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Tnis anses {rom the construction of the humin THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES, . RELIGIOUS. An Inquiry into the Reasons for Denomination- alism. Dr. Buckley's Paper Presented at the Recent Session of the Evangelical Alliance, 1ntimations of a Coup d’Etat in the Selection of the Next Pope. A Going To and Fro Among the Cardinals Who Make the Choice, General Notes from the Church at Home and Abroad-=Per- sonal Mention. Pious Perversions for the Un- regenerate--Services To-Day. DENOMINATIONALISM. AN EXAMINATION OF THE RAISON D’ETRE. At the recent bicnnial session of the Evangel- teal Alliance, held in Detroit, the Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. 1., prescnted an claborate statistic- alpager on *‘Denominationalism.” After he Bad defined what he understood to be the mean- joe of the term, he suid: Sects or denominations are practically una- vouable 1n the external {abric of Christiani 1. 1t ie everywhere and has been in Slaces. Takethe schiols of medicine. How thcy wur with one another. Men hLonestty aud strongy aiffer as to the application of scientific prine in the healing art, until the odium lhgium bas come to be quite s _bitter odium theologicum. The United tution is a briet and ritten document. ~ yet what paties have ansen in contention over the mesping of its provisions. I'he greatest minds have stoutly and honestly disputed, and the War of the Rebellion reauly had its origin in the Jonz and earnest discussion as to whether that wstrument was ananti or pro slavery docu- ment. Tue smme evidence before a jury of twelve men will convinee vne, dissuade another, and leave athird in doubt. James Arminius t for thirty years, and actuaily changed bis views while gathering material and preparing a deseuse of the great Gepevan re- former. Bupust Noel in Eveland left a good living and became the pastor of a small Baptist chiapel because e could no Jonger see the truth nouse awound bim aid. Bishop Huntiugton’s 101 to the Episcopalian Church was equal- 1 a1 honest chanee of view, and the speaker Lau no reason to doubt that Jonn Henrs New- man and the late_Archbishop Bayley, of Balti- moie, were morally honest in_leaving the Prot- estant for the Catliolic communion, In aceordance with these facts and priuciples, there always tias been and will be sects. among. men. It mberes in the very nature of thines. Iw i i .., and Perer, und different ways of ing forth the same common truth. There huve s been divisions on three point Doctrine, zovernment, and usage. The Rom- isz Church bas endeavored to maintain o ity i all these respects. but it bas been merely an c_show and uot an ewisting fact. The Churen broke away from it hundreds of acv, and ihere have been numberless se- roun it eince. Thé s2me fact bas been nr Protestants and is to be expected. 1 of weakness or discouracement so does not degenerate into abuse. The uumber of ions is remarkable in variety and St Tutminously. extent. Dr. Buckley iiere read the followinz list of t seets i Great DBritain, as returned to rar-General, to the oreat amusement udience as some long or peculiar name Apo-tolics. Armenian, New Society, Baptists, B vers in Christ, Bivle Brethren Calvinistic Baptists, Catholic and lApostolic Church, Christians, 'Christians who object to be otherwise desiznated, Chrisiian Lelievers, Chris- tian Brethren, Chnstian Elinstes, Christian Israel- ites, Chrivtian iTcctotalers, Christian Temperance Men. Christian Unionists, Church of Scotland, Chureh of Chrixt, Countess of Huntington's Con- nection, Disciples in Christ, Eastern Orthudux Greek Church, Electics, Episcopalian Dissentora, Evangelical Unionists, Followers of the Lord Jesud Christ, Free Grace Gospel Christians, Free Gospel Church, Free Christians, Free Church, Free Church (Episcopal), Free Church of Eneland. Free Gnion Church, Central Baptist, General Laptist New Cou- nection, German Lutheran. German Kotaan Cath olic, Greek Catholic, Hallélujab Band, Independ. ents, Independent Relimous Reformers, Inde- pendent Unionists, Inchamites, Jews, Latter Day Saints, Modern Methodists, Mormons, New Con- nection of Wesleyans, Terusalem Church, New Church, O1d Baptists. Original Councction of Wes. Ieyane. Plymouth tirethren. Pecaliar People, Pres- byterian Charch in England, Prinutive Methodists, Yrogressionists, Protestantyadhering to the Arti- cles of the Chinrch of Enslund one to eighteen in- clusive, but rejecting order and ritual, Providens Quakers, Ranters. Reformers, Keformed Presby- tenans or Covenanters. Recreative Rehzionisty Refuge Methodists, Reform Free Church of - Wes- leyau Methodists, Ievivalists, R Salem Society, Sandemanian: Second Advent Brethre Sepa Seventh-Day Daptists, Congregational Church, Trinitarians, Linp- tists, Critarians, Unitarian Christian, United Chris- tian’ Church, United Free Methodi Cnited Bretuen or Moravian rian, Cnitarian Baptista, Wel inistic ) odisia, Welth Free Y resbytorians, i esjesan 1 odist Association, Wesleyan Reformers, and W Teyan Teforn Glory Band. Taking the facts as they clearly exist fnto ac- count—that divisions exist in thie world of re- ligious thoueht, as in every other dotnain of buman_investigation, that” they alway: aud in the nature of things alwa next be considered what is the attitude which different sects should maintain toward oue another. 1. All who do not differ so radically as to ‘make barmonious action impossible, should be united. Differcut divisions of Presbyteriaus and Metbodists are really unncedssary, and a source of weakness, and all steps that do not call for a surrender of what is deemned essential vrinciple shiould be encouraged. Such a bringiug Logeth- erisawork of time and great patience and del- icacy, requiring material concessious and a spirit of great brotherly kindness, 2. The Scriptures show us_the attitude which we should maintaiu in rerard to those di They rebuke all intalerance. read Numbers, il., 25-30, and Mark, ix., wherein Moses aud our Lord both condemned a spirit which would condemn otbers who were doing 3 common work, thouch in different ways. The Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and of John Lo the churchies also exhort to the same charity. 3. Every denomination having a right to ex- 1st. must have soie pec ity in its gov ment, doctring, orusare which it conscientiously bolds to be essential to its etlicien This be ing the case, such form, doctrine, or usage must be respected by its bretbren, aud it must be al- lowed_ to maintain the same and work under them in its chosen way. The coucludine portion of Dr. Buckles’s p: per sums up the questions fovolved s follow: The following principies may be considered tndubitably established 1. Denominationalism’is used when it springs from rational couviction and heartfult affection, and leads to consistent and regular devotion to truth in principle, in institution, and in jal organization, without forgetting thut the whole {s the sum of its parts and greater than the greatest part. 11. There is abuse by defect. 1. When persons are connected witha denom- fnatlon with which they do not agree. 2, When_they are fo_indifferent to what is beld that they are rewardiess of consistency and without motive to co-operate. 3. When they advocate an indiseriminate sur- render of cherished principles in favor of some spevial doctrine. to produce an_incoherent and semi-thuid unity without ageressive or defensive wer. 4. When a due regard for what are believed to be the real statements of truth and the most eflicient modes of working is considercd big- otry. 5. When men remain disconnected with any oranization, sud allow their influence to be- come like an {nscription on the sunds of the sea. 6. When the children are pot instructed un- der a morbid fear that they will be prepos- sessed. 7. When men move from sect to sect without Teasons, or necessity, brofessing to be at home inall. but useless inall, 1L 1t is an abu: 1. Wnen it isolates its possessor from the Christian world, making the phantom exceptin the narrow circle of his im- mediate connections, 2. When it Ilruduuzs narrow and nncharitable judwments of the tmembers of other denomina- tions. 3. When it desires the failure of others, or does not positively desire their succe: 4. When it arrogates superior piety, intel- lectual power and devotion to truth to itself, the increase and elevation of fundamental traths. 6. Whenit insidiouslv disturbs the relations or the fuith of those whom it cannot but con- sider s believers in Curist, by a proselyting sbirit. When it does not respond with heartier sympathy to genuine plety outside of its own borders than to -merely jormal and doctrinal concurrence under its own banner. 8. When it cannot participate without reserve in the commion acts of devotion and public wor- sshm with all who hold botn the Father and the on. 9. When it would notjn_a smali village or ina missionary region prefer to worship with any pre-existing and spiritual body than to par- alyze aud divide into inellicient fragments by a spirit of contention and separation. 10. When it unnecessarily disparages the doc- trines or modes of others, or does soin the sbirit of satire or caricature. e \ 11. When jt does not rejoice in conspicuous instances of public and private virtue among others, andwhen it does not feel grieyed to hear ot the opposite. When it rejoices fu their ¢ lamities it is born of Satan, aud Jeads to spiril ual death. 3 12. When it is not williog at suitable times to in public demonstrations of Christian E on, iu_which demonstrations distinctions are for the time held in abeyance. THE PAPAL SUCCESSION. A GOING TO AND FRO AMONG THE CARDINALS, WITIL INTIMATIONS OF A COUP D'ETAT. There has been a great deal of going to and froamong the Cardinals at Rome, says the London Spectator. That interesting question, which cannot be kept for three comsecutive weeks out of the Roman papers, the state of the Pope’s legs, is of course acain on the carpet; and it is understood that he himself, in view of the conclave which must at no great distance of time assemble, is making various prejarations with respect to the appointment of his suc- cessor. The Cardinals have, it is said, been con- sulted, and bave alrcady expressed their opinion on ouwe important question touching the election of the future Pope. DPio Nouo invited them to consider what change, if any, circamstances have made with respect to the rvight of exclusion which France, Spaiu, Austria, and formerly Na- ples, as the chief Cathiolic Powers of Europe, claimed to exercise at Papal elections. Each of these States can, in theory, say “Nay” to the intment of one Cardinal who happens to be distasteful to it. Itis a right rather rarely used, in fact, the only two recent cases in whicl s yed are the cas inal roli, who was excluded in 1823 by Austria, ¢ through Cardinal Albani; and’ Cardinal Giustiani, who was o .1331 excluded by Spain, acting through Cardinal Marco y Catalan. Still the right of exciusion has subsisted for centu- ics, and iy might, in cerrain circumstaunces, be of much consequence. At the last Papal elee- tion, Austria deemed it necessary to use its power to exclude the present Pope, and, but for the fact that tue clection was remarkably short, and thar the Austrion asent arrived day too late_ to lodge bis pro- test, Cardinal Mastal _would have been toed, uod Cardiual Lambruschini would orobably been elected. Who can tell whetber these Catholic States mieht not at some remote period of their nhistory believe it o be of pricefess importance that they should be saved from the curse of a hotheaded Ultra- monzane Pope! They have, as a rule, used their power i recent times only for the second- ary purpose of getting rid of Cardinals who, as Nuncios a their Courts, had come to know' too much to be safe Popes. But this has not always Deen the ense; and we livein days when toe right of exclusion might appear toa Catholic State, anxious for its internal peace, tobea matter of vital consequence. According to u well-informed correspondent of the fepublique Francaise, the Cardiuals have expressed an upin- jou—not definitely, but provisivnally—that this right of exclusion has vauished with the Tem- poral Power. It was, as they view it.a con- cession to the powers of this world not out of place when thev really did protect the Papacy with the civil arm. . It is an anuchronism, when “the prisoner of whe Vatican” is deserted alike by Frauce, Spain, and Austria, which acquiesce in the destraction of the Temporul Power. This reasoning scems to us very sound. It is historicelly justitizble; the far Lirger rights of the Empcrors with rec spect to che Papal elections arose at a time when tbe Church became clothed with secular vrivilezes; the right of exclusion wiieh suce- ceeded the extensive right of ratification clatm- ed by Honorius and Charlemagne urose, as Herr Lorenz shows in us Jearned work on the “ Papstwahi,” not in any aocient contract or grant, but out of the fict that the Conclave was, on gencral considerations of prudence, giad to secure the approvul and goodwill of the great Powers of the earth. It was the price paud for a friendly policy. But apart from his- torical considerations, it would be monstrous for these States to cluim to regulate the elec- and will not accord the same 10 others. 5. When it does mot hail with delight the j tion of the Pope, aud yet to deny to the diminution and f Church of Rome all counter-claims’ against them. As well might the Enghsh Government pretend to futerpose in the elec- tion of the President of the Wesleyan Con- ference, or of the Moderator of the ¥ree Kirk Assembly. We do not, in fact, expect that the change will be much contested. It is not the immediate fnterest of #ay of the Catholic Powers_to embroil themselves with the Pa- picy. There 15, 100, o objectionabl French, Spanish, or Austrfan Cardinal who has the glichtest chance of being clected. Perhaps no 1o one except &cholars and canon luwyers will take much note of the change for thesc reasous, if no other: Hitherto” the Popes have been wont _to publish to the world any constitution or decree uffecting the mode of election. The German Empcerors and the French Kings who lfooked sharply after Papal clections did not objest to minor modifica- tions in the ceremonial; but, as Ierr Lorenz poiuts out in his work on the ©Papstwahl,” the solemn vublication of the constitutions or gecrees making_inpovations was deemed es- sential, but this Pope, innovating here, as_in so many other things, has closey, it is believed, to leave the world much in the dark as to the electoral changes which he has decided upon, and which will_not be known until the much- talked of secret Bull is published. Tn_the sec- ond place, it is understood that the Cardinals are to be ubsolved when they come to choose the next Pope from the formalities usually ob- served and prescribed by the Constitution of Gregory X. The Cardinals may choose to waive the nine days’ zeremonial usual before clecting a Pope. Thev may meet when and where they please. The determinatfon of the College with respect to the right of exclusion may never be known until it is Loo late for the States con- cerned to make any successful protest. Should the Papucy cast ofl this kust link con- necting her with the secular powers her isola- tion will be complete. We shail be thewitness- es of a change searcely less Interesting histor- jeally than the destruction of the temporal The lust touch wiil be put to the handi- d. Complete freedom will arrive almost simultaucously with temporal destitution. There are not many obscurer points nhistory than the exact part which the secular powers played fu early times in the Papal elec- tion. The:, most erudite investigator, Herr Lorenz, thifiks that the Imperlal sherc was con- fined to ratitication; thal sometimes, fndeed, very large lovse claims were madeand enforced ; and that although ail sorts of changes {u forms y admitted, s Papal election was never regurded as complete until the svprobation of the Emperor was sienified. AIl this was changed by the famous bull Zn Nomine Domini of Nicho- las LL., who handed over the clection to the Col- Jewe of C d who ouly_fantly recog- nized the pucient right of the Pontifl after auother mave precis Pope Alexunder L1 decided that a jority of two-thirds sutliced to cobstitute a valid election; Gregory X. regulated with much minuteness the mode of election, and took all ains to enable to Cullege of Cardinals to vote 0 un independent spirit. More than one Pope shown that e is master in his own house, by arbitrarily sctting ¢ all the traditional formalitics, and cmpoywering the Cardinals to conduct the election a5 seemed good to them. Aud now there seems reason to believe that the seal may ve put on Papal independence, by the totu] denial of the right of exclusion. And yet we do not believe that this would be the - death-blow to foreizn influences in the Quirinal. The Conclaves have ulways been no- toriouslty worldlys in tneir proceediugs there has been a terrible amount of humau nature. The art of Jog-rolling aud all other electoral tricks and devices have been practiced there long before men of the world knew of them. Any one who reads the memoirs of Cardinal Con- salvi will see that very earthly inflnences actuate their Eminences, and'we do” not doubt that in making the eiection tne College will take due note of the wishes and prejudices of the Poivers which it is desirable to conciliate. Take the case of ltaly, for example, she has no right of exclusion, unless she_claims it as heir of the Kingdom of Naples. But wecannot doubt that some consideration will be paid to the known desire of a State which, with all her shortcom- ines iu the eges of Catholics, gives to the Pope large privileges and immunities, which mizht be withbeld if u narrow-minded Irreconcilable were appointed. Tate, eain, France; we may be sure that her wisnes, so far at least as Cardinal Guibert expresses them, will uot be lightly dis- regarded, at a time witen all the worldly am- bition of the Papacy must be chiefly oased on her good-will. CORRESPONDENCE. THE FIRST FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCIL To the Editor of The Trivune. Cmicago, Nov. 2.—In a late issue of Tme TriBUNE a long commuihcation appeared in ex- plunation of the action of the First Free Will Baptist Socicty in allowiny ite_church to besold under foreclosure, and written as by authority, and as the result of a meeting of the members of said Society the evening previous to the sale. In the whole article, not oue single allusion is made in regard to the inability of tnc Soclety to discharge its obligations, but on the contrary its prosperity 1s made apparent by several allu- sions to fncrease in membership and attencdance in the past, and with a feeling of certainty of constant additions in the future. 5 In strange contradiction to this statement are the resolutions of the Trustees of this same Society, passed Aug. 7, 1877, in answer to the question of the lezal holder of the note ou the church, what Interest, if any, the o would pay if said note was extended, when they say, * that the financial condition of the Soclery is such that it is not warranted in agreeing to pay interest or rent for the churen, but requests the free useof the churchiif the mortaage is toreclosed, and the legal nolder becomes owner, until sald ovner s[lmll sell the samo. 2 lis quotation from the resolution shows tk i_lcsimbahy of the premises os long as mvcvisr g’xle_ joyment costs uotliing, while only Lo months ater the same orzamzation excuse the repudia- tion of their note and all its sacred obligations, by publishing an excuse for their action, by ac: knowledging their stupidity.in selection of a lo- catlon for their church; and, when knowing a Joss must occur to somcbody, they scek to escape from it themselves, and saddle it upou the depositors in a little country savings-bank, many of whom to-day are homeluss, and are ap- pealing to their Creator for sustenance in aflic- tion us carnestly us the “beloved pastor™ can, who {s so glowingly described fn this cxplana: tion of the acts of the church. Iu strange contradiction of the spirit of the resolutions of Aug. 7 is this quotation from . their present explanation when they sav, “Ar- rangements bave been in active progress for some time lo toamore central location for a church-building better suited to the ne- cessities of this rapidly-growing society.” In the same article ‘or explanation they say, after acknowledging the sale of the premises, “that the church services will be continied in the sawe church, and that they do not propose to puild a new one till they can pay for it when completed.” If built under these conditions, and the Society is in the condition fnanciaily one would infer from the resolutions of lts Trustecs Lwo months ago, we need not expect its spire will rise heavenward very high just i‘ct, and in the meantime this soviety are assur- ing the public of their eujoyment of ‘their pres- ent place of worship, paymient of which they have repudiated, und without making arrangé- ments with the preseut owner (as the writer of this article knows) for its oceupsucy for one swgle moment after its sale. In the face of the resolution that the Society could pay no rent for the church, an assurance to the public that they will still emjoy It in showing Freewill doctrine to be a little more free with what is not its own than Chicago people bud supposed until they suw this explanation of oue of its sucieties. The legal holder of this claim azainst the church has not demunaed pasment of it, or fn- sisted on the rate of interest the note called for, but has from the start been willing to reduce its rate so low that not ove of its members could uttera complaint, and extend its time of pay- ment to more favorable times. But when in answer o its demand for a com- promise such an answer was returned us the resolutions show, there was no alternative but to sell according to the terms of the obhization the sizners of thenote entered into. ~ And then, {u utter forgetfuiness of what the old Board of Trustees (who sigued the wote and thereby made themselves persunally liable for any de- ficlency the proverty failed to satisfy at sale), who hiad for yearsund years sustained the church by coutributions they were really unable to give, at the meetiug of the Society held the evening pefore the sale the course indicated in the explanation was agreed to, and without a single cffort to save barmless those who bad borne their burdens in the beat of the day. Give us a theology teachineg less freedom and escape from assuined responsibilities, and a more thorough presentation of that doctrine which inculeates doing unto others as you would Lave them do unto you. In conclusion let us ask, can it be possible that this explanation {s one authorized by the members of a chureh, sitting in solemn consid- eration of its financial condition! Can it be poussible that they, the members of a church, wrive as an excuse for the repudiation of its ob- ligations, that they can do better financially in not discharging them? % Has it come that a church has no thousht of creditors, or honest obligatious, and ouly of consulting its own convenience? Does it not cause its members one single fecl- ing of shame to g de before the publica re- pudiation of its obligations, and in the same ex- planation procaim “its prosperity! And can they leave their ofd church, where according to their own stacement tbey have prosoered so well, withont a single expression of regret, and repard ior it and its associativast Or do they desert it as King Phili’s warriors deserted him aftera lifetime spent in their de- fense, and of whom Irving says, * He went down’ like a_lonely barque, foundering amid darkness and.amid’ tempest, without a pitying eye to weep his fall, or a friendly hand to record his last struggle.” QuERIST. THE CHURCIl AND THE I'OOR. To the Lawtor of The Tribune. Mauch controversy has recently arisen with re- gard to the position of the Protestant Church in its dealings with the poorer classes, and the mpression js daily gaining eround that the rapid strides of irrelizion amorg the working classes arises from the ostracism which pervades the churches in regard to this large class of our people. That they are virtually ostracised from church attendance is lameptably too true. It would be cruel to charge that the membership of the churches really mean to exclude the poor from hearing the Word, for there are many good men aod women among them, who would fn- dignantly frown upon such an imputation as an insult to their professions as followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. But this very class are just us guilty in reality as their more worldly associates, and they evidence their contempt against this class of worshipers more by their outward surroundings than possibly by their real feelings. . A poor man fn his rags and pos- erty, when that poverty is not brought about by any fault of his own, Is just as proua as the man who boists his millions. He will not ac- cept as a gratuity that for which be cau make 10 return; neither will he force himself into a place where all the surroundings show bim he is uot expected, and where he has no business. He knows and feels that all the luxury and magnificence of our modern churches were not provided for him, but for those who are acens- tomed to such grandeur. Hence be will absent himself. The feast of fat things has not been spread for him. Lazarus will not exhibit his sores at the overloaded table of Dives. His rugs, clean though they be. ure out of place side by sitle with the silks and satins and broadctoth of his_fellow-worshiper, and nane are so pecuiiar- Iy sewsitive upon this subject as the respectable poor. ‘What was the cause of the immense crowds that daily and nightly flocked to the Tabernacle during the Movdy mectings? Curiosity may bave Jed them once or twice, but after ‘that it was simply because there was notning in the surroundings any better than aay decent poor family could have at home. Even the rich and fashionable had the good sense to leave their jewels aud fine trappings at bome, to be aired only when they attended their own church on a Sunday. Theknew, none better, that tinsel and ornament would have been out of place iu such a building and before such an audicmce. An- other reason for the crowds attendant was, that the poor had the Gospel preached unto them, us it was preached in the days when our Savior was upon the earth. Moody was beyond all ques- tiou the evangelist of the poor. Again the Gos- pel was free to ail, and hercin was another great argument which took firm hold on the popular heart. God, in His inGnite goodness, has put it into the hearts of a few goud wmen 2ud women of . this city to attempt o similar mosement here upon a permanent basis. The intentiop is to erect a plain but substantial building, plain in its ibterior and exterior, in the midst of oue of our most populous districts, something after the lan. sav, of the Methodist Church Block, or Parwell Ball, with stores underneath and a large audience room on the second fluor, and by this meaus make the enterprise partly self-sus- taiving. and then to throw open its doors to the veople, without regard to sect or erced,—for ueither will be permitted utferance from the pulpit.—and where only Jesus will be preached, and all will be invited to come without mone; and without price. “The poor bave ye always with you,” aud to this class will the invitation be especially extendedand the warmest welcome given.. Here is an ngportunlty offered to the true and benevolent Christiau men and women of Chicavo to aid in furthering thetrueintercsts of Christ’s kingdom on earth. A B GENERAL NOTES. There will be a conference of Universalist ministers ot Whitewater, Wis., ‘commencing Nov. The Universalist Church at Sheridan, Ill., will be dedicated to-day. The services will be var- tiapated in by the Rev. Sumner Ellis, of this city; A. . Lalng, of Earlville; and W. J. Chapin, of Michigan. Last Sunday the Methodists of New York cel- ebrated the T11th anniversary of their first chured service in this country. “The Bible used by Philip Embury on the occasion of the dedica~ tion of the first church in 1763 was exhibitea, and created no liztle attention at theunniversary exercises. Denver City rejoices in a religions sensation growing out of the withdrawal from the Episco- pal Chureh, of the Rev. William Gill, and his adheston to the Reformed Episcopal. ' The cor- respondence between him ana Bishop Spalding, previous to the withdrawal, is of u rather tart character. The London branch of the Morman Church bas twenty branches, with 134 elders, forty-four priests. wenty teachers, thirty-one deacons, and S01 Jay members. The reports from this country touchivg affairs in Utal have greatly retardéd the movements of the Mormon mis- sionaries in foreign lands. ‘The Revs O. B. Frothingham, of New York. in- arccent Supday discourse, said: **Christ was a man whose life ay\alicd tothe time in which He lived, and that He would not suit our times and people.” and pictured to his hearers the fn- ability of Christ or Buddhs to fill the position of President in a bank or insurance office in New York City. N -The people of Atlants, Ga., have promised a hearty welcome to the International Sundav Schoo! Convention, which meets in that city mext April. A larze Committee of Arrange- meats, with Gov. A. H. Colquitt at its head, hat been appointed. The Chancellor of the State University, “with leading representative men from the Bugust, Methodist, Preybrterian, Epis- copal, and Christian Churches,’” are also upon the Committee. i NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE. The annual Convention of the National Liber~ al League was beld in Rochester on the 26th ult., Mr. Francis E. Abbott, of Boston, presided. Among_the Vice-Presidents elect were Judze Booth, Rabbi_ Felsentbal, and the Rev. Robert Collyer, of this city. Ernst Prussine was elect- ed a member of the Executive Committee. The Convention adopted resolations denying that “this is a Clristian Government,’” apposing “the putting of God in the Coustitution; orotesting azsinst the encroachments of ecele~ siasticism, defeuding the total separation of Churchand State, denying the right of the Gov- ernment to demand supreme allegiance where it does not furuish full protection in cisil, political, and religious rights, denouncing the policy of the Government in refusing to protect its citizens at home, while claiming to do so abroad, protestiug against the exempting Of church property Irom’ taxation; asking for the Drotection of the civit, religious, and political rights of the people through the mstrumen- tality of the United States Courts, and not by the drmy unless there is overt rebellion azainst the National Government, and;iusisting on_the maintenance of the public-school system,—freed from all sectariar instruction,—and compulsory education on the part of the State, so that na child be allowed to grow up within its limits ia a state of ignorance. Spgeches were made by Prof. Rawson of New York, Dr. Brown of Bing- hamton, and others. ANOTHER HERETIC. The Rev. Johu Miller, son of the tate Dr. Miller, of Princeton Seminary, has been ad- judeed a heretic. by the Synod of New Jersey. His three alleged heresies are: 1. That death is otter sad complete until the resirrection, What becomcs of the sonl during this interval he does not abrolutely decide. Its consciousness may be mercly suspended: but he fs inclined to believe that mentality is one of the at- tributes of matter in its nizher combinations, and that when the body ix dissolved, its soul is neces- sarily dixsoived and extinct uniil_the body is re- stored atthe resurrection. In this theory, which he prupounds as probable, he finds a basis of recon- ciliution between religion snd waterialistic science. 2, That gouls mot veiny directly created. but enerated, Christ’s human soul was in Adaw. and partook, with the rest of human nature in a_bulk, of the guilt of Adaay's sin: but that Christ Himself wos aosolutely sinless—not by regeneration. but from and by Ilis first ceneration by the Holy Ghost, and, gs we understund. by anticivauve purchase of Hisatoncment. Tiis left flis humun natare shat- tered aud compassed by indrmitics, over which Ho triumpbed. 3. That Christ in lis divine nature embraces not a third of the Deity, but the whole Deity, ax does the Fatherand the Toly Spirit. so that ihere are not three persons in the Godhend. ot only one person, or bypothesls, &o that the Father. the Son. una the Spiritare each the catire and undivided God. Il denies Socinianiam, Arfanism, and even Subclhanism, aud seems to lake very nearly the position described by Nearder us that of the Mou- archian Noetus, before the definition of the doc- trme of the Trinity at Nicwa. He ciaims that he differs from all other opponents of the. Trinity since the Nicene definition, in_ that e does not de- grade, bus elevites, the conception of the person of hrist. PERSONAL. Sigmor Jahrer, an Evangelist of the Baptist Chureh, is laboring in the City of Nuples. The Rev. W. Peters has received a call from St. Johu’s Reformed Episcopal Church at Han- naberry, Pa. The Rev. Robert Sloss has been installed pas- tor of the Third Presbyterian Church in Indk\?— upolis, Ind. Bishop Spalding. of Peoria, has given a parish in his diovese to Canon Moynitan, formerly of New Orleaus. The Rev. E. J. Goodspeed, formerly of this city, has ancepted a call to the Central Baptist Chureh, of Sgracuse, N. Y. ‘The Rev. A. Ross, D. D., of Huntsville, Ala., now engaced fn the mountains of Bost Tenuessee, is in lus 81st year. The Rev. William Il Laubenstein has re- signed at White flaven, and received and ac- cented a call to Tamaqua, Pu. ‘The Rev. I1. C. Crane, lately acting pastor of the Conzregational Church in Holbrook, Mass., Tas received a call to Pittsbarg, Pa. The Rev. Russell Jenniugs, of Deep River, Conn., Liis within twelve years given away more than $200,000 for charitable purvoses. The Rev. Henry L. Gritlin, of the South Con- gregational Church at - New Britain, Conn., son of thie late Rev. Dr. N. L. Gritlin, of Williams- thougn no guile or fear of zul A TODGING FOR THE NIGHT. A Story of Francis Villon. [From Temple Bar.] It was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persist- tuee; sometimes the wind made a sally and teattered it in flying vortices: sometimes there #asalull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, inter- minable. To noor people, looking up under moist eyebrows, it scemed a wonder where it all wame from. Master Francis Villon had pro- younded an alternative that afternoom, at a tavern window: was it only Paran Jupiter plucking eese upon Olympus? or were the loly ansels molting? He was only a poor Master of Arts, he went on; and as the ques- tion somewhat touched upon divinity, he durst 1ot venture t0 conclude. A silly old priest from Montargis, who was among the compauy, treat~ ~young rascal to a bottle of wine in honor of the jest and the grimaces with which it was accompanicd, and swore on his own white beard hat he bad been just such avother irreverent dog when be was Vilion's age. The air was raw and pointed, but ot far be- Tow freezing; and the flakes were Jarge, damp, and adbesive. The whole city was sheeted up. An srmy might have marched from end to end asdnot afoutfali given the alarm, If there were any belated birds in heaven, they saw the island like a large white patch, and the bridges like lim white spars, on the black ground of theriver. High up overbead the snow settled among the tracery of the catkedral towers. Many o' piche was drifted full; many 2 statue wore a lons, white bonmet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles Yad been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets warelike upright pillows swollen on cnc side. Inthe intervals of the wind, there was a dull sound of dripping about the precincts of the church. The cemetery of St. John had taken its own shere of the snow. Al the graves were decent- Iy covered; tall white housetops stood around 0 grave array; worthy burghers were long ago in bed, venighteapped like their domiciles; there was no light in all the neigbhorhood but 2ltdde peep from a lamp that Hung swinging in the church choir, and tossed the shadows to and frointime to its osciilations. The clock was liard o 10 when the vairol went by with bal- beards and a lantern, beating their hands; and they saw nothing suspicious about the cemetery of St. Joln. Yet there was a small bouse backed up against the cemetery wally Which was still awake, and awake to evil pur- Pose, in that suoring district. "There was not niuch to betray it from witbout: ouly a stream o warm vapor from the chimney-10p, 3 patch ?¥here the snow melted o the roof, and 8 few Balf-obliterated footprints at the door. But Within, benind the shuttered windows, Master Franuis Villon, the poet, and some of the thiev- ish crew with whom he consorted, were keeping the night alive and passing round the bottle. A great pile of living cmbers diffused 25trong and ruddy glow trom the arched chim- Rey. Before this stradaled Dom Nicolss, the Picardy mouk, with his skits picked up and his fat Jegs bared to the comfortable warmth. His dilated shadow cut the room in half: aud the firclielt only escaped on either side of his broad Pperson, and in a little pool between his out- spread feet. His face had the beery, bruised appearnuce of the continual drinker’s: it was covered with a network of congested veins, | purple in ordinary circumstances, but uow pale violet, for even withbis back to the fire the old pinched him on the other side. His cowl nad balf fallen back, and made a strange ex- crescence on either side of bis bull neck. So be straddled, srumbling, and cut the room in half with the shadow of his portly frame. On the right, Villon and Guy Tabary were hud- dled together over a serap of parchment: Villon making a ballad. which he was to call the “Ballad ot Roast Fish," and Tabary spluttering admiration at his shoulder. 'the poet was a rag of a man,—dark, little, and_lean, with hol- low chieeks and thin, black locks. He carried Lis four-and-twenty years with feverish anima- tion. evil smiles had puckered his _moutn. and pig struyreled together in ks f an eloquent, sharp, ugly, earthly count His nands wer: small and prehensite, wi Greed had made folds about bis eves, The wolf It was gers knotted Jike a cord; and they were con- tinually flickering in front of bim in violent and for As “Tabary, 2 broad, complacent, admiring fmbecll: ity breathed from his equash “nose and slobberine tips: he had beconie a thicf, just as be migbt bave become tbe most decent of burgesses, by the imperious chance that rules the fives of human geese aud human donkeys. At the monk’s other hand, Montigny and Thevenin Peusete played a fame of chance, About the tirst there clung some flavor of zood birth and trainiug, falicn angel; something long, lithe 1 the per- son; something aquitive and darkling in the face, Thevenin, poor soul, was in great feather; ne had done a good stroke of knavery that o conaon in the Fanbours St. Jacques, and all night he had been ing from Montizuv. A flat smile_iNluminated his face; his bald head shone rosily in a zarland of red curls; his little rotuberaut stomach shook with silent chuck- ings as hie swept iu his gains, v “*Doubles and quits?’’ said Thevenin. Montigny nodded grimly. “Sume nay prefer to dine wn sate’ wrote Villon, * On bread ‘and cheese on silver plate. Or —or—help me out, Guido!” Tabary giggled. " - “Or parsiey on @ goiden dish, scribbled the expressive pantomime. oct. Pofbe wind was freshenine without; it drove the snow before it, and sometimes raised its voice in a victorious whoop, and made sepulchral grumblings in the chimney. The cold was grow- ing sharper as the night went on. Villon, pro- truding his lips, imitated the gust with some- thine Derween a whistic and a groan. It was an cerie, uncomfortable talent of the poet’s, much detested by the Picardy monk. «Can't you hear it rattle in the aibbet?” said : the devils’ Villon. * They are all daucin: jig on nothing. up there. You ma: gl what 1auts, you'll be none the warme: aeust! Down went somebody 1R medlar the lewer on the tnree-ieezed medlar- tree!—I sav, Dom Nizofas, it’ll be coid to-nmight on the St. Denis R Dom Nicolas win scemed to chioke upon b w's apple. Mont- faucon. the great grisly Paris gibbet, stood hard by the St.Denis Road, and the pleasantry touched Wim ou the raw. As for Tabary, he Jaughed immoderately over the medlars: he had never beard auything more lirht-hearted: and he beld his sides and crow Villon fetched him aiillip on the nose, which turned liis mirth into an attack of cougning. % Ohb. stop that row.” said Villon, *and think of rhymes to “fish? " .’ Doubics or quits.” said Montigay dogredis. # With all my beart.” quoth Thevenin. « Is there any more in that bottle?” asked the monk. x £ Opeu avother,” said Villon. * How doyou ever hopt to fill that big hogshead, yvour body, with little things like bottles? And hiow doyou expect 1o zet to Heaven! How many augels, do you faucy, can be spared to carry up a single oronk irom Picardy! Or do you think your- self snother Elias—and they’ll send the coach for youl" ¥ W ominibus impossidile,” replied the monk, as he filled his glass. Tabary was in cestasies. Viilon filliped his nose again, + Laugh at my Jokes. if you like,” be said. # It was very goud,” objected Tabary. Villon made a faceat him. ** Think of rhymes to ‘fish,’ he said. *“What have you to do with bie eyes, and } Latin? You'll wish you knew none of it at the great assizes, when the devil calls for Guido ‘Tabary, clericus—the devil with the humpback and red-bot fnger-nails. Talking of the devil,” he added in a whisper, *‘look at Montigny ! All three peered covertly at the He did not seem to be enjoyinz s luck. ainester. - His mouth wasa little toaside; one nostril nearly shut, and the other much inflated. The 2 dox was ou his back, us people say, in terrifying narsery metaphor; and e breathed hard under the gruesome burden. “Helooks asif he could kuife him,” whis- pered Tabarr, with round eyes. The monk shuddered, and turned his face and spread his open hands to the red embers, was the cold that thus affected Dam Nieolas, and not any excess of moral sensibility. “ Come now,” said Villon, “about this ballad. How does it run so far?” And beating time with his hand, be read it aloud to Tabary. They were mterrupted at the. fourtii rhyme by a brief and fatal movement among the camesters. The round was completed, and Thevenin was just opening his mouth to claim another vietory, when Montieny leaped up, swift as an adder, and stabbed him to the hicart. The blow took efeet before he had time toutter a cry, before he hud time to move. A tremor or two convulsed bis frame; his hands opened and shut, his_heels rattled on the floor: then his head rolled backward over one shoulder with the eyes wide open; and Thevenin Pensete’s it had returned to Him who madeit. Every oue spravg to his feet; but the business was over in two twos. The four living fellows Jooked at each otuerin rather 4 ghastly fshion; the dead man contemplating & corner of the roof with a singular and ugly leer. My God ! said Tabary; and he began to pray in Latin. Villon broke out into_ hysterical laughter. He came a step forward and ducked aridiculous bow at Thevenin, and laughed still Jouder. Then he sat down suddenls. all of a heap, upon a stool, and continy ughing bitterly as though be self to pleces. foutimny recovered his cowposure first. ¢4’ see what he has abont him,” he re- marked; and he picked the dead mau's pockets with a practiced hand, and divided the movey into four equal portions on the table. * There's for you." be said. The monk received his share with a deep sigh, and a sinele stealthy glance at the dead Theve. nin. Who was bezinning to sink into himsell and toppl(_; sideways off the chair. “\We're all in for it,” cried Villon, swallowing his mirti: *It's a hanging job for every man jack of us that’s here—not to speuk of those Who aren't.” He made a shocking gesture in the air with his raised right hand, and put out his tongue aud threw his head on ope side, 50 as to counterfeit the appearance of one who has been hanged. Then he pocketed his share of the spoll, and executed a shutle with his feet as if to restore the circulation. ‘Tabary was the last to help himeelf; he made a dash at the money, and retired to the other end of the apartment. Montizny stuck Thevenin upright in the chiair. and drew out. the dagger, which was fol- Towed by a jet of blood. “ You fellows had better be moving,” he said, as he wiped the blade on his victim’s doublet. “Ithink we bad,” returned Vilion with a alp. “Damp hs fat head!" be broke_out. “Iv sticks in my throat like phleem. What right has a man to have red hair wnen he’s dead?” Aud he fell all of s heap azain upvn the stool, and fairly covered his face with his hands. Montigny ana Dom Nicolas laughed aloud, even Tabary feebly chiming in, * Cry baby,” said the monk. T alway: tieny with a sneer. 5 @ said e was a woman,”” added Mon- : “8it up, can’t youl!™ he went on, giving andther shake to the murdered body. _‘Tread out that tire, Nick!? But Nick was better employed; hewas quietly taking Villon’s purse, as the” poet sat, limp and trembling, on the stool where he had been mak- inga valizd not three minutes before, Montizoy and Tabary dumbly demanded a share of the booty, which the mouk silently promised as hé passed the little bag into the bosom of his gown. {| in many wavs an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence. No sooner had the theft been accomplish than Villon shook himself, jumped to s ?eff and bezan belping to scatter and extinguish the embers. Meanwhile Montigny opened the door and cautiously peered into the street. The coast was clear & there was no meddlesome patrol in sight. Still it was judged wiser to slip out severally; and'as Villon was himself in a hurry to escape from the neighborkood of the dead Thevenin, ana the rest were in a still greater hurry to get rid of him before he should discover theloss of his money, he was the first h‘y general consent to fssue forth into the street. The wind had triumphed and swept all the clouds from heaven. Oniy o few vapors, as thin as moonlight, fleeted” rapidly across the stars. It was bitter cold; and by a common oo- tical effect, th seemed almost wore definite thau in the broadest daylight. The slecping city was absolutely still; a company of white hoods,a field full “of little Alps, “below the twinkling stars. Villon cursed his fortune. Would it were still snowing! Now, wherever Le went, he left an indelible trail behind bim ou the glittering streets; wherever e went he was sull tethered to the house by the cemetery of 8t. John; wherever he went he m with his own plodging feef, the robe that Vound him o the crime and would bind him to the gallows. The leer of the dead man came back to him with a new significance. He sxm?pud his tingers as if to pluck up his own spirits, and,choosing a street at rando, stepped boldly forward in the snow. Two thivgs preoccupied him as he went: the aspect of the gallows at Montfaucon in this bright windy pbase oi the night’s existence, for one; and for another, the look of the dead man with his bald head and gariand of red curls. . Both struck cold upon his heart, and he ket quickening his pace as it he could escape from ung]c;\smn thoughts by mere ileetness of foot. Sometimes he luoked back over his shoulder with « sudden, nervous jerk; but be was the only moving thing in the White streets, except when the wind swooped round a corner and thréw up the snow, which was beginning to freeze, in spouts of glittering dust. Suddenly he saw, o loug way hefore him, & black clump and a couple of fanterna. The clump was in motion, and the lauterns swing as though carricd by men walking, It Wasa pa- trol. And though it was me crossing his Iine of march, he judged it wiser to et out of eveshot as speedily os he could. [Ic was not in the humor to be challenged, and he was con- seious of making u very conspicuous mark upon the suow. Just on his left hand there stoud u great hotel, with some turrets and a large porch before the door; it was baif-ruin- ous, he remembered, and had long stood empty; and so he made threc steps of it and jumoped iuto the shelter of the porch. 1t was pretty dark inside, after the glimmer of the suowy streets, and he was groping forward with outspread hands, when he stumbled over sone substauce which offered an iudescribable ure of resistances, hard and soft. firm and loose. His heart gave a leap, and he sprang two steps back and stared dreadfully at the ob- stacle. Then he gave a little laugh of relief. It was only a womau, and she dead.” He koelt be- side her to make sure upon this latter point. She was freezing cold, aud rigid like a stick, A Jittle rarzed fincrs fluttered In the wind about her hair, and her checks had been heavily rouged that samc afternoon. Her pockets were quite empty; _but in her stocking, underueath the garter, Villon found two of the small cuins that went by the name of whites. It was little enoush; but it was al- ways something; and tae poet was moved with adeep sense of pathos that she should have died before she hud spent her money. That secmed to him a dark and pitiable mysters; and be Jooked from the coins in his band to the dead woman, and back again to the coins, shak- ing his _head over the riddle of man's life. Henry V. of England, dyingat Vincenoes just alter he bad conquered” France, and this poor jade cut off by acold draught in u great man's doorway, before she had time to spend her couple of whites—it seemed a cruel way to car- ry on tne world, Two whites would have taken such alittle while to squander; and yet it would bave . been one more ~ good taste in_ the mouth, one more smack of the lips, before the devil got the soul, and the body was left to birds and vermin. He wouldi like to use all his tallow before the light was blown out and the lantern broken. While these thoughts were passing through his mind, he was feeling, half mechanicaily, for bis purse. Suddenly his heart stopoed beating; 2 feehing of vold scales passed up the back of Tis legs, and a cold blow scemed to. fall upon his scalp. He stood petrified for a movement; then he fult again with one feverish momeut; and 'then his loss burst, upon bim, and he was covered at once” with perspiration, To spendthrifts money is so liviog and actual—ic {8 such a thin veil between them and thefr pleasures! Thereis only one limit to their fortune—that of time; and a spendthrift with only a few crowns is the Emperor of Rome until they are spent. For such a person to lose his money is to suffer the most shocking reverse, and fall from peaven to helt, from all to nothing. ina_breath. Aud all the more if he has put his head into the halter for it; if he may be hunzed to-morrow for that same purse, 30 dearly earned, so foolishly d parted! Villon stood and eursed ; he threw the 1wo whites into the strect heaven; be stamped, and was not horrified to find nimself trampling the poor corpse. Then e began rapidly to retrace his step towards the house beside the cemetery. e had forgotienall fear of the patrol, which was long gone by atauy rate, and had no idex but that of ins lost purse. It was In vain that he looked right and left upon the snow: nothing was to be seen. He had pot dropped it_in the streets. Ilad it fallen in the house? He would have liked dear- Iytowoinand see;but theiden of the grisly ! Ji Gecupant uamanued him. And he saw besides. as he drew vear, that their efforts to put out the fire had been unsuccessful; on the contrary, it had brokeu into a btaze, and a chaugelul light played in the chinks of door and window, and revived bis terror for the authorities and Paris gibbet. He returned to the hotel with the porch, and graped about upon the snow for the money he flll thrown awayin his childish passion, But he coutd onl! white: the other had sank_deeply i utterls away. And it was not only pleasur that fied Iaaghing {rom bis mrasp: positive dis- comfort, positive pain attacked him as he stood Tucfully before the porcit. ITis perspiration had gried upon him; and, though tue wind liad Tow llen, o binding frost was “setting in _stronger h every houd, and be felt benumbed and at heart.~ What wasto be done! Late us was the hour, improbable as was suceess, he would try the bousc of his adopted father, the Chap- lair: of St. Benoit. i e ran thereall the way, and knocked timidiy. There was no auswer. He knocked again and again, toking beart with stroke; 5@ ot last steps were heard approaciung from within. A barred wicket fell open in thie dron- studded door, and cmitted a gush of yeliow lignt. “Hold up your face to the wicket," safd the chaplain from within. p “]g's only me,” whimpered Villon. «Oh, it’s only you, is it{” returned the Chap- Tnin; and he cursed him with fonl unpriestly aths for disturbing nim at such an_hour, and bade him be off to hicll, where he came trom. * 3y hands are blu¢ to the wrist,” pleaded Villon; * my feet are dead and full of tiwinges: my nose achies with the sharp air; the cold lies at'my heart. Imay be dexd before morning. Only this once, futher, and betore God I will never nsk again!” ) “You should have come carlicr,” said the ccclesiastic coolly. **Young men require a les- son now and then.” He shut the wicket and Tetired deliberately into the faterior of the bouse. Yillon was beside himself; he beat upon the door with handls and feet, and shouted hoarsely e Chaplain. Mf‘m{\;ormv n?\l fox!" hecried. “If Ihad my hand upder your twist, L would send you fiying headlong into the bottomless pit.” A door shut in the interior, faindy sudiole to the poet dawn long passages. He passed his b Gver is mouth with an_oath. 'And then the humor of the situation struck him, and he Taughea and looked lightly up to Leaven, where the stars scemed to be winkinig over his discom- fiture. “What was to_be done? Tt looked very likea night in the frosty streets. The idea ‘of the dead woman Dopoed iuto his imaginatiou, and gave him o bearty fright; what had happeued to Beriu the early night unght very well bappen | to him before morning. And lie 50 young! and with such immense_possibilities of disorderly amusement before him! He felt quite pathetic over the notion of his own fate. as if it bad beca some one else’s, and made a little imazina- tive vignette of the scene in the moruing when they should find_his body. In most mes who are dead selfish, there remains at the same time a strong clement of childist fancy, part comical, part pretty, part despicable. “Tnis it is that oc- casionably envelops them in_an agreeable balo, and qualities them s Don Juans among third- class women. ‘He passed all {his chances under review, turn- the white between bis thumb and forefinzer. Unfortunately he was on bad terms with some old friends who would _once have taken pity on him in such a plight. He bad tampooned them in verses, he had beaten aud cheaied them; and Set now, When be wasin so closg & pinch. ha thought there was at least oue who might per- haps relent. It was a cbance. It was worlh trying at least, and he would go and see. On the way, two little accidents happened to bim which colored his musings in a very difTer- ent manuer. For, first, e fell in with the track of a patrol. and walked iu It for some humired vards, although it lay out of his direction. Aad this spirited him up; at least he had confused bis trail; for be was still poss sed with the ides ing him all about Paris over the ing Lim the next morning be- fore lie was awake. The other matter aflected bim very differently. He passed a street cor- ner, wlicre, not_long before. 2 woman and her had been devoured by wolves. This was the kind of iweather, he reflected, when wolves might take it into their heads to eater Paris again; and a lone wan in these deserted streets wouid run the chance of something worse than a mere scre. Ile stopped und looked upon the place with an uu- Dpleasant futerest—it was a centre where several lanes interseeted each other: and he looked down them all ope after another, and betd his Dreath to listen, lest he should deteet some gul- loping black things on the snow, or hear the sound of howling between him aud the river. Tle remembered his mother telling biw the story and powmting out the spot while he was yet a child. His mother! If he ouly knew where she lived, he might sure at_least of shelter. He determived he would inguire upon the morrow ; nay, he would 2o and see her, tuo, poor old gifl! So thinkiug, he arrived at lus destination—his last hove for the night. Tae house was quite dark, like its neighbors; and vet after a few taps, he beard a movement overhead. u door opening, and s cautious vol asking who was there. poct uamed him- self in a loud whisper, and waited, ot without summe trepidation, the result. Nor had le to wait lonz. A window was suddenly opened, and n paiifal of slops dashed down uoon the doorstep. Villon had not been uuprepared tor something of the sort, and bad_put himsclf as mitich in shelter as the nature of the porch ad- mitted; but for all tbat, hewas deplorably drenchea helow the waist. His hosc begun to freeze almost at once. Death from cold and ex- posure stared bim intheface; he remembered he Was of a phibisical tendency, and began couging tentatively. But the gravity of the danger steadied bis nerves. He stopped a few hundred ards from the door where he had been so rude- v used, und reflected with his finger to his nose. Ife conld only see one way f getting a lodging, and that was to take it. He had noticed a bouse not far away, which looked as if it might be easily broken into, and thither he betook him- self promptly, entertainiug himself on the way with the idea of 2 room still hot, with o table still Joaded with the remains of supper, Wwhere he mizht pass the rest of the black nours, and whence he should issue, on the morrow, with an arwful of valuable plate. He even considered on what viands and what wines he. should pre- fer: and as he calling the roll of his favorite dainties, roast fish prescnted itseif to his mind with an 0dd mixture of amusement and horror. 3 [ shatl never finish that baliad,?” he thouzht to himself: and ther, with another shudder at the recollection, “Ob, damn-his fat head!”” be just those within. A tall figure of x man, m: and spare, but a little bent. confronzed Villon. The head massive in bulk, but tively sculp- tured; the nose blunt at_the bottom, but refin- ing upward to where it joined a pair of strong and honest eyebrows: the mouth and eyes sur- rounding with delieate markings, and the whole fave based upon a thick waite beard, boldly snd squarely trinmed. Seen 25 it was by the light of a. tickering hand-lamp. it lovked perhaps nobler than it had auy right to do; but it was a tine face, honorable rather than intelli- strong, simple, and righteous. ou knoek late, sir,’’ said the old man in Tesonant, courteous toncs. Villon erinwed, and brought up many servile words of apolozy; at a crisis of this sort, the s was upperinost i, and the men of gentus bid his head in zonfusion. “ You are coid,” repeated the old man, * and hungeyé Well, step In.” And he ordered him tie house with a noble enoush gesture. Some serand seigneur,” thought Villon, as host. seLung dowa the lamp on the fagged pavement of the entry, sbiot the bolts once wore onme if T go in front,” he said, when this was dunc; and he preceded the puet up-stairs into a larre apartment., warmed with 4 pan of churcoal and fit by a great lamp haneing from_tie roof. 1t was vers bare of furniture; only some wold plate on a sideboard; some 1olius: und a stand of aruior between the windows. Some swmart tavestry hung upon the walls, representing the cruafixion of our Lord, in one piece, and in anather a sceneof shepherds and shepherdesses by 8 runume stream. Over the chimzuey was a shield of arms “Will you seat yourself,” sud the old man, tand formve me it I leave you! 1 am alone in my house to-night. and if you are to eat I must foraze for you mysell.”? No sooner was s host Zone than Villon ieaped from the chair on which e had just seated hitself, and bezan examining the room, with the stealth and passion of a cat. He weighed the gold flazons in his hand, opened all the folivs, aud investigated the arms upoo the shield, and the stufl with which the seats were lined. He raised the window-cartains, and saw that the wizdows were set with rich stalued lass in tigures, so far as he could see, of mar- Tial import. ‘Then he stood i the middle of the room, drew a long breats, aud, retaining it with putfed checks. looked round him, turnin, on his heels, as if to impress every feature u the apartment on his memory. “S‘:\'en pieces of plate,” he sald. 11 there had beew ten, 1 would bave risked it. A fino Tiouse, and a fine old master, so help me all tae e ring the old ’s tread And just then. kearing the old man’s tread re mminzj along the corridor, he stole back to the chair, and beigan huubly toasting his wet legs belore tue charcoal pan. His cntertainer hud w plate of meatin onc hand and & jug of wine in the other. He set down the plate upon the table, motioning Villon %o draw in bis ckair, and, guing to the sideboard, brought back two gublets, which he filled. «] drink to your better fortune,” he said, gravely touching Villon’s cup with his own. =+ T'o ous better acyunintance”” said the poet, repeated fervently, and spat upun the snow. Prm: house in question looked dark ai first. sizht; but as Villot made a preliminary inspec- tinn in search of tbe bandiest point of attack, a Tittle rwinkleof Jizht caught his eye from behind a curtained window. € “The devil!” be thought. *“People awake! Some student or saint, confound the crew? Can't they get druck and lie. fo bed soor- ing tike thelr neizhibers! What's the good of curfew, and poor devils of belftingers jumoing atu rope’s end in_bell-towers? -What's the use of day if people sit up all night? The gripes to them?” He erinncd as he saw where bis logic was leading him. “Every man to his business, after all,” added be, “and if they're awake, by tue Lord, 1 may come by a supper honestly for this once, and cheat the devil.” He went boldiy to the door and knocked with an assured hand. ,On both previous occasions he bad knocked timidly and with some dread of attracting notice; but pow, when he bad just discarded the thought of a burglarious “en- try,.. knocking at o door ‘sermed & mighty simple and innocent proceeding. The ~ sound of his blows echoed throuzh the house with thin, phantasmal rever- berations, as though it were quite empty; but {hese bad scarcely died away before a measured tiead drew Dear, a couple of bolts were with- drawn, and -one wing was opened broadly, a8 growing bold. A mere man of the people would have been_awed by the courtesy of the old seigneur, but Villon wus hardeved in that matter; be had made mirth for great lords be- fore now, and found them as black rascals as himsell. And so be devoied bimself to the vlands with a ravenous gusto, while theold mau, leaning backward, watched him with steady, curious eyes. . ‘l\y;n have nlo':xl on your shoulder, my man,” he said. bave l2id his Wet right hand Montigny mast upon hx"lfinu he teft the house. He carsed Mon- iu his heart. “,’T :L\;lsunuene of my shedding,” he stam- mered. 1 had not sup:fi,s,ed 50, returned his host i **A brawl! s "l:“zll, something of that sort,” Villon ad- itted with a quaver. m“PLerhups a r‘luow mardered?”? 40l no, not murdered,” said the poet, more and more confused. _*It wasall fair play—mur- Gered by accident. { had_ no hand In it, God strike me dead ! he added fervently. . “QOne rogue. zrmh(ewex, Idare say,” observed the master of the bouse. fi‘Inu :.m dare to say_that,” agreed Villon, {nfinitely relfeved. ‘A3 biza rogue as there is between here and Jerusalem. He turned up nis toes like lamb, Bub It waa a naaty thing