Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1876, Page 9

Ve URICAGO [IIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 98, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. RELIGIOUS. Lay Sermon on the Search- A ing for God. ents for the Opening of the Centennial Sunday. Hundred and Fiftieth An- piversary of a Congre- gational Church. Dne Gatistics of the Home Missionary Work of the Presbyte- rian Church. Notes and Personals at Home ana Abroad=--Church Services To-Day. ENOWLEDGE OF GOD. 4 LAY SERMOXN FOR TO-DAY'S READING. The following is & discussion by a layman of a ect which has generally been left to the pul- bi mx‘lnr consideration. Those whom heat or some otlier cause keeps at home this morning may find it 8 substitute for the sermon they miss: ‘Canst thon by earching find out God?—Jod, ., T.rpe fext is a gneation which one of his trouble- mfi”{mnds famed Zophar asked of Job. Itisa O tion which the victims of doubt are continual- Soc g o iheniecives and thelr fellow-men, 1t fs the topic of 2 great deal of digcussion, and the Y fative 1 sugzestive of u gloomy fate 10 the hu- Bertonl. Job did uot directly answer this ques- Bak bat when Die inquisitive friend had got tivough with thiat portion of bis dicconrsc, he re- o ied. facctiourly, an will e seen in tlie next $ ter: _+* No doubt that ye are the people, und o will die with you.” So the denblers of esday, who assume that nothing can be known Bitod ‘and fancy that in doubt and unbelief there £ et wirdom, think they hold all the knowledge of the world: they want proof of everytting they $ feve, And dob answered further, - But 1 have e Berstanding a8 well as you: Tam not nferior 1o Yo: Jamasone mocked.” éte, e ulid not ax- Tome that be had found out od. but he told the doubtinz inguirer to ** ack of the beasts and they O fesch thee, and the fowls of the air and they Ehailtell thee.™ and 1o go to the carth and the $9hes of the vea for information: and then referred Tawhat the Lord had done and what He i= doine. 't will be generally admitted that the two most important. clement of wisdom, if they can be R ehed out, arc & knowledze of God aud the foicdze of mankind, in the words ‘‘kuow reell. ™ The poet said **The greatest study of ankind Is mans.' bat poetry is not always logic: ada greater study than (hat of man would be the hancter and perronality of that Beinz who ms e f there bt any kuch Being; and if mun, being ofthe highest grade of natural existence did not skehimeelf. ~Cne point of the inquiry wonld e ¥ho made mon and who is_the creator of all thinee, and the originator of that principle the goabrers call Nature. “There are many waya of obtaining knowledze or geekingont a truth, other than by actual contact, acbr any notural scnse, We_ recomnize the force s ofwoatbs called circuinstantial evidence in the Sogal sense, which Is often the most conclusive of il evidence, though meither izht, ‘Searing, or touch plays any partin the chain of in- ritablé conviction. Can we by searchinz tnd_out God. pet a knowledge of His being and character. though o eye of man can behold Hims: thouzh Done may possibly feel Iim or hear Him? If we fan it will be the most valuable of all knowleze 1o e mortals, because slong with that~ knowledge Fill come the relation that uman beings £tand 1o 1be Ope we assume to be divine. With that knowl- edge will come the important fact, mentioned in e 1ay sermon of last week, which was stated to o the most information man could have, name the mission of God's Son to the world as its Sav for. We must try to go back to the source of ail knowledge. \ve find oursclves bere in the world with certain_inferences about us, w i perience which we call knowledze. Maukind is Dot now, here, at least, in this part of the world, snignorunt race. We secmn 1o have got into the Ploce of the avds, to know £ood and evil. In the areait of all knowledge we have fu assume some- hing. 1f we cannot gain something by aesump- tion, and then £0 on, and come back o prove what we sssamed, then we conclude we started wrong, and we abindon the assumphion as false. All Enowledze has really come by scarching ont. Fow we assume thal we bave intelligence to lead T8 in the search, though tome time, 83 a race, we ‘muet have been very dcficient in many items of in- Tormation which we call knowledge. We bave toaid us the capacity of thonght, and the quality of the mind called reacon, We as d then we have posiive knowledge through iny zation, that we arenot liie the brufe beasts: thatour minds are constitnted differentiy; tha eflect and inves- tigate, which they do but feebly; and we 20 on to improve, luy up stores of knowledge, which we \ranemit to cach other and to future generations The hones-bee hay probably mever improved in tell-structure, or in the flavor of honey since it performed its labors in the garden in the presence ofAdam, We know that we do not belong to the lower race of euimale; that we are above’ them; xmd it is very begitting in us to inquire if we have ot some - alliance wi rder which is Assumin; the order of being, we class the animals below ns, which have no reason as brutes—we etyle our- selves human, with ascending a=pirations, and_in- definable Tonyingx to be higher and better, and to Hive beyond the boundary line in which we know all snimals perich a3 dotummal frnit penshes Then let us, a8 reasonable creatures haviny rezson, 1saume something pertaining to our o, and of the condition of existence Tor which our spints fong. Let us assume the existence of a being who treated all things, snd has established a morul world of which we are conscious, and which there i8 00 poseibility of being comprehended by the srder of beings below us. This is toassume that “‘br zearciing we may find out God.” All knowledge i« the product of taought. Every wreat discovery and invention has at first been thut intonmble thing called an idea, n the New World was practically but an idea in the mind of Columbus. ' He thonght it out, end then it came fortha reality. And it js by tholght that we can find ont God to our own comprehension. The thonght or the reazon which mun has, and which 1o other animal creature has, are must properly €ct towork first. and by their own process, to search sut the origin of all things, which would lead to the beginner of what we alfzce, and the beginning fourelves, The great minds of the most scien- Hfic men of the uge are now engaged in an earne Inquiry as to-the orizin of the animal mun,— whether he was made by a master-gtroke of the Divine Being a creature as he now is, endowed with the whofe faculty of reason and susceptible to divine impressions, or whether hic hias come up by degrecs jrom the insect through the ape and ba- n. There is no real objection to this process of Investigation. We may believe that the intellect 1he resson of man will carry him safely through Ihe fnvestigution. Surely we inay ask this ques- $ion to ourselves: > Caust thou by searching fud out man?t™ It may be true, it Is not necessary to discuss the point, that man in total darksess Could not by any Brocest of hie mind get 8 perception of the idea of We cannot supposc thutany other auimal than man has any intuition or instinct of a divine being. But man, in his process of scarch, is not lelt Totally in the dark. Iic has a cles laid for him whereby he may search ont God. Aesnming that the Divine Ricing is such a beingas our reagon calls for, one of benevolence and love as well as infinite inknowledge and power, He will reveal himsclfin some form to the ratiopal creaturcs He has mad ‘e must accept that revelation far cnough to de- termine whether it be revelation, and whether it congietent with itself. It would be possible for 8 rational beizg from one of the plancts coming to Hhie earth, if he had such reasoningand i Egzulties as we linve, to make such a reve Rimself and of his mission here, that we mi; seise them ae reliable information, as we receive information which, e doubt not, ig true, by trav- Elers from the interior of Africa. Weare 10 keep s distinction in mind ass to a revela- Won of u Divine Being from a spirit world, 10t he will muke the recelation in character befit: ting the Divine Being, and will adapt it to the com- lfl’chflxflun of 2 finjte human being, without sink- {0e the dignity of His exalted position. We have tellect enough to apply the tests that distinguish ari from natare, such us the perfection of the bee's sting compured with the most perfect cambric Decale of man's make; the principle of loveax an 2ll-pervading divine presence as against the law of flumeu between man and man, that annois confi- ¢hce and demand secnrity: of the inspired words of lhelftrd'fi{pmycr Dy the side of even the wise nstrnction of Washiniton to his countrymen. And wefind that God has revealed Higself to man, it inthe enrly time by dircet commanication g‘;l!‘r with Iim; and_in mving mankind Jaws for eif guidance, called the moral law; and in reveal- IngMis own character 28 love: in 'revealing also mat'e natare tohimself, ashe never could have per- ived it; in revealiny also another state of exiet- ¢nce, which man conld have no perception of with- l:l- 2 revelation; in sending also a ‘messenger in the person of 1is own eon, to live in the world ith the children of men to personally teach them; \ in confirmation of His revelation, giving & conscience to every man as a guide ud “achoolmaster; in giving consciousnees Bd inotuition ' to men to confim Ibese revelations when they have once deen made, Al this has been done in perfect con- fistency, and with the maintenance of the dignity, 404 hofiness, and benevolence of the Divine Beinz. ;;Ifly 3l the tests which human reason can hon- 25Uy apply, in_harmony with its own clear con- Iciousnesy,' and the Divine Leing ever stands out, Budimmed, ever-cxalted, overpowering in grand. 2ur; and the man feels that he stands before a God fovesled. But none of the gods of man's devising JRetain any such tests; they arc, at best, but the mpersonations of human character, cndowed not with love buthate, and moving in clonds of supers #ition aud maligoity, They haye no power to Lft ve us. liumen beings up, but drag mankind down beneath even its own nature. An:iof the reputed revela- tions that pretend to reveal spiritual things that do not reveal the true God, snch as the Koran, the Book of Mormon, th cred books of the Orientals, —the are tume and disgusting, they are sickening with the soft seatiment of the human heart and the nddied brain; they do not clevate mankind wha put their trast in them. Whereas, the levelation, which is called the Word of Gad, which we find in the Christians’ and Jews® Bible also, we recoz- of authority—**Thus saith and carries with its utterances beanty, subfimity. and diznity, that no man can inedy, or putaway from hini s eomething that ocs not speak to the depth of his koul, Such are the processes of the study by which we find “out God. We find Ilim by looking for Him. It is a great wistake that very miuch of the theology of the day teches —or which at best itdarkly rays out—thatGod can- not be found out by earching for lim. Great pains has he taken to make Himsell known to 1an, for not only has e spoken to man and eent him angel messengers with words of sympathy and words of warning. but He hus dealt. with' mankind in judgments and in mercies us n father deals with his children. and He hax sent ITis only Son into the world to be a man with men, to reveal God to all Hir children, and to reveal Him as their Heavenly !“llllm‘r.h 5 Aw the process ia not £o very differcnt from thy by which man gains all his knowledge. Ilis pl‘iun’;g pal attribnte Tor the purpose of discovery is his reason. As the subject is a grentone, #0 he should bring to its =olution the greatest qualities of his mind. It is & mistake that hus sometimnes been taught thut mun should not usc Lis reason in followinz pathway that Jeads to the Eternal. It is 'becawse ‘they have not uned their reason rationally that there are so many people who they cannot find God, that they now not where or ‘how to eearch for Him; and refore they suy what it is said the fool Faith, “*There i» no God.”™ Thus they involve celves in the terrible orphanaze of humanity wi ont a Father, and all the consequences of rejected revelation, rejected moral responsibilit jected inmoriality, and the accepted cternal sicep, ™ to which man and tie dog and the ther in one common fute. v about 100 yearssince the scfence . It is now found to the whole order of creation, voice in the processes of life an Qeath, in giving color o the flower and odor to the vose. and incomponnding every particle that makes up the great earth itself.” Yet'it existed a subtle 1, almost unobserved 1t was the Lord thy God Jrinciple in nature. unknoy by man, from the foundation of the world. e unknown seeret of nature (o all men, ns was its Crentor, the uniaown God. o all tho idolatrou worl Joeeph Pricstly, o mon of investizating itiee, and who dared to use his own reagon, f thie principle in the what wus uni- Would he lave or : would have suid to Priestly derisively, **Ca thou by searching find out chemistry®™ Priestly thanghi he could, and persevered untif he found it ont. - The knowledze ‘of clectricity i only & few years older than that of chemistry. Thonigh we now fee its result< ina thou d ways, the most 17 instantaneou telligence some_donbter had eaid acroy to Prankliu, when he saw clouds, with a' di “‘What are you -do cuppose by scarchin at: i« there, Franklin® Do ve 5. yon can find out eleetricity Wounld he have been disconraged in his pursuit of Not in the | vercd un- ed the Tighmming with the new-found principle of electricity, which ke evolved from silk and glass, Others persevered, until electricity is no longer an unknown 3od to terrify the iTnorant, but a faithful servant of mun. B verance of such men as Priestly and Fran searching out the laws of mature, areat blessings have cowe to mau. Lut there 'were ever many doubters, many infidels, who are sfmply unbe- livers in chemistry and electricity. They thousht they n the safe side to doubt wherc there wus Bo positive proof. Dut the value of faith s proved in the fuccess of these investizators. But, in searching to find out God, there is aid promised 1o no other investigator. ‘The fuct Sought for comes of jtself ta the aid of the search- er. - This is a part of that divine policy by which comes to the kuowledge of men. e comes to thoee who scarch for lim. It is a fable that the monntain came to Mabomet. But it is no fable that God comes to thuse who come for him. It was the part of Christ to reveal the Father throngh imeelf. 'This mads it eaxy for men to inow God if they chose to. *Seck and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened: come o Meas listle chil- dren.” Such were the mottocs by which Ile en- forced the truth of the way to ** find out God.” THE CENTENNIAL, SHALL IT LE OPENED SUSDAY? To the Edttor of The Tribune. Cmicaan, May 26.—The opening of the Centen- nial Exhibition on Sunday Involves important con- siderations religiously and pecuniarily. Religious bodice, as the Y. M. C. A. of this city, have seen it to take action commending the action of the authorities in the matter of keeping the Exhibition closedon Sunday. This is on the basis of the gacredness of the day. There canbe no guestion that the rights of conscience should be respected, but it is questionable how far individual consclence may control others, 1f the Commiseioners, from their own conscicnces, decide that the duy shall not be . desccrated by opening the grounds to the public, they may be Jjustifled in their decision. When they listen 1o the pleas of others, then they relinquish private judgment and conscience, and should hear all sidex, “If, “on re- floction, they decide to open the Exhibition to all whose consciences allow them to use Sunday for Wach purposes, they fnterfere with no man's_ con- gcience. No one will be required to vieit the grounds agninst his own conscience. man’s Sonscience can bind anather man's cohscience. No one who is restrained by the consciences of others by the prohibition that shumts up the stounds on Sunday will have any special foepoet. for the act or the reason hal prompis it, bot will fecl that his liberties are Poridsed by the consciences of others. The gen- erul effect will be to increase the dieregard for Sunday sacredness. The coercion movement will De retroactive, piacing Sunday sacredness at a areat disadvaniage, leavinz it i o greater discount Than when it commenced the movement. “To entirely prevent such a dilemma, why shonld not the Y. M. C. A. of thiscity, or some carnest fricnd of Sunday sacredness, show from sacred records the authority forthe sacredness? Such uu- thority would give general satisfaction, and would at leaxt be ai accepiable justification of the actof closing the Exhibition. The occasfon is an Spportune one for such an etlort. Whoever will do that will accomplish his best life , and_do Tmure for the progressive work of evanselization han our city evangelists are doingat Lome and abroad. There are strong, earnesi. devout men in this city of reform laborersthat can do thig work a8 well as it can be done by any. > In a pecuniary sense, the opening of the Exhibi- 1ion on Sundays would evidently be a success, There are many thousand = laborers ~and poor. peopic in Philadelphia and adjaceut Citics and _in turing towns who man canmnt well afford both the money and 10sS of time ot the week to visit the Exhibition. Thousands it the city and_be compelied {0 Timit their ‘or incur a ilay's expense of leisure in staying wer' on Sunday. It alo may he an open question whether Sunday would or wonld not bea favorite \ay for thie greatcst number of visitors, The evi- \lehces are sirongly in favor of thc uflirmation that Sunday world be the better du) 1t 34 well known that a Jarse portion of our for- cign population go not believe in Sunday as a Saired Hay, Large multitudes of Americans are drifiing in the same dizection. Sunday church: fors and Sunday sanctifiers during the last twen- $y-6ive years have not kept up with the increase of Hopuiation, I many places they have greatly de- rsed. These woild joyfully seck the Exhibi- Tion on Sanday for its instructions and pleasures. Niany of thore who would visit the Exhibition on Sunday would thereby be kept from rcenies likely to denioralize and dumage them. "That a pecuniary succes# is eagerly desiced, even at the cost of daiage to ¥, 18 evident fror The aceeptance of tne large license to_ scll ardent spirits - onthe grounds. here | can e no question that the gute fees of Smld:l'y would e largely in escess of the Ticense fecs, ‘The pe- cuniagy suceess of Sunday exhibitions ix thusclenr. ‘The moralily question was overthrown Dy the Jicento fees. 1t now remuins for the fricnds of Sunday sacredness and the closing of the exhibi- Tions on Sunday to place the rensons for the Iriends of . ‘Chis wonld be & pecuniary succ f07d vast moititudes the” pl day not found Ly them pimter of those who couscientions] Saturday who wonld visit the zrom Would b comparatively on Sunday but, when zdded to o who wonld visit the vould be an important ite. "The arbitrary decision to close the grounds on Sunday, unsusiained by sacred anthority, will give ‘Wwider dissatisfaction, and mngmmcmumhcr, than a rofusal to license the rnle of liquor on the grounds, had thut been done. Here are practical Gificulties that onght to be settled and must be Settlod with a good measure of clearnees on 3 re- ligious bosis, outside of cxpediency. If this i done, Sunday racredness is vindicated. 1f it is not done, many thousands will in th jiearts curse the religion thut cripples their libertics on the basis of ccclesinstical authority, iustead of chunB— umL Exhibition on Sunday AC. A CENTURY AND A IIALT. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AT GREENFIELD HILL. Correspondence New York Herald. GreesrFiELD L, May 18.—The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the Congregational Church, Greenfleld Hilly Conn., took place to-day, alarge number of per- sons from all parts of the State being present. The church was elegantly decorated with flow- ers. ‘The pulpit and altar were literally covered with natural blossoms, prominent among which appeared a graceful mound, displaying the fig- ures 1726—1576. On the walls of the church ap- peared the names of the pastors from the organ- ization to the present time: *The Rev. Jobn Goodscll, 1726—1730; the Rev. Seth Pomeroy, 1758—1770; the Rev, William Tennctt, D. D., 1772—1381; the Rev. Timothy Dwign;,sosn. Il);, 17831795 the Rev. Mr. Hollcy, 18051508 the ey, Wiliam Belden, 191801 the Rev. Rich- ard V. Dey, 1823—18%8; the Hev. Thomas B. | Sturges, lgib— 75 the Rev. B. Percy Hubbard, 1863—1872; the Rev. Fenry B. Smith, 1873— 1 The Amcriean flag was conspicuonsly en- a:u r?x‘x]l g’x;mng the arms of the candelubra above Judge Thomas Bradford Dwight, of C bix Coflege, New York, @ grandson of mfizflf& Dwight, was President of the day. The ¢: t‘,lyfl“:‘mcolt‘lsi‘slm dor prayer by the paster, music choir, and speak y er me uflmc,pmsh,. peaking by former members n his historical address, the Rev. Henry B. Simith, pastor, referred to the struggles urntllc early scttlers with the Indions; of their con- tests with and victory over the tribes of Pequots in Sasco Swamp in 1639; of the establishment of the parish uuder a decree issued by autharity of law In the year 1726, during the reign of King George ILj of the first bell whivh wos nhm"cfi and was first rung in 1743,—a bell decimed to be 50 valuable that it was thought by the Comnmit- tee in charge, after its arrival from England, that the safest place to keep it pror to its eleva- tion to the belfry was in the pastor’s parlor. He referred to the pecutiar jdeas held by the early worshipers in this church as to the man- mer of payiiig the pastor's salary and of the matter which made up that payment. In those years of long ago S300 or $400 was considered & Tiberal sum as compensation for a year's preach- ing, and the pay was not wholly inmoney. The speaker reterred to one clergyman’s ge- cepting 20 pounds of butter, 6 pounds of flax, 20 pounds of pork, 1 bushel of corn, 1 cord of " wuod, and 2 barrels of cider as a por- tion of his salury, adding that he was only too willing to get even those articles. Ile alluded to the existence of slavery in Connecticut and of the large number of colored persons in bond- age held By men who considered themselves as standing high in a religious sense. The lanners of those times raised flax, which was the staple product, 20,000 bushels in one year having hcen sent to market. Theirdescendants devote their principal time to the growing of onions. Ile referred to the various pastors, his predeecssors, and pictured theircharacteristis, citing the Rev. Timothy Dwight as one of the most powerful preachers of his time. On one oceasion the Ductor was addressing the people of Fairfield, ‘Among them were those known to be guilty of alins from their nelghbors, but so powerfnl ‘ere his words that at the conclusion of his ad- dress they went home and took steps look- ing to the restoration of all that was un‘l:\wttu taken. The speaker added, “Oh! that Dr. izht’s voice could now be heard in the land, that those in high places who are prone to make light of their res itics in the conduct of public affuirs at the Capital of the nation might be influenced to turn from the error of thieir ways.” The church which the early inhabitants huilt. was burned in 1853, By the product of & 36,000 insurance and by subscriptions the present structure was erected in 1854, The speaker stated that Fairlield, of which Greenfield Tamlct, was never fairly treated by histor These had failed to give credit to the men of this place who had Su boldly advanced to the country’s defense during the time tiat “tried men's souls.” e exhibited the sword of Capt. Ebenezer Bauks; used ten years before the Rev- olution, and ma) aint @ mannscripts. e concluded b i of the loveliest places of residence in gland, and stated that from the spire of the Shurch in which he was speaking might be seen the spires of seventeen churclies fu us many dif- ferent towns. The morning exercises closed with “ Auld Lang Syne,” thie congregation jolning. _Ti'the atternoon an historical address was de- livered by Prof. Timothy Dwight, of Yale Col- lege, New Huven, JEWISII PROGRESS. RELIGIOUS NMEETINGS WITIOUT WORSIIP. New York Sun. The interesting project of holding regular Sunday morning meetings, that has been ini- tiated among the progressive Jews of New York, has already gained a fim footing, and is likely to be carried into practical exccution at an carly day. The movement originated with three or four gentlemen who had been long fin- pressed with the desirability of some such step. They conferred with Prof. Felix Adler, of Cor- nell University, a gentleman who was recom- mended to them by the liberality of his views and his accomplishunents, as well as by other considerations, and secured his attendance at o iceting in Standard Hall on Mounday evening last. Mr. Lauterbach, of the law firm of Lau- terbach & Spingarn, called the mecting to order, and Mr. Joseph Seligman, the banker, was chosen Chairman. Mr. Lauterbach belongs to Dr. Einhorn’s Lexington Avenue Congrega- tion, and Mr. Seligman is one of the most influ- ential members of the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Temple Emmanucl. ' But neither of them has habitually attended services in those synagozues. These two gentlemen indicate pretey Tairly the character of the attendance at the mectini, Prof. Adlcr delivered an address. in which he set forth in detail the reasons that made the in- stitution of Sunday meetings desirable, and his views as to what their charicter should be. His hearers were in warm accord with lis views, and he reccived a hearty response. A committee wwas appointed to rective signatures for member- ship, and to make all other necessary arrange- ments for bringing the project futo practical ex- istence a6 carly as possible. Some sixty gentle- men subscribed their names previous to the meeting. The names numberednearly a hundred hy the close of the evening, and the list lus been sicadily growing since. The reasons for the initiation of this move- ment, the views of its J)mjmturs as to the man- ner in which it should be conducted, and the cxrucmfions that they have formned of its re- sults have been very clearly expreesed. It is not proposed that the: Sunday” meetings shull clash n any respect with the observance of Saturday as the Jewish Sabbath by such as still wish to continue to observe that day. These meetings are to offer no occasion for alarm nor a reasoni- ble mark for assault even to Jewish orthodoxy. But the services in the synagogues on Saturday are attended, especially in~ the reformed syna- rzogucs, mainly by women and_children. Very few men are able to abandon their business oc- cupations on Saturday, and take part in divine worship, and many have o inclination to do so. Many are Deistic in their views; some tend to nuterialism; more are unsettled, and some are inclined to become eutirely indifferent to ques- tions of religious belief and observance. For such piersons it is very desirable that there shiou!d be an opportunity o hear discussions of the great spiritual and cthical questions of the day regularly and_ frequently; to have their thiouslits often dirceted by association and sur- roundings to the more clevated themes and more scrious problems; and to receive exposi- tions of these profounder topics from some per- son wvho devotes special study to them. Most of thuse who participate in this move_ ment have felt o want of such_an_opportunity and a desire to bave it supplied. They are not attracted in any degree to the " Christian churches. They do not believe the Christiun {oetrine, Neitner do they desire to attend ser- vices thut consist of prayer, hymn-singing, and preaching from the Bible, no matter what the doctrine on which these services arc based. Even the Sunday-schools attached to the most advanced of the synagogies are uusatisfactory 1o many. One gentleman said: 1 do not wisn to send my child to one of these Sunday-schouls, where 1t is taught, for fn- stance, that the seventh day is to b¢ sacredly observed as a Sabbath (and the wmost advanced teach that and kindred doctrines), when all the while it secs its own father constantly violating that command.” These reasons for Sunday meetings also fndi- cate the character it i proposed to give them. "Thiere are to he no properly religious services of any kind, no prayer, no worshin, no assmmption ofa deity to start off with. That is one respect in which they will differ from Mr. Frothing- ham’s meetings. This feature is also relicd upon to disarm hostility from the synagogues. Dr. Adler, father of Prof. Adler, and fur many Years the Rabbi of the Temple Emmanucl (where, on his retirement, Dr. Gottheil succeeded him) is understood to have been much opposed to having his son take part in these meetings of prayer in any forn should constitute a part of the proceedings, for the reason that they would produce a tendency in that case to impair the continued observaunce of Saturday as a day of religious worship, to which he ‘still adleres. Prot. Adler agreed with his father's views that. here should e no prayer, but for the entirely different reason that he was upposed abstractly to prayer s a part of the proceedin & hie meetings are Lo be not much” el series of lectures on ethical themes. fs to be treated historically and_philosophically, and all disputed questions arc to be considered in a scientifle spirit and with the broadest. liber- ality. But appropriate sacred music is to form sar of the services, =nd _Prof. Adler has sug- gested that songs be written to accompany it, & ich will be adaptedspecially to the character of the meetings. He is said t0 propose writing: some himself, having long thought upon the subject, and maturc designs as to their form and character that will fit "them for their pur- PO Committce on_Organization is to meet again within a fortnight. = It is thought that e Chickering or Standard Hall (Broadway and Forty-second strect) may be taken. Proft ‘Adler is to be engaged as lecturer. A member- ship of 200 to 300 is by the closc of the e i i summer. Young men are espe ally luoked to for participation. But not only Jews will take part. Mnmbership is to be open r3ons of every cr:cd, and %an-dews have sij cd their intention to join. _ This ‘movement Will not materially modify the development of the Jews in the United States. 1t will doubtless give an upward impulse, and exert an important and valuable influence, but the current had set irresistibly in the same di- rection before. PRESBYTERIAN STATISTICS. HOME MISSIONARY WORK. At one of the recent cssions of the Presbyte- rian General sembly the report of the Board of Home ) ms was submitted. Itreviewsat length the work of the Department, and gives copious statistics , among them the following : Number of missionartes. 1,035 Deaths. . ] Number of stations supp Additions to the Churel RINUTI is the removal of the four years' rule. Letus have no limit to the pastoral relation, except that of one year, when the preachers get their annual appointments. Send a preacher to a ace for lifetime, if agreeable, but give him his appoiutiment every year. He may be removed in two years, or lie’ may stay four, six, ten, or twenty years. This will suit the city and the country both. I the city wants the fixed or continited pastoral relation, let it have it, and if the country wants o change let the change take place.—" Ezra” in Central Methodist. _The Sceretary of the Brooklyn Sunday-School Union has issued his annual report of the state of the Sunday-schools in Kings County, Long Island. His statistics, which do not include the Roman Catholic, Jewish, Swedenborgian, and Unitarian schools, show an increase during the past year in the number of teachers and schol- ars of 4,169 persons. The number of schools is 956, The Methodists Lave the largest number, Tuall there are 3,544 male officers and teachers, and 73,5%) pupils, making » total of 093 persons _engaged in the schools. The avernge attendance in summer is 39,725 per- sons, and in winter, 55,447. The schools take 126,215 papers, and have 113,460 volumes in their libraries. The woney expended by them dur- ing the year was $135,35%, of which $36,475 went to benevolent objects. ‘The statement is made in the report, that. the annual May parade of the children has led to the organization of similar processions in other cities. PERSONAL. €0 Erom churches. From legacies. Miscellancous Total ...cnnn Th ditures for_all par ¢ expenditures for all purposes for the fis- cal year trom April 1, 1875, Eerru 1, 1776, in- cluding the debt of $24,372.75 reported by the Board fo the Jst. General Assembly, have “pech 3284,224.21. The receipts for the fiscal year were $23,507.96, Iess thun last year. The Bonrd, by reasort of the large receipts fn Marcli—tlic ast month in the year—are able to report a bul- ance of 33,491.07. 2 £ To begin the year the Board should have a balance large enough- to carry on the work through the summer months, when so little comes in_ordinarily from the church or other sourves. The balance of 33,401.07 was exhaust- y current expenses of the first five days of the present year. GENEHAL SCMMART, Number of miesionarics (of which 330 are _pastors) .. Years of lab Additions on pre Additions an certi Total membershs ‘The Rev. Benjamin Devany, the oldest mem- ber of the Virginia Southern Methodist Confer- ence, fs dedd. e was §7 years of age. The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D., will deliver the annual address at the Commencement exer- clscs of Carroll College, Wi The Rev. J. Kermott has just closed the third year of his pastorate in the Coventry Street Baptist Church. He hag added to the church, during the past year, 101 new memburs. ‘The Ltev. A. 1. Iager, a Professor in the Ger- man Presbyterian Theological Sewinary at Du- buque, as necepted acall to the First Ger- man Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and takes first Sunday in June. churge the The Rev. David N. Vandervier will be installed astor of the Union Park Congregational Church Junc 6. il for the purpose will lve charge of th ces. Mr. V. isa graduate of r Princeton Theological Semninary, and is aged 33. The Rev. Dr. IL. C. Potter, of Grace Church *| (Protestant Episcopal), writes that he expects to be at home o the 16t of June, and he intends to be in his pulpit on the following Sunday, which will be Whitsun The Rev. Fater Filton, of East Boston, is the oldest priest in New England. e cele- brated mass when there was only one Catholic church in this country between Boston and New g e is in good healtl, and may live to do ¢ service for years to come. ¥ After leaving Ilalifax, some weeks since, Father Chiniqui spent some time in Iaburing among the_French Roman Catholics in New Lngland. Ie reports to the New York Wituese thit in a single town about. 150 have renounced Romauism and professed Protestantism. The Rev. J. Malvern, formerly of this city, and now of Lansing, Mich., is mecting with zood success in bis laborw, having recently received sixteen new merbers into lis church. The con~ crrepration under his charge is worshiping in Rep- of same, ) Chuarch ediflces repmire: Church debts canceled. . Charches sclf-sustaining 1his year Churches orzanized Suwber of parsonages (value $358,873) .0 RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CIHURCI AT HOME AND ABROAD. The Jron Preacher is the name of a new relig- fous paper n New Orleans, ‘The German Free-Thinkers are to have a con- vention in Philadelphia June 26 and 27. “The Christian Union of the United States will hold its General Council at Providence Chapel, Iancock Couuty, Olio, May 31, The Christian Gnion s an org - i all of the Christian denominations in the coun- try. ‘A Reformed Episcopal Church hasbeen formed in Cumberland, Md.; 3 munber'of Episcopal families, fecling the want of the simple Gospel and the old-tinie_services, haye united fn this work, and gecared_the Kev. John K. Dunn, of Loutsville, Ky., as their pastor. ! cl The General Synod of the Reformed Churgh | resentative Ilall until the completion'of L ip Awmerica (Duich) will meet at Kingston, N, | tdifice. . June 7. The sermon will b preachud by the 5 Rov- D Charles Seott, Presidant of the last CHURCH SERVICES. General Synod._The sermon on “Benevolence DATTIST will be aclivercd by the Res. K. B. Welcl, onthe | The Rev. J. A, Smith D. D., preaches this cvening of June 15, morning and the Rev. F. G. Thearle this evening The Pope’s exchequer i in a flourishing con- | at the University Place Clureh, corner of Douglas dition. _ Last year, what with Peter’s pence aud | place and Riodes avenue. jubilee indulgences, he took in sume $4,000,000; | —The Rev. W. S. Hamlin, of thia city, having the late Ferdinand 'of Austrin left him 33,000, | hecome pastor of the Stock-Yards Charch, will 000; Lord Ripon_mave him 350,000 outright; 3 | preach lis introductory sermon this cvening, and a‘,‘,fi;‘:fiqlfufi ;‘&0886 and a pious old lady re- | will hoid regular Sabbath evening scrvices here- e ,000. after. The public are generally invited. The extent to which Ritualism bas grown in —The Rev. Lewis Raymond, the Western evan- the Clhurch of England is shown by the factthat | geiist, will preach at the Harrlson Street Church, thiere arc nearly 1,600 churches in Which thereis | comer Sangamon strect, at 7:45 p. m. Moraing in 1;_.1:1 & :\lu:k'i ‘;lcbml(on of the communion. | gervice as 10:45. n 251 of the mimber vestinents areworn, in 715 : p candles are placed on the aitar, and fa 370 tho =Tlietiéy. DE.B, Chsay 911l sty 282040 candlcs are lighted dnring communlon servie. | 3 P 200 T4 B B e ot sab- Cincinnati has arranged for a religious Centen- L The “of “pon Young i celobration ductis Whitsunday week, bo- decte TR of the Gennel tuan ¥ org ginning on Sunday the 4th of Junc. On that G 9 day the elerey are to preach on subjects of their —The Tev. . F. Ravlin will preach ot the Open own choosing, Monday cvening, Juno 5, ull thg | Communion Chnrch, comer Loomis and West churchics aré to be opened for prayer and | Jackson strects, morning and evening. Morning praise. The next threc, days age to be given to-{-subject: ‘‘Masonry and Clrietlanity, and the Hindrances o the Trinmph of Each." atys, conferences, children’s meetings, and open-air services. ¥riday s the Sunday-school | —The Rov. J. W. Custis, of Philadelphia, will reach ot the Michizan Avenne Church, near festival duy. ’ \ & The Baptists have made most progress fn | Tepty-third strect atlla. m, o TS pm. ol Gentounlo] Tunds 1o ue cnioviment of | o LI T e e ey Lins helr ollegos n the States of Massachusetts, | Coln and Jacion streoi. 3 New York, and Pennsylvania. In Wisconsin —The Rev. G. L. Brayton, of Rock Island, will B Jesine ta raise 550,000 Tor the endowmont | preach st thé orih Suvr. Church, cormer Division of Wfl{h\m‘l Institate. Two legacies of $20,000 | and Sedgwick streets. at 10:45a.m and 7:45 p.m. and $12,000 respectively, have bren left to the | —The Rev. IL. 0. Rowland, of Utica. will preach Thstitute on condition that further sums of | af the First Church, corner South Park avenuc and woney are_raised for its benefit. The fands | Thirty-dret stroct, w2 ARG ey, 2. wehich: the Ohio churches subscribe are to go to | Fattereon. of Scotg, FTHE - & Denlaon University. Tho Rev. W. . Willing preaches this moring The Adventists rug:m to thc;lr theory of the n?(}rfie‘nin»% lhte m:gmy venue Church, corner speedy coming of the Savior with great tenacity. | of Thirty-ninth strec! TP Hime continucs, they propose holding th 3 | o Rey. Mr. Marsh, Jastor arthe Gt Puce T 20 Charch, will preach tiis morning at the. First sl Conference Jor sHetile ot Bew York, | Grurch, comer of Clark and Washington streets at Springwater, in_Livingston County, com- g ton etectn O I a cnloven i | Saln the ventng, the Tior: Me Ferkine wil oft at Bangor, June 13. The Advent camp-meeting. —Dr. Williamson will preach ot the Wabash Av- at Beebe Plain, on the Passumpsit River, begin: ning June 24, and the Vermont Conference will enne Church, corner of Fourteenth street, his morning subject being ¢+ Qur Fallen Soldiers Not liold its session in conncction with a camp- meeting, the latter part of August. Forgotten.” In the evening he lectures on ** Babp- The City Missionary Society of Brooklyn is bankrupt. This is a very surprising state of at- fairs in the City of Churches, renowned for, ‘wealth and a large listof membera. The twelve’ missionaries have been notificd of their discharge from the 1st of May. The two principal churches that have supportcd this institution for a long. “ehite, the. Church of the Pligrims, which has given'$8,000 a year, and Plymouth Church, are Tot in a condition to bear the burden alone. One of the missionaries, withafamily of thirteen children, whose salary lias never, béen_equal to the pay of a hod-carrier, aunounces his deter- mination to continue in’ his field of labor and Xeep his school together, trusting to the Lord and to voluntary contributions. Considerable_excitement, was caused in the Paotestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention of South Carolina, which met at Charleston, by tlic diversity of opfnion which existed respect- ing the adniission of & colored church to the Convention, The church in_question was St. Mark’s, of Charleston. It had applied for union at the previous Convention, ami & committee Tiad been appointed to take the matter into con- sideration. Three reports were presented by the Committec at_the Convention held upon May 12, the majority report being adverse, and the two minority reports being in favor of the admission. Tlhe Presiding Bishop, Bishop Torne, was also in favor of the upplication, but the majority report was earried. The London Socfety for promoting Christiani- ty among the Jews held their sixty-cighth an- niversary recently, the annual report showing an income for 1875 of about 206,000, being nbout §5,000 less than the expenditures for the year. Socicty employs 120 agents, and has inirty-four stations. Having received permis- sion from the Russian Government to conduct its operations in Poland under certain condi- lon. —The Rev. N. I Axtell preaches this moming in the Park Avenue Church, corner of Robey strect, on *‘The Consccration of Childhood,” and this eveninzon ¢ The One God; Our Obligation to Love Him.” —The Rev. R. S. Cantine will preach at the Fal- ton Strect Ciiurch, near Artesian svenue, morning and evening. : —The Rev. S. T Schwartz will preach at the State Strect Church, corner Forty-seventh_street, at 10% gn. m., and M. B. Jacobs, of the Y. M. C. A, at8p. m. —The Y{c R. D. Shephard will preach at the Weatern Avenue Church, corner Monroe strect. ot 10:30 a. m., on °* Progress’ in Spite of Hin- drances,” and at 7:45 p. m. on ‘*Our Honored Dead: In Memory of Our Soldiers XFallen in Bat- tle.” —The Rev. M. Parkharstwill preach at the Mich- jgan Avenne Church, near ‘hirty-third street, morning and evening. —The Rev. H. L. Martin W“IJ}rench at St. Paul's Church, corner Newberry and Maxwell strects, morning und evening _ —The Itev. S. H. Adams will preach at the Cen- ry Church, Monroe_etrect, ncar Morgan, tnorning and evening. Subject in the evening, **Christ’s Parable of the Sower. " —The Rev.-John Atkinson will preach at Grace Chnreh, corner North LaSalle and White streets, 2t 10:30 8. m. and 81;|. m. "—The Rev. C. G. Trnsdell will preach lt’l‘rin\ti Church, Indiana avenme, near Tiwenty-fourtl strect, at 10:43 a. m., and Dr. Lord, late of Cal- vary Presbyterisn Church, at 8 p. m. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Dr. D. F. Warren will preach at St. Mark's Church, carner Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixthstreet, atl0 a. m. and 7 p. m. Morn- ing subject: ** The Lord's Prayer™; evening sub- joct, **The Ascension.” ~“The Rev. Dr. E. Sullivan will preach at Trin- ity Church, corner Michigan avenue and Twenty- sixth strect, ut 10:43a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Mora- ing knbject: ** The Ascension of Christ.” "~ There will be services morning and evening at the Church of the Holy Communion, South Dear- tions, the Society appointed a stafl of missiou- bory atreet, neat Thirtieth. i preach at Grace aries to take up their residence in Warsaw, in | church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth steet, e very centre of a large Jewish community. | morning and eveninz. "The Sovicty have been informed that, as soon | - —There will be Iloly Commnnion services at 10:30 9, m. and prayerat 7:50 p.m. at the Chiorch f the Ascensiun, corner North LuSalle and Elm strects. b5 Tiie Rt.-Rev. the Bishop of Fond du Lac will preach at the Cathedral of Ss. Peter und Paal, cor- Tler Waahtngton and Peoria strects, at 10:30 3. m., ind the Rt.-Rev. the Bishop of Tllinais at7:30 p. i Full cathedral scrvices and anthem morning and evening. —The Rev. Herman C. Danesn, Rector of Mem- orial Church, on Indiana avenne, near Thirtieth Street, ofiiciates this morning and evening. TC'The Rev. Dr. Cushman will ofticiate this morn- ing and evening at St. Stephen's Chtirch, on John- son street, between Taylor and Twelfth. The Rev. W. IL Iapkins, the Rectorof St John's Church, on Ashland avenue, near Madizon strect, preaches this morning on **Syatematic Trath' versns Liberalism,™ and this evening on **The Golden Rule.™ as certain Governmental arrangements are ot~ pleted, they will be allowed 1o exu d their operations futo the other Russiun proviuces in Jews reside. Tlie Wesieyan Methodist Annual Conferences of this country during their sessions this spring are to take action upon the resolution respect- ing sceret socicties, which was passed by the General Conference of that deuomination last autumn. The resolution referred to forbids the ministers and members of the Church from holding fellowship with any secret societics, in- stead of, as formerly, forbidding their counce~ tion with the Freemasons and the Odd-Fellows, A petition on the same subject, £0 be. resented 10 tho General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church now_in session, is in circula- tion for signatures. The petition does not re- _The Rev. Samuel S. tarris, D. D., oficiates quest the peremptory action of the Wesleyan | gyis moruing and cvening at St. James® Church, Conference, but asks, in_substance, that an ad- | corner Cass and Itnron stree —'The Rev. Henry G. Perry oficlates this morn- ing and evening st All Saints' Church, corner of Carpenter and Ohifo streets. —-eflle Rev. B. A. Rogers will officiate as usual at ths Chaurch of the Epiphany, on Throop street near Adams, —The Rev. Francis Mansfeld, Rector of the Church of the Atonement. corner of Washington 2nd Throop streets, will officiate 38 usual. PRESBYTERIAN. _ The Rev. Samuel W. Dufileld will preach st the Eighth Church, corner Washington and Robey streets, at 10:30 8. m. lnd’?:fl)_‘l. m. The Rev. J. il. Walker will preach moming and evening at the Reunion Charch on. West Four- teenth street, near Throop. —The Rev. Jacob Post will preach at the Holland Church, corner of Noble and West Erje atreets. at 108. m. in Holland. and 2t 7:30 p. m. in English. —The Itey. Dr. Fraser, of Canada, will preach at the Sccond Church, corner Michiganavenue and Twentieth street, at 10:45 0. m. and 7:45 p. m. ““The Rev. Dr. David G. Burrell will preachat the Westminster Church, corner West Jackson and visory rule be passed dissuading the ministers and members of the denomination frum such connections. The Itlm:nmc{ is o faflure in the cities. Any system that will not increase or hold on to its mumbers fs necessarily a fuilurc. But why is this s0! This is so because the more fixed and settled the people become in_ their habits, the less in- clined they are to changes. In the cities the ople have permanent business habits, more or ees, hence they do ot like a changing system. But this is novall of it. = These business habits of the citics are very engrossing. They absorh «great deal of the time and attention of the scople—so much so, indeed, that a_ preacher hardly gets adjusted to the situation hefore the time comes for him to leave A knowledge uf the situation caunot be 5o well obtained where the people are kept in close attention to busi- ness_engagements, as where they have more freedom from thes¢ things. A preacher never gets thflmufik‘xsq adjusted to his situation ina | Peoria streets, 8 10:30 8. m.. on *'The Laveof city during ifetime. For these reasons the | God,* and at7:45 p. m. on “n'e&‘lmm:fl' . prenc o itinerancy s a failare in the citics, The remedy k. —The Rev.. Heary T Miller Sixth Church, corner Vincennes and Oak avennes, at 10:45a. m. on **Hiding Among the Rocks,™ and lecture at 7 m. —The Rev. James Maclanghlan preaches this ing and ing at the S . . morning and eyening nt the Scoich Chureh, comer | NewChanges in the Radical Club —The Rev. J. W. Bain will preach as usual atthe ---The Famous Satire. BOSTON. United Chureh, comer of Monroe and Paulina St Rer. Charles L. Th —The Rev. Charles ompeon will preach the Fifeh Chireh Corner Tndiana avenae and Thir: ticth street, morning and evening. REFOKRMED EPISCOPAL. The Bee, Dr. Fallows will preach this morning o anl's Church, on Washinzton street, near Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Ann,_ his subject belng **The Gifts of an Ascend- i A o venras he. will preach o | (oo oox, May 34.—The usual 2ay mesting ol e ni ”IR Sux‘;“ ;hings '; Hoge fl;u R:dk:l Club has been omitted, on account —The Hev. R. H. Bosworth will préach to the | of the close coming anniversary days, and g‘!lx:xsrr:bsm]f::glg; Jf"a‘fiufih"f};‘ at the Baptist | several projected pnrgcs in the Ch:scnn{s‘streel e ohop Cheney ill preach ot Christ Charch, | Paslors- It is as well perhaps that the brilllant Michizan avenue and_Twenty-fourth street, at April meeting should be the winding-up one of 10:458. m. m:;iou;é ’::.; x_."g;_“. the seasonm, for it is scarcely possible that The Rev. William Alvin Bartiett preaches this | 3nother following so soon stould be ansthing morning in Plymouth Church, on Michigan avenue, { like as lively. The Free Religious Socicty, which sune c’l;\{erfiy-fil_(h [sxrcct. There will be praise | isa distinct outgrowth of the old Radical Club, el the.cvoning. has less apparent councetion with it than former- Iy, probably owing to the fact that the Radical Club is every year {:cmng to be o more private A New Book by Hawthorne—~-Fan- » shawe in Proof. —The Rev. E. Bacon. of Springfield, will preach at the Lincoln Park Chorch, corner Mohawk and matter of personal invitation, which is a ve Ratnral restit of the mectings takiug place 1o 3 Sophia atreets, morningand evening. —The Rev. Thomns Doggett, of Niagara Falls, private house. There was originally some or- franization to the Club in the way of different will preach morning and evening at the Union Park oflicers, and a_ground plan_similr to other Church, corner Ashland avenue and West Washing- ton strect. 1uz The Rev. George I1 Picke preachcs this mora- g and evening at the Leavitt Street Churcl i i S s societics, but this has gradually been given u UNTTARLASS and the Club basbeen éssentiaflya prié;:ne rfy’ of invitation for some time. Meeting as {t hay in Mr. Sargent’s house only during the last year, and under Mrs. Sargent’s supervision, with the The Rev. E. P. Powell will preach at the Thi Church, corner Monroe and Laflin atzeets, at 1 entire responsibility and trouble of the whola thing, it is not strange 5 **Does God Lead Us info Temp- —The Rer. Robert Collyer will preach at Unity THAT TUIS CLUB SHOULD AT LAST BECOMNE & PRIVATE PARTY. Charch, North Dearborn, near Washington Park, And when next year the ‘“new departure™ morning and evening. ye takes place of making it entirely a matter of —The Rev. Brooke Herford preaches at the Church of the Messiah, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-third strect, at 10432 m. Subject: **The Gate Deau . . B. P. P ibati will preach in the ‘&.,..ng,h’ Rev. E. P. Powell | | ohenly invitation, jostead of a yearly one where the feeof & is charged, the Club, 2s 3 matter of mumbetshi]‘i and an organization, it be really defunct. We shall have, however, about thie same thing, under a different form. But the form is what ninvited quarrel with, “Club, do you call this a Club!™ shricks a sar- castic vutsider. “The Radical Club is dead!™ blandly replies another brizht and satirical gen tlemun~he of the New York Tribune. Ans’, 2 an organized Club, we must admit that this wili llc‘x]t year be o fact. But, 05 Artemnus Ward said, **WIAT'S TIE USE OF SCREAMING AT THE CALM . FACTS OF THE UNIVERSE ! And what's the use of abusing Mrs. Sargent for arranging this club that has Tallen into her liands, and out of its orwauization, after tha manner that suits her best 2 If the officers were not. strony cnough to keep it in its old form, she certainly hus a perfect right_to choose swhat form she will order the meetings that wear out her stair and dressing-room carpets. And now for anotlfer breeze in the Radical re- wion. The thymed satire called * The Radical Club,” which the Boston Sunday Times pub- lished two years ago, and _brought:out last spring in “pamphlct shape, keeps up ity agitation in o new aud curlous fashion. Fome body has come out in the Springticld Republican with the story that Mrs. Louise Chandler Moul- ton—the New York Tribune's L. C. M.—had ber tinger in this satrical pie; that in fact she as sisted toe alleged author, Mrs. MacDowell, fe the concoction of those Poclike runes and shymes, as cyidence of which, attention was e led to the fact that she, Mrs. L. C. M., way VERSALIST. ‘The Itey. Summer Ellis will preach this morning in the Charch of the. Kedcemer, corner of Wash- ington and Sangamon streets. ‘The Rev. J. Stranb will qrench morsing and evening in St. Paul's Church, Michizan avenue, be- uween Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. LUTUERAN. i The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches this morning | and evening at the English Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Eric and Dearborn streets. N. : ill preach morning and couner Indiana avenue irst Churcl and Twenty-fifth etreet, and in the afternoonat 3 wclock in Campbell Hall, strect and Campbell avenn _ MISCELLANEOUS. % The First Saciety of Spiritnaiists meets at Grow's Tall this morning and evening.’ Miss Susie M. Joln~on will speals. ‘There will be preaching at 3 p. m. at the Han- son Street Chapel, comer of Panlina ntreet. f1. G. McCulloch will preach this morning and Hiram V. Reed this evening to the Adventists, at No. 91 South Green streel. rs. Cora L. V. Tappan, the trance speaker, will lecture for the Spiritual Lecture Association in the church corner of Green and Washington #t10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. _The morn- be chiosen by the audience. The ‘e Symbol of the Trinity.” t 280 Milwaukee avenue. corner West Van Buren . at2Zp. m. Eller Ii. V. Reed will prench at the Adventist Church, comer Warren wvenuc and Robey street, 102 m. Evening service at 7:4: Disciples of Chritt meet at 259 West Randolph streotat 4 p. m. Slrs. Dr. Amphlett will lectare at the New Globe Tiull, 56 Sonth Desplaincs street, at%#p. m. Sub- +jeet? “*Exposition of Spiritnalisms its Dark and Light Sides.” Therenfter conference. 4 ZNorth Chicugo lichrew Congregation. The eervices of the Jewish holiday ** Shabuolh, or Feast of Weels, will take placest the chapel of the New Fngland Church, corner of Deatborn strect and, Delaware place, this evening at 7 o'clock, and; ; Monday moruia at 10 o'clock. CALENDAR ¥OR THE WEEK. the only member described who was at all tlat- tered,—* a solid square inch of flattery.” And this rumor gnivs its little ground and finds ita way to the Chestnut atrect parlors of course, where of course it makes its little breeze, which is verily an esst wind of stinging sharpness. But while it blows, from across the sea comes an INDIGNANT PRIVATE PROTEST FROM MR3, 1 MOULTON. . She never saw the poem until it was in print nd had no hint_or knowledge of it,and the - : EPISCOPAL. Lepublican man 5 commanded to eorrect the oy 28—Saniay atter AnceneiGn. | ruor o the contrary, which e il no doubt Go.. Tn the meantinie, an old acquaintance of | Mfay 25—Sunday within the Octave of the Ascen-:] L.'C. M’s. may say that othias o0k Taoae unlikely on the face of it than this rumor, for in the first place Mrs. Moulzon is far too good- natured to write or assist at any such perform- ance which immolates her intimate friends. ‘And, in the sccond place, she fstoowise to do s¢ foolhardy o thing as such immolation. Mrs MacDowell, who was simply o visiting stranges within the grates, was in quite o different posi- tion, both &S regards the fecling that inspired ft. and the motive that {)uhlishml it. But we don’t get at the end of it all yet, for coming upon this i another supposition that Mrs. Mac, getting frightened at Lier growing fame in the affair, whieh, though it brings her laurels, brings alsa a crown of Lhorns, has given out that she was helped by her more widely-known _literary friend. The affair bids fair, therefore, with this Tast hint from that frisky old dame, Rumor, ta become AS PRETTT A WOMAN'S QUARREL 1;:»’ ever made o gencrous masculine heart re- Joice. To turn from all these bickerings and mud- dles, let us look into the groo(—shcus of Os; & Co.’s last little classic,—for it is guingto make a talk and a stir, because it is a story of Hawthorne’s that this generation has never seen. - The story is_cntitled *Fanshawe,” and was published in 1828, Forty-cight years ago ! Written and published when Hawthorne wus in his early youth. There were only s few copics, and these were smuggled out of sight by the author, as be grew older, and deseloped his skill and taste. Smuggled out of sizht, and express charges given not to be republished. 1 took the old copy in my hand, with its gray cover and its yellow tint of age, and on the fly-leaf saw writ- ten, not by the author, but by the author's Iriend, who owned it, 3tk JAMES T. FIELDS, alittle note of special care and caution in regard to the eirculation of the volume. I don’t sup- pose the author of the Scarlet Letter,cven if he leans out of Heaven, like. Rossetti’s blessed damozel, will care much now what becomes of the smuggled volume he was so anxious should be suppressed; but It gives me a carious qualm to find that this nincttenth century spirit of science and cold-bloodedness respects the wishes of the dead far less than the living. But what can publisher and fricnd have to say when the dead author’s son is conscnl(ng! It's 3 matter of taste, to be sure, as the spider said to the fly, for, in this day of New York notion advance- ment, it won’t do to talk of emotions. Forty- cight years ago, when this little_gray book was &blia ed, if such a disregard of dead-and-gone olks’ wishes had_been ’rosslblc, there would have been a creeping of flesh amongst the liv- ing, and a daily or nightly cxpectation of an avenging ghost, who would haunt these com- mand-breakers. But in these times we bave heard so much of A DIFFEKENT KIND OF GHOST-RAISING, where parafine and other mundane agents Tend material aid, that we arcno_more to be scared into respectful manners and behavior. But aside from any sentiment about the matter, Isceno good liferary reason why this story of Fanshawe should sce the light again. Reading it, I fully understand and sympathize with the author in his desire that it should never be re- published. It s the crude, uneven work of ex- treme youth. Nowhere can 1 find those tones and tints of Hawthorne which make his luter pages glow with such richness. But in the charucters of the tiwo villains of thcfluy there are hints of the hand that weknow. In theper- sons of Dr. Melmoth and his wife we have also touches of that slyness of wit which bubbled over in the story of the Captain’s widow, who evinced so muchi genuine grict and regret at the stonccutter's when sclecting ber late lotd’s tombstone,—a_regret which "had all the senti- ment of youth, and was therefore a great cons trast to the stonecutter’s ususl customners, and which Hawthorne siyly insinuates may have its solution in the fact *that out of twenty-three years of matrinony only three liad been spent in cach other's company!” Here is one of those touches which hint at the quaint bumor of later years: “\{hen the storm was loud by the pastor’s hearth, he had always a sure and quiet retreat in his study; and there in his deep, though not alwags useful labor, he soon forgot whatever of disagreeable nature pertained to his situation. This small aud dark apartment was the boly portion of the house to which, since onc firmly rcgclled invasion, Mrs. Mclmoth’s omnipotence did not extend. }ere (to reverse the words of Queen Elizabeth) there was ‘but one master, and no mistress’; and that man had little right to complain who possesses so much as one cor- ner in '.Hg world where he may be happy or mis- crable, as best suits bim.” BESIDES THI3 STORY OF FANSIAWE, there are other shorter articles which appeared at about the same time in differcnt papers and magazines. Buat of all, and what we can all welcomne, is ** Dr. Dolliver,” which was partl published In_the Atlantic lvnthly, and whicl Dver knew his fintshing hand. In this republic cation we have another dmgur, ‘which was nev- er before printed, and which is rcdolent with that wonderful charm we know so well. Frag- mentary as o all fs, t carries on with singular sion. ay 29—t Grezory VIL, P. C. Jay 30—0f the Octavo; §t. Felix, P. AL ay 31—St. Angels Mericl, V. ; St. Petronilla, V. Junc1=Qctave of the Ascension. . June2—St. George, M. (from April 23): SS. Mar- collinus, Peter, and Erasmus, \June 3—Vigil of Pentecoat. — —— HUMOR, ' A barber-ous weapon: A razor. ‘ « A fowl bawl”: A rooster’s crow. 1 Goold & Knopf is the pame of a firm in this jcity. Good enough ! , . Literary people are advised to cat fish. "¢ Food for thought,” as it were. ~ Good news for children and young ladies +Sritches are gofog out of fashion. Shelby M. is the Irishman’s candidate, be- cause he Cullom-killed Beveridge. The warm weather of the past week caused young men to be in-duster-ous. Ohio Democratic State Convention to Thur- man: “Make room for your uncle.” The office of Marshal of Chicago, according to Mayor Hoyne, was a Goodell of a super- fluity. Those enthusiastic base-ball men who bet on Hartford yesterday have no heart for Divine services to-day. A tobacconist in Boston was assaulted in the strects the other cvening. He was plugged severcly on the head, and his left lug was badly damaged. The marrisge in London, England, of Nelson Bliss to Miss Susan Work, was a happy one for the Jady. Sheexchanged a life of Work for one . of Bliss. Sam and Jack Shears, of Tuscumbis, Ala., ‘hacked and slashed a colored man, a short time. ago, because he wouldn't give them money. The darkey says they were the * wustest pair of Shears to cut ™ he ever saw. Sidney Lanier docsn't like the criticisms on his cantats. Any young man can “ Ta, ta,” to a young lady, Sid; but there are few youug men who cantata pinch write better words than your Goods ™ and * Bads.” FUN-GLEANINGS. A mild form of new-mown-ia: The hay-fever. Spell-bound: Stuck ona word at the spelling- match. Just the thing for inquisitive people: * How 50! "-ing machine.—~New York Commercial. The man who kdpt a record of how often he repeated on drinks, used to call it his “index rerum.’ A Western genius has invented a machine for making artificial foliage. He mightcall it “a patent leave-er.” Pawnbrokers have never been described as the ploncers of progress, although it must be ad- initted that they are always ready to make an advance. A shipwrecked crew has recently been killed and eaten by the cannibals in Australia. It is shocking to think that there are still live sav- ages who can-nibble their own kind.—New ok Graphic. Guest (who has had o pleasant evening, will just have a look at his host’s pictures before he goes)—* Yesh—(hic)—"like tha’ pictsh’re! Fi* Tandscape! ’'Like the treesh! ’Branshes wave about s'nash’rally 11" When o inan buys a little bit of 2 basket of etrawherries, no bigeer than a pint, he carries it arount ostentatiously, as if it made him tired; but he has 2 pounds of liver putup in a thin paper, like a lace shawl. A chap, being asked to explain the paradox of how It was possible for a lazy man to obtain so much cducation, answered: ‘¢ I—dldn’t—attain —it. ]—{ust—hmnl—hcr&ud—thur\:,~nnd was—too—lazy—to—forget ! " A gentleman, dlnlnfi with a friend, was asked what part of the fowl he preferred. Oh! only abone.” This request was literally taken, and a bone, well seraped, was sent to him. “Half of that, if you please,” said he, sending back Ris plate. A bad spell.: * Thomas, spell weather,” said ‘?flclmulm:\ster to one of his pupils. ¢ Weie-a- io-u-r, weather.” % Well, Thomas, you may sit down,” said the teacher. “I think this fs the worst spell of weather we have had since ristmas.’” A tall, gaunt Reese-River (Nev.) man walked up to a bar and said, “I've got an aged mother back in Missouri; Iwas brought up religious; Taint nr?ared to dic; and what I want to know Is, if the snakes is straied out of them | fidelity, into snother generation, that quaint air whisky?” stary, or rather the sccret of that story, called Septimius Felton. In this last chapter we pget that curfous ucion of the weird and mysterious mixed with the simple commonplaces of life, which is so frresistible & charm of Hawthorne’s. TAKEN ALTOGETHER, Fidit of half" contrast An Irishman, being tried for assault and bat~ tery in Vlr%}uh\ City, Nev., when asked by Judge Knox If he had anything to say by way of défense, replied: ¢ Well, your Honor, I saw but little of the fight, 2s I was underncath most of the time.” these later fragments and the stor century :uio, will have 3 value o “The sword s ‘Saxe:? now don't forget | which will be encournging to the youn, it, Pat"'5aid the Colonel just before the battle | adventurer in litcrature. For just o fol- of Foatenoy, 2t which ° Save was Marshal. | low the formal little sentences of Fan- “Sacks? Faith, and I will not. Wasn't my father a miller?” * Who goes there?” cried the sentinel, after the Irishman had orrived at his post. Pat was 85 wise a5 an owl, and, ina sort of yell, reglipd, * Bags, yer Honor!”? shawe, and then to dip into the richer pu%u of Dr. Dolliver, and to know that one was the developed matarity of the other, is to take on new courage, and to learn to labor and to walt in better patience. N. P,