Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1878, Page 10

s e N 10 [HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 18 78—SIXTEEN PAGES. * because he murdered an unregenerate man? If his vietim had only been an fnnocent child or s saintly woman, he might on repent- ance go to Heaven unchallenged! But since he Xkilled an unconverted man there should benoad- mission for him within the gates. But whatsort of reasoning isthis which makesit a venial offense to killa good man, but a2 mortal one to kill an unconverted man? This reasoning, too, would deny the salvation of all, for here would be one class of men that must perish. 1s the sbock because this penitent murderer goes singing and rejoicing o the gallows? But 1f he is really penitent, and not hypocritical or self-deceived, why should he not sing and re- joice? He has been “‘forgiven 'much.” Why should he not rejoice much? If he is going into a happy eternity why should hic not.be happy in the prospect? “Moreover, his joy now can add nothing to the woes of his *‘victim * who died monthe before, nor if he should go wailing to 1he gallows could that ameliorate the sorrows of the ‘*victim."” = 5 1s the objection to his salvation on account of his bad character previous to committing the murder? Then the case might be stated thus: The murderer of an unconverted man ought not to be forgiven if he was a bad man before committiny the murder. Is this what you ‘mean. and is here a class of sinners who can’t be saved? But perbaps you say, ** We don’t specially ob~ Ject to the salvation of this murderer, but it is the poor ‘victim ? we pit, Very well, if it is understood that the salvation of the murderer has nothing to do with the cas., and all the rhetoriv about him was only for effect, we will leave him rejoicing in the wondrous merey of a forgivine God, and look after the *victim.” And now observe (1) the murdered man is not Jost because he was murdered, for if he had died by accident, by a fever, or small-pox, with an unregenerate heart, our Uelief is that he would have been miserable. Onthe other band, if he had been converted, he would have zone to Heaven though murdered, as did Abel and Ste- ‘Phen when they were martyred. Nor, again (2), is he lost because his murderer is saved. Heaven is not so narrow that the cn- trance of the murderer thither bas crowded out his victim. Noris there remaining any such antagonism on the vart of the former murderer as should make it unsate for the *vietim” to be there too. For by the terms of the sapposition there has been thorough repentance and a radical changre of heart, and ue is no longer disposed to Darm anybody. ~ If both were fitted for Heaven, there Is no reason why they might not dwell to- gether there in harmony. But (3) bere is the trouble. The victim has never repented of his sins and become fitted for Heaven. The supposition is that he is unre- generate, thouzh he **has always been peace- able, law-abiding, industrious, charitably-dis- pused, tas done great zood to his fellow-men, and has won the respect and admiration of the community.” All good so far, but something more is needed to fit 2 man for citizenship on hich. Supreme love for God is needed. Onemay e a good citizen here and not lote Him at all. Every men of our race must be prepared to mive the praise of his salvaiion to the Lord Jesus Christ, clse hie woula not. be in sympatby with the redeemed. Their united song is ** Cnto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and honor.” But this *victim * has not, on the supposicion, thus accepted Christ. He canpot sing that song. He thinks bis own gooduess suflicient to entitle him to Heaven. 1f admitted to that crompany he would be out of sympathy with them. He could not be happy in their socet, nor would they be bappy with such a discordant element there. Moody is right when be says: “The man who should get into Heaven by his own good works would waot 1 corner by him- €elf, harp by limself, and a song to himsel£.” He could not give all the glory to Christ. God will never allow the harmony of Heaven to be disturbed in tiat way,—and why should not the Llessed in Heaven rejoice that He will nott And althoueh we cannot conceive of a gaint “Jooking with complacency on the miseryof the lost ™ in’itself considered. why should he not be glad that God will maintain” forever the har- monv of Heaven by shutting out discordant elements? Whatever otber good traits a man may have, if Dhe isnot in sympathy with the redeemed about their Savior the gates will not open for him. Do you call this hard? A few years ago there were in this iand able, talented, educated, cloquent, gentlemanly men, and beausiful, ac- complished, fascinating women, who wWere rebels against the- Government. ‘They spurned and spat on the old flag. Did they deserve to be treated as good citizens because of their ability and their beauty? On the contrary, did ‘we not feel that their superior fntellizence and culture made them more guilty than the “ poor white rebels? And laying aside the question of their deserts; how would these gentlemen aod ladies _have enjoyed an old-fashioned Fourth of July celcbration? How much pleas- ure would they have taken in singing *The Star Spaneled Bapoer” with a multitude of Joyal citizens ¢ Now, if this *victim ”*was lost beesuse, and only because, he was not fitted for Heaven, ‘what had the manuer of his death to do with his ruin? JIs it said that if he nad not died so soon and so suddenly he would have occome fit? Possibly he might; and then aeain he misht not; but like many others have grown more wicked as he grew oider and been” more Hell- deserving av 70 than at-35. Admit that his murderer sent him to perdition sooner than he wonld otherwise bave zove, yet be may have gone less heavily burdened with guilt than if be had lived out his days. May we not presume Irom God’s zoodness that if He had foreseen the victim’s_reventance He wonld in some way have averted the murderous blow? Why may ‘we not, in the absence of all knowledge, as well assume that as the opposite, to say the least? Now if the “victim™ did not go to perdition becsuse he was murdered, nor the murderer to Heaven because he was a murderer, but each went at death to the place he was fittea for, what is left of this ** supposititious case?? The case of the penitent thief on the cross is somewhat analogous. Just supoose that one of the men from whom be stole was a_moral Pharisce, very etrict in all his interpretation® of the law and as blameless ju his life as Saul of Tarsus before his conyersion, but = rejecter of Cbrist. He, we will suppose, was standing near the cross. and heard the thief’s confession and prayer, and the Savior answer: “To-day shalt thou be with me in Varadise.” How indignantly be might bave exclaimed: “Hear that now! This fellow that stole my pearl of great price, and is hanging for it there as he deserved to, is going straight to ‘Paradise’ ‘to- day’ acvording to the words of this Jesus of Nazareth! Did we not rightly rcject such a Teacher¢ dow absurd that He can be the Messiab!” Yet the world has rejoiced that the penitent thief found a Savior. As for the duration of this exclusion from heaven, it must of pecessity last as long as the unfitness lasts. TheSavior says “Everlasting ‘pupishment,’ setting it over szainst the * eter- nal life” of the rightcous. He puts into the mouth of the compassionate Father Abra- diam the statement that * there is a great gulf fixed " between Dives and Lazarus. If He who Joved and pitied men enough to die on the cross for them says these things, who has the right to contradict, Iim? Who cap elaim to be more Joving or ‘more pitiful?! Tnstead of spending ‘breath to persuade men that future punishment may be limited, would it not be_better to use it in persuading them by repentance to avold all future punishment?- A boy is reported to have said: *Father, if up to be a man, 1 might 1 should live and grow ret into juil some time. Now, I have been «:Plnflngn great many ways to get out again.”’ “ My son.” was the reply, *vou had better spend your time coutriving how 1o keep out.” T tuink I have met your “test case”” withont quibble or evasion. Yours respectfully, H. L. Hasxyox. CHURCHES AND BANKS. BOTH SHOULD BE ABOLISHED. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cmcaco, Jan. 81.—The ministers are making 4t warn for the people in the areat future. Tho bankers are making it warm now. The minis- ters desize to save our souls; ther bankers to'| save our money. The people can’t save their own souls. The people can’t save their own money. Churches are depositories for souls, ‘They issue tickets entitling the holder . to bliss and salvation from the effects of sin: good cus- tomers can also get indulgences. Banks are depositories for money. They issue bills, and also grant sccommodation to triends of the President and good customers. What it the people should dispense with churches and ministers and save their own fouls for awhile? What if the people should dispense with banks and bankers and save their own money for awhile?. What if cvery one should issue to themselyes their own ticket to salva- tion? What if the Government should continue 10 issue its own bills? What if we should stop depositing our souls in churches for ministers tosave for us,and do our own soul-saving? What if we should stop depositing our moncy in banks _and deposit it with the Government, thereby doing our own money- saving?. What if people should stop committing sin, because of the possibility of Chureh salvation? -What if people should stop poing intowild business schemes beeause of the probability of bank accommodation? . What if the people who have employed the ministers 1o trest with a presuwably angry God should discard these brokers and deal direct? Then the ministers can make 2 God as angry a5 they may desire, and a future habitation with a tem- perature as hizh as their imamination cau make it What if thc people should loan to the Gov- ernment their own balances? Then the bar canloan his own good money to whom he fegses. He can make s many visionary specu- Y:mnns s he likes. ‘He can loan to men who desire to build docks on the raging Calumet; to bears who wish to squecze the noble bull; to men with broad ideas of the country’s greatness who desire to build a railroad to begin nowhere and “‘end ina squirrel track that runsup a tree.” But when the docks arc there and the vessels are not, when the bears come marching bome gored, and the railroad goes “where the woodbine twineth,” the banker will be a stayer, —he won’t go to Paris. It makes a great dif- ference whether it is his money or his washer- woman's money that has been loaned. The fact is, both the minister and banker are relics of & vpast age, and the people have been too timid to take from them the manacement of their own spiritual and temporal affairs. They have all slong arrogated themselves as mecessities, when in reality they are superfluities. There can be no real necessity for the setting apart of a few from the many, for the special saving of the many from a supposititious impending result, until it is clearly and mathematically proven that the few have some means of knowing bet- ter than the many what that resultis to be. There can be no reason for selecting a few men or class of so-called business men bankers as our especial pets, and let them be dictators of governmental policy, and also to do business that properly betonss to the people—the Gov- t. unless it is clearly proven that those possess more wisdom and more honesty than the many, the agerezate! A medicine-man with mumbliog voice anda wand, 10 scare off ghosts and gobtins, is a real necessity in s tribes so is anoble chief ona prancing steed, with a girdle of others’ scalps around his wal But if modern society relies for its spiritual and temporal “success on these barbaric methods, then civilization isa grund and magniticent failure. Joux R. PagE. DEATH AND HELL. WIAT BECOMES OF THE SOULS OF THE WICKED. To the Editor of The Tribune. SWISSVALE, Pa., Jan. 30.—*In the day thou catest thercof thou shalt surely die.” So said God to Adam wnen He forbade him to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam ate of the trec. Did he dic? Most certainly. There is no way of preserving the truth of the divine declaration and Adam’s life. If God told truth Adam must bave died, that day, died exactly in the sense it was said he would. Before that time he was, or had “a living soul;” for God breathed this into him. In this sense he differed from the animals, and this was the only sense in which he did differ from them. He, 1 common with every other creature, had animal Jife, and, in addition to this, he had been endowed with soul life. Through countless ames men had been living in this world, but had only been a higher tvpe of animal. At this period i their history they were go far evolved that God coula hold communion with them, en- dow them with soul life,—immortality,—aud give them a test of obedietice. Adam and his wife proved themselves un- worthy of thegilt and lost it. Henceforth the great mass of their descendants have, by the Jaw of natural descent, been destitute of soul life—that is, have not had enough spirit to be worth preserving fu a separate form. This is evident from the whole tetor of the Old Testa- ment, which nowhere addresses man as an im- mortal being. Every appeal is made to his ani- mal nature and to such sensations of com- munion with God a5 can be enjoyed in this lite. He is recognized os better than the beasts in that he is tauaht to scck communion with God Tere; but he has no promise of any lifc beyond the grave. From the New Testament we iearn that Moses and Elias survived death, and may infer that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were Jiv- ing somewhere wher Christ was on earth; but as for the balance of the people who had lived up to that time, it scems probable that they bad been swept, ‘“like dead flies,” into Nature's quist receptacle for waste matter—Hell; and in this dizposal of them there must have beeén a very sinall loss, even if that had been the last of them. Look at the records we have of Abra- ham, Isaae, Jacob, and Moses. What must have pecn the moral status of the masses when these men were their saints? Revelations, xx., 6, tells us that the lake of fire and brimstone, or being thrown into it, is ‘*‘the second death,” and the “second death” must mean spiritual death. Now what is death but disorgenization? Or- ganization is essentia] to lifeand life to organiza- tion. Let life depart and the component parts of the body, or thing, which lived begin to sep- arate. Death is dissolution. It is simply im- possible to preserve a dead body in the condi- tion of a living one, and the only certain test of death is decomposition. Whenever 2 human body is consizned to the grave having the ap- pearance of life, the probability is tnat there is a case of burying alive; for wheuever either an animal or vegetable body is deprived of life it begins at once to decay, to be resolved back into its original elements. There is good reason to believe that the physical universe is an exact type of the spiritual. Chbrist, David, and all the inspired poets constantly illustrate spiritual by physical hepomena. There is no material fuct which has ot its immaterial counterpart, and. there would be no analogy between death, as it is made manifest to our senses, and the loss of the soul, if the lost soul retains its orzauization. There is no such thing as spiritual death if the dead soul remains intactn all its component parts, an organized sentient thing; aund the dead are incapable of pain. Fire is the best possible_asent of decomposition: and g0 we have Hell spoken of as filled with it. In other words, it is described asga great cremation establishment in which dedd souls are resolved into their original elements. 1f this were not so, what did Christ mean by telling His diciples they were the salt of the earth, and that the unsavory salt would be cast upon “the dunghill*? That is, they would be thrown into a compost heap to be resolved into the original elements by decomposing agencies, of which fire is the best physical illustration. Moreover, Christ chooses ** Gehenoa?” as the type of Heli, and this was a valleyoutsideJeru- salem in which refuse matter wasburned. Was the stuff thrown into Gehenna kept there, burn- ing, to all cternity? Ob, no! Was it annibi- lutedz Ob, no! It was * purified as by fire.” as_we are told that lost or dead souls shall be. Purification by fire is sceelerated decomposition. 1 have said thematerizlworld is the type of the immaterial; but it would be better to put the greater before the less, and say that the material universe is derived from the immaterial, and s an exact representation of its orizinal. As the soul stamps itself upon the body it occupies, so the infivite soul, the universal spirit, finds expres- sion in the physical universe; and as the grave- yard is @ faithiul source of new life, as every dead body, whether of man, or animnal, or v table, becomes food for living bodies, s0 every dead soul becomes sustenance for living souls. We see around us, on_every side, the process of life fed by death, and what does it mean if there is nothing in the real or spiritual world of which it is the exponent? We know that living bodies furnish the germs and nutriment of other living bddies. We know that soul does actually feed upon soul; that we draw our soul-life not only from that lnfinite source in whom *‘we live, and move, and have our being,” but from other souls. As the body dravws life both from other living bodies and from the decomposition of those that are dead. so does the living, growing sout draw sustenance not only from other living souls, bus from that great reservoir of spiritual life into which dead souls are castto be resolved, by spiritual chemistry, into their component parts. Hell is the eraveyard of souls, *the dung- hill™ onto which Christ gaid backsliding dis- ciyles should be cast; the compost pit into which all waste spiritual matter is thrown, and from which the great Hushandman draws food for the growing plants in his vinegard. " ' The old Jews, and other people of the early ages,whohad not enoreh spiritual life tobe worth preserving in a separate existence feil like the primeval forests which formed our coal beds and are now being used to warm the world with an access of spiritual life, just as the Egyptian mummies are being used to, drive locomotives., _We may judge this by the cconomy of Nature. Nothing goes to loss in the material world. Clrist forbade the waste of a fragment of bread or fish, and would He permit the waste of a spiritual fragment? We may assume that Do soul is without some zood quaiity. Would Christ nezlect to gather or make use of the fraaments of the divine spirit fonnd in the wicked? Would He tumble those, and all evil passions, into a common re- ceptacle in which they were to remain forever and ever linked m inextricable contusion? Would the God who manages this universe on terms of the strictest economy keep up au ever- lasting fire that was of no use to any one? 1t is eaid tnat Christ gives His people the gift of immortal lite, and this must be ia distinction to g life that is not imwortal. The soul of the righteous shall live forever with God, and arow like Him: but the souls of the wicked shall be cast into Gebenona to_be decomposed and feed other lives. JANE GREY SWISSHELM. OTHER TOPICS. SATURDAY NOON-MEETINGS. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cm1cAG0, Feb. 1.—It is well known that the Baturday noon-meeting at Farwell Hall devotes an hour to the cxamination of tne Sunday- school Jesson for the day following. That the discussivns are both iuteresting and profizable is attested by the generally fair attendan Yet, were the value of thorough study of these Seripture lessons adequately appreciated, there is pood reason to believe that the number of those who would feel fnterested in them would be so inreased as to make the Saturday noon- meeting the best of any religious meet- ings held in Chicago. There are, perhaps, hundreds of people who seldom or mever come who would gladly do so were ‘the inducement sufficient. They have an car- nest_desire to know_more of the tessimony of the Word of God. But, if they expect to hiear only a reiteration of those things to which they have listeued all their lives, there is compara- tively iittle encournzement to attend; certainly not the strong attraction which would irresisti- bly draw them, if new and fresh testimony were unfolded to their view at every recurrence of this hourof Seripture study. The truth is, however, that Bible students are now more ivtent and thorough fn their search of God’s testimonies than ever before. The discussion of the lesson brings to light many things ‘“new and old” from the great tregsury of Wisdom. There are many, it way be, who bave not attended these meetings dur- ing the present winter, who, were tliey to come once, would repcat the experiment, and soon become regrular in attendance. Still, that the discussions of the lessons are altogeiber suchas promote the end in view, viz.: the fullest possible understanding of the testimony contained in them, Is_open todoubt. Just what elements are lacking it may be profit- ableto inquire. The writer would offer the suggestion that the general scopeof the discus- sions mizht be changed to some extent with yprofit. Those who spealt upon the lesson should aim to bring out the testimony it contains.’ Care should be exercized not to put anything intothe lesson. This is done frequently. ‘There is cnough there already. The great thing s to bring it out. No attempt should be made to adapt the instruction of the lesson to the com- prehension of the children, except incidentally. "o teach children is not the paramount object. Where this purpase is unduly prominent therc is a tendency to tone dowa some ost impor- tant features of the testimony. and thus bring to the level of *childish things.” The Bible is very far from Dbeing a child’s book. It isnot jmwpossible that the widespread feeling of un- certainty that now prevails astowhat the Seript- ures really do teach is largely owing to the su- perficial study that people have generally se- corded to this the infallible standard of truth among men. “Tu public study of the Bible is, for the most. part, in connection with, and insubjectionto, the schools for children. The time actually devoted to the examination of the lesson in the Sunday- school rarely exceeds thirty minutes, while the remainaer of the hour is spent in singing and other cxercises. For children this is judicious and proper, without doubt. But for those who have reached years of adolescence, who know something of mental aisciplive, and bave had experience of life’s realities and seek a solution of some of its mysterics, surely for such a sin- gle half-hour a week is wholly insuflicient for any profitable interchanze of thought arising from previous study of these lessons. Perhaps those who think thirty minutes enough, have yet to know what is comprehended in genuine study of the Bible. They may not be interested in the truth to any vital purpose. Children_sbould be taught, unquestionably, and by such as_may be qualified to feed them the “milk” which oniy they arc able to reeive. But in the interest of the masses of men and women who are hungering for spiritual bread,— and there are many in this great city,—there should be less exhortation, and singing, and prayer-meeting, and more expounding of the Seripture itself, and the dispensing of children’s tood should be relegated to the teachers in the Sunday-schools. Let the teachers themselves and the many others who come fnto those mcet- ings have food adapted to their more thought- ful and matured minds. The lcaders of dis- cussions generally appreciate the fucts here sug- gested, but how often is heard the admonition, “ Tell ug what to teach the children.” ¢ What are you going to give your boys or girls from this lesson?’ The answer might be made that relatively it is of little importance, for tuey can receive but a modicum of the tes- timony contained in the Scripture Jesson at most. But it is of greatagnoment that, at this time, when the facilit® are available for a deeper study of the Word of God than the “common people’ have cver enjoyed before, that the public exposition of the Scriptare les son should take a higher and broader scope. The times ‘are pecuhar. The enemies of the Bible, reinforced by its half-hearted friends, would alrcady constitute a greater army than that of the Ethiueinus who came against Asn, Kivg of Judah. We may shut our cyes to the Tact, vet it exists all the same. It is by no means improbable that the lessons of the scrics mow being cousidered from week to week may have practical illustration ere this generation passes. ‘We may well ponder them deeply. Let God’s testimony shing forth from the Scripture les- sons in the hour devotod to their pubiic study in Farwell Hall, and the clear light will soon attract the many who are seeking for it in these days of doubt and uncertainty. A, BIBLICAL INSPIRATION. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cni1cAGo, Jan. 27.—1 submit that the solution (so far as It is possible to solve it) of the much- discussed question of the condition, duration, etc., of future punishment hinges ou the in- spiration of the Bible. It has been demon- strated, I should think, plainly enough to eatisfy any candia mind, that, if the Bible means eny- thing, it means that future rewards and punish- ments—whatever they may be—are of eternal duration. To-attempt to modify “aion” and “gionios™ is to iznore the very best authoritics among classical scholars. Much of the discus- sion has been from a wrong starting point. If we are to believe of the Bible only such parts as we can understand, then the position taken by the opponerts of ‘the Ortholox churches is plausiviy taken. It we are to be the judges of the proper penalties for violated moral law, or the reward for obedience, then the code could doubtless be made verfectly consistent with our ideas. Would it -not be more honest and _straightforsard _ for Beechier ct al. to say, **We accept of the Bible teachings only sucli parts as arc consistent with our ideas”{ "This is vractically their position on the doctrine of fature punishment. Concede the right to_qualify the Bible teaching on one doctriue and 1t must be conceded on ail. With all due deference to the abilities of the preachers of Hellmodified to meetmodern ideas, it seems to me they are assuming a knowledge in their declarations on this most serious of all subjects, which is born larzelv of pride of in- tellect, and are rushing on ground * where angels fear to tread.” " venture that no rep- utable clergyman will answer your late query as to the probable future coudition of a mur- dered man of moral life and his murderer. It is to gssume the knowledge of the Al- mizhty to judze whether a man is “regen- erate” or “converted.” The orthodox churches, quoting from the Bible, declare that “* whosoever believeth shall be saved, aud who- soever believeth not shall be condemned,™ and accept the profession and a consistent life as indicating a regenerated man as ‘far as hu- man judgment goes. They also believe that salvation is possibie at even “the eleventh hour” (as the tiief on the cross) for evena murderer who bclieves, but before a_ higher tribunal it must be decided whether the pro- fessions were louest or not, and Ido not up- derstand that the Church claims to insure the verdiet. ‘The belief in the inspiration of the Bible must be settled cach one for himself. The honest seeker after truth can find it. There are thou- sands of intelligent men and wowen in our city who have accepted the Bible teachings, and their united desire would be to any soul agitated by doubt, that it might have the peacethey have in resting on the truth therein, - INTERMITTENT. “ CIIURCH TRAMPS.” To the Editor of The Tribune. Ca1cAGo, Jau. 80.—The **church-tramp * and “religious-vagrant nuisance, as descrivea by ihe DBaptist Ezaminer and the Presbyterian OQbiseruer, is becoming a great and overshadowing evil. All can sece that itis an evil which, un- less checked, threatens the very cxistence of the Christian Church. It is encouraging to see that our leading religious journals are alive to the fnnortance of the subject. Undoubtedly the remedsy in the case will be the adoption of the system as proposed in my letter to Tue TRIBONE in June last, to wit.: to place a value upon each seat in the House of God according to eligibility, and notifying all who would enter that business is no longer conducted under the quack rule of “no cureno pay,” but to “pay as you 0.’ Why should We not pay as we go in spiritusl as well as in other matters? In furtherance of this much-needed reform, will the editors of those journals single out parties in their own congregatious on wnomm they have their eyes as being obnoxious in this mat- ter, and visit and converse with them, and give us the number of such, aud the resuit of their admonitions? It may be that they will thus learn that those whom they characterize as relisious vagrants are in fact sinccre and Gevout worshipers, and that they give in accordauce with the Seripture injunction of **a willing mind,” and “as God hath prospered them,” and to the extent of ther abiiiy. Thereiore, {o their zzaous rsid upon alleged religions impostors, let those e itors *sec that thiey hurt not the ofl and the wine.” . ML H. GOING IT BLIND. To the Editor of The Tribune. . Cricaco, Jan. 28.—The “Searlet Woman” is making rapid progress jn Chicago. The ad- vocates of a sealed Bible are becoming bolder and bolder. They are throwing off all diszuise, and acknowledring with unblushing effrontery their dependence upou the ‘credulity of the people. What do you think of the IOIIO)_\'lng senumentl and do_you think it any credit to the Rev. Patrick Mulloy, of the Church of St. Aloysius? **We could not explain onc in n thonsand of the things we are called on to belleve in.” For myself, I think it would do little credit to the Rev. Mr. Mulloy, or any other pricst of the Romish Church; nor do I'think it does any less credit to the Rev. E. P. Goodwin, of the Tirst Congregational Church, who uttered it yesterduy as reported in Toe TRIBUNE of this morning. C. W. W. JOHNNIE’S COMPOSITION. EVVERLASTING PUNNISHMENT is only a long way of sayin a verry little word- Tne little word is Hell. 'T'his is a verry curius word. 1f a boy should be ketehed sayin it even in o verry quiet way, and his parnots should here it, be would imedeately be lickked! But a precher can say it rite along in bis sur- mon, and noboddy thinks of likkin him. Prechers has too diffurunt ways of dwellin on this word. Sum says it menes able lake burnin with fire and brimstone, and all sinners go there when they di. If abad boy should di without bein sorry he was bad, I suopose he would go rite to this lake, and have to go in swimmin the first thing. N’o\\', swimmin Is very nice in- deed, but it is genureliy ment to be coolin in its effect, and no boy would enjoy divein round in red-hot fire. Yet. if the poor hot boy should try to get out and cool himself a little, I sup- pose thar o Imp would instently run after him with 2 long poker and drive lim rite in agen. and the burnin boy would bave to stay forever and ever, which i3 a ood while. Accordin to this, a wicked boy had better be kareful to be very sorry when be comes to die, unless he likes a-wWarm climate and hot surroundins segerally. . But some_prechers says there ain’t no burnin lake, uor brimstone, nor Imps. Itsalla *“flz- ur of speech,” which {3 the same as gayin, “its all in vour eye.” This would be a rood deal better for the bad boy. He could Iye, and snarl, and stele, and have a rite good time all the while, and if his parents should say, he was moin rite to the Bad Pluce, he could tell em not to worry on his account; the leadin minis- ters had decided there was no Bad Place at all! Mebbe he was right and his parents is_wrong. But I caw’t help thinkin how chepe that boy would feel. if he should happen to slipp up on his little **figeur of speceh ™ as he'd been relyin on, and should wake up some flne morning in a very bot Iake, with a strong smell of brimstone in the are: I bet he'd be the maddest boy down there!! . And if this surprized boy should run across one of those Prechers lookin verry thotful and rakin his first lessons in swimmin, 1 bet they'd bave it hott and heavy! which is all I have to say about Eveerlasting Punnishment. F. F. G. MR. BEECIIER. WHAT HE BELIEVES IN. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will preach this morning in Plymouth Church. A recent Jetter in which he to some cxtent formulated his creed may therefore be of interest at this moment+ Broorryy, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1878.—Mr Dran Mr. Mormisox: It s inconceivable to mo how ra- 110081 men shonid allow themselves 1o b excited vy the perlodical misrcports of the reporters, and the Associated Press reports pised upon them, in regard to my eentiments. - Week afier week ‘my eermons are reported in fall by Mr. Ellinwocd, and printed in the Christian Union of New York, 'and no man need be at aloss to know my religious sentiments. _For twenty-five years in newspapers, in printed volumes, as well a8 from the pulpit, I Bave preached and printed, in every conceivablo form, the truth of inspiration of the ‘sacred Scrip- ture,'the existence and government of God, the doctrines of the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ as very God, the upiversal sinfulness of man, the atonement of Christ, the doctrine of a chanze of heart, the eficacious influence of the Holy Spirit in regencration, and the doctrine of retribution, both here and bereafter. Itis true that the question of the nature of suf- fering, the object of’ penalty, and tho question of its duration, 1 have discussed with such ight as T had, denying that all the lizht had yet broken out of Holy Scripture on various points that it con- tained. The charges of atheism, infidelity, universalism, theism, arc made by men who kno'w nothing, and who tafe no vains to know anything, ** Eyes have they, " etc. My working sympathies o with the Evangelical Orthodox ministry. Bur I refuse to be held to consistency with any dogmiatic system of theology of the past. 1am with Culvin and against Calvin? Tam with Arminius and against Arminius; Tom with Episcopacy and awainst Episcopacy; 1 am with the Roman Church and againstit, —my ob- Jeet belng, not to bwid or defent its system of the- ology or government, but to bring men near to God, and build them up in holiness of life. Tiexny Wanp BEEcuer. GENERAL NOTES. The twenty-one Universities of Germany con- tain 20,229 students, of whom 2,223 attend lectures on theology. There are only two consecrated Roman Cath- olic churches in the Archdiocese of Boston, all the rest being in debt. A general census has just been takenin Soain, and for the first time in the history of the coun- try the question of religious connection has been asked. By a recent death, the number of Old Cath- olic pricsts in Austria has been reduced to four. The Synod will meet in the spring, but there is little liketihood of the clection of a Bishop. Special revival religious services will be held in the State Street M. E. Church, near Forty- seventh street, every night this week except Saturday. ‘Thé pastor, the Rev. E. M. Boring, will be assisted by A.J. Bell and other lay evangelists. Mr. E. . Bailey, who preaches in Deverell Street Congreeational Chapel, London, adver- tises his addresses with such strikiug titles as these: “The Talking Donkey,” “The Devil Among the Piga,” “ A Little Man Up a Tree.” After some study their Scripture relevance may be discovered. In a recent installation sermon at Buffalo, Dr. Calkins recalled this characteristic remark of the late Dr. Brainard, ot Philadelphia: “There are three quahfientions of ministers: piety, fidelity, and poverty. The first two e must ob- tamn of the Lord by prayer; but we trust the stinginess of the churches for the last.” Mr. Spurgeon was preaching on the subject of “The Confessional.”” ¢ Having searched the Bible all the way through,” said he, ** I canonly find that oue man therein mentioned ever con- fessed. That was Judas Iscariot; and_vou will remember, my brethren, that immediately he had confessed, he went out and hung himself.” ‘The English Evangelicals begin to discuss the coming meeting of the Pan-Anglican Synod at Lambeth. They are not favorable to it. The Synod meets this summer and will be in session a month. Two points of discussion will be a closer union of the various bodics and the es- tablishment of a_court of arbitration for the settlement of differences. ‘The_Southern Methodists have reinforced their Mexican mission with a native missionary who has been under trairing in Vaoderbilt Uni- versity. The Board of Missions has passed a resolution favoring an arrangement of comity with the Northern Methodist Chureh, so that the missions of the two Churches in this field should not be in antagonism. The nincteenth anniversary_of the Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews has been held in Philadelpbia. The missionary, the Rev. L. C. Newman, reported that he had made during 1877, 605 visits, held 360 relimious conversations, and received 236 visits from forty-five inquirers and thirty-three converted Jews and Jewesses. Six Jewish adults and one infant were baptized. And so Mr. Beecher is goinz to speak an hour or two to the citizens of Chi- cago, for which he is to receive the moderate and modest little sum ol $1,000. Some men can speculate on their own notoriety, and the “intelligent public’ are fools enough to enable them todo it. But $1,000 for au evening’s talk would seem to indicate *‘flush ™ instead of ‘‘bhard” times.—Standard. ‘The total income of the Church of England is a Tittle over £8,000,000, aud the church popula- tion about 12,500,000, for whom 5,750,000 church sittings are regularly fixed. Chureh rates are now lemally abolished, gud a charge of from five to twenty shillings ?cr year is commoniy made for scats. In some of the recently-built churches the sittings are free, and in all courches o con- siderable number of free sittings are provided. As 3 result of the recent reduction in the debt of Trinity Methodist Church ot this. city, the official Board have decided on a large reduc- tion in price of pew-rents, to take effect from Feb. 4. Good sittings may now be bhad from one cent a duy to eight cents a day, which, with the gallery alwi-s free. and free seats every Sunduv evenir s church orivileres within | reach of all, even tnose who have felt hard times most. The church has opencd a free reading- room and.refercuce library in its southeast room, with a large supply of books and periodi- cals on the Sunday-school lessons, temperance, and Bible study; and also_books of romance, illustrated books and periodicals, and other at- tractions for young people. The edifice in South Brooklyn, formerly known as the South Presbyterian, and latterly as the Clinton Street Presbyterian Church, bav- ing been relinquished as a J.vh\ca of worship by that body, is now occupied by the Reformed Episcopalians. Those who are familiar with the contentions of which this building witbin two years past has been made the booe, discover in its new title, * The Church of the Reconcilia- tion.” a mild, though of course unintentional, sareasm. There are now more than 2,000,000 Baptists in this country, of whom nearly one-tenth_of the whole number, 199,870, is in Georgia. Next fol- lows Virginia, with 17(;,9-36, then Kentucky, 158,- 479, and then North Caroling, 136,956. The fifth place in the column is occupicd by New York, with 109,751, South Carolina, Tennesace, Myssissippl, Missouri, and Alabama’ all precede Illinois, the next State of the North. In the former slave States, including the District of Columbia and Indian Territory, there are 1,365, 158 Baptists, while in the free States there ar 468 The ease with which ministers and congrega- tions change their ecclesiastical relations was never mor¢ aptly illustrated than_ it was a few days ago in Brooklyn. The Rev. James I Hall, late Methodist and pastor of Grace Presbyte- rian Church, fluding that the Presbytery of Brooklyn would not receive him in his present status 08 a suspended Methodist minister, and his hope of reinstatement by his Conference be- ing very slim, has taken himself and the Pres- byterians whom he served over to the Congre- oationalists. They, however, have not yet re- eived him and may not. The Jnterior rejolces that the Fourth Presby- terfan Church of this_city, Dr. French, pastor, has arranged to pay off its cntire indebtedness, and is now ready towhecl into the noble line of churches from debt. During the last few duys the sum of $35,000 has been quietly and ch-er- fully subscribed by the members and [riends of tho church without any of the public pressure and importunate clap-trap too often employed to extort money from reluctant subscribers, ‘This amount pays off the ecntire bonded and floating debt, and leaves the income of the church amply suflicient to meet all current ex- penses. In the matter of the recent application onthe part of St. Mark’s Cburch, Philadelphia, for a deeree concerning the ringing of their chimes, the Court made an order granting the moditica- tion as asked, with this cxception: Leave to ring the chimes on every day that has afall service, at all daily eervices, for not more than five minutes, not earliecr than 9 a. m. or later than 8 p. m., and at Sunday-school services for five minutes, not_carlier thian 9 a. m., was re- fused. The modification allowed permits the chimes to be rung on the following days, in ad- dition to the time mentioned in_the former de- cree:Washington’s Birtaday, Fourth of July, New Year’s Day. Epiphany, Ash Weanesday, Good Friday, Ascension Day, All Saints’ Day., Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and at wed- dings and fuperals. PERSONATL. The Rev. . £. Vance, of Lesington, IL, has accepted a unanimous call to the Presbyterian Church at Steveus Point, Wis. ‘The Rev. E. F. Fish, of Du Quoin, Il., on account of his health, has resigned his pastoral office, and the church has accepted the resigna- tion. It is said that Cardinal Manoing wishes Aon- signor Capel, the head of the Roman Catholic University in London, to be made Archbishop of Scotland. The Rey. A, A. Kiehle, of Franklin Avenue Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, has received a call to the First Presbyterian Church at Still- water, Mion. The Rev. Churles De Luynes, a prominent Jesuit, known well fu the United States, France, and South Amerien, died in New York City on Sunday lust, azed 73. The Rev. R. W. Fletcher, pastor of the Pres- byterian Church of Hastings, Mich., has been oblized by the precarious condition of his health to resign his pastorate. The Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, who recently returncd home from a residence in Geneva, Switzerland, is now supplyinz the pulpit of the "Third Dresbyterian Church, Pittsburg. Father Denny, the Prefect of the Jesuits of Baltimore, recently became a_ millionaire. He inherited two millions on the death of his mother. He was originally o Presbyterian. The Rev.-James D. Kerr, Synodical Mission- ary of Nebraska, lias_received a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Seventh Street Church of Denver, Uol.,, aud expects to begin his labors there the first Sabbath in February. Dr. 4. G- Binney, a noted Baptist missionary, died at sea off ‘Ceylon Nov. 26, while on his re- turn from this country to Burmah. He was born in Boston in 1807, and was a graduate of Yale College. He went out asa missionary in 1843. A monition has been served on the Rev. A. H. Ward, of St. Raphael’s, Bristol, requiring him ot once to desist from certain Ritualistic practices, but there has been no alteration in the serv inceuse, lights, and vestments be- ing induleed in. ‘I'he death is announced of the Rev. Dr. James Bowling Mozley, Rezius Professor of Divinity at, Oxiord, and onc of the eminent scholars of the State Church. In the year 1865 he was Bampton Lecturer, and delivered a series of ieetures on Miracles. He was also tne autlior of a treatise on the Aucustinian doctrine of Pre- destination, and another on Baptismal Regener- ation. The oldest prelate of the Chureh of England is AMred Ollivaut, Bishop of Llandaff, azed 805 the youngest is Rowley Hill, Bishop of Sodor and Mau, aged 42, The oldest prelate of the Irish Episcopal Church is Johu Gress, Bishop of Cark, azed 80; the youngest is his son, Rob- ert Samuel Greee, Bishop of Ossorv and Ferns, aged 4. The oldest prelate of the Scotch Epis- copul Church is Robert. Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross, aged 74; the youngest, George R. Mm} rness, Bishop of Ateyll and the Isles, age DOUBTFUL PIETY. “When I die,” said a married man, * I want to sro where there is no snow to shovel.” His wife said she presumedhe would. A farmer out toward the Ridge, who bought a kicking cow three weeks ago, already talks of withdrawing from the church.—ZRome Sentinel. A hawk swooped down upon a weather-vane on a church spire in Charlotte, N. C., and was disrusted to find it only an imitation-rooster. ‘That bird now agrees with the preacher of the church,—that allis vane-ty.—ZRichmond State. The followine don mot is from the London Truth: A Catholic priest was asked the dif- ference_ between Romanists and tualists. “1he difference,” replied the priest, ** is that the former are ‘Pavists,’ aud the latter ¢ Apeists.? ! * Goin’ to church this morning?” shouted Amos to his neighbor across the way. ** No, sir.” ‘Headache!” *No.” * Children sick?” #Xo. ©Gotcompany?” “No.? -t What's the matger? ” Kimball!” “>Nough said.”"— Zoston Transcript. Dr. Johnson said that a small boy could climb an apple tree, fill bis pockets, and et off with impunity; but the moment a big boy tried to do it the limb broke, and ko did the boy’s arm, and all the pious people said it was a judement. ‘The real difliculty, however, lay in the’size of the boy. A cotlier lad comingz home to his dinner one day, and seeing a lump of beef smon his kail, asked bis mother whereshe had gotten sic o grand denner the day. < Frac Providence,” re- plicd his mother. * 0d, mither,” sntd be, “yer awfu’ new-fanzled; yer aye gettin’ acquent” w' somebody." At Irish clergyman once broke off the thread wof msdiscourse, and thusaddressed the congrega- tion: ** My dear brethren, let me tell you I am just half through my sermon; but as I perceive your impatience, I will say that the remaining hall is not more than a quarter as long as that you have just heard.” In the history class recently, a student boing confused in the mazes of a véry long sectence, was suddenly interrupted by the Professor with the remark: **You remind me of 2 Methodist minister who, in a similar predicament, exciaim- cd to his hearers, *Brethren, I have lost my gomisl;'\’live case, but L am bound for the king- om. A Virginia negro boy, who professed to be dreadfuily afraid of cholers, took to the woods to avoid it, and there was found asleep. Belng asked why he went to the woods, he said: *To pray.”” *Bat,” said the overscer. * how is it that you went tosleep?” ** Don’t know, mass ‘zactly,” responded the nezro, but ‘spect must have overprayed myself.”” Free thinking has, for its logical result free acting. An old reutleman once struck the key- note of the world's common sense in the mut- ter. Hesaid to a wisitor, “Do you believe in God, 4r?? The reply was, “God is a mere no- tion'of some superstitious people, which men of thought have long since abandoned.” * Very. good. sir; and may I ask if you believe in the Ten Commandments?”? “No, sir,”” was the reply; ‘‘they can be demonstrated to be the offspring of a barborous age.” Theold geu- tleman rang his bell, and, when the servant appeared, said, *‘John, stand by the hat rack until this person goes. Nothing is safe when a man neither believes in God nor the Devil.” CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach in the Firat Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty- first street, at 11 2. m. ‘and 7:30 p, m. —Buptist Tabernacle, Nos. 302 and 30+ Wabash avenoe, B. F. Jacobs, Superintendent. - Sunday- school at 2:30 p. m. ; Gospel-meetingat 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach in the West End Opera-louse. Evening subject: **The Lord's Second Advent and the First Resurrec- tion.™ —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-third street, 2t10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning eubject: #*The Resurrection.” —The Rev. R. DeBaptiste will preach i Olivet Church, Fonrth avenue, near Taylor street. at 11 2. m. ond 7:45 p. m. Evening subject: ** Mission Work in Hayti. —The Rev. J. M. Gregory, Regent of the State Industrial Institution, will preach in the Univer- sity Place Church, corner of Dounglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 11 8. m., and the Rev. A, Owen 2t 7:30 p. . —The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach in the South Church, corner of Locke and Gonaparte streets, at 0 8. m. and 7:20 p. m. . Henry will preach in the Thir- Church, near Dearborn atreet, at ty-seventh Street 10:30 2. m. anc 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach in the Second Church, corner of Morzan and Monroe streets, at 10:30 4. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morninz subject: ‘“Christ’s Sermon While Gomng to His Cross: " evening: ** Liberalism.™ —The Rev. C. Perren will preach in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 a. and 7:30 [‘2.‘ m. —The Rev. E. T. Gressey will preach in the Coventry Strect Church, corner of Lloomingdale road, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:50 p..m. ~Morning gubject: **Justification.”™ —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach in the Cen- tennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets, at 10:30 8, m. and 7:30 r. m. —The Rev. R.P. Allizon will preach in the ‘North Star Cnurch, corner of Division and Sedg- wick streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach in the Cen- tral Church, Martine's” Hall, Chicago avenue, be- tween Clark and Dearborn streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Re! . C. Haselbuhn will preach in the First German Church, corner of Bickerdyke and Huron streets, ot 10:50 3. m. and 730 p. m. —Tne Rev. H. A. Reichenbach will ‘preach_in the Nordish Tabernacle, corner of Noble and West Ohio streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 0. m. —The Rev. John Ongman will preach in the First Swedish Church, Oak strect, near Sedgwick, 2t10:30 2. m. and 7:30 o. m. —Thitev. W, J. Kermott will preach in the Halsted-Street Church, between Forty-first and Forty-second etreets, st 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. - —Millard-Avenue Church, Lawndale. Scrvices 4£10:30 3. m. aad 7:30 p. m. The Rev. C. Swift will preach in Evangel Charch, Tzock lsland car-hops, Dearborn etrect. near Forty-scventh, at 10:45 a. m, and 7:30 . m. P Tfte Rev. M. M. Carr will preach in Downer's Grove Church _at1la. m. and 7 p. m. The Rev. C. Ii. Kimball sill preach n Encle- wood Charch, Englewood avenue, near Stewart, 4110:30 8. . and7:30 p. m. The Rev. . L. Chapell will preach in the First Evanston Church 4t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rey. H. L. Stetson will preach in tho Lake Shore Church, Winnetka, in the eveninz. —The Rtev. J. K. Wheeler will preach in Austin Chureh 8t 10:45 8. . and 7:45 p. ™, —The Rev. A. Blackburn will preach in Oak Park Charch, Temperance Hall, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:80 D. m. The Rev. C. C. Marston -will_preach in Nor- wood Park Church at 11s. m. 3nd 7 { m, —The Rev. Dr. Ivea will preach in Unity Church, Wilmette, at 7:43 p. m. —The Rev. L. W. Oiney will preach in Hyde Park Church at 10:30 2. m. EP.SCOPAL. Cathedral Frce Church, SS. Peter and Paul, cor- ner West Washington and Peoriastreets. The Rt. - Rev. W. E..McLaren, Bishop: the Rev. J. II. Knowles, Priest in Charge. Morning prayer at 5 o'clock. Litany and choral celebration at 10:30 8. m. Choral evening prayer ar7:30 p. m. —'T'he Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate in St. James' Chareh, corner of Cass and Huron streets, t10:45 0. m. 80d 7545 p. m. Communion at 12 . _The Tes. E. Sullivan will officiate in Trinity Charch, corner of Tywenty-sixth street and Michi- Fan aveuue, 8t 10:450. m. and 7:30 p. m. Com- munion at 12 m. 5 —The Rov. Francis Mansfleld will officiate n the Charch of_the Atonement, corner of West Wash- ington and Robey streets, 3t 10:30 o. m. and 7:30 p.m, —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sisteenth street, at 11a. m. and 7:30 p. m.' Commuaion at 12 m. —The Rev. Stepaen en will ofticiate in St. John's Church, corner of Washington street and Ozden avenue, at 10:15 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. “_Charch of the Holy Communion, Dearborn streat. near Thirtieth, services at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. £ —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate in the Church of the Ascension, corner of North LaSalle and Elm streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. . Communion at 8a. m. —The Rev. J. Bredburg will officiate in St. Ansgariue’ Church, Sedgwick strect, near Chicago avenue, 0t 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Clarles Stanley Lester will officiate in St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, at 10:30 a. m, and 7:30 p. m. he Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Murlk's Church, Cottage Grove avenue, corner of Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will ofliciate in St. Stephen's Church, Johinson etreet and Twelfth, a§ 10:40 a. m. and p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will ofliciate in Cal- vary Churcb, Warren avenue, between Oakley etréet and Wesiern avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and Communion at 11:30 a. m. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will ofiiciate in the Charch of the Epiphany, Throop streef tween Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 . m, P T¥ne Rev. W. J. Petric will oficiate in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Bel- den nvenues, at 11a. m. and 7:30p. 1, —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate in All Saints’ Church, corner of North Caspenter and West Obio etreets, at 10:453. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Good Sheherd Mission, Lawndale. Serv- fcesat10:30a. m. . —The Re: N. Luson will officiate in Em- maunel Chureh,” Ls Grange, at 10:30 s. m. and 7:30 p. m. b Rev. J. Stewart Smith will oficiate fn St. Maric's Churel, Evanston, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:40 P, m. Communion at 7:30 o. m. t. Luke's Mission, corner of Taylor street and Western avenue, Sanday-school at3 p. m. services at 4 p. m., —THope Mission, No. 835 Milwankee avenne. Sun- day-school at 2:30 p, m. CHRISTIAN. The Rev. C. J. Mortimer preaches at the First Church, corner of Indiana_avenue and Twenty- fifth strect, this morning. Meeting of the mem- bership in the lecture-room in the ¢vening. —Elder M. N. Lord will preach in Central Charchi, Campuell Hall, corser of Van Buren street and Campbell avende, in the morning. White will preach in Central Chureh, No. 997 Nan Baren strect, at10:45 3. m. and 7:30 p.om. _PRESDYTERIAN. . The Res. E. N. Dacrett will prench at Westmin- ster Caurch. corner of Jackson und Peoria strects. Morning subject: **Tower-Duilding. = Evening Subjects "*-Spiritnal Horticalture. o Rev. James Mactaughlin will preach in the Scotch Churcl, corner of Sangamon and. Adams Sireots, mornini and evening., T Rev. Arthur Mitcneil will preach in the Firat Church, corner of Indisna avenie and Twen ty-first street, at10:30a, m. Fhe liov, Dr. Gloton wiil preach In_ the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirtictn strect, 2t 10430 8. m., and the Rev. Dr. iis. of Cincinnati, at 7:00 p. m. Subjec **A Soul A e ifer, Tenry T, Miller will Tfae Iev. Henry T. Miller will preach {n the Sixth Cburch, corner of Vincennes and Oak ave- nues, at 10:30 0. m. - Subject: *'A Strangs Flace to Wake Up In.” Dr. Henry Reynolds will con- dtet n temperance meeiing in-the erening, EI——;,"I;ECE!V.‘LJ. M. “';fl"{\:l" h\IVH'}‘ preach in the th Chuireh, corner of Wawhlogton and Birocts, a6 10:30 o m, and 7:90 p.om. foler “The Rov. W. C. Youne will preach i the Fal- lerton Avende Chutch a6 10:30 8. . N evening service. "TFiié Rev. Francus L. Patton will preach in Jef- ferson Park Church, corner of Throop and. Adams aifegts, 3¢ 10:00.. . aa 7500 . —The Rev. C. L. Thompson will preach in the Second Church, Gorner of Michigan avenue say Twentieth atreet, in the morning, and the Rev. J, AMonro Gioson iu'th ovening. UNITARIA! The Rev. Robert Collyer preaches at the Chnrch of the Movsiah this morataz, and the Tew. Hrooke Herford this evening. Mo Rev. T, 1: Forbash will preach fn the THird Ghurch, corner of Laflin and Monree atreots, at 10:45 a. m. Subject: **Character the Way ol Lite, The Ton. lenry Booth will Jectare 3t 8 B.' 1. on **The Turk in flis Past and Present.’” o Rev. J; T- Sunderland W11} broacn s the Foarth Chirch, Pralric. avenue neac ‘Fhjttictn streer, at1la. m. Subject: o-Is Tnguiry in K- ligion safer ‘Poe Tter. J. T. Sunderland will preach in Un- ion Hali, Evanston, at 7:30 p.m. Subject: **The Worli's Great sacréd Tiooka. —The Rav. Brooke Herlord will preach in Tnity Ciarcl, comner ol Dearborn avente and W ajton Ince, in the morning, and the ltev. Robert Collyer i tho evening. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev, Henry Ward Deecher preaches at Plymonth Church this motning. “The Kev. George H. Pceke will preach in the Leavitt Street Church, corner of Adams street, at 10:30 0. m, and 7:30 p. m. Evening subject: **Fidelity to Principle.” —The lzev. D. N. Vandeveer will preach in the Tnton Park Church, corner of Wasnineion street and Ashland svenue, at 10:30 o, m, ing pom, The Rev. James T. livde will Forty-seventh Sircet Church In. the. a4 Ogkland in the eveninzy —The Rev. C. A, Towle will Charh, corner of Pauling and W sat fas, by atl0se. m -n%’?::l!;l) P- m. Morning sqpec +‘Tpe Day of God's Power.” Evenincs 1ng DetwoenTwo Onlnions.s L /e0og: The Rev. Samner Eis prosch e Rev. Sumner Ellis preaci of the Redeemer. Morning :hl:?je!c‘l-m % Shurey Gooness aud. Egdiess Perdition,» *+ "Diize —The Rev. D. M. Reed, of Rockford, o Drcach in St. Paui's Church, Michigas shorts Eighteenth street, morning and eventng. "° 228¢ [ERAN. preach in gy, moming ang- LUTH The Rev. Edmund Delfour preaches at the of the Holy Trizity, corner of D Chare Erle streots, morming and sveniag o MYeRICad e B, !LST?Q”!ST. e Rev. F. W. Crafts will Church morniniz and evening. preachat Trajty —Communion._eervice in the Fi mopuing. e Rev. M. 1 Purkharst i oL n the evening. ubject: **F e s S zom Death to et ZTiie Rev. 8. McChesney will Avepo Clure. Subiect ’urna"fi’:fi':,;‘a‘?figs —The Rev. Dr. lomas will Chareh morniag sad vening. presch et Centensry ~The Rev. A. W. Patten N e S s e —The Rev. George Chase mall fer Steeet Cliurch, corer of Forts foga n the morning, on **Prayer,” and- in the will condet ¢idzen's Servica . 18 the ereaing —The Rev, E. timer, of Centra] i Conterence, will preach in the Fule oilrs Chureh, coraer of Arteslun avenue, ac 10:30 1 " and the Rev. W. T. Holmes at 7: ' ect; ¢ The K;:ngri[nmnof God. A 700 P Salt ZiThe Rev. E. 3. Boring will Street Church at 10:45 2. m. R:v?\!:fcihlrlf’}tiluf“ ‘oung persony at 7:30 p. m., condacted by 1. o indssy, Dr. Smith, F. W. Porter, and others. —Mra. J. F. Willing will preach in Emmup, Church, ¢ornor of Paulina ind Harrison siedt morning and evening. l, —The Rev. S. 1. Adams will Western Avenue Charch, corner of ‘morming and evening. 1 ZTho Lzev. John Atkinson will preach Church, corer of North LaSalle strects, morning and evening, **Christian Love.” 4 preach fn g, Honroe sirees, in Graes and Jorainz mr:}.m o —The Rev. T. C. Clendenning will pr Langley Avenue Charch, comer of Wrfir}.’:fi street, at 10:30 8. m. Subject: ** Need anq Son° iy.” ‘Dr. Resnolds and A. E. Sradley o ecture ou temperance at 7:30 p, m. The R )I[(EFO(I:BIBD EPISCOPAL. e Rev. M. D. Church preaches at St. ‘s Chutch, Eilis avente, near Thirty-sevents s, moraing aud eveaine. ZThe Rev. R. II. Bosworth preaches a Chutch, corner of Tloyno and Levlove '.grc.,".:' morning and evening, nd at Englewood T e Rev. ™. . Hant —The Rev. W. J. Hunter preaches at St. Church, corner of Ann and Washinzton “mgn.n —Eishop Cheney will oficiate at Christ Charey morning ard evening. NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. L. P, Mercer preaches at Hershey Ha this morning, _Subject: * Reveiation; Lts Diriss a0 Joman Side. . —The Rev. O. L. Barler preaches at New Char! Hall, comer of Brairie avomne and Eiphiony street, this morning. MISCELLANEOUS. The Progressive Lycenm meets in Grow's Bllst “_The Rev. A. Youker will presch in the West Side Tabernacle, corner of Morzan and Indluss streets. morning and evening. Morning subjerts ““The Unardonable Sin—What Is It+™ —The Rev. W. J. Erdman and C. M Yoron will preach in Chicago “Avenue !Chorch 1m the morninz, and Mr. Morion In the evening. —George X, shaep will presch fa But Misin Chapel, No. 460 Third avenae, ot 11 , m. o 7:30 p. m. —Judge Layton preaches at the Tabernacle, Og- den avenue, near Harrison street, morning and evening. —The Rev. W. A. Spencer preaches atths Wash- - instonian Home at 3 o'clock. —The Rev. D. R. Mansfleld preachcs at the charch corner of May and Fulton st Morning subject: *‘Communion with Chri Erey subject: **She hath done what she conld.” —The Rev. Miss A. J. Chaoin will preach in Ti- lotson’s Hall, Enelewood, at3:30 p. m,, onthe gcc:x\siun of the first service of the Christian Union ociety. —James R. Hewlett mill preach in the Larrabee- « Street Mission, near Division street, at 7:30p. m., on ** Death and Immortalit —A medinms’ and Spiritualists’ meeting will be held in the parlors of Mr. Richardson, third floor of 239 West Madison strect, at 3 p. m., aod fa the parlors of Mrs. Kate Bryant, No. 334 Milwaukes avenue, at7:30 p. m. —Disciples of Christ will mcet at No, 228 West Randolph streetat 4p. m. - —Elder H. G. McCulloch will preach in the Tab- ernacle, No. 91 South Green strect, morning aod evening. ~ Subject in the eveping: ** Futare Pua- ishment; Its Nature and Duration.” —The 'Rev. Mr. Foss will lead a union Gospel mecting in Carpenter Hall, No, 221 West Madlson. street, at 3 p. m. 0. Lattimore will lead 8 Gospel temperancs meeting in Lower Farwell Hall this evening. Saciety of Spiritushista will meet In No. 517 West Madison street, 8¢ 45 p. m., Mrs. CoraL. V. ker. In the morning the spirit of the Re lism Ellery Channing will control; subject: **The Religion of Spiritnalisn Proven by the Scriptures—the Old and New Testa- ments.” -Evening subject: - **The Heavenly Parnassus,” a poem from the sphere of Homer. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK / EPISCOPAL. [Feb. 3—Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. CATHOLIC. [Feb. 3—Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. Feb. 3—St. Andrew Corsini, B. C. Feb. 5St. Agatha, V., M. Feb. 6-St. Titus, B. C. ; St. Dorothy, V.3 Feb! 7—8¢. Romuald, Abb. Feb. 3-St, John of Matha, C. Feb, 95§, Fabian and Sebastian, I (from Jas 20); St. Apoilonia, V. M. 0: 5 Richmond, lmnte‘s‘ THE DEAD DOLL. Yon meedn't be trying to comfort me—T tell you - my dolly is dead; There's no_use in saying she isn't, with & ersck like that in her head. It's just like you said it wouldn't hurt much ta huve my tooth out that day. And then, when the man “most pulled my head off, you'kadn't a word to say? ‘ And I guess you must think I'm a baby, when 5ot say you can mend it with glue, : As it 1didn't Ilmow better than that! Why, jost suppose It was you! You mivht make her 7ok all mended—bat what do 1 care for looks? Why, tluc’s for chairs, and tables, and toys, snd the backs of books! My dolly! my own little danghter! O butit's the awfullest crack; md It just makes me sick when I think of the sour when her poor head went whack Against thut horrible brass thing that holds up the little shelf— Now, Nursey, what makes you remind koow 1did it myself! 1 think that on must be crazy—Yon'll get her an- other hea! : ‘What good ‘wo;xl% Xa’.r‘!y heads do her? Itell you my dolly is dead ! And to think 1 hadn't quite finished ber elegant new spring hai; o And T touk a sweet ribbon of hers last night to on that horrid cat! When my mamma gave me that ribbon—T s pIsF* ing out in tnc yard— i She sald to we most ¢xpreasly, **Here's 8 ribon and Hildegarde for Hildezardes And Lwent und put'it on Tabby, ButIsaid to myself. ** O neser mind—I don's be- lieve she knew it.” & me? 1 But Tknow that she knew it now, and I justbe- eve, 1 do. B ‘That her “m 1}“”(” heart was broken, and £0 et head broke, t0o. o mybhabyl‘my fittle bavy! I wish my bead bsd cen hit, 3 ForI' ‘vu n;z it over and over, and it nasa't cracked ta bit. But nl;mr1 tlhc ’d.nrflng fs dead, she'll have to b uried. of course; We will take my little wagon, Narse, and yoa thal be tie horse, = And T} walk bebind and crys ond we'll puther 2 this. you see— her theres This dear little box—and we'll bury under the maple-tree. And Papa will make ‘me a tombstone, like the oué e made for my bird: evert And hc‘lll put what I tell him on it—yes, single word. 1 ahng [d h“ lleér: mx’m Hildegarde, 8 ‘peantisel oll, Wwho Is dead; She died of a broken beart, and a dreadfal cracki® her head!"" —2Margaret Vandegrift. ————— WHEN YOU AND I ARE OLD. When yon and Lare old, my dear, With youthful blood grown cold, my dear, T will not mourn our fate. Tl say: When Summer's bloom was here We labored, each, wita goodly cheer, And now with cheer we'll walt. Our lives should teach us this, I ween: That much of joy and bliss unzcen Our hearts may lay in stor And thonzh the frosts of Age be keen, ‘And thouzn the cold world vent its spleen 1t can do nothing more. For love, true loye, knows sunay hights, Where want, and wo, and chilling blights Are powerless to harm.. And depths it owns, and peaceful lgi;éhl& Where all {8 calm, and Ear:h's affright> ‘But the surface-waves alarm. ,_While Life's twilight draws anear, We'll welcome it with kindly cheer, Contented with our lot. e koo fall well i clonda sopears Ve have a peace that conquers fear, 4nd hardships are forgot. Jax Dy Bt 4 ¥