Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1876, Page 13

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY.' AUGUST 13, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES s 'RELIGIOUS. Moody and Sankey’s Taber~ nacle in This City. A Definition of God by a Scien- tific Theologian. The Knowledge of Sin and the Knowledge of God. The Cities of the Plain—Confession in the Church of England, Notes and Personals at Home and broad. - MOODY’S TABERNACLE. COST OF THE BUILDING. Appreciating the fact that the public are greatly interested in anything pertaining to the coming of thesc Evangelists to our city, both bere snd throughout the Northwest, we have taken pains to ascertain the facts about the enterprice. Asis known, there is a Committec of the best ‘business men in this city to make the necessary arrangements, the finst of which is to provide 2 buflding. ! Plans for a temporary building demonstrated that $25,000 or $26,000 would be required for that purpose, and that’the salvage would nof exceed §5,000. i These facts sugrested the iden of constructing such walls 25 would answer for a permanent . building, if any oue could be found who would 144 to the net amount, required for a tempo- | own spirit of mind and rary building such sum as would accomplish it. This object has been attained, the only condi- tion being that the net saving from this ar- rangement, above what would be saved from a iempurary buildiny, shall be given to the Y. M. 0. A Tne Committee, by this arrangement, werequired to raise $21,000, which amount, fess the expense of chauging the roof and gal- leries into floors, and the interest on the amount advanced to the Committee for building pur- poses for the the time they use it, will be' paid Lo the Association. The Committee have certainly shown great sagacity in this matter. A The buildiug will scat 8,000 persons, and be thebest for it purpuses thiat. the Evaigelists have oveupied in this country or abroad.” It is acredit to Chicago that sucl'are the and we are sure that our business men who have to ay the bills will :l;fire&i:\te the wisdom of their Bommitice and push the enterprise to a speedy [process, now that the actual loss is reduced to such a small compass, and the gross imyest- ments to the net minimun sum necded fora Lemporary structure, after deductiug salvage. SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY. DEFINITION OF GOD. To the Editor of The Trivune. CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Is there, between Science and Theology, no common ground on which all can agree? For 2,500 years there seems to have been no theological proposition which has com- manded universsl assent. Science, on the con- trary, Las marclied steadily forward, ocenpying ground ou which all can stand. 1f we could lay down some one propogition in Theology to which everybody will agree, having thus obtained a footitig on common ground, perhaps we could advance step by step until so wuch would be gained that theology could be taugcht, the world over, as one of the scicnces. Let us commence with the definition of God. Suppose we detine the word * God ¥ thus: “The upknown, ultimate cause of all phe- nemens.” . ‘This definition cannot be reasonably objected to by any one; and would no doubt be accepted by those called Atheists. 1. God is uukuown. This is conceded by all the greatest thiukers of all ages, theologians as wellus philosophers, Augustine, the most renowned of the Church Eatliers, says: “ An_adequete mowledze of God, and the power adequately to name Him, are unattainable by man, in this earthly life.’— De. Trin, vii., 7. He goes furtlier, and says: It may be ques- tivned whether any positive aflirmation respect- ing Mim is literdlly true.”—/bid, u,1l. And srafn: “ We know with certsinty only what u; is not.'—De Ord., ii., 44, 47. vy =11 Luomn imagi our notions of Him are inadeguate.’ Paul, it is true, said to thcmen of Athens, commenting on the inscription, * To the Un- known God,” that whomn they ignorantly wur- shiped Le desiared unto them. But what did he say purporting to_throw any Light upon the nsture of the Divine Being, or upon the mode of His cuistencee? Puul was manifestly well aware that i Was saying nothing new on th se he quoted from their own in coutirnation of his statements: ets “ A5, said he, * certain also of yonr own pocts have said, tFor we are wlso His offspring.’ "—Acts, z0ii., 25, 20. Paul mizht have reserred the Athenians to their pilosophers as well gs pocts, for the truth of everything he tausht relating to the shsracter’ or sttributes of the Divine Being, or tothe mode of His existence. Those pinloso- hers had taught that God made the world, and Wwas the author of all goodness and of all being. Plato said, {u the Timzcus, that God’s good- ness was tic reason of the construction of the world. Also that the highest good is not pleas- ure, nor knowledge alone, but the greatest pos- sible likeness to God, as the absolutely grood. Aristotle taught that the degree of perfection in everything varies, according as they are more or less removed from the direct influcnee of God. It is plain that all that Panl undertook to de- darc asnew to the men of Athens related to the migsion of Christ and to the resurrection. These conld be aceepted or rejected and the in- eription “To the” Unknown God ” remain as before. -2 God is the ultimate cause. Commencing with phenomena of “f kind, ¥hether whut e call material or that which i8 desicnated 26 spiritual, we obscrve certain rela- tions to which we wive the name of cause and effect. These causes we trace back to other {auses, and so on, sometimes through many links in the chain of causation. But in every Case we arrive at 2 point where the process can be carried no further; sometimes merely from a Tuanifest want of intelligence concerning the laws under investigation, at other times, be- cavse the only remaining step would scem to reach the end of the chain, the final or ultimate E&i& This fical or ultimate cause we call And even n those cases where we think we could follow the chain of causation further ack, if we had more information of the laws of plicnomera, we still recognize the truth, that ¥c would at Jast arrive at the final or ultimate cause, and that cause, as before, we call God. US we come to the truth of our definition. Thus far it is strictly scientific, and should com- mand the assent of all. 80 s00n as we o beyond this; 50 soon 28 we Predicate of this ultimatecause,—even that of in- Lelligence,~however true the predication may S0 5001 we come upon a ground where men will be found to differ, and where, there- fore, the strictly scientific character’ of the definition will be lost. Probably ninety-nine in 2 bundred, and perhaps nine hundred and uine- ;,I)-nhne foa thousand, will agree with me in olding that » God without intelligence s no Godat’ all, and that the definition to_be com- Dlete to our minds should read, “intelligent,” 3 well us “ultimate " cause. But the hun- th or the thousandth would not be willing toadoptit, and their opinions would be entitl $0 respect, the more so_because those holding them would not be found among the most igno- :HHL Their argument runs thus: What we call ntellizence is ‘an attribute of bumanity, and &y or may not be predicated of the author or fause of the universe. Whether or not it isa| true of Him we do not know. As the greater includes the less, if we cannot predicate this, Beither can we any other of the s({?{osed attri- butes of God fa the defnition, en we go beyond we pass into the region of faith and s ation. But, it will be asked, cui bono? Of what use 2hus to contrast the _groundwork of theology? Simply that we may huve something in common With all mankind, as we have in science. Those Y¥ho believe more give up nothing. Tbey sim- Ply come down, in the definition, upon a ground Where all can stand. w. . ENOWLEDGE OF SIN. THE ENOWLEDGE OF GOD. ~ To the Editor of The Tribune. CEICA60, Aug. 11.—The most jmportant ap- Prehensions of knowledge relate to our spirit- ual state, and we are therefore provided with Intelligence enabling us to arrive at very just Qiserimivations in regard to it. IE few of the millions of mankind attain much critical knowl-~ edge of material . things from personal exam- ination, they® yet learn to know well, for the practical purposes of life, the relations and uses of things. Sothe soul knows that in which it is accused or excused, and arrives at the knowl- edge of good and evil. We learn of rclation- ship to God and goodness, and apprehend our tendency of life. fection calls back what we have l);een mi]fd dufi:‘ and we learn what weare. The mirror of cof. lective thought Molds in review the purpose, splrlt, activitles, and judgment of life, and the soul knows cumulatively, from serics, and springs of acts its spiritual state. Thought, truth, the law, are means by which it arrives at this knowledge. Activities of the mind and spirit have no quality of good or evil except in rclauop to law. The wholly ignorant can- oot sin. “I had mot kuown sim but by the law, for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Contrariety and discrimination are re- quired, that there may be sin. “For where there is no there is no transgression.” The interdict of covetousness, marking the path of diversion, was needed to develop lust into sin and death. “QOuce I was alive [kuew no sin] without the law, but when the commandment came, siu [covetousness, which excludes and jp- vades all common good] revived and I died, Aud_ the eommandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death.” Law furnished the condition of intelligence necessary to sin, but covetousness, misusing the commandment, “ wrouglit all manner of con- cupiscence, for without the law enabling to distinguish good and evil, * sin ws death,’” Sin, then, develops through law, “working death,™ alicnation, and condemnation, *by that which i3 goud.”’ " As_intelligence gmf ates guilt, “sin by the commandment becomes cx. ceedingly sinful,” and transfuses its most viru- lent strains, where it coexists with the best in- | formation of luwand relations. Not to recogaize this istobe under the “iinposition as well as guilt of sin. Deception foreruns »s it _attends Lransgression, aud justils the lie, Ye shall ot surely dic,” aud where the persuasion gains that the certain judgment fuseparable from sin does not follow in total separation from God, death has wan its victim. “8in, taking oc- casion by the commandment, deceived me,"” insinuating impunity, “and by it slew me.” To ])rop'-l'.gnbc or iutimaie a soul cau sin and not be ost, i5 to be in arch-imposition among mankind, Where the evil has prevailed “it” works all manuer of concupiscence.” It males the law seem an extreme demund, difficult of accom- plishment, a restraint upon’ liberty, unfriendly, at cumity, and so provoking enmity. How strangely perverse hus a life become to have the pure and perfect love of God aud love of mankind seen ditlicult! The mind cannot adwmit as law that which is inferior, or vicivus, orcalls for less than constant, perfect love. The relation we recognize to righteousuess re. jects any substitute, s changing the trath of God to 2 lie,” and we are obliged to hold that only to be good which fills the only measure of goodness, " For we know the law {s spiritual,” and spiritual purity and trueness alone are life, and unite to God. The “carnal, sold under siu,” are in antithesis *doing what they allow not,” violating known guod, thus, *consenting to the law that it is go0d,” and adding igno- miny to wicked: For the acme of guilt and depravity is in sinning against, intelligence and law. Foriu the desh” or life that covetous- ness dictates ¢ there dwelleth no good thing to stop its course. “To will, is present, but how to perform good I find not.” ‘The words “to will? express no condition or activity of goodness, for the soul cannot choose, or act, without known resource, or ‘“how to perform,” from a heart full of good- ness. ‘They express the Iutegrity of the Sense of righteousness and the ju ent of the sonl. For it is an imperishable attribute of the Divine likeness of mind to decide justly against sin. “For Idelight in the law of God after the in- ward man.”” The intelligent, discerning, know- ing soul delights in, approves, and decides with the law, as 2 necessity of couscientious appre- hension, but these decisions are not goodness, for there is “ anotber Law wWarring against the law of the mindsinward man or intelligent soul] end bringing into capiivity to the law of sin.” Goodness, then, is distinct. from the power or ey, of discerning or approving, or the urgency of conscience 1o good. It is the performing disposition, of active truencss, m the place of ‘“the law of sin,”” supporting ‘“‘the law of the wird.” Ttis only in what the soul does it knows its state.” *‘Hereby do we know that we know Him, if we keep His commaudments.!” Intelligent sinners, with the rich eadowments of being, instrugted by law, and all mforming tributaries, are in the most guilty con trudiction. of covetousness and ~ known good. They are fuce to face in God's Court, the” judement scat of the soul, with nothing to alleviate the offense. The light around adds cnority to their sin, % The lawy was added, that the offense might abound.” And all the stages of sin, assoviated with trath Y treasure up wrath, against the day of wrath,” Conscientivus decisions are often illusive of goodricss, but if they convict of sin they in- crease guilt. Feints to do good in sin are im- positions, for covetousness predetermines their violation, and renewiug them is but repeating perildy, and afliving covenant-breaking stains, Comnnuittal to God by dbprehending the spirit of truth is righteousness, that remains; but promises, from premises that perpetually fail, are but an sppeasing sop to_conscience, and a searing brand of infamy. Religious purposes aud practices are sin,—lhoping to escape perdi- tion iu sin—the guilty clalin of woriing for God and saving souls insin. The shamecless pretense of praying that God’s will be done, while violating it, shows the blindness, the depth, and extent of spiritual imposition. ' The ardent preaching and “exbortation of such, the fervent singing, and prayers, are *the incense that is an aboination,” the fetid emanation of prurient sinners ‘“sporting themselves with their own deceivings. Violated law is a standing reprobation “‘to cvery soul of man that docth evil.” It can be contemplated only with condemnation. Sin is lust, coveting, willing, doing, *the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedicnee.” Its inception and being is with knowledge of law. And to “do that which I allow not, and do not what T would,” because “evil is present? per- verting all the uses of intelligence, is the most azgravating tvpe of spiritual wickedffess. Gross forms of vice may not appear where there is most guilt, or in the most intellizent eriminal, and perhaps m: n sensuous life, for a time, barely touch the Hne of spiritual apprehension., 8o t}yw religion of mauny is sensuous feeling, stimulated by external presentation and action, fitful and fitted to expire with its natal day and cause. But thought, law, contrasts of covetous- ness, and the “more excellent way,” dissipate ihe turgid_chullitions and_disclose the pure thought and spirit of a truc life, and the treach- ery, Eflsehoud, dishonesty, and extreme perver- sity of those who ‘““kne¢w their Master's will, but did it not.” Moreover, if the love and_ kindoess of God, our_ Savior, has shown, only to be obscured serain, fnstead of regenerating, sharper yet are the stings of guilt. "And so the last state of any sinner is worse than any preceding, from rinate to sacristan as well as publican. *“ For there is no difference” in the classes where sin appears, ‘‘and there is no respect of persons with God.” The knowledge of sin isthe only certainty in any soul it is separated from Gog. “ He that docth evil hath not seen God,” and “every one that doeth evil hateth the light.” The living spirit of sin is that which crverts all gifts of being, and where it is known, * that which may be known of God, is manifest iu them [sinners], for He hath showed it to them.” And it is the utmost that can be done to save, to make sin, a constant presence and power, tntil deliverance is sousht. It ia then o great crime and injury defeating the use of the knowledge of sin, the work of the 1aw, to think_or inculcate that auy who sin are not lost: *“ For ihe wrathof God is revealed against all ungodliness and uanrighteousness of meun who hold the truth in uanrighteousness,’ or know the good, but etill commit sin, and augment their guilt. There is a phantaty in some, that their ideal of life is so high, they have a commendabie sense of guilt,—thus, siu- like, exalting crime to a virtue. But the least good is more excellent than any ideal, ““for be that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.” A true heart dispels ideal vagaries, for it is very real. “Ile that is justin the least is just in much. Against such, thereisnolaw.” 8in is always alienation and separation from God. ~Condemnation is knowledge of reprobation. ‘“If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”” The soul is caused to see itself in the mirror of divine knowledge, and must accept the truth it reflects. Knowledge of sin is a result, or conclusion, in the soul of its relation toax, to good, and 'to God, and any plan by which a class of sinners are privileged ith ex- emption {rom its consequeuces is, ob'nuUs_l_v, treason to righteousness and comiplicity with wickedness. Neither law nor_grace has any common ground with sinners. The tirst stamps its seal of condemmation upon the soul, the other ‘“‘redeems from all iniquity, cleanseth from all sin.” Knowledge of law carries a cor- responding sense of guilt, where sin exists, _nng but for the delusion “Ye shall not surely die. it would be accepted as final of one's standing. Yet there are religious sinners who construe their knowledge of guilt to be & proper appre- ciation of Jaw, whereas law has made them aP— preciate their apostasy. Conricts as suitably regard the laws they Lave bfoken and liber- tities the spiritof chaatity, as any sinoer regards the *beauty of bolingsa)' The kauwledge of "8in’ includes broken law and denial of God; violated conscience, of sense of light; a sense of condemnation, or deatb-sentence of law, of ;‘gélsth‘llu:w, and gl cna;du present esili? or - & Just, preventing good; the imposition it a1l is 2ot Tost " when Lruth 16 logh Lz The catesory is the epitaph of sin. Written with 4 pen of iron and the diamond. 1t is graven upon the table of their bearts, and upon the horus of your altars,” at- tainting all service. The knowledee of gin is by the law, and all the products of evil “the strength of sig,” in the varfous lusts of which the soul is cognizant; “the motions of sin by thelaw bringing forth fruit unto death,” ar legitimate developements of evil, for the pur- pose of befng removed, A1l sinners, for there is no differesice,” are in this condemaation, or t‘.l‘ealh[\beuusg of the spirit of disobedien ey working deith ” in them. It is to purge this spirit God_draws nearto all, impressing the truth that He loves and comes to save. ~And sglvm‘un is separation and preservation from sin. *We are saved by the washing of regen- eration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,—arc cleansed from all unrighteousncss, Ye have purified your souls.in obeying the truth throngh the Spirit. Our old man’is crucified, that the body of sin might be destroyed. He was man- ifesied to take away our sins,—to purge your cunscience,~—that, once purged, there should be 1o more conscience of sins.” And the entire record of grace is a streaming ministry of spir- itual truth and communion, regenerating and establishing unblamable in holiness. Not to appreheql ” this s Dot to recognize the fist naine of the New Testament—Sa. vior. By law is only the knowledge ofsin, In grace, s regeneration from sin, the knowledge of epiritual purity and truth, through the law of the splrit of life in Christ, making frec from the luw of sin_and death, And here: by do we know that we know im, if we kcep His commandments. He that saith'T know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, Is a Har, and the truth is not in him. But whosokeepeth His word, in him is the love of God perfected. Hereby do we kuow that we are in Him.” The Imowtedge of sin and the knowledge of God are infinite extremes. N. 8. SO0DOM AND GOMORRAH. THE ““TEL" SYSTEM IN PALESTINE. The London Atheneum of Jate date containg a long and interesting article from the pen of Selah Merrill, descriptive of his explorations in Palestine. A part of it is as follows: 1 have a feeling that what I call the tel system of the Jordan Valley hus never been dwelt upon or dercloped ay it deserves to be. In the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, a city, in the Assyrian and Babylonian times, Dresuppored a mound on which it was built. In the Old Testament citics are sev- eral times mentioned as standing upon monnds, or tels, especlally in connection with the Jowlands. The Cunasnifes lay along the Jordsn Valley (Numb., xiii., 29)] butit is not to be supposed that they built their habitations on the fiat Jand in themud. It is, however, the most natural thing in the world to suppose that they would occupy tho tels, or mounds, and if these did not already exist. that they would construct them before bullding their citics. _Beginning at the north, the rat group of tels is abont Lake Hulen, or Merom, some of which areartiicial, since thenpporting walls, com- posed of great bowlders Inid in regular tiers, are visible atsome points. Thc next group is in the Succoth region (I understand thut there was both a town and a district called Succoth), just north of the Jabbok. At the mouth of Wady Zerka there i8 Tel el Hamma, which has rains upon it. At the mouth of Wady Rajib, about onc hour and a haif north of the Jubbok. is Tel Amnata, which also has ruins npon'it. Nearly west of the mouth of Wady Zerks, fn the greal plain of the dJordan Valley, which at this point is very wide, is Tel Deir Alla, on which aze Tuins with some ‘re- mains of columns. Five or six miles northwest of this is Tel el Mizar, and one hour northwest of this agsin Is Tel e Sadiyeh, the Iatter a remurkable mound in its shape, and so thickly covered with pieces of broken pottery of all ages and colors and quulities that they could casily beraked into heaps. Lesides these there are others, snd among then should be mentioned Tel Damich, situated fnsl be- low the Succoth plain, south of where the Jabbok cnters the Jordan, and in the plain of the lower Ghor. 1f I couldcut into two or three of these tels, 1 could prove or dieprove certain thingw which, although very plausible, are still only mattersof tho- ory. But I cannot describe these mounds minntely, since T wish to speak at more length of the Jast in- teresting group which is on the great Shittim plain, at the northeast corner of the Dead Sea. lere are five tels, all of which have ruint upon them sufs- cient ta show that they have been places of im- . Tel Nimrah i8 the most northern, and has been identified with Beth Nimrah, Five miles south of this is Tel Refrein, and about 3 miles south of that is Tel er' Rama, and my observations only corroborate the sus- gostions of others, that this i3 identical with the Beth Aram of Joshua, xiii., 27. StM] further south is Snweimeh, not A tel, but a marshy place, where there are ruins. There are sufficient reasons for identifying this with the Deth Jeshimoth of XNumbers, xxxiji., 49. West of this irregularline —that is, bptween it and the Jordaa—tlere are no mounds or ruins of auy Kind. The Israelites, in their last encampment, lay niong from Beth J cshi- moth on the Fouth to Abel Shittim on_the north. From this latter place, sometitnes called Shittim, and in Josephus' time Abila, the spies went forth to Jericho. ‘This place was morth of Beth Aram, and not so far north as Beth Nimrah, Kor scveral reasons, which I cannot mention here in detail, Ishould locate Abel Shittim at Tel Kefrein, This Tel has an older name, which, however, is seldom used by the modern Arabs, 'This name is **Telles Sharab, " i. e., the Tel of Drinking, or the place where good water is abundant. The Iebrew word ‘*Abel ™ means a grassy place, or meadow, which finplics an” amplo supply of water, Enst of Tel Kefrein and Tel er Ruma are two other important tels, namely, Tel el llammam, where there are ruins and ahot +prinz, and Tel Ektanu (the accent on the first syllable, ck), where are some of the oldest ruins that 1 have yet 'scen in the country. Of the word ** Ektann ™ the Arabs can give no ac- count either of ‘its mexning or origin, except they Fay that both the name and the place are very old. The word has, in fact, no meaning in Arabic, which obliges us to look elscwhere for ity origin and signification. It appears to be the Ile~ brew word ““katan," which means *‘little," or *“the little one.” This rignification is appropriate for this tel s compared with the others, It is well known that the Phaniciuus bad cities besring the name Katanu or Katane. The situation of this tel ix moticeable from the fact of its being in the plain, but, at the same time, very pear the Mountatns of Moab, which aporoach the Desd Ses at its north- east corner. The *‘little city™ to which Lot fled on the morning of the great catastrophe (Genesis, xix.) was in the plain, and doomed to destruction withi the rest, but wss spured because Lot, who bad not time to tice to the mountain, wished to make it bis temporary refage. 1f the citics that were de- stroyed were at the north end of the Dead Sea, this Tel Ektann would be_exactly in the direction 'that Lot would take if bis intention was to hasten to the neighboring hills for safety, and the distance also barmonizes with_the timé allowed the fugitive, namely, from dawn to sunrise, The fatal obje tion to all the hitherto proposed sites of the *‘lit- tle city ™ is that they are several times too far from the scene of the disuster, whether the cities are Dlgced at the south or at the north end of the Dead Sea. LTt s oint of 2 1 wish it understood that I donot propose to con trovert the theory of #ny one with regard to this vexed question, bat simply to state as briefly as possible some of the resuits of my personal and careful observations upon the ground during the months of March and April, 1876. It is nowhere stated in the Bible that thesc cities were submerged, and their ites are nat to be looked for at the bot. tom of the Dead Sea. Again, it is now estublished beyond fli!rnle that the surface of the Dead Sea wis never fess than it is at present. Daring post ages the surface has gradually contracted to its present limits, Consequently the theory that the shallow water south of the peninsula, or El Lisan, covers the sites of those cities, hes no foundation, At the sonthern end of the fen there s a great ealt marsh, and only 2 narrow belt of fertile Jand Detween it and the mountains. Besides, at that end there are no tels on which cities could have been built, and only very insignificant ruins, Five sites only are required; and at the north end the sea there fsa vast fertile plain, with foar tels (ot counting Tel Nimri), upon which are ruins, and onc place besides bas no marked tel, but where there are ruins, i e., Suweimeh, or Beth Jeshimoth. The Bible nowhere states that the sites of these cities were destroyed; indecd. one of the doomed cities, which was close to the others, was saved. 1t is reasonable to sup- ose that these sites were afterward built npon, Jjust as in the case of a burned city in modern times men do not hesitate to build again upon that site, provided it is an eligible one. In the time of Moses and Joshua, which was five centuries nearly after the time of Lot, we find cities upon thiy plain whose sites we are able to identify beyond any reazonable doubt. And it is perfectly natural and legitimate to suppose that these sites had been occupicd from the remotest times. At the period just referred to, the mnost_southern of these cities way Beth Jeshimoth, which means housc of deso- lation, to which' the present Atabic name. “‘Suweimeh,™ 1. ¢., dry land, desolate place, cor- responds very nearly. “But if these names sre taken as significant of the character of the place, they are far from beingappropriate; hence I would suggest that they may have retained during: thirty or forty centuries the impression produced upon the naiional mind by the great catustrophe. SBut wherever Sodom ~and Gomorrah are finally located, five sites must be provided for, four of which shall represent the four cities that were destroyed, and ome ihich must be in the same plain with the rest, and very near them, and also nearer the mountain than the others, to renresent the *little city to which Lot fled for temporary refuge. The fact that one Iie- brew word has been substituted for_another, iden- tical with it in meaning, i. e., Karan for Zoar, ought not to be urzed as an objection to identifying Tel Ektanu with the sitp of the ** little city, " pro- vided all the other circumstances of the case point to it as the proper one. 1f this Tl is taken as Zoar, it will mnake intelligible what is said of Lot when he stood with Abraham on a Lill near Bethel, and looked down the Jordan Valley toward the Dead Sea (Gen. xiii., 10). As this verse is ren- dered in our English Dible. the meaning is not wvery clear; but it will become so if one will read all the middic portion of the verse as u_parenthe- sis, as follows: +*And Lot lifted up his eyes and Delield ali the plain of the Jordan (that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, evenas the Garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt) until thou comest to Zosr.™ The last clause qualifies the first. Lot gaw all the plain of the Jordan a8 furas Zoar, or until you come to Zoar. Zogr was the limit of the view in that direction, and must be on the north e1d of the Dead Sea; for no hamun visian. uzless mircelously nided, could reach the southern end and distingnish anything; while from the pont where he Stood the arcatness and bezaty of tlic great Shittim plain aré distinctly seen. By Jocat- ing Zoar at this point I think lizht ta thrown upon the view of Moses as indicated in Dentoronomy, xxxiv. The etatement in this passage is very syo: tematic. First Moses looked to the north and saw Gilead and_Naphtali; then o the west, and saw Ephrim, Mnnaseeb, and all the ‘land of Juduh; then to the south, and he fnished by looking down upon **the plain of the Valley of Jericlo mnto Zoar," which lay lmost ot his very fcet. suppos- ing he stood upon the Seaghsh summit, One, standing there, cannot fail to realize the force of the Tebrew words of the third verse, namoly, cicear, which includes the plain on both sides of the river. aud dikath (valley), which signifiey & great cleft between mountains, The mountains aippear na if they had Deeu spread apart and the plain had sunk down far between them. CHURCH CONFESSION. T8 PRACTICE IN THE CHURCK OF ENGLAND. )| In the House of Lords, on Triday, July 21, - Lord Oranmore, in rising to move fora cupy of | report of the Committec of the Upper Iouse. of Convocation of the Provtace of Canterbury, | with regard to confession, said he ought tor apologize to thelr Lordships for bringing before them a subject not altogether some members of their Lordships’ house. The subject was not ouly a complicated one, but it was one of the greatest importance, the interest in which was augmenting every day, for it tonched the question of habitual confession,—a . practice which had becn condemned as con- trary to the practice the Church of England +by the highest authority of the Church. As the highest officers of the Church of England sat in that house, he thought he had sclected the proper place for discussing the subject. He brought the matter before public notice in 1873, and therc was considerable debate on it inthe Upper House of Convocation. Considerable difficulty was cxpressed 28 to how the matter shouid be dealt with, but the purport of the de- batewas to condemn compulsory confession, and to show that habitual, compulsory, or sac- Tamental confession was contrary to the prac- tices of the Established Church. As to the Public Worship act, it did not give any greater facility in dealing with the practice than existed beforé the passing of that act, and thercfore, he was sorry to say, the practice of habitual sucramental “confession was spreading. They had all recently read in the public press a ver unfortunate case, and they all sympathized with the poble Earl. He had recently been talking toa lady, who said no doubt thoyall sympa: thized “with the mnoble Earl,” but that there was not one family cmong the upper classes in Dfe whick had not to regret some similar case. There was not a Dio- cese in which this practice of confession did not prevail in one or more churches. In a recent sermon the Bishop of Maunchester said that although no_one had a greater dread of the in- troduction of confession_ than himself, yet be had be:n unable to forbid it, as one of his most earnest and most gifted clergymen represented that he could usc it to keep young men pure. It did not appear, however, that the existence of the confessional kept the youth of France and Italy pure, and he contended that the right reverend prelate, in fubxicxy accepting habitaal coufession had acted wltra virer, and done a ?'iuvnus wrong to the National Church. As 0 the literature of confession, which might be ranked with that of Holywell street, he would merely remark that there was one point on which” it constantly insisted—namely, that if a person felt inclined to confess, he ought not to allow himeelf to be influenced in a contrary direction by even his nearest and dearest friends. With regard to this evil, be might mention two typical cases. One was furnished by a letter which was written by a clergyman fo a young lady, aud which was to the following effcet: My Drar CiLp: [tried to see you after even- fong to tell you you should use your own judzment a3 to whether you should communicate withoat previous confeasion. . . ., I should mot say anythinz unkind; but it eccms to me if you Jeave off coming toa sacrament which ear Lord has ordained for the forgiveness of sins done after baptism, you ure running a great risk. 1know no other way by which, mortal sin committed after baptism s forgiven except by sacrameatal confes- rion and absolntion: If you are liwing and dying without again being ahsoived, it is oniy right that you should see clearly the risk you arc running. The same clergyman, he understood, hod since. forwarded to a young lady o _small book, enti- tled, ¢ Absolution, and how it is to be obtain- ed,"” containing questtons for self-examination on the seventh commandment. The second ease was described by o letter, which had been ad- dressed to him by a father: “ About two ‘montls ago,” his correspondent wrote, %1 dis- covered that my daughter had, for shout eightcen months, beenalmostmonthly confessing to a clergym: She tells me that” when shé first went there she told him she was not. of ase, and that she had come to him unknown to either of her parents, and that if they laew of it they would be very angry.” The letter went on to state that this clergy- man’s church was_open cvery Friday from 3 to 5; that he satin his surplice in 2 small room screencd from the church, and that one went inat a time, koelt down beside bim. and re- ceived sbsolution by his putting his hand on the head. Such was the result of this miser- ablesystem that a graduate of the University, a clergzyman of the English Church, an English gentleman, being carried away by sacerdotal Zeal, acted contrary toall rules of honor or o0d feeling, and deliberately encouraged filial isobedience and systematic deceit. That cace was well known {n'the neighborhood where it occurred. The clergy felt their cloth assailed, the laity asked whether their children were to be thus decoyed from them; but they knew that they were safe in the hands of the most reverend prelate; they knew that he had stated that sacramental confession had no place in the Church of England; they knew he had promised to use all the _power and influence of his high position and his high character to sup- presa it; sond therefore they were assured [ that his Grace would publicly visit with the gravest censurc ouc whose conduct Was unbecoming o clergyman and a entleman, He wounld say one word more. None of themn were frec” from attacks so trencherous, but they couldchauge their church, their schools, their resideuce. But in country parishes the poor had no defense. Had tney notaright to expect that Parlinment would protect them by sceing that the parish clergy- man of the National Church conformed to the practice and teaching of that Church? That habitual confession was gaining daily a stronger hold on the English Church ke had shown: he believed that confession was the cornér-stone of sacerdotalism, and that no greater evil ever afllicted society. Nationally it robbed men of self-refiance; fn England it would divide class from class. Soctally it would destroy our En- glish homes by interposing a stranger between husband and wife, between father and child. Religiously it would rob us of pure Christianit; by creating many modiators instead of one. I 2 contagious disease threatened man or beast Parliament interfered to protect them. He prayed now those wio had the power to en- dcal\‘?lr to stay the advance of that deadly moral malady. The Bishop of London aid that in one of the cases referred to he had called upon the clergy- man to defend himsclf against the charges which had been brought ngainst him and to explain his conduct in the matter. e had received in reply aletter from the clergyman in question, which contained a promise of obedicnce on the part of the Jatter tu his spiritual ruler. His at- tention had been subsequently directed by some clergymen to the fact that young persons stated to them that they had "been confessed by a curate, and that they had warned them aeainst doing so for the future. The Right Reverend Prelate then proceeded to point out that the mere fact of a clergyman receiving a confession would not afford grounds for Yruscuutiug him for teaching false doctrine, and observed that there were few things more dangerous than_in- stituting prosecutions for teaching false doc- trine unless they were based on the clearcst and strongest evidence. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The next meeting of the National Conference of Unitarian and other Christian chnrches, will be held at Saratoga Sept. 12 to 18, There are 19,257 Methodist Episcopal Sunday- schools, containing 207,182 teachers, and 1,406, 168 scholars, i the United States. The regular Baptists number in the United States 21,551 churches, 13,354 ministers, and 1,761,710 members. With other Baptist bodies the Baptist membership reached the first of last year 2,335,737 A speaker in Peter Dwyer's meeting at New York lately said: “I knew a hackman who uged to stand down by the City-Hall, and who wasa great drinker. He was converted not long ago, and said he tome one day, * Why, sir, even my hotse knew I was converted, for before that I used to steal &is oats to buy rum, and now he gets them himself.” The American Baptist publication Society has offered nine prizes of $30 each for ninc trocts upon the following subjects: (1) The relations oY the New Testament Church to the preceding dispepsations, (2) Its_relations to the world, (3 confession of faith in Christ a prerequisite to admission in it, (1) a permanent church organiza- tion revealed in the New Testament, (3) the rad- ical didference Letween Baptist wid Pedobaptist cable to | and teaching of-| churches, (6) the design of Christian baptism, (7) the design of the Communion, (3) the testi- mony of history as to the workings of the church polity conteined in the Testament, (9) the teichings of history as to the influence and effect of infant baptism. The defection of the young missionery of the Appleton Mission in Brooklyn, who rin away with the daughter-of his bountiful benefactor, will not interfere with the progress of the evan- gelical work there. The mission is held in the old Johnson mansion, close by Appleton’s print- ing-house. In the present warm weather, opes air’ meetings are held on the surrounding grounds, and with great success. The Congregational Association of Oregon lias passed a resolution to the effect that the 11 true solution of the Chinese guestion is not to oppose the comlufi of the Chincse to these shores, nor to_sgek any modification of the treaty, but to break down by legal restraints and penulties the present contract system of the Chinese companies, and destroy their power to keep those brought here in a state of virtual slavery, The journal of the eighty-sixth annual Con- vention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocesc has appeared. The present number of communi- cants in the diocese is reported to be 14,110, the confirmations during the year 1,312, an ipcrease in coufirmations over the jear previous of 159, and the number of Sunday-school scholars, 12,016, ~Of the money raised during the year,. $454,052 were used for. religious work in’ the parishes, and §64,213 “for outside benevolent purposes. F The African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized as a scparate body by Richard Alien, 2 blacksmith, of Philadelphis, and its firs preacher and first Bishop, in 1816. It has bad cleven Bishops during the years of its existence, six of whom still live. Their first church, in Philadelphia, was dedieated by Bishop Asbury in 1706. During the sixty vears of their sepa- rate existence they have gathicred into their fold near] ly 400,000 menbers, and they own $4,000,000 worth of church property. They have iwents- scven annual conferences, and one University, at Xenia, 0., besides several smaller instftutions of learning. The officinl statistics of the Presbyterian Chiurch (North) have been pablished by the Rev. Dr. Edward F. Hatfield, the Stated Clurk of the General Assembly. The_Synods are in number 36; the Preshyicrice, 159 ministers, 4,744; churelics, 5,077; the additions on professions of faith, 48,210: communicants, 535,210; members of Sunday-schools, 555,347. The. contributions from April, 1875, to April, 1576, for Home Mis. sions, werc $313,603; Foreign Missions, $390. 767; for the Education_Buard, 351,127 Publi- cation Board, $76,335; Relicf 'Fund, $00,645; Freedmen, $39,810; sustentation, $33,421; Gen. cral Assembly, §33,405: cougregational and mis- cellaneous, over $8,753,000. The total monc; raised for the vear is stated to be sz»,slu,%:}y The falliuz off in missionary contribitiols is about $20,000; in contributions for education, $200,000; for church erection, also $200,09 The total contributions for 1576 are a little above that for 1875. The increase occurs under the liead of misccllancous contributions, which, for 1875, were SS07,481; in 1676, $2,100,150. In one respect High Church clergy has done good service to the nation; they have spoken out boldly, and called a * spade a spade; * still courage to use the simplest wordis by no means general, and with many clergymen, to be plain and forward in their pulpit language scems an impossibility. I remember quite a sensation runping through a congregation when a Prcw:h- er, one evening, {nstead of talking about * habits of cleanliness,” and the necessity of regular % gblution,” remarked that “plenty of soap and water hud & healthy bracing effect upon the body, and so indiréctly benefited the mind.” People were aghast; and looked as much as to say, “ Come, come, this won't do; if Mr. So- and-so really meansus to wash, we'd better leave the church; he ought not to say what he means in homely words like these; if he insists upon using terms ever;budy can understand we shall have to protest.’” Atthe time of the Irish fam- ine, no clergyman could bring himself to say the word * potsto” in the pulpit. Preachers call it “ that root, upon which so many of God’s crea- tures depend for support, and which in His wise purposes had for a time ceased to flourish; ™ or spoke of that * esculent succulent, the loss of which has deprived so many hungry sinners of their daily sustenance; ” but no one said * po- tato."—Macmillan’s Magazine. Correspondence of the Middletown (Ct.) Argus from a neighboring camp-ground gives the fol- lowing: Ars. Van Cott stated this morning in the Taber- nace that the number of those who have been cou- verted under ber labors is 20,000. She also spoke reminiscently. She had lived a merry life. Be- came a bride at 18, and was for years the centre of 8 gay circle that went to the theatre, the opera, or the masquerade, as she sct the example. Her first ‘born flie%. ‘but a few monthe after she was azaim in the whirl of pleasure. Her father-in-law, whom she Joved ax a parent, died with bis eyes fixed npon her, sud though that last dying look haunted her, she retnrmed to the mazes of the dance. Her hns- band's health became 5o wasted that she took npon ‘hersclf the greater part of his busmmness, and that £he could mceet her new responsibilities the better, they removed to New York. The description of ber parting from her dear old home bronght many tears from the andience. Sad a8 was the removal, God wasin it. Walking to her oflice, the spirit came to her, and at oncé ehe yielded and promincd the Lord that if He would take her she would give Lersclf to Him. Having made her vow, she looked up and saw that she was standing beside the John Strect Church. Already was the shadow of Method- ism upon ber. Then she was conscions thut the Almizhty Father had accepted her as His child, and she was full of rapturons joy. But the hour of mew hirth was also the hour of temptation, The gnvfl came, ond the following conversation ensued: . Devil—How do yoa knew you belong to God? Mrs. Van Cott—Because I'have given myself to im. Devil—Rut have you the evidence? rs. Van Cott “(after a moment of tronbled thought)—** He that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out. " Instantly the devil departed, and never since hus either question been renewed. PERSONAL. The Rev. Knowles Sharw, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, corner Indiana avenue and Twenty-fifth ‘strect, has returned after a month’s vacation, aod will supply his pulpit regularly hercafter. The Rev. Bishop Andrews of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States organ- ized an annual conference at Upsala, Sweden, Aug. 1, and expected to organize another at Christiania, Norway, Aug. 16, The Rev. Nathaniel Ward, D. D., died in Camden, Me., his 'vative town, the other day, of consumption. He was a leading Baptist and scholar, a graduate and Trustee of Colby Uni- versity, and until recently a professor of Shurt- Ieff College, Upper Alton, TIl. His aze was 5¢ e years. He leaves a widow and two daughters. i The Neshaming Church at Hartsville, Pa., has had only seven pastors fn 150 years. Its first pastor was the Rev. William Tennent, the friend of Whiteficld. It is s2id to have been founded in 1710, but its authenticated history dates from 1726. Mr. Tennent founded the famous “Log College,” out of which grew Princeton College, New Jersey. ‘The Rev. John De Witt, now pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pa., bas been unanimously chosen pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, as euc- cessor to the Rev. Dr. Boardman. Mr. De Witt is the son of the Rev. Dr. De Witt, for- merly pastor of the Market-Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Pa., and was pastor for some years in the Central Congrewational Chureh, Boston, Mass., siuce which he atficiated in Pittsburg, r. Robert Barbour, of Manchester, England, has given the sum of £10,000 for the endowment of a Professorship in the Presbyterian Coliege at London. This gift is intended to be a part of the_Thanksgiving fund of £350,000; by which the Presbyterian Church of England purposes to celebrate the recent union of the two Presbyte- rian bodies now composing it. The donors to the fund are given the right to designate alnost any object within the range of chureh work as the recipient of their wifts. ANCHBISHOP CONOLLY, In_losing Archbishop Conoily, of Halifax, the Catholic Church in Canada las lost one of its oldest, wisest, and most liberat prelates: He was 8 man whose character was best portrayed i the_motto he had adopted,—Gratia vobis ¢t paz. When De. Walsh was sent, to Nova Scotia in 1842 as Coadujutor-Bishop, the Propaganda designated Conolly, then a priest of 27, toaccom- fim}y him as his sécratary. In 1851 he wasmade ishop of St. John, and, in 1339, he succceded Dr. Walsh in the Archiepiscopal Sec of Halifax. Archbishop Conolly was an ardent. theologian, and had indecd maintained, in 1859 a famous }mbllc controversy avith Judge Wilmot. But for all this, therp wasuo man so thuroughly tolerant, =nd so beloved and respected by his fellow-citizens of diffcrent creeds. The best lnrocf of this has heen afforded by the barmony n which the Protestants and Catholics of Nova Scotia have lived through these stormy days in the religious history of the Dominion, while in Ontario, Quebec, and New Bruuswick there have been strivings, bitterncss and bloodshed. Such arabid anti-Catholic paneras the Witness re- grets bis loss; the Halifax Chronicle, n strong. Protestant journal, pays the raost affecting Aribute to his memory as Christian, patriot, an gentleman; and the Rev. George Graat, of the Presbyterian Church of Halifax, does not hesi- tate to publish u letter in which he says: He wasaman of peace, ever secking to build bridges rather than dig ditches between men of different creeds. He was a grest man, withan eye that discerned any spark of greatneas in others, with a noble scorn of ull that is base. BREVITIES. Danbury News: An enthusiastic but rather tiresome member of o Danbury church started into a prayer at arecent meeting. He prayed With great fervor for the brethren. Finally he paused, and the congregation, thinking he had done, indiscrectly started 8 hymn. * Hold on there, for heaven’s sake! ” screamed the excited brother, I nin’t prayed for the ‘sistern yet.” The hymn gave place to handkerchiefs immedi- ately. In Kalamazoo, the other day, & woman 25 years of age, being told in church that a decrce of divorce Liad been granted her by a Judge ina neighboring town, began to sing at the top of ter voice, “ My country, 'tis of thes, sweet land of liberty,” greatly to the consternatiou of the congregation and the indignation of the parson, who was obliged to stop his sermon un- til the happy woman could be escorted from the house. B A family in East St. Loufs employed a girl to do housework. The mistress of the house ob- serving that hernew *“help® was much addict- ed to Methodist hymns, nsEcd herif shebelong- ed to that church. ‘“No,” she replied, “not exactly a member; but I have been took in on suspicion!” “Probation, you mean.” ““No Idon't (ina sharp accent, and witha dogmatical manuer), I kuow what Imean; I ‘Wwas tooK in on suspicion.” “‘Hion' Lire BrLow STARS.”—Master Ssnlfling): ““There’s a most extraordinary smell, ames; I've mnoticed it several —.7 Hall Porter: ‘I don't wonder at it, sir. I've spoken about it down stairs. The butler, sir, you see, is *’Igh Church,’ which he ’as it up a horatory in the pantry, and burns hincense. We could stand that; but the couk is_the ¢Low Church ’ persunsion, and she burns brown paper to hob- viate the hincense. 1t’%s perecktly hawful on saints’ days, sir '— Punch. A country curate, ina letter to Blackwood’e Mugazine, s2ys that on one occasion he baptized 2 child named “Acts.”” Afterward in the vestry he asked the good woman what made her choose such a name. Her answer was this: “WWhy, sir, we be relizious people; we'se mot four on ‘em already, and they be called Mattherw, Mark, Luke, and John, so myhusband thought he’d compliment the Apostles a bit.” _He has no doubt they will 2o on to Revelation, ‘they being particalarly religious people. ‘The libellant’s counsel in a divorce case in England recently, while cross-examining the corfespondent concerning 8 certain affecting leave-taking with the respondent at a ra.ihvu{' station, asked: **Did you not place d’onr hand in bis, saying, ‘ Meet me in heaven, George’ Would you have hud me to ask him_to” meet me iu hell?” flashed back the lady. When the roar in the court-room bad subsided, the lawyer repeated: Did you, or did you not ask him to meet you in heaven!” ¢ Yes. Idid,” was the next retort, “but I huPe you don’t call thag an improper a3signation!’ ‘This comes from North Brookfield: A little 4-ycar-old boy, Willie by name, enjoyed the Tuxury of sleeping with "his mother duringa short illness. ~“After his entire recovery his mother told him one night that he was to go again to his own little room. He made no ol jections, but, after being undressed, said to his mother, “Mother, I want to eay my prayers alone to-night.” *‘But why do you want to, Willie?”” ¢ Because I want to, mamma.” Moth- er humored him, and, standing outside the door, heard Willie' pray as follows: “O God, make Willie sick; make him real sick; make him wommit; but don’t dead him.” How much that boy wanted to sleep with his mother! We heard a reminiscence the other day worth repeating. In the camp of oneof our Rhode Jsland regiments, during the Rebellion, the tent of the chaplain was near the regimental ost-office, and the good man was frequently Sismrhcd by soldiers thrusting their heads in ail bad arrived. To rid himself of this annoyance he one day put upa large placard bearing the legend: The chap- 1ain does not know whether the mafl has arrived or not.” en glancing at the announcement the next morniug imagine the. chaplain’s sur- prise on reading this addition to it.evidently made by some disappointed secker after letters from home—*‘and doesn’t care a damn.” He took down the placard.—. Sun. One of the boys while reading Whittier's “Centennial Hymn ” yesterday to a little circle in the back room of a certain business house _in and inquiring if the m the city was interrupted with, “What!_ Old Whittaker writing bymns? _Well, welll Why, I knew the old feller in *49 in *Frisco, and & harder, tougher, fizhtener cuss yon never sgw. 8’posed he passed in his checks long ago. And he’s alive, is he? and writing bymns? Well, well! If old Whit can get away with hymns, bust me if I don’t commence writing missionary tracts.” Then the old *'49er® gazed with as- tanishment upon the smiling features of those around him, and proposed “licking ”_any one who doubted his knowing “Old Whit? in “Frisco™ in *40.—Helena (Montana) Herald. CHURCH SERVICES. BPISCOPAL. The Rev. Henry G. Perry, Rector, officiates this morning and evening in All Saints' Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Ohio streets, ~—The Rev. W. H. Hopkins, Rector, will officiate £10:30 this morning and at7:45 this evening in St. John’s Church, on Ashland avenue, near Madi- son atrest, = ~The Rev. Mr. Harris, Rector, officiates to- dny in St. James Church, cornerot Cass and Huron streets. Holy Commuuion at 8 . wm. Morning prayer and sermon at 10:45, —The Rev. B. A. Rogers, Rector, officiates at 10.30 to-day in Churchof the Epiphany. on Throop street, between Monroe and Adawms streets, The Rev. G. W. Morrill will officiate in the Church of the Holy Communion, on South Dearborn street, near Twenty-ninth, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 . m. ¥ ZIhe Res. Charles T. Stont, of Marshalitown, Ta., will oficiate at Trinity Church, corner of Michigan avenne and Twenty-sixth street, at 10:45 . m. and 7:45 D, m. There will be & celebration of the Holy Com- raunion at the Charch of the Ascension, corner of LuSalle and Elm strects, at 7:30 3. m., a choral morning-prayer at 10:45 4.1n., and evening prayer at m. e Rev. Luther Pardce will officiate moming and evening at the Calvary Charch, on Warren gvenne, between Oankley street snd Western avenae. —The Rev. W. F. Morrison, of Buflalo, will oficiate at Memorial Church, on Indiana avenue, near Twenty-ninth strcet, morning and evening. REFOUMED EPISCOPAL. Dr> Cooper will preach this momning and even- ing in Immanuel_Chureh, comcr of Centre and Dayton streets. Morning subject: **The Priest- hood of Believers. —The Ke v. E. Williamson preaches this ‘morning st 10:45 and this evening at 7:30 in the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Joues and Ifoman stres Bishop Fallows preaches at 10:30 a. m. and 10 p. m. to-day in St. Paul's Church, corner of Wa<hington and Ang streets. —There will ke no services to-day in Christ Charch, coruer of Michigun avenae and Twenty- fourth strcet. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Dr. Hurd will preact morning and evening in Reuniou Chnreh, on West Fourteenth street, ear Throo street. —The Rev. James Muclaughlin, pastor, preaches smorninz and evening In the Scotch Church, corner of Adams and Sangamon streets. Evening sub- Sect: **Gideon.™ —The Rev. D. J. Burrell will preach this ever ing in the Third Clinch, corner of West Washing- ton and Carpenter streets. o —The Rev, D. J. Burrell preaches this morning at10:30 in Westminster Church, corner of West Juckson and Peoria strects. 4 —The Rev. k. P. Wells, pastor. presches this morninig in the Forty-first Strect Church. No evening service —The Rev. C. L. Thompson, pastor, preaches morning and evening in the Fifth Church, comer of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth streets. Evening subject ow to Meke the Bible Interesting. —The Rev. D. F. Stewart whl preach in the morn- ng ut 10:30 o'clock at the Stxth Charch, corner of Vincennesand Oak avenues. —The Rev. Samuel Duflield will preach in the Eighth Church. corner of Washington and Hobey streets, at 10:30 . m. and 7:45 p. m. Moming subject: ** The Lesson of Sclf-Control. —The Rev. J. S. Jenkins, of Amherst, Mass., will preach at 1045 a. m. in_the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Tientieth etreet. Y Feltour. past hes at > v. Edmund Belfour, pastor, preaches T oty o the Chureh of the Holy Triaity, corner of Nanfi Dearborn and Erie streets. UNITARIAN. 3 The Rey. Dr. Stebbins, of San Francisco, will preach this mornmg and evenins in the Church of the Mewsiah, cormer of Michifan avenuc and hirty-third street. e Tev: - ._Sunderland_preaches at £ oclock in the hail 879 Cottase Grove nvenue, be- tween Thirty-efghth snd Thirty-ninth streets (Oak- land). subject: ** Infallibilities in Religion.* METHODIST. The Rev. C. G. Trusdell preaches this morning and evening in Centenary Church on Monroe street, near Morgan. —The L Youker will preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. 1. to-day inSimpson Church, on Eon- feld street. near Archer avenue. —Dr. Williamson will preach in Wabash Avenue Church, corpar of Fourtcenib sueel, $0-dsy. 13 y Moruing subject: **The Present Creed of tha Jdewn." Evening: ** Alcohol 2a a Medicine, » —The Jer . Jewett will preach this morning in the First Charch, corner of Clark ap Washington streets, on **The Tngedy"o: Crime and 1ts Lessons. ™ Prayer-meeting ut 7130 p. . —The Rev. John Atkinewn, pasior, preaches moming and ecening in Grace Churck, corner of North Lasalle and White streets. 1In the morning there will be ** A Meworial Ses of the late Francis Hanford. " Sermon in the eveninsr —The Rev. Dr. W. C. Willing preaches to-dayat 10:45 2. m. and 7530 p. m. in Langley Avenge Clllll"ch. corner of Thirty-ninth street. —The Rev. M. M. Parkhurst will reach at the n{mmin;n lfivjyne Ch#;ch. mear Thirty-second stree :45, on **The Real Marder of i Hanford,™ and at 7:45 p. m. ¥auchy The Rer. W. §. liamiin reac) e Rer. W. §. Hamlin, pastor, hes thi evening, 15 nsoal, in the Haleted' Stecer Chnm‘: (Stock-Yards). —The Rev. F. L. Chapell, of ,Evanston, .n{:chegl “l“lday E‘u 11 t m. 'fi"‘ 7;;5 P. m. in the niversity Place Chusch, on Douglus place, site Tthodes el = 7 placsy oppe- —The Rev. T. J. Motgan wiil preach at 10:30 2. m. in the Fourth Church, corue of Washingion and Paulina streets. No evening service, —The Rev. J. W. Castis, pastor, will preach at the Michigan avende Church at 10:43 a. m. and 743 p. m. Morning aubject: **Gad's Almonera. Evening subject: **Kiss the Son.” —The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach at the First Baptist Church, corner of Soath Park avenua and Thirty-first street, 11 0. m. und 7 m. —The Kev. S. M. Gregory will pieach at 10:30 8.m. und 7:45 p.m. at the Second Saptiat Church, corner of Morgun and Monroe streeta. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. 2. S. Holbrook will presch at 1045 8. m- aud8p. m. in the Oaklasd Church, oa Ouk: wook Bouler: —The Hev. Dr. Northup will preach mornirg and Church. In the even:‘nbzf evening at the Talon Park he will preach the firat of two scrmonsion maniam: 1ts Streugth and Weaknean. * CHRISTIAN. The Rev. Knowles Shaw will preach this morne ing and eveniuy in the First Church, corner of In- diana avenue aud Twenty-fifth street, and 8¢ 3 p. m. in Campbell Hall, corner of West Vaa Barea strest and Campbell avenge. ~—The Disciplea of Christ wil t West Bandoipn street at 4 . e "o 2 MO 23 MISCELLANEOUS. * Elder . G. McCulloch will presch morning and ¢rening in Adveat Tabernacle, No. 81 South Green street. —The Rev. Dr. Tibbard will to-day in the New Church Ha) genth atrect and Prairie Atsouc, and at3:80pm. - e Temple, corner of Og me“g"g‘? te oo gden avenue and Wess ~The” First Society of Spiritualists i Grows fail ot 1035 o' P s Suste Johson will Jecture 3t 7:30 p. m. ired nHg p.m.” Music by an inspi ~ln the absence of the Rev. Mr. Stetaon, of the Wilmezte Baptist Church, that ;fi;’fu wite filled by Dr. ¥. B. Ives, of Chickgo, ~—There will be a Friends’ meeting 2£10:30 a. m. on Twenty-sixth street, between Indiana and Pmi_;l: n\'}e}nnnl.“ & ~The Rev. F. G. Surbridge will preach st Wuhhgtonhn Home 813 p. am. - ¥ o —G. O. Barnes will preach at 3:30 p. m. in the Harrison Street Chapel and W. L. Green will preach 8t7:30 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. 4ug. 13-Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 3 CATHOLIC. 449 135 Tenth Suuday after Pentecost. . 14—Of the ctave; Vigil of the, Assumption; st” Huseoian, C. £ g Aug. 15— Assumotion of the B. V. M. 4ug. 18-St Myacinth, C. 4ug. 17—Octava of St. Luwvrence. Aug. 18—0f the Octave of the Assumption; St. Agapitus, 3. Aug. 18—0f the Octave. EPITHALAMIUM. One season of Socicty = ~ - Bronght on a satiet; That could only find a curs - In marriage and the Enropesa tons. reach at1la m. coruer of Eight- I ““Tv's just wonderfull . Only one season, too1"” Mre. Grundy knows what she's shaed ~ - Whenahe trots n malden oat, 4 #gfl'fik:l l{:aé:h at throws With the match, T S ¥ Avavsr, 1870. ST Bazems -, e PR 4 Prize Bables. Jthaca Je . At the Utica Baby Show to be held in conses, tion with the Central New York Falr, begin~ ning Sept. 7, nine - prizes, ranging from $5 toe $25, are offcred for the prize babies:born on aud afterJan. 1, 1876. The baby that looks moste like its fatber and the one that looks most like its mother will each receive $5; the est andd smallest, 35; and the prettiest, from $5 to $25. & LIVER COMPLAINT. ) By R. V. Prrcz, M. D., of the World's Dise pensary, Buffalo, N.'Y..' Author of **The Peo- ple's Common-Sease Aledical Adviser,” ets., ete. The Liver is the great depurating (purifying) organ of the system, and has very appropriate- ly been termed the ‘‘housckeeper® ot eur health. I have observed i the dissecting- room, and also in making post-mortem examina- tions of the bodies of.those who have died of different diseases, that in a large proportion of cases the Hver has given evidence of having at- some time been diseased. Liver affections are * equally prevalent in beasts. Every butcher knows that the livers of cattle, sheep, and swine, are ten times as frequently diseased as any other orgen. A healthy liver each day secretes about 23¢ pounds of bile. When it be- comes torpid, congested, or if, from any cause, it be disabled in the performsnce of its duties, itis evident that the elements of the bile must remain in the blood, thus irritating, polsoning, and perverting every vital process. Nature at- tempts to rid the system of these noxious ma- terials by means of other organs, as the kidneys, lunzs, skin, ete., which become overtaxed in perforuituy their additional labor, and are un- able towithstand the pressure. The brafn, which is the great electrical centre of all.vitality, becomes overstimulated with nnhealthy blood, and fails to normally perform its functions. Hence there is dullness, head- ache, impairment of the memory, dizziness, gloomy forebodings, and irtitability of temper. | When the blood is discased, the skin manifests discolored spots, pimples, blotches, boils, car- buncles, and scrofulous tumors. The stomach and bowels, sooner or later, become affected, and constipation, piles, dropsy, dyspepsis, ar diarrhea, s the inevitable result. ) SYMPTOMS OF LIVAR COMPLAINT. A sallow color of the skin, or yellowishe | brown spots on the face ard other parts of :hn, body; duilness and drowsiness, with frequens | headache; dizziness, bitter or bad taste in the mouth, dryness of the throst, and internal heat; | palpitation of the heart, a dry, teasing cough, ¢ sore throat, unsteady appetite, nur stomach, * rising of the food, and a choking semsation in the throat; sickness and vomiting, distress, ; heaviness, and a bloated, or fall feeling about the stomach and sides; aggravating pains in. the sides, back, or breast, and about the shoul- ders; colic pains and soreness through the ) bowels; constipation,alternating withdfarrhea; piles, fiatulence, nervousness, coldness of the! extremitics, rush of blood to the head, with! symptoms of apoplexy; numbness of the limbs (especially at night), and chilts, alternating with hot flashes; kidoey and other urinary dlf-‘l ficulties, dullncss, low spirits, and gloomy J forebodings. Only a few of these symptoms will be likely to be present in any case at ane time. TREATMENT.—Take Dr. Pieree's Golden Medical Discovery, with small doscs of his Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which act as an altey~ ativeon the liver. - For Liver Complaint and the various affections caused by a diseased Jiver, these remedies are unsurpassed. The Golden Medical Discovery does not simply palkigte the disease, but it produces a lasting effect. By its use, the liver and stomach are changed to an active, healthy state, the appetite is regulated, “the blood purified and enriched, and the entire system renovated and restored to health. The Discovery is sold by druggists. R.V. Plerce, M. D., Proprictor, World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. CANIP MEETING. CAMP-MEETING. ‘The Chicago District Cnm}:vmecunz at Desplaines will commence o the 23d of Auzust, 1870, and con- Four regular trains each way on & Northwestern itailroad will stop at p-Grounds drily except Sunday. The fare from Chicago will be B0 cents each for the round trip, and from all other stations half-fare by con- tract. Persons maet procure tickets before start- ing or pay full fare on the train. On Sunday the 27th, one train will Jesve Chicago at 8:45 a. m., and retnrn leaying the Camp-Grounds at 5. p. m. EPussengers will be required to show thelr tickets 10 the person in charge before entering the train, All baggoge free. - HOAG, President Board Trustees.