Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1877, Page 9

_Motes from the Church at THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES 9 is also amusing, which is so often ignored. Hundreds of dumb-bell and Indian-club victims waste their encrgies; deluded invalids walk weary miles up and down porehes, and sleep no better and dine rather worse. Health-lifts give better results, as there is the daily excitement of watching the scale o up as the wmysterious cylinder is revolved. These healih-seckers are F;c\-enu-d by age and their calling from resort- to the dance, buc they will find more tonie infinence in half'a dozen Fames of whist. 1 dare assert that in spite of heated rooms and undue excitement which have been urged against dancing as an excreise, there is an in- ufie of health. [ have not answered forits morality, upon which alone thic church is concerncd. - Tis atso- ciations are sinful, it {8 urzed; its positions are indecent: it leads away from relizious thought; and it Waftm the time for which weare to ac- count. Very worldly gentlemen may hesitate to ask ladies to visit ballets of a certain sort, and mothers of not very' straight-laced views may forbid their daughters to engage in round dancing, yet dancing {5 not to be condemned in tnfio. W RELIGIOUS. The Relations of the Theatre and Dancing Towards: the Church. A Very Sensible View of the Question by a Louis- ville Professor. Beliance in the Efficacy of Prayer, and the Wonderful Answers Thereto, ecause the can-can exists is uo reason we shoutd not have cotillions. 'he square dance is almost obsolete, and the German encroaches on the evening more and more, and round danclug grows in importance. Ido mnot stopto mention what may be said against it, but what may beurged in its behalf T must in honesty transeribe. In rerard 1o its attitudes I have” questioned young men skilled in round dances as to whether the assertion that they excited jmmodest thought was true, and the answer bas invariably been that they were too busily engaged with “the measure and the guidance of their partners to have room for such thought. Butldo not wishto defend round dancing as an absolute Cliristi: virtue, for it offers a very legitimate field for the scrutiny of the Church. It has its limits, and whereas the reservation in form of brothers, cousins, or friends may be somewhat proviucial, it is a wholesome restriction in the realm of taste. The Assembly of the Southern Presbrterian Church at New Orleans, in their recent cou- The Strange Story of the Simple Faith of the Rev. George Muller, the Philanthropist. Home and Abroad-—Per- g sonal Mention. Pious Perversions for the Uncon- verted=--Services To= Day. demmnation of the dance, recommended the ses- sions should deal with “ great patience”. with those who committed the offense. This was 4 AMUSEMENTS. ‘wise, and if patience extended over a few it would find that the desire for dancing naturally as it comes. It is only when onc lin- wers too long that the dance seems unnatural, anc one may indeed pity the Lady Kews, who, ~*living to four-score years, are fond of dancing with the foolish virgins, and are called st last. from the sounds of a May-fair fiddle:” but when youth, strength, ar are ours, we may seck it without siu, but with thanks- iving aud praise for the opportuni 1 beg also to wnake a plea Tor the theatre. short tizse azo the Young Meun's Christian sociation in Baltimore invited Edwin Booth to read for their benefit, and be declined, sazinz they must receive him i his war-paint and in his feathers or ot at all; that if it were naeht ADDRESS BEFORE THE RECENT EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONGRESS. In New York last week Prof. R. O. Cowling, of the University of Louisville, read & psper on Tt was just after the War, when_politics were renning bigh, that a Southern Bishop visited Washiugton 10 re| ot the evil deeds of the —the gentlemen ju with' a Northwestern poli in impolite cirdes, who, so far from giving nim comfort, showered upon him his hatred for the failen foe. Do you cuunt yourselt a Clris- tin manf” said the Bishop. 1 do,” replied | for him to take a dozen parts in was right for the politician; I”nm a_ member of the | him to take one. The religious world makes Methodist Church. And _will you tell | very curious distinctions, and 1_do not believe me wherein your Christlanity s | the condemnation extends o private theatricals. to mbc o distinrruished from tne | People will £o to amusements in a public hall world? Yes,” was the reply; “I don’t | who will not enter a theatre. 1t is not wrong swearand I don't dance.” However true this anecdote may be (ard I get it. by the way, from @ Bishop), it is an undeniable fact tnat the HMethedists look ugon both accomplishments of anciti and swearing inwn unnixed borror. In tieir booi of discipline they provide for the trial and expulsion of members for a ‘“third offense™ iu dancing, playing at gawes of chance, attending theatres, races, circuses, danc- ine parties. or patroniziug dancing-schools. In asermon once beard by the speaker, delivered by a Baptist derzyman,—a gentleman who now wveeupics oue of the most important pulpits of hat denomination in this couutry,—he said: +1 see my Lord crucified avew when I see Christian men and women dancing:” and, al- though this may have beeu the somewhat florid expression of oie inaividual, it was ina meas- vre the sentiment of the denomination against this apusement. ‘The Baptizts and the Reformed Baptists (the followers of Alexander Campoell) are Congre- gativnal in their government, and do not enact cecicsiastical 1aws of application, but the in- vidual churches are opposed to dancing, and provizion is made in many ot them for exoell- {vg members who indulee in it. This is curi- vus on the part of the Reformed Baptists, as tueir distinmuishing feature is the rejection of ¢ adoption of * the broad platform of and the acknowledgment of indi- Viduai opinion in its interpreiation. Dr. Heck- er, a Presbyterian clergyman, and President of Haouver Coilege in Inatana, * ends with this ap- arzument against daneing: By 1y us parents -whose caildren stifled conviction in the dance; the veath-agony of many youths whom this amuseinent has sent apparently unprepared to meet Gud; by the griet o1 parcnts whomw it has sent to untimely fraves: by the awmple testi- mopy of the world, the Chiureh, and the Word of Gud azain Lyiytw Ientreat you touch not the to go to a concert, and with alittle strain au opers or two may be taken in. In analyzing the matter, it is difficult to say where the im- morality of the theatre lies. Tertullian saiu the actor could not cxpeet to be forgiven, because he strove to add a cubit to his height and habitually falsitied his face, and now that the buskin is abolished from the stage a little of the paint of socicty taies the place of the mask. We have no such indecencies on the English and American stage as ou the French in the latter days, and the populace will not stand any scofl at religion. Virtue is alw: duly re- warded in our plays, and vice punished. Cassivs, presented with all the ekill of Booth or Bar- rett, receives not one-half the apprause which Antony gets. 1t is charzed that expressions £o broad are in- troduced in the modern dram:: that modest ears cannot he:\(llhcm without shock. But doves not the remedy lie in pruning rather than in destruc- tion? The modern editions have corrected m the main the magnificent productions of the English classic drama when our forefathers were in the habit of calling spades by their names, and people who have only examined Shakspeare in the closer. need Dot expect tv be shorked by the bolduess of the expressions he used. 1vis charged, too, that the morals of the act- ors are considerably below par. This is a pretty hard phasc of the question to deal with. It is so ditticult to get a standard of compu it Shall we take an equal number of stock-brokers, playing daily upou a legitimatized green La bl 3 company of charitable bauk thropic miiliners and mantua-m: would be an opening for retorm); siall we take the Bar of any particular city4 "But I must not mvolve the profy Sofaras I have been able to judge, actors are a good sort of people. Their lite gives them kindly hearts. How ten- derly they rallied a few weeks since round the deathbed of one of their leaders. [ do not be- lieve they are ambitious to be classed among the pre-emivently pious persuns; but t certainly rank among the worst, Titere is whi drunk. and cards played, and anoceasionad sean- dai set afloat in whick they bave no part. Objection has been made 1o the natare of the drama and that it is fiction, in fact. This h joins in commend- ual expression of this gentleman, Assembly ing tie inciv for in 15i8 3t dedlared n General sithat the mreatest dunger is to o froia dancine.” In 1865 cnibly enacted laws against it, and w Urleans it was aain confirmed n. It discournges the modern an parents notto pat- It commits oftenders tals i and urgzes Car. cannot stand, unless we condemn other fields There 15 no audience so of iiterature and urt. rude which the impre: v, dectaring “that in most cases 1t is the resuit of thoushtlessness or ignorance.” During the debate, Mr. Keouedy, from T ' remarked that card-playing and dancing e nearly obliterated the lines between the Cuurch and the world. Tne Rowan Catnolic Church has declared sownst round daneing in 2 National Coundil at Baly «king the ground that the s lies i tie Such i3 the view also of the Unitar:an: Church o1 England and the n Branch have not considerced the mat- The denonunations that condemn are also oppused to the theatre. ase it for its purn The people are woing to have amusement of some kind. “Jack Stepard” and *Dick Turpia " may be bad, out, at any rate, they are better than bear- vaiting and_cock-fighti Abroad, the State wrants subsidies to toe siage, and in times past. the Church did emplog it Dion Boucicault ¢s as a chief reason for the decline of toe drama the commercial man- ager. This individual is no philanthronist; but T kuow of one who, to elevate the tastes of the suffered pecuniary foss. e s go- ing to supply the demand, Snd if all the good people stay away from the theatre it is not un- likety that immoralities will creep i, Twill pass by the frequency with which the 1he dun “The theatre we have always considered a sdoul of immorality.” eaid the Presbyterians in general synod. When the Tremont Theatre L?liu:mu wus converted intoa Congregational | jai5 whicn forbid amusements are brok The Church, Dr. Beecher rejoiccd that a temple 6! | iy of theatre-zoing seems to be chictly when it Satan liad been conyerted into one of the Lord. | jogone at home. Abroad it seems tobe right Lat year Dr. Talmaze preached aminst | o)ongh where no offt is given to the breth actore, and remarised: ** 1 bave tired many shots up of_the devil, and, judsing by the which I see, I believe I have it bun The Enghsh Church is the only one of the princnal bodies of Christians which bas not cundezamed the staze. The Roman Chureh regards it 27 the present day with comparative inditlerence, but in the lasi century vied with Puritanism iu its persecution of all 1ts abettors, and denied the communion® and the rights ol burial toactors. Mcliere, too, only escaped un- censecrated ground by the cunviug of the King, Rueime bad to recant. There was not a oo, “Tu regard to dancing, how many evan jeal pirls are there who stay away from pi on this azcount? And bow many muminas of a serious turn of mind who are not desirous of siving their daughiers the bestopportunity their condition could afford? am uware of the iatlacy of the argnment, because the church rules are roken they are pecessarily wrong; but when there is such a Wide diserepancy Detween theory and practice as exists in thie matter under discussion, we inay well inquire whether in ooe or the othier there is not some desverate tlaw. “Temptation "’ might frame cnough to put the world in a doister. A wood lady of Con- necticut_explained to me how sowme one had died of ¢rmk. lecommeuced with a fondness for soda-water, she_said, then to ginzer-pop, and sfterwards beadlong to the de The world bas to be faceds if the terrinly-zood people mixed more with the crowds which form it, and if some of their picty did rub off, the other side would et the benefit. The D I imageine, likes the foot-huhts and the chandelier Do better than he does the broad glare of da; and directs no more the comedies than the tragedies of lifes and I firmly believe that thouxh one may smile e may be saved. 4 Only amusing,” said Robby Dunglison, the physiol- ogist. Only amusing: Wiy, amuscuent 1 look upon as one of the cl ef ends of life. I am never better physically, mentally, and mor- ally than wheu I aw amused, and Dr. Dunzlison Wit aman who not only studied theluws of this life, but we thought was trying his best to be ready for the ouc Lo come. ANSWERS TO PRAYER. THE BEV. GEORGE MULLER'S WONDEFUL STORY OF SIMPLE FAITH. The Rev. George Muller, the famous English preacher and philanthronist, delivered av ad- dress lately in the Clarendos Street Bap- tist Chureh, Boston, in which he described how for mearly half a ceotury he had carried on great charitable enterprises with no_ aid save that which came in answer to his praye! It was & straizhtforward, manly story of Christian trustfulness, and it affected deeply the larze audience to whom it was told. i In the beginuing Mr. Muiler read the 13th an 14th verses of the 14th chapter of Jobn: *And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will T do, that the ‘Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask aoything in my name, I will do §t. The reason why I have been reading these two verses, said he, will presently appear to the dear Christiau fricnds. I have been requested to give some account of the institution the founder of which Tam by the condescension of the Lord, and which I have been atlowed to di- rect during the past forty-three years and seven ‘months that it has been in* existence. I do not speak about the work unless it is particnlarly desired, in order that I may not have even the appearance f baying come to America for the purpose of putting forward the claims of the institution. But as I came to speak before my blessed Lord and Master, and in praise of His pame, I am ready to doso, even though the appearance may be asif 1sought tospesk of -myself, The Lord knows that 1do not wizh to st Garrick and Siddons, and Old- field was taken with regal pomp to the Abbey. Y Lpal Cuurcu ol America, possibly eption of a single diocese, bas had nothing to say aguinst the stage. Cushmanand Adams are iv the communi jots. There eve been individual expre Inone in.: zuce imitation of the s Jersceution was indulgred in, when “The Little Charch Aroumd the Corner ' was immortalized. Many laymen look with evil eye upou the stage, but they are i a great mivority. It will be re- membercd, too, that the cergyiuan who refused 10 bury the dead actor has joined a more Jiberal wrmavization, wherein he could exercise bis par- zl:]:;l conscienée in such matters without re- Tius is the official record and the exact meas- ure of condemuation which certain 1eligious bodies have imposed upon the darama and the dane, and it is not tov strong to say that these w0 amusements are considercd by mauy to con- lte a_greater portion of that worldliness sgamst which the Apostle preached. Thbe consideration gmven by the relizious worlito the drama and the aanee is not over- ¢stimated in jts importance, as none others h;n'e attracted €0 much attention. The circus only an occasional visitor; horse-racing is confined to 4 few localities; ducting haslost its attractions; gambhng and drivking de- £orve 1o such gentle term. The drama and tie dance are par excellenve the popular amuse- Leuts. 1 make the plea for the dance that when re- struiued proverly it belones to the field of taste 23d not of morals, as it is not condemned in the Eacred writing e oppovents of the modern dance cxplain its scriptural introduction and Tecormuon in the words of Dr. Hecker, who Y81 It was performed on great national aud Telmious occasions by the sexes separatelyas 2 Epiritual exercise, aud its perversion to lv_muscmcm, was rezarded as a sacrilege asso- dizied with condemnation or circumstance of Yomor.”" Tius is the narrative of Herodia’s dauzkter; human nature does not changes it is ::_tnml for voutls to daace as for lambs to D 1 will not discuss the ancient dance aily upon the charge of its scparate per simance by the sexes, but will ‘content myself with thinking that if the Hebrew. maid was not asked by the Hebrew lad to join bim, or that the Greek and Koman youth of eitber.sex Dursued their melancholy measures apart, the Todern dance has improved then in politeness s well as pleasure. ancing is a retional amusement, and appeals 10 the natural senses, and springs spontancously o the sound of music, is one of the fine arts, With principles as decided as those of paintivg OF music, and a greater effort of genius is re- quired to produce a distinet dance than a picture or a melody. Half a century elapsed between the minuet and the waltz. It1sa healiby exercise. and the muscular ac- ity called info play cennot be excelled, and it s Oh, I wish I had more money, in order that T might be ahle to help these poor peofie mare.” Scarce had I-formed this thought when a letter- carrier came with a letter from a missionary in Persia, more than 8.000 miles away, inclosing 260 rnis brother liad mever scen'me, and I had never seen him, but he had heard about my mode of life, and had sent me this as a token of Jove. After six montbs I opened a sccond Thouse. A The first one was for little girls over 8 vears of age, the second for little boys and girls under 8 years of auc, and then I opened a third house for thirty little boys. Now we had ninety-six orphans and about twelve helpers in these three different houses, and all went on well with the special blessing of God. But after a few months more our money was all gone, and now had come the time for the exerciseof prayer and faith. The beloved brethren muy think that I was cast down, but it was set forth myself as anything, but to seck to get gouls for my blesscd Lord and Master. Haviug thus expinined his position and mo- tives, Mr. Muller entered into a brief history of his own -life previous to the beginning of his great works. Having been cducated in Prussia, he went to England nearly filty years ago and engaged in the work of Christianizing the Jews, but finding that he could not conscien- tiously devote all his time to that work, he zave it up, and entered the field of general Chrisvinn effort. Be first beeame pastor oi a church at Pinmouth-on-the-Sea, in Devonshire, where, after a short time, he gave up his stated salary and announced that thereafter he would depend for personal support entirely on the contribu- tions of Christian fricnds. Pew rents were thus abolished, and as 4 result there are now hun- dreds of frec churches in England. From that A time, forty-seven years, said be, [ never have | quite thereverse. T was full of joy, and peace, asked ouo single “human_being to give mea | and happiucss, for now had come the time to penny for my own supolics or wy family’s. | glorify God aud give vroof of the eflicacy Sometimes I have been without money and re- | of faith and trusting in Him. When all wus duced to the last piece of bread, vut therelief | gone oune day, I'called my brethren and sisters, lias always come irom the Lord. the helpers, together, and we had a prayer- Having found that God had work for me in | meeting that God might supply us, and that He antulj went there. Seeing many children | did. Aftera time, it went further. The day olng wbout the streets, poor, rased, and ncg- | commneuced and we bad uothing. But God sup- fected, I thoughit it God proviacd for me and | plied us again aud again. When we lacked u my [amily He would provide for them, too. meal we sathered together in prayer, and some- This thougit came again aud awain into my | times wehad to have three mectings a day. mind, but the ditheultics were great, and my | Somctimes money would come to us from Ire- hauds were so full that it only remained in my | land, or Scotlaud, or Cauada, or France, or the mind for a time. But in the year 1831 it became | United States, or India; sometimes a friend g0 impressed upon my mind that I could no would bring us something; sometinesa jeweler Tonger put it aside, and_fimally I founded an fu- | would come iich mouey for valuable articles stitution in order to do somethin in this way. | that he had sold for us: ’l{utin one way or anoth- The institution was exceedingly small. Wehad | er help always came. These triuls coutinned tbreeseliools in connection withit. Thefirst was [ for eleven d)'l:nrs, and in those years we were to grive free cducation to neglected children, the | thus relieved not ten or twenty, but more than second to circulate the Scriptures among the poor, and the third to seek to do something for Inissionary work. We_had only one day-school to begin with, one Sunday-sehool, uud one adult y v schiool. Yet it was o beginning, and my hope | experienced was that once inouc of the houses was that God would hclp us further, for Ide- | the children had to wait balf an hour for their termined out and out that the work_should be | dioner becsuse the relicl. had come so late that in every way according tohis mind. That seems | the meal could not be cooked in time. to e a matter of the deepest moment. It is One night we had a prayer-meeting when there not cnough that we are doing the work of God, | was nothing to eat, and no mouey, and I had to but it must be out and out the work of God, 0 Lome leaving matters ‘in that coudition. I and done in God’s wav. . iad no money of my own, for as long us I had As everybony sought fog eveat, rich meu to be | anything the orphans never wanted, though I patrons of their instituticus, 1 came to the con- | never took any of their woney, never, neyer, usion that T would give that honor to the | uever. The next morning Iwent to the orphan Living God Himself, and in writing circulars Lo house to se¢ whether anything had come in, be- Hrlents at a distauce, whose prayers and coun- | cduse [ would have dismissed the orphans be- sels I asked, 1 stated that oue of theconditions | fore I would ineur any debt. I found when [ of the institution, and the first principle, was | reahed the house that a eentleman had just that the Living God llimself should be our | left three old pieces amounting to about §15. atron, and that no human being should be so | He had come in and sald: 1t lay on my heart B Now the Lord has proved during | to bring you this money now.” “The most im- aese Torty-three years aud seveu months that | portant part of it I learned more than twelve itis to bave Him forapatron. Most abund- | months atter. When the nest report was writ- antly has Te blessed the work, materially and | ten, I referred to this remarkable answer to eleven hundred times. It was comparatively a rare thing whew we had food for a day ahead, anda very rare thing when we had three days? supply in advance. ‘1he ouly difliculty that we did at Soon after 2 Christian brother came to spiritually, He Dblesses it now as H prayer. : fot, thotghi & Das grown to be 805 times | me, told me that he had given the gold picces greater. and explained how it had happened. = Another principle on which the institution He was a great manufacturer. Ie was estabhished—1I do not mention all—was that | started that —morning for his palee of it would never go into debt. Though I have been iu the greatest straits and difiiculties, 2 . though for eleven years we were in the greatest | auxious tosce. After he had walked some dis- straits and difticuliics, we neverwent into debt, | tauce, he said to himself, “ [ ousht to take 50 that there was a balancein the treasury, great, | sumething to the orphans this morning.” But or small, at the end of each vear. At | hereasoned with hinsclf that he had” no time the cud of the first year we had six day schools then, and that he would do 3t in the evening. instead of one, we bad been able to circulate So he walked on. But this thought was in his several hundred copies of the Word of God, | heart: 1 must take somctbing to the S had been able to do something for mission- | orphans,” and so he turned back inthe dircetion ary work. Aflter the institution had beenin | of the orphau louse. But after he hud gone Sxstence eishteen mouths, oue thine wasadded, | partof the way be said to _himself, & No. I Snd that was the orphan work, aud it is now | must see those letters, and Ican goin the test orphan institution in the world. evening.”” So he turned back again toward his particularly ied toit in this way: It | oflice. WValking again some distance the thought appeared to-me that it would be of fmmense | came again and again to his mind, “ You ought Donefit 1o thie Cliurch of Clrist at larze if there | to takeit;” * You ought to takeits” < You were sometling seen even in these days, in the | ought to take it and at last hetarned around, nitieteenth century, as to the willingness on the | went to the bouse and left the moncey. 1t was part of God to answer prayer, and to show how | sixtecn months after that that I learnied this. hiuch, simply throush the instrumentality of | ‘There are three objections which are made to prayer and faith, could be accomphished even in this system. The first is, that it owed its suc- $iis century. From all that L biad seen as pas- | cess toits novelty. Butit is now forty-turce lis oflice letters of importance which he was wr of a large church and by curre,wmucncc years since’ the work was commenced, and it is with so many thousands of Christians | now more prospervusthan ever. The second is, all over the world, 1 had learned how | that people rave money to me beeause T was a deeply important it was that the foreigner. But that does not scem reasonabte, Cimarch of Cbrist shouid bave an iucrease | because peoplewould be more likely to trust their money Wwith their own countrymen than with a foreiner. Gthers said that 1 ot money by means of the _report whici I published, such as all institutions make. To prove that the in- conclusion, that if I, n poor man without | stitution did not depend on the report, when the any prop ,could simply through the fusgru- | Mest year was by and we were in the deepest mentality ‘of praver and faith, without askiug poterty, 1 said, I shall publish no report, in 3 Luman beine for assistance, support. five, teu, | order that 1 may show that we obtamn our sup- fity, a hundred orpbans, it would be a proof | port from the Living God.” The sccond, third, that God will answer vrayer. 1 knew very well | fourth, fifth months went by, aud = the that the word of God ought to be eaough. out | poverty continued. - So we went on the 1 thought that some such proof as this mizht be | Wiole ~ year and the mext year, contiuu- of assistance towavering men andwomen. After | ally waiting on God. -At thc end of the havine weighed the matter careiully aud probed | second year people said. ““Now e will publish my heart to see that there was no vanity init, | @ report.” I published none. In the third year of faith and that it might be clearly and dis- tinetly seen that God 15 willing to do_great things simply iv aswer to praver. Well, this was Continually on my mind, aud finally T came and that I was desirous only of the glory we_began in the deepest poverty, and at - the God, 1 decided that notwithstauding the | end of the fourth month large donation was work which I bad on hand, I would | gentover from India. Then I published the re- make a beginning of the orphan work. Af- | port to peak of the abundance which God had ter having come to this decision, I was givep us. At another tince I acted in a similar Sitting onhe cvening . in my room reading | Way, Just toshow that we were uot dependent consecutively throuzli the Holy Scripturesas | ou reports. s My babit Lias been for forty-eight years, when I | Idetermined to build a house for 300 orphans, came in the Eizhty-first Psalim Lo this statement | and, after vearly four years, 1t was completed, o the teuth verse: ©Tam Jehovab, thy God, | With money obtaiued Ly prayer, and, after puy- who brouzht thee out of the lund of Egypt: | ing $76,000 for it, 1 ad several thousand dol- open thy mouth wide, and Twill 611 it.” Ater | lars over and above. ‘The most remarkable part Dasing read these words 1 pus aside the Bible, | of it was that, duriug all this time, while I lad lockted the door, and _ prayed that God might | tens of thousauds of dollars i hand for the gmve e the power to establish an orphan asy- building fund, we were very poor with resard Tum if He so willed, and give me 2 thousand | Lo current expenses. { mever touched the ounds 23 abeginnn Nowa thousand pounds | building fund, becsise I wanted to progress, {5 the merest little trifing sum to meat pres- | hot o backward in faiti. ce was the ent, for I have often singe then paid out six | house completed _when appiications were times us muc iu one day for the institution,but | So numerous that I had_ to think of building at that time it w i sam to me, and | another houseto contain 700 more. After years 1 had not, of prayer and work it was completed at a ‘total tingit. e cost of $215,000, and that so fucreased wy faith that if I became convinced that it was™ God’s will that I stoukl do a work that required £5,000,000 T would begin 1t with complete contl- dence. The houses last built accommodated 400 and 430 respectively, und after. they were er. | paid for [had S10,00 feft. After we had pro- Then afterward 1 received laree andsmall dona- | vided for 1,150, 1 found _that 900 more were tions, so that little by little the money came in, | Waitiog to come in, and I determined to build 2 Whenever 1 received a donation 1 thanked God | bouse to receive them. The money came inand ana 1 had the full expectation | the work was accomplished atter awhile. Now that God would give me the money. Whenever re of 2,050 at_once, and, as agood inere was a knock at the door, 1 expected to | many o out from time to time, we lave alto- wrain something, whenevér the letter-carrier | gether cach year about 2,270, We receive Game, I expeeied to wet something, un 1 when- | orphans from the carliest azes; when the boys Gver A friend from a distance came 1 expected | are 14 or 15 years old and the girls 17 something. 1 iooked out for the answer. and | they are as a”rule apprenticed or put out that is the greal secret of prayer. Be sure tnat | to domestic service; but the best and We v not speak into the air, but into the ears | brightest are trained to be teachers. We_have of our Ueavenly Father. M:mf' people think they want more faith, and then they scek to work up their own feelings, as if thai would give them an increase of But faith i 3 fothing whatever to do with feelings. Faith is | meeting many of them in the United States, in W reccive the Word of God in childlike butief. | respectable pusitions. We have received dona- So with me; L probed my beart many times to [ptions ranging from a farthing to $10,500 at one find the wilt of God. time. Our expenses are $225,009 a year, and I Finally I came to the conclusion that it was eived altogethier about 4,010,000, sim- the will of God that 1 should go forward in this | ply in answer to the prayer of faith, and if a matier for the glors of God, for the good of | Licles of food, ete, coukt be calculated, th the Church of Christ, sud_for the blessing of | amount would, be. greatly increased. Besides the whole world. The caring for the spiritual | the orphan institution we have seventy-five day aud physical wantsof the orphans was subor- | schools, thirty-nine Sunday-schools, and six Father, and_believ e > “Thie next day 1 received from a poot German missignary Who was staying at my house a shilling. 'That was the first donatiun, and anether German missionary who w staying at my house gave me_unother we cau take three conditions for the mccp{iun of children. They must be full orpbuns, they must baye lawlully begotten, and they must be in ute circumstances, 1 have bad the joy of dinate to the one prominentobject, which was | adutt schools.” We have now in these schools the glory of God and the benetit of the Church | 10,000 schiolars, hesides the 2,000 orphans. througbiout the world; that there might be | Then e seck to circulate the Holy gi\-cnnfirour in the uincteenth century that | Scriptures, and we lave sent — out thoueh Elijah has been taken into Heaven, the | thousands: of copies every year. We aiso God of. is ative; that though the Apos- | circulate about 4,000,000 of tracts every year, 3,000,000 of which are given.awar. We have dreulated nitogether about 62,000,000 of tracts. We have bha:d more than 61,000 chilaren in the schools, besides 5,000 orplans. 1 Lave sought from the begiuning to assist missiouaries, and we have had in_various parts of_the world 170 fore I nev ked a human being for | missionaries who have been aided from-our that it might be scen that’ God | fund L. i was williog to give. I do not mean to This is a brief outline of what 1 have to say say that it is swmful for a Christian worker to go | rearding the. institution. The moncy is com- Yo liberal and prosperous brother for meaus to | ingin, in the schools we have between 200 and carry jorward_Chnistian effort, but [ would not | 300 Christian men and_women as teachers, do it myself, for the reason 1 have given. And | whom T obtained also from Gud in answer to thus the work hias been going on now for these | prayer. All this 1 have related to my beloved more than forty years. Noone has been asked | Cl for a cent in thie whole wide world, and asain and again I have stated in the pu! which T publish yearly that if there is an inthe whole wide world who can prove that cither directly or indirectly I have asked bim for anything, let it be kuown, and I will acknowledze before the whole world that I am a liar and a deceiver. But o oue has come for- ward becausc there is no one to cowme forward; that Istie simple reason. After alittle while, > , " we were in 2 position to rent a house, I engaged | Previous letter I have described to you the kind helpers, and it was aunounced that we were of intimidation to which the Department of the !\?u\‘}:‘l‘ ‘r‘t:um i‘x)xwg?:.‘!f'c \thfi_ f[fi rl;:l) ‘1: ;::an]lg: Ilaute Garonne has been subjected. My infor- m%uusl‘urllxc o laston of orphans, it aug | et dulae that: DUt for this yiolente tho ine. 1 sat through the two Lours that 1 had | Whole of the Republican candidates would have xed upon to beatthe spol. No onc came, | been elected. As it is, the Department has re- and Ib bad to 20 ho:&cl without a sinde m;pl‘im- turned a clear majority of 2,000 votes for the tion being made. When evening came, I'sl i ail : offici O sl Tell” flat. on y face, probing ::)" Igc;gubhcnn causc against the official coalition. Troatt to see whether my object was not, to ob. | Bt it may be worthy of atlention to consider tain ‘honor amone meu. But I came to the | Wno were the candidates thus treated os out- conclusion as I had before, that I sought only | Jaws by the Government of France, what are the honor of,Gou. Then 1 called upon God, | the crimes they impute to them, and Wwhat are the dangerous doctrines which they feel it a duty to extirpate. and said that it it were His will, 1 would gladly Here, in this ancient capital of Languedoc, tles are gaihered to the bosom of the Father, the God of the Apostles is hiving; to give the whole wide world a prool that the living God 1s still the living God, and the whole Church of Christ in the whole wide world a proof of the dmess on the part of God to answer prayer. more and more cncouraged to carry all taeir trials to the Lord in prayer, and expect help from Him. CLERICALISM IN fRANCE. INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS. Lelter to the London Times from an Englishman in the Freach Procinzes. TovLousE, laute Garonne, Oct. 22.—In a give up the work even then, but that it seemed to wme that He would be more honored it it wenton. Then the thought struck me that I had not got avy, orpl because [ had not | where all the historical remains carry the mind asked for them. They were so plentifut that T | back to some triumph of Catholic fury or of had never thought it necessary to ask God to | arbitrary force; where the old palaces of the send them to 1c. So Iprayed for them. The | local magnates still block up the dark and nar- next morning the first application was made, | row strects which have run so olten with the before the month wasout therewere forty-three, | blood of Manichzans and Ariavs, luzuenots and since then there have been 10,000 applica- | and Socinians, and of all manner of heretics tiox:: h and rebels: the city where the Parlement aud While I was exercised about this matter, Iwas | Priesthoud strove to withstand the just jodig- visiting onc day the brethren and rs under | nation of Voltaire; where, only fifteen years my pastoral carc. The next morning, sitting in | ago, the Archibishop atterapted to celebrate u mv room readinz mv Hible. I said to mvself. | iubilee in memorv of the glorious day business early, because he expected to find in - hristian_brothers in order that they may be, which followed on the St. Bartholomew —here, one would think, any- where, the forees of the Clerical and Legitimist reaction may be seen at their strongest. Every- thing seems done that Dukes ana Ministers can do to enthrone the anclen regime in its most splendid form. The Prefect 15 the Baron de Bebr, to whom the Throne and the Altar arc simply a part of the Military Code. The milita- ry Governor bears the wreat name of Gen. de Salignac-Fenelon, and I learn that he in no way has turned back from the desoted loyalty and the scrupulous piety of his histrionic ancestors. The favorite candidate of the official party is the Vicomte d’Adhemar, who is no less loyal 2nd no less devout than his patrons. ‘There is a great deal of renewed Catholic encrzy in the place. The Archbishop—not he who wanted to celebrate the St. Bartholomew, but a more intelligent successor—is said to have im- mense influence with the eatire officiat world; and the Jesuits are said to have areat influence with the Archbishop. Now what is the result of this array of Legitimist authorit It would be a mistake to count the whole of the votes for the Vicomte d’Adhemar as Legitimist or even as Clerical. They represent the entire pressure on the whole oflicial machine, and probablv not one in ten is the result of political principle. Well, on the dav of the poll the oflicial Legiti- mist has 3,700 votes out of more than 14,000. Iam far from saving that Catholiclsm is not a powerful and living force. -ButIam clearthat Clercalism is a_thing rejected by the whole French people. But if Clericalism is repudiated, Lezitimism is simply not reoudiated, because it is reprarded as dead, as much as if it was stuffed and in a glass case. Legitimisin isdead; Clericalism is odious; Im- erialism remains. Itis a force of a certain kind. There are country districts where it would be accepted as a settlement, if it could gret, finally established. But nowhere, 8o far as T can judge, will any body of country people make theleast effort on ifs Lebalf. “Even in this, one of the great strongholds of the Bona- partists, where we can almost hear the storm which the Cassagnacs are raising in the ad- joining Department of Gers, even here the onapartists are in a minority, and that a de- clining minority. The Imperialist candidate of the cil&b\vlm last time had 4,000 yotes, has now but 2,000. His newspaper, with its Appel ae Peuple, at_five centimes, cannot scll a thousand copies. The nepliew of Marshal , in the birthplace of the Marshal, with the whole force of the Administration brought to bear in his favor, has only defeated his Republican oppo- nent by a mojority of less than onc-twelltl. when we take the Department asawhole we find the Bonapartist votes (pressure, violence, fraud, and all) are 41,000, while the votes for the Republic are 55,000 Bouapartism is not, after all, a politieal 1orce. But there is quite evough of it left to be made into a formidable pohtical conspiracy. Catholicism pure and simple is a somewhat different thing. I cannot snut my eyes o the fact that in such a district as this there is much zeouine religious feeling and attachment to the Church as a relimions institution. The Church is in no way in danger, unless it is determined to commit suicide. If it will keep within its spiritual functions, it will orobably be left to its own strength to rise or to fall. “But if 1t converts reliion itself into a wretched political intrigue, no one on earth can say what tate may ot be in store for it. I attended on Sunday the mass_ in the maenificent Church of St. Severin, every stone of which scems to recall a tragic history of religious and political passion, that has _hardly known & cessation in this city for a period of nearly cizht centuries. As the full choir of voices und the stately organ rolled its peals through those vast and massive vaults, it was impossible to deny that the crowded and devout congregation before me were: stirred by more than habit or self-interest. There was real religlous fecling in the crowd, the larzest that I have yet seen in a French chureh, and, what is unisual, consisting, at least as to 4 tenth part’ of the worshipers, of men, and not simply of women. But it Cathol- icism is to survive as a relizious force it must rid itsell of those tainted political all th which it §s castine in its lot. It is ch itself by adhesion to a Legitimisin_whi toy, o plaything, a rich man’s whim, lik lace or ewbossed armor. It is corrupting tsell by association with reckless advengurers, whose souls thirst after bubble companics and diplomatic prizes, and it s defiling itself with an alliance with the “youn bloods? of a debauched and shumeless soclety —a selfish, idle, enervated cligue of duudics. As I possed down the sireet, full of these thoughts, I stood watching the religious works of art in a lamous empurium of picty and sacred momentoes. There are ecstatic Virgins and Josephsin statuscy and_plaster, in paint aud in print, an infinice varicty of saints, and the “Soldier_of Christ,” with™ his ambulunce gear ground him, and a bullet through the centre of his Geneva eross. It ol very pretty—in part, very sublime. And beside these sacred emblems was a gaudy and wasy picture of the * Last Moments of Louis XVL and his Son,” heroic and ecstatic, but marred somewhat by four most giobular tears, like pearls, which stood with strict precision on eat of the Royal and Princely checks—all cold, fan - tastic, unreal. Beside it all stood the ouly real works of art in the whole collection—spirited pictures of ** High Lile," after the style of the Vie Parisienne. Al! [ thought, o it is; Clericalistn Is simply killing Cathiolicism. GENERAL NOTES. Mrs. Mary J. Proctor, of Rochester, bequeath- ed the bulk of her estate, amounting to about $200,000, to various benevolent institutions of the Episcopal Church. The average leneth of the pastorate in the United Presbyterian Church is “cight vears. ‘There are now 500 unemployed ministers and a large number of vacaut churches. The Cathedral of St. Luke at Portland, Me., was consecrated recently by Bishop Neely. It cost §125,000. Ten vears have passed since the foundation was laid, but the conseeration has been delayed until all the debt was paid. A new Baptist congregation has been organ- ized out of the remains of tie Broad-Strect Church, Elizabeth, N.J. A call has been e tended to the Rev. John McKeriney, a r cent graduate of Rochester Theological Semi- nary. The Young Men's Christian Association of this city will include. amons its Saturday after- noon entertainment attractions ventriloguism and magic-lantern pietures. The iden is 1o get hold of the younger boys and keep them from going to the circus. Methodism hasn_firm foothold in Germany, according to Dr. Nast, who suys that there are now in that country more than 150 preachers, 11,000 members, 62 churches, 623 starions or preaching places, one_theological school, aud a book concern, waich publishes thousands of vol- umes and millions of tracts every year. In 1867 there were 194 Cungregational Churches in New York. Since that timé thirty have disappeared, a few, however, having be- come Presbyter There are now 250 churches of that name in New York State, twenty-fiv which have been added from the Welsh, and eixty more from other independent ormanizi- tions. ‘The membership ten years ago was 20,- + it is now 30,000, The Iialian Catholic papers arc lamenting that journalism lias no patron saint, and they nave petitoned the Pope to supply the lack. It is sugrested that St. Francis de Sales is the most fitting candidate for the oflice. What we Would like to lears Is bow the Pope is to com- muuicate with Brotber de Sales and learn whether he is_willing t6 undertake the addi- tional labor. Catholic journalists need u great deal of attention. The Seaman’s Eriend Society is_now sending Jibrarics to the Umited Stateslife-savinr sta” tions on the coast aud lal 5 a useful Work, even if the books are somewhat dull, for the time of the men hangs 50 havily on their hands that they are willing to rewd anything, no matter how dry. Duriug the intuvals between cisasters these men have almost mtiing to do. Ly librairies liave thus been seat, contain- & over 3,000 volunes. 5 The Presbyterian Synod of Ohio i¢ cousider- fng an 2ppeal from the Presbytery of Cincinnati in'ihe famous case of Skiuncr against MeCune. TThe case was disposed of by the General Assem- bl 135t May, ad McCune s not now i \he de- nomination, but still the Synod has deciced to jew the proceedings of the Presbytes The_| Qoeision of the Presbytery was substantially in MGane's favor, the priucipal charze azaivst him being disparsgement of the Presbyteria Church. A few weeks ago Sunday was set apart by the Congregatioual Church in Stouctam, Mass., for peculiar and interesting services, havine refer- ence to the sged members and ex-members of the congrezation, and named Old People’s Day. Ten persons were prescut who bad reached an awe vxceeding eighty years, and nearly forty Wwho were more than 70 years old. Tne Tev, Jobn Le Bosquet, of Lembster, N. H.,a former pastor, who was almost %0 years of age, took part iu the exercises. The English Church Congress at Croydon closed, after 3 successful session, on_the even- fngof Oct. 11, The Archibishop of Canterbury made the closing address. The proceedmgs Were marked by au unusual dezree of good Terper. Dean Stanley fuiled to present his piper on ¢ Readjustments, i Any, Desirable in ¢ Relations of Chiar:h and State.” There was a stronge desire expressed by the speakers on this topic for the union of the Convotations of Canterpury and York into onc body, so that theState Church might Lave o means of ex- pressing its opinfons more distinctly tham it can now. The Bishop of Grahamstown, speak- 1‘1‘1{; for one of the Colonial churches, said that no_'.hmg on earth could indace him to put bis neck under the yoke of an_establishment such as existed in England,” This declaration was received with expressions both of favor and dis- approval. At the late meeting of the Presbytery of South Carolina, Dr. Lindsay astonished Ilisyfel- low-members by expressing doubts whether it was rightto educate for the ministry the col- ored people, as Le thouget them **wiolly in- competent for the work, and that facts proved 50 many of them now in the ministry unwerthy, and the worst of rozues.” This was not the judgment ol the Presbytery, and they declined to passa vote expressing the want of contidence displayed jo'Dr. Lindsay's speech. The Catholic Times, commenting on the proj osition of the Episcopal Church to style itself “the Catholic Church of Awmerica,” says: “We remember the time when tocallan Episcopalian a Catholic would have been considered a gross insult; but of late there appears to be a charm in the names; and, indecd, there is a charm in the name and in the reality itself. We donot chide our Episcopal friends for their admiration and love for Catholicity; it is a cheering sign. What we criticise them for is their pretense to being a branch of the Church of Christ. when uot one of those other churches which they recozuize as branches of the true Efl:grfih recogmize their title or claimed relation- PERSONALS. The Rev. R. W. Dale, of Birmingham, En- gland, Is on a visit to Boston. The Rev. F. W. Taylor bas removed from Cleveland, O., to Highland, Ulster County, N. Y. Dr. Levi Scott, the senior Methodist Bishop, was conscerated in 1852, He fs in his 76th year. I'ie Rev. William C. Starr has resigned his position as assistant minister of St. James’ Cnurch, Philadelphia. The Res. C. II, Mittemore, late of Strawberry Point, hus accepted the pastorte of the Baptist Church at $hell Rock, Ta. Heury Varley and Dr. Somerville, of En- oland, are laboring as evangelists in Australia with considerabie suceess. After a ministry of ten years with the Univer- salist Church in” Hartford, Conn., the Rev. C. A. Skinner has resigned lis pastorate. “Che Rev. A. Bernstein, formerly of New York City, has been elected minister of thie congrega- tion “¢ Adas Israel,” in Wasnington, D. C. The Rev. J. K. Mason, now of Stamford, Conn., has sccepted a unanimous call to the Simwmut Avenue Churen (Universalist), Boston. The Rev. A. H. Shorey resizus his position on the editorial staff of the Golden™ Fide, and takes the pastorate of the Cottage Street Cougrega- tional Chiurch, Boston. The Rev. James McLeod, late of Joliet, IlL., has been clected Superintendent of the Institu- tion for the Blind at Batavia, N. Y., and has en- tered upon his duties. o Dr. S. B. Bell, having resizned his pastorateat Mansfield, O., has retirned to New York, where hie was formerly settled, and where he will prob- ably again take a charge. The Rev. Thomas Harrison, of Boston, who sometimes goes by the name of *tte Boy Preacher,” is evangelizing in Wasbingion, and drawing large crowds to the Rylund Chapel. It is understood that the Rev. Henry Brous- ‘ham Bousiield, Vicar.of Andover, is to be the first Bishop of the Transvaal, a territory lately annexXed to the British Crown. This will make the eighth Bishop of the Province of South Africa. Mr. H. L. Ensign hasretired from the Aliance, having disposed of his interest therein. He is succceded as managing editor by Mr. F. F. Browne, formerly counccted with the Lakeside. Mr. Z. 8. Holbrook has become connected with the paper as associate editor. The Rev. A. Thompson, of Kansas, bas gone to Philadelphis, and tae Rev. A. A. Trimper has lefc the Presbyterian Church in Kansas and joined the Evavgelical Lutheran Synod, and the Rev. J. G. Merkt has lett Ihe Evaneelical Association and united with the Presbyterians. The Rev. George C. Miln, formerly pastor of the Congrezational Church of Mount Carmel, Conn., and_who for nearly six months has preachied with acceptability 1w the Puritan hurch of Brooklyn, bas cntered into an en- Saement with the Fast Congregational Church of Brooklyn. The Cincinnati Commereial says: “The Rey. C. W. Wendte, pastor of the Unitarian Church, corner of Mound und_Sixth streets, is_oue of the most seholarly ministers in the city, and his sermons always give evidence of decp thousht aud study. and never fail to be. interesting aud instruetive.™ The Rev. A. W. Cummings, D. D., late Presi- dent of the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, bas recently been transferred by ‘Bishop Harris from the’ South Carolina Confer- ence to the Genesee Conlference, and is now the Principal of Riverside Seminary, at Wellsville, Allcgliany County, N. Y. WORDLY WISDOM. Seucy Jewish boys used to czil the prophet Micah **Old Isinglass. Gen. Miles has the advantage of Mrs. Poti- phar. He captured Joseph.— Washington T publican. Stanley has discovered fifteen million hitherto unkuown beathens, and every married man will have to renew the old strugule to keep his best plug hat out of the box which the ladies’ misstonary society is makiug up.— Worcester Lress. British schoolboy, under examination by the Teverend Bishop, saysthat ‘*an average hen Jays on.” Bistop stizhtly amazedl. Boy sticss to it, and refers to ** Bouk of Facts.’ Book produced. Boy points triumphantly to this: “The domestic hen I fitty egas each year.” Conft A reader of the Boston Commerciul Bullelin asks: ** Were you not mistaken whe formed the publie throu: « Abruham was the first au Jeaue up for a sacrifice?’ 1f I remember nght some two thousand years previous io that oc- currence Cain assumed the role of auctioneer when hie knocked down Abel.’” The New York Herwd mas positive mformation that Eve was the first auctioneer when she put up Adam and sold him with an apple. A little girl in North Yarmouth, aged about 3 years, was taught to pray by her mother, who, however, could not induce ‘the child to kneel. The infant was willing to pray, but not to bend the knee. ‘Tne other morning the family heard the little girl say: ‘‘Please, God, send me down x white rabbit.” No answer was vouch- safed, and the ¢l outinued: *Did you hear What'T said? Why dou’t you answert”? A other pause, when the child spoke up spunkil «Qh, I know what you want. You want we Lo get on my Kuces, but J won't.” And now the homc missionary rcports a Wisconsin Sund chool teachier us giving to fler class this explanation of the poor widow's two mites cast into the Lord's -Treasury & Now, girls, | want you to understand this. You sec, she was a poor woman. 1t _mukes me hink Bow my dear old mother used 1o work Iate into the night before the old fircplace. And thereis nodoubt in wy mind, mrls, but this good women knit those mitts herself to gell at the store the next day for something to eat; but she cast the pair of new mitts—all that she bad—into the Treasury from love to her dear Lord? CHURCH SERVICES. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches at the Church f the Holy Trinity, corner of Dearborn and Erie trects, morning nud evenins. > CURISTIAN. . Thie Central Cliurel bas removed to No. 607 Van Durin street. The Kev. A. J. White will preach morniny and eveninf —The Rev. 4. W. Owen will preach morning and eveniny at the First Church, corner of tudiana avenne and Twenty-fifth street. —There will be services in the moraing at Camp- el Hall, corner of Van Buren strect aud Campbell avenue. ieer when lie put CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Charles Hall Evercst preaches at Yymouth Charch morning and evening. “The kev. E. F. Williams preaches at tne Forty-seventh Street Church this morning. ¢ Rev. D. N. Vanderveer will preach at the TnionPark Church. Subid Mornimg, **Serv- 1ce of tod™ ; evening, **Tne Daty of the Strong tu the Wes T . Georze N. Boardman wiil oreach moruing md evening at the New England Church, corner of Lelaware place and Dearborn avenue. —The ey, G. W. Muckie will preach this morn- ing wn the Sonth Park Avenue Churely, near Thirty- third street. —The Rev. 5. fl. Peake will preach morning and cvening 1m Leavitt Street Church, corner of Adans street. ) BAPTIST. The Rev, W. W. Everts will preach at the First Church this morniiz. and by special request re- peut s lecture on tne ** Rélauons of Scicuce to Ieligion.” Serviceiin the evening as usnal, —The Rev. K. Y. Allion vreaches at (ke North Star Church, corner of Sedgwick and Division streets, momning and evening. —The Rev. L. \V. Olney preadhes at Hyde Park, morning and evenin: ; —The Rev. A. Blackburn preaches at Oak Park. Morning subject: **The Resurrection of the Body.” Evening. ** Almost Persuaded.” The Rev. E. 0. Taylor preaches at Martine's Hall, Chicago avenne. Mornine subject: ** I the Sabbath Worth Keeping®™ Eveningz: **Toe Kind of Mun that the Temperance Cange Demands.™ “The Rev. D. B. Cheney will preach morning ana_evening at the Fourth Charch. corner of Washington and Paulins streets. 3 —The Rev. A, Owen will preach morming ané eveninz at the University Place Church, corner ot Douglas and Rhodes avennes. £ —The Rev. J. W. Castis, D. D., will preach iz the morning at ke Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third strect. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D.. will preach at the Second Church, Morgan and Monroe streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. E. K. Cressey wil! preach morning and evening in Coventry Strest Baptist Church. METIHODIS aztne Michizan Avenuo Church mornf e Evening subject: “4The Law of Christian Dilizence, ™ —The Rev. W. F. Crafts preaches at Trinity Church, Indiana avence, near Twenty-fonrth street, morning and evening, —The Rev. S. McChestey preaches at Park Avenue Church morning agd evening, Morninz “Paul Defore Felis, or the Convement Dr. Williamson he Rev. M. M. Parkburst preaches at the Fiest Churchi. oruing stbiees: - Chrlstian Fel- jowship. or Thank Guc aud Take Courage.™ Even- e 2 Snceessiul Youus Man. ™ —The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at tenal Chureh morimg ud o Hhe ostenaty —~The Rev. Georue Chs preaches at th Street Church morni . f aiwiater —The Rev. A. and eveniny —The Rev. T. C. Clendenning will preach at the of Langley Avenue Church, corn [birty-ninth street. Subjects: Morninz, \.‘o\{flxc&" cveni *+Strongholds, How Taken. JJohn Atkinson will preach moraing i at Grace Church, corner of LaSalic and White streets. —The Rev, J.®. Allen will preach morning and cvening at Simpson Church, on Bondeld street, near Archer avente. TPRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. John Abhott Frenzh preaches at the Fourth Church. corner of Rush and Superior streets, morning aud evening. —The Rev. Jucob Post preaches at the Noble Street Church, morninz ung evening. —The Rev. W M. Biackburn will preach at the Eighth Church, corner of Washington aad Robey streets, morning and evening. —The Rev. Jumes Tauxiilin preaches at the Scotch Church. Morning dubject: **Deborah,™ Evening: **The Heart.”™ ~The Rey. Charles L. Thompson will preach at the Fifth_Caurch, Indians avenue and Thirticth street. Eveningsubject: **Abrabam.™ —Tihe Rev J. Il Walker will preach morning and evening at the Reunion Church, on Fourteenth street near Throop. . —The Rev. Arthar Mitchell will preach in the morming at_the First Church, cornerof Indiana avenue and Twenty-first strect. —The Lev. Henry T. Miller will preach morning and evening at the Sixth Chnrch, cornerof Vin- cennes und Vak avenues. —The ev. J. Munro Gibson, D. D., will preach ‘morning and evenine at the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. ~ - he Rev, Dr. Ives will preach morning and cvening at the Burr Mission, No. 380 Thind avenue. —Prof. Francis L. Patton, D. D., will preach morninzand evening at Jefferson Park Church, corner Throop and Adams street. EPISCOPAL. —Services in the Cathedral, corner West Wash- i t 10:30 2. m. and 730 P aren, Bishop, and the Rev. J. H. Knowles, priest in charge. —The Rev. S. S. Harris will ofliciate at 10:45a. m. and 4:30 p. m. in SL. James' Church, COrner Cass and Haron strects. —The Rev. E. Sullivan will ofticiate at 10:45 3. 7:50 p. m. in Trinity Church, comer Trenty-sixth strect and Michizan avennc. Tie Rev. Francls Mansdeld will odficiate at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. w. in_the Church of the ‘Atonement, corner of West Washincton and Ro- bey streets. “The Rev. J. Bredberg will ofliciate at 10:30 a. 7:30 p. m. in St Ansgarius’ Ckarch, on treet, near Chicazo avenue. hs Rev. Clinton Locke will oficiate at 11 a. m. 2nd 730 p. m. in_Grace Church, on Wabash Morning snbject: car len wili officiate at n St. John's Church, n strect. — . m. and 7:50 p. m. in the Clarch of the foly Communion, Dearborn street, near Thirtieth stréet. —The Kev. Arthur Ritchie will ofiiciate morning and evening at the Church of the Ascension, cor- ner of Ebm 3nd North LaSalle strects. _The Rev. Charles 8. Leater will preach morn- ing aud evening In St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park avenue, —Tle Rev. B. F. Flectwood will preach momning and evening in St. Mark's Church, Cottage Grove avenue. —Th¢ Rev. G. F. Cushman. D. D.. will preach in St. Stephen’s’ Church, Johnson strect, morning Luther Pardee will preach morning and evening in Calvary Church, Warren avenue. _The Rev. T N. Morrivon will preach morning and eveninz in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop sre “Tlie Rev. W. J. Petrie will preach morning and evening in the Church of Our Savior, Lincoln and Delden avenues. _The Itev. Henry G. Perry will preach at All Safnts' Church, West Ohio and North Carpenter streets, morning and evenin. “The Rev. F. N. Luson_prcaches this morning at the Good Shephenl Mission. Luwndale. —The Rev. J. Stewart Smith_preaches morming and evening in St. Mark's Church, Evanston. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. . The Rev. Mr. Adais preaches at SL Jobn's Church this morning, sud the Iev. M. D. Church this evemnz. “The Rev. R. 1L Bosworth preaches at Grace Church, corner of Hoyne und Le Moynestreets, ad evening. R. 1l Dosworth preaches at Engle- ernoon. Dr. Winter wili officiate in the morn- 15t Chiurch. Bishop Cheney will preach Subject, **An Earthquake sod s Caase. “~The Itev. M. D. Church will ofiiciate morning . at Immannel Church, corner of Centee yton streels. Communion in the morning. services. mormg and evening in the Church of the Good Shepherd, comer of Jongs and Homan stre # top Cheney will officiate in the morning and + Dr. Hunter in the evenmy at St. Paul’s Charen, corner of nglon und Ann strecls. Tue Jatter's subject will be, “+A Maniy Resolus tion. " - The Rev. F. W. Adums will preach this even- ing i Emmanuel Church, Uanvver and Tiweuty- cighth streets. SWEDENBORGIAN. The Rev. W. . Veudieton will lecture at the cl, corner of Clark and Sicnominee strects, 1m ¢ S A Truity m Gud, But wre will be services in the moruinz ot the Church fialt, corner of Prainie avenuc and gateenth streel, e Liev. W. J. Pendleton wll preach fo the moruine at the Temple, corner of Washiugion strect and Ogden avenuc. “oFhe Lev. L. B. Mercer will preach in Tlershey Hall at 1035 S'What the Charch Needs. " a. m. on UNITARIA: The Rev: J. T, Sunde: « t the Fourth neac Thir- What i« Kelimon?"" prescbies and even- Chap:n_ preaches at she , this afternuon. Sub- 2 an be Rev. T L. Forbust will pr ine at the Third Chiurch, Monroe und Lalin streels. Subject® **Our Debl v the Fast.™ Sunday-scuool Ter. Dr. Ky, h morning and Puul's Clur v, Suwmi El of the Ked tle ot the Churene: will preach at the venmi wnbrect: ley and ¢, 4. Straub will preach in the mocning at the Third comer_of ludiana Avenue and Thirt Subject: **The Kealm aches 2t the cor- tnis moraing, and —'t'he Lies, D. per of May and Fulton atre Mre. Mansteld tn the evenmn. 'he I'uzresmive Lyceun meetn 3t Mautison street, at 12 hes o the Advent 1, mormag and cven 2 wilt be held at "Subiect for dis- ing on Tweuty —'The Drscipl dph street at 4 p. . re. Itichmont will fecliie MOrnIng ana even- ing before the Suciety _of Spiniiualists at Grow's tull, No, adicon street. In the evemng Martn Luther will entrance, Mes, Hich- Tond sad discoursc ou: tae Tretoruation—the old aud the new. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. i Nov. 11.—Twenty-fonzth Sunday after Trinits. '\Tuoul".;. fter Pentccost: ‘ov. 11.—Twenty-ifth sunday after Pentccost; A, T“i'cn':nymflgc \1:(' the 8. V. AL St. Men- nas. M. t. Martin, P, M. - Nor. 13.—bt. Didac: Yoo, 13.—St. Stanislaus Kostka, C. Gertrude, V Aor. 16,8t Martin, L. C. (from Nov. 11). Noc. 17.—St. Gregory Toaumaturgus, 8. €