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RELIGIOUS. Sofie Details Concefning . the New Methodist ~ Hymn-Book. Ahont One-Third of the Old One Beplaced by New Sa- cred Songs. Agred ént of Divine and Human standards of Law Regard- ing Punishment. The Views of Six Prominent Divines on the Duration of Future Torment. - THE METHODIST HYMNAL. KME PAETICCLARS ABOUT THE NEW HYMN- BOOE. The new hyma-book, or “Hymnal” as it is 1obe called, of the Methodist Entscopal Church, pow in press and will be jssucd in the course o three or four weeks. At the General Con- yrence of the Church held {n Brooklyn in Mar, 176, 8 widespread desire was manifest that ihere should bea revision of the bymun-book. Jiwss claimed that the collection contained pany sscred £ongs that were seldom used, and iat tbe arrapgement and- classification were ot €0 perfect as they should be. The Confer- ece, being an extremely conservative body, sa3 uowilling to take any hasty action. A wommittee of miue was appoiuted to thoronehly canvass the matter, and in- gracted to report during the session of the Conference whether revision was ex- pedlent or not. This Committee gave the sub- ject 2 prayerful consideration, and finally re- ported in favor of revision.” The Conference equicsced in the recommendation and ap- pointed 2 committee of tiifteen to take charge of the work. In order that all portions of the Charch hould be fully and equitably represent- ed, 1t was divided into three sections,—New ZEogland, New York, and the Western represeuting the first were the Rev. Dre Whedon, Rice, Allen, Barrington, and Prof. Prentiss. To the New York district were as- gioned the Revs. J. M. Backley, E. Went- Sort, 3. N. Brown, and Weakley, and Mr. D. Hendrickson, the only lavman on’ the Commit- 1ee. From the West there came Prof. Hewen- way, the Kev. Drs. Arthur Edwards, C. H Paine, William Hunter (who died suddenly a thort time before the work was completed), and J. H. Bayliss. ‘The first step in the work of revision was the creful and critical examination and classifica- tion of evers bymn in the collectiou by the sev- 4 era) members of the Committee, separately and 3 gope. The pext step was the meeting of the Sections for s review aud comparison of the judsmentsthus formed, and for such consulta- tious as might be desirable. The third was the meesing of the full Committec at the Book Reom in New York Nov. 20, 157, fourteen of e fifteen being present, and the absent mem- bercommunieating in writing bis judement of every bymn in the book. Reporters and visitors werenot admitted to these sessious, and their proceedines were wisely kept private, as nothing: was considered absotutely settled until the final adjournmentand the delivery of theircompleted work to the publishers, vet their principles, methods, snd_general prozress they have at no timeconcesled.” The organization of the Commit- 1ee showed the purpose of dividing both burdens a0 honers. The only permanent oflicer was 16¢ Secretary, the members presiding in turn. From firet ‘to last the Committec was imper- wnal. What labors any one performed the worid is pot. likely to know, and even e was «enizia of nothing until jt had been acted on. Ioqure who did tnis, or that, and the common nply Is, ** the Committee.” So the new book 5 10t the offspring of oue brain, or a dlique, or aocality; and if either of the scctions had any £peaal plan to put in execution, it soon found 1t there was but one authorityand one power, wd that was the Committee. “The musical portion of the book—the selec- tim aud arrangement of the tunes, was in- trusted 10 a sub-committee of six. Thev were materially assisted in their labors by Messrs. J. Hullbrook aud E. Tourjee. who were called in & consulting musical cditors. At the first sessiou of the Committee it was resolved that the following two restrictions should govern their dcliberations: No mew by should be admitted without 2 two-thirds vote; and no old one should be stricken out ¥ithout the same vote. The firet question to be settled related to the size of the uew book. On this poiut there was nuch dufference of opinion. It was found that 1ke smaller books, though for awhile emjoyinz freat popularity, died out for the simiple reason that there was too little of them. They were cubjected to trequent revisals and enlarzements, and, alter TWO OF Lhree years’ use, were discard- edaltogether. The expenience of other denom- fuativns was not to be overlooked in_determin- ing the question. The British Wesleyans, to whom Mr. Wesles rave a book with 539 hymng, have, within the lust 1wo years so added to its supplement that it nuw numbers 1,026. Taking up the latest of the tandard books of the country, it was found that, omiting doxolozies, the Sabbath Hymo- Book contains, 1,290; the Baptist Praise-Book, 13115 the Plymouth Coilection, 1,874; Songs %or thie Sanctuary, 1,34; Hymns and Songs of Pruse, 1,416; Psalms, Hymus, and Spiritual ¢ Somms, 1,294; the Church Hymn-Book, 1,464; § Butist Hymn-Book, 1,000; Service of Song, 108: Metnodist Episcoval, South, 1,047; an tue Mcthodist Episcopal, 1,129, The actual experience snd testimony of the Ciurches scttled the question in favor of the large book, and it was resolved that the new Lymual nhould -contaiu about the same number ssthe hymu-book at present in use. The lat- 1er, including the doxolorries, 1,148 bymns; the new one, 1,136, with 350 tuves. ,This question having been satisfactorily de- termined, then beean the most serious portion o tue Japor. The members of the Committee ‘were provided with probably the most vomplete collection ot bymmology that ever been brought together in this country. They had before them thie entire works of the Wesleys, Wauts, Doddridge, Cowper, and all the Lymu writers—Briush, American, and Continental— Of the past 200 years. Nearly 15,000 hymns were read by the members of the Committee, Bud each one was subjected to acareful ex- wmmation, hoth as to literary excellence and Cerotional epirit. OI the old collection about W0 were retained—the other 400 being seldom usedwererejected. In many of those which have Dbeen retained, the original readings have been Testored: and this change will be cordially wel- comed by the older portion of the congrevation, a0¢ those who were brought up iu the faith eitaer in Canada or England. The arrangement of subjects and classitication of the hymns are more jogieal thian in any of the old hymn-books. A preinent feature of the new book is the «Tinber of American hymnps it will con- Lin. About one-fifth of the new hymns have been taken from American autbors. Add those ¥hich bave been retained from the old book, ud the pumber is increased to fully one-tenth of the eutire collection. All the really distin- guished names fn American hymnology, such as far Palmer, Muhlenberg, S. ¥. Smith, Bethuue, oglellow, Bryant, Whittier, Pierpont, Sears, otes, Hastings, Mrs. Sigourney, and many Gibers whose names muy be less familiar, are Tpresented by tieir best-known hymos. Palin- & aud Bryant have each eizat hymns in our wbool;x Muhlenberg and Bishop Coxe four tach, while otners are represented by a smaller I’I)nmbcr. It contains slso a bymn written by ';'1- Bethune the day preceding bis death, ‘m!m occurred in 1862, in Florence, Italy, hither he had pone for his health. 1ts sim- Dilaty, pathos, and sssured trust in the death - e Savior, as well the jnteresting circam- tances of its origin, will endear it to the earts bristians of every name. The first verse*is 2 follows: When time ceems ehort and death is near, Ane Iam preseed by donbt and fear, And sins, and overflowing tide, Aesul my peace on every aide, Thus thought my refue still shail be, kuow the Savior died for me. plast May the cumpleted Jabors of the Com- tlee were submitted to the Bishops, in con- ity with o resolution of the Conference, wm:"hm were cordislly and unanimously ved, 18 B¢ book will be called the *Hymual oy ¢ Mlethodist Eplscopal Church.” All pag- ..m"": been dropped. Refercnce to the hymos of i by numbers. There will be two editions bymus with the music, one octavo, With i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ~SONDAY. MARCH .- 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES - e large type, the other 13mo., in ., 10 small type, which ;«irfi retallat 1. Of the Woras alone there will S” editions,—the smallest, double columns .gh wmr'l type, retailing for about 40 cents: #here will be a supplementary index, giving-a list of authors, the dates of birth and death,, and tne numbers of the hy: ' and printed in the collection. Ryl -THAT TEST CASE. AGREEMENT OF'THE DIVINE' AND IHUMAN STANDARDS, To the Editor of Thegrribune. Crnicaco, Feb. 26.—1 have read your editorial of the 10th fust. entitled *Divine and Human Stendards.” Your courtesy and your kind ap- nrndati_nn of .my argument in Tug TRIBUNE of the 3d inst. encourage me to write again, with regard to that ‘‘onc objection ”? which you think I have not met. Your third parazraph contains ‘perhaps the substance of the objection: ‘Take the case we have **supposed.” Wounld it be right for a State Court, the Supreme Court of the United States, or any civil or religions tribu- nal, under our test, to consign the unrezenorate, mora} murdercd man to everlasting (torments for his sins of omission snd his evanescent fauits, and to reward the red-handed, malico-prepense assas- sin, fresh from the blood of his innocent victim, with the ecstacles and beatitudes of the blest? If such a disposition of the two peraons Is in accord- ance with Mr. Hommond's views of the justice of the Almighty. then it is evident that he believes the Almighty acts upon a differcnt code of ethics from that which He lias implanted in the breasts of Hig ereatures for their guide and goverament in dealing with each other. 1 perceive that you have omitted from the question with which this paragraph begins the fact that this murderer has beconie a truly penitent, regenerated man, before being re- warded “with the ecstacies and beatitudes of the blest.” A very serious omission, accidental, no doubt, but which introdnces a totally differ- ent man—*a red-handed, -malice-prepense sssassin, fresh from the blood of his innocent vietim,” with no Lint of any change of ‘disposi- tion. That is a kind of man about whose salva- tion I have said nothing. e is not the man of your **supposititious case,” and 1 have nothing at present to say of him. But give us back the old man with whom we have become acquainted in this ‘arzument, and then see whether the State Courts and the Aimighty are in conflict. The Court, after a fuir trial, says: * This man has’ been guilty of a capital offense, and de- serv.s to die.”” _The Almiehty says,—to Noah inthe second be- ginning of the human race for a law to the race, —*% Whoso sheddetn man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed.” The Court says: “ The well-being and pro- tection of human society require_that this man should die.”” 2 The Almighty says,—this time to Moses when providing laws for His chosen people,—* Ye shall take no satisfaction forthe life of the mur- derer: for blood it defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it The Court passes sentence on the culprit, ap- voints a day for his execution, mving him a brief time to prepare for death, and then exhorts him to spend the few intervening days in seck- ing that preparation, closing with the words,: spoken often with tears,—** And may God have merey on your soul.” The Alnighty says: “Let the wicked for- spke his way, ovd the uurighteous man his thoughts, and let him rcturn unto the Lord, tor He will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantty parden.” And now this candidate for tne gallows, by your own supposition, heeds the advice of the Court, and the voice of the Alighty, confesscs his sins, truly repents, becpmes a new man,; and rejoices in the promises of grace. He goes uu- complainiogly to the gallows, which both the Court and God say he has deserved, and thus disappears from mortal sizht. God heeds the prayer of the Court, aud does *‘have merey on his soul.” Instesd of any ‘“differcut code of ethics,” here is absolutely & perfect agreement from first to last! An appeal of the case to * tnc Supreme Court of the United States, ur any civil or religious tribunal,” would show the same agreement.. Is it not about tinc, thea. to let rour penitent criminal rest? True, be committed murder, but be **refused not to die” for it. He obeyed both Divine and human couusel in repenting and secking mery, and became apother man. Is it tair to drae this resenerated man down ‘sain, besmear him with biood, and put the old dageer back into a hand that would now abhor to use it! Compare now the humau znd the Divine standard as appliecd to the * moral” mauin your “test case.” 1 admit, let me premise, the suthority of the ‘‘human conscience and gense of moral justice.” I would include the reason also as God-giveu, and uot the product of education. What, now, does this human standard require and declare? 1. That every man shall exercise o hearty, genuine good will toward ail his fellow men. 2, That he shalt shun all deeds and inteats inconsistent with this good will. 3. It declares of any conduct scemingly be- nevolent and kind, which is proved to have sprung from some selfish motive, and to have ‘been merely s device to secure some personal end, that if is to be condemned without hesita- tiom, despite ali the fsir appearances. 4. It requires approvation of all other ** good- willers to men,” and even co-operation” with therm in all their wise plaus of bencvolence, to the extent of one’s ability and opportunitics. 5. Inasmuch as God 'is recogmized us the greatest coneeivable *rood-willer to men,” and the wisest of all planners for the good of meu, the human standard requires the greatest ao- probation of God, and the wmost constant and faithtul co-operation with Him in His plans. 6. 1nasmuch as God’s_goverument and laws are all In barmony with this good-willng to man, the buman standard_requires cordial sub- mission to Ilis laws and His government. 7. To claim, then, agenuinegood-will to man, while refusing to love and gpey the wisest aud Dest Good-Willer to men, is a contradiction. 1donot expand or illustrate these proposi- tions, for they are self-ovident. I infer from them' that genuine love to man ana love to God sre ooe thing in principle, aud neither exists without the otner. Each includes and im- plies the other. The * moral man M of your Fupposed case, then, who confessedly was uot jious, was not_rezenerate, nor a religious mav, ad o genuine zood-will to man, His appar- ent benevolence is spurious. It was at best oty emotional or instinctive, spribmng irom no settled purpose, and may even have beea con- sciously selfish. . Tlus far we have the buman standard. What is the Divine standard? **‘Thou shaly love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neigh- bor as b, man love mnot his brotuer wiom he hath seen how can helove God whom he hath not seen¢”? * Tms commandment we have from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.” ¥ According to this standard also a man who does not love man cannot love God. The Apos; tle also reasons conversely: “ By this we koow that we love the children of Gud when we love God and keep ILis counmandments.” The proof of love to man is found in love and obedience of God. Behold amain how tne Divive and the hu- mau standards agree! . But pernaps you say: The human standard would not furnish this moral man. Humun taw would not. for that is imperfect, is contined to overt acts, and has only a limited time for ils jursdiction, while God has to deal with the soul Torev But the moral sense of mankind often condemps when the law acquits. An indiznant public sentiment often baushes from society oue ho hos escaped the meshes of the law. Now, let me suppos¢ 3 case. Suopose a sim- flar manthat, instead of dying at 50, lives on for 1,000 years. His heart never changes. s Sental power never wanes; s bodily vigor is Bhavated. He hias, as e haye seen, no princi- le of benevolence, and what emotional benev- olence he may have soon cvaporates with his increasing years. But the sclish orinciple grows with his vears like the greed of the Taer, Experience makes bim more shrewd in. his plans, more capable of managive men and compassing his ends with_every passing decade and every gencration. How many geacrations rould pass betore bis rigautic selfisness and consumtnate ability would make hiw the terror of mankind. Pareuts would warn their chil- dren and grandchiidren to beware of the man Who bad nsed them and their fathers and their srandfatbers for bis own sellish purposcs. "And very likely there would at length be a com- bination to rid the carth of bis presence. If the buman standard had to deal with the selfish man forever, 1t. would be mo more lenient than the Divine standard. ‘Consider further that the difference between the murderer and his victim was never one of rinciple, but only one of modes und partien- s, Both violated the same law of love or @ooa-will to tellows. For the same authority S 0eh £aid, *Thou shalt not kill,”” said d¥so, «@Tgou shalt not covet.” And the one precept is cqually essential to the Divine government as the other.. One man has violated this great prineiple of law bratally and violently; the other, politely and reputably; the one with an offense against society, which society has pun- ished. God approving, by haoging, and so bal- Sated the account hetween the men, leaving Dotk to be dealt with for their sins aguinst God. Is it still urzed that *One of them is for- ven and taken to Heaven and the othernot” §es: but both Lad the same offer of pardon and Heaven, on thesame conditions. Doubtless the respectable man was aftencr where toe glorious Gospel was preached than the des- perado, and was oftener urgred to hacnma reeno- " ciled to God. . But he rejected, or at least ne lected, thefler, while the other accepted. Is God npartial, then, for blessing the one and withholdint from the other the salvation which he would not aceept, and could not enjoy with- out accepting! 4 For convenicnce, Mr. Editor, I have said ttyou™ in this’ discussion; but 1 do not forret tliat you have disclaimed editorial responsibility fur the sentiments, and only set them fortiras the views ‘of *‘doubters,” and to elicit auswer. Indeed, without thisdisclaimer I should be very: slow to impute .to Tue TRIBUNE any such ex- cuse for evil-doers as that they are * creatures of impulse and_error,” with ‘irresistible hered- itary traits,” and that their cvil deeds are s‘gvanescent faults.” It would bea sad thing if so influential a journal should thus undermine the foundation of responsibility. . “The.nature of future punishment, whether “torment " aud “tortures® inflicted, or only the inherent . tendencies and consequences of sin, and the proposition of the human race lost, I have not time now to discuss. Yours respect~ fully, H. L. HAMMOND. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. VIEWS OF SIX REPRESENTATIVE DIVINES. Cincinnatt Gazette. The most noticeable feature of the last oum- ber of the North American Revlew is what may be termed a symposium on the doctrine of eter- nal punishment. The discussion is opencd and closed by Noah Porter, D. D. (Congregational- ist), of Yale College. The other participants are O. B. Frothinzham (Frec Religionist), the very Rev. T. 8. Preston (Roman Catholic), the Rev. Dr. Bellowsi(Unitarian), the Rev. Dr. Will- iams (Baptist), and the Rev. Dr. Sawyer (Uni- versalist). In his introduction President Porter holds that the sabject must be considered in both its ethical and exegetical aspects. Neither can be separated from the otber; but the ethical chould first be discussed. e lays down as premises {u regard to which all the disputants Wil agree that man is a moral and free being, imposing dutv on himsclf as the supreme law of his inmer and outward activity, that, i man is responsible for what he does, he is responsible for what he intends. God is a person in a1 more cminent sense than man can possibly be. Perfectly good, He im- poses on Himseif the law of moral perfection, and uscs His personal intluence with His crea- tures, thus acitug as a moral raler, the fnflu- ence asserted befng the moral law. Man, the Creature of God, is morally bound to accept God as his personal Kinz and toown his_gov- ernment. If by reward or punishment is in- tended oniva good or evil which God may ef- fect for our sentient or selfish sensibility, the Imotive is unworthy and the influcnce immoral, or at least fails to be moral. But if the torce of cither lies in what this good or evil ex- presses of the personal feeling of God, then it takes rank with the induence of con- seience itself, maving in the same plane, only employing an additional foree for #ood and amainst esil, Lt should never be forgotten, how- ever, that the moral effectiveness of reward or punisbment is not in the wedim which ex- presses the feelines of God, whether it be a ‘ipavement of gold™ or of “ burning marl,” but wholly in what these symbols effectively ex- press, viz.: the favor or displeasure of the Deing whose smile and frown are the refiex of our own’ for ourselves, forasmuch as man is made in God's image. It follows that it is most reasonable to believe that reward and punish- ment in this hizh moral import are used in the Dersonal government of a personal God. Every Enalogy forces us to infer that He, in fact, em- ploys them. Ow the otber hand, it is cqually fmportant to insist the punishment is impossible to one who is not conscivus of ill desert, and docs pot nceept it as just. 1umay be questioned, however, whether the sinner, left to himself, will ever scek or find repentance und self-re- covery. So far s we know anything of sin, it is self-perpetuating. It may be alaw of man’s being which, though not of fate, is yet as uni- formas fate, that evety free agzent who sins aeainst the restraints impoded by his own moral sense and the will of. God overleaps a_barrier alone the patiway of goodness and of life which he will never effectually desire to recross. So far as experience teaches any lesson, 1t teaches that moral recovery must be inspired or fur- nished from without. _All forms of religion as- sume this necessity. If we assume the cthical truths above-mentioned to assure ourselves that the Christian revelation is from God, we must also use these truths in interpreting the fmnport and application of its declarations. Mr. Frothingham opens by contrasting Presi- dent Porter’s **calm and candid statement ™ with the *ferocfous declarations of Tertullian and the bituminous rhetoric of Jonathan Ed- wards, and claims that the concessions of mod- ern theology are fatal to the vulzur dactrine. To admit that “punishment is impossible to one who is not conscious of ill desert”’ is to fn- troduce purely rational conceptions and cnter on the high road out of Cnrislhnit?'. The doctrine in question can be arzued oniy on theolozical erounds. The doctrine ot the’ future damna- tion of the unconverted and unrezenerate be- Jongs to the ceclesiustical system of Christen- dom. Its practical application has been in the hands of priests, its speculative justification has been in the charge of theologians, wlose epherc of thouzht is limited by the exactivns of dogma. The practical applieation of the doctrine becomes impossible” the moment the ethics of the clergy mive place to the ethics of social life; the speculative justification of it becomes impossible the moment the abstractions of the schotustic give place to the facts of the observer. ‘The human conscience abolishes the practice; the human intellizence abolishes the theory. The scientific mind entertains no con- ception of future punishment whatever. To its apprebension, * Satan”’ is an empty fizure of speech; **Hell” a rhetorical flourish: “retri- bution,” ‘‘satisfaction,” * punishmeunt,” piet- urc language, which, perhaps, contains no meaning,—which, at all nzs, must_be sub- {L’L‘lcd to honest_examination before being al- owed to pass for anything of value. The mythotozy of Christianity must take its chance with every other mythology. "A sentence like * Depart from me. ve cursed,” derives no authority fromn fts position in a New Testament writing, or_from its being put in the wmouth of Jesus. It is like a bowlder vn the sur- face of a meadow. which the geologists explain by tracine its history and origin to some remote formation of rock. If the text just auoted, or any text of like tenor, can be traced to Babylon, avd ultimately to the Persian dualism, which was imported iito Palestine by the returning captives, then it deserves as much consideration as the Persian theory of dualism—as muci and no more. Whatever in Seripture conforms to reason will be received as long as the conformi- ty lasts; whatever is inconsistent with it wiil be discarded as erroneous. Vicar-Gen. Preston declares that the Roman Catholic Church believes in the existence of Hell, the cternity of its punishments, and that the pain of the Iatter is twotold—a pain of loss aud a pain of sense. Dr. Bellows calls President Porter’s opening ¢ admirable and ironi¢,” aud in part o perfect summary of his own views. If it is orthodoxy, there can no louger be any serious dispute among spiritual and Christisn men of any school of tneoiogy upon the subject of eternal bunishment. Speaking for Unitarians, though he had no rizht to cxpress any but his own opinion, he would say, * We believe in eternal punishment, in the only sense in which Presi- dent Porter scems to belleve in it—i. e., in pun- ishment limited by no definite boundary in time or eternity beyoud which it can not extend; in punishment that will last. as long as sin lasts, and will be eternal if sin is eternal; and that we Dbelieve as he scems to believe, that the mere event of death ard a changein our spirit’s vest- ure will not alter our moral and spiritual con- ditions, or change the persoual dispositipns of a holy moral Sovercigu oud kind Father toward His subjects zad children. Inour opinion God is Jove; but infinite love is cqually compounded of justive and mercy, holiness and bencvolence, it Tather, they do not cach imply the other in their pucfect form. Ilonoring moral, intellectual, and spiritual freedom, as we specially have done, e ought to be che last to expect, al any lage of human cxistence, any interference with them by the Divine Umnipotence, m order to force an immoral happiness upon auy of His spiritual offspring. We confess that our philos- ophy of man's perfect moral freedom casts very solemn and threatening shadows upon the fu- ture of willful aud impenitent transgressors. We do not sce how men can be made holv against their wills, or be less than miserable, so long as they wiil not be holy, and our observation and experience of human willfulness in this world does not_encourage us to hope that it may not. continue for indetinite and practically dateless periods in new states of being. Fools alone make a mock at sin.”” Dr. Bellows adds that he does not believe in the finality of human proba- “tion at death, nor in the immediate salvation of all souls, irrespective of their character. He re- jects also_the existence of & material hell and a ‘personal devil. . Dr. Wiiliams holds that the Scriptores, un- folded and enforeed by the Hoiy Spirit, are cur guide. Falth is the channel of grace. Christ declared that not one jot nor tittle of the Di- vime Word should pass away. Dr. William: after arguing at some length on the iolly of e: plaining away the apparent ard customary mieaning of words, shows that the threats of the Bible are as stern as its promises are rich. Dr. Sawyer dwells upon the changes that have taken place in orthodox belief in the direc- tion of milduess; holds that sin is an evil inci- dental to the development of free moral pow- ers, and relatively transient in its nature, being ultimately sure to be overcome and_eliminated from the universe of God. The Universalist theory thus has the advantage of ending in a weneral harmony, While the Orthodox ends in eternal dlscord. - Sin; 8o _far- as’we kuovw. is, purely our .own work.. Hypoth etically. o, being - morally ~free may. coutinue to’ sin _on .and on. foreyer, but has God. éo carefuily provided in ‘the laws ‘of our, nature for the eternity of ‘sin, and thus for'our’ final damnation? The very supposition is fm- possible. The final victory of good over evil is: Dot only the_ dictate of right reason, but it is also the doctrine of revelation. In proof of the last statement, Dr. Sawyer quotes a number” «of Scripture phrases, such as ““He tasted death 1or every man; " that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,” ete, In conclusion, reasons for * holaing that the doctrine of cter- nal punishment is not offensive to the moral reason, £0 as to require s to deny that Christ has taught it, or to aflirm that' it He has, Christianity cannot be from God.” He says that all the participants o the discussion, with the possible exception of Mr. Frothingham, as- sume, the fact of sin. A sioful will s the most dangerous and destructive of all the evil forces. 1t is sel!»re}yln'_'. sell-justifying, and self-per- petuating. It gathers new force if left alone. And yet sin exists by the permission of God. Why does He suffer sin to be? The only an- swer is found in the freedom which is essential to personality. God cannot exercise personal influence cxcept with persons, and personality fnvolves the possibility of perversion. But if sin is & fact, and God is good fn permitting it, and in punishing it, who shall say that He may not be good should He permit a person to cou- tinue to exist and to continue to sin and to suf- fer? We may not know why God creates such 1 being, but ‘we have'no such moral insight as warrants us in saying that no reasons are nossi- ble which justify Him in doivg it. The exist- ence of sin in any beinz and for any time is the one comprebensive mystery, How could God create a being and sufler him to sin at all? Faith, not in the various dogmatic forms ureed by some, is the condition of tife. Hence the test, * He that belicyeth is saved. and he that rejects is condemned.”™ *1It is obvious,"” continues President Porter, “that this test can in form_be applivd only’ to those who know of Him. The Master Himself taught most clear- 1y that many who have never heard of Him should be gatherea into His Kingdom. It is safe to concede that many who have heard Him 50 badly represented as to reject the caricature of His person in the spirit of “the faith in His real character are in beart true believers. Then, too, when the future life becins, every man witl sce Christ as He is, and the sight of "Him ‘may of itself bring a finality to His character and destiny as it discovers each mun_fully to him- self. 'They that pierced Him shall mourn, but not if when they see Him they mourn that they picrced Him. The next life “may be another probation in that by its first revelations 1t shall make everything clear which was dark.” He replies to Mr. Frothingham’s arraignment of Edwards and other writers for therr use of symbols, that they did not offend the ethical sensc of the times in waich they were used. Aforcover, if they were unwisely employed, they illustrate and, euforce not the eternity, but the severity, of punishment. CHURCH NOTES. Four-fifths of all the Baptists in the world are found in the United States. The debt of the American Misslonary Associ- ation has been reduced toanamounta little below $50,000. . Aninteresting revival is now in progress at the Rafiroad Mission. Last Sunduy twenty- seven converts were admitted to the Church. The Jewish Times having challenged the Inde- pendent to produce the names of twenty-five converted Jews, the latter accepts, and gives a list of forty-two living in New York and Brook- h“r.xl Nine of the geotlemen pamed are in orders. The _correspondent of the Germania writes from Brussels that the ‘German Government Tias asked from the Belgian Ministry a complete list of all Prussian priests now living in Bel- gium—for what purpose, the correspondent, of course, cannot tell. . President E. P. Tenny says the Roman Cath- otic Church spends $600, a year upon tl freedmen, and counts 150,000 of them in her schools. It has nearly 10,000 young men in its Tigher schools and seminaries; with 750 Profes- surs, chiefly Jesuits. There are 500,000 scholars in ite schools of lower grade. . There are seven relicious orders of men and thirty-six of wom- en fo whom this work is cozimitted. ; e The many persons who ars-interested in the establishment of Christian " missions in Central Africa will be sorry to hear that tue first of these enterprises, attempted soon after the death of Dr. Livingstone, by the Free and United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, and bearing the great explorer’s name, on Lake Nrassa, will probubly have to be abandoned, cn account of that pest ana destroyer of domestic animals, the tsetre dy. The Pamphlet Mission is the latest accession td the relizious periodicals of thiscity. Itis a cemi-montbly, and published in the interests ot uberalism. ~ Its contributors are the Revs. Robert Collyer, O. B. Frothingham, H. W. Thomas, M. J. Savage, Prof. Swing, J. Freeman Clarke, H. M. Simmons, Rabbi Kohler, W. H. Ryder, J. W. Chiadwick, Brooke Hereford, and T B. Furbish. _Itisa handsomely printed oc- tavo of twenty-four pages. Bishop Wiley has urganized the Fuh-Chan mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church into a conference, to be known as the East China Annual Conference. Five forcien and fifteen Chinese preachers, who have been holding mem- bership in_annual conferences in this country, constituted the new confercuce. Several urcacg» ers have been admitted ou trial, and there are gbout forty local preachers emploved. The conference territory extends 150 miles west and gouth of Fub-Chan, The members_of the Forty-seventh Street Congrezational Church are just now in a state of uncertainty. * The Committee to’ whom was referred the moving of the church to Oukland has not_yet made auy report. ‘The people of the Oaklana Congregational Church, Wwhich went out of existencc lately, are weary with waiting, and are graduaily” scattering off to other denominational cnurches in their vicinity, —some to the Reformed Episcopal, some to the Metiedist, and others to the Presbyterian,while & few are going to the Plymonth. It is announced that tbe Church Journal, of New York, has been sold to the owners of the Churchmman. The former was considered one of the best and strongest papers of the Episcopal Chburch. Some vears awo it bought out Dr. John Cotton Smith's paper, the Church and State, which had previously ab- sorbed the Profestant Churchman. More recent- Iy the Church Journal sbsorbed Our Church i¥ork, of Baltimore, and it was understood to have g large circulation. 1t was owned by Dro, Matson, who, it is understood, will have an edi- torial position on the Churchman. The Rev. David Macras, one of thebest-known ministers of the United Presbyteriau Church of Scotland, thus speaks of the \Westminster Con- fession: “The Confession -misrepresents the character of God, and a false view of the posi- tion and destiny of man naturglly follows. The Westminster dogma of cverlasting torment in itself is o subversion of God’s character as re- vealed in Christ, and amounts to a denial of the Gospel. Carried to its issug, it robs God of His oodnees, His merey, and His justice. It ruos Hiwm even of His sovereignty, giving sin & power of maintaining itself against Him forever, and so far leaving the devil to all eternity master of the situation.” h Father Curc, the ex-Jesuit, of Italy, having published a ook on * The Modern Conflict Be- tween the Church and Italy,” and having failed to send it for revision to his present superior, the Archbishop of Florence, in whose diocese he resides, that _ccclesiastic has probibited its pub- lication or sale within the diocese. 1t bas been published there, however, and all the copies sent to Rome were bought up within a few hours after thelr appearance. Speaking in it of the retraction demanded of him, hesays: “Iwould allow myself to be beaten to powder ten times in a mortar before consenting to a retraction.” Strong words, indicative of a stubborn or a strong mind. The question of wine at the communion-table is being aetated in Hyde Park. At the prayer- meeting of the Presbvterian Church Wednesday evening, the abolition of the ruby from the church service was advocated by & few of many of those present, for the reason tbat the taste acquired at the administration of the Sacrament often leads to wine-drinking. As an instance of its cffect on the reformed man, it was cited that one of -the most noted revivalists in America, when a member of the Presoyterian Church, was obliged to ab- stain from participating in the Sacrament. Ho was afrald that, having once tasted the unfer- mented grapu-juice, he would relapse into a moderate drinker. The London Zablet announces that the resto- ration of the Scotch Catholic hicrarchy was definitively decided ata meeting of the Cardinals, held on Jan. 23. Two Archiepiscopal sees were created, St. Andrews and Edinburg, and Glas- 2ow. The Episcopal sces arc Aberdeen, Dun- keld, Galloway, aud Argyle and the Isles. Dr. John Strain, Bishop of St. Abila, in partibus. is made Archbishop of St. Andrews; Dr. Cnarles Ejyre, Avostolic delegate for Scotland, and Archbishop of Anzarba, in partibus, is made Archbishop of Glasgow; Dr. John Macdonald is transferred to ~Aberdeen; the Rev. Georze Rize becomes Bishop _of Dunkeld; the yfi Dr. John McLacklan is created Dishop of Galloway, and the Rav. President Porter gives his | A acdonald, Bishop of A: Isles. These four Episcopal sees are suffrazan 1o St. Andrews; (lasgow is without euflragans. ‘The Roman Catholic churches in Scotland num- bered. at tne close of 1877, 252; the priests were 2361 the religlous houses were, oimen, 13; and of women, 227 and the schools were 174, The Catholic population of Scotlaud is estimated at 360,000, thus distributed, according to the dio- ceses named: St. Andrews and Edinburg, 50,- 000; Glasgow, 230.000; Aberdeen, 14,000: Dun- keld, - 0,000; Galloway, 16,000; Areyle aod Isles, 10,000 The Book Committee of the Methodist Epis- coval Church have published the result of their annua! examination of the business of the de- nominational publishing-houses. Thereare twvo houses, one in” New York aund the other in Cin- ‘einnati, each one having several depositories. ‘The business embraces all branches of the man- ufacture of books, their sale, and the publica- tion of periodicats.” Christian Advocates (weeKly) are issued from New York, Syracuse, Pittsburi,: Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicazo, Sun Francisco, Portland (Or.), Atlanta, and New Ovleans. The sales of the New York house and _its deposito- ries for the’ year ending Dec. 31, 1877, were §835,018. The capital above all liabilities is $974,192. The sales of the Cincinnati house and its depositories, in_the same period, was $658,- 474, Its net capital is $429,. The net capital of the two houses i3 $1,403,666. Another question of importance has ariscn among the Presbyterians of Cauada, ana one’ which may end in a schism. A clergyman was compelled to eross a wide river ou the way to 1iis church. Instead of riding, ona given Sun- day, as was his custom, he put on a pair of skates. He has been arraligued for breaking the Sabbath. The trouble was that under a severe cross-examination he confessed to a certaiu de- gree of pleasure in skating. If it had een painful to him then the Sabbath would have remained intact, for it is perfectly lawiul to do disagreeable things on that day; but he actually had the sudacity toenjoy it. and took off his skates and hid them Inthe bushes with some- thing that approached a sigh, and that was naughty to the last degree. ‘There ure some ministers in this vicinity, who, though they can- not cut o figure ou the ice, tan cut o terrible fizure in the putpit, ana yet nothing is said. A pew Ritnalistic church was recently opened in London. Itis know as St. Andrew’s, the in- cumbent being Archdeacon Dunbar. ‘The open- ing service was closely patterned after the high Jritual of All Saints’, Lambeth, London, and was no doubt a very picturesque affair. ~Smart young men fu light purple cascocks. with long searlet cinetures aud short cottas, crowded the chancel, while on the altar and above it weresix huge tapers, lighted during the service, and a profusion of rich bouquets and erowing plants, with other colossal bouzies and candelabra. Mo- zart’s Tiweltth Mass was performed with full band. The performance reccived seme official sanction from the presence of Bisbop Clough- ton, who preached the sermon. It is said, how- ever, in the Bishop’s behalf that he was decoyed into trap, and being in could not et out until -the close of the masg, when, without waiting for his crosier to be carried in tront of bim, he beat a hasty and almost undiznitied retreat. - THE JEWISH UELL. When Rabbi Jochanan len Zachai was sick his disciples came to visit bim; and when he saw them he bezan to weep. They say to bim: **Rabbi! the lizht of Israel, the right-hand pil- lar, the stronz hammer, wherefore dost thou weep{" He answered them: “ If they were carryinz me before o King of flesh-and blood, who fs here to-day and to-morrow in the grave, who, if he were angry with me, his anger would not last forever; if he put me in prison, his prison _would not be everlasting; if he con- demned me to death, that death would not be eternal; whom I conld soothe with words or bribe with riches; yet even in these circum- stances I should “weep. But now Iam golng Defore the King of Kings, the holy and blessed God, who liveth and endureth forever and for-- ever. If He pnt me in prison, His bondage witl be everlastings if He coudemn me to death, that death will be cternal; whom I canuni soothe with words nor bribe with riches; wheo, farther, there are before me two ways, the one to Hell' and the other to Paradise, and I know ot in which they are carrying me, shall I not weep?"'— Talmad - Beracoth, folio 23. NEGOTIATING WITH ROME. s geveral Rituahst clereymen in the English Church,” according to the Liverpool Courier, “ have formulated the terms on wnich they pro- pose to cede to Rome. The more violent men- bers of the party proposc to make an appeal to the Pope, or rather to the Congreeation of Rites, o the following poiats: (1) That the married clergy may bereordained, continuingin the mar- n’cdinm.. and allowed to act as priests not pos- sessing the cure of souls (this would exclude them irom bearing coufessions). (2) The, privi- Jege of reciting the Anglican rite for the com- munion service 1n England, with the exception of the canon of the Mass, which would of course bein Latin. (3) That these reculations shall eatail no precedent, but be distinctly regarded as an exceptional concession to clereymenin the English Church=—all priests. notwithstanding these privileges, to beallowedto follow the pres- ent rules of the Latin Church if they choose. “This would permit them, for example, to recite the whole service in Latin if so disposed. These are the points on which Rome is invited togrant a relaxation of church discipline for the aceomn- modation of certain clerical repels now iu_the English Church. ‘I'he concession as to marriage is evidently the main ditficulty ; but it fs said thac they are only claiming the same indulgence as Rome already grants to priests in the Uniat. Greek Church, not the Orthodox Russian Church.but that branch that flourishes in Greece gnd Poland. The practice tnere is to alarze ex- tent for young men in training for the priest- Thood to fret married before they ore made dea- cons, and they are then admitted to the recular priesthood 2s married men, and have the cureof £ouls in all respects except the hearing of coo- fession. The English Ritualists want the same tolerance of a married priesthood, with the same Itmitation as to hearing confession.” THE SUPREMACY OF THE SEE OF ROME! In the first volume, recently publisned, of Smith's Dictionarv of Christiau Biography and Literature, p. 537, there is an interesting ac- count of a mewly-discovered Ms. of the First Epistle of Pope Clément I, the importance of which has not a3 yet, perhaps, been duly appre- ciated. - ¥ ‘Having observed that ** the Epistle had till- lately been kaown only through a single MS., the preat Alexandrian MS. brought to Eugiand futhe year 1638, . e e .t and oy which one leaf, containing adout the tenth partof the whoe letter, has been lust,” the writer B the article (Dr. Salmon, Regius Profess Divinity in Trinity Collcge, Dublin), after a list of the best editions of the Eptstle down to the year 1875, continues: * Since the publica- tion of the avove-mentioned edition, an cutirely new guthority for the text of the Epistle has (2 been galued by the discovers im the library ~ of the Holy Sepulchre at Fanarl, in Coustantinople of a MS. containing an unmutilated text of the two Evisties aseribed to Clement. . . . Besides fitling up small lacuow in the text of the older MS., it suppties the conlents of the entire lea) Srhich lias béen lost,” and * except for the triflinz omission of Lwo or_three words we have the fetter just as complete as it was origally in the Alexandrian MS.” The reason for calling attention to this sub- ject is, that it can hardly be known very com- monly what an importaut additional testimony regarding the carly supremacy of the See of Rome is supplied by the discovery of this new Ms. i This scems to be admitted even by Dr. Salmon himself, who remarks: © Veryuotics- ‘able in this newpart of theletteris the tone of author- ity used by the foman Church in makiog an unsolicited interference with- the affairs of another Church. *1f any disobey the -words spoken by God through us, let them kuow that they will entangle themselves fn transeression, and no small danger, but we ghall be clear from this ein.* He quotes several other passazes, aud concludes: It remaius open for controversy owfar the cz- pressions_quoted indicafe officiat superiority of the Keman Church, or whether only the writer’s conviction of the zoodness of the cause.” Ttappears that the Alezandrian MS. above re- ferred to was sent as o present to Charles I. by Cymillus Lucaris, the reforming " Patriarch of Constantinople. ' Is there not sometbing rather suspicious in the ‘Joss " uf the one page of tnfs MS. which isnow proved to have contained so remarkable a testimoay to the supremacy of the Romaa Church? The newly discovered M3. was first used in establisning the text, in an cdition of St. Clement’s Epistles by Byrennius, Metropolitan of Serre, published iu Costautinuple at the eud of 1575, PERSONALS. The Rev. C. K. Gibson, of Wayland, Mich., has not reslzned his pastorate, as was reported. The Rev. Chrstisn Ogle, of Grand Haven, Mich., has been called to the pastorate at Kan- kakce, IIl. The Rev. Father Secchi, more celebrated for his astronomical than theological lore, died of cancer of the stomach. i V' 31 reated no little D welican- old some thirty- five years ago, s 30 years old. ) The Rev. J. C. Thompson, of Steuten, O., has accepted o naanimous call from the Benton Harbor church, aud will begin labor the first week fo March. z v. Rice, of Massachusetts, has nominated m‘ige much-coveted office of Chaplain of tho State Prison, the Rev. J. H. Waterbury. Mr. Waterbury is the Rector of an Episcopal parish lCl!oEfizcl:réBosmn, and a graduate of Dartmouth _ The Rev..Canon Pullen, lnte of Salisbury. Catliedral, and the author of ** Dame Europa’s School ™ and otner popular works, has gone over to Roman Catholicism. The Rev. Georze Whitefield Benjamin, D. D., {::Lm.f:z runisatlnrc grdav}‘ncd in_St. Paul’s Protes- piscopal Church in Rome, has over 10 the Ultramontanes. " B0 ‘The Rev. Frederick Stovenour, of the Presby- }]ecrifldcrhumhlot Bluflton, Ind., has gcc:l su’;» nded from the ministry by the Pres Fot Wavee s tnmemi ot oytery of The Lutherans of Hungary are rejolcing ov the conversion o Baron Authony, 6‘[ B:lfi:c?\:".‘ Imml, Lm.l‘ollcism, I:'lld ct'fir mlf furtlier fact that he has given to the Church an estate 2,000,000 florios. Eatl Bishop Pamne, of the M. E. Church, Souti, has been. in the cpiscopal office thirty-two years; Bishops Pierce and Kavanaugh, twenty- four years; Bishops Doggett, Wightman, and )}"Il‘{clre, twelve years: and Bishop Keener, eight. The Rev. Mr. Ebbs, of Plainfield, IIL, having voluuntarily relinquished $100 of his salary on account of the hard times, was agrecably sur- prised the other day. He was made the recip- ient of a bonmanza "equal to the ouc he had given up. Bishop Scott, of the Methodist Church, is 76 years of age, and will not be able much longer to perform full duty. Of the other Bishops. two, lluven and Peck, are troubled with malarial diseascs, and Bishops Simpson has much sickness: Tiwo Bishops areabroad, onein China and one in Mexico. 5 Bishop Haven has appointed the Rev. Royal J. Kellogg, of Bethany, Pa., Priucipal of t’he Mourovia, Africa, Mission, and the Rev. Mel- ville Young Bovard, of Glenwood, Ind., Super- intendent of the new mission to be planted at Boporo, in the faterior. The Rev. Joel Osrood has also been appointed to the sane mission. The Rev. Arthur P. Adams, of Beverly, Mass., has been suspended from the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church for holding and teaching doctrines contrary to the articles of religion of his Church. He preached toc near coming of Christ, and held that the eflicacy of the redemption scheme is dependent upon the resurrection. Christ can_only be a complete Savior, he taught, atter the resurrection. In reply to some rumors, the Rev. Dr. Behrends, of Providence, R. I, has written to the Ezaminer and Chronicle, saying that he has seen no reason to question the convictions whaich led him from the Baptist to the Congre gational denomination. * While,” he says, “I have looked forward with joy to the nitimate regaining of all wy old friznaships, the thought ot returning to my former ccclesiastical rela- tions has never entered my mind.” g The Rev. Charles Tennyson Turner, news of whose dangerous illness has just reaghed us. is a brother of the Poct Laureate and joint author with him of a volume ol poems published in 1820. Wordsworth said at the time of its pub- lication that Charles was the better poet. In consequence of succeeding by his grandfather’s death to & handsore property. which came into the family through his grandmotner, be assum- ed the name of Turner and has for many vears been the Viear of Grassby ir Lincolushire. CARDINAL GODEFROY BROSSAIS SAINT-MARC. The death of Godefroy Brossais Saint-Mare, Cardinal-Archbishop of Rennes, in France. is aonounced. He was ooe of the few Cardi- mals who did not attend the Conclave which elected Leo XIII When the Coucluve was called he lay in the archiepiscopal palace at Rennes ona bed of sickness which has now proved his death-bed. The Cardinal was a native Breton, born at Rennes in 1803, and the better part of his life was passed in his native city. He was made first._Bishop and then Arch- bishop of the Diocese. Heenjoyed in a marked degree the friendsnip and_contidence of Napo- Jeon 11L, through whose influence the See of Kennes was raised to an Archbishopric, and he was not less esteemed by President MacMahon when the Empire became a thinz of the past and the Republic was instituted again. He was raised 1o the purple on_tie 17th of September, 1873, and his red hat will be the first to be hane D, in accordance wilaa usage as old as the col- lege, over histomb in the catkedral church of the modernized ancient capital of Catholic Brittany. WORLDLINGS. A Sundav-school boy, upon being asked what made the Tower of Pisa lean, replied, “Because of the famine in theland.” The Bible says: “Of all things, wisdom is profitable to a man.” That’s so. A man never calls his wife a bald-neaded old woman but once. y “When tempted to auger,” says a writer, «preathe a prayer.” Jes'so. When yon hap- pen to stub your toe, for instance, murmur +Now I lame me.” Live and Learn—Viear’s daughter: *“And why @id Aaron make a goldencalf#” Sharp child of 33¢: “Please, Miss, because he badn’t got enough gold to make o cow.” Little Susic, looking at some pictures of wing- ed angels, exclaimed: ©Mamma, I don't want to bean angel!?” “ Why not, dear¢*” * Humph! leave off my pretty clothes, and wear fedders like a hen?” A certain little damsel, being acgravated be- yond endurance by her bie brother, fell down Upon her knees, and criea: *O Lord! bless oy ‘brotner Tom. He lics, he steals, e swears. All boys do; us girls aon’t. Amen.” Wien a man marries 2 wife for the sake of her father’s money aud returns from his honey- moon to find that the old gentleman has just paid 30 cents on the dollar, he is apt to fecl that Mr. Beccher and Col. Ingersoll are misleading guides. Two men going throurh the Vermilion River Bridge the other evening were overheard dis- cussing the strike. Said .one: *‘But_doesn’t the Bible say, * Strike till the iast armed foe ex- pircs?’? %That’s o fact,” says the other; ' I didn’t think of that.”" «Bat, Paul, how can the spirit be fn us, and wwe in the spirit, at the same time?” said the younz man to a venerable darkey. “Oh, dar's no puzzle 'bout that. It’s like dat poker; I Sm it in de fire and it gets red-hot. Now, o poker's in de fire an’ de fire’s in de poker.” It froze so suddenly in 2 western section of the moral vineyard that everv time a Sunday- schiool boy stoops down to pic up an oyter-can to throw at a dog, hus_sensitive little .heart is wrung with sobbing disappomtment, while the tantalizing dox just stands and laughs a mock~ ing, sardonic, maddening laugh. A dilemma—While a country parson was preaching, the chief of his parishioners, sitting near the pulpit. was fast asleep; whereupun he said, Now, my beloved friends, I am in & great strait: for if I speak too softly those at the fur- ther end of the church cannot hear me. and if I talk too foud I shali wake the chief man in the congregation.” The wife of a sexton belonging to one of the churches in o very wealthy locality was last week interrupted in the middle of a barangue upon the bardness of the times by a person who de- sired to gelt her a couple of ducks. — ** Ducks!? xclaimed she. * How can I buy ducks or any- thing else 1 We bave not buried a living soul these six months.” Tntention is evérsthing. He meant to be vory consoling. and yet his -words must bave been unpleasantly sugeestive. The master called his colored servant to bis side and said, ng; I'm going on a long jour- ney.” Sam’s eyes were moist, but e encour- aced the siek mun by replying, ** Nebber mind, ‘ma sser, s all de way down hill.” wGeorze,” asked the teacher of o Sunday- school class, ** who, above all others, shall you firet wish to sce when youget to Heavent With a face brightening up with anticipation, the hittle feilow shouted, ** Gerliah.”” Anotber ‘boy was asked by his father whom he first wish- ed’ to see in Heaven, and the borse-loving boy Quickly replied, *Jebu, with his fast horses.” A very little boy had one dsy dope wrong. and he was sent, after paternal correction, to_ask in e ot the forziveneas of bis Heavenly Father. His offense was passion. Anxious to hear what he would say, his mother followed to_the door of the room. In lisping accents she heard him ask to be made better; and then, witk childlike simplicity, he ndded: *“Lord, make ma'a temper better, too.” 0ld Lord Elphinstone was asleep at church, while the minister, a very addle-headed preacher, was holding forth. At length the parson stopped, and cried: “ Waukin’, my Lord Aph- instone.” “ I'm po slecpin’, minister.” * But ye are sleepin’—I wager ye dinna ken what I Zaid last.” * Ye sald, waukin’, my Lord Aph- instone.”” ** Ay, ay, but I wager ye dinna ken what I said last atore tha.” I wager ve dinna ken yersel” Mr. Moody tells a clever story about a Ken- tucky clerzyman who visited his'son in Chicago, £nd wes quite worried to find the younger man so thorourhly wrapped up in his reai-estate speculations. ~ The Chicagoan would sometimes o out of his_oflice, possibly to _sce a man, and would Jeave instructions with his father how to deal with any customers tbat might come fo. Yhen some prospective purchaser, however, \led inquire about any property, the old gen- tleman would respond, ** My son savs that lot is — worth so much, but I would rather have stan ing room in‘the new Jernsalem than all the corner lots in.this city.” It{sneedless to say: he sold no, lots. and his son fonnd it necessary’ to get-a more worldly-minded clerk. An old darkey who was asked if in his experi- ence prayerwas everanswered, reolied: *+Well, sah, some pra’rs is ansud an’ some isn’t—pends on w'at you axes fo’. Jest arter de wah, wen it was mighty hand scratchin’ fo’ de cullud breddern, I 'bsarved dat w’encbber 1 pway de Lo'd to sen’ one o’ Marse Peyton’s fat turkeys fo de ole mau, dere was no notice took of de partition: but w'en 1 pway dat fic would scu’ de ole man fo' de turkey, de matterwas ‘tende:d 10 befo’ sun-up nex’ mornin’, dead sartin!"* Facts are facts. even when pronounced by sast age lips. It was a peculiar notion of the Sohawks that some great misfortune would happen if any one spoke while crossini Saratozsl Lake. A white woman, who was ferried over by an Indian, tatked all the way, and on arriv: ing safely on the further shore rallied her boatman on his superstition. He simply grunted, * The Great Spirit is mercifnl and, knows that the pale face woman cannot hold her tongue,” and then recrossed the lake in: silence. : A negro minister, who married rather soones after the death of his wife than some of the sisters thought proper and becoming, excusetl himsell as follows: * My dear. brederen and sisters, my grief was greater dan I could bear. I torned cbery way for peace and comfort, bug none came. I'sarched de Seriptures from Ginises to Rebelation, and found vlenty of promises te de widder, but_nary one to_de widderer. 3o k- took it dat de Lord didu’t waste sympathy on & wman when [t was in his power to’ comfort his~ self; and babbin a fuss-rate chance to warry in de Tord, 1 did so, and would do 50 again. “Be- sides, brederen. [ cousider dat poor Patsey was jusa as dead as she would eber be.” CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church SS. Peter and Paal, cor- ner of Washington and Peoria streets. the Rt - Rev W. E. McLaren, Bishop, the Rev. J. H. Knoswles, priest in charze. Morning Prayer at 9:15a. m. Litany and choral celebration of the Toly Communion at 10:30 8. m. Choral Evening Prayerat 7:40 p. m. = —The Rev. Samuel S, Harri3 will officlate. morn- ing nnd evening at Si. James' Church. corner of Cass and Huron streets. Cotamunion at 12 m. ‘The Rev. E. Sullivan will officiate in Trinity. Church, corner of ‘Twenty-sixth strect and Michi- Zan ovenue, at 10:45 3. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Francis Mansfield will officiate in the Church of the Atonement. corner of West Wi ington and Robey streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p- m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate fn Grace Church. Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at 11a. m.and 7:30 p. . Communion at 1:! m. —S‘L John’s Church, comer of Washington streef d Ozden avenue. Servicesat 10:45 8. m. and 0 p. m. —Church of the Iloly Communion. Dearborn street. near Thirtieth, services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will ofiiciate in the Church of the cension, corner of North LaSalle - and Elm streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30p. m. .Communion at 8 a. m. —The Rev. J. Bredburg will oficiate fn St. Ansgartus’ Crurch, Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenue, at 10:30 . m, and 7:30 p. m. St. Paul’s Church. Hyde Park avenue, between Sérvices at Forty-eighth and Fortv-ninth streefs. 10:300."m. and 7:0: w. _The Rev. D. F. Warren will officiate at St. Mark’s Church, Cottage Grove avenue. cornes of * Turty-sixth street. at 10:30 a. m. aud 7:30 p. m. The Rev. G. F. Cushman will offlciate in St Stephen's Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth, at 10:30 2. m. und 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee wiil officiate in Cal- vary Church, Werren avenue, between Oakley street and Western avense, 4t 10:30 a. m. and. 7:30 p. m. X Fhe Rev. T, N. Morrison, Jr.. will ofliciate In the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, be- tween Monroe and Adams, 8t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 - . . P fihe Rev. W. J. Petric will officiate fn_the Chuich of onr Savior, corner of Lincoln and Bel- den avenues, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 . m. _The Rev. Heury C. Perry will ofiiciate fa All Sutnts’ Charch, corner of Noreh Carpenterand West | Ohio streets, at 10:45 4. in. and 7:35 p. m. “—The Good Shepherd Jission, Lawndale. - The Rev. F. N. Luson, Rector. Services at 10:30 a.m. —Emmanuel Church, Lu Grange. The Rev. F. . Luson, Rector. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 730 8. m. ;i The Kev. J. Stewart Smith will officate In St. Mark's Church. Evanston, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 . m. P Z&. Luke's Mission. coraer of Tavlor street and Western avenue® Sundoy-echool at 3 p. m. ; ser- - viees at-4 p. m. ~ —iope Alission, No. 885 Milwaukee avenne. Sanday-school at 2:00 p, m. METHODIST. The Rev. W. F. Crafts preaches at Trinity Church. Evening subject: - ** Before the Lost o3 The Rev. Dr. Williamson preaches at the Mich- igan Avenue Church. Slorning subject: ** Hpav~ en.” Evening: ‘- Alcohol 8s a Crimnal snd Spendthrift.” —fhe Rev. Dr. Gurney_preaches at St. Paul's nisted. Morning aub- Church, Maxwell, near ji Preachers.” Evening: ct: *The Accur: The Accursed People. _—The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at Centenary Church morning and evening. —An ail-day meeting will be held at Emmanuel * Chareh, corner of Hurrison and_Paulira streets. The Younyg Men's Band, led by Dr. ‘Wiiiing, will conduct the services. * 2 The Rev. Jobn Atkinson will prezch In Grace Church, corner of North Lasalle and White atrects, at 10:30 s. m. and 7:30 p. m. Evening subject: %04 Night in’ Babylon; the Banquet and the Doom.”” g e Rev. T. C. Clendenniog will presch in the Langley Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-ninthe strect, av 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m.. The Rev. F. . Lristol will preach in the Firat - Charch, Englewood, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. mi. Evening subject: **Amnsements. . e Rev. §. McChesney will preach in the Park Avenue Church morning and evening. Sacramend - at the close of morning eervice. ““The Rev, S. H. Adams will administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Suoper in the morning and will preacl: in the evening. z " T Rov, M. M. Parkhurat will preachiin tha First Church, corner of <Ciark ana Washington streets, in the evening: subject: **Born Again.” Sacramengof the Lord’s Supper in the morniog. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Arthar Aitchell preaches at Railroad Chapel this evening. —the Kev. Jomes Maclaughlin preaches at the Scotch Church morning and evening. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will administer the 5 Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the Firat Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty- first street, at 10:30 3. m. —The Rev. E. P. Wells will preach in the Forty- first Street Church in the morning, and the Rev. E. W. Matthews, of Antwerp, 1n the evening, ¢ “The Rev. E. N. Barrett will preach in West- minster Church, corner of Jackson and Peoria streets. Eveningsubject: **Mury and Martha.” —'The. Rev. J. M. Worrall wiil preach in the Eighth Church, corner of Washington and Robey streets. Communion service and reception of new members at 10:30 o. m., and preaching by the Pastor at 7:30 p. m. '—The Rev. J. Monro Gibeon will preach ln the - Second Church, corner of Michizan avenne and - Twenticth streét, morning and evening. Cum- munion afser the morning service, Prof. F. L. Patton, D. D., will prezch in Jef- ferson Park Charch, Throop and West Adams | streets, morning ond evening. *ZThe Rev. W. C. Young will preach morninz and eveaing in the Fullerton Avenue Church. g CONGREGATIONAL. N. Vanderveer preaches at Unifon 'he Rev. D. a Evening subject, ‘*The en We harch. Ne ; *%Fhe Rev. E. F. Williams preaches at the Forty- seventh Street Charch this morning. *YeIhe “Hov. Charles Hall Everest preaches at . Plymouth Charch morning and evening. e Rev. C. A, Towle will preach in Bethany Charca, corner of Baulina and West lnron strects, 2010:43 2, m. and 7:30 p: m. e ltev. G. . Mackle will preach fn the South Park avenue Church, corner of Thirty-third reet, at ila. m. e & Rov. Arthur Little will preach In the Now e Chureh, corner. of Delaware place and ‘morninz and eveninz. oo e Rev. B. . Packard will preach in the Evanston Chareh morning snd eveninz. In the B oming the first of a serles on Obscare sad Myste- Sivas Characters in the Bibie. Subject: #°'The tch of Endor and Spiritaalism. * It ho Rev. Georre 1L, Pecke will preach morn- ing and evening in the Leavitt Street Charch. 'S T'he Rev. Charles Hall Evercst will preach in Plymouth Church, Michigan avenae, near Twenty- siath street, morningand evening. Sacrament of the Lord's Supperafterthe morningservice. Even- ing subject: --Street Lessons. " &? BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin, preaches in the West End Opera-Honge. Evening subject: *Ths Sigus of the Times Indicating the Near Apprdach ot Christ's Second Coming.” “The Rev. W.W. Everts will preach in the Firat Church, corfier of Soutn Park avcnne and Thirty- firut street, at 11 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. 3 —B. F. Jacobs will preach in the eveaing at the Baptist Tabernacle, Nos. 302 and 204 Wabash avenue. “Tho Rev. J. W. Cuatls whil preach in the Michigen Aveate Charch, near Twenty-third street, at 10:30 2. m. “The Ttev. k. De Baptiste will preach in the Oliet Church, Fourth avenae, near Taylor street, at1ls. m. a0d 7:45p. m. *The ldev. A. Owen will preach in Tmiversity Place Chyarcly, corner of Rhodes aveaue and Donxz- 128 plzee, at 11 & m. aod 7:30 p. m- 2 Prhie 'Res. L. G. Clarke will preach in toe South Chugel, Corner of Locke and ‘Bonaparte streetd, at 7:50 p. m. e fter. 3. "A. Tenry will preach in the Dear- born Street Church, corucr of Thirty-uixth street, 2t 10:30 5. m. and 7:30 p. M. 1 ftev. Galusha Anderson will preach fn tho sécond Onureh comor of Morgan and fonros Sirects, ot 10:00 2. m. aod T30 D, o £ e Tev, D. B. Cheney wiil preach in the Fourth Charch, corner of Washinzion aad Paulina 2t 10:80 2. m. ond 7:30 p. a1 B v O. Perren will nreach in the Western Eng Dearborn avenue, &