Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1877, Page 13

i ¥ % : 1 H * i 3 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 2 59 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. 13 0] the interfercnce of gods and delties s ;:‘,;'::fl?a’ from e Hisiory of therace, 1 t Teasonable to suppose s “ugique ‘“"odn :iu‘b Teceive ot esme treatment with & its, viz.: the dismission of the s and delties from any interference in the 0112: nlm examine for a moment the miacles of Holy Writ. They are not attached fusively to the life of one person or to ame t arc connected with many persons and age, bul = overa large space of time. Take the fi:édcs of theOld and New Testament. Are trae, from the changing of Moses’ rod m: E"pent to tke raising up of the widow’s gon by Jesus? Are these part true sad the re- mainder fablet 1i so, by what mesns can they e separsted? Either the persons record wpo worked miracles were anomalies, or pames are given of those ‘who did not actually do these works, but the miracles were imputed to them by the color or spirit of the agein which they lmd,"mg ch the question of miracle from the two points named in the sermon: From a gtudy of patural laws and from the nature of evidence. Does any evidence exist whatever, from history or {rom scientific research, that any chanee has taken place in the natural laws gov- g the world! During this “*unique pe- riod*"did not the sun form the centre of this puiverse! Did not the world- revolve, and rain result from the same causes asat present! Was man's pature different, or was he subject to Ybirth, cold and heat, sickness and death, as we a3 him 1 the evidence of any be found either in man or his coviron- ment during the time and in the locality covered by this so-called unique period! We think not. smain,reparding thenature of evidence, how can capernatural results of this period be exclud- ed from an application of the same severe modern evidence that is applied in other directions? Take this simple illustration: To-dayin Amer- {a 5,000 people of the highest respectability, whose word would be taken in any court as evi- dence on_cases coming within its jurisdiction, will testify that they have seen results which anoot be” produced by aoy known causes or any known laws. yet on a question of gupernaturslism their testimony would have no weight. Then apply the same seerity of evi- dence to the Old and New . Testa- : i 133" can their hefldence pin unimpeach concerning phenomena pm;:rflug within this so-called **unique period”’ Wilinot the eevere law of evidence uscd in dairvoyance and the Chicazo miracle, if carried sothe logical result, banish ma§i|:, ‘myth, and miracle ot only from India, Falestine, and Rome, but penetrate all places and wynigue periods,” and drive from the ficld of .. human Tecognition the whole vast army of gods and deities who have occupied in che past the places now filled by causes operating under the itimate laws of naturc? Take the illustration wed in the sermon: The actof the English Parlisment against the sect who professes to heal by praver and fasting. Can one believe but that the same phys- {.‘3 laws were in existence in Judea 1.800 years 220 as exist in England to-day? The in- jerence 15 & fair one, that, had the people of Judea possessed_the knowledge of Nature and rogressed in medical science as far as England Kutc—dly, they. too, would have enacted the same laws, and made bealing b{ casting out derils a crime punishable by law. In Judea no one found fault with Jesus for casting out dev- {ls, but with the means he used. ** Iic casteth ‘'out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils,” The average intelligence of Judea saw, in sick- pess, the presence of devils and evil spirits as the cause. The intellizence of England beholds in sickness physical disturbance. While one aplicd for help to healers and miracle-workers, 1he other forbids it and says: Go to the doc- tor and take the advantage of his expericuce, and obtain help. = ‘We notics further on the speaker says: ** Na- ture hates a miracle more than she does vacu- . um.” If this be true, and both alike impossi- ‘ble, why not then allow her the whole province, and assert toat for every result produced Nature is the adequate cause, and her unchauging laws the modes under which all results take place? The gquestion of 1niracle or Divine interference, whetber in Indis, Jerusalem, or Chicago, will novdown. or remain quiet till epecial places and *unique periods " are found to be inhabited by Nature and governed by her laws. Then will men find the race in the past surrounded by the same environment of Nature, and governed by the same laws, and these eternal and unchang- ing in their method of operation. In conclusion we add: The Romish Church has taken a wiser course than Protestantism, She has had ber miracles throngh all theagces of ker life, but Protestantism, after defining and attempting to defend a time and place in which true miracles have taken place, finds her posi- tion assailed on this question: the atiempt to fsolate an ** unique period” in the history of mankind in whichsuperhumanresultsbave taken place, and at the same time denounce all other works of this kind. This has proved a failure. ‘There -are in the present a class of educated minds in Christtanity who affirm that miracles are not a sure proof of Christ’s divine mission. If come of our teachers in Christianity can find a reasonable argument by which the¥ can Testue miracle from the danger arising {rom the w0 methods mentioned by Prof. Swing. a tfavor will be conferred on many who, nding the old arsuments inadequate, are anxfonsly looking for new and stronger evi- dence, more in accordance with the spirit of the aze. If law is the point by which God_touches man in the present, why exclude the same means in the past? The prescni scems to hold three classes: Those %ho, lookinz backward, maintein the ex. istence of miracles; others who are forced to Tecognize the existence of law, yet are not gflle willing to wholly part company with the deas and methods of the past. Then the last dass who find no “unigue periods,” but, taking the laws of evidence and the laws of Nature, they apply them to the past and find them suffi- deat for all of man’s history. Let the discussion of the question of miracles go on, and, if auy fouudation can be found to exist on which supernaturalism can abide, many will rejoice. 11, on the other hand, the last position is swept “ away. let all miracles be discharged from human Tecognition, classing them all as belonging to hat period of human development when the Tace, 1n_its ignorance, was unable to grasp the idea of law, but saw, in what worked 1its ill, its * evil deity, or worshiped what secmed to produce its zood s its od. With the idea of the sermon and the line of argument no thinking person can object, but why not carry the idea of law and its operation fnto and through all time, and if the result be that Judea Decomes disenchanted, as well a5 Chicgo, zbide by the resalt! The Bew wine of modern thought and scientific demonstration cannot be put into old bottles, nor does a suit look well even if cot and made by the most approved methods of modern tailoning if cven the small- est piece of old cloth1s reisined. While men are walking forth clad in the habiliments of law, it takes but a verv small patch of “ unique peri- od,” cven i fitted in vers nicely, to make the ¥hole suit appear unbecoming. If law is the voint where God touches man to-day, has law zot beea the same ageat through all times and inall places? Such seems to be the whole tone of the sermon, and while the speaker was very arefcl to exciude the gmrlum of Holy Writ from his illustrations and conclusions regarding he constancy of Nature and the permanency of law, i it 100 much to ask of him to define and defend miracle withio this “unique period” ¥ith the same -clearness as he has defined and defended law without? GigO. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. FARWELL HALL MEETING. The Sunday-school teachers held thelr regular ‘weckly meeting yesterday noon at Farwell Hall, under the leadership of Mr. B. F. Jacobs. The meeting was opened with the singing of What 2 friend We Havein Jesus,” and ¢ I Need Thee Every Hour,” followed by prayer by the Rev. +E 8 Wells. Mr. Jacobs teen took up the Sunday-school Jesson for to-day, a5 contained in L Kings, xix., §-18: “Elijah as Horeb,” and asked if anybody had any questions to propound. Beveral persons asked some very unimportant questions on the preceding seven verscs, as well - 35.0n the verses' contained in the lesson itself; s for instance, “Why did_Elijah wrap his face fn the mantler” “Did Elijah slay with the tame gword that Jehn slew with?" Others asked questions of tolerable impor- tance. One question, * Why did Jezebel notify Elijah that she was rolng to take vengeance on LimP" was aoswered as follows by a business- like man in the andience: *’Cause she got so mad she couldn’t-Keep her.-mouth. shat’% [Laghter.] It was 2lso remarked by one that £poke more forcibly with the still small ‘Yolee than with the thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake; and by another that God, when Be thus spoke, no doust had jn His mind e of the religion of love which ¥ to follow the age of obedicnce to the law: by ahother, that the nse of the flfll small voice was for the purpose of fostitut- '€ & comparison between the power of and the powerof msu. To the question, * Why @id ho wrap his face in his mantle?” one replied that it was his habit to do £0; another, that he o i, oo L e To the !’:glur reply, Mr. Jacobe sald: “He Sught to have taken his mantle off in that case.” Beveral more answers were given to this same Susstion, and Mr. Jacobs summed up his Wis- dom on this subect by saying: **We see it w: ouly a second edmonyot 'v.ng apron bllsi.n:ss i the Garden of Eden.” (Lauglter.] 4 va. was also scttled most conclusively that the voice which spoke to Elijah was a rebuke; that he had no answer to makes: but nobody scemed ul: be posted as to whether Elijah_went zround i\ lashing Amoplc with his owu or Jehn’s sword. Vhat difference it would make to the victims is & question which will doubtless be settled at a future meeting, After this scason of interviewing, as it were, the mceting was thrown open for remarks, Brother Morton wasn’t surprised to sce weak- ness developed in anybody. Great men were not prased for enough. Nobody could expect a blessing if he went to his work in a spirit of dis- couragement, and God would take away the despondent spirit if His servants sought Him in- P nother b nother brother ssid we ought to learn to :\;edyn(a;:‘;.e spezking with the still, small voice, 25 nor by 1_& ned by thethunder, lightning, Another safd Elfjsh was a zood type of Christ —$0 far as he went. But how utterly he failed when the thunderbolts of sin were abont to de- scend on his head! desired to show His people that no man conld take the place of Christ, and redeem the world from sin. Another Lrother asked the very practical guestion, Are we to be numbered amoug the 7,000 that have not bowed the kuee to Baali” Another brother said the lesson was intended 23 an encourafrement to weak Christians, A manin the back partof the room said he thm;iht they ought to be more chantable to Elijab, and not pitch into him quite so much. }‘i“p.l d!dnn’t xsce but lkl& hm:l rophet was a v sort of a man, and ke didn’t w: b ctorabusel” n’t want to see Oue brother obscrved that all these fine dis- criminations would not interest children, al though they might be_very good fora far-ad- vanced Bible class. The practical part of the lesson was contained in the question, * What dost thou here!’—a question which should be E:t to every Sunday-school scholar and pressed wme. Mr. Jacobs, in summing up, s2id ft was a mis- take to suppose anybody wanted to pitch into Elijah. Everypody before Christ had madea failure of it, but there wasa vast deal of en- couragement to be drawn from the life of this old prophet. He then gave out the notices for the coming week, making a specinl plea for the . M. C. A. coucert of Tuesday evening. The meeting dosed with singing and prayer. THE DRUMMERS. SERMON DY DE- TALMAGE. Xew York Werd, Feb. 19. In preaching to the commercial travelers yes- terday, Mr. Talmawe took his text from Nehum, i, 4: “The chariots shall rage in the streets; thev shall justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall scem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.” He said that the past centuries had forgotten more than the present cenSury kuows; that the people must bave known in thedays of Nineveh the uses and the appliances of steam; and that he heard inthe text the rush of the locomotive, the shrill shriek of the whistle, the alarm of the bell, and the clatter of the brokes, of the couplings. The raging chariots, Mr. Talmage intimated, must have been express trains striv- ing to run on time. He described the arrival of & train at night, and sald that it scemed as if he could ‘hear the passage of the midnight expressin the text.” Then, he continued, “I halt the train long enough to get on board, and I go through all the cars and I find that three-quarters of all the passengers are commervial travelers.” The transition was sudden and without explanation, but Mr. Tajmage evidently referred to American trains of to-day and not to the raging and just- ling ones of Nineveh. He went on to speak of the commercial travelers. ‘‘They are not frightened at the abrupt pandemonium of the brakes,” he said, “and they can tell you tie name of the next station, or anythinz_else: you may want to know oa the line from Belfast to Key West. Take a sleeping-berth, and one of thesc gentlemen is sure to be above or below you,”—and Mr. Talmaee in other ways pictured the ubiquitousness of the American drummer, and told whay a large share he represented of the world's bustle and commercial activity. *They arc ubfquitous, unique, and tremendous —for good or evil,” he said. Mr. Talmage thought the commercial travel- ers could “stand a sermon of warm-hearted sympathy.” He thouzht, too, the sermon was timely. Thousands werc about to sct forth in proiessional quest, and be prophesied that with their_going would return the long-wished-for puriod of commercial prosperizy. * What are You talking about?” Mr. Talmage inguired vio- lently. “You think we canuot recoveri In 1857 there were failures to the amount of szn;- 000,000 "~he said 1t as if he were nugry. “We got over that, and we will get over this.” “You, commercial traveler, have received or- ders from the head of your firm; you are about to start on a long excursion; you have your samples all arranged; you have your prices committed 10 memory, and you know which ones you must keep firm and which ones you ‘may give way oo a little; you take your trunk or your valise with you and away you go. If I were a stranger,” continued Mr. Talmage, hav- ing thus accarately described the prelunfnary opurations and precautions of a drummer about to drum, ‘1 would not venture to look into that valise, but being a brother I do look in, and may I not presume to make afew sug- gestions?’” Searching, Mr. Talmage prescntly comes across a little package in the sbape ofa parallelogram, and with virtuousintuition iknows atonce 1’6 cards. “Then, my brother,” he says, “vou don’t want to take any unnecessary Dbagsage with you.” The drummer is supposed to inguire what harm there is in 3 little pack of cards, and Mr. Talmage ‘says, ‘“ Without an- swering directiy, I will say that there are hun- dreds of men as stronz-headed as you, who from card-playing hiave gone down through Successive cs to bottomless perdition.” Then follow- ©d a story of a young Englishman who, on the night he blew his brains out,” wrotea letter to 2 voung Iady ascribing his riin to card-playing. “ But what’s this? "1 don’t want to be too in- quisitive—ob, a brandy-flask.” Going through the pautomime of holding it up to the lizht in a very natural way, the.proacher continued: *My fricnd, empty it, and ll it up with the cholera- mixture.”’ Then the preacher made auother suggestion, which was to the effect that the drummer should take somethinz with him to read. He recommended historical works and the ** Bible in round, beautiful print.” ‘Put it nest to your guide-book,”” he said— one to shiow you the road here, and the other to show ou the road there. Don’t say that every hotel {:\s them. Have your own. You have your own coat, and your own and your own boots,—have your own Bible. When you geta or *Fannie’s telegram saving ¢Georgie’s si dyiag’ "—this with extreme vigor—* twill be a great comfort. Throw out vour cards; putin your Bible. 40h, one thing I forzot—to ask you what train you are goinz to take. The5 o’clock Sun- day afternoon train, eh? My brother, don’t dip off the Lord’s day—it don't pay in this world any better than in the other.” Followed then a story of a yoang wan in Pittsburg who started off on Sunday against his will, because his employers fnsisted upon it. “Want the sequel in short metrel” said Mr. Talmage, triumphantly. * Young man, a dissipated gam- bler—firm, buokrapt! ™ The curse of God rests on such a firm. What right has a professed Christian merchant to sit down in church Sun- day, having sent bis clerk traveling on that dax? Get up, ptrnofesa,vd Christian mercnant, and call that boy back.” i Ym)x‘ng man,” said Mr. Talmage, again, “‘a dollar earned on Sunday is a red-hot dollar. 1f you put it in a bag with five thousand other dollara that are all_good, it will burn a hole in the botiom of the bag and let all the good dol- lars out with it. Mr. Talmage then told the drummer what he should avoid dong on histravels. It was sinful to *‘read the same newspaper over and over,” to talk with & * man who knew less than your- self, to gaze for an hour listlessly out'of the window, to Teckon up prospective profits or to sitin the smoking-car— the nasticst place in Christendom.” He advised the drummer, in- stead, to * have a talk with Shakespeare, Rus- Xin, Bancroit, and St. Paul," to bethink him of the examples of Elihu Burritt, Clifford, and Abererombie, 2nd to learn about the markets of C Sidon and Pheenicia. “ Thatis the time,” he said, * when you are waiting for the traiz, or bave 3n_hour to spare, to climb up on the mountain nd view the promised land.” « Hear 'em putting down the patent brakes. ¢ t.! The landlord is glad to see you,— vfif];!.nnflreeu ou with all the warmth—of = brother.” ‘Mr. Talmage further deseribed in detail the surroundings of the drummer at his hotel, including the reading-room and the Writing-table. Having got his subject thus 1ar, Mr. Talmage advised him ‘‘not to treat. “Frade got by _treating don’t stlck. Jmow whether to tell you tlus story or not. [ guess I will.” And after thus struegling with Tiimseif the reverend preacker narrated a story of how one night, at the close of the eyening relizios service, a carriage drove upio the ‘Tabernacle, in which :'at. "nafln‘:_ 'ar E&"é:sku:g elegont a gentleman as.Ne T s © Berson was intozicated, was debermiaedu nTot' to . lmmeé insisted on Mr. Talmage z fidhim. Mr. Talmage #aid: I rode with him till midnight trying fo persuade him 10 g0 bome. Lhave made many o trip to Greenwood. but pever before had such a doleful ride. Iindaced him to zo home at last. We went into bis beau- tiful hall, and there we met his wife and h's daughter, frightened almost to death. Itook him up-stairs, undressed bim, and put bim to bed. What was the fate of that man and of his wife and daughter? The two latter went iuto an institution of charity; he died by the violence of his own -hand. When I heard "of it""—here Mr. Talmage drew himself up to his full heigh and raised his voice to a plercing scream—‘¢ cried, ‘Cursed be rum!’” At this the audience brokc out into loud and unrestrained applause. * But now, how are you going to spend vour eveninzs!” “Mr. Talmage enumerated the dif- ferent methods of spending an evening, and mentioned “ the opera, the theatre, the billiard- room, the gembling-house, and the house of fu- famy. Plenty of places to go to, but which, oh God of mercy! which?’ He continned: “Well, 1 guess I'll go to the theatre. My brother, will that brighten you up? Was ever a man im- proved or made happier or more prosperous by going to an American theatre? Well, then, T guess Ill go to a gambling-house. Mark this, my brother, that all gamblers die poor. What{ you say John Morrissey is a brilliant_exception? 1 say to you that John Morrissey isn’t doad yet. 1 wish to God he was! [Laughter and plnusc.} Well, let mesce, I guess I'll go to & house oi infamy. Halt! There are otlier gates of sin throngh which, having cntered, & man may egain return; but that gate has a spring-lock on it from which no man can cscape. God’s hottest curse is on that crime. Ob, the men who have passed in through that gate! I look through their glaring eyeballs down into the hottest caverns of hell At this point Mr. Talmage read the seventh chapter of Proverbs, from the sixth to the tweuty-third verse inclusive. Changing his mauner then very suddenly, Mr. Talmage became very cheerful, and adviséd the drummer, on coming to a strange town, to go at once to the Y. M. C. A., where be would ind worthy companions, who would introduce him ioto happy and bleasant Christian homes. He then proceeded to the close of his sermon. O, commercial traveler,” he said, “I pray for you to-day the all-sustaining grace of God. There are two days when you need that grece. You need it in'the dl‘{ of ‘your adversity to cheer you, and you need it in the day of your pros- perity to check you, and keep you Irom evil and alt nianner of rollicking indugencies, And, yes, there is another day when you will need it. I sce you on your last commercial errand. The traili of your carthly existence is nearing the depot of the grave.” The bell rings, and the brake of death is shut down. ©All out for Eternity” Show your ticket now. Blessed traveler are you you have the red ticket, washed in the blood of the Lamb. ‘For what shall it profit 2 man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? 7 RATIONALISM. ITS APPEARANCE'ANONG THE NEW YORK JEWS. Springfleld Repudlican. New York has a new departure in the religions line. Prof. Felix Adler is lecturing on Sunday mornings at Standard Hall, a pretty audience- room on Broadway, near Forty-second street, which will seat 600 persons. Heis a rational- istic blossom out of a tough, hard Jewish stock, was cducated in Germany, and bad all the Juda- ism taken out of him there, came home to shock bis old friends by his loss of traditional religion, and got a Professorship at Cornell, where he has few pupils and little to do. But there are cultivated Jews herc who have outgrown the Synagooue and the traditions of the Elders, and they have invited the scholarly Professor to come here and tell them the truth about re- lizion as he understands it. Yesterday the hall was full of people, two-thirds of whom were men, and two-thirds of the faces had Jewish features. At aquarter after 11 the door was locked, and the choir sung to the music of a well-played orzan. Then Prof. Adler rosc, a man of about 35, rather below medium size, a face of marked intellectual sensibility, with fine features and a fine nervous and seusitive tem- perament. He laid his manuscript on the desk, but never looked at it again, stood with his armn resting on the desk, most of the time, in an easy attitude, and without the least attempt at oratory, 1n a musical, strikingly reverent and modest voice, delivered a lecture of great force of thought and felicity of diction. His subject was the inspiration of the Bible, which he_claimed was an unsupported_dogma that had done incalculable harm. The Bible us a natural product of the human mind is one of the world’s great classics, a most precious leg- acy; butas an infallible authority in intellect and morals is a clog @nd a curse.. He made a broad distinction between the Bible as it is in itself and what the theolorians think about aud claim for it, and, while he revered the book, he abhorred the dogma that encrusts it an un- natural and impossible sanctity. Think of this delivered to an audience of Jews! Yet his strongest utterances were inost heartily ap- plauded. Frothingham and Clarke havesgone much further, and have said much more than Prof. Adler ventured, but not to such an audi- & "2 On the whole, it is onc of the most sfz- nificant movements of the day, und may lead to important results, so far as the torifty and rap- idly-improving Jewish population of the city are concerned. The socicty 15 rapidly crystalizing around him. FIDDLER JOSS. AN ENGLISH EVANGELIST. From the London Telegraph, Jax. 30. “ Come and hear Fidaler Joss on Sunday night, Jan. 25, at the Mission Chapel, Little Wild street, Drury Lane.” Such was the invi- tation printed on handbills that were offered pretty freely to the wavfarers in the purlicus of the Parish of St. Giles toward the close of the afternoon mentioned, when the church bells ‘were ringiug out their summons to prayer on the cold moonlit air, and droves of little chil- dren were seeking to warm their blood, chasing each other in play in the eourts and alleys of one of the poorest and most populous districts of the metropolis. The neighborhood of Little 'Wild street is not one of the nicest or most rep- utable; the tallyman is a power there, the po- liceman a terror, and the gaudily-painted, glit- tering corner “ pub ** au institution. Drunken- ness and poverty are riie, for your poor devotee of the bottle will strip off his waistcoat or secll his shoes for another drink. The owner of the dolly-shop drives aroaring trade; the clothes that are taken out of pawn on Saturday very often are put in agatn on the Monday morning. Curses arc more commen there than canticles, rookeries than homes; and that notorious es- tablishment, the Thieves' Kitchen, is not en- tirely unknown to the denizens of the locality. This, one would gay, is the very spot for a mis- sion chapel; but the man who wended his way to Little Wild strect in answer to the invitation in the handbfll would have been most agrecably disappointed when he entered the precincts of the house of worship presided over us pastor b Mr. George Hatton—that where * Fiddler Joss" was to hold forth. The chapel dates its founda- tion from tbe beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury. Some three years ago it underwent a pro- cess of renovation, and now it is a spacious and comfortable structure, lf_lylaln, with accommo- dation for 800 persons. There are two galleries running round the building, with a_circular space at the end of the lower vne, in which the preacher takes his stand, and underneath these are rows of pews as in an ordinary church. This mission-chapel is clean, neatly painted, well lit, and well ventilated. Surprise the first. The congrezation —and_the place was crammed with humble folk with hard hands and faces bronzed from exposure—was sinzularly well dressed. Surprise the second. There were la- borers there,—the thick-set fellows one meets on working-days in smocks and corduroy trous- crs with aswrap round the konee,—but their costume was correct broadcloth. There were shoe-blacks, hotel-waiters, packers, costermon- g, all very spruce, attentive, and well-be- aved, and with them, in many cases, were wives and daughters, some of whom were very great in gloves, ribbous, and snowy cufls aud collurs. 'The secret of their well-to-do appear- ances, as explained by one of the workers in the mission, lay in the fact that they had left off the evil, thriftless courses of old, had become reular members of the congregation, taken the pledge, and folt 3 decent pride i themsclves. e money tbat formerly went to the rin-palace was now curefully invested in the Post-Office Savings-Baak, in preparation for a rainy day. These people, by the force of their exampg, had induced muany others to become chapei-goers. Some passazes in the life-history of many pres- ent were imparted. This man had been con- victed so many times; tbat man had, no later than, Thursday last. after wandering the streets penniless and hunery, attempted suicide; a third, aged and respectable-lopking, had been drugk for six weeks, and “during shat time his' favorite danghter, a sweet girl of 23, had died; bat if these stories were whispered it was on the condition that they should ouly be pub- lished in a way that those of whom they were related might not be identificd. Dread of ex- posure s one of the most salutary safeguards of character of the neophytes. e zealous gentlemen who conduct_the mission try hard to win the copfidence of those to whom they ap- peal in the first instance, and having given them good advice follow it up by practical help _to start anew in some honest” occupation. The curse of drink is the great enemy to be fought against, and bravely they are fighting in Little Wild street,where many of the classes known 25 criminal have been weaned {rom wickedness end taught that it is manlier and infinitely more pleasant to earn money than to rob it,and taat it Is possible to be cheerful withont the sickly stimulus of a decoction of coculus indicus. This work las been going on now for years, steadily and earncstly, and with excellent ro- sults, as tae police admit. But itis time tospexk of “Fiddler Joss,” and the semes of services lie has inausurated for the express purpose of reaching those who are outside tue pale of all relizious services,and seldom or ncver enter a church except through irreverent curiosity, or to take shelter from the rain. While the congregation was wating for the preacher with the curious nickname it burst into hymn-singinz on its own account. The books ‘from which the hymns were taken were Ira D. Sankey’s “Sacred Sones and Solos,” and a tiny blue-bound compilation made by Joshua Poole, “Fiddler Joss™ himself, specially for the working classes. About 7 o'clock a gentle- mnan in orthodox black rose in the middle of the lower gallery and offered up an extempore prayer, which was extremely fervent and effect- ive—albeit, it was spoken with that long- drawn unreal voice that many persons consider the oroper tone for devotlonal services, and which was joined in heartilyby some of the con- gregation, and listencd to with profound atten- tion by all. It jarred upon the ear to hear such vulgarisms as * haonythiok” and “hevery- think,” and to notice tlic absence of theaspirate in such words as heart, berald, and hope; but_the intention was good, and perhaps &eis mode of prorunciation was more casily under- stood by those who were hearkening, hymn, w \\'huhcr,firugflms, are you_ going? was next sung by all standing, “2nd if there was noc o blameless harmony or most accurate keepinz of time, there could be no mistakine the full and thorough spirit of the performances. The vol- ume of voice would bave filled the largest of our theatres. The fourth chapter of John was Dext read by the pastor with much dramatic skill. and every word and tone told, the faces of the listeners interpreting every emotion excited as eloguently as would those of so many chil- dren. Another iymn was next sung, * Thereis a better world, they say,” und then Brother Joshua Poole was introduced. A squarely- built, sturdy man of some 5) years_of age, with a good forehead and features that have in thein much brightness and drollery; a2 man thatlooks asii he would he quick ata joke and a merry ‘boon companion; the cast of countenance s that of the British workman, thouzh a fringe of peaky hair of the “ goatec” pattern on the chin~ gives it a Yankee suggestiveness. He reads a few verses from the ffth chapter of Romans in a low voice, with a dis- tinet enunciation; the accent is decidedly that of Yorkshire, but the ‘““burr” is nardly to be noticed. Very lmrnules' and straightforward the style of the preachier {s; he cmploys “ lanzuage tuat Is understanded of the common people.” but there is in it noue of that coarsencss ot fig: ure, none of that shockinz familiarity with sa- cred things that is to be deplored in too many unordained and uneducated teachers of the Gos- vel. He made abundant use of illustrations, and very avt they were, and there was a spon- taneity in his occasional snatches of humor and, an evident sclf-enjoyinent of his anecdotes that’ made them wonderfully acceptable. At one period he admitted tbat ‘be had been “drunk five years, and had the horrors downright two,” aud added that he was knownas ' Fiddler Joss bevause he lived by eoing gbout to fairs and walkes, but he did not care il the name stuck to him stili; they mizht cail him ¢ Fiddler Joss” if they only learned from him to give up drunk- enness and lead better lives.” He made a deeper impression on his audience tnan many more learned preachers would, and ai- though he had recourse to a certaln amount of theatyical device, such as hitting the desk to simulate knocking at a door, in no one instance did he outrage tie modesty of nature. There can be no question that * Fiddler Juss ™ {3 pos- sessed of @ strenuous effort of his own; he is well worth going to hear; he fills_you with a conviction of his sinceerity, and, if”he goes on as he has commenced, he may be the meaus of bringing wholesome light into one of the bldck- est corners of a bluck district. ‘When * Fiddler Joss ” was nearing the end of Dis quaint sermon it was plain that he was suf- ferivg from bad bealth, and he. apologized for Dbis shortzoming, reminding the young men who were sitting around him that his physical weak- ness was the result of former dissivation, and that as_one sows 60 musy one reap. Gathering hims2lf together, he made a bricf summing up, energetic and loud-voiced &s_at auy moment during his address, and literally subsided at its close.” An impromptu prayer was next deliv- ered by the pastor, a hymn was sung, and the proceedings terminated by an appeal to all who desired to seck counversion to attend an inguiry meeting up-stairs, while tbose who were anx- jous for their conversion joined in prayer twith thazhobjcm. on the floor of the chapel under- neath. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The new Church Property Tax bill, passed by the Legislature of Maine, exempts from taxu: tion church and parsonage property worth not smore than 85,000, - The Northern Methodist Cooference of Mis- sissippi bas passed resolutions approving the basis of fraternity with the Church South. It reports 25,441 members, 4,200 baptisms, 246 churches, and 234 Sunday-schools. The International Sunday-school Lesson Com- mittee will hold a meeting for sclecting the lessons for 1879 at Indiunapolis on March 27 and 28, This will be the last meeting called to ar- range the seven years’ course of lessons. Francis Xavier has perfected arrangements for a La Trappe monastery, three miles from Buf- 1alo, for this most scvere order, who slecp upon the floor, cat only bread and vegetables, worship at midnizht, dig their own graves, and observe perpetual silence. Tne Sunday-school of the Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, 0., has turnished thirteen men for the ministry, fiity heads of familles for the chureh, has had the same Superintendent for twenty-eizht years, and the same teacher of its adult Bible-class for thirty years. At the annual meeting of the Church of the Pilgrims, the Rev. Dr. Storrs, pastor, the report showed that $7:276 had been contribated for be- nevolent purposes during the year, and that 150 persons had been added to the number of com- municants. The present membership is 825. Calvary Baptist Church, Washington City, the Rev. Mr. Mason, pastor, bas a membership of over 500, 140 havine been added during the ast year. ‘This Church has no debt, sustains a Kumu Sunday-school averaging an attendance of 270, and two mission sciiools aggregating 250. The Roman Catholic Diozese of Newark, which includes all of New Jersey, has an estimated Catholic population of 185,000 persons. The Di- ocese was established in 1853; it has 160 priests and 121 courches; its parochial schools are at- tended by 22.000 children. The present Bishop is the Rt. Rev. M. A. Corrigan, who was con- scerated day 4, 1873, . The second annual session of the Laymen’s Conference (Protestant Episcopal) of Ohio will be held at Columbus Feb, 27 and 23. The object of the conierence is consultation of the carnest thourhiful mecnof the State upon practical Church matters. Subjects will be discussed re- lating to “The Spiritual Life of the Church’ and **The Church and Its Temporalitics.” The Young Men’s Christian™ Association of Philadelphia bave added during the year ending Feb. 6, 1,201 new members to their roll: the to- tal number of members {s now 3.453. During the year situations were found for 995 adults and 530 youths under 20 years of age. Seven hundred and sixty-four meotings were held in the rooms of the Associatipn during the year. ‘The church which the Methodists of Boston arc about to erect at the corner of Columbus avenue and Berkeley street will be the largest of their denomination In the United States.” It isintended to provide seats for 8,500, or, with the addition of the Jecture-room, 5,600‘ e means of egress will be 8o planned as to make it possible to empty the building in three or four minutes. In St.Lonis there are twenty-nine Catholic’ churches and a college, where the studies are superintended by twenty Jesuit Professors, French, Belgian, and American. The Sisters of the Sacred Heart have built for themselves at Marysville, a suburb of 8t. Louis, a convent which is said to be a real palace, to w hich no in- stitution_of the same kind in Europe can be compared. Among its inmates are several nuas who have fled from the persecutions in Ger- many. ‘The Scandinavian Young Men’s Christian As- sociation of Chicago was orzanized Feb. 6, 1877, and the flrst rezular mecting was held at the Chicago Medical Colleze, Feb. 18. The meetiog began by singinz No. 29 in Gospel Hymns, after which Prof, Edgren offered up an appealing raver for the suceess of the eveat work. Prof. 3. H. Hollister, of the Chicago Medical College, sddressed the society. -After these remarks, Pastor Soellin installed the following offiners: A. Sandbure, President: P. Nielson, Vice-Pres- ident; Ely Molander, Treasurer; William F. Eisen, Corresponding Secretary; A. Eirkson, Assistant Secretary; A. Carlson, Librarian; P. Jonnson, Assistant Librarfan; Aug. Eagstran Usher. There were about 600 present, and all seemed deeply impressed with the zood work which they had organized. The next meeting vill be held in ihe Chicago edical College, corner Twenty-sixth street and Prairie avenue, at 2:30 p. m. to-day. are welcome. The Presbyterians have long becu puzzling themselves over representation in the General Assembly. Since the reanion several echemes ‘have been proposed_but finally rejected. The 1ast Assembly, which met in Brooklyn,fappoint- ed a committec upon which all the narties were represented, to report a plan m[mxyouwm. brethren, Providencealways does the next Assembly. This Committee has made a report, which sets forta the factsand different views which are beld in the Church. traces out the probable cffects of the different. plans, and concludes: “Thata wise decision cannot be reached until the Presbyteries shall have care- fully considered the principles and the tacts in- volved in suy propusad change. Our beloved Cnurch, since its rennion, has been going from eren'_"t‘l to strenzth, and any radical change in the principle of representation on whicr its hiher judicatory is constituted should be made with the greatest caution. Other Presbyterian bodles are gravitating toward ours, and this fact ougit to be taken into consideration in view of illny gropusufl change in the basis of representa- on.”" Christian missions employ 220 agents to con- vert the 5,000,000 Jews in Europe.~ About $350,- 009 are'spent every vear for this purpose. Lon- don, with 30.00) Jews, has twelve missionarics; Warsaw, with 90,000 Jews, nas only two or three missionarles; and larze ~ towns in Austria, Roumania, and Russiz, with from 20,000 to 50,000 Jews ecach, have but one imissionary each, and in some cases are wholly witliout Protestant teaching. The countries with larze Jewish populations, and especially destitute of mhsiunap' effort at present, are America, where the Jews are increasing in num- bers rapldly: Northern Africa, and especially Moracco; Arabia, and above all, Russia. These facts are printed in n report by the Rev. J. Miiler, Secretary of the London’ City Mission. Mr. Miller is not able to pofnt to any very re- markable {ostances of success. In Rome, where a missfon has existed every year and been *‘con- ducted with zeal and ability,” there is not yet a single convert. Perhaps the most successful work has been done in London, where there have been 1.305 baptisms. NEW CHURCI ORGANIZATION, The conarezation herotofore worshiping in Owsley’s Hall, Madison sud Robey streets, un- der the pastorate of the Rev. H. L Paynter, have organized themselves into 2 church to be known as Calvary Tabernacle Church, and the services of orzanization and installation of of- licers take place to-day in the building corner of Hoyne and Harrison streets, 2:30 p. m. & brief sketch of this movement may not be un- intercsting: On the first Lord’s Day of October, 1576, 2 few persons met at the house ol George Rounds, 145 Hoyne strect, and after much prayer and consultation, felt impelled to besin a movement that would, with God's blessing, be nsed in His service. Tuey requested the Rev. H. M. Paynter to preach for them. and their first meeting was held in Owsley Hall ou the first Lord’s Day. of October, 1376, which has been continued ever il:xce, gradually gaining in strength and fnnum- ers. ~ ‘The progress met with determined the friends toform an organization, and on the 7th inst. this was_accomplished, and will be perfected at the services above noticed. The people _have secured the house on Ozden avenue, near Harrison street, formerly occupied by the ’ Baptists, where regular services will be hield on and after the 1st of March. The fleld to be occapied by this church organi- zation, bounded east by Cuntre aveuue, west by the reilroad track, north by Van Buren, and south by Twelith strect, does mot coutain another organized church for English-speaking people. ‘The area is_large, and the population rapidly increasing. Many of the friends ot this move- ment were formerly identified with the Camp- Bell Park Chapsl,and are familiar with the neeas of thescetion, and many earnest Christians living therc have lony felt the need of sucha society as a basis of permanent Gospel work. RITE OF CONPIRMATION. The Bishop of Illinois will preach in All- Saints’ Episcopai Church, corner of North Car- penter and West Ohio streets, Sunday evening, Marei 4, and_confirm the candidates presented by the Kev. Henry G. Perry for that interesting rite. PERSONAL. Mr. Spurgeon has gone to Mentone, fn Italy, to recruit his heaith. The Rev. Leonard-W. Bacon will soon return to this country from Switzerland. The Rev. William Penick, Protestant Episco- pal Bishop-clect for Cape Palmas, Africa, was consecrsted in St. Paul’s Church, Alexandria, Va., last weck, Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, and Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, offi- ciating. The degree of D. D. has been conferred upon the Bishop by the Faculty of Kenyon Col- lege. The Rev. J. F. W. Ware, formerly of Balti- more. and now a Unitarian pastor in Boston, said, in a sermon before a Unitarian Conference lately: *“We need missionary work aud a pro- nousced Confession of Faith.” Unless we have these, our doom is sealed, and in thirty years we shall be dead, without #uy one to atiend the funcral.” All the Unitarians of Boston do not oppose the Moody movement. James Freeman Clarke €aid, in a sermon recently preached, * For one, 1 heartily welcome Moody and_Sankey in their carnest, honest, and zealous efforts to awaken an interest in religion. Let Unitarians take care how they onpose Mr. Moody, unless they can show o better way." We have an interesting account of what Mr. Bliss was doing shortly before he met with his violent death at Ashtabula. On that Friday night he was geen by a fellow-passenger whose life was spared, sittior fna car by the side of bis wite, with his open Biblc on_bis knee, and both scemed intently engaged in the stady of the sacred _word, while he was composing a Bible song which was never to be souuded on carth. This is the last we hear of them in the body. The venerable Dr, Lovick Pierce, now in his ninety-tnird year, is writing a _series of remin- iscences of the centurs. He is the oldest Meth- odist minister Hving on this continent, and prob- ably the oldest of any denomination here. He points to the sreat differcnce that exists be- tween Methodfm at tze beginning of this cen- tury and now, and concludes that either primitive Methodists were more religious than was need- ful, or clsc modern Methodists are less so. Awful dilemma! BREVITIES. Philadelphin Bulletin : *‘ Are They Dreaming of Me?” is the title of the latest ballad. Itis probably dedicated to the suthor's cred:tors. Two oysters in a gallon of lukewarm fluid at achurch fair are nolonger called stews, but aquariums; but some people think that thereare too many fish to the water. s The proprietor of a line of stagesin New York has adopted the picture of awhale as his busi- ness emblem. He pays that that fish was the first Stay-Jonah mentioned inhistory.—Paterson Amaleur. Senfor class-room. Mr. L.~“Doctor, could the wicked find any pleasure in associating with the zood in the next life?” Dr. A.—*No, sir.” Mr. L—* Then wasn’t God kind to provide hell for their comfort?” * A fémale preacher is sald to be writinga «Commentary on tbe Life of Joshua.” It is re- ported that she will observe that Joshua was successful with the sun, but he never command- ed the daaghuer to bestill. The sharp flash of lightning, followed by a ter- rible peal of mundc:,g a (c‘:gdnys since, called forth the following impromptu prayer from a little feHow in East Boston, whose father lay stretched upon a sick-bed: od, please be a. little more careful, and don’t hurt papa!”’—Bos- ton Advertiser. X *Andrews’ Bazar: They were two good little San Francisco Sunday-school boys, and their mother bade them go forth one afternoon and cojoy themeelves. The{ ‘went forth, and shot o Chinaman; and when they came back and told Ter what they had done, she filled their pockets with candies, and said she shouldn’t wonder if they grew up to be great men. A 5-year old girl, convalescing from an attack of su{flen- lchx!-. was suffering greatly from earachie. Something prompted the little one to petition aboye for relief. and this was the way shedidit: ‘“Oh, Lord! Ob, good Lord, cure my carache,” continuing to repeat it over and over. Her mother, Learing her murmuriog, asked, * What are you sayiog; my dearl’ None of yoar busnéss,” was the reply. “I aln’t talking to you; I'm talking to the Lord.” Brooklyn Argus: * Incidents of the great Moody and Sankey revival in Boston: “wifipar Coanier: Will meet you at the ap- Hars.! inted place aud time. b ‘ngn Harrie: 1 will be there, sure. CHARLEY.” « Then Charley sends the following message his wife: tod *Don't wait dinner bg_::!-‘ me. mln?:u;d ;.be rayer-mecting azain v, e do_you P iee. Rarah, what a work the Lord 1s doinz for me.’ ” i 1In these haleyon days of midwinter spring how the soul Cz( the man who neglected the ordinances and never paid a cent fora snow- shovel and meser shoveled & foot of snow, but trosted everything to Providence and a January - thaw, laughs at and exalts over his more industrions neighbors, who got up early every_morning and sat up late every night, shoveling snow-paths and cleaning sidewalks, and now see their own walks and msdgfi no better nor cleaner than their wicked neighbors’. look after a lazy man. Sec what an easy, sin- less time Adam had ofdit until he nibbc?hhls eyes, yawned, got up and went to work er- ine in the applé-crop.—Burlington. Havk-Fye. They had a to:(%h subject fn the fnquiry-room this weele. Moody wrestled with him, and San- key sang, with him, bot the man seemed to despair of forgiveness. Finally Moody asked Lim what heavy’sin burdened Lis mind, and he' confessed to having beat o newspaper publisher out of three years' subscription. The evangelist informed him that they did not profess to per- form miracles, but if he would settle up his dues, with compound interest, and pay for three years more in- advance, although they could not open the doors of the churcl‘ho him, perhaps he might be snaked In under the can- vas.—Boston Bulletin. Early American advertisements were often curfous. Here {s one in 1803: * Much Wanted —A neat, well-behaved female, to do kitchen workin 2 small family at Charlestown, near Boston. She may pray aud sing hymus, but not over the fish-Kettle ; may 2o to meeting, but not to believe in the Divinity of Eliaa Swmith; nor belong to the whining congregation of mid- nlfiht worshipers. Inquire at the Repertory oftice, near Boston.” CHURCH SERVICES. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. E. R. Ottoway will preach st the Charch of the Redeemer this morning. —The Rev. Miss Chapin, of Blae Island, will preach at the old school-house at Englewood this moening. Subject: ‘*How to Be a Chris- tian." —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach morning aud evening in St. Psul's Church, Michigan avenue, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. Inthe evening Wil be given the first of two sermons on ** The Distingulshing Doctrines of the Universalist Charcb, " Y CHRISTIAN. Prof. W. w. Eaton will preach morning and evening in the First Church, corner of Indiana av- enge and Twenty-fifth street. Morning subject: *‘The Divine Test of Loyalty to Christ.” Even- ing: **The Conversion of the Chief of Sinners and the Most Moral Man that Ever Lived.” ~—The Rev. A. J. White will preach in the Central Church, corner Van Baren street and Campbell avenune. Morning subject: ** How Shall We Know that the Bible Is the Word of Godr" . Evening sab- ject: **How to, Win One's Way in the World.™ LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preach at the Church of the IHoly Trinity, corner of Dearborn and Erie strects, morning and evening. REPORMED EPISCOPAL. The Res. J. D. Cowan will preach morning and evening at Grace Church, corner of Hoyne ayenue and Le Moyne street. Evening subject: **The Divinity of Christ.” ~~The Rev. R. {1, Bosworth preachesat Emman- nel Church, corner of Hanover and Twenty-eighth streets, morning and E\‘en‘mi. —The Rev. R. H. Bosworh preaches at Engle- wood at 3:30 o'clock. ~—The Rev. M. D. Church preaches at St. Mark's Charch this afternoon. ~—The Rev. W. L. Willlamson will preach at the C‘)uuch of the Good Shepherd morning and cvening. —The Re. Dr. Cocper will preach morning and evening in Immanael Charch, Centre and Dayton streets. Subjects: ** How to Become a Christiun,” and ** How to Be Saved. ™ ~The Rtev. Thomas Daggett wiil preach at 3:39 o'clock this afternoon to St. John's conzregition in the Congremutional Church on Oakwood boale- vard, uear Cottage Grove avenue. —The Rev. J. 8. Worth will preach morning snd evening in St. Pagl's Church, West Washington, n-Ann and Blizabeth streets. Morning sub- Lifc and 1ts Various Relations.” Even- ¢* Heavenly Recognition.” Praise-meeting at clock p. m. —The Rt. -Rev. Bishop Cheney will preach morn- ing and eveningin Christ Church, Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth strect. Prayer-mecting at 7 p. m. promptly. PRE3SDYTERIAN. The Rev. J. H. Walker preaches at the Reunion Church this morninz and cvening. In the morn- ing a sermon to parents. —The Rev. Jumea Maclaoghlin preaches at the Scotch Chareh, corner of Sangamon and Adams streets, morning and evening. Morning subject: **The Two Houses.” —The Rev. Jacob Post preaches at_the church corner of Nable and Erie streets in Dutch in the ‘morning and Englixh in the esening. —The Rev. Davia iarrics preaches at the Welsh Church, corner of Sangamon and Monroe_streets. Mormng snbject: **Moses' Vision." Evening: “*Sowing the Seed."" P —The Rtev. Henry T. Miller will presch morning aud evening in the Sixth Church, comer of Vin- cennes and Oak avenues. Aorming subject: “‘Throwing off Bardens™; evening sermon to young men, **A Text with Four Questions.” —The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach morning and eveninz inthe Fifth Church, Indi- anaavenne and Thirticth street. Morning sub- ect: **The Valley of Decision.” Evening: ** The ent. ™ v: E. P. Wells, pastor, will preach fn the Forty-first Street Church in the morning. —Deacon Willard will give **A Dusimess Man's Yicw of the Plan of Salration™ at the Forty-first Street Prosbyterian Church Tharsday evening at 7:30 o'clock. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Dr. Boardman presaches at the Clinton Street Church, corner of Cifnton and Wilson streets, morning and cvening. —The Rev. C. A. Towle presches at Bethany Church, corner of Paulina and Huron atreets, morping and evening. —The Rev. E. Willlams preaches at the Forty-seventh Street Church this morning. —The Rev. R. G. S. McNeille, of Boston, ’pmches at Plymouth Church morning and even- ng, . —The Rev. Dr. Goodwin will preach in the morn- 1ng in the First Church, corner of Washington and Ann streets. At 2:30 p. m. the Rey. W. J. Erd- man will deliver the eighth of his Bible lectures. Subject: **Differences of the Four Gospels." Gospel services in the evening at 7:30 o'clock. —The Rev. George H. Peake will preach momn- ing and evening in the Leavitt Street Church, cor- ner of Adams. Morning subject: ‘*Religion a Reasonable Service.” Evening, last of the serics of lectures on ** Tarning Points in Life,™ entitled ** Leisure Hours.” EPISCUPAL. The Rev. W. H. Hopkins preaches at St. John's Church, Ashland avenue, mnmlnf and evening. —The Rev. W. F. Morrison will preach morning and evening in the Church of the Holy Com- manion, South Dearborn, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets. —During the season of Leat a Litany Service will be held every day at 12:10 o'clock at No. 171 Wabash avenue, Palmer House, under the direc- tion of the Bishop of the Diocese, assisted by the resident clergy. The officiating ciergymen for the coming week are: Monday, the Rey. Charles B. Stout; Tuesday, the Rev. famuel S. Harris; Wednesday, the Rev. Heary G. Perry; Thursday. the Rt. -Rev. Bishop McLaren; Friday, the Rev. J. 1. Knowles; Saturday, the Rev. Clinton Locke. —The Rt.-Rev. Bishop McLaren will offi- ciate momning and evening in the Cathedral of SS. Peter ana Paul, corner of Washington and Peoria streets. ~—The Rev. S. S. Harris will officiate murning and evening in St. James’ Charch, corner of Cass and Huron strects. : —The Rev. Edward Sullivan will officiate in Trinity Chureb, corner of Michi; avenae and Tienty-sixth street. Morning subject: ** Excuse- malking.” Evening subject: **The Workingman's Body, aad How to Keep It Healthy.™ —The Rev. J. Bredburg will officiate morninj and cvening in St. Ansgarius’ Church, on Sedgwi street, near Chicago avenue. 7 —The Rev. Francis Mansfleld will officiate morn- ing and cvening in the Charch of the Atonement, corper of Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev, Clinton Locke will officiate morning and evening In Grace Church, on Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. —Services morning and evening in the Church of the Holy Communion, on Dearorn street, near Thirtieth. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchic will officiate morning and evening In the Church of the Ascension, corner of North LaSalle and Elm streets. —Services morning and evening in St. Paul's Charch, lyde Park avenue, between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. = —Services will be held In St. Mark’s Church, on Cottage Grove avenue, near Thirty-sixth street. Morning wermon_ by the Rev. Gearge F. Cashman; evening sermon by the Rev. Dr. Chandler. —The Rev. D. F. Warren will officiate in St. Stephen's Charch, on Johnson street, near Taylor, in l%e ‘morning, and the Rev. G. F. Cushman in the evening. —The Kev. Luther Pardee will officiate in Cal- vary Church, on Warren avenne, between Oakley street and Western avenne, morning and evening. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate morning and evening in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenue. —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate morn- ing and evening in All-Saints’ Charch, corner of Carpenter and Ohio streets. —The Rev. F. N. Luson will officiate in the ‘u,n;o]rnlnz in the Good Shepherd Mission at Lawn- e. —The Rev. F. N. Luson will oficiate in Em- manuel Church at LaGrange ‘morning and evenin; % —The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will ofticiate in Mark's Church at Evanston morning snd evening. tion_of Judgment." Work of the Wealeys.™ —The lev. 3T, Sanderland will preach at the old school-house at Englewood at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Subject: *‘Hell snd Heaven.” —The Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach morn- ing and evening in the Fourth Church, 739 Cot! Grove uvenue. Subject for morning, **Worshi of Intellect " ; evening. ninth lectare In spe course. Sabject, **Who Are Christ L —The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach in the ‘morning and Prof. Swing in the evening in Unity Charch, Dearborn street, corner of Walton place. —The Rev. E. P. Powell will preach tbis morn- ing in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin streets. Subject, ‘‘The religon of Na- —At Umty Church, North Dearborn stret and Walton place (Robert Coliyer's), the Rev. Sumner Ellis_will preach in the morning, and the Rev. David Swing in the mn! ling. The Rev. Dr. E. A. Sawtelie will preach mom- ingand evening at the University Place Baptist Chureh. —Prof. T. J. Morgan preaches at the Coven! Street Charch lh!srx:lfi'xing. and the Rev. J.‘g Bure this evening. —The Rev. R. P. Allison preaches at the North gwick and Division Star Church, corner of S streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. K. Wheeler, of Aunstin, will g're:c!x this morning in in the Oak Park Church, g emperance Hall. ~In the cvenmng the pastor, the ml?e p:::“;nnd“ Blackburn, will preach. Subject: 54 nce,” —The Rev. Alexander Blackburn, of Oak Park, will preach in the Baptist Church ot Austin at llall,o?)oi this morning. Subject: ** Redemption by —The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach morning and evenine in the Halsted Street Church. Morn= ing subject: ‘* Gideon's Band;" evening: ‘‘The Advant of Godliness," —The Rev. Dr. D. B. Cheney will preach morn- ingand evening in the Fourth Church, corner of ‘Washington and Paulina streets. —The Rev. Dr. Smith, editor of the Standard, will lecture in the First Church, corner Sonth Park avenoe and Thisty-first street, on °* The Baptista in Englan In the evening the Rev. W. W. Bvex_i_:.;,’ astor, will conduct the services. ~ v, 3r. Ravlin will preach morning ané evening in the Free Charch, corner of Loomis and Jackson streets. —The Rev. J. W. Cnstiss will preach this morn- above Twenty- ing in the Michigan Avenne Chure third atreet. —The Rev. Dr. Galusha Anderson will the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Manroa etreets. The morning subject is ** Being Ashamed of Christ,” and Lh:gevu'!lng one, *‘Close Com- munion,” —The Rer. X. E. Wood will preach morning and evening in the Centennia - Slalog s the Centennial Charch, corner of Lin The Res. J. 7. Tobine. o Simpaox . J. . %0 rea Chureh, Bandcld street, motaing dud eyoniag. —The Rev. S. H. Adams preaches at Centenary Church momning and evening. Aiope By Dr Willismson_preaches st the venn H **Scieaco and me; Resurmection, s 6 Mublects ouker will_preach mo evening In the Taberatie Indapundoms ChE corner of Morzan and Indiana streets, Mornin eabjoct: “-Law of Liberty.” - In the evening third lectare on_**The Life of Abraham," —The Rev. Dr. Gumey preachesatSt. Paal's Church. ~Morning sbject: -*Christ, in History. ™ Evening “subject: ““The Twolold Coming of —The Rev. S. McChesney preachesat_the Park Avenue Church. Evening subject: **Youth, or Life’s Morning. ™ —Tne Rev. M. M. Parkhuret preaches atthe First Church morning and evenlng, Noreing aub- ject: Province and Power of Prayer.” Even- ng yubject: " Arbitration and War.” " —The Rev. John Wesley Richards, L will preach in Flood's Hall, Hyde Park,at3 o'clock this R Rer, A. W, Patten will preac --The Rev. . Patten will p me and svemng i the Wabash Atenae Cobrch sont verof Fourtcentngtreet. ¢ Rev. Dr. W. C. Willing will preach momn- 10 A1 evening 1) the Longioy Avdans Charch, cofuer of Thirty-ninth street. S —The Rev. John Atkinson will preachin the evening In_Grace Church, comner of Lasalle and White streets. Bishop Merrill will preach this morning. ¢ MheRev. Dr. Tiffany will preach morniog sad evening'in Trinity Church, Indisns avenue, near ‘Twenty-fourth street. . MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Henry Dickenson preaches at the Washe ingtonian Home this afternoon. —The Rev. G. K. Nellls preachesat No. 17€ Washington street this morning. Subject: **The Theory of Dr. Thomas Regarding the Symbolic Sun, Moon, and Stars.” —Eider H. G. McCulloch presches at the Taber- nacle, No. 91 Green street. Evening subject: * Miraclew, ™ —The Rev. Dr. Hibbard preaches at_the New Charch Hall this morning, comer of Eightéantk strect and Prairic avenue. and this afternoon at the Temple, corner of Washington strect and Ogden avenue.' Subject: **Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and the Changing of Hia Name to Jsrael. " —The Christians meet at 3 o'clock at No. 318 Weet Chicago avenae. —The Rev. D. M. Paynter will preach in Owsley's Hall, corner Madison and Robey streets, at 10:30 a.m. The congregation heretofore worahiping here will be organized into s charch and officers installed at half-past 2 p. m., In the building cor- ner ?f Hoyne and Harrison streeta. No evening service. —Mrs. Cora L. V. Rlchmond, trance lecturer, will speak befote the First Society of Spiritualista in Grow's Opera Hall, 517 West Madison street, this morning and evening. —Disciples of Christ meet at 220 West Randolph street at 4 o'clock this afternoon. —There will be a Friends' meeting on Twenty- sixth street. between Indiana and Prairie avenues, at 10:30 o'clock this morning. Benjamin Franklin will_be in attendance. —The non-sectarian Bible meeting will be held 2t 126 Washington street, ot 2 p. m. The subject for lecture and. discussion will be, +*The Doctrine of Substitation: Is It Traet™ CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. reach at EPISCOPAL. Feb. 25—Second Sunday in Leat. Feb, 28—Eleventh Day of Lent. Feb. 37~Twelfth Day of Lent. Feb, 28—Thirteenth Day of Lent, Mareic 1—Fourteenth Day of Lent. Aarch 2—Fifteenth Day of Lent. March 3—Sixteenth Day of Lent. CATUOLIC. Feb. 25—Second Sunday in Lént. Feb. 26—t Peter Damia, B. C. D. (trom Feb. 23). ¥ Fep. 27—Feris. Feb. %F};‘QHL S S THE NEW FAIRIES, Dandelion, twinkling Deep down in the clorer, ‘Where becs and butterflies, Homeward-winging, hover,— Tossing in the Sonth wind Your head so light and alry, Tell me if **once on a time™ Yon were not a fairy, And danced fn glee Now hang thy yellow head Above thy mossy bed, And eoberly confess ‘The truth—say yes! Under the locust-tree, Ina shady corner, Gr&r';ushire Violet " ng's grace uj L Two pop)l;(e!. ‘fiaming .Z'&.“ Haughtily do scorn her, She can forgive it them— Meekness doth adorn ber. 1In the green cups of her leaves Dewdrops hide from Sammer's heat, And we think perhape they are Glassy lhEp:m on the feet Of the nlrg ‘Who here doth tarry, Far tov wary Mortal's steady gaze to meet. O'er her head s larkspur waves ‘Banners blae of softest tints, And eusily we recognize Cinderella and her Prince, Gentian, swaying in the air, Of all fair flowers fairest, Beantiful bevond compare Blue-fringed blossom rarest! i In the Autamn of the year, Fittest time for saddest moods, Thee. Gentian, azure-hued, we call **The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods.™ O Rose, wild Rose, that comes in Juns, 3 And In late Summer goes! (Pink petals pale Bestrew the vale When Rose, our Jane blows.) - The dramey B of Imsectoubes 0 ¢ Floats faintly on the air: ¢ “The wild brown bee, untiring, befbos ; e beart's deep treasures fare; as we gaze, lose, on thee, S0 dainty-fair in every part, Red Rldinghood's dear face oat *Twixt crimpu curtains near thy beart, So beantiful, fo sweet to see, She's like 0 other fower but thee. Lurg M. W. (MY) JERUSHA JANE. Jerusha Jane was a little girl ‘With rosy cheeks and teeth lfke pessi; Her eygs were fire; Her hair, 28 wSite as thistle-bloom, Looked like a cobweb on a broom,— Jeremiaht The Ianguage used by this fairmaid, The Dictionary tribate paid, 1t was so pat; And she could wash, and bake such bresd, And what she meant was what she e Jehosaphat! One asked that him she'd quickly wed; She mitten’d him, and thea she said, **No use for Pa!" She told him he was older than That eldlnly and ili-used man— ech One tore around, and roundly swors That she was notbingless nor more She aya his 17 will sire ba wrecked, € says e will sure He'll die of not enoagh neglect— Aminadabl Her drees 15 cut in pesceful shape, ‘Without & frill, or dounce, or cape, To dety us; And there runs down the back alons A seam that in more widely known— Asibiaa? Her wooers now are mostly fled, And one they say is awful dead— I r“! them. Her love iast night she did relste: B el T ‘We'll walk together to the gate— i ¥ Jamnfiml Fgaxx Damuer. Buss,