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2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. Park Church, corner of Ashland avenue and Wash- room, and who had discovered a stove-pipe hola RELIGIOUS. Sunday School Teachers’ Meeting at Farwell Hall. The Rev. Brooke Herford on the Revival Preaching of the Blood. A Reply to Various Assaults Made on His Position. Anachronisms of Sentiment—The Devil of To-Day and of the 0ld Testament. The First Public Appearance of the Pope in Six Years. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad---Church Ser- vices. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. ; FARWELL HALL MEETING. The weekly meeting of Sunday-school teach- ers at Farwell Hall yesterday noon wass largely attended, and the proceedings were of the usual interesting character. Some time was devoted to a song-service before the lesson—* Saul’s Early Ministry,” Acts, Ix., 19-30—was taken up. The leader was Mr. B. F. Jacobs, but he made aslight departure from the usual custom by calling upon gentlemenon theplatform to make sbort addresses. Brother Burns was the first speaker. He sald 4t was specially to the point of Paul’s being let down the walls of Damascus that he wished 10 speak, because it contained a dceply-im- portant lesson to our souls. We shiuld mot be careful of Paul’s reputation; the reputation of a single human being should Dot make us anxious, but we should be careful of the reputation of God'sglory. The disci- ples persuaded the Apostle to escape in this way, and he was in fault in Iistening to his ‘brethren instead of trusting implicitly in Jesus. The great lesson in this was to trust to God, and not to merz human agencies, for safety and preservation. Oue trouble with Christians was that they trusted their souls to the Lord, but ‘were afraid to commit their bodies to His care. 1f men would only give their bodies as well as their souls to the charge of Christ 2 rounded, symmetrical Christian life would be the result. Brother Albro followed in ashort address. He ifuted out that our steps are ordered accord- ng as we arc strengthencd with God’s presence in the inuer man. When directed by God we- ‘would honor Him and be blessed with His pres- ence in every vicissitude of life. The Reyv. Mr. Youker devoted his time to showing uow tue lesson should be taughs to the children. Paul was a converted man. He was 50 much excited that for three days be did not eat anything, butat the end of that timo Paul received meat and was strengthened. He (Mr. Y.) was down on cxcitement in the cause of God. The great lesson to be gained from this Apostle’s career, was that as soon. s W are converted, we hate the things which mere kept us from God. He would mot say much about Paul being let down in a basket; if e was fu the same fix, e would endeavor toget away the best way he could. It was, however, well to look to God for direction, and wait until we learned from Him what was best to do. The Rev. Mr. Brown said the teachers should endeavor to prove from the Old Testament that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and with all the ower of which th 2bor tu remove 1airs nothing but history. Children snould be encouraged 16 go out and preaci Jesus to peo- 1);fs.h(:i nruch good could in that W e Auter the hymu * More and More* had been sung, Dr. Biackall mave his views on the sub- ject.” He would first zet over the main facts of be lesson. ife would’ inadentally touch upon he strong points. und then go back to the be- ginning, and makethe whole of the chapter turn on the exposition of the first verse, which is 10 the effect that Paul received food and was strengthened. The suceess of Paul’s ministry ‘Was owmg to the fact that he was fed on Jesus. A teachier here suggested that Sunday-school schiolars should be taken down tothe Tabernacie ot Sunday aftcrnovn. Last Sebbath there were a number present, and after the service sowe of them were induced to 2o into the Inquiry-room, and seven were converied. Mr. Jacobs tollowed out this suggestion ina few pertinent remarks, giviug bis experience of b results to be attained by bringing children under the iufluence of the meetings. The spir- itual law, he continued, was like the natural law; we must cat and keep on eating 1w live, aud arter cating we should digest the food prop- erly. People should be warned azainst spiritual pastrys there were mnore spiritual dyspeptics 1han natural in this world. In proportion as we fTeed uvun the Bread of Life we would be strong and able 1o work. After a few remarks by a colored brother, the meeting was brought to o close in the usual wupner. PREACHING ‘ THE BLOOD.” TUE ATTEMPTS AT VINDICATION. To the Editor of The Tribune. CHuRCH OF THE MESSIAL, CnicAGo, Nov. 10.— As <X " declines to come out from behind the hedge of the anonymous, I have no reply to make to kis letter, or () bers, for there wasa certain tone of affectionate intolerance and hor- Tor atthe idea of anybody holding different opinions from * X,” which make me doubtfal about the sex of that upknown quantity.” But I should like, with your permission, to hear a few words on the discourses of the Rev. Mr. ‘Willing and another mirister, which has been made public, the former in reply to my recent Tecture and the latter with evident reference to it. Iwautto remind the clerzymen of the real . question at issue, which they seem to have strangely forgotter. They have—both of them —=imply proceeded to pile up all the texts they can find which hasanything about blood inthem, aud then impale the doubter on the hornsof the ‘worn-out dilennna: belicve these, or else you “‘ throw tk:e Bible overboard,” and “count the bloodof the covenantan unholy thing,” and thex “ you have no hope of being saved at all 1 Now, allow me to say, respectfully but vers emphatically, that the thae for such theological <hild’s play is past. What these gentlemen Lave to meet is a number of thoughtful and careful arguments held valid by many Bible students as revereut as themselves, nof that cven these textsare to be o any way disputed, but that the very references to blood, offerings for sip, and so torth, do not carry, and were pever intended to carry, that doctrine of - Bubordinstion which Lab bech bail g o she: Agaiust this ductrine, a5 supposed o be based primanly in the sacritice system of the Old Tes- tament, 1 stated three arguments: !11."1':& ‘;sxxli-ollcritx:.gst " were ot necessarily of blood at all, v thatthe supy ute necessity for * blyod” vanishes. o 2. The ouly “sins” they were % atoniug for—and even for tiem uot by substitu- tion—were ritual and ceremonial transgressions, uncleanness, cte. Moral guilt was exactly the one thing which—and thisis the grand moral su- periority of Judaism over Heathenism—nosacri- tice was supposed 1o wipe away ac all. 3. As we rise higher in the Jewish religion to the Psalmists and Prophets, dluod-offerings, in- stead of being more carnesily insisted on and with a deepeaing meaning (35 they surely must bave been if they were the one wiy of accept- sncewith God), aremade of less and less account, =ud often altogether repudisted. - Now tbese arguments way be right or they may be wrong, but they are not trivial ones, aud they go to the very rot of the Juestion. If they are valid, as T am conviuced from long study that they are, then no accumulation of Leviti texts is to the purpose, for, however they may sound like ‘*‘blood-substitution for guilt™ to «cars accustomed to biear them quoted in that sense, they didn't mean saything of the kind. But now, how ere these arguments wet? One objector does uot even zlluue to auy vne of the three; Mr. Williuz does uotallude to either the second or third. Itis not that they fail to an- swer them—they take absolutely no notice of there being s aruments? 10 answer, aod simply £0 on piliog upexts which I baveshown 1ot to bave the meaning they put upon them. Mr. Willing does indéed réfer to the first ar- | allowed to offer *fine flour™ evit. v., 11-12). He admits this, but tries to blunt the foree of it by saying that Levit. ii., 2, shows * that this was in the nature of 2 ‘memorial’ in_place of the blood-offering.” Look at your Bible again, Mr. Willing! * The passaze youxefer to is anout a totally different kind of sacrifice, which is carfully distinguished from these we are con- cerned with, and which had no more to_do with “sin-offerings” thau decoration-day " has to do with “penal servitude ! No need togo there for theword “ memoriad”'; itisin a very verse I quot- cd; the priest, it says, is to take and burn, not all'the “fine flour,” but ‘‘his bandful of it even o memori:l thereof,”—i. ¢, of the Wwhole offering, just 8 word about its beinz 2 memorial of blood! 1 looked with special curiosity to see What my commentaturs wagxld make of my endeavor to ~not overthrow the New Testament, but— bring out the true meaning of the New Testa- ment in this matter. They simply pursuc the same course a5 in the Old. * They pile up texts, with anything about blood, or propitiation, or Christ bearing our sins, or dying for us, without an effort to meet the questions which have been raised, not by me only, but by many learned or- thodox divines, as to their real mesning. The Prosbyterian especially is most liberal in imagin- ary objections; his scrmon is sprninkled over with—** Well, says some onc,” “But some one will say,” and o forth, yet he absolutely ig- nores ever_vuzing that hasbeen actually said by the “somé one’ whose lecture has Lrought him out! Yet surely my argument was systematic, and fair; possibly wrong, but if o let it be shown. 1 appealed first and chieBly to the teach- ings of Christ. I stand absolutely to this. I maintain that this is the only way to lave a chance of coming at the great essential doc- trines of the spel. Martin Luther, in his celcbrated reply to Eck, has this ex- cellent sentence: *“It is certainly impudent in any one to teach, as the philosophy of Aris- totle; any dogma which cannot be proved by his authority. You grant this. Well, then,itisa Jortiori the most impudent of ail things to af- firm in the Church snd among Christians any- thing that Jesus Christ Himself has not taugut.” 1 know that Luther did not keep consistently 10 his own principles, but that does not affect the truth of the principle. One of my brother- Jergymen announced as his subject last Sun- day: * Hear Christ, not Herfora, on the Blood.” Ttie very thing I want people to do! I wonder how many sayiugs of Christ he quoted. Messrs. Willing & Co. quote just two between themf' Now I have the decpest vencration tor Paul and e rest, but still I cannot put them quite on a level with the Savior Himself. For minor points of the Christian religion, we can oiten find much light in their teachings, even when they go beyond those of Christ—though even on minor points caution is necessary; witness Puul’s strong commmands that women should not speak in the chureh; but, for the great central verities of the Gospel, 1 beseech those who want. to get at the truth to look especizllyty the plain teachings of Jesus Christ Himself, and to allow nothine to be set up as essential which He Him- gelf did not plainly and unmistakably teach. But where did be teach this doctrine of blobd substitution for guilt{ I referred atlength to the general tenor of this preaching. Did He make this_*substitution’ scheme prominent in it! Did He ever preach it at ali¢ I reterred to the parable of the Prodigal Sou as *the gospel in one chapter.” Nelither of these zeatlemen mention Christ’s general preaching, or allude to this parable. It is_palpable that He aid not preach_anything of the kind. They thiuk, in- deed, that He does refer to it, and they quote two Verses as proving this. Ose is, “Godso loved the world thut he gave His only be- gotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him suould net perish, but lave everlosting life."—St. Jubu, ifi., 16. But thereis not aword about substitution here! I heartily accept the sayiug just as it is. To get an fed of substi- tution out of it, you baveto read: “ God so loved the world that He gave Bis ouly begotten Son to satisfy divine_justice by dying in man'e stead, that whosoever,”” ete. The other passage not only has hot the doctrine of substitution in it, but 1s absolutely inconsistent with it. When, at the Last Supper, with the shadow of death on him, Clrist saw the red wine, he said: * This is my blood of the New Covenant which is shea for many for the remission of sins.” What did the ““ploodof a covenant ” mean in those times? Was it the * consideration,” as lawyers would say, for which the covenunt was madé? No! It meant the blood of the sacrifice by which, in those days, it was usually attested or ratified. People do ot ratify agreeinents with blood now- adays, but with s seal; and so we get the esact modern cquivalent of Christ's words in speaking, as is often done, of Christ’s ~lavine * sealed His Gospel with his blood.” What was that new covenant? The Old was: Acceptance with God by keep- ing the Mosaic Law. The New was: Accept~ ance with_God simply on sincere repentance, und putting away the sins so repented of. “The remission of sins” simply means “The utting awuy of sins.” Christ had been preach- K\g tins all along, trying to get men to believe that “ good tidings,” winch made the way of acceptance as open to the common people as 10 the Pharisces themselves; and they would not believe jt. At last Me sealed His Gospel with His death, and that death gave it—as He felt it would—t new power; then they Wid be- licve it, and so that death became the most striking and precious thing of all to them, But® there is nothing about * Substitution ™ here! Nothing avout Satisiaction to God: it is all about tae work in the hcarts of men. This brings Christ’s dying lin¢ with the rest. of His i There are” various passages in which His 3 dpustl'.‘s of His dying for sinful men. He died for man in exactly the same sense in which Helived for man; surely this was what Jesus meaut when He said just before His crucifixion, “ Greater love hathno man than this, that a man lay down bis life for his friends. Ye are My friends,” ete. (St. Jobn, <., 13). With Clrist’s own preaching of 1114 Gospel in mind, I go to the texts in the Epistles, and they all have 2 natural fand beautiful meaning without interlining them with this tremendous doctrine of Substitution, of which Christ had never altered a word! They s peak of Christ oftexn as ““ bearing our sins ; but remember the Apostles also used to speak in the sume words ot what He did for men’s bodily ailinents. The dosest quotation of Isaish, is in reference to this: * Himself took our fufirmitics and bore our sicknesscs™ (St. Matthew, viii., 17),—hardly 25 our “substitute,”’ howe He bore both in the same way as the Friend and the Healer,— making them His own_sorrow, His own sad troule and burden, that He miglit simply save men from them. : What is the use of going over again the pass- ages which the cleriy.ien guote! I have already given what I bel.ve to be the natural and truc me. . ing of most of them, at greater Iength than I cx ask for in this letter. I ex: plained Paul’s speeking of Christ asa “ propi- ;.im.ion," and “:‘\!sm:nl.l ] lull {_hm,’ snfirifiuul anguage depends upon whether Paul’s thought w:sg:lh:\l Christ offcred Himself as a Victimgw God’s justice or as a victim 10 man’s sin. Paul does notsay which He meant, in so many words; but the vonstancy with which he speaks of Christ dying “to reconcile man to God,” to saye meu “1rom thelr sius, 10 “purity them to Himself,” to *‘bring us to God,”—never once ‘0 reconcile God to man,” or “ 1o satisty God's justice,”—all points, with a furce which to me seems irresistible, not to a substitutionary work for man, but to a moral and spiritual Work in man, Do I object to other Christians holding the other view and preaching it with all the carnest~ ness they are capable of ! Not I *“Let_every ‘man be fully persuaded in his own wind,” and preach Christ’s Gospel as he understands it. There are many ways in which Christ may be set forth, and { don’t kuow sny way that does set Him forth at all earnestly which inay nou take hold of some weak, wandering souls and Lelp to save them. But Moody goes about, and in a great wovement prociaimed as unsee- tarian not only preaches Clirist in bis own way, but holds up to public scorn all who preach Him in zoy other way, and keeps threaten- ing with hell all who caumot so reccive Him. Wherever he has been he has uttered. this same language of scornful denunciation. And clergy- 1nen who don’t baif like it, or believe it, stand by and give no sign; and listening thousands, hearing no_word of dissent, suppose that, thoughi Mr. Moody may be no_thcologian, his views are indorsed by those who are; and the press reports his ‘gon;s as no other preacher’s in the world have ever been reported. It is time for some onc to stand forth and protest against Christ’s large. loving, spiritual religion being held responsible cither for this revival preact- ing of Blood. Blood, or for the threats of damna- tion with which it i3 driven home ¥ BrOOKE HERFORD. ANACHRONISMS OP SENTIMENT AND RELIGION. To the Editor af The Tribune. CriCAGO, Nov. 1L.—We Jaugh 3t the anach- Tonisms of painters who put pistols into the haods of the patriarchs and dress their Pha- raochs in swallow-tailed coats. We shake onr sides over the stupidity of writers who Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which comes before comes after, and yet we. pass readily ‘over anachronisms of sentiment and belief that are in their way fully as Judicrous. 4s, for instance, much of the popular interpretation of seripture. Mr. Moody and many other ministers of his stamp are in the habit of ** bringing the Scriptures down to the comprehension of thelr bearers,” by trans- Jating them into common languagc. This may be all very well in its way; we teach children by these inethods. But we should be very care- a1 what sentiments we ascribe to the characters of our drama. People muy -be trusted 1o re- iliig dos mdesi relec 1o the St ar- B e e sone. betns | member that Nebachadnezzar probaly &id not Llvod, vers puor nespssarily walk up and down the streets of Babylon arm jel, but they may sometimes pum e Dfi‘e‘?’wfis naty an gxhnncr ina wet that D: i?:fiodist meeting-house. ~ Nebuchadnezzar Daniel relating their .““experiences " is as m an anschronism as their discussion of i Hamlet.” But this sort of error is very com- mon. Ministers wiil often take a line from Genesis, and turning it over In the light of sub- sequent events, find therein an argument for or agrainst infant baptism. They might quite as rationally draw from the same “source of argu- ments against the use of tobacco, or in favor of the latest Parisian mode in ladies’ bonnets. Prof. Huxley, in his late course of lectures, rendercd himself the target for much scornful comment by speaking of the ** Miltonle theory of creation,” but when you think of if, Milton's account_ of ° the creation is more purcly original than goy of Shakspeare’s works. And Milton’s *Paradise Lost " is infinitely more modern in {ts doctrine than one of Mr. Moody's discourses. We ]nufih at the painter who puts a duck-hunter into his picture of the Garden of Eden, but we think Tnothing of Milton's bringing ina_full-fledged devil there. Not until the time of St. Joh is our first parents. The tempter of Genesis was a serpent, pure and simple, and though his line of arcument and action bear presumably the marks of Satanic inspiration, he is alluded to as a serpent only, and as a serpent is cursed above all the beasts of the fleld. Subsequent Scrip- ture makes no assertion which identifies beyond doubt the snake, in this instance, with the per- sonality of the father of lies and of evil,—the devil par excellence. Even the words of St. Jobn, referred to above, concerniag ‘““that old serpent, which is the devil,” contain rathera metaphorieal insinuation than & direct charge. \Vhem[orc] in the interest of justice, I submit that some Jaw of limitations should be applied to the charges of the preachers of to-day. It is evident, then, that the author of the Biblical account of the fall of man—whether Moses, or, as I think, some earlier writer—meant that the tempter was an actual bona fide snake, or otherwise the curse addressed to it, *‘On thy belly shalt thou o, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life,” is meaningless. The glaring crror in Datural history made in this passagc, to wit, by the as- sertion that serpents eat dust, no_commentator has yet adequately dealt with. The skeptical reader may be forgiven for judgzing that the in- spiration of the text is rather *‘knocked in the head,”~—to use a somewhat inelegant but forci- g: Cexpression,—by this palpable mistake in L. The Satan of the Old Testament was mot a tempter, in oursenseof the word. In the Book of Job, Satan is but another name for Ahrimun the 6pirit of darkness in Chaldean mythology, the ending of all good. But the Book of Job, not being written by an Israclite, is hardly in any sense imbued with the predominant theolo- gy of the Testament, to-wit: ‘r'he religious be- Lief of the Jews. Further, the faith of fracl, ac- credited absolute and omnipotent power to Je- hovah, who made use, it declarcs, of the forces of #00d and evil alike for His own wise purpose. It was the Lord who sent scourges and plagues upon mankind, the Lord who * hardencd Phn- raol's heart.”' %I, the Lord, make good and create evil,” said the prophet, and this idea per- vades theOld Testament throughout,—that God, the Almighty, was Ombipotent, s far us His dealiugs with men were concerned, not goly for good, but for evil. The leathen belief in the warring forces of good and ill, of whom the one was sometines victorious and somctimes the other, had no place in the theology of the Jew. ‘Whether the current Christian faith partakes the more of Jewish or of heathen dogma in this matter, I would beg my reader’to decide after hwi}}g a fieuuiuely onha‘dxy sermon on the text, ** The Devil, as o roariug lion, walketh about, seeking whom he (y devour.” It he can satisfy himself with-'his~ decision, I credit bim with remarkable-powers of discrimination. At the begin %0[ the Christian era there were multitug of uevils, mostly of heathen origin, for piCir cluefs were named after heathen t these were Siln%’?’ bad spirits. The ud Satan, or the Devil (with a capital D), Irid no necessary counection with these, but was ‘popularly supposed to be their leader. Here and there throughout the New Testament, as in the temptation of Christ and various allusions, he is the tempter of maukind par excallence, as well as the author and designer of evil, the prince of darkness. During the times of *‘the Fathers all the devils scem to have been engaged in tempting. Each saint one _ or two waiting upon him, trying to lead Lim aside from the path of virtue. During the Middle Ages, Satan first_appeared with liorns andatail. Healso developed new characteris- tice; Le became much less dignificd than formerly, and dealt more openly and familiarly with mankind. Often he was very stupid, but sometimes he betrayed a_keen sense of humor. Since Luther threw his inkstand at him, he has been very chary about showing himself. Since then he "Las_appeared, also, as the Satan of “Paradise Lost,”” the Mephistopheles of ““Faust,” ns well asin various more common- place roles as Apoliyon in ‘* Pilgrim’s Progress,” and the everyday Devil of our pulpits. Moreover, the Satan of Bible times was the “Prince of this World.” He was to be finally cast into hell, which was, we arc told, ** prepared for the Devil and his angels.” But now, it is populaly presumed, he s in hell alrcady, and urns poor soul ! ‘This is not argument against the doctrine of a personal Devil. Bat the fact that the Devil of popular belief was changed so greatly through different azes might sugwest that the Teligion in which he plays 80 prominent a part may have changed also. It might be well before translat- ing Scripture Ianguage into the vernacular to go back and try to fiad out what the Scripture 1meant to the person who wrote jt. Onc change in Christian doctrine I will notice. Nothing is more distinctly taught in the New Testament then the resurrection of the dead and the final judginent. Both of these are an- ticipated by our modern evangelical preacher, Wito sends the souls of men to Licaven or bell immediately after death, The study of the perspeetive in histo is & good, wholesome thing, an nowhere more essential thau in the bistory of religion. To some people’s minds the past is like 0 wmap on such a very smull scale that Jarge countrics become small, and small lands disap- pear altogetber. To such the Bible appears as one book, written by several distinct persons, to be sure, but these were so alike that you might talte any two of them for twins. . “The times change, and we change with them.” As a man who travels gets broader and “more just views of men and things, 50 o knowl- edpe of the customs, opinions, and belfefs of the ancients will enable us to judge more clearly of our own. Whatever mayibe the result of in- vestigation, we feel assured of this: The truth will make you free.” RAHAM. THE POPE IN PUBLIC. TS PIRST APPEARANCE IN SIX YEARS. Correspondence of the New York ZTimes, dated at Rome, Oct. 19, gives the following in- teresting particulars of the appearance of the Pope 2t a mass-meeting ot Ins friends: ‘The Pope has taken o step this week which will Belp to break the iliusion of his being 2 prisoner, if any snch illusion still exists. The Holy Father has presided at a_mass-mecting of his friends in the Church of St. Peter, and has given o great many of us au opportunity to Luve another sight of him and to hear his voice after having been denied that Ppleasure for wore than six years. Some have es- timated the number present us high ns 8,000, but 1 do not think the number of tickets distributed was more than half that. For ten days past the trains have came laden with crowds frum the country of Loyola and St. Dominic, each squad_ranging from 300 1 800 or 900. As one of the first objects of these visitors is toece the Pope and have their beads blessed by him, it soon became & question where, except in the public-square, it wonld be possible to glve audicnce to _so large 2 company. No room in the Vatican G of o capacity equal to such numbers, and by general consent St. leter's was pitched upon, ‘The fiction rune that Pius IX. hasmot been in the church since the new public has bad conrol of Lome. It1s certain that the Fontiff has never ap- peared before an audicnce there, althongh it is probable that be has wandered about over its marble pavement when the building has been closed. 'Atany rate, a novelty was to be offerd, both 25 to the nombers and the place, and many, ot of the company fof the **pilgrima,” asked the privilege of joining the crowd.” Theamn of the croes on the side of the sacristy, or on the left sideas one faces the Ligh altar, 'was the part of the building chosen for the mecting. Ionday wasthe day, and by 12 o'clock the throng thut for two hours had been filing into the Basilea by the two entrances—that by the corridar on the side of the Vatican for the Spsniards, and the passage on the side of the Palace of the inguisition for the others admitted—had arrived at Jis full measare. Full ninety of every hundred present had never yet #een the Pope, who, if he was not before, I jigw certainly, the greatest curiosity of Rome. Thers Wasa hush of expectation, but not of lons contin. nance, and the curiosity Of the Spanianis had its ‘®atisfaction. The Pope descended ‘from the Vati- can by the private staircase which leads to the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament. Mere be monnted the sedia gestatoria, preceded, surrounded, and folloswed by o larze number of the Papal Court, in- cluding moxt of the Cardinala havinz residence in Rome,” by the Noble and Palatine Guards, and ‘the Swiss in their fantastical cos- tumes of ceremony. As the cortege moved 8cross the church mearly the whole of the vast company fell npon their knees. Arrived attheend of the transept, his Holiness left the plsiform upon which he was carried, and mounted the throne which had been set up before the altar, The Archbishop of Granada read anaddress of some Iength, to which the Pope replied, also in Spanish, & language some knowledge of which be acquired when a missionary in one of the States of Spunish America. It was a convenience and a gredt gratii- cationto the Spaniards to be addressed in their Ovwn tongue, a8 but few uf them could understand llumn. ¥rench, or Latin, the other languages ‘which the Pope £peaks. After the speech was im- Satan charged, in the Seriptures, with tempting | -attempts to raise a shout for Itnly and parted the Apostolic benediction. The voice of tbe Pontift, at the beginning of his discourze, was clear and vigorous, but fell off toa lower tone before theend. The Pope hus lost color since we last saw him, and begins to give signs that his forces are running ont, _Still, his aspect is such us to en- courage his friends to hope tuat_his life may for sowe time yethe prolonyed. lis health is cared forin evory way: he has all the sympathy that caq be rensonably asked, and the riches of the world roll into the Vatican'in a zolden tide. These Vigits of devotees from all parts of the world aro a great consolation to Pio Nono, and he expresses it very cordially in all his discouracs. 1t is xaid that other caravans of pilgrimsare organizing in Germany and other coantriea. and we sliall Liave opportunity.to witness succeeding exhibitions similur to this. This horde of 4,000 or 5,000 Spaniards 18 made up of all sorts of social clements—** black spirits and white, blue spirits and gray *'—or, to use an old ditty with a ittle license, **Some in rage, gome in tags, and some in velvet gowns; " nor do we get very favorable idea of the beauty of the Spanish type. Biis incident of the presentation paseed off without any serions jar being_given to the sus- ceptibilities of the Romans, A considerable crowd Dad collected in the square of St. Peter's to wit- ness the going in and coming out, and, a8 is al- most always the case, there were tome mixed up in it who wonld have been glad to be_spectators of or uctorsina row. A few histes were heard, and Victor Emanuc, 25 a demonstration in opposition to the Pope’s party, but a stop was at once pus to all such ill-bred conduct. Within the church the nspec- tion of tickets of admission was pretty rigid, where there waa the least suspicion - thal any with _profane intentions had succeeded in obtaining © ingress. A good many jour- nalists “were Tooking ~on, with no ‘more malevolent purposc than to pick up such facts os were worth taking notice of. The chromcler of the Opinione, which newspaper has lately taken ub the defense of the rights of the clergy, was, according o his own account, pretty severely catechised, With tho threat of being put out, but saved himself by s diplomatic muneuvre, Others cscaped by keeping well in the chade. The **Socicty for the Promotion of Catholic Interests, " as the organiza- tion s called, fs willing to have the trumpet blown toall purts of the world; by the members of the ress, if only prufse of anything §s indulged in; but they wish 1o have no lookers on at their cere- monies who are disposed to indulge in_criticisms. 1 omitted to mention that in the church. afterthe Pope had given-his blessing and was carried back Toward the staircase by which he entered, followed by the whole mass of liis adherents, the enthusissm of the less educated part of the crowd broke out into vivas of applande, without regard to the in- junction put upon them by their priests, that the sanctity of the place must not be violated by such munifestations. T'hey ceased when the Pope made asign of disspprovation. As for the Pontiff’s spudch, there is nothing In it worthy of particular notice. 1t was nearly us long as a sermon, and bad some of the characterigtics of such a discourse. *‘Who knows," Pius IX. exclahaed, ** that these afllictions ~of the Church are. not cause by sins of mine, or by your failure to do your duty? He condemned, as usual, matters as rb? are goingon here, and gave it to be distinctly understood that wil ltalians und others, born Catholics, who are not with him, will finally'be gathered into a pundle und thrown into thefire. It 3 only what he hus said many times Defore, A great many of the Spaniards still linger hece: ed, there does not secm to be any diwmi- on, judging by the immense number of Don Lasilio huts wtill scen in the streets. The Spanish pricst’s hut being much more estravagant in form than the Italian, 16 the object bath of curiosity aud ridicule to thosé who have lost all reverence for that half-sacred eymbol of the faithful, but to she Italisn the type of anti-vatriotism and reaction. posriig RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. “- TUE CHURCH 1IN GENERAL. The Presbyterian Synod of Philadelpma re- ports 48,450 communicants in 202 churches. The increase for the year was 6,105, The friends of the movement to have God recognized in the United States Constitution will hold_a convention in Steubenville, O., Nov. 15. There are now forty-seven Young Women’s Christian Associations in this country. which are formedon the plan of the Young Men’s Christian Associations. The Central Presbyterian Church of suzm{n- cisco, Cal., has Obtained liberty from ¢ Court to sell its church property. property, $155,000; debt, $100,000. Franeisco hes just been or Newton becoming church of that denominution on the Pacific. The Baptist Association of Massachusetts re- ports 257 churches in the State, 247 pastors, and 47,173 members. The number of baptisms dur- ing the past year was 1,968, and the amount of ‘money contributed §692,000. . Of the twenty-seven Baptist churches in New York City, twenty-three have mortgage debts of from $15,000 to $75,000. One church was re- cently bought under 4 foreclosure sale for $50,- 000, the wortgage, with interest, amounting to $75,000. There are 266,391 native Christians now in Indis, an increase of more than 42,000 in four Years, The number of communicants is 65,059, 0 increase in the same time of about 4,000, There ere %60 active missionaries. There arc 116 womun missionaries counected with the va- rious wowan’s societies. The sccond great Pan-Anglican Synod will be held at Lambeth in the autumn of 1877. A large majority of the Bishops of the English Church are expected to be present. There will be rep- resentatives from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nova Scotia, and many others. The Episcopal Church of the United States will be worthily represented both by the numbers and the high character of its prelates, The American Bible Socicty has modified the administration of the Home Department by a considerable reduction in the number of State agents. In New England there is now only one District Superintendent ; in New York the num- ber of agents has been reduced from five toone; on the flrst of -the preseut month seven other goents, chieflyin the Western and Southern States were retired. The Society has paid in ast years for its agencies from $70,000 to 575, EOO. Under the new system the expense tor this item will be $36,000. s There is 2 socicty Intely formed in New York, entitled *The Non-Denominational Gosnel Mission to_the Prisoners ot the Tombs.” The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby is the President, and the Supérvising Committee embrace some most eminent clergymen und laymen of different de- nominations. They are fortunate in having for their missionary the Rev. J. P. Betker, a man of an cminently self-sacrificing spirit and un- tiring industry.” Sonté of the letters addressed by prisoners to Mr. Betker are truly touching, and show the value of - this work and the strong hold the chaplain has upon their affections. The Fraternity of Ilinois Liberal Religious socicties will hold its next semi-annual mecting with _the Second Congregational (Unitarian) Chureh, Quincy, 11l , Nov. 21 and 2. The Con- ference will bezin on Tuesday evening, Nov. 21, aud continue throughout the next day. The opening sermon will be by the Rev. Robert ollyer, of Chicago. Wednesday there will be the address of the President, Firman Church, Esq., of Chicago; records of 'the last meetingz: report_of the General Western Secrctary, the Rev. J. Ll Jones; reports from individual soci- eties, and also from any persons attending from towns where no Liberal Church is established, as to the prospects of organizing such in their vicinity, or what can be done to mcet the want; election of ofiicers for the ensuing year, and such special business as may be brought before the Couference. What i3 called a ‘‘dcconsecration” service was held in Aliballows Church, Bond street, re- cently by order of the Bishop of Loudon, prelim- inary to the removal of the cdifice. This church is one of a large number in the city which were rebuilt after the fire of London Uy Sir Chris- topher \Wren, and its bistory is noteworthy from the fact that its Reetor in 1595, the Rev. Lawrence Saunders, was burned at Coventry for preach- ing in defense of the doctrines of the Reforma- tion, and that Milton was baptized here in De- cember, 1603. There was a crowded congrega- tion at the secvice, the Lord Mayor and Sheriifs attending in_state, accompanicd by one or two Aldermen and Common Councilmen. Bishop Claughton preached the sermon, choosing for a text St. Luke, ix.; 59: “Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead, but ~o thou ang preach the linzdom of God.”’ Whife the Bishop was ascending the pulpit an elderlyperson in the assle near the d sor called out in a Toud tone, I protest against this service in God’s name,” but had scarcely finisiied the sentence ere one of the guardians of tic peace appeared on the stene and promptly escorted him to the street. The Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia has just rendered a decision which is attracting con- siderable attention. In one of the churches within the Synod’s limits the pastor, by the re- quest of a candidate for baptism, immersed Lim. A complaint was thereuson carried to the Presbytery of Lackawanoa, which took an exception fo tlic act. From the Presbytery the case went to the S8ynod, which hos rendered a decision as follows: *‘In view of the teachings and principles entering into the doctrine of bap- tism, we ‘judge that the administration of bap- tism by the Rev. J. H. Clark, in_the case ex- cepted to, came within the possible limits of a permissible sdministration of the rite, and, al- though without any sanction of command or “%u:t in sacred Scriptures, yet did not involve & moral wrong. The mode of ad- ministration, howeyer, not accordant with the distinctive mode of baptlsm accepted and appointed by the Presbyterian Church, we do not approve of the spirit of the exception of the Presbytery of Lackawanna, ‘as bef 3 just, watchfol care in the exercise of its re- sponsible duties, and adjudge that it shonld be so interpreted as giving fraternal counsel, and not as ecclesiastical censure.” EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONGRESS. _ A Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the discussion of moral, social, and religious topics will be held in Boston from tbe 14tk to the 17th of November. On the morn- ing of the 14th of November, Tuesday, at_halt- past 9 o’clock, the Congress will be opened with servicesin St. Paul's Church, where Bishop Huntington will preside. At 11 o’clock on that day Bishiop Paddock will deliveran introductory address in Horticultural Hall. The topics to be discussed during the days of the Congress are as follows: * The True Place of Art in Christianity,” *Foreign Missions,” “The Re- lations of the Protestant Episcopal Church to Freedom of Religious Thought,” *Secular and Religious Education,” “The Morals of Politis,” *The Just Liberty in the Adaptation of the Services to the ‘Varied Wants of the People,” “ The Prevention and Cure of Drunkenness,” and * Revivals and Christian Nurture.” The writers upon Lhesve subjects will be the Rev. Dr. Osgood, Mr. C. C. Perkins, the Rev. Dr. De Koven, the Rev. Dr. Washburn, Professor S. Elliot, the Rev. Dr. H. A. Coit, the Rev. Dr. Harwood, Mr. J. W. Stevenson, the Rev. Dr. Greer, Mr. J. Edgar, Dr. Tyler, Dr. Hartt, the Rev. Dr. Newton, and Bishop Doane. The speakers will be Prof. J. C. Weir, the Rev, Dr. Hopkins, the Rev. Dr. Crummell, Mr. E. W. Clark, the Rev, Dr. Rud- der, Mr. J. C. Ropes, Mr. H. Alvord, the Rev. J. W. Kramer, Mr. A, H. Bullock, Mr. J. Em- mo"’k ishops’ Niles, Whigple, and Garrett, the Rev. R. H. Newton, Dr. Shattuck, and the Rev. i‘:&exflm. A. Brooks, C. A. Wincs, and W. 8. nford. PERSONAL. At the Harvard Divinity School, James Free- man Clarke is to be lecturer on ethic religions during the current year. The Rey. J. Rhoads Fury, who was ordained lost year by Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, has withdrawn from the Protestant Episcopal to join the Reformed Episcopal Church. Bishop Haven sailed for Liberia on Wednes- day, Nov. 1. A number of colonists destined for Liberia sailed on the same ship. After vie- iting the Methodist missions, the Bishop con- templates o yoyage along the African coast. The great commentator, Dr. Lange, has been fifty years a professor. He was the sonof a peasant and in his boyhood sold milk. Falling in love with a young lady of high family he re- solved fo make something of himself that he might win her. He borrowed books and studied and soon became known as & brilliant scholar, In later years he married the girl of his early choice. Dr. Herzog has been finally consecrated the firs O1d Catholic Bishop of Switzerland. Re was to have been conscerated at Solothurn Sept. 10, but the church was refused for the ypurpose. The ceremony took place at Rhein- elden, Sept. 18, Bishop Reinkens officiating. After consecration, the new Bishop was requir- ed to take the following oath: ¢ 1, Eduard Her- z0g, promise Lerewith solemnly before God, before the representatives of ~the Clristinn Catholic Synod of Switzerland, and before the Deputies of the Federal Council, conscientiously to tulfill the duties Jaid upon me as_elected and Catholic Church of Switzerland, and to carry out as faithfully as I can the laws of the Federation and of the Cantons in the sphere of labor committed unto me, and that I will swear no further cath of fealty to “any splritial or worldly authority.” g BREVITIES. Emerson says: “There is no God dare wrong aworm.” Heought to see a small Sunday- school boy get away with a box of fish-hook bait. “If you can’t keep awake,” s2id a parson to one of his hearers, “when you are drowsy, why don’t you tuke a pinch of snuff?? ¢ I think,” 'was the reply, “ the snuff should be put into the sermon.” _Undle Levi—“Now, Sammy, tell me, have ou ever read the beautiful story of Josepht” Sammy—*0, yes, uncle.” incle—* Well, then, what wrong did they do when_they sold their brother?” ~Sammny—* They sold Liw too cheap, I think.” . A famous usurer of Paris being on his death- bed, his confessor presented a silver crucifix to him, with a view to awaken him to 2 scnse of his situation. The dying miser, after cxamininy the cross with the most minute attention, sud- denly exclaimed: ‘“Sir, I can lend you but 2 very small sum on sucl a pledge.” Norwich Bulletin: He was a right-feeling man, and, speaking of the Turks, be¢ remarked that these blasted infidels had got to be cleared out of Christian Europe. Then he sat downin a lager-bier saloon, and complained that the choir in the church near by sang so loud that he couldn’t concentrate his mind on his Sunday evening game of auction pitch. An fuebreate got into a car and became very troublesome and annoying to the other passen- gers, so much so _that it was proposed to eject him; but agenial and kind-hearted reverend doctor, who was also a passenger, interposed for lim, and soothed him into good behavior for the remainder of the journey. Before leaving, however, he scowled upon the occupants of the car, and muttered some words of contempt; but he shook hands warmly with the dactor, und suid: *Good-day, my frlend, ‘I see yau know ‘what it is to be drunk.” A colored preacher ina Methodist church near Durhamville, Tenn., thus addressed the people at the close of a meeting: “ We's goin’ to upen de door ob de church; but we's lib’all. Ef eny of you wants to jinede Buptis’ or Prisbeterians, pojine’em. We'slib'all. Jinewhatever church you please. But de door is open_here. Ef eny of you wauts to be immersed, I kin do it jgs uz well az eny Baptis’ preecher. ‘But we's Hball. So come Ylong an’ Jine de church. Why don't you come *lofigr an’ jine de church? What you settin’ dar for! I know what you gwine to'do? You’s¢ a gwine up to Durhamville an’ jine dat Baptis’ Church. * Dar'll be blood "bout dis thing yit.? The donation party scason is opening rather early this year, and the ministers are wWishing they had put off their.Centennial holidays. The other night they had 2 donation party st a min- “ister’s out on North Hill. They brought him $2 worth of beuns, $4 worth of wood, aud $1 worth of potatoes, aud ate up 35 worth of cake, $1 worth of cream, F1 worth of applcs, $2 worth of nuts, broke $7 worth of furniture and koick- knacks, ruined a $60 carpet by breakiug a lamp on it, and finally went away and lefe the gate open, and a_$45 cow got out and hasn’t been seenor heard of since. - The next day the suffer- cr went around and rallied the clersymen of the city, and they formed an Anti-Donation So- cicty League.” They have sent on to Chicago for terrier dogs and shot-guns, which are ex- pected to arrive some time next week.—Burling- ton Hawleye. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach morning and evening at the Frec Church, corner of Lootnis and Jackson strects, —The Rev. 8. J."Morgan will preach at the En- glewood Church at 10:30 8. m, and 7:30 p. . —The Rev. N. E. Wood will preach thia morning and evening in the Centennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets, ® —The Rev. D. B. Cheney will preach this morn- ingin the Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Panlina streets. The Rev. William Cathcart, of Philadeiphia, will preach in the evening on *“The Baptists in the Revoiution. " —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach thie morn- ing in the Michigan Avenue Charch, near Twenty- third street, on ** The UnknownGod.” There will be union services In the evening in which the Firet and Second Presbylerian and Trinity Methodist Churches will unite. “Preaching in the evening by the Rev. Arthur Mitchell. —Tbe Rev. J. A. Smith will preach this morn- ingand the Rev. T. E. Egbert this evening in- the Univensity Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Rhodes avenne. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach this morning and evening in the Second Charch, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets. Morning &ubject: *+Out of Darkness into Light." “Evening subject: &The Prodigal Son: the Siner's Departare from —The Rev. William Catheart, of Philadelphis, il perach this morning in the First Church, South Park avenue and Thirty.first atrect. the third of the Centennial series of "discourses on the **Bap- tists in the Revolution.” In_the evening a nnion meeting of the First Baptist, Michizan Avenue 3. E.; sud the Fifth Prodbrierian Cliurcies will Le held at ‘the Methodist Charch. Sermon by Dr. verts. —The Rey. J. D. Burr will preach in the morn- ing at Immanuel Church, No. 290 Orchard street. CHRISTIAN. The Rev. Enowles Shaw will presch at the Cen- tral Chiarch, comer of VanBuren street and Gamp. e et herd will ~—The V. Z. . ep] reach 2, in urch, corner o B Tty A1th trast RaLe CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. D. N. Vandeveer will preachat Tnion L. . T e . U. Blackburn will preach at 10: 2.7n. 9nd 7:30 p.m. ot Plymouth Church. on 3ic gnn_avenue, between Tweaty-fifth and Twenty- sixth streets. ZPhere will be @ sermon to young men at 10:30 5. s o Gospel meoting L7540 p. m. at the Onk Park Church. “The Rov. Burke F. Leavitt will preach morn- ing and evening ot the Lincoln Park hiure, corner £ Sophia and Mobawk strects. O Phere will be preaching at the Oakland Chureh, on Oakrwood boulevard, at 10:45 3, m. and & Cnion Gospel mceting at 7:30 p. m, Evening subjec *The Blood of Christ Both Scriptaral an ing. ™ 2o Mtev. B. T Williams will preach fn the Forty-seventh Strest Church at 10:45 8. m. and in the Forty-Gfth Strect School- House at 3 p. m. i —The Rev. L 7. Chamberlain will prcach this ing and evening in_the New Eng 5 ormer St Delaware place and Notth Dezrborn street. i ofclate at 10:30 3. m Rev. Mr. Fisk will oficiate at 10:30 ‘2, m. and 130 . -t the Church of the Eplphany, o Throop street, between Monroeand Adams strcets. ZThe Rev. Clinton Locke will preach at Grace h morning and evening. O o . "Cushman will _oficiate at St. Stephen's Church, on Johnegn strcet, between Taylor and Tiwelfth strects,fat 10:30 'a. m. and 7:30 p. m. : e Tev. 0. Parker, of Milwaukee, will preach this morning and evening i the Church of the ‘Holy Communion. South Deurborn street, between Tiwenty-ninth and Thirticth streets, 2, —The Rev. Edward Sullivan will preach this morning and evening in Trinity Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-alxth street. Momn- ject: -+ The Philosophy of Prayer.” Even- ing subject: ** Unitarion_Objections to the Chrie~ tian Doctrine of Atonement:™ —The liev. Georze C. Street will preach this morning at All Safuts' Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Ohio strects. Regular services in the cvening. i The Rev. F'rancis Mansfleld will preach this morning and eveninz in the Church of the Atone- ment. comer of West Washingion and Robey streets. —The Rev. D. F. Warren will preach this morn- ing and evening 1n St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenne und Thirty-gixth etreet. “ OB Rt will bo proyer, litany, and Holy Com- manion at the Cathedral of $3. Peterand Paul, cor- ner of Washington and Peoria streets, this morning, and evening prayer 0t 7:20 p. m. —There will be communion 5t 8 a.m. , morning prayer at 10:45, and evening prayer at 7:30 to-day at the Charch of the Ascensfon, corner of Elm and LuSalle streets. 3 —The Rev. Luther Pardee will preach this morn- ing and evening at Calvary Chureh, Warren avenuc, between Oakley treet and Westernavenne. Holy Communion 2t 8 8. m. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmnnd Belfour will hold divine scr- vicein the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of North Dearborn and Eric streets, at 11 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. METOODIST. H. Adams will preach in_the Cen- on_Monroe strcet, near no-g;n. ‘The Rev. 8. tenary Churcl 2 morning and evening. Evening subject: cob's Vision.” y —The Rev. A. W. Patton will preach a sermon to youngmenat11a. m. in the Wubash Avenue Church, corner of Fourteenth strect, snd will also hold an evening service at 7:30 o'clock. _The Rev. Dr. Tiffany svill preach this morning in Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, near Twenty- fourth street, and will join in union services with neighboring churches in the evening in the Michi- gan Avenue Baptist Church. —The Rev. S. McChesney will preach this morn- ‘ing and cvening in the Park Avenue Charch, cor- ner of Robey strect. . —The Rev. R. D, Sheppard will preach this morning in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Monroc street. In the evening there will be union services with the Western Avenne Baptist Church. —The Rev. John Atkinson will presch this morn- ing and_cvening in Grace Church, cormer of La Salle and White streets. Evening subject: **A Sermon to Bucksliders, PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. James Maclaughlan will preach morn- ing smd evening at the Scotch Church, corner of Sungamon and Adams streets. = —The Rev. Jacob Post will preach at the church corner of Noble and West Eric streets at 10 a. m. i:‘. the Dutch language and at 7:30 p. m. in the En- glish, s - —The Rev. J. W, Bain will fl;uelch 1 the United Church, corner of Monroe and Paulina strects, at 10:30 2. m. aud 7:30 p. m. Morning subject: “\What Do We Believe?" Evening subject: *-Do We Believe In a Revival® —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach this morning in the Sixth Charch, corner of Vincennes and Oal’_uvenues. Subject! ‘*A Shame to Be Ashamed Of. " : —The Rev. J. L. McKee, of Kentucky, will preach this morning and evening in the Fullerton Avenalu Charch, Fullerton avenue, mear Clark stree REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. J. D. Cowan will preach in the Wicker Park Church at 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Dr. Cooper will officiate morning and evening at Immanuel Church, corner of Centre and Deyton streets. 3 —Bishop Fallows will preach 2t10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at St. Paul's Church, corner of Wash- ington and Ann streets. - Z Bishop Cheney will preach in the South Chica- go Church 13 p. m. —The Ttev. R. H. Bosworth preaches morning and eveninz at Emanvel Church, corner of lan- over and Twventy-eizhth strects, and at the Engle- wood Baptist Church for the Trinily congregation at3:30 p. m. Bishop Chency will preach this momning and and evening in Christ Church, Michigan avenue and Twenty-fonrth strect. Aorning subjec **The Christian's Business, and the Chrisf '8 Power.” Evening subject: **The Victory.” ‘The Rev. W. E. Williamson will preach this morning and evening in the Charch of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and Homan strects. SPIRITUALISM. Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan will lectare this morn- ing before the First Society of Sprritualists at Grow’s Ilall, No. 517 West Maduson strect. Morn- ing subject chosen by the audience. Evening sub- ject, **The Spiritual Cosmos,” by u student of Plato. The wervices will close with an impromptu inspirational poem. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach morning and evening at the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Washington and Sangamon strects. Subject for ilxe evening: **Life, and How to Make the Most of ) —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach this morning and evening in St. Paul's Chnrch, Michigan ave- pue, between Sixtecnth and sighicenth ecrcets. vening subject: **The Young lan at Play; or, The Amusemonts of Life.” - ’ —The Rev. J. W.oHanson will 2chool-housé at Englewood at 1 UNITARIAN. The Rev. T. B. Forbush will preach at the Charch of the Meesiah, corner of Michigan avenne and Twenty-third street, at 10:45 . m. The Rev. irooke Herford will Jecture at p. m. on i Cl}lil!’:]?l" l;:xofhe;’ :\'Dll Our God. _ —The Rev. E. P. Powell_ will preach this morn- ing und ovening Tu the Third Chureh, cornes ot 3onroe and Yailin streots. Morning “subject: **The power of Mind Over Mutter.” Evening subject: ** Ambrose, the Great Bishop of Mifan. he Rev. Robert Collyer will preach this morn- ing and evening in Unity Church, corner of North Dearborn and” Walton place.. orning subjcct: At —The Kev. Brooke Herford will preach this morning in thie Fourth Church, corner of Ellis ave- uue and Thirty-seventh street. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Dr. llibbard will preach at the New Church lall, corner of Eighteenth street aud Prairic_avenne, at 11 a. ., and at the Temple, preach in the old 50 3. 10, corner of West Washington street and Ogden ave- m, y . Paynter will hold a Gospel meeting at Owsley's 1Lall, corner of Madison sad Rovey streets, ut 10 a.m.and 7:30 p.m. —Elder I1.G. McCulloch will preach 1o the Green Street Taberacle moming and Sruing. —The Disciples of Christ will moet at 229 W, mn'rln‘.xpulgmgfi 3t pom. to-day- Cobak £ Weat —The Hev, i. W. Brown. the Evangelfs preach this morning at. Moody's Church wsmmer o Chicazo avenue and LaSailc street” Supimce: *Can & Drunkard Be Saved and 1iis Appetics for IS’lmng‘g?nlk_xzeh'l‘nkun"\\vgy fc" “"l‘hc question will e answered in the evening by C. W. S . of N York, o feforined infihsln!c.’ SRR E oI, - Erdman swill preach this morn- ¢S Tu}w?{;xflcle,l: thlsara ~The Non-Secturian Liblo meeting will be b at No. 140 Fast Rundolph strect (thied foory oy haif-past 2 in the ofternoon. Subject for leetun and discussion: ~*The Thind Hleaven 3ad. s Lo- CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Nor. 12—Twenty-sccond Sunday after Trinity, CATHOLIC. after Pentecost; VoM. 3 Aov. 12—Twwenty-third Sunday o Patronage of the k. Aor. 13—St. Didacos, C. Xov. 13—St. Stanislaus Kostka, C. Nor. 15— V. M. (from Nov. 12). I\"a . 17—St. Grezory Tl!:ufl(lniur'.fn!.vn.l%). Noc. lB—Dcdiu]lliun of Busilicas of SS. Peter and aul. — e ——— Another Mediom Exposed. . AMontreal Gazette. His nameis Church, his nationality American, and bis parlor on Jates street, Toronto, undey the shadow of Shaftsbury Iiall. He bas been doing u roaring trade for two years past, at 50 cents'a seance, and from §3 o $10 per pri- vate consultation. The familiar spirits ' by Yhich this man has been enabled to supply som of the strughtest and most respectable inembers of societv Wwith tile news and advice their departed relatives are Forest Lilly, a squaw, Little Jimmy, an Indian_dwarf, Lillie Presto, 2 young lady, earth residence unknown, who was drowned while crossing the Atlanti, and Nimwaukee, on Todiun giant seven feet high. WVith these familiars, Church hus gulled hundreds in the city, in fact, be has so bedeviled some old maids aad weak-rainded old gentlemen that they bave left their congregations and openly pro- fessed Spiritualism._Last week, however, a dis- asterbefell Church. His parlor wasfull one. night, and thecircle was complete, and he was suppased to bé sitting bound bard and fast in a corner of the room, and the manes of Nimwaukee had the fimannd Wwas ringing bells, and oceasionally rging the members of the circle to keep their bands joined and their minds passive, At this Juncture a gendeman, who was fn the adjoining in the partition betwixt him and the spirit- where Nimwaukee was holding. forth, which, it s needless to say, was in total dark- ness, conceived the idea of thrusting a fighteq torch through the hole and throwing light upon Nimwaukec’s subject. - Accordingly hic quietly strack a match, applied it to the torch, thrust the brilliant light throush the stovepipe hole, and lo! the circle saw not Nimwaukec lecturing or playing,uor Church sitting bound in cornee of the room, but the latter, in his shirt sleen and with his bootsoff, standing where the spirits were wont to_stand. The circle broke up ig confusion, having discovered that their Gama. liel was a humbug. THE GAME OF CHESS Cazss Dirrcrory. —Chicago Chess Club, Nos. 63 and 65 Washington street; open from9a. m, to 10p. m. Chess players meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange) and the Sherman House (Bage. _ment). All communications intended for ths depart shoulq be addressed to Tus Temuxe, andindoreed **Chess.” TO CORRESPONDENTS. ‘*E. B."—Your last is hardly up to the mark, ++3. H."—Your solution to No. 48 Is ingenloas, but if Black 2..P to R 5, there is no mate. ‘E. 8. W."—The Pawn at K Kt 5 i Problen No. 48 Is neceseary to prevent a second solatl 1..EtoB2 2. BtoB0, ete. atomby, Correct_solution to Problem from W. Howard Hall, E. S. Watts gton, G. S. Powell. E. 48 recein R - Bog W. L. v Seinpl G.N.J.. city: E. G, Thiers, Kenosha, Whi ¢ Koo Tamer, il 5 1. L. §., Litchteld, Mion. ; & Dyst die, Austin, Til. Correct solation to Enlzma No. 9 recelved from R.W. Eoff, W. Howard Hall, E. Barbe, E.S. Watta, G. S. Powell, and E. Semple. city; C. Brodie. Austin, 111, +* In Problem No. 49 add a Black Pawn at KBG ENIGMA NO. 11. BY MB. R. B. WORXALD. En E’“f‘& 5 42 o Rishop as & 4 PawnatQBs ° PROBLEM NO. 50. . BY MR. J, LOWENSTEZIN, ‘PEILADELINIA. Black. \\§ L | | | White. ‘White to play and mate in three moves. PROBLEM ¥O. 48. . Black. SOLUTION TO f . 1.KtakesB 2P moves SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 9. White. Black. 1..QR7 v 2. g to R5ch 3.Gor B mates 2.QwRB2ch ..Q mates 2.QtoKN7 3..Bwates CHESS LN CHICAGO. A sprightly skirmish, occurring recently at the Chicago Chess Club. DANISH GAMBIT. TWhite-Mr. X, Black—Mr Z. 1..PtoK4 L.PtK4e 2..PloQ4 rakes P 3. P takes P taken P to Kt 5 cl h G K Ktio 53 7. K2 I 1 1. 1 1. H T B, T 2z 18 PloK 88 itealgna () (a) This looks very much like an oversight, not- withstanding that the strength of the attack in 1his opening lies in its **Greek gifta. ™ () The uatural move. R to Kt sq, however, was best. : > (¢) Alittle examination will show that Black's position is untenable. The following game, we belleve, has never oeen published. It was pluyed duringthe Chess Con- gress held in Chicago two years 0go: scotcH gaumT. White-Mx. Hosxer. 1.P h s K Bi@) Ktto P to gkt Cs 1 w0 K B to K6k o © 0 K takes B KP 1§ takes Kt Qo PoBs Gtakes B 13 takes Kt P (d) takes B figis Sl o B 3 WKRS P takes Kt 8t 1”@ B takes Q Kt P N0l 4 BioBS RioK 4 QtoQa PtoQB4 Qo2 1tio R 5t sg glinlu Rw K3 10Q3 2BKS B takes B 27.Q takes B Qtofi4 28 K&tz B H ZRWKS B3 WIRWKEO toB3 31 R0K S toB3 R b8’ A 10 O Ke s SERE WwE3 36 MK o Ktsq 3. PlE Re wHS S8 PQs 0K Et3 59 PoRLs tnkes W PloBs PloKts Qo QKe3 * tege 42 BT toBe 43 Q10K fromB5w0B3 t0KS 10KLS 45..P takes P takes P K 10 R uq ey QoK wQRY &) 48R 10K Kt aq kg 49.°P takes Q én o KtT sip QELE to RS 5: 33 takes It ch 53.K inkes b es 1 54 P10 Q6 Mr. Hosmer reatimed (1). (a) First played by Mr. Hosmer. It ia decidedly stronger than B 10 12, which the books recom- men (b) This ia not good. though we know of nothing better. Q to Kt 3, P10 Q3, or Bto Kt 3, leave White with a superior position. . ’(t’:; White conducts the opening in masterly (d) This was hastily conceived; either PtoB6 or B to B 3 would have left \White with muck the superior game. {e) Mr. Hosmer overlooked this move of the Queen when he made his 16th move. (f) Hoping that the Queen might go to B 2, when. R Lo B3 forces the game. (E) Threatenine 10 win by Q to B 8 ch, etc. Ab) White could easily eifect a draw, but tries to win, and In conscquence Iy himeelf the loser. pellh I Justice to Jle . we must add that tho e was won by him in short order.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.” ————— ONE YEAR, Alas, the love of woman! I Tobealovelyanda. m‘?m‘u‘.'nfé’.“"’ Desaly, and qulck, 8ad crushing, et sa re Torture I3 theirs—what they Inllt{ lh‘!‘;‘f:‘fl-- Iretarn you the ring and the lock of hair, And the lovers' vows that were riven last night;. Tmuy Luve been hasty—I may have been proud— Tmay bave been wrong, sad “perhaps Jou wers But lh:n;vonl bas gone forth, and the dream of & P4 Ende as end always life's ple; : You passing on, smiling, careless, and free. Whose was the fanlt® ® oas she falt?! Whose the folly that "The love and the trust of a woman's whole heart? Not mine the lips to reproy ) Now that forever we've asfiod per™ Forever! AR, well! Our lives are but young: In the diys yet unrisiid some sandbine may bo: Some haven of rest, some undoubi € future may bold in its sllence for me. Caicaco, Noy. 10, FaxxE Mo g