Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1877, Page 9

1 aia: sade, THE :.CHICAGO TRIBUNE: V SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES RELIGIOUS. The Question of a Future Life Once More Under Con- sideration. Ur. W. RB. Greg, Believing that Death Ends All, Denies Immor- tality. The “Spectator,” in Reply, Assigns Eternal -Life to the Fittest. Prof, Patton's Estimate of the Re- ‘sults of the Pan-Presbyterian Council. - Reasons Why the Episcopal Church Should Not Change Its Name. A Plea for the Exoneration - of the Jews for the Crucifix- ion of Christ. General Notes from the Church at Home and Abroad. Pleasantries for .the Unregene- ' . fratee--Personal Items««« Services To-Day. A FUTURE STATE. SUALL WE ALL LIVE AGAIN? ‘Two arguments which appeared in the London Sjectator on the momentous ‘question ‘Shall we all live again?” were published in Tue Son- pax Taintne afew weeks ago. They attracted much attention in England and in, this country for their logical acamen and intellectual ability. Atbird writer, Mr. Greg, assails both views, contending that no one will live again; that death ends the man and the race,—that is, he denies in toto the immortality of what fs called the soul. The editor of the Spectator publishes str. Greg's letter end replies to it, upholding the hypothesis of the survival of the fittest, that seme will live again and the others perish. Says Grex: -wua tcaroners, however, start from the same Patios, und that position js a postulate impocei- tog‘nt. To begin with, you Loth accept the *seveintion” theory as the foundation of your arzument, andtotnis I make no demur. “If he a cresting mind,” one writes, ‘then, in ‘or the advent of such a being as man endless cycles of centuries, He must finite purvose.” ** This, ‘at least, is * writes the other, ‘for whatever destiny tian Wis made, it was prepared for hm thtongh onz azes of prehistoric, and not only prehistoric, relaman existence, . his nature FO fully evolved by the Cosmic agencies of nitions of yeare. . Evolution may Tairly be said to mean the story of the long prep- aration for the introduction into the worid of a reing with a eense of personal identity, who can fistingmsh himself from the universe around sin.” id 5S 7 Let us, fn dealing with a. question of such an- gatalleled magnitude and cammestness. discard Shetoric, and thin” ouf the answers to be given, forthe watter assuredly is too grave touse any ol e those which “have the ‘precisest mean- ing. Ieitin say sense correct, is it not, on the contrars, u:terly munstrous. to maintain that life is nothing if it be not eternal induration: Do we really moan seriguels to assert that man, with his Wonderful capacities, as vet only in thelr infancy; his strange happiness, often already: eo intense: with pot-ntialities of Joy growing more vivid and with his accu juulatins sto knowledze and discovery passed on, whether we may say, from generation to gen- ion: zse: and till more. with elements of character growins richer and nobier century after century toward: the completion of God's netfect work. —that such a being is not @ conception worthy of the Creator we imagine? Take the nest specimen of the race we have yet known or read of, pietare lim with his imteliect fornished tu the fail with the boarded wisdom of » his faculties trained to their altimate perfection, his instmnets and emotfons disciplined br the experience of a thousand centaries, and his fe lengthened to ite natural limit by all that écence will have taught nim.—end then fancy this bemz, this mon at his culminating zenith, to ve not, zs the good are now, a mere hire and ‘excep- tonal instance of what man might be, but a faith- ful portrait of the average man, as he will have Uecome. Consider all this (which is nothing be- Foud what Positiviets aud poetic Pacans alike an- ticipate), and then tell us, if you dare, that the realization of eueh @ couception may uot fitly ocenpy the creative Spint during that long frag- ment of eternity calicd ‘Time, and. that ¢ may not, a8 He- looks’ npon His Gnished work," justly pronounce it to _ de “very good: "—aye, even though each individual of the race be doomed, after a lite of noble enercy+ and stainless joy, to pats into a dreamless and un- conscious ret. Is un exietence euch as this not 2 gifttodemand the boundless grautude of its re- Ctiver, and to show forth the giory and beneficence of the Giver, even though it come to an end at last? Isa life like thisto be depreciated and de- ‘ clared -‘a failure.” because endless duration be noteuperadced? if the Creator has been worthily employed in calling into life millions of beings, conpnsing every conceivable variety of form and capability, eome destined to live a minute, ome an hour, some a day, some a year, some ten yeare, of perhaps twenty,—why should Ife be said to have had no purpose, or an Unsuccessful one, because He bas added another anda nobler creature, de- . sizncd to Jagt ‘seventy years or a hundred, but not more? “Passing away” ts the destiny written upon every other of the works of God, or the results of evolution—on the tree, the inecct, and the mega- therium, on the earth, the sun, the star, the gul- and can man fiad no better plea why he should ‘exem}ted from the universal lot than fancies, however eloquently put forth, of such sinzular tenuity as those I have been anslyzing? Alas! why isit that cuch fresh prgement for’ immortality which the ingenuity of desire excozitates shonid ove, when clesely grappled . with. just as base- [iss as ite predecessors? “Why must those who Jong the most to live forever, whose hopes are the most aspiring, and whose enerzies the least worn out, whuessmine with renewed eazerness each new speculation that promises to bea proof, be compelled to fall back upon the old conciusions— that Faith mey be undying, but that Proof there can be none! REPLY OF THE SPECTATOR. I. The Spectator argued that the survival af- ter deatt/ might be but 2 final evidenve of that law of evolution by which the best scientific minds now almost universally hope to explain the development of all living beings, and that whether all men lived again’ or only, some of them, in either case the new and higher life was put the finish of along procession, ‘To this, Mr. Greg, accepting the doctrine of evo- Tation either ag a fact or as the least disputable and discordant of hypotheses, replies that there ise failure in the Spectators arguinent,—that evolution supposes slow progress, an infinity of smnall gradations, while our use of it supposes one sudden and overwhelming “burst,” the €crelopment at a blow of an immortal out ot a mortal creature. ‘For how,” he asks, ** can an immortal being be evwleed—evolved, too, # would seem, at a single burst—out of au infinite 'series of mortal . and per- ishable creatures¢ Cau a dying creature besome undying by recs? Can the endowment, or the quality, of eternal life be a0 affair of wrowth, or be acquired by increments. or be conceivable in fractions? Where, by pos- ity or in fauey, can the line be drawn be- tween the most finished perishable being and the next, searcely distinguishable from him by the acutcst naturalist, yet separated by a gulf like that ot immortality{—in word, between the. last anthropoid aud the first anthropos?” That suudds une's prilitant anrument. put surely its brilliancy consiets in the antithesis alone, for is not the whole order of nature, as described by tue disciples of Darwin and assumed by Mr. Greg, a series of these bursts? There must be a mMument, an undiséoverable point, of time, ‘at which every inception ends.— when the prain-work becomes the thought, When the thought becomes a conviction, when the germ—the cell—becomes the living being, when the motionless acquires the faculty of motion. Cast back thought as you will, and there must have been 2 moment when that rimal - and wonderful emergence ‘of the Chrysalis took place, when the iminobile monad, obeying the. law of its being, acquired the vroperty Which most distinguishes life from death, the living animal from the living tree, the tortoise from the scarcely more dead stone, —the property of motion. Divide and subdivide itas you will, till thourht aches with the pain of intentness, and there must still be a mo- ment when the cell from which the human orgavism springs, dead as ali other matter, be- comes alive, and receives with life all the po- tentialities which human life tuvolves.. Why is ‘one emergence into life so much less credible, or more wonderful, or more of a “burst,” than the other?’ Why should the monad sud~ —think of the change, the dead be- i—and not excite our awe, and then the reliving of Newton's mind seem an impossibility! We may not quote Scripture in this discussion as effective arzument, but we may, We suppose, quote it as poctry, andask Mr. Greg if Paul of Tarsus has not answered him ages since: ask him if Le denies that there must be a moment, a poiut of time, when the impos- sibility he describes so eloquently occurs, and the dead srain of corn, obeying laws fixed as fate, though emanating from the will of a Crea- tor, becomes a productive power? What is there in a second lite—we exclude the word ‘immor- tality,”” which implies an idea that the human anind only seems to grasp—which should so ut- terly distinguish it from the first? 2, But, says Mr. Greg, your idea of evolution involves endless gradations of ascent through living beings up to man, and why should they all perish, and not yout Many of them are marvelous creatures, most complex in struct- ure, most closely resembling youinintellicence: why should they all die away, and you survive! If God wastesso much, why deny that He may waste all?’ “Neither of you see anything statiling or repucpant in your fundamental creed, or -sup- position that all the numnberless preceding, pre- paratory, approzimating forms of animal exist- ence die out without a future, perish irretrieva- bly in making ready for us,—in paving the way for that culminating wonder of Creation. You do not ery out against this astounding waste: it does not seem tor a moment.to strike waste, oras astounding. simply because it ing up to you.” Doesar. Greg, as he writes by his lamp, mourn for the oil that has perished to produce bis lieht? He may be morally right in reprobating man for his pride, but surely he cannot, from his own basis of thought, be intel- lectually right, for there is nothing that exists tomake which existeuces have not perished. ‘What ages of creatures have not passed, a5 Mr. Huxley recently showed, in order that the horse mightbe! and mau—if he lives not as an epliem- eris—is worth many horses. Nay, is it not true,—thouch the arrument may seem so tanci- ful to some that we half hesitate to employ it— that to make every man existences without end perish visibly; that in order that Newton, the philosopher, may be, Newton the baby, the child, the boy, the adolescent.—all which are, mentally at least. several entities,—must pass away into nothingness? Let Mr. Greg coudemn that, if he will, as a fancy, and still he, as ‘student of ‘science, will acknowledge that to make every living. thine that exists~say, a Cape sheep, with its {at tail—ages of liring things have perished us lessly save for that result, and_why should they not perish to produce mau? If out of a mana more perfect creature is to spring, he may also ‘be “wasted,” but then that is exactly the belief denied. There mav be, nay, there is, waste, but endless waste is the Iaw equally of Darwin’ and of God. It is resulticss waste that we disbe- lieve. The fossil horse, with his fire tocs dis- played and uo hoof, lacked somewhat—who shall say whatt—bu@we have the horse; the anthropoid lacked somewhat—who shall say what, unless it be the accumulating mind?—but we have man and his future. The statement of the Spectator’s unpityingness for non-immortal ancestors is but # treuchant phrast, for_no argucr, be he wise or sophist, cau be ashamed of an unpityingness which is Gud’s. 3. And then, atlast, we come to the main argument of Mr. Greg's letter, in which we are hampered by no reference to past discussions, in which he states unhesitatingly, without alarm and Without compunction, bis conviction—or shall we sav rather, his hypothesis?—that even granting the Spectator’s datum, the necessity of attributing to God a purpose in creation, man need not hve again, because on this earth he fulfills the hieh purpose of his Creator. He is or he may become so noble, 60 happy. so full of intellectual power, that his existence, even if duration be but seventy or 100 years, may of itself full the purpose of the Almighty. Alas! it is but the old dream of-the pertectibili- ty of man, and we can but ask where is the evidence of. the coming perfect breed. Endless cycles haye clapsed sinee the monad, and we have the Enelish- man, and we have also the fetish-worshiper oj the Gambia, as enduring as the Englishman and more capable of acclimatization. Why is the outcome of civilization in England to .be more durable than its older outcome in Egypt, —the Copt, who, after so many centuries, is probably less competent than when he whipped th@children of Isracl_ into building the Pyra- mids without pay?. Where does Mr. Greg find his proof that the Athenian of the future will live, and endure, aud advance, any more than the ‘Athenian ot the past! What gives Hodge so grandachance and refused itto Pericles? He predicts, in words instinct with attraction for the Western man, who, having been civilized for an hour, has forgotten all but civilization, a glorious destiny.for the race; but isit_not at least. as probable that man’s destiny will not be glorious, that — his powers, unsupported by adequate wisdom and goodness, will be self-dest: ive—he uses chemistry already chiefly to kill—that instead of his mastering himself, himself may master him? May nut the death of his beliefin a future life—which, on Mr. Greg’s hypothesis, is certain—paralyze bis morale? “Mr. Greg sings pean over the future, but may not a dirge be the more truthful melody, may not the destiny of man well be not to develop into an Athenian. but to be absorbed by the Chinese?- Why should not tte Colorude bectle of humanity conquer in the great fight?’ Or if it does not, if man ad- vances from stage to stage till earth is peopled by Newtons, Tennysons, and Howards, if all become wise a3 the wisest now are, and new capacities of bappiness are de- veloped, without being accompanied by new capacities of paity, if what we now call genius becomes universal. without its strange accom- animent, the sterility which has hitherto pro- ibited the existence of a Brahmin caste of mental grandecs, to what, if man. cannot con- tinue, docs it all amoudi?, To this,—that man wil) culminate an hour before he ceases as utter- ly a3 the lost Pieiad. The world is slowly coo!- ing, ard in that cooling is the inevitable end, the oblivion bebind which there is nothing, an existence no whit crander, be it as grand as you will, than the existence of motes in the Sun- beam. Man, if worts!, is a failure; might as well, or better, have’ lacked all his distinctive force, for of that force, if he dies asa flower, nothing can cone. What use iu thought, if thought must die, or what matter it whether it mus? die to-day or ten thousand years henee, if when it die it leaves nothing, not even a possi- bility that it may beneGt an eudurivg race? Mr. Greg, like all others who would see in postli mous man an equivalent for personal immortal- ity. attributes to man deathlessness on cartb, yet he mows as well as we do, or far better, that the deatn of the race is as inevitably. tain as the death of the individual. Humanit; like man, lives under a sentence of capital pun- ishment, already passed, recorded, and without appeal. And of both we may say that if neither is to live again, it boots nothing that they were born. We will not say, though we firmly believe it, that in this world, taki al) humanity into the calculation, the sum of misery far exceeds the sum of happiness, but will accept. Mr. -Gree’s own most sanguine thought, and will then ‘ask, What imports itt What matters it in infinity that an ephemeris was happy and wise?) God has labored throught the eycles to produce a nullity, whose very t1 tran- sit across time would be, in, infinity, save to God Himself, imperceptible. Can it be that the divine purposes which Mr. Greg acknowledses can have been to create a nothing?—that the marvels of power which we all bein to perceive, were expended by. Being wise cnough ant strong enourh to make his laws succeed, in or- der that silent Space, without a memory, should he oncemore the All? PAN-PRESBYTERIANISM. - THE RECENT COUNCIL—INTERVIEW WITH PROF. PATTON. Prof. Patton, one of the delegates to the Pan- Presbyterian Council, returned to the city ‘Thursday, having epent the time between the adjournment ot that grave and reverend bedy and now in visiting the Continent. Inasmuch a3 -Prof. Patton took no small part in the delibera- tions of the Council,—although in conversing with him one woul. never learn that fact, so great is his modesty,—and inasmuch as his im- pressions of men*and things are always apt to ‘be correct and insure attention, a reporter for this paper called upon ‘him yesterday, and was accorded an interview on this subject. “The Pan-Presbyterian’ Council,” said Prof. Patton, after the reporter had introduced him- self and stated the ohjcctof his mission, “grew out of the fact that the Churches which hold the Presbyterian form of government, all. over the world, know very little about cach other, and the idea of men like Dr. McCosh and others sas that it would be a good thing to have all the Presbyterian Churches of the world come together, through their representatives, in a great Council, to compare notes, present statis- ties as to the size of the different Churches which compose them, what those Churches are doing, and soon. Itwas the design to havea representativeof all the Churches who hold tothe Calvinistic doctrines and the Presbyterian order. Aud so the Council was called, aud there were representatives of the Presby- terian Churches all over the world. In Scot- land, you know, there are three Churches—the Established Church, the Free Church, and the United Presbytcran Church. ‘Then there is the Presbyterian Church of England, the Irish Presbyterian Church; and the Presbyterian Church in this country of the North, the Pres- byterian Church South, and the United Presb: terian Church; the Canada Presbyterian C! Then there is the’. Australian Presbyterian Church; the Reformed Churches of Hol- land, France, and , Switzerland. All’ of these Churches were represented by delegates who “were appointed. by the several authorities, and the Council as- sembled at Edinburg ou the 3dof June. It met in St. Giles’ Chureh—John Knox's old church—and the sermon was delivered by the Kev. Dr, Flint, whois the Professorof Thedlozy in the University of Edinburg, and who occu- pies the chair once - held Chalmers,—the greatest mun, in some respects, that Scotland hhas produced. Dr. Flint is a rising man, an , ucute thinker, and he preretiel an able, elo- juent sermon, After the inaugural sermon, e Council HELD 1TS 8BSSIONS inthe Assembly Hall of the Free Church of Scotland, aud the discussions went on from day today for some eight days. They embraced a great variety of topics. and among other things the question of the reform of the confession. The Presbyterian confession of faith rests upon a Calvinistic basis. Dr. Schaff, of New York, read a very able paper on that subject. Then there was a paperread by Dr. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville, on ‘Presbyterian Polity.” Dr, Howard Crosby, of New York, read a paper on. “Preaching,” aad Dr. MeCosh read one on “Some of the Phases of Modern Un- belief." Dr. Sloau, of the. United Pres- dyterian Church, Pittsburg, read a pa- per on the subject of | “Temperance.” Dr. Hodge, of Princeton, read a paper on “Presbyteriauism.” Dr. Watts, of Belfast, read a paper, and Dr. Lorrimer, of England, had one on’ “Presbyterian “History? Dr. Moor. of Columbus, 0., read a paper on the “Ruling Elder,” and Dr. Plummer, of Rich- mond, Va., a paper which took up and discussed some of the problems in connection with the work in the South. A whole evening was de- voted to the Home Mission Work of the Presby- terian Church North, and speeches were deliv- ered by Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. Paxton, Dr. Dick- son, and others. The Sunday-school question was also taken up and discussed by Dr. Nicolls of St. Louis, Dr. John Hall of New York, and others. ._ Prof. Patton had modestly umitted to men- tion his own paper on “ Unbelief,” but the reader will remember its substance, and the no small amount of discussion and criticism which its publication calied forth. “ Generally speaking, Professor, what may be said of the results of the Council?” “The general feeling was that the discussions were certainly interesting and, I think, proiita- ble, “Both the papers read and the discussions which ensued partook of 2 popular vharacter. There was a question at first as to whether we should discuss t! ore scientific and joctrinal questions in sections, where they would be more scholastically treated before small and select audiences, or whether ther should be presented in a more popnlar form, and: before larger audiences. It was finally decided that, on the whole, it was best to adopt the pop- ular form, and the result ‘was that the papers prepsred in very scientic form were referred to by their title and an abstract given of their contents, ‘This was the means of giving the discussious amore interesting, but perhaps less elaborate and profound, phase they otherwise would have had. Now, as to WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHE! ‘The good which was done was this: in the first place it was shown that the Presbyterian faith— the Presbyterian polity—is a very large clement in the constituency of the Protestant world. You see,the little Presbyte1 Church in France oceupies avery little space, and the Presby- terian Church in. Holland is relatively small compared with the population. But when you put together the Presbyterian Churches all over the world, you find that they form a very influ- ental portion of the Protestant world. And it is no small thing to have manifested the visibil. ity of the Presbyterian Church in that wav.” “In the second place, the results of the Council show that the Calvinistic faith, and the peculiar doctrines of the Presbyterian Church as held-by Presbyterians all over the world, re- tain as strong a hold as ever in the Presbyte- rian Church. The influence of the Council was altogether in the direction of conzervatism in doctrine. It is true that there is a broad church element in all the Presbyterian Churches. It exists in Scotland as it exists here. But the sentiment that found most favor in the Council was a sentiment which was liberal within wise limits, but, at the same time, conservative with respect to the great and dis- tinguishing doctrines of the Calvinistic faith. In other words, if the spirit of the Council is to be taken as an ‘exponent of what Presbyterians the world over think, the sentiment is just this: that Presbyterians are not fossilized; that they do not belicre in a mere fossilized creed, as con- servative men are sometimes revresented as doing; but that, with a wise outloox for the fu- ture, With a generous revoguition of what is good in ail other churches, and with a very cath- olic and evangelical spirit, they are as tenacious ag they ever were of. thelr peculiar doctrines. I think I am correct in stating that to be the spirit of the Council. It did not run into the mére rut of conservatism and. proscription, and that is not what the Presbyterian Church wants. They only want to recognize what is true as true, and, at the same tine, recognize that there is sense in which there is a proper and generous liberality to be exercised. “Ithink the influence of the Council was good in the way of the interchange of thought and experieuce on the part of the different churches. For iastance: we Americans found that the same troubles we have here, the same problems THAT WE ARE SOLVING in matters of theology, are being brought up for discussion in Scotland. They have just the same types of thinking over ‘there; just the same questions mooted that we have, exactly; no more nor no less there than they are with us. It was mutually stimulating and beneficial for the representatives of the different nationalities to come together and compare yiews. Apart from that, the social idea of bringing men from so many different churches together is a good one, 8 “This being the firat meeting of the Council, there was less discussion init than there will likely be in the future. They avoided, as much as possible, subjects that Would awaken un- pleasant discussion. It was important that the Council should avoid enything that might tend to embitter discussion. There are ques- tions, both in this country and. in Scotland, and arcecleny there, which could not very well it touched without destroying the harmony, and heuce it was that some things were wisciy omitted from the programme. But it was 0 fact that there were men in that Council, sitting side by side as members of the Establishes Church, the Free Cnurch, and the United Presbyterian Church, taking part in the most. pleasant way in the proceedings, who had never inet cach other before, and who perhaps never would have met had it not been for that Coun- cil. Ithink it was the expression of quite a number of their best men that the Council had done Scotland a world of good by bringing thoge very men together. Because, while Scot land is a very smull country, the churches have a good deal of controversy which rests on they think is very good ground, and I sup~ pose itis good ground; at least, on ground which they hold very tenaciously.” ‘The reporter ventured an inquiry as to .how Prof, Patton liked the criticism of M.D. Con- way and others on his paper and the other pa~ pers read at the Council. "© T saw Conway's burlesque on my paper in hisletter to the Cincinnati Commercial, and was not in the least surprised at his untair statements. Ife has no sympathy with me, and. what he said is not to be wondered at. The two Edinburg papers, the Scolsman, represent- ing the broad element of literary culture, and the Daily Review, in sympathy with evangelical views aud the Free Church, made very satisfac- tory reports of our sessions."? “How did the American representatives com- pare, in point of number and ability, with those from other parts of the world!” asked the re- jorter. ks “Tn the first place, there were more of them. As to-ability, it is pretty difficult tomakea fair estimate. ‘The Scotch were very modest, not putting forward a great many men, so that some of their best meu were not beard. On the other hand, the Presbyterian Church of America, and’ particularly the Church North, seut a large number of delegates, and the courtesies were extended to them in such a way that their mak- ing a good appearance was guarantecd in the fact that a creat many of them had chances to speak. Idon’tthink it would be fair to the Scotch, and frish, and other churches, and the English, to eay that the American delegates, as some hare said, WERE SUPERIOR T0 THOSE from other churches. I think it is enough to say that the Impression made by the American delezates was good—very good. In point of thought, and in power of expression as public speakers, I think the American delegates ac- quitted themselves very creditably. “I don’t wish to detract from the statement I have seen made in thisregard. I have seen it stated that the Americans outshone all the rest. That statement has been made as thonzh the Scotch and the other nationalities did not quite come up tothe mark. Idon’t wish to produce any such impression as that. I think it is due to the Scotch churches to recognize the modesty with which they extended the courtesies of the house to the Americas, delegates in s proportion that they coul uot claim, Vben the next Council meets in Philadelphia, three years hence, I have no doubt ‘that te American Church will reciprocaty the courtesy, and we shall then see 2 larger share of Scote'and En- giish talent on the floor. Butit is certainly true that both in the pulpit, and in debate; and on the platform, the American uelegates were re- ceived in Edinburg with very great enthusiasm.” {n reply to a further question, Prof. Patton -stated that the members of the Council have good reason to remember the generous bospi- talities of the people of Edinburg, and that their stay in that historical city had’ been both pleasant and profitable. THE. P.-E. CHURCH. OUGHT IT TO CHANGE IT3 Nase? To the Editor of The Tribune, Cutcaco, Sept. 7%—In your last Sunday's issue you speak of the proposition of changing the name of the Protestant-Episcopal Church, which fs to come up before the General Conyen- tion of that body to be held in Boston this fall. In this proposition it is proposed to drop the word Protestant, and substitute some other title not yet decided upon. Our adjacent Diocese of Wisconsin, as might have been expected, has in- structed her delegates to vote in favor of such change. Also, other Dioceses have spoken officially cither fororugainst it. As the subject is likely to come up for some action in our own Conventton, which occurs’ during the coming week, it may not be out of place to discuss a few simple reasons why, in our opinion, such a change shoutd not be made. A. Our present title of “The Protestant-Epis- copal Church in the United States of America” correctly describes our character, and is the fittest that, in existing circumstances, could be devised. ‘The : apostles” of change consider that the word “Protestant” is opposed to the Church's catholicity. They urge the absolute perfection of her institutions in their conformity to the primitive Church, consequently thatsheis above and beyond any official association with the questions developed in more inodern times, and as the word “Protestant” sprang from contro- yersies which have occurred since the epoch of her origin, therefore it belongs not upon her standards. In this view of the case there is . tendency to engross the attention in the literary and theological aspects of the question, and to overlook its practical relations to the facts of life amjd which we ure calied upon to act. It is not possible for the Church to return fo her in- fancy, and probably not desirable that in every particular she should attempt to do so. Nearly nineteen centuries of time separate her from that- period. It is impossible to efface from memory or blot from her record the events of the intervening ages, and, annihilating the priueiples of cause and ‘effect, to return atonce and foreverto the dawn of her first rising. Suchsveems to be the dream of our theologians, but it is Utopian in its character, and iuipracticable of realization. We may, in deed, sever all the outward bonds by name or sien to the periods of our history through which .we have passed, but the great facts are there silently fullilling their mission in acting and reacting upon our character in the progress of our development, Doubtless those facts are as much desiened by Providence, and -relatively as important in. affecting our present- and future, as the events of Calvary and the Cross. laim, therefore, that this word Prot- estant, written in our history by the finger of God, embodying in {ts meaning fundamental characteristics, representiuz, as we consider, the purity of our doctrine as opposed to certain errors.—this word carrving the meaning which it unquestionably does fu the mind of Christen- dom,—bas grown to belong upon our standard. just as legitimately us the Word “ Catliolic,” or * Episcopal.” zit is not a redundant expression, Decause the Opposite ideas still exist m the world, the conflict which first called it into being is to-day going on, and now as then it is still the watchword of contending hosts. II, In abolishing the name of - “ Protestant ** we should take the position before the world of repudistmg the ideas which that name repre- sents. aE This is the first. and most obvious conclusion to be drawn from this movement, and, although such may not be the real motive of the change, it isnot desirable, for manifest reasons, that such impression should be produced. Doubt- less our young pricats will continue to preach very Jearnedly about the vast chasin which sep- arates us from our friends of the Roman Catho- lie‘persuasion; but what is the use of a chasm if you can’t see it? ‘rhe memhers are few who Will hunt after ft. And if it exists, why attempt tocover it with flowers? Few there are, I aay, who would searca below the surface for ex- planations of our conduct; fewer still who would appreciate them whenfound. The first impression is oftenthe truest, alwavsthestrong- est. The minds of a greet multitude of our people would be shocked by ‘this proposed change, credulity strained, and all the wit and Tearning of our theologians would scarcely be sufficient to overcome the plain Anglo-Saxon interpretation of an act so decisive and con- spicuous. III, By abolishing the word “Protestant” from our title we slould encourage the radical and ritualistic elements in the Chureb. With those who already belong to those elements this is rather a reason in favor of such change, but to the great body of conservative churchmen such a consideration ought to have great weight at this time. It must be apparent to the most superticial observer that these clements are growing in this country. Idoubt not thatthe Present question orizinated iu that quarter. A few years ago it would not fora moment have been entertained, but today it receives a re- spectable hearing and is calmly discussed. It is not pertinent here to inquire as to the pecul- jarities or consider the merits of ritualist or ex- tremist. 4 is assumed that the reader has made up bis mind for or against them. But as to their relations to this question of change of name it is only necessary to look around and sve on which side they are invarlably arrayed, aud it is only necessary to go a little farther in thie direction of their course of thought to discover the rcasons why. If, therefore, you desire to contribute your humble Share towards the dominance of the Ritualistic and High-Church sentiment in this land, then join heartily in this movement to pull down our Protestant flag and to substitute another, I know not what; but rest assured that that other will mark the ascendeucy of a new sect of ideas, and under the disguise of a “greater catholici ty? herald the return of the follies, the super- stitions, and the priestcraft_ of medieval times. IV. Our present title of Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America repre- sents a degree of barmony which exists between the spirit of our own organization and the gen- ius of the civil institutions of our land. “The changé of this title as now proposed would do Violence to that Renan Protestantism incans fiberty, popular rishts, public education, republicanism. With these ideas the great ‘majority of our people are doubtless in full sympathy, and, in respect to them, our articles of faith breathe only tarmo- nious notes. But also it cannot be denied that we drag along in the current of our history some of the old Tory principles of our carlier days, and that there is an element {n our character as a people which turns fondly back to the mon- archical past from which we have emerged. It is not strange, theretore, that the “Tory” cle- ment among us should occasionally come to the surface and be among the moat enthusiastic sup- portersof the aflirmative of the present question. We think we recognize once again their time- worn faces. It is quite natural that they should favor the remoyal of a title which was inscribed upon our banners when the revolutionary spirit was in the fresh glow of its infancy, dnd which in its own construction reflects somewhat of that spirit. ‘Ihey desire comething wore aris- tocratic, more in tune with tuuse old menarchical principles which have ‘been slumbering these many years, but which, if the sieus of the times deceive us not, are once more creeping into life again. How suggestive is the concurrence of the facts that, in the foarte ‘ing the first cen- tennial anniversary o! revival of monarchical sentiments should be manifest in our politics, and at the same time on tie part. of our Episcopalian eltizens, who represent more than any other distinct body, probably, the -aristocracy of our English an- cestry, there should occur a determined effort to remove their Protestant title and substitute therefor ‘“ 7ke Church of Amenca,” or some- thing of similar import. These fucts scein to be kindred 1m their nature, and, whatever their origin, sugeest a similar treatment. [f we desire to ‘kindle. in our hearts anew the fires of political liberty, it is meves- sary to go back to the founding of our repub- hiean institutions, and, indwellingin imagination among the sceacs and men of that period, breathe again the spirit which animated them. Amid those scenes and by those men the banner of our Church was raised andthereon wastheinscrin- tion: “The Protestant Episcopal Church inthe United. States of America.” Such a title was considered at that time to properly describe our institutions and set forth our relations to our country and the world. What chauges’have since Occurred to render that description’ less appropriate to-day? is there less of the Protest- ant sentiment either within or around us, and for this reason docs that word upon our banner arouse a certain incompatibility of feeling? Or ist the aristocratic sentiment within or around us which has so ine! that our present title is regarded a3 too plebeian in its import and something is demanded more suggestive of ex- clusiveness and authority? But the anti Protestant and thearistocraticsentimentsare not in harmony with the genius of our Republic as oy! our Republic, a certain- shown forth in the purity of its earliest: days. With the pressure of those times upon them, our forefathers adopted this puor title which we Wear, considering it the fittest pscudonymn under which we could take our place iu the «rand march of events. Its adaptation to those + men and to those times forms a strone presump- tion in favor of Sts perpetuity. Tt was geod enough for them, it is goud enough for me. V. The effect of such change would be to alienate the hearts of many of our people, Weaken our forces, and hinder our progress. _ This follows naturally from previous c erations. Ifit is true that the word ++ Protestant is held dear in the minds of the great majority of our Church, and the blotting “out of thst word from ourtitle should be assumed a3 primu facie evidence of assault upon it, hostility bearesult. Ifitistrue that. the motives as- signed for the act are such as not to be popular- ly understood, confusion would bearesult. If it is scen that the motion is made,ecconded, and advocated by Ritualists and Extremists, suspic- ion and ajarin would be results. If the effect of such change would be to disturb our harmon- ious relationship, as a church, to the civil atmosphere which surrounds us, antagonisin and discontent would be results. If it was de- sired to weaken our support, to cut off fresh souccea ofeupply, to suppress enthusiasm and extinguish hope, uo better course could -be adopted than to scatter broadcast in our midst these firebrands of hostility, confusion, suspic- ion, alarm, antagonism, aud discontent. It is yain to indulge in sophomoric platitudes about. loyalty to the Church, waile we thus strike at the roots of the sentiment. There fs a principle in hitinad nature whicn searches for. central ideas and their tendencies, and in the choice of these listens ouly fur the voice of the Master. ‘The abstract sentiment. of loyalty to the Church is insutlicient to neutralize the re- sults of taose more profound inquiries. The religious world to-day is governed by the head as Well as by the heart. Men think and decide for themselves.” Inthese times and in this fair young West, Where fudependence of thongnt and.liberty of conscieuce are enthroned in the minds of our people, it is folly to appeal to auy blind allegiance or to rely upon the ancient pria- ciples of passive obedience to ecclesiastical wu- thority. [have observed that in previous e yentions these truths seem to have been orer- looked. In questions which arose, the excess of fealty to the jofty claims of the Church seemed to prevent a frank consideration of herinterests. It isnot strange that at such times, when the pulses of Episcopal life beat the strongest, and amid scenes which speak only of prosperity, the sounds of the conflict which rages along the outposts should be excluded. When it has been hinted that certain measurés might produce dis- affection (on the put of many of our members, the anathema was buried forth against them, with much flourish of loyal trumpets, “Let them go.” It does not. appear, however, that the light of superior reason ‘has been so lavished upyn any one man, though he be the Chancellor of 2 Diucese, orupon, any class of mca, that they should thus assuine to wave aside the feclings and. i fellow-mortals. I have also observed that when. the Convention is at an end the spell is broken, aud there isa sudden descent into the plain of practical life. ‘Then a different -ntmospitere is encountered. Then it is found that the “Let them go” policy« will not pay the debts uf our churches or replenish our mission funds. We are thus taught by the stern necessities of a struggle for existence to adjust our conduct to eater degree of common-sense and liberal- ity. The best loyalty to the Uhurch is to facili- tate such adjustmeut, not to hinderit. The best loyalty to the Church is the support of those measures which strain the least upon the attachment of her cl dren, and cause the various —cleme: within her to work with the least friction. The best loyalty to the Church is to print upon her standards the watchwords of the times in which she moyes, and thus to ratly up her forces to march ubreast of events, not behivd them. ‘Thus may she hope to harmonize the elements of di cord Within and around her. Thus. may she hope tocombine in her career frow age to age the energy of youth with the dignity of antiq- uity. Then up again with olu standard of the “Protestant Episcopsi Church in the United States of America.” While it represents reli- gious institutions which are dear_to our hearts, wis alsoa syinbol of linerty and progress. it has stood the test of 2 centary, and is familiar toour minds, It disturbs not our equanimity by suggestions of change, and among the senti- ments which it breathes are confidence and hope. C0. H. THE CRUCIFIXION. ‘DIM THE JEWS CRUCIFY CHRIST? To the Editor of The Trivune. Cutcaao, Scot. 4.—The article on “ The Trial of Jesus Christ,” by A. T. Innes, in the last Contemporary Review, of which your Sunday editorial gives a fair synopsis, I have read in full, but, I am sorry to say, found it far from being original or satisfactory to any one tolera- bly acquainted with tie recent German Prot- estant and Jewish writings on the subject. The author pretends to haye studied anew the whole Jewish law pertaining to thé case; yet his erroneous statements and arguments make me rather doubt his scholarship in Talmudieal lure. Long ago it'had been pointed out by Jewish historians, lastly and most exhaustively by Dr. L.* Philippsobn, in a treatise entitled “ Have Really the Jews Crucified Jesus?” a somewhat adul- terated American copy of which was published by I. M. Wise, of Cincinnati, in Ins “ Mar- tyrdom of Jesus of Nazarcth,” that the trial in the mode destribed in anytof the Gospels could never have taken place b-fore a Jewish court, for the obvious reasons that, tirstly, no Jewish conrt could hold sessions sat night, nor on any holiday, nor open a trial in cases of capital crime on the day previous to the Sabbath and the festival days: that, secondly, no person could be condemned on mere self-aceusation, or upon the testimouy of witnesses who, after due and wearisome cross-examination, were found to disazree in the slightest possible way about the questions laid before them; nor could any criminal be exceuted uniess every possible argu- ment was brought forth in his favor and refuted by the Judges,—with the only cxception of itis haying been an ypen seducer to idolatry; aud, thirdly, tbat. neither his having announced the ruin of the Temple and its institutions, nor. his pretended Messialship, even should he U clared himself to be, like David, th of God, could have formed th “blasphemy” against Jesus, since oniy an actual exccration of Goi, with the express utterance of His Holy Name, was - treated thus and punished death. Now, in view of tiese well-ascertained facts, as given in the Misbnah of Sanhedriu, the Inte Talmudical narratives dating from the third century A.C. represent the trial of Jesus as founded on the charge of both , seduction to idolatry and sorvery,—the ouly assuzuption, no doubt, which would accord with the Jewish law, were it not quite preposterous to charge Jesus with crimes his worshipers committed in latter es in his name. ; ut, aside from all this, the very fact of Jesus. haying been put to death’ neither in the Jewish mode of execution, by stoning, vor by strangu- lation, butin the’ cruel Roman way of eri fixion, ought to convince any’ unprejudived his- torian that the tyrannical Re a their allies must have passed and ¢: judgment rather than the caution: Jews. Hence, instead of stopping half way, in order to show the want of fairness and legality in the trial of Jesus on the ‘part of the Jewish court, the author, with a little more insight into the Jewish taw and a somewhat “deeper sense for historical criticism, migut have shown the very fmpossibility of the whole trial in the manner stated, acd, consequently, proven its entire description as given in the Various Gos- pels as unhistorical. So atleast do not merely Jewish scholars of rank and authority, who might still be considered partial in this ques- tion, but independent inquirers like Volkmar, Hausrath, Holtzmany, and others, They ell agree as to the partiality of the Gospel-writers, who, in. the measure they had seceded from the Jewish religion, became ever more interested in having the Roman heathens, with whom they triea tocompromise, exonerated from, and their ‘Master's own kinstnen, whom they commenced intensely to hate, charged with bis murder. And it is this growing tendency" of aversion to ‘the Jews which variously colors the Gospel re-» rts from SS. Mark and Luke down to those of S83. Matthew and John. Indeed, had but the slightest suspicion at first prevailed about the Jews having had their hands in the murder of Jesus, neither St. Paulin hisletters, nor St. John in his Revelation, would or could have passcd it by in silence. ‘The only party In Judea that could have felt. prompted to hand Jesus as a new Galilean _pre- tender to the Messiahship, which, in the opin jon of the Romans, meant a revolutionary, over to the Roman authority was the wretched priestly aristocracy,—Ananias, the Hizh-Priest, and his house,—on whom, accordinz to Tal- mudical testimontes, the curse of many an en- thusiastic preacher ot the stamp of Jesus rest- ed, on account of their base intrigues and their reckless treacheries, with which they insinuated themselves into-the faver of the Humans. Neitherthe Pharisean scribes nor the Jewish people at large could ever have approved of such-a proceeding, since they fully sympa- thfzed with all tne political aspirations and hopes cherished by Jesus. Only the priestly ‘sons of Saddok, or Sadducees, who. while rally- ing themeelves around the Maccabean throne and its ust expected neithcr the advent of a King of the House of David nor a resur- rection, were principally opposcd against every new Messtanic movement, ond would: by all |'pay fora mouument tobe erected over his re Hees ay to Suppress it. is, therefore, no small and able blunder which Mr. Innes makes ia Belding chiefly the Pharisean “zealots,” as he styles thein, responsible for -the condemnation of Jesus, while he represents the Sadducees as “rationalists ” and epicureans who took offense only at Jesus’ enthusiasm ‘and. supernatural claims. Had Mr. Inces but taken pains to read the works of Hausrath, Schuerer, Wellhansen, Keim, Hanne, Holtzmann, and a dozen other modern Christian theolozians, not_to speak of those of Jewish scholars, a5 Geiger, Derenbours, and Graetz, he would have scen things in a bet~ ter light. be that he would then have startled the conservative Enclish world with the call for a new trial, in which the old Gospel-wit- nesses should be re and cross-examined, and, after these having been found inconsistent, dis- agreeing, and partial, the defendant, the lone- accused and condemned Jewish people, be dis- charged with the final-decision, “Not guilty.” ‘Yours, Dn. K. Konuga. GENERAL NOTES. The Papal Nuncios accredited to the various European Governments are instructed that the Vatican ignores the, recently-formed Associa- tion called the Catholic League. The {English company of Old-Testament re- visers have reached the Prophet Hosea (first: re- vision), and the New Testament company the eresteenth chapter of the Acts (second. revis- ion), One of the biggest Baptist churches in New- ark bas closed its doors for the summer in order to save the $30. Sunday which is its regular price for supplics during the vacation of the pastor. The pastor has gone fishing. ‘ ‘The Archbishop of Cologne has been convict- ed of an infraction of the Falk laws and sen- tenced to pay a fine of 600 marks or go to prison one month. In Westphalia seven and in Treves six priests have been condemned and fined. ‘Tne Rey. H. M.-Paynter, whose ministrations over the congregation of Calvary Tabernacle have been productive of good fruit, has just re- turned from a short visit to Canada. From the Presbyterigg organizations both of London and “HamiltouMr. Paynter met with a very fiattering reception. His preaching was warm- ly appreciated, and be was cordially invited to repeat his visit at an early day. The bell which has recently been put in the tower of the. new Trinity Church chapel on Houston street, formerly hung in the old Trin- ity Church building on Broadway. it was pre- ted to Queen Anne, and is now as good as new. The oldest church-bel! in New York hangs in the steeple of Dr. Ormiston’s church, With avenue and Twentv-niuth street. It is of rich and clear tone, fully as-good as any of the bells made nowadays. ‘The Pope has nearly finished the ‘ Memoirs” on which he has been working for more than forty years. He has provided, however, they are not to be published il ten years after he dies. He has had no aid in their preparation, except from Father Dresciani, one of the tnost Icarned of the Jesuits.. Amoug the manuscripts to be used in the preparation of the * Memoirs” is the correspondence of the Pope with Charles Albert, King Victor Emanuel, Napoleon LIL, and the Count de Cavour. It looks strangely to thé eyes of an American in this age and century of the world’s history to be gravely told. as we are, by 2 correspondent of the Evangelist that in the month.of July last, and in the court of the vestry of the Cathedral at Spezin, ftaly, all the copies of the Scriptures that could be gathered up in that city acd the villages around, together with such other Prot- estant religious books as could be found, were made 2 bonfire of by the Catholics of that parish. And while the flame was arising the ery of the populace was heard, “Burn the Prot- estants.”” The Standard objects to the sale of lager at church picnics in the following paragraph? _We cannot well imagine what {deas of the mis- sion of a Christian charch are entertained by that one, which, laet weel:, took out a United States license ta’ sell intoxicating Mquors—lacer-beer more especially—ot the picnics they held In the Townof Lake View, just north of: the city limite. But such was the fact with a Lutheran Church. and what made the matter worse, is that locai prohibi- tion exists in that section of Lake View, so thoy violated a town law at the'same time, Such a church had better be out of existence a great deal than to disgrace and dishonor the canse of Christ and the name of toe great Reformer by an act like this. They had better open @ saloon ‘in thelr church und have done with it, . Brother Ashecfelter, the Pennsylvania minis- ister of the (German)-’Reformed Church. who was accused of heresy, now saves hizaself and his Reformed brethren the trouble ot a trial by stepping down and out. In his valedictory_to Zion Classis he says that he has become 2 Uni- versalist, and can uo longer preach the doctrines of the contracted fuith to which he had been blindly attached. He adds that, desiring to ex- ercise his ministry beyond the scope of a bigoted dozmatisin, he lizs applied for admission into the ministry of the Universalist Church. On this statement of his views and fatentions, Zion Classis proceeds to put Brother Astent-iter out, and to recognize him no longer as a brother. ‘The Rey. J. Hyatt’ Smith, of San Francisco, recently attended a Sabbath-school at Salt Lake City, in which the following catechism was pro- pounded by one of the Elders, and answered in unison by the children: Q.~-When is Pioncers' Day? of duly. ‘hat is Pioneers’ Day? of the Saints into the valley. When did they enter the valley? A.—Thirty years azoY Q.~Who led them? A,—Brizham Young. Yho is Brigham Young? A.—The prophet Yho led Brigham Young? A.—The Al- Who was the greatest martyr? A.—Joseph Smith. ‘The Elder—You have answered well. P; The Boston Pilot says: ‘ We have now the authoritative announcement of what has been for some time contemplated—the conferring of he ity of Doctor of thé Church on St. Francis de Sales. There are, as Pove Benedict XIV. has suid, Doctors in the Church and. Doc- tors of the Church. The former are many, the latter are very few. “This rare dignity will be uppreciated when it is remembered ‘that the Church. amoug her hosts of great souls, until the Pontificate of Pius [X., had not found one Doctor for every century of her existence. The 409 years of her history between 605 and 1073 were unrepresented bya Doctor, us also were he 500 from the days of St. Bonaventure,’ in 1264, until six years azo, when the Pope created other, thegreat founder of the Redemptorists, St. Alphonsus de Liguori.” This isa part of the imposition inflicted on the congregation at Bow Church by the Proctor, for the Dean of Rochester, a8 a necessary pre- liminary te the imposition of hands at West- minster: “I cause the contumacy of all and singular persons so as aforesrid cited intimated to be called and not appearing and I pray them to he pronounced contumacious and on pain of such their contumacy that it be decreed to be proceeded to the pronouncine or definitive sen- tence and I porrect the schedules which I pray to have read.” Great is ecclesiastical jargon. AN EXTRAORDINARY SERMON. The Lon ion Giole of the 13th instant contains a‘vreport of an extraordinary sermon recently delivered by the Rev. Jol Howard, Vicar of Onchan, Isle of Man. A report, be said, had. been spread that he was “a dangerous, crimi- nal anatic;” but his hearers, who had known him for thirty years, knew bow much truth there was in it. Ofcourse, he had been in a lunatic asylum, and be had been examined by Commissioners in Lunacy eleven times. But these Commissioners were utterly incompetent. He would like to put. his answers on one: side und their- questions on the other side, and Jeaye the public to determine where lay the lunacy. If any person in his au- dienve supposed that he had ever been insane he would never preach another sermon, much less administer the Holy Communion. Two medi- cal nen had visited him lately in the asylum. ‘They acknowlcdacd, like men, that they had come to examine him, and were not deceivers, A.—The 26th day A.—The entrance ike others who had professed themselves to be” mere friendly visitors. He adjured them by the living God, and as they valued their: own souis, to speak ontif they found in him the slightest taint of insanity. After three hours the testimony they gave was so clear that there ‘could not be in any man’s mind a suspicion that he tsas not all right and sound. In conclusion, the Vicar assured his sudicnce that he was not meok enough to preach. the gospel of peace. Tle was better fitted to be 2 lawyer, physician, or soldier. But, having pat his hand to the Jow, he should not be tit for the kingdom of Bod it he looked back. . PERSONAL, ‘The death of the Rev. Thomas J. Mumford, editor of the Christian Register, ig announced. ‘The Rev. Jonas Greene, who has been abroad. for a yearor two, has accepted s pastorate in “England. The Rev. J, Lavelle, of the New Jerscy Methodist Conference, bias seceded to join the Episcopalians. Good old Parson Weld, of Dunstable, N. H., waz slaughtered by the Indians as lorg ago as 1702; and now a collection is being taken up to mains, which We at Nashas. The Rey. Crawford Tate, son of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, was's Bish MeLaren last week. >” "= 0s Sf Bishop Dr. F. L. Patton, who was one of the dete- gates to the Pan-Presbyterian Conventi returned to his professional Tabors. # canes The Rey. Charles Elliott, D.D., of the North- western Theological Seminary, hag returned from.a five months’ tour in Scotiand. The Rev. Dr, Goodwin, pastor of the. First Congregational Church, is expected home from fon unions yucation in time to preach next ath. The Rev. James R. Knodell, who has filled the pulpit of the Clinton Street Congregational Church for several months past, has been unan- imously cnosen pastor of the church. The Rey. Father Noonan has been transfer- Ted from’St. Mary’s to the Church of the An-- nuneiation, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Father Edwards a few months ago. Father Gailland, a Roman Catholic priest Who spent nearly thirty years as a. misstouary among the Indians, died Tecently. He came tv this country from Germany, and soon after set- tled to his work among the Pottowattomies of as, a large number of whom he won to Us- tholfcism. ; ‘The. Rey. W. I. Hilliard, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South has been seed Minister to Brazil. He wasMinister to Belgium in 1842, and was a member, ot Congress front Montgomery Ala. for eight years, from 181351, and ot th federate Congress during the The Rev.“ Georxe R. Kramer, Wilm! Del., who withdrew a short Mnesineee tng Methodist Episcopal Church, has bee accom- panied by abuut tifty members of his-former astoral charee. Mr. Kramer asserts a bellet in the annihilation of itapenitent men, and is organizing a chureb of his own on that basis. Bishop Fallows, of the Reformed Episcopal Church, returned ‘Tuesday ast from Engiand, whither he went in June with the newly-conse- erated Bishop Greze. He was cordially receiy~ ed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Dr. Newman Hall, the Rev. Dr, Cairns, Mr. Gladstone, aud other eminent men, and preach- ed in various prominent pulpits. The Rev. Jobu J, Anderson, of Hanover, Va., now on a visit to his relatives in Chicago,—the family of Prof. Dalsey.—preached last Sabbath morning and evening in the Jefferscn Park Church (Prof. Patton’s). Mr. Anderson is the vastor of three Presbyterian churches. ia Hanover County, Va., which were founded near- ly 150 years azo udder the early ministry of ths Rev. Samucl Davies, afterwards: President of Princeton College. , = PIOUS JOKES. You should shut your windowson wet nizhts, for the sume reason that the Garden of Eden was shut—to keep the dampair out. The difference between the preacher, the buileer, and the architect of 2 church is simply this: One is the rector, the other the .crector, and the third the director! —Judy Scene, country church—Parson: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, there must be”—Clerk {to late comer, with heavy ‘boots, ascending gallery stairs): . “Soilence in the gallery!" A Western urtist recently went insane in a. fruitless attempt to catch the expression on the face of a preacher at the picnic, who had just pulled 2 hornet out of a rotten stump, by its ‘The indications now are that next year’s Lent off of 70 per cent in the catch of mackerel so tar this season, and the codfish crop fs reported. short also, Mrs. Hunt-Morgan's Bible-reading to-morrow afternoon at halt-past 3 fi tae First Baptist yesury. Subject: “ Grasshoppers.”—Beugor Commercial. We fear they are getting insect- arian ways down there.—Loston Post. : Tu Chambersburg they tine a man §10 for spitting tobacco on the foor of a chara, and the rigid enforcement of this Jaw has driver nearly all the male church members to the in- convenient nevessity of raising one end of tha cushion and spitth. on the sent. The Londonderry Journal gives the instance of a pulpit. bull: preaching a. sermun on death, conclu folloving will baye to be postponed. ‘There is a falling - ba ite the following observation: ‘ut even death ; my brethren, so well deserved by mankind for ! their sins, the wisdom of Providence bas, in itt paternal kindness, put at the end of our exist ence; for only think what life would be wortk if death were az the beginning !"” ae ae An cininent Scottish divine happened to meet ners at the house of a lawyct two of his paris red too sharp a practitioner. whom he con: The lawyer jocularly and ungraciously put.the - question, “Doctor, these are members of your kK; may I ask, do you look.upon them .as white or black sheep!” I'don’t know,” an- swered the divine, dryly, ‘ whether tkev arc black or white sheep: ‘but'I know if they -arc here long they are pretty sure to be fleeced.”* “The milleninm has come,” sald a lion to.a lamb; “suppose you come out of the fold, and let us lie down together, as it has often'been foretold we shoulda!” ‘Been to dinner to- day?” inquired the lamb. . Not a bite of any- thing since breakfast,” was the reply, ‘excent a few lean swine. a saddle or two, and some old harness.” ‘+ I distrust a millenium,” said the lamb, thoughtfully, “‘which consists in our lying down together. However, you may co over yonder sunny hill, and lic down until I come.’ Recently when Bishop Whitaker, of Nevada, visited “Tybo, the services were held tn a hall which adjoins “a place where the growls of the tiger are constantly heard. Justasthe reverend gentleman hai figished an impressive prayer, and in’ the silence which always follows an . orison in pions congregations, and before “amen” could be sald, a loud voice from the adjoining apart shouted, colemnly, “Keno.” A staile came over the {aces of the pious, 2nd the Worthy Bishop did his best to preserve’ is equ rium. * The editor of a rural newspaper vandered ta the city, the other day, and dropped into church - while the Sunday-school was in session. He fell asleep. and_aivoke to find a child’s paper on his lap. “With the trae journalistic instinct bu picked it up, and he had fead through a column and a half of assorted Bible texts, when the officiating minister lighted on him, and, levine: i 2 patronizing land on his shoulder, inquire how he liked “First rate!” was the reply, “and Tm glad to sce you credit. But where did you strike your exchange list?” * “Did'you, see de ’clipse?” sald an elderly darky to a brother son of Afric’s climes the other night, bythe town pump. . “ Dere’s gwine to be famine, shuah!? headded. Hiseompsanion secmed wrapped in thoncht a minute, when ke cjacalated hopelessly, *Huw’s a man gine to lib in a famine on 73 coats a day, aud meu cartin’ off dere own ashes?” “Go. way!” said his friend, ‘its only de unjust who'll catch it—deso. free libbers who don't du natin but swell tround. in de day times und spend. other folks’ money. De Lordain’t gwine to let us pious niggas suffer.” A clercyman_was annoyed by people talking and giggling. He paused, looked at the als- turbers, and said: “+I am always afraid to re- reve those who misbehave, for this reasoz. Some sears since, as I was preaching, ayoung man who sat before me was constantly laush- ing, talking, and making uncouth srimaces. paused and administered a severe rebuke. After ‘s the close of the service a gen‘lemau said to m *ir, you haye made agreat mistake; that youns man was an idiot.’ Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave themselves in chapel, lest I should repeat that mistake and reproye another idiot.” Durmg the rest of the service there was ood order. - CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTBT, | The. Rev. N. F. Ravifa’ preaches at the Freo_ E@hurch, ‘cotner of Loumis. and Jackson strects, morning and eveninz. —The Rev. Z. P. Allison preaches at the North Star Church, corner of Sedgwick and Division atreets, morning and evening. —The Rev. A. Owen, D. D., will preach morn- ing and evening at University Place Church. —The Rev. D. B. Cheney, D. D., will preach morning and evening in the Fourth Churen, Wash- ington and Pantiua streets. ante \ The Rev, Galusha Anderson, D.D.. ill presch morning and evening in the Second Church, Mor- gan and Monroe strects. —The Rev. J. W. Custis, D. De, will preach at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, at 11a. m. Subject: ** God in AMiictions."” —The Her. W..W. Everts, D. D., will preach at the First Church. Soath Park avennc. corner of irty- st Ila. nm. and 7:45 p. m. re te ee troylor wil preach thls morn- jogin immanael Charch, Orchard street, and at . im, in Martine’s ilall, Cnicazo avenue. he Hier. C. E. Hewett, D. D., wili preach morning and evening in the Centennial Church, Jackson and Lincoln streets. CONGREGATIONAL. TheTtev. D-H. Vandervecr presches st Union ‘¢ Church. Morniaz subject: **Oyjnion ot Garten Evening: “christianity Up'to” the Tithe Rey, Z. 8. Holbrook will préach in Oak-