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RELIGIOUS. ¢What Is Truth 7’~-A Lay Ser- mon for Heme Reading To-Day. gome Interesting Statistics About the Distribution of the Bible. TLouise Lateau—Sketch of the Young Woman with the “Stigma” of the Cross, What Our Local Pastors Pro- pose Doing During the Dog-Days. Miscellaneous News from the Church at Home and Abroad. WHAT IS TRUTH? 4141 SERMON—FOR THIS DAY'S HOME READING. What is troth ?—St. John, 18: 38. The first thought to be considered in connec- tion with this text [s, that it is a question asked by Pilste, the Roman Governor of Judes, of Jesus, whom the civilized world knows to be the founder of the religion of Christianity, who then stood before Pilatea prisoner, delivered into his hands by the Jews, awaiting jndgment sstolife or death. Be was a prisoner, but not scriminal; for His judge before whom He then stood, and who finally condemned Him to exe- cation, bore testimony to His innocence of any crime, and declared to His accusers that he «found no fault in Him,"” and washed his hands pefore the people clamoring for his death, as if 1o clear himself of the responsibility of shed- ding the blood of the fnnocent. * His, wife also st unto him to have nothing to do with that just man. It was a very strange and unusual question, surely, for a Governor or a Judge on the bench to ask of the criminal at the bar. The scene which preceded the asking of the question is one of remarkable interest. Jesus was & well-known person in Jerusalem.. He had largely cnlisted the populace in sympathy with Him; for He bad often been among ther, teaching them, and healing them of infirmitics, 2and always doing them good; and never in His career among men doing an act that gave pain or unhappiness to a single_individual, unless from rebuking their wrong-doing. He claimed 10 be that great personage which hiad_been long Iooked for, which the Jews even lived in hope of seeing, the Messiah, the divinely anointed King, or Emanuel,—God in humanity, who was to de- liver them from their troubles, and their nation from Roman rule. But the leaders of the Jewish nation rejected Him, because He was not such a Christ as their hearts desired. They wanted a ing David, to draw the sword, to smite the Romans, as the former David had smitten the Philistines. It is an appropriate inquiry here, whether Jesus, as & King or Savior, is cver such ssman would have chosen for himself? The rulers_of the pation did not accept Jesus for what He claimed to be; but the common people beard Him gladly. This Jesus was brought before Pilate for con- demnation, ready on questions purcly Jewish, or of thelr own theocratic law. They had al- ready had Him at the Palace of the Bj%h Priest, and did with Him what they would. DBut they bad not the power to kill Him. What they wanted now was condcmnation unto death. ‘That alone rested with the Roman suthority, of ‘which Pilate was the execative. To Pilate, tlicre- fore, went the leading men of the nation—the common uglc, ‘who were the friends of Jesus, werein the background, without political inr “flnences—and clamored for the blood of Christ, ‘who was their longlooked for hope and desire of Israel. Pilate would not try him as a teach- er of Jewish heresy, or asa priest or prophet; but he might try lim on the assumption of his being a King; for Ceesar, as the Emperor of the Romans, who had subjugated the Jews, would tolerate no King as a rival fn Judea. The Jews would not have him as a King, with his unearth- Iy pretensions, but pressed upon Pilate his ciaims to the Kingship. by Pilate went into the judgment hall,and called Jesus before him. He behcld only a man, such a5 could be met with, toall appearances, at every hour -in the strects of Jerusalem. himself was 2 man of authority, holding the nower of life and death, a proud and dignified foman, of the nation who were masters of the world, and he the representativeof the Emperor at the head of that power. Jesus was_an hum- ble, nnostentatious Jew, a conguered subject, who had incurred the enmity of His own people, and whom the rulers were determined to put to death. He nad publicly taught the doctrine of rendering to Casar Cmsar's due, and to God what belonged to God, and on this matter they . were now sccusing Him falsely. " «Enowest thou not,” said the proud Roman, “that I have power to crucify thee, or to set thee free 1" It was a good time for acriminal to make friends with! the Governor. Jesus re- nded, “Thou hast only such power asis given Hee by God» It is said that Pllate greatly marveled that Jesus answered not at all to the falso accusations made against him; and he marveled equally that he dared to answer the Governor 50 boldly. Said Pilate tohim: *‘Art thou the King of the Jews?” He was willing %o cracify a Jewish King, but not a Jewish school- master. _ Jesus did not answerthe Governor like oneabashed, but more likea King to his courtier. The answer was certainly a bold thrust back upon the Roman servant of Cazsar; well might ilate have suspected he had a kingly pexsanafie before him. ©Is this your own thought, or did come onc elscsuggest it to you!” Pilate may have quailed at this; he may have felt that his authority was trifled with; but he knew he was in the presence of onc who bad intellectual pawer over him. His Roman pride was stirred ; “Am I aJew i7" said he, contemptuously. “Am 1 bound to concern myself about questions of yourlaws 2" “Thine own pation and the chief Pricsts have delivered thee to me: what hast thou done ¢ “My kingdom is mot of this world,” said Jesus; “otherwise my eervants would fight and resist your power to deliver me to the Jewe. But™I have a kingdom mnot of this world.” 3 Art thou a King, then?” “Thou sayest that I am a King. To that end was I born, and_{or that purpose came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth wy voice.” ore than ever confounded at this strange ‘Eing the Jews had rejected and thrust upon him, he probably very carnestly inquired, in -the words of the text, ** What is truth?™ There is no record that Jesus made any an- wer to this question, or that Pilate ever lesrned What the truth is; there yas certainly no time then for a worshiper of Jupiter and Mars to hbear a disquisition on the mission of & Son of the God of the Jewsinto this world. With the €cho of his own words, What is truth? he turned tothe Jews again, and said, I find no_fault in him at all. Shall T release to you the King of the Jm:-,n; ‘They said, +We Baro o Kiog but 2sar. hey wanted & XKing to drive Cesar and yrume out of Jerusalem; and, if Jesus had led the wnl, they ollowed Yould have taken up their swords and Him; but when Bg announced His purpose to found a kingdom of love and salvation for all ations, and must bear with Him the cross of Bumiliatjon, they would not at the invitation take up the cross and follow Hims but they eried qut to Pilate to crucify Him. Pilate seem- tobe a good deal alarmed at the responsi- bility thrust upon him. Back again be goes to the jndzment hall, the Governor and the Judge, toplesd with the' prisoner, not alone for the one truth he had before asked for, but to ask ¥ho He was, and whence he came. Some man ¥2s there in that judgment hall who had the ivine jmpress ‘upon him; was le onc numbered in the calendar of the “gods many” who were worshiped ot e1” But Jesus gave him no answer. As be o0t 10 words from Him to tell him of the moral 0d of the universe that was embraced in that ;"flul muky of all inquirers, so he got no further information of the person before him, Yho had assented to the charge of being a King, as to who he was, what King, and over ¥hat kingdom did he rule, and where in the Yorld which Rome had conquered was his me, whose possessor was then in his power. e yet marvcled at the unknown King's tllence, And so0 poor Pilate, in a quandary Dever before known to mortal, who had many® £0ds to worship, knew not that he had the Sen g”-hE tmlx true God on his hands to crucify. If ehad had but the answer to the question he himse}{ put, What is truth? he Yould have seen the embodizent of the truth before him. Bat he still persisted in the idea st the accused was the King of the Jews 3 as such a King be crucitied Him; and, to jus his own concluslons and conduct, and. gt ::‘:‘;e ;oe‘gz;{u'cfiuscrs, hl.: _;f. up the inscription [ the cro: A 58, hisis the King of Pilate, in hisinquiry, What is truth? s only the representative of humanity at large. They all ask the question In ten thousand ways, What is truth¢ Some ask from mere curosity; some from a sincere desire to know what the truthis. The world fs searching for the truth in other directions than that” which would lead toward the answer of Christ. It is the truth of the infly- eaces and expericnces that are about every one's life, that they are reaching after, us well'as the hidden things of nature. Truth fs more than the Philosopher’s stone to every human being. Pilate, unknowing or rejecting C) rist,is also the type of humanity. He hath no greater sin than has been partaken byall, who, because they bave not fnquired, know not who Jesus is, or whence He came, or the nature of His kingdom, or the reality of that trath to which He cime to bea witness. And yet there are none who ask the question in sineerity, or seck for the knowl- edge ingulrcd of, earnestly, but have been l:;l:were , aod have found what they sought The importance of truth has neveryet been realized. There has been more angiry as to what truth is, than for anything else on which information is needed. Legislators, statesmen, Jurists, moralists, scientists, explorers, investi- gators, discoverers, and inventors, students of all kinds, have ever been trying to solve the question on one point or the other, what is the truth? To solve the questionas to the points of their inquiry, is to gain the object of their pursuit. To get at the truth of anything and every!.hln’Fis to get at the foundation of all things. To get thereis to find the place of rest for :\'crz disturbing element in the universe. The truth will settle every commotion of the present, and hush forever the conflict of the ages. No wonder, then, whena Divine Being came fnto this world with an important message, ;Ln{ ;grfve:‘:::.mndbo muku‘,iatl;‘nm lfidcul:\rcd it to ruth, and asserted that He was person- ally the witness of that truth. i ere are various definitions to this word; there are various senses in which the term is rendered. Some persons simply consider truth the opposite of the lie, the positive pole of the sentiment of which the negative is falschood. The dictionarles say that truth is veracity, and ve modifications of the definition, as honesty, Justice, integrity, fidelity, the conformity to fact or reality, agreement of words with thoughts, which is'calied moral truth. These are all ap- propriate definitions, and help us to conceive what an excellent thing truth is. But there is still a higher sense in which it may be received. Truth is the perfect reality of all things. Truth is also thegreatbond of integrity whichholdsthe material to the spiritual world. Truth may be called thescienceof theknowledge of divine and spiritual things, It was truth i this sense of which Jesus:said He came into this world to be o witness. It was the light of the Divine ex- istence; 1in other terms, truth is the knowledge of God revealed to human cumflrehcnslon. with the correlative relation of the human being to the divine; the nature, destiny, and moral re- sponsibility of man. As the idea of God Is the most ennobling which can possess the human mind, so it seems to be the embodiment of Truth. Therefore God is called the Spirit of Truth; Christ, a8 the represcntative of God in the world, says of Himself, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light; and He beseeches the Father that He would sanctify His children through His truth.” The answer to Pilate, What is truth? might havebeen: the knowledge of the One, True, and Holy God, and the salva- tion of the race of man, through His Son, from a de; ed and lost state, and elevation to the life and immortality which alone are the attributes of the Deity. This revelation of eternal facts, so much sboveall ordinary per- ception of the human being, so important as aficcting his welfare, may well be styled the truth, as a summary of eclestial knowledge, and the scicace of immortality. Truth is thus revealed as the moral clement of the universc, as Love is the governing principle of the affec- tions, and electricity is the power pervading the natural world. The object and end of a noble and successful life, in this world, is the pursuit and acquisition of the truth. The great reward is that at last the truth is found. " That life is a_satisfactory onein ¥rnp0rtlon as it Is governed by this ob- ject. The higher the truththe nobler the life. The truth may relate to every sphere of life. There is an all-pervading truth'to be ascertained in conformity to the natural life as well as to the spiritual. But we should be carcful that we do not let down the character of that spiritual truth, which was the end of Christ’s life, by confounding it with the truth we scarch out in ourdaily experience under natural laws. But nevertheless there are t achievements to be made in searching out the truths that under- lie the laws and duties of our daily lives. Such were the truths in the process of the discovery of the sclence of astronomy, which dispelled the errors of the old astrologers; and the truths of chemistry, worked out within the last centu- ry, in contrast with the crude notions and false- Hoods of alchemy. When the truth is at last discovered, it shows itself with a self-sustaining confidence, and appears like the sun at noon- day; but the error is alwaysdark, misty, and nn- certain. So now at the present time appears the sclence of human government. The confession s, that it is imperfect; the inference is, that it will continue imperfect after the imperfect npature of the human beings who form the government. But the explanation is, that the truth of the govern- ment of: mankind in socicty has mot yet been fully discovered. The Centennial year of our Government is a way-mark of the ages to show what progress has been made in the discovery. Columbus solved a truth when he discovercd the Western Continent. The mechanical im- provements, like the steam-engine and railroad, the sewing-machine and reaper, are the discov- eries of new truths in the application of mechan- ical laws. These and other explorations arc marked all the way of their_progress by the wrecks of erroneous notions that had to be ex- loded, often at great sacritices to the pionecrs in the patbs of truth. Tley are not the errors, in the progress of the human mind and soul, that blossom out in eternzl glory and bless the race; though errors sometimes seem to thrive, but their prosperity fs not lasting nor beneficial, and they are they that pass away while truth once discovered survives— Truth crushed to earth will rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But error, wounded, writhes in pain, ‘And dies amia her worshipers. The courts for the interpretation of the laws of the country are organized to secure justice to those who live in subjcction to the law. The essential pre-requisite for ascertaining what jus- tice may be, is that the truth of the whole mat- ter in consideration shall be known. There must be thetruth as to thefacts, as well asto the principles governing the decision. ~ Until the tmth{)s known there is no basis for judgment. To get at the information, whether of facts or inferences, which can only by known by &)crsons cognizant of them, witnesscs are called to tes- tify or give that information. Only that which is° gentine can be uscful in determin- ing ~justice. Error will only serve to darken counsel and blind justice. Wit~ pesses are there put under oath to tell the the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Truth fs not to be perverted, and justice frustrated, by having _a part kept © back, or by being covered by a superfluity of extrancous matter. Truth is a simple statement of what 1s, and the court gocs on to hear the witnesses, and to direct the jury in the receipt of the evidence that nothing be hid or perverted, that the case may be decided fairly from the standard of truth, and justice be ever done. st i Before Pilate asked the important gquestion, Jeose told him that He had come Into this world iy bear witness unto the truth.” He did not deny that He was a King, and that His King- dom was not of this world; but what was more important, He camne to be known and heard as a witness. His testimony was more important to man than His Kingship. He was the only person on carth that” had positive knowl- Sdge. of the facts he wis commis- sioned to communicate. God was the Judge; mankind were the gurg The jury were $o cousider the character of the witness, ‘and to hear and determine the truth. Their decision would not change the truth into a lie. Truth is cternal and unchangeable. Their own welfare, and the cause of righteousness and justice in ‘the world would be affected by their decision but they could not change h{lt eir decision the veracity of eternal things, which are the pillars of Heaven uselltl. - Each juryman may decide the e for himself. G ‘Every one that is of the truth,” said Jesus, the witness, *will hear my voicc.” Pilate ot of the truth, and he had na¥ yoice In answer to his question. I he bad beard it, it would mot e displaced Jove for Jehovah in his heart; be 2:5 waspfirepnrcd for the great change which the truth would have made in his life. A man must be a sincere, heartfelt inquirer after any truth before he I)tl-ill hea:r the voice of any wit- ss to take in the truth. 2 ncThe Jife of Jesus, who was called the Christ, and his death, to which He was immediately sentenced by Pilate, was a continuous answer to the question, What is truth¥ ‘He came upon the witness-stand of humaoity, —a messenger sent from God. And this was the testimony He bore of Himself: There is onc God; no man hath secn God at any time, except this witnees who was His Son. No man ever before upon_the earth had ever scen God face to face, or who koew God, s0 that he could Teveal Him to the comprehiension of men, though many saints of ol had heard Hig voice, and 5:5 whole npation_of the Jews had once heaxd the thupders and seca the lightning that | THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. * JUNE .18, 1 76—SIXTEEN PAGES. -9 e surrounded His prescace, and the veil 4 :E:t shielded the glory of His person ;l)lrflis;g; I mmmnnnl view. ~ Surely the Creator of o ngsI and who hath " inhabitcd cterni- L g fittingly purround Himselt with such august grandeur! But the messenzer ;gmes aud reveals the Eternal Belng “as 1‘9] Father of the human _ race, ‘n;} th teaches them to come near unto Him in s ith, and pray nnto Him, as the child prays to ; 6 mother. d He bears witness to the truth urther that He is the medium through which gl.e_n may be brought into unity with this Divine bung, 2nd inherit the immortality which alone elongs to God. He testifles also that it is nec- essary for man to be born again; that there is o future state of existence, a new life, and a new world, that this %lohe is not the end of all things }.10 those whodwell on it. That He himself thourh aving divinity, has put oo humanity, and lives among men, and finally to die for them, and be ralsed again to life as the witness of their resurrection, and return again to the_glory He had with the Father. There, before Pilate, He was about to fulflll the last act of His earthly career,over which He Himself should pronounce the consummatlon, It is finished and Pilate the x:!uc! agent of it. And this was the truth of which Pilate asked to be told. And surely Pilate was the moss unfit man jo all the filflil to know it. Therefore was the victim likea lamb beforé the shearer, dumb before the accuser and judge. And upon the witness-stand be declared, “All !‘he aths of the Lord are mercy and truth.” This truth shall endure forever.” By truth iniquity is purged.” ‘- God will guide unto all truth.” And above all, #“Know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” And whata glorious emancipation it is for humanity to be made frec from the bondage that weighs men g:lw‘:' in perpetual misery by coming to the And his death was the answer to the question. From the presence of Pilate he went forth to his enemies and the Roman soldicry to be scourged and marked as a buffoon King, then to be cru- cified. Having declared that his work was finished” he expired wupon the cross. ~ Then darkness came over the face of the carth, and earthquake, which both Pilate and the priests saw and realized—old saints coming out of their graves—the veil of the temple rent from top to bottom, a sign to the Jews, who * for envy had dclivered Him,” that their temple relzn wos ended; and the Roman officer that officiated at the execution, and was a witness of thesc events and the death, declar- ing, “Surely this man was the Son of God:" ’ti!ll:r&ls !hg ué'x(sx\;‘cr u} thecquestlun: “Godisthe ‘ruth, an is in Christ, reconcilin; world unto Himself.” b ol e THE BIBLE. HOW IT 1S DISTRIBUTED BY THE MILLION IN ALL SORTS OF LANGUAGES. New York World. The last sunual report of the American Bible Soclety, showing that since its organizad tion upwards of 83,000,000 copies of the Bible have been circulated, and the report of the Brit- ish and Foreign Bible Socicty for the year end- g May 1, showing that since the organization of that socicty it bas circulated upwards of 76,. 000,000 copies, have attracted some attention to the subject. During the present century about 82,000,000 copies have been issued by other Bible societies, and a very low estimate of the num- ber issued by private publishers would raise the total number of copies circulated to 200,000,000, ‘This number is so great as to be almost incom- prehensible. To count up such a number at the rate of one per second would take nearly seven years. Or, if a double file of men could be formed, extending all around the ecarth, stand- ing in close order, this number of Bibles would be sutficient to supply each individual with a* copy. The whole number of languages and dialects into which the Bible, or parts of it, has been translated, chiefly through the efforts of the two great Bible Societies, i3 252, Of these 205 are versions prepared since the origin of Bible Socicties. Few persons appreciate the difficulty of rcnderlng a book’ like the Bible from the original Hebrew aud Greek into languages that have not been previously aded and ‘molded by Christian thought. he translation of the Bible into Arabic by Dr. Eli Smith and Dr. Van Dyck required the labor of sixtcen years. Dr. Schauffier, of Constantinople, completed two years ago the translation of the Osmanli version of the Scriptures, which work he began in 1860. Fifteen years of continuous labor were spent by Dr. Schereschewsky in rendering the OlJ'Tesu.« ment into the Mandarin colloquial, and Dr. Williamson and Dr. Riggs have not yet com- pleted their Dakota version, nlthuugh they be- gan their work of study and missionary labor among that nation forty years ago. ne of them estimates that he has spent an av e of thirty minutes on each word translated by him. Although the British Soclety had twelve years the start of the American, the missionaries and ents from this country are but little behind their English brothers now. Through their un- tiring efforts the Bible has been translated into Turkish, Azerbijan, or Tartar-Turlish, Arabic, Japanese, three versions of Chinese, Siamese, Burmese, Ebon (Marshall Islands), Kusaien {Strong’s Island), Gilbert Islands, Ponape (As- cension Island), Hawailan (Sandwich Islands), Zulu (South Africa), Benca (West Africa), Crebo (West Africa), Mpongwe (West Africa), and the various languages of the North Amrelcan In- dians, including Mohawk, Choctaw, Sencca, Da- kota, Ojibwa, Muskoke¢, Cherokee, Delaware, and Nez Perces. SPECIMEY WORK. In the Japanese version of the New Testa- ment, in Roman characters, now finishing by the transiators, the 10th verse of the third chapter of John, viz.: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso- ever belicveth in Him should not perish, but ‘have everlasting life,” is rendered thus: Sore, Kami no seken wo itsnkushimi-taman koto wa sabete kare wo shindzuru mono wa horobidzu shite, kagiri naki inichi wo unken tame ni, sono hitori umareshi ko wo tamaycra hodo nari. As a matter of curiosity the same pass may b given in a few other languages, the translation into which has either been complet- cd or is now going on by American missionaries: EBON (MARSHALL ISLANDS). ‘Bwe an Anijyokwe lol. einwot bwe E ar letok ju- on wot Nejin E ar keutak, Jjebrewot tamak kin E e jomin joko, a e naj mour in drio. HAWAIIAN (SANDWICH ISLANDS). No ka'mea, ua aloha nui mai ke Akua i ko ke ao nei, nolaila, na haawi mai ola i kana Eeiki hiwa- hiwa, iole e make ka mea manaoioiaia, aks, ¢ loaa ia ia ke ola mau loa. . ZULU (SOUTH AFRICA). Ngolaba uTixo wa li tanda kankaga izwe. 1i nika inDodana_yke ezelweyo yodwa Dba be nobomi obungapeliyo. B MPONGWE (WEST APRICA). Kande Anyambia arondi utye yena polo, avent Otjwanli we omo, inle; omeda o jiviri gore ye, avers, ndo e be dengn emenia z'egombe zodu, MONAWK (NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.) Tken ne Yehovah egh ne s'hakonoronghwka n'ongwe, nene nodewendeghton nene raonhaon rodewedon rohhawak, bene onghka kiok teyaka- eghkah kon raonhage yaghten a onghtonde. ok denghnon aontehodiveudane ne eterns adonheta. CIIOCTAW: (NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN). Chihowa yzt yakni a i hullo fehna ket, krna bosh mma i yimmikmat ik illo hosh, amba ai okchayct ilia yo pisa hi o, Ushi achofa illa holitopa ya auet ima tok. B atill i i In Japan Dr. Hepburn ‘is still engaged witl his nssgchllus of Fhe Editorial Committee on thework of translation and revision, which he began many years ago. The American Method- ist mlss(onur?es at Ducknow have the New Tes- tament in the Pharasec dialect ready for the press, and purpose _to print it this ycar. Dr. Bushnell, of the Gaboon mission, Is hastening forward the translation of the remainder of the Bible into the Mpongwe language, the first part of which was printed twenty-fivé years ago. In Persia the Azerbijah version has” been delayed during the past year by the absence of the prin- cipal translator. In this country, besides the work on the Dakota Scriptures, Mr. Robertson promises a version of the Epistles iu the lan- gusge of the Creeks. During the last year the Examining Board of the Socicty approved new Versions or parts of the Scriptures in the Da- Tota, the Muskoke, and Ponupe_languages. and tho revised text of the_Reval-Esthonian Bibic. In Scoin the books of Ezra, Nehemial, Hoses, and Joel were put in print for the first time. GROWTH OF THE SOCIETY. At the beginning of its history the Society was indebted for rooms in which to transact its business 1o the governors of the New York Hos- pital, the Mayor of the city, and to the Histori- cal Society. ‘The present building was erected in 1830-31, and covers three-quarters of an acre. The whole number of persons engaged in the service of the Society in the Bible-house is 400. There are twenty-six printing presses, driven by two large steam-engines, and the apparstus is sufficient for printing 2,000,000 volumes annual- 1y, or about 6,000 for every working day in the he year. - Laid away in fire-proof vaulis under the Bible-house are 120 sets of stereotype plates of the Bible, or portions of it, comprising 65,000 pages. Some of these, as the plates of the quar- 10 and imperial quarto Biblcs, the Bible in raised Jetters for the blind, the Arabic Bible, Buigarian and Syriac Testiments, ete., were repared at great expense. The Society pub- fiuhcl, in differcnt styles of h|ndlpg{, over one hundred varicties of the English Bible, from the Tmperial quarto to the diamond 32mo, ffty va- Tictios of the English New Testament, over forty varicties of portions of the Bible in En- lish, and more ,"focvnficfiu of the Scriptures 1g.n other languages. The stereotype plates for the Bible for the blind, in raised letters, cost §13,000, and 10,000 copies have becn In 1816, the first {glar of the Society’s existence, the number of_Bibles and .Testaments _iseued. was 6,410, and the number of copies issucd las year was s'io‘,m. The greatest \\Enrk, hnwcvert was during the War, when the Biblec was dis- distributed among the army and navy by the scores of thousands. The average yearly issue for the past twenty years has heen more than 1,000,000 copies. ‘The following table shows the ;Al‘)::gl x‘:)umrber o:[cnplflhmued and circalated ce the formation of the Societ recelpts, by tens of years: yyand thecigh Yea i g '°';§§2 Total iseues. 26 to 1 3 1836 to 184 Pt 1846 to 185 6,772,353 1856 to 1866.... 0.0 4,754 850,05 513, 054 1806 t01877........ 6,704.188.60 11.310,100 Totals.........817,229,142.31 $33.125,708 The soclety does no work for profi. Al its books, if not given away absolutel or Delbw cost. Tt e bt e e i 26 rian, and seven different denominations are represented in the Board of Managers. About 52,000 persons have become life directors and fe members of the socicty since its organiza- tion, by the payment of a small sum each; The saciety has nearly 2,000 auxiliaries, and these have about 5,000 branches, 3o that there are really about 7,000 Bible Societics jn the country, all :emerlnf,' in this institution. It has a library Ivnl the Bls)]u ngsu containing X olumes. Since the organization of this ang kindred societies l.h:gBible bas bcwmcdtih': cheapest boolt in the world. It contains 773,746 WOl and is sold complete for 40 cents. LOUISE LATEAU.’ THE YOUNG WOMAN WITH THE “STIGMA" OF THE CROSS. The following is an extract from an article by Dr. Lefebyre, which appeared a short time ago in the Revue Catholique de Louvain. Dr. Lefeb- vre is one of the first doctors of Belgium, and wasappointed by the Bishopsto make a medical inquiry into the case of the stigmatizee. This he ma, and published a learned work some five ears afi;o. During the month of March, 187, e made anothier visit to Louise. On Friday, the 31st of December, 1875, Louise suffered so much from her stigmas that it was thought she would soon die. The last sacra- ments were administ red to her, and her peril- ous state was soon made known far and wide by the press. Louise suffered the crisis I will now relate, Dr. Lefebvre, the state in which Ifound her Dns:!{: 3rd of March, 1876. What atrikex us most of all is the violence of ber sufferings. Her countenance clearly shows intense sgouy; her breathing s in- terrupted by moaning. She often endeavors to change her position, as if to avold suffering; nota word, however, eacapes her. Iask her to tell me sincerely what she suffers. She replies that she endures violent paina in her head, her side. and her limbs. 1 request her to state the precise place where these pains occur, and Ifind they exist in all those places which bear the stigmas, i.e., on Doth eides of the hands and feet, in_her left side, her right shoulder, and throughout the whole cir- cumference of the head, at the very place where are situated the stigmatic wonnds. These pains are very intense and excruciating, and they in- crease if the wounds aresubjected to pressure. In all the rest of her body, even in those parts next to the atigmas, there i« not the slightest pain. Let me pass now rapidly int eview of her general appearance. Her face is rather thin, and pater than formerly, though her lips arost i1l well colored: her pnlee is feeble, but regular; it beats eighty times a minute; her respiration is interropted by frequent moaning (thirty-two inspirations a minate); the ekin iy tforid, and soft to the touch. Iuext exam- ine with the gemen attention the state of the stig- mzs, ‘'This exactly the condition in which I found them: the stigmas of the fect are dry: the; give no indication of having given forth any hluofi to-day. (Dr. Lefebyre is writing on Friday.) The stigma in the side has bled profusely. 1 request Louise to remove the linen cloth she {s accustomed to place there; it is folded sixteen timee upon it- 8elf, and is_completely saturated with blood thronghout. 1 examine the stigma of the shonlder; the ouzing of blood has ccaeed there, but a consid- erable quantity must have been given forth, as the linen which covers it plainly shows, it being in the same state as that covering the side. The four stigmas of the hand are open. and from each there {s running without interruption a little thread of blood. This transpiration, which commenced about midnight, and which was still continming when I left Louise at 4 o'clock, must have far- nished much blood: From the stigmas of the head blood had ceased running: the hair was still im- greg‘nflled ‘with half coagulated blood; her face ad been washed and Ler forehead was dry. 1 knew from the cure of Bois d'Haine "that the ecstacy commenced now at twelve minutes past 2. At20o'clock I seated myself mear Lonise, who, though euffering intensely, replied to all my ques- tions with her usunl desire to oblige me. The con- versation was often interruptes involuntary moaning, all the musclesof the face were con- tracted, and her look us she turmed mow to the' right and now to the left, scemed to ask for mercy. On a sudden her eyes are turned toward heaven and reflect a sentiment of loniing admiration, her countenance is relaxed and brightens. her lips are allghtly separated 33 if by s Lal ’_formed smile, her hands enveloped in their linen covering, are placed in the attitude of prayer; the ccstacy had com- menced. It was just twelve minutes past 2. T Egricnced a real satisfaction to see her freed for'ad our from all suffering. A anarter of an hour afterwards while the cure of Boie d’Haine, & pas- sionist religions, and 1 were contemplating in silence this spectacle, 1 nttered in a low voice the ‘word Lounisc. At once her countenance assumed its usual expression. Louise replied to = question Iaddressed her, then silence was restored and the ecm:ly abruptly began a?ln. During the ecstasy her bresthingbecame calm and quiet, it did not amount to more than eighteen fimes a minute, the pulse beat sixty-six times and ‘was more feeblt than before the ‘ecstasy, or suffer- ng from the wounds. She is comFXelely uncon- sclous as T assure myself by eeveral experiments. At 3 o'clock her arms are extended in the form of cross, her face assumes an expression of sadness. At five minutes past 3 Louise enters withoutany transition upon her ordinary state: duringa fow minutes her face preserves its serenity, her look is calm and peaceful, then the excraciating snfferin, take posseesion of the pious victim with their usual violence. *‘The hour of departurc had arnved. Lonise ‘had received me, a8 she had always done before, with a confiding simplicity and a sympathy without reserve. Ido mot hesitate to add thatleft the “gtigmatizee, ' my heart overflowing with admira- tion and deep religious emotion. " Such is the account of Dr. Lefebvre’s recent visit to Louise Lateau, and thus he finishes his article in the present number of the Revue Catholique. In the mext number, however, he promises some more details, and cspecially some remarks on her wonderful abstinence from food ; her only nourishment for the past four years being the Holy Eucharist. PERSONAL. WIHAT OUR LOCAL CLERGYMEN WILL DO DURING THE DOG-DATS. Dr. Smith, of the Standard, is already off for a few wecks in Boston. The Rev. J. B. McClure expects to spend the “Fourth » in Philadelphia. The Rev. H. L. Martin, “of St. Paul’s M. E. Church, will probably visit the Centennial late in the season. The Rev. R. D. Shepard, of the Western Avenue M. E, Church, will probably visit the Centenninl in August. The Rev. Dr. Swazey, who is supplylng the Fourth Presbyterian Church, will take his usual Eastern tour after awhile. The Rev. Edward F. Williams, of the Ken- wood Congregational Church, will make his usual visit to Massachusetts. The Rey. S. Gilbert, of the Advance, and Euwr of the Congregational Church at Winnet~ ka, expects to go East in July. Dr. Post, of the Holland Presbyterlan Church, has gune around the lakes, taking in Marquette, B lo, Auburn, and other places. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany, of the Trinity M. E. Church, goes East duringa portion of the summer, and will visit the Centennial in September. Prof. Fiske, of the Congregational Seminary, departs for the sca-side coumr{y in abount five weeks, and will be absent untif September. The Rev. D. S. Johnson, of the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, expects to visit the Cen- tennial fn July, and will b absent a month. The Rev. C. W. Willing, of the Langley Avenue M. E. Church, daes not expect to leave the zfiz during the summer, at lcast not for any leng of time. Dr. E. P. Goodwin, of the First Congregation- ol Church, will run down to Amherst to attend the commencement on the 29th inst., where he grnduated in 1856 The Rev. W. J. Petrie, of the Church of the Atonement, expects to sail for England ina week or two, where he remains six wecks for the purpose of recreation. The Rev. D. B. Chency, Baptist Church, expects to Grove and other Eastern points, tween the 11th and 20th of July. Bis)lmp Md.;\mn é}oes not. :;né;’ipnte ‘;hee é:x- ury of a vacation, but expect see n- Teanial fn October, as the House of Bishops will mect in Philadelphia at that time. The Rev. N. H. Axtell, of the Park Avenue M. E. Church, expects to remain in the city, though }:osslbly may fio to Pennsylvania to re- main a few weeks during the summer. The Re\;. H. H. Eellogg, who ?lulbeen fi‘; bl.hfl: ministry for over fifty years, declares Dever 1o @ vacatlon, and he farther asserts that he does not propose to COMMEDCE NOW. The Rev. C. L.Thompson, of the Interior, and pastor of the Fifth Preabytérian Church, i3 off this week for Boston. After his_return mext week, he will visit his relatives in Wisconsin. Dr. Everts, of the First Baptist Church, is off already, and ppending & pl D. D., of the Fourth recreate at Ocean starting be- about 2,500, easant time in New, England. He took in the Centennfal by the way, and_will return July 1. The Rev. T. J. Morgan, D. D., of the Baptist Seminary, is down Eastalso, and retarns {n a few days. The Rev. A. H. Huling, the Chicago Wornin tar editor, vl viie Philadolphia in Septomber, e has just returned from the Hillsdale (Mich.) Collcge. Commencement, where thero was a large attendance of the alumni and friends. ‘The Rev. Francis Mansfield, Rector of the Epls- copal Church of the Atonement, is to uflpfor Europe on the dth of July, to enjoy a vacation untll September, when he is to return to his pas- :?xfi]%‘;leles' Itis hinted that be does not go The Rev. T. P. Marsh, of Grant Place Metho- dist Church, Chicago, having been appointed a member of the Examining Committee of Wes- leyan University, at Middletown, Conn., will depart [n & few days for several weeks’ absence at the East. Dr. R. W. Patterson confesses frankly that he wants to go to the Centennial, and we {lncerely hope his wishes mn{ be tified. He is, how- ever, very busy looking after the interests of the Lake Forest University, of which fnstitution he is the worthy President. . The Rev. John Williamson, of the Wabash Avenue M. E. Church, will send his family to Newport, R. L., within the next two weeks. ~He :fl:‘nnkse in Er.::wuu{ until Sl!pl?mhv.‘n when he an ro trip, most of the timebeing devoted to the Centenoial. S The Rev. Dr. John Atkinson, pastor of Grice M. E. Church, Chicago, went East last Monda; morning for a vacation of several weeks. ld \B\"ll!xl&'ctum in tl{r‘m to t:&kc part in gfie Ln:lgc camp-meeting, and expects to brinj L] Rev. Dr. Bartine with him. o e BREVITIES. An Ad curmudgeon says that the ladies have ‘*decoration day” every Sunday. A aull wminister in the pulpit is a sore trial, but the soprano in the chor is usually a soarer. Burlineton Hawkeye: *How to reach the non-church goet” Take the Walnut or Market strect cars unfln} morning and look along the outside of the ferce around the Exhibition grounds. “ Papa, did God have time to get around to all the other churches after staying to. hear M. as prager or did heleavs before it ended: v] lassachused ou; L Sunday, after church. Fovagstor asked lasp 1t is remarlkable that a St. Lonis paper should he so frank. The Evening Republican saye: ‘1t isagood thing to o to church; still there are men in 8t. Louis who would be more benefited to-morrow Dy a visit to a swimming school than a church.” In a suburban school a teacher gave out the word “g)snhcr" to class in spelling. It was a “poser” to all till it reached the foot of the class, when a_curly-headed little fellow spelt it correctly, and on being asked to define it, shout~ ed out, More salt.” Catching drift-wood and singing * Nearer my God to thee ” doesn’t seem to be just the thing on Sunday, but that's what an unregenerated youth did "in Augusta the other day, according 1o the Kennebee Journal. His song should have been “I wood not live alway.” TIn the presence of danger there, i3 nothing so necessary or so admirable as perfect self-pos- session. ~ * Never mind, dear; the Bible says it is our duty to mortify the flesh,” remarked a loving wife to her husband., who was jerking himself around in an agonizing effort 10 get & fish-bone out of his throat. A movement has been started in St. Lonis having for its object the importation to this country of the 1,200 wives of the latc Sultan of Turkey. None but pious young men will be allowed fo take part in the enterprise. The women, if they can be brought to St. Louis, will be at once Christianized. . - New. York Commercial: “Mr. Moody was never known,” says an exchange, ‘to give wa foreven a moment to anger or impatience.” Then it’s probable he never had occasion to take ashort cut across the fields on a warm morning to catch o railroad traln, and find when he got to the further end that the frugal farmer put up a high board fence and stationed a blear- eyed bull-dog there as sole occupant. Sadie R., a little 8-year-old child, was at church the first time about two months stoce on an Easter oceasion in the Church of the Good Shepherd. She sat very still and saw the pro- cession of children march into the church with flowers in their hands, and_all singing, *On- ward, Christian Soldier.” Yesterday -this little Miss made her second visit to charch, and this iime to the Presbyterian, where she entered at the head of the family and marched down the aislc, loudly singing, Onward, Christian Sol- dler,” to the astonishment of the congregation and the utter demoralization of her parents. MISCELLANEOUS. - THE CRURCH IN GENERAL. ‘The Colored Mecthodists will observe Aug. 4, and the Southern Methodists Aug. 3, as a day of fasting and prayer. The Methodist Missionary Soclety of Canada has lately reccived two gifts, the annual income of which amounts to £3,500. A Christian newspaper, the first in Japan, hug been issued at Kobe. Itis printed in Kana characters, which all the people can read. Dr. Cuyler’s Church in Brooklyn last Sunda celebrated a jubilee, It had been cumbered wit! a debt of about $9,000. Subscriptions were taken with a view to wiping this out, and the result wnsoovcr $10,000. Dr. Cuyler himsclf subscribed ‘The class which has just been uated from the - Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., contained seventeen members, and is the largest that was ever graduated there. ‘Eighteen free churches and chapels have been eam%lished by Protestant Episcopalians in Balti- more within six years, with a seating capacity of 6,000, and having connected with them about 2,000 Communicantsy and about_2,500 Sunday- school children. o3 The Methodist camp-meeting at- Martha's Vineyard opens Monday, Aug. 21, to continue week. Moody and Sankey will probably attend. Great imprg\'esl‘!‘!%hz‘lvui\'c Il))ccn made ?;ithe camp ground, ng been expended on Hhe Eonstruction of concrete sidewalks alone. ‘The Universalist Church inNew Orleansis cov- ered with mortgages two or threedecp, amount- ing in the aggregate to $20,500. The pastor, Rev. W. Spaunlding, is now in the East soliciting present aid t0 the amount of §5,000, and an ar- Piogement with the Charch Board for the pay- ment of the annual interest on the balance for a few years, amounting to $1,040. With these aids, the prospect is_that the congregation will work out of its embarrassment, and thus save their place of worship. An Tnternational Sunday-school Parliament at the Thousand Isles Camp-Ground, on Welles- ley Island, St. Lawrence River, ncar Lake Ontario, Jefferson County, New York, from Tuesday, July 18, to Wedaesdsy, July 26 (in- clusive), is to be one of the events of this Centenial year. Wellesiey ' Island, being a delightful sanitarium and_simmer resort, will, this year, combine instruction with recreation. Methods of Bible reading and study will be the most prominent subject, two whole days bcing iven to it, in addition fo o Bible reading ea] Bov.” There will also be a “Teachers' day,” a day on * The Best Sunday-school Machinery,” 2 day of % Hard Questions,” a day on “ Child- ho«{" a day on “Spiftual Work,” etc. speakers rom Canada and the States have been en- .0 addresses i nnd‘ fi{nbsmute m])rk. © T camp-mecting at the same place cnmmeegr;:l:sr on tg‘e 16th of August, and con- tinues for two weeks, at which a large number of distinguished pulpit orators of the country will be present and take part fn the excreises. Among the speakers engaged for the August meeting are the Rev. J. P. Newman, D. D., of Washington, D. C.; the Rev. R. 8. Rust, D. D., Cincinnati, O.; the Rev. Jemes Elliott, dent of the Montreal Conference of the Meth- odist Church of Canada; the Rev. W. H. Pool, of Toronto, Ont., etc.;-also the Tennessce Singers, the popular colored band of charmin; Christian singers from Nashville, Tenn., be present. BISHOP QUINTARD IN ENGLAND. At the Protestant Episcopal Convention of the Diocese of Tennessece at Sewance, in that -State, a few days ago, a letter was read from Bishop Quintard, of Tennessce, who, it had been falsely reported, met with a somewhat un- Xind reception from’ his Protestant Episcopal brethren in England, where hehas been travel- ing. Inthe cotrse of his letter Bichop Quin- tard says: My roception in England by the ost Rev- erend the Archbishope, and the Right Reverend the Bishops, the clergy, and laity, has been all you conld bave asked for me. I have on two occasions administered the Apostolic rite of confirmation for the Lord Bishop of London. 1have on two occa- sions held confirmations at the request of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. I have assisted his Grace the Archbishop of York at & confirmation of more than 500 candidates grnenled in one class. By invitation of the Archbishop of Cantecbury T participated in the openiag services of the Convo- cation of Canterbury, snd I have the sinzular distinction of being the first Bishop of the Church nmot o member of Convocatfon ever sdmitted to that scrvice. It was held in the Chapel of Henry VIL, in Westminster ey, Nt was o vory great pleasure to me lo as- sist at the openingservice of aeble College, Oxford. Was present eight years 8o, at the laying of the foundation stone of the College, and alrend; College s a groat succesn ud Bos akens mable position In_the Univeraity. ' On Monday, the 1n of May, T was present and ansisted at the canseed: tion of the Rev. Dr. Myene, the newly-n Pishop of Bombny. The rervices were heg at St Panl's Cathedral.” His Grace the ArchbHl Cantenbury was Consecrator, assisted by che 2! ops of London, Oxford. Lincoln, Litchiel4, ar- ritzburg (Africa), and Tennessce. It wapd striking evidence of the growth and extension o the ABgli- can Communion to have the Bishopa « the English Church in Europe, Africa, and ArcFicaunite in the consecration of a Bishop for 212 MOODY AND SA¥:EYT: If_you desire the. service. of Messrs. Moody and Sankey tbis fall, you =ust invite them! 1 Eflu do so, two thins® arenecessary—a plm for the mecting, and + cordial and hearty co- operation in the wor} l’,’l'l-fls is a notice s general meeting to be held in Farwell Hall, Monday, June 19, at 2 p. m., to consider a:d decide the above questions. 7t the meeting Is large and earnest, giving the e elists uptoubted evidence of support and assistance, tb:y will come. We belieys you wish this movement to suc- ceed. Webeg, therefore, that you attend this meeting, aad bring friends with you. _ There siould be not less than 3,000 persons resent! 3 E. W. BLATCIFORD, H. J. WILLING, S0LOMON THATCHER, CIIURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Dr. §. S. Harris will officiateat St. James' Church, corner of Cassand Huron streets, morning and eveping. —The regulur service will be held at the Charch of Our Savior, corner of Belden and Lincoln avenues. —The Rev. H. G. Perrywill officiate at All Soints', corner of Carpenter and Ohio streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. B, A. Rogers will officiatoat the Charch of the Epiphany, morinz and evening. —The Rev. Georzge L. Todd wifl_officiate at St. Stephen's Church, Johnson street, morning and evening. < —The Rev. G. W. Morrill will officiate in the Church of the Holy Communion, on South Dear- Born street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth. Service in (he morning. —The Rev. Dr. Locke will oficiate at Gracs Church morning and evening. —The Rt.-Rev. Thomas Augustus Jaggar, D.D., Bishop of ihe Diocese of Southern Ohfo, will offi- ciate at Trinity Church in_the morning, and the Ttev. Dr. Sullivan in the evening. —The Rev. S. J. French will officiate at Calvary Charch, on Warren avenue, between Onkley street and Western avenue, morning and evening. Holy Communion at § a. m. —The Rev. D. F. Warren, Rector, will officiate at St. Mark's Church, on Cottaze Grove avenue, corner Thirty-sixth street. in the morning. Sub- ject: **The Venite.” The Rt. Rev. Bishop Jog- £ar, of Oio, will uilclate in the evening. —At the. Church of the Ascension: Holy Com- munion at7:30 4. m., morning prayer at 10343, and evening prayerat B. REFORMED EFISCOPAL. The Rev. R.H. Bosworth will preach at Em- ‘manuel Church, corner of Twenty-eighth and Han- over strects, morning and evening, and ut Engle- wood in the afternoon. —The Rt. Rev. Bishop Cheney will Qhriat Church. ~ Evening subject: ** g —The Rev. Dr. Fallows will preach at St. Paal's Charch, morning and evening. Moming subject: “*The Children of this Worldand the Children of Light.” Evening subject: **The Other Disciple Whom Jesus Loved.” % Committee. reach at vation by M [ODIST. The Rev. S. A. W. Jewett will preach at the First Church thixinorning: || God's Kequirements iy Reasonable, Just, and Ki —The Rev. C. G. Truesdell will preach in the morningat the Grant Place Church, and the Rev. . Glendenning in the evening. The Rev. N. II. Axtell, pastor, will preach in the Park Avenue Charch, corner of Robey street. oming subject: **The Holy Sabbatn.™ Evening subject? **The Unholy Sunday. ™ —The Rev. Dr. David Lord will preach in Grace Church, corner of North LaSalle and White streets, morning and eveninz, —The Rev. Dr. Tiifany, pastor, will preach in Trinity Church, corner_ of Indlans avenue and Tweniy-fourth street. Morning subject: ** Joel's Prophecy Concerning the Last Days.” Evening subject: **A Great Gulf Fixed.” he Rev. W. C. Willing, pastor, will preach In th Langley Avenne Church morning and even- ng. Z'The Rev. S. H. Adame, pastor, will preach in the Centenary Church, on Monroe street, mear Morgan. Morning: A Funeral Sermon in Memory of John Hayman, who died June 10. Evening subject: **1s There a Probation After Death?’ —The Rev. R. S. Cantine will preach in the Ful- ton Strect Church morning and evening, —The Rev. R. D. Sheppard will preach in the Western Avenac Church, corner of Monroe atreet, morning and cvening. 'Subject in the evening: ** Nomfnating a Ruler." PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Dr. Webb, of Boston, will preach at the Fourth Church morning and cvening. —The Rev. Dr. Elliott will preach at the Scotch Church, corner of Adams and Sangamon sireets, in the morning, and the Rev. Joseph D. Cowsa in the evening. —The Rev. J. Manro Gibson, in the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street, 'morning and cvening. The First Church will join in the evening service. —The Rev. Samuel W. Dufficsl pastor, will preach in the Eighth Charch, comer of Washing. ton and Robey sircets. Morning subject: **Prodt and Loss.” Evening subject: ** Straight Patha. ™ —The Rev. Donald Fletcher will preach at the State Street Tabernacle this cvening. —The Rev, C. L. Thompeon will lecture at the Fifth Church this cvening, corner of Thirtieth streetand Indiana avenume. Subject: *‘The evil.” - BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will Communion Church, corner of ., morning and evening. je Christianity and Free Masonry.” “—3aj. D. W. Whittle will conduct the services in the morning at the FirstChurch, corner of Sauth Park avenue and Thirty-first street, Baptismat the close of the services. Prof. W.W.Everts, Jr., will preach in the cvening. ator, will preach rrenéh at the Open Loomis and Jack- Morning sub- shonld be addressed **Chess,”™ e 1St Juliana Falcontert, V. ; SS. Gervase and Protase, Jup: 20—0OF the Octave: St. Siivering, P. X. C. cne 21—St. Aloysins Gonzags, Christ{; St. Paulinus, lune 22—Octave ‘of Corpus B. C. 0, 0¢ | June 23—Sacced Heart of Jesus; Vigil of St John ah- Baptist. June 24—Nativity of St. John Baptist. THE GAME OF CHESS Caicago Crunss Cruva.—Nos. 63 and 65 Wash- ington street: open from 9 m. to 10 p. m. Chesa players mect daily at the Tremont Housa (Exchange) and the Sherman House (Basement). All communications intended for this department to Tux TRIBUXE, and indorsed TO CORRESPONDENTS. ¢'J. 8., “E. B.," and **E. R. B."—Declined. Correct solutions to Problem No. 29 received from W. H. Ovington, C. Dreler, H. Powell, L, Hosselroth, F. A. Bergman, G. S. Poppers, ¥. P. Fisher, M. Van Es, Dexter, I S. H., E. R. B., snd E. 8. W., city; C. Q.. .5 mdE S 73 C. G.. Columbus, O.; Kt., Salem, Tnd. ; 5. 'B. Bellows, Dakota, Ia. G. E. P., Walcott, Ja.; E. C. M., PROBLEM NO, 31. ¢ br mm. . % mmows. : Black. v R Z 2z —The Rev. George W. Gardner, D. D., of Bos- ton, will preach in the University Place Church, on Doriglas place, opposite Rhodes avenue, morning and évening. £ —The Rev. Galasha Anderson, pastor, will preach in the Sccond Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. W. Custis, pastor, will preach in the Michigan Avenne Clurch, near Twenty-third strect, morning and evening. —The Rev. D. B. Cheney,{nmr. will preach in the Fonrth Charch, corner of Washington and Pauli- Do streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. R. De Baptist will preach In the Olivet Church, on Sounth Dearborn strect, between Polk and Taylor, morning and evening. —The Rer. J. D. Burr, pastor, will preach in Im- manuel Charch, No, 532 North Halsted street, in the morning. i —The Rev. J. AL Whitehead, pastor, will preach in the North Star Church, corner of Division and -Sedgwick streets, morning and evening. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. William Alvin Bartlett will preach at Plymonth Church morning and evening. —The Rev. E. N. Packard, of Evanston, will reach in the New England Church, corner of North Y)n-r‘bom street. and “Delevan Place, morning and evening. —The Rev. David N. Vanderveer, pastor, will pum;h in the Union Park Church morning and evening. The Rev. George H. Peeke will preach In the Leavitt Street Church morning and evening. —The Rev. G. S. Holbrook "will preach in the Oskland Church morning and evening. UNITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach in Church of the Messiah. Morning subject: * Still and Enow that I Am God.™ —Floral Sunday will be observed in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin streets, Ser- mon ’by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Powell, in the morning. —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach in Unity Church in the morning. No evening service. —The Res. J.T. Sunderland, pastor, will preach in the morningz. Subject: ** Every Man'sWorld the Reflection of Himself." UNITERSALIST. Flower Sunday and the baptism of children will ‘be observed this morning in the Church of the Re- deemer, corner Washington and Sangamon streets. —The Rev._Dr. Ryder will preach in St. Paal's Charch, on Michigan avenne, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets, morning and evening. b service in the evening. sper services will be held at St. Paol's First Dniverealist Charch, Dr. Ryder, pastor, this even- ing. Mr. William I Catler, “organist of the church, will have the assistance of H. Clarence Eddy, who will play for the offertoire the **Chriat- mzs Pastoral,” by Merkel. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfonr will ‘English Lutheran Church, corner of Erfi streets, morning and evening. CHRISTIAN, The Christians will mect for worshipin the Chapel, No. 318 West Chicago avenue, corner of Chaso street, at 3 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. C. G. Trusdell will preach at the chapel of the Washingtonian Home this afternoon at 3 o'clock.. —Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan will speak before the Spiritual Lecture Association, corner of Green and ‘aahington atreets, morning and ev:nin{;. —>Mrs. Stephens, of California, will lecture at Grow'a Opera-Hall this evening, befors the Flrst Society 0 Spiritualists —Elder H. G. McCulloch will preach to the Ad- ventists at No. 91 South Green street, morning and evening. —The Disciples of Christ will meet at No. 229 ‘West Randolph street, at 4 p. m. = —The Progressive Lyceum meets In Grow's Hall, No. 517 West Madison street, this afternoon at 12:30 o'clock.. & —Misa Christie, of Wheaton College. will speak at the Gospel Temperance service at 4:15 p. m.,in the Methodist Church Block, corner of Washington and Clark streets. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. June 18—First Sunday after Trinity. Tiiné 24_Nativity of St Jotm the Haptist CATHO! ATHOLIC. Junem—sumdx‘l within the Octave of Corpus Chris the ‘Be reach st the earborn and e W W o White to pla; ':::e in thres moves. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 20, White. 1.Ktto [ NOTES. Mesars. Mason and Bird, haviog tied for the third prize in the New York Tournament, have decided on dividing. . Mr. Neill still leads in the Philadelphia Tourna- ment, though the scores are not given. The Infel- ligencer states that the tournament would termi- nate June 15. The problem published this week is one of Mr. Brown's early compositions. It took the first prize in a problem tourney in Frank Leslia's Ilustrated Neirspaper, in 1859, The Philadelphia Committee have proposed to the New York players a compromise on 15 moves per hour, and those desiring to enter the tonrna- ment to deposit $5 by Jaly 15. Westminster Papers for June is one of the most interesting numbers of this sterling English chess periodical. It contains an excellent selection of Interesting games, problems, reviews, cheaa intel- ligence, etc. The yearly subscription fs only six shilligs. Address W. Kent & Co., Paternoster Row, London, Eng. ‘The match for 81,000 between Messrs. Jamew Mason-and Max Judd has finally been arranged to begin Tuesday, June 27, at the St. Louls Chesa Club. Both players have depoaited $100 forfeit at the Turf, Field and Farm office. The terms of the matchare: The one who first wins seven games takes the stakes; draws not to count; tima limit, 15 moves per hour. CHESS IN NEW YORK. The following game was played in the New York Tournament: i SCOTCH GAMBIT. White—Mx. MACKENZIX. Dlflg—l)l- ‘Dam‘n'. 1.PtoK4 2K KttoB3 KttoB3 3. P04 es P 4. 5t takes P B4 5IB1OK3 B3 8.PoQBs HitoK3 7.BloGDB4 % 8,.Castles 3 9. PraKB4- - 3 - x 10..BtoK2 Esx 1w QKts 3 toE1s 14 Ktto Q4 ) K to Ruq Q4 R, Rions 0 1t #q o KoKB2 B takes B¢ P takes B Q takes P QL4 nakes QP 2 tto B aq takes a1 Hiakesg w0Es Z2 R takes ¥ ‘Biakes P Z3.[P takes I8 23. R takes B 24..PtoRkt 3 24. to QEtB 10Q7 25. R takes P Rioh3 28. to i T: takes Rt 27.'K takes, 1t takes B 2 Rto Kt 7 (8) Riisks E2 0 Biion7on RERRE l{lo?.’l 32..PloQKt4 PtoBs - 3 KttoK 4 RtoK3 H-Ki1093 0 35..Rt0QBS 35. toRhtS 36.KttoKeSch BIKWQ4 37.KWE3 i Mr. Mackenzie Featgns: (a) Well played. White's situation Is now hopes ess. b) Black has a winning position in any even bat this excellent Elny Py the game L nr'; few moves. Mr. Bamctt fairly outplaya his re- nowned antagonist thronzhout. CHESS IN ENGLAND. Played in the late tournament at the Divam, London, and taken from WWestminster Papers. ZXGLISH OrENING. White—Mn. POTTEE. | Black—Mx. TP 10Q D4 1 lx;w'qx‘;':mm"” 2 PR3 KKti0B3 Bto .Castles PloQELs Btoht2 PioQ4 fi‘lzonfla = Ktto Kt 5(b) Ttaken B P Kt to 1t 4 (c) 0K 5 B takes Kb PtoB3 Ribrn 0 R sq R iogsam SR P takes. PloR3I 4. Bwfis anl} R to Resq Kt 10 Q2 BloKt3 PioKia PoK4 . PloBS. BtoB2 toKt3 ProKt4 (1) 1010 Qaq KttoR4 toEK4$ iy BEh Riok s KttoB3 © Ktto B3 RtoQ32 GRIEBR Biogs Kitoas R K200 Kt takes Kt () RtoKt7 Kt taices P K takes @ B takes B o QEtsq RtoQRisq it takes B () ¢ takos wQs RtoKis | takes B R takes B (n) wgs it takes 12 P (0) Wwh3, Blok4 wWE4s B 10 Ki S ) 10 Ktsq 2to Kt 6 B3 KioB6 0Qsq . - : takes B P (O o Rtaq oK R4 R takes P oI w3 B8 toKiBch toK2 toRt2 wg7en toRR3 toK8 w0 KE3 WwE7eh W1 takes Pon wk32 ‘GroB7ch 50, Mr. Potter resigus. HOTES BY NR. ZUKERTORT. (®) The carly adrance of this Pawn is not adis- able, as It must canse great weakness In the centre. (b) Mr. Potter has well developed his game, and" he_ proceeds now judicionsly to ssaail the weak point in Black's game, its K P. B (lc)nvghlu could win here at least a Pawn by 13.. B a. £ (d) Mr. Potter failed to make the most of his game at the 13th move, and Rere he offers an ex- change which s much in his adversary's favor. 15..Kt to @ 2, I think, was the proper move, Should Black proceed with 15..P 1o Q 3, Whita replies, with advantage, 16. B 10K B 3. {e) Mr. Macdonnelf seizes the proflered oppor- tanity, and his play is, from this polnt to the end, AT I8 b takes P, Black would v, es ‘woul reply wil 1864 ke P * oy, it ) LiniLto see the pu ( e of this move. [ 22 EttoEtswasbetter. ) An advance of ves nestionable merit. White conld obiata some miventass oy 50. Kt (o Kt 5; should Black then captare the Knight with the Pawn, White rejoins with P takes P, and must win back the sacrificed piece. (k) A powerfal coup. 37..P takes Kt, 38..K P takes P, wonld be in favor of White. (1) This captare involves the following sacrifica of the Quecn, but White has no better conrse. (m) 41..Q to Kt 8q acems vetter. (n) 44K takea B waa preferable, a3 it ensbles ‘White to bring his Knight Into action. (0) 45..B to R 4 offercd a better chance. (p) 47..Rt0 R 7 ch or 47..1 to R 8 conld not change the result, if opposed by the best play, but it would be much more difiicult for Black (0 win than after the move actually made by White. (q) White has no means o prevent the fatal ea- ry of the adverse Queen.