Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1876, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JUNE 25 , 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. - RELIGIOUS. A Lay Sermon for Sunday- Morning Reading. The King Who Made a Marriage for His Son. Progress of the Roman Cath- olic Church in America, What Eabbakuk Meant by His Remarks About Treating. Notes and Personals at Tome and Abroad---Church Services To-Day. TIIE WEDDING. A LAY SERMON FOR THIS DAY'S HOME READING. The Kinpdom of Heaven is like tnto a certain Finz, which made & marriage for his son.—Matt., il 2 Tt isa difficult for mortals, who measure and anderstand everything by the material sub- gtances and facts about them, and the realitics of th ¢, to comprehead spiritual conditions and facts that pertain to another life. We have come conceptions of the life of beings in the - plenets, when we find that they exist under con- ditions and laws similar to our own, with light, audatmosphere, and recurring seasons, to sus- 1sin the vital functions; inferring that like our- selvee they have eyesto see, ears to hear, and Jargs to Lreathe with, and blood circulating through their systems, aud minds todirect their material organizations. But if we knew a planet to be inhabited which had mnot light, . and warmth, and air, the manner of the existence of the inhabitants would be incomprehensible to us. But we have the highest of all author- jtr and the best of all evidence that there is another and a higher state of ex- istenco in which we have an interest than the pataral one in whichwenow are, and that thercis amoral responsibility boundup withit; and that evidenceisthe word of God. Aswe could not have comprehended this matter if told us inlanguage purely celestial. and illustrations énly spiritual, terms adapted to our experience are used; and by sucl we are told that this outside world, that compasscs all other worlds, is the Kingdom of Heaven. Into that kingdom we are invited to enter, when we shall leave this world. Flesh and blood cannot inherit immortality, which God has bestowed upon this kingdom. “But a door, las been opened and a way lias been prepared. Curist said, “ X sm the Door, * Iam the Way," This * Kingdom of Heaven is referred to in the text. Itis made the subject of a parable, an fmpressive form in which Christ was aceus tomed to teach and fllustrate divive_and spiri ual truths. “Itis like a certain King which made a murriage for his son,” says the text. The Kingdom of Heaven is, then, like a wed- dipg. The invitation to enicr it, to possess it now, and inherit it, and cnter into it when we ghall leave this world, is like an invitation to at- tend a wedding. The possession of it may also be compared to the marriage state. The com- parison is susceptible of many phases. Christ, whois the way of entrance, lias styled Himsel the bridegroom. The Clurch, which is the earthly symbol of the Kingdom, is called Chrigt’s bride. The figure, of the acceptance of the life of immortality in blessed- ness, which Christ came into the world to offer to man, and to make accessible to humanity, is made a us one, one in which human beings t aud prepare for, as the acme of human clight and happiness. To be married is the consummation of all youthfal hopes and expec- tations. The wedding is the culminating point of the anticipations of hfe. To it youth looks forward with joyous expectation; and age turns back to behold with eatisfaction, in the survey of the journey of a life, as it approaches a pros- perous end, the fulfillinent in it of the great purpose of his temporal existence. It is important to note the style in which Christ made His mission known, and laid it before hu- manity. In the old dispensation commands were tiven. The Lord thy God bath said it. The Lord commands. But Christ invites. Men are not commanded to cnter into this Kingdom. They are not carricd like slaves, as the negroes were taken from Africa to America; but the in- ducements of a better country are offered to in- fluence voluntary immigration. Therefore the brase of the communication is not often in the orm of an order to go. But the form fs, “Come—come unto Me.” People are solicited ; they are invited into the Kingdum; they are in- vitedto submit. And thus it is said to the - weary and overburdened: * Come unto Me and Iwill give you rest; cast your burdens upon Me and "I will bear ‘them for you.” Ard also the wandcrer is invited to return; the bungry to come and take bread, the thirsty to tome and take the water of life, both to drink water and cat bread, of which, if they cat and drink, they shall never hunger and thirst more. 1 they aré in @arkness, they are Invited to come to Christ for light; and, being dead evenm, are lnvited to come to Him forlifc. Suchis the nature of _the relation_between Jesus, the Bavior, and humanity. He never asks any to come for anythitg that is not 8 blessing to them. He never acks them to do anything that merely gratifies Him_or contributes to His pesonal pleasures. How very different from all the invitations we get from”our fellow-men nd from all carthly potentates! All these to which we are invited arethe most rcciousthlnim oflife. If they were not offercd to us freely withoat price, we should all struggle hard to ob- tain them by our own cfforts. And here'in the present instance, and in the form of the text, we are all freely invited to the most pleasant of all enjoyments.” The Ringdom of Heaven, it is said, is like unto a certain King, which made a marriage for his son. The son is to be married. The wedding and coming unto wedding 45 like the Kingdom o Heaven, and like entering intoit. In'that parable Jesus is made the King's son. The place dtbe Jews, in the heavenly dispensation, is briefiv alluded to, as if they were the zucsts :g:d:dly invited. But they made light ol it, as y did of the labors of Jesus among them. Theén the invitation is spread broadcast to the world. All that worl@ are invited to come in, bowever low their condition. There was no dis- tinction in socicty at that marriage of the King's oo Buch a marriage in_the world is always a great state occasion, and a few only, and of g_“'Per social standing with royalty, are invited. o donbt if such a marrizge were offered now i0 any royal country, the rabble would Tsh to e the interesting cercmony per- formed. The invitation to a wedding is asimple matter ofgrace. Nomanis under any obligation to fnvite 2 single person to see his Son married. It £ considered 2 favor and a complimeut to be in- Yited. And when invited every one will esteem La privilege and pleasure to be present. As ¢ world gos, everybody delights to attend a ¥edding. “And all ‘bring with them cheerful Suntenances and happy hearts. ‘It is a dis- Tespect to the occasion. and to all on whose fa%or the invitation is accepted, to bring to the Yedding any of the sorrows of life. If ¥ jave them, Jleave them _ behind, e you come into the presence of ‘the bride- froom und the bride. To'treat lightly such an Titation, is the highest indignity. We could banily expect to reinain {riends with a family ter scorning an invitation to a wedding. There- Toie it §s witl sincere regrets, expressed in form note or otherwise, when we are not able to at- end an fnvitation to a wedding in the housc of Surncichbor. So this picture icaches us, Whea Tebehold in it that the King of Heaven has ex- {eaded to us an invitation to His Son's wedding, Fhat light we stand to that invitation. In the first, place, He was under no obligation to in- Ve us.it was a pure matter of grace; ¥ confer mo lavor -on the King ‘n*;_aflmen by accepting it. It isall for our grati- ition and happiness that He has extended to Usthat great favor. VWhat shall wesay, then, ourselves if we rejeet it, treat it lightly, or ISy no hled to it, but forget it! Shall we te Pfeccxy. if we forget it? Dare we commit such o hfl;&tity 8s to refuse when invited to attend the weddiug of the King’s son 3 The juvitation is extended to all. But it is {;fih that the King should prescribe some con- jch the invitation should be ac- is required by his own dig- Respect also to the £uch as the rule requires. _One would not surc- 3 llcflrc to speak to the President or go hefore Hie Queen, 25 we come into the preseice of our butclicr or grocer. We all recognize a sense of F;Oprmly in such matters. But the King of f‘l‘;‘m las made regulation, in accordance With the usages of society, that in coming to this wedding = we shall mln.x“e in proper dress. Thers Is a garment ;r i:ch custom has sanctioned, which is required by :\l! who come to the marriage,—and this Is the wedding garment. It is required out of deference to the King and His son, and also out. of respect to other guests; and .&!’m King comn- mands, while the invitation is free, that the court-dress of the occasion—the wedding gar. wnent—shall be worn. The doors arc open,—all may come in as they plesse, with their own peculiarities, but the wedding garment they must have or. It s not needed to cover up rogs, neither can it be ex- clllldcd for the purpose of cxhibiting the the finest of silk or broadcloth in the fether garment. Respectability as well as poverty and Rv.gs, must be covered urp in the presence of the 'nrfiaz the wedding. Tt is only the Earments which His regulation has assumed that will be tolerated on “the person of the guests. So we are told in the parable a man came in there (clothed in his own garb of fitness) who had ot on a wedding garment; be might have had on a most splendid gown of silk, but that did ::s: fi."."t'[,’é’p with {'h:‘ requircmulma: as he had rescribed garment he wi :h_i*_ garknsss ol; night. sy ¢ reader of this sermon is earnestly enjoin- ed to congider this wedding invitation ;y trc"m. it as an fuvitation from any triend hie would treat with proper respect, and provide the requisite wedding garment furnished by the King's Son; imrs? , to be clothed in the righteousness of Y. M. C. A, . AN OPCN LETTER TO J. V. FARWELL. . V. Furwcell, Feq., Preside e ' Christiun Associgtions % e Temng Ve Dear Sm: Having received the circnlar of Mr. Vanarsdale, Sceretary of the Y. M. C. A, requesting the remittance of my subscription to the Association, I desire, before rencwing my membership, to ask you a8 Presfdent, und the most representative man of the Associatton, a few questions, not only for my own informa- tion, but for the general public, to which fre- quent appeals are made; which I trust you will answer. through the same medium, by which I send this open letter. 1. What are the conditions upon which one may become an active member, and enjoy all the rights of voting, aud of freedom of speech at the relizious and business meetings? 2. If it be necessary to subscribe to a creed, what is.the creed s 3. If a person’ subscribe to the creed and be- come a member, can be, according to your rules, De deprived of the rizht of frec specch, because heloves and fellowships those Christians who cannot conscientiously accept the creed? 4. Does the Association refuse full member- ship to those who lead a devout, Christian life and adopt the law of love taught by Christ ou the ground of dogmatic belief? 5. Is the, propagandism of any system of theglogy within the scope and desicn of the Y. M. C. Association? 1f so, what system} 6. Is membership in any particular Christian churches indispensable to membership in the Assouiation? “If so, what denominations are privileged and what debarred? 7. And as you are intimately acquainted with Mr. Moody, whose efforts are laj mfiymmmu to the building up of Young Men's Christian Asso- ciations, permit_me to sk whether you under- stand that Mr. Moody desires that pions young men who are endeavoring to lead unblameable Christian lives should be exeluded from the full privileges of membership in the Y. M. C. A. be- cause they do not accept any particular see- tarian statement of doctrine? . Thesc questions are not propounded in any captious 6pirit, but fer the jurpose of having the public, to which You make frequent appeals, clearly understand ihether the Association at Farwell Hall represents comprehensive, practical religion and moray'y, or is only snotler phase of seclarianism. A MEMBER oF THE Y. M. C. A, CATHOLICISM. TS PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES IN NINETY- TWO YEARS. The Catholic World draws the following con- trasted picture of the Catholic Church in the United States in 1784 and in 1876, which is well worthy perusal: 1874 At the close of the war which eecnred our na- tional independence and created the republic, the Cathoiic Church found herseif, for all practical purposce, unfettered and free 10 enter upon a ficld which to her, we may sy, was nor. there were in the whole country not more than 40,000 Catholics and twenty-five pricsts. In all the Iand there was not a convent or a relizious commaunity. There was not a Catholic- schiool; there was no Bishop; the sacraments of confirma- tion and of Holy wrders had never been admin- istered. The Church was without organization, having for eeveral years had no intercourse with its immiediate head, the Vicar-Apostolic of London; it was twithout properiy, with the exception of some Jand n Maryland, which, through a variety of contrivances, had been saved from tno rapaclty of thecglonial persecuiors; and, surrounded by a bigoted Protestsut popula- tion, ignorant of all the Catbolic glories of the past, it was also withont houor. But faith and bope, which with lberty ought to make all thinus possible, had not fled, and soon the budding prom- 1sc of the future harvest lifted its timid head be- neath the genial sun of & brighter heaven. The priests of Muryland and Pennsylvaria addreseced u Ietter to Pius V1., praying him to appoint a Pre- fect-apostolic to preside over the Unurch in the United States; and as the Holy Sec wasslready de- liberating upon a step of this Kind, Father Carroll was made saperior of the American clergy, with power to administer the Sacrament of confrma- ton. This was in 1784, - ‘T'he priests, who at this time, for fear of wonnd- ing Protestant susceptibilitics, thought it inexpedi- ent to ask for a Lishop, were now, after longef de- liberation, persuaded thatin this they had erred, and they therefore named 3 committee to present a petition to Rome, praying for the erection of an Episcopal Secin the United States. The Holy Father having signided his willingness to accede to this proposition, and it baving been ascertained, too, that the Government of this country would make no objection, they at once fixed npon Balti- 1more as the most suitable location for the new-See, and preeented the nume of Father Carroll as the 1n0st worthy to be_its first occupant. The Papal ‘bulls were dated Nov. 6, 1759, and npon their re- ception Father Carroll ailed for England, where e was consecrated on the 15th of August, the Feast of the Assumption, 1790. 1876. The 15th_of next Aungust eighty-six years will Lave passed aince the consccration of Bishop Car- roll, and to this period the orzanized cfforts of the Church to #ecure a position in this country are con- fined. The work then besun has not for 2 moment ‘been intermitted. 1n the mdst of losses, defeats, per=ecutions, anxieties, doubts, revilings, calum. Tiiex, the atraggle has still boen carrfedon. . . . With the morc thorough oriunization of diocescs and congregations, parochial schools became prac- ticable, and the great progress made in Catnolic clementary education is one of the most significant and reassuring focta connected with the his- tory of the Church in the United States. The number of ‘pupile in our parochial schools was, in 1874, 380,000, and io-day it is probably not much short of half amillion, which, however, 1s_even less than half of the Catholic «chool population of the entire country. But the work of building &chools is still progressing, and the conviction of the indispensable necessity of religious aducation is growing with both pricsts 2nd people; so that we may confidently hope that the time is not very remote when in tais country Catholic children will be bronght up only in Catholic schoals. By establishing protectorics, industrial &chuols,and asylums we arc growing year after year better able to provide for our orphan‘children. The want of prieste, which has hitherto been one of the chicf obstacles to the progress of the Church, is now telt only In exceptional cages or in new or thiny-eettlcd dioceses. A hundred years azo there werc not more than 25 pricsts 1n the United Statcs; %5 required that all should come in per manner and in & befittiog costume. %"J.Yflty xuut th!i:arl%,e especiall; c‘:in l:t;fig !?:;_ s, requires that it be approac] Lommallyy, ind in aross bebtting tho cocaslon, in 1800 there were siupposed to be 40; in 1830 the e nd rleon t0200: and in 1648 (0 890. In ien years, from 1862 to 1672, the number of priests was more than doubled, having grown from 2,317 to 4,809, The lack of vocations tothie pricsthood among native Americans was formerly a subject of anxiety and also of frequent discussion among Catholics in thir country: but now it is generally admitted, we think, that if proper care is-laken in the education and training of our youthe, a sutliclent number of them will be found willing to devote themselves to he holy ministry. s P Na here were, according to_the official sta- tistics of the various dioceses, 5,074 pricsts, 1,273 ccclesinstical students, and’ 6,528 churches and chupels in the United States. T'licre were also at the same time 33 theological scminaries, 63 col- leges, 557 academies and eelect cnools, 1,645 parochial chools, 214 asylume, and 96 hosptals under the authority and control of the &atholic ierarchy of this country. D6 fundred years ago ihere was not a Catholic ecclesiasticalatudent, or theological semfnary, or college, or academy, or parochial echool, or ssylnm, or hospital from Maine to Georgia. “ather Badin, the first person who ever received Foly Orders in the United States, was ordained in the old Cathedral of Baltimore on the 25th of May, 1793, just eighty-three years sgo. It is now elghty-ix years since Bishop Carroll was conse- crated, and down to 1808 he remained the only Catholic Bishop in the American Church, whose Bierarchy is composed at present of one Cardinal, ten Archbishops, forty-six Bishops, and eight Vicars-Apostolic. there wasnot 8 convent in the Umited s'}n;lcls?g& 3800 there were but two; to-day there are more than 330 for women, and there are prob- B r men. oy elndaon;ohe permitted to refer aleo to the increase of the wealth of the Church in this country, es pectally siuce this seems to_be the canse of great uneasiness to the faithful and unselfish representa- tives of the sovereign people. The value of the property owned by the Church in this conotry, as @ven in the census reports, was, in 1850, £9, 256, - 738; in 1860, §$20,774,119; and in 1870, $60,985, - E65, The ratio of increase fzom 1850 10 1860 was At that time | 182 per cent, anc from 1560 to 1870 128 per cent; while the ax regate wi azerezate weath of fhe whole country during thes. same periods increased in the Tormer cecade on cr cent, and in the latier only 86 Pereent. In 1930 the valge of the Church pron- grly of the Baptists. theEpiscopatians, the Jieth- 0dists, and the Presbyterians was greatcr than that Of the Catholics, but in 1870 we had taken the scc- ;’h“ rank in point of wealth, and to-day we think ere Is o doubt but that we hold the first. EXPOUNDING SCRIPTURE. TABARKGK AND THE BOTTLE. Talbot W. Caamoers, D. D., in the Intepsndent. A fallacious argument not only fails to help, but actually injures the cause for which it Is ad- duced; for it creates a presumption that the other arguments with which {t is associated are of the same character. A simlar remark is true in regard to misapplied Scripture. Men readily infer, from one impertinent quotation, that all others, when carcfully examined, will be found cqually destitute of point. _4n instance is scen in the frequent cita- tion of Habakkuk ii., 15. Men who arc anxious to discourage the drinking usages of society and hinder persons from offering intox- cating liquors to their fricnds are accustomed to round off a fervent appeal with these words of the prophet: “ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to hin.” °And they suppose they nave thus ri ed their exhortation with an ~express warning {from the mouth of God. But a candid scrutiny of the text and its connection shows that this is not and cannot be the meaning, Even if the words areto be taken literally, the remainder of the text—‘‘and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedress *—slows that the reference is not to amere soclal invitation to drink such as fre- quently oceurs among friends, but to a deliber- ate attempt to make one drunk in order that in this helpless condition there may be a ludicrous or shameful exposureof his person. Al will admit that heartless and gratuitous wickedness like this is_cvery way worthy of man’s abhor- renve and God's inalediction. But it cannot fairly be made to include what is called the soctal glass offered in kindness, however mistaken that kindness may be. But the words of Habakkuk, by the consen- tient voice of almost all critics and expositors, vewish and Christian, are not to be literaily un- derstood. ‘The prophet is not referring directly to his countrymen; he is not rebuking personal or sucial immorality; but is sctting forth in series of rapid exclamatory utterances the sin and the doom of the national foe. Babylon is personified as a proud man, with an appetite for conquest as insatiable as the grave, bent upon Tieaping together all nations and peoples as his tributary subjects. Thesc, in turn, are sct forth as tauntingly apostroplizing bis ntter failurcin theend. Woe to him that multiplics what does not belong to him! The spoiler shall himself -be despoiled.” Woe tohim thatcovets continual ac- cessious for his own aggrandizement and safety. He sins against his own soul; forthe stone shall out of the wall and the beamn out of the tim- shall answerit. Woe to him that builds his city with blood and cements it by Injquity! The labor is fruitless and the toilingmultitudes only become fuel for the fire. Woc to him that ‘males his nelghbor drunkwith the cup of wrath, so0 that the Joor victim lies helpless, cxposed, and degraded! The insolent conqueror shall in his turn be subject to the same fate. He too shall drink a cup of wrath from the Lord's right hand, shall lie out in fgnominious exposure, and shall have his glory covered with shameful spew- ing. %n this last instance the 16th verse fixes beyond question the meaning of the 15t Nothing is more common than the statement of God’s anger as'a cu'}) put to the lips of his foes. Babylon had made Judea drunk with the-wine- cup of fury, 60 as to triumph over the naked- ness and prostration of the covenant people. Now she herself was to undergo the very same treatment at the hands ot Jehovah, and her overthrow would be even more complete and shameful. . The text, therefore, *Woe unto him that giveth bis neighbor drink,” etc., is fizurative and not literal; prophetic, and not didactic, natfonal, and not individual, It, consequently, has no ap- plication to convivial customs and should not be soquoted. Nothing is gained, but muchislost, by forcing Scripture vuit of its counection and giv- ing it an application which there is reason to be- licve was never intended by the human author, or the Divine Spirit who spoke through his lips, But the remanding of this much-abused text to its appropriate place and relations by no means justitics the indiscriminate offer of in- toxicating liquors to all persons and under ail circumstances. Drunkenness is such a dreadful sin, and yet a habit so easily acquired, that all reaSonable, not to say Christian, people will be very chary of doinz anything, even under the plea of hospitality or courtesy, which may causc any one to take the first step on the dow ward road. In every littrature, ancient and modern, the soevial glass and the flowing bowl are wreathed around with the chuicest flowers of poctry, and not-without some appearance of reason; but the wise ma assures us:. ‘‘ At thelast it Dbiteth like a sc cot and stingeth like an adder Y—Latet anguis in poculo. The prudent course, thercfore, is to treat it as we are advised to treat contention— “Leave it off before it be meddled with.” — RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCIT 1N GENERAL. Fifty vears ago New York had only three Catholic churches; now it has nearly fifty. Among the graduates of the Boston Theo- logical Seminary (Mcthodist), whose commence- mont was held Inst week, wasone woman. Two more women are members of the school. The Rev. G. R. McCall estimates the number of Baptists of every name and color in Georgia at 153,485, and the Methodists in the same State are reported to number 152,015, Some one has set the Mcthodist figures above the Baptist, ana Mr. McCall was bound to defend his creed and calling, s hie docs. Tiwenty-five years ago in the Diocese of Con- necticut there were but 110 clergymen of all grades, now there are 200. Two hundred and twenty-four candidates for holy orders have been ordained during this quarter century of Bishop Willlams' Episcopate, 833 clergymen have been dismissed to other dioceses, and 250 reccived from other dioceses; 43 have died, and 2 have been dismissed from the winistry. “'fhe Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Connccticut opened in Waterbury, June 13, Bishop Williams, in his anpual réport, Estated that he had visited 125 purishes during the year, had delivered 385 ser- mons and addresses, and confirmed 1,374 per- sons,—the largest number cver confirmed in a single year. Seventcen persons have been ad- mitted to the order of deacons, and ten deacons advanced to the priesthood. Just at present the Strong Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, is agitated with a question that seriously affects its well-being and future prosperity,—namely, the calling of 2 minister to 5y e resignation 1ill the pastorate left vacant by of the l?cv. Galusha Auderson, D. D. Dr. M\{- former pastor, is land Ifoyt, of, Boston, its sought by the majority, buta respectable mi- norfiy don’t want him again because of his man- ner of leaving them 1 1873. He is a popular and earnest preacher. 1t is curious how storics grow which are sct on foot about ministers. A few wecks ago a Chicago reporter was interviewing Dr. Edwards, a well-known Presbyterian clergyman of Peoria. The subject was the Glendenning case, and Dr. Edwards speaking of the sentimental way in which Iadies manifested their admiration” for clergymen, stated that heknew o Philadelphia clergyman who received in one year nearly a barrel full of slippers. His allusion was to the eloguent_bachelor Rector of the largest and most fashionable Episcopal church in Philadel- phia, a gentleman who is now Rector of a corre- spondingly fashionable establishmentin Boston. ‘he Chicago paper published the statcment, putting it at one barrel. Thus it went the rounds until one smart feliow in a religious paper improved it by making it two barrcls, and [ Ehat way it went 1he rounds of the relizious ress. Now the Norwich Julletin come out flat- ooted with the statement that it was three barrels full of slippers. What the end OI; this thing will be is fearful to contemplate. We peet to hear that this much beslippered clergs: Inan has at least a wagon:load of cmbroidercd foot-coverings, and that, being unable to wear them all, he has bestowed them on the male members of the congregation whose feet arc as Targe as his, with the request that thiey wear them to church on fine Sundays.—New York Sun. The proceedings of the Colored Methodist Can!crcl:mc at Bridge Street Church, Brooklyn, are flavored with a rich shade of humor. A principal part of the proceedings s the attempt to find out all the things that the brethren have done which they should not bave done. Some of the charges which brethren bring against each other are so trivial and ridiculous as to call forth manifestations of mirthfulness from the spectators. The brother who brought 51 cents from his chiurch as their contribution to Conference expenses, and had to ask for dclay in hauding it_over, finally settled up, and so avoided discipline. He furnished the Confer- ente with at jeast half a dollar's worth of fun. The brother who owed his grocer §27 for house- hold supplies was Jet oft on the ground that, 25 the grocer was willing to trust him, and even to furnieh him with more groceries, the unscttled account was no disgrace fo the ministry. There are a great many white brethrea in the ministry sl who owe their grocers at least this much. It these colored brethren are not as well up in their theology and othier matters of ministerial cducation as their more favored white brethren, it 13 certain that they cxcel them in repartee. Somie of the accusations and replies would have done credit to the *“end man™ at_a minstrel show, and with theadvantage over the minstrels that these were extemporarieous and purely un- studied.—New York Sun. In view of the manifest irreligion, corruption, dishonesty, personal” and political, which now abound, the members of the Evan- gelical Ministerial Association of Pittsburg and Vicinity have recommended their churches to observe the second Sabbath of July, 1876, as a day of thankseiving nnd prayer to God for the blessings vouchsafed to our nation in all its past history, and they further resolved that, on that day especially, they will implore God's bles upon the future ot our mnation, and the mend that special sermons be preache pulpits calling attention to the prevailing evils and corruptions, personal -and poliical, of our times, and the moral nceds of our nation: and also request the ministry and churches of the whole country to unite with them in a like ob- servance of suid day. We desire to call special attention to the action of the Presbytery of Chicago, enjoined upon all the churches within its vounds, and which may very appropriately be carried ont all our Sabbatli-schools. 1ts'leading points are 1. That cvery Sabbath-school Loid spocial exereises in connection with the se duy, of such character as the officers of the schwol may designate, but having in view, of course, the historic, patriotic, and religious asso- iations of the day. 2. That a contribution shall be made, for some benevolent purpose, of at least 5 cents for each scholar. This last on the principle that Wwhere our treasure is we will Im:r the decvest interest. If we would have this anniversary memorable in the mimds of the young, it must not be allowed to evaporate n” the smoke of fire-crackers, but be so impressed by patriotie and religious truth as to remain in the mind a heritage in all time to come. We hope our Sun- day-schools throughous the Northwest will gen- erally make of this- Centennin! Sunday the day of interest and instruction which all its associa- tions sv urgently invite.—7%e Luterior. CHAMPIONS OF THE SPIRIT. The Pall _iall Gazette of June 5 says: “The German travelers, Dr. Radae and Dr. Sievers, have published an account of their journey in the Caucasus last year, in which there is a curi- ous description of a Russian sect called the Duchubory, or Champions of the Spirit.’ This sect was founded in the middle of the last cen- mri'( by a discharged soldier in the Goyernment of Khirkofl. In 1763 the Duchobory apenly an- nounted to the authorities at Tamboff that they would not in future make usc of any churches, sacred pictures, or religious forms or symbols ot any kind whatever, but only *pray to'the in- visible Gord.” As this sect not only zimed at the destruction of the State Churen, but threatened to cause serlous disturbances among the peo- ple, its members had to suffer much perse- cation under the Government of the Empress Catherine: and they were so badiy treated by the members of tiie orthodox faith that they emigrated in a body to the Government of Tau- 1is, where they were permitted by the Emperor Alexander L to settle in a district of Maloteh- naya. Iere the Duchobory beeame very pros- erous; and under a ukase of the year 1816, which pablicly reengnized their blamelss lit they wero allowed to remain unmolested till 10avy Wasets Lut Buiperor Nicoulas ordered them to be sent into Transcaucasta. They are now liv- ing in eight settlements on the Turkish frontier., Thicy have no churches, preachiers, or forms of prayer. They do not make the sign of the cross, and their only hymus are a series of prov- erbs, which are transmiitted verbally from gen- cration to gencration, Thelr R.r;\ycr-mcutmgs take place in a private house. They sit down, the men on one side and the women on the oth- er, and sing their hymns singly or in chorus; af- ter which they bow, shake nands, and embrace each other. The “chief adviser’ of the commu- nity is now a widow of 30, named Lukeria Was- silewna Tolmashowa.” DEVOTING THEIR LIVES. The New York Sun has the following deserip- tion of the reception of a number of young womnen into the uovitiate of the Good Shepherd nuns, June 21 ‘The altars blazed with lights and the air was filled with the perfume of tlowers as the vast concourse of guests lled every available place in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd Convent yesterday, for icn of the postulants were to receive the white robes which 1ypify the vocation of theze noble woinen who live only to rescue the outcasts and fullen of their sex. At o'clock the choir, nnder the direc- tion of Miss Mary Soyres, pealed forth the hymn— Hail, Mary, Star of the Sea! ‘The Lady Supcrior, with her assiatant, conducted tue ten tastefully-nttired young ladies into the chupel and knelt before thie altar, All eyes wers bent npon the knecling forms of the postulants in their trailing dresses of white cashmere, ovor which tloated lonz illusion veils surmounted by wreaths of delicate white fiowers. . When the hymn was ended the oficiating clergy- man, the Roy, Father Durthaler, gave 10 cack of the postulants a_lighted wix taper asa symbol of the Jight to which Jesus Christ called those whom He desired to serve Ilim in the cloieter. 1ethen asked them what tuey desired, and they replied with one accord -that” they dexired to receive the “*holy habit of religion, and learn the rules and obscrvances of the Guod Shepherd Order.™ After exhorting them to listen toglie words of Tioly Writ which bid= the zealous edul forget her cople and her father's house if she will esponse Ror Lacd: b asked them if they persisted in theie demand, when they replied that they did, and hoped through the grace of God, to continue faith- ful to liim all the days of their lives. They then left the chapel while the choir sang: Tow lovely are Ty Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts. The pricst then blessed thie serze rcbesthat were totake the place of their worldly attire. These robes were carried to them. snd they returned clothed in them with burning tapers in their handa, and knecling before the altar, sang: I have despized the kingdom of this world And all the vain splendors of the age. Yhen the choir had responded the priest gave the scapular to each a3 an emblem of the yoke of Jesas Christ; the white veil to hide her from the world, and ns'a type of that parity which she must always aspire to; the rosary as a simn of conse- cration to the Blessed Virym: and the long, white mantle 18 n type of that spotless robe worn by the throug who follow the Lamb whithersoever Iie goeth; and, last of all, the new name, sign of v.ctory to those who overcame the world, the devil, sin, und themselves. Bencdic- tion of the Blessed Sucrament closed the ceremony, and the numerous fricnds of the young novices speedily flled the paclors to offer their conzratulu~ tfons and partakeof a collation. The recipients of the white veil are known to the world ns the Misscs Mary A, Healy, Mary Broder- ick, Elien Walsh, Delin Conolly, Mary Kelly, Liz- zie Falvey, Mary Carbon, Ellén Whelan, Rosanna Kiernan, and Sarah Cine; the new names they re- ceived are, respectively, Sisters Mary of St. Winf- sred, St. Elizaveth, St. Euprasia, St. Clement, St. Beatrice, St. Fia. St. Serapbine, St. Bibiana, St Regina, and St. Rita. TUE CATHOLIC CHURCI AND THE RCPUBLIC. Protestantism, which has been the religion of the vast majority of our countrymen, is adually losing its hold “apon’ their i The ~religion alone hich can claim the attention of all mankind is the Catholic. Italone has all the notes of truth, both inward and outward, in its favor, Unsupported by religivus convictions, no na- tion can realize its truc destiny. Unity of re- ligious conviction, and the virtues nccessary to uphold its institutions, arc mor¢ necessary to a Republic like ours than any other form of po- litical government. The principles and vicws of human nature on which our Republic is based are sustained by the doctrines of Christianity taught by the Catholic Church. Gradually the Chitirch and the Republic are nearing each other, amd with this nearer approach there springs up reciprocal appreciation and sympathy. Fanatics on oue hand, and infidels on the other, may warn, may threat, and may _attempt to keep them apart a) conspiracy and persecution, but in vain, for Gol, in whose providence they are destined to be united, will not be frustrated by the puny efforts of His encmies to keep them asunder. Qut of this glorious wedlock will spring forth children whose Jives will be of the highest type of Christian manhood, aud whose civilization will be the most glorious develop- ment of God's kingdom on eurth.—The Catho- lic World. infidelity, PERSONAL. Dr. Birmingham, a well-known physician, has heen appointed pastor of the Revere Street Methoulist Episcopal Churcl, Boston. Bishop Janes’ wife is so ll that he cannot well lcave her. He has, therefore, asked Bishop Simpson to preside at the Methodist Fraternal Camp-Mecting, to begin at Round Lake June 22. The Rev. Jacob S. Shipman has accepted the rectorship of Christ Church, corner of Fi_flb avenue and Thirty-fifth street, New York City. The Doctor recently declined the Bishopric of Fond du Lac, Wis. Considerable excitement has been created in Louisiana by the withdrawal of the Rev. D. T. Vaudray, of Baton Rouge, from the Roman Catholic Church, and his accesslon to the Prot- estant Episcopal Communion. Dr. J. E. Roy met with a sad accident, in a recent trip, by the fall of-an upper berthon his head while in a sleeping-car. He was threatened with brain fever, but is now belleved to be out of danger. Dr. Roy had taken only one vaca- tion for fifteen years. The Rev. Henry G. Perry. during *vacation months,” will continue at his East. of ministerial duty as Rector of All-Saints’ piscopal Church, West Side of the city. His church is on tho corner of North Carpenter and West Ohio strects; and the sittings are free. The Christian. Tiegister directs attention to the fact that the memorable sermon of Ralph Waldo Emc{'son at the Cambridge Theological School in 1838 was given to the graduating class of seven, one of whom, the Rev. Georse F. Sim- mons, has died; two of whom, H. G. O. Blake and T. 1. Dow, have left tie ninistry; and two of wiiom, the’ Rev. B. F. Barrett, the well- known Swedenborgian preacher, and_the Rev. Dr. William D. Wilson, of Cornell University. have gone into new theological connections; leaving the Rev. Crawford Nizhtinzale and the Rey. F. A. Whithey in their old paths. BREVITIES. From London Fun (on the hat and cloak fashions): Shocked and Astonished Verger— * You bad and wicked boy, why don't you take off your hat in church# Bad and Wicked Boy (overcome with guilt)—“If you please, sir, I'm alittle girl1” Toledo Blade: “I knowed it from the first,” said 2 woman with a blue cotton umbrella, in the street-cars yesterday; “she always came to church and prayeranceting, no matter what ¢ he weather, and she took migntily with some folks, on account of her ¢fernal grin; but.when she borrowed a colfee-cup full of fine white sugar, and paid me back with a tea-cup full of brown sugar, [knuwed that, sooner or later, she would go'to the bad.” Yesterday there was quite a stir in one of our churches, When o porgeously-robed young stranger swept along the main aisle, preceded by au vbsequious usher. All eyes were attract- ed by her blazing diamonds, her costly laces, the splendor and profusion of her tolette, and when she settled down in a pew, with a mighty rustle, hundreds of female voices seemed to have been guided by a common inspiration, and whispered: “The daughter of a Philadelphix hackiman.’—Brooklyn Argus. The editor of the Shell Rock Neus, in this State, has just encountercd a storm of wrath from the commuuity because he published the advertisement of u brewery. He felt awfully when the enormity of his olfense was explained to him, and thouzht he never could be so wicked again. Then he went to a fair for the benetit of the Ladies’ Home Mission Soclety, and awoman charges him $3.75 for a pin-cushion mude out of aplece of pasteboard, with red flannel sewed overit, and o sweet little gi stuck a bud and a couple of geranium leaves in his button hole and charged hiim 32, and he lost SL75 gambling in the grab bag, and sunk $2.% buckng against the cake with the mythical ring which nobudy ever finds, suppused to be cone cealed in it, and he dropped $3 ina ratlle for an afghan, and he was compelled to take the brewery ad. again for three weeks, in order to get bread for bis family. And he doesn's feel holf s0 badly about it as he did. She was alady named Magruder, and some- what strict in refereuce to fuinily morals. In- deed, while Mr. Magruder was a zood man, and endeavored to discharge his dutics as a parent with propricty, yet iis views as to what really was proper often ran counter to the views eu- tertaived on the same subjeet by his wife, and she had spunk. These dicrences ona certain occasion are thus described by o common friend: 1 called at Magruder’s the other morning on my way down town, and as I knew them wetl, I entered the side door without knocking. Iwas shocked to find Mr. Magruder prostrate on the floor, while Mrs. Magruder sat on his cliest, and rumpled among his Bair as she bumped his head on the boards and scolded him vigorously. They rose when I came in, and Magruder, as e wiped the blood fruin his nose, trica to pretend it was gxixly ajoke. But Mrs. Magruder interrupted m: “¢Joke! joke! Ishould think not. I was giving him a Uressing-down. He wantedto have Tamily prayers before breakfast, and I was de- termined to have them afterward; and as he threw the Bible at me, and hit Mary Jane with the bymu-book, I soused down on him. If 1 cai’t Tule this house, I'll know why. _Pick up them Seripturcs, and have prayers!” You hear me, Mazruder? ' It's more trouble regulatin’ the ety ot this family than runnin’ a saw-mill. Mary Jane, give your pa that hymn-book.’ “1 left before the exercises began.”’—Editor’s Drauer, in Harper's Mugazine for April. CHURCIH SERVICES. METHODIST. The Rev. I. W. Jewett, pastor, will preach in the morning in the First Chuzch, corner Waehing- ton and Clark streets. Subject: - **The Christian Life a Diwine Calling.” No preaching service in the evening. Prayer-moeting 0t 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Dr. Tiffuny will preach at Trinity Church, Indiana avenue and Twenty-fourtn strect. 2t10:45 2. m. and 8 p. m. fThe Rev. N. H. Axtell will preach at the Park Avenue Canrch, corner Robey strect, morning and evening. —There will be special services for children all doy at the Fulton Strect Church, corner Artesian *7%he Rev. Dr. William C. Willinz preaches this morning and cvening_ at the Langley Avenue Church, corner Thirty-ninth treet. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. R. I. Bosworth will ofliciate at E: uel Church, corner of Hanover and Twenty- strects, morning and evening. Also for the Trini- ty congregation in the Baptist Churchat Englewood at 3:30 p. m. . —The Rev. Dr. Fallows will officiate atSt. Panl's ing and evening. Sudject in the evenin; Not Ashamed of the (iuspel of Christ.” —Bishop Cheney will preack at Christ Church, jgan avenue and Twenty-fourth strect, at i a. m., on *‘Uow May I'inow, " and at 7:45 P. m. on *: The New Birth." NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. Dr. Hibbard will preach in the New Chureh lall, corner of Eighteenth strect and Prai- rie avenue, at11a. m., and in the Temple, corner of Washington strcet and Ogden avenue, &t 3:30 . m. ® CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. William Alvin Bartlett will preach at 10:80 0. m. and 7343 p. . I Plymouth, Charch, Sfichigan ovenug, between. Tiwenty-fifth and Twonty-+ixth treCts, —Tlie Rev. G. 11 Pecke will preach morning and evening i Leavitt Street Church. —The Iev. 1. B. Dean, of Lincoln Park Church, will preachat the Oakland Church, Oakland avenné ottage Grove avenne, in the moming. The Rev. Z. S. Holbrook will preach in the eveninz. —The Rev. David N. Vanderveer will preach at the Unjon Park Church, corner Ashland avenuc Washington street, at 10:30 2. m. and BAPTIST. There will be special service in the Stock-Yards Church this evening. The Rev. W. W. Everts, :Dr. C. R. Blackall, ** Aunt Lizzie," and others, wiil assist. : —The regnlar ecrvice in the Twenty-fifth Street Church will be resumed to-day. The Rev. R. C. Ray, recently of Missouri, will preach. —The D.’B. Cheney will preach at the Fourth Church, corner Washington and Paulina streets, at 10:30 8, m. and 7:45 p. m. 3 . E. Wood will prench morning and Centennial Church, corner Lincoln and \West Jackon streets. > —The Rev. W. W. Lverts will preach_morning inzat the First Church, South Park ave- nuc and Thirty-first street. 3 —The Rev. Robert P. Allison will preach at the South Charch, corner Lockeand Bonaparte streets, at7:40 . m. bt Rev, R. Do Daptistwill preach morning and evening at the Olivet Baptist Church, South Deurborn, ziml.\\'een ‘Taylor and Polk streets. —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach at the Mich- igan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, at 11a. m., on ** The Loneliness of’ Golgotna.” "At $p._m., the Rev. Dr. Shelton, of the Southwest- crn University, will deliver an address. —The Rev, Dr. Galusha Andrews will the Second Church, corncr Monroe an streets, 0t 10:30 . m., and 7:45 p. m. The Rev. J. D. Durr preaches morning and cvening at Immanuel Chorch, on Halsted strect, near Sophia. . The I J. M. Whitehead preaches as nsual at the North Star Church. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. James Maclaughlan will preach in the morning in the Scotch Church, corner Sangamon and Adams strects. The Rev. Dr. Elliott will preach at the same church in the eveni —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach at the Sixth Charch, corner Vincennes and Oak avenues, 2t10:30 a. m. Subject: **A Poor Place to Build,™ and at 7:30 p. m., will deliveran informai lecture. —The Rev. Dr. R. W. Patterson of Lake Forest will preach at the Fourth Church, corner Rush and Superior strects, at 10:45 3. m. and 7:45p. m, —T'he Rev. D. S. Johnson of Hyde Park will preach at the Efghth Church, corner Washi and Robey streets, a£10:30 a. m. and 7: k3 reach at Morgan 230 p. m. “The Kev. Chafles L. Thompson will preach at. the Fifth Church, Indiana avenue and Thirticth street, in the morning on ** Depths in Religion. " The annual floral seryice “takes placeat 4 p. m., when addresses will be made Ly Bishop Chiency tor. A e e, Monro Gibson will preach In. the morning and the Rev. Dr. Mitchell in the evenin; at the Second Church, corner Michigan avenue Twentieth street. —Prof. Francis L. Patton will preach at the Jef- ferson Park Church, corner Adams and Throop streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. David J. Burrcll will preach at the Westminster Charch, corner Jackson and Peoria strects, at10:30 3. m. Subject: ** Peace that the World Knoweth Not Of.” In the evening the con- gregation wil foin tn & nnfon Saobath-school anni- Ve it the. nch. Y The Itev. 3. H.. Walkor will preach at the Re- unfon Church, "West Foarteenth street, near Throop, mornlng and evening. El v. W. H. Hopkins will officiate at 10:30 BN p-m. InSt. Jolm's Church, Ash- d avenue, ncar Madison stree! e e Rev, Henry G, Porry will officiate morn- ing sod evenlng in All %fi}‘é"l,f,“&“‘“' comer North Carpenter and Wes streets. g N e ey, B: A Rogera will officiate st 10530 & D and 7445 p. m. piphany, Toop street, bety by D street, between Monroe and —The Rev. George L. Todd will preach at St. Stephiens® Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth, at 102302, 1. and 7330 p. m, —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will preach at the Ascension, corner Elm and LaSalle 58. m. and § p. m. —The Rev. Canon Knowles will preach at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, corner Washing- ton and Peoria streets, murning and evening. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will preach at Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Oskley street and Western avenue, at 10:20 3. m. and 8 p. m, —The Rev. D. F. Warren will preach at St. Mark's Church, corner Cottage Grove avenue and Thizty-sixth street, at 10:30 2. m. and 8 p. m. —The Rev. D, Seilivan will preach at Trin- ity Church, *Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth street. at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. Dr. Locke will preach at Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at Ila. m. and 8 p. m. ~—The Rev. G. W, Morrell wijl preach at the Church of the Holy Communion, Sonth Dearborn, between Twenty-nith and Thirtieth strects, at 10:45 . m. and 7:45 p. m. UNITARIAN. The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach at 10:45 a. m. 10 the Churcii of the Measiab, corner Michizan avenue and Twenty-third street.’ In the evenimg the Rev. Brooke Herford will deliver. in the same chureh, the last of the serics of discourses on **Damaged Phrascolozy Rescued. " —The ftes, J. T, Sunderland will officiate at R iie Fourth Church, corner Prairic avenuc ¥ mon the pastor r efore the recent meeting of the Western' Unitarian Conference at e, Subject: ** The Pulpit; its Scope and itutior —The Kev. E.'P. Powell will preach at the Third Church, Monro¢ and Lafin stzeets, at 10545 4. . —The Kev. Brooke Herford, of the Church of the Messiab, ‘will ner Dearborn and evening. proach at 1 Unity Chitech, cor- Washirgtou Square, morning and UNIVERSALIST. The* Rev. Dr. Ryder wiil preach moraing and evening at’St. Paul's, Michigan avenue, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth atreets. = CHRISTIAN. The Rey. Knowles Shaw will preach morning and gvening in the First Church, Indinga_avenue nnd Tywenly-G(th street, and at '3 p. m. in Campbell Lall, comer West Van Buren treet and Cumpbell vene. JMISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Donald Fletcher will preach at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p. m. in the Tabernmcle on State strect, near Fourteenth. '—Thl: Adventists will meet in the ‘Tabernacle, No. 91 North Green street, morning and evening. Elder )i G. McCalloch will preach. —Progressive Lycenm will meet in Grow's Hall, No. 517 West Madison street, at 12:30 p, m. —Misy Susic M. Johnson, 2 trance_speaker, will Tecture In Grow's Ilall before the First Sociéty of Spirjtualisis at 7:30 p. pletta Rev., Chapel of Was! —alr, Cora L. V. Tapas u p. m, in the Church, comer G and Washington streets. Mormmn subject to be chosen by the uudicnce. Evening subject: +* Spir- itua] Spheres. —The Rev, A. S. Kinnon will preach morning and evening at the new hall, No. 360 West Lake stree —The Rev. W, J. Erdman will preach at 10: 45 in the Chicago Avenue Churclh,” corner Chicago avenue and LaSalle street. Maj. D. W. Whittle will conduct the evenlng service. eonard Cook will deliv . politico_discourse upon the in- alicnahle righisof man, at 28 West Lake street, at3p. m. : ~The Disciples of Christ meet at 229 slrect, at 4 p. 1, Dasdolphy CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. June 23—Second Sunday after Trinity. June 20—S5t. Peter. = CATHOLIC.. June 25—Third Sunday after Pentecost; St. Wille fam, Abb. Tune 36—S8. John and Paal, IO June 37—St. Barnabas, Ap. {from June 11), June25—St, Trenens, B, M.; Vigilof S5, Peter find Lanl. June 29—SS. Peter und Paul, Apostles, Junz 30—Commemoration of St. Paul, July 1—Octuve of St. John Baptist. THE GAME OF CHESS Cnicaco CirEss CLus.—Nos. 63 and 65 Wash- ington street; open from 9a. m. to 10 p. m. Chess players meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange) and the Sherman House (Baserent). All commnnications intended for this department sll}gixll‘t.\«ble_nddruaed to Tux TRIBUNE, and indorsed an inde-~ TO CORRESPONDENTS. **E. H."—Tae interesting inclosure “recelved, with thanks. *4G. E. P.," Walcott, Ta.—Corrcction received, and pleased to hear you like it. *4E. B."—Six shillings covernall. Forward di- rect to the publishers. Problems on file for exami- nation, i *+C. W."—The only way of learning toplay chess *“blindfold" is to practice. Unless you have nat- ural talent in this line wonld advise you fiot toat- tempt it. Correct golations to [ Problem No. 30 received hrom W. 11, e c Drefer, 1T, P selroth, F. A. Bergman, E. Barbe, F. P, Walts, xter, 11, 1 Adams etreet, city; Tamer, 1.5 G, E; P Wieort, Salem, ‘Tnd. } §.B, Beliows, Dakota, Ia. ; I L.S. Litchtleld, Minn. s ? PROBLEXM NO. 32. BY ME. W. A. SHINEXNAN. lack. A A 7 #z3 /,,,m/%//% il %> : 7 ’{/'5/2 Tk, ‘White. ‘White to play and mate in two moves. SOLGTION TO PROBLEM NO. 30. White. Black. Kt takes R P 1..Any move ates CIIESS IN NEW YORK. Interesting gume betwcen Messrs. James Mason and Christian Becker in the New York Tournantents PETROFF'S DEFENSE. DBlack—Mz. Becxge. 3 i xB KR3 3 : BS an‘ 4 2 B 2 3 E B4 X B4 K2 KKy xIt QB4 Qu4 (éi EEh 4 QR4 QB4 QRS xRee P B4 Q3 xP P Kiz Q2 Fra 34 K K Kt4ch E‘ B3 20 ch Son ¢ ; Kach 4 B7ch 50.Qx P 510 QKt4ch 52..g Rt7ch SIGRRT Kt ¢ xP B2 R7ch Kt3 B2 Kt8 L3 3 7ch Kt7 Ki R7 n L3 4 3 Drawn game. -z (a) KttakesP, B to B4, or P to Q 4 Is generally layed here, but the game loses nothing in Intereat roin the novel character of the debat. (b) The game is verv interesting from start to finieh. Every move s a study, and will well repay the closest examination. (c) Rto K B6 chwounld perhaps have led to a neater draw, e. g. 3 i 59..RtoK D@ [ l aad Bisci's pouision 1s lngreguibie in the Church of the | NEWPORT. The Emperor of Brazil at His Best. A Novel Way of Sending His Compliments. The Season Opened---The Polo Club Arrived. A Modest Author’s Residence. . Spectal Correspondence of The Tribune. NEWPORT, K. I., June 2%—Dom Pedro it certainly the most appreciative of men as well as the most amiable of munarshs. His visit to Newport, more than anything clse, scems to have brought out these ply asant qualities,whien, not common with the ordinary untitled crowd, are rather extraordinary ina sovercign. Coin- ing to Newport straight from Boston, which, agreeable ns it is with its city gardens and parks, and its much-bragged-of Common, is still a city, where even the June breezes flowing up from Charles River cannot cool the heated bricks and solid masonry of stone and mortar, the air of Newport, sea-tinctured and tlower-laden, and the sight of Newport, with its quaintness, and prettiness, and irregularity, its wide spaces and country aspect of homeliness in spite of its villus, evidently went straight to the heart of Emperor Pedro, anil put him into a holiday mood at onee. Everything was lovely in hig ceyes, from THE COARMING FOG-WASHED FACES of the Newport fair onés to the succulent fresh mackerel, which, by the way, throws czery for- eign visitor into yearly ecstasies. In Buston the Dom little more of the King, simple and unpretending as he is, for in-Boston Nature is in couspiracy agrainst Nature, in the way of climate, and a general bolt-uprightuess, and Beacon Hill do-as-your-ncighbor-does, to say nothing of the bracing etfect of its unlimited * institoutions,™ where unlimited * committees * and * boards ™ wait upon the coming und departing footsteps of the guest of distnction, But in Newport everytiung is in holiday attire. The trees and the lawns have put on thcir livery of green, and it is such a livery 25 no one ever saw outside of Newport in this countr) Then Newport's “ fustitootions ” are blessedly small in number, 2nd the visitor can’t theretore be to death with that kind of show. All that there was to do in this line was the Redwood Library, which is so delightiully unlike every other librery that the most violent auti-tourist wouldn’t object to a visit there. The Redwood Library, and next TIE FAMOUS TORPEDO-STATION, and knowing, as we do, Dom Fedro's liter ary tastes, it surprised nobudy to find him much more interested in the foriner than in the latter. Newport books—tlat ks, books relating to Newport—were his special interest, and witn his scientific learning some of the queer old curjositics ¢ nfor inspection. And this was all, unless ight call the old stone mill an “institootion.” “And with this relic the admirer of Longfellow’s books was much more familiar, as far as the romance of the history gocs, than many of those who live in daily sigbt of *it, and of course he belie with every true poct, that the old structurc was of N Norse butld and a Norseman strongiiold. But, speakinz of Long- fellow suguesis’ the prettivst inciaent of the visit, aml proves my assertion that the air of Newport put the Emperorinto a holiday tem- per, very unlike that of the Boston proprieties. Faney the imperial visitor going about Boston' poking complimentary notes_into -the keyholes of people’s bouses! But in Newport. “mf‘ lord tle King” finds this the imost natural thing in the world to do. And not only docs the atmos- plere ai®et THE SOUTIl AMERICAN PULSE, ' bat it stirs up the sober slugpishness of thess very descendants of the old Puritans, until they join in the good time. and aid and abet it to the best of their ability. To tell the story straight, without any wrinkles of delay or romance, it was ot the drive about town that the royal party, escorted by several Newport dignitaries, passied the residente of Mr. T. G. Appleton, the brovier-in-law of Mr. Longfeliow. Dom Pedro, upon belng informed of this fact, expressed the gicatest fnterest, and declared that he.would Teave bis card, even though _the family were ab- sent. Instead of the card, however, a second thought occurs, and he tears aslip of qapur {ron1 his note-buok, and writes thercon: * Much thanks for your bookx on the Nile.” This in reference to & presentation which Mr. Appleton made at one time. No admittance, however, could be gained to the house, and no one totaka charge ot this interesting missive. What was to be done with it? SOMEDBODY SUGGESTS TIE KEYHOLE, and the sugcestionis received with gusto, and into the keyhole the cordial little note of the Emperor is punched, with great appreciation of the situation, awcording to accounts. It re- mained there a duy or two, and then somebody was wise enourh to remove it, and, inclosing it in an envelope, mailed the precious dovuinent ta Mr. Appleton.” And so Do Pedro goes on his way winuing solden opinions, and imaxing more Ecmon:u fricnds than any sovereign has ever ad the grace or pluck 4o do before. Whether it is the lovely weather and the steady heat since June camé in, I do not know, but certainly Ne rt is fuller than her wont at this time. 'The Cliff House and Aquidneek are hoth ope, and ail the boarding-iouses—and they are many—are ready and p;\ul{; occupiei. Day before yesterday the Newport Yacht Club met at their headquarters, and ormanized for the scason. They have fitted ug u pleasant; airy apartment on Long Wharf over somebody’s boat-shop, where they can sit and smoke the pipe of peace and triumph while they bet on the' coming favorites of the fleet. Anc Iast evening the naval ball,—or I should say, the marine ball,—which opens the scason, was given by the officers at Fort Adams to the officers of the United States steamer Monongalela, at which all the fine foam of Newport gy society Tose to the surface in a gloss of satinand glim- mer of pearls; tosay nothing of what the old Squirc in Steven Lawrence called the glories of 00l * The dress-parade at the Fort will take place on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays; on the latter day there will be something audi tional in the way o€ battalion drill, which wiil be immediately after followed by dress-parade. To goback to'the yachts, there is a movement fibroad by the citizens to getup a handsome prize to be sailed_for over the Block Island Course. This Is said to bea good business move, and will bea paying (nvus:mcu:,, because the yachtsmen are rich in this world’s goods‘. and scatter these goods in great profusion during thelr visits; consequentiy they should be *en- couraged to come” by these appreciating rizes. b Another sensation—and the biggest one prob- ably this season—will be THE NEW TORK COACHING CLUB, which is to be here svon. It will be a splendid sizhit on the long, broad avenues to see them rolling along resplendent fn external finish and internally with its freight of beauty. It ig said that only very pretty women are chosen to fill these gay vehicles, just in this present height of excitement. If there is any truth in this, woe unto the beautiful ones when the neglected sis- ters congrezate in_parlor and boudoir! But i Mr. Junfus 1enrl Browne knows anything about it, men judge a woman’s good looks by her art of pleasing, and, if she captivates his heart by whatsoeve ?)uw » Bhe Iimmediately enters the gate Beautiful of his imagination. ~So, if this be true, perhaps it will be the plain ones after all, judiged by femininestandards, whowillride in tha coaches of these kings of the road. Simple folk from the country, who come down from Provi- dence and all the lesser wayside towns, will have a story to tell of these coaches and the horn and bunfi: 'gipmgs which will accompany them. And with this sensation comes THE STEEPLE CHASING, another remnant of Old England which flour- jsied so last year. And” then the West- chester Polo Club have secured a lot in which to play their mysterious game, which *‘No feller can find _out,"—outside of the Club and the \ea-fect-high board fence which is put up hee tween the players and the vulgar crowd. li:n. it shese swells think they'll keep an enterprising Yankee boy from spying with a ten-foot fence, they are much mistaken. It may be a barries to a New York boy, but to our Yankee youngsters it will prove a fine little gymnastic board to try their muscle upon. 2 Oue of the niodest, pretty places withoat pre- tension here is that built by Miss Woolsy, oth- -erwisc known as “Susan Coolidge,” who is the author of all those charming children’s storfes which Roberts Brothers publish, beginning with “*What Katy Did,” and windingup, for the pres- ent, with a book of older “Stories for Sumser Afternoons,”—just out. Whether the pretty house was built_by the pretty stories is a story untold to me. Miss \Veuls(y is the daughter of President Woolsy of Yale Coliege. NP An excellent paper in Philadelphia called Christian Voices is widely advertised in the coun- trl jourpals. Ogpe of these advertisements, where the name was in very large type, met with an accident common in typography—the O “having dropped out between the make-up and the press; and so our Philadelphia friend is vertised a3 Christian Vices, B S