Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1877, Page 11

E e —————— e . e ¥ et ~s THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES “RELIGIOUS. Is the Soul Immortal ?—Prof. Hux- ley Joins in the Discus- sion, A Materialistic Criticism of the Positivist Notion of Immortality. The Camp-Meeting of the Sev- enth-Day Adventists at Lansing, Mich. Truth Must Emerge from the Con- flict Between Science and Religion. General Notes—Pions Smiles—Fersonals —Services To-Day. 1S THE SOUL IMMORTAL? PROF. HUXLEY'S CRITICISM OF A POSITIVIST'S VIEWS. Nineteenth Century. Mr. Rarrison’s striking discourse on the soul and future life has a certain resemblance to the famous essay ou the suakes of Irclavd. Forits purport is to show that there is no soul, nor any future life in the ordinary sense of the terms. With death the personal activity of which the soul is the popular hypostasis is put into com- niission ameny posterity, and the future life is au immortality by deputy. Neither in these views nor in the srruments Dby which they are supported is there much nov- elty. But that which appears both uovel and interesting to me is the suthor’s evidently sin- cere and heartfelt conviction that his powerful advocacy of soulless spirituality and mortal im- mortality is consistent with the inteilectual scorn and moral reprobation which he freely pours forth upon the “irrational and debasing physician” of Materialism and Materialists, 2nd with the wrath with which he visits what be is pleased to call the totrusion of physical science, especially of biology, into the domain of social phenomena. Listen to the storm = ‘We certainly do reject. a8 earnestly as any echool can, that which is moei fairly called Materiansm: and we will eccond -every word of those who cry out that civilization is in daneer if the workinge of the buina spirit are 10 decome questions of physi- and if death is the end of 3 man 3s it is tue a sparrow. We not oniy assent Lo such pro- but we see very pressing need for making 2 doctrine to open a brain m is @ definite molecular cliange 1o this and that convolution of eray pulp. and that, if man is the first of hvinr animals, ho passes away after a ehort space like the beasts that perish. And all doctrines. more or Jess. do tend to this which oler phraical theorice as cxplaining morul phenomena. wiich deny man a epiritual in addition to a moral nature, which limit his morul 1ife 10 the €pan of ms bodily orramsm, und which have no pluce for **religion™ n the prover scnse of the word. Now, Mr. Harrison can hardiy think it worth while to attack imaginary oppouents, 5o that I am led to believe that there must be somebody who holds the *‘corrupting doctrine™ *that devotion is a definite molccular change in this and that couvolution of gray pulp.” Neverthe- less, my conviction is shakeu bya passage which occurs at p.627: “No rational thinker now pretends that imagination i simply the vibra- tion' of a particular fiber.” If no rational thinker pretends this of imagination, why should auy pretend it of devotion? And yet L exnnot bring mysell to thing that all Mr. Har- rison’s passionate rhetoric is hurled at irration- al-thinkers. Surely, he might leave such to the soft influences of the time and due medical - treatment of their “gray pulp” in Colney Hatch or elsewbere. Ou the other haud, Mr. Harrison cannot pos- sibly be attacking those who hold that the fecl- ing of devotion is the concomitant or even the consequent of & molecular change iu the braing ior he tells us, in language the explicitness of whichi leaves nothing so be desired, that “to tive methods every fact of thinking reveals fas having functional relation with mole- cular change. Every fact of will or of feeling is in simier relation with kindred molecular facts.” i Ou mature consideration, 1 fecl shut up to one of two alternative hypotheses. Either the “eorrupting doctrine ” to which Mr. Harrison refers is beld by no rational thinker—in which ¢ wreiy peither he nor I need trouble our- about it—or the phrase, ‘‘devotion is a duiinite molecular change in this andlthat con- volution of gray pulp,” means that devotion has a functional relation with such molecular e in which case, it is Mr. Harrison’s own view, and, therefore, let us hope, canndt be a “corrupting doctrine.” 1 am not telped out of the difficulty I have thus candidly stated, when I try to getatthe Ieeaning of anyther hard saying of Mr. Harri- sun’s, which follows after the *corrupting doc- trine ™ paragraph: ** And all doctrine, more or less, do tend to this [corrupting doctrine], whith offer physical theorics 35 explaluing moral phepomena.” Nevertheless, on pp. 626-7, Mr. Harrison says, with great force and tolerable accuracy: an is one, however compoung. Fire hie con- science, and "he blushes. Check his circulation, and e thinks wildly or not atall. Impair his se- cretions, and moral ecnse is dulled, discolored, or depraved; his aepirations flag. his hope, love, faith reel. Impaic them suill more, and he be- comes a brute. A cup of dnnk degrades his moral nature below that of a swine. Awmin. a violent ewotion of pity or horror makes him vomit A Jancet will_restore him from delirium 10 clear thought. ~ Excces of thought will waste Lis sinews. - Excess of muscular exercise will deaden thougbt. : An cmouon will cdouble the strength of his muecles. And. at last, the_prick of a needle ora ruin of mineral will in an instant lay to rest for- { ever his bedy and its unity, nd all the spontancous acuvities of intelligence, feeling, and action with which that compound organism was charsed. These arc the obvioux aad ancient observations about the humau organism. But modern philogo- Fhiy and science have cacried these hints into com- picte explunations. a vast accamulation of proof, positive thuaght at iast has established a disinct correspondence betwween every protuss of 1hought or of feeling and some corporésl phenom ena. I cry, with Shyloc "Tie ver true, O wiee and upright judge. But, if the establishment of the correspond- ence Letiveen physical phenomena, on the one side, and moral and intellectual phenomena on the othier, is properly to be called an apanation (et alone a eomypilie lanation) of the human orzamsu, surely Mr. Harrison's teachings come dangeronsly néar that tender of physical s in explanation of moral phenomena fie warns us leads straight o cortuption. perhaps 1 have misinterpreted Mr. Har- For a few lines further on we are told, ic emphasis, that *no man can ez~ prain volition by purely anatomcal study.” 1 should have thouzht that Mr. Harrison might nave wone much further than this. No ms ever explained any physiological fact by snatomical study. ~ Digestion cannot be X planed, nor respiratics, bor reficx action. It would haye been as relevant to attirn that voli- tion could not be explained by measuring an arc of the weridian. i I am obliged to note the fact that Mr. Har- “rison’s bivtozical studics have not proceeded o far as to enable Lim to discrinivate between the province of anatomy snd that of phys , be it furnisbes the key to an otfier- aysterious utterauce which occurs at page A man whose whole thoughts arc sbeorbed in cotting up dead moukeys and live frogs has o more business to dogmatize avout religion thaza Tuere chemirl to mprovise a zoology. Quis negavit? But if, as on.Mr. Harrison's own showing is the case, the progresé of science (not avatomical, but plysivlogical) Las “estab- lisbed a distinct correspondence between every process of thought or of tecling and some cor- poreal phenomenon,” and if it is true that *im- paired secretions’ deprave the moral sense, and make hope, love, and faith reel,” surely. the religious Icelings are broucht within the range of siolugical inquiry. If impaired se- cretions deprave the moral sense, it becomes an interesting and important problem to ascer- 1aie: what diseased viscus may have been respon- sible for the * Priest in Absolution ”; and what condition of the gray pulp may have conferred on 1 such a pathological steadiness of faith as to create the hope of personal immortality, which Mr. Harrison stigmatizes 8s so selfishly immoral. ) 1 skould not like to undertake the responsi- " bty of advising anybody to dogmatize sbout anvthing: Latsurely if, as Mr. Harrison so strongly urges, ** the whole range of maun’s powers, from the finest spiritual sensibility downto a mere antomatic conwaction, Ialls into ope coherent scheme, being all the multi- lorm functions of a living organism in presence of its encire eudeavors 1o ascertain the exact nature of these functions. and to determine the irdnence of conditions upon them, is more likely to Lz in a position to tell us something worth heariac about them than one who is turned from such study by cheap pulpit thunder toucaing the presumution of * biological reasoning about spiritual things.” Mr. Harrison, as we have seen, is not - conditions,” then the wan who ’ 1 clear as it is desirable respecting the liauis of l i the provinces of anatomy and physiology. Perbaps he will permit me to inform hira tha Lysiology is the science which treats of e unctions of the living orzauizatiou, sscertains their co-ordination and their currelatious in the genoral chain of causes and effects, and traces ont their dependence upou the physical states of the organs by which these functions are exer- cised. The explanation of a physiological func- tiou is the demonstration of the connection of that function with the molecnlar state of the organ which exerts the functivn. Thus the function of motion is explained when the move- ments of the livieg body.are found to b: o tain molecular changes for their invarisble anf cedents: the function of seusation is explaices when the molecular changes which are the mva- ravle antecedents of sensations are dise» The fact that it is impossible. to comprehend how itis that a physical state gives rise toa mental state no more lessens the value of the explanation in the laticr case than the fuct that it is utterly impossible to cornprehend how tno- tion is communicated from one body 0 snother weakens the force of the explanation of the motion of one billiard-ball by showing tiiat an- other has hit it. The finest spiritual scnsibllty, says r. Har- rison (and 1 think tbere is a fair presamption that he is right), is a function of s living orzan- 1sm—Is In relation with molecular facts. In that case, the physiolugist may reply: It is my business to ind out what these molecular facts are, and whetber the relation between them and the suid spiritual sensibility is one of antecedence in the molecular fact, and sequence in the spiritual fact, or vice versa. If the latter result comes out of mv inquiries, 1 shall have made s contribution toward a moral theory of physical phenomena; if the former, [ shall” have done somewhat to- ward buil up a plysical theory of woral phenomena. But in any case [ am ot outstep- ping the limits of my proper provinre. My bus- iness is to et at the truth respgeting such ques- tions, at ail risks; and, if vou teli me that one of these two results is a corrupting doctrine, 1 can oaly say that I perceive the intended re- proach conveyed by the observation, but that T fail to recouize its relevance. It the doctrine s true, its social seotic or antieeptic properties are not my affuirs. My business s a biologist is with physiology, not with morals.” This plan of justification strikes me as com- plete. Whenee, then, the following outbreak of angry sluquence! The arrogant atiempt to dispoee uf the deepest moral traths of human nature on a bare physical or physiological basis is almost. enough to justify the 1nsarrection of some impatient theologians against science iteelf. *“That straim again; it has a dying fall.” No- wise similar to the sweet south upon a bank of violets, however, but like the death-wail of in- numerable “impatient theologians” as from the high “drum ecclesiastic’ they view the waters ol nce flooding the Charch on all hands. The beadles have long been washed away. - Escape by pulpit-stairs is ever becoming doubtful, without kirtling those outward in- vestments whict distinguish the priest from the man &o higgh that uo one will sce there is auy- toing but the wan left. But Mr. Harrison 1s vot an impatient theologian—indeed, uo theo- logian at all, unless, as he speaks of “soul” when be means certain bodily functions, and of “ future life ¥ when he weans personal anuihila- tion, be may make bis Master's Grand ctre su- pretae the subject of « theologys and onc stumbles upon this well-worn fragment of too familiar declamation among his vigorous periods with the unpleasant surprise of oune who finds a fly in a precious ointment. ‘There are {wfinlc from whom ~ne does not expect well-founded statement aud thoughtful, however keen, arrumentation, embodied in pre- cise language. From Mr. Harrison one does. k be will be at a loss to answer the question, if I pray him to tell me of any repre- seutative of physical science, who, eithier arro- gantly or othcrwise, has ever attempted o dis- pose of moral truths on a_ physical or puysio- logical basis. If I am to take the s.use of the words literally, T shall pot dis- pute the arrogance of the attempt to dispose of a moral truth on a bare, or even ¢n a covered, physical or vhysiological basis: for, whether the truth is deep or shallow, I cannot couceive how the feat is to be performed. Columbus® difficulty with the ege is as nothiug to it. But I suppose what meant is that some arrogant people have tried to upset mo- rality by the help of physics and physiology. 1 am sorry if such people cxist, because 1 shall have to be much ruder to them than fr. Har- rison'is. 1 should not call thew -arrogaut, any more than 1 should apply that epithet to a per- son who attempted to upset Euclid by the help of the Rigveda, Accuracy might be satisfied, if not propriety, by calling such aperson 1 100l but it appears o me that it would be the height of injustice to term bim arrogant. Whatever else they way be. the laws of moral- ity, under their scientitic aspect, are gencraliza- tious based upon the observed phenomiena of cocicty: and. whatever mzy be the nature of moral approbation and disapprobation, these - feclings are. as o matter of experience, 8ssoci- ated with certain acts. The conscquences of men's actions will remain the same. however far our analysis of the causes witich lead to them may be pushed. Theft and murder would be none the less objectionable if it were possible to prove that they were the re- sult of the activity of special theft and murder cells in that * gray pulp” of which Mr. Harrison speaks so scornfully. Does any sane man im- agine that any quantity of physiological anal will Jead people to think breaking their legs or putting their hands into the fire desirable! And when men really believe that breaches of the moral law involve their pesaltics as surely as do breaclies of the physical law, is it to be supposed that e¢ven the very firmest disposal of their moral truths upon. “a bare physical or physio- logical basis* will tempt them to incur those penaltics? [ would gladly learn trom Mr. Harrison where, in the course of his studics, he has found anything inconsistent with what T have just said in the writivgs of physicists or biologists. I would entreat him to tell us who are the true materialists he scientificspecial- ists ™ who * neglect gll philosoutical aud relie- jous svnthesis,”” and who ssbwit relizion to the test of the scalvel or the electric battery 3 where the materialism which is “marked by the iermoring of religion. the passing by on the other side and shatting the eves to the spiritual histo- Ty of maukind ” is 10 be found. 1 will not believe that these phrases are meant ly Lo any scientific men of whom I have nce, or any unrecognized system of sci- thought (they would be too absurdly inappropriate), ad 1 cannot _believe that Mr. 1larrison indulges in emoty rhetoric. But Iam disposeat to think that they would not bave been sed at all except for that deep-seated sympathy with the ** impatient theolog which charac- terizes the Positivist School. and crops out. characteristically enougly, 1 more than one part of Mr. Harrison’s cssay. Mr. Harrison tells us that “ Positivism i pre- pared to meet the theologians.” 1 agree with him. though not exsctly in his sense of the words: indeed, I have formerly expressed the opmion that the meeting took place lons ago, and that the faithiul tovers, impelled by the - sunet of a true affinity of nature. have met to part no more. Ecclesiastical to the core from e begmnmng, Posiuvism is now exemplifving the law that the outward warment adjusts iteelf. sooner or later, to tne inward man. From its founder onward, stricken with metaph: incompetence and equally fncapable of appre- ciatiug the true spirit of scientitic method, 1t is 10 cover the nakedness of its now essayity philosoplieal materialism with the rags of a spiritualisiic phraseoiogy, out of which the oririnal sense . has wholly departed. 1 under- stand and I respect the meaning of the word “couL” as used by Pazan and Christian philoso- phers for what they believe to be the fmperish- able seat of human personality, beanng through- out eternits its burden of Wwoe or its capacity 1or adoration and love. § confess that wmy dull moral sense does nos enable me to see anything base or selfish 1 the desire for a future lire among the spirits of the just made perfect: or even among s few suck: poor, 1allibie souls as one bas knowr here below. And, if i am not satisfied with the evidence that is offered me that such & son! and such a future li{€ exists, 1 am content to iake what ie 1o be bad and to make the best of the brief span of existence that 1« within my reach. without reviling those whose farth 1s more robust and whose boves are richer and fulier. But. i the interests of scientific clearness, i object to say that I have a soul. when 1 mean, all the while, that my organism has certain menta! fupnc- tions which, like the rest, are dependent upon its moiecular composition and come 1o an end when I die: and ] object still more to affirm that I look to a future life, when all that i mean 1s that the influence of my sayinge and doings will be more or less felt by = number of people after the pbysical component« of that organism are scattered to the four winds. Throw a stone into the ses, and thereisa sense in which it 15 true that the wivelets which Spread all around it have an_effect through all space and time. Shall we suy that the stone has a fature life! 1t is not worth whkile to Lave broken away, not without pain and griefs, from beliefs which, true or falee, embody great and fruitful-concep- tions, to fall back into the armi of a balf-breed betweeh ¥cience and theology, :ndowed, like most half-breeds, with the faulis of both par- | cats and tbe virtues of neither. Aund it is un- wise by sueh a lapse to expose one’s self to the temptation of hording with the hare and bunt- ing with the hounds—of using weapons of one progeniic to damage the other. nuot but ihink tha, the members of the Positivist Schoul in this covntry stand in some danger of falling into that fatal . error; and I put it to them to consider whether it is citlier consistent or be- coming for those who hold that ‘“‘the finest spiritual sensibility is 3 mere bodily function, 1o joinin the view-halloo when the buot is up against biological science,—to mse their voices in swelling the senscless cry that “civilization is in danger if the workings of the human spirit are to become questions of physiology.” CORRESPONDENCE. TIE SECOND ADVENTISTS. Sreclal Correspondence of The Tribune. LansiNg, Mich., Sept. 26.—About 10,000 per- sons attended the Scventh-Day Adventists camp-meeting, north of this city, on Sunday last.” Excarsion trains were run on the Chicago & Luke Buron Road; and about 1,500 vehicles came in from the surrounding country. One hundred and sixty students from the denomina- tional college at Battle Creck are encamped upon the grounds, accompasied by their teach- ers. The Educational Society of the Church is a joint-stock company, each share representing $10 of wealth. Nincty-two of the bolders being present, business was trausacted. Prof. Browns- berger, President of the Battle Creek College, addressedithe Society on ** What We Owe Our Childrere” The Auditor's report was read, shiow ceipts for the year, $11,280.63: ex- penses, 31,750.60. Tlbe Trustees elected were James W uite, Prof. U. Smith, Prof. 8. Browns- berger, Dr. J. H. Ketlogg, W. C. White, Will- iam Sisley, Prof. A. 8. Oyen. The tollowing ollivers were elected at the General Conterence: President, James Wuite; Secretary, U. Smith; Treasurer, Mrs. M. J. Chapman; Exccutive Committee, James White, 8. N. Uaskell, and D. M. Cauright. Delerates wers present rep- resentiny the Conferences of New York, New England, Cavada, Keotueky, Tennessee, Vi giniy, Wisconsin, lows, ludina, and if aod report: read from the North P sion (Oregon and Wasiingren), Kenturky and Tennessee, Alabama, Texss, Missouri, Mame, Germany, Denmiark, and ltaly. The sermons and exhortations are similar to those of other Protestaut denomivations, — except those relating to the * Prophecies,” which are illustrated by a_chart embracing most of the Scriptural prophevies, and demonstrating that the coming of Christ 1s near. ‘The disappoint- ment in 1844 i explained 45 a mistake, not in the reckoning of time, but in the event that was to take place. Instead of Christ’s coming to carth at that period, [e entercd the sanctuary in Heaven to fimsh the work of atonement. ‘The mistake of the carly Adventists was in be- lieving that cleansing of the sauctuiry meant the ‘purification of the world by fire a4 the last ay. RELIGION AND SCTENCE. To the Edstor of The Triume. CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—At a time when sciencels floodiug the carth with facts which seem to threaten the citadel of religion, sud when ehurches are building for themselves arke of safcty out of such matenals as they have not already abandoned as worn out and uscless, it Dehooves ali persons who cherish a particular form of religion to lvok well to the materiuls of its fabrics. TE. of the alarm seems tc be lest cer- tai loxrrines of the churches be swept away, and iudeed, to the impartial observer,—if such it scoms that many now cherished beliefs will sink beneath the advancing tide, as mazuy others have gone under in the past. It is not religion alone that has been often forced to relinquish favorite teuets. Science in its prog- ress has been no more fortunate. But this hostile attitude scems strange when ‘we_remember that both arc seekers after truth, and thatall truth is harmonious. Truth is meck-cyed and modest, and we may be sure that those who are most imbued with 'its spirit are least warlike in their advocacy of it. I false idols are destroved by science, religi owes a debt of gratitude therefor, and if the idols are not false, tuey need nodefending. The explanation seems to be that cach secks ulti- mately the same object, and as with rival Jovers jealousy 1s aroused. 3 When the nature of the religions sentiment is considered, no danger to religion is appre- hended. It is an element of man’s affectional nature, 85 fnlierent and uneradicable s the sentiment of love, aud us surely implics an ob- ject for its regard.. Science hus never roobed relizion of any essential doctrine, whether re- vealed or nataral. As the truth from time to time gleams out and displaces old error, it soon appears that science bestows more than she takes from religion. Truth is first met with the sword. After many blows she is discovered to be u friend iv disguise, and straishty: the intrenchment of her enemy. The conflict now waged is about methods and names, not ends ond principles, and, therefore, no hari threatens esseutial religion. Like all buman attributes, the relizious na- ture unfolds progressively, and con- sequently its manifestations have changed and will change and enlarge os the sen- timeat expands and retines. Hence the folly of formulating creeds. Religion does not coi of belief any more than love does, and he who most relicious is least able to define relizion. he wouldgthink of a creed for lovet Ask him who really loves what love i s o words wherewith to speak it, no sow, with to sing it, but like a bird it sings its own song and he knows its abiding presence.” So with _relizion, and thourh it may rightly be called by Prof. Tyndall an_emotion, it is never- theless 2 power stronger thau gravitation. We therefore expect that when the storm which science has .raised shall have spentits force and the dcluge of facts shall have sub- sided, there shall emerze frow the arks of re. ligmon all the best members of the great family of truth unscathed by the flood. w FRENCH MIRACLE-WORSHIP SINGCLAR REVELATIONS BY PARFAIT, FROM OFFICIAL DOCUME: Correspondence of the New York Evening Post Loxpox, Aug. 16, 1877.—Every one Knows that the present political crisis in Frauce is the work of the Clerical party, which las led Mar- shal MacMabion to his coup de tete, boping that the coup de tete will end in a coup d'etat. How- ever, the public does not scem to us sufficiently to realize the immense intfluence whicn the pre- vailing religion exerts by its manifest workings, and especially by its occult action on tue affairs of that country, of which so much is said and so little understood. People are too apt to discuss that prevailing religion theologically; there is 100 much of controversy and not enough of his- tory; too inuch atiention is paid to its theory, and not enough to its practice. In thus respect there is mo book more in- structive than that which has just been pub- ed by Mr. Paul Parfait, 3 young writer well known by the readers of the Charivari and of some of the moderate Republican journals. Under the title “ Le Dossicr des Pelerinages” the autbor has endeavored to draw up the bal- ance-sheet of clericalism, to relate its industries great sud small, to reveal its workings. He deues having intended an anti-Christian work, and cver having any evil designs against Cathohcism. On the contrary he claims to have wished “to put people of good faith on their guard agamst that rsing tide of superstition which threatens Catholi:ism itself.” he expects 10 be supported by a!! thougntful people who destre to separate Irom a gross fetichism the religion m which they bave placed a hope of moral regeneration and of supreme consola- tion.” ¢ Again, these pilgrimages will interest Amer- icans fur » specnl reason. Scveral inhabitauts of the United States. led by the fashion of the day, bave been pereonally to pay their homage aud to present their offerings at the sanctuaries ot Ronie and of Lourdes. Noone has yet for- goilen the alarm felt by the country when for several weeks there was no news of the steam- ship which conveved many pilgrims o Europe from Canada and the United States. Let not the reader of ** Le Dossier des Peler- nages ™ suppose that Mr. Paul Parfait has al- lowed himself the least exaggeration. Under <he government of the priest party 1t would have been far too imprudent to advance against toeir policy assertions which were not supera- bundant}y proved by facts. Fearmg lawsuits, fearing rine and imprisonment—we may say, by the way, that no editor has dared to assume the responsibility of this work—the author speaks only proof in band, when provided with docu- ments emapatiog from the tribunals ana the prelacies. It ig therefore not here that we must Jook for the secret history of French Catholi- asm. No allusion, even distant, is made to many episodes which everybody kmows, but which the papers do not mention.” But enoush 15 said 1o enable us to guess at the other side of more than oue official account. The author wicely abstains from bemg wholly explicit, but he lays before us an uncontesteq, an contesti- ble record, which is amply suflicient to enabie men of good sense to form a reasoned opinion of the imtelligence and honesty of the faction which, to the shame and misfortune of France, pretends to represent it altozether. 1In the book which ies before us we might study several juteresting suvjects,—that of miracles, for instance, or that of relies. We have preferred to druw some information on the worship of virzing, which has received a power- ful impalse from the solewn proclamation of the dogms of the Immaculate Concention. There is no need of long arrument to establish the fact that under pretense of ‘religion and of Catholie, apostolic and Roman ortliodoxy, pa- sanism—true paganism—has been restored turough the action of the party of order in the country of Voltaire and of Rabelais. The phi- losopher and the kistorian can henceforth scek in the Greek novels, he Golden Ass” and tThe Syrian Goddess,” for notes and comment~ aries on the mandates of the French Bishops and of the Primateoithe Gauls. [t is only too true that the douation of France to the Virgin Mary by Louis XIIL las been ratified by the Jast Legishative Assembly. Indeed, it will be remembered that at the pilgrimage of Chartres 150 Deputies of the Right declarcd that the Queen of the Angets would throne i Paris, and would reign from Dunkirk to Perpignau. Before instituting the charming MacMahonate, before promulzating 1ts delightful Constitution, the Assciubly voted that an immense cathedral. consecrated to_the Sacred Heart, stould be raised on the summit of Montmartre, overlooking the whole of Paris. It was an official svinbol of the triumph of the Jesuits over the Revolution. We possess a small drawing which we found in a service-book, and which would descrve to be kept in the na- tional archives. 1t represents a cock,—the Gal- fic cock,—who parades and struts on an em- inence: he spreads is tail, pricks up his comb, and sinas cock-a-doodle-do? hecrows victorions- Iy because a lare saltier cross, which dangles upon his crop, has been [astened about his neck. A flag & Houatimr from the tupof a steeple, with the device, Gallia Chnistiana, You must. koow that the Mothers of God ™ swarm in France, and multiply as rapidly as the phylloxera. Every year, cvery month, new sanctuaries spring up, or old sanctuarics are re- stored or improved. As multiplicity produces variety, we have Virgin Marys of all kinds, us in the song of Malbrouk, we have bruneties and bloudes, aud suburn_ones too, we have yellow ones and red ones, and even negresses as black as soul. Ther: are some to suit all tastes. Some are elezant, others are poorly risyed: some are fat, others ure lean: there are some aristocratic ones, there are some mere bourgevises, and even some vretched beszars. *Que Lady of Victories,” sad_a devotee to Mr. Jules Baissae, the author of Les Origines dela tiligion, “Our Lady of Victories is a ereat lady; she intimidates me. But Our Lady of Chartres is u wgood sort of & wowman, and Ilove her much more.” What one virgin will not do auother virgin will, what one 7irgin cannot do another can. At Betharram a womau finds relief for her pains in the bowels, for which she bas unavailingly implored Vur Lady of Lourdes. A young girl afflicted with St Vitus' dance obtains~ from Our Lady of Pontmiin the cure that Our Lady of Cliene had refused ber. After this there 1s nothing more vatural that to ask oneself whether Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Betharram, Our Lady of Pontmain and Qur Lady of Chene, are really the same virgin, ’ “ Qur Lady ot Rodez,” we read in a mandate of Mosscizneur the Bishop of Rodez, s about to v ber visit to Our Lady of Lourdes. The virzin of Rouerque wishes to leave her mouatains to pay homage to the virgin of the Pjrenees. . .7 . Nowhere dous the idea of the piurality of the virgins appear so strikingly as at Clurtres, where the cathedral alone possesses wo virgins under two diflerent namnes,—the one. Our Lady of the Pillar, in the nave; the other, Our Lady Underground, in the crypt. The latier is white, the former is blac thie black one is rowned, the white one is not. Among all tiese virgius the worslipers have only the troublzof choosing: they are all god- desses, and mothers of - the ~same child. ronesses of sanctuaries, they are above all focal dwinities, 1s were tne famous Diana of the Ephestans, the Artemisia ot Taurs, the Minervia of Athws, the Juno of Argus; like the inuumerable gods of the Termini in the campagnas of Creeee, Sicily, and Italy. The faithifui never mtake them, they know Low to istinguish then; they discern differences in their features sud phiysiognomics: they recog- nize distinet apitudes and virtwes in_theui. And even, if we are to beheve their worshipers, each one of tha cares more for her own Iiule specialty than for the whole of heaveu: cares wore for her ovn parish than lor the vast world. Sote have ever been known iu time of dronght to cause it to nin on their district, and on their istrict alone, aking care that the bencficial should st at the hedge between the two parishes. Oue is powerful against cholers, o second agains jaundice, 4 toird aguinst gout and rheumatisn, a fourth exempts from con- scription, and © on. This little yirgin attempts only casy cases but that ereat virgin cares only for’ diflicult thags. This one causes Normans 10 gain their lwsuits, aud that one Auvergnats to win theirs. None is more stirring and active than Our Ladyof the Sacred Heart Issoudun. Her commerdid house has taken for its di the muxim conmended by the Manche school: sinall profits. hut multitudes of sales She transacts lusiness to the extent of more than a milfion fran year; she receives orders from all parts of the globe; she exports 1o the interior of Chia und Thibct, and to the Sand- wich Islands. She retails an’ immense amount of indulgences rosaries, and remissious to the souls in Purgaory. But it is wth divine virgins as with com- mon_ servants—for one who does her work heartaly, ere lazy- bong ¢ justly neglected. Thre are some who, atter Bavin been Jermerlyillustrious, are now consigned to e supernumraries. Thosewho work best are ded them, as in ven to the youus Jadies who hw inguished themselves 10 their elasses. A golden erownis placed upon « their head irthe midst of a congrezation of prelases and » edlux of devotees and curiosity seekers. | Thy disunction, w] 10.the patentt medals, i by the Guverment at ofiicial examinations, gives ise to violer competitions, to bitter rivalnes between thevompetitors. After Our Lady of Lourdes wasrowned, the Bishop of Grenoble hastily starte off for Rome: iv bis trunk he car- ried o crownn which there were 45,600 francs’ worth of preious stones, which the Pope was obliged to bles immediately that it might adorn the hiead of tur Lady of La Salette. But Our Lady of La§iette having become 3 Princess, could Our Ldy of Pontmain consent to be a mere plebein? In their turn Smint Michael, who is only te archanel of the celestial militia, aud Anne diuray, who is a mere saint. ob- tamed nobilry trowns as a reward for the miracles whi they have wrought. Better stil some virgin who has made her fortune is adpted as a mother and patroness by several yang virgins who are_making their first appearaces in the world. Thus the grotio of Lourdesnas a host of ** daughters.” The hospital of Svres has a grotto which Monseig- neur the IEshop of Versuilles has himsell deigned to cen. A pool of stagnant water ou some pebble represents the Gare. a mouutan torrent: a w zigzags through the clods of earth laid at upon the pebbles represent the uetwork of .be mountain. Porters pour vail- fuls of enn the reservoir, and on holidays the faucets ¢ the pseudo grotto give passage to a pseudo ¢ de Lourdes, which works pseurdo miracles. I certain localities the reservoir is filled - wh water which is sent from Louraes itslf in casks or bottles: but this water, whositransportation has cost gomethin: is husbande¢ The Holy Fatheralso has cau: a little grott, initated "from that of Lourdes, 10 be set upa she gardens of the Vaticun, and several casksne sent him from the sanctuary itself, and vkeed him by pilerims. Ofall the ‘“daughters’ d our Lady of Lourdes, the fa- vorite, that)re of the little grottoes which she must Jook mar with most satisfactiou, is cer- tainly the fe dmile of Oostakker. ncar Gand. Protiting I ‘he material lessogs, the young otto is mkhe her way at_a great rate, chal- enging pulidiy, reaping offerings, beating the drum on tl: lacks of the subjects of her mira- cles, and ndiging in all the eccentricitics which dranatention. A curiou chapter would be that of the politi- cal opinios s forth by all these virgins, their priests anczedots, in the midst of the internal agitations of France. Ex-Empress Eunsenie counts sevralprotectresses among them, others favor him vh¢ already umes the title of Na- poleon LV; bit the m\a}'orny are still faithfui 10 the caue o Henri But four or five years ago they wreunanimous in conspiring with the Legitimiss tcnurse up another civil war, to prepare e ftiy an expedition against Italy. Tow man- tines they had prophesied the resto- ration of ue ‘haste ftoy, I'rince des Lys Blancs! We must o bem the justicc to say that none is Republian 1n conclsim, we shall make only one remark. that made by the celebrated theolosian the Lutheran feheim, who, after relating the first great triwapis of Catliolicisn under the Em- peror Contuiting, sskied with a shake of bis ead: *Vht are we to think! Is it the ChristianZhreh that has converted the pasans, or the paznswho bave converted the Christian Church? - Evris RECLUS. ¢ENERAL NOTES. alent ‘The realin; of sermons is not fashionable in Texus. 'hes is said to be but one minister in all the §at who reads his discourses from manuserit, ad the people do not go in crowds 0 hear b, The Bardof Pablication of the Reformed (Duteh) Gush will need for its relief $15,000 ‘before Niw. ! If the monsy {8 not raised, the £tock of 0B, stereotype plates, and farniture | must be sold to satisfy the claims of creditors. Mr. Samuel B. Schiclfelin is the Treasurer of the Special Fund which it is proposed to raise for the relief of this indebtedness. The Peoria Transcript declares that the Epis- copal churches in that citv are unanimous in their opposition to the proposed change of that vounty from the diocese of Chicago to th - pused new diocese of Quiney. o il “Our most Holy Father, Pope Pins IX.,” says the Pope’s Secretary, ‘“has graciously col ceded™ a hundred days' ndulgence to any American who will visit any church and pray for the conversion of the Indians. bl Wednesday next the Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Epistopal Church meets in Metregor, lu. The people of that city have made ample arrangements to talke care of all who come. The attendance will be large. Bishop Ames will b in charge, The Church Missionary Society has been com- pelled to make a large reduction in its expenses for the present year. It began the year with a debt of about §70,00, and the expenses conse- quent apon the sending out of twenty uew men make the amount nceded this year $115 in exeess of the income of lasi The Rev. William M. Taylor, D. D.. traveling in Switzerland, found the ‘Scotch Presbyterian congregation in Lucerne worsaiping in a Roman Catholic churel, the uroperty of the Cantou. He reports that the sizht of the crucirixes and pictures did not hurt his feelings or affect his faitl, and says that he Jeft the building feeling kindly Lowards thie Roman Catholics. Besides the Protestant Episcopal General Convention and the Congregational Council, the General Council of the Evangeticat Luth Chureh in North Ameriea will meet this season. The last-named will assemble in Philadelphi (Broad and Arch streets) Oct. 103 the Congre- gational Council opens in Detroit, Oct. 17, As already announced, the Episcopal Convention opens in Boston, Oct. 3. Within the past few mounths the Reformed Episcopal Church has organized the following churche Chriet Church, Minneapolis, the Rev. Dr. E. D. Neil, Rector: St Jawes, Hamilton, Ont., the itev W. IL. Cooper. D. D.. lite of Chicago. Réutor: St. Puul's, St. Thomas, Ont.. the Kev. John Lrown, Itector: Church of the Iteconciliation, Brooklyn. this bems the fourth now cstablished in that city Sir James Douglas, late Governor of Eritieh Columoia, was Vestryman in_the Church of Our Lori. Victoria, and has left 1he parish a geaerous bequeet 1n g will. The Methodist Episcopal Church has in its foreign field 207 foreien missionarics and as auts, 246 nutive preachers, and 732 focal preach- ers, exhorters, andteachers; making & totai working force of 1,235, The total of communi- cants is 20.465; of churches, 204; of Suuday scholars, 83,216, of day scholars, 9,155. The to- tal of contributions was last vear over $67.000. These facts show that the Methodist Epizcopal Church has done marvelously well in_ foreizn mussions, and indicate that it is to have s far greater success in the future. George: Muller, the founder and head of the Ashley Downs Ornban Asylum, Bristol, En- land, has been lecturing in Brooklvn on the work in which he has been engased for the past forty years. He depends for support of the asylum entirely on voluntary coutributions and imputes his suceess to the power of prayer. The running expenses are §00 per day, and wnenever funds are not forthcoming Mr. Mul- ler prays to the Lord for help, disdamning the ordinary system of appeals through the news- papers. The systent has proved very success- ul. Grace Church, Sacramento, Cal., has been sold at auction, snd bought by a bank which had a claim for money loaned to erect the building. The Rector having resigned, the Ves- try have made over to him the furniture of the church and chancel, the comununion service, etc., and the bauk officers have applied to the court fur au injunction to anaui this action of the Vestry,las they want the furniture to satisfy the balance ot their clim. o that now, more than twentv-live_years after ler services were established, the Episcopal Church has not a dol- Iar's worth of property in the capital city of that wealthy State. The Congregationalist has the followin learn, on What seews the best authority, that Mr. Mood; pi i the penalty for overwork. He was greatly worn down at the close of the Tabernacle meetings last spring, and his nervous systern has not recuperated as he hoped it wight. In fact, he has been unable to do much solid studying this summer, aud has had cou- siderable trounle in his head. This state of things has led him to the d ion not to under- take the coming seasons the charze of weetings on-the same great scaie a5 at Chicago and Bos- ton, but rat} to Visit a large number of small- er places in different sections of New England.” “Ilave you any Catholics among the Jews?" was the question recently put by a Christian of supposed intelligence to “an Israclite. The - pression in the querist’s mind was that “Jew " another name for * foreigner,” perhaps for Israelites, too, show a like ignorance when they use * Amenican” and * Chiristian " as convertible terms. ‘There are still locali- ties in this broad land,” says the Jewish Messcu- ger, “wherea Jew isa mystery, where people catnot conceive that he may be as refined 4 g tleman as any deacon or vestryman, and whes his appearance would make 3s much commo- tion as the sizht of & hobsobliu on Fifth av « promenade hours.” The Methodist Episcopal Church has been in the foreign field forty-iour years. Its first for- on ission was planted i Liveria, Africa, in which time it bas added at interval to its ficld, until it now vounts four ot which are in ‘Thie Suciety was organized m 1519, w0 its first repurt in 1520, 1ts 1 ctpts Deinz about §548. Its first work was among the German and other European imu grants and the Indians, expending down to 1532 an average of about $i,000 a year on home mission work. When it began to feel strong enouch to enter the foreign field it had i the neighborhood of half a million comnunicants, and a very large domestic work. The Japanese ark-shrines described by M, W. Simpson, in the “ Transactions” of the So- ciety of Biblical Arctiwology, are ealled Termo- Sama, or “ Heaven’s lord,” and .-koshi, or ‘precious seat.”” They are minutures of Japauese temple, with ‘a square cella, over- hanging roof, folding doors, and wooden fence. Lik the temples, too, they are built of wood and brow: The shrines which belong to the Buddbists have an image within them: those uscd in the service of Shintoism, the State re- lizior, merely contain the three eymbois of the mirror, the sword, and the jewel. ~ The latter is said to represent cloth or hemp, one of the of- i of the primitive aze, 'The mirror sym- the sun; and a lezend recounts how the first was made by a mythic blacksmith, with iron from the mines of Heaven. The arks are borne tupon men’s shoulders by means of staves, just as was the Israclite Ark of the untri - Covenant. Fresh alarm has been created in the English Church by the announcement of the intention to establish a new religious order, to be cal. “The Fraternity of Jesus.” Circulars have been issued calling for signatures to the plan of organization. 1ts objects may be zathered from the following sentence: * One great religious order of laymen and priests associate would be far better able to cope with puritanical opposi- tion and general ignorance than a multitude of small societies, the members being so seattered about.” ‘I'he fraternity will consist of three orders. The first will be composed of ** Breth- rem, who will take the three vows of chustity, poverty, and_obedience. The second will be composed of ‘‘Brethren at business in the world,” who will also keep the three vows, but in a modified form,—whatever that may mean. The third order will be composed of “ Associate Brethren; these will take the two vows of poverty and_obedicnce. The work of the fra- ternity will be parochial and mission work, such as preaching, the maintaining of day and Sun- Qay schools. cte. Societies and _guilds of every description will be formed under the dircction of brothers of the first order. Societies that do not support a community-house are invited to come over bodily to the * Fraternity of Jesus,” under such arrangements as will make them auxiliaries. This is nothing more nor less than ascheme for the creation of a Jesuit order in the Established Church. “The Society for Promoting Christian Knowl- edee has been doing a good work by publishing threc small but_ useful books on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism. That on Hinduism, by Prof. Monier Williams may be heartily recommended: but nothing can be bet- ter than the account of Buddhism by.Mr. Rhys Davids. It is necdless to point ot the im- portance of atrustworthy and bandy guide- ook to areligion which in so many respects scems but an echo of Christianity. ~Some of the Buddhist ~parables, such as those of the mustard seed or of the sower, remind us forcibly of the Gospels. and ‘it is curious to tind an injunction to those who are “of a pious mind * to keep the Sabbarh, or, as it is termed, 10 observe Uposatha on the 14th, 15tb, and Sth_days of the lunar fortunight; and Pati- barika.” or Lent, “shouid also be dulg ob- served.” The eight commandments of Budd- hism are the following: (1) One should not destroy life. (2) One should not_take what is not given. (3) One should not tell les. (4) One should not become a_drinker of intoxicating Tiquors, (5) One shonld refrain from unlawful sexual intercourse. (6) One should not eat un- scasonable food at nights. (7) One should not wear garlands or use perfames. (8) One should sleep oo a mat sp! ou the ground. To thess may be added the command to & man to *maintain his father and mother in a just man- ner and to practice a just trade. The house- holder observing this with diligence reaches the self-shining gods.” It is curfous that this s the only commandment with promise. _ PULPIT SLANDER. An interesting case, decided in the Irish Com- mon Pleas, is reported in 3 recent number of the Albany Law Journdd, bearing upon the ques- tion how far words spoken by a clereyman from the pulpit are to be deemed privileged in the sense of exempting him from any civil liability for their utterance.” [n this case a Roman Cuth- olic parish priest had used in his pulpit the fol- lowing Janguage in respect to ome of Lis parishioners: Let no man, woman, or child keep his company, nor1alk to him:and if he comes into any town- land. tie 2 kettle to him, a4 the people nsed to do ofold " Can any of you tell me where he gets the money tospend? Is his mother foolish enough to ve it to him, or does he steal cows and horses? L'l go to his mother lo make him leave the conn- luzylmlml.lf not, I'll go to the landlord to make him The parishioner saw fit {0 bring_ his priest Lefore a court of justice for this kind of plpit rhetoric. The priest. in answer to the charge, told the court “ that at the time of speaking the - words he was performing his duties as a clergy- mau in the presence of bis assembled parishion- ers, and that he. nitered the words in goud faith; believing them to be true and for the sole purpose of rebuking sin and preventing repetition of the acts complained of.” tle claimed, in view of his functions as a priest, 'that his words were privileged and that he wus not amenable to the luw for nsme them. The court, however, beld that tne priest was mistaken in the prerogatives of his otlice, and that slanderous languuge on the lps of u clergyman in the pulpit, eveu though spoken in ool faith and fora commendabie purpose, is entitled to no immunity as a privilezed utter- ance. ** 1 am of opinion,” said Judge Lawson, i that nerther from pulpit nor altar can stander be uttered; and, if it is, the person who does so wmust justify its truth or be prepared to take he consequenves.” PERSONAL. The Rev. William C. Rommel, of Elizabeth, N.J., late of flelena, Montana. has accepted the call to the pastorate of the Gaston Presby- terian Church of Philuaelphia. The Rev. J. F. Thowmson, pastor of the Methodist mission in Montevideo, South America, after spending a few days very pleas- antly in New York, has gone to Adel, [a., where be will visit family fricads. The Rev. Dr. Galusha Anderson has been elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the University of Chicazo; for the ensuing year. The attendance at the University is larzer than ever before, numbering 170 at”the present time. The Rev. William Baldwin Affleck, the ece- centric Euglish preacher and lecturer, familiar- Iy known by the nom de plume of *Benjamin Helpingbaud,” is expected to arrive in New York about Nov. 1. and will spend thut month in lecturing in that city and vicinity. The Rev. C. M. Terry was dismissed from the pastorate {n Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Ainn.. by council, Sept. 11. In five years this church has tredled its membership, built and paid for un elezant house of worship, and taken a lead- in position among the churches of the State. ‘The Rev. Joseph Rachey, the Rector of sfount Calvary Church, Baltimore, and one of the lead- ers of the Ritualistic party in the Episcopai Church, died in London Sept. 2L It was consequence ot Lis nse of prayers for the dead and Bishop Whittingham's refusal to reprove him that an effort was made to have the Bishoo placed on trial before the House of Bishops at the General Couvention of 1876, THEOLOGICAL UITS. Hot can clergymen consistently preach pure love when they invariably marry for money? Bngham Young has gone to a rreat summer- resort—{rom whose burn no traveler returns. It is singular that Do bageage-master ever committed suicide because of religious excite- ment. They have been having the kind of a time that clapsed between the simian and the parrot, at Wheatoun College. A wag suggests that a suitable opening for many choirs should be: “O Lord have mercy on us miserable singers."” - Who was the first auctioneer? Why, Abra- ham; wheo e put up Isaacand at the Lord’s bid let him o at a sacritice. B A man who was fooled into buving a pinch- peck watch called it Faith, because it was with- out works, and therefore dead. Clergy men and_ doctors will be at work again soon. Sin and sickuess set in as society surges ctyward from seashore and country. An Arkansas tombstone is ornamented with asi Current Paragraph.] Probably the de: nted to make sure of haviug some weepin’ o'er his grave. The telephone wilt not be of much account until it is perfected to such adegree that a church tenor can it over his beer in a saloon and tele- phone his part of the singingto thechurch choir in another part ot the town. The ouly religious daily paper in the country bias just suspended publication. People dou’t em 10 care to have religion served up to ‘em more than once a week, unl it come in the form of a church raflle, a sacred concert, or somnething of that sort. A lady. having attemnpted te explain the new birth toa class of lads at & Sunday-school, asked one whether Lie would not like to be born agam. “No," was the reply. “ Why not, my Loy #" inquired the teacher. **Acos I'might be born a girl,” answered the boy. Ruttichone’s youngest boy is s genius. The other day he Jearned bow to whistle, and in the evening, just before tumbling into bed, he puck- ered up his little mouth avd began to whistle in a slow-measured mauner. “Why, mylittleson, what are you doing ” asked his mother. * Why, wa, I'm whistling my prayers!” Some sheep belonging to a farmer named Smith having been stolen in tie neizhborhood of a will while the thief was undiscovered, 2 local preacher. having 2 collection Lo m thought he would turn the event to Zood count, so he said: * We have a collection to make this morning, and. 10r the glory of Heaven, whichever of youstole Mr. Zmith's Sheep, do’t put anything on the plate.” Of course, everybody joined in the collection. SERVICES TO-DAY. BAPTIST. B The Rev. N. F. Ravhin will preach morning and evening at the Free Charch, corner of Loomis and Jackson streets. —The Rev. R. C. Ray will preach in the Mission, comer of Portland avenue and Twenty-eighth street. at3p. m. —The Rev. 8. 0. Taylor will preacn in Mar- tine's Hall, Chicago avenue, near Clark street. Subjects: Morning, **The Christ We Preach cvening, *-Esther or, How an Emergency Was Met™ _The Rev. Albert Walkley will preach in the Lock Strect Churchat3 p. m. —The Rev. D. B. Chency. D. D., preaches morning and evening in the Fourth Church, Wash - ingion and Paulina strects. ~The.Rev. W. W. Everts, Jr., preaches morn- ngand evening in the First Church, Thirty-first street and South Park avenue. —The Rev. C. £. Hewitt, D. D.. preaches morning and cvening in the Centennial Charch, West Jackson and Lincoln streets. —The Rev. W. J. Kennott preaches morning and evening fn the Halsted Street Church. —The Rev. Galusha Anderzon, D. D., preaches morning and cvening in the Second Church, Mor- anand Monroe strects. Mornagsubject: **Tem- perance.” CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach morn- ing and evening at Viymouth Church, Michizan avenoe, between Twenty-Afth and Twenty-sixth e Rev. G. L. Pecke will preach in Leavit .t Charch morning and evening. St % Tiolbrook will preach at the Oakland Church this morning, and in the eveming & praise rervice wail ve held. Do Hev, F. W, Fisk will preach morning and evening in the New England Church, Delaware place and Desrborn avenne. '—The Rev. C. A. Towle preaches morning and evening in Betbany Church, Paulina and West Haron streets. CHRISTIAN. A J. White will preach in the morning. and T. 3. "Toap in the evening. at the Central Church, cor- per of Van Buren street and Campbell avenue. T 3. Tosp will-preacn this morning in the First Church. Indiana avenue and Twenty-fth street. and in the evening A. J. White will oftici- ste. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. P. Wager will preach in the mom%', and the Rev. W. F. Morrison in the evening, at‘tne Church of the Holy Communion, Sonth Dearborn strect, near Twenty-math. PRIENDS. The Society of Pricnds will hold a meeting on Twenty-sixth etreet this morning, and at No. 71 Randolph strect at5 p. m. LUTHERAR. Tne Rev. Bdmund Belfonr will preach morming |, Suxws, I, Sept. 30. and evening at the Church of the Holy Trinity, cor- ner of Dearborn avenne ana Erie strect. The Rev. §. McChesney will preach morniaz and evening at the Park Avenue Charch. Sacrament a the close of the former service. —The Rev. Georze Chase will preach in tio morning at the Winter Street Church, com Forty-ifih street. ~Children's secvice n the ng. —The Rer. §. H. Adams will preach in_ the Cen- tenary Church, Menroe street, near Mo it jects! Mormnw, **Women and the T Reform™; cvening, **Elyab." —The Rev. J. K. Allen will preach m thie mora- ing and the ftcr. Joscph Ladd in the cvenin: the Western Avenuc Charch, corner of Monro street. _ —The Rev.John Atkinson will preach this morn- inz at Grace” Church, and will give a ** Iev the twvo vears of the present pastorate.” The nual missionary festival of the Sunday-schuol wi be beld 1n the éventn: e Kev. Dr. ( evening i St. Pau ** Immortal Destm —The Rev. W, C. ¥ rney will proach morning and Chuzch. Evening subject: 2§ C. Willing, D. D., will pre: ing and evenine in Lanzley Avente Courcl. —The Rev. Dr. Withamson will preach in Mich zan Avenue Church, near Thorty-second i the morning, and the Rev. Charles F. Bradler 1u —Tha Rer. W. A, Spencer preaches morning aud evening in the First Church, Clark and Wasniagion ree —The Rev. 4. W. Patten will preach morning and evening 1a Wabash Avenue Charcn. —The fter. T. P. Marsh will preach in Grant- Place Church this morning on *~Houesty in Lusi- pess, " and fa the cvening on **Faith, Hope, PREIBYTERIAN, The Rev. John Abbott French will preach in the morning af the Fourth Charch, corner of Rush and Superior streets. No evenipg service. —The Rev. Jacod Post will preach in totland 12 the worning, and in Enched in the evenin church corner of Noble and Eric streat —The Rev. James Machiuzhlan will preach morninz and even:nz at the Scotch Church, corner of Sangamon snd Adams stre —The Rev. J. I}, Walker will preach at the Re- union Church, West Fourtcernth str Throop, * Evening sub STWhat G qur —'The Rev.J. Monro Gibson will preach morning and evening in the Second Church, Mickigan ay- enue end Twenticth street. —The Kev. E. P. Wells preaches this moraing in the Fifty-imtStreet Church, —The Rev. J. M. Worrall, D.D.. preaches morming and ¢vening in the Eighth Charcn, Rtobey und West Washineton strect: —rrof. F. L. Patton, D, L., will preach inJeTer- son Park Church morninz and evening. —The Rev. I T. Miller will preact; in the Sixth Church, Vincennes and Uak avenues, in the morn- inzon >+ A Thousand Years,” and 1n the evenin, on ‘- Lot's Wile,™ i —-The Rev. Charles L. Thompson preaches morn- ing and evening in the Fifth Church. Indmua avenue and Thirtioth street. Bev. E. N. Barret! preaches morning and v in_the Westminster Church, Jackson and Peoria streets ~~The Rev.J. W, Bain wili preach in the forencon, and the Rev. W. 5. Fulton intne evening. in th nited Presbytérian Chureh, Monroe aud Fanlins strecte. —The Rev. Arthur Swazey, D. D., preachcs thic morning 1n the First Churen. REFURMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. K. I1. Bowworth will olliciate morning and evening at Emmanuel Charch, Uanover anc Twenty-eigith streets. “There will be services In Trinity Church, En- glewood, at £ p. m. —The 'Rev. 3. D. Church will ofiiciate in the morning at St. John's Church. Service of song in the evenng, Bishop Fallows will preach this morning in St. Pan]'s Church, Annand West Washinston streel andjn the evening the Lev. on *" Hard Tunes, and How to Meet Theu. ch at Chri<t Charch, nty-fourth stre ca of Grestness, AnOld City and One of Its Peo- The Rev. Dr. Willismson will preach morniaz. in Grace Church, Hoynesnd Le Mogue the evening on e SWEDENBOEGIAN. The Rev, L. P. Mercer will preach in Hes a 0. 83 East Madisen strect, in the mom “*Social Obligations; Am I My Hroth Keeper? / —The Rev. W. F, Pendleton will conduct tly services morning and eveninz at the Temple, o ner of West Washington street and Ogilen avinne ENITARLAL. The Rev. Brooke lerford will preach in ths morningat the Church of the Messiah. corner uf ichizan avenue and Twenty-thind eireet. No evenine service. —The Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach in ths morning &t the Fourth Church, Praine avenuc, near Thirtieth streel. Snbjec “The Sermond that Little Children Preach to Us.™ —There will be preaching before the Socicty av Englewood, in the old schoot-house, at 4 p. . The Rev. Robert Collyerwill préach this morn- ing in Unity Church. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. }iss A.J. Chupin wiil preach fn Ma- 0 p. m. raub wili preach this morning in Third Church. indiana avenae anl Thirty-fr<t street. —The Kev. Samner Ellis will preach in the mer thes mornin £ Rsder. D. 1) in SL Paul's il pre rch, Micii- and Washin Angels and —Eider ¢. € ine. ana Mrs the chureh corner of May Ject: **Are the Scriptures True: —The Ttev. A. Gurney wili preach atip. m. in the Chapelof the Wasiungtonian towe. Temp ance experience mectin s the eveni —1. G. MetCaliocn wall_speak to entists at Carpenter Hal. 21 West Madison street, morninz and ever ) —inscipies of Christ meet at N dotph street a4 v, m. —3ire. Cora L. V. itichmoud will speak ut Grow's Hall morniuz und evening. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. Eriscor Sept. 30—Eiglteentls Suuday after Trin CATROLIC, ncteenth Sunday after Pentecost * fon str 1 Natore. ay wiil preach in the morn- fansleld in the Fultonetreets. 299 Went Ran- c urdidn Ansels. Oct. 3—Feria. Oct. 3—St. Francis of G Fiacidus aud Comp, M. Oct. 6—St. Lruno, C. % JEWISH. Sept. 30—Festival of the Law (Tishri 23). ity 5 THE STRANGE PASSENGER. {4 Scotch Ferryman's Story—Afirr the Germany) Waitine by the Loclis low abore, tng on my idle oar, Stept aboard iy ** Bounie Jean, ™ One of weird-like ways and mien. **Boatman, I will passace take With you o'er the imad Lake, Ere the mirty gloamuns [ails, Darkhing hitls and castie-walls. **Years have fled. as visions fleet, Since I rode athwart this sheet; Then, s now, tne sun with zold Flecked the trees and towers bold. **Fellow: sengers had 1 two: One like parent geod and trues Fonder, dearer than a brether, Youtbtui, taithful, was the otber. **One, as day beh:nd the huils, Sank pencath a lond of il ‘And the vtaer in the flizht | Fell defending home aud right. ¢ As 11ook upeon this sceae, Feaugnt with memones screne, 1 can not but thizk, forlorn, 01 the fnenda | nuda and moorn. ++ggill, when soal with ol huk fond 1n affection’s roldvu bond, howe we tove, althouzh they die, Are In sorit aiways nigh. stJjelp me 5tep out on the strand: Now, take froin a stranger's hand Fare for three; the other iwo Spirits were unseen by you!" And my bonnet did 1 doff, s I watcoed him wander off, Talkiug still in eenic tone, As if he were not alone. Marcorx TayLon. o 2 THE TEMPERANCE CAiJSE. o nobler cause in human life Descrves the aid of buman hands Than this—tne temperance cause—ths strife To free thy brother [row the bands : Which 0ind kir to tae common fos Of peace and happiness beluw This world reveals to human gaze No sadder sizht thun wrerched man, To whom a renve of right was given; Kevereing here Creation's plan— Makiny himsel! the lowestall Of thinis that 1y, or creep, of crawl. The downward conrse, in youth begun, ute pleasant scems fo thiose who glide Tpon the water's guict flosr, ot dreamin that the foaming tide misery and wo ‘near—uut just below. 0 men of mizht and human power, Why #tand ye 1dly by and see Thoee mortal wrecks 2o drifting past, Aud make no ellort now to free Them from the chain that acems to biad The powers of body and of mind? 0 gentler sex, to you i given A nooler mesion here on carth Tha secking: for pretended richts, Which were denied you at your birth: Go use your whoje bersuastic force To tarn the drunkacd from bis counse.