ¢ There's o law agh opening a sdloon on Sun- day!” continued the sinful child, as he/slid for the mtiddle of the street. 1t is universally admitted that a boy between the ages of 10 and 16 is the most exasperating nuisance in the world. The other evening one of these wretched creatures stalked into a par- 1or, full of company, and, addressing his father in the customary deafening tones, said: “Pop, what's this I hear sbout our minis- ter?” ‘Thereupon several of the ladies present cast startled Jooks about them, and then ‘‘lit out” of the apartment in considerable confusion.— r curate sent his servant to a chandler’s A poot sh zept by one Paul, for bacon and e; for Bt Binday duner, on credit. This being etus- ed, the damsel, as she had nothing to cook, thought she might as well go to chureh, and en- tered as her master,in the midst of his discourse, referring to the Apostle, repeated, * What says Paul?”? "The g ‘woman, supposing the ques- tion addressed to her, answered, ‘‘Paul says, sir, that he'll give you no more trust till you pay your old score.” The Coroner, in summing nfl a recent case, pointed out to the jury that there was no evi- dence whatever that the deceased had come to her death by foul play, and therefore there was nothing for them to do but to return a verdict of “Death by the visitation of God.” The jury, however, thought &drismfled to retire for con- sideration. They not, of course, give & verdict right in the teeth of the Loroner's sum- Thing up, and 80, after a long consideration, this is how they satlofled their own consciences and the demands of justice: *We find that the de- ceased died by the yisitation of ,God, but under the most suspicious circumastances.” The ‘tit and jottle” dnecdote inthe February Drawer reminds a Boston corrcspondent_that % Boston’s handsome minister”—as N. P. Willis called the Rev. Dr. Kirk—in addressing acrowd- ed audience at the Tremont Temple, among many other_good things, remarked: *‘The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leayened.” A novel sart of yeast, truly! too wise 2 man to ack on his assertion, how- ever, for there can be no doubt he *saw the Emnc " in amultitude of laughing eyes before e He ‘ralsed o giggle, “if his_bread was eary- Dress The room became so crowded that it became necessary to procure more scats. There were clalrs stowed carcfully away in the attic; one of the members went up to haud them down; theTeader gave out thehymn, ** Hold the Fort.? Tte attic fioor consisted of the plastering, which congtituted the ceiling of the room below, of Wi circumstance the chair seeker was not aware. So just as thechoir commenced the first stanza, down came one leg of the unfortunate chair-hanter, The choir, however, did not notice the circumstance, and ‘went om slpgin%', “Ho! my comrades, ste the signal waving in the air, reinforcements now arc coming,” etc. Just at this instant the other leg appeared, and the singing was drowned by the roaring laugh- ter of the congregation. CHURCH SERVICES. L EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will preach stSt. James' Church, corner of Cais and Huron streets, at10:45a. m. and 8 p. m. —The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will preach at St. John's Church, Ashland nvenue, near Madison street. at 10:30 3. m., and the ReWPC. T. Street, of Fort Dodge, Ia., 0t 7:45 p. m. ? —~The Rev. B. A. Rogers will preacn at the Charch of the [Epiphany, Throop street, between Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. ~The Rev. Henry G. Perry will preach at All Suints' Charch, corner North Carpenter and West Ohlo strects, morning and evening. ~The Rtev. Francis Mansfield will preachst the Charch of the Atonement, corner of Mashington and Robey streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. The Rev. Dr. Locke will preach af the chapelof Grace Church morning and evening. ~—Communion at 7:30 2. m. and Morning Prayer at 10:45 3. m. at the Church of the Ascension. ~—The Rev. Euther Pardee will preach at the Epiecopal Miseion, on Western avenue, at 4:15 p.m. —The Rev. Dr. Cushman will preach at St. Ste- phen’s Church, on Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth, morning snd evening. —The Rov. Luther Pardee will preach at Calvary Charch, on Warren avenue, near Western, at 10:30a. m. aad § p. m. —The Rev. Bishop McLaren will preach morn- ing and evening nt the Cathedral of SS. Peter nad Paul, corner of Washington and Peoria streets. ‘—The Rev. D. F. Warren, gRector, will preach at §t. Mark's Church in the morning, and the Rev. 31.°C. Dotten in the evening. _The Rev. Edward Sullivan, Rector, will preach at Trinity Charch, on Michigan avende, corner of Twenty-sixth street, morning and evening. **Our Centennial Sundays™ will be the subject for the evening discourse. B —3lorning service will be held at the Church, of the Holy Communion, on South Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth. —The Rev. H. Bosworth will preach at the Emmanuel Church, corner Hanover and Twenty- eighth streets, morning and evening; and at Eng;le- wood at 3:30 p. m. —Ascension Day services will be beld at Calvary Church at30:30a. m. Thursday. —At thie Church of the Ascension, corner of Elm and_LaSalie streets, the Parish Festival will be held Wednesday evening, when the Rt. Rev. Bish- op McLaren, Wwill preach. Celebration of the Holy Eucharist, Thursday (Ascension Day) at 6:3013. m., by the Bishop. REPORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Dr. Fallows will preach at St. Paol's Churen, corner Washington and Anu_ strects, ‘at 10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject: “*Growth;" evening: *‘Coumge.” —Bishop Cheney will preachat Christ Chunch, Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourthstreet. Morm- ingsubject: *‘NoXMore Sea;" evening: **Luok and Live,” 2 —Dr. Cooper will officiate at Immanne] Cburch, comner Centre and Dayton streets, at 10:30 2. m. and 5 p. m. 3 PRESBYTERIAN. TheRev. J. B. Taylor, of Lake Forrest, will preach at the Second Church, eorner Michigan ave~ nue and Twentieth strect, 8t10:453. m., and the | Rey. H. T. Miller, of the Sixth Charch, at 7 [ . . p—'l.'l‘u: Rev. James Brown, of Keokuk, Ia., will glrcn:h at the United Memorial Church, corner o¥ onroe and Paulina streets, ot 0:30 a. m. —The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach ot the Fifth Church, Indizna averme and ‘Thirtieta streets. Teird@ecture to youngiuen in the evenir.g 3:1 *‘Cross-Bearing a Necessity; How to Make It.a oy, " - L i’l‘ne Rey. Henry T. Miller wilt preach at ‘the Sixth Church, corner Vinceunes aird Oak avenc es, 2t 10:45 3, m., on **A Sermon Ontiof Doors;” and the Rev. James 1. Tu;lor will preach at7:45 p. m. —The Rev. James laughlan w.ill preach at the Scotch Church, corner of Sangamon and Adnms streets. Morning subject: **The Great Questicm;™ evening: **Moscs, the Deliverer."” —The Rev. Samuel W. Duftield wiltpreach atithe Efghth Church, corner of Washingtow and Rubey streets, at 10330 3. m. and 7:30 p. m.. —The Rev. David J. Burrell will jpreach at the Westminster Charch. corner of Jackson and Pecria streets. Morning subject: ** The Book of Lifie;™ evening: **Charles Wesley.” 5 B BAPTIST. - 4 ‘The Rev. W. W. Everts will preachsat the First Church, on South Park avenue, corner of Thirty- first street, morning and evening.. . —The Rev. D. B. Cheney, pastor, will preach at the Fourth Church, corner of ‘Washingtorn and Paalina streets, morning and everring. —The Rev. J. J. Irving will preach at the Cen- tennial Church, corner Lincoln and.Jacksonetreets, in lhlc morning, and the Rev. N. \E. Waod in the evening. 3 —The Rev. W. S. Hamlin will pzesch at the Harrison Street Church, corner of Sanganion, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. A. smith willpreach atthe Univer- sity Place Charch, on Douglas place, oppuite Rhodes avenue, in the morning, and the - B. C. Mitchell in the evening. The Rev.. Robert .D.. Allison, pastor, ~will grem:h at the South Church, corner of Locke gud onpparte streets, in the evening. i = Rev. J. M. Whitehead will praseh at - the *and Sangamon Streets, in the morning. Subject: North Star Church, corner of Division® and Sedg- wick streets. Morning subject: ‘‘Thse Presence of Jesus the Need of the Church.” Evening: *Fearfu)l of Coming Short.” —The Rev, J. W. Custis, of Philadelphia, v:ill g‘rcnch at the Mlchffin-l\!flme Church, mear 'wenty-third street, at 11 a. m, and 7:45 p. m. 5 METHODIST. * The Rev. Dr. Daniel Lord will preachat Gri:ce Church, corner North LaSalle and White streo ts, at 10:30 o, m., and the Rev. John Atkinson, pas- tor, 3t 8p, m. —The Res. Dr. Tiffany will preach at Trin.i Charch, on Indiana avenue, near Twenty-fou, street, At 10:452. 1. and_8 p. m. The evening sermon 1s to ** Mothers and Dagghters, " —The Rev. I L Martia, pastor, will prosch at St. Paul’s Church, comer of Newberry avenue: and Maxwell street, morning and evening. Elder Jutkins will preach at the Centinary Church, on Monroe strect, near Morgan, at 10:30 u. 10., and the Rov. S. IL Adams, pastor, at 7:45 p.m.’ Subject: ‘‘How Do We hnow the Bible of To-Day is the Same Its Authors Wrote?™ —The Rev. John Williamson, pastor, wiHl preach at the Wabash Avenae Church, corner of Four- teenth etreet, momming and evening, —The Rev. H. W. Thon.son will preach at the First Church, coruer Clark xnd Washington streets, 2t10:303. m., and the Rev. Mr. Schvartz at i:43 P m. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. J. N. Packard will preach at the P1 ym- onth Church, Michigan avenue, between Twe nty- {llfl.hcm:l"l‘wen?“sklh s;reel.s. Réfl:{!flk‘l. m.‘.l M. C. A, meeting at 7:45 p. m. 2 Farwell and Frank M. Rockwell. PR —The Rev. Z. S. Holbrook will preach at the Oakland Church, on Oakwood boulevard, moraing and evening. —The Rev. George H. Peeke will preach at the Leavitt Street Church in the morning. Temper- ance mecfing in the cvening, —Prof. James T. Hyde will preachat the Union Park Charch moraing and evening. , UNITARLAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford will®, ch at the Church of the Messinh, corner of Aichigun avenne and Twenty-third strect. Morning subject: **The fan in the Light of Christ.” Evening What is Unitarianism?* Y. V. subject: —The Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach at the Fourth Charch, corner Prairie avenueand. Thirtieth street, at 10 a. m. —The Rev. E. P. Powell will preach atthe Third Church, corner Monroe and Laflin streets, in the morning. Subject: ‘‘Western Unitarians in Council.™ ~The Rev” Robert Collyer will preach in Unity Church morning and evening. CHRISTIAN. A { Tne Rev. Enowles Shaw will preach at the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-fifth street, morning and evening; and at Campbell Tall, corner of Van Buren street and Camphell avenue, at3p. m. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Dr. Byder will preach at St. Paal's Church, Michizan avenne, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. Vesper service in the cvening. —The Rev. Sumner Eills will preach at the Church of the Redvemer, cornerof Washington +sqhe Origin of the Idea of God.™ LUTHERAN. 2 The Rev. Edmund Belfour will I}zreu:h at the En- glish Evangelical Church of the Holy Trinity, cor- ner of North Dearborn and Erie Strects, at1la. m. and 7:30 p. m.. NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. Dr. Hibbard will preach at the New Chaurch Hall, corner of Eiihleenlh street and Pra- rle nvenueatIla. m., and at the Temple, corner of West Washington street and Ogden avenne, at 3:30 p. m. ; Mrs, CoraL.. V. Tappan will ek s, Cora . n will Jecture for the Sp.r- itual Lecture Aamhm in the charch mmcg of Green and Washington streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45p. m. Morning subject chosen by the au- dience; evening subject: **Symbol of the Crosa, —Susie M. Johnson, trance-speaker, will lecturs ‘before the Pirst Society of Spiritualists at Grow’s Opera-Hall, West Madison street, 5t10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Adventists meet in the Tabernacle, No. 81 South Green strect, morning and evening; preach- ing '!}{ Elder G. McCulloch. —The Christians will meet at No. 280 Milwaukee avenue at 2 ?. m. —The Children's Progressive Lyceum meets in Grow's Hall, No. 517 West on street, at 12:30 p. m. —The Bev. A. E. Kittridge will preach at the Barrison Street Chapel, urnger of P‘nmm strget, 2t3p, m. Sabjecs: **TheSecond Coming of tho Lord. " ; ik o b et Hch el T, 225 Weaky adolph atrebt at 4 p. - ! o MThan wil) he = fooo in the Y. A AT, Mo 198 adives e o The syonc] ing, followed by addresees from D, A.-Badge, Sec-. refary of the Montreal Amociation, and B. B Woods, of the Lowell Association. —Elder J. M. Stephenson will preach at the charch corner of Warren avente and Robey sireet., Morning_snbject: ** The Evidence of a Fntm Life.™ “Evenlog: *The Design for which Earis aind SMan were Made. ™ > CALENDAR FOR THE WHEAEK~/ EPISCOPAL. May 21—Fifth Sunday after Eaates, Jay 22—Rogation-Day. . Aay Z3~Rogation-Day. May 2+—TKogation-Day. ay 25— Ascension-Day. oLIC. t CATH( 2fay 21~Filth Sunday after Baster. Afay 22—Rogation; St. John Nepomucen, 3L May 23—Rogation; SS. Soter and Caius, PP. 3L (from April 52). AMay 24—Rogation: Vigil of Ascension; B. V.'M., Telp of Christians, - fay 25—Ascension of Our Lord (Holy-day of Ob- on). May 26§ Bililp Ned, C.; St. Elentherius, P ymm_srz_’ l}[hrymgdnlen of Pazzi; St. John, %M. HUMOR. On the mash: A distiller. As like as two P’s: Pomerdy and Pipa r, “ Brown Stockings”* are what the ¥ ;. Louls girls wear nowadays. Mrs. Swisshelm is now in London , and the Iadies there regard her as a chemilootr stig. The California papers are still at’ acking the Chinese. Rice up, John, and defens ; yourself. Silks are ruinously low in price , say the mer- chants; and still loyer in the 7,eck, ssy ths modistes. Anna’s wardrobe ‘cost $9,0 )0, and .yet th critics “sat down™ on her. H er Worth was nos respected. A Mrs. Leavenworth’s tesf Imony anent the Whisky-Ring in St. Louis js said to be worth- eleven other witnesses. The Greenbackers say f hat Cooper, their can- didate for President, Wil | make a staving candie date, beeause he can ho op ’em up. The wife of Edward.Bounce, a colored man, of Charleston, S. C., b s presented him with trip- lets. It is now one, two, three, Bounce, for Ned. An Irishman Fa this city says his boarding- house-keeper Wust be a chess-player, because he “pawns” ‘the boarders’ clothes, and gives them *stale znate.” Arthur Smith, of Galveston, Tex., while eat- ] ing dinner lately, had something stick fa his throat, Which shut off his wind. Arty choked to death, probably. Josep’a Arch, who is regarded by landlords in Englaud as an Arch-conspirator, has a daughter wha 'is soon to enter the ministry. She evidente 1y wants to be an Arch-angel. Fitzhugh, the mmn that was “biger than old ‘Grant,” is looking for the fcllow that published that letter. He ssys he’ll make *tother place or Texas too hot to hold him. F’hugh! One of the erooked-whisky men in this city says he fecls it in his bones that he will be sent to the Penitentiary. What adds to his misery is, that he has the rhenmatism, and he fecls that in his bones also. A gentleman who had been reading “The Scottish Chiefs™ startled his wife, the othex evening, by saying, My dgar, you look lika Hell—en Marr.” She eaid she wished he would put his words cloger together next time. A young man whose face is black-and-bius from o recent scrimmage docs not now say it was a stick of wood that struck him in the face while wiclding an ax in the shed. Noj be played catcher in a recent ball-match. A young man on the North Side, whose atten- tions to a young lady her “governor” did no'y relish, kicking him out several times, fe )y somewhat relieved now that the old ger,¢ has ,met with an accident that necessitate’; the ro- moval of his right foot. . He says, “ ihe hoot is on the ather leg, now.”" A funny incident occurred in & “West-Side car the other day. A gentleman entered the cas when it was pretty well crowded, and inadver tently trod on a lady's foot. The lady was ‘highly indignant, and would accept no apology. The gentleman finally remarked, lond cnough to be heard all oves the car: “Ihad to put my foot down sometwhere, and those St. Louis hoofs. of yours are 00 large for a street-car.”;: PUX-GLEANINGS. Fizzief] pain: Champagne. A disagreeable relative: A earb-uncle. The path of duty: Through the Custom. House. - ‘When do two and two not make four? When they stand for twenty-two. Rhcumatiém is always o joint affair, and yet there is only one party to it 1f you wish for money, scnd 2 &?:tnl card to the man who owes you, and the g is dun. A farmer has mowed with the same scythe for thirty-flve years, *tis said, and he expects to use it until he is no mower. The letter *O is called the most charital@s of all the alphabet, because it is found ofteg:r than any otgcr in * doing good.” ¥ 7 hfinfix {s that wh!bl‘i llllo mfidwnn't:s, and }':; wl any man € WO 1ot 1 for untold “!mlth! :’A bald head.” Toct ¥ @ Big long-legged man don’t alwa; times get aliéad o little Doy i "cmiw?: “The race is not always to he swift. Motto of a Portland Temperance Reform Club: “We bend the knee, but not the elbow.” This is supposed to refer to a dextrous habit of drinking out of the bung. ‘That was agood Detroit boy who told his father that, if he would bu{ a 1pzmy, he would let him have the use of it when it was too rainy for good boys to be out. A correspondent entered an office and ac- ‘tused the compositor of not having punctuated his communication, when the typo esrnestly re- plied: “I’'m not a pointer; I'm a setter. At this season, the question which intercsts a boy isnot so much whether his life will be crowned with glory and honor, as whether his Tew summer-vest {s going to be made out of his father’s old trousers. s In Nevads, when a building falls and kills twe or three persons, the jury first hant up the con- tractor and hang him, and then bring in a ver- dict that nobody is to blame but the contractor, who cannot be found. At the show, the other evening, a gentleman sarcastically asked a man standing up in front of him if he was aware that he was opaque. The other denied the allegation. He said he was not opaque. His name was O'Brien. 1t is a striking instance of the depravity of inanimate things t! hen bob-tail coats are in fashion, l)mmoons Wwear out behind in sbout o quarter of the time than they do when the friendly garment which reaches to the knees is worn. A young gentleman coming from a winee dinner, yesterday, was asked by a lady: ““ Why, 5 -, what m: your face so very redi*’ “Smwberdes)” he replied, *‘nothin’, 'shure you,butstr(hic)berries. Nicevegetable'str’bries, gh! fine bird "*~Cincinnati Times. The indiffcrence of the iYleuple of England ta education was painfully fllustrated the other day in a Yorkshire village. A lecturer on the Fecjee Islands offered to show the native man- ner omepnflng food if any lady present would lend ababy. Not oneoffered! On a Hinglish coach-box: “Rather remark- able, ain’t it, sir? Bat ’ave you hever noticed 28 mosu; the places on this line begins with aH? *Aw, beg .{our pardon?” “Look ai ‘em! ?Ampstead, *Izhgate, *Ackney, ’Omerton, Endon, ’Arrow, 'Ollcway, and "Ornscy.” Delicately Put: Scumble—*You'll get your rent, Mrs. Flaherty, if you'll wait a little. "I'm not_going to_run away. Besides, there’s my clothes”—— Mrs. F.—~"“Yer clothes, indade! A moighty lot on ’em you've got, dtire! Why, whin yer hat’s on, yer wardrobe's impty!** Strawberries are still high in New York, but they seemed bere Saturday to be within reach of the poorest. They stood on a boxin frontof a growz. and geveral of our 1 citizens hung mvu]n goat of the day, );l:lt,l 83 the pmprngr ‘was lookin, ,theywexcunxbem any.—Nor- wieh Bulletgy. L gl * What wonld be your notion of absentmind- edness?” asked Rufis Choate of a witness whom he was cross-examining. “ Well,” said the wit~ ness, with a strong Yankee accent: “I should say that aman who thuughthe'd lefthis watch to hum, and took it out’n’is pocket to see if he'd _ time to go hum and get it Was 8 lecils absent- minded.”