Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1877, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES 9 RELIGIOUS. cardinal Manning, the Head of English Catholi= cism. Toteresting Sketch of a Busy Life Devoted to Doing’ Good. piscovery of an Ancient Syriac Manuscript of the New Testament. The Different Wine Texts Mentioned in the Scriptures. General Notes from thé Church at Home and Abroad. 'Pious Smiles—Personals-—-Church Services To-Day. CARDINAL MANNING. TRE HEAD OF FATACY IN ENGLAND. London Vortd. «Henry Edward, Cardinal Pricst of the Holy TRoman Church, by the titlc of St. Andrew aud 8t. Gregory on the Calian Hill, by the grace of God and the favor of the Apostolic Sce, Arch- bishop of Westminster ?—such is Ur. Manning’s sfficial style—is perhaps the most finished type of the ninetcentls centgry Pupal ecclesiastic the world just now possesses, and oot the least dis- tinguishing of his characteristics is hls univer- rality. In every state, hue, and circumstance of life Cardinal Manning is at home. In bis titolar church at Rome, addressing hisclergy in Italian, and the crowd of his own countrymen, assem- bled to witness his installation in En- glish; in bis pro-cathedral at Kensington, preaching to a congresation half composed of beretics, who have come as much to see himn as 10 hear bim: at a garden party at Chiswick; at Erxeter Hall, pleading the cause of total absti- nence with all the fervor of an apostle; at the ‘Vatican Basilica, swaying the debates and shap- ing the decisions of an (Ecumenical Council; at a bright Oxford banquet, *ia honor of some academic festival, reappearing for a brief honr, asif from another world, on the stage of his early triumphs ana first friendships—wherever the work which he has chosen to take in hand may be in any way advanced, Cardinal Man- ning is to be found, always saying the right word and doing the right thing, as by a sort of natural gift and instinctive wisdom. The position which Dr. Manning scfually holds is, it must be allowed, a great one: The income which it gives him is less thana decent benefice in the English Church. The head of the Roman Catholics in England, like the Pope ‘himself, is in no smsll degree indebted to the siyoluctary principle.? But the ereatness of is office stands out in more conspicuous relief from his bareness of this world's goods. In the old European system, which the French Revoluticn so ompietely shattered, a Cardinal # of the Holy Roman Church ranked with Royalty itself. * Reges mon sunt, sad regibus equiparan- tur,” was the rule which fixed their place. The habitation in which -Cardinal Mauning dwells is curiously significant of the changed position of the Nrinces of the Roman Church at the present day. Archbishop’s House, ‘West- minster, fooks very lilie what 1t did before it lmssed into the hands of the present DUSSESSOT. t is a large modern buildiug, in 2 nondescript style of architecture, standing alone in_a deso- lute piece of ground bétween the Vauxhall Bridere road and the Millbank Penitentiary, and was originally built to serve the purposes of 2 soldiers’ institute. N it is one day to rise, we are told, the long-talked-of Catbollc cathed- rol. Lothair, however, has vet to fulfilil bis mission, and Cardinal Manuing feels that he has more pressing work to do timn the rearing of “stately fanes of prayer. A orief visit to nisbouse will to some ‘extent show what thit work 1s. The servant who admits you tells youn, proba- bly, that bis Eminence is engaved at that mo- ment; he has some one with him, and several ottier persons are waiting to see him. You send up your card, and patiently wait your turn in 2 spacious chamber, plainly furnished, upon e white walls of which baug a few relizious paintings and engravings. You passthe time in looking at them, and in turning over a few costly illustrated books—presentation copies apparentiy—which lc upon the tables. Perhaps vou venture to glance, throuch an open door to ihe right, at a larger apartment beyoud, which is, in fact, the chicf reception room. under a glass case, is tot scarlet beretta con- ferred upon the Cardinal by pontifical hands, upon the occasion of his appointient to the Sacred Colleze. On the othier side of the room, under o canopy, is a large silver crozier. ‘The minutes_ slip away; the visitors who have preceded you, some of whom bear 2 Very suspicious resemblance to Ritmal- istic_clergymen or ex-clergymen, one by one disappear; and at last the butler tells you that your turn has come, and that bis Eminence will how see you. Ppssing through the library, you find vourself in nis study—a tranquil, cheerfullcokine room—ths most noticcable decoratious of which are two photographs over the mantelpicce, representing St. Edward -the Confessor’s shrine in Westminster Abvey as it was inthe thirteenth century, and as it is in the ninetcenth. Here, amonz a mass of books and papers, Cardinal Manning sits and works in soiwe of perpetusl interruptions and distrac- tions, getting thpueh more busiuess in seven or cight hours than most men could accomplish insixteen. The Cardinal’s ascetic 1ace, with its keen penetrating eyes and sharply-cut featmes, wears the stamp of intellectual supremacy. *Plain living and bigh thinking” are written upou every linc of it.” The table at which he is sitting spéaks sienificantly of the variet of his occunations, beanng, as it does, proof-shects of an article for the Nineteenth Century; the MS. of a paper to be read at the Catholic Academia: notes of two or three sermons to be preached on the next Sunday; a pile of letters read and dulv indorsed for the guidance of secretaries; z2nother pile, scarcely less formidable, stili to be disposed of; » number of Latin documents, . impressed with the archiepiscopal scal, and ap- ]::reuuy awaiting the archiepiscopal signature. Ie wears the ordinary undress robe of a Catho- Tic Bishop, us scarlet. skull-cap and stockings denoting his cardinalitial rank; and a8 he rises o greet Fou, his attennated figure gives an fm- pression of ereater tallness than he really pos- sesses. He receives you with an unstudied dig- nity and a frank kindness, and at once leads you to talk of the business which has brouzht You to geehim. _His minutes are too precious admit of his devoting more of them than i8 sbsolutely necessary to the conventional phrasecs which * ¢at out the heart of a good time.” The burden which lies upon him is undenia- bly heavy. 'Apart from the wider and more general ecclesiastical intcrests which have a strong claim upon his time and thoughts, the immediate: cares and responsibilities of his of- fice are rrave, and touch him very closely. He Elnsidas over the poorest religious community the world, and the relations between him and his spiritual ' children are surprisingly close and intimate. Five-sixths of the Roman Catholics in England are Irish, too many of whom, sunk in the depths of povertr and material wretched- nees, look, as with the wistful belplessness of dumb creatures, to their chief pastor for active evmpathy and practical guidance. The Cardi- nal's indefatigable persopal labors amank the oor, his crusade against their besetting &in of runkenness, his earnest advocacy of the claims of the agricultural laborer to something more than a pittance barely suflicient to sustain life, his eflorts 10 jmprove the social and itellectaal position of the artisan, havesecured the generogs and ungridging admiration of the most cordial encmics of his Church. But what 15 less geerally known s the work which he has done for the poor children of his flock. The novement assoclated with the rame of the *Westminster Diocesan Education Fond » 13 perhaps the achievement towhich he looks back with the greatest satisfactiou. Originated by him ten years ago, it has gone on in spite of every obétacle, until, as he will tell vou, of the 53,00 Roman Cathotiechildren of London, some 30,000 are now receiving such education as their church allows. Of the other 3,000, 1,200 are de- ed—the word is pronounced with an intous- tion whicn leaves no doubt that it has mufifg sisedly clivsen—in the district or ‘workh | | schoofs of the metropdlis, whence it is his un- ceasing effort to deliver them upon'any pecuni- ary teros the guandians choose to fix. And Licre, possibly, the Cardinal will show you some of the details of this work which he has so much at heart. lic will take you into a room where files of correspondence with thie Poor Law Board and with Boards of Guardiaus tell their own tale; where certificates of births, marriages, and deaths, and other documents necesssry for establishing the cases he has to tnaintain, ar¢ arranged with a precision and order which would not do discredit to a lawyer’s office. A reverend sccretary is in special charge of this department of the diocesan business. In a neighboring room other secretarics and clerks arc busily engaged. The Cardinal and the clerzy attached to him live roztther in a plain and simple way, and oa the right of the eotrance-hall is their common room, where they assemble daily for their 1-o'clock dinner. It is hung around with portraits of the- successive *Vicars-Apostolit’ of the London District before the *'restoration of the hicrarchy ** under Cardi- nal Wisemany venerable personages who little thought, ene may supposc. of the future which was in store for their descendants in this age of universal relizious toleration and theolosrical liberty.. Archuishop's House fs rich in mewori- als of a more troublous time. In the private chapel is a chest balf filled with cloths dipped v the Dlood of the *martyrs” who sufl}:m:d under. the Elizabethan legislation. Other high- ly-prized relics of this little oratory are the mitre and mnn!glc of St Thomas 3 Becket, which stands under lass on the altar, and ag- tograph letters of St. Theresaand St. Francis ac Saics. It is here thatthe Cardinal says his daily mass; after which he not unfrequently ad- ministers the Sacrament of Conlirmation” to adult “converts.” Such are the surroundings in which Cardinal Manuing tiuds his present home,—diflerent, totv calo, from the scenes in which the earlier years of his carcer were spent. It requires an effort of somcthiog more than wemory to ligure to oneself this prince of the Catholic Church—who secns the embodiment of all that is- as- cetie, hiermehical aud distinctively ' Roman— 18 a Protestant clergyman. And yet It is only thirty vears awo that he was very prominently before the world in that camudty. The loes fell to him in pleasant places while he' was a Yeneficed . oflicer of the Established Church. Lavington, with its cut{ rectory and its pretty chureh just rebuilt by nim.—its dark hanginic woods, its heathery common and brown copses, and thelong vale through which the Rotoer glides,—could not have been left without many apang. But even in thuse davs Archdeacon Munning was of a spirit ecclesiastical very far removed from the traditions of the Church of England sedulously mamtained by his clerical melzhbors, Otd_Oxford men tell you of the flutter which used to Lake place in the University when it was known that he was about to come up. Every one was on his good behavior. The influcnce of the born ruler of men was as stropgly felt fn the Uxford Movement as in the Vatican Council. But in truth, in the case of Cardinal Manning, one is more inclined to dwell upon his present, or to speculate upon his future, than to £o back 10 a page of his life, memorable, indeed, but finisbed and turned down. Heis csseutially a man of action, little inclined to liuger “‘muong the moldered lodges of the past,” or to Jead others to linger there. His untiring cnergy, his indomitable courage, his profound erclesiasticsl statesmanship are amply displayea to men in Liis present position, and are naturally apore- clated more ou the Continent of Europ: than by his own countrymen. There is, perbaps, no other member of the Sacred College whose creat qualities are so geverally recognized tbrough- out the Catholic world. Ts'it in store for hitn to display those qualities in astill more exalted station! Are we oue day to see him at home at’ the Vatican? Perhaps the objection which most readily ocenrs, that Cardinal Manning is not an Ttalian, is in truth astrong rccommendation. There 'is 8 growing fecling amon:x the wisest and clearest heads of the Roman Church that the local influcuces which, for the lust turee centuries, have so much narrowed the choice of the clectors to the chair of Peter are intimately connected with the presgat misfortuncs of the Papacy, and that no more emphatic proclama- tion of its ecumenical character could be made than by the ‘clection of a successor to Pius IX., who eould in no seuse be claimed as & subject of Victor Emmanuel. SYRIAC MANUSCRIPT. DISCOVERY OF A NINTO-CENTURY TESTAMENT. Correspondence of tie {ndependent. BeiroT, Syris, July 19.—Some time since I found in thelibrary of the Syrian Protestant College an ancient Syrisc manuscriptof tho New Testament, somewhat mutilated and suffering from former negleet and incipient decay. No one knew whence it came, nor did all the Fac- ulty know that it was in the library. From the style of the writing, I judged it to be not older than the eighth century. and not later than the ninth, and began to examine it, taking means at the same time to prevent its further deteriora~ tion. Waen Dr. Bliss returned to Beirut, after two yedrs’ stay in America. he informed methat it had been brought from Mardin by one Abd ul Messiah, who was employed to, superintend the native workmen in the ercction of the college buildings; and that he (Dr. Bliss) had induced him to present it to the college library, where it had remained ever since, as an unkuown curiosity. Proceeding with my examination, I found that the Gospels? portion wus not_the Peshito, but the Philoxeriat. or Harclean recension, of which Do cntire copy was then Lo be found in Bei The rest of the MS., being of the Peshito version, I found to have a text much nearcr to that of the excellent new (1 cdition of the American Bible Society thau to the common En- glish text of Lee or Greenfleld. ishing the Judgment of a thoroush expert in Syriac MSS. 3s tothe awe of thecodex, I sent six loose leaves to Dr. Ceriani, of the Ambrosian Library, at Milan, the custodian and editor of many of the mosi noted Syrisc M33. (among them the oldest Peshito and Hexaplar), aud who, on my former visits to Milan, had kindly shown me the chief MSS, of thelibrary. He sova returned them, with many usefal comments, assizoing the todex to “about the minth century?; .pointing out _some peculiarities which be had found elsewhere, ouly in the c oldest Milan MS.; and, calculating the number of leavesin the whole MS.to a micety; and drawing many other conclusions as to the rest of the docuwent (which I have since verified)— all with the acuteness of the savan who re- ‘constructs a whole fish from oue fossil scale. He also collated two leaves of the Gospels with ‘White’s (the only editton of the Philoxenian Syriac), and judged theif text to be better than that of White's; and concluded his comwuui- cation with a request to examine by all means whether the codex contained the Apocalypse; for, if 50, it would be the oldest Syriac M. that contained it. The codex counsisis at pres- ent of 203 leaves (two of them [rarments) of tine vellum, eleven by seven and onc-half inches in length and breadth; written, like most Syriac MSS., with two columns to 8 page, thirty-two lines in a full column; the column scven and one-half inches long by two inches wide. The MS. has at some time sadly suflered by Iying or standinr with one eud in muddy water, by which means the upper portion of mnear- 1y every page is more or less decayed, and generally very difficulf indeed to decipher, while the lower portion is plain enough. Yet. where the parchment is not_actually torn or de- cayed away, I have been able to read with cer- tainty every letter of the text, without resort- " ing to any " chemital means except the use of water; though frequently 1 have been helped by the writing asset off upon the opposite page. 10 many places the writing is hygroscopic, and becomes plain for a few seconds when damp- ened; in other places the writing has penctrated to the interior of the membrane, but is hidden by a surface roughened by decay, in which case water makes tlie surface transparent and the writing easily leeible. Sometimes the ink has disappeared, leaving the writing etched into the m?:meut, ‘perfectly distinct. “But to relate all the conditions and artifices of deciphering would be almost as tedjous as the process itself. I 1 bad not already had considerable experience in deciphering diflicult Inscriptions, I should before this bave given it up in despair. ‘Vhe sheets are arranged in quinternions, or_quires of five Tolios, each quire being numbered at the begin- ningand end, Jike ihe sheet signatures of & printed book. The first guirc and part of the second are gone; the rest, with some lacune. arc present as {ar as quire twent; ~three; and from the general ap) ce of the codex I conclde that it never contained more than ty\'en!.y-(our quires. Now and thena leaf is missings gener- ally ope of the outside ones of & quire. which would wear throngh soonest at the back. Ex- cept where a whole leaf is gone, the lacune are inconsiderable, and such as to leave little orno doubt as to the original reading. - The codex at present_commences at ‘Matt., xii., 20, and cou- tinues throngh the Gospels, in the ugual order, sll of tne Philoxenianor Harclean version. Then follows the Peshito_portion, as follows: Acts, James, L. Peter, 1. John, the Epistles of Paul in ihe usual order, ending with a fragment of I Timothy; but two additional leaves of the. re- mainder bad been thrust loose into the body of the MS., thus preserving a portion of IL Tim- othy and Titus, so that the end of the whole is at Titus L, 9. The writing is of the Jacobite character, very neat and beautiful, but here and there, especiaily in the Gospel of Mark, inter- sporsed with Estrangelo letters; a_pPeunng thos 1o belong to the period of transition from Es- trangelo to Jacobite, or the eighth or ninth cen- tary. In the few places where a Jater hand bas retonched it the later writing is far less excel- Tent or permanent, and fiever interferes with Treading the tirst band. Errors of a minor sort are rare. thoush now and then a serious zomioi- ‘oteleuton oceurs, and that with a most exception: al frequency in the xiv. chapter of Jobn. Gen erally the crrors of this surt show that tae seribe oftener dropped entire lines of his copy than wandered from a portion of onc line to an- other. The titles and subscriptions of the sev- eral books, the notes, and numbers of the church lessons, the more - important marks of punctuation, and much of the ornamentation are in vermilion. The numbering of the larger sections, the. numbering of theguires, and the points of the rubricated I¢tters aré in black. Un- fortunately, the red ink appears to have been put on with a fine brush, and is easily washed off; so that now and then a church-lesson note i5 uudecipherable, or only tp be read _as sct ' off upon . the opposite page. For the same reason the whole title of I! Timothy is entirely goues Abbrevia- tious are rure, ‘lhose of the word for “glory” outnumber all the rest. The whole is writicn ‘continuously-in full lince,—titles, church-lesson notes, and subscriptions,—with no break for a paragraph, except at_the end of a. bvok, where about four lines are devoted to ornament. The Gospels bave a double numbering of chapters; one numbering for those of each_separate book, the other running continuously through all. ‘The Epistles ot St. Paul aremumbered continu- ously as one book, which, 1 am reminded by Dr. Ceriunf, {s the case with the -noted Pentaglott MS. ju the Ambrosian Librury. The church lessons differ. somewhat from the ordinary printed _cditions, both in_ title, divisions, and numbering; but, so far as_compared, rescmble those of the most aucient MSS. known. From the fact that the codex pre- serves the ancient Syrise order of books, as well a8 Irom its omittng the antilggomena of the Syriun Church, 11, Peter, 11 and 111 Jobn, aud Jude, and also from the general ap) uce of the MSS., 1 have little doubt that it origi- nally ended with the Epistie to the Hebrewsand never contuined the Apocalypse. It scems al- most superlluous Lo suy tbat it lacks the * peri- cope de adultera,”? Jolu vit., 53, vili., 11, and the paseage of the three: heuvenly witnesscs, L Joha, V., 7; while it contains the last twelve verses of Mark. It bas noue of thc marginal readings which occur in most MSS. of the Phil- oxeniun; in which respect tuis codex stunds al- niost alone,—a Florence codex, I belicve, having the same peculiarity. For cvident reasons, its collation has been u very slow worls. 1 bave thus far collated the Gospels, and of the Epis- tles frow the beginuing of Gallatians to the end of'the codex. A full zccount of its psculisrities of text cannot be given here. Iam inclined to believe, however, that its text is nearer to the onginal Philoxenian recension vf A. D. 508 than 10 the Hurclean ol A. 616, BIBLICAL WINES. THE KINDS$ MENTIONED IN HOLY WRIT. wpye Wine Texts of the Bible” is the sug- gestive title of a small, convenient compend vrepared by the Rev. C. E. Ferrin. The texts transiateds *wine ”’ are classified according to the words in the original Hebrew or Greel, showing the different kinds of wive, their pa- tures and uses. We quote the author’s con- clusion: The examination of these texis was begun in the regular course of study upon the temperance Sun- diy-schovl lesson, aud with no decided opinions npon the questions stated in the wtroduction. . In the progress of the work, the impresaion st fzst in- cliued towards permission, but ere loug the other ann of the balunce grew more and more welghty till the work ended inlenvinga firm conviction on 1he sude of prohabition of all that intoxicates. Yayin_hos appeared to he 8 Zeneric word, often used to denvte alcoholic wine. and as such its use s not approved. but often and terribly denounced. Sometimes. as in Deut., xxvitl., 39, Pe., civ., 15, Jer., xl., 10, 12, it scems to designatg the fresh Vintage fruit. Shechar and shemer seén to désig- nate substances sweet and lusclous in their irst 2nd best state, but which readlly ferment and be- Come intoxicating, Often also they were drogwed. So they are sometimes called good “and sometimes evil. and a8 such they are denounced aud pro- hibited. Zirush, in overy passage, 1a used as if it were something good and useful. There is no in- timation in # single text that it ever produced in- toxication. Sobeh, chemer, anab, auris, eskishah, snd qgleukos appear to represent various preparations of tae fruit of the vine, and perhaps other {ruitahay- ing the prevailing character of sweetness, fresh- ness, frecdom from alcohol. * And it appears that sume or all of them were also used when ferment- ed, or when, for speciul purposes, (hev had been mingled with drogs, as chemer at Belshazrur's feast. Oinosis used in the New Testamentto cover all thesc terms, and it is reasonable to sup- pose that it represents their different qualities in different texts, as the context or the circumatances may help to determine; unless there are reasons for believing (and we Lnow of none) that Palestine was mach less prodactive of these varied substances in the time of our Savior than §t was n Old Testament _times. Now, then, in view of the many varied and highly. nsefal products of toe vine, wholly ummntoxicat® ing. and abundantly used in Palestine; ia view of the many names given to these products, all trans- lated by the one word wine; in view of the many prasages of Scriptare in which these produets are Tamed iu connection with corn, wheat, oil, snd flesh, as God's zood £ifts to his people; in view of the clear knowledge which the Uible shows of the terrible cvila produced by aicoholic beverages, and of its awfal warniugs and woes ugainst drink- Ing them; in view of the insidious power of the habit of drinkinz them, whicb the sible shows fall knowledge of ; in view of the monstrous evil alco- bolic beverages have brousht upon the world in all azes, and aro multiplying year by year; nnd in view of the witering weakness In which they are still holding the upward Imovements of gocial snd mortl roforms, and even the Churches of our Lord on earth: who can carefally study these wine texts, brought herz before him at one view, with- out interpreting the doubtful passages (if he find any such) in the fullest sympathy with the un- doubted mesuing of numerous strong passages in all the Lible, inentire prohibition of all that can -intoxicateY It s suggested to the reader to resd over the texts under lirosh, substituting srults, or vinlage fruits, for wine, and new winé, and note how appropriate and con- sistent the Sense of the passages Is. In like man- ner wake trlal of other supstitules for wine in other clavses of tests; beer for skechar, preserves or jellics or sweet drinks for ausis, sobeh, anab, and eshishah, There i scarcely a doubt but we shionld often thus get nearer the correct meaning of the text. Early und almost uniform instruction leads to the reaqmg of these wine-texts with an unconsclous acceptance of the alcoholic-wine definition in pussuzes where a mind, unprejudiced by ruch early justruction, would never think of anything intoxieating. NORTH SIDE BAPTISTS. THE NEW CHURCH AT MARTINE'S HALL. Since the great fire o religious denomination in Chicago bas been so peculiarly affected as the Baptists. Notone of the. churches destroyed has been rebuilt on the old site except the North Star; and the central portion of the city, fromn Twenty-third street to Chicego avenue, 18 unrepresented by any independent organiza- tion whose members call themSelves Baptists, save a raission under charge of Mr. B. F. Jacobs. The members of the North’Chburch were so widely seattered by the fire that the organiza- tion has never been, restored, and its remaining property has been sold to cancel its obligations. The North Star Society, through the very ef- ticient &nd seif-sacrificing efforts ot the Rev. Mr. Whitehead, bas become a prosperous organiza- tion, In possession of a church-block valued at §73,000, the net value of whifl is reduced by a martgaze of about $20,000. The rentals of the block pay jatercst and reduce the debt at the rate of 33,000 per annum, Abous three years agro avother Baptist church was organized {n the extreme north part of the clty, which has a present_membership of fifty- two. This church has kad a weak existence for want of money. A coundil of Baptist churches last spring advised this infant organization to so change its locality as to unite all the Bap- tists of the North Side not now engaged in the North Star Church. 1t appears tiwut thereis a large Baptist clement scattered over that part of the c:ty unconnected with any chureh, which only nexds buntiug out by s active missionary, with plens for the future, toenable them tocome togethier and form what may easily become a large and flnurishlnlg charch. The Rev. E. O, Taylor, recently of Ionia, Mich., Las just beéw called, partly by the new church organiza- tion above mentioned and partly by s committee of Chicago Buptist pastors, to undertake the work of rebuilding the walls of the desolated Baptist Jerusalem. . Mr. Taylor has an excellent. reputation as a preacher and an_organizer, hav- ing been stationed at Topeka, Kan., for several years, where be became well and favorably known throughout the State 8sa successful preacher, editor, and pastor. He is enthusi- astically indorsed by bis brother ministers i Chicago; is 4 young man auxious to wiu higher honors, and has taken hold of this new work in a manner which is likely to be very satisfactor; to himself and to his Hltlst brethren of Chi- cazo. Services are held for the preseat in DMartine's Hall, on Chicago avenue near Clark street, at 4:30 p. m. Y. M. C. A. : STATH CONVENTION PROGRAMME. The fifth annual Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of Ninofs will be held in Champaign, commencing Sept. 8, and lasting four days. Following is the programme: Jhursday, Sept. 6.—3 . m.. devotional exer- ciges; 3.45 p. m., organization; 4 p. m., five minate_reports. of assoclations; 7.30 p. m., d- dress by the Rev. J. W. Dinsmarc, of Blooming- ton.* Snbject: " *‘Lay Preaching: Its Warrant, Tsc, and_Limitationa:™ .30 p._m., address by D. 'W. Whittle, of Chicago. = Subject: **The Evangehstic Work of the Y. 3. C. A, : ts Object and Hesults ™ Fridey—9a. m., devotional exercises; 102, m Bible reading Ly Whittle, of Chicago. Subjoc JiCurisian, Wark " 11 4. m., adgrem by . 4. ‘agirart, e State Secret of Pennsylvan 3kt “Tno Quatincations of an Evangelist % 11:45 2, m,, fve-minnte addresses on the same subject; 2 p. m., devotional exercises; 2:40 E' m., onnuoal report of Stute Sceretary. 7 ‘Charles M. Morton: 2:45 b. w., anousl venort of Treasurer State Fund, by S. A. Kean, of Chicago; 3 p. m.. **Our State Work." 2-Its menagement. 3—Shall it John V. Farwell, of Chicago; & The Work of the Young Men's Chrlstian Association in Colleges “and _Universtf Presideut Adams, of Wesleyan University: 5 p.m., “+Tlow Each Association Can Best Ald the Geners l Workaf theState,” by Dr. L. W. Muuhall, ot Indianapolls; 7:30 p. m., adiress by S. A. Tag- fart, of Penneyjvania. Subject: +*Individual and Aveoctated Work for' Young Men; 8:30 p. m., address by William Keynolds, of Peoria. Subject: ““How Shall the Working Talent of Our Christian ‘Young Men Be Developed?* Satirday—9 a. ., devotional exercisca; 10 a. m., Bible reading by B. F. .Iacobs, of Chicago. Subject: **The Shepherd": 11 a.m., ** The Rail- Toad Men of 1llinois, " by H. G. Spafford, or Chb cago: 12 m:, **The Bible in Association Work, " by Edwin A. Wilson, of Springfield: 2 p. m., de- votional cxcrcises; 3. m., **The Preparation of tie Chrlstion Worker, " by Frank M. Rockwell, of Chicago: 4 p. m., **The Relation of the Younz en's Christian 'Associution to Pastors and s, and How 1t Can Best Be of Assistanceto by Robert D, Russell, of Jacksonville; + Esscatial Qualifications for Success” address by Dr. L. W. Munnall, of In- 90 p.kn, , Bible feading by . ¥. Jocobs, sdmlay b 1. delegates’ experience and praise-meeting; 10:30 8. m., those of the dele- gates who are invited to preach by the pastors of Champaign and Urbana will do so; the rest will enjoy the privilege of hearers of the Word; 3 g, DL, young people’s masa-meeting: addrcsses by Joseph . Culver, of Poutiuc, and others: 6:20 ., Jopen air mecting in Champaien Pus dressed by Mesars. Taggart, Itockwell, and others: 7:45 p. m., an;iel mass-meeting, addressed by Mesgsrs. Whittle, Munhall, and Jacobs. ‘There will be a Gospel mass-meeting in Urbana cvery evening at 3 ed by prominent delezates to the Convention. ‘ CAMP-GROUND. YESTERDAY WAS A GALA-DAY at the Camp-Ground. Nothing scemed wanting to make it one loug to be remembered by even the most veteran camp-meeting. habitue.. Ev- erything needed to make the exercises interest- ing apd successful wasat hand. Nature was fn oneof its most gracious moods. The attend- ance was unprecedentedly great, and some of the ablest minds and highest dignita- rics of the Church were present to lend the meeting their countenance and support. Bish- ops Ames, Harrls, and Merrill were all there, and seemed for the time to have forgotten their high cstates and the dignity which their posi- tiope in the Charch impose upon them, while they enjoy for the time the pleasures of an old- fashioned Methodist camp-mceting, as in times gone by, when they rode their cir- cutts sod found their highest and best enjoyment in °the Inborious duties of itinerant preachers. Nonme better than they know the value of these meetings by long ex- perience. Two of them—Bishops Ames and Harris—were converted at camp-meetings (the former more than fifty years ago), and the mem- ories counected with them ure among the most sucred and hallowed of their long and useful ives, The Rev. Mr. Caldwéll, of the Ada Street Chareh, conducted o large and entbusiastic prayer-mecting Friday evening at.the Maxwell street tent at_half-past 6 o’clock. At half-past 5 o'dock on the spme eveng 2 young people's mecting was heid at the Park Ridge teat, led by Albert Lane, of Chicago. v is scarceiy neces- sary to say that the meeting was characterized by the deepest relizious fecling. Mr. Laneis a prince among leaders, aud the young people arc ever ready to follow wherever he chooses to take thcmi ‘The exercises were of the intensest in- eres The Rey. E. D. Wheaton, of Evanston, hed charze of the carly morning prayer-meeting yesterduy at the Lvanston tent. About ffty ‘Eam present, and all felt that 1t was good to be ere. At the Tabernacle. a general prayer snd cx- perience meeting was held at 8 0. m., conducted by the Rev. Mr. James, of Evanston. Over 100 |» testified com‘emlnfi‘ the reality of the religion they professed, and their determination to per- severe to the end in the religious life. It was in all respeets a very happy sud joyous occas- fon. The Swedes have began work in earnest, and %l;fl o from the enthusiasm manifested, will in no wise behind tieir American brethren in Fatherh:! 1m a rich harvest ofsouls. The gorn- ng services was -beid in their chapet at 9 o'dock, the Rev. G. Johnson. of Chicago, reaching from the text as found in Jobn xvii., 9, “Ipray for them; I nruy not for the world, but for them whicls Thou hast given in; for they are Thine.”3 A prayer-meeting was held at the closc of the germon, and 2 nuutber of inquirers preseoted themselves for the pravers ol God's children. At 4:30 p. m. the Rev. Olin Svenson, of Chica- o, preached to the same coneresation, found- ing his remarks upon John xif., 9. The Rev. N. O. Westergren is on the gronuds, and is particnlarly zcalons and cfil- cient among the people of his nation- ality. The pgreat event of the day was the service in the Tabernacle at 10:30 a. m., from which very few absented themselves. When giving out the hymw, previous to the ser- mou, Blshop Ames took occasion to remark that he hoped the time was not far distant when the new revision of the Methodist. hymn-books would be completed. For his part he was not ashamed to say that he was not en- tirely satisfled with all the modern, mnew new fangled hey-diddle-diddle sones which were o much in vogue at the present time, and he shonld hail with unspeaksble joya return ouce more to the good old-fashioned Methodist sones they used to sing fn_days gone by. They were good enough for our jathers, and they were good euough for us. They were good in the church, at the family altar, in the praver- meetiug, and in the rvvival. They were good while we lived, and good when we died. From the hearty amens With which these remarks were greeied, it may fairly be presumed that a larze majority of the audience were of the same way of thinking. After reading of the Scriotare by Bishop Harris, and prayer by Bishop Merrill, Rishop Ames prenched, using as the soundation of his discourse the first fifteen verses of the sixteenth chapter of Romans, in which the Apustle Paul concludes the saluting uud greeting by name and sisters in the Church at Rome.' The Bishop remarked that & mood many persons differ respecting fhe in®! spiration of ihe Bible. Some belieye it is all inspired of God, while otbers hold that ouly portions of it are. The latter say that the ref- crences in the text to so many individuals are ouly an instance of St. Paul’s courtesy, and to make them he did not necd to be inspired. Well, courtesy is_an_important thing, and not to be disregarded. We are commanded to be courteons, and so it is @ proper subject for in- spiration. A greAt many men succeed beeause they are courteous, and ‘a great many {ail be- cause they lack courtesy. 1f we rejecta portion of the Bible as unin- spired, we are adrift, and bave no harbor to sail into. = 1t is the safest to nccept the whole Biole as the word of God, and as needed by us. Any- thing, however small, that adorns or mars charicter is not too small to be a subject of in- spiration. The text is _us remarkable for what it omits to say, as for what it says. affirm, St. Peter at the time it was writtcn was in Rome, and Bishop of the Church there, St. Paul would certainly have mentioned FPeter among the rest whom he mames, aud__would have said, ‘‘Remember mc to Peter.” No doubt the Pope would give the brightest jewel io his crown, and even his crown itsclf, to have the name of Peter there, but it i5 omitted. 1t i3 not above the ealling of a great man to attend to Jittle things. Some ministers think they cannot come_down from preaching great serwons to attending to small atters, such as calling from house to house and circulating re- ligious books and papers. Bat Paul, who is acknowledged to have becn onc of the greatest of men, did it. Sec how he kept his eye onin- dividuals. Though he had never "been to Rome, he could call the names of those who were there active in the Church. Why did he know them and what did he know about them? They were workers for God. He did not know them £ great and distinguished people, but as laborers fn the vineyard. And this is the chief thing. It matters little about what we are in a worldly sense, whether rich or oor, but the great thing is, What do we do for hrist? Soon we shall stand naked and untitled before the judgment seat, and then the one question will be, What have we done¥ . ‘The text gives us zn indication of the way the Apostles. ol d churches. ““The church tbat is in their. house.”” Some people when they start a church in a large city want to know chareh edifiee, and Gov- ernors, 20d Judges, and Colonels, and Magis- trates, etc., for members, and then they think the enterprise is promising. But this is ot the way the Apostles viewed the matter. Nor does God so view it. Nothing of this sort is found in the Bible. If we did find anything of the kind in the Scriptures it would cause us to donbt them. We would say, that sort of pious fraud and trickery is not worthyof God. "The thing Paul did was to get a soul converted to God, and then to organize a_church. The same was true of our Methodist fathers. They got souls converted and then organized them into churches in cabios, and dwellings, with- out thinking about their worldly status at.all. And ¢t 8 ‘only in this way that Methodism cares toconater the world. @ ‘he iloly Spirit intheGospel of John.™ . It she capnot convert it by as well be leftuncaptared. sking L it g The Apostle refers in the text to womes who labored with him in the Gospel. Women can, and should, work for the Lord.. They can main- tain by their influence tha family aliar. If the wife docs not onder the housenold so that it can be done, the husvand caanot read the Serip- tures and pray in the family. Women can make their home 3 corner of Paradise. By their afd and influence tho Church can be kept' upT;n the }muse. R e services concluded with prayer by Bishoy Harris, atter which at the requeysn o ulshcg Ames, a regular old-fashioned love feast was eld. The Sabbath-school was held at the Taber- nacle, at 1:30 p. m., conducted by the Rev. W. H. Holmes, of LaGrange. t The afternoon services at the Tabernacle con- sisted of preacning by the Rev. Robert Shep- berd, followed by a prayer and expericnce-mect- ing. ' The text was Isaiah, thirty-filth chapter, eighta to the tenth verses, inclusiye. The ser- mon wusin the preacher's happiest veln, and was the theme of universal admiration. The Rev. Mr. Spencer followed with brief remarks. Preaching in_the evening at 8 o’clock was by the Rev. John Hitehicock, of Barrington. Among. the late arrivals arc the Hon. Judge M. B. Hagaus, daughter, and two'sons, of Cin- cinnati; Mrs. Lucius A. Hagans, of Eimhurst; the Rev. Mr. JHolies, of LaGranze; the Rev. Dr. Williamson, Chicago; the Revs. A. Youker and A, Atkinson, M. B. Clancy, Ira Brown and wife, J. 8. Cluff, Benjamin Jumes, Mrs. Josh- lin, Evanston, Mr. Castle. Five carg filled with camp-mecting folks arrived at 10 o’clock yesterday morning from Chicazo. It is impossible to tell the numnter of persons camping on the ground, but it is estimated at 600. Large numbers arc present each day who do mot remain through the night. A namber of the cottawes here have changed hands. These grounds pever were 2s popular as Dow, and the Committee are contemplating still greater improvements. Many regrets are ex- [l).re.ssea at the absence of the Rev. Dr. ‘homas, who was expected to spend the entire week at the camp-ground. A letter was received from him jyesterday, by Dr. Boring, in which he expresses” hig deep sorrow for bis unavoidable ngsv.m:u. which is oceasioned by ill-health, and sending a God- speed to the mecting. The appointments for to-day are as follows: Preaching at the Taber- pacle at 10:30 a. m., by the Rev. John Atkin- son, of Grace Church, Chicago; and at 2:30 p. . b‘{ the Rev. Dr. Williamson, of the Michi- gun venue Churel: in the evening at § o’clock y the Rev. W. H. Holmes, of La Grange. A train will leave the station, corner of Canal and Kinzie streete, at 9 a. m. for the camp- ground. GENERAL NOTES. The Pniladelphia Sunday-Sghool Times bos been purchased by H. Clay Trumbuli and John D. Wattles. Last Sunday St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chureh in Jersey Gity was dedicated by Bishop Corregan. It will be the Cathedral for the new Diocese of Northern New Jersey. The Standard anuounces that a demonstra- tion will soon be made for the purpose of secur- jog the enforcement of that section of the License law,whicBprohibits the selling ot liquor to minors. - Canon Thorold has been. consecrated Bishop of Rochester. This See was founded in 604, and Dr. Thorold is its ninety-eizhtn occupant. Next to that of Canterbury it is the oldest See in the United Kingdom. The Freeman’s Journal (Roman Catholic) as- sures its readers that “if Catholic interests are at stake, or if Catholic action [s proposed, it i ready every time to foregu its strongest per- wn'x,;\ prejudices and to go with those it belongs to. g Commencing with Oct. 1, the Apneal, which is the organ of the Reformed Episcopal Church, will be issned bi-weekly. This indicates a gen- erous prosperity, and thé Appeal deserves it, for it is one of the few bright religious papers pub- lished iu the country. Sir Edward Strachey, in a letter to the Lon- don Spectator of the ith inst., laments and com- plains that ‘the sacerdotalists are reducing thealogy to & system which absolutely exgludes the discovery of truth by the God-illumined reason of man, and are making it the manufax- ture of aceste who claim to have a God-given monopoly of that manutacture The Jewish Messenger says that the Jewish Sab- bath has spparently ceased to_exert its old aud proper infiuence, and that a fashionable Israclite 15 of little use, **Is American Judaism slecping the sleep of the dead!” it asks. ‘The vital im- portance to Judaism of the Sabbath and of edu- cation, it believes, must be urged by pulpit and ress if the present lethargy s to be succeeded y activity. : The Methodists during the past fifty years ‘oave twenty-two ministers to the Lutheran Charch and received in return eight Lutherans. The Presbyterians réceived twenty Lutherans and gave about as many. The Episcopalians got fourteen fo exchanee, and the Roman Cath- olics four, and otner denominations fourteen, ‘making altogether fifty-two ministers given by the Lutheran Church to other denominations and® forty-five received by this Church from others within a half a century. The Copgremations! missionaries in_ various parts of Turkey have been compelied by the war toleave their stations.” The Rev. J. E. Pierce, of Erzeroum, returns to this country. ‘the Rev. Lewis Bond, Jr., and the Rev. George D. Marsh and their families reached Constan- tinople from Esk Zagra in safety Aug. 7. Tneg_ saved nothing but their lives and those of thei three young children. There will be s larger number of missonariesat the nextannual meet- ing of the Boardat Providence, R.I., usual. The Bishop of Manchester says (according to the London ZTumesof the 3d inst.) that most Churchmen are loyal to the Established Church, but that they want an cxtension of their liber- ties, ratber than g cobtraction of them. He thinks that they should have what_they want. ¢ Rather than there should be anythiug”like a genernl persecution of those persons who fall below, or go beyond the exact limit of the ru- brics, I would resivm my office.” He was not going to raise a storm aboat his cars which he was not at all prepared to enconnter, and which would not advance the truc interests of his Church. A correspondent of the Adrian (Mich.) Times. writing from Maron, that State, says: “The River Raisin Free-Will Baptist aquarierly meet- ing held its session with the church in Macon, commencing Aug. 3, sud holding over the Sab- bath. Although busy times prevented aJarge attendance from other churches, vet all” agree fuat it was a profitable scssion. The Revs. John Silvernail, of Bedford: D. D. Mitchell, of Hills- d Wellington Dupuy, and Miss Mary Girard present and_supplicd the desk. An inter- estiug praise-mectinz Sabbath evening closed sston. _This church nas secured the sery- Lces of Miss Girard, who has already commenced Ler labors with good scceptance.” @ 1t is said that Mrs. A. T\ Stewart is to make the proposed * Episcopal Palace,™ at Garden City, Long Island, the tinest Episcopal residence in the world. Hesides the cathedral proper, there is to be a * Chapter House”” a **Sce House # (the residence of theBishop), and other @houses;” the cost of the whole to be at least $1,500,000. These will provide acconunodation for resident and visiting clergymen, and be very stately in appointments and arrangement of apartments. The cathedral will be built of Drown stone, probably i -a later Gothic style than that adopted by the church. The lib will be a conspfiv.lous feature, extending throug] Iwo stories, and appropristely ornamented. The choir is to be extended to a lenmth of twenty-five feet; the chancel is to have its nine sides fnereased to thirteen; and: the “Bishop's tnrone” is to be flanked by canopled seats for four-and-twenty eiders.” The following is & comparative summary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for the past four years: 1875, 1877 I Hads ¥ €k ER! S2ERY 4§28 28 g A e g3 Comun'nes . flome3lss. § For. 3tms.| Education Publicatto ch. Erec'tal Reitef fund] Freodmen . Sastenat'n. Total... /50, 120, 72189, 626,594 1OCESAN CONVENTION. ‘The Iorti&" "Annual Convention of the Dio- ecse of Illinols is to be held in this city, com- mencing on the'11th of Scptember. All who purpose attending it and desire entertainment are requested to notify the Secretary, A Aitchell, Mr. er 158 Stats stroet, and families who slain a million can accommodate delegates are asked to inform | T offirm that in this manner Samson could have il of g nce, an e Vil bo o demand, T oF BROR PERSONALS. Tlie Rev. E. J. Goodspeed, formerly pastor of the Second Baptist Church, isin the city. Tho Rev: R. Stricher, of Baratoga Springs, preached last Sabbath at the First Presbyterian Church. E Mr. George C. Needham, the Evangelist, has been holding meetings at Picton, N. S., and s now at Halifax. The Rev. Dr. Custis, of Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, has been preaching for two Sundays past for his old society in Philadelphia. The Rev. Samuel Wyckofl has resigned the pastorate of the church at Portage, Wis., and will close his labors there on or before the close of the year. ‘The Rev. D. K. Richardson has accepted a call to the Presbyterisn Church st Vincennes, Ind., and has chavged his addres: G 0 bas chil ‘;.'ltm. s from Greencastle, “l?yz.:‘un;!k S.(Dc Bliss. United srmges Consul alem, formerly pastor of tl Metro- politan Mecthodish Epi&;nfl rChme“hweun_ ington, has returned home. The Rev. . M. Parkhurst, of Clark Strect M. E. Chureh, left New Yorl' a few days sice for Scotland, where heis to meet Mrs. Park- hurst. Both are to return in October. The Rey. W. E. Williamson, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, organized the first conyrega- tion and Sunday-school of that denomination in Wheeling, W. Va., on the 5th inst. The ncw ‘I:h:.“h starts off with a memberslup of about orty. The Rey. E. G. Condes, of the 8t. Lawrence University, Canton, ' N. Y., preached last Sun- day to a large vongregution at Downer’s Grove. Mr. Condea is_totally blind, reudered so by ;:g\l{nds_rcumved in the army durinz the Re- ion. ‘The Rev. E. G. W. Hall, o recent graduate of the theological department of the Northwestern University at Evanston, and a well-known cvangelistic worker ip this State, was murried Aug. 13 _to Miss Nealic Hutchines, at West Danby, N. Y. Mr. Hall is at present a member of the Bay-Quiute M. E. Conference, Canada. VICAR-GENERAL M'NMULLIN. Daring lust week, Bishop Foley and the cler- gymen of his Diocese, to the number ot seventy- Tive or cighty, have been in spirivual retreat at the College “of .St. Viateur, Bourbonnais, Kan- kakee County. The retreat closed on Friday, i;‘m.l the several clergymen returned to their omes. : At the close of _the services on Friday Bishop Foley,_ announced that he had appointed the Rev. Dr. Jobu McMullin, of this city, Vicar- General of the Diocese. Dr. Melulling who s pastor of the Cathedral, wus not present, and was as surprised yesperday to learn of the ap- pointment 85 the clerry were gratificd at his elevation. Dr. McMullin is the son of the late James McMullin, who was onc of the early set- tlers of Chicago, who filled many places of bon- erand trust, aod who, at an advanced age, died afew yearsaro. The reverend gentleman bas spent all his life from early boyhood n this city. Lis only abseuce was spent at college in Rome, where he graduated with distinction, and re- ceived the degrec of D. D., which in his case iseant what the title implies. He ix a zentle- man of about 48 -years of age, thongh scemingly older, is” & rips scholar, an able sthcologiun, aud one Of the best preachers among the Catholic clergy of the West. He is held in universal estecin by the laity, and is equally respected and liked by the clergy. IHis appointment as Vicar-General— there has been no one of that rauk inthis Dio- cese since Bishop Foley has been Bishop—wiil be received with Sn-m. gratification throughout the Diocese, and by Dr. MeMullin's acquaint~ ances all over the countzy. PIOUS-JOKES. “ Maria,” said a plous husband, “them wicked Smiths are allowing their children to play in the vard on Sunduy. To-morrow I'll set the dog on their chickens.” “Who built the first house?” “I don’t know, ma’am, but I thitk Noan did.” *Why do you think 60, wy deart” ‘RBecanse he's the first architect we read of.” ‘The indivations are now that next year's Lent will have to be postponeu. There is a falling off of 70 per cent in the catch of mackerel so {far this season, and the codiish crop is reported short. + It cast a gloom over an entire charch fair the other night when the minister’s son walked up to'the grab-bag and prizecake table, and de- manded that the game be explained to him be- fore he bought his chips. Some one was asking one of the officials at Oxford University Church if he generally went to hear the sermon on Sunday. He replied: Ycs, sir; for twenty-five years I have never missed a day, and I am a Christian still.” The deduction is casy. “Why," asked a teacher in the Baptist Sun- dav-school, ““did Solomon tell the sloggard to go tothe ant?” *Because,” said a 13-year-old boy, “he knew his aunt would have him out at the wood-pile or in the onlon-bed every after- moon as s00n as school Was out.” A kind-hearted clergyman asked 2 convict how hecame tobein jail. The fellow said, with tears in his eyes, that he was coming home from prayer-mecting, and sat down to rest, fell asleep, and while he was asleep there ihe connty built 2 jail around him, and when be awoke the jailor refused to let him out. «\What sort of aman is Brother Himes, the Millerite preacher 177 was asked oue day of the late Rey. Dr. Parkman of Boston, the witty Uni- tarian minister. *Brother Himes,” answered Dr. Parkmazu in his funny, squeaking voice, *is a fool; or, speaking the Janguage of the carnal heart anconscious of its immortal destiny, he is adamned fool.” A little Maine chap was taken to_church for the first time where the minister officiated in a. surplice. He was continually fidgeting and askiog, “Ma, is he not dopef’ ‘‘When will e be done?’ The minister stood to make the (osing prayer, raising his hands, when the little fellow turned to his mother, with horror pict- ured upon his fsce—‘s, he is swelling up again.” ‘1t was at the eritical moment of the battle,” said a Dubuque minister in an impassioned burst of eloquence, last Sabbath, ‘* when the Wuke of Dellington—1 mean the Detk of Wullington —that Is, when the Dule of Welkington at the Wottte of Batterloo—er um—" " And then, somehor, the passaze appeared to be so badly Tnapgled that he didn’t think it would pay to Te- Dair it, so he sald: “And seventhly and lastly,” and went on. A certain Boston Deacon lately formed his Sanday-school iu line and_marched them ulong the nisles, himself In front, singing ‘“Hold the Fort.” The consternation which seized all par- ties at the sccond stanza can be better imagined than described: * See the mighty host advancing, z Satar leading on. : The Deacon has objected to new methods ever since. * Tnere was a very pleasant donation party the other evening, and the company sang, *We give all for Heaven” with great feeling; but the next day the minister expressed a desire to resign. He said that three quarts of beans, a pillow-case of dried apples, two pounds of head-checse, 8 pan of tiwisted doughnuts, and 2 calico dressing-gown, were undoabtedly «very valuable in their way, but tbey recmed to form an unnatural basis to preach sound theol- ogy from. . A Milwankee Third-Warder named McCarthy gave Archbishop Heoni a very old (and valna- Blc) copy of sn Irish Bible. Upon the presenta- tion of the volunie the Archbishop asked Mc- Carthy to read a chapter from it. With an io- credufous look McCarthy said: i “Sure, an’ can’t your riverence rade? «Yes, but pot the old Irish.” ; «Fwat! AD’ your riverence can’t rade the fursht langwich of the wur'rld? Ye can’t rade the langwich Adam fursht spoke to Ave? Ye can’t rade the moother toonzue of hivin? Ar- Tah, fwat will ye be doin’ at all, at all, when ye raich hivin, your rivercnce?” Tollustrate bow curfously persons sometimes try to explain matters that arca task for our credulity, 1 mention 2 little Incident experi- Ofoed by the_writer of these lines. When I traveled in 1871 in Palestine an old gray friar froin the monastery of Ramish, about fifty miles west from Jerasalem, showed me the sup- sed place where Samsun killed one thousand rg%ilmtrnu ‘with the jaw bone of anass. When T expressed .my doubtsas to the lenzth and streagth of a jaw boue, considering the great puinber of surrounding enemies, the monk ex- plajned ‘the case in the following manger: < \Well, he took hold of the ass by the tail, and swung the animal arainst the Philistines in such amanner that only his head, and of this es- ally the jaw bone, struck the Philistines, kecping off fn this way the sarroanding lors und giviog the biow e necessary force to kill.” | Philistines, provided es, p tho t CHURCH SERVICES. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour will presch morning and evening -in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dearborn avenue and Erle street. SWEDENTORGIAN. The Rev. L. P. Mercer wil! preach in Hershey Hall, opposite McVicker's Thestre, in the morn- ing. Subject: **Knowledge of the True God and Jesus Christ.” —There will be services in the morning at the Union Park Temple, corner of Washington street and Ogden avenue. —The Rev. W. F. Pendleton, ot Philadelphia, wiltpreach at1l a. m. in the New Church Hiall, corner of Prairic avenve and Eighteenth street. UNITARIAN. 2 The Rev. C. F. Sinclalr will preach in the Churck of tne Messiah, Michigan avenme aad Twenty- third street, at 10:45a. m. = CHRISTLAN. Irsing A. Seatles, of Paw Paw, Mich., will preach morning and evering in the rimss Charch, Indiana avenue and Twenty-Afth street. ¢ —A. J. White will preach in the Central Chureh, Van Buren strect and Carmipbell avenne, morning and evening. the ass did not * CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Washington Gladden wiil preach morning and evening in the Union Park Chburch. Subjects: *-Salyation by Hope,” and **All Thinge for Good.™ —The Rev. Jumes Powell will preach in_the morning at Bethany, corner of Paultna and Wesl . e . 2. S. Thoibrook ~—The Rev. Z. S. Tolbrook will preach at the Oakland Carch. Subjects-moming: +*The Closing Scene in Mores® Life '; evening, +*Hope,™ —the latter by request. —The Rev. ¥. W. Fiske will preach in the morn- ing atthe New England Cninb. corner of Delaware place and Dearborn avenn ‘BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach in Tmmanuel harch at 10:35 4. m. , and in Martine's Hall, Chi- 20 avenne, at £330 p. m. Zrhe Rev. W. J. Rermott! will preach momning ana_cveuing at tho Lialsted-Street Church, near Forty-thuird street. i Zlbe Rev. G. W. Northrap, D. D.. will preach at the Michigan-Avenoe Church, nearTwenty-third street, at1la. m. —The Rtuv, E. J. Goodspeed, D. D., will preach ‘morning and evening i the Second Church, Mor- gan and Monroe streets. —The Rev. Dr. Morgan will preach at the South Church, Washington'and Paulina strects, at 10:30 a. m. o3 —The Rey. N. F. Ravlin will preach moming evening in the Free Church, Loomis and Jack- son streets. i —The Rev, W. W. Everts. D. D., will preach ‘morning and evening at the First Church, corner of Sonth Park ayenue und Thirty-first strect. —The Rev. L. M. Woodrud, of Elgin, will preach. morning and evening at Centennial Church, corner of Jackson and Lincoln streets. —The Kev, L. Raymond will preach at tie Ilyco Park Chugh. Evenlo subject: °*Baptist His- tors.™ REFORMED EPISCOPAT. The Rev. Dr. Barley will preach in St. Paal's Church, Washiugton and Ann stfeets, this morn- Ing. and the Jtev. Dr. Hunter will preach in the evening on ** Dying in the Open Air." The Rev. J. D. Cowan will preach in Graco Chureh, Hoyne and LeMoyne streets, morning und evening. —Tne Rev. M. D. Church will preachinSt. Church 0t 10:35 8. m. and 8 p. m. f —The Rev. R. IL.Bowworth will presch in Emmauuel Church, Hanover street, ur 10:45 8. m. nd 7:45 p. ., and in Trinity Church, Englewood, atip. m hacter W . Uunter, D.D., will preach at Christ Church, Michigan avenue, Lhis morning. METHODIST. The Rev. S. IL Adams will preach morning and evening in Centenary Church. —The R Johu Willismson will preach in Michigan ue Church, ner Thirty-second street, at10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. A. Gurney, D.D., will preach morn- ing and evemmy in SE. Paul's’ Chuich, Aaxwell street and Newberry avenue. —The Rev. A. W. Patten will preach in the Wa- bash Avenue Charchat11a. m.and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. C. C. McCabe will preach’ in Trinity Charch, Indiana avenne, morning and evening. —The Rev. Dr. W. C. Willing will preach morn- inEnnm\ evening at the Langley Avenve Church, cofner of Lungley avenuc and Thirty-ninth street. —Tae Rev. W. A. Spencer will preach in the morning, and Capt. McCabe in the evening, at the First Church, B Rev. W. W, Hicks will preach morning g at the Park Avenue Church. T. P. Marsh will preaca at the Grant Place Chu-ch, corner of Larrabee strees. **Sub- jects—morning: **The Clalms of Another's Conscience upon Our Conduct '; ewialng, **The Voyage ol Life." ~Tne Rev. George Chiase il yréxth ot the Win- ter Street Charch, cormpr'of Forty-first street. Eveningsubject. .+:The Goapel.or ALY 3 d RESBYTERIAN. The Rev. James Maclaushlan will preach morn- ing and evening'at the Scotch Church, Sangamon aud Auams streets. The Kev. Jacob Post will preach in the Noble Street Charch in the moraing in Dutch, and 1n éhe cvening in Enghst. P. Wells will preach in the morn- y-first Street Church, carmer of —The Rey. J. M. Worrall,- D.-D., will momning and evening, at tbs Bizhth Charcl ner of Washington und Rovey streets. —The Rev. E. P. Parker, of Hartford, Conn.. will preach morninz aud - evening at-the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenti- ech strect. -~The Rev. F. A. Horton, of Cleveland, 0., will preach in the morning and ‘evening at the Jeffer- son E.nrl Charch, corner of Thivop and Adams —The Rev. W. L. Gage, D. D., of the Pearl Strect Congregational Church, Hartford, Cona., who has been mlpgly‘lnz the palpit of Dr. A. L. Stone's church in San Francisco, will preach inthe morning at the First Churcb. 3 EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. F. Morrison will _officiate morning and evening at the Church of the Holy Communion, on Sonth Dearborn strect, near Tnirtieth street. —Bishop McLaren will officiate at_the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, corner of Washington and Peoria streets. —The Rev. Ssmuel 8. Haris, D. D., will offi- ciste morningand evening at St. James' Chureh, corner of Cass and Huron streets. —The Rev. George B. Whipple. of Faribanit, Minn.. will oficiate in the morning at Trinity Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty- sixth street. ‘—The Rev. Francis Mansfleld will officiate at the Church of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Rooey streets. —The Rev. J. Bredberg will officiate morain: and evening at St. Ansgarius’ Church in Sedgwic! street, near Chicago avenue, . —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate morning. and cvening at Grace Church in Wabsah avenue, near Sixteenth street. —The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will oficiate morn- ing and cvening atSt. Jubn's Church in Ashland avenue. near Madison street. —There will be services morning and evening at the Charch of the Holy Communion on Dearborn strect. near Thirticth. 3 —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate morning azd evening at the Church of the Ascension, cor- ner of LaSalle and Elm streeta. —The Rev. Charles 8. Lesterwill officiate morn- ing andevening ot St. Paol's Church in Hyde - Park avenue, near Forty-ninth street. —The Rev. D. F. Warren, D. D.. will officiate toorning and evening at St, Mark’ arch, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sisth street. , —The Rev. G. F. Cashman, D.D., will ofiiciate morning and evening at .St. Stephen’s Charch in Johnson street, near Taylor. —The Rev. Luther Paraec will oficiate morning and evening at Calvary Charch in Warren avenae, near Oskley street. - —There will be services worning and eveningat th;.‘chmh of the Epiphany in Throop street, nesr Adams. —The Rev. Dr. J. N. Hume will officiate at_the ind Bel Pralrie avenue. reach cor- Church of the Atonement, comer Lincoln a den avenues. § —The Rev. Heury G. Perry will officiate morn- ing and evening at All Saints' Chareh, corner of Carpenter and Ohio streets. There will oo servicesin_the morning at the - Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndale, The Rev. P. N. Luson will ofiiciate morning and cvening at Emansel Church, La Grange. The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will oficiate morn~ ing and evening at St. Mark's Charch, Evanston. ND3. FRIEND: The Soclety of Fricnds will hold a meeting on Twenty-sixth street in the morning and at No. 71 East Randolph street at 5 p. m. USCELLANEOUS. The morning services in Calvary Tabernacle, No. 320 Ogden avenac, will be condncted by Georro ¥. Sharp, and those in the evening by Thomas D. Bentley. . e Yee Layton will preach morning and evening in the Green Street Tabernacle. . T %, —Dr. E. W. Stevens will speak to the Spiritoal- jsts in Grow's Hall, 517 West Madison strest, ‘morsing and evening. —Elder 1. G.' McCullongh will preach at No. 211 ‘West Madison street morning and eve: —Eider D. I. Mansfield and Mrs. . S. Mansfleld will preach in fhe charch corner of May and Fulton streets morning and evening. . —The non-sectarian Biblereadiog meets at Roomr... 23 Nevada Block, corner of Franklin and Wash- ington \mecu,fl nm. l;n lhsg_bjeu of discassion, +*Life Now and After Death. e herawih ‘moming and evenlng ‘Third avenue. ¢ will meet at 4 p. m. at ‘o, 2 ndolph street.” Mo e el Temperaace meeting In ‘on Forty-seventh street. at Ald. Montgomery will condact it. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. 26" Thirtecnth Suviy ater Teimty. th Sunday 'r Trimty. v 2t e e = janday after Pent fi% 27—St. Josophs Calasanctius, C. Aue: 25_st. Auguatine, B.C. D.: St Hermes, 3. A2 30— Beheading of St. John Baptlst; St Sp- Aug, J0—8L Haseof Lima, V. ; SS. Felix and Ad- anctos, MM. Aug. 31—St. ‘Raymond Nonmstus, c Se e of the Immacalate Canception; St Sept. 30T o Vbt Tho Twelvo Brothems, z T st S e el = i 4