Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1876, Page 13

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 27, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. 13 RELIGIOUS. An Afternoon at the Holiness Convention. Interésting Relations of Experi- ences-—~How to Find the Lord. Episcopalian Complains of a Mild Tendency to Ritualism, Dr. Alder on the Evolution of the Hebrew Religion. Freaks of the Lightning---Death of a Blasphemous Negro. otes and Personals at Home and Abroad---Church Services. RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES. 7R SCRIPTURAL HOLINESS CONVENTION. A TRIBONE reporter dropped in at the Scrip- taral Holiness Convention, No. 400 Wabash svenue, Tuesday, and hearing some interesting religious experiences he jotted them down. As goon as he entered the room 2 lady attired ina linen suit rose and in emotional tones spoke as follows: 1t has been my prayer for 2 number of weeks «Lard reveal Thyself more and more unto me. Jt may be through & trial; but anything, Lord! J want more of this salvation—thatis to say, I want to come still higher.” There are always ‘higher and higher heights to attain after we get 1o Christ. 1 prayed this way after I went home Saturday night, and the next morning when I grose Satan begsn to tempt me with various . Itscemed as though he wanted to try me just there, and I was then to learn what full yedemption meant. For two hours the tempta- {ions were very severe, but I realized the power of God Leeping me,—Christ holding me from giving way, from yielding. 1 knew it was Christ. 1 could not have stood one moment had it not ‘been that I realized the keeping power. And in the midst of it, in the verv depth of the trial, which was severe, the words of Job in the depth of his afiiction, where Le says 1 shall come torth as gold,” came to me with such = blessing. [+ Praise the Lord.”] It was as it the voice of God had_said, “I shall come forth 35 gold,” and then, I was able to experience Christ. And when I came to the meeting here Y sat drinking in the spirit of the Master. I was in such blessed communion Wwith Christ that I could mot have told it bad I tried It was like liquid flames of love going over. and through me. Tpraise the Lord for the deepest trials I have ever known, because they have rought me 1o this beight. “After Scripture reading and singing, * THE LEADER ¢aid: If there are any here who have received The bleased Jesus as a perfect Savior, perhabs it would be to the glory of God for them to say so. 1t is very helpful for dear friends to rise some- times and state their convictions and desires, and if there are any difficulties in the way to state them. It would afford us great pleasure. o far a5 the Lerd may enable us, to answer auy questions. We don’t invite controversy, but know there are questions that come up, ques- tions of interest to hearts really seeking after this ience. If there are difliculties in your way, dear brothers and sisters, be frank and frec to state them, and we will endeavor to an- swer them. AN ELDERLY, NERVOUS-LOORING MAN said: 1 am sorry to lay any burden on our dear friends; but that passage of Scripture where it speaks of perfect peace is not my experience. 1 bave not perfect peace, Leader—Bless the Lord for Christian hon- esty! Elderly man—I had to pray this morning at my own family altar that I might be preserved from hy isy towards myself or any of my fellow-Christian workers, or sny people with whom I might come in contact. Idid not want to deceive myself, and I did not want to be car- ried sway with feoaticism. [“Praise the Lord.”] 1 was chock full of eriticism ‘here this morning. The devil told me that I must not identify mysclf with_people that, bad such fanatical ideas,—that I should not compromise myself, and_yet Itnd myself here this after- noon. [+ Bless the Lord.™] 1 do sincerely want all that the Lord has for me. [*Praise Jesus.”] And, if I know myself, I n.mwillinF 1o take it with all the consequences. [*‘ Amen,” “Glory be to God.”] T don’t know that I need ny more destruction than Thave bad. THE EXACT HOUR. The leader—]I entered into this experience six years ago lost February. I reached the point at 13 o'clock home aloné, up-stairs in my bed- room, 2nd I was on my knees with the Word of God in _my hand, ogen at the promise, 1st of John. I reached the point consciously that I Was all consecrated to the Lord, and I deliber- stely belicved that promise that the blood of Christ cleanseth me from all sins. Ihad no manifestation or what we generally call a bless- ing, at ali; no baptism, no stir or emotion of aoy sort. My soul, it secemed tome, was like a0 empty barrel,—as if everything was cost out. Igotup and went down-siairs, and I said to my wife, “Kate, it is done. The blood of Christ cleanseth me_from all sins, and I have got the Word for it"’ But here the devil camelike a flood. He said, * You are not sanctified.” He held out my experience of conversion, when I bad one Jorious manifestation,—itseemed then as if my ngers had touched the nem of His garment; { was full and flooded with glory, and my soul aud body felt it all through. The devil reminded me of that. He said, * Don’t you remember how blessed you were when youwcre converted? You know what an emotional being you are, and it ion were sanctified you would be jumping and shouting round here, you would be clapping vour handeoand lolleriog ¢ Alleluia,’ and all that sort of thing.” But I remember having read in the 12th Revelations, *‘And they over- came him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony i and I sad_to Satan, “The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, dleanseth me from all €in; [ am given up to the Lord; I have got tke Lord’s promise and will believe it, if I never Lave 2 manifestation the longest day I live. I am in for this unconditionally and unreservedly, a4, sink or swim, Lam going to_believe the Lord, for I have got the Word of God for it.” For eight hours I had a hand-to-hand conflict with the devil, and, glory be to God, I overcame him “by the blood 'of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.” And that cight hours’ -expe- Tieace was worth more to_me than any otner elght hours in my life. Oh! bless God! it has taught me a lesson that 1 mever shall forget. Ob, the glorions manifestations 1 have badl T had azreed with the Lord that if He would give me this blessing 1 would testify to it and that very might I went into & church. But, on my way there, the devil said: *You don’t know how that minister stands, and yon had better keep etill.” Idid 10t want to be rude or toviolate Christian cour- tesy, and Tenid: * Lord, if thou wilt open the gnor and give me a proper opportunity, Iwill eclare it Just as fgut. in the door the min- ister saw me and cried out: * Brother — we are glad to see you. Iwanteyou to take this meeting.” 1 opened my mouth to tell them that the blood of Christ clcanseth all sing, and ch! how the power of the Holy Ghost was manifested in my soul, and the adversary was driven away that time, and I had a clear victory. ‘here was s period in my experience when }zem in for manifestations, and 1 used to _think [ found rest in & certain amount of manifesta- gons; but the Lord showed me that I could not ivd rest in anybody but Jesus Christ. Ibave Tow got to where I can say: * Christ isall I vaot; Iam eatisfied with Jesu A SHARP-FEATURED, TALL YOUNG FELLOW eaid: I want to give more of my experience. 1 remember the moment when the last test ques- }!Dn came,and 1 had sucha strugele of soul before would surrender to that one thing and submit :0 God. By and by there came a moment when t was life and death with me—it had to be set- My heart said * Yes, Lord, I wili do _ev- erything'if Thou wilt %fi ‘me this grace.”” The \lcs%nu then came, ¢ Why cannot you believe dLfl My faith scemed to waver a little, and, lt?r a preat struggle 1 said, “I will just let go ;’a"ery!hxpz_ and I will take the consequences, rd. “If it is done, Lord, it must be done this moming.” My fecling just then was 2s if I was sinking down through the floor out of sight. But that very moment the everlasting L\l':ms ‘were round me and I was lifted up. OB, e streams of Divine light and glory that broke inonmy soul! Within twenty-four hours the gevil came to me, and, thank God, routed him. The Lord tested me two or three days afterwards. 1 was teaching school at that time, and there Was 2 young man who en- deavored in every way to vex me, € e 0 mec} bard to break up the school. Be!?):; utvh‘:é time I 'had hard work to restrain the old Adam within me, but after iy sanctification, although he ins!xl'.ed me in the school-room, I wanted to testify to the glory of Christ, I never felt any fl‘]‘: :E) &pfieal; uawuds l'igm. I knew then that 16 vas done. nough tempta trial may come my faith is gpcrn.‘r\t.l m:cilo ;‘ h‘wé perfect peace, becauee [trust in Him. I Tove }Lll)l;};"a“un. That may scem queer to you, hut Chrislive e{:{: ptlx;xal w«:dlm-e strengthens fis in . ion does me 2 great Fogd. 1 believe I have the philnsogx;ficr’sd&%lu‘;t and it turns cversthing touched into gold. With it T can turn the devil to serve Christ. A LADY next spoke as follows: I believe the Lord me to give a word of testimony. I n:ncivcdfl".‘l:: z{)ue four years ago, and Know a great deal about it. I have been listening and found so Imlx:ny other speakers, and that is the reason why : ave been quiet. Jesus is able to give us per- ect peace; Iknow it from experience. Four yhe;u aco I entered into this life, and I must say tbat since that Lime I have passed through the darkest tribulations. Sometimes I have ex- p;;;nenccfl the greatest destitution, and some- times my business was turned bottom-side up- ‘wards, and, looking at it from a human stand- point, T have thonght there was no hope for me, and that this time my vessel would have tosink; and yet there has never been a single hour dur- ing " that time that know of but what 1 have had perfect peace in God. For a moment, or perhaps one or two hours, when those rever: = 55, we think that the trial 1 hard. Lo bear, and Jesus don’t have a chance to speak, but lhe’\'cry ‘moment that I think sbout God I am in perfect eace; Iam resigned and submissive to his will. s is because I have given myself up entirely to Him. The moment'we think about God we scem to lay back in the everlasting arms, resting in the calm and wisdomn of God, aud without a feeling of distrust. I have notan atom of dis- trust about my Father's care for me and His regulation of my earthly affairs. Previousto gffing juto this expericnce my life was entirely ifferent. : kK .EPISCOPAL VESTMENTS 2 . " AS VIEWED BY L LATYMAN. To the Editor of The Tribune. CmicAGo, Aug. 25.—It seems a pity that the plain services of the Episcopal Church cannot be continued without the introduction of new practices on the part of some of the clergy. In one of the churches iu the western part of our city, of which the writer is a metnber, consider- able comment has been caused lately by the young Rector appearing at the communion ser- vicein a style of vestment different from the prevailing castom, and also by sundry other practices in conducting the services, which, to the eyes of his parishioners, appear strange. Experience shows that these things, however small fu themselves, and however proper they may seem to some in a theoretical view, are bad in their effect upon any congregstion when they are first introduced. They distract the atten- tion of the worshiper, awaken the inquiry in the mind, * Why is this change made?"” and in these days when Ritualistic tendencies are cropping outm the Church toan slarming extent, it Is natural that any novelty in the service should excite the suspicions of < being & first step in that direction. The result is that one and another quietly withdraw their attention and support, and either join some other body of Chrristians or absent them- selves from all public religious observances. In the light of these facts it would secm that the simplest rezard for policy would dictate, and the spirit which eaused Paul to say, “1f ‘meat maketh my brother to offend, Twill eat no meat as long as the world standeth,” would in- flucnce the clersy to drop the objectionable fea- tures, and confine themselves to the plain ser- vices as known by us all from childhood. But no! The objectionable features are explained and defended on the grounds of their historical suthority. Isitnot true that the Episcopal Church is always looking back? Like some one lost in a reveric she seems to sit with pensive face turned to the past while the opportunities of the present slip by, unimproved. Is it not $rue that, while our brethren of other religions bodies are awake to the living issues of the day, and rushing forth to reap the golden harvests, you will ustally find the clerzy of the Episco- pal Church holding back discussing some ques- tion of am.horig;, and remmaging with unusual delight among the dry bones of ‘history? In the case before us, our young Rector, whea it was brought to his attention that his course was causing two or three familles to stay away from the communion, and others from the services altogether, called his \’es!gy to- gether one eveniug last week and procecded to Tead them along lesson in history. Itis said that he -pgm\rud well-posted in” matters of ritual, and showed conclusively that the yarious practices to which opjections had been made are Dot _inuovations, but are being revived, aftef a long period of disuse, and thiaf the anthority of the *alb and chasuble” dates back from a point of time 300 years ago. What the effect of this upon the Vestry was I cannot_say, but I hardly think that the arguments will be accepted as true, or, 1f accented by them as true in a tech- nical sense, will remove the objections from the uninformed minds of the people. It will be considered that the same arguments appalf equally to the more advanced stages of Ritual- ism, and, remembering this prejudice, will be- come more inflamed. ‘But we are asked, How can the laymen ubject to any practice within the canons which “the pricst_considers advisable to adopt? We are told that he regulates the spiritual government of the Church, and that the laymen have a voice only in the «temporalities.” The priest is to Judge what is for _the spiritual edification of his tharge, and, consequently, we of the laity have no right to question or gainsay his course. This may also be law and several hundred years old, but it is plainthat in practical results it will not work well to-day. ‘Thosc who have bad ex- perience in the management of church affairs realize, I presume, how closely knit together are the spiritual end temporal interests of the Chureb, and it is vain for the clergy to attempt fo trample on the sensitive feclings of the laity by any essumption of priestly authority. 'But we aretold again that we should have charity, and not attribute wrong to any practice which we do not understand. We are told that when our young priest bows low before the altar and assumes strange grovelin, attitndes at various points in the service. it is because he, is overcome with a sensc of his sins, as the lay-"} men ought to be, and instead -of noticing these trifling peculiarities we ought to be ab- sorbed in our own devotions, and in all these things have charity. I doubt not when we have become advanced, and the candle is i oduced upon our altar, it will be said_agai “ Breth- ren of the unwashed laity hold fast to charity. Charity suffereth long and is very kind; think- ethnoevil. You areignorant on this subjec This candle, which you so_much dread, is bi, with mercy. It figures 2 devotional idea, and, so far from being condemued by canon Iaw, derives its autbority from a point of time 1,000 years 3g0."" Theé trouble, I think, is with some of our yourg clergy, that they have 2 theory to work out which it will take time to disprove, and which Will hinder the progress of the Church. The theory seems to be that the greatest amount of Titual s intrinsically productive of the greatest Smount of spirituality in the worshiper, and that the ouly reason why this Is not recognizea by the popular mind is, that it is not informed on the subject, and not educated nE to the requisite coniitions of appreciation. Consequently, they conceive it to be their duty to introduce by degrecs the mew ceremonies, aod thus sow the seed and cultivate the ground that the final harvest of Ritualism may bereaped. Their intentions are no doubt good, but I think they are workingon falsc ‘premises, and will find that the popular mind is not so easily swayed. They will find that thC{‘ are encountering a cur- rent of firm religious thought which, breaking forth in the Great Reformation, has coutinued with increasing power to the present day, which is peculiarly hostile to the slightest appearauce of idolatry, and demands simplicity and direct- ness in worship. Itis clnimctf that Christ came not only to reach & doctrine, but also to found a society, which is called *‘The Church.” The demaunds of the times are for more of the doctrine and Jess of the “gociety;’’ more, of Christ and less of the priesthood ; more of the Gospel message, and less of what we are told are the teachings of the “Holy Catholic Church.” The people ask for bread, and ho\v‘oftcn are we turned away ith a first-class stone® w’The Episcopal Church occupies an important position in Christendom to-day, and inher 8n- cient liturgy supplies 8 great want in the human fieart. She calls all of every creed and shade of opinion to come, and in the use of her beau- tiful service obtains the inspiration which weflull need in going forth to meet the tpmpm.]ana of life. Itistobe Thoped that she will continue in the good old ways, and not be ‘hindered in her " introduction of new cercmonies mission by the intro o hocome & on the part of the clergy which e cause op( offense to some. - g aside m}; other considerations, let us heed the voice ol expediency and_resist the first approaches of TRitualism. Itis not pleasant to have points o difference between a peole and their rector, and in each parish questions of sclf—prescn'.:\txmi come into view, but at all hazards and in u" cases let us keep the true colors at the masf bead. Letnot the finger of scorn be pomtgd at us by our neighbors over the way, s::_.)ingi By your temgofizfing policy in the mission Of rituslistic tendencies you bave permitted the seeds of discord to be Sown in your midst, have driven commaunicants from you ancel ang are fast becoming 8 priest-ridden people. CaLvany. EXTRAORDINARY PRINTING A STRANGE STORY AND FAIR MORAL. K The Lynchburg (Va.) News repeats the follow- ing extraordinary yarn: Some of our contempornries scem disy queation the truth of Our statement un‘al: ‘:osx:élv:g man who was killed by lightninz u few duys ago in Campbell Cuunty, had tlie letters *GOD™ on his body. Dr. ‘Thomay £. Moorman, whose Post-Ofiice address is Mount Zion, Campbell County, has fur- yr:lx)s“l;n’f‘l e Richmond Clristian Adrocate an ac~ of the circumstances, from ¥ e m{:nwmg: w which we extract n the evenitg of the Gth inst., Perry J GEoFse Brown, Solorett mon. noLotiously the ot profine, wicked persons in the whole community. with three other colored pervons, took refuse dur- ing the rain. accompanied by u good deal of tight- ning aud thunder, in & tobacco-barn on the laud ot Mr. Georse Creusy. From their several positions, one would have thought that twoof the others were 1 more, und the third_in a< much danger as Jones and, Brown werc. They. as their custom was. were éngaged in cursing and swearinz, Sud- deuly the lightning descended mpon them, and while theother thrve were comparatively uninjured, dJones was killed and Brown was stricken down scnscleasand slmost lifeless foratime. e revived afier a few minutes, and soon secmed to have re- grained all his strength, butwas dumb and bereft of his mind for several hours. The lighming had set fire to his clothing, and be was burned on ins chest and left side and arm before the dre was ex- tinguished. In his edorts to free himself from those who were restraining him, the skin was rub- bed (rom the burned flesh and presented the fol- lowing characters: GOD, very close representa- tion; to say the least of them, of the capital letters used in printing the nxme of Deily, while around and between them the skin was unremoved and s parently not burned. The above characters oc- cupied the angles of an equilaterl triangle, which, a3 you ure doubtless Awure, wasein uncient days the nymbol of Deity. This man. then, appesrs to have been branded with the nawme of his Creator in :‘;\_'3 ‘;l;'rmhohc laugunze. it may be of his forefuthers 00 years 2go, and in the printed languag Bation so whieh he belougs, " RS ol the The Augusta (Gs.) Constitutionalist hardiy secms willing to accept this yarn in all its native purity, and, after reprinting it, comments as follows: Highly-imaginative and _morbidly-devotioral persans frequently sec signs and Characters which they deem supernataral, and yet are of the sim- plest and most meaningless origin, We remember, not many years ago, that a good physician died, and bis body was placed in 2 metallic colin. . Up- on the glass plate there appeared the gign of the cross in tome white material. 'This was heralded about as a miracle; but, upon closer inspection, it was found that dripping wax from a candle had formed a fantustic shape upon the plate, which the highly-wrought religious scnses of & womnn casily converted Into the emblew of our redemption. THE HEBREW RELIGION. DR. ADLER’S ACCOUNT OF ITS EVOLUTION. Prof. Felix Adler, the accomplishea Hebruist, has written a paper on * The Evolution of He- brew Religion,” in whichare summed up in brief and popular form the reaults of the application of hlsm.l;lca] criticism to tne Old Testament Seripturés. Following ure a few extracts, which will be of interest to all students of the Bible who have not chanced to meet with the same thoughts as developed in recent critical works: Scripture opens with two dirergent acconnts of the creation. Genesis i., the work of creation pro- ceeds in two grand movements, including the for- mation of inanimate and animate mature respect. ively. Onthe first day u difinsed light is spread out over chaos. Then are made the firmament, the dry earth. the green herbs, and frait-bearing trees:on the fourth day the grest luminnries are called into belng; on the fifth, the fishes and birds of the air; on the sixth, the beasts of the field; and lastly, crowning all, man, his Maker's inaster- piece. The buman species enters at once upon its existence as a pair. **Male und femele did He oreate them.” In the second ebapter the same methodical arrangement, the same deliberate prog- ress from the lower to the higher furms of bein; is ot observed. Man, his iitcrests ud respon: bilitics, stand in the foregronnd of the picture. The trees of the ficld arenot made until after Adam; and subsequently to them, the cattle and heasts, . Morcover, man is a solitary beinz. A comparison between his lonely, condition and the dual existence of the remainderof the animal world leads the Deity to determine upon the crea- tion of woman. A profound slumber then falls upon Adam, a rib is taken from his side, and from it Eve is fashioned. We may notice that the name Jehovah, as appertainiug to the Deity, is employed in _the second chapter, while it is wcrn- pulously avoided in the first. . . . ‘The con- ficting statements of the two accounts which we have just indicated have induced scholars to regard them as the work of different writere. In Genesls iv. we learn that in the daye of Enoch, ‘Adam’s grandson, men began to call on the name of Jehovab in Exodus vi., on the contrary, that the name Jehovah was first revealed to Moses, being unknown even to the patriarchs. ‘Genesis xvi., Hagar is driven from her home by the jeslonsy of her mistress; escapes iuto the desert; beholds a vision of God &t a well in a wil- derness. Genesis xsi., the flight of Hagar ig re- lated a second time. The general echeme of the parrative is the same &s ubove, but there are im- portant diverzences of detail. As narrated in Chap. xvi., the escape took pluce immediately be- fore the birth of Ishmael. Fifteen years elupsed ffollowing the order of the Hebrew text], and Ish- mael, now aspmncbmg the years of maturity, is once more driven from the house of Abrahum. Pat. to our surprise, in Chap. xxi., the lad is described ss & mere infant; he is carried on his mother's shoulders, and laid away, like a helpless babe, under some bushes Dy the wayside. It appears that we have before us two accounts tonching the ssme event, agreeing in the main incidents of the escape, but showinga disagrecment of fifteen yeare 35 to the date of its oconrrence. The narratives are distinguished a8 above by the employment of diffcrent names of the Deity, Jehovab in the one instance, Elohim in the other. Genesis xxxil., Jacob at the fords of Jobbok, af- ter wreslifng during the night \with a divive Deing, Teceives the name of Israel, Genesis Xxxv., Witli- out reference to the previons account, the name Jeracl is conferred upon Jacob ata difierent place and ander different circnmstances. . . . . From that the ‘prophetic what we have said it follows {deal of religion is the root and core of ail that1s valuable 10 the Hebrew Bible. The laws, rites, and observances in which it found a temporary and changeful expression may lose their vitality; jt will always continne to exert its high in- fiuence. It ivas not the work of one man mnor of a single age, but was reached in the lon, course of generations on generations, evolves ‘amid error and vice, slowly, and ngainst all the odés of time. It has been said that tue Bible i3 Opposed to the theory of evolution. The Dible it- self is a prominent cxample of evolution in his- tory. It is not homogeneous in alt its parts. There are portions filled with tales of baman crror and fallibility. These arc the incipient stages of un early agé,—the dark and dread beginnings, There are others thrilling with noblest emotion. freighted Wwith eternal truths, breathing celestial mausie. ‘Fhese are the triumph and the fruition of a later day. 3t is thus by discriminating between what is essen- tially excellent and_what is compuratively valne- Jess that we shall best reconcile the digcordant claims of reason znd of faith. The Bible was never designed to convey scientific information, Tor was it intended to serve as 3 text-book of his- fors. In its ethical teachings lies its true eiznifl- cance. On them it may fairly rest its claims to the immortal reverence of mankind. RELIGIOUS MISCELLAY. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The first Baptist church in British Columbia has just been organized at Victoria. The National Conference of Unitarian and other Christian Churches will be- held at Sara- togo, Sept. 12-15. The American Board will hold itssixty-seventh annual meeting at Hartford, Oct. 2-7. Dr. William M. Taylor, of the Broadway Taber- nacle, will preach the annual sermon. The Church of the Redeemer, which has been closed for two months for extensive re airs and improvements, will be reopened for public wor- Ship next Sunday morning, and in the evening the Rev. Sumner Ellis, who has been with the Socicty for two years, will be installed ss pas- tor. Present indfeations are that the Stewart Memorial Church at Garden City will not be an Episcopal church, but possibly a Congregation- al one, and that in this event Mr. Hepworth, of the Church of the Disciples, will be infited to become its pastor. Mr. Hepworth made the opening prayer and delivered the sermon when the corner-stone was laid a few days ago. There are now_reported to be 114 Protestant missionaries in Japan. In Kobe a Japanese Christian is Chaplain of the city prison. _ The head of the Normal School for women in Tokio is a Wesleyan; a Japanese gentleman of high rank is @ member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A large store has been openedin Tokio for the salze of Bibles and other Christian books in the languages of the Japanesc. Next month the fall sessions _of tbe theo- Jogical seminaries will begin. The General Theological Seminflrg of the Protestant E%lsco- al Church opens Sept. 203 the Union Theo- Yu;’lu\! Seminary of New York (Pre_sbytensn) on the same day. Bangor Theological Sem- inary (Congregational) opens Sept. 21; -Hart- ford, Sept. I4; Auburn resbyterian), Sept. 65 Allegheny, Penn., Sept. 5; Laue, Cincinnati, Sept. 14; Crozer, Ofiand, Penn. (Baptist), Sept. 13; the Chicago (Baptist), Sept. 14 The Building Committee of 8 charch recently finished in New Jersey wanted a stonc slab oyer the door with the name of the church and 3 Scriptural motto. It occurred to them that Dothing could be neater than * My house shall Do catied the house of prayer.” So one of the committeemen, who was ib a great hurry, told e tter to chisel on_the sltb the thirteenth verse of the twenty-first chapter of Matthew. He thought the verse ended with the words he wanted to usc. The stonecutter fook the whole verse from the Bibleand faith- fully copied it to the Imagine the horror of the committcemen when the stone was de- livered! It read: “ My house shall be called the house of prayer; den of thieves.” The stonecutter insisted that he had obeyed orders. But the committecmen insisted that the motto he had inscribed was not what they wanted. and that it would be of no particular use to them. That slab is now in the stonecatter’s yard, and anybody who wants it 1or n tombstone ¢an probably buy it cheap. _The London Missionary Society’s Indian mis- sionaries say there are indications on every hand that Hinduism is declining *“The fear is lest the disintegration of the national religior pro- ceed too fast for the small efforts of Christlans to keen pace with it. But this seems to be an inevitable consequence of the great excess of the disintegrating over-the building forces that are at work.” Yet the -‘great mass of the people, especially in rural districts, live in un- disturbed acquiescence in their ancestral faith.” Roman Catholic priests at St. Wendel, Ger- y, vouch for the statement that two little girs da, in the woods, on of the Virgin. he appeared to them three times, and, when they asked her what she wanted, replied, ** A chapel, where people may pray and the sick be healed.” Within a few days the bush in which the children saw her was carried away in bits as relics, every particle or root was transplanted, and even the earth o which it had grown was preserved. Three or four thousand excited dev- otees assembled, and ‘were dispersed by a mili- tary company. At the open session of the British Weslevan Conference, at Nottingham, deputations from Ireland, Frauce, Canada, and Sonth Australia reported on_the progress of the Methodists in their several countrics. The Rev. Dr. Rigg, of the deputation to the United States, gave an ac- count of their vislt and reception by the Meth- odist General Conference. Among the Ameri- cans present at Nottingham was Rev. Alexander Clark, of the “ Methodist”’ (Protestant) Church of the United States. The statistical returns showed an increase of 14,876 members, and of 34,120 probativners. For a long time churches have been o badly off for namnes that great embarrassment has re- sulted from the fact that new enterprises have been obliged to imitate cach other entircly too closely. Considering the fact, the name given to the New Methodist Church at Seabright, N. J. is an exceedingly folicitous thing. 1t 1s “Phe Church of the Fishermen.” Ass great many of the winter congregation of this church make their living by catchite fish, and the sum- mer worshipers go fishing whenever they have a chance, whether they catch anything or mot, nothing could _be nedter or more apostolic than this name. The name, however, is not one which will be extensively adopted for city churches remote from the shore. PERSONAL. Bishop Haven will start to Liberia about Oct. 1. Miss Sarah Smiley, the evangelist, is living in a cottage at Saratoga. The Rev. John Hendricks, the oldest minister of the Reformed Church, died recently at King- ston, N. Y., at the age of 95. The Rev. J. G. Bidwell declares in the Zion's Herald (Methodist) that “every public Sab- bath camp-meeting is a crime against public morality.” 5 ZLord Radstock, the English Peer who has held religious meetings in many parts of Europe, is now preaching in_England. Lately he held a revival service at Nottingham. The Rey. W. C. Van Meter, who has charge of the Baptist Mission in_Rome, will return to Europe at the close of this month. He has heen successful in raising over $8,000 for his mission. The mission has increased until an an:':ml sum of $10,000 is necessary for its sup- pol H The Roman Catholics claim that the following mernbers of their hicrarehy in the United States are converts from Protesiantism: Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimorc; Archhishop” Wood, of Philadclphia; and Bishops Doyle, of Hartford; Becker, of Wilmington; Gilmour, of Cleveland; Rosecrans, of Columbus; and Wadhams, of Ogdensburg. ‘Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, says that he wants to sce the office of Deacon restored to what it was in the primitive church, and that in every {urish there should be at least two Deacons to look after the sick and poor. He thinks that the persons who occupy this office may legiti- mately engage in any secular ealling not” incom- batible with a religious life, 5o as to procure & iving. The absent city pastors of New York may soon be exfievted to return to their churches. Dr. John Hall is in Ireland, whither he was called by the death of his mother, and will re- turn by the middle of Scptember.’ The venera- ble Dr. Tng has been spending the summer at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. Mr, Hepworth has been detained in New York by the exigencies of his chureh, but will take a brief vacation tri along our northern coasts. Dr. William M. Taylor will resume preaching Sept. 17, althouch his church will be opened for service on the 3d. Dr. R. 8. Storrs has summered at Lennox. Dr. Scudder of the Central Congregational Church Brooklyn, has gone abroad, but will occupy his pulpit again the second Sunday in September. Now let President Grant be impeached, for he is not only a grandfather, but also a_godfather! Paster Newman tells this simple and suggestive tale in a note to somebody: ‘“Igo to baptize Col. Fred Grant’s infant dauchter. The Presi- dent is to stand as godfather, and Mrs. Honore, the maternal grandmother, is to be godmother. The ceremony is to take place at the White House, and the water to be used is from the Tiver Jordan, I brought it over at Mrs. Grant's request,” Whereupon the United Presbyterian breaks forth: ¢ Now there can be no objection to the use in baptism of water from the River Jordan, when at hand; but according to our in- formation neither of the parents in this case is a professing Cbristian, and as for President Grant standing s godiather toa child dedicated to God in Christiau baptism,—well, it’s better than some other things he’s becn doing of late, but not less out of place. Pastor Newman mfxght,.’to Lave more self-respect than to boast of it. BREVITIES. A clergyman who did not believe in going outside of his own denomination to distribute his charities was solicited by s beggar for alms. « My brother,” said he, * are you High Church?”? «Never was high in my life,” returned the ‘beggar, reproachfully. “Never drinks nuthin’ atall, sir.” A clergyman, after preaching 2 tedious ser- mon on happiness, during which he enumerated the various classes of happy persons, asked one of his ¢lders what he thought of the discourse. “You omitted one large class of the happy,” replied the elder, “and that is, they who es- caped your sermon.” New York Dispatch: The managers of a Brooklyn cemetery advertise: “Graves finely situated, surrounded by the bennties of nature, commanding a finc view of the bay, and, in Short, “meeting cvery requirement of the hu- man familv. People who have tricd them can- not be persuaded to o clsewhere.” xou can buy a cane fish-pole for 25 cents, and catch just as many fish with it as you can with ‘3 jointed oue that costs $17; but You can't take it apart snd slip it under your coat when you o fishing on Sunday as you can one that is ‘in scetions, and & religious outside appearance is worth $16.75 tomost men. A young man having preached for his Bishop, was anxious to get a word of spplause for his Jabor of love. The Bishop, however, did not introduce the subject, and his younger brother “as obliged to bait the hook for him. 1 hope, sir, I did not weary your people by the length of my sermon to-day?’ ¢“No, sirj not at all, nor by the depth either.” On a recent Sunday at Lowell, Mass.. a collec: tion was taken up at one of the churches in aid of the Reform Club. As the boy reached a pew oceupied by a lady, her daughter, and little son, the two former found themselves without a cent of money. Master Hopeful reached over and Geoooiie a cent in the box, and then whispered 1o Lis sister, “ There, I just saved this family from being whitewashed. Rochester Democrat: Onc of our popular clergymen—a trifle ‘absent-minded—seated him- self at a hotel table the other day, and in reply 1o the waiter's question saidhe would take some roast beef, ‘“well done,” almost immediately adding, as he glaueed out of the window at the sun just sinkh'lg in_firey splendor behind the trecs, **good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of the Lord.” Not to be outdone, the waiter at once took up a collection. There fs & well-known aversion among the Scoteh to hearing read sermons. One pastor in a country district found himself in an awkward predicament from this paper question. Having exhiausted “ firstly”” and * secondly,” be found the remainder of his manuscript wanting. In vain efforts to seek the missing paper, Iie re- ated “thirdly™ and “lastly’’ ad mauseam to is hearers. At last one in the congregation rose, and, nodding to the minister, observed, “Deed, sir, if I'm no mista’en, I saw ¢ thirdly and lastly” fa ower the polpit stairs.” SHE FELT EASIER. The new -pastor of the Second Methodist Church, says the Danbury News, Was makingthe ut yc have made it a- scquaintances of his parishioners last One of his calls was upon a maiden lady found her to be a delicate-appearing womad, with a languid cast to the eyes. During the brief conversation she said: *(T have been very sad and much depressed in the past month. "My soul has felt very much disquieted. T %o hereand there, and yet Iam not at peace. I takeup this employment and then that; one book and then another; butstill nothing assuages the feeling of discontent. A spirit of unrest has brooded over my life these past weeks,—a mystle spirit whose_subtle influ- ences Lave gone into my daily existence, and left their impress on my soul.”” Shesighed, closed and opemed her fan, and then addea: But I feel different, now that watermelons bave arrived,—more at B as it were! " The new pastor, who had his lips expe:tantly parted, and his cyes moist with sympatay, straightened up at” once, aud sternly eyed the wall-paper. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. Mr Patterson preaches at 10:30 this morning st the Fourth Churcn, corner ot Wash- ington and Paulina streets. —The Rev.J. M. Whitchead preaches at the North Star Baptist Church, corner of Division and Sedg- wick streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. W. W. Everts preaches at the First Church, corner Thirty-first strect and South Park avenue, at11n. m. and 7:45 p. m. Eveniug sub- ject: **Scripture Doctrine of the Sabbath.™ —The Rev. J. W. Custis preaches at the Michi- gan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, at 10:45 o. m. and 7.45 p. m. Morning subject: ++ Jehovah Jireh;” evening, ** Yesterday." —The Rev. M. G. Hodge preaches at the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets, ‘morning and evening. __The Rev. Lewis Raymond preaches at the Cen- tennial Church, corner of Jackson and Lincoln strects, at 10:30 a. m. “The Rev. J. B. Jackson preaches at the Uni- versity Place Church, corner Rhodes avenue and Dougias place, in the morning, and the Rev. Dr. Patterson, of Scotland, in the cvening. —The Kev. F. G. Surbridge preaches at Evangel Church, Forty-seventh stret, morning and even- ng. ZThe Rev. J. D. Burr preaches at Immonnel Church, No. 200 Orchard street, betwecn Sophia and Centre streets, at 10:45 8. m. —The Rev. N. F. Ravlin preaches at the Open Communion Church, corner Loomis and Jackson streets, as usoal. —The Rev. Robert P. Allison preaches at the South Charch, corner of Lock and Bonsparte streets, at 7:30 p. m. CONGREGATIONAL. TheRev. G. S. Holbrook preaches at the Oakland Charch, Oskwood boulevard, west of Cottage Grove 2t10:458. m. and 8p. m. '—The Rev. L. T. Chamberlain preaches at the New_ England Church, corner of Delaware place and North Dearborn strcet. morning and evening. CHRISTIAN. The Rev. Knowles Shaw preaches at the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty- fitth strect, morning and evening, and at Campbell Hall, corner of West Van Buren street and Camp- ‘ell avenae, at 3 p. m. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. B. A. Rogers preaches at 10:30 this morning at the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, between Monroe and Adams. —“There will be morning prayer and a choral cele- ‘bration of the Holy Communion at10:45a. m., and a choral évening service at 8 p. m., inthe Church of the Ascemsion, corner of Elm and Lasalle streets. —The Rev. Edward Sullivan resumes his clerical duties at Trinity Church to-day, corner of Michi- gan avenue and Twenty-sixth sirect. —The Rev. Henry G Perry preaches this morn- ing and evening in All Saints’ Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Ohio streets. —The Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Harris will preach at 10:45 this morning in St. James' Church, corner of Huron and Cass streets. Early morning service at 8a. m. and evening prayer at 8:30 p. m. ZiThere will be services at the Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner of Washinzton and Peoria Strects, at 10:45 . m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. G. W. Morrill preaches at the Church of the Holy Communion, South Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirticth streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 g m. ~The Rev. Luther Pardce preaches at Calvary Charch, Warren avenue, between Oakley street snd Western avenge, 8t 10:30 2. m, and 8 p. m. The Rev. Dr. Cushman preaches at St. Ste- phen's Church, Johnson etreet, between Taglor and Fwelfth, morning and evening. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Fallows preaches at the Wicker ParkCon- gregationsl Chure at+4p. m. to-day. “Cfhe Rev. Dr, Hunter, of Ottawa, Canada. preaches in St. Paul's Charch, corner of Washina- Ton and Ann strcets, at 10:30 this morning. The Yev. Dr. Ryan, of York, England, will preach in the evening, béing assisted in the services by Bish- op Fallows, P The Rev. Dr. Cooper preaches this morningand evening in Immanuel Church, corner of Centre zad Dayton streets. Morning subject: ¢ God's Ways Unsearchable, or the Mysteries of Providence.” 2 fhe Rev. R. Ii. Bosworth preaches at 7:45 this evening in Emmanuel Charch, corner of Hanover and Twenty-eighth strects. 5 " Sishop Cheney has retarned from his summer vacation and will preach this morning and evening 1n Christ Charch, corner of Michigan svenue and Twenty-fourth street. Morning subject: *‘Inter- cessory Prayer.” & LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour Fnlc‘hfl at11o'clock this morning at the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of tlie Holy Trinity, corner of North Dear- ‘born and Erie streets. METHODIST. z The Rev. Dr. Jewett preaches at 10:45 this morning in the First Chorch. corner of_Clark and ‘Washington streets. Subje *+One Day inthe Life of,Jesus.” Thé Rev. Dr. William C. Willing preaches at 1045 this morning ond 7:45: this eveaing at the Langley Avenue Charch, cornerof Langley Ave- nue and Thirty-ninth street. 2% The Rev. Dr. Williamson preaches at 11a. m. and 8 p. n. in the Wabash Avenue Church, corner of Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth street.” Morn- fng subject: ** Christian Behaviorat Home:" Even- ing snbject: **Are Any Amusements Harmful?® ‘2 The Rev. M. M. Parihurst preaches at Grace Charch, corner north LaSalle and White Streets, at 1030 . m., and the Rev. John Atkinson atSp. ) m.; subject: ** Night.” s " The Rev. John Atkinson preaches atthe Michi- 2an Aveue Charch, between Thirty-second and Fhirty-third streets, at 10:43 a. m., and the Rev. M. M. Parkhurst in the evening. S " The Rev. Dr. Tiffany preaches at Trinity Charch, Indiana avenne, near Twenty-fourth street, at10:45 8. m. and 8 p. m. CTheRev. R. M. Hatleld preachesat_the Cen- tenary Charch, Monroe strect, mear Morgan, at 1030 2. m., andthe Rev. L. H. Adams at 7:45 . Marsh preaches at Grant Place arch morning and evening. Morning subject: “Political and Religious Tolerance the Boon and the Boast of Christianity.” : '° ‘Phere will be no service at the Free Methodist Charch, Open air_services on Lake street, near Moy, by the Yokefcllows' Band at 6:30 p. m. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. James Maclanghlan preaches this morn- ingand evening in the Scotch Church, corner of Singamon ond.Adams streets. Morping smbject: “Trs TrtemsE and Its School- Lesson.” '—The Rev. Charles L. Thompson preaches this morning and evening in the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenuc ‘Evening and Thirtieth street. sabject: “‘The -Call for Vengeance and the Re- vly. " Z'The Rev. Donald Fletcher preaches this morn- ing and evening in the State Street Church, State street, near Fourteenth. Morning subject: ** Chris- tian Testimony.” Evening subject: ** Spiritg.” “UThe Rev. George II. Folsom preaches at the Sixth Church, corner Vincennes and_Oai avenues, at 10345 a. m. Subject: **The Power of the Brain.” ifhe Rev. J. L. Jenkine, of Amberst. Aass., preaches at_the Second Church, corner Michigan ‘enue and Twentieth street, morning and even- ing. TNITARIAN. . The:Rev. Brooke Herford preaches this morning snd evening st the Church of the Messiah, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-third steeet. —The Itev. G. E. Gordon, of Milwaulkee, preacbea at Unity Church, on ** The Unitarian Idea of Go ‘What We Know, Think, and Believe Abont God.” UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. J. Stranb preaches at tha ‘hall corner Thirty-first street and Indiana avenue atll 8. m. " MISCELLANEOUS. Elder Mendell, of De Kalb, IIL., preaches this morping and evening in Advent 'Tavernacle, 81 South Green street. A Christians will meet at 3 p. m. inthe chapel 318 West Chicago ayenue. The First Society of Spiritnalicts meets in Grow's Hall, 517 West Madison street. at 10:30 this morning and at 7:30 this evening, when Susie M. Johnson, an eminent trance speaker, will de- HVT\‘ a lecture. Music by an inspirational ma- sicisn. ~Services will be held at Sinai Temple (Jewish), corner of Indiana avenae and Twenty-first street, 2t10:45 this morning, the Rev. Dr. Eohler offi- ciating. —The Progressive Lycenm meets in Grow's Hall, No. 517 Weat Madison street, at 12:30 p. m. 2 The Rev. G. O. Baines, of Kentucky, preaches at Harrison %h‘eel Chapel, corner of Paulina street, . m. . Sunderland preaches this after- at the hall No. 870 Cottage Groyve avenue, on 'he Ideal Church. —Benjamin Frankland will be in attendance at the Friends' meeting, Twenty-sixthstreet, between Indians and Prairie avenues, at 10:30 a. 1m. —The Disciples of Christ meet No. 229 West Randolph street, at 4 p. m. —Mrs. George Rounds, of the Chicago Woman's Christian Temperance Union, will speak at the ‘Washingtonian Home at 3 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Aug. 27—Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. CAT! 'HOLIC. Aug, 27—Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost; St. Jo- seph Calasanctius. C. > Aug. 28-St Anguatine, B. C. D.: St. Hermes, M. Ang. 29— Beheading of St. John Baptist; St. Sa- bina, M. Aug. S0-St. Rose of Lims, V.;SS. Felix and Adauctus, MM. & Aug. 81—St. Raymond Vonratas. C. Sept, 1—St. Giles, Abb. § The Twelve Brothers, MM. Sept. 2.—St. Stephea. K..Co GOSSIP. EUROPE A Servian War-Scene--Hadji- Thomitz and His Proteges. A Woman Who Fought in the Wars of the First Napoleon. The Market-Women of Paris---The 66 Cri-cri ¥~--A Merry Young Prince. A SERVIAN WAR-SCENE. The Servian corrcspondent of the London News says: My worthy friend and room-com- panion, Mr. Hadji-Thomitz, has a very big heart in a very big body. Often of night be- fore the plethoric ex-merchant turns himself round and begins to snore,—an operation which he performs with remarkable conscicntiousness and industry,—he will keep me awake with do- mestic stories about the wife and children he has left down in Belgrade. I have accepted an invi- tatiou to go and visit him in Belgrade “ when everything is quiet again”; and I am prepared to make the acquaintance of a wife who is a paragon among wives, and of children who, by their father's account, can give a stone and a beating to . any other children in the habitable globe. Having these domestic tastes, it is not to bewon- dered at that Hadji-Thomitz had taken un- der his own special care the gang of unfortunate refugces who yesterday, as 1wrote and tele- graphed, came among us from thedisturbed and barassed frontier. It was not he, indeed, who had concern with sending the hat round for them,—a levy which, I am glad to say, resalted in a few minutes in & considerable sum. But Hadji-Thomitz took charge of the provisions for them. He summoned me to look at the ehildren of the party, whom he had gathered at a round table in the coffee-room, where he was to regale them with s plenteous supper. There sat the quaint little creatures, each perched on. a high cheir, looking up st us out of their great, beautiful eyes,—they are by far the handsomest children I have yet seen in these Xms’ with shy, pieased glances, which wandered away to tne fare that HadjiThomitz with his own hands was placing on the table. The Greek priest came and_asked a blessing on the food, and then Hadji-Thomitz fell upon the big loaves With that mighty whinger which dangles from 3 belt wide encugh to engirth any ordinary twWo men. ch child he distributed a hunk big To ea enough, if thrown with force, to knovk a man down; to each child he (gnve alittle caraffe of the pleasant light wine o the country; to child he allotted likewise a portion of white new- made cheese. In the middle of the table was a platterful of “paprika,” those pungent pods hich the Servian soul loveth; aud as the chil- dren without a second bidding fell to attarking the bread with the same detcrmination wi hich the Servian troops would go at the fort- ress of Widdin if they could only get there, consuming the wine in sips of measured discre- tlon, 0 85 to make it eke out the further, Hadji- Thomitz stood and beamed down upon them with his huge, unctuous face perfectly radiant with benevolence, and his hands clasped across his Falstafan psunch. He lost his dinner in his care for the young ones, but you should have seen him make the running on his own ac- count later on to compensate for the depriva- tion. Hadji-Thomitz is not the man to let the sun go down on &n empty stomach,—either his own or anybody else’s, if he can help it. Just as the bugles and drums were sounding the t1ast post™ in this village ‘where martial law has eway, Hadji-Thomitz come for me again to Jiew the' sleeping-accommodation which he had rovided for the unfortunates. He had got gold of a big common room behind one of the ‘houses,—a_room one Whole side of which was occupied by & broad wooden ghelf like o guard bed, and shelf and floor were alike littered deep with straw. The women were still busy in the front room with the Parat- jin women-folk, who had brought them what of their homely raiment._they could spare to hide wherewithal what had been little short in some cases of nakedness; and the allocation of a pet- ticoat here, s wrapper there, and a pair of hose Yonder, was a serious duty, uot hurriedly or Terfunctorily to be dealt withi. Among the straw on the bed in the back room the huddled children nestled sound asleep after their fatigue and Hadji-Thomitz’s supper. On its edge sat several of the men-folk, patiently watching the slumbers of the chiidren. One hairy old patri- arch nursed @ slecping infant, too ‘tiny to be trusted among the mass in the straw. nother fellow stood with his back to the wall, anda wine-bottle in his hand, with & gay and festivo aspect, as if, in spite of 211 that comes and zoes, his motto were, in _the words of the old soiig, “ZThen why should we be melancholy, boys ! and as if he were determined to make & nightef it out here among the straw. This morning, at an early hour, Hadji ‘Thomitz arose stealthily, and surreptitiously quitted our joint apartment. He had been playing till long past daylight—who has not vice to de- tract in some measure from his virtuesi—and I Tieard him come twice into our room for miore money, whence I presumed he had been losing heavily. Were we to have in Paratjin sucha trawedy as Baden-Baden and Hombours in the badold days too often witnessed? ~Had Hadji- Thomitz so suffered at the card-table that he dared not mect the tongue of the wife? Iknow that though she is an auzel she has a tongue, and that the burly -Thomitz sometimes gets the full benetit of it. Was he torn with Femorse at the dissipation of the patrlmeny of these children, on the curliness of whose hair the big man waxes gutturally eloquent as he lies in the darkuess over sgainst me, and had e stealthily gone forth with the fell de- sign of laying violent hands on himself? It was not 50, No remorse was clodding the ra- diant, visage of Hadji-Thomitz when I found Diim in the fno-yarq epgaged in the task of skin- ning a sheep. He bad, indeed, cut a throat Hitee he left our chamber, but Dot his own. The sheep was a purchase he Lad made for his family, and, being & man who likes to do his own work himself, he had slaughtered it him- Self, and was now skinning it. ‘That operation complete, he and his man Joaded up a wagon. The skinned eheep went in first among the bay, then a couple of huge bunches of onlons, then several armsful of brown loaves, and finally sev- eral great earthen pitchers fall of wine. “With this store of good things Hadji-Thomitz and 1 started for the quarters of the refugees. It Wasa sight to sec the big man cutting'up the sheep and dispensing the portions into which he cut it—the mixture of brusque nuthority and penuine zood-beartedness with which he per- Tormed the dutics of almoner; how he recogs hized the claims, unasserted as they were, of the nursing matrons to the most succulent bit of meat, and an extra allowance of the more generous wine; how be playfully tapped the children on the head with the butt-end of his kmife, and set them, to begin with, manching at a frugal breakfast of raw ooions and brown bread. He had forgotten nothing, down to the firewood and salt, and I left him therc among the poor folk, engaged in rizging up & big pot ou a tripod over a fire in the open air. ] A WOMAN WITH A CAREER. The Paris correspondent of the London Standard writes as follaws: One of the few surviving veterans of the first ‘Empire has just passed away in the person of M. le Commandant Duchemin, at the ripe age of 85. Constantly o active service throughout the campaigns of Na- poleon, and frequently wounded, he fought his way up from the ranks, and ou the occupation of Paris by the Allies, rendering himsel! famous as a duelist, and boasted of having killed or wounded a score of the * odious foreigners” on the tield of honor. For the last twenty years be frequented the same cafe at the same hour daily to play his game of cards and take his abstnthe. He lived almost_entirely in the past, und gave ventto his feelings in maledictions against Wellington, Bincher, Grouchy, and theresty «qui araient fait mourir son Emn) ereur.” His principal delight, however, was in recounting the history of his mother, Marie, whose carecr was indeed a remarkable one. The daughter of an old soldier, and a Vivandiere, she was from her earliest years the pet of tbe regiment, and at the age of 15 married the fencing-master of the regiment of the ‘Gardes Francaises, who, after taking part in the destruction of the Bastile, was killed {n attem| ting to save the life of a soldier of the Swiss- uard, leaving his Soung widow with an infant son. When the Tevolution broke out, Marie felt the heredihri nilitary instinct too strong to be resisted, an Without hesitation sacrificed the locks so dear to her sex, and, disguised in male attire, was one of the first to enroll herself as a volunteer under the name of Joseph Duchemin, which was also he o her grandfather. Of iron constitation and the build of a grenadier, measuring ngnrlg 36 inches across the shoulders, she h fittle Qifficulty in concealing ber sex, although she was wounded .at the siege of Toulon. Two months afterward, when lighting in the war of La Vendee, she was en; in the battle of Chollet. Here she received two severe wounds, but in spite of the loss of Blood her courage sustained ber until the close of the day, when she fired the very 1ast shot and then Then only. on dressing her Vi vered by the surge that Corporal Duchemin (for she bad gained ber stripes) was a woman. She became at ouce the heroine of the day, and was complimented by ‘he General, who asked permission from the Var Minister to keep her name on the muster- rdl of the regiment, and Marie remained in- stFbed as Corporal in the Fomcond Foot. She afterward fought at Lodi, Arcols, and Ri- voli,where she captured a flag, at the Pyramids, Mom Thabor, Aboukir, and other en- rageLents. She was then taken prisoner Y he English, and sent to the hulks 0 Plymouth, but man: to escape,with three ofyier comrades, by killing the sentinel vis duty, anteot safely back to Paris. Wive dava afterwardfshe rejoined her regiment, and matie her last gn,ll'nr she lost her right legll:ly 2 cannon-| at Marengo. She was then ad- mitted a8 8 gns{oucr into_the Invalides, and it was a proud way for herself aud son when they went together v 1857 to the Palace of the Le- gion of Houor o receive each the St. Helenz mhedal. Gen~ Scrurier, Governor of the In- valides, applied fr the ‘Cross of the Legion of Honor for ber, bt before the authorities bad ducided on such & ‘eparture from precedent: aa 1o confer this distintion ona woman, she died in 1862, In relatingehis extraordinury corer the old Commandan. ysed tosay: * Shew: only a woman, but” ‘with a forcible but un-~ ‘tlr;ms'fimble French epletive) * what a sol-~ jer ! —_— PARIS MARK:T-WOMEN. ¢ Spiridion ” writes froL Paris to the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette: The women of the Great Marketsavere a poweful corporation be- fore the Revolution. They fcerted s right to be sovereign in the Great Marets and refused to allow their husbands to b anything else than their docile servants. Ashe majority of these women were cast in hesglean mold, they had means of enforcing obecence. They still count in the clements of Pais life, and Napoleon IIL always was at pulbito fiatter them. They are, with scarcely an eXtotion, de- voted Bonapartists, and bitterly Jamen the Im- perial day, when, as one of them reccrly said to me, *gold napoleons were more cOMaon in the Great Markets than silver francs are ow.” Nowhere was the prosperity of the Impriat days more felt than In the Great Markets. AlL the idlers of the world flocked to Paris; iey came here to _eat; there was nothing t00 gud for them, and the Great Markets supplicd thte. wants. The police haye always exercised vig. 1ant supervision over the women of the Grea, Markets, and have even tried 10 bridle - their tongues. A wanton effort, as you may suppose, for even nowadays one msy, at ln{y hour of the day, hear the whole vocabufary of vituperation moathed on somebody (chiefly women wearing bonnets, scrvants wear caps here) who bad abused the rlg]l}t, to jew the price asked for merchandise. Here is a curious record of police proceedings in_ the olden time: *25th ‘Aug. Do “Dame. Ladoncette (czgs, butter; and cheeses), stall No. 7, has been scntenced to a fine of 30 francs, and to have her stall closed duriog thirtfi";ls{[s. for baving dared to say pub- lely that Majesty the King Henry IV. ought to have children by Bo womun other than the Queen.” Dame Ladoucette took this ser- tence grievously to heart; it was printed and gosted on her stall, which remained unoccupie:. he determined to appeal to the Queen, had her petition handsomely written, and sent it tc Her Majesty in a nosegay of helio- tropes, & flower of which Marie de Medicis W passionately fond. In the petition Dame La- doucette prayed: “I said that my Lord the King, albeit at heart an excellent fellow, got. too excited at sight of petticoats other than yours, and that it was wrong in him (having such a lovely wife and sucha buxom Queen, every way fit to give him Tittle Princes) to be hanging around mistresses with great lords.” Marje de Medicis was delighted by this petition, andshe instantly guve orders for Dame La- doucette’s pardon, and appointed her the Queen’s_purveyor. Dame Ladoucette at once reopened her stall and bad painted on it: «Dame Ladoucette, Purveyor to Queen. Marieds Medicis (Eggs, Butter, Cheeses).” . PARIS IN SUMMER. The correspondent of the New York Triune finds Paris the most tolersble of great cities in hot weather. He gives as a reason for Parisian comfort the fact that Frenchmen live oat-doors asmuchas possible during & beated term, while. Americapsshut themselves upin-doors, orsit ona stoop or a curb-stone, as fn New York. He pic- ures all Paris dining on the boulevards in & lively description, which makes us wish the fashion might be introduced into American citics. He admits that there are drawbacks to summer enjoyment in the brilliant Capital: The asphalt has a way of liquefying to about the con~ sistency and the temperature of molten lava; the brilliant limestone of which the city is built reflects the sun with uncomfortable flercencss, and the inordinate amount of gas in all the thoroughfares heats ead thickens ~the at- mosphere, and makes you feel om % July night as if you were in a vast concert hall. Bat there are 2 hundred persuasions to invite you out of doors. The boulevards are a long chain of cafes, each Witk a little promontory of chairs and tables project- ing into the sea of asphait. You may dine in the Champs Elysces at a table spread under the. trees, beside an ivied wall, and pay mare for your dinner, thongh it will not be 80 good as at. J O estaurant on the boulevard. You may in- Quige in a cheap idy} by taking @ short sailin o penny steamer down the Seine to Auteufl, aud dining in a guingetteon the bankn of the stream, where the table is spread under a trellis that- scratches your head, and fried fish is the chief* article on the bill of fare. Or you may dine at. the Bois de Boulogue, at a restaunwnt pear the' Cascade and the Longchamps race-ciourse. Here arc stately trees, picturesquely grouped, frre-| proachablé tables, and carriages roll'mg up with. hifih-!teglplng horses and dagoslung all sorts of’ ladies. The drive back through the woods is. charming, and the air always cool, ov matter how hot the city is when you reach ft. THE NEW PARISIAN DANTA. Paris has got a mania just now (says aletter from that city), and a more unpleasant one has not been invented since the silly cry of “Lam- bert» was in everybody’s mouth some twelve- years ago. The new passion of the hour is for = noisy little plaything that imitates the sonnd " of castanets, o, Tather, the cry of s cricket. It is simple enough, consisting merely of a broad piece of clock-spring, set in 3 brass case, with one end free. When this end’ is pressed down by the finger it rebounds, making the shrill, clicking noise that is now to be heard all over Paris, #s though the city had been io- vaded by a_legion of locusts, OF a8: though 'a demon in _the shape _of; “Bones,” or = Spanish dancer, bad taken: possession of the nation. The lower clase of: the demi-monde delight in this new fnvention, which consequently aids to make night hideous at Bouginal, Mabille, and other places of public resort. The other night a man in the gallery of- the Grand Opera mom£|nlcd the whols per- formance of the piece with the noise of his cri- cri (for su the strocious little instrument is catled), and though the police twice gent inv search of him the offender could not be adiscoy- ered. These ericris are sold on the boulxvards and the principal streets for five cents eactl. over 200,000 have already been disposed of', 2nd 2s they probably cost less thau one cent to niake, thelr lucky inventor will scon retire with o large fortune. A YOUNG WALES. A funny story is told of the second son of the Prince of Wales—Prince George Frederic. iie is a merry scamp, fond of tricks, and no mora awed by the majesty of his sovereign than mcnl\‘ 1ads are by their grandmother. He was even * less amenable to discipline a few years ago thas he is mow, and on one occasion, when stayiug with the Queen at the uluei he played her o pretty prank. She had a solemn dinner, at which a Grand Duke, Mr. Gladstone, and Dean Stanley assisted. At dessert thechildren were sent for. When they came in,George was riotous. Grandmamma reproved bim. Hewent onheed« lessly. Grandmamma was agaln obliged toin« terfere. At lastthe youngerbrother became very obstreperous, and he bad to be sent under the table, from whence he was not to emerge antfi he had confessed his sin and promised amend- ment. He was very quiet,—to everybody’s sur- prise; but, when challen, assured {th m- Eerturb-b e granamamma that he was nn:dzood. ut would be soon. At last he was satisfied with his owd condition, and emmfd 28 naked as when he was born. He thourht that be could Dot do better tBan his first parents, and return- ed, therefore, to a state of Paradisaical in- nocence. —————— A Big Watermelon. Richmond (¥a.) WA Yesterday afterncon Justice J. J. rutchiield sent a magnificent specimen of a Jackson water- melon to the Second station house. Nothivg like it was ever seen in Richmond before. The monster welghed 120 pounds, and was as largs as a flour barrel. It tuok mearly the whole of the police force at the station house to get W with it, and it was worth a fcllow’s trouble. It +was a novel sight, though, to see three men eat i of one slice, and 1o see another flaxed baf policeman holding & plece between his legs like a bass-fiddle, and, beginning at the top, tryiog to eat his way down.