Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1877, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 22, 187/~SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 ~. RELIGIOUS. Services at the Lake Bluff Sunday-School Con- vention. Society of the Holy Cross--- Debts of Universalist Churches. A Heathen Heretic Turns Up—De- yotion in the Confederate Army. Regulation Regarding . Catholic Picnics---A Batch of Doc- tors of Divinity. ghe Church in General--~Relig- ious Svrvices to Be i Hekd To-Day. fos LAELM BLUFF. THE SUNDAY-S7HOOL CONVENTION. ‘There was a very gad attendance at the Lake Blof campgrounds yesterday, the fine weather attracting many persons from Chicago, Racine, andother cities around. The services of the Sanday-School Assembly were commenced at Ba. m., when what is lnown as tho “children’s pour” washeld. The Rey. Simeon Gilbert, editor of the Advance, then spoke on “Lesson Systems in thejSunday-tichool,” and the normal class was addressed on *‘ Bible History” by Mr. 3.8. Ostrander. ‘Attbe regular mecting at 11 o'clock, Mr. M. C Hazard, of the National Sunday-Schoot lectured on ‘* Bible Methods of Teach- ing.” He sclected a n timber of illustrative sub- jects, the first being tire story of Joshua's deal- {ngs with the Israclite:. They were stiff-necked wet conceited, pufled up with pride and vain- glory. They were pro a of their descent from ‘Abraham, and that the y Were the chosen people of God. A sharp lesson was needed to teach them that God r uled the world, and that ‘His commandments mu st be strictly lived up to. Teachers should make 115¢ of this Jesson by im- g upon the chihiren that God was the fountain of all power and Blessing. and that ‘their lives should be con secratea to service. ‘They must also be show t that the way of right ‘was not an easy one; th:tt many trials awaited the people of the Lord before the Promised ‘could be reached. _ The next illustration v.ras found in the ninth chapter of Judecs, where it is told how Gidcon, aithough he had’ been chosen to Go so great a work for the glory of God, yet rerused to accept the ralership. In answer to the repeated de- mands of the people that he should judge the Jand, Gideon told them the fable of how the trees went forth t choose them a King. The palm, the obtve, and the vine all refused, but at last the bramble accepted. Teachers should point ont that the bramble ruled a great deal to.» much in modern life also. The more intelligent and cultured haying abandoned the government to a great extent, it bad in many instances tan into the hands of the politicians of a Jo w order who were perfectly willing to accept the oflices.. The re- sult was degrading to all, and the rule of the brambie. proved to be despotic.im the worst de- eCther lessons were taken from. the parable of the poor man’s ewe lamb, told by: Nathsn to David; the story of the woman taken in adw- tery, and other well-known Permone of Scrip- tore. In conclusion Mr. Havard impressed upon teachers and children alike the necessity for a thorough study of the les tons every day. They should not allow their scklars to remain quite so ignorant .as the one who quoted, “If a man compel thee to Ee, whh him a mile, by the train”; or as the singing which shouted forth “Where are now the three blue children?” ‘Witnout constant study. the I.:ssons jrould be thrown away almost entircly. and it was well to follow the instructions as Iztia down in the series. In every case the teacher should take eare to explain to the children. the meaning of obscure words or passages, and should encour- age them to ask questions in Tegard to points with which they were untamil jar. ‘fhe afternoon lecture was by Mr. Frank Beard, of New York. Mr. | is a facile artist, and his operations with crayon and charcoal were highly relished. by the meeting, the children being specially interested. He took * for bis subject the Sunday-school, and drew a series of caricatures of persons connected with jt. His typical church trustee, who thinks that Sanday-echools are not managed half 50 ‘well as when he was a boy, was followed by the foppish young Superintendent, who: isa great hand at getting up picnics and sociables, carries ‘a cane, and wears light kid-gloves. He docs not pay Much attention to the school govern- ment, that ialookec after by the Assistant Si perintendent, who was shown holding an infan- ee ade th oe one ee ete sonable young lady, the youog lady of the Bible-class, the youthful Librarian who despises small boys, and some other familiar types were shown, and the meeting closed with singing “‘ Till Jesus comes.” ‘The normal class was addressed at 4p. m on “Bible Geography by the Rey. J. William- son. The eleventh Chautangua lesson was the one laid down ior the day. This includes the geographical divisions of Palestine and the ad- jacent countries, the principal cities and towns, TH aud mountains mentioned in the Bible. ‘The class were all catechised on the subjects mentioned in Genesis and displayed _considera- ble research. In the evening the Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., delivered his lecture on “That Boy, nearly all the people on the ground. attending. The programme for to- day is as follows: 9a. m., Sunday-school, C. B, Stout, Esq., of New Jersey, Superintendent; ‘Ya, m.,‘sermon, by Charles #. Deems, D. D., of New York City; 2:30 p. m., sermon, by the Rev, Dr. Buckley, of New York City; 4p. m., children's meetiug, conducted by C. B. Stout, and mothers’ meeting, conducted by Mre Emily Huntington siiller; 7p. m., eventide coufer- ence; 8 p. m., sermon, bythe Rev. Dr. Newman, of Washington, D. C. 2 CONFESSION. THAT PAMPHLET, “THE PRIEST IX ABSOLU- TION.” New York Times. Losnos, July 5.—There is still another phase in the row with the Ritualists over that sensa- tional phampilet, ‘* The Priest in Absolution.”” Several phases, indeed. . At the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury the Archbishop amnouuced that he had had an interview with oneof the clerzymen connected with the book, and that the Society of the Holy Cross had * agreed to call a meeting at the earliest possible moment, at which they would decide what state- ment they desired to make in their own vindication and to Jay before the Bishops. At the same time, another *member of the Society, the Rev. M. Mur ray, of Chiselhurst, had entirely and publicly disowned the book, and said that, as a matter of fact, he had never read or used it. The Archbishop also sald that he bad received an- other letter trom another member of the So- cety who heard the debate in the Lords, and . Said that he felt the utmost indignation at what he thought were injurious aspersions, but when, on returning home, he lookea into the book, Which till then be had kept under lock and key, hefelt that no words could be too strong to condemn the advice given in that book; and, if the practice of confession involved any such questions as were in that book, it should be re- farded with abhorrence. Thewriter went on to say that the members of the Holy Cross So- dety were all as ignorant as himself the contents of this ‘unhappy book,” and would repudiate its principles 33 sincerely as he did himself. In justice to those Persons and himeelf, the writersaid be ventured Yo trouble the Archbishop with that explana- tion, and to say that he was very sorry tie So- ciety of the Holy Cross ever came into pos- session of the book, the second part of which, he said, he should move should be utterly de- .,Stroyed. After this prelude the Bishop of Loa- ‘don moved a resolution asking the Lower House of the Conrocation to consider immediately the aeclaration by the whole House of Bishops in Sal, on the subject of confession. “What home leealy to the surface by the discussion in the Rouse of Lords was, he grieved to say) only an mdication of 8 Pp Wid system of confession in the of England—a system totally at ‘Yariance with the doctrine and principles which the Church professed and taught. In no case did the law of the Church recommend con- T fession as an advantageous habit, as natural or expedient. Nothing could be more unlike the true doctrine of the Church of England than the principles faught in the Society of the Haly Cross. He took his view of the doctrine from the “first part’? of the book referred to, and this was compiled at the request of the Society by a clerzyinan who, it was said, was se- lected from his high character, their great confidence in him, and, moreover, because’ of his “great experience” in confessing, it be- ing said that he confessed merchants, bankers and others in the city. Such questioning was perilous to both confessor and the con- fessed, and the parts quoted in the House of Lords were sufficient to show that if persons were brought to such an unmanly and unwom- anly pruriency thet it had to be laid down that they Were not to touch hands, there was a state of danger in the whole proceeding which carried its own condemnation. Such 4 system must diminish the delicacy of feeling and self-respect of those who had ‘thus questioned and been uestioned, and 2 lady who bad been a Roman atholic, but now was brought to a true knowl- edge of the Savior, had written to express her grief that this system had been pressed upon a young girl in the English Chureh, as the horror oie fat i Jormerly ae the atime drew near for ing of the Was Now brous! bt to her mind. Priest Wns Bey Sa e irrepressible Whalley brought the subject up inthe House again yesterday, moving that the House declare that the doctrines and prac- tices set forth in the book are dangerous to the best interests of socicty and religion, when— alas for Whallev!—the Speaker’s attention was called to the fact that there were not forty mem- bers present, and the House was “counted out.”” The statement is freely made, apparently on food authority, that, at the meeting of the So- ciety of the Holy Cross, the obnoxious book will be withdrawn. This result will have been attuined owing to a friendly conference between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London and the Reys. F. H. Murray and C. F. Lowder and other members of the Holy Cross Society, but I have my doubts if this action will suffice to calm the agitation now raging. . The Pall Wail Gazette probably speaks ts opinion of the average Englishman when it VS: “The contrition of various members of the Society of the Holy Cross for having been found out will not awaken much sympathy among the English public. Dr. Jackson feared, he sald, that the extent to which the practice of confes- sion prevailed inthe Church was not known, ‘for it was only on the previous day that the diocesan inspector asked him what he should do in regard to schools under the care of members of this Society where—the fact could not be hidden—the children were ‘subject to a system of confession of this character.’ Tho Bishop did not state what his auswer to the diocesan fospector was, or even whether he has as yet made up his mind what that official ‘should do’ in the circumstances. But the members of the Society of the Holy Cross may. rely upon it that the public will have very little difliculty in making up their minds what to doin the matter. We remarked the other day upon the pertinent question put by Mr. Whalley on this eubject the other night, and upon the unsatisfactory character of Lord Sandon’s reply: and these Gisclosures of the Bishop of London clearly demonstrate the necessity of keeping public at- tention fixed upon the scandal. If the Educa- tion Department have no power to prevent the introduction of these practices into schools aided dy the Government grant. it is high time that powers of this kind should be vested in some authority or another. It is monstrous that there should be no power of withholding public money from schools, the managers of which make use of their position to corrapt and demoralize the children whose education they are supposed to superintend.”” FIGURES THAT LIE. DEBTS OF UNIVERSALIST CHURCHES. To the Editor of The Tribune. CucaGo, July 19.~—I notice that you copy an article from the Alliance exhibiting the mort- gaged debts of the Chicago churches. The Universalist churches are represented as owing $165,000. I do not know how nearly correct the statement may be concerning other churches, but the gate debt of the Universalist churches is but 350,000, all on St. Paul's (vr. Ryster’s), the others not being incumbered. the AUjance is as far out or the way with other churches as with the Universalist, itis very in- correct. ‘Mav I suggest that it would be in good taste for tlie AUiance, which is the organ of & move- ment that does not exhibit suflicient enterprise toerect a church or own a hall, but that con- tents itself by using a theatre for purposes of worship, to criticise the well-mcant efforts of others with care, gnd at least tell the truth when it bears any kind of witness anent its neighbors? d. W. Hanson. RELIGION AND REBELLION. Rec. J. Wiltiam Jones in the pniladelphia Times. But the religious clement which entered that army, or was developed in it, has absolutely no parallel in ali history. Ournoble old chief (Gen. Lee) was a Christian not merely in profession put in reality, and did everything in his power to promote the moral and spiritual welfare of hisarmy. The piety of “ Stonewall” Jackson isas historic as his splendid military achieve- ments, and the influence which he exerted for the religious good of his officers and men can never be fully known in this world. These noble leaders had at the first the co-operation of such Christian soldiérs as Gens. D. H. Hill, T.R. Cobb, A. H. Colquitt, J. E. B. Stuart, W. A. Pendleton, John B. Gordon, C. A. Evans, John Pegram, and a large number of other general, field, staff, aud subordinate officers; and during the War Gens. Ewell, Long- street, Hood, Pender, RH. Anderson, Rodes, Haxton, Baylor, and a number of others mad: peoicselons of religion. Of the first four companies from Georgia which arrived in Virginia, three of the Captains were carnest Christians, and fifty of onc of the companies be- longed to one church. Ifemember one single resiment which reported over 400 church mein- bers when it first came into service, and another regiment which contained five ministers of the Gospel,—a Chaplain, one Captaiu, and three privates. Thave not space to give the details, but I have in my possession the minutes of our Chaplains’ association, my diary carefully kept at the time, files of our religious wewsbapers, a lanre num- ber of letters and memoranda from Chaplains and army missionaries, and other data, going to show that the world has rarely witnessed such revivals as we had in Lee’s army from the autumn of 1862 to the close of the War. f never expect to address such congregations, or to witness such results, as we daily had in that army. I trequently preached to several thousand eager listencrs, and I have seen over 500 inatiirers after the way of life pre- sent themselves at one time, and have wit- neseed hundreds of professions at one service. T preached one day in Davis’ Mississippi brigade toalarge congregation who assembled in the open air, and sat through the service with ap- parently the deepest interest, notwithstanding the fact that a drenching rain wus falling at the time. Upon several occasions I saw barefooted men stand fn the snow at our service, and one of the Chaplains reported that in February, 1864, he preached in the open air to a very lire cou- pregation, who stood in snow several inches deep during the entire service, and. he counted in the number fourteen barefooted men. And this ness to hear the Gospel was even more manifest during the most active campaigns. On those famous marches of the valley campaign of 1862, which won for our brave fellows the sobri- net of “Jackson’s foot cavalry,” I never found the men too weary to assemble in Jarge num! bers atthe evening prayer-mecting, and enter with hearty zest into the simple service. ‘At half-past, Zo'clock in the morving the day of the tattle of Cross Keys, large part of Key's brigade promptly assembled on an intimation that there would be preaching. The Chaplain of the Twen- ty-ffth Virginia Regiment (the Rev. Dr. George ©. Taylor, How a missionary to Italy) was inter- rupted at’ “thirdly,” in bis able and eloquent sermon, by tae advance of the enemy, and soon the shock of battle sueceeded the invitations of the Gospel. athe thornipg Early’s brigade was relieved. from its perilous position at Warrenton White Sulphur Springs, on the second Manassas cam- paign, and recrossed to the soutn side of the Rappahannock, one of the largest congrera- tions 1 ever saw assembled for preachiug, un- mindful of the fierce artillery duel that was going on st the time, until the service was in- terrupted by the falling of an immense shell, jo the centre of the congregation, but was re- sumed and completed so soon as the command could be moved back toa more sheltered posi- tion. The night before the last day at the second Manassas, Col. W. H. S. Paylor was in command of the old Stonewall Brigade,of which he was made Brisedicr-General tue very day he was killed. Sending for his friend Capt. Hugh White, be said to him: “JT know the men are very much wearied out by the battle of to-day, and that they need all of the rest they can pet to fit them for the impending struggle f to-morrow. But I cannot consent that we sball seek. our repose unlil we bave had & brief scason of worship to thank God for the Fictory of to-day, and to beseech His continued protection and blessing during this terrible con- fict2' The men were quietly notified that there would be 2 short prayer-mecting, ana nearly the qhoie of the brigade, and a number from other commands, assembled at the appointed place. Capt. Hugh White led the meeting with the in- telligent. zeal of tne experienced Christian. Col. Buylor joiucd in it with the fervor of one who hed but recently felt the preciousness of & new-born faith in Christ, and_ it was solemn and impressive scene to all. In the_ great bat- tle which followed the next day, Col. Baylor, with the flag of the “Stonewall” Brigade in hishands, and the shout of victory on his lips, fell, pending a splendid charge, and gave bis no- ble life to the cause he loved so. well, Hard by, and about the same moment, Capt. White was shot down while behaving with the most conspicu- ous gallantry, and. these two young men had exchanged tie service of earth for golden barps, and fudeless crowns of victory. “As the preat cavalry chief, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, was quietly and calmly breathing out his noble life, he said to President Davis, who stood at his bedside: “I am willing to die if God and my country think that I have faliilled my destiny and discharged my duty.” Col. Lewis Minor Coleman, of.the University of Virginia, who fell mortaily wounded at first Fredericksburg, and lingered for some weeks in great agony, uttering many sentiments which Would adorn the brightest pages of Christian experience, and, among other things, sent this eto his loved and honored chieftains: “Tell Gens. Lee and Jackson that they know how a Christian soldier shouid lives Lonly wish they were here to cee a Christian soldier diem Not many months afterwards Jackson was called to “cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees,” and left another bright illustration of how Christian sol- diers of that army were wont todie. Col. Willie Pegram, “ the boy artillerist,” as he was {amil- farly called, left the University of Virginia, at the breakiug out of the Waras a private soldier, rose to the rank of Colonel of artillery (he re- fused a tender of promotion to the command of an infantry brigade), upon more than one occa sion elicited high praise from A. P. Hill, Jack- son, and Lee, and at the early age of 23 fell on the ill-fated field of Five Forks, gallantly re- sisting the overwhelming odds’ against hia. His last words were: ‘I have done my duty, aud now I turn to my Savior.” ‘And thus I might fill columns with the dying words of these noble men which are indeed “apples of gold in pictures of silver," and show that they were taught by God’s Spirit how to liye and how to die. A HEATHEN HERETIC. THE REY. SWANG BUNG’S TEACHINGS. ‘San Francisco Chronicle. For several weeks past the fact. nas been ap- parent that the heathen community was agitat- ed by conflict of sentiment or opinion on some question of grave import. Particularly during the evenings have large crowds assembled upon the sidewalks and crossings of the Chinese quarter, indulging in incessant jabber and ges- ticulation, having the tendency to promote an accelerated undercurrent of anti-Coolic feeling and morethan the medium flow of Caucasian profanity from the jostled citizen who had ocea~ sion to perambulate that delectable - precinct. ‘As the antagonistic sentiment grew decper at late hours of the night, it gained corresponding intensitylot expression in the incessant explosion of bombs and crackers on the roofs of buildings and through the tortuous windings of the quar- ter, much to the discomfort of tne police as- signed to the locality, in the hours when they would fain have retired to their customary sc- questered nooks for pensive meditation on the futility of prohibitory pyrotechnic enactments and kindred questions of public polity. At times this cyclone of excitement in the centre of the city attained an intensity that culminated in bloodshed. The poreers of this unseemly distraction among the docile race might not have excited poy particular degree of curiosity on the part of the native population beyond the grumblivg of afew penurious tax- payers, whose sordid spirits migat lead them to Compute the expenses of trying and banging an occasional Chinaman, or, in fact, aiding fn the elevation of humanity in any other torm; or save for the inquiring spirit of a Chronicle re- porter who yesterday happened to invade the Asiatic quarter to enjoy a passing hour of pious abstraction, soothed by the mellow influence of tne locality. Those conversant with the general system of the Chinese religion will unde! stand that different communities and res- idents of different localities intrust the adjustment of their affairs in the Oriental paradise, and celestial correspondence in general, to a special Joss, and usually through the medium of any number of household gods and miuor deities, possessed of a mere local in- fluence. Tnis circumstance explains the ab- seuce of necessity for congregation at the heathen temples,in the manner of Christian worship. A few priests are simply maintained about the temples to attend to the comforts aud conveniences of the superior gods, and mayhap at times render direct, supplication for their in- tervention in some matter of general interest. The Joss, or associated minister of deities— some teniples maintaining a dozen or more—is supposed to represent the semi-incarnated spirit of some mighty hero or benefactor of a remote antiquity—the more remote the more potency his Influence with the heathen imperial deity is supposed to have attained. Asa Joss cannot be employed in duplicate, or serve differ; ent localities by proxy, his cost is regulated by his precise merits, the unassizued being gathered at some transterrestrial locality inChina, awaiting purchasers. ‘The last. importation of acknowl- edged antiquity and distinction in this line was the Joss enthroned in the Clay-street temple— said to have cost 320,000. His history, though deeply interesting, ig not relevant to this arti- cle. Within a tew weeks past a new Joss-house was completed on Waverly place, said to be principally under the paraonage of the Tartar portion of the Mongolian population of the city, which has lately becn gathering strength on these shores. Inthe new temple has been enthroned a deity of utterly plebelan orizin, in- famous record, and most develish aspect. He is eyen revolutionary in principle, and a8 at- tributed with no greater exploit than leading a pillaging party of cut-throat Tartars into the original Chinese Empire a few hundred years ago and developing some unusual celerity in perpetrating his murders. That the descend- ants of the native stock, who have so long held supremacy in California, should rebel against such an intrusion ‘may be well’ un- derstood. The Rev. Swang Bung, who attended this carpet-bag, copperhead {dol from China ona recent steamer, immediately opened his mission by proclaiming the great distinction and celestial influence of the Tartar Joss, in conjunction with entirely new and heretical views of the means of grace and dis- ce. Inthe audacity of his ‘heresy Swang tung declares that the age is advancing. and that a reconstructed Joss dynasty, better quali- fied for representing the present period and ad- yancing the interests of rascality and relision, is indispensable. ‘The Joss is prepared to advance the swindling and thieving interests of his ad- herents by far more liberal rules than bave hitherto obtained under the old dispensation, and Swang Bung nightly asserts that some re- Jasation in this respect is necessary in this country. Other heresies, pertaining to the baptism of intants by permanent immersion, the intallibility of - the Chinese Police, and other questions not pertinent to the mission on this coast, are included in the teachings of the Rey. Swang Bung. Such is the position of the present religious agitationamong: the Mongolian community in this city, and it will) undoubtedly be spread by cmissaries throughout the coast. The heresy relaxing the penance tor integral thicvery will in particular tend to advance tae new dispensation in the mining-camps. At the meeting on Dupont street yesterday afternoon, the Rey. Ho Boo, of the orthodox clergy, was attacking the heresy with much ardor and ability. -‘The reporter was conducted to the different temples by his cour- tebus guide, and found the buildings and their surroundings covered with the red-paper no- tices of various royal or religious import. They variously announced that different members of the orthudox heathen clerey would answer the abominable teachings of Swang Bung on con- venient. dates. The heretic is variously de- nounced aga fanatic, an imbecile, and a horse- thief, and in one of the Chinese journals his adherents are proscribed as the scum of Chinese society. Thisevening the Rev. Swang Bung is announced to reoly to his opponents and de- famers, and his defense will be attended with the explosion of three barrels of crackers and bombs—fully half a hundred weight more than employed by his most impressive opponent thus. DOCTORS OF DIVINITY. THE LATEST BATCH CREATED. Following is a partial list of the D. D.'s Iately created by several colleges: ‘The Rev. D. Van ‘Alstine, pastor of the Baptist Church at Hor- nelisyille, by Alfred University, New York; the Revs. J. W. Custis, of Chicago, and J. A. Nash, of Des Moines, also Baptist ministers; the Revs. A. Mebarry, of Cincinnati, and W. A. Holliday, of Baltimore, Methodist; by East Tennessee Wesleyan University; the Rev. J. A. Debuan, of Schenectady; the Rev. J. McC. Blaney, of Al- bany; the Rev. James Demarest; of Kingston; the Rev, Alexander Dickson, of Lansingburg, N. ¥., by Union College; the Rey. Wayland Hoyt, of Brooklyn, and the Rev. J. W. B. Clark, of Albion, Baptists, by Rochester University; the Rev. Henry M. Ph. D., of New York; the Rey. Andrew Murray, of South Africa; the Rev. aga 8. Bishop, of Orange, N. J.3 the Rey. Martin 5 of B. Schoonmacher, ‘of Wal- dron, N.Y. Reformed Dutehmen, by Rut, the Rev. Epher Whitaker, of gers’ College; Southold, L. I.; the Rev. Austin C. Heaton, of Maryland, the Rey. Thomas D. Bell, of Vir- pinta, Episcopalians, by Delaware State College; Fetter RW. Dale, of Birmfagham, Eogland) by Yale Colleges the Rey. William A. Bartlett? OF Yndianapelis, the Rev. M. H- Buckham| President of the Vermont University; the Rev. Wolcott Calkins, of Buffalo; the Rey. Jamea P. Sankey, of Rochester, Congrezationalist, by Hamilton Colleze; the Key. A. F. Hewitt, of New York, and Prof.'Judson Smith, of Oberlin College, Ohio, by Amherst College; the Rev. Join De Witt, of Philadelphia, and the Rev. ‘Owen Meredith, of Liverpool, England, by Princeton College, N. J.; the Rev. Loramus Cornell, of Lynn, Mass.; the Rey. A. D. Vail, of Newark, N. d.;and the Rey. David Copeland. by Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.3 the Rey. Charles G.- Currie, of Philadelphia, hy the University of Pennsylyania; and on the Rey. Matthew H. Buckham, President of Ver- jnont University, by Dartmouta College. Here are doctors enough to Kill or eure theology for twenty years to come. CATHOLIC PICNICS. WHAT SOCIETIES CAN GIVE THEM. The Bishop of the Catholic Church for the Diocese of Cleveland has issned the following order: « - To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Cleve- land, grestina: 2 : To prevent and guard spainst abuses that are rapidly growing up in: the Diocese, in connection with chureh and eociety picnics, excursfons, feeti- yale, etc., the following regulations are pre- scribed: . Societies that are organized for beneficial purposes, and whose beneilts are confined to thelr Dumbers, or vocicties that are organized for pri- vate ends and interests, cannot be permitted to appeal to the public by picnics, excursions, festi- Sais, euppers, lectures, etc. ,to raise funds for their own private use and benefit. Public appeals must befor the public charities. and societies cannot be permitted to appeal to the public, except where the money go raised is to be used for and in the in- terest of some public charity. @. All kinds of round dancing, night dancing, dancing in halle or ball-rooms, for the purpose of raising moncy for church purposes or pnblic char- ities, are strictly and unqualifiedly forbidden. 3. The sale of wine, beer, or any kind of intox- ieating Hquors at chareh picnics, excursions, fes- tivale, suppers, ete., is strictly forbidden, and will not be permitted ander any pretense whatso- ever. '{. Moonlight excursions, ptenics continued till after nightfall, mectings of the people vhere mor- als or good bebavior aro endangered, are also for- Dbidden. 5. Before any picnics or excursions, whether for eburch or society purposes, can be hela, the per- mission of the Ordinary must be first obtained. 6. Pastors will read these regulations at mass on the’Sunday after their receipt, and sec that they are strictly observed. R. Gituour, Bishop of Cleveland. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL, ‘Tne twenty-five Baptist churches in Brooklyn have a membership of 9,034. Doring the past year they raised $45,872 for benevolent pur- poses, and $189,516 for all objects. The value of church property is $1,000,000, and the church indeptedness $200,000. ‘The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, as has been usual for several past years, have an- pointed St. Andrew’s Day, the 30th of next November, asa day of prayer for missions. It is the custom of the American Protestant Epls- copal Church to join in this observance. ‘The Southern Churchman saysthere must bea modification of the present plan of representa- tion in the House of Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and it recalls the words of Bishop White, who said this question “ may in future be the cause ofthe severing of. the bond of union.” “4 The Rev. Dwight Temple, of Chattanooga, Tenn.. states the following fact of the Fisk Uni- yersity for colored students in Nashville: ‘* Out of 246 students there are not more than a dozen who are not Christians.” “The reason for this large proportion 15 that our young people do not often bave an ambition to become educated until they become Christians. ‘There are forty-seven Zpane Women's Chris- tian Assoclations now in the United States, all except one formed witnia ten years. Sixteen of these nold property valued at $1,000,000. Few persons sufficiently realize ge importance of the work which these young ladies are so nobly per- forming. There are classes which they can reach far beyond the scope of any other organization. It was complained at the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scdtland that a large number of the members have adopted the prac- tice of “hunkering.”” The ‘constitution requires the members to sit down td sing and to stand topray. It appears that “many stand to sing ana squat down to pray, which is called “‘hun- kering.” Kneeling is regarded os a Popish ractice; and is, therefore, tobe shunned. Dr. ege sald that if this practice was allowed oth- er evils would be sure to follow. ‘+ We shall have organs, and liturgies, and Deans, and Chapters, and Bishops.” ‘rhe Rev. O. Howard Crosby proposes the fol- lowing plan of organic union of Protestant churches: “If we are to sce the Church again made one, it must be byone of two ways— either by all denominations adopting the same identical erced and method, or by all uniting through consent toa wide difference in creed and method. It must come about by so broad- ening the subscription neccessary to church membership and church ministry as to allow all the forms and views now held by evangelical Christians to be included in one church. The Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian, Ke- formed, Methodist, and Baptist bodies could all be one, allowing individual men, ministers, and churches to cherish any of the views and ways they now hold under a pure evauge\ical charsc- ter. PERSONAL. ‘The Rey. Dr. A. D. Henburn, a native of Car- isle, Pa., aud a graduate of Princeton College, has been elected President of Davidson College, North Carolina. ‘The Rey. Moses Smith, pastor of the Congre- gational Church at Jackson, Mich., formerly of Chicago, is spending his vacation in this city and at the Sunday-School Assembly at Lake Blu. ‘The Rey. Jacob D. Mitchell, D. D. LL. D., 9 prominent divine of the Southern Presbyterian Church, died recently at Alexandria, Va.; aged 70. He graduated at Princeton College, and began his ministry at Shepherdstown, Va., in 1830. The Rev. Dr. D. B. Cheney, pastor of the Fourth Bantist Church, left this week for a six weeks? absence. among his old friends and pat- ishioners in San Francisco. Fifty new members haye been received into the Fourth Church since the beginning of Dr. Cheney’s pastorate. ‘The Rey, J. W. Bain, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, corner of West Monroe and Paulina streets, resigned his charge, owing to ill bealth. Mr. Bain’s pastorate bas extended over a period of about three years, with a good degree of success; and he leaves amid the regrets and well-wishes of his society It is understood that he desizns to visit Cali- fornia, hoping to be benefited by the climate of that region. The Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D. D., of the First Congregational Church, will depart on Monday for his summer vacation. He will be accom- panied by s{rs. Goodwin, who will visit friends in the State of New York, while the Doctor goes to the Maine woods on’ a rusticating expe- dition, Prof. Parke’s son will accompaay Dr. Goodwin, and the pulpit of the First Church will probably be occupied daring July and Au- gust by the Rev. Mr. Parker, of Hartford: PIOUS SMILES. Achild being asked what were the three great feastsof the Jews, promptly replied: “‘ Break- fast, dinner, and supper.” “Jt is not loud praying,” says an Arkansas circuit rider, “which counts with the-Lord, so much as giving four full quarts to the gallon.” ‘A Oil City church paid off its indebtedness last winter with half a can of oysters and a barrel of water. Thestews Were economical and yield- ing. ‘A minister asked a new Deacon ifhe had fam- fly prayers. ‘Yes, sir; night and morning res- ular, if I have to knock everyone of the young ones down on their knces.”” ‘The carpet-baggers were not always so unpop- ular. The Egyptians hated it awfully when the Israelites packed their gripsacks and said they guessed they'd have to Moses. A little fellow out at Chariton, who has just entered the infant class, came home from Sun- aay-Schoo! and astonished his mother by asking her, MB, what is God's middle name?”—Bur- Ungton Hawkeye. Scene in Texas: Hotel table. Good morn- ing, stranger; it looks like rain?” Stranger— eTthink not.” A shot §s heard, and the strang- er is rolled out of the back door. Moral—Texas is a fine grazing country. An unsophisticated Gentile attended a ward meeting at Salt Lake during the recent ‘“‘reor- ion” and observed that for a time of upheaval and tion things had a sin- Jarly cut-and-dried appearance. . Menti Sis to # friend, he asked how the sear’ Oh,” unanimously passed -had originated. Lord moved it and replied the friend, “the Brigham seconded it.” A business man wished Suaday twice a week, so he coula attend chusehattonce He takes in so many bogus 10-cent pieces in six days that tis comselenss sill not permit him em all in the cor * so pet the ¢ contribution-box during This is destined to be a pretty good se: for circuses, and if the present depression ip finances continues it won't be three weeks before Randay-achool acts bin be able to get their pils to read the Bible t! Eo tents.-Pulton Times. gh tinge hanes or Sunday at Home—Mamma: “Now, Jacl there are ten commandments yon have to eck, If you took a thing that wasn’t yours you would break a commandment.” Jack (remembering something about some little niggers): “ And then there'd be nine.”—Punch.” A freshman rather dampened the spirit of a class prayer-meeting which he was leading Jately. by-remarking,- after a short comment, that if there was anything else in the chapter worth mentioning, an opportunity would now be given for doing it.— Williams Atheneum, One of the belles of South Hill is going to Marry a voung clergyman from Indiana. The South Hitler is a sweet, fair young girl now, and never the shadow of a cloud has rested on her brow; but you wait till she has‘ got out of bed two or three hundred times to make up shake- downs ana cook supper for nine brethren on their way to a convention or conference, who haye got in on the late train and couldn't find the way to the hotel.—Burlington' Hawkeye. The late Daniel M. Christie, of Dover, N. H., ‘Was cross-questioning a guest witness by the uame of Knowles, from Sandwich, and the wit- ees emphasized his affirmative answers by al- most invariubly replying: “Yes, by thunder!” Christie, thinking to confound the witness, in- terrogated him: © “What is thunder, Mr. Knowles?” “Thunder,” said Koowles, “is the voice of God.” ‘Mr. Knowles, answer on your oath; do you firmly believe that thunderis the voice of God?” Knowles very earnestly re- pies: *Yes, by Judas, when it comes rattle-te- ang,’? which answer completely upset the grav- ity of the court, and the witness from Sandwich was excused from further questions. An amusing instance is told of the quick- wittedness of a negro preacher who had clabor- ated anew theory of the Exodus, to wit, that the Red Sea got frozen over and so afforded the Israelites a safe passage; but when Pharaoh with his heavy iron chariots attempted it, they broke through and were drowned. A brother rose and asked for an explanation of that point. *Yse been studyin’ ography, and de gography say lat be very warm country—where dey have de tropics. And de tropics too hot for freezin’. De pint tobe’splained is, bout breaiing through de ice.” The preacher straightened up and said: “Brudder, glad you axed dat question. It give me ‘casion to’splainit. You see that was grext while ’go—in de ole times ’to” dey hau any gog- raphy—"fo’ dere was any tropics.” THE MAT IN CHURCH. Boston Transcript. Or all the various expedients by which in- genious church-goers have endeavored to eafely dispose of their hats, there is not one that has not been proved to be fallacious. ‘fo hold onc’a bat continually in one’s lap is practicable only in a Quaker meeting-house, where the worship- ers remain seated daring the entire service, and never use any devotional implements, suc! as prayer-books and hymn-books. No man could successfully balance a hat in one hand and find the cpistle for the twenty-second Sunday after Trinity with the other hand; while to stand up in order to repeat the creed, or to sing a hymn, with a hat under the left arm, would be the height of absurdity. The bat, theo, must be Jaid entirely aside during divine service, and our churches, being constructed with exclusive reference to souls instead of hats, afford no resting-places for the latter. ‘The cxtreme danger of placing a hat im the aisle immediately outside the pew is universally known. The first fady that sweeps up the aisle carries with her a contused mass of defenseless hats, which are deposfted in the shape of a termi- nal moraine in front of the pew which is her final goal. Ofcourse the hats which haye been subjected to this process are reduced by attri- tion to a rounded form end are covered with scratches, reminding one of the marks of glacial action on grauite boulders. However interesting they may be to the geologist, they are of no further value as hats, and can rarely be bent in- toashape that will allow their owners to wear them home. Next to’ the aisle the pew seat is the most dangerous position in which a hat can be placed. Statistics show that out of every 100hats thus situated sixty are sat upon by their owners, thirty-five are sat upon by other people, and only five escape uninjured. It is a curious fact that more men sit down upon their hats after repeating the creed than alter reading the Psalms or performing any other perpendicular part of the service. And another enrions fact is the attraction which a hat thus exposed upon aceat exerts upon a fat person. Neither of these facts has ever been satisfac- torily explained, although they arc matters of general notoriety. ‘Aman may enter a remote pew in a strange church and place his hat on a scat in 2 position where it is impossible for a fat man to perceive iton entering thechureb. Nevertheless, experi- ence has shown tuat in six cases out of ten the sexton will show a fat mau into that precise ‘pew within ten minutes after the hat is in posi- fion, while other and further fat men will, from time to time, hover about the locality, with the evident desire of ascertaining if the hat is still susceptible of further smashing. There ig clearly slaw ofnature at work here which needs to be definitely formulated, and it is discreditable to science that this bas not yet been done. é "As to putting one’s hat on the floor under- neath the seat, no one who follows this reckless course can expect anything but. disaster. there is a small boy in the pew, he will infallibly discover that hat, and kick it to the further end of the pew within the first thirty minutes of the service. If there is a Indy in the pew a surgical operation will be required to remove her boot from the interior of the hat; while in any event the hat is certain to absorb every particle of dust within a radius of eight fect, and to fasten itself to the floor with the aid of forcotten Sunday-school gum-drops. Neither under the seat, on the seat, nor in the aisle can the worried hat. find rest, and the plan of estab- lishing a hat-pound in the vestibule, where hats could be ticketed and kept during the gervice, yrould simply result in converting a church into 2 hat exchanze, where the sinuers would secure all the good hats and the saints would be com- pelied to content themeelves with worn-out and worthless ones, CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. Robert P. Allison preaches at the North Star Church this morning. —The Rev. N. F. Raviin will preach at the Free Church, corner of Loomis and Jackson streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. W. J. Bermott preaches moriing and evening at the Halsted Street Charch. + —The Rev. C. Monjeau, of Topeka, Kan., will preach at the First Church, South Park avenue, corner of Thirty-first atreet, atl1a.m. The Rev. ‘W. W. Everts will preach at 7:30 p. m. Subject: + Labor, Strikes, Railroad Mobs, Communism, and ‘Their Remedy.” Sabbath-school and Bible classes at 9:30 8. m. Young peovle’s meeting Wednes- day evening. General prayer-meeting Friday evening. —The Rev. E, 0. Taylor will preach at Imman- nel Church, corner of Orchard and Sophia streets, morning and evening. ~The Rev. Dr. Galusha Anderson will preach at the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets, morning and eveaing. Baptism at the close of the evening sermon. + —the Rev. Dr. A. Owen will preach at the Uni- versity Place Church, corner of Douglas and Rhodes avenues, at 112. m. and 7:45 p.m. ~The Rev. G. W. Northup. D. D., wiil\presebh morning and evening at the Fourth Church, corner Washingten and Paulina streets. eter Dr. J. W, Custis will preach at the Michigan Avenue Chureb at 11 a.m. ei SDE. F. B. Ives will preack this evening at 7:45 atthe Twenty-fith Strect Church, near Wentworth ayenae. All ecats free. verrhe Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach at the Cen- tennial Church, corner of Jackson and Lincoln streets, Sndjects: Morning, ‘‘Tue Sinlessness of Sesus'; evening, ‘* The Revelation of the Right- ous Judgment of God.” fo Tite The Rev. R. C. Ray will preach at a quarter of Bim the afternoon'in the Mission corner of Port- land avenue and Twenty-eighth street? CHRISTIAN. The Rey. J, T. Taaf will evening in the Firat Church, ayenue and Twenty-fifth street. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Z.§. Holbrook preaches at Oakland Chureb. Morning subject: **Standards of Judg- ment"; evening subject: ‘The Utility of Mean its ter.” Tre Ret, G. ML, -Lamsor, of Massachusetts, preaches at the ‘Tnion Park Church this morsing. ithe Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, will preach in the Upton Park Suarch at 7:45 this evening. nat 7:15. Doome ters Cr AL Fowler vill preach at Dothaay Church, corner of Paulina and West Haron, a Gooths cod evening. Morning subject: **Sians. —The Rev. E. F. Street Church, will preach at the preach morning and ‘corner of Indiana renii orernere will be no Sundsy services at Plymonth Church until Sept. 2 The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches st the |. Bs 1. Church of the Holy Trinity, corner Dearborn av- enue and Erie street, this morning. | EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W.F. Morrison will preach at the Church of the Holy Communion, Soath Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets, af 10:45 a, m. and 7230p. m. —The Rev. . Rinney will preach at the Cathedral Free Church, SS. Peter and Paul, cor~ ner West Washinston and Peoria streets. The Rt -Rev. W. E. McLaren, S. T. D., Bishop, The Rev. J. H. Knowles priest in charge. Choral morning prayer and celebration of the Holy Com- maonion, 10:30 a. m. Sunday school, 3 p.m 230 p. m. farris, D. D., will preach Church, cornet Cass ‘and Haron streets, at 10:45 a, m.. Celebration of the Holy Communion at 8a, mp, —The Rev. J. H. Epar, D. D., wil ‘Trinity Church, corner ‘Tvetty-aieth: Arect aad Michigan avenue, at 10:45 a. m. Sunday-schoot atSthe Rev, Francls Mansfeld —~The Rev. Francis Mansfeld will preach at t Ghareh of the ‘Atonement, comer of West Wash: ington and Robey streets, at 10:30 3. m- and 7:30 p.m, "~The Rey. J. Bredberg will preach at St Anagaring' Church, Sedgwick street, neat Chicago avenue, at 10:30 a. am. and 7:20 p. i. ~The Rev. Clinton Locke will preach at Church, Wabash avenae nar Stxtecath streets at 2. m. ~The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will preach at St. John’s Church. Ashland axenue near Madison atreet, at 10a, m. Sunday-school at 2:30 p. m. Church of ‘the Holy Communion, Dearborn ate near Thirtleth, Services 10:30 a. m, and D. m. “<The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will preach at the ‘Charel of ihe Ascension, comer. of North Lasalle and Blm streets, at 11 a.m. and at p.m. Sun- day-school vespers at3:30p. m. ‘Thecelebration of the Holy Communion at 8 8. m. Choral evening prayer. —The Rev. Charles S. Lester will preach at St, Pani’e Church, Hyde Park avenue, between For- ‘ty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, at lla. m. and. DP. B. ~The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will preach at St. Mark's Charen, Cottage Grove avenue, corner of ‘Thirty-eighth strect, at 10:30 a. m. aud 8p. m. Sunday-school at 3p. m. —The Rev. G. F, Cashman, D, D., will preach at St. Slephen's Church, on’ Jobnegn street, be- tween Taylor and Twelfth, at 10:30 s.m. and 7:30 Sunday-echool at 3 p. m. —The Rev. C. M. Pullen, of Wisconsin, will preach at Calvary Church,’ Warren avenue, be- tween Oakley etrect and Western avenue. at 10:30 3. m.and8p.m. Celebration of the Holy Com- munion at 8 a. —The Rev, T. N. Morrison, Jr., will preach at the Church of the Epiphany. Throop s.reet, be- tween Monroe and Adame, at 1 p.m. Sunday-schoo! at 12:15 p.m. _—The Rev. J. N. Hume will preach at the Canrch of Our Saviour, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues, at l2a.m. Sunday-school at 9:45 2. m. —The’ Rev. Henry G. Perry will preach at -All Saints’ Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Ohio streets, at 10:45 a, m. and 7:45 p. m. Seata free. Sunday-school at 2:30 p. m. Services at the Good Sepherd Mission, Lawn- dale, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday-xchool at 12:30 p. m. ~The Rev. F. N. Luson will preach at Emmi el Church, LaGrange, at 10:30 9. m. and 7:30 p.m. "—The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will preach at St, Mark’s Church, Evanston, at 10:30 a, m. and S. p.m, METHODIST. The Rev, M. M. Parkhurst will preach at the First Church morning and evening. —The Rev. L, Bradford, of New Orleans, will preach at Englewood morning and evening. —The Rey. DeLos M. Tompkins preaches we Rayenswood. Morning cubject: _** Not, with Them.” Evening subject. ‘*Over Jordan.” —The Rev. W. F. Crafts preaches at the Trinity Church. Morning subject: **The Miracles of Those Who Reject Miracles.” Evening subject: ‘*Books for the Fireside end Books for the Fire. —The Rev. John Atkinson will preach ut Grace Church, corner of North Lasalle and White streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. R. D. Sheppard will preach at the ‘Weatern Avenue Charch, corner of Monroe street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:43 p. m. —Preaching at the Wanash Avenue Church, cor- ner of Fourteenth strect, at 11a. m. and § p. m. The Rev. George Chase will preach this mornit at the church corner of Winter and Forty-ff atreets on ‘‘Influence,” and this evening on “Pon! Before Felix. —The Rev. Dr. Hicks, late Superintendent of Public Instruction in Florida, preaches this morn- ing m Grant Place Charch, corner Larrabee street. The Rey. J. Berger, of the Dayton Street Church, preaches in the evening. “The Rev. S, H. Adams will preach morningand evening at Centenary Church. YRESBYTERIAN. ‘The Rey. Dr. Worrall preaches at the Eighth Church. Morning subject: **The Christian's Von- flict, Conguest, and Crown.” Evening subject: “Power of Trath on th Stranger.” —The Rev. E. P. Wells will preach at the Forty- first Street Church this morning. The Rev. J. F. McLaren, father of Bishop MeLaren, preaches at the Scotch. Church this mornity, and the Rey. James Maclaughlin this evening. —The Rev. J. Monro Gibson will preach at the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and ‘Twentieth street, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p.m. ~The Kev. T. W. Hoskins will preach at the Fitth Church. comer of-Indiana avenue and Thiz- tieth street, at 10:304. m. No evening service. se phe Rev. Jacod Post will preach at the charcb, corner of Robie and West Eric streets, at 10a. m. jnithe Holland, and at 7:30 p. m. inthe English Janguage. 5 —The Rev. @. H. Kellogg, D. D., will preach in the morning in the parlors of the Fullerton Avenuc Church, and the pastor in the evening. ~The Rev. Charles Caverna, of Lombard, will preach morning and evening,” Moruing subject: <The Law of Wasted Effort.” Evening subject: **The Third Temptation of Christ.” —The Kev. Jozeph Cook, of Boston, will preach at the First Charch, corner of Indiana avenue and ‘Twenty-first street, at 10:30 2. m. “the Rev. J. K. Fowler will preach at the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak avennes, at 1a. m. and 8 p. m. —The Rev. R. W. Patterson, D. D,, will preach at the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Superior streets, at 10:45 a. m. There will be no evening service. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. —There witl be preaching at Grace Church, cor- nerof Hoyne and Lemoyne streets, at the usual hour. —The Rev. Dr. Hunter will preach at St. Paul's Chi Washington and Ann streets, ut 10:5 7:45 p. ** Building Operations. Sea Diticuities.”’ ° 5 The Kt. Rev. Bishop Cheney will preach at Christ Church, Michigan avenue and Twenty- fourth street, mornmg End evening. Ordaining to the Presbyterate at the morning session the Kev. J.D. Cowan. At night Bishop Cheney will preach his last sermon before the sammer vacation. Half- hour prayer-mecting at 7:15. “—The Rev. R. Il. Bosworth will preach at Em- manue! Church, Hanover and iwenty-eighth streets, morning and evening. ‘nop Cheney will preach at Trinity Church, Englewood, at +p. m. ‘The Rev. J, $. Fisher will preach at St. John's Church at 10:45 0. m._ No evening service. ‘UNIVERSALIST. ‘The Rev. Sumner Ellis preaches at the Church of the Redeemer this morning. —The Rev. J. Straub preaches at the hall of the ‘Third Chured, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirty- firat street, this morning. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Rey. H. M. Paynter preaches at Calvary ‘Tabernacle, No. 320 Ogden avenue. Morning sub- ject: "+A Grester than Soloman Is Here.” | Even- ingenbject: ‘* What Think Ye of Christ?” ‘S-The Hon. John Siboski will speak at the Wash- ingtonian Home at 3 o'clock. Elder McCulloch will preach at Adventists’ wall, ct No. 221 West Madison street, morning and evening. ‘ —The Non-Sectorians will meet st Room 23, Nevada Block, corner Franklin and Washington street, at 2:30 o'clock. Subject for discussion: ““Bliracles. * =the Rev. Dr. Hibbard preaches this morning at Now Church Hall, corner of Prairie avenue and Fightcenth street, and at the Temple, Washinton ».m Morning subject: Evening subject: **Red a.m. and7:30 } Val street and Ogden avenue, this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. “Sirs. Cora L. V. Richmond will speak before the First Society of Spiritualists at Occidental Hall, No, 431 West ‘Madison street, this merning. Hath wening the late Hon, Robert Dale Owen wilt dleconrse upon his **Spirit Home.” scirne Progressive Lyceum will meet promptly at the close of Sirs. Richmond's lecture (1:2:0 p.m. ). fn Occidental ifall, West Madison sizeet, near Elizabeth. ethe Disciples of Christ will meet at No. 229 West Randolph street at p.m, All are invited to come and warship God. ~The Rev. L. P, Mercer will preach this momn- inz at Hershey Hall on * The ew, civilization; Its Characteristics and Development. S Caapeachool at Hope Mission, No. 885 3ftl- wankee avenue, at 2:30 p. m. he Trine immersion Adventists will meet at No. 358 Milwaukee avenue morning and evening. cathe Society of Friends will hold a meeting to. day ov Twenty-sixth street, at 10:30 a, m.,and at No. 71 Randolph street at 3p Moe and Judge Layton will prescl morning evening ot the Christian Union Mission, No. 91 South Green atreet. CALENDAR FOR THE WHEE. EPISCOPAL. July 22-—Bighth Sunday after Trinity. Tuly 25—St. James. iy afier Pentecost. 29—-Ninth Sanday after Penteco: Jay 55st Apolliuan's B.M.; St. Liborious, B.C, 24—Vigil of St. James; St. Christina, V.M. we aes ames the Greater, Ap. ; St. Chris-" topher, Sf July 26—St. Anne. Mother of the B. V. 3. July 27—St. Pantaleon, M. uy 28—SS. Nazarius, Celsus, and Victor, M.M., and Innocent, 1 ————— A Man Living Five Years with a Dislocated ‘Vertebra. To the Editor of the Neo York Sun: Ireadin the Sunan account of a man living eighteen. hours with a oroken neck. I know of a similar case, which may be of some interest to your ers.’ Mr. Arthur Miller, purl Sopiich gentleman, dove from 2 vessel into low water off Fire Island five years azo. was transfixed mn the mud; a wave at the same fime striking bim, ‘bent his body completely over, dislocating the fifth cervical vertebra. wastaken from the water unconscious, and total paralysis existed below the dislocation, caused by the pressure of the boneon the spinal cord. His mental faculties were retained m full. “He has been gradually regaining his mo- tive power, but is still unable to walk without assistance. He uses his arms very well, and can support himself while sitting. “The theory of his improvement is that the apinal- cord is be- Coming acciittomed to the pressure of the bone, which has knit where it moved, and thereby the recovery is slowly yet surely‘ progressing. Re is still under treatment at West End baths, Long Branch, where every slight improvement is noticed with the deepest interest by many who have watched for it from the firs’ His complete recovery is the ultimatum hoped for. Ido not believe there is another case of the ‘kind on record. Seed HORRORS OF A NIGHT. Cities Destroyed by Earthquake, Fire, and Tidal Wave—Vivid Pen-Picture of the Recent Astounding Calamity in South America, -.__. Carrenpondence Boston Advertiser. Vauraraiso, May 80.—A few days before the events [ am about to narrate took place, the yolcanie monntains of San Pedro and San Pablo were observed to be sending forth high in air from their lofty. peaks flames, stones, and ashes. At night the reflected light illuminated the heavens, at times giving a reddish glare to the passing and overhanging clouds, and would gradually disappear. Now and then a glimmer- ing, whitish light would brightly be ‘reflected from some bursting forth of ‘the flames at the crater’s mouth, and with these freqent changes the night would pass away. Daylight gave the appearance of a dense, smoky cloud hanging high above and around the volcano. At the foothills of these mountain ranges were site- ated the Cities ot Calama, San Pedro, and Chut- chui, all of which were destroyed. Wednesday, the Sth day of May, 1877, was remarkable for the extreme heat and suffoat- ing atmosphere—~a cloudy day. In the evening at $:30, without any announcement by the ‘usual rumbling, underground sound preceding an earthqdake, the earth began to shake, slightly at tirst, and then the shaking gradually increased in strength, For the space of three minutes the motion of the earth’s surface was undulating, rocking, and uplifting. The shock was distinctly heard from Callao, Peru, along the ‘coast of Bolivia to \divia, in the southern —_ portiun of Chill, its central point of action ands and force being in Bolivia. Upon the com- mencement of the tremor the startled populace of the many different seacoast citics hurried forth from their dwellings and found them- selves scarcely able to muintain their foothold in the public streets: some there were who fell upon their hands end knees. The darkness of the nicht, the grinding of the walls of the buildings one against the other, the crushing, breaking, crackling sound of timber, the tumbling down of walls. und clouds of dust flying about, the crash of household goods, crockery, glassware, etc., as they fell, the ring- ing ot the church and the other bells with the sway of the earth,—these, together with the cries of despair and shrieks of women and chil- Gren, minzied with the loud prayers of mercy, were bat a portion of the horrors of the passing. moments. With diminished fgrce for hours af ter.shake after shake occurred, and, to add t¢ the misfortunes of many of the cities, flamer broke forth from the ruined houses. Bravely the men contended with the new enemy, which was fast gaining the uppex hand. Tne blazing flames as they shot upward wero seen miles away at sea on shipboard. The light of the conflagration upon the jagged, sha leis rains of buildings in the each and the rellection of the flames upou the passiog “forms. and scared. pale faces of the women as they hastily passed to and fro, hunting some - dear one or anxious for the welfare of relatives and friends, gave pera ‘a faint picture of the “Jost day.” Amid such sad and gloomy scenes the ery broke forth, and was repeated from every side, “The tidal wave!” Men gave up in perfect despair, and with tie women and chil- dren, intent on self-preservation, they soughr, maddened with affricht, the steep hillsides for satety. Mothers were separated from. their children, husband: from wife; everything was confusion and confounded; the sick arose from the places in which they had been left in fancied. security, and they, tuo, rushea on with the Test, many of them’ perishing in the attempt. ‘The sea gradually left the shore, and, falliog back for at least one-taird of a mile, as if tozain strength and velocity for its fearful. coming Jeap, rising sixty feet. in heizht it advanced, boiling, rolling, and tumbling over and over, with a deafening noise, bearing all tefore it in its course; vessels, some of them, sank in its embrace and were never seen again, others clung to their anchorage, and, fora time, were buried in the ware, were jifted up, and in safety swaying from side to side settied at last in smooth water; many were dragzeil and hurricu tothe land, where they were dismantied or broken in pieces. The tidal wave, gaining in force and power with its onward rolling motion, seemed autring for the final struggle, and, run- ning its “fearful course. it soon entered the thrice-doomed cities, putting out the flames of the burning buildings and raising a dense yolume of smoke and steam. in receding the wave took with it all that remained un- destroyed. ‘With the appearance of daylijsht was discov- ered the wreck of what a few hours before had been flourishing cities, now a desolate waste. ‘An industrious, thriving people were homeless and houseless, and soon to suffer the pangs of buuger and thirst, of ruin and despair. The beach was strewn with the wrecks of their prop- erty, and the sea had destroyed their provisions. For five days the tidal waves rose and tell, growing each day lesser in force. It is sup- ‘posed to be the most disastrous wave ever expe- rienced on this coast, and to have been caused by a subterranean earthquake under the sea and connected with the volcano of San Pedro. Cities and towns have been ruined, some of them never to be rebuilt in all probability. Among the places which have suffered in more or less degree are: Cullao, Pisagaa, Yquique, Arica, Cobija, Calama, San Pedro, Pisco, Chute, Tambo de Mora, Mollendo, Pabillon Ge Pica, Punto de Lobos, Huantllos, Tocopiilo, Mefjillones de Bolivia, Antofogaste, Constitu- cfon, and Taena. Many of the mines have been sunk or badly injured, and the fosses sustained by the people are incalculable. The Carmen mine fell out of plumb and buried, thirty-five miners and an overseer in its ruins. The trading steamers of the coast took deck-loads of su{fer- fog women and children to Coquimbo and Val- paraiso, where they were cared for by aliberal, Charitable people, aud the Chili Goverament, immediately upon receipt of tatormation of the state of affairs along the coast, sent men-of-war steamers loaded with clothing, provisions, ant water for the relief of the suffering. 3 The following is related bya Captain of a yessel on the coast: At the time of the shock lis wife was playing the plano, “Home, Swest Home,” acd his two daughtegs were present, singing the song. ‘They ran up the companion- way on deck, and # few moments later the tidal wave left the vessel brondside tu the incoming current. The heavy roller struck and broke the ‘vessel into pieces, and all were left at the merey of the sea. The Captain, an expert swimmer, endeavored to assist his family, but was pre- yented by the Ch nese servant. seizing bim by the arm. To free himself, and in the excite- ment of his situation, he was compelled to strangle the Chinaman. He found that hir whole family had disappeared from sight. — BETTER. Better. O mother, the soifed little hands, ‘Than the folded ones, lily-white, That never again will clasp your neck Tn baby-caresses so light. Better the garment that shows thst the earth ‘To the wearer speaks never of gloom, ‘Than the mowy robe in the satin-lined house, ‘And the mound where the white daisies bloom. : : ‘Though oft it may cause you a throbbing brow, "Tis better the child’s noisy mirth - ‘Than the still, cold life when the Death-anzel smiles, And the olassom fs rooted from earth. Better the patter of merry fect, ‘Though it call forth a weary sigh, ‘Than the echoless bome with ‘o’ershsdowed rooms, ; ‘The silence from which you would fy. Aye, better the worry, and trouble, and care ‘That a mother can never but know, ‘Than the empty bandsand the lonely heart— "All beauy deprived of its glow. A. M.D. —————$———— Kardish Fare. ae: don Standard war-correspondent scaben bis ment in the Kurdish Monatains a3 erond all expectation. He had for supper chicken-soup, spinach with ¢gis, mutton 2 Is ‘Magenta,—that is, the roasted. pieces of meat Covered in eggs; rice and milk, roast fowl, pi- laff, curds, and cheesé, and put gz similar to ‘what in Austria, the classical land of puddiris, are called snow balls. i So ie is in pe BOF it go well Di any diay maker ‘atthe first hotel in before the skill of the Kard- Everything was srinmine in tunately not & o! WAS nae pe comtee, vs faded the feast, of which the bost also partook, ‘The two sons of The ase ere soft and warm, anda Fhe eecied ou the hearth. The breakfast the next moruing, at 3 o’cloc! equaled the supper, and the ‘host refused ‘payment, and only begged 28 a present an empty cognac hottie in which there was still s cork,—s rarity inthomy,