Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1876, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 2, 1876—-SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 RELIGIOUS. = A centen.nial Sermon by the Lay Preacher. Let Us Remember Independ- ence-Day and Keep It Sacred. The Camp - Meeting--- The Presbyterian Church. An Address by Father Hya- cinthe in London. Notes and Personals Abroad i and at Home. Church Services To-Day. CENTENNIAL SERMON. FOR THE SUNDAY BEFORE INDEPENDENCE-DAT. Thou shelt not remove thy neighbor's landmar] which they of old time lLiave fct in thine inheri- gance, which tliou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it Deut., six., 1. The value of all good preaching is in the fact that the topics of the discourse are timely and sppropriate. The Lay Preacher would not be outdone by the Pulpit. Two &ays hence from the publication of this discourse will occur the Jundreth anniversary of the nation’s birth. The Ceatennial is properly regarded with great interest by our people- It ought to be the era of revival of patriotiem. The Fourth will be a prominent land- mark in the natfon’s history. - It will be a point of observation to review the past, and take sur- ronndings of the present, and make up reckon- ings for the future. The preacher believes that the reader will be glad to place himself on this topic of the day in harmony with the great line of thought which at this time occupies the na- tion. 1t is supposed thet this text refers primarily to the boundary lines between the little farmsor patehes which the Jews cultivated. But it could 7ot have a very important meaning in that con- nection, because the Jews regarded the posses- sion of 1and as more a public right than private interest, and the Year of Jubilee settled conflicting titles. But the Jews were tenacious of sacred and consecrated things. They loved their set days commemorating their religion, and the growth of their mation. In thiat was their strength. The Jewish nation, in all its varied forms of government, was long- lived. All long-lived mations naturally grow into attachment to the many incidents and ob- servances on which their vitality clings. These are the land-marks of the nation’sgrowth. God instituted such in the form of government He granted to the Jews. They were enjoined to ob- gerve the Sabbath as a day to keep alive their kuowledge of and reverence for the Divine Being. They were commanded to keep the Feast of the Passover to commemorate their deliverance from the Egyptian bondage. They had feast days ond fast days. and anniversaries and ceremonies innumerable. These were instrumentalities to intensify and ¢trengthen the nationality of the people. No natict of the world ever excelled the Jews in patriotism and in pride of nation: ity. God never rebuked them for this fecling, except as they abused it, and allowed the formi to absorb the spirit, and as they deparied from the alle- giznce to Himself, which their sct days and ob- servances were desigued to foster. Therefore, fhe words of the tést are very significant in another sense than respeet for 4 maw's right to lis homestead. The laudmarks of the nation were to be observed. The usual aids to the re- membrance of God’s dealing with the nation, their deliverance and tuelr progress, the memorials of their forefathets, the putriots, the fields which they bought and sold, the tombs and the monuments they built, and the wells they dug, were beld in grateful reverence. Ja- coly's weil is preserved 1o this day. There is a phitosoply in this. God permittcd and encour- aged then in these ideas, because they were 50 much in harmony with the nature of nan, and tended to make of the Jews a great and long- lived nation. And God had use for such a na- tion. Hewas using it all the timelikea cun- ningly-devised instrument in his hapds, a8 an experiment for their own calture, and 2s an il- lustration to all mankind. Do not put God away from His governorship over the nations. He who hath formed can hold themw, or.direct, as may seem good for humanity at large. Itis g;oflmle to_observe here that valuable nations in the world are long-lived. A nation cannot grow in a generation, nor in a century. There is something more than race that hangs about a nation. - There must be time' for insti- tutions to grow; and great ideas to spring ont of the great men who only cun come from great npational culture. And in the former _ times, and even up to our modern civilization, the language grew with the nation. Thus we bave had the Ara- bian, the Greek, the Latin, the Anglo-Saxon, and tl:e English in modern times. ~With the langusge caine literature and the arts. The wisuom' and knowledge of the mdividuals be- _come agpregated, © and from generation ito cration there is a concentration of Fintelligence and culture that has grown above any individual achicvement. “The great things that have been done in the world have sprung out of the great and long-lived nations. 1t we were to malie up a record ot the thousand great men of the world who have contributed thoughts and deeds that have made the great erents in the world’s history, nine-tentus of these men would be: found in the nations that were also great. Some of these men have founded empircs, some have destroyed them, but 1hey have back of them a constituency that was the representative of cumulstive powers. Those features that work greatucss of natfonal charac- teristics are literature, arts, architecture, navi- gation, improvements, inventions, science, com- -meree, military power, ete. ‘These cannot grow inisolation. Not only does it take a multitude of men and competition to excel in them, but it takes tume to mavure them. Strike out what has been done by the indlvid- uals in the Jewish nation, the Gieek, Roman, French, German, and English, and what should we have left to make up_a history of important events? These were all loug-lived and power- ful nations. It Is evidently tiie policy of Divine Providenco to train up such nations. And God does g0 thorough cstablished laws. Ie has given counterance to such customs with people 25, aceording with their natures, contribute to lung_lh‘u and concentration of a people. 1tis quite evident that a principal element of such a° growth is homogcneousness. —Some would cafl it unity. Some would say this con- &ists in a common interest favored By climate, roductions, or ¢mployments. But~ people of iverse tastes and interests make a great power v{hen centralized. Such is the condition of Great Britain when considered. as an_Empire. Silch is our condition as a people. Never was there a nation more diverse in local interests that depend on employments, climate, and Tatural advantages. And these become ele- mentsof strengin when appropriated to the common good. The cotton of the South, the fildor California, the grain of the Northern ddle States, aud the manufactures and com- merce of the éasxcm, all favor cach other aud depend one upon the other. Thus they become 2bona of unity and contribute to thai growth which ghall ~ make the nation long-lived anfl powerful. The utmost that can be u;me has already! been done to et ese local intercsts at war with each other to destroy the nation, as was done in the Jate Re- lion, But a greater law than human passions hashushed those conflicts. " The founders of this Government of ours con- Cmplated jts existence forever; atleast, no Provision or s¥positiou is contained in it for its ;hmlu:.\on. ‘e theory of its formation favors ts cverlasting perpetuity. This should be the Eifiumt_hou‘rhv. in the mind of the patriot,— ot the life of the nation is endless, as immor- Gy Is the (.'\'cr—wnsulh;F refiection of the nistizn. The Centennial celebration is the k of its eternal procession Wwith the Therefore it should be the constant am of the Patriots of this country to commemorate Inde- cadence Day as the great holiday of the nation. t should be remembered that public days for enjoyment and set occasions - for the remem- france of important events ar useful inintensi- u‘:}lfinthe love of couniry. They are not only arks, but they are pivot-points to cling to 3od sway upon. The spirit in which tho adai- h"“‘? of the country is kept is an index of the legnty of the popular seniiment Which underlies it. There is evidence of ¥ a in the tone of patriotism, in the munugxe-c}\i::s spirit in which the Fourth of July, as Indepen- flence Dag, has latterly boen kept. There is ope that there will be a return to the good old way, from this Centennial onward. _Its celebra- ufonh has been dilutedto match the diluted state of the patriotic fi:ulmf. ‘The forefathers recom- quflcd that it be celebrated by all the people Joining in one accord in a solemn observauce ot l[ih'e 31.1)', in which thanks should be offered pub- ! ely to God, and instruction given to the people br; a sound patriotic oration, by some one eapa- th': of instructiog and giving strong meat, on ¢ dutfes of acitizen. “And’ it was cousidered nhot. Inappropriate that the solemn services s l()luld be ushered in by the sound. of caunnon, aud the martial music of the fife and drum, and that the people should all join in a public parade.. The significance of powder and patriotism was understood. Our powder en- thusiasm has degenerated to that insignificant in- vention of the Ileathen Chinee, the fire-crack- er; and the patriotisin gets expression in climb- ing the greased pole, or in the not-mucl-better intellectual exercise of a picnic in the woods, to eat gingerbread, und get the good children away from the sound of the fearfully fascinat- ing “fire-crackers. The Fourth of July oration bas been picked at by public ridicule, as4nany of the old notions of tire fathers huve been made game of. Against this drift should come the command to the patriotic Jews contained in the text: “Thou shalt not remove the landmarks which they of old have set in thine inheritance.” It is not best to enjoin upon the people al- ways to be solemn and sober, even in sermons. Too_much of that indoctrination will turn to acidity in the spirit. Therefore, on joyful occa- sious, there_should be large fatitide for the expression of joy. If it cun be carried toward the higher order of expression, it is all the bet- ter. But there is something invigorating in the sound of the gun, and inspiring in ma tial music. The bontire which the pa- trictic * - Adams suggeste when dark- ness “shall at last comérin 1o close the day, is not by any means a demoralizing ex- position. The contest of light over darkness, both in a literal and moral sense, isascene which both youth and age may witness with henetit. These, the patriotic guu, the stirring drum, the devout thanksgiving, the cloguent and instructive oration, and the good fire to light up the beavens at night, are the good old ways of celebrating Independence Day, as our fathers appropriatcly named it, and the preacher liopes will not be out of fashion for the nest hundred years. They arc some of the I marks which it would e descration to remov The Centennial which we brate as alaud- mark, does not represent a lonilife fora nation. At most it only brings us 1o the majority, as the young man becomes of age and enters upon his estate. So as yet we have only had the youth- ful experience and perils of uational life. Yet its birth was au exception in history, and only hossible in modern times, when uations are tted and fated ta become mothers of nations. ‘And in the case of the birth of our parent, it fulfilled the. prophecy applied to the latter times, that a nation should be born in a day. 1t began life typified by thehuman existence; and it was lapnclied upon a voyage, as the ship is sent out upon the sca; and upon a voyage and a life that should never end. For, as I have before intimated, the theory is, no provision is made for the death of nations. They die, how- ever, but not the natural death, asmen dic of old age fully ripe, like the grain-field, for the harvest; but only through two ways; by assas- gination or through suicige. The long-lived na- tious are the most valuable in the world. We celebrate this year the vitality of our nation through its government. If through the wis- dom of the citizens who make tle government, we escape the assassination of the traitor with- in, or the aggressor from abroad; or through vigilance ~and uprightness we escape the luxury of life, and corruption of the public morals which are self-de- struction, slow and sure, eating into the vitals, like conswmption upon the human system—we may expect there will be returns of Centennial celebrations till_nations are no longer needed among men. Why should there ever be ne- cessity for the Government to end? Certainly it will 1ot if we have discovered the true theory of overnment and the American citizen continucs intelligent and honest cnough to hold the trust that is commited to him. I wish the young people who read this to think of this fact; that our patriotic fathers ordained this Government tostand forever; they contemplated no pos- - sibilty of its death; aud its vitality must be sus- tained by the integrity of their aud our descend- ants from generation to generation. That is the first great lesson we are to learn from this Centennial celcbration. Whatever child is born into this world who- ever sits sail upon a voyage across the occan and enters upon those journeys I have made the figure o our natiznal carecr, will find along the track mapy way-marks by which he will be governed, or from ~which he takes observation of the progress of his journey. The mile-stones along the country bighway, or by the side of the railway track, have more philosophy in them than their pro- jectors dreamed of; they all tell us how rapidly Toll the wheels of time while roll the carriage wheels, and the train rushes on carrying us 1o the great Somewhere. 1 bave scen a hundred passengers on board of asteamer upon the ocean with nqthing to be descried in the vast distance of a boundlcss horizon but the rolling white tops of the waves, stand in mute thrilling interest to witness the buptain of the ship lift his quadrant to the sun at midday, to draw from it tue great secret whereabout upon the unmarked n, within the fraction of a mile, the good ship may be floating. Every good mariner takes his duily obscrvations, and” keeps a good reckoning of the progress of his voyage in his log-book. He looks to the heavens for information, he takes knowledgze of the sun and -the stars, and when they be obscured and he approaches the place of supposed dan- @er, he Jooks for the light-house to gnard him rom the perilous rock, or to guide Lim safely tothe entrance of the harbor. Let us thank God for landmarks. Let us keep fresh the things the. mark our journey onward, such as our birthdays and the birthdays of our chil- dren, and the marri and the mem- orable cvents in the family, in_the t or in the nation, and our Thanksgiving and Christmas, with the Independence Day, which has more meaning in it than Fourth of July. “Asapeople, our fault is, we have no reverence for such things. Desolateis that family, desolste in ignorance aud heartlessness and cold indifference, which has no birthdays for its children, no Christmas, and no Thanks- Elviug, 110 holidays; in such a family, the Sab- ath, if known at all, becomes a cave of gloom. Nations need time for culture aswell as youth for education. Our businessas a people for the first hundred years has been to do the work neeessary for the beginning. Our mission has been to clear the forgsts, break up the fields for planting and sowing, build houses, make roads. and canals. These have only to be done once. It is only within the Jast generation that much attention has been paid to the higher accom- plishments of life, such as painting, author- ship, and the progressive sciences and manners.’ It was told of usin the Old World that we arc 2 anation without manners. But we have passed .| into an era of culture. But we have not yet got to the second stage that marks the maturity of the national life. We bave not learned sufficient rever- ence for the things which time conse- crates. We have Some regard for. an old ‘broad, flat brick from a Roman ruin as a_curicsity, because “somebody put his:| handiwork upon it who has been dead and for- zotten 2,000 years, aud not becausc it is any way typical of age which is venerable, or of the and careck of Rome in the world, and the u]:;uu us through its language. We have no love for monwmmnents; we hardly comoprehead their meaning. We are too ready to let the names of our great, good men perish. Ethan Allen is better remembered for’his roughness and impetuosity than William West for his Schotarship and his cloguence. We do not take well to holidays. We do not know their use In carrying 3 people along on the higher plane of sentiment. Our Thanksgiving is a national set- day to our Republic as Christmas is to the Church; and yet that has been lcft to decline till most of our people have lost its spirit and the social bonds that santified it. So it has been with the Independence Day, which has degenerated in the Fourth of July, to De thought of as a calandar day in the almanac. To the sentiment of these things, and the les- sons of New Year’s, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Independence Day, we shall return as sure- 1y as we grow in genuine culture. Let us speed- iiy return_to the 0od old paths, and stand fast to the * landnarks which they of the old time have set in our inheritance in this land, which the Lord our God hath given us to possess.” LAKE BLUFF. THE CAMP-MEETING. 70 the Editor af The Tribune. CuicAco, July 1.—Within a few years the camp-meeting as an institution has undergone a change of the same kind that bhas gone on in the home and the church. Just as the home ‘has outgrown the pioneers’ log-cabin, and the church has built for itself what may be called God’s house rather than * God’s barn,” so the camp-meeting has shown its vitality by adapt- ing itself to the necessities and capacities of the times. In the East eeversl under this impulse to be places not only con- venient for large summer assemblies, but of vest moral power. Some have also been started in the West, but are yet too young to awaken other than local interest. Tt lias been felt for years thet suck a ground. unds have_grown olit that that old heathen nation basshed down - - evil, which was needed, and would be required in the vicin- ity of Chicago, near cnough to afford its occu- pants quick and ready access to this centre of the Northwest, and yet far enough to get away from the din_and smoke of a great city. Most. agreed that the Lake Shore was the true place for many reasons, among others aceessibility, water, climate, and scenery. “ZLake Biluff” is_the outgrowth of this desire and conviction. Itis on the shore of .Lake Michigan just where its bluils are highest and most picturesque, 30milesnorthof Chicago, aud equally accessible from this ity and Milwaukee. It is in the midst of the largest -arca of forest within casy reach. The broad lake, the high bluff, the deep and winding ravines, the dcuse womfs, all combine to make this one of the fair- est of ““God’s first temples.” To purchase the profcny and mike the im- provements decmed indispensable for a be- ginning bhas been, in these times, a work “of great difficulty. The abundant rains have greatly added to these difficul- ties. But paticnce and energy have 50 far triumphed that we have Tnow better ac- commodations for a camp-meeting than we have cver been able to offer for the use of the public, though these are.only the beginnings of what we hoge for in the future. By the liberality of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway ‘the grounds can be reached by seven trains a day (Sundays cxcepted), going north. Six trainsa day start from or stop atthe grounds coming south. Onecan leave the city in the morning, spend the day on the grounds, and returnat 7 .’g" m., a most delightiul excursion. A hotcl 2x 145 Icci._, three storics high, is ready for occu- pation. he meetings Will e held in a tent 100x180, 50 feet bhigh, so placed that in fine weather people can be scated under the trees if they refer. Scats are placed on the blufl overlook- ing the lake, and in different portions of the woods which have been cleared of underbrush, thouzh much of the wood is left ina statc of nature; for communion with Nature is a cen- tral idea in the camp-mceeting. We think God knew what man needed ihen He instituted the Feast of Tabernacles. Our plau is to make Lake Bluff as a place for great summer assenblies worthy of the new cen- tury in which it is born, and of thecity, in whose suburbs it is situated. ' While Methodists have had so far the labor and expense it is by oo means meant for their exclusive use. Any other church or society can procure lots for tents on the same terms as a Mcthodist church. Min- isters of other churcnes have been, and always will be, invited to its pulpit. It ishoped that other than Methodists will yet hold camp- mectings there. I hope to live to sce our Pres- Dyterian brethren hold camp-meetings on those grounds, and the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation. Nothing would please me better, and Ibclicve nothing would more promote Chris- tian power, than a profracted lving together at some such place. As a sanitary and vacation provision it com- ;!&cm]s itself 4s well for its religious possibil- cs. The camp-mecting will open at8§ p. m., July 6, and continue till the 14th. The fmer—Stalc Sunday-School Assembly will open the 18th and continue to the 26th, My cxpectation is that these meetings will be a power in promoting “The Great %’{c\'h'ul » for which we are looking this year. A.J. JuTRINS, PERE HYACINTHE. AN ADDRESS IN LONDON. The London Zimes of the 13th has the follow- ing account of arccent address by Pere Hy- acinthe : Le Pere Hyacinthe Loyson delivered an address on ‘* The Prospects of Christendom ™ yesterday afternoon, at St. George's Hall, Lungham place. Although it wus known that the disconrse was to be in French, the large hall, area and gallerics alike, was well filled, the majority of the audience being ladics, although the other sex was largely repre- sented, especinlly by clergymen of varions denom- inntions. On the platform were the Bishop of Winchester, the Deansof Westminsterand Chester, the Duke of Argyll, K.G., Lord Ebury. Lord Arthur Russell, the Hon. and Rev. W. H. TFre- mantle, the Rt. Hon. "'\\\‘pcr-‘l‘cmFXe. and W, B A Brotsn. he Buhop of Winchoster Way in the chair. Father Hyacinthe was re- ceived with bursts of cheers, which were renewed when he began his address, and on the delivery of its most eloquent passezes, a8 well as at the cloze. The Bishop of Winchester having called on the Deun of Westminster to open the mecting with de- votion, Dr. Stanley simply offered up the Ln'rr(?;u e he Prayer, the effect being most impressive, . itev. Chalrman's opening remarks were in wame spirit_of sclf-restraint. His Lordshi they were met to bear, not him, but Father Iya- cinthe, with whom the English 'people, who 350 venrs ago had cast off the yoke of Romne, and found ihemectves none the worse for it in_either u moral and sociul or {n a religious point of vicw, would no dount hoartily eympathice. He rezretted much the Archbishop of Canterbury was not occupy- ing that chair, as it had been hoped he would do. 1iis Grace, however, had writlen expressing s entire aympathy with the demonstration, an was merely detnincd by important ofiicial engage- ments. lic then intfoduced Father Hyacintbe to the mecting, who at once addressed the audience from the chair, which the Bishop vacated for the urpose. The reverend Fatherbegan by expressing iy pratification at the meeting_having been opene: Dby the Dean of Westminster with Our Lord's own prayer, and at its being presided over by the Bishop of Westminster, who at_the Cologne Congress ha Shown 8o friendly 2 spirit fowards the Old Catho- lics. His subject was the gigantic crisis now stir- ring the nations in theSouth of Europe in ecclesiuz- tical affairs. That which in the Middle Agea took the form of & great strnggle between the Church and the Empire now aseumed tac shape of a struggle between the Church —and modern socicty. For the solution of the problem thrce methods had Dbeen pro- osed. The first was that of acience, as represented the Positivists of the day. After an cloguent description of the Positivist theory of the develop- ‘ment of the haman mind, Father Hyacinthe point- ed out that this theory is (1) in contradiction to well-known facts, and is_(2) inadequate to meet the revival of religious principle which in onr day animates all commiunitics, both within and without the pale of Christendom. ' In o striking passage, he drew the contrast between the noble monotheism of the Jewish nation, and even the purer snper- stitions into which in our day religion had at times degenerated. The second solutlon was adyoeated by politicians and_statesmen, who proposed the eparation of Church and State. e analyzed with great clearncss the ainbiguitics covered by the Phrase, and pointed out the absurdity into which ‘even 80 great a writer as Vinet had fallen inrecom- mending that the State ehould jgnore the Church, and_that the Church shofild jgnore the Stite. e also showed how cven in the secondary and more superficial meaning of the withdrawal of State cndowments and State nomi- nation to offices the power of the Charch and the tendency on the part of the Church to fight against modern society wonld not be diminished thereby. e cited, as iliustrative of this assertion, the ex- smples of Ireland and the United States. The third ‘olution was also one propounded by the po:iti- cians. It was the subjection of the Church to the State, Father lyacinthe, after paying a compli- ment to Mr. Gladstone for his recent article in the Contemporary Jeview, pointed out that this solu- tion, although it might have n transicnt success, yet could never be permanently trinmphant in sup- ressing the claims of the Church. ~ Brate force find. no doubt, materinlly contributedin the si teenth century to fixing the present demarcations of Christendom, but the esample of the French Church at the epoch of the French Revolution was a striking instance, with the great orator deseribed with much power, of the impossibility of contend- ing with material meuns against purely spiritual eloments. The reawakening of that Cliurch from the crimes and degradations of the eighteenth cen- tury, in consequence of the persccutions during the Reign of Terror, showed that only by spiritual medicines could spiritual evils be cured. The fail- ure of all these three different solutions pointed to the internal reformation of the Church as the only true answer to the question. The difliculty of this solution he fally admitted; but, addressing him- self in his character as a pricst of the Catholic Church to an assembly of Christians, —and here he made a touching allusion to that day's beinis the hwenty-fifth anuiversary of his. ordination, —he urged home the thought that what 1e impossible with men is possible with God. The mountains of the physical world, which God Himsclf had planted, were given over to science, not to remove, but to picree and to subdue. But the mountains of moral God had not planted, were destined only for entire removal, and it was of them that the Master spoke when 1le said, **If ye had faith as a grain of mustard-sced, ye should say unto thesc mountains, Be ye removed and be ye cast in- to the depths of the sea, and tlicy should obey you.” 'The Bishop of Winchester having pro- nounced the benediction, the ussembly dispersed. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND. TOW IT IS CONSTITUTED. A correspondent of the London Times, whose letter appears in that paper of June 12, gives the following account of the Presbyterian Church of England: This Church, to be formally conatitnted at Liver- pool to-morrow, will be formed by the union of the Lhurch cstablished in 1830 by some of the descend- ants of the short-lived Presbyterian Church—which in the days of the Westminsier Confession was the Established Church of Englana—and that_section of the United Presbyierian Church of Scotland wwhici hag grown up south of the Tw ced. 'To them ywill he added the only congregation in: England that was connected with the _reprezentatives of the old Covenanters, that have just joined the Free Church of Scotland. This Charch inherits a system of zov- ernment in which the laity exert an equal influence with the clergy. It gives an organization for united and eimultaneous _action. and yet by means of s Presbyterics and Symods leaves full acope for _discussion and the influence of reason, as manifested by the Qecision of the majority. Many of its pulpits arc occupied by well-known and popular preachers, While its membership consists Iargely of intelligent and, in many marked instances, ininential men. And when with this is considered the rapid and substantial progress made by the two Churches daring the last few years of their scparate exist- ence, it is more than probable that s new and pow- crful Charch will at once begin to tell upon the re- figious history of England. When, 1o 1836, the tirst Synod of the Presbyterian Chereh in England was Leid ab Manchester, it comsisied of tweive ministers and two elaers, representing a dozen congregations. At the Synod helil in Liverpool last month, there were 156 congregations repre- sented, and applications were considered for the recognition of seven more that had been just established. This indicates growth; but when we add that_the real property of the Chnrch, ar represented by Insurances cffccted, amounted to £334,016—that ‘last year's income, for all pur- poses, was £08, 464, while £18,009 was paid in stipends to ministers—it is evident that this growth 18 he:lllh{ and substantinl. They heve Enccessfnlly catablished a Sustentation Fund, and this yesr pay as stipends to each miniater from this fund £200. Congregations, however, where able, supplement this from their own funds, 5o that the mn‘forltyul!bcmlmxlcmhn\'emnch!nrgerstlpcnds. and many have free houses. JIn London there are four ministers receivinz not legs than £1,000 8 yean, while fourtcen _in.the London Presbytery ave stipends varying from £400 to £300 a year. In addition to_the vigorous home mission, which has resulted in such extension, they conduct a large and important missjon in China, with four- teen European missionaries; have a raral mission in Bengal, and also have 10 missionaries working successfully smong the Jews in London. They also have a Theological College, with three Professors ond fourteen sstudents in attend- ance. The scction of the United: Presbyterian Church which now unites with this healthy and vigorous Church hns exhibited equal health and 1t numbers 106 congrezations, who raised, vigor., Yoz all purposes, in 1874, £05.577, and paid £22,- 8§50 as stipends to thelr ministers, Its London Presbytery, which in 1860 only counted four con- gregations, mow mumbers eixteen, and similar Erowth has cxisted in all its other sections. To- Fether with the representative of the Church of the Covenanters, they will number 263 fully-catablish- ¢d congregations, with # meinbership of about 50, - 000, which, of conrse. i3 largely incrensed by scat- holders and attenders, who aré not in full com- hunion. Associated with the ministers for the oversight of this Church will be about 1,50 elders, Who are farther assisted in the managenient of ity finauces and property by abont 1,300 deacons. The clders and deacons of each congregation manszo their own affairs, while one of the elders, in rota- tion, represents it along with the miuister at Prea- Dytery and Synod, und shares thercby in the gencr- ‘minagement of the Church. . Henceforth, on this considerable scale, will the churches in En- jand find among them A vigorons neighbor, exhib- ting that unity of clergy and laity in_its 'cantrol which they are all now striving to establish among ihemselves. RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. A PAPER BY MR. GLADSTONE. London Times, June 16. Under this title Mr. Gladstone contributes to the Contemporary Iteview for this month a paper, to which he promises s scquel, designed *to indicate in & rude manner what scem to be in our day the chief currents of thought concerning religion.” In the present paper he endeavors to sketch these currents considered as effects and facts, while in that which is to follow he promises * to fouch the question, how and why these currents have been put into their present sharp and unordered motion.” The latter will in some respects be the more interesting part of this contribution to the religious discussion of the moment. But its foundation must be regarded as haviag been laid in the observations on the facts of the religious world now before us; and & just, even if rough, account of the uctual course of relig- ious thought in the present day would probably Dbe of more interest than any speculation on its causes, even by so eminent 2 person as Mr. Gladstone. For this purpose Mr. Gladstone- takes the widest possible sweep within the limits of Christendom. He recognizes' at the outset that many persons are look- ing with hope to the East, now being so rapidly unveiled, for instruction, if not for a fresh fm- pulse. But he thinks it will be time cnough to entertain these anticipations when we know more than we do at present of the real nature of Eastern religions. For the present, at all events, *it is from Christendom outwards that ower and influence radiate, not towards it and Eno it that they flow.” The only quarter in which Mahometanism is gaining ground ap- ears to be among the megro races of West Africa; and it is not there that the future destinies of mankind are to be deter- mined. But, putting this vast continent of re- ligious life aside, Mr. Gladstone's review ranges from Ultramontanism to the barest negation of all belief, not merely in_religion, but in the Gn- scen. He distributes the prevailing religious thouglit among five schools. ‘Tac first consists of those who accept the Papal monarchy, or the Ultramontane_school. The sccond ieludes those who, like the Eastern and Anglican Churchies, with the ** Liberal ” and the “0ld” Catholics, reject the demands of the modern Papacy, but who “belicve in the visibilityof the Cliurch; and he styles them “the Iistorical School.” The third great division includes thiose who, Tejecting_the Papal monarchy and the visibility of the Church, believe in the great central dogmas of the Christian system—the Trinity and_ the Incarnation. Thesc be terms iithe Protestant Evangelical School.” =~ The fourth school is * the Theistic,” which, * though rejecting all kuown expressions of dogma, nev- ertheless believe in a moral Governor of the ‘Universe andinastateof probation formankind.” Lastly, there is ‘“the Negative School,” the members of which however they may dilfer in Getail, “agree in denying categorically, ‘o else in declining to recognizeor aflirm, the reign of a moral Governor or Providence and the ex- istence of a state of discipline or probation.” Under this head Mr. Gladstone enumerates no fewer than cight minor divisions of thought, which he denominates—(1) Scepticism, (2) Athe- ism, (3) Agnosticism or Scepticism erected into a dogmatic proposition, (4 Secularism, (5) Re- vived Paganism, (6) Materialism, (7) Pantheism, (8) Positi Such, in outline, is Mr. Glad- stone’s deseription of the “‘multitudious array of dislocated and, to a great extent, conflicting, forces,” 'a description which, - he says, he is sensible ‘‘ may bear in some eyes the appearance of un' attempt to describe the field and the eve of the Battle of Armageddon.” Mr. Gladstone prefaces his sketeh with such generousdeprecating confessions thatlt is an un- Welcome task to criticise ity but when such a swriter discusees such a_subject it is due to both to deal with them_caudidly. The first remark jch is suggested is that ‘this is scarcely ade- seription of the * courses of religious thought ” atall. It isa sketeh, with as much aceuracy as could be expected within such limits, of the boundaries of religious sects and philosophical religion. Mr. Gladstone seems to have fallen futo the error of which he takes particular paing towarn us at’ the outset,—that of mistaking opinions for_principles. His aim, he tells us, was to cxhibit principles as contradistin- guished from opinious; but be has given us a catalogue of opinions as contradistinguished from # classification of principles. The _eight schemes which he classes together under his fifth head of “the Negative School ” have nothing in common bul the ne tion of certain opinions respecting . the invisible world; and the ideas which animate such schools of thought as Positivism and Pantheism are ssen- tially distinct. They luve their roots deeply Inid in utterly divergent principles of human pature; they have generated in the East re- igious or semi-religious systems as utterly dis- tinct as Confucianism and Brehminism, aod to class them together under one head is to leave out of question altogether the “thought which underlies them. It is true that Mr. Gladstone’s account of the causcs of thesevarious forms of religious thought is reserved. But he has none the less begun’ with a radically false conception of what he has to explain. The princidies of Positivism and Pantheism are a0t negative. These systems start from positive principles and become negative, as it were, by necident, fn conscquence of the mistak aggerating such principles and exclu: voting themselves to them. The “course of thought * in each such case, if duly appreciated, would indicate not what is deuted by those schools, but. whas is the main idea or sentiment from which they start. A similar error affects, we fear fatally, Mr. Gladstone's account of the great schools of Christien thought. It may bea convenient logical arrangement to begin with the school which affirms the most— ¢ Ultramontane school—and to descend from this by suceessive negations to the “Protestant Ervangelical 7 or to the Thelstic. But there is certainly nothing cither historieal or natural in such an‘arrangement. Tne Ultramontane school is, in reality, the latest and most artificial de- velopment of all; and to view other schools as distinguished from it by negations is utzerly to misapprehend_alike their strength and their weakness. Mr. Gladstone describes, with Lis characteristic mastéry of detail, though with some inaccuracies, the varied opinions shich have prevailed in the Western and Eastern Churches with respect to the relative degrees of authority inherent in the visible Churely, in tra- Qition, in the Scriptures, in the voice of con- sclence, and so on. The shades are junamera- ble, and, as he admits, when we once pass from the strict Ultramontane dogma it is impractica- ble to determine them witn definiteness. But for that reason they can in no way be considered as indicating the ©courses of thought The thoughtwhichisdominant in the Roman Catholic world, and which has determined its develop- ment, is that of the supremacy of the souiety over 'the individual. The thought which has animated * Protestant Evangelical ? religion is that of the independent responsibility of the individual. That which has determined the development of the English Church is that of the necessity of combining both principles, and, in fact, all principles of religious aud moral life. The English Church is neither a uniform soci¢ty nor a congregation of individuals; it is neither a purcly Roman nor a purely German_crea- tion, and it is purely English only so far as the English genius has en eavored to fuse intoone organic whole all laws, forms, all principles which are the gennine utterances of spiritgal 1ife, This is uog, perbops, what Me. Gladstone calls “ Anglicanism;” f e ;7 for thatis specitic and onesided 2 school as any uthfi wlgtcxl; :\xr Ehéuffls A;:s:fimilates in its healthy di- ut ** Anglican i " Bln s s :lcblsed Roman e shall hope to flnd this error in some meas- ure rectified in the paper we are promised on the causes of the present condition of religious thought. But, ‘meanwhile, not the least inter- esting passage, perhaps, of the essay is that to which we have already referrcd, in which Mr. Gladstoue makes the distinction, which he pro- cceds to_mneglect, betiween opinions and princi- ples, and perhaps an_autobivgraphical interesl attuches to the followit Very just observations. He seys: My aim i8 to exhibit principles, as contradistin- guished from pinions Let. it not be supposed that these always go tosether, any more than vons are ~always like their parcnts. Principles are, indeed. the fathers of opinicne; and they will ultimately be able to assert the pa- rentage by determining the linenments of the de- scendants. Men, individually and in series, com- monly know thele own . opinions, but_are’ often ignorant of their own principles. Yet fn the long run it Is the principles that zovern, and the opin- ions must go to the wall. But this is a work of time; in many cases a work of much time. With £ome men nothing less than lifc suflices for it, and with some life itself is not suflicient. 1t is an indication—so far as the author’s own tendencies are concerned—of this gradual, but snrebv'iuturs of principles over opinions that Mr. Gladstone, when acknowledging the vigor of the Evangclical communities of the United States, describes them as baving ‘“‘grown up i new soil, and far_from the pos- sibly chilling shadow of National Estab- lishments of religion.” The other day. at the Political Economny Club, Mr. Gladstonc said “ he must confess that very long observation and practice in pablic uffairs made him from year to year more and more sensibie of the objections to endowments, and less and less convinced of their countervalling advautages to the commu- nity.” The combination of two such utter- ances in one month seems to open up the vista of anew “course” in Mr. Gladstone’s ecelesi- astical phought. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CIGRCH IN GENERAL. The week beginning Aug. 3 has been appolnt- ed & week of prayer in the Southern Methodist Church. There have been 106 additions to the Baptist Church during the recent revival in Peters- burg, Va. The First (colored) Baptist Church in Rich- mond, Va., has 2,700 members; the Giltield has 1,700; and the Third about 500. What is called an “Internatfonal Sunday- School Parliament? will be held at the Thou- sand Isles during the week beginning on the 18th of July, The Episcopal Diocese of Towa is to be di- vided, and all that part lying west of a linc from Wayne to Worth Countics is to be set off as a missionary jurisdiction. The Presbyterians at Homer, I, dedicated on Sabbath, the 11th inst., a house of worship free from debt. Six hundred dollars were re- ceived from the Board of Church Erection. The Baptists of Virginia, making up th statistics for the ycar 1575, report 27 associa- tions, 1,164 churchus, 667 ministers, and 173,943 members. The nct gain for the year was4,633. t'he Protestant E[%seopal Church seems to be maling headway in Puritan Boston. In1826the mctro&nm:m district embraced five parishess now there are thirty, of which nineteen are within the city limits. The Fifty-third Street Baptist Church (New York) can raise_$6,000 within a few days, and their building, which has been sold under a fore- closed mortgage, can be redeemed. They have alittle, and they strongly appeal to their friends for more moncy tow: this object. 1n five States beyond the Mississippi—Minne- sota, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska— Cungrcgutfonnlism has grown in cightecn years from about 150 ehurches to about 600, and from 1ess than 3,000 member to nearly 30,000, and its one college has been multiplied by six. The Chinese workmen at North Adanis, Mass., were never, to any great exient, converted to Christianity. Although in some respects tliese Celestials have been a success, in others they have not. It is announced that the whole party il this summer be shipped to San Francisco. ‘The General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church appointed the following delegates to the Presbyterian Alliance, to meet in Edinburg in 1877+ The Rev. Drs. Ormiston, Jared W. Scudder, Inglis, and Holmes, with Elder William Bogar- dus, primardii, and_the Rev. Drs. Peltz, R._W. Clark, M. S. Hutton, C. E. Hart, and Elder 8. B. Schicflelin, secundi. The First Reformed Episcopal Church, of New York City, is_out of debt, and has a totalin- come for the last year of over $20,000, of which over $7,000 have been for benevolent purposes, including over $3,000 toward the Sustentatioh Fond. This church has received over fifty or sixty new members during the year, and secured 2bout 510,000 toward the Building Fund. They already possess a desirable site for the erection | of the new church building. The Rev.Dr.D. B. Cheney, of the Fourth Baptist Chureh, is conducting a series of very instructive and_entertaining lessons on the & Confessions of Faith » of the Baptist Church in the lecture-room of his church every Friday evening. Dr. Cheney takes up the “Confession™ by scetions, in_their order, one_section serving a5 the evening's study, and cstablishes its truth and impresses its meaning upon the mind by frequent references and questions and answers. Whatever other trials the Pope may have to bear, e canuot complain of ack of income. His regular income for last year amounted to ‘about 31,009,000 of our_moncy. In addition to this he received about $3,000,000s a legacy from the Emperor Ferdinand of Austria. The *Ppter’s Pence”*and Jubilee Indulgences yiclded him about $4,000,000. Besides xll these, many pecu- fiaty gilts have been sent him from various quarters of the world, by the faithful who de- light to Lonoa him. s Another tombstone case has excited public at- tention in England. In the Diocescof Ely 2 farmer named Bennett_sct up in the parish churchyard o' stone on which was the following inscription: * In memory of Catharine, the be- Tovedawite of Thomas Beanett, who dicd on the 224 day of April, 1875, aged 62, from long mental anxicty muscti by an unlawfully rolonged zame case in the parish against her beloved hus- Bana. Friends of the opFressed, mourn for one that’s gone. Murderer, 1ift thine askance eye, and pass on. Oppressed, rest in peace.”” The Chaiicellor of the diocese has ordered Mr. Ben- nett to remove the tombstone. The Tabiet, of New York, a Catholic paper, has hitherto observed moderation and courtesy in jts treatment of Protestant men and themes. 1t now appears to have laid aside both and in- dulges in the last number in intemperate and unjustifiable attacks. It recites the history of two very brutal murders, and refers to the mur- derers a5 Methodist Saints;” and speaking of the assassination of a Protestant in Mexico, who was instructing his fellow-men in the Seriptures, the Tablet observes: *Lyneh law is a barbarous remedy, but lynch law is not con- fined to Mexico, and if it could ever be justi- fiable, it is when, in a_country devoted to the Cztholic faith, & bl:\s[ihcmlng infidet having be- come Interested in the Bible, proceeds to in- terest his neighbors.” The work of systematic benevolence is so far organized'in the Southern Presbyterian Church that out of 1,823 congregations within its bounds, 1,100 reported to the late Assembly 8s contributing to the various charities under its care. Of this number, 400 dontributed to all the objects (six in number) pamed in the As- sembly’s recommendations, 150 to five of the objects, 140 to four, 133 to three, 148 to two, and 121 to one.. Seven hundred and seventy-seven congregations contributed 327,603 to_sustenta- tion; 614, $11,366 to the Evangelistic Fund; 779, $82,864 0 foréign missions; 730, 524,307 to edu- cation; 557, S6,500 to publication; making a to- $al of more than S100,030 contributed by 1,100 congregations. The ‘Assembly laid upon the Presbyteries strict injunctions designed to se- cure from the churches due attentiou to the charitable work of the Church. The following interesting items respecting the ast year's work of the Congregational churches of the Chicago Association are gleaned from the report of the Registrar, the Rev. William E. Hol- yoke: Ministers, 50; churches, 3%; installed astors, 9. The senior pastorate fs that of the “irst Church, Chicago, the Rev. E. P.Goodxwin, D. D., from 1867. Largest membership {n a_single chureh is also the First Church, being 1,010; to- {1 mombership in the churches, 6,010; additions to twenty-three churches a ditions to twenty-seven churches by letter, 3453 total additions in_twelve months, 5353 in Sab- path-schools, 7,960. The contributions to the A. B. C. F. M. from twenty-three churches have been §3,01; to the A. H. M. 8. from twenty-five climrches, $3,082; to the A. AL A. from thirteen churches, $2,312; to the A. C. U. from scven churches, 6273 Western Education Society from ten churches, $1,153; and to other ob jCCt’S‘, &41,057. Total. church expenses, $151,192. Grand total for all purposcs, $205,523. Andall this in spite of the hard times, which i3 a very good showing- The question of free churches selling their pews is likely to have a full elucidation t! ug_h The statistics gathered by the Free Church s sociation (Protestant Episcopal) which has its office at No. 1316 Chestnut strect, Philadelphia. This Soctesy Las taken for its obiect the “*abaa | donment of the sale and rental of pews and sit- tings, and the substitution therefor of system- atic free-will offerings by all worshipers.” A paper has been prepared “with a view to testing practically the comparative etficiency of the two systems within_the limits of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The results are: (1) In the City of Philadelphia only four churches pay expenses by pew-rents; the pew-rents of all the churches pay only three-fourths of the expenses, and average 36.16 per sitting. The frec churches, on the other hand, contribute $6.60 per sitting. The free churches are mostly in the suburbs and poorer districts of the city. (2) That in the country districts no churchis supported by the g‘cl\'-rcu!s, which average only §3.35 per sitting. he free churches, which are mostly mission and poor, pay §2.73 per sitting. Leaving out’ the missions, the free churches in the country pay $550 per sitting, half as much again as is raised in the other churches for expenses. There is little use nowadays for the Elders to try to restrain_tiic young people, when dancing is'called for. Despite the action of the recent Presbyterian General Assembly, the young folks of Dr. Duryca’s Church in Brooklyn had » jolly time the other day on the occasion of their pie- nfe. rh%y danced_as muchas they wanted to, and the Elders had the good sense uot to molest them or to malke them afraid. So at the picnic of Dr. Scudder’s Church, which is Congreza- tional, and not bound by the authority o o General Assembly. These things shock some of the straightened sort of people who bave been brought up to think dancing a hefnoussing yet no fuss is made about it. The old people, who are shocked, sit quietly in corners or stand aside and take their shocking s casily and nat- urally as possible. If anybody were now to bring a case of dancing into the Presbytery with aview of discipliniog the Christions who had taken comfort and plessure in *lancers” or ‘quadrille,” he would speedily be_nonsuited. People have found that they can dance, sing, \fhislll‘,‘{'ump, play croquet, and still be Cliris- tians. Wheun the_ eloguent and genial pastor ol 4 lurge city church thinks it not beneath bis dig- nity to play the violin while his young people dange, there is hope that the rising race will not be rudely repulsed from the church and sent to seek their pleasurc in the outside world.— The Sun. & Nothing, perhaps, is so conspicnonsly comi- cal in the Evangelical May-monarch as his total incapacity to perceive the humor of his own fun- ny storics. Messrs, Moudy and Sankey have been mauch tulket about during the May mectings, especially Mr, Saukey, his ‘ sung gospel * hav- ing left a more reverberatingecho bebind it than his partner’s proached gospel. Lord Shaftes- bury told his hearers that he had lately ‘¢ con- cluded an address in the very depths of White- chapel?” by quoting from Mr. Saukey’shymn: Hold the fort, for I am coming. Tt was taken up,” he said “by the whole of that degraded and miserable population. They sang it Wwith intense force”—cvidently prefer- ring it to the Earl’s. sermon. “They sang it while I went out of the room; and Iam told they Insisted on sin§ix§ it several times after- ards.” If Lord Shaftesbury had visited Lon- on Bridge Station on Easter Monday, and accompavied a train-load of costermongers and their lusses to Greénwich Park, he would have heard them singing * Hold the Fort,” other tunes of Mr. Sankey’s book, with pers: tent gusto. He would probably have rejoiced in this evidence of the great cvangelical work going on in the hearts of the masses; he would not have taken pains to listen very accurately to the words which they had fitted to the tunes —words which it would be impossible to quote inu meeting of respectable men and women. He might have prcduced 2 similar result by closing his discussion with the words, “Tommy make room for your unele.”’—Sulurday Jtevicw. by profession, 2405 ad- TIE JEWS AND SUNDAY SERVICES. New York Sun. The introduction of Suudn{ religious services among the Jews in New York and other Ameri- can cities s the oceasion of a deal of agitation and dissension. The proposed Sunday meet- ings, #® \which Prof. Felix Adler is to preside, are aporoyed by many only because every pre- tension that they are religious meetings of the recognized pattern is carefully evoided. The most orthodox members of the Jewish faith do not object to ethical and quasi-philosophical ‘lectures, be it on Sunaay or any other day; but it is otherwise with meetings for religious ob- servauces. Some of the members of the Fifth-Avenue Temple Emmanuel, being in favor of religious services on_Sunday which they might attend without neglecting business, recently moved in that congrcgation that such services be organ- ized and regularly continued; but after delib- cration the motion was rejected. The majority regarded such o step as an entering wed%: that would undermine onc of the most distinctive features of Judaism,—its Sabbath,—and ulti- mately lead to the substitution of Sunday for Saturday altogether. TIn Dr. Huebsch’s Lexington Avenue Syna- gogue the resistance to Sunday services is equally decided, and on the part of the rabbi, Dr. Huebsch, it is .almost too vehement for ex- pression. He preached upon the subject only a 1ew weeks ago; and in_the pulpit took a solemn outh that he would never consent to have such an innovation in his synagogue. Hevowed by Goa that it should not happen while e ofii- ciated there. On the other hand, Sunday services in Jewish synagogues are established in ‘Philadelphia and Chicago, in the former city in Dr. Hirsch’s Tem- ple, uud in the latter in Dr. Kohler's, Both of these rabbis are advanced reformers, Dr. Hirsch being the first American rabbi to officiate in the pulpit with uucovered head. AN OPINION ON THE BEECHER MATTER. New York Sun. The little houst of worship in Onc Hundred and Eleventh_ street, a few doors west of Third avenue, was dedicated twelve monthsago. The anniversary was celebrated yesterday by a new consecration, and was participated in'by the stationed minister, the Rev. George H:-Smith, the Rev. Mr. Estes of the Norfolk-Street Chureh, the Rev.J.S. Willis_of the Seventh- Street Church, the Rev. W. W. Clarke of the Twenty-seventh-Street Church, and the Rey. Mr. Steele of Brooklyn. ~Mr. Estes preached in 3he forenoon. Hesaid that he had been asked, «Why arcnot all the preachers Moodys?” In apswer he read the following trom the Sun of April 272 Thic attempts of a number of city clerzymen to keep up the revival after the departurc of Moody and Senkey do not give promise of success. They were active in aiding Moody’s operaiions, but the Power does not seem to be present when he i ab- scnt. Some of them try to imitate his ways, to be as simple in their language as he was in hig, to deal with the leading doctrines only, a8 he did,and to uddress sinners with the earnestness he had. Some of them use Sankey’s song-book, employ solo singers with voices like his, and wateh for the signe of the’ power that he excreised throngh *“Hold the Fort.” or the cty and Nine.” But yet, notwithsfanding all this, these fmutative prenchers and singers ure anable to produce the effects that were =0 casily obtaincd by Moody and Sankey. The multitudes do not flock to their temples, and anxions sinners do not crowd their inquiry-rooms. Thus also it was in Brooklyn af- ter the great revivalists had Jeft the place, and 80 also it was In Philadelphia when they departed therefrom. They can starta revival, but cannot fransfer the power to carry it on. «The # perfect man, mentioned by PaulsMr. Estes said, docs not mezna Christian without fanlts, or failures; but it does meun one who, through service, s growing more mature, more consistent. If a Christian worker is not gaining this maturity, seif-harmony, and consistency, he cannot be bringing much help, in the way of edification, to the body of Christians. Weall fecl the disastrous influeace of inconsistency in Christians.. If a Christian_ gets drunk, lics, or steals, all men would say sucit things would not 2dd tothe influence of religion. Take the scan- dal of Brooklyn as an illustration. Whether the scandalized is guilty or not, religion, that iz, the body of the Christian Churck, does suffer. PERSONAT. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have been most urgently invited to New Haven, Conn., to hold services in that city} The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, will, it i3 said, be tendered the Presidency of Am- herst College, to succeed Dr. Stearns. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher;will preachat an open-air service in Brooklyn, Conn., on the sec- ond Sunday in July. The Rev. C. L. Thompson, of this city will supply Dr. Talmage’s chureh, Brooklyn, during the vacation scason, commencing the second Sudday in July. The Onward Mission Church, of Chicago, formerly known as the Tenth Presbyterian, have secured the services of Rev. D. D. Bigger, who will officlate as their pastor. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is to visit this coun- try this summer. Extraordinary inducements have been held out to him hitherto, but have failed to persuade him to come over. . A. Vaudray, a Catholic priest, of e s marTied, and i3 etained, ot 15 521d, by 500 people of his parish in his infrac- : tion ot onc of the most importaat ru.les\z of the priesthood. The Rer.J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., has re- siemed the Presidency of Hlinois College, which B has held since 1844, and with which' he has been connected since 1829. He will continue his jnstruction in the €ollege. Bishop Edwards, of the United Brethren Church,p who died on the 6th June, had served ps Bishop end General Superintendent of the Church during twenty-eight years, having been ye-clected atseven Quadreantal Conferences. For more than three years he has been Bishop o_(! the an&e{gnc&h;vh{‘(ih includes all the ter- ritory east of the Ohio River, comprisin, - ber of Aunnal Conferences. | sk The death of the Rey. D. F. McFarlang, of the Indian Mission at Lapwai, Idaho, i3 ;m! nounced. He has been sick for some weeks, and gradually declioed till May 13, when he des parted this lifc in assured hope. Late advices from Bermuda, W. I, annomnce ‘the death there of Bishop Field, of A’ewln\‘g:fh land, at the age of 76 ycars. He was in th(: episcopate thirty-two years. He will be suo cecded by his coadjutor, Bishop J. B. Kelly. ., The Rev. L. T. Chamberlin, of the New Env gland Congregational Church, left for Massae chusetts last Monday evening quite broken in health. He will be absent abont six weeks, hig “tltlm being supplied by Profs. Fiske and Barte ett. The Rev. Dr. Withrow, of the Second Prese byterian Church in Indianapolis, bas announced Lis acceptance of a call to ton. The cburck thus made vacant is one of the strongest in the West, and will readily command the services ol an acceptable pastor. * The Rev. Thomas 8. Yocum, a clergyman of distinction as a sckolar and a imve]cr,b was fors mally instituted as Rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Port Richmond, Staten Island, Juna 16. The Rev. Dr. Heman Dyer acted in behalf of néf Bishop, and the Rey. Dr. Eccleston preacls [ Canonico Tiboni, the noted reformer of the Itelian_Chnreh, and the author of the ' Secn larization of the Bible,” died on tke 1fith of May, in consequence of an accidental fall at e Wit biauttal Camp Sonte thers b7 red at the beauti it b; Prof. Cavalicre Gallia. i i ‘The Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth mects with a heavy loss ju the death of the Rev. E. W. Schon, D. D., who has been in the ministry forty-nine years and has filled many positions of honor in the church. The Doctor’s healtls had been failing for three months, and he w3 finally taken away by a stroke of psralysis. The Rev. Isasc Bird, onc of the envlivst American missionaries to_Syria, died st tha residence of his son, Mr. James Bird, at Greaf Barrington, Mass., on Tuesday morting, June 13, having nearly completed his S5d year. Jile funeral was attended on the 15th, and a me- marial discourse was delivered by the Rev. E. D. G. Prim¢. D.D., oncof the éditors of the New York Observer. BREVITIES. A Brooklyn woman was asked to send hey thsee little girls to Sunday-school. Shetold the committee-woman who visited her that the chil- dren had no suitable dresses in which to appear on the Lord’s day. The committee-woman re- plied that the church would furmish them. “ What kind of dresses do you give?’ queried the mother of the three girls. The committee- ‘woman replied that the material would be calk co, of neat pattern. ** Pooh!" said the mother; “then you needn’t think you're going to gef my children! Why, at Dr. P—s church they give delaine dresses.” She shut the door on The visitor, and the children arc yet without the means of grace as-found in the Sunday-school. A popular English Nonconformist minister was residing with farmer in Glasgow, while on a visit to that city. whitbier he had gone on a deputation from the Wesleyan Misslonary So- ciety. After dinner, in reply to an invitation tq partake of some fine fruit, he mentioned to tha family a curicus circumstance concerning him- self, viz., that he had never in his life tasted an apple, pear, grape, o, indced, any kind of green fruit. The fact seemed to evoke considerable sarprise from the mm}mny; but a cautious Scotchman, of a practical, matter-of-fact turn of mind, and who had listened with much uncon- cern, dryly remarked: * It's a peety but ve b been in Parndise, and there micht pa »au been ony faa.” The avowed policy of the Hampden Ne; Institute, Virginia, g to teach thfitudent%rg practical religion as distinguished - from the purely sentimental religion that Southern ne groes have so generally illustrated. Gen, Arm- Strong, the head of the institution, says that he knows anegro who stole a suit of clothes ta wear ot communion service, and_that the inci-’ dent fairly Hlustrates the kind of religion herc-- tofore prevailing in the neighborhood. Tha . Rev. Mr. Tolman, chaplain of the Institute, tells of an unlettercd negro who, when advised not to shout at meutingh answered, **Don’t the Bible say ‘Hollered be thy name?” An ol woman had sup})oscfl that the account of “Nigger Demus® referred to a Dblack mar. He adds: “As a specimen of their pulpil nunchrunismskin a glowing description of the Hebrews in %pl, the land of Goshen was @welt upon as famous for the Goshien butter, * where Alderneys and_other fancy stocks dwell up to their knees in clover and timothy.” DEACON MARYVIN, OF LYME. 3 One of the carly settlers of Lymewas Reye nold Marvin. He was a rich land-holder, a . militia captain, and a deacon of the church. He professed to be governed by Divine communi- cations. On one occasion he announced that the Lord had directed him to distribute his cows among the poor. A shiftless fellow who was omitted in the distribution finally went to the deacon and said he, tog, had received a commu- nication from the Lord, who had sent him thera for a cow. «Of eourse, then, you must have a cow,” wag the reply. _“But what sort of a cow did.tke Lerd say I must give you-a new milch ora- farrow?? 4 A new milch-cow, sir."” “Indeed! Your communicatfon could not have been from the Lord, for I have no new milch-cow.” The baflied beggar departed. Another time the Deacon opposed some Church measure, which was carrieid in spite of Lim. o prompily refused 1 pay his Chureld taxes, and was sued, ana_his saddie taken for the debt. e esteemed himself decply wronged, and rode upon_a shecpskin (wheeled vehicles Dad as yet hardly appeared in the Colonics) for- ever aiterward.” And riding upon bhis sheep- skin one day, he reined his horse up to the cot- tagedoor of pretty Betty Lee. It wasou old Dautch door, cut into in the middle. She came and leaned upon_the Juwer half, her blue cyes opened wide, and her dainty hands holding fast to a plate which she was wiping. « Betty,” said_he, sulemnly, “the Lord sent mg here to m: yon.” Betty's cyes fell npon the doorstep, and so aid the piate. The demure maiden, however, rallied instantly. «The Lord’s will be done.” she replicd. The Deacon nudged his horse and trotted ™ slowly away, and the maiden finished washing her dishes. Betty’s fatler was not fricndly to the Deacon, and tried to break the cngagement. I{e did not succeed, as appears from the ¢ Emb- Jishment™ which, aceording to the custom of thy times, was pufitc(i upou the Church door. It was the production of the prospective bridc- groom, and ran thus: +'Reynold Marvin and Betty Les To intend to marry; And thongh her dad op-po-ged be, They can no longer tarry. " They were married, and lived in 2 smalil stone house on the west s Street brougnt up a large family of children, and in due course of events were gathered to their fathers. On s time-worn headatone in the Lyme cemetery may be seem the following in- scription: ++This Deacon, aged sizty-eight, 1s freed on Earth from sarving, May for a crown no lonser wait Lyme’s Captain Reynold Marvin," —Harper's Mugazine. g CHURCH SERVICES. PRESGYTERIAN. The Rev. James Maclaughlin will preack morne fng and evening in the Scotch Church. comer of Sangamon and Adams streets. Moraing subjects \\The Prodigal Son.” Evening: **Joehua.” —The Rev. Samuel W. Duflield will preach at the Eighth Charch, corner Robey and Washington streats, 8t10:30 3. m. and 7:45 p. m. Bvenlny subject: **Glory and Shame of 2 Tepublic.”” —The Rev. Asthur Swazey will preach this morn- ing in the Fourth Chiirch,” corner of Rush and So- perior streets, and administer the Sacrament. —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preachat thy Sixth Church, corner Vincennes and Oak avenues, 2110:45a. m. In the evening at 8 o'clock, the Rev. D. F. Stewart, of New York, will preach. _The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preacha historic anniversary scrmon at the Fifth Church, Indians avenue and Thirticth street, at 10:30 a. m. Centennial Sundag-school services with ad- dresses at £ p. M. - CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. George H. Peeke will preach morning ing in the Leavitt Street Charch. ey, David N. Vandereeer will preach at the Union Park Congresational Church, corner Ashlznd avepue and Washington street, 2t 20:30 . 0. kE , M. 3 O A er 2.5, Holbrook will preach morninz and evening in the Oakland Church at the usnat ‘hours. T TheRev. William Alvin Bartlett will preach morning and evening in_Plymonth Church, Michi- Zan aveane, between Twenty-ffth aod Twenty- £ixth streets. Communion service in the morn- ing and Centennial sermon in the evening. URITARIAN. The Rev. J. T. Sunderland, tor, will preacx in the Fourth Charch, corner of Prairi¢ avenne and Thirtieth strect, this morning at 10:45 o'clock. Subject: **The Raison d'Etre’ of Liberal Cluris- tianity.” "Tile Rev. Robert Collyer will preach iatis Ecacc. and In e of “The