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i i ERmeeRRs AT THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 10, 1878—SIXTEEN. PAGES. 9. RELIGIOUS. Miracle Speculators Come to Grief in a Paris Police Court. Photographs of Bogus Apparitions of the Virgin Mary at an Apple Tree, An Eternal Hell One of the Dogmas of the Catho- lic Church. personal Recollections of Car- dinal Pecci, Now Pope Leo XIII. AStrange Funeral---Novel Cere- monies at the Interment of a Positivist. General Notes—Personals---Theological Humor---Church Services To-Day. MIRACLE SPECULATORS. DOGUS APPARITIONS OF THE VIRGIN MARY. Corvespondence New Yurk Eceniug Post. Lospos, Feb. 13.—A miracle was brought before 2 Paris police court a short time ago. Tug case was really a curious and interesting ond, bus at that time all eyes were strained sovard London and Constantinople, and the qory was almost unnoticed. It would be a pity wt ta cull it; your readers will perhaps be willing to give it & few winutes’ consideration. Toecase was that of o business-man who had Jormed a partnersbip with o banker and a pho- tomrapher for the purpose of making mouey out of & miraculons viston of the Virzin Mary. Lest spring,in the heartol a small town which bad been completely unkuown until then,at . Cheppy. in the Department of Meuse, 2 rumor suddenly spread that the Virgin Mary had de- scended from Heaven. She had appeared totwo young girls,—to two idiots, say the incredu- lons; to two candid and pure virgins, say the devotees aud good Catholics. Be this as itmay, the Virgin showed herself to the lasses precsely as she is shown in all pictures of ber: clothed in white, With blue ribbons, and a Llue sash. She stood above an eopletree in bloom, her feet resting ou the biossuws, which did not even bend under her weiaht. It Was o miracle, in short! The good Virgin exhorted the young girls in the style of thie ViifageCurate. Franee, she suid, had drawn all ber misfortunes upon hersell by forsaking the cause of our Holy Fatker the Pope, and by work and dancive on Sunday instead of oing 10 moss aud to vespers. “Go,” sald the divine zpparition, “‘gzo tell the world that it mast do penaunce.” So saying, the apparition vanished from the sight of the lasses; there remained nothing but anapole-tree, a white apple-tree and nothing more. ‘The girls hastened to the Curate’s aud to the cood Sisters’. they sped to_the Ienorantin Brothers’ and to_the Church-Warden’s, expa- tistng upon the favor of winch they had been 1be object to all devout souls. 'The miracle was noised 2broad. From village to village throngh- unt the whole province, and fartier still, spread the rumor ot the apparition; pilgrimages were orzanized, many visitors tlocked from all sides 1o bebold the miraculous apgle-tree and to sce the girls to whom the Virgin had anpeared. Sofarall was according to rule, everything had followed the ordinary course which miracles re wout to follow. But bere there stepped in au intruder, an unauthorized individual, who turmed the case aside from its patural course. A cenain Collin, a speculator, conceived the idea of forming a partuership, for the purpose of reaping a benefit from the miracle, with a plotegrapker, Dagrin by name, and with the theran-daw of the photographer, a certain Gorre, a’ banker in Paris, on the_ Boulevard Beaumarchai ‘The bavker risked 12,000 fra In the undertaking, the photographer put i lis :li‘gmlus, and Collin Lis intetligence and his first proceeding of the partners was the purchase of the apple tree and the surrounding field from a crafty peasant, who charged them three or four tinies what the land was worth. Toe sccond was the erection of u ehed on the spot, which served two purposes— it was a chapel in the front aud a public bouse fn the rear. In the chapel the speculator g€t up an altar, and kept wax tapers constantly lighted; he turnished it with bouguets of arti- ficial lowers, a statuette ot the Virgin, and a rmureous painting representinz the Queen of Angels erect on her apple tree and beckoning to e Eneeling girls, who gaze upou her in be- wilderineut. In the chapel the pilerims performed thelr de- votions, prostrated ihemselyes, aud reciicd their neuvaines; in the public house refresh- ments were sold to them, and, beside these, zine meaals which had been atlowed to remait on the altar, aud photograpbs of the Mother of God on her apple tree. These photographs were produced in court, and revealed an unex- pected resemblance between the Virgin Mary and a pretty actress of the Boulevard theatres, Alie. Alice Reguault, an account of whose suit with tse shirunaker was stifl to be found in wost of yesterday’s newspapers. The objcet of the speculation was, then, the e3lé of photographs arnd medallions’ commemo- Tative o the marvelous apparition. If the pil- erimage * took,” fbrilliant_business could be doue, and the apple-tree field could be resold for ten tumes the purchase price. Uf course; for would not the elergy have need of the spot for the erection of u church, perhaps even of a @thedral and juns like those or Lourdes, in La Sapette? It was therefore necessary to push forward the saic of the medallions and photo- £1aphs, it was nezessary to incite the fervar of the fartuful. - With tins end in view the three tonlederates spread a circnlar far and wide Which read thus: OunLaby oF Cnsrer. i3 ATPARITION b4 or JTR LADY OF THE SACRED NEALT AT cuerry (uEvsg), v 15, 1877 Photographs of the Apparition. Commemorative Medailions. A Pansian banker, residing on the Boulevard anmarchuis, has just been cured of o disease Waick was considered Incarable, after 8 neuvaine inkouor of Uur Lady of Cheppy. In recozmtion of this Divine fuvor, he is zoing to erect o maenid- cent votive chavet on the site of tae apparition, oreover, we are notificd of two other miracn- lous cures in the Cantons of Ville sur-Touroe and "hateau, _A numerous and meditative crowd is constantly Vieiting this sanctoary and imploring the powerfal Protection of Our Lady of Cheppy. The Parisian bauker who thus epeaks of him- selt as au incurable cured by Qur Lady of Caepoy was the partuer, Mr. Gorre, Allured by the prospect of special protection, of persoval favors, and of miraculous cures, Plierims flocked to Cheppy. i 10 less than 2,500 persons, both curiosity-seel e and devotees, all simpletons, were counted gefiiing before the marvelous apple-tree. The fpeculation seemed to be 1na fair way to be- (ome lucrative. This wasin the 2ood time of toe Government of moral order; M. de Broglic fi-:‘mud for the account of the Vatican, and e Ia Marechale de MacMalon wrote to the ope: *Holy Father, are you satisfied#' Hovweves, ‘the speculation miscarricd. The erey had not been juvited to have a finger in e pie. The partners had scen fit to do with- out them, or any rate they had not given them euficient interest in the matter. This wasa £reat blunder. It is impossible in France to STy ou an attar for any length of time if the znesx i5 00t to find jt profitable. 18 sual for the Bisuop to Lold hi eotly aloof until success is assured; but in s varticutar instance the aloolness soon be- :-l:nu an underhand. hostility. The coutessors by B consulied, and the curates in the pulpit, Y50 mequs denied the reality of the divine aparition, but they expressed \f;nbls as to the by tiaty of the photograpbs, and as to the @y of the medallions, so that cures became P 't was established that the apple-tree de- ogaly lacked power. - The pilerims could re- h:n kuceling ‘about it and gazing at the ‘w:'.m for days together, but the Virgin no ,_mfnnpcared 10 auybody; thedcaf remained thep 075008 afilicted with catarrh retained taat Catarrh, and the impotent remained impo- 4 In order to obtam a prodigy, a True prodiey, more capital was necded; for the-sub- Jects 1it for the production of authentic miracles do not abound, and thev churpe high prices. By ;!Egmh the clerey bad incited open hostility: ln a charge by the Bistiop of Verdun the faithful had been put on their uard aainst the new miracles which had been promised at Cheppy. In short, the pilgrims became fe er and fewer, and soon they remained ot home. Collin wa left with his field, hislapple tree. his publi bouse clmgcl, Lis medallions, bis vhotographs, and the debts he had incurred for the carrying on of the miracle, 12,(;00 franes, <As Is usual in euch cases, two of the confed- erates tarned against, the 'third. They wanted their money refunded, Dagrin wanted payment for his photographs, and Gorre wishod his noncey returued, and setting the Sherifi’s offi- cers to work, tuey seized upon a picce of prop- erty held by Coliin; they even seized upon the public-house chancl, the miracle field, and the divine-apparitiow apple tree. But Collin was_ strugeling against his cred- itors, to whom, hemaintained, he owed noth- ing. on account of their act of partuership. In order to intimidate the photographer he had a visiting-card prepared as follows: TAYOLLE. Secretaire du Parquet, Affafres Criminelics. (Fayolle, Secretary of the Public Prosecutor, Crim- ) inal Cases, ) Provided with this stero talisman he went to au engraver’s, had 2 seal made to eorrespond Wwith it. and had this delivered to him. Being in possession of these thbreateniug weapons, he wrote a letter to Dagrin, bearing” the stamp of the avove-mentioned terrible seal, aud summon- ing bim to appear ot the bar of the Procureur de la Republique. By means of these ‘deceits Collin hoped. to work ou the mind of Dagrin, and through him on Gorre’s; but he had torzotten to pay for the scal he had ordered; the engrayer weni to the Public Prosccutor’s to demaud pasment for it, and the fraud was detected. Let us add that during the proceedings a charge of breach of trust was made against the defendant by a womau named Betton, who had entrusted him with Government bouds yielding an income of fifty fraucs, which he was to sell, and the amount of which (less 209 franes which were feut him) he wasto employ for the pur- chase of another bond. Ile kept all. Collin therefore appeared before the Police Tribunal under an ndictment for counterteiting 5 Mag- 1strate’s seal, for using the counterfeited seal, and finally for attempted blackmail and breach of trust. The facts were patent. The defendont was overwhelmed by the evidence; his tricks and his fraudutent maneuvres bad' turned swainst bim. The Judges were lenient towsard sacal, whose craft and eflrontery they could not but admire. Collin condemned to only three years of impriconment; one year for having counterteited a public seal aond“for having used it fraudulently, one year tor at- tempted blackmail awamst Dagriv, and one year for breach of trust against Madame Bet- ton. X As for the very knot of the question, the speculatiou ou the miracle. the sale of the pho- tographs, and the miracnlous medallions, alter the facts had been duly established no farther mention was made of them. Collin was not found guilty on this head. There is an old pre- scept thut *“Devant le peuple, il e jaut pas manier “les casseroles du sanctuaire.” (The saucepans of the sanctuary must not be handled before the people.) A JESUIT OX A LEARNED THEOLOGIAN DISCOURSES ON ETER- NAL PUNISHMENT. The Rev. F. X. Weninger, 8. J., has sent the followiug communication on hell to the Catholic Lteview : . Awmong the many curious movements, which {from time to time agitate the public mind. there has recently sprung up the question: Is there in eternity a place called Hetl, aud what punish- ment must the impeviten: sinner undergo there? We will try to satisfy this inquiry in as few words as possible. But we ask beforchand : How is it possible that men express such an anxiety to see enswered, now, this question for he had far excceded his HELL. which Las L2en answered ever since a rational being lived on this earth, and since God spoke to men by reason and revetation? In order to make this clear, let us Jook at the four categories iuto which men, by their re- lizious belic, or uwbelief, may be classifed. They are: Catholics, Protestants. Deists, and Atheis For 21l of them the question on Hell is out of place. First, concerning Catholics: The dogma that there is in eternity & place which we call Hell, where all those that die in the state of mortal sin suffer everlasting punishment, is an article of faith proclaimed by ths Ciurch, condemning the so-called Ongenists, and soleminly re-cchoed in the celebrated Athavasian symuol adopted by the Churen. X ‘Therefore, as Catholies believe the Church to be infallible’ in ber ductrinal detinitions, this questiou is for them out of place. Secondly, concerning Protestants: I they are real orthodox Protestants, they believe Christ t0 be the Son of God Incarnate: consequently, that His teaching is trucs and they believe the Bible to be the Word of God. Let us then open the Bible and consider the utterances of Christ and His Apostles. That in the books of the Old Covenaut Hell s frequently mentioned, noboay will deny who lias_ev :d the books of the Old Testamment. Moses, David, and tie proph- etspoiut to a place in eternity where, alter death, the wicked are punished.” They call it Hell, everlasting fire, darkness, well of death, country of sorrows (Nwnbers xvi., Psalms liy., Isaiab Xxxiv., Daniel xii., cte.). Especiaily St. Jolin, preaching 1o the crowds of beople coming {rom every airection to hear him, mentions and menaces them with the unquerchaole fire of Hell, which proves that tue belief in future everlasting punishment which awaits the sii ner was® 2 common belief among tl Jews. But not only the Jews believed in tell, but also all ‘mankind believed in it. Primitive revelation, in_ this regard, has never since the oririnal fall of mau perished {rom among men. What the Greeks aud Romans believed of Tartarus bears witness to this; and ot superstitious people only amony them be- lieved in it, but men like Socrates, Plato, Aris- totle, Cicero, and Seneca. What stugent can be ienorant of what llomer aud Vireil sang of the descent of /Eueas into Tartarus? Even siuylev and_Bolingbroke—those propaators of iniidelity—~plainly acknowledee the undeniable fact of this uninterrunted behel of nations on hell, born, we may almost say, with mcu’s con- science. oncerning: the utterances of Christ on this subject, all that ever read the Gospels know that He frequentiy—even more frequently than of heaven—spoké of a place in eternity where God sall pumish the wicked. That place Ife calls “*a place of torments” (Luke, Xvi, 23); “of weeping and gnasping of teetn” Matt., vidi, 13). He callsit ** belifire ” (Muit., v., 22), which, as e atlirms, canot be quencned. {1¢ spealks of two ways on which men_are walking towards eternity,—*“the ouc leading to hife, the other leading to destruction ™ (Matt. vii., 13). But tac most solemu, peremptory, decisive words of Chrst aflirming a place of everfasting punishment of the wicked are the words that He shall hereafter pronounce as the coming Judge of mankind at the day of judement, wheu ie shall say to them that stand on the left side: * Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his aneels,” and they shall o into_everlasting puniziment, aud the just mto 1ife everlasting. What clearer and ore positive words could Cbrist have used to auuounce to mankind hell, where the wicked shall be punished without end? It some Protestants, nevertheless, deny hell, they should also deny heaven, because Christ equally spuke in the same sentence or hcaven and of hell. So the Apostles, too, understood the law, and €0 they taught the faithful. Peter, in his see- ona Epistle, atlirms that the wicked shall be tormented by the same torments that were pre- pared for the fallen avgels,—that is, the tor- ments of everlasting fire (1L, Pet. fi., 4). So, also, St. Paul aflirms that the wicked who obey not Christ, and who do not live according 1o His Jaws, shall suffer cternal pains (11 Thess., in0). What pains? st. Jude, in his Epistle, says they are suilering tie punishment of eter- nal fire.” St. Johu, in his Apocalvpse, saw the damned in 2 pool of damnation, where he says they shall be tormented forever and ever (Apoc., xix. and 3x.). These words of Christ and His apostles are too explicit, too positive, to admit in their interpretation of any sub‘erfuge or equivocation, especially should we adduce quo- tations from all the holy Fathers, beginning with those of the first century of the Christian era, who understood the teaching of Christ and 1Iis apostles in the way in_which_the Catholic Chburch has defined it. We simply wish to arwue against Protestants, as such, and they re- fuse to listen to tradition. If, however. they retuse to 10 the clear teaching of the words of Christ and_His apostles, to which we have referred, and disbelieve the existence of bell, they mav call themselves Protestants, but, in fact, they are only diszuised Deists. . Thirdly, we call Deists those wno betieve in God and the immortality of the soul, but deny revelation, and think that natural nonesty—that is, that to keep the Jaw of nature according to 1lie dictates of their own couscience—is all that God can ask of men. In rezard to them, also, we gay the existeace of Hell is out of tac ques- tion. ¢ al’l:nsc pay full attention to that which we @ 2hall now say. Some of our readers will prob- ably not perceive the whole strength of our ar- gument, but all lugical thinkers, all troined vhilosophers, will perceive it, and for these es- vecially we write this paragraph. The Deist, believing in a Creator and Ruler of the world— God—must acknowledge in Him o being who is also capable, under all circumstances, of ruling rational and immortal beings, if He was pleased to create them iree, as He did create man, waom He lelt tree to obey Him or to disobey Him. Such immortal beings, if they chose to bie diso- bedient. God coutd notrule if Hewowd not confirm His law by everlasting punishment, Listen to Ty reason why 1o could mot. The reason is, that whalcver is temporary, and therefore has an end, is of o avail for an tmmortal being who hns belore ~ him elernity. No matter how jong the punishment may last, one hour or’ - millions of years, when passed they are equaliy gone. Au immortal be- .ing, therefore, could defy his Creator and Ruler, and preier the temporal enjoyment of sin in detl- auce of mere temporary punishment, That he would do 80, is evident Trom the conduct of all those Catholics and Protestants who, while be- Meviug iu everlasting punishment, still dare to remain in mortal sin. What, then, would men care about sin If, on the contrary, they belicved that there is no such thing to be feared as everlasting punishment? Nothing less thau the sanction of Divine law by the everlasting punishment of those who rebel azainst it is commensurate for beings who arc themselves imwortal. A Govermmnent which has 10 power to control the wickedness of the transeressors of its laws by the infliction of punishment suflicient to deter them, is a miser- able one. And that is what the govermncnt of God would be, in repgard to immortal beings re- belling against Ilim. if there were no_everlast- ing punishment, Moreover, 85 God is omnis- cient, how could Be do otherwise than ordain the cterna! punisbment of immortal beines of whom He foresaw that, left to their own dlspo-. sitions, many never would cease through all eternity to offend Him?! God knows if that was not already the case with all the fallen angels. Do you understand the bearing of my arcu. ment? Abstracting from all revelation, if you do not, you ¢o not reason. Fourthly. Butit may be that infdels arc pantheists, neither believing in a personal God nor in personal immortality of men. For these. of course, the question of the existence of hell is out ol place. The other part of the question, iu reward £o the kind of punishment in Hcll, is cqually out of place, because reason by atsell never can auswer tlus question, and révelation was not given to satisly our curi- osit; No explicit definition in this regard has cver been given by the Church, It perfeetly sutlices to perceive, by faith and of our-intended’ residence of some months at. Perueia, and in the midst of the 1mportant dis- cussions. and anxious deliberations. of the last | exciting weeks of the Council he had tound time to-think of the two insignilicant strangers at Perugia, and to direct that every courtesy and kindness should be shown us. How bright our gays there were made by this thoughtfuivess! Everything beautiful in art, fine old pictures, rare old missals, all the treasures of the old libraries, etc., so filled as they were with_inter- cst, were thrown open to us, and inade that summer one of themost memorable of our lives. During the weeks before the close of the Council the Cardinal often in his letiers to his prelate inquired Kkindly as to our eunjovmeut, and whether he still continued to gid asus he had been directed to do. The Council adjourned; the world now knows its decisions, thuse who were in Rome or- its vicinity knew how great the strain had been on the bealth of the distinguished men who took part iu its de- liberations. er dle life, upon whom the debilitating effects of the Roman clitnate and anunpsyally warm sum- mer had been very injurious.” And’these effects had been inereased by the exciting and anxious discussion of ouc of the most important dogmas of the Catholic faith. Few but Most of them were men past mid- A few days after the Cardinal's return we called to thank him,and to see for the first time one who had been ®o thoughtfully kind toward two unpretending, quict Americans. In most minds in our own country and often, too, in Europe, it is supposed “that the Cardinals of the Chureh live most. luxurious hves. areat mistak often led by those ¢ thut their position as Princes of the Church has in the past required certein state aud ceremony in publie, but in the private life of those w have been so [fortumate as to meet they have been as bumble and seif-sacrificing as any other Itisa ; the mostsimple, quiet lives are devoted prelates. It s true ts. On acriving at the palace we ascended ri gwiflc fight of stairs to the second story, aud were rooms, as is usual in Itelian palaces, all of them being handsome large rooms, with loity ceilnes, but unostentatiously furnish- €d, reaching finally a smuller one, evidently the study, with writing tuble, cte., In which his Eminence received us, that we had met bim, and of course the impres- sion of that visit is not forotte: we were not only to meet one who had been very Kind to us, but also that we were to sce, us had beeu often intimated tous by members of the Papal housenold at Rome, the probable suceessor of Pius IX. came toward us as we entered the room. wore knee breeches with scarlet stocl shoes with broad gold buckies; his conducted through o succession of It was the first time We felt that The Cardinal rose and He reason, that the punishment. of men who have | dari, with scarlet cord on the edee. On the died in the state of mortal sin, aud have been | back of his bead he bad a small scarict cap, not condemued to Hell, will affect body and soul, { concealing his rather thin wud slightly ray as they bave sinned with both, and that their | hair, He wore a zold chain with the' cross, the punishment will beeterna’. Any punishment that never ends must be for men Lhe same awful warning to try by all means to avoid it, whether it be punishment by five or otberwise. Besides, for those who tirmly believe all thut God hus revealed to men, proposed to them by the legitimate teaching autbority, and live ac- ¥, they are on the way of salvation, aud 0 it is of very little interest what kind of punishment God “inflicts on sinners in bell. They rather divert their thoughts to the joys that await them in Heaven. But those who wilifully err, or who do not live us they betieve, procecding in the way of dumuation, will soon cnough kuow, by expe- rieuce, what eterual punishment in hell means. Yes, those Ingersollians, and all other blas- pliemous scoffers at religion, il they refuse to isten to reason and revelation, will each have. we are airaid, shortly to exclaim, “Yes, there is Liell, and I am toere.” “Too 1ate tuen to ridicule hell, POPE LEO XIII. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF CARDINAL PECCL. An American lady, now resident in Washing- ton, D. C., sends to the New York Herald the ng interesting reminiscences of Cardinal i, the present Pope, Leo XIII., whom she kuew some years aco when he was the Cardinal Archbishop of Perugia, and when she and her daughter for some montbs lived in that quaint old Italian town. She writes: The winger anat spring of 1570 were passed by usin Rome. It wasa memorable time, for it was the year of the great Ecumencial Council, and, interested in fts deliberations and in the wonderful concourse brought together at that July dreve us away. Weselected for oursummer Lome the quaint old town of Perugia, so filled with historical recolicctfons and with treasures of art. Strange to say, unless of very late years, this charming old town is seldom sclected as a permauent resting-place. Most travelers pass it by. Lying as it does near the railw: tween Rome and Florence, those who visit it re~ main there but a few days, excepting now and then an artist who lingers there for the Gue pic- tures of Peruzino and other Umbrian artists, or the beautiful wood-carvingsdeslaned by Raphael in the Benedictine Church of San Pletro, or to study the carly fresco of Raphael in the Con- vent of San Severo. Of pictures by Raphacl there are but few now remaining in Perogia; the only oue of much note, the Madouna and Child of the Conestabili, was sold to the Rus- sinn Emperor dusing our stay in Perugia for a very large sum, the owner being oblized to st it away during the night because the in- labitants of Perueia were soindisnant that they should lose the Jast grest picture of their great master. = This old_ town, famous in the history of by~ svinbol of his shaht form, with ascetic in appearanc knowu how K have scemed rather hauabty aud cold. ‘This, however, svon passed away. ‘He had a broad, in firm mouth, which broke into a pleasant smile 1s he spoke. teliectual £ Perugia he Chiristian Bis! who died ut bis r¢ this city, last Fridav, was in religion a Positiv- ist. relizion, aud once, refusivg to be bound by the Bishopriv. He was of ¢ tall, iied carriage; somewhat and to one who had not he could be, his manner might ellectual brow; clear, blue eye, and lapve, He struck us as a man of rare jn- bhis late flock at oved and revered as a devout and 0p. Uow kiudly and thoughtfully be interested himself fu our enjoyment of the great objeets of interest in his dear Perugia. Fatigued nnd worn as he was by ull the wearisome labors of the Council, and the great dangers then threat- cning old Rome and the Sovereien Pontiil's poywer, still he never, during our stay, ccased to ti couversations not intended for the pablic car, though they may be those of promiucnt men, should be sacred; we ouly desire to let the W will be in carrying out 2ud advancing the best interests of “the Church he loves, is uot only as truiy pious as the lute beloved Pius IX, but, though apparently cold in mauner, may we not iufer from his thoushtful Xkinduess to strangers and foreigners who had no claim on him, at o pe 1l of aud do Kind deeds tor us. “Of course, I know that the present Poatiff, firm as he d of great anxiety and fatiruc, that he will a tender and Jihd papa (father)? We were still in Perusia wien the Italian troops passed through on ther way to Kome, and 4 few days after we learned that Victor Em- manuet bad cutered the Eternal Cig Pius IX. was shut up in the "Vatican. visits at this time to the Cardinal’s palace, even thoueh burdened with all those incrensed auxie- ties, the Cardiual always hare a serene and un- slinching apoearance. , s the nitizmate trinmph of the Church he loved time, we remained there until the great heat in | place be uever scemed in the leas calm, selt-pussessed confiden: 0 be onc who would be & wise, calwm, firm ruler of the Caurch. andgood In our Iis faith was so tirm in hat though great political changes were takine to lose his . showing himself A STRANGE, FUNERAL. NOVEL CERCMONIES AT THE BURIAL OF A POS- ITIVISTS New York Uerald. New ILAVES. March4.—Thomas F. Hamilton, idence in George street, in He rejected all generally accepted ideas of oath in court, developed his uncom- and gained some notoriety thereby. He was, howerer, a thoroughly good citizen and conscientious to a degree, and had hosts of friends. teur ideas is evidenced by a request made lately thas should the Lodge of Kuights of Pythias, of which he was 2 member, conduct his fuscral services, the mention of God should be omitted. The Lodge Tle bad a local reputation as an ama- ientist. Tlis hostility to reguant religious refused to Go this, but the gune days, has become at this time interesting | individual members, out of rezand to thelr ‘lll‘v‘;;gc\,cf;‘en};tg;fi Q;O{Lgx ’;::;:fitlisentgfir dead brother, attended. As was zenerally P, ¢ 'ontifl, i ) et vere formerly Cardinal Pecel, Archbishop of Perugia, | tXPected, the funeral services were of o very uncommwon kind, and in them and now Leo XIIL - Perugia is singularly situt ated ou and around a steep hill, overlooking a broad plafn, through which the Tiber winds. It is about a mile from the station. The only wide street leads through one of the old gates of the town, the Portia Manzia, makes o half cireuit of the hill, and comes out upon the top into a broad corso which eunds in a double squarc. Most of the other streets in the town itself are steep and narrow, and only passable tor foot-passengers and mules. The corso has many line buildings,—palaces of the old aristocracy of this ancient city. The ereat plazza or square in which the corso terminates las on the oue side the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, a fine Gothic buildieg ot the filteenth century, hav- ing what s now rarely seen ncar ome of its doors on the outside of the building, a pulpit, from which formerly sermons were preached to the crowds in the public squarc. Here the great preacher San Beroardino da Massa. is said 10 have addressed the crowds collected to hear bim. Opposite the entrauce is o fountain nearly G0 years old, ong of the first, it not the first, ever erccted in Italy, ornamented with beautiful carvivgs of Giovanni da Pisa. On ihe otner side of tue church, in the centre of the second square, is the beantiful bronze sit- ting statue of that graud old Poutiff, Julius I1L., crownced with the tiara, the right hand raised, giving 2 benediction that onc feels iaii forever, or, as Hawthorne says, t hope to feel quictly descending upon the need or the distress that he had closest at his heart.”” “Thie zrand old Cathedral once possessed many fine pictures, which have been taken from 1{ during the Italian revolution and travsferred to the picture gafiery of the town, for which the churches aud copvents have been pillaged. But the greatest loss was that of the magnificent picture by Rapbael of the espousals of the Bilessed Virgly, which was carried away by the French, who never returned 1t, seading only o copy, which now fills the place from which the oriinal was taken. Opposite the Cathedral stands one of the most interesting Town-Halls in Italy. On the wall over the principal en- trance fs the emblem of Peragia. The preat Gothic doo: v is claborately carved with seven varieties of Gutbic orsament, the columus supporting the arch resting on the backs of huge grifins and lions, one of the grandest portals I_have cver scen. On the lower floor is tone Exchanee (Sala del Cambio) with a small Chapel _adjoining, formerly used by the old merchants. Itis rich with frescocs, still bright with color; and lowing with the genius of Perazino, the great master of Rapbacl. [n this Iimited sketeh 1 cannot particularize the series, but must mentior the *Transtiguration,’” by this master, from which on wust feel that Raphael drew some of the inspiration for his own great picture. Here, too, is painted in fresco s likeness of Perugino himsel1, quite unlike our ideas of the old painter. In the grand old hall in the third story of the Sala delia Prefettura therc are still remaining frescoes by Boufigli, the master of Perugino himsell. Ou the side of the square between the Town-Hall and the Cathe- drul stands the fine old paface of the Cardinal Archbishop, three stories in heizht. a building of no great archilectural beauty. We wentto Perngia as stranzers. But among the great Cardmals and emiucnt prelates ay the Council at Rome we had often seen Cardinal Pecci, but haa never met bim, and tuercfore bad carried away butan indistinct idea of his person. It had been whispered. even at that day, thot he was to be the next Pope, so that we were not alittle surprised a few days after our arrival at Perugia by a visit from one of the prelates of the Cardi- nal’s household who had received dircctivns from his Eminence to call upon us and offer us all those kind courtesics which are 5o welcome in a strange land. Through a mutual friend— one of tue Cardinals—nis Eminence bad learned much interest was manifested, nothing of the same nature ever having oceurred here. the request of the deccased thint after remarks at his late residence his body should be removed to a public hall in which services are held every Sunday by an assoctation of which be was a member, and which embraces all shades of lib- eral thinking on religious sabjects. organizations, among thiem a Clan-na-Gael Club and a temperance society, attended the services at the residence and then escorted the remains to the hall, wnere not less than 1,000 people had gathered. T. B. Wakeman, of New York, a member of the Socicty of Humani at the duty of the friends, who were to find consola- tion fn the memors of the decased, 1o try to drown their griefs Tn an effort to alleviate the meneral sorrow in the higaer interests of hu- manity. It was Scveral 5, spoke At the hail. was at the that 1o and said house he the house As the processior: entered the hall, led b offi- cers of the Free Religious Association previous- 1y named, each wearing a green rivbon on his coat lapel as an embiem of every verdant memory and vital played 8 dirge. front of the hall stage, and the officers of the Association took_the staze, accompanied by Mr. Wakeman. ubout. ‘The exercises opened with the reading of & poem, the sentiment of which is contained in the following stanza: For here he lies slecping; the life force fe zone; Kina Nature nas claimed him, the right is ber own, And, thoush we may call, he no waking sound prozress, a brass band The casket was set down in Flowers were profusely strewi cars, Though ealling in sorrow, in sadness, and tears. Followinz this Mr. Wakeman made the ad- dress. He said that every man’s life {s inevita- bly followed by death and judement. 1s the demand of nature and judgnent is the re- sult of the organization of society. The old faiths have transferred judgment to the clouds, where man_must go there, perhaps, he might escape the tonse- quences of his acts through tne atonement of another. that judgment must be in the mi now and here, spiritual and material Jife—and a knowledze of this is essential to the tormation of a just judg- ment concerning 2 man. - The spiritnal Jife is that which aman lives to can be entered b that which he_lives with his friends, his family, and the world at Jarge. by the material or outer life. tojudge is to consider the conditions of sociery and the surroundiugs environinga man and imagine yourself in his place. Every man’s character is determiued by ideals, which ideals make up his 1mner or spiritual life. Death ked and alone,” and s Lhe idea ds of men Lvery man has two lives—a “The new fmth emphasy imself, and which The material life i ¥ 1o man. Men commonly judgze The. proper way One of the most. vital savings in the New Testament is Jesus’ statement, **The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” The full realization of the Copeznican system of philosophy brushed away from the mind of the deceased the beliel in the Christian Heaven, for he fonnd nowhere to locate it, and could not regard the earth as the centre of the universe. that the deceased died with joy, his only regret being that be had to leave his friends. H not in his belief necessarily do away with the idea of Heaven and Hell, but belicved them both to be here. sense that all we see is matter or the result of matter, but he_was a humanist, as his good ' works evince. Taking up o pemlmr—loa]l;ln: bouquet, m which flowers of distinct colors were rows being of different sizes, the speaker said that he would present this in the place of the Caristign” cross. and were {ndicative of the sea and the sky. The next row was of purple flowers, indicating the In closing, he said He ' did Hewas 3 matenalist 1n_the arranged in respective rows, the ‘The base was of blue flowers, Seriptaral names with, which the various rooms aud Halls are laveled, each apartment_having & name of its own. The main school-room is called Dilirence; ana_the washing and bathing rooms Bethesda aud Siloam. Buv the neatest. thing in the whole place is the name. painted on - the door of the ecllar where the furnaces are Iocated, ** It 15 Shadrazh." There is only one word in the lanayaze that could have suggested anything Lotter, and probably the Orphanage people -thought that the use of that would be carryiug the thing too far. - The following from the Churchman on church fairs isnot far from the truth: “ Observant people who have ‘studied the matter of church fairs have' come to the couclusion that such things arc expensive luxuries, and that they do - uot “ pay,” and-the reasons are obvious enough; for, aside from the dissipation in many ways, ithe givinz of S10 1o get 35 does mot exhibit “good financial ability. 1t is zenerally fonnd, on reckoning up the outlay and income, that if what 1s given fndircetly, even_by those imost fa- terested, had been given directly, the sum realized would hayve been greater than that actually received. Of course there lies back of all this the true reason and impulse of Chris- amtl Ei,v,lnz. aud which the indirect way vi- ntes. The Church of Eneland has two Archbishops, twenty-eight Bishops. Of thesc twenty-four have seats in the Housc of Lords. ‘Twd new Bishoorics were created last year, A laree pro- portion of the Church property is managed by Commissioners, who pay fixed incomes to the Prelates, raneing from 375,000 to the Archbish- ap of Cauterbury to §12,000, which last is the income of the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The next inferior dignitaries of the Church are the Deans, of whom therc are thirty-six, with in- conles varyies from $15,000 to $3,500. ~ As Bish- 0ps’ assistants there are efehty-four Archdea- cons there are 610 rural Deans, 13,000 benefices, aud 23,000 clerzy of cvery class. The totai an~ nual income of the Church is a little over $40, The Pittsburg ministers do not seem tobe particularly happy over the Rev. Leouard Wool- sey Bacon, who has temporariiy become one of them, and whose well-known and excessive fondness for thinking differeutly from other people sometimus vexes them. Ata recent meeting of the Temperance Alliance, Mr. Bacon made a speech in opposition to the views of the Proliibitionists. This brousht upon him the wrath of the other brethren, which. found ex- pression 1 aspecch by the' Rev. Mr. Lrown. Brown characterized Bacon s an enemy to the cause, and a man_whost views of Christianity were 50 10w that he ought to step down and out of the puipit. One of the brethren moved that the Baconian speech be printed in the Liguor have the ‘most pressiug - demand for af fen's ddvocate. ‘This made Mr. Bacon so angry n}licsimx‘:\ry Encx'cly, !w('i o:tny én mmll,x men the | that he quit the house. office of and the need of a Savior, but to con~ 5 . fia ¥inee them of the Divine oriein and aathority of | | This vear 15 the bi-centenury of the publica- the booic which reveals such inportant and sub- }}m"_‘“ e N Bt e D lime traths. Shall we then leave our enlighten- | o+ priuted for Natn, Ponder, ag_the T ed and free country, yhere Bibles are a5 numer- | the Poultzey near Cornblll, 163, Mr. Ellioy behatin) P Stotk, in commemoration of the event, is about earth where men pass their livesand from which they draw sustenance. . The third row was in- dicative of blood (red flowers), recalling the vast martyrdom of men. Then came white flowers, | {udicating the intellectual and mora!, and lust came green leaves, 1ypifyime perpetual memory and ever fresh remembrance. ** Home, Swect Home.” at the wish of the deceased, was _sung, and this closed the exercises, Asin the churchi- yard the casket was being lowered. the sun sud- deoly appeared. Mir. Wakemen said that this 1night be a portent of the treshness in which the memory of the deceased would be Lield. AN OPEN BIBLE. A PLEA FOR INQUIRY AND INVESTIGATION. To the Editor of Tie Tribune. Cmicago, March 8.—An article recently ap- peared in Tue TRIBUNE entitled * Bible Tratbs,” which [ think is worthy of considera-. tion, and which should interest every Bible student. The writer very happily expresses the desire for as well as the growing need of a frec Bibfe-class or socicty, where all believers in the Divine inspiration of the Seriptures and honest doubters wmay wmeet in open inquiry and investi- fation, and thercby come to a better under- standinz of what {s taught therein, and, if pos- sible, arrive at more harmonious conclusions. I think no candid person can fail to sce that the result of the late discussion upon the doctrine of future punishment was anything but satisfactory to the fnauiring mind, al- though I doubt not the various writers, and the adhereuts of the different views diseussed, felt strengthened each fn his preconceived opinion; bug how is it witia the seeker after truth¢ I fear that for such there remains but one of two conclusions,—cither the averaze theologian is dc{:lomhly ignorant of the trne teachings of the bouk, or the Bible is not reliable authority upon such momentous questions. And if such be the real status of public opinion outside of orthiodox believers, is not the demand for such a meeting an urgent and important one? And should not every professed belieyer in the Bible Iecl a degree of interest and zeal in striving not only to maintain the nigh character and claims of the Book as the revealed word of God, but 10 bring every houest mind to the sawme cou- clusion? It the results of disbelicf in the teachine of the Bible are one-half us great as the majority of the advocates of eternal punishment seem to believe, Ieannot couceive how, for a_moment, such can contemplate the rapidiyv-increasing skepticisin of the are with other than feclings of profound grict and alarm. To such, then, let e appeal that here in this great and Christian city (7) we ous almost as the Jailing leaves of autunm, and ; In e o tvent where we boast of enjoymgz the hivhest degree | O v;myfl mlfu‘kmfl, al‘;fie;\r}:intl_rxlli‘tl?;l‘] % ag;e of intelicctual and moral culture, to the | Work, tle representing language, and appearance the first copy which John Bun- van looked upon.” ‘The Second Part, relating to_“Christian’s Wife and Children,” was “Printed for Nathanicl Ponder, at_the Peacock in the Poultery, near the church, 1654.” How many thousands have read the wouderful alle- sory during these 200 years! What a power it has'been in the world!" 1t is printed to-day in nearly all th acs of Burope, and fn many nd it is as fresh, and fas profitable as on the day it was wril is- the Word of God and human es- perience, which have not ehanged, and will not as long as the world stands. The Presbyters of St. Louis has had a very serious diseussion on the qualifications needed 1t began 1 the session last s just closed. Itseemsa Mr. A. B. tin, formerly of New York, applied for se'to preach. Il had had some expenence in New York City and in other places i mis- siouary work, but *-has no college_nor much ueademic traimmng of any kind. Nor has he made vstematic stuay ol theology in pri- vate orin #uy of the seminarics. Heis, how- ever, apt to teach all he knows_aud apt to learn what b may not happen to know.” I has also a oo and populer addrese, and has en- sared himself to the people amoug whom he has lately labored. The candidate had been laboring in a district of coantry * noted for its many tailures to support a live church of any kg, and Mr. Martin’s success in thet place was the chief arzument for granting him license.” Moved by this the Presbytery licensed him, but it was with **some fears of opening a door that would not be casily shut.” PERSONALS. It is £aid that Cardinal Howard will be created Archbishop of Edinburg and Primate of Scot- aud. <y J The death of Ernst William Creeger, a Bishop in the Germau Province of the Moravian Church, is announced. The Rev. George Whitficld Benjamin, lately reccived into the Romish Churc, is said to be non courpos mentis. It is stated by the Adeance that Bob Ingersoll owes his relizious prejudices to an overdose of stepmother in bis early youth. Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, one of the great Jizhts of Spiritualism, claims to be controlled by the **Spirie Phanix.”’ For about 2,000 years it has been believed that the Phaenix never died. Almost, the first thing. thac happened to Bishop Pemick, on landing at Cape Palmas, Africa, was an attack of the fever. But he soon got up again and is now reorganizing his diocese. The Rev. D. N, Vanderveer, of the Union Park Congregational Church, by the advice of physicians, has taken his wife South to_try the beuelits of a more equable climate, she being in very poor health. Tne Rey. Heury W. Spaulding, Rector of St. Peter’s Chureh, Pittsburg, Pu., has accepted an cheerless reignof doubt and infidelity; end send teachers to the remoteisles of the sea, and to -the dark and henighted piaces of the carth, to raise up witnesses for God and to the validity of His_revelazion? Upon what class of evi dence do we relv o convinee such of the trath- fulness of the Bible? Isthe and untatored mind more clea* and susceptible of rexson? Or do we i.ocb with less resistance irom those led by merc credulity, and who have been cducated only through superstition and _blind fear to worslp =ods of terror and cruelty? Dut I forbear. The comparison preponderates in favorof ignorauce, superstition, and idofatr, “To my mind, the very fact that the phantom of doubt sits at_every family board, and tuvers over every fireside, ‘and darkens the mind of childhood “even with strange and perplexiug queries, {5 of such a grave nature as to creatt an intense anxiety to strive with every lafidable means to remove the spectre from our midst, and plant the seeds of a trae and living faith in every hieart. And this can be done only by a firm and intellizent conviction ot _the truthful- ness of the Bibie s a revelation of Gud’s wiil to man. And I think tie time has fully come when men aud women should be intellizently convineed of tine entire reliability amd Diviue n of their religion, and 1ot receive the evi- dences for the same from relizious te: take for granted the theology of the or the tradition of ** the ners.” I trust the feww sumestions herein contained, and which are given Wwith the carnest desire to far- ther the cause of 2 true Bible Christ ity, may awaken a response in favor oi more effectual cfforts to bring the of this city to see the necessity or establ oren Bible mectings where all may umte ng ufter truth and striving for that unity and Jove for oue _another, without which we are as **sounding brass and tinkling eym- Dbals.’? Yours in fuvor of an open Bible, GENERAL NOTES. In 1850 the Catholic Bishops iu the United States held §9,000,000 worth of property. They now hold §110,000,000. Bishop Tacbbe, of Kentucky, hus issued a pas- toral letter, in which he denounces round dancing, and says no good Catholic will waltz. A wealthy Scottish Presbyterian has subserib- ed $25,000 toward defrayinx the expenses of a suit to preveut the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland. ~ Another association for the conversion of the Jews is to be formed in London. Its object is The training of mea for curates iu Jewisl par- ishes, on the application of the incumbeunts of those parishes. 1n 1861 there were in the Yoruba African Mis- sion of the Euaiish Chureh, five native cler men; uow_there are fourteen. The nativ istian adherents have risen from 2,195 to 7, and the communicants from 1,000 to ust 2,000. The prevarations are now complete for the | clection as Corresponding Seerctary and Gener- great International Sunday-School Couvention! | af Agent of the Society tor the lucrease of the whichis o be ick! 8t Atlynta, Ga.y on the 17th | Ministry, Hartford, Conn. 15th, and 19ty of April. The Convention wi Rty \Thalan: torierly R (CAmaus pe adelegated one,and i all the delcgations | g5 Naghville, died retently at Zanesville, from the various b\ul¥s nlll‘ng in full forec it | }fcw” born in Dublin in 1593, but was ed will be about Lwice as Jarge as Congress. to . > X 4 5 % cated in this country. He passed his time ina. There are 35,000 Protestant_irls in” Roman | convent after 1863, Liicn 1 resigned his dio- Catholie scitool3, and the Romanists claim that | cose. one out of every ten of thesc girls is convertea - y " 10 their faith, and that threc out of ten are | Drof. Dascomb. of p?,'éifl-k‘f‘ri‘f&c?,ifi‘s‘ Bt t to hate Protestantism, Tue Christianat | P8 '3;. :.‘ Nt was ha Brat Piofessor 6n number are lost to the Protestan urch. oA dt his miost forés-four oars; with The Governmant of Sweden bas been adrised B e e vie. ot to graut the petition of the new party | ., i < “hich Jits ariscn in the State Chiureh. . The pa- Tie Bov. Jusegh Coal calls, It ap onile. B Tnstitute, the. Philosophisal Sosioty of Great S e e Luer st . With the Earl of Shaftesbury for its by unordained persous, and at private houses, ont, und tho Archbishop of Canterbury, a3 well as by ordained mimsters in the churches. O ey e late saane e The Rov. Robert. Thomson, of Wollpark Es. | members.” tablished Chureh, Glasgow, and Cocvener o £y the Glasgow Presbytery, has celezrapaed to the | Miss Clara B-‘ 5“"“;::-‘3{;"}72-6 fi)‘;fl 2;5: 1‘;’&“1{“5‘; Papal Sc that if the proposed hicrarchy be pro- | Missionary seut 1o the women of ang heaghen mulzated an interdict agaiost it witl be demand- | Country. and for seven years in e 0L ed from the Supreme Civil Court of Scotland, | pital and dispensary io Bareiliy, tudiy is uow and the faws of the country rizidly enforeed | 023 at :L'a‘a'&ffffif&?s'if‘fig“naflon fip against it. = I g ire: = versity schiool of medicine. Bishiop Bedell, of Oliio,in reply to an inquiry | "t 000 B ER, P a3 to what is the rule of 'the Protestant Episco- byt »‘rc‘ :} j%nburv- copducted o rolizions pal Chureh relative to attendance by commuui- ignfi L}c ob tast Christmas Day, and had. the hardihood to announce at tho succeeding cants at public balls and_theatres, quotes ex- tensively from the carly Bishops and pastoral | barditool to anpounce, %6, the, SUTERIGE letters of the Church, aud sums up the case . > i A7 stildy cider 'has L Gaming,? * “racine,’ * public balls,s | 10 coutinue the practice. e e e gt 3l | iven notice that he will present his case for ‘presbyterial actien. Church to be objectionable, and are forbidden to communicants.” The Smith-Stebbins wing of the Mormon Church, having its_headquarters in Plano, IIL., will keep the last dag of this month as a day of 1 suceess of WORLDLINGS. The side door of a barroom fs like a great mauy people’s prayer-books—open only on feasting and_ prayer for the gen: ¢ the work; for Divine care and direstion during the session of the General Conderence in Aprit; for the better understanding among the Elders upon duty, dotring, church government. and discipline; and for the redemption and delf from mental distress and spiritual bondage those of the Saints thus atiieted. On the 9th ult. the revisers of the authorized version of the New Testament held a session Jasting for seven hours, Tlere were present tlie Bishop of Glocester and Bristol (who presided), the Bishop of Salishury, the Deans o Rochester and Lichtield, the Master of the Temple, Arch- Professors Lizhtfoot, Sunday. + During his ministry he made 600 hearts beat 45 300,” is the way a Maine paper neatly puts it concerning a local pastor. “\Who was the author of the Psalms?” asked the Sunday-school teacher of alittle girl. I know, ma'am. It was Sam.”? An Auburn minister, by the name of Harter, adrertises that he will perform marriage serv- fces *with neatness and dispateh.” . Support the Forelen Missions! Onc old hat trom America makes a New Zealander a whole suit of clothes.—Detroil Fres Lress. What_is the usc of a fond wife sasine toa doting husband, “Li—1 hath uo fury like a woman scorned,””if there is no h—I? An old lady, when she teard the minister say would be a nave in the new churen. ob- Milli 5 llorfun‘xxld Vance Smith,and Prebendaries Hum- phry” and Scrivener—in atl sixtéen membess, with Mr. Troutbeck, the Seerctary. The com- pany carried on their revision to the third chap- fer of the second episticof St. Paul to Timothy. cis Murph the temperauce | thes br?zrl?rt}:‘:?;:‘ l;;\"gshin:u.mn have bl a lmlfi uul- se v-‘(,l that “'she knew well who the party otel | was.” leasantness on the subject of finand Ditis bad somethines to do with it. Muroby be- lieves in liviog like o prince wh.n the brethren Jodze him in a hotel. For two weeks bis board- Dill and that of his son amounted to_$63, and their il for extras and sundries to §55.20. It is casy for people who patronize the bar at o hotel to ineur such 2 bill for sundries, but the Committee could not see what Murphy, wanted with so many extra things. Parson Newman took him in hand after the Y. M. C. A. Commit- tec dropped him. Extreme Ritualism is the dominant flavoring ‘“Has any theological point,” asks a corre- of eversthing at Tait’a Orphanage, Braidwood, | spondent \hose thinking apparatus has evi- Envland. Among othér odd ttmngs thatare | Gentiy been unshipped by the hell discussion, Doteworthy iu the establishment are the semi- | **has any theological point eyer been definitely '} Tlie Rev. Joseph Cook says that “Darwin's Dbypothesis of pangeness involves several un- tenable subsidiary hypotbeses.” Very few people supposed it was as bad as that. Axone of the schools in Cornwall, England, the iuspector askid the children if they could quote any textof Scrioture which forbade a man baving two wives. Onc of thc children sazely quoted in re?ly the text, ““No man can serve two masters.” proven?” Well, yes. We take jt, for instance, to be an axiom in polemics that a colored camp- meeting can vever be held in- the vicinity of o, poultry-show without _ scriously retarding the Wclr}( of salvation.—New York Commercial Ad- verliser. R Clothes-pins are now shippea to New Zea- land. ~The natives use them for earrings, but an old Chief who got hold of ‘one with a hal(~ horse-power spring in its back, and hooked it ou his nose, was looking around ten minutes afterward for a missionary to kiil. Bishop Clark ouce went to see one of his parishioners, a lady with a _prodigious famtly, which had resently been increased. As he rose to leave, the lady stopped him with: *But you haven’t seen my last baby.” “No,” he uickly reptied, “and I never expect to!'? ‘hen be fled. g Outside the meetin'-house: Deacon Norwood (to Elder Tompkins)—* Yes, sir; a man with hope and without no faith is just like 2 young man in a row-boat, who ain’t'zot only one oar. and rows round and round {n a circlé and don’t get nowhere.” Small boy (at a safe distance)— **1f he warn't a daraed fool, he’d scull.” At the conclusion of festival last summer, an excellent toacher, desirons of zdministering a trifling moral lesson, inquired of the boys they had enjoyed the repast. Withjthe Ingenu-~ ous ‘modesty of youth they all responded, «“Yes, sir." “Then,” gsked the excellent teacher, “if you had slipped into my garden and picked those strawberrics without my leave, would they have tasted as good as now Every small boy in that stained and sticky com-~ pany _shriv “No, oirf" “Why not?® ‘*"Cause,” said little Thomas with the cheer- fulness of conscious virtue, *then we shouldn’t have had sugar and cream with ’em.’ Once ou a time, says a correspondent, my cousin’s child, a +-vear-old boy, had to *try on * some garments. His admiring mother, tinding” she bad made 2 bad muddle of the catting, nat- urally vented her own frritation on the restive Rittle fizure wriggling under the infliction of “taking in here nad letting out there.” It ended o her giving the poor child a slight shaking. At night, as his mother was orepar- - inghim for bed, he sald: “I was so naughty - Iou lad to shake me, mamma, didn’t you, cause wouldn’t stan’ still when you was a‘makin my new close, would £ Then, suddenly, * Say, mamme. tell me what God hosto do to tne naughty little boys up in Heaven that won't stan’ still when He’s a-makin’ of ’em. At nighs old Gumbo was accustomed to re- tire to his lonely cabin to light his tallow candle and pore over a dog-cared, dilapidated Bible, and as he read he would at brief intervals pause and devoutly exclaim, with tearful, upraised cyes, “Oh cum de good angel of the Lor’ an? take poor Gumbo home to rest.”” 1t happencd of a dark night, when by the lizht of bis tallow dip he was intently studyinie his Bible, there came three solemn, measured raps on the cabin door. Gumbo heard, and grew pale with fear, and immediately, with o spasmodic jerk, blew out the lizht and anded to know, * Who am dat are koockiu’ at dis are doort” when a dismal, sepulchral voice answered: “ The pood augel of the Lord has come to take poor Gambo up to rest.” When tremblingly. with supar- stitious fear, believing that the good anzel of the Lord was really standineat the door, be answers: **I kno's dat Niggah Gumbo, but dat ah nigeah don’t lib heah! Why, datar Gumbo am jes dun gone ded dese [0 yeas! Yes heam! He jes dun gone dead dese four yeas.” CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Chureh SS. Peter and Paul, cor- ‘mer of Washington and Peoria streets, the Rt. -Rev, W. E. McLaren, Bishop, the Rev. J. II. Knowles, priest in charge. Celebration of the Holy Com- munionat 9:15a. m. Choral Morning Prayer ana Litany 0t 10:30 3. m. Choral Evening Prayerat T30 p. m. —The Rev. Samuel S. Tarris will offictate fn St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Haron streets, 2t10:450. m. and 7:45 p. m. Communion st § a m, —The Res. E. Sullivan will officiate in Trinity Chatch, corner uf Twenty-sisth street and Michi- gan avenue, at 10:45 2. m. and 7:40p. m. Com- munion €t 9:30 2. m. —The tiev. Francis Mansficld will officiate in the Church of the Atonement, corner of West Wash- ington and Robey streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 . P Z¥he Rev. Cifaton Locke will officiate In Grace Charca, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at 110, m. and 7:30 p. m. CommunionatSa, m. ~—The Rev. Stephen T. Allen will officiate in St. John's Church, cornerof Washington street and Ogden cvenue, at 10:45 2. m. and 7.90 . m. “Cuure of the Holy Communion, Dearborn street, near Thirtieth, services at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Arthur-Ritchle will officiate in the Church of the Ascension, corner of North LaSalle and Elm strects. First Eacharist, 8 4. m. ; Matins, 10 3. m. ; Second Eucharst, with sermon, 11, Vespers, with Catechism, P m.; Even- song, with sermon, 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. Bredburg will officiate in St. Ans- garius’ Church, Sedgwick strect, near Chicago nve- 2oe, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will officiate in St. Paul's Charch, Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-elzath and Forty-ninth strets, at10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate at St. Mark’s Church, Cottage Grove avenue, corner of Thirty-sixth street, 8t 10:30 a. m. ond 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will officiate in St. Stephen’s Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. ~—The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate in Cal- vary Church, Warrcu avenue, between Oakley stréet and Western avenue, at 10:30 . m. and 7:30 p. m. Communion at 8a.'m. —The Kes. T. N. Morrison. Jr., will officiate 1n. the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, be- tween Muoroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. and o “The “Hev. W. J. Petrie will officiate in the Ghurch of our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Bels Gon avenues, at 112, m. and 7:30 Do —The Rev. Henry C. Perry will officiate in All Saints’ Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Ohio streets, at 10:450. m. and 7:45 L The Good Shepherd Mission, 45 p. m. wadale. The Rev, F. N. Luson, Rector. Services at 10:30 a.m. —Emmanucl Church, La Grange. TheRev. F. N. Luson, Rector. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. w. —The Rev. J. Stewart Smith _will officiate in St. Mark's Church, Evanston. at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Commanion at 7:30 p. m. —St. Luke’s Miesion, corner of Taylorstreet and Western avenue. Sunday-schoolat 3 p. m. ; ker- vices at 4 p. m. 5 ol “ifope Misslon, No. 885 Milwaukee avenue. Sunday-school at 3:30 p. m. - METHODIST. The Rev. A. W. Potten will preasch at the Wabash Avenue_ Church morning and eyening. ~The HRev. S. McChesney preaches at Park Avenue Church this morning. Prayer-meeting in the evening. ; ""The Kev, F. W. Crafts will preach at Trisity Churcn. Evening subject: **The Bell-Panch, League, and Riobon.™ ZDr. Williameon presches at the Michigan Ave- niie Charch, near LLirty-second street. Morning subject, **Heaven.” Eveuing subject, **Freo- dom. “fhe Rev. Dr. Gurney preachesat St. Paul's Church, cormer of Maxwell street and Newberry avenue. orning subject, ‘*Jacob’s Viston.™ Evening subject, **True Christians.™ —The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at Centenary Church morning and eveming. ‘The Rev, E. 1. Borini will preach in the Stato Stre Church In the morning. Services in the evening will be conducted by’ Mesirs. Haoa, andasay, Al tt, und other laymen. L—Tl\e{i{c\'. “T. C. Clendenning will preach in the Langley Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-ninth sireet, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning Subject, **Almost Persnaded "; cvening, ** Pro- Cradtingtion." Ltother Tobiss, 'the sweet singer, yasist. e ey, J. Atkinson will preach in Gracs Church, corner of LoSalle and White streets, at 70:30 a. m. and p. m. Mornmz subjéct: ““fhe Great Preacher of Ancient Kouie;” even- ing: A Sublime Crisis 1o a Sublime Life. ‘The Rev. S. H. Adama will preach in the Weat- ern Avenue Church, commer of Monroe strcet. Morningz subject 'be Cleansing of God's Tes ple; 2" evenins Fraads, Mysteries, and Traths. —-Th?}e{ér,gucar:e Chase will preach in the Win- ter Street Cliurch, corner of Forty-fourth street, e e and evening. Mornlg dabject: - Tha teal Prescnce.” e e Willing will_preach In Emmanucl Church, cormer of West Harrison and Paulina trects. Moruing subject: *Getiog On in the BSSEm evenina * EDjah on Carmel.” Youns Inona meetlng at 4 p. Di., led by the Young Men's Ving Dand: - Prl-Thl: Ttev. W. A. Spencer will preach in the First Charch, Clark and Wasnington atreets, this morning on Partuenaip with God." In the Sveping the Rev. M. 3. Parkbuest will preach, faking as bis subject ** Adoption. ™ BAPTIST. The Rev. . F, Ravlin preaches at the West Ead Opera-House. Eveninz sabject: -* Christ's Sec- ond (Comink and tae Enstern Question." —Tne Rev. W. W. Everts will preach in the Firat Church, cormer of South Park avenue and Thirty- firat street, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. 5. ¥ Jacobs will preach In the centng at the aptisc Tabornacle, Nos. 302 and 501 Wabash avenue. : “*¥ac Rev. 7. 1. Custis will preach: inthe Mich- {zan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, &t “Tne ltev. K. De Daotiste will preach o the live Chareh, Fourth aveane, neas Taylor airect, . . an( 45 p. m. L he Reve A, Owen selil | presch in olversicy Place Church, corner.of Rtbodes avenne and Doug- sce, at 112, m. and 7:30 p. m. lu—?gncnullc\'. L. G. Clarke will preach in the Soath Chureh, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at 30 p. m. ~ . J. A. Henry will preach In the Dear- Do e tvireh. comar of Thirey-sixth strcet, 530 3. 7540 p. m. B Gatusha ARderion will preach fo the Sccond Charch, comer of Morgan, and Moaroe :30 8. m. and 7:00 p. m. “Efii'fi:‘v’. D. B. Cheney will preach in the Fourth Cburch, corner of Washington and Paulina 10:50 3. m. and D, m. 3 Bree Hev. C. Perren will preach In the Western -