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. 12 RELIGIOUS, Eighth Paper on “What Is Truth?’---Something Con- cerning Death. Organization of the New . Church at Hershey Hall. War in an TUnited Presby- terian Church in New York. Notes and Personals from Amer- ican and European Churches. Services which Will Be Held in the Chicago Churches To-Day. WHAT 18 TRUTH? EIGHTH PAPER—DEATIL 90 the Editor of The Tribune. Cmcaco, March 24.—Swedenborg demon- Btrates that the life of the material body of man is a mere appearance; that from the first ‘moment of existence the spirit or soul, which is a form receptive of life from tlie Creator, sur- rounds itself with material substances from the body of the mother, and afterwards from ma- terial food, these substances taking on the form of the spiritusl body within; that the material body grows as the spiritual body molds it to 11s own growth; that, in short, the outward ‘body is the mere clothing of toe lving spiritual body, given it for use in the material world, The spiritusl body itself is composed of spiritual substances, and is in the complete human form, ‘possessing every organ, function, and sense ‘which appesr to belong to the material body, from the hair of the head to the nails of the tocs. This spinitusl body is not the spirit or soul itself, but only a substantial form contain- ing within it the animating spirit which is the man himself. The spiritual pody is as neces- sary for the existence of the man in the world of spirit as the material body is for lus exist- ence in the world of matter. Spiritual sub- stance, though not perceptible to the senses of tbe material body, is more truly subst antial than auy material substance. The material body, being composed of the dead substances of nature, is subject to wear and decay, and therefore With the most perfect physical health, after a period of years, becom- * ing unfit for further use as the instrument of thie Living spirit within, is discarded, or thrown off 152 worn-out, useless garment; when the man clothed in his incorruptible spiritual body emerges consciously into the spiritual world. Ite bad always been an inhabitant of that world, Lut unconscfously, because the gross covering of his body of matier had concealed it from his senses. It thus appears that the death of the material Lody is an orderly step in man’s continuous life, and that the material body only appears to liv while conjoined to the in-dwelling spirit body. “Thereis a natural body, aud there is (uot will be) a spiritual body,” says Paul. “*Nature “teaches us the inevitable law of de- cay 10 whith the flesh s heir, but there is anoth- er truth and snother law which Nature does not teach C5—thatthere is a spirit inman over which Nature has no power, which remains untonched by the Snger of decey, and survives the dissolu- tion of the natural body. Nature tells us that all flesh is grass, and that the goodliness thereot is as the flower of the ficld, and that the rrass withereth and the flower fadeth;"” butshe does not tell us, and therefore we needed reve- lation 1o make it known to us, that “the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting ‘upon them that fear Him, and is_rightcous- ness unto children’s children. to such as- keep His covenant and to those that remember His commanduents to do them.” (P, ciil., 17.) = Tiere is, however,a decay, and cven a death, to which the soul is lisble, but to which the soul, unlike the body, is not’ necessarily, or arits own nalure, subject. As there i5 an eternal life entirely distinet_ from eternal exist- ence, so there is au eternal deatl, . entirely dif- serent from eternal non-existence. The decay and death of the body are the results of a divine law of creation. It was the Creator’s appointment that the boay should decay, but it wus not His ai?'polntmnnt that the soul should ever die. Spiritual death is the effect of a cause that did not orizinate in the great First Cause. It sprang, and still springs, not from the Divine, but from the human, will} not from the order of God, but from the disorder of man. It lies outside God's creation, and Bis purpose in cre- ating. Jtis an excreseence, a parasite, gener- ated of disease, and fed Ly corruption. 1t has no life properly its own; iis roots are inserted in the body of a plant which itsclf is rooted in the soil, and jt Jives by the fife which it labors to destry. The law of decay and dessh, that forms a part_of the economy of nature, is but oue of the laws of ‘lifc, that leads to its more completc manifestation and more perfect development. This is -es- pecially the case with man. To him death is the gate of life. The diesolution of his material body is an appointed and beneficent stege in the upward progress of his endless ex- istence. Death is the nstural and necessary vrelude of resurrection. When the body dies the man in his spiritual body rises from the nat- ural into the spiritual world,—the world for ‘which he was ereated, and in which he finds his true and eternal abode. Heaven is the home of the rightcous. That lower and darker world, which receives the souls of the evil, 15, like evil itself, an excrescence, which bas crown out of the fair form of God's own creation, through man’s perverse use of the novle faculties of reason und liberty, bestowed upon him as the created image of his Maker. In these noble faculties man has the gift of immortality, but only he who uses them ht can make that immortality an eternity of biiss.” * *'The jdea which has generally prevailed in the Christian world concerning the death of the body fs one of the greatest anomalics in human listory. With the Bible in their hands, in whicn life and immortality are brought to light; with the teaching and personal example of the Lord Hitaself to show us that what we call death is 7o interraption to the continaity of our being, n010ss of ' consclous {dentity; with many ro- markable fustonces of the opening of man’s spiritual sight to sce -those Wwho passed fllm,ll%h the gates of death, which "have been recorded by Divine authority, still the Christian tias regarded death as the great cnigma, the great azony. It fs assocated with the inost horrible fmispes; tis regarded as an interru tion of the Divine order, and the most terrible punishment of the Divine vengeance, ¥yund is shadow, dim, formless. It is to_this life a5 nicht to day, as sleep to waking. It is 1clt to be theloss of gll we most value. It is 1he severest punishment known to the Jaw. All bereavement, all loss, all that Is sad, sorrowful, aud hopeless, all azonies, arc summed up fn one word—death.™ 1 ~This is the appearsnces this is all the senses cap 5ay to us; this is all the natural man knows or cav know. ' But mau is a spiritual as well as a natural being, aud wben he resards this no- mentous subject irofna spiriteal point of view it has an entirely different aspect. The genuine truth is the reverse of the appearance.” Let us rogard the subject from this point of view. Let us look at the Lord's.words aud urks, and the material body, and at man as a evirittal being, and sec how the whole aspect of his subject will be chianged, The desth of the material body is an orderly step Inmaw’s life, has its cause in the Divine love and wisdom. and s a part of the Lord’s plan tor givluz 0 1nan the mreatest possible amouut of the highest It is, therefore, a Dblessing, and - not & curse,—a cause for frati- tude aud joy, 2ud not for terror and despair. Let us Licar the testimony of the Lord Himself upon this point. The Sirst intimatlon of death thie Lord gave to man is found in Genesis, and there it i a warnine, and not 3 threat; and it is & warning asajnst spiritnal, and not naturas, death. _ The words are those: “But of the tres of koowledze of good ard evil, thou shalt not cat ol it; for in the day thou eatest thercof thou shalt surcly die.”—Gen., 31, 17. But man did nutdie a3 natural d fo.that day. Both Adam and Eve, sccording to the records, lived many years after “they had eaten of the forbidden fruit. Death is referred to in many places in the Bible where it is equally evident the death of the body cannot be meant. The Lord said to the Israelitcs by the mouth of Moses, *See, I have sct before thee, this day, Iife and good, death and evil." He did not nean natural death, for if they had obeyed every one of the Commandments they would not have lived forever in the nataral world. The Jord also commanded Jeremish to say to the Jews, “Thus saith the Lord, behold, I set be- 1 THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 25, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES morning and evening fn the Church of the Epipha- at 126 Washington strect at 2:30 p. m.. Mr. Brooks - fore you the way of life and the way of death,” and f;is constant appeal tothe Jews was, “‘I'urn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?” And His constant declaration, down “to the time of His incarnation, was, **The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”” ~After His coming He said to Martha: “ Whosoever_liveth and’ believeth in Me shall never die.”” By this He couid not mean natural death. For multitudes which 10 man can number have lived and believed in Him; but that did not save their bodies from decay. They have returned to the ground whenee they were taken. But persons who dwelt in these material bodies are now in Heav- en, enjoyiog the blessings of that life which they 1made their own while in this world. There are multitudes of passages of the same import. The whole scope and _tenor of the Lord’s testimony, as it is recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, is to the same effect. All His promises and threatcnings. all Ris rewards and punishments, reiate primarily to- the spirit, which s the real man. The Lord - says that He ‘“came into this’ world that man might have life, and that be might have it more abundantiy.” Hecame to raise the dead. But the material bodics of those very desd were alive. The Commandments are laws of }i of physical life, but of spiritual life. To violate them brings death as a_consequence,—not phy- sical, but spiritualdeath. The Lord’s testimony is always to this clect. He docs not give us a hint in His Word that it was ever His inteution toat man should live forever in this world. The death of the body is used asa type and illustra- tion of the death of the soul, but never as the effect of it. “ There is a death that is terrible beyond all ‘human powers of coneeption. This dceth does not consist in the cessation of existence, or in departure from this world. It takes place be- fore we leave this world, in the duys we eat of the forbidden fruit. [t is death of the soul. It consists in such a paralysis and destruction of its. pature that all its finer forms are destroyed. The result is the 1oss of its capacity for the most exquisite bless- ings of life, and such a derapgewment of the lower faculties that the soul s filled with dis- cords, doubts, and sorrows. It is not the loss of existence, but it s the loss of all its health, its innocence, its capacity for real bappiness. It is theloss of aliharmony iu its own nature, of all beauty of form, of power to receive blessings from the Lord. "It s opposition to Divine order; it is external conflict with the Divine purposes; it is a discord, and a Joathsome deformity in the unfrerse, in harmony neither with God, with nature, with man, nor with itself. This js the death so often mentioned in the Bible; thedeath that came by sin; this is the death against which Adam was forewarned. It is the death which has passed upon all, for the Divine declara- tion of the eternal ‘law is, The soul that sinmeth, it shall die! It s impossible _to fear it too ‘much, to shrink from it with too much horror; to over- estimate the value of thelife and blessedness we lose by it, and the unutterable woe we bring upon ourselves by violating the laws of_Spiritu- alJife. . The Lord has given usthe Word to warn us azainst this death, and to pofut out the way of lifc, He camcupon the earth to save {rom this death. The life or death of the ma- terial body has nothing to do with it. It is the ‘mau who dies, and not his body. This spiritual death takes place before ne leaves the body.” “In the light of this truth, the Lord’s testi- mony as recorded in_the Sacred Scriptures is clear. He holds up before man the terrors of death in every possible form. But it is thedeath of the soul; the death of man and not of his body. “ He gives the same testimony in His works, The Lord is always consisteut with 1limself. He docs not say one thing in His_created work, and the opposite in 1is written Word. So far as our knowledge extends, cvery living thing organized of matter is limited in” the duration or its existence. It has its laws of both growth and decay. Now, it {5 worthy of notice that an- imals have not siined. Mam, as Lo his physical nature, is an animal, and the laws of Lis gener- ation, develupment, and decay arc the same as those which govern the same processesin ani- mals. Multitudes of human beings have lived in perfect Licalth, and yet they grow old and die. When the body had fulfilicd its purpose, it shriveled and fell from the soul, as tae husk from the corn.” . *The materizl body of man came from the earths its nature S:u—:ukes of the carth; it is subject to material laws; it grows by the assim- ilation of carbon and nitrogen_and phosphorus; it reaches its maximum size like the tree and the animal, and then begins to decline. There is no way of arresting it. Sin may basten, but it does not cause it. Goodness caunot prevent it. 1t follows a universal Jaw of creation. All the body’s wants are earthly. Feed it and clothe it aud give i broper umount of exertiseand rest, ana it is content.. It fs subject Lo physical laws. Its whole nature looks downward to the earth. Tt hias no aspirations beyond the earth.” “If we question the juan himself, we shall come to the same couclusion concerning life. He fcels the material body to be an ineum. brance aud a restraint to the free and full ac- tivity of his facultics. We caonot go any- where without taking this weight of dlay along with us, It gets tired, and hungry, and cold, and fails usin our greatest cinergen- cies. We employ all our knowledge and skill to make matter couform to spirit. We con- struct railroads and steamships, and stretch the electric wire from city to city, and continent to continent. to escape the limitations of time and space.. But not only do we find the body n hin- ce to our free motions; here is no attain- went which equals our desires. - The wealth of the world is not cnough. The power of the world does not satisfy our ambition. The slory of the world does not content us. The soul of the smallest spirit is larger thau the world. The body eats and driuks and is content. The soul gains knowledge and hungers for more. The more we know the more we Jong to know. The more we_love the larger becomes our capacity to love. Every fac- ulty of man’s nature looks beyond _this life; demands_conditions for its exercise _impossible toalife in the material body. There is no roundness and completcness to’ human life in this world.” **These wants which the world can never sat- isfy are the sure pm’phuics of another world. They are the voice of God within us, constantly :\ssur\uius that He never intended this world for our home. It is ouly the manger_where we were born; the earth where we are planted.” *‘Man’s testimony, therefore, coiucides with the Lord's. The dissolution of the material body is absolutely esscntial to the attainment of the highest passibilitics of our nature.” The Lord ““docth all things well.” * He does Dot begin to build and not finish. Ieis the First and the Last. He sees the end from the beginning. Everything, so far as we know, at- tains its end by an orderly procedure from cause to effect. The material body began in the earth; it ends in the earth; but wan, as the crowning work of infinite wisdom, is of so larze a nature that he fl:v.s only the germs of his life"in this world. He s a $piritual being; he was made in the likeness and fmage of God Himselt. He has 2 beginning, but no end. The senses sce the bady dic and turn to dust, and they vainly con- clude that man himeelf is dead, while he hus only burst his prison walls_and risen into the true sphere of his being. When the material body has done its_work, or by discase has be- come unfit for it, he abandons it beeguse it can nDlllflnza;scn‘c him. ,He leaves it, but he lives t on. ? From whatever poiat of view we regard the subject, we come to the sime conclusion. The death of the mnaterial body is an orderly step in thelife of man, How this great truth., * so fully presented in the writings of the great Seer of the New Dispensation,” takes away the sting from deathi! What lizht it throws into the dark valley! What Tearful shadows it ispels! What is generally regarded a5 man's greatest encmy, proves to be his friend. What is prac- tically regurded as the interruption, It not the eud, of mun’s substantial life, proves to be the Tull beginuing of it. What men shrink from as from the blackuess of night, is the dawn ofa new and endless day, which, for the good, will zrow brighter to eternity. It is release trom the envirouments of time and space,—from bond- age to the flesh. It is futroduction into a new world as superior to this in lizht, order, beauty. and the means for ministering to our spiritual bappiness and intellectual development. as this worldis more ecxcellent for all human pur. DOses thau it was when it was © without form and void,” and when “darlness b 4 over the decp.” Instead of separation from fricuds und loss of human com- pauiouship, it is joining the innumerable com- pany of those who have gorc before. It is soing 1o the home of the angels—to the mansions of our Fathier’s house prepared for us by the Lord himsclf, where we can dwell with Tlim ang He with us. The angel of death, whom men bave pictured as a bure and merciless skeleton sweeping down young aud - old, the lovely and iumocent, alike, 35 the grass falls before the movwer’s scythe, is the most tender and lovely of all angele. 1le is our deliverer, our friend, He comes to every soul struggling with sin and sorrow. with a messaze of elove from his Lord aud our Lord. He comes to free us from bond- agc, from sorrow, from disappointed hopes and fallacious joys, and introduces into hotes of rest, joy, peace, 2nd cternal blessedness.” Larsas, * The Rev. William Brace. + The Rev. Chauncey Giles. THE NEW CHURCH. THE UNION SWEDENBORGIAN SOCIETY. ‘This new Swedenborgian Church, organized to occupy the central part of the city, and tem- porarily called the Central New Church, met last Thursday eveniny at the Sherman House, adopted the above name and a constitation and by-laws, for the purpose of becoming incor- porated under the State law, and elected the {following Board of officers and Trustees, and directed the issuing of the accompanying an- nouncement.:- President, James Kifigon; Vice-President, C.. . Cutler; Secretary, J. F. Curtis; Treasurcr, ooy et £ 0 D0 8 i{?obixfy:hc, W 1. Daracit, W. L. Brown, Oswald ockett. is formed to promulgate the doc- trines set forth In the writings of Emauuel Swe. denbor, and particularly In his book emmnI ** The True Christian Rteligion "; and to maintain pablic worehip and administer the sacraments in conformity with those doctrines. 1t results from & union of membersand friends of thie New Church residing in different parts of Chi- cago, for the catablislunent of a central place of service, worship, und instraction. in the lieart of the city. All other churches, in which God is worshiped and the sacred Scriptures read, will tin in our work something to ald them in understand- 1lis Word and obeying His Commanduents. This Sociel{ ing e s a fondamental troth that **All Teligion hes . relation to life, and the Tife of religion is to do zood.” Our piace of meet- ing is Hershey Music Hall, No. 83 East Madison Stieet, nearly opposite MV icker's Theatre. The opeuing services will be held on Sunday, April 8, at10:45 5. m. -Subsequent services will be held at the sume liouf every Sunday morning, and the Sun- day school and Bible clags at half pust 9 o'clos Our pastor. the Rev. L. P, Mercer, is a preacher of unusaal ability and cloguence, and brings to Juis new tield of lubor & _useful experience, ample Jesrning, n zealous devotion to his calling, and a {raternal feeling toward other.denominations. ~ As the most certain and convenient means of raising the necessary reventie, the Soclety s determined to scll seats for the yearat o fixed rate, payable quarterly in advance. Seats will always be re- aerved for visiting friends and strangers; and all who may be interested are cordially invited to at- teud as their convenicnce may allow. They will be traly welcome, whether they come 88 regular attendants or as occasional visitors, Applications for scats may be made to any member of the Board of Trastees. 1n conclusion, we will add that we. have organ- ized this Society to meet what we belln,\'a to be an urgent demand for more extended New-Church work in Chicago. _The desire to know comething more of the wonderful system of Swedenborg is increasing. Many who find no answer elsewhere 1o the assaults of skepticiem are coming now to the New Church, asking what answer it can give to the objections urged in the nawe of science against tiic eavential truths of the Christaln religion. Aud they do not ask in vain; for the }hcv ogy of the New Jerusalem Church is the science of Chris- tianity. Demonetrating the plenary inspiration of the Holy Bible, and showing that tiie manifestation of the Infinite God in a divine humanity 18 in har- mony withall we know of the laws of the uni- verse, the doctrines of the New Church are as satisfactory to the colightened intellect asto the aspiring heart, J. F. Cunris, Secretary, . M. Corier, Vice-President, PASTOR CAMPBELL. BRETHREN WIHO DO NOT DWELLL IN UNITY— UPROAR AND RECRIMINATION. New York Sun, March 20, 01d and youne of both sexes shook the snow from their garments and stamped their fect as they cntered the Sunday-school room of the United Presbyterian Church in West Forty- fourth street, last evening. All were smiling as thoueh it was to be anevening of festivity; but, in fact, according to one of the merriest of the congregation, there was what he termed a fearful ruction” brewing, Painted on the right wail of the room were the words in fancy letters, *Stand up for Jesus,” and on the opposite wall was, “Peace be within thy walls.” The church Las been for fotr years divided upon the sub- ject of the pastor’s work, and the opposition to him gained such strength at the late annual election that his salary was reduced from $2,600 to §500 & year. This did not frighten him away. e has a raddy face, aud wears a_ brown wig. “ H¢’s from the North of Ireland,” smd an ofd man, who hinted that the clergyman was a “fizhiter.” About three years a2 he was re- quested by the congregation to lecture for the benefit of the churen every three months. This he declined to do. Then, when his salary was reduced, he went to the Loug Island College Ifospital still holding ou to the pulpit. Last evening was the time set for the stated aunual meeting, 1t had been announced that three Trustees were to be elected, and that the pastor’s salury was to be tampered with. The Rev. J. Campbell secordingly gathered lis sup- porters iu force. He smiled triumphuntly as e saw them file in. When the clock marked § some one shouted, *‘Put Mr. Whitchead in the chair’’; another sereamed, * Mr., Ellis*; then o deep voice saiu, ** We'll have Mr. Perker”; and a voice full of anger, *No, we wow’t; wive us Mr. Quay.” Tustaotly therc avas uproar. Mr. rray called for u_ ballot, and fifty persons used the full power of their fungs in crying him down. Between 20 and 350 persons were in the room. They simultaneously arose, and just as it seemed that there wasto bea bhand 1o hend fight, Mr. Eaton, with bands uplifted, began a prayer. His words were [or a peace. After Mr. Eaton had resumed_his seat, . Clerk Thomas A. Harris read the minutcs of the last annual meeting and created o stir. e had de- scribed on the record a scene of disorder at the previous meeting. Names of disorderly church members were read, and what they said and did liad been: peaned by the muscular Clerk, who was evidently much pleased at the wrath he was provoking. ‘Whilethe Clerk was reading, Mr. Joseph Quay took the chair. There was no objection to Mr. Quay. He asked whether there were any objec- tions to the minutes, and this brought Mr. John Whitehead to his feet. e said, with warmth, that the minutes were illegal, and should not be approved. This stirred up a tempest, and fifteen or twenty persons, including the clergyman, sprang to their- feet at once.” At lengthi there was a full; and the Chairman said: *The min- utes are adopted as read.” Mr. Archibald Taylor hoped that the Chairman would not rule just to please himself. The Char- man glared, but £aid nothing. Mr. Whitehead essayed another speech, and Clerk Harris ad- vanced upon him i the style of a vugilist, and accused Mr. Whitebead of all kinds of attempts to aunoy previous meetings. Mr. Whitehead, who wears spectacles and i3 much smailer than Mr. Iurrls, subsided. Mr. Whitehead said, how- ever, that the Clerk bad no right to vote in the meeting, as he wus 1ot a_regular attendant of the church, Others cchoed this view. Some of Mr. Darris’ fricnds, notably among them Mr. Alexander Moore, t'arned upon Nir. Whitehead and deuied his right to vote. The confusion was indescribable. Then comparative order wus re- stored, aud the Chairman said that nominations for Trustees were in order. Several persons were nzuied. and the nomina- tions were declared closed. Among. those nawmed was a venerable Irishinan, Carson Miller. He indignantly declined, saying, I object. U'm not qualified for the position.” This raised a laugh, and in the few minutes of apparent good humor that were afipaiuwu. Mr. Whitehead wasone of them. He said that lie was near- sizhited, and hoped that those only who had a right to vote would exercise that privilege. e bewan to explain the election laws as they were assed by the General Assembly of the Church n 1573, and feared that some i the conerega- tion might vote for men who were not memfers of the church ingood standiner. 1le was infer- rupted by brethren who shouted, “Better put up that book,” “Ha, ha, ha,” and one mhon screamed above the rest, “Icall Mr. White- head to order. “He musn’t keep the floor all night. We all know_more about these laws than he does.” Mr. Whitchead continued to read, but was suddenly squelched by the Secre. ', whosaid that at 2 meeting of the Trustees inJune last it was decided not to allow any member who was six monthsin arrears the right tovote, and that all voters must be over 2l Yyears of age. s Mr. Whiteliead got, the floor again and spoke of persons who ad the “faze? to 0 there to vote, when such persons attended other churches. « JIr. Moore, amid the wildest excitement, sid, * How coald we remaln in this church while the likes of you are Lere?" Then the noise became almost deafening, but Mr. Whitehead was heard responding to some one by erying, “False, false.” Tue Séeretary gesticulated and stamped. as e called out, *I ask that some one goto the police station and_request the Captain” to send SDll'llI:x ofl:‘c‘;:trs here.” * This added to the uproar, and * Send for the police.”” “Sit down, and other expressions of anger were heard. Vhen Mr. Moore, above the uproar, demanded the priy of spezking, women joined with the clerzymen’s male sup. Porters in josisting that Mr. Moore should be “ put out.® At lenzth the calling of the roll was begun, and as the names were Tcad the members step. ped forward'to vote. William Main objected to liss Campbell’s vote being accepted. ” He said that she was not 21 yearsof ame. At this she bezan to boil. and screcched, * Prove it, prove 1&;"n'1‘hen dmwi{n: close t0_him, she added, slap vour face.” . Mains d e\'t:rybodpr Taughed. = ol s Johin Hall objected to Mr. Maing? vot ground that Mains is not a- mcmbe.‘f &“3‘2 charch. Mrs. Mains shook her fist at Mr. Hall, and M. Mains pround bis teeth as be looked ot %{I;fllx]fll)’ r::da h‘lssfid, “ You lying puppy.” Mr. 3% W l’t}‘g'a th‘r{:ugl‘l‘ L e were 'nn; in :herchnmh hen Mrs. Wall deposited h e to the tellers, Tollc‘l:otbut if ;:“V (‘;n?ns’?e e Ar. Carson Miller wished fo cast votes for himself, wife, and dauehter. Objection ‘was made to the latter, it being said that she s under flw%ex'n She crc:;]ed u‘n flm.u:xl'l amouz her young en intances harpl; # Prove ?.!;l:g I'm not 21.” e v g After theroll had been called for the last and undertook the stuly of medicine, il time, excited men demanded that their yotes should be taken. The ballots were taken under protest. Then there was much delay, and when the votes were counted, Messrs, Hall, Calhoun, and Murray were declared elected, and rours of applause tollowed. The clergymau’s voice rang with the rest, for it was a victory for him. The Board of Trustees now stand G to 8in favor of the pastor. Before it was 5 to 4 against him. PERSONAL. The health of Bishop Whittinzham (Protest- ant Episcopal) of Maryland has been' so far re- covered that heis now making sppointments for confirmation in the the churghes of Balti- more. . Maj. Penn, a Baptist evangelist, is having great success in Texas. At Moco thera were 700 converts, at Paris 100, at Dallas 260, and st Galveston upto the present therc have been sixty., The Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol a week or two ago celebrated the fortieth anmversary of his set- tlement over the West Unitarian Church in Boston, and it is said that Le is about to resign his charwe. The Rev. Dr. Hatfleld, of the Arch Street Methodist Church, Philadelphia, bas resigned his_charze for the purposeof taking needed rest. He has formerly been stationed in Chieago ond Cineinnati. The Rev. Peter Dean, of London, has pre- pared a new “Life of Theodore Parker,” to which James Martinean *contributes interest- ing accounts of his oyn meetings with Parker in Liverpool and Londoun.” Bishop Lay, of the Episcopal Diocese of Eaat- on, Pa., has published a card in condemnation of ' amateur theatricals. The occasion was adra- matic entertainment given at a village in his diocese, in_connection with a relizious object. As 2 means of raising money for religious pur- pos&zs, the Bishop says they are not to be toler- ated. ‘There are five Jewish members {n the British Parliament: Sir Francis Goldsmid, Mr. Julian Goldsmid, Mr. Serjeant John Simon, Mr. Isazc Saul, and Baron Rothschild. Tt Is also worthy of notice that_the. Dean of the University of London is a Jew,—the Rev. Prof. Marks, who has been’ a member of the Faculty for over thirty years. ““ Adirondack™ Murray doesn’t believe that Mr. Moudy’s inquiry meeting is any place for a boy. Me says “it is o hot-bed of Spiritualism,” and adds: “The boys who attend these mect- inws will, I suspeet, be the worst boys in the city ten years from now, uuless God intervenes to suave them. They are being fed with such ricn food that they will dislike the taste of it in ten years.” The Jewish Times complains of Mrs. E. C. Chapir’s cautioning the public against a Polish Jew sclssors-peddler who isjusing her name. The Times comments: *[low considerate of Mus. Chn&)iu to inform the public of “the scissors- peddler’s religion! Nouw, if he had been a Ger- man Lutkeran _scissors-peddler, or a Scotch- Presbyterion knife-grinder, or s English Protestant costermonger, would she have Deen cqually explicit? Upon the elevation which it has been an- nounced will take place at the coming consis- tory of Archbishop Howard to’ the Cardinsiate, there will be four English-speaking Cardinals,— Cullen, Manning, McCloskey, and _Howard. Archbishop Howard was born in 1820, After service for some time in the English army, he entered the service of the Church ia 1833, sad m 1871 was conseerated an Archbishop in partibus. For x number of years Mgr. Howard fas re- sided at Rowe. The Judependent gives the names of the dele- gates from this country to the mecting of the Presbyterian - Allian¢ nest summer in Edin- burg: “The Northern Church will send Drs. William Adams, Howard Crosby, S. 1. Prime, and Cyrus Dickson, New York: H. J. Van Dyke, McCosh a:fl L. H. Atwater, Princeton, N. J.; W, C. Roberts, Elzabeth. N. J.: William Blackwood and F. R. Beadle, Phila- delpbiz; D. C. Marquis, Baltimore; C. C. Beatty, Steubenville, O.; W. E. Moore, Colum- bus. 0.3 S. M. Campbell, Rochester, N, Y.;F. L. Patton, Chicazo; S. J. Nicholls, St. Louis; dames Eells, San Francisco, and W, M. Thomp- son, Beirut, Syrie. Among the Eldersare William E. Dodge, New York; Stanley Matthews, Cin- cinnati; Judge Olds, Columnbus, aud J. S, Far- rand, Detroft. The Southern Church has se- lected Drs. Moses D. Hoge, Richmond; Stuart Robinson, Louisville; J. B. Adger, Pendicton, C.:and J. R. Wilson, Wilinington, N.C.; Dr. David B, Kerr, Piutsburg, will represent the United States Presbyteriun Church; Dr. James R. W. Sloane, Allegheny, will represent the Re- formed Presbyterian Ciiureh SOId side). Among ent from Canads will be Dr. Cowan, pal of Knox Colleze; Dr. Snoderass, Principal of Queen’s University; and Dr. Topp, of Torouto.” THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The Baptist anviversaries will be held in Providence, R. L., in May. The Euglish translators of the New Testa- ment have finished the Epistle to the Hebrews. Revivals are in progress inmany New Eneland towns. In Amesburg, Mass., between 300 and 400 persons have professed conversion. ‘The American Conveution of New Jerusalem Church ministers (Swedenborgian) will be held in Cincinnati Junc 1. - A Conference will be held at Urbana a few days in advance of the assem- bling of the Convention. Thirty-nine clergymen united with the Young Men’s Christian Association, in Montreal, in in- viting Moody and Sankey there when they have finished their work in Bostor, where they will probably remain until June. The people of Halifax, England, are to be troubled no more_with the payment . of the Vi- car’s rate. The Nonconformist citizens have raised by suhscrlg:tiou a suflicient amount to re- p ve the town of the burden of the tax for the uture. s The Reformed Episcopal Church now num- bers sixty clergymen aud fifty parishes, with aboui 4,000 communicants, The Bishops are Drs. Cheney and Fallows, of Chicago, Nichol- son, of Philadelphia, and Cridge, ~of British America. It is expected that fully 200,000 pilerims will be in Rome in May to participate in the cere- mionies of the Pope’s episcopal jubilee. There will be one company of pilgrims “from Switzer- Jand, two from * France, one from _Austriz, one from Spain, one from Canada, one from Brazil, and probably one from the United States. .The seventeenth General Couference of the United Brethren in Christ (a_denomjnation re- sembling the - Methodists in' _doctrine and methods) will meet at Westficld, 1L, May 10.° The Church has forty-threc aunual conferences, one of v hich is in Germany and one in Canada.’ It has 4,07 churches, 143, 831 members, 1,952 ininisters. It rased for Yarious purposes, including ministers’ salaries, $669,799 in 1576, The Seeretary of the Reformed (Dutch) For- eign Mission Board has had reccutly some Ppleasant surprises. Two weeks ago, when funds were very low, a lady called at his office and handed him a roll of bills amounting to 3500; a week after he received intelligence of a legacy to the Board of $10,000 from Miss Dancer; a few day: llcr‘_n letter came Dy mail iuclosing a check for $500, one-half for Japan, and one-half to relieve the famine in India. The Congregationalists will hold their next ‘\nllul,)!ll Council at Detroit, Mich., in Novem- ber. 'The basis of representation in the Councit 1s ouc delegate from each local conference for every ten churches and major frastion thercof, besides one delerate from each State body, and one for each 10,000 communicants and major {raction thereof. The national benevolent soci- cties and the theological seminarics are also represented by one honorary delegate cach. The number of college graduates who cnter the ministry is _said to” be increasing year by year.. At larvard the average is betiveen 5 and 6 per centum, The Bowdoin classes of the teu years beginning _with 1530 have the largest number of clergymen, averazing thirty-two in every 100 graduates. . In one class, that of 1833, out of a membersh:p of twenty- X, fifteen were graduated at theological seminaries. The next ten years shows an average of 22 per centum, andithe following ten vears of 1S per centum, while, during tliec nexc ten years, only one graduate in ten became a preacher. A correspondent of the Evangelist urges -as a reason for reducing the rngrcscnmtinn in the Presyterian General Assembly the great diflie /| culty experiencea in Providing howmes for the Commissioners. This difliculty increases con- tinually. He says: *Commitices of entertain- ment do not make public oatery of the severity of the service whick is Iaid upon them, but it cannot and does not cscape observation. Ask thase of Cleveland or Brooklyn of the labor that was Inid out to secare temporary homes for Commissioners, and of the large expense incur- red for securing mercenary hospitality after what was: x;olunt.uy was exhausted.”” The Aethodist says that o “hymn-book con- troversy has arisen between the Viear of Brix- ham, Eng., the Rey. A. F. Carev, and his con- grezation, and the latter have held ameeting to protest n%mm the Vicar using Sankey’s hymns instead of the usnal church bhymns. “The Vicar was present at the mecting, and said he used Sv:xfk,::y's hymns as an antidote to the question- able teaching of the church collection. Only one of liis parishioners, however, supported him, but the reverend gentleman, nevertbeless, said he should use his own judgment on the subject. If he persists in using the objectionable hymns, many of his congregations threaten to leave his church.” reliminary programme of the General Prestytenan Coancih which will open fn Edin- burg July 4, has been published. Beginning with the public reception on July 2, the mect~ ings will continue till Monday, July 9. The topic for Weanesday, July 4, will be the ~‘grindplcs of Presbyterianism;” for July 5, Church;” ¢ Home Work for the Presby for July 6, *Foreizn Misslons;” for July 7, “ Unbelief,” “ The Spiritual Life,” and *‘The Christian Tralning of the Young;" Monday will be occupied in consigering ** Presbyterian Situation and “Social Ervils.”” At a public meeting, to be held on July 5, the state of the Reformed Churches on the Continent of Europe will be especially considered. The helpers of Mr. Moody have determined to make 8 systematic canvass of Boston. Every family will be visited and_invited to attend the B Tabernacle, Miss F. E. Willard of Chicago will superintend the visitation by women. The Tabernaele services have provoked —contro- versy, TheRev. W. H. L. Murray of the Music Hall has protested ngainst Mr. Mcody's theology as substituting ¢ trust for faith as a condition of salvation.” At the Hollis Street Church (Uni- tarian) last Sunday the Rev. G. L. Cheeney de- lvered a discourse on Mr. Moody and Mr. Emerson, or Soclety and Solitude.” Last week the congregations were —somewhat effected in the daytime by the unfavora- ble weather, but at night greaw crowds attended. The separate afternoon services for men, women, and boys have been very suc- cessfal. ' Friday breakfasts are given to the in- temperate, and are frequented by 200 or more of this cldss of persons. On Wednesday and ‘Thursday of this week Mr. Moody held a con- vention of Christian workers. The programme of exervises announced was the same as hins been followed in previous conventions. During this week the full choir of 1,200 singers has fur- nished music.~ Of Mr. Moody’s sermon on Sun- day morning, the Boston Lfost says: ‘Mr. Moody seemed to be surcharged with entausiast- : activity as he launched out into the depths of his sermon, and there are few who listened but caugbt the coutagion of his excessive carnest- ness before he stopped.” A CATHOLIC PROTEST, The following is a translation of a document lately sent from Rome by Duke Salviati to several Catholic dignitaries in this conntry, with a request to have it circulated: ‘The Roman Soclety for the protection of Catho- lic interests, at a mecting held on the 234 of Feb- ruary last, unanimously adopted the following formula of protection aguinst the proposed law **On the abuses of ministers of religion in the ex- ercise of their ministry, ™ = EiEA¥, The proposed law on the pretended abuse of the ministers of religion contains clauses articularly oflensive to a class of citizens who Tave given'no Just occasion theretors makes the civil power judge of the acts of a spiritunl minis- try, of which it is absolutely incapable; forces the judicinry to condemn innocent persons eimply for having discharsed their unavoidable dutles: and provokes u religions Yersecution in flagrant oppo- k[l!hm to the first grticle of the Italian Constitu- tion. ‘WHEREAs, The aforesaid proposed law moreover manifestly Intends to stifle the voice of the pastars of the chureh, especinlly that of the Supreme Pas- tor, and to foment a spirit of revolt awainst cccle- sinstical authority, not excepting thatof the Su- preme Pontlfl, WitgREAg, This law is repugnant to the natnral as well 2s the univer:ally Catholic sentiment of the Italian peo threat fraught with the most cnormous injustice Lo the Catholics of the whole world, whose fualicnable right and supreme inter- st demand that the spiritna) power muintain fteclf independent and inviolable in its centre and in ity highest representa As, The effect of this Jaw would not be, as ita projectors would have us believe, the protec- tion of conscience und peace in familfes, but the exact contrry. We therefore protest, with our whole souls, azainet this iniquitous and senselese project, and we invite all good Christians to unite with us in this pretestation, SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS. B. F. Jaobs conducted the Sunday-school mecting yesterday at noon in Farwell Hall. Alter ‘prayer by B. F. Jucobs, the audience jolued in singing, “There’'ll be no varting there.” Mr. Jacobs then said that the Seripture lesson for the day would be found on the printed cir- culars that had been distributed among the audience. It was called the Golden Text, and was comprised of several passages from difforent parts ot the Old Testament. He then proceed- ed to point out on a mup of Palestine the places mentioned fu the text, and asked guestions of the audience aftér the manner of a Sunday- sehool teacher questioning a class. “ Precious promise God has given,” was sung. A Superintendent cxplained his plan of divid- ing the lesson for his school. Another tollowed with a like explanation, The meeting closed with singing. BREVITIES. " The late Stephen was not stoned, but Piked. Said a West Side evangelist: *Dan Marble was playing at a theatre in St. Louis during the i cliolera seasofi”‘(when people were dying by the score with that dread disease), and caused adver- tisements to be distributed throushout the city reading, *Come to tac theatre this evening at 3 o’clolk and see the jnimitable and mirth-provok- ing Dan Marble! Laugh aud grow fat in spite of the cholern.” My hearers, Providence was not thus to be trifled with, for at 4 o’clock that very afternoon Dan Marble was writhing in all the agonies of the colie.” - Mr. Charles G, Leland relates a story of the good minister of a Mussachusetts village and a shiftless, whisky-loviag Indian, who in time of revival became one of his converts. The ex- cellent clergyman_ereatly rejoiced at having *rescued another,” while the Indian, i return, one night expressed with solemn joy his assur- ance, “Me no go Hobamoko (that is, perdition) —Injun soul save—all richt.” But the duy after this affecting scene tlie minister, thought- fully riding along, discovered his couvert lying in n'rocky corner near the road, deeply, dread- fully tipsy. Sighing much and sadly, the minis- ter rode o, but was scarcely a rod from the spot when Lis ear was struck by a guttural grunt, which was solemnly and impressively repeated. Turnjng his head, he saw the Incian maintaining himself with the ‘greatest difliculty in a sitting posture and sazing sternly at his fricnd, as if from the height of som¢ great idea. while he beckoned to him as one having authority. Slowly the minister rode back ond paused. ¢ Uzn!” mrunted the Indian; “you know dat little business me talkc you *bout” lass maht?? *Yes, Benjamin; 1 doknow,” was the reply. “Itwas about your sulyation.” “Yes,” grunted the unabashed; “me ’clude to let dat little business go. Injun soul,’he added with o pat- ronizing “smile, as if wishing to diminish *the clergyman’s disappointment, * Injun soul berry our concern—smiall *fair—no great matter any- ow ! ¢ CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will officiate at St John's Church, on Ashiand ‘avenue, near Madison street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. —The Rev. W. F. Morrison will officlate in the Church of the Holy” Communion, on South Dear- born strect, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth, in the evening. Morning service at 10:45 o'clock. —The Rev. Canon Knowles will officiate moruing and evening in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Taul, corner of West Washington and Peoria strects. Iioly Communion at 10:30 a, m. ~—The Rt.-Rev. Bishop MecLaren will preach and administer the rite of confirmation this morning in St. James' Charch, corner of Cass and IHaron streets, at 8 o'clock. At the regnlar morning and evening kervices the Rector, the Rev. Samuel S, Harris, will ofiiciate. —The Rev. E. Sullivan, S, T. D., will officiate morning and evening in Trinity Church, corner of ‘Twenty-sixth strect and Jiichigan avenue. Com- munion ot 9:30 a. m. Subject for evening ser- mon: **Whence It Came, and Tow to Keep It." ~—The Rev. Francis Mansfield will preach morn- ing and eveninz in tae Church of the Atonement, corner of West Washington and. RRobey streets. ~—The Rey. J. Bredber; will ofticiate morning and evening In Si. Anszariug Charch, Sedgwick strect, near Chicago avenue. - —The kev. Dr. Clinton Locke will ofiiciate his morning ut 11 o'clock fn Grace Church, Wabaal avenue, near Sixteenth strect. Cowmunion at 8 a. m. 'Phe Rt.-Rev. Bishop McLaren will presch and hold confirmation scrvice in the cvening, —Services will be held in the Churel of the Holy Cominanion, Dearborn, near Thirticth street. —The Rey. Arthar kitchie will ofliciare morning and evening in the Church of the Ascension, core ner of North LaSalle and Adams streets, Comma. O Rer A W. 3ann will The Hev. A. W, Mann will officiate at g ser- vice for deaf-mutes in the Chapel of St Sasery Charch, corner of Cass,and luron streets, at 3 P, —loraing and evening services will be held i §&_Paal's ‘Cuurch, Hydo' Park; ut the Fegater e, —The Rev. D. F. Warren, D. D.. wiil officate morning and evening in St. Siark'e Charch, Gotias Grove avemue, comer of Thity-shcth siumst. mormins Say. coeniog by Soogpan il oficiate > d vening in X Johnzos, between Tasloc znd Tweliih stseer o> —The Rev. Luther Pardee will ofiiciate morning gnd cvening in Calvary Charch, Warren avenue, between Oakley street und Western avenue. Com: munjon at 11:90 2. . —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will oficiate 2y, Throep, between Monroe and Adams streets. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officinte morning and evening In the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenue. k —The Rey. llenry G. Perey will officiate in All Saints’ Charch, - corner of North Carpenter and Ohio streets, morning and eveninz, —The Rtev. F. N. Luson will officiate this morn- ing in the Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndalc. —The Rev. F. N. Luson will hold morning and evening services 1n thc Emmanuel Chorch, La Grange. —The Rev. J, StewartSmith will officlate morning and evening in St. Mark's Church, Evanston. —Lent services will be held every day at 12:10 o'clock at No. 50 Madison strect as follows: Mon- day. tac Rev. L. De Brisay; Tuesday, the Rev. E. Sullivan; Wednesday, the Rev. . G. Perrs; Thureday, the Rev. W. H. Hopkins; Good Friday, the Rev. Georye S. Todd; Szturday, the Rev. George F. Cushiman, —lioly Week and Easter services will e beld In the Canrch of the Ascension, corner North LuSaile and Elm streets, Monday, Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Lve, and Daster-Day. A course of six ermons will _be preached on saccessive Sunday evenings. beginning with Easter-Day, on the sub. ject: ** fomanium, Protesiantism, and Ritualism, REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rt.-Rev. Bishop Fallows will preach in St. Paul's Church, cornerAnnand Washington streets, morning and evening. = Subject for the latter ser- vice, * Bible Spiritualism. ™ —The Rev. Prof. Elliott will preachin the morn- 1og, and the Rev. Dr. Cooperin the evening, at Immanucl Chaurch, corncr of Centre and Dajton strects, —The Rev. R. II. Bosworth preachcs morning and eveniug at Immnuel Church, coruer of lan- over and Twenty-eighth streets. o Rev. I H: Bosworth preaches st 3:30 p.m, at Trinity Church. ; ‘The Kt.-ltev. Bichop Fallows will preach at St. John's Church, Oakwood boulevard, near Cot- tage Grove avenue.. “The Res. W, E. Willlsms will officlate morn- ing and eveningat the Charch of the Good Shep- herd, corner of Jones and Homan streets, and at i’s Church at 3 p. m. The Rev. J. D. Cowan will preach in Grace Church, corner of lioyne avenue and Ledoyne street, at 10:30a. m., and Prof. Charles Elliott, 40 p. m. c ftt.-Rev. Bishop Cheney will preach in Christ Church. Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street, morning and cvening. e especially desires to meet all the congregation of this church at the morning service to explain some plana for the year beginning with Easter. METHODIST. The Rev. Dr. Williamson will preach in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second 10:3f1 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. Dr. Tiffany *will preach at 10:45 a. b. m. at Trinity Church, on Indiana avenue, near Twenty-fourth street. —MIr.' enry Morehouse will prench at 11 2. m. in the Wabish Avenue Church, corner of Four- teenth street, and Mr. McGrannahan, with_a male uartette, will conduct the sinwing. The Rev. A. W Patten will prearh ot 3250 pr —The Rev. M. M. Parkhurst wiil preach morn- ing and evening at the First Church, corner Clark aud Woehington streets. —The Rov. R. D. Sheppard will preach at 10:30 2. m. at the Western Avenue Church, corner of onrue strect, on **Elijah.” Sunday-school con- cert at 7:30 p. m. " —The Rev. S. H. Adzmswill preach at Centenary Church, on Monroe street, ncar Morgun, in the morning, and the Rev. S. McChesney will preach in the evening. The Rev.” George Chase will preach In the ter Street Church, corner Forty-Gfth street, jon Stock-Yards, morning and eveninz. —The Rev. $. McChesney will preach in Park Ayenue Church in the morning, and the Hev.S. 11, ‘Alams in the evening. he Rev. Jobn Atkinson will preach in Grace Charch, corner of LuSalle and White streets, morninz and evening. ~Subject for the latter serv- ice: *"Thie Conversion of St. Paul.” —The Rev. Dr. Willing will preach in the Lang- ley Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-ninth street, morning and evening. DAPTIST. —The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach morningand evening at the Free Church, corner of Loomls and Jucksou streets. Baptiem at might. —The Rev. Mr. Vanderveer will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paulina strects, in the inorning. and the Rev. D. B. Cheney In the évening, Laptism after the lutter service. —'The Rev. S, D. Badger will preach in Emanuel Churen, corner of Suphia and Orchard streets, in the morning. —The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach in the First Curch, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty- first treet, morning and evening. * —The Rev. A. 8, Coats will preach in University Chureh, corner of Rhodes avenwe and Donglis place, morning aad evening. ; .~ —The Rev, Dr. Galusha Anderson will preach in the Second Church, curner of Morgan and Monroe streels, worning and evening. Baptism:at the close of evening sermon. —The Rev. J. W. Custls will preach in the Aichigan Avende Church, near = Twenty-third street. Momning subjcct: **Know Thyse.f;" even- ing: “*The Prodigal.” CONGREGATIONAL, The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach at Plymouth ‘Church, on Michigan avenue, between Twenty-£fth aud Twenty-sisth strects, at 10:30 a. . m. and 7:30 p, m, —The Rev. E. F. Willlams will preach at the -seventh Street Church at 10:45a. m, Fort; —Prof. S. C. Bartlett will preach at the First Church, corner of Washington and Ann streets, at 10:30a.m.. und a Gospel service will be con- ducted in the evening by W. O. Latimer. Ieary Morehouse will give a Bible lecture at 2:30 p. m. ~—The Rev. G. N. Boordman will preach in the Clinton Street Church, corner of Wilson, morning ard evening. —The Rev. Z. S. Holbrook will preach In the Oakland Church morning and evening. Subject for the latter scrvice: **Our Father.™ —The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach morning and eveninz at the Bethany Church, corner of Puulina and \West Huron etreets.. —The Rev. D. N. Vanderveer will preacn in the Union Park Church, corner of \Washington street and Ashland aveaue, morning snd evening. PRESBYTERIAN. Prof. F.L. Patton will preach morning and even- inz at ihe Jefferson Park Church, corner of Throop aud Adams street. ~—The Rev. Jacob Post will preach in the church corner of Noble and West Eric streets, at 10 2. m. in Dutch, and in English at 7:30 p. m. —The ‘Rey. James Maclaughlan will preach morning and evening in the Scotch Church, corner of Sengamon and Adams street. —The Rev. W. C. Young, pastor of the Fualler- tn1o\venuu Church, will preach at 10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ‘—The Kev. Henty T. Miller will_preach in the Sixth Chureh, corner Vincennes and Oak avenues, morning and evening. —The Rev, “C. L. Thompson will preach in the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thir- tieth strect, morning and evening. —Services in the ‘morning at the First Church, corner of Indiana nvenue and Twenty-frst strect. and quarterly exercises of the Sabbath-school at 4 D.m. 2 The T B kus]xl'r,mux. 1 e Rev. Brooke Merfoni will preach at 1 Chiurch of the Messiah, corner of Michisan. svena ;ml T\"c{nt -;lu 3 5!:]':;'!, in (flu: morning on **The tory of Palm Sunday™ and in the ev ** The World's Debt to Chiist.” SRy —The Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach in the Fourth Chiurch, No. 789 Cottage Grove avenue, ot 11a. m., on **Practical Relizion,” and at 7:43 P fn. on **The Power of the Tmagination and Its elation to Miracles p ke Rev. . T. ‘Sundorland will preach at 3 . 1. in the old school-house at The Worlds that We Makors -+ Lo o000 on —The Rev. Ronert Collyer will breach fn Unlty Chureh moraing aud eventaz. —~The Rev. E P. Powell will preach in the Th Church, corner of Lallin and Soaroc sticsts 1o the morning. Subject: ** True Thourht, a Noble Love, andan Honest Life,” MissfSusan’ B, An. thony wil! lecture In the cvening ou **Woman and Temperance.” The Rev. Sumucl ENis wil preoach e Rev. Samuel Ellis will preach this morning in the Church of the nedeeufcx, corner of Washe ington and Sungamon streets, —The Rev. Owen Perkins will preach in the old hool-lonse. at Englewood, at 10:45a. m., on ous ilusions. E. R. Lock, of Boston, will tell what he ecn in visiting'173 prisons, at Lakeside Hall, corner of Indiana avenne and Thirty-lrat street, In the woring, "~ " —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach morping ai eveninz fn St. Paups Church,” mcmgunn:xf.?nu';? between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. Even- Ingoubject: +*An Appeal to Young beagle 5 o CHRISTIAN. Elder I. W. Owen will only in the First Charch, and Twenty-fifth streete. —A. J. White will preach in the Central Chiusch, corner Van Buren street und Campbell nyvenue, In; the morning. - Subject: “** Chrlst as the World's preach in the morning corner of Indiana avenue The Rev. Tdmnmd beitons : ¢ Rev. Edmund Leifonr will preach fn 1 Chiureh of the Holy Trinity, corner of Saih Benls born and Erie strecte, at 11 9. m. and 1530 pr m. The rite of confirmation will be administered ot tne forenoon service, 5 . MISCELLANEOUS. Chrietians will wicet at 3 p. m. in the Chapel, No. 318 West. Chicago avenne, corner Chase street. —The Rev. i, M. Paynter will preach at 10a. m. and 7330 p. m. in Calvary Tabernacle, Xo. 320 Ogden avenuc, between linrrison and Flonrnoy strects. Morninz subject: -Jomsh Trained for " Evening: Gospel meeting. —The Progreasive Lyceum will meet at 12:30 p. m. atGrow's ilall. No. 517 West Madison street. AMies Lonic Fuller will give readings and recita- tions. —The Rev. Dr. Hibbard will preach at the N Charch Hiall, corner (lei:hlv:cnl‘l’z sireet ana l"l':;T 2. m., and at the Temple, corner rie avenuc, at11 9! West Washington sizect and Ogden avenue, at . m. Zldor Mansteld witl preach fn the Tabernacle, No. 19 Soath Green strect, In h 2. £ Mangfeld fn z‘)u.-;cfi-é‘l:‘un;:.‘ it 20 —Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, t will lectare before the Fiest Seepetag St 1sts, in Grow's Opora Hall, No. 517 Weat Madison strcet, morning and creniie. : —The Rev. . W. Brown, the Evengelisf preact n . oody's chufch‘hmm:r S Chicage v nd LaSaile vt z, e gemlcy ‘;;" "g;. reet, in the mflrnln., and \. ~Henry orehotze. the English Evana will preach his Jast sermon in cm%-;o. p:}?ffifilsh:& Ins departure for England, this evening, in Mr. Jlopds e Chiareh, corner of Chicago avenne and reet —There will be preaching morning a at the Christlan Union Mission Hnl:gnv:l:i mffi'flf comer Washington and Desplaines atr —The Non-Sectarian Bible Meeting f:l'fi‘be held’ Ilerford will lecture on **The Sacridces Unde; . i)?:uglc Luw; What They Were, and ¥hat Toes - eant. ™" % % ey —The Dieciples of Christ meet at No, = Randolph strcet atd p.m; 29 Ve CALENDAR FOR THE EPISCOPAL, March 25— Sunday before Easter; of the 8. V. M. W March 26—Monday before Easter. March 27—Tuesday before Easter, Alarch 28—Wedneaday before Eastee March 29—Thursday before Enster, March 30—Good Friday. Aarch 31—Easter-Even. CATHOLIC. 3 March 25—Palm Sunday.. SV vag March 26—Feria. March 27—Feria. B March 28—Feria, r P AMarch flfl—lhunc{f Thursday, L Marck 30—Good Priday. ' Alarch 31—Holy Saturday. THE GAME OF CHESS Annnnnm!ql. and 65 Washington street; open from 92, m. ty - 10p. m. Chess players meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange) and the Sherman Honse (Base. ment). ;. a All communicstions intended forthis department should be addressed to Tux TRInGNE, and indorsed **Chess. " TO CORRESPONDENTS. $41L. A. G."—The position Is rather tao essy. “*C. A. P."—The problem is very pretty, an very welcome. What prevents a mate in your problem oy 1..Kt to B 87 **T. W. S.," St. Paul, Minn.—The tabular foriz of giving solutions is preferable. *‘E. B."—The problem will appearin its tarn;._ thanks. Can you suggest a botter correction than " the one noted below to Problem No. €37 ‘“EN PassasT."—Enigma No. 67 i3 corectly. presented. In suicidal problems Biack is supposed not to mate until compelled to. 7] **R. C. S.,” Oswego, N. Y.—Problem No. 85 was corrected in the fssue followIng its publication by addinga White Pxwnag KR 3. *4* Correct solution to Problem No. 67 recelved from W. H. Ovington, J. H. Camipbell, C. A. Per- ry. E. Barbe, C. W. Clark, A. Henshel, F. A, Bergman, E. S.Watts, E. R. B., J.E.ILT., Sam, Scott, and 1457 Fulton street, city: Chess Club, . Keitlisburg. I1l.; R. S. Thompson, Hyde Parl 1L H, C, Pratt Little Rock, Ark.: A. F. year, St. Panl, Minn.: Kt., Turaer, 0.3 Wilcoxand G. N. G., city. *4* Correct solution to Enizma N from W. H. Ovington. C. A. Perry, C. Dreler, Barbe, C. W. Clark, J. Ii. Campbell; E. S. Watts, A. Henshel, E. R. B.. J. 'E. 0. U., Sam, and 1457 Fulton street, city; H. T. Wright. Morzan Park, TIL : Chees Club, 'Keithsburg, INI.; H. C. Pratt, Little Rock, Ark.; Kt., Turner, 111, ENIGMA NO. 6€9. BY MR. E, B, B., CHICAGO,- SEEER 214 w 93 £ < Z » White to play and self-mate {a three moves. PROBLES NO. 69. BY MR. C. 4. PERRY, CUICAGO. Black. | *,# In Problem No. 6S, to prevent other sola- tions than the author's, remove the White Pawn at KB3, andadd a Blatk Pawn at K R 7and 8 White Enight at K R square. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 67. vaite. l BroQRk2 .Hnlc?l:eomlndy. SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 67. White,’ . Black. 1. Ktk sq 1..Rtakes Qor Kt 2..RtoBicn 2..B takes 1 mate ‘There are many variations, but this will safice. PROPOSED NEW CHESS CLUB, The following proposal 1o start a Chess Clab bas alrendy been signed by many of our most promi- nent chess players: It is proposed to forma Chesa Club in Chicago on o similar plan a3 the present New York Chess Club, viz.: The club-room Is part of a cafe. The dues of members are S1 for three (or four months; these fands are used for the purchase.of chess books 2nd magazines; for prizes I tournaments, and other chess purposes. ~ The proprietor of the cafe furnishes the requisite nnmber of chess tables and men. The club-room 16 free to_everybody whom the proprietor chooses to admit, but the proprietor must charge non-members 10 cents for playiag chess. . v The undersigned desire to_organize ‘sach a élub, it 3 sultable room, etc., cun be found. ‘Those who take an interest in the success of this movenient can probubly find the list at the Chicago Chess Club, 65 \ushington street,at about 5 p.m., or. by sending - their names and address to THE TRIBUNE, indorsed **Chess, " they will be informed of the 8téps to be taken. CHESS IN PHILADELPHIA. Played in the Centennlal Chess Congress, held 18 Philadelphia last Anguast. CENTRE COUNTER GAMBIT. ‘White—Mg. Bizp. Black—Mg. BAREOUB L.PtoK4 1.PloEs 13 KttoB3 0 Q4 (8) P takes P RS QroKz PloR B4 ProQs K KttoB3 btk P pukal 0 K takes PloK B3 BisE Kitouz PtoKo Q rakes P ch 10 KBoK2 BtoQ B4 1Qreqld Q takes 1208 aakes Q . Qltto ke 13t takes Kt takes Kt 13 8w Kkes PlORK R 15 B K It 4 (b) Ktto K 6 16.BtoKB2 Kt takea Kt P ch 17 Kb ' i to Ik B sq 18,2 takes Rt 1t takes B ch KW KLY BIOKB5 2Brogs FtoQB3 Btol3 w0B3 Ktro GBS £ to Kt 3 ch EtoR4 BtoB7ch KroK5 mates (4) NOTES EY MR W. H. SAYEN. . (a) Utterly unsoand ina match game; with core 4 rect play. (b) ‘This loses at once; however, he had no good move. 5 ' ('(;) He had nothing better; the game is already / ost ¥ (d) This rame is a specimen of Mr. Bird's bril- liani play when a weak defense once gives him an opening into un enemy'a Fame. CHESS IN LONDON. Played with eleven other games simultaneonaly, blindfold, at the Weat-End Chess Club, Feb. 12, 1876, and taken from Westminater Papers. . EVANS GAMBIT. tLo Kt ik B Glata 3 Biads 1] bR oKt G takes QP ItoResq LtoQ Kisg 2t fBE ieg s Gi kS i Saktes gure | Eddes B takes B ch Ewdriy : 1t to G sa ch R0l sy Kito Q6 ch Btakes At . Q takes 18 z..gmb’.u . FtoQid .. FoQR4 S0t G B Ri) g 35..tto A B3 HB.Qoksch S8 KtoKez . . QUWKS 5.0 bE ch Restgns. 3) This annsual snd weak move was made et ably to take the attack out of **the books,” bat it seems to make littfe difference’ to the player. Caess Dinzcrort.—Chicago Chess Club, Nox, 3. J ’ | 1