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'THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 1, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES, RELIGIOUS. A Further Dissertation on Truth=---The Resur~ rection. Election of Vestrymen and Wardens---Canon of the Churech. Reviving the Blue Laws in Connecticut---Moody in Boston. Notes and Personals at:Home and Abroad---Progress of - the Church. Announcements of Relig- ious Services to Be Held To-Day. WIHAT IS TRUTII ? FINTH PAPER—TAE KESURKECTION. To the Edltor of The Tribune. CRICAGO, March 31.—As this and the succeed- ing papers of this series will relate to the state of man sfter leavinz the maierial body, it will naturaliy be asked by those unacquainted with the writings of Swedenborg, How could he know anything conceruing the state' of man after death, more thanis known by others? To an- swer this question by citing the proofs of the opening of Swedenborg’s spiritual senses, and his open intercourse with spirits and angels, which he enjoyed from the year 1745 to the close of his eartly life in the year 1772, a period of twenty-seven years, would requm. too much space; L must, therefore; refer all who wish for the proois to Swedenborg’s own writings, and the collateral writings of New Churchmen. Thoussnds among the most intlligent minds in all drvilized nations have secarched these works with the greatest scrutiny. and have been convineed with the utmost vertainty that the assertions 6f the illuminated Seer are fully proven; that he was chosen and prepared 1o be made theinstrument of a divine mis: from the Lord to mankind: the obje:t of the | mission being 1o make kuown tie real meaving of the Divine “'onl,uud the conditiou of man in the spiritual world. Conident that every earmest secker after truth for its own_sake will, after a thorouzh, candid fuvestigation of the claims of Sweden- borg, arrive at the same certain couviction, that he was ihe chosen servant of the Lord to en- lighten the world, no attempt will be made ere 0 bring forward the evidences of his divine mission, But every unprejudiced reader wili sce that his recorded experiences and observa- | tions of #thinzs seen and heard ™ n the spir- | jtual world are in perfect harmony with ihe Divine Word. and are coufirmed by sound reason. The doctrine of the resurrection of the body ! as commonly preachedand understood is, that after an indefinite lapse of time, during which 1he cotils of all who have died cllm_r remain seious, or are i some unknown' condition istence. waiting to be again conjuined to their material bodics, when they will live again | on the carth, which will have been vunfied by fire and made a hicavenly home. This doctrine was preached by Maj. Whittle at the Tabernacle 1ast Sabbath, This Uelief that the resurrection will consist in the uniting of the soul of man with his re- construczed vatuad bodyv s retained fu the hu- msn mind, ot by the foree of reason, nor irom e Testinng of . Revelation, but by we etrong force of a scusual affection, which leads the spirit to dling to the material v a5 its permanent abode.” This sensual af- Tectiun is coutirtued by ** taking it for granted thut the passages of Seripture which speak of the * resurrection of the dead * make express | mentiun of the resarrection of the body ; where- 25 =0 examination of all such passazes will show that there are no such express words it Serip- ture as that the * body shall rise,” or * be Tais fl again * fuvolves a host of dlfllmhes, ab- surdities, and physical impossibilities contrary 10 the order whicl God bas stamped upon crea- t has afforded matter for ridicule for the nd the seoffer iu every age; it weakens - the beliet in the umiortality of the oppused to Tue common perceptivn all Christians, when left to their spam.neuus thought: Ou the other hand, the trath of the coutinued cof man in his spiritual Lody, being raised from his material body assoon as the Jatter becomes unfit for further use, *isin ! agreement with commou preception; Is fully taugbt by the express - language or Scripture i8 in periect. barmony with reason nnd seience; is full of consolation to the departing spirit, and. above 1il, presents verv powerful induce- | ments to lead a truly Christian [if Thereis a prevailing misconception of the true meaning of the word - *resurrection” as | used in the New Testament. It is generally supposed to sizpify the gising of new Lifetoa dead bodr, and rdising euch resuscitated body out of the grave. But 2 very little inguiry will convanee auy candid p'-mm that such is not the New Tes- To prove_ this, we will first point vut of the \\'cni and then show that reference toits 1'meaning, which is—a future state ot existence—a life after deathy, or-in its sviritual application to spiritual life, 3s uppused 10 spirit- ual death. meaning altached to the word in the tament. ubstantive *‘ anastasis.” translat- 1 vulgate "reqxrrudu." aud from *resur- | termsana | £ up,’ ur teru used throngt- out the New Testament 1o desicnate ihe state of bunan beings after death. Its importisthus i clearly stated by the celcebrated Professor of Divinity, Dr. Dwight, in his sermon on *The Resurrection ™'z Tais word (anaslasit), saye be, ie commonly.bot .often erroncourly, rendered reeurrection. So fur 85 1 bave observed, it usually denctes our exis(- ence bevond the grave. 1is originul and literal Incaning is 1o stand up or o sand ugain. As stunding 1w the = appropriate = posture of Uifd, consciourness, and ucticity, and Tving down the appropriaie posture of the dead, the unconscious, 3nd the inactive. “this word ia naturally cmployed o denote the fatare tate of spiritz who arc living. conscious, active beings, any pasiazes of Scriptere would have been ren- dered more intelligible, and the thoughts contained in them more justand impressive, hud this word | Leen trenstated according 10 ite real ‘meani This will be illustrated by a recurrence 1o that remark- able passage which contzins the dispute between oor Savior ana the Sandducees, who say thereis | uo resurrection,—**me_einai anasiasin,—ihat there 15 1o [xture state, of no futare exietence of maukind. They declare seven brothers to have married, faccessively, one wife, who survived them all.: They then asa. **Whose wife shall she be in the reeurrection!—-‘eén fe anasfasie “—in the Jufure stafe. Our Savior answers, **in the resur- Tection, ™ or, as it should be rendered, in the fulure siale, “** they neither marry nor are given in mar- riage, brtare as the angels of God in Heaven. But as touchmng the.. resurrection of the dead, have ye not read thut which was spoken unto vou by | God. " or, as it oughtto be rendered, have ye not | read that which was spoken uuto you by God cou- | cering the future existencr oF thase who are dead, il)'ln" 1 am the God of Abrabam. the God of lsaac, and the God of Jzcob? not the God of the dead, butof tae livi passage. were Weatany loss concerning ‘the meaning of the | word *‘gnas/asir,” cetermines it beyond dispnte. The proof that there isan **gnastesie™ of the Jesd alleged by our Savior, fe the declaration of God 10 M “+~Iam the God of Abraham, lsasc, 2td Jacob, ™ and the irresistible trnzh that **God nml stasis, a & standiug aguin not the God of ihe dead, but of the Liring.™ The consequence, a2 every one who reads 1t Bible knows is that Abraham, fsaac, and Jacob were liring 2t the time this deciaration was made. Those who dic, therefore, Jive after they are dead; life is the *-enasfasic " which 13 proved by our Savior in this passage. 3nd. which Is unirersaily denoted by this term Uiroughout the New Testament. Such is the lucid_statement by Dr. Dwight. As an instance of the spiritual of moral applica- tion of the word anastasis, the words of the Lord to Marthia will aflc‘rdnnfllustratlun. Jesus eeid: 1 sm toe Resurrection (the ‘anastasis’ and the Life.” John, xi., 25. The meaninZ of which words, taken in connection with the con- test, evidently is, that as man in himself is both mursll\, spirtually, and morally dead, the Lord alone 1¢ the only source of natural, spirit- uwl, and moral life.” “'Ope of the arguments addoced in favor of the resarrection of the body is, that it could not Teguire agreater exertion of Ommipotence to restore the dead hodies of all mankind than it Tequired to create them at first; therefere, i is mh:-l As God ¢id the ove \\h; should He not do thé othert We need not inquire wchy Omnip- utence cannot dothis, becauge God bas nowhere eressive wark' for we see that in all the opera- tious of narure, certatn undeviating Jaws are ob- scrrcd. and thatall things procead by almost. erceptible gradations. And, as_ommuipotence .m infinite wisdom are the attributes of the same Divine Being, we must conclude that the laws of creation are the best and only wise laws. Thcre[ore, to act contrary to those laws would be to act contrary to the Divinelitself. Now, the ation_and resurrection of # dead bod), whose constituent clements may have been for ages mingled with the common muss of matter, réully amouuts to a mew creations a creation, 100, quite inconsistent with Iis former works, for lie never created human bodics without at the same time creating human souls. To then, an ipstantaneous creation of myr- 1ads of human bodies, is to entertain u notion in opoosition to all pn;t experience, and _directly contrary to the general laws of the Divine Gov- erument.”” All the other srguments, both from reason and Scripture. which appear 1o favor the false doctrine of the resurrection of the natural body are fully refuted in the New Church writings, to which all desirous of learning Divine trutls are carnestly referred. In the same writings, the true doctrine of the resurrection is fully established, which is, that the resurrcction is the resurrection of the spirit, as soon as its councction with the natural body is dissvlved. Tlence, also, the death of the budy is the release and resurrection of the immortal man in his incarruptible spiritual body. We close with an_extract from Swedenborg's ¢ Heaven and Hell: When the body is no longer capable of per- forming its functions in the natural world, cor- u~]mmllnv' to the thoughts and affections of its spirit which are from the spiritual world. 2 man is said to die. This occurs when the respiratory motious of the lungs and tne systolic_motions of the heart cease. But still the man does not dic, but is onlv separated from the corporeal part which was of useto him in the world; for the man himself lives. It is said that the man himself lives, because e i€ not man by virtue of the body, but by virtue of the spirit; for it is the spirit in him which thinks, avd thought. together with alfec- tion, makes the man. Hence it is evident that when man dies he only passes from one world mftcl: fmomer, aud that death is- & continuation of life. The inmost communication of the spirit is with the respiration and with the motlon of the neart; its thouzht with the respiration and fts affection with the Leart. When, therciore, these 1wo motlons cease, the separation of the spirit froin the body takes vlace immediately. These two motions—the respirators motion of the lungs and the systolic motion of the heart—are the very bonds on the sundering of which the spirit is left to itself, and the body being then without the life of 1ts spirit grows cold and putrefi The inmost communication of the spirit of man is with the respiration and the beart, be- cause all the vital iotions depend upon those two, not only in the body generally, but also in every part of it. ‘The spirit of an, after the separation, re- maivs a little whlle in the Lody, but not after the motion of the heart has éntirely ceased. This takes place sooner or later, :lL;cr\hng o nature of the disease of which the man dies; for, in some cases, the motion of the beart con- tinues a long time, while In _others it guickly ceases. As soon as this motion ceases the man is resuscituted, out this is dome by the Lord alope. Yy By resuscitation is meant the drawing forth of the spirit from the body, and is introduction into the spiritual world, which is commonly called resurrection, The spirit of man is not senarated fror the body until the motion of the heart has ceased, because the heart corresponds to the affection which is of love, and love is the very lite of man; for every one has vital heat from love. W hun.fon., so long as this union coatinues (i. e., the unjon between the body and sfimt), correspoudence is aintained, and thence e lite of the splrit in the body If the foregoiny arrumenis and extracts do not fully convince the reader, a complete exam- inution of the subject in the light of the New Church cantiot fail to satisty any candid mind that the reswrrection of a dead bodr, that it may enter into eternal life, is nowhere declared in the Sacred Scriptures, which expressly state thet * flesh and blood canrot enter the Kingdom of Heaven: ncither doth corruption inberit in- corruption.” (L Cor., xv., 50.) LAY, EASTER ELECTIONS. THE DIOCESAN CANON. Following is the corrected czuon of the Epis- copal Chureh of Illinois, rezulating the Easter elections, which arc to be held to-morrow: SEc. 1. After the meeting for primary orzaniza- tion, each parish shall meet annually on Monday in Easter weck, at 10 0’clock in the morning, or at sach other hout a3 may be asreed therefor, and of which dne _notice shall be publicly ziven. ' At said parist meeling, in addition to other business whicl 1way be there traneacted, the 7arishioners who are qualided and entitled tovote for “oficers, as pre- scribed and defined in the canon, shall elect by ballot, by 2 majority of votes, 3 Vestry, 1o consist of two Wardens, who shull be communicants in 2ood etanding, and not less than_three nor_more fian eient Vestrymen, who shall be communicants of the chaurch in tood and regularetanding, if such, suitable for office. can be had, provided, always. That Vestrymen shall ‘be baptized persons, which Vestry shall continue to discharee the functions of their ofiice during the year. or until their sncces- sorx are clected:; and the Vestry wmay il vacancies m !!l( wn body. ‘The parishioners Tuuned 1o vote for Wardens and Vestrymen, and upon all questions comninz before the congregation at any snnual or spezial meeting thereof, shall be as follows, and | those only: 1. All male communicants of fall age, belonging 10 the parish, who have been duly recorded aud recoznized 8¢ such, znd are not ot the time under c ceiastical censure. Allnale persons of full nee who regularly and in goml faith attend the public services of the church fn the parish and _ate recognized s met- bers of the congregution by the Rector and at least one of the Wardens, or. if there be mo Rector, present or presiding, by the Wardens, and who Contrivute by subecription or otnerwise to the fonds or expenses of the congregatiou, and have done 50 for six montls previous to the meeting, and who, in addition. declare themsclves con- scientiousiy attached 1o the doctrine, discinline, and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Lmu-d States. Al the parish meetings the Rector or ctated minister shall preside, or. in case of his ab- sence Or vacancy, one of the Wardens. 1f no War- den s present, o parishioner, chosen by the meet- ing, shail preside. The meeting ehall cleet Secretary. Two foilers shall be appointed by the Chaizman, and the result of (ne ballots for election shall be declared by the Chairnn and recorded by the Secretury before the sdjournment of the meet- ing. The poll shall be open for =t least pue hour, und not closed unnl all quahded suxls present Lave had due opportumity of ca Each member chosen on the Vestry shill by the Sceretary of nis election, und the ne shull be convened for orzanization and business a3 soon 85 practicable after the clection. See. 4. At all parish meetings. before any vote hall be taken, except for the purpose of orsanizi- tion, it shall be the duty of the kector or presiding afficer to read of canse to be read 1o the congreya- tion Sece. 1 and 2 of this Canos Ste. 5. The parichioners qaalified to vote under the_provistons_ of the foregoing Sec. 2 are hereby declared to be the congregation of the parish, for all puryoses within the meaning of this canon. REVIVING THE BLUE LAWS. SABDATE BREAKERS IN COURT—CCRIOSITIES OF CONNECTICUT LEGISLATION. Correspondence New York Sun. SouTe NoRwaLR, Conn., March 22.—"The Laod of Steadv Habits " has always held a high position among the States of the Union, by rea- son of the industry of her people, the qua]:tv of her nuimegs, and the fertility of her chief river, once apostrophized In these words by a primitive etz I)‘::) Tlovely Connecticut! Long hast thon ran. Giving shad unto Hartford and freedom to man. But while she has merited praise for all these things, she has also fncurred some odium on uc- count of her “ Blue Laws,” several of which re- main upon the statute books to this day. One of them, enacted in 1702, rups as jollows: Every persan who «hall travel, or do_any secular bueiness. or abor, except work of mecessity, or mercy, or keep open uuy shop, warchouse, or manufactering pechanical estal fishment. orex- Pose any properiy for sale. or ensage in any sport o recreation on Surday, between tlie houze of sun- rise and sunset, ‘shall be fined not more than S+, Dot lese than 813 but haywards may perform all 1heir ofticial duties on said day. For many years this had been a dead letter, but a quarrel among the barbers of Sonth Nor- walk has Jed to1ts revival. A short time ago the barbers agreed to close their shops or Sun- day. Twoot them violated their agr ement. Their most prominent rival in business, 2 Mr. Franke, having lcarned of the existence of this law, entered complaiut against them. They ere each fined &1 und costs—about 38 In all. On the same day an unfortunate 'mlkmnu, who, in his innocence aud igmorsnce of the 1aw, bad served his customers on Sunday as usnn], was also arrested. His fine 2nd costs 12, w’}‘:c';: znmm:nces created considcruhle excite- ment in the quiet towns and when, & few days jater, the Grand Jurors published an offcial Dotice to the effect that “ they will prosecute a1l known violations of the statutes relating to Sabbath-breaking—being Sec.57 of Cbap. 9.,0n paze 321 of the General Statates of this State,” the tmdespeor e, the newsboys, the telegraph operators, and even the sextons of tke churches were struck with dismay: for the law, as you see, Is eweeping, and applies to all who do any i I.mslness or labor, except work of necessity or said that Hewould doit. We would, however, semark that crestion jsan orderiy and pro- It ls well for the peace of the community that, the Grand Jurors do not propose to prosecute for the violatiun of other sections of the same law. Sec. 58, passed in 1784, reads thus: Every person who shall be present at any concert of music or other pablic diversion on Sunday,or on the cevening thereof, shall be fined §4. Sec. €0, passed in 1872, provides: FEvery person who, . between the hours of 12 o'clock Saturday night and 12 o'clock Sunday night nest following. shall keep open ang room, place, or inclosure, or any building, or any structure of any or description, in which it i6 reputed that intoxicating liquors arc exposed for sule, o that any eports or zames of chance are carried on or al- lowed, shall be fined $10. to be paid to the town where the offenec is committed, or fmprisoned thirty days, or both. A number of South Norwalk's citizens are ex- ercised in mhnl inregard to the possible enforee- ment of Sec. 62, passed in 1814 Every gmprlc(or or dniver of any vehicle, not employed in carrying the United States mail, who shall allow any person to travel tacrein on Sunday, between sunrice and sunset, except from necessity or mercy, shall be tined 320. “Well,” said a resident of South Norwalk this nlternoml, “the Graud Jurors don’t want to, but what can they do¢ There’s the law, and lhc)' must enforce it.” Thank goudness,we have but few people left wko believe that God’s duy should be made the most uncomfortable of the seven; but we Lhave sume folks here who are in high glnc over the prospect that the Sun will becnforeed. "They are church-folks, who ride to meetiue every Sunday, and leave their drivers out in the cold while they comforiably worship God within.” THE VATICAN. THE POSTIFICAL CURIA. RoxE, March 8.—The Pope has directed the preparation of studies in order that the Pontifi- cal Curis—no longer, since 1870, in conformity with the requirements of the Holy See—may be regulated in such wise s to be adapted to the present time, removing all that may be super- fluous, and placing the rest in harmony with the conditions in which the Holy Sce is situated. BEATIFICATION. The Osservatore Jomano publishes the oflicial decrees for the beatification of Maddalena, Marchioness of Canosso, who died* n 1530, und the monk Vulicrmo de_Leaval, first moved for fu the Pontincate of Urban VIL PAPAL BRIEF. Pamrs, March 8.—The Pope, in a brief an- nouncing a plenary indulgzence on the 3d of June, the golden wedding of bis Episcopate, remarks toat Providence has allowed bim, vigorous in mind aud body, to reach his present age, in spite of the terrible trials against which be is strugeling. JOAN OF ARC AND CHRISTOPAIER COLUMBUS. Tue Pope will, perhaps, live to add two Saints to the L,\lv.nd.\r; or. rather, to sanction two be- atifications. While Monsignor Dupanloup’s suit on bebalf of Joan of Arc has reached un ad- vanced stage, the Franciscans are diligently promoting the cause of Columbus, whont they claim as baving a close connection with their Order. The Archbishop of Aquila, in o long Jetter to Pius IX., urges that Columbus has de- served ,well of social civilization, Catholicism, and thd saivation of souls; that his beatification in an aze when Catholivism is represented us the enemy of all progress would show that Christian perfection and sanetity bad ever mar- velously assisted in science and art; that Co- Jumbus was indebted to the Fi iscuns in un- dertaking his voyage, and that bhis only object - a multitude of sons for the Cath- chbisnop also reminds the y 2ontiff who before his u the New World. FREE THINKING AT THE HUB THE BOSTON RADICAL GLUZ ON MOODY AND REVIVALS. Sweclal Correspondence of the World. Bostox, March 19.—Notwithstanding Pits elecy was sung 50 long ago, the original Radical Club still lives. Nobody seems to take kindly toits new name,~—Chestnut Street Club,—so the old one still elings to it, in spitc of the exist- ence of Radical Club No. 2. The latter, more democratic and less ®sthetic than its neighbor, mects to discuss such practical and knotty ques- tions 2s labor reform. while the genulne Radical Club still gathers once & month in Mrs. Joba T. Sargent’s grand old parors, where every piece of stately furniture is rich in historie associa- tions. There, around the great blazing wood- fires, « bandful of thinkers talk about literature, dip into scicuce, or wander off into boundless depths of theology. We listeners—and most of us are women, with 3 sprinkling of divinity stu- deuts—always enjoy the meetinzs. or think we do} and if We cannot soar into_space With our learued pastors and masters, or follow them through all the winding mazes of evolution, we never lose the lmclhvunt expression suitable tu Bostoninos. To-day there was a very lively conversation in Chestnut street about the revival movement. Dr. Burtol, that eccentrie genius whose white bair floats ' likea halo round his @entle face, read the essay. Hesaid revivals usually eprung up in famines: that Boston had been inactive owmng to the stagnation in busiuess, and the re- vival had come to fill the gap. evivalism bad -been a businesssincethe time of Whitclield, Moody is considered safe to engiuncer il Blaine was chosen for political feader because Le kuew so well the ropes in which ke is now entangled. He thought the crowd which fills the Tabernacle was drawn there by the larse, attractive rooms; people went to save their own Jight and fuel, or to hiear a concert grutis. But 'rrcnt things never began in crowds, though 2 machine-made Chris! \was better thau none. “Moody had better letus ‘infigels’ alone,” cried the little Doctor; **his remedy for sxepticism is an unlimited quantity of Bible; let lim take his own medicine, and e will no longer say that chastity aml sanctity have noth- ing to do with salvation !” And he ended by de‘lnrin" 1hat Moody had failed to take sensible Boston: praised Murray for pusting his needle into the bubble; and smd the duty of the hour was to convert "orthodox Saul into liberal Paul. The Rev. J. L. Dudley, who for.a long time held somewhat the same position in Milwaukee that Murray beld in Boston, and who is now preaching at Parker Memorial Hall, expressed surprise that somebody didn’t tell Mooay not to come to Boston. His preaching was effective in other cities: but when State street is idle Bos- ton hus a resort,—she can think. There was no need of importing Moody, Miss Elizabeth Peabody, the * Kindergarten Mother,” quoted a2 poem by Emerson, “ealled i Love and Thought.”” She fearcd llmuzhl had lost love a little in Boston; surely the revival sprany from love. The Rev. Dr. Warren, of Boston University, said the most refived fgrms of faith were power- less to move the working and worldly clusses, apd be welcomed any social movement that ]m:\}ie it easfer for them to turn over a new ca Here Dr. Bartol gocd-naturedly compared himself to the **off vX,” aud said Le must hold up his side of the yoke. Mrs-Cheney declared that ‘“what was not good for us was not good for others:” that the working classes were for thought with love, but only got stones when they asked for bread.’ The negroes at the South contessed that they needed another form of religion. Mr. G. Merriam, formerly editor of the Chris- tian Union, did not believe Moody’s power was to be explained away by attractive rooms and the idleness in a community. He waus a man of the people and talked to them in their own lan- guage, and God was real to him. Matthew Ar- nold compiained that people taiked of Gol as of the maun ronnd the coruer, but it was some- thing to have God as real as ‘the man round the coruer. Miss Peabody declared earnestly that Moody did the best he knew how; he had moved the people. Let the Liberals take bold and do the rest, substituting thetr wisdom for hisiznorance, The Rev. Mr. a:mxge pined for sound the- ology; Moody led men Into error, and. in his opinion, did more hurm than good. Miss Peavody cried lei!lu=lust.u:|]]\ “He de- serves to be taught; ler'us do what he don’t!” Mr. Wasson Lamn;\red Moody’s method of conversion to Rarey’s way of taming horses. Mr. Samuel Longfellow gently deplorcd the harmful excitement of revivals and M s way of talkine to children, Miss Pe..bod) - ing. * Horrible! horrible! by way of assent. But Mr. Dudiey pronouncd the Rev. Mr. Cook, the great revivalist, the man for Bostou, and said he was doing more to_rationalize aud Parkerize Boston, more to undermine the his- toric Church, than any man engased .in that work, while the very temple that was tottering applauded him. Jrs. Chenev spoke of one result of Mr. Cook’ lectures; her orthodox neighbor borrowed the € Lifc of Theodore Parker.” Miss Peabody, still burning with benevolent but vague desires to do good to somebody, sug- gested that Cook needed more watchms than Moody, being an old Calvinist at bottom, and that the Liberals ought to edueate and convert him. ‘This was the climax. and with a eneral smile and aod of approval, the meeting dispersed. PROF. SWING. 15 COMMENTS ON DR. PATTERSON'S LETTER. The alitance, March 31. The widely-known R. W. Patterson, D. D., has recently written ao 2utograph letter to an East- ern paper, which perhaps in the end will injure its author more than it will pain its chief victim. The letrer set forth the fact thai the Rev. Mr. French has come to the Founrth Presbyterian Church of this city to bring o better article of spiritusl food than it lmd been fn the habit of receiving from its former pastor, Mr. Swing, of Pattonian memory. Passing over atonce to the method of Prof. Patton, Dr. Patterson has heard a * discriminating and fair-minded brother re- mark ? that Mr, Swing does not preach the Gos- pel in its best estate. This letter is worthy of & brief analysis. A mau of Dr. Patterson’s reputation would not publish such a document without a motive beyond that. of an ordinary male or female gos~ sip. A lady correspondent or a daily reporter might readily be suspeeted of sending sucha letter for the merit or demerit of the items on its face; but Dr. Patterson doesnot take readily to letter-writing, nor to simple, charming gos- sip; but, on the opposite, he moves slowly along. any path, aud only when he will find something valuable = st the end of the route. A large cause for such s letter from such a man, & letter betraying friendship and abounding in pmonnhues, should be looked for, and this cause caunot be found in the statements it writes down about the two clergymen; tor, the writer never having heard and never hnung read a sermoun_ by the good vrotlier from the East, could not kave been so overwhelmed by the Gospel of the gentleman that the wood news could not poseibly have been retained. Ilis information about Mr. French was not so vivid, that, like murdcr, it must out. Indced, considering how scanty must bave been his information, it is wonderful how knowingly the Doctor spoke, and with what a holy patnos?{ Again, nothing new has transpired in Mr. Swing's region of country, for e has in the vear past differed from “all the Unitariuns in Supporting Mr. Moody, and las, in many in- stances, opposed the Titarian faith, Indeed, the Doctor confesses that evidence of Swine's heresy has decreased, for while Prof. Patton found may “reliable witnesses,” Dr. Patterson brings in only one, and that one, by being anonymous, lacks the honor which attached to the testators of the former prosecutor. = The further facr. that, \r. Swing’s sermons befng all published, Dr. fi.\ttelsou bad to gain from a ¢ fair-minded man* his information, goes to show that the letter ander review did not spring from any pressure of evidence upon the bram of the distinguisbed correspondent.. Nor could the letter have sprung from any custom amoug kich-minded ‘pastors of bracing up a new arrival by depressing the stock of the predecessors; for, among great mln[stem, no such custom prevails. When Dr. Gibson came tu the Seccnd Church, we do not remerm- ber that any clecgyman oi -standing hastened to congratulate the congregation upon any In- voice of greater life, and courage,'and spiritu- ality it would now cnjoy; and upon any human infirmity it had just csvaped. In barbarous. times, when new claimants of a throne desired 10 be set up, prisoners were often sent for to act as chiel cook for the King or the heir ap- parent, but_ suck a custom is almest unknown in establishing and changing the succession of the clergy, and benee the assault of Dr. Patter- son could not huve been based upon any sanguin- ary precedent in the history of pulpit expe- i o, ot more plausible is the idea that any man or woman of the Fotrth Church requested the grave theologian to publish some article that would tend to exalt Brotuer French, and depress or suppress Brather Swing, for the Telations of all these parties zre too farmonious to need disturbance ; and furthermore. if such a docu- ment might. it up the one aud let down the other, there would be 10 blessing involved for the correspondent himself. Aftérsuch o sell- abasement, what would be the gain to the Doctor for overcoming his aversion to letters and his natural incrtial “Thus driven about in our analysis, we comeat last. to an adcquate cause for the literary phe- nemenon on our table. Dr. R. W. Paiterson looks to the General Asmbly of the Presbyte- rian Church for his support and honors bere, and for tus fame hereafter, Heis a mind un- certain and titaid, He would not for anything lose the confidence of his denomination. Ap- pointmuents to great chairs in great seminaries are to be made, and the Dyal sons are oftenest calted to the front. Tie Geberal Assembly is to meet here in Mar. It may be the Doctor took too broad n position when he helped to defend Swing. The story of Damon and Pythias is a zood story, but not {utended for Christian times: It was only a Pagan tale. The story of Jypah and the stonn is better, and is also a~ Bible incident. Patter- son throws his Jonah overboard, for, better give Swine to the whales thin huve his own ves- sei tossed in astorm. Allwell at last! How smooth now the seais! Sheuld the Assembly in May look for some orthocox mun, it can find him in good Dr. Patterson, jut if it should look for u rrreat man it will pass by this letter, and will no doubt request the caididate to bunt up other evidence, and then will it appear that what he has gained in ortholoxy he has lost in nobleness. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. Bishop Fallows will hold cenfirmation services at Englewood at 3 p. m. A Methodist Sunday-Schoo. Congress will be held at St. Louis April 9-10. Bishop Cheney will confirmseveral persons at the Cnurch of the Good Shepherd this evening. The English revisers of thr New Testament have finished their revision ofthe Epistle to the Hebrews. At the confirmation servics to be held in Christ Church to<lay, Bishop Cheney will re- ceive seventy communicants. Bisbop TFallows will receiwe, in St. Paul’s Charch, between forty and fifly communicants a the’ confirmation” services to be held this evening. In Quebec 6,000 children reelve gratuitons instruction in the Catholic rdigious establish- ments, aud 4,000 indigent sick we cared for dur- ing the year. The aoniversary of Christ Church Suoday- School,—Reformed Eglseopnl-—\nth exercises appropriate to Easter Sunday, will take pluce at 8 o'dlock this afterncou. The First Methodist Epigopal Church in Tokio (Yedo). Japan, was decicated on Jao. 23, The Rev. Dr. R. 8. Maclay prached the opening germoun. - Two hundred persois were present. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in’ Victoria, Australi:, reports 122 set- tled ministers, 400 elders, 15300 communicants, 355 Sunday-sehools, and an heome of $400,000. ‘The National Reform Asociation, which has for its object the fusertion of u religions amend- ment to the Constitution of the United States, will hold a Convention in Frwell Hall, Chica- go, April 11, Delegates to the General ouncil of the Re- * formed Episcopal Church wil be elected at the meetings to be held this evaing by the various wu"re-f.\xluns in thiscity., Vardens and vestry- men for the year will also beelected. Mr. Moody’s sermons hae been translated into the Spanish. Swedish, md Armenisn lan- ges. A Swede is reading them to his coun- trymen in Mr. Moody’s chuth in Chicago. An Armenian edition has been zublished in Con- Stantinople. The Congrezational Natbnal_Council will meet next autumn in Detrof: The exact time will be late in October or arly in November. This Is a representative bod:, and consists of one delegate for every ten cliirches from each Jocal conference, one from ean State body, and one for cach 10,000 communicuts. UNIVERSITY OF TH! WEST. A meeting of the Rezentsof the University of the West was held in thearlor ot the Tre. mont House yesterday. Bisho Samuel Fallows was elected Chaneellor of theUniversity. 'T Martin Coliege of Thology of the Uni- ¥ was lurm1ll) organizd by the election of the following staff of profesors: 1. Cheir of Natoral and Pastral Theology, and Greek Languaze and Literature the Rev. W tittam. H. Cooper. D., Retor of Immanuel Church. Chica; 2. Chair of ~ystnmsllu Thelogy, the Rev. J. Howard Smith, 3. M., D.D., Zecior of Emman- ual Church, Newarl Chair of Eccles tical Hisyry and Polity, the Rev. Mason Gallagker. A.JL.. aterson, 4. Chinir of Evidences of Chistianity, the Rev, Joseph . Wilson 3, Rector of Christ Churen, Peol I The Executive Uommittee were authorized to make such furtber additions t the professional staif as may seemn best in theirdiscretion. The Collere of Theology vill prabnb‘y 20 nto operation’ forthwith in'a emporary edifice under the care of the senior Pofessor. Propozals are being considezd of donations ot land towards the “erection ¢ the necessary buildings on the_site sogenepusly donated by Edward Martin, Esq., of Red Bok, N. Y. A zru\: interest has been sakened among the 601)—1m|ders in the viaity of the si Sniversity of the Westand large dona- tlons cf land and money for the erection of buildings and the maintenzne of ‘the various colleges of the Umversity wil doubtless be made, 3ISSION UNIOX The second monthly meetin;of the Chicago branck: of the Women's Baptic Home Mission Unpion, was held ou Thursda' afternoon and evering in the parlors of te First Baptist Chureh. The members of the Sciety assembled in the afternoon and were calld to order by the President, Mrs. Norman T. Gasette. Mrs. Dr. J. N. Crouse, President of te Northwestern Union, gave an interesting ouline of the work Dronose%“ and after the tranaction of some further business the meeting adjourned, the 13 members devoting themselves to conversation to the brighteninz of the chain of {friendship and the lengthening thereof by the addition of new links of acquaintance. At'6 o’clock a table was spread in the Sunday-school-room, to whick between 200 and 300 ‘ladies and gentlemen reprecentiug the various Baptist Churches in the city were invited. Mrs. LeanderStone delivered a bricf and appropriate address of welcomne to the guests, and Mrs. Gassette introduced W. H: Smith, Esq., of Rockford, who gave an ac- count of the workk of Miss Moore at New Orleans. The entertainment was rep:m:d aud carried out to the delight of everybody, under the direction chiefly of Mrs. James . Dicker- son, Mrs. 8. C. Squires, Mrs. Thomas Foster, Mrs, Blakely, Mrs. Frye, Miss Storbell, Mrs. G. G. Pope, and Mrs. R. 8. Parker, members of the First ‘Church, who -were aided by the young ladies of the Church and Society. Before the meeting broke up, Prof. Haven, with the church choir, rehcarsed some musical pieces ina very excelicnt manner. The next mecting of the Union will beheld in the Fourth Baptist Church, THE GNION SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. At 5 mecling of this church held at the Sher- man House Wi u.lne;d:ly evening, Mr. Frederick W. Root accepted the -important position of organist and_ musical director. This arrunge- ment with _the aid expected from Mr. H. E. Mathews, Mrs. L. Freeman, Mz, Brackett, and other musical inembers of the new soclety, will make it very strong in a mnusical way. ‘The following-named ladics were uppointed a comunittee to organize a ladies’ society of the church, and held tueir first meeting at the resi dence of Mrs. Hall Saturday afternoon, namely Mrs. Amos F. Hall, Mrs, Edwin Burnbam, Mrs. James Kingon, Mrs. W. F. Brown, Mrs. Dr. Wooadyate, Mrs. Goorv-. Brackett, Mrs. Rich- ards, Mrs. E. Gardiner, Miss Linda Mathews, Miss ’\I;\r!on B:u'ry, Mrs. J. F. Curtis, and Mre. W. II. Burnctt. The Rev. Mr. Mercer will preach his last ser- mon in Detroit to-day, and remove to Chicazo carly in the weck. 'Next Sunday morning, April §, e will preach the inaugural sermonin Hersbey Hall, setting forth the views aad pur- poses of the New Church. PERSONAL. Prot. Delitzseh, of Leipsic, the well-known scholar, has recently translated the New Testa- ment fato Hebrew. Mgr. Dupaoloup, Bishop of Orleans, has gone to Rome, for the purpose, it is sald, of urging the canonization of Joan of Arc. ) The Rev. Dr. Hepworth Yas succeeded fn rafs- ing the whole £100,000, the debt on the Church of the Disciples, which he personally assumed. The Rev. Dr. W. Morley Puushbon, the dis- . tinguished Wesleyan minister, has gone to Italy “for the benefit of Lis health; 'so nlso has the Rev. Arthur Tooth, the Hatcham Vicar. Exactly what displeased the Swedenborgians in the Rev. John Chadwick’s lecture on Sweden- borg, was his description of that enthusiast “as o man of blameless life, albeit of dhomcrcd mind, the pathos -of whose terrible delusion is one of the sad(lctv. chapters in the history of abnormal genius.* The Revy. Isaac E. Beach, who died recently at Bridgeport, Conn., in bis 75th year, never rode on a railroad nor sailed iu a steamboat, and was never outside of the State of Conuecticut. He read through the Bible in course ninety-nine times, cact reading being noted on the fiy-leaf of the copy he ‘most used. Mr. Moody has now been in Boston two montbs. Iu his conversations with his friends be has expressed himself satistdled with the progress of the work up to this point, though earnestly relying upon seeing it greatly surpass- ed in the time to come. It is thought that the evangelists will remaiun in Bostou till June. The Rt. Rev. Benjamin_Bosworth ‘mlth, of Kentucky, Is the presiding anhup of the Epis- copal Church in the United States. He bas held the episcopate longer than sny prelate in the Church with the (.).ccpuun ot Bishops White and Brownell, who held it respectively forty- nine years and a balf and forty-five years. Bishop Smith will complete the forty-fifth year of his episcopate Oct. 81, 1877, Mr. Samuel W. 1all, a millionairé of “n..er— bury, Conn., who dicd o lew days ago ) ted 35000 for the improvement of l‘-xL Riverside Cemetery at that city, $18,000 for St. Jobn’s (Protestaut Episcopal) Chufl.h Suciety of Watcrbury, of which $10,000 15 for the poor in charge onm: arish 3 sla,OOO for a new church asa memonnl of hid wifc, $10,000 to the Prot- estant Episcopal Church Missionary Society, 210,000 for a home for indigent women, provided 1 similar smount is raised in three years, and §5,000 for a soldiers’ monuiment. Members of Plymoutb Church, Brooklyn, will remember the Rev. Alfred J. Bray, an eloquent young preacher from Manchester, who filled its pulpit last sumwer, and was_ subsequently calied to Zion Church, Montreal, the lcading Congregational Chureb in the Dominion. Ie has just stirred up a theological hornet’s nest by a sermon on_* Victims of lu'n.L " m whick e touk decided Universalist zmund declaring that if there was one soul finally unsaved in eternity it would repder the light of heavenas Dlack us night, 2ud he should think the love of God had failed. in its completencss of effect upon the human soul; further, that the sacritice F Chirist was not to appease au angry deity.but to draw nen up to Nim. His Deacous have in- vited him to reconcile these views with New Testament teachings. The Catholic Bishop of Vancouver’s 1sland is about o take u trip to the frozen regions of ‘Alaska, nnd will be gone about a year, traveling alone. ' He writes to the Catholic Indian Bureau at Washington asking foraid, and saying: ‘- You are probably aware that since 1568, in which year Alaska was ceded to the United States, we DeRan to visit Sitka and the southern part of that Territory, which bas always been under the spintual jurisdiction of the Bishop of Vancou- ver's Island. In 1873, immediately after receiv- ing the Episcopal consceration, I traveled in Sitka, and theuce 1,120 miles west. as far as the Islands Kodiac and Unalaska, while at the same time the Rt. Rev. Bishop Clut and Father Lecorre, who did_not know under whose juris- Qiction ' that Territory had been placed, traversed it in its northern portion. Since 1873 1 bave closely watched every ofpouunit) o reach the northwestern coast of Alaska, but in vain. Last year the Alnska Commercial Com- pany informed me tit their vessels would not proceed further than Unalasks, one of the Aleu- tian Islands.” The Bishop has mow made ar- rangements to bo conveyed to St. Michael, whence he starts ou his episcopal journey. CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will ofiiciate morning and evening in St. John's’ Chiurch, Ashland ave- nue, nesr Madison street. The Easter programme will conslst of **Christ the Lord Ts Risen To-Day ™' sntbem, ‘*Christ Our Passover™; Te Deum Ja G%; Jubilate Deo In “*E"; b ©Lift Your Glad Voices™: Gounod's Gloria Tibi; of- fertolre, Angels’ Serenade, for three female Volces; congregational bymns, recessional, etc. The choir Ia a donble quartet, led by Mr. Lemnel Freeman, organist. —The Rt.-Rev. Bishop McLaren and the Rev. | Canon Knowles will officiate in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul. comer of Washington and Poorin streete, Choral Morning Prayer und first colobration of the Holy Communion at7s. m.; Morning Prayer aud Confirmation service and sec- ond celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a. . ; Sunday-scacol festival at 3:0 p. m.i aud Evening KOS & Lianis will offciate in St. James Charch, corner of Cass und Huron streets, mom- juz and evening. Celebration of the Holy Com- manion in the ‘horning ana Sabbath-school festival 2 P Rev. E. Sullivan, Rector, and the Rev. L. Des Drisav, assistant minister, will oficiate in Trinity Church, corer of Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avente, morning and eveninz. Celebra- tion of the Holy Communion at @ and m. Sunday-schoot festisal at, 3 p. m. Jec Che fl&!nn‘lelcflnn t& %\'en‘lnn e It Came and How to Use “Bflfg Rev. Francis Mansderd will officiate in the Church of the Atonement, corner of Waahingzon t3, morping und evening. e E““J. Bredvere will obiciate in St. strect, mear Chicagzo i venue, morming and evening. - i‘l‘he Tev, Clinton Locke will officiaté in Grace Choreh, Wabash avenue, near Sle.wnlh street. Celebration of the Holy Communion at 7 and 11 3. anday-school festival at § p. m.,und masical Service in the evening. —The Rev. W. H. John's Chusch, Ashland avenue, btreet, morning and evening. T The Res. Arthur Ritchie will officiate in the Churéh of the Ascension at 9:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. ‘Celooration of the Holy Communion at7 ond —“The Rev. D. F. Warren will officiate in St. Jar sChu'ch Cottage Gr%\'u avenae, near Thir- n strect, morning and evening. b Elxh‘ l’l ev. LG. F. Cushman will ‘officiate in St. Stephea's Church, Jobnson etreet, between Ta lor And Twelfth. Choral service and sermon morn- In" and evening. Sunday-school festival at 3§ flupldns will officiate in St. near Madison P he Rev. Luther Pardee will oficlate In Col- vary Charch, \arren avenue, between Oakley bireetand Western avenue, morning and evening. Celebration of the_Holy Commuzion at 7:30 and E 30a. m., sud ‘Sunday-school festival at —Thl Rev. T. N. Morrison will officiate In the Church of the Eylyhfmy. hroop street, between Monroeand Adams, morning and eruninv —Thg Rev. W. J. Petric will ofiiciate In- the Church of Slfl?r, m?“ o(‘ Lincoln ‘and Belden avenues. morning and evening. —The Rev. H:I“xry G. Perry will oficiate in All- Saints’ Churcn, corner of Carpenter and Ohio strepts, morning and evening. Sunday-school Easter festival at2:30 p. m. —The Rer. F. N. Luson will officiate in the Good Shepherd Mission at Lawndale in the morning. he Rev. F. N. Luson will ofiiciate In Em- manuel Church at La Grange, morning and. ¢vea- The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will officiate ln St. Mark's Church, Evanston, morning and evening. —Services morning and evening in the Church of lhE noly Communion, Dearborn strect, near Thir- —Servh‘,:s momiog and evening in St. Panl's Church, Hyde Park avenue, betwecn Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. Snunday-school in Hope M\&-Xnn. No. 905 Mil- \vaul\zuL avenue, at 2:30 p. Curry, Superin- tendent EFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Re. W Williameon will preach this morn- Ing In the Church of the Good Shepard, comner of Jones and Homan atreets. - Sublect: * The Itisen Christ.” The Rev. Bishop Cheney will preach in tha evening. Canfirmation after evening services. —The Rt Rev.. Bishop Fallows will preach morn. lngand eveningin St Paul's” Church, corner of Washington snd Ann streets. ~Evening subject: Bible Spiritualism; the Cloud of Witnesses."” Confirmation after ev. enln, service. sarthe Rr.-Rev, Blstop ‘:P}’ll\llo:ezmll reach an aster sermon in Trin urch, Engl oclock this afternoon. pElsmasy; st e —The Rev. R. H. Bosworth will preach morning and evening in Bmmanuel Charch, corner of Han- orerr:{‘nd ;{‘\\ enty-cighth streets. —The Rtev. M. D. Church will preach in Johw'a Church, Gakwood bonlevard, B3390 clock. this afternoon, - —The Lt.-Rev. Bishop Cherey will administer the right of confirmution. followed by the Lord’s Supper, at 10:45 this morning in Christ Church, ichigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street, at whicli the Rev. M. D. Church will assist. Anni-. vcm\ry ‘Easter exercises of the Sunday-schoolat 3~ p. m. _The Rev. J. D. Cowan will preach an Easter sermon this morning in Grace Church, Hoyne ave- nue and LeMoyne stncl Prof. W. M. Blackburn will preach in the evening. —1he Rev. Dr. Cooner will preach morning and cvening in Imannel Church, Ceatre ilnc!, Morninz subject: **The Resnrrection of ist, the Beliesers iope™'; evening subject: **The Dry Bones of Ezekial's Vision. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. The Rev. C. C. McCabe will preach this morning in the Centenary (.lmn:h Manroe, near Morga strect. The Rev. S. H. Adams will preach in L!x: cyening on “* The Life and Character of Sumuel.” —The Rev. John Atkinson will preach In Grace Chureh, corner of LaSalle and White streets. Morning subject: **Methodisn eveniug: **The Risen Christ. —The Rey. Dr. Tiffany will preach morning and evening in Trinity Cburch, Indiana svenue, near 'l‘wr.-my-lnnnh strects. Infant baptism at morning service. Subject for evening: **Mosew the Deliv erer,’ —The Rev. Dr. Willing will preach in the Lang- ley Avenue Church in the morning. Subject: *“Resurrection of Christ.” In the evening an Easter concert by the Subbath-school. —The Rev. A. W. Putten ‘will preach thls morn- ingin the Wabash Aveoue Church, corner of Foor- teenth strcet. Maj. Whittle will preach i the evening, assisted by Alr. and rs. McGranahan. —The Rev. M. M. Parkhumst will preach this cvening in the First Church, corner of Clark and Washington streets. Praise mecting 3t 9:30 3. m. Lord's 5%&901’ 2t 10:45. —The Rev. Dr. Wiltlamson will preach morning’ and evening {n the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second strect. Morning subject: -* Easter, History, and Modern Meaninz of the Featival."” —The Rev, S. McChesney will preach this morn- ing in the Park Avenuc Church. The Rev. C. C. AfcCabe will preach in the ¢vening, Buptismat morning service. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. John Abbott Freach will preach this morning in the Fourth Church, corner Kush and Superior streets. —The Rev. James Maclanghlan will preach morn- ing and evening in the Scotch Church, corner of Sungamon and Adams streets. Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach aud evening in the Fifth Charch, corner of Indiana avenne und Thictieth street. ~—The Rer. Glen Wood will preach this morning inthe Eight Cburch, corner of Washington and Tobey strects. Bible reading this evening. —The Rev. F. L. Patton will preach in Jeflerson Park Charch, corner of Throop aud Aduma streets, norning and evening. —The Rev. E. N. Darrett will preacirin West. minster Church. Moming subject: **The R surrection "; eveniug, +Xot Far from the Kin: dom of God.™ —The Rev. Henry J. Miller mill préach In the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes and Ouk uve- nnes. Enster services in the moming, and third lecture ou the Parables in the evening. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. D. N. Vanderveer will preach ‘morning and evening in the Union Park Church. Morning +“Sowing the Seed'; eveuing, “*To Dic —The Rev. Prof. Fisk will preach in the First Church, corner Washington 2nd Ann streets, in the morning, the Rev, W.J. Erdman in the atter- noon at 2:30, and Maj, Whittle and Charles M. orton in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, the lattera sister of the late Prof. Blise, will sing at the evening meeting. —The Rey. Churlm Hale Everest will preach morning aud eveniny in Plymouth Church, between Tweniy-ifth and Twenty-sixth strects. 'he Rev, Z. S. Holbrook will preach morning and evening in Oskland Church. Morning snbjet_L *¢Our Fatber Who Art *': eveaiug, ‘*Heave: —The Kev. C. A. Towle will p and evening in the Betbsny Charch, Paulina and \\ st Huron streets. —The Rev. L. T. Chamberlain will preach in the New England Church, corner of Delaware plice and North Dearborn street, morning znd evening. —The Itev. Georze I, Peeke will preach’in the Leavite Street Chinrch. Easter sermon in the morn- vid and Shimeleck, or White Lies,” BAPTIST. . F. Ravhn will preach in the Free The Rev. N. Church, comer of Loomis sua Jackson street, woming and evening. he Rev. Wood will preacn morning and in the Centennial Charch, corner of Lincoln and Juckson sireets. —The Rev. Galasha Anderson will preact io the Second Churcl, corner Morgan and Monroe streets. Morning subject. ** Donbting Thomas *'; evening, “+The Law of the Sabbath. —E. K. Cressy, of the Baptist Theologica] Semi- nary, will preach morning and. evenin in the Cov- entry Strect Charch. —The Kev. Dr. Smith_will preach In University Place Church, comes of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, in the morning, and the Kev. Dr. J. B. ackson in the evening. i —The Hev. D. B. Cheney will preach In the Fourth Church, corner of Washingion and Paulina streets, morning aud even UNITARLAN. 1 The Rev. J. T. Sunderlind preaches morning and evening in the Fourth Church, 789 Cottaze Grove avente. Morning subject: - Children's Sermon”:_evening, - Miracles." —The’ .. Sunderland_ will preach at 3 oclock this aficrnoon in_the Old School House, Englexood. Subjects **Maklng the Most of —Tne Rev. Brovke Hereford will preach morn- m" and evemng in the Lhur:h of the Htsi!all. cor- :1 -5 ing, —Tm.- Rev. Robert Coliver will preach morning and mnlng in Unity Church, —The Rev. E. P. Powell will preach in the Third Charch, tomer of Jlonroe and Lafiin streets, in the morning only. Subject: -*The Regeneration of l.‘umlmly by the Resurrection of Its Best Life.” GNIVERSALISTS. The Rev. Sumner Ellis will hold appropriate Easter services at the Church of the Redeemer, cor- mer of Washington and Sangamonm treets, this morning. —The Rev. J. W. Hanson will preach io the Old School-House st Englewwood ia the morning. Sub- ject, ~*All Sin Will” Be Justly Punished and All Sinners Mercifolly Forgiven.”” —The Rev. Dr. I'y(]t.r will preach in the morning | inSt. Paul's Church, Michigan asenue, between Sixteenth 2nd Eighteenth streets. Inthe evening there will be a Sunday-school Easter concert in the lectare-room. CHRISTIAN. A 7. White will preach in the Centre Church, cornea of Van Buren strect and Campbell avenue, i the morning. Subject: ** Chrst 23 the World's Rem.cmen —The Rev. D. M. Graham will presch in the Firat Churcli, corner of Indiana avenae and Twen- ty-fifth strect, in the morning only. SWEDENBORGAN. The Rev. Dr. Hibhard will preach in the New Church iial, corner of Eighteenth streetand Prairie avenue, in the morning, and 1n_the Temple, corner of West Wushington strect and Ogden avenue, at :30 in the atternoon. Raptism, cocrmation, and Holy Supper at both services. LUTHERAN. . The Rev. ‘Edmand Belfoar will preach morning and evening in the Charch of the Holy Trinity, cor- ner of North Dearborn and Erie streets. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. IT, 3. Payater will preach morniogand evening In Caivary Tabernacle, No. 820 Ogden av- enue, between Harrison and Flournoy streets, - —The Rev. Glen Wood will preach i the chapel of the Washingtonian Home this afternoon st oelock. —The non-sectarian Bible meeting will be held at Na. 126 Washington street ut 2:30 o'clock this aftermoon. Subject for lecture and discussion: “*Tne uniform agreement of the Scripture.’ —The Disciples of Chrlat wil et at No. 220 West flnndalpll street at 4 p. r L. Vo ichmond will lectare_before the Pt Soclely of Saimatonlists. I Grow's Hall No. 517 West Mudison street, morninz and _even- ing, on the occasion of the twenty-ninth anniver- sary of modern Spiritualism. Subject fora poem chosen by the andlence in_the forencon, and in the cvening ++The History of Modern Spiritaat: ism, and What It Has Doné in the Twenty-Nine Yeara.” Previous to the esening lecture a child of Judge Holbrook will be christened by the spirit of Oncna. Services close with & poem commemo- ratise of the day. —'The Pragreum Lyceum will meet n Grows Hall, No. 517 Weat Madison stceet, at 12:30 p. m- CALENDAR EOR THE WEEK. xmscnru.. April 1—Easter-Di A 3 Nongay I Easter-week. 4oril 3—Tacadsy in Enster-week, CATHOLIG Aprii 1—Easter-Sunday. Jiprl 2—Easter-Moudsy. % AP 5 Easter-Tuesaay. . Ziprit —0F the Octase. Zpril 5-07 the Octare, SprilG—Of the Octave, . [ Lprll 7—0f the Octaves THE GAME OF CHESS: CrEss DrrecToRT. —Chicago Chess Club, No. | and 65 Washington street; open from9a. n.fi 10p. m. Chess players meet daily at the Tremont House (Exchange) and :.he Sherman Houge (Base- ment). AN communications intcndcd forthis deplrtment ? shonid be addressed to THE TRIBUNE, and indorsed **Chess.” TO CORRESPONDENTS. J " **L. C. W."—The problem Is lnpnrenuy sound, , ‘but tao easy for publication. s **T. D. H.”—Black can defeat the mate lnymu' problem by 2..Bto K 2ch. **H. T. W."—Your key to Problem No. fi'wll' B to.Q 5, which liberates the Rook. * B +**C. A. P.” and **B. and B.™ cerved, and shall have early attention. **E. S. W."—The ‘‘Two Knights Defense" Is considered by good mutnorities perfectly safe and satisfactory, between equal p]uy:‘:,n, 2 o T, A W."—A game end!u§] in stalemate i drawn, and the **credit " certal ly shonld beloms - to nthu Pplayer who receives or compels lm:h -xalc H o 2+ Ex PAssaxt."—Tt s not “‘the sapposition ix ‘self-mate problems that Dack, knowing the object , of his opponent, is presnmed to help the same, rather than prevent.” On the contrury, Black is presumed to frustrate that obj:ct, if possible. In Enlkg?xz }fdch. it BL. 1B laked Py then White 2. ay other possible move of the defense has an equally decisive answer. *4* Correct solation to igma rece] from G, . Perrys 9o 1 Comonal S y. Ormzun& E. Barbe, E. "R B..d. E, Som, o IR Wegty o Sank i oy ; T Scott, Oawego; N. X ooomaen I ENIGMA NO. 70. nr MR €. W., oF Atmxm Klnunqm R GB4 fsatiyin %{:5’“9"‘“ Knight st K K3 oAt ke Pawnot K6 £ annulx 2 Fiwnatdpa 5 y PawnatQKt2 “ “ e K" Wmt: to play and mate in three moves. PROBLEM XNO. 70. BY MR. E. R. B., CHICAGO. Black. s //// W % 7 77 g, 1 %W//Pé%/ fal // ?}7”// ?///‘// 7 g // W//zl _ /f/ g % ‘White. White to play and mate in three moves. *,* Problem No. 69 requires the addition e 3’ Black Pawn at, QKt2to prev:nt a second solutlee byl..KtoKt5, ond2..BwK t\x\ 7 7 N D N SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 08. Black. 1..Ptakes i 2P moves I 2.Qtakes Pch 3. Ktto K 4 wate KtoRB7 3..Q mates FRUmmBIE4ch [t seem, mt tbe correction made last week to Problem No. 08 will not do. ‘The anthor sugzests, instead, thut a Black Pawn be added at Q Kt7. The eolution i withheld till next week.—ED.} I 2K B THE PROPOSED CHESS CLUB. The proposition to start a new Chesa Club in this city has met with very general approbation, and the scheme will be 8 success, A Committee of the subscribers are now looking for centrally-located cate: they will have no troable in finding 2 suitable establishment, we think. The Club will atart w ith from fifty t seventy-five members; moatly basl- ness-men, who are at lejsure after 3 or 4 o'clock fn the afternoon, -and who tale pleasare in a gume of chess and a cup of coffee before going home tosup- per. But there are o large numoer of chess-play- ersintown whoare engaged during the day, and the Committee must sceto it that for the accom-. modation of these the_chess-room will be open fn the eveningand on Sundays. We again pablish lic plan on which the Club will be conducted. It en tried and fonnd very satisfactory in Exat- 4 and In Europe: R clubrroon is part. of acafe. The daesof ‘members are S1 for three (or four) montha: these [unds are nsed for the-purchase of chess 0ooks and magazines: for prizes in_tournaments, and other clicya purposes. The proprietor of the cafe far- nishes the site nmmnbec of chess tables and men. The club-roomn is free to everybody whom the proprictor chouses to aumit, put the proprietor must cliarge zon-members 10 cents for playlag chesa. CHESS IN CHICAGO. Game in the Chicago Tournament of 1874 be- tween Mesars. Bock and Judd. FRENCH OPENING., Mg. F. Bouk. nl:.s!hx Jopo. (8) White has secored the better position. w(h) 1f Ktto Q 7, 16..Kt tdkes Pch, and 17..Q (©) A miscalculation which loses the game. ‘White did not foresce Dlack’s seventeenth move, Third American Chess Congreis. **CHESS BRILLIANT." KING'S GAMBIT: White—Hxc Kotscut. | Black-Mn. Mtenrex ki ProR4 WRI4 takes KtwoB3 0K Kt B4 CRtoRez wi4 PloQy PloRit4 PloRE3 takes P takes B takes & © takes & 0Q3 i 'sq toR3 » | 10 QKeo s B takes P 150K takes B 0 27 ch 12 Bro Ke2 0 £ 5 eh Wikl takes P 1 KKt RS takes P 15 Bto Kt 5 R4 16, Kt takesQ P tloRTch Ko ke t10B6Gch 18..B takes K| takes I3 199t Kxch wBsq o K7eh 1o Ktsq KttoEB4& 0 Q1S 1 L takes Q akes takes B akes Kt wEs 26. B0 QL4 takes Rt 27, Kt takes B wK7en 287K takes B azea P 29 HwB3 WQks W RtwB¢ oG Kré 31 PtoRs wkS 0G4 wKes takos P takes P t10Q3 White resiiied. ——————— THE SABBATH. The Sabbath breaks for all, As week by week Time harries on its way; 1t breaks witn peacefal light, i ades with coming miht; d Jo! its very stiliness seems o say— " God's bleased day. " The Sabbath speaks o ail— Remember me, and keep e oy, too.” How happy they whoresd! Tow hlema they who pecdt To spend this day with Iis command fn view, As all shonid do. The Sabbath gives 3 rest To toiling hands, to worn and weary feet; ‘And, coming 'mid the strife, The cares of active life, Tt needed] rest, that we 50 often greet, Is very sweet. ‘The Sabbath calls for. zYl‘l(!e. Tu sweet return for ali His love and care. O heed thecail to-day, And enter while yoa may The portals of onr Fathet's house of prayer, 'To praise Jlim there! Epwarp A. Baruzs. . Caicaco, March 28, 1877. '—Problems res