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RELIGIOUS. The Creeds of the Christian Church During Eight- een Centuries. Sketches of the Various Coun- cils and the Results of Their Labors, «The Priest in Absolution * Findg One Supporter in His Obscenity. Supposed Discovery of the Tomb of David at Jerusalem. Ceremonies Attending the Crea- tion of the Latest Appoint- ed Cardinals. General News from the Church at Home and Abroad. Wovements of Pastors---Pious Smiles— Church Services To-Day. CHURCH CREEDS. {HE BELIEFS OF MEN IN MEDIEVAL AND MOD- ERN TIMES. “The Creeds of Christendom” is the title of awork by the Rev. Dr. Philip Schoff, which has ‘been lately published by the Harpers. It is gathered from many sources, is in many Jan- guages, and the Isbor bas of course been more that of compilation than of origina! thought. BY ECUMENICAL CREEDS orsymbols we understand the doctrinal con- fessions of ancient Christianity which are to- day cither formally confessed or tacitly ac- kmowledged by the Greek, Latin, and Evangeli- cal Protestant Churches, and form a head of nnion between them. There are three of these . Gcumenical creeds—the Apostles’, the Nicene, andthe Athanasian Creed. Ihe first is the ear- Lest, shortest, and simplest, while the two lat- ter are merely amplifications and developments of it, These three creeds contsin in a popular form the fundamental articles of the Christian faith, as necessary and sufficient for salvation, and embody the results of the great doctrinal controversies of the first centuries. They are a profession of faith in the only true and living God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, who made ‘us, redeemed us, and sanctifies us. They follow the order of God’s own revela- tion, beginning with God and the creation, and ending with the resurrection of the body and life everlasting, setting forth the articles of * faith in the form of facts rather than dogmas, andare consequently. well suited for catechctical use.. The Lutherau and Angelican Churches have formally recognized and embodied the three CEcumenical creeds in their doctrinal standards, while, with trivial exceptions, even the dissentmg sects have consented to their use. In: regard to the origin of the Apostles? Creed, it is now known to be the gradual crowth of several hundred years, thouch down to the seventeenth century it was believed by ail Christendom that the Apostles’ Creed was composed by the Apostles in Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost, to secure unity of teaching, teach of the twelve contributing an article. “Peter, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, commenced, ‘{ believe in Gad, the Fa- ther Almighty ?; Andre, or some say John, éontinued, * And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, ocr Lord *; dames the Eider went on, “Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost ?; then fol- Jowed Andrew, ‘Suffered under Pontius Pi- late’; Philip, ‘Descended into hell’; Thomas, ‘The third day He rose from the dead 7; and so on till Mathias completed the work with the words, ‘And life everlasting, Amen.’ The belief in this tradition was very general until the last ceutury, but the arguments against it, the intrinsic improbability of such a mechanical composition, the silence of the Scriptures on the point, the silence of the Apostolic Fathers. and the fact that the Apostles’ Creed never had general currency in the East, have completely exploded the idea of an apostolic autnorship. The Nicene Creed is the Eastern form of the primitive creed, but with a much more detinite and explicit statement of the divinity of Christ andthe Holy Ghost. The Nicene is the first creed that obtained universal authority, snd init three forms mav be distinguishea: the original Nicene, the enlarged Constantinopolitan. and the luter Latin. “The original Nicene Creed dates from the first CEcumenical Council, held at Nica, 325, and closes abruptly with. the words “and in the Holy Ghost,” but adds an anattiema against the Arians. The Coustanti- nople Creed adds all the clauses after “Holy Ghost,” but omits the anathema. The Latin form differs from the Greek by the single word Filieque, which was the chief cause of the greatest schism in Christendom. The Greck Church taught the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father alone, while the Latin Caurch has, since Augustire, insisted on the double pro- cession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and from the Son also. The Athanasian is the other principal creed of the ancient Church, and its origin is fully as obscure as that of cither of the others. The name of the great father of orthodoxy secur2d for the creed almost undis- puted authority, though it, is almost certain that Athanasius had nothing whatever to do with its authorship. It is, in effect. a precise summary of the doctrinal decisions of the irst four Councils, and resembles the older Ze Deum, ‘The first part of it sets forth the ortho- dox doctrine of the Trimty, aud is a reai sd- vance, both on the Apostles’ and the Nicene Creed, while the second part contains a succinct statement of the orthodox doctrine conccrnin tne person of Christ. It aiso contains. i strong opposition to the Apostles’ Creed, 2 damnatory clause, or solemn declaration that ‘rinity and Incarnation, as here set torth, is the indispensable condition of salva- tion, and that those who reject it will cer- tainly be Jost forever. It ucquired its ereatest authority in the Latin Cbureb, thouzh the Ger- imap [Reformers adopted it also, and until the Jast decade it was formally recited even in the English Church. THE SEVEN COUNCILS. The entire Orthodox Greek or Oriental Church, including the Greek Church in Turkey, the National Church in Greece, and the Russian Nativnal Chureh. and embracing 2 membership Of about $0,000,000, adopts, in common with the Roman communion, the doctrinal devisious of the seven oldest GZcumenical Councils, laying especial stress ou the Nicene Counci! and the Nicene Creed. These Councils were all surn- moned by Greek Emperors and controlled by Greek Patriarchs. They were the First Council of Nice, A. D. 325, called by Constantine: that of Constantinople, A. D. 381, called by Theo- dosius: that of Ephesus, 431, called by Theodo- sus TI.; that of Chalcedon, 451, by the Emperor Marcian and Pope Leo [5 the Second Council of Constantinople. 553. by Justinian f; the Third of Constantinople, 650, by Constantine Pogonatus. and the Second of Nive, 787, called by ‘trene and her son Cou- stantine. The first four are by far the most important, as they settled the orthodox faith on the Trinity and Incarnstion.. The Greek Church celebrates annually thc memory of the Seven Roly Synods on the first Sunday in Lent. called the Sunday of Orthodoxy. when the ser- vice is made to reproduce a dramatic picture of 80 Ecumenical Council, with an Emperor. tbe Patriarchs, Metropolitans, Bistiops. Priests. and Deacons in solemn deliberation on the funda- menisi articles of faith. Even now the Greek Church looks forward to an eighth great Coun- cil, in which all differences between the Enst- ern and Western Churches shall be settied. Since the last of the Seren Councils the do trinal eystem of the Greek Church has under- fone no essentia} change, and has become almost petrified. But the Reformation called forth a number of doctrinal manifcstoes against Romanism, and still. more arainst Protestant- ism, so that in reality the Greek Church is more an enemy of Protestant Christianity than of Romauisin. Mclancthon, who, especially in the latter tart of his Infe, had the reunion of Chris- tendom much at heart, first opened a Protestant correspondence with the Eastern Cnurch, by sending 9 Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession to the Patriarch Joasaph IL, but without effect. Several years after, a couple of professors of theology at Tubingen forwarded tothe Patriarch several letters, torether with the Augsburg Confession and explanatory writ- i Jeremiah IL, then Patriarch. after an interval ot two yore, zesponded, Teject- nearly all the distinctive doctrines the Angeburg Confession, and com- re THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 29, 1877—-SIXTEEN PAGES mending onlyits indorsement of the early (Ecu- menicat Synods, and its view ou the aes priests. An elaborate defense was forwarded by the professors; but Jeremiah refused to be further troubled, and declined correspondence. The answers of Jeremiah were indorsed by the Synod of sferusalem, in 1672, and muy therefore be. regarded as expressing the spirit of the Eastern communion toward Protestautisin. It is evident. that the Greek Church rejects Lu- theranisim and Calvinisin alike ‘as dangerous heresies. Several attempts have since’ then been made by the Anghean Chureh to bring adout an intercommunion with the orthodox East, especially with the Russo-Greek Church, but the ‘effort succeeded no further than the exchange of mutual courtesics, while the ef- forts of the Protestant Episcopal Church iu this country have teen also failures, because the Greek tnsist on the invocation of the Virgin, the Veneration of icons, prayers for the devarted, ue Iennersion, transformation of the eucha- ic clements, and the sucri ving ‘and the dead. sacrifice for the living TOE LATIN CuURCH. s The Roman Cutnolic Church embraces over 180,000,000 of members, or more than half of nominal Christendom.” ‘It is spread over all the earth, but prevails chiefly among the Latin races in Southern Europe and America, and reaches in unbroken euecession to the days of Peter and Paul. "Its Iuerarchy is an absolute spiritual inonarchy, culminating in the Bishop of Rome, who pretends to be nothing less than the in: fallible Vicar of Christ on earth. It proudly identifies itself with the whole Churchof Christ, and treats all other Christians as schismatic: and heretics, who are outside the pale of ordi- nary salvation. The suthor makes a_ wide distinction. between Catholicism and Ro- manism. The former embraces all Christ- tans, whether Romau, Greek, or Protestant; the latter isin its very name local, sectarian, and exclusive. The Holy Catholic Church is an article of faith; the Roman Church fs not even named in the ancient creeds. Catholicism extends through all Christian centuries. Ro- tanism dates from the Council of Trent. Ro- manista, again, according tu the author, must be distinguished into Komanism_of the Gouncil of Trent and Romanism ot the Vatican Council. The Old Catholics of Holland aud Germany ad- here to the former, but reject the latter as a new departure. The doctrinal standards of the Roman Catholic Church may be divided into three classes: the CHeumenical creeds, which the Roman Church holds in common with the Greek, except the Filiogne; the Tridentine creeds, which comprise the decrees of the Coun cil of Trent, the profession of Pius IV., and the Rowan Catechism; und the modern Papal and Vatican decisions in favor of the Immaculate Conception and the infailibility of the Pope. i and highest standard of line of the Roman Church are the Canons of the Council of Trent, held from 1543 to 1363, and reckoned by the Roman Church as the eighteenth or twentieth council, With the exception of the Vatican Council of 1870, which, py proclaining the Pope infallible, renders councils hereafter unnecessary, it is also the last. It had been promised by several Popes before it was actually convened, and most prob- ably it wonld not have been licld when it was had not the progress of the Reformation ren- dered some such step necessary. The Council, instead of being (Ecumenical in the widest sense of the term, was merely a Roman s where neither the Protestant nor the Church wae represented; the Grecks were never invited, and the Protestants were condemned without ahearing. The doctrine of the Im- maculate Conception was a pet of Pius IX, and, lacking the sanction of the Council, rests solely on the authority of the Pope; but it has been generally accepted, and must now be considered an essential part. of the Ro- man faith. **Tnis extraordinary dogma lifts the Virgin Mary out of the fallen and redeemed race of Adain and places her on a par with the Savior.” The Vatican Council of 1570 was called by a notable Pope, who had pro- claimed the domma of the Immaculate Convep- tiou, who had celebrated the eighteenth centen- nial of the Apostles Peter and Paul, who had been a priest over fifty years, and falsitied the tradition—non videdit annos Petri—by reigning over twenty-five years. The principal business of the Vatican Council was the promulgation of the Infallipility Decree, and this was not effect- ed without much opposition, in which our Arch~ bishop Kendrick. of St. Louis, distinguished, himself. Schatt says that only five days. before the passage of the decree by the Council the Pope professed isnorance of its contents, and, as a curious circumstance, it is related that the two most important days of the Council, the first and the last, were distinguished by fearful storms, and the “Episcopal votes and Papal proclamation of the new dogma were acvom- panied by flashes of lichtniug and claps of thun- der from the skies, and so great was the dark- uess which spread over the Church of St. Peter that the Pope could not read the decree without the artificial ieht of a candle.” EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTISM. Protestant Christendom has a nominal mem- bership of abont 100,000,000, chiedy in the north- ern and western parts of Europe aud America, and among the most vigorous and hopeful na- tions of the earth. “It represents modern or progressive Christianity, while Romanism is medieval Christianity, in contlict with modern progress.”? There is, however, 2 distinction to be drawn in Protestantism, between the evan- gelical sort which agrees with the Greck and Roman Churches in accepting the Holy Serip- tures and faith in the Trinity and Incarnation, and heretical or radical Protestantism, which makes a new departure either in a mystical orin a rationalistic direction. The former consti- tutes the great body of nominal Protestant- ism, and includes the Lutheran and Re- formed Confessions, and all those denom- inations which “have “seceded from them, mostly on questions of government, such as the Moravians. Methodists, Mennonites, Bap- tists, Quakers, and a numnber of free Churches. ‘These all take’ their rise directiy or indirectiv from the sixteenth century. dating from tbe Reformation, which, next to the introduction of Christianity,’ was the greatest event in history. So far as Protestant doctrine is concerned, its difference from Catholicism is two-fold. The objective principle maintains the absolute sov- ercinty of the Bible, as the only infallible rute of Christian life and faith, in opposition to the Roman doctrine of the Bible and tradition, as co-ordinate rules of faith. The subj material principle is the doctrine of justifies tion by the free erace of God through 'a living faith in Christ, in opposition to the Roman doc trine of justification by faith and good works, as co-ordinate conditions ‘of justification. “Protestantism is the religion ot freedom: Ro- manism tbe religion of authority. The forther ig mamly subjective. and makes religion a yer- sonal concern: the latter 15 objective, and sinks the individual in the body of the Caurch.”” Tae Evangelic ons of Faith date mostly from the sixteenth century. the yro- ductive period of Protestantism, and sre the work of an intensely theological and polemical age, when religions coutroversy absorbed the attention of all classes. A smafler class of con- fessions belongs to the seventeenth century, and grew out of internal controversies among Protestants themselves. The eighteenth cen- tury witnessed a powerful revival of practical religion and missionary zeal through the labors i Moravians in Germany. and | The a cig fs first. and in this the Protestant creeds ‘with those of the Greek and Roman Churches. and also in the other articles of the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds. The Augustinian clement ig found m the doctrines of sin and grace, predestination and perseverance, and here the Protestants agree with Augustine, who had more iniuence over them thau any other uningpired teacher. The third element is strictly Protestant. and coucerns tle doctrines of the rule of faith, of justification by faith, of the nature and office of faith and good work of the assurance of salvation, and the protest inst ait those doctrines of Romwanism which are decmed inconsistent with justification by faith. “The Papacy, the sacrifice of the mi transubstanuation, purgatory, indulgenc meritorious works. the worship. of saints. images. and relies. are rejected altogether. while | the doctrine of the Church and the sacraments j was essentially modified.” THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS. The Evangelieai Lutheran Church. in whole ‘or in part. acknowledges nine symbolicai books or creeds: three of them are inbertted from the Catholic Church, the Apostles’ Creed, the Ni- cene Crevd. ang the’ Athanasian Creed, while six are original—the Augsburg Confession. by Melancthon: the Apology of the Confession: the Articles of Smalcald, by Luther; Lutner’s Two Catechisms, sud the Form of Concord. pre- pared by six Lutheran divines. These nine forms constitute the * Book of Concord,” which wwas first published by order of Elector Augus- tus, of Saxony, in 1580. But these Lutheran creeds are by no means of equal authority. Be- sides the three ancient creeds, the Augsburg Confession is most highly ‘esteemed, and is, in fact, the only one which - is generally recognized. Next to it comes the shorter echism of Luther, and the reatechism is only an exposition of the Ha ‘The articles have a historic yaluc. but are little used, while the Form of Concord was never generally received. Originally intended ‘as testimonials or confessions of faith, these documents became gradually binding formulas of public doctrine, and subscription to them was ‘tigorously exacted from all clergymen and pub- lic teachers in Lutheran State churches. ‘The Augsburg confession is the most anthori- tative of all, and its production formed an im- rtant epoch in the aistory of the Reformation. bats ‘was read aloud on the 25th of June, 1520, before the assembled representatives of Church and State and in the’ bearing of Charles V., a monarch on whose domin- ions the sun never set.” He did not seem to be'very much moyed by it, though, for thqugh a master in shrewd policy, he was little acquainted with the German language, aud still less with theology, and after respectfully listen- ing for awhile, he fll asleep during the deliv- oy But his drowsiness must nut be consider- a mark of disrespect to the Lutherans, for en the Romish confutation came to be read in August he was also sound asleep, and had to be roused at the end. ‘The Confession proper consists of two parts—one positive and dog- matic, the ovher negative and polemic, or rather spolemete: ‘The first reters chiefly to,doctrines, the second, to ceremonies and institutions. The general Protestant views in opposi- tion to Rome appear in the articles on justification by faith, new obedience, the Gocpel ministry, the Church, repentance, or- dination, ecclesiastical rites, civil government, goad works, the worship of saints, and the ex- clusive mediatorship of Christ. Prominence fs given to the doctrine of justification by faith, which is referred to as the essence of the Gos- pel. The contession breathes throughout an earnest and devout evangelical Christian spirit, and is expressed in clear, mild, and dignified language. It professes to be both Scriptural and Churchly, and in harmony even with the Roman Church, as known from the genuine tra~ dition of antiquity. it is remarkably mod- erate and coneiiatory in tone, and free from all harsh or abusive terms. _It is inseparable from the theology and history from the Lutheran Cnurch; it best exhibits the prevailing genius of reformation, and will ever be cherished as one of the noblest monuments of faith from the pentecostal period of Protestantism. —— THE CONFESSIONAL. ONE SUPPORTER OF THE PRIEST IN ABSOLUTION. To the Editor of the New York Herald. New York, July 20.—An anonymous friend has sent me a pamphlet, bearing the imprint of J. Carter, London, 699 Commercial Road, East, entitled “The Priest in Absolution; an Expose of the Work Published by the Holy Cross Society." This is the brochure to which the Earl of Redesdale, in the Lords, and Mr. Cowen. in the Commons, called the attention of Parliament on the 14th of May last. ‘The Holy Cross Socicty consists of 700 * Uon- fessors,” clergymen of the High Church or Ritualistie party of the Anglican. Church, and in their instructions to their ‘confessors” have detailed the questions to be asked their fenitents in relation to the breach of the Seventh Commandment. The Low Church party, eager to condemn any acts of their ad- versaries, have brought into much promi- nence the instructions given those “con- fessors” while hearing their penitents on those sins. Considering that the Thirty-nine Articles reject auricular confession, nud that the sacra- ment of penace is rejected by the Anglican Church, it seems weak, on bebalf of the Low Church’party, to attack their adversaries on the mode in which they break a canon of the Church. ‘They attack the shadow, not the sub- stance. However painful it may be in many cases to hear of intestine discord among the families of our friends it is always pleasant to assist in their reconciliation; and as so much at- tention has been called to this subject the laity may investigate it for themselves, since their pastors disazree, and good may arise from the discussion, and I pray that many may have the light of the trne Iaith shed upon them and relieve their minds of the dissensions of their texchers, and embrace the unity of the Catholic Church, on whose apostles the Holy Ghost de- scended with seven gifts, among which was the spirit of truth, promising to lead them trom error aud to be with them all days, even to the end of time. Such of the laity as choose to examine for themselves I would refer to the prophecy of Zechariah, xiii.; 1—"*In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for the cleansing of the sinuer.” or to St. Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians, II., v.,18— All things are of God, who bath reconciled us to Himself by Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconcilia- tion. For God, indeed, was in Christ, reconeit- ing the world to Himself, not imparting to them their sins, and He hath placed in us the word of reconciliation. For Christ, therefore, we are ambussadors; God, as it were, exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.” If a priest of the “ Holy Cross Society,” in dealing with sins against purity, enoc those astute Fathers of the Church.” the British Parliament, it may be . be- cause they are not priests of the order of Melchisedec; but if the penitent is chaste the confessor may not have need to question; ifnot, the sooner they confess and forsake their sins the better, and if the ordeal is so severe it may assist in their future amendment. “To pre- tend that it is sutlicient to confess to God alone,” is, says St. Augustine, “to destroy the commission of Christ, to contradict the Gospel, and make void the power of the Keys, which is given to the Chureh.” (Hom. 49.) If any of your readers desire to investigate, I would. ree- ommend them ® visit some library of Patristic literature and consult Aleuin, of the ninth cen- tury. and they may tind an “honest confession good for the soul,” and I hope they may be paid for their trouble and join the Chureh of their ancestors, in which true pardon and absolution alone can be found, that when they are called to the judement seat no stain of sin “may cleave to them, and they may be worthy to enter the Beatitic Presence and receive the reward of “well done" that shall be offered to them on that day, “Blessed fs the man whose iniqui- ties are forgiven and whose sins are covered.’* MONTGOMERY. DAVID’S TOMB: X73 SUPPOSED DISCOVERY AT JERUSALEM. Prof. H. S. Osborn has received a letter from Consul DeHass, dated Jerusalem, June 15, giv- ing a detailed account of a visit to the tomb of David. The iniportant discovery, connected with this visit, fs that of 2 wailed-up door lead- ing from the crypt containing the so-called tomb down to the subterranean excavations under the building containing the tomb. The building is a few yards south of the Zion gate at Jerusalem, and has been known for many cen- turies as the Cenaculutn, and as David’s; tomb. ‘Itas of massive structure in its foundation, and in some of its upper parts. It is more strictly guarded than is the Dome of the Rack, but it has been visited by a lady in dis- rutse. some years azo, and the tomb described. it was thea thought that this cenotaph was the tomb, but Prof. Osborn thinks, from certain traditions concerning this door, that the door- way leads tothe actual tombof the Kings be- neath. Some time agoa plan of the tombs of the Patriarchs at Hebron was obtained as drawn by a Turkish architect, and published by Prof. Gsvorn, in his geographic uotices of the city. From that plan itnow appears that the so-called. tombs are merely cenotaphs, but the true tombs, and with ‘good reason the embalmed Uodies of Kings and Patriarchs, may yet be found beneath, in caverns uot visited in modern times by any one living. THE BERRETTA. CEREMONIES ATTENDI: THE CREATION OF CARDINA Correspondence of the Nein York Wortd, Rome, June 26.—Y esterday (Monday) the Pope conierred the Cardinal’s hat upon. nine Princes of the Church, their Eminences Guibert, Arch- bishop of Paris, created Dec. 22, 1873; Dechamps, March 15, 1875: do Nascimento Cardoso, Patri- arch of Lisbon, Dec. 22, 1876: Caverot, Arch- Dishop of Lyons; Paya y Rico, Archbishop of Compostell: Benavides, Patriarch of the indies, Mareh 12, 1877: and Parrochi, Archbishop of Bologna; Kutschker, Arcabishop of Vienna: and Michallovitz, Archbishop of Agram, June 22, 1877. The ceremony of opening and closing the mouths of the Cardinals was also gone through with, except in the cases of thetwo first mentioned. In giving the hat to each Cardinal the Pope gave his blessing, charging bim to transmit it vo the sovereign of his country, but on arriving at Cardinal Parrochi he hesitated and said with much emotion that while Victor Emmanuel was under the ban of ‘the Church be could not bless him. The clerical organs deny this, but little faith can be given to the clerical organs. At the Consistory on the 22d he spoke So strongly in favor of Marshal MacMahon that Cardinal Guibert hastened to iglegraph the fact to Paris. In the published reports of the allocution this passage is entirely omitted. The Papal Consistory is not now what it wos in former times, when it was what one might vall the Pontifical Senate. Indeed, the history af the apostolic hierarchy is that of a. series of encroachments by the hisher religious bodies on the mass of the faithful, concluding, naturally, with the recital of Similar encroachments by the Pope upon those bodies.. The proclamation of the dogma of infallibility was only the comple- tion of the work which in effect beran with the decrees of holas Ii, which invested the Sacred Coilege with the right of elecumg tne Pope, a right hitherto vested in and exercised by the body of the initninl. Originalir, the Consistory met at fixed dates, and bad the de- liberative voice; later, only the consultative; now ithas not even that. Now, though it is generally conceded that the Consistory should be assembled at least four times a year, to-wit: at Christmas, Easter, Michaelmas, and St. Joseph's tide, the Pope convokes it st his will, sooner, later, less frequently, or oftener, as best, suits him. Instead of consulting the Cardinals upon the merits of the candidates whom he proposed to call to the Sacred College, the Pope now summons to its conclave whom he will, sending the prelates of his choice letters of in= vitation to attend, which are tantamount to an official nomination; then calls the Cardinals to- gether to ratify formally an accomplished fact. So it is with the creation of Bishops or the pro- mulgation of bulls or encyclicals, matters wherein originally the Consistory had the rights of investigation and control. “The Pope now summons the Cardinals, delivers a eulogy of the new Bishons or Cardinals, or reads his proposed letter; then puts the sacramental question, od vobis videtur? What do you think of itd and, rising, leaves the half without awaiting an @nswer. ‘The profane would say the translation mizht better be rendered, “ What are you going to do about it?”” 3 2 Tn former days one could not become a Car- dinal with impunity, pecuniarily speaking. ‘The honor was #reat, but so was the cost, though the plat cardinalive (as the emoluments appertaining to the office are styled) of 5,000 crowns, benefives, bishoprics, prebends, etc., atoned ina great measure for the costof creation and installation. Nowadays the Cardivals have got rid of the ex- ses, though they retain the sources of profit. Boe Romans have always been hungry for en- joyments and tips,—panem et circenses, -you Know,—aud it-1s not surprising that in old times they regarded the creation of a new Car- dinal as a public festival, the bills for which the person honored should pay. Under this system the hat was made to cost the prelate on whom. it was bestowed from 6,000 to 7,000 crowns, 60 that in not a few instances preferment was ruin to the person preferred, even though the Pontiff frequently advanced tothe new Cardinal large sums from the funds he would ulti- mately receive. Here, for instance, is a list—incomplete doubtless—of the fees a new. Cardinal was expected to pay on the day after his elevation: To the sacristy, 25 golden ducats; to the masters of ceremonies actually employ- ed, 100; to the others, 36; to the Secretary, Clerk, and Treasurer of the Sacred College, 75; to the Pope's chanters. 30; to his private al- moners, to his keeuers of the wardrobe, 10; to two scholars of the private chapel, 6; to his sub-cameriers, 6; to the deacons and sub-dea- cons, 4; to the clerk, 2; to the keeper of the chapel, 2; to the Pope’s grooms, 25; to his ush- ers, 253 to the keeper of the iron door, 6; to the keeper of the chains, 4; to the keeper of the dens, 3; tothe musicians of the Castle of San Angelo, 6; to the masters of ceremonies for incidental expenses, 12; to the comerier, or messenger of the Pope, ~. This last sum was neverless than 500 ducats; those whoreceived the berretta at a distance from Rome paid 300 ducats to the messenger and 1,000 for the berretta; and Cardinals of princely rank or noted for their wealth and muniticence have given the camerier as much as 6,000 ducats. Nowadays, much to the regret of those who throve thereby, the custom of largesses has largely fallen into disaetude, Another fruit of the Ttalian occupation of Rome is found in the aban- donment of many of the public ceremonies con- nected with the creation of Cardinals. After the Consistory the new Prince of the Church ‘was expected to promenade through the streets at the fread of a cavalcade composing all the Cardinals in Rome, wearing, if he was a Bishop, the black poutitical hat turned up with green, if priest, a red robe and hat turned up with black. After breakfast it was his duty to visit, accompanied by an imposing escort, all the other. resident members of the Sacred College, begin- ning with the Dear, then the foreign Ambassa- dors and distinguished citizens. ‘When the day for receiving the new Prince of the Church has been decided upon, he receives, at his residence aod surrounded by his relatives and friends, the Papal envoy, or Cuppanera, a secretary of the Cardinal-Sceretary of State, who presents him on a silver salver the note an- nouneing his appointment, and informs him of the day when the Consistory at which he is to be proclaimed will be held.“ Such, at least, was the custom under the old regime, but now the ceremonious sending of the note, the cavalcade, the fees, have passed into the domain of history. The reunion of the Consistory now has little ex- citement for the Romau public. The Cardinal who goes to Rome to receive the hat wears the short violet robe; at his audience with the Pope, a long one, after which he is not expected to go out till the Consistory assembles. To it he goes in a state carriage with great pomp. The Cardinals meanwhile have proceed- ed in pairs to the hall, whither two Cardinal Deacons, having kissed the Pope’s hand, con- duct the condidate. who bas awaited them in the Chapel of Sextus V. Ssluting the Pope with three profound reyerences at the door, in the middle of the hall, and at the foot of the throne, the new Cardinal mourts the steps and kisses the fect of the Pontiff, who then, followed by the other Cardinals, gives him the kiss of peace. While the Te Deum is being sung the Cardinols proceed to the Papal chapel in pairs and walk round the altar with their new brother, who is played on the right hand for this time only. He then kneels upon the stcps of the altar, where the first master of ceremonies draws the hood over his head; then while the Ze Ergo is being sung, and the Dean of the Sacred College Tepeass certain prayers on the epistle side of the altar, he remains _ prone upon the steps. ’ These finished. he arises, his hood is thrown back, and the Dean, in presence of his Chancellor and two heads ot orders, hands to him the oath he is to take. Having read it, he swears his readiness to shed his blood for tne holy Roman Church aud. to maintain the privileges of the Apostolic clergy, to whose ranks he has been admitted. All the Cardinals return to the Consistory cham- ber inthe same order that they left it. The new Cardinal then kneels before the Pope; the master of ceremonies draws the hood over his head, on which, with the saying of certain pray- ers, the Pope places the red velvet nat. The Pope then retires and the Cardinals form a circle, into the centre of which the new-comer steps to salute and thank them.. At the first Consistory which he attends, the Pove closes his mouth, thus imposing silence upon him concera- ing the things that have passed in theTlall. At the next he opens the Cardinal's lips, confers upon him his title. to such or such a church— asort of ecclesiastical fief—and_ consecrates his marriage with the Church by the gift of the Cardinal’s ring, a jewel of gold in which is set a sapphire. For this ring the Cardinal pays 500 golden dueats. Gresory XIU. gave the right to this sum to the German College; Sextus V. recalled it, and made the fee part of the income of the Papal Treasury; Gregory XV. made it over to the Propazanda. 2 The Cardinal's hat, or pontifical hat, is of red cloth, with a broad brim and a small crown. ‘Two cords, each ending in five rows of acorns or tassels of red silk, are attached to it, falling on either side, Originally there were but two such ornaments. for the cords were used to fasten the hat beneath the chin when the Cardinal wore at solemn ceremonies or in the cavaleades. Now, as it is no longer destined for actual wear, the cords and their thirty tassels have become ornaments. The hat reappvars at the death of the wearer, when it is placed on his shroud or suspended from the vault of the church above his tomb: so this much-coveted object only serves to show the emptiness and vanity of the honors of this world. The bat wornon ordinary ocveasions by Cardinals is black. with a band of red ribbon wrought with sold, The red hats they wear when they take the red or violet sou- tane is of felt, and of the same shape as those of simple priests. CHURCI DEBTS. PIGURES THAT LIE~UNCHANCED, AT THE RE- CORDER’S OFFICE. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cacao, July 28.~In 5 recent issue you publish a card signed J. W. Hanon, in which he claims that the figures of church mortgages as published: in the Alliance were incorrect, at least so far as tis denomination is concerned. T have only to say that if such is the-case it is clearly the fault of certain church officials in not properly attending to business, and that the mortgages do actually and legally stand ag already published. which was all the ANiauce ever claimed., In the case referred to 1 took occasion to address a note to Mr. Hanson lie- fore publishing the list, in order to satisfy my selfon the subject. and his reply was that he understood the amount (which be now claims is $50,000) had been reduced to 330,009, although he was uncertain. In regard to nis suggestion that the Alliance is the organe of a movement that is using a theatre for a place of worship. I can only that the paper is under no denominational pieces whatever, never has been, and never will be: that it was started as, and yet remains. the friend of all the churches, whether worshiping God in hall, theatre. or cathedral; that ft is the only religious paper west of New York whictt is not an “organ”; and that as these facts.are s familiar to the readit 3 newspaper man, fs in them. HL. GN, Managing Editor. To the Editor of The Tribune. . Austis, DL, duly 23. 1877.—1n an article in Sunday's Trivexe. signed J. W. Hanson, the writer takes the Adiance to task fer its pretended misstatements of facts in an article in its issue of July 7on the church debt of Chicago. In that it stated that the ageresate debt of the Universalist eburches of Chicago was $165,000, when in point of fact it was only $50,000. The sneer, “that it would be in good taste for the Aiiiance, which isan organ of a movement that does not exhibit sufficient enterprise to erect a church or even ahall of its own, to criti- cise the well-meant efforts of others with care,” is too evident for comment. If the writer had read the article in question with candor and honesty, he would have dis- covered that it was explicitly stated that “the utmost pains haye-becn taken to make it as ac- curateas possible according tothe showing on the Recorder’s books,” and also that in some cases mortgages had been reduced by partial payments, while appearing on the books for the amounts of the original indebtudness. The implication fhat the Alliance Med in its statement is ertirely uncalled forand unwar- ranted by the facts, and which could not haye oveurred had the writer rcad the article in a fair and not a censorious and fault-finding spirit. — ’ GENERAL NOTES. An ex-convent at Naples is now.a Methodist chapel, and the brethren hold class-meetings in what were the nun’s dormitories. The Legislature of the United States of Col- ombia have passed an act barishing forever the Catholic Bishops of Papayan, Pasto, Antioquia, and Madellin for acting with the leaders of the rebellion, . ‘The Russian Synod has completed the tran lation of the Bible into the vernacular; the work of twenty years bas been accepted by the authorities, and the Czar has thanked the Synod for its labor. ‘The Ritualists of St. James’, Hatchsm, Eng., have been guilty of hiding the Ten Command- ments. The Decaloque bas been dug up from under the church, and is hereafter to occuny its proper place in’ the ehureD, though 2 little kep. Ritualism hes reached perfection in the per- sonof the Rev. W.8. Barker, an Episcopal clergyman at Ahmednuggar, India, who some time since administered the Lord’s Supper toa corpse. He has been suspended by his Bishop for three months. Tae Rey. Emanue} Van Orden, whom the Pres- byterians threw orerboard from their Brazil mission, bas succeeded in getting a few Scotch women of wealth to carry him through. He re- turns to Brazil, and sets up an independent mis- sionary business. : The General Conference of the “ Conerexa- tional Methodists” was held at Mount Zion, Miss., in May, and adjourned to meet in Fre- donis, Ga., May, 1881. | This denomination, though small and little known, has been in ex istence some years. A commemoration of the death of John Huss, which was to have been held at Prague upon July 5, and to which Father Hyacinthe bad been invited, was forbidden by the Austrian Govern- ment on the ground: that is would be an anti- Catholic demonstration. The sermons preached {n Indfa to educated Brabmins, by the Rev. Dr, Julius N. Seelye, now President of Ambherst College, are still much read by Hindoos of culture. A desire has been expressed for the publication by President Seelye of the journal of this missionary tour. The Presbyterians on the Pacific coast are anxious to have the General Assembly provide for the opening of missions among the aborig- inesof Alnska. It is said that they desire Christian teachers from the United Stutes. A missiouary in British Columbia bas paid several visits to Fort Wrangel, and reports that the In- dians beard him gladly. and asked - for teachers. Forty-eight varieties of Presbyterians were represented in the Council at Edinburg. The shades of difference between some of these va- ricties are so slit as to be almost impercepti- ble to an outsider; and yet so determined are some of the brethren in their own ways, that some of the Presbyterian bodics will not com- mune with any other Christians than those who belong to their own sect. Some excitement has been created in Massa- chusetts by the assertion that the Prison In- spectors intend to erect two chapels in the new prison at Concord—one for Roman Catholics and the other for all Protestant prisoners. Cougregational, Methodist Episcopal, and Bap- tist preachers have signed a petition asking for the appointment of a teacher of morality in- stead of the customary chaplain in the State Prison, evidently thinksing that no religion at all is better than Catholicism. Ata Dioscessn Conference for the Diocese ot Winchester, Bishop Brown stated that the English Church did not recognize the habitual practice of “confession” or make it obligatory, and that nothing could be more undesirable than that young clerzymen should exercise auch aiunction. The Engiish Bishops had refused to license. confeseors. Two resolutions were adopted by the Conference, one condemning the ‘use of Wthe Priest in Absolution,” and the other condemning the habitual confession. About 400.of the clergy and laity attended the Conference. ‘The cost of church-going has beeninvestigated at Albany, N. Y., with these results: ‘The highest annual pew-rent paid is $300; the lowest $5. In several churches the highest annual pew~ rent is not over $100; twenty-five out of a total of twenty-nine churches reported the highest. rental does not excced $200. The single sittings vary from $2 to $20 per year. Eight churches are reported as free. The highest salary paid is 28,000, by the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Eight ministers receive salaries of $4,000 and over: thirteen of $3,000 and over; nineteen of 22,000 and over. The Free Church of Scotland is exercised over the increasing practice of “hunkering.” This is a singular word ‘to be used in ecclesiastical proceedings, yet “‘hunkering” has been made the subject ‘of adeliverance to the General Assembly. It means sitting In prayer, instead of standing. ‘The old practice was to stand. ‘The renowned Rev. Dr: Begg says if “ hunker- ine” is permitted, the fall will be speedy to a state of things in which organs and liturgies and Bishops aud all that sort of thing will become prevalent, and the Free Church will be as bad as some of the rest of the churches. Sunday has been made a Gay of rest by a hea- then town in Africa, near Hoffman Station. The town is the heag town of the Gedebos, and the law is strictly observed. The circumstances as told by the Rev. W. A. Fair, an Episcopal missionary at Cape Palmas, are these: “1a their war With the Liberians the latter attacked them one Sunday morning in overwhelming force, and, being surprised and unarmed, they ran away; but, for some unexplained reason, the Liberians became panic-stricken and re- treated without taking possession of the town. The people, believing that the Liberians were puuishicd by God for breaking the Sabbath, have ever since obferved it, and show a deaire to Iearn more of Christianity.” 3 At the last day’s session of the recent Pai Presbyterian Assembly in Edinburg the Kev. John Burton, of Betieville, Can., spoke strongly against all attempts to remove instruction in religion from the every-day. schools. It was monstrous that they should teach their children ot Socrates and Confucius, but nothing of Christ. {t was a civilized heathenism to talk of seculat education. In Scriptural knowledge, firmness in sacred things, intelligent and well- directed ctiereies, the generations passing away, trained in thé Scottish schools, with Bible aa: Shorter Catechism in hand. had few equals and no superiors in the pioneer march of civilization, To the Reformed eburches had beew given the privilege and duty of protesting against the utter secularization of youthful training. Mr. Burton also urged the importance of having their Sunday-school libraries provided with lit- erature of a healthy tone instesd of being filled as.at present with religious novels, which had not the ring of the true metal, a declaration which was received with applause. ‘An tmportant meeting of the League of English Church ‘for the severance of the union betiveen Church and State was held in Lon- July 3. The Kev. A. H. Mackonochie pre- Inhis opening address, the Chairman “It is forty years since Jota Keble, de- musring to certain propositions put forward by the-promoters of the Catholic movement, main- tained that the union of Church and. State, as then understood, was positively sun(ul, and cer- tainly nothing has occurred since to alter that opinion.” Archdeacon Denison. who is now 71 years of age, moved the first resolution, ‘* That tie true ides of the Christian Church is op osed to its union with the State.” In jis address, which was very earnest, the Arch- deacon said he believed *‘disestablishment to be inevitable, not from without, but from within.’ An amendment to the resolution, declaring that agitation for disestablishment is not desirable. created great uproar. Atter a disturbance. which one report describes as “disgraceful.” the resolution was carried. A second resolution, ‘that the results of modern yoluntary effort afford the fallest assurance that. the Cuurch, when disestablished, wil] be ampiy provided for by the offerings of her members,” was also adopted. PERSONAL. The Rev. A. E. Everest, late of Ludiow, Il., has removed to Belle Plain, Ia. The Rev. Joseph Boone got drunk, and the Presbytery of Brazos deposed him from the ministry. S The Rev. Mr. Powell, Secretary of the Ameri- can Board of Foreign Missions, has returned from qhe Bast. ‘The Rev. J. G. Patterson hes resigned his ‘pastorate at Fort Madison, Is., to accept a call from Loudon, 0. ‘The Rey. E. H. Harlow, of lows, has with- drawn from the Protestant Episcopal Charch to doz, Join the Catholic Apostolic Church. He wil have to wait awhite for reordination, however, as there has been no apostle of that Chureh in this country since 1874. wate Re 1, o Brastow, ot Burlington, Vt., e pulpit of the First Congrega- tional Church during the month of August. ‘The Rev. B. F. DeWitt has been called to the Pystorate of the Presbyterian Charen, Sturzis, ich., which; it is understood, he has accepted. Prof. E. C. Mitchell, formerly of Chicago, has received a high. compliment by being tendered he Permanent Professorship of Greck,Hebrew, guages in jf god Celene Lan in the University of Prof. Sanborn Tenney, of Williams College, the author of several valuable works on zoology and mineralogy, died very suddenly last Mon- Gay at the home of. his ‘sister, whom he was visiting, near Buchanan, Mich. Dr. Gibson, of the Second Presbyterian Church, goes to Nebraska this week to attend the meetings of the missionaries of the Ameri- ean Sunday-Schoo} Union; after which he will o to Pueblo.and Colorado Springs for a rest. ‘The Rev. C. H. Dunlap, of Springfield, Mo., received a hearty and onsnimous call to the First Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, and signified his willingness to accept; but his present charge protested with so much earnest~ ness that he has declined. The Rev. D. N. Vanderveer, of the Union Park Congregational Church, left on the 18th Sor his usual summer vacation at the East. He will probably return about Sept. 1. Ris pulpit in the meantime will be supplied by the Rev. C. M. Lamson, of Worcester, Mass., and the Rev. Washington Gladden, of Springfield, Mass. PIOUS SMILES. ‘Two oysters in a guilon of Inkewarm finid ata cburch fair are no longer called stews, but aqua~ riums. Biblical scholars will be pleased to learn that the Vanderbilt heirs have unanimously resolved to stand by the old testament. Alittle girl, where a minister had been in- vited to dinner, was privately placed on her good behavior. Finding a lull in the conversa- tion at the table, she folded her hands and said, “0 God, please pass the butter.” “Tdon’t believe in. fashionable churches,” said a lady recently; * but, after all, consider- ing that we are all togo to the same Heaven, perhaps it’s better to keep up the social distinc- tions as long as we cau.”” ‘The following is told of a gravedigger in a cathedral town in the North of England: One day, while * gathering in the remains of an aged parishioner, be observed some women weeping by the grave side. Turning around, he sharply demanded of them, “What are ye cry- ing for? If yedinna-bring ’em at 80, when wad ye bring em?” One of the candidates for admission to the Hartford High School, the other day, was troubled to find an answer to the question on the blank forms to be filled by the applicant for admission of What was his father’s business. He asked the teacher for nssistance. “ Why.” said the teacher, * write what he does mostly fora living.” When the papers were collected. it was found that he had answered the question by writing “ Deacon of a church.” A white minister in a Methodist pulpit in Charleston, 8. C., afew years azo, after a ser- mon preached by another minister, prayed that what had been “sown 1n weakness might be raisea in power,” what had been “ sown in cor- ruption might be raised in incorruption,” and 6000 through several vhrases of Paul’s great argument for the resurrection, and all to the infinite amusement of the brother who had preached and of several Nortliern visitors. The Rev. Dr. McCosh, of Princeton Colteze, tells a story of a negro who prayed earnestly that he and his colored brethren might be pre- servea from their “ upsettin’ gins.” * Brud- der,” said one of his friends at the close of the meeting, ‘you ain’t got de hang ob dat ar word. It’s besettin’, not upsettin’.* “Brud- der,” replied the other, * if dat’s so it’s so. Bat I was prayin’ de Lord to save us from de-sin ob toxication, an’ ef dat ain’t a upsettin’ sin 1 dunno what am.” The darky was right that ime. It was in Boston. A low, musical sound came up from the closet under the stairs, and the mother listened. {t was her little son softly singing to himself: “ I need Thee every hour.”” “How glad I am that 1 took my boy to hear that sermon on ‘Closet Devotions,’ at the Tabernacle last evening,” said she. Then she could not forbear stepping quietly to the eloset-door to catch a glance at the “dear child,” the “precious lamb”—“ bless his heart! So she did. And she saw him—saw him devoutly engazed in humming that revival hymn, and also—running his finger around in the preserve-jar! And there the devotions broke up—broke up amid groans of repentance for sin found out. Of “Jack Russell,” well known in the West of England as the “sporting parson,” the fol- lowing characteristic anecdote is told: ** When the late Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Phillpotts, was holding avisitation in North Devon, he asked ‘Jack Russell’ if he could have a tatk with him, and the answer was, ‘Certainly, my Lord.’ Thereupon the Bishop referred to. his friend’s celebrity as a sportsman, and went on, ‘Ofcourse hunting is in iteelf very innocent. Bgt you are a master of hounds, and no doubt when you are put out you may be tempted to use strong lan- guage. That would not be becoming a man in your position, and your ministrations would not carry the same weight as they ought todo.’ ‘If that is all, my Lord, you need not trouble your- elf,’ replied ‘Jack,’ ‘for my parishioners ride such bad cattle that I am always a couple of ficlds ahead of them, and they never hear what Tsay.?” ; A Reading (Pa.) paper in a vivid account of a negro camp-mnecting in the vicinity says: The Bishop, thoroughly warmed up to ms anb- ect, gave a graphic description of the Garden of iden, and subsequently compered the devil with a toad. ‘**See de toad sittin’ in de Garden ob Eden. Dag he sets. Alonz comes Michael wid a biz sword. He unsheathes dat sword, and hauling off wid one tremendons effort he fs just about letting fall dat awfnt knife, when 2 good angel says, ‘No, don't do dat." De life of the devil is spared and de entire creation. is saved. Ode women was not satisfied to cat dat fruit alone, Dare it was. She must do something worse, What does she do? She ves it tode men! And de men eat dat fruit, and dare is de foundation for all sin. And God got mad? And what a terrible thing {tis for Him fo get His back up. Weseeit ebery day! Look at Him inde clouds when de storm comes and shakes down de hickory nuts, twists off de trees, tears up de honses, and shakes down de barns. Oh, Jtell you, unless yon repent, you'll all be damned, “You'll all be like de silver fox dat went through de fire and bad his tail singed. Look out, de time is short. Yonly had intended to make a few remarks, but de wrace ob God got right into me, and hereIam: Can't help dat talk to you. Must do itt it's boiling rizht up through de top of my head. and- I'm ewine to tell you ob Jesua. Don't you forret Him! If soa do, We may forget on. If He dues, you are deader than the deadest Bore that ever was bauled out to de bone yard. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. ‘The Rey. Dr. Northrup will preach in the Mich- igan Avenue Church, south of Twenty-third street, at2la,.m. —The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach morning and evening at the Hateted Street Church. —The Rev. Robert P. Allison will preach in the North Star Baptist Church in the morning, and the Rev. R. A. Windes in the evening. 2 —The Rev. Galnsha Anderson, D. D., will preach atthe Second Church, Morganand Monroe streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. T. J. Morgan. D. D., will preach at the Fonrth charch, Washington ‘and Palina streets, at 10:30 a, m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rey. W. W. Everts, D. D., will preach in the First Church, South Park avenue and Thirty- first street, at11'a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. N. F. Raviin will preach at the Free Chareh. comer of Loomis “anu Jackson streets morning and evening. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach in the evening at the Second Church, corner of Monroe and Morgan streets. Subject: ‘The Riots and Obedience to Law.” —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach at Centen- nial Chureb, corner of Jackson and Lincoln streets. Subject: Morning, “The Lesson of the Riot to Christiane”; evening, ‘*The Wages of Sin as Il- Tustrated by Recent Experiences.” “The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach: morning and evening at Immanuel Church, comer of Or- chard and Sophia strecte. ‘Fook will preach morning and te Rev. J.T. Toof wil evting at the First Chureb, corner of Twenty- fifth street and Indiana avenge. ~The Rev. A. J. White will preach at the Cen- tral Church, Van Buren street and Campbell ave- nue, ot 10:45 a. m. CONGREGATIONAL. é The Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., President of Howard University, will preach, morning and evening, at the First Church, Weet Washington and ‘nn streets, The morning’ subject will be, "*The Outbreak of Last Week." —The Kev. J. P. Barrett will preach morning and evening at the Leavitt Street Church. —The Rev. C. M. Lawson, of Worcester, Mass., Pil breech morning and evening st the Union Park Church. —There will be uo Sunday services at Plymouth Church unti} Sept. 2 The Sunday-school and Wednesday evening prayer-meeting wil! be held an usu; f , _ EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. F. Morrison will officiate morning and evening at the Church of the Holy Communion, Dearborn aad Thirtieth streets. 7 + There will be the usual services at the Cathe- ral of SS. Peter and Pan}, -cornor of- Wash and Peoris etreets. Holy communion at 10:30 a. a —The Rev. Samuel 8. Harris will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. James’ Church, corner of (Cavs and Huron streets. ~~ Gg —The Rev. J. H. Egan will officiate in the morn- ing at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Michigan avenue. ? ~The Rev. Francis Mansfield will ofggiate morn- ing and evening at the Church of the Stonement, corner of Washington and Robey streets, —The Rev. J. Bredberg will officiate moraing and evening at St. At fas Church, on Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenue, aot will be no services at Grace Church to- —The Rey. W, Ii. Hopkins will officiate in the morning at St. John’s Church, on Ashland aveane, near Madrson street. ~The Sunday-school at Hope Mission, No. 855 Pie ‘Milwaukee avenue. will begin at 2:30 pn. —There will be services morning and evening at the Church of the Holy Communion, .on born, street, near Thirtieth. —The Rev. Arthar Ritchie will officiate morning and evening at the Church of the Ascension, cor- ner of Lasalle and Eim streets. Holy communion 2 me —The Rev. Charles S. Lester will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. Paul's Charch, in Hyde Park avenue, near Forty-eighth street. —The Rev. B, ¥. Fleetwood will officiate morn= inzand evening at St. Mark's Caurch, corner of ‘Thirty-sixth street and Cottace Grove avenne, —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will officiate moming and evening at ‘St. Stephen's Church, m Jchnyon street near Tarlor. —The Rey. Luther Pardee will officiate morning and evening at Caivary Chureh, in Warren avenue, near Oakley street. —The Rey. T. N. Morrison will officiate miorn- ing aud evening at the Charen of the Epiphany, in ‘Throop street, near Monrde. ~The Rey. J. N. Hume will efficiate in the morningat the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln ‘and Belden avenues, ms ‘The Rev. Heury G. Perry will officiate and evening at Alt Saints’ Church, comer of Obie and, ater streets, ~The Rev. F. N. Luson will officiate in the morning at the Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndale. Funeral eervicer of the tate J.J. White at 2 p.m. There will be the naual ‘services at Emmanuel Church, LaGrange, ~The Rev. J. 5. Smith will officiate morning snd evening at St. Mark's Church, Evanston. Holy Communion at 83. m, de FRIENDS. oitg Society. of Friends will bold meetings at :30 a. m. On Twenty-sixth street, and at 5 p.m. at No. 71 Randolph street. id m METHODIST. The Rev. S. jcCheaney will preach at Park Ave- nue Charch morning ant evening. Morning sub- ect: 5-The Preservation of Law and Order in So- clety.”" __—The Rev. 3f. M. Parkhurst will preach morn- ing and evening in the First Church. =The Rev. George Chase will preach morning . and evening in the Winter-Street Charch, corner of Forty-fifth street. —The Rev. W. T. Crafts will and evening at Trinity Church, near Twenty-fourth etrect, —The Rey. M, Auer will preach morning and ening at Fiood's Hall, Uyde Park. t Patten will preach morning A. We and evening in the Wabash-Avenne M. E. Church. --The Rev, Dr. Williamson will preach morning and evening at Michigan-Avenue Church, near ‘Thirty-second strect, ~The Rev. W. C, Willing will preach morning and evening at Langley Avenue Church. ~The Rev. E. M. Boring will preach morning and evening at Dixon Street M. E. Church. Even- tg subject: “*Mutual Relations of Capital and ~The Rev, R. D. Sheppard will preach morning and evening in Western Avenne M. E, Charch. vor- ner of Monroe street. Morning subject: ** Good Will to Men” evening: **The Mob at Ephesus. Mrs, Jeanie H. Caldwell, the evangelist, will preach In Simpson M. E. Church morning und evening, reach morning fndiana avenue, —The Rev. BEPORMED EPISCOPAL. ‘The Rev. Dr. Cooper will preach morning and evening in Immanuel Charch, comer of Centre avenue and Dayton street. —The Rey. J. D. Cowan will preach in Grace. Chareh, corner of Hoyne and Le Moyne streets, at 10:45 3, m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Itey, Dr. Hunter will preach at 10:45 a.m, and 7:45 p. min St. Paul's Church, corner of Washington and Ann strects. H. Bosworth will preach at 10:45 ‘a, m. and 7:45 p. m. in Emmanuel Canrch, corner of Hanover and Twenty-elghth streets.” —The Rev. R. HH. Bosworth will preach in Trin- ity Church, Englewood, at 4 o’cluck p..m. —The Rev, J. S, Fisher will preach in the morn- ing at St. John’s Church, PRESBYTERIAN. ‘The Rev. Jemes Maclanghlan will preach marn- ing and evening in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, corner of Sangamion and Adams, —The Rev, Jacob Post will preach at 10 a. m. in the Holiand language, and at 7:40 p.m. fa En- gilsh, at the church-corner of Noble and West ‘Ene streets. ly aay. The Rev. R. reach at 10:46 8, m. in the Forty-Gret y, . “The Rev. J. Be 3° aN preach at 11 a. m. apd8p, min thc Gark whirch, comer of Vin- cennes and Oak ave Surpris¢ —The Rev. J. Mi and inqyon will preach at 10:45 a.m, and 7:45 p. with bne Second Church, cor- ner of Michigan snimselfnd Twentieth street. —Prof. J. H. Heng eyill preach at 10:30. mm, in the First Cbureb,q jjner of Indiana avenue smd ‘Twenty-first street. - —The Kev. E, N. Barrett will preach at West minster Chureh, ‘Jackson and Peoria streets, at 2m, —The Rer. F. M. Fisk will proachin the mom- ing at the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenze and Thirtieth street. No evening service. SWEDENBORGIA! ‘The Rey. Dr. Hibbara will preach at the New Charch Hall, corner of Efghteenth strect and Prairie avenue, at Ila. m.; and at the Temple, corner of West Washington streetand Ogden ave- nue, at 3:30 p. m. —The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach this morn- ing in Hershey Hall, opposite McVicker's Theatre. MISCELLANEOUS. Judge Layton will preach morning and evening at Green Street Tabernacle. No. 91 ‘South Green et, —The Rev. J. Straub will preach in the morning at the Church af the Redeemer. —The Non-Sectarians will meet at Room 23 Ne~ yada Block, southwest corner of Franklin and Wachington streets, at 2:20 p.m. —Disciples of Christ meet at 229 West Randolph street at AP nm. Elder H. G. McCulloch will preach at the ball $21 Madison street. moruing and evening. —The Progressive Lyceum will meet at 12:30 p. m. 1m Occidental Hail, West Madison street, near Elizabeth. ‘ —The First Society of Spirituahsts meet at Oc- cidental Hall, No, 431 West Madison street, at 10:45 a m. and 7:45 p. m. —A religions meeting and conference of the Spir- itual Free-Lovers witl be held at No. 230 Weat Madison street at 3p. m. z —The services at Lake Binff to-day will be as N follows: 10:30 2. m.. preaching by the Rev. G. C. Haddock? 2:30 p. m.. by the Rev. C. J. Truedell; Sp. m, the Rey. C. R. Pattee. On Monday evening at 8 o'clock there will bea Bible reading, and at the same hour on Tuesday a prayer-meet- ing will be held. ‘fhe camp-mecting proper begins ut 8a. m. on Wednesday, with the administration of the Lord’s Supper. —The Open Air Gospel Temperance Band wilt hold their usaal meeting ac the northwest cor- nerof Ashland avenue and West Lake street at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. George Evans will conduct the meeting. Ex-Ald. Montgomery, Gndge Layton, aud Dr. McCollister, of Kansas City, are expected to speak. All drinking men cordially invited to be preeent. —The Rev. H. M. Paynter, pastor, will presch at 10:30 a. m. and $ p. m. jn Calvary Tabernacle, 20 Odgen avenue. near West Harrison street. Sub- ject in the morning, *tThe Doctrine of Eternal Judgment"; in the evening, ‘*Some Reflections on the Present Strike.” Seats free. All are cor- dially welcome. : CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK EPISCOPAL. uty 29¢-Ntath Sanday after Trinity. CaTHOLIC. July 99—Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. July 30—St. Martha, V. {from July 29). ’ of Loyola, C. pt. i, B. C. Do; St. Aug. 4—St. Domiate, C. patent ese THE ANGEL AND '‘CLARA.” [From ite French of Jean Raber} er an infant's cradle hov'ring, ‘Did a face angelic beam, Seeminz to behold her image, ‘As 3 ahadow in a stream. “Lovely babe and kindred spirit, Come,” the Ancel said, ‘+ with ma; Earth and suffering left behind neg ‘Happy we'll together be. “Happiness is never found here: Pleasures all their penance bring; Smiles and tears, and joy and pais, Constant contrast offering. “No calm day secarely pasees— Fear at every fete a cuest; Gloomy tempesta, ever threat’ning, Fill the soul with vague unrest. ** And eo soon shall grief and sorrow Brand thy brow, so pore and troe— Dim with tears of bitter weeping Baby eyes of heavenly blue. “Rather to the fleida Elysian ‘Thou with me shale wing thy Might; Spare the weary race of mortals, ‘By a loving Father's right. +vThat no fond hearts mourn at parting, None in sombre vestments be: Rather Jet them hail thy last boar, ~ “TAs they firat did welcome thee. ‘ornat their brows may be unclouded, AE ice ee pare, eo eutites,” At th: 80 pl Li . ‘Rien the last day beings no placa.” And, unfolding his white pini Ar these words the Angel fed.” ‘Towards eternal mansions speeding: **Mother weep,—thy babe is desdl” Higuzaxp Panx, July 28, 1877, Mus. 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