Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1877, Page 9

RELIGIOUS, Visit to an Old Bulgarian Monastery Near Tir- nova. The Inmgtes Characterized by Ezrnést Labor and Fer- vent Piety. Specimen Hymns from a Colored Camp-Mceting Near New York---Scenes and Incidents. Remarkable Cures Recorded at Lourdes-—The Modern Age of Miracles. Our French Canadian Neighbors at the Shrine of Ste. Anne of Beaupre. General Notes from the Church at Home and Abroad---Personals— Services To-Day. GREEK CHURCH MONKS. YVISIT TO AN OLD BULGARIAN MONASTERY. Edtnburg Scotsman, TIRNOVA, Aug. 20.—1 paid a visit this morn- iz to the Monastery of St. Preabrazeni,—the larzest of the two religious retreats which occu- ¥ S0 picturesque a site in the Savadel Pass, be- tween Policrasti and Tirnova. The monastery is about an hour and a hali’s ride from the latter city,—first baif of the way being alone the road cut in the face of the precipitons clifis which Yiem in the Savadel Psss, or built by the side of the meandering brown Jantra,—one of the most woacrously rumantic roads it has ever been my 10t to travel over. About half-way down the pass is-an upricht stone, with a rude inscription in the Bulzarian character—resembling Greek— judicating to the traveler that he must, it he woid ascend (o thie monastery, turnaside tothe 1 The roadway can only be described as a bridie-path, for quite suddenly it narrows to about a foot aud a hali, aod for a great part of the way it is not more then a foot in width. . . . . Suddenly, in turning the corner of a high bank, we reach the mouastery, clinging, so to speak, to the cregs. and, one would almost imagine, hanging in mid-nir over a deep defile whose perpendicu- lar sides are hidden by a wealth of gigaatic bushes end youur trees. At first glance the pile 15 pot imposing: indeed, all that you can see is an arched porch withh red sandstone col- umne and red-tiled roof, aud two rather high borses® fect or the pavement was ccboed from the vaulted ceiiing of the porch,.and, as no one doutt whether, in the great stillzess, the place was iplalited at all. However, this theory was monk, sttired in loug brown dressing-gown, Is on Lis Lare feet, and a bigh, conieal cap shouider: espression of Lis face that of w.uderfal curivsity, and baving we handed over our Lorses to the care oL phyte. and followed our guide to tic ed old ceclesisstic was reclin- in an open eallery, which commacded a 2. the domes and minarets of the latter ¢ setting to the lead of the 1 . Clir:stasa Yernunamoit estiuski—for that, a5 he informed us, was v, and intimated that the monastery was vice dente our pleasure, Thanking k him simply be- of the romantic beeuty of the siuation ety i monastery. Tae vreseace of the old man with bis luose robe, d down to Lis breast,—was im- as he conducted us over tbe Louse. wawpk in the Hoiy Sepuichre at Jerusalem, and Lience had appeuded 10 his OWn name the cog- Within the porch, an idea of its reat size was at ouce conveved. Itisa somewhat irrecular, guatanrles—iwo Jarze and ope small—by two two chorches. Hound these quadransles are we une, and some three stories in heizht. it are the gucst chaabers, at the fur- 1he bouses pext the chiffs are devoted partly to tire a.commodation of neoplivtes and partly,for ure not at all elegant, but ex- attractive trom their picturesque rude- ado:n their walls, the largest being a repre- scutation of the ungels ringing the joy-bells of up here avd there in the most unexpected places, and at all surts of angles there are bal- beautnul views and lending acharm 1o the whole place. Inzstroll round thecourts vnecomes upon. another industriously carding wool; in a listle shed a third 15 spinning with a very primitive v g others preserving fruits; here is the tle flour-mill, with a bakery a few yards araiu a quict old mare is driving the ked. Earunest indus- try aud unrostentatious pie junates. But to return to the Abbot. He of the monastery, St. Preabrazeni. It is, as uetiz), in the shape of a Greek cross, and en- tlieht of steps. Out of the glare of the sunlizht, 1z 1s a little before the eyes becorae accustomed that, though small, it is one of ('hc most richiy decorated churches in Bulgaria. The Abbot ad- o1 the £creen commentes to pray in low but fer- vent tones. In the middle of his prayer my names, 2nd thercatter the god old wan prays for us personzlly that we may be delivered tusAows us with pride the beauties of lus favorite charch. - In the domeis the representa- Evanirelists. The walls contain a storied picture of the Evanzelists aud their work, the paintings ous execution. On the right is the reading- desk, wonderful piece of wood-carving, richly mitchmena. and the canopy is likewise elegant- 1y carved. The screen wiich d.vides the sanc- Bapkinz plain buildings. The clatter of our answered our call for some time, we bezaa to cestroyed by the appesrance of a young-looking = the coarse b’HCk hair which reaclicd be- sponded 10 * Drasht-wee '—welcome— vbot or Archimandrite. This view of the whole yass from Sergovico to Tir- arkied in the pure ¢ Abbol's name—recived s with frave iness, we stated . aud 4 desire to see for our- erax bair, his beardy—which, hike Aa- TGN Hu bad, he tolu us, been thirly-six years a pomen o Vaulestin: oblong pile s, divided into threc ceted hiouses with open gallerics—some two, thier yuadranele are the cells of the monks, and 1he Jodument ot pilgrims. - The churches arc in of style aud the claborate frescoes which Eeaven. Domes, and belfrics, and spires spring conies’ and projectiug windows commanding 2 monk quictly knitting 1n ashady corner; there wheel; tn the upper galicries some. are dryi Now a group is secn procecding to cral cows to be milke y characterize the leads us first to the church of the patron Saiut tered throush a pillared porch and down a shurt to the dim religious light, and_then we reaize vanves 1o the sanctuary, and on the hither side friend and I are startled by being asked our from all dauger. His devotions over, Christan- tion ot Chirist, while at the corners are the Leing all distineisied by rich color and vigor- gilt. At the back is a porcrait of St Mess- irom the church is of wood. gilt, the lirs being carved 1uto oak leaves and flowers. guwuu the pillars are pictures, punted with an exyraordinary degree of detail and finish, representing_ Christ, St. Jobin, the Ascension, e Virgio Mary and Child, St. Michael the Archangel, and St. Georsre and the Dragon. At either side are pinsters bearing presentments of Sojomon and David. On the tympuuum of the sixteen smail panels contain- ing. alternately, portraits of tormer Abbots aud scenes irom New Testament history, while the whole is surmounted by a large, bcgun(ull_v- carved cross, with Christ crucified. Within the sanctuary w. . iréscoes representing the eacra- wments, while seraphim and cherubim il all the remyining wall epace. On the table are a cruct- Gxand candlesticks_of silver, while from the roof is pendant a gold lamp, which® is never tizzuished. The western arm of the o which is formed by the clurch, 15 serecneu ot from the dome, and Lere women are allowed to look through iattices on feast days while service is going on—tne jorty monks who find a retreat In the monastery being all provided with stails underacatn the dome. dn the ladies’ gallery, 0 to speak, the wall freseves represent the all of man, the promise of redempuon through the geed of the woman, and the conguest of desth by Christ. 1o an outer hall there is 2 etravge iresco, painted with ‘muth power, repre- gentine the Day of Judgment. In the centre Christ is represented —delivering ju ent, with the sealcs o justiceut His feel. Onthe right are lopg procussions of the saints, all attired os Popes or zetler,and others enjoy v iiful gardens. Onthe left there i3 a river— eant, I suppose, to be the Styx—with many boat-loads of wretched createres: while on the other side of the river is hell, alowing with iurid flames, and crowded with strange’ monsters, dragons, serpents, devils, and lost men and women, suffering the pangs of the damned,—a huge figure of Satan leermg and gloating over Lis victims—the whole forming a shastly pict- ure. The second church is smailer, and is &‘cdl- cated to St. Mary. There arc no frescoes on the walls, which are Whitewnshed and only relieved b{y 1wo canvascs, representing the Church of thy oly Sepulchire ut Jerusalem. The screen, how- ever, is very rich.—the paiating much finer than in the other church, and done on copper The subjects ou the dilferent panels as the Annun- ciution, Jesus the Light of the World, Mary and the Infant Jesus, St. Michael, the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, and the Murder of Abel by Caw. The reading-desk is admirably carved, with a piclure of St. Audrew at the back, while the chair of the Abbot, who often worships here, is carved like lace-work, Having adwired the churches, the Archiman- drite conducted us 1o his celi, where, of all things in the world in such a peaceful place, I obecrved a revolver. e offered us sugarona. plate, and tien a driuk of water. In no respect, cxeept, that it had a richer private altar, is the Abbot’s better than that of any of the other monks. It is about ten fect by cight, con- tains a bed, a reading-desk, a chair, and a cup- board. The cells are arranged in twos,—an outer roow, with a large fire-place, haviog a cell entering irom each side. Doors in thesé outer rooms ‘enable the monks to pass from one to the othier without groing out into the open al- leries or court~yards in the cold winter. All the Tooms are scrupulously clean, neat, and “ool. While we munch our suzar and sip our water, the Archimandrite informs us that the mon- astery was feanded 800 years ago, but was Lwice destroyed by the Turks. Forty years amo it was Testored in its present shape. If accommodates forty mouks, who cnter here for life, aud alout 500 neophytes. During the fesst of the patron saint, on the Gih of August, old style (uth of Auwgust, new style), as maoy as 5,000 pilasims come to the monastery 1o per- form religious exercises and penances. These are all accommodated in the monastery for two or threedays [ree of cxpense. Attachied to the monastery are four faruis and a mill, whose. reveuues support the monks and their guests. Besides the feast time, any one appiving at the monastery is furnished with food and lodg- ment, and after being spirituaily. counseled 1s sent ou his way. The monks employed their tune variously when not engaged at their devo- tions. They attend church at midniztt and at4 in the afterovon, but enjholidays they fre- quently spend wuole days in 1asting aud prayer, During their leisure they card wool, spm yarn, knit liose, cowls, mittens, fezes, and Gloth, which thev sell for the x0od of the institution, Some of their goods are highly tinished, and they have done this much service to Bulzaria, that when the Turks everywhere discouraged manufactures they conserved them in their quiet retreats. Some mionks attend the gar- deus, the fruit of which formsa great part of their staple 10od. They never cat ilesh meat of any kind; twice 2 week tuey are allowed fish, and on Saturday and Sunday they have cheese and eggs. The remainderof the week their foud consists of olives, plums, pears, apples, or walputs, bresd and mili. and because of ther pecaliarities in foud they are named tae Order ol XNikigor. Their dress [ have alreadsy de- While conversinz with our ancient and hos- pitable iriend a bell rang, aud we were informed that it was breaktast time, and invited toeat. Couducted to a gl er overlovking the graud scencry of tihe pass, s first-rate repast ‘was soon set oufore us. The chamber large, spacious, airy room, the floor covered with matding, and low, ned divans running afl around the walls. The ceiling was of beau- tifullycarved cedar wood, richly picked out with gilding and blue paint. The breakfast, served ona low table, at which we sat cross- legged, a la Turque, cousisted of two kinds of cold soup,—one wade ourcly vegetable, garlic an the chiel constituents,—ol oiiv Wiue was also ofered, with water. waited upon by a quunt old mouk, sash to bis brown robe, huge goge tacdes, aud a close-titting red sk splendid subject for my artist com! ime expressed . desire to toe comimon eat- ing-room ot the tonks we were at once con- veyed tuither, and much pleased we were with it, for in many respects it s the most unique vith fish, and the othér cacumbers beme , plums, bread. We were room in the —monastery. Long, low, and cool, it overivoks <o the one side the south quadrapzle, and on the other tie pacs toward Tirnova. Mar- bic tables are ranged around it, with a place at the crogs-table for the Abboi, who directs the serving of everytling by a couple of bells huusr on the table. Near the Abbot's seat is the read- ing-desk, wnere by turss the monks their place znd read the Evangeis during meals. The vaulted ceiing contains 3 jarge fresco of Christ expounding the Scriptures. At the head of the room, or cast cnd, is a capitally-exceuted paing- ing of the Last Supper, and beneath panels contuming trescoes of the Anuunaation, t miracle ot the feeding of the 5,000 on 1he lo and fishes, sud ot the Goud Samearitan, while at the west end is a vigorous representation of Abrabam entertaiuing” angels unawarces, and round tise room are portrsits of former Beads of the establishment painted ou a blue ground. The cficet of the whole s exceedingly ricu and quaint, yet appropriaie. Alter speéuding four pleasant bours w the fine old place, and 1o the company ol the good, kiudly, hospitable monks, we leit our small donation toward the feedmg oi the poor and huvgry, and cuntered back to Tirnovy, as much impressed with the peaceful, simple lives of the quaint Bulgarian mouks as with the wonarously beautitul scenery amid which they dwell, COLORER CAMP-MEETING, SINGING BY A CEHOIR OF TAREE THOUSAND vorc New York Sun. On Sunday nignt, the colored camp-meeting at Morfora’s Wouds. in Red Buank, ended after two weeks of remarkable success. Ashade of gloom rested on the faces of the viders and dea- cons after it was found that the Jubilee Sinzers trom Thompson street had taken French leave, for they were included in the programme of the concluding services. After all, everybody was better satisfied ; the colored peoplé because they were certain to know the songs they saug them- selves, and the white folks because to them the chief charm of a colored camp-inecting lies in the variety and number of rude but melodious bymns that country negroes kmow. Every one connected with the camp was prepared for the crush of Sunday night. Sister Susan Barber’s immense person was almost hidden behind the store of melots, peaches, pies, and peanuts, that bent her slender counter. Cornelius & Wiggins laid in a heavy store of cirars and tobaceo, and kept effectually con- cealed the “ more stronger stuil ” that ‘rumor said they sold. Deacon Silas Holmes conquered lus pious lervor sutliciently to remain behiud Lis counter zway from ihe tubernacle. Nothing ever brougiit 0 many people to Rea Bank be- fore. The colored people lazily entered town in he mornivg, ou foot or i decs tattered wagons, from Riceville, Sandy Noo, Nut Swamp, Chapel Hill, aud vearly ali the larver towns. The country beaux, in glussy earriages. with their rosy-cheeked sweethearts, decked in the Zayest colors, bugan toarrive in the afternoon, aud did not cease to come umil aiter church as ont at migat. Atter atl had come, there were nearly as many teams as there were trees to Litch to ju the rrove between the tabernacle and the town. All the comspieuous church embers, Baptists, Mcthodists, and Episvopa- lians, with tucir wives and children, came to the camp aiter Sunday-schoul aud chureh in tae evening. ‘I'ne szst thing Dominie Evans, the presiding minister, said in toe afternoun was, **Now, go bome and git down into your closcts or your chiests, or whalever you call de place whar” you stow vour savings, and be prepared for to Lelp us slony to-night. We waut $30, shuah!” He appointed himself to look after the money and ne did it with a will. When he took from its pail the tin fish-horn with which the worship- ers were summoned to the rude scats in the hoilow of tbe grove. the three harsh blasts he blew were heard by 3,000 persons. These were divided in the proportion that the wicked and the penitent are widely believed to be—100 professors” witl the singers’ railing, and 2,900 seekers” at large in the grove. Those Wwho haa seats Tared worst, for the others stood upin frout of them. The first thing Dominie Evans said was that he lLoped everybody had brought plenty of money. *“I hope dere’s more ob dose ¥5 tellers,” said he, *‘like dere was las’ Sunday uight! " L y Dominie Charles Green, of Neversiik, a nobie- looking old man oi the genmwue Southern type, reached. His peroration wiil serve to indicate Eis manper of exhortation: ** Wall, bredren, I bave ol'ared my skiris, 1 have warned you, I have done-sh my juiy. By'n'by, when you Jeast expect, de Lord will put de big foot of his powsh upon de sands of time and command etermty to beam. He will put de big han’ of his powah upon de Lree ob creation-h, and stake it €0 dat de stars shall fall like rain. Dis earth will melt and de hebbenswill be unrolled, and dem dat bab fought de good fight will git geir reward, 2ud dem aat had been negligent will also git deir reward. I pray God tobless you all.” Dominie Eduards mustared theforce that was to gothrough the throng with collection bas- kets. The singers cleared their throats, Every hodv present pashed toward the singers’ box. Even the booths were for a time deserted. The dominies on the platform were Hinton, of Macedouia, whois to preside over a camp- mectiug in that place next week, and Green, of Riceville, whose camp-meeting closed last week. Dominie’ Evans took a basket and followed the deacons, ‘*to gadder up the [ragaments,” as he expressed it. Ex-Dominic Robinson, of Fair- laven, wandered along the line of booths idly. He committed the error of veddling lager beer {from a wagon at an auction sale in Rumson two Years azo, and many sinful parishioners became intoxicated. Domine Green is an old-fashioned singer as well as preacher. ** Dere’s a heap ob singers in de sheep-pen,” he called out fu his jovial wav, »and you can count on some good singing.” Then hicled the dusky choir, and wormed out of the corners of their brains the remembrance of more otd tunes and rhvines than any one of the singers would have believed he knew. This was one song: When Jesus was twelve years old He questioned doctors, lawyers too; Meet me at'the gatherin® by an' by-he Thertnhdwns 80 puzzled they-ah didn't know what o do, Mect me at the gatherin® by an' by, Will you meet me~will yon meet mot eet me at the gatherfn® by an’ by. Dere's hissa one thing-ah what I asks ob you— Meet me at the gatherin’ by an® by, T@ keep you' Savior in your view-ali, Meet e st the gutherin® by an’ by. en meet me-al—den 1t3 meet me— Meet me at de gutherin' by an® by. De debbil-ah. he's at de front ob de stair, Mect me at the gatherin’ by an’ by. 1 takes my chance in the mdale ob de alr, Meet me at the gatberin’ by an' by. Den it's mect me—ob-ah meet me, Heet me at the gatherin’ by an’ by. 1hab 2 home bayon’ dis-ah worl’, Meet me a the gatherin’ by aa’ by, Where ail de gates am set wid pearl Meet me at the »atherin’ by an® by. On meet me—it's will you mect me? o DMcet me et the gatherin’ by an’ by I've been tempted—I've becn tried— _Meet me at the aatherin’ by an’ oy. I've been to de water and I've veen baptize— Mect me at the gatherin' by an’ by. ‘There were crics for “ Roll; Jordan, Roll,” o grand old tune with simple words. ** Yaath,” said Deminie Evans, who scemed_incapable of any thought except money, “et it'll make de coin roll up like it ought ter, we'll siug it.”” So it was sung by a chuir of 3,000 vojces: Oh, preacher, you oughter bin dar; Yaas. 1wy Lord, A-settin’ in de 'kingdom To hear old Jordsn roll. Roli, Jordan, roll, Roll, Jordan, roli, 1 want to git to Hebben when I dle, Ta bear old Jor.an roll. My friends,” said Dominie Evans, twisting his face into a lugubrious cxpression, [ have cceeded in capturing just 15 cents wid my 2 Gittin’ 15 cents will make even a little feller like me feel smaller. Coine in, brothers, let's see woat you got.” Dominie Green start- edi this song while the deacons counted the coiu: When Jesus washed my sins away, Goin' to Jerusalem just like Jobn, 1 nebuer ken torzet dat day, Goin' to Jerusalew just hike John. When I come to die, 1'm azoin’ to be ready, \\'llenJl {lome to die, gom'to Jerusalem just lke 2 ohn. People says John was nothin' bat a Jew, Going to Jernsalem just like John; But de Scripturea says be was 4 preacher, 100, Goin’ to Jeruealem just like Juhn. Wren ! come to die, I'mi agomn’ (o be ready, \\'henJ[ ;ome to die, goin' o Jerusalem just like oho. We're on de road to ruin, £0 let's eay farewell, Goun’ to Jerusalem yust like 4ohny T'm azoin’ to hebben, you're agoin’ to hell, Goin’ 1o Jerusalem juss like John, “ Twenty-pine dollars and sebenty cents!” cried Dominie Evans, after the pennies had been counted. * Now, aiy fr'ens, dat shows me dat you expect us to zo ‘round agin. You'd never give us odd money like dat if you meant us to be satisfied. Go out again, you wid de basket, nud make it $30." Domime Green started an- other song: Tell ver what, sizner. you better begin, Lord’s oin' to open de books dat day; Gatex'll shut quick, *n° you can't zet in, ord’s voin' to apen de books dat day. Judgment's coming, judsment’s coming, D¢ Lord's zoin’ 1 open de books dat dsy. De hebbens will roll up lie a ecroll, Lord goin 1o onen de books dat day; Old esrth will begin (o reeve and to roll, Lord's goin' to open de books dat day. Sach an awlul book as de Lord will read— Lord's goin’ to open de books dat day, Be de awfulest signt you ever seed, Lord's goin’ to open de books daf day. A magnificent song in the heroic style was sung almost entirely by Brother Green, because no oue eise was 1amiliar with it. He called it l" Al sweepin’ troo de gates ob ae Noo Je-rusa- am : 5 These, theee are they who won conflicts dire: These, these are they who etood de battle’s fire, Jesus calis them for to come up hizher, Sweepin' trou de pates ob de New Jernsalam, ‘Waeshed in de biood ob de Lamb. Unfortunately the collcetors brought back so many penbiis that the total was $30.01.- Then Dominie Evyans sent them in to make up $31. “Look tor dem S1 and $5 lellers,” said he. Then Dominte Green started the most pathetic tune, vet one that was infectious, for all hearers joined in the dismal chorus: Go to the water when you're ary- ,n:m. Lord.l how lAlmg— i e ere yeu'll get a fuii sapply-al On. Lord, fowlon, -0 % This time next yvear I may be gone In some lonesome uraveyard— Oh, Lord, how long. But despite the sadness of this chorus and the melac:oly nature of the air to which the words were sung, these incomprehensible peoble chose rhymes ol the lightest sort to meet the tune: De debbil tousht he would pite me. Oh, Lord, how long. By catting Gown my apple tree, Oh. Lord, how long. ‘This time next year { may be gons In fome lonesome griveyard, Oh, Lord, how long. But he did pot spite me at all, Oh. Lora, how lonz, For I had apples ali de fall, Oh. Lord, how long. Thi- time nest year | may be gone. In some Jonesome graveyard, O, Lord; how lung. ‘Thus, until nearly midnight, the “prufessors ™ saug one tune atter acother, some rocking to and fro witn their eyes balf closed, others wavs~ ine their hands in dreamy movements, and all atting the ground with their feet, or their knees with their hends. Dominie Evans con- tinuea to collect money and ask for more. MIRACLES AT LOURDES. TOE EXPERIENCE OF A BAND OF PILGRIMS— RECORDS OF REMARKABLE CURES, Paris Univers. ORLEANS, Aug. 17, 1877.—The Orleans Rail- way depot was fiiied yesterday with more than a thousaud pilgrims going o Lourdes, including over 150 iuvalids who bad been assistea by Catnolic charity to accoinplish this journey and implore the Virgin’s mercy at her shrine at Lourdes. * We have received the following telegram: Poimiexs. Aug. 17, 1877.~The piigrims tormed 2 processson_through the town ana procevded to {ne Chuicn of St. itadegonde, where the general comumumon ook place. “I'nc invalids, carned on stretchiers, formeu part of the procession. father d’Afzon dehvered astirring sermou al ciburch, fw- weqintely after tae communion service had been concluded tie bilerims wended Lheir way, some to adore the real cross of the Radegunde, others to visit Lhe house of St liilaire. the chapel of the for- wer Bishups of Porters, renovated by Mar. Pie, or 10 go und bray at the Churches of Notre Dame des Ciefs, Prul, St.gJohn, etc. Ail this and all we are doing is in this nincteenth ceptury, one of the mirucles of St. Radegonde, the Queen who never counted what ehe Zave. We reccived last night, too late for publica- tion, the following dispateh: Lounpss, Aug. 19, 1677.—Three miracles have taken place since 12 o'clock. One i the cure of a woman who has been paralyzed for eight years. The followingtelegram has been since received contirmivg tie news published yesterday. Lovnoes, Aug. 19, 1877. —The suferings of the journey are alrcady rewarded. We have just had e joy of witnessing several miracles. Six cures are stated, Al 3 Sister © Stephaine Dziemc' of the Education Chrctiennc, at Loos les Lille, was suffering scven years from clronic rhcamatics. Widow Lefevre, of “horce (Sarthe), residing in Paris. cured of a knee sore whicki had been declar- ed incurable. Mrs. Auille. of Gicn, eight years' palsy, conse- uence of confinement, was on the point of dying uring the journey. Marie Bruyerc. resding at the Ternes, Paris, cared of rheumatic gout. Alother Maric des Anges, dominion of Boulogne, cared of a tugoron the knee. of which she had peen sutferfng for three years. Motber Maric Josepli, of the Saint Eninance, Lorraine. consumption in the third degree, had Dbeen despaired of by her medical sttendants, twice sang ;.hu *Magnificat” in the presence of the whole crowd. The enthusiasm 1 indescrible. LovryEs, Aug. 20, 1877.—The six cured women are getting on well. Incomparable joy! Prayers are being redonbled. Our 200 favalids sre keep- ing good cheer. Four new cures are revorted this evening 1 the new parochial chorch of Lourdes, which i3 still vntinined. It Was the starting point of the torchlizht procession which was to close the day’s festivinies, Mar. Ryramale led the procession. The Rev, Father d*Alzon, commenting upon the mirscles, called at- tention to two things. —firstly, that the Virgin recommended relizious life, since three ont of the #ix cured women \were nung, and to-morrow, aid he, she will not unly cure nuns but monks and priests. The pilerimageshould stimulate the re- ligious zeal for the service of the Church, Ife proceeded to statc tnat the five miracles consisted in restoring to palsied persons the use of their legs, Notre Dame de Lourdes thereby calls upon us to pray ihat Pio IX. may bave ihe pse or his limbs restored to him; for, notwithstanding ihat, 1o govern the Charch the usg of 'his. head is of ' greater importance than that of his lezs, Wwestould, nevertheless, hie 0od sons, wish (hat he mar have good less, too, le concluded by aunoundng that the Church of Lourdes was In need of fonls, which appeal was enthasiasticaily nded ‘0. Time is failing me and I must be brief. 1tic @Alzop's thrilling epecch clectrified eseryvod. The hymns were then fervently siruck up. an( the procession moved onward. It wasspiendid. But no ven can de- Seribe the emotioas of the sowd, whicli were es. pressed by tears. 2 1In concluding this long acount I hear that the Holy Virgin 18 resuming her work of mercy. Twelve cures have been heat! of up to to-day at 12, among which must bd mationed o priest from Nuncy, who suddenly recoveed winle in his own room and while some {rienddwere praring for his recovery at the zrotto. ILaui going to get further information, but 1f the HolyVirgin goes on at that rate I cannot promise to be 1|;M. Lournes, Ang. 22,1877, ~These are the lngt fow ‘hours of our stay utl Lourds, and we regret it. But how can we leave this havealy place and re- turn to the valgar world, wiere the only exclte- ments are moncy, passion, @d politica? Before concluding, let menention a few more of Mury's muracles, for I have pot the audacity to connt up all ber wonderful Weks, The fathers of Lourdes state that there has been 1o pacallel to this success before, but wha we reflect on the sullerings whick the pilgrimaiad to endure during the journey this multitude ¢ cures may be ac- counted for. On Monday, ue 20th, Marie Au- bert, of Tonnicurs, wi0 ame With the Agen Vll’.'riml, was restored 1o halth 1 the piscina, This poor woman, sed~8 wurs, had been sick nearly «ll her life. Lo the lst eigateen months ahe bud been freqnently vénit: The doctor #aid she had heart disease. . Jer hunds and limos were swollen; she could notwalk, and suffered acute pain durniug the journgd Afier ope bath 1n the piscima she telt cured anikneeled in it. Mass was about to commence in b grotto. She knelt all the tune, partooksof the hily communivn, then attended on f0ot 10 the Sasildu, and thence pro- coeded on fuol Lo the missiomry station, There 16 10 #1gD of swelling left eithr on the hands or leg. On the same day 3 lady from Paris, whose pame and xddress arein my Desession, but whick 1 am requested not Lo puviishit preseut, bad been for the last eight months suffejug from a counle of tumors of the chronic species,’ Un her arrival at Bordeans on Sunday might sl swooned and her lite was despnired of. She reeived absolutionand before allowing ber to resume the journey rome hesitation was felt. Until 2 otlockin the morning shie was in ¢o critical a etate Rt grave doubts of bLer recovery were enteriuned. When she entered the piscina she felt a painfal siver, but tae swell- ings opencd and healed up atonce. She walked without diiticuity, went to the nissionaries” house, and was gcen this morning aboit the grotto, walk- ing und even runniny Witk the geatest esse. Panis, Aug. 23, 1877.—Loudes is far behind us now, but we feel 88 if we had rought back from it un ndescribable perfume. Mir. Ryramale came 10 the station to wish the pilgrms good-by. Tears welled up into bis eyes, 1le wis cordially shaking handa with 1hose whio bad the bippincss to getneat Ditn. When the locomotive’s aistlc was Lieard un imwense cry burst from the mititude of °- Vive Notre Damé de Lourdes!™ Then a powcrful voice sang the *° Magnificut, " andthe train started amid the eaaucles to the Virzin. The poor invahds who have not been cured are regizied; a great many are cheereq thiough the grace of the loly Virgin. and think their paine nllayed. Phyers are béing aaid ou their beisalf in all the carguges. Chantin und praying have not ceased for a moment dur:ng ne Lveptyoseven hoars We have bid zood- vy i : the way. We may ot meet them arain this adept ihe grave. Butat the **rendezvous " of Heaven we shatl not fail to remember the pilgrimage of Lourdes. CANADA’S SBHRINE. CURES PERFORMED DY STE. ANNE'S FINGER- BONE. New York IWorld. 8te. ANNE DE BEAUPRE, Quebec, Sept. 18.— The season here is nearly over. It has been one of unexampled success, the reported miracles belng many, and the attendance of the devout enormous. Already the trees on the Petit Cap, beneath which nestles the good saint’s chapel, are losing their leaves; the wind whistles shrill these Indiau-summer nights.through the St. Joachim woods; the Fallsof Ste. Anne begin to look wintry, and the noisy tourist has goue, leaving tae shrine to the pious cure aud the sim~ ple villager. This year, as I"frote the World some weeks a2o, his Holiveds dedicated all Low- er Canada to Ste. Anne, and the religious cere- monies and pilerimages have veen the grandest ever seen here. A little work in French has just been issuced, called *The Pilgrimage to Ste. Aune’s,” which gives the only oflicisl record of this shrine vet published, and which is dedicated to the saint and her children, the faithful of Quebee, in commemoration of this year of race and *‘the blessings it has_brought to the French-Cunadian people, notably the receut dedication,” The discovery of the relic of Ste. Anne, a finger-bone from which lies within the altar of her chapel here, is reiated at preat length and with much minuteness ot detail. In the reizn of Marcus Aureliws, the inidels during an inva- sion of the Holy Land, burned all the colfins which they found in the pubhe or private monu- ments i the sacred places. Only one coffin es- caped this proiapation, and that because the infidels could ncither consume it with fire nor force it open. Euraged at this, they threw it into the sea, and it was borne 1o a pomt near the Town of Apt, in Proveuce. There it re- mained among the wreckage, rocks, and sand for many, many years. One day. however, some pious fishermen caught a biz” tish in their 1ets, and, on drageing it ashore, it leaped and strugeled so violently that it uncovered the cof- fin, which was then carried to the Bishop of Apt. He could not open it, and hence he knew that it coctained sacred relies. The times were troublous, and the good Bishop, fearing to Jose the coftin, placed it in a crypt, and, hanging a burning lamp before it, had it walled up. Some centuries later and Charlemaene came to Aot to restore the shrines polluted by the blas- phemies of the idolaters. To enabic the Chris- tian Prince and his Court to enter the town the more readily, some ot the ancient walls were torn down. In one of these the crypt was dis- covered with the lamp still_burnfug before vhe coffin. John, the son of Buron Cazeneuve, a Qiguitary of Apt; entercd the crypt first. From his birth be had been desf and dumb, but sod- denly prostrating himself, he cried out, “In this holy place reposcs the body of_the glorious Ste. Anne, the wmother of tne Virgin Mary.” Charlemagne then entered the vauit, and with- out any treubse opened the cotlin, in which the body was found intact, with this insecription in the "Greek, Hebrew, Latiu, and Syro-Chaldaic tongucs: *This is the body of Si. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.” A charch was Luilt over the spat, but the most famous of the shrines now is that founded nearly 300 years ago at'an humble bamlet 1 Brittauy, and which is’ now known as St. Amie d’Auray. The adventurous Bretoa marivers who came to New France with Jaccues Cartier in 1535 brought to these shores the adoration of Ste. Aune, and in I63$ o precious velic, a finger- Lone, wus brovght over from the chapter of Carcasonue by Father Nouvel, a Jesuit unssion- ary, and prescuted to Mgr. De Lavai, the first Bishop of Quebee, weo sulemaly exposed it in the first church in this village on the 12th.of March, 1670. In 1883 o joiot of the saint’s fin- ger wus sent to Mer. Turzeon by the Bishop of St. Rome Gualy, and it now lics in the altar- stoue of the Qdebee Catbiedral, Thelirst chureh at this villaze was built very near the river, but to avoid wundation it wus torn down, and the present church buile by Father Filion, in 1676, beneath the hicirhts of the Petitgflap, Twelve otner churches are dedicated to tiie szint in this provinee, but the nost renowned and most boly by reason of miracles and relics s that in this village, the shrine of Ste. Aunc de Beaupre. Ol the scenes that pass before the visitor's eyes here every summer I cannot give vou a better description than that written by Dr. J. C. Tache, Deputy Minister of Agriculture at Ot wa, and published in the little work from whi I bave been travsiating: It is a touching sight to scc in thie church. so ‘peacefulty situated within the sbadow of the bean- tifal hill of Biesupre, thesc pictures, these crutch- es, and ail these vther objects Ieft here by pilgrima and suspended on the walls, the columns, the very cornices of this housc of prayer. What boaily suffering, what spiritual trials, what broken- bearteancss bave been brouzht to this place to find a remedy or consoiulion? \What Intter thoughts of the sutferi.gs of ts life, and what eweet und gentle thouzhts of Ileaven, doesxot this holy place evoke? Une sees detiling defore lum the long pro- cession of thuee who. during the 1ast two centaries, have crossed the threshold of this dwellinz of the rood Ste. Aune. They come hither from all ower Camada, from the inlands of the Gulf,—nsy, from the bleak nnd ichospit- able cozst of Labrador. Sce this podr mother pressing her sick child to her bosom! See this duuchter leading her blind mother oy the hand! this Tather snpporting bis infirm gon ! this son car- rying hus paralstic father in his arms! See this penitent advancine barefoot to ask or thank God fora favor! Behold yon traveler, just escaped from imminent danyzer; yonder saflor just come up from the deep! They come by rhousande, but were they millions in number the peaceful calm of this ancient fanc would not be disturbed by them; for the only eonnds heard amid’ the deep silence are pions hymns or the gentle murmuring of prayer. Butwuo are Luesc wlse features and costunie arrest atiention® They are tie chil Te of the roil, —members of the Incian tribes con- verted to the holv faith. They have come in the name of ull the Micniac nation to ask Ste. Anne for Ler blessinz. And ehe wiil grant it then and take her red children fnto the lovine arms of her protec. tion. Happy indecd are they who Leiiave! The prayers or salutations in use among the pilgrims who come with invalids or eripples be- gin: 0 Holy Ste. Anne! 50 justly named the mother of the sick snd languishing, do thou cast 8 gracions look oa tae sick person for whom Iam pleading,” cte. This year more miracles are said to have been worked than in any-year before, but they have not been attested yet by the cures and toe persons bealed. The imost remarkable. of the season, however, is. thus described by-M. Duchesnay, 2 youne ' ecclesias- tic of Quebee, who wne'an ‘eye-witness, and whose testimony will shortly be published with 1 the official attestation of the miracle: O 2ith ult, there came a pilzrimage L{rf};: Restigonche. Among the pilgrims was 4 young womas nanied Dronin, wh her infancy bad suffered gricvously. mfh‘r:fif lepsy. = In her fits she would often try to throw herself into the fire. Early this year her pa- rents resolved to convey her to Beaupre; they would have brought her here before but they had not the means, her father, Jean Drouin, be- ing a poor Gulf fisherman. She arrived here at noon the 2ith, and at once went to the chapel to begin g novena. Just before reaching the sbrive, however, she was seized with o fit and had to be carried into the house of a laborer nemed Bourret. About 5 o’clock she recovered and procecded to the chapel. _Duchesnay, who had helped to convey her to Bourret’s house, was asked to pray for her, and began the litany flilusl;fc. Aunne, the young woman accompanying Ste. Aune, Mother of the Vil Ste. Aune, sponsc of Jeacl u'?f,n By Ste. Aune, mother-in-law of Joseph, Ora pro nobis. ‘While they were reciting this litany, and whg they were in the act of saying: Ste. Aune, support of the weak, Ste. Anne, health of the sick, Ste. Annc, light of the blind, Ste. Annc, tongue of the damb, Ste. Annc, ear of the deaf, Ste. Anne, comforter of the afiicted, the grirl suddenly rose from her knevs and de- clared she was sure she_was forever cured. In 2 moment her wan checks became tull and rosy, her unsteady gait disappeared, and after the miracle badbeen proclaimed to the pilgrims round about and the litany of St. Anne sung by the priest aud worshipers, she walked forth aud flew juto the 2rms of her friends. The fits which used to trouble her every two_ or three days bave not troubled her since, and she is pro- nounced by the doctor and those who have known her from her childhood “a new woman.” The pilgrimare scason, however, is pust. and until June next the shrine will be visited by noue save the Beaupre villagers, who every morning and evening at the matin and vesper bell the long winterthrough will go to the Petit Cng to make their salutations to the patroness of Lower Canada- Every night now eees the they were made transmitted b meniory, up_ partly of these saj . tradilon and e . sfani whicn had to be satisfied. !lgl:‘t:; l?fin:ocgi :lt}(cng - ::‘ILI & and s!:)mnlhl'nz' elastic at g me: this plfabili partly the diference of -‘Ah;p) nnfltés iso’:];l:’l)ss The tissue of the lifo of Christ was composod of all the facts which are in accordance with an- clent texts. Such a work was neither persopal nor .conscious; the Gospels became. in one sense, the unconscious work of the believers: they existed é)e!fon:hlhiy were written, they reserved in the heart Dfli‘nlcdnkx:in nan'himanl. : Refore they were ccording to Mr. Renan, the first afte delineate completely the life of Jesre wos taaae in Bashmd andthe first Gospel was written there in Syro-Chaldaic. The Gospel, thoush tirst conceived in o Semitfe Janguage, found its ptl:rlec: form in the Greek languase. Only such alanguage could hold the proper preportion of materialism and spiritualism, coakl give the pr;ner mold to a purely ideal doctrive: ae epistles of-St. Paul would cot ha for Josus 2 hondred diaciples. \hat conguered fie hearts wwas the Gospel, that delicious mixture of poetry aud of morul sense, thst narrative which return of haray fishermen who have beca push- iog their fortunes in the Gulf. Their Loats are put away and their nets hung in the loft of the humble” cottage. The crops arc housed, the winter's firing is leinz stored, aod the woods riug with the national nonsense-verses: Roulant, en roulant ma bounle Boule, boule, ma boule ronlant En roulant ma boule, eic. In a mouth Beaupre will be dressed in her winter-clothes, dull as oply a French-Canadian village is, and with tbe prospect of seven months of frost and snow. VaLE. RENAX'S GOSPELS. ST. JOUN. i New York Nution. M. Ernest Renan has added a fifth volume to his “History of the Origins of Christianity.” After the “Life of Jesus,” the “Apostles,” “Saint Paul,” the “Antichrist,” he gives us the “ Evangiles,” and informs his readers that, as e could not exhaust the difficult subject of the authorship of the Gospels in one velume, the series will therefore include a sixth volume. There is something truly admirable in the gerenity of Renan; he continues his researches and his studies as quietly as a Bene- dictine . monl:: impavidum ferient rvuine. Not that he is indifferent to the misfortunes of bis tie any of bis country; he has shown in, his *‘Keforme Inteilectuelle et Morale de la France™ that he can feel as well as think; but nature has given him a sweet and calm disposition, & great simplicity of heart, and an almost childlike faculty of curiosity, which preserves him from melancholy and sadness. He, besides, discovered long ago that intellectual labor is the great, perbaps the only remedy againit acute wental sufferinigs. The astronomer who studies the movements of a double star is for a while far away from the present; so are the historian and the critic. The traveler, says Bolleau, caunot escape his own thouglits: " Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lai. Traveling is too casy. The same can hardly be said of Renan's favorite science of exegesis. To ail the difficulties of positive science, or grammar, of philology, of history, you must add the peculiar difliculties of what I can only call the scence of rehigions,—a suience which is almost new, and which tends to discover the Jaws of the devclopment of religious ideas, of the creativn of dogmas, of the embvryogeny of myihs and their trausformations, of tre rela- tions between the characters ot the vanous hu- wan races and the spontaneous growth of the religivns instinct in dificrent directions. Kenau has always been guided since his ear- liest studies by this fundamental idea, viz.: that the Semitic races had a pecuijar fitness for religion. Ris study of tbe Sem- jtic languages is the corner-stone of all his work. He likes the socicty of naturalists and of scientitic nen generally, and it is proba- bly in the society of such men that e has learned to classify everything: he las tried, at any rate, to_claseify the human races, in point of their’ religions _dispositions, and, it I may say 50. of their religious aflinities. Nothing, in this respect, is more admirable than the con- trast which he draws in this new volume be- tween the Roman world, stitl inpossession of the political supremacy, aud the embryonic Christian world, still unknown and mel in the despised Jewish community. Let us con- sider 2 moment the situation ol the Jews after the destruction of the Temple. Nothing was Jeft of their ibstitutions: Pharisaism “alone survived the Temple, but Pharisalsm had no life—it was the blindest form of obedience to the Law. Israel became more exclusive than ever, Jerusalem was a heap cf stoues. Tie Jews spread themsclves in the towns and vil- laiges which were between the mountains of Judea and the sea. The Christians had been as much surprised as the Jewa when the Temple wus destro; they looked upon this misfor- tune as thé chastisement for the condemnation of Clirist. They expected that Christ would soou reappear, and kept faithiully the tradi- tion of his teachings. The neavest disciples called themselves esionim or Ebionites. Christ had smd: Happy sre the ebivndm.” There are many passages in tie Old Testament wiere ebion_represents the saints of lsracl, the hum- ble, despised of men, beloved of God. This chosen congregation of the ebionim lived in Ba- shans their neighbors called them Nazareues, as it was Lknown that Curist and his famuly were from Nazareth. ‘Al over the East the Chris- tians bave to this_day been Lknown under this pame. These early Chri t enciies of the old Law; they celebrated the Sabbath as well as Sunday, and fotlowed all the prescriptions of the Law,” Jesus was considered by thern as the chosen of Gad, but as a wau; their churches were called synagorues. These churches of Bashan and of Galilee (for the ebionim were allowed to return even to Serusa- vhile) were in constant relations These Mazarcues did not give Christianity. its final character, but they tad oue privilegze—they bad the true tradition of the words of Ul and the Gospel was born siong them in its definitive form. ‘This question of the Gospels Is the great probiem of exeges *“While the origin of the fourth Goepel,” ecys Renan, **attributed 1o St. John, rewmnins envel- oped in mystery, in & corresponding degree the Bypotheses on the mode of composition of the &o- calied syrontic Gosnels have attamed a high de of probavility. There bave been. in reality, Sorts of Gospels: frst. the origmal or frst-han Gospels, compused solely ffom oral tradition, and witnont’ any anterior text hefore the nnthor's eyes (in my opinion there were two of this kind, one written in Hebrew, or ratner_in Syriac, now lost, but many frasments of which have been kept, translated in Greek or In Latin by Clement of Alex- avdria, Origen, Eusedins, Epiphanive, St Jerome, éic.; the otlier in Greek. wntten by St. Mark): second, the (ospels which are parily original, partly second-hand. made bg» cumbining anterior texts and oral traditions (like the Gospel faleely aftributed {0 the Apostie Matthew, and the Gospel cowposed by Luke): third, the Gospela of second or trird-hand. coolly conposed by the aid of writ- fon documents, and whose authors drew by no fiv- ing root ‘wpon tradition ‘such was the Gozpel of Murcion, oud such the Gospela calied apocrvphal, taken from the canonic Gospels znd amphiled). 1 have_ given here thie condensed form of Renan’s opinion, based on the wmost complex and elaborate eriticism, The life of Jesus had not been written in Bis lifetime: His sayings were confided to the i b d it was only after memory of His ples, an Afany 3 while that some of them were writien. collections of the words of Jesus were mad and these collections became the fratmework of the Gospeds. The blograpbies wace alteswands; floata between fratas; eafity, i T A mast be made in the success of the Gogpel for the astonishment caused among our stolld (lourdes) races by the strange charmof the Semitic narras tion, by thosc clever arnugements of sentences and of ‘speeches, by those conclusions (chules) so Lapoy, 80 sercne, 8o fu¥ of cadence. ' More was needed, however, in ord:r that the Gospel shonld. become among all nalons what it is,—the old family book wkose worn leaves have been wet with fears and jpifed, pith, fhe Bager of many Benerationtyesus himself. le was, 50 to “#pex- Disined §7 ot His own biography. - ane proto-Gospel, written in Syro-Chaldaic, was preserved until the fitth century among the Nuzarcnes of Syria; it was translated into Greek. All the Fathers of the Church were struck with the resemblance of this Hebraic Gospel to the Gospel of St. Matthew. The He- braic text disappeared with the destruction of the Judeo-Cliristians of Syria. The translations were equally lost, and we know it _now only by the numerous citations of the Fathers. "The charucteristic traits of this proto-Gospel were as follows: The virginai birth of Christ was not a part of it; the supernatural element was, however, very prominent. ln this respect, espe- cially, does it resemble the Gospel of St. Mark. The apparitions of Jesus after the Resurrection all taKe place in Jerusalem; the Apostle James, of Jerusalem, plays a more important part than in the tollowing Gospels. Jesus makes His first apparition in the house of His brother, and for him alone. The Greek Churches received their Gospel from Mark, the disciple ot Peter. Mark knew some of the men who saw the druma of the last duys of Jesus. He accompanied Pcter to Rome, and it was probably in that city that be wroie the pages w became the first Greek Gospel. Peter hardly kuew the Greek language, and the Gospel of Mark was written a:ter his death; still, Peter may be Jooked upon as ibe inspirer of tnis Gospel. As an historical document this Gospel stands first. Peter was dry, narrow, and hard, but realistic and exact. **It can hardly be denied, " eays Renan, hat Jesus apoears 1 this Gospel, not as the delicious moralist whom we love bul asa terrible magcian., The sentiment which he chiefly inspiresin those about him 18 fear: the terror imspired by his rodigies is such that peopic bez him to eave their frontiers. 1t must not Le conclnded from this that the Gospel of Murk is less histoncat than the otbers; on the con: . Things which shock us exceedingly were to Christ and His imme- diate disciples of the first importsnce. Tne Roman world was, even more than the Jewish world, the, dupe of these illusfons. . . . The Gospel of Aark is less a legend than a biography written by a credalous man. "™ As the Gospels of Matthew and Luke arose from a mere revision of the Gospel of Mark, this last assumes an extraordinary importance. Its characteristic trait is the abscnce of any genealogy of Christ and of any details regarding His infancy. - It was, in all probability, written during the first years of calm which 1ollowed the war of Judea, when Mark was hardly more than 55 years old. Rome was then, after Syria, the most important centre of Christianity, Renan believes that Peter went to Rome; the Church of this great Capital be- came, 50 to speak, heir to_the Chureh of Jeru- salem. ‘The spirit of traditional amibority, of hierarchy, what may be called Judeo-Christlani- ty, soon’ became dominant in the Church of Rome. Alexandria, Ephesus, Antioch, were not yet great Constian centres. | Vespasian had done bis best to repair the evils of the reign of Nero. After him came Titos; under his mild ruie the Christians of Rome lived in peace, Under the Flavian family the Chns- tian communities became almost free; the rela- tions between the disziples of Christ and the Gentiles were easy, and often friendly. Inmany cities there were two episcopi,—one for the Chris- tians of Jetrish extraction, tire” other for'tie- Christians of an_origin. It was supposed that the secnn::rgas instituted by St. Paul, the first by some apostle of Jerusalem. Egypt re- ceived the germs of Christianity under the Fia- vians. A tradition wili have it that Aark went to Alexandria: but the life of Mark is now bet- ter known; he went, as we said before, to Rome, and not to Alexandria. The great delect uf the Gospel of Mark {s the abbreviatiun of the beautiful speeches of Christ. The men who bad knowledgre of these speeches from the translation of the Hebraic Gospel paturally were inclined to introduce them into toe Greek Gospel. ‘The Gospel of Mark wus tius completed and corrected. Toe author of the Gospel according to St. Matthew touk for his basis the Gospel of Mark, folfowed it, and made interpolations. He introduced thelong speeches which gave 5o much charm to the Hebraie Gos- pel, and he added 2also soiae traditions which were tie creations of the times. The Sermou on the Momat was thus added, as well as the reproaches addressey at various times to the Pharisees, and many parables. This work of interpotation was done without mich art, asd many repetitions are the consequence of this carelessness. The legeuds which found their way into the new Gospel were the genealogy; the supernatural birth; the visit of the Magi; the flizht into Eeypt; the massacre at Bethle- hem; Peter walking on the waters; bis prerog- the eulcide of Judas: Pilate’s washing s the prodigies at the death of Chiris! his_ha and a few others. The new Gospel was exquis- ite, in a literary point . of view. It is,? says Renap, “ the masterpiece of popular literature, and iu one sense tie most uncient popular work ever written.” THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. SHALL TILE NAME BE CHANGED? To the kuor of The Tridune. CricAGo, Seot. 20.—I have resd with interest the articles which have appeared in your paper from time to time relative to the movement which is going on in the Episcopal Church look- ing to a change of name. I have seen opinions advanced through your columns which reflected perhaps the ultra-Protestant view of the ques- tion, and have noted with pain theapparent lack of even the remotest conception of the real reasons why the more advanced school in the Church is dissatisfied with tne present name ol the Church, and with the impression which that pame has made and still makes upon the Clris- tian world. I think it will be admitted that an important element within the Episcopal Church desires a change of name from ‘*The Protestant-Episco- pal Church,” because the word Protestant, as applied " to the Church, conveys an erroneous idea, and 18 confounded with the meaning of the same expression applied to such denomina- tions of Christisns as the Presbyterians and Methodists. A correspondent writing in your paper, aud presumably a churchman, took the ground, defending the present name, that, while the idea of Protestantism, as it*is nnderstood by the sects referred to, was not the origtnal idea intended to be conveyed, still the history of the Courch in Americs has been so intimately identified with Evangelical Prot- estantism that it has grown. in fact, to a close affiliation with that sort of relig- jous belief; and that ils interests and aims are in the same direction ug are those of the ultra-. Protestants. Speaking ss a High-Churchmany but without assuming to represent anybody but mvzelf, I beg leave to 2sscrt my conviction that the whole position of your - correspondent re- ferred to is bused upon error. lo my urlnlau, the Episcopal Chareh is not Protestaut In any sense iz which the Evangelical depominations are. The Episcopal Church protested against the supremacy of the ls_hog of . Romg, and never ngainst the Catholic Church. To the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterfans, and others, the Catholic Chinrch is the * Scarlet Lady,” is the - Anti-Christ,” and whatever else in re- ligion is reprebensible. On ihe other hand, thie Episcopal Chureh recognizes the Catholic Apostolic Church fn -all its branches, whether Roman, Greek, Coptic, Armenian, or Anglican, and {t does not recognize what it belleves to be schismatic bects, such a8 the “Evaungelical” denominations before referred to. 1he Episco- pal and Greek Churches intercommaunicate, and the former recogmizes and would inter-com- mupicate with the Roman Church were the Iat- ter willing to concede our catholicity, as we do Beartily its own. In short, it is uscless to deny that thie bulk of the Episcopal people feel a far greater fellowship for their Roman Catholic brethfen than they do for whbut the English call Dissenters. Thcse are tne reasuns, I thiuk, why many in the Church are dissatisfied with our present Qeaignation, as being calculated to place us in an erroneous light before 2 uestion of a new name, Iu’ n;:w:;:nimu lfi‘f: iscuss it, believing thst there i3 suflicient wie. dom, guided by the Holy Ghost, in our House of Bishops t0 decide the matter. Perbaps, as a mere suzg:—.tiun from au humble lavman, it might not be unwise 10 adopt such anome as the Angliean Church, that being a designation which would convey a proper meaning; for the Episcoqnl Chburch is eminently the Chureh of the Auzl,c'maxou people, and the word “ Protes- tfiur. ' might as well be eliminated, because, in the light of what I have asserted, it {s a mis- nomer. ANaucas. CANON KNOWLES. FEMALE SUFPRAGE IN TRE CHURCE = Te tie Editor of The Tribune-0¢ 13th CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—TYour issuowles which® contains an attack upon Canonge amendment Is gcarcely fair and honest. oy is of interest to 10 the canonical law in Qew of whom were ab state it faily befy S43HIDE personally one of 18 opponents. m—;‘::s (_E courte’ "on Legislation reported as an omm rtain canon: That all male amendmens<0 & certal shall persons rating a pew in any parish chareh be cntited to vote for the vestry. Mr. Harlow; Secretary of State, whom we womentind throughout Illinois recognize as & good and staunch reformer, and as having done us signal service in assisting ueedmti ;’o:‘:‘-'l;i\: moved, an ~=cudmen on_our_bebalfy moyed, an o en out, 50" 50 as to allow women the right to'assst in the clection of the vestry. With all due re- spect to the varions orators who brought con~ stderable spread-cagle stump oratory into that dignified assembly, it can scarcely be said that any stunning argument was advanced by cither side. In fact, just as tine worthy gentlemén were fairly warming to the contest and realiz- ing that it merited a tittle m@re dignifiecd treat- ment, Dr. Locke moved to lay the motion on the table. Now, { am really curious to know why Ken- yon does not turn'his suns upon that gentle- mao. Heis the culprit who stiled discussion, You will please observe, 1t was not universal sulfrage which was prooosed by Mr. Harlow. It was siniply that any person {male or female) who reoted a pew might help clect a ves- tr) So that a widow or unmarried woman who paid pew-rent might ex- ercise that right. That was on the principle that taxation wifhout representation is tyranny. But the man with hall' a dozen danghters represents them all, provided he paid the pew-rent, even though they do all'the real church work. So that, upon the whole, it Wwas a very minute wedge that Mr. Harlow wanted to gzet in, though we all know how much a small wedge can sometites accomplish. Canon Knowles made the very best spcech against the motion, and really that wolucky chrgyman must be pardoned for bis old-fash- foned notion that God has given the boliest of human duties into the hands of - mothers. Canon Knowles made the very decided point, that the Church was not conferring any re- markable favor should she cohsent to such amendment. That, as vesirics were upon the whole most anchristian and a cuisance ceneral- Iy, it was foolish to open the doors miving womenkind the opportunity to pull wires and indulee in ungodly caucusing. y dear womcnkind, the time has gone by ‘when we can be hoodwinked by any of the trite eloguence indulged in by orators, either pro or con, when any proposition even suggesting our representation is brought before any body of men. Don’t all of us married ones know that the more earnest, flattering, and excited they grow ‘the more alarmed and certain they are that we are going to miin our point? The proposition much sctual consequence to us. For as it would possibly three or four out of 400 womenin & parish.” Let us hold our peace. The Clurch is not slow, as many of her enemies think. We will see the time before many years when every communicant, man or woman, Wwill have the right to vote for the vestry—if the vestry system survives. This Iatter is a matter of doubt, and we may all be called to lelp carry out a retorm in that particular. Only don’t let us waste our spplause or bolster up a cheap reputation upon such very insiznificant grounds. We might thereby merit the opprobrious repute of the rabble—that we are not clear-sighted or clear-headed enough to know our true meim. GENERAL NOTES. vise the Douay version of the Bible. ‘The applications for admission to the Junior Class of the Yale Theological School already numoer forty. The incoming class will be the largest, with the cxception of one, in its history. ‘The Presbytery of Chicago will hold its semi- annual meeting on Monday, Oct. 1. 1577, in the Presbvterian Church of Evanston, Iil, at 03¢ a. m. Trains leave Kinzie depot at 10 o’clock o m. The members of the **McClintock Associa- tion ¥ are engaged to raise $10,000 to endow a prufessorship 1 Drew Seminary, in memory of the Iate Rev. John McClintock, the first Presi- dent of the Seminary. ‘The people of Walhalla, South Carolina, have sbscribed $10,000 for_a Presbyterdan Cotlege, to be located at that place, and the Presidency of it bas been unammonsly tendered to the Rev. 8. B. Adger, D. D. ‘The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has becn removed from Greeoville, S. L., to Louisville, Ky. The Baptists of Kentucky have offered $300,000 to endow it. About sixty stu- dents have already entered. A bequest of $41,000 has been_left by W. L. J. Kederlen, 1o the Protestant Episcopal Hos- pital of Philadeiphia, fur the bencfit of sick and destitute natives of the Kingdom of Wurtem- berg, and next to them othernsitves ot Ger- many. The sixty-eighth annual meetine of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions will be beld at Providence, Rhoue Island, Oct. 2-5. Rev. J. H. Fairchild, D. D.. sermon. have voted to hold a series of union meetings during the falf and winter, similar to those beld in the spring and summer. They will proba- bly be condacted by Maj. Whittle or Mr. Mo- Granahan. The Freewill Baptists hold their General Con- ference at Fairport, N. Y., in Qctober. Ore of the subjects to receive the 2ttention of the Con- ference, which is triennial, is the celebration of the centenarvof the denomination, which is near at band. 7 The DBisho of Rochester, in England, Is re- ported Lo bave condemned * too ornate: o church survice s being a hinderance ratger than a help to spiritual fife.”” he.hoped ‘that there were no persons in the coneregation before him who werc ashamed of being termed Protestunts. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has§5 synods, 36 _presbyteries, 559 congregutions, (39 1ninisters, 78,445 tamilies, and 107,23 communi- $122,000; the total ministerial income for the past vear was 3513,000. The average salary of the ministers was $570. held in Shanghai, China, recommended the ob- servance of the tirst Sunday in O:tober as a day of special prayer tor the spread of Chrtstianity throughout that Empire. An address to the miuisters and members of the Methodist Chureh, issued by the issionary Secretaries and Bishops, requests them so o observe the day. Although the Spanish Armada was destroyed as long 350 as 1533, an anoual sermon of thanks given for its destruction is_still resularly [rruhcd in the Churchof St. Mary-le-Boue, the termpg of the will of vid -Mr. Chapwan, who died in 1811, leaving a liberal bequest to the church. If the rezular Armada scrmon were any year to be omitted. Chapman’s bieirs would swoop down on the church and clafm' the amount of the legacy, with .interest, which would now make 2 nice little bitl of abous received. The schools of the Catbedral of the Incarna- tion at Garden City were formally opened last week by the Rev. Bishop Litticjoho. Iho services were held in §t. Mary’s Hall, aod Mrs. Stewart sent 3 beautiful cross of carnations and tube-roses. The services wers conducted by the Bishop, assisted by the Rev. Drs. Cox, Drowne, Mure, and Beare, 2nd_the Rev. Mr. Covper. Beshies these there were present ibe Rev. Mesars, Carter, Twing, Beers, Tizhe, and Paize. The morning service apd the litany were read, and a vollection was taken -up for the benefit of g . [ the queerest Sundsy-Schools yet or | s ik 1s cunmected with the Fiea Congregational Soclety in Florence, Mass. In- & the writings o religious moralists 3‘::5&, Pugran, Buddnist, or otherwise, accord- ing to refereace. Orne class studies boak-keep- made by Mr. Harlow was not thorough nor of * actually work it would mercly give a vote 1o . " "The Exglish Catholic Bishops arc aboit fore- - President of the Oberlin College, will preach tna The Evangelica] churches of Lynn, Mass., ’ cants. 'The Sustenation Fund amounts to - The Confercnce of Protestaut Missionaries < ondon. This is done in order to_ comply with * sixteen times as much as the church originally | riti nd missions of the diocese. i 'i’;?nn::use;n;z. and then Bishop LittleJohn wade a short address. ‘of reading in the Bible at the opening ser- -