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s . ¥ nfifll&l:hierumenls inspired by these dogmas ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY.. JANUARY 13, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGEY restraints of the old dogmas, but you necd you back from loose living. You Accept a tmdsf \fo hiold, and the world viili be_the better ouly the truth founded on fizl‘:‘:r e lear tevolation: iove and fear God, D s commandmextz, and we shail bear no com- plaint about the Dozmas of the Daddy. = % L. W. OLxEY. A DIVE AFTER TRUTH, ETERNAL PUNISUMENT NOT MENTIONED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. the Ziditor of The Tribune. AUBURY, N, Y., Jav. 8.—I belicve that the Ola _Tcst.nr at Scriptures nowhere teach, and nowhere evea fmply, the doctrine of eternal punishment. If one distinct proof of the re- verse ol this position can be produced, I have yet tolearnit. If it cannot, such negative evi- deuce certainly speaks. volumes (nay, a whole eyclopedia) against the ductrine. Those great occasions on which the Creator conversed personally with Adam, with Noah, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and with Moses, the antetype and forerunner of Christ, fur- nished abundant opportunities for so important. arevelation, and those verbal teachi would doubtless have been full of this awfui truth (if trath it were), instead of all belug utterly silent on the subject. ‘When, amidst the thunders that shook Mount Stnaf, God descended to deliver the moral law to Moses, something would certainly have been said of this awful doom. Forty days and forty nights Moses sojourned with the Lord, receiv- ing from Him the most minute instructions for the_guidance of His chosen prople, but yet re- ceving no warning that that stilf-necked and disobedient rtace (who even during their prophet’s absence in the foly Mount made and worshiped a golden calf, and grave to that dumb idol the glory of bringing thew up out of Egypt) were incurring e risk of eternal woe by that ein or by any other sins. Yct idolatry was apparently regarded by the Deity as the chiet of transerossions. The Second Commandment, which forbids it, is the only commanament which speaks of the pun- ishment to fotlow its infraction What is that punishent? Is it endless burn- ing? Is it suffering ot any kind through count- less billious of centuries? ” Listen! * Ye who are so0 ready and so flippant in dealing out this fiery doom to yoar fellow mortals,—ye who * deal damnation round the world,"—listen to the voice of Him who proclaimed Himself to Moses as ** the Lord, the Lord" God, merciful and gra- clous, long-suilering, and abundant in goodness and truth. The warning and the threat which accom- panies the Second_Commandment are as fol- lows: * For'l the Lord thy God am a jealous (God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth genera- tions of them that hate me.” Remember it is Deity who now speaks; Deit; who could forget nothing,—overlook nothing,— be ignorant of nothing. “The occasion was the most august and sublime in the history of the human race, the delivery of the moral law to the world by God in person, amidst the quak- ings of that cloudg-enveloped mountsin which trembled bencath the footsteps of its Maker. But the Almighty makes no threat of cternal woe to the reverent and awe-stricken multitude who encircle that Holy Mount. Yet he speaks. of punishment,—of visiting the fuiquity of the fathers upon the children. ete. Again, I invoke commou sense (if it has not quite forsaken tho world, or it it is not para- Ijzed by abstruse theological teachinzs), 1 in- voke common semse to the contemplation of this subject. ‘Would it not be most unreasonable that man, ushered into the world without his own con- sent, born with a corrupt nature, surrounded by all the allurements of the world and the fesh, and constantly exposed to the temptations of the devil,—that man, so situated and falling into sins, should first suffer beavily for them in person all through this life; then that they should be visited upon his children and Lis children’s children to the third and fourth generation, and finally, in further expiation of them, that he should be plunged into beil, there to weep, and groan, and howlunceasingly, while all the cycles of eternity moved slowly forward, and allthe mausions of Heaven were Vocal with the songs of the redeemed to “the Lord, the Lord God, merciful an: gracious, long suffering and abundnnt in goodness and truth? Is there sny reason left in a world where such things can be believed, nay, where such doe- trizes can_be taught by learned and_even by good men? 1s it wonderful that infidels scoil ‘and sneer at teachings like thest, and, knowing them to be held as esseutial parts of our most holy faith, that they deride the wholesystem as pucrile and erroneous. Doubtless there sre many clereymen who do not teach it; but they culpably the subject over in silence, knowing that their people be- lieve it, and that the outside world understand it to be the creed of all the orthodox churches. ‘Bnt have we not reasoun to believe that there are some (let us hope they are very few)who utterly disbelieve in this doctrine, yet openly teach it to the people as part of the theological system which thev are paid forfmaintaining, and which they are expected to preach under penalty of disiavor and loss of pastoral oflice aud its emoluments? “The ** Ten Commandments ’ arefree from ail taint of the doctrine of eternal punishment, al- though idolatry, the chief of the forbidden sins, higs its penalties foreibly and speeially defined. The Third Commandment also has its warning: **For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taleth Ilis name in vain.” Docs this mild admonition look }ike a hint of endiess burnings? Now look at the exhortations and sermons of Moses just before his death, addressed to the people whom he was about to leave. Iis prom- ises to the obedient,—his threats to the diso- bedicnt,—his pleadings, his warnings, his ex- liortations betgay an_earnestness and fervor equal to that of 8 modern revival preacher; he could not relinquish his subject. until every argument was exhausted and cvery motive was Sppealed 1o which could possibly fnfluence that rebellious and refractory nation. But does he threaten them with eternal mis- ery? No! In the twenty- RELIGIOUS. giewsof Correspondents on the Upperniost Topic in the Moral World, An Urgent Plea for the Retention of the “ Dogmas of the Daddy.” hat the 01d Orthodoxy Did to Build Up Goed Men and Morals. Eternal Punishment Nowhere Mentioned under the Jewish Dispen- sation. Everlasting Death, Not Torture, the Penalty Awaiting Unre= generate Sinners. Some Cogent Beasons for a Revival of Druidical Rites and Cere- monies, Episcopatianism Charged with Running - to Sensationalism and Form- alism. General Church Notes---Personals ~-Doubtful Divinity---Ser- vices To-Day. OLD ORTHODOXY. THE DOGNAS OF TIE DADDY. To the Editor of The Trilune. Cmcaco, Jan. 12.—While anxious politiclans are wrangling over the ¢ Dollar of the Daddy » certain famons pulpiters are wrangling over the dogmasof the daddy. In the one case the dol- lar is rejected because {tis deficient {n quantity. In the other case the dogmas are denounced be- canse they are defective in quality. The daddy, simple old soul, was contented with his dollar, because it answered all the ends of money; by it ** he bought, und sold, and got pin” He was no less satisfied with his dormas, 25 by them he built a character emi- nent for sturdy virtues, for manly picty, and naintly goodness,—a character which, for sin- were,, honest Christiau excellence, {5 not sur- passed by any specimens which modern theories taveproduced. Now, the value of a dollar is determined by the worth of the article 1t buys; so the truth of adomna is confirmed by its results fn man's character and destiny. This isa principlo which ll thisking minds must admit. The treeis Enown by its fruit. We do not gather grapes {rom thorns nor fizs from thistles. The lite is not an accidental appencage of a man’s faith, but an incvitable outgrowth from it. A loose, easy-going life is the legitimate outcome of a loose, easy-going creed. Foranodes of faith let graceiess zealots fight; . 1is can't be wrong whose life is 1n the right. Measared by this rule, the dormas of the fathers wiil appear to be neither deflefent in quantity nor defective in quality. The nataral tedency of theee dogmas is to broduce a stal- wart, sturdy piety. Founded as they are, not ‘tpon a namby-panby, wishy-washy sentiment- lism, but upon the teachings of the Bible,~and the Bible only.—they arc rigid, intolerant, divine. They licld no parles with wrong, give no license of indulence, there are reasons fin'n for serving the Master, noue are accepted or serving the Devil.. These dogmas of the tathers held forth a God, not one-sided, muti- lsted, headless, handless, limbless, but 2 whole God—one having & head as well as a. heart, a God of justice as well as of love, of purity as well as of patience. Our Christian fathers had usweep of vision too vast to gaze only on smil- inz Venus: they saw every star in the cope of beaven, and cave to each its place. Their God wasnot reduced to one attribute, but they aserib- ed1n Him a zodiac of attributes, and all active o man’s behalf. Sume wmodern theological star-gazers go out iu the cool of the evening, winkat lovely Venus, &nd retire to dreamn of love, and sweet kisses, and fond embraces, thinking they have seen all. Should some naughty nlanet presume to tross her disc, they rush forth with bow and uiver, aud with Justy arm hurl their arrows, ipped in gul, at the impudent interjoper. Sec the Thunderer of Kings (County) and the kinz of thunderers stalk forth, armea like old Jdove, with spear and battle-ax, and swear—or take s ““ solemm oath,” as the McVicker Sun- fower mildly puts it—that the planet Justice must not make the transit of Love. He waves bis magic wand toward heaven, and sends out tbe order, Henceforth let there be but one star inthe theologic sky, and let that lone star by Love! Not so limited was the vision of the ol orthodox fathers. The infinite Delry, like a starrs firmanent, was present to them; not one star in the divine galaxy would they allow to be eclivsed,—they let each shine in its full orbed eplendor! And so they wrote and sang: ith chapser of Deuter- onomy, lifty-thre¢ verses are occupied in record- ing the various kindsof curses which the Isracl- ites were to bring upon themselves if they A God all mercy is a God unjust. Tbe God ther worshiped ever held forth a sceptre, but it was a sceptre of rightcousness. ey had no thouznt that a just Ruler wouwld Teward with like houors and glories the sincere, da\'a:lz]zenmus, noble, manly saint, and the manall reeking with moral putrescence; that the “martyrs of Jesus ™ and those whose souls were smeared with their blood should wear the same crown and join in the same rapturous EO This they lett for modern dreamers to Qiecover, Their dogmas taught them that to reward the 2ood and bad atike in the future world, wogld be 2 cruel wronr to the good, and 3 the eardie time it would offer a premium to riekedness. They belfeved that Heaven is a sinned against God ++Carsed shall be thy basket and thy s «*Cursed shall he tae fruit of thy oody fruit of thy land.” -+ Cared <halt thou be in the shalt thou pe in the field, " etc., etc. ‘The pestilence, famine, consumption, fever, inflammation, an cxtreme burning, the sword, blasting, anildew are to pursue them “until they porish.” They ere to fall before their cne- mics; they are to be carried into captivity; they are 0 become an_ astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations whither the Lord suatl lead them. {How fully this prophecy wus tulfilled we all know.] 4 But bere, where ingenuity seems exbausted in nd the , and cursed Trepared place for a prepared people; that t L;hnsz ame to save mcnp;;ar:“ mcilr Eh? —yiot in | findine curses enough to fri vlnezcglv.)c;&if‘\’\‘-ls‘:mu their sin s o ohedicnce, no mention is ma al woe. e g e L e vl 2% | Wiy did not, Moses tell them, “I1 ye rebel I!Xmmeto save must accept the consequences ol such refusal. And more than this did these dozmnas teach. It was mever inti- mated by thesc that a mere beliel was £alicdent to cecure to the soul “cternal life,"— u 2life of purity und goodness, of vbedience ::G conseeration to (3od, was ever insisted upon Ilhr requsite quaiification for future bliss, mlhwfllbcsecll that the dogmas of the fath- o 2d bone, and muscle, and heart: that who- T accepts them must Ieel their vitalizing and Ticorating force. Inspired by their divine b millions have Iived a saintly life in this il of sin. Cheered and ginded by thess old o5mas, other millions of hera saints have pa- Iy edured the most crueltorture that the azaint God aid fend sinful lives ve shall be gricvously mrmeu'led in hell-fire, without inter- isston, forever?” e why did he not_threaten them with that wodificd holl, which polite preachers paint, \where sinners are not to Iy roasted on. Tive coals and suffocated wita the sinoke of ma- terial brimstone, but are to sutfer something quite ns bad or worse,—some exquisiie mental Aoy through all eternity? Wiyt Surely these threats, Delier been more powerful then auy oth a1l others combi vhiere i very urfent that every po: Sought to influence Tot have been overlooked. , would have than * B8 of man could invent. They bave rotted erlooked. . Indunzeaps, becn rmsl;d n (urn{ccs, burnt at Overlooked! Forgotten? Left out h{ mis- 1he stake, and devoured by savage beasts. The | take! And that, 100, bY an inspired prophet of Most High? Shame! Shawe on the folly, e raece the wickedness which could ad: vance such an hypothesis! 7 Let me assurc you, reader, whoever you are, ey fathers can never be 1old by tongue or 3 they constitute the lofticst ~themes of P2 and orators, and their praises shall be ERS b eraphic clioruses s fon i T Tor Taymay, mninister or rulinz clder, phic dloruses so loud aud long as | priest or Jaemals WSUT S R St ee ke ficaven’s hih arches ring. Jigou ¢t alas, notwithstanaing all these sab- a2 Berore achicremets wrouglit by these e 33 of the fathers, they are just nowattack- o ¥ 3 fow theolozi Hotspurs with a warmth reason for the great Lawaiver's reticence on thils subject was that be had never heard of this tes- rible doctrine! - ; Therefore the dying prophet did not proclaim it when it would have served lis purpose bester than anythine else éa dissuading Lis people from with agony. Infire exactiy like that which we have on carth. thy body will lie, asbestos-like. forever unconsumed; all thy veins roads for the ieet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the Devil shall forever play his diabolical tune ot Hell’s unutterable lament I’ If he could have made them believe that, probably they would not have made any more golden caives. Why, I repeat, why did_not Moses tryit? Why? P. H. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT ! WHAT 1§ IT?—A SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENT. TG the Editor of The Tribunc. Cnicaco, Jan. 11.—~That human destiny ‘is not closed when men die, is accepted as a fact by the large majority of mankind. That “itis appointed untomen . . . to die, and after death the judument,” is not only the creed of Christlans, but, practically, that of pagans also. A julgment presupposes a judge and some one to be judged. Sentence, cither of condemna- tion or acquittal, canpot be pronounced until after the trial. A judgment also presupposes a law broken, and the offender sgainst that law as subjeet to the penalties attached to tne breaking of it, due regard belng also had that the penalty be in proportion to the magnitude of the offense; otherwise the Iaw loses its majesty by the inferfority of its penaltics, or | aefeats its ends by a penalty too rigorous for thelaw broken. This is human law, whichfs patterned after the Divine, and appeals to that innate sense of justice which is the birthright of every intelligent _creature, implanted there by his Creator, and for a wisc purpose. God, to whom the end is known from the beginning, foresaw that man would transgress the luw which He would enact for his welfare, and thus place himself in the position of a criminal before his Lawgiver. God created man with a freedom to choose for himself, sud, a3 long as he was obedient to his Maker, was unalfected by any law, that being mude for cvildoers, and they being the only ones who feel Its power. Man was therefore endowed with reason, making him capable of choosing intelligently, and of fully understanding his relation to the law of his ~Maker, and the result of its transgression. Fora time nan_obeyed; then came the trans- aression. Now he is a crimiual before a broken Inw, and subject to its penalties. A depraved nature has now obtained, and we, the offspring ol Adam, partake of the same. Altbough in this state by hature, yet grace bas provided aremedy ummzfi theatonement of Chirist; and its beneflts propose to be as far-reaching as the sin it came to save from: that s, to all the race of man. ‘That all have not partaken of its benefits, is an evident fact. Now, if the final destiny of those who accept and those who reject the benefits of the atonement be the same, then Christ died invalu. Butwe caunot accept that the al destiny of all men is the same. Charncter is made the test, and a time is appointed; and a Judge, “ to zive to every an according to his Work.” This is called tlie Judgment Day, and Christ isto be the Judge; and it is written, * We must all appeat before the judgment-seat of Christ.” Iuis also written that this is to be after death, hencethe term future punishment. What this_punishment is, some declare is not revealed in the Scriptures, and of these, we find some_among the learned theologians, cven in our City of Chicago. But a vast majority have been educated to betieve itconsistsiu an eternal, literal hell of fire, where the unregenerate will suffer through a mnever-ending eternity such tortures as the_human mind is not capable of «conceiving of. Yet theidea has obtained among Some that our God who has proclaimed him: seli to be ‘ gracions and merciful, slow to anecer, and of great kindness,” and that “re- taineth not Hifs anger forever,” will not thus torment His creatures for the sins of - a few short years of earthly life. Why? First, bo- causc the penalty is so enormously dispropor- tionate to the offcnse, that it outrages our cense of justice; and, sccondly, because they cannot believe that a Beiog in whomj love, mercy, and great kindness are the elements of character, would ever thus intlict such terrible torments, and argue that the entire race of man will finally be saved; or that this punishment does mot really inesn what they have been taught, oither in its nature or duration. Hence the question now azitating, * Is there a Helld” inwhich the idea largely obtains that there is u ot. We have noticed in the discussion thus far that those who have been busy tearing away the idea of a Hell have bullt up nothing as an cquivalent to those who ure subjects of the wiath of God. Besides, the arguments have not haa a Scriptural test. It is an admitted fact that the only place in the worid where the sub- jeet is revealed is the Bible; then why not sup~ Dose the solution to the question there, and endeavor to find it; and, when found, we are positive {t will be of & nature not unworthy a God of love,—not outrazeous to our sense of justice,—perfectly reasonable in all 1ts bearings on human destiny,—simple enough for a child to understand. *To the law, and to the tes- timony.” The argument that the words ““everlasting ™ aud *eternal 7 must sienify the same duration of time in the caseof bothrighteous and wicked is logical, and_we tirmly believe 1t to be truc; for if tke punishment of the one may be Hwmit~ ed, 50 may the life and blessedness of the othor, and_ the hope of the chiid of God may provea delusion. The root of the matter li Fi *he solution of what the punishment con- tais foung, the question of its duration is also fixed. Our ground of argument is dzom ¢ Bible, and_the acceptance of its lanzunge as we use it ordinarily; for we believe thata re- ward given to guide mun to his' eternal destiny will bé griven in the plainest Janguage; for it is a vrinciple of Inw that penalties of law be couched In the plainest possivle terms. We can only givea tithe of the_direct testimony, leav- ing the infereutial, which supplements the direct. cveral terms are used to speak ol the aestiny of the wicked. First, die. Webster defines this to'mean, “To ceaseto live; to suiler a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to lose life.”” We actept this meaning in_or- dinary matters, why not in the Bible! This the first and final penalty for sfo, God said to Adam, when e forbade bim to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good andevil, if “thou ecatest tuercof, thou shalt surely die.” But you may say, That means the body; the soul isto be punished, ami the sout cunnot div, Listen ‘The soul that sinneth, it shall dic"—Ezek., xviii., 4 This is pluin, positive, and without ambiguity. If the first “dic” means that the body should cease to by parity of ressoniug the second “die wean that the soul should ecase to live . In another place life and death are put in apposition 1o each othier in spesking of the re- sult of good and evil conduct: *The wages of sin is death; but the girs of God is eternal fife.” —Rom., vi.,, 23. “The end of those things is death.”—Rom., vi., 21. This death is called the nd death.” Now, o secoud presuppuses a and similar {n kind to the first; and as the first is understood to mean the cessation of the vital functions, to cease to live, so the “second death must have 2 similar meaning. Second, destroy and destruction—‘‘All the wicked will He destroy.”—Psalms, cxlv., 20. “The wicked is reserved to the day of destru alms, 1xxiii., 18, -oyed tozother."—Psalms, xxxvil. 33, that leadeth to destruction.” “ Be punished with everlasting destruction.”—Second Thess., L., 9. Webster de- fiues destroy as follows: * To ruin; to bring to nouzht; to put an end to; to annfhilate; d of destruction: the termination of life, beauty, . » the state of being destroyed, ruined, deva g Third, perish—“The triumphlng of the he shall perish for- wicked is short, The wicked shall perish Matt., they shall consume; iuto smoke 11 they cobsume away” (Psa., xxxvii., 22). ey that strive with Thee [God] shall perish . hc:\sntb(ng{o(nuuw!," “They 2o to nothing and perish® (Job, vi., 18). #Shall ut- terly perish in_their own corruption” (2 Pet., il 12). Webster defines perish to mean ‘to come to nothing; to be blotted from existence; to die; tolose ii Fourth, slay— With the breath of his iips wilt He {Christ] slay the wicked " (lsa., Xi., 4). “But mine enemies, . . . slay them before me (Luke, XE Fifth, end— (Phil., i, 19). 5 27)- Whose enl s destruction” 1 that borders on frenzy aud mudness. grlbo!.‘ blood that leaps through their veins, ety Ses upou thieir words, is lttle cooler e -lood which simmered in the hearts of rderers of our Lord, As one stands and sit, and when It would have been of infinite im- portance to them to be placed on ther guard against this infinite peril. Wimesses the thwacks ana thrusts which good | - Now read the Junz, the eamest the ai- Y8 orthodors i mow receiviog, he ackiin won- | fectionate appeal of Moses recorded in’the thir- etir chapter of Deuteronomy, e emarkaole words: 1 call Heaven and earth to record this day against you that I li\'_c set before you life and deaih, bl 7 and curs- ing, therefore choose life, that both thou and vsced may live.” l!‘1‘ fi:dl nm{ntiun to t only to show the nder, fatherly interest in his people, likely hie would be to keen back creat” truth so vitally affecting o must have fl“:;“‘\h\‘ this furious onslaught upon the old ol g 105, this senomous crusadel What bedone? Whose ox s he taken, or frggess bas he taken, or whom has he de- mfl.oroz whose hand has he received any farpprd, blind his eves therewith1® By the naturay Venzeance of these Hotspurs one would theewnd tonclude that the old orthodoxy was Kwyoceandembodimentof all evil. They hate they hl perfect batred. Its goblin form haunts bagp g 42F and nieht: they swear atitat on 20 atchuren, and to its urter extermuina- from them . their eternal Welfare. Doubtless 4 occurred to many a modern orthedox clergyman B0 they ha : zcd this matter a great o ve consecrated the peerless powers | that hie could have manax S 3ei being, and. if in their Gying hour thoy | deal better thay Moses did. Rty the s:aip ofold orthodoxyas dcharm azamnst | Faney 3r. Spureeon addressing z! e ge am"‘“‘v asa traphy of lifc’s grand battle,they | fractory fellows! Would he have vas d tm el Lappy. Bat, gentlemen, dream mot of | I taiking to them about, thelr baske and their 2trophi. You will die without the coveted | store? No! He would doubtless have them just what he told to English smners: saalpt our bel 7 t. Old orthodoxy has met and “\vhen thou diest thy soul will be tormented p Dightier warriors_than y It stands ) rilg e facn igor of ma 1 i Yell for it,—but at_the 4 E one.—that will be a hell for ity sltocand when hd Tigor of manhiood. and | &OMeT Judement thy body will join thy soul, and thy body suffused = win hells, thy_soul e iy gioeitpames forgotien. Sirs, cease o | and then thou wilt have U , thy e« Youmay feel restire under the { sweating drops of Sixth, notiing, and nought— They that war aainst Thee shail be as nothing, and gs a thing of nought ? (Isa., Xli., 11-13). Seventh, burn, and burn up~“All that do wickediy shall be as stubbie; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saizh the Lord of 1osts, that it shall leave them neither root nor braneh,” *The wicked shall be ashes under the soles of yourfeer” (Mal, ix., 1-3{. © He will burn up thie chaff with unauenchable tire (Matt., jii., 12). ‘A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies” (Psa., xiv., 10). ‘What burp_and burn up meanis evident to one. Tius is but a small portion of textsas direct evidence of what the ment of - the ungodly will be, viz.: ceas- ing to liv ternal death. And yet we are told that the plures say nothing “definite as to what the punishment is. Csn words be found more puinted, or full of meaning! If these terms bear no positive evidence then languaze fails to convey idess. In ordinary life they are full of meaning; are they less so when speaking of eternal destinfes? Nay, verily. All the terms we have quoted indicate, as strongly as it is possible, that the punishment of the wicked consists in the loss of their life; this being so, eternal torment is not - possible. Suffering is only possible during a state of con- S pun sciousness, and consclousness is not possible except with life. Eternal torment necessitates cternal consciousness, and this, in turn, neces- sitates eternal life; and the positive declaration is: “He that belfeveth on -the Son hath ever- lasting life; but be that believeth not the Son, shall not. seg lite” (John, fii., 36). The life spoken of i¥ the cternal life, of which one class will share, and the other be deprived of, on the test of character. Life is simply a state of con- sclous existence, and “eternal™ a measure of duration of time. Ageain, if the wicked are to suffer cternal tor- ments, und “ Hell ” is the place where such pun- jshment is inflicted, then it follows that who- ever is sent or goes to Hell goes there to sufler eternal torment; and, 88 we find that the rightcous o there, they must necessarily par- take of its punishments.” This is, of course, un- tenable ground, yet how can we escape this con- clusion when we read concerning the resurrec- tion of the saints, their shout of victory as they cry, O grave [margin—hell], where i3 thy vic- tory?? (L. Cor., xv., 55). Ilow can they shout victory oxcent over that from which they were liberated? “This calls for a consideration of the sjemifica- tion of the word ““hell.” Tt is the Eunglish word used in place of one Ilebrew and three Greek words, and is thus defined by Webster: “Hell; from Anglo-Saxoneand old Holland German helan. (Helan “is derived from hele, which signified to hide, to conceal, to cover, to roof. Now obsolete.) The place of the dead; the lower regions, or the gruve; called by tle Hebrews Sheol, and by the Greeks Hades.” The definition of the Hebrew Sheol, and the Greek equivalent, Hades, is, that which is in darkness; hidden; Invisible; Las the meneral meaning of death; a state of death; the do- minion of death. Sheol, in the Old Testament, is found sixty-five times in the text, and twice in the margin,—In all sixty-seven times,—and 1s translated * liell 7 thirty-one tines, * grave thirty-three times, and "“pit™ three times. The “corresponding words in the New Testa- ment translated ~ hell are, Hades, eleven ines, | Colionns, Taclea s, Rivenes once. All students concur in saying the pri- mary meaning of Hades is grave, sepulelire, depository of the dead. Gelienba was the place outside Jerusulem where the refuse of the city was carried, and a fire kept constantly burning to consune ic; this is the ouly word used in conuection with the doom of the wicked to il- lustrate it; and as the type in Gehenna con- sumed wholly, so the anti-typical Gehenna will do the same. * Penalty fora broken law may or may not have suffering connected with it. The penalty 18 the plain wording of the statute, and if there be suftering counected with its execution it isas an adjunct, and not as a primary. The' Jaw takes no cozafzance of the suffering. Two men are condemued to death—one to e shot, the other to be bung. The one shot dies instantly. The pain, if there was any, was but momentary, The one hung is slowly strangled to death, and is 2 half-hour dying. Both die according to the sentence of thelaw, and the law’s demand is atistied ; but how differcnt the amount of suf- fering {n each case. Dehth was the penalty, and that aloi filled the bill. So with God’s_law. Death is the penaity, and the demands of the law are mot met until the.sinner has ceasce to live. Suffering will be connecte with it, but it is not the penalty. This penalty commends itself to human reason in not being excessive. It is a glorious thing to bave consclous existenco; but if they who have it abuse it, is not Gud just and merci- ful to withdraw it from theim? They simply go back to the condition as though they had never been born. Is not this far preferable to the untold, never-ending ages of terriole agony we have been taught to believe? Justice ant mercy are the habftation of God's throne. Who would ascribe to the God whose love was 50 desp as to give His Son as a ransom for lost sinuers a character more repulsive than that of Satan himself? God forbid tnat those who pro- fess to love Him Should ever tarnish his glory, or cast aspersions upon the character of a Belig whose love is beyond desree. * Eternal pun- ishment’ is written as the portion of those who reject Christ; but itis not the " “cternal tor- ment " of a hell of fire. It is the falling under the power of the “second death,” from which there is no resurrection, hence is * cternal deatn.” Toe field is broad and but lghtly touched; but may it be searched to know the truth! Burron W. HoLyes, A DRUIDICAL REVIVAL. REASONS WIY THE ANCIENT CYMBRIAN RE- LIGION SHOULD BE RESURRECTED. New York Times, Auwerican inventive genius i3 addicted to ex- pressing itself in the invention‘of new relizions. In that direction, however, we have not been as suceessful as we have becn inthe invention of labor-saving machines, Mormonism has at- tained a certain degree of materfal success, but neitker in point of originality or zood taste can 1t be honestly praised. its two éhlef dogmas— that everybody should have a good many wives, and that a few men should make alf the money —are copied, the one from Mohammedarism and the otber from our insurance and bauking system. Shakerism is doubtless well adapted for the dissemination of garden-seeds and ap- ple-sauce, but man cannot live by apple-sauce alone, and garden-seeds fail to satisfy the long- fngs of the immortal soul. Mr. Frothinghan, who constantly brings out new serial religions in weekly parts, is certainly {ugenious, but his relizions have fafled to achieve popularity, and though Prof. Adier bas foundes au entircly bew religion, based up- on the comprehensive dogma that we should disbelieve everything, he has been even less successful than Mr. Frothingham, -To the thoughtful mind it is evident that there is no general demand for new religions, aud that the revival of old religious offers much more pros- et of suceess. Mr. Beecher’s revival of Juiversalism bas attracted very wide attention, ana this fact, together with the modern tend- ency to revive all sorts of old, ugly, and ingun- venient patterns of housebold furmture, is very suggestive. Ar. Price, a Welshman, residing near Cardiff, has stolen a march tpon OGT conntrymen by re- viving Druidism, 1t is, perbups, fittine that Druidism should be first revived in its ancient ‘Welsh stronzhold, but it possesses so many features adapted to meet the views of those of our fellow-citizens who find it difficuit or incon- venient to believe in Christianity, that it ought to meet with an enthusisstic reception here. 1In the tirst place, as_eveéry one knows who has studied ** Norma,” Druidism is {ull of delight- fully-solemn ceremonics conducted by larze priests with bass voices and white cotton robes. The vestures of the Ritualisis are very nice in their way, but they are not half so imposing as ping robes of Oreveso and his assist- Then Druidism §s eminentlv o long- haired religion, and thus appeals powerfully to the aspirations of the average Spiritualist. The magnificent beards of the Druid pri and the unequaled back hair of the pricst 'S SUrpass the very best capliary displays of a Spiritualist s, A Spiritualist pienfe is rarcly a picturesque affair, but a Druidical pienic on “its way up the North River, with a score of priest- esses perpetually singing * Casta Diva ™ on the upper deck, and an equal number of priests taking the auspices by examining the interior of ndiviches at the lunch-counter, would be 2 most imposing spect: In addition to their bedef in_long cotton night-zowns, unlimited hair, and Bellinl’s mu- si¢, the Druids believed in a larger collection of miscellancous things than the wildest Spirit- ualist ventures to Dbelieve in. . Thuir priests held intercourse with the most fas Ll epirits, and could read the futyre by the simple and easy process of inspecting 3 man’s interior orzans with the aid of a sealpel and a1 compound microscope. Not only were the priests able to converse with spirits, but_the priestesses were also accomplished *‘mediums,”’—for they did Tot flatter their Roman conquerers by ca themseives * media,’—and could ruise the dea with as much facility as Mr. Gilman displayed in raising certificates of stock. When a priest- ess wished to surround herself with a fow choiee ghosts of departed Britons, she removed hor garments, painted herself sky blue, and hovled until swal of ghosts appeared and olfered to say or do anythi i , on condition that she woald pu s and_conduct lersell in a more quict manoer. We thus sce thata revival of Druidism would give a magniti- cent fleld to the encrgies of a certain class of spiritual mediums.The ordinary pro- cramme, according to which a medium’ with- draws into a cabivet aud falls into a trance, is tedious and prosaic in comparison with that of 5 -tue Druidical priestess. and there is no doubt that were a gifted and besutiful trance medinm to sdopt the Druidical ritual she would add vastly to the variety and interest of her seances —provided, of course, she used 2 good quality of blue paint. 4 While the revival of Druidism wauld thus satisfy the holiest aspirations of the professional Spirivualist, it would prove g_remarkably cheap aud inexpensive religion. The Druids never built costly churches, and then employed Mr. Kimball t6 offer their parishioners the choice of P off a heavy ortzaze or of listening to him trom 7:30 o’clock on Sunday evening until Monday moming. All the Druias needed wasa nice onk grove, a few paving-stones arrunged in & circle, and a zood, substantial altar un which to sacrifice the largest=ized human befogs. We have any quantity of groves and paving-stones, “and there 15 no lack of persons who are admira< bly adapted for burnt ‘or raw offerings, as the case might be. . . . Should the Supply of owmninent statesmen run short, there are enough plumbers and Common Councilinen in our cities to furnish a Druidical altar every day In the year. 2 Such a religion is far better adapted to win | ad | popularity 1 this country than “are the berude creeds of Mormonism and Shakerism and the novelties vresented by Messrs. Frothingham and Adler. Druidism is sufficiently venerable to please the enthusiasts who furnish their drawing-rooms with medimval three-leeged stools, sufliciently wild to suit ths wildest Spiritualist, and sufliciently prepostérous to cominand tife *belief of those. who find the Christian ~religlon wnworthy of a thinkiug mag.? - EPISCOPALIANISM. 13 IT RUNNING EITHER TO SENSATIONALISM OR FORMALISM? A letter was recently forwarded to Bishop Stevens, of Eastern Pénnsylvania, by the Rev, .Dr, Newtou, announcing his withdrawal from the Rectorship of the Church of the Nativity, of Philadelphia, and also from the communion of the church, In the letfr Mr. Stevens refers to tjic manner fo which the ritualistic tendencies of the age have disturbed the peace of the Church, and says: And these complications, runnfng exactl. m the lme of 'the state of thiogs fa the general Church for the past few years, lave opened my eyes to the saddest” con- clusion of my life, f. e, That by slow degrees a chanze has come over the spirit of the P.E. Chnrch to suchan extent that Sensationai- ista on the ‘one Land or Formalisin on the other must characterize the ministrations of the pulpit, or by some means the offending incumbent must be got rid of, Indeed, there are, as I understand the case, only two positions now in which it is possible for a cleryyman to preach Christ and not the Chureh or emply sentimentalism, and retain his place. If he 1y o Bishop, and thus secure fn lis ‘position for life, he may preach what he chooses to preach and do what he chooses to do, and noonecan touch him. Or again, ifheisa presbyter surroundéd by a body of lnymen of mesns and intluence, who love the truth as traly as he loves* it himeelf, and who sre pre- ured to stand aronnd’ him and hold up is hands in his ministry, here, too, he is rafe,—safe beconse his immediate sarroundings are étronger than the outside pressure, But apart from these two cases I see no hope in resisting the popular current. And he who attempts it must 1nevitably be awept naide. It 1a sfmply a question of time,—a very short time, 1.think, the event will prove,—when the ablest and most honored clergy of your diocese shall feel the most practical results of the change of which Ispeak, Will they say they arc notfeeling them now? 1 veifture to doubt whether there Is a parish in yourdiocese that is falrly an exception to these re- marks, Is there not everywhere an increpsing im- patience with the simplicity of the Gospel? Do you not meet on every hand a growing demand for the objective symbols of a mere sensuous worship? Is thore not a fearfully increasing pressure upon onr pulpis to substitute the gos- pel of sentimentalisin for the simple story of the Cross of Christ? Who con doubt that advanced ritualism i8 In the line of the popular demand of the day among our churches?+ And when these things take form in sorvices so clearly Romanistic thau the thin veil of the once glorivus name, Protestant Episcopal, alone remains to decelve the Jooker on, have you any power to interfere to cor- rect the evily ** Scssion after session of the General Conven- tions has been heid, and the modest petitions of those who sought reliet from certain words and ex- pressions In the Prayer*Book against whicn thelr conecience rebelled, because in their jndgment those words and expressions were contrary to the Word of God,—it did not matter that among_ those names were many of the best and brightest in the Church, both clerical aud lay,~lt did not matter that their requests wore in a marked degree modest and unobtrusive, —session after session they were persistently, almost contempruously, refused.’” **1 must not be partaker of ¢ins that are crush- ing out the vital aplrit of this once glorious Prot- cestant Church, " concludes the Doctor. *+ A beateous vision has arisen clenrly before me, and I have longed for its realization. I longed fora church which should be to me a refuge and a home; thut should incorporate in itself the New Testament idea of the Church ae a family, in which the communion of saints is sometting more than a mere article of the creed; In which a1l its mem- ‘bers have a brother's and a sister's interest i each other: in which the wintry atmosphere of a cold indifference and studied formality does.not chill out all epiritual life; and in which the renting of pews is counted of less importauce than the saving of gouls and the upbuildingof character after the mind of Christ.” Mr. Newton has accepted the Rectorship of the Churck of the Covenant (Reformed Episco- pal) in that city, a new parish, composed almost entirely of his old parishioners, who have sc- ceded from the Church of the Nativity. Thisis the eighth church that the Reformed Episco- palians have founded in Phitadelphia. GENERAL NOTES. ‘The pews in Beecher’s church this year rented for $36,020, against $47,306 in 1877, $63,650 in 1876, and $70,319 in 1875. The Rev. Washincton Gladden, pastor. of the North (Congregational) Church at Springfield, Mass., on the Sth fost., preached a serman in his church;Td which “hie maintained that within twenty-five years Congregationalists will be substantially Universalists. e Slavery was not more certain of extinction five years before its abolition than is the diabol- ical doctrine of endlesstorment. Those are now living who will sce it referred to as the idea of Iufant Damnation 18 now mentioned—as a hor- ror of the ignorant past.—New Covenant. 1t scems that Dr. Farrar isnot” the only canon who doubts the existence of hell. The Rev. R. Duckworth, Vicar of St. Mark, is delivering a serles of discourses in which he accuses those who preach eternal punishment of dishonoring God. The future of the impenitent is also at- tracting the attention of the Episcopal Church fo Ireland. A Methodist Bishop in Texas enjoined young cleraymen against marrving too young, and in the course ol bis remarks made’ the following observation: * Young preachers with clean shirt-fronts and finger-nails are above par, but should remain single until they had finished their studivs. If a youns minister marries a beautiful young lady, he must love her. and, Joving her, he must talk io her, aud, talking to her, he must spend time be ought to give to his studies.” The Roman Catholic Bishop of Vancouver’s Island is visiting Alaska, making a long tour throuzh the inerior, preparatory to the estab- Jishment of & mission, if it shall be deemed best. e gives an interesting descriptiou of his journey and of the habits of the Indians. Ie will remain for a while at Milato, to determine whether or not that would be a zood place to open & mission to the Indians. Milato is on the Youkon River, which is 2 grand stream 2,000 miles long, 600 miles from its mouth, where it is three miles wide. Mr. Munger, the North Adams clergyman whose belicf coucernine future punishment created so much stir in New England. asserts unequivocally his conviction that there s a bell, and that the wicked will be punished in it. The langunge of his explanation is: ** I take it that hell'is simply the inevitable result of sin—not inflicted but reaped, not the prop of an external governmental system, but the outworking of inherent law. I do mot think of it as here or there, as now or then, but simply as the painful cutworking of the law of sin.” A London correspondent of the Cinclunati Enguirer savs: Yesterday I was personally told, *without winking, without blinking, I do de- clare,” by a well-known canon of the Church of and, and himself a graduate of the Univer- of Oxford, that seven-tenths of the divinity Professors, teachers, ‘‘coaches,” aud students at that place of ** Holy Orders,” believe not in the Devil or future rewards or punishments, and_the remainder doubted the existence of fod! Inquiringof another *brotherin orders? if this were true, he replied, * Certainly! It is the greatest farccof the age to faucy fora moment that Oxford is the seat of learned Christianity?! ? A Presbyterian exchange is responsible for the following statement. which dwarls even Dr. Hall’s sceminely extravazaut fllustration of spending 1 to get six cents to the heathen: “The collections of the Ameriran Congrega- tional Union—that is, the Ciurch Erection So- ciety—for last vear were $8,3%0; expenses for Lwo Secretaries and genera) etcetera, $10,173. The differences between what the Sceretaries collected and their salaries_and expenses was made ug by borrowing the 31,823! The Scere- taries rosigmed. They Jaid the lemon-rind on the altar of their beloved church. They did not resign, however, until the collections and the loan were used up. ¥ Some months ago, it will be remembered, the missionaries in Van, Eastern Turkey, were obliged by the cireumstances of ‘war to leave that place- and retire to an old monastery for safety. Soon after they returned to the city and resumed their work.” A letter dated Nov. 12 has been geceived, by a very circuitous route, from tae Kev. Ilenry S. Barnum, one of the mis- sionaries, who reports all well ana prosecuting their labors, under_some_restrictions, with the yrotection of tue Turkish authorities. One of the trials is that the missionaries in some sce- tions livd_their work greatly hanpered by the fact that the lawless Koords commit depreda- tions upen the Protestant villages. Ataninformal Synod held by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace recently, at which there was a large attendance of Bishofs aud clergy, Canon Farrar's sermons In West- mineter sbbey on future punishment were dis- Mr. Farrar was present and explained bis pos| Hehas been represented as baving denied the doctrine of eternal punishment in the most unqualified manzer. He now said that e kncw e had been treading on the hereditary prejudfees of Enghish churchmen, but_be felt himself compelled to say what, a3 a scholar, he and defended. Baptism at the close of the even- ing wcrvice. i There will be 3 gospel ‘mecting m the evening at the Tabernacle, No. 302 Wabash avenue, —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach morninz and eveningat the Michigan Aveoue Charch, near Twenty-ihird streel. ¢ ‘ * —The Res. ReDe Baptiste will preach morning and evening at Olivet Church, in Fourth avenue near Taylor street. —Tho Rev. A. Owen will preach méming ana evening at the University Place Church, corner of Dongias place snd Rhodes avenue. —The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach morning snd evening at the South Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, 2 —The Rev. J. A, Henry will preach morning and evening at the Thirty-seventh Street Church, neat Dearborn street. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach at the Second Charch, - corner of Monroe and Morzan streets. Subjects: morniag, ** Nevertheless, God's Sore Fonndation Stands;™ evening, **The Seeret of Trus Prayer.” : —The Rev. E. II. Halbert, late of San Francisco, will preach in the mormingaund the Rev. D. B. Cheney in the evening at the Fourth Church, cot= ner of Washington and Paulina streeta, —The Rev. U. Perten will preach morning and evening at the \Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue. Wwas cértain of, that the Greck word which is translated “eternal” does not mean cndless. flis remarks dre said to have produced a pro- found impression, As an fllustration of the extent to which the higher learning s applied to the cxposition of the nternatfonal Sunday-School Lessons, it may be stated that Prof. l{uv.- H. Hall, formerly of the Protcstant College at Beyrous, Syrli furnishes to the Sunday-School Times a weckly exposition of the Orientalism in cach lesson. Among the eminent ministers who are or have :une:e %:gnged 13 tlf)is s;mldes nolilflgflc comment ¥ namet r. John IHall, Dr. Ormiston, Erof. Kendrick, and Dr. Newtou. R The following figures were recently ziven ina semt-oflicia]l maner, approximating thestrenath of the Methodist body throuzhout the warld: Itinerant Loy minialers. members. ethodist Eplscopal. E. South Colored 3. Africap M. E African 3. E. Zio Evangelical Associal United Brethren Cnited American M . Cressey will preach morning Methodist Protestant..... ... —The Re American Wesleyan (1676), and evening at the Coventry Street Church, coruer Fres Methodists, .. of Bloominizdale lzoad. 2 Primitive Methodists —The Itev. C. E. Herwitt will preach at the Cen- tonnial Charch, corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets, Eveninz subject: **Future Pumish- ment.” —The Rtev. R. P. Allison will presch mornins and evening at the North Star Church, corner o Division and Sedgwick strects. —The ltev. EC 0. Taylor will preach at the Central Chorch, Martige's Hall, on Chitazo ayenue, near Dearborn street. Eveniug subject: **The Sixth Saying of Clyist, *Itis Finfshed.' '™ —TheRer. 3. C. Hacelifibn’ will preach worn- ing and evening at the Firat German Church, cor- ner of Bickerdike and Huron streets. * —The Rev. H. A. Reichenbach will preach morningand eveningat the Nonlish Tabernacle, - coner of Noble and Ohio strects. —Tle Rov. John Ongman will presch mornin and evening at the First Swedish' Church, in On! strect. near Sedewick. . . —There will be services morning and evening at the Millard Avenue Church, Lawndale. i —The Rev. W. J, Kermott wjll preach morning and evening nt the Halsted Sfreet Church, near Forty-secona street. —The Kev. C. Swife will preach morning and | ovening at Evangel Church, in Dearborn street, near Forty-screnth. t —The Rey. . M. Carr will preach morning and evening at the Downer's Grove Church. . —The Kev. €. H. Kimball will preach morning and evening at the Englewood Church, on Engle- waod avenue, near Steiwart avenue. > --The Rev. F. L. Chapell will preach morning #nd evening at the First Church of Evanston. —The Rev. H. L, Stetson will preach in the wmorning at the Lake Shore Church in Winnetka. —The Rev. J. K. Wheeler will preach morning and evening at the charch in Austin. T 2 —The ltev. A. Blackburn will preach in the ;l;egmmnca Hall, Oak Park, morning and even- ~~The Rev. C. C. Marston will preach ‘morning and evening at the Norwood Park Church. —Tlhe Rev. T. B. Ives wili preach in the evening at Unity Church, Wilmetre. ¢ he Rev. L. W. Olney will preach in the morn- ing at the Hyde Park Charch. CONGREGATIONAL. 5 The Rev. Charles Hall Evercat will preach morti- ing and evening at Plymouth Charch, on Michigan n\'emll.-. between Twenty-fitth aud Twenty-sixth ) streets, b —The Rev. E. F. Williams will pfeach in the morning at the Forty-seventh Street Church. —The Rev. G. W. Mackie will preach 1 tho moming at thc South Park Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-third street. —The Rev. Arthur Little, of Fond du Lac, will preach morning and evening ac the New England | Clhnxth. cornér of Delaware place and Dearborn stree! p —The Rev. D. N, Vandeseer will preach mors- | ing nud evening in Unicn Park Church. The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach thismorning Independent Methodists. ‘Total Methodists in U. §..2 Methodists in Canada. Under foreign Methodiste. Grand total... ... NOON PRAYER-MEETING. The Rev. C. L. Thompson led the noon prayer-meeting in Farwell Hall yesterday. The exercises were opened with the singing of the hymn, **I Need Thee Every Hour.””” The lesson was taken from 1L Chronicles, xiv., 1-11: ‘*Asa foithful to his God,” the lcader and congrezation reading the verses alternately. }’rl:iyur was 1:1){emxl by the x’ug“’ and it was ollowed by the singing of the hymn, ¢ Onl; an Armob—ch‘cr."g B Ty G & The lesson was then expounded by the leader. He brietly reviewed n‘{mrz of the history of Aku, the third King of Judah, and showed how faithful that monarch was to God, and how he had relied upon Him for the -maintenance of his Kinzdom. Asa, he said] did_that which was right and good_iu the eyes of God, and did not act by any standard of society. God was the authority and standard for right, and right came from him. Ho urzed them to anchorall their conceptions in that right. ‘They might resign their love, pleasure, ambitfon, ete., to that one place—the Throne of God—as Asn had done. They could serve God and no other, and there was victory aud peace to those who put their trustin God. A verse of “He Lendeth Me " was sung, and several gentlemen the congregation made remarks upon the subject {rom the lesson. The ‘meeting wac closed with singring and prayer. The attendsnce was quite large, and em- braced both sexes In about equal numbers, - PERSONALS. 3,383,858 The Rey. Willlam Lawrence has seceded from the Methodists and united with the First Bap- tist Church of Yonkers, N. Y. “*Bishop Merrill and Dr. Dashlel, Missfonary Secretary, have gone to Mexico to visit the Methodist missions in that country. Bishop Keener has appointed the Rev. W. Patterson, of Tennessee, Superintendent of the Southern Methodist Mission in the City of Mexico. The Rev. Dr. E. G. Hirsch, of Baltimore, has accepted a call by the congregation © Adas Is- racl,” of Louisville, to occupy the position of minister. The Rev. II. G. Mendenhall has withdrawn from the Third Presbyteriau Church of Fort Wayne, to sccept a call from the Sixth Church of Pittsburg. The Rev. Mr. Southeate, a son of Bishop Southgate, consecrated Bishop ot Constanting- le in 1344, has been admicted to priest’s orders n the Roman Catholic Chureh, at Baluimore. The Rey. James Trimble, a worthy Baptist minister, formerly o resident and well known, in the Proyince of New Brunswick, but now re- sidine in the State of Maine, has fallen heir to a fortune of £40,000 sterling. * DOUBTFUL DIVINITY. A fashionable London preacher recently safd: «St. Paul remarks, and I partially agrce with bim—2 © % A clergyman who lives on the sea-shore_says he prefers calm Sundays, because he is opposed to Sabbath breakers. A little fellow who received asled 8s a Christ- mas present prayed thus: “O God, please let it enow 5o I cau try my new sled A Jewish paper says that “ card-playing is the cancer of Jewishsociety.” ** Under bondage to King Faro,” says the Jewish Times. - A woman being told that some tables in the Russisu Department Were being made.of ma- lnchite, exclaimed: **My gooduess! I'thought Malachite was one of the prophets.” It was ot the battle of Edge ill that Sir Jacob Astley made his remarkable prayer: “Olh, Lord! Thou knowest how busy [ must be this day; if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me. March on, boys.” At bedtime Little Willie was saying his usual prayer at his mother’s knee, and. having zot ns far’as *‘if Ishould die before I wake,™ hesi- tated. “Well! what next?” asked his mother. *Well, I s’pose the next thing would be a funeral.” How pleasant it is to sit in a street-car and hear two females converse about funerals in their respective families, as thus: “Just to think we had to keep the funeral back over an hour, the flowers came so Jate.” “Oh, when mother was buried, the funeral started off in just twenty minutes after the appointed time. ~ Oh, our undertaker, Mr. ——, was so kind and prompt.” A country minister of “limited capacity » recently marrled for a second wife a widow of some property. Being an ardent scrvant of Mammou, a former neighbor usked him il he d1d not do well by the second marringe. *Oh, yes iudeed,” he said with animation; and then, as an expression of reverent awe stole into his face, he added, “and, what s very remarkable, the 'L;luthes ot my wite's firsc husbaud just fit me. - Itisa practice on some of our railroads to allow clergymen to ride for half fare. Recently a minister reccived a clergyman’s half-fare traveling card, as they are cailed, and wrote to the Superintendent, asking *if he could not embrace his_wife also.” The Superintendent and evening in Dethany Church, corner of Paalina . and Wet Huron streets. —The Rev. G. W. Mackie will preach thls morn= } in the South Purk Avenue Church, corner of South i Park avenue and Thirty-thicd street. i —Prof. J. T. Hyde will preac eveninzat the Oukland Church, the morning. —The Rev. George Peeke wiil preach at tha Leavitt-Street Church. ~ Evenius subject: **Cen- } tral Principles of Characier,”—the first of a scries of lectures to young people. CHRISTIAN. i The Rev. M. N. Lord will preach in the morning a8t the Central Charch. Campbell Hall, corner a Van Buren street #nd Campbell avenne. : —The Rev. O. P. Budger, of Indiana, will preach ! morning and evening in the First Chureh, Inaiana avenue ana Twenty-Alth street. —The Rer. A. J.White will preach morning and evening at the Contral Chatch, 007 Van Bnren strect. Eveningsubject: **The Future State of the Wicked.”™ morning and * Commuaion m i EPISCOPAL . Cathedral Free Church, S5. Peter and Paul, West Washingion and Peorla strects; the Rt Rev. W. E. McLarcn, Bishop; the Ker. d. 1L Rnoiwles, Prlést in chargg. Services morning aud evening, WA e T e —Th Rev. Samuel S. Harrls will officiate morn- 1ng and evening at St. James® Church, coruer Cass and Huron streets, Communion at 15 m. —The Rev. allivan will officiate. mornlng and evening at Trinity Church. corner of Twonty~ gistivstceet aud Michigen avenae.” Communon at 2 m, —The Rev. Francis Mansfield will oficlae morn- ing and evening at the Church of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Kobey streets. 7y —The Rev. J. Bredberz will preach in St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedgwick street, morning and evening, f —Bishop McLaren will preach in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, in the morning, and the Kev. . D.. iu the evenfuy. a X . Steplien T. Allen will oficiate morn- * ing and_cvening at St. John's Church, corner of , Washington street and Ogden avenue. T —There will be services at the Church of the Holy Communfon. on Dearbory strcet, near Thit- ) tleth street. morning and evening. —The Rev. Arthur Ritebic will officate morning and evening at the Church of tae Ascension, corner of LaSalle ang Elm streets, Communion ut 8 8. 1. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will oficlate shorning, aud evening ut St. Panl's Church, on * Hyde Bakk avenne, acar Forty-ninth atreet, —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate morn: g aud eveninz at St. Mark's Church, corner of } Thirty-sixth street and Cottage Grove avenue. —The Rev. G. F. Cusbman will ofticiate morning and evening at St.’Stephen’s Chuten, on Johnsun - strect. near Twelfth. | —Thiere will be services at 4 p. m. In St. Lake's Mission, corner Taylor street and Western avenue. —Sunday-schiool will be held at 2:10 p. m. at the Hope Misvion, No. 585 Milwaukee avente. -~The Rev. Luther Pardee will_ofiiciate morning Church, on Warren avenue, near Oakley street. ‘ommunionat 11:30 a. m. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will ofiiciate * morning and evening ot the Chiirch of the Epi- phany, on Throop street, near Monfue. —The Rev. W.J. Petrie will ofticinte momning and evening at the Church of Our Savior, corner of * Lincoln and Belden avennes. —The Rev. Henry G, Perry will officiate morn- ing and evening at All Saluts’ Chureh, corner of Carpenter ana Ohio strects, —There will be services In the morning at the Good Steplierd Miselon. Lawndale. —The ltev. F. N. Luson will ofiictate morning and evening at Emmanuel Church, La Grange. —The Rev. J. Stowart Smith will officiate morn- ingand evening ot $t. Mark’s Church, Evanston. Communlon 3t 7:30 v, m. —The Rev. A. W. Maon, of Cleveland. 0., will conduct a service for dent mutes in the sizn lan- } and evening at Calvai smuage at 3 o'clock this afternoon fn the chapel of St James' Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets. - replied that he thought Hkely he could, but did not want to say positively until he Dad seen bis wife, as bhe was a little fastidious in his tastes. The best way to induce sleep is to shut your eyes and think of pothing. An old man'told bis minister that he did this one Sunday morn- ing while he was preaching, and that it worked adinirably. The minister nsked him why he did not thivk of the sermon, and the old man re- plied paively that that Was just what he was thinking about, and that it was so near to noth- ing that the difference could mot be perceived, and so he dropped off intoa quict nnd refresh- ing slumber. At the recent dedlcation of a Baptist church the ceremony of fmmersion was performed for the first time in that church by a well-known Baptist minister. When he had entered the water, and while waiting for the candidate, the minister sugzested that somebody should ‘sing an aoproprinte liymn. - One of the deacon’s who stood near by heard the suggestion, and without thinking struck up the familiar bymn, * Pull for the Shore.” The hymn proved td be so suggestive, it is stated, that neither the minis- ter nor the conzregation could tefrain from an audible smile for some time, and _the ceremony had to be postponed until the preacher could recover his gravity. An amusing_ficident recently occurred in o -chureli near Sellersvlile, Bucks County, Pa. The minister was preaching in German, and de- livering a very interesiiog discourse, when he was disturbed by two young men whispering in the gallers, Finally be stopped und sugirested to them that if they wanted to’ talk he gyould cease and allow them to say what they wWished, but that their whisperfug annoyed him. One of them had presence of mind, and arose and fuformed the preacher that his friend could not understand a word of German, and that if he did not trauslate it to him he would lose all toe valuable discourse. This completely took the wind out of the salls of the minister. Though It was preety certain_that the two men, INDEPENDENT. The Rev. D. R. Mansfield will preach in the church coruer of May and Fulton streete. Even- ing subject, :*Earthyuakes in Divers Places.™ —Mr. Charles ). Morton will speak at Moody's Church, corer of Cincago avenue and La Salle streets. Subjects: Morning, ‘‘How the Early Chureh Lived': evening, **Noaman, the Leper. —Judge Layton whl_prench in the morniug nt Calvary Tabernacle, No. 320 Ozden avenne, Snb- jeet, **The Reason Why it Doth Not ‘What We Shail Be 1n the Fature World.™ meeting in the evening. —The Rev. A. Youker will preach morning and evening in the West-Side Tabenuacle, Morgan and Indiaus strects. 3 L Appear Gospol- LUTNERAN. - ‘The Rer. Edmund Belfour wiil preach morn- ing In the Churchof the Huly Triulty, Deacborn uvenue und Erle street, METHODIST. The Rav. M. M. Parkhurat will preach at the First Churcn, coruor of Clark and Washington streets. Subjects: Morning, **Let Your Lignt Shine™; evening, **The Judgment Day. Whent* —The Kev. Dr. ‘Thowas will vreach morninz and evening at the Centenary Church, in Aluucuc street, near 3ongn street. § —The Rev. W. F. Crafts will preach at Trinit Charch, in Indiana avenue, mear Twenty-toarth™ street. Evening subject: -* Agreements and Diss agreements Abont fleil. —The Rev. F. P. Marsh will preach morning and evening in Giraut Place Church, corner of Lar- rabee street, —The Iev. John Willlamson wilt preach fn Michizun Avenue M. E. Church, near Thirty-sec- ond strect, mornlug aud evenioe. Morulig sub- ject, **I1ell; or th State of Fatare Misery.® . —Thé Res. T. C. Clendinning will preach mora- ing and evening in Lancley Avenue Church, cor- ner of Tiurty-uinth street. FThe e, S . Adams will preach morning and evening in Western Avenae Church, corner of Monro: sireet. Evening snbject, ** Panl's View of Christ's Second Comin’, and Jts Reward.” . —The Ker. 5. McChesacy will preach morning and_evening -n Park Avenue Church. Evening subject, -+ Hereay in the Church. were talking sbout something else, the as” [ —Tho Rev. John Atkinsva will preach, lfimh' ] and evening in Grace Church, No alle _ang surance of the whisperer brougzht him out first g The Gift of the Holy White atrects. Ghost,™ and **Fature Panishment.” —The Rev. E. M. Boring will preack moming and evening In State Stceet M. E. Chuzch. Even- ing snbject: **How God Fecls Towatd His Peu- plé, or Some Phases of the Theological Outlook."™ —There will be-morning services In Ada rStrect Church, conducted by the pastor. In the evening the Rev. Alrs. Willtag whl preach. i —The Rev. A. W. Patten will preach this morn. ingand evering in Wabash_Avemuc Church, cor- ner of Wabash nvenne and Fourteenth street. P —The Rev. Gecrre Chase will preach this mora- ing and eyeuing In the Winter Street Church, core € Sabjests: best. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach moraing and evening at the West End Opera-House, No. 431 West Madlson street. —The Rev. W. \%. Everts’will preach at the First Church, corner of South Park avence apd Thirty-first street, orning subject: **Future Puaishment, "—the or thodox view of ¢ explained z o