Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1877, Page 10

- congregation created to - truc to the uncarthly heroism whicl is the git of cvery rule and maxim in the divine core of Mis Institute, he must be St. Francis Xavier urer azain— 10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 28, TS77—SIXTEEN PAGES, Ngr? = Dbei RELIGIOUS. A Word in Behalf of the Jesuits by One Who Knows Them. The Rules of the Order Framed for All Time and All Conditions of Life. Traditions of the Jewish Conception of the Messiah---His Person and Nature. Notes from the Church Abroad and at Home—Personal Mention. ‘Wisdom for the Worldlings---Church Services To-Day. THE JESUITS. 4 WORD IN THEIR BENALF BY ONE WHO KNOWS THESM. Thie Rer. Gernard O"Keilly's **Life of Pius IX." The ordinance published n February, 1345, applies nominally to the religious orders *in Italy and the adjacent isles;™ but it wasextend- ed to the whole of Christendom, and was meaut. to modify very profoundly the rules of all the existing great orders, with the exception of the Society of Jesus. Indeed, it is a phenomenon “redounding not a littlc to the glory of the con- stitutious of St.Jeuatius Loyola, and to the fidelity of his well-tried sons, that they were not considered to have derenerated from the spirit of their founder, and that his constitutions were found so efficacious to maintain iu their pristine vizor both discipline aud fervor in pur- suit of religions perfection, that on them were modeled the changes made in the other orders. From Spain and Fortugal, aud several of their former colonies beyoud the seas, every ont of the ancient monastic establishmenty had been swept away. They could never live again in these countries save as purified and Tenovated by suffering. The Sovereizn Pontiff and the ssist him in this deli~ cate labor, aimed at making the remnants of thic suppressed orders so_ vizorous_and so well udapted to the necessities of modern soc 1hat they should witbstand the corruptions of peace and prosperity, as wellas the keenest persceution.” It was also plain to the Toreseeing cye of the Holy Father, that the re fon about to sweep over Italy wouid cas throw—as in Spain and Portugal—their inmates helpless on a world without pit ve mone of the relizious orders in rejuest but such as were devoted to «ducation and chanty. ‘The coustitations of St.” Ignatius scemed to have been iramed with a gazacity so_preternat- ural, that their provisions and the rules subse- guently added to complete them, were as much ited Tor the needs of modern life as for the society of thie sixteenthcentury: ther train, and moid, and preserve apostolic laborer_amid Ibe | andent civilizations of Japan. znd Chius. and Inli, as _ among the Guorauls o Paraziay, the lu rons and Iroquois of North America,“the say— ages of Central Africa, the Arab tribes of Sy or the mountaineers of Kabylia. They comdlete 2 man tor the missionary work of Paris or Ber- 1in, of London or Xew York: atd the more thes tudied by the mornlist. the staresman, the rian, «r the eanomst, the more it becomes or all time, and it ident that they were framed for all phases of Christian (ivil dom, if, indced, it be not well proven that their author drew his heght from a superhuman source. So long asthe Jesuit is true to his training, all things secking only * to know ciearly the Divine will and pleasure, and askiug for strengzth to accomplish 1t perfectly.” That such men, wherever tiiey are. shall be supreme- 1y odious to the modern naluralist, revolution- ist.and Mazzivian, is incvitabies: it is their lot, their glory. That, warrever thev are known to he Cuthotic heart, to the unprejudiced Ch: tian mind. they shonld be loved instinctively 11 folluswed as safe mtides in the road of Caris- tun perfectios, is equally inevitable. St. Iznats chose among {he constitutions given by mona: ivmders to the relimous Tamilics wathered arouw! them, all the fextures that ke decmed most admiruble and most suita- ble to his own purpose, and ucorporated them with those which hewzs commanded by the Fope todraw up. Thereizmota line or expression in tiem, from first to last, that did uot cost him hours of humble and tearful prayer, and protracted supplication for light from on hisl, Why wonder, then, if the true member of the Suuiely of Jesus reproduces in bis life the vir- tues and qualities which adorn the religious or- 5 . atius } v d aainstthe Society of Jesus, s acainst ihe disturbers of States, is s holly unfounded, and, therefore. most iniquitous. The Jesuit is nol_only forbidden, under the st penaltics known to the cauon law. to any part, directly or indirectly, in the r:anagement of State affairs, but the spirit of Institute is so adverse to political and eccle- siastical ambition of every sort, so opposed to svery tendency to meddle in politics or in Church overnment. that a special vow binds every one of_its professed members to prevent secl meddling by every means in his_power. This yow—the form beinz written out in dupli- =zate and subseribed by the professed himself— sblizges bim npever to aspire, in any manner whatever. to any dignit; Charch or State or within his own saciety, and to denounce to the superiors thercof any one of his brethren whom he may kuow to be 50 aspirieg or intriguing. ‘Thereby every door is closed to ambition or 10 fondnéss for meddlingin politics or in Church matters beyond the sphere of the individual's appointed dutics. If there be found amons the Jesuits men who resemble in aught the dark plotters or ambitions controliers of statesmen and churehmen, painted as ‘ Jesuits™ by nov- elists, Protestants, and revolutionists, suchmen are as much in opposition to the epirit, the Ecope, the constitution and by-laws of their so- ciety. 2s Judas and_his lust for main were in op- position to the spirit and aims of his Master, Christ. - Devoted to the Chureh, to the purity of her doctrine. 1o extending her reien over the sonla of all peoples. civilized and uncivilized: devoted i a special manner to the defense of the oy Sce and its prerogatives, the Jesuits are thus foremost objects of - anvipathy and at- tack to all who hate aud - assail the Cathiolic Church and her Pontifls. They came into being just when Luther was arraring one- half of Europe against the Papacy; they have, in the esteem of all ot Cathulick, hecn from their birth the most zealous and. uncompromis- ing champious of 3 lusing cavse; 1o their own inmost convictious, they are but the sworn ser- - vants of Christ and His vicar on carth. It was but - natural. verhaps,—certainly it was inevit- able,—that they should be. decried by their ad- Yersaries, that their motives, their principles, teaching, and acts should be misconceived and misrepresented. The word “Jesuit™ has been made batetul to honest and fair-minded Prot- estants as well by the tra litional odium attacn- Ing toold but unforgotten coutroversics and bitter religious strumgics, as by the systematic and unblushing slauders of radicals and revolu- ‘Jofiusu.l ut it is most natural, on the other hand, that all true Catholics should love and rcvere‘hlcm. For they have ever known them—wh.rever they Lave Leen the genuine offspring of Lorola gud Xavier—to be *“men cru ied fothe world. and to whom the world itself is Srucified, even as tnelr inode of life demands it;- ew men, who have put, off all carnal andworld- ¥ affections, and put onChrist Himsclf, being duad to themselves that they might bive 1o Glristian Loltness, men who (in the words of Paul) & 1nlabors, In watchinas, o fane: o chiastity, in_knowledge, in ooz suffeniey eweetvess, in the Holy 'Glost, j ehacsier s Telaned, in the word of truth show tharasels 0 be God's ministers; and ' by the rrooves Justice on' the richt hand aod on the 1 ft, by honor and dishonor. by. evil yeperl and £00d report,” by zood and il fortn in dine, strive themecives to atiain the heaveply vountry throuzh great journeyinge ,memwrhuf: helping otbers in what way soever they ina; reach the same goal, never losing siwhs inu{ things of God’e ereatest glory. B The term *“Jesuit™’ as a byword of reproach 20d a synonym of duplicity, was affixed by Pas- cal and’the Port-Roval Jansenists toal] true sud uncompromising Catholics: in the Nether. lands, Germany, qud Fraace; the Jansenists, or Qla Catholics,”. as they styled themselves, fastings, in kept up the term’ asa nickname for all who' were obedient to the Holy Sce. 1t b “partvery™ fonthe Fench Voltairians, ekeptice, and-revolutionists in each. successive carupaign: azainst. Catholicism, up o 1388; the' word “Jesuit ¥ meaning evers Catholic faithful to is Chiurch, and whose' life was consistent with" his belief. We know what a fearful use was has superseded it, and come, in France, to mean every man who believes in God and the im- mortality of the soul, be he Protestant, Jew, or Aobummedan. THE MESSIAH. THE TRADITIONAL JEWISH CONCEPTION OF HIS PERSON AND NATURE. : The Jewcish World. Midrash Misle, Talmud Bab, Bathra, and other treatises teach that *the Messiah is amongst those things created before the uni- verse; that the name Messiah is the ineffable Tetragramma, and that the ‘Spirit of God' spoken of in Geuesis as ‘brooding on the waters,” is the spirit of the King Messiah.”- This evidently not only supposes the pre-exist ence {rom all eternity of the “Sonof God,” as does the Christian scheme, but identifies the Messiah with God Himself, *Thou spirit, that from the first wast present, and with mighty ‘wings outspread, doveiie sat’st brooding on the vast abyss mad'st it pregnant.” This “spirit” of God, which was not only to incar- nate itself in bodily form on earth, but as the * Holy (host,” from the thira person ot the Christian Trin Whenee can it be but from these Talmudic imaginings that the Church draws her ereeds? Castelli holds that “however much it may have been the desire of Rabbinic conception to exalt this hoped-for deliverer throngh the wiraculous to the regions of the divine, judging from parallel passages referring to the divinity of the name ratker than the person, We can only conclude that these figures of speech indulzed in by Talmudic compjlers werc ouly intended to enhance the glory of the comine Messiah.” As we have belore shown in this work, “call- ing & person by the name of God does not pro- claim such to e divine; the title ‘Son of God * was attributed to both David and Solomon and other Kings; and ‘The just One” and the ¢ City of Jerusalem ’ have been spoken of as *Sons of God,” *The City of God.’ And if,” savs our author, *‘the divinity was in the name only, how could it pertain to the mature or cause cither persons or. thiugs to be divine in auy other sense than that they were zood? More- over, it was & common custom with the ancients to deifr, at least in pame, those whose they Wished to maenify.” On this deilying process of their Kings and heroes, 50 univeisal with ancient races, we read the following in “ Les Temps Mythologiques ™ All mythologies agree in representing their ben- efactors s men 1o whom the name of God w mven: 2 denvmination. the meaning of which was amplified as fear or veneration added the super- nlnlural to the power which they attributed to them. Resarding this * Spiritof God,” which is “the spirit of the Messialk,” Castelli says ““in the sreat commentary in the Pentateuch it is ex- plained allegorically by oue Talmudic doctor as the *liberation of lsrael from slavery.’” The of Genesis, Chap. ., are to be symbolically, that as the divine spirit drew verse from the darkness of chaos to Lieht, so the Messiah should draw the people of Isracl from the darkness of slavery to the light of liberty. The carth is roid, prefizares the domination of Babylon: without jorm, that of Media} dark- ness uvon the face uf the waters, that of Rom the abyss, that of Greece. We need, perhaps, nardly remind_our readers that, by such men as De Wette, Vatke, Von Bohlen, Kuenen, Colenso, = Davidson, and Kal- isch, this “Book of Genesis” is proved to be a post exiiic contribuiion to the TPentateuch, and no doubt the learned rabbis, far abead of any Christian commentators both aperior linguistic kuowledee and spiritual- 3 insight into the figurative meaning of Seriptural texts, are much safer guides as to account of the Divine cosmogony™ the latest eflort Messicures les Peres Christieps—the com- pilers of * The Speaker’s Commentary.” This or any other Christian exigesis of ibe Bible writteu to uohold a preconceived thesis of God’s dealings with mankind, is equally worthless. We indorse the words of the critic in the Dud- lin University Aagazine. Reviewing the two books,—*Selections from the Talmud,” by Prof. Tolano, and **Sayings of the Jewish Fathers,’? ny Charles Tayior, M. A., Divinity Lecturer of St. Jubin's Colleze, Cambrideze,~we read, * The Talmudic Books which have been s0 strangely newrlected will, we foresee, in tie future be the most importans aids for the proper understand- inz of toe Bible. They show us that otherwise it were idle for 2 race So differently constituted as ourselves to hove to learn. asing auother Talmudic view of the Di- vinity of the Messiah, telli calls attention to the Tollowing pa: “In thy light shall we see,” of the Messialh." as in Gene: *God saw cht was ood 7 signifies that the Holy d Oue contemplated the procreation ssiah and His works before the world and placed bencath His throne that lizht ch should be the lizht of men,” which xllé»m:lh every man that cometh into the world. According to this Talmudic treatise of Jalqut. Simeoni. +* Satan asked for whom this lizht was d, and the Eternal replied, it is for the and when he saw, he fell on his face wying, for this is the Messiah who siall cause me and all nations of the world to fall into hell, as it is smd in Scripture.” Here, says Casielli. “even allowing this passaze as 2_proof of pre-existence. it could not be taken as conclusive of the divine nature of tlie Messial, inasmuch as Satan is shown to be cqually pre-existent! In fact, the existence of necessitates the existence of the other, ¢ in_*Jalqut Simeoni,” T mi s the = Light the for witiout a Satan, what need of a Messiah? As a witty Frenchman remarks of the Christian creed, * Point de Diable, Point de Dien.” “Ta tlebrew tradition so multiform is the Messianic_idea, "so diverse the cets under which this_deliverer numerous the that whate: I T was the Rabbinic Leiief held on this point as set forth in these Talmidic treati (where, as in * Paradise Lost,” Satan_converses on terms of equality with_the & Almighty ™), it is impossible to conclude that the dactrife of a “Messiah 7 was ever considered in the Christian sense of a dowma. Diderot hua safd *that Jesus Christ, who is God, should have been tempted by the Devil, is a tale worthy the Thousand-and-One Nights," CORRESPONDENCE, THE IUWAS 2001, To the ZaUnr uf The Tritune. Caica6o, Oct. Z—1Tn iz address on the Hu- man Soul, the dever illustration which Prof. Tyndall introdaces of & Gierman peasant vies- ing the perfermance of alucomotive is some- thing more than an illnstration. The explana- tion of fLe veasant was: “There must be horees inside” There is a comparison clearly fraplica, if not slearly drawn, between the Ger- man peaaant and those who believe in the human tonl. Jadmire the German's shrewd answer, and If vo better explanation could be given should be inclined to accept it rather than deny t, until more light was thrown on the subject by closer examinstion. With a thorough nowledge of the mechanistn of a locomo- tive and the expansive power of steam, amusement i natural at the answer of the German rustie. But when Prof. Tyndall comes Lack 10 the real subject, he declares him- self iv the dark as 1o what 15 at * the centre of the nmervous eystem,” oriminating the mer- chant’s *ierror, lmrc, sensation, calculation, possible ruin, and victory pressed into a mo- ment.” + What (s the casual connection,” he asks, “between molecular motions and states of ciousness? My answer is: 1 know not, nor hase I as vel met anybody wha knows.” Here, then, is all he can el us of the power which 15 conscious of terror, hope, and sensation; and yet bie finds fault’with those who answer aftor the fashion of the peasaut,—< There must be a soul inside.” "Asif to preclude such an answer, be boldly declares the exercises soul to” be phvsical phenomena. warrant_ of _sciende extends only to statement that the terror, hope, sensa- tion, aud caleulation of Lange's merchant are physical phenomena vroduced by, or asso- ciated with, *the molecular motions set up by the waves ‘of lizht in a previously prepared braiv.” Itis with the science of this sentence that we find fault. When science has demon- strated hope to' be a physical phenomenon, there will be little need to speculate concerning the will, whetherits exercise is fated or free, A physical phenomenon is cognizable by one or morc of the bodily senses. Can we bring ter- Tor, or hiope, or sensation under the determina- ton of thie eye or the car; orare they matters of taste, smell. or touch! Itis true they are accompanied, verhaps always, by physieal m‘ncunmeua. but that they are themselves mere ‘physical pbienomena has not been demonstrated, mor as far as I know of attempted, except o extra-scientific rescarches. After candidiv avowiug ignorance of wWhat was the originating ~ power at the centre of the nervous system, he imitates the German ]ocn.’;lslzn&bly] ‘:!ec laring the “soul™ a poctic trans- enomenon, and- hi: res~ S‘Z‘"‘l!gnf"‘;,“sflm on aod- his subsequent rea: physical phenomenon, which is a- necessary con- sequence of- what- is- previonsly cl:\!mcjiu'y.—thnt terror, hope, and sensation are physical phe nomena. Such being the nature of the soul, it :ix )bollndmstin fate,” like tlie clements of e external world. in exphining the method and motive of the sonl’s conduct, he has omitted of the “The the smade.of the nickname in Switzeriand, in- Italy, in Germany, till, with the progress of the level- ing anti-Christian spirit, the word “clerical what van be logically claimed 2s'a concomitant element in every ‘motive, derived from that originating power, as he stylesit, at the centre Tegards the soul itself a doctriue that all cauces and all cffects are dual in their nature. In finding, therefore, a cauge for a given effect we have ouly partially ex- plained the phenomenon, though o the explanation may appear complete. Ex- planation is conditioned by _ knowl- edge.” Have we then fully explained human conduet by declaring it to be the result of cer- tain causes whose source and nature Wecan discover? May there not be in the develop- ment of d“finf a correlation of created and natural causes leading men on through sin, aud sorrow, and shame to the same emancipation trom “stritc and heartburnings” as Prof. Tyn- dall ascribes to that *power not ourselves which makes for righteousness.” J. QUIBBLES. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cmicago, Oct. 26,—It scems to me that “Unitarion” stretched a point somewhat in bis criticism in last Sunday’s TRIBGNE of the Rev. Brooke Herford’s remarks at the reopen- ing exercises of the Third Church. If the re- porter represented Mr. Herford.as saying that church debts could be paid by faith, hope, and tourage, he did him an injustice. No more practical advice was given on the occasfon re- forred to than that of Mr. Herford. Churches should prefer to do without organs and cush- jous, and other luxuries of ecclesiastical up- holstery, he said, rather than run in debt for them, and, once in possession both ot the orzan and the debt, they had mueh better speedily riu, themselves of the former thau forever pive _and languish under the latter. Mr. Herford is an Englishman, and has more than once brought the weizht of cool phlea- matic English jndement to bear heavily upon the extravagance and conceit of American customs. Itis true that in relating the history of a church under his charge in England, he sald that it grew and prospered by reason of the faith, courage, and orayer” put into it; and while the writer shares with ““ Unitarian™ very modern and destructive notious with recard to the real substance of either faith or prayer, yet it would be"ditlicu’t not to recognize how the; enter into and form part of the world’s wori ing forces. Tyndall in his last address say: ++1f the preacher feels that words of enlighten- ment, courage, and admouition enter into the list of forces employed by Nature for man’s amelioration, since she gifted mau with specch, e will suffer no paraliysis to fall upon his tonrue.” Perhaps church debts and all tue other prosaic duties of Life can be faitafnily per- forme+d without faith in the future, or courage to bear the present, or that strong desire and moral self-uplifting which relizionists eall “prayer.” Nobody ever pretended that faith was a product of exchange with a marketable value always at par, or that the monetization of prayerwaspossible. It takesunmistakabledollars and cenmts to pay debts with, but the dollar is never given except at the instance of some - pelling motive. If we were automata, and life were the grinding process some extreme think- ers would haveus believe, the periormance of duty would not_so larzely depend on appeals to man’s generosily and sense of justice. Kven on the machine hiypothesis there is reason for sup- positie, inasmuich as the law of perpetual motion is yet undiscovered, that if left too much to ourselves we should become dry and creaky in our movements, and need the lubrication of true enthusiasm to set us in smooth runnivg or- der aguin, C. THE THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCIL. T the Editor of The Tribunc. CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—At a meeting of the con- gregation of this church, held the past week, 2 majority resolved to purchase the St. Johm’s Chureh, on Ashland avenue. It will cost about $§65,000 to purchase and fimshit. Tv is under- stood that in order to raisc the money to do this they expeet to sell their present church on Washingaton street, and put the avails of it in the St. John’s Church. A serious question s as to whether that can be done, except I the unanimous consent of the congrega- PLW. fon. The statute in this State in relation to relig- fous corpurations provides that the Trustces , and control of the real and personal property; cte., and may when directed v the conzregation, church, or society, H any real or personal estate, ete. Now the question arises, Can the Trustees sell, ete., when only a majority of the congrega- tion anthorizes or directs them to convey? The statute the conwr ion—not a majority of It is a well-settled principle of law that a corporation derives its power from its charter, and its actions must conform strictly to its cuarter. If a majority of the congresation could, regardless of the con- sent of a minority. no matter how small, sell the chureh property, it would in many cases work great injustice to the minority. TI Iancuage of the statute scems to me clearly to forbid any such right. The title to the property is vested in the “Trustees Ior the benefit of the whole congrem- tion or church; each member of the cturch has a beueficial ‘interest in the property of the church, and cannot be divested of it without his consent. The Supreme Court of this Stat= decided that the Trustees have no power to vert the prouerty of the church, or prevent it from being used for the purpose of its original - design, and that the majority of the meinbers of a church: cannot controi the action of the Trusiees against the usages and tezula- tions of the church. LEX. GENERAL NOTES. Israclites of Goldsboro, N.*C., have formed a congregation, and solicit subseriptions to aid them in erectivg a suitable Synacogue building. A daily prayer-meeting is held in what is kuown as the * King's Apartment ” in the Pa- viliun, Brizhton, Eng., ouilt by Georze IV. #hen he was Prioce of Wales. It was once a Dlace fur revelers—it is now a place for prayer. Canon Ridley, of Oxford, who has hitherto taken a lead in opposing the Burials bill, has changed front since the remarkable majority gained by Lord Harrowby in the House of Lords, and now demands a surrender all along the line. s A correspondent writing from Northfleld, Mass., the home of Mr. Moody, says that the people of the place are now more concerned about “his mew residence, scrvants, visitors, games, music, dinner toilets, horses, carriages. sheep, and other stock, than about his religion.” An intelligent Jewess, Miss Bertha Iirsh- field, was marricd to a Catholie, Mr. George Rene, at the Western Avenue Church, on Thurs- day evening of last week. They were botl con- verted last winter under the preaching of the O. Taylor, and were baptized by him at the same time. ‘This -is an unusual oceurrence. —diliance. The Methodist Misslons in Mexico, although only a few vears old, bave become quite strong. An illustrated paper is published in the City of Mexico which has 1,200 subscribers, and the members at Guanajuato are contributing toward the support of the mission.. Missious of all denominations have been more successful in Mexico than in any other country. In compliance with the request contained in a recent circular issned oy the London Sunday- School Unfon, to-day and to-morrow will be gencerally observed throughout the country as days of united supplication on behalf of tne Sunday-school interest. Trinitv M. E. Church will observe the days with special ‘services Sun- day morning and c¥ening, and Mouday evenin, In reporting the proceedings of the Pan-Pres- byterian Couticil to the South Classis of Long Isind, the Rev. Dr. Inelis, who was a delezate from the Dutel Reformed Church, stated * that, tire American_preachiers filled the pulpits of all the principal churches of Edinpure, and it was, geverally admitted that no such preaching had been Lieard there since Dr. Chalmers died.” The Professor of Metaphysics at Madrid has written a work laudatory of the inquisition, which, he declares, * had'its' autnority dircet {from the Vicar of Jesus Christ.” ** No Roman Catholic,” he says, “* can_pronounce the name of the holy tribunal of faith without reverently bowing the hiead before'an institution wineh is essentially Catholic, and, as it _were, @ substan- tial image of the Church, our mother.” Messrs. Moody aud Sankey continue to draw great crowds at Burlington, Vt., but thelr over- flow meetings are not large. Much' dissatisfac- tion has been caused in Bennington; where the evangelists have agents at work, by the public reading of the names of business men and oth- ers for whom prayers are requested without consiiltation with them. .The cvangelists will begin work at Manchester, New Haven, on the 4th of November. It is said thay the Ritualicts will establish an- other new religious order in London next spring to be known as the Fraternity of Jesus.” The fraternity will consist of three orders: First, those who live 1n the college under vows of holy poverty, celibacy, and boly obedience; the sec- ond order compriscs men Who pursue their aso- cations in the world and' board in the colleze of the fraternity; these nlso live under the vows of poverty, chastity. and obedience. The third order embraces those who keep the vows of gbcd(ence and poverty while living at their omes. ‘The fourth Congress of the Protestant, Epis- cobal Church will' be held in' New York diirine the coming week, commencing: Tuesday and of the nervous s¥stem.- It i3 now an accepted continuing four days. Among the subjects for cussion arc “The Chareh Architecture that We Need,” “The Relation of the Christian Church to Social and Nationul Life in America,” i¢Tbe Spiritual Forees in Civilization,” *The Relation of the Popular Press to Christiauity in_Aneri- ca,” “The Influcnce of the Pulpit ubon Modern Thought and Life,” *Clristianity and Popular Amusements,” “Organization sud Admiuistra- tion_of Charity,” and “The True Policy To- wards the Indian Tribes.” Whether Mr. Moody has been converted to the Episcopal faith, or bas converted the Epis- copalians to his idep, the fuct is certain that the Episcopal Convention has indorsed with great heartiness the system of ay preaching, and the work of evangelists, which Mr. Moody has Lrought prominently into notice, and proposcs that every parish minister shall select fit and proper persons to act in this capacity. This is much for a religious body to do. It shows that the Episcopal Curch intendsto makean carnest effort to reach the masses; and it is evident, from the shirit of this Convention, that the wu.holé! pawer of the organization is behind the effort. Oneof the Protestant churches in the City of Paris, France, is the Church of the Ioly Trin- ity, represemting the Protestant Episcopal Cliureh of this country. The Rev. John B. Morenn is the Rector, and the Vestry covsists of American resideuts. 'The requirements made upon the church for the accomimodation of Americans resident and transient have grown to such an extent that the building now occu- pied proves inadequate to its nceds, and it is proposed, therefore, to purchase a site and erect anew building. For this purpose- §75,000 are already pledged in Paris, and the Rector and Vesury appeal to churchmen at home, and to Amerieans generally, for a contribution of §50,000 to add thercio. It is estimated that the new church will cost about $150,000 ‘The Observer prints a part of Prof. Clifford’s recent very able paper in the Lortnighty Leview on *Danger from Priestly lutluence.” Prol. Cliffora says: 1t i3 & matter of notoriety that an aider ana abet- tor of clerical pretensions is resarded in France as an enemy of France and of Frenchmen; in Ger- many as an enemy of Germany and of Germans; in Austria as an enemy of Austria and Hunwary, of both Austrians and Magyars; and_inItaly as an enemy of Italy and the laliane. Ile 18 o regard- cd, not by a few wild and revolutionary enthusiasts who have cast away all the belicfs of their child- houvd and all bonds connecting them with the past, but by a great and increasing majority of sober and conaclentions men of all crceds and- persuasions, whoare filled with a love for their country, and whose hopes and aims for the_future zre animated and wuided by the examples of those who have gone before them, and by 2 sense of the coutinuity of national i ‘The Alumni of the Chicazo Theological Sem- inary held its annual mecting last week in the chapel of Carpenter Hall. An unusually inter~ esting programme was carried out, sud Dr. Savage, Treasurer of the institution, gave & re- port of the finances of the Seminary, appealing to the pastors of the churches represented for needed support. While in a better condition than most other similar {nstitutions in Chicago, yet_immedixte aid is nceded from the churches of the Northwest. ‘The usual assistance of individual supporters has been necessarily withdrawn to a great ex- tent, and much of the endowment rund is not remunerative, and by o decrease of interest will have to be enlarged to meet the needed sul- arics of the different Professors. Two ot the Professors are still faithfully filling their chairs witbout sufficient salary for becessary expenses, hoping the great valuce of this, the oldest Con- gregational Seminary In the West, will not be suffered to be lost throuzh waut of support from the churches which it feeds. The work and influence of -the Chicazo Theo- logical Seminary have not aud are not yet fully ‘known to the general public. Its eraduates are thorough scholars, the staudard being equal to tnatof Yale and Andover Seminaries, and it has sent missionaries to all parts of the globe, who are now teaching thousands, besides bring one of the great feeders of the home churches. ‘The Loudon (Can.) Advertiser, speaking of the Rev. 0. M. Paynter's labors in that ci 3 “The Rev. H. M. Paynter, whose revis jces at the St. Andrew’s’ Presbyterian Chureh during the past week have attracted great crowds of listeners, occupied the puipit of that church twice yesterday. In the morning, in ac- cordanee with the anunouncement, he repeated bhis disvourse upon the subjeet of * Gideon and liis companinons,” a laree audience being pres- ent. In the evening the church was again filled. Mr. Paynter selected as iy subject for a Bible-reading “The three appparings and the three looks.” The first appearing of Christ was as a sacrifice for sin, as a sin-bearer, to whot the sinner and the siu-burdened were carnestly entreated to look for redemption; the second was Eis appearing before the Throne of the Father as an intercessor, and in this capaci- ty He was the object of especial attractiveness to the penitent, who was to look upon Him as o foreruuner having pierced the veil and entered into the very presence of God on the penitent’s behalf; the'third appearing, and that on which the speaker dwelt most [ully, was His comiug again to earth, when_the falthful, those who patiently wuit and look for Him, will be caught up to meet Him and be forever with the Lord. Mr. Paynter remains here during the present giving Bible readings every afternoon and His carnest appeals to sinners are awa ening increased interest, and much good will doubtless result from his efforts.” PERSONAL. The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D., and family reached New York from Europe by steamer Seythia, Wednesday. ‘The Rev. Titus Coan, the famous Sandwich Islands missionary, has received more than 12,- 000 church members., The Rev. Dr. Wolfenstein, of Louisville, has been clected Recording and Corresponding Secretary of the Cleveland Orphian Asylum. Bishop Vaughan, of Manchester, has purchased the Aquarium in that city for $31,750, and de- signs to kecep it open as a place of pubtic amuse- ment. 5 The Rev. Lewis Boud, Jr., and his family, who were compelled to flee from their missionary work in Turkey, have arrived at their home in Plaintield. Mr. Willinm Waiton Clark and Mr. Fletcher Clark, sons_of the Rev. Dr. Rufus Clark. of Albany, N. Y., were recently licensed to preach the Gospel. The Rev. E. I. Galvin, recently pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brighton, Mass., has gone to Walla-Walla, Ore., as amissionary of the Unitarian hody. The Rev. Freeland Buckner, who left Somer- set, Ky., about twenty years ago, i1s now a Bap- tist missionary among the Creck Indians in the Indian Territory. 5 The death is anoounced of the venerable Cali- micius Castorchis, Archbishop of Phthiotis. He was a relative of the late Gregory VL., Patriarch of Constantinople. The Cleveland Synod has reversed the action of the Preshytery of that place in deposing the Rev. John F. Severance. e has been restored to his former standing. Bishop Burdon (Anglican), of China, hasa large diocese to travel over. It takes him six months to make the round of the missions, and he has to travel 5,000 miles. The Rev. W. W. Everts, Jr., was installed as Jesforof e Fourth Baptist Chureh, Providence, . 1., on Tuesday cvening, Oct. 16. The serinon on thie oceasion was by Dr. Everts, his father. A Methodisi minister in Georaia walks thirty miles in each week in order to fulfill one of his appointments, aud works two days out of every week in a brickyard for corn to feed his family. The Brandenbure Consistory has canceled the call of Pastor Hosshach tothe parish of St. James, Berlin. Llossbach isa rank rationalist, anl itis for his rationalistic uttcrances in the pulpit that his call is canceled. The Rev. W. 1. Irwin, late of Boon, Ta., is to enter the fleld agafn this fall and winter as an evangelist. Mr. [rwin will labor ouly in con- nection with Baptist Churches. He intends to bie an evangelist among the Baptists of the country. Bishop Foster is expected to open the Texas Conference at Dallas on Nov. 15. In that case he will not be in New York at the session of the Missionary Committce. Bishop Harris met with the Tennessee Conference at Shelbyville last week. Tlie death of the venerable Cyril, Patriarch of Jerusalem, is announced. He was made’ Patri- arch in 1815, but was deposed and excommuni- cated beeatise of his poliey in reference to Bal- garia, and had only been restored tohis position a few months before his death. WORLDLY WISDOM. ltissad toscea churchman when his corns have been trodden on. He nasn’t even the lux- ury of au oath to fall back on. A gentleman dined one day with s dull preacher. Dinner was scarcely over before the gentleman fell asleep, but was awakened by the divine, and invited to'go and hear him preach. “I bescech you, sir, excuse me. I can ‘sleep very weil where I am.” Hereisa criticism on s sermon, which; like sentences’ of the. Delphic oracle, may be read in two different ways. When asked how she Jiked the morning discourse, she replied: It was good enongh, what there was of it; and there was enough of it, suchas it was.” Spurgeon fala: *IfIhad a month given me to prepare a sermon, Inwould spend thirty days and twenty-three hours in doing something else, and in the last hour I woula make the sermon.” A young man around town says he would like to ?w ipurg«:on try that on in the moanth of Sep- ember. He had been to & revival-meeting, he said. At all events, when be came home at half-past 12 that night, he fumbled up-stairs in the dark, and went headfirst over 2 scuttleful of coal that the girl had carelessly left_on‘the landing, and sang: “ Let the Lower Lights Be Burning " with a fervency that even Sunkey might have emulated. 01d Sims noticed a- bat-handle sticking from under his boy’s coat as he walked down. the stoop last Sunday morning, whereupon he rushed out and carried the youngster in by the par. After miving him o cordial mauling, be shook his finger in his face, and said: *Do you Kuow where boys o that play base-ball on Sun- day?” & Yes,” sobbed the boy; ““down behind the pump in the home field.”? A great many people who go into the country on Sunday, saying that they can worship God one placeas well as_another, oftentimes find themselves at one end of a fishpole. Their idea of worship. is somewhat different from that given by the ecclesiustical dictionary, and, al- though it is possible to discover an infinite mechanism in the running brovk, they are gen- crally too absorbed in the motious of the float to discover anything beyond the fact that they have a nibble. She was a little girl who wasn’t fond of her arithmetic. She took it into her head to read the Bible, and, beginning with the account of creation, she zot along very well for awhile, but suddenly threw the book down, saying: * There, Idon’t want to read any more of it.”” “Why, what’s the matter?’ asked her mamma. “Be- cause they had to study arithmetic there,” was the reply: ‘‘just hear this, ‘and the Lord commanded them to multiply on the face of the carth.’” And there was no more Bible for her. When Rowland Hill was, some years ago, in Scotland, be was introduced to on aged min- ister somewhat resembling himself in piety and eccentricity. The old man looked at him for some time very earnestly, and at length said: “ Weel, I have been looking for some time ut the leens of your face.” ‘ And what do you think of it?*’ suid Mr. Hill. * Why, 1am thinking that ifthe graceof God hallna’ changed your heart you would ha’ been a most tremen- us rogue.” Mr. Hill laughed heartily, and said: * Well, you hit the nail on the head.” A Universalist was once trying to prove to the untutored mind of a negro woman that such a place as lell was a simple absurdity. ** Aunty, do you believe that all the people who go to the Dad place are burned in a lake of brimstone?” “Certain I does,” prompt- ly replicd the tinted theologian. ¢ Well, now, don’t you see, aunty, therc isn’t brimstone enough down there keep the fire goinz all the while!™ This scemed to be a poser for a little while. She had never eutered into a caleulation of the amount of combustible material necessary for the process. Her countenance soon brighténed, however, and she replied, ¢ Why, honéy, don’t you know that everybody who zoes there carries his own brimstone with him#" CHURCH SERVICES. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches at the Chureh of the Holy Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue and Eric etreet, morning and evening.§ NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. L. P. Mercer preaches at Herehey Music Hail this morniug. Subject: **Was it | yaq: Biock at 240 p. . ‘Thunder, or an Angel's Voice" —Mrs. Julia M. Church, of Washington, and —The Rev. W. F. Pendleton preaches at the | Mre. M. J. Clark, of New Jersey, will speak in Temple, comer of Washington street and Ogden | Dethony Chapel, No. 426 Western avenue, at 710 avenue, this morning. : CIIRISTIAN, N. N. Lord will preach at the First Church, cor- nerof ‘Indiana avenue and Twents-fifth strcet, morning and evening. J. White will presch in the morningat the Central Church, corner of Van Buren street and Campbell avenue. Gospel temperance meeting in the evening, aud addresses by Alrs. Butler, of New [, York, and Miss Wood. UNITARIAN. The Rev, Brooke Uerford preaches at the Church of the Messiah morning and evewing. Morning subiject The Baptist and the Christ: a Study." Evening subject The Underlying Faith of All the Creeds.™ —The Rev. J. T. Sunderland preaches at the Foarth Church this morning. —The Rev. Robert Collyer preaches at Unity Church morning and evening. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. G. H. Deere, of Minnecsota, will preach in the morning, and the Rev. llenry P. Cushman, of Rhode Island, in the evening, at the Church of the Redeemer. —The Rev. A. A. Miner, D. D., of Boston. will preach in the morning, and the Rov. W. 1. Ryder, of Malaen, Mass., in the evening, at St. Paul's Church. ¥ —The Rev. J, Stranb will presch in the morning at the Third Church, corner of Indinna avenue and Tiurty-tirst street. CONGREGATIONAL. . W. Vanderveer, will preach at the Church morning and evening. Morn- onsecration.” . Evening subject: *“Temperance. The Rev. Charles Mall Evercst preaches at Plymouth Church morning and eventng. The Rey. C. A. Towle will preach morning and at Bethiany Church, corner of Pauline and Huron streets. The Rev. George T. Ladd, of Milwaukee, will preach moming and_eveningat the New England Church, corner of Delaware place and *Dearborn avenue, Tuc Res. Z. Holbrook will preach morningand evtninz at the Gakland Church. —The ltev. G. 1. Peekewill preach in the morn- ree Church. Subject: ** Pow- v 3 rah K. Bolton, of New York, will ¢peak on temperance in the even- ing. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The usnal services will be held at Emmanuel Church, corner of Harrison and Twenty-eighth strects. —scrvices will be icld morning and evening at the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and [loman streots, —The Rve. W, J. Hunter preaches at St. Paul's Church. corner of Ann and Washington strects, morning and evening, Eveningsubject: ** Ham, n Spendihrift, Got Rid of a Fortune.” —The Rev, Dr. Church preachcs at St. Jobu's Church morning and evening. A The Rt. Rev. Bishop Chenéy will preach in Cbrist Church, AMichizan avenue and Twenty- fourtii strect, ‘morning and evening, Subjects: Morning, ** A Slavery Not Yet Abolised; " esen- ing, -t Calleth Thee.” —The Rev. Mr. willismson will ofiiciate morning and evening at Immanuel Charel, corner of Centre and Dayton streets. METHODIST. The Rev. W. A. Speacer preaches at the First Church morninzand evening. ~—There will e a grand temperance meeting at Grant Place Church this morning. Mrs. Anna Whittenmeyer, of Philadelphia, will speak. The v, T. P, Marsh will preach in the evening. —The Rev. Dr. Guruey preaches at St.- Paul's Church, corner of Maxwell street and Newbercy Will preach st Park Avenue Chutel this mornmg, and Mrs. E. M. J. Cooler, of Wisconsm, representing the temperance work of that State, will speak in the evening. fhe Rev. W. F. Crafts will preach at Trinity 7, and Miss Frances E. Willard vening, = —The Rev. E. M. Boring will preach morning aud cvening at the Dixon Street Church. —The Rev. Dr. Thomas will preach in the morn- ing at the Centenary Church, fu Monroe street near Morgan. Gospel temperance meeting fn the even- inw."and addresses by Slrs. Wooahndge, of Ohio, and Mrs. Smith, of Michiran. TATTIST. The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will vreach at No. 274 Chicago avenue morning and cvening, Morning subject: *Elements of Church _Efficiency,® ening subject: **Families Saved Unbroken, —lheRev. NF. Ravlin preaches at the Free Church. corner of Loomls und Jackson -streets: and evenin; —The Rev. R. P. Allison preaches at thie North Star Church this narmng. Addresses in the even- 1ng by Miss Lydia Strawn and Mra. D. A, Bealin, The Rev. Dr. W. W. Everts preaches ac the First Church morning and' evening. A. Gwen will preach at the Tni- orner Douglas and Ithodes avenucs. **Duty and Privilege of Con- D. B. Cheney, D. D.. preaches at Fourth Church. corner of Washinzton and Peoria’ streets, 0810:30 4. m. _Address a137:30 p. m: on Gospel Temperance, by iss Jeanie Iyuby, of Cleveland, 0. —The Rev. J. W. Custis preaches at Michigin wil) #peak this o | -son street near Taylor strect. at 4 p. J. M. Gib: jces at the old p.m, Twenty-sixth street, between Indiaua and Prairie avenues. . Franklund, of the Bethel Home, will be present. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. Oct. 28—Twent} Nov. 1—All Suints. Oct. 28—Tywenty-third Sunday after Pentecost; Oct. 20—Feria. Qct. 30—Feria. Oct. 31—V Aop. 1—All Saints, Nov. 2—All Souls. Nov. 3—0f the Octave of All Saints. Memory to-ni ©O'er shadow'd paths or sunny siopes, Flies, with teal It answers ouly to the storms, Back from the shore of rhe Past, to-night, Back from the shorc of the desolate Past, And they lic like wrecks on a weird, lone strand And the waves that dic on the arid sand Seem wailing and eobbing in tane, Asitasks, **DO the stars uever shine on your And the Starless and sunless, w1 the morning at the Fifth Church. corner of Indiana avenne and Nincteenth street. Temperance meet- ing in tho evening, and address by Mrs. Elr John- son, of Brooklyn. , —The Rev. Jacob Post will preach in Holland in the morning, and in English in’ the eveniny, at the Noble Street Church. 3 2 —The Rev. J. B. Stewart, of Milwankee. will vreach in the morning at the First Church, corner of Indinna avenue and Trenty-first street. —Prof. Francis L. Patton, D. D., will preach morning and evening at the Jefferson Park Churen, corner of Taroop and Adems streets. o —The Rev. J. Monroe Gibson will preach morn- g and evening at the Sccond Cbarch, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach in the morning at the Sixih orner of Vincennes 2nd Ozk avenucs. Sabjec ‘The Last Sheaf In.*" Gospel Temperance Meeting in the evening, and addresscs by Mrs. L. M. Boise and Miss Lucia Kimball. . —The Rev. Worrall, D. D.., will preach morning and evening at the Eighth Church, corner of Washington and Robey streets, EPISCOPAL. —The Rt. Rev. Bishop McLaren will officiate mornipg and evening at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, corner of Washington and Peoria 'he Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate morn- ing and_evening at St. James Church, corner of Cass and Huron strects. Holy Communion at 8 & m. —The Rev. E. Sullivan will officiste morning and evening at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty- sixth street and Michigan avenue. —The Rev. Fragcis Manstield will officiate morn- ing and evening at_the Church of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Kobey strects. r —The Rey. J. Bredberg will officiate morning and evening at St, Ausganug’ Charch, in Sedgwick street near Chicago avenue. —The Rev, William E. Toll will officiate morn- inz and evening at Grace Charch, in Wabash ave- nue siear Sixteenth street. Sk —The Rev. Stephen T. Allen will ofliciate morn- ing and evening at St. John's Charch, 10 Ashland. avenue near Madison street. ) rhe Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate morning and evening at Calvary Charch, in Warren avenue, near Onkley street. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jra will officiate morning and_ evening ut the Church of the Epiphany, in Throop street, near Monroc street. 'he Rev. W. J. Petrie will ofliciate morning and eveniug at the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln und Belden avepues. —The Rev. Heary G. Perry will officiate morn- ing and evening at All Saints’ Church, corner of Carpenter and Ohio streets. —There will be services in the morning at the Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndale. —The Rev. K. N. Luson will officiate morning and eveing at Emmanuel Church, La Grange. —There Will be services morning and evening at the Church of the Holy Communion, on Dearborn near Thirtieth atreet. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate morning and evenine at the Church of the Ascension, cor- ner of LaSalle and Elm streets. Holy Communion atSa. m.and 12m. —There will be services at 4 p. m, at St. Luke's Mission, corner of Taylor street and Western ave- nue, —The Rev. Charles S. Lester will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. Paul's Church, on Hyde Park avenue near Forty-cighth street. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will ofliciate morn- inzand evening at St Mark's Church. corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-ixth strect. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will ofliciate morn- ing and evening at St. Stephen’s Church, in John- —The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. Mark's Church, Evanston. Holy Commanion at 7:30 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. D. R. Manefield will preach in the church, corner of May and Fuiton strects, this morning. 3rs. Mansfield will epeak in the even- ng. —The Progressive_Lyceum meets at 12:30 in Grow's Hali, No. 517 West Madison street. —The Second Adventists will meet morning and evening at No. 91 South Green street. Elder H. G. McCulloch will preach. en Foster, of Towa, will speak in the Washingtonian llome Chapelat 3'p. m. —The Rev. H. M. Paynter will preach at 10:30 . m. 2nd 7:30 p. m. in Calvary fabernacle, No. 320 Ogden avenue. —Non-Sectarian Bible meeting in ltoom 23 Ne- —The First Society of Spiritnalist will hold serv- ices at Grow's Hail, No. 517 West Madison street. In the morning Mrs. Cornelia L. V. Ricimond will lecture, and in the evening the spirit of Jonn Wes- ley will commence a_scries of lecturce, giving his visions of the Spiritual Heavens. —The Disciples of Christ are invited to_attend a Gospel meeting at No. 229 West Randolph strect . o —Trere will be Bible readings at Farwell Hall at 0 p. m. under the anspices of the Youug Men's Christian Association, conducted by the Rev. Dr. There will be Universalist and Unitarian serv- ngiewood, at 4:50 The Rev. Jliss A. J. Chapin will preach. —The Society of Frieuds will meetas usual on Mrs. Woodbridee. of Ohio, and 3frs. EPISCOPAL. second Sunday after Trinity; SS. Simon and Jude. CATHOLIC. 8. Simon and Jude, Apostles. of All Suints. a2 ig N e i RETROSPECTION. t, with faltering wings, wwastes of Life, O’er tracl O'er scenes of peace or strife, laden, weary eyes, against our aociel bedding or blanks asour brethen Mu plains. **Checkers.™ CHECKER-PLATERS’ DIRECTORY. PR arcgiven 0o pay; we seldom get ourselves, never for our horses; we are given g gz allowed out on their parole, un: have met one of the latter, and. must s fpet their grounds of complaint seem enough, They are shared by every man in the army. sav, “and volunteered to fight for must say thy r&ason:bla of “We left onr homesfs'r&m 2] our nt enemy, the Russian; bu:i: Tations for cts, cither for ourselves or o cattle. " In consequence of the presency Enalish Pasha we arc ot alloved o plagi mail B are with Kurd Iy Pusha’s army, where the Enalish offic mind plundering. In fact. we and ‘::r%?:r::: were dying of cold and starvation; and sp, ge htar Pasha would not listen dom plg nts, rc came, }n hefrcj" ) ince the middle of July 2,000 of have deserted, and as theyym': umeth‘?fh"fi: best weapons America ean produce, of life and property in_Armenia has enhanced. Bande of Kurds, t scope for their talents in the viclnity of thely clansman’s army, have turnd 5 their “attentlon to the rich villages on the P and Erzeroum to our som. ihe stety not finding 5o THE GAME OF DRATCHTS, Commanications intended for this Department * #hould be addressed to Tius TRISUNE and indorsed Athenum, Nos. 63 and 65 Washington street, OBLEM NO. 37. By Tuoxas M. Reop, Washington, D. C. /3 o Black men on 12, White men on 5, J. F., City.—Sol W. 4. G. rection. thank yon. omn next week. attention. (2) when easy of solut ‘we publish them as In TRIBTY: following play, at it drawn, or thus: wins. The Cnevalier cor issue, and will be of era, particalarly the of the gume. dranzhts and chess games, \Worcester opportunity of bein; seore: That see no rleam of light— The beavy, drooping lids shut in The passion of Wa's night. ‘No touch of minstrel-breeze can wake ‘The silent heart again; Or deluge of tlerce rain 1t thrills when swept by Tempost's wiogs— 1t echoes the wild waves® roar As they suree, with weary, anguished cries, Dack frem the desolate shore. Tlave my thoughts like an ocean swept— From the land where I've suffered and wept; ‘That hath never a sun or moon, Seem wailing and s0bbing in tune— Ana my heart gives echo to low replies, breasts? E 5 Docs the san never lauzh from your skies?” d waves make answez, **Heart, be thou mu We tynify thy life, an thee; wait for Hin emil To lash sunhght and peace o'er the sea. Cuicago, Oct. 19, 1877, MAGGIE A. COYNE. THE FIRST POLITICIAN, The Deril ouce. in roaming ronnd, The carcass of a Donkey found. Tle cried. **Jehovah, Thou art great, And Thee I'll try to imitate: Tl steal from Thee Thy choicest plag, And from this Donkey make a Man 1™ O'er the dead Ass he finng a spell, "Mudst demons® shout and goblins’ yell, And brimstone-fumes just fresh from Hell. Then Satan waved his wagic wand, And cried, **Come forth at my command, Compound of Vulture, Ass, and Ape— Come forth. and take thy proper shapel™ The Devil stroked his fiery beard, E And s00n a Man-Tike thing appeared. On Satan's hideous-looking face A shade of sorrow found a place; " ‘And from his very inmost soul A yell of agony did roil. He selt he dida't know his trade, A6 razed hie on the wretch he made. $+OIf from my sigat! " in rage he cried; ** To equal God T've vainty tricd. Tet stay. and, ere you leave me now, A mark I'l) place upen thy brow, That men may know thee as mine own, 1n ‘Forrid or in Frigid Zonc: And. as I cannot call thee Man, T'li brand thee Politician! Now %o, thou curse of humankind, To honor, truth. und justice bind} So, treacherous Vampire that thon art— Blast hope in every humun heartt Steal from the rich. and crush the poort Keep Want's grim wolf ut Virtue's door! Go forth, and’do my bidding well, And make of Eartha second Helli” Roszrr ToryET. Circassians Descrting Mukhtar ‘Pasha. Correspondence London_Times. Egzerooxt, Oct. 10.—The conduct of the Cir- Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, morning ind evening. The Rey. E. K. Creseey will,preach morning and even'ng at the Coventry Street Charch, corner of Bloomingdule street. s —The Rev. Dr.Williamson will* preach in_the morningat the Michizin Avenue Church. Subject: ‘*Mistakes of the Temperance Reformers. In the evening there will. be a Gospel temperance meetinz and addresses by Miss Fannie McCartney, of Sterling, and Mrs. Church, of - Washngion, PRESBYTERIAN. The Kev.John Abbott French' preaches at the: Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Saperior strecte, morning and evening. be Rev. James Maclaughlin preackiés at the st Scotch Church morning and evening. —The Rev. E. N. Barrett officiates at_the West- minster Church in the ordination of Elders and Deacons. _ Lectare In the evening, —The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will' preschin ans, who are deserting in large numbers, is causing Mukhtar Pasha much upessiness. On Thursday he telegraphed to the Governor of Erzeroum to be on the watch for a body of 180, who had deserted en masse. Troops were sent out from here to scour the roads between this and Kars, while the Mushir detached two bodics of regular cavalry in pursuit. These precautions resuited in the eaptureof a band of 167 men, all completely armed with re- peating rifleand revolver, who stated that, hav- ing preferred numerous petitions to the Corn- mander-in-Chief, to which he deigned no reply, they .had determined to come to Erzeroum and lay them before the Val If they were still treated with scorn, they wonld report the mat- ter to the Sublime Porte and' return to their homes. They were disarmied, brought in here 23 prisoners, und- contined ip jail, their officers “Total. Players i 38 Checker Player will be issued about. that newsdealers thi Canada can be sapplie POSITIO! END-GAME, BETWEEN ANDREW STODDART A¥p M. Hicr, Ci7r. that 16—10 loses at the twenty-fifth move. White. ‘White to move and win. NO. 37. , 13, ana king on 18, 3 and 28, ¢ ‘White to move and draw. TO CORRESPONDENTS. lutions correct. T. P., New York.—Have complied. Detroit. —Wiil attend to it. H. J. C., Heary, Ill.—Position on file. G. W. 8., Cincinnati, O.—Thanks for your cor- R. E. B., Millbury, Mass.—Will look it up; _ F. J., Tronton, O.—Thanks for your kind con- tribatfons, which shall be given space in oar col- Amateor, City. —Your vroblem shall have early When they possess merit snd are diflicult to solve, we publish them as ** Proolems”; jon_and_ adapted for begimers **Positions.” 'OTES AND CORRECTIONS. game No. 114 the statement is made Tnthe the twenty-ninth move, if for seems tome that black hass 1 17—-14, 7, ” and black GEoncE . STa. wes to the front amin with sa array of fizures to prove the correctness of his previous play on the Glaszow, and to **pick holes ” in the analysis of ) nati. His play will be found anoni, of Cincin- me No. 120, this ¢ interest 1o many of our read- 0se far advanced 1n the. science CHECKER ITEMS. A dranght column has made its appearance in the Detroit Post and Tribune, conducted by the noted player, Mr. Frederick H. Elder. Mr, A. F. Worcester. formerly draught editor of thie Omro (Wis.) Journal, was a visitor at the Athenzum lust week. u city he stopped at_Fonddu Lacand tried concla- sions with M, Welch, champion of Wisconsin. the score_standing at the close of tweniy-fre While en ronte fo this 9, Welch 8, and eight zames Were drawn. Mr. Worcester will remain in the. city scveral days. ond give our local plaversan z defeated. - Tue TrisoNe Dranghts Editor only found an op- portunity of indulging in points during his Ten day: troit and Vassar. Mich. only remained one day, and hurriedly played a few of the leading players, resohing in the following . his favorite gameat two absence. viz.: at De- At the former place ho 7 3 8 2 ) 5 3 3 3 g 1 6 i1l be glad to learn that No. 3 Phelan’s Nov. 15, and roughont,the United States and by the news companies of New York City with all numbers publisied here- tofore and hereaftey T Messrs. Bowen and Merry recently entered upon a fricndly match to sce which one could win tke first fitty cames. The former came of victor bY tne following score: Bowen, 50; Merry, 39; deawn, 70. Total, 150 zames. SOLUTIONS. SOLUTION TO 'ROBLEN ¥O. S6. 25—z 1611 | 2330 oo 2016 ] 2135 I 72 |Drawm et |17 z-m | mos | 218 Al a 26-19 017 Black 610 i GAME NO. 120—GLASG S— 7 (a) This move losca. (b) Zanon! 1u note (b) 1 say It loses, 25 Eiven s not been By ** The Chevaller, Weod 2 -7 OW, * Chilcazo, - T o 15-18 o) game Yo. U5 @y 15718 in game No. 111, roven faulLy. oi5) AwieitlisJ. Zanont Tn Var.3 of Osme 115338 @ As contipued for a white win. Played at Vassar, Mich.. between Dr. T.C B 7. Hovey uad the Draught Editor. £ ove.. 219 e = -7 g._:g w8 3-8 13-15 10~ 8 b = = = Tlovey & wigned GAME N0, 122.—WHILTER. Played m Detroit, Oct 18, between .\".m%;{' Cook, champion of Michigan. and thelD: Editor. 4 23] RNER. GAMENO 123~DOUBLE CO! — Haate, ind., by Prof. Playved in_ Terre aund Mr. F. 3. Wilson. Martiny' move. 1-1s | 8-13 |33 | %9 312 nHon | 48 022 PO