Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1876, Page 13

THE CHICAGO ' S, snnday-SChool Teachers’ Meet- ing at Farwell Hall. The Life-Story of the Rev. Ed- ward E. Bayliss. -ARech‘d of Misdeeds which Have Been Since Atoned For, frof. Blackie on the True Relations ef the Chareh and {he Theatre, statement of the Object and Meaning of the High-Church Movement. Yotes and Personals at Home and Abroad---Church Services To-Day. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS. MEETING AT FARWELL HALL. The cold weatber bad a marked cffect on the \ttendance st the Sunday-school teachers’ meeting in Farwell Hall yesterday, not sbove Thalf the usual number being present. The Rev. Ar. Spencer conducted the musical portion of the proceedings, and the leader was Dr. C. R Blackall. The opening prayer wasoffered up by the Rev. J. D. Burr. The lesson was * The GentilesReceived,” Acts x.,3448. In opening the aiscussion, Dr. Black- oll said they bad in the chapter & very well de- fined sermon, which every oue who loved the Lord Jesus could preach, for it was full of beau- 1ifu) truth. A teacher, to be successful, must ‘have his Jesson thoroughly in band, and tkere was no better way of doing that than by diriding it into parts, ‘and handling it as any other truth to Dbe taugzht. - He would give a brief sugwestive outline of the lesson. They would uotice from the: thirty-fourth to the thirty-ifth verscs they had 1the conditions of salvation. The word of testi- mony was included in the thirty-sixth to forty- third verse. We were taught that Jesus Christ came into the world, not to make peace between man and man, but between man and God. They would notice further, in the thirty-eighth verse, that God anointed Jesus. Only “one class of miracles was epoken of, and it would appear that Christ came iuto the world that He might cast down Satan. In the thirty-ninth verse there was & very unfortunate ression, “Whom they slew and hung Him on the tre: Now, the simple meaning o1 this was that Ile was lain by being hung on the tree. Two les- sons were 10 be derived from the forty-fourth 10 the forty-sixth verses, which related to the descent of the Holy Spirit: Firet, in regard to dreumcision, the great truth was taught that it was not necessary to go into the Jewish Church to become Christians; eecond, that there was no need of external ordinances of any kind whatever precedin;: the descgot of the Spirit on the human heart. There Es fini;o another lesson,—that of obedience and The Rev. Samuel Wyckoff said the first verse showed that Peter had'a confession to make be- fore be could preach to the people. Dr. Everts thought the point of greatest im- portance was the impartiality of the divine promise. In every nation he that feared God and worked righteousness was accepiable be- tore the Lord. ~ The broad catholivity of the Gospel was cspecially set forth in the lesson. The Kev. S. H. Adams said Peter had not re- ceived 3 mew idea, but e couched it in new Janguage. It took cight years for Peter to get tbe truth down into his heart that be who be- Jieved in the Lord shall be saved. He made that confession, and was then ready to work in God's vineyard with increased vigor. Mr. B. . Jacobs said the lesson showed them that Peter had an effective 2nd beantiful text, “Peace to him by Jesns Christ.” The Rev. Mr. Spencer sugeested that they chould obtain encouragement from the fuct brought ont in the lesson that scceptance and ancinting were without respect to persons. Several other brothers threw out further sug- ®estions which were acceptably received by the wdience. One said that atonement always had God for its object, Christ. offered Himself as a g_l;)piuafinn for our sins and God was satisfied. ¢ spirit of God strengthened us and enabled us to abide in Chrisf The bymn * More to Follow? was sung with great spirit, after which the leader suggested that teachers should take the sccoud chapter of Ephesians and compare it with the lesson; it w2 & good commentary thercon. The meeting closed in the usual manner. E. E. BAYLISS. A WOSDERFUL LIFE-STORY. 7o the Editor af Tke Tribune. Hrisporo, IN., Nov. 25.—The following {from the London Telegraph will scrve as an in- troduction to a brief narrative of the conversion of & stili more hardened and apparently hope- less case: ¢*t is never too late to mend,™ the moet power- 1ol of Jiviug novelists told us long ago; still.:it would be desirable to know the opinion which Charles Reade mignt entertain as fo the feasibility of reclaiming the astoundingly hardened ofender whose biumflby has been given by the Medical Ofiicer of the Dublin Military Prison in hie recentliy- published report to Col. Du Cane, the Inspector- General. The rea) uame of the miiitary Incorrigi- ‘bleat Dublin has been mercifully concealed nnder the regimental number 1,936; bt we learn that ere be entered the army he had been 2 sailor. He seems 1o have enlisted at the zge of 20, and fo Rave had about five_vears' service, = He deserted in rch, 1874, making away with his necessaries, and being tried and convicted. wassentenced to 112 days'hard lsbor in the ilitary Prison at Cork, Wwhence he was discharged with a_good character. In Aupust of thessme_vear he was convicted of making away with articlés of his kit, and sentenced 10 forty-two days' imprisonment and stoppages, and acainhie emerged from jail **with a_goud charac- er.™ Prior to his first convietion he liad been fre- quently in trouble for creating disturbances in the &xreets, destroying property, and_getting drank in camp.’ Again, in November, 1874, he had forty- w0 days for breaking ont of barracks and oth ¥ise mirconducting himeelf. In June, , the Incorrigible was committed to the Military Prison at Dublin under sentence of 168 days hard labor, of which 42 were_to be passed in solitary confine- ment, for breaking out of the comp at thé Curragh, The days of the man’s zood bebavior while in jail Were now gone. 1ie took to barricadiny himeelf in his cell, tearing up his clothes, and destroyins the mat and fittings in his dungeon. 2 by being put on bread and water diet, and by being dmmured in 2 dark cell: but a week of semi-star- ‘¥ation only reduced him four pounds in weight, and when he wax in solitary confinement he pasted must of kie time in a sound slumber. On being pluced. at the expiration of this punishment in Znother cell. he committed exactly thesame series of offenses, sud on this occasion e was floared. receiving twenty-fve Jus) 1t i¢ remarkuble that the unhappy man, previous to_being tied up, declared that the_sconrzing would have no deter- Tent effect, nor did it huve any. Shortly afterward Leagain broke out, and was again flozzed. Temained ** rather quict after this sccond aopli- cation of the lush, und oventually he wae trans- ferred toa civil jail prior to beiny_discharzed from Der Majesty's scrvice as an incorrigible and worth- Jess character. He lud certainly earned hie title 10 both sppeliations. At the smnc time it must be Temembered that this desperate ruflian Wwas not 3 thief. ~ Civilian doctors wonld probably pronounce lim to be congenitaily mad. but we should like to Lnow what Mr. Charles Jteade thinks of him. Iu our town, during the past ten days. an evangelist from your city, named Edward E. Bayliss, has been vonducting a protracted mect- fag. On last Sunday it was anuounced that he Would narrate the story of his life, conversion, €2, A large andience assembled, filling the chureh to repletion,—every seat being gccupled and some having to remain stending. ~ Sclecting Tor his text This man receiveth sinoere,” he dolivered an carnest, cloquent, deeply-instruct- ive, and thrilliugly intcresting address, The following is but a synoptical report: It is, Lowever, impossible for me to convey to your hst of readers, through the medium of cold 15p¢, the pathos, the spiritual magnetism of the nnlm': orrogescribe the wonficr[ul] cffect the ser- on produced upon the assemblage. He was born irlxm}:nglnnd in 1843, His father ™as the youngest son of a gentleman farmer, Who, in opposition to the wishes of his friends. married a Miss Haunah Seville, a descendant of the French Huguenots. In carly life he associ- ated with evil companions; frequently played t-uant from school, ran away from hume and axompanied circuses, theatres, cte. When Photography first was introduced in England he . 4 Erlxnv‘e Liis parents no rest until they apprenticed o a he traveling artist. Prof. of the South, once ed his mative town, and he ram awav ®ith him, acting as Jack-under-table whipping would cure moral disorders, Lie, goodness’ knows, has had enough of them. I Sbutting up in the bed-roomn on bread and water, with portions of Scripture to learn, and the dog-chain as a conneviing link between his lez and the bed-post was ealenlated to civilize & %, hie ought 1o havebeentoncd downunder the ted wpplications of the dose. Whea 12 J enkjtns. " morze of o He wait punivbed | yearsof age he had been in-prison for two months, spent nezrl‘v two yearsina Reformatory School, and was again in the County Jail under asentence of three months more, and two years additional at the School. His iather dicd in 1863, In March, 1859, he, in opposition to the wighes of Lis mother, joined the British army,— second battalion Nincteenth Regiment. Was stationed successively at Winchester, Thornelift Camp, Aldershot. While at Portsmouth he de- -serted, changed his regimentals for civilian’s clothing, and enlisted in” the Royal Marines at Gosfort. Taking Erenchleave of the Marines he calisted in London for a First Royal Drazoon; was apprehended and sentenced to fifty-sixdays a military prison with the letter “D ™ pricked in Lis side.” Deserted again, disposing of all his accoutrements wud kit; gave himself up, and while awaiting trial in the guard-houee, filed the Dars of the window and cscaped. Was urrested, and with the regiment removed to Dublin. Was tried by court-martial and comrnitted to Mount- Joy Military Prison for 112 days with another “D.” Whilein the prison undergoing his sen- terice he attacked the prison surgeon, and while shut up in the cell awaiting trial tore the sheets and blankets into shreds, simashed the window, table, shelves, cte. The nexs day being march- ed out juto the yard he found u company of infantry with loaded rifies and fixed bayonets forming one side of a hollow square, the pris- oners the other three sides, with a triangle in the centre. Being stripped to the bare pelt e, was tied to the triangles and received 25 lashes' with cat-o'-nine-tails. Shortly_after liberation deserted again and escaped to North Wales. On Dbeing returned to his regiment, then stationed on the Curragh of Kildare, he was sent to hos- pital, and being placed on short allowance, asked tlie surgeon, a Scotchman, to increase his diet, he was_ only receiving one-half pound of bread per diem with a pint o? tea. ‘The Doctor, instead of complying with tie re- quest, insulted him, and he up with his fist and struck the otlicer. 'Beinz tried by general court martiat he was sent to the convict prison for six years penal servitude. There, through the kind attentions of the goodly chaplain and the read- ingof sound literature, he was awakened to a sense of his guilt. There bie was left to reflect on his past life. ‘There he cried to God for pardonand, after being incarcerated for cighteen ‘ionths, during that time spffering from re- cicnee and béing abnost on the vergeof despair, onthe first Sunday of 1864 he was converted. ~Under the tutorship of a celebrated divine, who loaned him his own works, lie com- menced a course of systematic study for the ministry, which he continued until his release from confinement three yearsafter, the sentence having, on account’of exemplary conduet, been commuted to four years and six months. Being returned to his regiment, then stationed at Sheflield, Yorkshire, he commenced preaching Jesus in Mechanics’ Hall to an audience of 2,000 souls. Finding that be had more calls thau he could possibly respond to, Lie, with the kind as- sistance of friends, purchused his discharge from the army. Attending cullege for abrief period, he finally came to this country, and for the past eight years has Iabored faithfully as pastor of some very important churches.” He ' organized the Presbyterian Mission among the Mormons in- Utah, and has been instrumental in forming four churchies; building three church edifices; holding ten revival meétings, m which at least 175 souls were Jed to the Lord, and erecting two parsonages. Mr. Bayliss recently resizned a very important church, having a membership of 267, for the purpose of engaging in evaneelistic service, for which special work hie is admirably adapted. The editor of the Hillsboro Hlade, who is an infidel, after abusiug Mr. B., says: We have met the Rev. Mr. Baylissand find him to be a talented gentleman, and bave no doubt but that he will make his mark in his profeseion. The history of his life and conversiou will be repeated Dby request next Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. in the gregational Church. Ile gave his experience in conversion in guch an impressive manner as to bring tears from 3 number of his auditors last Sun- day afternoon 2nd Sunday night. ‘The gentleman eame here highly recommend- ed, bearing testimonials from the Jeading minis- isters in the State. He is truly bumble, spir~ itual and carnestly desirous of leading souls to Chirist. His style is peculiarly original, thought~ ful and excecdingly pungent. His appeals, in melting tenderness, are almost irresistible. We firmly believe that God bas prepared him for an important work. The meetings under his conduct are deeply solemm; there is nothing of u sensational character in his preaching; he de- fends, eviaeutly, on the Spirit to use the truth presented in its fullness, simplicity, and power. JoNxouTH. CHURCH AND THEATRE. THEIR TRUE RELATIONS. Professor Blackie, of Edinburg, in opening his lectures before the Greek class in Edinburg University, at the beginnine of the last term, took occasion to make certain remarks on the relations of the Church and theatre, which are thus reported in the London Era: The special case of Aristophanes and the Greek comedy, with the revel of wanton license which characterized it, leads me to saya word or two gen- erally on the connection betwixtmorality and stage playg, or the Church and theatre—a theme on which, since the days of the Puritaus downward, s certain class of clergymen in this country have been ever forward to invite public discussion. I will commence by stating a fact. Last Saturday. from a concatenation of canses, which it concerns no man 1o know, I found myself in the singular posi- tion of having been twice at the theatre in thesame day; and on reviewing my conduct at night, accord- ing to the pious Pythagorean precept, before 1 said ey prayers, 1 found that I had done nothing of which 1 had any canse to repent, but something rather on which I'should look back with thoughtful gatisfsction ull the duys of my life; and whenI stute that the two plays which "I witnessed on that day were ** Hamlet'"and ** The Bell both of which the Erlncipal parts were sustained by that singularly _chaste, pure, and finely-feeling trage- dian, Mr. Irving, no person, 1am _couvinced, who ever witnessed hig performances will have theleagt diffienlty in comprehending the canse of my satis~ faction. But whether assisted by the chastely sug- gestive action of Alr. Irving or not, what Iwih 1o call attention to at-present is, that these two picces are both of a highly moral character and a profoundly relizions siznificance, ond they . were }islcnc(l 10 by iarge and crowded housges ‘with a breathless aitention and a devout sympathy that I have seldom scen surpassed in any congregation of Christians listening to the mosteloguent discourse. Ttis plain, therefore, that the modern stage, of whoac deterioration and degradation wehave heard 50 much, s atill, on some_oceasions at least, and fn the hiinds of certain persons, performing_ nobly its ‘xropcr functi ibited so prandly in the inci jon—exhibdited ent Greek tragedy—as practically a pulpit from which the most profound moral truths are taught, in & manner t once the most naturay, the most at- tractive, and the most efective; and unless it can be showh that the cagerness with which the people run after such representations ae those 1 have men- tioned is altogether exceptive, 1 really do not “sce how clerrymen or any otlier persons can be fied in conacmning wholesale, 88 they sometimes o, the present-state and condition of the nobiest form of intelicctual recreation ever invented by man. And, o far As my experience goes, I consider myself, in justice to'a body of men who do nat 41- \waye receive, either from the clerzy or from the general public, such grateful acknowledzment us Their services deserve—in justice to theatrical art- ists, 1 feel bound to give my evidence that there is not the-slightest reason to believe that the accepta- Dleness of ** Hamlet™ and -*The Bells ™ to a the- atrical audience, throngh the imposaioned unper- sonativns of Mr. Irving, is un exceptional phenom- enon. 1 amno zreat theatre-goers but Whenever I did happen—elsewhere, or especiaily in London— 1o see the picee which hias cujoved the popuiar ran of the seaton, T_did not find that it was u partico- Tarly immoral picce, or an iminoral picce t ail, but sometimes ratlier st hig nd_evangelical iece, a3 this very play ¥ D calied 1*Leati ™ of which the draz tive lies in_the characteristicelly zospel the forgiveness of injurics. But not only on ihese accasions, but throngh my whole life, siona) witnesser of theatrical repres can have rarely met with even immeral insinuatio popular plays. much less with cssentially fhoral plots.. On the contrary, I have generally Sonnd the floor of the stage occupied eithier by innocefit and amusing pictures of popular mau- ners, such as 511 the pages of Thackeniy and that ssrent philosopher Mr. . Punchi(the true British Aris- fophanes). or pathetic stories of human sufering, generally springing out of human foily or sin, the Contemplation of which woald scarcely fail to have 2 ood moral effect on every sound-liearted spec- tator. And 1 wish to say here, from this chaie publicly, what I have often snid privately to dis- tinguished menibers of the clerical profession, that T have much oftener felt the gracious tear-drops of human sympathy and devout pity drawn from my eves by the vivid impersonations of the stage than Dby the taost Jervent appeals of cloguence ever de- ivered from a Scot{ish pulpit. So far, therefore, as my exvericuce_goes,~—und I have no reason 1o imagine thut L sm singular, ~that clage of persons, whether clerzy or laymen, who are fond to induige ia Geclamations azuinst the modern stage, are very Tar from being altogether in the rizht: rather, ac- cording to my feeling, £0 far in the wreng that. if 1 were to.nse the language which flows with such familiar dennnciaticn from their lips, 1should con- sider myself gmity of a great slander against the ublic 2nd A zross libel azainst 8 most respectable Hlass of my fellow-citizens, for which, as & Cliris- tian and a _gentleman. I shoald consider myself bound to muke an ample apology. But there are not a few amonz the clerzy with more sense and gentlemanly fecling than those of whom I have beeh speaking, who content them- selves with saying that in general there is nothing particularly bad or immoral in ftage plays—nas, 1hat they are_generally poud in their tendency, ut Jeast jnnocent, but thit the modern stage, throuzh an unhealthy tradition, Lias become the nuclens around which il moral corruption maturally thers; and they solemnly advise younz men (and 5id men, too, I supoose) mever fo enter a _place where it is imposslgl\: 1o avoid the contagion of Jad compuny. Now, in reference to this charge, also. Iwish 1o sive my testimony most emphati- cally that neither in Edinburgh, mor in London. porin Berlin, nor in Weimar, nor in Vienna, nor in Rome, norin Nuplee—in all which places, and 2 score of others, I bave at ditferent periods of my fife witnessed theatrical exhivitions—did I imeet with_bad company in any peculiar sense, either when sitiing within the theatre or whea tations, 1 te with the most solemn assurance thatI going out of it. I sayin an culiar gens Gecatise 1 man who' moves I the wond" mmect meet With bad company, in the general gense, everywhere. I have met with bad company and ‘what I call low company—that is, the com- pany of persons with fow and rordid’ ideas and rentiments that stunk in my nostrils—at the tables sometunes of purse-proud citizens muking an am- bitious digplay of unintellectual gullet-luxuries and belly-dnintics, or even on the more clevated platform of biz dinners given by the would-be gen- tilities and the genteel vulgarities of the West End, T have aleo been more than once, unhappily, side by eide with the most low aud conrse and gcully companions in the saloon of the lona steamboat during the week of the Glasgow Fair. I have not seldom likewise had to resist the' sednctive solicit- ations of bad company in female guise, some thir- ty years ago, when my bair was not white, return- ing from a dinner-party or _other social meeting, and walking quictly along the strect in search of my own respectable domcile, aan hour consider~ ably before miduight; but 1 never did meet with bad company in any sense “when seated either in the pit-raws or the boxes of any theatre in Enrope. 3y opinion, therefore, ia that, if persons wit- nessing play fall in with bad compuny who lead them to their ruin, the theatre is not to blame for this, Dut their own unregeuerate nature and their want of manly self-control, —a defect of character which makes them the ready prey, wherever . they 20, of all sorts of carnal scductions, whether in the theatre or out of it, or even within the sacred four walls of the charck. 'The fact of the matter is, gentlemen, 1hat not not only with regard to the matter of public amusements generally, the clerzy of this country have put themselves ina false’ po- sition, and they must wheel right about if they mean to do any good. The iden of stamping out amusements—and especially such an intellectual and morully noble amusement s the theatre—ia ridiculous.” If we are to act on the principle that because certain evils or cerlain tempta- tions may in certain circumsimces hang by the skirts of certain mnasements, we_are therefore dospotically o interdict #uch amusements, I cennot se¢ where we are to stop. unless by stamping out all enjoyment of whatsoever description from the world. The clergy, therefore, ought to understand, if they are not prepared to drift buck into the moldiness and the stapidity of monkish asceticism, that it is their duty as ministers of a reasonable serzice to con- secrate ull matural, healthy entertainments, and not to frown on them or madly to attempt thefr ex- tirgation. And I say now, inall seriousness, let the eleray, as individuals and collectively asa Charch, come forward and %ublicly patronize all innocent amusements, especially theatres. Unless the God of Nature and the God of the Bible be two different deitics,—which, I think, Bishop Butler proved _triumphantly they ure mnot,—then the drama is fundamentally from God as much as the germon, #nd the stage is a divine institution no Jersthan the pulpit. 1f 0, the Christian churches are bound either to get up A separate encred drama for themselves, after the mauner of some well kmown picces of Metusi acted at Vien during the Pussion Week, or, what I think in - every view preferable, to break down boldly st once that niddle wall of partition that has been aruficially reised in this country between the pul- pitand the stage, and to_enter generouzly into un Qrureement with those most respectsblé persons who preside over dramatic eaterlainments in this city that they will give their moral and personal support to all stage representations which eitner provide Innocent amusement or furnish salutary moral stimulant to the people. Such sensibie, manly, and generons couduct would at unce secure to them, and to the larze section of the public who follow them, such an influence with stage man- agers snd actors as would infullibly extrude from the theatre any improper elements with which it mav accidentally buve become associated, But if _they do not adopt cither of these mensures for the construction of dramatic performances, and con- tinue to indulge in those recurrent ‘of marrow and unréasonavle sucerdota) slane which ever and anon disport themgelves in our Presbyterian Church Courts, myself and & larse number of reasonable persons who read our Bibles, and ure well inclined 10 the Scottish churches, will take the liberty of setting down notat a very high izure either the so- cial wisdom, the cultivated inteiligence, or the moral courage of the locsl cler THE HIGH-CHURCH MOVE- MENT. ITS OBJECT AND MEANING. ‘The Rev. F. C. Ewer, of St.Ignatius Church, New York City, preached last Sabbath upon the “QObject and Meaning of the Catholic Move- ment, "—the *‘Catholic movement™ in this connection meaning the “High Chureh” or “Puseyite ¥ movement within the Protestant Enpiscopal Church. Mr. Ewer said in substance: The men of Uxford who siarted out with Pusey did not reulize the full scove of their work. The d the opposition of the Estab- lished Church of England; aiso the contempt of Rome, and the cosrsc opposition of the mob. This work, which began in 1833, has shown great itality. It was a resurrection of the work or A. D. 30, There comes a time when the honest op- ponets to such 2 movement begin fo ask, ¢‘What does it mean:” Is there mot some one phase that will cover this movement? Perhaps this: It means the re- aflirmution of the doctrine of the Incarnation in its integrity, The reap] ion of this doctrine to church life and the spiritual life of the sonl ac- forth. 1t nccoints for every brotherhood and sis- terliood; for the cundles relighted; the transiation of the writings of the futhers; for chants; for cry church that has bren restored to primitive style; for every early communions for bannered processions; for the chasubles worn; for the new spirit. of sell-sacritice, and for the 'care of the voor. 1t sccounts for Pusey silenced and Keble bunished, instead of obtaining preferment or high- er university degrees, and for similar_persceution of me. Itaccounts for Prentice cat down, and for Mahan defending himself agoinst the theological professors, and {or his words: I will not profane your civil ‘courts, for I will not render unto Ceesar That which is Christs! The Catholic movement has gone to the roots of things. It hus been wrong- Iy nsserted that there was Jittle other reason for the Divine incurceration save the need of satisfy- ing the dewish law that.demauded a blood atone- ment. But the doctrine of justification by faith stone s incomplete; it adul- térates the doctrine of good works, —and destroys their merit. Confession and absolution Decome nseless with the receivers of that dozma, and the care and training of sick fouls is superero- gation. The spirtt become all, the body nothing. A thousand. ealutary restraints are_removed from the bodily senses, Of whag use fa fasting? body has’ nothing todo with spiritual religion. Christ's words. *This kind _goeth not_out Lut by prayer and fasting,’ become null and vaid. In place of the worship of the wholc man there Is that of the soul only; this is cold und gloomy. Many good people suppose ourmovement is *¢all ritulism,” This is o mistake. The incarnation of the Son of God means not only the reconstruct- ing of soul. but the Tededication of matter 1o God und zodly uees, That Christ_ was transfigured i6 true, but £o were his garments, Kitualism is therefore a natural partof our work, and it has been patiently insisted upon. We must not relin- quishn single battery oc lunette thut defends the Citudel, Therefore the old whitewash has heen re- moved from the walle and the sombre coloring from the altary, and cheerful vesuments are wort and congregntions kneel. There i Involved also in tne preaghing of the trae doctrine of incarnation the revival of Daptism a8 u tremendous supernatural fact, Thence the r vival of afl the five lesser sacraments, It bri these back from_gquarterly 1o daily celebratio Mere preaching does mot traiu the nascent, swk \ward spiritual life. It knows not iiow. "Great saints call the Christian life *‘agreat trade to be Jearned,” not to be nttained by intuition. We must not ignore the feastingand other methods of thean— cient ascetic and morul theologians. They furnish u grenuine materia medica for sin-sick souls; they Dbring up the function of the preacher from ity degradntion: they restore the Tivht relation of pastor und _people ko that they become those of Clerical fatherhiood and lay sonship. Of al) the phenomena of ths great revi P a1l grow out of the doctrine of Incarnation. Any onc by cxamining the fathers can see that itisd Teal revival of primitive Christianity. that has been obscured by Rome and perverted by the sects. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. TIE CHURCH IN GENERAL. Ah For Ims dedicated his Chinese Mission building in Virginia City, Nev. ‘fhe fact that 150 converted Chinese were present at the dedi- cation services speaks well for the children of the Celestinl Kingdom. Eleven Methodist Protestant Conferences bave voted in favor of the convention which will meet next vear to consumate the union of the Metho- dist and MethodisteProtestant Chiurches. These two Churches, originally one, were divided by the late Wak. The Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Epiccopal Church will hold its anniversary at Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 11 Addresses suitable to the oceasion will be delivered by Bishops Bow- man and Wiley, the Rev. L. G. Bidwell, and the Rev. Dr. Rust, the Corresponding Secretary of the Society. During the thirty years thgt Dr. Storrs has served the Church of the #WPrime, Brooklyn, 1,600 persons have united with the Church. There are now 360 _members, only twenty of whom were in the Church when Dr. Storrs took charge of it. Tiie contributions for missionary and church purposes amount to $300,000. The Rey. Drs. W. H. Camobell, T. . Cham- bers, W. R. Duryee, C. D. Hartranft, and K. B. ‘Welch have becn_appointed by the (Dpz‘n;hf Re- formed General Synod to prepare a critical edi- tion of the Heidelbere Catechism. The Com- mittec will endeavor to obtain a thorougily cor- rect text, which they will present in English dress. The Presbyterian Historical Soclety nas al- ready received and filed 1 large number of Cen- tennial Year discourses, % ched this year by Presbyterian pastors. ach discourse is in~ tended to furnish the local history of a church. The library is already in possession of valusble volumes and pamphlets, and will be Xrovldcd with a building and an endowment fund. The twenty-eighth anniversary of the Younz Men's_Christian Association of Cincinnati was held Nov.10. The annual report showed a total attendance at the rooms of 92,765 persons; 033 religious meetings were 813 noon- counts for every new encrgy the movement has put, 10t one is erratic’ day prayer-meetings. The receipts for thy pae z;s:gs,t _:nd I:Jhe ctlisig:rse‘x)nzngsl, ;&% cigtion claims to Vi than that of London. Sre e The order for removing all public sizns of Protestant worship issued by thg Spnnisl?:\slinf istry has not diminished the congregution of the Scotch Presbyterian Chapel at Madrid. The at- tendance of Spaunish Protestants has increased from 10 to 20 per cent. The placard over the door remains with part of its words painted out. What is left reads: “Education and uight-schools gratis for thepoor.” The Rev. Dr. Nassau, a Presbyterian mission- ary on Corisco Island, Africs, writes ns follows: “The Spanish have divided the island into.two districts, with a Lieutenant-Governor for each. One of these is Injanji. Think of it! Twenty years azo Queen Isahella threatened to drive our Church from Corisco. Now her more lib- eral sou, or rather her son’s more liberal ad- visers, by his rcgrcsent.atives, appoints as a riler onc of the clders of that Church.” Religious partisanship i very bitterin Lower Canadia. Father Chinglu\', nyProtcsmnf. con- vert/from Roman Catholicisin, who has been predching in that field for some time, lately re- ceived the fotlowing note from one of his ‘con- +~% A statement i5s now in circulation among the French Roman Catholies here that yourtwo children aredeformed,—one with aneve in the forchead, the other with horns. Please send me the likness of voursclf, lady, and two children, with certificates from the photographer that thie likenesses are such.” The Bishop of Barcelona has seconded the ef- forts of the Archbishop of Bordeaux in a peti- tion to the Pope to sign the act beatifying Christopher Columbus, ou the plea that ¢ the daring Genoese navigator was chosen by Divine Providence to discover the, at that time, un- mown regions beyond the oeenn, 50 that the light of the Gospel might shine there, and that thie darkness in which the Inhabitants were en- veloped beng dispelled, they might, through baptism, be drawn into the bosom of the Cath- olic Church, out of which there is no salvation.” Ranovalomanjaka, the Empress of Madagras- car, has issued a proclumation_prohibiting the sale of rum in Antananarivo. She savs that it is * because the rum does harm to your persons, spends your posscsslons in vaiti, harms your wives and children, makes foolish the wise, makes more foolish the foulish, and causes peo- ple not to fear the laws of the kingdom, and especially makes them guilty before God.” All the temperance souleties in Christendom never hit the nail on the head more accurately than Empress Ranovalomanjska has in this proela- mation. The Rev. Dr. Blaikie, of Edinburg, has re- cently visited the Reformed Churches of Ger- many, Bobemia, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and France in the interest of the Presbyterian Altiance, which will meet at the Capital of Scot- land next July. In his report lie says: *The Reformed churches have not as yet experienced much of that fresh current of spiritual fife which has been pouring itself over the American and British churches. They hope that our Alliance will give them moral strength and courage, and help them to assume a more ageressive attitude toward the sin and error tjpt surround them.” PERSONAL, The Rev. Dr. Barry will preach a sermon this morning, in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Racine, explanatory of his new departure. - Dr. A. C. Van Raalte, the founder and patri- arch of Holland Colony, Mich, (Reformed Dutch Church), died recently after a lingering illness. Itis announced that Dr. Henry C. Potter has secured $200,000 toward making Grace Protes- tant Episcopal Church, of New York, a free Church. The Rev. B. W. Parker, who went out from London forty-four years aro to the Sandwich Islands on a whaleship, is now visiting his home in this country for the first time. Seventy thousand persons have been received into the Chureh in the islands since the first entrance of the missionaries. Spurgeon gives a'hearty testimony to the use- fulness of the Moody and Sankey mectings. He says: “ We expressed our disappointment very plainly some time ago, because we miet with so few decided conversfons; and it is, therefore, with the utmost pleasure that we in~ timate more pleasing tidings. We could not be~ lieve that such earnest Gospel preaching could be without saving results, but we feared that the couverts would remain scparate, and not unite with the churches. for awhile it scemed to be so, but we are delighted to have seen aud conversed with many who make good disciples and hearty workers.” God be thaunked for this evermore.” WORLDLY PAR_AGRAPHS. An old Scotch woman recommended a preach- er who arrived at the kirk wet through to get once into the pulpit,—*Ye'll be dry enough there.” ‘Talking one day of awellknown comic lec- turer, Douglas Jerrold exclaimed: ‘Egad, sir! that fellow would vumlgarize the day of judg- ment.” At bedtime now, after the little Philadelphia boy has sud his “Now I lay me,” he adds, ina truly thankful spirit, ¢ Ma, ain’t I glad I don’t have to sleep out in the shed any more!” Yonkers Gezette: A Sunday-school lesson cannot be well impressed on aboy’s mind at this season of the vear without lic ‘has a good supply of chestnuts in his trousers pockets. The sinful Burlington Haiwkeye aunounces that, when the_King of the Chickeraboos was informed that Bishup Gil Haven was about to start for Africa, he telegraphed back, :* Yum, yum, yum.” Free Press: The Milwaukee clergyman who was stung between the eyes by a bumble-bee as he asvended the pulpit would have said it was a warning had the bee popped it to a man just as he was going a-fishing. . _A boy was much exercised for fear he would not know his father whea they both reached heaven. His mother eased him by say~ ing, *“All you will have to do is to ook foran angel with'a red nose.” Alittle girl, 4 vears old, created s ripple by- remarking to the teacher of her Sundsy-school class: *“Our dog’s dead. I bet the angels was s when they saw him coming up the ¥ He is cross to strangers.” Buffalo Express: The small boys are said to be inoculated with a feverish desire to distin- gruish themselves in their Sunday-school classes. This is said to be & good indication that the Cbristmas season is at hand. They are performing the cantata of “Joscph” at the Opera-House in Des Moines. They hed no trouble in sceuring talent to represent most all the members of Potiphar’s family, but they ‘had to send clear to Burlington to get a man to play Josczk. Burlington Hawkeye: The man who comes late into church with squeaky hoots is the only thing in Americg that can even for one moment divert the min® of a fraction of the American people from the clection-returns. This may Seem rather hard ou the seroion, but it’s a fact all the same. ¥ Burlington Hawkeye: The clergymen of this happy land will preach to-day 1o the sleepiest lot of men that ever suored under the droppings of the sanctuary. The oniy, way to keep the congregation awake will be to Iean a bulletin- board up in tront of the pulpit and have a boy paste grapevine dispatches on it from time to time. Burlington fawkeye: The . custom among elderly gentlemen of making a cominon carrier of their plug hats has become so common that the spectacle of s respectable elder in church with a red silk handkerchief, two letters, a postal card, and a corner of plug tobaceo on his head, no lonzer raises the ghost of a smile in the congregation. ‘The church-guers of Boston must be wonder- ing what queer things will next be preached unto them. According to announcement in the daily papers of that city, they haye the privilege of listening to the pastor of St. Luke’s Reformied Episcopal Chureh, who will preach asermon in words of oue syllable.”” nouncement adds that this will be cal curiosity ; ” which nobody will dispute. We suppose every one who has been in the Art Gallery ut the Centennial has stood as long 2s the crowd would permit in front of the hastly picture of * Prometheus Chained.” The Yultures swoop down with such ravenous beaks that one almost shricks. The other day two person of evident religious tendencies were standing beforc the picture in increasing amaze- ment. * What can it be?” mildly whispered the younger. * Well,” replied tae other, with something like disdain at such possible igno- Tance, 1 should think any one who has read his Bible might know. Of coirse, it is Elijah fed by the ravens.” The San Francisco editors have all the sdvan- tages of & first-class Sunday-school education. The announcement of a projected railrosd to Jerusalem brings to light a vein of natural piety in the News-Letter. ‘ Through by daylight to Bethsheba!” it cxclaims. ‘*Fast cxpress for Siloam! Passengers desiring to stup over at Galilee will _please fien checks from the con~ ductor! Coffee and doughnuts at Bethlehem and prize packsges at Damascus. The faithful 2nd picturesque camel will hereafter only haul Saretoga trunks from the depot. Moody and Sankey will have a revival at Gomorrah. Beecher will lecture at Tarsus, the three-monte card men will be forcibly ejected at Zion, or stand-in with the couductor at El-habkur, and Tilden will get into the wrong berth betweeu Gileud 2nd Dan.” * For ten years Rowland Hill, the great preach- er, that singular mixture of wisdom, drollery, and piety, was an itinerant, and his ministry was attended by vast crowds. His wit never deserted him, for on onc occasion, preaching on Hampstead-heath, some rain fell, and he delib- erately gfut on his hat, saying: ‘ Excuse my hat, friends; but do not let the rain alarm you so much. What would the condemned souls” in ‘Tophet, parched for it, give for a single drop of this delightful rain? *” So, when he was reprov- ed for not preaching to the clect oniy, he asged some one “ to have the gooducss to mark them with a bit of chalk, and then I'll talk to them.” There was a double service in a Methodist church at Nottingham, Manitoba, on a reccut Sunday. A feud had rent asunder the congre- gation, and each faction called a new minister. Une of them took possession of the pulbit, and the other sat behind tne chancel-rail. The man in_the pulpit gave out one hymn and the man behind the rail another, and both were sung simultaneously by the rival factions. The man behind the rail gave out his text, and the man in the pulpit began to read a chapter from the Bible. The chapter came to an end before the sermon, and a hymn was_interjected; but the preacher went on from poiut to point without being worried in the least. At the close of the service a deacon explained that it had been enacted * under Jegal advice, and to further the cause of Christ.” ‘. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach at the Cov- entry Street Church, corner of Bloomingdale road, ar10:30 8. m, and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach at the Free Church, corner of Loomis and Jackson streets, morning and evening. ~The Rev. H. G. Carroll will preach at the church corner of Twenty-fifth street and Went- worth avenne at 11 a. m., and at the chapel of the new Hospital at 3 o’clock. The Rev. Dr. J. B, Jackson will preach at the TUniversity Place Church, corner Douglas place and TRhodes avenue, at 11 a. m. Union service 2t 7:30 . m. ; preuching by the Rev. G. W. Northrup. ~The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach at 10:45 a. m. in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty- third street. At3p. m, the Rev. Iszac C. Fallis will be ordained. In the evening the charch will unite with the First and Second Presbyterian and Trinity Methodist Churches 2t Trinity, when the Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach. —The Rev. Alexander Blackburn will preach to the Oak Park congregation at the Temperance Hall, Oak Park, at10a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Dr. Golusha Anderson will preach morning and evening at the Second Church, corner Morgan and Monroe streets. Evening subject: **The Prodigal's Repentance.” —The Rev. Dr. W. W. Everts will preach at the First Churck, South Park avenue and Thirty-first street, at 113, m. and 7245 p. . The Rev. I1. L. Stetson will preach at Winnetka 2t10:30 8. m. snd at Wilimette at7:30 p. m. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. E. F. Williams wili preach at the Forty-ecventh Strect Church at 10745 1, m. Ser- vice at the Porty-Fifth Street School-House at 3 p.m. —The Rev. D. N. Vanderveer will presch at the Usion Park Chorch, corner of Ashland avenue and Washington street, morning and evening. —The Rev. Burke F. Leavitt wiil preach morn- ing and evening at the Lincoln Park Church, cor- ner Mohawk and Sophia ktreets. ‘The Rev. Z. L. Holbrook will preach at the Oskland Church, cormer Oakwood and Cottage Grove avenues, at 10:45 . m. Uniou service at University Place Baptist Church in the evening. METHODIST. The Rev. S. McChesney will preach at the Park Avenne Churchat 10a. m. and 7:50 p m. ~The Rev. S, H. Adams will preach at the Cen- tenary Church, Monroe street, near Morgan, in the evening. —The Rev. Dr. Tiffany will preach at Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, near Twenty-fourth street, at 10:45 a. m. Union services in Lhe even- ing. NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. J. R. Hiboard will preach at the New Church Hall, corner of Eighteenth street snd Prai- rie avenue, at 11 a. m., and at the Temple, corner of Washington street und Ogden avenue, at 3:30 . p. M. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. H. Nopkins will preach at St. Johw's, Ashland avenue, near Madison street, at 10:30 3. m. and 7:30 p. m. he Rev. Henry Gi. Perry will presch at All- Saints', corner of North Carpenter and Olive strects, morning and evening. —The Rev. Dr. Cashinan will preach at St. Stephen's, Johnfon street, between Taslor and Torelth, 8¢30:30 2 1. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Morrison will preach at the Chareh of the Epiphany, Throop street, between Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:43 v m. —The Rey. Dr. Locke will preach at Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at 1la. m. and 7:30 p. m. —~The Rev. W. F. Morrison will prench at the church, corner Prairic avenue and Thirticth street, 210:45a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —There will be services in the Sunday-school room of the Charch of the Holy Communion, South Dearborn street. between Tiwenty-minth and Thir- tieth, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Francis Mansfield wiil preach mom- ing and evening at the Church _of the Atonement, corner West Washington and Robey streets. ~The Rev. Luther Pardee will preach at Calvary Church, Warren avenne, between Oukley street and Western avenue, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:40 . . l!_ he Rev. E. Sullivan will preach at Trinity Chureh, corner Jlichigan avenue und Twenty-sixth 45 2. m., gnd the Rev. L. Des Brisay —The Rev. Dr. D. F. Warren will preach at St. Mark’s Church, Cottape Grove avenue and Thirty- sixil street, at10:30 0. m. and 7:530 p, 1mn. The musical services at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul will be as follows: Morning ser- vice ut10:30. Venite, Talhs, Pealms for the day, Seventh Tone Benedicite. Pengrine Tone Dene- dictus—3Monk. Anthem, **Tue Night Is Far Spent"—Cutler. Communion service, Hodges in T., with credo by Staizer, and *‘Benedictus™ and +‘Agnus Dei—Gilbert. Evening eervice: Pealms for the day, seventh tone. Bonum est—Hine. Ben- edic Anima mea — Messites. Anthem, *‘How Beoutifnl Upon the Mountain" — Smith. The Magnificat, with antiphous—Caryl Florio. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmond Belfour will preach at the English Church of the oty Trmity, corner of Xulz;h Dearborn and Eric streets, at 11a. 1. and 70 p. m. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. E. Williams will preach at the Chureh of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jonesand Homan streets, at 10:308. m. and 7:30 p. m. Z“The Rev. Mr. Church will preach at South Chicago at 3 p.m. —The Rev. Dr. Cooper will preach at Tmmannel Church, cornier of Centre aves d Dayi street, morninz and cvening. Evening subjeci The Cleft in the Rock. " - hop Failows will nreach at St. Panl's, cor- ner of Washington and Ann strecte, at 10:30'a.m. and 7:30 p.m. “The Mev. J. D, Cowan will preach in Grace Chureh, corner of fioyne_avenuc and Le Morne strcet, at 10:30 2, m. and 7:30 p.m. . Evening sub- ject: »* Idolatry. i<hop Cheney will preuch at Christ Church, zan avenne and Tweuty-fourth street, at 2.m. and 7:30 p.m., and at the Elis Avenue Music Hall a8 3 o'clock. ZThe Rev. R. 1. Bosworth will preach morning and evening at Emmanuel Charch, corner ilanover and Twenty-cizhth streets, and to the Trinity con- gmegation 8t the Baptist Church, Englewood, st ) p.m. —The RevaM. D. Church will preach at South Chicago 2t 3:30 p.m. ~ B i rx;msnflxm,\.v. The Rev. Jacoli Post will preach at the church corner of Noble and West Eric streets nat 103, m. in the [olland, and at 7:30 p. m. in the Englisn . Barrett will preach at the West- minster Church, corner dackson and Peoria streets, 3t10:70 8. m. Installation of pastor at 3 p. m. —The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach at the Fifth Charch, Indiana avenue sod Thirtieth street. nt 10:30 p. m. Union s in the even- ing with the Michigan Avenne M. E. Church. ZThe Rev.Henry S. Miller will preachattheSisth Church, corner Vincennes and Unk ayvenues, at 11 2. m. TUnion service in the evenming with the ‘University Place Baptist Charch. UNITARIAN. The Rev. F. B. Forbush will preach at_the old. school-house, Englewood, at 2:30 p. m. Subject: “{he Religion of desus. " —The Bev. Brooke Herford will preach atthe Chnrch of the Messiak, corner Michisan avenue and Twenty-third atroet, at 1 4 7:45 p. m. Subjects: Mormng, capectable Indif- fereuce the Resl Cause of Revival Extravagance eveninz, **One Meaning of Great Calamitics Such as the Indian Cycione.™ —on account of the difliculty of warming the hall waere_they have been meeting, the Foarth Unitarian Church have decided to remove to Carc's Hall, 789 Cottage Girove uvenue, near Tlisty-vev- enth'street, where they will hold their mectinzs in future. Preaching this morning at 1L o'clock by the Rev. T. B. Forbnsh. ¥ ¢ Rev. Robert Coliyer will preach at Tuity Church, corner Dearborn street and Walton place, morning and evening. - —The Rev. J. C. Larned, of St. Lonie, will preach at the Third Church, corner Moaroe and Lailin streets, 8103902 m. - N ! b 3 = Micl 10 TUNIVERSALIS, The Rev. Sumner Ellis will proach at the Church of the Redcemer, corner of Washmgton and San- ‘gamon streets, in the morning. Subjects ** Spirit- nalism.” g The Rev. Dr. Ryder will presch in the morn- ing at St, Paul's Church, Michigan avenne, between Siatecnth and Eightecnth strects, and in the even- ing the firet of o series of revival sermons; subject: **The Good and Bad of Revivale.” Glepherd will preach morai The Res. Z. W. Shepherd will preach morning and eventug in the First Church, corser Indiana avenne and Twenty-fifth street, - —A. J. White will preach st the Central Charch, comer of Van Buren street. and Campbell avente, at 10; 8. m. Subject: *~The Great Relation First Spoken by Jesus.” - MISCELLANEOUS. rs. Cora L. ¥ Tappan willlecture for the Fist | 1 Society of Spiritualists at Grow’s Hall, N West Madizon street, at 10:45a. m. and T:45p. m. Morning subject to be chosen by the andlence; grening subject: **The New Religion by Theodore rier. " —Disciples of Christ will meet at No. 228 West TRandolph street at 4 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEE. EPISCOPAL. Dec. 3—First Sunduy in Advent. CATHOLIC. Dec. 3.~First Sunaay in Advent. Dec. 3.~St. Pemr'flir;ysolo;us. B. C. D., St. Bar- bars, V. M. Dec. 4.~St. Francis Xavier, C. (from Dec. 8): St. Sabbas, AbD. Dee. 5 Nicholas of Myra, B. C. Dec. 6.—St. Ambrose, B. C. . ¥ Dec. 8. —Immuacu'ate Conception of the B. V.*M. Dee. 9.~0I the Octave of the Immuculate Concep- tion, LOVE ON THE WAVE. 1. The Rev. Thomas Grayson, M. A., sat at the open window of his room at the Ocean House, Newport, with his feet upon the sill, his chair tilted luxurigntly backward, and the blue smoke of a fragrant Partaga eurling about his head and floating gently out upon the evening air. In fult view from his window there poured down the avenue before the hotel a throng of splendid equipages, turning the besutiful street intoa vust kaleidoscope of color and motion, the counterpart of which, it occurred to Grsyson, could be found nowhere else in the world. As he sat idly gazing at the brilliant throng, and wondering whether his boot-soles appeared to the best advantage from below, his attention be- came riveted upon & man upon the opposite side of the street, whose strange actions caused the Rev. Mr. Grayson to remove his cigar from his lips and bis feet from the window, and to bend forward in au attitude of sudden interest. The individual in question stood under a tree, around the trunk of which he constantly peered, as though eagerly watching for some one, while desirous at the same time of escaping observa- tion. He had evidently timed his appearance with tolerable certainty, for there soon came driving slowly down the avenue an open ba- rouche, driven by a colored coachman in livery, and drawn by two milk-white horses, which were . 1o sooner descried by the gentleman under the tree than he seemed to be thrown intoa state of the greatest possible excitement. He stood upon-one foot and then upon the other, peeped around the trunk of the tree, then drew his head quickly back again, took 3 step forward, us though sbout to plunge recklessly into the roudway, and then returned hastily _to his former position, Lesides doing a great many other stmn%: things, like a person sud- denly bereft of Nis senses. The carriaze con- tained two elderly gentlemen and a young girl,— the latter Grayson thought one of the most beautiful he had ever seen; alittle, bluc-eyed blonde, with a dimple in cach cheek, sada month like a wild cherry. She looked alittle pate and anxious, and it ‘Was not difficult to see that, while she listened or pretended to 18ten to the conversation of the two old gentlemen, lier bright eyes were scarching among the trees on cither_side for somecthing she had not vet found. Suddenly her cheek flushed. her eyes became brighter than ever; her little gloved hand was pressed for o moment to her lips, and then held over the side of the carriage. Gray- son turned to the young man beneath the tree. He stood leaning against the tree with his hand on his beart,and gazing mourniullyafter the car- ringe as it rolled away. A moment afterwards, hedescried something lying in the road, and darted out to pick it up. It was a letter. By Jove!” exclaimed Grayson, ‘‘that was well dove. Bless my soul, I believe that’s Jack k, Juck! ' Is that you!” The individual addressed looked towards the hotel, and, after scanning the windows for u moment, caught sight of Grayson, who was waring his handkerchief energetically. Then he came running across the street with the let- ter in his hand. A momeat afteriwards he was in Grayson’s room. . “Tomn,” be burst forth, “who in the world expected to find you here#"” “And you, my dear fellow,” returned the young clergyman; “what were you doing under hat tree?” “ You saw me?” asked Jack, eagerly. “You saw—you saw her?? * “ saw the whole ridiculous performance. What a beauty! Is therc some romance wrap- ped up in all thisi? “Romance! Yes, a deuce of a romance—for me,” exclaimed Jack, throwing himself into a chair. “That lovely girl is my affianced bride.”” “You don’t say 50, gaid Grayson, in aston- ishment. “The old gentleman with the white hair and the gray military mustache,” continued Jack, “is her father. The other old duffer, the stupid-looking centenarian, with the mush face and the red nose. is her aflianced husband.” “ Whew ! whispered Tom, “I should think there was a romauce. Go on.” ¥ “Jts the old stors, I suppose,” replied Jack, heaving a long sizh. * I met lier last winter at the house of a friend in New York, aud was entranced with ber beauty, her accomplish- nients, her innocence, her goodness, her——'* Y(e, ves, I'll take all that for granted,” fn- terrupted Grayson. “Qur acquaintance soon ripened into friend- ship, and_speedily into Jove. We became be- trothed. 1 asked her father, who is a retired army officer, for her hand. He put on his Buena-Vista manner, asked me if I supposed his daughter was going to marry a miscrable bank-clerk on $2,000° & year, and “then showed nie the door.” “ Ah!" exclaimed Grayson, with an appear- ance of great interest. “After I left him,” continued Jack, *there was a scene, as I subsequently learned, between him and my dear girl, who bravely declared that shie would mever marry any one clse, and be- sought him on her Knees, with tears, to con- scut to our unjon. But the old fcllow was obstinate, and said he had other views ¢ her. Pretty soon these views vame along in the per- son of the mushy-faced old patriarch whom you saw just now in the carriage. He, tos, is a re- tired hero of the Mexican war, and very rich. My darling shut berself in her room and refused tu see him. She erew thin and pale, and nearly cried her eves out. I bribed .one of the serv- ants, who carried daily notes between us, but her unnatural parent detected our correspond- ence, and it was intercepted.” | < My poor boy!* said Grayson, with sympa- 5. # For weeks I could obtain no communication from her. At last I learned from afriend of the family that they were all coming to Newport to visit at the villa of ber proposed husband, who s a widower. T obtained Ieave of absence from the bank on the ground of ill-henlth, and* fol- lowed them. Yesterday I saw my darling for the first time, and to-day T reccived this letter, in which,” continued Jack, kissing it rapturous- 1y, * she assures me of her undving devotion, declares that no force can compel ber to marry the old General, who she detests, and that she is mine, 1ine ouly, and mine forever. Dear, true, faithful girt! She deserves all -1 can give Fer of the best, most earnest, and most faithful ove,” #Yes, no doubt,” said Graysom, reflectively. «yell, I shouid think, Jack Turper, that you had got yourself into a very interesting situ- ation. 1t would do for the plot uf 4 novel.” “ ’se not told you all,” replied his friend. “Ggod gracious! what nexti” “ During the period of our clandestine cor- respSndence we arranged an elopement. I had all my plans perfected’; my dear girl consented to sccompany me, and’ in another day she would have béen my bride, when—" t \When paterfamilias stepped 1n and spoiled Aheplot,” uterrupted Grayson. “Why can’t vout clope now, if you are bound to have her? ou bave found “means of communicating, I see.” . Tmpossible,” replied Jack. *The villa is situated way out of town, on Bateman’s Poldt, ‘and is_surrounded by a brick wall twelve feet high. Ever since the discovery of our plan for eseape, Clara has been under the supervision of a maiden aunt,—a perfect sleepless Cerberus,— who occupies the same room, and always accom- panics her when she goes out to walk'or bathe. There's a savage ald butler, with orders to shoot all suspicious characters seen hovering around the place after dark. There's a fero- cions bull-dog—" Hold—enough!” said Grayson. * This is worse than the Princess in’ the enchanted tower. Oh, that’s not all either,” said Jack. *‘The old curmudgeon is bound to marry his daughter to old Red-nose, whether she will or no, and has actually issued cards for the wedding without her consent. Now, Tom,” exclaimed Jack, tlercely, * that girl must be mine. There’s no time to lose. Sne must be my bride before to- morrow night, and you must help me.” . *All right,” said Grayson. * You take care of the militafy parent, and malden aunt, and the bloodtkirsty butler, and the ferocious bull- dog, and I'll carry off the girl. Then you can follow at your leisure.” “ Don’t make light of it,” said Jack, gloomily. “It's too serious a_matter. Can't you suggest some plan for me?” 4 Let me put on my thinking cap,” said the otber, *and ruminate for a moment."” He'went to the bureau, and took therefrom 2 small black-velvet skull-cap, which he put on. Then, lighting & fresh cigar, be resumed his seat by the window, and sat for 2 long time silently smoking, with his lead thrown back and hlis eyes ed upon the ceiling. Jack watched him with impatience. . #Did you tell me that the young lady buthes on the beach#’ asked Grayson,after a silence that seemed to his compauion interminable. ~“Yes, daily,” replied Jack: but the raaiden aunt is always with her,—on shore at least, and sometimes her futher. Shecantions me in this ietter not to meet her there, for, if Lvere scen there once, she might be forbidden even that innocent pleasure.” .- “T have it,” exclalmed the young clers¥muasn, Jumping up. “You must meet her there to-morrow,—in the water, mind you, not on the beach. Leave the ;_cst to me.” h: .* You mean to carry ber off by force,” said Jack, *that wouldn’t do, We wf:ynld be caughs before we could leave the island.” * You haven’t au iukling of what I mean,” said Grayson. **Clura is yours. Now go home to your hoading-house, an sleep serenely. This is the most atroclous case I ever heard of, ung you have my sympathy. No th 00 night. Fine business for 2 minister of the Gos pel, but I will m»u; you, my boy. Good-night, old fellow.” And Grayson fairly shoved bis friend from the room and closed the door upon bim. When he had ¢onche turnedt the key, and sat down by the window to thirlk again. Im Miss Clara Monteith. steoping fortl: from hes bathing-house and runoning scross the beach stopping fora moment wpln{‘“lm ber 1t white fect in one of the paols that the reced tide had left, and then plunging gleefully ints the surf,was apicture for a painter. Clac jn a bewitching bathingcostune of white and scarler, and with Ler beauti- ful yellow hair streaming over her shonlders, she looked to Jack Turner, peepin throusd the round window of his bathing-ho like the poetic embodiment ol summer sui- shine glancing for a moment across the sawd, then slipping juto the cool wave and ridin its crest. dJack bimself, as he-entered the further dotwn tae beach, dressed in bazry Sl shirt and trousers. was scurcely o pictoresque. At the water’s edoe stood the: terrible maiden aunt. and fo a carriage near at hand sat the twvo military gentlemen. Clara was certainly taking her bath in presence of a vizilant assembly. ¢ Now, then,” thouzht Jack, ** here we are. What's to be done next?™ s he paddled further oct into the surf, he , slowly swimming down the beach, mll;i\(u « hat, 53 the first line of breakers, a stiaw bathi which rose and fell upon the huge rolle oecasionally disappeared entirely. As came nearer 2 humun head became visible be- neath it, and, on reaching u point near Clars, It stopped and evidently adiressed her. The luly on the beach and the gentlemen in the carna became restless. 8o did Jack, and he swain toward the two fizures injthe water, who now appeared to be in earnest conversution. “Blass me! " exclaimed Jack as Le came ae: er, © T believe it’s Grayson. ’Thz water where they stood was nearly shoulder-deep, and _each huge roller that camy from seawird lifted them from their feet aud rendered cunversation somewhat diffienlt. “We must hurry upth 58, suid Griy- 2on, as Juek arrived; “I've expluined itall to Miss Mouteitk, and old-what’s-his-uame there in the carriage and the lady's aunt will be wit- nesscs.” He removed his scoop-shaped bathing-hat and took therefrom a small book, which he held at arm’s Jength above his - head. Jack divined ‘his intention at once, aud. seizing Clara’s hand beneatn the water, pressed i tobis heart. Ay that moment a huge wave swept over Lim, and the entire party disappeared from view. Dearly beloved," said Grayson, spluttering, and reading from the book, which he still held in his Land, though it was now reduced nearly to o pulp, “dearly beloved. we are gatherel together gere—iu the face of—this company to juin—together this man and this woman in holy matrimony.” He paused until the next wave passed. and then procceded. “Jf any mou can show just cause why—they may not lawfully be joined together (there goes my Dbat), let him now speak, or else¢ hereafter forever hold his peace.” ; The wild wash of the sea was the only answer to this challenze, although Clarw’s friends on shore were gesticalating violently, They were out of heariuz; however, and Graysun con- tinued: . *John Henry Turner, wilt thou have this woman to ‘bc thy wedded wife, to live—gug— g —gug— g“’l‘hc Rev. Mr. Grayson's mouth was full of salt-water, and the rest of the senteuce was in- distinguizhable. T will!® yelled Jack, leaping into the air to avoidthe next roller that broke over them. s Clara Monteith. wilt thou havethis mantobe thy wedded husband (we'll lnve to shorten this, for I'm getting chilly «F will,” said Clary. ho giveth this woman to be married to this mant” nsked (irayson, looking toward the shore, where the two old zentlemen, who had descended from their carringe, were ranged, with the maiden aunt,alonz the edge of the water, gesticulating in the most frantic maoner, like the brigands in the opera. “Youn do. eh?” he said. Then, tamingz to - Jack and Clara, he continui “Then I pro- nounce you man and wife, and may—-> A monstrous billow struck the Reverend Grayson in the small of the back. and Taunched him upon all fours towards the beach. When he emerged, Clara and Jack had disappeared. “Keep the book,” he said, handing 1t to dack, as he and his bride struggled 1o their feet; * the marriare-certificate is init. Now let us make peace with your father, Miss Moateith, and your husband that was to be.” It was not a very promising task, for the former gentleman. wlio scemed to have eained an inkling of what had been woing on, was stamping up and down the heach in a perfect fury. Encouraged by Grayson’s presence, how- ever, Jack and Clara knel hefore him. & Allow me to present to you Mr. and Mrs, John Turner,” said Mr. Grayson. “ Clara, go to your hething-house and dress, this instant.”” exclasimed the oid gentlen fierccly. >+ What tomfoolery s all this, sir, who the devil are yout”? “Who the devil'am 17" asked Grayson. Yes, sir, who the devil are you!' repeated Mr. Monteith, livid with rage. “My pame Is Grayson,sir, and T have just married your daughter to Mr. Turner, and I hope he will show more affection for her as her hasband than her father has as her parent,” re- plicd Grayson. with some warmth. Yes, father,” said Clara, “we-are married. 0! father, forgive us, for I love him,” and Clara twined her wet arms around-Jack’s neck, and luid her head on his shoulder. Mr. Monteith was speechiess. His face pe- came purple, white, and red, by turns, and be staggered as it abous to |fall.” The other old gentleman slapped him suddenly ou the shoul- der. “Hang me if I don't like the girl’s spirit,” he said, “and the younr fellow’s zudacity. My boy” [turning fo Jack], “I give up my clium to you. Ithink you've carped it. Now, Monteith, make up your mind to make the Lest ofit. They've outwitted you.so let them gc sna get on some dry clothes, and we'll all zo to my house to dinner, and the wedding shail come off to-morrow in public, only with 2 c#ange of bridegrooms.” Grayson seized the old gentleman by the hand. Clara kissed her father. ‘That.individual be- came by degrees somewhat mollified, and all leit the beach together.—Vew York fercury. BLANCHE 70 — A past me by, thon proud one. With placid, Chauzeless brow; Look or tone of thine hath lost 118 power o0 move me now, Yet there's a drooping of the lids Over tne shadow'd eyes, As §f within thine inmost sonl Unbidden thonghts arise. »And yet, and yet, 'twas by thy side Y, My life first causht the bue 1 Of happines: how calm life's tide Flowed ‘neath its eky of blue. My star of hope beamed on thy brow— “T'was mirror'd in my breast, . And waken'd dreams of love and truth, And full'd ail fears to reat. My heart was like a sunlit vale Gemm'd with youny, fragrant flowers, And ev'ry tnsense-breatning gale Bore hopen of bappier honrs. But time with silent flizhit moved on, And brought me brichter dreams; My spirit soars to fafrer heights, ‘And thirsts for parer streams, lemela‘:‘ It little reciaif 2 bad— A blighted bud—Is lyinz i On my heart's lone altar, whose sunny fesves! Were funn'd by thy zentle sighing. Bat dream nol thou, in falke, vain pride, That [fope (ram @y hie Las fed; Nay! bis brilliant wing bath & prouder sweep: But my dream of love is dead! Cuicago, Dec. 1. Acore A, Coyyx. S ——— SONNET ON A DEAD LINNET. Dear, dead pet-bird, thy soul of song has flown—~ That is. if 8pirit ¢'er thou bad'st! Aud why Should not the lovely fomns of life that Ay On wings poasess that which man claims alone? In thy sweet ways intelligence wzs shown, ‘And intellect is soul that neer will die, For soul ix God, who lives eternally. Yet, to the Anite limited, 80 prone T6 err is human mind, on thinzs beyond Tts comprebeusion ciear, bowever real A thought or theory nay scem, ideal 1t is, and foanded but in fancy f Thon held'st me yester znder son:’s controlz To-day I mase had'st thon or nota soall Marcox and Taxros. -