Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1877, Page 13

* i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH I8, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES RELIGIOUS. Further Discussion of the Sab- ject, “What Is Truth?” The Sunday-School Teachers Meet as Usnal at Farwell Hall, The Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches a Sermon for the Benefit of Merchants. Tie. New York Methodist Ministers Put the Reporters Out from 1 Among Them. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad {-Visdom, «==Churcht Services To-Day, WHAT 1S TRUTI VENTH PAPER—LICE. To the Fditor of The Trisure. Cricaco. March 16.—In the “ Summary State- ment of the Doctrives of the New Church,™ quoted in the first puper of thie s 3l es, the Jast e hit the V. Ma's Jife in the material body prepatativn for eternal Jife. and when the body dies 1y rikes into thes in an intermed 1 or hell. srcerd ring his earthiy I ¢ Sniritual World. the eternal hame of men after death, i< uol remote from thiv world, but irect conjunction with i, and we are, houzh Lucauscionsly. always in immiediate com- maunton with angels 2nd spirits. Inthese brief statements several important and highly interesting doctrines are brought 1o our attentiun, viz.: Life. Death, Resurrection. the Intermediate State, Heaven, Hell, and their inhabitants, Angels and Evil Spirits. 1 sunpose everv aduit humey being of sound mind has, at times, 'pordered with more or Jess intensity upen certain questions which have presented theinselves to his mind: such us, Whatam 1t Whenze did T come? Whither shall Tgo¢ Why am Fin this world? What is death? Is thers s Heaven and a Hel)? And what is Iife there? To the great majority of mankind these ques- tious remain unavswered. The teachers of the fist Christizn Church have so obscured the light which the Lord’s Word throws on them by their own fvdividual theories aud opinio that mearly all bave given up the search for the truth oa these - subjects, in despuir of kuowing anything ot them il ‘their entrance into the epirit world, if there b such 2 world. The effect of such a mental state is cevotion to the things of this world— the gratification of the mere animal part of our natare. *“Let us cat and driuk, for ‘to-morrow we die.” The New Dispensation of Truth from the Lord, by means ot the disclosure of the internal seuse of His Werd, ettended with the opening piritual senses of His servant, Fmanuel Swedenborg, has thrown the light of the Sun of caven_on sl these vitally-interesting ques- . This light is accessitle to all who desire it. But love of selt and love of the world st continue to reign in the atfections. “And this is the condemmation, that light is come: into the world, aud wen loved darkness rather than light, because their decds were evil. For every one toar doeth cvil hateth the light, neither cometh to the lght, lest his deeds shoul reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the lizht, that Lis deeds may be made manifest, that they are wroaght in God.”—John, ifi., 19, tual world, and. c state. dwells to the charac- uau i wed e lizht, ¢ Written to point out the wav. Only 8 slimmer of the fioud of bt found in - the writjugs of Swedenbort can be given inthese papers, by taking the subjeets in the course as Iaid out sbove, tue first of whica is Lij £uvject would seem to he natura two parts, Natural Lifeuns inthe natural we ad world: and, B afterwards that wi il first cousider Natural Life. reflection will convanze auy one that we, astoour soils or w5 to our bodies, Lave not e i or fron ourselves, hat we depend for life, ¢ being. onwar connection mmd and matter. Our life rived nor_sell-support: let us look 2t ourselves are. We came W pawer, but throush tne instra- lity of Our parents, while they seain same through The instrumentality of their parents; so that, if we go lack throuch the eeierations, we must of cometoa en there were some first parents. You v call them Adaw and Eve, or not: but reasoning from elfect 1o cause, or rom child to parent, we are certain that there S| Lecn a time when maa had a b therefore, did_nor create hi i 1<l to ¢ ablish. < world we find ourse heer, # tony sensy con- néztion with the five different splicres 143 oround us, namely, forn aud color, sound, toste, touch, and frarance; and you that the senses in us are perfectiy ¥ adapted for the worlds out of us: so that in the adaptation of mau for the outer world, and the outer world forman, we have a striking instance of that love and wisdom, that goodness and providen which Lrst creaied and afterwards sustains Luoking at ourselves iu tais respect, then, we Iy sce that we are not independent but i That is the second point we Now,remembering,in te first place,that man dic not make himselt, and, in the second pla that he does not sustain himself after be is made, we are Jed to the conclusion taat there must be some first caue that created man, and afterwards sustains him. -This first cause we call God." Thus far as to our animal or physi- cal life. . But we are consious of posscssing nd powers above our animal natures. ink. 111l reason, reflect, form opinions, and draw condlusions; i varied powers of love We know thut we did not create these Taculties and po ers. We aiso know that we did not recei them from nature; for we cannot get love and affectior, thought and reason, out of !rees and stenes, neither from the subtler substances of nature such as electricity and magnetism. ! then, aswe do not eetthiese powers and £ from nature, where de they com Where, but from Him who created We hore them, because He has them; and since He possesses them, we most reasouably conclude that our or must be a Ioving, w and, as man and attributes; in other words, mau is humzn, God divine.” Tomany persons these propositions will ap- ear simply truisins, requiring Do arFument: ut let such remember that our subject calls for firm support on fundamental truths. Though these truths may be generally ac- red by the understanding, it is evident 0 2 careful obiserver that there is quite erully a practical belief 1hat mun p his affections and powers of mnd in snd of himself,—e: indwvidual is satiffied that he is master of own feelings and dpinjons: that he is independent of any other being for the operutions of his mind. This cou- vition comes from the censual prin- ciple of the wind denoted by the serpent Wwhich caused tuc fall of man from the state of purity and upgightness in which he was created. wehave 8 beautitul example of the i the internal scnse of the Werd ages which have puzzied the fimc& man aud placed him in the Garden of en i a state of perfect innocence and intei- TitY, the serpent tempted him to est of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, of which it bad . becn said, *Thea shalt not eat of it.” ““In the divine language of correspondences, Accoraing to wlach the Word is written. animals Tepresent the varipus effections and faculties in i chapter of Gen- man. ¥o, the drst 3z esis, ving to man dominion over the of the ecarth’ sicnifics the fubjection to the real or spiritual man of all the aiections and powers of the patural mind. By ext, as the lowest of all am- 1n2ls, ereeping upon the ground. is represented the lcwesy 2nd mast sensuous degree of the - manmind. The tree of life, in the highest geuse, is the Lord Himsclf, because He 15 the fountain of 2l life. Ina lower scnse jt is the Divine zoodness and truth which flow from Him: aud, in a still lower sense, itis the Word which is the repository of trut, and by meat§ of which we are led to good. Eatinz signifies appropriation. To eat spiritnally is to appro- priate goodness and truth, 1o wmake them our own by living according to them. “To eat, therefore, of the tree of lide, Is to appropriste whatever we recelve—goodness and - truth, or | B rd, or from the medium of com- “But the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the very opposite to tlxislgeTo eat of it is to abpropriate our life from sclf and not from the -ord: to judee of all things and to act in all s from our own self-derived intelligence, stead of from the Lord, as He has revealed Himself in His Word. ~ The one is life, beeause itleads us constantly nearer the sourve of all life: the other is death, be-ause it removes us farther and farther trom Hins.” - Solong as onc s in that concedt of self-intel- Jigence Which s directly apposed to * walkiog humbly with God;” so long he is averse to ac- knowledge in heart that his Tife is constantly ro- ecived from the Lord. Having thus demonstrated the truth that all life contfhually proceeds from the only source of Iife, the Gréat First Cause of all things, w we call God, we are. vrepared to consider briefly the nature of life. Swedenbors lays down these propositions, and contirms them by the most convi cing evidence from Serivture and reason, viz.: g L That God Is Love itself an and (hat those 1o saake 1is Fesrges, "0 Hself 11 Tiat God is Good itself and Trath {tself. be- cinse Good is from Love, and Truth is Irom i at Love iteelf and Wisdom itself are Life itsclf, which is Lifc in itsolf. That Love aud Wikdom in God make onc. L the Essence of Lov to love others f. to desire to be one with them, and to them bappy from jtssif. That these properties of the Divine Love of the crcation of the nniverse, and that they are the cause of {ts preservation. . 16, therefore, Love and Wisdom ave the Life itself of God, and man constantly receives life from God, then man must be an orzan receptive of life from God, and that life must be His love and wisdom, tesiding in his will and under- standing. 'Tn his state cnee and futemity, when all man’s an_order] i make VI ssentially and ly and wisdom, as received from the Lord: but in process of time, meu, in the exer- cise of the frecdom and rationality which distin- guished their life from that of beasts, began to 1d to the scductions of their scnsual uature. “Then the life received from God was in the same degree Ycr\'erlcd: becoming, instead of love for othiers, love of self; and instead of truth in_the understanding, persuasions of the false. This perverted Jife Was trausmitted to their offspring, and, by evil lives, increased from gencration to generation, until a flood of wickedness destroy Il the goodness aud truth in the souls of the men of the frst, or Adamic Churcif leaving & small remwant to form the beginning of 8 new church. as the ages passcd, the senses and passiops of the Jowest degree of the soul were raised to un- due importance until the life tlowing frum the Divine fountain was totally perverted, leaving ouly a representative Church (the J Lo save the human race from destruction by s of evil spirits which were obtaining pos- session of the souls and even the bodies of man, ** God, mighty te” save,” cime down and took upoun Himsel( the lowest degree of buman liie, whereby He was able to meet and conquer the infernal bost on thelr own ground. The Clivistiao Church then instituted by our Lord aud Savior did nogJous retain its purity and integrity, but the infowing life from the Divine was once more, sradually perverte the ascendeucy of seif love, Jeading ns and horesies, until! finally, salvation by faith alove became_the rulins doctrine of the disor- dered Church, amd it became necessary for the Lord Jesus Christ to_come the sece time and restore the knowledge of Ilis divine truth, so that it could be a mcdium for the in- flux and reception of His love and wisdom for the salvation of Iis prople. It is now scen that life of evers degrep fdows from the Lorl, who is the only Source of life, into the fulinite varicty of forims receptive of life, thus that every living being aud thing cx- ists and subs only by virtue of the continual influx of lite from its “divine creative source. ‘IIns one life is varied accurding to the varic! of forins receiving it, as the lizht and beat of the sun, fluwing iato the varied forms of the vewetable world, produces all _cood pgrains, iruits, and vegetables, also beautiful and fra- arant fowers, likewise all noxious and poison- ous plants and repulsive blossowms. Theselatter correspond to the perverted forms of life whicl men by evillives bave induced upon themsely *-There are three principles in man, which concur and_unite together,—the natural, the spiritual, and the celes The ndtural prin- ciple never receives auy life except from the spiritual, nor the spiritual but from the celes- id. nor_ the celestial uniess from the Lord alone, Who is lite itself.”” Vhen 2 1 is born lie first_comes into the natural principle, or degree, and thus increases in him by contin- aecording tolis knowledse, to the point of understanding, called rationali rtheless, the second. or spiritual degree, is not bLereby opened. This degrec is opened by the love of uses, derived from intellectual things,—thut is, by the spiritual love of uses, which is love towards the neighbor. This de- cwisc may fncrease by continuity to its summit, and it increases by the knowledies of truth and rood, or by spiritual truths. Never- theless, the third. or cel degree, is not than committing to life the commandments of the Word; of which the s js, toflee from evils, because they ure in- ferndl, and to do goods, because they are L cnly und divine. These three degrees of life are thus su ively opened in a man,” The avbove extract from Swedenbors will con- phy of life which is all who are de- sirous of learning truths are carnestly invited to study. Laxauas. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. TEACHERS" MEETING. Yesterdag’s noott prayer-meeting in Farwell Hall was devoted matnly to a review of the Sunday-school lesson. ‘The exercises were con- ducted by J. B. Hobbs, E Superintendent of Gruce M. E. Church Sunday-school, and opened with the singing of two aoymus,—¢White as Snow” aund **What a Friced Wes Have in Jesus.” Prayer was offered by Mr. Chedlow, and the bymu, “I Hear Thy Weleome Voice,” was suu. Ar. fobbs announced the lesson, .from II s, il subject, “The Spirit on Elisha,” and it was read in concert by the audi- ence, after which the leader introduced the lesson for to-day. He said there were four points to be considered in the lesson. The first was the mantle that fell from Elijah upon Elisha when the latter stood by . the bauk of Jordau and its usc: the sccond was the mission of Elisha; third, the miracle per- formed by Elisha in purifying the spring of Jericho; and fourth. the mockerv of the children who cricd out to Elisha, **Go up, thou bald- head.” and were stain by the two she-bears. In regard to the first point in I. Kings, Xi it was shown that Elijabi threw lis mantle on Elisha, and it was recefved - from God by prayer. The lesson taught them was they should ask God for :: and the smiting of the wate: r tie Jordan to cross over. denoted activity. The antle was an emblem of God's puwer. There were many who_received religion aud had not the spirit of God: there were many teach- ers in the Sfunday-schools who did not sliow that spirit in their w The parting of the waters of the Jordan showed the eifect on the people, and’ their obedience to Elisha, whom they ac- Luowledged us their leader. They should let their works show what they professed. In proof of the text showing how the spirit’ came down upon Elijul 17 vel ii., 25-29; S. He sugmested as an appropriate motto for their blackbosrds to-lay: **Elisa received Elijah’s mantle: we received Christ’s mantle.” e second polnt was the inission of the prophet Elisha, It might secm strange to the scholars why Elijah showdie taken awav. Tt was not the meaning of the text to take him bodily, but to take the spirit. When the people asked for the body, yud Elisha finally eranted them the privilege 1o’ search for it. and it was not found, it was illustrative of God's inten- tion to show that he was transtigured. The third point was miracie ot purifying the spring -or fountain of Jericho. and ‘was the strongest in the n. They had Juricio about scven miles from the Jordan. its beautiful surroundi etc., bat no the bister fluid from the spring. Elisha purified it God's power. and the purc wazer was the typ: of eternai life. The impure water fowed down over the hiil_and killed the land, likes destroved all with whom it rem: Elisha'healed the scring and puri gili. The world wanted sugar alt, and thay sweer - stuff tocover up and conceal the poisons liquors that were bidden behind the glitter of he satoon, Elisha pus the salt in the Water at the basze of the mountain. and puritied the bitter spring. Soif they would cure siu they must first cure the heart. The cure of the water of Jericho was pennanent, and the fountains there Were now as pure asany in the world. At the conclusion of Mr. Hobbs' remarks the hymn, “The Great Physician Now is Near,” was sung, and the discussion of the lesson fol- lo;hc‘:‘l’.cv. Alexander Youker showed how the water was curdll and the other miracles per- pure water—onl formed through God’s power, Elisha belng sim- ply an instrument in His hands. If they did their duty, they would teach their children to beware ot sin. B. F. Jacobs thought the leader had made a strong point in showing Elisha’s power with God. ~ A mantle wus a very useless thing with- out the arm and power of God. If they had 2 little of God’s power they could 2o to their les- fon 1o-morrow with the greatest confidence and effcct. The Rev. M. M. Parkhurst gave an illustra- tion of the maunner in which he had attempted to cross the Jordan at about the very point where Elisha had, and found it too deep. Il bad turned to the very passages of Seripture taken for the lesson o thatoceasion, and found that all the surroundings pointed to_the truth- fulness. The first thing they should do was to show their children that these things were true. Mr. Chiedlow and others spoke briefly ou the points in the leader’s addr and then Mr, Jacobs announced that Messrs. Whittle nud McGranahan would conduct the meeting in the Tabernacle to<lay at 4 o’clock, and the week- duy noon meeting in Farwell Hall, excepting that of Saturday. Other notices were also read, anc the meeting was closed with the bene- diction. ADVICE TO MERCHANTS. WHAT MR. TALMAGE THINKS TUELR TRIALS AND DUTICS Al New Yorl: Wortd, March 12. Mr. Talmage gave out the hymn beginning “ Calm me, my God, and keep mye calm,” and at the close of the singing read the test of his sermon to merehants from Isaiah xxiii, S: Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are Princes, whose traflickers are the honorable of the earth.” What Tyre was Lo that land,” e said, meaning Asia perhaps, ) York is to his country. Philadelphia has a more genial climate, aud Boston has the reputation of beins more intellectual, but New York is the crowning city. The question in Boston is, * How much do you know?!’ in Puiladeiphia, *Who is your father?’ in New York, ‘How much are you worth??% Mr. Talmage then went on to say that this city was overshadowed with merchants, and that these fortunately wers n and noble part of the commmunity.” T show their importance, lie spoke of some- body not long since attempting to block upsome administration, ©wheu one clap of thunder from Wall street sent all the croakers to their hiding-places.” 'These merchants had been for some time laborinz under a heavy load, but the Hercules of commereial activity was now just n?oul. to sut his shoulder to the clugged wireel of their fortuues. Mr. Talmage reccutly went to Kentucky and saw the cars crowded with peo- ple who were not journeying to and from the inauguration cercmonies in Washington. He spent four days and nizhts on the rail and jour- neyed to ever 5o many places, and made up his wind that there is now just sbout to Lappen senson of * commercial sperity, such as haven't s years.”” Then, after mentioning that merchanis supplied the Gov- ernment with the sinews ot war, endowed churches and charities, and * sent out the bread- stufls when there was a famine in Ireland.” Mr. Talmage said he should * speak of their trials and temptations, aud show them the way out.” The first trial of the modern werchant, Mr., Talmage said, waslimited capital: “He uscdtodo with far . was s own bookkeeper and sales- may, and zot along very well, and failed to fuil as readily as be does nowadays. But at present the contemplation of the cnormous expenses to which hie is bound is enough to make nim faint by the way. Lic must prepare himself with new appliances, and costly apparatus, and extensive advertising, until, wiien he comes to consider the load he is earrying, he grows frizhtened and bhis knees knock together fike the auctioncer’s wavel. But commerce in these times has its Waterloos. Victorics of the sword have been no ereater than those of the yard-stick.” Then Mr. Tatmage told the merchants not to faint, and procecded for a short space to heap scorn upon the head of the timid tradesman. “Their souls melt within them.” he cried in Jjeering tones, “ because sugar is up.” But while it was well not to be chicken-heart- ed in_commercial transactions, Mr. Tahnage warned the merchants that they were not to be bold at the cost of honesty. “He is bound to keep up, and he bhas no Yiufl, and o0 he gam- bles. If he succeeds he will endow a church, and go on legitimately: if he loses, why, $100,- 000 subtracted from nothing leaves vothing. e takes bold of stocks, berhaps Western lands,”— Mr. ‘falmaze drew a horrid picture of Western lands,—*and if things are going that way he gets rich very quick.” 1iis neighbor beholds Lim suddenly ceasing to borrow odd pints of milk and pecks of potatoes, and change from state of squalor to a state of magnificence n a gingle niznt, like the hut of Aladdin’s mother. * He holds his breath, and asks how he got his He stole it!" cried Mr. Talmase, ly, *“he stole it 1" “Young man, has God called you to be a mer- chant then be a merchant. Has He called you to be u mechanic? be a mechanic. Ias he called youtobe a_preachier?”’—Mr. Talmage paused, threw his head back, and siniled—“be a preacher.” **This perpetual excitement of the brain,”— bringing down his cyebrows and drawing his finger ucross his forehead,—* this corroding care of the soul,—no wonder merchants do not live long, sweating like_camels zoing to Damas Their life is dashed out by a sate; while they live they carry a store on their bacl Mr. Talmage told u story of a_mcrchant who camne home and threw himself down, exclaim- ing, “All is lost!” whereupou a little girl came 0ss_the roum and sala, “Pana, got mefeft!” and his wife came aud kissed him and said, “You have me left,” aud thue little gnirl’s grandmother came and suid, “You have me left and the promise of God.”? “Youhave au idea,” the preacher continucd, Sthat {our happiness depends upoa your com- mercin] success. It doesu't! Suppose at the moment you died you had all your estate around you,—would that comfort you¢ When Mr. As- tor dicd all the papers w discussing how wwuch be left. When Mr. Stewart died all the apers were discussine how much he left. When Ir. Vanderbilt died all the papers were discuss- ine bow much he laft. I can tell you,—every dollar " *‘The more money you have the better,” Mr. Talrouge said furtheron, “if it comes honestly and zoes generovsly. You see a man oceasion- ally Stand up in bis pew and_pray against the rich and against richies. 1 think the best heaven for such a wan must be the poor-house. But money won’t do everything. It won't pay your passage across the Jordan, and {t won't unilock the gates of heaven. You bave studied “loss and fatn,’ Ill give you asum in. it: *What shull it profit 2 maa if he gau the whole world and lose his own soul?' ¥ Mr. Talmage advised the merchants to o to the Lord iu all their troubles. “O Lord, I have notes to pay and I have rents to pay; belp me. Thou ownest ull the cattle on the hills—help me in my emerze! Do you suppose be wouldn’t help you! Every sword in heaven would leap from’its scabbard in your behalf.” After describing the death of a godly mer- chant, aud *“ the light of a hetter world flasi- ing through the show-window,” Mr. Talnae pictured the horrors of a shipwreck, the shock, the murale, the sputter of the extinguished on mines, and the * boomiug of the guns, which could vot be heard for the louder booming of the stornt.” He swept bis hand before his breast and shudderad as b the tenpest his picture, be ! thousands of years azo which is still sailing, but from which one day will goup theery of * Fire!" That will be the shipwreck of a world, and there will be so many saved andso many lost. Though your cstate go, though your house go, inay God, through the grace of the everlasting covenant, save your souls.” SELF-SACRIFICE. CLERGYMEN DENYING THIMSELVES THE PLEAS- URE OF SOME VERY DESIRABLE COMPANY. Neic York Sux, Fev. 13. The Methodist ministers had an exciting meeting yesierday. One of the most important of its features was the formal exzlusion of ney: paper reporters. A week avo yesterday the Rev. Dr. Crawford, in view of the fact that some of the ministers’ speecyes are sometimes gro- tesque,offered a resolution to exclude reporters. One brother said that at these meetings * ex- pressions were made use of by thoughtless preachers which, fostead of being an houor to the Lord, were a positive disgrace to the Chris- tian religivn.” It was decided that the question of the propriety of shutting out the representa- tives of the newspapers should be passed upon Uy a committee of nine. The commitiee report- ed yesterday that the meetngs'should hereafter e composed entirely of ministers. Thereat the Ttev. Dr. True politely siznified to the reporters thiat it was the sense_ of the meeting tnat the press shoula not Le represented, and the report- ers retired in £ood oxder.. Their retiremeit was almost mstantly followed Uy uproar among the clergyinen. Th as still a Philistine in the camp in the person of a gentleman who is both clergyman and reporter, and who stood npon his Fzht to rerain. He was at length exciuded. It was feared that there mizht be still otner Philistines in the camp, and to make sure that the meeting should be composed entirely of clergymen, it was proposed thatallthe ministers should go-into the ante-room, and mareh in sin gle file vack into the meeting-room, while the Rey. Dr. Crawiord stood at the door and admit- ted none but clereymen. After the clerzymen had all entered, the Rev. Dr. Crawford tried o lock the door, but the key was not fn the lock. *Where's the key ? Bring 1t here, the Rev. Dr. Crawford shouted, bracing his back against the door and holding it shut. The key was found, and the Rev. Dr. Crawfora locked the door. Then in the -ministers’ secret session the re- ort of the committee of nine was read entire. n addition to providing for the exclusion of re- norters, the report presents a plan for the reor- ganization of the Mcthodist ministers of the three Conferences of New York proper, New York East. and Newarlk, iulo an Association for the purpose of holding weekly meetings for the iustruction and edification of "thosc who partici- pated,—the meetgs to be attended by nobody but prébolers. i Mauny very sensible clerzymen opposed the adoption of the report, and dccuncgfom vote, but a minister said: *‘All who dow’t vote in the atlirmatiye and go for keeping out the reporters will be regarded as clerzymen who are in the habit of saving funny things and wish to Bet what they say into thié publicprints.” This had its effect, and the report was adopted, 64 to 8. Trevious to the vote, some ministers indig- nantly went out of the mceting, one of them saving that ‘e would not attend the meetings of a body of men who were ashamed to have their proceedings printed.” THE CHURCH IN GENERATL. The Rev. Joseph Cook cannot come to Cin- cinnati vet awhile; he has engagements in Bos- ton. Bishiop Gilbert Haven is on his way home from Africa, having left Teneriffe, South Africa Feb. Tue Universalists of Manchester, Mich., lately ordeincd Mrs. F. M. Gillette to their ministry and set her over the church there. Moody and Sankey are to spend a short time at Amberst after closing their meetings in Bos- ton, which will be in May or Junc, Mr. E. P. Hoammond has closed a scries of meetings, lasting threg weeks, in_Terre Haute, Ind., and has gone to Syracuse, N. Y. The Melhodist says: “The General Conven- tion of the Metbodist Protestant Church rela- tive to union ‘with_the Mcthodist Eniscopal Church will meet in Baltimore May 11,7 The Methodist and Methodist Protestant churches will hold general conventions in Bulti- more, begiuning May 11, It is expected that the union of the two churches will then be con- summated. The Rev. James T, Johnstone, one of the old- est, ministers of the Protestant Bpiscopal Church in Virgini He was born in Savannal, Ga., fu 1797, avd was in the ministerial ranks nearly fifty years. The Young Men's Christian Association of Montreal, tosetlier with thirty-nine ministers of that city, have seut a joint invitation to Messrs. Moudy and Sankey 1o hold services in Moztreal after they leave Boston. The Universalist, of Boston, does not uphold Mrs. Phebe Hanaford in her plan to establish a second Universalist church in Jersey City. It thinks tbat in that case neither the old (iurdx nor the new will fourish. Moody and Sankey have been invited to Hartford, Ct., but will not go, as they ure ca- gaved in Boston until June. When they should 7o to Connecticut they would prefer tu visit the seat of Yale College rather then that of Trinity. 4 ‘The Supreme Court at Berlin has decided that the arrests of children who claimed to have seen the apparition of the Virzin Mary at Mar- pingen was illegal. The Catholics say over 300 miracalous cures have been 8Tected at the spring where *the Mother of God™ appeared. ‘The Southern Presbyterians have gpened a theological i{nstitution "at Tuscaloosa for col- ored people, but thus far only one student has presented himself. An invitation to colored preachers of otber denominations in the vicinity has been accepted by three Methodists and one that since the death of Baprist. The Evangdist cays Dr. McElroy, Dr. R. D. Burchard is the aldest settled_of the Presbyterian pastors in New Yorle; Dr. 8. D. Alexunder comes next, T. S. Hastings third, and R. R. Booth fourth. The latter has just completed the sixteenth year since his sctulement sus pastor of the Mercer Street Church, A Methodist Elsxlsconnl Sunaay-Sehool Con- gress is announced to pe held at Indianapolis on Monday, March 2. The Rev. J. IL. Vincent will be the” Director. Some of the topics to be dis- Methodist Eplsun&ml ‘Theory and Legislation on the Sunday-School;” “The Sun- day-School Constitution” Recommnded by the General Conference;> “The Place, Powers, and Dutics of the Quarterly Conference Sunday- School Committee.” * The past was a pood year for pilgrimages to Lourdes. The srinas o' Lourdes sid, it ors included “sixty-nine Bishops, Archbisops, and Cardinals. Over 161,000 pilgrims came in organized processions, while the number who came m detached groups execeded 209,000 Up- wanl of 7,000 masses were celebraged in chureh and grrotto. The number of communions could not be caleulated, but, considering that in tho preceding year they humbered over 250,000, it is_thought thet nearly 500,000 approsched in 1876 the holy table.” Mr. Beecher writes of Prof. Swing, who preaches in McVicker’s Theatre every Sunday: “ He bas little in person that prepossésses. His voice is not melodious. It is'at first faint und low. Itgrows clearer a3 he advances, but not It is deficient in inflection aud supple- 1t i3 by no meuns hard and mechauleat. There is no trick of words, no elaborate carving of senteuces, no solemn rhetoric moving like a dirge, nor fantastic rbetoric_dancing through heaven aud hell, with shreds and tatters of Gospel llying from every limb. His method is that of simple statement, and bis form of statement is literary rather than.logical or philosophical.” The decision of the Privy Council in the Folk-. stone ritual case is anxiously looked for. The case was argued at great length on both sides, and the decision will cither coutirm or_over- throw the celebrated Purchas judzment. It was argued against the ritualistic position that the chasuble and alb were sacriticial vestments ban- ished by Queen;Elizabeth; that it was illegal to place the comniuniou-table against the wall, the tuce for it being in the chancel, where the min- ister can face the people as be takes the bread, and that the use of wafer bread is contrary to the rubrical. provision that, the bread shall b such as is usually caten, Which applies to form aswell as substenc It is said that the Archibishop of Canterbury intends to introduce in Parliament a bill provid- ing a new form of procedure aminst delinquent clerzymen. At present either - the Public Worship Regulation act or the Church Disci- plive act may be put,in force in the case of of- fenses azainst ritual " or doctrine; but with re- spect to charges of drunkenness, simoay, im- morality, vou-residence, ete., proceedings can be institated only under the Church Discipline act. The object of the Archbishop’s measure is to reform and simplify suits in the latter class of cases. Instead of the old preliminary com- mission tG' inquire if there be prima facie crounas for prosecutig s clereyman, the Chancellor of the diocese alone will decide. There is a _growing disposition shown by Methodist ministers to escape the iuconvenience of an itinerant life by accepting pastoral posi- tions iu other Protestant churclies Of the men who have been in_New York and its vicinity, Vincent is now in the Presbyterian Church, Watkins in the Protestaut Ebiscopal, Robert Laird Collier (who preached fora year in New Brunswich J..) pas joined the Unitarians. It is announced that the Rev. Mr. Lioyd, now at thes Washington-Square Metnodist Episcopal Church, will take charge of Dr. Ganse’s former congregation, and that the Rev. Emory J. Haynes, of ' the Seventh-Avenue Methodist Church, Brooklyn, will accept a call tothe Wiashington-Avdbue Baptist Cburch, in that city. ‘ “The lterature of hymnology,” says the sweeter., London Acadeiay, *bas sustained 'z severe loss Ly the death of the Rev. Sir Heory Williams Baker, Bart., of Monkland, near Lcominster, Herefordshire, m his 36th year, the originator and principal editor and Proprictor of *Hvwns Ancient and Modern,” and the life and soul of e committee which catried out that most po; ular and successful publication. Sir Henry's own contributions to the collection, which has found favor beyond the pule of the Church of England, were numerous and scholurly: and ft is & curious fact that when lord Selborne first published his * Book of. Praise,’ he wrote to Sir H. Baker, as Secretary of the *Hymns Ancient and Modern® Committec, for permission to priut a stlect number of their bymns with the names, if there were no objection, of the writers. Among; the number proved to be three or jour which were written or translated, by Sir Henry. We may cite ‘Lord, Thy word abideth’ and *There is a blessed liome’ as among his orig- inal hymns; and *Zion's daughter, weep no more,” with *Captains of the saintly band,’ among his translations. THE NEW SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. The Rev. L. P. Mercer, of Detroit, has for- mally acceptedthecall of thenewSwedenborgian Church to its_pastorate, and will remove to Chicago immediately after Faster, and com- mence holding regular services in Hershey Music Hall, Sunday morning, April 8. Mr. Mercer s one of the most able and eloquent divines in the New Jerusalem Church, and will take high rank ie the galaxy of eminent palpit orators forwhich Chicagois justiy distinguished. ‘With Mr. Mercer’s coming, one may expect to 3 see Hershey Hall as crowded Sunda as McVicker’s Theatre. ';momnz CHICAGO DAPTIST CRURCHLS, The Stundard. From the “Minutes” of the General Asso- clation, for a copy of which we are ndebted to Dr. Hobart, General Superintendent of Mis- slons, we take the following firures represent- ing'the membership of the Chicago Baptist churches, as reporied to the associations last June. There have been several hundred addi- tions since: | Churches, irat Hemwrbers, North Star.. University Plac Western Avenne _First Swede. Second Swede Danish (2). Emanul. 5,203 There are several suburban churches, o con- siderable portiou of whose mermbership fs com- posed of those who do busivess in the city. Among them are the following: Austin. Englewood., Cvinston. Evangel (itock Teland Car-Wor Stock-Yards (Halsted strect). Wheaton. lyde Purk. Norwcod Py Oak Park. Total, nine churches. HUMOR. - - No expression of the human conntenance can equal the lookof lonesome amazement that flashes over the face of the solitary oyster at tinding himself scooped up in agallon of church- sociable soup: A little scarlet-fever convalescent was over- heard praving repeatedly while about her play: 0h, good Lord, cure my earache!” Her moth- er_ask “What are you saying, my dear?” ‘“Nothing,” said the little girl; “ I wasn’t talk- ingto you, I'm talking to the Lord.” It would appear that the experience of the Profitable Lodger of old was the same as that of the lodger of the present day. *“For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than umu: can wrap himself in it.”—~Isafah xxviii., 20. Mother is the necessity of invention. A young Milwaukee clergyman, who received thirty-two dozen pairs of misfit slippers from the voung lady members ot his flock last Christmas, has sold cvery Tast slipper to the Hudson Bay Gom- pany for fish-traps.—Burliugton Hawkeye, Last Sabbath morningau cloguent Burlington minister was earnestly discoursing about Peter and Pauland said they were 3 good pair.? *Good hand,” sleepily wurmured o half-awak- cued sport in the buck pew, *take the pot; uvothing here but ace high.”—Burlington Hauwk- e The Adventists of Burr Oak went ont to waft themselves to glory one day last week, but were Burr Oaken hearted with disappointment. when the pinions failed to arrive as per invoice, and they were compelled to fiy back home on ' foot- back, and shin around for something earthly to get supper with. ¢ Say, Pat, suppose Satan was to come along now, and sec both of us Lere, which do you sup- pose he would take, You or me?” & Oh! faitn, yer honor, he'd take me.” ¢ How so?* # Well, sir, said Paddy, * be'd take me now, because he wouldn't be sure of me when he came again; but he'd be sure of you at any time and could afford to wait.” About twenty years ago & somewhat abusive oppoucut of the Baptists was publishing a book agninst them ot the office of the printer of the acts of the Mississippi Legislature. Bysome in- advertence che sheets got mixed, and before the confusion was detected several coples of the acts werc so bound as to exhibit the following as- tonishing piece of legislation, the grond result of u thirty years’ war against immersion: *Be it enacte y the Senate _and House of Repre- scntative of the State of:. Mississippi, that bup ‘meaus to put under the witer and fizo means to pull out.” 4 v ‘The quality of pulpit eulozyis sometimnes strated. A pastor in Macon, Ga., was recently called upon to make & few remarks on the char- acter of 4 colored cluss-leader who had visited a brother’s hen-roost surreptitiously, fallen unex- ]fi::lcdly, and broken lis neck irremediabl c pastor made rather a bungling job of it: ‘There are circumstances connected with this death that are perplexing. If, after he fell and before he struck the ground he repented of bis sin, there can be no question but that he is now in glory; but there was mighty little time for hiw to'think about it.” The following story of a little bo, son of a Profeseor in & collegé ot 2 thousand iles {rom this city, is told by a correspondent who writes that the Tittle fellow, who bad been trained for some time past to remove his hat when he went into a house, came in one day and, in the pres- ence of his older sister, who was seated in the roow as just returned from a walk, said to his mother, * Mother, 1 want to die.”” “Why do you wish to dic, Lobbie!?” “Because I want to o up and sce God a little while.” “Why do You wish to see Him, my son?” *Because I want to sec if I can’t be changed into a virl so I (-unlwcar my hat in the house.—Bangor (Me.) Courier. CHURCH SERVICES. DAPTIST. The Rev. E. F. Rawlin preaches morning and evening at the Free Church, corner Loomis ond Jackson streets. —The Rev. R. P. Allison will preach in the North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedgwick streets, at 11 4. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. D. B. Chency will preach this morn- ing and evening in the Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paulina streets. —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach this morn- ingand evening inthe Michirun Avenue Church, corner of Michigan avonne and Tweaty-third street. Morning subject: **ThejAlabaster Box ™; cven- ing subject: ** The Ark and the Deluge. ZThe Rev. A.S. Coats, of Rochester, N. Y., will praach this morning and cvening in University Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue. —The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach this morn- ing, und Deacon Willard will give a Bible reading this eveniag, In the First Charch, corner of South Tark avenué and Thirty-frat strect, —The Rev. A. Blackburn will preach this morn- ing, and_the Rev. J. K. Wheeler this evening, [n the'Oak Pask Church, —The Rev. J. K. Wheeler will preach this morn- ing, and the Rev. A. Blackbarn, of Oak Park, this cvening. at the Austin Church., —The Rev. Galusha Anderson will pleach this ‘moming and evening in the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monrae strects. ZThe Rev. T. J. Morgan will preach this morn- ing and evening at Emanuel Church, comner of So- phin and Orchard sircets. ' —The Rev. N. E. Wood will presch this morning and evening in the Centenniul Church, corner of Lincoln and Jackson strects, CHRISTL The Rev. . N. §. Bustiun will preach this morning and evening in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue nnd Twenty-fifth stree CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. E. F. Williams will preach at the For- ty-seventh Street Church at 10:45a. m. “The Rev. Charles Hall Evereit preaches at Plymouth Churchat 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m, ZThe Rev, 1. N. Vonderveer will preach this morning at Union Park Congrezational Chinrch. the subject being **A Plea for the Sabbath-School.™ In the evening Mre. Sarah J. Smiley will preach. —The Rev. C. A._ Towle preaches at Lethany nd evening. ey, Dr. Goodumsn will preach in the First Churcli, corner of Aun and \est Washington strects, at 10:30 a. m. Gospel-services at :30 . b1, ;. ? Dlicory Moretouse, the Evangelist. will preach this mornfhg and the Rev. L. 7. Chamberlain this evenin in the New England Charch, corner of Dearborn avenue and Washincton piace. —The Rev. G. 1. Peake will preach this morn- ingz and evening in the Leavitt Street Chprch, Evening £ubj “*Faith: Jts Power i tne istian Life. e vt . S, Tiolbrook will preach this morning and evening in the Oakland Church. —The Rev. G. N. rdman will vreach this morning and evening in the Clinton Street Charch. EPISCOPAL. 7. 11 lopkine preaches at St. John's “The Rey. enbe mear Madison strect, at Church, Ashland :30 2. m. and 7:30 p. 1. O Shop. MeLaren Will oficiste and administer confirmution_this morning, and the Rev. W. F. Morrieon will ofiiciate_this evening, in the Church of the lioly Gomnunion, -South Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtleth streets. “There will be the nsnal moming and_evening Eervices at the Cathedral of £S. Peterand Paul, corner of Washington and Peoria streets. —The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will_oflieiate this morning and evening in_St. James® Church, corner of Cuss and Haron strects.” Holy Communion at 8 2 m. : —The Rev. Edward Sullivan will ofiiciate this morning, and_Bishop McLaren will preach and administer confirmation this_evenmng, in Trinity Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty- gixth street. Holy Communion at$:30a. m. —The Rov. Francis 3ansfield will ofiiciate this, morning and evening in the Church of ment, corner of Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev. J. Bredbarg wili officiate this morn- ingand cvening in_St. Anssarins' Church, Sedg- Wik street, near Chicago avenue. —The Rev, Clinton Locke will officlate this morn- fug and evening in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, Letween Fourteenth and Sixteenth strects. Holy Communion at 8 2. m. - —The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will officiate this Morning and ovening in St. John's Church, Ash- lund avenue, near Madison strect. —The Rev. Arthor Ritchie will officiate this moraing and evening fn_the Church of the Ascen- slon, corner of North LaSalle and Elm streets. Toly Communion at S . m, —There will be the usus]l morning and evening gervices at St. Panl's Church, Ilyke Park avenne, -betwreen Forty-cighth and Rorty-ninth streets, 1S g in ark's Churcl Grove avenac and Thirty-atath strapt " C0'2S° —Tlho Rev. G. F. Cashman will oficiate this morning and cvening in St. Stephen's Church, Jopneon strect, between Taylor and Twellth rects, —~The Rev. Luther Pardec will officiate thi n0ning end ‘evening in Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Oukley street and Western ave- nue, Holy Communion at L1:30 a. m. —The ltev. T. N, Morrison will oficiate this morning and evening fn the Church of the Epiph- any. Throop strect, -between Monroe and Adats, —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate this morn- ing and evening at the Church of Qur Savior, cor- - ner of Lincoln and Belden avenues, —The Rev. Hienry G. Perry will officiate this mamlnilml evening at All Saints’ Church, corner of Noith Carpenter und West Ohio strects, —There will be the usual morning services in the Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndale. 'The Rev. F. N. Lnson, Rector. ‘There will be the usual morning and evening s at_Emmanuel Churh, hnénnxe. The . N. Luson, Rector, g ‘The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will officiate this :flnrnlngnnd evening in St. Mark's Charch, Evans- on., . he following-named clergy will officiateat the 12:10 aily services, under the direction of Bishop McLaren, during thi coming weck. These services are held at No. 50 Madison_ strcet: onday, the Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr. ; Tuesdsy, the Rev. S.S. Hartis, D.'D. ; Wednesday, the Rev. H. G. Perry; Thursday, the Rev. C. B. Stout; Friday, the Rev. Edward Sullivan, " S. T. D. ; Saturday, the Rev. George F. Cushmin, D. D. REFORMED EPISCGPAL. The Rev. W. E. Williamson will officiate at St. Mark’s Church this afternoon at 3 o’clock. —The Rev. R. IL. Nosworth preaciies morning and evening at Emmanuel Church, corner of Han: over and Twenty-eighth pircets. —The Rev. W, E. Willilmson preaches morning and evening at the’ Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and Homan styeots. —The Rev. It 11, Bos reaches at 3:30 p. m, at Trinity Church, Englewood. e Rev. 3. D. Church will preach this morn- ing et Immanuel Church, cormer of Centre and Dayton streets. At the evening scrvice Dr. Cooper will speak on ** Contrasted Memories, " polie Rer. J. D. Cowsn preacks at Grace Church, corner of Hoyne and LeMoyne streets, at 16:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Bisliop Cheney will preach morning and even- ing ot Christ Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street. ~The Rt. Rev. Bishop Fallows will preach in St. Paul's Charch, comner of Ann and Washington streets. Morning subject: **Our’ Daily Bread"; evening, ** Forgiveness of Trespasses. " —TheRev. M. D. Church will preach in St John's Church, Oakiand bonlevard, near Cottage avenue, 0t 3:30 p. m. i LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preach at 11 a. m. aud 7340 p. . in Holy Trinity Church, corncr of North Dearborn and Erie streets. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. The Rev. M. M. Parkhurst will preach at the First Methodist Church, corner of Clark and Wash- ington streets, to-day at 10:45 a. m. nnd’i::wy. m.’ Moruing subject: +* Dark-Lantern Christians '3 evening, **Gideon's Three Handred. " —Miss Sarah F. Smiley will occupy the pulpit of the Centenary Chapel, on West Monroe street, this morning, and the pastor. the Rev. S. H. A will conduet the evening services. —~The Key. M. M. Purkhurst will preach in the chapel of the Washingtonian Home this afternoon 8t o'clock, 3 ~The Rev. J. J. Tobias will preach in Simpson M. E. Church, on Bontleld street. at 10:30 a. m. und 7:30 p. m, ~The Hev. A. W. Patten preaches in Wabash Avenue Church, comer of Fourtecnth street, at 11 a. w. and 7:30 p.m, —The Rev. Dr. McChesney will preach in the Park Avenue Church morning and cvening. In ac- cordunce with the request of Jeading members of his congregation, Dr. McChesney will repeat his discourse on the subject of **The Angels,” st the evening meeting. I¢ Rey. Dr. Tiffany will preach morning and cvéning in Trinity Charch, corner of ave- nuc and Twenty-fourth strect. —The Rev. A. Gurney will preach in St. Paul's Church, corner of Muxwell strect and Newberry avenue. Morning subject: ‘**The Basis of God's Kinpdom:" evening: **The Visfon of the Liv- ing Creatares.” - —The Rev. Dr. Willlsmson will preach in Flood's Hall, Hyde Park, 0t3 p.m. ~The Rev. J."A. Brouse will preach in the Lang- | ley Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-ninth street, morning and evening. —The Rev. Johu Atkinson will preach in Grace Chnreh, corner of LaSalle and White steers. Mo ing subject, **Elijaliat the Brook Cherith”*; even- ing, **The Burning Bush. ™ . ~The Rev. R. D. Sheffield will preach this morning and_evening in the Western Avenue Charch, corner of Western avenue and Monroe streets. MISCELLANEOUS. Elder H. G. McCallough preaches in the Green Street Tabernacle, morning and evening. —Elder J. M. Stephenson will preach at the Hall 0. 120 East Washington street, at2:30 p. m. on alvation by 2 Living Savior.™ ~The Rev. Dr. Hibbard preackes at the New Church Hall, corner of Eighteenth street and Prai- rie avenue, at 11 a. m., and at the Temple, corner West Washington street and Ogden avenac, at 0. M. Paynter will preach in Calvary No. 50 Ogden avenue, at 10:30 . m. Suhject, **A Whole Chapter Devoted to One Man's Conversion." ~The Disciples of Christ will meetat No, 229 West Randolph street at 4 8 m. to-day. —Elder J. M. Stephcnson will predch this morn- ing at No. 124 Washington street. Subject, **TThe Design of Miracles. ™ —The Non-Sectarian Bible Meeting wili be held at No. 126 East Washington street at 2 p. m. to- dav. Subject, *“The Relatlon that the Sheddl of the Blood of Christ Sustains to the Remission o ins. The Temperance Radicals will hold an ex- perience mecting this evening in their ball, corner of Lake and Paulina streets, —Fricnds’ meeting on Twenty-sixth strect, be- tween Indiana and Prairie avenuce, at 10:30a. m. Benjamin Tremplance will be in attendance. —Christian Union Mission Hall, corner of Wash- ington and Desplaines streets, morning and even- ing. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. J. A. Fredth preaches at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, corner of Rush and Superior streets, at 10:452. m, —The Rev. Jmnes Maclanghlan preaches morn- ing and evening at the Scotch Church, corner of Sangamon and Adams streets, —Prof. F. L. Patton will preach at Jefferson Park Chirch, corner of Throop and Adamsstreets, at 10:45 a. m.lnfl7:3°§. m. —The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach this morning and cvening in the Sixth Charch, corner of Vincenncs and Ok avenues. Morniag subject: ** Miracles.” . —Maj. Whittle willl conduct the services this morning, apd Mr. Henry Morebouse, toe Evan- gulist, at 4+ o'clock this afternoon. in the First Church, comer of Indiana avenue and Twenty-first street. —The Rev. H. I. Kelloggwill preach this morn- ing in the Eighth Church, corner of Washington and Robey strects. —The Rev. C. L. Thompeon will preach this morning and evening in the Fifth Charch, corner of Indiwna avenue and Thirticth street. SPIRITUALISM. Mra. Cora L. V., Richmond, trance-speaker, will lecture this morning and evening before the Firat Society of Spiritualists, in Grow's Operu-Hall, No. 517 West Madison strect. Morning subject. and 4 subject for 4 poem. chosen by the audience. in the evening the spirit of Judge Edmonds will give a further elucidution of his experiences in apint hfe. Service closes with on imprompta poem. UNITARIAN, The Rev. Brooke lierford will preach at the Charch of the Messiah, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-thid strcet, morning a jne. Morningsubject: ** Nicodemus; ™ eveni; “The Contlictof the Gospel with the World as Recalled by the Colireum and the Catacombs. ™ —The lev. E. P, Powell breaches at the Third Charch, corner of Monroe and Laflin streets, at 10:300. 1., on **The Prescul Opoortanity for o au.' No evening service. J. T. ‘Sunderland will preach at the an ‘Church, on Cottage Grove avenue, near Thirty-seveath strect, this moraing. Subject: ** Grand Lives aud Humble Places.” —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach thismorn- ing and evening in Units Church, corner of Dear- born aveaue sad Walton placc. UNIVERSALIST. . The Rev. Sumner EHis will preach this morninz in the Church of the Redecmer, corner of Wash. inzton #nd Sangamon streets. —The Rtev. J”Straub_ will preach at_Lakeside Hall, corner of Thirty-first street and Indiana ave- nue, this morning. —The Rev, Dr. Ryder will preach_this morning and evening in $t. Paul's Church, Michigan ave- nne, between Sixteenth and_Eighteenth streets. Morning subjéct: ‘*The Church of Christ.” Evening subject: ** The Fataerinod of God.” . J. W. Hanson il preach this morn- fng in the ola xcho t Englewood. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEEK. EPISCOPAL- Yarch 18—Fifth Sunday in Lent. Jlarch 19—~Twenty-ninth Day of Lent. 20—Thirtiéth Day of Lent. —Thirty-tirst Day of Lent. Harch 22—Thirty-second Day of Lent. March %3~ Thirty-third Day of Lent. March 24~Thirty-fourth Day of Lent. comnoLic. Morch 15~Passion Sunday. ifarch 10—St. Joseph. C.. Spouse of theD. V. .. and Patron of the Universal Church. pIrcAnt et Cabeigh Ashesesl (Grom areh 18). }Iarzh 21—St. Benedict, Abb. 2Harch 22—Fe March 23—Seven Dolors of the B. V. M. AMagrch 24—Feria. the Atone- . THE GAME : OF DRATGHTS, Communications intended for this Department should be addressed to Tez TriaUXe and indorsed ““Checkers.” | CHECKER-PLAYERS' DIRECTORY. Athenzum, Nos. 03 and 65 Washington street, Checlker-Club rooms, No, 186 South Clark strest, PROBLEX X0, 6. By Cuantes M. POTTERDOX, NEW YoRX CITT. Black, 7 ik White. ‘White to play sad win. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. & See Game No. 17, Note (a). TO CORRESPONDENTS. Scott, ity—Problem accepted, V. O'Bryan, Atlantic, Ia.—Solution 0, K. E. L. Warzen, city—Your ogder will be attended to. R. Hofann, New York City—(banks for yewr courtesy. P. J. Hickey, Dubuque, In.—Will examine youz ‘positions. Samuel Siegel, Indianapolis, Ind.—Y shall hvelu::uuqn. pre Tt Yout fove W. E. Truaxr, Motley, Minn.—Your probl shall appear 1A Tarne e W. M. Purcell, Terre Hante, Ind.~Your re- quest has beea complien with. " ou C. T. Davis, Baltimore, Md.—Coutribations 28 nand. (3 Totommation by mail, L C. Kibbce, Chippewa Fi Wis.—We era pleased 10 8 Your name to oar fit of contribate H. D. Lyman, Washington, D. C.—Snbscription received; “thanks. (2.)" Have attended to your order. (3.) Your contributions will be welcome. C. B. & @., city—Your solation is correct. (2.) ‘There arc several ways of working tha **first posi- tion, " and almoet any work published on the game will give you the variations, some of whh‘.r:‘ shorter and others longer than your method. —— + CHECKER ITEMS. The ‘‘Prairle City Dranghts Club," of Terrs Haute, Ind., bas elected-the following officers for the present year: S. R. Freeman, President; P. K. McCoskey, Vice-President; W. M. Purcell, Sec- retary; Harry Owens, Treasurer. The Club meets every Tuesday and Saturday evening at the Secre- tary's office, No. 5053 Ohio street, where visitors are welcome, aud will always find the latch-string oat. The articles of agreement between Messra. Ya tes and Martins for the championship have been signed by Mr. Yates and forwanded to Mr. Martine for his signatore. 1t is left optional for Mr. Martins tofll in the amount he wishes to vlay for, from 850 to $250 a side; the door-money o be dividea equally between u:h&hynr, bat Mr. Martins to be ot no exoense attending: the match; twenty-five gamesto beghyed at the ** Headquarters ™ in New York, and twenty-five games at T. Doran's rooms, 453 Falton street, Brooklyn, and play 1o commence sixty days from the the date Mr. ‘signs the articles, —Turf. The New York amateur handicap tourney was finished on the 10th Inst., Mr. Amtsfllu&r winning the first prize. a silver m We ap- pend the fall score: Besars, A ey, Grady, Jeff, and Dren- Dan were allowed to count. all the draws, a3 wina. Mr. Robb has challenged Mr. Schaefer to play & match for the medal. - And Mr. Hofmann has challenged Messrs. Tonmey and Kelly to bloy a match of twenty gumes each for supremacy. GAME NO. 17-GLASGOW. - Played in the Uptown Tournament, betweesn llwdflhnbb. 's Mesers, Schaefer 115 2995 23-19 N is-24 G Ol R 2 10-15(2) 511 | Schacter [+ ks ! 7-10 10-14 Whits 2= o | e 10-14 17-21 22-35 2025 2—8 1014 17-22 1811 7-2 R s a3 l fre gl W (a) Solution to Problem No. 5, By Henry Hutsler, Ciacinnat, 0 ntzler, Cinc A [P fa B g 18— 9 2117 o -6 7—-10 2630 913 19—15 2518 7—10 2521 3-8 1722 1823 8—11 30-25 89— 6 1014 1714 610 |[1015 | zm28 1017 15—6 6— 2 1417 61 1-10 1519 . 22 1713 2- 7 17-n 13- 10-17 1928 - 25-30 2617 13— n(-)] 18-16 whits . 15-18 5-14 1118 2 s This corrects game No. 16 at third move of varfa. (a) Thiscor gam tiond, at which poins 18—15 was draws.—IL H. GAME X0. 19—FIFE. Played In Chicago, TIL ,between Mesars. F. Hem. derson and Charlle Hefter, g Hefter's move. 1-1s 24~27 16 | s3-a27 2319 I 219 9-14 Z-2 |25-% |z-—s2 2217 218 38 |20 =9 7 zam ¥ 2823 a1 |3z 9-13 7-21 | 1417 | ;- 24-20 26~ -1 | e 1526 2135 |17-2 | 13-1e 2819 1915 | z8 | o1z i3 2—7 =7 fzom 25— 9 B-a f15-18 |15 w13 7-14 | 7-10 |10-19 2 18-3 217 GAME NO. 20-EELSO. Played in Boston, Mass., between Mesars, M. Gb Merry and L. Littleield. 10-15 2117 710 17-14 (1) 1017 2925 GAME NO. 21.—DYKE. Played in the Up-Town Tournament, New York, between Mesars. Hofmann and Pope. Hof 115 10- 2217 % i1n - 24—15 l ] z16 1219 I ‘1713 e T 18 s-10 25-21 | 1318 ° | 17-10 l Hognanx “{@) The folloxing woukd ave wop > | "o Sl e ey '(b) Th8loses. 17—13would havedrawn. Es. " GAXE ¥o. 23 BRISTOL, Played in Providence, R. 1., between Messra. De Munn and Freeman: De Mann's move. 11-16 2-18 1418 2114 1017 2420 T—10 14 B8-12 —6 s—11 18— 0 1924 2523 -9 218 514 219 1g-19F | 2623 4—8 29-28 . |1 =16 1928 18-15 3—- 7 7~ 12-19 5n-6 10—-19 2522 1218 2 i-s |11 | ‘e 914 217 1017 13~ 9 ‘wan. ——— s i e S ShieRsha el oungsters in one ot the 100] {hcmahp er asked: ** What is 2 monarchy?” aod * ‘was immediately answered by a it little §-year-old boy: ‘A coun " ,." l.:}hwh()qwou};rnl _die e Queen. - shonld dle, who. then would ‘ be ruleri” **