Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1878, Page 9

"= RELIGIOTS. ‘HE,CmCAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY -10, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES | i verted immediately set up a seres of shouts, shrieks, znd moans such as one might utter wersé he being murdered. The gentléman and bis wite wondered what the matter could be, and the former suzwested that perhaps ** Dick 7 was beating his wife, and hie had probably bet- ter 20 and mderfere lest he kill her. To this the wifc objected, and the cries and screams ‘went on, increasing in volume and frequency for hours. By that time the gentleman con- cluded it was mot o fight, for if *Dick? had been beatine his wife at the rate thecries would seem to indicate, she would have been dead in less time than the screams had lasted” Next morning the cries and screams were renewed, and fnquiries developed the fact that * Dick's”” wife had gotten religion. Neizhbors and friends began to call on the newly-converted, and, Pescription of a Col- Revival in Nash- ville, Tenn. @raphic ored What the Southern Darkey Does When He “Gets RN, Religion. it is supposed, offercd congratulations. She would run to meet every one, and fall on his or her nedk and weep, then begin to shout anew. For three days this coutinued, uutil one would have imagined that cxhausted nature would have succumbed and ensued quictude. As is well known, the great majority of the negro race are very ignorant, and hence they receive their idea’of the truths of the Divle {rom other lips, from their pastor, or perhaps Irom some learned dignitary of their church or family, who carries his well-thumbed Bible to their cabins and reads it to them. ‘There is a cook in this city named Viney, who is verv ardent in ber religion herself, and never despairs of corverting the people with whom she works to her beliefs. Not long since she was quoting some sceraps of Scripture to her mistress, and, misquoting,was told how it really was. Viney was not convinced. * Mis’ Fauny,” said sbe, “is it Gat o’ way your_Bible?? Mrs. Fanny replied that it was. *Well, den,” said Viney, “your Bible ain’t like Uncle Tom’s Bible, cos’ his Bible don’t say it dat a’ way.” With this clincher Viney departed, and Mrs. Fanoy thought it uscless to try to correct any of Viney's ideas of the Bible. The denominations represented by the negro races are Baptist and Methodist principally, with_variations on the same. Presbyterians and Episcopalians are rare, while Conrega- tionalists and Universalists are almost un- kuown. Tt is supposcd that one great reason of thelr religious eccentricities is owing to the fact that their emusements are few, and, while the whifes entertain themselves going to theatres, concerts, balls, and partis their colorex brethren entertain themselves in their churches. One source of amuscment that also brings them in a revenue is the church supper. An occasional concert draws them out in fmense numbers; and in sunmer, when the comuenc ment geason of their various schools and col- lczes, of which they have many in this city, be- gins, there is no lack for a short time ot en- joyment. Dauces with the lower orders of them degenerate into debauches of the lowest kind, and very often, it mot always, end in 2 bloody mander. When the circus season is open, as an vld darkey once remaried, *Many a nigger goes bungry,” for they will spend their fast cent for the hour’s gratification. LITERAL VS. FIGURATIVE. A CRITICISM ON A RECENT SERMON. Cnicaco, Fev. 7.—To the Rev. E. P. Good- win.~DeAR BROTHER IN CuRmist: It was with very grest surprise that I read your sermon answering the questiom, “Are the Wicked to be Annihilatedi® as reported in TsE TrIBUNE of Jap, 28. More especially was this 50 when the portions of Seripture chosen for your text could not have been more fatal to your conclusions, by any rcasonable exegesis, ‘had such been searched for. These contain tac words * perish,” “ consume,” * into smoke con- sume away,” “not be,” **devour,” and *kill.” These words as applied to the ordinary things of life are easily understood, and a uui- versal and uniform application is made of them, from the most ignorant to the most learned of men. These words when applied to inanimate objects sienify tne annibilation of those ob- jects as such; that is, when we speak of a bouse being consumed by fire, we Snderstand that the hcuse, as such, has ceased tu exist; it is annihilated. When applied to livins beings or creatures, we apply the same definition. We speak of a horse beinx con- fumed in a burning building, or perishing by freezing, or killed by an accident, or devour Dy a wild beast, and the only meaning we attach o these cxprussions Is that the horse has come 1o his death; has cvased to live; as a living Torse, is aunibilated. No man will disagree Wwith me so far. Now, it remains to be proved that these words cver lose these meanings. They never do outside of the Bible: and the question arises, Why should they have a differ- ext meaning in the Bible from the one in ordi- nary use? Upon this question of the definition of Wwords rests the auswer to the question, ** Are the wicked awnibilated?” We sre aware that the apswer commonly given when this question is discussed, and ihe words of the Scripture taken in their ordinary use is, that they are fignrative.” We now inquire, Where is the suthority given by which we ace at liberty to change the Hieanings of worls from the literal to the figur- ative! Asa sample of many that 1 mizht pro- duce, I give the following testimony upon this point: Says Jeremy Taglor: *In all the in- terpretations of Scripture, the literal scuseis tobe presumed and chosen unless there is evident cause to the contrary.” Says Martin Luther: *That which I have often insisted on T here repeat: that the Christian should direct huis first eforts towerd understanding the lit- eral sense of Scripture, which alone is the substance of faith and Christian theology. . o ITc allegorical sensc is uncertain and by f0'means safé to build our faith upon, for it usually depends_upon human reason and con- jecture only.” Says Hooker: “I hold it fors most infallible rule in_expositions of sscred Seripture, that, when a literal construction will stand, the farthest from tbe letter is probably the worst. There is nothing more dangerous and delusive than that sct which changes the meaning of words; making of anything what it listeth, and_bringing in_the end all truth to nothing.” Says Richard Watson: * The terms of the record are to be taken in their plain and commonly received sense. . . . If anyalle- gorical or mystical discourses oceur, the key to them must be sought in the book itself, and not in our own fancics: what is obscure must be interpreted by that which is plain.” Lastly, Dr. Charles L._Ives, author of a recent work entitled, *The Bible Doctrine of the Soul: or, Man’s Nature and Destiny, as Reyealed,” says: W] there no rule about this, no law of the lit- eral and figurative, by which for ourselves we may judge whether language be literal or fizu- rative, and so may be able to cxercise the Prot- estant’s right of private judement? Certainly there is. We find for speaker and hearer, for writer and reader, one simple, invariable rule vernine the verbal expression of ideas. It is Bt the literal, or_natural, meaning of every word holds good till that is proved impossiole; thien, but oot till then, docs 4 fieurative mean- ing come into consideration. We consider first the literal meaning; if sufficlent cause_is found to reject it, we then look sbout for a figurative rmeaning, i. e., we always pass through thcliteral to the ftrurative. The literal meaning takes precedence in all cases, sO that the possibility of its being intended must be exhausted before s Spurative meaning can be considered.” “This testimony is not extravagunt, but rea- sonable. It is what we put in practice at all times; first the Jiteral meaning of words, next the figurative. 1f this is not so, ‘then how much of value has the Bible in speaking to men of cternal destinies? Is it not an axiom of law that the penalties attached o offending against them be in the plainest possible languageol the tommon people? What do we thinkof that ruler who framed his laws and clevated them so high that noue of his subjects could read them, and then put them to death for not obey- ing them? What shall we think of a God who shall make laws which affect the eternal welfare of every human creature, and pot write them 1n the languaze of those creatures, giving such detipitions to words as they are accustomed to, and then, becausc they do not understand e or the penalty sttached to their trans- sslon, consign them to te eternal tormeut g Nt Is that a_God of love, of mercyy of justice? Nay, verily! Besides this, there is another item which secms to be lost sight of in giving the terms which speak of the final dcs: fiay of the wicked a fizurative meaninz; that is; no meaning can shall destr%y F render void, the primary mean- ing. Figurative language is merely illustrative, and therc must be a harmony an paralel be- tween the illustration used, and the thing itlus- trated. Thus, if I say anything is as bot as fire, and it feels like 8 piece of ice, 1t is not an apt illustration, as the principal feature of fire is heat, which lsfi.alslly"w:\ntmg in that which I using as an illustration. n%o with any illustration. Now to carry. this out, if the wordsused to deseribe the destiny of the wicked arc not literal but ficurative, it must needs follow that the principal feature of the jllustration be present I the thing flluslm{ud: Take for instance the first text of your scrmon: @Ryt the wicked shall perish, and the BI'JELD(EG of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs; they chall consume; into smoke shall they consume Sy (Ps. xxxvil,20). The wicked are Lere illustrated by m1°§ Tambs tb;%u;-: {int Otl?sr nfi:-;; N\ incipal feature O s Now 0ie BoCrel toto it hat Is o naLte . We know that fat thrown 1Bto :ohe bBlrreu is very inflammable, and is wholly Lhe edup. The Lord savs the wicked shall be e tufat of lambs.” _This cannot be unless the fnal condition of the wicked (the thing e cteatca) be the same as thefat of lambs (the illustration used). It ooe remains intact— fiteral V8. TFigurative Interpreta- tion of the Bible Applied to the Hell Question. glations on the Vote of the House of Bishops on Dr. Seymour’s Con- firmation. jsaizh and Revelations at Log- gerheads on the Meaning of “Forever and Ever.” General Notes— Personals--Pi- ous Quilps--Services To-Day. THAT’S THE QUESTION. HAMLET'S GHOST SOLILOQUIZES. o Hell; that is the mooted questlon: B Sweachers in their discourse say there is Zone, ‘ and that the Desil is existing only 1n the overworked and superstitions bran. Whether 'tie best to place in opposition TGaiost this array of talent my exper’ence. And boldly fo confute this modern doctrine With burning proofs fresh from the seething Orelse to suffer fantasics nncommon o8y ¢ shuttlecocks, and swittly weave-strong ‘3 enbtile web, the woof snd warp of which is 4 iirong perverted conscionenesy of greatness. O3t years, each one a rotrograding age! s Thave wandered thro' this place infernal, Lared to my ruin by a blatant vision: ‘Caognt ©p and hured to Hell through erring (e 5 ancics; Are not ye enongh the vouchers for the trath? Could bot 8 glint of this unceased combustion JUnpinste the heavy clouds that gather 1a backened heaps across the disc of conscience, ‘And dissipate obstruction to the mind's eye, 4rdlet divisions from the damned be broken, And horrors of the after-death, in vision— Blaepheming volumes of 1gnited sulphiur— ass, shrieking, by, the nood-;ivnu of conviction Would ewiftly rise:and man's life as 't1s compared ith unbroken lenztha of curx'd eternity, Would be to man as one destructive moment, A puilded bauble swung out into darkness, A llumined by the ramng fires of Hell— Ttat do consume the thread of his existence Avd drop him in the outstretched arms of devils ‘ot conjured up by his imagination. Well bas my mardered father's spirit spoken: “Doomed for a certain term to walk the night; And, for the day, confin'd to fust in fires i the foul crimes, done 1n my days of nature, Areburot and pureed away. But that Iam forbid Totell the sccrets of my prison-house, Jeoulds tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow np thy soul.”” But soft! hark] they come, Atroop of shrieking epirits, hideonsly dire, o plunge tmy conscious mind in suffocating fire. Praxcis W. INVERNESS. “COME THROUGH.” WELT THE SUUTHERN DARKEY DOE3 WHEN HE “GETS RELIGION.” Soecial Correspondence of The Tribune. NisEvILLE, Tenn., Feb. 3.—It is astonishing bow 3 race retains its individuality through countless ages of outside influences that would bave & tendency to reduce 2il to the same indi- viduality. This is true to a striking extent of the nezro race. For more than a hundred years they have formed a large part of the populs- tion of the Southern States, and yet they retain their own superstitions, their habits, their re- ligioas beliefs, and above al} their modes of worship. They arednclined to be a noisy race, 1d their churches would remind one of Pande- monium, could they be visited some night when their religions zeal is at its height, and the ex- citement greatest. With all due regard to thetr relizion, 1t is 8 notorious fact that when they baild & church in a particular neighborhood, property in that vicinity is imm ediately depre- fisted. On this account owners of propertytry tokeep their churches and their dwellings in lbe game locality as much as possible, and refuse to sell outside of certain limits. They have made great strides in the last few Jears in the matter of church buildings, and three different conzresations have each erected hndsome buildings of almost as elezant pro- portions and tall spires as any in thecity. It lstrue that none of the churches are inan en- tire state of completion, but, little by little 1d step by step, they are gaining ground and teing finished. The First Baptist Church, on Byruce street, Howard Chapel, on McCreary street, and St. Paul Charch, on South Cherry street, are the three buildings ailnded to. With their big churches, however, they still retsin their old church manners, and will never tome to the cold, measured Christianity of tbe whites. To them religion is nothing unless they can shout. Shonting is a component part of their faith; without it suspicion js enter- tained that 2 person is still in sin and without religion. They have their revivals, and, once falrly under way, apparently never know when totrivgthem to = close; but for week in and ;;\‘;mmy go on with vigor for six and eight Chureh service, owing to the fact that a larze rmmnu the congregation works out in fami- les, docs not commence until near 9 o’clock, wd continues on indefinitely from 11 to even 1 and 2 o'dlock, according to the fervor and in- terest manifested. The revivals occur generally I tbe wintcr,and 2s soon as spring fairly breaks ™ there is an immense baptizing in Cumberland River. Many of the converts re- ‘Dain troe to their vows, but many of them only make them to break them, and the next part they take jn church transactions is to be read ot and dismissed for some unseemly conduct. Alurge pumber of the converts are mere chil- éren,and there are numerous cases where young girls, {rail from hardships and want, hire out and nurse or attempt. to nurse or do house- work, visit these churches, and shout until thev wecarried home in 3 state of exhaustion. It auses them to neglect their work, be dis- charged, and finally ends in a severe spell of ili- Bess, that oftentimes closes their career. Anfncidept occurred on_one of the principal ullmu of this city one nizht not long since ‘ullill’lli\'e of this. It was near 12 o’clock, and but a few wayfarers and keepers of late urs had retired. Suddenly there was heard a sezics ot unearthily shricks, following one after aother, and mingled with groans that almost eaused one's hair to rise up on end. In a few Woments windows were raised, and white-robed 2 observed peering to see who in the Dation’s pame was being murdered. The e came nearer and nearer, and were finally dineuished 55 “Glori-y! gloy ballelujabt? agnontin along shout. Then followed, in .,i'ngflmz tone Dy another voice, which said, that my Redeemer liveth.” This ex- {h‘“mmmnl. and fl?‘yzermm 1::,?{:“53 o er exclaim jmph, got 'ligion. 1ew steps In front of the woman (they were all Tomen) who was making the most nolse ere 1wo colored sisters in ‘the church b in black. The form of one was b wed almost double, and was supported )y the other. A scries of loud moans—the Boar creature beiog too much exbausted 10 out—was all the sound she uttered. Further 2udown the street a policeman Was encoun- tered, who roughly Enbbed the female and the ned. if she did not husb, to take her to the Work-House. It had s salutary effect, for e hysterical hait shout and balf moan was im- Dediately hushed, and the woman rqil(cd tna Thisper, 0 yes, LIl bush up” In a few moments they were lost_in darkness, but since en there has been no disturbance inthe When a colored i person arrives at that state in szd' he feels his or her sins forgiven, he does e call it being converted, but remarks that he taf come through.” 1t is mot an unusual ing for them to tear their clothing from their fasks i their relizions {renzs, thcy thinking - the more excited they become and the e recardless of consequences, the greater it oo the denths of their sincerity. s lone since, 3 woman living near a gentle- %flmfly in West Nashville *come It was at night, and the newly-con- ‘be attached to any word ‘whichs whole—in the fire, 50 will _the other; if one is wholly burned up, sowill_the other e also. The Lord hath spoken and said it _* saail be.” Who dare say it shall not be”?" We might fio through with every word used in-describine the final destiny of the wicked, and if they are to be understood literally, the resuit will be the cessation ot life; orif figurative, the figure is 1aken from the literal and must be in harmony with it, clse it censes to be a figure, or illustra- tion. In either case the result will be the same —cessation of vital existence or death. But the foundation of your argument against annihilation being the penalty attached to the transgression of God’s low, Wwas contained in the sentence, **'The doctrine of the annibilation of the wicked fs directly contradicted by the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.”” I reply, the sonls of the twicked are ot mentioned, but the wicked —themselvee. But taking it for granied v is the souls that are meant as beinz the sub- jects of the punishments mentioned, docs not alter the facts of the cuse, nor destroy the force of the language, nor argue any different result. This punishment is due for o transeression of the law of God. If the body is the transgressor, it is subject to the punishments; if the soul, then the sonl must bear them: if body and soul togetler, then body ava soul togcther mwust tuste the penalty of a broken law. Now, what is it thac sins? 1reply, man asa whole. It takes body and soul tozether to make 3 man,—a complete man,—and it is whilc in this united state that e transeresses, and for which transeression hie is judged and punished. The soul cannot act without_the body, nor the body without the soul. How can the soul be guilty of murder if there were not a hand to exceute the thoushy of the soul? Or, how can the body be zuilty of murder if there were no soul to think and plan? The intimacy of the two is so close tuat the line of division cannot be drawn. This division is not recognized in human courts, and by parity of reasoning as well as plain lanzuage, we judge it will not De in the divine, at the “last day.” Whatever about man is liable or has the power to sin, and hence become subject to the fudement of God, has also the power of a freo will to “forsake the evil and choose the good,” and by repentance and change of life, avert the very thing to which he was liable as long as he remzined in a state of sin, and which would be visited upon him at tnc day of judsment.” But what is it that sius? Sin presupposes a knowledsre of law, to obey or disobey, aud this Xnowledge must iohere in something that possesses intelligence. This is man a5 2 unit, Zas a whole man. If it isclaimed that it is the soul alone that possesses this intellicence, then it is the soul aloue that is the subject of the punishment of God’s violated law, which in the case of the first transcression was said to be death, and has never been revoked except to those who have taken hold of the Lord’s Christ by a living faith and a holv fife. But it is writ- ten that He will * destroyiboth body and soul in Hell.? Also, “If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and east it from thee; it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell.” Why cast the *whole body * into Hell if it is oot a parlaker of the sin, and sub- ject to judgment for the same! aud i this be true, then it possesses in- telligence, as it cannot sin witnout. Now these terms of Scripture used to define the result of God’s judgments are applied to that swhich sins, be it body or soul separately, or both together. If taken as they read and as we com- monly use and understand_them, then ceasing to live is the result. If any other meaning may De given these terms, then they are of no value as giving the mind of the Lord. Iehas declared the wicked * shall be ” as ‘‘chaff™ * burned up ” 1n the fire. If the firc is not real, then the figure is not correct, 4s it gives no clew to our minds as to what the agent of the punishment i3. If the fire is literal, and the wicked are cast into it as it is expressly declared, and are “ burped up 7 * like chaff ” and the “ [at of lambs,” it must necessarily follow that there is & wasting and burning up of that cast into the fire; for if it remains unchanzed in the midst of the fire it is not ** like chafl ™ or the *‘fat of Jambs,” for that is totally consumed and noth- ing left but ashes, for the principal feature of fire is to ** burn up * that which is combustible, and if the substance is not combustible then there isno fire. Now il what is cast into the fire, be it soul or body, beimmortal, then it can- ot burn up,” and the language is false. If the language is true, then that which is cast therein Is not immortal, and the doctrine of natural immortality is not true. ‘But, while appéaling to the Scrintures for roof of the soul’s immortality, you do mot Bflng a single word from it ia support of it. On the contrary Ifind this, speaking of annihila- tion: “It nad noreason to give for the very strange fact, if immortali'y was not inhcrent, that among all nations there had been bezotten in the minds of barbarians aund savages the world over the conception of au after-life, not simply of the good, but of the bad as well. This idea, as cognate in the beart and soul as the conception of God, must have been iawrought into the first human soul, passiue down, not ouly a tradition of Heaven, but a prophecy of Heil.” Strange reasoning for a Christian win- ister to take as a proof of a doctrinc upon which the whole interpretation of Scripture rests,—the ideas in the “minds of savages and barbarisns,” and not bring to bear upon the argument @ *thus saith the Lord.” “Which ought we to take, the opinionsof ‘savages and barbarians? or the Word of Him who has said, ] am the Lord; the wond that I shall speax ghall_come to pass’; and amin, “‘The word that I speak the same shall judee you in the Jast day,” and not the wordsor ideas of “sev- ages and burbarians® ¢ These points have been but briefly examined, and many more are left entircly untouched: I will now simply append a few passages of Serip- ture which negate the idca of inberent immor- tality, unless a good and suflicient aud logical reason can be shown why the laneuage employed should not be received in its usual siznification: “The soul that sioneth, it shall dic” (Ezek., xvili., 4). **Punished with cverlasting destruc- tion? (II. Thess., i.9). ‘‘He that soweth to his flesh, shall of his flesh reap corruption™ (Gal., vis B). *Thesc, s natural brate beasts, shsil utterly perish in_their own corruption (11 Pet., ii., 12). **Able to destroy both body and soul in_hell” (Matt., X., 25). **For bis in- iquity that he hath done shall he die? (Ezek., i, 26). **The wages of sinis death ” (Rom., i, 2%. “Te second deatn” (Rev., ¥xi., 8): +3in when it is finished. brinzeth forth death™ Jos. L, 15). “The King of Kings and Lord of ords, who only hath immortality” (I. Tim., Fir 16}, 'This mortal must put on_immortali- ty? (I Cor., xv., 53). Will you offset these Scriptures With one or more as plain_passages that declare in lanauage as we ordinarily under- stand and use it, that man has inherent imn:or- tality, apart from faith in our Lord Jesus Carist? This offer is open to any mibister or Iayman. _Until sueh proof is shown I shall hoid to the opinion that the doctrine of the immor- tality of the soul is but s repetition of the Dev- il's lic to Eve, ** Ye shall not surely die” (Gen , it 4). Yours, waiting for the Master, Burrox W. Horaes. THE REV. DR. SEYMOUR. WILL HE BE CONSECRATED? To the Editor of The Tribune. Cn1cAGo, Feb. 8.—Dr. Seymour having passed the majority of the Standing Committecs, his case now comes before the Bishops. A majori- ty of them must consent to his consecratinn or e cannot be consecrated to the office to which e has been chosen by the ‘Diocese of Spring- field. There are fifty-six Bishops (not including foreign missionary or resigned Bishops, who have no voice), of wnom twenty-nine are a ma- jority. A gentleman who is well acquainted with the opinion and views of the Bishops has tabulated them as follows. His count makes the 1ssue doubtful: For Dr. Seymour—Bishops )Ic(.'lofl:f‘, Green, At- Xinson, Potter, Odenheimer, Gregz, Lay, Talbot, Wilmer of Alabama, Quintard, Neeley, Robert- gon, Doane, Picrce, Howe of South Carohna, §nflh‘ling. TWelles, Scarborough, McLaren, Brown— 20. “Aqainst him—Bishops Smith, Lee, Williams, Bedell, Stevens, Vail, Coxe, Kerfoot, Wiler of Louisiana, Whittle, Bissell, Littlejobn, Hunting- don, Whittaker, Niles, Howe of Central Pennsyl- \ania, Haze, Paddock, Gillespie, Lyman, Dugley, Taggcr, Perty 23, “Doubtfui~Bishop Whittingham, Kip, Clark, Whipplé. Clarkson, Tattle. Young, Mo:ris, Tecl with, Pinckney, Garrett, Elliott, Wingfield—1 Accordiug to this count, Dr. Seymour must get all of those credited to him above, and nine out of the thirtecen doubtful oms(: Cn URCIDMAN. AIONION. \WHERE “FOREVER AND EVER HAS CEASED TO BE. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sovrn HAvEN, Mich., Feb. 7.—Webster is authority as to present English usaze. Ancient Hebrew usace is another thing, which can often belearncd by comparing Scripture with Serip- ture,—a thing much talked of, little done. Webster defines hate, © To dislike greatly,” but +when Christ said no man could be His disciple without hating his father, mother, brothers, sis- ters, and even wifc and children, we do not un- derstand the word accordivg to Webster's definition. Aaron’s priesthood was to be ever- lasting, yet it came to an end 1.800 years ago, the epistle to the Hebrews being witness. (And we know it does mot exist mow.) We read in Revelations of 2 smoke that was to go up forever and ever. We also resd fn Isaiah —2 (Chapter 84) of & smoke thit was to go up forever and ever. This ¥as to be in Idumea or Edom, the land of waich was to become burning piteh, and it was the smoke of this that was togoup forever. Aud none were to pass throuzh that land forever and ever. Travel- ers have -passed through it again and arain, and they se¢ Do burning pitch. The smoke thereof has eeased to go up. That forever has come to an end. Now, what proof have we that *‘forever and ever”’ means more in Revelations thanit does in Isalah? That everlasting means more in Matthew than it did in LExodus (Chapter x1, 15), or Numbers (Chapter xxv.,18), and mavy other places? And which is right,—the infidel, who, depending upon the definitions of theologians, says that promise and prophecy failed of fulfillment, or those who claiin that the words meant less than endless when they were spoken? The prophecy of Isainh, Xxxiv., has been so literally fulfilled fu most poins 45 to be rezarded one of the strongest proots of the Divine inspiration of the propliet. But what becomes of these proofs it part of the propheey utterly failst If what was to haye been endless has ceased to be? E. A. SquiEk. GENERAL NOTES. The Churchman pronounces Universalism the sinister progeny of Caivinism. «alush Socials ™ are quite fashionable in high-toned religious circles in Cleveland. Mush served in all styles s the great feature of the entertainment. The Womau’s Board of Missions, uxsiliary to the American Board, bas in ten years collected $454,000, of which only $9,000 has been used in home expenses. M The Pan-Anglican Synod fs to meet July 2 and be in session over four weeks. It is not yet known how many of the American Bishops will be in attendance. B The revival in Emmanuel Church has resulted in the salvation of muny precious souls. The - meetings will be continued every evening ex- cept Saturday. Mrs. Willing will be assisted by 2 band of Christian workers. Sixty-four clergymen of the Episcopal Church died during last year, and of the forty-three whose ages are given in the Churchman’s Al- manac, the averase was over sixty-one years. This is a very respectable lonzevity. The Society for the Increase of the Ministry, an Episcopalian association, has taken under its care_for the preseut year no less than 111 scholars. Nearly as many more have been re- fused aid on account of a Jack of funds. The Archbishop of York, in reply to a me- morial from some¢ anti-confessivnalists, says: +{ am persuaded that any return to the prac- tice in the Church would be, ou the whole, most unfavorable to the epiritual life of the people.” Three ex-priests are mow ministers of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Three others have recently renounced Romanism, and two more have written cxpressing the desire to enter the service of the same Chiurch, thus mak- ing eight in all. The church-building recently purchased by the Central Christian Chnreh has been re- moved and located on Western uvenuc, near Congress street, and is now undergoing some re- pairs. The congregation expect to open it for services Feb. 17. The Rev. W. F. Crafts, of Trinity Methodist Church, regularly preaches a * Five-Mioute Sermou to Children,” preceding the main ser- mon of the Sunday morning service. These children’s sermons for a few weeks are to be on the Lord’s Prayer. Already the Reformed Episcopal Church is the victim of defection. At Ottawa, Canada, the cougregation have had some difficuity with their minister, and as a_result a number of the floclz have returned to the Church of England, while the minister has resigned. The vote of the Standing Committees, as fur as beard from, are 20in favor and Y against confirming the clectionof Dr. Seymouras Bishop of Springfield. In 2 letter to Dr. Stringfellow, of Alabama, Dr. Seymoursays: I have never bu:n,”iu any senseé, a Ritualist, nor a party- man. Dr. Bege, the leader of the Free Church movement in Scotland, has recently, in compa- ny with about twenty other ministers of the Free Church, visited the Lord-Advocate of Scot- 1and to indicate on what terms they are willing toreturn to the Establishéd Kirk.” The condl- tious have not been made public, A meeting was held recently at Chester, En- 1and, in the interest of the Church in Wales. The Dean of Bangor referred to the spoliation of the Welsh churchies to support English Bish- oprics, and the alicnation of Welshien from the Church by thc appointment of ministers who bad no_sympathy with Welshwen, and could not understand their language. The Rev. V., W. Harcourt, 6f Indis, has adopt- ed the plan of uniting singibg with preaching in bis evangelistic tours. A choir of six lads from 9'to 13 years of aze, with their schoolmaster, who plays_ the violiu, zoes about with the mis- slonary. Large crowds have been ~=thered, containing persons of almost,_every caste that is recognized in South India. Most of tne people listen attentively. A late French writer, M. Doudan,~—a volume of whose letters bas recently appeared in Paris and New York,—is quoted as saying, rather ironically, of M. Renan: *I have never seen in a theolorian o great an acquaintance with the Oricntal flora. e is a very much_better land- scapist than St. Augustine and Bossuet. He sows geraniums, anemones, and buttercups to reap incredulity.” Bishop J. W. Wiley, who is now in Chins, gives the following statistics of the North Ching Methodist ‘missions: Missionaries, 5; assistant ‘missionarice, 9; preachers on trial, 2; licensed, 4; exhorter, 1; total agents, 21; members, 595 probationers, 57, Total, 145, Baptisms, ' 173 baptized children, 14: in girls' boardin-school, 17 pupils; in boys’ schools, 18 pupils; Sabbath- schools, 3; scholars, 119. The Jeirish Reformer, referring to the call of the Rev. David Rosenberg for a national conven- tion of Jews who are willinz to become Christians, mukes an offer of $100 to Mr. Rosen- bergz if he will give to it “the names of even twenty-five respectable men in this country who heve been converted from Judaism to Christi- anity and are now members in rood standing of any recogrnized Christian Churel.” The American Church Missionary Society has ‘handed over to the_Board of Missions the care of the Protestant Episcopal Mission in Mexico. This mission, known as the Church of Jesus, lias about 3,000 members and 6,000 adbercnts. It bas been Lelped to the extent of $100,000, and requires an annual appropriation of about $20,000. ‘The American Churcly Missionary So- ;:1{0103: will confine its labors hereafter to the home el Henry Ward Beecher’s views on Hell recalls the story of a Virginia preacher and bis colored servant. The prencher had slashed away in a most violent manner. He seemed to fecl that everything was out of jolut, and his objurga- tions were simply frightful. As he and his negro man rode home fogether, the latter, who was on pretty familiar terms with bis master, said: “Massa, I bopes you fecl betterarter that serimon of yourn.” Wby so, Jim#? * Why, “cause it must be sich a relief to git that load off your stomach.” ‘Tne English Bishop of Lincoln having strong- 1y condemned the use of unferinented wine in the administration of the Lord’s Supper, as con- trary to the law of the Church, alezal opinion has been asked o regard to the lability of a clergyman of the diocese who disregards the Bishop's order. Dr. A. J.Stcphens, Queen’s counsel, has given the opinion that the Prayer- Bool does not lay down accurately the naturc of thewine to beused, yet that the courts .might hold tbat the Bishob of Lincoln’s inter- ‘pretation was right. A Canada Methodist, writinz sbout the evan- gelization of the Indians recently, compared the efforts of the Methodist Church of Cznada with those of the Methodist Kpiscopal Church to Christianize the Red Man. The result was very unfavorable to the latter. He showed that, while the Church in the United States expended in 1576 only $3,000in this work, the Canada Methodists in the same year expended §30,000 among their own. tribes. The Canada body is less than one-tenth as Jarge as the Methodist Episcopal Church; yet it raised and used ten times as much money for the conversion of its home heathen. Christian missfonaries are coming to honor in our day. ‘Lhe venerable Dr. Robert Mofat was last month prescoted with the freedom of the guild of Turaers, one of the most ancient of the trades’ companies of London, having been founded in 1604. The oceasion was one of much ceremony. The master of the guild clotbed Dr. Moflat *“with the fur robes of a livery-man, and Ppresented him with his certificate of freedom, and 2 handsome medal as a souvenir of the oc- casion.” Dr. Moffat first went to Africa in 1816. Besides his danghter—the wife of Living- stone—buricd there, be hasa son and son-la- 1ai still laboring as missionaries in that field. Bishop Frazer, in a sermon in Manchester Cathedral, England, recently, sald there bad come a great curse into the Chareh, not fn mod- ern times, for it had been there for hundreds of vears. He meant the fdea that the pifts of God could be purchased with money. Simony. which .may be made. in one of the articles was called u detestable sin attached unfortunately to their ceclestastic system. It wasone of thosc abuses which, he trusted,when men suw its nature a littleclearer, and ,were more anxlous to make thefr Chur:h purerthan it is ot_present, misht, perbaps, be effectunlly got rid of; but, at present, men somehow or other obtained office in the Church for money. & An Enclish non-Catholic organ has pointed out that within the last few years there have been contributed by Scotland ‘to tne Roman Catholic Chureh, among_otliers. the Marquis of Bute, and the younger brothers of the Marquis of Lothian, the Duchess of Buccleu, & Dowager Duchess of Argyle, and the Dowager Marchion- ess of Queensbury and Lothian.~ And that in June, 157, theré were 223 Roman Catholic chapels, with 2i8 priests, who had under their spiritunl care 820,000 souls, composed chielly of 1rish dwelling for the most part_in {he larzer towns, such as Glaszow and Dundee. The Episcopalian Church, in vontrast with this, only musters 73,200 worshipers. Tne Rey. Dr. Angus, thedistinguished Baptist divine, while preaching in Glaszow the otuer day, referred to the revision of the authorized version of the New Testament in a way to re- assure those members of his communfon who are not, without anxiety as to any chaoges that He said that when the work was done they would tind the same Testament that they bad been using from childhood; and, al- thoueh there had been many chanpes, chapter after chapter would be read without their ob- serving the changes unless by comparison. They would have substantially the same text aud the same translation; aud be held that in these speculative times it was worth while for fifty men to employ ten years of thelr lives to obtain this negative result. TIE INTERNATIONAL Y. M. C. A. A meeting bas been arranged for Farwell Hall on Tueséay evening next, at which the work of the International Committec of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be pre- sented. Similar meetings have been held in Cincinnati aud Louisville, and will be followed by others in Detroit, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Thiledelphia, and other pointe, This Com- mittee represents over 1,000 orezanizations, with a membershio of over 100,000 in the United States and Canada. Brief and ivteresting addresses will_be deliv- ered by R. R. McBurney, New York, Chairman, and Richard C. Morse, Sceretary, of the Commit- tee. Maj. Joszph Hardie of Alabama, Mr. James Stokes and William Libbey, Jr., of New York, Mr. Thomas K. Cree, well-known in Chicago as Sccretary of the Moody and Sankey Committee last winder, will spealk of the work in the South, Mr. E. D. Inzersoll among railroad men, and Mr. Robert Weidenvall in the West. The 'Bliss Memorial Choir will sing. Admission is frce, and the meeting promises to be an interesting one. KESIER SHAL DARSEL. - The fifth annual convention of District Grand Lodee, No. 4, Kesher Shal Barsel, was beld in this city oo the 3d and 4th inst. The President of the district, D. afeltzer, Esq., of this city, was, on account of illnes: prevented from attending the sessions of the convention. S. Wallner, Esq., of Peoria, Firss Viee-President, presidced instead. Suitable resolutions, cxpressing the heartfelt sympathy of the members of the Couvention, for their worthy President, D. Neltzer, and praying for his speedy recovery, were passed. The Secretary, Zocliner, Esq., of this city, then read an claborate and weil writtén report of the labors of the Execu- tive Board during the last year. His unselfish and indefatigable zeal for tne welfare of the Oréer carned him the highest estcem and ap- preciation of every individual member thereof. Different laws were enocted at the sessions of the Convention, and others again amended. The tendencies of the Order arestrictly charita- ble. ‘The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted: Samuel Wallner, Esq., of Peoria, Grand President; T. Glozowsky, Chieazo, First Vice-President; Muir Wellerhan, Second Vice-President; D. Barnett, Chicago, Treasurer; T. Zocllner, Chicairo, Sceretary; Lr. Eppstein, Milwaukee, Lecturer; 3. Veil, Milwaukee, Ser- geant-at-Arms; Samuel Glickauf of Chicazo, D. Daube of Chicago, the Rev. A. Norden of Cincago, G. Kurnicker of Chicago, and S. Son- tander of Milwaulkee, Endowmeut Board. The next annual convention will take place in Mil- waukee. DECLINE OF CIICRCH REVENUES. Hartford Times. The churches need all the money they can get, und if matters keep on as they have been going lately, they will soon” need more than they can get. Complainis of a dedline in church revenues steadily increase. Pew-rents are. of course, tbe main financial reliance in all the churches, and these have deetined all around. In many of the costly up-town churches, Wl carry heavy loads of debs and support expensive choirs, the revenues from pew-rents arc not more thau two-thirds what they were a few years ago. The pustors keeo telling the people that the church should be supporzed, no matter what eise is nezlected; that the debt they owe to God should be paid before any sther. Not- withstanaing frequent appeals of “this receipts still fall off. any allow their rent to fall in arrears, and ‘many oshers give up their pews altogether. _Onc church that formerly gatbiered in $30.000 a year now finds it difficult %o collect §15,000. Another that was in receipt of §10,000 now considers itself lucky if it gets $25000. Hundreds of steady church-going families find it absolutely necessary to cut down expenses in_ chareh as well out of it, and have been forced to give up costly pews and hire cheaper oncs iusiead. In many cases. where pews have been rented by women, they have been entirely givenup. It is much harder fora woman to come down fa the world thaa it is for 2 man, and in most cases:a woman who has oc- cupied a high-priced pew would rather leave the church altogether than change to a Jow-priced The tremendous decline that has_taken one. plac h rentals from $70,000 1n 1875, to $37, Mlustrates, though in 7S, an exaggerated degree, the falling off in all chureh revenues. Many ministers are at their wits' end for means_to mcet demands of one sort or another, and it does not seem at all un- likely tbat bankruptey will be the ultimate re- sort in more churches than one. PERSONATL. The Rev. E. G. Holland, of New York, is visiting friends at 412 West Monroe street. Dr. Pusey bias been Canon of Cbrist Church Cathedral, Oxford, England, half a century. Tt is now said that Mr. Tooth may withdraw his resignation as Vicar of St. James, Hatcham, England. . ¢ Adirondack Murray,theoston preacher, s sald to be growing less spiritual and more theatrical in his services. The Earl of Mulerave is laboring among the fishermen on the coast of Essey, £ng., conduet- ing evangelical services for their benefit. The Rev. John Wright, Rector of All Saiots’ Church, Falmouth, Enzland, has closed the church beeause the Rector’s rate is not forth- coming. The Capadian missionary, MacKay, spoken of as having been_warned to leave Forinosa, is the Rev. G. L. MacKay, of the Canada Presbyterian Church. The Rev. O. TL. Bamard, of Cassopolis, Mich., aceepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Ottaws, Ill., and will enter upon his duties immediately. The Rev. Charles Mann, the oldest Episcopal clergymen 1o Virginia, wos found dead in his bed Jan. 17, at his home in Gloucester County. e was 86 years old. A Baptist minister, owing to an affection of the throat, was compelled_to vacate his pulpit at South Gardner, Mass. He is now actingas conductor on a street railroad-in Boston. The Rey. James Schofield, of Missouri, father of Maj.-Gen. Schofield, has during his ministry organized thirty-six Baptist churches, and is now a missfonary, without salary, in the Ozark Mountain region of that Statc. The London Tablet, Cardinal Manning’s or- gran, does not like King Humbert as well s it did King Victor Emmanuel. It has learned of the son that he is *‘a bigoted Razionelist,” sud expeets to find in him a determined persecutor of the Church. Ar. E. W. Bailey, who preaches in the Dever- ell Street. Congrerational Chapel, London, ad- vertises his addresses with such striking titles 3 these: “The Talking Donkey,” ** The Devil mong the Pigs,? A Little Man upa Tree.”” ‘After some study their Scripture relevance may be discovered, The Rev. Douglas Hope, of Clirist Courch, O 2 the Rev. J.B. White, of Pembroke Coliege, Oxford, both curates of the (ritualistic) Chureh of St. John the Divine, Kennington, England, have been received into the Roman Catholic Church at_the Church of the Redemp- tionist Fathers at Clapham. .. Gibson, of Erie, Pa, has given to the By Pforuian Sliscions of the United Pres- byterian Church, of which he is a member, $80,000 in buildings and lands. The entire pro- gecds are to be devoted to the publication and free distribution of the Scriptures in Falestine nd Egypt,in Arabic, Coptle, or other -lan- pguages that may be required. % Bishop McLaren, in his journey from Peoria to anifie, to attend Dr. Chase 1a his last fll- noss, met with & scrions accident, and a wonder- ful escape from deatn. - The horses, becoming frichtened, dashed over the rough road, upset- tiog and breaking the carriaze, and throwing the Bishop and the driver- violently upon the frozen ground. Neither was seriously injared, though the Bishop could scarcely walk for somedays. Heissill confined to the house, and may be unable to go out for some time. (3 DOUBTFUL DIVINITY. Mr. Darwin holds that heaven’s best boon to man is the baboon. Tt is the same with oysters in a church-fair stew as with young people in love—two are com- ‘pany and three are a crowd.— Worcester Press. (3 The 1elizion of the Rationalists ie not unlike that of the old farmer who said, * My doctrine is true; I know it is; and yet I'd give that yoke of oxen to be sure of it.”’_ ‘Philosophers say that closing the eyes makes the sense of hearing more acate. A wag sug- gests that this accounts for the many eyes that close in our churcies on Sundays. A New York pirl is so terribly esthetic that she can’t be pious without a fashionable chureh and a gilt-edged prayer-book; but a Boston girl is so indifferent and learncd that she wears & water-proof and don’t belicve in God. A Syear-old yonngster saw a drunken man $tacking » through the strect. ¢ Mother,” sald he, “did God make that mani? “Yes, my chitd.” The little boy reflected a moment, and then exclaimed: “Iwouldn't have done it.” ¢ TWhat i3 the best remedy,” asked a preacher of ashrewd observer, *for an inattentive au- dience?’ “Give them something to attend to,” was the significant reply; ‘hunery sheep will look up to the rack if there Is hay In it.” The Worcester Press mentions some recent sermons_as **helloquence.” The Worcester Press will find out one of these days that it doesn't pay to snceze at this sort of thing, no matter iow bad a cold a man has.—Buffalo Ezpress. The Greek word transloted “eternal” fs. “aionfon.” There is obviously 2 mistake in re- gard to its effect. It isa mood while, but not eternal. After you have eaten aionion nobody can deteet itin your breath more than a month. —Graphic. And now the question arises, as thereis no such a place, can it be considered profanity for o man to make use of the monosyllable that has hitherto stood for perdition? Are we obliged any longer, from a sense of delicacy, to make usg of tae dash in spelling suchwords as h—met bat, ** faithful h—Im,” ete? They were contributing toward a fund for the extinzuishment of the church debt the other evening at a meeting of a West Newark con- gregation. “I'll contribute $20,” said ore brother. *¢TlI o S50 better, and make it $50,” said another brother. And then the first con- tributor, in the excitement of the moment, said, «I'1] call you; what have vou got?” A learned doctor who went out for a day’s recrcation on the fce talked in a masterly way about tie sclence of skating. He buckled the irons on his shoes, aud after a few indescribable movements found himself gliding along on his vertebral column and the back of his head. “Ah," he sighed, waen he recovered his equi- librium, * I am lfe some religious people—up in theory and down in practice.” There i8 a good deal of current theology which is illustrated by the followme: A man his sou to marry his neizabor’s daugh- ter, It is God’s will,”" he said, “that the two shonld cume together. What is your daughter’s dowryi” The neizhbor auswered. Itis just £100." Wby, I thought it would be at least .a thousand. ~ Well, if that is the case it is eviue‘n,t,ly God’s will to® postpone the happy event. At the weekly conference meetinzs, the Rev. Dr. Blank was a good deal pestered by a zealous brother, who was very much edified by his own exbortations; and it was often deeme! necessary o “head him off,” by calling on somebody else to speak or pray just as ic was about to bein. On one occasion, as he rose to speak, the pastor gently interrupted him “}7 58Il “Brother, Wil you lend us in prayer? The brother hesi- tated but a moment, and made answer: “Iw about to offer a ferw remarks; but perhaps I throw them into the form of o prayer.” Speaking of dreams, Smithkins 15 reminded vividly of John Pettit’s dream. The Judge's sense of justice was outrazred at sorne foolish de- ©ision of the Supreme Court, and he dreamed scene in which the fofly and injustice of the ruling was illustrated. " A little angel girl, 3or 4 years old, all dressed in_white, Jdied and taken ber place in the gal blessed, was represented as telling th Ber wous resulting from the application of the objectionable law to mer case; and, in con- clusion, she is moved to cjaculate, indiznantly: # D—n such laws and d&—n such courts.” CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Jacob Post will preach in the church corner of Noble and West-Eric streets, at 10 a. m. in the Lolland langusge, and ot 7:30 p. m. in the Enstish language. —The Rev. E. P. Wells'will preach in the Forty- {irst Street Charch, corner of Prairie avenue, in the morning, and Judge Leighton will condact s Gospel temperance service in the eveninz. —The Rev. Arthar Mitchell, pastor, preaches at 10:30 a. m. to-day ot the First Church, corner of Indisns avenue and Twenty- first street, and at 7:30 p. m. at the Railroad Chapel, State near Pour- tecnth street. - —The Rev. E. K. Barrett preaches morning and evening st Westminster Caurch. —The Rev. J. M. Gibson preaches morning and evening at the Second Churcn, corner Michigen avenue and Twentieth street, “The Kev. llenrv T. Miller, pastor, will preach at the Sixth Chucch, corner of Vincennes aud Oak Aveaues, this morning. s subject will be *Can- dles.” Evening service: Lecture on temperance. ZThe Rtev. C. L. Thompson will preach morninz and cveningat the Fifth Church, corner Indizna avenue and Thirtieth street. —The Rev. F. L. Pstton will preach morninsz and evening &t the Jederson Park Chureh. Even- ingtopic: **The Bible 23 a Revelation. ™ % Phe Rev. J. M. Worrall, pastor, preaches morning and eveniag at the Eighth Church, corner of West Washington and Robey streets. — Rev. dames Maclaughlan will preach morninz and evening at the Scofch Church, corner of Sangamon and Adnms strects. CONGREGATIONAL. Services in Lincoln Park Church, corner of Sophia and Mohawk streets, st 10:45 a. m. and 0 p. m. ‘—The Rev. Charles Tall Everest will preach in Piymoutn Church, Michigan avenue, Dbetween Twenty-Gfth and Tweaty-eixth streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. 12, _The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach at Bethany Church, corner of Paulina and West Huron strects, at 10:45 a. m. 2nd 7:30 p. m. METHODIST. The Rev. D. R. Manaield will preach in the church corner of May ana Fuiton streets. Morn- fnzsubject: **God's Jewely*'; evening: **Christ, the Coruer-Stone. ™. —The Rev. John Atkinson will preach in the Wabash Avenue Charchat 118. m., and the Rev. A. W, Patten 3t 7:30 p. m. _The Hev. W. F. Crafts will preack in Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, mear Twenty- fourth street,at 10:45a.m. and 7:80 p. m. Even- ing subject: **Treasures of the Snow, " flinstrat- o& by meventeen large charta of magmillea ice flowers and snow-flakes. '—The Rev. Dr. Gurney will preach in St. Paul's Charch, corner of Maxwell street and Newberry avenue. Moming subject: “*Modern Doubt an Anclent Infdelity Compared and Contrasted™; evening: ‘*Repentance Unto Life.” "“Fhe Rev. M. M. Parkburst will preach in the First Church, corner of Clark and Washington streets, Morning sabject: **How to Work the Works of God™'; evening: **The Resurrection of the Body." —The Res. Dr. Thomas will preach in Cente- nary Church, Montoe atreet, near Morgan, morn- ing ond evening. X '~ Mrs. J. F. Willing will preach in Emmanuel Charch, corner of Harrison and Paulina stre Morning subject: ** Hid with Christ in Got evenipg: **The Last Invitation.” —The Rev, E. R. Boring. pastor, will preach at 10745 at Stafe Street Church. Evening sermon by Dr. W. C. Willing. ~_Dr. Williamson will preach at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Michizan Avenue Church, near Tisirty-second strect. ~Morning subject: **Thy Kingdom Come." '—The Rev. §. H. Adams, pastor, will preach morning 8nd evening at tne Western Avenne Church. ““The Rev. T. C. Clendenning, pastor, will preach at 10:30 2, m. 0nd 7:30 p. . 8t the Lang- Jey Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-ninth street. Evening subject: _+*Temperance.” “The Rev. A. W. Patten preaches this morning ¢ Grace Church, corner North LaSslle and White streets. Evening sermon by tue pastor, the Rev. John Atkinson. DAPTIST. The Rev. C. Perren will presch in tiie Western Avenue Church, Morning sabject: **The Soul Enters upon & State of Happiness or Misery Lin- mediately After Death™; evening: **The Happi- Tess and Misery of the Sonl Unending.” S The Ltev. W, W. Everts will preach this morn- ing at the First Church, corner of South Park ave- ntie and Thirty-Girst street. In the evening, the celebrated temperance lecturer, Dr. Resnolds. —The Rev. 4. W. Custis will preach in the morn- ing at the Michigun Avenae Doptist Church, near Twenty-third street. Subject: *:The LastJudg- ment.” In the evening, Sunday-School Anniver- eary emblematic cxercise, -°Star, Cross, and Crown.” The renowned basso, Mr. George W. Conly, will sing. —E. F. Jacobs will preach in the evening at the Baptist Tabernacle, Noe. 302 and 30+ Wabash ave- nue. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will_preach moming and evening au the Olivet Church, Fourth avenue near Taylor street. * —fpe Hev. A, Owen will preach merning azd cvening at the University Place Ctrar DIouzlis pisce and Boguts s e comer of —The Rov. L. o= CIafk Wil preacn 1n ine esen- 1ng only a3 the Sonth Charch, corner of Locke and Ronaparte strects. —The Rev. J, O. Iienry will presch morning and evening in the Thirty-seventh Street Charch, near Dearborn street. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach morn: inz ana evening at the Second Charch, corner ol Moreaa sod Monros steeets, - Moming supject: *~The Whole Burnt Ofering.” Evening subject *{The Meat Offering > ey —The Rev. D. B. Cbeney preaches morning ani evening at the Fourth Church, corner of Washing- ton and Paalina streets. “The Rev. C. Perrcn preaches moming ani eveningz at the \Western-Avenue Church, cornes Warren avenue. A '—The Rev. E. K. Cressey preaches morning and evening at the Coventry Street Church, corner ol Bloomingdale road. Morning subject: “*The Freencss of Salvation. ” > ZThe Rev. C. E. liewitt will preach in the Cen- tennial Churcn, corner of_Lincoln and Jjacksor streets, a 10:90 a. m. 3nd 7:30 p. M. Rev. R. P. Alhson wiil preach in the and 7:20 p. m. —The Rev. J. C. Haselbuhn will rrlsch in the First German Church, corner of Bickerdyke and Huron streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Tue Rev. L. A Reichenbach will preach in the Nordish Tabernacle, corner of Noble anlWest Ohlc streets, at 10530 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev.John Onzman will preach in the First Swedish Courch, Oak street, mear Sedgwick, -at 10:30 4. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. W, J. Rermott iwill preach i the Ialated Street Church, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets, ut 11a. m. and 7320 p.m. lard-Avenne Church. Lawndale. Services 2t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. C. Swilt will preach in Evangeb Church, Rock Island car-shops, Dearborn street, near Forty-seventh, at10:45a. m. and 7:30 0. m. —The Hev. H. M. Carr will preach in Downer's Grove Churchat 11a. m. and 7 p. m. —The Rev. C. H. Kimball will preach in Engle- wood Church, Englewood avenue, near Stewart, af 10:30 a. 1a. and 7:30 p. m. . F. L. Chapell will preach in the First Evanston Charch 8t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Ii. L. Stetson will preach in the Lake Shore Church, Winnetka, in the evening. —The Rev, J. K. Wheeler will preach in Austic. a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. Blackburn will preach in Oak Park Church, Temperauce Hall, 2t 10:30 a. m. and 7:50 p. m. “The Rev. C. C. Marston will preach in Nor- sood Park Church &t 11 a. m. and 7.p. m. —The Rev. Dr, Ives wiil préach in Unity Church, Wilmette, at 7515 p. m. —The Rev. L. W, Olney will preach in Hydo ‘Park Canteh st 10190 & 1, B s EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church, SS. Peter and Paul, corner of Washington and Peoria streets, the Rt~ Tev. W. E. McLaren, Bishop; the Rev. J. Ii. sowles, pricat in charge. Holy Communion at a.m. Litany and Choral celebration at 10:30 2. m. Choral cvéning prayer at 7:50 p. m. —The Rev. Samuel §. Harris will ofifciate morn- ing and_eveningat SE. James' Church, corner of Cads and_Huron streets, Communion'ats a. m. —The Rev. E, Sullivan will officiate in Trinity Church. corner of Twenty-sixth strect and Michi- gan avenue, at10:45 3. m. and 7:30p. m. —The Rev. Fruncis Maasfield will ofiiciate in tte Church of the Atoncment, corner of We:t Wash- 1ngton and Robey strects,’ ot 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 0. m. _The Rev. Clinton Locke will officfite in Graca Charch, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. at Ila. m. ard 7:30 p. m. Communion at§a. m. —The Rey. n T. Allen will oficiate In St. Johw's Church, corner of Washinzton street and Ogden avenue, at 10:45 2. m. and 7:30 p. ™. Courch of tac lloly Communion, Dearborn strect, near Thirtieth, services at 10:30 3. m. and p. m. ‘The Kev. Arthur Ritchie will officlate in_the Chureh of the Ascension, corner oL Nerzh LaSalle and Elm streets, at 10:15a. m. and,7:30 p. m. Communion at 8 a. m. 3 ZfThe Rev. J. Bredburg witl officlite.in St. Anagaring Church, Sedgwick strect, nar Chicago avenue, at 10:30 &. m. and 7:30 p. m. —'The Kev. Charles Stanley Leater will oficiata hurch, Hyde Park avenue, between and Forty-ninth streets, st 10:30 o 7:30 p. m. _The Ttev. B. K. Fleetwoou will officiate in St. Mark's Church, Cottaze Grove avenue, corner of Thirty-sixuh street, at 10:30 2. m. an D. m. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will ofliciate in St. Stephen's Church, Johnsdn street, between Taylor ana Twelfth, a+10:30 a. m. and 7:30 o. m. The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate in Cal- vary Church, Warren avenue, between Oakley street and Western avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30p. m. Commupion at 8a. m. 'The Rev. 'T. N. Morrison, Jr., will officiate In the Churcn of the Epiphany, Throop strect, be- tween Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. . and7:3 P m "_Tne Res. W. J. Petrie will ofiiciate in ths Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln und Bel- den avenucs, at 11 2. w. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate in All Saints’ Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Obio strects, at 10:45 8. m.and 7:45 p. m. '—The Good Shepnerd Mission, Lawndale. Serv- ices 0t 10:30 2. m. . “The Rev. % N. Luson will ofliciate {n Em- mannel Church, La Grsnge, at 20:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will officiate iz St. Marlk's Church, Evanston, at 10:303. m. and7:30 . m. Communion ut7:20 . m. _St. Luke's Mission, corner of Taylor street and Western avenoe. Sanday-schoolat 3 p. m.; services at £ p. m. —Hope Mission, No. 885 Milwankeo avenne. Sunday-school at 3:30p. m. ~ * REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. M. D. Church preaches at St. John's Church, Ellis avenue, ncar Thirty-scventh street, morniaz and evening. —tiishop Cheney “preaches at Cbrist Church. Morning ject: _ **Unconsciously Grawing Groy »7 eveming: *The Altar of Incense.” ~The Rev. N. A. Millard preaches fn the morn- izg and the Kev. R. il. Bosworth in the evening at Grace Church, coraer of Hoyne and LeMovnc streta. —The Rev. . H. Dosworth preaches at Engle- wood in the afternoon. —The usnal gcrvices will be hield in the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and Homan streets. , —The Rev. W. J. Hunter, pastor, preaches at 10:45 0. m. and 7:30 p. m. at St. Paul's Charch, corner of West Washinuzon and Ann strects. TUNITARIAN. fhe Rey. J. T. Sunderland preaches at tho Fourth Church this mornice, at Englewood In the afternoon, and at Union Hlall, Evinston, in the cvening. —Th¢ Rev. Robert Collyer will preach morning and evening at Uity Charch. —The Rev.T. B. Foroush will preach fn’the Third Charch, corner of Monroe and Lailin streets, at10:45 a. m. on Inspiration. There will be no evenine lecture. —The Res. Brooke Tereford will preach thig morning at the Churchof the Messiah on ** Father- hood and Sonship,” and this evening on **Chris- tan Worldliness." ONIVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach in the Church. of the Redcemer, corner of Washington and San- gamon _stre Morning_subject: **Common Sensc in Religion.” Evening: ~** Universalista in Orthodox Churches. What [+ Their Duty?” e Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach morning and eveninzzat St. Paul's Church, Michigan avenue, near Eighteenth strect. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Lelfour will preach in tho Enclish Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of . Desrborn avenue and Erie street, at ila. m. and 7:30 p. m. CHRISTLAN. Elder M. N. Lord will preach this morning ot toe First Churoh. corner of Indiana avenue and: Twenty-fifth street. —A.d. White will preach at Central Church. 097 Van Buren strvet, at 10:45a. m. and 7:30% . m. P ZThe Rev. C, F. Mortimer will preach morning and evening at the Central Christian Church, Campbell Linl, comer of Van Luren street and Campbell avenne. INDEPENDENT. The Rev. IL. M. Paynter will preach n Calvary Tabarnacle, Ogden avenue, near Hsrrison steeet, morning and evening. 3 G 2 dohin, E. Morria will preach in Owsley's all, comet of Madison and Robey streets, at 10:15 2. . and 7:30 p. m. Evening subject: **Ths Second Com ing of Christ.” —The Rev. A. Youker will preach morninz and eveninz at the Tabernacle, corner of Morzan and ‘West [ndiana strects. “Mr. G. W. Sharpwill preach at 11 a. m. 7:30 p. m. at Buzr Mission Chapel, No. 339 Third svenge. NEW JERGSALEM. The Rev. L. P. Mercer will m. at Hershey Lull, No. 83 Madisonstreet. MISCELLANEOUS. The Progressive Lyceum meeta at Grow’s Hallat * 12:36 o'clock. Ader McCalloch preaches morming and even- ing at the Tabernacle, No. 91 Sonth Green street. “Miss Lucis E. F. Kimball will speal: in the Chapel of the Washinztonian Home at 3 o'clock. Temperunce expericacc-meeting in the evening. —The First Socicty of Spritualints will hold gervices at_10:45a. . and 7:45 . m. az Grow's Hall, No. 517 West Madison street. In the morn- ing the spirit of William Ellery Channing will dia- conrse concerning religious proofs of Spiritualism, 2nd in the evening the ehades of Dante will de- :lcfibz, in verse, the final judgment and resurrec- on.. —A mediams’ and Spintaalists’ meeting will b ‘held in the parlors of Mr. Richardson. third floor . 230 West Madison strect, at 3p. m., aod al80 in the parlors of Mra. Kate Bryan, third foor of No. &34 Milwaukee avenae, at 7:30 p. 1. . J. A Montgomery will preacn atip. m. atthe coffee-house, No. 004 Cottage Grove av- enue. CALENDAR FOR TIE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Feb. 10—Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. CATII( . OLIC- Feb. 10—Fiftn Sunday _after Epiphany; St. Scholastica, V. Feb. 12—Feria. Feb. 13—Ferla. Feb. 14—Office of the Bleased Sacrament; Valentine, M. Feb. 15—-8S. Faustinus and Jovits, MM, edl 16—Peria. s and - reach at 10:45 a.