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. 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9- B RELIGIOUS. . History of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune, with Notes About Some O0ld Psalm and Hymn Tune Composers. iracles Wrought at St. Michael's Monastery at Hoboken, N A New Beliious Sect in Pittshurg—Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Announcements of Services Held in the Chicago Churches To-Day. OLD HUNDREDTH. SOTES ON THE OLD PSALM AND HYMN TUNE COMPOSERS. By the late Edward F. Rimbault, LLD., in Leisure Hours. A chanter or two of gossip about the old tunes, the composers, and the books they pub- lished for the use of congregations who took delight -~ in _the “singing of psalms end hymus will mot be entirely devoid of iutercst to those who take pleasure in 1l: gubject at the present time, whilst to those +who profess 1o such love their historical value will not be ignored. Two fellow-workers in the game field—the late Rev. W. H. Havergal and e Rev. . Parr—have, to a certain extent, (leared the way on the ground we have been Isboring, and their efforts we most cheerfully acknowledee. They have not only furnished us with much information, but have cheered us in our task and rendered it more pleasant than it would have been without their aid. The first book we skall notice is the metrical psalm-book published under the direction of Calvin, eutitled, **Les Pscsumes de David, mis en rime Francaise, par Clement Marot et Theo- dore de Beza.”* Calvin was a decided promoter of congregational singing, though he was not, like Luther, a composer. He encouraged Theo- dore Beza to finish Clemeut Marot’s Freuch version of the psaims which he had published st Paris in 1540, with thirty, and again at Stras- ‘bourg in1543, withfifty psalms. He alsoemployed Guillaume Francto compose and select melodies forthe entire version, completing thereby its use- folness. There is same obscurity as to the date of the first appearance of these valuable melo- dies. According to Burney, the French psalter in metre was published in a complete form with the music in 1545. In this there appears to be an obvious error, as it could only Lave been that portion of the psalms translated by Clement Murot, who died in 154. That this portion was adopted by Calvin and set to music appears dearly from his preliminary epistle, dated 10t June, 1543, A reference to the historv of Theodore Beza will be suflicient to prove that the remaining portion of the psalms was (prob- ably) not translated or published by him till the year 1559, Dr. Burney has styled Franc an “obscure musician,” an epithet which has been industri- ousiy repeated by many editors, who have en- tirely overlooked its sbsurdity and injustice: Frane has the best claim of authorship to the Old Hyndredth, and many other well-known in- valuable psalm-tunes; and, as Mr. Dibdin re- marks, ** supposing taat he was unknown efore the publication of his psalter, ‘obscure” he cer- tainlv bas not been since.” Wheu Mr. Haverzal wrote his *History of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune™ in 1S54, the carliest copy of this erand old tune with which e was acquainted was in the complete version of the psalter printed by Crespin in 1361. But since he wrote, three carlier versiovs ave been discovered, one in a Hienevan psalter printed by Jean Crespin in 1553, another in a psalter print- «d by N. Barbier and T. Conteau (probably at ) \ 984 The Old Bundredth tune was kuown in En- Fland as early as 1561, when it appeared in the edition of Sternhold and Hopkins’ Psalms of :hat year; and from this time forth it was in- duded in every edition of that work. Tne pame of the tune as the Old Hundredth is peculiar to England. In forcirn palters, especially in the French and the Duteh, the tune is set to the 134th psalm. From the days of the Reformation to the end of the sev- enteenth century it was commonly called io En- gland the Hundredth Psalm-tune; butuyon the Ppublication of Tate and Brady’s new vesion, its present title came into use.” About a century or more_ago it became the fashiou to call it “Savoy,” and under that name: it appears in many collections of a subsequent date. The English form of the tune is precisely the same innotes as the Geunevan copy. tbe only differ- ece being that the second and third hotes of the last strain are miniws instead of semibreves. ‘Tnis striin cousequently sings thus: e —T 3G = a—'—_fl The symmetry of the tune m this form, it bas been remarked, is extremely beautiful. “Each of its four strains comprises four long and four short notes, unftormly but pecuharl disposed. The tirst note of each strain, to suit aline of cizht syilabies, is long, the next four short, and the remaming three long. But the “three’ concluding long notes of each strain Eccm 10 bear a certain symmetrical melodie re- lation to each other. In the first strain they riscin close succession: 1n the second they fails Tu the tnird and fourth etrains precisely the same alternution is kept up, The peculiar pro- fgression of the long and short notes in each Frain may be comipared to the progress of a boat when breasting a suceession of billows at sea. First poised_for a_moment on the top of awave, it rapidly descends: then steadily labors up; is poised again, and so proceeds.” A number of Enwiish verslons of this tune have appeared from time to time, some varying tonsiderably as to the length of the notes. We have no hesitation in pronouncing all these to be printers’_errors, or corruptions {rom the orizinal model. Ove way is to write all the notes of cqual length. thus causing that * bar- baruus and monotonvus manner of singing pealms,” which prevailed to 8 great ex- tent at the beginning of the present century. The Continental copies have preserved the melody with singular The modern Parisian bouks present it in triole time, but the tune iteell is otherwise unchanged. ¢ Our English sinzers, however.” accurding 1o Mr. Hare “Lave perverted the Jast strain of the tunes 3 the perversion is established. that editor after editor, of a certain class, bas printed it, in nl The slteration is idelity to_the original. Mr. Haverzal dates the corruption from Fox's edition of Playford's Psalms, 1757, but it is of a much earlier orimn. beinZ found in Hart's * Melodwes Proper for the Psalms, no date, but certainly printed be- fore1e20. ° Some five-and-twenty yesrs ago the Dews- ‘Dapers of the day were triumpbant in anoounc Inz “an interesting and important éiscovery respecting the Old Hundredth Psalm tune. It was stated that Mr. Olipbaut, of the British Museum, had met with a very old book of Luther’s, containing _ouly_nis own tunes (“Geystliche Licder,” 8vo., Nuremberg, 15i0), end that smone them was the one which we cail the Old Hundredth. This was considered 85 proof positive of the tune being Luther's, and, tberefore, a full and satisfactory settle- ment of a long-pending yuestion. Butit turned out to be a hasty and premature announcement. The discovery was mercly that of atonexes sembling in some degree the Old Hundredth. Itisthiss . Castle of Coburg, during the period of the Diet of Augsburg, and “Es ist gewisslich un der zeit,” the fine melody ‘kuown as Luther’s Hymn— = et The first and fifth strains (the latter almost a repetition of the first) are certainly almost identical with it. The first three notes also of the tiurd strain of the melody are the same as the first three of the third strain of our tune. But there is no other resemblance. The mwetre, too, is entirely different. Furthermore, this tune of Luther’s is known in every Luther- an church on the Continent. It is No. 14in Bebastiau Bacl's * Choral Gesang Bucly,” and is found in every other German choral book after Luther’s time. 3 Mr. Havergal had an hypothesis that Frane’s tunes for the Genevanpsalter (for the most part) were rather fragmental compilations than origi- nal compositions, and with regard to the Old Hundredth tune, he adduced instances from the Gregorian bymns to support his theory. This i by w0 means an_untenable idea, and descrves every consideration. The instances of phrases in Gregorian hymus resembling the Old Hun- dredth tune, are as follows: o 5 = No two musicians have been more alive to the beauties of the old chorales than Bach and Mendelsfobn, avd they have introduced them into their sacred works, no doubt thusintending to excite the sympathy of the congregation by means of their old familiar tunes. Bach atso harmonized many of these chorales, and pub- lished them in_u separate collection, a_work well known under the title of *Joh. Seb. Bact’s Vierstimmize Choral-gesang.” An fmpression generally prevails that Bach was thie composer of these tunes, an_erroneous beliel that ought to be dispelled. Bach com- posed 1 few orizinal tunes whichi are included in his collection, but do not number half-a- dozen. Mendelssonn's chorales are derived from the same prolific sources. For instance, those iu- troduced in the oratorio of ‘St. Paul”: “Sleepers wake is from Nicolal’s spigel.” 15 To Thee, O Lord, T spirit,” was composed by Ch. Neumark in 1657 and_*To God on High " is by Hans Kuzelmann in1540. The fine melody beginning thus,— e ===—mc=cie=—o Su-a - - ¥is Do-mine, Bt ex-ult-a-vit. g@ == === J Chrts-to Ju-ben - te vin - cla, And again: 5 et 59_“) = == ] The first strain of the Old Hundredth tune, a5 found in the above fragment, is o common that it would be troublesome to record all the known instances. 1ts use by so many composers —even by Luther himself, as in the melody be- fore quoted—* proves that the early framers of psalm tunes were accustomed to cousider cer- tain stock plrases as comwon property, to be employed as might best suit their purpose.” If thie Gregorian origin of this tune is proved —and of this there is little doubt—then it much older than is commonly imazined. To use the words of Mr. Have 1, © Its several straius had been sung by Christian voices nov only a thousand years before Luther was born, but for centuries betore the Papal systemn was de- veloped.” “To the devout Christian,” says the same riter, **such a tune_cannot be otherwise than deeply interesting. The thought of its having Deen sung for many an age ¢ in the great congre- gation ? must always add a hallowed pleasure to jts use.. The consideration, too, that Protestant martyrs and cxiled confessors have listened 10 its straius or joined m them may well give an cxalted and even an affecting enerzy to our modulation of them.” The Oid Hundredth tune has tongago reached the other side of the globe, and it is not the Jeast interesting fact of any that may be told respecting it, that it was the nrst tuoe ever sung at divine service, conducted by u clerzy- man, in New Zealand: The fact {s detailed in the Missionary Visits of the Rev. 8. M: that country.. When chaplain at ¥ Bay. that emineutly devoted man sailed to New Zealand as the pioneer of missionary exertions. His landing on the island, for the purpose of mecting _some Enclish _ residents and certain native _chiefs at Divine wor- ship, is thus described by himself: “On the morping of Christmas-Day, 15H, about 10 o’clock, we prepared to go ore, to publish for the first time the glad tidings of the Gospel. When we landed at_Wanzarva, we found Koro- Koro, Duaterra, and_Shunehee dressed in reg- jmentals, which the Governor had given them, and ready, with their men drawn up, to be marched into the inclosure to attend Divine service. The inbabitauts of the town, with some women and children and 3 number of Chiefs, formed a circle round thewhole. A solemn silence prevailed. The sight was truly impressive. 1 rose up and began the service with singing ttie Old Huundredth Psaim, aud felt my very soul melt within me when 1 viewed 1y congregation.”” The French_psalter has beld an undisputed place in the Reformed Church since its intr duction to the present tine,—a fact not a littic remarkable,—and the Old Huudredth tune has ‘een introduced into the psalters of other coun- tries, and become universal all over the Protest- ant world. We may mention another fine old melody in the Calvinistic psalter which has exercised a powerful influcnce over the feelings of men ou many occasions—the spirited 124th tune, begiu- ning thu: % Oh, stilimsy Is- rael nowre-jofccand ery. ‘This tune is supposed to have been sung dur- ing Durie’s prozress to the Chureh of St. Giles”, in Edinburz, oo lis return from- exile. ‘“As he is coming from Leith to Edinbury,” says Cal- erwood, *there met Lim, at the Gallon Green, 200 men of the inhabitants. Their numbers still increased till he came within the Nether- ton. ‘There they bezan to sing the 124th Psalm, “Xow Israel may say.’ ete,, and sang in four parts, known to most of the people. They came up the street till they came to the great kirk, singing this all the way, to the _number of 5,007 This was truly a giorious specimen of psalim-singing ! . “And wow we must add a few words on' the Lutheran choralbuch. Luther's hymns _were brinted = at first with the music on single sheets, one or two per- haps upon a shcet, aud distributed among the people. Many surreptitious covies of thesc were circalated. This produced, in 1543, a char- acteristic protest from the grest reformer, follows, on the title-pace of an cdition of his bymn-book, thus translated by the Rev. Mr. Allon: Many false masters now hymns make. Learn to judge rizht, and zood care take; Where God builgs with I1is word and }is Church, There comes the devil to caest and to lurch. « When Luther took up the cause of the Ref- ormation, and had to remodel the services of thie Church, he believed he could mot better enhance their beauty than by appealing to his hation's love for soug, and fostering the tice of congregationsl singing, With this v be made trauslatious from the Latin hymns previously in use in the Church, paraohrascd severdl of the psalms and canticles of ioly Scripture, himself wrote many new hymns, and requested bis friends to coutribute ot! A8 o music, he availed bimsell in many cases of tunes already existing i the Chu ch, which he sparingly modificd to suit bis new metres; of other tunes the origin is uuknown, and others are derived from secular sources. In this latter respect Luther wmay be cited as an example for the use of tunes not originally composed for the Church. He cared lictle for the source of his music so long as it was fitted for his purpose, and the tunes known to the people he considered the best calculated to at- tract them to his servi I first edition oi his entarged hrmn-book was edited by George Rhaw, Joh. Walther, and Bupst, in Leipsic- To these musivians. includ- ine Ludwig Senfl, we are indebtea for many of the Lutheran mulodies retained in the Church, Snd found in our own lvmnbals of the present day. Germany soon became filled with sacrea sonz, and within a century aud 2 half of the Refor- fhatton 2,000 chorales are known to have been tomposcd. Mauy of these fine tuves are uow happily becoming popular in Englaud. Tt is an interesting fact, mentioned by the editors of * Tie Chorale Book for E d,” that, in the middle of the sixteenth century, S ieran bymn-books were introduced inio Scandinavia, where, especially in_Sweden, the hymnos and tunes of Germany, with numerous d have rewained up to stock of the national Courland, Livonia, and Fin- Jand also received thes¢ sacred strains into their service, and still _retain them: and it should be mentivned here that a Lutheran hymu-book was printed and published in tne 1celandic language at Skalbolt, 1n fecland, in the year 1594, of which a sixth edition appeared in 1691." The fountain source for German hyinn- melody is Luther's * Geystliche Lieder,” which contains many beautiful”specimens, many con- posed by the great reformer himself, others taken from various sources. Winterfeld has collected thirty-sig, five derived from the old Latin, seven from older German sources, sacred Sad secular, and the rest, so far as can be ascer- 1ained, for the first time puvlished in connec- von with Lather’s bvmps. Of these about tweaty are afirmed to be Luther's own compo- sition; thrce are certainly borrowed {rom secu- Jar songs, and are older than Luther’s time. Among the popular chorales kuown to be Lutner's composition arg the celebrated *“Ein feste Burg "— . Fre=m==taz the present hymu-book. y of sev- 1330, in the composed, according to the tes: €rul of Luther’s contemporaries, o N introduced into the *Lobzesang” and well Xnown in all modern hymu-tune books, was composed by Job. Cruger in 1563, 1t is sung in ail the Protestant countries of Europe. ST."MICHAEL’S MIRACLES. CURES WROUGHT AT A MOBOKEN MONASTERT. The New York World of the 10th has an ac- count of & serics of miracles wrought at the Monastery of St. Michacl ou ‘West Hoboken Heizhts. The essential portion of the article 18 the following vonversation between Father Victor and the reporter: “There come somelimes as maoy as a hun- dred in a day,” said the priest. * We bless them and pray for them, aud send them away to pray.” WAnd do they obtain reief?” asked the re- porter. O, yes; many of them come back and say that they are cured, and many do not come back at all. These arc cured, for aslongas they do not obtain relief they come back.” Byt this is what men of the world call a miracle, and is what they are looking carefully for,” said the reporter. ther Victor smiled serenely but said noth- ing. “Will you teil me,” was the next question, ¢ in what way you accomplish these wonderst"” + Are you Catholict” No.Y «iyell, we Catholics believe that the souls of the saints are constantly in Heaven with God. and constantly see God; and we believe that their intercession with God for us is etlicacious. We believe that when we pray to them they re- ceive our proyers and obtain from God special grnce for us, Which accomplishes what no hu- man means could accomplish. We believe that itis the dircet result of faith, forwe believe that faith can move mountsins in a supernatural way. Therefore, the more inith these sick peo- ple have the more certain they are to be cured.” % But what do_you do when shey come to the church " e bless them,” said Father Victor, ‘‘using the form of blessing for the sick contained in the ritual of the Church, an@ we pray to St. Paul of the Cross, the tounder of our order, and dircet them to pray to him for themselves.” And is that all?"? “That is all.” «Do they have no medical attendance?” “XNone.” « And are they cured?” . «They are cured sometimes instantly. About six weeks ago 2 woman came to the church on crutehies. She wasso helpless that ehe had to be almost carried, although she had the crutches. I blessed ber and prayed to St. Paul of the Cross, and she walked away actively, leaving her crutches bebind ber?” @ What was the matter with her2"” «] do mnot know, only that she wis lame. Therc are 50 many that cowme that there is no chance to ask questions.” Who was she! Do you know her name or residencel” «No. There is no chance to ask questions.” + Do you know of any other cases in which cures have been effected *Yes, mauy. About two months ago there was a precisely similar case of a little girl 6 years old, whio came here on crutches. 1 blessed Ter and sent hier away, telling her to pray to St. Paul of the Cross, and in niue days she came agrain, aud I blessed her again, and she went away cured and happy, leaving her cratehes in the church. There was auother case a few weeks a0 of 2 woman who came to_the church totally blind, who was biessed and told to pray to St. Paul of the Cross, and who came back in a_few days with her sight restored. - There have been niany such cases, for we have been receiving the sick here every day for fliteen years.”? "Bt do you kuow the names of nome of them?*! : 5 “ o «To you visit them pastorally?”” «XNo.” Our duties are in the church and in the monastery.” Father Victor then zave in_reply to varlous uestions a brief account. of his crder and of the lite in the monustery. “ We are of the order ot St. Paul of the Cross,” he smd, **of which order there are five monasteries iu this country. ‘Tne tirst onc is called aiter the founder of the order, and is in Pittsbure. Next is ours, or St. Michael’s: next is the Monastery of the Iloly Cross, in Cinvinnati; next is St. Joseph's, near Baltimore:; and uext is St. Mary’s, in Dunkirk. In our monastery are thirtv-five fathers. We Sspend our lives in prayer, and study, and preach- ing. Our principal vocation is mission work. The different churches apply to- us, and we send out one or more Tathers to conduct mis- sions, or what the Protestants call revivals. Three of our fathers are now i California, three are i Louisville, and two are in Dutch Kills, near Brooklyn. We rise at 1:30 a. m. and epend an hour and a nalf iu prayer: then sleep till 6a. m. At that hour we rise again and spend an hour aud a baif in orayer. At 7:30a. m. we have breaktast. Then we study until :30 a. ni.. when we have the canonical hours. noon we have dinner, andsocial conversation rds till 2:30 waen we have vespers. Then we study till p.m. Then we have prayers till 7 p. m., which is_the supper_ bour. Atter supper come the night prayers till 8:15 p. ., after which we sleep until 1:30.” %You fast, do vou not, very frequently?” 4 Yes, three tines a week we avstain from all foodbut fish and veretables. Then we have the fast of the Advent for four wecks before Christ- mas and we fast through Lent.” “Do vou practice flagellation?” ©Yes, three times a week. and if any one of the fatblers wishes to practice further mortifica- tion hie does so after obtaining the consent of the Superior.” Father Victor then invited his visiior to in- speet the mounastery, and showed him through the building. Each brother has a small room called a cell, and & number of similar rootnsare provided for lay brothers who wish to retire frou the world for a limited time. ‘The sitting- room was bare of furniture, excepting a_great many chairs and a_tables, but the two chapels ere ricbly furnished, the former with reliious emblems, and the latter with about 8,00 volumes of scrimons aud as- cetic, patristical, Biblical, theological, and mi: cellancous works. — The upper chapel was havdsomely finished in polished dark wood, after the models of the chapels of the mouas- teries of the Middle Ages. The church is more spacious’ in appearance from the fioor inside than from the outside. Tuere are no galleries to detract from the lofty Jook of the dome, and the statues in niches in the dome look almost asit placed in the clouds, There are two altars, under one of which ltes a wazen imaze of Jesus, aud under the other a similar image of one of the martyrs, Along one side of the church are 2 number of confes- sionals, in one or more of which one of the Fathers coustantly hears confessions. Beside one of the_tounlessionals stood three crutches. to which Father Victor pointed with a smile. *These are the cratches I spoke of,” lie said. As the reporter came down the hill on which the mouastery stands he met numbers of peo- ple zoing to the afternoon service. One of these \Was a very heavy woman who was toiling up on crutches. Addressing her, the reporter ask- ed her if she was going to be cured. She said she was, but although she had been in the habit of attending the church for some years, Lhis as the first time she haa been for the purpose ot béing relieved from sickness. The reporter asked her if she knew of sny miraculous curcs, and she said she knew all about one. She her- self five years ago hada cancer in the breast, which five physicians, summoned one after an- other, had failed to cure. While she was under the care of 2 New York physician, who charged her £10 a visit, a priest visited her and advised her to get some of the water of Lourdes. 1t was very scarce at that time, but by applying to the Little Sisters of the Poor she obtatned a Jittle of it, and it cured her cancer at once and completely. Her doctor, she said, pronounced it a miraculous cure. although he was an infidel. The lady positively refused to give her name, as she did not wish £¢ be brought into notoriety. She would uply say tnat she lived in Brooklyn. Her physician’s address she did not remember, ‘but thought it could be found in the directory. The reporter was unabie to find it. A PITTSBURG SECT. WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN. i From the Allegheny (Pa.) Hatl. The Body of Believers, or the Church of God, is the pretentious title of a mew religious sect which will have an organization in Pittsbu:e on and after Sunday next. The mew sect has no creed but the Bible; rejects the Trinity, yet re- gards Jesus as divine, and baptizes in His name alone; believes in the second advent, and con- siders Christ a5 a pricst after the order of Mel- chizedek. A printer in one of the newspaper oflices, Mr. Wells by name, Is the founder of the sect in Pittsburg. Hecame here abouta year ago, and has now 8 congregation of about Torty grouped about him. They meet regularly in the Riverside Academy oo Dugquesne street. | Mr. Wells stated to a reporter that the promi- nent doctrines of their beliel were these: “Fhat the Bible (both O1d and New Testament) is the only revealed plan of salvation. Tnat the Bible baving passed througn the hands of men {5 to be interpreted by the standard given by Moses (Deut., Xix., 15), and witnessed to by Jews: * One witness shall not rise up against any man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any gin that he sinneth; at the mouth of two it~ nesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.” From this basis they deduce the following facts, nany of which are in opposition to the creeds of Christeudom: That by repentance and fuith n that vame called in Hebrew * Yanshuo,”” he who shall be | the Savior, and In Greck Yansnous 7 or Jesus, and baptist in that name by His command, and as witnessed to in all apostolic baptisms, we be- came a part of that name, and assuch inheritors of the promises made to Abrabam, Isaac, and Jucob, of the land of Canaag; to David of o per- petual kingdon or royalty, and the Son of God, of **the heathen for an inheritance aud the ut- termost parts of the earth [for a possession,” and of a ** priesthood forever after the order of Melchizedek.” . : As He was born Jesus, taught as Jesus, died as Jesus, and ascended to Heaven, and is to re- turn as Jesus, they baptize only iu that name, and there is no baptismn_(after” John's) by any apostle or disciple recorded 1n thie Bible in auy other name. Also believe He is a priest after the order of Melehizdeek, but s not now, nor ever was a priest affer the order of Aaron. ‘They believe man to be mortal, with no immor- tality in him; that liht and immortality was Dbrought to light by Jesus, and I3 not obtainable until the resurrection, and then only by belief of the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus the Christ, and fmmer- sion in water in that name, for a union with that natne. They believe in the second personal coming of Jesus to the earth to raise Hissleepiug saiuts and to confer immortality on His living saints; to overchrow all human governments aud es- tablish & aivine government not left to the will of any people, of whom Jesus in person is the annointed King, and 1lis saints, washed from their sins in the biood of the Lamnb, having heen made immortal, will be subordinate rulers and kings, invested with an unending priest- hood, by and turough which a divine govern- ment with its rulers **all people will come to know the Lord from the least unto the reat- est,” when ull things witnessed to in the Serip- tures shall hate been fulfilled. They deny that the Bible ever gives a prom- ise thit man at_death, before death, or after death can go to Heaven, but declares piainly the contrary iu the case of both saint and sinner, and places his reward on the earth. DEATI. PAGAN IDEAS OF IT. The following is an_extract from the address of Soerates to the Judges who condemned him : Morcover, we may hence conclude that there is great hiope that death is o blesssing. For o die is Gneof two things: for either the dead may be an- pinilated, and have no eensation whutever: or, ug it is said, there are 6 ceriain chanze and pascage of the soul from one pluce to auother. And If it1sa privation of all sensation, as it werea sleep in swhich the gleeper bas no dream, death would be a wonderful gain. . . . Bat if, on the other hand, death isa removal from henceto another place, and what is said be true, that all the dead are there, what greater blessing can_there be than this, my Judges? For if, on arrivinzat Hades, released from those who pretend to Be dudges, one shall find thore Wwho ure true Judges, and who are eaid to judge there, Minos and Rhadamanthus, Aacus and Triptolemns, and such othors of thie demi-gods a3 were just daring their own life, would this be a sad removal? At what price would You mot estimate a conference With Orplicus and_Muswus, Uesion and Homer? aholl‘ld indeed be willing to die often, if this be true! The following are Plato’s words put in the mouth of Socrates: 1t 1 did not think I should go, first of all, among other deftics who ate Loth wise sulgood, aml next, among men who hase departed-this life, b ter than any here, I should ve wrong in not grievini 2t defth; but now, be assured, Ihope to go among yood men, thougli I wonld not positively ussert it. Hlat, however, 1shall go among gods who are per- fecily good masters, be assured 1 can positively as- sert this, if I can ansthing of the kind. ‘The following is from Marcus Aureliu: Thou hast embarked, thou hast made the voyage, thon art come to shore; get out. 1f indeed to un- other life, there i3 nowant of guds, not even therc. But if 1o 2 state without sensation, thou wilt cease 1o be held by puins and pleasures, and to be & slave 10 the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which gervesst is superior: for the one 13 futelli- gence and deity, and theother is earth and corrup: tion. . . . Pnss, then, through this little spx of time conformably tonature, and end thy journcy in content; just as an olive fulls off when 1t is ripe, blegwing nature which produced it, and thauking the tree on whicl it mrew. . . . 1go through the things which happen according to nature, uptil [ shall fall and rest,—oreathing out my Dreath into that element out of which 1 daily draw it in, and_falling upon that carth out of which my father cotlected the seed; and my mother the blood, and my nuree the milk; out of which during £o muny years 1 have been supplicd with food and drink; which bears me when I tread on itand abuse it for 50 many purposes. The following is from Epictetus: At what employment, toen, would yon have death find your For my part, I would haveitto be tome humane, beneficent. public-epirited. noble action. Butif I cunnot be found doine any such great things, yet, at least, 1 wouta be duing what T am incapable” of being Testruined from, what is piven me to do.—correcting myself, improving That facuity which makes use of the phenomena of existence to procuré tranquillity, und render to the everal relutions of life their due; and if Iamso fortunate, advancing still further to the secunty of judgmne night. If death overtakes me in such a git- Tation it is enough for me if Ican stretch out my hands to ¢ The opportunities which g and obeyi cted ‘At inrosinmelay [ have not Thee. Ve used my perceptions; how my Mave | at auy time found fauit heey Tlave [ been discontented at Thy dis- pensations or wished them otherwisex - Have 1 Transzressed the relations of life? I thank Thee that Thou hust brought me into being. 1 a eatis- fled with time [ bave enjoyed the things which Thou hast given me. Receive them back again as Thou wilt{ for they were all Thine und Thou gav- est them to me. ™ The followiug is from Cicero: . But let us, if indeed it should be our fate to know the time which is appoited by the gods for s to iz, prepare ourselves for it with a cheerful and grateful mnd, thinking ourselves like men who sre delivered from a juil and reteased from their fetters for the purpose of going back to our cternal habitation, which may be more ¢mphati- Cally called our own; or else to be divested of all gense and trouble. 1f, on the other hand. we should have no notice given us of this decree yet Jet us cultivate such o disposition a¢to look on that formidable hour of death as happy forus though shocking to our friends: and let us mever jmagine anything to be an evil whicl is the up- pointment of the immortal rods or of nature, the common parent of all." Forit is not by hazard or without design that we have been born and situ- ated us we bave. On the contrary, beyond all doubt. there is 3 certain power which consults the Dappiness of human nature: and this would neith- er have produced nor provided for u_bewng_which. after having gone through the labors of ife, was to fall into eternal misers by deatl Let us rather infer that we have a retreat and haven pre- parea for us, which [ wish we could crowd all sail and arrive at; but, thoueh the winds should not gerve and we stiould be driven back, yet we =hall to @ certainty arrive ot thet point e\'enhmlli‘ though somewhat lpter. But how can that be g\)scmhle for one which all must of necessity uu- ergo? s RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCH IN GESERAL. There are sixty-one Presbyterian ministers in and around this city, engaged in preaching and other business. Swedenand Switzerland contribute the largest. number of new members to the Mormon Church. England is third on the list. The Lutherans have a memorial charch in Washington which bas property worth $100,000: but the society has a pressing debt, which Lutheran churches are asked to help pay off. The General Managerof the Michizan Central Railroad Company has issucd an order dirceting that hereafter on Sabbatbs **no work shall be done except such us is absolutely necessary.” A Methodist minister in Georwia walks thirty miles in each week in order to fulfitl oue of his appointments, and works two days vat of every week in a brickyard for corn to feed his family. The Iowa Methodist Conference have resolved to admit no. minister who uses tobacco, The Jewlsh Timzi, of New York, is thankful that the & terfering with the wearing of low shoes, the use of plaid_trousers, or the carrying of walking- sticks. Nor was any notice taken of the simple habits of willfully eating cold pie and peanuts. The religious socicties have had very good re- ceipts the bast year, notwithstanding the dull- mfis of‘ bustx'uefi. I-;;hy—oue Bibie, missionary, and educational socicties report a: te re- celpts of $3,012,130. H REEERREEY The total amount raised by the Protestant Episcopal Chureh the past yoar for home and foreign and city and diocesan missions was §783,037, and the amount contributed for all chureh purposes was 36,804,448, The snnual Convention of the Sabbath-School Teachers of Scotland was held ior two days in Glnsiu\\' xln the second nwcck of October. “The number ol teachers inthecountry wasestimated at 48,000, and the scholars at 460.%00. i A Freneh delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council safa: *“I come here to Scotland and find you convulsed over the question whether you shall sing hymns or not. In France we are absorbed with the question whether there is a God or not.™ The Seventh-Day Baptiste are prosccnting missions in Europe with considerable success. They have lately organized a church of fifteen members in Haarlem, Holland, and have other congregations in_France, ltaly, Switzerland, grgxtss_ , Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Great ritain. Onc hundred and six_churches, chapels, and missions in San Fraucisco give one place of worship to every 3,000 people, exclusive of the “strangers within the gates,” and services are conducted in French, Spauish, Russian, Seandi- uavian, Italian, German, Hebrew, Welsh, En- glish, and Chincse. The Wesleynn Methodist Church of the United States was organized_in 1843 s a distinctively anti-slavery body. Its publishing house is at Syracuse, N. Y. There are in its service 500 ministers, distributed into sixteen confercuces. The Church orwan is the dmerican Wesleyan, published at Syracuse. The report for the month of the Presbyterian Board of Foreitn Missions is as follows: Added %o the church among the Seminoles, 3; in Chih- mi, China, 40, aud many_inquirers; in Canton, 143 in Petchaburi, Siam, 13; in Benita, Africa, 1; in Corisco, Africa, 6; in Bogota, South Ameri- ¢a, 3; in San Lorenzo, Mexico, 12 The Northern and Southern Presbyterian . Synods are getting abead of the Assemblies in the matter of fraternal relations. ‘The Synod of Baltimore has sent fraternal delegates to the Synod of Virginia, aud when the Synod of Ken- he: tucky met recently. in Covington, many of the Northern pulpits were filled by its delegates. The Committee npi)nlmed by the Southern Presbyterian Assembly to nvestigate the affnirs of ‘the publishing-house at Richmond found that the Secretary conducted the busivess in a very slovenly and irregular mauner, mixing up his private with his oflicial business. They do not believe that this confusion wus from any wrong or unworthy motives. They propose to sell the house and let the printing by contract. The fitst census of the Dunkards, or German Baptists, bas been completed, and they are found to number sbout 60,000. They dre an bscure denomination, but comprisc many wealthy and enterprising men. They believe in trine immersion and feet-washing, and do not pay their ministers any salary. - n Pennsylva- nia they have sixty-niné churches, with 14,861 members. ‘They are also numerous in Obio. The first installment of Ursuline nuns banish- ed from Germany has arrived iv England, and founded a religious community at Greenwich. They were banished under the Falck laws, {rom Dunderstadt, in Hanover, where they have becn established for about 200 years. They belong to the original and oldest branch or congregation of Ursulines, namely, that of Paris, founded in 1612. A few more arc yet to arrive from Ger- many. The Lutherans are to hold i Philadelphia a sort of Church Congress or Dict to bugin Dee- 57, and continye several days. Represeatatives from at least three of the four general Lutheran bodies in this country will read essays. The chief aim, of the Diet is by a frec and full dis- cussion of Church subjects to bring the various bodies of Lutheraus into more ibtimate rela- tions. Among the men who are to read essays are the Rev. Drs. F: W. Conrad, Seiss, Krauth, Morris, Repass, Brown, and Wedekind, of ~this city. Dr. Morris wili preside. The Canada Presbsterian Church has had s rapid growth in the last seventeén years. In 1860 there were seven distinct orgauizatious. In 1860 and in 1866 there were uuions, and in 1875 a preat union, which_embraced all except the anti-upion party. Within the memory of man, the Presbyterians bhad no collexe; how they have five, and a sixth in Manitobu. The Church has now four missions, sustained at an -anoual cost of $30,000, and well-organized s, extending from Newfoundiand v Aountains, sustained at an an- st of $40,000. “The Methodist says: It is difficult to_unite two Methodist eburches; chiefly because it Jooks like ‘taking down a flag.’ Nevetheie the *First Church’ and ‘Third Street,’ Rocl ford; 1il, have becu united under the new name of Centennial Church. W judie that" any necessary consolidation can, after this one, be accomplished. The venerable —Hoover Crews is pastor of the * Centennial,” and will bring about a chemical union of the two parts ifanybody can. We lope ta report more of this sort, of rontraction; the nominal half (con- faining the whole) is better thun the nominal whole split into two struggling churehes.” . The Presbyterian Church of Enxland now cousists of 253 conererations, divided. into ten presbyteries. Nearly one-hialf of the 255 church Puildings are frechold, and the insurance on the sume aiounts to £2.500,00. The debts upon churches and manses amount in all to 3500.000, Tully 40 per cent of which s on the _churches in the London Presbytery. These buildings have together 106,774 sittinzs, of which 5 or aporopristed. Several congrezations have adopted the system of not letting sittings. The iroveroment of the Church is intrusted to 1,203 Clders, 404 deacons, and 1,566 mavagers. Inembership of the Church consists of communicants. The Catholic Times, commenting on the propo- sitlonof the Episcopal Church tostyieitselt * the Catholic Church of America,” says: “We re- member the time when to call an Episcopalian a Catholic would have been considered a gross insult; but of Jate there appears to be a charm in the name; and, indeed, there is a charm the name and in the reality itself. We do not chide our Episcopal friends for their admiration and love for Catholicitys it s a cheering sign. What we criticise them for is_their pretense of being braneh _of the Chureh of Chist, when not one of those other churches which they Tecomize as branches of the rue Church recog- nize their title or claimed relationship.” The bulk of the money contributed by the faithful to the Holy Sce durimr the last few years has been saved up as capital to maintain aid Sec 1n the future from the most cruel of Wants and slaveries, namely, dependence ou the bounty of the Royal Govérnment for a living. Close economy has been practiced by the reign- ing head of thie Church, although no other Pon- tiff ever received so many voluntary contribu- tions of cash, estimated at $14,000,000 gold since 1570, and his nearest blood relations bave been invariably set back with amere song, most olten a Lenedicite or an Ave, when applying to him for the smail favor of a small loan. * In a word, he has been downright stingy in beball of the grand future of the Holy in partibus infideli- ume, nOW existing at large, and. especially in its lieng-centres. His niece. with a siclk husband on her hands and a sudden reverse of finauces, unce wrote to him from Naples re uesting the bestowal of a small amount of funds along with his blessing, aud he sent her $40 1 a money- order. PERSONAL. The Rev. James McLeod, late of Joliet, Iil., has been elected Superintendent of the Institu- tion for the Blind at Batavia, N. Y. The Rev. J. J. Irving, lawe of Chicago, has accepted the invitation of the church at Swad- lincote, near Burton-on-Trent, England, to be- come its pastor. ‘fhe Rev. Wallace W. Duncan, of Wofford Colleze, S. C., brother of the late Dr. J. Al Duncan. has been elected President of Rao- dolph-Macou College, Virginia. Mrs. D. D. Davis, of Allecan, Mich., besides bequests to several colleges, has made the Baptist Church of Allezan, Mich, her residuary Jegatee. The church will receive about §60,000. The Rev. A. A. Trimper has left _the Presb terian Church in '\nsu% and joined the Evan- “ical Lutheran Synod, and tbe Rev. I G. §lerkn has left, the Evanelical Association und united with the Presbyterians. Dauiel Waldo, 2, Seventh-Day Baptist, of Crawford County, Pa., who was fined by 2 Juatice of the Peace for working on Sunday, has Teceived a favorable decision from the County Court overruling the Justice's record. The conversion of Israclites to Roman Catholicism 13 such an uncommoy event that a correspondent makes mention of the reception of Miss Lizzie Levi into membership in St Jobin's Roman CatholicChurch, of Plattsmouth, Neb., few Sundavs azo. The Rey. Leizhton Parks, Rector of the new Eplscopal C i Geneva, hu wantea Father Hyacinthe to iny the corner Conference magnanimously abstained from in-.| stone the otner dsy, but the Fatner was absent, and_ had to send a letter of regret, expressine his “high estecm and lively sympathy with the Episcopal Church of Americd, free from all shackles, truly eatholic, libera,l and Christian.” Gnn. Leslie Combs is evidently a Baptist. He savs: “I am a regular, old-fine Henry Clay Whig fn_politics, and a St. Johv-in-tne-wilder- ness, milk-and-honey, fironsides Baptist in re- none of your eprinkled fellows, bat a regular dipped-in-the-water-of-Jordan Baptist.” The Rey. Arthur Mursell, a prominent Bap- tist minister of England, whogs about to vls?r. this country, has written a letter which attracts considcrabic attention in Encland, proposing the uniou of the Baptists and the Independents. To bring this about he sugrests that the Con- gregationalists acree to abandon infant bap- tism, and that the Baptists recognize sprinkling or affusion as baptism. He thinks the Baptists, excluding some of the dogmatic leaders, would be willing to do this. Dr. Mair,a physician of high standing in Kingston, Ont., who died recently in a good old aremarkable man. He had a special- fe, and that an excellent one. It was Sabbath observance. He was Presidentof a society to promote the righ observance and prevent the desceration of the Lord’s Day, and with unwearied vigilance he watched over all preventible invasions of its sacred rest on railroads and canals, or inany other wav bv Government o _city authority, or _permission. He published reports of the Society and tracts inculcating Sabbath observance, and obtained insertion for them in newspapers or scattered them widely in the tract and pawphiet form. MOODY. . The Vermont Chronicle says that Mr. Moody’s campaigu in that State has been more widely planned and effectively executed than any other that has preceded it in Vermont. and that while it is too early to compute the results, it is cer- tain that a frreat awakenine has resulted, and hopes are entertained * that the work of con- version will widen and deepen with the coming mounths.” Mr. Moody and his co-workers transferred their work from Vermont to New Hawpshire ou Sunday. The same plan will be followed as during the montn of October; that is, four of the prominent towns in the State will be oc- cupied at the same time. The Convention of the Youne Men’s Christian Associations of New Hampshire ‘have promised the Evangelists hearty. co-operatiou. Mr. Moody has sent a cireular-letter to all the pastors of the State, in which lie urges that, bezinning with the —first Sunday of November, ecial services be held during the month, at’ such times and places as ministers and churches in their discretion deem est,” and that an effort be made to reach every person in the State. Mr. Moody will spend December in Rhode Island. Connecticut is already redeemed; it went Republican, DOUBTFUL PIETY. The man who has been looking for a sea ser- pent all summer has returned, and is lookingz for an oyster in a church-fair stew.—Herald P. 1. Man. Uncle Daniel Drew has again gone into Wall street, and several impecunious theological seminaries are anxiously watching his move- ments.— Worcester Press. In reading a hymn to be sung ome Sunday afternoon, & New York minister rccently said: “You may omit the fourth verse. Idon’t be- lieve it's true.”— Unidentified Ex. An Indian said, when he first heard it, he was much surprised that the white meu killed their Savior. but_since he kuew them he wondered that they did not steal His clothes. A paragraph states that forty years ago a mis- sionary was_not allowed to remain ou the Fiil Islands. AR of which means that they general- Iy died from the effects of the ’eat.—New York Lvening Telegram. Lady’s maid—* And remember, granny, when thie Dirchess comes you must say ¢ Your grace.’ Do you understand?” *Yes, yes; I under- stand. For what [am about to receive, the Lord make me truly thankful.”” The Presbyterinn Church has just decided that women canuot be_permitted to preach in its pulpits. But the Presbyterian, or any other Chureh, Lasn’t the power to preveot women (Lom _Ic]c:urinz in bed at unreasonable hours of the night. © Ma, aid a thoughtfal boy, *I don’t think Solomon was 50 rich as they say he was.” Wny, my dear, what_could have put that into your head?” #Why, the Bible says he slept iith his fathers; and I think if he had been so rich, he would bave had a bed of his own. There are queer nooks and_corners left n old Eneland. A visitor to a countrs parson tells Tiow, when he accompanied him’ lately to take the duty in a remote parish, the sexton said: G Perkaps vour reverence won’t mind preaching from the chancel, for we've got aduck a sittin’ in the pulplt.” i Some of the prayers of eccentric men have been worth repeating. Adam Scotc had a boy Rob who was u great terror_to him. He prayed very earncstly for him, and ouce in this wise: &0, Lord. ha'e merey on Rob. Ye ken yoursel he is a wild callant, and thinks nae mair o’ com- witting sin than a dog does o' licking a dish; but put thy hook in his nose and thy bridle in his sab, and_gar him come back to thee Wi’ a jerk’ ]len’ el no forget the longest day be Las to ive. CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. John Abbott French preaches at the Fourth Charch, morning and evening. ~The Rev. James Maclanzhlin preaches at the corner of Sangamon and Adams streets, morning and evening. —The Rov. Jacob Post preaches at the Noble Street Church as usual. —The Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D. D., will preach this- morning 1 _the Fifth Church, Indiana avenue and Thirticth street. In the evening the Rev. D. E. Johnson, of New York, will deliver a lectare on_**The Chitdren's Crusade.”™ __The Rev. Dr. Worrall will preach . the Eizhtn Church, comer of West Washington and Robey streets, in the morning, and will deliver o sermon especially to_youns men in the evening. Zhe Rev. A. E. Kittredze will preach in the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Tiwentieth street, in the morning, and the Rev. J. Monro Gibson in the evenin: 'he Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach in the First Charch, corner of Indiana avenne and Twen- ty-first street, morning and evening. he Res. Prof. F. L. Patton will preach in Jefferson Park Church. corner of Throop and ‘Adams street, morning and evening. . “The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach in the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak ave- pues, morninz and evening. Jorning subject: “*iidlp in Fam —Tile Rev. E. N, Barrett will preach in West- minster Cliurch._Morning subject: **Panl Be- fore Acrippa.” Evening, address to Toung Peo- ple’s Society. . METHODIST. The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at Centensry Charch morning and evenine. —The Rev. John Williamson preaches at the Michizan-Avenue . Church. Morning sabject: *-'The Luw of Christian Dilizence.” Revival serv- jces in the evening. “The Rev. M. M. Parkharst preaches at the First Church, Morning subject: ** Ihe Leaven." Evening subject: **The Wedding Garment.™ —The Rev. W. F. Crafta preaches t Trinity Charch, Indiana " avenne, pesr Twenty-fourth \treet, " Evening subject: **The Waterloo of the “Lfhe Rev. S. McChesney preaches at the Park- Avenue Church this morning, and the Rev. J. 8. Osteander in the evening. 4 TThe Rev. A. W. Patten will preach morning and evening in the Wabash-Avenue M. E. Church. “The Rev. John Atkineon will preach in Grace corner of LuSalle and Wit streete, morn- ening. Subject for theevening: **The Great of the Greal Doom. ™ Nois —The Rev. T. C. Clendenning will preach in the Langley Avenue Church. corner of- Thirty-ninth street. mornmgand eve T The Rev. George Chase will preach in the Win- terStreet Church, corner of Forty-fourtn strcet, morning and evening. The Rev. S. M. Adams will preach in the Western Avenue Church, corner af Monroe etreel, Morning subject: ** [low to Attain the Greatest Spiritual Lafe '; evening: **Our Deeper Convic- tions. ™" -2 . of New York. on her way to Salt Lake Citv to assume the duties of a mission- ary. will speak this evening in the Ada Street Church. Subject: **The Lord’s Prayer.™ BAPTIST. The Rev. E. O. Tavlor preaches at the Central Church. Chicazo avenue. between Clark and Dear- borp, morning and evening. 5 The Rev. R. P. Allison preaches at_tbe North Star Church this morning. ‘The Hou. James Rea Wil reply to *- Ingersoll's Gods ™ in the evening —The Rev. F. Ravlin preaches at the West- End Opera-Honse morning and eveninz. The Free Socicty have leased the hall, ond hereafter will nold regular services. ¥ —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt. D. D., will preach morning snd evenine in tne Centennial Churel West Jackson and Lincoln streets. = ZThe Rev. Galusha Andereon will preach in the Second Church, corner of Jorzan and Monroe Streets, Morning subject: °*The Pulvitand the Evening: **1s the Young Man Absolom Saf It Rer. J. W, Custis will preach in the Michigan Avense Church, near Twenty-third Btrect. i the morning. i T he Rev. D. B. Cheney will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paolina Morning subject: **Conversion of St. Paul.” Eveping: ‘- The Great Awakeniog in the Time of Edwards. " A “OThe Kev. W. W. Everta will preschin the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and 'll;hiny-l‘hsxhureethln the morning, and the Rev. C. 'erren in the evening. P e Rov. Bt Cressey will presch in the Coventry-Street Church. corner of Bloomingdale street, morning and eveninz. Subject in the evening: ** Destroction of Jerusalem.™ EPISCOPAL. = ‘Bishop McLaren will officiaze at the Cathedral of SS. Peterand Panl. corner of Washington and Peoria streets, Commanion at 10:50 3. m. "~The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate in the morning and afternoon (4:10) at St. James® Church, cornerof Cass and Huron streets. Com- munion at S a. m. —The Rev. E. Sallivan will oficiate morning and evening at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue. —The Rev. Francis Manstield will officiate morn- inzand eventng at_the Church of the Atonemeut, corner of Washinzton and Robey streets. S —The Rev. J. Bredberg will ofliciate morning and evening at St._Ansranus’ Charch, 1o Sedgwick street, near Chicao avenue. . —The Rev. Clinton Locke, D. D., will oficiate morning and evening at- Grace Church, Wabash avente, near Sixteenth street. —The Rev. Stephen T. Allen will officiate morn- ingand evening at st John's Church, Ashland avenne, uear Madison strect. —There will be services morning and cyening at the Church of the Holy Communion, Dearborn strect, near Thirtventh. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate mornin:g and evening at toe Chburch of the Atonement. m:rsnu of Lasalle and E£lm streets. Communion atSa. m. . —There will be services at St. Luke's Mission, corner of Taylor street and Western avenue, at + p.m. —The Rev. Charles S. Lest ing and evemng at will officlate mbm- St Paul's Church, in Hyde Patk avenue, near Forty-ninth street ~ZiThe ev. I I, Fleetwood will oificiate mora- inz and eveniuz at St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottaze Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth strect. —The I i. ¥, Cushmsn will officiate mora- ingand evening at St. Stephen's Church, in Jobu= son street, near Twelfth. ~The Rev. Luther Purdee will officiate mornivg and evening at Calvary Church,on Warren avesuc, near Oakley street. Commuuion at Sa. m. —The Rev. T. N. Morrson, Jr., will officiate morning_nnd evening at the Charsh of the Epiph- any, on Thtoop street. near Monroe. —The Rev. W, J. Petric will ofliciate morninz and evening at ghe Church of Our Redeemer, cor- ner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. —Tne Rev. licary G. Perry will officiate morning and evening at All”Saints’ Church, coruer of Car- Denter aud Ohio streets. —There will be services in the morning at the Good Shepherd Mission, Lawndale. —The Kev. F. N. Lufon will officiate morning ana evemng at Eminanuel Charch, —The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will officiate morn- ingand evemng at Si. Mark's Church, Evanston. REFORMED EPISCOPAL, The Rev. W. J. Hunter will preach at the church corner of Ann und Washington streets. ‘Morningsubject: **The Great Reconciler.’ Even- ing subject: ** The Reception.” bemn: the seventn of a series on the parable of the Prodizal Son. —The Rev. M. D. Chu: preaches at St. Jobn's Church morning and eveni 2 The Kev. It 11, Dosworth preaches at Graca Church, corner of loyns and Le Moyne streets, morning and evening, and in the aliernoon at En- glewood. N Phere will be the usnal services at Emanuel Church, comner of Hanover and Twenty-eighth in the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Homan streets, at 20:30 3. m. —The R ev. Bishop Chency will preachin Christ Charch, corner of Michiian avenue and Twenty-fourth street. Morning: ~ **The Anchor Which Holds"”; evemng: °*Knowledge Througl Obedience. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. E. . Willizms preaches at the Forty- seventh Street Church this morning. "~The Rev. Charles Hall Everest preachesat Ply- mouth Church, a8 nsual. e Rev. D. N. Vanderveer preaches ot the Tnion Park Church merning and evening. —The Rev. G. N. Boardman will preach in the New England Charch, corner of Dearvorn avenus and Deluware place, morning and evening. —The Rev. Georse 1. Pecke will preach in tho Leavitt Strect Church, corner of Adams strect, morning ond evening. Sabject in the evening: “*\Why Do 1 Belicve in Inspiration?” —The Rev. C. A. Towle wili preach in Bethany Chureh, corner of Paulina and Huron streets. Morning subject: ** The Removal of Obstacles to God's Work "'; evening: °*The Shadowy and the Real in Li Z'The Rev, G, W. Mackic will preach in the morning at the South Park Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-third street. CHEISTIAN. A. J. White will preach in the Central 997 West Van Buren street, moraing and eve: —Elder M. N. Lord will preach in the Central Church, at Caiwpbell Hiall, corner of Van Saren street and Campbell avenue, in the morning. Sun- day-school at 12:30 p. m. —Dr. A. M. Collins, of Grand Rapids. will preach in the First Charch, corner of Indinny avenne and Fwyenuty-th street, morning and evening. Sun- day-school at 9:30 b m. ZChristians will mect in the chapel, No. 318 West Chicago avenue, at3 p. m. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Dr. Ryder preaches at the Church of the Redeemes this morning, and Dr. Ellix thia evening. Evening subject: ‘*The Battle of the Churches with Parker and Renan.” —Fhe Xtev. Sumner Ellis will preach in St. Paul's Church. Michizan avenue, near Bistosmsii streel. in pthe morning, and tne Rev. Dr. Ktyder in the evening. UNITARIAN. Brooke Heriord preaches at the Clurch subject: **Rehgion and cupject: **Early ilymns With illustrations’ by the of the M thie Children,” Eveni and Hymp Writers,” chorr. lhe Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach this in the Fourth Church, Prairie avenue, near Thirtieth street. “\irs. Eliza K. Sunderland will preach at 3:30 p. . 10 the old fchool-house at Englewood. _The Rev. ‘I, 5. Forbusb will preach morning and evening In Unity Church, and in_the Third Church, corner of Monsoe und Laflin streets, at 3 p- m. NEW JERUSALEM. - The Rey. W. F. Pendicton preaches at the Temple, corner of Washiugton street and Ogden aventie, and at the Chupel,_ corner of Clark ond Menominee streets, this evening. The Rev. L. P. Mercer preaches, at Hershey Masic [lall thismorntng: Subject: **The Gospel of Kedemption. ™ - LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Beifour preaches at the Chutch of the Holy 'Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue aud Eric street, moming and evemng. MISCELLANEOUS. The Res. W. H. Thompson will preach at the Wasbingtonian Home thi afternoon. —glder McCulloch preaches at No. 91 South Green street to the Adventists this mornins. 'The Rev, G. W. Sharp preuches ut Burr Mis- sion this morning, and Mr. John Davey in the Paynter preaches at Calvary evening. The Rev. IL. M. 2 120 Ogden avenue. dorning sub- reeucy of the Case.” Evening sub- «+Jesus in Prager.” —The Progressive Lyceum meets at 12:20at Grow's Hall, No. 517 West Madison street. TThe Rev. D. i. Mansfield preaches at the corner of May and Fulton streets this morning, and Mrs, Munsteld in the eveninz. Sectarians mect at Room 23 Block, a -30. Subject for discussion: Word of G ‘bt It Is and When Writte ZThe Rev. A. Youker will preach morning and evening in the Independent ‘West Side Tabernacle, Sforzan and Indiana strects. —The Rev., C. C. Manston will preach this even- ing in Lake Avenue Church. Wilmette. Z The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach in the West End Opera Hall, Weat Madigon street, be~ tween Elizabeth and Throop, every Sanday, morn- Ing and evening. Sabbath-school jmmediately after morning eervice. 2 Draciples of Christ will meet at No. 220 West Randoiph street, at4 p. m. A Spintual medinma and Spiritnalists will meet at Miss Edith Hurry's parlors, third flat of No. 239 fWest Madison strect, at 2 p. . Seats free. S'The First Soclety of Spiritualiets will meet in Grow's Hall, No. 517 West Madison_street, morn- ing and evening. The spiric of Martin Luther will entrance Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, and dis- course on ** Life in the Spheres,” at the evemng service. 4 ' unlon Gospel meeting will be held at3 o'clock at Carpenter's Hall, No. 221 West Madison street. o Deacon Willard will deliver tbe firat of his geries of Bibie lectures 1n the Chapel of the Chi- cago Cniversity at 3 v'cluck. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Nov. 18—Tiventy-6fth Sunduy after Trinity. CATHOLIC. Nov. 18—Trwenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Dedication of Basiticas of SS. Peter and Paul. . 19—st. Elizabeth of Hungary, W.; St Pontian, P. 3L 20—$1. Felix of Valois, C. 5]—Resurrection of the B V. M. 245t Cecina, V. M. Vor. 23St Clement, P. M.; St Felicitas, 3. 0. 24—St. John of the Cro:s, C.; St Chrysog- onas, M. . o THE HEART'S LOVE. " There’s a voice that 1love—0 I love it! “Ths written deep down in my beart: Tt cometh when tirst glows the stargnt— 1t cometh when joy doth depart. 1t cometh, a feir gleam of sunshine, ‘When Winter is over, is deads 1t heralds the bright, biappy Springume— ALifeanda Love Overhead It cometb, o vision enchantiag, While fairy forms look through the night— Sweet epirita forever me haunting, ‘And fihng my scal with delignt. And sthll it keeps sinving and singin Thue voice, away down in my hea And till otber v0iCes beem Fingy T Wondering wish what thou art. Far away in yon bright, happy region, Where haopy souls only do dwell, Where God and His Angels are lezion, This anawer comes back: e will tell. We will teil you whence cometh this music Yon're hearing without and within; . The one §s the music of Heaven— The other ts Heaven within. Josgen D. TCRIXY,